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The Fifth Hour: Awful Media Relations & The Boo · The Ben Maller Show

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  Speaker 1: Kabbooms.
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  Speaker 2: If you thought four hours a day, twelve hundred minutes
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  Speaker 2: a week was enough, think again. He's the last remnants
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  Speaker 2: of the old Republic, a soul fashion of fairness. He
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  Speaker 2: treats crackheads in the ghetto gutter the same as the
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  Speaker 2: rich pill poppers in the penthouse.
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  Speaker 1: Wow.
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  Speaker 2: It's a clearinghouse of hot takes. Break free for something special.
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  Speaker 2: The Fifth Hour with Ben Maller starts right now.
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  Speaker 3: In the air everywhere the Fifth Hour we meet Ben
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  Speaker 3: Maller and daan Ag Radio and a Happy Saturday to
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  Speaker 3: you and his final four Saturday today and.
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  Speaker 1: I'm sure we'll get to that at some point.
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  Speaker 3: It is also National Deep Dish Pizza Day today. Happy
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  Speaker 3: Was it the fifth day now of April? Yes, the
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  Speaker 3: fifth day of April, as we are just getting the
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  Speaker 3: party started here on the Saturday, yep. And I did
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  Speaker 3: see Danny the National Deep Dish Peace Today. And we've
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  Speaker 3: talked about this in the past. Like I've been to
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  Speaker 3: Chicago many times. I have family in the Chicago Land area,
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  Speaker 3: and the first probably six times I visited Chicago in
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  Speaker 3: my life, I never ate Deep dish pizza. I was
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  Speaker 3: anti Deep Dish pizza. I said, I don't like tomatoes
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  Speaker 3: that much. Why would I eat a pizza where the
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  Speaker 3: tomato is the featured star of the show Because they have,
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  Speaker 3: you know, the deep dish. They got the tomato sauce
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  Speaker 3: on the top, and it really bothered me. I was like,
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  Speaker 3: I don't understand. And then I finally had it and
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  Speaker 3: actually had it. The first time I deep dished pizza
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  Speaker 3: was in Vegas. At that you know, they have a
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  Speaker 3: deep dish One of the Chicago pizza places was in
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  Speaker 3: Vegas and I tried it, and I was like, oh, man,
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  Speaker 3: I have missed out on a lifetime of deep dish
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  Speaker 3: pizza because I thought it looked unattractive and I didn't
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  Speaker 3: want to partake in it.
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  Speaker 4: Did you really miss out all that much?
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  Speaker 1: Though?
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  Speaker 4: It's okay, but I feel like it's a little overhyped.
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  Speaker 1: I like it. I like it.
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  Speaker 3: I had had a lot, and uh, it depends there
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  Speaker 3: are there are better deep dish pizzas. Then they're not
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  Speaker 3: all the same. There's like two or three different places
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  Speaker 3: in Chicago. Actually, one of the local places that's not
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  Speaker 3: a chain, I thought, and I don't have the name
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  Speaker 3: in front of me, and I don't remember the name.
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  Speaker 1: I can look it up.
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  Speaker 4: Numero Uno in something.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, that was our deep dish right southern California.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, yeah, now that I loved Numero Uno. You're right
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  Speaker 4: about that one. But there's been some other Deep Dish
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  Speaker 4: pizzas where I've paid through the nostrils because they are
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  Speaker 4: really expensive pies and they just didn't make the cut.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah.
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  Speaker 3: Do you know there's like one or two Numero Uno
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  Speaker 3: places left. It's like we talked about. That was the Noggles.
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  Speaker 3: I think we talked about that. There was there's like one. No,
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  Speaker 3: there's like a few of these. Pioneered Chicken is another one. Yes,
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  Speaker 3: remember Pioneered Chicken.
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  Speaker 4: Of course they famously starred OJ Simpson in their commercials
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  Speaker 4: in the eighties.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, it was a very It was more popular than KFC. Well,
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  Speaker 3: I stand corrected. There's only one New Marono left, and
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  Speaker 3: it's right there on Wilshire.
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  Speaker 1: Actually I used to.
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  Speaker 4: Live right here. Now, when there's only one, you got
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  Speaker 4: to ask yourself is it one of the legit ones
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  Speaker 4: or is it a knockoff?
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  Speaker 3: Well, it looks like it has the same exact logo.
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  Speaker 3: Now what my go to? I love the New Marono pizza,
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  Speaker 3: The Deep Dish pizza. But I also love the these
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  Speaker 3: garlic puffs you see. You think they still have those?
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  Speaker 3: Because I would probably drive down there right now.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, nothing going on today.
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  Speaker 4: I thought you were going to attend basketball games all
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  Speaker 4: weekend long.
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  Speaker 3: Well, yeah, we'll address that. How the Mighty have fallen?
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  Speaker 3: How the Mighty have fallen? Yeah?
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  Speaker 4: Like, wait, you don't have time to drive to get
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  Speaker 4: the garlic.
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  Speaker 1: I'm a very important person.
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  Speaker 4: You're a very big radio star in southern California.
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  Speaker 3: Exactly exactly now, I'm looking at the appetite. Oh they
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  Speaker 3: have it, says Romano bread puffs. I think that's I
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  Speaker 3: think that's the same thing. Oh, ten ninety nine for
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  Speaker 3: six bread puffs. That seems Is that a good deal?
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  Speaker 3: I don't know if that's a good deal or that.
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  Speaker 3: I don't know, but anyway, what it's just dough.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah.
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  Speaker 3: On this podcast, we have the customer service snaffo A
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  Speaker 3: lot to get through.
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  Speaker 1: I did want to start with that.
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  Speaker 3: Actually, you brought this up so last night the Clippers
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  Speaker 3: were playing the Dallas Mavericks. Now, my wife's out of
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  Speaker 3: town this weekend. She's busy. She's over in Arizona doing
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  Speaker 3: some stuff.
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  Speaker 1: Whatever.
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  Speaker 3: A bunch of hookers and cocaine.
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  Speaker 1: Exactly.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, it's time to have a good time, get back
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  Speaker 3: to the old life, living the life, going out the
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  Speaker 3: games and hanging out and all that stuff.
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  Speaker 4: So wait, your old life is sitting in the Tommy's
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  Speaker 4: parking lot eating a chili burger at two in the.
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  Speaker 3: Morning on ifaw Hollywood Boulevard. They're the one on one No.
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  Speaker 3: So so I was like, all right, I'll go back.
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  Speaker 3: I have not been to the new Clippers arena, you know,
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  Speaker 3: working at night during the week, and my weekends are
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  Speaker 3: spent with the wife, so I don't I don't get
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  Speaker 3: out there. I haven't been out there. I've driven by it.
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  Speaker 1: I go to.
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  Speaker 3: The only time I really go I was NFL games
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  Speaker 3: because that's you know, that's the King. So so I
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  Speaker 3: was like, all right, you know the Clippers are playing.
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  Speaker 3: I really want to see this new arena. And I
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  Speaker 3: hadn't been out since COVID and I'm like, all right,
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  Speaker 3: I'll reach out and I'll I'll go through the proper channels.
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  Speaker 3: And so I contacted a buddy of mine, well I
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  Speaker 3: used to work with in radio, who works for the
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  Speaker 3: Clippers right and worked there for a long time. He
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  Speaker 3: knows everyone, so I thought, all right, so I reached
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  Speaker 3: out to him about a week ago. I said, listen,
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  Speaker 3: I'm thinking about going out there. You know, I'll do
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  Speaker 3: it through the media because I'm by myself. I'm not
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  Speaker 3: going with anybody. I don't need tickets. So I said,
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  Speaker 3: I'll go in the media thing. And so who do
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  Speaker 3: I context? It's no problem, I got you. I know
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  Speaker 3: exactly who to talk to. Here's the person. So they
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  Speaker 3: sent me the email address of the person said here
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  Speaker 3: you contact them, they'll take care of you. So I
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  Speaker 3: email them and then nothing, no reply. So then I'm like, well,
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  Speaker 3: this was a couple of days. This goes back to
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  Speaker 3: like Wednesday. I get no reply. I think it was Wednesday.
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  Speaker 1: So then the date.
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  Speaker 3: Normally the way this stuff works when you're in the
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  Speaker 3: media is you you need approval. If you're not a seasoned,
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  Speaker 3: credentialed person, you need approval the day before. So it
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  Speaker 3: gets to Thursday, so a couple days ago. So Thursday,
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  Speaker 3: I'm like, well, they didn't get back to me. So
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  Speaker 3: I text my friend and he's you know, it works
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  Speaker 3: with the teams. I don't know what happened. I mean,
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  Speaker 3: they should get back. That's their job, their media relations people.
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  Speaker 3: So then I went on the we have access to
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  Speaker 3: these NBA media portal website things where they have all
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  Speaker 3: the contacts, like the direct contacts with the team. So
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  Speaker 3: I was like, all right, so I must have this
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  Speaker 3: guy must have had bogus information. I don't know how
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  Speaker 3: he would he works for the team. So I'm like,
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  Speaker 3: all right, I'll look this up. I'll kind of I'll
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  Speaker 3: kind of futs around with it and I'll find who
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  Speaker 3: I need to talk to. So I went on there
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  Speaker 3: and I clicked a few things and I surfed my
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  Speaker 3: way through and I found the page with all the
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  Speaker 3: contacts media relations contacts for the LA Clippers. So I
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  Speaker 3: found that the person and I kind of recognized a
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  Speaker 3: name on there who was in charge. So I emailed them.
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  Speaker 3: I said, listen, I I'm contacting I emailed person X.
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  Speaker 3: They never got back to me, so I was like,
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  Speaker 3: just want to make sure we're good for tomorrow and
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  Speaker 3: hope all as well.
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  Speaker 1: Whatever. So that was it.
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  Speaker 3: I said who I you know, obviously explained who I
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  Speaker 3: am and all that, not that I needed to, but whatever.
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  Speaker 3: So then nothing, I got no reply. And this is
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  Speaker 3: the second time now this has happened. The La Kings
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  Speaker 3: never got back to me. That was about a month ago.
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  Speaker 3: And now the Clippers. I mean, I am getting shot
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  Speaker 3: down right and left here. So just when you think
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  Speaker 3: you're on top of the world, Danny, and I'm like, listen,
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  Speaker 3: my career, I think it's going pretty well. I had
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  Speaker 3: a TV show during football season. I just you know,
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  Speaker 3: the radio shows got six hundred affiliates or over that.
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  Speaker 3: Now we're everywhere. Things are going pretty well. Podcast is
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  Speaker 3: doing well. And then I can't even get these these
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  Speaker 3: schmucks to right back. I mean, you're in your job
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  Speaker 3: title is media relations, and yet you're a you're ghosting
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  Speaker 3: my email.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, what are you doing me?
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  Speaker 3: Seriously, you're in you know how they say they have
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  Speaker 3: they have first responders.
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  Speaker 1: This is a non responder. And I'm sure if I
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  Speaker 1: you know, I can. I guess I have some numbers
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  Speaker 1: I can call whatever.
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  Speaker 3: But they'll they'll be like, well, you know, the email disappeared.
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  Speaker 3: You know something happened. It fell into the abyss. So
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  Speaker 3: I'm like, whatever, I I you know, I watched the game,
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  Speaker 3: watch all these games on TV. I don't need to
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  Speaker 3: go to the game. You've me nice to get out there,
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  Speaker 3: and I did get a lot back in the day
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  Speaker 3: when I was there all the time, I got a
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  Speaker 3: lot of information. People love to tell you stuff. Sometimes
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  Speaker 3: you don't need to know certain things, but they'll.
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  Speaker 1: Tell you anyway and all that.
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  Speaker 3: So, but anyway, that was that was the I call
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  Speaker 3: it a snaffoo and customer service. But I just don't
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  Speaker 3: leave me haying even if you say no, I'm fine,
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  Speaker 3: just right back say no, I'm good with that, or
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  Speaker 3: right back and say no, you didn't you got to
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  Speaker 3: do this, you know, do X, Y and Z.
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  Speaker 1: I'd be fine with that.
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  Speaker 3: Just be courteous, be professional. Like am I being an asshole?
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  Speaker 1: I don't know.
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  Speaker 3: Am I being the bad guy? Maybe I am. I
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  Speaker 3: have no idea.
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  Speaker 2: No.
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  Speaker 4: Radio stars used to be the influencers. We've talked about
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  Speaker 4: that in the past. Yeah, and somewhere along the way
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  Speaker 4: here some radio stars quote unquote stars have been a
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  Speaker 4: little bit buried. And it's not right. Eighty eight percent
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  Speaker 4: of the world still tunes in to their FM and
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  Speaker 4: AM radio stations in their car, so we should be
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  Speaker 4: able to live on our platform forever.
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  Speaker 3: I agree, no matter what. Just like the horse and buggy, No,
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  Speaker 3: I mean, we have that something. We do have a
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  Speaker 3: lot of a lot of people. Listen, well, we get
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  Speaker 3: we used to get a lot more. Okay, imagine the
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  Speaker 3: hookups Lorena gets. We got hooked up like that all
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  Speaker 3: the time, and we're due.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah we did.
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  Speaker 3: You know, Lorena gets pretty girl privilege hookups.
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  Speaker 1: We got that. We were treated like pretty girls.
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  Speaker 3: We were we were given stuff we didn't really need
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  Speaker 3: or want or like. I had a cell phone deal
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  Speaker 3: at one point, I had a free cell phone. Use
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  Speaker 3: to test out some new cell phone one time. I
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  Speaker 3: mean it was it was great. All kinds of clothes
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  Speaker 3: I didn't really need and things like that.
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  Speaker 1: Man, I got music, music, music radio.
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  Speaker 4: You get even more, dude, besides all the drugs that
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  Speaker 4: were handed to us from record companies and stacks of
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  Speaker 4: one dollar bills at their showcases inside strip clubs. You know,
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  Speaker 4: the new artist, the new R and B artist on
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  Speaker 4: their label is performing inside the strip club And me
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  Speaker 4: and the other radio dudes used to walk in and
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  Speaker 4: the executive from the record company said, Okay, here's the rule, though,
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  Speaker 4: you have to spend all of these ones inside the club.
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  Speaker 4: So what did I Yeah, So there were loop there
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  Speaker 4: were a lot of loopholes loopholes up the ass. And
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  Speaker 4: so what did I do, though, Ben, I took half
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  Speaker 4: those ones stuck them in my sock like I was
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  Speaker 4: on the subway in New York, and I left that
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  Speaker 4: place with a big wad of ones and that that
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  Speaker 4: was my meal money for the next day or two.
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  Speaker 1: There you go.
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  Speaker 3: You're good to go, man, you're ready to go. And
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  Speaker 3: I remember back in the day on the road trips,
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  Speaker 3: they before the uber and everything was on your phone.
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  Speaker 3: They would give you these taxi therese scenes called taxi cabs,
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  Speaker 3: and they'd give you the receipts and you could get
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  Speaker 3: very creative that they give you just these cards, these
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  Speaker 3: yellow cars. I'm in New York, that they give you
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  Speaker 3: these yellow cards, and you could get very creative on
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  Speaker 3: how much that cab ride cost and it could be
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  Speaker 3: very expensive, and then that you get that money back.
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  Speaker 1: Now, you should never do that. That would be wrong.
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  Speaker 3: Just to kind of frame what we were talking about though,
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  Speaker 3: the difference between radio and podcasting. And I know, I
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  Speaker 3: realized we're doing a podcast and when you're listening and
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  Speaker 3: we thank you, and you probably listen to a bunch
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  Speaker 3: of podcasts.
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  Speaker 1: And you're like, I understand, I listen only to podcasts.
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  Speaker 1: I don't listen to radio show.
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  Speaker 3: So in the United States, about eighty two percent of
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  Speaker 3: people aged twelve and older listen to terrestrial radio AMFM
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  Speaker 3: radio week eighty two percent podcast even though they've grown
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  Speaker 3: and they've done well, it's like forty two percent of
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  Speaker 3: people age twelve or older listen to podcasts. That's on
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  Speaker 3: a per month basis. So radio has a much larger reach.
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  Speaker 3: And as Danny pointed out, you wouldn't know that from
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  Speaker 3: the way the the radio people get treated by the
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  Speaker 3: media relations people. Right, it's like, what are you doing?
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  Speaker 1: It is uh, it is wild.
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  Speaker 4: So, especially how many years you've spent hyping up the Clippers,
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  Speaker 4: you would you would think that they would run to
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  Speaker 4: give you seasoned seats even before the year starts.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean I have.
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  Speaker 3: I've been the hok Tour for the Clippers over the years.
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  Speaker 3: I mean, my god, let's be honest here, and that
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  Speaker 3: is that is wild anyway, whatever, So that's fine, but
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  Speaker 3: I will be watching the Final four. Any interest in
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  Speaker 3: this today that any at the Final four? Double barrel
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  Speaker 3: action from San Antonio the year that Cinderella died, No
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  Speaker 3: bracket bunching miracle in the Final four, all the all
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  Speaker 3: the storylines going in big upsets. We wasted all our
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  Speaker 3: time on that. It's all chalk. It's all chalk and
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  Speaker 3: the Final Four, and it's this afternoon for us.
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  Speaker 1: Yes, if you're in these at night.
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  Speaker 4: But you know what, I heard a promo on the
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  Speaker 4: network with you saying, hey, we want number ones. And
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  Speaker 4: I agree with you because I bet you both of
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  Speaker 4: these games today are gonna be dog fights.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: No, I like Auburn for what it's worth.
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  Speaker 3: I think Auburn is gonna take down Florida, and I
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  Speaker 3: think we're gonna get Auburn versus Duke in the National
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  Speaker 3: championship game on Monday night.
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  Speaker 1: I know Florida is the hot pick.
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  Speaker 3: Auburn won the regular season of the SEC, but the
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  Speaker 3: Gators won the conference tournament.
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  Speaker 1: And so that's why I and I'm I'm meaning I'm biased.
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  Speaker 1: I was asked the other day.
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  Speaker 3: I was the other morning I was on with Bob
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  Speaker 3: Fesco and Kansas City, my guy, I mean, we're talking
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  Speaker 3: about the Final Four. I pointed out that one of
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  Speaker 3: the reasons that I like Auburn is not because I
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  Speaker 3: went to Auburn or I like Charles Barkley. Years ago,
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  Speaker 3: when I did the weekend show with Looney Tunes on Saturday,
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  Speaker 3: we had a we had college basketball coaches on back then,
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  Speaker 3: and one of the years we had this guy who
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  Speaker 3: was coaching at the University of Wisconsin Milwaukee, Wisconsin Milwaukee
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  Speaker 3: named Bruce Pearl who came on as a guest, and
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  Speaker 3: he was very engaging and you know, enthusiastic and fun
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  Speaker 3: and just a really good radio guest. Everything you look
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  Speaker 3: for in a radio guest. And so I was like,
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  Speaker 3: that's pretty cool. And that followed him a little bit.
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  Speaker 3: And he's coaching at Auburn, so I had a lot
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  Speaker 3: of scandals in his career coaching and all that, but
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  Speaker 3: I think back to those days he was just working
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  Speaker 3: his way up the coaching ranks. And now I's got
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  Speaker 3: a chance to win the national championships. So hopefully it'll
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  Speaker 3: work out for him. And I wanted to to I
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  Speaker 3: don't want to do too much sports because you know,
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  Speaker 3: it's not it's a week in podcasts, but I did
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  Speaker 3: love what Bryce Harper said yesterday.
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  Speaker 1: I don't know if you saw Bryce, and.
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  Speaker 3: The Dodgers are playing the Phillies this weekend and it's
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  Speaker 3: it's one of those series, Danny down the line, you're
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  Speaker 3: thinking playoff baseball. It's it's a pretty good chance the
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  Speaker 3: Dodgers in Phillies Pass will cross at some point in
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  Speaker 3: October baseball. But that's man word early April. So who
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  Speaker 3: you don't want to get two worked up whether you
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  Speaker 3: win or lose in April.
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  Speaker 1: Right o care? But anyway.
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  Speaker 3: Bryce Harper was asked about the massive amounts of money
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  Speaker 3: that the Dodgers are spent, and also as a result
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  Speaker 3: of that, how many people are upset because the Dodgers
• 16:45
  Speaker 3: they're opening to day payroll was three hundred and twenty
• 16:47
  Speaker 3: eight million, but when you put in all the taxes
• 16:51
  Speaker 3: and all that, it's over four hundred million that the
• 16:54
  Speaker 3: Dodgers are actually going to be spending.
• 16:57
  Speaker 4: It's like your contract at FSR, well.
• 16:59
  Speaker 3: Very similar, mind's a little bigger, SORR. Bryce Harper was
• 17:03
  Speaker 3: asked about that and all the negative energy, the bad
• 17:09
  Speaker 3: juju around the Dodgers because people are upset and they're
• 17:11
  Speaker 3: up in arms and people are pointing fingers and they
• 17:15
  Speaker 3: got to stop the Dodgers and all that stuff. And
• 17:17
  Speaker 3: Bryce Harper, who wanted to play for the Dodgers at
• 17:20
  Speaker 3: one point wanted to play for the Dodgers at one point,
• 17:23
  Speaker 3: I just wanted him what would have happened if that
• 17:27
  Speaker 3: had been a love connection? But it wasn't.
• 17:29
  Speaker 1: Anyway. Bryce Harper was asked about the Dodgers spending.
• 17:32
  Speaker 3: All his money and this was over the weekend yesterday,
• 17:35
  Speaker 3: and getting the pipeline of Japanese players, some of them
• 17:40
  Speaker 3: really good, some of them not so good, and he said, quote,
• 17:43
  Speaker 3: I don't know if people will like this, Bryce Harper said,
• 17:46
  Speaker 3: but I feel like only the losers complain about what
• 17:50
  Speaker 3: they're doing. I think they are a great team, they
• 17:54
  Speaker 3: are great organizations. So it was a rather generic quote.
• 17:57
  Speaker 3: But that's not that's not what the people want to
• 18:00
  Speaker 3: hear it, Danny, And so Bryce is getting a lot
• 18:02
  Speaker 3: of crap. I don't understand why he's say that. That's
• 18:05
  Speaker 3: not right he should say that, But I think it
• 18:08
  Speaker 3: makes a lot of sense, like when when other radio people,
• 18:11
  Speaker 3: you know, I mope, I kind of poke fun at
• 18:14
  Speaker 3: Cowherd and some of these guys that make the big money.
• 18:15
  Speaker 3: But I'm I'm like, I'm happy they're making the big money.
• 18:18
  Speaker 3: It's great, right, why not?
• 18:20
  Speaker 4: And the rising tides raise all ships.
• 18:24
  Speaker 3: Right exactly, exactly I don't see the I don't see
• 18:28
  Speaker 3: the problem. And if you're a player, you would want
• 18:32
  Speaker 3: the Dodgers there because they drive.
• 18:34
  Speaker 1: Up the price.
• 18:35
  Speaker 3: Unfortunately, in our business it doesn't seem to work that way,
• 18:38
  Speaker 3: where if you know, radio company acts spends a lot
• 18:41
  Speaker 3: of money on a talent, that doesn't mean that the
• 18:44
  Speaker 3: other radio company's going to spend.
• 18:45
  Speaker 1: A lot of a lot of a lot of money.
• 18:48
  Speaker 1: But it doesn't.
• 18:48
  Speaker 3: I thought it was a fine response, and I like
• 18:51
  Speaker 3: the fact that people are triggered.
• 18:53
  Speaker 1: Like, oh, I can't believe he's ah my god, Brys,
• 18:55
  Speaker 1: oh my god.
• 18:56
  Speaker 3: It's like, really, what are we doing? By the way, Danny,
• 19:02
  Speaker 3: it's not about me or sports what you did the
• 19:05
  Speaker 3: you were doing the coward sure yesterday, right, What has.
• 19:07
  Speaker 1: Been going on with you this week?
• 19:09
  Speaker 3: Yeah?
• 19:09
  Speaker 4: Speaking of Colin, stars attract other stars. C and R
• 19:15
  Speaker 4: did a really good job filling in for Colin, and
• 19:18
  Speaker 4: that was fun the show on Friday afternoon for most
• 19:22
  Speaker 4: of the country nine to noon. Here on the West Side,
• 19:24
  Speaker 4: it was a lot, a lot of fun. But Thursday
• 19:27
  Speaker 4: evening I needed a margarita or two because we took
• 19:31
  Speaker 4: Big Baby CoA to Sharkys.
• 19:34
  Speaker 3: Have you ever been to Sharky's sounds familiar. I don't
• 19:37
  Speaker 3: think I have I don't remember it. If I have
• 19:39
  Speaker 3: been there, it sounds familiar.
• 19:40
  Speaker 4: It's Mexican food, so Sharkis are famous for like their burritos.
• 19:44
  Speaker 4: The burritos are like the size of your forearm.
• 19:47
  Speaker 1: Okay.
• 19:47
  Speaker 4: So it's like a decent sized place, probably about thirty
• 19:51
  Speaker 4: tables inside, and we sit down. CoA was in a
• 19:55
  Speaker 4: good mood on the car ride over. He wasn't fussing
• 19:58
  Speaker 4: or anything. He was listening to his baby Bop music
• 20:01
  Speaker 4: bop in his head.
• 20:02
  Speaker 3: Not good.
• 20:03
  Speaker 4: But as soon as he took a bite of one
• 20:05
  Speaker 4: of the tortilla chips on the table, he started screaming,
• 20:09
  Speaker 4: bloody murder. Did he maybe get the corner of the
• 20:13
  Speaker 4: chip into his gums? Was he choking on this tortilla chip? Obviously,
• 20:18
  Speaker 4: you try to open your kid's mouth up and look
• 20:21
  Speaker 4: inside like you're their dentist, And we didn't see anything. Bleeding.
• 20:27
  Speaker 4: Got to the point, and all parents can relate to this,
• 20:30
  Speaker 4: where you become a spectacle. Every other table, and it
• 20:34
  Speaker 4: was dinnertime, every other table inside the restaurant started to
• 20:38
  Speaker 4: stare at us. Now, it's not the end of the world,
• 20:42
  Speaker 4: but you obviously want to get your kid quiet as
• 20:45
  Speaker 4: soon as possible. The parents who are really really obnoxious
• 20:49
  Speaker 4: at a lot of these places you go to, or
• 20:50
  Speaker 4: even on an airplane, are the ones who are oblivious
• 20:53
  Speaker 4: and don't care that their kid is screaming.
• 20:55
  Speaker 1: Oh yeah, yeah.
• 20:57
  Speaker 4: The parents are just mia for whatever reason, they probably
• 21:00
  Speaker 4: shouldn't have had a kid, and they don't mind that
• 21:02
  Speaker 4: this kid is ruining everybody else's day. So we don't
• 21:06
  Speaker 4: want to ruin everybody's dinner. So we're doing everything we
• 21:09
  Speaker 4: could think of to pacify him. We're handing him credit cards,
• 21:13
  Speaker 4: a lot of our wallets, which he loves to handle
• 21:15
  Speaker 4: cards because he sees us paying with these things. So
• 21:18
  Speaker 4: you give him a credit card that didn't work. He
• 21:20
  Speaker 4: threw the credit card at me. I guess I'm not
• 21:23
  Speaker 4: gonna be able to buy this kid off with, you know,
• 21:25
  Speaker 4: stuff at the table, so oh yeah. So then I
• 21:29
  Speaker 4: gave him my cup of water and it had ice
• 21:32
  Speaker 4: in it, and he threw the cup. So now the
• 21:35
  Speaker 4: cup lands, the ice spills all over the floor, and
• 21:38
  Speaker 4: people are looking at us, and now they're starting to
• 21:40
  Speaker 4: talk where you're like you hear, oh my god, look
• 21:43
  Speaker 4: at that those poor people, like, they start feeling bad
• 21:45
  Speaker 4: for you, but at the same time they're annoyed because
• 21:48
  Speaker 4: you're kind of ruining their dinner. Brenda looks at the situation,
• 21:52
  Speaker 4: grabs him, leaves her burrito in front of her, and
• 21:57
  Speaker 4: storms out of the restaurant. Now I'm sitting there and
• 22:00
  Speaker 4: our fourteen year old daughters also at the table, and
• 22:03
  Speaker 4: we're just kind of looking at each other, and the
• 22:05
  Speaker 4: rest of the people are staring at us also, And
• 22:08
  Speaker 4: I don't know she going to come back in. And
• 22:10
  Speaker 4: she outside rocking him and talking to him. Did she
• 22:13
  Speaker 4: take him to the car to give him he calls
• 22:16
  Speaker 4: it boo? Guess what that is? I think what many
• 22:20
  Speaker 4: of us love. Yeah, there's a bee missing at the end.
• 22:25
  Speaker 4: We don't know she given him the boob out in
• 22:27
  Speaker 4: the car. What's going on? Is she going to come back?
• 22:30
  Speaker 4: She never returned, So me and our fourteen year old
• 22:34
  Speaker 4: daughter finished eating our food. I wrapped hers up in
• 22:37
  Speaker 4: ato go box and we get out to the car
• 22:40
  Speaker 4: and she just looks frazzled. He still he's down on
• 22:45
  Speaker 4: the floorboard, running from this side of the car to
• 22:48
  Speaker 4: that side of the car like a wild Indian.
• 22:50
  Speaker 3: Can I say that racist?
• 22:56
  Speaker 4: So he continued his party inside the car, buckles him
• 23:01
  Speaker 4: in and he is just going crazy. And Brenda's like,
• 23:05
  Speaker 4: just get us home, get us home, please, get us home. Man.
• 23:08
  Speaker 4: That was the longest ten minute drive of my life.
• 23:11
  Speaker 4: Get him home, Get him upstairs to his toys. He
• 23:13
  Speaker 4: sits down, smiles, giggles and laughs, and it was like
• 23:17
  Speaker 4: none of it ever happened.
• 23:19
  Speaker 3: Oh my god, And you never found out what.
• 23:23
  Speaker 4: No have no clue what was bothering him. Don't know
• 23:28
  Speaker 4: if he hurt himself with the chip. That's when it
• 23:30
  Speaker 4: all started. I blame the tortilla chip because whatever happened
• 23:33
  Speaker 4: with that bite of tortilla chips set him off the
• 23:36
  Speaker 4: deep end. I love this little human more than words
• 23:41
  Speaker 4: can explain, but oh my god, I never want to
• 23:45
  Speaker 4: bring this kid out in public ever again.
• 23:48
  Speaker 3: See. The other problem is he now knows like if
• 23:52
  Speaker 3: I do this, then I can get I can leave
• 23:55
  Speaker 3: the restaurant and eventually get and get boo.
• 24:00
  Speaker 1: Yeah, get the boo.
• 24:01
  Speaker 3: And you know you love the boo and you want
• 24:03
  Speaker 3: the when you can get that, you want the chip.
• 24:05
  Speaker 3: I want the boo. You got to keep us posted
• 24:09
  Speaker 3: on this. The Life and Times of the Spawn of
• 24:13
  Speaker 3: Danny g to see whether or not he tries to
• 24:16
  Speaker 3: do this move again next time you go out to
• 24:18
  Speaker 3: a restaurant.
• 24:19
  Speaker 4: Yeah, by the way, this was not a very good
• 24:21
  Speaker 4: financial decision either, to have a child. I saw this
• 24:26
  Speaker 4: stat the other day. It's mind blowing. This is how
• 24:29
  Speaker 4: much it costs now to have a child? You ready
• 24:32
  Speaker 4: for these numbers?
• 24:33
  Speaker 1: Hey, here we go, drum roll please? Okay?
• 24:37
  Speaker 3: How much?
• 24:39
  Speaker 4: A new study reveals just how expensive it's gotten to
• 24:42
  Speaker 4: raise kids and it's a doozy. This article says the
• 24:45
  Speaker 4: data found that the cost of raising a child has
• 24:48
  Speaker 4: surged twenty five percent, reaching a staggering two hundred and
• 24:53
  Speaker 4: ninety seven six hundred and seventy four dollars over an
• 24:56
  Speaker 4: eighteen year period. Among the tracked categories, daycare costs have
• 25:02
  Speaker 4: jumped more since twenty twenty three, rising fifty two percent
• 25:06
  Speaker 4: from eleven thousand to almost eighteen thousand, food has jumped
• 25:11
  Speaker 4: thirty percent, and health insurance premiums twenty five percent.
• 25:15
  Speaker 1: Wow, geez? Is this?
• 25:18
  Speaker 2: Oh?
• 25:18
  Speaker 4: You could you could just do one hundred thousand, three
• 25:22
  Speaker 4: hundred thousand.
• 25:23
  Speaker 3: Did you see Anthony Edwards We talked about this on
• 25:25
  Speaker 3: the Overnight Show. Anthony Edwards you know, he's got four
• 25:29
  Speaker 3: he's he's done the four by four day, and he's
• 25:31
  Speaker 3: got the four kids for baby mamas.
• 25:34
  Speaker 1: He's done the four x four.
• 25:36
  Speaker 3: But one of the kids, I guess one of the
• 25:38
  Speaker 3: baby mamas he didn't want to have a kid with.
• 25:40
  Speaker 3: I guess the others he was fine with. So he
• 25:43
  Speaker 3: this is according to I think it was in Touch Weekly.
• 25:45
  Speaker 3: I read this in. I believe that's where I read
• 25:47
  Speaker 3: this in. I might be wrong, but I think it
• 25:49
  Speaker 3: was that tabloid. Somebody sent me the link. So he
• 25:52
  Speaker 3: supposedly paid a check. He could have checked for one
• 25:56
  Speaker 3: million dollars to this baby mama said all right, here's
• 25:59
  Speaker 3: your child's for the rest of the kids eighteen years.
• 26:02
  Speaker 3: I'm out. Gee, I didn't know you were allowed to
• 26:05
  Speaker 3: do that. Number one, Number two. I guess he paid
• 26:07
  Speaker 3: too much, because you know, I think he paid a
• 26:10
  Speaker 3: little much, Danny, because it's only, as you said, three
• 26:13
  Speaker 3: hundred thousand or so.
• 26:14
  Speaker 4: But yeah, yeah, for us regular folks, three hundred thousand
• 26:19
  Speaker 4: sounds like a lot. For a ballplayer, he's like, well,
• 26:22
  Speaker 4: you know, I'm gonna get three hundred million. I could
• 26:25
  Speaker 4: just keep shooting my seed.
• 26:27
  Speaker 3: Yeah, and he is and he's scoring a lot of baskets.
• 26:32
  Speaker 3: There's a lot of baskets that are open, for sure.
• 26:37
  Speaker 4: Go to the hole. It's wide open, exactly.
• 26:42
  Speaker 3: Always available. Whenever he needs to work out, he's got
• 26:45
  Speaker 3: a place to go. Hey, I wanted to mention before
• 26:48
  Speaker 3: I forget. I know we're hanging out here on a Saturday.
• 26:51
  Speaker 3: It's the Final four and all that. One of my
• 26:53
  Speaker 3: pet peeves. So the Chargers yesterday on Friday agreed to
• 26:58
  Speaker 3: a contract with Trey Lance.
• 27:00
  Speaker 1: Has anyone he's a quarterback?
• 27:01
  Speaker 3: Has anyone gotten more headlines and more attentions for not
• 27:05
  Speaker 3: being able to play than Trey Lance?
• 27:08
  Speaker 1: Like it is like fascinating.
• 27:11
  Speaker 3: He is the personification of a bust right. The amount
• 27:19
  Speaker 3: of opportunities seems. The third overall pick by the forty
• 27:22
  Speaker 3: nine ers in twenty twenty one, and they traded a
• 27:26
  Speaker 3: bunch of scratcher tickets to get him and all that
• 27:29
  Speaker 3: sky high expectations ton you know, three first round picks,
• 27:33
  Speaker 3: a third rounder to acquire him, and then he gets
• 27:37
  Speaker 3: upstaged by Brock Purdy with the forty nine ers and
• 27:42
  Speaker 3: goes to the Cowboys, And there was always going to
• 27:44
  Speaker 3: get an opportunity, and he's going to show a lot
• 27:46
  Speaker 3: of things.
• 27:47
  Speaker 1: He goes to the Cowboys and now he doesn't do
• 27:49
  Speaker 1: anything there.
• 27:50
  Speaker 3: And the Trey Lance in his career since drafted number
• 27:54
  Speaker 3: three overall twenty twenty one, it's not twenty twenty five,
• 27:57
  Speaker 3: has started five games across four and seasons and he stinks.
• 28:04
  Speaker 1: And he never even.
• 28:04
  Speaker 3: Played that much at North Dakota State when he was
• 28:06
  Speaker 3: in college, he only had seventeen college starts. He has
• 28:10
  Speaker 3: since he started college, Trey Lance has started twenty two games,
• 28:15
  Speaker 3: and yet everyone's, Oh, he's going to be so good
• 28:17
  Speaker 3: and all this. It's crazy. It's crazy. There's a guy
• 28:20
  Speaker 3: that should go to the Canadian Football League. That's a
• 28:22
  Speaker 3: guy that should go to the Winnipeg Blue Bombers. Is
• 28:25
  Speaker 3: what he should do?
• 28:26
  Speaker 1: My god.
• 28:28
  Speaker 3: Anyway, I just wanted to complain about that. It's just
• 28:30
  Speaker 3: an they certain guys get put on the pedestal.
• 28:33
  Speaker 1: Danny. Yeah, I just saw.
• 28:36
  Speaker 3: I saw the headlines yesterday and I was like.
• 28:38
  Speaker 4: No, And it's a good reminder. We're just three weeks
• 28:41
  Speaker 4: away now? Is it three weeks? The draft is on
• 28:43
  Speaker 4: the twenty four, less than three weeks?
• 28:45
  Speaker 3: Yeah, Thursday, back on Thursday was a three week mark.
• 28:49
  Speaker 1: So yeah, we're from.
• 28:51
  Speaker 4: So under three weeks away from the NFL Draft, and
• 28:53
  Speaker 4: this is a good reminder, don't overthink it, don't over
• 28:57
  Speaker 4: complicate your draft picks.
• 28:59
  Speaker 1: No.
• 29:00
  Speaker 3: Also, as much as we talk about the draft, I
• 29:03
  Speaker 3: don't know about you, Danny, but I'm sure we'll.
• 29:05
  Speaker 1: Get to this at some point.
• 29:06
  Speaker 3: I as we go in the weeks to come, my
• 29:09
  Speaker 3: NFL draft experience is mostly I watch like the first
• 29:14
  Speaker 3: ten picks, and then I'm out, and then I just
• 29:16
  Speaker 3: I'll check my phone to see who got drafted after that,
• 29:18
  Speaker 3: but I'm not. You want to see your team, obviously,
• 29:22
  Speaker 3: but I'm not. After that, I'm out.
• 29:24
  Speaker 1: I'm done. That's all. Anyway, we have the word of
• 29:29
  Speaker 1: the week, the word of the week. Here's the word
• 29:33
  Speaker 1: a week.
• 29:34
  Speaker 3: This in honor of Redbreast Paul from Rhode Island, who
• 29:38
  Speaker 3: called again and is always completely hammered and just outstanding
• 29:45
  Speaker 3: and so hungover.
• 29:47
  Speaker 1: Now, the term hungover or hangover.
• 29:51
  Speaker 3: Same interchangeable words.
• 29:52
  Speaker 4: There.
• 29:53
  Speaker 1: We obviously know what it means.
• 29:55
  Speaker 3: You've been drinking a little too much and your body
• 29:58
  Speaker 3: kind of messes up and you feel like crap and
• 30:01
  Speaker 3: all that.
• 30:02
  Speaker 1: So the word hangover is not that old a word.
• 30:05
  Speaker 3: It first appeared in English in the late nineteenth to
• 30:08
  Speaker 3: early twentieth century.
• 30:10
  Speaker 1: The sweet spot is right around the eighteen nineties.
• 30:14
  Speaker 3: That's when this all kind of that the word connecting
• 30:19
  Speaker 3: to the after effects of alcohol consumption.
• 30:21
  Speaker 1: At a large rate. However, it is.
• 30:25
  Speaker 3: Believed that the word here the word of the week hungover,
• 30:29
  Speaker 3: that it actually is a smaller version of hanging over
• 30:36
  Speaker 3: and same meaning you know you're hanging over, the leaning
• 30:40
  Speaker 3: over because you drank too much and all that.
• 30:44
  Speaker 1: And to go down the rabbit hole a little bit further.
• 30:48
  Speaker 3: Some of the terms they used before hangover were a
• 30:52
  Speaker 3: head full of bees. So Danny, if I say you
• 30:54
  Speaker 3: have a head full of bees, it means you drank
• 30:56
  Speaker 3: too much. The horrors they described it as, the drinking misery,
• 31:00
  Speaker 3: is the horrors and the concept my favorite partner when
• 31:04
  Speaker 3: I fell down this rabbit hole of the word hungover
• 31:09
  Speaker 3: is it's actually the concept is ancient. Like I love
• 31:13
  Speaker 3: the fact that as long as there's been human beings,
• 31:16
  Speaker 3: people have just gotten completely sauced that humans have been
• 31:20
  Speaker 3: drinking fermented beverages since the beginning of time. And there's
• 31:27
  Speaker 3: even hangover like symptoms that appear in the text as
• 31:33
  Speaker 3: old as the Bible. So I mean you're going, You're
• 31:37
  Speaker 3: going all the way back. And they say that the
• 31:39
  Speaker 3: historians that have gone in the ancient Egypt and look
• 31:44
  Speaker 3: through the paintings in the tombs where the pharaohs and
• 31:49
  Speaker 3: all that were laid to rest, they found in the Egyptian,
• 31:55
  Speaker 3: ancient Egyptian tombs the paintings there, paintings depicting people getting
• 32:01
  Speaker 3: hammered and from from from booze and having issues. So anyway,
• 32:06
  Speaker 3: I think that's, uh, that's kind of cool. But it
• 32:08
  Speaker 3: goes all the way back to Biblical times in the
• 32:11
  Speaker 3: Egyptians walk like an Egyptian, drink like an Egyptian. I
• 32:15
  Speaker 3: guess we are drinking like Egyptians. We get a little hungover.
• 32:17
  Speaker 1: All right, Well, there it is.
• 32:18
  Speaker 3: It is the word of the week, hungover or hang over,
• 32:22
  Speaker 3: but we were going with hungover.
• 32:24
  Speaker 1: We'll get out on that, enjoy the.
• 32:25
  Speaker 3: Final Four today and probably be watching. I don't know,
• 32:30
  Speaker 3: I get nothing else. I can't go to any of
• 32:32
  Speaker 3: these games. They don't allow me to.
• 32:34
  Speaker 4: Get Yeah, now, why is it back to back nights
• 32:36
  Speaker 4: of Clippers Mavericks? Is that from the fires?
• 32:39
  Speaker 3: I believe that is the case. I think that that's
• 32:42
  Speaker 3: why they're doing that. They still did to make up
• 32:44
  Speaker 3: some games because of what happened otherwise. Yeah, they wouldn't schedule.
• 32:47
  Speaker 4: Yeah, so you got locked out of Clippers Mavericks twice
• 32:52
  Speaker 4: in a row.
• 32:53
  Speaker 1: Yeah, how will my life go on?
• 32:55
  Speaker 3: I mean I didn't even really care about seeing the
• 32:58
  Speaker 3: Mavericks obviously. All right, we'll get out on the heavy
• 33:01
  Speaker 3: great day.
• 33:01
  Speaker 1: We will be back. We get the mail bag tomorrow,
• 33:05
  Speaker 1: talk to you then Austa pasta my folation