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Hour 3 - Not a Streamer's Paradise · The Ben Maller Show

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  Speaker 1: Boom, shaka laka. It's our naber three, our three, ready
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  Speaker 1: for you and ready for me. Here at our number three,
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  Speaker 1: we start out with a scandal.
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  Speaker 2: Give me the.
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  Speaker 1: Tail of the tape on the NFL's battle with DC bureaucrats.
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  Speaker 1: This all over streaming. The Department of Justice is apparently
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  Speaker 1: involved in this, the FCC.
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  Speaker 2: There's a lot going on.
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  Speaker 1: We'll try to explain it to you here as we
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  Speaker 1: begin our number three. Also, what stands out about coach
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  Speaker 1: Calin de Boor getting a massive eighty seven million dollar
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  Speaker 1: extension with Alabama even though many of the natives there
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  Speaker 1: not happy with Caleb de Boor when he gets paid
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  Speaker 1: the big money. And in pro bouncy ball, can you
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  Speaker 1: parse the words of Commissioner Adam Silver when he says
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  Speaker 1: he'd like to see the Memphis Grizzlies stay in Memphis.
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  Speaker 1: He also wants them to play some games in Nashville.
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  Speaker 1: Say what, Yeah, we get to all that and more
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  Speaker 1: right now here it is our three. Well, it turns
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  Speaker 1: out it is not a streamer's paradise. Welcome. In the
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  Speaker 2: Does that give you the hebgbis no.
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  Speaker 3: All right, Well, I thought this was interesting.
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  Speaker 1: I know it's NFL Draft day and you want to
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  Speaker 1: hear my mock draft because there's nothing better than hearing
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  Speaker 1: a mock draft. You might as well just poke your
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  Speaker 1: eyeballs out and make sure your ears bleed at the
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  Speaker 1: same time. So the NFL is playing defense against increasing
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  Speaker 1: noise coming out of Washington bureaucrats and all of this
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  Speaker 1: because of streaming. It is not a streamer's parodise. So
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  Speaker 1: I don't know if you saw this or not. There's
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  Speaker 1: a chance that you might have have missed it. It's
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  Speaker 1: a compelling story on a lot of levels. So somebody
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  Speaker 1: named Hans Schroeder. I don't know who that is. I'm
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  Speaker 1: told he's the executive vice president of Media Distribution, which
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  Speaker 1: sounds like a well paid job. Do you think this
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  Speaker 1: guy's making three hundred four hundred thousand dollars a year
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  Speaker 1: and he's in charge of media distribution. He met with
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  Speaker 1: the Federal Communications Commission, better known by their gangster name,
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  Speaker 1: the FCC, and they met in DC recently.
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  Speaker 2: Now, when I got into radio, there's this guy, he's gone.
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  Speaker 3: Woke and soft.
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  Speaker 1: His name was Howard Stern, he was the king of radio,
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  Speaker 1: and he always got in trouble with the FCC. So
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  Speaker 1: when I got a raider, everyone's afraid of the FCC.
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  Speaker 1: My guy, I still do training every year because of
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  Speaker 1: the FCC, we have to follow certain rules and all
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  Speaker 1: that stuff. So anyway, the NFL met with the FCC
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  Speaker 1: officials there in DC recently trying to calm everyone down.
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  Speaker 2: Nothing to see here, Calm down, you know.
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  Speaker 1: Gave the FCC chapter and verse on why they're not
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  Speaker 1: doing anything wrong here.
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  Speaker 2: There's nothing going on and all this stuff.
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  Speaker 1: There's a lot of scrutiny because of the streaming that
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  Speaker 1: has become in vogue recently for the NFL and the
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  Speaker 1: other sports leagues, and everything has been cannibalized and fragmented
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  Speaker 1: and essentially nickeol and diamonya, which is the way of
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  Speaker 1: the world today, right, the way of the world, and
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  Speaker 1: the whole point of business is to get you to
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  Speaker 1: pay for what you used to get for free, and
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  Speaker 1: that's what everyone's doing. And so the FCC said, well,
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  Speaker 1: wait a minute. Here they're claiming that they've gotten thousands
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  Speaker 1: of people that have submitted complaints to their operation, and
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  Speaker 1: they said that ninety eight percent of those comments were
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  Speaker 1: frustrated with the streaming migration in the NFL that trend,
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  Speaker 1: and they want the broadcast to remain the preeminent platform,
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  Speaker 1: the actual over the air broadcast to watch their favorite team.
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  Speaker 1: So thousands of people, now you understand, to complain to
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  Speaker 1: the FCC. There's a lot of layers you have to.
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  Speaker 1: I don't even know where you complain. You gotta like
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  Speaker 1: futs around and find where to go, and you got
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  Speaker 1: to fill out this form and another form and all.
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  Speaker 2: It's not that easy. This job is not that eas
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  Speaker 2: So thousands.
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  Speaker 3: Of people have complained.
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  Speaker 2: The NFL came to DC to try to calm everyone down.
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  Speaker 2: So that's a good.
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  Speaker 1: Jumping off point. Let us discuss the question. Give me
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  Speaker 1: the tale of the tape. I want the tail of
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  Speaker 1: the tape on the NFL's battle to continue to price
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  Speaker 1: gouge and make you pay for seventeen different streaming services
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  Speaker 1: with the FCC. So my views on this, I've got
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  Speaker 1: the lobby, training wheels, and test drive and we will
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  Speaker 1: put all of this together and we are going to go,
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  Speaker 1: got go. We have a blank canvas and we're gonna
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  Speaker 1: go got Go. So first of all, here's the tale
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  Speaker 1: of the tape in the NFL versus Washington bureaucrats, it's
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  Speaker 1: a cage match and.
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  Speaker 2: Spoiler alert, spoiler alert. Now this is not about the fan.
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  Speaker 2: It's about the money. Money, money, money, money, money, That's
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  Speaker 2: what it's about.
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  Speaker 1: And as always, this leverage because in one corner you
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  Speaker 1: have the NFL, multi billion dollar it's like a religion
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  Speaker 1: in this part of the world here, and they are
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  Speaker 1: clinging to this I believe it's sixty five years old. Now,
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  Speaker 1: this antitrust carve out, it's essentially the oxygen that they have.
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  Speaker 1: And in the other corner you've got the Department of Justice,
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  Speaker 1: that's right, the DOJ, and the FCC, the Federal Communications Commission,
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  Speaker 1: and they're futching around. They're like, well, they're asking the
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  Speaker 1: most basic question, what exactly.
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  Speaker 2: Are you people doing to your own product?
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  Speaker 1: And you've got this sweet heart deal and you're effing
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  Speaker 1: it up, you dumb dumbs. That's essentially what they're saying.
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  Speaker 1: Because the NFL is like, well, this is fan first,
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  Speaker 1: it's fan first. Artage is insulting. It's a light. What
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  Speaker 1: kind of light is it? It's a classic gaslight move.
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  Speaker 1: You're gaslighting, and the NFL they've turned watching football into
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  Speaker 1: a part time job, because you've got to have a
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  Speaker 1: couple of part time jobs to keep track of everything.
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  Speaker 1: There are last I checked, I think that the number
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  Speaker 1: is ten different platforms. Ten NFL products are on ten
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  Speaker 1: different platforms. There are twenty one streaming only games, the
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  Speaker 1: holiday games, just about all the big holiday games. There's
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  Speaker 1: at least one every holiday that is pushed behind a paywall.
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  Speaker 1: Happy Holidays, get out your credit card, dummy, and I
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  Speaker 1: guess they expect people just to smile and venmo another
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  Speaker 1: subscription or use the.
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  Speaker 2: Cash app or whatever.
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  Speaker 1: Now out of market fans are the ones that are
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  Speaker 1: getting absolutely hammered, and that seems.
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  Speaker 2: Like a good majority.
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  Speaker 1: There's a lot of people that live in cities they
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  Speaker 1: didn't grow up.
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  Speaker 3: They love teams. Maybe it's not even.
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  Speaker 1: A team you're from where you're from, but you grew
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  Speaker 1: up and when you were a kid, Like I know
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  Speaker 1: a lot of people who around my age who are
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  Speaker 1: forty nine or fans evil for then because they were
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  Speaker 1: good when they were kids.
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  Speaker 3: They won a lot of super Bowl that won and
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  Speaker 3: won in a.
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  Speaker 2: Long time, but they used to be good.
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  Speaker 1: And see you rubber stamp that you made this decision
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  Speaker 1: when you were nine years old, and now you're fifty
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  Speaker 1: years old, you're like, oh, that sucked, but I can't.
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  Speaker 1: I gotta pay for this, that and the other thing
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  Speaker 1: to watch these games.
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  Speaker 2: What's up with that? Uh? And that's that's how that goes.
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  Speaker 1: But out of market fans are the ones that are
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  Speaker 1: getting this in the NFL's like, well, you know, eighty
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  Speaker 1: seven percent of the games are on broadcast television. That
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  Speaker 1: seems like some fuzzy math to me. The games, many
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  Speaker 1: of them that people actually want to watch, those conveniently
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  Speaker 1: have disappeared presto into the purgatory of streaming out in Siberia.
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  Speaker 1: Now here's the tell, all right, to tell that the
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  Speaker 1: NFL knows that this is a bit of a pickle
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  Speaker 1: that they're in. If the NFL was so confident that
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  Speaker 1: they have nothing to worry about, why would they visit
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  Speaker 1: the lobby. We're talking about a full blown lobbying tor
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  Speaker 1: of the DC bureaucrats there, and that doesn't seem like
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  Speaker 1: confidence to me. It seems like you're close to hitting
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  Speaker 1: the panic button. And so it's not about growth, it's
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  Speaker 1: about squeezing every dollar. We get it, that's what you're
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  Speaker 1: trying to do. You just don't want to say that,
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  Speaker 1: and somebody's calling you out. Now, Normally, the way these
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  Speaker 1: things work, I'm cynical and jaded at this point. Normally
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  Speaker 1: the way these things work is you just put a
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  Speaker 1: donation in political donation to certain people, and that's how
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  Speaker 1: politics work. You buy people off. And politicians. One thing
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  Speaker 1: I've known about politicians.
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  Speaker 3: My entire life.
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  Speaker 2: They always have their handout for a hand you know,
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  Speaker 2: for free money, right, and it's like, well, whether it's
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  Speaker 2: a I need to invest in that stock, give me
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  Speaker 2: a little tip on that, sure, no problem, give you
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  Speaker 2: a tip.
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  Speaker 1: Okay, look at that. I've made a fortune on Wall Street. Unbelievable,
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  Speaker 1: you know, making a minimum salary and I'm rich.
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  Speaker 2: But whatever it might be right now.
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  Speaker 1: Secondly, we now go to college football.
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  Speaker 2: College football on the day of the trap. What are
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  Speaker 2: you out of your mind?
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  Speaker 3: Me explain?
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  Speaker 1: So Alabama, I'm old enough to remember when these would
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  Speaker 1: be good. So Alabama randomly agreed to a seven year
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  Speaker 1: contract with football coach Klin de Boor. Now he's going
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  Speaker 1: to earn twelve and a half million dollars per season.
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  Speaker 1: A new deal goes all the way till twenty thirty
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  Speaker 1: three and is worth a mind boggling eighty seven and
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  Speaker 1: a half million dollars, and that has been approved. We
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  Speaker 1: have been told it has been rubber stamped by the
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  Speaker 1: competition committee for the school or competition compensation committee. I
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  Speaker 1: don't know what the competition committee would be, but that
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  Speaker 1: that took place this week. So there's a ten million
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  Speaker 1: dollar buyout, and that number would go down a little
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  Speaker 1: bit each year. It runs currently through January of twenty
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  Speaker 1: twenty seven.
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  Speaker 2: So the question.
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  Speaker 1: What stands out about Klan de boor getting this massive
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  Speaker 1: extension big money, big money, big.
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  Speaker 3: Money from Alabama. So let's not overthink this one.
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  Speaker 1: It's pretty obvious that Alabama, the people in charge of
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  Speaker 1: their athletic department blinked.
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  Speaker 2: Who were they bidding against?
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  Speaker 3: Who was the competition here?
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  Speaker 1: They handed Kaitlin the boar eighty seven and a half million,
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  Speaker 1: and what exactly did they give him that money for?
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  Speaker 3: Now? The resume hit that amazing year at Washington.
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  Speaker 1: And he was the hot name, and he went to
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  Speaker 1: Alabama and all that, and he's only been there a
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  Speaker 1: few years. And I look at that Alabama program and
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  Speaker 1: I'm like, that's a shell of what they had been.
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  Speaker 3: It's like he still.
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  Speaker 1: Got the training in Tuscaloosa and you're handing out Nick
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  Speaker 1: Saban money without the Nick Saban results. But I believe
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  Speaker 1: that's more if I read right, I think that's more
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  Speaker 1: than Saban got at Alabama. You don't pay that unless
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  Speaker 1: you're sure you got the guy, or you're nervous about
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  Speaker 1: what you've got, and for some reason you're like, well,
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  Speaker 1: if we just pay a lot of money, we're good
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  Speaker 1: at ten million dollar buyout.
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  Speaker 2: Wowsers.
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  Speaker 1: That's not security, that's a hedge. They can find a
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  Speaker 1: booster that'll pay ten million dollars. It's like a quiet
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  Speaker 1: admission say hey, we're not totally sold that this guy
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  Speaker 1: is the guy. It's Alabama talking out of both sides
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  Speaker 1: of the mouth. We believe in this guy just in case,
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  Speaker 1: though we have a good return policy. It's the classic
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  Speaker 1: college football maraj You pay now, you pray later. And
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  Speaker 1: they're trying to bottle Nick Saban's magic, and instead they're
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  Speaker 1: locking themselves in and having to pay a ten million
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  Speaker 1: dollars check to get rid of this guy. When things
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  Speaker 1: go sideways again and the thing that debor is missing
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  Speaker 1: and there's really no way to get to that without
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  Speaker 1: winning multiple championships is the aura, the status. The cachet
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  Speaker 1: doesn't have any of that. You can't manufacture that. It
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  Speaker 1: has to happen organically, no matter how much money you
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  Speaker 1: pay this guy. The contract doesn't scream confidence to me.
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  Speaker 1: It screams high anxiety. And it's got the booster check
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  Speaker 1: book attached. It's like no one, no one's going on
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  Speaker 1: and say, Okay, this is Caitlin Borre. Let's get him
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  Speaker 1: into portal, the coaching portal. Not come on please, all
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  Speaker 1: right now? Final thought. A follow up, We go to Memphis.
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  Speaker 1: A follow up to a story that we have chatted
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  Speaker 1: about a few times in recent days, and it's being
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  Speaker 1: chewed up yet again.
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  Speaker 3: The commissioner of.
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  Speaker 1: The NBA, Adams Silver, attempted in theory to reaffirm the
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  Speaker 1: NBA's commitment to Memphis. Lebron, James Draymond Green and several
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  Speaker 1: others have bitched about having to play in Memphis as
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  Speaker 1: visiting players, and they wanted the team Lebron in particular,
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  Speaker 1: one of the team relocated across the state of Tennessee
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  Speaker 1: to the Music City. So Adam Silver attempted to reaffirm this, right,
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  Speaker 1: all right, I think we have a little bit of this,
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  Speaker 1: let's play what we have.
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  Speaker 3: Maybe I'll cut it off.
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  Speaker 2: But this is.
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  Speaker 1: On one of those barstool podcasts I believe, I think,
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  Speaker 1: I don't know what the name of it is. But anyway,
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  Speaker 1: here's Adam Silver and here he is yapping about the Grizzlies.
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  Speaker 3: Take a listen.
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  Speaker 4: First, of all, players I talk to all the time
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  Speaker 4: like playing in Memphis, I've never heard that issue of
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  Speaker 4: players not wanting to be in Memphis.
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  Speaker 3: So number one. Number two.
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  Speaker 4: You know, the owner of Memphis Grizzly is a guy
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  Speaker 4: named Robert Para. Has no interest in moving the team
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  Speaker 4: out of Memphis. He's made that's a lie, you know.
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  Speaker 4: I think, like there's obviously Nashville is a city on
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  Speaker 4: the rise. There's incredible things happening there. You know, if
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  Speaker 4: it we're up to me, I'd love for them to
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  Speaker 4: play a few games a year in Nashville and sort
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  Speaker 4: of be Tennessee's team to the extent they can. But uh,
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  Speaker 4: you know, Memphis has been a great market historically for
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  Speaker 4: the NBA's you know, that's amazing history in that city,
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  Speaker 4: amazing culture, you know, and it's a barb true, you know,
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  Speaker 4: And so as I look out, you know, at our
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  Speaker 4: thirty teams. We want teams to be able to do
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  Speaker 4: well everywhere. We have a revenue sharing system, et cetera.
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  Speaker 4: But there's from from my standpoint, there's no reason why
• 18:38
  Speaker 4: the Memphis Grizzlies can't be successful.
• 18:41
  Speaker 1: Okay, all right, question, can you parse what you just
• 18:44
  Speaker 1: heard the words of Adam Silver when he says he'd
• 18:47
  Speaker 1: like to see the Grizzlies play a few games in Nashville. Well,
• 18:51
  Speaker 1: at the same time talking about how Memphis has been
• 18:54
  Speaker 1: a great market historically in the NBA.
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  Speaker 3: I could literally see his nose growing.
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  Speaker 1: All right, So this is textbook relocation for play. I
• 19:04
  Speaker 1: have seen this time and again. This is always the
• 19:08
  Speaker 1: first act when a team relocates, and Adam Silver is
• 19:12
  Speaker 1: not even hiding it. He did the classic Memphis is great.
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  Speaker 1: But let's just take Nashville out.
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  Speaker 3: For a spin.
• 19:21
  Speaker 2: What do you say, Let's give Nashville a little bit
• 19:23
  Speaker 2: of a ride.
• 19:25
  Speaker 1: When the commissioner of a sports league starts praising a
• 19:28
  Speaker 1: market while casually introducing another market, that is not vision.
• 19:32
  Speaker 2: That's called positioning. It's called jockeying for position.
• 19:36
  Speaker 1: It's a soft launch wrapped in a compliment sandwich as
• 19:40
  Speaker 1: Adam Silver is saying, there's no reason they can't be
• 19:43
  Speaker 1: successful in Memphis. That is executive code. It's a dog
• 19:49
  Speaker 1: whistle for they're not successful enough. If everything is rosy,
• 19:55
  Speaker 1: if everything is wonderful, wonderful, wonderful, wonderful, why even bring
• 20:00
  Speaker 1: up Nashville. Just don't even bring it up. You don't
• 20:03
  Speaker 1: test drive another city unless you're thinking at least a
• 20:07
  Speaker 1: little bit about trading in the car. And this isn't
• 20:10
  Speaker 1: about growing the fan base. It's about expanding the exit ramp.
• 20:16
  Speaker 1: The NBA is planting seeds now. So if the Memphis
• 20:20
  Speaker 1: Grizzlies ever do bolt, you know, nobody says, well, we
• 20:23
  Speaker 1: didn't see this one coming. Loyalty gets a lip service.
• 20:28
  Speaker 1: That's revenue, that's action. That is absolutely action. And how
• 20:34
  Speaker 1: many players go up to Adam Silver just between me
• 20:37
  Speaker 1: and you, and say, hey, hey, Adam, I don't like
• 20:39
  Speaker 1: that town, all right, I don't like this guy.
• 20:41
  Speaker 2: Does that happen on a regular basis? Is that how
• 20:44
  Speaker 2: that works? Isn't this what they say amongst each other,
• 20:46
  Speaker 2: not to the people in charge. That's normally how that works.
• 20:50
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• 20:51
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  Speaker 1: That is the question. What is the answer to the
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  Speaker 1: mallor riddle of the day. Let's see does anyone know
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  Speaker 1: the answer? We go to the great Unwashed Alf the
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  Speaker 1: Alien Opiner says as an uber driver slash tour guide
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  Speaker 1: is the answer? Ferg Dock says, Robbie the Mariner fans massus.
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  Speaker 1: I think is what Ferg Dock meant to say? There,
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  Speaker 1: King Roy going with professional wrestler Sparky Plug as his answer.
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  Speaker 3: Who else?
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  Speaker 1: Page down moonlighting as a burlesque model from Andy Lionel Lakes, Minnesota.
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  Speaker 2: Manuel from Guardina says the dude was moonlighting.
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  Speaker 1: As a You guys are trying to get me to
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  Speaker 3: What else?
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  Speaker 1: Professional cuddler from Dante, spinal surgeon from Analog, al a
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  Speaker 1: male Jigglo from Donkey Sausage, Paul Bart mall cop from
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  Speaker 1: got to have a fall?
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  Speaker 2: Guy JT.
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  Speaker 1: The wing Man says, truck driver is the answer. Tourist
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  Speaker 1: trap beggar from Eileen in San Francisco. What else page down?
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  Speaker 1: Inka terror in in a Rochester, says an alluring tech
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  Speaker 1: producer on The Ben Maler Show.
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  Speaker 3: Is the answer?
• 26:06
  Speaker 1: Rodeo clown from Eke in Roseville, Minnesota. Rebecca the ram
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  Speaker 1: fan says NASCAR driver and Civil War reenactor is the answer.
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  Speaker 1: Chippendale's entertainer from Doug. It's his answer as well.
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  Speaker 3: Let's see here.
• 26:24
  Speaker 1: Andre's dog willis from Michael, a ball boy for the
• 26:28
  Speaker 1: New York knickerbockers from Pizza Papa, a cheese slicer from
• 26:33
  Speaker 1: Filler up Phill.
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  Speaker 3: These are some really good answers.
• 26:36
  Speaker 1: Timmy, our buddy from Busco, Indiana, says a trappez artist
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  Speaker 1: for Souk Di Sole. All right, now, great answers. Let's
• 26:44
  Speaker 1: see here, Loraina, do you know the answer? NASCAR Auto
• 26:47
  Speaker 1: Parts Series driver Patrick star Apoli leads a double life
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  Speaker 1: as a.
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  Speaker 7: Blank as a bottle girl.
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  Speaker 2: Bottle girl. Oh yeah, let's get let's get the bottles.
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  Speaker 1: Nervous, Okay, all right now, correct answer.
• 27:03
  Speaker 2: He leads a double life as an eye surgeon.
• 27:05
  Speaker 1: This guy's an eye surgeon and he also drives in
• 27:10
  Speaker 1: the Lower series in NASCAR. Don't you make enough money
• 27:14
  Speaker 1: as an eye surgeon that you don't. I guess he
• 27:16
  Speaker 1: just wants to do it because it's fun.
• 27:17
  Speaker 2: And who are we to judges? And I guess that's
• 27:20
  Speaker 2: kind of all we do is judge people here behind
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  Speaker 2: you must have.
• 27:22
  Speaker 8: A steady hand.
• 27:24
  Speaker 1: Uh, you would think, oh, did they use robots for that?
• 27:28
  Speaker 8: Now?
• 27:28
  Speaker 3: If they moved on to road.
• 27:29
  Speaker 7: Right like, that's a very meticulous thing to do.
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  Speaker 8: That's a very And if.
• 27:35
  Speaker 1: You had like a bad day and you move your
• 27:37
  Speaker 1: finger a little bit, that's you can't see any it's
• 27:41
  Speaker 1: lights out.
• 27:43
  Speaker 3: It's all over.
• 27:43
  Speaker 1: Let's go to Joel, who's in Seattle. He's sleepless in Seattle,
• 27:47
  Speaker 1: and Joel is up next. We do have ask Ben
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• 27:53
  Speaker 1: Welcome Joel?
• 27:54
  Speaker 9: How you doing Ben?
• 27:56
  Speaker 6: Hey?
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  Speaker 10: I have a couple.
• 27:57
  Speaker 2: Ohio songs for you.
• 27:59
  Speaker 10: Okay, the Pretenders and Crosby Stills, Nash and Young also
• 28:05
  Speaker 10: have one.
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  Speaker 3: All right, we'll have to crank those up.
• 28:09
  Speaker 2: We'll get to Ohio, Al and Dick and Dayton on
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  Speaker 2: that right away.
• 28:12
  Speaker 3: I can perform some Ohio songs.
• 28:14
  Speaker 2: We can play them on the show. Sure, that's all
• 28:19
  Speaker 2: I got Ben, all right, all.
• 28:20
  Speaker 1: Right, thank you, Joe, all right, short and sweet, let's
• 28:22
  Speaker 1: go to Let's go to Steve in Manhattan.
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  Speaker 2: Gob you can, and gob you can't, and go but
• 28:29
  Speaker 2: you can't. Hello, Steven Manhattan.
• 28:30
  Speaker 9: Welcome. Those stereotypes will be used in this call. Ben
• 28:36
  Speaker 9: Distinguished Panel expanding audience.
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  Speaker 10: Welcome to her.
• 28:41
  Speaker 9: All right, folks, got you guys go heading out to
• 28:44
  Speaker 9: Cincinnati this weekend in Kentucky, and that just at to
• 28:48
  Speaker 9: let people know. I thought about this, I thought about
• 28:51
  Speaker 9: not saying it, but then I thought, why not.
• 28:53
  Speaker 10: You got to say because they're going to eventually know
• 28:55
  Speaker 10: on the menu is going to be Ben's favorite. Go Kinnishes.
• 29:01
  Speaker 10: You're gonna love it, folks, and don't be shy about
• 29:04
  Speaker 10: putting brown gravy on it or avocado or anything. It's
• 29:09
  Speaker 10: delicious and you're gonna love it. Now you put up
• 29:12
  Speaker 10: Memphis before. I think Memphis has an Oakland problem. That's
• 29:16
  Speaker 10: their biggest problem there. And the thing is players usually
• 29:20
  Speaker 10: don't live exactly where they're playing either, like the New
• 29:23
  Speaker 10: York Yankees. If folks don't know play in the South, Bronx,
• 29:27
  Speaker 10: I think the last guy to live in the South
• 29:29
  Speaker 10: Bronx was probably Babe Ruth to somebody, you know, they
• 29:32
  Speaker 10: don't live in the South Bronx.
• 29:33
  Speaker 6: No. No.
• 29:34
  Speaker 1: In fact, Rob Parker claimed that Babe Ruth lived in
• 29:38
  Speaker 1: Queens when he played for the Yankees.
• 29:41
  Speaker 3: With that.
• 29:43
  Speaker 9: Well, I'm sure that Babe probably lived wherever he fell
• 29:46
  Speaker 9: asleep that night, but he did have probably different places,
• 29:50
  Speaker 9: like in Manhattan. He lived in Manhattan, he lived in
• 29:52
  Speaker 9: the Grand Concours. People don't realize it's really one of
• 29:55
  Speaker 9: the most fashionable places in the world.
• 29:58
  Speaker 5: In the Bronx, and he probably lived in Queen's two
• 30:02
  Speaker 5: and everything. He probably hiding now in Queens back then.
• 30:05
  Speaker 9: The thing is with Memphis now people don't realize Memphis also.
• 30:09
  Speaker 5: Had a team in the ABA, and and try to
• 30:14
  Speaker 5: find somebody who actually went to a Memphis Sounds.
• 30:17
  Speaker 10: Game in the ABA. That would be like the rarest
• 30:20
  Speaker 10: person on the planet.
• 30:22
  Speaker 1: Try right now, all right, I got I got Bob
• 30:25
  Speaker 1: Costas for one thousand.
• 30:28
  Speaker 9: I know, I don't I know, listen, I know Charlie
• 30:30
  Speaker 9: Finley did because he owned a team.
• 30:32
  Speaker 10: Like the last couple of years, the people from him.
• 30:35
  Speaker 2: Bob wasn't.
• 30:36
  Speaker 1: Bob Costas was a broadcaster in the ABA, right, for
• 30:39
  Speaker 1: the Saint Louis team. I believe he was so he
• 30:41
  Speaker 1: had to go to Memphis when Saint Louis played in Memphis.
• 30:44
  Speaker 5: He was forced him, right, But I'm saying attending as
• 30:48
  Speaker 5: a fan like John Sterling probably went to a Memphis
• 30:50
  Speaker 5: Sounds game too, because he would.
• 30:52
  Speaker 10: Do the net games, right.
• 30:54
  Speaker 5: I'm looking for actually, somebody who bought a ticket and
• 30:56
  Speaker 5: went to a Memphis Sounds.
• 30:57
  Speaker 2: Why would you want that? What do you want to
• 30:59
  Speaker 2: talk to that person about this? Please? Come on, that's
• 31:02
  Speaker 2: wrong with you?
• 31:02
  Speaker 10: Not just saying I'm just trying to say.
• 31:04
  Speaker 5: They don't draw up, they don't have they don't draw
• 31:06
  Speaker 5: in Memphis.
• 31:07
  Speaker 10: That's the problem, you know, mister Silva.
• 31:10
  Speaker 1: Really, if the team's good, if the team's good, people
• 31:14
  Speaker 1: show up. The team's not very good. They weren't trying
• 31:17
  Speaker 1: to be good. They were trying to lose, So why
• 31:20
  Speaker 1: would you go watch that crap? It's like watching a
• 31:23
  Speaker 1: Brooklyn Nets game. Why would you watch a Brooklyn Nets game.
• 31:26
  Speaker 1: They're not trying to win. So what's the point.
• 31:30
  Speaker 5: Well, you do have people who are fans. But anyway,
• 31:33
  Speaker 5: if there's anybody in this audience who wants to talk
• 31:36
  Speaker 5: to Steve from Manhattan calling right, all right, get on
• 31:40
  Speaker 5: the phone or the cell phone, call in and let's
• 31:43
  Speaker 5: hear what you have to say.
• 31:44
  Speaker 10: Come on, get a call.
• 31:45
  Speaker 2: Run yes, all right, we'll put you on hold.
• 31:48
  Speaker 3: Thank you for that.
• 31:50
  Speaker 1: Grizzlies worth thirtieth out of thirty teams in attendance this season.
• 31:55
  Speaker 1: Only the Well the Wizards were next up. The Wizards
• 31:58
  Speaker 1: were a little bit ahead, not much.
• 32:02
  Speaker 3: I'd see what do we have her? Any meanie miny Moe?
• 32:05
  Speaker 3: Where or where do we go?
• 32:08
  Speaker 1: Let's say hello? I did see Slug briefly online, but
• 32:13
  Speaker 1: I guess he's long gone.
• 32:14
  Speaker 7: Unfortunately, Yeah, he had to go.
• 32:16
  Speaker 1: All right, we love Slug. I didn't see his name
• 32:19
  Speaker 1: right away. I would have gone to him right away.
• 32:20
  Speaker 1: This Slug, the hostess with the Moses. We hope to
• 32:22
  Speaker 1: do one of these meet and greets in Vegas. We've
• 32:24
  Speaker 1: done it the last couple of years in Vegas.
• 32:26
  Speaker 2: We'd love to go.
• 32:27
  Speaker 8: His call may or may not have been about that.
• 32:30
  Speaker 1: Okay, well, Coop, we want to go when it's one
• 32:34
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• 32:35
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• 32:36
  Speaker 8: That's right, That's that's when we do it. We picked
• 32:38
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• 32:41
  Speaker 8: we decided to go.
• 32:42
  Speaker 1: We go when the tires on your car melt, that's
• 32:45
  Speaker 1: when we go to Vegas.
• 32:46
  Speaker 3: That's when we want to be part of the Vegas thing.
• 32:47
  Speaker 1: Joey the Bellman wants to know if the NFL had
• 32:50
  Speaker 1: to choose one city to make the Super Bowl their
• 32:52
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• 32:57
  Speaker 3: Oh, I guess that was for everybody.
• 32:58
  Speaker 2: You didn't put the hashtag ask Ben in there, Joey.
• 33:01
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• 33:03
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• 33:04
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  Speaker 7: Side segment, Well, he didn't.
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• 33:13
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• 33:16
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• 33:17
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• 33:21
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• 33:24
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  Speaker 8: to be fluent in?
• 35:40
  Speaker 1: So I speak Spanglish. I live in southern California. I
• 35:43
  Speaker 1: wish I spoke Spanish. It would make life a lot easier.
• 35:46
  Speaker 1: I speak a ripoff.
• 35:48
  Speaker 3: Version of it. I know a few words and that's
• 35:50
  Speaker 3: about it.
• 35:50
  Speaker 2: I think just where I live here, that would be great.
• 35:53
  Speaker 1: Now if I was single and about you know, forty
• 35:55
  Speaker 1: years younger, but maybe not forty twenty five years younger,
• 35:58
  Speaker 1: I would like to. I think that that French language,
• 36:02
  Speaker 1: that that dazzles the ladies.
• 36:03
  Speaker 2: What about you of Arena?
• 36:04
  Speaker 7: Yeah, that's what I want? Is I want the language
• 36:06
  Speaker 7: of love?
• 36:08
  Speaker 9: Yeah?
• 36:09
  Speaker 2: All right?
• 36:09
  Speaker 3: Have you been to France before you?
• 36:11
  Speaker 4: Yes?
• 36:11
  Speaker 11: I have. When I was sixteen, I did a European tour.
• 36:15
  Speaker 11: We did Italy, France and London. Did you get in
• 36:19
  Speaker 11: a lot of trouble when you were over I did
• 36:21
  Speaker 11: get because I was young and you know, they have
• 36:22
  Speaker 11: legal drinking age over there, so I was old enough
• 36:25
  Speaker 11: to partake. And yeah, I got pretty schnockered before we
• 36:28
  Speaker 11: went to the Trabbe fountains. So that was fun.
• 36:31
  Speaker 3: Nice.
• 36:31
  Speaker 2: All right?
• 36:32
  Speaker 3: What about you?
• 36:33
  Speaker 8: I would probably I would choose either Italian just because
• 36:36
  Speaker 8: of my heritage, and then also Japanese. I think would
• 36:41
  Speaker 8: be pretty cool to be fluent. Oh that'd be fun.
• 36:43
  Speaker 3: Yeah, all right, very good.
• 36:44
  Speaker 2: It's ask Ben.
• 36:46
  Speaker 1: Your questions are answers for the rest of the hour
• 36:49
  Speaker 1: hashtag ask Ben.
• 36:52
  Speaker 8: All right, Nick would like to know what's a better
• 36:54
  Speaker 8: side dish for barbecue, mac and cheese or baked beans. Oh,
• 36:58
  Speaker 8: it's not.
• 36:58
  Speaker 2: Even mac and cheese.
• 36:59
  Speaker 1: Come on, all right, don't even don't give me the
• 37:01
  Speaker 1: baked beans thing. I don't want the baked beans propaganda.
• 37:04
  Speaker 3: Okay.
• 37:05
  Speaker 2: I put the baked beans right.
• 37:06
  Speaker 1: Next to ranch dressing and I flush it down the toilet.
• 37:10
  Speaker 1: Mac and cheese all day, every day, Loreena.
• 37:13
  Speaker 11: Oh gosh, I want to say mac and cheese because
• 37:16
  Speaker 11: I then just say it.
• 37:17
  Speaker 2: But I.
• 37:20
  Speaker 7: Never make it with barbecue. I always have baked beans.
• 37:23
  Speaker 11: So I'm gonna have to do with bushes vegetarian baked beans.
• 37:26
  Speaker 11: Specific they taste like brown sugar.
• 37:31
  Speaker 8: They're really good.
• 37:33
  Speaker 2: Oh my god, Lorena, this is what are you doing? Please?
• 37:36
  Speaker 2: Come on?
• 37:37
  Speaker 3: This is embarrassing. All right?
• 37:39
  Speaker 2: Cool?
• 37:40
  Speaker 8: Look, I love me some some delicious baked beans. I do,
• 37:44
  Speaker 8: I do, But if I had to choose one, I
• 37:48
  Speaker 8: gotta I have to stick with the mac and cheese.
• 37:50
  Speaker 2: I'm tired.
• 37:51
  Speaker 1: I'm tired coop with big baked beans trying to shove
• 37:53
  Speaker 1: it down. Mac and cheese is the.
• 37:55
  Speaker 3: Way to go.
• 37:56
  Speaker 2: All right, next?
• 37:57
  Speaker 8: All right, so this is a good one, and I
• 37:58
  Speaker 8: feel kind of bad because I saw her and I've
• 38:00
  Speaker 8: had some time to think about it, but I'm gonna
• 38:01
  Speaker 8: throw it out to you. Alf the alien o Pinter
• 38:04
  Speaker 8: wants to know, Hi, Alf, is there something you hate
• 38:07
  Speaker 8: in one form but love in another? For example, you
• 38:09
  Speaker 8: hate ranch dressing but love cool ranch doritos. Uh?
• 38:15
  Speaker 1: Yeah, So I don't like tomatoes, I love ketchup. I
• 38:19
  Speaker 1: don't enjoy tomatoes at all. The ketchup I like, I don't.
• 38:25
  Speaker 1: I guess I've come around on onions. I used to
• 38:28
  Speaker 1: hate them.
• 38:28
  Speaker 3: I like onion rings when I was a kid. What
• 38:29
  Speaker 3: about you, Lorena?
• 38:30
  Speaker 8: Onion rings are a listous?
• 38:31
  Speaker 7: So I made a little list, right, So I.
• 38:33
  Speaker 2: Made a list I did. I bought a big board.
• 38:35
  Speaker 2: I don't do lists. Big board.
• 38:36
  Speaker 7: We got a big board of foods that go both ways.
• 38:39
  Speaker 7: I got corn and popcorn, tomatoes and.
• 38:41
  Speaker 11: Ketchup, bread into croutons and water into ice. I mean,
• 38:45
  Speaker 11: that's just a couple, but I like all versions of everything.
• 38:48
  Speaker 7: I'm so versatile.
• 38:49
  Speaker 2: Give it to this.
• 38:50
  Speaker 8: You like all of those? That's not even the question.
• 38:52
  Speaker 8: You fail that way? Wow, that was so bad.
• 38:55
  Speaker 2: What about the potato into mash?
• 38:57
  Speaker 7: Potato doesn't matter?
• 38:58
  Speaker 2: How to make it?
• 38:59
  Speaker 3: Vodka?
• 39:00
  Speaker 8: Oh all right, But he's asking one that you don't like, and.
• 39:08
  Speaker 3: The code please?
• 39:10
  Speaker 8: I think for me, I would have to go with coconut.
• 39:13
  Speaker 8: I don't like like shaved like coconut like it's too
• 39:16
  Speaker 8: the texture is weird. But if you like cover shrimp
• 39:20
  Speaker 8: and in coconut and deep fry, it delicious.
• 39:23
  Speaker 1: Okay, Well, anything I've determined anything. As Homer Simpson taught me,
• 39:27
  Speaker 1: anything fried is really good.
• 39:28
  Speaker 2: What is next?
• 39:29
  Speaker 3: What do we have here?
• 39:30
  Speaker 8: What do we got donkey sausage, would like tonight, donkey?
• 39:33
  Speaker 8: What is your Monopoly token of choice?
• 39:37
  Speaker 2: I feel like we've had this question before, right, we
• 39:40
  Speaker 2: might have.
• 39:40
  Speaker 8: I don't know if since Lorena's.
• 39:42
  Speaker 3: Been here death they added.
• 39:44
  Speaker 1: I think they added, they retired some and added some
• 39:47
  Speaker 1: since I last played Monopoly. But I always like the
• 39:49
  Speaker 1: little little hat thing, the top hat and the car.
• 39:53
  Speaker 3: What about you, Lorena as.
• 39:54
  Speaker 7: The woman, and I'm obligated to choose the iron.
• 39:59
  Speaker 2: When's the last time you iron? I think I've ironed
• 40:03
  Speaker 2: more than you?
• 40:04
  Speaker 7: Steaming now?
• 40:06
  Speaker 3: Okay, Coop?
• 40:07
  Speaker 8: I like the top hat and the ship.
• 40:11
  Speaker 3: Ship's not bad?
• 40:12
  Speaker 10: Yeah?
• 40:12
  Speaker 1: Yeah, all right, what's next here? It's ask man. Your
• 40:15
  Speaker 1: questions are answer.
• 40:17
  Speaker 8: I believe we've had this before, but Ray would like
• 40:19
  Speaker 8: to know he's a new one. I haven't seen him
• 40:20
  Speaker 8: on to hear before. Have you ever broken any bones?
• 40:24
  Speaker 10: Yeah?
• 40:24
  Speaker 3: Nothing big though, fingers hand, nothing major?
• 40:27
  Speaker 2: Lorado quickly nope.
• 40:29
  Speaker 3: Coop, nope. All right, there you go. I didn't break
• 40:32
  Speaker 3: a leg or an arm or anything like that.