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Hour 1 - Bending Steel · The Ben Maller Show

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Speaker 2: the report card, herd round the pigskin world, burning bridges.
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Speaker 2: What's coming up for you when you look at these
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Speaker 2: complaints about the NFLPA report card that had the Steelers
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Speaker 2: den at last dead lastly complaints by the Steeler players.
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Speaker 2: We will analyze that. Also, is there correlation between NFL players' amenities,
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Speaker 2: the perks and results on the field. Also, what legal
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Speaker 2: options do the owners have to fight the NFLPA that
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Speaker 2: obviously strategically leaked the report card. It's a bit of
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Speaker 2: a quagmire. We'll talk about that as well. All of
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Speaker 2: We'll give out the number in a little bit, and
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Speaker 2: I know the regulars are excited to be back. However,
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Speaker 2: our lead this hour from the peak leak, if you will.
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Speaker 1: The owners tried, they went to court, they tried.
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Speaker 2: It turns out they failed to keep the NFL Players
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Speaker 2: Association report cards from becoming public. This was not that
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Speaker 2: hard to predict. As a distant relative of Nostra Damis
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Speaker 2: and former friend of Nostra Denis, it was pretty obvious
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Speaker 2: that this information was going to get into the public sector,
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Speaker 2: and it did so earlier this month. You might remember
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Speaker 2: the NFL. This is about a couple of weeks ago.
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Speaker 2: I think it was a couple of weeks ago. The
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Speaker 2: NFL won a grievance that, in theory prevented the NFL
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Speaker 2: Players Association from publishing the results of the team report card.
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Speaker 1: Psych so on Q the Union leaked at not just.
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Speaker 2: One or two, or three or four or all thirty
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Speaker 2: two teams. Letter grades were posted online for everyone to see,
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Speaker 2: fun for all ages.
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Speaker 1: So I don't know if you checking this out, maybe
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Speaker 1: you missed it.
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Speaker 2: So the team that is considered at the very top
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Speaker 2: of the hierarchy for spoiling their players, the Miami Dolphins.
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Speaker 2: Out about that unbelievable Dolphins top spot among all the
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Speaker 2: players surveyed for the third consecutive year. Now, if I
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Speaker 2: owned the Dolphins, I would start printing up shirts. I'd
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Speaker 2: have to send a check to pat Riley, but I'd
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Speaker 2: put three P the Miami Dolphins three P. Now, the
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Speaker 2: team that was at the very bottom, looking up at
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Speaker 2: the tuckers of everyone else in the NFL, the once
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Speaker 2: proud pitts Burg Steelers. They yeah, Steelers, They at the.
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Speaker 1: Very bottom, right there in the sewer.
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Speaker 2: For the first time, Pittsburgh received a very low grades,
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Speaker 2: very low grades from the players there in several categories.
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Speaker 2: You can read more about that if you want, I'll
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Speaker 2: give you a couple of them. The players claimed inadequate
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Speaker 2: maintenance excessive wear of the stadium because they guess they
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Speaker 2: let a lot of the local college high school teams play.
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Speaker 2: God forbid, and these players need the field to themselves.
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Speaker 2: Note let any of those high school kids on that field, please,
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Speaker 2: So they criticize the field, technology, the facilities in general.
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Speaker 2: So that's a good jumping off point. Let us discuss,
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Speaker 2: all right, let us discuss.
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Speaker 1: We're gonna discuss right now. So the question here, what's
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Speaker 1: coming up.
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Speaker 2: For you when you look at these complaints? I maybe
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Speaker 2: you haven't seen them, but I'll answer it first. So
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Speaker 2: what's coming up for you when you look at these
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Speaker 2: complaints by these Steelers players. So I've got I've got truffles,
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Speaker 2: Jimmy Buffett and Sasquatch, and we will combine all of
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Speaker 2: these things together and we are going to say forget
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Speaker 2: about it, is what we're gonna say, because I want
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Speaker 2: to forget about it. So my first thought on this
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Speaker 2: when I when I saw the complaints was I thought, well, boy,
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Speaker 2: the Monongahela River is overflowing right now.
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Speaker 1: With the tiers of Steeler players.
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Speaker 2: They're gonna have to put some kind of warning on
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Speaker 2: the local media there in Pittsburgh that the Monongahela is
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Speaker 2: just so many tiers from these Pittsburgh players. These Steelers
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Speaker 2: players complained about a number of things. The one that
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Speaker 2: got the most attention they have in their locker room.
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Speaker 2: Five bathroom stalls for the entire team.
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Speaker 1: Five. That's it. That's all.
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Speaker 2: So that is a Heinz Field or whatever the stadium's called.
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Speaker 2: Now some act for sure, something something level tragedy.
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Speaker 1: Right there, be still my beating heart. The Steeler franchise.
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Speaker 1: You've changed. Another thing that's changed in my lifetime. When
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Speaker 1: I was growing up, I heard.
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Speaker 2: These amazing stories about the legends of the Pittsburgh Steelers.
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Speaker 2: Men were men Frank o'harris, Jack Lambert, guys who look
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Speaker 2: like they chewed on nails and ate rebar for breakfast.
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Speaker 2: Right now, juxt opposed that to essentially the Steeler players
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Speaker 2: complaining because of the lack of white truffles and family
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Speaker 2: lounges that are lacking. He's so spoiled, it's just outstanding.
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Speaker 2: They think roughing it. I'm pretty sure they think that
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Speaker 2: roughing it there at the Steeler locker room.
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Speaker 1: It means going on the road, staying at.
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Speaker 2: A hotel, you know, somewhere out in the NFL that
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Speaker 2: only has one infinity pool.
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Speaker 1: Can you imagine?
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Speaker 2: Can you imagine the hardship of saying at a hotel
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Speaker 2: with one only one infinity pool?
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Speaker 1: How can you live? Seriously, I'm not kidding now.
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Speaker 2: Meanwhile, I would like these guys when they retired to
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Speaker 2: come work here at Fox Sports Radio. We have a
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Speaker 2: ninety nine percent male staff. There are I believe three
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Speaker 2: women that work in the building. They have their own bathroom.
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Speaker 2: We have one toilet for every other dude that works
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Speaker 2: in the building, right one.
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Speaker 1: That's it. Do we complain, No, we do not. We
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Speaker 1: do not. And they used to have both.
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Speaker 2: Bathrooms open back in the day, but they stopped them.
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Speaker 2: Some people complained. But the NFL Players Association report card,
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Speaker 2: it reads like a just a tone deaf group of people.
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Speaker 1: Right.
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Speaker 2: The players are so up to's they don't understand how
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Speaker 2: pampered they are. And it's just great, right you think
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Speaker 2: about you know, you really arrived, baby, the NFL.
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Speaker 1: NFL teams for years and years and years, right, they.
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Speaker 2: Would fly commercial and practice at local high schools all
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Speaker 2: the way up until I think it's stopped in like
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Speaker 2: sometime in the late eighties early nineties. In fact, we
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Speaker 2: had friend of the show, Fred Dreyer, who was a
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Speaker 2: famous actor and played in the NFL, and Fred's you
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Speaker 2: know a friend. We should get him back on at
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Speaker 2: some point I put on my podcast or something. But
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Speaker 2: Fred told the famous story when he was playing. I
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Speaker 2: believe it was with the Rams in the late seventies
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Speaker 2: early eighties, and they would practice at like a high
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Speaker 2: school field, and before they started practicing, the entire team
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Speaker 2: would walk across the field like they were looking for
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Speaker 2: evidence in a crime scene, but they were really trying
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Speaker 2: to fill the divots and the potholes that were on.
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Speaker 1: The field so they could practice.
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Speaker 2: What would happen if, you know, just pick a random
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Speaker 2: team like the Minnesota Vikings players said the coaching staff said, listen, boys,
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Speaker 2: the field's a little left up here. Can you just
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Speaker 2: walk and see if you can find any divots and
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Speaker 2: fill them in?
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Speaker 1: Snot in my contract? Oh my god? All right.
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Speaker 2: Anyway, meanwhile, let's take a deeper dive on this. So
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Speaker 2: eighty percent of all NFL players responded to the NFLPA
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Speaker 2: survey of teams. They tell us this was the highest
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Speaker 2: player participation rate ever. I wonder why, I wonder why,
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Speaker 2: higher than the US presidential election, there were more people
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Speaker 2: that in the NFL that voted for this.
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Speaker 1: So the question.
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Speaker 2: Is there a correlation between the amenities that NFL players
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Speaker 2: get and the results on the field. Is there is
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Speaker 2: there a correlation? So after a minutes long Mallard deliberation
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Speaker 2: in the judges chambers, we have determined that there is zero,
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Speaker 2: zero correlation between having five star facilities and five star football.
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Speaker 2: None zip o bupkis.
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Speaker 1: That's it.
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Speaker 2: So the Dolphins, who've apparently built a beat front bungalow
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Speaker 2: just total blisz jet ski juice bars, palm trees, banana hammocks.
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Speaker 2: Everything there has palm trees swaying in the wind. It's
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Speaker 2: Jimmy Buffett fever dream come to life here. And so
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Speaker 2: you've got this owner, Steven Ross, who's handing out the
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Speaker 2: VIP treatment. It's like party favors at a billionaire's luow.
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Speaker 2: And what did that get him? A bland plate of
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Speaker 2: fish sticks, no tartar sauce, and a seven and ten
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Speaker 2: record and a seat in the cellar of.
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Speaker 1: The AFC East.
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Speaker 2: You know, the Jets are less, No, they weren't. The
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Speaker 2: Jets are on a real team. The Jets are a fraud.
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Speaker 2: The Jets don't count. That's Pop Warner. They don't count
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Speaker 2: for last place. That's not a real NFL team. The
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Speaker 2: NFL has thirty one teams, but really you want to
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Speaker 2: get lately, they've had less than that because you to
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Speaker 2: include the Browns and the Raiders.
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Speaker 1: But they're low.
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Speaker 2: The Jets are at the very bottom for longevity of suckage.
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Speaker 2: So you juxta pos the Dolphins, Hey Beachfront, Bungalow and
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Speaker 2: all that. And then you've got the Steelers who have
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Speaker 2: been getting mocked and ridiculed because they don't have enough
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Speaker 2: urinals and they have outdated tech and all this stuff.
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Speaker 1: Real caveman conditions.
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Speaker 2: I mean, the players are given just a slab of
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Speaker 2: concrete and they have to eat Dino nuggets.
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Speaker 1: That's I think. I don't know for sure.
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Speaker 2: I might be making that up, but they might have
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Speaker 2: to eat Dino nuggets. And so they went out there
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Speaker 2: and won ten games, and they won the AFC North Crown.
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Speaker 1: And it has been said.
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Speaker 2: In life, comfort breeds complacency. The next generation is not
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Speaker 2: as gung ho to get it done. It's kind of
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Speaker 2: like when we talk about sports team's old family money.
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Speaker 2: That generation that earned the money. And we see in
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Speaker 2: the NFL, right, these second third generation family ownership groups,
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Speaker 2: it's just not the same.
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Speaker 1: They don't care.
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Speaker 2: You think Mark Davis cares as much as Al Davis.
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Speaker 2: Hell no, Like, come on now, Genie Boss a joke
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Speaker 2: of an owner in the NBA with the Lakers whilst
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Speaker 2: he's selling the team now, thank god, but horrific compared
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Speaker 2: to Jerry Buss and you and I the list. I mean,
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Speaker 2: there's plenty of these other examples in the NFL. You
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Speaker 2: want to go down that rabbit hole. But there is
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Speaker 2: a thought that some kind of hardship actually builds character.
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Speaker 2: Hair on your chest, right, Yeah, but you imagined if
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Speaker 2: discovering that the team yacht, the team yacht does not
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Speaker 2: have a heated smoothie bar, does that count as hardship?
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Speaker 2: I think in this NFLPA survey it does.
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Speaker 1: It does. So.
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Speaker 2: Unfortunately for the Dolphins, these silk sheets, the high thread
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Speaker 2: count on the Egyptian silk sheets, do not secure playoff.
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Speaker 1: Wins and all that. You go back to the Dan
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Speaker 1: Marino days.
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Speaker 2: Our last word here, So the NFL Players Association report
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Speaker 2: card greats, right, We've been talking about that here at
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Speaker 2: the beginning of the hour, and they've all been leaked
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Speaker 2: and all that, and you can go through them and
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Speaker 2: have a microscope out and all that. Had fun with it.
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Speaker 2: And we've talked about a couple of things here. But
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Speaker 2: the NFL has reacted to the situation by sending out
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Speaker 2: an internal memo to all teams, which of course was
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Speaker 2: also leaked. Come on, the NFL, a multi billion dollar conglomerate,
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Speaker 2: a cartel, has instructed the members of their cartel to
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Speaker 2: refrain from publicly commenting or engaging in the survey the
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Speaker 2: report card, and they said doing so only would provide
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Speaker 2: credibility to the union's media campaign.
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Speaker 1: They're calling it a media which it obviously is a media.
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Speaker 2: Campaign to sway public sentiment. Those poor NFL players, and
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Speaker 2: there are I'm always fascinated.
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Speaker 1: By this, like the real fanboys, you know who they are.
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Speaker 2: Oh, we we love our team. We these poor players.
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Speaker 2: It's so sad they didn't get tuna tartar. It's really
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Speaker 2: bad they got that can tuna.
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Speaker 1: Oh my god. So the NFL says they will view
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Speaker 1: the leak.
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Speaker 2: They're going to review the leak, and the question what
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Speaker 2: legal options do the owners have to fight in the
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Speaker 2: NFLPA on this report card quagmire. So I do believe
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Speaker 2: that the Oose are actually right to clamp down on this,
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Speaker 2: absolutely right. Seriously, if the NFLPA is running the public
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Speaker 2: smear campaign, which they are, and they're dressing it up
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Speaker 2: as a report card, don't gonna sit there and take it. Hey,
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Speaker 2: these guys all made a lot of money. Some of
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Speaker 2: them inherited the money, but the ones that made their
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Speaker 2: money on their own, they're pretty sharp.
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Speaker 1: Generally, you're not.
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Speaker 2: A billionaire pinata right a kid's birthday party. You've fought
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Speaker 2: to get your money by the team. You fight for this,
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Speaker 2: you file the grievance, you make this a federal case,
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Speaker 2: which I guess it has to be.
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Speaker 1: Now, keep it in right.
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Speaker 2: Nobody looks good like the players are just spoiled babies.
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Speaker 2: The owners also are spoiled dopes. Everyone needs help from Sasquatch.
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Speaker 2: They need some of that doctor squatch. Body watch a
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Speaker 2: body watch, I scrub a dubb dumb Now that's it.
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Speaker 2: The robber barons, you know, they're just gonna sit there
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Speaker 2: and they can't let the union just leak all this stuff,
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Speaker 2: you know, and spin it and weaponize it and all
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Speaker 2: that stuff and pretend it's some kind of neutral science project.
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Speaker 2: And now the damage is already done. As we know,
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Speaker 2: the Internet is forever, so once it's out there, it's
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Speaker 2: not like you can delete it. It can't unring the bell
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Speaker 2: and all that. So yeah, you can get a cease
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Speaker 2: and desist. Whoopee damn do that'll be great, enforce the
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Speaker 2: CBA and drag it back to arbitration where it all began.
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Speaker 2: And the interesting thing here is that there is a
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Speaker 2: avenue if some of the individual owners wanted to go
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Speaker 2: and sewe.
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Speaker 1: They could do that.
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Speaker 2: There's some language in there the union violated the rules,
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Speaker 2: which it appear as they did, and the chaos could
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Speaker 2: take over and we'll see. Yeah, I don't think that's
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Speaker 2: gonna happen because that would just drag more stuff out.
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Speaker 2: And it is interesting the NFL is in bed with ESPN.
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Speaker 2: They own part of esp I don't if the deal
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Speaker 2: is done done, done done yet, but ESPN was the
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Speaker 2: one that leaked the story and so it's like, I
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Speaker 2: wonder if the owners are gonna have an issue with that.
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Speaker 2: Put the clamps on ESPN because they're a business partner.
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Speaker 1: Six sixty three sixty nine.
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Speaker 2: Also on the X Machine at Ben Mallor that's at
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Speaker 2: Ben Mallard.
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Speaker 1: Because I had to chew the testicles.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, I paid off a bet Rocky Mountain oysters which
20:25
Speaker 2: are made of testicles, and ate that up like a
20:28
Speaker 2: real champ and paid off a pay off all my bets.
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Speaker 1: That's always what I do here. So anyway, you never
20:34
Speaker 1: paid off a bet in his life. I don't know
20:36
Speaker 1: who that is, but I have.
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Speaker 2: And uh Lorena FSR Tech Queen Store. And right right
20:44
Speaker 2: over there you can say hi to Coop at a
20:48
Speaker 2: Bronco fan.
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Speaker 1: That's Bronco Fan. Yeah and sorry, back to it all,
20:57
Speaker 1: right back to where we go and.
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Speaker 2: Yap away here all night long and we'll get to
21:03
Speaker 2: the calls in a minute. Coming up a billionaire, a commissioner,
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Speaker 2: a tiger, and a bunch of other random dudes are
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Speaker 2: going to fix one of the big problems in the
21:12
Speaker 2: sporting world. That's right, A billionaire, commissioner, a tiger, and
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Speaker 2: a bunch of random dudes.
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Speaker 5: That sounds like how you start a joke, you know,
21:21
Speaker 5: like he does. This guy and this guy and this
21:23
Speaker 5: guy walk into a bar.
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Speaker 2: A rabbi, a priest, and a shaman walk into a
21:29
Speaker 2: bar and they said, put a sign up. I walked
21:33
Speaker 2: into the bar. What's up with that? I don't understand anyway,
21:39
Speaker 2: My goodness, let's let's I did. I did have some
21:42
Speaker 2: comments I wanted to read here from some of the
21:44
Speaker 2: knuckleheads who are listening on the X machine as the
21:48
Speaker 2: brigade has been activated. Here, goodness, gracious yet again, back
21:53
Speaker 2: at it. I see who's your bill? Sending me a
21:55
Speaker 2: bunch of messages. Yafeemi in Chicago says, hey, mal or
21:58
Speaker 2: a plus and some extra Baba Ganouche on the Malard
22:02
Speaker 2: Monologuepheme in the Windy City said, the Steelers lost aura
22:06
Speaker 2: without Mike Tomlin's poetry. McCarthy and Frogers is like a
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Speaker 2: bad AI generated sequel. Yeah, it could be true here,
22:16
Speaker 2: but this was done based on a Mike Tomlin season.
22:21
Speaker 2: He said, what else said the guy? Let's see ferg
22:24
Speaker 2: Dog says, hey, Ben. With the Dodgers six and oh
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Speaker 2: start in.
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Speaker 1: The Cactus League, is it too soon.
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Speaker 2: To think this might be the year they go one
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Speaker 2: sixty two and oh in the regular season with more
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Speaker 2: and more owners only caring about affordability and safety. I
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Speaker 2: don't think it's that crazy. Yeah, I agree. Why not
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Speaker 2: go one hundred and sixty two and oh, and then
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Speaker 2: you'd have home field, you'd have the number one seed,
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Speaker 2: you get the first round by and then run the
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Speaker 2: table in the playoffs.
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Speaker 1: Yeah?
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Speaker 5: Who wants that anyways?
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Speaker 1: No, no, no, no, we just want to run the bases.
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Speaker 2: The housewives of Orange County they're Angel fans and they
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Speaker 2: just want They just want cheap tickets, hot dogs, and safety.
23:15
Speaker 2: That's all they want. They don't give a crap. In fact,
23:18
Speaker 2: why even field the team already? She just have the
23:20
Speaker 2: Angels moved all passo or something. They all passo Angels,
23:24
Speaker 2: and then you can just charge money and they can
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Speaker 2: go out and have the kids run the bases.
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Speaker 1: Leave the big a there and that's that. We'll join
23:30
Speaker 1: Banana Ball.
23:32
Speaker 2: Yeah, but that's a great idea. You can have the
23:34
Speaker 2: West Coast version of banana ball. Get the guy you know,
23:38
Speaker 2: yellows tuxedo. You gotta get that right, do the whole thing,
23:42
Speaker 2: the Savannah bananas. What would the Orange County version be?
23:45
Speaker 2: What would the name be?
23:46
Speaker 1: I gotta workshop that.
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Speaker 5: He's gotta be some type of an Orange Well, that's I'm.
23:52
Speaker 2: Like super creative outside the box right there, Mikey writes in.
23:59
Speaker 2: He said, is it's Mikey the insomniac up for the
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Speaker 2: night bend. I'm going to call in later, so we'd
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Speaker 2: like to alert all the affiliates. Mikey and Tampa's going
24:07
Speaker 2: to be calling in. Might want to show you my
24:09
Speaker 2: sports IQ for Jeopardy.
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Speaker 5: Is that what they're calling it these days.
24:15
Speaker 2: He's watching a Disney movie right now, so he's got
24:18
Speaker 2: that super Marcus Steve the Schmuck. That's his nickname at work.
24:22
Speaker 2: They call him the Schmuck. He says, I do believe
24:24
Speaker 2: there was a reason for the report card at some point.
24:28
Speaker 2: The early report cards reported leaks and sewage in the
24:31
Speaker 2: locker rooms, no hot water in the showers, and zero
24:35
Speaker 2: daycare on site. Now it's stuff like the sooux fle
24:40
Speaker 2: wasn't made properly, or my steak was overcooked.
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Speaker 1: Yeah.
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Speaker 5: Uh.
24:46
Speaker 1: Then he also he brought up the bathroom thing.
24:49
Speaker 2: He thought, you, Laurne, are you upset that I pointed
24:51
Speaker 2: out that Fox Sports Radio has three women and ninety
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Speaker 2: nine percent men, and we have one toilet for the men.
24:57
Speaker 1: Is that is that a problem?
24:58
Speaker 5: I mean, if you have grievance, feel free. I love
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Speaker 5: that we have a nice clean bathroom on the left
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Speaker 5: hand side that doesn't have pe all over the toilet
25:05
Speaker 5: or in front of the toilet.
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Speaker 2: That's great for you for the three women that work
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Speaker 2: at the company, but for the men.
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Speaker 1: Maybe if the one.
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Speaker 5: Stopped peeing on the toilet, this wouldn't be a problem.
25:14
Speaker 2: Okay, well it wasn't a problem before you got here.
25:16
Speaker 2: It was a toilet was a problem.
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Speaker 5: It was a problem, but no one said it work.
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Speaker 2: We had said they were open bathrooms for everybody.
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Speaker 5: Men complain about the pea of this day. They don't
25:25
Speaker 5: even like using the men's bathroom.
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Speaker 1: So I just merely pointing that out. That's just I
25:30
Speaker 1: thought that was I don't think it's not.
25:32
Speaker 5: I it sounds actually you have a grievance that there's
25:35
Speaker 5: only one men.
25:36
Speaker 1: Well, I think the math is not great. Now.
25:38
Speaker 5: We don't suggest because there's thirty men in this place
25:41
Speaker 5: means that the women can't have a space to their own.
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Speaker 1: Well, you can clean it if you want when you
25:46
Speaker 1: go in there. But there's one.
25:47
Speaker 5: Bathroom, seventy men's off of the toilet or the whoever.
25:52
Speaker 2: I remember when they designed it, and it's odd to
25:54
Speaker 2: me because we broadcast out of an old Denny's, and
25:58
Speaker 2: I guarantee you when it was a Denny's, they had.
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Speaker 1: Multiple stalls and urinals and the whole thing.
26:02
Speaker 2: And then when they redesigned the building thirty years ago
26:06
Speaker 2: or twenty six years ago, and they redesigned the building
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Speaker 2: for some reason, they said, Okay, we don't need all
26:11
Speaker 2: these toilets let's and all the urinals, Let's just have
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Speaker 2: one and one.
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Speaker 1: That seems like a really bad idea.
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Speaker 5: Now, Ben, I do want to know how many times
26:20
Speaker 5: at this hour have you experienced a line at the
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Speaker 5: men's bathroom.
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Speaker 2: I have had problems, and I drive very far from
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Speaker 2: the north Woods, and I usually time it where you know,
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Speaker 2: I'm making a sprint to go to the toilet, right
26:36
Speaker 2: because I got a you know.
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Speaker 1: You know, urinate or whatever.
26:39
Speaker 2: So I go in there, squirt squirt, and I've had
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Speaker 2: sometimes I've really had to go and someone's in there.
26:46
Speaker 2: I get there way before you guys do, and there's
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Speaker 2: people actually in the building.
26:49
Speaker 5: And yeah, for the most part, it really doesn't.
26:52
Speaker 2: That pretty much happens every time I come in, to
26:54
Speaker 2: be honest with you, there's usually somebody in there. So
26:56
Speaker 2: it's it's, you know, pretty much every night that I'm
26:58
Speaker 2: in there before when I arrive in the parking lot
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Speaker 2: and I make my sprint over to the buildings.
27:05
Speaker 5: Well, be thankful you get bladder exercises.
27:08
Speaker 2: Yes, I'm very very happy. But that let's see here,
27:12
Speaker 2: can't read that. All right, let's go to the phones.
27:14
Speaker 2: It is a call in show and let's sell. Well,
27:19
Speaker 2: here's the name I got to get to right away.
27:21
Speaker 2: This is an all time legend on the show. He's retired,
27:24
Speaker 2: so he didn't call a show anymore. Now he's big time.
27:27
Speaker 2: He calls the daytime shows. I think he's been banned
27:29
Speaker 2: from all the daytime shows. Red Breast Paul is in
27:32
Speaker 2: Rhode Island. Hello, Red Breast Paul, Welcome, Thank you my man.
27:37
Speaker 6: How you doing My heat? Brother in law.
27:40
Speaker 1: Where you've been. You know, Paul, what have you been
27:42
Speaker 1: up to?
27:42
Speaker 3: Man?
27:42
Speaker 6: Oh man? You know when you retire, you have grand kids.
27:45
Speaker 6: You babysit all day, eight hours of the day. Listen,
27:50
Speaker 6: don't worry about that. How you been my heat brother? Law?
27:55
Speaker 1: I'm what what are you calling me?
27:57
Speaker 6: I meant to say, my heat brother? Listen? I called
28:01
Speaker 6: about Uh listen, listen, that's okay, it's not it's not.
28:06
Speaker 6: It's not red breast whiskey, Irish whiskey. It's it's uh,
28:10
Speaker 6: what do you drink? Blood? So blood so wine? It's okay,
28:15
Speaker 6: you listen.
28:17
Speaker 1: Take to take time out.
28:19
Speaker 2: So you've moved on from red breast You're now drinking
28:21
Speaker 2: drew bloodsoe wine.
28:23
Speaker 1: That's right, that's okay. Why the change?
28:28
Speaker 6: Basically I switched. I swapped back and forth. It's okay.
28:31
Speaker 6: Uh listen, And how many bottles?
28:33
Speaker 1: How many bottles of wine have you had today?
28:37
Speaker 6: Oh? No, no, no, I don't go that pop. Come on,
28:39
Speaker 6: come on, I go, I go lesson one bottle. Listen. Uh,
28:45
Speaker 6: let me get back to my original call. I know
28:48
Speaker 6: you want to bash me, but it's okay because.
28:51
Speaker 1: Am I bashing you? I'm not bashing behind Ben yeah,
28:55
Speaker 1: I'm very polite to you. Paul.
28:57
Speaker 6: Come on, you are you mean?
28:58
Speaker 1: Do we not go mean?
28:59
Speaker 2: You go way back, Paul, when you worked at the casino, right,
29:02
Speaker 2: the whole thing.
29:02
Speaker 1: We mean, you go way back, that's right.
29:04
Speaker 6: I turned I turned you on. I turned you on
29:07
Speaker 6: to me.
29:10
Speaker 2: I don't know that there was any mean, I don't
29:12
Speaker 2: want to go that far. And then I like you
29:14
Speaker 2: as a friend, but I don't know that we we
29:16
Speaker 2: did any more than that.
29:17
Speaker 3: Paul.
29:18
Speaker 6: Listen, I built that casino my bare hands with the
29:21
Speaker 6: other seven other union trades. Let me tell you that.
29:25
Speaker 1: All right, you tell me, you tell me right now.
29:27
Speaker 2: Still your family's still on cows out in California, is
29:30
Speaker 2: that correct?
29:30
Speaker 6: Rights, that's right, that's right, that's right.
29:35
Speaker 1: Do I not remember your whole life story? The whole thing, Paul?
29:38
Speaker 6: Yeah?
29:39
Speaker 2: How many how many times have you been hung up
29:41
Speaker 2: on by the local guys in Boston? You get hung
29:43
Speaker 2: up on all the time, don't you.
29:44
Speaker 6: It's it's it's a certain a certain guys, the guys
29:48
Speaker 6: that they bashed me because they.
29:51
Speaker 1: Have who hates you? Who?
29:53
Speaker 2: In local you know, I don't know nationally people know
29:56
Speaker 2: who these people are, but in local Boston radio.
29:58
Speaker 1: Who do you think hates you the most on local shows?
30:00
Speaker 1: I'm curious.
30:01
Speaker 6: They don't hate me. They just discouraged me from uh
30:05
Speaker 6: speaking my mind. He who the five is fine?
30:09
Speaker 1: You know they're fine. The sports ub is okay? All right?
30:13
Speaker 6: Yeah, they degraded me a little bit, you know. He
30:16
Speaker 6: I but you know what I give any time, any show,
30:19
Speaker 6: any national call show I call. I gave him ratings.
30:23
Speaker 6: Some of them don't need them, you know, they don't
30:26
Speaker 6: need ratings. Busting bust and radio shows probably one of
30:30
Speaker 6: the best in the country. But uh, I'm gonna get
30:34
Speaker 6: back to my basic call.
30:35
Speaker 1: Here we go. We'd like to alert all the affiliates.
30:38
Speaker 2: We are now getting back to the basic call from Paul.
30:41
Speaker 1: Who's no longer Red Breast Paul. He's now drew Bledsoe wino. Paul.
30:45
Speaker 6: I know, I have my two my two favorite. My
30:49
Speaker 6: two favorite is a red Breast Irish whiskey and uh
30:53
Speaker 6: I've been drinking uh once in a while some drew
30:57
Speaker 6: Bledsoe wine, which is really good. And Josh Shosh is
31:00
Speaker 6: good too. That's the spot. And I think my original call.
31:05
Speaker 6: These kids have been playing football since high school and college.
31:09
Speaker 6: The one step and two step rule. Why can't the
31:14
Speaker 6: NFL accept and line of progression accepts to the one
31:19
Speaker 6: step rule on the sideline at the end zone, I
31:22
Speaker 6: get it.
31:23
Speaker 1: What are you saying? You want one foot in? Is
31:26
Speaker 1: that all you want? You don't want? Is that what
31:27
Speaker 1: you're telling you trying to say? Really, why couldn't you
31:29
Speaker 1: just say that that would be better? This is the issue.
31:33
Speaker 1: This is. Let me tell you something. This is fascinating
31:35
Speaker 1: to me. This is way past your bedtime. Right. You
31:38
Speaker 1: don't stay up this late.
31:38
Speaker 2: You don't call me very often anymore, say tomorrow right, yeah, yeah,
31:42
Speaker 2: no baby, So you're sure a stand up late.
31:45
Speaker 1: And this is the issue for you. This is the
31:47
Speaker 1: thing that's got to bug up.
31:49
Speaker 6: You just won't give me the time.
31:51
Speaker 1: Well you had about ten minutes. Everyone on hold is
31:54
Speaker 1: rolling their eyes.
31:54
Speaker 2: Right now, give me one other take, right now, give
31:56
Speaker 2: me one amazing take. I need an amazing take from
31:59
Speaker 2: Paul right now, me an amazing take.
32:01
Speaker 6: The amazing take is I think the lines are going
32:03
Speaker 6: back uh and to uh the finals. I think the
32:08
Speaker 6: l A rams I'm going back into the finals.
32:11
Speaker 2: I think all right, so the teams, the teams you
32:14
Speaker 2: like other than Patriots I got you.
32:16
Speaker 1: I gotta go, but call me more often, Paul.
32:18
Speaker 2: If I got to talk to your kids to stop
32:20
Speaker 2: having you babysit at least one night a week, you
32:23
Speaker 2: can call in.
32:24
Speaker 1: I'll do that. I will talk to your kids. If
32:26
Speaker 1: I have to get out of here.
32:29
Speaker 2: I went, well, let's say allo to Max, who's in
32:33
Speaker 2: southern California and a first time caller.
32:37
Speaker 1: How about that.
32:38
Speaker 2: It's not even a newbie night in the first time
32:40
Speaker 2: called hello, Max, welcome, Hello.
32:43
Speaker 1: Hello, Hello, I stepped out.
32:46
Speaker 6: Can you hear me?
32:48
Speaker 1: Ok? I can we hear this guy? Yeah, I can
32:51
Speaker 1: hear you.
32:52
Speaker 7: Yes, alright, it's Max and Santa Clair in California.
32:57
Speaker 1: Congratulates Max.
32:58
Speaker 2: Mad Max at the Southern California Santa Claire, Well you
33:02
Speaker 2: run Santa Clara, which is oh, I thought you Santa
33:05
Speaker 2: Clarita's when I thought you wrote all right, Santa Clara,
33:06
Speaker 2: very good?
33:07
Speaker 1: I got you all right, very good? Established yay.
33:11
Speaker 7: I listened to your show, Ben when you get out
33:13
Speaker 7: four K eleven thirty here. I worked at a local
33:15
Speaker 7: hospital here in the South Bay before I began. I
33:19
Speaker 7: just want to say I'm the biggest Denver Broncos fan
33:22
Speaker 7: in the history of humanity as long as we exist.
33:26
Speaker 7: And uh yeah, I like your show.
33:28
Speaker 6: It's a great thank you.
33:30
Speaker 1: And I like that you took a shot at Coop
33:31
Speaker 1: right off the top. That's good. I like you.
33:35
Speaker 6: Yeah.
33:35
Speaker 7: If you had me a scissor and you accidentally cut me.
33:39
Speaker 7: My blood type is dB Denver Broncos.
33:41
Speaker 1: And oh is that right?
33:43
Speaker 2: Cause I thought if you have blue, if you have
33:44
Speaker 2: blue and orange blood, that's not good.
33:47
Speaker 7: Oh yeah, yeah, but no, there's navy blue and orange
33:51
Speaker 7: crush I call it. But what I just want to say,
33:54
Speaker 7: I love your show. Look out for my Broncos this season,
33:58
Speaker 7: not just going to the super Bowl, but by taking
34:00
Speaker 7: over it.
34:01
Speaker 2: And I guess oh okay, well listen, I'll say, sign
34:06
Speaker 2: me up for a ram Bronco super Bowl right now.
34:08
Speaker 1: I'm in all right, Thank you, Max, appreciate it. You
34:11
Speaker 1: go big fan.
34:12
Speaker 2: How about that Max doing much more important work than
34:15
Speaker 2: I'm doing here at the hospital. Good job by you, Max,
34:18
Speaker 2: helping people out when they're they need that medical attention,
34:21
Speaker 2: taking care of making them feel better. So a billionaire,
34:24
Speaker 2: a commissioner, a tiger, and a bunch of random dudes.
34:26
Speaker 1: That is the.
34:27
Speaker 2: Solution to fix college football, at least that's the plan.
34:30
Speaker 2: Another blue ribbon panel. President Donald Trump planning a celebrity
34:34
Speaker 2: panel to take on the transfer.
34:38
Speaker 1: Portal, nil money.
34:41
Speaker 2: Put guardrails up. Now it's not just those guys, it's
34:45
Speaker 2: and then you sign.
34:45
Speaker 1: There's some big names here. Time to go through all this.
34:48
Speaker 2: But the four Power Conference commissioners that are running college sports.
34:51
Speaker 1: Big ten, Big twelve, SEC, and the ACC.
34:55
Speaker 2: They're all going to be there. A bunch of former
34:57
Speaker 2: coaches like Nick Saban. Former players include Tim Tebow and
35:03
Speaker 2: Charlie Ward.
35:05
Speaker 1: They will be there.
35:06
Speaker 2: Golfers Tiger Woods and Bryson D. Chambeau, Former Secretary of
35:12
Speaker 2: State Condoalza Rice, NBA commissioner Adam Silver.
35:15
Speaker 1: These have all been invited.
35:17
Speaker 2: Big media executives from Fox and ESPN, someone from the
35:21
Speaker 2: Blackstone Group, which I think owns everything is a billionaire
35:25
Speaker 2: guy is going to be there, and a couple of the.
35:28
Speaker 1: Really really wealthy people.
35:30
Speaker 2: So they're gonna get together, They're gonna complain about everything
35:34
Speaker 2: going on in college sports, and then they're gonna come
35:36
Speaker 2: up with a bunch of rules which will lead to
35:37
Speaker 2: lawsuits from the players and agents who are making money
35:41
Speaker 2: and saying, well, wait a minute, you can't cut back
35:44
Speaker 2: on how many times we can transfer. So I've been
35:47
Speaker 2: watching some random college basketball games. Is I try to
35:49
Speaker 2: get ready for the March Madness which is coming up?
35:51
Speaker 2: And this guy's on certain d I was watching UNC
35:56
Speaker 2: Wilmington game. Don't tell anybody there was a guys by
35:58
Speaker 2: like three schools and it's like normal to play for
36:01
Speaker 2: three different schools.
36:02
Speaker 1: It's pretty crazy.
36:03
Speaker 2: But they're going to address that they're gonna have to
36:06
Speaker 2: pay a fine or something like that if you transfer
36:08
Speaker 2: too many times.
36:09
Speaker 1: And what is Tiger Woods going to add to the conversation.
36:12
Speaker 1: Who knows.
36:13
Speaker 2: But he'll be there. He'll be there, all right? Is
36:16
Speaker 2: the Ben Mahler show? Time Now for the who am I?
36:19
Speaker 3: Game?
36:19
Speaker 1: This is where I pretend to be somebody else? Thus
36:21
Speaker 1: the who am I? Game? So as a kid, I'm
36:25
Speaker 1: perhaming for somebody else.
36:25
Speaker 2: As a kid, I responded to an ad in something
36:28
Speaker 2: called the Sporting News who for some kind of umpire school.
36:32
Speaker 2: I hopped on a Greyhound bus and left my hometown
36:35
Speaker 2: to call a game in.
36:36
Speaker 1: Waterloo, Iowa.
36:38
Speaker 2: And I would go on to hold the Major League
36:40
Speaker 2: Baseball record for the most consecutive seasons as a major
36:44
Speaker 2: league umpire thirty seven straight years as a big league umpire.
36:49
Speaker 2: Who am I? That's the question? The answer, We'll get
36:53
Speaker 2: to it. We will do it next.
36:56
Speaker 3: Be sure to catch live editions of The Ben Maller
36:58
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37:07
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Speaker 1: Back to it we go, and we're gonna play off
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Speaker 1: the who Am I? Game?
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Speaker 2: Before we do that, I have a fun fact of
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Speaker 2: the hour. You want the fun fact of the hour?
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Speaker 1: Fun fact? Did you know? There are only three teams
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Speaker 1: in the NBA that have a chance to win the
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Speaker 1: title this year. That's it, three teams in the entire NBA.
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Speaker 2: Based on Phil Jackson, Matt Now, Phil Jackson had said
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Speaker 2: that for a team to be legitimately qualified to win
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Speaker 2: a championship, you have to win forty games before you
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Speaker 2: lose twenty games to be a legitimate contender. There are
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Speaker 2: only three teams that qualify for that. Those are the
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Speaker 2: teams are the Pistons, the Thunder, and the Spurs. So
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Speaker 2: one of those teams gonna win the championship this year. Now,
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Speaker 2: in the history of the NBA since the merger, there
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Speaker 2: have only been five teams that have not done that
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Speaker 2: that have won the championship.
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Speaker 1: That's it, five in the NBA that have been able
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Speaker 1: to do it without winning forty before twenty.
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Speaker 2: So, based on that, the zen Master, Piston's Pistons, thunder
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Speaker 2: and Spurs.
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Speaker 1: That's it all right, time now for the who am
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Speaker 1: I game?
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Speaker 2: This is where I pretend to be somebody else and
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Speaker 2: you'll try to answer it as a as a kid.
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Speaker 1: I responded.
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Speaker 2: They used to be this thing called the Sporting News,
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Speaker 2: which was kind of a kind of a big deal.
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Speaker 1: Back in the day.
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Speaker 2: Responded to an ad in the Sporting News for umpire school.
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Speaker 2: Hopped on a Greyhound bus from my hometown to call
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Speaker 2: a game in Waterloo Isle. I would go on to
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Speaker 2: hold the Major League Baseball record for the most consecutive
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Speaker 2: seasons as a Major League umpire, thirty seven straight years
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Speaker 2: as as an umpire. All right, Paul got this right,
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Speaker 2: bad job by him. Struge just going with Larry Allen
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Speaker 2: as his answer mean Gene Okerland, the legend the goat
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Speaker 2: from Andy in Lionel Lakes, Minnesota. Casius Clay from Femi,
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Speaker 2: the top Uber East driver there in Minnesota, Key line Pie,
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Speaker 2: Bobby going with Andrew Dice Clay, who else ferg Dog's
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Speaker 2: this man of his word, Ben Mallard, Damn Wright, Kate
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Speaker 2: Mara who is forty three today from Late Night.
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Speaker 1: Drug Bill Gleeson.
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Speaker 2: That's a legend from the sports writers on TV in Chicago,
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Speaker 2: Back of the Day on Sports Channel AL that's from Alf.
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Speaker 1: The Alien, opine of the great Bill Gleeson, Good show.
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Speaker 1: Who else do we have?
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Speaker 2: Page down John woken Fuss from a mister nice guy
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Speaker 2: Detective Frank Dreben from Yafimi in Chicago. DJ Spin says,
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Speaker 2: I didn't cheat, Ben, I did not cheat, but I
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Speaker 2: got it right.
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Speaker 1: I don't know about that.
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Speaker 2: A lot of reaction to Paul from Rhode Island and
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Speaker 2: Bill Clem from Robbie the Mariner fan Morgan Freeman gets
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Speaker 2: by analog al.
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Speaker 1: Who else do we have?
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Speaker 2: Conna Lisa Rice advocating for the w NBA from Myileen
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Speaker 2: are Do you have an answer? It's not La Treill
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Speaker 2: Spreewell guests by Shannon Mooy Loraina Lance Barksdale.
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Speaker 1: Nope, it is Bruce Freming.
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Speaker 2: The great, late Great Bruce Remming just died this week,
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Speaker 2: legendary manager Back of the Day.
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Speaker 5: May he rest in peace, YEP