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Hour 3 - Missing Unicorn · The Ben Maller Show

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Speaker 1: Boom! Shakalaka. It's hour number three. Hour three of our
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Speaker 1: full-time job. It's called the Ben Maller Show. We thank
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Speaker 1: you for spending some time with us as we are
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Speaker 1: side by side. And we go cowabunga, dude. Well, here
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Speaker 1: in hour number three of the pod, do you feel
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Speaker 1: bad for the Warriors that Kristaps Porzingis has gone poof?
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Speaker 1: And he's contemplating retirement. Golden State cutting off paychecks to
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Speaker 1: Kristaps Porzingis. Also, why is the gambling trial of Cleveland
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Speaker 1: pitchers Emmanuel Class A and Luis Ortiz getting the back
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Speaker 1: burner treatment from the media? Seems like it's kind of
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Speaker 1: a big deal. It's not getting much attention. And Liv
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Speaker 1: Golf's $ 300 million deal to emerge from bankruptcy is off.
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Speaker 1: Where does this take your mind? We'll talk about all
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Speaker 1: that and more. We might even burst into song. It's
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Speaker 1: our number three, and here it is. Well, many people
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Speaker 1: don't believe that unicorns are real, but if you do believe,
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Speaker 1: if you do believe that unicorns are real, one of
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Speaker 1: them has just gone missing. Welcome in the beginning of
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Speaker 1: this hour. Our lead story, though, this hour, out of
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Speaker 1: the Bay Area, little pro bouncy ball where the golden,
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Speaker 1: golden state warriors have decided to cut off the checks.
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Speaker 1: No more sugar daddy. No more sugar daddy payments for
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Speaker 1: Kristaps Porzingis. Do you see this?
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Speaker 3: No?
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Speaker 2: Okay.
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Speaker 1: You missed it. All right, I got you. Our buddy
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Speaker 1: from Fillmore, he's probably upset by this, but Kristaps Porzingis,
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Speaker 1: his $ 20 million salary, no more payments, the team claiming
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Speaker 1: that their big man is not providing services, no services rendered. What, whoa! Porzingis,
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Speaker 1: who seems like he should be about 50... is 31
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Speaker 1: and is said to be contemplating retirement, throwing in the
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Speaker 1: sponge because his body is not cooperating. At least that's
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Speaker 1: the story. He walked away. He went AWOL during training
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Speaker 1: camp and has not returned despite some get-together in October.
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Speaker 1: They had a powwow, the Warriors, Brass, and Porzingis, but
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Speaker 1: he is nowhere to be seen. Golden State changing his
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Speaker 1: status from, quote, general illness to not with team. Things
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Speaker 1: that make you go, hmm.
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Speaker 4: Yeah.
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Speaker 1: So neither Porzingis nor the Players Association is challenging the decision,
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Speaker 1: which is very rare. Typically, the union will fight no
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Speaker 1: matter what. They're not doing that here. Now, meanwhile, the
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Speaker 1: general manager, Mike Dunleavy, Jr., Boy, I'm getting old.
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Speaker 4: I was.
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Speaker 1: Not a friend, but I had a casual relationship with
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Speaker 1: his dad who coached for a billion years in the NBA. Anyway,
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Speaker 1: Mike Dunleavy, the GM, the younger one, continues to be
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Speaker 1: shopping Porzingis. The Warriors are hoping they can trade the contract,
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Speaker 1: the soon-to-be-expiring contract, the trade deadline not until February. So
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Speaker 1: the speculation is that Golden State would prefer that Porzingis
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Speaker 1: not announce his retirement. because they would like to trade
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Speaker 1: the contract and then get some second-round pick or something
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Speaker 1: in return for Porzingis. So that is a good jumping-off point.
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Speaker 1: Let us discuss the question. Do you feel bad for
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Speaker 1: the Warriors that Kristaps Porzingis has gone poof? So I've
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Speaker 1: got Union Pacific, Thighmaster, and Tower Records. And we're going
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Speaker 1: to put all these things together and we're going to
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Speaker 1: be in deep doo-doo. Kind of like Kristaps Porzingis. The
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Speaker 1: Warriors thought they were going to ride the lightning. And
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Speaker 1: that didn't work out so well. But to answer the question,
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Speaker 1: do you feel bad for the Warriors with Porzingis? Absolutely not.
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Speaker 1: Absolutely not. You don't buy a house in a flood
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Speaker 1: zone and then act shocked when the basement fills with water. Porzingis'
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Speaker 1: reputation was well known. We're just a bunch of overnight
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Speaker 1: radio losers, and we knew that is a no-fly zone.
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Speaker 1: So clearly somebody with Golden State lacked common sense making
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Speaker 1: this move. The Unicorn, I looked it up. Do you
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Speaker 1: understand this guy has 70-plus injury-related absences in his NBA career,
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Speaker 1: 70 different injuries, 400 days of missed time during his
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Speaker 1: NBA career. He's missed over a year. And quite a
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Speaker 1: bit over a year with various knee injuries, the most common,
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Speaker 1: but there's all kinds. The New England Journal of Medicine
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Speaker 1: is preparing a 12-part docu-series on the unicorn. They're calling
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Speaker 1: it the Last Dance Orthopedic Edition. You know how many
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Speaker 1: doctors have gotten extra money because of Porzingis? Forget the
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Speaker 1: NBA record books here. Porzingis is chasing tenure at John Hopkins.
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Speaker 1: He spent so much time dealing with doctors. He's like
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Speaker 1: he's ready to become a doctor just by learning from
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Speaker 1: being around them. Golden State, you look at their situation, right?
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Speaker 1: And what were they thinking? They were covering for Porzingis, right?
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Speaker 1: We know that. We often have a skeptical eye. Some
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Speaker 1: of you send me nasty emails. You know, you're too
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Speaker 1: big a cynic. These teams don't lie. Okay, so Golden State,
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Speaker 1: they've just pretty much admitted they lied. They said general
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Speaker 1: illness for Porzingis when he went AWOL and was contemplating retirement.
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Speaker 1: But they covered for him, hoping he would come back.
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Speaker 1: He obviously didn't come back. He hasn't come back. And
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Speaker 1: so Golden State said general illness. However, now the gloves
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Speaker 1: are off. No more Mr. Nice Guy, who's in the
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Speaker 1: Bay Area, by the way. The Warriors knew going in
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Speaker 1: the medical history. They were not blindsided. They knew the baggage.
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Speaker 1: They knew the unicorn came with a lifetime subscription to
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Speaker 1: the injury report. The front office should be investigated for
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Speaker 1: malpractice by the Basketball Department of Common Sense for what
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Speaker 1: they were thinking. And Golden State, what they did, they
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Speaker 1: went down to the train station. They climbed aboard the
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Speaker 1: Union Pacific. It's a special train line, Union Pacific. It's
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Speaker 1: the FAFO Express train. That's right, F around, find out.
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Speaker 1: And next stop, find out junction. Choo-choo!
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Speaker 4: Yeah.
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Speaker 1: Has anybody checked with Porzingis? Is he even still in
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Speaker 1: the United States? Maybe he's opened up a nice Latvian
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Speaker 1: bed and breakfast with really good orange juice, and they've
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Speaker 1: got different pastries in Latvia. All right, furthermore, to the
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Speaker 1: courthouse we go. A legal thriller. Yeah, legal thriller. A
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Speaker 1: lot of rocking of the horse manure. Yeah, a lot
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Speaker 1: of that going on with this story. So federal prosecutors
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Speaker 1: branding Cleveland Guardians pitchers Emmanuel Class A and Luis Ortiz, quote, cheaters.
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Speaker 1: This is the beginning of a federal trial in Brooklyn, Oregon.
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Speaker 1: on gambling fraud the trial opened up this week authorities
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Speaker 1: alleging that class a began manipulating pitches back in oh
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Speaker 1: back in 23 back in 2023 He did that for
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Speaker 1: a couple of years, got away with it, and then
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Speaker 1: in 2025, he's like, hey, wait a minute, let me
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Speaker 1: recruit my pal. So I guess it was 2024 it
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Speaker 1: might have been, but he recruited Ortiz. So Class A
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Speaker 1: was the guy that was doing it. He then recruited
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Speaker 1: his teammate and helped gamblers collect half a million dollars
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Speaker 1: almost through prop bets, rigged prop bets. Now the prosecutors,
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Speaker 1: the federal prosecutors claim They used coded messages, and there
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Speaker 1: were alleged kickbacks that were involved in this. The defense
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Speaker 1: attorneys blame dishonest gamblers exploiting friendships, and they deny any wrongdoing.
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Speaker 1: Both pitchers have pled not guilty in federal court in Brooklyn.
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Speaker 1: So the question, why is the gambling trial— this is a
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Speaker 1: pretty big deal, this gambling trial— why is this gambling trial—
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Speaker 1: of Cleveland pitchers Emmanuel Class A and Luis Ortiz getting
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Speaker 1: back burner treatment from the media establishment in America. Why
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Speaker 1: is that? So I have a theory on this. My
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Speaker 1: theory is one word, Cleveland. That's why Cleveland, look, two
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Speaker 1: major league pitchers are currently on trial in a federal courthouse.
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Speaker 1: And somehow this is getting less attention than a backup
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Speaker 1: quarterback having a quad injury or a hamstring injury or
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Speaker 1: trading for a third string quarterback. And we all know
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Speaker 1: if Shohei Otani were involved, Nancy Grace would be broadcasting
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Speaker 1: live from the bullpen. But Ohtani had his situation. Somehow
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Speaker 1: he just was an idiot, and it was the other guy,
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Speaker 1: and that guy's currently sitting in a prison outside Philadelphia,
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Speaker 1: Ohtani's right-hand man. But you put these two guys on
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Speaker 1: the Cleveland baseball team, you put them on the Yankees,
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Speaker 1: put them in pinstripes, and there would be 24-hour gambling
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Speaker 1: scandal coverage. It would be like a telethon on the
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Speaker 1: sports TV. Pete Rose, that was before social media, Pete
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Speaker 1: Rose got treated like public enemy number one for his situation.
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Speaker 1: And these jamokes, the Cleveland pitchers, are on trial, and
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Speaker 1: most of the public is just yawning, stretching and yawning.
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Speaker 1: The media doesn't care because the audience doesn't care. It's
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Speaker 1: a trickle-down effect. And that's the dirty little secret. You
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Speaker 1: can also thank the social media fun zone. That's right.
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Speaker 1: Go down to the mezzanine on the fun zone and
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Speaker 1: knock yourself out there. The public has the attention span
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Speaker 1: of a goldfish. We lost our guy Blair in Maine.
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Speaker 1: He used to be a big star caller on the show.
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Speaker 1: We lost him to TikTok. And he's got the attention
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Speaker 1: span of a goldfish. This story has been placed in
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Speaker 1: the sports media's attic. The two Cleveland pitchers rigging prop bets.
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Speaker 1: It's right next to the Thighmaster, the Shake Weight, and
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Speaker 1: the complete DVD collection of ALF. There's only one person
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Speaker 1: I know that loves ALF. That's it. Everyone else is like,
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Speaker 1: I don't know, where are those DVDs of ALF? It's
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Speaker 1: up in the attic. So Rob Manford, I'll tell you what,
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Speaker 1: this guy must be doing cartwheels. He must be doing cartwheels.
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Speaker 1: The biggest potential integrity scandal since the cheating.
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Speaker 2: Astros.
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Speaker 1: We used to have a guy named Sir Scratchoff. He's
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Speaker 1: retired as a caller, but he would get so upset
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Speaker 1: when I would say cheating Astros, which is odd because
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Speaker 1: he's from Arkansas, and I don't know what he's doing now.
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Speaker 1: He's retired as a caller, but it's pretty crazy. Anyway,
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Speaker 1: so this is the biggest deal. since the cheating Astros,
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Speaker 1: and almost nobody's paying attention. The commissioner doesn't have to
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Speaker 1: bury the story. The public is doing the dirty work
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Speaker 1: for the commissioner. Yeah, put that in your pipe and
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Speaker 1: smoke it. All right, last thing, we go to golf.
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Speaker 5: Golf?
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Speaker 1: Yeah, I said golf.
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Speaker 2: I know.
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Speaker 1: I'm not proud of it, but this is a good story.
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Speaker 1: We have a mantra on this show. We bounce around.
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Speaker 1: We're like, whatever's a good story, we go with it.
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Speaker 1: You remember this thing called Live Golf?
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Speaker 6: No?
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Speaker 1: Yeah, this is where a bunch of rich Saudis came
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Speaker 1: in and said, we're going to bankroll. We're going to
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Speaker 1: mess with American sports. We're going to offer so much money.
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Speaker 1: We're going to get all these top golfers to come
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Speaker 1: over to our little startup. And that worked for a while.
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Speaker 1: That worked for a while until the money stopped. And
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Speaker 1: now Live Golfs, they had a $ 300 million bailout deal
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Speaker 1: with something called BC Partners. I have no idea what
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Speaker 1: that is. That deal collapsed. And now that means the
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Speaker 1: bankrupt Saudi-backed golf operation is headed towards a liquidation situation.
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Speaker 1: In fact, there's supposed to be an update later today.
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Speaker 1: The proposed Live 2.0 revival, the rebirth of Live, would
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Speaker 1: have given players a majority ownership. But big names in
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Speaker 1: the golf world, John Rahm and Sergio Garcia, among others,
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Speaker 1: jumped ship. Bryson DeChambeau continues to give some public support,
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Speaker 1: although there are some varying reports whether or not he's
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Speaker 1: actually in or not. So with the Saudi sugar daddy disappearing,
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Speaker 1: Liv facing bankruptcy. There's a bankruptcy hearing, as we said,
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Speaker 1: that will determine likely the ultimate fate of the Liv
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Speaker 1: Golf operation. So the question, Liv Golf's $ 300 million bailout
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Speaker 1: deal to emerge from Chapter 11 bankruptcy is now off
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Speaker 1: the table. So where does all of this take your mind?
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Speaker 1: So Live Golf has gone from the Saudi Arabian oil
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Speaker 1: money fountain, like a fire hose, to a broken drinking
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Speaker 1: fountain with just a little drip of water. And that's
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Speaker 1: where we are. And they shut off the water. This group,
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Speaker 1: the BC Partners group, they took one look at Live's
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Speaker 1: balance sheet and decided they would rather invest in Tower Records.
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Speaker 1: They'd rather do that. Why not? It's straight out of
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Speaker 1: the classic book, The Magic Christian, which is a really
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Speaker 1: old book now. They made a movie which was terrible
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Speaker 1: about it. But it does prove that every man and
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Speaker 1: woman has a price, and that if you reach the
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Speaker 1: price point, you'll get them to do anything. And this
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Speaker 1: is a great example. For example, The top golfers in
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Speaker 1: the world sold out to take that Saudi oil money.
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Speaker 1: And they were all in on it. They bought all
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Speaker 1: the top golfers. And that doesn't mean, though, they were
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Speaker 1: able to buy the fans. Live Golf proved that you
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Speaker 1: can buy the golfers. Buy the tournaments. They bought the tournaments.
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Speaker 1: They bought the television time. And they bought a lot
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Speaker 1: of social media. You can buy the algorithm, buy the bots,
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Speaker 1: get in the algorithm, get the publicity. You cannot buy
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Speaker 1: people actually caring, giving a damn. They can't do it.
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Speaker 1: You can't force that. Cannot do it. Now, they confused
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Speaker 1: social media attention, which was manipulated. That's how social media is,
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Speaker 1: all of its manipulation. Some of you lazy bones don't
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Speaker 1: realize that, but the manipulation there, and they confused that
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Speaker 1: with actual consumer demand. And as they said in The
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Speaker 1: Wolf of Wall Street, it's, fugazi fugazi it's wazy it's
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Speaker 1: woozy it's fairy dust all that it doesn't exist and
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Speaker 1: i gotta tell you it's gonna make one hell of
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Speaker 1: a netflix documentary i a docu-series can't wait to what
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Speaker 1: happened behind the scenes and like when they got the
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Speaker 1: phone call yeah those uh those guys with the saudi
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Speaker 1: wellness fund uh they're done they're bailing out what What? Yeah, sorry,
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Speaker 1: you're no longer walking on air. You're now in a
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Speaker 1: is the Mallor riddle of the day. The Mallor riddle
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Speaker 1: of the day. And we'll get to the calls after that.
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Speaker 1: Pirates pitcher Paul Skeens, who was supposed to be the
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Speaker 1: Pirates version of the Miz and then sucked at a
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Speaker 1: time he cannot suck at a dud of a season
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Speaker 1: this year. You're allowed to have a dud of a year.
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Speaker 1: You can't have back-to-back bad years or you're cooked. So
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Speaker 1: we'll see what happens sometime in 2028 when the Pirates
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Speaker 1: and baseball return. But Pirates pitcher Paul Skeens. He traveled
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Speaker 1: all the way over to Japan, and he visited in Tokyo.
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Speaker 1: I've heard of it. It's kind of a big deal.
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Speaker 1: And he took part in a blank inspired by Shohei Otani.
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Speaker 1: All right, that is the question. What is the answer?
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Speaker 1: And let's see, does anyone know the answer to the
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Speaker 1: malar riddle of the day? We go to the great unwashed,
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Speaker 1: the hoi polloi. And King Roy says he went there
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Speaker 1: to Paul Skeens to read a Japanese book. All right.
23:56
Speaker 1: Thank you for that. What else do we have? A
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Speaker 1: comic book store convention from Michael in Tulsa. What else
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Speaker 1: do we have? Andy in Lionel Lakes, Minnesota says he
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Speaker 1: took part in an all-you-can-eat nude sushi buffet. Well, that
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Speaker 1: sounds like fun. What else do we have? Clam says
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Speaker 1: an educational training course called You Need a Fall Guy.
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Speaker 1: You Need a Fall Guy. Courtesy Flusher says a horseshoe tournament.
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Speaker 1: Is the answer. What else do we have? Alf the
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Speaker 1: Alien O'Piner says an Alfcon. Wow, that's great.
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Speaker 2: Look at that.
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Speaker 1: Alfcon. What else do we have? Page down. JT the
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Speaker 1: Wingman said attended the Hidaka Matsuri Naked Festival. An Ice
24:45
Speaker 1: Bucket Challenge from Donkey Sausage. What else do we have?
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Speaker 1: Not a Burner says a Conjuring Party. Summoning the Demons.
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Speaker 1: What else do we have? Page down. Competing in a
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Speaker 1: YOLO Ono lookalike contest. That's from Chance. 2% Chance. I
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Speaker 1: think he meant Yoko Ono, but he said YOLO. What
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Speaker 1: else do we have? Page down. He was involved in
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Speaker 1: a drunken stupor with Alf and Irish something. That's from Awakened.
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Speaker 1: All right. A parlay contest from Fudgie. That's our buddy
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Speaker 1: Fudgie in Boston. Rob in the 3-2-1 says Skeens took
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Speaker 1: part in a Godzilla destruction of Tokyo class. Betting seminar
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Speaker 1: from Eek in Roseville, Minnesota. Our friend Eileen in San
25:38
Speaker 1: Francisco is listening. She says a pillow fight. And Trucker
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Speaker 1: Joe on the highways and byways of North America said
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Speaker 1: a military showing is the answer. Johnny Q said like
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Speaker 1: a food tasting competition over there. Ceremonial tea party from
25:55
Speaker 1: Chip and the Q's. All right, that's enough. Lorena, do
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Speaker 1: you have an answer? The Mallor riddle of the day.
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Speaker 1: One more time for those in the back of the
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Speaker 1: room that are not paying attention. You got to pay attention.
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Speaker 1: Pirate switcher Paul Skeens traveling all the way over to
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Speaker 1: Tokyo in Japan to take part in a blank inspired
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Speaker 1: by Shohei Otani.
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Speaker 2: A colon cleanse.
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Speaker 1: Colon cleanse, is that correct? No, that is not correct.
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Speaker 1: Larry in Nashville says, how to use a walk. That
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Speaker 1: is also incorrect. The correct answer, Paul Skeen's traveled all
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Speaker 1: the way to Tokyo, Japan, and he visited a very
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Speaker 1: famous store in Japan where they provide sleep information. He
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Speaker 1: took a sleep test. inspired by shohei otani a full
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Speaker 1: body 3d scan they analyzed his skeletal structure body pressure
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Speaker 1: all the distribution of the pressure around his body he
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Speaker 1: had a custom pillow made and a sleep air system
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Speaker 1: all that there so a.
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Speaker 2: Sleep study that sounds nice.
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Speaker 1: Seems like a long, couldn't you find somewhere in Toledo
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Speaker 1: to do that?
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Speaker 2: I'm sure they have sleep centers. Yeah, true.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, they have sleep centers here. It's like, you know,
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Speaker 1: what is so good? Did Otani not do the sleep
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Speaker 1: stuff this year? Because he didn't have as good a year.
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Speaker 1: So does that mean the stuff stopped working? Man. All right. Well,
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Speaker 1: there you go. Top tier, supposedly the top place in
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Speaker 1: the world for sleep. Does anyone believe that? How would
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Speaker 1: you know, by the way? Anytime I see these things,
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Speaker 1: top of the world, you know, top of the world,
27:36
Speaker 1: how do I know? You know how big the freaking
27:38
Speaker 1: planet is? How would you know? You're telling me you're
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Speaker 1: going to every single nook and cranny in the planet?
27:45
Speaker 1: Come on now. Let's go back to the phones. Let's
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Speaker 1: say hello to, who do we have here? Anthony in Louisiana. Hello, Anthony. Welcome.
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Speaker 4: Hey, Ben. How you doing?
27:57
Speaker 1: If I was any better, I would be Mark, but
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Speaker 1: not Mark the full name guy, as he said he
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Speaker 1: was supposed to be limping all the way to Vegas,
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Speaker 1: he said. So I don't know what that's about. What's
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Speaker 1: going on with you, Anthony?
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Speaker 5: Welcome.
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Speaker 4: It's good to hear from you.
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Speaker 1: Well, thank you. You know, I called you up, and
28:18
Speaker 1: as I point out, no one actually calls the show.
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Speaker 1: We actually call you, and that's kind of our deal.
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Speaker 1: That's how it works. But, yes. Anyway, so what's on
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Speaker 1: your mind here, pal?
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Speaker 4: Oh, no, I just called to say hello.
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Speaker 5: Oh, okay.
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Speaker 1: You just want to say hello. And what were you
28:34
Speaker 1: up to? Oh, okay. There you go. That's why you
28:36
Speaker 1: called right there. That's it.
28:37
Speaker 2: I was waiting for the jump. What up, Anthony?
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Speaker 1: Hey, Hillary, how's your daughter doing?
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Speaker 6: She good.
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Speaker 1: She good?
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Speaker 4: Okay. You tell your daughter I say hello.
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Speaker 8: She's nice and cold up in Oregon. It's cold and
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Speaker 8: wet and rainy up there.
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Speaker 3: It is?
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Speaker 5: Yes.
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Speaker 4: Yes. It's good to hear from you, Lorraine.
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Speaker 2: Better to hear from you, Anthony.
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Speaker 8: Thanks for calling.
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Speaker 1: What's a day in the life? Imagine how fascinating the
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Speaker 1: life of Anthony must be. What's a day in the
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Speaker 1: life with Anthony like?
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Speaker 4: Who?
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Speaker 3: Oh, okay.
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Speaker 4: You know what her name is? I thought it was Eileen.
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Speaker 5: Oh, Eileen.
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Speaker 1: Oh, you do? Yeah, well, I thought you were. Well,
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Speaker 1: you've moved on from the astrology lady. You're now, you're
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Speaker 1: kind of into Eileen.
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Speaker 2: Now, you know.
29:28
Speaker 1: I got you.
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Speaker 4: I tell my friend, Andrea, I say hey.
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Speaker 1: Oh, that's who I say. You always say hello to Andrea,
29:33
Speaker 1: but now Eileen. What about Kathy and Madison?
29:37
Speaker 5: Oh, Kathy, yeah.
29:38
Speaker 1: How about Jerry? and Rhode Island? She's a babe. What
29:41
Speaker 1: about her?
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Speaker 4: Yeah, tell all of them I said, hey.
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Speaker 1: Okay, I will let them know. I will pass that on.
29:47
Speaker 1: Thank you.
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Speaker 4: And tell Nature Boy I said, hey.
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Speaker 1: Oh, even Nature Boy. Wow, that's big. Nature Boy, hello
29:56
Speaker 1: from Anthony. I'm going to move on. I know this
29:59
Speaker 1: is like one of those 1980s conversation line things, but yeah.
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Speaker 1: Let's say hello to eeny, meeny, miny, moe. 2% chance
30:08
Speaker 1: is up next. The man, the myth, the legend, 2% chance. Hello, 2%.
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Speaker 4: Sorry, but I meant to say Yoko Ono contest for
30:17
Speaker 4: that question.
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Speaker 1: I figured it out. Well, the C, the L, and
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Speaker 1: the K are near each other on the keyboard, so
30:23
Speaker 1: that's the problem. You hit the L. Your fat fingers
30:25
Speaker 1: hit the L. You meant to hit the K. Now,
30:28
Speaker 1: have you been paying attention, 2% Chance?
30:32
Speaker 4: I've been listening for the past 40 minutes.
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Speaker 1: All right. I'm going to quiz you right now. This
30:37
Speaker 1: is where I quiz the listeners. I want to see
30:39
Speaker 1: if they're retaining information. I did this earlier, and Hollering
30:42
Speaker 1: James failed the quiz. I'm going to quiz you right now.
30:45
Speaker 1: Here is the quiz. Fox 1, what do you think
30:49
Speaker 1: America's Game of the Week is this weekend?
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Speaker 4: America's Game of the Week. Oh, you mentioned it earlier.
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Speaker 1: Retention here.
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Speaker 4: I'm thinking, I'm thinking. I know Brady's doing the game.
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Speaker 1: Brady's doing the game. All right, that's right. That's right.
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Speaker 5: Come on.
31:08
Speaker 1: Chop, chop. Come on. This is why I got to
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Speaker 1: do these spots.
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Speaker 4: I know, I know, I know. I got it. I
31:16
Speaker 4: got it. It's the Patriots. I remember you saying something
31:20
Speaker 4: about the Patriots.
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Speaker 2: Okay.
31:21
Speaker 1: And who are they playing?
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Speaker 4: Dang, man.
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Speaker 1: I'm going to give you a clue. Calm down.
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Speaker 4: All right?
31:29
Speaker 1: I'm going to give you one word. You should get
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Speaker 1: it right away. Okay? Here's my clue.
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Speaker 6: Are you ready?
31:36
Speaker 1: You can either phone a friend or get a clue.
31:38
Speaker 1: Which one do you want?
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Speaker 4: I'll get a clue.
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Speaker 5: Okay.
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Speaker 1: The clue is cheese.
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Speaker 4: Packers versus Patriots.
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Speaker 1: Hey, look at you, you dirty dog. NFL Week 9
31:53
Speaker 1: is here. Packers versus Patriots. It's approved by 2% chance.
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Speaker 1: Sunday is America's Game of the Week, streaming live on
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Speaker 1: Fox 1. You miss it live, you're just watching a
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Speaker 1: highlight catch. Every play as it happens. Packers-Patriots live on
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Speaker 1: Fox 1. You see what we did right there? You
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Speaker 1: see that? That's magic right there. That's retention. Now you're
32:13
Speaker 1: going to remember that's America's Game of the Week.
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Speaker 4: Do you think that's the best game on the schedule?
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Speaker 4: I think the Vikings-Bills game looks pretty tasty. But in
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Speaker 4: your opinion, that's the best game you've got going this week?
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Speaker 1: That's what the copy says, and I'm a man of
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Speaker 1: the copy. I buy the copy for the copy, all
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Speaker 1: about the copy. I love the copy. And that game
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Speaker 1: is not until Monday night. The Bills-Vikings game is not
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Speaker 1: until Monday night. So on Sunday, is there a better
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Speaker 1: game on the Sunday card? You've got 5-3 Green Bay,
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Speaker 1: 5-3 New England. Give me a better game. What is it?
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Speaker 1: I don't think there's another game on Sunday with two
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Speaker 1: teams that have a winning record. I don't believe.
32:53
Speaker 4: Do the Raiders have a winning record? No, that's the
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Speaker 4: best game.
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Speaker 1: No, they're 500. The Raiders play the Niners. Yeah. What else? Yeah,
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Speaker 1: everyone needs a good team, bad team, or two bad
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Speaker 1: teams on Sunday.
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Speaker 4: It would have been Bengals-Ravens if Lamar hadn't got hurt.
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Speaker 1: Well, the Bengals aren't playing the Ravens.
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Speaker 4: Oh, okay, I'm looking at the wrong thing. Listen, man,
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Speaker 4: I wanted to ask you something. What's your opinion about
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Speaker 4: Alabama rinks so high? Do you think there's a bias?
33:20
Speaker 4: Everyone favors Bama, or do you just think it's what
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Speaker 4: we think it is? I've been listening to the radio.
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Speaker 1: Well, there's clearly a bias. There's a bias towards the
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Speaker 1: Southeastern Conference. That's part of it.
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Speaker 4: Yeah, I agree with that.
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Speaker 1: I do not get worked up on the first college.
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Speaker 1: I did a whole monologue on it yesterday because the
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Speaker 1: Notre Dame fans, they had their panties in a wad,
33:37
Speaker 1: so that's why I did it. There's 12 teams. If
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Speaker 1: you're not one of the top 12 teams, you don't
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Speaker 1: deserve to get in, and it's going to get even worse.
33:47
Speaker 1: You keep adding teams, right? So this is 12, and
33:50
Speaker 1: then eventually you'll just keep adding more and more and more.
33:52
Speaker 1: It's like college basketball. You keep adding teams. So if
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Speaker 1: you're not in there, you probably don't deserve to be
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Speaker 1: in there.
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Speaker 4: Right, and then it'll work itself out. And to answer
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Speaker 4: this question, you can hang up after. Why is it
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Speaker 4: Notre Dame in a conference? Is it because they're elitist
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Speaker 4: and they think they're better than everyone else? Please explain
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Speaker 4: that to me.
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Speaker 1: Thank you, man.
34:09
Speaker 4: I appreciate you taking the call.
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Speaker 1: All right, there you go. Super sent chance. Because they
34:12
Speaker 1: have a sweetheart deal with NBC, and they get so
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Speaker 1: much money. NBC had to cancel my TV show because
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Speaker 1: they paid so much money to Notre Dame to broadcast
34:21
Speaker 1: those games. What do you want me to say? They
34:23
Speaker 1: get their own deal. They don't need it. They're a
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Speaker 1: university for religion. The Catholic religion, that is their university.
34:31
Speaker 1: With a wink and a nod to the other Catholic universities,
34:33
Speaker 1: but still. Anyway, it is the Ben Maller Show as
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Speaker 1: we press on. We've got Ask Ben. Your questions, our
34:41
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34:45
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35:40
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35:41
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35:44
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35:52
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35:57
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Speaker 5: It's now time for.
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36:13
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Speaker 3: All right, Ben, we're going to start off with a
36:24
Speaker 3: question from Donkey Sausage.
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Speaker 1: Hi, Donkey.
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Speaker 2: He wants to know, What was your favorite game at
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Speaker 2: the arcade?
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Speaker 1: Oh, man, I love the arcade. I have a whole
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Speaker 1: arcade experience. I'm so glad I'm an old fart and
36:38
Speaker 1: I grew up at the arcade. My mom would drop
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Speaker 1: me off at the mall. We'd go to the arcade.
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Speaker 1: There was an Orange Julius place right next to it.
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Speaker 1: So we get these orange. Oh, they're so good. I
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Speaker 1: love the Tron game. I remember playing that for hours.
36:53
Speaker 1: That was such a great freaking game. I love that.
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Speaker 1: I would say of all the games in the arcade,
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Speaker 1: that was the one I played more than any. And
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Speaker 1: rather than Bogart the time, I'll just leave it at that.
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Speaker 1: What about you, Lorena? Any video games, arcade games? You're
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Speaker 1: too young for that.
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Speaker 2: I like Pac-Man.
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Speaker 1: Oh, Pac-Man? Not bad. Not bad.
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Speaker 5: Coop?
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Speaker 2: It's pretty close.
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Speaker 3: It's like 1A and 1B with the Simpsons arcade game.
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Speaker 2: Okay. And the Ninja Turtles arcade game. I'm also a
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Speaker 2: big fan of pinball machines.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, those are cool.
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Speaker 2: I'll get stuck there for a while.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, there's nothing wrong with pinball machines. But like an arcade,
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Speaker 1: like back in the day, before everyone's got an arcade
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Speaker 1: on their phone or whatever, but back then it was like,
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Speaker 1: it was awesome, man.
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Speaker 6: They were like the boss.
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Speaker 1: I remember it was always big when they'd change out
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Speaker 1: some of the machines. It's like, oh, man, they got
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Speaker 1: a new game in here. What's going on? Anyway, what's next?
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Speaker 1: What do we got?
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Speaker 2: All right, Andy in Lino Lakes.
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Speaker 1: Hi, Andy. That's in Minnesota.
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Speaker 3: He would like to know, do you guys use a
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Speaker 3: wash rag or a loofah, or do you just raw
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Speaker 3: dog it with a bar of soap?
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Speaker 1: So I am team loofah. That's very emasculating, but I
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Speaker 1: do enjoy a nice loofah. Once you cross over to loofah,
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Speaker 1: you don't go back. I've heard it's disgusting and there's
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Speaker 1: a lot of chemical, not chemicals, but a lot of
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Speaker 1: bacteria on the loofah. I don't care. I love my loofah.
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Speaker 1: I get extra clean with the loofah. So I'm team loofah.
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Speaker 1: What about you, Lorena?
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Speaker 3: I have a.
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Speaker 8: Couple of different things that I use, but I usually
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Speaker 8: use like, it's kind of like a cloth type sponge
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Speaker 8: that has a loofah on one side and then the
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Speaker 8: clothy sponge on the other side so I can exfoliate.
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Speaker 2: And get soft at the same time.
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Speaker 4: Oh. Okay.
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Speaker 1: When I was a kid, we used a washcloth. But now,
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Speaker 1: as a grown-up, I'm loofah. What about you, Coop?
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Speaker 2: I have to agree with you, Ben. Once you go loofah,
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Speaker 2: you never go back.
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Speaker 5: Yeah.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, that's true. There were things when I was a
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Speaker 1: kid I thought I would never do. And as an adult,
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Speaker 1: I've now done them. Like the loofah thing. If you
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Speaker 1: had told me as a kid I'd be using a loofah,
38:47
Speaker 1: I'd say you're crazy. The other thing is the spray
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Speaker 1: thing up your tuchus. You know, clean you. You know
38:53
Speaker 1: that thing? That's the way to go, too.
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Speaker 2: Solid oh the bidet yes.
38:56
Speaker 1: The bidet yeah once you go bidet you don't go
38:59
Speaker 1: back i'm telling you i think japan right big bidet
39:02
Speaker 1: country japan yeah they get it right in japan the
39:04
Speaker 1: bidet all right what's next what do we got.
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Speaker 2: Uh ben maller show quotes.
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Speaker 1: Oh yes very important very important account yes uh not
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Speaker 1: not many quotes on there i'm.
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Speaker 3: Sure yes wants to know uh ben and crew what
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Speaker 3: is your favorite celebrity impression that's called the show.
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Speaker 1: Oh, man, we've had a lot over the years. I'm
39:26
Speaker 1: trying to think off the top of my head.
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Speaker 6: Is there.
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Speaker 1: Nothing's really popping i mean we've had some good ones
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Speaker 1: we had well remember john harbaugh the john harbaugh impersonation
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Speaker 1: years ago that was pretty funny uh i guess that's
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Speaker 1: kind of a celebrity what about you lorena but you
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Speaker 1: haven't been on the show that long any celebrity impersonations
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Speaker 1: yeah spongebob's my favorite oh yeah well spongebob was yeah
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Speaker 1: for sure spongebob what am i thinking That's an all-time
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Speaker 1: great SpongeBob.
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Speaker 4: Cool?
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Speaker 3: Yeah, I don't know if it's recency bias, but that
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Speaker 3: one's the best one. And then the other one, I
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Speaker 3: don't know if it was like an impersonator or the
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Speaker 3: real thing, but when.
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Speaker 1: Donald Sterling called him?
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Speaker 6: Yes. Yes.
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Speaker 1: Oh, my God. What a night, Coop. In the middle,
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Speaker 1: when the Clippers were getting taken away from Donald Sterling,
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Speaker 1: we got a call from this old guy who said
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Speaker 1: he was in Palm Springs or something like that, but
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Speaker 1: he defended Donald Sterling and sounded exactly like Donald Sterling.
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Speaker 1: It was wild. And that's such an old guy move, right, Coop?
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Speaker 1: Let me call the local radio station. Defend myself. They
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Speaker 1: won't know it's me. I forgot about that. That was
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Speaker 1: what a night. That was quite the night. All right. Now,
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Speaker 1: what is next? What do we got?
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Speaker 2: Alf the Alienal Piner.
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Speaker 1: Hi, Alf.
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Speaker 2: He wants to know, did you have a lunchbox when
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Speaker 2: you were in elementary school?
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Speaker 1: Oh, did I have a lunchbox? What kind of question
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Speaker 1: is that, Alf? I had Star Wars. I had Indiana Jones.
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Speaker 1: I would throw those things around. I loved lunchboxes. Were
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Speaker 1: your lunchboxes metal?
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Speaker 2: Yes, metal. I'm old, man.
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Speaker 1: They were old, dude. Lorena, lunchbox girl?
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Speaker 8: Yeah, I started out with a plastic one that had
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Speaker 8: the Little Mermaid on it, but then I upgraded to
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Speaker 8: one of the softer ones that has the cooling lining
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Speaker 8: in it.
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Speaker 1: Dude, I would throw those lunchboxes. My mom would make
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Speaker 1: my tuna fish sandwich. I would chuck those against the wall,
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Speaker 1: and I loved it.
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Speaker 2: They smell like tuna.
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Speaker 1: Well, that's a problem. That's why I don't eat tuna anymore.
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Speaker 1: What about you, Koopa Loop? I had one.
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Speaker 2: I can't remember what was on it. Real quickly, Mr.
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Speaker 3: Irrigation, he wants to know, what was your favorite game
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Speaker 3: show host from the 80s slash 90s?
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Speaker 1: Oh, Bob Barker. That little needle, you know what, microphone.
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Speaker 1: And I got to meet Bob Barker. It was great.
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Speaker 1: Bob was so cool when I met him. He's an
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Speaker 1: old radio guy.
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Speaker 2: Bob's my favorite, too.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, all right.
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Speaker 4: Thank you.
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Speaker 1: There it is. Loretta, you're out. There we go.