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Hour 1 – World Cup Controversy · The Ben Maller Show

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Speaker 1: appropriate Mallard monologue about football. Yeah, wells lost at the
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Speaker 1: World Cup. Not that it really matters in the big picture. However,
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Speaker 1: they did do something that really annoyed me. So should
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Speaker 1: Team USA have taken the World Cup match up with Turkey?
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Speaker 1: More seriously? Also, does the World Cup match momentum graphic
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Speaker 1: prove that momentum exists?
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Speaker 2: Now?
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Speaker 1: The World Cup broadcasts have been absolutely wonderful. They're killing
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Speaker 1: it on the TV broadcast on Fox. However, this match
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Speaker 1: momentum thing, I mean, what are we doing here. Also
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Speaker 1: your thoughts on the Dutch orange fog that took over
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Speaker 1: Kansas City. Over twenty thousand people wearing orange marching through
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Speaker 1: It's wild you could actually have that without that stuff happening.
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Speaker 1: We'll get to all of that and more right now.
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Speaker 1: subject to a veilability And then for some reason the
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Speaker 1: Salsas Czar hit me up and we won't hear from
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Speaker 1: him very often. He said, Hey, Ben, I know the
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Speaker 1: World Cup's been going on for about a month. Can
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Speaker 1: you let me know where to watch it? Okay, dummy,
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Speaker 1: it's no I'm kidding. I love the Salsa Zar. It's
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Speaker 1: World Cup. We'll get back to the live reads later on.
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Speaker 1: We now pause the live reads for the show, so
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Speaker 1: our lead this hour is from the hood in Inglewood
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Speaker 1: and up to No Good. That would be the site
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Speaker 1: of the twenty twenty six World Cup game we're gonna
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Speaker 1: talk about. That's right, don't bury the lead mo man.
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Speaker 1: I'm wrapping myself in the flag right now, I am
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Speaker 1: wrapping myself in the flag. So there was right there
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Speaker 1: the twenty twenty six World Cup, a gaggle of games.
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Speaker 1: The big one, the big Kahuna, was on Fox. Did
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Speaker 1: you watch you? Bet? No you didn't? Pat you up
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Speaker 1: by you. I'm gonna tell on you. Well, Team Usa, Usa, Usa, USA,
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Speaker 1: So if you didn't see it, some dude you've never
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Speaker 1: heard of from Turkey scored a goal on the final
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Speaker 1: kick of the match. What a Debbie downer. And that
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Speaker 1: hands Team USA there first defeat in the World Cup
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Speaker 1: three to two. Turkey or Turkey as they're saying, I
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Speaker 1: don't know they changed the pennay. It looks like Turkey
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Speaker 1: to me. Anyway. They picked up their only win of
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Speaker 1: the World Cup and now it's good bye, nice parting gifts.
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Speaker 1: They've been eliminated the Americans, as you know, because you're
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Speaker 1: a good soccer fan. Every time the World Cup comes up,
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Speaker 1: you know about it. When there's no World Cup, you
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Speaker 1: don't watch. However, the Americans have advanced to the knockout
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Speaker 1: round and they will play I believe on hump Day
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Speaker 1: of next week. Played a lot of new players. That's
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Speaker 1: one of the talking points that we wanted to focus
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Speaker 1: in on as the criticism, some of it directed at
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Speaker 1: the head coach, Mauricio Pocatino, the head coach of Team USA,
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Speaker 1: who decided to go with a lot of the backups.
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Speaker 1: So that is a good jumping off point. Let us
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Speaker 1: discuss the question should Team USA have taken this World
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Speaker 1: Cup match with Turkey more seriously? Should they have taken
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Speaker 1: this thing more seriously? So I've got eucalyptus, babylon and
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Speaker 1: religious revival, and we will combine all of these things
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Speaker 1: together and we are going to have some French onion soup.
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Speaker 1: So I hope you little crackers have some crackers on
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Speaker 1: the side a little salt, so enjoy that. So hey,
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Speaker 1: to answer the question, should Team USA have taken this
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Speaker 1: World Cup match more seriously? I am nodding my head yes.
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Speaker 1: If you're watching on the on demand YouTube feed, you
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Speaker 1: know my eyes are closed and I'm nodding my head yes.
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Speaker 1: And I've opened my eyes now, so listen. I was
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Speaker 1: taught by my mom when I was a kid. My
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Speaker 1: mom tried to get me to eat vegetables, which is
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Speaker 1: a bad mother, and I occasionally was forced to and
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Speaker 1: it would take a long time for me to do that.
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Speaker 1: And she taught me to not play with my food,
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Speaker 1: so you should not play with your food. Now, it
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Speaker 1: looked to me, even though the game was tied, it
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Speaker 1: should have been a draw. You could say whatever. Fine,
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Speaker 1: you know, we hardcore soccer people know we're not. But
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Speaker 1: looking at the line up there, any reasonable person would
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Speaker 1: say that the Americans took their foot off the gas
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Speaker 1: there and they put their their feet on the footstool
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Speaker 1: is what they did there. And I understand they've already
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Speaker 1: won the little group there, the Group D, they've already
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Speaker 1: won that. And so they beat Paraguay in Australia, and
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Speaker 1: so Team USA will now advance to the round of
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Speaker 1: thirty two, which will be on hump Day there against
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Speaker 1: Bosnia Herzegovina. So that'll be the next matchup. But regardless
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Speaker 1: of that, I have standards. I'm from the Old Country. Okay,
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Speaker 1: I'm from the Old Country, and I don't like that
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Speaker 1: bitter taste that they decided. And this is a plague.
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Speaker 1: I've been complaining about it from the bully pulpit late
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Speaker 1: at night. It's affected just about every sport that we
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Speaker 1: have in this country. It is an invasive species. And
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Speaker 1: there's the head coach of Team USA, Mauricio Pocatino, who
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Speaker 1: decided to have a cocktail and float on the lazy river.
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Speaker 1: They played the load management card from the bottom of
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Speaker 1: the deck in the World Cup. This is not the NBA.
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Speaker 1: It's not a February game in the NBA. It's supposedly
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Speaker 1: the Global super Bowl. That's what I keep hearing, right,
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Speaker 1: So you're treating it like what a friendly? Is that
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Speaker 1: what you soccer people call it a friendly? Should be
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Speaker 1: a soccer felony. And there's Polkatino out there who went
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Speaker 1: with the JV lineup, the backups and the backups nine
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Speaker 1: from what I read before the game, nine lineup changes, resting,
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Speaker 1: resting in the World Cup? Key players? Are they not
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Speaker 1: in shape? Are they trying to get I thought all
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Speaker 1: soccer players were in great shape. They all like to
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Speaker 1: brag about that they can run up and down for
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Speaker 1: hours and hours and hours, hours and hours an hour.
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Speaker 1: And yeah, although it is, you juxtapose that with the
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Speaker 1: big star who's doing candy bar commercials on the World
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Speaker 1: Cup broadcast. There for the good because you happened to
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Speaker 1: be born in Hershey, Pennsylvania, Christian paulsick, and he didn't
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Speaker 1: he entered the game. He didn't he hadn't played in
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Speaker 1: the last couple of games because of some calf injury.
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Speaker 1: But he came in the fifty eighth minutes. So anyway,
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Speaker 1: listen the point of all this. I just got the
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Speaker 1: vibe when I saw nine backups in a World Cup game.
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Speaker 1: I said, well, this is classic American sports arrogance. All right,
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Speaker 1: you win a couple of games and you've already advanced.
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Speaker 1: So let's just treat this like a Cactus League game
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Speaker 1: or a grape Fruit League game. Why don't we go
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Speaker 1: to the day SBA. How about that we get a
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Speaker 1: manny and a petty and it's the World Cup. It's
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Speaker 1: not a wellness retreat save the eucalyptus towels for the MLS.
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Speaker 1: It's the fricking World Cup. No days off. You all
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Speaker 1: tell me how sacred this event is, right, You all
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Speaker 1: tell me that every time I bring this up. But
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Speaker 1: if I don't treat it the proper way, you yell
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Speaker 1: at me, am on you valor. It's I was actually
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Speaker 1: talking to one of my radio buddies about this It's
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Speaker 1: one of those great things the soccer cult. If you
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Speaker 1: don't talk about soccer, they can plain because you should
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Speaker 1: be talking about soccer. And then when you talk about soccer,
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Speaker 1: you're not talking about it the right way, so they
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Speaker 1: can play. It's just perfect. It is absolutely perfect. And
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Speaker 1: so supposely the World Cup sacred the game. I know
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Speaker 1: it wasn't meaningless to the rambunctious sellout crowd that was
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Speaker 1: price gouged by FIFA, who treated this like a pilgrimage
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Speaker 1: to a packed Sofi stadium. And there was load management
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Speaker 1: at the World Cup, a bold strategy cotton, let's see
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Speaker 1: if it pays off. And my god, I thought, Greatness
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Speaker 1: is not taking a nap on the couch. Greatness is
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Speaker 1: stepping on throats even when you don't have to, right,
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Speaker 1: just say, hey, keep the mojoe going and all that
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Speaker 1: and no now turning the page to the boob tube.
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Speaker 1: And I would like to address the snuffle love I
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Speaker 1: guess in the room now full disclosure here As a disclaimer,
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Speaker 1: I was not planning on talking about this. I kept
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Speaker 1: getting messages from random members of the Malord militia pee
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Speaker 1: ones who I guess you haven't watched the World Cup.
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Speaker 1: This is not new. What happened during the Team USA
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Speaker 1: game versus Turkey, this is not a new thing. Several
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Speaker 1: of you were demanding a malor monologue. You were very
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Speaker 1: excited about a graphic, not a game. Not a game,
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Speaker 1: not a game. We in here talking about a TV
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Speaker 1: graphic on Fox. So it happened during the game that
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Speaker 1: was played a few hours ago before we got in
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Speaker 1: here at the World Cup. Specifically, I think you know
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Speaker 1: where I'm going with this, right, yeah, Okay, well I'll
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Speaker 1: do it anyway. Two words match momentum. Yeah. Now, one
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Speaker 1: of my long, long, long ago positions that I have maintained,
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Speaker 1: I have died on this mountain in sports. There is
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Speaker 1: no such thing as momentum. The only momentum I know
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Speaker 1: in sports is Uncle Moe, who lives in Jersey, and
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Speaker 1: Ozzy momentum, who obviously lives in Australia and has a
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Speaker 1: pet kangaroo unless he does it. So this match momentum
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Speaker 1: has been a bane on the World Cup. It popped
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Speaker 1: up again. It is a soccer specific advanced statistic. So
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Speaker 1: the people say, who are behind this?
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Speaker 3: Here?
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Speaker 1: Broadcast graphic I used obviously during the World Cup. Now
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Speaker 1: you might have seen it briefly. It pops up randomly
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Speaker 1: in the corner the lower left hand corner of the
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Speaker 1: Fox broadcast. It is hyped as being able to vision
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Speaker 1: which team appears to have all the momentum at any
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Speaker 1: point in the game. I realized this is this is
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Speaker 1: low hanging fruit. The most delicious fruit is low hanging fruit. Okay,
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Speaker 1: because you don't have to work that hard to get it.
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Speaker 1: The question does the World Cup match momentum graphic prove
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Speaker 1: that my long standing position is wrong, that momentum exists?
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Speaker 1: Does the World Cup match momentum chirirn graphic prove that
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Speaker 1: momentum exists? Now, I don't want to get religious, Sweet
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Speaker 1: baby Jesus, No it's not. It's not welcome to the
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Speaker 1: Tabernacle of the mal or Militia. It is not analysis.
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Speaker 1: It's arts and crafts. It's arts and crafts, is what
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Speaker 1: it is. It's gimmicky, it's glittery. It's like a mood
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Speaker 1: ring with a sponsor. And honestly, this thing should have
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Speaker 1: been presented by the Babylon b right, it's present by
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Speaker 1: the Babylon Bee because it's straight out of the land
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Speaker 1: of make believe. It is a classic Hawaiian spam sandwich.
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Speaker 1: Satirical useless filler is what it is. Now. Listen, the
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Speaker 1: broadcast has been great. They're absolutely killing it. It's just
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Speaker 1: one thing. I'm nitpicking here. It bothers me. Right, it's unnecessary.
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Speaker 1: And look, if momentum actually existed, dummy, you wouldn't need
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Speaker 1: a cartoon thermometer, do hickey whatever that thing is to
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Speaker 1: find it. It's just big dazzled is what it is. Right,
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Speaker 1: It's that's it. They know there's certain spots, unfortunately, where
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Speaker 1: there's absolutely nothing to say, and so you toss this
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Speaker 1: out there like some pixie dust. It's gimmicky, it's glittery,
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Speaker 1: it's useless. The holy trinity of TV broadcast nonsense, right.
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Speaker 1: It provides a little visual flare for the low information,
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Speaker 1: the dumb, dumb right, and broadcast polish, rather than delivering
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Speaker 1: anything meaningful. There's no new insight on that. It is
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Speaker 1: obviously very subjective and it's just the broadcast equivalent of
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Speaker 1: elevator music, just elevator music. That's it. However, let's be
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Speaker 1: real here, there's not much going on. I'm watching these games.
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Speaker 1: I'm into it. I feel like the fans are the
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Speaker 1: bigger part of the story so far. But there's not
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Speaker 1: much going on in soccer a lot, meaning they need things.
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Speaker 1: They need thingham a jigs and they need what you McCall.
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Speaker 1: It's all of that to keep the viewer engaged when
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Speaker 1: nothing is happening for twenty minutes or thirty minutes and
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Speaker 1: everyone's just doing some cardio kicking a ball around in
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Speaker 1: the middle of the field and not taking any shots
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Speaker 1: on that and any of that and in general. Momentum
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Speaker 1: is this classic sportscaster gibberish. It's one of the most overused,
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Speaker 1: vaguely defined filler words in sports broadcasting. It is a
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Speaker 1: go to crutch. It's a narrative crutch when commentators need
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Speaker 1: to sound somewhat insightful during those down periods, the lulls,
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Speaker 1: and they pull that out of their back pocket and
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Speaker 1: they commit to it and people hear it and it's
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Speaker 1: just the jock language and everyone's like, okay, well that
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Speaker 1: makes sense. Momentum, momentum, momentum, shove momentum up. You're tucks
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Speaker 1: all right now. Last word to Canzah City, and I
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Speaker 1: hope you were able to see this. Even our blind
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Speaker 1: listeners were amazed by This so led by the iconic
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Speaker 1: Orange Bus, which apparently is a thing, the double decker
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Speaker 1: bus shipped from the Netherlands. From the Netherlands, they had
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Speaker 1: live DJs, they got them music. It was a festival
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Speaker 1: type atmosphere here downtown Kansas City, not that far away
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Speaker 1: from the home of the Ben Mallard chicken fingers there.
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Speaker 1: I'm sure a lot of the Dutch fans were enjoying
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Speaker 1: the Mallard chicken fingers there over in Liberty, Missouri. How
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Speaker 1: appropriate and just knocking that out, just knocking that out anyway,
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Speaker 1: So downtown Kansas City turned into a just a huge
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Speaker 1: it was the Orange Bowl, just a giant like orange
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Speaker 1: everywhere celebration. This happened early in the morning on Thursday,
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Speaker 1: as thousands, thousands of fans of the Netherlands and a
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Speaker 1: lot of locals participated in the Orange Walk. The event started,
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Speaker 1: if you're familiar with Kansas City, the Power Light District,
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Speaker 1: and they walked up to the World War One Memorial,
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Speaker 1: which is really cool a hilltop there in Kansas City,
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Speaker 1: and they had the bus and the whole thing, and
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Speaker 1: everyone was dancing and partying and wearing orange shirts and
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Speaker 1: face paint and wigs and all kinds outfits. It was
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Speaker 1: pretty neat and unlike most of these things in America
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Speaker 1: when this happens, where they just like turn cars over
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Speaker 1: and burn them and like burn people's homes and businesses
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Speaker 1: and ruined society. None that happened. So it's amazing you
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Speaker 1: could have an event and not burn the whole town down.
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Speaker 1: All right, So the question your thoughts on the Dutch
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Speaker 1: orange fog that took over Cansau City for the world come.
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Speaker 1: So they estimated twenty two thousand people were part of this.
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Speaker 1: Twenty two thousand people were part of this particular event.
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Speaker 1: And if you walk through downtown Kansas City on Thursday morning,
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Speaker 1: you did an attendant event, you joined a pilgrimage. Now
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Speaker 1: I had insider information my radio friend, the Great Bob Fesco,
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Speaker 1: the morning guy in Kansas City. I go on with
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Speaker 1: him every Thursday morning, and Bob had mentioned in our
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Speaker 1: spot that I do with him. He said, Bob and Dusty,
19:52
Speaker 1: they said he I'm They were wearing orange and they
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Speaker 1: said we're going out to this thing, and I said, okay,
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Speaker 1: well that's cool, and I thought, wow, maybe there'll be
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Speaker 1: a few people there, you know, that'll be fun. I said,
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Speaker 1: send me some photos. I'll be sleeping, and boy did
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Speaker 1: he send me video. He sent me photos. He got
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Speaker 1: all swept on it. There were twenty two thousand to
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Speaker 1: get twenty two thousand people here. Kansas City didn't just
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Speaker 1: host a soccer fan march. It hosted a full blown
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Speaker 1: It was like a Dutch religious revival with the DJ
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Speaker 1: on wheels and all that. Who was given the sermon
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Speaker 1: and it did. It wasn't so much a march. It
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Speaker 1: felt like a mass spiritual cleanser or something like that.
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Speaker 1: The hype was infectious. I wasn't even anywhere close to it.
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Speaker 1: I just saw the video and it was great. I'm
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Speaker 1: told by my friend Bob that they all the local
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Speaker 1: stores in Kansas City you couldn't get an orange T
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Speaker 1: shirt because so many people obviously locals and not that
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Speaker 1: many people from the Netherlands that traveled to Kansas City
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Speaker 1: and have that amount of holiday and all that. So
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Speaker 1: you could not get an orange shirt for miles and
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Speaker 1: miles around Kansas City. So that's not just fandom, that's
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Speaker 1: like economic, that's an economic By the time they hit FanFest,
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Speaker 1: like the happiest cult ever had arrived there and honestly,
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Speaker 1: and you look at this. This is to me what
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Speaker 1: the World Cup is supposed to be. It's drinking all
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Speaker 1: the beer in Boston. It's going up the escalator like
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Speaker 1: you're rowing a boat in where I think I was
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Speaker 1: also in Boston. It's this. It's the women of the
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Speaker 1: World Cup turning their outfits into how sexy Halloween costume
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Speaker 1: like all of that stuff, right, Strangers becoming family because
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Speaker 1: they all happened to buy the same colored T shirt
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Speaker 1: and you came out the other side like spiritually orange.
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Speaker 1: At least for a couple hours. It was pretty cool
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Speaker 1: to see, pretty cool to see. It is the Bean
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Speaker 1: Mallord Show.
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25:38
Speaker 1: A full soccer monologue. A full soccer monologue. Yeah, I know,
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Speaker 1: it's rather rather shocking, rather rather shocking, I understand. And
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Speaker 1: one of my big buddies in the media, he's got
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Speaker 1: give them in trouble. He said that that soccer heavy
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Speaker 1: I was told that was a twenty seven, so that's big. Yeah,
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26:21
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Speaker 1: must be a record, an entire monologue on soccer. Does
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Speaker 1: the militia have MLS monologues in the future. I've always said, Femi,
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Speaker 1: me more money, I will do nothing but MLS and WNBA.
26:48
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Speaker 1: We will get to that. We'll get to that. However,
27:11
Speaker 1: the soccer game just ended a little while ago. The
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Speaker 1: trade of Lamello ball happened before I went to bed.
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Speaker 1: It was announced early in the morning, and Rob the
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Speaker 1: Goltman says, I'm trying to figure out which type of
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Speaker 1: monologue I was wanted to hear late June postseason NBA
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Speaker 1: talk or frickin' soccer. I'm telling you, these guys complain.
27:36
Speaker 1: These guys can plain about everything. Not a Burger rights
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Speaker 1: in and says Team USA decided to take a page
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Speaker 1: out of the NBA playbook and have a load management night.
27:44
Speaker 1: Everybody knows it is critical for preservation, and Tatum and
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Speaker 1: Halliburton were faking it all of last year. Yeah, nature
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Speaker 1: boy says, momentum does not exist. That is true, not
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Speaker 1: in sports. In life, momentum exists, but not in sport.
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Speaker 1: That's it. The Baltimore Freeloader account writes. In says a
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Speaker 1: media freeloader account says he between the wonderful soccer reads
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Speaker 1: and the unbelievable NBA life effort from Team USA, he says,
28:20
Speaker 1: it's been a great hour one already. However, the prices
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Speaker 1: of the tickets to get in for over two thousand
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Speaker 1: dollars seemed a bit high. Does that include all you
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Speaker 1: can eat and drink. I do not believe. So, yeah,
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Speaker 1: you imagine spending two grand on a ticket and having
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Speaker 1: the Team USA coach spit a giant loogie in your
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Speaker 1: face and saying we're gonna rest our guys. And this
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Speaker 1: is so, this is how invasive this species is. I
28:47
Speaker 1: was actually texting a friend of mine. I was watching
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Speaker 1: the game, and there's not a lot going on most
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Speaker 1: of these soccer games, so you can really get in
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Speaker 1: some good text conversations. So I was texting the buddy
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Speaker 1: of mine. We were like, man, you imagine there's people
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Speaker 1: that this could be their only World Cup they ever
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Speaker 1: go to, and the Team USA is resting nine backups
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Speaker 1: played for Team USA. It's like, it's just what are
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Speaker 1: you doing? And they everyone's been brainwashed and mesmerized and
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Speaker 1: hypnotized over the last ten years or so, they just
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Speaker 1: accept it. You're like, Okay, well that's fine, really, that's fine.
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Speaker 1: In what world? In what world? Is that fine? My god?
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Speaker 1: All right, let's seear Michael from Tulsa writes in and says,
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Speaker 1: bend the USA allowing the last minute goal against Turk
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Speaker 1: E or whatever it is. I was almost like watching
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Speaker 1: my Spurs blow a twenty nine point lead in the
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Speaker 1: NBA Finals in the sense that I reamed a gigantic
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Speaker 1: f bomb, probably audible from the houses nearby. So he says,
29:58
Speaker 1: there you go, Alf, the alien opiner is demanding a
30:01
Speaker 1: pickleball mallar monologue. He would like to have that content,
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Speaker 1: a nice pickleball monologue. And all we need is another pandemic.
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Speaker 1: Remember during the pandemic, we did marble racing. That was
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Speaker 1: cool a number of years ago, some great marble racing.
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Speaker 1: eenie meany miney mo. Let's say hello to what do
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Speaker 1: we have? Tony in the Bay Area? Isn't the leadoff? Here?
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Speaker 1: Hello Tony?
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Speaker 3: What a crowd? David Vasse? Can you close your mouth?
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Speaker 3: I don't like that smell speaking at Dick's. Aaron Rodgers
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Speaker 3: is here, and Ben, what did I ask Bridget to Midget?
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Speaker 1: I don't know what you asked, your friend?
30:44
Speaker 3: How deep is your love?
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Speaker 1: Is your love?
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Speaker 3: How deep beas you love? Thanks? Ben?
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Speaker 1: All right, here you go, We're off to a great start.
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Speaker 1: That's Tony in the Bay Area. Geez, Let's say hello
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Speaker 1: to any meani miney. Let's go to Mike in Vegas
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Speaker 1: v BA Las Vegas, v BA Las Vegas.
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Speaker 3: Hello Mike in Vegas, Viva Las Vegas. Well what gradecious guests.
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Speaker 3: The people from Turkey A are not wanting to say
31:16
Speaker 3: Turkey because it sounds too American and it's a holiday bird.
31:21
Speaker 3: Well guess what. There's a national food chain that will
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Speaker 3: be selling turkey A during Thanksgiving, and another national food
31:32
Speaker 3: store I'm not going to say Whole Food's name, that
31:35
Speaker 3: will be selling turkey as by the pound. So screw
31:39
Speaker 3: you Turkey for taking a slap at our country. And
31:44
Speaker 3: screw you again, Turkey. And one thing about why a
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Speaker 3: lot of our American players were load managing. They have
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Speaker 3: those infamous yellow cards, and some of them had one,
31:58
Speaker 3: and if they get a second one, they don't get
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Speaker 3: to play in the next round. So, as I was listening,
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Speaker 3: not that I knew a damn thing about anything other
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Speaker 3: than no, that's about it, But seems like a lot
32:14
Speaker 3: of fun, drink the heck out of Boston. Have a
32:18
Speaker 3: great walk down Kansas City, and great for the stadium
32:24
Speaker 3: that's not so far. It's called Los Angeles Stadium, Kansas Stadium,
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Speaker 3: Mexico Stadium, and so on and so forth. But take
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Speaker 3: the money from the consumer, and let's try to have
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Speaker 3: some good fun and maybe we'll light We'll have lightning
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Speaker 3: in the bottle and the United States team will go
32:44
Speaker 3: far ben.
32:45
Speaker 1: And all right, so let me before zoo. All right, Mike,
32:50
Speaker 1: I appreciate it. There you go as far as the
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Speaker 1: whole yellow card excuse, and I do call it an excuse.
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Speaker 1: You're telling me you can't play without getting a yellow card.
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Speaker 1: It's impossible to play. Is that I'm supposed to believe here?
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Speaker 1: I mean, you're that. Come on, seriously, you're buying that.
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Speaker 1: That's a that's a cop out. It's it's load management.
33:07
Speaker 1: You know, it's load management. That's what it is. Let's
33:10
Speaker 1: call it what it is. You don't need to dress
33:11
Speaker 1: it up or anything like that, and just you know,
33:13
Speaker 1: kind of go with it. So that's it. What else
33:18
Speaker 1: do we have to see? Page down? Can't I can't
33:23
Speaker 1: read that. I did see this. This seems rather odd
33:25
Speaker 1: to me. I'm not a big jewelry guy. I know
33:27
Speaker 1: you probably think of me as a jewelry guy, being
33:29
Speaker 1: a middle aged overnight talk to Rose, very big with
33:31
Speaker 1: jewelry that doesn't have a big chain. They called me
33:35
Speaker 1: Bling Bling Benny was my nickname back in the day.
33:38
Speaker 1: So there was an NBA suspect, not a prospect, because
33:42
Speaker 1: a prospect is a suspect and to proven otherwise named
33:45
Speaker 1: Isaiah Evans who was at the He was in the
33:49
Speaker 1: first round of the draft and all that, and he
33:52
Speaker 1: was very excited there. He got all dressed up. He
33:56
Speaker 1: was projected to be the in the first round of
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Speaker 1: the draft and he wore how much jewelry do you
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Speaker 1: think the guy wore to the draft thing? How much
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Speaker 1: jewelry do you think he had on there? That would
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Speaker 1: be four million dollars of jewelry. And my favorite part
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Speaker 1: of the story is he did not hear his name
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Speaker 1: get called. He did not get picked in the first round,
34:23
Speaker 1: even though he had four million dollars of beautiful jewelry
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Speaker 1: on I had a million dollar diamond wallet chain. Well
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Speaker 1: that's the one thing in life you need, that one
34:35
Speaker 1: million dollar diamond wallet chain. He had a three million
34:40
Speaker 1: dollar diamond pin thing that he put on his suit
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Speaker 1: and that was three How is that it's diamond but
34:49
Speaker 1: three million? Man? He played at Duke I blame justin
34:54
Speaker 1: in Cincinnati. Got some of that nil money at Duke.
34:59
Speaker 1: How much. Could you p off a three million dollar
35:01
Speaker 1: diamond pendit thing? Think of a jig? I don't know, well,
35:08
Speaker 1: a starry night in La La Land. A lot of
35:12
Speaker 1: the celebrities or people that think their celebrities showed up
35:16
Speaker 1: at Sofi Stadium, so Star or no Star. I feel
35:19
Speaker 1: like a lot of these people are older now, Like,
35:21
Speaker 1: I don't know, there's a lot social media. There's a
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Speaker 1: lot more people that think they're famous on social media,
35:26
Speaker 1: but they're not globally famous because it's social media and
35:28
Speaker 1: it's not really real. It's all kind of fake and
35:30
Speaker 1: all that stuff. So like, I feel like a lot
35:32
Speaker 1: of these people are older people. For example, the crowd
35:37
Speaker 1: they listed as celebrities. You had Brad Pitt, who was
35:41
Speaker 1: shown on the Fox broadcast several times on the Fox
35:44
Speaker 1: broadcast alongside famous Fight Club co star Edward Norton. Hello Norton.
35:52
Speaker 1: They were there hanging out. The Fox cameras also showed
35:57
Speaker 1: uh Puka Nakua Puko there with Ty Simpson. How about
36:01
Speaker 1: Ty Simpson getting invited to this thing? You had Ashton Kutcher.
36:06
Speaker 1: Does he still own the Grizzlies? At one point he
36:08
Speaker 1: owned part of the Grizzlies. I don't know if he
36:11
Speaker 1: does anymore or not. Jessica Albo was there, Owen Wilson
36:16
Speaker 1: and a few other people I've never heard of that
36:19
Speaker 1: were claimed to be celebrities and the people think they're famous,
36:23
Speaker 1: and to them that people think they're famous, and that's
36:26
Speaker 1: absolutely wonderful way to go. There were some political hacks
36:30
Speaker 1: there as well, so a little bit of this. Even
36:34
Speaker 1: Paris Hilton, she's definitely not famous anymore, right, Can we
36:36
Speaker 1: all agree Paris Hilton's no longer famous? I mean she's
36:39
Speaker 1: kinda still famous. Nah, not famous. She was famous in
36:43
Speaker 1: the nineties, right, that's thirty years ago. There's no way
36:46
Speaker 1: she's famous now. She was making music in the two thousands. Yeah,
36:51
Speaker 1: but that's even that's twenty years ago, the early parts
36:53
Speaker 1: of the two thousands, right, Jessica Alba was famous, but
36:57
Speaker 1: she's not as famous as she was. Who else do
36:58
Speaker 1: we have? I mean, there's a bunch of people. Is
37:01
Speaker 1: Dodger Pitcher Tyler Glass now famous? He was there? Who
37:04
Speaker 1: does he exactly? He was listed as one of the
37:07
Speaker 1: famous famous people. Secret Lives of Mormon Secret Lives of
37:12
Speaker 1: Mormon Wives. This one of the stars was there as well.
37:16
Speaker 1: Is that person I even know what that is. Is
37:19
Speaker 1: that a thing? By the way, maybe I made that up.
37:20
Speaker 1: I just saw it. That might do something I made up,
37:22
Speaker 1: But I don't think I made it up. It's it's
37:24
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37:29
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38:24
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40:04
Speaker 1: Who am I? That is the question. What is the answer?
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Speaker 1: Let's see does anyone know the answer? Rob the goat
40:10
Speaker 1: Man says Robbie the birthday blob is the answer. Femi
40:18
Speaker 1: in Minnesota's going with Paris Hilton Pato. Who I think
40:24
Speaker 1: weed Man now has learned your name? Perrito, I think
40:27
Speaker 1: he's learned your name. He's going with John Elway. Very funny.
40:31
Speaker 1: What else? Chris Gwinn from DJ Spin in San Diego
40:36
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40:39
Speaker 1: years ago. Don't tell anyone though, DJ Spin malor prop
40:44
Speaker 1: guys going with Bling Bling Benny as his answer. Robbie
40:48
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40:51
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41:00
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Speaker 1: his generation doesn't know who Paris Hilton is not famous?
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Speaker 1: All right, do you have an answer, Lorraine? I'm gonna
41:15
Speaker 1: go with Michael Angelo. Michaelangelo, great quarterback for many many years,
41:19
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41:23
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