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  Speaker 1: Well, some nights you're trying to figure out, what should
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  Speaker 1: I talk about? I don't know what to talk about.
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  Speaker 1: This is not one of those nights. Our lead this hour,
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  Speaker 1: don't bury the lead, my man, is from Los Angeles.
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  Speaker 1: That is the scene of the carnage. The once proud
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  Speaker 1: Dodger franchise embarrassing themselves on a nightly basis. It was
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  Speaker 1: game three of the NLCS, the greatest team in baseball history.
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  Speaker 1: The Dodgers taking on the Cheeseheads who invaded SoCal. And
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  Speaker 1: the game started with a bang as Jackson Churrio and
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  Speaker 1: the Brew Crew trying to extend their lead over Shohei
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  Speaker 1: Otani and the Dodgers. You had professional golfer John Smoltz
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  Speaker 1: moonlighting as a baseball commentator. And Joe Davis, they had
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  Speaker 1: the call on Fox. Did you watch?
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  Speaker 4: You did?
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  Speaker 2: Okay, good. Maybe you missed it.
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  Speaker 1: I didn't know what else you were doing. It's none
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  Speaker 1: of my business. The great Jake Bowers. Jake Bowers and
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  Speaker 1: Garrett Mitchell went ding to the dong, ding to the dong,
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  Speaker 1: back-to-back jacks off that fraud Blake Snell as Milwaukee regained.
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  Speaker 2: The lead in the seventh inning.
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  Speaker 1: And the Brewers... Did not let it go. And they
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  Speaker 1: end up stomping the Dodgers out like a cigarette on
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  Speaker 1: the sidewalk. 6-2 in the game on Wednesday night. So
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  Speaker 1: that means the fat lady is warming up right now.
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  Speaker 1: The big obese woman is warming up. It's a 3-0
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  Speaker 1: series lead in the NLCS for the boys from Wisconsin.
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  Speaker 1: The Dodgers had taken a 2-1 lead in the sixth
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  Speaker 1: inning last And they gave the ball back to their ace.
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  Speaker 1: How'd that turn out? So the loss pushing the Dodgers
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  Speaker 1: to the brink of elimination. Brink of elimination. Game four
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  Speaker 1: will be Thursday. They moved the playoff schedule around because
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  Speaker 1: of bad weather in Cleveland. Hard to believe you get
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  Speaker 1: bad weather in Cleveland in October. Who could have seen that? Anyway,
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  Speaker 1: so the Dodgers will play the Brewers in game four.
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  Speaker 1: That should be it. Dodgers look like they've pretty much
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  Speaker 1: given up here. And so the Brewers can become the
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  Speaker 1: first major league club. to complete a postseason sweep after
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  Speaker 1: getting swept by the same opponent the previous postseason. Of course,
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  Speaker 1: how many times have teams matched up in a similar situation?
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  Speaker 1: The better story, though, is in the losing locker room.
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  Speaker 1: Dave Roberts' Dodgers are sinking into the La Brea Tar
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  Speaker 1: Pits as we speak. That is a good jumping-off point.
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  Speaker 1: Let us discuss. And let's start out on the mound.
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  Speaker 1: A lot of people focusing on the offense. We'll work
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  Speaker 1: our way to the offense in a minute. But let's
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  Speaker 1: start out on the mound. So the question, what percentage
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  Speaker 1: of the blame, what percentage of the blame for the
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  Speaker 1: latest Dodger loss goes to Blake Snell? So I've got
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  Speaker 1: Buka DiBepo, Hasbro, and a Phillips screwdriver. And we will
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  Speaker 1: combine all of these things together. And we are going
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  Speaker 1: to make some eyewash, which is what the Dodgers basically
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  Speaker 1: are tossing out, eyewash.
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  Speaker 2: That's it.
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  Speaker 1: So using the very complex, time-tested method of Malheur math,
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  Speaker 1: which is not actual math. It's Malheur math. When you
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  Speaker 1: use Malheur math, you're never wrong. You're never wrong. The
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  Speaker 1: great unwashed cannot question Malheur math. It's a bit of
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  Speaker 1: a stab in the dark, but we do talk radio
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  Speaker 1: at night. So using Malheur math, the percentage of the
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  Speaker 1: blame for the latest Dodger loss goes on Blake Snell.
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  Speaker 1: That would be 75% of this disaster theater. is on
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  Speaker 1: that weasel Blake Snell on the mound. I tried to
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  Speaker 1: tell you. I tried to warn you. You guys wouldn't listen,
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  Speaker 1: and you deserve every suck-bag performance by this loser, Blake Snell. Now,
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  Speaker 1: the Dodgers' offense was lousy, but they handed their $ 36. 4
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  Speaker 1: million supposed ace, leader of the pack, the baseball, with
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  Speaker 1: a lead in the late innings. His job, protect the lead.
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  Speaker 1: Don't turn the mound into an all-you-can-eat meatball buffet, and
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  Speaker 1: that's exactly what he did. as this is the demo
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  Speaker 1: tape for Blake Snell to get a job in a
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  Speaker 1: kitchen at Buca di Beppo. As he was up against
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  Speaker 1: a no-name, Milwaukee's Robert Gasser made, I believe he makes
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  Speaker 1: the minimum salary in baseball, which is still a lot
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  Speaker 1: of money, $ 800, 000, but it's not $ 36. 4 million per year,
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  Speaker 1: and he outpitched Blake Snell. So you get paid like
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  Speaker 1: a Terminator, Blake Snell. You get paid Terminator money, and
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  Speaker 1: you went out there and pitched like a Roomba that
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  Speaker 1: was malfunctioning.
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  Speaker 2: Congratulations. Way to live up to your end of the bargain.
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  Speaker 1: So the Dodgers, they thought for some reason, because there
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  Speaker 1: were some idiots over there, that they were getting a
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  Speaker 1: Holy Terror.
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  Speaker 2: They got a Holy Cannoli instead.
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  Speaker 1: And the thing that is the most maddening, and I've
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  Speaker 1: been complaining from the bully pulpit, for a long time
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  Speaker 1: about this. The Dodgers coddle these guys, especially Blake Snell.
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  Speaker 1: They treat Blake Snell like a priceless Fabergé egg, and
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  Speaker 1: they did it all summer, managed the workload. They tossed
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  Speaker 1: him on silk pillows. They gave him room service, the
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  Speaker 1: whole thing, and I said, no, no, no, don't worry.
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  Speaker 1: We know what we're doing here. We want this guy
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  Speaker 1: in October. We want him there. Well, it turns out
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  Speaker 1: the Fabergé egg, well, it just was an overpriced omelet.
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  Speaker 1: So the nerd's master plan. was to unleash their secret
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  Speaker 1: weapon in October. That's why they didn't need Blake Snell
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  Speaker 1: during the regular season. Well, that secret weapon, it turned
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  Speaker 1: out to be, instead of a supersonic nuclear warhead, it
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  Speaker 1: turned out to be a super soaker. Now, nobody in
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  Speaker 1: the L.A. media has the balls, or the baseball media
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  Speaker 1: for that matter, to call out Blake Snell. who has
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  Speaker 1: been sold falsely as a North Star. He's not that.
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  Speaker 1: The last four playoff starts for Blake Snell as a Dodger.
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  Speaker 1: The last four playoff starts. The Dodgers record, 0-4. Blake
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  Speaker 1: Snell's earned run average, his last four playoff starts in
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  Speaker 1: Dodger blue, 6.33. There she blows. There she blows.
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  Speaker 2: Blake Snell.
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  Speaker 1: That is not an ace. That is a recurring nightmare
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  Speaker 1: with direct deposit. So there you go. Pay him $ 36. 4
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  Speaker 1: million to go out there and ride the vomit comet
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  Speaker 1: on the mound in the playoffs. Total fraud. And all
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  Speaker 1: these suck-ups like David Vasse and those guys that were
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  Speaker 1: defending Blake Snow. The guy's a fraud. He's always been
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  Speaker 1: a fraud. He'll always be a fraud. All right, now,
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  Speaker 1: turning the page to the Dodgers offense. We're just warming up.
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  Speaker 1: We are just warming up. So how much of the
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  Speaker 1: many problems for the Dodgers' offensive disaster this postseason belongs
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  Speaker 1: to the one and only Shohei Otani? So some will say, well,
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  Speaker 1: he's only one guy out of nine. You can't put
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  Speaker 1: too much of the blame on him. I say bullpucky.
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  Speaker 1: That's what I say. You see, Otani is the tip
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  Speaker 1: of the big blue pyramid. Everything goes through him. He's
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  Speaker 1: the center of the universe. And Dave Roberts went out there.
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  Speaker 1: They tried to shuffle the deck a little bit. They
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  Speaker 1: didn't have the balls to bench Ohtani. He deserved to
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  Speaker 1: be benched. They can't do it because they make too
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  Speaker 1: much money off the merch. So they had to leave
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  Speaker 1: him in the lineup. And Roberts shuffles the deck. And
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  Speaker 1: somehow every card he's played. is a joker. One joker
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  Speaker 1: after another. For example, Dave Roberts moved Shohei Ohtani to
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  Speaker 1: the sixth spot in the lineup. I guess he really
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  Speaker 1: liked him in that spot. Well, congratulations, Dave. You found
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  Speaker 1: the perfect spot for Shohei. Right in the middle of
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  Speaker 1: an offensive landfill. The international sensation. The face of baseball nation.
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  Speaker 1: And all he got was a slap single. Whoop-dee-damn-do. Whoop-dee-damn.
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  Speaker 1: We can't rip him. No, no, it's not his fault.
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  Speaker 5: Okay.
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  Speaker 2: You just wait until the Dodgers lose here.
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  Speaker 1: You're going to hear 8,000 excuses on how this guy's
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  Speaker 1: hurt and that guy's hurt. Load of bull crap.
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  Speaker 2: Is warming up right now for the Dodgers.
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  Speaker 1: Now, the Brewer pitchers in this NLCS have turned the
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  Speaker 1: Dodger lineup into a Hasbro special. Play-Doh. I'm telling you,
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  Speaker 1: these guys go out there, the Brewer pitchers must be
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  Speaker 1: laughing in the clubhouse. It's the Dodger lineups like Play-Doh.
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  Speaker 1: The Brewer pitchers squeeze it, they stretch it, they flatten it,
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  Speaker 1: and then they put it back in that little yellow container.
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  Speaker 1: It doesn't matter how much money you make. And this
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  Speaker 1: is one of the reasons we've ranted and raved about,
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  Speaker 1: you know, salary cap. Some of you idiots who don't
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  Speaker 1: know anything about life think, well, we need a salary cap. Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: No, you don't. This is a great example.
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  Speaker 1: It doesn't matter how much money you make. You still
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  Speaker 1: have to play the games. And side by side, the
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  Speaker 1: Milwaukee Brewers, just based on a spreadsheet, have no business.
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  Speaker 1: And they are kicking their boot up the Dodgers tuckus
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  Speaker 1: right now. And it's a hit and miss game and
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  Speaker 1: all that stuff. And what is that?
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  Speaker 2: What is that?
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  Speaker 1: P.U. What is that smell?
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  Speaker 2: Well, that's the Dodger lineup. The Dodgers, these guys getting.
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  Speaker 1: Paid like Hollywood leading men and performing like unpaid extras.
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  Speaker 2: And they've got so much star power.
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  Speaker 1: That's like the Hollywood Walk of Fame in that lineup.
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  Speaker 1: And they have fewer fireworks than a wet and rainy
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  Speaker 1: night on the 4th of July. And then, to pour
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  Speaker 1: salt on the wound, you got some no-names like Jake
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  Speaker 1: Bowers and Garrett Mitchell, who went biggity-biggity-boppity, as in Big Bopper,
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  Speaker 1: for the Brewers, upstaging these Dodger sluggers. And in Game 3,
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  Speaker 1: the game that was played here on Wednesday night, the
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  Speaker 1: Dodgers batted 154 against Milwaukee pitching. And across this series,
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  Speaker 1: the Brewers have... completely manhandled the dodgers they've scored 53.3
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  Speaker 1: percent more runs in this series they're batting 333 milwaukee
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  Speaker 1: with runners in scoring position half the sign of the
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  Speaker 1: devil and the dodgers are hitting 125 with runners in
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  Speaker 1: scoring position a buck 25 at this rate the only
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  Speaker 1: thing the dodgers will be driving home is themselves when
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  Speaker 1: they're eliminated. And my God, my God. Turns out October
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  Speaker 1: does not accept American Express.
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  Speaker 2: So there you go.
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  Speaker 1: Now, the bad news is, you know, I like the Dodgers. Obviously,
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  Speaker 1: for me, they're going to lose, and that sucks. The
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  Speaker 1: good news is this totally torpedoes the baseball ownership claim
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  Speaker 1: that we have to have a salary cap. Small market
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  Speaker 1: teams like Milwaukee can't compete. Well, good luck on that.
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  Speaker 1: Good luck selling that to dumb people. I'd like to
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  Speaker 1: hear that debate. All right, last word. To the big
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  Speaker 1: picture now. We go to the big picture. Here is
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  Speaker 1: Dave Roberts. Dave Roberts. Now, he was a bit player
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  Speaker 1: on that Red Sox team that came back down 3-0.
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  Speaker 1: He was a pinch runner. Had the most famous pinch steal.
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  Speaker 1: Pinch running steal in baseball playoff history. Here's Dave Roberts.
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  Speaker 1: Let me guess. He's going to say the series is over.
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  Speaker 1: We have no chance to win unless he doesn't say that.
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  Speaker 2: Here's what Roberts had to say. Take a listen.
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  Speaker 1: What are your thoughts now being behind 0-3 but knowing.
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  Speaker 1: From personal experience, a team can come back. Well, it's
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  Speaker 1: really possible. I've lived it.
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  Speaker 5: And I think the thing is that our guys have
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  Speaker 5: been battle-tested, as was that team I was a part of.
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  Speaker 5: And I think the mindset has to be, and teams
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  Speaker 5: have been down before 0-2, 0-3, it's just you've just
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  Speaker 5: got to win tomorrow. And so... it's an elimination game
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  Speaker 5: we've played in a lot of elimination games and we
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  Speaker 5: just got to get a win and we got to
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  Speaker 5: find a way to build some momentum and.
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  Speaker 1: It takes momentum how can you build momentum milwaukee's got
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  Speaker 1: all the momentum momentum momentum oh my god momentum it's
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  Speaker 1: so stupid That's Dave Roberts' way of saying, I have
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  Speaker 1: nothing intelligent to say, so I'm going to use momentum.
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  Speaker 1: By the logic, just look at this logically. So Milwaukee's
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  Speaker 1: got all the momentum, you idiots. So the series is over.
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  Speaker 1: Why would Milwaukee give up the momentum? They own the momentum.
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  Speaker 1: They have all the momentum. The Dodgers have no momentum.
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  Speaker 1: How could Milwaukee possibly give up the momentum? Can the
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  Speaker 1: Dodgers go and buy momentum like they buy free agents?
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  Speaker 1: Will Milwaukee sell them some momentum?
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  Speaker 3: Hmm.
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  Speaker 2: All right.
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  Speaker 1: Now, just big picture for Milwaukee. Any advice, unsolicited advice
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  Speaker 1: to Pat Murphy?
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  Speaker 2: We like him. I wish he was the Dodgers man.
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  Speaker 2: He's good.
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  Speaker 1: Much better than Dave Roberts. Anyway, any advice to Pat
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  Speaker 1: Murphy and the Brewers in the National League Championship Series?
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  Speaker 1: So I will give one piece of advice. The piece
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  Speaker 1: of advice is to keep the tape measure in the
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  Speaker 1: junk drawer and don't start measuring the drapes yet. And
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  Speaker 1: that's how you end up with a garage full of
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  Speaker 1: commemorative National League Championship T-shirts being shipped to Guatemala. That's
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  Speaker 1: how you do it. You're in the driver's seat, but
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  Speaker 1: you have not reached the destination yet. And Pat Murphy
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  Speaker 1: has been playing chess while Dave Roberts has been playing
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  Speaker 1: with refrigerator magnets. I'd rather have the guy playing chess.
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  Speaker 1: And so the Dodgers spent all this money, the greatest
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  Speaker 1: team ever. They built baseball's Death Star team. And the
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  Speaker 1: Brewers are taking it apart with a Phillips screwdriver. That's it.
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  Speaker 1: Phillips screwdriver. They're taking apart baseball's Death Star, turning the
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  Speaker 1: most expensive roster in baseball, dollar for dollar, into a
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  Speaker 1: group of guys waiting for their luggage at the baggage claim.
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  Speaker 2: And they've been.
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  Speaker 1: Waiting for a while, and they don't see it.
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  Speaker 2: They don't know where it is. Maybe it got lost.
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  Speaker 1: So whatever you're doing, Milwaukee, that has turned Shohei Ohtani
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  Speaker 1: into a very expensive... houseplant a decorative houseplant don't get
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  Speaker 1: cute and obviously you don't start buying into everything and
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  Speaker 1: all that but i wouldn't change anything you just keep
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  Speaker 1: doing what you're doing keep getting her done because the
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  Speaker 1: only thing more dangerous than the dodgers is a brewer
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  Speaker 1: team that thinks the dodgers are already dead they're not
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  Speaker 1: dead They're not dead. But you do know, even if
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  Speaker 1: you lose a couple games here, at some point the
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  Speaker 1: Dodgers will toss out Blake Snell. And again, for those
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  Speaker 1: of you a little late, Blake Snell, last four playoff starts.
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  Speaker 1: Dodgers got this guy to be great. He's turned into
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  Speaker 1: Clayton Kershaw. That's not a compliment. That's not a compliment.
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  Speaker 1: He's playoff Kershaw. Yamamoto puked up a game the other day.
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  Speaker 1: So these guys that are supposedly the greatest starting pitchers,
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  Speaker 1: even with bad offense, Starting pitching, not rising up, not
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  Speaker 1: getting it done.
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  Speaker 1: From New Orleans, a follow-up, follow-up to a conversation we
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  Speaker 1: had in a previous episode of.
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  Speaker 2: The Ben Maller Show.
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  Speaker 1: And the follow-up, commentating now on the quagmire.
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  Speaker 2: On the shores of the mighty Mississippi.
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  Speaker 1: We've got Saints quarterback Tyler Shuck, who has backed owner
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  Speaker 1: Gail Benson. who came out swinging, criticizing the pathetic performance
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  Speaker 1: of the Aints, who are off to a miserable 1-4
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  Speaker 1: start to this NFL season. So Tyler Shuck backing the owner.
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  Speaker 1: If you didn't see this, perhaps you missed it. So
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  Speaker 1: Shuck shared the frustration of the owner calling Gale Benson's
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  Speaker 1: public rebuke and demand for accountability, quote, fully expected. Benson
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  Speaker 1: blasting the embarrassing Saints franchise, the three-game losing streak, declaring
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  Speaker 1: their performance. unacceptable and insisting that the fans deserve better.
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  Speaker 2: They deserve better.
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  Speaker 1: Now, head coach Kellen Moore, who was called out by
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  Speaker 1: name by the owner, that doesn't happen very much. Kellen
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  Speaker 1: Moore also agreed, agreed that he's apparently bad at his job.
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  Speaker 1: He agreed with the billionaire owner who got the team
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  Speaker 1: because her husband had it.
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  Speaker 2: He's dead now.
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  Speaker 1: Acknowledging the need for better preparation, coaching and execution. So
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  Speaker 1: apparently everyone agrees in New Orleans agrees the Saints stink
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  Speaker 1: they all agree what a revelation from football nation the
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  Speaker 1: Saints stink all right so that is a good jumping
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  Speaker 1: off point let us discuss the question how much credit
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  Speaker 1: Do you give Tyler Schoch and coach Kellen Moore, so
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  Speaker 1: the quarterback and the coach, for agreeing with owner Gail
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  Speaker 1: Benson that the Saints' performance is unacceptable? All right, so
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  Speaker 1: how much credit? I've got big old Spoonful, kindergarten teacher,
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  Speaker 1: and Leonardo DiCaprio. And we'll put all of these things together,
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  Speaker 1: and we're going to head to a halfway house, which
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  Speaker 1: is where these guys are going to be if they
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  Speaker 1: don't start winning some games there What a can of
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  Speaker 1: worms this is. So number one. Number one.
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  Speaker 4: One, one, one, one, one.
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  Speaker 3: Number one.
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  Speaker 1: Here's they are chasing rainbows and they're not getting what
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  Speaker 1: they want. The pot of gold at the end of
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  Speaker 1: the rainbow. Now we give them absolutely zero, zero credit
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  Speaker 1: for agreeing with the obvious. You don't get brownie points
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  Speaker 1: for admitting that. That the skunk smells bad. We know
• 19:38
  Speaker 1: it's bad, bad, bad, bad, bad, bad, bad. Now, Shuck
• 19:43
  Speaker 1: and Kellen Moore, they gotta swallow the medicine at this
• 19:47
  Speaker 1: point no sugar no no spoonful of sugar no cherry
• 19:52
  Speaker 1: flavor no just a big old spoonful of saints flavored
• 19:57
  Speaker 1: pepto bismol for all the heartburn all the heartburn there
• 20:02
  Speaker 1: this is Really meaningless corporate theater when you peel back
• 20:06
  Speaker 1: the layers. Gail Benson did not ask for a debate.
• 20:11
  Speaker 1: She delivered a verdict. There's no debate.
• 20:14
  Speaker 2: This is not some kind of debate show.
• 20:17
  Speaker 1: She just said her verdict. So Tyler Shuck and Kellen
• 20:21
  Speaker 1: Moore simply acknowledged they received the subpoena. And that's that.
• 20:25
  Speaker 1: What were they supposed to do? Tell the billionaire who
• 20:28
  Speaker 1: signs their checks that she's wrong?
• 20:30
  Speaker 3: No, no.
• 20:31
  Speaker 2: They got to pretend like they're on the same wavelength.
• 20:33
  Speaker 1: That the Saints are actually a well-oiled machine. Yeah, well-oiled machine.
• 20:39
  Speaker 1: This is the easiest layup in the history of corporate America.
• 20:43
  Speaker 1: These are big corporations, these NFL teams. The billionaire says
• 20:47
  Speaker 1: that you stink, and you nod your head and you say, yes,
• 20:52
  Speaker 1: we're working on that nice, rotten aroma that you smell. Yes.
• 21:01
  Speaker 1: This is not accepting responsibility. That is not accountability.
• 21:07
  Speaker 2: You know what that is?
• 21:08
  Speaker 1: That's a parrot. It's parroting.
• 21:10
  Speaker 2: You're parroting is what you're doing.
• 21:12
  Speaker 1: Yeah, that's what you're doing. All right.
• 21:13
  Speaker 2: Now, page two.
• 21:15
  Speaker 1: We go to Houston where Mr. Irrigation's Houston Texans. They
• 21:21
  Speaker 1: are leaving the country. They've got their passports, and they're
• 21:25
  Speaker 1: going to play some football in London. Jolly old London.
• 21:30
  Speaker 1: Marvin Harrison, Jr., wide receiver Marvin Harrison, Jr., a total
• 21:34
  Speaker 1: bust with the Arizona football team, will make his much-ballyhooed
• 21:41
  Speaker 1: Texans debut against Jacksonville. It'll be a tee time in London.
• 21:49
  Speaker 1: And head coach D'Amico Ryans confirming the news. Ryans praising,
• 21:53
  Speaker 1: slobbering all over Marvin Harrison Jr. after his first practice
• 21:58
  Speaker 1: with Houston, saying that Harrison Jr. quickly adjusted to the
• 22:02
  Speaker 1: new team's offense, the terminology, all that. He credited Harrison's preparation,
• 22:06
  Speaker 1: and here's my favorite part, strong work ethic. Strong work ethic.
• 22:13
  Speaker 1: Saying the receiver was able to jump into practice and
• 22:16
  Speaker 1: fit in, quote, seamlessly seamlessly okay close quote question you
• 22:25
  Speaker 1: got coach D'Amico Ryan.
• 22:28
  Speaker 2: Saying that Marvin Harrison Jr.
• 22:30
  Speaker 1: Has made a seamless transition to the Texans what stands
• 22:36
  Speaker 1: out to you about that comment what.
• 22:37
  Speaker 2: Stands out.
• 22:40
  Speaker 1: I guess Harrison in in some ways is high wide
• 22:44
  Speaker 1: and handsome just according to D'Amico Ryans. The NFL is
• 22:49
  Speaker 1: the only place where a player can be an abject
• 22:53
  Speaker 1: failure with one employer for a couple of years, change laundry.
• 23:00
  Speaker 1: and then complete one practice, and voila, suddenly this is
• 23:05
  Speaker 1: a great redemption story.
• 23:06
  Speaker 2: Whoa, way to go.
• 23:08
  Speaker 1: So the Texans, I'd like to let those of you
• 23:10
  Speaker 1: in the back of the room know, and this is
• 23:12
  Speaker 1: quite the revelation, the Texans did not acquire Marvin Harrison Sr.
• 23:19
  Speaker 2: They did not.
• 23:20
  Speaker 1: Unfortunately, they acquired the cheap ripoff, the sequel, which is
• 23:24
  Speaker 1: not the equal.
• 23:25
  Speaker 2: They acquired Jr., a guy that the.
• 23:28
  Speaker 1: Arizona Cardinals could not wait to get rid of, practically
• 23:32
  Speaker 1: putting him on the curb with a free good-to-go sign
• 23:38
  Speaker 1: that was taped on with scotch tape. While Houston thinks
• 23:41
  Speaker 1: it found some kind of buried treasure and all that,
• 23:45
  Speaker 1: teams don't give away premium talent unless the aggravation outweighs the.
• 23:50
  Speaker 2: Production, which is what happened. It's not good. Anyway, here
• 23:55
  Speaker 2: is Marvin Harrison Jr. was asked, why did you suck
• 23:58
  Speaker 2: so much with the Arizona Cardinals? Can you explain that?
• 24:00
  Speaker 2: Let me know.
• 24:01
  Speaker 7: There's a lot of factors, and I think with any situation,
• 24:04
  Speaker 7: you always want to take accountability for yourself, so I'm
• 24:06
  Speaker 7: always going to take accountability on my part and my
• 24:09
  Speaker 7: role that I played in things, but I'm just looking
• 24:11
  Speaker 7: forward to the future now at this point and moving forward.
• 24:15
  Speaker 1: All right, so you want to write to sportscliché. com with
• 24:18
  Speaker 1: that response. My favorite Story about Marvin Harrison Jr. in
• 24:22
  Speaker 1: Arizona was when he was caught with roughly 700 social
• 24:27
  Speaker 1: media videos of him lollygagging around, not playing hard and
• 24:31
  Speaker 1: taking plays off. And then the coaching staff's like, oh,
• 24:34
  Speaker 1: I don't know what you're talking about. And then they
• 24:36
  Speaker 1: were like, I think the coach said he had some
• 24:37
  Speaker 1: kind of different acceleration or something like that, which is
• 24:40
  Speaker 1: really funny. It's so good.
• 24:42
  Speaker 4: Yeah.
• 24:44
  Speaker 1: Anyway, here's Harrison talking about that part of it, the
• 24:48
  Speaker 1: caught red-handed not hustling multiple times while wearing a Cardinal uniform.
• 24:52
  Speaker 2: Here's what he had to say.
• 24:54
  Speaker 7: It's not really an opinion.
• 24:55
  Speaker 4: It's a fact.
• 24:55
  Speaker 7: It's right there. The tape doesn't lie. Even our friend
• 24:57
  Speaker 7: Inca Terror.
• 25:13
  Speaker 1: Blind.
• 25:14
  Speaker 2: Blind Seabass.
• 25:15
  Speaker 1: They saw it.
• 25:16
  Speaker 2: Anyway, Stevie Meatballs even saw it.
• 25:19
  Speaker 1: So despite that resume, a resume of failure, a resume
• 25:24
  Speaker 1: of failure, one practice in and D'Amico Ryans is already
• 25:28
  Speaker 1: handing out gold stars and puffy stickers to his newest player.
• 25:33
  Speaker 1: So what's next? A participation trophy for tying the cleats
• 25:37
  Speaker 1: and getting on the field on time. So D'Amico Ryans,
• 25:40
  Speaker 1: you know what he sounds like? He sounds like that
• 25:43
  Speaker 1: proud kindergarten teacher. Let me tell you, Marvin listened today.
• 25:48
  Speaker 1: He followed directions. He did not chew on the crayons.
• 25:54
  Speaker 1: And he did not wander off during recess. Good job
• 25:59
  Speaker 1: by Marvin Harrison Jr. Way to go. What fascinates me
• 26:03
  Speaker 1: isn't what D'Amico Ryans is saying. That doesn't fascinate me.
• 26:08
  Speaker 1: It's how desperately... He seems to want everyone to believe it.
• 26:14
  Speaker 1: And I know sports fans don't have the greatest reputation.
• 26:17
  Speaker 1: A lot of them are just meatheads, and they don't
• 26:18
  Speaker 1: really have any objective thinking and skills.
• 26:23
  Speaker 2: It's amusing to me.
• 26:24
  Speaker 1: All right, now, final point to the stream. To the stream,
• 26:28
  Speaker 1: to the stream, to the stream. So Netflix, that's a
• 26:32
  Speaker 1: streaming service, they have an Untold series, and they have
• 26:37
  Speaker 1: announced plans for For their next release, it's a sporty documentary.
• 26:43
  Speaker 1: It will be called Untold Wide Deceiver. Wide Deceiver. Say what? Yes,
• 26:53
  Speaker 1: this is going to examine my favorite 49er wide receiver
• 26:58
  Speaker 1: since the great Jerry Rice. Dejon Love, 35 years old.
• 27:04
  Speaker 1: He was doing some cosplay. A little cosplay there. As
• 27:09
  Speaker 1: a 49er wide receiver, and he was able to expose
• 27:13
  Speaker 1: a bunch of money-hungry women who were going for the jock,
• 27:18
  Speaker 1: trying to score the jock. And they were so desperate
• 27:21
  Speaker 1: to get that rich athlete that they overlooked common sense.
• 27:25
  Speaker 1: They said, listen, this is my chance. I might end
• 27:28
  Speaker 1: up having to be married to a plumber or something
• 27:31
  Speaker 1: like that. But here's my opportunity to get a jock.
• 27:35
  Speaker 1: And I don't care if he's not really a jock.
• 27:37
  Speaker 1: I want that money.
• 27:38
  Speaker 3: Money, money, money.
• 27:40
  Speaker 1: So federal prosecutors accusing Dijon Love and an accomplice of
• 27:49
  Speaker 1: stealing approximately $ 1.
• 27:50
  Speaker 2: 3 million from at least 26 women.
• 27:56
  Speaker 2: In four different states.
• 27:57
  Speaker 1: Now, the FBI says an additional 35 women, 35 other
• 28:02
  Speaker 1: women have come forward and said, yeah, yeah, I got
• 28:06
  Speaker 1: some of that skullduggery.
• 28:08
  Speaker 2: Similar allegations.
• 28:09
  Speaker 1: That means that if you do the math, we're talking
• 28:12
  Speaker 1: about over 60 women who fell in for the rich jock.
• 28:19
  Speaker 1: That's how desperate these women were. My God. Now, the
• 28:23
  Speaker 1: FBI says that with all the math and all this,
• 28:26
  Speaker 1: the money, there's more money than just.
• 28:27
  Speaker 2: The $ 1. 3 million. Now, Love, if you remember the story,
• 28:31
  Speaker 2: this is the guy.
• 28:32
  Speaker 1: It's so funny. He'd go around with his 49er helmet
• 28:36
  Speaker 1: in his car, and he'd go work out at the
• 28:39
  Speaker 1: beach with his helmet. You know, because Brock Purdy, when
• 28:41
  Speaker 1: he goes home, he brings his uniform with him when
• 28:44
  Speaker 1: he's driving home. It's just the way you do it.
• 28:47
  Speaker 1: So this guy had all these videos working out on
• 28:50
  Speaker 1: the beach, wearing the 49er helmet and all that stuff.
• 28:53
  Speaker 2: He staged football workouts.
• 28:54
  Speaker 1: He, I guess, rented luxury vehicles to make it seem
• 28:59
  Speaker 1: like he had a lot of money. And it's all
• 29:01
  Speaker 1: been documented on social media from what I've read. And
• 29:04
  Speaker 1: he was able to convince these women that he was
• 29:06
  Speaker 1: a professional athlete when it literally takes five seconds to
• 29:10
  Speaker 1: hop on the Google machine or the AI machine and
• 29:13
  Speaker 1: figure out what's real and what's not.
• 29:16
  Speaker 2: All right, so the question on this one, be completely honest.
• 29:20
  Speaker 1: How badly do you want to watch this documentary just
• 29:24
  Speaker 1: to find out how a fake 49er player allegedly fooled
• 29:30
  Speaker 1: so many women? So let me tell you something.
• 29:38
  Speaker 2: We got to bring in Lee.
• 29:40
  Speaker 1: DiCaprio and Tom Hanks this is the football version of
• 29:44
  Speaker 1: catch me if you can except instead of pretending to
• 29:47
  Speaker 1: be an airline pilot and a doctor this guy pretended
• 29:52
  Speaker 1: to be a wide receiver catching passes the story has
• 29:57
  Speaker 1: a little bit of everything There's romance. There's deception. There's
• 30:03
  Speaker 1: professional football, artificial intelligence, and a guy who allegedly made
• 30:08
  Speaker 1: the 49er roster without ever stepping foot inside the 49er facility.
• 30:14
  Speaker 1: Never had to go through training camp. Never had to
• 30:17
  Speaker 1: do a conditioning test. Just so impressive. So, so impressive
• 30:23
  Speaker 1: that this guy was able to pull it off. There
• 30:25
  Speaker 1: was this old movie years ago called Fletch, which was
• 30:28
  Speaker 1: a guy that did impersonations and pretended to be other people.
• 30:32
  Speaker 1: If Hollywood still had its fastball, and they haven't had
• 30:35
  Speaker 1: their fastball probably 20 years, but if they still had
• 30:37
  Speaker 1: their fastball, this would be such a great movie. Such
• 30:41
  Speaker 1: a great movie. They won't make it.
• 30:44
  Speaker 2: And if they do, it'll be a cheesy movie.
• 30:46
  Speaker 1: But it's got all the material. This is obviously a
• 30:48
  Speaker 1: Netflix documentary, so this is going to be okay. I'm
• 30:52
  Speaker 1: looking forward to it. But this guy was more successful,
• 30:56
  Speaker 1: Dijon Love, at pretending to be an NFL player than
• 31:01
  Speaker 1: actual players have playing football. This guy had more luck
• 31:05
  Speaker 1: with women than the actual NFL players. Think about that.
• 31:10
  Speaker 1: He was able to convince all these women. Now, some
• 31:12
  Speaker 1: of them, the photos, I can't believe how many of
• 31:14
  Speaker 1: these women are like, oh, yeah, I was hornswoggled by
• 31:16
  Speaker 1: this guy. Like, you'd think you'd try to hide that.
• 31:18
  Speaker 1: They're out there trying to get some clout online. And
• 31:22
  Speaker 1: And some of the videos I've seen, these are good-looking
• 31:26
  Speaker 1: people that you would think would not fall for this
• 31:28
  Speaker 1: kind of activity. But they did. And he pulled it
• 31:32
  Speaker 1: off for a while until he got caught using that
• 31:36
  Speaker 1: multibillion-dollar 49er brand for free. And my favorite part is
• 31:43
  Speaker 1: his defense is pointing directly at A.I., And he's like, oh,
• 31:49
  Speaker 1: don't blame me. Take it up with the robots and
• 31:51
  Speaker 1: all that. It ain't my fault.
• 31:53
  Speaker 2: And he showed them AI.
• 31:55
  Speaker 1: He used artificial intelligence to make it seem like he
• 31:58
  Speaker 1: was on the Niners, even though these people could have
• 32:00
  Speaker 1: done their own research. So the 49ers are off to
• 32:04
  Speaker 1: a good start and all that, but forget the 49ers
• 32:05
  Speaker 1: on the weekend. I want to watch the guy who
• 32:09
  Speaker 1: allegedly pretended to be a 49er.
• 32:13
  Speaker 2: That's great.
• 32:14
  Speaker 1: So give me the Super Bowl of impersonation and deception.
• 32:19
  Speaker 1: Now that's a story.
• 32:21
  Speaker 2: That's a hum digger of a story.
• 32:24
  Speaker 3: Be sure to catch live editions of the Ben Maller
• 32:27
  Speaker 3: Show weekdays at 2 a.m. Eastern, 11 p.m.
• 32:29
  Speaker 1: Pacific. Here we go.
• 32:30
  Speaker 2: That's why Odell Beckham is there.
• 32:31
  Speaker 1: All right, now we'll get here. Welcome in, militia.
• 32:34
  Speaker 4: Speaking of winners.
• 32:35
  Speaker 3: Can you handle more Maller mayhem?
• 32:37
  Speaker 1: Ladies and gentlemen. Ladies and gentlemen.
• 32:40
  Speaker 4: It's time now for.
• 32:41
  Speaker 1: Step back. Benny versus the Penny. All right, let's do it.
• 32:44
  Speaker 1: Thursday night kicks off on the Amazon in Denver. Sam
• 32:48
  Speaker 1: Darnold versus Bo Nix, the Seahawks and the Broncos. An
• 32:52
  Speaker 1: all-Western matchup here. And the line on DraftKings is at
• 32:57
  Speaker 1: two and a half. in favor of the road team, Seattle. Now,
• 33:00
  Speaker 1: with some great trends on this, Sean Payton, 33-13-2 against
• 33:06
  Speaker 1: the spread in October the last 15 years.
• 33:08
  Speaker 2: Of course, a lot of that was with Drew Brees.
• 33:11
  Speaker 1: The Seahawks are 7-0 against the spread the week after
• 33:15
  Speaker 1: facing the 49ers the last four years. They've been great.
• 33:18
  Speaker 1: They're also 8-0 against the spread on the road after
• 33:22
  Speaker 1: a home game loss Since the start of last season,
• 33:27
  Speaker 1: I tried to find a reason to take the Broncos.
• 33:29
  Speaker 1: I couldn't find one. I'm going to take Seattle in
• 33:31
  Speaker 1: this game. The only thing I'm worried about is Sam
• 33:34
  Speaker 1: Darnold turning the football over, which is a legitimate concern.
• 33:39
  Speaker 1: A legitimate concern. Sam Darnold, his bugaboo there. Seattle's committed
• 33:44
  Speaker 1: eight turnovers of the last three games they've been sloppy
• 33:48
  Speaker 1: you play like that you lose but the Broncos are
• 33:50
  Speaker 1: beaten and broken their secondary is completely depleted there you
• 33:54
  Speaker 1: know two of their top guys are out. Patrick Sertain,
• 33:57
  Speaker 1: Sertain out. And there's also some guys questionable there. Jackson
• 34:02
  Speaker 1: Smith and Jigba should slice up that Denver secondary there.
• 34:07
  Speaker 1: And Bo Nix sucks. It's not that hard to defend
• 34:09
  Speaker 1: Bo Nix. You just crowd the short passing. That's all
• 34:12
  Speaker 1: he does is throw the ball short. He can't throw
• 34:15
  Speaker 1: the ball deep. and the receivers can't seemingly get open.
• 34:18
  Speaker 1: It's a disaster for the Broncos on offense. He's getting
• 34:21
  Speaker 1: people fired there. So as long as Seattle wins the
• 34:24
  Speaker 1: turnover battle, they'll take it. I'll take Seattle. The penny picks,
• 34:27
  Speaker 1: Koopa Loop.
• 34:29
  Speaker 4: The penny is going with the Seahawks.
• 34:32
  Speaker 1: All right, so we agree.
• 34:33
  Speaker 2: Seattle is the pick.
• 34:34
  Speaker 1: It's Benny versus the Penny every game against the spread.
• 34:53
  Speaker 1: It's now time for... Time for... Hurry, hurry, I can
• 34:56
  Speaker 1: hardly wait. Ask Ben. Twitter. Send us your questions on
• 35:00
  Speaker 1: Twitter now. And the sky is the limit for Ask Ben.
• 35:06
  Speaker 1: Your questions, our answers for the rest of the hour.
• 35:12
  Speaker 1: And over to the Koopa Loop for the reading of
• 35:14
  Speaker 1: the questions for everyone on the show.
• 35:19
  Speaker 2: Here we go.
• 35:20
  Speaker 1: Koopa Loop.
• 35:21
  Speaker 4: All right, I like this one. We're going to start
• 35:23
  Speaker 4: off with JT the Wingman.
• 35:25
  Speaker 1: Oh, I've met him. He's been to a lot of
• 35:28
  Speaker 1: these remote things that we've done.
• 35:30
  Speaker 4: He has, he has.
• 35:30
  Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah.
• 35:31
  Speaker 4: He wants to know, what is a better food ingredient,
• 35:34
  Speaker 4: avocado or jalapeno?
• 35:38
  Speaker 1: Yeah, so I'm not an avocado guy. I like the jalapeno,
• 35:42
  Speaker 1: so I'm going to go team jalapeno on that.
• 35:44
  Speaker 2: A little kick, a little spice.
• 35:46
  Speaker 1: I'm in on that. Never been a big fan of
• 35:49
  Speaker 1: the overpriced avocado. What about you, Marky Mark? What team
• 35:53
  Speaker 1: are you on?
• 35:55
  Speaker 8: I'm not one of the hot mouth kind of spicy person,
• 35:58
  Speaker 8: so I'll go with the avocado.
• 36:00
  Speaker 1: That's a bad job by you. As a hot take guy,
• 36:02
  Speaker 1: I like the hot take. I like the little spice.
• 36:05
  Speaker 1: What about you, Kubalu?
• 36:08
  Speaker 4: I like both, but the correct answer is avocado. It's fantastic.
• 36:12
  Speaker 2: They overcharge you, and I do not want to be overcharged.
• 36:16
  Speaker 4: There's a reason it costs that much, because it's amazing.
• 36:18
  Speaker 2: Well, they don't overcharge you with the jalapeno. They overcharge
• 36:21
  Speaker 2: you with the avocado.
• 36:22
  Speaker 4: Next. FergDog wants to know.
• 36:27
  Speaker 1: Hi, Fergie.
• 36:28
  Speaker 4: By the way, has there ever been a bigger fall
• 36:32
  Speaker 4: off as far as FergDog's Ask Ben questions? That's just
• 36:37
  Speaker 4: a fault. That's a shot.
• 36:39
  Speaker 2: You're taking a shot here.
• 36:40
  Speaker 1: Are you saying he's getting lazy? He's lost his way?
• 36:43
  Speaker 1: That he's in a sophomore slump, although he's in like
• 36:45
  Speaker 1: year 15 listening to the show. He's in a slump?
• 36:47
  Speaker 4: Yeah, his questions used to be great. Like this one.
• 36:52
  Speaker 4: His question is, do you check your horoscope every day?
• 36:55
  Speaker 7: Yeah.
• 36:59
  Speaker 1: I got two letters, N and O. No, of course not. Please,
• 37:05
  Speaker 1: dare you. Mark, you big horoscope guy, check that out.
• 37:09
  Speaker 2: When you read the newspaper.
• 37:11
  Speaker 4: That would be a no.
• 37:13
  Speaker 2: That would be a no.
• 37:15
  Speaker 4: Yeah, big no. Big no.
• 37:17
  Speaker 2: Great question, Fergdog.
• 37:19
  Speaker 1: I know the game, how they do that. People... There's
• 37:23
  Speaker 1: a lot of this in magic.
• 37:24
  Speaker 2: I've studied magic and stuff like that.
• 37:26
  Speaker 1: A lot of it's like people will finish thoughts. You
• 37:29
  Speaker 1: give them vague enough things, and they'll kind of finish
• 37:32
  Speaker 1: it for you. So anyway, what's next?
• 37:33
  Speaker 2: What do you got?
• 37:34
  Speaker 4: I like this one from Alf. Hopefully you can think
• 37:36
  Speaker 4: of one off the top of your head here. Alf
• 37:38
  Speaker 4: the Alien O'Piner wants to know, what is your most
• 37:40
  Speaker 4: recent rabbit hole slash time killer? Like, what did you get?
• 37:44
  Speaker 4: Do you ever get stuck like Googling stuff and then
• 37:46
  Speaker 4: you just fall down and you're reading a lot?
• 37:48
  Speaker 1: Well, what I've done yet again recently is on YouTube,
• 37:53
  Speaker 1: they have all these old episodes of This Week in Baseball.
• 37:56
  Speaker 1: which are completely pointless because it was a weekly show.
• 37:58
  Speaker 1: I used to watch it when I was a kid.
• 38:00
  Speaker 1: And then I ended up in this rabbit hole on
• 38:02
  Speaker 1: YouTube where I just can't watch it enough. Like random
• 38:05
  Speaker 1: episodes from like the late 1980s of This Week in
• 38:08
  Speaker 1: Baseball with Mel Allen, which is a complete waste of time.
• 38:12
  Speaker 1: And I've done a lot of that. What about you,
• 38:14
  Speaker 1: Marky Mark? Any rabbit holes, whether it's YouTube or just
• 38:17
  Speaker 1: Googling stuff?
• 38:18
  Speaker 8: So on YouTube, I've been watching traffic stops and realizing
• 38:22
  Speaker 8: most of America drive around... completely illegal their plates are
• 38:28
  Speaker 8: out their license is suspended yeah they have warrants it's
• 38:32
  Speaker 8: amazing the many traffic stop videos you can watch yeah.
• 38:36
  Speaker 1: And it is shooting fish in a barrel there when
• 38:38
  Speaker 1: you write tickets if you're like a highway patrol officer
• 38:40
  Speaker 1: because everyone's speeding and everyone's on their phone.
• 38:42
  Speaker 8: And people get out and yell at the cop it's
• 38:44
  Speaker 8: like i'm doing my job what are you talking to
• 38:46
  Speaker 8: me for.
• 38:48
  Speaker 1: Yeah yeah that's that's a good one i love when
• 38:50
  Speaker 1: they think they uh they've got all the You know
• 38:52
  Speaker 1: what's really annoying? These people that stand out in front
• 38:54
  Speaker 1: of places and record people. Those people are really a-holes.
• 38:57
  Speaker 1: There's a special place in hell for those people. What
• 38:59
  Speaker 1: about you, Coop?
• 39:01
  Speaker 4: I got lost in a fine dining rabbit hole. I
• 39:04
  Speaker 4: was watching a show about Michelin star chefs and restaurants,
• 39:08
  Speaker 4: and then I was looking up one of them who
• 39:10
  Speaker 4: had a family of Michelin chefs, and then I was
• 39:13
  Speaker 4: reading about her grandfather, and then I just got stuck
• 39:16
  Speaker 4: in this crazy rabbit hole.
• 39:18
  Speaker 2: That's annoying. All right, what's next?
• 39:20
  Speaker 1: It's Ask Ben. Your questions, our answers.
• 39:23
  Speaker 4: OG Art Puffin wants to know, do you possess a
• 39:27
  Speaker 4: real ID, a California real ID?
• 39:30
  Speaker 1: Yes, but only because there's one reason I do.
• 39:33
  Speaker 2: I'm married. If I wasn't married, I wouldn't have a
• 39:34
  Speaker 2: real ID.
• 39:35
  Speaker 1: Who cares about a real ID? I'm married. That's why
• 39:37
  Speaker 1: I have one.
• 39:37
  Speaker 2: Other than that, I wouldn't have one. Marky Mark, you
• 39:39
  Speaker 2: got one?
• 39:40
  Speaker 8: Yes, I had to get one because I went back
• 39:42
  Speaker 8: to Chicago. Before, when I didn't have one, I said
• 39:46
  Speaker 8: they wanted my real ID. I said, I'm traveling within
• 39:49
  Speaker 8: the United States. Why do I need a passport and
• 39:51
  Speaker 8: an ID?
• 39:51
  Speaker 2: It's pretty dumb.
• 39:52
  Speaker 1: Coop, quickly.
• 39:53
  Speaker 4: I don't because I have a passport. I still use that.
• 39:55
  Speaker 1: Oh, okay. Old school. The passport. There it is. Ask Ben.