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Hour 3 - You've Got to Be Kidding · The Ben Maller Show

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Speaker 2: here now. Jason Kidds says the Luka Doncik trade to
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Speaker 2: the Lakers is being compared to Babe Ruth and the
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Speaker 2: Red Sox Yankees trade. He says, it's kind of cool.
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Speaker 2: How do you decode this one? And we'll go to football.
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Speaker 2: How did you grade justin Field's response the chatter about
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Speaker 2: with this being Masters week, we'll go to golf. Should
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Speaker 2: the PGA tour at a shot clock? It's actually a
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Speaker 2: question of whether or not they should do that. We'll
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Speaker 2: talk about that and more right now here. It is
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Speaker 2: our number three. You gotta be kidding, You've gotta be kidding.
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Speaker 2: Be so our lead this We're gonna go back to
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Speaker 2: the story that we talked about earlier. There's a new
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Speaker 2: angle to it and our lead is from pro bouncy Ball.
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Speaker 1: Yet again.
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Speaker 2: Luca put up forty five points. Lakers trailed in the
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Speaker 2: fourth quarter.
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Speaker 1: They trailed against the Mavericks.
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Speaker 2: But they didn't win the game. They did come back
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Speaker 2: to win the game. One of the stories that everyone's
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Speaker 2: talking about. It's a bit of a sidebar, but it's.
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Speaker 1: The words words. Use your words of.
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Speaker 2: Jason Kidd, the Maverick coach Jason Kidd, who raised some
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Speaker 2: eyebrows with his commentary on the situation on involving Luke.
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Speaker 1: So if you didn't hear what he said, perhaps not.
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Speaker 2: Jason Kidd told reporters that some some are comparing Luka
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Speaker 2: the trade the Mavericks made with the Lakers, which really
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Speaker 2: wasn't a trade. He said, Jason Kidd that they've compared
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Speaker 2: it to the Babe Ruth trade. And then Kid said,
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Speaker 2: which is kind of cool. He said, it's kind of cool,
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Speaker 2: referring to the infamous decision to sell Babe Bruce contract.
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Speaker 2: The Red Sox made that decision to the Yankees in
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Speaker 2: nineteen twenty for one hundred thousand dollars in cash.
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Speaker 1: So let us discuss the question.
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Speaker 2: Jason kidds saying that Luka Huka Luca's trade from the
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Speaker 2: Mavericks to the Lakers being compared to Babe Ruth is
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Speaker 2: quote kind of cool.
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Speaker 1: So how do you decode this one?
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Speaker 2: I've got Fumblruski, Roger Clemens, and hemorrhoids, and we will
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Speaker 2: combine all of these things together and attempt to not
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Speaker 2: be the ghost at the feast. We're going to try
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Speaker 2: not to be the ghost at the feast, all right, So,
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Speaker 2: first of all, does this not sound awkward?
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Speaker 1: Am I the only one. Am I the only one
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Speaker 1: in the room where this sounds like.
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Speaker 2: I don't think it's awkward, but what he's talking about
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Speaker 2: it's awkward.
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Speaker 1: It is awkward. Let me explain.
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Speaker 2: It's red meat in the lions Den or red meat
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Speaker 2: at the Kidny table, because well, publicly, the narrative has
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Speaker 2: been that Jason Kidd was not involved in the decision
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Speaker 2: making process and was informed of the trade only after
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Speaker 2: it had been almost complete, so it was like the
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Speaker 2: eleventh hour, and then Jason Kidd they told them about
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Speaker 2: it privately. There have always been murmurs since the trade
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Speaker 2: went down that there was something else going on. A
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Speaker 2: mirror universe, if you will, mirror mirror on the wall,
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Speaker 2: an alternative reality in which Jason Kidd had high ranking
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Speaker 2: conversations with Nico Harrison and actually advocated that something needed
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Speaker 2: to change with Luke. Now, maybe not a trade.
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Speaker 1: But he wasn't happy with Luca and all that stuff.
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Speaker 2: Now that aside, looking at the Babe Ruth trade, we
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Speaker 2: don't know the outcome if you do a side by
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Speaker 2: side comparison with Lucature, we don't know how this is
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Speaker 2: going to turn out. Luca he could go out and
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Speaker 2: just fall off the Wagon, but the Red Sox if
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Speaker 2: you go back to that time in nineteen twenty, the
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Speaker 2: guy that owned the Red Sox was a theatrical producer
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Speaker 2: and there was a lot of money in that back
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Speaker 2: in those days. But he was also about to go
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Speaker 2: bankrupt because of things that were going on outside of baseball.
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Speaker 1: But he had problems in baseball too. He bought the
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Speaker 1: Red Sox.
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Speaker 2: I've read a couple of books about this because I'm
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Speaker 2: a loser, and so this guy bought the Red Sox.
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Speaker 1: In like four years early in nineteen sixteen, I think
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Speaker 1: it was.
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Speaker 2: But he bought it with borrowed money, which is always
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Speaker 2: a bad thing with somebody, even going back then one
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Speaker 2: hundred plus years ago, when you buy something with borrowed money,
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Speaker 2: it means you likely don't have enough money for running
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Speaker 2: a business to pay for the people in the business.
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Speaker 1: And so he was having all kinds of problems. The
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Speaker 1: debt was skyrocketing. So he sold Babe Ruth the Biggest Star.
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Speaker 2: For one hundred thousand now in today's money, that would
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Speaker 2: be one point five million dollars in today's money. And
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Speaker 2: he also got a three hundred thousand dollars loan from
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Speaker 2: the guy that.
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Speaker 1: Owned the Yankees at the time, and that helped pay
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Speaker 1: the mortgage.
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Speaker 2: He would have gone bankrupt on Finway Park. Imagine, well,
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Speaker 2: back then it was just a normal ballpark. Nobody said, well,
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Speaker 2: it's kind of stupid they had that green wall now
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Speaker 2: and now it's revered. It's been around forever. But the
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Speaker 2: Red Sox also claimed at the time, much like the
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Speaker 2: Luca trade, if you go back and you read the
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Speaker 2: books about it, the Red Sox knew that Babe Ruth
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Speaker 2: was popping. Baseball was a big thing in an American,
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Speaker 2: big thing in Boston at that time. So they claimed
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Speaker 2: they traded Babe Ruth because he was out of control
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Speaker 2: on the field. He was womanizing, he was drinking too much,
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Speaker 2: and he had a major issue with the manager of
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Speaker 2: the Red Sox, this guy named Ed Barrow, I believe
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Speaker 2: was his name. He also had an issue Babe Ruth
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Speaker 2: with the owner. And I didn't know about this until
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Speaker 2: I read one of these dopey books. But Babe Ruth,
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Speaker 2: you know, he actually briefly retired from the Red Sox.
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Speaker 2: He was at loggerheads with the owner and he retired
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Speaker 2: from baseball to play golf. It's not a story that's
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Speaker 2: talked about much, but you can look it up.
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Speaker 1: I'm not making enough.
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Speaker 2: He briefly retired to play golf, and that was after
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Speaker 2: I think it was like the year before he was traded,
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Speaker 2: or maybe that offseason before before he was traded. So anyway,
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Speaker 2: get to the point, please, how does this all relate
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Speaker 2: to Luca. So my hypothesis, the Mavericks have done similar things.
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Speaker 2: While they're not saying that Luke is, they're not hitting
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Speaker 2: all those points they are. I didn't hear the womanizing thing,
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Speaker 2: but the rest of it I heard was that, you know,
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Speaker 2: Luca's uncontrollable, he's uncoachable, He's got that I'm better than
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Speaker 2: everyone syndrome and all that stuff, and he is out
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Speaker 2: there partying with the hookah, the drinking and all that,
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Speaker 2: and he's not taking care of himself. Very similar to
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Speaker 2: the playbook the Red Sox used when they got rid
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Speaker 2: of Babe Ruth. All right, so my hypothesis, the Luca
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Speaker 2: Docik trade is trending to be worse than the Babe
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Speaker 2: Ruth trade. Here's why, Right, the Red Sox when they
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Speaker 2: got rid of Babe Ruth, they did it because they
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Speaker 2: had the owner had it to get the money, the Mavericks,
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Speaker 2: the people that are own the Mavericks, the gambling family.
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Speaker 2: They don't need the money. They didn't do this for money.
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Speaker 2: They did it for some other reason. Now the theory
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Speaker 2: is that the NBA medaled somebody from television medal or
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Speaker 2: that Nico Harrison is the village idiot. But either way,
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Speaker 2: it is a fumbbo a fumble Rooskie.
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Speaker 1: Is what it is. It's an unforced error all right. Now.
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Speaker 2: Secondly to the NFL we go, and that is where
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Speaker 2: Justin Fields talk to some reporters this week.
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Speaker 1: He's a quarterback, not a good one.
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Speaker 2: So Justin Field says that he wasn't really comfortable playing
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Speaker 2: as a backup after he was demoted last year, benched
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Speaker 2: in favor of Russell Wilson, and then even after Russ
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Speaker 2: rode the vomit comet, Mike Tomlins like, I.
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Speaker 1: Want nothing to do with this Justin Fields guy. I
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Speaker 1: would rather leave Russ out there. So Fields this offseason
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Speaker 1: joined the Jets. He's a carpetbagger and they're trying to
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Speaker 1: upsell him with the Jets. He got a two year contract.
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Speaker 2: Forty million, not all of it guaranteed. Now, later on
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Speaker 2: when speaking with reporters. Here's where we're gonna get to
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Speaker 2: the meat of the So Justin Fields was asked about
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Speaker 2: the very real possibility that the draft, which is two
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Speaker 2: weeks from today, the Jets will draft a quarterback and
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Speaker 2: that quarterback will be anointed in the on deck circle
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Speaker 2: the quarterback and rating that they'll be ready to go
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Speaker 2: and the baton will be eventually passed to them. So,
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Speaker 2: when asked about that the possibility the Jets would draft
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Speaker 2: the quarterback, Justin Field said, quote, I'm not really interested
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Speaker 2: in rhetorical questions post quote. So how did you grade
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Speaker 2: Justin Field's response about rhetorical questions and the chatter regarding
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Speaker 2: the Jets drafting the quarterback?
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Speaker 1: So I loved it. I laughed my ass off. I
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Speaker 1: hope you did too.
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Speaker 2: What a great testimonial to Justin and Cincinnati and all
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Speaker 2: the other Ohio listeners to the educational process, the professors
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Speaker 2: at Ohio State University. Way to go dot theieboys, dot
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Speaker 2: the I who goofed? I've got to know who goof?
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Speaker 1: Justin Fields pulled.
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Speaker 2: A Roger Clemens Rogers and George's box and misremembered, misremember
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Speaker 2: Justin Field's misremembered the quote from sports cliche dot com,
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Speaker 2: which I have.
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Speaker 1: Been contributed to over the years.
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Speaker 2: Sports cliche dot com they if you look at the
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Speaker 2: page at the very bottom, they have a list of
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Speaker 2: contributors and my name's on there. I have contributed to
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Speaker 2: sports cliche dot com. I have content creator. So a
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Speaker 2: rhetorical question, I assume you learned this at some point.
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Speaker 2: A rhetorical question is asked to make a point rather
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Speaker 2: than get an answer. It's an obvious question, right, obvious question.
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Speaker 2: You're not trying to get an answer. A hypothetical question
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Speaker 2: refers to something that is a what if.
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Speaker 1: And we do a lot of what if, what if
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Speaker 1: this happened? What if that happens? What if? What if?
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Speaker 3: What?
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Speaker 2: We do a lot of that. There's a lot of
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Speaker 2: what if, right, and so that's part of the job.
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Speaker 2: And Justin Fields is overjoyed at the idea the Jets
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Speaker 2: would take a young quarterback to replace him unless he's
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Speaker 2: not unless it makes him want a puke in his mouth.
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Speaker 2: All right, final thought, We are going to golf. That's right,
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Speaker 2: we are going to golf. A whole different ball of wax.
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Speaker 2: We're going to golf. The reason we're going to golf.
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Speaker 2: It's Master's week. Get out the green jacket, Grandma, it's
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Speaker 2: Master's week. It has been said by several snobby golf
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Speaker 2: pundits that one thing needs to change on the PGA Tour,
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Speaker 2: and golf must add something that is out of the
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Speaker 2: playbook of baseball now and basketball, even football has this.
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Speaker 1: Do you know what it is?
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Speaker 2: So the noise, which has been the volume has been
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Speaker 2: cranked up because the Masters are going on this week.
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Speaker 1: But the chatter is that golf needs a shot clock.
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Speaker 2: I said it, that golf needs a shot clock similar
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Speaker 2: to the NBA or a play clock in football, or
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Speaker 2: the pitch clock in baseball. Question, should the PGA Tour
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Speaker 2: add a shot clock?
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Speaker 1: So I'm nodding my head. Yes. You can't see me.
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Speaker 1: My eyes are closed. I'm nodding my head.
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Speaker 2: Yes, in a dark studio, but for some reason, their
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Speaker 2: lights on because it's gonna be on YouTube later.
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Speaker 1: So I'm nodding my head yes.
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Speaker 2: Okay, So anyway, the reason why, and I'm a casual golfer.
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Speaker 2: I'm a casual I golf. I used to golf once
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Speaker 2: a year. Now I'm down to like once every other year.
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Speaker 2: The reason the PGA Tour and these major golf tournament
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Speaker 2: should at a shot clock.
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Speaker 1: Boomtobe, boomtobe. It's a TV show.
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Speaker 2: It is a TV show, and it's got to be
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Speaker 2: rat a tat tat, rat a tat tat. Doing TV,
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Speaker 2: you gotta go fast, much like I try to do
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Speaker 2: this show. You gotta keep it moving, Matt. There's nothing
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Speaker 2: worse in my opinion than watching a TV show or
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Speaker 2: listening to a radio show or I guess now podcasts
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Speaker 2: and it's just dull.
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Speaker 1: I mean, it is the worst of the way. It
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Speaker 1: just blows.
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Speaker 2: Okay, I don't want any part of that. And the
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Speaker 2: problem that the PGA has. They're in the entertainment business
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Speaker 2: and the product sucks in terms of the way that
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Speaker 2: it is broadcast for the rank and file.
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Speaker 1: It just does.
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Speaker 2: Now. I know the purists will say, do not mess
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Speaker 2: with the beauty of the game. Can you imagine how
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Speaker 2: terrible golf would be if they put in a shot clock.
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Speaker 2: The player must examine the green, they must look across
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Speaker 2: the entire hole that they're at.
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Speaker 1: They must gauge the wind finger to the wind.
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Speaker 4: They got to pick the club, They've got to talk
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Speaker 4: to the caddy, they've got to pick their nose, they've
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Speaker 4: got to rub their tucus, and if you take away
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Speaker 4: the shot clock, that becomes unnatural.
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Speaker 1: Yeah. Blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah
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Speaker 1: blah blah blah blah. Yeah, let me tell you something.
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Speaker 2: I watch golf on television four times a year, the
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Speaker 2: four Majors, and typically at the end of every weekend
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Speaker 2: watching golf, I get hemorrhoids because golf is hemorrhoids inducing.
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Speaker 2: The PGA Tour, you realize the average round is between
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Speaker 2: four and a half and five hours, four and a
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Speaker 2: half and five are and you've got these slows on
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Speaker 2: the tour. Now, I don't want to name any names.
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Speaker 2: Let's say the initials are Bryson D.
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Speaker 1: Chambeau. Oh, I guess I gave him his old name,
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Speaker 1: B D. Bryson D. Chambeau. Okay, this guy I think
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Speaker 1: I saw somewhere.
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Speaker 2: I read one of these stories about the I was
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Speaker 2: getting ready for the the golf season, the major season,
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Speaker 2: which begins with the Masters here, and.
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Speaker 1: He takes over a minute per shot, over a minute,
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Speaker 1: and it's very frustrating.
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Speaker 2: Now you're watching and you guse you get enough time,
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Speaker 2: you got to walk around. They don't allow the golf
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Speaker 2: carts and all that. And did you know that they
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Speaker 2: they've attempted to futz around with the shot clock the
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Speaker 2: European Tour, which I don't watch. I didn't read about this,
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Speaker 2: that they had a shot clock of forty seconds. They
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Speaker 2: tested this back in twenty nineteen, way back. I was
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Speaker 2: barely alive in twenty nineteen, but that was pre pandemic,
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Speaker 2: and it did cut the round times a lot like.
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Speaker 1: It chopped them down quite a bit.
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Speaker 2: And the general consensus the arithmetic is one plus one
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Speaker 2: equals too. That faster play translates into more eyeballs on television,
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Speaker 2: and then the trickle down economics means you can charge
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Speaker 2: more for advertise and then make more money, which means.
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Speaker 1: You're happy if you're the broadcast partner.
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Speaker 2: The PGA is happy because they're getting more money and
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Speaker 2: the ratings have gone down.
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Speaker 1: Now, the other thing you can do if you don't.
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Speaker 2: Want a shot clock is just find a reincarnation of
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Speaker 2: Tiger Woods, right, do that, by the way. Spoiler alert,
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Speaker 2: spoiler alert, I did not know this until I started
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Speaker 2: fussing around. Did you realize that professional golf. They already
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Speaker 2: have timing rules that under normal conditions, according to the
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Speaker 2: PGA Tour's pace of Play policy, you get forty seconds.
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Speaker 2: And it reminds me when I was reading about this,
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Speaker 2: it reminds me of baseball, because technically baseball never had
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Speaker 2: a clock, but in the rules they had certain time limits.
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Speaker 1: You were supposed to be in the box and all
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Speaker 1: this stuff.
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Speaker 2: But much like baseball's rules were rarely enforced, golf it's
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Speaker 2: rarely enforced.
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Speaker 1: And one other thing, while we're at it, since I'm
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Speaker 1: on my soapbox.
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Speaker 2: Golf should also allow Heckley. They should allow Heckley. These
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Speaker 2: guys are mister softies. They are the softest, entitled most.
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Speaker 2: I mean, we goof on NBA players and you know
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Speaker 2: NBA players, they've got issues. Everyone's got issues, right, whether
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Speaker 2: it's Ja Morant being saubtoose. He's moved on from fake
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Speaker 2: guns to now fake hand grenades or Molotov cocktails.
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Speaker 1: They've got issues. But golfers are such wooses.
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Speaker 2: That they run and hide from the media. They can't
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Speaker 2: handle any kind of criticism. They're elitist a holes. And
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Speaker 2: how much fun would it be for these mister softies
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Speaker 2: for those of us who are watching the patrons. If
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Speaker 2: you're allowed to make noise and heckle the golfer while
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Speaker 2: they are setting up for.
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Speaker 1: Their shot, how fun would that be? What another layer
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Speaker 2: Bronco Fan, that is uh Bronco Fan.
21:10
Speaker 1: And right back to it we go.
21:12
Speaker 2: What Bill, you didn't mention the malor Riddle of the day,
21:16
Speaker 2: because we are about to pay off this is very
21:19
Speaker 2: valuable real estate. The malor Riddle of the day, and
21:23
Speaker 2: here it is Ozy Gien, a manager with the White
21:27
Speaker 2: Sox and briefly the Marlins. Ozzie Gien says, managing a
21:33
Speaker 2: major league baseball team is easier.
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Speaker 1: Than blank? All right? Uh is uh is? Uh is
21:42
Speaker 1: easier than blank? All right? That is the question. What
21:46
Speaker 1: is the answer? And uh, let's see if anyone in
21:51
Speaker 1: the mall militia knows the answer. Then we have asked.
21:53
Speaker 2: Ben will take some calls as well, but ask Ben
21:56
Speaker 2: coming up and a lot of wild answers, very pop Now,
22:00
Speaker 2: Alf the Alien of Piner and Ferg Dog kind of begging.
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Speaker 1: For these riddles every day, so we did. We used
22:05
Speaker 1: to do it once in a while. Now we do
22:06
Speaker 1: it every day.
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Speaker 2: Late night drug tester, We're probably not going there. Ferg
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Speaker 2: Dog says winning a benny. Managing a major league baseball
22:15
Speaker 2: team is easier than winning a benny, Easier than a
22:19
Speaker 2: dance battle.
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Speaker 1: Guest by Alf the Alien o Piner.
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Speaker 2: Going to be a spokesperson for Taco Bell from Milkman
22:30
Speaker 2: Mike in Colorado making an over easy egg Man, It's
22:35
Speaker 2: tough to flip, says far Out Dave. Easier than going
22:40
Speaker 2: bat blank crazy over chicken Jockey from.
22:46
Speaker 1: A donkey sausage. Interesting answers today. I like the sausage.
22:51
Speaker 1: So the great karen Ka making a rare appearance. Let's
22:54
Speaker 1: see who else do we have?
22:55
Speaker 2: A major chip hazard from the skull king page down
23:02
Speaker 2: Chris and Kent Washington says easier than milking a.
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Speaker 1: Yak is the answer? Who else do we have? Page down?
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Speaker 2: Eke in Roseville, Minnesota says owning a cat is the answer.
23:16
Speaker 2: Super make Ozzie says managing a baseball team is easier
23:21
Speaker 2: than using ship station.
23:24
Speaker 1: Well, we love shipstation.
23:26
Speaker 2: I know you're a big fan. Use it all the time.
23:29
Speaker 2: A good product placement right there.
23:32
Speaker 1: Absolutely.
23:32
Speaker 2: Trucker Joe says it's easier than taking a thirty minute
23:35
Speaker 2: shower like helmet man.
23:40
Speaker 1: Kathy in Madison, Wisconsin is up with us all night.
23:43
Speaker 1: Kathy says easier than Ben Maller fielding calls on his show.
23:48
Speaker 2: Yeah you're not kidding, No, stra Denis says easier than
23:52
Speaker 2: being a Mariner fan every fricking year. But you at
23:56
Speaker 2: least know going in, You know going in those for
23:58
Speaker 2: Denis because you can see the future, much like myself.
24:01
Speaker 2: A distant relative of nos True Damas and friend of yours,
24:04
Speaker 2: no strudenas you know, you know that things are not
24:08
Speaker 2: gonna go well. Didn't the Mariners get the crazy win though?
24:11
Speaker 2: As my guy hit a Randy Rose Arena hit a
24:15
Speaker 2: Grand Slam yesterday. Terry in England says it's easier to
24:20
Speaker 2: manage in the major leagues. Then stop stopping Robbie the
24:24
Speaker 2: Mariner fan from eating.
24:27
Speaker 1: What else do we have?
24:27
Speaker 2: A Gunner says the answer is managing a baseball team
24:32
Speaker 2: is easier, absolutely easier than watching the Minnesota Timberwolves blow
24:36
Speaker 2: a twenty plus point lead in the fourth court of
24:38
Speaker 2: the Milwaukee Bucks and then hiding from the.
24:41
Speaker 1: Malors Show of the Day after.
24:45
Speaker 2: Ricardo says the managing in the major leagues is easier
24:48
Speaker 2: than dealing with blind Scott.
24:51
Speaker 1: That that obviously true, obviously true.
24:53
Speaker 2: All right, Lorrae not do you have an answer? Lorraina
24:56
Speaker 2: the Mallard Riddle of the day. Azygien, former Whites manager,
25:00
Speaker 2: former Marlins manager, said managing a major league baseball team
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Speaker 2: is easier than blank.
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Speaker 5: I think it's easier than growing a garden.
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Speaker 1: Ben grow in your garden. You do not have a
25:14
Speaker 1: green thumb, is that.
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Speaker 6: What you're saying now? It's very, very hard for me.
25:17
Speaker 2: Yeah, also not into cookie.
25:20
Speaker 1: You'd agree, you're not a big cooking I can, though,
25:23
Speaker 1: you can.
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Speaker 6: I kill everything I try to grow though, So that's
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Speaker 6: a no go.
25:27
Speaker 1: Yeah, okay, I got you. Well, that is incorrect, Unfortunately,
25:30
Speaker 1: he turns out.
25:32
Speaker 2: Ozzie Gan, former White Sox and Marlin's manager, recently said
25:36
Speaker 2: that managing a Major League baseball team is easier.
25:39
Speaker 1: Than hosting a sports talk radio show.
25:42
Speaker 7: How about that, Yes, Ozzie and claim that, hey, listen,
25:52
Speaker 7: and my job as a manager was easier than doing
25:56
Speaker 7: a daily talk show.
25:58
Speaker 1: And he's not wrongs, not wrong.
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Speaker 2: I've known a few managers over the years, three managers,
26:03
Speaker 2: and they're you know, it's pretty easy gig.
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Speaker 1: It is, especially now.
26:08
Speaker 2: It's even more more of an easy gig now because
26:10
Speaker 2: a lot of the work's done for you and you're
26:12
Speaker 2: just a middle manager and you're essentially pushing buttons.
26:16
Speaker 1: And that's it.
26:18
Speaker 2: But when you have a daily show, a daily talk
26:21
Speaker 2: show every day, you can.
26:24
Speaker 1: Now.
26:24
Speaker 2: I've always said, like, if you do a talk show
26:26
Speaker 2: every day, there's points in the year where it's anybody
26:30
Speaker 2: could do it, Like there's a big story in the
26:32
Speaker 2: NFL or something like that.
26:33
Speaker 1: But the thing that is different.
26:35
Speaker 2: There's no unlike these lazy NBA players that take nights
26:38
Speaker 2: off and they don't play back to back, and we
26:40
Speaker 2: think they should get a purple heart if they play
26:42
Speaker 2: every game or something like that.
26:43
Speaker 1: Like you do a daily talk show, you got it.
26:46
Speaker 1: It's a grind.
26:47
Speaker 2: It is the day in and day out, and it
26:51
Speaker 2: does make it different. Baseball you do one hundred and
26:54
Speaker 2: sixty two games. You travel on first class planes and
26:59
Speaker 2: trains and automble beiles and all that stuff, state five
27:01
Speaker 2: star hotels, and it varies in comparison. It just as
27:07
Speaker 2: all right, so great, great crup. I'm gonna save that Ozziegan.
27:11
Speaker 2: He's not alone. There was an NFL player We talked
27:14
Speaker 2: about this a while back in the previous episode of
27:16
Speaker 2: the show.
27:17
Speaker 1: For the Detroit Lions.
27:20
Speaker 2: I'm on Ross Saint Brown who said that podcasting, which is,
27:26
Speaker 2: you know, which is a lot easier than live radio.
27:29
Speaker 2: But podcasting is harder than running a route or a route,
27:33
Speaker 2: he said, so, but yeah, side by obviously a podcast
27:38
Speaker 2: that's just a podcast on the weekend, and I've got
27:40
Speaker 2: the radio show during the week and podcasting is so
27:43
Speaker 2: much easier than the live radio show.
27:45
Speaker 1: Not even close, not even close, which is fine.
27:49
Speaker 2: I mean it's not you know, it's a it's I
27:51
Speaker 2: listened to some podcasts, not many, but it's a much
27:54
Speaker 2: easier skill set than doing the live show.
27:56
Speaker 1: It just is. Anyway, Well, we'll.
27:58
Speaker 2: Take some calls, and also we have asked Ben coming up.
28:03
Speaker 2: That's your questions, our answers, And let's say a little
28:06
Speaker 2: to Greg, who's in the Sunshine State.
28:08
Speaker 1: What's going on? Greg? Welcome.
28:11
Speaker 3: If you want a tough job. If you want a
28:13
Speaker 3: tough job, tote bricks around all day, go out.
28:16
Speaker 6: There and be construction worker out there, and we actually
28:19
Speaker 6: do some work.
28:20
Speaker 3: Talk show host show. You gotta shoot your mouth off. Yeah,
28:23
Speaker 3: that's yes.
28:25
Speaker 1: I gotta put up.
28:26
Speaker 2: With losers like you, Greg, I got I gotta put
28:28
Speaker 2: up with a holes like hang up on this loser.
28:30
Speaker 2: I gotta sit here in the middle of the night,
28:33
Speaker 2: all right, middle of the night. I got schmucks like you,
28:36
Speaker 2: losers scum of the earth like Greg and Florida.
28:40
Speaker 1: I don't know how that guy could call the show.
28:42
Speaker 1: He's so stupid moron.
28:44
Speaker 6: I had to dump him.
28:46
Speaker 3: Ben.
28:47
Speaker 2: Let's go to the great Danny DeVito. Now this guy,
28:50
Speaker 2: this guy's got a job too. We pick up trash.
28:52
Speaker 2: That's a real job. I'm like that loser Greg who's
28:55
Speaker 2: got no I don't even know why he's out there.
28:57
Speaker 2: What a what a moron? That guy is dumb? Hello,
29:00
Speaker 2: Danny DeVito.
29:04
Speaker 3: Ben, the power of the President, the S and P
29:07
Speaker 3: five hundred. I don't know if you're in stock so
29:09
Speaker 3: I think just that thing went four hundred and seventy
29:13
Speaker 3: five points with a minute yet today dollars yesterday? Did
29:16
Speaker 3: you see that? How about?
29:18
Speaker 2: Yeah? Well, one thing I do have, Danny, I do
29:21
Speaker 2: have some investments in Wall Street.
29:23
Speaker 1: But I I one thing. It's I treat the stock
29:26
Speaker 1: market like I treat social media. I check in with it,
29:30
Speaker 1: but I don't monitor every minute because I'll go crazy.
29:35
Speaker 1: I don't do it.
29:36
Speaker 3: Yeah, I'm starting to, Ben, I'm starting to because the
29:39
Speaker 3: gambling is good, but I'm trying to invest my cash
29:42
Speaker 3: in the market now. I'm trying to to get away
29:45
Speaker 3: from the gambling.
29:46
Speaker 2: It's better and uh, you know there are you know
29:48
Speaker 2: I I you know you should never take advice, ever
29:53
Speaker 2: from financial advice from an overnight talk shows, but I
29:56
Speaker 2: recommend you find those stocks that pay dividends.
30:00
Speaker 1: That's the way to go. Man, that's the Yeah.
30:01
Speaker 3: I was told that. I was told that by a
30:04
Speaker 3: couple of different people, exactly right.
30:06
Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean there's some that there's some that are
30:08
Speaker 2: relatively affordable that will pay a little bit, that's the
30:11
Speaker 2: way to go.
30:12
Speaker 1: And there's others that are you know, the rock solid.
30:15
Speaker 2: They don't really pay dividends. And so that's just my
30:18
Speaker 2: my ten cents.
30:20
Speaker 1: Yeah.
30:21
Speaker 3: And uh, Kevin Durant, I want to ask you about
30:23
Speaker 3: this guy, Kevin Durant. Uh this is uh my own
30:27
Speaker 3: personal opinion. If he never joined the Warriors, he would
30:31
Speaker 3: have done nothing right or won nothing in that league. Right,
30:35
Speaker 3: are you on board with that? Kevin Durant has done nothing? Uh,
30:38
Speaker 3: Ben Ever since he left the Warriors.
30:42
Speaker 2: Every yeah, everywhere Durant's gone, there's been a malfunction other
30:47
Speaker 2: than Golden State.
30:48
Speaker 1: But he wasn't to be fair with the Warriors.
30:50
Speaker 2: He was.
30:52
Speaker 1: Really good. He was the he was the top player
30:56
Speaker 1: on those Warrior.
30:57
Speaker 2: Teams when he was with Curry and Klay Thompson and
30:59
Speaker 2: those guys, he was the top guy.
31:02
Speaker 3: Yeah, he's a talented player, obviously, but I just think
31:05
Speaker 3: if he never joined that team, he wanted to want nothing.
31:08
Speaker 3: I mean he's joined the best team at the time,
31:11
Speaker 3: that was the best team, and he gets joined.
31:13
Speaker 1: The that's his resume. That's there. He'll never outlive that, right,
31:18
Speaker 1: that's the guy's resume.
31:20
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, all right, Ben, I have to get back
31:25
Speaker 2: to work.
31:26
Speaker 1: Get Wow. You see that video justin uh he sent
31:37
Speaker 1: over there. There was a wow. That's wild. It's some
31:41
Speaker 1: funeral in Pennsylvania. They all went down there putting the
31:46
Speaker 1: casket down, the whole the whole ground unloaded.
31:48
Speaker 6: Oh I heard about that and they fell in.
31:51
Speaker 2: Yeah, that's that's that's like a horror thing, right, that's
31:56
Speaker 2: a nightmare situation.
31:58
Speaker 1: I wonder if they opened up. You know.
32:00
Speaker 2: I was driving when I was doing stuff in spring
32:04
Speaker 2: training in Florida on Highway One there. I was going
32:07
Speaker 2: to Port Saint Lucie for a spring training I think
32:09
Speaker 2: it was Port Saint Lucie and there was an accident
32:12
Speaker 2: on the other side of the traffic was.
32:14
Speaker 1: Terrible and a hearst was turning.
32:19
Speaker 2: Left on Highway One and got in a head on
32:23
Speaker 2: accident and the casket came out of the back of
32:26
Speaker 2: the hearse.
32:30
Speaker 1: Now it didn't open, the body fall out, no, the
32:33
Speaker 1: bit like the hearst. The casket didn't know, but it was.
32:39
Speaker 2: I'm thinking, as long as I have my faculties into
32:41
Speaker 2: my last breath, I will I will remember that visual
32:45
Speaker 2: of driving like there's an accident was I wonder what happened?
32:47
Speaker 1: And the boom.
32:49
Speaker 2: May said Paul Bear suffered in this one in Pennsylvania.
32:54
Speaker 2: They had interest through their legs, hands and back and.
32:58
Speaker 1: That is that is. Have you seen the clip on this, Lorene?
33:01
Speaker 1: Have you seen this yet?
33:02
Speaker 5: No?
33:02
Speaker 6: I have not. I need to watch that.
33:06
Speaker 1: Yeah, I'll send it over here can check it out.
33:10
Speaker 1: That's that's Nutso me.
33:13
Speaker 2: Boy, I've been to a few funerals too, so I've
33:16
Speaker 2: never had that as a concern. Like when I've gone
33:20
Speaker 2: to the funeral, I've never thought, well, this is something
33:22
Speaker 2: that could happen.
33:23
Speaker 1: I didn't think that would be the the case.
33:26
Speaker 6: I have a funeral horror story for you.
33:29
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, what happened.
33:30
Speaker 6: I was going to a funeral for a friend of mine.
33:34
Speaker 6: It's just been like ten plus years now. He was
33:38
Speaker 6: a bigger guy. Oh yeah. And the I don't know
33:45
Speaker 6: the I guess you would you call them the grounds
33:46
Speaker 6: Department of the cemetery did not dig the hole big enough?
33:53
Speaker 1: Oh no, yeah, no, yeah, what what did they did?
33:59
Speaker 6: They they oh it was oh no, it was it was.
34:03
Speaker 6: It was bad because like they brought like they brought
34:05
Speaker 6: like shovels and then there's like friends and family that
34:08
Speaker 6: are digging and they're pissed and they're like crying. It
34:11
Speaker 6: was yeah, it was it was rough.
34:14
Speaker 1: Yeah. Well at the at the the Jewish funerals, you
34:18
Speaker 1: get they give you the shovel, you put the dirt
34:20
Speaker 1: on the casket.
34:21
Speaker 2: You know, that's just but that's they've already dug the
34:23
Speaker 2: hole right right, you finished the job. Anyway, It is
34:26
Speaker 2: the Ben Mallard Show. Some hot morbid talk right there
34:30
Speaker 2: for you. Yes, a straight ahead. We're gonna have ask
34:34
Speaker 2: Ben for the rest of the hour, not for part
34:39
Speaker 2: of the hour, for the rest of the hour.
34:42
Speaker 1: We're gonna get to that and we will do it next.
34:45
Speaker 5: Be sure to catch live editions of The Ben Maller
34:48
Speaker 5: Show weekdays at two am Eastern eleven pm Pacific, Bill.
34:51
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34:52
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35:23
Speaker 6: It's now time for time.
35:27
Speaker 1: As Twitter said, is your questions on Twitter?
35:31
Speaker 2: Now?
35:33
Speaker 5: Man?
35:33
Speaker 1: The way we go? It is asked, Ben, your question
35:36
Speaker 1: is our answers to the rest of the hour. Over
35:37
Speaker 1: to the cooperloop for the reading of the questions.
35:41
Speaker 6: All right, Ben, this is a question from Gushi guss Uh.
35:46
Speaker 6: I believe this is a pretty easy one for me,
35:48
Speaker 6: but we'll see you guys. He says, if you could
35:50
Speaker 6: only have one fast food for the rest of your life,
35:53
Speaker 6: what would it be?
35:54
Speaker 1: Raising kings? Next the rata?
35:57
Speaker 6: Oh that is so hard. I love it is not hard. Gosh,
36:05
Speaker 6: dairy queen. What dairy queen?
36:08
Speaker 1: That's the worst answer possible. Cool, go ahead, cool Taco
36:11
Speaker 1: bell that's that's you've always loved taco. That's a also
36:15
Speaker 1: loves diarrhea.
36:17
Speaker 6: I have an iron stomach. It does not affect me.
36:20
Speaker 1: You're getting you're getting older.
36:21
Speaker 6: I was I was born in the Taco bellop.
36:24
Speaker 1: You're getting older, all right? What's that got One day
36:27
Speaker 1: you're gonna wake up too, and you're gonna what happened
36:30
Speaker 1: in my stomach?
36:32
Speaker 6: Fern dog, He would like to know. Would you rather
36:35
Speaker 6: be attacked by a shark or a swarm of piranhas?
36:41
Speaker 1: Yeah? So, but definitely piranhas because they're smaller. The teeth
36:46
Speaker 1: do look really crazy. I just like a great white shark.
36:48
Speaker 2: I'm done.
36:50
Speaker 1: Yeah, they rip your arm off, you bleed the death.
36:52
Speaker 1: They rip your leg off, you bleed the death. They
36:54
Speaker 1: eat your head. You're done. What about you?
36:57
Speaker 6: Well, I know the piranhas want to eat me, compared
36:59
Speaker 6: to the dark is kind of actually curious most of
37:02
Speaker 6: the time, and you can push his nose away. So
37:04
Speaker 6: I'm gonna go with the shark.
37:06
Speaker 1: Yeah, you have no good day. Cool.
37:08
Speaker 6: I'm picking the shark for a similar reason. You can.
37:10
Speaker 6: You can try and fight one shark, but if you've
37:13
Speaker 6: got to like swarm a piranhas what he's supposed to do,
37:16
Speaker 6: You're done.
37:17
Speaker 1: I got a lot of hands and leg ya. Next,
37:19
Speaker 1: we're eating the clock. We're eating the clock is what
37:21
Speaker 1: we're doing.
37:22
Speaker 6: All right, late night drug tester, He says, for the crew,
37:26
Speaker 6: I need three more numbers for a powerball ticket? Can
37:29
Speaker 6: each of you give me one lucky number?
37:32
Speaker 1: Uh? Yeah, twenty nine.
37:35
Speaker 6: I was gonna say twenty seven, okay, seven, I was
37:38
Speaker 6: gonna say twenty one, okay, boom.
37:40
Speaker 2: All in the twenties, No chance that happens, but all
37:43
Speaker 2: in the twenties. And if it does happen, remember us,
37:45
Speaker 2: please remember us.
37:47
Speaker 1: All right, what's the next year? It's ask Ben your
37:48
Speaker 1: questions all answers, we claw away.
37:51
Speaker 3: Uh.
37:52
Speaker 6: This one is from Milkman Mike. He wants to know,
37:54
Speaker 6: if you could go back in time, what decade would
37:57
Speaker 6: you like to live in?
38:00
Speaker 1: Oh Man, that's you know, in our lifetime, like the
38:04
Speaker 1: decades we've lived.
38:05
Speaker 6: I say, I don't know, because it says, it says.
38:09
Speaker 6: He says, what era slash decades?
38:11
Speaker 1: So well in my.
38:12
Speaker 2: Lifetime, I guess I would say maybe like the nineties.
38:17
Speaker 1: Yeah, I'd say the nineties. Well what about you, La Raine?
38:21
Speaker 6: Weren't you alive in the nineties, bro?
38:23
Speaker 1: Like No, I was. I wasn't alive in the night.
38:26
Speaker 6: I want to do like Grease times.
38:29
Speaker 1: No, you don't. They don't have toilets like that. They
38:32
Speaker 1: don't have everything smelled.
38:34
Speaker 2: Imagine the body odor, Imagine the body odor around that
38:37
Speaker 2: only crap.
38:38
Speaker 1: There's no deodorant. You don't want to live in those times.
38:40
Speaker 1: No toilet paper.
38:42
Speaker 6: This is the fifties, not I would see if I'm
38:47
Speaker 6: thinking of it the way you're thinking of it, Ben,
38:49
Speaker 6: and I would be staying my same age. I would
38:52
Speaker 6: go back to the nineties for sure, even though I
38:54
Speaker 6: was alive in the nineties. But if I'm going to
38:56
Speaker 6: one that I was not alive in that I did
38:57
Speaker 6: not experience, I picked the sixties.
39:00
Speaker 1: Okay, that's fair enough. What is next? What we got?
39:02
Speaker 6: Donkey sausage would like to know? Crunchy or smooth? Peanut butter?
39:07
Speaker 2: Yeah, I'm fine. You know I'm buy peanut butter. I'll
39:12
Speaker 2: go either way, crunchy or smooth. I guess I lean
39:16
Speaker 2: towards smooth.
39:16
Speaker 6: Lorena, I lean towards crunchy.
39:18
Speaker 1: Back, Okay, you're an animal. What about your cool?
39:21
Speaker 6: If I'm making a PEB and J, it's got to
39:23
Speaker 6: be smooth. But if I'm like melting some on top
39:26
Speaker 6: of ice cream, crunchy.
39:28
Speaker 1: What's the next? Just ask Ben your questions our answers
39:31
Speaker 1: for the rest of the hour.
39:32
Speaker 6: The king rory, But like, no, did you ever fake
39:35
Speaker 6: being sick to get out of going to school.
39:37
Speaker 1: Oh all the time. Are you kidding me? Come on,
39:39
Speaker 1: Kelly went to school? What about you?
39:41
Speaker 4: The right eye?
39:41
Speaker 6: No, I never did that.
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Speaker 1: Yes, somebody that's where That's what us man do