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  Speaker 1: Thanks for listening to the best of the Ben Mahler
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  Speaker 2: This is the best of the Ben Mahler Show on
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  Speaker 1: So we had some really good feedback, not that that
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  Speaker 1: necessarily matters all that much, but newby Night was a
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  Speaker 1: critically acclaimed, critically acclaimed night of the show, and we're
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  Speaker 1: give out the number in a little bit, and I
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  Speaker 1: know the regulars are excited to be back. However, our
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  Speaker 1: lead this hour from the peak leak, if you will.
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  Speaker 1: The owners tried, they went to court, they tried. It
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  Speaker 1: turns out they failed to keep the NFL Players Association
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  Speaker 1: report cards from becoming public. This was not that hard
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  Speaker 1: to predict. As a distant relative of Nostra Damis and
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  Speaker 1: former friend of Nostra Denis, it was pretty obvious that
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  Speaker 1: this information was going to get into the public sector,
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  Speaker 1: and it did so earlier this month. You might remember
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  Speaker 1: the NFL. This is about a couple of weeks ago.
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  Speaker 1: I think it was a couple of weeks ago. The
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  Speaker 1: NFL won a grievance that, in theory, prevented the NFL
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  Speaker 1: Players Association from publishing the results of the team report
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  Speaker 1: card psych so on c the union leaked at not
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  Speaker 1: just one or two, or three or four or five,
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  Speaker 1: not all thirty two teams letter grades were posted online
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  Speaker 1: for everyone to see. Fun for all ages. So I
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  Speaker 1: don't know if you checking this out, maybe you missed it.
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  Speaker 1: So the team that is con at the very top
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  Speaker 1: of the hierarchy for spoiling their players, the Miami Dolphins,
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  Speaker 1: out about that unbelievable Dolphins top spot among all the
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  Speaker 1: players surveyed for the third consecutive year. Now, if I
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  Speaker 1: own the Dolphins, I would start printing up shirts. I'd
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  Speaker 1: have to send a check to Pat Riley, but I'd
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  Speaker 1: put three P the Miami Dolphins three P. Now, the
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  Speaker 1: team that was at the very bottom, looking up at
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  Speaker 1: the tuckers of everyone else in the NFL, the once
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  Speaker 1: proud Pittsburg Steelers. They yeah, the Steeler the injurs, they
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  Speaker 1: were the very bottom right there in the sewer. For
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  Speaker 1: the first time. Pittsburgh received a very low grades, very
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  Speaker 1: low grades from the players there in several categories. You
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  Speaker 1: can read more about that if you want. I'll give
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  Speaker 1: you a couple of them. The players claimed inadequate maintenance,
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  Speaker 1: excessive where of the stadium because they guess they let
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  Speaker 1: a lot of the local college high school teams play.
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  Speaker 1: God forbid, these players need the feeld to themselves. Note
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  Speaker 1: let any of those high school kids on that field, please,
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  Speaker 1: So they criticize the the field, technology, the facilities in general.
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  Speaker 1: So that's a good jumping off point. Let us discuss,
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  Speaker 1: all right, let us discuss. We're gonna discuss right now.
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  Speaker 1: So the question here, what's coming up for you when
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  Speaker 1: you when you look at these complaints. I yeah, maybe
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  Speaker 1: you haven't seen them, but I'll answer it first. So
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  Speaker 1: what's coming up for you when you look at these
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  Speaker 1: complaints by these Steelers players? So I've got I've got truffles,
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  Speaker 1: Jimmy Buffett and Sasquatch, and we will combine all of
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  Speaker 1: these things together. And we were going to say, forget
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  Speaker 1: about it is what we're gonna say, because I want
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  Speaker 1: to forget about it. So, uh, my first thought on
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  Speaker 1: this when I when I saw the complaints was I thought, well, boily,
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  Speaker 1: Monongahela River is overflowing right now. With the tiers of
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  Speaker 1: Steeler players, They're gonna have to put some kind of
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  Speaker 1: warning on the local media they're in Pittsburgh that the
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  Speaker 1: Monongahela is just so many tiers from these Pittsburgh players.
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  Speaker 1: These Steelers players complained about a number of things. The
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  Speaker 1: one that got the most attention they have in their
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  Speaker 1: locker room. Five bathroom stalls for the entire team. Five.
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  Speaker 1: That's it. That's all. So that is a Heinz Field
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  Speaker 1: or whatever the stadium's called. Now some act, for sure,
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  Speaker 1: something something level tragedy. Right there, be still my beating heart.
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  Speaker 1: The Steeler franchise. You've changed. Another thing that's changed in
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  Speaker 1: my lifetime. When I was growing up, I heard these
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  Speaker 1: amazing stories about the legends of the Pittsburgh Steelers. Men
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  Speaker 1: were men Frank o'harris, Jack Lambert, guys who look like
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  Speaker 1: they chewed on nails and eight bar for breakfast. Right now,
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  Speaker 1: juxtappose that to essentially the Steeler players complaining because of
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  Speaker 1: the lack of white truffles and family lounges that are lacking.
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  Speaker 1: He's so spoiled, it's just outstanding. They think roughing it.
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  Speaker 1: I'm pretty sure they think that roughing at their the
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  Speaker 1: Steeler locker room. It means going on the road, staying
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  Speaker 1: at a hotel, you know, somewhere out in the NFL
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  Speaker 1: that only has one infinity pool. Can you imagine? Can
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  Speaker 1: you imagine the hardship of saying at a hotel with
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  Speaker 1: one only one infinity pool? How can you live? Seriously,
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  Speaker 1: I'm not kidding now. Meanwhile, I would like these guys
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  Speaker 1: when they retired to come work here at Fox Sports Radio.
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  Speaker 1: We have a ninety nine percent male staff. There are
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  Speaker 1: I believe three women that work in the building. They
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  Speaker 1: have their own bathroom. We have one toilet for every
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  Speaker 1: other dude that works in the building, right one. That's it.
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  Speaker 1: Do we complain, No, we do not. We do not.
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  Speaker 1: And they used to have both bathrooms open back in
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  Speaker 1: the day, but they stopped them. Some people complained. But
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  Speaker 1: the NFL Players Association report card, it reads like a
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  Speaker 1: just a tone deaf group of people. Right. The players
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  Speaker 1: are so up to's they don't understand how pampered they are.
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  Speaker 1: And it's just great, right you think about you know,
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  Speaker 1: you really arrived, baby. The NFL. NFL teams for years
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  Speaker 1: and years and years, right, they would fly commercial and
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  Speaker 1: practice at local high schools all the way up until
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  Speaker 1: I think it stopped in like sometime in the late
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  Speaker 1: eighties early nineties. In fact, we had friend of the
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  Speaker 1: show Fred Dreyer, who was a famous actor and played
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  Speaker 1: in the NFL. And Fred's a friend. We should get
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  Speaker 1: him back on at some point, put on my podcast
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  Speaker 1: or something. Fred told a famous story when he was playing.
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  Speaker 1: I believe it was with the Rams in the late
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  Speaker 1: seventies early eighties, and they would practice at like Ahigh
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  Speaker 1: School field and before they started practicing, the entire team
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  Speaker 1: would walk across the field like they were looking for
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  Speaker 1: evidence in a crime scene, but they were really trying
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  Speaker 1: to fill the divots and the potholes that were on
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  Speaker 1: the field so they could practice. What would happen if,
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  Speaker 1: you know, let's pick a random team like the Minnesota
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  Speaker 1: Vikings players said the coaching staff say, listen, boys, the
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  Speaker 1: field's a littleft up here. Can you just walk and
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  Speaker 1: see if you can find any divots and fill them in.
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  Speaker 1: Let's snout in my contract. Oh my god. All right. Anyway, meanwhile,
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  Speaker 1: let's take a deeper dive on this. So eighty percent
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  Speaker 1: of all NFL players responded to the NFLPA survey of teams.
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  Speaker 1: They tell us this was the highest player participation rate ever.
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  Speaker 1: I wonder why. I wonder why, higher than the US
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  Speaker 1: presidential election. There were more people that in the NFL
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  Speaker 1: that voted for this. So the question is there a
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  Speaker 1: correlation between the amenities that NFL players get and the
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  Speaker 1: results on the field. There is there a correlation. So
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  Speaker 1: after a minutes long Mallard deliberation in the judges chambers,
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  Speaker 1: we have determined that there is zero, zero correlation between
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  Speaker 1: having five star facilities and five star football. None zippo bupkis.
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  Speaker 1: That's it. So the Dolphins, who've apparently built a beat
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  Speaker 1: tront Bungalow just total bliss, jet skis, juice bars, palm trees,
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  Speaker 1: banana hammocks. Everything there. There's palm trees swaying in the wind.
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  Speaker 1: It's Jimmy Buffett fever dream come to life here. And
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  Speaker 1: so you've got this owner, Steven Ross, who's handing out
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  Speaker 1: the VIP treatment. It's like party favors at a billionaire's luau.
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  Speaker 1: And what did that get him? A bland plate of
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  Speaker 1: fish sticks, no tartar sauce, and a seven and ten
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  Speaker 1: record and a seat in the cellar of the AFC East.
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  Speaker 1: You know, the Jets are less, No, they weren't. The
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  Speaker 1: Jets are on a real team. The Jets are a fraud.
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  Speaker 1: The Jets don't count. That's Pop Warner. They don't count
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  Speaker 1: for last place. That's not a real NFL team. The
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  Speaker 1: NFL has thirty one teams, or really you want to
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  Speaker 1: get lately, they've had less than that because you include
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  Speaker 1: the Browns and the Raiders, but they're low. The Jets
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  Speaker 1: are at the very bottom for longevity of suckage. So
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  Speaker 1: you juxtapose the Dolphins, Hey, beachfront, Bungalow and all that.
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  Speaker 1: And then you've got the Steelers who have been getting
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  Speaker 1: mocked and ridiculed because they don't have enough urinoals and
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  Speaker 1: they have outdated tech and all this stuff. Real caveman conditions.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, the players are given just a slab of
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  Speaker 1: concrete and they have to eat dino nuggets. I think
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  Speaker 1: I don't know for sure. I might be making that up,
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  Speaker 1: but they might have to eat dine on nuggets. And
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  Speaker 1: so they went out there and won ten games, and
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  Speaker 1: they won the AFC North Crown. And it has been
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  Speaker 1: said in life, comfort breeds complacency. The next generation is
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  Speaker 1: not as gung ho to get it done. It's kind
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  Speaker 1: of like when we talk about sports team's old family money,
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  Speaker 1: that generation that earned the money, and we're seeing in
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  Speaker 1: the NFL right these second third generation family ownership groups
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  Speaker 1: is just not the same. They don't care. You think
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  Speaker 1: Mark Davis cares as much as Al Davis. Hell no, Like,
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  Speaker 1: come on now, Genie boss a joke of an owner
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  Speaker 1: in the NBA with the Lakers, terrible if he's selling
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  Speaker 1: the team now, thank god, but horrific compared to Jerry
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  Speaker 1: Buss and you and I listen. I mean, there's plenty
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  Speaker 1: of these other examples in the NFL. You want to
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  Speaker 1: go down that rabbit hole. But there is a thought
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  Speaker 1: that some kind of hardship actually builds character. Hair on
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  Speaker 1: your chest, right, yeah, but you imagined if discovering that
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  Speaker 1: the team yacht, the team does not have a heated
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  Speaker 1: smoothie bar, does that count as hardship? I think in
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  Speaker 1: this NFLPA survey. It does. It does so Unfortunately for
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  Speaker 1: the Dolphins, these silk sheets, the high thread count on
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  Speaker 1: the Egyptian silk sheets, do not secure playoff wins and
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  Speaker 1: all that. You go back to the Dan Marino days.
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  Speaker 1: Our last word here, So the NFL Players Association report card. Great, right,
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  Speaker 1: we've been talking about that here at the beginning of
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  Speaker 1: the hour, and they've all been leaked and all that,
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  Speaker 1: and you can go through them and have a microscope
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  Speaker 1: out and all that. We had fun with it, and
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  Speaker 1: we've talked about a couple of things here. But the
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  Speaker 1: NFL has reacted to the situation by sending out an
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  Speaker 1: internal memo to all teams, which of course was also leaked.
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  Speaker 1: Come on, the NFL, a multi billion dollar conglomerate, a cartel,
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  Speaker 1: has instructed the members of their car RTELL to refrain
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  Speaker 1: from publicly commenting or engaging in the survey, the report card,
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  Speaker 1: and they said doing so only would provide credibility to
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  Speaker 1: the union's media campaign. They're calling it a media which
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  Speaker 1: it obviously is a media campaign to sway public sentiment
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  Speaker 1: those poor NFL players and there are I'm always fascinated
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  Speaker 1: by this, Like the real fanboys. You know who they are. Oh,
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  Speaker 1: we we love our team. We these poor players. It's
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  Speaker 1: so sad they didn't get tuna tartar. It's really bad
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  Speaker 1: they got that can tuna. Oh my god. So the
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  Speaker 1: NFL says they will review the leak. They're going to
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  Speaker 1: review the leak. And the question what legal options do
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  Speaker 1: the owners have to fight the nfl PA on this
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  Speaker 1: report card? Quagmire. So I do believe that those are
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  Speaker 1: actually write the clamp down on this, absolutely right. Seriously,
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  Speaker 1: If the NFLPA is running the public smear campaign, which
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  Speaker 1: they are, and they're dressing it up as a report card,
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  Speaker 1: I don't us sit there and take it. Hey, these
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  Speaker 1: guys all made a lot of money. Some of them
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  Speaker 1: inherited the money, but they're the ones that made their
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  Speaker 1: money on their own. They're pretty sharp. Generally, you're not
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  Speaker 1: a billionaire pinata right a kid's birthday party. You've fought
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  Speaker 1: to get your money by the team. You fight for this,
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  Speaker 1: you file the grievance, you make, make this a federal case,
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  Speaker 1: which I guess it has to be. Now, keep it right.
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  Speaker 1: Nobody looks good like the players are just spoiled babies.
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  Speaker 1: The owners also are spoiled dopes. Everyone needs help from Sasquatch.
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  Speaker 1: They need some of that doctor squatch. Body watch a
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  Speaker 1: body watch I scrub a dubbed dup. Now that's it.
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  Speaker 1: The robber barons, you know, they're just gonna sit there
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  Speaker 1: and they can't let the Union just leak all this stuff,
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  Speaker 1: you know, and spin it and weaponize it and all
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  Speaker 1: that stuff and pretend it's some kind of neutral science project.
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  Speaker 1: And now the damage is already done. As we know,
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  Speaker 1: the Internet is forever, so once it's out there, it's
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  Speaker 1: not like you can delete it. It can't unring the
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  Speaker 1: bell and all that. So, yeah, you can get a
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  Speaker 1: cease and desist. Whooped the damn do? That'll be great
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  Speaker 1: enforce the CBA drag it back to arbitration where it
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  Speaker 1: all began. And the interesting thing here is that there
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  Speaker 1: is a avenue if some of the individual owners wanted to
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  Speaker 1: go and see they could do that. There's some language
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  Speaker 1: in there the union violated the rules, which it appear
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  Speaker 1: as they did, and the chaos could take over and
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  Speaker 1: we'll see. I don't think that's gonna happen because that
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  Speaker 1: would just drag more stuff out. And it is interesting
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  Speaker 1: the NFL is in bed with ESPN. They own part
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  Speaker 1: of esp I don't know if the deal is done
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  Speaker 1: done done done yet, but ESPN was the one that
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  Speaker 1: leaked the story, and so it's like, I wonder if
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  Speaker 1: the owners are going to have an issue with that.
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  Speaker 1: Put the clamps on esp because they're a business partner.
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  Speaker 1: It's now state funded NFL Media over there, so we'll
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  Speaker 1: see what happens with that.
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  Speaker 1: This hour from baseball. It's about Motown, but it's from
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  Speaker 1: the Grapefruit League there in Florida, where the Sleeping Giant,
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  Speaker 1: well not really a Sleeping Giant's Cy Young Award and
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  Speaker 1: been highly decorated last couple of years. Tarik Schoubl has
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  Speaker 1: made some headlines here the Tigers ace discussing his reaction
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  Speaker 1: his reaction to trade rumors as he enters his lame
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  Speaker 1: doc season in Detroit. Trek Schouble in a contract year.
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  Speaker 1: I don't know if you saw this, Maybe it was
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  Speaker 1: not on your radar, perhaps not so. Terrek Scooble gave
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  Speaker 1: a boilerplate response and he said, but you know, it's
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  Speaker 1: not something I can control in all the standard cliches
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  Speaker 1: from sportscliche dot com. And then you know, I said
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  Speaker 1: his family would ask him about that. That is standard
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  Speaker 1: chow is what it is. And still the murmurs continue
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  Speaker 1: that the Tigers are light years away from any kind
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  Speaker 1: of contractual agreement with Schoobel, who is apparently hell bent
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  Speaker 1: on going to the market and putting himself up there
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  Speaker 1: on the auctioning block. So that is a good jumping
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  Speaker 1: off point. Let us discuss the question for the class.
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  Speaker 1: Give me your sense of how this Trek Scoogel contract
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  Speaker 1: drama O rama plays out in Detroit as we are
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  Speaker 1: still a few weeks away from the real baseball season
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  Speaker 1: getting anyway. So my observations, I've got Grand Canyon, party
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  Speaker 1: sized and headge fun hotshots, and we will combine all
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  Speaker 1: of these things together and we are going to be
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  Speaker 1: footloose and fancy free is what we're going to be.
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  Speaker 1: So number as we sink our teeth into this. So
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  Speaker 1: Number One, we do the show. We'd like to say,
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  Speaker 1: we're about to show right now. We were about today show,
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  Speaker 1: We're about tomorrow show. So we do the show today
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  Speaker 1: and today there is a zero a bagel chance that
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  Speaker 1: school bols traded again right now today. Now, if you
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  Speaker 1: want me to project, I'm more than happy to do that.
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  Speaker 1: The Tigers are growling and roaring. And if you have
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  Speaker 1: paid any attention to the outlook the forecast for baseball
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  Speaker 1: while Toronto was in the World Series, and the Blue
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  Speaker 1: Jays are expected to be good again. The Yankees always
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  Speaker 1: get a certain level of hype. The Tigers, you're getting
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  Speaker 1: they're getting some love there, and the Mariners as well,
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  Speaker 1: but the Tigers, they're pretty high up there, and everyone's
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  Speaker 1: kind of sipping that Motor City Kitty kool aid, and
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  Speaker 1: I don't know if that's a good idea, Probably not,
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  Speaker 1: Probably not. Now the will to beast in the room,
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  Speaker 1: the will the beast in the room, the trip to
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  Speaker 1: the land of the cacti and the sand because there
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  Speaker 1: is a gap the size of the Grand Canyon here.
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  Speaker 1: And a hummingbird zipped by my ear the other day,
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  Speaker 1: whispering that Derek Scoobel want four one hundred million dollars
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  Speaker 1: alleged late the Tigers, of course, not clutching their their pearls.
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  Speaker 1: They're clutching their wallet. And supposedly, at one point, I'm
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  Speaker 1: not sure this is still the case. At one point
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  Speaker 1: there was a two hundred and fifty million dollars separation.
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  Speaker 1: And that's not rounding numbers up or down. That's two
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  Speaker 1: hundred and fifty million. Now the team, the Tigers, owned
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  Speaker 1: by what we call old pizza money. Old pizza money.
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  Speaker 1: Mike Ilich died years ago and he left the team
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  Speaker 1: to his family. And let's just say they're not lighting
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  Speaker 1: they're not lighting cigars with one hundred dollars bills. They're not.
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  Speaker 1: They're running this more like a family hardware store, and
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  Speaker 1: they're just kind of keeping the thing going and all that.
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  Speaker 1: If they're winning in July, if there's no stench there,
• 19:53
  Speaker 1: they're playing good baseball in July, then school will ride
• 19:56
  Speaker 1: this thing out. That's that he's he's untouchable. However, if
• 20:02
  Speaker 1: they start floundering like a fish out of water, the
• 20:06
  Speaker 1: Tigers then will revisit us. The Malarods will flip to
• 20:11
  Speaker 1: minus one ninety that his ass is out of town.
• 20:15
  Speaker 1: His ass has grasped sixty five percent chance if they're
• 20:18
  Speaker 1: not getting it done midway through the season, that you
• 20:21
  Speaker 1: can He said, well, I don't know what you're talking about,
• 20:24
  Speaker 1: but you cannot be caught as the Angels were when
• 20:28
  Speaker 1: they had sho Hey Otani. They were a faux contender
• 20:33
  Speaker 1: his last year in Anaheim at around the trade deadline,
• 20:37
  Speaker 1: and there were multiple teams that wanted Otani, and Ardi
• 20:40
  Speaker 1: Marino loved all that money they've gotten from the Japanese businesses.
• 20:45
  Speaker 1: So they stood there and he had kept they kept Otani,
• 20:48
  Speaker 1: and they got caught with their pants around their ankles
• 20:51
  Speaker 1: and didn't make the move. So you'd rather get something
• 20:55
  Speaker 1: if you're not willing to pay the player, you'd rather
• 20:57
  Speaker 1: get something, even if it's an empty an empty backpack.
• 21:01
  Speaker 1: You did something. But right now it's a it's a
• 21:04
  Speaker 1: game of bach bach bach chicken. It's leverage chicken. I
• 21:10
  Speaker 1: don't even know if that's real chicken. As long as
• 21:12
  Speaker 1: Detroit is roaring, then and then they'll stay. But a
• 21:16
  Speaker 1: bad couple of weeks. In June, the for sale sign
• 21:19
  Speaker 1: goes up faster than if you were you remember back
• 21:22
  Speaker 1: in eight, the foreclosure crisis of eight. Now page two
• 21:27
  Speaker 1: to Tampa, to Tampa, we go the Grapefruit League. We
• 21:31
  Speaker 1: stay in the graap Fruit League spring training. Big story
• 21:34
  Speaker 1: here today involving the New York Yankees and slugger Jean Carlo.
• 21:41
  Speaker 1: Jean Carlos Stanton went viral. Now did he hit a
• 21:47
  Speaker 1: six hundred foot home run? No, He's as large as
• 21:51
  Speaker 1: a barge. And Stanton, the three hundred million dollar big Bopper,
• 21:58
  Speaker 1: announced that he is in such bad shape. How bad
• 22:03
  Speaker 1: is it? John Carlos Stanton claims that he cannot open
• 22:07
  Speaker 1: a bag of chips because of the elbow pain that
• 22:13
  Speaker 1: he's got. Cannot open a bag of chips. I know,
• 22:18
  Speaker 1: I know, O MG, OMG. I am in better condition
• 22:22
  Speaker 1: than John Carlos Stanton. I should be playing for the
• 22:24
  Speaker 1: New York Yankees. Well, Stanton says he's determined to play
• 22:28
  Speaker 1: the full season. I'm sure that's going to happen unless
• 22:31
  Speaker 1: it's not. So the question on this one, what is
• 22:35
  Speaker 1: Yankee slugger John Carlo Stanton looking to accomplish? What do
• 22:39
  Speaker 1: you think he's looking to accomplish by announcing that he's
• 22:42
  Speaker 1: unable to open a bag of delicious chips? So it
• 22:46
  Speaker 1: sounds like he's auditioning for a leading role in a
• 22:49
  Speaker 1: Lifetime movie, to me go up to Vermont, in a
• 22:52
  Speaker 1: Hallmark Lifetime movies that make those up in Vermont. But
• 22:55
  Speaker 1: John Carlos Stanton, who is If you look at him
• 22:58
  Speaker 1: from afar, He's built like a Greek god, carved out
• 23:02
  Speaker 1: of just pure granted, pure granted John Carlo. And now
• 23:07
  Speaker 1: he claims he can't even open a bag of chips
• 23:09
  Speaker 1: because his elbows are screaming and barking and all that
• 23:12
  Speaker 1: is he looking for a purple heart. They don't give
• 23:13
  Speaker 1: those out in baseball. You gotta be in the military
• 23:15
  Speaker 1: for that. They don't give those out in baseball. Now,
• 23:17
  Speaker 1: I would tell you right now, I got advice. I'm
• 23:18
  Speaker 1: going to help out the Red Sox. I'm gonna help
• 23:21
  Speaker 1: out the Blue Jays. I got the Orioles and the Rays.
• 23:24
  Speaker 1: I got you all those American Leagueese teams. All right,
• 23:26
  Speaker 1: let me help you out your facing the Yankees. Stanton
• 23:30
  Speaker 1: is digging into the batter's box. What do you do?
• 23:33
  Speaker 1: You throw a fastball, you throw a curveball, change up slider?
• 23:38
  Speaker 1: What do you do? Here's what you go props. You
• 23:42
  Speaker 1: go to props. You pull out of your back pocket
• 23:45
  Speaker 1: a small bag, a small bag of chips, and then
• 23:50
  Speaker 1: those don't work. You get the party sized bag of
• 23:52
  Speaker 1: sour cream and onion ruffles, and Gean Carlo will say,
• 23:57
  Speaker 1: oh my god, I can't do it he will turn
• 24:00
  Speaker 1: into creamy goodness in a puddle. So, by the way,
• 24:05
  Speaker 1: is he also like what is he a caveman or something?
• 24:08
  Speaker 4: Like?
• 24:09
  Speaker 1: Why is he trying to open the bag with his elbows?
• 24:11
  Speaker 1: Aren't you supposed to use your your hands? Like not
• 24:15
  Speaker 1: how that works? That's a true American tragedy. So by
• 24:18
  Speaker 1: announcing he plans on playing all season, Jean Carlow, I
• 24:23
  Speaker 1: guess he wants you and I to believe that he's
• 24:26
  Speaker 1: a modern day baseball rambo playing through pain. And yeah,
• 24:32
  Speaker 1: so if you can't handle opening up a snack bag.
• 24:38
  Speaker 1: How does he pass a physical? Like serious question? Well, yeah,
• 24:44
  Speaker 1: I'm sure in the off season he's his snug as
• 24:46
  Speaker 1: a bug and he's relaxing and all that stuff. But
• 24:48
  Speaker 1: when you go to the season, don't you have to
• 24:49
  Speaker 1: take a physical to play? You're selling your body when
• 24:53
  Speaker 1: you're a pro athlete. It's a little different than the
• 24:56
  Speaker 1: brothels in the Vada, but you're selling your body. That's
• 24:58
  Speaker 1: what you're doing, you know. So there you go. The
• 25:02
  Speaker 1: only way that he plays a full season we have
• 25:05
  Speaker 1: determined here is on the rookie level of MLB the show,
• 25:10
  Speaker 1: and then he's got a shot. And what he needs
• 25:12
  Speaker 1: is the wisdom of Lou Holtz, who said famously that
• 25:17
  Speaker 1: eighty percent of the people don't care about your problems,
• 25:20
  Speaker 1: and the other twenty percent are glad you have them,
• 25:22
  Speaker 1: which is spot on, right. Do you really care that
• 25:25
  Speaker 1: Gihn Carlos Stanton is bitching because he can't open a
• 25:28
  Speaker 1: bag of chips? Come on, and there's people that hate
• 25:31
  Speaker 1: the Yankees. They're like, oh, that's great, so good, and
• 25:34
  Speaker 1: channel the Nike the Nike way their slogan, just do it,
• 25:39
  Speaker 1: just do it, put the chips down, see ball hit
• 25:42
  Speaker 1: ball kaboom, kaboom, kaboom, kaboom kaboom. Final point to the
• 25:49
  Speaker 1: labor talks in baseball always a fun topic to the
• 25:52
  Speaker 1: labor talks. So there has been a grassroots movement that
• 25:55
  Speaker 1: is underway here. People say we need a boycott baseball.
• 25:59
  Speaker 1: It's not right, it's not fair. We get we as
• 26:02
  Speaker 1: fans if there's in a message. So as these season
• 26:06
  Speaker 1: draws closer, with spring training underway, world Baseball class is
• 26:09
  Speaker 1: coming up. This group, this group, they are telling you,
• 26:17
  Speaker 1: and they're telling me that there's only eight teams that
• 26:21
  Speaker 1: have any kind of chance of contending for the World Series.
• 26:24
  Speaker 1: Eight teams. There's thirty teams in baseball, which means, if
• 26:27
  Speaker 1: my math is correct, twenty two other baseball teams are
• 26:31
  Speaker 1: essentially the Washington Generals, not the Nationals, although they are
• 26:37
  Speaker 1: they might as well be called the Washington Generals. But
• 26:40
  Speaker 1: that's it. So this argument is the game is broken,
• 26:44
  Speaker 1: competitive balance is dead. We need parody. We need a
• 26:48
  Speaker 1: world where the Las Vegas athleticsir, I guess they're in Sacra,
• 26:53
  Speaker 1: the Sacramento Athletics have a chance to win, you know,
• 26:56
  Speaker 1: que the violins and all that. So question, tell me
• 27:01
  Speaker 1: what stands out to you about this grassroots campaign here.
• 27:07
  Speaker 1: You know, Major League Baseball complaints about the game being
• 27:11
  Speaker 1: broken because of the lack of parody, the few teams
• 27:14
  Speaker 1: that have a chance to win, so the game is broken.
• 27:19
  Speaker 1: Chorus is this is the same dusty vinyl record that
• 27:24
  Speaker 1: baseball owners have been spinning like DJs for thirty plus years.
• 27:32
  Speaker 1: Every single time labor talks are on the horizon. You
• 27:38
  Speaker 1: get the funeral potatoes, you get the funeral music, and
• 27:41
  Speaker 1: you have a party if you're the owner. Baseball is dying.
• 27:45
  Speaker 1: Oh by it's dad. Yeah. And there are people, they're
• 27:51
  Speaker 1: called dumb people who have been fighting the baseball is dead.
• 27:55
  Speaker 1: They've been yelling baseball is dead, dying on that mountain
• 27:57
  Speaker 1: for years since I was a kid. I did some
• 28:01
  Speaker 1: shows on this years ago. But we went back and looked,
• 28:04
  Speaker 1: and you could go through the archives of newspapers going
• 28:07
  Speaker 1: back to the eighteen late eighteen hundreds. There were people.
• 28:13
  Speaker 1: There was a famous column written by somebody from northern California,
• 28:16
  Speaker 1: long dead, long dead, who traveled to the East coast
• 28:20
  Speaker 1: to watch the sport of baseball and determined in the
• 28:23
  Speaker 1: late eighteen hundreds that baseball was no longer popular that
• 28:27
  Speaker 1: it would not last that long, and wrote a whole
• 28:30
  Speaker 1: column about it. And here we are over well over
• 28:33
  Speaker 1: one hundred years after that, one hundred and twenty something
• 28:35
  Speaker 1: years and still going, still going. But the baseball dying.
• 28:39
  Speaker 1: That caucus is a very loud, voisterous caucus. It is competitive,
• 28:46
  Speaker 1: balance is crubling. Hide the women, hide the children, right,
• 28:50
  Speaker 1: And this is often the default setting of the Major
• 28:53
  Speaker 1: League Baseball owners, the robber barons. This is their setting.
• 28:58
  Speaker 1: It's the card they pull from the bottom of the
• 29:01
  Speaker 1: deck whenever the labor negotiations are no way. Now, Scott
• 29:05
  Speaker 1: Boris told me this years ago, and he's still mentioned
• 29:07
  Speaker 1: this from time to time. He correctly has jabbed at
• 29:09
  Speaker 1: the owners over the years, the most powerful man in baseball,
• 29:12
  Speaker 1: Scott Borrows that if the sport is in such a
• 29:17
  Speaker 1: sinkhole financially, if you believe that to be true, if
• 29:21
  Speaker 1: you believe that to be true, it's like the Flat
• 29:23
  Speaker 1: Earth Society, if you believe the earth is flat, and
• 29:25
  Speaker 1: why are certain things the way they are? But if
• 29:28
  Speaker 1: you're someone that thinks the sport of baseball is in
• 29:31
  Speaker 1: a sinkhole financially, why aren't owners selling at clearance prices?
• 29:38
  Speaker 1: Why are the hedge fund hotshots, the hedge fund bros
• 29:43
  Speaker 1: scratching and cloging to get in before anyone buys the team.
• 29:47
  Speaker 1: You know how this works if you're gonna buy an
• 29:49
  Speaker 1: investment that big. If you're one of the people that's
• 29:52
  Speaker 1: qualified to buy a baseball team, you go in there
• 29:55
  Speaker 1: and you have your team of bean counters and they
• 29:59
  Speaker 1: crack open the and they look at the finances and
• 30:02
  Speaker 1: they go over all the numbers. So you're a prospective
• 30:05
  Speaker 1: owner of a big league baseball team and you get
• 30:08
  Speaker 1: to play peek a boo with the spreadsheets before buying
• 30:12
  Speaker 1: the team, and they see what what do they see?
• 30:15
  Speaker 1: They see black ink, They don't see red ink. There's
• 30:18
  Speaker 1: not ready. There's black ink. Now the dirty little secret here.
• 30:23
  Speaker 1: And baseball owners they want you to be on the
• 30:25
  Speaker 1: side of campaigning for them. But owning an MLB team
• 30:29
  Speaker 1: is a country club membership that prints money. And you know,
• 30:33
  Speaker 1: Arti Morino is a great example. He's incompetent, he doesn't
• 30:36
  Speaker 1: know what he's doing. He's a complete loser as an owner,
• 30:38
  Speaker 1: but he makes money. The Angels make money, and he's
• 30:40
  Speaker 1: gonna make more money by not putting certain games on
• 30:42
  Speaker 1: Spring training on TV, no games are on TV, and
• 30:46
  Speaker 1: announcing that the moms of Orange County are the fans
• 30:48
  Speaker 1: of the Angels don't care about winning because they're just
• 30:50
  Speaker 1: moms and they just want to have a place to
• 30:52
  Speaker 1: take their kids and eat hot dogs and popcorn and
• 30:54
  Speaker 1: nachos and then watch the game and then go home
• 30:56
  Speaker 1: and they don't care who wins. That's already murro. It's
• 30:59
  Speaker 1: a country club membership, print money, passive income. You get
• 31:04
  Speaker 1: subsidized by the taxpayers because politicians want free season tickets
• 31:07
  Speaker 1: and jackets and all that stuff. So what a hustle
• 31:11
  Speaker 1: owning a sports team. That's why it was lining up
• 31:13
  Speaker 1: to do it. And it doesn't matter. This whole conversation
• 31:17
  Speaker 1: is irrelevant. The players are not going to swallow a
• 31:19
  Speaker 1: salary cap. They're not unless they see the books. The
• 31:22
  Speaker 1: owners won't allow them to see the books, so that's
• 31:25
  Speaker 1: not gonna happen. So forget about it, and you know,
• 31:29
  Speaker 1: that's it, and we can, you know, have this merry
• 31:31
  Speaker 1: go round around the carousel of hypocrisy. And the other
• 31:36
  Speaker 1: thing people have discounted here is if you ever got
• 31:39
  Speaker 1: to that point where they opened up the books and
• 31:40
  Speaker 1: the players said, okay, we'll go to a salary cap
• 31:42
  Speaker 1: and I don't think it'll happen in my lifetime. At
• 31:44
  Speaker 1: some point, eventually it will happen, but in my lifetime
• 31:46
  Speaker 1: won't happen. The players can say, Okay, we got to
• 31:49
  Speaker 1: get rid of the arbitration system. So then the small
• 31:53
  Speaker 1: market teams are screwed again because nobody wants to play there,
• 31:56
  Speaker 1: so they're they're kicked in the nuts and the players
• 31:59
  Speaker 1: get make some other means. But that's not gonna happen anyway,
• 32:01
  Speaker 1: because imagine how much money the Pittsburgh Pirates are making,
• 32:07
  Speaker 1: and the Athletics and these suck bag teams, the Rockies
• 32:10
  Speaker 1: that don't even try to win, and they're just making
• 32:13
  Speaker 1: money hand over fist, and they're crying poverty. Let's say
• 32:18
  Speaker 1: the players agreed, you know what we're gonna We're gonna
• 32:20
  Speaker 1: do the sour give let us see the books. They're
• 32:22
  Speaker 1: gonna see the books, and they're gonna psych I ain't
• 32:26
  Speaker 1: doing that.
• 32:26
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• 32:29
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• 32:34
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• 32:39
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• 32:41
  Speaker 4: Kobolo bo Nick celebrated his twenty sixth birthday on Wednesday,
• 32:45
  Speaker 4: which led to social media trolls pointing out how he's
• 32:48
  Speaker 4: only played two years but is already the age of
• 32:49
  Speaker 4: a season veteran. Then, how big of a deal is
• 32:52
  Speaker 4: Nicks being older than the other quarterbacks in his draft class?
• 32:55
  Speaker 1: Well, it doesn't. You're really worried about your thirty seven
• 32:59
  Speaker 1: and thirty eight. No, you know, it's that famous quote,
• 33:01
  Speaker 1: yesterday's history. Tomorrow is a mystery. Today's a gift. Just
• 33:04
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• 33:08
  Speaker 1: can plan. You cannot plan on these guys playing for
• 33:10
  Speaker 1: fifteen years. It always is like ridiculous to me. And
• 33:12
  Speaker 1: when it happens, it's it's breaking the norm. If Lebronco's
• 33:16
  Speaker 1: got six good years out of Boat Nicks, they should
• 33:18
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• 33:19
  Speaker 4: Next, we've talked about Lebron James returning to the Cavaliers,
• 33:22
  Speaker 4: but it's now being reported that the Knicks are a
• 33:24
  Speaker 4: potential free agent destination for Lebron. But do you think
• 33:26
  Speaker 4: there is any chance that Lebron lands somewhere other than Cleveland?
• 33:29
  Speaker 1: Well, not in New York. He's avoided New York like anthrax.
• 33:31
  Speaker 1: He doesn't want to play for Dolan. Dolan's still there,
• 33:34
  Speaker 1: so I don't buy that. It's either Cleveland maybe Miami,
• 33:37
  Speaker 1: but he hates pat Riley too, so it's Cleveland. Next.
• 33:39
  Speaker 4: TMZ caught up with Kenny Smith and asked him about
• 33:42
  Speaker 4: the recent retirement of Chris Paul. The Jet pretty much
• 33:44
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• 33:46
  Speaker 4: at some point, Ben, do you think that's what's in
• 33:48
  Speaker 4: Chris Paul's future?
• 33:50
  Speaker 1: No, he's living the life for Riley. You really want
• 33:53
  Speaker 1: to back to back in Sacramento and Salt Lake City
• 33:55
  Speaker 1: as an NBA coach? Come on, he made you. He
• 33:58
  Speaker 1: made four hundred million on the court, plus all the
• 34:01
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• 34:03
  Speaker 1: the heat in this lifestyle, right, the pursuit of pleasure?
• 34:07
  Speaker 1: You why don't you even fut's around with that? No? No, no,
• 34:12
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• 34:14
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• 34:40
  Speaker 1: Knock Knock, Who's there? Blame Weed Blame week too. It's
• 34:44
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• 34:48
  Speaker 1: Big Ben's lame jokes of the week. And yeah, what's
• 34:55
  Speaker 1: going on? Weed man?
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  Speaker 5: Hippie?
• 34:57
  Speaker 1: All right? Very good? And we actually have an added bonushit.
• 35:02
  Speaker 1: Why don't we do this right now so I don't
• 35:04
  Speaker 1: forget because I know I'm gonna forget, and I don't
• 35:05
  Speaker 1: want to forget because I like this guy and I
• 35:06
  Speaker 1: hope he becomes a regular. So we only don't allow
• 35:09
  Speaker 1: anyone to read jokes to you. But we have a
• 35:11
  Speaker 1: celebrity caller, Mikey the insomniac from Tampa, would like to
• 35:15
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  Speaker 5: Wow?
• 35:19
  Speaker 3: How are you doing? My dude?
• 35:21
  Speaker 5: I'm doing great, weed Man. Listen, just say no, because
• 35:25
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  Speaker 5: I have I have twice. And she was like when
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• 35:42
  Speaker 1: She was, oh, all right, there you go, Mikey starts
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  Speaker 1: us off the joke. These these are jokes.
• 35:50
  Speaker 4: Now.
• 35:50
  Speaker 1: If you want to be a joke writer, if you
• 35:51
  Speaker 1: think you're funny and you want to write a joke
• 35:53
  Speaker 1: for hundreds of thousands of people, whatever it is, this
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  Speaker 1: is your opportunity right here. Yes, then you share who
• 36:00
  Speaker 1: sho chips and candy? Well, I'm I'm not sure I
• 36:06
  Speaker 1: was it. Parito was sitting. I think Pirito had sent
• 36:08
  Speaker 1: you some stuff. I don't know if anyone else sent you,
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  Speaker 1: I don't know.
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  Speaker 4: Okay, did you get the air fryer from sir scratch Off?
• 36:19
  Speaker 1: No? I did not, shocking, shocking. Yeah, yeah, Well, we
• 36:24
  Speaker 1: had a great Mallard meet and greet in Arkansas, Remember Coop,
• 36:26
  Speaker 1: how fun that was going to Arkansas and our listeners there.
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• 36:35
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• 36:41
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  Speaker 1: Man is getting invited to the Summer Olympics.
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  Speaker 1: Really, yeah, you're gonna represent the USA and the dumpster
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• 37:00
  Speaker 1: And why did weed Man hate school?
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  Speaker 5: Really?
• 37:04
  Speaker 1: Yeah, you hated school. The teachers always gave you home work.
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  Speaker 1: That's everybody, Mike the Leprechaun. Who is weed Man's favorite
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  Speaker 1: Kurt Good Joe, Kurt from Earth. How old is weed Man?
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  Speaker 1: How old he's so old that rolling a joint will
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  Speaker 1: met him weed Man. I met him at the Mallard
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  Speaker 1: How was weed Man hippie? How has weed Man Hippie
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  Speaker 1: lasted so long with Lisa? How how well they both
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  Speaker 1: Thank you. Daryl met Darryl as well back in the day.
• 38:17
  Speaker 1: All right in the Kansas City meet and greet did
• 38:19
  Speaker 1: you know that weed Man was able to buy a
• 38:22
  Speaker 1: new set of chompers for just one dollar? I wish. Wow, Yeah,
• 38:29
  Speaker 1: it's a it's a deal and now you have buck teeth.
• 38:33
  Speaker 1: So congratulations. That's our buddy, Surfer. That's Surfer Todd, the
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  Speaker 1: comedian who was at He's always at the mallor meet
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  Speaker 1: and greets in Vegas, and I guess he'll be at
• 38:43
  Speaker 1: the one we hopefully do it this year, slug willing
• 38:46
  Speaker 1: and all that, and he'll come by and he lives
• 38:48
  Speaker 1: in Vegas part of the time. Now, all right, what
• 38:50
  Speaker 1: happened when a judge asked weed Man Hippie why he
• 38:54
  Speaker 1: was driving under the influence?
• 38:57
  Speaker 5: Why?
• 38:58
  Speaker 1: Well, weed May Hippie pled the fifth is what he did?
• 39:02
  Speaker 1: That just George, George and Grbaldi Texas sent that one
• 39:08
  Speaker 1: in the eighth Hello, did you hear that weed Man's
• 39:13
  Speaker 1: about weed Man's new beer?
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  Speaker 4: No?
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  Speaker 1: Really, yeah, big news week Man. It's called Lincoln Road
• 39:19
  Speaker 1: Living the Low Life. That's from Drew in Minnesota. All right, Well,
• 39:26
  Speaker 1: apparently weed Man Hippie, as you start, you started having
• 39:30
  Speaker 1: a smoothie every day for breakfast? Is that correct, weed Man?
• 39:35
  Speaker 3: Yeah?
• 39:35
  Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, apparently not having any teeth. It's the only
• 39:38
  Speaker 1: way you can get high fiber in your diet. High
• 39:42
  Speaker 1: fiber in your diet, say Darryl again in the Ozar.
• 39:47
  Speaker 1: So why did weed man get rejected when he tried
• 39:51
  Speaker 1: to join the Lakers?
• 39:53
  Speaker 5: Why?
• 39:55
  Speaker 1: Lakers said, we have enough guys standing around doing nothing.
• 39:57
  Speaker 1: That's Eric in Kansas. Very funny, All right, fine man,
• 40:02
  Speaker 1: all right, another one from our buddy Eric on the
• 40:05
  Speaker 1: Big Ben's Lame Jokes of the Week. These are actual
• 40:07
  Speaker 1: jokes by actual listeners. Were pretty much roasting weed man.
• 40:10
  Speaker 1: Hippie lives in Florida. That's what we're doing right now.
• 40:13
  Speaker 1: While let's hear Wow, why did Lisa start her own
• 40:16
  Speaker 1: pest control business?
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  Speaker 5: Wow?
• 40:20
  Speaker 1: Well, she said, twenty five years of experience keeping weed
• 40:23
  Speaker 1: man far away. That's Eric in Kansas. Who set that
• 40:27
  Speaker 1: one in? What does everyone do after weed man enters
• 40:31
  Speaker 1: a room? What they checked the bottom of their shoes? Wow?
• 40:36
  Speaker 1: That's lucky Tony. Oh all right? How does weed man
• 40:42
  Speaker 1: hold his liquor?
• 40:43
  Speaker 4: Wow?
• 40:44
  Speaker 1: By the ears? That's Dan in South Carolina. What else
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  Speaker 1: do we have here? Let's see page Dan, your weed
• 40:53
  Speaker 1: man is training for the twenty eighth Summer Olympics in
• 40:57
  Speaker 1: La Wow. Cool. Yeah, yeah, to be part of the
• 41:00
  Speaker 1: high jump. Weed Man, the high jump, i'd uh last one.
• 41:05
  Speaker 1: Did you hear that Jed who fled won a gold
• 41:07
  Speaker 1: medal in the Olympics. No really, yes, in the man's
• 41:12
  Speaker 1: crack pipe. So congratulations to Jed who fled. That was
• 41:17
  Speaker 1: from Jeopardy al So thank you guys all everyone that
• 41:21
  Speaker 1: sent jokes in wonderful job. Thank you weed Man. It's fact,
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  Speaker 1: don't you