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  Speaker 1: last night is our lead this hour. As we knew
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  Speaker 1: when the sun came up there'd be more information out
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  Speaker 1: and now it's like a jigsaw puzzle. You got to
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  Speaker 1: kind of figure out which pieces fit wear and that
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  Speaker 1: doesn't fit there, but that one does fit, but it
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  Speaker 1: kind of maybe doesn't. Maybe it should go to the
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  Speaker 1: top of the upper upper right hand side, but maybe
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  Speaker 1: the left hand side. I don't know. So from the
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  Speaker 1: hood in Inglewood, the People's team, the Clippers making big headlines.
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  Speaker 1: Everyone's talking about the Clippers. It's hiped the clip yet again.
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  Speaker 1: They decided to fire the point God. You can't fire
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  Speaker 1: a god. They fired a god. They did it. They
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  Speaker 1: said bite bye to the Point God in the middle
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  Speaker 1: of the night. Oh my God. Now I assume you're
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  Speaker 1: heard by now if you care about this. It's a
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  Speaker 1: good story. Even if we're not a basketball fan, it's
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  Speaker 1: it's still a good story. So it is a doozy,
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  Speaker 1: an absolute doozy. So the Clippers, this guy's got a
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  Speaker 1: big time GM. Lawrence Frank, who used to be a
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  Speaker 1: coach in the NBA, has been an executive for a
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  Speaker 1: number of years. Lawrence Frank decided to remove Chris Paul
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  Speaker 1: from the roster. The Clippers had some flight problems. These
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  Speaker 1: are first world problems. They fly on chartered planes. Every
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  Speaker 1: once in a while, the engine breaks in a chartered plane.
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  Speaker 1: You have to sit around for a while, and then
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  Speaker 1: these guys bitch and complain non stop. My god, what
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  Speaker 1: a nightmare. Try flying Spirit Airlines sometime, you losers. Anyway, Anyway,
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  Speaker 1: here's Lawrence Frank commenting on the demise about Chris Paul.
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  Speaker 1: I now, listen, they're trying to say, we're not trying
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  Speaker 1: to blame anyone. Take a listen.
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  Speaker 3: I take full responsibility for our record. We are not
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  Speaker 3: scapegoating Chris Paul. We have many issues and we're going
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  Speaker 3: to address each issue.
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  Speaker 4: For our underperformance.
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  Speaker 3: We have great respect for Chris for the career that
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  Speaker 3: he's had and for his impact on the organization, what
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  Speaker 3: he did to help transform the franchise, and we're not
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  Speaker 3: blaming him for underperforming.
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  Speaker 1: But yeah, so they did say one I said, it's
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  Speaker 1: not one isolated incident. That have been multiple issues behind
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  Speaker 1: the scenes that have been going on. And they were
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  Speaker 1: supposed to meet in Atlanta, but the flight got delayed,
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  Speaker 1: so they just said, all right, let's go Lane Kiffin
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  Speaker 1: and fiery ass on the tarmac at the airport in Miami.
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  Speaker 1: So that's it. It happened, and the overnight hours Paul
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  Speaker 1: clashing with Tylou the Clippers coach there. So those reports
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  Speaker 1: came out today claiming that CP three was very vocal
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  Speaker 1: saying that the Clippers sucked and held the management responsible,
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  Speaker 1: the coaching staff for their malfeasans and his teammates accountable,
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  Speaker 1: and all of this led to, of course pandemonium among
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  Speaker 1: the NBA officiani those unloading. It was a bombing run
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  Speaker 1: on the Clippers. So that is a good jumping off point.
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  Speaker 1: Will work our way to that. But let us discuss
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  Speaker 1: the question, how.
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  Speaker 4: Do you read the room?
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  Speaker 1: How do you read the room? Regarding Chris Paul's hasty
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  Speaker 1: departure from the good Ship Clip which is sinking to
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  Speaker 1: the bottom of the Pacific Division standing. So my thoughts
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  Speaker 1: on this, I've got Dancing with the Stars, Vermont and
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  Speaker 1: Locksmith and we will combine all of these things together
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  Speaker 1: and everything will go according to plan unless it doesn't.
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  Speaker 1: So a the whole Chris Paul Clipper fiasco. It is
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  Speaker 1: a battle of messages right now, and so you knew
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  Speaker 1: this was coming, and it really just depends on who
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  Speaker 1: you want to believe. Who you want to believe. There's
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  Speaker 1: a pr cage match, a steel cage death match in
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  Speaker 1: the cage where both sides are launching spin moves. These
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  Speaker 1: are new dance moves. They're trying to audition for Dancing
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  Speaker 1: with the Stars. You talk about reading the room, This
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  Speaker 1: one's rather easy. It reeks of narrative warfare, hand to hand,
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  Speaker 1: mouth to mouth, narrative warfare. You've got CP three's camp
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  Speaker 1: with his useful idiots, many of them former jocks who
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  Speaker 1: he played with, who are out there trying to sell
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  Speaker 1: you the gospel of accountability. Jesus that CP three is accountability, Jesus,
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  Speaker 1: he is. He was holding everyone accountable. He's the good guy.
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  Speaker 1: The player's staff coaches, the janitor, the person that charges
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  Speaker 1: you too much for parking. All that, right, police, this
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  Speaker 1: is the same ultimate winner. He's the ultimate winner who
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  Speaker 1: never won a damn thing besides State Farm Spokesman of
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  Speaker 1: the decade. That's about it. When he played for the
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  Speaker 1: Clippers and then he sent out this Instagram story which
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  Speaker 1: went around to facetiming Blake Griffin and DeAndre Jordan like
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  Speaker 1: they were reenact the Notebook and it was all smiles,
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  Speaker 1: all kumbai yah, all designed of course to make you
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  Speaker 1: feel like he's this lovable old hoops hero being wrong
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  Speaker 1: by the evil Empire and all this stuff. Now, meanwhile,
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  Speaker 1: the Clippers, they were leaking their own information out, their
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  Speaker 1: own talking points as blunt as a sledgehammer that essentially
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  Speaker 1: through the useful idiots the Clippers were talking to. CP
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  Speaker 1: three is washed up. He was insubordinate. He was the
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  Speaker 1: pebble inside the Nike sneaker, a nuisance, the squeaky wheel,
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  Speaker 1: the gnat. You never go to the barbecue in the
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  Speaker 1: summer and there's a gnat flying around, You're like, boy,
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  Speaker 1: that's really annoying. I don't need that. Why is that
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  Speaker 1: there's more than one? Now, of course we all know
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  Speaker 1: if Chris Paul was actually good. He sucks. If he
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  Speaker 1: was good right now, I was playing as an All
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  Speaker 1: Star and playing big minutes and all that. You swallow it,
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  Speaker 1: you just you handle it. But the guy left that.
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  Speaker 1: That guy left the building years ago. And now Chris
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  Speaker 1: Paul is essentially a flip phone. The good news is
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  Speaker 1: he's got twelve ring tones, which is exciting good nostalgia. However,
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  Speaker 1: utterly useless in the modern era. You know, I was like, well,
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  Speaker 1: it's got the Ringtones, but I know it's a flip poet.
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  Speaker 1: I don't need a flip phone. I want a smartphone.
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  Speaker 1: But it's got the twelve Ringtones, I know. But I
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  Speaker 1: got a thousand on my regular phone anyway. So and
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  Speaker 1: this did not just sour like this thing is beyond that.
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  Speaker 1: It was spoiled, curdled. I think I see some fuzz growing.
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  Speaker 1: He's really bad. It's so bad. I mean, this is
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  Speaker 1: a messy divorce where both sides are swearing they're the victim,
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  Speaker 1: you know, the you know I'm not the bad guy,
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  Speaker 1: they're the bad guy. And of course the truth is
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  Speaker 1: somewhere in the middle, all right, the truth is somewhere
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  Speaker 1: in the middle. Unlucky there everyone's guilty Chris Paul's bad
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  Speaker 1: at basketball. Now he's washed up, and the Clippers there's
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  Speaker 1: no accountability. I don't know what ty Law is doing
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  Speaker 1: or ty Loo ty Law would be better. I don't
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  Speaker 1: know what ty Lou is doing because he's suddenly he's
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  Speaker 1: coaching much. They didn't win against Atlanta, and Atlanta sucks also,
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  Speaker 1: all right now turning the page, page two. So the
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  Speaker 1: question on this, this next part of it, is what
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  Speaker 1: do you make of the outrage? Oh my god, the outrage.
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  Speaker 1: It's not fair because Chris Paul is going to well,
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  Speaker 1: he's been fired. He's not going to get the full
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  Speaker 1: blown farewell tour from the Clippers, although likely will latch
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  Speaker 1: on like a vermin somewhere else. So what do I
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  Speaker 1: make of the outrage machine being cranked up because Chris
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  Speaker 1: Paul was let go during his final season? I say, stop,
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  Speaker 1: if you're bad at spelling, that's stop. Police. Even mouthwashed
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  Speaker 1: Mike roaming around the Belagio in Vegas knows that enough
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  Speaker 1: with the what I call the Vermont maple syrup, it's
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  Speaker 1: gotten really sappy and sticky and extra syrup. At this
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  Speaker 1: point in fact, there are people who are at risk
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  Speaker 1: of diabetic danger. Chris Paul is not Kobe, He's not
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  Speaker 1: Michael Jordan. And I go down to the long big board,
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  Speaker 1: not a list, the big board. Chris Paul is not
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  Speaker 1: getting a rocking chair gift at half court every city
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  Speaker 1: he goes to. He's just not. And there's the reasons
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  Speaker 1: why that is Because during the Lob City now this
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  Speaker 1: is the SOB city here, but the Lob City ere
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  Speaker 1: of Clipper basketball, when the bright's when the light lights
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  Speaker 1: got the brightest, right bright lights, big city, big playoff games,
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  Speaker 1: big moments for Chris Paul, the lights flickered and CP
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  Speaker 1: three I heard, Oh, I got he's so good, he's
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  Speaker 1: so great, he's so amazing. And he's also like Copperfield
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  Speaker 1: or Penn and Teller or Houdini. In the fourth quarter disappeared.
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  Speaker 1: Whether it was because he couldn't play well or he
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  Speaker 1: just got hurt, he wasn't there when the Clippers needed
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  Speaker 1: him most to make plays down the stretch. And you
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  Speaker 1: fast forward from that era to where we are now
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  Speaker 1: here in twenty twenty five, and the man's absolutely cooked.
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  Speaker 1: It's like a rotisserie chicken that's been spinning for several
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  Speaker 1: days and you got to throw that bad boy away,
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  Speaker 1: and if you take the name out, you do the
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  Speaker 1: call the challenge. If you take the name off the
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  Speaker 1: back of the jersey of Chris Paul, all right, you
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  Speaker 1: take it out, and you just look at the skill set.
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  Speaker 1: He would not sniff. He would not sniff an NBA roster.
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  Speaker 1: The way he's played, He's basically a hood ornament at
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  Speaker 1: this point. Who can I guess, sit on his backside
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  Speaker 1: for forty five minutes a night and enjoy the view
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  Speaker 1: from the bench and then come in in garbage time
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  Speaker 1: and get old Cardio in and the crowd will cheer
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  Speaker 1: him on. And that's it. And now, of course people
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  Speaker 1: want a league wide tear filled goodbye journey, a tour,
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  Speaker 1: which I'm nauseating when even the players that deserve those
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  Speaker 1: get those things, I think it's ridiculous. All those things
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  Speaker 1: are sickening. This is nauseating. I don't need the schmaltzy overload.
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  Speaker 1: I realize I'm in the minority on that and that
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  Speaker 1: so many fanboys I don't I don't need it, I
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  Speaker 1: don't tune in for it. I don't really care about it.
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  Speaker 1: And ultimately, though a lot of this, a lot of
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  Speaker 1: what's gone on the last twenty four hours or so.
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  Speaker 1: The dog pile is because of what I call CJ.
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  Speaker 1: Clipper jealousy. It is, and most of it's being driven
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  Speaker 1: by bot farms being run by Laker historians. You know,
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  Speaker 1: these people losers, these absolute losers, like Rick and Fresno
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  Speaker 1: and some of these other guys, the ones who whine
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  Speaker 1: that the basketball gods, the besketball gods, they're being They're
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  Speaker 1: in denial that they're being given all this stuff. You know,
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  Speaker 1: Lakers always get the shiny toys, you know, being fed.
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  Speaker 1: It's like a funnel. They're fed the top player. Every
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  Speaker 1: five or seven years, they get the top guy, whoever
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  Speaker 1: that might be. It's just a coincience. Of course, there's
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  Speaker 1: no grand conspiracy by the league office. But I digress.
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  Speaker 1: But these people are bathing and shot in freude, shot
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  Speaker 1: in freuda. Yes, they're taking joy out of other people's misery.
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  Speaker 1: They love seeing the Clippers trip over their own shoelaces
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  Speaker 1: and all that. But farewell tour for Chris Paul, save
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  Speaker 1: the marching band for the Rose Parade or whatever. I mean,
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  Speaker 1: just I don't need it. I don't need it. I
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  Speaker 1: don't need it. I don't need it. I meanwhile, we
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  Speaker 1: head from Inglewood in the upod By the way, Chris
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  Speaker 1: Paul is gonna end up on the bench somewhere he can.
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  Speaker 1: He's never won anything, maybe he can like latch on
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  Speaker 1: to the be the Kaboos for Oklahoma City, go win
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  Speaker 1: a championship and there'll be seven people watching, all right
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  Speaker 1: now other than Kyrie and okay. See so the last
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  Speaker 1: word here to Milwaukee we go where a Milwaukee Bucks star,
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  Speaker 1: Giannis a dent the Komo. He felt down, goes Yannis down,
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  Speaker 1: goes Yanis. He fell to the floor non contact injury
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  Speaker 1: early in the first quarter, was ruled out. After that,
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  Speaker 1: we'll see if there's anything major that comes out of
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  Speaker 1: that or not. That sound at this hour like there is,
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  Speaker 1: but who knows. It's the NBA the bigger story for
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  Speaker 1: our purposes right now. Subplot subplot, Giannis adent to Cumbo
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  Speaker 1: and his agent are said to be in deep negotiations
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  Speaker 1: and conversations with the brass of the Milwaukee Bucks while
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  Speaker 1: they're eating cheese curds, and it's all about the future
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  Speaker 1: of the multi time most valuable player, the greatest player
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  Speaker 1: in Milwaukee Bucks history, all right, and discussing whether or
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  Speaker 1: not he should stay in Wisconsin or go somewhere else
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  Speaker 1: and play pro bouncy ball in the way. Resolution so
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  Speaker 1: these talks is expected in the coming weeks. Oh, the
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  Speaker 1: plot thickens. Trade deadline is February fifth, which might seem
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  Speaker 1: like it's a long time from now, but when you
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  Speaker 1: factor in the holidays and it'll be here before you
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  Speaker 1: know it. So the question can you unravel? Can you
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  Speaker 1: unravel what this janis? Adenta Kumbo meeting with the buck
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  Speaker 1: big shots means all right, yeah, so we'll do this.
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  Speaker 1: It's not that hard. So the Yannis Bucks meet and greet.
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  Speaker 1: This is not some warm and fuzzy coffee chat over
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  Speaker 1: a Starbucks. This is not what that is. No, this
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  Speaker 1: is the NBA's version of a Godfather sit down or
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  Speaker 1: the walkie talkie. You know, the Mob would do the
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  Speaker 1: walkie talkie because they figured nobody could bug them if
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  Speaker 1: they were doing the walkie talkie, meaning spy in their conversations.
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  Speaker 1: But it's business. It's not personal. It's business. And we've
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  Speaker 1: seen this move and this movie before, right, It's a
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  Speaker 1: paint by number situation if you pay attention to this stuff.
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  Speaker 1: The exact script is followed verbatim every superstar who becomes
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  Speaker 1: disgruntled follows this script right before they call the locksmith
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  Speaker 1: and say, hey, I need a locksmith because I'm moving
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  Speaker 1: and and I've got a change of address slip I've
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  Speaker 1: got to fill out. I get do it online. I'll
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  Speaker 1: do it on my phone. But remember, Giannis already flirted
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  Speaker 1: with the Knickerbockers this offseason, so that wasn't an accident.
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  Speaker 1: It was not like it was an accident. This was
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  Speaker 1: a trial balloon, a little test run to see how
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  Speaker 1: the basketball world would react if the Greek freak started
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  Speaker 1: browsing penthouses on the Upper East Side of Manhattan and
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  Speaker 1: he returned to Milwaukee, right came back, it's been playing
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  Speaker 1: and the Bucks are under five hundred and so now
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  Speaker 1: he also this week, the other paint by numbers move
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  Speaker 1: is Yiannis scrubbed his socials of any reference to the
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  Speaker 1: hometown team. Right, the Bucks under five hundred. He scrubbed
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  Speaker 1: the Socials like he was cleaning the casino floor at
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  Speaker 1: three in the morning. And that's the modern super star
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  Speaker 1: version of a smoke signal. It's like when they name
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  Speaker 1: a new pope at the Vatican. You've got the white
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  Speaker 1: smoke that's the white smoke from the star player when
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  Speaker 1: they start deleting any reference to their employer, and it's
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  Speaker 1: Yanni's telling the box, hey, it's been fun, but I
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  Speaker 1: gotta run. I gotta run, And the vultures are out now.
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  Speaker 1: The Nicks of the favorite on the gambling market. The
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  Speaker 1: Knickerbockers are the favorite because that's where he wants to play. However,
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  Speaker 1: don't discount teams like the Warriors, the Rockheads, the Celtics.
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  Speaker 1: Big game hunters, polishing their rifles right now and they're
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  Speaker 1: going out to try to get that big one. Big
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  Speaker 1: game hunting, big game hunting. And in today's NBA, the
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  Speaker 1: way it works, it's been this way for a while,
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  Speaker 1: the star player, the star headliner can hand pick hands
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  Speaker 1: select their next tull. It's kind of like ordering off
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  Speaker 1: a tasting menu. I don't know if I want that.
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  Speaker 1: It's a little too tart. I don't know if I
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  Speaker 1: want tart. I'm not sure about that. And so Yiannis
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  Speaker 1: is the one setting the chessboard, and Milwaukee is the
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  Speaker 1: one who's in a position where they're one wrong move
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  Speaker 1: away and they're gonna hear checkmate is what they're gonna get.
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  Speaker 1: And I heard that from William Shatner years ago. Checkmate,
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  Speaker 1: that was what Chatner gave me in our spats with
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  Speaker 1: Shats so many years ago. How fun was that?
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  Speaker 1: not our maiden voyage in the Hotstow League. So our
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  Speaker 1: lead this hour is from the speculation machine in baseball,
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  Speaker 1: as we have the winter meetings upcoming and there's a
• 21:27
  Speaker 1: big build up and things get quiet over Christmas and
• 21:32
  Speaker 1: New Years, and normally what happens in recent years is
• 21:35
  Speaker 1: there's always like three or four players and for whatever
• 21:39
  Speaker 1: reason don't sign, and then they go right into spring
• 21:44
  Speaker 1: training and have to sign in mid February. So you
• 21:47
  Speaker 1: normally want to get that money right away. It's a
• 21:50
  Speaker 1: little different this year because it's expected that there will
• 21:53
  Speaker 1: be a work stoppage upcoming in baseball, so that'll change
• 21:56
  Speaker 1: things a bit, and so the money will it be
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  Speaker 1: be harder. You would assume you can't go in there
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  Speaker 1: expecting you can get the full them out. We'll see
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  Speaker 1: what that brings. Getting bonkers in baseball. Being a bonker's
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  Speaker 1: I saw this, I was like, I thought, well, this
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  Speaker 1: must be satire, this must be satire. Story out of Cincinnati.
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  Speaker 1: The Reds. The Red Legs are interested in making a
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  Speaker 1: run to the top of the free agency board, and
• 22:26
  Speaker 1: they want to Kyle Schwarber bomb a schwarb bomb Kyle Schwarber.
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  Speaker 1: That's the guy that hit a bunch of home runs
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  Speaker 1: for the Phillies last year. Of course, the Phillies have
• 22:37
  Speaker 1: more money. Generally, if you have deeper pockets that can
• 22:40
  Speaker 1: hold more money, you get the player. So I don't
• 22:43
  Speaker 1: see if you saw this in now. So Schwarber is
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  Speaker 1: from the outskirts of Cincinnati's from Ohio, about thirty five
• 22:53
  Speaker 1: forty miles or so from Cincinnati proper, from Middletown, Ohio. Middletown, Ohio.
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  Speaker 1: So he's he's in the suburbs of Cincinnati. And the
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  Speaker 1: story goes that he's interested in a possible homecoming and
• 23:08
  Speaker 1: Reds would give him a chance to play near all
• 23:10
  Speaker 1: his friends and family all the time. And they have
• 23:13
  Speaker 1: Terry Francona and his championship pedigree and all that stuff,
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  Speaker 1: and played the Dodgers and the playoffs. Got smoked in
• 23:20
  Speaker 1: the wildcard round, although it's hardly anything that wildcard rounds
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  Speaker 1: really for Gayzy. So the problem, of course is that
• 23:28
  Speaker 1: if it does come down to money, it's being polite here.
• 23:32
  Speaker 1: The Reds have no chance. So that's a good jumping
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  Speaker 1: off point. Now, then they could always just raise money
• 23:38
  Speaker 1: from Justin and Cincinnati and just Josh and some of
• 23:41
  Speaker 1: our other great Ohio listeners and could throw them in
• 23:45
  Speaker 1: and do that. But the question, thumbs up or thumbs down?
• 23:52
  Speaker 1: Thumbs up or thumbs down, are the Reds a legitimate
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  Speaker 1: contender for Kyle Schwarber, the hometown kid. So my observations,
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  Speaker 1: I've got war Daddy, household, hazardous waste, and DreamWorks, and
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  Speaker 1: we will throw all of these things together and we
• 24:12
  Speaker 1: are going to run the gamut, is what we're going
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  Speaker 1: to do. So Number one, this is baseball Kabooki theater
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  Speaker 1: at its finest. The Cincinnati Reds, bless their frugal little hearts,
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  Speaker 1: They're out there playing pretend that they can match up
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  Speaker 1: with the big boys of baseball. In that cute, In
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  Speaker 1: that cute, they're upside down, upside down, putting on their
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  Speaker 1: Sunday best the church clothes, and acting like they're ready
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  Speaker 1: to run with the big dogs. Gonna run with the
• 24:46
  Speaker 1: big dogs, of course, in reality, to use the dog
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  Speaker 1: pound lingo, the Cincinnati Reds are like a little Yorkie,
• 24:54
  Speaker 1: a little Yorky yapping, very loud, little Yorkie behind the
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  Speaker 1: fence while the fillid Helfia Phillies casually and arrogantly stroll
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  Speaker 1: by like a pack of Rottweilder's. So I'm gonna go
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  Speaker 1: thumbs down. Thumbs down is what I'm doing here. The
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  Speaker 1: Reds know exactly what's going on. And we see this
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  Speaker 1: every so often. And I been around the block a
• 25:19
  Speaker 1: couple of times, and I'm a talk show host, so
• 25:22
  Speaker 1: I don't mind my own bees wax and all that stuff.
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  Speaker 1: So here's what this is, until proven otherwise. And this
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  Speaker 1: is a dirty little trick that professional sports teams do.
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  Speaker 1: You've probably it depends what team you like, but your
• 25:35
  Speaker 1: team's probably done this. So you make a token offer. Okay,
• 25:41
  Speaker 1: you make a token offer to the big free agent,
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  Speaker 1: and the good faith handshake, the like this would be like, hey, Kyle,
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  Speaker 1: we know you're from here. We'd love to have you
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  Speaker 1: come home. Give the whole speech. You talk about how
• 25:55
  Speaker 1: your family can come watch you play, your high school buddies,
• 25:59
  Speaker 1: your elementary school teachers can come watch it play. You know,
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  Speaker 1: just lay it on really thick, just thick, like a
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  Speaker 1: thick molt and knowing full well that Schwarber is gonna
• 26:10
  Speaker 1: stiff arm you and go right to the highest bidder.
• 26:14
  Speaker 1: He's gonna push you into the nearest cornfield. But for
• 26:17
  Speaker 1: the low information fan, that the casual that doesn't really
• 26:21
  Speaker 1: pay attention, say boom, the Reds tried, they tried, They
• 26:25
  Speaker 1: just don't have enough Moody. They tried, you know, optics marketing,
• 26:29
  Speaker 1: all of that stuff, season ticket sugar coating. Meanwhile, Schwarbs,
• 26:35
  Speaker 1: who's on the hunt for that last Glory Road payday
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  Speaker 1: and he's at the intersection, Kyle Schwarbert of Glory Road
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  Speaker 1: and the Yellow Brick Road paved with Benjamin Franklin's that's
• 26:49
  Speaker 1: what he wants. He's right there, Glory Road converses with
• 26:52
  Speaker 1: Yellow Brick Road. The man Monster mashed fifty six homers.
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  Speaker 1: That's a lot of dinger stinging, ding ding ding. That's
• 26:59
  Speaker 1: a lot of thingers drove in one hundred and thirty
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  Speaker 1: two runs for the Fighting Phills. You don't slap a
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  Speaker 1: discount sticker after a season like that. That is a
• 27:09
  Speaker 1: war daddy performance by Kyle Schwarber. He was ooey gooey,
• 27:15
  Speaker 1: baseball goodness is what he was. That's s'mores level. Now,
• 27:19
  Speaker 1: I'm not a big smores guy. Everyone saw you go
• 27:22
  Speaker 1: out camping. You feel like it's a right of passage.
• 27:25
  Speaker 1: If you go camping, you gotta have some smores and
• 27:26
  Speaker 1: all that. I get that chalk that the marshmallows, the
• 27:28
  Speaker 1: Graham crackers, all that delicious. But only once in a while,
• 27:31
  Speaker 1: if you need it too much, it's like not so good.
• 27:33
  Speaker 1: But Cincinnati's not a real contender. They're not. They're the
• 27:37
  Speaker 1: window shopper, not the buyers what they are. The Phillies
• 27:42
  Speaker 1: will simply drop the bag. They'll nod politely and say hey,
• 27:47
  Speaker 1: and they'll walk away, uh with with Schwarber like they're
• 27:51
  Speaker 1: picking up their dry cleaning. You know, I've got my
• 27:53
  Speaker 1: I need my Can I get my jacket? Okay, yeah,
• 27:55
  Speaker 1: I got to jack. What well, my wife's got a dress.
• 27:57
  Speaker 1: Can we get that shore We'll get you that as well.
• 27:59
  Speaker 1: But keep an eye on the the Red Sox. Also
• 28:01
  Speaker 1: the Texas Rangers. Teams like that. The Mets, they spent
• 28:05
  Speaker 1: a lot of money. I don't know about the Padres.
• 28:08
  Speaker 1: I've heard the Podres mentioned. I feel like they're gonna
• 28:10
  Speaker 1: down grade and get rid of some guys this offseason.
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  Speaker 1: All right, now, page two to la the raining back
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  Speaker 1: to back champions of Major League Baseball talking baseball. Yeah,
• 28:22
  Speaker 1: so the Dodgers, big money, big money, big money. No
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  Speaker 1: emmy nommys stop. Yeah, big money, big money. All right.
• 28:29
  Speaker 1: So the Dodgers manager, who I have fired no less
• 28:33
  Speaker 1: than twelve times over the years, Dave Roberts, is now
• 28:37
  Speaker 1: endorsing the draconian salary cap.
• 28:40
  Speaker 4: Did you see this?
• 28:42
  Speaker 1: Yeah, the guy said, We're gonna go out and ruin baseball,
• 28:45
  Speaker 1: Dave Roberts. So the question Dodgers managed. Dave Roberts said
• 28:48
  Speaker 1: he supports a Major League Baseball plan for a salary
• 28:52
  Speaker 1: cap and a salary floor. He did this in a
• 28:55
  Speaker 1: recent television interview. Do you believe that this would be
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  Speaker 1: the magic plus cebo to fix baseball?
• 29:04
  Speaker 4: All right?
• 29:05
  Speaker 1: So this let me explain this, and I've talked about
• 29:07
  Speaker 1: this in the past and previous episodes of the show,
• 29:09
  Speaker 1: and I don't want to lose my mind on this again.
• 29:12
  Speaker 1: I don't need to do that. I'm sure we're talking
• 29:14
  Speaker 1: about this issue more as we go forward. Just soar
• 29:17
  Speaker 1: on the same page. But my position. The thumbnail recap
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  Speaker 1: of this. This will fix baseball the same way if
• 29:24
  Speaker 1: you have a sinkhole, you just put some duct tape
• 29:27
  Speaker 1: together and you'll fix the sinkhole. Everything will be fine.
• 29:29
  Speaker 1: Just well, it's a big foal. I know, it's a
• 29:31
  Speaker 1: big hole. But we've got some really good We've got
• 29:33
  Speaker 1: some duct tape and you know what, I'll throw in
• 29:34
  Speaker 1: some gorilla glue. So we'll get the duct tape and
• 29:37
  Speaker 1: the gorilla glue and then we'll be good. But it's
• 29:39
  Speaker 1: a sinkhole, I know, But just go with it. Why not?
• 29:42
  Speaker 1: So Dave Roberts knows it's not happy the union and
• 29:47
  Speaker 1: he was part of that as a player. The Union
• 29:49
  Speaker 1: would turn this thing into a civil war followed by
• 29:52
  Speaker 1: a nuclear winter. You would need a hazmat suit just
• 29:56
  Speaker 1: to attend the bargaining sessions if that would happen. And
• 29:59
  Speaker 1: the very notion that a salary floor magically, it's like
• 30:04
  Speaker 1: magically delicious. It will create this competitive balance that all
• 30:07
  Speaker 1: you people want pollaise. This has already been debunked. It
• 30:11
  Speaker 1: has already been debunked. Only the unsophisticated rubes by that nonsense.
• 30:18
  Speaker 1: So let me use some malord math on this. I'll
• 30:20
  Speaker 1: give you some other math. So the salary cap floor,
• 30:23
  Speaker 1: whatever it is, whatever the salary cap floor is, does
• 30:26
  Speaker 1: not build contenders. What it does is it builds toxic
• 30:31
  Speaker 1: waste uh depots, if you will, for bad contracts like
• 30:36
  Speaker 1: we've seen the we've seen this, We've read the book.
• 30:38
  Speaker 1: We've read the book before. For example, I'll give you
• 30:41
  Speaker 1: an example. Let's say the Red Sox, the Boston Red Sox,
• 30:43
  Speaker 1: about they sign a guy a picture. It turns out,
• 30:46
  Speaker 1: you know, it's good for a couple of years, and
• 30:47
  Speaker 1: then he gets hurt. He's by the time he's got
• 30:50
  Speaker 1: like three or four years left in the contract, he's
• 30:52
  Speaker 1: a thirty four year old picture with a ucl stitched
• 30:55
  Speaker 1: together like a quilt and a contract fatter than a
• 31:00
  Speaker 1: buffet back when they used to have good buffets in Vegas,
• 31:02
  Speaker 1: Like really big contract, right, Tommy John A couple of times,
• 31:05
  Speaker 1: what do you do? You ship them off to Pittsburgh?
• 31:08
  Speaker 1: Or how about the Dodgers, Say the Dodgers have a
• 31:10
  Speaker 1: thirty seven year old slugger who's hitting a buck sixty
• 31:12
  Speaker 1: with four home runs in the bat speed of a
• 31:15
  Speaker 1: rotary phone. What are you gonna do? You send them
• 31:17
  Speaker 1: to West Sacramento, to the Athletics in West Sacramento, and
• 31:21
  Speaker 1: they will gladly take him. And the reason those teams
• 31:24
  Speaker 1: will take them is because they need to reach the floor.
• 31:27
  Speaker 1: You've got to reach. The floor is lava. You have
• 31:30
  Speaker 1: to reach the floor. They'll become the household the teams
• 31:33
  Speaker 1: like the A's and the Pirates and Marlins and Tampa Bay,
• 31:38
  Speaker 1: these type of teams will become the household hazardous waste
• 31:41
  Speaker 1: collection center of Major League Baseball. Bring your expired meds
• 31:44
  Speaker 1: and your useless veterans and we'll take them all. A
• 31:47
  Speaker 1: cap doesn't fix baseball, it does not, and a floor
• 31:51
  Speaker 1: does not fix it. It just makes tanking easier. The
• 31:54
  Speaker 1: problem is the lack of ambition. And it's a dirty
• 31:59
  Speaker 1: little secret that everyone kind of knows about. It's an
• 32:01
  Speaker 1: open secret that you don't really have to try to
• 32:04
  Speaker 1: make money. You don't have to sell tickets to make money.
• 32:07
  Speaker 1: You don't even have to get people to watch your
• 32:09
  Speaker 1: games on TV to make money. It's it's the kind
• 32:13
  Speaker 1: of a business where just by owning it you're going
• 32:17
  Speaker 1: to make money. Now, the way that a lot of
• 32:19
  Speaker 1: these teams are complaining they're not making enough money is
• 32:21
  Speaker 1: the oldest trick in the book is like, well, we
• 32:23
  Speaker 1: made Let's take a random team and we use of course,
• 32:27
  Speaker 1: this is for entertainment purposes only. But let's take a
• 32:29
  Speaker 1: team the Cleveland the Indian slash Guardians. I guess its
• 32:33
  Speaker 1: called the Guardians now because you wokesters. But the team
• 32:35
  Speaker 1: in Cleveland, let's say in twenty twenty four, they made
• 32:41
  Speaker 1: a profit out of all the expenses and all that
• 32:44
  Speaker 1: that's said, they cleared forty five million dollars. Okay, it's
• 32:48
  Speaker 1: a lot of money, not maybe as much as saying
• 32:51
  Speaker 1: but let's just say forty five million just for the
• 32:52
  Speaker 1: purposes of this demonstration. So forty five million. And then
• 32:57
  Speaker 1: you pivot to twenty twenty five and they they made
• 33:01
  Speaker 1: they only made this year, they made twenty five million.
• 33:05
  Speaker 1: So then the ownership in Cleveland said, well, we lost
• 33:07
  Speaker 1: twenty million dollars. This is not sustainable. You still made
• 33:11
  Speaker 1: twenty five million. Numb nuts, But yeah, but we made
• 33:15
  Speaker 1: forty five the year before. Who he lost twenty No,
• 33:17
  Speaker 1: he didn't lose twenty million dollars, dumb, dumb. But the
• 33:21
  Speaker 1: main issue is teams that just don't really care. They
• 33:23
  Speaker 1: just don't care, and they're they're just kind of hanging
• 33:27
  Speaker 1: out and they're malingering is what they are now. Final
• 33:31
  Speaker 1: point to New York City. We go and after agreeing
• 33:36
  Speaker 1: to a ridonculous deal with the New York Metropolitans relief pitcher,
• 33:40
  Speaker 1: Devin Williams decided, Hey, I'm a Met, now let me
• 33:43
  Speaker 1: take a swipe at the Yankee fan. He did this
• 33:46
  Speaker 1: on the Gram Instagram, Yeah, he did it. On Instagram.
• 33:52
  Speaker 1: Williams posted quote for a bunch of people that didn't
• 33:56
  Speaker 1: want me back on your team, y'all sure are mad
• 33:59
  Speaker 1: in the DM, highlighting Devin williams apparent frustration with the
• 34:07
  Speaker 1: inconsistent fans support by the kiddos in the Bronx. So
• 34:13
  Speaker 1: the question how do you read Mets reliever Devin Williams
• 34:19
  Speaker 1: busting the chops of Yankee fans on social media? So
• 34:25
  Speaker 1: on this one, Devin Williams has officially entered. Based on
• 34:29
  Speaker 1: a minute long deliberation by The Ben Mather Show, Devin
• 34:33
  Speaker 1: Williams has officially entered his DreamWorks animation era. The guy
• 34:38
  Speaker 1: leaves the Bronx and immediately stars in Trolls three. The
• 34:42
  Speaker 1: Queen's addition, yes, cannot help yourself, cannot do it? No
• 34:47
  Speaker 1: chance can I do it's classic internet malpractice. Classic internet malpractice.
• 34:53
  Speaker 1: You'd think after years in Milwaukee and a cup of
• 34:58
  Speaker 1: coffee with the Yankees, like five. His biggest contribution with
• 35:02
  Speaker 1: the Yankees is they thought he was so good that
• 35:06
  Speaker 1: they changed their facial hair policy to coddle Devin Williams
• 35:11
  Speaker 1: so he could go out there and have an ERA
• 35:13
  Speaker 1: of almost five. If they had known he was going
• 35:15
  Speaker 1: to pitch like that, they'd still have the facial hair
• 35:17
  Speaker 1: policy in the Bronx. But nonetheless, listen the rule number one.
• 35:23
  Speaker 1: Rule number one is of the Internet. Don't you don't
• 35:27
  Speaker 1: feed the trolls. Feeding the trolls only creates more trolls.
• 35:31
  Speaker 1: You don't do it. And most of the trolls are
• 35:33
  Speaker 1: not real anyway, They're all bought farms in Moldova. And
• 35:37
  Speaker 1: so instead my man, my pots and pans, my man
• 35:41
  Speaker 1: Devin Williams. He dives in headfirst like he's bobbing for
• 35:46
  Speaker 1: apples at a frat party. And in the Yankee fans,
• 35:50
  Speaker 1: now they should be thrilled. This guy's gone. He's the
• 35:55
  Speaker 1: poster boy. If somebody can't handle pressure in Yankee Stadium
• 36:00
  Speaker 1: was four to seventy nine. The dude goes out post
• 36:03
  Speaker 1: A four to seventy nine era, which in baseball terms,
• 36:06
  Speaker 1: if you're a shutdown closer, means you sucked precisely when
• 36:11
  Speaker 1: you're not allowed to suck. That is a felony as
• 36:15
  Speaker 1: a closer and in the Bronx, and his punishment is
• 36:20
  Speaker 1: that he goes across to the Mets and they cut
• 36:23
  Speaker 1: him a check for fifty one minute. I think E
• 36:26
  Speaker 1: Dog is the one that cut him that check there.
• 36:27
  Speaker 1: I believe E Dog on Long Island, I took care
• 36:30
  Speaker 1: of him. But you talk about falling upward like this
• 36:33
  Speaker 1: guy's got anti gravity boots strapped on, like he's training
• 36:38
  Speaker 1: for NASA, and now he's chirping at the Yankee fans
• 36:43
  Speaker 1: and his DMS and all that stuff, and you'll save
• 36:45
  Speaker 1: the inspirational speech, is big fella. Okay, the trolls are
• 36:49
  Speaker 1: the only reason anyone's talking about you. And it is December,
• 36:53
  Speaker 1: But welcome to Queens, Devin. You might want to bring
• 36:55
  Speaker 1: a helmet there, because the Mets fans will be doing
• 36:57
  Speaker 1: the same thing by about May first. By about May first,
• 37:01
  Speaker 1: they'll be doing the same thing. Mark my words, mark
• 37:06
  Speaker 1: my words.
• 37:06
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• 37:12
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• 37:19
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• 37:23
  Speaker 7: The Lions have not won back to back game since
• 37:25
  Speaker 7: Week five, and on Tuesday, Dan Campbell said that the
• 37:28
  Speaker 7: team's margin for ERA is small. Then do you think
• 37:31
  Speaker 7: that the Lions could miss out on the playoffs? Oh?
• 37:34
  Speaker 1: Absolutely, I mean they're not in the playoffs now, and
• 37:36
  Speaker 1: then they got the Cowboys tonight, they got the Rams.
• 37:39
  Speaker 1: They gotta still play. They gotta play the Bears, although
• 37:41
  Speaker 1: they absolutely smoke the Bears the last time they played them,
• 37:44
  Speaker 1: So yeah, it's legit. They've already lost five games. They
• 37:48
  Speaker 1: don't have a lot of margin. Bearer, They don't feel
• 37:51
  Speaker 1: like a playoff team the way they play. They feel
• 37:53
  Speaker 1: like a like a Steeler team, a five hundred type team.
• 37:56
  Speaker 4: Next the Giant Joe Shane. Joe Shane the Giants GM.
• 38:04
  Speaker 7: Joe Shane told the media this week that quote, the
• 38:07
  Speaker 7: pieces are there for the Giants and that he has
• 38:09
  Speaker 7: confidence that they will find the right coach to lead
• 38:11
  Speaker 7: the organization.
• 38:12
  Speaker 4: Ben, do you think the Giants are the right head coach?
• 38:16
  Speaker 4: Away from it all clicking?
• 38:17
  Speaker 1: Well, here's what's gonna happen. I saw a little bit
• 38:19
  Speaker 1: of that Joe Shane news conferce. We didn't talk about
• 38:21
  Speaker 1: it on the show. Joe Shane's gonna be fired at
• 38:23
  Speaker 1: the end of the year, total debacle. He did not
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  Speaker 1: handle that. Well, he won't be there, so he won't
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  Speaker 1: be hiring the coach. Yeah, if you hire a good coach,
• 38:32
  Speaker 1: you can win. The Rams suck for years. They hired
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  Speaker 1: Sean McVay. But if you hire a coach and knows
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  Speaker 1: what they're doing and get halfway decent players, it's not
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  Speaker 1: that hard.
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  Speaker 7: Next, it was imported Tuesday that UNC has committed to
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  Speaker 7: Bill Belichick quote for at least one more year. Ben,
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  Speaker 7: do you think that Belichick will actually last another year
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  Speaker 7: at North Carolina.
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  Speaker 1: Well, Belichick is trying to move the moutains to get
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  Speaker 1: an NFL head coaching job. He's working back channels. He's
• 38:55
  Speaker 1: using all his buddies to try to massage owners to
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  Speaker 1: get a job. If if you can get a job
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  Speaker 1: in the NFL is gone. I don't think he can
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  Speaker 1: be able to get a job. I would like to
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  Speaker 1: see him in the NFL, the chances are very low,
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  Speaker 1: so I think therefore he goes back to North Carolina
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  Speaker 1: Wait ask Ben?
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  Speaker 8: Twitter said us your questions on Twitter now and away
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  Speaker 8: we go to ask Man. Your questions are answers for
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  Speaker 8: the rest of the hour and the reading of the question,
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  Speaker 7: Of all right, Ben, this is a question for you.
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  Speaker 7: All right, I guess that's for everybody. I think it's
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  Speaker 7: for you.
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  Speaker 4: Donkey sausage size, Donkey, hi doggy?
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  Speaker 7: What he says other than then let me correct your
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  Speaker 7: work here, Donkey's sausage other than Bullball's jerky.
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  Speaker 4: What is the most exotic thing that you have eaten.
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  Speaker 1: I'm trying to think I have a pretty basic palate
• 40:25
  Speaker 1: when it comes to food. I don't really leave the
• 40:27
  Speaker 1: I know what I like, and I like what I like,
• 40:29
  Speaker 1: and that's all I want. And so I'm trying to think,
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  Speaker 1: like what else I did eat? At one time? I
• 40:34
  Speaker 1: ate chicken fingers and I thought I was eating honey mustard,
• 40:37
  Speaker 1: and I put a giant spoonful of horse radish into
• 40:41
  Speaker 1: my mouth and I cried. I cried like a baby.
• 40:46
  Speaker 1: It was so painful. But I don't eat exotic things, Lorraine.
• 40:51
  Speaker 1: Any weird stuff you.
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  Speaker 9: Eat, Pete, Oh yeah, yeah, I got sent that pack
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  Speaker 9: of really weird beef jerkys.
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  Speaker 1: Oh yeah, you ate all that.
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  Speaker 4: I'm still working my way through it.
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  Speaker 9: But the python was a very interesting one for sure.
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  Speaker 1: The python.
• 41:05
  Speaker 9: Yeah, I like snails to the s cargo.
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  Speaker 1: I'm a big fan who does cool.
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  Speaker 4: I have also had s cargo.
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  Speaker 7: I have had iguana, grilled iguana ooh fans. Yeah. And
• 41:20
  Speaker 7: I think I've had alligator and a couple other things
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  Speaker 7: that I can't think of right now.
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  Speaker 1: All right, Well, what is next year's ask? Ben? Your
• 41:29
  Speaker 1: questions are answers for the rest of the hour, the
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  Speaker 1: whole hour. This is from Cowboy Killa High Cowboy.
• 41:37
  Speaker 7: He wants to know what outside temperature do you consider cold?
• 41:43
  Speaker 1: Yeah, so that's a good question. I As I've gotten older,
• 41:46
  Speaker 1: I guess I get a little colder than I used to.
• 41:49
  Speaker 1: I don't really think it's cold until it's like to me,
• 41:53
  Speaker 1: it's like under fifty degrees, I think it's really kind
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  Speaker 1: of cold. But I think it's cool between fifty in sixty.
• 42:01
  Speaker 1: It's cold under fifty, so i'd say under fifty, what about.
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  Speaker 4: You, Lorena?
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  Speaker 9: Under seventy is cold for me.
• 42:10
  Speaker 4: And also I need to be in the sun.
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  Speaker 1: So if it's like if you gotta grow some hair
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  Speaker 1: on you, even.
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  Speaker 9: If it's low seventies and it's in the shade, I
• 42:18
  Speaker 9: will be cold.
• 42:20
  Speaker 1: Wow, such a California softie. What about you, Coop?
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  Speaker 7: I think I agree with you, Ben. I gotta go
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  Speaker 7: like right around fifty or under.
• 42:28
  Speaker 1: Yeah, you usually get said it's at night, and even
• 42:30
  Speaker 1: in California, we do, you know in the valley it
• 42:33
  Speaker 1: gets into the forties at night often this time of
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  Speaker 1: the year. Actually, it's fifty.
• 42:36
  Speaker 9: Three right now and I'm really cold when I walk outside.
• 42:39
  Speaker 1: Yeah, all right? What is when you see your breath?
• 42:42
  Speaker 1: It's like, yeah, all right, what's next? What do you got?
• 42:45
  Speaker 4: Adrian would like to know what is yo?
• 42:47
  Speaker 1: Adrian? Yo? Adrian?
• 42:48
  Speaker 4: What is everyone's favorite Christmas movie?
• 42:52
  Speaker 1: Die Hard? No? Harry Potter, Harry Potter. Yeah, exactly. What
• 43:00
  Speaker 1: do I watch? Every last couple of years, we watched Elf.
• 43:04
  Speaker 1: That was not my favorite before, but the last couple
• 43:06
  Speaker 1: of years, I'll go with that. Lorena, that's a good one.
• 43:10
  Speaker 9: Miracle on thirty fourth Street is one of my favorites.
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  Speaker 9: But yeah, no, no, that's a that's a Christmas story.
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  Speaker 9: Also a really.
• 43:20
  Speaker 7: Good movie, The Miracle on three whatever three fourth Street threes.
• 43:24
  Speaker 9: That's the one with where Santa Claus gets arrested.
• 43:26
  Speaker 1: Yeah.
• 43:26
  Speaker 7: Yeah, Santa Claus is played by the guy in Jurassic Park.
• 43:29
  Speaker 9: Yeah, and it's got Young Matilda in it.
• 43:31
  Speaker 4: Yes, yeah, it's super cute.
• 43:32
  Speaker 1: Love that movie.
• 43:35
  Speaker 7: No, mine's the Santa Claus. No, it's the Santa Claus
• 43:39
  Speaker 7: with Tim Allen.
• 43:40
  Speaker 1: What about Bad Chance?
• 43:41
  Speaker 4: Like I love Bad Santa. That's a great movie.
• 43:43
  Speaker 1: It's not a bad movie. It is not a bad movie.
• 43:46
  Speaker 1: All right, what is next? It's ask ben your question
• 43:48
  Speaker 1: to answers. If you like it, we're here every week.
• 43:51
  Speaker 1: If you don't like it, yeah, who cares? This once
• 43:54
  Speaker 1: a week?
• 43:54
  Speaker 7: Chill out due everybody's gonna get mad at me. But
• 43:57
  Speaker 7: I have another one from Donkey Sausage. It's just a
• 43:58
  Speaker 7: good don't you a good.
• 44:01
  Speaker 1: This is where I get the email school. What does
• 44:02
  Speaker 1: Cooper only use certain people's questions and he doesn't use
• 44:05
  Speaker 1: my questions?
• 44:05
  Speaker 4: I don't notice.
• 44:07
  Speaker 7: If you mentioned sports in your question, I'm not reading it.
• 44:10
  Speaker 7: And if it's a lame question, I'm not reading it.
• 44:12
  Speaker 7: But anyway, this is a good one. He wants to
• 44:14
  Speaker 7: know what is the most embarrassing fashion trend that you
• 44:16
  Speaker 7: have ever rocked?
• 44:18
  Speaker 1: Well, I, I will say I didn't know it at
• 44:21
  Speaker 1: the time because I was a child, but there are photos,
• 44:23
  Speaker 1: you know, my parents passed away and I went through
• 44:25
  Speaker 1: the old photo albums and there were photos of little
• 44:27
  Speaker 1: Fat Benny and bell bottoms, so I would say that
• 44:30
  Speaker 1: would probably be But I did also when I there
• 44:33
  Speaker 1: was what were those pants that was guy's name in Oakland?
• 44:37
  Speaker 4: They were like mc hammer, Yeah, mc hammer.
• 44:41
  Speaker 1: They had the weird puff pants or hairshoe pants. Yeah,
• 44:44
  Speaker 1: parashute pants had larina.
• 44:45
  Speaker 9: I like the ones with the zippers on them. But
• 44:47
  Speaker 9: I really don't regret any of my fashion choices. Fashion changes,
• 44:50
  Speaker 9: and we'll constantly do that and I will rock every
• 44:52
  Speaker 9: single one.
• 44:53
  Speaker 1: Until okay, all right, cool.
• 44:55
  Speaker 7: I went through a little phase in high school was
• 44:58
  Speaker 7: very short.
• 44:58
  Speaker 1: That one you dressed like a Tampa.
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  Speaker 7: No, that was for Halloween. But I did wear a
• 45:04
  Speaker 7: trench coat for a little bit.
• 45:06
  Speaker 9: Oh you weirdo.
• 45:06
  Speaker 4: Why would you do that?
• 45:08
  Speaker 6: Hey?
• 45:08
  Speaker 7: Look, I was trying to you know, I didn't know where,
• 45:12
  Speaker 7: you know, just finding myself.
• 45:14
  Speaker 1: A teenager could have gone goth. You know, he was
• 45:16
  Speaker 1: thinking maybe golf.
• 45:16
  Speaker 4: Yeah, you know I was. I was questioning, am I
• 45:19
  Speaker 4: going to go down that road? And you know it
• 45:20
  Speaker 4: has a child start. You can do whatever you want.
• 45:22
  Speaker 1: Yeah, wow, look at that? All right? What's next year? Quickly?
• 45:25
  Speaker 4: If you could travel to a fictional land, what would
• 45:27
  Speaker 4: it be?
• 45:29
  Speaker 1: Uh, fictional land? Probably when I was a kid. I
• 45:32
  Speaker 1: love Star Wars, So I'd go to like the Death
• 45:35
  Speaker 1: Star and walk around.
• 45:36
  Speaker 9: What about you, Lorrena, I'd go to where Alice in
• 45:38
  Speaker 9: Wonderland is?
• 45:39
  Speaker 4: I go to Wonderland?
• 45:41
  Speaker 1: Think you do that? Day? Baby? Cool?
• 45:45
  Speaker 7: Setting myself up for a joke here, but never land duh.
• 45:49
  Speaker 4: Well, but the fictional one, not the real one.
• 45:52
  Speaker 1: A lot of kids were there, Cooper, the change their
• 45:56
  Speaker 1: lives not maybe for the better, Coop. I'm just saying,
• 45:58
  Speaker 1: you know, back in the day, a