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  Speaker 1: So our lead this hour, I think you know what
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  Speaker 1: it is. There's no NFL to get in the way.
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  Speaker 1: There was none of that. It was rather clear and
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  Speaker 1: obvious what the lead is. A ray of sunshine in
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  Speaker 1: the dome. If you thought the World Series... was all over. Well,
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  Speaker 1: not yet. But the lead-in, our lead this hour from Florida,
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  Speaker 1: it was Game 4 of the Fall Classic. You had
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  Speaker 1: Joe Davis and professional golfer John Smoltz on the call
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  Speaker 1: there on Fox. Pat Murphy's Brewers looking to sweep away
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  Speaker 1: Tampa Bay and win that piece of metal, as Rob
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  Speaker 1: Manfraud called it years ago, the Loser commissioner of Major
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  Speaker 1: League Baseball. So the Rays certainly looked beaten and broken.
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  Speaker 1: They lost by nine runs in Game 3 of the
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  Speaker 1: World Series at home. So if you did not watch
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  Speaker 1: this game, you might have missed it. You thought, well,
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  Speaker 1: it's over. I'm not watching that. I'm going to watch
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  Speaker 1: something else. I don't know what else you were watching.
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  Speaker 1: Some crappy NBA basketball. I don't know what you were watching. Well,
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  Speaker 1: don't worry. We watched so you would not have to.
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  Speaker 1: And some late magic. The great Johnny DeLuca.
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  Speaker 3: Who?
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  Speaker 4: Who?
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  Speaker 1: Johnny DeLuca, and pinch hitter Ben Williamson. Let's hear it
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  Speaker 1: for guys named Ben. There's not too many guys named
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  Speaker 1: Ben that are in professional sports. So when we get
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  Speaker 1: a guy named... Thank you. When we have a guy
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  Speaker 1: named Ben that does something, it's really good for the
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  Speaker 1: fraternal order of Bens. Those of us who are in
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  Speaker 1: the Ben community celebrate when other Bens do good things.
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  Speaker 1: So from one Ben to another, a guy I've never
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  Speaker 1: heard of, Ben Williamson... Good job by you. Way to go.
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  Speaker 1: He knocked in the winning run. So Johnny DeLuca and
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  Speaker 1: pinch hitter Ben Williamson with ribby singles in the 12th
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  Speaker 1: inning rally. The Rays, you know the word we only
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  Speaker 1: use in sports. Staved off elimination. Have you ever used
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  Speaker 1: the word staved in your world other than in a
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  Speaker 1: sporting contest? Do you ever say, I staved off that
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  Speaker 1: diet because I was able to lose the weight? No,
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  Speaker 1: you never, no. It's only in sports. But the Rays
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  Speaker 1: staved off World Series elimination with a 4-3 win over
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  Speaker 1: the Brew crew. They do force a Game 5, which
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  Speaker 1: is on Humpty Hump Day here on Wednesday. And it
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  Speaker 1: looked like Cooper Pratt was going to be the hero,
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  Speaker 1: and he had hit the tie-breaking home run. The guy
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  Speaker 1: the Brewers signed sight unseen before he had ever played
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  Speaker 1: in a major league game. They gave him an eight-year contract, unearned,
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  Speaker 1: by the way. Didn't earn the eight-year contract. They gave
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  Speaker 1: it to him. So he went out here to home run.
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  Speaker 1: He only had four home runs, I believe, during the
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  Speaker 1: regular season. But he had a tie-breaking home run in
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  Speaker 1: the top of the 12th inning. Had four hits. That
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  Speaker 1: was his fourth hit for Milwaukee. And you thought, well,
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  Speaker 1: that's it. They were going to sweep. But the Rays...
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  Speaker 1: also seeking their first championship. They rally, obviously, in the
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  Speaker 1: bottom half of the inning. So Game 5 on Wednesday
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  Speaker 1: night at the Trop. Tickets are not available. The better
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  Speaker 1: story is in the losing locker room. So let us
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  Speaker 1: discuss the question. Who gets the blame cheese curds for
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  Speaker 1: Pat Murphy's Brewers, who had the lead three outs away,
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  Speaker 1: God's gift to baseball, the bullpen. Joe Davis has his
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  Speaker 1: knee pads on for this Brewers bullpen. My God. Okay, fine.
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  Speaker 2: They're mortal.
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  Speaker 1: Didn't seem like it leading into this, but who gets
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  Speaker 1: the blame? Again, the question, for those in the back
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  Speaker 1: of the room, pay attention. Who gets the blame cheese
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  Speaker 1: curds for Pat Murphy's Brewers blowing the A chance to
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  Speaker 1: sweep the World Series. So I've got Lewis Carroll. Lloyd Christmas,
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  Speaker 1: and Loch Ness Monster. And we will ring the bell
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  Speaker 1: and combine all those things together, and we are going
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  Speaker 1: to make some spaghetti and meatballs is what we're going
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  Speaker 1: to make. So, A, listen, this was a choke job.
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  Speaker 1: It was. That's it. I mean, some things, you can
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  Speaker 1: sugarcoat it and say, well, it wasn't a choke job
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  Speaker 1: because Milwaukee's still leading three games to one, blah, blah, blah.
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  Speaker 1: Loser talk. Loser, loser, loser. Loser talk. Loser talk. The
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  Speaker 1: Brewers had the champagne on ice, the championship hats, the shirts,
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  Speaker 1: all of that ready to go. Everything ready to go.
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  Speaker 1: They had the parade route mapped out in Milwaukee. And
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  Speaker 1: then Joey Ortiz.
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  Speaker 3: Who?
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  Speaker 1: Joey Ortiz decided, you know what I'm going to do?
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  Speaker 1: I'm going to throw a wrench into the coronation ceremony.
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  Speaker 1: And the Rays came crawling out of baseball's morgue. They
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  Speaker 1: were literally in the morgue, and they came crawling out there.
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  Speaker 1: So the Brew Crew, the way they play, not a
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  Speaker 1: lot of margin for error. The way Milwaukee plays baseball,
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  Speaker 1: they play on a razor blade. And the razor blade
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  Speaker 1: did not quite work here this time as Ortiz decided
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  Speaker 1: to juggle chainsaws. So as for who gets the blame
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  Speaker 1: cheese curds, well, it's right out of Lewis Carroll's Through
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  Speaker 1: the Looking Glass. Those famous brothers. Tweedledee and Tweedledum. First
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  Speaker 1: of all, the aforementioned Joey Ortiz, who airmailed a rather
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  Speaker 1: routine throw. Bouncy, bouncy, bouncy, all that. And that opened
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  Speaker 1: the bottom of the 12th inning. That gave the Rays
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  Speaker 1: a base runner down by a run. And then they
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  Speaker 1: went to the bullpen. A rookie reliever Shane Drone entered.
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  Speaker 1: I would have rather had an actual drone on the mound.
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  Speaker 1: But Shane Drone, I think we went to Florida State. Anyway,
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  Speaker 1: it doesn't matter. He surrendered not one, not two, not three,
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  Speaker 1: but four consecutive base hits. I didn't play Major League Baseball.
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  Speaker 1: I'm told that's not good, though. And zero outs. Bumpkiss
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  Speaker 1: in terms of outs. And he turned a guy, the
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  Speaker 1: relief pitcher Shane Drone, turned a guy in Ben Williamson,
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  Speaker 1: who was one for 15 in the postseason– All of
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  Speaker 1: a sudden, on that, at bat, he was the Bambino,
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  Speaker 1: Babe Ruth, for the walk-off. Forget cosmic energy. Some will say, oh,
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  Speaker 1: it's cosmic energy. The Brewers didn't lose because of cosmic energy.
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  Speaker 1: They did not. No bad vibrations, not because Mercury's in
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  Speaker 1: retrograde or there's a full moon. No, they lost because
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  Speaker 1: one guy couldn't throw the baseball to another guy, and
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  Speaker 1: then the guy on the mound couldn't get anybody out.
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  Speaker 1: bad job by them all right now to the tampa
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  Speaker 1: bay side of things so the world series will not
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  Speaker 1: be a sweep and the question our manager kevin cash
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  Speaker 1: is raised right back in the world series now are
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  Speaker 1: they back are the tampa bay rays back baby no
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  Speaker 1: I am shaking my head no. My eyes are closed.
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  Speaker 1: I'm shaking my head no. I'm going to get dizzy
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  Speaker 1: if I keep doing this. But the answer is no. Okay,
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  Speaker 1: it is. And here's the issue, though. They're not back
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  Speaker 1: in it. However, if you listen faintly off on the horizon,
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  Speaker 1: you can hear the knock. Right there knocking on the door.
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  Speaker 1: And somebody better tell Pat Murphy's Brewers here to go
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  Speaker 1: out and hire a locksmith. You might want to change
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  Speaker 1: the locks here. And I know what you're thinking. You're thinking, ah, Mallor,
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  Speaker 1: come on. The Rays are dead and buried, Mallor. Not
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  Speaker 1: so fast, my friend. Not so fast here. The hardest win.
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  Speaker 1: And the most difficult, the final nail in the coffin,
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  Speaker 1: the hardest one. And in the immortal words of Lloyd Christmas,
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  Speaker 1: so you're telling me there's a chance. You're telling me
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  Speaker 1: there's a chance. Now, the Rays, starting the night, heading
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  Speaker 1: into Tuesday, they needed four mini miracles. They've already cashed
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  Speaker 1: in the first one. So they got that first one.
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  Speaker 1: They checked that box. Fine. Three more to go. And
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  Speaker 1: here's where it gets interesting. Game five is a pivot point.
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  Speaker 1: This is a Waterloo moment in the World Series. Because
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  Speaker 1: if I read correctly, the Miz is going to start
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  Speaker 1: for Milwaukee. Jacob Mizorowski is going to start game number five.
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  Speaker 1: That is the flamethrowing human dynamo on the mound. So
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  Speaker 1: if you can somehow... Just foul pitches off and knock
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  Speaker 1: him out of the game and get some runs and
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  Speaker 1: then win that game. And it's still 3-2. You've still
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  Speaker 1: got to win two more games. That is a big
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  Speaker 1: body blow, body blow, body blow to the Brewers if
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  Speaker 1: they don't win that game. That's a, hey, we're going
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  Speaker 1: to win. We're fine. We got the Miz on the mound.
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  Speaker 1: And then if they screw that up, all of a
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  Speaker 1: sudden you're like, well, wait a minute. We're in stranger
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  Speaker 1: danger at that particular point. So, again, if Yandy Diaz
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  Speaker 1: and his band of desperados can knock off the Miz
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  Speaker 1: in Game 5, look out below. The entire psychological complexion changes.
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  Speaker 1: Not to use psychobabble. in the world series but the
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  Speaker 1: pendulum does then swing towards in favor of tampa bay
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  Speaker 1: at that particular point and the pressure shifts like a
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  Speaker 1: tectonic plate directly under the Milwaukee baseball team. Now, are
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  Speaker 1: we getting ahead of ourselves? No, we have a talk
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  Speaker 1: show to do. We are not getting ahead of ourselves.
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  Speaker 1: But at that point, suddenly the Brewers start thinking about,
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  Speaker 1: wait a minute, instead of champagne showers, instead of that,
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  Speaker 1: they're thinking about, well, we might end up drowning in
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  Speaker 1: a thing of cheese fondue if we don't get one
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  Speaker 1: more win here. And so, remember, the raise, the obituary
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  Speaker 1: has already been published here. They've already written it. They
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  Speaker 1: put it online. It's gone live. And the funeral director
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  Speaker 1: has the paperwork all signed for Tampa Bay. And Kevin
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  Speaker 1: Cash was, at this point, supposed to be picking up
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  Speaker 1: his fishing boat. He's got a nice little pontoon boat
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  Speaker 1: he's going to go out and enjoy there. But instead,
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  Speaker 1: the Rays have, for the moment, climbed out of the
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  Speaker 1: World Series graveyard, dusted off their uniforms, and started making
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  Speaker 1: just a little bit of noise. Just a wee bit
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  Speaker 1: of noise for the the team from Tampa. So they're
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  Speaker 1: just a little bit... The Brewers obviously still have the
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  Speaker 1: upper hand. This would be an all-time historical choke job
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  Speaker 1: if they don't get this done. But I'm seeing a path,
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  Speaker 1: is what I'm saying. And Tampa Bay has something that
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  Speaker 1: is very, very dangerous. They have absolutely nothing to lose
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  Speaker 1: at this point because they've already lost the World Series
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  Speaker 1: in the eyes of every man, woman, and child who's reasonable.
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  Speaker 1: They've lost the World Series.
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  Speaker 5: So.
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  Speaker 1: There's nothing that is more dangerous than someone that has
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  Speaker 1: nothing to lose. And so the brew crew better finish
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  Speaker 1: their dinner. You got to eat your dinner. All right?
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  Speaker 1: Eat your dinner. Because the food is going to start
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  Speaker 1: fighting back here.
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  Speaker 5: It is.
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  Speaker 1: All right, last word. Let's go wide angle lens, big picture.
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  Speaker 1: We're going to go big picture here on the World Series.
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  Speaker 1: The question is, Have Junior Caminero's Tampa Bay Rays snatched
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  Speaker 1: momentum back. The reason I bring this up, so I
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  Speaker 1: was clicking around. I said, oh, the Rays grabbed the
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  Speaker 1: momentum in the World Series. I saw this all over.
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  Speaker 1: I'm reading this. I'm like, my God, my eyeballs are
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  Speaker 1: popping out of my head. I'm like, what are we doing?
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  Speaker 1: Why are we doing that again? You just told me
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  Speaker 1: the Brewers had all the momentum. Now you're telling me
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  Speaker 1: the Rays have all the momentum? You losers! So to
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  Speaker 1: answer the question, have Junior Caminero and the Rays snatched
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  Speaker 1: momentum in the World Series, please. It's early. I've got
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  Speaker 1: a lot of talk ready to do tonight. I don't
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  Speaker 1: want to lose my mind here. But if you actually
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  Speaker 1: believe that the Tampa Bay baseball team snatched momentum in
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  Speaker 1: the World Series, I have a bridge. I have a
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  Speaker 1: nice bridge here. that goes from one side of Nebraska
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  Speaker 1: to the other side of Nebraska, I'd like to sell you.
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  Speaker 1: Don't give me that absolute malarkey. And how many times
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  Speaker 1: do we have to hear when a team wins, oh,
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  Speaker 1: they have all the momentum. Just say they won. You
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  Speaker 1: don't have to say they have the momentum.
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  Speaker 5: They won.
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  Speaker 6: That's it.
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  Speaker 1: They won. No momentum. Stupid. It's ridiculous. You can't steal momentum.
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  Speaker 1: You can't steal something that doesn't exist. You can't see it.
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  Speaker 1: You can't touch it. You can't smell it. You can't
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  Speaker 1: steal it. So it's just a bunch of, again, malarkey.
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  Speaker 1: Momentum is the Loch Ness monster of professional sports. And
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  Speaker 1: you dumb people keep buying it. Stop buying it. Everybody
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  Speaker 1: claims they've seen... It's like the Loch Ness Monster. People say, well,
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  Speaker 1: I've seen the Loch Ness Monster. They have gift shops
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  Speaker 1: selling little Loch Ness Monster things and all that. And, oh,
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  Speaker 1: I've seen it swimming around. Oh, yeah, everyone's seen it, yeah.
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  Speaker 1: Except nobody can actually produce, like, a dead body of it,
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  Speaker 1: or they can't catch it. No, nothing. There's just grainy
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  Speaker 1: photos and video clips and all that. Now, the one advantage...
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  Speaker 1: I was spinning my mind, which is very dangerous, and
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  Speaker 1: I thought... Not to go too hard on Sporto guy,
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  Speaker 1: because I don't want to be Sporto guy, because nobody
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  Speaker 1: wants to hear Sporto guy on the radio. That's a
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  Speaker 1: death in sports radio if you're Sporto guy. You don't
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  Speaker 1: want to be Sporto guy. That said, there is an
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  Speaker 1: advantage that Tampa Bay has with every extra inning in
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  Speaker 1: the World Series, and it's the fact that they're more
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  Speaker 1: familiar with the vaunted Brewers bullpen than And Pat Murphy
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  Speaker 1: has been burning through those high-leverage Milwaukee relief pitchers. And
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  Speaker 1: he's used them early enough. I don't blame him. Why
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  Speaker 1: wouldn't you? They're supposedly really good. You listen to the broadcast,
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  Speaker 1: and this is like the greatest thing ever. The way
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  Speaker 1: they talk about it on the TV broadcast. So fine.
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  Speaker 1: Pat Murphy's running through these high-leverage relief pitchers. And the
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  Speaker 1: more that the Tampa Bay Ray hitters see the same arms...
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  Speaker 1: over and over and over, no matter how good you are.
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  Speaker 1: I remember back when I was around baseball, I said,
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  Speaker 1: no matter how good a guy is on the mound,
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  Speaker 1: the more that you see the person, the more likely
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  Speaker 1: you're going to be able to figure things out, right?
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  Speaker 1: And the closer you get to solving the puzzle. And
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  Speaker 1: so that is a concern because you take that bullpen
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  Speaker 1: away from the Brewers and all of a sudden, like,
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  Speaker 1: what do you got? Like every single time, every single
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  Speaker 1: time this thing bleeds into extra innings or in this case,
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  Speaker 1: an extra game now, Milwaukee, they're not losing some magical vibes.
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  Speaker 1: They're just in a situation where the more they have
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  Speaker 1: to play, they get closer to tight tuchus syndrome. You
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  Speaker 1: get that tight sphincter. And then all of a sudden
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  Speaker 1: the Rays start figuring out your bullpen. I'm like, oh,
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  Speaker 1: my God, what has happened? We're not there quite yet.
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  Speaker 1: If the Rays are able to beat the Miz, then
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  Speaker 1: it's panic at the brewery. Panic at the brewery at
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  Speaker 1: that particular point.
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  Speaker 6: And I'm Catherine Zazzora.
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  Speaker 5: I have a lot of experience in the game of football, Catherine.
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  Speaker 6: And I'm learning the game with Bill's help. Every week,
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  Speaker 5: Continuity is very important but what happens when you get
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  Speaker 5: them then they want to hire them and then you
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  Speaker 5: can't stop a guy from trying to improve himself but
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  Speaker 6: Them Because once you understand what's going on inside the
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  Speaker 6: mind of the coaches, you'll understand more about the whole game.
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  Speaker 5: So all aspects can be discussed. The only thing I
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  Speaker 1: From Indianapolis. From Indianapolis, the Colts, not a good team.
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  Speaker 1: And they have said, na-na-na-na, na-na-na-na, hey, hey, goodbye, to
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  Speaker 1: trying to win. They've given up. They've tossed in the sponge,
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  Speaker 1: whatever phrase you want to use, on the 2026 season,
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  Speaker 1: turning Lucas Oil Stadium into an NFL liquidation outlet store.
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  Speaker 1: Everything must go. Bargains galore in the Hoosier State. Come
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  Speaker 1: on down. So if you have not been following, perhaps not,
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  Speaker 1: there were some whispers over the weekend that the Colts,
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  Speaker 1: after their loss to the Minnesota football team, were going
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  Speaker 1: to start unloading players. And most of the time you say, well,
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  Speaker 1: that's just Internet gossip. No, it's happened. It's happened. The
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  Speaker 1: 49ers went shopping at the Lucas Oil Stadium NFL liquidation
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  Speaker 1: outlet store. The Niners picked up defensive tackle DeForest Buckner, reunited,
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  Speaker 1: and it feels so good. He did play for the
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  Speaker 1: Niners and then was decommissioned and unloaded back during the
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  Speaker 1: pandemic season of 2020. He was sent off to Indianapolis.
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  Speaker 1: The Price, a measly 2027 fourth-round pick. That's it. Now,
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  Speaker 1: that led to tight end George Kittle. A fan favorite
• 19:17
  Speaker 1: of Eileen, although she likes Jimmy Garoppolo more, Eileen in
• 19:19
  Speaker 1: San Francisco. So George Kittle celebrating the move for the
• 19:23
  Speaker 1: San Francisco football team, posting, Defoe! The boys are back!
• 19:30
  Speaker 1: The boys are back! Screw jumping off point, let us
• 19:34
  Speaker 1: discuss the question. Is DeForest Buckner a smart pickup for
• 19:40
  Speaker 1: the 49ers or another expensive gamble for on an aging veteran?
• 19:47
  Speaker 1: That is the question. So I've got Pokemon cards, top golf.
• 19:54
  Speaker 1: And we also have, if that was not enough for you,
• 19:57
  Speaker 1: the Samsonite suitcase. So we will combine all of these
• 20:04
  Speaker 1: things together and we are going to play connect three. One, two,
• 20:11
  Speaker 1: and three. See how we did that? Yeah, one, two,
• 20:13
  Speaker 1: and three. All right, so number one! Number one! Number one!
• 20:17
  Speaker 1: Number one! So is the DeForest Buckner move a smart
• 20:22
  Speaker 1: pickup or just another expensive gamble for an aging player?
• 20:25
  Speaker 1: The answer is this is on brand. It is on
• 20:30
  Speaker 1: brand for the San Francisco football team. The 49ers are
• 20:32
  Speaker 1: running an assisted living facility, except you get to wear
• 20:35
  Speaker 1: shoulder pads, so it's a little more fun. You have
• 20:37
  Speaker 1: to wear shoulder pads. They don't need another defensive tackle
• 20:41
  Speaker 1: at this point. With all the players they've picked up,
• 20:44
  Speaker 1: they need an orthopedic surgeon. I'm not sure whether DeForest
• 20:47
  Speaker 1: Buckner is a surgeon. I didn't see that on the Internet.
• 20:52
  Speaker 1: Maybe he is. And so John Lynch, God bless him,
• 20:56
  Speaker 1: is out there shopping at the NFL scratch and dent outlet.
• 21:01
  Speaker 1: And everything is marked down because everything's already broken that's available.
• 21:06
  Speaker 1: And forget an upgrade in the scouting department or analytics
• 21:10
  Speaker 1: for John Lynch. He needs an electrician, a radiologist, and
• 21:15
  Speaker 1: a priest at this point. That Niner team, we saw
• 21:18
  Speaker 1: them start to crumble against the Falcons over the weekend,
• 21:21
  Speaker 1: and that roster is not built for the long term.
• 21:23
  Speaker 1: If this was like a two- or three-game season, you'd
• 21:26
  Speaker 1: bet on the Niners to win the Super Bowl. Unfortunately,
• 21:29
  Speaker 1: it's not. The 49ers at this point are collecting aging
• 21:34
  Speaker 1: players Injury-prone players like Pokemon cards. It's amazing. You've got
• 21:41
  Speaker 1: to collect them all, right? You've got to get all
• 21:42
  Speaker 1: the Pokemon cards. In the Niners' case, you've got to
• 21:44
  Speaker 1: get all the injuries. Like next up, the legendary, my
• 21:47
  Speaker 1: favorite Pokemon character, Nekosaurus. Really good, really good character in Pokemon. Nekosaurus.
• 21:56
  Speaker 1: So that would be Buckner, DeForest Buckner. who has more
• 22:00
  Speaker 1: miles at this point than a retired Greyhound bus. And yes,
• 22:04
  Speaker 1: I will concede, when DeForest Buckner is perfectly healthy, he
• 22:08
  Speaker 1: has been a difference maker. Of course, he's been around
• 22:11
  Speaker 1: for a long time. The problem, the San Francisco roster,
• 22:15
  Speaker 1: you look at the injury report week by week for
• 22:20
  Speaker 1: the Niners, and it looks like the waiting room at
• 22:22
  Speaker 1: the Mayo Clinic with all the players they've acquired, and
• 22:25
  Speaker 1: it's like, you look at it, it's like the only organization...
• 22:29
  Speaker 1: With more questionable neck issues, if you go down to
• 22:32
  Speaker 1: the San Francisco Zoo, the Giraffe Rehabilitation Center, I'm sure
• 22:37
  Speaker 1: there's some giraffes there that have major problems with their
• 22:40
  Speaker 1: long necks, but you can call it a calculated risk,
• 22:42
  Speaker 1: and I'm sure my friends like Ernesto and some of
• 22:46
  Speaker 1: the other Bay Area guys, Jay Scoop, who love the
• 22:48
  Speaker 1: Niners there, will say, hey, it's a calculated risk. You
• 22:51
  Speaker 1: can call it that if you want. That's fine. But
• 22:54
  Speaker 1: when you keep getting injured player after injured player, maybe
• 23:00
  Speaker 1: your calculator's broke. You might want to adjust the calculator.
• 23:04
  Speaker 1: All right, now, that was not the only trade. That
• 23:06
  Speaker 1: was not the only trade. Page two, page two, we
• 23:09
  Speaker 1: go back to Indy. The sell-off started in the trenches.
• 23:15
  Speaker 1: We only talk about fat guys on the offensive line
• 23:17
  Speaker 1: when they get drafted, when they do not block anyone
• 23:21
  Speaker 1: and the quarterback gets killed, and then when they get traded.
• 23:25
  Speaker 5: Or release.
• 23:25
  Speaker 1: That's it. The rest of the time, we do not
• 23:28
  Speaker 1: talk about offensive linemen. We don't. Well, we're going to
• 23:32
  Speaker 1: talk about an offensive lineman. Seattle has entered the chat.
• 23:36
  Speaker 1: Seattle acquiring eight-time Pro Bowl guard Quentin Nelson as they
• 23:42
  Speaker 1: send a 2027 third-round pick and a fifth-round pick in
• 23:47
  Speaker 1: 2028 to the Indianapolis football team in return. Nelson is
• 23:52
  Speaker 1: 30 He is playing on an expiring contract. I know
• 23:57
  Speaker 1: you're concerned about that. And so he is a high-stakes rental,
• 24:01
  Speaker 1: a gamble for the Seahawks. The question, what stands out
• 24:08
  Speaker 1: to you? What stands out to you about Seattle picking
• 24:11
  Speaker 1: up veteran guard Quentin Nelson from the Colts? So the
• 24:16
  Speaker 1: thing that's rather obvious, and I don't know that anyone
• 24:18
  Speaker 1: else has this particular take. I feel like I'm on
• 24:20
  Speaker 1: an island. I'm on take island. I don't know if
• 24:23
  Speaker 1: this is good or bad that I'm on Take Island.
• 24:25
  Speaker 1: There's a lot of praise. There's a lot of celebration
• 24:28
  Speaker 1: of the Seattle Seahawks picking up Quentin Nelson. My position's
• 24:33
  Speaker 1: a little different. I look at this as, oh, my God,
• 24:36
  Speaker 1: they've actually done it. The Seahawks have done it. This
• 24:40
  Speaker 1: is a trip to the confessional booth. Seahawks GM John
• 24:43
  Speaker 1: Schneider is saying to everyone, He's saying, bless me, Father,
• 24:49
  Speaker 1: for I have sinned, as John Snyder is saying, admitting
• 24:53
  Speaker 1: that his offensive line is not championship caliber in Seattle.
• 24:58
  Speaker 1: He does not trust his offensive line. You would not
• 25:00
  Speaker 1: make this move. You would not give up draft capital
• 25:04
  Speaker 1: for a player who's aging and has a lot of
• 25:07
  Speaker 1: wear and tear unless you were convinced your offensive line
• 25:11
  Speaker 1: is like the saying from the pirate years, there she blows,
• 25:15
  Speaker 1: just like that when they're out whale-watching. Now, that's what
• 25:20
  Speaker 1: that tells me. That's the real headline. The sub-headline is,
• 25:24
  Speaker 1: it's also hot take validation, that Sam Darnold is not
• 25:28
  Speaker 1: that guy. You're not that guy, pal. That Sam Darnold
• 25:31
  Speaker 1: cannot elevate the roster, the current group. He cannot elevate them,
• 25:36
  Speaker 1: and they don't believe he can do that in the postseason.
• 25:40
  Speaker 1: And the roster, what they're telling you, Seattle's front office, is, listen,
• 25:44
  Speaker 1: this roster is not good enough because Sam Darnold is
• 25:47
  Speaker 1: an inferior quarterback. And we know last year everything has
• 25:50
  Speaker 1: to be perfect. You can win the Super Bowl with
• 25:52
  Speaker 1: Sam Darnold. But if anything goes wrong, you're absolutely porked.
• 25:55
  Speaker 1: You're absolutely porked. You are. And the way the roster
• 26:00
  Speaker 1: is currently constructed. And so this guy, Quentin Nelson... Do
• 26:05
  Speaker 1: I grade offensive linemen? Hell no! I don't grade offensive linemen.
• 26:10
  Speaker 1: From what I've read, oh, he's got great pedigree, and
• 26:12
  Speaker 1: he's still one of the better offensive linemen in the NFL. Blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah.
• 26:16
  Speaker 1: But he's also 30, and he has been hit more
• 26:19
  Speaker 1: times than a bucket of balls at Topgolf. All right?
• 26:22
  Speaker 1: There's a lot of hitting going on there. A lot
• 26:24
  Speaker 1: of hitting. And I actually looked under the Maller microscope.
• 26:27
  Speaker 1: We dusted off the Maller microscope, and it turns out
• 26:31
  Speaker 1: he's got more wear and tear, Quentin Nelson, than the carpet...
• 26:35
  Speaker 1: On the midway at Circus Circus in Las Vegas. You
• 26:38
  Speaker 1: ever been to Circus Circus? I went there when I
• 26:40
  Speaker 1: was a kid, like a long time ago. And I
• 26:42
  Speaker 1: went back a couple years ago, and it looked exactly
• 26:44
  Speaker 1: the same. They hadn't changed the carpet. They hadn't changed anything.
• 26:48
  Speaker 1: It was exactly the same. The same bubble gum stains
• 26:51
  Speaker 1: were there. The vomit stains. Free parking. Free parking. The
• 26:55
  Speaker 1: whole thing. I embrace that. Because I know that'll be
• 26:59
  Speaker 1: the next hotel they knock down in Vegas, and they'll
• 27:01
  Speaker 1: build some mega hotel, and I'll be like, oh, I
• 27:03
  Speaker 1: wish they were at Circus Circus. I mean, it's a
• 27:05
  Speaker 1: terrible hotel, but it was really cool nostalgia-wise to walk
• 27:08
  Speaker 1: around the Midway and that Adventure Dome thing in the
• 27:11
  Speaker 1: back and all that. Anyway, so the Seahawks are hoping
• 27:15
  Speaker 1: that Quentin Nelson's engine still runs like it's 2018. Good luck.
• 27:22
  Speaker 1: Good luck. All right, now, final point. We're going to
• 27:25
  Speaker 1: move to baseball. And no, I am not doing this
• 27:28
  Speaker 1: for Supermarket Steve and Jill the Yankees fan, no. But
• 27:32
  Speaker 1: there is a brouhaha that is developing involving the Yankees.
• 27:37
  Speaker 1: The New York Yankees. Yes, Yankees legend Jorge Posada, El Capitan,
• 27:44
  Speaker 1: says he feels unwelcome around the franchise, even though he
• 27:49
  Speaker 1: was part of the glory days, the last extended run
• 27:53
  Speaker 1: of success for Yankee baseball way back in the day.
• 27:56
  Speaker 1: You got to be old to remember the last great
• 27:58
  Speaker 1: run of the Yankees. But he was part of that,
• 28:01
  Speaker 1: and he said recently, I don't think they, meaning the Yankees,
• 28:04
  Speaker 1: want me there. He revealed this during a recent podcast
• 28:09
  Speaker 1: that no one listened to. Posada, part of that core
• 28:12
  Speaker 1: four back in the day with– Jeter and all those guys.
• 28:18
  Speaker 1: He traces the bad blood, he says, to 15 years ago, 2011,
• 28:23
  Speaker 1: when management reduced his role. He blames the front office,
• 28:27
  Speaker 1: not then-manager Joe Girardi, and the Yankees GM Brian Cashman,
• 28:33
  Speaker 1: who's got lifetime employment with the Yankees, declined comment. Of
• 28:36
  Speaker 1: course he did. And despite that... the reunions have continued.
• 28:42
  Speaker 1: Posada shows up when the Yankees have a reunion of
• 28:45
  Speaker 1: a world series team. He also shows up for the
• 28:48
  Speaker 1: old timers games in the Bronx, but he says he
• 28:51
  Speaker 1: feels alienated by the Bronx bombers, but he shows up
• 28:56
  Speaker 1: to old timers day and whatnot. So the question you've
• 28:59
  Speaker 1: got Jorge Posada, who feels alienated from the Yankees because
• 29:04
  Speaker 1: of a beef. Where's the beef, the beef with Brian
• 29:08
  Speaker 1: Cashman and, So what jumps out to you about this one?
• 29:13
  Speaker 1: So the thing on this, somewhere there's a guy right
• 29:15
  Speaker 1: now working a double shift at a gas station. Or
• 29:19
  Speaker 1: just last hour, we had our buddy driving around delivering
• 29:22
  Speaker 1: Uber Eats around Arizona. And these guys are working their
• 29:27
  Speaker 1: ass off. And we were supposed to feel bad because
• 29:30
  Speaker 1: Jorge Posada, Jorge Posada did not get enough hugs last
• 29:35
  Speaker 1: time he went to spring training for the Yankees. Okay.
• 29:38
  Speaker 1: That's a bummer. That's a bummer. No hugs. Now, I admit,
• 29:43
  Speaker 1: in a perfect world, which, by the way, we all
• 29:46
  Speaker 1: know is not, but in a perfect world, everybody would
• 29:50
  Speaker 1: be just holding hands at Yankee spring training and old-timers' day.
• 29:54
  Speaker 1: They'd be holding one hand, the other hand would be
• 29:57
  Speaker 1: roasting marshmallows, and they'd all be rhythmically singing Kumbaya. That's
• 30:03
  Speaker 1: not the reality. This is not some kind of Greek tragedy.
• 30:05
  Speaker 1: And oh, by the way, last I checked, Jorge Posada
• 30:08
  Speaker 1: is a grown-ass man. He's 56 years old. He hasn't
• 30:13
  Speaker 1: played for the Yankees in 15 seasons, his last game
• 30:18
  Speaker 1: with the Yankees. And yet, I love the fact that
• 30:20
  Speaker 1: he's still carrying around this emotional baggage like From 2011,
• 30:23
  Speaker 1: it's like a Samsonite suitcase with a broken wheel, and
• 30:28
  Speaker 1: he's trying to get through the airport terminal. And, like,
• 30:31
  Speaker 1: what are we doing? Seriously, I'm amazed by the hubris.
• 30:38
  Speaker 1: I shouldn't be because this has been going on my
• 30:39
  Speaker 1: entire life, but the hubris of professional athletes. Is there
• 30:43
  Speaker 1: any other line of work, any other line of work,
• 30:46
  Speaker 1: where you try walking in to your old office 15
• 30:50
  Speaker 1: years post-retirement, And then you have the chutzpah to demand
• 30:55
  Speaker 1: a standing ovation from the accounting department. Like, what are
• 30:58
  Speaker 1: you doing? I work here. I have a cool job.
• 31:02
  Speaker 1: I love working here. Someday I won't work here anymore.
• 31:04
  Speaker 1: I'll work somewhere else or I'll just stop working. But
• 31:07
  Speaker 1: you think I'm going to come back here? They're going
• 31:08
  Speaker 1: to have like a big open the doors. Maller's coming back.
• 31:11
  Speaker 6: No.
• 31:12
  Speaker 1: Hell no. And I see it, man. There were people
• 31:14
  Speaker 1: I worked with here in the early days of Fox
• 31:17
  Speaker 1: Sports Radio. This place has been around for almost 30 years.
• 31:20
  Speaker 1: And a lot of these people that work here now
• 31:22
  Speaker 1: have no idea who Tony Bruno is or the people
• 31:25
  Speaker 1: that started Fox Sports Radio back in the early days.
• 31:28
  Speaker 1: They have no clue. And so this is the way
• 31:31
  Speaker 1: it is. That's the way it should be. But yet
• 31:32
  Speaker 1: in baseball, it's, oh, I want my ass kissed. I
• 31:35
  Speaker 1: need my left tuckus cheek patted is what I need. Stop. Stop. OK,
• 31:43
  Speaker 1: like who does that? Other than in sports, Posada wants
• 31:47
  Speaker 1: the royal treatment from the Yankees. Somebody tell Jorge Posada
• 31:51
  Speaker 1: the Yankees are not Buckingham Palace. This is not the
• 31:55
  Speaker 1: actual royal situation. The Yankees did not exile Posada to Siberia.
• 32:02
  Speaker 1: They did not. He made a lot of money and
• 32:06
  Speaker 1: they stopped employing him. So that's a bummer. The Yankees
• 32:11
  Speaker 1: are a professional baseball team. Granted, they haven't been that
• 32:14
  Speaker 1: good in the playoffs in a long time, but they're
• 32:16
  Speaker 1: not some kind of lifetime emotional support organization. They're not.
• 32:20
  Speaker 1: They owe Jorge Posada a tip of the cap. He
• 32:24
  Speaker 1: was part of some great teams for the Yankees, good accomplishments.
• 32:29
  Speaker 1: The Yankees do not owe Jorge Posada a lifetime supply
• 32:33
  Speaker 1: of of warm fuzzies. They don't. And if you don't
• 32:38
  Speaker 1: feel welcome, this just in, Jorge Posada, former Yankee, if
• 32:42
  Speaker 1: you don't feel welcome, don't go. That's it. It's not complicated.
• 32:48
  Speaker 1: It's basic math. We're doing malware math. We're not doing
• 32:50
  Speaker 1: algebra and advanced calculus. If somebody doesn't make you feel
• 32:54
  Speaker 1: welcome or they don't kiss your ass enough because you're
• 32:56
  Speaker 1: a diva, then just don't go. That's all.
• 32:59
  Speaker 2: Be sure to catch live editions of the Ben Maller
• 33:02
  Speaker 2: Show weekdays at 2 a.m. Eastern, 11 p.m. Pacific.
• 33:05
  Speaker 1: Here we go. That's my teammate. How about that? To
• 33:08
  Speaker 1: the third degree.
• 33:10
  Speaker 4: This.
• 33:11
  Speaker 1: All right. Coopaloop. What do we got?
• 33:14
  Speaker 3: Ben, after another poor performance by the Cardinals, Coach Mike
• 33:18
  Speaker 3: LaFleur reiterated that the team is sticking with Jacoby Brissett.
• 33:22
  Speaker 1: Yes, yes, of course. Why would you bench a guy
• 33:25
  Speaker 1: that sucks?
• 33:27
  Speaker 3: Well, I was going to ask you, do you think
• 33:28
  Speaker 3: they'd stick with him the whole season, or do you
• 33:30
  Speaker 3: ever think they'd go to somebody else?
• 33:33
  Speaker 1: Well, he'll get hurt. Usually that's what happens. He'll get
• 33:35
  Speaker 1: hurt at some point, but... I mean, the Cardinals are
• 33:38
  Speaker 1: good at getting into field goal range. They're not good
• 33:40
  Speaker 1: in the red zone. They're terrible as they were against
• 33:42
  Speaker 1: the Rams. I don't think he'll start the entire year.
• 33:45
  Speaker 1: Arizona offensively, actually, they're actually better than your Broncos and
• 33:49
  Speaker 1: the Vikings. But no, I think at some point he
• 33:52
  Speaker 1: will be removed, whether it's injury or like the final
• 33:55
  Speaker 1: three games of the year.
• 33:56
  Speaker 6: Next!
• 33:56
  Speaker 1: Broncos scored 30 points last week, by the way.
• 33:59
  Speaker 3: The Packers are above 500, but they are in last
• 34:01
  Speaker 3: place in their division.
• 34:03
  Speaker 2: Yeah.
• 34:03
  Speaker 3: However, Micah Parsons could be returning.
• 34:06
  Speaker 1: Don't rush back, Micah.
• 34:07
  Speaker 3: Do you think that this is going to launch the
• 34:09
  Speaker 3: Packers back into the division?
• 34:12
  Speaker 1: No, but it will help his downloads on his podcast, Coop,
• 34:15
  Speaker 1: which is very important. The Micah Parsons podcast. Very important.
• 34:18
  Speaker 1: He gets a lot of downloads. There it is, Mallory,
• 34:21
  Speaker 1: third degree. How'd we do? Failed this edition. That is
• 34:23
  Speaker 1: a win for me. Thank you very much. When Coop
• 34:26
  Speaker 1: says you fail, that's a win. A fail is a win.
• 34:29
  Speaker 1: That's what that means.
• 34:31
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• 34:47
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• 34:49
  Speaker 4: Queen of hearts She wants to talk to you Lorena
• 35:03
  Speaker 4: Soon she'll be making your hearts be one Lorena.
• 35:15
  Speaker 1: Well, most anybody. Most anybody?
• 35:21
  Speaker 7: Yeah, you know, some people don't even want to look
• 35:23
  Speaker 7: for love, so.
• 35:24
  Speaker 1: Yeah. Well, people love other things. They love inanimate objects.
• 35:29
  Speaker 6: Television.
• 35:30
  Speaker 1: Television. I don't know about television much anymore.
• 35:32
  Speaker 5: Dolls.
• 35:33
  Speaker 1: Movies, dolls.
• 35:34
  Speaker 7: You ever seen those ones at like Hustlers? I'm like, hmm,
• 35:38
  Speaker 7: that's interesting.
• 35:40
  Speaker 1: Oh, I thought you meant like a doll collection.
• 35:42
  Speaker 7: No, I meant like life-size, inflatable.
• 35:46
  Speaker 1: I've not done a deep dive on the dolls that
• 35:49
  Speaker 1: are out there. I imagine they're... Very detailed. Yes, I
• 35:53
  Speaker 1: would think so.
• 35:54
  Speaker 7: You know, we're going to move into robots one day, so.
• 35:56
  Speaker 1: I think they already have in some of the... I
• 35:59
  Speaker 1: saw online, is it China or Japan or something like that? Oh, gosh,
• 36:02
  Speaker 1: how scary. I saw some video last year about that.
• 36:05
  Speaker 7: Find a real woman! Or whatever you want.
• 36:09
  Speaker 1: Your preference. There you go.
• 36:10
  Speaker 7: Real plastic.
• 36:11
  Speaker 1: All right. Lorena, here we go. Will T. writes in.
• 36:15
  Speaker 1: Hashtag Queen of Hearts.
• 36:17
  Speaker 7: Will T.
• 36:17
  Speaker 1: Lettuce. He says, can you tell how good a person
• 36:21
  Speaker 1: will be as a lover by the way that they eat?
• 36:27
  Speaker 7: Um, that's a good question. I've never compared the two.
• 36:31
  Speaker 1: No, you've never done a Venn diagram. If somebody eats
• 36:35
  Speaker 1: mostly fruit and vegetables, they're better than somebody that eats
• 36:37
  Speaker 1: potato chips.
• 36:38
  Speaker 7: See, and I was thinking more of how they eat, right?
• 36:40
  Speaker 7: So if you're like a really messy eater, you might be.
• 36:43
  Speaker 8: Really messy, you know, in the bed, you know what
• 36:45
  Speaker 8: I'm saying? Down to do some dirty things. So maybe
• 36:49
  Speaker 8: the messier of an eater.
• 36:50
  Speaker 7: You are, the better.
• 36:51
  Speaker 1: But I was thinking like the... the smells, you know,
• 36:54
  Speaker 1: certain things you eat, you know, if you eat a
• 36:56
  Speaker 1: lot of garlic or something like that, as opposed to
• 36:58
  Speaker 1: eating like.
• 36:59
  Speaker 8: Yeah, and if you do eat something that smells bad,
• 37:00
  Speaker 8: you have to make sure you both eat it so that,
• 37:02
  Speaker 8: you know, not one of you is suffering.
• 37:04
  Speaker 1: Different fruits that make you smell better. Yeah! JT the Wingman!
• 37:10
  Speaker 1: We've met him. We love JT the Wingman. He's a
• 37:12
  Speaker 1: great friend of the show and big Brewers fan and
• 37:14
  Speaker 1: a little concerned after the Brewers lost last night. He says,
• 37:16
  Speaker 1: if I am out on a singles cruise, what type
• 37:21
  Speaker 1: of accent should I use to impress the ladies and
• 37:24
  Speaker 1: get more attention?
• 37:25
  Speaker 7: Hello, governor!
• 37:27
  Speaker 1: He says the sexiest accents, according to what he found
• 37:32
  Speaker 1: on the internet, the sexiest accents in the United States,
• 37:35
  Speaker 1: number five is general American. What is that?
• 37:38
  Speaker 7: I think that's what we speak.
• 37:40
  Speaker 1: Miami English. I don't know what that is. New York
• 37:44
  Speaker 1: City English. Louisiana Cajun. And then Southern American English.
• 37:51
  Speaker 7: I'm shocked that they're all American accents.
• 37:54
  Speaker 1: Oh, yeah, there's a lot. There's a lot. Like the
• 37:56
  Speaker 1: Boston accent. I mean, there's different dialects.
• 37:58
  Speaker 7: I just thought he would go more globally, you know
• 38:00
  Speaker 7: what I'm saying?
• 38:01
  Speaker 1: No, he's all American. And he lives in Tennessee, so
• 38:03
  Speaker 1: he's probably mastered the Southern dialect. That's Southern Belle. All right,
• 38:09
  Speaker 1: so any of those? No?
• 38:11
  Speaker 7: I couldn't even tell you. Maybe New York accent I
• 38:14
  Speaker 7: think would be kind of cool.
• 38:15
  Speaker 1: Oh, that's annoying. That Long Island Yenta? Oh, my God,
• 38:18
  Speaker 1: that's so annoying. I have family members that speak like that.
• 38:21
  Speaker 1: Holy crap. I kind of get a kick out of
• 38:25
  Speaker 1: the Boston accent, like the hardcore Boston accent I get
• 38:28
  Speaker 1: a kick out of. But, again, not romantically. I just
• 38:30
  Speaker 1: think it's in the Harvard Yard.
• 38:32
  Speaker 7: I'm like, I don't know.
• 38:33
  Speaker 1: I don't know if I'd call that romantic. It's great.
• 38:36
  Speaker 1: Good luck doing that on a cruise ship. Michael in
• 38:40
  Speaker 1: Tulsa says, Lorena, what is the best Halloween movie for
• 38:43
  Speaker 1: a date?
• 38:46
  Speaker 7: Oh, there's so many good ones. You've got to find
• 38:48
  Speaker 7: a scary one, though, and make sure.
• 38:50
  Speaker 8: That you know you have the blanket and you can
• 38:52
  Speaker 8: pull her close when it gets really scary.
• 38:55
  Speaker 7: It depends on what kind you like, though.
• 38:57
  Speaker 1: Just give one out.
• 38:58
  Speaker 7: I like Insidious. I like that one.
• 38:59
  Speaker 1: That's your go-to. Who doesn't like that? Truck Stop Funk says, Lorena,
• 39:03
  Speaker 1: how do I approach the old battle axe about her
• 39:05
  Speaker 1: pungent flatulence while we're getting romantic? This is from Truck
• 39:09
  Speaker 1: Stop Funk.
• 39:09
  Speaker 7: Oh, that's the worst. I'd just walk out. I would
• 39:12
  Speaker 7: be like, no, I can't do this. And just walk out.
• 39:14
  Speaker 7: I think your point would get across.
• 39:16
  Speaker 1: Party's over.
• 39:18
  Speaker 7: Doors are closed.
• 39:19
  Speaker 1: Queen of hearts with Lorena.
• 39:21
  Speaker 2: Be sure to catch live editions of the Ben Maller
• 39:23
  Speaker 2: Show weekdays at 2 a.m. Eastern, 11 p.m. Pacific.
• 39:27
  Speaker 1: Attention, everyone. And the password is?
• 39:31
  Speaker 2: Password.
• 39:32
  Speaker 6: You idiot. Password.
• 39:34
  Speaker 1: The word game of the stars.
• 39:36
  Speaker 2: Here's Ben Maller.
• 39:37
  Speaker 1: Right to the game we go on a newbie night.
• 39:39
  Speaker 1: We welcome in Brett from Ohio. Hello, Brett. Welcome. How's
• 39:43
  Speaker 1: it going? What part of Ohio are you in there, sir?
• 39:47
  Speaker 1: I'm in Gainesville.
• 39:49
  Speaker 3: Between.
• 39:50
  Speaker 1: Between Columbus and Wheeling, West Virginia. Oh, beautiful.
• 39:53
  Speaker 2: All right.
• 39:53
  Speaker 1: We used to have callers from Wheeling, West Virginia back
• 39:56
  Speaker 1: in the day. Radio Rich was the big one. All right.
• 39:58
  Speaker 1: You're going to play the game. Who do you want
• 39:59
  Speaker 1: to partner up with, Brett? Let's go with Lorena. All right. Lorena,
• 40:04
  Speaker 1: you're in. And we have Hector, who's in Hartford.
• 40:09
  Speaker 5: Hello, Hector.
• 40:10
  Speaker 4: Welcome.
• 40:12
  Speaker 1: What's up, man?
• 40:12
  Speaker 2: How you doing?
• 40:13
  Speaker 1: All right. You're playing Password. Who do you want to
• 40:14
  Speaker 1: partner up with, Hector?
• 40:17
  Speaker 4: Since the other guy took Lorraine, I'll take Coop.
• 40:20
  Speaker 1: All right. Oh, good. That's the matchup. All right, here
• 40:22
  Speaker 1: we go.
• 40:23
  Speaker 7: Wow, this doesn't happen often.
• 40:25
  Speaker 1: List of ten words. And who was on first? Brett.
• 40:31
  Speaker 1: Pick a number, Brett.
• 40:33
  Speaker 2: Four.
• 40:34
  Speaker 1: All right, we start with ten points, and we go
• 40:36
  Speaker 1: down one point for every incorrect answer. Go ahead, Lorraine.
• 40:39
  Speaker 7: Um, porthole.
• 40:43
  Speaker 3: Huh?
• 40:43
  Speaker 1: A porthole.
• 40:45
  Speaker 6: Okay.
• 40:46
  Speaker 5: Brett.
• 40:51
  Speaker 2: Whoa.
• 40:52
  Speaker 1: I'm sorry, what?
• 40:58
  Speaker 2: No.
• 40:58
  Speaker 1: Do I need to dump that? No, I don't think
• 41:01
  Speaker 1: you need to dump that. Go ahead, cool.
• 41:05
  Speaker 3: Let's go.
• 41:05
  Speaker 1: You heard Lorena's clue. Let's go with pain. P-A-N-E, pain.
• 41:10
  Speaker 2: Hmm. A, um, medicine?
• 41:17
  Speaker 4: Wow.
• 41:18
  Speaker 1: No, P-A-M-E, not P-A-M-E. A spelling coop. Go ahead, Lorena.
• 41:23
  Speaker 4: Oh, gosh.
• 41:24
  Speaker 1: Give me a one-word password here.
• 41:26
  Speaker 7: Oh, this is hard.
• 41:27
  Speaker 1: It's not that hard. I'm not going to help. I'm
• 41:32
  Speaker 1: not playing. I was not invited. I was not invited
• 41:36
  Speaker 1: to this. If I was invited, we would have already
• 41:38
  Speaker 1: moved on. No, no, come on, Lorena. Let's go.
• 41:39
  Speaker 7: I can't do this one. Come on.
• 41:42
  Speaker 1: Don't come on. Hurry up.
• 41:43
  Speaker 3: Blast.
• 41:45
  Speaker 1: Glass. Okay. Brett?
• 41:51
  Speaker 6: Cut.
• 41:52
  Speaker 3: No.
• 41:52
  Speaker 2: Wow.
• 41:53
  Speaker 1: All right. Hurry up. Hurry up. Let's go with shutters.
• 41:56
  Speaker 2: Hector?
• 41:58
  Speaker 3: No.
• 41:58
  Speaker 1: Windows? Yeah!
• 41:59
  Speaker 6: Let's go!
• 41:59
  Speaker 7: How did you get that off of that? Porthole was
• 42:03
  Speaker 7: way better.
• 42:04
  Speaker 1: It was a good clue, but these guys don't know boats,
• 42:06
  Speaker 1: so they're not on boats, Lorena. That's it.