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  Speaker 2: This is the best of the Ben Maler Show on
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  Speaker 1: And we begin talking Bay's ball. Yeah that's cool, Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: all right, this tucks some baseball here, Dynamo. Well, it
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  Speaker 1: was supposed to be our lead this hour, coming from
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  Speaker 1: San Francisco. It was a chamber of commerce kind of
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  Speaker 1: a day in the Bay. There a five o'clock a
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  Speaker 1: local start, really more like five thirty sunshine, nice skies.
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  Speaker 1: Marlin's man, my buddy was there sitting behind home plate.
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  Speaker 1: Friend of the show, senior member of the celebrity division
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  Speaker 1: of the Malin Militia, the great Marlins Man who was
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  Speaker 1: sending me photos of him and the Giants mascot. The
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  Speaker 1: game was that boring, so you had to hear the
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  Speaker 1: Yankees and the Giants. They raised the curtain on the
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  Speaker 1: twenty twenty six regular season to find out who is
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  Speaker 1: going to finish second to the Dodgers. This year, we
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  Speaker 1: are two hundred and twelve days away from Game number
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  Speaker 1: one of the World Series. Two hundred and twelve days
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  Speaker 1: away from the World Series. Now, were you watching this game?
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  Speaker 1: It was on It was on Netflix. Yeah, I was
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  Speaker 1: looking for a true crime documentary and I stumbled into
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  Speaker 1: a baseball game. So perhaps you did not watch. Well.
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  Speaker 1: Aaron Judge went out there and saw Wing Barra. So
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  Speaker 1: Wing Barra, swing Batra, swing Barra. Yeah, he was hitless,
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  Speaker 1: and someone named Jose Caballero. That's a good name, Jose
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  Speaker 1: Jose Caballero drove in the go ahead run with an
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  Speaker 1: RBA single in the second inning. And that was at
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  Speaker 1: five run second inning. The Yankees did not just beat
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  Speaker 1: the Giants. They vaporized the Giants seven to nothing in
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  Speaker 1: the MLB lid Lifter. Now, as you know, we normally
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  Speaker 1: save this for the postseason or gung ho, it's opening
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  Speaker 1: day and the real opening day, let's be honest, here
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  Speaker 1: is coming up here on Thursday. This was just like
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  Speaker 1: an appetizer. You know, you want the full thing. The
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  Speaker 1: full thing's gonna happen on Thursday. So fine, but we
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  Speaker 1: believe in a mantra. There's a few mantras we have
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  Speaker 1: from doing this job, and one of them is the
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  Speaker 1: better stories in the losing locker room. They say, well,
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  Speaker 1: it's one of one hundred and sixty two. And while
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  Speaker 1: that is technically true, this was a little different for
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  Speaker 1: the hometown team here because they went out and hired
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  Speaker 1: their handpicked skipper from the Southeastern Conference, Tony Vytello, the manager,
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  Speaker 1: making his debut in the big leagues, his much bally
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  Speaker 1: hood debut. And I don't know much about this guy.
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  Speaker 1: I know Danny and Nashville, who's now in Miami, and
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  Speaker 1: the proud Papa there, Danny just smothering this guy with,
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  Speaker 1: oh my god, he's so good. A giant's got such
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  Speaker 1: a great manager. And so he went out there and
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  Speaker 1: the early reviews are not great. That's a good jumping
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  Speaker 1: off point. So let us discuss, all right, let us
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  Speaker 1: discuss as this game goes on the trash heap of history.
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  Speaker 1: So the question, how would you describe Tony Vytello's first
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  Speaker 1: game as skipper of the Higantes. So my thoughts on this,
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  Speaker 1: I've got Supreme Court, Arctic Ocean, and delicatessen, and we
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  Speaker 1: will combine all of these things together, and we were
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  Speaker 1: gonna have some chop liver, which is, oh, by the way,
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  Speaker 1: what the Giants played like chop liver. Okay, So this guy,
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  Speaker 1: Tony Vitello, the manager, welcome to the big leagues. Now
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  Speaker 1: you only get I was told this years ago, you
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  Speaker 1: only get one chance to make a first impression. You
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  Speaker 1: probably heard that too, right, maybe your mom, your dad,
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  Speaker 1: and aunt, an uncle, whoever, somebody in your lifet you
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  Speaker 1: only get one chance to make a first impression. And
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  Speaker 1: in this case, and not only too dramatic. And I'm
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  Speaker 1: just doing an overnight show. So Tony Vtello, what he did?
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  Speaker 1: What the Giants did? His team after a month and
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  Speaker 1: a half of spring training in the Cactus League, they
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  Speaker 1: went out there and somehow managed to reach the Supreme
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  Speaker 1: Court's threshold test for obscenity. I know it when I
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  Speaker 1: see it. And that was pornographic. It's like, hey, Toto,
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  Speaker 1: I've got a feeling we're not in Knoxville anymore. Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: I don't think so. The Giants had three hits, three
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  Speaker 1: stinking hits against Max Free. Well he's good. Okay, that's
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  Speaker 1: a measuring stick. That's a measuring stick game against It's
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  Speaker 1: a picture like Max Freed. You got measured. Congratulations, you
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  Speaker 1: are no longer the Giants because you measured two two
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  Speaker 1: inches tall. So I was gonna say a word. I
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  Speaker 1: don't know if I Edwards canceled, I don't know a
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  Speaker 1: little person. How about that now, Raffi Devers. They were
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  Speaker 1: really slobbering on Raffi Devers on the broadcast. How amazing
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  Speaker 1: these great numbers? And I thought last year they were
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  Speaker 1: mostly empty numbers. But Raffi Devers the three hundred million
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  Speaker 1: dollar A man had a harmless single in the first
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  Speaker 1: inning and that was it? What about the a? So
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  Speaker 1: the Giants Logan Web World Baseball Classic Guy, how'd he do?
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  Speaker 1: He got smashed? Was that hangover from the WBC. The
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  Speaker 1: Yankees batted three seventy five against Logan Web. We are
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  Speaker 1: told one of the top pitchers in baseball, and Aaron
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  Speaker 1: Judge did not even have a hit. The Giants were
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  Speaker 1: supposed to be better. I know, it's only one game
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  Speaker 1: that does suck the air out of the room. Though
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  Speaker 1: they looked horrific. They look like they had not been
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  Speaker 1: doing anything other than golfing in Arizona to get ready
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  Speaker 1: for the sea all right, now hopefully I know. Iileen
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  Speaker 1: was at the game, and I got some other emails.
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  Speaker 1: I think some other guys were at the game there,
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  Speaker 1: so oh, you enjoyed it. It looked beautiful, you know.
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  Speaker 1: I was at the first ever game in that ballpark
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  Speaker 1: and we were there for there was a dot Kevin
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  Speaker 1: Elser had three home runs for the Dodge. It was
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  Speaker 1: twenty six years ago, whatever it was, but we were
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  Speaker 1: there and we ended up on a boat out in
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  Speaker 1: McCovey Cove and the radio station at that time, the
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  Speaker 1: station we're on was not in existence. The other station
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  Speaker 1: had the San Francisco Fire Department boat spray us with
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  Speaker 1: water and we It was quite I don't have time
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  Speaker 1: to get internet. It was wild. It was crazy, and
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  Speaker 1: I still remember my longtime radio friend Victor Brigg Jacobs,
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  Speaker 1: who was dressed like a pirate and got completely flooded
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  Speaker 1: with water as he jumped under the boat tried to
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  Speaker 1: get down away from the thing, which, oh, by the way,
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  Speaker 1: is illegal, you know, it's illegal unless there's an actual
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  Speaker 1: fire to spray the fire hoses like that. Yeah, anyway,
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  Speaker 1: turn the page, Aaron Judge, let's focus in on the judge.
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  Speaker 1: Not a good judge, not a good even Donald Trump'
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  Speaker 1: I hate all judges, even Aaron Judge. So Judge had
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  Speaker 1: four strikeouts in a row to start the game. Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: it was like with ball, not wiffleball, with ball. Now
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  Speaker 1: he finished zero for five. Now, I didn't play in
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  Speaker 1: the big leagues. I've never won an MVP. I don't
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  Speaker 1: think that's good. Oh, you're being too mean. You're being
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  Speaker 1: too mean. The face of the Yankees right away said,
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  Speaker 1: Orleole golden sombrero right there. Congratulations, mister MVP. Very impressive.
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  Speaker 1: Clearly he picked up where he left off in the
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  Speaker 1: World Baseball Classic. Now, the Netflix analyst and I say
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  Speaker 1: that loosely, you had a couple of guys. We want
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  Speaker 1: to focus on CC Sabathia. So, Sabathia, this is great.
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  Speaker 1: So he pre preemptively Sabathia defended Aaron Judge prior to
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  Speaker 1: the flop. This is before Judge went out went over five.
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  Speaker 1: And so Sabbathia compared Aaron Judge to former Bronx bomber
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  Speaker 1: star A Rod the steroid cheat, who also had a
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  Speaker 1: well earned reputation of nothing when it mattered, right, just nothing.
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  Speaker 1: When it mattered, and he had the little bat, the
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  Speaker 1: little bat and clutch situations and then one postseason and
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  Speaker 1: I'm barely old enough to remember it. It was back
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  Speaker 1: in nine, way back in nine, and a Rod went
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  Speaker 1: out there and was a monster masher. So here's the
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  Speaker 1: quote from CC Sabbathy. He said that regarding Judge, he said,
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  Speaker 1: Judge is going to have one of those octobers where
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  Speaker 1: he hits ten home runs like a Rod. Arod did
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  Speaker 1: not have ten home runs. I think he had six,
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  Speaker 1: and that that's what propelled us to win the World Series,
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  Speaker 1: Sabathia said, still leaning into his playing days. All right,
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  Speaker 1: question is C. C. Sabathia comparing Aaron Judge to Alex
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  Speaker 1: Rodriguez a compliment? Is this a compliment leading into the season?
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  Speaker 1: So I am shaking my head. No, I'm shaking my head. No,
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  Speaker 1: absolutely not. You know what that is?
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  Speaker 2: Cool?
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  Speaker 1: Whip, it's cool. Sabathia got you know what he's got.
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  Speaker 1: He's got those Yankee ambassador pom poms, and so he's
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  Speaker 1: on the payroll with the Yankees. He's like one of
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  Speaker 1: these no show jobs where you shake hands and kiss
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  Speaker 1: babies a couple of times, and that's it, and so
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  Speaker 1: he's of course he's selling rainbows and lollipops. I would
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  Speaker 1: argue this is a backhanded compliment that a Rod did
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  Speaker 1: have that one magic carpet ride in nine. Outside of that,
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  Speaker 1: he was mostly just a pumpkin with very expensive EyeBlack.
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  Speaker 1: And Aaron Judge is a guy who you look at
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  Speaker 1: him in the regular season. Obviously it wasn't that way
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  Speaker 1: on Opening Night. But like Paul Bunyan, however, he turns
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  Speaker 1: into Lady Liberty in October. And the real issue is
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  Speaker 1: not pressure. That's not it. It's not bad luck, it's
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  Speaker 1: not random variants. My analysis, Doctor Mahler, the analysis is shrinkage.
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  Speaker 1: Aaron Judge sucks at a time he cannot suck on
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  Speaker 1: the biggest stage, World Series. Some of you guys pumping
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  Speaker 1: up the World Baseball Classic, pick your disaster to twenty
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  Speaker 1: two in each. His waterloo moment was dropping a ball
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  Speaker 1: in center field in Game five of the World Series,
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  Speaker 1: allowing the Dodgers to smash the Yankees and win the
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  Speaker 1: championship in the Bronx. So Judge, he must have thought that,
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  Speaker 1: like Opening Day was a playoff game. The way he
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  Speaker 1: performed as Judge, it's like he was cannonballing into the
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  Speaker 1: Arctic Ocean swimming there and a lot of shrinkage, a
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  Speaker 1: lot of shrinkage there, and everyone wants to tap tap
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  Speaker 1: dance around it and stop. Certain guys just aren't good
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  Speaker 1: big big game player. Peyton Manning was a terrible big
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  Speaker 1: game quarterback, horrific. Nobody brings that up. They just said, oh,
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  Speaker 1: he's he's the goofy guy. He's the yash shucks pitch
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  Speaker 1: man on television. So they forget how bad Peyton Manning
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  Speaker 1: was in so many of the playoff games that he
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  Speaker 1: played in. And the Yankees back in the old days,
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  Speaker 1: the Yankees be like, we have to have accountability and
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  Speaker 1: all that. The guy's a skyscraper that turns into a
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  Speaker 1: folding chair in big moments. Our last word. So the game,
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  Speaker 1: as we mentioned, will be forgotten. It was painful. The
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  Speaker 1: Giants did not show up. The Yankees just crushed them.
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  Speaker 1: How painful. Now. The boys over there at Netflix chatted
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  Speaker 1: with Commissioner rob Manfraud in the booth during the game
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  Speaker 1: that was the fifth inning, and the mission of Baseball said,
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  Speaker 1: it was quote a great opening day close quote. Okay,
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  Speaker 1: A question for the esteem panel commissioner Rob Manford saying
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  Speaker 1: that this was a great opening day. Is that how
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  Speaker 1: you see it? So? I love that Manford said this,
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  Speaker 1: and I'll tell you why. Rob Manford just confirmed what
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  Speaker 1: many of us have believed all these years. He has
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  Speaker 1: opened up the can of worms here. He is a fake,
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  Speaker 1: a phony and a fraud. It's like he's working at
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  Speaker 1: the delicatessen serving up phony blooney sandwiches. He said it
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  Speaker 1: was a great opening day. How so the Netflix broadcast
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  Speaker 1: was a debacle. We'll get into that later. I mean,
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  Speaker 1: sanni this. I loved me some Jameis Winston, but holy crap,
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  Speaker 1: what was that? My god? It was seven nothing Yankees
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  Speaker 1: in the fifth inning when Manford, the commissioner of Meajor
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  Speaker 1: League Baseball said again, quote great opening day. At this point,
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  Speaker 1: mind you, the only people watching were friends and family
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  Speaker 1: and people trying to figure out why they couldn't watch
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  Speaker 1: what they really wanted to watch on Netflix, and they
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  Speaker 1: were getting this crap, so they were doing filler already.
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  Speaker 1: Now there's something else I have to bring up, and
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  Speaker 1: it's something that I noticed. I don't know if anyone
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  Speaker 1: else noticed it, but it popped up on my radar.
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  Speaker 1: So Manford was asked by Matt Vasskircheon, who, by the way,
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  Speaker 1: fun fact, briefly worked here in the early days of
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  Speaker 1: Fox Sports Radio. Anyway, Rob Manford was asked by Matt
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  Speaker 1: Vasquershon Longtime Baseball show. I love you, Matt. But Manford
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  Speaker 1: was asked about his first Opening Day that he ever attended. Now,
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  Speaker 1: what do you think that was? You know, it was
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  Speaker 1: back in like the sixties of the seven and Manfred's
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  Speaker 1: an older dude, now one was well. Rob Manford said
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  Speaker 1: his first Opening Day to attend was nineteen eighty eight
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  Speaker 1: at a Mets game in nineteen eighty eight. He was
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  Speaker 1: working as outside legal counsel for Major League Baseball at
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  Speaker 1: the time. If my math is correct, Manford was around
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  Speaker 1: thirty years old. So he is such a baseball fan.
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  Speaker 1: Rob Manford such a baseball fan that he skipped ever
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  Speaker 1: going to Opening Day as a teenager in his twenties,
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  Speaker 1: didn't go until he was about thirty, right, and he
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  Speaker 1: I believe he lived in the New York City area
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  Speaker 1: growing up, back when tickets were actually affordable, back before
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  Speaker 1: they started price gouging the fans around baseball and the
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  Speaker 1: He said the only reason he went in ninety eight
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  Speaker 1: or eighty eight. Rather was that the Mets had a
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  Speaker 1: big party for people that worked at the Commissioner's office,
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  Speaker 1: and Manford was outside council so that he was allowed
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  Speaker 1: to go to the party. So he went there so
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  Speaker 1: he could eat the many mini tacos, I guess the appetizers.
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  Speaker 1: So tell me you're not a real fan without telling me.
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  Speaker 1: All you need to know too, was the the ghost Runners,
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  Speaker 1: right and the hunk of metal comment about they're cheating
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  Speaker 1: eh atros. That's it, that's it, and all these other
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  Speaker 1: quirky changes. So if you don't love baseball, you want
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  Speaker 1: to change it and yikes. So Manford, though, I'll give
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  Speaker 1: him this, he is the textbook example, the poster boy
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  Speaker 1: for the Peter principle, as this guy just kind of
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  Speaker 1: hung around outside sleazy lawyer, ends up getting a job
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  Speaker 1: at baseball and he has reached his highest level of
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  Speaker 1: incompetence and he has stayed there and it's been bad
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  Speaker 1: for the sport of baseball. Has there been a worse commission, Well,
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  Speaker 1: maybe Bud Ceiling, maybe Bud Seilic, But Manford's neck and
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  Speaker 1: neck with Bud Celik. The sequel is almost the equal
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  Speaker 1: in that department. It is the Ben Mallord Show. If
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  Speaker 1: I would love to talk tons of baseball throughout the summer.
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  Speaker 1: They got to give us some content here. They got
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  Speaker 1: to give us some content. We'll see if they do
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  Speaker 1: or not. This obviously easy easy. The start of the
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  Speaker 1: baseball season, be.
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  Speaker 3: I'm the producer of the Paula and Tony Fusco Show.
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  Speaker 3: Usually in these promos they asked you to listen to
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  Speaker 1: He's still moving and we are back at it. A
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  Speaker 1: lot of baseball conversation here, including we go back to
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  Speaker 1: that Giants Yankees game. Not much of a game, I
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  Speaker 1: would say, yeah, I think you'd agree with me. Not
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  Speaker 1: much of a game. Yes, all right, so the Yankees
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  Speaker 1: win seven to nothing. I believe that would be the
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  Speaker 1: sonification of not much of a game. Now, there was
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  Speaker 1: something that took place in this game that caught my attention.
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  Speaker 1: Is it's been bouncing around here. Not that the fact
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  Speaker 1: that Bombers pants the Higantes, That's not it. Barry Bonds,
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  Speaker 1: who treated the baseball media like the tag on the
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  Speaker 1: back of your shirt and just kind of tried to
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  Speaker 1: rip it out because he would poke and tickle with
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  Speaker 1: not a lot of tickling action. But he made his
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  Speaker 1: TV debut. Yeah, Barry Bonds his TV. Look, it was Netflix.
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  Speaker 1: That's TV, right, that's modern TV. So there he was
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  Speaker 1: on Netflix doing his thing, and he stepped into the booth.
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  Speaker 1: Now he was on the pregame. That was that was something.
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  Speaker 1: We'll talk more about that later. But Bond stepped into
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  Speaker 1: the booth during the sixth inning. Netflix was trying to
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  Speaker 1: kill time because the game was so bad they were
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  Speaker 1: trying to keep people watching, and Bonds provided a revelation
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  Speaker 1: for Baseball Nation.
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  Speaker 4: What did he do?
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  Speaker 1: So if you didn't see this or hear about it,
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  Speaker 1: maybe not. Barry Bonds reveal he was asked about you
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  Speaker 1: know they never played for the Yankees, and Bond said
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  Speaker 1: that he had a deal years ago to join the
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  Speaker 1: New York Yankees, and that was back in nineteen ninety three.
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  Speaker 1: Bonds was a free agent after the ninety two season
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  Speaker 1: with the Pittsburgh Pirates. He told the story of getting
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  Speaker 1: a call from George steinbern He might not know who
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  Speaker 1: that is if you're a younger age, but George Steinbrener
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  Speaker 1: was like the biggest figure in all of baseball. Gigantic personality,
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  Speaker 1: classic old school owner and if you watch Seinfeld anyway,
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  Speaker 1: Bond said, quote, I would have been a Yankee. I
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  Speaker 1: would have been a Yankee, said Blet's see that means
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  Speaker 1: everything before. That's a lot. But Steinbrenner got on the
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  Speaker 1: phone and he's telling us, sorry, this is a quote,
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  Speaker 1: he said. Steinbergy got on the phone and he called
• 19:03
  Speaker 1: us and he told me, Barry, we are going to
• 19:06
  Speaker 1: give you the money to make you the highest paid
• 19:08
  Speaker 1: player at the time in baseball, but you have to
• 19:12
  Speaker 1: sign the contract by two o'clock this afternoon. Well, how
• 19:17
  Speaker 1: did Bonds respond? He said, excuse me, and he said, quote,
• 19:22
  Speaker 1: I just hung up the phone and went to have lunch. Now,
• 19:27
  Speaker 1: of course, said the agent started freaking out, and Barry
• 19:33
  Speaker 1: ended up pivoting and joining the Giants, saying he was
• 19:38
  Speaker 1: going home to the Giants. So that's a good jumping
• 19:40
  Speaker 1: off point. Let us discuss. We'll do some old guy radio.
• 19:46
  Speaker 1: Let's discuss the question what stands out to you? What
• 19:51
  Speaker 1: stands out to you about Barry Bond, saying that he
• 19:53
  Speaker 1: would have been a Yankee except he hung up on
• 19:56
  Speaker 1: George Steinbrenner because Steinbrenner made a demand that Bonds did
• 19:59
  Speaker 1: not like, which was a demand. Hey, I'm gonna pay
• 20:01
  Speaker 1: you a lot of money, just take care of this
• 20:02
  Speaker 1: right now. My observations, I've got crunch, rap burrito, high
• 20:07
  Speaker 1: end boutique, and traveling cover band, and we will combine
• 20:12
  Speaker 1: all of these things together and we're gonna have some
• 20:15
  Speaker 1: controlled chaos, is what we're going to have. But we'll
• 20:19
  Speaker 1: start from the ground and work our way up. So
• 20:21
  Speaker 1: number I cannot emphasis I emphasize this enough. I cannot
• 20:33
  Speaker 1: emphasize this enough. This is perfect. Okay, this is absolutely
• 20:36
  Speaker 1: freaking perfect. Here that hanging up on the boss and
• 20:42
  Speaker 1: Barry Bonds admitted to hanging up on the bus. This
• 20:45
  Speaker 1: is the most Verry Bonds story ever told. That the
• 20:50
  Speaker 1: guy treated human interaction like it was jury duty. He
• 20:54
  Speaker 1: kept trying to get out of it. Okay, but it
• 20:57
  Speaker 1: wasn't just that. I'm an introvert. I am, and I
• 21:00
  Speaker 1: understand the introvert life. I live that life. However, I
• 21:04
  Speaker 1: try not to be a total a hole like Bonds.
• 21:08
  Speaker 1: Just he wanted to be that guy, and so that's
• 21:11
  Speaker 1: the personality test he failed spectacularly. It is the epitome
• 21:16
  Speaker 1: of Barry Bonds. And I dealt with him a lot
• 21:20
  Speaker 1: when I was a baseball radio reporter back in the
• 21:22
  Speaker 1: day and I had to get sound bites after games
• 21:24
  Speaker 1: and the Giants played the Dodgers a ton, and so
• 21:27
  Speaker 1: I saw him quite often, and Barry was a tushy
• 21:33
  Speaker 1: to everyone all the time. And the most famous Berry
• 21:37
  Speaker 1: Bonds story, hands down, would be the classic one from
• 21:40
  Speaker 1: the late eighties when he was a young player for
• 21:42
  Speaker 1: the Pittsburgh Pirates and the guy for the Pirates was
• 21:46
  Speaker 1: going around to get autographs for sick kids in the
• 21:49
  Speaker 1: children's hospital, and Bonds would not signed. He refused to sign.
• 21:55
  Speaker 1: He said he thought the guy was gonna steal the
• 21:58
  Speaker 1: autograph baseballs and sell them, so he wouldn't do it.
• 22:02
  Speaker 1: But it's not confident. He just weaponized arrogance. He treated
• 22:06
  Speaker 1: people like we treat voicemail. You just don't check it.
• 22:10
  Speaker 1: You just say whatever, I'm not listening to that. And
• 22:14
  Speaker 1: you think hanging up on George Steinbrenner to go have
• 22:18
  Speaker 1: a crunch rap burrito for lunch, you think that bothers Bonds. No,
• 22:23
  Speaker 1: that's what he calls a Tuesday or a Wednesday. Now,
• 22:27
  Speaker 1: to be fair, let's not canonize George Steinbrenner either. The
• 22:30
  Speaker 1: boss was a foghorn with a wallet. And what happens
• 22:34
  Speaker 1: if you put two alphas on the phone. It's a
• 22:37
  Speaker 1: combustible situation which leads to kawboom is what it leads to.
• 22:42
  Speaker 1: So it's wild though that Bonds shows Candlestick Park with
• 22:46
  Speaker 1: the wind howling like a horror movie instead of that
• 22:52
  Speaker 1: band box in the Bronx, And he would have been
• 22:56
  Speaker 1: part think about if he had gone to you know,
• 22:58
  Speaker 1: do the what if game? What if he had gone
• 23:01
  Speaker 1: to the Yankees. That was the beginning of the nineties
• 23:04
  Speaker 1: Yankees dynasty a couple of years after that, so in theory,
• 23:08
  Speaker 1: Bonds would have been part of that as that core
• 23:11
  Speaker 1: group of Yankees became an active Yankee player. I mean,
• 23:16
  Speaker 1: in ninety three you had the Blue Jays were the
• 23:20
  Speaker 1: top team. Ninety four there was no World Series because
• 23:24
  Speaker 1: of what had happened. The Cleveland had some really good
• 23:27
  Speaker 1: teams with like ninety six, and from that point on,
• 23:31
  Speaker 1: for the next few years, the Yankees dominated the scene.
• 23:34
  Speaker 1: And the other thing I thought about, not only that,
• 23:37
  Speaker 1: but Bonds. The argument has always been he didn't do
• 23:40
  Speaker 1: steroids with the Pirates, he only did them when he
• 23:42
  Speaker 1: got to the Giants. Well, is it possible that Bonds
• 23:47
  Speaker 1: had he gone to Yankee Stadium, because that's such a
• 23:49
  Speaker 1: little league ballpark, it's not a legit big league ballpark,
• 23:52
  Speaker 1: that's the old Yankee Stadium, that he would not have
• 23:54
  Speaker 1: needed the clear and the cream if he had gone
• 23:56
  Speaker 1: to the Bronx because of the short porch. That's a
• 23:58
  Speaker 1: cheat code, so you don't need now. Of course, many
• 24:00
  Speaker 1: Yankees have done steroids of these NSSA need it. Instead,
• 24:04
  Speaker 1: he chose the Siberian Knights at Candlestick Park and chemical enhancements.
• 24:11
  Speaker 1: All right, now turn the page to La La Land,
• 24:14
  Speaker 1: where the rumor has become reality. Now we are not
• 24:16
  Speaker 1: in mouthpieces for the Dodgers. I was at one point,
• 24:19
  Speaker 1: I'm not anymore. So. The field that Dodger Stadium has
• 24:23
  Speaker 1: been sullied. Somebody defic no, nobody defecated on it. Dodgers
• 24:28
  Speaker 1: have done it. They have crossed the rubicon. They have
• 24:32
  Speaker 1: presented a title sponsor for the first time in the
• 24:36
  Speaker 1: history of what is the third oldest ballpark in the
• 24:38
  Speaker 1: Big Leagues behind Finnway and Wrigley Field. Dodger Stadium, Dodgers
• 24:43
  Speaker 1: announced a partnership with some global retail brand. You not
• 24:48
  Speaker 1: glow I believe is how you pronounced it. It'sa a
• 24:50
  Speaker 1: Japanese company. Oh, Unique Cloth. All right, Well anyway, I've
• 24:53
  Speaker 1: never heard of them, but they they are the title
• 24:56
  Speaker 1: sponsor Unique Low Unique Low Field at Dodger Stadium. Now, this,
• 25:01
  Speaker 1: of course has led to backlash, like if you upset,
• 25:05
  Speaker 1: I can't believe this. So the Dodgers issued a statement
• 25:09
  Speaker 1: saying this is gonna benefit the Dodger fans and the
• 25:12
  Speaker 1: LA community. With Unique Low Field at Dodger Stadium. So
• 25:17
  Speaker 1: the question is this, how does this naming of the field,
• 25:21
  Speaker 1: unique Cloth Field at Dodger Stadium benefit Dodger fans and
• 25:26
  Speaker 1: the sponsor. So it's one of these stories. It's really
• 25:30
  Speaker 1: just a storybook story. Is there anything more heartwarming than
• 25:34
  Speaker 1: the Dodgers finding a fresh way to pick your pocket?
• 25:37
  Speaker 1: It's so good. They have officially turned over these last
• 25:40
  Speaker 1: couple of years Blue Heaven on Earth into a high
• 25:43
  Speaker 1: end boutique. That's what it is. And I'm just asking
• 25:47
  Speaker 1: an innocent question. How many twenty dollars medellos or twenty
• 25:50
  Speaker 1: five dollars medellos does it take to pay for this,
• 25:55
  Speaker 1: that and the other thing? And I said, no, this
• 25:57
  Speaker 1: is just it's not gonna cost the fans any money. Okay,
• 26:00
  Speaker 1: it's the Japanese clothing company logo is now all over
• 26:04
  Speaker 1: Dodger Stadium because they paid a lot of money for it.
• 26:06
  Speaker 1: I get it. And for the fans, though, the Dodgers
• 26:09
  Speaker 1: continue to have this masterclass in its mark up. Madness
• 26:13
  Speaker 1: is what it is. The stadium is already the most
• 26:17
  Speaker 1: expensive experience in the big leagues. I love that we
• 26:21
  Speaker 1: are in the ear. It's the experience it's all about
• 26:23
  Speaker 1: the experience. A place where a family of four needs
• 26:26
  Speaker 1: a second mortgage just to park the car, not even
• 26:30
  Speaker 1: get into the game. And now we get the privilege
• 26:33
  Speaker 1: of sitting at Unique Low Field at Dodger Stadium. Now
• 26:36
  Speaker 1: does the name change come with a discount, Because the
• 26:40
  Speaker 1: Dodgers in this stateium, they're like, hey, listen, this is great.
• 26:43
  Speaker 1: This is going to help out the Dodger fan and
• 26:45
  Speaker 1: the LA community. Okay, So does that mean then that
• 26:48
  Speaker 1: they're going to discount the exploitative ticket prices that they've
• 26:52
  Speaker 1: been know So this is the old lose lose wrapped
• 26:58
  Speaker 1: in a very expensive sweater. As for Unique Low, I
• 27:02
  Speaker 1: would say that I don't know what they're thinking either.
• 27:04
  Speaker 1: They've essentially dropped their marketing budget into a bonfire somewhere
• 27:09
  Speaker 1: in Santa Monica. And I don't know anyone's gonna call
• 27:12
  Speaker 1: it Unique Low Field at Dodger Stadium. It's just Dodger Stadium.
• 27:16
  Speaker 1: That's it, period stop. And what do I know. I
• 27:19
  Speaker 1: just see the Overnight show. But it seems rather frivolous
• 27:21
  Speaker 1: spending for the alleged name recognition. So it's it's kind
• 27:27
  Speaker 1: of like buying naming rights and saying, Hey, I'm going
• 27:29
  Speaker 1: to sell the naming rights to the Pacific Ocean. Well no,
• 27:33
  Speaker 1: it's already been named the Pacific Ocean. But no, I'm
• 27:36
  Speaker 1: going to sell you naming rights. What do I get
• 27:38
  Speaker 1: for that? Well, I eat a lot of salt and
• 27:41
  Speaker 1: we get a lot of money. We get a lot
• 27:44
  Speaker 1: of money. And at the end of the day, it's
• 27:47
  Speaker 1: just water. That's all. That's all it is. And but
• 27:51
  Speaker 1: I'm getting old because I remember when I started going
• 27:54
  Speaker 1: to the dog to Dodger Stadium back in the day.
• 27:56
  Speaker 1: O'Malley still owned the team and they had one advertisement
• 28:01
  Speaker 1: in Dodger Stadium. As I recall, one prominent advertisement, it
• 28:05
  Speaker 1: was the seventy six ball that they had the seventy
• 28:08
  Speaker 1: six logo, which was the reason the seats were orange
• 28:11
  Speaker 1: at Dodger Stadium was because of that. But anyway, all right,
• 28:14
  Speaker 1: final point to Chicago we go where your femi's all
• 28:17
  Speaker 1: fired up, trees excited. I don't know about phase, but
• 28:20
  Speaker 1: the boys are excited, hear the Cubbies. Are the Cubs
• 28:23
  Speaker 1: legit or are they not legit? Well, third basement Alex
• 28:28
  Speaker 1: Bregman set the bar high for the Chicago Cubs. He
• 28:32
  Speaker 1: gave a quote recently here before opening Day saying for
• 28:34
  Speaker 1: the season to be a success, we have to win
• 28:39
  Speaker 1: the whole thing, we being the Cubbies. It is a
• 28:42
  Speaker 1: quote from Alex Bregman. Now, the question is Alex Bregman
• 28:48
  Speaker 1: setting the Cubs up for failure to say it's World
• 28:53
  Speaker 1: Series or bust? So I thought about it. I am
• 28:57
  Speaker 1: ambivalent on this one. On an iPad tablet, that should
• 29:02
  Speaker 1: be the mission statement. Like you look at the tablet,
• 29:04
  Speaker 1: that should be the mission statement. Absolutely, you don't enter
• 29:08
  Speaker 1: the season aiming for a participation trophy and a pad
• 29:12
  Speaker 1: on the back. It's not like summer camp. It's got
• 29:16
  Speaker 1: to play meaningful games when it's cold outside in October,
• 29:19
  Speaker 1: and that's it. However, this is the part where the
• 29:23
  Speaker 1: malor alarm bells start going off, just like that, the
• 29:29
  Speaker 1: moment Bregman walks walked into Wrigleyville, the moment he walked
• 29:33
  Speaker 1: into Riggyville, he brought luggage. And I'm not talking about
• 29:37
  Speaker 1: Lui Vauton. I'm talking about the haunted suitcase from the
• 29:42
  Speaker 1: cheating astros at the trash Cad Symphony. It still echoes.
• 29:49
  Speaker 1: That's not just baggage. That is radioactive material. Is what
• 29:53
  Speaker 1: that is. And so you got Bregman who's now with
• 29:55
  Speaker 1: the Cubs, with Jose Alboubey, Carlos core it's a cheetah.
• 30:00
  Speaker 1: He's back with the cheaters, George Springer who was sent
• 30:03
  Speaker 1: out of the country to Toronto. They have spread out
• 30:06
  Speaker 1: some of them. Korea played for the Twins and then
• 30:08
  Speaker 1: came back to the cheaters. Altuba is the only one
• 30:11
  Speaker 1: that stayed for the full run in Houston. But these
• 30:14
  Speaker 1: guys who are still playing from the twenty seventeen a holes,
• 30:19
  Speaker 1: It's like a traveling cover band, is what it is,
• 30:22
  Speaker 1: called the stink bombs. The real fans remember what happened
• 30:27
  Speaker 1: and cannot unsee the cheating Astros residue permanent marker on
• 30:35
  Speaker 1: your baseball soul. And who handed out what? Rob Manford
• 30:40
  Speaker 1: handed out? What no punishment? Right step right up, Rob
• 30:43
  Speaker 1: man Fraud, the spineless, gutless commissioner Major League Baseball who
• 30:46
  Speaker 1: treated the World Series scandal like it was a parking
• 30:49
  Speaker 1: ticket or a jaywalking ticket. So yeah, when Bregman says
• 30:53
  Speaker 1: World Series or bust, it sounds noble. Yet when you've
• 31:00
  Speaker 1: got that kind of baseball karma, dining with the devil
• 31:06
  Speaker 1: swirling around like a tornado of doom. It's less of
• 31:11
  Speaker 1: a goal for the Cubbies and more of like a
• 31:13
  Speaker 1: countdown to combustion. It's impossible, impossible for us to pull
• 31:19
  Speaker 1: for any team that has a cheating a hole on it.
• 31:21
  Speaker 1: Cannot happen, will not happen. Sorry, not sorry. So the
• 31:26
  Speaker 1: Cubs went from lovable losers to just losers with Alex
• 31:31
  Speaker 1: Bregman adding Bregman to the team, and he was a
• 31:36
  Speaker 1: diminishing asset with the Red Sox that we're not supposed
• 31:38
  Speaker 1: to talk about that part. He did not play very
• 31:40
  Speaker 1: well in the second half of the baseball season in
• 31:43
  Speaker 1: twenty twenty five.
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• 31:51
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• 31:57
  Speaker 2: This is one big event.
• 31:59
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• 32:02
  Speaker 5: Earlier this week, Victor webbin Yama gave reporters three reasons
• 32:05
  Speaker 5: why he should be NBA MVP. They were that fifty
• 32:09
  Speaker 5: percent of the game is defense, their record against the Thunder,
• 32:12
  Speaker 5: and his overall impact on offense.
• 32:14
  Speaker 4: Ben will Wemby win MVP.
• 32:16
  Speaker 1: Well, he will win many MVPs in his career. He
• 32:18
  Speaker 1: will not win the MVP this year, although there's only
• 32:22
  Speaker 1: a few games to go in the NBA seasons. I
• 32:24
  Speaker 1: think Shade jogis Alexander A Jalen Brown, Wemby Aaroll a
• 32:29
  Speaker 1: neck and neck and know Lucas getting some late love here,
• 32:31
  Speaker 1: but he will now he's not gonna win it this year. Next.
• 32:34
  Speaker 5: Speaking of winning MVP, Cad Cunningham's collapse lung will likely
• 32:37
  Speaker 5: cause him to fall short of the newly required sixty
• 32:39
  Speaker 5: five game mark to be eligible for season awards. This
• 32:42
  Speaker 5: has caused the NBA Players Association to demand that the
• 32:45
  Speaker 5: league either abolishes or reforms the rule.
• 32:48
  Speaker 4: Ben, do you think the league will get rid of
• 32:49
  Speaker 4: the requirement?
• 32:51
  Speaker 1: No, they shouldn't get rid of it the players. If
• 32:53
  Speaker 1: you can't play sixty five games, you should not be
• 32:56
  Speaker 1: the MVP. This is not that hard. Everyone's having a
• 32:59
  Speaker 1: hiss f You're a bunch of losers. Okay, how about
• 33:03
  Speaker 1: you show up to work at Morons next.
• 33:05
  Speaker 5: It's been twenty years since Arnie Marino decided that the
• 33:08
  Speaker 5: team would be known as the Los Angeles Angels rather
• 33:10
  Speaker 5: than Anaheim Angels his marketing move. Yeah, an assemblyman has
• 33:14
  Speaker 5: an introduced legislation that could require any sale or new
• 33:17
  Speaker 5: lease of stadium property to be conditioned upon the team
• 33:19
  Speaker 5: reverting back to the Anaheim Angels name.
• 33:22
  Speaker 4: If anything, it'll happen.
• 33:24
  Speaker 1: I don't know how that legally is allowed, Like, I
• 33:26
  Speaker 1: don't think that's legally allowed. Or they should be called
• 33:28
  Speaker 1: like the Orange County Angels or something like the OC
• 33:31
  Speaker 1: Angels or something like that.
• 33:32
  Speaker 2: I don't know.
• 33:32
  Speaker 1: That's stupid.
• 33:33
  Speaker 4: How do we do, Koblo, you pass this decision?
• 33:35
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• 33:59
  Speaker 1: I mean, wait, ask that Twitter said?
• 34:02
  Speaker 2: Is your questions on Twitter?
• 34:04
  Speaker 1: Now?
• 34:05
  Speaker 2: Man?
• 34:05
  Speaker 1: Oh, we go, it's not ever asked. Ben, your questions
• 34:09
  Speaker 1: are answered for the rest of the hour. For the
• 34:14
  Speaker 1: rest of the hour, and it's Ben and Friends, And
• 34:17
  Speaker 1: now we go to the reading of the questions and
• 34:20
  Speaker 1: the coop a loop coop.
• 34:23
  Speaker 5: All right, We're gonna start off with a question from
• 34:25
  Speaker 5: Lucky Tony. He wants to know if you had to
• 34:29
  Speaker 5: per like a lion every time you were happy, or
• 34:32
  Speaker 5: roar like a lion every time you were mad, and
• 34:34
  Speaker 5: you don't get to choose, it's controlled by your emotions,
• 34:37
  Speaker 5: which would you pick?
• 34:41
  Speaker 1: I would get? I guess I would go per because
• 34:44
  Speaker 1: I don't I'm not that over the top happy that much,
• 34:47
  Speaker 1: so I would I would think that would be less annoying.
• 34:50
  Speaker 1: You feel me on that, you know what I'm saying, Like,
• 34:52
  Speaker 1: I wouldn't. I can't control it, but you know, if
• 34:55
  Speaker 1: you really I'm like really really happy, not you know, occasionally,
• 34:58
  Speaker 1: not all that often, So I would do that because
• 35:00
  Speaker 1: it wouldn't happen that open. What about you, Lorena?
• 35:02
  Speaker 6: I already per all the time, So I'm just gonna.
• 35:05
  Speaker 1: Go with this now, Lorena, Anthony's listening in Louisiana.
• 35:08
  Speaker 4: Oh he's my cousin.
• 35:10
  Speaker 1: Come on, cuz, what are you doing? Hall? Lorena? What
• 35:13
  Speaker 1: about your coop?
• 35:14
  Speaker 5: I would pick that one as well. I feel like,
• 35:16
  Speaker 5: you know, women would find it endearing. But like, if
• 35:19
  Speaker 5: you're roaring all the time when you're angry, it's you know,
• 35:22
  Speaker 5: who's gonna want to be around you.
• 35:23
  Speaker 4: It's scary if you get.
• 35:24
  Speaker 1: Some major street cred, if you could pull that off right,
• 35:27
  Speaker 1: Like you imagine you go anywhere and somebody kind of
• 35:30
  Speaker 1: scares you and you get angry and you start roaring
• 35:33
  Speaker 1: like a line. All right, what's next? Here we go,
• 35:36
  Speaker 1: what's next? It's ask Ben. Your questions are answers for
• 35:40
  Speaker 1: our rest of the hour.
• 35:42
  Speaker 5: This is a question from Ferg Dog. He wants to
• 35:45
  Speaker 5: know does let us add anything to a hamburger?
• 35:49
  Speaker 1: Yes? And here's why, Ferg Dog. It gives you the
• 35:51
  Speaker 1: illusion that you're eating something healthy when you're really not.
• 35:57
  Speaker 1: It doesn't add anything to the taste. Like I do
• 36:00
  Speaker 1: try to find. I eat a lot of like tacos,
• 36:03
  Speaker 1: and I'll put lettuce on them because it makes me
• 36:05
  Speaker 1: feel like, well, it's not that unhealthy. I'm eating lettuce.
• 36:08
  Speaker 1: You know the same thing with burgers. Put a little
• 36:10
  Speaker 1: lettuce on there. I don't necessarily like it, but it's like, hey,
• 36:12
  Speaker 1: you know, I'm healthy. I'm eating lettuce, leafy greens. What
• 36:16
  Speaker 1: about you, Lorraine up?
• 36:17
  Speaker 6: Yeah, the more veggies the better. It makes it more
• 36:19
  Speaker 6: into a salad. You know what I'm saying. What if
• 36:21
  Speaker 6: you got rid of the bun altogether and you just
• 36:23
  Speaker 6: did protein style.
• 36:24
  Speaker 4: It's so good. It's refreshing.
• 36:26
  Speaker 1: Stop stop, don't get crazy. I also tell you I
• 36:29
  Speaker 1: do love throwing in like I throw in the beef
• 36:32
  Speaker 1: I make, I put the onion and the bell pepper,
• 36:35
  Speaker 1: little cheakcoat, little cheek coat. You get the veggies, but
• 36:39
  Speaker 1: you don't really taste them that much off there too.
• 36:42
  Speaker 5: It adds texture. That's what it's there for. Really a
• 36:44
  Speaker 5: little bit of a little bit of crunch.
• 36:48
  Speaker 1: It depends how fresh the lettuce is.
• 36:49
  Speaker 4: But yeah, true, true, All.
• 36:50
  Speaker 1: Right, what is next year? It's ask Ben And this
• 36:53
  Speaker 1: is a voted category for the Benny, So remember that
• 36:56
  Speaker 1: this is a voted category for the Benny.
• 36:59
  Speaker 4: The King Rory would like to know have you ever
• 37:02
  Speaker 4: had an ingrown toenail?
• 37:05
  Speaker 1: Yes? Yes, I have had a lot of toe issues
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  Speaker 1: over the years. For a long time, I wore shoes
• 37:13
  Speaker 1: that were not the proper size and that created some
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  Speaker 1: really weird looking toes. I have had ingrown toenails and
• 37:21
  Speaker 1: it is an absolute bach. My god, what a nightmare.
• 37:27
  Speaker 1: Yeah what about you, Lorena? I had that?
• 37:30
  Speaker 5: No, I have not.
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  Speaker 6: My daughter, though, suffers from her one of her big toes.
• 37:35
  Speaker 6: It just one nail goes into the side so much.
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  Speaker 6: But I enjoy the whole process of like cutting it out,
• 37:40
  Speaker 6: you know, pulling out the ground.
• 37:43
  Speaker 1: That's kind of sick.
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  Speaker 6: You like soak the foot in hot water first so
• 37:46
  Speaker 6: that the skin around the toe is nice and soft,
• 37:48
  Speaker 6: and then you do surgery.
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  Speaker 4: Pretty much, it's super fun.
• 37:51
  Speaker 1: Yeah, I don't think so, you know, have fun, that
• 37:53
  Speaker 1: is what about you? Cooperlutle.
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  Speaker 5: Yes, I had it so bad in high school that
• 37:58
  Speaker 5: I had to have like a little surgical a sizure.
• 38:00
  Speaker 1: Yep.
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  Speaker 4: You can't let it get that bad.
• 38:02
  Speaker 1: Yeah, it.
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  Speaker 4: Sucks. But I also didn't have to participate in pee
• 38:07
  Speaker 4: because it was that bad.
• 38:08
  Speaker 3: Oh.
• 38:08
  Speaker 1: Well, I've had off and on I've had. This is
• 38:11
  Speaker 1: so hilarious because I am like the last person you
• 38:13
  Speaker 1: would think that have this. It's called like runner's toe
• 38:16
  Speaker 1: or something like that, where because I go on the
• 38:18
  Speaker 1: treadmill a lot and your toe will turn black your
• 38:20
  Speaker 1: TONI wow stop, no, no, yeah, and you think, oh
• 38:25
  Speaker 1: my god, but it's doesn't really hurt, it's just it's weird.
• 38:28
  Speaker 6: So your toe hasn't fallen off.
• 38:31
  Speaker 1: Oh I've had some tonios fall off with that. Yeah
• 38:34
  Speaker 1: in Midyeah, all right, what's next year, Let's ask Ben
• 38:38
  Speaker 1: your questions are answers.
• 38:40
  Speaker 5: Polly b says, plumbers recommend draining your hot water heater
• 38:43
  Speaker 5: once a year to remove sediment and prolong the life
• 38:45
  Speaker 5: of the water heater.
• 38:46
  Speaker 4: Have you ever had Have you ever had that done?
• 38:49
  Speaker 1: No? No? What I do is I use the water
• 38:52
  Speaker 1: heater until it stops getting hot water, and then I
• 38:55
  Speaker 1: call someone to put a new water heater in.
• 38:57
  Speaker 2: That's what I do.
• 38:58
  Speaker 1: What about you, Lorena?
• 39:00
  Speaker 6: No man, same thing.
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  Speaker 4: When the water stops coming out hot, you just buy
• 39:03
  Speaker 4: a new one.
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  Speaker 1: Exactly.
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  Speaker 6: Does that?
• 39:06
  Speaker 1: Yeah?
• 39:06
  Speaker 5: I've never done that, but mine mine. I use it
• 39:09
  Speaker 5: until it like flooded the garage.
• 39:12
  Speaker 1: And I am worried about that. That does concern me
• 39:17
  Speaker 1: quite a bit.
• 39:18
  Speaker 4: It happens. Yeah, yeah, it was not final.
• 39:20
  Speaker 3: I know.
• 39:21
  Speaker 1: I'm hoping the water will just not get warm and
• 39:23
  Speaker 1: then then I'll know it's time to replace it, rather
• 39:26
  Speaker 1: than the thing exploding. What's the next is ask Ben?
• 39:29
  Speaker 1: Your questions are answered, so the rest of the hour.
• 39:31
  Speaker 1: You like this, we do it every week if you
• 39:32
  Speaker 1: really like it. There's a ripoff version on Sunday called
• 39:35
  Speaker 1: the Mailbag. On the Fifth Hour podcast What's Next? Cool?
• 39:38
  Speaker 4: Uh Andy and Lionel lakes Hi.
• 39:41
  Speaker 5: Andy wants to know, when it comes to your car SUV,
• 39:44
  Speaker 5: do you prefer foreign or domestic?
• 39:48
  Speaker 1: Yeah, I'd rather have American, but I don't. I don't
• 39:51
  Speaker 1: really at this point. I know, I just want something
• 39:53
  Speaker 1: that's somewhat affordable and gets good gas milets. That's all
• 39:56
  Speaker 1: I care about it at this point. What about you? Lorraina?
• 39:59
  Speaker 6: Oh is a hard one because born and raised in
• 40:02
  Speaker 6: a FORID factory. But I do love my Toyota and
• 40:06
  Speaker 6: I've seen some really good durable Hondas, so I got
• 40:10
  Speaker 6: to give it to the foreign.
• 40:11
  Speaker 1: Yeah. We have a couple of you, me and the wife.
• 40:13
  Speaker 1: So we have one American car and one foreign car,
• 40:15
  Speaker 1: and you know it's whatever. We pretty much ride the
• 40:18
  Speaker 1: cars into the ground is what we do.
• 40:19
  Speaker 4: So same Ben, Same two.
• 40:22
  Speaker 1: Hundred thousand miles, no problem. What's next? Coop? What do
• 40:24
  Speaker 1: we got? Rob?
• 40:25
  Speaker 4: Do you want to answer that foreign? Foreign?
• 40:27
  Speaker 1: For me? For him?
• 40:28
  Speaker 5: Yeah?
• 40:29
  Speaker 1: Rob?
• 40:29
  Speaker 5: The goat Man wants to know what is one discontinued
• 40:31
  Speaker 5: food or beverage You wish they would bring back.
• 40:38
  Speaker 1: The apple pie Deep Friday McDonald's. Remember the old apple
• 40:42
  Speaker 1: Pie Coop? Remember that? Yes, so much better than the
• 40:46
  Speaker 1: baked one they have now. I think there's one location
• 40:48
  Speaker 1: in Downey that still has the region. What about you
• 40:50
  Speaker 1: learning quickly?
• 40:51
  Speaker 4: Not sure? Choo and Chicken Chiloopa at Taco Bell, Coop,
• 40:53
  Speaker 4: Tuble Decker, Taco Supreme at Taco Bell.
• 40:56
  Speaker 1: You guys are addicted to Taco Bell Man, You're all
• 40:59
  Speaker 1: about it at the Taco Bell. Taco Bell, Taco Bell,