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  Speaker 1: We will walk it off, well not quite a walkoff,
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  Speaker 1: but time you can't tie in baseball there was no tie.
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  Speaker 1: Welcome in the beginning of another night of the Ben
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  Speaker 1: from the Star, the all Star kind of a night
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  Speaker 1: our lead this hour is don't bear the lead, ma
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  Speaker 1: Man from the All Star festivities in hot Atlanta, the
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  Speaker 1: atl Truest Park out in the suburbs there. That is
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  Speaker 1: where the scene was for the ninety fifth Midsummer Classic,
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  Speaker 1: the Cream of the Crop. We were told from the
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  Speaker 1: National League and the All American League All Stars. They're
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  Speaker 1: wrangling on a humid night in the South, and it
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  Speaker 1: was on Fox. Did you watch? Were you? Were you
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  Speaker 1: watching Joe Davis and John Smoltz as they were the
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  Speaker 1: Chatterbox the soundtrack to the All Star Game on television?
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  Speaker 1: Maybe not, Maybe you didn't watch it, Perhaps you had
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  Speaker 1: something else to do. I was texting a couple of
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  Speaker 1: friends of mine during the All Star Game with snarky
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  Speaker 1: comments and they responded, not watching. Mind, these are people
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  Speaker 1: that work in the media, and I'm not watching. So
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  Speaker 1: that kind of defeated the whole purpose of the snarky
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  Speaker 1: messages that I was sending. But it was a historical
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  Speaker 1: night and it ended I assume you know by now
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  Speaker 1: in a couple hours back. Maybe not though the fighting
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  Speaker 1: the Phils. Kyle Schwarber did not get a hit in
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  Speaker 1: the real portion of the All Star Game, but yet
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  Speaker 1: he wrote his name in the book a Legends as
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  Speaker 1: he was the first person to do something in baseball history.
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  Speaker 1: Kyle Schwarbert three swings, three bombs in the All Star
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  Speaker 1: Games first ever swing off, not a derby, not a derby,
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  Speaker 1: a swing off, and that gave the National League the lead.
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  Speaker 1: They won four to three in the swing off, so
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  Speaker 1: the official final score is seven to six. The actual
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  Speaker 1: All Star Game traditional Baseball was a six to six tie,
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  Speaker 1: but Baseball is calling this a seven to six win
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  Speaker 1: for the National League All Stars as the NL blew
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  Speaker 1: a six to nothing lead. It's always nice to see
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  Speaker 1: Dave Roberts mismanage a bullpen in a big game. There
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  Speaker 1: he was for the Dodgers. This is baseball's equivalent. Remember
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  Speaker 1: they announced this a couple of years ago, and we
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  Speaker 1: did monologues about it, then we forgot about it. But
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  Speaker 1: Baseball's equivalent to the penalty kick shootout in soccer. Olay olay,
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  Speaker 1: olay olay, just like soccer. So games decided by having
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  Speaker 1: three batters that supposedly were selected before the game, three
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  Speaker 1: batters for each team, and each league took three swings,
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  Speaker 1: and if you didn't hit a home run, it was
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  Speaker 1: an out, and you only get three swings, and it
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  Speaker 1: came down to the bitter end. That was agreed to
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  Speaker 1: back in twenty twenty twos, twenty twenty two, so three
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  Speaker 1: years ago, and I said, we will never have ties again.
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  Speaker 1: We do not want to worry about running out of pitchers,
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  Speaker 1: so we'll just change the way the game is played.
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  Speaker 1: That's what we're gonna do, all right, So let us
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  Speaker 1: discuss we got something new, something new to talk about.
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  Speaker 1: We don't often get new things to talk about, so
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  Speaker 1: we have something new to talk about. The question thumbs
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  Speaker 1: up or thumbs down, thumbs up or thumbs down on
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  Speaker 1: the All Star Game being decided by a swing off?
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  Speaker 1: All right? So I've got Rob Parker, WWE and Amazon,
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  Speaker 1: and we will combine all of these things together and
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  Speaker 1: we are going to make the Gabba gool. We're gonna
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  Speaker 1: make the Gabba goool. So a as far as thumb's
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  Speaker 1: up thumbs down on the All Star swing Off. I
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  Speaker 1: will be not Benny Brightside, but I'm not gonna be
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  Speaker 1: Benny the downer. I am going to go sideways thumb.
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  Speaker 1: I'm going sideways thumb. And here's why. Let me make
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  Speaker 1: my argument for this year. I didn't love the swing Off.
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  Speaker 1: I didn't. It was fine. I didn't love it. I
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  Speaker 1: hear a lot of people saying, oh, it was the
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  Speaker 1: greatest thing ever. It was like our gasmick. I didn't
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  Speaker 1: have that reaction. I feel like people are overreacting to
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  Speaker 1: what they watched because it's a shiny new object, and
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  Speaker 1: everyone loves the shiny new object. My temperature on this
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  Speaker 1: is lukewarm. That's where I am. It's like room temperature.
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  Speaker 1: And here's why, when you think about what we actually
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  Speaker 1: watched or listened to if you're blind, the American League
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  Speaker 1: was down by one home run. They needed at least
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  Speaker 1: one home run to tie two to win the final
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  Speaker 1: round of the swing off, not a not a derby
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  Speaker 1: swing on. The game hinged with everyone watching who stayed
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  Speaker 1: up late because it was laid on the East coast.
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  Speaker 1: Now we're late night people, so for us didn't matter.
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  Speaker 1: But for those people who worked the dread a day shift.
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  Speaker 1: It matters. So somebody named Jonathan Aranda from Tampa Bay
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  Speaker 1: was in the batter's box. The three Swings needed one
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  Speaker 1: home run to tie, two to win. Who It's never
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  Speaker 1: a good sign when you have to google, just google
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  Speaker 1: it the name of the person who has the All
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  Speaker 1: Star Game on their shoulders and you have no idea.
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  Speaker 1: You didn't even know they were on the team. So
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  Speaker 1: Aranda stepped in and we right off of milk carton
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  Speaker 1: into the batter's box there for the American League All Stars.
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  Speaker 1: And on the last swing Solwing batter came up short,
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  Speaker 1: hollow ending, hollow ending. You know I'm right. You might
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  Speaker 1: not would admit it, but you know I'm right. It
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  Speaker 1: was a hollow ending. Don't bury the lead, my man
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  Speaker 1: times too, don't bury the lead. So would it have killed?
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  Speaker 1: Would it have killed Aaron Judge and show Hail Tani
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  Speaker 1: to have taken part in this historical shindig? Would it
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  Speaker 1: have been the worst thing in the world to have
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  Speaker 1: the two biggest stars in baseball take part in the
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  Speaker 1: swing off at the first ever edition in an All
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  Speaker 1: Star Game? And the answer is yes, it would have
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  Speaker 1: killed both Aaron Judge and Sho hal Tani because they
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  Speaker 1: were not in the building. Okay, you can't do something
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  Speaker 1: if you're out of the building and you're thirty thousand
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  Speaker 1: feet in the air because you're on a plane leaving
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  Speaker 1: Atlanta or I don't know, it's possible that Otani and
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  Speaker 1: Aaron Judge went down to Magic City with Rob Parker
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  Speaker 1: and were having those lemon pepper wings and having a
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  Speaker 1: grand time because they didn't want to risk out of
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  Speaker 1: an abundance of caution. If Aaron Judge and O'tani had batted,
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  Speaker 1: they might have messed up their swing in the swing off.
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  Speaker 1: Who knows, maybe they would have stepped on a booby
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  Speaker 1: trap in the batter's box there and suffered spontaneous human combustion.
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  Speaker 1: They would have burned up right there in the batter's box,
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  Speaker 1: and they didn't want that. But they were long gone,
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  Speaker 1: and to those of us that watched the entire game,
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  Speaker 1: you're a bunch of suckers. They were out of there, baby,
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  Speaker 1: they were on vacation, and it gave me vibes. I
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  Speaker 1: talked about this the other day. The All Star Game
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  Speaker 1: in Milwaukee years ago, over twenty years ago, when it
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  Speaker 1: ended in a tie and that famous shot of then
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  Speaker 1: commissioner Bud Selik that used car salesman with a shrug.
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  Speaker 1: I don't know what to do now, I don't know
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  Speaker 1: what to do. Uh, this was a missed opportunity of
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  Speaker 1: epic proportions, and they're doing damage control major League Baseball.
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  Speaker 1: They're like, Oh, it's not that big a deal. It's okay.
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  Speaker 1: Oh they are Uh bull crap, right, bull crap, swing
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  Speaker 1: and miss so wing Barra, so wing Barra. Yeah, and
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  Speaker 1: so deserves a big, giant fat fail stamped right across
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  Speaker 1: it that Otani and Judge were not part of this thing.
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  Speaker 1: The biggest boppers in baseball tapped out to get on
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  Speaker 1: a Delta Airlines flight from the Atlanta Hartsfield Airport. Of course,
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  Speaker 1: these guys probably play private. Private is what they do.
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  Speaker 1: So instead we got, Now, there were a couple of
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  Speaker 1: big names in this thing, but we also, let me
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  Speaker 1: check my notes here, we had someone named Kyle Stowers
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  Speaker 1: of the Marlins and then the aforementioned Jonathan Rand of
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  Speaker 1: the Rays in a swing off. What the damn do? Yes,
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  Speaker 1: such a bad look for baseball, Such a bad look
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  Speaker 1: on a night where this was their night. They had
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  Speaker 1: the whole night, nothing else going on. Nobody watches the WNBA.
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  Speaker 1: This was the only thing going on, and you screwed
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  Speaker 1: it up. Now, Pete Alonso did not hit he was
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  Speaker 1: supposed to hit. The National League did not need to
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  Speaker 1: have Alonzo hit because they had already won before. Alonzo
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  Speaker 1: was supposed to step in, and Kyle Schwarber's stepping up
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  Speaker 1: and he wins the MVP, and pretty good odds on that.
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  Speaker 1: If you bet on Kyle Swarber. I'm sure there's some
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  Speaker 1: dudes in the Delaware Valley that are smiling right now
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  Speaker 1: because they had a couple of bucks on Schwarber to
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  Speaker 1: win the MVP. All right now, Page two, So what
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  Speaker 1: did you make of the overall All Star presentation? From
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  Speaker 1: a viewer standpoint? A consumer? You're the consumer? What did
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  Speaker 1: you make of it? So if you tuned in the
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  Speaker 1: truest part for the baseball and you just wanted to
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  Speaker 1: see the baseball, you just want to see the ball, right,
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  Speaker 1: and that was a showcase of raw talent, that's what
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  Speaker 1: you wanted. That's just what you wanted. You got a
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  Speaker 1: lot more than you're bargained for if that's what you
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  Speaker 1: were planning on. Instead, what you got was what I
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  Speaker 1: would describe as a Broadway production, in this case off Broadway,
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  Speaker 1: because it was in Atlanta, off Broadway, and it looked
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  Speaker 1: like the people behind baseball thought they had the Tony
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  Speaker 1: Award in the bag for best choreography. And this is
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  Speaker 1: one of the things you can't just let it breathe.
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  Speaker 1: You have to plan everything out. Now, am I ball
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  Speaker 1: humbug guy on this? I don't think I am. Oh, Ben,
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  Speaker 1: you're so negative, Okay, I'm just telling you my experience
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  Speaker 1: watching Now. It's possible you had a different experience. But
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  Speaker 1: the Major League Baseball scriptwriters worked overtime to plan all
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  Speaker 1: this out, and what we got the result of that
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  Speaker 1: was an absolute spectacle that felt less like a game
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  Speaker 1: for the balance of the game and more like some
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  Speaker 1: kind of reality TV episode desperate for quote moments, clothes quote.
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  Speaker 1: I just got that. The thing is like they were.
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  Speaker 1: These were not organic moments, but that's what they wanted, right.
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  Speaker 1: They were more concerned about going viral, becoming a trending
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  Speaker 1: topic on social media. Now, for reference, why don't we
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  Speaker 1: start with Clayton Kershaw. He was taken out in the
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  Speaker 1: second inning, the Dodgers left hander who didn't really really
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  Speaker 1: want to go to the All Star Game. They dragged
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  Speaker 1: him as the Commissioner's pick at age thirty seven. He
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  Speaker 1: was miked up. He played some grab ass like he's
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  Speaker 1: trying to get a podcast there, but he's playing grab
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  Speaker 1: ass with John Smoltz. And then with two outs in
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  Speaker 1: the in the second Dave Roberts bops out of the
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  Speaker 1: dugout there and pulls him out of the game. Now,
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  Speaker 1: why did Dave Roberts do that with two outs in
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  Speaker 1: that inning? Was it because Kershaw was gas? I think
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  Speaker 1: he had from like twenty pitches? Is that too many?
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  Speaker 1: Is you know he's an old man. No? Was his
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  Speaker 1: arm about to fall off? No? Did he feel a twinge? No,
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  Speaker 1: that did not happen. It was scripted. Hello, it was scripted,
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  Speaker 1: is what it was. Right, it was time for him
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  Speaker 1: to exit, because that's what baseball wanted, perfectly. Time for
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  Speaker 1: the fans in Atlanta, wee Clayton Kershaw whoo, and he
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  Speaker 1: leaves the field. He tips his cap to the applause,
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  Speaker 1: a standing ovation, a tear jerking momut made for television.
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  Speaker 1: And that was not the only one, all right, that
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  Speaker 1: was not the only one. Then there was Freddie Freeman,
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  Speaker 1: another Dodger, but always in Atlanta. Brave, right, more brave
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  Speaker 1: than a Dodger, even though he had one of the
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  Speaker 1: great home runs in World Series his history as a Dodger.
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  Speaker 1: But Freddie Freeman, the Dodger first baseman, who's been pretty
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  Speaker 1: terrible the last month. Freddie Freeman a darling of Braves
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  Speaker 1: teams gone by. So he got the full w Wue treatment.
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  Speaker 1: It's like a Monday night Raw broadcast on a Tuesday,
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  Speaker 1: because before the game, before the All Star Game even started,
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  Speaker 1: you had the TV cameras zooming in on Freddie Freeman,
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  Speaker 1: like right in the dugout or just outside the dug
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  Speaker 1: out there with Ken Rosenthal prodding him about his emotional
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  Speaker 1: Atlanta homecoming. Oh, it was so emotional. Freeman of course
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  Speaker 1: played along right, It's got a little misty eye there.
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  Speaker 1: Oh Man talked about his glory days with the Atlanta
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  Speaker 1: Braves and he still loves Atlanta and the fans and
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  Speaker 1: really just can't get enough. And then que the violins, right,
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  Speaker 1: just que the violins. The crowd goes wild. Oh my god, Gouse.
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  Speaker 1: They played in the stadium, so the crowd went wild,
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  Speaker 1: and he was introduced and I could hear the producers
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  Speaker 1: probably on television and a truck whispering. Perfect, we got
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  Speaker 1: the shot. That's fade to the commercial. Fade to the commercial.
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  Speaker 1: Now later in the fourth fitting Freddie Freeman single. He
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  Speaker 1: then took a bow about chickawaw wow. He took a
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  Speaker 1: little bow. There a curtain call and he was removed.
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  Speaker 1: Freeman was removed for Pete Alonzo with two outs in
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  Speaker 1: the third inning, giving the fans another chance to go
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  Speaker 1: wild and give Freddie Freeman a big ovation. Of course,
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  Speaker 1: everyone ate it up. Made for television moment. Why not?
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  Speaker 1: Cameras lingered on Freddie Freeman there like they were filming
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  Speaker 1: Titanic the remake. And was any of this spontaneous? Of course?
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  Speaker 1: Not police you know it was not spontaneous. It was choreographed.
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  Speaker 1: It was like a boy band dance routine back in
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  Speaker 1: the day, right, it was choreographed. It was a soap
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  Speaker 1: opera like production. And Major League Baseball the puppet masters
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  Speaker 1: who go to that board meeting in Manhattan, I how
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  Speaker 1: can we get some Vinyl moments? Shir? What do we
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  Speaker 1: need to do? All right, Let's have Kershaw step out,
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  Speaker 1: take him out early. We'll have Freeman come out early.
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  Speaker 1: We'll do a tribute to Hank Aaron. We'll do that later.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, there's certain things that were in this thing
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  Speaker 1: that were just done for They were done for the moment, right,
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  Speaker 1: done for the moment. Even the home run derby at
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  Speaker 1: the end, which was not a derby, it was a
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  Speaker 1: swing off. Same concept, right, same concept and all. Now
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  Speaker 1: the last word here, which I think is appropriate. On
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  Speaker 1: the night that Freddy Freddie Freeman left the All Star
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  Speaker 1: Game early and he was not alone. Right. We talked
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  Speaker 1: about this at the beginning of this monologue that Shoe
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  Speaker 1: Otani and Aaron Judge were Gonzo the biggest stars in
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  Speaker 1: the game left before the game was over because they
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  Speaker 1: had to plane to catch or they had to go
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  Speaker 1: down to Magic City and get those Lemon Pepper chicken
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  Speaker 1: wings Rock Park. So they were gone. And the did
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  Speaker 1: I do that? Yeah, yeah, So the faces of the
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  Speaker 1: Dodgers and the Yankees there side by side, and they
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  Speaker 1: did a side by side call the challenge leading up
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  Speaker 1: to the All Star Game. And it's not even close
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  Speaker 1: in one area. It's not even close in one area.
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  Speaker 1: Endorsement dollars. Now, I was reading this earlier if you
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  Speaker 1: saw this, but Shoe Oltani is making how much more
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  Speaker 1: than Aaron Judge per season in endorsements. This is just
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  Speaker 1: based on twenty twenty five endorsement revenue. Otani is making
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  Speaker 1: over ninety million dollars more than Aaron Judge in off
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  Speaker 1: field earnings. So how do you compute that? How does
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  Speaker 1: that compute with you and the amount of money the
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  Speaker 1: revenue between the discrepancy between Otani and Aaron Judge, So
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  Speaker 1: it's not surprising. In fact, if you go down to Walmart,
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  Speaker 1: you go down to Walmart and you buy my new
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  Speaker 1: book Branding for Dummies, you will find out why there
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  Speaker 1: is such a disparity. Right While Otani and Judge both
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  Speaker 1: have high end companies that they have partnerships with a
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  Speaker 1: brand Ambassadors, blue chip companies, Hugo, Boss, New Balance, Otani
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  Speaker 1: is in bed with the people over at Epic Games.
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  Speaker 1: There he was a first player ever featured in Fortnite,
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  Speaker 1: first baseball player ever featured in Fortnite, so that was
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  Speaker 1: kind of a big deal. But a Choiltani makes a
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  Speaker 1: hundred million dollars a year from endorsements. Aaron Judge, no,
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  Speaker 1: I think he'll be okay, but he's at eight million.
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  Speaker 1: So using my computer like brain, that's a ninety two
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  Speaker 1: million dollar gap. And the reason, again, it's in my book.
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  Speaker 1: You can get it at Walmart. It's called Branding for Dummies,
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  Speaker 1: Benny's Branding for Dummies, and it's it's got a global
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  Speaker 1: icon on one side and a domestic boss on the other.
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  Speaker 1: Advantage global icon. Otani is the yokozuna of merch in Japan.
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  Speaker 1: Now I've not been to Japan, but I have been
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  Speaker 1: told by those that have been there, some of the
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  Speaker 1: people that were part of the Dodger traveling party, that
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  Speaker 1: Otani's ugly mug is on every other building in Tokyo,
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  Speaker 1: that it's all Otani all the time. And so they
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  Speaker 1: pay big money on that ninety two million dollars a
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  Speaker 1: year gap or ninety two million total. But the gap
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  Speaker 1: is insane, right, Otani, You're getting that kind of money,
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  Speaker 1: getting that kind of money, and you can defer six
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  Speaker 1: hundred and seventy million dollars to avoid paying the People's
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  Speaker 1: Republic of California taxes. All the other suckers that live
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  Speaker 1: in California have to pay those taxes. But Otani's like, ah,
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  Speaker 1: I know some of you guys are hanging on. You
• 21:52
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• 21:54
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• 21:57
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• 22:26
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• 22:30
  Speaker 1: update update the King malcontent to pro bouncy Ball, making
• 22:35
  Speaker 1: headlines yet again Lebron James. That's right, Lebron James. So
• 22:43
  Speaker 1: feeding the content machine over the Baseball All Star Break
• 22:47
  Speaker 1: and of course making it all about Lebron, all about Lebron,
• 22:52
  Speaker 1: just the way he likes it, just the way he
• 22:56
  Speaker 1: likes it. So the gambling market has checked in this,
• 23:00
  Speaker 1: They have entered the ring and they have updated, updated
• 23:05
  Speaker 1: the odds on this. A new betting favorite has emerged
• 23:09
  Speaker 1: for Lebron James. And if you didn't see this, and
• 23:12
  Speaker 1: perhaps you're not a degenerate gambler and you don't keep
• 23:15
  Speaker 1: track of these things, So the gambling market says, the
• 23:18
  Speaker 1: new favorite to land Lebron James is you know, no,
• 23:26
  Speaker 1: the Dallas Mavericks, Holy Cowboy Boots, Batman. Yeah, the Mavericks
• 23:32
  Speaker 1: and the new betting favorites to land Lebron James. Of course,
• 23:35
  Speaker 1: everything is bigger in Texas. Dallas listed at plus one
• 23:38
  Speaker 1: twenty five. The Miami Heat are number two behind behind
• 23:47
  Speaker 1: the Mavericks, followed by the Cadavers from Cleveland and the
• 23:54
  Speaker 1: Golden State Warriors, who are also listed in the Knicks.
• 23:58
  Speaker 1: So Dallas, which I think, if I'm not mistaken, gave
• 24:04
  Speaker 1: away the keys to the franchise. They dumped Luca Hukah
• 24:09
  Speaker 1: Luca for some stale popcorn, and they are now the
• 24:13
  Speaker 1: betting favorite for Lebron. It's a small world, after all.
• 24:19
  Speaker 1: It's a small small world. So let us discuss the
• 24:22
  Speaker 1: question for the esteem panel. Where do you stand on
• 24:27
  Speaker 1: the mav Rex as the betting favorite for Lebron James,
• 24:31
  Speaker 1: that Dallas is the betting favorite for Lebron? Where do
• 24:33
  Speaker 1: you stand on that? So I've got Quentin Tarantino, Happy
• 24:37
  Speaker 1: Place and packaged deal. In this hour of Lebron, We'll
• 24:45
  Speaker 1: put all these things together and make a giant sized
• 24:47
  Speaker 1: ego which cannot match as big as we make it
• 24:50
  Speaker 1: cannot match the ego of Lebron James. So First of all,
• 24:55
  Speaker 1: you talk about bizarro world, and I don't think I'm
• 24:59
  Speaker 1: just bringing a king of hyperbole here. Lebron under this scenario,
• 25:04
  Speaker 1: and I do believe in the multiverse, But in this
• 25:06
  Speaker 1: portion of the multiverse, Lebron would rejoin Anthony Davis again,
• 25:12
  Speaker 1: reunited and it feels so good, and they'd play together
• 25:16
  Speaker 1: in Big d this time side by side while Hookah
• 25:19
  Speaker 1: Luca plays Hollywood Hero and Lebron and Anthony Davis would
• 25:24
  Speaker 1: go from Taco Tuesday to tex Mex Monday, So no
• 25:30
  Speaker 1: more Taco Toos, but tex Mex Monday they would go
• 25:34
  Speaker 1: for now. Unfortunately, the Mexican food is better in La
• 25:37
  Speaker 1: than it is in Texas, so that's a downgrade for Lebron.
• 25:41
  Speaker 1: But it's like watching if you will, Quentin Tarantino and
• 25:45
  Speaker 1: the remake of The Decision, Where is Jim Gray? Is
• 25:50
  Speaker 1: there a boys and girls club in Connecticut where Lebron
• 25:53
  Speaker 1: can pop in and decide where he's going to take
• 25:55
  Speaker 1: his talents? But imagine if Kyrie gets looped in. Kyrie
• 25:59
  Speaker 1: is always hurt, but he's also on the Mavericks, and
• 26:03
  Speaker 1: if he lands in this if you put Kyrie out
• 26:06
  Speaker 1: there with Lebron and Anthony Davis. This is like one
• 26:10
  Speaker 1: big ayahuasca trip and you're going to never never Land
• 26:15
  Speaker 1: is what you're doing there. It's the headline. Imagine that Lebron,
• 26:18
  Speaker 1: Kyrie and Anthony Davis side by side, the three headed
• 26:23
  Speaker 1: fire breathing dragon. It's like the NBA's version of the
• 26:27
  Speaker 1: modern rat pack of the NBA and the Mavericks. Now,
• 26:31
  Speaker 1: I'm old enough to remember when they could not convince
• 26:35
  Speaker 1: top level players to go to Dallas. They couldn't get him.
• 26:40
  Speaker 1: They offer him a mistake dinner and a Cuban cigar.
• 26:43
  Speaker 1: It didn't matter. And I'm not talking about a Mark
• 26:46
  Speaker 1: Cuban cigar. I'm talking about a literal Cuban cigar. It
• 26:48
  Speaker 1: wouldn't matter. And so now they're the darlings of the
• 26:50
  Speaker 1: Betty market. To get Lebron James the Elder Statesman and
• 26:54
  Speaker 1: pro bouncy ball. Now, I would say forget the Heat
• 26:59
  Speaker 1: because Lebron still got his panties in a bunch over
• 27:03
  Speaker 1: pat Riley and didn't really like Eric Spolstra. Last I checked,
• 27:07
  Speaker 1: they're still with the Heat, so I would dismiss them.
• 27:11
  Speaker 1: I don't see the Warriors. I'm not gonna dismiss Golden state.
• 27:14
  Speaker 1: But I don't see that. I'd forget about the Knickerbockers.
• 27:18
  Speaker 1: Lebron's had multiple opportunities to go to Gotham, and he
• 27:22
  Speaker 1: wants nothing to do with New York City, nothing to
• 27:26
  Speaker 1: do with that, running from the grind of the Big Apple.
• 27:29
  Speaker 1: So forget that possibility. And so you're you're looking around
• 27:34
  Speaker 1: and what else is going on? Now? I'm just not
• 27:38
  Speaker 1: feeling the Mavericks. I'm not. And it's I've got the microphone,
• 27:44
  Speaker 1: I've got the headphones, the tools of ignorance here, So
• 27:46
  Speaker 1: I'm just not feeling it. I like the storylines, It's
• 27:50
  Speaker 1: just not there now. I have my spidy senses tingling
• 27:55
  Speaker 1: and not in a good way with his story, not
• 27:58
  Speaker 1: in a good way with his story, Like Ron with
• 28:00
  Speaker 1: the Mavericks. It just doesn't connect. The jigsaw puzzle piece
• 28:05
  Speaker 1: to me doesn't fit. Now. Secondly, what makes the most
• 28:08
  Speaker 1: sense as we psychoanalyze Lebron James, So let me point
• 28:16
  Speaker 1: that the I want to get this right out of
• 28:18
  Speaker 1: the way. We have long said the gambling market is
• 28:21
  Speaker 1: a pretty good indicator. Generally speaking, it is a solid
• 28:26
  Speaker 1: indicator of what's going to happen. The reason is they
• 28:29
  Speaker 1: have some skin in the game, they have financial liability.
• 28:33
  Speaker 1: At the same time, there are times where the gambling
• 28:36
  Speaker 1: market will change some things up because they know they
• 28:40
  Speaker 1: can get some dumb money and they love dumb money,
• 28:44
  Speaker 1: and people react. And just by me talking about this
• 28:46
  Speaker 1: or seeing somewhere on the interweb that the Mavericks are
• 28:50
  Speaker 1: the betting favorite for Lebron, some of that dumb money,
• 28:52
  Speaker 1: I better bet on the Mavericks. They're the favorite and
• 28:55
  Speaker 1: all that stuff. So while it is a touchdoone that
• 28:58
  Speaker 1: we use, it's not the old thing that we use then.
• 29:02
  Speaker 1: And you have to use your own intelligence when you
• 29:04
  Speaker 1: look at these kind of things. And so regardless, I
• 29:07
  Speaker 1: just have it sideways on this one. I do now
• 29:11
  Speaker 1: Lebron he's got a no trade clause. He's one of
• 29:14
  Speaker 1: two people in the NBA that have a no trade class,
• 29:17
  Speaker 1: Bradley Beal and Lebron who doesn't belong anyway. So that
• 29:21
  Speaker 1: means that he's got the Lakers by the balls, okay,
• 29:25
  Speaker 1: And if he wants out, it's his call. He'll hand
• 29:28
  Speaker 1: pick the team and then the Lakers will have to
• 29:31
  Speaker 1: be the Dallas Mavericks in that trade. They're the ones
• 29:33
  Speaker 1: that are gonna get bent over and if you know
• 29:36
  Speaker 1: what I mean, they're gonna have to get nothing, nothing
• 29:39
  Speaker 1: in return. And so if Lebron wants out, it's going
• 29:43
  Speaker 1: to be his call. He's gonna say bye bye and
• 29:45
  Speaker 1: then step right into the portal. Now for me, And
• 29:49
  Speaker 1: if I'm putting my money down, I am betting on Cleveland,
• 29:53
  Speaker 1: the mistake by the Lake. That's where I'm betting by money.
• 29:56
  Speaker 1: The Calves are the team that makes the most sense.
• 30:00
  Speaker 1: If Lebron leaves the Lakers, it makes the most sense, right. Good,
• 30:04
  Speaker 1: I'm not gonna go great roster. Some people say great roster.
• 30:07
  Speaker 1: I don't think it's a great roster. I'm gonna say good.
• 30:10
  Speaker 1: Lebron's heart from Akron, which is not Cleveland, but close enough,
• 30:16
  Speaker 1: the closest NBA team. Lebron's heart is still there. Now,
• 30:19
  Speaker 1: what is my evidence? Let me make my evidence here.
• 30:21
  Speaker 1: So Lebron, he's still interacting, right, he just said We
• 30:26
  Speaker 1: talked about this in a previous episode of the show.
• 30:28
  Speaker 1: Lebron just sent out a congratulatory message on social media
• 30:32
  Speaker 1: to some Cavalier executives. It's like he's ready. He's like, hey, congratulations,
• 30:37
  Speaker 1: By the way, can I get the locker next? To
• 30:39
  Speaker 1: Evan Mobley, by the way, can I get that? Yeah,
• 30:41
  Speaker 1: he didn't send that on X, but he thought about it.
• 30:44
  Speaker 1: He's in recent weeks been spotted working out at the
• 30:48
  Speaker 1: Cavaliers facility. Hello. Yes, he has worn back in Ohio
• 30:55
  Speaker 1: a welcome home, a welcome home hat. He's done that.
• 31:01
  Speaker 1: He's essentially leaving neon breadcrumbs like that old the old game,
• 31:09
  Speaker 1: the old the movie tron from back in the day, right,
• 31:12
  Speaker 1: if you're into nostalgia, He's leaving neon bread crumbs around.
• 31:18
  Speaker 1: And so the Cavaliers are quietly lurking there at plus
• 31:21
  Speaker 1: five point fifty on the updated gambling market. And if
• 31:25
  Speaker 1: you think Lebron does not know, does not know exactly
• 31:30
  Speaker 1: what he's doing here, and he's just going to drag
• 31:33
  Speaker 1: this thing out as long as he can, then eventually
• 31:34
  Speaker 1: he'll he'll hit the button and he's got the code.
• 31:38
  Speaker 1: He's got the nuclear code. You just have him been
• 31:41
  Speaker 1: paying attention. And so again, while the Mavericks Wald Mavericks,
• 31:46
  Speaker 1: maybe the bookies picked, they may be the books pick.
• 31:50
  Speaker 1: I would not bet the mortgage on any of these teams.
• 31:54
  Speaker 1: I certain wouldn't better on Dallas. Lebron's bunker is in.
• 32:00
  Speaker 1: It's in Ohio, not Cleveland as an acrid, but that
• 32:03
  Speaker 1: is his happy place. That is his happy place, and
• 32:07
  Speaker 1: that's where the wine flows. And he goes down memory
• 32:10
  Speaker 1: lane like, oh man, memories are alive. Man, I love
• 32:15
  Speaker 1: that town. And it's got statues everywhere. Probably there's a
• 32:19
  Speaker 1: statue there. Why not? All right? Now? Final thought? So,
• 32:23
  Speaker 1: how would the Lakers end up spinning a Lebron James trade? Like,
• 32:29
  Speaker 1: how do you end up spinning this? What's the move
• 32:31
  Speaker 1: if you end up trading Lebron? So you bring in here?
• 32:35
  Speaker 1: What you do is you bring in Star Jones. You
• 32:37
  Speaker 1: know Star Jones, Right, she's I think she's still on
• 32:41
  Speaker 1: Divorce Court. Last night, watched that show a while back.
• 32:44
  Speaker 1: She was on there, So I'm going to say that
• 32:46
  Speaker 1: that she's still on there. And you know, thirty minute
• 32:48
  Speaker 1: episode of Divorce Court and the Lakers come out and say, oh,
• 32:52
  Speaker 1: we had a great relationship. It was really good, it
• 32:54
  Speaker 1: was wonderful. We didn't win a championship. We just got
• 32:56
  Speaker 1: that Mickey Mouse ring, but we're happy with that. We
• 32:58
  Speaker 1: pretend that's a real championship from that bogus bubble the
• 33:01
  Speaker 1: resort in Orlando, So you celebrate that celebrate the good times,
• 33:05
  Speaker 1: and you thank Lebron and you just say listen, you
• 33:08
  Speaker 1: tell Star Jones in that divorce court, like many relationships,
• 33:13
  Speaker 1: he reconcilable differences. That's it. Put that check that box.
• 33:17
  Speaker 1: And the differences, of course are that Luca is now
• 33:21
  Speaker 1: the bell of the ball and there's no joy on
• 33:25
  Speaker 1: skid Row where the Lakers play, right, So it does
• 33:29
  Speaker 1: get a little dicey. It does get a little bit
• 33:32
  Speaker 1: dicey because the Lakers have a lot of dead weight.
• 33:37
  Speaker 1: It's the family business. And that's no one's talking about this.
• 33:40
  Speaker 1: We're the only ones bringing this up. No one else
• 33:42
  Speaker 1: is bringing this up. If you get rid of Lebron James,
• 33:46
  Speaker 1: it has to be a package deal. It's got to
• 33:49
  Speaker 1: be a package. What do I mean by that? Any
• 33:52
  Speaker 1: Lebron James trade you have to include Bronnie James. Bronnie
• 33:58
  Speaker 1: James and Lebron must be traded together. It's like a
• 34:03
  Speaker 1: complimentary item when you go to Jack in the Box
• 34:07
  Speaker 1: and you want to upgrade to a combo meal. Right,
• 34:10
  Speaker 1: So it's a combo meal. It's like going to Mickey
• 34:13
  Speaker 1: D's or Harte's or Chick fil at. You want a
• 34:17
  Speaker 1: combo meal. If you're the Lakers, you have to include
• 34:21
  Speaker 1: Bronnie Jims. Now, why do you have to include Bronnie James.
• 34:23
  Speaker 1: It would be malfeasance if you don't include it. Because
• 34:27
  Speaker 1: Bronnie James he has to exit stage right now. He
• 34:31
  Speaker 1: might be able to exit stage love, but he's got
• 34:33
  Speaker 1: to be gone if Lebron's gone. Bronni is only there.
• 34:37
  Speaker 1: He's a marketing mascot. He's a great tribute to Lebron
• 34:43
  Speaker 1: and the powers of persuasion. By Lebron James, he gets
• 34:47
  Speaker 1: to play dress up. It's like make a wish. You
• 34:49
  Speaker 1: get to be on the Lakers. You're an emotional support
• 34:52
  Speaker 1: player for Lebron James, your daddy. Congratulations. Right without Lebron,
• 34:57
  Speaker 1: Without Lebron, Bronnie James is not even sniffing a summer
• 35:02
  Speaker 1: league opportunity. The guy can't play. It's fascinating that there
• 35:07
  Speaker 1: are dumb people that think he can play. Right, he'd
• 35:11
  Speaker 1: be sitting courtside maybe if Lebron bought tickets, if Lebron
• 35:15
  Speaker 1: didn't pull strings to get him on the Lakers. And
• 35:18
  Speaker 1: so the statuet reads, Okay, the stat sheet reads with Brownie,
• 35:25
  Speaker 1: it reads like a witness protection profile like barely. They're
• 35:30
  Speaker 1: hoping not to be noticed. When you look at the
• 35:33
  Speaker 1: stats of Bronnie James, there the spawn of bron the
• 35:37
  Speaker 1: spawn of bron Now, maybe one day Bronnie, I'm not
• 35:40
  Speaker 1: gonna be completely negative, I'll be Benny bright Side. There
• 35:43
  Speaker 1: is a possibility in the multiverse that one day Bronnie
• 35:46
  Speaker 1: James becomes a serviceable rotation guard. Of course that'll be
• 35:50
  Speaker 1: in Serbia or in Russia or China, but it ain't
• 35:55
  Speaker 1: gonna be in the NBA. Right right now, he is
• 35:59
  Speaker 1: a member of the inn Innational International Union of Bricklayers.
• 36:04
  Speaker 1: It is always a brick house with Bronnie James there.
• 36:07
  Speaker 1: So cut the cord. If you're gonna get rid of Lebron,
• 36:09
  Speaker 1: you got to get rid of Bronnie James. And they
• 36:12
  Speaker 1: can ride off into the sunset together because when Lebron's
• 36:15
  Speaker 1: out of the NBA, Broni's going to be out of
• 36:16
  Speaker 1: the NBA. Now, maybe they can do a podcast together,
• 36:19
  Speaker 1: right to a podcast? Who's Lebron doing a podcast with?
• 36:23
  Speaker 1: Somebody said, I've not listened to Lebron's podcast. Somebody said
• 36:26
  Speaker 1: he's doing one with Steve Nash. Does that mean Steve
• 36:29
  Speaker 1: Nashill replace Jason Kidd as the coach of the Mavericks.
• 36:31
  Speaker 1: Is that because that's how you do it, right, Lebron?
• 36:33
  Speaker 1: Whoever's doing the podcast with Lebron, they get to coach Lebron, right.
• 36:38
  Speaker 1: I mean that's how jj Reddick got the job. He
• 36:40
  Speaker 1: didn't know he's doing, and he's pretending to be a
• 36:42
  Speaker 1: Laker coach.
• 36:43
  Speaker 2: Wild be sure to catch live editions of The Ben
• 36:46
  Speaker 2: Meler Show weekdays at two am Eastern eleven pm Pacific.
• 36:52
  Speaker 1: Like that to the third degree.
• 36:55
  Speaker 2: This is one big Ben gets grilled.
• 36:58
  Speaker 1: All right, cooler, what do we got?
• 37:00
  Speaker 6: It was reported on Monday that breakout forty nine Ers
• 37:02
  Speaker 6: receiver Juan Jennings wants a new contract from the forty
• 37:05
  Speaker 6: nine Ers or to be traded. Ben, what's the most
• 37:08
  Speaker 6: likely outcome here?
• 37:09
  Speaker 1: Yeah, so they can't pay everyone the Niners obviously, if
• 37:12
  Speaker 1: they've given out a lot of money, the salary cap
• 37:15
  Speaker 1: is fugezy. But they've already paid brockberdy Kittle, they've paid
• 37:20
  Speaker 1: Warner on defense big money. You got Brandon Ayuck recovering.
• 37:24
  Speaker 1: They have a second year receiver, Ricky Piersol, so Jennings
• 37:30
  Speaker 1: is replaceable, so he's not gonna. He's not gonna. He's
• 37:34
  Speaker 1: a one year wonder. If he did it for more
• 37:36
  Speaker 1: than one year, he was good last year, he stepped
• 37:39
  Speaker 1: up with guys getting hurt. But he's not someone that
• 37:44
  Speaker 1: you're going to pay a lot of money too because
• 37:46
  Speaker 1: he's only done it for one year and you've got
• 37:47
  Speaker 1: other players next.
• 37:48
  Speaker 6: A recent survey of NFL league executives, coaches, and scouts
• 37:51
  Speaker 6: ranked Baker Mayfield as the tenth best quarterback in the NFL.
• 37:55
  Speaker 1: How do you feel about that ranking? It doesn't seem
• 37:58
  Speaker 1: legit to me, and Bakers played well Tampa. It's a scheme.
• 38:01
  Speaker 1: He's a scheme guy. He's scheme dependent, and he's he's
• 38:04
  Speaker 1: been a roller coaster. Baker Mayfield with Cleveland, good rookie year,
• 38:08
  Speaker 1: a radic up and down injury, sucked in Carolina, Okay
• 38:13
  Speaker 1: with the Rams for like two games, and then he's
• 38:15
  Speaker 1: become okay in Tampa. I I just don't trust him,
• 38:19
  Speaker 1: and he just he still throws a lot of interceptions. Next.
• 38:21
  Speaker 6: Johnny Manziel said in a recent interview that if nil
• 38:24
  Speaker 6: had existed back when he was playing at Texas A
• 38:26
  Speaker 6: and M, he would have been taking a pay cut
• 38:28
  Speaker 6: to play in the NFL.
• 38:29
  Speaker 1: Yeah, Bennessee, right, Yeah, that's not hyperbole, it's not. I
• 38:34
  Speaker 1: mean they raised over four hundred million in booster money
• 38:39
  Speaker 1: for the stadium. Because of Johnny Manziel. He would have
• 38:41
  Speaker 1: been making twelve million dollars a year at Texas A
• 38:44
  Speaker 1: and M, which is more than he would have made
• 38:46
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  Speaker 5: It's love It Buzz with lir Rain at nine clean
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  Speaker 5: Up Hearts, Gonna Help You, dear Rye, Dear ride to night,
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  Speaker 1: Dear Rye.
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  Speaker 7: Am I the only one who sings that. I absolutely
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  Speaker 7: love it. Sometimes I sing it at home.
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  Speaker 1: Now. This was the temporary open.
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  Speaker 7: Yes, but I'm just in love with you. Love it,
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  Speaker 7: love it, It's sure, It's sweet, perfect. Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: All right, so these are actual questions. You have an
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  Speaker 1: opening statement radio you actually you know it? Do you
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  Speaker 1: love me?
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  Speaker 8: A good opening statement and it is the summer of love.
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  Speaker 8: Do not forget to take your lady or your man
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  Speaker 8: out on special date nights to the ocean, go have
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  Speaker 8: a corn dog at the fair, take them on a
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  Speaker 8: carnival ride. Oh my gosh, kissing on top of the
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  Speaker 8: ferris wheel is so romanic.
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  Speaker 1: You know what if you live in Nebraska and go
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  Speaker 1: to the ocean, so you go like the lake? Is
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  Speaker 1: that the movie? Yeah?
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  Speaker 5: You know?
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  Speaker 7: Maybe a fountain, a water fountain.
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  Speaker 1: Fountain, how about it? What a toilet work? Yeah? The days?
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  Speaker 8: Yeah, but day it's like a stand in front of
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  Speaker 8: it with your pants on. Probably not to my father.
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  Speaker 1: Probably not a good idea. Probably.
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  Speaker 7: Anyways, what we got today, Ben Well.
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  Speaker 1: I thought this was a really interesting question. This is
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  Speaker 1: so this guy, Doug or Douglas, has been a long
• 40:26
  Speaker 1: time listening to the show. He lives in Mississippi. You
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  Speaker 1: hear me mention his name sometimes. So Douglas says, after
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  Speaker 1: my wife of twenty plus years passed away, I married
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  Speaker 1: her best friend a year later, but I had her
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  Speaker 1: permission before she passed. What's your take on that?
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  Speaker 2: Oh?
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  Speaker 8: I love this because I also have a best friend, right,
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  Speaker 8: and she had a best friend.
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  Speaker 1: I do send that out on. Somebody has the best
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  Speaker 1: is that the one that came in here.
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  Speaker 8: And that's Victoria. Sarah lives in Oregon. I've known her
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  Speaker 8: since kindergarten. But her she told me that if she
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  Speaker 8: dies before her husband, that I have to marry her husband.
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  Speaker 7: I don't even have a choice.
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  Speaker 1: I have to marry that'll be because that's he'll be
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  Speaker 1: helpless without.
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  Speaker 8: Her, and she doesn't want the kids alone with him, right,
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  Speaker 8: he's the.
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  Speaker 1: Kids alone, want the kids alone with him?
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  Speaker 7: It will be the new maternal figure. So yeah, no,
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  Speaker 7: we joke about it every time.
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  Speaker 8: And if he really did do that, you know, usually
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  Speaker 8: you have a good connection with your wife's best friend.
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  Speaker 8: You have a lot of bonding moments, good memories.
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  Speaker 7: I think it's actually really healthy. I think it's healthy.
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  Speaker 1: It's very nice of your wife Douglas when she before
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  Speaker 1: she checked out to give you the okay on that
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  Speaker 1: Bobby and Florida right since says how do you get
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  Speaker 1: the the back door to open up? If you if
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  Speaker 1: you keep knocking and it hasn't opened yet? From Bobby there.
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  Speaker 7: Well, it all starts with a good conversation and.
• 41:48
  Speaker 8: A little bit before play, you know, but you know
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  Speaker 8: you got to get them tempted into the idea, So
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  Speaker 8: you got to introduce it in a fun way, and
• 41:58
  Speaker 8: then they're like, oh, I don't like that.
• 41:59
  Speaker 7: You'd be like, but you could like it. Let me
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  Speaker 7: take you to the shop.
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  Speaker 8: They got dilators, they got all sorts of fun things
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  Speaker 8: that you can use to make it more comfortable, a
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  Speaker 8: lot of products. My my best thing when I was younger,
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  Speaker 8: I actually asked a man who you know, liked that
• 42:16
  Speaker 8: type of play, what his opinion and what to do.
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  Speaker 8: So really, yeah, pick their curiosity, see what they think.
• 42:22
  Speaker 1: The yoda of that exactly third Dog rights in is
• 42:26
  Speaker 1: my brother's dating a girl who's obsessed with Disneyland. Should
• 42:29
  Speaker 1: I tell him to break up with her? No, that's
• 42:32
  Speaker 1: an expensive lorraina. That's an expensive habit. That is a
• 42:35
  Speaker 1: that you might as well be a drug addict. It's cheaper, Okay,
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  Speaker 1: it's cheaper to buy fentanyland.
• 42:41
  Speaker 8: You'd rather have your girlfriend on the streets of Disneyland
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  Speaker 8: than on the streets of downtown.
• 42:45
  Speaker 1: I don't know, man, there's some homeless people in Tonetown.
• 42:48
  Speaker 1: I don't know about that.
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  Speaker 7: Maybe pass it out in the grass the trees.
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  Speaker 1: I've been there, yeah, yeah, be careful man.
• 42:55
  Speaker 7: But it is a little expensive.
• 42:56
  Speaker 1: But you don't little.
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  Speaker 8: You don't always have to go to with them either.
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  Speaker 8: I'm sure she has friends that can go to Disney.
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  Speaker 7: You don't have to go.
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  Speaker 1: With well, like those passes you got to pay every month,
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  Speaker 1: or I say, paying a car payment. It is yeah,
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  Speaker 1: it's very similar. Mike the Leprechaun writes and says, what
• 43:10
  Speaker 1: would be a good first date, Lorena? For someone dating blind?
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  Speaker 1: Scott says, your options are the Wimbledon Final, Kentucky Derby,
• 43:20
  Speaker 1: or a day at either Disneyland Universal Studios or a
• 43:24
  Speaker 1: trip in Mike in New Hampshire's truck.
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  Speaker 8: Huh interesting options there to be honest, I don't know.
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  Speaker 8: I think I'd want to do something like auditory, you know, yeah,
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  Speaker 8: I go listen to music or something. Yeah, I think
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  Speaker 8: that would be a better experience.
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  Speaker 1: Boston Pops.
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  Speaker 8: Yeah, I don't want to be responsible for them running
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  Speaker 8: into anything out in the wild, you know what I'm saying?
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  Speaker 1: A little tough. JT. The Wingman writes in Good Questions,
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  Speaker 1: by what happened, all I had to do is complain?
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  Speaker 1: You know what that is, Lorena? Tough love. Tough love
• 43:57
  Speaker 1: people respond to tough love. They like it this younger
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  Speaker 1: jenner if they can't handle tough anyway. JT. The wing
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  Speaker 1: man rights and says says, I'm a truck driver and
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  Speaker 1: don't work in an office or for a work wife.
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  Speaker 1: Is it okay to have a malor show wife instead? Yes?
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  Speaker 7: And if you do, make sure you send her lots
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  Speaker 7: and lots and lots of gift packages. Really yes, because
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  Speaker 7: you must treat your wife nice.
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  Speaker 1: Your work wife, yes, radio wife.
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  Speaker 9: I mean.
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  Speaker 8: And if your job is driving, we're technically with you
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  Speaker 8: in the car, right, so we are your work.
• 44:34
  Speaker 1: We're a voice in your head. Oh, Lorraina. What is these?
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  Speaker 1: Shanean nooy? What is the smallest amount of makeup you
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  Speaker 1: can leave the house wearing? Still for comfortable? Quickly?
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  Speaker 7: Mascarat?
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  Speaker 1: That's it. As long as you have that, you're going.
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  Speaker 1: Because I've got that, I'm good to go else. Baby,
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  Speaker 1: that's all just a mass scare. You're fine, that's it.
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  Speaker 7: And a smile. Gotta always have your smile on.
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  Speaker 1: Oh, of course, yes, smile.
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  Speaker 2: everyone and The password.
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  Speaker 1: Is password, you idiot. Password the word Game of the Stars.
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  Speaker 1: Here's Ben Meler and right to password we go. We
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  Speaker 1: have let's hear any meenie money more. We have Mark
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  Speaker 1: on the North End. Hello, Mark, Welcome, Good morning Ben.
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  Speaker 1: Good to have you Mark. You're going to play password?
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  Speaker 1: Who do you want to partner up with? Mark? All right,
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  Speaker 1: we're in it, Mark in North End. We're gonna win.
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  Speaker 1: Just put a W next to our name right now,
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  Speaker 1: hold on, say Mark out. You're gonna play. And we
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  Speaker 1: have who do we have? See Mikey in the state
• 45:39
  Speaker 1: of Texas. It's kind of a big state. Hello Mikey, Welcome,
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  Speaker 1: Good morning Sarah. How are you guys going?
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  Speaker 5: Glad to be on with shoe?
• 45:47
  Speaker 1: Thanks to welcome? And where are you at in Texas?
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  Speaker 1: Mikey and Jefferd fifty miles north east, a little north
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  Speaker 1: of Houston. I got you a very cool let's play it.
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  Speaker 1: Who do you want to partner? Have you got Loraina
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  Speaker 1: or cool? Then go with the loop? Okay, coop. The
• 46:04
  Speaker 1: loop is the pick. And we have a list of
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  Speaker 1: words here. You can see them. You're cheating, don't cheat.
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  Speaker 1: You can see them calling my attorney. All right, let's
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  Speaker 1: see your pick a number. Mark on the north end.
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  Speaker 1: Pick a number one to ten, please, one to ten.
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  Speaker 1: Oh oh, I say, it's not even up. Let's see
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  Speaker 1: on the phones. Let's say all right, there you go, Mark,
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  Speaker 1: What is the word you would like here?
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  Speaker 5: Number one?
• 46:38
  Speaker 1: All right, let's go with UH regulations rule. There you go.
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  Speaker 1: All right, good job, and it's ten to nothing, strong starry,
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  Speaker 1: good guys. Okay, Mikey, you are up with Coop. Pick
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  Speaker 1: a number two to ten, please, two to ten. Let's
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  Speaker 1: go with number ten, number ten? Yeah, alright, like ambient
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  Speaker 1: noise in the background. All right, Mikey, let's go with
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  Speaker 1: Let's go with tremble.
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  Speaker 3: Quake.
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  Speaker 1: No, now, let's go with he said tremble.
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  Speaker 10: I'll say cold Shriver. Yeah, wow, Gas nineteen nineteen.
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  Speaker 1: You think it's over now, it's probably we got plenty
• 47:35
  Speaker 1: of it's over. Pick another number, Go ahead, Mark, let's
• 47:38
  Speaker 1: run up the score. Mark. Pick another number. Mark. Let's
• 47:41
  Speaker 1: run Mark three, number three. Number. He got that last
• 47:45
  Speaker 1: one from my cliff, No, I got it from mine.
• 47:48
  Speaker 1: Let's go. I'm gonna use the mall. The mal remover
• 47:51
  Speaker 1: will work. I kind of want to use the malume.
• 47:53
  Speaker 1: You know, we got such a big lead. I don't care.
• 47:55
  Speaker 1: I'll use the malle maneuver. Here we go, save safety.
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  Speaker 1: Not a chance had has it? No, that's not all right, Sorry, Mikey.
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  Speaker 1: Let's go with her. Let's go with quilt blanket. Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: let's go. We're back. And got it back and he
• 48:21
  Speaker 1: got it off my clue. He got it off Mike.
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  Speaker 1: Another number, Mike got it off my clue. That was
• 48:27
  Speaker 1: my clue. He got it off of all right, Ben,
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  Speaker 1: we got it.
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  Speaker 6: Take another mark number, Mikey, Mike Lee.
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  Speaker 1: What number? Oh, I'm sorry, number nine, number nine. All right,
• 48:43
  Speaker 1: let's something Coop needs to do.
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  Speaker 9: Let's go with let's go with or yeah, rest rest rest, No,
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  Speaker 9: we're out of time.
• 48:58
  Speaker 8: And we were loss.
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  Speaker 1: The word was relaxed. The word was relaxed. I come
• 49:03
  Speaker 1: too slow. We won, great job Mark on the north end.
• 49:07
  Speaker 1: You get a golden ticket. Unbelievable. What a win. One
• 49:09
  Speaker 1: of my greatest wins of all time.