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Hour 4 - Streamers and Dreamers · The Ben Maller Show

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Speaker 1: Dingo, it's our number four knocking at the audio door,
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Speaker 1: our number four. Interesting story involving politics and sports. How
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Speaker 1: do you react the big sporty being called to the
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Speaker 1: principal's office, the anti trust violations involving streaming. What will
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Speaker 1: the industrial complex of sports do to handle this sudden
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Speaker 1: political pressure? And what are the Browns saying by having
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Speaker 1: Shedur Sanders as their fourth string quarterback after he lit
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Speaker 1: up the statuet in an exhibition game against Carolina. We'll
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Speaker 1: talk about that as well, and who knows what else?
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Speaker 1: Give it up for our number four. Have a wonderful Tuesday,
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Speaker 1: enjoy this twelfth day of August. Here is our number four.
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Speaker 1: It's all about those streamers and dreamers. Welcome in the
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Speaker 1: So our lead this hour is from the District of Columbia. No,
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Speaker 1: this is not not about the Washington football team formerly
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Speaker 1: known as the Redskins. No, no, no, but some big developments
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Speaker 1: in the stream now not a stream of water. We're
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Speaker 1: not talking about a stream of water. If you haven't
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Speaker 1: heard yet, maybe not. We have learned that a longtime
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Speaker 1: politician from the state of Ohio, Congressman Jim Jordan, wants
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Speaker 1: to save you money. Say what now? Anytime I hear
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Speaker 1: a politicians say I want to save you money, I thought, Okay,
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Speaker 1: this is a scam. So Jim Jordan from Ohio sent
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Speaker 1: letters to NFL Commissioner Roger the Dodger, Goodell Baseball Commissioner
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Speaker 1: Rob manfraud, NBA Commissioner Adam Silver from whatever planet he's from,
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Speaker 1: and NHL Commissioner Gary Bettman to testify in DC. Now,
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Speaker 1: I don't know about you, but I'm into it now.
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Speaker 1: Why why did he want to have these people testify?
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Speaker 1: He The argument being made is because the fan, you
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Speaker 1: and I, the fan is paying too much thousands, thousands
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Speaker 1: of dollars to watch a game, not a practice, not
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Speaker 1: a practice, a game, and plus struggling to even find
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Speaker 1: where the games are being broadcast on dozens of random
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Speaker 1: streaming services. There's seemingly no rhyme or reason why certain
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Speaker 1: games have popped up, and so he's saying, like, enough
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Speaker 1: is enough, Enough is enough now. In the letters that
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Speaker 1: were sent out, of course, sent to the media as well,
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Speaker 1: Jim Jordan asked the four commissioners of the powerful sports
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Speaker 1: leagues in America to visit Washington, DC to discuss changes
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Speaker 1: to these Sports Broadcasting Act the SBA. Now, you might
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Speaker 1: not know where that is or maybe a for gotten
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Speaker 1: about it. It's a really big f and deal. It's
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Speaker 1: the secret sauce that makes the megasports world possible. That's
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Speaker 1: the argument sports make for the Sports Broadcasting Egg Now.
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Speaker 1: It originally was enacted in nineteen sixty one. So we're
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Speaker 1: going back a minute, and it allows I'll give you
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Speaker 1: the thumbnail version of what this allows. It allows the
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Speaker 1: major sports leagues to pool their broadcast rights, which otherwise
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Speaker 1: would be a clear violation of anti trust laws. The
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Speaker 1: sports leagues have an exemption to commit anti trust. They're
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Speaker 1: allowed to do it something that would normally be illegal
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Speaker 1: for pretty much every other industry. There's a few that
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Speaker 1: also have loopholes and whatnot. All right, so let us
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Speaker 1: discuss the question, how do you react to we'll call
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Speaker 1: it big sporty. How do you react to big sporty
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Speaker 1: being called to the principal's office on Capitol Hill. So
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Speaker 1: I've got my take on this. I've got the Golden Hammer,
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Speaker 1: Shitsu and budget rent a car, and we will combine
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Speaker 1: all of these things together and we're gonna make the
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Speaker 1: always popular Baba Ganoosh. We're gonna make the Baba Ganoosh
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Speaker 1: is what we're gonna do. So to kick off here,
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Speaker 1: this is what I would classify as a hum dinger
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Speaker 1: of a store. Just a couple of ways this can go.
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Speaker 1: I think I know which way this is going to go,
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Speaker 1: and I'll give you my opinion here in a second.
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Speaker 1: But Jim Jordan, the guy, and you know we don't
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Speaker 1: talk politics here, stay away, third Rail. Well, myam third Rail.
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Speaker 1: One of our old bosses used to say, But Jim Jordan,
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Speaker 1: who when I've seen him in the past, when I've
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Speaker 1: dabbled in that world, everything's like a public wrestling match,
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Speaker 1: you know. He gets a lot of media, gets a
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Speaker 1: lot of media for stuff, and he has now set
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Speaker 1: his sights on the most powerful people, most powerful men
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Speaker 1: that run these sports organizations. And he's claiming he's doing
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Speaker 1: this because we're getting squeezed and we are getting bent over,
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Speaker 1: if you know what I mean, when it comes to
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Speaker 1: the streaming services. And so it's the equivalent though, even
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Speaker 1: though this guy's in DC and he's a big time
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Speaker 1: politician and all that stuff, Jim Jordan, it's kind of
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Speaker 1: like a small town sheriff when you combine what he's
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Speaker 1: doing and then what the mob family's doing that runs
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Speaker 1: the professional sports league. It's like trying to bring them
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Speaker 1: down for essentially a parking ticket is what they're trying
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Speaker 1: to do here. And so you think the lords of
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Speaker 1: modern sport, the people in charge here, the custodians as
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Speaker 1: they like to say. You think they're gonna be scared,
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Speaker 1: No they're not. Now in theory, this could screw everything up.
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Speaker 1: Like in theory, this could f everything up. Absolutely, they
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Speaker 1: have more money in the professional sports leagues, maybe not hockey,
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Speaker 1: but the other ones. Then small nations, some small nations,
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Speaker 1: they wish they had the money these sports leagues have.
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Speaker 1: They still they have more lawyers than some of those
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Speaker 1: bad infomercials that are on used to be on late
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Speaker 1: at night. But Jordan has this Sports Broadcasting Act in
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Speaker 1: his back pocket. It's the dusty old law that goes back.
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Speaker 1: And we mentioned in nineteen sixty one, and that was back.
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Speaker 1: If you think about what the world was like in
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Speaker 1: nineteen sixty one, there was no internet, people still read newspapers,
7:29
Speaker 1: radio was the king, and television, while popular, the biggest
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Speaker 1: conversation about television was like, I don't know, gun smoke, bonanza,
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Speaker 1: you know that kind of stuff. So this is a
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Speaker 1: dusty old relic that has stuck around. And what there's
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Speaker 1: places on the internet you can get all these old,
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Speaker 1: outdated laws that are still around and like, well why
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Speaker 1: is that there? I don't understand. So the relic, the
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Speaker 1: sports Broadcasting act. He goes back to the black and
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Speaker 1: white TV days and all that stuff. And it gave
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Speaker 1: the professional sports leagues. This was for baseball early on mostly,
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Speaker 1: but it gave the leagues the equivalent of a hall
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Speaker 1: pass to operate as a cartel. Now, every once in
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Speaker 1: a while, I'll say, with the cartel of the NBA
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Speaker 1: or the NFL. You said that, you're such a shocked
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Speaker 1: that literally allowed to act as a cartel. Hello, the
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Speaker 1: government signed off on it years ago. It is a
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Speaker 1: license to print money. A golden hammer has been given
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Speaker 1: to these sports leagues to gouge the fan. Now. Originally,
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Speaker 1: like everything, it always started out back in the day,
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Speaker 1: we want to keep you away from the fire breathing dragon,
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Speaker 1: and this will protect you and you make everything better,
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Speaker 1: and we want our sports leagues and our entertainment and
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Speaker 1: all that stuff, and so okay. But now they have
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Speaker 1: impunity to do this. And so you're trying to watch
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Speaker 1: every one of your team's games and you're you're ethical.
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Speaker 1: You're not watching on illegal streaming websites. You're doing it
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Speaker 1: the right way because you're worried about government chasing you
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Speaker 1: down for watching illegal streams or anything like that. So
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Speaker 1: you pay for all of the games. It's a scavenger hunt.
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Speaker 1: I don't care whether you're a Red Sox fan, a
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Speaker 1: Dodger fan, a fan of the cheating astro, the Tampa
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Speaker 1: Bay Rays. It doesn't matter the twins. It is a
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Speaker 1: scavenger hunt designed by some kind of mad lunatic, a madman.
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Speaker 1: Because you got to have Peacock, because there's a few
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Speaker 1: games on Peacock. But then you got to get Amazon
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Speaker 1: Prime because there's a package of games on Amazon Prime.
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Speaker 1: The worst defender this is the Yankees. But then you've
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Speaker 1: got I think maybe ESPN Plus might have some there's
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Speaker 1: a new streaming service from Fox coming along the way here.
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Speaker 1: There's about a dozen others that are out there, and
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Speaker 1: so it's not just the experience of streaming. It's a
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Speaker 1: portfolio of subscriptions. And you have to know, like when
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Speaker 1: do I get rid of this? Do I need it
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Speaker 1: the entire season? Maybe there's a couple of games early
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Speaker 1: in the year. I can get rid of that one,
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Speaker 1: then I can subscribe to the other one. And you're
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Speaker 1: you're shuffling all this stuff around, and so it's this
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Speaker 1: digital this digital maze, and at the end of every
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Speaker 1: hallway in this corn maze. There's a hand out saying
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Speaker 1: I need some money. It's like our buddy in Miami
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Speaker 1: weed man, hippie, send me money.
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Speaker 2: You know.
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Speaker 1: It's that kind. Now, furthermore, what is the industrial complex
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Speaker 1: of sports going to do to handle this political pressure?
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Speaker 1: So where do they go? So here's what we have
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Speaker 1: in our head. The cartoon bubble the top of my head.
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Speaker 1: So Roger Goodell is going to get up there and
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Speaker 1: he's going to look like a televangelist promising salvation. That
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Speaker 1: the NFL is a religion. I am selling the religion.
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Speaker 1: People love the religion. And amen, can I get an
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Speaker 1: amen from the from the chorus? So the choir over there?
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Speaker 1: Can I get an amen?
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Speaker 3: Amen?
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Speaker 1: There you go. So then you've got Adam Silver. He'll
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Speaker 1: step up to the dais smooth talking, half man, half Martian. Uh.
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Speaker 1: He'll get up there, a corporate ambassador, Adam Silver, and
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Speaker 1: he'll try to be slick. Adam Silver, It's not very slick,
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Speaker 1: and he'll try to act like he's some politician on
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Speaker 1: the campaign trail. Next up you'll have Rob Manfraud, the
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Speaker 1: Commission of Major League Baseball, a man who still thinks
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Speaker 1: the World Series trophy is just a hunk of metal.
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Speaker 3: Uh.
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Speaker 1: And then in the cartoon bubble in my head, we'll
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Speaker 1: have Gary Bettman, who is the punching bag commissioner of
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Speaker 1: the National Hockey League and will likely just be happy
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Speaker 1: that he got invited. Wait a minute, so you're gonna
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Speaker 1: invite us and I get to go with the other
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Speaker 1: big time commissioners. That seems like kind of cool, that's
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Speaker 1: kind of neat. Why not? And they'll walk into that
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Speaker 1: hearing room and it'll be broadcast on se SPAN because
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Speaker 1: no one watches c SPAN, and it'll be on the internet,
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Speaker 1: and so they'll be in the hearing room and it'll
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Speaker 1: be a scene from you know, pick your favorite mob show.
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Speaker 1: I don't know. I always go to the Sopranos as
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Speaker 1: my default position there and not a shooting scene. No
12:14
Speaker 1: one's gonna get stuffed into a bag and tossed into
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Speaker 1: the East River, none of that stuff, mind you. But
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Speaker 1: in this scene, Anya, this is my story my head.
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Speaker 1: So you'll have a lot of these big shots. You'll
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Speaker 1: think of it like kind of a smoke filled room,
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Speaker 1: although they've banned smoking everywhere, and these power brokers of
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Speaker 1: sports will pretend to care and if you're a fan
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Speaker 1: of corporate doublespeak. This is like porn you're gonna have. Well,
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Speaker 1: we really care about the fan experience, and we were
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Speaker 1: unaware that fans were offended by how much we're sticking
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Speaker 1: it to them. And we are worried about the integrity
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Speaker 1: of the game man even the television or in this
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Speaker 1: case streaming. It's the evolving media landscape, and we don't
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Speaker 1: need to change the law. And so again it'll be
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Speaker 1: a symphony, a cacophony of corporate bull crap that'll be
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Speaker 1: coming out of the commissions. They're all going to have
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Speaker 1: meetings with lawyers on what we can say, what we
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Speaker 1: can't say, and all that stuff. It'll be a master
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Speaker 1: class by the commissioners of sport if this actually happens
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Speaker 1: the way it's supposed to happen, a master class of
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Speaker 1: them saying a whole lot while saying absolutely nothing, because
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Speaker 1: that's what they do. You know, there's Jim Jordan. You know,
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Speaker 1: they say, well, bless his heart, or maybe you you
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Speaker 1: don't like his politics or whatever. But the theory is
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Speaker 1: he goes in it is and he's got a stack
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Speaker 1: deck against it because even though it makes all the
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Speaker 1: sense in the world. This is ridiculous. This laws from
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Speaker 1: nineteen sixty one. There was no internet in nineteen sixty one.
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Speaker 1: There was no streaming. Obviously. There were a few local
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Speaker 1: TV channels and a few networks and that was it
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Speaker 1: in nineteen sixty one. And so he's trying to challenge
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Speaker 1: Jim Jordan, big big sport and it's like a shitsu
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Speaker 1: barking at a lion. You know, there's a big, big
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Speaker 1: lion there. I'll use the lion analogy again here, because
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Speaker 1: you're the king of the jungle over there. And if
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Speaker 1: a shitsu goes up to and I used to have
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Speaker 1: a shitsu Bella passed away a couple years with my
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Speaker 1: dog Bello. But if you put a shitsu out there
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Speaker 1: against the king of the jungle, the lion will will
14:39
Speaker 1: what will yawn because the dog's so small, it's not
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Speaker 1: even an appetizer. So the lion will yawn, maybe scratch
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Speaker 1: its junk a little bit and then walk away and
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Speaker 1: no tail will be wagging and all that stuff. But
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Speaker 1: the real action, I promise you will not happen in
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Speaker 1: the hearing room on Capitol. It is going to happen
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Speaker 1: in the shadows that there will be duffel bags filled
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Speaker 1: with cash, be called donations. Of course, there will be
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Speaker 1: political contributions. That's always a big way to take care
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Speaker 1: of these problems. They'll happen. These things will happen at
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Speaker 1: cocktail parties and the Hamptons, and they'll be handshake deals
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Speaker 1: by people that know people who know people would all
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Speaker 1: that stuff. And so then you get the lobbyist. Of course,
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Speaker 1: that will enter the picture here, the well oiled political
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Speaker 1: machine in America where it's all about influence pedling. So
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Speaker 1: it will be a lot of that going on. And
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Speaker 1: in the end, the politicians, the one allegedly that this
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Speaker 1: guy Jim Jordan from Ohio is trying to rally to
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Speaker 1: put a stop to the streaming price gouging in American sport,
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Speaker 1: in Canadian sports. But Jim Jordan will be trying to
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Speaker 1: rally that and the very politicians he's trying to rally,
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Speaker 1: he will do his best in theory and they will
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Speaker 1: then with one hand they'll say yes, we're right there
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Speaker 1: with you. And then the other hand they'll have their
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Speaker 1: handout and they will take those manila envelopes filled with money.
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Speaker 1: They will smile at the cameras, they will pop up
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Speaker 1: on those old the cable news shows, and they will
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Speaker 1: move on to the next shakedown. Yes, so the league's
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Speaker 1: what they get, maybe a slap on the wrist. They'll
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Speaker 1: get a lecture, they'll promise they'll study the issue, and
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Speaker 1: they'll bring in some blue ribbon panel to see what
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Speaker 1: can be done, and then they'll be back to business
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Speaker 1: as usual once people move on to something else, and
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Speaker 1: the faint, the old fan there, the SAPs, the dopes.
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Speaker 1: Many will continue to pay thousands a year to watch
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Speaker 1: games that the whole law was designed to provide, not
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Speaker 1: having to pay extra for and watch it on your phone.
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Speaker 1: But you're paying a ton of money in there, and
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Speaker 1: the price gouging will continue up, up and away. And
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Speaker 1: the streaming services, I've been reading some stories here this said, well,
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Speaker 1: there's gonna be some bundles now, which doesn't that sound
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Speaker 1: like what we used to have in cable television bundles
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Speaker 1: And they just keep multiplying like grimlins, and eventually I've
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Speaker 1: been told they're gonna be swallowed up by other streaming
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Speaker 1: services like Netflix is the biggest one, and they'll get
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Speaker 1: a bunch, and then Amazon's got a bunch, and they'll
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Speaker 1: they'll buy up these other ones, and then they'll have
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Speaker 1: the super duper mega, super duper mega streaming services. The
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Speaker 1: more things change, right, the more they say the same.
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Speaker 1: The only difference is this time, this time we will
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Speaker 1: see them all these commissioners pretend like they really care
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Speaker 1: and oh man, I'm so sorry. I didn't think this
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Speaker 1: would happen, and we'll figure this out, all right now,
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Speaker 1: last thing, and then also brag it by well, you
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Speaker 1: don't have to buy all the games and you can
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Speaker 1: buy all a cart and that'll help you out, all
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Speaker 1: right now, last thing to Cleveland we go the mistake
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Speaker 1: by the Lake one. What strip Club John's up to
17:59
Speaker 1: that I've heard for him in a while. So on
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Speaker 1: the second depth chart, which was released on Monday Monday,
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Speaker 1: Monday Monday, the second depth chart of the summer, has
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Speaker 1: Shadeur Sanders moved up to a penthouse in the sky?
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Speaker 1: Has he moved up the pecking order for the Cleveland Browns. No,
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Speaker 1: the Browns are listing Joe Flacco. Yes, that Joe Flacco.
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Speaker 1: I know, he's old. Joe Flacco is QB number one,
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Speaker 1: followed by Kenny Pickett. He also sucks. Dylan Gabriel is
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Speaker 1: listed as QB number three and Shadur Sanders is number four,
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Speaker 1: number four. Now this has led to social media outrage
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Speaker 1: after Sanders seemingly played well, I didn't watch the game
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Speaker 1: us o the highlights. He looked fine. Didn't get all
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Speaker 1: excited about it. They played a preseason game against the
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Speaker 1: Carolina Panthers and had some good stats and people got
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Speaker 1: all tingling watching him play. So what are the Browns saying?
19:16
Speaker 1: What are the Browns saying by having Shader Sanders listed
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Speaker 1: as their fourth string quarterback after by all accounts, he
19:23
Speaker 1: looked really good in a preseason game. So they're saying,
19:29
Speaker 1: for those of you in the back of the room,
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Speaker 1: there's maybe a little slow. They're saying, these exhibition games
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Speaker 1: are a joke. You are a sucker for caring about
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Speaker 1: these exhibition games. They're worthless, absolutely worthless. They're telling you
19:44
Speaker 1: straight up. They're not beating around the bush. They're telling
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Speaker 1: you right away. They're like, hey, we are not taking
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Speaker 1: this seriously. Why are you You should not be taking
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Speaker 1: this seriously? Are you dumb? Are you a dune? That's
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Speaker 1: what they're saying, right, Shader going out there and beating
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Speaker 1: up guys wearing Carolina panther laundry that their next job
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Speaker 1: will be wearing shirts that say budget rent a car
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Speaker 1: on it not impressive. Who cares. It's the NFL Summer Theater, now,
20:18
Speaker 1: that is it. It's it's like going to see a
20:20
Speaker 1: Broadway show. And I've seen one Broadway show in my life.
20:24
Speaker 1: I was dragged by my wife. I was forced to
20:26
Speaker 1: go to a Broadway show. And I was at this
20:28
Speaker 1: old theater in Manhattan. It was designed for people that
20:33
Speaker 1: are fund sized, not people my size. And I jammed
20:37
Speaker 1: into the seat there and I did it. I don't
20:41
Speaker 1: have to do it again. But it's like going to
20:43
Speaker 1: a Broadway show and they have the understudy, but not
20:46
Speaker 1: just the understudy. They have the understudy understudy, if you
20:52
Speaker 1: know what I mean. All right, and so you buy tickets.
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Speaker 1: It's like going to see that wicket you know, back
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Speaker 1: in the day, see Wicked. And then you find out
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Speaker 1: that the person playing the lead is normally the person
21:04
Speaker 1: that sells the soft pretzels with salt or without salt
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Speaker 1: at the at the snack bar and the lobby, and
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Speaker 1: about as much as anybody in professional sports, is living
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Speaker 1: You think they'd text me? I think they should text Ben.
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Speaker 1: It's not my issue. But anyway, we'll get back to
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Speaker 1: a legend, mister Irrigation, I give I give him credit. Man,
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Speaker 1: to Houston do a Mallard meet and greet. I mean,
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Speaker 1: still he still cries about the fact that he was
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Speaker 1: such a hoarder he lost his ring because he was
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Speaker 1: hit so much crap there in Miami that he got evicted.
25:07
Speaker 1: And anyway, let's go to the phones and we'll say
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Speaker 1: hello to Eenie Meanie, Miney Mode. Let's go to Tony,
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Speaker 1: who's in the Bay Area. Hello, Tony, welcome.
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Speaker 5: Hey man. I got two things. One is I was
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Speaker 5: listening to the twenty seventeen podcasts and I was I
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Speaker 5: heard the that got a murder gotta go up the
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Speaker 5: first time it was done, so that was pretty cool.
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Speaker 5: And then also the other day I found ten dollars.
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Speaker 1: You think I'm lucky, Yeah, you're very lucky. You haven't
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Speaker 1: cursed on the show, so you're very lucky.
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Speaker 5: Here, Okay, thanks for the nickname.
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Speaker 1: Later, I like Tony Tony's Tony gets right to the point.
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Speaker 1: Got a couple of things. Hangs up. If I to
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Speaker 1: write a class on how to call talk radio, uh
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Speaker 1: and write like an online class. I'd use Tony as
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Speaker 1: one of my examples. Yeah, that's what I would do. Compliment. Yeah,
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Speaker 1: let's go to let's see who do we have. Let's
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Speaker 1: go to Dick in Dayton. Now this when I when
26:14
Speaker 1: I heard of Jim Jordan complaining about streaming, I thought
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Speaker 1: of Dick, Dick and Dayton, because Dick, you you're someone
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Speaker 1: Dick and Dayton who you would agree the streaming thing
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Speaker 1: not not something that you were You're really into, Yes.
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Speaker 3: And crew.
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Speaker 1: Hello, Dick and Dayton. Give me a little taste of that, Dick.
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Speaker 3: Good morning, Ben.
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Speaker 1: Yes, you got a guy named Dave, Dave from Dayton, right,
26:44
Speaker 1: your buddy Dave.
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Speaker 3: Yeah, Dave. I haven't heard from him, but boy, I
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Speaker 3: turned watched the game Friday, and this Sanders guy look
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Speaker 3: pretty good for the Browns.
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Speaker 1: I thought, you know, yeah, did you hear any of
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Speaker 1: the monologue?
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Speaker 3: No, it was pretty late.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, but you said the Browns have announced that that
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Speaker 1: was a meaningless effort by Shader Sanders. You understand that
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Speaker 1: like they because he's still number I think you're ahead
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Speaker 1: of him on the depth chart. Dick, You're actually ahead
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Speaker 1: of shoulder Sanders, You're the number three quarterback for the Browns.
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Speaker 1: Congratulations number three. Are you ready to play in the
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Speaker 1: next exhibition game? Are you now?
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Speaker 3: Yeah?
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Speaker 5: You know.
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Speaker 3: I think they if they do this, they're going to
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Speaker 3: have a good year.
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Speaker 1: So who's who's doing the Browns exhibition games? I know
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Speaker 1: on radio, old Buddy Andrews Ciciliano is the radio voice
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Speaker 1: of the Cleveland Browns. But who's doing the games on TV?
27:43
Speaker 1: Chris Rose another another Fox Sports Radio alumni. Guy Rose
27:48
Speaker 1: worked here in the early days of Fox Sports Radio.
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Speaker 1: Look at that unbelievable.
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Speaker 3: And Joe Thomas he used.
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Speaker 1: To play, Oh yeah, his offensive lineman.
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Speaker 3: Yeah, it pretty good. I thought he did a good job.
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Speaker 3: Titus and Jeff Phelps.
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Speaker 1: But he's no Bernie. He's no Bernie Kozar, right, Ian,
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Speaker 1: Bernie's your guy.
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Speaker 3: Yeah, Bernie. I loved him. I loved him.
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Speaker 1: I understand you still call the Browns. Mean you call
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Speaker 1: the Browns postgame show or no?
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Speaker 3: Yeah, you did every every week obviously the third caller
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Speaker 3: on there, third.
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Speaker 1: Or fourth, So your third that's a good yeah, good
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Speaker 1: batting average, a little bit of power. You're not a
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Speaker 1: leadoff guy. You're not a speed guy, but your third,
28:31
Speaker 1: and so the leadoff guy gets on base, then they
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Speaker 1: the number two guy bunts the leadoff guy to second,
28:37
Speaker 1: and then you come in there and knock him in
28:39
Speaker 1: right right, yeah, exactly.
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Speaker 3: Oh I would just wondered Ben, You know, I asked
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Speaker 3: Cooper loom and maybe when are you coming down today Ohio?
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Speaker 1: But we're still efforting that thing. I promise I will
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Speaker 1: call you. I will let you know. We have all
28:55
Speaker 1: that schedule and all that we're doing one in Vegas.
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Speaker 1: You want to come to Vegas. We'll be in Vegas
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Speaker 1: on aug twenty third. You want to come to Vegas?
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Speaker 3: Fair? Maybe no, you don't.
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Speaker 1: You don't leave Ohio. You told me you never left Ohio. Right,
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Speaker 1: Everything you need is in the sovereign country of Ohio.
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Speaker 1: You don't need to go anywhere else. Exactly, all right,
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Speaker 1: thank you, Dick.
29:18
Speaker 3: My bye, bye bye.
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Speaker 1: I am such a fan of Dick and Daton's calls
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Speaker 1: because he doesn't listen to anything I say, uh, And
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Speaker 1: he just has his own agenda. And it's magical. I
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Speaker 1: just said, twenty minutes ago, the Browns announced nobody it
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Speaker 1: doesn't matter what these exhibition games are, and Dick and
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Speaker 1: Dayton but I thought your heir looked pretty good. Oh,
29:41
Speaker 1: it's so good. Let's say hello to eeny Meeni miney
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Speaker 1: mo Oh, moving man, Matt the mobile malor billboard, Hello,
29:50
Speaker 1: moving man, mad Is it true? I heard a rumor
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Speaker 1: that you are in the southern California area? Is that accurate?
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Speaker 6: I just pulled out of Barstow and headed down in
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Speaker 6: San Diego this morning.
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Speaker 1: Beautiful, and I am.
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Speaker 6: I am promoting the brand.
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Speaker 1: In the motherland outstanding. We thank you for that. And
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Speaker 1: so you're you'll be coasting by your just leaving Barstow, now,
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Speaker 1: is that right?
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Speaker 6: I am. That's the only way to beat the traffic
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Speaker 6: out here.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, you've told me that, and you told me all
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Speaker 1: the rules. I didn't know that in California you can't
30:25
Speaker 1: drive in the fast lane and you can't go over
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Speaker 1: a certain speed if you're an eighteen wheeler. Right, what's
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Speaker 1: the speed you can Is it fifty five or something
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Speaker 1: infty five?
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Speaker 6: But ChB I've had a hb amoser say, I'll let
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Speaker 6: you go up as long as you'll cross sixty four.
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Speaker 1: Okay.
30:42
Speaker 6: That nine, That nine is the key.
30:44
Speaker 1: Okay, So the nine is again. And I got told
30:46
Speaker 1: one time about cop as long as you go seventy
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Speaker 1: nine or under. If you're in a regular car, you
30:51
Speaker 1: won't get a ticket. But I got a ticket in Minnesota,
30:54
Speaker 1: but in California I've not because so many people drive
30:56
Speaker 1: like it's the Autobahn in California when there's little traffics.
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Speaker 1: Did you have ninety eighty five ninety miles an hour?
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Speaker 3: So?
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Speaker 6: Did? I can hear you say you're gonna be in
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Speaker 6: Vegas next weekend?
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Speaker 1: Yes, we're gonna be in Vegas August twenty third, malor
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Speaker 1: meet and greet in Sinn's city.
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Speaker 6: That is for planning on my behalf, because I just
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Speaker 6: had a schedule change. Originally I was gonna be done
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Speaker 6: in southern California on the twenty second, headed back east,
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Speaker 6: and I could have been there with the whole unit.
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Speaker 1: Oh man, imagine that, Oh my god, we would have
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Speaker 1: just done the thing in the parking lot, all taken
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Speaker 1: photos with the truck. That would have been amazing.
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Speaker 3: Let me let me see, let me.
31:37
Speaker 1: See that would be amaze. That would be awesome moving man. Yeah,
31:42
Speaker 1: you'd be a rock You'd be a rock star if
31:43
Speaker 1: you showed up that with that truck in Vegas.
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Speaker 6: My god, I could I do my best? Weed Man
31:49
Speaker 6: had been set up a table next to the truck
31:52
Speaker 6: for autographs.
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Speaker 1: Well, sell some sell some shirts, yes, charge charge money,
31:57
Speaker 1: sell some t shirts. Get I still wear that. You
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Speaker 1: got me one of those long sleeved shirts. I still
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Speaker 1: wear it around. It's very comfortable around the house there
32:05
Speaker 1: in the movie, I.
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Speaker 6: Actually got I got. If I get to the studio,
32:08
Speaker 6: I have something else for you.
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Speaker 1: Oh really, okay, all right, well, free stuff. I'm all
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Speaker 1: all about that. Get the get the Lorrainer treatment. Yes, absolutely,
32:18
Speaker 1: all right, Well moving man, if you make it tomorrow,
32:20
Speaker 1: that would be amazing. Otherwise, let me know and maybe
32:22
Speaker 1: we'll make a special accommodations.
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Speaker 6: So for the meat at the truck stop. They just
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Speaker 6: wanted to drop though on on the X machine.
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Speaker 1: Well, you gave me my I was a bit naive.
32:36
Speaker 1: I did not know about lot lizards and things that
32:39
Speaker 1: take place at truck stops that you educated me on
32:42
Speaker 1: all that. I didn't. I had no idea. I was
32:43
Speaker 1: completely uh, no knowledge at all. I was clueless.
32:47
Speaker 6: So it's it's an underworld.
32:50
Speaker 1: Yeah, it's a it's a whole magical place where a
32:52
Speaker 1: lot of sodom and Gomora type things take place. All right,
32:56
Speaker 1: I gotta go. Thank you moving man. All right, I go.
32:58
Speaker 1: There's a great movie man. Now, let's say a little
33:00
Speaker 1: Blind Scott on the north end of Boston. Blind Scot's
33:05
Speaker 1: been on hold the entire show and request to go
33:08
Speaker 1: on this hour so he can shamelessly promote the morning
33:12
Speaker 1: show which is coming up on our affiliate there in
33:14
Speaker 1: Boston with Fred the Toucher. According to one of our
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Speaker 1: college yesterday.
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Speaker 7: You know who's the best father in the world, but Rena,
33:23
Speaker 7: I guess who's the best father in the world. I'm
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Speaker 7: Fred Tocher. He brought his daughter to work last week
33:28
Speaker 7: and this week she's in the studio.
33:30
Speaker 1: How old is his How old is his daughter? She's
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Speaker 1: in like junior high school. She probably doesn't want to
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Speaker 1: be there. No, she does, middle aged, middle teenager. I
33:44
Speaker 1: don't know about that.
33:46
Speaker 7: No, No, you're not looking at it. Ben, You've always
33:48
Speaker 7: been an overnight radio guy, Dude, You've never been a
33:50
Speaker 7: morning radio star. You know what I'm saying.
33:53
Speaker 5: I was.
33:53
Speaker 1: I was a midday star before I became an overnight star.
33:56
Speaker 7: You know, you were the first original morning radio star
33:58
Speaker 7: in the nineties. You like the guy that had it
34:01
Speaker 7: all only to see it just slip away to have
34:03
Speaker 7: it all again. You know what I mean.
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Speaker 1: Look at that. It's the Rise Fall, Rise Again story
34:09
Speaker 1: arc in Hollywood.
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Speaker 3: Yea.
34:10
Speaker 7: Now, if you get involved with me, hey, if you
34:12
Speaker 7: stay in touch with me, they'll all take you to
34:14
Speaker 7: the top. You see that idea about the radio convention
34:16
Speaker 7: I had, I had. I think I put you on
34:18
Speaker 7: that email. I don't know if I did. Actually, the
34:20
Speaker 7: thing about the malth of meet and greets is they're
34:22
Speaker 7: not accessible for blind people. They're absolutely not accessible at
34:26
Speaker 7: all for blind people. They are the least accessible thing
34:30
Speaker 7: for blind people in the world.
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Speaker 1: What are you talking about? I literally didn't melon read
34:35
Speaker 1: and greet in Boston a block from your house. How
34:39
Speaker 1: is that not accessible?
34:40
Speaker 7: With these I stood with these dudes for two hours. Well,
34:43
Speaker 7: you ate chicken palm with your wife?
34:45
Speaker 1: I was really good Chicken Pom. I love the restaurants
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Speaker 1: there on the North end of Boston, beautiful and amazing
34:49
Speaker 1: restaurants ron And then.
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Speaker 7: They attasked me with bigger torments for much time.
34:54
Speaker 1: No, they didn't. They were not part of our group.
34:57
Speaker 1: They were not one more thing.
34:59
Speaker 3: One more thing.
34:59
Speaker 7: If you want to have a meet and greet for
35:01
Speaker 7: the plant it has to be a full convention type
35:03
Speaker 7: of setting where fine people can go from place to place.
35:06
Speaker 7: Blind people need to come a day before instead.
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Speaker 1: Oh my god, the raine. What percentage of the people
35:12
Speaker 1: are blind that they're out there?
35:14
Speaker 7: The ones that listen to the show are loses.
35:18
Speaker 1: Well, thank you for that. Yes, you shouldn't say that
35:20
Speaker 1: about yourself. Wow, all right, tag drinking see final word
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Speaker 1: keag drinking. See I I got a game, I got
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Speaker 1: a I got a bit coming up here breaking. No,
35:34
Speaker 1: I don't care about that. Who cares? Oh you didn't
35:36
Speaker 1: talk about it, man, I don't care about it. That's
35:39
Speaker 1: a competitor. What do I care about them playing? Grab
35:42
Speaker 1: ass on a podcast? Taylor's swift and come on? How
35:45
Speaker 1: about this double life show? Hail Tani show, Hail Tani,
35:49
Speaker 1: double life? His I'm sure he did not gamble and
35:52
Speaker 1: all the person that was the closest to him was
35:55
Speaker 1: doing all the gambling. Show. Hey was completely stupid up
35:57
Speaker 1: to so he had no idea that the gaming. How
35:59
Speaker 1: about this Otani, the Dodger star now being sued a
36:03
Speaker 1: two hundred million dollar lawsuit, accused of sabotaging a Hawaiian
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Speaker 1: suing show Altani, claiming the Dodger star and his agent
36:16
Speaker 1: Hornswoggle them got them fired from a two undred forty
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36:25
Speaker 1: on with Otani? Straight ahead? Sit the bit the great
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Speaker 1: Play the byte. Play it, humuy, someone from the world
37:52
Speaker 1: of sports will last seven to ten days. You recognize
37:54
Speaker 1: that voice? Way, humble guy. Just a humble guy, Just
37:57
Speaker 1: a humble guy. Is that Lebron James? No, not apparently Notbron?
38:02
Speaker 1: All right, let's see you. Why don't want to get
38:04
Speaker 1: it right? I'm gonna go. I'll change it up this week.
38:06
Speaker 1: Call her five? Oh you never changed up? Free five?
38:10
Speaker 1: All right? Coop? He wants five? All right, let's go
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Speaker 1: here we go, play a get plenty again. Play a guy,
38:17
Speaker 1: just humble guy. I heard the fox name there, hollering James.
38:21
Speaker 1: Caller one hollering James. Who is that person hollering James?
38:26
Speaker 1: Is that the fun? Oh you're actually awake. You're on
38:32
Speaker 1: the air for like twenty minutes tonight. You've be sleeping
38:34
Speaker 1: the whole time, all right? Not Stefon Diggs, Cowboy John
38:37
Speaker 1: Brad Windsor Ontario Cowboy, You are my caller number two?
38:41
Speaker 1: Who is it? Cowboy?
38:44
Speaker 5: Is that Canadian country singer Adam Gregory who was forty
38:47
Speaker 5: July twelve and then a two thousands with the Wilf
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Speaker 5: for you the Cowboys?
38:52
Speaker 1: No, but thank you for playing first clue. Cadillac presented
38:56
Speaker 1: his mother with a pink escalade shortly after he was drafted.
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Speaker 1: Just a humble guy, Just a humble guy. But he
39:03
Speaker 1: got his mom's apparently not. Let's say hello to coach
39:07
Speaker 1: Russell in the Orlando area. Coach Russell, I'm gonna go
39:13
Speaker 1: with DeMarte. Is that Jamar Chase? No, but thank you,
39:19
Speaker 1: Coach Russell. Let's try Chris in Boston. You're my caller
39:23
Speaker 1: for Chris. Who is it Chris? That former VC star?
39:26
Speaker 7: In first round strit Fistons pick Billy Curly.
39:31
Speaker 1: It's a funny one, all right. Originally committed to the
39:33
Speaker 1: University of Miami, then switched to Louisville. Last one Lean
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