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Hour 4 - The Magic Potion Worked · The Ben Maller Show

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  Speaker 1: It's our number four as we make a splash here
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  Speaker 1: stayed up all night flexing our audio muscles to provide
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  Speaker 1: fresh pod and here it is the ben maler show
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  Speaker 1: podcast don't forget fifth hour podcast today as well we
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  Speaker 1: have an original episode regarding the verbal octagon a caller
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  Speaker 1: was well the guy's actually not a caller he's just
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  Speaker 1: a listener but he wrote in he was all upset
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  Speaker 1: about the verbal octagon he made some accusations against me.
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  Speaker 1: So we'll address that on the Fifth Hour podcast today.
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  Speaker 1: We'll have a new episode on Saturday. And the mailbag
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  Speaker 1: will be available on Sunday. Here in hour number four, though.
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  Speaker 1: Are you excited about that big trade? Well, after arriving
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  Speaker 1: in Dallas, Joey Porter Jr.
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  Speaker 2: Is.
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  Speaker 1: He says Pittsburgh disrespected him. Do you buy that? Was
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  Speaker 1: that disrespect by the Steelers? And what precedent did new
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  Speaker 1: Cowboys defensive back Joey Porter Jr.
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  Speaker 3: Set?
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  Speaker 1: For other players unhappy with their contracts but unwilling to
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  Speaker 1: formally hold out with what he pulled with the Steelers.
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  Speaker 1: And Tony Romo playing Q school while on indefinite leave
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  Speaker 1: from CBS. Good idea or bad idea? We'll talk about
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  Speaker 1: all that and more. Have a wonderful weekend. Enjoy the
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  Speaker 1: 5th Hour Podcast this weekend. Stay safe. Here's our number four. Well,
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  Speaker 1: it turns out the magic potion has worked. We'd like
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  Speaker 1: to alert all the affiliates. The magic potion has worked.
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  Speaker 1: Welcome in the beginning of another hour of the Ben
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  Speaker 1: before we get to the action, before we get to
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  Speaker 1: the action this hour, the MALLER monologue, I did want
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  Speaker 1: to mention we had a couple of games last night.
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  Speaker 1: The Steelers, that did not go so well. For the
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  Speaker 1: Pittsburgh Steelers, they scored early, thought, okay, there's something going
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  Speaker 1: on here, something good. And then they had to play
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  Speaker 1: the rest of the game, and that did not go
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  Speaker 1: so well as they came back to tie it late.
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  Speaker 1: But the Browns off to the 3-1 start. Pittsburgh, they
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  Speaker 1: were screaming at each other. It was really good for
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  Speaker 1: talk radio. As Aaron Rodgers is just at the point now,
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  Speaker 1: he's like, I don't give an F. I'm not coming back.
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  Speaker 1: I'm going to go do cheeseball podcasts and drink ayahuasca.
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  Speaker 1: with my fake wife, so I don't care. And that's that.
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  Speaker 1: And it's just great. He's screaming at McCarthy. McCarthy's screaming
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  Speaker 1: at him. Now, in terms of the baseball, baseball action,
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  Speaker 1: we had the final game of the wild card round,
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  Speaker 1: and it went to the team from Georgia. And for
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  Speaker 1: the Phillies, turn out the lights. The party's over. Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: it's all Dunskies in that particular game. series so the
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  Speaker 1: Braves have advanced and that leads us into this there
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  Speaker 1: is no time like October the NLDS is here streaming
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  Speaker 1: live on Fox 1 it's the Braves against the Dodgers
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  Speaker 1: the Padres taking on the top seed the Brewers and
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  Speaker 1: win and you're one step closer to the World Series
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  Speaker 1: lose and your season is O-V-E-R over this is postseason
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  Speaker 1: baseball at its best the kind of October magic That
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  Speaker 1: doesn't wait for the recap. Now, here's the good news.
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  Speaker 1: You can watch every pitch, every swing, every walk-off live
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  Speaker 1: streaming on Fox 1. Catch the Braves versus the Dodgers.
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  Speaker 1: That's the early game at 4 p.m. Eastern time tomorrow.
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  Speaker 1: And then you've got the Padres and the Brewers. And
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  Speaker 1: it's all live on Fox 1. There is no time
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  Speaker 1: like October. And there is no better place to stream
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  Speaker 1: the magic than Fox 1. Now, of those two games
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  Speaker 1: at this hour here, in the early morning hours, before
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  Speaker 1: the Roosters have awoken, we only know one of the pitchers.
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  Speaker 1: The Brewers have announced that Jacob Mizorowski, clearly their top guy,
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  Speaker 1: is going to be the starter against the Pod squad,
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  Speaker 1: who was in the wildcard round. The Padres are going
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  Speaker 1: to start undecided. The Braves and Dodgers, that matchup is
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  Speaker 1: undecided versus undecided. It'll be announced later today. The Dodgers,
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  Speaker 1: even with that, if you look at the gambling market,
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  Speaker 1: are a massive favorite. So are the Brewers. The Brewers
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  Speaker 1: are actually a bigger favorite than the Dodgers are, if
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  Speaker 1: you care about those kind of things. But all the
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  Speaker 1: games are on Fox 1. You got the pesky Atlanta Braves,
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  Speaker 1: the Padres, who sucked most of the year, then woke
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  Speaker 1: up in the last month and a half taking on
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  Speaker 1: the Brewers, the Dodgers, who also were kind of mediocre
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  Speaker 1: for a while after the All-Star break. They woke up
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  Speaker 1: the last month of the year, and they'll take on
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  Speaker 1: The Atlanta Braves. So that is the baseball. Looking forward
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  Speaker 1: to that. Am I going to watch? Yeah, I will. Now,
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  Speaker 1: I'm watching college football, but I got nothing going on.
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  Speaker 1: I'll flip over to the baseball. Of course, I love baseball.
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  Speaker 1: Our lead this hour, though, from Dallas, Texas, deep in
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  Speaker 1: the heart of Jerry's world, where, hey, Porter, Porter has landed.
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  Speaker 1: Much like we expected, the story has played out the
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  Speaker 1: way we thought it would. Every once in a while,
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  Speaker 1: we get something right. And this is one of those times.
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  Speaker 1: So if you have not heard, perhaps not, perhaps you
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  Speaker 1: haven't been paying attention, Joey Porter Jr. was traded the
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  Speaker 1: other day. And it turns out, is he A, thrilled
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  Speaker 1: to go to Dallas, B, fine with it, it's like whatever,
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  Speaker 1: or C, disappointed to go to Dallas? Well, it turns out,
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  Speaker 1: reveal answers, it is A. Joey Porter Jr. is thrilled
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  Speaker 1: by his trade to Dallas. And he said he was
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  Speaker 1: watching a movie. He left the movie theater immediately after
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  Speaker 1: getting the call. It's good to see that people still
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  Speaker 1: go to movie theaters. I thought everyone stopped because all
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  Speaker 1: they make is Spider-Man movies. But I guess he went
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  Speaker 1: to a movie theater and he was eating the buttered
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  Speaker 1: popcorn and enjoying himself. He said he pulled an all-nighter.
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  Speaker 1: What a hero. Not all heroes wear capes. Joey Porter Jr.,
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  Speaker 1: a hero, stayed up all night. You know, I pull
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  Speaker 1: all-nighters all the time. I don't brag about it. That's
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  Speaker 1: what I do. It's my job. Anyway, he arrived in Dallas,
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  Speaker 1: and this is the funniest part. So Joey Porter Jr.
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  Speaker 1: arrives in the Dallas area. He practiced on Thursday. He said,
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  Speaker 1: I am blessed. I'm excited. Now, keep in mind, Porter
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  Speaker 1: was going to be a healthy scratch. He was supposed
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  Speaker 1: to be playing for Pittsburgh in the game on Thursday night.
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  Speaker 1: He decided he didn't want to play in that game.
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  Speaker 1: So Porter, who didn't play in any of the Steeler
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  Speaker 1: games this season in a contract dispute, and he goes
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  Speaker 1: to the Cowboys. Oh, yeah, I'm practicing. I hope to
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  Speaker 1: play this weekend. He said the Steelers made him feel
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  Speaker 1: undervalued and, quote, disrespected, while Dallas has shown that it
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  Speaker 1: values him. Now, keep in mind, That as of this hour,
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  Speaker 1: despite the issues that Porter had with the Steelers, Dallas
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  Speaker 1: has not given him a new contract. And Porter says
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  Speaker 1: he'll play for Dallas without receiving a new contract. Say what? Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: so the quagmire has ended. That is a good jumping
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  Speaker 1: off point. Now a new quagmire. In Texas. So let
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  Speaker 1: us discuss the question. After arriving in Big D, Joey
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  Speaker 1: Porter Jr. says that Pittsburgh disrespected him. Do you buy it?
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  Speaker 1: Is this a disrespect card? So I've got the Princess Bride, cobblestones,
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  Speaker 1: and syringe. And we will combine all of these things together.
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  Speaker 1: And we will put in a barrel. We're going to
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  Speaker 1: put a little baba ghanoush, the gabagoo, and the jambalaya.
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  Speaker 1: We'll put that all in a big barrel. And, boy,
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  Speaker 1: is that going to be fun. So, first of all,
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  Speaker 1: to answer the question, Joey Porter Jr. saying Pittsburgh disrespected him.
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  Speaker 1: Do you buy it? So I'm going to take hell
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  Speaker 1: to the no. I'm going to go hell to the no.
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  Speaker 1: In professional sports, and we get paid to commentate on
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  Speaker 1: professional athletes and teams and whatnot. And this has happened
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  Speaker 1: in my lifetime. In professional sports, the word respect has
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  Speaker 1: undergone this fascinating translation. It once meant admiration. Today, it
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  Speaker 1: means direct deposit. And I've never lived my life, and
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  Speaker 1: everyone's wired different, I get it, but I've never been
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  Speaker 1: that guy that lives my life saying, you know, the company.
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  Speaker 1: disrespected me. If that was the case, I wouldn't have
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  Speaker 1: been here over 25 years. I probably would have left
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  Speaker 1: in year one. I would have been like, I'm done,
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  Speaker 1: that's it. They didn't give me exactly what I wanted.
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  Speaker 1: They made me work my way up the ladder here.
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  Speaker 1: I'm out. I didn't do that. Now, clearly, Joey Porter Jr.,
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  Speaker 1: respect is all the thing. I just do my job.
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  Speaker 1: I think most people are like that. And they're like, well, yeah,
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  Speaker 1: you'd like to have the company take care of you.
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  Speaker 1: I've realized as I've gotten older, most companies don't take
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  Speaker 1: care of you. They treat you just a number on
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  Speaker 1: a card, and then when your number comes up, you're done.
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  Speaker 1: But I'm okay with it because that's fine. I'll go
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  Speaker 1: work somewhere else. And I haven't had to in a
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  Speaker 1: long time, and Joey Porter Jr. had to. So he
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  Speaker 1: conducted the modern NFL holdout. What is the modern NFL holdout?
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  Speaker 1: So the owners thought, hey, we're going to get rid
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  Speaker 1: of holdouts. We're going to make it so financially unattractive.
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  Speaker 1: These guys are not going to hold out. So they
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  Speaker 1: put all these rules in all these checks and balances.
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  Speaker 1: That's one of the things the owners got.
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  Speaker 4: OK, fine.
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  Speaker 1: So the players have now figured out a way around that.
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  Speaker 1: The modern NFL holdout, you show up. You get paid.
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  Speaker 1: And then you don't do any work. It's called the
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  Speaker 1: wildcat strike. That's what you do. The Steelers got bupkis.
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  Speaker 1: Porter Jr. went AWOL. Right in the building. Right in
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  Speaker 1: the building. And he pulled the NFL's version of calling
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  Speaker 1: in sick and then posting images of you water skiing
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  Speaker 1: on Instagram. Like, what are you doing, dude? Pittsburgh could
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  Speaker 1: not get him on the field. They didn't give him
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  Speaker 1: a contract. He said, I ain't playing unless I get
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  Speaker 1: my bro. Like that schmuck, Blake Snell. And so he
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  Speaker 1: didn't get paid. And that's it. I'm not playing. I'm
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  Speaker 1: not playing. I ain't getting paid. So he didn't go
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  Speaker 1: on the field. Dallas gets him off the plane. And
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  Speaker 1: I guess now he's Cal Ripken Jr. He's Iron Man.
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  Speaker 1: Apparently $ 3. 9 million before taxes is disrespectful. And I want
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  Speaker 1: to let the Pittsburgh Steelers know right now I am
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  Speaker 1: willing to be disrespected. If you would like to hire
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  Speaker 1: me as a gas bag blowhard or backup offensive lineman,
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  Speaker 1: I am more than happy to be on your team
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  Speaker 1: for $ 3. 9 million. To me, you've won the lottery when
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  Speaker 1: you make $ 3.
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  Speaker 3: 9 million.
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  Speaker 1: So he goes from Pittsburgh to Dallas, and all of
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  Speaker 1: a sudden it's like, oh, it's great. He's perfectly fine.
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  Speaker 1: It's dignified. Once the check, the same amount of money
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  Speaker 1: has the Cowboy logo on it, it's good. So I
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  Speaker 1: was thinking, like, what is this like? So I thought
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  Speaker 1: it was like, remember the Princess Bride, that old movie
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  Speaker 1: back in the day? It's like the Princess Bride of
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  Speaker 1: the NFL. So Joey Porter Jr. told the Steelers, I'm
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  Speaker 1: not playing without a new contract. So then he shows
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  Speaker 1: up to Dallas. Jerry Jones says, listen, how about the
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  Speaker 1: same contract in your play? And Joey Porter says, as
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  Speaker 1: you wish. As you wish. It's so great. All right, now, secondly,
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  Speaker 1: taking a step back, going up to 30,000 feet in
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  Speaker 1: the sky and looking down at what is left of
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  Speaker 1: this contract kerfluffle. The question, what precedent, if any, did
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  Speaker 1: Cowboys defensive back Joey Porter Jr. set for other players
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  Speaker 1: who are grumbling and stumbling and bumbling and unhappy with
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  Speaker 1: their contracts, but unwilling to formally hold out. So he's
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  Speaker 1: not the first person to do this. If I remember,
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  Speaker 1: Micah Parsons did something similar with the Cowboys. However, Joey
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  Speaker 1: Porter Jr. cranked it up a couple of notches. This
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  Speaker 1: is the blueprint. a Bob Ross paint-by-numbers set for how
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  Speaker 1: to play the oligarchs, the robber barons of pigskin. Bob
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  Speaker 1: Ross would call it a happy little accident. The Steelers
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  Speaker 1: would call it quitting. So decide which side of the
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  Speaker 1: aisle you're on. And Joey Porter Jr., he pulled also,
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  Speaker 1: to use another movie analogy, he pulled a full Gene Wilder.
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  Speaker 1: The iconic Willy Wonka. We do the golden ticket. We
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  Speaker 1: stole that. Danny G helped us steal that from Willy
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  Speaker 1: Wonka and the Chocolate Factory and all that. So you
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  Speaker 1: remember the scene? It's a classic movie. I think most
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  Speaker 1: people have seen it, even if it's before your time.
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  Speaker 1: Willy Wonka, Gene Wilder, limping around Pittsburgh. Just think about it.
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  Speaker 1: Limping around Pittsburgh. And then Joey Porter there, as Gene Wilder,
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  Speaker 1: he's limping around Pittsburgh. He gets his cane stuck in
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  Speaker 1: the cobblestone. There's big cobblestones. And then suddenly, bam, he
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  Speaker 1: somersaults right into Dallas. How did you do that? Abracadabra.
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  Speaker 1: Hocus pocus. And why bother holding out when you can
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  Speaker 1: hold it? You collect the paycheck. You just sit back
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  Speaker 1: and wait for Jerry Jones to say, I got to
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  Speaker 1: trade this guy. All right. I got to trade this
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  Speaker 1: guy for some Oompa Loompas to be named later. I
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  Speaker 1: got to get rid of this guy. reasonable people will
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  Speaker 1: look at this surreal sequence and say, come on, man. Like,
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  Speaker 1: what are you doing? But for NFL players, this is
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  Speaker 1: the Holy Grail. This is how you attack the machine.
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  Speaker 1: This is how you play the system. And there is
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  Speaker 1: no punishment. Most jobs, if you quit a job and
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  Speaker 1: you act like this, you're just an a-hole. You're there.
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  Speaker 1: You're a healthy scratch. It's called malfeasance. You don't normally
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  Speaker 1: get to go to another company and everything's fine. Like,
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  Speaker 1: did Jerry Jones call the Steelers and ask for a reference? No,
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  Speaker 1: because they don't care about that stuff. And so I
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  Speaker 1: say the Steelers wisely cut their losses. They didn't get
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  Speaker 1: a lot in return. They pretty much gave them away
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  Speaker 1: for just a couple of scratcher tickets. But you'd rather
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  Speaker 1: have somebody that wants to be there, even if it's
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  Speaker 1: not as good a player. And clearly, Joey Porter Jr.,
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  Speaker 1: despite his dad having played there as a legacy player,
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  Speaker 1: Back in the day, he didn't want to play for
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  Speaker 1: the Steelers, and he wasn't happy. And if he's unhappy,
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  Speaker 1: as Tomlin said, you don't want hostages. And so you
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  Speaker 1: get rid of the player. In terms of the wide-angle lens, though,
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  Speaker 1: that's the reason he got what he wanted. So everyone
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  Speaker 1: else is like, well, these agents, okay, so they're not
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  Speaker 1: going to pay you. So here's what you do. You
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  Speaker 1: show up to work. You fake a soft tissue injury,
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  Speaker 1: like a lower back thing. I still love that the
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  Speaker 1: lower back injury is the go-to injury. I've told stories
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  Speaker 1: when I covered the NBA back in the day. That
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  Speaker 1: was always the go-to injury if a guy went out
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  Speaker 1: and boozed too much, chasing girls around and couldn't sleep
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  Speaker 1: and was not in condition to play. They'd say he
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  Speaker 1: has a lower back injury. That was always their go-to.
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  Speaker 1: All right, meanwhile, final thought. The boob tube. We go
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  Speaker 1: to the boob tube. And is it true? We have
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  Speaker 1: seen a Tony Romo sighting. It's like seeing Sasquatch. We
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  Speaker 1: have seen Tony Romo. Tony Romo making his first public
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  Speaker 1: appearance since his July booze cruise or booze drive. He
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  Speaker 1: competed in a golf tournament in Broken Arrow, Oklahoma.
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  Speaker 5: What?
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  Speaker 1: Yes, the PGA Tour Q School pre-qualifier at something called
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  Speaker 1: The Club. It's in Forest Ridge, Oklahoma. which is in
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  Speaker 1: Broken Arrow, Oklahoma. Now, Romo shot a four over par
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  Speaker 1: 76 in the opening round. He must have been hitting
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  Speaker 1: the sauce again. Romo was arrested, remember, back in Wisconsin
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  Speaker 1: on suspicion of operating while intoxicated after struggling with the
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  Speaker 1: field sobriety test and all that. Romo has said that
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  Speaker 1: he's trying to get back on CBS. He's trying to
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  Speaker 1: take care of himself. And the people over at CBS
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  Speaker 1: have said, Bupkis, nothing. They've been tight-lipped about whether they're
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  Speaker 1: going to bring him back. The question, keep it simple.
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  Speaker 1: So Tony Romo playing Q School while on indefinite leave
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  Speaker 1: from CBS, good idea, bad idea. Good idea, bad idea.
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  Speaker 1: You make the call. So we turn this over to
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  Speaker 1: the judges' scorecards. And they rendered this a split decision
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  Speaker 1: for Tony Romo. It is an absolute, absolute bogey for
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  Speaker 1: Tony Romo in the case against CBS. You talk about
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  Speaker 1: bad optics. Tony wrote this whole post about how he's
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  Speaker 1: been struggling with his body, with injuries, and he was
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  Speaker 1: trying to get himself right and all this stuff, and
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  Speaker 1: that's why he started drinking and blah, blah, blah, blah.
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  Speaker 1: His television career, which pays the bills, was it $ 17
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  Speaker 1: million a year or something like that, His TV career, Romo,
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  Speaker 1: is literally sitting in the emergency room, and he's out
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  Speaker 1: there reading a 12-foot putt in Broken Arrow, Oklahoma. You
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  Speaker 1: cannot make this stuff up. You cannot do it. Romo
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  Speaker 1: supposedly is trying to rebuild his life, apparently in a
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  Speaker 1: sand trap. He's trying to rebuild it with a caddy.
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  Speaker 1: What club should I use? Is there any whiskey in
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• 19:26
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• 19:32
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• 19:34
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• 19:39
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• 19:43
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• 19:47
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• 19:50
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• 19:54
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• 19:57
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• 20:22
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• 24:56
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• 25:02
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• 25:05
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• 25:19
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• 25:25
  Speaker 1: what's going to happen. Let's go to the phones and
• 25:27
  Speaker 1: we'll say hello to Eenie, Meenie, Miney, Moe. Let's say
• 25:31
  Speaker 1: hello to... Poppy in San Diego. Hello, Poppy.
• 25:38
  Speaker 3: Welcome.
• 25:38
  Speaker 2: Hey, mentor.
• 25:40
  Speaker 3: Right here.
• 25:41
  Speaker 4: We're ready for the NFL pickups with the Lefferts on
• 25:43
  Speaker 4: NFL picks.
• 25:44
  Speaker 3: Poppy's NFL picks. Let's go.
• 25:47
  Speaker 1: I didn't realize that was a segment. Is that an
• 25:49
  Speaker 1: official segment on the show? I did not realize.
• 25:51
  Speaker 3: Of course. People love it. Okay.
• 25:54
  Speaker 1: Lorena, do you love it?
• 25:56
  Speaker 4: Love's a very strong word.
• 25:59
  Speaker 1: I thought you love everything, no? Coop, do you love it, Coop?
• 26:01
  Speaker 1: Are you all about the love on this Poppy and
• 26:04
  Speaker 1: the Leprechaun segment?
• 26:06
  Speaker 2: No.
• 26:06
  Speaker 1: All right, so, Poppy, I've just asked two random people.
• 26:10
  Speaker 1: They don't say they love it.
• 26:13
  Speaker 3: Hey, we're bringing our endgame. Put the music on, Lorena.
• 26:15
  Speaker 1: Hold on a second. No, no, no, no, no, no.
• 26:17
  Speaker 1: Hold on. Let me check with Frank the Tank. Frank
• 26:20
  Speaker 1: the Tank in Iowa, do you love Poppy's picks? Frank
• 26:24
  Speaker 1: the Tank in Iowa.
• 26:27
  Speaker 3: Did he play anything? Did he play organized sports?
• 26:32
  Speaker 1: Poppy, did you play any sports, Poppy?
• 26:35
  Speaker 2: Oh, of course.
• 26:36
  Speaker 3: Poppy knows sports. Yes, I played sports.
• 26:38
  Speaker 1: No, no, he didn't ask you. What did you play?
• 26:41
  Speaker 3: I said organized. I didn't play. Football?
• 26:43
  Speaker 6: Yes.
• 26:45
  Speaker 3: And basketball. Trifecta. Oh, okay. Yeah. Was you okay?
• 26:53
  Speaker 1: Oh, my God.
• 26:54
  Speaker 3: That was a trifecta for you.
• 26:56
  Speaker 2: Was I okay? Yes.
• 26:59
  Speaker 3: I'll come up when you play. All right.
• 27:01
  Speaker 1: Thank you, Frank. Frank's easy, huh? Oh, you played. Okay, fine.
• 27:04
  Speaker 1: You played. That's it. I believe you. If you said it,
• 27:07
  Speaker 1: it's like remember when Peyton Manning's wife was accused of
• 27:10
  Speaker 1: being a drug mule and all the broadcasters were running
• 27:13
  Speaker 1: interference for Peyton Manning and they're like, well, Peyton said
• 27:15
  Speaker 1: he didn't do it. He didn't do it. Let's get Leprechaun.
• 27:18
  Speaker 1: Go ahead. Do you have one minute? One minute.
• 27:21
  Speaker 8: One minute.
• 27:22
  Speaker 5: One minute.
• 27:23
  Speaker 1: Are you there, Leprechaun? Hello, Leprechaun.
• 27:27
  Speaker 3: Of course I'm here. What's his poppy pick? What's his
• 27:30
  Speaker 3: poppy pick? First game is the Patriots versus the Bills.
• 27:33
  Speaker 3: I'm liking the Bills. And Josh Allen, anytime. What do
• 27:36
  Speaker 3: you like in Leprechaun in that game?
• 27:38
  Speaker 2: I'm going to go to pass.
• 27:40
  Speaker 3: Okay, we both agree. On the second game, we got
• 27:43
  Speaker 3: the Chiefs versus the Raiders, both undefeated teams. I really
• 27:46
  Speaker 3: like the Chiefs on this one with Kenneth Walker, bonus pick, anytime.
• 27:50
  Speaker 3: What about you, Leprechaun?
• 27:51
  Speaker 1: I'm going to go to the Raiders.
• 27:53
  Speaker 3: Wow. And save the best for last, right? We got
• 27:57
  Speaker 3: the Lions versus the Panthers. I really like the Lions
• 28:00
  Speaker 3: with Gibbs. Anytime touchdown, he's going to destroy the Panthers.
• 28:03
  Speaker 2: What about you?
• 28:03
  Speaker 3: I'm going to go to Philly. The Phillies? Wait, it's
• 28:09
  Speaker 3: the Lions versus the Panthers.
• 28:11
  Speaker 8: I went exactly against everything you said, so we'll see
• 28:14
  Speaker 8: what happens.
• 28:15
  Speaker 4: Okay.
• 28:16
  Speaker 8: Oh, yes.
• 28:16
  Speaker 3: I like that.
• 28:18
  Speaker 1: No point spreads. You guys are not betting with point spreads.
• 28:20
  Speaker 5: Yeah, well, we are.
• 28:21
  Speaker 3: We were waiting for you, Mentor, to give that, but yeah.
• 28:26
  Speaker 1: Your job is to find... They're all on DraftKings. They are.
• 28:29
  Speaker 3: I can tell you right now. Would you like to know?
• 28:31
  Speaker 2: My God.
• 28:32
  Speaker 3: No, I don't. All right. Anyway, tell Marcel congratulations. Uh-huh.
• 28:38
  Speaker 2: Okay.
• 28:39
  Speaker 3: Okay.
• 28:40
  Speaker 1: The Bills are 6.5 favorites. Oh, no, no. Six and
• 28:43
  Speaker 1: a half.
• 28:43
  Speaker 6: There you go.
• 28:44
  Speaker 1: It's not six.
• 28:44
  Speaker 5: Six and a half.
• 28:45
  Speaker 1: Yes.
• 28:45
  Speaker 3: I said 6.5.
• 28:46
  Speaker 5: It's to me.
• 28:49
  Speaker 3: The Lions are.
• 28:49
  Speaker 1: I've got to make this end. My ears are going
• 28:51
  Speaker 1: to bleed. I've got to go. Thank you. All right.
• 28:53
  Speaker 1: Both of you. Thank you.
• 28:54
  Speaker 4: All right.
• 28:55
  Speaker 1: There it is. The circus. That was a little tough.
• 29:00
  Speaker 1: I get e-mails all the time. Why do these guys
• 29:02
  Speaker 1: think anyone cares about their picks? Can you explain why
• 29:05
  Speaker 1: Poppy and the Leprechaun think that we care about their picks?
• 29:08
  Speaker 8: Go ahead. You know, that's a great question. I think
• 29:14
  Speaker 8: the leprechaun just kind of goes along with it. I
• 29:16
  Speaker 8: think Poppy genuinely believes.
• 29:22
  Speaker 1: That people do care about what his picks are.
• 29:24
  Speaker 2: Yes.
• 29:24
  Speaker 1: This is an important part. There are people right now
• 29:26
  Speaker 1: who are getting up to start their day, and they're like,
• 29:28
  Speaker 1: I can't get through my day without knowing what Poppy
• 29:33
  Speaker 1: in San Diego thinks of the Bills game.
• 29:36
  Speaker 4: I think he was 2-0 last weekend.
• 29:39
  Speaker 1: Was he? He should host the show then. Did better
• 29:42
  Speaker 1: than me. Did bad. Spent all my time handicapping to
• 29:45
  Speaker 1: get pantsed. Let's say hello to Frank. Let me go
• 29:51
  Speaker 1: back to Frank. Frank, do you have anything to say there?
• 29:52
  Speaker 1: Frank the Tank, anything else you want to add? Frank
• 29:54
  Speaker 1: the Tank, you're called up there. Frank the Tank, hello. Iowa.
• 29:57
  Speaker 3: Yeah, I was looking for a different pick on the
• 30:02
  Speaker 3: World Series. I was looking for... Milwaukee and either the
• 30:06
  Speaker 3: White Sox or, no, Milwaukee and Tampa Bay World Series.
• 30:10
  Speaker 3: What do you think on that?
• 30:12
  Speaker 1: I think that would be great. If you hate Major
• 30:14
  Speaker 1: League Baseball television ratings, I think that would be freaking wonderful.
• 30:18
  Speaker 1: It's a great idea.
• 30:21
  Speaker 3: How many times have we seen the Yankees and Dodgers?
• 30:25
  Speaker 3: We just saw them a couple years ago. We've seen them, what,
• 30:28
  Speaker 3: seven times?
• 30:32
  Speaker 1: It's all your life. Well, we saw him in the
• 30:35
  Speaker 1: 80s a lot, not in the 90s.
• 30:36
  Speaker 3: No, we've seen him twice. 81 and 80. No, we've
• 30:39
  Speaker 3: seen him once. We've seen him once in the 70s
• 30:41
  Speaker 3: and once in the 80s.
• 30:47
  Speaker 1: I thought they played more than once in the 70s.
• 30:48
  Speaker 1: But the 80s, early 80s, and then, okay, who cares?
• 30:52
  Speaker 1: Thank you, Frank. Let's go to Marcel. Do the big introduction, Marcel.
• 30:54
  Speaker 1: You know what time it is, the Coop Scoop on Entertainment.
• 30:57
  Speaker 1: You need stuff to watch this weekend other than sports.
• 30:59
  Speaker 3: Oh, yes.
• 30:59
  Speaker 2: It is the first day of October now, second day,
• 31:03
  Speaker 2: ladies and gents, and the Coop Scoop on Entertainment. It's
• 31:06
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• 31:10
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• 31:13
  Speaker 2: Hooray for Hollywood.
• 31:15
  Speaker 4: Thank you as always, Marcel. We have some catching up
• 31:20
  Speaker 4: to do here.
• 31:21
  Speaker 8: I was out last week during Coop Scoop Entertainment, so
• 31:24
  Speaker 8: I wanted to highlight a couple of things that were
• 31:26
  Speaker 8: released last weekend. The first is a movie called Heart
• 31:31
  Speaker 8: of the Beast. And this movie basically stars Brad Pitt
• 31:36
  Speaker 8: and a dog.
• 31:38
  Speaker 4: And it is a... What kind of dog? German Shepherd.
• 31:42
  Speaker 2: Oh.
• 31:42
  Speaker 3: Yeah.
• 31:43
  Speaker 1: I'm biased to the Bulldog.
• 31:44
  Speaker 2: I like the Bulldog.
• 31:46
  Speaker 8: I went and saw this movie. It was pretty good.
• 31:50
  Speaker 8: I say pretty good because it's kind of predictable. It's
• 31:54
  Speaker 8: a survivalist movie. He's out in the wilderness and bad
• 31:57
  Speaker 8: things happen.
• 31:58
  Speaker 1: So they made a movie about that. Remember the Survivorman
• 32:01
  Speaker 1: guy back in the day? Or those guys that would
• 32:03
  Speaker 1: drop in the middle of the forest? That kind of thing?
• 32:06
  Speaker 8: Yeah, so basically he is a former Marine, I think,
• 32:11
  Speaker 8: and the dog was also enlisted. It's an Army dog
• 32:16
  Speaker 8: or Marine dog or whatever.
• 32:17
  Speaker 1: Oh, that's good.
• 32:19
  Speaker 8: And they're both retired, and stuff in the wilderness happens,
• 32:24
  Speaker 8: and you think the dog's going to die, you think
• 32:26
  Speaker 8: he's going to die, and I'm not going to give
• 32:28
  Speaker 8: any spoilers, but yeah, it was good stuff.
• 32:32
  Speaker 4: I liked it.
• 32:33
  Speaker 3: Okay.
• 32:34
  Speaker 8: So that's in theaters right now. Also in theaters, and
• 32:37
  Speaker 8: this one was something I was looking forward to talking about.
• 32:40
  Speaker 8: It came out last weekend. It's got good reviews. It's
• 32:41
  Speaker 8: called Primetime.
• 32:43
  Speaker 4: And this.
• 32:44
  Speaker 1: Deion Sanders got a movie, huh?
• 32:46
  Speaker 8: This stars Robert Pattinson as Chris Hansen, the To Catch.
• 32:52
  Speaker 4: A Predator host.
• 32:53
  Speaker 1: Can I have those cookies?
• 32:55
  Speaker 4: Yeah, why don't you take a seat?
• 32:58
  Speaker 1: Yeah, so.
• 32:59
  Speaker 8: I believe the real Chris Hansen really did not like
• 33:04
  Speaker 8: this movie and had issues with it. I'm not, I'm
• 33:08
  Speaker 8: not totally sure. I guess I just don't, don't like
• 33:10
  Speaker 8: the way he's portrayed. I saw a trailer for it
• 33:12
  Speaker 8: and it, they kind of make Chris Hansen's out to
• 33:16
  Speaker 8: be like this ruthless.
• 33:19
  Speaker 4: Uh, I don't know.
• 33:19
  Speaker 8: I haven't seen the movie. I am going to check
• 33:21
  Speaker 8: it out and I'll, I'll report back to you, but, uh,
• 33:25
  Speaker 8: I don't know.
• 33:25
  Speaker 4: We'll see.
• 33:25
  Speaker 6: Okay.
• 33:28
  Speaker 1: Fair enough.
• 33:29
  Speaker 8: Moving on to this weekend in theaters, the only movie
• 33:32
  Speaker 8: I want to point out is the new Tom Cruise
• 33:34
  Speaker 8: movie called Digger.
• 33:36
  Speaker 4: This one kind of got.
• 33:38
  Speaker 1: Oh, you know, I worked at Kiss AM. Our engineer
• 33:41
  Speaker 1: was named Digger. Oh. One of the nicest people I
• 33:43
  Speaker 1: ever met.
• 33:43
  Speaker 4: I had a dog named Digger.
• 33:45
  Speaker 1: No, this guy was an old guy, and he lived
• 33:47
  Speaker 1: on Mount Wilson in L.A. where all the transmitters are,
• 33:50
  Speaker 1: just to make sure the station stayed on the air.
• 33:51
  Speaker 1: How loyal is that?
• 33:53
  Speaker 3: Nice.
• 33:53
  Speaker 1: He lived by himself on Mount Wilson.
• 33:56
  Speaker 2: Wow.
• 33:56
  Speaker 8: Great. Yeah, so it's got Tom Cruise, Riz Ahmed, John Goodman,
• 34:00
  Speaker 8: and Jesse Plemons. And basically Tom Cruise plays the most
• 34:04
  Speaker 8: powerful man in the world who embarks on a frantic
• 34:07
  Speaker 8: mission to prove that he's humanity's savior before the disaster
• 34:10
  Speaker 8: that he unleashed destroys everything.
• 34:13
  Speaker 1: Oh.
• 34:13
  Speaker 5: Yes.
• 34:14
  Speaker 1: Okay, that's good. So it's like Frankenstein's lab. We made
• 34:17
  Speaker 1: this monster and it got out.
• 34:19
  Speaker 8: It seems a little over the top. I don't know
• 34:21
  Speaker 8: if they're trying to do some, like, elon parallels here uh.
• 34:25
  Speaker 7: Does tom cruise jump out of a plane at uh
• 34:28
  Speaker 7: any plane jumping he might honestly he's gotta be yeah
• 34:32
  Speaker 7: he loves that uh also another movie this one's a
• 34:35
  Speaker 7: straight to streaming movie but it is available on netflix
• 34:37
  Speaker 7: right now and it is called unabomber.
• 34:42
  Speaker 1: Uh it's an uplifting family movie.
• 34:44
  Speaker 8: Yeah uh is it the unabomber i don't know i
• 34:48
  Speaker 8: think it's just unabomber but It stars Shailene Woodley.
• 34:52
  Speaker 4: And apparently, I don't know how to spell Unabomber. I
• 34:55
  Speaker 4: lost it here.
• 34:57
  Speaker 1: U-N-I-B-O-M-E-R.
• 35:00
  Speaker 4: There we go again.
• 35:03
  Speaker 1: Unabomber.
• 35:04
  Speaker 3: Yes.
• 35:05
  Speaker 8: So that is on Netflix. It stars Shailene Woodley and
• 35:07
  Speaker 8: Jacob Tremblay as Ted Kaczynski. Russell Crowe also stars.
• 35:14
  Speaker 4: In this movie.
• 35:15
  Speaker 1: Is he still alive in jail or is he dead?
• 35:16
  Speaker 4: He is dead. He died three years ago.
• 35:19
  Speaker 8: Okay.
• 35:20
  Speaker 1: Yes.
• 35:21
  Speaker 8: But obviously, this kind of goes over his teenage years
• 35:25
  Speaker 8: and then later the manhunt.
• 35:27
  Speaker 1: So they caught him. You know, they never caught. When
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  Speaker 8: Yeah.
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  Speaker 4: I do know about that one as well.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah. That guy got away with it. Probably dead now.
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  Speaker 1: It's been 40 years.
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  Speaker 8: that is on Netflix. And I am I'm out of time.
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  Speaker 8: So I'm going to skip these.
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  Speaker 3: Last two ones.
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  Speaker 1: Let's welcome in our contestants. We've got Eenie, Meenie, Miney, Moe.
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  Speaker 1: Ben Jammin in Ohio is going to play. Hello, Ben Jammin. Welcome.
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  Speaker 3: No, I know in Ohio.
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  Speaker 2: I'm in New Orleans, man.
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  Speaker 1: Oh, I'm sorry. I screwed that up. That's a bad
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  Speaker 1: job by me. I know. I know who you are.
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  Speaker 1: That's a bad job by me. All right, you're going
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  Speaker 1: to play, and then Lorena, pick one, two, or three. Quickly, Lorena.
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  Speaker 4: Number three.
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  Speaker 1: All right, you did pick Josh in Ohio.
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  Speaker 4: Hello, Josh.
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  Speaker 1: Welcome.
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  Speaker 3: Yo, Ben.
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  Speaker 2: You buried the lead.
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  Speaker 5: I don't know if Elena is really a random number
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  Speaker 5: or not, but I'm happy to be on.
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  Speaker 1: Oh, okay. Okay, well, listen, we will play the game.
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  Speaker 1: Categories are number one and leaderboard, Benjamin in the Bayou.
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  Speaker 1: Which one do you want, Benjamin?
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  Speaker 2: Number one.
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  Speaker 1: Number one. All right, these athletes were all selected number
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  Speaker 1: one overall in their respective drafts. Your name is your buzzer, gentlemen.
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  Speaker 1: If you know the answer, just say your name.
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  Speaker 2: $ 200.
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  Speaker 1: This legend out of St. Vincent St. Mary's High School
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  Speaker 1: appeared on the cover of Sport... Josh.
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  Speaker 5: LeBron James.
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  Speaker 1: That is correct. His junior year in high school. $ 400.
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  Speaker 1: This running back was the first overall pick in 1969.
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  Speaker 1: He's a member of the 2,000-yard club. And he only
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  Speaker 1: needed four. to do it.
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  Speaker 3: Yes?
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  Speaker 2: Ben.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, he got it.
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  Speaker 1: He got O.J. Simpson. Yeah, more famous for cutting people's
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  Speaker 1: heads off, but O.J. Simpson. $ 600. This former number one
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  Speaker 1: overall pick. Former number one pick, Pittsburgh Pirates, is looking
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  Speaker 1: to make his return to playoff baseball for the Yankees
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  Speaker 1: after he spent last season recovering from Tommy John surgery.
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  Speaker 1: He's won some Cy Young awards, at least one.
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  Speaker 2: Ben. Garrett Cole.
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  Speaker 1: Good job by you, Benjamin. All right, $ 800. This former
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  Speaker 1: All-Star and World Series champion was Major League Baseball's first
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  Speaker 1: ever draft pick in 1965. He'd gone on to serve
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  Speaker 1: as a Dodger broadcaster on television and radio. He also
• 40:15
  Speaker 1: saved the American flag while playing for the Chicago Cubs
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  Speaker 1: back in the day. Benjamin.
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  Speaker 2: Al Mundy.
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  Speaker 1: Oh, well, you were close. You want to change that now?
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  Speaker 8: All right.
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  Speaker 1: Anything, our buddy in Ohio? What did you say? No, it's,
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  Speaker 1: all right, we're out of time. It was Rick Monday,
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  Speaker 1: the great Rick Monday. Ben Jammin', you win, and that
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  Speaker 1: means you get a golden tanker. You get a golden tanker.
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  Speaker 1: And some gabagool, and the baba ganoush, and you also
• 40:45
  Speaker 1: get the jambalaya and all that.