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  Speaker 1: Thanks for listening to the best of the Ben Mahler
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  Speaker 2: This is the best of the Ben Maler Show on
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  Speaker 1: So I was at a fork in the road. Is
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  Speaker 1: we have editorial control over what we talk about here?
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  Speaker 1: So I was like, I never want to start with
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  Speaker 1: Lebron again? Not really, not really, they want to start
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  Speaker 1: with Lebron again. So I was like, we go and
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  Speaker 1: this this story caught my attention. So our lead this
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  Speaker 1: hour is from the Theater of the Absurd, The Theater
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  Speaker 1: of the Absurd. Social media parasite Jake Paul as again
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  Speaker 1: for the second time in about a month. In about
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  Speaker 1: a month, Jake Paul the weasel, ye little weasel, chatting
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  Speaker 1: about his plans to go to the NFL. You're saying, hey, Mal,
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  Speaker 1: isn't that the That's like the guy that does the
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  Speaker 1: TikTok the YouTube, right, He's not an athlete. No, no, no,
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  Speaker 1: he's not an at He's like a fake boxer that
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  Speaker 1: A lot of people say he's a fake boxer and
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  Speaker 1: all that. So, uh, yeah, that guy, that's the guy.
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  Speaker 1: So Jake Paul, if you didn't see this, perhaps not
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  Speaker 1: why would you see this? You're an adult? Jake Paul
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  Speaker 1: claiming that NFL teams and coaches have expressed interest in
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  Speaker 1: him now not watching his content. No, no, they've expressed
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  Speaker 1: interest in, according to him, signing him once he's done
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  Speaker 1: with his fugeese boxing hustle sighting. Yeah, he claims is great.
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  Speaker 1: So he's He said he tucked up something called front
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  Speaker 1: office whatever that is, and said that he had conversations
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  Speaker 1: with a couple of franchises. Wink wink, not not. I
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  Speaker 1: added that on Jake Paul, who's from Ohio, from Ohio,
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  Speaker 1: says lifelong, lifelong Cleveland Browns fans. So he's enjoyed the
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  Speaker 1: factory of sadness and his level of football pedigree. You
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  Speaker 1: remember who was all SEC back there in Mississippi back
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  Speaker 1: in the day. No, you don't remember that. I don't
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  Speaker 1: remember that. Did he play at one of the directional
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  Speaker 1: schools somewhere in the mac No, and no, that didn't
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  Speaker 1: that didn't happen. His football career stopped at high school.
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  Speaker 1: What yeah, but he was must have been a great
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  Speaker 1: wide receiver and a linebacker in high school. So I
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  Speaker 1: brothers up because it's just so over the top that
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  Speaker 1: Paul's claiming NFL coaches or executives from two teams reached
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  Speaker 1: out to him and had conversations. He then went on
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  Speaker 1: to argue that the NFL features super mediocrity those are
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  Speaker 1: his words, and many not good athletes. And he claimed
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  Speaker 1: because of his boxing, he has developed speed, strength and
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  Speaker 1: hands that could outperform the players that are being paid
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  Speaker 1: in the NFL. He said, this is Jake Paul. All
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  Speaker 1: those Paul brothers are the same, Jake Paul saying that
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  Speaker 1: he has to do. All he has to do is
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  Speaker 1: practice some routes or roots and he'll be good. Okay,
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  Speaker 1: that is a good jumping off point. Let us discuss
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  Speaker 1: so social media parasite. Jake Paul says, a couple of
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  Speaker 1: NFL teams and coaches have reached out and are interested
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  Speaker 1: in bringing him in and having him play football for them.
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  Speaker 1: Is this legit or clickbait? So I've got my thoughts
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  Speaker 1: on this. I've got Jersey, Mike's son kissed, and fire extinguisher,
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  Speaker 1: and will combine all of these things together and we
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  Speaker 1: are going to have a delicious meatball sandwich is what
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  Speaker 1: we're going to have, all right. So a Jake Paul
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  Speaker 1: claiming that NFL team's more than one reaching out to him.
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  Speaker 1: This is not a roster reality. It is engagement farming
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  Speaker 1: dressed up as opportunity. It's you know it is, it's parina.
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  Speaker 1: It's it's catnip, is what it's like, media cat nem.
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  Speaker 1: Jake Paul lives in a world where attention is the currents,
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  Speaker 1: and he's the federal reserve in that world, the attention world. Right,
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  Speaker 1: that's the currency in that department. Uh. And if coaches
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  Speaker 1: actually called, I'd love to hear names if they did
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  Speaker 1: actually call, which they didn't. If they did, it wasn't
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  Speaker 1: for football. It was like, Hey, my teenager wants to
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  Speaker 1: go viral. Well can you help me out on some
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  Speaker 1: social media marketing? Sure, no problem, what do you need? Okay?
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  Speaker 1: So he's twenty nine, Jake Paul, Which if you know
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  Speaker 1: the comps in the NFL, if you're a running back
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  Speaker 1: at age twenty nine, you're being phased out. That's pretty
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  Speaker 1: much close to retirement age in the NFL, not rookie camp.
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  Speaker 1: It's hey, let's make a wish for the influencers. Nostalgic
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  Speaker 1: high school glory is not is not the college or
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  Speaker 1: pro experience. Unfortunately, it is not. Although I do remember,
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  Speaker 1: and a lot of people forget this, the Chicago Bears
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  Speaker 1: signed Al Bundy back in the late eighties early nineties.
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  Speaker 1: Al Bundy had four touchdowns as the full back for
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  Speaker 1: the Polk High School football team, and the Bears signed him.
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  Speaker 1: And he didn't play much. He was on special teams.
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  Speaker 1: A lot of people don't remember that now. Meanwhile, in
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  Speaker 1: terms of this particular story, the people at Jersey Mice,
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  Speaker 1: we think they might be adding a sick nature Jake
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  Speaker 1: Paul sandwich here and it's the Fluffer Nutter peanut butter
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  Speaker 1: marshmallow fluff, a lot of extra fluff fluffy mcfluff is
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  Speaker 1: on the menu. And sure a pathetic franchise might crave
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  Speaker 1: the publicity, the merch sales, the algorithm juice, all of
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  Speaker 1: that stuff. Now, personally, I'm gonna be Benny bright Side.
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  Speaker 1: I know that there's no chance at NFL coaches actually say, hey,
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  Speaker 1: we'll offer you a contract. However, I would love to
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  Speaker 1: see it. I'm in the content business myself here. I'm
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  Speaker 1: a radio influencer, So I would love to see Jake
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  Speaker 1: Paul get an opportunity, bring him in, run him on
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  Speaker 1: a slant, and let me see a practice squad safety vaporized,
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  Speaker 1: Jake Paul break his jaw again. Boy, would that be fun?
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  Speaker 1: Mayn might be good to watch. Okay, good video clip
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  Speaker 1: go viral. He wouldn't mind be like, Hey, I'm Rambo,
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  Speaker 1: look at me. I made some money on that video.
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  Speaker 1: Look at me now. Right now to Vegas, we go.
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  Speaker 1: Problems problems in Sin City. The Raiders number one overall pick,
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  Speaker 1: Fernando Mendoza still unsigned. Training camp is underway around the NFL.
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  Speaker 1: Rookies have started to report. Within the next couple of days,
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  Speaker 1: pretty much everyone will be done with that part of
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  Speaker 1: it and the veterans will start showing up. And so
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  Speaker 1: Mendoza is one of the last major first round draft
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  Speaker 1: picks that has not signed on the dotted line. Now
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  Speaker 1: we are told through breathless reporting the hold up is
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  Speaker 1: over the structure of the signing bonus, not the total value.
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  Speaker 1: There cannot really be any kind of debate over the
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  Speaker 1: total value. The four year rookie contract is worth fifty
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  Speaker 1: seven point two million dollars. That includes a thirty eight
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  Speaker 1: point one million dollars signing bonus. It's all pigeonholed depending
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  Speaker 1: on where you were drafted. It's called the rookie wage scale.
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  Speaker 1: So that is locked in. That's no haggle, no haggle.
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  Speaker 1: Now Mendoza's campo is attempting to haggle. They want the
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  Speaker 1: entire signing bonus paid up front, they want all paid
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  Speaker 1: up front, and they claim, well, the President's been sent
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  Speaker 1: back in the day during the pandemic six years ago.
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  Speaker 1: Six years ago, Joe Burrow, who was the number one
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  Speaker 1: pick there, got all of his money paid up front.
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  Speaker 1: Now the Raiders have not yet agreed to that payment plan,
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  Speaker 1: which is not a payment plan. So just here's the money.
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  Speaker 1: So we have a bit of a standoff. Now, the
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  Speaker 1: question why are the Raiders reluctant to give Fernando Mendoza
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  Speaker 1: his entire signing bonus up front? So you're getting the
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  Speaker 1: public version. If you want the real truth, you got
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  Speaker 1: to give some some truths to them. Some little listen
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  Speaker 1: of that couple pills there you tell the truth the
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  Speaker 1: silver and black. No that Fernando Mendoza is a developmental quarterback.
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  Speaker 1: But Mahler, he's the top pick of the He's not
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  Speaker 1: a true number one pick. Right where you unwrap a
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  Speaker 1: true number one pick, You unwrap the pick and you
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  Speaker 1: plug and play. That's it, right out of the box.
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  Speaker 1: But he's more of a mystery box Fernando Mendoza here
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  Speaker 1: than an instant franchise savior. Just add water. That's not
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  Speaker 1: who he is. And Tom Brady picked Fernando Mendoza for
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  Speaker 1: a couple of reasons, but Brad didn't always doing. I mean,
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  Speaker 1: the guy's so lost, he wants to get into WWE.
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  Speaker 1: He's completely fed up. You know, he's going on going
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  Speaker 1: on with him. The reason Brady picked for Nanda Mendoza,
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  Speaker 1: I'm convinced it's not because Brady knows that Mendoza is
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  Speaker 1: gonna be good. It's out of fomo right, because what
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  Speaker 1: if he absolutely does turn out to be good, even
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  Speaker 1: though he's not really projected to be that good. The
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  Speaker 1: fear of missing out is why the Raiders picked him
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  Speaker 1: with the top. We gotta take him, we gotta do it. However,
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  Speaker 1: on the Raiders side. You don't haggle over a signing
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  Speaker 1: bonus unless you're worried the kid might become a sun
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  Speaker 1: kissed lemon and you won't get a lemon. Well, you
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  Speaker 1: got a lemon. So this is a classic NFL rookie
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  Speaker 1: scale posturing storyline. And again, the money is fixed, it's
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  Speaker 1: locked in. What you see is what you get in
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  Speaker 1: terms of the money. Obviously, it's different if you spread
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  Speaker 1: the money over payments. There's a little more advantage to
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  Speaker 1: the Raiders. It's timing. I get it. If I'm Fernando Mendoza,
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  Speaker 1: I don't think he's gonna be very good. But if
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  Speaker 1: I was in his shoes because of inflation, I would
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  Speaker 1: want the money right now. Money now is worth much
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  Speaker 1: more than it will be down the line. You can't
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  Speaker 1: blame him and his posse of people riding his coattails
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  Speaker 1: to try to get that money. Take the lump sum,
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  Speaker 1: invest in a portfolio of stock and crypto and real estate,
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  Speaker 1: and you're set for life. Right Yeah, unless you just
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  Speaker 1: want to quit football, he'll show up eventually. You can
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  Speaker 1: go work on Wall Street knock yourself out now. Either way.
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  Speaker 1: Kirk Cousins is opening the season as the Raiders starting
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  Speaker 1: quarterback anyway, So it's like we're really worried about the
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  Speaker 1: backup and how many practice reps Fernando Mendoza is going
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  Speaker 1: to get before he sails off into the wild blue
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  Speaker 1: yonder of just sitting on the bench. Now, speaking of
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  Speaker 1: sitting on the bench, to free agency we go and
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  Speaker 1: a quarterback quarterback entering the market, attention Buffalo, Kansas City, Baltimore,
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  Speaker 1: and Cincinnati. If your star quarterback gets hurt, you have
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  Speaker 1: Jimmy Garoppolo who's back in play. Jimmy Garoppolo played with
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  Speaker 1: the Rams last couple years and Garoppolo had been contemplating
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  Speaker 1: retirement earlier this offseason. But yeah, yeah, he has decided.
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  Speaker 1: Thank God, he's going to bless us with his presence
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  Speaker 1: as he wanders up and down the sidelines there, says
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  Speaker 1: he will continue playing in the right situation. Garoppolo spent
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  Speaker 1: the last two years as a caddie with the Rams
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  Speaker 1: and for Matthew Stafford as the backup there, and Sean
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  Speaker 1: McVay had said, just being polite, that the door is
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  Speaker 1: still open for a reunion. And the Rams, of course wasted.
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  Speaker 1: They flushed the first round pick in the toilet to
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  Speaker 1: take Ty Simpson because they're not that bright over there sometimes.
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  Speaker 1: And Garoppolo, at thirty four years old, entering his thirteenth
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  Speaker 1: NFL season, if if he finds a team to take him.
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  Speaker 1: Most known for his days with the forty nine Ers,
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  Speaker 1: and at one point when he played for the Patriots,
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  Speaker 1: he was so upsetting to Tom Brady. The Patriots gave
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  Speaker 1: Garoppolo away. They just gave Hi away as well, that
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  Speaker 1: Brady didn't like this guy because he's talented, and so
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  Speaker 1: they gave him to the forty nine Ers after for
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  Speaker 1: years saying well, Garppolo's worth two first round picks. So
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  Speaker 1: then he went to after the Niners and went to
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  Speaker 1: the Raiders and recently with the Rams. All right, question,
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  Speaker 1: So Jimmy Garoppolo planning to continue his NFL career after
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  Speaker 1: contemplating retirement. So what is the first thing you'd tell
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  Speaker 1: him if he called you today and said, you know,
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  Speaker 1: I need some advice? Well, who you're you gonna call
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  Speaker 1: you need advice? Well, let me call the Ben Maller
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  Speaker 1: Show for advice, because that's really who's got the great advice. Really,
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  Speaker 1: The Ben Maler Show overnight talk radio has all the
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  Speaker 1: answers we've got the headphones, we've got the microphone, the
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  Speaker 1: whole thing, all right. So if he called me today,
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  Speaker 1: I would tell him to pull up to the intersection
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  Speaker 1: and you just sit there and you wait, you wait
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  Speaker 1: for that green light, and you just twiddle your thumbs. Currently,
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  Speaker 1: you sit in a state of suspended animation, which is
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  Speaker 1: perfect considering his career has been pretty much in suspended
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  Speaker 1: animation as the backup with the Rams last cap yer.
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  Speaker 1: So Jimmy's strategy is rather simple, as the career counselor
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  Speaker 1: the strategy is, you sit still, you look all pretty
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  Speaker 1: for the ladies, and you pray. Somebody's starter goes snap,
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  Speaker 1: crackle pop mentioned Kansas City Buffalo go down the big board.
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  Speaker 1: There the usual suspect Baltimore, of the top quarterbacks in
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  Speaker 1: the NFL, and all of a sudden, Patriots Drake May
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  Speaker 1: gets hurt. All of a sudden, some ligaments start tearing.
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  Speaker 1: Who are you gonna call Jimmy Garoppolo his entire career
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  Speaker 1: at this point, he's now in the break glass in
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  Speaker 1: case of panic stage of his career. Nobody actually wants
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  Speaker 1: to be the fire extinguisher. He's the fire extinguisher. So
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  Speaker 1: that's where he is right now. The key phrase is
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  Speaker 1: the right situation. That's the way it's being passed on
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  Speaker 1: that Garppol's looking for the right situation. So in order
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  Speaker 1: to get the right situation, he has to hibernate until
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  Speaker 1: a contender panics because their franchise quarterback is in the
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  Speaker 1: injury tent, and then all of a sudden, he slides
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  Speaker 1: on in and gets an opportunity. Now, if that fails,
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  Speaker 1: if he gets tired and can't stand waiting anymore, well
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  Speaker 1: then just contact all the teams, and the first team
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  Speaker 1: that hasn't googled Jimmy garoppolo injury history will be the
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  Speaker 1: team that wants to add Jimmy Garoppolo, and so they'll
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  Speaker 1: be the team that he ends up with.
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  Speaker 1: so much to the joy of the curmudgeon in Minnesota.
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  Speaker 1: We are going to begin here this hour with Lebron
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  Speaker 1: Watch as the world turns another new deep state theory
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  Speaker 1: on the great delay from King James. So we're hearing
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  Speaker 1: now the chatter, the chatter that Lebron James delayed announcing
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  Speaker 1: his free agent destination, his decision. Why why? Because he's annoyed,
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  Speaker 1: He's irritated. Who's he upset with? Is he upset with you? No?
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  Speaker 1: He don't know who you are? Is he upset with me?
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  Speaker 3: No?
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  Speaker 1: He has no idea who I am? No? No, No.
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  Speaker 1: Lebron is on the war path against the big Kahuna
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  Speaker 1: of bouncy ball, half man, half alien, NBA Commissioner Adam Silver.
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  Speaker 1: What she is? This is the latest theory from the
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  Speaker 1: deep State, and it's Adam Silver. Public comments have backfired
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  Speaker 1: and they've annoyed the holy one. So if you didn't
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  Speaker 1: hear about this, perhaps not, maybe not. The theory goes
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  Speaker 1: like this, I'll keep it simple. It's not that hard.
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  Speaker 1: It's overnight talk radio. Lebron's camp or his posse was
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  Speaker 1: ready to make an announcement. Lebron James had picked his team,
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  Speaker 1: and then while he was at that price gouging fan
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  Speaker 1: fest thing in New York last week, he changed his mind.
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  Speaker 1: Not that he change the team he wants to play for. However,
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  Speaker 1: he was upset with Adam Silver and his commentary. The
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  Speaker 1: commissioner said the NBA schedule announcement for Marquee Games was delayed.
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  Speaker 1: The TV networks would not would not approve the schedule.
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  Speaker 1: They were waiting on Lebron. So Adam Silver's like, hey,
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  Speaker 1: we like Lebron to sign soon so we can release
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  Speaker 1: the schedule. Silver's remarks did not sit well with Lebron's
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  Speaker 1: posse and that led to some pushback and intentionally slowing
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  Speaker 1: the timeline rather rather than announce a decision immediately. So
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  Speaker 1: that is a good jumping off point. Let us discuss
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  Speaker 1: this is now two days in a row Lebron conspiracies.
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  Speaker 1: We had Dufus mclufus from the Miami Heat who accidentally
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  Speaker 1: clicked the wrong button and posted the video link to
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  Speaker 1: a Lebron welcome back to Miami news conference. Now we've
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  Speaker 1: got this latest chapter Lebron's waiting as its payback. So
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  Speaker 1: the question, is Lebron James sending a message to Adam
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  Speaker 1: Silber by dragging this free agent decision out? Do you
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  Speaker 1: believe the commentary that's being whispered in hush tones about Lebron?
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  Speaker 1: So my observations, I've got El Presidente, Dragon Fruit, and
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  Speaker 1: Smokey Bear, and we'll combine all of these things together.
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  Speaker 1: We'll put them all together, and we're gonna climb the
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  Speaker 1: corporate ladder, because we are at the very bottom of
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  Speaker 1: the Fox corporate ladder here doing the overnight show. So
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  Speaker 1: number on one, what what what?
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  Speaker 2: What?
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  Speaker 1: Hitting on all cellars? So absolutely is Lebron sending a
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  Speaker 1: message to Adam Silver by dragging his free agentcision out? Absolutely?
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  Speaker 1: Welcome to the annual, Lebron reminds the league, who sets
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  Speaker 1: the tempo, who wears the pants. It's a ritual when
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  Speaker 1: Lebron's contract is up. Now, Lebron thinks the world revolves
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  Speaker 1: around him as he is the reigning president Dente of
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  Speaker 1: his own fan club, and he has this song playing
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  Speaker 1: on the boombox there, Carly Simon's You're So Vain, playing
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  Speaker 1: on repeat, over and over and over. And Silver didn't
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  Speaker 1: even cross the line. Here's the great part about this.
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  Speaker 1: So it's not rocket science. Adam Silver did not cross
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  Speaker 1: the line. He just stated the rather obvious position of
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  Speaker 1: the NBA. It's been the business model my entire life.
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  Speaker 1: The TV networks are the sugar daddy, and they want
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  Speaker 1: the marquee stars on their games on the on the broadcast,
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  Speaker 1: the national broadcast, and so they get to hand pick
• 20:25
  Speaker 1: which games they want. And Silver made one offhand comment,
• 20:30
  Speaker 1: and it's totally plausible that Lebron snapped. He's always on
• 20:37
  Speaker 1: social media, even while he's golfing, He's on social media
• 20:40
  Speaker 1: and all that stuff. And so, hey, listen, I'm gonna
• 20:43
  Speaker 1: I'm gonna slap on top of Adam Silver. I'm gonna
• 20:46
  Speaker 1: slap a Spotlight processing fee on top of Adam Silver.
• 20:50
  Speaker 1: He didn't crave the Spotlight. No, he didn't just crave it.
• 20:54
  Speaker 1: He owns it, Lebron. He actually leases out the Spotlight
• 20:58
  Speaker 1: short term rentals. You know, how you go to the beach,
• 21:01
  Speaker 1: you can runt a bike or a surfboard or some
• 21:03
  Speaker 1: chairs or something like that same thing. So when when
• 21:06
  Speaker 1: his grifter agent Rich Paul announced that Lebron's decision will
• 21:10
  Speaker 1: not be rushed, will not be rushed, I thought, well,
• 21:13
  Speaker 1: first thing, I thought, well, maybe Rich Paul needs to
• 21:15
  Speaker 1: have Lebron's coattails washed because he's been holding onto them
• 21:18
  Speaker 1: for so long. And then Rich Paul said, well, he
• 21:21
  Speaker 1: strictly runs on his timetable. Make no mistake, that was
• 21:25
  Speaker 1: not just the spin cycle, the pr spin cycle. That
• 21:28
  Speaker 1: was a dog whistle, a direct dog whistle to the commissioner,
• 21:32
  Speaker 1: Adam Silver and his relatives back home on his native
• 21:36
  Speaker 1: planets Zimbo and Limbo. That was what that was. A
• 21:40
  Speaker 1: lot of people don't know that Adam Silver was raised
• 21:42
  Speaker 1: on Zimbo and then he lived on Limbo for a while.
• 21:44
  Speaker 1: All right, now, Page two to video games we go
• 21:48
  Speaker 1: Where Victor wem b Niyama, the guy that choked in
• 21:51
  Speaker 1: the NBA Finals. Victor wem bon Yama has been unveiled
• 21:55
  Speaker 1: as the cover boy, the cover athlete for the standard
• 21:59
  Speaker 1: BA Basic edition of the NBA two K twenty seven game.
• 22:05
  Speaker 1: And what does that mean? He becomes the first San
• 22:08
  Speaker 1: Antonio Spurs player to appear on the franchise's global standard cover.
• 22:14
  Speaker 1: Take that Tim Duncan, Tony Parker, Monugenobly and all you
• 22:20
  Speaker 1: guys you didn't get on there? Now the reveal sparking,
• 22:24
  Speaker 1: like everything else, a viral reaction, some pushback. Now, who
• 22:30
  Speaker 1: do you think was upset that Victor went by? Yama,
• 22:33
  Speaker 1: paced the field and is now the cover boy for
• 22:36
  Speaker 1: the NBA video game. That is correct, The Knicks fanboys
• 22:42
  Speaker 1: not happy. Oh, don't want to upset those New Yorkers.
• 22:45
  Speaker 1: They've still got that afterglow from the little Championship. They're
• 22:48
  Speaker 1: piece of metal. Even actor and super Nick freeloader Ben
• 22:54
  Speaker 1: Stiller responded to the announcement, got on his soapbox with
• 22:59
  Speaker 1: a single troll emoji a jab referencing New York's victory
• 23:05
  Speaker 1: over San Antonio. There with wem Banyama missing a wide
• 23:09
  Speaker 1: open look that would have won one of the games
• 23:11
  Speaker 1: in the NBA Finals and was on the court while
• 23:14
  Speaker 1: his team absolutely melted like butter in a pan, blowing
• 23:20
  Speaker 1: the biggest lead ever in NBA Finals history. So while
• 23:23
  Speaker 1: many many are celebrating, I don't know if that's the
• 23:26
  Speaker 1: right word. When BA Yama getting on the cover, the
• 23:30
  Speaker 1: others arguing that Jalen Brunson, Jalen Brunson deserved the honor
• 23:35
  Speaker 1: after leading the Knickerbockers to the NBA Championship. And so
• 23:39
  Speaker 1: this has created a debate over who should represent the
• 23:44
  Speaker 1: video game franchise. So the question did Jalen Brunson get screwed?
• 23:48
  Speaker 1: Did he deserve the NBA two K cover here over
• 23:52
  Speaker 1: the Parisian prodigy Victor Wembanyama. So the way I look
• 23:57
  Speaker 1: at it, after deliberating the available advance, if the Knicks
• 24:00
  Speaker 1: got the confetti, they had that fat lady steal the
• 24:03
  Speaker 1: trash can and Wemby got cover art. That's what That's
• 24:07
  Speaker 1: what happened, right, Everybody calmed down, all right, this is
• 24:12
  Speaker 1: a pomegranate to dragon fruit debate is what it is.
• 24:16
  Speaker 1: Brunson deserved to be the Finals MVP. He was given
• 24:20
  Speaker 1: the Finals MVP trophy. But two K is not selling, right,
• 24:26
  Speaker 1: It's not selling merit, it's selling mythology. And Victor Wembanyama
• 24:31
  Speaker 1: is the new religion of the NBA. That's what Andrew
• 24:35
  Speaker 1: and Bakersfield told me. A championship this is gonna blow
• 24:39
  Speaker 1: your way is a Team award. The cover of a
• 24:42
  Speaker 1: video game is an individual business decision. Now, if you're
• 24:46
  Speaker 1: really complaining it's not fair, not fair, go read you know,
• 24:53
  Speaker 1: read the New York Times and go watch PBS. Knock
• 24:56
  Speaker 1: yourself out right, this is a business decision. Brunson is
• 25:00
  Speaker 1: a champion, congratulations. Wemby is the NBA's spectacle. And in
• 25:06
  Speaker 1: the video game world, from what I understand, all right,
• 25:09
  Speaker 1: the way I've heard it over the years, spectacle beat
• 25:13
  Speaker 1: substance every single day of the week and twice on Sunday.
• 25:17
  Speaker 1: So did Jalen Brunson dominate in the playoffs playoffs, sure, absolutely,
• 25:24
  Speaker 1: But Victor Wembanyama dominated the global conversation. And so if
• 25:29
  Speaker 1: you're in that room and you have to make that decision,
• 25:33
  Speaker 1: and there's a lot of people saying, oh, this guy
• 25:34
  Speaker 1: should be on the cover, that guy should be on
• 25:36
  Speaker 1: the cover, you're simply betting that Victor Wembanyama's status is
• 25:42
  Speaker 1: that of a global icon and he's gonna move more product,
• 25:46
  Speaker 1: more units of the video game. Then Jalen brunts that's it, period. Stop.
• 25:52
  Speaker 1: This is not that hard. It really isn't. It's just
• 25:58
  Speaker 1: the way it operates. Right now. Final points the final
• 26:00
  Speaker 1: point now to the complaint department. To the complaint department.
• 26:06
  Speaker 1: And this was sent to me by a listener named Steve,
• 26:10
  Speaker 1: who is in Seattle. By the way, I thought we
• 26:12
  Speaker 1: only had no Stradinis left in Seattle, but apparently we
• 26:14
  Speaker 1: have Steve. So he was all up in arms as
• 26:19
  Speaker 1: a WNBA story, which will make Eileen in San Francisco
• 26:21
  Speaker 1: very happy. So the WNBA and the Women's National Basketball
• 26:26
  Speaker 1: Association player something. No, no, it's the Women's National Basketball
• 26:31
  Speaker 1: Player Association WNBPA. I've never heard of that. Apparently that's
• 26:35
  Speaker 1: a union. So they held a powwow, They had a
• 26:38
  Speaker 1: webinar thing, a video meeting, and this thing went all
• 26:42
  Speaker 1: over the place because the players of the WNBA are
• 26:44
  Speaker 1: not happy. Can you believe they're not happy? I thought
• 26:47
  Speaker 1: they were always happy. What are they unhappy about? They
• 26:49
  Speaker 1: got this massive race. Well, apparently the players are complaining.
• 26:52
  Speaker 1: They're very concerned about the increase in racist, hateful and
• 26:58
  Speaker 1: abusive message is directed at them online. And so they
• 27:04
  Speaker 1: went to the union that they're part of it, and
• 27:08
  Speaker 1: said we must do something. We must This is not peachy,
• 27:12
  Speaker 1: this is not we must do something about this, all right,
• 27:16
  Speaker 1: So we're here as a think tank. We're gonna activate
• 27:20
  Speaker 1: the Malar think tank. The question do you have any wisdom,
• 27:24
  Speaker 1: any wisdom for the w NBA players who are upset
• 27:28
  Speaker 1: with social media trolls they're not happy? Well, we did
• 27:34
  Speaker 1: activate the mal Of think tank. And it's pretty simple. Look,
• 27:37
  Speaker 1: the Internet is full of keyboard Neanderthals spewing raw sewage.
• 27:45
  Speaker 1: That's just the way it is, just the way it is. Right.
• 27:48
  Speaker 1: They may feel big for five seconds and all that.
• 27:50
  Speaker 1: You don't need to read it to know its stinks.
• 27:54
  Speaker 1: You don't need to read the sewage to know the
• 27:56
  Speaker 1: stewage stinks. And commplaining in a meeting is not the
• 28:02
  Speaker 1: brightest thing in the world. Because those union reps don't
• 28:06
  Speaker 1: control social media. The people that run social media don't
• 28:10
  Speaker 1: control social media. It's like a game of whack a mole.
• 28:13
  Speaker 1: You cannot win, right, you cannot win, And so complaining
• 28:17
  Speaker 1: in meetings because your feelings are hurt. It's not going
• 28:21
  Speaker 1: to change human nature. Some people are just awful a holes.
• 28:26
  Speaker 1: That's it. That's my deep thought of the day. The
• 28:29
  Speaker 1: fix is simple. You starve starvation, diet, you starve the trolls.
• 28:35
  Speaker 1: You do it. You're letting randos with cartoon avatars, live
• 28:42
  Speaker 1: rent free in your little head. What are you doing? Seriously,
• 28:46
  Speaker 1: what are you doing? A victim? Now? I learned as
• 28:49
  Speaker 1: a boy back in the day. I learned from one
• 28:51
  Speaker 1: of my heroes as a child, one of the very
• 28:53
  Speaker 1: influential people in my life when I was growing up.
• 28:58
  Speaker 1: I learned from Smokey Bear, who is absolutely right. Only
• 29:01
  Speaker 1: you can prevent those social media wildfires. Only you can.
• 29:05
  Speaker 1: Only you can stop throwing logs of attention onto the buzz.
• 29:09
  Speaker 1: In fact, just this story of you complaining, you WNBA
• 29:14
  Speaker 1: players complaining about the hateful, abusive messages on social media
• 29:18
  Speaker 1: will give birth to a whole new army of schmucks.
• 29:22
  Speaker 1: So way to go. You're the godmother of the next
• 29:27
  Speaker 1: generation of schmucks. So here's the advice. Log out, delete
• 29:34
  Speaker 1: the apps, go out, touch some grass, Smoke some grass
• 29:37
  Speaker 1: if you want focus on your game or whatever you're doing. There.
• 29:41
  Speaker 4: Now you say, well, I need my sponsorship, but it's
• 29:43
  Speaker 4: not fair. I need my sponsorship. But okay, I got
• 29:46
  Speaker 4: a solution to that too, Malard, think tank. Fine, here's
• 29:50
  Speaker 4: what you do, miss big shot. Hire a social media
• 29:53
  Speaker 4: manager to handle your engagement farming so you never actually
• 29:57
  Speaker 4: have to see the raw sewage and smell it and
• 29:59
  Speaker 4: look at the try all that problem solve, problem solve
• 30:03
  Speaker 4: your mental health is if that's what you're worried about,
• 30:06
  Speaker 4: preserved your.
• 30:07
  Speaker 1: Bank account is intact. Congratulations on that. The trolls, and
• 30:11
  Speaker 1: I learned I don't go on social media during that.
• 30:13
  Speaker 1: I'm like, I'm the lowest part of the entertainment totem
• 30:17
  Speaker 1: poll overnight sports talk radio. Does it get any lower
• 30:20
  Speaker 1: than that? And I get people who are schmucks and
• 30:23
  Speaker 1: a holes and say all kinds of offensive, anti Semitic things
• 30:26
  Speaker 1: to me. So if I get that right, If I'm
• 30:28
  Speaker 1: getting that, obviously gonna be bad for you too. I
• 30:31
  Speaker 1: don't go on there during the day. I only it's
• 30:33
  Speaker 1: a tool I use during the show, and that's it.
• 30:36
  Speaker 1: So the troll I learned this. The troll only wins
• 30:40
  Speaker 1: if you keep giving them an audience. So just block
• 30:44
  Speaker 1: delegate if you want to have your accounts on there,
• 30:47
  Speaker 1: or just get off the grid all together. That's it.
• 30:50
  Speaker 1: It's not that difficult. Some things in life are very difficult.
• 30:53
  Speaker 1: Some things there are no solutions to. This is something
• 30:55
  Speaker 1: that is very easy. It's the same as baseball. For
• 30:59
  Speaker 1: some reason deciding to ban the shift. You didn't need
• 31:01
  Speaker 1: to ban the shift, just butt but but but but but.
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• 31:23
  Speaker 3: At SEC Media Days this week, Kirby Smart for a
• 31:26
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• 31:29
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• 31:31
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• 31:33
  Speaker 1: Yes, I do believe it will eventually happen. Everything will
• 31:36
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• 31:41
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• 31:44
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• 31:46
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• 31:49
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• 31:52
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• 31:54
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• 31:57
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• 32:01
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• 32:01
  Speaker 3: Anyway, next earlier this earlier this week, Cardinals third baseman
• 32:05
  Speaker 3: Nolan Aernato became just the sixth player in Major League
• 32:08
  Speaker 3: history with at least two thousand hits, three hundred and
• 32:11
  Speaker 3: fifty home runs, and ten Gold Gloves. Ben, do you
• 32:14
  Speaker 3: think Arnatto is already a Hall of Famer?
• 32:18
  Speaker 1: Yeah, I've never thought of him as Hey, this guy's
• 32:20
  Speaker 1: clearly a Hall of Fame player. He's going to end
• 32:23
  Speaker 1: up in the Baseball Hall of Fame though he's He's
• 32:25
  Speaker 1: accumulated enough stats. It feels like it's an if Scott
• 32:29
  Speaker 1: Roland is in the Hall of Fame, Scott Effing Roland
• 32:32
  Speaker 1: is a Hall of Famer, then Nolan Aernado is a
• 32:35
  Speaker 1: Hall of Famer. He's gonna get in next show.
• 32:37
  Speaker 3: Hey, Otani hasn't pitched since June eleventh, while he's been
• 32:40
  Speaker 3: dealing with an ailing knee. Before the season, Otani had
• 32:43
  Speaker 3: set a goal to win a Cy Young that's not
• 32:45
  Speaker 3: going to be happening this season. Do you think it'll
• 32:47
  Speaker 3: ever happen for Otania?
• 32:49
  Speaker 1: No, because everyone seems to be in agreement here that
• 32:52
  Speaker 1: he's not going to pitch more than maybe one more season,
• 32:56
  Speaker 1: possibly not even that, Like this could be his last year,
• 32:59
  Speaker 1: last year. So if that's the case, the no, he's
• 33:03
  Speaker 1: the limited shelf live as a pitchers. It's gonna settle
• 33:05
  Speaker 1: in and hit forty home runs a year for the
• 33:08
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• 33:10
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  Speaker 1: No Cool, We're doing this bit a long time. A
• 34:08
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• 34:09
  Speaker 3: The King Rory would like to know. Hi, Rory, would
• 34:12
  Speaker 3: you rather pan for gold or dig for fossils?
• 34:19
  Speaker 1: Well, I have panned for gold before. Do you know
• 34:22
  Speaker 1: that I have?
• 34:24
  Speaker 3: I've done that like at it like at like Knotsberry Farm.
• 34:26
  Speaker 1: Yes, not's very farm. I panned for gold and I
• 34:29
  Speaker 1: got some. I did not enjoy it, although I feel
• 34:33
  Speaker 1: like I'd enjoyed that more. The dusting away dirt to
• 34:38
  Speaker 1: try to get the dinosaur bone sounds like it just
• 34:40
  Speaker 1: seems like a nightmare to me. So I would go
• 34:43
  Speaker 1: panning for gold Lorena.
• 34:45
  Speaker 5: I have also panned for gold, but it wasn't at
• 34:48
  Speaker 5: Knotsbery Farm. It was up in Weaverville, like northern California.
• 34:52
  Speaker 6: Where the gold mine actually was gold. Like, Yeah, so
• 34:56
  Speaker 6: I did it up there. It was actually really fun.
• 34:57
  Speaker 6: I enjoyed it. I didn't get much gold, but it
• 35:00
  Speaker 6: was a cool experience.
• 35:01
  Speaker 5: I'm not a big fan of dust and dirt in
• 35:03
  Speaker 5: my nose, but I do think fossil digging would be
• 35:06
  Speaker 5: a fun new experience.
• 35:08
  Speaker 1: Now, do you know two random things that came out
• 35:10
  Speaker 1: of the gold Rush that are still used today? No,
• 35:14
  Speaker 1: the one armed Bandit slot machine came out of the
• 35:17
  Speaker 1: gold Rush, and denim jeans oh.
• 35:20
  Speaker 6: Stop, that's fun facts. Yeah, but we're already.
• 35:24
  Speaker 1: Playing this coop.
• 35:26
  Speaker 3: I have also panned for gold at a summer camp
• 35:30
  Speaker 3: called Meadow Oaks in Calabasas, California.
• 35:34
  Speaker 6: We should all go gold panning together.
• 35:36
  Speaker 1: It is no, we won't Kardashian territory out there in
• 35:39
  Speaker 1: calabass Yes, yes, it was quite the fancy summer camp.
• 35:44
  Speaker 2: Uh.
• 35:45
  Speaker 3: I would pick that one for all the same reasons
• 35:47
  Speaker 3: you guys already said.
• 35:49
  Speaker 1: Okay, so we're screwing the dinosaurs. We would like to
• 35:52
  Speaker 1: pan for gold. No dinosaur, No dinosaur for you. What's next?
• 35:56
  Speaker 1: Just ask Ben? Your questions are answers for the rest.
• 36:00
  Speaker 3: Of the hour. Alf the alien Opiner would like to know,
• 36:02
  Speaker 3: I elf, what posters did you have on your walls
• 36:05
  Speaker 3: growing up?
• 36:08
  Speaker 1: Uh?
• 36:09
  Speaker 3: What did?
• 36:09
  Speaker 1: I had a Reggie Jackson poster when I was a kid,
• 36:13
  Speaker 1: Mister October, I had a bunch of you know those penets.
• 36:18
  Speaker 1: You know you're younger than me, but they had these
• 36:19
  Speaker 1: pennants that were popular.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah.
• 36:21
  Speaker 1: Yeah, I wrapped my room in those. I had pictures
• 36:23
  Speaker 1: of ballparks like that. I was a nerd. I had
• 36:26
  Speaker 1: a bunch of that stuff. What about you, Lorena? Any
• 36:28
  Speaker 1: posters when you're growing up.
• 36:30
  Speaker 5: I'm trying to remember the name of the magazine. I
• 36:32
  Speaker 5: believe it was like Tiger Beat, so it would be
• 36:34
  Speaker 5: like a Tiger Beat yeah.
• 36:37
  Speaker 6: And it was like like a you know, like a
• 36:40
  Speaker 6: thing for teenagers.
• 36:41
  Speaker 5: And on the inside you would have different posters of
• 36:43
  Speaker 5: Miley Cyrus and the Jonas brothers and Selina Gomez and
• 36:47
  Speaker 5: they would be on my walls.
• 36:48
  Speaker 1: Okay, you got you cool.
• 36:51
  Speaker 3: I had Kobe posters Kobe oh oh, and like the
• 37:00
  Speaker 3: Rock and Stone Cold Steve Austin, Oh, that's cool. And
• 37:05
  Speaker 3: then and then before that, when I was younger, I
• 37:07
  Speaker 3: had like a bunch of Elvis like memorabilia stuff.
• 37:11
  Speaker 1: Have you been to Graceland?
• 37:12
  Speaker 2: I have.
• 37:13
  Speaker 6: I didn't know you were an Elvis lover.
• 37:16
  Speaker 3: Uh yeah, yeah, once upon a time.
• 37:18
  Speaker 1: See Elvis will in Vegas.
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  Speaker 6: That's a good idea.
• 37:21
  Speaker 1: Okay, I was choke. What's that? As man? I was
• 37:25
  Speaker 1: not serious. Your questions are answers? Go ahead? Cool please?
• 37:29
  Speaker 3: Uh ferd Dog would like to know.
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  Speaker 1: Hi, Fergie.
• 37:32
  Speaker 3: Uh do you have a legal record?
• 37:36
  Speaker 1: Do I have a criminal record? Uh? No, I have
• 37:39
  Speaker 1: not been Uh there's no. To my knowledge, I have
• 37:42
  Speaker 1: not been arrested. I have had a few incidents, but
• 37:47
  Speaker 1: I was not arrested. What about you, Lorena? Yes, oh
• 37:50
  Speaker 1: look at that the bad girl, bad girl, bad girl.
• 37:53
  Speaker 1: What are you gonna do when the bad girl comes
• 37:54
  Speaker 1: from you?
• 37:55
  Speaker 6: It was very upsetting, I understand, but.
• 37:58
  Speaker 1: You survived and everything's.
• 38:00
  Speaker 5: I will never do anything wrong ever again in my life.
• 38:06
  Speaker 1: No.
• 38:06
  Speaker 3: I have never been arrested.
• 38:08
  Speaker 1: Only me, only you, You and marthas you and Martha Stewart.
• 38:13
  Speaker 1: You're right there, fascinating. All right, what's next? It's ask Ben.
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  Speaker 1: Your questions are answers for the rest of the hour.
• 38:23
  Speaker 3: I have another one from auth the alien opine arch
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  Speaker 1: And it's gonna upset people. Cool. I'm gonna get an email.
• 38:29
  Speaker 1: Cool always.
• 38:31
  Speaker 3: Well, I'll submit better questions.
• 38:33
  Speaker 1: Wow.
• 38:34
  Speaker 3: Have you ever had to confront a coworker about either
• 38:37
  Speaker 3: bad breath or body odor?
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  Speaker 1: No? What I do is I just talk trash behind
• 38:42
  Speaker 1: their back. I do not think them. We rip them
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  Speaker 1: and make fun of them, but we never do it
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  Speaker 1: to their face. What about you, Lorena?
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  Speaker 6: I try to make it really obvious. I'll walk into
• 38:52
  Speaker 6: the room and be like, oh my gosh, what smell
• 38:57
  Speaker 6: and they'll be like, what I like it smells?
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  Speaker 2: Like a.
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  Speaker 6: No, I go hard and then I get him out
• 39:03
  Speaker 6: and I spram with on the way out.
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  Speaker 1: I been in radio for a long time, and there
• 39:08
  Speaker 1: aren't I don't want to throw all board ops in
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  Speaker 1: the same basket, but some of the board ops. Let's
• 39:14
  Speaker 1: just say soap is optional. What about you, kop?
• 39:17
  Speaker 3: Yes, uh, not at this job, but at a previous job.
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  Speaker 3: And at one point the boss of the company, like
• 39:25
  Speaker 3: the owner's dad, actually bought like medical grade deodorant and
• 39:30
  Speaker 3: left it on.
• 39:31
  Speaker 1: His That's bad. I would say. Dragon breath is even worse, though,
• 39:37
  Speaker 1: if you're working in close quarters and somebody has dragon breath,
• 39:41
  Speaker 1: that's terrible too. Yes, all right, what is next? Just
• 39:45
  Speaker 1: ask Ben your questions all answers. If you like it,
• 39:48
  Speaker 1: it's every week of this time, but you don't like
• 39:50
  Speaker 1: it's only once a week. Who cares? Don't be a loser,
• 39:51
  Speaker 1: what's next?
• 39:52
  Speaker 3: In a related question, late night drug tester would like
• 39:55
  Speaker 3: to know I've heard him. Do you keep a pack
• 39:58
  Speaker 3: of gum or mints in your car?
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  Speaker 1: Yes? I always have. I'm never that far away from
• 40:03
  Speaker 1: mouthwash or mince, so absolutely. What about you, Lorena, No,
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  Speaker 1: I do not, all right, cool.
• 40:10
  Speaker 3: I used to keep gum because I really like gum.
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  Speaker 3: But I haven't been in a long time. I need
• 40:15
  Speaker 3: to get back to doing that.
• 40:16
  Speaker 1: All right. Yeah, I was a little thing of mouthwash.
• 40:18
  Speaker 1: It helps, you know, you don't know who you might
• 40:20
  Speaker 1: run into. Somebody, yeah fresh.
• 40:22
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