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Hour 2 - Judgement Day · The Ben Maller Show

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  Speaker 1: That's baseball, Susan. It's our number two. As we jump
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  Speaker 1: into the fray here on the Ben Maller Show, buy
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  Speaker 1: or sell that Yankees captain Aaron Judge can immediately look
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  Speaker 1: like himself after missing three months. He chose not to
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  Speaker 1: go to a rehab assignment to work out the kinks. Also,
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  Speaker 1: why should the Braves marry? Ronald Acuna Jr., who wants
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  Speaker 1: a new contract when they can date him for two
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  Speaker 1: more years. He's got a couple of options on his contract.
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  Speaker 1: And in broadcasting, how many rides on the NBC Peacock
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  Speaker 1: does Jack Collinsworth get before we admit that the family
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  Speaker 1: name is doing the heavy lifting here? He got another
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  Speaker 1: gig after stinking at his two previous jobs. We'll talk
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  Speaker 1: about all that and more, and we'll do it right
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  Speaker 1: about now. Here it is, hour number two. Well, it
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  Speaker 1: is Judgment Day in baseball. Did you know that? You
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  Speaker 1: didn't know? You didn't realize that? Welcome in the beginning
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  Speaker 1: on this later on as Christian Gonzalez gets the big money,
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  Speaker 1: big money, big money.
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  Speaker 1: It's a massive contract, a record for a defense back
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  Speaker 1: from the New England Patriots. So he is locked up
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  Speaker 1: as the season begins tomorrow in Seattle. But our lead
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  Speaker 1: this hour is from the Bronx. And that's where we go.
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  Speaker 1: As the news is in, if you've not heard, the
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  Speaker 1: judge is back in the chambers. The Yankees, the New
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  Speaker 1: York Yankees. Maybe you missed this. The Yankees have reinstated
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  Speaker 1: Aaron Judge. El Capitan is back from the 60-day injury list.
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  Speaker 1: We used to call it the DL back before the
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  Speaker 1: Wokesters took over baseball. Had a broken rib. Sidelined him
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  Speaker 1: since May 31st. Remember when Aaron Boone said it would
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  Speaker 1: just be a couple of weeks and Judge would be back?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: Anyway, ended up missing more than three months of the
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  Speaker 1: Yankees season. Missed all of June, all of July, and
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  Speaker 1: all of August. And here we are now. Judge is
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  Speaker 1: expected in the Yankee lineup on Tuesday night when the
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  Speaker 1: Yankees open up a three-game homestand against the doormats of baseball,
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  Speaker 1: the Colorado Rockies. So Judge had been with the Yankees.
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  Speaker 1: They were on a West Coast swing. And he was
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  Speaker 1: out there and jumped directly onto the active roster. That's
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  Speaker 1: where the story is. That's where the story is on
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  Speaker 1: this because, well, Judge is back. Who cares? But there
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  Speaker 1: was this great debate because the Yankee front office wanted...
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  Speaker 1: Aaron Judge to go on a minor league rehab assignment,
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  Speaker 1: something that was important to management. Judge said, Ixnay on
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  Speaker 1: the AAA. He didn't go. He said he didn't need it.
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  Speaker 1: So he ends up winning in the end. That is
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  Speaker 1: a good jumping off point. Let us discuss the question.
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  Speaker 1: Buy or sell that the Yankees captain Aaron Judge can
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  Speaker 1: immediately look for like himself, after missing three months of
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  Speaker 1: the baseball season, back in the Yankee lineup on Tuesday night.
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  Speaker 1: He's just going to go back in there and be
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  Speaker 1: the old Aaron Judge. I've got Hungry Man Homestyle Meatloaf Dinner,
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  Speaker 1: The Exorcist, and Frequent Flyer Program. And we will combine
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  Speaker 1: all of these things together, and we are going to
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  Speaker 1: have a candid microphone segment is what we're going to have.
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  Speaker 1: But we always start out. You know where we start.
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  Speaker 1: Number one. One, one, one, one, one, one, one. Can
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  Speaker 1: I get a one to the right? Can I get
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  Speaker 1: a one to the left? Can I get a one
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  Speaker 1: in the middle? Number one. I didn't need an extra one.
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  Speaker 1: So take off the Yankee cheerleading outfit and put down
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  Speaker 1: the pom-poms here. I am going to sell. I'm not buying.
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  Speaker 1: I am selling this. I am selling that Aaron Judge
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  Speaker 1: comeback hyperbole. He missed, if my math is right, 84 games.
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  Speaker 1: He then refuses a rehab assignment after missing 84 games.
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  Speaker 1: And the front office, Brian Cashman and the rest, they're
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  Speaker 1: genuflected to Aaron Judge. So we know that there are
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  Speaker 1: different rules for the star. Superstars get that TSA pre-check
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  Speaker 1: straight into Yankee Stadium. If you're just a normal utility
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  Speaker 1: player and you're coming off an injury, you're going to
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  Speaker 1: spend a week in AAA. This does reek of big
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  Speaker 1: league hubris. It does. The Yankees actually had a winning record.
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  Speaker 1: They were six games over. 500,. 536 winning percentage without
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  Speaker 1: Aaron Judge. Now, a couple of thoughts on that. A,
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  Speaker 1: doesn't that cheapen the value of Judge if they could
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  Speaker 1: play above. 500 without him? And the other part of
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  Speaker 1: that is, is that just a product of the American
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  Speaker 1: League being trash this year? There's not very many good
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  Speaker 1: teams in the American League. So they survived the loss
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  Speaker 1: of their big bopper for the balance of the summertime
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  Speaker 1: throughout the whole summer. And by the way, you aren't
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  Speaker 1: getting MVP judge fresh out of the box here. You're not.
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  Speaker 1: Let me tell you how this is going to go.
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  Speaker 1: I'm never wrong about these things. You're getting a three
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  Speaker 1: month old hungry man, homestyle meatloaf dinner. That's been in
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  Speaker 1: the deep freeze for a while there. And that's got
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  Speaker 1: the brown gravy, the mashed potatoes, the brownie, and all that. However,
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  Speaker 1: you've got to defrost the damn thing. And the Yankees
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  Speaker 1: are like, we don't need to defrost this. We're just
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  Speaker 1: going to do it. Okay, good. And spare me the
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  Speaker 1: October superhero narrative. I don't want to hear about that
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  Speaker 1: from my Yankee friends because even when fully healthy, Aaron
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  Speaker 1: Judge in his career is a. 236 hitter in the postseason. Hey, Boomer,
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  Speaker 1: batting average doesn't matter, man.
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  Speaker 2: Okay, fine.
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  Speaker 1: That's fine. <HAL> <HAL> <HAL> <HAL> <HAL> <HAL> <HAL> <HAL> <HAL> <HAL> <HAL> <HAL> <HAL> <HAL> <HAL> <HAL> <HAL> <HAL> <HAL> <HAL> <HAL> <HAL>
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  Speaker 1: So could he hit a home run or two against
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  Speaker 1: the Rockies because they're a minor league team? Sure, why not?
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  Speaker 1: But I'm not telling you right now. I'm not expecting
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  Speaker 1: much from Judge. There's a month to go. Basically, that's
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  Speaker 1: it until the playoffs begin. And if this microwave comeback
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  Speaker 1: goes sideways, don't expect Aaron Boone and Brian Cashman to
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  Speaker 1: admit that, They goofed up. That skipping the rehab was
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  Speaker 1: a mistake. I would be shocked if they admit that.
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  Speaker 1: They'll just serve up some reheated word salad instead because
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  Speaker 1: they're the ones that allowed this to happen. And holy moly,
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  Speaker 1: if it does not go right or a judge gets
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  Speaker 1: hurt right away, they'll have hell to pay. Hell to pay.
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  Speaker 2: All right.
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  Speaker 1: Meanwhile, to the ATL we go.
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  Speaker 3: Georgia.
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  Speaker 2: Georgia.
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  Speaker 1: Below the Mason-Dixon line, fresh off a three-dinger delight in Philadelphia,
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  Speaker 1: where he was styling and profiling Ronald Acuna Jr., the outfielder,
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  Speaker 1: the guy that was destined to go to the Hall
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  Speaker 1: of Fame and then had to play the rest of
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  Speaker 1: his career out, and mostly he's been damaged goods. So
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  Speaker 1: Ronald Acuna Jr., he wants, shockingly, another long-term extension with
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  Speaker 1: the Atlanta Braves. You might remember years ago he signed
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  Speaker 1: a huge extension with An eight-year deal back in the day.
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  Speaker 1: So we're still a little ways away from that ending.
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  Speaker 1: And Acuna says he would like the Braves to give
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  Speaker 1: him a new contract this offseason. Does that work? Because
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  Speaker 1: I've asked people I work for to give me new contracts.
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  Speaker 1: They usually laugh at me and hang up the phone.
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  Speaker 1: Does it work for Ronald Acuna Jr.? Okay. Anyway, he
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  Speaker 1: made it clear he wants to stay in Atlanta and blah, blah, blah, blah, blah.
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  Speaker 1: So the Braves are saying the great Lee Corso, quote,
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  Speaker 1: not so fast, my friends. largely because of Ronald Acuna Jr.
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  Speaker 1: 's medical chart. It's very long, very long. Durability is
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  Speaker 1: not his specialty. He did sign that eight-year $ 100 million
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  Speaker 1: deal back in 2019. 115 games into his career, he
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  Speaker 1: signed the mega contract. Atlanta, though, holds two options. They
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  Speaker 1: have this 2017... and the 2018, so you would assume
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  Speaker 1: the Braves would just pick up the options and they
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  Speaker 1: would control Ronald Acuna Jr. for two more seasons before
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  Speaker 1: he can become a free agent. So here's the question.
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  Speaker 1: Why should the Braves marry Ronald Acuna Jr. again? Why
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  Speaker 1: should they give him a new contract when they can
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  Speaker 1: just date him for two more years with cost certainty? Well,
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  Speaker 1: there's only one reason you would give him a new contract,
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  Speaker 1: because you're a fool with a capital F. And the
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  Speaker 1: GM there in Atlanta has been there a while now,
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  Speaker 1: Alex Anthopoulos, should get a Ouija board and a channel,
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  Speaker 1: former First Lady Nancy Reagan, and just say no. Just
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  Speaker 1: say no, no, no, no, no, no, no. The medical
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  Speaker 1: history on Ronald reads like a screening of The Exorcist,
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  Speaker 1: complete with demonic possession. Demonic possession. You got a torn
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  Speaker 1: ACL in the right knee. You got a torn ACL
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  Speaker 1: in the left knee. You got multiple hammy problems. The
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  Speaker 1: hammy goes whammy. All these things have happened. Two different
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  Speaker 1: trips to what used to be the disabled this year
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  Speaker 1: involving the same left hammy that did go whammy. So
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  Speaker 1: there's a lot of warning signs there. And if you
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  Speaker 1: look at the sticker on the package, it says, Buyer Beware.
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  Speaker 1: Buyer Beware with Ronald Lacuna Jr. So you don't pay
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  Speaker 1: for the name stitched across the very back there of
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  Speaker 1: the jersey. You pay for the production. You pay for
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  Speaker 1: the availability. And that's the problem. Availability has all the
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  Speaker 1: dependability for Ronald Lacuna Jr. of a submarine you bought
• 11:36
  Speaker 1: at Spirit Halloween. Well, that's not actually true. A real submarine,
• 11:41
  Speaker 1: that's a prop for Halloween. Well, I bought it, but
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  Speaker 1: it doesn't work. I don't know what to tell you.
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  Speaker 1: And yeah, when he's operational, he's got all the razzle-dazzle.
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  Speaker 1: He's spectacular, Ronald Acuna Jr. But the Braves are not
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  Speaker 1: purchasing the classical vision of what he had been. And
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  Speaker 1: they can't just put him there and mire behind the
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  Speaker 1: velvet ropes. They're paying for playing in baseball games. And lately,
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  Speaker 1: he has spent far too much time with the sign
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  Speaker 1: around his neck saying, out of service, out of service,
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  Speaker 1: and that's it. So at one point, you'd say franchise pillar,
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  Speaker 1: team-friendly deal, all that stuff. It's more like a load-bearing
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  Speaker 1: wall with a termite problem. That is what has happened
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  Speaker 1: lately to Ronald Lacuna Jr. Meanwhile, final point. To TV
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  Speaker 1: land we go. To TV land and broadcasting update. Jack Collinsworth,
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  Speaker 1: the spawn of Chris Collinsworth. It turns out he will
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  Speaker 1: remain part of NBC's Sunday Night Football coverage despite being
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  Speaker 1: removed from the show people actually watch. The Football Night
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  Speaker 1: in America pregame show went out and spent some money,
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  Speaker 1: brought in Tony Dungy and they Pretty much, or Tony Dungy.
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  Speaker 1: Mike Tomlin got rid of Tony Dungy is what the
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  Speaker 1: man tried to say. So Dungy's out after putting everyone
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  Speaker 1: to sleep. Collinsworth will continue hosting something called Sunday Night
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  Speaker 1: Football Final, which seven people and his mom watch. It's
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  Speaker 1: the NBC postgame show streamed exclusively there on Peacock. The
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  Speaker 1: question is this. How many rides on the NBC Peacock?
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  Speaker 1: How many rides on the NBC Peacock does Jack Collinsworth
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  Speaker 1: get before we admit... that the family name is the
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  Speaker 1: thing doing the heavy lifting. All right, so some of
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  Speaker 1: us have already admitted that back when he got that
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  Speaker 1: Notre Dame gig, and you're like, why is he on
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  Speaker 1: the Notre Dame broadcast? That doesn't make any sense. He's
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  Speaker 1: not very good. So spare me the fairy tale that
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  Speaker 1: people over there at NBC just keep discovering the perfect
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  Speaker 1: new role for Jack Collinsworth. Without daddy Chris Collinsworth name,
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  Speaker 1: Jack isn't hosting... sunday night football program not happening he's
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  Speaker 1: selling you know he's doing he's selling bluegrass insurance in
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  Speaker 1: covington kentucky next to strong's brick oven pizzeria where we
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  Speaker 1: had the great mallard meet and greet there beautiful location
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  Speaker 1: nice outdoor patio in the back where dick and dayton
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  Speaker 1: and ohio al performed on stage in front of a
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  Speaker 1: raucous crowd there and the other thing about jack collinsworth
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  Speaker 1: if he wasn't the son of Chris Collinsworth, he would
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  Speaker 1: also not only be part of the insurance company in Covington, Kentucky,
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  Speaker 1: he would also be dominating the softball at the company
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  Speaker 1: softball game. Those are on Wednesday night, and I think
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  Speaker 1: there's one on Sunday night, I think. So this is
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  Speaker 1: the broadcasting version of a legacy admission, repeatedly rewarding mediocrity
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  Speaker 1: in performance. And the family name gets you past security.
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  Speaker 1: And so, like, Notre Dame didn't work. All right, no problem.
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  Speaker 1: Notre Dame didn't work. That's right. Football night in America.
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  Speaker 1: That doesn't work? Okay, don't worry. Don't worry, kid. Daddy's
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  Speaker 1: frequent flyer program, Chris Collinsworth chimes in there, has another
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  Speaker 1: complimentary upgrade waiting for you. And it's nepotism with a
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  Speaker 1: peacock logo slapped on it. Jack Collinsworth not exactly climbing
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  Speaker 1: the broadcasting ladder, standing there holding it while NBC carries
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  Speaker 1: him up the damn thing and that sort of thing.
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  Speaker 1: As I pointed out before, my dad was in radio. Unfortunately,
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  Speaker 1: he wasn't commercial radio. He was in ham radio. If
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  Speaker 1: my dad had been in commercial radio, well, things would
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  Speaker 1: have been much different. The nepotism, even in this business,
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  Speaker 1: there's nepotism. People get these jobs that are like, oh,
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  Speaker 1: my God, how did that person get the job? Well,
• 15:39
  Speaker 1: you know, his dad knows somebody and all that stuff,
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  Speaker 1: and it is part of the world, not just professional sports,
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  Speaker 1: but broadcasting. And it's, to be fair, it's what happens
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  Speaker 1: pretty much everywhere is a version of that taking place.
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  Speaker 1: of you. I'm sure you'll ask Lorena how she's doing.
• 18:59
  Speaker 1: And you say hello to Lorena, FSR Tech Queen. Not
• 19:03
  Speaker 1: some fly-by-night operation. No, no, no, no, no. And if
• 19:07
  Speaker 1: that was not enough, Koopa Loops right over there. Say
• 19:09
  Speaker 1: hello to Koop at a Bronco fan. That's a Bronco fan.
• 19:12
  Speaker 5: Why doesn't he say hi to Koop?
• 19:15
  Speaker 1: I don't know. There might be something Koop's lacking that
• 19:18
  Speaker 1: you possess, I guess. I don't know what that is. Anyway,
• 19:21
  Speaker 1: all right. It is the Ben Maller Show as we
• 19:23
  Speaker 1: are back at it here. We have some questions for
• 19:26
  Speaker 1: Ask a Weed Man. Let's see. I can't read that.
• 19:33
  Speaker 1: The Baltimore Freeloaders account writes and says, I would love
• 19:36
  Speaker 1: to shove a football down Chris Collinsworth's throat. He might
• 19:40
  Speaker 1: be more annoying than Tom Looney. And then there's the kid.
• 19:43
  Speaker 1: And if there's one thing I hate more than someone
• 19:47
  Speaker 1: stepping in front of me in a buffet line, it's nepotism.
• 19:51
  Speaker 1: That makes me sick. Jack doesn't know Jack. It's also annoying.
• 19:58
  Speaker 1: The Collinsworth thing. I know it's the family thing where
• 20:00
  Speaker 1: they leave a letter off the name like Chris Collinsworth
• 20:03
  Speaker 1: doesn't have the. The H in his name and Jack
• 20:07
  Speaker 1: doesn't have the K at the end of his name.
• 20:09
  Speaker 1: And it's just the whole thing's annoying. The whole thing. Annoying, annoying, annoying, annoying.
• 20:17
  Speaker 1: What else do we have here? Let's see. Can't read
• 20:21
  Speaker 1: that on the on the air. Not a burner says
• 20:24
  Speaker 1: it makes me smile when you say the newly canceled
• 20:27
  Speaker 1: disabled list could have also. brought back the R-word when
• 20:33
  Speaker 1: discussing the once-proud franchise in the nation's capital, the Redskins. Well,
• 20:37
  Speaker 1: did you see that the Redskins, they claimed to keep
• 20:41
  Speaker 1: the copyright. They had to sell some T-shirts with the
• 20:43
  Speaker 1: Redskins logo. They honored some old players that played for
• 20:47
  Speaker 1: the Redskins back in the day, and they put it
• 20:49
  Speaker 1: in the team store. And they claimed it was a
• 20:51
  Speaker 1: copyright thing, which is legit. I mean, you've got to
• 20:53
  Speaker 1: sell a certain amount of merchandise or else you lose
• 20:56
  Speaker 1: copyright to the name. And so they sold these shirts.
• 21:00
  Speaker 1: They sold out in like a day. Like everyone wanted
• 21:03
  Speaker 1: to buy this. It would really upset the Wokes here.
• 21:05
  Speaker 1: So they were like, oh, my God, this is not right.
• 21:08
  Speaker 1: This is not right. Let's see here. Jill in Minnesota,
• 21:14
  Speaker 1: she's got her Aaron Judge poster. I guess we update
• 21:18
  Speaker 1: that fat boy on the wall. How do you expect
• 21:21
  Speaker 1: Judge to be perfect in his first game? Just stop it, Ben.
• 21:25
  Speaker 1: I'm just saying. The common protocol is you go to
• 21:28
  Speaker 1: the minor leagues and judges like, hey, I'm too good.
• 21:32
  Speaker 1: I'm not going to the minor leagues. Joe the Ghost Hunter,
• 21:34
  Speaker 1: I haven't heard from him much recently. Joe the Ghost
• 21:36
  Speaker 1: Hunter says, Big Daddy is right. Superstar Dundee was a
• 21:39
  Speaker 1: legend in Memphis. Well, good. I was trying to place my,
• 21:44
  Speaker 1: I don't, in my childhood wrestling Rolodex, which is what
• 21:48
  Speaker 1: I go by. I'm sure I saw him in some
• 21:51
  Speaker 1: matches when I was a kid, but he didn't reach
• 21:54
  Speaker 1: the level of Hulk Hogan or Andre the Giant or
• 21:57
  Speaker 1: the Macho Man Randy Savage or Ric Flair or Jake
• 22:00
  Speaker 1: the Snake or any of those guys. So just didn't
• 22:02
  Speaker 1: reach that particular level. And let's see here. What do
• 22:07
  Speaker 1: we got here? Let's go. Before we get to Ask
• 22:10
  Speaker 1: a Weed Man, let's get Andre on in the Commonwealth,
• 22:12
  Speaker 1: and then we'll get to Ask a Weed Man. Hello, Andre.
• 22:15
  Speaker 2: Andre.
• 22:16
  Speaker 1: Andre. What's going on, Andre?
• 22:17
  Speaker 2: Welcome.
• 22:19
  Speaker 4: Not too much, Ben. It's good to be with you.
• 22:21
  Speaker 4: You know, it's amazing. It's amazing how things change. And
• 22:26
  Speaker 4: they stay the same. Willis is not on good behavior
• 22:30
  Speaker 4: as we switch gears.
• 22:32
  Speaker 1: You might be getting a call from your neighbors if
• 22:35
  Speaker 1: Willis continues to bark like this.
• 22:38
  Speaker 4: Exactly, exactly. Or he might find himself in timeout, which
• 22:42
  Speaker 4: we still apply. But, yeah, Ben, what happened? You know,
• 22:46
  Speaker 4: the summer season, you blink once, you blink twice. And
• 22:49
  Speaker 4: then it's in the rearview mirror with Labor Day weekend.
• 22:51
  Speaker 4: But it was a good weekend. You know, folks, decent
• 22:54
  Speaker 4: weather and everybody kind of feeling good. But we're at
• 22:58
  Speaker 4: an inflection point here, Ben. As soon as you hit
• 23:01
  Speaker 4: Labor Day, even though we've got like another month of summer,
• 23:03
  Speaker 4: you know, we don't have the... official transition to fall
• 23:06
  Speaker 4: to the end of the month. I mean, as far
• 23:08
  Speaker 4: as the cave is concerned, you know, we might as
• 23:10
  Speaker 4: well batten down the hatches and get ready for, you know,
• 23:13
  Speaker 4: a full force storm. So, we're shifting.
• 23:17
  Speaker 1: Well, you love it. Otherwise, you would have moved, right?
• 23:20
  Speaker 1: You enjoy the weather. You get to complain about the weather, right?
• 23:24
  Speaker 1: It's good to complain about. It's a nice thing to
• 23:26
  Speaker 1: bellyache about the weather.
• 23:29
  Speaker 2: It is.
• 23:30
  Speaker 1: It is.
• 23:30
  Speaker 4: And you out there in California... 75 degrees every day,
• 23:33
  Speaker 4: all day.
• 23:34
  Speaker 1: I don't know what you're talking about. We just had
• 23:36
  Speaker 1: a tropical depression, like barely pass over California with hot, humid,
• 23:42
  Speaker 1: rainy conditions.
• 23:44
  Speaker 4: So what are we talking about? 65 degrees and the
• 23:47
  Speaker 4: temperature dropped? You have family on the East Coast, so
• 23:51
  Speaker 4: you know what I'm talking about.
• 23:53
  Speaker 1: I hear you.
• 23:53
  Speaker 4: We love to complain and we have this early attitude.
• 23:57
  Speaker 4: But let's get down to business, Ben.
• 23:58
  Speaker 1: Here we go. Here we go. Here we go. Here
• 24:00
  Speaker 1: we go. Here we go.
• 24:02
  Speaker 4: Okay. I'm not going to get into your critique of
• 24:05
  Speaker 4: broadcasters and what they could be doing better, what they
• 24:07
  Speaker 4: could be doing worse, how they could refine their craft.
• 24:10
  Speaker 4: So that was interesting. But this Western Michigan situation, since
• 24:14
  Speaker 4: when did the Big Ten get into the propaganda business?
• 24:17
  Speaker 4: With that one second they showed, that looked like the
• 24:21
  Speaker 4: moon landing that they put out there in the late 60s.
• 24:24
  Speaker 4: One small step for man, one giant leap for mankind.
• 24:27
  Speaker 4: But it looks like it's being, all of the dimensions
• 24:31
  Speaker 4: are off. That was ridiculous. Everybody saw what we saw. 0-0-0,
• 24:35
  Speaker 4: ball in the air. Okay, then it comes down. They're
• 24:39
  Speaker 4: out of bounds. Who the heck cares? Can you just
• 24:42
  Speaker 4: admit that Michigan is a blue blood and they bring
• 24:46
  Speaker 4: in billions of dollars so you wanted to give them
• 24:48
  Speaker 4: a mulligan and we can just all go our separate ways? Now,
• 24:51
  Speaker 4: I have no idea on that last play. Speaking of broadcasting,
• 24:55
  Speaker 4: they told you what the heck the play was going
• 24:57
  Speaker 4: to be before the play. Here's the guy. He's from Utah.
• 25:01
  Speaker 4: He specializes in jump balls. And then they just ran
• 25:03
  Speaker 4: that play. So if I'm Western Michigan, I didn't know
• 25:06
  Speaker 4: why they didn't stay in there, prevent defense, honestly, even
• 25:09
  Speaker 4: though they got home to Bryce and hit him before
• 25:11
  Speaker 4: the throw. You have this, it looked like there was
• 25:13
  Speaker 4: a bunch of smurfs, people my size, and then you
• 25:16
  Speaker 4: catching the football, Ben.
• 25:17
  Speaker 1: No, I know, I know, but they'd already stopped the
• 25:20
  Speaker 1: Hail Mary. You should not lose on a Hail Mary.
• 25:22
  Speaker 1: I get it. You should not lose on a Hail Mary,
• 25:24
  Speaker 1: but they already stopped it to play before the game
• 25:26
  Speaker 1: was over, and they celebrated Western Michigan, rightfully celebrated their win,
• 25:31
  Speaker 1: and then they were in shambles. after that but Andre
• 25:35
  Speaker 1: thank you enjoy the terrible weather there on the Cape
• 25:37
  Speaker 1: and right now here we go in Hollywood Florida hooray
• 25:41
  Speaker 1: for Hollywood hooray for Hollywood and welcome in the one
• 25:46
  Speaker 1: and only man fixing the world one show at a time.
• 25:51
  Speaker 2: Let's do it let's change the world make it their
• 25:54
  Speaker 2: place to.
• 25:55
  Speaker 1: Live have you recovered from the mailbag on Sunday have
• 25:58
  Speaker 1: you recovered.
• 25:59
  Speaker 2: From that oh that was great that was so great
• 26:01
  Speaker 2: how do I listen to.
• 26:02
  Speaker 1: It uh well i don't know on your phone it's
• 26:08
  Speaker 1: on it's called a podcast that was available you go
• 26:11
  Speaker 1: to the fifth hour podcast so i'd send you a
• 26:15
  Speaker 1: link to your i'd send you a link to your
• 26:16
  Speaker 1: email but you don't have emails all right uh just
• 26:23
  Speaker 1: josh i don't think i can read this question on
• 26:25
  Speaker 1: the air uh josh you want to know we man
• 26:27
  Speaker 1: have you ever done anything uh You might regret just
• 26:31
  Speaker 1: to get some weed. How about that? I'll clean that
• 26:33
  Speaker 1: up for the radio. Anything out there when you were
• 26:35
  Speaker 1: living on the streets there, Weed Man, did you ever
• 26:37
  Speaker 1: have to do something you really didn't want to do
• 26:39
  Speaker 1: to get the weed?
• 26:40
  Speaker 4: No, not really.
• 26:42
  Speaker 5: Okay.
• 26:43
  Speaker 1: All right. What was Weed Man's favorite toy when he
• 26:46
  Speaker 1: had his toy shop? That's from Fat Daddy. Fat Daddy something.
• 26:54
  Speaker 2: Let's see. There was Stretch Armstrong I liked. There were
• 27:00
  Speaker 2: plenty of games, and we sold bicycles.
• 27:07
  Speaker 1: What about the Cabbage Patch?
• 27:08
  Speaker 2: Oh, Cabbage Patch was great. Yeah, sure.
• 27:12
  Speaker 1: Yeah, we sold a lot of Cabbage Patch, man. People
• 27:14
  Speaker 1: lined up for those Cabbage Patch dolls back in the day.
• 27:17
  Speaker 2: They sure did, really.
• 27:19
  Speaker 1: What about when you were a kid, Weed Man? Did
• 27:21
  Speaker 1: you play with, like, just rocks and dirt when you
• 27:23
  Speaker 1: were a kid?
• 27:24
  Speaker 2: Yeah, pretty much, yeah.
• 27:27
  Speaker 1: I hear you. They didn't invent toys when you were
• 27:30
  Speaker 1: a kid, right? Analog Al writes in, says, Would you
• 27:32
  Speaker 1: be upset if they put up a data center near
• 27:35
  Speaker 1: your cardboard box? It's from Analog Al. Do you know
• 27:41
  Speaker 1: what a data center is, Weed Man?
• 27:43
  Speaker 4: No, no.
• 27:43
  Speaker 2: What is that?
• 27:44
  Speaker 1: What do you think it is?
• 27:45
  Speaker 2: A data center. um where they'd have uh i don't
• 27:55
  Speaker 2: know job applications or well that.
• 27:57
  Speaker 1: Would definitely be troubling if they had a place with
• 27:59
  Speaker 1: job applications do you know it is a ai which
• 28:03
  Speaker 1: you have no idea what that is but ai uses
• 28:06
  Speaker 1: a lot of um servers to track and use all
• 28:12
  Speaker 1: the data so it happens uh They have these giant
• 28:14
  Speaker 1: warehouses filled with nothing but processors and all the gadgets
• 28:18
  Speaker 1: and gizmos and all that, and people complain about it
• 28:21
  Speaker 1: because it takes up a lot of space and it's
• 28:23
  Speaker 1: not very nice to look at. It's bad for the environment.
• 28:25
  Speaker 1: It wastes a lot of water, and they're just completely unnecessary.
• 28:28
  Speaker 2: What do you do?
• 28:30
  Speaker 1: Technology. There'll be ways to make them better in the future,
• 28:33
  Speaker 1: but they just keep track. So you don't even know
• 28:35
  Speaker 1: what AI is, but you type something into AI, and
• 28:38
  Speaker 1: literally in half a second it'll answer any question you
• 28:41
  Speaker 1: possibly have.
• 28:42
  Speaker 5: So now apparently that's more important than nature.
• 28:45
  Speaker 1: Absolutely.
• 28:45
  Speaker 2: Yes.
• 28:46
  Speaker 1: Andy in Lionel Lakes, Minnesota, writes in and says, Hey, Billy,
• 28:50
  Speaker 1: do you ever get any notoriety from anyone for being
• 28:53
  Speaker 1: on the Ben Maler Show? Well, you would have to
• 28:54
  Speaker 1: leave your house, right? Weed man to get notoriety?
• 28:58
  Speaker 2: Yeah, which I never do.
• 29:00
  Speaker 1: Yeah, you're a shut-in. Although Purito has taken care of
• 29:03
  Speaker 1: you over the last couple months, right?
• 29:05
  Speaker 2: Purito, please send me some food. That was great.
• 29:09
  Speaker 1: I checked in on Perito today. Hanging in there, Perito?
• 29:12
  Speaker 1: All right, good. King Rory writes in. He says, how
• 29:17
  Speaker 1: will Weed Man celebrate the 60th anniversary of the first
• 29:20
  Speaker 1: episode of Star Trek, which aired on this date, September 8th, 1966?
• 29:25
  Speaker 1: That's from King Rory.
• 29:27
  Speaker 2: Wow, I love William Shatner. I love Conker.
• 29:30
  Speaker 1: Come on, that's my enemy, man. Come on, dude. Me
• 29:32
  Speaker 1: and Shatner had a beef. How do you not know this, Weedman?
• 29:38
  Speaker 1: You were listening to the show when there was a
• 29:41
  Speaker 1: mutual friend that knows Shatner, and then we got into
• 29:45
  Speaker 1: a social media dust-up and all that, and somebody paid,
• 29:48
  Speaker 1: how much money was it? It was like, I think
• 29:52
  Speaker 1: a few thousand dollars to unblock me on X, to
• 29:55
  Speaker 1: have Shatner unblock me. Wow.
• 29:58
  Speaker 2: I didn't know that happened with you and Shatner.
• 30:01
  Speaker 1: Yeah. Big Star Trek guy. Beam me up, Scotty. You
• 30:05
  Speaker 1: like that? Beam me up, Scotty.
• 30:06
  Speaker 2: Beam me up, Scotty.
• 30:09
  Speaker 1: All right, here we go. This is the big one
• 30:10
  Speaker 1: from Bozo, the district attorney, writing in. Your friend Bozo.
• 30:14
  Speaker 2: Bozo the clown.
• 30:15
  Speaker 1: You love Bozo. In easy money, Rodney Dangerfield had to
• 30:20
  Speaker 1: go a year without drinking, smoking, and gambling to get
• 30:24
  Speaker 1: a $ 10 million inheritance. What's the longest you've ever gone
• 30:28
  Speaker 1: without smoking a joint, Weed Man? And would you go
• 30:32
  Speaker 1: smoke-free for a year if it meant getting $ 10 million?
• 30:36
  Speaker 4: Absolutely, of course.
• 30:39
  Speaker 2: Are you joking? Of course I would. Definitely.
• 30:43
  Speaker 1: How would you handle that? You smoke two joints in
• 30:45
  Speaker 1: the morning. You smoke two joints at night. You smoke
• 30:48
  Speaker 1: a lot of weed, Weed Man.
• 30:50
  Speaker 4: I do.
• 30:50
  Speaker 2: I don't know what I would do, but of course,
• 30:52
  Speaker 2: for $ 10 million, I would stop.
• 30:54
  Speaker 1: So you would be able to stop. Okay. All right.
• 30:57
  Speaker 1: Very good. Mark the Walker writes in. He says, which
• 31:00
  Speaker 1: came first, Weed Man, the planet or the seed?
• 31:04
  Speaker 4: Hmm.
• 31:05
  Speaker 1: Things that make you go, hmm.
• 31:09
  Speaker 2: The seed, definitely, though.
• 31:12
  Speaker 1: The seed, he said, not the sea, but the seed.
• 31:15
  Speaker 2: Hmm, I thought that would make more sense. The seed
• 31:18
  Speaker 2: would definitely come first.
• 31:20
  Speaker 1: All right. Was it the plant or the seed? No,
• 31:24
  Speaker 1: he said, oh, my God, this is not good. Let
• 31:26
  Speaker 1: me punch it up again here. Which came first, the
• 31:30
  Speaker 1: plant or the seed?
• 31:31
  Speaker 2: Yeah.
• 31:31
  Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah. So I think I said that.
• 31:33
  Speaker 2: Yeah, the seed, definitely.
• 31:35
  Speaker 1: He said planted. Oh, did I say planted?
• 31:37
  Speaker 3: All right.
• 31:37
  Speaker 4: Yeah.
• 31:38
  Speaker 1: There you go. Here's one from Mike on the mail.
• 31:42
  Speaker 1: He emailed this. He says, Weedman, are you sad that
• 31:44
  Speaker 1: McDonald's is ditching disposable cups for dine-in customers, but only
• 31:51
  Speaker 1: in the Netherlands? Are you concerned about that, Weedman?
• 31:54
  Speaker 2: No, I have no McDonald's near me at all. I
• 31:57
  Speaker 2: haven't gone to McDonald's in a very long time.
• 32:01
  Speaker 1: Now, when you say around you, is that like in
• 32:04
  Speaker 1: a two-block area around you? You know what I mean?
• 32:09
  Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah. No McDonald's anywhere near me.
• 32:14
  Speaker 1: Are you sure about that? You're positive?
• 32:18
  Speaker 2: No.
• 32:19
  Speaker 1: I'm looking here, and I think there is a McDonald's
• 32:25
  Speaker 1: in Hollywood, Florida. Pretty sure there is. More than one location.
• 32:29
  Speaker 1: You're claiming there's not, though.
• 32:31
  Speaker 2: I haven't seen.
• 32:33
  Speaker 1: Any at all. All right. Let's see. 5835 Hollywood Boulevard, Hollywood, Florida.
• 32:41
  Speaker 1: According to the McDonald's website, there is a McDonald's. How
• 32:44
  Speaker 1: about that?
• 32:44
  Speaker 2: 5835 Hollywood Boulevard.
• 32:50
  Speaker 1: Hollywood Boulevard in Hollywood, Florida. I'm looking at it right here.
• 32:53
  Speaker 1: It's near the Hollywood Beach Gardens area. There's Beverly Park
• 32:58
  Speaker 1: over there. You don't know what any of this stuff is,
• 33:01
  Speaker 1: even though you live there. It's not that far from
• 33:04
  Speaker 1: the hot. Well, it's right there.
• 33:06
  Speaker 3: Okay.
• 33:07
  Speaker 2: I'll look.
• 33:08
  Speaker 1: You're never far away from a Starbucks.
• 33:10
  Speaker 2: Or a McDonald's.
• 33:11
  Speaker 1: You know what I'm saying? Not in America, you're not.
• 33:21
  Speaker 1: FergDog says, I go to Lorena for advice about love,
• 33:24
  Speaker 1: not data centers. All right, so there you go. FergDog
• 33:27
  Speaker 1: saying he loves data. Oh, but I have so much
• 33:29
  Speaker 1: facts about data centers.
• 33:30
  Speaker 5: If you want to learn more and get smarter, feel
• 33:33
  Speaker 5: free to ask. All right.
• 33:34
  Speaker 1: I'll just AI it and find out what the answer is.
• 33:36
  Speaker 1: All right, let's see. What else do we have? What
• 33:40
  Speaker 1: else do we have for you, Weedman? All right, how
• 33:43
  Speaker 1: about this one? This is from Steve sent this one in,
• 33:47
  Speaker 1: Parts Unknown. He says, Weedman, a guy stole a $ 90, 000
• 33:52
  Speaker 1: BMW pretending to be an NBA player. Have you ever
• 33:56
  Speaker 1: pretended to be someone and successfully stolen something?
• 34:01
  Speaker 2: No, I wish I could say it.
• 34:03
  Speaker 1: You've never met him?
• 34:05
  Speaker 2: Yeah.
• 34:05
  Speaker 1: Yeah, this guy, I saw this story the other day
• 34:07
  Speaker 1: that this guy's talking about. So this guy pretended to
• 34:10
  Speaker 1: be a black dude. He's kind of a tall guy,
• 34:12
  Speaker 1: and he pretended to be a basketball player. I guess
• 34:15
  Speaker 1: this was at a hotel in Savannah, Georgia. And the
• 34:19
  Speaker 1: valet gave him the key to this 2026 BMW, like
• 34:24
  Speaker 1: all loaded up.
• 34:26
  Speaker 2: Yeah, he's dead.
• 34:28
  Speaker 1: Well, no, it's not great for the person that owned
• 34:32
  Speaker 1: the BMW. It's not. So you've never. So you're not
• 34:39
  Speaker 1: really a con man weed man, right? You're not.
• 34:41
  Speaker 2: No, no, no. I wouldn't steal a big car, no.
• 34:46
  Speaker 1: You've never stolen anything. Exactly.
• 34:48
  Speaker 2: No, no, not really.
• 34:50
  Speaker 1: Even when you were at your lowest living on Lincoln
• 34:52
  Speaker 1: Road there in Miami and you had no money and
• 34:55
  Speaker 1: you were just kind of out there on the streets,
• 34:56
  Speaker 1: you never stole anything.
• 34:58
  Speaker 2: No, there was a McDonald's right there on Lincoln Road, though.
• 35:01
  Speaker 2: That was good.
• 35:04
  Speaker 1: So you were in a better situation, not where you
• 35:06
  Speaker 1: have a roof over your head in Hollywood, Florida, but
• 35:08
  Speaker 1: when you were out in Miami there on Lincoln Road
• 35:10
  Speaker 1: because you had McDonald's. So that was a better situation.
• 35:13
  Speaker 2: Well, I did like Lincoln Road. You know that. I understand.
• 35:16
  Speaker 1: You loved Lincoln Road, and you would have stayed there.
• 35:18
  Speaker 1: You probably would still be on Lincoln Road if they
• 35:20
  Speaker 1: hadn't taken you off the streets. Kathy in Madison writes
• 35:24
  Speaker 1: and says... She's listening to the Ben Maller Show here
• 35:28
  Speaker 1: in Hollywood, Florida. Says, Weed Man, how can I get
• 35:31
  Speaker 1: a QR code for Purito so I can fundraise with
• 35:35
  Speaker 1: my mandolin? All right. So I guess she wants in
• 35:41
  Speaker 1: on Purito as well. So there you go. All right,
• 35:45
  Speaker 1: Weed Man, we got to go. Thank you so much.
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  Speaker 1: You've fixed the world here. All right. Be well. Thank you.
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  Speaker 1: which were great until the NFL eventually spoiled the gold
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  Speaker 1: Hollywood Bags. Again, blank NFL legend from back in the day.
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  Speaker 1: His initials did not stand for anything. He became instantly
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  Speaker 1: recognizable for wearing gold-colored high-top cleats before the NFL eventually
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  Speaker 1: spoiled that. gold shoe party with a bunch of fines.
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  Speaker 1: His nickname was Hollywood bags. That's the instant trivia. The
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  Speaker 1: And with that, we pay off the Insta trivia. Here
• 37:43
  Speaker 1: it is, the Insta trivia question. Blank was an NFL
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  Speaker 1: legend whose initials did not actually stand for anything. He
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  Speaker 1: became instantly recognizable for wearing gold-colored high-top cleats before the
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  Speaker 1: NFL said Ixnay on the gold shoe partay. And his
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  Speaker 1: nickname was Hollywood Bags. That's the question. What's the answer?
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  Speaker 1: the great unwashed here. And it's ALF, the Guaranteed Human Opiner,
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  Speaker 1: guest by Malapropguy. Garfield from the aforementioned ALF. Goldmember from Mark.
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  Speaker 1: JT the Wingman went with BS for Blown Save is
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  Speaker 1: his answer. Joe Jerevicius from Rob in Minnesota. Baltimore Colt
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  Speaker 1: legend Joe Washington from Greg the Real Estate Mogul. Lumpy
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  Speaker 1: Rutherford from Kev Atomic. Fat Daddy got it right. Bad
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  Speaker 1: job by him. Do you have an answer, Lorena?
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  Speaker 2: Quickly!
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  Speaker 3: TJ Hooker.
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  Speaker 1: No, that's Shatner. No, it's L.C. Greenwood of the Pittsburgh Steelers.
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  Speaker 1: High end curtain defense back in the day. Here we go.
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  Speaker 1: Here we go. Here we go. How about that?
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  Speaker 3: To the third degree. This is when Big Ben gets grilled.
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  Speaker 1: Koopa Loop.
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  Speaker 5: Over the weekend, Arizona State was blowing out Morgan State
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  Speaker 5: 70-7 when the two teams agreed to shorten the fourth
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  Speaker 5: quarter to 10 minutes.
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  Speaker 1: Do you think this is something that NFL teams should
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  Speaker 1: be able to do? No, that's like a youth sports
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  Speaker 1: type thing. No, there should never be that big a
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  Speaker 1: gap between NFL teams. And with gambling, you can't do that.
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  Speaker 1: So no, no, no, no, no, no, no. On every level, no.
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  Speaker 1: It's only early season college football when you have these
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  Speaker 1: money games. Next.
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  Speaker 5: A report over the weekend says that Artie Murray was
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  Speaker 5: affected by negative chants from Angels fans and that it
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  Speaker 5: played a role in his decision to sell the team.
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  Speaker 5: Are you buying that?
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  Speaker 1: I am not buying that. He obviously didn't want to
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  Speaker 1: be booed. Nobody wants to be booed. The reason he
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  Speaker 1: sold the team, though, was he got the godfather offer
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  Speaker 1: by Stan Kroenke. If Stan Kroenke hadn't given him that offer,
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  Speaker 1: the Angels would still be completely controlled by Artie Marino.
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  Speaker 1: They still technically are. The sale won't be official until
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  Speaker 1: next year. that makes for a good story i don't
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  Speaker 1: buy it next.
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  Speaker 5: According to a report from the athletic exploratory talks are
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  Speaker 5: underway about building a new stadium near marysville washington for
• 40:04
  Speaker 5: the eventual return of the nba to the seattle area
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  Speaker 5: but if you had to guess when will we actually
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  Speaker 5: see the first nba game back in seattle.
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  Speaker 1: All right so we're sitting here it's 2026 i am
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  Speaker 1: going to say that the supersonics will take the court
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  Speaker 1: by 2032 at the latest So in the next six years,
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  Speaker 1: they'll add Seattle and Vegas. How did we do, Koopaloop?
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  Speaker 1: You passed this edition. That is a win. You can
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  Speaker 1: put it on the board.
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  Speaker 5: Winner, winner, winner.
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  Speaker 1: Chicken dinner.