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Hour 4 - An Unpatriotic Move? · The Ben Maller Show

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  Speaker 1: Well, butter my biscuit. It's hour number four. Here we go, Geronimo.
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  Speaker 1: hour number four, how concerned... Should New England be with
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  Speaker 1: Christian Gonzalez, the star defensive back, publicly calling negotiations on
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  Speaker 1: his contract, quote, frustrating? Also, Tom Brady. Yep, that Tom
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  Speaker 1: Brady is wearing leather pants at age 49. Is this
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  Speaker 1: a cool reinvention or a full-blown midlife crisis? For Tom Brady,
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  Speaker 1: we'll examine that. And does selling the old Redskins logo
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  Speaker 1: in the gift shop for the team undermine Washington's decision
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  Speaker 1: to go full woke and retire the Redskins name? They're
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  Speaker 1: still selling Redskins merch at the team store. We'll talk
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  Speaker 1: about all that and more right now. Have a wonderful Wednesday.
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  Speaker 1: It's a small world after all. Yes, it is. And
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  Speaker 1: number four. An unpatriotic move, or was it unpatriotic? Welcome
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  Speaker 1: NFL contract kerfluffle, contract kerfluffle, Dateline Commonwealth contract. We're Patriots
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  Speaker 1: defensive back Christian Gonzalez. He's not happy. Yeah. Just do
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  Speaker 1: these stories endlessly. Every day we can do a different
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  Speaker 1: story about someone who's not happy. So Christian Gonzalez called
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  Speaker 1: contract talks with the Patriots, quote, frustrating. That's the word
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  Speaker 1: he used, not my word, his word. The negotiations have
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  Speaker 1: gone on and on and on. It's like the Energizer bunny.
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  Speaker 1: They just keep going and going and going throughout the offseason.
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  Speaker 1: And the NFL is closing in on the regular season.
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  Speaker 1: There's one more meaningless week of practice football games. And
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  Speaker 1: then it is on like Donkey Kong. The regular season
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  Speaker 1: rosters have to be set on Sunday. Sunday. Sunday. So
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  Speaker 1: you have not been following this story. Perhaps not. The
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  Speaker 1: executive nerd, Elliot Wolfe. That's Elliot Wolfe with one T,
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  Speaker 1: not two Ts. Elliot Wolfe with one T, not two Ts.
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  Speaker 1: Elliot Wolfe. called Gonzalez a, quote, elite player, and said
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  Speaker 1: New England wants him for a long time. Okay, well,
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  Speaker 1: that's great. That is absolutely wonderful. Wolfe said negotiations have gained, quote, momentum,
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  Speaker 1: which you know he's lying about. Momentum! There is no
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  Speaker 1: deadline to complete an extension on the Patriots' side of
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  Speaker 1: things here, and Robert Kraft had previously said that his
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  Speaker 1: football team, the Patriots, have offered Gonzalez a deal that
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  Speaker 1: would make him the NFL's highest-paid defensive back. which Wolf confirmed,
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  Speaker 1: says that's still true. So that means, if my math
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  Speaker 1: is correct, Gonzalez and his agent, who also happens to
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  Speaker 1: be the same agent for Seattle Seahawks defensive back, Devin Witherspoon,
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  Speaker 1: that would mean that the contract is going to be
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  Speaker 1: more than Devin Witherspoon, who signed a four-year contract for
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  Speaker 1: $ 132 million. Yes, big extension. So that's the benchmark for
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  Speaker 1: the Patriots defensive back, Mr. Gonzalez. So that is a
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  Speaker 1: good jumping-off point. Let us discuss the question. How concerned
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  Speaker 1: should New England be that Christian Gonzalez is publicly calling
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  Speaker 1: out the ownership, the front office, saying that the negotiations
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  Speaker 1: are frustrating? That's a quote. Frustrating. All right, so my
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  Speaker 1: take on this, I've got Tooth Fairy, Bon Jovi tribute band,
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  Speaker 1: and coffee mug. And we'll combine all of these things together,
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  Speaker 1: We've got a little baba ghanoush off to the right.
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  Speaker 1: To the left, we've got the gabagool. And in the middle,
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  Speaker 1: we've got some jambalaya for Benjamin. So Tillio liked the gabagool.
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  Speaker 1: The baba ghanoush is for everybody. And then the jambalaya,
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  Speaker 1: it's like a potluck. It really is like a potluck.
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  Speaker 1: Now to kick off here.
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  Speaker 4: All right.
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  Speaker 1: It is a standard. This whole story with Christian Gonzalez
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  Speaker 1: and the Patriots is a standard bowl of contractional gumbo
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  Speaker 1: is what it is. It is served alongside the rule
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  Speaker 1: of drama. These contract negotiations always follow the rule of drama.
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  Speaker 1: Look at Vita Vea with Tampa Bay. Said, I want
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  Speaker 1: more money. I want more money. Trade me. I don't
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  Speaker 1: want to be here. I want to play somewhere else.
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  Speaker 1: And then nobody wanted to trade for him. Nobody wanted
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  Speaker 1: to give him the contract. So he put his tail
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  Speaker 1: between his legs, did the walk of shame, took the
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  Speaker 1: contract from Tampa Bay. It was like a little more money,
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  Speaker 1: but it wasn't what he was looking for. Now, it's
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  Speaker 1: a little different here because Gonzalez is in the prime
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  Speaker 1: of his career. So it's a different animal here. And
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  Speaker 1: the rule of drama, though, is the same. The rule
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  Speaker 1: of drama is simple. Everything must be more drawn out,
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  Speaker 1: more messy. and unpredictable and complicated than it needs to be.
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  Speaker 1: And so if the Patriots really, if they're telling the
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  Speaker 1: truth here, and they offered Christian Gonzalez a record-setting contract
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  Speaker 1: for a defensive back, let me ask you a question.
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  Speaker 1: Why hasn't he signed the contract? If Fox Sports Radio
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  Speaker 1: offers me Colin Cowherd money, I am pulling a muscle
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  Speaker 1: to sign the contract. So if you're offered the highest contract,
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  Speaker 1: why wouldn't you sign the contract? And by the way,
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  Speaker 1: who exactly, let's use some brain power, who exactly do
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  Speaker 1: you think leaked that juicy nugget, highest paid defensive back?
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  Speaker 1: Who do you think tossed that out there? I say, well,
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  Speaker 1: Robert Kraft and these other guys, but it actually was
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  Speaker 1: leaked before Robert Kraft confirmed it. So you think it
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  Speaker 1: was like the tooth fairy riding a unicorn that came
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  Speaker 1: in and said, I did it. I am the tooth fairy.
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  Speaker 1: So we turned to the MBI, the Malheur Bureau of Investigations,
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  Speaker 1: the MBI. And it said the Malheur Bureau of Investigations,
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  Speaker 1: after a minutes long investigation and brief deliberation, we determined that.
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  Speaker 1: That in Foxborough, they wanted Robert Kraft and the Patriots.
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  Speaker 1: They wanted that number. This was strategic. They wanted that
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  Speaker 1: number floating around because it makes Christian Gonzalez look like
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  Speaker 1: a schmuck. It does. Unreasonable. Unreasonable schmuck. So you got
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  Speaker 1: offered the highest contract for a defensive back and you
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  Speaker 1: didn't sign it. Schmuck, schmuck, schmuck, schmuck, schmuck, schmuck, schmuck, schmuck.
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  Speaker 1: Just like that.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: It's a new chant. It's a new chant on the show.
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  Speaker 1: It's a war chant. So we know that everyone's going
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  Speaker 1: to grab everything they can get. And why not? Every
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  Speaker 1: last dollar, the players, the management, everyone, we're all doing it. Well,
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  Speaker 1: I'm not doing it. I got a bargain basement deal
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  Speaker 1: over here, baby. I'm on a hometown discount. Damn right. Anyway,
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  Speaker 1: Gonzalez is scheduled to make a paltry $ 2. 2 million if
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  Speaker 1: he doesn't get a new contract this season. And so
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  Speaker 1: we think he will be able to successfully avoid the
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  Speaker 1: soup kitchen. Godspeed to Christian Gonzalez if he has to
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  Speaker 1: play on that contract. So both sides are doing the
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  Speaker 1: usual NFL mating dance right now. They got their feathers
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  Speaker 1: in the air. They're posturing. They're leaking. They're grumbling. It's
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  Speaker 1: so frustrating. while pretending everything is peachy. Everything will be
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  Speaker 1: fine in the end, and it likely is going to
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  Speaker 1: be fine. The smart money says that they will eventually
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  Speaker 1: find common ground. They're going to stop playing grab-ass Christian
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  Speaker 1: Gonzalez and the Patriots, hammer out a deal at the
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  Speaker 1: 11th hour before the regular season begins. They'll exchange fake smiles.
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  Speaker 1: They'll pat each other on the back and sing kumbaya
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  Speaker 1: while they roast marshmallows around an open fire. All right, furthermore,
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  Speaker 1: to the catwalk we go. Why would you talk about
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  Speaker 1: the catwalk?
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  Speaker 6: What is wrong with you?
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  Speaker 1: Well, Tom Brady, Tom Brady, who has entered the fashion world,
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  Speaker 1: you might remember some of his past fashionista moves. Well,
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  Speaker 1: Tom Brady headlining a new Gucci fall winter campaign. And,
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  Speaker 1: you know, your favorite sports talk radio host love Gucci. Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: So he did make his runway debut on the catwalk.
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  Speaker 1: at the Gucci's Times Square show back in May. Now,
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  Speaker 1: the biggest revelation, and the only reason we're bringing this up,
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  Speaker 1: is that Tom Brady, at age 49, Tom Brady has
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  Speaker 1: become a leather pants guy. Tom Brady, leather pants guy. Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: After wearing leather on leather for the first time ever...
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  Speaker 1: Tom Brady found it surprisingly comfortable. At least that's what
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  Speaker 1: the quote said in this little write-up online. And he
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  Speaker 1: compared wearing leather to an NFL uniform. Said it felt
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  Speaker 1: like a structured football uniform. Now, I would never know,
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  Speaker 1: because I've never been a leather guy. If you've seen me,
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  Speaker 1: you know why. So the question, Tom Brady wearing leather pants...
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  Speaker 1: At age 49, is that a cool reinvention or a
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  Speaker 1: full-blown midlife crisis? That's the question. All right, so it's
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  Speaker 1: kind of like binge-watching Netflix. It's a new show on Netflix.
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  Speaker 1: It's called True Cringe. Now, at least Brady's getting paid
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  Speaker 1: for this. But holy yikers. Yikers Island, Tom Brady at
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  Speaker 1: Leather Pants... Wearing leather pants. He's 49. That is obviously
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  Speaker 1: a fashion faux pas. So severe. How severe is it
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  Speaker 1: that Father Time just puked in his mouth? Not happy.
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  Speaker 1: Father Time is not happy. Not happy. Now, there's always
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  Speaker 1: these weird quirks. There are glitches in the matrix. It's
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  Speaker 1: like seeing a fat guy on a motorcycle. It just
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  Speaker 1: looks odd. A fat guy shouldn't be on a motorcycle.
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  Speaker 1: Women do the same. A lot of women don't realize
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  Speaker 1: there's a certain point where maybe you shouldn't wear that outfit.
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  Speaker 1: You might want to cover up a little bit. Obviously,
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  Speaker 1: men do it, too. Everyone's guilty of it. I never
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  Speaker 1: wore leather when I was in my 20s. If you
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  Speaker 1: punished me, that would be, hey, wear leather and leave
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  Speaker 1: your house. Well, that would be punishment. I wouldn't want
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  Speaker 1: to do that. Wouldn't want to do it. Seven Super
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  Speaker 1: Bowl rings, though. Seven Super Bowl rings for Tom Brady, right?
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  Speaker 1: And that buys a lot of things. Seven Super Bowls,
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  Speaker 1: you get free meals a lot. Everyone kisses your ass.
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  Speaker 1: They cheat you like you're God, Tom Brady. One thing
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  Speaker 1: that seven Super Bowl rings do not give you is
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  Speaker 1: lifetime immunity to a wardrobe malfunction, a mockery. You don't
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  Speaker 1: get that. And so going from star quarterback... To what?
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  Speaker 1: What are we going to call Brady? Aging runway model
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  Speaker 1: at this point? It's hard to process. Brady's in a
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  Speaker 1: weird spot. And it seems like he definitely, I don't
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  Speaker 1: know whether it's a woman, like a wife or something
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  Speaker 1: like that. He needs somebody in his life who's honest.
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  Speaker 1: I think Brady, like a lot of these guys, when
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  Speaker 1: you get to a certain point, you just have a
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  Speaker 1: bunch of toe lickers around you. And you ask somebody, hey,
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  Speaker 1: should I wear that outfit? Yeah, Tom, let me lick
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  Speaker 1: your toes. Okay. Hey, what should I have for dinner?
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  Speaker 1: Why don't you have the steak? Can I lick your toes?
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  Speaker 1: It's toe lickers. It's a bunch of toe lickers out there.
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  Speaker 1: Nobody wants to be honest. Obviously, everybody around him doesn't
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  Speaker 1: want to be kicked out of the bubble of trust.
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  Speaker 1: So if they're asked opinions, they're going to say, well, hey,
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  Speaker 1: whatever you want, Tom. Gucci's not making Tom Brady look younger.
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  Speaker 1: They're making him look like a man desperately attempting to
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  Speaker 1: look younger. It looks like he's auditioning for a Bon
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  Speaker 1: Jovi tribute band. And you're like, what are you doing,
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  Speaker 1: Tommy boy? You gonna go on the road? You're, you know, okay.
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  Speaker 1: All right. Just asking. I'm just trying to see what's
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  Speaker 1: going on there. It's obvious that Brady needs that fix.
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  Speaker 1: It's like somebody that's on fentanyl or heroin and It's like, well,
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  Speaker 1: wait a minute. He needs that dopamine hit. Tom Brady
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  Speaker 1: needs the spotlight, the roar of the crowd. Remember, he
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  Speaker 1: was futzing around with one of the Paul brothers and
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  Speaker 1: setting up a wrestling match. When's that happening? When's the
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  Speaker 1: Tom Brady wrestling match happening? Do we know when that's
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  Speaker 1: going to take place? That story kind of went away.
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  Speaker 1: So Brady does not miss the NFL nearly as much
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  Speaker 1: as he misses being the center of attention. The Supernova.
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  Speaker 1: All right, meanwhile, interesting story out of Washington, D.C. Interesting
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  Speaker 1: story out of Washington, D.C. So the Commander's Team Store
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  Speaker 1: making headlines. What did they do at the Commander's Team Store?
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  Speaker 1: Apparently they've been selling merch featuring the retired Redskins name.
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  Speaker 1: And they're using the logo. Holy wokesters, Batman. Yes. Native
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  Speaker 1: American head logo. Remember the iconic Redskins logo, which was
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  Speaker 1: beloved for years and years and years. And then when
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  Speaker 1: the world went all crazy a few years ago, you
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  Speaker 1: had to cancel everything and they got canceled. They got
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  Speaker 1: rid of it. They rebranded in 2020. The Washington Redskins
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  Speaker 1: became the Washington football team and eventually the Washington Commanders.
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  Speaker 1: So the merchandise includes T-shirts honoring franchise legends for the Redskins,
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  Speaker 1: Art Monk, Daryl Green, the late Sean Taylor, all wearing
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  Speaker 1: the old Redskins branding in the merch. Now, the team
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  Speaker 1: was asked about this because some media dopes were freaking out.
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  Speaker 1: They needed some therapy. Oh, my God. You can't. What
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  Speaker 1: are you doing with that logo? So the team responded,
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  Speaker 1: and they're claiming, listen, this is not the trial balloon.
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  Speaker 1: That's what they're saying. Not going to go back to
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  Speaker 1: the Redskins name. It remains retired. Instead, they're saying that
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  Speaker 1: these sales are being made to protect the trademark rights.
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  Speaker 1: There's trademark laws which require you to, in order to
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  Speaker 1: keep a trademark, you have to sell the trademark and
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  Speaker 1: you have to make it available for sale. And if
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  Speaker 1: you don't do that, you can lose rights to the trademark,
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  Speaker 1: meaning that some other bloke can then have the rights
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  Speaker 1: to the Redskins name and everything that goes along with that.
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  Speaker 1: So the question... That's what the team's saying. So the
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  Speaker 1: question is, does selling the old Redskins logo undermine Washington's
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  Speaker 1: decision to retire the name and the logo? So I've
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  Speaker 1: got three things in response to that. Ding, ding, ding. Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: So open your eyes. You are witnessing the most transparent
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  Speaker 1: trial balloon in NFL history. So retiring the Redskins name.
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  Speaker 1: was the ultimate woke okey-doke, is what it was. Everyone
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  Speaker 1: was doing virtue signaling in 2020. It was all the rage, right?
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  Speaker 1: Cheap virtue signaling, and I am more woke than you.
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  Speaker 7: Okay.
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  Speaker 1: It was part of the culture war, and the Redskins,
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  Speaker 1: the Cleveland Indians, around that time period, that was when
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  Speaker 1: the winds of the culture were blowing that direction. They
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  Speaker 1: were blowing west. And that's how that went. The winds
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  Speaker 1: have shifted, though. The winds have shifted now. And it
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  Speaker 1: certainly appears Washington wants cash. Now, they claim that this
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  Speaker 1: return to the vintage gear in the gift shop is
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  Speaker 1: trademark protection. And while it is true, I have a
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  Speaker 1: buddy of mine that used to run the gift shop
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  Speaker 1: at USC in Southern California. And they had trademarks to
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  Speaker 1: University of Southern California and all this stuff. And they
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  Speaker 1: had to sell stuff. But they did it. They hid
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  Speaker 1: it in the back of the gift shop. They had
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  Speaker 1: items for sale there. You had to be a scavenger, though,
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  Speaker 1: to find the items. You had to be a scavenger.
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  Speaker 1: So if the Washington commanders slash Redskins are all in,
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  Speaker 1: they just they have to sell something. It's trademark protection.
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  Speaker 1: They have to do it. OK, fine. But if that
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  Speaker 1: were true and they were really bothered by the names.
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  Speaker 1: Don't you think they'd have one dusty old Redskins coffee
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  Speaker 1: mug hidden in the very back on the left-hand side,
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  Speaker 1: the left-hand side behind the clearance rack where legally they're covered.
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  Speaker 1: No one really sees it. It's hidden. They're kind of embarrassed.
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  Speaker 1: That's not what's happening here. Instead, based on what I saw,
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  Speaker 1: if I saw it correctly, they dropped a full legend
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  Speaker 1: of Redskins-inspired merch line with Art Monk, Daryl Green, Sean Taylor.
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  Speaker 1: The delicious hypocrisy on this is next level. If the
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  Speaker 1: name was too offensive and people were shaking at the
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  Speaker 1: very name, it's so offensive, we can't keep the name.
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  Speaker 1: Why is it not too offensive to monetize? Because you're
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  Speaker 1: clearly going to make some money on this. To me,
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  Speaker 1: on this side, you really do forfeit the moral high
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  Speaker 1: ground of The moment you're like, well, we got to
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  Speaker 1: sell this stuff. Is this the first crack in the door?
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  Speaker 1: Inquiring minds would like... to know if the old Redskins
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  Speaker 1: gear outpaces the Commander gear, will someone in ownership say,
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  Speaker 1: you know, times have changed. That name wasn't so bad.
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  Speaker 6: It's iconic.
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  Speaker 1: And, you know, we made the league made a billion
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  Speaker 1: dollar branding blunder. Now, I would argue, even if you
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  Speaker 1: don't go back to the Redskins name, the commander's name
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  Speaker 1: is just lame to the membrane. It is just lame.
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  Speaker 1: It's so stupid. It's dum-da-dum-dum-dum is what it is. And
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  Speaker 1: I still bring up the story fondly from someone who
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  Speaker 1: I know who works in the NFL circles who told
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  Speaker 1: me the Redskins, when they went to the Washington football team,
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  Speaker 1: they did market research. They asked their season ticket holders,
• 20:33
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• 20:40
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• 20:48
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• 21:02
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• 21:04
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• 22:03
  Speaker 1: we're not doing the show from there. We were supposed to,
• 22:05
  Speaker 1: but we're not. But Lost Wages, Nevada, the place to be.
• 22:11
  Speaker 1: That's where all the cool kids will be hanging out
• 22:13
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• 22:16
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• 22:22
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• 22:23
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• 22:27
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• 22:32
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• 22:37
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• 22:40
  Speaker 1: from Jay Scoop. There is going to be some very
• 22:42
  Speaker 1: cool Malheur merch that will make its way to that event.
• 22:47
  Speaker 1: Coming up this Saturday, August 29th, 3 to 5. Steakout
• 22:51
  Speaker 1: Bar and Grill right near UNLV in Viva Las Vegas.
• 22:55
  Speaker 1: Coop and Lorena will be there. Surfer Todd, the comedian.
• 22:59
  Speaker 1: He'll be checking that out as well. Robbie, the Mariner fan.
• 23:03
  Speaker 1: Supermarket Steve, his wife, Wayne from Mizzou. Nada will be
• 23:07
  Speaker 1: there as well, one of our newer listeners from the
• 23:11
  Speaker 1: airport in L.A. So we're excited about that. So check
• 23:14
  Speaker 1: that out. Coming on. Free parking. I'm just going for
• 23:17
  Speaker 1: the free parking. I don't really want to meet you.
• 23:20
  Speaker 1: I want to hang out with my car in the
• 23:23
  Speaker 1: parking lot and not have to pay for it.
• 23:26
  Speaker 6: I'm going for the karaoke.
• 23:28
  Speaker 1: Yeah, Lorena will be singing.
• 23:29
  Speaker 6: I have a good song for us if we want
• 23:33
  Speaker 6: to do a group number.
• 23:35
  Speaker 1: I have to talk to my agent.
• 23:37
  Speaker 6: Oh, come on, Coop. It would be so fun. We
• 23:39
  Speaker 6: could even like choreograph it a bit.
• 23:42
  Speaker 1: No, my job is to be the host. We also
• 23:45
  Speaker 1: have to I realize this the stakeout bar and grill
• 23:47
  Speaker 1: is really cool. The photos haven't been the greatest.
• 23:50
  Speaker 6: The lighting is really bad.
• 23:51
  Speaker 1: The lighting is terrible. So we have to find a way.
• 23:53
  Speaker 1: Maybe we can take everyone outside. We could do that.
• 23:57
  Speaker 6: What if I bring a ring light?
• 23:58
  Speaker 1: Because I like to post a photo. These are team
• 24:01
  Speaker 1: photo because I don't play sports because I'm a fat
• 24:03
  Speaker 1: middle-aged talk show host. So I like to post a
• 24:05
  Speaker 1: team photo. It's like my team. Yeah. And the lighting's terrible.
• 24:09
  Speaker 10: Yeah, we do so many individual photos, too, though, with
• 24:11
  Speaker 10: everyone who's there. I feel like just an actual light area.
• 24:15
  Speaker 10: If we put up a photo booth area that we
• 24:17
  Speaker 10: could take that has good lighting.
• 24:19
  Speaker 1: Or what about the stage area where we did the karaoke?
• 24:21
  Speaker 1: We tried the stage. It didn't work. We took the
• 24:23
  Speaker 1: photo on the stage.
• 24:23
  Speaker 4: Well, maybe.
• 24:26
  Speaker 1: Slug and his buddy have lights. They can buy lights.
• 24:31
  Speaker 2: A ring light camera. No, I mean, they used to
• 24:33
  Speaker 2: have a karaoke business. Maybe they have lights and they
• 24:36
  Speaker 2: just haven't set them up before. Well, Slug, if you
• 24:37
  Speaker 2: can make the lighting good.
• 24:38
  Speaker 1: Just for the photo. We don't want it bright. We
• 24:40
  Speaker 1: don't want to look at each other. We're all ugly.
• 24:42
  Speaker 1: Not Lorraine, but everyone else is ugly. We don't want
• 24:44
  Speaker 1: to look at each other. So we don't want to
• 24:46
  Speaker 1: actually see what we look like. So we want it dark,
• 24:48
  Speaker 1: but for the photo, just turn it on for like
• 24:50
  Speaker 1: five minutes. So we can all look good in the
• 24:53
  Speaker 1: photo or look bad and all that stuff. Let's go
• 24:56
  Speaker 1: to the phones and we'll say hello.
• 24:58
  Speaker 4: Wait, wait, wait.
• 24:58
  Speaker 1: Before we go to the phones.
• 24:59
  Speaker 8: Oh, yes.
• 24:59
  Speaker 1: Cooper Loop. Justin Cooper. I don't know if you wanted
• 25:02
  Speaker 1: to wait to pay this off. What's that?
• 25:05
  Speaker 2: You teased about something about... What's that?
• 25:09
  Speaker 1: Criminal... Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah. You want me to do
• 25:12
  Speaker 1: that now? Because I have something to add to it. Okay.
• 25:15
  Speaker 1: I don't know that we know. It might not be
• 25:17
  Speaker 1: the same story.
• 25:17
  Speaker 2: Well, I don't think it's the same story, but somebody
• 25:21
  Speaker 2: asked me, a listener asked if we could... give an
• 25:24
  Speaker 2: update on the NFL book. I mean, I just figured
• 25:26
  Speaker 2: it probably goes hand in hand. Yeah.
• 25:27
  Speaker 1: Yeah. So I forgot we were doing that. So the,
• 25:30
  Speaker 1: you might remember the Ravens wide receiver, Rashad Bateman, he
• 25:34
  Speaker 1: was arrested back in June and it was like, the
• 25:37
  Speaker 1: headlines was terrible. It was like family violence, battery, reckless conduct,
• 25:41
  Speaker 1: felony criminal damage to property, all the, I mean, a
• 25:44
  Speaker 1: lot of stuff. And they, they reported initially that Bateman
• 25:48
  Speaker 1: pushed this woman into a wall and she was all
• 25:51
  Speaker 1: battered and bruised. And, and the whole thing, and there
• 25:54
  Speaker 1: was a confrontation in the car, and the whole deal. Well,
• 25:58
  Speaker 1: now there's been a major development. The woman, I guess
• 26:03
  Speaker 1: she recanted the physical assault allegation. She told the prosecutor,
• 26:07
  Speaker 1: this woman, she said she never was pushed by the
• 26:10
  Speaker 1: football player, and she said the bruises, the marks, and
• 26:13
  Speaker 1: everything photographed by the police, which showed her beaten and battered,
• 26:17
  Speaker 1: she claims was self-inflicted during an emotional episode, she says.
• 26:23
  Speaker 1: And she said she made false statements because she wanted
• 26:26
  Speaker 1: the Ravens player, Rashad Bateman, in trouble. You buy that?
• 26:32
  Speaker 1: She said that. That's what she said. She recanted the
• 26:36
  Speaker 1: whole thing? I believe it 100%.
• 26:37
  Speaker 10: Girls be doing some crazy stuff, man.
• 26:39
  Speaker 1: She must be an absolute freak, though, right? Come on now, boys.
• 26:42
  Speaker 3: Right?
• 26:42
  Speaker 1: Come on now. Crazy, crazy, crazy. What was your crime story, Koopaloop?
• 26:46
  Speaker 1: What was your story with the crime? What'd you got there? No,
• 26:49
  Speaker 1: I just wanted to... Oh, the update.
• 26:51
  Speaker 3: Yes.
• 26:51
  Speaker 1: Okay, the NFL book, and we did this thing. We
• 26:52
  Speaker 1: brought the hopper out. We need to find more uses
• 26:55
  Speaker 1: of the hopper. Hop, hop, hop. We need more uses
• 26:58
  Speaker 1: of the hopper. That's right.
• 27:00
  Speaker 5: So.
• 27:01
  Speaker 2: Currently leading the NFL book. Um, me is none other.
• 27:05
  Speaker 1: Oh, well, this is why we're doing this. Then myself.
• 27:09
  Speaker 1: I knew it. Yeah. Yeah.
• 27:11
  Speaker 6: Really cool.
• 27:13
  Speaker 1: Yes. Uh, if I was winning, he wouldn't have brought
• 27:16
  Speaker 1: this up. Uh, no, look, I, I, I want to
• 27:20
  Speaker 1: do it because the listener asked, and I am a
• 27:22
  Speaker 1: man of the people. Stop. Uh, you hate these people.
• 27:25
  Speaker 1: Thank you.
• 27:25
  Speaker 2: Terry and Arnold for, uh, your felony arrest and getting, uh,
• 27:30
  Speaker 2: released from the team. That has helped me build up.
• 27:34
  Speaker 2: I have a two-point lead. I have 11 points. Ben,
• 27:37
  Speaker 2: you have nine points.
• 27:39
  Speaker 1: Okay, I need someone. Who do I need? I need
• 27:40
  Speaker 1: a ram to get arrested. Do I have the rams?
• 27:42
  Speaker 1: I have a point. I got somebody arrested. Lorena, you
• 27:45
  Speaker 1: have two points.
• 27:46
  Speaker 5: Okay.
• 27:47
  Speaker 1: Two points, Lorena. Terrible job by you.
• 27:48
  Speaker 6: Not only two people, or is that just a minor crime?
• 27:51
  Speaker 2: You have the same person that got arrested twice. Jonathan
• 27:57
  Speaker 2: Cooper from the Broncos.
• 27:58
  Speaker 1: Oh, that's good. Two for one special.
• 27:59
  Speaker 2: Yeah, but they were both misdemeanor arrests, so just one
• 28:02
  Speaker 2: point each. And the most recent arrest, obviously, the listener. Actually,
• 28:09
  Speaker 2: so Lorraine is in last place. The listener has five
• 28:13
  Speaker 2: points because they have the 49ers.
• 28:17
  Speaker 1: And Jed York's arrest comes with extra points. Front office
• 28:22
  Speaker 1: bonus points. Who decides that? The listeners are complaining. Well,
• 28:25
  Speaker 1: we decided. The listeners are complaining, Coop. They're saying that
• 28:28
  Speaker 1: the Kyle Shanahan cover-up, they should have gotten more. There
• 28:31
  Speaker 1: should be some kind of arrest there, but they covered
• 28:33
  Speaker 1: it up.
• 28:33
  Speaker 6: Yeah, there's a cover-up going on there.
• 28:35
  Speaker 1: He was never arrested. Well, I'm saying that's why, because
• 28:37
  Speaker 1: there was an 11-day situation. That's why. You know, that's
• 28:42
  Speaker 1: out of our hands. We can only go by what
• 28:46
  Speaker 1: gets reported. Well, I did want to mention my new
• 28:48
  Speaker 1: favorite quarterback, Coop, is in Hawaii. Keisel Jesus Capessi, I
• 28:54
  Speaker 1: believe is his name. I guarantee I butchered that. He
• 28:57
  Speaker 1: is a high school quarterback nicknamed Fat Boy. He's 268 pounds.
• 29:04
  Speaker 1: He's playing quarterback in high school in Hawaii.
• 29:06
  Speaker 3: That's a huge bit.
• 29:06
  Speaker 1: Yeah, damn right. And they're off to a 2-0 start.
• 29:10
  Speaker 1: You know I love my high school football in Hawaii.
• 29:13
  Speaker 7: Aloha.
• 29:14
  Speaker 1: And Nicknamed Fatboy, the highlights, I saw the video clip online.
• 29:18
  Speaker 1: It is just majestic to see a fat man play quarterback.
• 29:21
  Speaker 1: And we have not had a true fat quarterback since
• 29:23
  Speaker 1: the hefty lefty, rest in peace, Jared Lorenzen. This guy's husky,
• 29:28
  Speaker 1: but he's no Jared Lorenzen. No, he's not, but he's young.
• 29:31
  Speaker 1: He's got time to fatten up. Come on, man. I'd
• 29:34
  Speaker 1: say there's good food in Hawaii, but the food's terrible
• 29:36
  Speaker 1: in Hawaii. The beaches are great. The food's not so much.
• 29:39
  Speaker 1: All right, let's go to the phone. the phones. 2%
• 29:41
  Speaker 1: Chance is in Alabama. Hello, 2% Chance.
• 29:44
  Speaker 7: Welcome.
• 29:46
  Speaker 5: How are you doing? This is 2% Chance. I'm calling
• 29:49
  Speaker 5: from the backwoods of Alabama. Just left a truck stop,
• 29:53
  Speaker 5: cut some guy's air brakes, and I'm back on the road.
• 29:56
  Speaker 2: Aha!
• 29:56
  Speaker 1: There it is. We solved the problem right here. Here
• 30:00
  Speaker 1: he is.
• 30:00
  Speaker 5: Nah, it's just a coincidence. It must be some other guy, man.
• 30:05
  Speaker 5: So I think Brady, he said, you know what? I
• 30:09
  Speaker 5: am the GOAT of the greatest NFL quarterback, NFL player, period.
• 30:15
  Speaker 5: You know what? There's one thing I haven't done. I
• 30:17
  Speaker 5: have to one-up my wife. I think that's why he's
• 30:19
  Speaker 5: going into this modeling business, their ex-wife, to just say, hey,
• 30:23
  Speaker 5: I'm better at you than this.
• 30:24
  Speaker 7: To Giselle.
• 30:26
  Speaker 5: He looked like the rubber man. I don't know if
• 30:28
  Speaker 5: you've ever seen that movie or TV show, American Horror Story.
• 30:31
  Speaker 5: There's this guy dressed in all rubber. He looks just
• 30:33
  Speaker 5: like him. Crazy, crazy dude. He's like in a giant condom.
• 30:37
  Speaker 5: Pretty nuts, man. Pretty darn nuts.
• 30:40
  Speaker 1: Or like the gimp in Pulp Fiction.
• 30:43
  Speaker 5: Yes. Yes, exactly. That's what I was trying.
• 30:47
  Speaker 1: To think of.
• 30:48
  Speaker 5: Yes.
• 30:49
  Speaker 1: Two percent chance.
• 30:50
  Speaker 2: I don't know.
• 30:50
  Speaker 1: You're having problems dating, right? You've told us about that.
• 30:52
  Speaker 1: So if you think if you wore an all leather
• 30:55
  Speaker 1: outfit and went out, the women would be all over.
• 30:57
  Speaker 1: You think that the women in Alabama need a man
• 31:00
  Speaker 1: in leather?
• 31:02
  Speaker 5: You know, I'm not a big leather guy. The only
• 31:03
  Speaker 5: time I've ever worn leather was my uncle who was
• 31:08
  Speaker 5: in the Navy. He gave me a nice leather Navy coat.
• 31:11
  Speaker 5: Other than that, man, I don't wear any of them.
• 31:14
  Speaker 1: I got you. Hold on a second. Let me see here.
• 31:16
  Speaker 1: Mike the Leprechaun, you're a leather guy, right? Aren't you
• 31:18
  Speaker 1: the leather leprechaun? Yeah, you are, right?
• 31:20
  Speaker 4: Leather was a big thing in the 70s and 80s.
• 31:22
  Speaker 4: Those jackets were really massive. When I came over from
• 31:25
  Speaker 4: Ireland in the 80s, you would go downtown to Arsenal
• 31:29
  Speaker 4: Street and buy all these cool leather jackets.
• 31:31
  Speaker 1: But the pants, though, that's the thing. Leather pants have
• 31:35
  Speaker 1: never been cool, right?
• 31:36
  Speaker 4: You can't wear leather in Alabama, for God's sake.
• 31:38
  Speaker 1: Now, you love Tom Brady. You'd rip Tom Brady, though,
• 31:41
  Speaker 1: for the leather.
• 31:41
  Speaker 7: Pants, right?
• 31:42
  Speaker 4: I think Tom Brady is a clown, really, because he's
• 31:46
  Speaker 4: overrated at this point. He is having a midlife crisis.
• 31:49
  Speaker 5: Yes.
• 31:50
  Speaker 1: Well, that's good because he's 49. Wow, I don't think
• 31:52
  Speaker 1: you're allowed to say that as a Bostonian. You might
• 31:54
  Speaker 1: get arrested. He's going to get kicked out of Boston.
• 31:56
  Speaker 4: He's from Michigan. But anyway, wherever he was born. No,
• 32:00
  Speaker 4: he has, he's like old wine that has gone stale.
• 32:06
  Speaker 1: Yeah. All right. He's very interested in getting attention, though.
• 32:09
  Speaker 1: I don't really need attention. The show's fine. That's my therapy.
• 32:12
  Speaker 1: I don't need it.
• 32:13
  Speaker 4: For karaoke, you should do the group one because we
• 32:16
  Speaker 4: did a few group karaoke.
• 32:19
  Speaker 1: You dominated karaoke in Worcester.
• 32:21
  Speaker 5: No, Lorraine dominated it.
• 32:24
  Speaker 1: No, you did. You were doing it. You were on
• 32:26
  Speaker 1: stage more than anybody doing the karaoke in Worcester. Come on.
• 32:30
  Speaker 1: Hold on a second. Let's see here. Are you a
• 32:32
  Speaker 1: Leather Pants guy, Marcel?
• 32:34
  Speaker 7: Hey, good morning, Ben, Lorena, and Coop-D-Luke.
• 32:37
  Speaker 1: What are you talking about? Do you wear leather pants?
• 32:41
  Speaker 4: I do.
• 32:42
  Speaker 1: Okay, so 2% chance. Marcel, he likes to wear leather pants.
• 32:47
  Speaker 5: I want to raise from the first caller, you know,
• 32:50
  Speaker 5: he said, you can't do it in Alabama. And you're
• 32:51
  Speaker 5: dang right, man. I know some guys that tried to
• 32:55
  Speaker 5: wear leather down here, and they were just sweating their
• 32:57
  Speaker 5: you-know-what's off. I don't think you can pull it off
• 33:00
  Speaker 5: in this state. I mean, correct me if I'm wrong.
• 33:02
  Speaker 5: Ask that caller, where is he from?
• 33:06
  Speaker 1: Well, we know the leprechaun is from the area around Worcester.
• 33:11
  Speaker 1: That caller. Yeah, that caller. E-Dawg, leather pants guy. What
• 33:14
  Speaker 1: do you think, E-Dawg? I don't know, but I got
• 33:18
  Speaker 1: to tell you something, okay?
• 33:19
  Speaker 3: Oh, great.
• 33:21
  Speaker 5: Okay, I got a story to tell you.
• 33:23
  Speaker 1: We don't really have time for a story. I'm sure
• 33:24
  Speaker 1: it'll be fascinating. We got password, the word gives it.
• 33:27
  Speaker 1: By the way, Ricardo says he just booked Vegas. Ricardo
• 33:30
  Speaker 1: in Boston. I don't believe him. Let's go. He said
• 33:33
  Speaker 1: he's going to be there.
• 33:34
  Speaker 2: Hey, I said this like a month ago, that this
• 33:36
  Speaker 2: is going to be the biggest meet and greet yet.
• 33:38
  Speaker 1: All right, we'll see. We'll see. We'll see.
• 33:40
  Speaker 5: 200 people.
• 33:43
  Speaker 1: E-Dub, we're trying to promote this event. Why would you
• 33:45
  Speaker 1: want to bogart our time?
• 33:47
  Speaker 7: I want to be secular.
• 33:50
  Speaker 6: What?
• 33:55
  Speaker 1: Mark on the North End, you can't rip Tom Brady, Mark.
• 33:58
  Speaker 1: You love all Boston sports and everything. Brady's like a god.
• 34:03
  Speaker 7: I love every Boston team except the Red Sox. I
• 34:05
  Speaker 7: am a Yankees fan.
• 34:06
  Speaker 1: That's very odd.
• 34:08
  Speaker 7: Yeah, it is, but there's a lot of us in
• 34:10
  Speaker 7: the North End, especially the Yankees fans. But this whole
• 34:13
  Speaker 7: Christian Gonzalez contract bull crap... If the team claims they
• 34:18
  Speaker 7: said that they offered him the most money out of
• 34:21
  Speaker 7: any defensive back ever in the NFL, what is his issue?
• 34:26
  Speaker 1: Who cares? Let's workshop this. Don't you think there's a chance, Mark,
• 34:33
  Speaker 1: the reason that the Patriots... I've heard this. I don't
• 34:36
  Speaker 1: live there, but I've heard that the Patriots are known
• 34:38
  Speaker 1: to doctor the books. And so they offer the most money,
• 34:41
  Speaker 1: but it's all about guaranteed money. How much guaranteed money?
• 34:45
  Speaker 1: That's the most important. So if they didn't offer them
• 34:46
  Speaker 1: the most guaranteed money, they could say, well, we offer
• 34:48
  Speaker 1: you the most money, but the most guaranteed money is
• 34:50
  Speaker 1: the most important part. You get me on that?
• 34:53
  Speaker 7: We all know that in the NFL, whatever you sign for, 90%
• 34:56
  Speaker 7: of it's freaking guaranteed anyway.
• 35:00
  Speaker 1: If you're a quarterback, yeah.
• 35:02
  Speaker 7: Well, just you know what? Who cares what somebody else
• 35:06
  Speaker 7: is making on another team? That other team's not paying you.
• 35:09
  Speaker 7: The New England Patriots are paying you to play football
• 35:12
  Speaker 7: and to play good defense. and win games. Just sign
• 35:15
  Speaker 7: the contract.
• 35:16
  Speaker 1: All right, there you go. You better sign Christian Gonzalez.
• 35:19
  Speaker 1: I know you're listening. Christian Gonzalez. Or Mark, you're not
• 35:22
  Speaker 1: going to allow him to go to any of those
• 35:23
  Speaker 1: great restaurants on the North End, right, if he does
• 35:25
  Speaker 1: not sign the contract?
• 35:27
  Speaker 4: I won't. I won't.
• 35:29
  Speaker 7: I will put signs up at every restaurant. Do not
• 35:32
  Speaker 7: allow this douche to.
• 35:34
  Speaker 1: Eat in your restaurant. Every restaurant, every Italian restaurant, every
• 35:38
  Speaker 1: bar can't do it. All right. Yes, 2% chance it's back. Yes, 2% chance. Yes.
• 35:45
  Speaker 5: I think he doesn't want to sign, man. I think he,
• 35:48
  Speaker 5: if I read this right, he is a devout Christian,
• 35:51
  Speaker 5: and he does not like what Vrabel did, and I
• 35:54
  Speaker 5: think he wants out.
• 35:55
  Speaker 1: Yeah, that's clearly it. Yes, absolutely right. Isn't that right, Marcel,
• 36:00
  Speaker 1: in Brooklyn? Leather pants, Marcel?
• 36:02
  Speaker 5: Yes, it is. Yes, it is.
• 36:03
  Speaker 8: Leather pants made easy, Ben.
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  Speaker 5: Oh.
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  Speaker 3: Wow.
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  Speaker 7: Wow.
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  Speaker 1: How about that, Marcel? Do all the women hit on
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  Speaker 1: you with the leather pants in Brooklyn?
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  Speaker 2: I don't think so.
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  Speaker 1: You better not. Really? Why not? You don't want the
• 36:19
  Speaker 1: women hitting on you?
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  Speaker 3: Nope.
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  Speaker 8: That does.
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  Speaker 4: What?
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  Speaker 7: Wow. Never mind.
• 36:25
  Speaker 8: Never mind.
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  Speaker 5: Never mind.
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  Speaker 1: Big revelation.
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  Speaker 6: That doesn't shock me at all.
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  Speaker 1: Isn't that amazing, E-Dog?
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  Speaker 3: Yes, it is.
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  Speaker 7: Can I tell you my story real quick?
• 36:34
  Speaker 1: No, I don't really do it. Lorraine, do you want
• 36:38
  Speaker 1: to hear the story?
• 36:39
  Speaker 7: Come on, Lorraine, please.
• 36:41
  Speaker 6: I mean, maybe tomorrow. We have Password.
• 36:44
  Speaker 1: Yeah, we have Password, the word game of the stars.
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  Speaker 7: It'll be one second, Ben.
• 36:47
  Speaker 1: All right, you have one second right now. Go ahead.
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  Speaker 5: Okay.
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  Speaker 7: That was fast.
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  Speaker 1: Password, the word game of the stars. If you want
• 36:58
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  Speaker 8: And the password is.
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  Speaker 7: Password.
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  Speaker 5: Idiot.
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  Speaker 1: Password, the word game of the stars.
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  Speaker 8: Here's Ben Meller.
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  Speaker 1: All right, to the game we go. Let's welcome in
• 38:05
  Speaker 1: our contestants for Password, the word game of the stars.
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  Speaker 1: We say hello to Jimmy in St. Paul. Who's going
• 38:13
  Speaker 1: to play? Hello, Jimmy.
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  Speaker 7: Hey, what's up, Ben?
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  Speaker 1: Welcome in, buddy. Good to have you. Yeah, thanks, man.
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  Speaker 1: Who do you want to partner up with? You got me, Ben, Lorena, Coop.
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  Speaker 7: I'll go with Coop.
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  Speaker 1: All right, that's a bad decision. Hold on a sec.
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  Speaker 1: And who do we have? Let's see here. I'll let
• 38:30
  Speaker 1: Marcel pick. Marcel, pick one, two, three, or four.
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  Speaker 5: One.
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  Speaker 7: All right.
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  Speaker 1: You have picked Mike in Boston. Hello, Mike. Welcome. You're
• 38:41
  Speaker 1: going to play our game. Hello, Mike.
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  Speaker 7: All right.
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  Speaker 5: Awesome.
• 38:44
  Speaker 1: Marcel picked you. You play with Arena or me?
• 38:47
  Speaker 5: Me.
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  Speaker 1: There's a lot of ambient noise.
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  Speaker 5: I'm going with my boy back.
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  Speaker 1: That's right. Come on, Mike.
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  Speaker 6: Are you riding a tractor?
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  Speaker 4: Yes.
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  Speaker 1: What's happening? Don't judge him. Okay. We have a list
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  Speaker 1: of words, one to ten. Jimmy, you were on the
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  Speaker 1: air first.
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  Speaker 2: Really?
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  Speaker 1: What are you on? Hold on. That's fine. We'll put
• 39:05
  Speaker 1: him on hold for now. It doesn't matter. Go ahead there, Jimmy.
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  Speaker 1: Pick a number one to ten, please.
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  Speaker 7: Let's go five.
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  Speaker 1: All right, Coop. Should be easy for you. All right,
• 39:17
  Speaker 1: let's go with, let's see. Come on, Coop.
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  Speaker 8: Carnivore.
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  Speaker 5: Me.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah. All right.
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  Speaker 6: I am so shocked.
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  Speaker 1: That was not a good clue. All right, Mike in Boston.
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  Speaker 1: Pick a number one to ten, but not five, Mike.
• 39:41
  Speaker 3: Mike.
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  Speaker 1: I didn't put it in my eyes. That's user error. Mike,
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  Speaker 1: pick a number one to ten, but not five, please.
• 39:52
  Speaker 7: Seven.
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  Speaker 1: All right. Easy. Abracadabra.
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  Speaker 7: Magic?
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, we're tied up.
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  Speaker 1: That's how you do it.
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  Speaker 6: All right, let's go.
• 40:05
  Speaker 1: Pick another number, Jimmy. Pick a number quickly.
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  Speaker 4: One.
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  Speaker 1: Number one. Hurry up, Coop. Let's go with conference.
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  Speaker 7: Meeting.
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  Speaker 6: Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: That was it. Mike, hurry up, Mike.
• 40:18
  Speaker 3: Mike.
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  Speaker 1: All right.
• 40:20
  Speaker 2: Three.
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  Speaker 1: Number three. Boxers. Boxers.
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  Speaker 5: Underwear.
• 40:25
  Speaker 1: Yeah, we're tied. We tied it up. Oh, what a game.
• 40:29
  Speaker 1: Come back next week. We match. Come back next week, guys.