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Hour 3 - The Red Mist · The Ben Maller Show

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  Speaker 1: The Benny men can. The Benny men can. That's baseball, Susan.
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  Speaker 1: It's our number three. Our three ready to go on
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  Speaker 1: a newbie night on the Ben Mather Show. We start
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  Speaker 1: out in Ohio. Some interesting commentary around L.A. De La Cruz.
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  Speaker 1: It sounds like he's not that interested in staying where
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  Speaker 1: he is. Should Cincinnati keep negotiating a contract with L.A.
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  Speaker 1: De La Cruz or start preparing for a blockbuster trade? Also,
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  Speaker 1: noise that Manny Machado is headed to the Padres swap
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  Speaker 1: meet out of San Diego. What's your take on what's
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  Speaker 1: going on in America's finest city? And is the latest
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  Speaker 1: proposal of a 50% revenue split between ownership and the
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  Speaker 1: players really advantageous for the MLB players? As some are saying,
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  Speaker 1: we'll analyze that and more right now. And here we go.
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  Speaker 1: It's our number three. Also have the Queen of Hearts
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  Speaker 1: back to it we go. And big hour ahead later on.
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  Speaker 1: It's a newbie night, so it's all new callers. And
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  Speaker 1: we're going to have, in a little bit, a radio
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  Speaker 1: game show. something that we call Too Much or Not Enough.
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  Speaker 1: We'll have the Riddle of the Day. That'll be going
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  Speaker 1: on as well. And later on this hour, the Queen
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  Speaker 1: of Hearts with Lorena. So we've got all that to
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  Speaker 1: go to later on, but our lead this hour. Don't
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  Speaker 1: bury the lead, my man! We go to the Buckeye State,
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  Speaker 1: where one of the breakout stars, although he's been good
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  Speaker 1: for a couple years, is extra special. Playing for a
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  Speaker 1: crappy Cincinnati baseball team, Eli De La Cruz. who's been
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  Speaker 1: monster-mashing for Cincinnati. It appears his future with the National
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  Speaker 1: League baseball team in Ohio is not looking particularly good.
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  Speaker 1: A lot of uncertainty. A lot of uncertainty here. The
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  Speaker 1: agent Scott Boris, the most powerful man in baseball, it
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  Speaker 1: is not Rob Manfraud. The most powerful person in baseball
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  Speaker 1: is Scott Boris, and he's signal. that the 24-year-old face
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  Speaker 1: of the Cincinnati Reds has, quote, bigger ambitions than staying
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  Speaker 1: with the Reds his entire career. Uh-oh! Yeah, that's not good.
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  Speaker 1: That's not good. Now, it has been mentioned that before
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  Speaker 1: the 2025 season, the Cincinnati baseball team offered De La Cruz,
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  Speaker 1: a 10-year contract, an extension that would have topped Joey
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  Speaker 1: Votto's record, and Votto's record was $ 225 million. So De
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  Speaker 1: La Cruz has turned down that money and says, I'm good,
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  Speaker 1: I don't need that contract, betting on himself. De La
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  Speaker 1: Cruz declining. The story, though, was confirmed by the president
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  Speaker 1: of the Cincinnati Reds that they did indeed offer a
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  Speaker 1: record-setting contract. Now, Scott Boras' position is rather simple. Not
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  Speaker 1: that hard. His position is, listen, establish the full market
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  Speaker 1: value of L.A. De La Cruz rather than lock in
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  Speaker 1: on some below market extension. So that is a good
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  Speaker 1: jumping off point. Let us discuss the question. Should Cincinnati
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  Speaker 1: continue to negotiate with L.A. De La Cruz or should
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  Speaker 1: they start preparing a blockbuster trade? For the face of
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  Speaker 1: the franchise. So I've got Morse Code, Guacamole, and Golden Corral.
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  Speaker 1: And we will combine all of these things together. We're
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  Speaker 1: going to try to schnazz up the show a little bit.
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  Speaker 1: Schnazz it up a bit. That's what we're going to
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  Speaker 1: try to do. Now, to lead off here, if L.A.
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  Speaker 1: De La Cruz wants to spend his career in Cincinnati,
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  Speaker 1: I would believe the biggest contract in Red's history would
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  Speaker 1: have closed the deal. Oh, that's not true.
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  Speaker 3: Okay.
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  Speaker 1: Now, we don't know how much that offer was. We
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  Speaker 1: obviously don't. Apparently, it would appear the Skyline Chili is
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  Speaker 1: not on the vision board for De La Cruz. Now,
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  Speaker 1: that Grater's ice cream, now that's good ice cream. I'd
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  Speaker 1: stay in Cincinnati just to eat the ice cream there
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  Speaker 1: because it's really, really good. Apparently, he's not thinking that way.
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  Speaker 1: So the Reds, the way it's being passed around the
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  Speaker 1: echo chamber, the Reds are just hopeless romantics planning for
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  Speaker 1: the wedding. They're all excited. They're like, where are we
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  Speaker 1: going to go? Is it going to be a tropical wedding?
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  Speaker 1: Is it going to be in the mountains? Where is
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  Speaker 1: it going to be? And then Elliott De La Cruz,
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  Speaker 1: on the other side, he's browsing Tinder, and he's trying
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  Speaker 1: to see what else is out there. He's trying to
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  Speaker 1: keep his options open, see what's out there. So saying
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  Speaker 1: that he has bigger ambitions, and we passed this through
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  Speaker 1: the test, and this is actually from Scott Morris. It's
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  Speaker 1: Morse code. It's Scott Morris Morse code, and it means
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  Speaker 1: get me the hell out of Cincinnati is what that means.
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  Speaker 1: And Red fans, you're kidding yourself if you're like, well,
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  Speaker 1: we think he's going to stay and all that stuff.
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  Speaker 1: If the player, in this case, Ellie, tells you he's
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  Speaker 1: not locking things in, he's not willing to sign the
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  Speaker 1: big contract, you might want to turn up your hearing aid.
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  Speaker 1: You might want to turn that up. The whispers say
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  Speaker 1: he could become baseball's first what? He's on track. assuming
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  Speaker 1: that the collective bargaining agreement doesn't destroy this, that L.A.
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  Speaker 1: De La Cruz would become a billion-dollar baby, the first
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  Speaker 1: billion-dollar player in baseball history. Now, that seems outrageous. That
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  Speaker 1: seems outrageous. However, you look around and you see the
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  Speaker 1: money that Juan Soto got from the Mets and you
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  Speaker 1: see inflation and how things go up in price. They
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  Speaker 1: don't become cheaper anymore. So there you go. And the
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  Speaker 1: Reds aren't going to pay him a billion dollars, Elie
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  Speaker 1: De La Cruz. Cincinnati, I am told, does control the player.
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  Speaker 1: He can't leave until after the 2029 season. So the
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  Speaker 1: decision's rather simple. The decision's not simple. The question is simple.
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  Speaker 1: The decision is not. The decision is not. The question
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  Speaker 1: is rather easy. Can the Reds put a team together
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  Speaker 1: in 27, 28, or 29 good enough to win the
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  Speaker 1: National League pennant? Are they that close to putting a
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  Speaker 1: team together with De La Cruz as the centerpiece to win?
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  Speaker 1: Because we have seen if you win, it's harder to
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  Speaker 1: leave a place if you've just won a World Series.
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  Speaker 1: Guys still do, but it's harder to do it if
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  Speaker 1: you've won a championship. And so if you think you
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  Speaker 1: can put a team together good enough to win, then
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  Speaker 1: you keep them, and if not... You call up the
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  Speaker 1: Dodgers and the Yankees and the Red Sox and the
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  Speaker 1: Cubs and the Giants and all the usual suspects and say, hey,
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  Speaker 1: how would you like to make a trade for Eli
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  Speaker 1: De La Cruz? And they say, what are you talking about?
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  Speaker 1: You wouldn't trade him. Oh, yeah, I want to bet
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  Speaker 1: on that. All right, furthermore, to San Diego we go.
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  Speaker 1: And you knew this was coming. You knew this was coming.
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  Speaker 1: So a lot of chatter in the last few days
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  Speaker 1: here that the new ownership group for the Padres, the
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  Speaker 1: woman that hugged herself there and kissed herself on the scoreboard.
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  Speaker 1: So the Padres' new ownership group is going to look
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  Speaker 1: to unload one of their high-priced superstars. They have three massive,
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  Speaker 1: massive contracts, and the Padres are going to look to
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  Speaker 1: trade one of them, whether it's Fernando Tatis, Xander Bogarts,
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  Speaker 1: or Manny Machado. Now, the early chatter is it's going
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  Speaker 1: to be Manny Machado. that his days are numbered. His
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  Speaker 1: expiration date is coming up at the end of the year.
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  Speaker 1: Machado is going to be the odd man out. The
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  Speaker 1: steroid cheat, Fernando Tatis there, is beloved in San Diego,
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  Speaker 1: and he's locked in. I think he's in year six
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  Speaker 1: of a 14-year contract for $ 340 million. Then Xander Bogarts,
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  Speaker 1: the Padres would love to trade him, except... He's not
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  Speaker 1: very good compared to what he had been playing at Fenway.
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  Speaker 1: And so he's declined dramatically, Xander Boca. since leaving the
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  Speaker 1: team from Boston. So that does leave by the process
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  Speaker 1: of elimination, time-tested process of elimination. That leaves Manny Machado,
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  Speaker 1: who is also having a down year. He's played better lately,
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  Speaker 1: but he was stealing money the first couple months of
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  Speaker 1: the year. And the idea is that there would be
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  Speaker 1: a bunch of teams that are willing to trade for
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  Speaker 1: Machado because they're all cockeyed optimists. They think they know
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  Speaker 1: how to unlock a higher level of Manny Machado. We've
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  Speaker 1: heard that before. And so I would like to point
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  Speaker 1: out that the Padre fans are dismissing the idea that
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  Speaker 1: they're going to trade one of these big contracts. Like,
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  Speaker 1: it's just, it's the media. Blame the media. All right,
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  Speaker 1: so the question is, The noise that Manny Machado is
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  Speaker 1: heading to the Padres swap meet, and he's going to
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  Speaker 1: be unloaded this offseason. What is your take on what's
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  Speaker 1: going on in San Diego? Because there's a lot of noise,
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  Speaker 1: and typically when you hear that kind of noise, it's
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  Speaker 1: a band, it's something going on there. So Manny Machado,
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  Speaker 1: who's been in San Diego for a while now, he's
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  Speaker 1: not just got a contract. It's not just some kind
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  Speaker 1: of random contract. he's the first philosophical crisis for the
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  Speaker 1: new owner, Kwanzaa Jones and her sugar daddy hubby, that
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  Speaker 1: they have to decide what they want to do there
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  Speaker 1: in San Diego. And the Padres spent years and years
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  Speaker 1: collecting star players. Like back in the day, we're playing
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  Speaker 1: baseball cards and all that. And That was back in
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  Speaker 1: the Peter Seidler era, and he passed away a couple
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  Speaker 1: years ago, and he had an unlimited, the old Padre
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  Speaker 1: owner had an unlimited buffet coupon, and they liked going
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  Speaker 1: to the buffet. They really liked going to the buffet.
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  Speaker 1: But the deep pockets, the spending, trying to be like
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  Speaker 1: the Dodgers in America's finest city, it would appear those
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  Speaker 1: days are limited, and it's just not going to continue.
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  Speaker 1: And so they wanted to be like L.A., and then
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  Speaker 1: they realized that the Dodgers have a lot of monthly payments.
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  Speaker 1: And that was fine when the Padres had a TV deal,
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  Speaker 1: but no one's watching the Padres on TV. They got
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  Speaker 1: one of these Fugazi setups where it's like the Padre
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  Speaker 1: MLB TV package thing. It's a mess. And so I
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  Speaker 1: will concede trading Manny Machado. is not crazy. It's not outrageous.
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  Speaker 1: In fact, you could argue, even if the Padres still
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  Speaker 1: wanted to spend money, it would be the proper move
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  Speaker 1: to get rid of Machado, to get rid of his contract.
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  Speaker 1: Machado's contract is aging like guacamole that was left on
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  Speaker 1: the dashboard of a sedan in the summer there in
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  Speaker 1: El Cajon. It's not going to come out good. It's
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  Speaker 1: just terrible. It's nasty. Right now, we're not at the
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  Speaker 1: part of the story where it's a fire sale. For
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  Speaker 1: the Padres, new management. And just walking around right now,
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  Speaker 1: they're getting the lay of the land, the new ownership there.
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  Speaker 1: They're putting little green stickers. Little green. They're round. Little
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  Speaker 1: round green stickers there on everything. They're putting price stickers.
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  Speaker 1: How much can we get for that? Nothing says an
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  Speaker 1: ownership honeymoon like listening to one of your marquee players
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  Speaker 1: get put up on offer up. And it's like, what?
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  Speaker 1: And the Padres are likely going to have to pay
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  Speaker 1: some of Machado's contract, depending on where he goes, if
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  Speaker 1: they want to get anything in return. And so it
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  Speaker 1: does turn out, we believe, the moral of the story
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  Speaker 1: is that the yacht the Padres got was beautiful. They
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  Speaker 1: have their championship in San Diego. And you remember when
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  Speaker 1: they won? That was great. They beat the Dodgers in
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  Speaker 1: the playoffs. That's a championship for the Padres. So they
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  Speaker 1: got that done. They checked that box. Congratulations on that.
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  Speaker 1: And away to go. But they did this massive yacht,
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  Speaker 1: this exotic VIP yacht there. And someone finally noticed the
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  Speaker 1: bill and the bill for the fuel. And it's expensive.
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  Speaker 1: And you got to pay for the crew and everyone else.
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  Speaker 1: And so all of a sudden, Manny Machado is being asked,
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  Speaker 1: you know that buffet where we had those coupons?
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, yeah, yeah.
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  Speaker 1: Well, can you just... Go to the doggy bag there.
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  Speaker 1: Take one of those doggy bags there, the to-go box,
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  Speaker 1: and take that. Okay, thank you. All right, last thing
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  Speaker 1: to the labor battle, because there's nothing you love more
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  Speaker 1: than a good labor battle. I bring this up, Major
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  Speaker 1: League Baseball. Latest proposal said to be $ 171 million salary
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  Speaker 1: cap floor, $ 171. 2 million salary cap floor, and a $ 245
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  Speaker 1: million hard cap floor. Now, it's never good to give
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  Speaker 1: out numbers on the radio because you're not paying that
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  Speaker 1: close attention and it's rather pointless. Let's just say that
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  Speaker 1: the players would get half the revenue of Major League Baseball.
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  Speaker 1: They get 50% of the revenue. And based on the
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  Speaker 1: latest reporting, there are eight MLB teams that would have
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  Speaker 1: to downsize their roster. They'd have to get rid of players.
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  Speaker 1: The Dodgers, the Mets, the Yankees, the Phillies, among those teams,
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  Speaker 1: would have to cut payroll. They'd have to get rid
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  Speaker 1: of ballplayers. And there are not one, not two, not three,
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  Speaker 1: not four, not five, not six, not seven, not eight.
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  Speaker 1: How about 12 teams, almost half of Major League Baseball,
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  Speaker 1: that would have to spend more money They'd have to
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  Speaker 1: go over what they're spending right now to reach the floor.
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  Speaker 1: And so that's where we are. So I bring this up.
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  Speaker 1: The former GM of the Cincinnati Reds and a guy
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  Speaker 1: that I did some shows with back in the day,
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  Speaker 1: former Fox Sports Radio alumni member, Jim Bowden. And so
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  Speaker 1: Jim Bowden, the GM there, calling the split fair, said
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  Speaker 1: the 50% split is fair and advantageous. That's the word
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  Speaker 1: that he used, advantageous for players arguing that it would
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  Speaker 1: increase overall spending while improving competitive balance between baseball's big
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  Speaker 1: and small market teams. All right, so the question is this.
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  Speaker 1: Is the latest proposal said to be a 50% revenue
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  Speaker 1: split really as advantageous as it is being said to
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  Speaker 1: be for the MLB players? So after a brief review
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  Speaker 1: and deliberation of the available information on this, calling this proposal, which,
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  Speaker 1: and Jim's not the only one, there's some other baseball
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  Speaker 1: types that are saying similar things, calling this proposal advantageous
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  Speaker 1: for the players, the 50% revenue split, it's kind of
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  Speaker 1: like calling a speed trap an advantageous situation for motorists. Yeah. Well,
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  Speaker 1: I think most people would say that that's not advantageous
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  Speaker 1: to be caught up in a speed trap. It's not.
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  Speaker 1: And you got to remember that the math is fuzzy
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  Speaker 1: on all this stuff. The math is fuzzy. A 50-50
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  Speaker 1: revenue split as being described for the players with the ownership.
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  Speaker 1: It sounds great to the low information fan, the uneducated
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  Speaker 1: fan will say, oh, we support ownership. We want the
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  Speaker 1: players to make less money. We want the employees to
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  Speaker 1: make less money. That's the mindset. That's the mindset. So
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  Speaker 1: it sounds pretty good for the uneducated and the low
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  Speaker 1: information and all that. And then you realize, well, who's
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  Speaker 1: holding the calculator? Well, that would be the owners. The
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  Speaker 1: owners are holding the calculator. They're the ones doing the
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  Speaker 1: math on that. It's kind of like when they have
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  Speaker 1: an independent arbitrator come in and then, well, who's paying
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  Speaker 1: for that? Well, that would be the league paying for
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  Speaker 1: the independent arbitrator. Are you really that independent? Are you
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  Speaker 1: really that independent? Anyway, so the fight here, if you
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  Speaker 1: look at the fight, is rather simple. It's not over generosity, obviously.
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  Speaker 1: it's over what counts as revenue. What is revenue? What
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  Speaker 1: is not revenue? And that's the quagmire that will ultimately
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  Speaker 1: be part of this, a big part of how this
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  Speaker 1: all plays out, because 50-50 revenue split sounds, as we said,
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  Speaker 1: pretty good if you're not familiar with how this works.
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  Speaker 1: But the problem is the argument is over what counts
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  Speaker 1: as revenue. That's the argument. What gets deducted? What are
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  Speaker 1: the deductibles? and the hard cap attached to it and
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  Speaker 1: all that stuff. So it's kind of like the way
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  Speaker 1: I would describe it to you as a child would be,
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  Speaker 1: it's kind of like getting half of the Golden Corral
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  Speaker 1: buffet after they remove all of the expensive meats, the
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  Speaker 1: prime rib and the other stuff there. So you don't
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  Speaker 1: get any of that, but they'll give you half of
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  Speaker 1: the broccoli and the cauliflower and the mashed potatoes. You'll
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  Speaker 1: get half of that, but you don't get the really expensive...
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  Speaker 1: The meat. You don't get that. Like Juan Soto got
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  Speaker 1: $ 765 million from the Mets because the Mets owner is
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  Speaker 1: not that bright. But he decided that that's what Soto
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  Speaker 1: was worth. $ 765 million. That's called the market. Well, if
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  Speaker 1: he changed the rules here, then you do not allow
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  Speaker 1: a contract like that to happen. Baseball stars are still
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  Speaker 1: the attraction, even though some of them are complete a-holes.
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  Speaker 1: They're still the attraction. So why would players voluntarily put
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  Speaker 1: a governor on the engine? Why would they do that?
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  Speaker 1: Major League Baseball claims that this will force cheap owners
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  Speaker 1: to spend. That's their argument. Yeah, the teams that aren't...
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  Speaker 1: 12 teams are going to have to spend more money.
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  Speaker 1: And I promise you, and I'm never wrong about this stuff...
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  Speaker 1: The teams that have to spend more money are going
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  Speaker 1: to just pick up bad contracts right before opening day
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  Speaker 1: when rosters get locked in just to be at the
• 20:18
  Speaker 1: very floor of where the salary cap is. So it'll
• 20:21
  Speaker 1: be a dumping ground for the Dodgers, Mets, Yankees, and
• 20:24
  Speaker 1: the teams that spend on big players. Just unload those players.
• 20:28
  Speaker 1: And that's it. But you're not fixing the underlying condition.
• 20:31
  Speaker 1: That's the issue. The underlying condition is El Cheapo owns
• 20:36
  Speaker 1: the Pirates and the Reds and these other teams. and
• 20:39
  Speaker 1: you're giving El Cheapo, the owner, you're giving El Cheapo
• 20:44
  Speaker 1: diplomatic immunity. Why would you do that? It's a bad
• 20:48
  Speaker 1: job by you. We shouldn't water down the Heineken. Can't
• 20:52
  Speaker 1: water down the Heineken because some owners refuse to stock
• 20:55
  Speaker 1: the fridge. That makes no sense. And so ownership, they're like, oh,
• 20:59
  Speaker 1: we got some jewelry for the players. Let me take
• 21:02
  Speaker 1: a look. Oh, that's handcuffs. Okay, that's not good. And
• 21:07
  Speaker 1: so the hard cap, It's not going to happen. The
• 21:11
  Speaker 1: players will not sign off on it. They won't be
• 21:13
  Speaker 1: baseball for a very long time there. That is just
• 21:17
  Speaker 1: the poison. Somebody delivering the poison wearing a Hawaiian shirt.
• 21:21
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• 21:25
  Speaker 1: Hooray for newbie night. And we'll take some of these
• 21:29
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• 21:33
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• 21:38
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• 21:40
  Speaker 1: at 877-99-ON-FOX. Time now, though, for the Maller Riddle of
• 21:46
  Speaker 1: the Day, which you can answer on X at Ben Maller.
• 21:50
  Speaker 1: The Raiders. The Raiders will now play at the only
• 21:56
  Speaker 1: NFL stadium with a blank. Again, the Las Vegas Raiders,
• 22:04
  Speaker 1: it was just announced, will now play at the only
• 22:07
  Speaker 1: NFL stadium. That has a blank. Fill in the blank.
• 22:13
  Speaker 1: This is new information. That is the Maller. Riddle of
• 22:16
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• 22:19
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• 22:21
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• 22:23
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• 22:31
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• 23:02
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• 23:10
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• 23:13
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• 23:37
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• 23:40
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• 23:42
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• 23:44
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• 23:46
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• 23:50
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• 23:54
  Speaker 1: Right there. She's getting all dressed up for overnight radio.
• 23:57
  Speaker 1: And Koopaloop, we should say hello to our FSR Tech Queen, Koopaloop,
• 24:00
  Speaker 1: and a Bronco fan. Thank you. Time now for the
• 24:06
  Speaker 1: riddle of the day, the Maller riddle of the day.
• 24:09
  Speaker 1: The Raiders recently became the first team to play, the
• 24:17
  Speaker 1: only team in the NFL stadium to play in a
• 24:20
  Speaker 1: stadium that has a blank. Let me rephrase that. I
• 24:23
  Speaker 1: think I butchered that. Let me try that again. The
• 24:25
  Speaker 1: Raiders now play at the only NFL stadium with a blank.
• 24:29
  Speaker 1: All right. What is it? Let's see if we can
• 24:31
  Speaker 1: find out here. And we'll go around the many answers
• 24:35
  Speaker 1: we have on the X-Machine at Van Maller. Let's see here.
• 24:41
  Speaker 1: OG Art Puffin says Allegiant Stadium will be the only
• 24:43
  Speaker 1: venue to have a retractable industrial-size pizza fork. All right.
• 24:49
  Speaker 1: Luke the Vending Guy says the all-you-can-eat buffet at the
• 24:53
  Speaker 1: Strip Club. I may or may not have added something
• 24:55
  Speaker 1: to that. Late Night Drug Tester says boxing ring for
• 24:58
  Speaker 1: fan fights. Beyond Meat Corndog from King Rory. Disgusting. Future
• 25:06
  Speaker 1: Mallor Meet and Greet from Eek in Roseville, Minnesota. A
• 25:10
  Speaker 1: purr-fect nightclub from Alf the Alien Alpine. Can you not
• 25:16
  Speaker 1: roll your tongue? What's that? Purr-fect. Purr-fect. No, you do that.
• 25:22
  Speaker 1: The only stadium with a nudie bar from Keith Ocho.
• 25:25
  Speaker 1: Our friend Rebecca the Ram fan on this newbie night
• 25:29
  Speaker 1: says the Raiders are the only team to play in
• 25:31
  Speaker 1: the stadium that has vomit troughs and razor blades and
• 25:37
  Speaker 1: ropes under the cushions in case fans want to kill themselves. Wow.
• 25:42
  Speaker 1: Inca Terrace says a helmet man lookalike. Oh, what do
• 25:46
  Speaker 1: we have here? Page down. Slug says a Del Taco
• 25:50
  Speaker 1: diarrhea restroom from our buddy Slug in Vegas. Still waiting
• 25:55
  Speaker 1: on those mashed potatoes, Slug. I'm still waiting. What else?
• 25:58
  Speaker 1: Slot machine toilets from JT the Wingman. That's actually a
• 26:01
  Speaker 1: good idea. Slot machine toilet. What else do we have?
• 26:05
  Speaker 1: James says a shout out from Madison, South Dakota on
• 26:09
  Speaker 1: a newbie night. You ever been to Madison, South Dakota? No,
• 26:14
  Speaker 1: you've never been there. You never even heard of Madison,
• 26:17
  Speaker 1: South Dakota. That is a town with a population of
• 26:21
  Speaker 1: a little over 6,000 people. That's it. Lorraine, do you
• 26:24
  Speaker 1: have an answer to the Malheur riddle of the day?
• 26:27
  Speaker 1: The Raiders now play at the only NFL stadium with
• 26:31
  Speaker 1: a blank.
• 26:33
  Speaker 5: A top-rated Michelin restaurant.
• 26:36
  Speaker 1: A top-rated Michelin restaurant. Is that correct? Survey set. No.
• 26:40
  Speaker 1: The Raiders are the only NFL team to play in
• 26:43
  Speaker 1: a stadium with... A Taco Bell Cantina! Woo!
• 26:49
  Speaker 6: Oh, yes!
• 26:51
  Speaker 1: That sounds great. Oh, it is great. I got Taco
• 26:54
  Speaker 1: Bell right now. Well, of course you do. But here's
• 26:57
  Speaker 1: the thing about Taco Bell. Koop loves Taco Bell, right?
• 27:00
  Speaker 1: And the Raiders, when inevitably they wake up and realize
• 27:03
  Speaker 1: they're the Raiders, you can go in there and when
• 27:05
  Speaker 1: Taco Bell, they should serve that. I know they're not
• 27:07
  Speaker 1: trying to serve the lettuce where it gives you the
• 27:09
  Speaker 1: runs and all that, but they should have a special
• 27:11
  Speaker 1: stand when the Raiders are down by four touchdowns. Everyone
• 27:14
  Speaker 1: gets served that service. devil's lettuce not the kind that
• 27:17
  Speaker 1: you guys like to smoke i'm talking about the the
• 27:19
  Speaker 1: devil's lettuce yeah the kind that sends you right to
• 27:22
  Speaker 1: the toilet yeah i'm told there's also a uh a
• 27:26
  Speaker 1: meal fernando mendoza has his own meal at the named
• 27:31
  Speaker 1: after him at the taco bell cantina do you know
• 27:34
  Speaker 1: what's in it uh let's see here the it's a
• 27:37
  Speaker 1: manager mendoza special It comes with regular or large nacho fries,
• 27:43
  Speaker 1: nacho cheese sauce, one Doritos Locos taco, and five crispy
• 27:49
  Speaker 1: chicken strips. Oh, it's perfect for you. For me? Yeah,
• 27:52
  Speaker 1: you can have the chicken strips. Yeah, I would probably
• 27:56
  Speaker 1: eat all that stuff, I would think. I mean, I
• 27:58
  Speaker 1: haven't been to Taco Bell. In a long time, but
• 28:01
  Speaker 1: I would think I would be interested. Let's say we
• 28:03
  Speaker 1: have an international call, then we'll get to the game.
• 28:05
  Speaker 1: We go now to a man. You've heard his name
• 28:07
  Speaker 1: on the show for a long time. He's been very
• 28:10
  Speaker 1: active there. He's in South Korea, and his name is Doug.
• 28:14
  Speaker 1: He's known as Monkey Biz Doug from South Korea, and
• 28:18
  Speaker 1: he listens to the show all the time. Hello, Doug. Welcome.
• 28:22
  Speaker 3: Big Ben, the man, the myth, the legend. How you doing, buddy?
• 28:25
  Speaker 1: What's going on? Now, is it true you're leaving South Korea?
• 28:27
  Speaker 1: You had mentioned that you were going to head to
• 28:29
  Speaker 1: the East Coast. Is this accurate?
• 28:31
  Speaker 3: That is exact. I'm going to relocate back to Richmond
• 28:34
  Speaker 3: area here pretty soon.
• 28:36
  Speaker 1: Are we going to lose you as a live listener?
• 28:38
  Speaker 1: Are you heading to the day shift? Is that what's
• 28:41
  Speaker 1: going to happen here?
• 28:43
  Speaker 3: Nah, you ain't going to lose me, brother. I'm going
• 28:45
  Speaker 3: to hang in there. I'm going to adjust my sleep schedule.
• 28:48
  Speaker 1: Awesome. Awesome. And so can I ask you, the obvious
• 28:51
  Speaker 1: question is, how did one end up in South Korea?
• 28:54
  Speaker 1: That must have been work, I would think, right?
• 28:56
  Speaker 3: Maybe?
• 28:56
  Speaker 1: No? Yeah, it's work.
• 28:58
  Speaker 3: I worked for Uncle Sugar supporting the war fighters over here.
• 29:02
  Speaker 3: But we're going to move, and we're going to relocate,
• 29:04
  Speaker 3: and we're going to just take it to another level.
• 29:09
  Speaker 1: Outstanding. Well, you've been great. We love the interaction. You
• 29:15
  Speaker 1: answer pretty much everything that we do here, Doug, and
• 29:18
  Speaker 1: good luck. When are you moving, like in the next
• 29:20
  Speaker 1: couple weeks, or is it down the line a little bit?
• 29:23
  Speaker 3: It's probably around the end of September, early October.
• 29:26
  Speaker 1: That's only a few, you know, it's already September 16th today,
• 29:29
  Speaker 1: so that's a few weeks away, the end of September.
• 29:31
  Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, all the household goods have been shipped, and
• 29:34
  Speaker 3: the car's been shipped, and we're just finalizing a few things,
• 29:37
  Speaker 3: and that'll be soon.
• 29:38
  Speaker 1: All right. Well, good luck with everything, Doug. Thank you.
• 29:41
  Speaker 1: Keep us posted. All right? Thank you, man.
• 29:43
  Speaker 3: Will do.
• 29:44
  Speaker 1: All right. There he goes. Monkey Biz Dog. Let's get
• 29:46
  Speaker 1: to the game. Let's get to the game.
• 29:48
  Speaker 4: It's another Ben Maller game.
• 29:49
  Speaker 6: We've endured too many of these.
• 29:50
  Speaker 1: Is it too much or not enough? Enough already. All right.
• 29:55
  Speaker 1: Here we go. By the way, you know what that
• 29:56
  Speaker 1: Uncle Sugar term is? You know what that is?
• 29:59
  Speaker 4: No.
• 30:00
  Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, it's a government, it's a colloquial, like, sarcastic
• 30:04
  Speaker 1: term for, you know how Uncle Sam you have? In
• 30:08
  Speaker 1: this case, you have Uncle Sugar, which is just like...
• 30:11
  Speaker 1: We want you. Frivolous government spending, I think. I might
• 30:16
  Speaker 1: be wrong on that. Let's welcome in, from the Valley
• 30:19
  Speaker 1: of the Sun, a team tied for the top record
• 30:22
  Speaker 1: in the NFL, the Arizona Cardinals. We say hello to Steve. Hello, Steve. Welcome.
• 30:28
  Speaker 3: Hello, sir.
• 30:28
  Speaker 1: How are you? If I was any better, I'd be
• 30:32
  Speaker 1: a son, but not a member of the Phoenix Sun because,
• 30:34
  Speaker 1: you know, they're not.
• 30:35
  Speaker 6: Well, I had to guard Dan Marley back in the day. So,
• 30:38
  Speaker 6: I mean, that wasn't very fun.
• 30:39
  Speaker 1: That's not his name. His name is Thunder Dan. Come
• 30:42
  Speaker 1: on now. Yes, sir. All right. Where do you guard
• 30:45
  Speaker 1: him at?
• 30:47
  Speaker 6: Leagues around the Phoenix area.
• 30:49
  Speaker 1: Oh, that's cool. At one point, he was coaching at
• 30:52
  Speaker 1: Northern Arizona, wasn't he? Yes. He's not there anymore, though,
• 30:55
  Speaker 1: I bet.
• 30:55
  Speaker 6: That was a long time ago. No, he was at NAU,
• 31:01
  Speaker 6: and then now there's a different coach there, but he
• 31:05
  Speaker 6: doesn't need the money. He's retired. He's good. He's like Barkley.
• 31:09
  Speaker 6: Barkley's a good friend.
• 31:10
  Speaker 1: Oh, yeah, you're just name-dropping. Well, okay. I'm sorry. We
• 31:17
  Speaker 1: love Barkley. Barkley's great. Just absolutely wonderful. I'd love to
• 31:20
  Speaker 1: get Barkley on my podcast. Tell Barkley to come on
• 31:24
  Speaker 1: my podcast, all right? Come on.
• 31:27
  Speaker 6: Sorry to cut you off. I got into a run
• 31:30
  Speaker 6: at a mountainside fitness, whatever it was. And it was
• 31:36
  Speaker 6: Michael Jordan when he was in town, Charles Barkley, a
• 31:42
  Speaker 6: bunch of dudes. This was back in the day.
• 31:47
  Speaker 1: That's awesome. Well, Lorraine is giving me the evil eye,
• 31:49
  Speaker 1: and she would like to move on with the game here.
• 31:52
  Speaker 1: So we're going to play the game.
• 31:53
  Speaker 6: Go ahead.
• 31:53
  Speaker 3: Sorry.
• 31:53
  Speaker 1: I didn't mean to cut you off. It's fine. It's fine.
• 31:55
  Speaker 1: Too much or not enough. All the answers are too
• 31:57
  Speaker 1: much or not enough. You get three right to win
• 31:59
  Speaker 1: the game. Good luck to you. Here we go. Steve,
• 32:02
  Speaker 1: who guarded Thunder Dan Marley, who used to play for
• 32:05
  Speaker 1: the Suns back in the day. Here we go. Monday night, Mark,
• 32:07
  Speaker 1: Patrick Sertain's 15th career game in which he gave up
• 32:11
  Speaker 1: just one reception or fewer for the Broncos. Is that
• 32:16
  Speaker 1: too much or not enough?
• 32:20
  Speaker 6: Not enough.
• 32:21
  Speaker 1: Let's fight out. That is correct. Not enough. 17th such
• 32:26
  Speaker 1: game of his career. You knew that was going to
• 32:28
  Speaker 1: be over because Coop's a Bronco apologist, so he wouldn't
• 32:30
  Speaker 1: have put it in there if it was the under.
• 32:32
  Speaker 1: Question number two. Jordan Alvarez has been intentionally walked 25
• 32:37
  Speaker 1: times this season. Is that too much or not enough
• 32:41
  Speaker 1: for the cheating Astro?
• 32:43
  Speaker 3: Too much.
• 32:47
  Speaker 1: Is that too much?
• 32:47
  Speaker 4: Too much.
• 32:49
  Speaker 1: No, it's actually not enough. He has been intentionally walked
• 32:52
  Speaker 1: 32 times, 19 more than any player in the AL,
• 32:55
  Speaker 1: and there's only less than two weeks of the baseball
• 32:58
  Speaker 1: regular season. He's got a shot at the Triple Crown,
• 33:01
  Speaker 1: although I believe he's going to miss out on the
• 33:03
  Speaker 1: RBI category. Question number three. You're one and one. You've
• 33:08
  Speaker 1: got to get two more right here. Steve in the
• 33:10
  Speaker 1: Valley of the Sun. Jameer Gibbs of the Lions became
• 33:14
  Speaker 1: just the eighth player in NFL history. to have 50-plus
• 33:18
  Speaker 1: scrimmage touchdowns in his first 50 games. Is that too
• 33:22
  Speaker 1: much or not enough? That's too much. Let's find out.
• 33:28
  Speaker 1: That is correct. Good job by you. He's only the
• 33:30
  Speaker 1: fifth player to do it, joining Chuck Foreman, Jim Brown,
• 33:33
  Speaker 1: Larry Johnson, and Marcus Allen.
• 33:36
  Speaker 3: Here we go.
• 33:37
  Speaker 1: Question four. You can win the game. Marcus Allen was good, right?
• 33:39
  Speaker 1: Al Davis hated him. Question four. Kirk Cousins... of our
• 33:45
  Speaker 1: writers just became only the third active quarterback in the
• 33:49
  Speaker 1: nfl with three plus passing touchdowns in 45 or more
• 33:53
  Speaker 1: games is that too much or not enough steve to
• 33:57
  Speaker 1: win the game not enough let's find out that's the
• 34:03
  Speaker 1: way you get a golden ticket you get a golden
• 34:06
  Speaker 1: ticket Congratulations, Steve.
• 34:11
  Speaker 6: We love you guys.
• 34:12
  Speaker 1: We love you. You can use that or give it
• 34:14
  Speaker 1: to somebody if you're not planning on calling again. He's
• 34:16
  Speaker 1: the fourth quarterback. Kirk Cousins joining Mahomes, Rogers, and Matthew Stafford.
• 34:22
  Speaker 1: Thank you, Steve. Appreciate that. There he is. Steve, how
• 34:24
  Speaker 1: about that? Big stud there. He knows all the big
• 34:26
  Speaker 1: stars of sports. That's great if he did hang out
• 34:29
  Speaker 1: with Jordan and Barkley. That's awesome. We are going to have,
• 34:33
  Speaker 1: we're moments away from Lorena's own segment. Do we want
• 34:37
  Speaker 1: any specific questions here, Lorena? Hashtag Queen of Hearts. Oh, goodness.
• 34:41
  Speaker 5: You can do anything. We have holidays coming up.
• 34:44
  Speaker 1: All right. Maybe a couple costumes ideas. People always look
• 34:47
  Speaker 1: for those ideas for the couple costumes. We'll get to that.
• 34:51
  Speaker 1: The Queen of Hearts with Lorena. Hashtag Queen of Hearts.
• 34:53
  Speaker 1: We'll do it next.
• 34:55
  Speaker 4: Be sure to catch live editions of the Ben Maller
• 34:57
  Speaker 4: Show weekdays at 2 a.m. Eastern, 11 p.m.
• 35:00
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• 35:03
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• 35:07
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• 35:32
  Speaker 1: Come on now. Love Exciting and new Queen of hearts
• 35:47
  Speaker 1: She wants to talk to you Lorena.
• 35:55
  Speaker 4: Soon she'll be making your hearts.
• 35:58
  Speaker 1: Be one Lorena Off with their heads. No, I'm kidding. Hi.
• 36:12
  Speaker 1: She's a violent. It's a queen of hearts.
• 36:15
  Speaker 5: That's what she does in Alice in Wonderland, is it not?
• 36:19
  Speaker 1: That's fake.
• 36:19
  Speaker 5: Off with their heads.
• 36:21
  Speaker 6: Yes.
• 36:22
  Speaker 1: It's not a documentary. It's a fiction, nonfiction. She's real
• 36:28
  Speaker 1: to me. All right. Well, let's get to the questions here.
• 36:32
  Speaker 1: Any opening statement or right to the questions?
• 36:34
  Speaker 5: Let's get into the love or other things or other things.
• 36:39
  Speaker 1: Exactly. What do we have? Let's first up is Will T. Hello,
• 36:44
  Speaker 1: Will T. He says, would you rather love with your heart,
• 36:47
  Speaker 1: your brain or with your soul? Oh, that's funny.
• 36:51
  Speaker 5: You didn't ask with my like libido or something, you know,
• 36:54
  Speaker 5: because sometimes that leads love a lot.
• 36:57
  Speaker 1: That's called something else, I believe.
• 36:59
  Speaker 5: I usually have to go with my brain, because if
• 37:02
  Speaker 5: my brain isn't on board, the rest.
• 37:04
  Speaker 1: Of me just can't go along either. That has to
• 37:07
  Speaker 1: go first. Just upset a lot of people, Lorena, by
• 37:09
  Speaker 1: saying your brain. Fergdog writes in and says, what's the
• 37:14
  Speaker 1: better way to get over a girl who dumped you?
• 37:17
  Speaker 1: Make up rumors about her or make an AI video
• 37:21
  Speaker 1: of her getting slapped.
• 37:24
  Speaker 5: That's a good one because there's many ways you can
• 37:29
  Speaker 5: get over a woman.
• 37:29
  Speaker 1: Those are both good.
• 37:31
  Speaker 6: Scorn.
• 37:31
  Speaker 1: Scorn is nice.
• 37:32
  Speaker 5: Get your aggression out without actually doing it. A lot
• 37:38
  Speaker 5: of people like to just start dating again. That would
• 37:40
  Speaker 5: be a nice healthy thing.
• 37:42
  Speaker 1: That's hard though. Control your anger. JT the Wingman writes in,
• 37:47
  Speaker 1: he says, when in the relationship, is it okay to
• 37:50
  Speaker 1: start sharing chapters of the Kama Sutra?
• 37:53
  Speaker 5: Ooh, it depends on how fast you move in that relationship.
• 37:58
  Speaker 5: But the Kama Sutra can be fun to explore with
• 38:00
  Speaker 5: your partner, especially if one of you already has a
• 38:02
  Speaker 5: little bit of knowledge. You could work that in beforehand
• 38:04
  Speaker 5: and they'll be like, oh my gosh, why are you.
• 38:06
  Speaker 1: So good at this? And then you'll be like, because
• 38:08
  Speaker 1: I've studied. There you go. A late night drug tester
• 38:11
  Speaker 1: writes his queen of hearts with the rain of love advice.
• 38:13
  Speaker 1: It's like that. They used to be called a show
• 38:14
  Speaker 1: called love line. She's doing it right now. This is
• 38:16
  Speaker 1: her giving love wisdom. Late night drug tester writes and says,
• 38:20
  Speaker 1: which is a better reason for a surprise date tonight
• 38:24
  Speaker 1: to celebrate the first ever episode of judge Judy or Dr. Phil,
• 38:29
  Speaker 1: which was 30 and 24 years ago today. I heard
• 38:32
  Speaker 1: judge Judy is retiring. Yeah. Is that right?
• 38:36
  Speaker 5: Yes, I saw that on a news article like two
• 38:39
  Speaker 5: days ago. It might have been bad, not real news.
• 38:41
  Speaker 5: I didn't double check, but I'm pretty sure that's what
• 38:43
  Speaker 5: it said.
• 38:43
  Speaker 1: Well, Judge Judy is in her 80s, right?
• 38:47
  Speaker 6: 87.
• 38:47
  Speaker 1: Oh, wait, no, that was our caller earlier. No, no, no.
• 38:50
  Speaker 1: According to the internet, she's 83. 83. All right. Oh,
• 38:53
  Speaker 1: there's nepotism. NFL-level nepotism. Judge Judy, it says she's handing
• 38:59
  Speaker 1: the gavel over to her son.
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  Speaker 3: Oh, my gosh.
• 39:02
  Speaker 1: That's not right. That's bullcrap. You know what her son's
• 39:06
  Speaker 1: nickname should be? Bronnie.
• 39:08
  Speaker 6: No!
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  Speaker 1: Good one.
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  Speaker 3: Thank you.
• 39:11
  Speaker 1: I'll be here all night. I like that one. That
• 39:13
  Speaker 1: was good. Thank you. Okay, you're approved. Deacon Blues writes
• 39:15
  Speaker 1: in for Lorena. Says, again, hashtag Queen of Hearts. Looking
• 39:19
  Speaker 1: for a couple's cross-dressing costume ideas. Costume contest winning ideas.
• 39:26
  Speaker 1: Oh my gosh. Dolly Parton would be a really good one.
• 39:28
  Speaker 5: You could be Dolly Parton and her husband. You know,
• 39:30
  Speaker 5: you do her and she does him.
• 39:33
  Speaker 1: He wants cross-dressing costumes. costumes oh think about it jason
• 39:39
  Speaker 1: that'd be fun jason says can you sing the playing
• 39:42
  Speaker 1: with the queen of hearts song from the early 80s
• 39:44
  Speaker 1: that's from.
• 39:45
  Speaker 5: Jason playing with the queen you know he wants me
• 39:47
  Speaker 5: to play as a comeback i can do that later yeah.
• 39:49
  Speaker 1: I can do that all right um mike the leprechaun
• 39:51
  Speaker 1: your pal writes in says would lorena be jealous of
• 39:56
  Speaker 1: her friend being chosen for the honey shot on the
• 39:59
  Speaker 1: big street even though she was sitting next to your friend.
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  Speaker 5: No, I only keep ugly people around me, so there's
• 40:05
  Speaker 5: no chance of that happening.
• 40:06
  Speaker 1: There have been women that have been known to do that, Lorena. Yeah,
• 40:10
  Speaker 1: there's less competition. Women don't like me. I don't know
• 40:12
  Speaker 1: what it is.
• 40:13
  Speaker 2: Really?
• 40:14
  Speaker 1: Let's get into that, Lorena. Why would women not like you?
• 40:16
  Speaker 1: What have you done to upset the ladies? I think
• 40:18
  Speaker 1: it's because their men wake up in the middle of
• 40:20
  Speaker 1: the night saying my name, and it's really awkward.
• 40:21
  Speaker 3: Oh, wow.
• 40:22
  Speaker 1: Look at that. It's very uncomfortable. Well, that's something we
• 40:25
  Speaker 1: have in common because women don't like me either. Well,
• 40:29
  Speaker 1: that's for different reasons, Ben.
• 40:30
  Speaker 4: Exactly.
• 40:30
  Speaker 1: Much different reasons. Much different reasons of that. There it is.
• 40:34
  Speaker 1: The queen of hearts. Tremendous job. What a great day.
• 40:36
  Speaker 1: With Lorena.
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  Speaker 4: Woo!