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  Speaker 1: Thanks for listening to the best of the Ben Mahler
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  Speaker 2: This is the best of the Ben Maler Show on
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  Speaker 2: Fox Sports Radio.
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  Speaker 3: Well if you had the American League Championship Series over
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  Speaker 3: after the first two games. Apparently the Blue Jays did
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  Speaker 3: not get the memo. They did not get the memo.
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  Speaker 1: Welcome in the beginning of another night of the Ben
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  Speaker 1: like Vladi Guerrero drops dingers in the world famous Fox
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  Speaker 1: Mariner fan jj in Retten Nostredinis and crying Craig who's
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  Speaker 1: from the Blue Jay locker room, not dead yet, not
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  Speaker 1: dead yet, that is our lead. We go to Seattle,
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  Speaker 1: the beautiful Pacific Northwest, the eye of the baseball universe,
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  Speaker 1: as the only team from the Cartel of Baseball that
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  Speaker 1: had not made it, had not gotten to the World
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  Speaker 1: Series two wins away, trying to trim that down a
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  Speaker 1: little bit more. There was some buzz in the air.
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  Speaker 1: One fired up there and how did that go? Mariners
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  Speaker 1: hosting Toronto and Game three of the American League Championship
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  Speaker 1: Series in Island game it was hump day all that
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  Speaker 1: and if you were not watching on Fox, maybe you
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  Speaker 1: missed it. Vladdie no longer in a slump. Vladimir Guerrero
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  Speaker 1: Junior with not one, not two, not three, but four hits,
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  Speaker 1: including a home run. He scored three times. And the
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  Speaker 1: Blue Jays hit not one, not two, not three, not four,
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  Speaker 1: but five ding dongs. That's a lot of ding dongs.
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  Speaker 1: Hollering James with like that amount of ding dongs, pasting
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  Speaker 1: the Mariners, absolutely pacing them thirteen to four the final
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  Speaker 1: in Game three, and we had forever dirty, cheating Astro
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  Speaker 1: alumni George Springer also had a dinger and three hits
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  Speaker 1: bang bang, whistle whistle. Springer and Guerrero each hit solo
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  Speaker 1: shots as Toronto finished with. As we mentioned the five
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  Speaker 1: five home runs in the way, Toronto I had eighteen
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  Speaker 1: hits in this game, eighteen of them. I'm told that's good.
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  Speaker 1: I'm told that's a lot. The better story, though, is
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  Speaker 1: in the losing locker room, and so that is where
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  Speaker 1: we will begin as we discuss the question when a
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  Speaker 1: team gets absolutely smoked like this, what an embarrassment? The
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  Speaker 1: question is who gets the blame for cal Raley's Mariners
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  Speaker 1: getting smashed like a bug by a windshield driving at
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  Speaker 1: ninety miles an hour down the interstate. In this case,
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  Speaker 1: Toronto was the one that was driving the car and
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  Speaker 1: the Mariners with the bug. So my thoughts on this,
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  Speaker 1: I've got brown Derby, voodoo and overhead bin and we
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  Speaker 1: will combine all of these things together and we're going
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  Speaker 1: to put the biscuit in the basket, is what we're
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  Speaker 1: going to do. So let's start with this and you
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  Speaker 1: focus at the very middle of the diamond. Now, if
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  Speaker 1: you imagine in your head the baseball diamond, You've got
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  Speaker 1: the backstop, the catcher. We're looking out towards the outfield.
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  Speaker 1: You got the catcher. You go down to the right
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  Speaker 1: hand side, you get the first basement, you got the
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  Speaker 1: second basement, then the other side you got the shortstop
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  Speaker 1: and the third basement. But in the middle of all that,
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  Speaker 1: right the man in the middle, that would be the
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  Speaker 1: man standing on the bump the bumpety bump and boydered
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  Speaker 1: he go bumpety bump. That would be the starting pitcher. Now,
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  Speaker 1: the Mariners were set up early here as Jay rod
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  Speaker 1: hit a two run homer in the bottom of the
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  Speaker 1: fur Julio Rodriguez two run shots, So seat's up to nothing.
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  Speaker 1: Feeling pretty good about themselves, similar to the vibe Milwaukee
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  Speaker 1: had in Game two, and they got the early home
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  Speaker 1: run over the Dodgers, and then George Kirby, it didn't
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  Speaker 1: happen right away, but when it happened, he said, you
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  Speaker 1: know what I want to do. I want to honor
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  Speaker 1: the big Dumper. I would like to honor the big Dumper.
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  Speaker 1: And what better way to honor the big Dumper than
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  Speaker 1: Kirby bringing back an old Hollywood restaurant from early Hollywood
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  Speaker 1: called the Brown Derby and a big giant brown you
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  Speaker 1: know what? All right? There served up not one, not two,
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  Speaker 1: but three of the five home runs, and by the
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  Speaker 1: time the dust had settled, Kirby allowed eight earned runs.
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  Speaker 1: God awful starting pitching right, utterly worthless. And while Kirby
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  Speaker 1: was terrible, he was left in the game for an
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  Speaker 1: extended dance remix. And so you point the finger at
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  Speaker 1: the manager of the Seattle baseball team, or should I
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  Speaker 1: point the finger at the nerds. Either way, it's a
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  Speaker 1: balancing act. You've got Dan Wilson, who's getting kind of old,
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  Speaker 1: looks old Dan Wilson there in the dugout, who's juggling
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  Speaker 1: machetes and butcher knives, and let's just say that he
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  Speaker 1: forgot to catch a couple of the knives and one
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  Speaker 1: of them, you know, he just was. It was ugly.
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  Speaker 1: It was right to the forehead, right there, sliced white,
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  Speaker 1: wide open the forehead. And you gotta have a feel
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  Speaker 1: for the game. Kirby suffered from die die diarrhea during
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  Speaker 1: during that inning, and Wilson did not change the diaper.
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  Speaker 1: He did not change the diaper. He said, you know what,
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  Speaker 1: you get diarrhea. I want you to fill that diaper
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  Speaker 1: all the way up. Okay, good, fill it Up'll fill
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  Speaker 1: it up some more. It's not done. What a stinker.
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  Speaker 1: Now the mallord advice to the Seattle baseball team. I
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  Speaker 1: learned this from an NFL quarterback years ago. When you
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  Speaker 1: take a deuce, you don't sit there and look at it. No, no,
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  Speaker 1: you flush it and you move on. So there you go.
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  Speaker 1: The Mariners, who absolutely that was more of a diarrhea
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  Speaker 1: situation than a deuce. But it was a the mess
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  Speaker 1: there from the Seattle side of things, giving up eighteen hits,
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  Speaker 1: all those home runs your home ballpark. Everyone all fired up,
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  Speaker 1: and we have road field advantage in baseball. It's something
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  Speaker 1: that nobody wants to talk about and you're supposed to
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  Speaker 1: talk about that. What's wrong with you? Because there's this
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  Speaker 1: myth of home field advantage, like you're going into a
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  Speaker 1: stadium and there's a moat around it and it's impossible
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  Speaker 1: to win in a certain stadium, which is just bull crap.
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  Speaker 1: It's been that way for years since the players' union complained,
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  Speaker 1: and they have all the creature comforts on the road
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  Speaker 1: that they would have at home, and many of the
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  Speaker 1: players like playing on the road more than at home.
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  Speaker 1: They're away from their families. They like that. But you're
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  Speaker 1: not supposed to talk about that either. Meanwhile, on the
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  Speaker 1: winning side, on the winning side, the question what was
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  Speaker 1: different on this night than the previous nights for Toronto
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  Speaker 1: star Vladimir Guerrero Junior and his big night. Now, we
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  Speaker 1: had mentioned in a previous episode of the show in
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  Speaker 1: his playoff career, Granted small sample size, but Vladimir Guerrero
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  Speaker 1: Junior had been absolutely monster matching against the Yankees, against
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  Speaker 1: everyone else. He was batting one hundred in his playoff career,
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  Speaker 1: like one o three in his playoff career. Well, that
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  Speaker 1: number has changed a lot because one night, the guy's
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  Speaker 1: a wet noodle and then he takes a quantum leap.
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  Speaker 1: And now in this game, it was like vintage Joe
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  Speaker 1: Carter reincarnated in a Blue Jay uniform there with extra
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  Speaker 1: hot sauce. That was impressive there. And he was like
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  Speaker 1: the bouncer at the door there, and he was telling
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  Speaker 1: the Mariners you're not on the list. Pal, I'm sorry,
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  Speaker 1: get out of here, You're not invited. The vodoo bugaloo,
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  Speaker 1: the mental voodoo boogoloo, the classic slumpbuster stuff. Mark Grace
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  Speaker 1: approves that message. The stage fright had been there and
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  Speaker 1: the mental undressing of the matches. They say, when you
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  Speaker 1: got stage fright, you got to use those mental gymnastics
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  Speaker 1: and imagine that the people are are not the clothes.
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  Speaker 1: He had been zero for seven, So instead of imagining
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  Speaker 1: though the Mariners players and boxers and briefs, he used
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  Speaker 1: the art of manifestation. He had the Mariners in his
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  Speaker 1: head and I'm convinced Uncle Moe will agree with me
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  Speaker 1: on this. He had them wearing pinstripes and suddenly Vladdie
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  Speaker 1: was licking his chops, frothing like a rabbit dog at
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  Speaker 1: a raw stake and a successful playoff performance Now Toronto
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  Speaker 1: clearly approached things much differently. The Blue Jays decided to
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  Speaker 1: go with what we call the Caveman approach. Me c ball,
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  Speaker 1: me hit ball, caveman approach. Right, all eighteen hits within
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  Speaker 1: three pitches. So tat tat, hit the ball. No chessboard,
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  Speaker 1: No I'm gonna try to outsmart you, and no it
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  Speaker 1: was a sledgehammer. Now it did help. It absolutely helped
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  Speaker 1: that the Mariner pitchers, led by the aforementioned mister Kirby,
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  Speaker 1: collectively pittled down their legs on the mound. And sometimes
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  Speaker 1: baseball is just that dumb, and you just that's the
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  Speaker 1: way it is, and so you don't need the launch
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  Speaker 1: angle thesis. I don't need to go into my whole
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  Speaker 1: rant and rave about that. Sometimes the slump ends because
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  Speaker 1: the other team decides to open up a nice Italian
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  Speaker 1: bistro and serve oversized meatballs right there. Or another way
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  Speaker 1: to look at it, it's like a kid's birthday party
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  Speaker 1: and they don't have any blindfolds. They have a giant
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  Speaker 1: pinata filled with candy, and you get a bat and
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  Speaker 1: no swing harts on. But you don't need to worry
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  Speaker 1: about the blindfold. There's no need for the blindfold. All right, now,
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  Speaker 1: last word, So I have an h I need discretch.
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  Speaker 5: Now.
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  Speaker 1: I granted this is something for me and you might
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  Speaker 1: not care about That's fine. This is therapeutic. This is therapeutic.
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  Speaker 1: And I'm sitting there watching this game and I heard
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  Speaker 1: I jotted it down. I stopped counting at about seven.
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  Speaker 1: I'm sure it was more than that. I'm sure it
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  Speaker 1: was more than that. John Smoltz on the broadcast kept
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  Speaker 1: saying momentum. Like every inning he said momentum, every single inning.
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  Speaker 1: There must have been a momentum button that they pressed.
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  Speaker 1: Pressed the John say momentum. Okay, momentum. So the question is,
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  Speaker 1: what do you think of Fox broadcaster John Smoltz and
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  Speaker 1: his clear addiction to using the word momentum during these
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  Speaker 1: playoff broadcasts. Well, it is the elephant in the room,
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  Speaker 1: the Komodo dragon in the room. John Smoltz is out there.
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  Speaker 1: He's tossing around the word momentum like he's in the
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  Speaker 1: French corner in New Orleans and he's tossing beads out
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  Speaker 1: at Marti Gras just about every at bat. It seemed
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  Speaker 1: I may or may not be embellishing every foul ball
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  Speaker 1: every time a pigeon landed out on the warning track.
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  Speaker 1: Momentumness momentum that I swear if he could have trademarked momentum,
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  Speaker 1: imagine how much money he would have made from revenue
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  Speaker 1: from that, I mean the royalties. By the third inning,
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  Speaker 1: he would have gone off to play golf somewhere. That's
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  Speaker 1: what he would have done. It was like he was
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  Speaker 1: praying to the flying spaghetti Monster of baseball, because momentum
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  Speaker 1: is as real in baseball as the flying spaghetti monster.
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  Speaker 1: You all told me, you said, Oh my god, the
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  Speaker 1: Mariners have all the momentum. How'd that work out for you? Good?
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  Speaker 1: You use a lot of money. I hope you lost
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  Speaker 1: a lot of money. A lot of money, all right,
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  Speaker 1: So might as well just pray to the flying spaghetti monster.
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  Speaker 1: Oh great, newly won grant this team with the most
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  Speaker 1: vibes more invisible energy. Because that's what momentum is. It's
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  Speaker 1: not a real thing. You can't hold it, you can't
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  Speaker 1: see it. It is just verbal filler. Let me repeat
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  Speaker 1: that for those of you a little slow in the
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  Speaker 1: back of the room. It is verbal filler. It is sportscasting,
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  Speaker 1: mashed potatoes, it's rice you know how sometimes you go
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  Speaker 1: to a Mexican restaurant you order a like a beef burrito,
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  Speaker 1: chicken breed or something like that, and they'll fill it
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  Speaker 1: with mostly rice because rice is cheap. It fills it
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  Speaker 1: up right, and you don't get the meat, you get
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  Speaker 1: the cheap filler. Well that's the word momentum is cheap filler.
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  Speaker 1: And these dingleberries act like it's some kind of mystical
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  Speaker 1: gas cloud floating from dugout to dugout. It's so stupid
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  Speaker 1: it tries me nuts. Like the Mariners again, I'm just
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  Speaker 1: repeating what you told me. You told me this. They
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  Speaker 1: had all the momentum. They carried that fifteen inning win
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  Speaker 1: over the Tigers, and they flew across North America to Toronto, Ontario, Canada,
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  Speaker 1: and they won both games. They were up to nothing
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  Speaker 1: in the ALCS. They had all the momentum. Now, let
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  Speaker 1: me ask you a question. Did they make the mistake?
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  Speaker 1: And I think this might have happened, And I want
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  Speaker 1: to be fair to you. I don't want to be
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  Speaker 1: a complete douche. Is it possible that the Mariners traveling party,
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  Speaker 1: the equipment manage the momentum bag in the carry on
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  Speaker 1: and that TSA said, excuse me, kind sir, I don't
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  Speaker 1: think you can bring that much momentum on board. You've
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  Speaker 1: got too much mo. It's over the limit. You're gonna
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  Speaker 1: have to leave some of that momentum here in Toronto.
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  Speaker 1: But we need the momentum, sir, No, no, no, you
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  Speaker 1: can't take that momentum. The plane won't take off with
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  Speaker 1: all that momentum. It's so stupid. Or maybe they got
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  Speaker 1: the momentum on the plane and then they were flying
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  Speaker 1: over like Fargo, North Dakota, and somehow it slipped out.
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  Speaker 1: There was some turbulence and the overhead bin opened up
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  Speaker 1: and the momentum fell out and landed somewhere in North Dakota.
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  Speaker 1: So if you're in Fargo, you might get a bag
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  Speaker 1: filled with momentum. You might get that, all right, you
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  Speaker 1: might get that. And then what happened after that? You
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  Speaker 1: think the Toronto Bluejay said, you know what, we want
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  Speaker 1: some momentum, So why don't we trade some delicious and
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  Speaker 1: we'll get it back. We'll make a deal with the
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  Speaker 1: baseball guys. You gave the Mariners too much momentum. Give
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  Speaker 1: us some momentum. Okay, we'll give you some momentum, give
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  Speaker 1: us some poutine. Okay, I'll take the poutine. There you go.
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  Speaker 1: Even on the postgame show where they were all playing
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  Speaker 1: grab ass, there you had Kevin Burkhart, who I don't
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  Speaker 1: know does he do this all the time. I just
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  Speaker 1: noticed it because it was on my mind. On the
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  Speaker 1: postgame panel he was doing the highlights, and if you
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  Speaker 1: saw the end of the game, the Mariners hit a
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  Speaker 1: couple of garbage time dingers, and on the panel at
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  Speaker 1: the dais there Burkhart said Seattle might have gotten some
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  Speaker 1: momentum with those late home runs going into Game four.
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  Speaker 1: Spoiler alert, spoiler alert. That is not momentum. That is
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  Speaker 1: what's called. The clinical term is stat padding. Yes, stack padding.
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  Speaker 1: When your team is down by ten runs and you
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  Speaker 1: hit a home run, that is stat padding, is what
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  Speaker 1: it is. It's like saying the guy that got dumped
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  Speaker 1: by the hot girl but buys new socks suddenly has
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  Speaker 1: relationship momentum for his next relationship because he has new sucks.
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  Speaker 1: It's lazy. Uh, it's broadcasting auto pilot. It's like sports
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  Speaker 1: talk show hosts that do one, you know, one topic
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  Speaker 1: the entire show because they're lazy. It drives me nuts,
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  Speaker 1: but went in doubt, right, went in dout. I could
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  Speaker 1: absolutely do that job. And I'm not being bragged doocius here.
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  Speaker 1: I know all of the cliches, I hate almost all
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  Speaker 1: of them, but I could do the job. Anytime a
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  Speaker 1: team takes the lead, well, they've all the momentum right now, Nip,
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  Speaker 1: they've gone a lot of momentum, NIP, a lot of momentum.
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  Speaker 1: Oh my god, it's the um of the sports broadcasting world.
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  Speaker 1: Instead of saying, say momentum when you have nothing to
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  Speaker 1: say momentum, ban the word. Ban the word. Put it
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  Speaker 1: in the same pile as intangibles, which is another bull
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  Speaker 1: crap word, a veteran presence, another nonsensical term in sports,
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  Speaker 1: or just you listen, get down and say you know
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  Speaker 1: what to the flying spaghetti monster. My god, all right,
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  Speaker 1: now I feel better. See that was therapeutic. That was
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  Speaker 1: a therapeutic rant. And now I can go on with
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  Speaker 1: my night and we can settle in here and I'm good,
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  Speaker 1: You're good. And I guess you could say we have momentum.
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  Speaker 1: We've got momentum. Yeah, okay.
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• 19:25
  Speaker 1: our lead this hour get away from the baseball. We'll
• 19:28
  Speaker 1: talk more about that if you want. Shockingly radio silence
• 19:31
  Speaker 1: from Seattle. We normally get a lot of calls from Seattle,
• 19:34
  Speaker 1: but I guess when the Mariners lose, they don't want
• 19:36
  Speaker 1: to call our lead. This hour, though, is from the
• 19:38
  Speaker 1: Windy City and the Chicago Bears, winners on Monday Night,
• 19:42
  Speaker 1: but apparently losers according to the broadcast. Fans outraged, how
• 19:47
  Speaker 1: dare you not lick the toes of our quarterback? Very unhappy,
• 19:52
  Speaker 1: very unhappy with Troy Aikman and his performance on Monday
• 19:58
  Speaker 1: Night football. En If you didn't see the podcast or
• 20:00
  Speaker 1: hear the audio on this, maybe not Aikman. Let's just
• 20:04
  Speaker 1: say that he did not use kid gloves, He did
• 20:07
  Speaker 1: not bite his tongue. He did not hold back in
• 20:10
  Speaker 1: his critique of the Chicago Bears quarterback Caleb Williams, calling
• 20:15
  Speaker 1: out several of his many mistakes with the Bears late throws.
• 20:23
  Speaker 1: He used the term luck to describe some of some
• 20:28
  Speaker 1: of Caleb Williams and the Bears positive plays, including the
• 20:32
  Speaker 1: game breaking play that allowed the Bears to get back
• 20:35
  Speaker 1: into the game to catch and run by Swift that
• 20:37
  Speaker 1: said it was a lucky play. So he had that.
• 20:41
  Speaker 1: Then you had the Chicago coach Ben Johnson, who even
• 20:44
  Speaker 1: addressed the commentary in a couple of different parts of
• 20:47
  Speaker 1: his news conference. Of course, it's very awkward because these
• 20:50
  Speaker 1: coaches are they don't watch the game, they're doing the game,
• 20:53
  Speaker 1: and they always like to say, like we don't pay
• 20:55
  Speaker 1: attention to the media and what the media says. But
• 20:59
  Speaker 1: he did a rest and then Caleb Williams also the
• 21:03
  Speaker 1: man who was lucky, the man who was late with throws.
• 21:07
  Speaker 1: Caleb Williams also jabbed at the Monday night football broadcast.
• 21:12
  Speaker 1: Now he posted a photo carousel on Instagram Caleb Williams
• 21:17
  Speaker 1: with a caption that included Aikman's initials it was lucky,
• 21:22
  Speaker 1: and then it had the letters TA for Troy Aikman.
• 21:25
  Speaker 1: The caption read, in part, So Williams was asked about
• 21:30
  Speaker 1: that and this and all of this stuff, and here's
• 21:34
  Speaker 1: what the Bears quarterback had to say. Take a listen,
• 21:36
  Speaker 1: let's go to the audio tape. Yeah, I could care less.
• 21:41
  Speaker 7: That's kind of how I've I think I've said multiple
• 21:44
  Speaker 7: times over my time being here. Fair not life isn't fair.
• 21:49
  Speaker 7: People are gonna say what they have to say. We win,
• 21:51
  Speaker 7: we lose, People have stuff to say. It was lucky,
• 21:56
  Speaker 7: it was not lucky. People have stuff to say, you know,
• 22:01
  Speaker 7: you know, have a bad game, have a good game.
• 22:03
  Speaker 8: You know.
• 22:04
  Speaker 7: People stuff to say. So it's it's it doesn't matter.
• 22:07
  Speaker 7: We're only worried about what's going on here within his
• 22:09
  Speaker 7: building and with these guys. So that's all all I
• 22:12
  Speaker 7: can say about that.
• 22:14
  Speaker 1: All right, let us discuss the question do you believe
• 22:17
  Speaker 1: Bears quarterback Caleb Williams? Could I love he screwed this up?
• 22:22
  Speaker 1: Could care less about Troy Aikman's comments. I've got super villain,
• 22:28
  Speaker 1: pontoon boat, and plastic fork, and we will combine all
• 22:33
  Speaker 1: of these things together and We're going to make some delicious,
• 22:36
  Speaker 1: delicious Chicago popcorn, which we were gifted, by the way,
• 22:40
  Speaker 1: our guy Tree very kind, the Chamber of Commerce for
• 22:44
  Speaker 1: Chicago gave us a little bit of Chicago popcorn, just
• 22:47
  Speaker 1: the delicious. So on Caleb Williams, Uh, he is it's
• 22:52
  Speaker 1: fair to say he's not well spoken? Is that accurate?
• 22:55
  Speaker 1: I believe that's accurate. He I'm giving this side out.
• 23:00
  Speaker 1: He screwed this up on multiple levels. If you do
• 23:04
  Speaker 1: a word by word breakdown Mallard style, the word um
• 23:11
  Speaker 1: is a filler word. We talked last hour about John
• 23:15
  Speaker 1: Smoltz and the baseball broadcasting guys who say momentum when
• 23:18
  Speaker 1: they don't know what to say. Maybe they were golfing
• 23:21
  Speaker 1: all day and not doing their homework. They just say
• 23:23
  Speaker 1: momentum in general conversation, the word um, and we all
• 23:29
  Speaker 1: say it. I say it. I'm not against saying it.
• 23:32
  Speaker 1: It's just something you don't want to say all the
• 23:34
  Speaker 1: time because it means you're not well spoken. And I
• 23:38
  Speaker 1: was told by a boss that you're in the spoken
• 23:41
  Speaker 1: word business, so you might want to avoid saying the
• 23:44
  Speaker 1: word um more than a few times. Anyway, Caleb Williams
• 23:49
  Speaker 1: not only did he say um A bunch? He also
• 23:51
  Speaker 1: the phrase isn't and correct me if I'm wrong on this.
• 23:55
  Speaker 1: The phrase is couldn't care less? Not could care less? Right,
• 23:59
  Speaker 1: isn't the phrase couldn't care less? Am I wrong on that?
• 24:01
  Speaker 1: I don't think I'm wrong on that?
• 24:02
  Speaker 4: Am I?
• 24:03
  Speaker 1: All right? Here's let's play that again. Can we play
• 24:05
  Speaker 1: the audio game? So listen with that? No, the phrase
• 24:07
  Speaker 1: you're supposed to say is I couldn't care less? And
• 24:14
  Speaker 1: how long is this soundby? I don't want to play
• 24:15
  Speaker 1: a game? He hadn't played this game in a while?
• 24:16
  Speaker 1: Do we know how long the SoundBite is? From Caleb
• 24:18
  Speaker 1: Williams of the Bears, the Chicago Bears quarterback.
• 24:20
  Speaker 5: Here, it's like thirty six seconds?
• 24:23
  Speaker 1: Thirty six seconds? How many times did Caleb Williams say
• 24:27
  Speaker 1: the word um? In thirty six seconds? I'm going, okay,
• 24:34
  Speaker 1: I'm gonna go well, you go cool because I'll go
• 24:37
  Speaker 1: last because I don't want to get boxed in. Go ahead, cool?
• 24:39
  Speaker 5: I see it.
• 24:39
  Speaker 8: Well, he kept repeating something else, so I wasn't even
• 24:41
  Speaker 8: paying attention to the ums, so he.
• 24:44
  Speaker 1: Slipped him in.
• 24:45
  Speaker 8: You could say that, yes, that's what he kept repeating.
• 24:49
  Speaker 5: But yeah, so I'm not even sure. I'll just throw
• 24:51
  Speaker 5: out six.
• 24:53
  Speaker 1: I'll go twelve and a half. Let's go to the
• 24:54
  Speaker 1: audio tape. Here's Caleb Williams Doys count the arms, Caleb
• 24:57
  Speaker 1: Williams Bears quarterback. Here we go.
• 25:00
  Speaker 7: Yeah, I could care less.
• 25:02
  Speaker 1: Uh, it's kind of hard.
• 25:04
  Speaker 7: I think I've said multiple times over my time being here.
• 25:08
  Speaker 7: Fair not life isn't fair. People are gonna say what
• 25:11
  Speaker 7: they have to say. We win, we lose. People have
• 25:14
  Speaker 7: stuff to say, it's lucky. It was not lucky. People
• 25:18
  Speaker 7: have stuff to say, Hey, you know, I have a
• 25:23
  Speaker 7: bad game.
• 25:24
  Speaker 1: Have a good game.
• 25:25
  Speaker 7: People have stuff to say. So it's it's it doesn't matter.
• 25:28
  Speaker 7: We're only worried about what's going on here within.
• 25:30
  Speaker 1: This building and with these guys.
• 25:33
  Speaker 7: That's all I can say about that.
• 25:35
  Speaker 1: Yeah, Yeah, I got the I got the over, I
• 25:39
  Speaker 1: got the I wait, I win the Cha Williams game.
• 25:42
  Speaker 1: What do I win? Lraya, Do I win a golden ticket?
• 25:44
  Speaker 6: You?
• 25:44
  Speaker 1: Did I win a gold Take it? I want to go.
• 25:47
  Speaker 1: I want gold Okay, back to the point, So he's
• 25:53
  Speaker 1: not well spoken. Fine, neither was I. When I was
• 25:56
  Speaker 1: age age, However, I knew I couldn't versus could he
• 26:00
  Speaker 1: said I could care less. He meant to say, I couldn't.
• 26:04
  Speaker 1: Am I nitpicking? Yes, I'm a talk show host. That's
• 26:06
  Speaker 1: what I do. Oh my goodness. So if Caleb Williams
• 26:10
  Speaker 1: didn't care about what Troy Aikman said, he would not
• 26:14
  Speaker 1: have fired up the Graham and typed it was lucky
• 26:18
  Speaker 1: ta for Troy Aikman with a little smirk emoji and
• 26:23
  Speaker 1: then hit the send button, the post button on that.
• 26:25
  Speaker 1: You don't post a shadow quote unless it stings a
• 26:31
  Speaker 1: little bit. It just common sense. This is classic I'm
• 26:37
  Speaker 1: not mad, I'm laughing energy, except you are mad. You
• 26:43
  Speaker 1: are mad. That was a needle. You were poked with
• 26:47
  Speaker 1: a needle. Troy Aikman essentially called him not good lucky
• 26:55
  Speaker 1: on national television, not poised, not clutch for the game
• 26:59
  Speaker 1: winning ve lucky with a capitol L for a guy
• 27:04
  Speaker 1: like Caleb. You talk about coddle, professional athlete who spent
• 27:08
  Speaker 1: his whole life back in his days in high school
• 27:10
  Speaker 1: and then going to Oklahoma and the University of Southern
• 27:13
  Speaker 1: California as the Golden Boy. That is a punch to
• 27:18
  Speaker 1: the ego, not the gut the ego. Hall of Famer
• 27:21
  Speaker 1: Dallas Cowboy legend. Do you understand Kayla Williams entire life.
• 27:24
  Speaker 1: The Cowboys have sucked. They've been terrible. Caleb Williams entire life,
• 27:29
  Speaker 1: the Cowboys have med So Troy Aikman's like a ghost
• 27:31
  Speaker 1: from a previous life when you talk about him being
• 27:34
  Speaker 1: a great Dallas Cowboy quarterback. Nonetheless, here's a Hall of
• 27:37
  Speaker 1: Famer questioning the football IQ of the quarterback of the
• 27:43
  Speaker 1: Chicago Bears for millions and millions of people. And Caleb
• 27:47
  Speaker 1: said he was just messing around. No, you weren't. If
• 27:50
  Speaker 1: you've got to explain the joke, the rule is you
• 27:55
  Speaker 1: weren't joke and that's it. And there is a little
• 27:59
  Speaker 1: bit of truth in every joke. If he really didn't care,
• 28:03
  Speaker 1: he would have just iced it out. That's what you do.
• 28:05
  Speaker 1: You say nothing, you do nothing. You let the highlights
• 28:08
  Speaker 1: speak for yourself. You say, I didn't watch the broadcast.
• 28:11
  Speaker 1: I don't know what you're talking about. I didn't hear
• 28:13
  Speaker 1: any of that noise. I was playing in the game. Instead,
• 28:17
  Speaker 1: What did Caleb do? He screenshot it, he subtweeted, He
• 28:22
  Speaker 1: posted on Instagram like a high schooler after a breakup.
• 28:25
  Speaker 1: We imagine it's more likely than not that Caleb Williams
• 28:30
  Speaker 1: claps back with a manicure, and then the cartoon bubble
• 28:35
  Speaker 1: in my head. I imagine he would respond like a
• 28:38
  Speaker 1: gen Z super villain. Not sending flowers, He's painting fingernails.
• 28:44
  Speaker 1: Don't be shocked if in the next Chicago Bears game
• 28:47
  Speaker 1: he gets Troy Aikman's face painted on his cuticlesters his fingernails,
• 28:53
  Speaker 1: and he is a little circle and then an X
• 28:55
  Speaker 1: right across Akman's face. Now that would be super villain activity,
• 29:01
  Speaker 1: turning the face. Speaking of supervillain, we go to Cleveland,
• 29:04
  Speaker 1: where the Browns edge rusher Miles Garrett is publicly enemy
• 29:08
  Speaker 1: number one and he has been under siege for attitude issues.
• 29:15
  Speaker 1: After the Browns had a no show an absenteeism performance
• 29:20
  Speaker 1: by Miles Garrett against the Pittsburgh football team, he was
• 29:23
  Speaker 1: asked if it's harder to keep playing with the Browns
• 29:26
  Speaker 1: as they are one in five on the season now,
• 29:29
  Speaker 1: and Garrett gave a one word answer. Y Ea, h yeah,
• 29:37
  Speaker 1: was his response. Now, this comes after a game in
• 29:40
  Speaker 1: which the Steelers did whatever they wanted against Miles Garrett.
• 29:45
  Speaker 1: Garrett had as many sacks as you had. He had
• 29:47
  Speaker 1: as many quarterback hits as you and I had combined,
• 29:50
  Speaker 1: and two tackles, no individual tackles, they were assist tackles.
• 29:55
  Speaker 1: He's been called out by members of the Cleveland Fourth
• 29:59
  Speaker 1: of for being a bad leader, among other things. Question,
• 30:05
  Speaker 1: does Miles Garrett deserve all the noise, all of the
• 30:09
  Speaker 1: noise being directed his way from the Cleveland media. So,
• 30:16
  Speaker 1: Miles Garrett, based on the quotes that I've been reading
• 30:20
  Speaker 1: from postgame in Pittsburgh, sounded like a man floating on
• 30:25
  Speaker 1: a pontoon boat with a lawn chair and a mimosa
• 30:31
  Speaker 1: as the Cuyahoga River caught on fire and he wasn't
• 30:35
  Speaker 1: in any hurry to get off the Cuyahoga River. It
• 30:37
  Speaker 1: was on fire, and he just put that lawn chair
• 30:39
  Speaker 1: down there and he just kind of enjoyed his drink,
• 30:41
  Speaker 1: and that was It sounded like that guy Rafael from
• 30:44
  Speaker 1: Orlando they called Last Hour. It's not some Shakespearean tragedy.
• 30:50
  Speaker 1: It's Cleveland. It's what they do. This is the Cleveland
• 30:54
  Speaker 1: Browns living up to the franchise charter. Miles Garrett physically
• 30:58
  Speaker 1: is built like a Donnis. He's a cheat code. However,
• 31:02
  Speaker 1: it's not Captain America here. It's not, he's a football
• 31:06
  Speaker 1: mercenary two hundred and four million dollars miles. Garrett said,
• 31:10
  Speaker 1: I don't want to play in Cleveland. I don't want
• 31:12
  Speaker 1: to play here. We can't win here. The Brown said,
• 31:15
  Speaker 1: we want to keep you. Garrett said, I don't want
• 31:18
  Speaker 1: to play here. I want to go somewhere else. The
• 31:20
  Speaker 1: Brown said, here's two hundred and four million miles. Garrett says,
• 31:23
  Speaker 1: I love Cleveland. In January love it got to no
• 31:26
  Speaker 1: trade claws Fort Knox a Fort Knox gold Bouyon type payout.
• 31:33
  Speaker 1: The Browns backed up all of the Brins trucks they
• 31:37
  Speaker 1: could get, and now they filled it instead of gold Bouyon,
• 31:41
  Speaker 1: they filled it with brown colored monopoly money. I didn't
• 31:44
  Speaker 1: know they made that. And handed him the keys to
• 31:47
  Speaker 1: the vault and said here, knock yourself out. Okay, I'll
• 31:49
  Speaker 1: take that key to the vault, thank you very much.
• 31:51
  Speaker 1: And he said, yeah, sure, I'll stay inside the Factory
• 31:54
  Speaker 1: of Sadness. It's warm in here, and the Wi Fi
• 31:58
  Speaker 1: works pretty good. And that's it has that thousand yard stare,
• 32:03
  Speaker 1: if you know what I mean, looking off into the
• 32:05
  Speaker 1: distance like I could have been there. I could have
• 32:08
  Speaker 1: been there, I could have been over there and again,
• 32:11
  Speaker 1: no sacks, no quarterback hit. It's a whole lot of
• 32:13
  Speaker 1: woe is Me postgame in the sound bites. And my
• 32:17
  Speaker 1: man signed the deal with full knowledge that the Browns
• 32:21
  Speaker 1: are essentially a Netflix reboot of their own misery every season,
• 32:27
  Speaker 1: and so it's not unfair criticism. This is the rent
• 32:29
  Speaker 1: coming due. This is part of the deal when you
• 32:32
  Speaker 1: cash this time. He signed the deal, the biggest non
• 32:35
  Speaker 1: quarterback check in the history of that business. The town,
• 32:40
  Speaker 1: those that care about the football team in the town,
• 32:42
  Speaker 1: they're like, well, listen, this place eats quarterbacks. It's a
• 32:45
  Speaker 1: graveyard for quarterbacks. And you're supposed to get to quarterbacks
• 32:50
  Speaker 1: on the other team like a great white shark in
• 32:52
  Speaker 1: a kiddie pool. You're not doing that. And you don't
• 32:55
  Speaker 1: get to cry about the current when you built your
• 32:59
  Speaker 1: house on the river. You don't get to do that.
• 33:01
  Speaker 1: Miles Garrett isn't being picked on. He's being paid on
• 33:05
  Speaker 1: a lot of money. And the Cleveland Marching and Shoudow
• 33:09
  Speaker 1: Society are watching their armored tank show all right, going
• 33:15
  Speaker 1: to battle, and somehow that armored tank gets stuck in
• 33:19
  Speaker 1: a pothole the size of Lake Erie. That's not good,
• 33:24
  Speaker 1: and so Miles Garrett wanted the bag. He got the bag.
• 33:27
  Speaker 1: You got the bag. What's in the bag? Money? Money, money,
• 33:30
  Speaker 1: a lot of money. You got the bag. Congratulations, and
• 33:34
  Speaker 1: now you get the heat. He's got a no trade
• 33:37
  Speaker 1: claus Is it outrageous? I'm thinking out loud here asked
• 33:40
  Speaker 1: a question. Is it outrageous to think the trade deadline's
• 33:43
  Speaker 1: clemming up in a couple of weeks. Here the Cleveland
• 33:46
  Speaker 1: Browns would go to Miles Garrett say it's not working out.
• 33:49
  Speaker 1: It's not you, it's us. You have the no trade.
• 33:53
  Speaker 1: Where would you like to go? Let's make a deal.
• 33:55
  Speaker 1: Let's get you out of here. You got your money.
• 33:58
  Speaker 1: I know the salary caps are p but we can
• 34:00
  Speaker 1: finagle and cook the books because that's what we do,
• 34:03
  Speaker 1: and we'll find you a new team. Is there a
• 34:06
  Speaker 1: world where that happens? Would a team like the New
• 34:09
  Speaker 1: England Patriots or the La Rams trade a bunch of
• 34:13
  Speaker 1: draft picks to get Miles Garrett? And where would he
• 34:16
  Speaker 1: even want to go? If it's as toxic as it appears,
• 34:21
  Speaker 1: it's not out of the realm of possibility. All right,
• 34:24
  Speaker 1: fun point to the World Wide Web, where former Eagles
• 34:28
  Speaker 1: center Jason Kelsey is fighting back against misinformation. Was he
• 34:33
  Speaker 1: a politician? Yeah, he's upset with social media. Now. Kelsey
• 34:37
  Speaker 1: went on the platform formerly known as Twitter, now known
• 34:41
  Speaker 1: as X to make a public decree and a plea
• 34:45
  Speaker 1: to his followers, and he said, listen, do not believe
• 34:50
  Speaker 1: Listen to me. Do not believe anything attributed to Travis
• 34:55
  Speaker 1: Kelcey or Jason Kelcey or anyone named Kelsey unless it
• 35:00
  Speaker 1: from the direct platform. He said, we don't know, you know,
• 35:04
  Speaker 1: you don't know for sure what's going on and all
• 35:06
  Speaker 1: that stuff. You got to go here, this is where
• 35:08
  Speaker 1: you need to be. Now. There were multiple posts that
• 35:11
  Speaker 1: made the rounds on social media that quoted Jason Kelsey
• 35:16
  Speaker 1: and gave let's just say, they gave an impression that
• 35:21
  Speaker 1: he was a douche. It was about Bad Bunny and
• 35:24
  Speaker 1: the Halftime Show. And Jason Kelsey pointed out that he
• 35:30
  Speaker 1: said listen there, these are not my words. He didn't
• 35:33
  Speaker 1: say that directly. That's clearly what he was upset about.
• 35:36
  Speaker 1: So the question what is your viewpoint on Jason Kelsey
• 35:41
  Speaker 1: attempting to fight social media misinformation? So this is the
• 35:48
  Speaker 1: attempt is there? This is the attempt to go to
• 35:50
  Speaker 1: the Sahara Desert and get all the gear you need
• 35:54
  Speaker 1: to survive the wretched conditions in the Sahara Desert, and
• 35:58
  Speaker 1: then saying I'm going to make this a great desert.
• 36:01
  Speaker 1: I'm going to plow the Sahara Desert and I'm going
• 36:04
  Speaker 1: to use a plastic four. It is a futile effort.
• 36:08
  Speaker 1: Jason Kelsey is entering the fund zone. He's playing whack
• 36:12
  Speaker 1: a mole. He's playing whack a mole in an attempt
• 36:15
  Speaker 1: to whack down bogus stories about him faster on X.
• 36:21
  Speaker 1: Then the other ones pop up. Now you and I
• 36:24
  Speaker 1: both know this is what It is, an unwinnable game.
• 36:27
  Speaker 1: The house always wins, and Kelsey's crime here is not
• 36:32
  Speaker 1: moral outrage. That's not what this is about. It's believing
• 36:37
  Speaker 1: that this digital funhouse can be reasoned with. That if
• 36:42
  Speaker 1: Jason Kelsey stands on a digital soapbox from the bully
• 36:46
  Speaker 1: pulpit and points out that's a bogus story, that's a
• 36:52
  Speaker 1: bogus story, and that's a bogus story and waves his
• 36:56
  Speaker 1: arms in the air everywhere, people will suddenly stop sharing
• 37:00
  Speaker 1: those stories. That is not how the matrix works. It's
• 37:05
  Speaker 1: not the matrix doesn't work like that. This is the
• 37:07
  Speaker 1: platform where conspiracy meets clickbait. Bots marry bad actors, and
• 37:12
  Speaker 1: the bots and bad actors have babies. They give birth
• 37:14
  Speaker 1: to parody accounts with an extra underscore, masquerading as official sources.
• 37:19
  Speaker 1: You do not win here. The whole game is to survive,
• 37:23
  Speaker 1: and if you cannot survive, you ignore. So it's either
• 37:26
  Speaker 1: survive or ignore, and therefore you do survive. But Jason
• 37:29
  Speaker 1: Kelsey is doing what you'd say, good people. They're trying
• 37:34
  Speaker 1: to keep his name clean, his good name unsullied. The
• 37:36
  Speaker 1: trouble is on social media. The lie. The lie is
• 37:42
  Speaker 1: already running the marathon and at the twenty mile mark,
• 37:48
  Speaker 1: while the truth is still trying to tie at shoelaces.
• 37:51
  Speaker 1: It's just a mess. It's just a mess. And by
• 37:54
  Speaker 1: the time Kelsey hits send on his public play, the
• 37:58
  Speaker 1: false quote has been screenshoted, memified, reposted, and stripped of
• 38:05
  Speaker 1: any context and passed along by thousands of fake accounts
• 38:11
  Speaker 1: with those little egg things and usernames like NFL fanboy
• 38:16
  Speaker 1: nine eight two seven two three. It is a noble effort,
• 38:21
  Speaker 1: but it is fighting a wildfire with a nerve super soaker.
• 38:24
  Speaker 1: The odds of success are not good. The digital wildfire
• 38:28
  Speaker 1: does not care about the truth, the facts and all
• 38:32
  Speaker 1: that stuff. It's fed by rage. The rage clicks right.
• 38:35
  Speaker 1: We know human nature. People both love to complain about
• 38:40
  Speaker 1: negativity and are helpless to stop consuming it. It's the
• 38:44
  Speaker 1: people that do the news business learn this long ago
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  Speaker 1: that if it bleeds, it leads. If it's negative, people
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  Speaker 1: love it. And it's the fight or flight nature of
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  Speaker 1: the human condition that you need that information. And in
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  Speaker 1: social media, if you're upset, you're engaged, and that gets
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  Speaker 1: monetized by the algorithm, and you don't even blink when
• 39:08
  Speaker 1: you're you know, somebody's reputations on the line, you don't
• 39:10
  Speaker 1: worry about Jason Kelsey's again, he can't win this. If
• 39:12
  Speaker 1: there's any lesson here, it's not for him, it's for
• 39:15
  Speaker 1: everyone else. To stop treating every single stupid post like
• 39:19
  Speaker 1: the holy scriptures that are out there. Stop rewarding the
• 39:23
  Speaker 1: dopes with engagement. And Jason Kelsey's swinging his mallet, remember
• 39:28
  Speaker 1: playing Whack a mole, And he's hitting that next mole
• 39:32
  Speaker 1: and the next, and the next, and the next, and
• 39:33
  Speaker 1: the net and we're just watching here, laughing and wasn't
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  Speaker 1: that funny. That's that's not gonna work. That's that's not
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  Speaker 1: It's Mallar how about that? To the third degree? This
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  Speaker 8: There are some analysts suggesting that Saints quarterback Spencer Rattler
• 39:59
  Speaker 8: has played well enough to deserve a look beyond twenty
• 40:01
  Speaker 8: twenty five. They point out that Rattler actually has similar,
• 40:04
  Speaker 8: if not better stats than Michael Pennocks Junior this season.
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  Speaker 5: Ben, does Rattler deserve to be considered long term?
• 40:09
  Speaker 1: No, because Michael Pennix Junior does not look like the
• 40:13
  Speaker 1: long term quarterback in Atlanta. So No, the Saints suck
• 40:17
  Speaker 1: and they're gonna get a top five pick in the draft,
• 40:19
  Speaker 1: and they're going to draft a quarterback who will also
• 40:22
  Speaker 1: likely suck. But No, I don't buy what they're selling there,
• 40:26
  Speaker 1: And a lot of those numbers are garbage time numbers.
• 40:29
  Speaker 8: Next, Kyle Schwarber is coming off the best season of
• 40:32
  Speaker 8: his career, and the timing couldn't be better as he
• 40:34
  Speaker 8: heads into free agency. It's being reported that he'll be
• 40:36
  Speaker 8: seeking a five year deal worth an average of thirty
• 40:39
  Speaker 8: million per year. Ben, do you think the Phillies will
• 40:41
  Speaker 8: pony have to keep him?
• 40:44
  Speaker 1: Yeah? I think he's perfect. You got the designated hitter
• 40:47
  Speaker 1: in that town. Schwarber's getting a little older, it becomes
• 40:49
  Speaker 1: a problem, but he can still hit home runs. He's
• 40:52
  Speaker 1: not gonna be able. He's never been a fast guy.
• 40:53
  Speaker 1: I think it'll work out for him in Philly.
• 40:55
  Speaker 8: Next, member of the Celtics media. Members of the Celtics
• 40:58
  Speaker 8: media played a pickup game against members of the Celtics
• 41:00
  Speaker 8: coaching staff got blown out fifty seven to four. But
• 41:03
  Speaker 8: if you had to recruit members of the FSR staff
• 41:06
  Speaker 8: to play a game against Celtics coaches, who would you choose?
• 41:08
  Speaker 8: And you can't pick any former pro athletes?
• 41:11
  Speaker 1: Uh? Well, I mean my guy Rob Parker. We got
• 41:15
  Speaker 1: a lot of like knucklehead guy like, we got a
• 41:17
  Speaker 1: lot of like I don't.
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  Speaker 5: Know Patrick most times.
• 41:21
  Speaker 1: Yeah, not a lot of athletic people that work here.
• 41:24
  Speaker 1: That's the problem. No, Yeah, you ask the problem. All right,
• 41:28
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  Speaker 1: It's now time for It's time for Harry Harry Horry
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  Speaker 1: Waite Ask Ben. Twitter said, this is your questions on Twitter.
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  Speaker 1: Now anyway we go with to ask Ben. Your questions
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• 42:07
  Speaker 8: All right, we're gonna start off with a question from
• 42:09
  Speaker 8: Mike the Leprechaun.
• 42:11
  Speaker 1: Him, Mike the Leprecaun.
• 42:13
  Speaker 5: He wants to know, are you fans of avocado?
• 42:17
  Speaker 2: No?
• 42:17
  Speaker 1: I do not like things that are green other than money,
• 42:20
  Speaker 1: so not a fan of the avocado, although I have
• 42:25
  Speaker 1: my wife likes avocado. So I have had to take
• 42:28
  Speaker 1: the pit out of the avocado and like everyone else,
• 42:30
  Speaker 1: almost cut myself a million times. What about you, Lorraine?
• 42:34
  Speaker 5: I love avocado. Put some salt on that thing that
• 42:37
  Speaker 5: can be a whole meal.
• 42:40
  Speaker 8: Not for me.
• 42:41
  Speaker 5: What about you, Coop love avocado?
• 42:44
  Speaker 1: It's so okay. Well on the wrong set of history. Next,
• 42:49
  Speaker 1: all right, to ask Ben. Your questions are answers for
• 42:53
  Speaker 1: the rest of the hour. As we bumble along.
• 42:59
  Speaker 5: Here's a question from Cowboy Killer.
• 43:01
  Speaker 1: High Cowboy Killer.
• 43:03
  Speaker 8: He wants to know how big is the TV you
• 43:05
  Speaker 8: use the most at home?
• 43:09
  Speaker 1: Well, that's a sore subject because we didn't the wife
• 43:12
  Speaker 1: or went by TV and she didn't realize that the
• 43:15
  Speaker 1: way they measured TVs is diagonal. It's not across, and
• 43:21
  Speaker 1: so I think we just got like a like a
• 43:24
  Speaker 1: fifty five inches not. I mean, it's big, but it's
• 43:26
  Speaker 1: not like I've been to other people's houses. They have
• 43:28
  Speaker 1: those really big one hundred inch TVs are like three
• 43:31
  Speaker 1: thousand dollars. I don't have one of lows. It's like
• 43:33
  Speaker 1: a normal size. You know, it's a little I got
• 43:36
  Speaker 1: it like Costco years ago or best Buy someone like that.
• 43:39
  Speaker 1: What about you, Lorena?
• 43:40
  Speaker 5: Was the question do I like watching TV?
• 43:42
  Speaker 1: Or how big? It was like, I think it was
• 43:44
  Speaker 1: the side I understood that the guise of the TV.
• 43:46
  Speaker 5: The TV that you used the most, How big is it?
• 43:48
  Speaker 5: It's like twenty two inches?
• 43:50
  Speaker 1: What it's small?
• 43:52
  Speaker 5: I have a small TV. Damn, Why does it need
• 43:55
  Speaker 5: to be big?
• 43:56
  Speaker 1: I thought you'd want something bigger. What about you? Coop.
• 44:00
  Speaker 8: You use it boys, it's a I believe it's sixty
• 44:04
  Speaker 8: five inches.
• 44:06
  Speaker 1: Oh that's what That's what she said. All right, now
• 44:12
  Speaker 1: what is next? Very uncomfortable, that will be imagine tried
• 44:16
  Speaker 1: to run with that, it would be very difficult. Yeah
• 44:17
  Speaker 1: all right, yeah the way, I don't know.
• 44:22
  Speaker 5: Maybe you guys know what this is?
• 44:23
  Speaker 8: Bobby and Florida asked, Hi, Bobby, have you ever participated
• 44:27
  Speaker 8: in Mischief Night?
• 44:30
  Speaker 5: Do you know where that is?
• 44:31
  Speaker 4: Uh?
• 44:32
  Speaker 2: No?
• 44:32
  Speaker 1: Is that it's obviously something around Halloween. It's not not
• 44:35
  Speaker 1: Devil's Night, which they used to like burn everything up
• 44:38
  Speaker 1: the around Halloween, and I remember that was in Detroit.
• 44:40
  Speaker 1: I don't know what is? What is that? Loraina? Do
• 44:42
  Speaker 1: you know what that is?
• 44:42
  Speaker 8: I think it's just where you go and cause havoc
• 44:45
  Speaker 8: throughout your neighborhood, you know, But no, I have not.
• 44:48
  Speaker 1: If that's what you know? It had a formal name,
• 44:50
  Speaker 1: like when we were kids in high school. Yeah, we
• 44:52
  Speaker 1: destroyed pumpkins, toilet paper, people's houses, see that kind of stuff. Yeah,
• 44:56
  Speaker 1: I did that when I was a kid. Yeah, sure, next,
• 45:00
  Speaker 1: all right, Late night drug tester high drug tester.
• 45:04
  Speaker 5: He says, tomorrow is National pasta Day. What is your
• 45:07
  Speaker 5: favorite pasta shape?
• 45:10
  Speaker 1: Well, I ate. The problem is, I ate a lot
• 45:12
  Speaker 1: of spaghetti. When I was a kid, my mom was
• 45:15
  Speaker 1: a cheap meal We had a lot of spaghetti, and
• 45:17
  Speaker 1: there were three or four things that we ate all
• 45:19
  Speaker 1: the time. One of them was spaghetti. So now as
• 45:22
  Speaker 1: an adult, I don't eat spaghetti. I love fetichini, Alfredos
• 45:25
  Speaker 1: might go to. When I go to an Attian restaurant,
• 45:26
  Speaker 1: I go fettichini. I love fettichcini noodle, which is like
• 45:29
  Speaker 1: a fat or spaghetti. What about you, Lorraine? Also rabby
• 45:33
  Speaker 1: always good, but that's not really the same thing. Go ahead, Lorrain.
• 45:35
  Speaker 8: Yeah, I'm a big fan of fettucini, and I like
• 45:38
  Speaker 8: the ones that are I think it's penny, the one
• 45:41
  Speaker 8: that has the hole through the center and you can
• 45:43
  Speaker 8: fill it with sauce.
• 45:45
  Speaker 1: I don't think.
• 45:46
  Speaker 8: Okay, all right, Cooph, Rigatoni is my favorite.
• 45:50
  Speaker 1: Coop takes his pasta very seriously.
• 45:53
  Speaker 5: Yes I do.
• 45:54
  Speaker 8: I do. But Rigatoni it's got the it's got the
• 45:57
  Speaker 8: ridges so it can really soak up the sauce.
• 45:59
  Speaker 5: That's it's good stuff.
• 46:00
  Speaker 1: Yeah, I've had it. I've had it in the past,
• 46:03
  Speaker 1: for sure. It's asked Ben. Your questions are answer is
• 46:05
  Speaker 1: hashtag ask Ben for the rest of the hour. These
• 46:09
  Speaker 1: are actual questions by actual listeners. And what's next?
• 46:13
  Speaker 5: Fer Dog would like to know?
• 46:14
  Speaker 8: Hi, Fergie, will you be giving out fun size or
• 46:17
  Speaker 8: full size candy bars this year?
• 46:20
  Speaker 1: Yeah? So the candy thing is, I don't even know
• 46:22
  Speaker 1: if we're giving out candy this year. The reason why
• 46:24
  Speaker 1: is the last couple of years has been hardly any kids.
• 46:26
  Speaker 1: We buy this giant sized bag from Costco and I
• 46:30
  Speaker 1: end up eating getting I get it out, I know,
• 46:32
  Speaker 1: So what's the point now? I could buy a small
• 46:35
  Speaker 1: bag of candy. I think it's usually Halloween happens during
• 46:40
  Speaker 1: the weekend. I gotta work, It's on a night we
• 46:42
  Speaker 1: don't do the radio show. So I might actually go
• 46:46
  Speaker 1: to my niece and nephew's house and they'll go trick
• 46:48
  Speaker 1: or t I don't know. I've not decided, but most
• 46:51
  Speaker 1: likely we'll not be giving out anything this year. What
• 46:52
  Speaker 1: about you, Lorraina, I don't give out candy, I go
• 46:56
  Speaker 1: trick or treating. No, you don't, I do. Come on, Loraina,
• 47:00
  Speaker 1: you're a grown woman.
• 47:01
  Speaker 5: I'll bring in the candy for you.
• 47:03
  Speaker 1: Okay, Well, that's fine. Go ahead, Coop.
• 47:07
  Speaker 5: I will not be giving out candy this year. I
• 47:09
  Speaker 5: will be in Las.
• 47:10
  Speaker 1: Vegas, Lost Wages, Nevada. All right, what is next year?
• 47:14
  Speaker 1: It's ask Ben. Your questions are answers. We're doing the
• 47:18
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• 47:23
  Speaker 1: murder and then we'll stop.
• 47:25
  Speaker 5: All right. This question is from Donkey Sausage.
• 47:28
  Speaker 1: Hi, Donkey.
• 47:29
  Speaker 8: He wants to know what is your favorite unsolved mystery?
• 47:34
  Speaker 1: So I've mentioned this on the show several times over
• 47:37
  Speaker 1: the years. It was a famous hijacking in the Pacific Northwest.
• 47:44
  Speaker 1: dB Cooper, I'd love to know it's not like the
• 47:47
  Speaker 1: great like Roswell's another wonderful one, which would likely trump
• 47:52
  Speaker 1: dB Cooper. I read so much about dB Cooper years ago.
• 47:55
  Speaker 1: I loved that story. The Roswell thing is great too, Like,
• 47:58
  Speaker 1: what was that? Really? What about you, Lorena?
• 48:03
  Speaker 8: I'm gonna have to go with whether Walt Disney is
• 48:08
  Speaker 8: actually dead or frozen in a capsule.
• 48:10
  Speaker 1: Oh my god, that's okay, that's a good one. Okay,
• 48:16
  Speaker 1: all right, moving on.
• 48:17
  Speaker 5: In the broadcast, the spoiler, I learned he's dead, and.
• 48:20
  Speaker 1: Even if he was alive, he'd still be dead. Yes,
• 48:22
  Speaker 1: go ahead.
• 48:24
  Speaker 8: Uh, I think I gotta go with maybe the identity
• 48:28
  Speaker 8: of Jack the Ripper, right, they never figured that out.
• 48:31
  Speaker 1: Right, I don't know, I don't think. But what about
• 48:34
  Speaker 1: the cool roswelt goblins Aliens?
• 48:38
  Speaker 5: I believe in aliens. I mean, I'm pretty sure that's I.
• 48:41
  Speaker 1: Know, But if they actually landed there? See, I think
• 48:43
  Speaker 1: the cell phone, the Internet, it's all alien technology. How
• 48:47
  Speaker 1: about that?
• 48:47
  Speaker 5: Yeah, that's that surprised me.
• 48:50
  Speaker 1: Everything kind of took off after Roswell New Mexico. I'm
• 48:52
  Speaker 1: gonna go coast to coast move over, George Norri