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Hour 3 - Metropolitan Madness · The Ben Maller Show

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Speaker 1: Playball. Holy cow, it's upside down from baseball. Here an
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Speaker 1: hour number three of the Ben Malers Show. On this Thursday,
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Speaker 1: it has not been clear sailing for one of the
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Speaker 1: big stars in the Big Apple. Can you give me
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Speaker 1: a word for Mets star Francisco Lindor forgetting how many
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Speaker 1: outs there were? This is a three hundred and forty
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Speaker 1: million dollar ball player who did not do simple arithmetic. Also,
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Speaker 1: where are you at on Marlinsay's Sandy Alcantera roasting fans
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Speaker 1: for the poor attendance in Miami? Is he had a
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Speaker 1: dominating start? Greg Maddox like on the mound, and it
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Speaker 1: has happened. The Orioles game ended on an abs called
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Speaker 1: strike against the Texas Rangers. Where do you see this
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Speaker 1: robot umpire invasion? This storyline going next? We'll talk about
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Speaker 1: that and attempt to walk on water right now here
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Speaker 1: So our lead is from Saint Louis. It's not about
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Speaker 1: the Cardinals. That is where the New York Mets and
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Speaker 1: star Francisco Lindor had a what am I doing? Game?
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Speaker 1: Just an awful afternoon against the Red Birds, making not one,
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Speaker 1: not one, but two bonehead plays, two bonehead plays. Lindor,
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Speaker 1: who has started slow. He Mets have only played six games.
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Speaker 1: They're five hundred shortstop Lindor is hitting one forty three.
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Speaker 1: I didn't play in the big leagues. I'm told that's
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Speaker 1: not good. And the numbers are not great. Now, the
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Speaker 1: story here is not about a batting average. That's not great,
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Speaker 1: because we all know in the sport of baseball, you
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Speaker 1: can get off to a bad week, bad week start,
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Speaker 1: and then have two good games and all of a
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Speaker 1: sudden you're leading the league in batting average and all
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Speaker 1: that stuff. The numbers are very fluid. There's not great.
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Speaker 1: It's the subrebral part of the game. It's the mental
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Speaker 1: part of the game. Lindor caught a grounder against Saint Louis.
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Speaker 1: There he stepped on second rather than throwing to first,
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Speaker 1: and it would have been a double play. Would have
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Speaker 1: been a double play. He didn't do it. As a result,
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Speaker 1: the inning continued. The Mets said to continue out there defensively,
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Speaker 1: and that didn't affect the outcome of the game. Per se.
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Speaker 1: It is just taboo. It's baseball taboo. Lindor postgame said
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Speaker 1: it was quote inexcusable and quote I just forgot the outs.
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Speaker 1: That's the dagger right there. I forgot the outs. So
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Speaker 1: he admitted the obvious. And it's a blow to those
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Speaker 1: that said, well, you knew how many outs there were. No, No,
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Speaker 1: he admitted he didn't know how many outs there were. Okay, fine,
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Speaker 1: so you're oblivious. I got that. And then later in
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Speaker 1: the game, Francisco Lindor got on base and he was
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Speaker 1: caught pulling what we call a hollering James. That's a
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Speaker 1: hollering James. He was caught napping. They lead at first base,
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Speaker 1: unable to get back to the bag in time, and
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Speaker 1: easy out for the cars. Easy out. So couple of
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Speaker 1: real dumb, dumb plays by Francisco Lindor. That is a
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Speaker 1: good jumping off point. Let us discuss the question for
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Speaker 1: the esteem panel. Can you give me a word? Can
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Speaker 1: you give me a word for metstar Francisco Lindor forgetting
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Speaker 1: how many outs there were? So I've got on this one.
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Speaker 1: I've got butterflies, whistle and gateway, and we will combine
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Speaker 1: all of these things together and you and I are
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Speaker 1: going to have an amazing solid start to this hour.
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Speaker 1: All right, So first of all, my word, what is
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Speaker 1: the word for Francisco Lindor forgetting on how many outs
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Speaker 1: there were? My word is flatulence with a capital F,
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Speaker 1: full blown stadium clearing brain fart by Lindor. Francisco Lindoor.
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Speaker 1: You've got a sound of it right there. I ate
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Speaker 1: a lot of garlic and drank some soda pop and
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Speaker 1: all that. So three hundred and forty one million dollars
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Speaker 1: centerpiece of the infield. We are talking about the Mona
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Speaker 1: Lisa of Queens and Mona Lisa of Queens and he's
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Speaker 1: out there daydreaming. It's forgetting how many outs. If you've
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Speaker 1: ever been to a little league baseball game, maybe you
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Speaker 1: played in one, or you have kids, that's little league
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Speaker 1: baseball right there. That's t ball, Tommy. Francisco Lindoor is
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Speaker 1: t ball, Tommy wandering off to chase butterflies. Well, Tommy,
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Speaker 1: you've got to be ready if the balls hit to you. Well,
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Speaker 1: there's some there's some butterflies out here, though, coach, I
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Speaker 1: got to see the button. But no, no, Tommy, you
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Speaker 1: could get hurt.
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Speaker 2: Nah.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, but there was a there was a beautiful butterfly.
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Speaker 1: And there's some really good flowers out there in the outfield.
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Speaker 1: I don't know why there's flowers in the outfield, but
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Speaker 1: they're they're there. So Lindor turned a routine what would
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Speaker 1: have been a routine big league double play, into some
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Speaker 1: kind of interpretive dance routine. We're not sure why. Stepped
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Speaker 1: on second and then freezes, and the whole thing smells
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Speaker 1: like some rotting baloney, some rotting baloney. And then oh
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Speaker 1: it gets better, but wait, there's more. It gets better.
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Speaker 1: So he's on base later gets picked off like he's
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Speaker 1: playing freeze tag oopsid daisy oopsid dazy right, that whole thing.
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Speaker 1: So that's a two for the price of one special
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Speaker 1: comedy of errors, Broadway level buffoonery from Francisco Lindor. Now,
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Speaker 1: the reason this is more interesting. It's only six games.
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Speaker 1: Who cares, well, No, we have a talk show to
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Speaker 1: do every day, and so this is our talk show today,
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Speaker 1: and this is the story today, and we're talking about
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Speaker 1: the story right now because this is the story. Keep
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Speaker 1: in mind, though the Mets brain trust that the people
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Speaker 1: involved in picking the players, they shipped out all of
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Speaker 1: the character guys, the clubhouse guys for the Mets to
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Speaker 1: pacify Lindor and Wan. So I've talked about Brandon, Nimmo,
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Speaker 1: and Pete Alonzo. Alonzo wasn't brought back. Nimo was traded
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Speaker 1: Jeff McNeil, longtime metal, He's not very good. He was
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Speaker 1: also sent pack. So the front office bent the knee.
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Speaker 1: I think anyone can disagree with that to make the
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Speaker 1: regime of Lindor and Sodo happy. And the early return
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Speaker 1: on investment the ROI is not looking so good here.
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Speaker 1: It's a long season, but we have a show to
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Speaker 1: do today. Situational awareness, no gone gone, gone gone. God
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Speaker 1: got on vacation with visions of sugar plums dancing in
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Speaker 1: his head. Probably so malar scale of embarrassment Francisco and
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Speaker 1: or three hundred and forty million dollar New York Mets
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Speaker 1: star Francisco Lindor forgetting how many outs there are and
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Speaker 1: getting getting caught napping. Mallard scale of embarrassment one to ten,
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Speaker 1: one to ten, We're to nine point two borderline toxicity.
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Speaker 1: You're going to die all right now. Secondly to Miami,
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Speaker 1: I was getting text messages from my pal marlins Man,
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Speaker 1: who was not at the Marlins game. He was at
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Speaker 1: the Miami Heat game as the Boston Celtics put the
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Speaker 1: whammie on the Heat the early knockout punch. They put
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Speaker 1: up a fifty plus burger in the first quarter, and
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Speaker 1: if I text marlins Man, I said, hey, can you
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Speaker 1: play defense? The Heat need you on the court. He
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Speaker 1: did not appreciate my comedic attempt. The story here in
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Speaker 1: Miami though about the baseball team, which is rare. The
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Speaker 1: Marlins are off to a good start early in the season.
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Speaker 1: They had a dominating pitching performance by guy that was
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Speaker 1: an absolute turd. Last year, Sandy al Contara through a
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Speaker 1: complete game shutout against the Triple A White Sox, struck
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Speaker 1: out I think it was seven and allowed just three hits.
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Speaker 1: It was a ten tohing game. The game ended in
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Speaker 1: mercy rule unless it didn't. Unless it didn't, so al
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Speaker 1: Contera Sandy the player's first name. So he then decided
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Speaker 1: to have some fun and poke the empty stadium in
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Speaker 1: South Florida. He said postgame on Marlin's radio, I'm sure
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Speaker 1: that's just rivening. Sandy Alcantera said, it's been a long
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Speaker 1: time without throwing a complete game, but this one is
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Speaker 1: so special for me. Okay, that's a great quote. That's
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Speaker 1: a generic raw raw quote. Quote continues, all my family
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Speaker 1: was here, fans are not here, but we still love them.
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Speaker 1: He wasn't kidding. The attendance for that Marlins White Sox
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Speaker 1: game six thousand, five hundred and five, that's it. Witnessed
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Speaker 1: the thirteenth career complete game for Sandy al Kantara of
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Speaker 1: the Marlin. So the question where are you at on
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Speaker 1: the ace of the Marlins Sandy al Kantara roasting the
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Speaker 1: fans for not supporting the hometown team. So it's it's
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Speaker 1: pretty obviously they're not this a spring training crowd, Like
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Speaker 1: that's a big crowd in spring training, six five hundred people.
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Speaker 1: That's not a major league environment. It's not a big
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Speaker 1: league environment at all. That is a library. They put
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Speaker 1: a popcorn maker and a hot dog stand in. That's
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Speaker 1: what that is. And al Kantara knows it and every man,
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Speaker 1: woman and child knows it. And so my theory here,
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Speaker 1: this is an original malor theory. Nobody else has this.
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Speaker 1: They all can have their way and steal it later.
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Speaker 1: This is my original theory. Al Contaro was blowing into
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Speaker 1: the whistle, the dog whistlef the dog whistle, loud and clear.
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Speaker 1: He's ready right now. He's ready to go on Zillow's.
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Speaker 1: He likes Miami. It's a great place to live and
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Speaker 1: all that. Not a great place to be an athlete
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Speaker 1: with the Marlins. So he's dune ski with South FLOORID.
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Speaker 1: He can live there in the offseason and that's it,
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Speaker 1: and that's fine. That whistle whistle while you work is like,
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Speaker 1: get me out of here. I want to be in
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Speaker 1: a real major league town with these things called fans.
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Speaker 1: I would like that someplace like I don't know, the
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Speaker 1: Dodgers or the Yankees, of the Red Sox and usual
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Speaker 1: suspects the Cubs, somewhere where the building actually has some energy,
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Speaker 1: where it jumps. The Marlins are in this place called
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Speaker 1: the Twilight Zone. They really are. And the first World
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Speaker 1: Series I ever attended was a Marlins World Series. Years ago,
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Speaker 1: I played a team called the Cleveland Indians, the don't
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Speaker 1: even thin exist. They were killed. They were exterminated. The
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Speaker 1: Clevelandians Wolkesters killed them, tossed him off a bridge, and
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Speaker 1: then they named the team after the bridge. Up were
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Speaker 1: very nice that I saw the Marlins win a World Series.
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Speaker 1: The stadium was packed. I still remember driving back to
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Speaker 1: my hotel after the game and the Cuban fans in Miami.
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Speaker 1: They were having a field that is the greatest thing
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Speaker 1: in the world. They were partying out in the streets
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Speaker 1: and honking horns and blowing whistles and banging on pots
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Speaker 1: and pans, and it was awesome. I still have all
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Speaker 1: these years later, I still remember that sound. And that
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Speaker 1: was the Marlins winning the World Series. And they won
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Speaker 1: another World Series about ten years or so after that,
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Speaker 1: so they had a couple of moments. But the franchise
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Speaker 1: is stuck in the twilight zone. They are they caught
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Speaker 1: in the middle. They're not a big league team, they're
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Speaker 1: not a Triple A team. They're like a four A team,
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Speaker 1: somewhere in between Triple A and the major leagues, and
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Speaker 1: they get to play the big league teams. They're essentially
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Speaker 1: spam because these other teams need someone to play and
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Speaker 1: the Marlins. The whole motto of the franchise is it's
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Speaker 1: kind of like fishing, where they say, well, you can
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Speaker 1: catch it, but you have to release it. It's catch
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Speaker 1: and release fishing is what you occasionally get some good players.
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Speaker 1: You'll find by dumb luck. You'll find a couple of
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Speaker 1: good ballplayers, and then as soon as they get really good,
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Speaker 1: you flip them to a real big league team and
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Speaker 1: then that's it. Then they go off and win MVPs
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Speaker 1: and get to the World Series and things like that,
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Speaker 1: and that magical ballpark experience. If you've ever wondered what
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Speaker 1: it would be like if a baseball team played in
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Speaker 1: a mausoleum, It's Forrest Lawn with a pitching mound, Marlins Ballpark.
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Speaker 1: It's crazy. I'd flip around. I'll go to the Marlins game.
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Speaker 1: I'm like, oh, man, when win in the game starts, Oh,
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Speaker 1: it's already the fifth inning. My god. Now, I did
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Speaker 1: cover a team, the Clippers, back in the nineties, who
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Speaker 1: had similar experiences. We used to call the LA Sports
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Speaker 1: Arena the mausoleum, and we would occasionally in radio row
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Speaker 1: we would be bored. And that was back when radio
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Speaker 1: covered these games. And we would literally count the number
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Speaker 1: of people at the La Memorial Sports Arena, and there
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Speaker 1: were that few people we could counted. Now, I've been
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Speaker 1: told by Boots on the ground of Miami, the Marlins
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Speaker 1: even that number sixty five hundred, that number is embellished,
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Speaker 1: that they aren't even that many people. There have been
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Speaker 1: games with less than three thousand people at Marlins games.
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Speaker 1: But I just all come, Terra, he's believe he's gonna
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Speaker 1: be gone by the trade deadline is in July. And
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Speaker 1: this is like, Hey, I'm gonna pitch well. I didn't
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Speaker 1: pitch well last year on pitch well, now you look
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Speaker 1: at the contract. Things lifeless there, even though the Marlins
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Speaker 1: are off to a good week in the season and
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Speaker 1: all that joyless and things are looking bleak. So we'll see,
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Speaker 1: all right, final thought, we going out of Baltimore baseball
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Speaker 1: history at Camden Yards for the Orioles, who are literally
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Speaker 1: serving the media. I've heard from my friends in Baltimore
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Speaker 1: dog food. They've decided, all right, if you cover the Orioles,
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Speaker 1: we're gonna serve you dog food, and we're going to
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Speaker 1: give you the honor of paying fifteen dollars for the
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Speaker 1: dog food.
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Speaker 3: Arf.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, all right. Anyway, So in a Major League first,
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Speaker 1: a Big League first, a game has now ended on
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Speaker 1: a walk off challenge. It has happened. The modern twist
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Speaker 1: coming from the Arrangers Orioles game batter Evan Carter, took
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Speaker 1: a called called ball on a one to two pitch.
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Speaker 1: I know edon Arlington was watching this with two outs
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Speaker 1: in the top of the ninth. However, the Orioles catcher,
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Speaker 1: as Samuel Basayo, placed the place to bet. He he
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Speaker 1: had a hunch, and he bet a bunch, not really
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Speaker 1: a bunch. He challenged the call, the Orioles catcher Samuell
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Speaker 1: and so they go to the ensuing review, the Automated
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Speaker 1: Ball strike challenge, and it revealed a ninety five point
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Speaker 1: two mile an hour fastball from Albert Suarez clipping the
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Speaker 1: very top of the strike zone, very top of the
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Speaker 1: strike zone on the outside corner, and it was strike three.
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Speaker 1: And that's all she wrote. Turn out the Lats, the
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Speaker 1: parties over abs technology deciding its first game officially in
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Speaker 1: the Big League's a game ending because the bots, A
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Speaker 1: game ending because of the bots. Orioles one eight to
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Speaker 1: three over Texas. So the question where do you see
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Speaker 1: this robot umpires storyline going next. That's the question. So
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Speaker 1: this is baseball being manipulated by the Silicon Valley algorithm
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Speaker 1: while wearing yoga pants essentially here and right now using
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Speaker 1: the malor Rosetta stone. This is what I would call
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Speaker 1: a gateway, A gateway way drug is what it is.
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Speaker 1: Right now. It's hey, we're gonna challenge muse the challenge system.
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Speaker 1: That's the way we're gonna do it.
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Speaker 4: Here.
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Speaker 1: It's cute, it's harmless. It's dip your toe in the
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Speaker 1: water stuff. And that's how it's gonna go. Give it
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Speaker 1: five five minutes or five years, and they're gonna fus
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Speaker 1: around more right, They're gonna turn to some skullduggery here
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Speaker 1: and before you know it, the home plate umpire will
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Speaker 1: be as you have a better chance of seeing a
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Speaker 1: wooly mammoth than a home plate umpire. This is say, well,
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Speaker 1: we're gonna get rid of it, and that's it. It'll
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Speaker 1: become extinct. It'll be like you ever see a rotary phone,
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Speaker 1: you know, we see a rotary phone and an antique
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Speaker 1: shop you see a rotary phone. So it's gonna the
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Speaker 1: umpire vinyl plate's gonna be gone. That's it extinct. It'll
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Speaker 1: all be done in a laboratory. And that's where baseball
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Speaker 1: is being Frankenstein under the spineless Commissioner in real time.
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Speaker 1: And and you'll have I've heard they're gonna go with
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Speaker 1: like a red light green light thing where you have
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Speaker 1: a it's like a carnival game. Carnival game from Major
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Speaker 1: League Baseball sponsored by some tech bro and Palatto who
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Speaker 1: thinks he invented oxygen and wants everyone to know about
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Speaker 1: it and all that. And so we're now in this
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Speaker 1: era of the perfection or bust part of baseball. Younger
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Speaker 1: fans they don't want they expect umpires to be perfect.
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Speaker 1: They expect umpires to be greaded like uber drivers four
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Speaker 1: point nine or you're out four point nine or you're
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Speaker 1: out zero tolerance. Now, my generation, we understood the umpire
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Speaker 1: was part of the chaos, and then each umpire was unique.
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Speaker 1: There were different strike zones in the American League to
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Speaker 1: the National League, and it was just part of the game.
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Speaker 1: It was seasoning. Bad calls were part of the game,
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Speaker 1: and you just you toughen it up and you move on.
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Speaker 1: Now you cannot have bad calls. You cannot have Oh
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Speaker 1: my god, people say mean things. You make a bad call.
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Speaker 1: It's a felony. It is a freaking felony. Uh it is.
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Speaker 1: And so we're shaving baseball down, down, down, down, down,
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Speaker 1: down to millimeters. We're turning the drama. We're kind of twisting.
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Speaker 1: So well this is drama. Well yeah, that's kind of drama.
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Speaker 1: But it's not the same. It's it's it's it's it's
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Speaker 1: you're taking the human element out of it, and you're
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Speaker 1: turning this into like an app on your phone, and
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Speaker 1: it's like, well, there's a lot of screen time and
21:26
Speaker 1: all that, and you know what's coming next. We're gonna
21:29
Speaker 1: have mark my words somehow, some way, some super dork,
21:35
Speaker 1: some super dork is gonna compareachuting down just like that,
21:42
Speaker 1: and we're going to have an ABS scandal. Well that's impossible,
21:47
Speaker 1: no way, because no one ever gets hacked, right, there's
21:50
Speaker 1: never data leaks, no one ever gets hacked. Uh, there'll
21:53
Speaker 1: be a glitch, there'll be a mysterious update system updating situation.
21:59
Speaker 1: The Houston eh strows. Yeah, they've already mastered the cheating,
22:10
Speaker 1: all right, So they've took out the trash cans one time.
22:14
Speaker 1: Now they're well, they're downloading the strike zone and all that,
22:18
Speaker 1: updating the strike zone system, updating system, updating. Well, it
22:22
Speaker 1: seems like the Astros strike zone when they're hitting is
22:24
Speaker 1: much smaller, and when they're pitching, it's much larger. I
22:27
Speaker 1: wonder how that happened. It must be Orbit's fault. It's
22:30
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22:32
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22:34
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Speaker 1: broadcaster John Kruk went viral recently for having blank for lunch.
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Speaker 1: So that's the word on the street. I cannot reveal
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Speaker 1: my sources on that. It may or may not be
25:40
Speaker 1: from Tommy in Atlanta. And PAULI is in the air everywhere.
25:46
Speaker 1: He's in Louisiana. Paul's right there. Not Anthony Hi, the Reina, No,
25:52
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25:58
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Speaker 1: That's a mention. Much different, much different time. Now for
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Speaker 1: the Mallard Riddle of the day. And here's the Mallard
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Speaker 1: Riddle of the day. And here it is. Philadelphia Phillies
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Speaker 1: broadcaster John Cruck went viral recently for having blank for lunch,
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Speaker 1: a culinary faux paw. Great Andy in Lionel Lakes, Minnesota
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Speaker 1: says he had the insert Marcel voice Gordon Fisherman's for lunch. Yeah,
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Speaker 1: that's right, hot dog water from Rob the goat Man. Lady, No, no,
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Speaker 1: the the that's the wrong one he mentioned. The Gordon's
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Speaker 1: Fisherman is what he mentioned, Lady Sideburn says, A gallon
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Speaker 1: of extra Version olive oil, A sixteen inch Dodger dog
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Speaker 1: from Eloy from Compton, A can of Oreo Soup Limited
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Speaker 1: Edition from Donkey Sausage. Now, who else? We have chocolate
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Speaker 1: covered pretzels dipped and mustard yuck. Late night drug tester
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Speaker 1: Mister Irrigation says, Rocky Mountain Oysters. There you go. Uh,
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Speaker 1: what else do we have? A saga? Chew the testicle
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Speaker 1: soggy cereal. Yeah, I don't like cereal because you gotta
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Speaker 1: eat it fast man. That cereal gets soggy. It's unedible
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Speaker 1: at that point. It's a it's a test, it's a sprint.
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Speaker 1: The cereal, the crispy cream pickle, stuffed donut from King Rory,
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Speaker 1: vaseline from Alf the Alien old pider on periscope. A marlin,
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Speaker 1: an actual marlin from Inka Terror. Uh see what do
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Speaker 1: we have here? Page down? Trucker Joe gotta have a
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Speaker 1: fall guy, he said, for having Similac is the answer.
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Speaker 1: Ben Mallard chicken figure some courtesy Flusher Swanson Hunt young
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Speaker 1: Man Salisbury steak dinner with apple cobbler, very specific Milkman
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Speaker 1: Mike Philly cheese steak with ketchup. That's from Eke and Roseville, Minnesota.
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Speaker 1: You filled the fish and macaroni and cheese. Yeah, well
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Speaker 1: there you go. I don't know about the macaroni and cheese,
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Speaker 1: larry D, but thank you for the passover messaging there.
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Speaker 1: I appreciate that. The get the matza ready hot? What
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Speaker 1: else do we have? The green eggs and ham sam
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Speaker 1: I am from Gunner JT. The Wingman says, a peanut
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Speaker 1: butter and pickle sandwich to celebrate National PEB and J Day,
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Speaker 1: which is today, So make sure to have that, all right,
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Speaker 1: movie man Matt says John Crook ate some delicious poutine,
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Speaker 1: A spam sandwich from Piller up Phil? What say you, Lorraine?
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Speaker 5: Holy biscuits?
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Speaker 2: Uh?
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Speaker 5: Probably just a margarita.
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Speaker 1: A margarita A right, that would not be a fashion
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Speaker 1: faux Paul.
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Speaker 5: You don't think no.
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Speaker 1: Philly's broadcaster John Krook went viral recently for saying that
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Speaker 1: for lunch, she had two hot dogs smothered in mayonnaise. Wow,
29:04
Speaker 1: I was gonna get hot dog.
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Speaker 5: The time. I like hot with mayonnaise.
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Speaker 1: Uh, that's there's a culinary faux Paul. You're you're not
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Speaker 1: supposed to eat the hot dog with the mail. Let's
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Speaker 1: go to the phones. Let's say hello to Eenie meenie
29:17
Speaker 1: miney mo. What do we get Marseid. We haven't heard
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Speaker 1: from Marseid in a while. Marsett's in Cleveland. Hello, mar said,
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Speaker 1: You're on Fox Sports Radio. It's the Ben Maler Show.
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Speaker 4: Get down, Funky Chicken and roam moo, Get dun funky
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Speaker 4: chicken and bow your man.
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Speaker 7: Oh y'all, don.
29:38
Speaker 1: That's what I'm talking about right there. That's how you
29:41
Speaker 1: come back to the show, Marseide, That's how you do it.
29:46
Speaker 3: Yeah.
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Speaker 4: I was gonna talk about, uh, some things you're talking about,
29:50
Speaker 4: but then I thought, you know, I haven't told you
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Speaker 4: guys before I played pro football, and uh, yeah, we
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Speaker 4: had a good time back then.
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Speaker 1: Well well, well you know I couldn't hear you you
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Speaker 1: were you said you played pro football? Is that correct?
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Speaker 4: Yes, yes, we played, uh back in the seventies. Ye
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Speaker 4: part in the sixties. We had alumni leagues here in
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Speaker 4: northeast ohigha, so.
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Speaker 1: It was like semi pro football kind of.
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Speaker 4: It was actually like jack pop football.
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Speaker 3: Okay, we'd have a team.
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Speaker 4: You put in five thousand dollars in September two hundred piece.
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Speaker 4: We had twenty five guys on our team, and then
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Speaker 4: about two weeks before Christmas, we would win the championship
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Speaker 4: and I'd get thirty eight hundred dollars.
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Speaker 1: Wow, look at that all right? Who knew? And that's
30:41
Speaker 1: how the NFL started. Well, the NFL started because of gambling,
30:43
Speaker 1: but it started in Ohio.
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Speaker 4: So that's good for an eighteen year old, you know, Yeah,
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Speaker 4: eighteen years old, you're playing jack pot football. And right
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Speaker 4: before Christmas you get four thousand dollars.
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Speaker 1: All right, And as you know, I love and you
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Speaker 1: know this because you're a listener, mar said, I love
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Speaker 1: the inflation calculators. So let's say, what year are we
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Speaker 1: looking at here? So four thousand dollars? What year were
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Speaker 1: talking about? Nineteen seventy something seventy eight something like that?
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Speaker 1: Would you seventy nineteen seventy seven? So nineteen seventy seven,
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Speaker 1: four thousand dollars today would be like twenty twenty one
31:21
Speaker 1: thousand dollars. Oh yeah, in today's money, it would be
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Speaker 1: twenty one thousand, five hundred and sixty nine dollars. That's
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Speaker 1: pretty good. That's pretty good.
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Speaker 4: Eh Oh I put in two hundred dollars in September?
31:36
Speaker 4: What two hundred would be? What? Five hundred?
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Speaker 1: See? Now you want more math? Oh no, no, I'll
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Speaker 1: do it. Two thousand dollars or two hundred dollars in
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Speaker 1: nineteen seventy seven today would be one thousand dollars, a
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Speaker 1: little over one thousand dollars.
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Speaker 4: Oh that's been hard to do. Not really.
31:55
Speaker 1: Well, how you been, Marshall. We haven't talked to you,
31:57
Speaker 1: ay way, Everything good with you? You're alive. You're well,
31:59
Speaker 1: everything's all right?
31:59
Speaker 8: Yes, oh yeah, yeah, but no, you know, I just
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Speaker 8: like one day morning, Oh the disappointment I felt when
32:10
Speaker 8: I turned on the station and you weren't there.
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Speaker 1: Yes, it was devastating. It was horrible.
32:15
Speaker 4: I had Duke's post game show or something.
32:18
Speaker 1: Oh is that right? I don't know. I was not.
32:21
Speaker 1: I was busy. But I'm glad that you missed me.
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Speaker 1: It's good to be missed, Marseille.
32:26
Speaker 4: Oh yeah, listen, I know I've been. When I was
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Speaker 4: eight years old, I realized I love radio much more
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Speaker 4: than TV.
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Speaker 1: Exactly. You can do stuff while you listen to radio.
32:36
Speaker 1: You don't have to be tied down to staring at
32:38
Speaker 1: the TV. It's a much better medium. And I will
32:40
Speaker 1: say that as long as I work in radio, I
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Speaker 1: love it. I love now, I will tell you. Mar said,
32:44
Speaker 1: those checks and TV much bigger than the checks and radio,
32:47
Speaker 1: much bigger.
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Speaker 8: Yeah.
32:48
Speaker 4: Yeah, I used to take a transistor to bed when
32:53
Speaker 4: I was eight years old. They used to have boxing
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Speaker 4: on at night here.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, back when they actually before we went to pay
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Speaker 1: per view and all that, and back when people love boxing.
33:03
Speaker 4: And yeah, let me listen to boxing, you know. So
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Speaker 4: let's make a transistor in.
33:10
Speaker 1: The nice Look at that you're you were a rebel.
33:13
Speaker 1: Mar said, I gotta go, but it's good to hear
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Speaker 1: your voice. Mars said, be well called more often, the
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Speaker 1: Great marsh said, doing the chicken dance. Right there. Let's
33:19
Speaker 1: say hello to Daniel in Anaheim. Hello Dan, we don't
33:25
Speaker 1: get any calls from anam. We used to have this
33:26
Speaker 1: guy named Anthony and Anaheim, but he retired from the show.
33:28
Speaker 1: Hello Daniel, welcome, Hi Bill.
33:31
Speaker 3: Thank you very much taking my call. I want to
33:34
Speaker 3: call about the lockout, but I want to I want
33:36
Speaker 3: to give a feedback about what you were saying about
33:39
Speaker 3: the fomo. In my opinion, I didn't know what fomo is,
33:42
Speaker 3: even though I'm young. I have to look it up
33:45
Speaker 3: on Google.
33:45
Speaker 1: Really, I'm cool. Look at this, I'm cooling. This guy's
33:48
Speaker 1: a hip young man, Daniel, and I know fomo and
33:52
Speaker 1: you don't even know what's that. You're in the perfect demo.
33:56
Speaker 1: You're writing our demo right in our wheelhouse. I love that.
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Speaker 3: But but xapolading on that. I wanted to say, yeah,
34:03
Speaker 3: you know what I mean, Like I mean, you want
34:06
Speaker 3: to attach to that irrational zuebris and you want attached
34:09
Speaker 3: to that, the Mets and Soto and other people at
34:12
Speaker 3: you're sting lind Or. You know Sodo never got MVP ever,
34:16
Speaker 3: and somehow he gets paid as much as Oltani's or
34:19
Speaker 3: Morgan Trout or Judge and he ain't no Judge or tchout.
34:23
Speaker 3: But what I'm calling about, and I agreed with you
34:26
Speaker 3: mean the fomo irrational jubris, but I want to call
34:30
Speaker 3: about the lockout here. And you know we should be
34:34
Speaker 3: appreciate baseball here. I mean, it's an amazing sport and
34:39
Speaker 3: the salary tap, in my opinion, ain't gonna work. My
34:44
Speaker 3: proposal here comes to be steps the value the variable
34:48
Speaker 3: luxury tax, it called the DLT. So you raise the
34:53
Speaker 3: amounts of like luxury tax team's already paid. But not
34:56
Speaker 3: only that, but you lower the threshold ten percent every time.
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Speaker 3: And you want to win the World Series and buy it.
35:02
Speaker 3: Go ahead, We're going to lower the threshold and we're
35:04
Speaker 3: gonna raise your taxes.
35:06
Speaker 1: And on top of that, yeah, I know that's I
35:10
Speaker 1: wouldn't even have a salary cap. Listen, you know these
35:13
Speaker 1: teams are hoarding money. The teams like the Marlins and
35:15
Speaker 1: the Pirates in the A's they're not even trying to win.
35:19
Speaker 1: They're not even trying to win, so why should you
35:22
Speaker 1: reward them for this bad activity.
35:24
Speaker 3: Well, well, you don't want to reward them. You also
35:26
Speaker 3: raise the floor. So you raise the floor, but you
35:28
Speaker 3: also have seated Dodgers. Like I'm saying, I'm not saying
35:31
Speaker 3: that you can just go out there and buy world series.
35:33
Speaker 3: And MAT's trying to do that all the time. It
35:35
Speaker 3: doesn't work. But then just not a way to do it.
35:37
Speaker 1: And everyone, well they found a way to do it.
35:39
Speaker 1: They were then out of losing to the Toronto Blue
35:42
Speaker 1: Jays twice.
35:42
Speaker 3: In a row.
35:43
Speaker 1: Now and okay, they did, they did, and they played
35:46
Speaker 1: the Yankees, who player spent a lot of money. The
35:48
Speaker 1: Blue Jays spent a lot of Now I'm playing with list.
35:51
Speaker 1: If you want to win, there are ways. I gotta
35:54
Speaker 1: let you go on that. But there are ways to
35:55
Speaker 1: get it them. But thank you, daan call call more off. Well,
35:58
Speaker 1: I love talking some baseball. You're right prime demo. We
36:01
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36:06
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37:08
Speaker 5: So, I don't know if he's rebranding here, but Robin
37:10
Speaker 5: Coco Beach former Rob in the three two one. Interesting, Yeah, Ben,
37:14
Speaker 5: he wants to know Ben and Crewe. Did you watch
37:16
Speaker 5: these Space Shuttle launches when they were aired on TV?
37:20
Speaker 1: Yes, I'm of the generation that we all went to
37:25
Speaker 1: school and they had a teacher that went to space
37:28
Speaker 1: and she blew up in the space shuttle. We were
37:31
Speaker 1: all watching, Oh, we were watching on Chilter. Yeah, I
37:35
Speaker 1: was Ben.
37:36
Speaker 5: Did you watch Artemis two yesterday or No?
37:38
Speaker 1: I didn't watch that. I was sleeping.
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Speaker 2: No.
37:40
Speaker 1: I loved it. I'm fascinated by that. I wanted to
37:43
Speaker 1: go see the goblins out in space. Lorena.
37:45
Speaker 5: No I did not cool, No, I did not. All right,
37:47
Speaker 5: what's sleeping? All right? Here is a question from the
37:51
Speaker 5: King Rory.
37:52
Speaker 1: Hi, Rory.
37:53
Speaker 5: When having guests over, do you ask them to take
37:56
Speaker 5: their shoes off?
37:58
Speaker 1: I do not ask them. They all do because when
38:01
Speaker 1: you come into the Malory mansion you see a bunch
38:04
Speaker 1: of shoes, so it's kind of obvious. You don't have
38:06
Speaker 1: to tell people because it's obvious the shoes near the door.
38:09
Speaker 1: You know, I'm I live in an Asian household. That's
38:11
Speaker 1: what happens, so you know, no, you're Asian? Yes, I
38:16
Speaker 1: don't want to go ahead?
38:19
Speaker 7: Yeah, no, no, I do not, although I do appreciate
38:21
Speaker 7: it because if you really think about how dirty our
38:23
Speaker 7: shoes are, it's disgusting.
38:25
Speaker 1: Yeah, no, it's good.
38:27
Speaker 5: And walking barefoot whatever, Coop, I never have, but I
38:32
Speaker 5: am going to now. Just got a new rug the
38:36
Speaker 5: other the other day.
38:37
Speaker 1: Yeah, and that thing clean. They're really yeah, but you
38:40
Speaker 1: gotta runt like a cleaner, like a grocery.
38:43
Speaker 5: Old rug was so bad we just just threw it away.
38:45
Speaker 5: About a new one and now no more, no more
38:47
Speaker 5: shoes on the rug.
38:48
Speaker 1: That'll last about three weeks. Next, what do we got?
38:51
Speaker 5: Donkey Sausage would like to know how many pillows do
38:53
Speaker 5: you sleep with?
38:56
Speaker 1: So this is a very controversial topic. I did a
38:59
Speaker 1: podcast by so I had. We used to do commercials
39:02
Speaker 1: for sleep number. I wish they'd come back as an advertiser.
39:04
Speaker 1: And they sent me the greatest pillow I've ever had,
39:07
Speaker 1: And I love that pillow and that was my go
39:09
Speaker 1: to pillow. It was like perfect size. I'm a side
39:11
Speaker 1: sleeper and it was perfect and they don't make it anymore.
39:14
Speaker 1: So I tried to fight, but I have like I'm
39:16
Speaker 1: usually a two pillow guy. I got the one pillow
39:18
Speaker 1: which is like my elbow wrapped around it, and then
39:21
Speaker 1: I got one other pillow.
39:22
Speaker 7: So too, Lorena, I have three legitimate pillows, all varying
39:27
Speaker 7: in spirmness. I have a soft, medium and a hard
39:29
Speaker 7: and then I have about seventeen squash mellows on my back. Yes,
39:35
Speaker 7: varying sizes as well, small, medium, extra, small, large, jumbo.
39:40
Speaker 7: But yeah no, I actually it almost looks like a
39:42
Speaker 7: pool around me of a pillows.
39:45
Speaker 5: So she has lots of pillows?
39:46
Speaker 1: Yes?
39:47
Speaker 5: Cool, Take what are we looking at? I finally got
39:50
Speaker 5: a good pillow for the first time in my life.
39:52
Speaker 5: And that's it. Just one pillow.
39:53
Speaker 1: One pillow. Yeah, when you have one proper pillow and
39:56
Speaker 1: I have multiple, but one's my go Yeah.
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Speaker 5: Why was that so short?
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Speaker 1: I don't know. I blame that guy from Ohio.