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Hour 3 – MLB Proposal Discussion · The Ben Maller Show

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Speaker 1: The Bennyman Can the Benymen can it's our number three? Yeah, badabado,
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Speaker 1: it's our three here? And what are the Major League
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Speaker 1: Baseball owners really saying with this latest proposal which includes
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Speaker 1: term limits on contracts? Also thumbs up, thumbs down. Does
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Speaker 1: General manager David Stearns deserve to lose his job with
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Speaker 1: the Mets? We'll talk about that. And Ernie Clement? Who
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Speaker 1: Ernie Clement leading All americanly All Star voting? Is this
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Speaker 1: a mockery of the All Star Game? Or magic? We'll
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Speaker 1: go there as well. Settle in. It's just baseball, Susan here,
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Speaker 1: a content break right now, and our lead this hour
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Speaker 1: talking bays ball, well kind of loosely talking about baseball
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Speaker 1: as the labor negotiations continue. How soon before, somebody said
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Speaker 1: the players are threatening to not show up to the
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Speaker 1: World Series because they're going to get locked out and
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Speaker 1: there'll be no deal and all this other stuff. So
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Speaker 1: that's down the line. But the Major League Baseball Ownership
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Speaker 1: Group has issued a new proposal in the court of
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Speaker 1: public opinion. Yes, they've proposed new restrictions you see this
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Speaker 1: at all, new restrictions on free agent contracts as part
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Speaker 1: of the salary cap framework, the guidelines the ongoing labor
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Speaker 1: negotiations with the players Union. So if you didn't hear
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Speaker 1: about this, perhaps not I see Stevie Meepaul said, I
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Speaker 1: heard about it. Well, some of the details. I'm not
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Speaker 1: going to give you all because a lot of it's
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Speaker 1: really boring. The key stuff, most free agent contracts for
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Speaker 1: players signing with new teams would be capped term limits
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Speaker 1: at five years. Re signing with the team that you
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Speaker 1: started with that would go up to six years. Contracts
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Speaker 1: would be limited to fifteen percent of the cap, meaning
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Speaker 1: that if you're the top player like sho hail Tani
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Speaker 1: in down the line, obviously be grandfather Dan, fifteen percent,
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Speaker 1: that's all you get, fifteen percent. So that means that
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Speaker 1: if you have two players who are that good, you're
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Speaker 1: going to give them thirty percent of your salary cap
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Speaker 1: and that's it now in the first year, and sixteen
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Speaker 1: percent for recing. There's a lot of numbers here. In theory,
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Speaker 1: this would block mega, mega mega contracts with heavy deferrals,
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Speaker 1: such as Juan Soto. The fifteen year guess. I still
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Speaker 1: can't believe fifteen years. That's wild. Fifteen years, seven hundred
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Speaker 1: and sixty five million, the biggest contract in baseball he
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Speaker 1: got with the Mets. Major League Baseball would also but wait,
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Speaker 1: there's more, would also allow for earlier free agency one
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Speaker 1: year earlier for players who have reached the age of thirty. Well,
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Speaker 1: that's nice of them. They'd raise the minimum salary for
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Speaker 1: players within two years of service time from seven hundred
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Speaker 1: eighty thousand, which, oh, by the way, is rich. If
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Speaker 1: you're making seven hundred eighty foud, you're wealthy where I
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Speaker 1: come from. And they'd raise it to one million. And
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Speaker 1: the league claims that just seven players this year, seven
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Speaker 1: players would have exceeded the proposed max on the salary,
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Speaker 1: and ninety eight percent of free agent contracts would be
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Speaker 1: unaffected by all of this. So that is a good
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Speaker 1: jumping off point. Let us discuss the question, what are
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Speaker 1: the Major League Baseball owners? Okay, what are the Major
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Speaker 1: League Baseball owners really saying with this latest proposal to
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Speaker 1: the union. So I've got student loan Blender and mckribb,
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Speaker 1: and we will combine all of these things together, and
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Speaker 1: we are going to go down to assault your ear drums,
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Speaker 1: is what we're gonna do. That's right, Dante's inferno. Now
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Speaker 1: to kick off here or to lead off, because it's baseball,
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Speaker 1: we cannot stop. The owners are saying, we cannot stop
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Speaker 1: lighting money on fire. We have we're pyromaniacs. We need help.
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Speaker 1: Our mantra is burn, baby burn. Now keep in mind,
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Speaker 1: it's only a few teams that are like this. There
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Speaker 1: are many other teams that have a chastity belt around
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Speaker 1: their wallets. So you've got more of that than the
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Speaker 1: teams that want to spend a lot. But the owners,
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Speaker 1: they call it competitive balance, which is actually competitive restraint.
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Speaker 1: The low information fan always sides with management on this.
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Speaker 1: The owners have spent decades and I'm not exaggerating, literally
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Speaker 1: decades proving they have zero self control, the top end
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Speaker 1: owners in that sport, and might I add the people
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Speaker 1: at the bottom they have too much self control. So
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Speaker 1: you've got a lot that have too much self control,
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Speaker 1: and then a few teams that have no self control.
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Speaker 1: And so they're saying, listen, we've got some guys here
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Speaker 1: that just they can't stop spending the cash. So we
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Speaker 1: want you, the players, to help us install seatbelts. Boy,
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Speaker 1: I don't want a seat belt, Well, you got to
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Speaker 1: put a seatbelt and that's the way it is. They
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Speaker 1: love these top level teams love deferrals so much, how
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Speaker 1: much they love them so much that they are literally
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Speaker 1: paying guys who guys will get paid into the twenty
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Speaker 1: forties for things they're doing here in the twenty twenties.
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Speaker 1: Think about that. There are guys who are gonna get
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Speaker 1: paid till twenty forty three and beyond. They should just
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Speaker 1: call this the show. Hey, Otani rule two point zero.
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Speaker 1: Deferred money is baseball's version of the student loan crisis.
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Speaker 1: That's what it is. Congratulations, you've got your degree. You
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Speaker 1: will now be in debt the rest of your life.
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Speaker 1: And even if you die, you're still in debt. Right,
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Speaker 1: you go bankrupt, you still gotta pay that money. You're
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Speaker 1: the sucker. But hey, have that nice little degree. Congratulations.
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Speaker 1: That's essentially where we are. The Dodgers and the Mets
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Speaker 1: figured it out. Time travel accounting. That's what it is,
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Speaker 1: time travel accounting. Instead of innovating. Instead of innovating, the
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Speaker 1: league wants to outlaw the cheat code. They want to
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Speaker 1: get rid of it. Now. The aristocrats, they swear that
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Speaker 1: shorter contracts will actually help players. And again, this is
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Speaker 1: another thing with the low information fans says, you're absolutely right, man,
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Speaker 1: Is that a great take? Of course, you completely ignore
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Speaker 1: that side of the aisle, completely ignores that guys will
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Speaker 1: have to re enter free agency during the decline years.
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Speaker 1: And these ten fifteen year contracts in baseball are always
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Speaker 1: lost leaders. You're really paying for five or six years,
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Speaker 1: and if you get anything extra past year six or seven,
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Speaker 1: it's all gravy. It's extra gravy, is what it is.
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Speaker 1: There's no way that Juan Soto has already got back
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Speaker 1: problems is going to be in a good ten years
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Speaker 1: from now. Stop, even though Tani is not going to
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Speaker 1: be good at the end of his contract. That's just
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Speaker 1: the way this stuff works. And that's it. And the
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Speaker 1: owners they've got this golden goose. The baseball owners have
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Speaker 1: this golden goose. They would prefer to exchange it for
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Speaker 1: a golden cow. Moo move. Yeah, they want that study milk.
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Speaker 1: No surprises, no surprise. They want an NFL Baseball wants
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Speaker 1: an NFL cap without opening the books, how do you
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Speaker 1: do that. The NFL's screwed in that department. The Green
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Speaker 1: Bay Packers really ruined it for the NFL as a
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Speaker 1: publicly owned team. And as a result, the finances of
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Speaker 1: the NFL are made public every single year. How much
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Speaker 1: TV money they get, You can do the math. It's
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Speaker 1: divided by thirty two, so everyone gets the same amount
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Speaker 1: of national TV money, etc. Etc. Etc. Baseball, though, they're
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Speaker 1: not going down that road. If you won't show the receipts,
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Speaker 1: stop crying poverty. The entire tug of war is a
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Speaker 1: pointless endeavor unless unless there's a will to do it.
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Speaker 1: If the owners say, listen, we have fifteen of the
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Speaker 1: thirty members of the cartel that lost serious money, the
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Speaker 1: players will be Okay, Let's see the books. Let's see
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Speaker 1: the Pirates and the Athletics and the Tampa Bay Rays
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Speaker 1: and all these tightwad teams. Let's look at the numbers.
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Speaker 1: Let's have an independent audit of the books. They will
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Speaker 1: never do that, because the ugly truth is these teams
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Speaker 1: are all making money. They might might make in a
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Speaker 1: lot of money, they're making money, and they always sell
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Speaker 1: for more the next time than they do originally. No
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Speaker 1: one losing money owning a major League baseball team. It's
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Speaker 1: not happening, all right. Furthermore to New York, we Go
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Speaker 1: mentioned the Mets with Juan Soto. Well, the Mets fans
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Speaker 1: are not happy. They're calling or the general manager David
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Speaker 1: Sterns to be given the whack job, get out of here,
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Speaker 1: whack adodle, get out of here. And the team currently
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Speaker 1: in last place looking up at the tuckis of the
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Speaker 1: Marlins and the Nationals with that natitude, the Phillies and
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Speaker 1: the Atlanta Braves Tommy in Atlanta's Atlanta Braves teams in
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Speaker 1: last place in the National League East. The roster blows,
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Speaker 1: the pitchings no good. They got two guys who put
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Speaker 1: up empty numbers, although they've both been hurt, Juan Soto
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Speaker 1: and Francisco Lindor. Then you had Major League Baseball insider
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Speaker 1: Ken Rosenthal, who entered the chat playing devil's advocate, saying
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Speaker 1: that the fans should be careful. The Met fans should
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Speaker 1: be careful what they wish for, saying the sport is
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Speaker 1: not teaming with general manager types. So the question thumbs
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Speaker 1: up or thumbs down, thumbs up, thumbs down, does GM
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Speaker 1: David Sterns deserved to lose his job with the Mets?
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Speaker 1: So I am going thumbs up, up, up, up, and away. Yes,
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Speaker 1: Sterns deserves the heat. All those degrees. Oh what a
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Speaker 1: brainiac Harvard Yaw Columbia, And what does that get you?
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Speaker 1: Having all that academia? Forget King Minas. David Sterns is
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Speaker 1: King Minas for the New York Metropolitans. He put this
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Speaker 1: roster together, he tossed all the pieces into a blender
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Speaker 1: and hit perree. They little puree there. And now he
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Speaker 1: wants credit for making a nice smoothie. Well, look at
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Speaker 1: the smoothie I made. He put the Mets roster tore
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Speaker 1: apart nowther than this, and they unachieved last year. I
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Speaker 1: get it. You don't get unlimited mulligans just because your
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Speaker 1: resume has a lot of ink from the Ivy League.
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Speaker 1: This is not miniature golf here, Okay, giving out endless mulligans.
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Speaker 1: Getting rid of longtime anchors, the Polar Bear, Pete Alonso,
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Speaker 1: fan favorite Brandon Nimmo seems like he's playing pretty well,
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Speaker 1: and even Jeff McNeil to some degree. Getting rid of
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Speaker 1: those guys, that was not malpractice. The fact that you
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Speaker 1: replace them with a bunch of a bunch of banana slugs,
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Speaker 1: that's the problem. And I'm not even a Mets fan,
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Speaker 1: but unfortunately I'm surrounded everywhere I go. I got family
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Speaker 1: that's Mets fans. I got people that work here that
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Speaker 1: are Mets fans. In return, smartest guy of the room.
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Speaker 1: Harvard and Columbia acquired Marcus Simeon, who sucks he's he's
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Speaker 1: injured again. They acquired Freddie Peralta from the Brewers, who's
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Speaker 1: another Milwaukee Mirage. Guys that pitch well in Milwaukee, and
15:46
Speaker 1: then when they get to big league teams in big cities,
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Speaker 1: they can't handle it. Freddy Peralta is broken down. They
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Speaker 1: also have a couple of ghosts Jorge Polanco I believe
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Speaker 1: they're and Luis Robert Junior former Chicago White Zak, who
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Speaker 1: these guys have hardly played. Stearns is the common denominator
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Speaker 1: in all this. Supposedly, the Mets got rid of Alonzo,
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Speaker 1: Nimo and McNeil because they were Republicans and the guys
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Speaker 1: Soto and Lindor didn't like their politics, so they wanted
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Speaker 1: to get rid of them, and they replaced them with
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Speaker 1: guys I guess they're align with them. They just can't
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Speaker 1: hit a curveball, which is a bit of a problem.
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Speaker 1: So that's the pattern, and at some point trust the
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Speaker 1: process becomes trust the excuse, and the Mets are about
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Speaker 1: out of them. As far as ken Rosenthal, of course,
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Speaker 1: he's not going to say something negative about a general manager.
16:37
Speaker 1: Who do you think feeds ken Rosenthal all of those rumors.
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Speaker 1: It's agents and general managers. You don't derail the gravy train. Yeah,
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Speaker 1: of sources. However, now that train right now is off
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Speaker 1: the tracks. And in football they'd say, bring in the turk,
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Speaker 1: Bring in the turk. Middle of the night, bring in
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Speaker 1: the turk. Stearns needs the little tap on the shoulder,
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Speaker 1: tap tap, bye bye. As Dick and Dayton would say,
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Speaker 1: all right, now, last thing to the voting booth, we
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Speaker 1: go surprise, surprise, surprise. Blue Jays utility infielder Ernie Clement
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Speaker 1: is your top vote getter led all American League players
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Speaker 1: in phase one of the All Star voting. Despite Toronto
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Speaker 1: sitting with a losing record mid season after winning the
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Speaker 1: American League pennant last year, they've underachieved this year. The
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Speaker 1: fan base has powered Ernie Clement to the top spot,
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Speaker 1: ahead of Aaron Judge and all the big stars, the
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Speaker 1: big Dumper in Seattle. All these guys, some of them
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Speaker 1: are not playing well this year hurt, but still still
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Speaker 1: now some pundits are saying this is not good for baseball.
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Speaker 1: You should not have Ernie Clement of Toronto as the
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Speaker 1: top vote getter. So the question Ernie Clement eating All
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Speaker 1: Star voting in the American League for the Blue Jays
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Speaker 1: is a mockery or magic? Mockery or magic, that's the question.
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Speaker 1: So I am going to be Benny Bright said on this,
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Speaker 1: and let me tell you why. All right, Ernie Clement,
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Speaker 1: the fact that he's leading the All Star voting is
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Speaker 1: not a mockery. It is not. It is pure magic.
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Speaker 1: This is the biggest overnight miracle since the McRib is. Oh,
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Speaker 1: by the way, makerib respect and a Disney rejected underdog essentially, right,
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Speaker 1: that's the story. It's like, well, Disney's not gonna go.
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Speaker 1: That's too crazy, that's not real. Guy was a fourth
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Speaker 1: round draft pick. I believe he leads The American leader
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Speaker 1: was tied last I checked. In doubles, He's a doubles machine,
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Speaker 1: hitting near three hundred and in an era that we're
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Speaker 1: in right now where everyone's obsessed with launch angle and
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Speaker 1: all that. The fans voting, and I know it's because
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Speaker 1: he's wearing powdered blue Blue Jay uniforms and all that.
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Speaker 1: But the fans voted for a guy who's a human mosquito,
19:03
Speaker 1: a throwback to the old days in baseball high contact.
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Speaker 1: He's a pest, just the noise pitchers. So how do
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Speaker 1: we get here? Good question, simple. The Blue Jay fans,
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Speaker 1: to their credit, we're on in Toronto. The Blue Jay
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Speaker 1: fans treating All Star voting like a national referendum. They're
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Speaker 1: the ballot box bandits of Major League Baseball, and it
19:25
Speaker 1: is a throwback stuffing ballot boxes. If you're around my age,
19:30
Speaker 1: you're younger, a little younger, you might remember back in
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Speaker 1: the old days they had actual paper ballots and you
19:36
Speaker 1: got the votes. Now everything's cyber. You can have the
19:38
Speaker 1: algorithms and the bots and the dummy accounts and all that.
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Speaker 1: Vote all you want. And sure, the Blue Jays are mediocre.
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Speaker 1: They have a losing record. Where I come from, that
19:46
Speaker 1: means you're bad. However, the fans, elite fans, doubling down
19:52
Speaker 1: like crypto investors, just with better manners, and so Toronto
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Speaker 1: never they have not forgotten at some though, forget it
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Speaker 1: that twenty twenty five postseason, this guy was a hero
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Speaker 1: in that postseason run and they just didn't vote. It's
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Speaker 1: like a political campaign here for the Blue Jay fan base.
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Speaker 1: This is Maple Leaf manifest destiny as Clement. What's his slogan?
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Speaker 1: Make Contact great Again? Is that his slogan? I'm all
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Speaker 1: for that. I'm all for choking up on the bat
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Speaker 1: with two strikes. And if he does well, if Blue
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Speaker 1: Jays end up in the playoffs, and he does well
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Speaker 1: in October again, my friends in Canada, my brothers and
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Speaker 1: sisters will vote him straight into parliament. So forget the
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Speaker 1: All Star Game. He'll go into parliament. It is the
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Speaker 1: and he shall appear. So Lvar Ball came up on
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Speaker 1: the show the other day. Then I read that he
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Speaker 1: years of marriage. That's awkward. Well, LaVar Ball, it turns
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Speaker 1: out we learned this week has a full custom blank
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Speaker 1: in the middle of his house, right there in the
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Speaker 1: middle of his house. All right, what is the answer?
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Speaker 1: Let's see paid Dan Jay Dot in Utah rights and
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Speaker 1: he says, LaVar Ball has a custom statue ice sculpture
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Speaker 1: of himself swimming with dolphins. I like that. That's the
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Speaker 1: same answer. Josh had a custom made statue of LaVar Ball.
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Speaker 1: Who else? A wax museum of all the Beverly Hills
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Speaker 1: nine two one to ohero characters, that is from Rob
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Speaker 1: the goat Man, A hanging chad from Alf the Alien
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Speaker 1: oll pinter Oh, I used that same All Star ballot
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Speaker 1: Star game. Ronald Reagan, the President, was in the press
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Speaker 1: box back before everyone hated presidents. Robbie the Mariner fan says,
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Speaker 1: a full sized pirate ship. No, no, that's what you're
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Speaker 1: but Robbie secretly has a pirate fetish. According to Rob
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Speaker 1: the Goatman, a golden toilet from Michael in Tulsa. What
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Speaker 1: else we have Doug in South Koreas as a pyramid
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Speaker 1: made from boxes of bad shoes, green machine from JT.
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Speaker 1: The wing Man, a car wash from Eke in Roseville, Minnesota,
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Speaker 1: a sandbox guest by Johnny Q. Our buddy Timmy from Busco,
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Speaker 1: Indiana says, a full custom You go, Well, that's what
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Speaker 1: he said. I didn't say that. That's what he said.
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Speaker 1: All right, let's go to Lorraine and find out. LaVar Ball,
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Speaker 1: the patriarch of the Ball family, the head Ball and
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Speaker 1: the bar Ball. Turns out this week we learned he
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Speaker 1: has a full custom blank in the middle of his house.
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Speaker 1: In the middle of his house, he has a custom
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Speaker 1: skating rink that has a coy pond in the middle
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Speaker 1: of it. Oh, that would be Big Baller brand. That
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Speaker 1: would absolutely be Big Baller brand. Unfortunately, that is incorrect.
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Speaker 1: He is incorrect. The correct the answer would be that
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Speaker 1: Lvar Ball has a full custom NBA regulated court. He
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Speaker 1: is a basketball court like NBA sized court in the
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Speaker 1: middle of his house. And I saw the I saw
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Speaker 1: the video. It's pretty it's pretty well. Say, hey, what
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Speaker 1: do you do? Let me let me go over here,
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Speaker 1: I'll shoot some hoops. Yeah, okay, then I'll go get
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Speaker 1: a turkey sandwich out of the refrigerator and then I'll
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Speaker 1: go back over here and yeah, like I know some
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Speaker 1: guys have that. LaVar Ball wasn't rich. His kids are rich.
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Speaker 1: I'm guessing his kids paid for that. Hey, dad, what
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Speaker 1: do you want? We're in the NBA. I don't know.
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Speaker 1: I want a full court in my house in Chino
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Speaker 1: Hills is what I want? Okay, why not? We'll give
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Speaker 1: you that? What the heck? Who says no? Let's go
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Speaker 1: to the phones and let's say hello Eenie meenie, mighty mo,
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Speaker 1: and we say hi to hollering James in Minneapolis, Minnesota. Hello,
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Speaker 1: hollering James.
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Speaker 4: A good phone, and this is the house phone. I
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Speaker 4: stole the house phone.
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Speaker 1: We shouldn't be stealing things. That's not nice.
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Speaker 4: You shouldn't buy by his dad.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, so you were able to phony phone call the
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Speaker 1: show yesterday. Are you proud of that that you did
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Speaker 1: a phony phone call?
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Speaker 4: I wasn't proud, but I wanted to get out real quick.
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Speaker 1: You did not to that.
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Speaker 4: It is, but you know what death I love who
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Speaker 4: to sold so much. I do anything to get on
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Speaker 4: your show.
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Speaker 1: Really, would you go back on hold so I can
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Speaker 1: take some other part?
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Speaker 4: Come on, please?
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Speaker 1: You just said you just said you do anything?
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Speaker 4: Yeah, not that. Come on. I got a new call
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Speaker 4: the name I write my old coming to Minnesota.
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Speaker 1: What's that?
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Speaker 4: I like, my little coming to Minnesota meadow Ball. I
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Speaker 4: think he's used to do that after the Edwards I
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Speaker 4: think you know Inwards dead Man.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, I heard, I heard. I might have talked
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Speaker 1: about that earlier.
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Speaker 4: I was.
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Speaker 1: You were think you know what? James listening? All right,
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Speaker 1: go on, go back on hold, James. I'll go back
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Speaker 1: to you later. I go back to you. I'll go back. Uh,
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Speaker 1: let's go to is it Bosco in New Jersey? Hello Bosco,
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Speaker 1: Welcome Bosco.
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Speaker 5: I was gonna guess you had a garbage cannon.
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Speaker 1: There is Steven Manhattan. Another phony phone call. Hello, gob
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Speaker 1: you cannon go, but you cannon go? You cannon? Hello, Steve, you.
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Speaker 6: Are the man.
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Speaker 5: Let me tell you you're the only guy and you're
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Speaker 5: a panel Never to band me. I mean I noticed
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Speaker 5: sometimes people in the studio might not like Stevie Boyce
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Speaker 5: calls and stuff, But still you haven't banded me. Two
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Speaker 5: guys just banned me in the past week and stuff.
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Speaker 6: But I all I did was what did you get?
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Speaker 1: What did you get banned for?
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Speaker 5: Well, the first rule of talk radio if people don't
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Speaker 5: know when the when the caller becomes more popular than
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Speaker 5: the host, goodbye to the caller. And I did bring
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Speaker 5: up some hot topics.
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Speaker 6: And everything, and uh yeah, I you know the woman
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Speaker 6: who stole the bed, you know, the bag, and they're
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Speaker 6: supposed to steal a basketball, not a bad not a
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Speaker 6: garbage basket.
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Speaker 1: And oh I saw that woman lost her that woman
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Speaker 1: large and in charge and she lost her job, right
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Speaker 1: three hundred and fifty thousand bucks. This chick was making
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Speaker 1: it some high faluting place in New York. She lost
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Speaker 1: her job to steal a trash can. Holy crap. Well,
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Speaker 1: like you talk about on the on the big board
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Speaker 1: of Bad Decisions that's near the top steven Manhattan.
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Speaker 5: She looked more like she would steal a garbage basket
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Speaker 5: that said the.
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Speaker 6: New York Liberty on it. Well, anyway, this is why
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Speaker 6: the guy banned.
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Speaker 5: Me, right they you know the man listen, I really
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Speaker 5: thank you for not banning me. The buchanibrigade really appreciates that. Really, well,
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Speaker 5: I got not in augue with the guy. The guy said,
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Speaker 5: what you just said? The woman was making three hundred
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Speaker 5: thousand a year, And I said, she looked more like
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Speaker 5: she was like like three hundred thousand dollars worth of
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Speaker 5: food stamps. That's what I say.
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Speaker 6: All right, ye can't say.
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Speaker 5: But anyway, getting back to baseball, why don't they just
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Speaker 5: go back to you don't like what I just said.
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Speaker 1: I'm letting you.
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Speaker 3: I didn't.
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Speaker 1: I didn't say. I just I'm sitting here listening. What
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Speaker 1: do you want? Minute? Do you want to come out?
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Speaker 1: Everything you say? Every take Steven Manhattan has I gotta
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Speaker 1: I gotta do something here? Is that how that works? No?
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Speaker 1: You want you want to take a call Steven Manhattan.
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Speaker 1: You want to tell you want to tech somebody else?
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Speaker 1: All right, let's all right, all right, this is Steven Manhattan.
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Speaker 1: Open phones. We'll do at least one. Let's go do
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Speaker 1: lock him in there, Brie, and then we'll say hello
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Speaker 1: to Tony in Montreal. Hello, Tony, you're on with Steven
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Speaker 1: Manhattan and me Ben Manhattan. All right, we've f that
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Speaker 1: up already. Let's try Paddy Melt in North Carolina, not
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Speaker 1: his real name, Hello, Paddy Melt you're on with me, Ben,
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Speaker 1: and then we've got our buddy in Manhattan?
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Speaker 6: Are uh Brent better?
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Speaker 1: What what's that? Patti Mill?
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Speaker 6: Does he like Nathan hot Dogs?
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Speaker 1: All right, Steven Manhattan? Very important question. What kind of
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Speaker 1: wiener do you like? Did we hang up on him
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Speaker 1: too about Hebrew National? Hebrew National a solid dog. Nathan's
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Speaker 1: is not bad. The key. The key is to not
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Speaker 1: find out what's in the hot dogs? What what Patty Melt?
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Speaker 5: Would you would you ask?
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Speaker 4: Hollering James, the Minnesota Wild are gonna draft?
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Speaker 1: All right, Patty Miller, I feel like you're doing a
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Speaker 1: fake voice. Let's go to hollering James. James. We have
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Speaker 1: a question from Paddy Melt in North Carolina. James would
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Speaker 1: like your opinion on who the Minnesota Wild they're going
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Speaker 1: to draft.
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Speaker 4: Are you guys talking to Tony in Montreal?
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Speaker 1: Oh my god, Brie, what's going on here? Pree turn
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Speaker 1: your min I'm trying to drop Tony or I'm trying
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Speaker 1: to switch Tony into Oh no, I did I asked
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Speaker 1: What's how dare you? Okay, I don't think we can
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Speaker 1: I'm over. I'm over. I'm over it. I tried, I'm
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Speaker 1: It's Big Man's lame joke of the week. Where we go.
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Speaker 1: by you. Shame on you. How dare you? Hello?
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Speaker 4: Weed he I'm doing what's up?
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Speaker 1: Yeah, I'm doing a talk show that's sick.
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Speaker 6: Go ahead, maybe you laugh.
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Speaker 1: I'm not gonna make you laugh yet because I need
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Speaker 1: by actual listeners. I do want to thank the unknown
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Speaker 1: caller who sent two great jokes. They're not radio friendly,
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Speaker 1: so we can't use them. What did weed Man hitbe
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Speaker 1: get from his son for Father's Day?
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Speaker 6: What?
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Speaker 1: Well, same thing as weed Man's net worth? Absolutely nothing.
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Speaker 1: That's from John and Youngstown, Ohio. Remember remember young Youngstan, Ohio.
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Speaker 1: Weed Man is halfway between New York and Chicago. That's
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Speaker 1: the halfway point Youngstown, Ohio. All right, if you're driving,
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Speaker 1: what does weed Man like? What does weed Man like
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Speaker 1: climbing stairs? So why does he like climbing stairs? Why?
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Speaker 1: Because it means he's getting higher. And it's Michael and Tulsa.
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Speaker 1: This one also from Michael and Tulsa. Why does breed
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Speaker 1: producer Bree like weed Man?
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Speaker 5: Why?
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Speaker 1: Apparently you give Breed direction on what not to do
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Speaker 1: in life. So congratulations man, you are the example. You
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Speaker 1: are example. Did you know that weed Man time traveled
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Speaker 1: back to the time of the first use of fire?
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Speaker 6: Wow? Really?
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Speaker 1: Yeah? Yeah?
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Speaker 5: Yeah?
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Speaker 1: In fact, weed Man is credited with lighting the very
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Speaker 1: first Doobie. So congratulations. That's Dennis in Detroit. We sent
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Speaker 1: that one in these actual jokes by actual listeners. Why
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Speaker 1: was weed Man excited for the Tartan Army coming to Miami?
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Speaker 1: Why do you know what that is? By the way,
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Speaker 1: the Tartan Army. No, okay, big world, Big World Cup
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Speaker 1: fit anyway, because they are bringing bags and pipes. That's
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Speaker 1: Brendan from Boston. It'd be funny if you knew what
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Speaker 1: they were. Did you know that weed Man was a
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Speaker 1: weed Man was struck all all at once by a
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Speaker 1: clarinet and a tuba and a bunch of a bunch
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Speaker 1: of these things. How about that? Really? Yeah? Yeah? Apparently
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Speaker 1: was an orchestrated hit, weed Man. It was an orchestrated hit.
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Speaker 1: That's incota. I butchered that, but that's incotera. Did you
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Speaker 1: hear that weed Man will challenge Joey Chestnut next weekend?
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Speaker 1: Oh not, yes, next weekend at the annual Hot Dog
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Speaker 1: Eating Contest on Coney Island. Wow? Really yeah?
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Speaker 5: Yeah?
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Speaker 1: Yeah, apparently you've got high expectations, but also afraid you
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Speaker 1: might ride the vomit comet. So Tom Tom from Indiana
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Speaker 1: sent that one in What does weed Man's summer motto
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Speaker 1: or what should weed Man's summer motto be? Without his teeth?
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Speaker 1: What sun's out? Gums out? That's right, baby, gums out,
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Speaker 1: Watch out, ladies, the gums are out. When does weed
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Speaker 1: Man hippie love going to the beach way high tide?
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Speaker 1: High tide? That's Darryl Daryl and the Ozarks. Why doesn't
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Speaker 1: weed Man hippie smoke joints anymore? Why he only likes gummies?
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Speaker 1: That's it, he only likes gummies. What type of motor home?
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Speaker 1: What type of motor home is weed Man always wanted?
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Speaker 1: What a whino bago wino? I like that? Did you
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Speaker 1: know that recently weed Man is losing his hair and
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Speaker 1: walking with a limp?
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Speaker 5: Wow?
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Speaker 1: Really? Yeah, now they're calling him weed Man gimpi. They're
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Speaker 1: calling him for some reason. That circle Todd the comedian.
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Speaker 1: What else do we have? Let's see page Dan. Why
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Speaker 1: did weed Man get in trouble with the fence? Why
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Speaker 1: you were charged with high treason? From Mike the leprechat.
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Speaker 1: He sent that in there is thank you weed Man
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Speaker 1: every great weekend. Big Ben's lame joke