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Hour 3 - Legal Hour · The Ben Maller Show

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Speaker 1: Ding Dong. It's our number three Time to playball. A
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Speaker 1: rare and appropriate mallead monogue about baseball on this Friday,
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Speaker 1: February sixth. How do these new developments change? We're talking
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Speaker 1: about the the gambling investigation of the Cleveland Pitchers, the
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Speaker 1: conversation specifically about Guardians closer Emmanuel class A as he
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Speaker 1: was apparently doing a lot of funny business. Also, how
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Speaker 1: do you classify this report on a Raiders A Raiders
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Speaker 1: former coach John Gruden looking to get Roger Goodell under
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Speaker 1: oath and to testify along with some other owners. We'll
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Speaker 1: talk about that. And do you believe that Taylor Swift
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Speaker 1: has generated one billion for the NFL and given them
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Speaker 1: a generation of female fans. There was a report this
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Speaker 1: week claiming all that. We'll get to it. Don't forget
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Speaker 1: And with that we now move ahead in the broadcast.
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Speaker 1: So our lead this hour is from the intersection where
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Speaker 1: baseball and gambling have a party, The Big Fix. If
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Speaker 1: you now, if you've been paying attention, there's a couple
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Speaker 1: of Cleveland pitchers that are in the mud, in the
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Speaker 1: mud accused of finagling the prop bet market. And we're
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Speaker 1: going to focus in on one of these two guys
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Speaker 1: because they're both they're both in a whole lot of trouble.
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Speaker 1: The indicted Guardians closer Emmanuel class A, is accused now
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Speaker 1: of throwing suspicious pitches to help out his gambling buddies
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Speaker 1: in a whole lot of games. Now, originally the number
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Speaker 1: was pretty low. The number was pretty low, but now,
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Speaker 1: according to court documents that were filed this week, at
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Speaker 1: least forty eight games over two years. Forty eight games
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Speaker 1: over two years, that is a significant increase over what
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Speaker 1: was initially revealed. So I me, we saw this or not,
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Speaker 1: But the federal prosecutors if you missed it, they listed
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Speaker 1: nine games in which class A allegedly threw rigged pitches
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Speaker 1: in the indictment that was unsealed in November. However, the
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Speaker 1: other guy who's involved in this, who's also in the
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Speaker 1: bubbling pot of water, the alleged co conspirator, Luis Ortiz's teammate.
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Speaker 1: The attorney wrote in a court filing that the government
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Speaker 1: is accusing class A, the all star level closer for Cleveland,
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Speaker 1: of manipulating his performance in dozens of games, in dozens
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Speaker 1: of games. So that is a good jumping off point.
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Speaker 1: Let us discuss the question how do these new developments
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Speaker 1: change the conversation for the Guardians Closer Emmanuel class A.
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Speaker 1: So I've got my view on this. I've got Wikipedia,
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Speaker 1: Airbnb and squish mellow, and we will put all these
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Speaker 1: together and line them up and go uh oh, spaghettio.
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Speaker 1: That's what we're gonna do, all right. So, first of all,
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Speaker 1: this isn't a whoopsie, whoops a daisy situation. It's not
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Speaker 1: that it's my first though. It's not like, well, it's
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Speaker 1: just a small thing. If this is accurate, you know,
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Speaker 1: as the famous line goes, you get into a battle
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Speaker 1: with the Feds, and they're always favored, and they always
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Speaker 1: have home field advantage. They always have home field advantage.
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Speaker 1: So they're claiming in these court documents it was at
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Speaker 1: least forty eight games over two years. The initial story
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Speaker 1: was a lot lower than that. So, knowing what we know,
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Speaker 1: this is like a flow chart. We're talking about a syllabus,
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Speaker 1: if you will. If this is accurate, this isn't one
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Speaker 1: bad inning. Hey I shouldn't have done that this is
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Speaker 1: twenty six months over two years. Over two years. That
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Speaker 1: is not just a little bit of a hey, I
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Speaker 1: maybe shouldn't have gone down that road. No, no, no,
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Speaker 1: that's like a subscription plan. Is what that is? That
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Speaker 1: you signed up for the subscription plan? The prosecutors are
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Speaker 1: claiming there were they said, there's a two hundred and
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Speaker 1: fifty pitches, two hundred and fifty that were circled or
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Speaker 1: flagged or whatever you want to say. So that is
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Speaker 1: not gambling. That is like pitch by pitch instruction manual level.
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Speaker 1: It's a Wikipedia page written in apparently if I understand
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Speaker 1: the story right, like text messages, because these these Dingleberrys
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Speaker 1: were going back and forth via text message, and so
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Speaker 1: there's a digital paper trail. You can connect the dots.
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Speaker 1: You don't exactly have to be the investigator of the
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Speaker 1: year to figure that out. And then the money wasn't
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Speaker 1: even big. And that's the part like it's like, what
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Speaker 1: are you doing? I don't know if I'm sick to
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Speaker 1: my stomach on or what, but I gotta think there's something.
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Speaker 1: I was like, what would the defense be? And I
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Speaker 1: was I was talking to somebody, not this week, but
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Speaker 1: I was talking about this a couple of weeks back,
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Speaker 1: and they were like, well, the only defense would be
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Speaker 1: like he was he was forced into it. There was
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Speaker 1: like he had no choice, and they were threatening like
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Speaker 1: that could be the defense. Like the defense would be, well,
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Speaker 1: I didn't want to do it, but I had to
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Speaker 1: do it because you know, X, Y and Z and
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Speaker 1: these you know, these big goon guys and the Dominican
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Speaker 1: were threatening me and if I didn't do it, they
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Speaker 1: were gonna, you know, hurt my family or something like that.
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Speaker 1: I haven't heard any of that though. I mean that
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Speaker 1: that would be the plausible defense. But you're risking your career.
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Speaker 1: This guy class a WHO manual class. It was a
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Speaker 1: pretty good closer. You're possibly risking your freedom and financially,
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Speaker 1: you have a twenty million dollar contract and you're doing
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Speaker 1: all that for pocket change. It's like robbing a bank
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Speaker 1: and they give you a container of dimes. Well, I
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Speaker 1: don't want dimes. I want I mean, I'm robbing the bank,
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Speaker 1: but no, we all we have is some change we
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Speaker 1: got from the sofa. There's something there's some dimes in
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Speaker 1: the cushions, and that's what I don't want that, but
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Speaker 1: that's what you so and then this is another example
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Speaker 1: where for two years it was free money, free money,
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Speaker 1: until the gambling companies started doing inventory. Say wait a minute,
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Speaker 1: we keep losing a lot of money on these pitches, Like,
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Speaker 1: how are these guys getting it right? I don't understand.
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Speaker 1: And then they started digging a little deeper and there
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Speaker 1: you go, that's what we got. So it's not like
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Speaker 1: he slipped class A the Cleveland Guardians pitcher. He walked
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Speaker 1: into it and he's not getting the mulligan. You know,
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Speaker 1: from what we hear, there's not likely going to be
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Speaker 1: a plea deal here. You're going to get a day
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Speaker 1: of reckoning. The reason, as I understand the story, is
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Speaker 1: the Feds want to use this and the major sports
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Speaker 1: leagues want to use this as an example. You never
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Speaker 1: want to be the example, but they need something to
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Speaker 1: show everyone else. Hey, future knuckleheads, if you do this,
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Speaker 1: you're gonna get some serious time at the Great Hotel.
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Speaker 1: So we'll see that that could change. But that's where
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Speaker 1: we are today. We do the show today. Meanwhile, we
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Speaker 1: stay in the courthouse where former Raiders coach John Gruden
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Speaker 1: and his attorney looking to lay the hammer on Roger
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Speaker 1: Goodell himself the commissioner of the National Football League, along
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Speaker 1: with several current and former NFL owners. Say what get
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Speaker 1: part of the filing that was revealed this week it's
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Speaker 1: the legal hour on the Ben Mouther Show. So the
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Speaker 1: lawsuit is over whether or not the large stockpile of
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Speaker 1: emails that were released of Gruden saying some things you
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Speaker 1: shouldn't say, and he didn't say them publicly, he sent
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Speaker 1: them in a private email that got out, and whether
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Speaker 1: or not the NFL was the puppet master. They were
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Speaker 1: the Wizard of Oz pulling the string here and making
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Speaker 1: this happen. So the question how do you classify this
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Speaker 1: report on former Raider John Gruden looking to get Roger
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Speaker 1: Goodell the commission of the NFL under oath. So this
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Speaker 1: is not so much a press release. This is a hammer.
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Speaker 1: This is a giant Acme cartoon. You know, whatever you
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Speaker 1: want to whatever device you want to use. Because Gruden's
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Speaker 1: lawyers are not they're not knocking politely. They're kicking in
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Speaker 1: the door, is what they're doing. They want Roger Goodell
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Speaker 1: under oath. It's not a headline. It's a threat, is
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Speaker 1: what it is. That this is a scorched earth strategy
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Speaker 1: which makes a lot of sense. This is a let's
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Speaker 1: twist the screws and we'll see what happens. And we're
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Speaker 1: talking about the discovery phase, and that's a capital D
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Speaker 1: for discovery, and that is where reputations go to die.
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Speaker 1: That is where the real vermin lives. And so this
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Speaker 1: is an Airbnb at a haunted mansion for Roger Goodell
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Speaker 1: and France. The skeletons popping out of closets at this airbnb, okay,
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Speaker 1: the haunted mansion Airbnb, and the emails rattling change. This
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Speaker 1: is where Roger Goodell starts sweating through that tailored suit. Okay,
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Speaker 1: very expensive suit inbox, text messages, group chats, emojis, all
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Speaker 1: that stuff. So you want the digital rabbit hole. John
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Speaker 1: Gruten's lawyers, they're bringing shovels like how far down can
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Speaker 1: we go? And that is the nuclear option in this
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Speaker 1: And this is a turning point. As I've been doing
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Speaker 1: this job for a while, we follow these stories and
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Speaker 1: it always is a point of demarcation when this happens.
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Speaker 1: When you get to the discovery phase, you don't always
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Speaker 1: get exactly what you want in discovery, but you can
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Speaker 1: get enough. You ask for a ton, you get a
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Speaker 1: little bit. That's enough, And don't kid yourself. This is
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Speaker 1: not just going out to small game hunting. They're looking
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Speaker 1: for blue whales. They want blue whales, and they're going
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Speaker 1: after Gruden's lawyers, the aristocrats, because not only is it
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Speaker 1: the commissioner, Roger the Dodger Goodell, but you've got Jerry
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Speaker 1: Jones and Robert Kraft. They are the old guard owners.
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Speaker 1: They're in here, and so this is a who knew
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Speaker 1: what and when? Search? Who knew what and when? In
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Speaker 1: the league hates discovery. They can't stand it because they
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Speaker 1: don't control the lawyers. And the NFL is a bunch
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Speaker 1: of lawyers on retainer, but they don't control this. They don't.
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Speaker 1: And the question is rather simple, does the NFL really
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Speaker 1: want Roger Goodell under oath? Or are they gonna blink?
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Speaker 1: You know, they claim that there's no discussion about any
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Speaker 1: kind of settlement, but once discovery starts, you can't put
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Speaker 1: the tooth pace back in the tube at that particular point.
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Speaker 1: That's it. You know, stuff gets out there and inevitably
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Speaker 1: it will leak, and that's just the way it is.
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Speaker 1: Now final thought, we pivot to the money, money, money
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Speaker 1: and a story came out the other day, we saw
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Speaker 1: this or that. It's about Taylor Swift. And so anytime
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Speaker 1: I mentioned Taylor Swift, the podcast ends up in the
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Speaker 1: algorithms and the downloads go up. So I'm just gonna say,
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Speaker 1: Taylor Swift, Taylor Swift, Taylor Swift, Taylor Swift, download download down,
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Speaker 1: Taylor Swift, Taylor Swift, Taylor Swift. So Taylor Swift is
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Speaker 1: not going to be at the super Bowl because why
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Speaker 1: would she. Her future husband is not. I guess he's
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Speaker 1: doing podcast stuff. He's not here. Nevertheless, the Swifties did
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Speaker 1: make some news this week, if you believe the reporting.
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Speaker 1: According to a recent story, a recent report, Taylor Swift
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Speaker 1: is being credited without scoring a touchdown, without making a
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Speaker 1: tackable Taylor Swift is being credited with being the godmother
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Speaker 1: of an entire general of casual, young female fans who
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Speaker 1: have caught the contagious bug known as fandom. All right, now, question,
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Speaker 1: that's a big number, That is a massive number. Do
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Speaker 1: you believe that Taylor Swift has generated one billion dollars
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Speaker 1: for the NFL and given them an entire generation of
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Speaker 1: female fans? You know what this is? This is hum buggery.
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Speaker 1: Is what this is. It's humbuggery. That's my word. Taylor
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Speaker 1: Swift did not hand the NFL a billion dollars and
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Speaker 1: a generation of life long fans. That number is Fisher
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Speaker 1: price money is what it is. It's toy money, it's
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Speaker 1: play cash, it's vibes. There's clearly a lot of publicity
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Speaker 1: value in this, but that's that. To quantify that at
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Speaker 1: a billion dollars is just is pr perfume sprayed on
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Speaker 1: the league and suddenly everyone is acting like the you
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Speaker 1: know this is legit and all this it's fuzzy math
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Speaker 1: meets malor math meets NFL math. Well, if you feel
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Speaker 1: like watching, that's basically revenue. No, it's not, no, it's
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Speaker 1: not that. That's not how any of this works in
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Speaker 1: the money game. They're throwing out stats like it's beads
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Speaker 1: at Marty Gras in New Orleans, four hundred percent Jersey
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Speaker 1: sales increase compared to what like a lemonade stand one
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Speaker 1: box sold last year, five this year. Boom, big headline.
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Speaker 1: And there are cocktails you know these are these are
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Speaker 1: like cocktail party stats. It's what they are. You know,
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Speaker 1: sound smart means nothing. You know, how you socialize a
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Speaker 1: small I hate small I mean I had to do that. Actually,
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Speaker 1: yesterday was so small talk. And and so he says, oh, yeah,
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Speaker 1: I didn't see the stat and people repeat things because
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Speaker 1: the number, you know, it's like, well, I don't repeat that.
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Speaker 1: Now it has a good number billion dollars, and you know,
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Speaker 1: numbers have bad arguments to tuxedo and all that stuff.
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Speaker 1: And my argument is this, these are these are not fans,
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Speaker 1: They're tourists, meaning that the vast majority of the people
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Speaker 1: that are only watching because Taylor Swift might be in
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Speaker 1: the Chiefs game the last couple of years, those people,
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Speaker 1: I use the word tourists. I believe that's right. They
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Speaker 1: show up with disposable cameras and a souvenir cup and
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Speaker 1: they're excited about that. It's a like a pop up shop,
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Speaker 1: not a brick and mortar store. You get the attention
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Speaker 1: span of like TikTok, and that pop up shop is
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Speaker 1: selling squish mellows. And that's the level of loyalty. The
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Speaker 1: squish mellow that's that's the level of loyalty. And so
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Speaker 1: the NFL didn't I don't believe they gained a generation.
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Speaker 1: If anything, they're renting, right, they're renting, and if that relationship,
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Speaker 1: I know they haven't gott married yet, Kelsey and Taylor Swift,
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Speaker 1: but if that goes the way of most celebrity relationships,
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Speaker 1: that will end in divorce. And then they sh'll write
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Speaker 1: a song about how terrible the NFL is and how
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Speaker 1: much she hates the NFL. And then all of the
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Speaker 1: people that have been brainwashed, all the young women who've
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Speaker 1: been brainwashed by Taylor Swifts music, well then they'll they'll
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Speaker 1: put like a witch's spell on the NFL. So it'll
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Speaker 1: it'll backfire. So it's like at least it's like a
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Speaker 1: month to month and they're just kind of passing through,
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21:49
Speaker 1: say you overnight people, you can't be there at night.
21:51
Speaker 1: He doesn't, Why why not? We want to be there,
21:53
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21:56
Speaker 1: We have a new episode of the Fifth Hour podcast,
21:59
Speaker 1: so check that out. Excited, I know it's exciting. That'll
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22:22
Speaker 1: marry the Boardop and Coop a loop at a Bronco fan.
22:26
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22:29
Speaker 1: used against you in the court of sports radio. So
22:34
Speaker 1: please act accordingly. A right, very good, and back to
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Speaker 1: it we go. Time now for the Mallard Riddle of
22:42
Speaker 1: the day, and I have gotten confirmation. Eileen points out
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Speaker 1: that the X machine is in her words, and these
22:50
Speaker 1: are not my words, these are her words. Is ft
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Speaker 1: up right now? Now? Maybe it's just where I am.
22:55
Speaker 1: I don't know. She's in San Francisco and I'm doing
22:57
Speaker 1: the show from San Francisco, So maybe it's just I
22:59
Speaker 1: don't know why that would just happened here and not everywhere.
23:01
Speaker 1: I don't know. Uh So Coop claims it's all working
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Speaker 1: for him. So I'll give the question and then let's
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Speaker 1: see some some answers, because I don't I'm resetting here
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Speaker 1: and I know that we always get lots of answers,
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Speaker 1: and I don't see I don't see those answers. So
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Speaker 1: here is the Malory Riddle of the day, A blatant
23:20
Speaker 1: attempt to get you to listen a little bit longer.
23:22
Speaker 1: Here it is, so a company from Northridge, California, trucks
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Speaker 1: three hundred pounds of blank for each of the teams
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Speaker 1: in the Super Bowl every year. Now this year it's
23:35
Speaker 1: obviously the Patriots and Seattle. So that is the malory
23:41
Speaker 1: riddle of the day. So I'm gonna click the thing
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Speaker 1: of a jig here to refresh it, and let's see here.
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Speaker 1: For some reason, the only one I'm getting are Shane
23:51
Speaker 1: and de moy This is I'm getting every message from
23:56
Speaker 1: Shane and de moy but I'm not getting messages from anyone. So, Coop,
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Speaker 1: what are some of the answers here? Help me out
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Speaker 1: on this, Coop the riddle of the day, because all
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Speaker 1: I have is Shane and de moyne answers. That's it.
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Speaker 5: Well, Nick says, one ply toilet paper, okay, Bobby and
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Speaker 5: Florida says rocky Mountain oysters.
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Speaker 1: Oh God forbid, No that.
24:16
Speaker 5: Malard prop guy thinks gluten free Mexican sweet breads.
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Speaker 1: Very specific mallet prop guy. I like that. That's good,
24:23
Speaker 1: solid answer.
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Speaker 5: Elloyd from Compton, three hundred pounds of Mallard chicken strips.
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Speaker 1: That would be the dream. Oh man, that sounds so good.
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Speaker 5: Late night drug tester thinks they're shipping Peep's marshmallows.
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Speaker 1: Oh okay, yeah, oh no, nobody likes those. Does anyone
24:38
Speaker 1: like those? They're okay? Now you eat them because you
24:42
Speaker 1: did when you were a kid, but you don't really
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Speaker 1: like them.
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Speaker 5: I don't hate them like a lot of people do.
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Speaker 1: They're not an advertiser, right, No, No, I don't think so.
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Speaker 5: Alf the alien opiner. Alf says, three hundred pounds of
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Speaker 5: cats for each team.
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Speaker 1: That's that's your dream, Alf, that's not that's not anyone
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Speaker 1: else's dream.
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Speaker 5: Yeah, you know, give me some more courtesy flesher. Three
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Speaker 5: hundred pounds of Schlitz beer.
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Speaker 1: Oh yeah, yeah, yeah, I'm glad you said that properly.
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Speaker 5: Yeah, I leens is three hundred pounds of Chucky dolls.
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Speaker 1: Oh that'd be scary. Yeah, the correct answer. A company
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Speaker 1: from north Ridge, California, trucks three hundred pounds of confetti,
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Speaker 1: two colored confetti for the Super Bowl every year. So
25:26
Speaker 1: they have confetti cannons on the field and they put
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Speaker 1: them on the field about four minutes remaining. They line
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Speaker 1: them up like it's some kind of like civil war
25:37
Speaker 1: thing or something like that, some kind of it's some
25:39
Speaker 1: kind of civil war thing, and they just go for it.
25:42
Speaker 1: They just go for it. And that's there. I'm so excited.
25:45
Speaker 1: I hit the machine here. Anyway, So confetti is the answer.
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Speaker 1: And what happens to the confetti for the team that
25:53
Speaker 1: doesn't win the Super Bowl? Because they have they The
25:57
Speaker 1: whole bit is they they have the confetti that rains
26:01
Speaker 1: down for the team that wins, but they have confetti
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Speaker 1: for both teams. So does that mean that the impoverished
26:08
Speaker 1: children of the world are.
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Speaker 5: Getting birthday parties in Africa?
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Speaker 1: Well, I don't understand. I understand it's shaped like the
26:20
Speaker 1: Lombardi Trophy. I I don't even know what that is.
26:23
Speaker 1: I So anyway, there it is. That is the Mallard
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Speaker 1: riddle of the day. We have Big Ben's lame jokes
26:28
Speaker 1: of the week that'll be coming up here in a
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Speaker 1: little bit. Let's go to the phones though, right now,
26:33
Speaker 1: and we say hello to Mark the full name guy,
26:38
Speaker 1: who is up next? Hello, Mark the full name guy.
26:41
Speaker 1: This is two calls in the same week. Are you okay,
26:44
Speaker 1: Mark the full name Guy?
26:46
Speaker 6: Until I'm waiting up in like three different surgeries?
26:52
Speaker 1: Oh all right, good luck.
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Speaker 6: Yeah, brain surgery, brain surgery, and some more brains surgery.
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Speaker 1: Read all right, we at least you're laughing about it.
27:04
Speaker 1: That's good.
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Speaker 6: Well actually, yeah, you know, uh, you know, these physical
27:10
Speaker 6: handicaps at my age actually do affect my brain. They're
27:14
Speaker 6: making me crazy, not being able to walk after surgery,
27:21
Speaker 6: I should be okay, I should be walking again.
27:24
Speaker 1: Well there you go. You got something to look forward to.
27:26
Speaker 1: Look at that I'm forward to.
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Speaker 6: Yeah, sure, how about the three pounds of morphine? That
27:34
Speaker 6: would be something to look forward.
27:35
Speaker 1: To for the Let mean, let me see, can you
27:38
Speaker 1: get I don't see that. I don't I don't think
27:41
Speaker 1: that's allowed. Three hundred pounds of morphine, big morphine fan there.
27:44
Speaker 6: Yes, out of a painkiller. Maybe you don't need that.
27:49
Speaker 1: Yeah, probably not, I got you? Yeah?
27:53
Speaker 4: What what?
27:53
Speaker 6: What?
27:54
Speaker 1: What's your what's your aget that marked the phone?
27:56
Speaker 6: They've got what you're talking about? Gruden. I'm not so
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Speaker 6: sure that a guy who was tweeting and making comments
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Speaker 6: the way he was should be twoing anybody else. I
28:11
Speaker 6: just just my opinion.
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Speaker 1: Well, it seems like he's got a pretty good case.
28:16
Speaker 6: Yeah about his case. You know, there was a pretty
28:19
Speaker 6: good case for him to be fired.
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Speaker 1: Well he wasn't. But he wasn't. Do you know anything
28:25
Speaker 1: about it? Or you just talking out of you took us.
28:28
Speaker 6: I'm not a lawyer, so well.
28:31
Speaker 1: Neither am I, but I've I've read it, and he wasn't.
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Speaker 1: At number one, he wasn't an NFL employee. How can
28:36
Speaker 1: you fire someone who's not an NFL employee at the time,
28:39
Speaker 1: So he wasn't employed by the NFL, Right, that's the
28:41
Speaker 1: first thing. And they the first leak I think I
28:46
Speaker 1: don't know which order it was. He was either the
28:47
Speaker 1: Wall Street Journal, I think it was the Wall Street
28:49
Speaker 1: Journal first, and then that didn't work, so then they
28:53
Speaker 1: leaked more emails to the New York Times. And he's
28:55
Speaker 1: the only person that had their emails leaked in that fasht.
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Speaker 1: Nobody else did, so it pierces. He's got a pretty
29:03
Speaker 1: good argument that he was targeted and they wanted him gone.
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Speaker 6: Well, yeah, but didn't bombers get your Clippers team with
29:13
Speaker 6: an illegal recorded phone conversation that really didn't prove anything
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Speaker 6: at all.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, but that doesn't matter because that's basketball. It's like
29:24
Speaker 1: apples and oranges. It's like it's it's a totally different situation.
29:29
Speaker 6: It's not exactly they're not exactly the same scenarios, but
29:33
Speaker 6: there's some similarities there.
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Speaker 1: Not really not really, those were old emails. That was
29:39
Speaker 1: a fresh story with Donald Sterling at the time.
29:43
Speaker 6: What Ude did not have his contract paid off?
29:47
Speaker 4: Did he?
29:48
Speaker 6: So that's why he's chewing right. Uh?
29:51
Speaker 1: No, Well, I don't think that's it. They paid him.
29:54
Speaker 1: I think they paid him the Raiders. They're paying everybody.
29:57
Speaker 1: They're paying like you, I think you're getting paid by
29:59
Speaker 1: the Raiders, Mark, if you know that Mark, the full
30:01
Speaker 1: name guy's getting paid by the Raiders.
30:04
Speaker 6: Yeah, that boy. They're the poorest team in the NFL.
30:07
Speaker 6: They're paying everybody.
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Speaker 1: They're not the poorest team in the NFL. There, it's like,
30:12
Speaker 1: I just imagine Mark Davis at the Raider building, like
30:15
Speaker 1: when they fire coach, when they fire coaches, he's like
30:18
Speaker 1: just he throws, he tells some like low level person,
30:22
Speaker 1: you take care of this, find a way to pay
30:23
Speaker 1: this guy. I'm out of here. Get him out of here.
30:26
Speaker 1: You know.
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Speaker 6: Well, now they have Tom Brady, maybe they're not the
30:31
Speaker 6: Yeah that Tom Brady's part on it. Maybe they're no
30:33
Speaker 6: longer the porest team in the NFL.
30:36
Speaker 1: Well, Tom's rich. Tom's rich, but he's not. He only
30:39
Speaker 1: owns like was it t the Raiders or something like that,
30:43
Speaker 1: you know, the whole thing. Yeah, yeah, if you really,
30:46
Speaker 1: if you really want to own an NFL team. I
30:48
Speaker 1: was told this years ago. The way to own an
30:50
Speaker 1: NFL team is to win the genetic lottery and have
30:53
Speaker 1: your parents own the NFL team. That's how to get
30:56
Speaker 1: an NFL team.
30:57
Speaker 6: Yeah right, hiring billions of dollars. It's not exactly all.
31:04
Speaker 1: Right, Well, good luck with your brain surgery, Mark, keep
31:07
Speaker 1: us posted. All right, all right, there you go, the
31:09
Speaker 1: great Mark, the full name guy, fired up for his
31:12
Speaker 1: brain surgery. Excited indeed, all right, let's say hello to
31:16
Speaker 1: who do we have her? Eeny meenie miney moe. Do
31:18
Speaker 1: I see the name helmet Man on my board? I
31:21
Speaker 1: believe I do. Hello, helmet Man, the legendary helmet man.
31:28
Speaker 1: Helban Man, helmet Man, helmet Man. Is he sleeping, Helbert Man?
31:34
Speaker 1: Wake up? Helmet Man.
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Speaker 5: Didn't talk to him all that long ago.
31:38
Speaker 1: Maybe he's in the shower, helmet Man, I don't hear him. Well,
31:43
Speaker 1: he's not snoring. That doesn't work. Let's see, let's see
31:46
Speaker 1: hollering James, is awake, James. He called in the other day.
31:50
Speaker 1: Was was really out there hello hollering James.
31:55
Speaker 7: Maybe, Oh, today's not me, James, James, this is being broadcast, James.
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Speaker 1: There's three people listening right now. What are you doing?
32:11
Speaker 6: I am in the covers, under the covers, Okay, I don't.
32:18
Speaker 1: I don't want to hear about your what you're what
32:21
Speaker 1: you're doing under the covers, James. As much as I
32:24
Speaker 1: like you, I don't really need to know about that.
32:26
Speaker 1: You know what I'm saying.
32:28
Speaker 4: Hey, bet, you know what, my Minnesota basketball team beat Michigan.
32:35
Speaker 4: I want five hundred dollars. I turned two hundred and
32:38
Speaker 4: fifty dollars until five hundred.
32:42
Speaker 1: Are you gambling on basketball? James?
32:46
Speaker 4: I am gaberly on high school and college basketball games.
32:51
Speaker 1: I love gambling. That seems like a bad idea. That
32:55
Speaker 1: just seems like you don't really have a lot of
32:57
Speaker 1: disposal income, James. You know what I'm saying. If you
33:00
Speaker 1: have a little extra cash you want to gamble, I
33:01
Speaker 1: think that's great, but you can't. What are you doing, dude?
33:07
Speaker 6: Our block funds to blot me from Tammy. Just Tammy
33:12
Speaker 6: wis to block me from her you won't, then I
33:16
Speaker 6: needn't want to come with Lorena. Call me Tammy, Lorena
33:21
Speaker 6: will Lorena call me me?
33:24
Speaker 7: And Lorena?
33:25
Speaker 1: All right? First of all, she's from what I understand,
33:28
Speaker 1: I mean, I'm hearing this second hand. But she's very busy.
33:31
Speaker 1: There's a lot going on. There's some stuff going on
33:33
Speaker 1: for Tammy and Montana. We love Tammy in Montana. She's
33:36
Speaker 1: a big being with the show a long time and
33:37
Speaker 1: all that, and I I love her to death, but
33:40
Speaker 1: I I don't know what's going on. She has not
33:41
Speaker 1: let me know, so I can't tell you. But she'll
33:44
Speaker 1: She'll be okay, everything will be fine, right, Yeah.
33:47
Speaker 6: Yeah, I'm gonna ask you something. Who do you like
33:51
Speaker 6: to the super Bowl? That's that's.
33:58
Speaker 1: The air? Yeah, yeah, yeah yeah. James, James, James, James,
34:01
Speaker 1: James James. Why don't you just admit that you really
34:04
Speaker 1: have nothing to say? And you know who I like
34:06
Speaker 1: in the super Bowl. I've been pretty open about it.
34:08
Speaker 1: I did a video on YouTube on Benny Vspenny. I've
34:11
Speaker 1: talked about it on the radio show Who I Like.
34:13
Speaker 1: So if you've been paying attention at all, James, you
34:16
Speaker 1: know who I like? Right? What are you doing? You're
34:18
Speaker 1: pulling my chain here. What's wrong with you?
34:21
Speaker 6: I'm not doing I'm doing.
34:23
Speaker 1: I don't want you pull I thank you, all right,
34:26
Speaker 1: I gotta go. You're annoying me. Thank you. It is
34:29
Speaker 1: the Ben Mahlor Show as we work our way through
34:33
Speaker 1: the overnight, and uh yeah, still not getting much on
34:38
Speaker 1: the old X machine, which is which is disappointed. Should
34:41
Speaker 1: I go old school and do like the email? I
34:43
Speaker 1: could do like the email. I haven't done that in
34:45
Speaker 1: a while. I'm still putting the jokes together though. For
34:47
Speaker 1: lame Jokes of the week, by the way, that is
34:51
Speaker 1: moments away. We're gonna have Big Ben's lame Jokes of
34:54
Speaker 1: the week, all the best singers, all the best one liners.
34:57
Speaker 1: We'll get to that as sent in by the Mallard Militia,
35:01
Speaker 1: and we'll get to that weed man hopefully standing by
35:04
Speaker 1: Big Bend's lame Jokes of the Week. We'll get to it,
35:09
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35:12
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35:14
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35:17
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35:21
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35:24
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35:27
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35:32
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35:36
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35:41
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35:45
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35:50
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35:55
Speaker 2: Knock knock, who's there?
35:56
Speaker 1: Blame week?
35:57
Speaker 2: Blame week too, It's big Bends.
35:59
Speaker 1: Lame joke of the week. Let's see, is weed Man
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Speaker 1: hippie in the hissy? Hello weed Man Hippie?
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Speaker 4: Yeah, I'm here, laugh all right.
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Speaker 5: Real quick, Ben, Yes, since you your Twitter is not working,
36:13
Speaker 5: I have been asked to inform weed Man that he
36:17
Speaker 5: has two packages. One should be arriving this weekend, another midweek.
36:22
Speaker 5: Keep an eye out, weed Man.
36:24
Speaker 1: We Man, you're getting some stuff in the mail. And
36:26
Speaker 1: Sir scratch Off said, when you he's sending you, I
36:29
Speaker 1: guess an air frier. I don't if I'm supposed to
36:30
Speaker 1: say that, but there's there's something. Don't don't open you
36:35
Speaker 1: got to open the thing. There's stuff inside the air frier.
36:37
Speaker 4: Okay, hey, okay, thank you.
36:40
Speaker 1: That's uh, sir, scratch On and some other people who
36:44
Speaker 1: are also sending Parrito is also saying, yeah, thank you.
36:50
Speaker 1: What about Purrito? You don't want to thank parrito you?
36:54
Speaker 1: All right? All right, enough of that, all right, let's
36:57
Speaker 1: get to it Big Ben's lame joke of the week.
37:00
Speaker 1: These are actual jokes from actual listeners. What is weed
37:03
Speaker 1: Man's favorite type of edible? What edible underwear? That's Surfer Todd,
37:10
Speaker 1: the comedian who set that one in? All right? Who
37:14
Speaker 1: is weed Man's favorite all time Chiefs quarterback Trent Green?
37:22
Speaker 1: You love him? That's Eric in Kansas? All right, and
37:26
Speaker 1: get our laugh track working here. What's the difference between
37:29
Speaker 1: Ben Mahler and weed Man hippie?
37:32
Speaker 6: What?
37:33
Speaker 1: Well? Ben will be on radio row and weed Man
37:36
Speaker 1: will be on skid row. Oh my goodness. That's Eke
37:39
Speaker 1: and Rosewille Minnesota. Alright. What does weed man call a pothole?
37:46
Speaker 1: What the toilet is? What he calls it? That's Surfer
37:50
Speaker 1: Todd the comedian. Why is weed Man complaining about his
37:57
Speaker 1: weed stalks?
37:59
Speaker 7: Why?
38:00
Speaker 1: Well, apparently after smoking the inventory, these stalks provide little value. Unfortunately.
38:04
Speaker 1: That's Drew in Minnesota. Big Ben's lamb Jokes of the week,
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Speaker 1: our buddy weed Man, hippie from Hollywood, Florida, hanging hours. Well,
38:12
Speaker 1: weed Man, do you have an alter ego?
38:17
Speaker 4: No?
38:18
Speaker 2: No?
38:18
Speaker 1: All right, Well, since you don't have one, Bill Miller
38:21
Speaker 1: has suggested, Gimpy the Grassman is what he suggested that
38:26
Speaker 1: that's a drew in Minnesota. Why does a referee call
38:34
Speaker 1: or what does a referee call? An undocumented weed man
38:38
Speaker 1: getting government assistance? What an eligible receiver? That's a Kurt
38:45
Speaker 1: from Earth. We sent that one in Why was weed
38:49
Speaker 1: Man's dog so sad and tired?
38:53
Speaker 6: Why?
38:54
Speaker 1: Because the dog was always thinking, this is the longest
38:57
Speaker 1: walk ever. I don't understand. Mike the Leprecaun said that
39:02
Speaker 1: when in why is weed Man always yelling? Why he
39:06
Speaker 1: never learned how to use his inside voice? It's Mike
39:10
Speaker 1: the Leprechaun again, all right, Big Ben's leg jokes in
39:13
Speaker 1: the league. What what would weed Man be called if
39:16
Speaker 1: he was the Super Bowl halftime performer? What bad money 's?
39:25
Speaker 1: Kurt from Earth set that one in? Why why did
39:27
Speaker 1: weed Man stop playing center? Why do you stop playing center? Why?
39:33
Speaker 1: Apparently he ran out of snap benefits. That's why. That's
39:36
Speaker 1: a curd from Earth. All it's Big Ben's leg jokes League,
39:41
Speaker 1: Why did you or did you hear? Did you hear
39:43
Speaker 1: that weed Man Hippie is leaving Florida and heading to
39:46
Speaker 1: San Francisco?
39:48
Speaker 6: Wow?
39:49
Speaker 1: Really? Yeah? Apparently he heard about all of their high ceilings. Yes,
39:54
Speaker 1: I had a very high ceiling yesterday. Absolutely all right? Uh,
39:58
Speaker 1: what do we have here? Did you know weed Man
40:00
Speaker 1: Hippy's name appears in the Epstein files? How about that? Wow?
40:05
Speaker 7: Yeah.
40:06
Speaker 1: It turns out that when weed Man was homeless and
40:08
Speaker 1: living on the beaches of Miami, someone came up and
40:11
Speaker 1: wrote Epstein Island on his cardboard box home and it
40:14
Speaker 1: was yeah, that's a Benny Brightside. All right. Weed Man
40:19
Speaker 1: is so poor? How poor is he? He's so poor
40:22
Speaker 1: he got forced, So he got forced at gunpoint to
40:26
Speaker 1: take eight five dollars from the gunman. That's how poor
40:28
Speaker 1: he was. That's a Noah in Austin. Why can't we
40:32
Speaker 1: men give out advice? He can't afford his two cents.
40:37
Speaker 1: He can't afford his two cents. We met, Thank you
40:39
Speaker 1: had his Big Man's lame jokes of the week. Thank
40:45
Speaker 1: you we Man. Check your mail weed Man, check your
40:47
Speaker 1: mail box.