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Hour 3 - Labor Danger · The Ben Maller Show

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  Speaker 1: Boom! Goes the dynamite. It's hour number three! Hour number three,
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  Speaker 1: and here we go. On the Ben Maller Show on
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  Speaker 1: this Thursday, September 3rd, the last Thursday without NFL football
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  Speaker 1: for many, many months. But here in hour number three,
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  Speaker 1: how seriously should Major League Baseball fans... Take a player
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  Speaker 1: saying that they'll put school teachers out on the field
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  Speaker 1: in 2027 before the players accept a salary cap. Of course,
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  Speaker 1: the anonymous Major League Baseball players saying that. Also, should
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  Speaker 1: Halo fans be worried about Stan Kroenke's plans to build
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  Speaker 1: a new Big A? a $ 2. 5 billion baseball stadium. And
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  Speaker 1: now that influencers have interrupted a match, isn't that exactly
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  Speaker 1: what the U.S. Open tennis people deserve after deliberately loosening
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  Speaker 1: fan restrictions for the influencer invasion, that invasive species? We'll
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  Speaker 1: talk about all that. Also, Ask Ben. Yeah, we got
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  Speaker 1: it is. Settle in, my friend. It's our number three.
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  Speaker 1: We'll do the Malarmambo. A little labor danger. Yeah, that's
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  Speaker 1: your friendly old windbag and our lead this hour is
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  Speaker 1: from the cba talks always fun always fun that cba
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  Speaker 1: in the hour. Our lead, though, from the front lines
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  Speaker 1: of the Labor Battle Royale. And the Major League Baseball
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  Speaker 1: players bracing for a very ugly labor situation that will
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  Speaker 1: likely take at least some, if not all, of the
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  Speaker 1: 2027 season away. The current CBA expires after the World Series.
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  Speaker 1: If you have not heard the latest, perhaps not. The
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  Speaker 1: biggest flashpoint, there's a very wordy story that came out
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  Speaker 1: on that small little cable channel that has a website
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  Speaker 1: out of Bristol, Connecticut. So they had a story out.
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  Speaker 1: They talked about the situation as it is today. The
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  Speaker 1: owner is pushing for a salary cap and the players
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  Speaker 1: saying we're not going to do it and It's competitive balance.
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  Speaker 1: The owners are saying, well, if we have a salary cap,
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  Speaker 1: we'll have competitive balance. Why do you care about that
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  Speaker 1: as a fan? The players don't even care, or the
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  Speaker 1: owners don't care about competitive balance either because you could
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  Speaker 1: have competitive balance right now. They're just not motivated to
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  Speaker 1: do it. They're lazy. Rich guys are lazy. We'll have
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  Speaker 1: video at 11. So in a very wordy story, very
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  Speaker 1: lengthy story featuring my favorite topic in all of sports,
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  Speaker 1: the anonymous coach, the anonymous player, in this case it
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  Speaker 1: was an anonymous player, who gave what we call the
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  Speaker 1: money quote. What is the money quote? The money quote.
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  Speaker 1: One supposedly highly paid, highly paid National League infielder, National
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  Speaker 1: League infielder gave this money quote. He said, Here it is.
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  Speaker 1: I'm going to give you the quote. I'm not going
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  Speaker 1: to add anything. Here's the quote. Get ready to see
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  Speaker 1: a bunch of school teachers and whatnot out there because
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  Speaker 1: we're not playing if there's a salary cap. Close quote. Now,
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  Speaker 1: several other players also predicted a very lengthy lockout. And
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  Speaker 1: that is a good jumping off point. So let us
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  Speaker 1: discuss the question. How seriously... Should Major League Baseball fans
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  Speaker 1: take a player saying that they'll put school teachers out
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  Speaker 1: on the field in 2027 before accepting a salary cap?
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  Speaker 1: So I've got Howard Stern, Jay-Z, and Potato Salad. And
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  Speaker 1: we'll put all of these things together, and we are
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  Speaker 1: going to have better days. We're going to have better days, absolutely.
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  Speaker 1: All right, so first of all, This is red meat
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  Speaker 1: rhetoric is what this is. Both sides are cranking up
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  Speaker 1: the propaganda machine. And what are they trying to win?
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  Speaker 1: They're trying to win the hearts, minds, and souls of you.
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  Speaker 1: That's what this is all about. You are the prize here.
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  Speaker 1: This is the battlefield, the court of public opinion. They're
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  Speaker 1: worried about you. Now, the owners know that just by saying, hey,
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  Speaker 1: we want to make things more affordable and we can
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  Speaker 1: peddle this competitive balance fairy tale, the owners know that
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  Speaker 1: the customer is, I hate to say it, gullible, right?
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  Speaker 1: That most fans are low-information fans, and they buy it.
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  Speaker 1: They buy it. They almost always buy it. Oh, yeah,
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  Speaker 1: that makes sense. Of course, I don't recall many fans
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  Speaker 1: saying that they want a cap on how much they
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  Speaker 1: can make. But yet, they don't mind a cap on
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  Speaker 1: the players' salary. So the owners at this point, they
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  Speaker 1: might as well bring back the ghost of Howard Stern.
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  Speaker 1: I don't know who kidnapped Howard Stern, but he used
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  Speaker 1: to be good. Howard Stern's superhero, Fartman, and put in
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  Speaker 1: a salary cap. And poof! Just like that, 20 years
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  Speaker 1: of terrible stewardship. Horrific ownership disappears like a fart in
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  Speaker 1: a windstorm. It's just gone. Now, spoiler alert, spoiler alert,
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  Speaker 1: a cap just guarantees larger profit margins while at the
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  Speaker 1: same time it's a double situation, double your fun, double
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  Speaker 1: your pleasure. It also rewards the tightwads running the Pirates
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  Speaker 1: and the A's and the Cincinnati Reds and the Royals
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  Speaker 1: and the Marlins. Now, we have tangible proof that you
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  Speaker 1: don't need a salary cap to put a good team
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  Speaker 1: on the field. In fact... A top-level team on the field.
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  Speaker 1: What is your evidence, Mr. Mallard? Okay, Judge, here's my evidence.
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  Speaker 1: Exhibit A would be the Milwaukee Brewers. That's Exhibit A. Okay,
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  Speaker 1: so that's Exhibit A. What about Exhibit B? Well, Exhibit B,
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  Speaker 1: thanks for asking, that would be the Tampa Bay Rays.
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  Speaker 1: These teams have already proven you don't have to spend
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  Speaker 1: $ 300 million, you don't have to have a top-five payroll
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  Speaker 1: to be a good team. These are the top two
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  Speaker 1: teams in baseball this season. The Milwaukee Brewers and Tampa,
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  Speaker 1: not the Dodgers, not the Yankees, not the Mets, not
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  Speaker 1: the Atlanta Braves. As we're doing this, Tampa Bay and
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  Speaker 1: Milwaukee are the top two teams in professional baseball. The
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  Speaker 1: payrolls of these teams are 19th and 23rd. They're not
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  Speaker 1: even in the top 10, top 15. And one of
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  Speaker 1: them is even in the top 20. That's it. So
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  Speaker 1: spare me the Jerry Lewis poverty telethon. I don't need it.
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  Speaker 1: Baseball does not need capology. It needs a stupidity cap,
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  Speaker 1: is what it needs, on bad owners. And if you
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  Speaker 1: have some dead wood, you cut out the dead wood. Baseball,
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  Speaker 1: they don't get rid of these bad owners. Instead, we
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  Speaker 1: have a staring contest right now between the robber barons
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  Speaker 1: of baseball and the millionaire jocks. Everyone's preparing for Armageddon.
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  Speaker 1: They've all got their bomb shelters and their water and
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  Speaker 1: their canned foods, and they're ready to go. Now, eventually...
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  Speaker 1: inevitably someone is going to blink. And we will see
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  Speaker 1: if the players actually have the stomach to miss paychecks
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  Speaker 1: and how many paychecks. And the rhetoric will become real.
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  Speaker 1: The rubber will meet the road, and that happens. Now, secondly,
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  Speaker 1: to Anaheim we go. Panic at the Big A. Stan Kroenke,
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  Speaker 1: who spent billions and billions to buy the Halos, and
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  Speaker 1: the story came out. that he plans to build a
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  Speaker 1: $ 2. 5 billion home. ballpark for the Angels. He agreed to
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  Speaker 1: buy the franchise, at least the majority interest from Artie Marino,
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  Speaker 1: who will still work as poltergeist to haunt the Angel franchise.
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  Speaker 1: The proposed ballpark would replace... Angel Stadium, right there. Angels
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  Speaker 1: have played in Anaheim for many generations, but they're looking
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  Speaker 1: for a new home. And they play there since 1966.
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  Speaker 1: It's been a minute. It certainly has. Now, Sam Kroenke
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  Speaker 1: is worth an estimated $ 24. 3 billion, which would make him...
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  Speaker 1: Once this deal is approved, the richest owner in all
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  Speaker 1: of baseball. Take that, Steve Cohen of the New York Mets,
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  Speaker 1: as Stan Kroenke will be the king of deep pockets
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  Speaker 1: in baseball. The Angels have not reached the playoffs. Let's see.
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  Speaker 1: If you're 17 years old, you don't remember that. It's
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  Speaker 1: been 17 years.
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  Speaker 2: 2009.
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  Speaker 1: I was barely alive in 2009, and that's the last time.
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  Speaker 1: That's when I got whacked from the company here. And
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  Speaker 1: that was in 2009. That was it. It was January
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  Speaker 1: 20th of that particular year. And I had already come
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  Speaker 1: back to the company. I came back sometime in August.
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  Speaker 1: And that was about the time, the baseball season, dog
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  Speaker 1: days of the season, turning the corner and all that.
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  Speaker 1: So there we are. Now, despite all of the money
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  Speaker 1: that Stan Kroenke has, and this is a wish that
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  Speaker 1: many Angel fans had been hoping for, it's come true,
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  Speaker 1: despite all that, There is a large group of paranoid
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  Speaker 1: Halo fans who are already freaking out. Oh, no!
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  Speaker 2: Boo-hoo-hoo!
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  Speaker 1: They're going to move the age of this stadium. What
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  Speaker 1: are they going to move it to? Oh, my God!
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  Speaker 1: All right, so the question. Should the Halos fans be
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  Speaker 1: worried about Stan Kroenke's plan to leave the Big A
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  Speaker 1: and build a new Big A somewhere else? All right,
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  Speaker 1: so Spare me the hand-wringing on this one. Stan Kroenke
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  Speaker 1: is a real estate shark who collects sports teams like
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  Speaker 1: I collect refrigerator magnets. Do you understand? This is not
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  Speaker 1: some mom-and-pop hayseed owner who wanders around Home Depot asking
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  Speaker 1: the person in the lumber department, hey, where can I
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  Speaker 1: get those build-your-own-stadium kits? Oh, OK, they're over there on
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  Speaker 1: aisle 7. OK, well, I'll go over to aisle 7.
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  Speaker 1: Thank you for that. This guy built the Taj Mahal
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  Speaker 1: of NFL stadiums. The Palace, SoFi Stadium, in the hood,
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  Speaker 1: in Inglewood. And he built it with pretty much his
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  Speaker 1: own money. Obviously, he upgraded some roads and whatnot, but
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  Speaker 1: it was mostly Stan Kroenke just saying, hey, I got
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  Speaker 1: so much money and I can't be buried with it.
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  Speaker 1: I can't take it with me to the other side
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  Speaker 1: across the pearly gates. I'm stuck with this money. I
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  Speaker 1: got to spend the money. So this is a guy
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  Speaker 1: that can spend, what, $ 4 billion on a baseball team
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  Speaker 1: and then say, you know what I'm going to do?
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  Speaker 1: I'm going to toss in $ 2. 5 billion on a ballpark
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  Speaker 1: like they're extra sprinkles on a Baskin-Robbins Sunday. And as
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  Speaker 1: Jay-Z sang back in the day, the Angel fans, you've
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  Speaker 1: got 99 problems with your roster. But Stan Kroenke wanting
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  Speaker 1: a shiny new palace of a ballpark is not one
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  Speaker 1: of them. You survived Artie Marino, the circus that that was.
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  Speaker 1: And to me, the big A is fine. You don't
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  Speaker 1: have to leave there. However, to make more money, you
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  Speaker 1: have to have more luxury boxes, and you have to
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  Speaker 1: have the new bells and whistles and all that stuff.
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  Speaker 1: The Big A, Artie Marino took care of it to
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  Speaker 1: a point. That's a fine place to go and watch
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  Speaker 1: a game. Been to many games over the years there.
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  Speaker 1: For Stan Kroenke, though, it's like an AOL free trial CD.
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  Speaker 1: I don't need that. Why would I need that? Well,
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  Speaker 1: those were everywhere back in the day. Today, we don't
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  Speaker 1: need them. And winning baseball... of course, became endangered under
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  Speaker 1: Artie Marino. Now you've got Daddy Warbucks showing up offering
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  Speaker 1: this royal palace, and there are people complaining. They're not
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  Speaker 1: going to move. Where are they going to move the
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  Speaker 1: team to? Are they going to go back to Oakland?
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  Speaker 1: You understand, baseball wanted to add expansion teams to a
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  Speaker 1: number of years ago, they can't even find enough markets
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  Speaker 1: for the expansion teams. So what market is dying to
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  Speaker 1: put up a welcome mat for Stan Kroenke? You know,
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  Speaker 1: he's going to keep the team. Now, will they stay
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  Speaker 1: in Orange County? You know, who knows? There's all kinds
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  Speaker 1: of rumors. They might move out of Anaheim, move to
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  Speaker 1: Irvine or something like that. Or for years, people live
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  Speaker 1: out in the San Fernando Valley where our headquarters are
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  Speaker 1: in Sherman Oaks have said, why not put a team There,
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  Speaker 1: because there's nothing to do in the San Fernando Valley,
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  Speaker 1: there's plenty of options. Angels could move to Long Beach,
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  Speaker 1: build a beautiful ballpark right on the Pacific Ocean over
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  Speaker 1: there near Rainbow Harbor, something along those lines. Or they
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  Speaker 1: could build a new development somewhere. I mean, there's plenty
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  Speaker 1: of options. And the thing about Kroenke is he can
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  Speaker 1: put it anywhere because he's got any kind of– he
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  Speaker 1: can buy anything. He can buy the world. All right, meanwhile,
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  Speaker 1: final thought, be rare and appropriate– rare and appropriate– Mention
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  Speaker 1: of tennis. By the way, just to put the ball
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  Speaker 1: on that, Angel fans should be dancing naked in the streets. Instead,
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  Speaker 1: they're complaining about, oh, he's going to put a stadium somewhere. Oh,
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  Speaker 1: my God. All right. Final thought. To tennis. A group
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  Speaker 1: of social media influencers, this is a follow-up to a
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  Speaker 1: previous Maller monologue, have now disrupted a match at the U.S.
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  Speaker 3: Open.
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  Speaker 1: That's right. Naomi Osaka, who, of course, if you remember,
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  Speaker 1: There was a Netflix documentary, which helped get some publicity
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  Speaker 1: for the show involving her and some others. Anyway, the
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  Speaker 1: opening round of the U.S. Open, and this was the
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  Speaker 1: other night, the match was delayed briefly by an impromptu
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  Speaker 1: photo shoot. I'm not making this up. It took place
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  Speaker 1: in a hospitality suite at the legendary Arthur Ashe Stadium. Now,
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  Speaker 1: the video... showed the spectators posing for pictures and using
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  Speaker 1: the bright portable lights, you know, those ring light things,
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  Speaker 1: while Osaka was preparing for a serve. And the chair umpire,
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  Speaker 1: this dude, paused play and called out, the people who
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  Speaker 1: were doing the photo shoot there on the microphone saying, guys,
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  Speaker 1: even though it was women, guys, please, in the suite
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  Speaker 1: behind me, please take your seat. Another video appeared to
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  Speaker 1: show U.S. Open staff helping with said photo shoot during
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  Speaker 1: the match, during match play. All right, question. Now that
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  Speaker 1: the influencers have interrupted a match, Isn't this exactly what
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  Speaker 1: the U.S. Open deserves after deliberately loosening fan restrictions and
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  Speaker 1: encouraging the influencers thinking that tennis had become an old
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  Speaker 1: man's game and they needed young people to get into
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  Speaker 1: tennis and the only way to convince young people because
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  Speaker 1: they have no other way to do it is to
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  Speaker 1: get young people on social media because they're easily manipulated.
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  Speaker 1: All right, so to answer the question, is this not
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  Speaker 1: what the U.S. Open deserves? I am nodding my head yes,
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  Speaker 1: like a bobblehead. Betty the bobblehead. I'm nodding my head yes.
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  Speaker 1: The U.S. Open, they twisted the rules around. They called it,
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  Speaker 1: I think it was called the free fan or fan-free movement,
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  Speaker 1: I think is what they called it, the fan-free movement,
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  Speaker 1: which it's all things a bunch of nonsense, right? They
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  Speaker 1: They really went out and they tried to grab as
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  Speaker 1: much social media. They wanted the circus. They said, I
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  Speaker 1: want that social media circus. And now it's wandering on
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  Speaker 1: to center court. It is an invasive species. You cannot
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  Speaker 1: get rid of it. Stop calling these people influencers. Who
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  Speaker 1: exactly are they influencing? That's the rub on this. It's
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  Speaker 1: kind of like porn stars. There's only a few really
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  Speaker 1: famous porn stars. The rest are just actors. They're just... Sorry,
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  Speaker 1: Lucky Tony. I know Lucky Tony's bummed out by that.
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  Speaker 1: But who are they influencing? They're entitled attention seekers. And
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  Speaker 1: they got ring lights and little narcissistic turd burgers. And
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  Speaker 1: a lot of these people confuse creating content with having talent.
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  Speaker 1: There is a difference between creating content and having talent.
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  Speaker 1: Anyone can get a social media account because they're free.
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  Speaker 1: And you are the product. If something is free, you
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  Speaker 1: are the product like that. And so they collect the
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  Speaker 1: data and all that stuff on you. And that's how
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  Speaker 1: that works. And you don't have to have talent. The U.S.
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  Speaker 1: Open welcomed the skunk to the garden party. They said,
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  Speaker 1: come on in, skunk. OK, I'll come in. I'm a
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  Speaker 1: nice skunk.
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  Speaker 3: Oh, good.
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  Speaker 1: You're a nice skunk. Welcome to the garden party. And
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  Speaker 1: now everyone's shocked that the potato salad smells a little funky. Well,
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  Speaker 1: I wonder who could have done that. Could it be,
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  Speaker 1: I don't know, the skunk? Could that have been the person? Anyway,
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  Speaker 1: so Naomi Osaka is trying to win the Grand Slam match,
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  Speaker 1: which I guess she did end up winning there. And
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  Speaker 1: the human pop-up ads, they're staging what a glamour shot
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  Speaker 1: behind the baseline there at the U.S. Open. Just chef's kiss. Yeah, absolutely.
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  Speaker 1: That's the deal with the devil. You made, you prioritized
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  Speaker 1: engagement farming over just having the normal... proper etiquette and
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  Speaker 1: all that and i'm pretty sure a lot of these
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  Speaker 1: influencers or again attention seeking turd burgers could not tell
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  Speaker 1: you the difference between a tennis ball and a golf
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  Speaker 1: ball and a racket ball if you line them all
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  Speaker 1: up and said okay which one's the golf ball which
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  Speaker 1: one's the tennis ball Which one's the racquetball? They wouldn't
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  Speaker 1: get it right. They would not. And so the U.S.
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  Speaker 1: Open wanted buzz. They wanted eyeballs. They wanted viral moments.
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  Speaker 1: So congratulations, you got those. Just don't clutch your pearls,
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  Speaker 1: you tennis people. You invited these skunks to treat Arthur
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  Speaker 1: Ashe Stadium like their personal content studio, which they're doing.
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  Speaker 1: They're doing this. This is their content studio. So there
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  Speaker 1: you go. It is the Ben Maller Show. If you
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  Speaker 1: would like to be part of this, coming up later
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• 21:21
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• 21:24
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• 21:29
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• 21:34
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• 21:39
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• 21:42
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• 21:51
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• 22:50
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• 22:52
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• 22:56
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• 23:00
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• 23:59
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• 24:03
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• 24:06
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• 24:08
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• 24:10
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• 24:15
  Speaker 1: Riddle of the Day. A University of Miami fraternity has
• 24:19
  Speaker 1: gone viral this week when they honored blank. All right,
• 24:24
  Speaker 1: Donkey Sausage says they honored Ben Maller. I'm pretty sure
• 24:27
  Speaker 1: that did not happen. I'm still waiting for my call
• 24:29
  Speaker 1: from Saddleback College. Although they did make a... There was
• 24:33
  Speaker 1: like a radio commercial promoting the radio station using my
• 24:39
  Speaker 1: good name. That was years ago. Late Night Drug Tester
• 24:42
  Speaker 1: says they honored Buc-ee's. Oh, look at that. It kind
• 24:46
  Speaker 1: of looks like Lorraine. It's not at Buc-ee's. What else
• 24:49
  Speaker 1: do we have? Let's see. Pauly Shore. Yeah, the Encino man,
• 24:53
  Speaker 1: Pauly Shore. What else do we have? Jeb Bush from
• 24:56
  Speaker 1: King Rory. Courtesy Flusher had the Pauly Shore line.
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  Speaker 5: Who else?
• 25:01
  Speaker 1: Page down. Let's see here. Can't read that. What else
• 25:06
  Speaker 1: do we have? Alf the Alien O'Piner said, Benny versus
• 25:10
  Speaker 1: the Penny. Of course. Oh, look at that. That's a
• 25:13
  Speaker 1: nice shirt, the Benny versus the Penny shirt. There you go.
• 25:17
  Speaker 1: My friend had a TV show, and all I got
• 25:19
  Speaker 1: was this dumb shirt. What else do we have? Lorena's
• 25:21
  Speaker 1: number four call. That's from Inca Terror. And Lorena, unfortunately,
• 25:27
  Speaker 1: will have to sit this one out. No number four.
• 25:30
  Speaker 1: Craig got it right. Craig, you were really creepy that
• 25:33
  Speaker 1: you got this right, man. I don't know what's going
• 25:34
  Speaker 1: on with you, dude. Roller skates from JT the Wingman.
• 25:39
  Speaker 1: And Rebecca, the Ram fan, says they honored the makers
• 25:43
  Speaker 1: of men's fishnet tank tops. That's not the greatest look there.
• 25:49
  Speaker 1: What else do we have?
• 25:50
  Speaker 5: Let's see.
• 25:50
  Speaker 1: Page down. Fidel Castro's Dancing Cow Collection from Mike the Leprechaun.
• 25:56
  Speaker 1: FillerUpPhil says, Hammer Time is the answer. I think that's
• 26:01
  Speaker 1: what he meant. Charles Manson from Trucker Joe. Where were
• 26:05
  Speaker 1: you driving, Joe? Joe sent a video. He looked like
• 26:08
  Speaker 1: it was the end of the world. There was this
• 26:09
  Speaker 1: massive storm out on the highway. I don't think you
• 26:13
  Speaker 1: said where you were, but I'd love to know where
• 26:14
  Speaker 1: that big storm is. I think you're somewhere on the
• 26:16
  Speaker 1: East Coast there. Tim says, In Busco, Indiana, Timmy says
• 26:20
  Speaker 1: they honored Heisman Trophy winner and national champion and Raider
• 26:24
  Speaker 1: backup quarterback Fernando Mendoza. All right. Oh, hey, Gunner in
• 26:29
  Speaker 1: Minnesota is alive. Gunner from the break room at the
• 26:31
  Speaker 1: Walmart in northern Minnesota says, oh, yeah, that's for Aspen.
• 26:35
  Speaker 1: I'll save that for Aspen. I don't want to ruin
• 26:36
  Speaker 1: it right now. But he does have a question. He
• 26:38
  Speaker 1: says the answer is Mike the Leprechaun. That's what he said. Okay,
• 26:41
  Speaker 1: there you go. They honored Blue from Euphemia in Chicago.
• 26:44
  Speaker 1: He says they honored Blue. Hugh on the 5 says
• 26:47
  Speaker 1: Doug Flutie. Too soon, Hugh on the 5, to say
• 26:51
  Speaker 1: Doug Flutie. A little too soon. All right, Lorena, do
• 26:53
  Speaker 1: you have an answer? Lorena, it's the Malheur Riddle of
• 26:56
  Speaker 1: the Day. The University of Miami, a fraternity there went
• 26:59
  Speaker 1: viral this week when they honored blank. Dolly Parton. Dolly Parton.
• 27:04
  Speaker 1: All right. No. Now, you're close. It is a female entertainer,
• 27:09
  Speaker 1: although quite different from the entertainment Dolly Parton left the
• 27:11
  Speaker 1: world as she checked out. Abela Danger. Abela. What's her name?
• 27:17
  Speaker 1: She's a porn star. Abela Danger, I think. She's a
• 27:21
  Speaker 1: former porn star. I don't think you can really be
• 27:24
  Speaker 1: a former porn star. You know, your work kind of
• 27:27
  Speaker 1: lives on forever. Anyway, she retired from... She became a
• 27:32
  Speaker 1: Miami super fan during their run last year. And she
• 27:38
  Speaker 1: was at a bunch of the, I remember the playoff game.
• 27:43
  Speaker 1: She got a lot of attention there. And the fraternity
• 27:47
  Speaker 1: there named her, Bella Danger was named a sweetheart by
• 27:53
  Speaker 1: the fraternity at Miami. And based on her body of work,
• 27:57
  Speaker 1: she's got a very sweet heart. Lucky Tony's like, how
• 28:01
  Speaker 1: did you mispronounce her name? I don't understand. What's wrong
• 28:04
  Speaker 1: with you? Oh, my God. Calm down. Calm down, Lucky Tony.
• 28:10
  Speaker 1: Calm down. Let's take some calls. It is a call-in show.
• 28:13
  Speaker 1: And we'll go eeny, meeny, miny, moe. Pick a caller
• 28:18
  Speaker 1: by their name. Let's say hello to Mike Leprechaun. Hello, Mr. Leprechaun. Welcome.
• 28:27
  Speaker 1: Good morning, Ben.
• 28:28
  Speaker 3: How are you?
• 28:30
  Speaker 1: If I was any better, I'd be a Tiger, but
• 28:35
  Speaker 1: I wouldn't be Tiger Woods. Did you see the news
• 28:37
  Speaker 1: on Tiger Woods?
• 28:38
  Speaker 3: He did. He did. He pleaded no contest.
• 28:41
  Speaker 1: Yeah, he's banned from driving for five years. Tiger Woods
• 28:47
  Speaker 1: is not able to drive.
• 28:49
  Speaker 3: Driving the golf ball?
• 28:52
  Speaker 1: Well, he can drive the golf ball. He can't even
• 28:53
  Speaker 1: drive a golf cart, though. The governor of Florida, Ron DeSantis,
• 28:58
  Speaker 1: has ruled that Tiger Woods, will he be allowed or
• 29:01
  Speaker 1: will he not be allowed? He will not be allowed
• 29:03
  Speaker 1: to drive a golf cart. So devastating for Tiger.
• 29:07
  Speaker 6: Wow.
• 29:08
  Speaker 1: I wonder if he'll be able to afford, will he
• 29:10
  Speaker 1: be able to afford having someone else drive him? Does
• 29:14
  Speaker 1: he have the funds to have somebody else drive him?
• 29:18
  Speaker 3: He has deep pockets, I'm sure. And did you see
• 29:23
  Speaker 3: he had this beautiful lawyer, another blonde. Did you see her?
• 29:30
  Speaker 1: I did not. Unfortunately, I don't check out lawyers. I
• 29:34
  Speaker 1: don't know.
• 29:35
  Speaker 3: Well, they were showing Tiger Woods, but you couldn't help
• 29:37
  Speaker 3: but notice the lady beside him.
• 29:39
  Speaker 1: I'm focused on Tiger. I don't know what you're talking about.
• 29:42
  Speaker 1: I don't know what you're talking about. The judge there
• 29:44
  Speaker 1: gave Woods a blunt warning, saying if you were to
• 29:47
  Speaker 1: drive for any reason at all, you would immediately be
• 29:50
  Speaker 1: back in jail. There you go. He's worried about that. Concerned?
• 29:55
  Speaker 3: Why are pirates good at boxing?
• 30:00
  Speaker 1: Oh, we're doing dad jokes? Why are pirates good at boxing?
• 30:02
  Speaker 3: Pirates good at boxing.
• 30:04
  Speaker 1: Boxing. I don't know.
• 30:06
  Speaker 3: They have a great left hook. And they have a
• 30:10
  Speaker 3: song for Coop. He keeps losing all his money, apparently.
• 30:13
  Speaker 3: You gotta know when.
• 30:15
  Speaker 1: To hold them.
• 30:15
  Speaker 3: Know when to fold them. Know when to walk away.
• 30:19
  Speaker 3: Know when to run. Anyways, did you.
• 30:23
  Speaker 1: Watch the little... Mikey in Tucson writes in. He says,
• 30:26
  Speaker 1: can you please bring back Real Talk and Angry Bill? No,
• 30:31
  Speaker 1: they retired. We couldn't afford them anymore, and Real Talk
• 30:36
  Speaker 1: chose marriage over the show, so he's out, and Angry
• 30:40
  Speaker 1: Bill chose his health, so he had to retire from
• 30:45
  Speaker 1: the show. They're both out.
• 30:47
  Speaker 3: Is there any truth to the rumor that you bought
• 30:50
  Speaker 3: out Jeannie Buff, her portion of the Lakers?
• 30:55
  Speaker 1: I can neither confirm nor deny.
• 30:57
  Speaker 3: Ah, no comments. No comments.
• 31:00
  Speaker 1: Did you see that Justin Tucker could be back in
• 31:03
  Speaker 1: the NFL soon?
• 31:05
  Speaker 3: Uh-huh.
• 31:05
  Speaker 1: Yeah, he worked out for the Jets yesterday. How about that?
• 31:09
  Speaker 1: 36 years old. Hadn't played in the NFL since 2024.
• 31:12
  Speaker 1: He was released by the Ravens in May of last
• 31:16
  Speaker 1: year and spent all 13 years in Baltimore being pestered
• 31:23
  Speaker 1: by my buddy Sports with Coleman. And he was accused
• 31:27
  Speaker 1: by not one, not two, not three, not four, not five,
• 31:30
  Speaker 1: 16 massage therapists at eight different Baltimore area spas and
• 31:36
  Speaker 1: wellness centers of getting some extra work done at the massage. Yeah.
• 31:44
  Speaker 1: Which most people seem to think happens all the time. Yeah, well, exactly. Yeah.
• 31:50
  Speaker 1: He had a pulled groin. Either he had a pulled
• 31:51
  Speaker 1: groin or he wanted a pulled groin. I don't know.
• 31:53
  Speaker 1: He has.
• 31:54
  Speaker 3: He has. He has.
• 31:57
  Speaker 1: Yes, he did. All right. Riveting. Any other dad jokes
• 32:00
  Speaker 1: before we move on?
• 32:02
  Speaker 3: I only do one a day.
• 32:03
  Speaker 1: One a day.
• 32:04
  Speaker 4: No.
• 32:04
  Speaker 5: All right.
• 32:05
  Speaker 1: All right.
• 32:06
  Speaker 3: No?
• 32:07
  Speaker 1: Well, what are you? I know.
• 32:10
  Speaker 4: I can go.
• 32:11
  Speaker 1: I can go. I got to go. You're out of material.
• 32:14
  Speaker 1: You were not expecting this much airtime. You were not
• 32:16
  Speaker 1: prepared for this level of airtime, and we must move on.
• 32:19
  Speaker 1: We must move on. So if you're all worked up
• 32:21
  Speaker 1: into a lather about the money in sports and all
• 32:24
  Speaker 1: this stuff, oh, my God, money, money, money. Oh, we
• 32:27
  Speaker 1: need a salary cap. Just chill out. I did get
• 32:30
  Speaker 1: a message. I've got to find it here from one
• 32:33
  Speaker 1: of our guys who's an Angel fan, and he was
• 32:35
  Speaker 1: upset that I'm anti- salary cap, fat daddy. Fat daddy says,
• 32:40
  Speaker 1: Big Ben, you forget the salary cap gets rid of
• 32:43
  Speaker 1: those weasel agents and deferred payments. Stan Kroenke, he's got
• 32:47
  Speaker 1: to make his billions somehow, so there goes the beer prices. Well, yeah,
• 32:51
  Speaker 1: the beer prices will go up and all that. But
• 32:53
  Speaker 1: you can't have both. You can't have a good team
• 32:56
  Speaker 1: and cheap beer. You've got to pick one. Would you
• 32:58
  Speaker 1: rather have a good team that you're not embarrassed to
• 32:59
  Speaker 1: wear the hat and the logo, or would you rather
• 33:01
  Speaker 1: have cheap beer? Now, Artie Marino argued the Angel fans
• 33:04
  Speaker 1: would rather have cheap food, and that would be that.
• 33:07
  Speaker 1: As far as the salary cap, it doesn't get rid
• 33:09
  Speaker 1: of agents. It gets rid of the middle class of baseball.
• 33:13
  Speaker 1: You have mostly players making the minimum or close to
• 33:17
  Speaker 1: the minimum, and then the top guys are still going
• 33:19
  Speaker 1: to get paid. There'll just be fewer top guys on
• 33:22
  Speaker 1: each team. There'll be that. And the deferred payments, like,
• 33:27
  Speaker 1: what's wrong with that? I would love to get deferred.
• 33:29
  Speaker 1: If they offered me deferred payment when I was younger,
• 33:31
  Speaker 1: I would have absolutely taken deferred payments. That would have
• 33:33
  Speaker 1: been the greatest thing. Are you kidding me? Deferred payments?
• 33:37
  Speaker 1: My God, it'd be great. It's like winning a lottery.
• 33:40
  Speaker 1: You get paid out every year. You don't have to
• 33:42
  Speaker 1: worry about it. These guys don't work anyway. Once they
• 33:44
  Speaker 1: get to about 40, that's it. Imagine that. You work
• 33:48
  Speaker 1: half the year until you're 40, and then you just
• 33:51
  Speaker 1: get paid FU money for the rest of your life. Well,
• 33:53
  Speaker 1: the Premier League, speaking of FU money, I read that
• 33:57
  Speaker 1: they have now spent a record.
• 33:58
  Speaker 6: $ 4. 7 billion during the summer transfer portal, 11% higher than
• 34:06
  Speaker 6: last year's record, and more than triple the spending from
• 34:11
  Speaker 6: five years ago. The amount of money the robber barons,
• 34:14
  Speaker 6: the oligarchs are spending is next level. Manchester City led
• 34:18
  Speaker 6: the feeding frenzy. And they became the first team ever
• 34:23
  Speaker 6: to exceed $ 600.
• 34:25
  Speaker 1: Million in one window. And you people complain about the
• 34:27
  Speaker 1: Dodgers and the The Rams and these teams spending a
• 34:31
  Speaker 1: lot of money. $ 600 million in one window. And the
• 34:36
  Speaker 1: total was $ 618 million.
• 34:39
  Speaker 3: That is insane.
• 34:40
  Speaker 1: And so the Premier League, which is popular not here
• 34:44
  Speaker 1: but elsewhere, not in America, but Terry in England, I guess,
• 34:48
  Speaker 1: likes some of those guys. But, my God, the amount
• 34:51
  Speaker 1: of revenue that they're making is insane, insane. And they're hoping.
• 34:56
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• 34:58
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• 35:01
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• 36:31
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• 36:35
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• 36:42
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• 36:43
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• 36:44
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• 36:47
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• 36:49
  Speaker 1: Hi, Inca Terror.
• 36:51
  Speaker 2: Inca Terror wants to know, what is the hardest U.S.
• 36:52
  Speaker 2: state to spell correctly?
• 36:56
  Speaker 1: So not city, state, because the hardest where a lot
• 37:00
  Speaker 1: of people would be like Albuquerque, but you're asking for
• 37:03
  Speaker 1: a state. Yeah. Let's see here. What would be the
• 37:07
  Speaker 1: hardest state? For Lorena, I'm going to go any of them.
• 37:10
  Speaker 1: How about that? I'm a very good speller.
• 37:15
  Speaker 2: Are you?
• 37:15
  Speaker 1: You are?
• 37:16
  Speaker 3: Yes.
• 37:16
  Speaker 4: Really?
• 37:17
  Speaker 1: I don't believe you. I would say off the top
• 37:19
  Speaker 1: of my head here, let's see. Let me test Lorena.
• 37:23
  Speaker 1: How about this? Let's see if she can spell Connecticut.
• 37:25
  Speaker 1: How about that? I think that's the hardest one.
• 37:26
  Speaker 2: Okay, so C-O-N-N-E-C-H-O-N-E-T-I-C-H. T-I-C-U-T.
• 37:36
  Speaker 1: Ah, she got it right. There you go. In your face,
• 37:41
  Speaker 1: I know.
• 37:42
  Speaker 2: I don't think any of them are hard.
• 37:43
  Speaker 1: My favorite one to spell, though, is Mississippi because you
• 37:45
  Speaker 1: can put it into a song. That's right.
• 37:51
  Speaker 2: I think I can also spell supercalifragilisticexpialidocious.
• 37:54
  Speaker 1: Can you? That's one of my favorite words to say.
• 37:56
  Speaker 1: I don't say it enough. Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious. Coop?
• 38:01
  Speaker 2: I mean, even though she got it right, I do think...
• 38:03
  Speaker 2: Connecticut is the hardest one to spell.
• 38:07
  Speaker 1: That sneaky eye, right?
• 38:09
  Speaker 2: It's just weird.
• 38:12
  Speaker 1: It doesn't sound like it looks. There's a lot of
• 38:16
  Speaker 1: words in English that don't sound like they look.
• 38:18
  Speaker 3: All right.
• 38:19
  Speaker 1: What is next here? What do we got? All right.
• 38:21
  Speaker 2: JT the Wingman wants to know, what is your favorite
• 38:25
  Speaker 2: letter in the alphabet?
• 38:27
  Speaker 1: Well, I'm a little biased here. I like the letter B.
• 38:31
  Speaker 1: It's a B for Ben. I enjoy the letter B.
• 38:33
  Speaker 1: It's my favorite. It's my first initial, and I like that.
• 38:36
  Speaker 1: What about you, Lorena? Yeah, I'm a big fan of
• 38:38
  Speaker 1: the L. You know? Similar. Yeah.
• 38:42
  Speaker 3: All right.
• 38:44
  Speaker 1: Very simple, then. Coop, I'm going to guess.
• 38:45
  Speaker 2: No, I mean, I don't know if I'm the only
• 38:47
  Speaker 2: one that's not, like, a total narcissist here, or, but.
• 38:51
  Speaker 1: Wow. What a schmuck.
• 38:55
  Speaker 2: My favorite letter is S. I don't know why. S?
• 38:58
  Speaker 1: Yeah.
• 38:59
  Speaker 3: Yeah.
• 39:01
  Speaker 1: Yeah, for schmuck.
• 39:02
  Speaker 3: There you go.
• 39:03
  Speaker 1: All right, what's next? What do we got? It's Ask Ben.
• 39:05
  Speaker 1: Your questions, our answers.
• 39:08
  Speaker 2: Mike the Leprechaun wants to know, what's the worst habit
• 39:10
  Speaker 2: that you tried to give up but failed? It says
• 39:13
  Speaker 2: his is suntan lotion.
• 39:15
  Speaker 1: No, crack is my, no, I don't know. A habit
• 39:17
  Speaker 1: I tried, I mean, obviously the one I kind of
• 39:23
  Speaker 1: succeeded on was eating too much, but no, I mean,
• 39:26
  Speaker 1: I don't gamble too much. I'm kind of boring. I'm
• 39:30
  Speaker 1: think there's anything I can think of. What about you, Lorena?
• 39:34
  Speaker 2: I've done pretty good. I used to bite my nails.
• 39:37
  Speaker 1: I stopped doing that.
• 39:38
  Speaker 2: I used to pick my nose. I stopped doing that.
• 39:39
  Speaker 1: That would be the one. I don't pick my nose.
• 39:41
  Speaker 1: You've seen my boogers, too.
• 39:44
  Speaker 2: I stopped doing that.
• 39:44
  Speaker 4: Okay.
• 39:45
  Speaker 6: Wow.
• 39:46
  Speaker 1: What?
• 39:46
  Speaker 2: The problem is I don't try to stop any of
• 39:49
  Speaker 2: my bad habits.
• 39:50
  Speaker 1: Oh, yes. You lean into them. You like them. You
• 39:53
  Speaker 1: embrace them. That's the way to do it.
• 39:54
  Speaker 3: Sure.
• 39:54
  Speaker 1: Why not?
• 39:55
  Speaker 2: We need more bad habits. Andy and Lionel Lakes, do
• 39:57
  Speaker 2: you enjoy a good deep tissue massage?
• 40:00
  Speaker 4: No.
• 40:01
  Speaker 1: No, I don't. What about you? Never had one. All right. Cool.
• 40:04
  Speaker 2: No, they hurt. Just a regular massage for me.
• 40:06
  Speaker 1: Thank you. All right. All right. Bob Kraft likes those, too.