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The Fifth Hour: Nuclear Maller Meltdown · The Ben Maller Show

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  Speaker 1: Cut booms.
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  Speaker 2: If you thought four hours a day, twelve hundred minutes
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  Speaker 2: a week was enough, think again. He's the last remnants
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  Speaker 2: of the old Republic, a soul fashion of fairness. He
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  Speaker 2: treats crackheads in the ghetto gutter the same as the
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  Speaker 2: rich pill poppers in the penthouse.
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  Speaker 1: Wow.
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  Speaker 2: The clearing House of Hot takes break free for something special.
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  Speaker 2: The Fifth Hour with Ben Maller starts right now in.
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  Speaker 1: The air everywhere, The Fifth Hour with me, Ben Mahler.
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  Speaker 1: Because four hours a night are not enough, and we
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  Speaker 1: do this eight days a week, this would be I
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  Speaker 1: think the eighth day, right. I'm a little confused because
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  Speaker 1: we did the overnight show, had a little bit of
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  Speaker 1: a pause, came back in to the remote studio, and
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  Speaker 1: we have two shows today, and so yeah, I think
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  Speaker 1: this would be the eighth day, right, because we have
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  Speaker 1: five shows a week, three on the weekends, and there's
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  Speaker 1: a little crossover here on on Friday in the middle
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  Speaker 1: of January, the calm before the divisional playoffs. Don't forget
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  Speaker 1: We only have a few shows left. We've got this weekend.
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  Speaker 1: You can binge watch the Saturday and Sunday edition, and
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  Speaker 1: then next weekend is Championship weekend in the NFL, followed
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  Speaker 1: of course by some little game in San Francisco. So
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  Speaker 1: that is what we have on the agenda for that.
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  Speaker 1: Now on this edition of the Fifth Hour, we've got
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  Speaker 1: watch out for the Hummingbird the Dollar Shave Club as well.
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  Speaker 1: But we're going to start with this. Today is Friday,
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  Speaker 1: January sixthe eighth. It is National Fig Newton Day, National
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  Speaker 1: Fig Newton Day. Now, my mom enjoyed a Fig Newton
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  Speaker 1: many many years ago. I've not had one since my
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  Speaker 1: mom was around. She's unfortunately gone for a while. And
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  Speaker 1: the fig Newton, I learned some fun facts is why
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  Speaker 1: would you need a day for the fig Newton? Is
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  Speaker 1: it true that the fig Newton a cookie is actually
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  Speaker 1: originally a health food? That's right, I fell down this
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  Speaker 1: rabbit hole. So the fig Newton came into existence in
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  Speaker 1: the late eighteen hundreds, like the eighteen nineties, and the
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  Speaker 1: fig role became a popular food item because of medicine
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  Speaker 1: at that time. Modern medicine in the nineteenth century, they
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  Speaker 1: promoted that people needed to eat biscuits. Now I want
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  Speaker 1: doctors to say, go eat biscuits. So they said, you
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  Speaker 1: got to increase your consumption of biscuits and fruit and
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  Speaker 1: your diet. You want to live a long time, and
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  Speaker 1: you're worried about digestive problems, well, come on now, just
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  Speaker 1: eat more biscuits. And so the fig roll became a
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  Speaker 1: thing again because of all that. In eighteen ninety one
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  Speaker 1: there was a guy named Charles Roser who invented a
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  Speaker 1: machine to insert the fig paste into the dough and
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  Speaker 1: abracadabrajocus pocus and eventually the product of Nabisco the original
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  Speaker 1: name of the product and was changed to fig Newton.
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  Speaker 1: So there you go, get figure with it. If you will,
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  Speaker 1: you can get figure with it. So, in terms of
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  Speaker 1: the meat of the matter, here on the fifth hour,
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  Speaker 1: I wanted to talk about something that happened the other
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  Speaker 1: night on the show Go back a few days in
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  Speaker 1: the hot tub time machine and the flickering fluorescent twilight
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  Speaker 1: of the overnight in the main studio at the Fox
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  Speaker 1: Sports radio compound, where the air is often thick with
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  Speaker 1: the scent of rotting trash that is there everywhere. I sit,
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  Speaker 1: five nights a week in a radio studio doing my thing.
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  Speaker 1: Some have called me the high Priest of the Graveyard Shift.
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  Speaker 1: I don't know if that's an honor or not. I
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  Speaker 1: consider myself the level headed gas bag navigating an obstacle course,
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  Speaker 1: occasionally the friendly skies of the Red Eye, and oftentimes
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  Speaker 1: it's like a tightrope walker, and you forget that you're
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  Speaker 1: three hundred feet above a concrete floor. Every once in
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  Speaker 1: a while you're reminded. And earlier this week the tightrope snapped.
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  Speaker 1: The culprit was not a lack of preparation, but a
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  Speaker 1: lack pause. Now to set the scene. For those that
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  Speaker 1: didn't hear the show, bad job by you, But the
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  Speaker 1: scene I know Lucky Tony knows exactly what I'm talking
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  Speaker 1: about in Fergdog and Alf. For some of you, though
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  Speaker 1: you don't so the scene was a classic NFL Malard monologue,
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  Speaker 1: a verbal tapestry that we wove together equal parts sarcasm,
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  Speaker 1: little vitriol, and some supposed insight. You are the judge
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  Speaker 1: of that anyway. The subject of this particular male monologue
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  Speaker 1: the lead was the Minnesota Vikings. Now, I love my
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  Speaker 1: people in Minnesota. You guys have been great. The Vikings franchise, though,
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  Speaker 1: has spent the better part of I don't know sixty
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  Speaker 1: years perfecting the art of the almost. We almost won
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  Speaker 1: the super Bowl, we almost went on a run on
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  Speaker 1: the playoffs. We almost had this great quarterback. Now, the
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  Speaker 1: inciting incident to inspire the malar monologue involved the general manager,
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  Speaker 1: Quasy Adolphamensa, a man whose Ivy League resume is often
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  Speaker 1: used as an academia shield against the slings and arrows
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  Speaker 1: of social media and talk radio. And so a random
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  Speaker 1: beat reporter tossed what I thought was a softball question
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  Speaker 1: to Adolphamensa, the Vikings GM. It had all the velocity
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  Speaker 1: of a rightening banana, and he asked if quarterback JJ
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  Speaker 1: McCarthy was the man for twenty twenty six. Now, this
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  Speaker 1: is a layup, go team go. That's the moment. Instead,
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  Speaker 1: though instead Quasy did not take debate. The GM gave
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  Speaker 1: the world a dramatic pause and then a verbal pratfall,
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  Speaker 1: a stumble, a marble mouth moment that in my business.
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  Speaker 1: When you do talk radio is the equivalent of finding
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  Speaker 1: a giant chunk of gold, a golden nugget, not the
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  Speaker 1: hotel in Vegas. It's like fighting it in the gutter. So,
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  Speaker 1: acting as my own digital archaeologist, I was able to
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  Speaker 1: excavate the audio gold from the dark web. There's a
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  Speaker 1: big dark web of sports clips doing the heavy lifting,
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  Speaker 1: the busy body work, if you will, of hand crafting
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  Speaker 1: bullet points and timing the clip for the Mauth monologue. Now,
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  Speaker 1: in the bureaucracy of FSR, this involves needlessly complex steps
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  Speaker 1: of passing the clip to a circus of personnel yours truly,
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  Speaker 1: A yours truly. I grabbed the sound. I toss it
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  Speaker 1: to the middle manager. This is part b Kooper loop,
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  Speaker 1: who then funnels it into the bowels of the FSR dungeon,
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  Speaker 1: where this is the last part. A nameless, faceless editor
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  Speaker 1: performs meatball surgery on the audio file. Now, the tragedy
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  Speaker 1: of this mini Mallard meltdown was not that the clip
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  Speaker 1: failed to play. It played. It was played way too
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  Speaker 1: well an editor and I'm not going to send any
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  Speaker 1: names here, perhaps motivated by a misguided sense of I
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  Speaker 1: gotta clean this thing up, got to clean that audio up.
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  Speaker 1: Decided to perform a digital lobotomy on the sound bite
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  Speaker 1: that I wanted. They butchered the hesitation, the very essence
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  Speaker 1: of the clip. They deleted the stumble, they smoothed over
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  Speaker 1: every crack that had given or was going to give
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  Speaker 1: the Malard monologue its very foundation, and everything I was
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  Speaker 1: going to play off didn't work in doing so. They
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  Speaker 1: didn't just edit a sound bite, they absolutely torpedoed my
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  Speaker 1: plan of attack. And this was a friendly fire in
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  Speaker 1: the trenches of the twenty hour a week live audio
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  Speaker 1: Battle Royale plus this podcast, plus this podcast, and so
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  Speaker 1: we're lucky enough to be on a lot of stations.
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  Speaker 1: We have a big stage, and we're also essentially recording
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  Speaker 1: a podcast because we have a lot of people that
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  Speaker 1: listen when they want at their leisure on demand of
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  Speaker 1: the podcast. So it's great we get two for one
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  Speaker 1: and it usually works out pretty well. And while we're
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  Speaker 1: doing that, though, always juggling torches in real time, you
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  Speaker 1: rely on your support staff for a little bit. I
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  Speaker 1: consider it the bare minimum. I try to do as
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  Speaker 1: much as I can. I'm wired that way, and so
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  Speaker 1: you need them sometimes to be the wind beneath your wings,
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  Speaker 1: not the humming bird. That is a bird strike in
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  Speaker 1: your engine. You don't need the hummingbird in your jet engine.
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  Speaker 1: And so what fun followed was a moment of pure,
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  Speaker 1: unadulterated radio theater, kabuki theater, a nuclear malar meltdown fueled
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  Speaker 1: by the frustration of a craftsman who sees the finished
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  Speaker 1: work shattered by some ham fisted apprentice who doesn't know
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  Speaker 1: what they're doing. And so the migraine, headache and ulcer,
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  Speaker 1: and it was a bit of an ulcer, you know,
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  Speaker 1: the whatever ailments there were, they these are occupational hazards.
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  Speaker 1: And it's it's really my issue, right I treat the
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  Speaker 1: show way too seriously. It's a dopey overnight show. The monologues,
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  Speaker 1: I like them to be a symphony. I do not
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  Speaker 1: want them to be a child the first time they
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  Speaker 1: ever played a piano where they just hit all the
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  Speaker 1: buttons and rub their fingers up and down. To the
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  Speaker 1: casual consumer, and you're listening to the fifth hour, so
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  Speaker 1: you're a higher level, but the casual consumer, we're most
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  Speaker 1: background noise. You're working in a factory, you're alone, you're
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  Speaker 1: in your bedroom, you got the creeping crud or whatever.
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  Speaker 1: You turn the radio on because you want to hear
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  Speaker 1: a voice, because it's the sound of silence is pretty wicky.
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  Speaker 1: So you turn it on. And so that's it. And
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  Speaker 1: if you're listening with half an ear, a three second
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  Speaker 1: pause is trivial. I completely get it. I completely get it, dude,
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  Speaker 1: I do. But for me, it's heartburn. And you can
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  Speaker 1: blame John Wooden, Ben Franklin. It was John Wooden who said,
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  Speaker 1: make every day your masterpiece. Every day should be your masterpiece.
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  Speaker 1: The Wizard of Westwood also known as win the Day,
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  Speaker 1: you got to win the day. And by failing to prepare,
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  Speaker 1: Benjamin Franklin said, you are preparing to fail. So I
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  Speaker 1: always make sure to prepare. I want to make every
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  Speaker 1: day my masterpiece. And that's always been been the goal.
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  Speaker 1: And it works out most of the time. It does
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  Speaker 1: not work out all of the time. And this was
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  Speaker 1: one of those moments, and it was just a cacophony
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  Speaker 1: of things that were going on and on and on,
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  Speaker 1: and so it all kind of reached the tipping point
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  Speaker 1: during the the Vikings monologue. And so you know this
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  Speaker 1: and that that happens every once in a while. It happens.
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  Speaker 1: I mentioned John Wooden, and I also mentioned the the
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  Speaker 1: great Ben Franklin. The quote that does sum up this show.
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  Speaker 1: If there's one quote we've talked about this in the past,
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  Speaker 1: my favorite quote of all time. I was actually reminded
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  Speaker 1: of this by a friend of mine this week and
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  Speaker 1: I was like, you know what, I got to focus
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  Speaker 1: on that more because that's really what we do, and
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  Speaker 1: he said, what are you getting about? All right? So
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  Speaker 1: it's it is my single favorite quote. I used to
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  Speaker 1: have this on my social media from w Seafields, a actor,
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  Speaker 1: a comedian, fat alcoholic guy, very funny man in his
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  Speaker 1: day one hundred years ago or close to it, and
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  Speaker 1: his quote was, if you can't dazzle them with brilliance,
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  Speaker 1: baffle them with bullshit. And that's that's what we try
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  Speaker 1: to do. That's what we try to do here. So
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  Speaker 1: you know, in this case, it was the difference that
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  Speaker 1: SoundBite that the pause was the difference between a punchline
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  Speaker 1: and a thud, And it is the sound of the
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  Speaker 1: sausage being made. Only to find out someone forgot to
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  Speaker 1: put the meat in the casing. Well, we can't have
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  Speaker 1: sausage without the casing. Well I know, that, but somebody
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  Speaker 1: screwed up and they had a tough night. So we
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  Speaker 1: did snap a bit and went back into the basement
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  Speaker 1: and just banged our head against the wall. A reminder
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  Speaker 1: that even in this high tech, wacky wacky world of
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  Speaker 1: modern and broadcasting, you still are at the mercy of
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  Speaker 1: the human element. The names and faces of the guilty
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  Speaker 1: will remain silent, just like they change all the time.
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  Speaker 1: Some numb nuts. They really screwed up anyway, to put
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  Speaker 1: a ball on this part of the fifth Hour. In
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  Speaker 1: the end, more people, based on the feedback that I
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  Speaker 1: get from you, more people seem to enjoy me having
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  Speaker 1: a conniption fit like a fussy baby than you would
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  Speaker 1: have just wanting to hear the random stylings of Quasi
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  Speaker 1: Adopha Mensa, the Viking, GM, Stumble and bubble. So it's
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  Speaker 1: one of those double edged swords things where we have
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  Speaker 1: this ear for the authentic, and then it's like they
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  Speaker 1: say in Japan, the wabi sabi. It's a Japanese term
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  Speaker 1: that means flawed beauty, the perfection of imperfection, wabi sabi.
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  Speaker 1: So there you go, all right, Now turn the pages
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  Speaker 1: on that to the justice files. The Justice files if
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  Speaker 1: you will. So the question, it's the big story that
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  Speaker 1: did not end up on the radio show. It ended
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  Speaker 1: up on the cutting room floor on the overnight show
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  Speaker 1: here as we're doing this in real time on this Friday,
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  Speaker 1: and so it involves college basketball. So the question, I
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  Speaker 1: will frame it this way, where are you at on
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  Speaker 1: the let me check my notes here, twenty six men
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  Speaker 1: who are out? Nine eight men out? Now, twenty six
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  Speaker 1: men who are out in the college football not college basketball,
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  Speaker 1: college hoops point shaving scandal. Again, sorry, so where are
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  Speaker 1: you at on the twenty six men who were involved
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  Speaker 1: in the college hoops point shaving scandal according to the Feds?
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  Speaker 1: Now for you reactionary dingle berries in the middle of
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  Speaker 1: the room, not the back, not the side, not the front,
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  Speaker 1: the middle of the room, the reactionary dingleberries. If you're
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  Speaker 1: looking for a shoulder to cry on because some scholarship
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  Speaker 1: scrub from Kennesaw State decided to trade his integrity for
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  Speaker 1: a stack of easy green, You've come to the right neighborhood,
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  Speaker 1: but you're knocking on the wrong door. So I did
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  Speaker 1: not give this the full Milor monologue. I did not
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  Speaker 1: give that to you on the Overnight let me tell
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  Speaker 1: you why though, because the Dodgers in the nighttime hours before,
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  Speaker 1: not that long before I cracked the microphones, the Dodgers
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  Speaker 1: went out and backed up the Brinks truck for Kyle Tucker.
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  Speaker 1: And in my industry, the industrial complex of the hot take,
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  Speaker 1: it's not narrow casting, it's broadcasting. Right. So Superstar signs
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  Speaker 1: sixty million dollars a year contract and decides not to
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  Speaker 1: play for the Mets, and that beats the other story,
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  Speaker 1: which is really it's the dollar shave club story. Right.
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  Speaker 1: You were shaving points for a couple of shekels, a
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  Speaker 1: couple of dollars, and so that wins the baseball signing
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  Speaker 1: every day of the week and twice on the Ben
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  Speaker 1: Malor Show, if you will. And besides, let's be real here,
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  Speaker 1: ninety eight percent of the college hoop teams that are
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  Speaker 1: involved in this it is a hodgepodge of nothingness. We're
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  Speaker 1: talking about Alabama State, Nickels, State, Abilene Christian as some examples.
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  Speaker 1: Now for our purposes, that does it get you warm
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  Speaker 1: and tingley and move the needle. Not exactly a murderer's
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  Speaker 1: row of talent. Yeah, listen, the kids are playing basketball.
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  Speaker 1: Good for them. They're also not seeing a dime of
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  Speaker 1: nil sugar sugar sugar, and they're looking at the point spread,
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  Speaker 1: and they got these shady people that come over to
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  Speaker 1: them and say, hey, you want to make a couple
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  Speaker 1: of bucks. You don't have to lose the game. You
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  Speaker 1: just have to underperform. Just pretend like you're a little sick.
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  Speaker 1: You know, you got the whatcha mc college's not working,
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  Speaker 1: You got to get the do hickey going, that whole thing.
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  Speaker 1: And so well, college players are like, oh man, this
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  Speaker 1: is easy money. E z money, and I'm good to go.
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  Speaker 1: Now Here are the facts of life for the uninitiated,
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  Speaker 1: in terms of those that are up in arms over
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  Speaker 1: sports gambling and all that gambling has been around since
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  Speaker 1: the very first caveman bet a rack of ribs on
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  Speaker 1: which Wooly Mammoth would drop first. Me know that not real? Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: well okay. The only difference now is that it is
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  Speaker 1: legal in most places other than the People's Republic of California,
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  Speaker 1: where we broadcast from and a few other outposts out
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  Speaker 1: in the way way blue yonder way out there. So
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  Speaker 1: it's all digital now, right, It's all digital. That's really
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  Speaker 1: the difference now is it's it's on your phone and
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  Speaker 1: it's staring you in the face every time turn on
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  Speaker 1: the tube, every time you turn on the radio show.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, listen, hey, I'm part of it. You know.
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  Speaker 1: DraftKings is a great sponsor of the radio show. And
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  Speaker 1: there's a lot of Draft Kings love that we give
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  Speaker 1: them because they love us and we enjoy them. And
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  Speaker 1: the whole thing so in terms of the banit Caucus,
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  Speaker 1: which is out in force now, you've got to get
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  Speaker 1: rid of it. And I'm not part of that group.
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  Speaker 1: I'm on the other side of the aisle. I'm not
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  Speaker 1: clutching pearls acting like the sky is falling because of
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  Speaker 1: the point shaving scandal. Spare me. It makes me want
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  Speaker 1: to bar from my mouth because it's not freedom. That
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  Speaker 1: is not freedom. That's a nanny state with a whistle.
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  Speaker 1: And I don't know about you, do you. I don't
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  Speaker 1: want to live in a world like that. The whole
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  Speaker 1: thing is, it's like cars. I'll use an example, like cars.
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  Speaker 1: So the thing about cars is some dope is going
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  Speaker 1: to treat the freeway the interstate like it's the Indy
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  Speaker 1: five hundred or the Daytona five hundred. And there's gonna
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  Speaker 1: be accidents and people are gonna get hurt and all that.
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  Speaker 1: Do you get rid of cars? You want a kitchen
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  Speaker 1: because you want to make supper, Well, some Mama Luke
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  Speaker 1: is going to burn their house down and maybe even yours.
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  Speaker 1: So this is the freedom versus fallout quagmire. And to me,
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  Speaker 1: the malor math on this is rather simple. The benefit
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  Speaker 1: you get the liberty if you choose. It's not for everyone,
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  Speaker 1: and everyone shouldn't do it to put your skin in
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  Speaker 1: the game. In terms of sports wagering, the cost you
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  Speaker 1: deal with is the greed. The greed, the fallout of
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  Speaker 1: the stupid, right, the fallout of the stupid, and humans
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  Speaker 1: are fallible, and so listen, there are twenty six geniuses,
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  Speaker 1: absolute geniuses, that are completely tied up in that federal
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  Speaker 1: what they're calling the international criminal conspiracy, because not just
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  Speaker 1: college basketball player, it's Chinese basketball. They don't mess around
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  Speaker 1: in China, so good luck on that. And the people
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  Speaker 1: involved in this, based on what I've been reading here,
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  Speaker 1: did not exactly go to the Ocean's eleven school of
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  Speaker 1: planning a money grab heist situation. They followed the New
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  Speaker 1: York Times bestseller the paperback version of a complete idiot's
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  Speaker 1: guide two point shaving. Now, in the old days, in
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  Speaker 1: the old country, you met a guy in a trench
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  Speaker 1: coat behind a dumpster and there'd be envelopes that would
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  Speaker 1: be exchanged with cash, and that was that. There was
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  Speaker 1: nothing recorded at all. Today, the modern element to this
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  Speaker 1: these scholars, these scholars are leaving a digital paper trail
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  Speaker 1: longer than the standard CVS receipt. They're laying out the
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  Speaker 1: whole scheme in text message chains. It's integrity for dummies.
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  Speaker 1: It's like, hey, hey, skip the layup in the second
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  Speaker 1: half and I'll buy you a used Honda click scent
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  Speaker 1: screenshot and it's like, why don't you what do you
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  Speaker 1: even want to use Honda? All right? The gambling houses
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  Speaker 1: are not charities. Obviously, this is big money and they
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  Speaker 1: often work, believe it or not, on razor thin margins,
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  Speaker 1: and they're not in the business of losing a bunch
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  Speaker 1: of benchwarmers from or losing, you know, to a bunch
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  Speaker 1: of bench warmers from I don't know nickels state, I
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  Speaker 1: don't even know where that is. The moment the alarm
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  Speaker 1: bells sound and things aren't kosher, there's some kind of
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  Speaker 1: fugazy betting pattern, the gambling companies release the hounds and
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  Speaker 1: hand the digital keys to the Feds. It's checks and
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  Speaker 1: balance is in the age of the algorhythm. That's the
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  Speaker 1: way this works. Now. I saw some comments by the
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  Speaker 1: US US Attorney and you know, talking about how, you know,
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  Speaker 1: significant corruption of the integrity of sports and all that
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  Speaker 1: very dramatic. He's really just describing the weather, is all
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  Speaker 1: he's doing. And if you're the US attorney, this is
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  Speaker 1: a big story, and this can enhance your career in
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  Speaker 1: law enforcement and in that world political world as well,
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  Speaker 1: and so it's important for you to get out in
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  Speaker 1: front and the cameras and really go deep on how
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  Speaker 1: bad it is. But but this is the new normal.
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  Speaker 1: If you think this ends with a few Chinese Basketball
• 23:42
  Speaker 1: Association games and some low level college basketball, then I
• 23:47
  Speaker 1: have some really really nice beachfront property in the Sahara
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  Speaker 1: Desert right in the middle of it, with your name
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  Speaker 1: on it. I'd like to I'd like to make a deal.
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  Speaker 1: The NFL, you got I think at some point they're
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  Speaker 1: involved in this, right you gotta think they're involved in this.
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  Speaker 1: We've had Major League Baseball, the NBA, college basketball. The
• 24:08
  Speaker 1: argument's always been in NFL and college football. In order
• 24:12
  Speaker 1: for it to really work, you just have to get
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  Speaker 1: the quarterback. You just have to get the quarterback. But
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  Speaker 1: even that you could have if the quarterback's really bad,
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  Speaker 1: they would bench the quarterback and then you've got to
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  Speaker 1: get the backup quarterback. Like the fixers are already lurking
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  Speaker 1: in the shadows, you know, they're like, oh, that would
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  Speaker 1: be the all timer. Because there's so much money bet
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  Speaker 1: on the NFL. It would be very easy in theory, right,
• 24:35
  Speaker 1: if you workshop it, it would be very easy for
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  Speaker 1: them to get away with it. In theory. The only
• 24:40
  Speaker 1: problem is everything's done via text message now so, and
• 24:44
  Speaker 1: people have loose lips and all that. So that would
• 24:47
  Speaker 1: be the hard part because you do it all via
• 24:49
  Speaker 1: text and you'd have to use coded language and all that,
• 24:52
  Speaker 1: and good luck on that. So you take the good,
• 24:55
  Speaker 1: you take the bad, and you realize that as long
• 24:57
  Speaker 1: as there is a scoreboard, there's a guy up in
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  Speaker 1: the nosebleeds who's tossing down raspberry is trying to rig
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  Speaker 1: the action electronically and all that. So the bottom line,
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  Speaker 1: all right, the bottom line, the game is obviously not
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  Speaker 1: over by a long shot, it's just being played by
• 25:18
  Speaker 1: a different set of rules. And if you're surprised that
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  Speaker 1: the kid that has no nil check, no nil check
• 25:29
  Speaker 1: and a smartphone is somehow susceptible to a big, giant
• 25:35
  Speaker 1: cartoon payment and he's not even that big, by the way,
• 25:39
  Speaker 1: then you haven't been paying attention. And really, you haven't
• 25:41
  Speaker 1: been paying attention, not just currently, not the times we're
• 25:44
  Speaker 1: in now, the modern era, the zeitgeist of the times,
• 25:48
  Speaker 1: if you will, you haven't been paying attention to the
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  Speaker 1: human race for the last I don't know, six thousand
• 25:56
  Speaker 1: years something along those lines. It's been a minute. It
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• 26:08
  Speaker 1: big rant and I didn't get to it about a
• 26:10
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• 26:19
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• 26:24
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• 26:42
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