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Hour 3 - Not Living Up to the Billing · The Ben Maller Show

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Speaker 1: Boom, Shaka laka. It's our number three. Our number three
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Speaker 1: is ready for me. We're talking the rare and appropriate
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Speaker 1: college football monologue. The story of stories. The prodigy of
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Speaker 1: prodigies has been the bust of bus. Do you believe
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Speaker 1: Texas Longhorns quarterback Arch Manning is not is not bothered
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Speaker 1: by all the criticism. We'll talk about that. Also, you
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Speaker 1: make the call, does women's basketball legend Caitlin Clark join
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Speaker 1: the startup league and take the bags of Saudi money
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Speaker 1: that's being offered her way and leave the WNBA behind
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Speaker 1: or make it just a part time gig. Also, should
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Speaker 1: the in the NFL? Should the Mike Rabel Patriots make
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Speaker 1: a splash move the trade deadlines just a few weeks away,
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Speaker 1: get some wide receiver help for Drake May. We'll talk
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Speaker 1: about all that and more right now as we crawl
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Speaker 1: through this hour of the Ben Mama Here it is
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Speaker 1: not living up to the building. Welcome in the beginning
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Speaker 1: hour with the rare inappropriate. Do not get used to this.
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Speaker 1: The rare and appropriate College football lead this hour. What
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Speaker 1: are you doing? What we want to hear about the NFL?
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Speaker 1: Just bear with me, Bear with me all right now, listen.
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Speaker 1: You know my mantra I get up every day, I
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Speaker 1: have no idea what I we talk about and whatever.
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Speaker 1: So I lead this hour some all Texas the rare
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Speaker 1: and appropriate malord monologue about college football. So prior to
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Speaker 1: a mild upset the Texas Longhorns beating Oklahoma, which used
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Speaker 1: to be a really big deal. Man that was a
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Speaker 1: really big deal. Not so much anymore, but that happened
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Speaker 1: over the weekend, and so they're four and two now Texas.
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Speaker 1: On the year, there was an article that got some
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Speaker 1: traction behind a paywallt the Old Gray Lady, the Athletic
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Speaker 1: there that labeled arch Manning as college football's first flop.
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Speaker 1: Oh that's mean, Oh you're so mean. Now highlighted just
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Speaker 1: how terrible he has been. His productivity has been horrific
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Speaker 1: for the Texas Longhorns, and so people, of course got
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Speaker 1: upset about that. And then somebody had the hutzpa to
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Speaker 1: ask arch Manning about being called a flop. And here's
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Speaker 1: what he said. Take a listen.
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Speaker 2: I feel like I try to do my best of
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Speaker 2: blocking out the noise, and then you get one hundred
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Speaker 2: text messages keep blocking out.
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Speaker 1: The noise, like there must be a lot of noise.
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Speaker 1: So yeah, I try my best. You know, they someone
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Speaker 1: will call me one of the bicket slap in college football,
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Speaker 1: and how do you deal with that?
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Speaker 2: Yeah, I didn't know that. I guess tell you now.
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Speaker 2: Yeah no, I mean, look, I wasn't playing well and
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Speaker 2: I am.
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Speaker 1: I'm going to continue to get better.
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Speaker 2: But you know, everyone has their own opinion and it's
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Speaker 2: good about America, so you get to freedom speech, so
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Speaker 2: it doesn't bother me.
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Speaker 1: All right, You're gotta tell something. I have been to
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Speaker 1: the Hollywood improv on Melrose and I've seen some very
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Speaker 1: famous comedians that didn't get those kind of laughs. I mean,
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Speaker 1: it's unbelievable. God, what a bunch of fan boys in
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Speaker 1: the media. Holy crap. All right, So the last part
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Speaker 1: of that is the money quote where he's wrapping himself
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Speaker 1: in the flag and what's good about America? Freedom of
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Speaker 1: speech and that last line it doesn't bother me. So
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Speaker 1: that's a good jumping off point. Let us discuss the
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Speaker 1: question do you believe that Texas quarterback Arch Manning isn't
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Speaker 1: bothered by the criticism. So I've got on this one.
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Speaker 1: I've got show band, cotton Candy, and Booster Rocket, and
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Speaker 1: we will combine all of these things together and we
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Speaker 1: are gonna make the Baba Ganoosh. We're gonna make the
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Speaker 1: Baba ganoosh. Now, to lead off here, this laughter was
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Speaker 1: it's always the uncomfortable nerdy sports media laughter, which has
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Speaker 1: always been a thing. But just the actual essence of
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Speaker 1: the quote, this is more of a thing if you
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Speaker 1: read the written word and not listen to it. If
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Speaker 1: you just read the written word, it doesn't pass the
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Speaker 1: smell test. Like now, Arch Manning has a smile. He
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Speaker 1: was laughing. The media thought he was funnier than any
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Speaker 1: comedian you've ever seen your life. What a soft town Austin,
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Speaker 1: Texas is, Mike God, But let's stop pretending here, okay,
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Speaker 1: let's stop pretending that you don't get to hide from
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Speaker 1: the heat. You don't get to hide from the heat
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Speaker 1: when you're on the marquee and he's on the marquee.
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Speaker 1: He was born into this, he said, it's not fair.
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Speaker 1: I would argue that you know you were born on
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Speaker 1: third base with that name and all that and his
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Speaker 1: name was Smith instead of Manning. He wouldn't be playing
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Speaker 1: college football at a school like Texas. But I digress.
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Speaker 1: So if it smells like sewage, and it looks like sewage,
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Speaker 1: it probably is raw sewage. I'm just saying, all right, So,
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Speaker 1: and you can't tell me that Arch Manning is not
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Speaker 1: feeling it. It's been a nice guy on it. But
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Speaker 1: this is not some random jamoke. It's not. And you
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Speaker 1: don't go waltz around with the Manning name plate, with
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Speaker 1: that last name on your uniform. You've got a five
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Speaker 1: million dollar nil valuation, five million dollar valuation. You've got
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Speaker 1: major corporations, big brands in the United States that are
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Speaker 1: using you as a brand ambassador. And you don't pretend
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Speaker 1: that you're living in some kind of zen monastery and
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Speaker 1: you're just you don't. You have those noise canceling headphones
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Speaker 1: and you're not hearing any of it. Just I don't
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Speaker 1: believe it. Palais right. You can block out some of it,
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Speaker 1: but you can't block the noise out when there is
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Speaker 1: a show band, the show band of the Southwest outside
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Speaker 1: your window playing all night and all day. It's not
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Speaker 1: just a couple dudes on message boards back when those
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Speaker 1: were popular, or somebody on social media. Yeah, it's social media.
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Speaker 1: It's radio shows. It's the talking heads on TV that
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Speaker 1: are screaming and shouting and going crazy. So that's not
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Speaker 1: just noise. I mean, you think about how bad arch
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Speaker 1: Manning is considering the hype, and I'm guilty charge I
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Speaker 1: fell into it. I did several monologues about arch Manning.
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Speaker 1: The numbers on this are rather shocking. He is arch
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Speaker 1: Manning a top fifteen quarterback in college football?
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Speaker 2: No?
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Speaker 1: Is he a top twenty quarterback in college football. He's
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Speaker 1: got to be in a top twenty, right, No he's not.
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Speaker 1: How about top twenty five. Gotta be top twenty. No,
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Speaker 1: not top twenty five. All right, now, I know he's
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Speaker 1: in the top thirty. No he's not. How about top
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Speaker 1: four No, not top forty, not top forty. Arch Manning
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Speaker 1: is the forty third ranked quarterback in college football. Behind
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Speaker 1: the quarterback at North Texas. The Mean Green have gotten
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Speaker 1: a more prolific quarterback than the boys over in Austin, Texas.
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Speaker 1: The Aztecs of San Diego State with their woke logo
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Speaker 1: Yukon and Temple also also getting better quarterback play than
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Speaker 1: the Texas Longhorn. So that's not just a kind of
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Speaker 1: a blip on the radar. That's a five alarm fire
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Speaker 1: in Austin. It is, and so there don't need to
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Speaker 1: sugarcoat it. And a lot of people fall in this
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Speaker 1: trap and it bothers me. They're stuck in a different
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Speaker 1: time and it's always the age old. Well, you shouldn't
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Speaker 1: be critical. It's a student athlete. They still bring that
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Speaker 1: term up student athlete, which I chuckle at, I laugh at.
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Speaker 1: I think that's kind of funny. It's kind of cute
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Speaker 1: that you still bring that up. Like Arch Manning is
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Speaker 1: playing college football in nineteen seventy five. He's the starting
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Speaker 1: quarterback in Austin, Texas, and he's got a cafeteria meal
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Speaker 1: and he's got to look hard and go to the
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Speaker 1: cafeteria in the school bookstore and get some merch and
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Speaker 1: they give him a handshake. No Arch Manning again. Five
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Speaker 1: million dollars he's raking in at least it's probably more
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Speaker 1: than that, at minimums five million in endorsement deals. He
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Speaker 1: is a brand ambassador for Raising Canes warby Parker, Red Bull,
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Speaker 1: panini Ea Sports. They're all cutting Giant cartoon checks to
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Speaker 1: arch Man, and what are they getting return in investment,
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Speaker 1: Return on investment ROI not much. So when you make
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Speaker 1: that kind of money, five million dollars, you're at the
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Speaker 1: big boy table at that particular moment. You've moved up
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Speaker 1: to the big boy table here, and nil makes you
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Speaker 1: a pro in every single way. And you and I
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Speaker 1: both know this. Every man, woman and child knows it.
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Speaker 1: You make that kind of money and you're a pro
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Speaker 1: in every way, except you're not getting paid by the league.
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Speaker 1: They're not paying you directly. You're just getting paid by
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Speaker 1: all these sponsors and all that stuff. So if you're
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Speaker 1: cashing those kind of giant checks, now you're doing that,
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Speaker 1: you're in the criticism economy. You're part of the criticism economy.
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Speaker 1: And that's my business. That's my economy. I'm in the
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Speaker 1: criticism economy. And so you're not immune. It's not like
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Speaker 1: he's just dropped out of a plane and parachuted into Austin, Texas.
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Speaker 1: He's twenty one years old. This is not some wide
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Speaker 1: eyed freshman being thrown into the fire trial by fire.
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Speaker 1: No it's not. You're not just arch manning the quarterback. No, no, no,
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Speaker 1: you're representing your Archie Mannings grants your arch Manning's grandson,
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Speaker 1: right the legend of the New Orleans Saints back in
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Speaker 1: the day, Archie Manning. You're the nephew of Peyton Manning
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Speaker 1: and Eli Manning, those two annoying Mannings, and you're the
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Speaker 1: heir to the Manning throne. It's like a political dynasty.
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Speaker 1: This is a sports dynasty, and you're next in line.
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Speaker 1: You don't want to be the first Manning quarterback to suck,
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Speaker 1: and right now he's the first man In quarterback that blows.
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Speaker 1: That's the way it is. So yeah, you're in the
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Speaker 1: pressure cooker and you can't just be okay, okay, doesn't
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Speaker 1: work when you're representing all these monstrosity of a family
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Speaker 1: and all of the stupor Super Bowl rings and all
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Speaker 1: the commercials and all the crap that they're doing. And
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Speaker 1: if anything, he is more than fair game to criticize.
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Speaker 1: He just is than your average quarterback. That's just the
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Speaker 1: way it is. The Manning name is a luxury brand name.
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Speaker 1: Arch Manning is a generic brand player the name. It's
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Speaker 1: like if you buy something and you're like, I want
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Speaker 1: a luxury brand. I'm a big brand person. I'm not,
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Speaker 1: but you might be and you buy something and it
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Speaker 1: falls apart because it's not made properly and it's just
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Speaker 1: like the generic brand. Well that's what arch Manning is.
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Speaker 1: And again criticism economy, and he's part of it, making
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Speaker 1: five million dollars. I don't feel bad at all. Play better,
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Speaker 1: do better. Even against Oklahoma he didn't play very well.
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Speaker 1: I think he averaged like six yards of past and
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Speaker 1: nothing special. They won the game. More what Oklahoma didn't
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Speaker 1: do all right. Furthermore to the Caitlyn Clark News of
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Speaker 1: the day. That's right, Caitlyn Clark. I know supermarket. Steve's
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Speaker 1: excited about that. It's a wild story. This is a
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Speaker 1: wild story going around and I'm gonna give it a
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Speaker 1: couple of minutes here. So I was thinking about it,
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Speaker 1: and you know, this is next level. So we learned
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Speaker 1: that Caitlyn Clark may soon find herself at the very
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Speaker 1: center of a global bidding war. Not just a bidding
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Speaker 1: war in the United States. We're talking about a global
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Speaker 1: bidding war that, depending on what she does, will reshape
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Speaker 1: that sport that she's really the only popular thing in.
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Speaker 1: But we'll reshape the sport altogether. So as I if
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Speaker 1: you didn't hear about it, as I understand it, to
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Speaker 1: the Star Wars, Darth Vader music, the Saudi Public Investment Fund, Yeah,
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Speaker 1: the Saudi Public Investment Fund, the same people behind Live Golf. Yeah,
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Speaker 1: those guys, they're essentially, from what I understand again, this
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Speaker 1: is why I read it, they're essentially saying, hey, Caitlyn,
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Speaker 1: you know, we don't really like women in our country,
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Speaker 1: but we like you. We would like you to come
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Speaker 1: play in shiny new league that we're starting up. Here's
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Speaker 1: a blank check. Yeah, that's essentially what's going on. So
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Speaker 1: it's called I Love this. It's called Project B. What
14:11
Speaker 1: a great name. I'm guessing that's not their final draft.
14:16
Speaker 1: Project B. This is the brainchild of someone who was
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Speaker 1: a executive at Google and Facebook. That means they are rich,
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Speaker 1: somebody named Grady Burnett. Never never heard of that guy.
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Speaker 1: And now they've got backing by a group of massive investors,
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Speaker 1: big names ex jocks, including Pro Football Hall of Famer
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Speaker 1: forty nine er legend from BYU, Steve Young, part of
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Speaker 1: the advisory board, and a bunch of the them. So
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Speaker 1: it's again, as I understand it, it's like Live Live
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Speaker 1: two point zero. It's Live golf two point zero, except
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Speaker 1: it's women's hoops. It's gonna be a global thing. They're
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Speaker 1: gonna play in three different parts of the world. And
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Speaker 1: it's not a rival league of the WNBA. It's just
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Speaker 1: the new sheriff in town. It's the new sheriff in town.
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Speaker 1: So question you make the call, does Caitlin Clark join
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Speaker 1: the start up league and take the bags of Saudi
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Speaker 1: money and everything that comes with that, the stigma that
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Speaker 1: comes with that, Right, there's a there's a major stigma
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Speaker 1: that people give you when you take that money. Is
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Speaker 1: she gonna do it? So my response is, if you
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Speaker 1: swim in the Pacific Ocean, is it filled with salt water? Yes?
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Speaker 1: Or any ocean for that matter. Kaitlin Clark makes this year.
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Speaker 1: I think her contract she signed is like for eighty
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Speaker 1: five thousand dollars a year, eighty five grand a year,
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Speaker 1: Kaitlin Clark is making the Saudis can pay her fifty
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Speaker 1: million dollars and that's not even their pocket change, Like
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Speaker 1: that's the stuff that fell out of their pockets, the
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Speaker 1: stuff in their pockets. Fifty million dollars a year. You
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Speaker 1: think that Caitlin Clark is gonna say no, I can't
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Speaker 1: take that money. I don't need the fifty million. I
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Speaker 1: don't want the fifty million. It's blood money, it's oil money.
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Speaker 1: I don't want it. Come on, come on now, right,
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Speaker 1: everyone's got a price. Everyone's got a price. Fifty million
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Speaker 1: dollars to play women's basketball five months a year, ten
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Speaker 1: million dollars a month. You gotta be kidding me. It's
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Speaker 1: not even a tough decision to make, right, because he's like, well,
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Speaker 1: I'll figure it out. And the argument is, well, if
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Speaker 1: you take the money, you're gonna get hit with It's
16:40
Speaker 1: what about the human rights issues? They treat people very poorly.
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Speaker 1: That's the legend of Saudi Arabia and that sports washing.
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Speaker 1: This is why they're spending this money. And you're a
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Speaker 1: sucker and you're falling for it and all that stuff. Well,
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Speaker 1: Kaitlyn Clark will just get a job working the cotton
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Speaker 1: candy machine and she will be spinning, spinning the sugar, saying, well,
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Speaker 1: you know, it's about trying to grow the game of
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Speaker 1: women's basketball, and it's about an opportunity, you know, and
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Speaker 1: and all that craps just just spin, it just spins,
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Speaker 1: just like the live people. Remember they sent out the
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Speaker 1: Live talking points for the people who took the money
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Speaker 1: and sold out as the Saudi's Phil Mickelson and all
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Speaker 1: these guys, and so here's what you're supposed to say
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Speaker 1: when you're questioning about being a sellout. And they just
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Speaker 1: had all the responses, and Kitlin Clark would do the
17:22
Speaker 1: same thing. It's life changing, game changing amount of money.
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Speaker 1: You got to be out of your mind to turn
17:28
Speaker 1: down that amount of cash. And so Live Golf. They
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Speaker 1: poached a bunch of big names and there were some
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Speaker 1: that turned them down. Not many. Tiger Woods would be
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Speaker 1: the most famous. It's the same playbook though, it's the
17:41
Speaker 1: same exact playbook here, except Kaitlyn Clark is to women's
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Speaker 1: basketball what Tiger Woods was the golf back in his day.
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Speaker 1: She's number one, is what she is. That's the power,
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Speaker 1: the power of money. We know it. And so Kaitlyn Clark,
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Speaker 1: you know, she's not just getting an offer that's say
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Speaker 1: as some kind of She's getting an exit ramp that
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Speaker 1: is paved in solid gold, solid gold. All right, now,
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Speaker 1: last thing, we hip, we hip Scott, and we move on.
18:15
Speaker 1: We move over to the NFL to New England where
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Speaker 1: the Patriots, the new England Patriots, who are currently a
18:20
Speaker 1: top the AFCs. The Patriots are leading the division ahead
18:24
Speaker 1: of Buffalo because of the tie breaker. And now there
18:27
Speaker 1: is some chatter, there is chatter in the air that
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Speaker 1: they are big game hunting the trade deadline. We're in
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Speaker 1: mid October, now, the trade deadline in early November. Question,
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Speaker 1: should the Mike Vrabel New England Patriots make a splash
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Speaker 1: move for wide receiver? Help? All right? So ninety nine
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Speaker 1: percent of the time if you ask me, should a
18:52
Speaker 1: team make a trade to get help? What is my answer?
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Speaker 3: Right?
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Speaker 1: Yep? Alf the alien O Pineter is shaking and said, yes,
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Speaker 1: you always say yes. I do almost always say yes.
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Speaker 1: Ninety nine percent of the time. I say yes on
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Speaker 1: this one. Yep, I'm nodding my head. Yes, the answer
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Speaker 1: is yes. Enough with the kid gloves. You have been
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Speaker 1: given the gift of gifts. You have been given the
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Speaker 1: softest of schedules that we've seen in a generation in
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Speaker 1: the NFL. And so listen, Drake May is playing. Well,
19:22
Speaker 1: you've got him on the launching pad right now, and
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Speaker 1: go out and get Drake May another booster rocket. Get
19:31
Speaker 1: the guy another booster rocket. So he goes even higher
19:34
Speaker 1: up there is a window here with all of these
19:36
Speaker 1: soft suck bag teams. The Patriots are playing that they'll
19:41
Speaker 1: actually lose to one or two of them because they're
19:42
Speaker 1: not gonna win every game you're supposed to win. Even
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Speaker 1: so they're looking at ten or eleven wins, maybe even
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Speaker 1: twelve wins, like there's a legitimate path, you know, twelve
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Speaker 1: and five. You go twelve and five. You're talking about
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Speaker 1: a number one or number two seed in the AFC,
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Speaker 1: and the NFL moves and he said, well, he's supposed
20:03
Speaker 1: to be good next year. We're not really quite there yet. No, No,
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Speaker 1: that's not how it works. That's not how any of
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Speaker 1: this works. And so go out, quarterbacks, either you pop
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Speaker 1: in year two or you start to drift the other
20:17
Speaker 1: direction in the uh oh category. You don't want to
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Speaker 1: be in theory. Drake May is playing well right now,
20:23
Speaker 1: but it's only been a few games. You can go
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Speaker 1: the other direction. And so you got Mike Rabel's trying
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Speaker 1: to build this thing up, and you're never gonna have
20:32
Speaker 1: a schedule this easy again. As long as Vrabels in
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Speaker 1: New England and Drake May is trying to become the man,
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Speaker 1: you can't be the man unless you've got help being
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Speaker 1: the man. And that would be the supporting cast for
20:43
Speaker 1: the New England Patriots. And so you look at the
20:45
Speaker 1: wide receivers. They've got Pop Douglas good name, average player,
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Speaker 1: Kashawn Booty another good name, last name Booty. And Stefan Diggs,
20:53
Speaker 1: who's good. He's a tenderbox. Everyone's gonna hate him. They
20:57
Speaker 1: you know how that ends. Everyone hates Stefon Diggs. By
21:00
Speaker 1: the time Diggs is done, you hate him. He's the
21:03
Speaker 1: bad employee you hate. That's that's been every Minnesota, with
21:07
Speaker 1: Buffalo Houston everywhere. So even if those guys are playing well,
21:12
Speaker 1: it's not the cavalry. Those are not the reinforcements for
21:16
Speaker 1: the Patriots. So, as a distant relative of Nostradamus and
21:21
Speaker 1: friend of Nostrodinas, he's a Mariner fan wh lives in
21:23
Speaker 1: Seattle and looking into the crystal Ball, All mighty crystal Ball.
21:28
Speaker 1: Two names, all right, two names. One of them is
21:31
Speaker 1: Jacoby Myers, an expat, and Chris Olave the other one.
21:35
Speaker 1: All right, So you've got draft space or draft capital.
21:38
Speaker 1: You have cap space. I'm a cap truther. You've got
21:43
Speaker 1: the available draft picks, so you've got that draft capital.
21:47
Speaker 1: You have a second year quarterback who's showing signs he
21:49
Speaker 1: actually knows what he's doing. Do not waste the rookie contract.
21:54
Speaker 1: The Crafts are notoriously cheap owners. They love the low
21:57
Speaker 1: ball people, and so take advantage of it rookie contract.
22:01
Speaker 1: Eventually you're gonna have to pay Drake May fifty million
22:04
Speaker 1: dollars a year. He's not making fifty million dollars a
22:07
Speaker 1: year right now. So if you're ever going to be aggressive,
22:11
Speaker 1: this would be the time to be aggressive. Fatten up
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Speaker 1: like a turkey before Thanksgiving. Go out and do it.
22:18
Speaker 1: While you've got this quarterback on the rookie contract and
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Speaker 1: you're playing all these tomato can teams, and you stack
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Speaker 1: the deck. You give him some more weapons. And Chris
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Speaker 1: Olave is a Ohio State guy. Mike Rabel got that
22:30
Speaker 1: Buckeye DNA, has a soft spot in his heart, his
22:34
Speaker 1: chiseled heart for Buckeyes. And Jacoby Myers, who's not flashy, solid,
22:42
Speaker 1: dependable nose, Josh McDaniels, the whole thing. So it is
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Speaker 1: So later this hour we are going to have too
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23:17
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23:26
Speaker 1: You're married, you have a question about your relationship hodelity,
23:30
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23:32
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23:35
Speaker 1: you go. If you need help there little pick me
23:38
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23:40
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23:43
Speaker 1: time for the Mallar Riddle of the Day. And here's
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Speaker 1: a legendary story in baseball pitcher you say, Kakuchi of
23:58
Speaker 1: the Angels told Japanese media that he wanted the Halos
24:03
Speaker 1: to fix Blank all season, but they never did Again,
24:07
Speaker 1: starting pitcher, you say, Kikuchi told Japanese media that he
24:12
Speaker 1: wanted the Angels to fix Blank all season, but they
24:15
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24:19
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25:39
Speaker 1: this hour. Yeall, me need a few more questions for
25:42
Speaker 1: that's got some new people on there hashtag Queen of Hearts.
25:47
Speaker 1: Now back to it all, right, back to where we go,
25:51
Speaker 1: and here's the Mallord Riddle of the day. And here
25:54
Speaker 1: it is. So this is the story. It's been bouncing
25:58
Speaker 1: around last last two days, and I thought it was
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Speaker 1: pretty funny if i'd be perfect for the real because
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Speaker 1: not everyone's seen it. So there's a starting pitcher named
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Speaker 1: you Say Kakuchi, who told Japanese media that he wanted
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Speaker 1: the angels to fix blank all season, but they never did.
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Speaker 1: That is the question. What is the answer? Does anyone
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Speaker 1: know it's just his name? I didn't. Let's see here
26:20
Speaker 1: said some Chris and Kent Washington said something about the
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Speaker 1: locker room bidets. Late night drug tester says he wanted
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Speaker 1: the rally monkey fix to prevent any burst all right,
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Speaker 1: see here. Lady Sideburn says, to fix the old no
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Speaker 1: legged barstool. Okay, and see Rulo got it right. Bad
26:39
Speaker 1: job by him. Ferkduck says the broken ice cream machine
26:42
Speaker 1: in the Angel clubhouse. That is the answer. Craig says,
26:46
Speaker 1: the answer is to fix his mental state. He pitched
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Speaker 1: better on the road than at home or some Angel
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Speaker 1: personnel problems. The TV yes by Donkey sausage. The clogged
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Speaker 1: shower drain for me, that is a that's a pain
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Speaker 1: in the ass, that clogged shower drain. Real real bummer,
27:05
Speaker 1: real real bummer. What else do we have? Sak Saki
27:09
Speaker 1: wine dispenser from Doug in South Korea? Who else do
27:14
Speaker 1: we have? Page down Shan O'Malley was guessed by Dirty Harry.
27:21
Speaker 1: There's people just throwing out random names here. Lorena, do
27:24
Speaker 1: you have an answer? Lorena? The Wi Fi was guessed
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Speaker 1: by courtesy flusher. I was gonna go with the zumba
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Speaker 1: bend zoomba? Is it zoomba?
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Speaker 2: No?
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Speaker 1: It is not Well. It turns out that the pitcher
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Speaker 1: starting pitcher, you say. Kikuchi told Japanese media he wanted
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Speaker 1: the angels to fix the air conditioning in the weight room,
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Speaker 1: which was broken all season. I guess they don't. They
27:51
Speaker 1: don't have a handyman there at the Big A. They
27:53
Speaker 1: don't have a handyman. And so apparently this guy would
27:56
Speaker 1: warm up in the weight room there was no air conditioning,
27:59
Speaker 1: and he would always get drenched in sweat, and he cleaned.
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Speaker 1: That's that's why he didn't pitch. Well. Apparently the Big A, Yeah,
28:06
Speaker 1: this is lack of an air conditioner there apparently was
28:09
Speaker 1: the problem. All right, here we go, here we go,
28:11
Speaker 1: Here we go, Here we go, Here we go, here
28:13
Speaker 1: we go, here we go. Not late. It's early on time,
28:20
Speaker 1: on time, malard by the clock, four the clock, all
28:22
Speaker 1: about the clock. So we have door number one and
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Speaker 1: door number two, Loraina, I will let you pick the
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Speaker 1: person who will play too much or not enough door
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Speaker 1: number one or door number number two. O, my god,
28:36
Speaker 1: not good.
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Speaker 5: Huh, chesting number one and said number one.
28:41
Speaker 1: You said number two, number two. Are you there, number
28:43
Speaker 1: door number two? Are you there, door number two? Oh no,
28:52
Speaker 1: this is your fault, Lorraina. I want the record to
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Speaker 1: show the way you gave me a warning. Ben, this
28:57
Speaker 1: is yours, I said, I keep it real just for you.
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Speaker 1: That's ironic. When you call up many people think your
29:06
Speaker 1: call is a number two, So it's fascinating. All right, Well,
29:09
Speaker 1: let's play the game right now. Here we go hollering James.
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Speaker 1: The most famous here's a fun fact. The most famous
29:16
Speaker 1: game show MOMMYE in the history of this show was
29:20
Speaker 1: hollering James. Do you remember, James, No, you don't remember
29:24
Speaker 1: because you were sleeping and you won the game.
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Speaker 6: I was.
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Speaker 5: In my own mind.
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Speaker 1: Question number one. Are you ready?
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Speaker 3: I am really and steady, but not to Betty.
29:45
Speaker 1: Yoshinobu Yamamoto became just the fourth Dodger player ever to
29:49
Speaker 1: pitch a complete game in the playoffs. Is that too
29:52
Speaker 1: much or not enough? Too much? All right, too much?
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Speaker 1: Let's find out that's correct. James. Yeah, he's only the
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Speaker 1: second to do so. Joining I am ready, Jose Lima,
30:12
Speaker 1: Jose Lima, you know who that.
30:13
Speaker 4: Was I can't dream of lima time.
30:20
Speaker 5: Yeah.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, he's been gone for a while. Question number two.
30:24
Speaker 1: Quarterbacks in the AFC West have thrown fifteen interceptions so
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Speaker 1: far this season. Is that too much or not enough?
30:37
Speaker 1: What do you all of a sudden the savant? Did
30:39
Speaker 1: you take smile out fire? Oh no, remember, Laura, you
30:46
Speaker 1: picked door number two. There was a very nice gentleman
30:50
Speaker 1: named Nick that wanted to play, but you picked door
30:52
Speaker 1: number two. Yeah, the answer is not enough. AFC West
30:56
Speaker 1: quarterbacks have thrown twenty interceptions this season. Ten of those
30:59
Speaker 1: belonged to you, you know, Smith of our Raiders. James,
31:07
Speaker 1: I'm wearing headphones. You're gonna give me a headache, all right,
31:11
Speaker 1: Question numbers in the morning. Question number three. Earlier this week,
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Speaker 1: Freddie Freeman hit the thirteenth go ahead home run in
31:19
Speaker 1: his postseason career. Is that too much or not enough?
31:23
Speaker 1: Too much? That's a way, James. It was Freddie Freeman's
31:33
Speaker 1: tenth postseason go ahead home run. That tis Jose Alboo
31:37
Speaker 1: for the motion in postseason history. Well, James, you got.
31:44
Speaker 4: I'm gonna Golden.
31:47
Speaker 1: Coop just gave Lorano high five. He's so excited. You
31:49
Speaker 1: got a golden take. Now you got two more questions
31:51
Speaker 1: to get another golden ticket? Are you ready? James?
31:54
Speaker 4: I be myself, Well, I want to do swell.
31:58
Speaker 5: Cammy's listening.
32:01
Speaker 1: There were eight players with one hundred and more receiving
32:03
Speaker 1: yards in Week six of the NFL. Is that too
32:05
Speaker 1: much or not enough?
32:09
Speaker 5: Cut it up, you.
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Speaker 1: Stupid, No, you can't say that, James. All right, hold
32:21
Speaker 1: you on. Hold James got to say gold The answer
32:23
Speaker 1: was too much. He said not enough. You didn't hear
32:25
Speaker 1: that because he cursed. You'll hear it on the podcast.
32:27
Speaker 1: There were six players with one hundred plus receiving yards.
32:30
Speaker 1: He got so lucky. He was just alternating his answers
32:32
Speaker 1: and he happened to find He found the rhythm, he
32:35
Speaker 1: found the pattern. He solved the Rubi's cube right there,
32:38
Speaker 1: hollowing James. I'll bet you James couldn't name any He
32:41
Speaker 1: couldn't tell you what teams these people played on, but
32:43
Speaker 1: he got the questions right. Anyway, James, you get a
32:46
Speaker 1: golden ticket. Congratulations, and we move on the Queen of
32:49
Speaker 1: Hearts with Lorraine. So I need some questions. You want
32:51
Speaker 1: to call up? Yes you are if you want to
32:53
Speaker 1: ask Lorrain a question on the air. You can call
32:55
Speaker 1: up if you want. There's a line open for you
32:57
Speaker 1: at eight seven, seven ninety nine on Fox Queen of Hearts.
33:00
Speaker 1: Also question hashtag Queen of Hearts on ex hashtag Queen
33:04
Speaker 1: of Hearts. We'll get to that and we will do
33:06
Speaker 1: it next.
33:09
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33:12
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33:15
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33:16
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Speaker 6: It's of it Bies with lit Rain at Tennis Clean
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Speaker 6: Up Hearts, don't wanna help you get right, get right tonight,
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Speaker 6: gear right tonight.
34:17
Speaker 1: Dear Rye.
34:20
Speaker 5: You heard the man. It's time for love here on
34:23
Speaker 5: the Ben Mallers Show. And you know, sometimes we like
34:27
Speaker 5: to start with a little snippet of love knowledge around here.
34:32
Speaker 1: Yeah, do you have something? Yes, you do have something.
34:35
Speaker 1: Rain has something here.
34:36
Speaker 5: Do not fall in love with figments of your imagination. Okay,
34:41
Speaker 5: the person on TV, the woman on the radio, she
34:45
Speaker 5: is not your soulmate. She's probably you probably wouldn't even
34:48
Speaker 5: get along on a regular basis.
34:51
Speaker 1: And you know what the line though, it's the magic
34:54
Speaker 1: of radio TV.
34:56
Speaker 5: But also when actually building a relationship with someone that
34:59
Speaker 5: you want to be with, you have to take time
35:01
Speaker 5: to get to know them right.
35:03
Speaker 1: Well, No, some guys don't, you know.
35:06
Speaker 5: And then they end up divorced and unhappy and with
35:08
Speaker 5: a child and you know, broken home. So don't do that.
35:12
Speaker 5: Take time to get to know your person in person.
35:14
Speaker 5: That's what I want to say. Yeah, unless you live
35:18
Speaker 5: a million miles away, and that's.
35:19
Speaker 1: What you like. Okay, qualifier on it. I got you.
35:23
Speaker 2: Uh.
35:23
Speaker 1: These are actual questions by actual listeners. Fir Dog writes
35:27
Speaker 1: in says, do women like it when men order for
35:30
Speaker 1: them at a restaurant. I always do. I saw a
35:33
Speaker 1: question there from I I hate ordering food, by the way.
35:41
Speaker 1: I I'd rather just cook it home and not have
35:43
Speaker 1: to order.
35:44
Speaker 4: Yeah.
35:44
Speaker 5: Well, I mean, if you know exactly what your woman
35:46
Speaker 5: likes to eat and she doesn't like to speak, that's
35:48
Speaker 5: one thing. But just it almost sounds controlling to me personally.
35:52
Speaker 1: Oh, look at you.
35:53
Speaker 5: She's going to have the salad. No, she doesn't want
35:57
Speaker 5: a vodkatonic. She'll take a wine, white wine. The red's
36:01
Speaker 5: gonna die your lips, honey. No, we'll take the white
36:03
Speaker 5: wine for her.
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Speaker 1: Is that right?
36:04
Speaker 5: Yeah, that's what it seems like to me.
36:06
Speaker 1: Okay, could be thoughtful. Can you've been in that situation before?
36:10
Speaker 1: I feel like there's a little personal reference there.
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Speaker 5: No, no, no, But this is just an idea.
36:14
Speaker 1: Just an idea. I one of your favorite callers here,
36:18
Speaker 1: Mike the Leprechaun, writes, and he says, would you frown
36:21
Speaker 1: upon a partner who can't do any handyman work around
36:24
Speaker 1: the house, the air conditioning, clogged toilets, et cetera, or
36:29
Speaker 1: even the bedroom? Yes?
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Speaker 5: Actually I do frown upon those things. I love it
36:36
Speaker 5: when a man can like fix things. It's so awesome.
36:41
Speaker 5: I used to have a huge crush on my manager
36:42
Speaker 5: at Red Robin because he would fix everything. And I'm like,
36:45
Speaker 5: that is so attractive. Was he good looking or no? No,
36:50
Speaker 5: not at all? Okay, all right, see there you go.
36:52
Speaker 5: If you're ugly, just be good at fixing. You can
36:53
Speaker 5: be good at other things. There's other things that you
36:55
Speaker 5: can find attractive about a person.
36:56
Speaker 1: It's not just all right, very nice. Let's take a call,
36:59
Speaker 1: and who else but Lucky Tony has called up from
37:02
Speaker 1: the Bay Area. What's up? He's always getting lucky hell.
37:05
Speaker 5: I saw some lucky pigeons when I was in the
37:07
Speaker 5: Bay Area. I was eating chowder on a deck and
37:10
Speaker 5: there was two pigeons getting it on right on the edge.
37:13
Speaker 1: Wow, what about the kids? What about the children? I got?
37:16
Speaker 1: Don't look, hello, Lucky Tony.
37:19
Speaker 4: Hillary Clinton, if you want to sing bear, I have
37:22
Speaker 4: a tom in Jersey.
37:25
Speaker 1: That was okay, right, I don't know this first time
37:31
Speaker 1: he's dropped Hillary Clinton's name here. All right.
37:35
Speaker 5: I did not have relations with that woman that was
37:39
Speaker 5: his mistress.
37:42
Speaker 1: A listener who was asked to have his name rect redacted.
37:45
Speaker 1: I guess we'll call him John Doe says that he
37:50
Speaker 1: is a starter to date a woman he likes a lot,
37:53
Speaker 1: but she's still texting her ex and he's a little
37:56
Speaker 1: concerned by that. Lorena, do you have any advice to
37:59
Speaker 1: the call him John Doe here. He's a little annoyed
38:03
Speaker 1: by that, say proceed with caution, buyer beware.
38:07
Speaker 5: Yeah you are. You are allowed to have relationships with
38:11
Speaker 5: your exes, but you need to know what level of
38:13
Speaker 5: playing field there on. Sometimes they were friends before they dated,
38:17
Speaker 5: so you can't take that away. Other times that friends
38:20
Speaker 5: still has some intentions and your girl could still have something.
38:27
Speaker 1: Well, you might be think the term is is it
38:30
Speaker 1: the rebound?
38:30
Speaker 2: Is that what?
38:31
Speaker 5: Yeah, you don't want to be the rebound?
38:32
Speaker 1: Well, sometimes you do want to be the rebound, but
38:34
Speaker 1: not if you're like into the person. You don't want
38:35
Speaker 1: to be the rebound because then you're that's not a
38:38
Speaker 1: good thing. Heart well hurt, That's that's not good at all.
38:40
Speaker 1: Late night drug tester says, is it bad taste to
38:43
Speaker 1: have a pool during the wedding reception or when the
38:48
Speaker 1: couple has their first kid or when they will get divorced,
38:52
Speaker 1: like an office pool? Like yeah, like the bet, like
38:56
Speaker 1: when they will end up get a div Yeah, that's
39:00
Speaker 1: actually pretty funny.
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Speaker 5: I think it's funny, and especially if it's like a
39:03
Speaker 5: toxic relationship and you know that they fight a lot,
39:05
Speaker 5: like I would totally do that on certain people that
39:08
Speaker 5: I know.
39:08
Speaker 1: Yeah, you know I used to do. That's a great bit.
39:12
Speaker 1: I did that, like on the radio show. We did
39:15
Speaker 1: that bit the Magic Johnson had this late night TV
39:18
Speaker 1: talk show when I was doing the Benedete Show, and
39:20
Speaker 1: I correct, I won the pool. We had a pool
39:22
Speaker 1: which day will the show be canceled with a terrible show?
39:25
Speaker 1: And and you actually I won. I nailed it and
39:28
Speaker 1: I and I never got paid my bounty. I'm still
39:31
Speaker 1: upset by that. Andy and Lionel Lakes Minnesota Rights since
39:34
Speaker 1: says Lorraina, My girlfriend has multiple personality disorder.
39:37
Speaker 5: Which one do you like the best?
39:39
Speaker 1: I guess in the one in the bedroom, things got
39:41
Speaker 1: a little heated the other night in the bedroom she
39:44
Speaker 1: got mad at me again. She's hollering my name. Well,
39:47
Speaker 1: I'm just terrible at names. Should I get her name tags?
39:52
Speaker 5: Oh uh no, you know what, just tattoo her name somewhere.
39:57
Speaker 1: That's a yeah, the name thing. I think, as you said,
40:00
Speaker 1: didn't say Lorena. The pet names are the way to go,
40:02
Speaker 1: so you don't mess the name.
40:04
Speaker 5: Baby, You don't got to worry about nothing, Honeybear.
40:06
Speaker 1: You sweet much at all. Sounds like you've been down
40:09
Speaker 1: sounds like you've been down that road. Hey, honeybun oh