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  Speaker 1: Thanks for listening to the best of the Ben Maller
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  Speaker 1: Show podcast. Be sure to catch us live every weeknight
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  Speaker 2: This is the best of the Ben Maller Show on
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  Speaker 2: Fox Sports Radio.
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  Speaker 1: Why are you talking baseball, Balor? I don't know, because
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  Speaker 1: the playoffs are going on. That's why. That would be why.
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  Speaker 1: So our lead story is out of the Bronx. It
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  Speaker 1: was a win or go home situation for the Boston
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  Speaker 1: baseball team against the New York baseball team in the
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  Speaker 1: wild card round. It is a best of three. So
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  Speaker 1: my computer-like brain tells me if you lost the first game,
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  Speaker 1: you then have to win the next two. I don't
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  Speaker 1: know if you watch this or not. I don't know
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  Speaker 1: what else you were doing. Maybe you were coughing up
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  Speaker 1: a furball. I have no idea. So you might have
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  Speaker 1: missed it. We watched it so you would not have to.
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  Speaker 1: We watched it so you would not have to, and
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  Speaker 1: we witnessed Yankee starter Max Freed hold the Red Sox
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  Speaker 1: to three hits over six innings, and he struck out six,
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  Speaker 1: walked one, and Cody Bellinger, a belly bomb for the Yankees.
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  Speaker 1: He drove in four runs, had a three-run meatball sub.
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  Speaker 1: that capped off a six-run explosion in the sixth inning.
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  Speaker 1: And the fat lady was singing, came over from Broadway,
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  Speaker 1: and she sang, Turn out the lights, the party's over.
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  Speaker 1: See you later, Boston. Luis Garcia Jr., very important we
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  Speaker 1: get the Jr. in there. He hit a dinger and
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  Speaker 1: had three hits. His first postseason start there with the Yankees,
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  Speaker 1: they got him. So New York advances. If you update
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  Speaker 1: your bracket and you can clearly see on the radio
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  Speaker 1: straighter here that the Yankees will face the champions of
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  Speaker 1: the AL East. We're guaranteed of getting an AL East
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  Speaker 1: team into the championship round, the American League Championship Series,
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  Speaker 1: as the Yankees will play. tampa bay so that'll be
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  Speaker 1: the match up there and that's most would agree that
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  Speaker 1: that is the the real alcs right that whoever the
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  Speaker 1: white socks we'll get to them in a minute day
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  Speaker 1: one they advanced and they they will play in the
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  Speaker 1: other side of the bracket but the real the jv
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  Speaker 1: is that side the varsity would be the yankees and
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  Speaker 1: the tampa bay rays in the divisional series that'll begin
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  Speaker 1: on saturday so boston While the Yankees are getting ready
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  Speaker 1: to play the Tampa Bay Rays, Boston will be facing
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  Speaker 1: off their next opponent. I looked at their schedule. They
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  Speaker 1: have sand traps and water hazards. That's who they're going
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  Speaker 1: up against at a golf course near you if you
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  Speaker 1: live in a very rich part of town because these
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  Speaker 1: guys are all loaded. They play baseball. Now, the better
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  Speaker 1: story is in the losing locker room. It is always
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  Speaker 1: in the losing locker room, and that is a good
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  Speaker 1: jumping off point. So let us discuss the questions. Where
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  Speaker 1: were the Red Sox supposed big bats when they needed
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  Speaker 1: them in the wild card round? We'll start with that
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  Speaker 1: because that seems to be the story here. My God,
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  Speaker 1: what the hell happened? Pathetic, pathetic, pathetic, pathetic, pathetic. So
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  Speaker 1: I've got picnic dinner, ambulance, and two-star hotel. And we'll
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  Speaker 1: put them all together, and we're going to steamroll. steamroll
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  Speaker 1: through this hour. That's what we're going to do. I'm
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  Speaker 1: telling you, we're going to steamroll. Don't question me. We're
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  Speaker 1: going to do it. All right, so A, the Red
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  Speaker 1: Sox lineup. We'll start with the offense. So the lineup
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  Speaker 1: turned into an airport vending machine when you've got about
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  Speaker 1: 30 minutes and you've got to go all the way
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  Speaker 1: across the airport. You're like in Terminal A-15 and you
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  Speaker 1: have to get to Terminal B-45. But you want a snack.
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  Speaker 1: So you go to the airport vending machine. So you
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  Speaker 1: go to the vending machine. and you put your last dollar,
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  Speaker 1: because for some reason it doesn't take the electric pay.
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  Speaker 1: So you put your last dollar in, and the vending machine,
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  Speaker 1: not only does it eat your dollar, it gives you nothing.
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  Speaker 1: That's what the Red Sox did. Boston hit apathetic. I thought,
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  Speaker 1: when I did the math on this list, I thought, well,
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  Speaker 1: maybe I'm wrong. You know, I'm using malware. The Red
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  Speaker 1: Sox hit 117 dollars. 117 against Yankee pitching with 18
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  Speaker 1: strikeouts in the series. They were outscored 18-2. It seemed
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  Speaker 1: like it was worse than that. The Red Sox hitters
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  Speaker 1: performed like NPCs. They were non-playable characters here. It was wild.
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  Speaker 1: Wild and crazy and, I mean, my God. Like, what
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  Speaker 1: are you doing? What on God's green earth? Seriously. It
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  Speaker 1: was insane. You thought at some point they'd start to hit,
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  Speaker 1: and maybe they will tomorrow, but that doesn't help them today.
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  Speaker 1: It does not help them at all. They treated the
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  Speaker 1: batter's box like airport security. Get in, get uncomfortable, and
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  Speaker 1: get the hell out. That's it. And Adley Rushman, the
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  Speaker 1: guy they picked up from Baltimore, known more as an
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  Speaker 1: offensive player than a defensive player, he hit one of
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  Speaker 1: eight in the series. Zidane Raffaella was 0 for 7.
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  Speaker 1: Roman Anthony 0 for 2. And Snap Crackle Pop, the
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  Speaker 1: second coming, the next great Red Sox hitter, who did
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  Speaker 1: look good early. But man, his career has taken a
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  Speaker 1: turn for the worse here this season. And just collectively,
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  Speaker 1: the message for the Red Sox is they sucked at
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  Speaker 1: a time you cannot suck. And over at Yankee Stadium,
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  Speaker 1: they enjoyed a nice picnic dinner. Normally people have picnic lunches,
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  Speaker 1: but they had a picnic dinner. They ate their panic sandwich.
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  Speaker 1: So they enjoyed that. They ordered a second panic sandwich,
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  Speaker 1: and then they washed it down with some juice. Now,
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  Speaker 1: was it grape juice? Was it apple juice?
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  Speaker 3: No, no, no.
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  Speaker 1: It was a very exotic juice. It was chokeberry juice.
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  Speaker 1: They enjoyed the chokeberry juice. They thought that was pretty good,
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  Speaker 1: so they had a lot of that. And meanwhile, the manager,
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  Speaker 1: Chad Tracy, needed the fast-acting tenactin because his player is
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  Speaker 1: suffering from a severe case of jock itch, a total
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  Speaker 1: collapse of the heart. for the Boston Red Sox, who
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  Speaker 1: had that magical carpet ride, proving there is no such
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  Speaker 1: thing as momentum, as they were exterminated now from the playoffs.
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  Speaker 1: Here's Chad Tracy, who was asked about what stands out,
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  Speaker 1: what's going to stand out about the 2026 chapter in
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  Speaker 1: Red Sox history. Take a listen.
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  Speaker 3: Remember this year, down the line.
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  Speaker 4: I mean, right now, it's regardless of all the special
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  Speaker 4: things that happened in the summer, and there was... quite
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  Speaker 4: a few, the goals to win the World Series, you know,
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  Speaker 4: and that ended for us tonight. So it's frustrating, and
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  Speaker 4: I don't, you know, there's a lot of things you
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  Speaker 4: can say, but in the moment right now, I think
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  Speaker 4: the guys only care that we lost, you know, and
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  Speaker 4: it's going to take some time to get over that.
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  Speaker 1: So at least it did sound like a morgue, and
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  Speaker 1: that is the losing locker room. You must sound like
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  Speaker 1: you're in a morgue. when you're in the losing locker. Now,
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  Speaker 1: Chad Tracy, this guy. Now, listen, I'm a little biased here.
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  Speaker 1: I knew his dad a bit back in the day,
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  Speaker 1: Jim Tracy, who managed the Dodgers and the Pirates and
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  Speaker 1: the Rockies. I'm a big fan of Jim Tracy, and
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  Speaker 1: I'm pulling for Chad Tracy. I really am. And I
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  Speaker 1: had said in a previous episode of the show, there's
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  Speaker 1: no way I would have given Chad Tracy a contract extension.
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  Speaker 1: until after the playoffs. The Red Sox already did that,
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  Speaker 1: so he got extended. He's going to be there next
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  Speaker 1: season unless the Red Sox buy him out, which is
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  Speaker 1: highly unlikely. So he got extended before the playoffs started
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  Speaker 1: as they had that dopamine hit from just making the
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  Speaker 1: playoffs after being 14 games under. 500 in Boston. And
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  Speaker 1: Chad Tracy's now being called out, and he's being called
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  Speaker 1: out for an issue that his dad had, the itchy
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  Speaker 1: trigger finger. And Tracy got a little too cute there.
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  Speaker 1: Chad Tracy with the bullpen. He micro-managed that Red Sox
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  Speaker 1: team into oblivion. Into oblivion. One of the questions that
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  Speaker 1: was raised, the Sonny Gray, who was not shut down great,
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  Speaker 1: but was pretty good. And he got yanked out of
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  Speaker 1: the game. And many of us watching said, well, it's
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  Speaker 1: the playoffs. You don't have to do that. This is
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  Speaker 1: not a game in June. You can leave him in there.
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  Speaker 1: And you'd rather have him in there. than some of
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  Speaker 1: the gas cans that come out of the bullpen. Anyway,
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  Speaker 1: here's Sonny Gray commenting on getting pulled a little prematurely.
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  Speaker 1: Take a listen.
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  Speaker 5: The best pitcher in the American League going through the
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  Speaker 5: order the third time. I think that's a fact. Yeah,
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  Speaker 5: I mean, I would have liked to live or die
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  Speaker 5: with me in that moment, but that's the competitor I am, and.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah, I think you can probably ask the guys, and
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  Speaker 5: they felt the same way. So I felt strong. I
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  Speaker 5: felt confident. I felt convicted. You know, I'm just going
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  Speaker 5: to put what you need to do, you know.
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  Speaker 1: All right, where's Sonny Gray there postgame as he said, hey, wait,
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  Speaker 1: put me in. I'm sorry, Sonny. Poindexter says you can't pitch. Poindexter,
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  Speaker 1: who's never picked up a baseball in his life, has
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  Speaker 1: determined you're not able to pitch. So, sorry. Go talk
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  Speaker 1: to Poindexter. Because he's got all the algorithms and all that. Sorry.
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  Speaker 1: By the way, the Boston Bullpen, out of the 18
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  Speaker 1: runs the Yankees scored, the Boston Bullpen gave up 15
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  Speaker 1: of the 18. Now, I did not play Major League Baseball.
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  Speaker 1: I am told that. is not good. I am told
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  Speaker 1: that is not good. Now, page two. To Houston. Oh, man.
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  Speaker 1: I am smiling from ear to ear. The Chicago White Sox.
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  Speaker 1: They were America's team this week. The Chi Sox. And
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  Speaker 1: they beat the 1-1-1-1-1-1-1-1-1-1-1-1-1-1-1-1-1-1-1-1-1-1-1-1-1-1-1-1-1-1-1-1-1-1-1-1-1-1-1-1-1-1-1-1-1-1-1-1-1-1-1-1-1-1-1-1-1-1-1-1-1-1-1-1-1-1-1-1-1-1-1-1-1-1-1-1-1-1-1-1-1-1-1-1-1-1-1-1-1-1-1-1-1-1-1-1-1-1-1-1-1-1-1-1-1-1-1-1-1-1-1-1- Series win since the 05 World Series.
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  Speaker 1: I was a little child back in 05. No, I
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  Speaker 1: was not working here unless I was. Chicago exploding for
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  Speaker 1: four runs in the first inning. And Hunter Brown now
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  Speaker 1: has plenty of time to go out and hunt. He
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  Speaker 1: was supposedly the ace, y'all told me, of the Astros
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  Speaker 1: pitching staff. Hunter Brown, and he got yanked after just
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  Speaker 1: two outs. That seems to suck. Houston also committed a
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  Speaker 1: couple of errors, and it was the great Chase, Chase Meidroth,
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  Speaker 1: who delivered the KO. Body blow, body blow, knockout punch
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  Speaker 1: for the Chi Sox. A three-run ding-dong of Brian Abreu
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  Speaker 1: there for the Chi Sox in the sixth inning to
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  Speaker 1: extend the lead to 7-3. So the White Sox have advanced.
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  Speaker 1: We told you that varsity is on one side of
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  Speaker 1: the bracket in the American League. Yankees and Rays, the
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  Speaker 1: junior varsity is the White Sox and the Cleveland Bridges.
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  Speaker 1: They're named after a bridge. They used to be called
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  Speaker 1: the Cleveland Indians, and then the Wokesters got involved, and
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  Speaker 1: so now they're named after a bridge. That is the
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  Speaker 1: AL Divisional Series. It begins on Saturday in northern Ohio.
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  Speaker 1: Tickets are available. The better story, though, is in the
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  Speaker 1: losing locker room. So here's the question. Here's the question.
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  Speaker 1: Is watching Houston get booed off the field at home...
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  Speaker 1: Baseball's version of comfort food. For the second consecutive game,
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  Speaker 1: they got booed at home. This is not just comfort food.
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  Speaker 1: This is a dino-sized helping of comfort food. Okay, we
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  Speaker 1: were overdosing on schadenfreude. I was a little groggy because
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  Speaker 1: this was a day game and I'm still trying to
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  Speaker 1: get my wits about me during the day. And I'd
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  Speaker 1: already watched the Braves and the Phillies, which is now
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  Speaker 1: that series is going to the final game. But this game,
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  Speaker 1: overdosing on schadenfreude, watching the a-holes implode. In fact, I
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  Speaker 1: almost needed an ambulance. I almost needed an ambulance for
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  Speaker 1: some medical attention. It was great. It was therapeutic. And
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  Speaker 1: every man, woman, and child, non-Houston baseball fan, enjoying every
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  Speaker 1: delicious ooey-gooey morsel, every second of them getting bounced. So
• 13:04
  Speaker 1: don't ever apologize. Now, so you shouldn't be like that. No,
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  Speaker 1: don't apologize for that, okay? Don't apologize for loving The
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  Speaker 1: a-holes getting kicked out of the playoffs. Sports hate is
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  Speaker 1: part of the entertainment package. And if it goes away,
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  Speaker 1: I'm out.
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  Speaker 3: I'm out.
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  Speaker 1: We used to have this guy named Jihadist John from Michigan.
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  Speaker 1: God love him. He was one of the big super
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  Speaker 1: fans of the show. Very active on the show. And
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  Speaker 1: he was beaten and broken as a sports fan. He
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  Speaker 1: got to the age of, this is years ago, got
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  Speaker 1: to the age of 40. Got to the age of 40.
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  Speaker 3: And he.
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  Speaker 1: He said since his teams didn't win, he just gave
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  Speaker 1: up sports. You know, like if you're religious, like you
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  Speaker 1: give up certain things for certain religious holidays. He gave
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  Speaker 1: up sports, and I haven't heard from him in probably
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  Speaker 1: 15 years. He just, that's it. He said, my teams
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  Speaker 1: don't win, and I'm done. I'm out. And he just quit.
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  Speaker 1: But never give up. Never give up on the, it's
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  Speaker 1: just wonderful. Sports hate is the greatest kind of hate.
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  Speaker 1: We should get rid of all other hate and just
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  Speaker 1: have sports hate. The world would be great. When I
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  Speaker 1: become a deity, that'll be my thing. Nobody will be
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  Speaker 1: allowed to hate anyone other than sports teams. That's the
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  Speaker 1: way to do it. Perfect. You know, of course, it's
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  Speaker 1: just contained sports hate. My God. But that's part of
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  Speaker 1: the entertainment. What a perfect ending for that little cheatin' pipsqueak,
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  Speaker 1: Jose Albuve, the conductor of the Trash Can Marching Band
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  Speaker 1: back in the day. No, we have not forgotten. And
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  Speaker 1: to think that franchise went from banging on trash cans
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  Speaker 1: to being tossed into a trash can by their own
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  Speaker 1: fan base. They're the worst team ever to make the postseason.
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  Speaker 1: Didn't have a winning record. Their home field advantage is
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  Speaker 1: now a Groupon nobody wants to redeem at this particular point.
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  Speaker 1: They've dropped, I saw this, nine straight postseason home games.
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  Speaker 1: It turns out that winning at home isn't so easy
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  Speaker 1: without the contraband that they were using back in the day.
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  Speaker 1: It was extra delicious. It was, I cannot stress this enough,
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  Speaker 1: how delicious it was. Hearing the hometown fan base serenade
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  Speaker 1: the ass, 1,000 to 1,000 holes, with Boo Flat. Like
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  Speaker 1: the Greek symbol, you know that symbol of the snake
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  Speaker 1: eating its tail? That's what's happening now with the Astros.
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  Speaker 1: They're done. Dun-da-dun-dun-dun! Ah, so great. All right, last word.
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  Speaker 1: Late game. San Diego, we go. The Padres have eliminated
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  Speaker 1: the Cubbies.
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  Speaker 3: They're out.
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  Speaker 1: Now, 4-1, the final. San Diego wins the late game,
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  Speaker 1: and they complete the mini two-game sweep-a-roo in the NL
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  Speaker 1: Wild Card Series. Gavin Sheets with the big haymaker coming
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  Speaker 1: off the bench. He had a two-run run. knock uh
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  Speaker 1: homer moonshot whatever you want to call it there and
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  Speaker 1: that was the big hit san diego pitching yet again
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  Speaker 1: twisting the chicago cub hitters into a nice soft pretzel
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  Speaker 1: there five padre pitchers combined to hold the cubs to
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  Speaker 1: just five hits in game two it was boring the
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  Speaker 1: fans seem to be loving it in san diego my
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  Speaker 1: My old town there, I worked at San Diego Radio
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  Speaker 1: back in there. Because when I was there, the Padres,
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  Speaker 1: nobody cared about the Padres. When I worked in San Diego,
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  Speaker 1: they had a fire sale every couple of years. I
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  Speaker 1: used to go out to Jack Murphy Stadium in San Diego.
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  Speaker 1: And I'd buy the cheapest ticket, which was out in
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  Speaker 1: the outfield, the top part there. And I'd sit. By
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  Speaker 1: the second inning, I'd go to those businessman specials, they
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  Speaker 1: used to call them. And I'd be sitting behind whatever
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  Speaker 1: dugout I wanted. Because nobody cared about the Padres. And
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  Speaker 1: I'd be watching Bip Roberts and players like that. And
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  Speaker 1: now you look at it, it's like, Mike, they're the
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  Speaker 1: only game in town. I was talking to one of
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  Speaker 1: my buddies from San Diego. I was like, can you believe?
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  Speaker 1: Back in the day, at one point, they had an
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  Speaker 1: NBA team. The Chargers were there. Should still be in
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  Speaker 1: San Diego. And now it's just the Padres. But anyway, listen. Nonetheless,
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  Speaker 1: the Pod squad now advanced to play the Brew Crew
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  Speaker 1: in the NLDS starting this weekend. The better story, though,
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  Speaker 1: is in the losing locker room. So the question. How
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  Speaker 1: demoralizing is this playoff flop-a-roo for the Cubs? He's getting
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  Speaker 1: swept in this little two-game series. So the Cubs invested
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  Speaker 1: a fair amount with manager Craig Council, who I believe
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  Speaker 1: is making big boy money still as the Cubs manager.
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  Speaker 1: And they invested in some of their younger players, gave
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  Speaker 1: them contracts. And the Cubs right now, only to watch
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  Speaker 1: that offense ride the vomit comet straight into the postseason oblivion.
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  Speaker 1: which is where they are right now. And look, sometimes
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  Speaker 1: you're the dog, like our friend Andre's dog, Willis, back
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  Speaker 1: in the Commonwealth. Sometimes you're the dog, and sometimes you're
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  Speaker 1: the fire hydrant. And we all know the role the
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  Speaker 1: Cubs played, swinging like they had been tranquilized. Did they
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  Speaker 1: have too many fish tacos in San Diego? What happened?
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  Speaker 1: Were they out in Pacific Beach too much? Where did
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  Speaker 1: they go? I don't know. So the San Diego pitching
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  Speaker 1: staff treating the Chicago lineup Like the complimentary breakfast at
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  Speaker 1: a bed bug infested two-star hotel.
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  Speaker 3: Ew.
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  Speaker 1: I don't think they have those in San Diego. At
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  Speaker 1: least not in the good part. Probably if you go
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  Speaker 1: outside San.
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  Speaker 3: Diego, they have those.
• 18:27
  Speaker 1: But absolutely nothing. I'll have to check Hotel Circle to
• 18:29
  Speaker 1: see all the hotels down there. But absolutely nothing to fear.
• 18:32
  Speaker 1: The cubbies were flummoxed, flustered, flattened, and finally flushed by
• 18:39
  Speaker 1: the Padres. So there you go. And by the way,
• 18:42
  Speaker 1: how do you lead Major League Baseball in runs and
• 18:45
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• 18:48
  Speaker 1: eight measly hits? All of them, I think seven of
• 18:51
  Speaker 1: them were singles, or I think seven of the eight
• 18:53
  Speaker 1: were singles there, over 18 innings of baseball. And, well,
• 18:59
  Speaker 1: the Komodo dragon in the room, of course, is Pete
• 19:03
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• 19:08
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• 19:13
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• 19:14
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• 19:16
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• 19:20
  Speaker 1: was a jag in this two-game set. Just another guy.
• 19:25
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• 19:29
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• 19:47
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• 19:49
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• 19:52
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• 19:55
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• 19:57
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• 20:02
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• 21:14
  Speaker 1: Oh, boy, we got a humdinger of a story. Humdinger
• 21:17
  Speaker 1: of a story. Our lead from the NFL headquarters on
• 21:20
  Speaker 1: Park Avenue. That is where someone, some blowhard, some jabroni
• 21:25
  Speaker 1: at the NFL reached out, reached out to Ram coach
• 21:29
  Speaker 1: Sean McVay. and said, hey, Sean, we want to let
• 21:34
  Speaker 1: you know, yeah, you know that defensive pass interference that
• 21:37
  Speaker 1: looked fugazi, that call on your defensive back, Josh Wallace? Yeah,
• 21:42
  Speaker 1: we got that one wrong.
• 21:44
  Speaker 3: What?
• 21:45
  Speaker 1: Yes, did you see this? I'm not making this up.
• 21:49
  Speaker 1: I'm not making this up. Maybe you missed it. So
• 21:51
  Speaker 1: that play, if you did not watch the Sunday night game,
• 21:55
  Speaker 1: that penalty decided the game, decided the game. It wiped out.
• 22:02
  Speaker 1: An interception by Josh Wallace of the Rams with a
• 22:05
  Speaker 1: minute nine left in the clock. The Rams leading Denver
• 22:09
  Speaker 1: by a field goal without the flag. The Rams run
• 22:13
  Speaker 1: the clock out, and that's it. Na, na, na, na, hey, hey, goodbye.
• 22:18
  Speaker 1: But instead, some Rocky Mountain-loving referee gave Denver a first
• 22:24
  Speaker 1: and goal to go, keeping the drive alive. And eventually,
• 22:28
  Speaker 1: Broncos quarterback Bo Nix scored a bogus touchdown. as the
• 22:34
  Speaker 1: Broncos walked away with the shadiest W of the NFL season,
• 22:39
  Speaker 1: and that is a good jumping-off point. So let us discuss.
• 22:43
  Speaker 1: So here's the question. It turns out that the league, again,
• 22:47
  Speaker 1: for those of you a little slow in the back room,
• 22:48
  Speaker 1: the league has admitted the Rams got hosed. The refs
• 22:53
  Speaker 1: botched the defensive pass interference call in Denver. Is the
• 22:58
  Speaker 1: NFL's admission... their confession to Sean McVay, a big deal,
• 23:03
  Speaker 1: a little deal or a nothing burger.
• 23:06
  Speaker 3: All right.
• 23:07
  Speaker 1: So I've got on this one, I've got buttered popcorn.
• 23:11
  Speaker 1: We've got motel six and spaghetti Western, and we'll combine
• 23:18
  Speaker 1: all of these things together. And we are going to
• 23:22
  Speaker 1: fold up like a cheap tent, which is what the
• 23:25
  Speaker 1: NFL referees did when the game was on the line. So,
• 23:30
  Speaker 1: To answer the question, is the NFL's confession, their admission
• 23:35
  Speaker 1: to Sean McVay, a big deal, little deal, or a
• 23:37
  Speaker 1: nothing burger? Well, number one!
• 23:42
  Speaker 3: Number one!
• 23:42
  Speaker 1: It is not a big deal. It is not a
• 23:45
  Speaker 1: little deal. It is not a nothing burger. It is
• 23:47
  Speaker 1: a wish sandwich. Rubber biscuit style. You got a kind
• 23:51
  Speaker 1: of sandwich where you take two pieces of bread and
• 23:53
  Speaker 1: you wish... You had some meat, or in this case,
• 23:57
  Speaker 1: some balls to make the right call. And that's what
• 24:00
  Speaker 1: the NFL handed Sean McVay, a wish sandwich, a bucket
• 24:04
  Speaker 1: of buttered popcorn, and a ticket to the Kabuki Theater.
• 24:10
  Speaker 1: It's the public relations cabaret of the NFL. So how
• 24:15
  Speaker 1: great is that? You get the my bad statement, the
• 24:18
  Speaker 1: my bad statement days later, which, oh, by the way,
• 24:23
  Speaker 1: is not accountability. It is not accountability. It's being robbed
• 24:28
  Speaker 1: and receiving a handwritten note from the burglar. Yeah, that's
• 24:33
  Speaker 1: what you got. So, OK, well, I robbed you, but
• 24:34
  Speaker 1: I got I got a note here. I really needed
• 24:36
  Speaker 1: the money more than you. So we got it wrong.
• 24:40
  Speaker 1: Mazel tov. We got it wrong. What a spectacularly useless
• 24:44
  Speaker 1: admission that is. The NFL, just like big time college football, toothless, toothless.
• 24:51
  Speaker 1: So we all knew they effed up the call right away.
• 24:55
  Speaker 7: Right?
• 24:55
  Speaker 1: We all knew it. McVay doesn't need an apology. He
• 24:59
  Speaker 1: needed the official to take off his Bronco shirt and
• 25:02
  Speaker 1: put on an actual officiating shirt and keep the frickin'
• 25:06
  Speaker 1: flag in your pocket, buddy. Dum-dum. So the NFL investigated itself.
• 25:12
  Speaker 1: It then sentenced itself to absolutely nothing. Sounds like the government.
• 25:20
  Speaker 1: They just gave Sean McVay a shoulder shrug.
• 25:23
  Speaker 8: Right?
• 25:24
  Speaker 1: What do you want us to do? We screwed you over.
• 25:27
  Speaker 1: So the good news is now the Rams can have
• 25:28
  Speaker 1: dinner with the coaching staff at Western Michigan, and they
• 25:32
  Speaker 1: can trade notes on how it feels to be absolutely
• 25:34
  Speaker 1: porked out of a win. So the NFL is not
• 25:37
  Speaker 1: fixing this. They are not. The Broncos, you have to
• 25:42
  Speaker 1: downgrade them on your little dumb power rankings and all that.
• 25:45
  Speaker 1: The Rams got to host. And if I'm a Bronco fan,
• 25:47
  Speaker 1: I'm puking in my mouth right now. I'm embarrassed as
• 25:50
  Speaker 1: a Bronco fan, in shame. I have my tail between
• 25:52
  Speaker 1: my legs, and I'm sulking and puking in my mouth.
• 25:57
  Speaker 1: How bad that feels. Just horrific. And this is the
• 26:00
  Speaker 1: second consecutive year. The second consecutive year the NFL is
• 26:05
  Speaker 1: out to get their Rams. What did the Rams do?
• 26:08
  Speaker 1: other than try to get all the good players. Last
• 26:10
  Speaker 1: year in Seattle, the bogus two-point conversion where the play
• 26:15
  Speaker 1: had ended, everyone stopped, and then they just awarded Seattle
• 26:19
  Speaker 1: a two-point conversion, which was ridiculous, right? Everyone knows that.
• 26:22
  Speaker 1: That was an injustice. And here we go again. At
• 26:25
  Speaker 1: least this was early in the year as opposed to
• 26:27
  Speaker 1: late in the year. It's like try to pick which
• 26:30
  Speaker 1: time the NFL screwed the Rams. Eeny, meeny, miny, moe.
• 26:33
  Speaker 1: You've got a lot to pick from. All right, meanwhile,
• 26:36
  Speaker 1: to TV land we go. where Amazon, Amazon Prime Video
• 26:41
  Speaker 1: has extended Herbie, and we assume his dog, Kirk Herbstreet,
• 26:47
  Speaker 1: as its Thursday night football analyst for multiple seasons. How
• 26:53
  Speaker 1: much do you think Kirk Herbstreet's getting to do a
• 26:56
  Speaker 1: marginal job on Thursday night NFL football with Al Michaels?
• 26:59
  Speaker 1: What do you think? You think he's getting like $ 3
• 27:01
  Speaker 1: million a year? What do you think, $ 5 million? $ 7 million?
• 27:06
  Speaker 1: You think he's getting $ 7 million? All right, reveal answers,
• 27:09
  Speaker 1: reveal answers. The answer, no, none of the above. These
• 27:15
  Speaker 1: dum-dums at Amazon are paying Herbstreet $ 10 million per year.
• 27:19
  Speaker 1: He's a college football guy pretending to be an NFL broadcaster,
• 27:22
  Speaker 1: and he's getting $ 10 million a year. Can we lower
• 27:26
  Speaker 1: that salary and then lower the cost of Amazon Prime?
• 27:29
  Speaker 1: Does anyone say no to that? Like, I'm pretty sure
• 27:33
  Speaker 1: you could put my fat ass in there for $ 5
• 27:36
  Speaker 1: million a year, you'd save $ 5 million, and nobody would notice.
• 27:41
  Speaker 1: And I wouldn't bring my dog Moxie with me when
• 27:43
  Speaker 1: I'm traveling around, unlike Herbstreet, who can't go anywhere without
• 27:46
  Speaker 1: his stupid dog. Anyway, the new contract is supposedly shorter
• 27:51
  Speaker 1: than the original deal that he signed. This is where
• 27:53
  Speaker 1: the meat of the story is. So it's a shorter deal.
• 27:58
  Speaker 1: The exact length is unknown. Now, the Sports business nerds
• 28:02
  Speaker 1: who have chubbies for this kind of stuff. Amazon has
• 28:06
  Speaker 1: flexibility to get rid of Herbstreet if a preferred replacement
• 28:13
  Speaker 1: becomes available. Who do you think that is? You want
• 28:17
  Speaker 1: to take a guess? Yeah, that's right. It's Sean McVay.
• 28:23
  Speaker 1: They signed Herbstreet hoping that McVay will eventually replace him.
• 28:29
  Speaker 1: in the Thursday night booth. So the question, what are
• 28:33
  Speaker 1: the odds that Sean McVay ends up leaving the Rams
• 28:38
  Speaker 1: for Amazon's NFL package, their television package, on Thursday night?
• 28:44
  Speaker 1: So the Maller official odds, the Maller sportsbook odds, these
• 28:49
  Speaker 1: are not DraftKings odds, these are Maller sportsbook odds, that
• 28:53
  Speaker 1: is plus 300. That implies there's a 25% chance that
• 28:58
  Speaker 1: this happens. That's a 250 hitter in baseball. Now, Amazon
• 29:02
  Speaker 1: continues to have this schoolboy crush on Sean McVay. He
• 29:08
  Speaker 1: is the Moby Dick of NFL broadcasting. They've got their
• 29:12
  Speaker 1: whaling boat fueled up there over at Amazon. They've got
• 29:15
  Speaker 1: the harpoon polished, and they're just waiting for Moby McVay
• 29:19
  Speaker 1: to surface. And they're like, hey, that's our guy. Now,
• 29:23
  Speaker 1: McVay already turned down $ 100 million in back in 2022
• 29:28
  Speaker 1: when he was ready to quit the rams and supposedly
• 29:31
  Speaker 1: still has a standing offer it's going to be more
• 29:33
  Speaker 1: than $ 100 million now because of inflation. Enter Kirk Herbstreit.
• 29:39
  Speaker 1: So Herbie, he's pulling down $ 10 million a year. He's
• 29:43
  Speaker 1: got dental, and he gets to keep the chair warm
• 29:47
  Speaker 1: for a guy who isn't even in the building. This
• 29:50
  Speaker 1: is the ultimate temp job. I always thought that Cleveland
• 29:53
  Speaker 1: Brown's coaching job was the ultimate temp job. This is
• 29:55
  Speaker 1: a pretty good temp job. And only in television. This
• 29:59
  Speaker 1: doesn't happen in radio. But only in sports television can
• 30:02
  Speaker 1: you make $ 10 million a year and still be somebody's
• 30:07
  Speaker 1: plan B, like the backup plan. Now, Amazon is essentially
• 30:12
  Speaker 1: telling Sean McVay, listen, we were big fans of Tom Bodette,
• 30:17
  Speaker 1: and we loved those old Motel 6 commercials back in
• 30:20
  Speaker 1: the day. So, Sean McVay, wherever you are, we'll leave
• 30:25
  Speaker 1: the light on for you. That's it. We'll leave the
• 30:27
  Speaker 1: light on for you. So if the Rams post a
• 30:30
  Speaker 1: bad season, if this thing goes sideways and the NFL
• 30:34
  Speaker 1: is trying to screw them over, they already gave a
• 30:36
  Speaker 1: win that should have been the Rams to the Broncos.
• 30:38
  Speaker 1: Great injustice there. Second consecutive year, the Rams have been
• 30:41
  Speaker 1: denied a victory. So Amazon executives, if the Rams go
• 30:46
  Speaker 1: sideways or if they win the Super Bowl, either way,
• 30:48
  Speaker 1: Amazon executives will be circling SoFi Stadium in the hood
• 30:52
  Speaker 1: in Inglewood. Like they're over at LAX and the guys
• 30:55
  Speaker 1: in the Cadillac Escalades, limo drivers that are waiting for someone.
• 30:59
  Speaker 1: They're waiting for McVeigh. They're waiting for McVeigh is what
• 31:01
  Speaker 1: they're doing. They're going round and round and round and
• 31:04
  Speaker 1: round and round and round and round. All right, final point.
• 31:07
  Speaker 1: To Nashville, where the country music is good and the
• 31:12
  Speaker 1: football is bad. Bad, bad, bad, bad, bad, bad, bad.
• 31:18
  Speaker 1: And there's a sidebar element to this. So the Tennessee
• 31:21
  Speaker 1: Titans were in position to beat the Giants until they
• 31:23
  Speaker 1: asked Cam Ward to make a play, and then he
• 31:26
  Speaker 1: pooped his diaper. It did not go well. Threw the
• 31:29
  Speaker 1: ball to the other team, which would have been great
• 31:31
  Speaker 1: if he hadn't done that and they had won the
• 31:34
  Speaker 1: game anyway. So Titans quarterback Cam Ward addressing the snuffleupagus
• 31:39
  Speaker 1: in the room, threatening social media messages, targeting his family,
• 31:45
  Speaker 1: His family after his sister publicly revealed the messages from
• 31:50
  Speaker 1: angry nut job fans. Well, here is I haven't told
• 31:55
  Speaker 1: we have this. So rather than me pretend to be
• 31:57
  Speaker 1: Cam Ward, here is the man that gave the greatest
• 31:59
  Speaker 1: quote we've seen in recent years when he talked about
• 32:01
  Speaker 1: the Tennessee Titans offense and said, we ask. Here is
• 32:04
  Speaker 1: Cam Ward commenting on people sending nasty messages his way.
• 32:09
  Speaker 1: Let's take a listen.
• 32:10
  Speaker 8: I mean, at the end of the day, people are weird.
• 32:13
  Speaker 8: They can say whatever they want at the end of
• 32:15
  Speaker 8: the day. But I think football will take care of
• 32:17
  Speaker 8: a lot of it. You know, my family know the
• 32:19
  Speaker 8: position I'm in. And, you know, they know, you know,
• 32:22
  Speaker 8: what I wanted, you know, my whole life. They're in
• 32:24
  Speaker 8: this position as well with me. And at the end
• 32:26
  Speaker 8: of the day, you know, we all, you know, take
• 32:28
  Speaker 8: within ourselves, not only myself, but every guy in the
• 32:30
  Speaker 8: locker room who's going.
• 32:31
  Speaker 3: To go through adversity at some point.
• 32:33
  Speaker 8: And, you know, at the end of the day, you
• 32:34
  Speaker 8: just got to continue to prepare the same way, continue
• 32:37
  Speaker 8: to stay the same person. You can never get too high,
• 32:40
  Speaker 8: never get too low. At the end of the day,
• 32:42
  Speaker 8: you make plays on the football field. Everything else handles itself.
• 32:47
  Speaker 1: Boy, he's been reading sportscliché. com. What about the start of
• 32:50
  Speaker 1: the day, Cam? How many times did he say at
• 32:52
  Speaker 1: the end of the day? At least three? How long
• 32:56
  Speaker 1: is that sound bite? We might have to play that again.
• 32:58
  Speaker 1: 34 seconds. 34 seconds.
• 33:00
  Speaker 3: All right.
• 33:01
  Speaker 1: How many times do you think he said at the
• 33:02
  Speaker 1: end of the day? At least three. Probably four? How
• 33:05
  Speaker 1: many times did he say um? Yeah, um too. All right,
• 33:08
  Speaker 1: so let's see here. Let's bet. How many ums did
• 33:14
  Speaker 1: Cam Ward say? Let's do a round robin bet here.
• 33:16
  Speaker 1: I'm going to say in 34 seconds Cam Ward said
• 33:21
  Speaker 1: um nine times. Anybody wanting on that? I was going
• 33:26
  Speaker 1: to say eight. Okay, so we're close.
• 33:28
  Speaker 3: Lorena?
• 33:29
  Speaker 7: I'm going to go with 12.
• 33:33
  Speaker 1: Well, at least you didn't completely box me in and
• 33:35
  Speaker 1: say 10. So I thank you for that. I appreciate that.
• 33:37
  Speaker 3: All right. So we're going to go.
• 33:38
  Speaker 1: I'm saying nine. Coop says eight. We'll just do the
• 33:41
  Speaker 1: ums this time, and then we'll count at the end
• 33:43
  Speaker 1: of the day. But this is just the ums. Let's count.
• 33:45
  Speaker 1: Play along here as you listen. Here is Cam Ward,
• 33:47
  Speaker 1: professional football player, quarterback for the Tennessee Titans, and a
• 33:52
  Speaker 1: wonderful orator. Let's take a listen.
• 33:54
  Speaker 8: I mean, at the end of the day, people are weird.
• 33:57
  Speaker 8: They can say whatever they want at the end of
• 33:59
  Speaker 8: the day. But I think football will take care of
• 34:01
  Speaker 8: a lot of it. My family knows the position I'm in,
• 34:04
  Speaker 8: and they know what I want it.
• 34:07
  Speaker 3: You know, my whole life. They're in this position as
• 34:09
  Speaker 3: well with me.
• 34:10
  Speaker 8: At the end of the day, you know, we all,
• 34:11
  Speaker 8: you know, take within ourselves, not only myself, but every
• 34:14
  Speaker 8: guy in the locker room who's going to.
• 34:15
  Speaker 3: Go through adversity at some point.
• 34:17
  Speaker 8: And, you know, at the end of the day, you
• 34:18
  Speaker 8: just got to continue to, you know, prepare the same way,
• 34:20
  Speaker 8: continue to, you know, stay the same person.
• 34:23
  Speaker 3: You can never get too high, never get too low.
• 34:24
  Speaker 8: And at the end of the day, I mean, you
• 34:26
  Speaker 8: make plays on the football field, everything else, you know,
• 34:28
  Speaker 8: handles itself.
• 34:29
  Speaker 1: Oh, I won!
• 34:31
  Speaker 3: I won! I win!
• 34:33
  Speaker 1: I do want to point out, I had nine written down.
• 34:35
  Speaker 3: What do I win?
• 34:36
  Speaker 1: Do I get a golden ticket?
• 34:37
  Speaker 9: You get a golden ticket, Ben.
• 34:38
  Speaker 1: I get a golden ticket! I get a golden ticket!
• 34:40
  Speaker 1: I get a golden ticket! I get a golden ticket! Oh,
• 34:44
  Speaker 1: that's great. And I didn't cheat or anything. I just thought.
• 34:50
  Speaker 3: It was.
• 34:50
  Speaker 1: Because he normally does. No, I don't cheat. I'm just saying.
• 34:55
  Speaker 1: I'm just saying. Surprised when he actually gets it. All right. Well,
• 35:01
  Speaker 1: do we even need to play it again to do
• 35:03
  Speaker 1: the at the end of the day? I think he
• 35:05
  Speaker 1: said like three times. I think it might have been four.
• 35:08
  Speaker 7: I'm going to go for it.
• 35:10
  Speaker 1: All right, play it one more time. Let's go. Here
• 35:12
  Speaker 1: we go. Cam Ward, one more time.
• 35:13
  Speaker 8: I mean, at the end of the day, people are weird.
• 35:16
  Speaker 8: They can say whatever they want at the end of
• 35:18
  Speaker 8: the day. But I think football will take care of
• 35:20
  Speaker 8: a lot of it. You know, my family know the
• 35:22
  Speaker 8: position I'm in. And, you know, they know, you know,
• 35:26
  Speaker 8: what I wanted, you know, my whole life. They're in
• 35:28
  Speaker 8: this position as well with me. And at the end
• 35:30
  Speaker 8: of the day, you know, we all, you know, take
• 35:31
  Speaker 8: within ourselves, not only myself, but every guy in the
• 35:34
  Speaker 8: locker room who's going to.
• 35:34
  Speaker 3: Go through adversity at some point.
• 35:36
  Speaker 8: And, you know, at the end of the day, you
• 35:38
  Speaker 8: just got to continue– you know prepare the same way
• 35:40
  Speaker 8: continue to you know stay the same person um you
• 35:42
  Speaker 8: can never get too high never get too low um
• 35:44
  Speaker 8: and at the end of the day i mean you
• 35:45
  Speaker 8: make oh.
• 35:46
  Speaker 1: Man oh no oh all right well there you go
• 35:55
  Speaker 1: there's cam ward it's a lot of end of the
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  Speaker 1: days though a lot of ums and end of the
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  Speaker 1: days you can never get too high or too.
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  Speaker 9: Low If you cut all those out, that might have
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  Speaker 9: been a 10 second soundbite.
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  Speaker 1: That's the spokesman. That's the face of the Tennessee Titans
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  Speaker 1: right there. That's your CEO. Oh, my God. All right.
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  Speaker 1: It would be fine if he was good at football,
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  Speaker 1: but he sucks at that, too. So the question you
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  Speaker 1: got Titans quarterback Cam Ward saying people are weird for
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  Speaker 1: threatening his family online. How do you react to this one?
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  Speaker 3: So.
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  Speaker 1: Man alive. Look, when Titans quarterback Cam Ward calls people weird...
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  Speaker 1: It's actually, by the way, the song is People Are
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  Speaker 1: Strange from The Doors. It's an old song, People Are Strange.
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  Speaker 1: And sending online threats, he's missing the point. Social media
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  Speaker 1: is like a spaghetti western. It's the wild, wild west
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  Speaker 1: is what it is. Except every cowboy is hiding behind
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  Speaker 1: an anime avatar.
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  Speaker 2: Apparently.
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  Speaker 1: His family, I guess his sister just discovered the Internet
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  Speaker 1: contains unpleasant people. If you really want to find out
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  Speaker 1: how unpleasant, do a daily talk show where you point
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  Speaker 1: out certain teams are frauds and see middle-aged and old
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  Speaker 1: Raider fans, for example, lose their lunch because they're a
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  Speaker 1: bunch of morons. Anyway, listen, stop the presses. Stop the presses.
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  Speaker 1: Back in the day, the village idiot had to physically
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  Speaker 1: leave the village to bother you. There was a time.
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  Speaker 1: There was a time. Now, the internet has given every
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  Speaker 1: village idiot international distribution. They can literally distribute their bull
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  Speaker 1: crap everywhere. And dumb people, extra dumb people, pay attention
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  Speaker 1: to the village idiot. They're like, oh, we must listen
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  Speaker 1: to the village idiot.
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  Speaker 3: No! For hundreds of.
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  Speaker 1: Years, no one listened to the village idiot because.
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  Speaker 3: They were the idiot.
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  Speaker 1: Now you're listening to the idiot. Why are you listening
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  Speaker 1: to the idiot? Don't listen to the idiot! These trolls
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  Speaker 1: are just fishing for attention. They have no life. They're losers.
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  Speaker 1: So by putting this out there, you're encouraging more of
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  Speaker 1: this kind of activity. Ergo, what is the old line?
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  Speaker 1: Don't feed the trolls. Don't do it. Feeding the trolls
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  Speaker 1: creates more trolls. Kind of like the gremlins. Don't feed
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  Speaker 1: the gremlins after midnight. Don't, the water thing, all that.
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  Speaker 1: You don't have to leave the digital front door open.
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  Speaker 1: And you can turn off your DMs. It takes five seconds.
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  Speaker 1: Problem is dramatically reduced. And sure, you cannot fix stupid.
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  Speaker 1: There is no way to fix stupid. But, fortunately, you
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  Speaker 1: can block stupid. So that's a good thing. You can
• 38:32
  Speaker 1: block stupid, and that's the way to go.
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  Speaker 9: It's Maller.
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  Speaker 1: How about that?
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  Speaker 2: To the third degree.
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  Speaker 3: Are you ready?
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  Speaker 8: This.
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  Speaker 1: Yes.
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  Speaker 3: Oh, my gosh.
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  Speaker 7: I totally forgot.
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  Speaker 9: It's just not what I'm used to anymore.
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  Speaker 3: Sorry.
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  Speaker 1: Hold on a second. Let me get this one.
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  Speaker 9: It's all right.
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  Speaker 1: Well, we don't have time.
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  Speaker 7: This is good.
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  Speaker 2: This is great.
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  Speaker 1: We really don't have time.
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  Speaker 3: Yes. All right.
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  Speaker 1: Let's do it. Pittsburgh 2-1. And they're a two-and-a-half point
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  Speaker 1: road favorite at Cleveland. It's on Amazon. Al Michaels and Herbie.
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  Speaker 1: Temps in the 70s tonight in Cleveland. You know, it's
• 39:18
  Speaker 1: early October. A slight chance of rain. I'm going to
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  Speaker 1: take the Steelers. Now, I went back and forth in
• 39:23
  Speaker 1: this game, but I feel more comfortable with the Steelers here,
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  Speaker 1: mainly because of their defense here. The pass rush should
• 39:30
  Speaker 1: cause all kinds of problems to the creepy quarterback, Deshaun Watson.
• 39:34
  Speaker 1: And as long as you don't give the ball away,
• 39:36
  Speaker 1: Aaron Rodgers, control the field position, make Cleveland drive 70-plus yards,
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  Speaker 1: the Steelers should easily cover the spread. All I have
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  Speaker 1: to do is win by a field goal, so I'm
• 39:44
  Speaker 1: going to take Pittsburgh, Aaron Rodgers, and that defense. Kubalu,
• 39:47
  Speaker 1: you're representing the Penny. Who does the Penny like?
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  Speaker 7: Penny agrees with you again on primetime. Likes the Steelers.
• 39:54
  Speaker 1: I've been doing well in these Thursday games. I've been
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  Speaker 1: doing pretty well. So there you go. Penny versus the Penny.
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  Speaker 1: You better not F this up, Pittsburgh. Don't screw this up, Steelers.
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  Speaker 1: Do not do it.
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  Speaker 1: It's now time for... Time for... Hurry, hurry, I can
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  Speaker 1: Ask Ben time. This portion of the Ben Maller Show
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  Speaker 1: By the way, welcome to October. Today's October. First day
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  Speaker 1: the reading of the questions. However, it will not sound
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  Speaker 1: like he's reading.
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  Speaker 7: All right, we're going to start off with a question
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  Speaker 7: from Alf the Alien Opiner.
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  Speaker 1: I've met him and his lovely wife. Hello, Alf.
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  Speaker 7: Yes, he would like to know, if you could get
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  Speaker 7: on any game show, which one do you think you
• 41:15
  Speaker 7: could dominate?
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  Speaker 1: Well, the one I loved as a kid was Let's
• 41:21
  Speaker 1: Make a Deal. I loved Let's Make a Deal. I
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  Speaker 1: think I'd do pretty well on The Price is Right, though.
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  Speaker 1: I guess, you know they have two versions now?
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  Speaker 3: You see that?
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  Speaker 1: They have the daytime. Yeah, yeah. I guess Howie Mandel
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  Speaker 1: does like a different version of The Price is Right.
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  Speaker 1: Isn't that weird?
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  Speaker 2: Huh.
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  Speaker 3: I thought I didn't.
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  Speaker 1: Maybe that's just in Canada. I don't know. I was
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  Speaker 1: watching a Canadian channel and they had that. So I'll
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  Speaker 1: go Price is Right. What about you, Lorena?
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  Speaker 9: I would have to go with Dancing with the Stars.
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  Speaker 1: Oh, is that a game show?
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  Speaker 9: Yeah, I would count that as a game show. You
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  Speaker 9: compete and you win a prize. Not reality at all.
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  Speaker 1: It's rigged, isn't it?
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  Speaker 3: No.
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  Speaker 1: My wife loves that show.
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  Speaker 3: Rigged?
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  Speaker 1: Allegedly, so I don't get sued.
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  Speaker 9: Coop?
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  Speaker 7: I was also going to say the price is right,
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  Speaker 7: although there's a game show on right now that I
• 42:16
  Speaker 7: watch a lot that I think I'd be pretty good at.
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  Speaker 7: It's called The Floor. It's hosted by Rob Lowe.
• 42:21
  Speaker 1: Oh, is that The Floor is Lava?
• 42:23
  Speaker 7: No, it's just like you try to earn pizzas.
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  Speaker 1: Different categories, right?
• 42:27
  Speaker 7: Yeah, you earn pizzas of The Floor, and then when
• 42:30
  Speaker 7: you get the whole floor, you win the game. It's
• 42:33
  Speaker 7: like a puzzle. You compete against people. They show pictures
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  Speaker 7: on the screen. You just have to name what the
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  Speaker 7: picture is really quickly.
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  Speaker 3: Oh, I got you.
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  Speaker 1: See, I think I'd be good at prices right because
• 42:43
  Speaker 1: I do the shopping and I bitch at my wife
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  Speaker 1: when the prices of eggs go up or something like that.
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  Speaker 1: I complain. So I think I'd be really good at that.
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  Speaker 1: All right, what's next? When the price is wrong.
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  Speaker 7: Donkey Sausage would like to know, what do you most
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  Speaker 7: often think about before you fall asleep?
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  Speaker 1: Hoping I'll fall asleep. I'm a terrible sleeper. I have
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  Speaker 1: sleep anxiety. I'm horrific. Although if I don't sleep for
• 43:08
  Speaker 1: a couple days, I'll fall asleep right away. But I
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  Speaker 1: know I'm trying to shut my mind off because I
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  Speaker 1: can't shut my freaking mind off and I can't go
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  Speaker 1: to bed. What about you, Lorena?
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  Speaker 3: Um.
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  Speaker 9: I usually start dreaming the dream that I want to dream.
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  Speaker 9: So it's a good way to not be stressed because
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  Speaker 9: I'm not thinking about stuff I have to think about.
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  Speaker 9: So I'll start like walking through the woods and start
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  Speaker 9: talking to a rabbit.
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  Speaker 1: And then if I could, like if I had that power,
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  Speaker 1: I would love sleeping. I'd be like, okay, I'm going
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  Speaker 1: to go to an exotic beach today. Yeah.
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  Speaker 9: And then you start sipping a margarita on the beach.
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  Speaker 9: And then, you know, as your dream takes you away,
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  Speaker 9: you fall asleep.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: Instead, I'm like, oh, crap, what am I going to
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  Speaker 1: talk about in the next show? What's going to go
• 43:48
  Speaker 1: on today while I'm sleeping?
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  Speaker 3: Cool?
• 43:50
  Speaker 7: It tends to be like whatever song was stuck in
• 43:53
  Speaker 7: my head that day will just be like on repeat
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  Speaker 7: in my head, which is very annoying. I feel like
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  Speaker 7: it makes it hard to fall asleep. And then a
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  Speaker 7: lot of times if I had played poker that day,
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  Speaker 7: I'll be thinking about hands from earlier that day.
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  Speaker 1: They do say that whatever happened in your day somehow
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  Speaker 1: works its way into your dreams.
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  Speaker 3: That's the way it is.
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  Speaker 1: All right, what is next? It's Ask Ben. Your questions
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  Speaker 1: are answers.
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  Speaker 7: Georgia Boy would like to know. Hi, Georgia Boy. Twinkies
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  Speaker 7: or Ding Dongs?
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  Speaker 3: Tough.
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  Speaker 1: I was more of a fan of the Twinkie as
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  Speaker 1: a kid, though. I feel like I ate more of
• 44:28
  Speaker 1: those than the Ding Dongs, so I'll go the Twinkies.
• 44:30
  Speaker 1: What about you, Lorena?
• 44:32
  Speaker 9: Ah, Twinkies for sure.
• 44:33
  Speaker 1: I love Twinkies. I like the cousin of the Twinkie,
• 44:37
  Speaker 1: the Zinger. Remember the Zinger? Yeah. No, it was solid.
• 44:41
  Speaker 1: It's just a Twinkie with the red stuff in on the, yeah. Coop?
• 44:45
  Speaker 1: Definitely Twinkie. Yeah. We all agree. It's all about the Twinkie.
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  Speaker 1: What is next here? It's Ask Ben. Your questions, our
• 44:52
  Speaker 1: answers for the rest of the hour. These are actual
• 44:54
  Speaker 1: questions by actual listeners. Hashtag Ask Ben. This is nothing
• 44:58
  Speaker 1: like the mailbag I normally do with Robbie the Mariner Fan.
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  Speaker 1: Nothing at all like the mailbag.
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  Speaker 3: What's next?
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  Speaker 7: This is an interesting one from the King Rory. Have
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  Speaker 7: you ever read a book after watching the movie adaptations
• 45:07
  Speaker 7: of it?
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  Speaker 1: Well, the one that stands out, there was a movie
• 45:14
  Speaker 1: called The Magic Christian. which is about a rich guy
• 45:17
  Speaker 1: that just had a lot of money, wanted to F
• 45:18
  Speaker 1: with people, and realized people would do anything for the price.
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  Speaker 1: The book is so much better than the movie. The
• 45:24
  Speaker 1: movie's terrible.
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  Speaker 7: And you read the book after you saw the movie?
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, the book was good.
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  Speaker 3: Lorraine?
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  Speaker 9: I think Harry Potter's the only one that I read after.
• 45:33
  Speaker 1: You're a big book reader?
• 45:36
  Speaker 9: I actually do like reading, but no, I've never read
• 45:38
  Speaker 9: the Harry Potter books. It's only because the audio book
• 45:40
  Speaker 9: is so good.
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  Speaker 1: All right, Coop, what about you?
• 45:43
  Speaker 7: The Hunger Games I read after I saw the movie,
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  Speaker 7: and I'm currently reading or listening to the audiobook of
• 45:50
  Speaker 7: Project Hail Mary, which, you know, after I saw the movie.
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  Speaker 1: Does that count as reading? It's an audiobook. Does that
• 45:55
  Speaker 1: count as.
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  Speaker 3: Kind of, I guess.
• 45:57
  Speaker 1: I don't know. Does it? Because if that's the case,
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  Speaker 1: I guess I do a lot of reading. I do
• 46:02
  Speaker 1: a lot of news stories during the day and all that.
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  Speaker 1: I'm not a big book.
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  Speaker 3: Guy at this point.
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  Speaker 1: All right, there it is. Ask Ben. Your questions, our answers.
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  Speaker 1: Thank you, thank you, thank you, thank you, thank you!