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  Speaker 2: This is the best of the Ben Maler Show on
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  Speaker 1: So our lead this hour to begin the festivities, we
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  Speaker 1: start out with a follow up, follow up to a
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  Speaker 1: story we talked about in a previous episode of this show.
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  Speaker 1: We go to Dallas where Cowboys wide receiver George Pickens.
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  Speaker 1: He showed up to work. Isn't that exciting? Eah? People
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  Speaker 1: don't talk about it when you show up to your job. Okay,
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  Speaker 1: I don't really talk about it when I show up
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  Speaker 1: to my job either. But there he was Pickens attending
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  Speaker 1: the Mandatory as he said he would, Mandatory Mini Camp
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  Speaker 1: in beautiful Frisco, Texas. Jerry World. It's right up there
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  Speaker 1: with Disneyland in Magic Mountain, the Big Amusement Parks. I
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  Speaker 1: love that. It's a lot of fun. So they got
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  Speaker 1: roller coasters and TWIRLI things and all that, and they've
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  Speaker 1: got a lot of fried foods. It's great he had skipped,
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  Speaker 1: had skipped, he skipped deed the voluntary ota. So if
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  Speaker 1: you didn't follow this story, perhaps you hadn't hear about it.
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  Speaker 1: We know that Pickens initially was not real pleased with
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  Speaker 1: the franchise tag. Well, now he's singing a much different song.
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  Speaker 1: He expressed that he's perfectly fine with playing out the
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  Speaker 1: twenty twenty six NFL season under the franchise tag. He's
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  Speaker 1: going to have to somehow make do and I don't
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  Speaker 1: really know how he's gonna do it these tough economic times.
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  Speaker 1: Twenty seven point three million fully guaranteed, and he claimed,
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  Speaker 1: of course he's focused on football first, something that's never
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  Speaker 1: been said about George Pickens, that he's focused on football first.
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  Speaker 1: Pickens so the time tested deflection that he's gonna let
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  Speaker 1: his agent worry about that. I guess we have somebody
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  Speaker 1: just to prove I'm not making this up. Here is
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  Speaker 1: George Pickens of the Dallas Cowboys, the franchise player for
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  Speaker 1: America's team, commenting on his situation.
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  Speaker 3: When I just think about the team as the wrong
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  Speaker 3: we could have had, you know, certain stuff just being
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  Speaker 3: in place and could make something bigger. I kind of
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  Speaker 3: think about that and you take that into a part
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  Speaker 3: of a decision to make.
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  Speaker 1: Okay, there was a lot of nothing. You know what.
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  Speaker 1: That was a fluffer dutter, That's what that was. There
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  Speaker 1: was some marshmallow and some peanut butter. That's a fluffer nutter. Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: Oh there's more fluffer nutter. Oh, give me more, give
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  Speaker 1: me more.
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  Speaker 3: Because the game gonna be the game. The money is
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  Speaker 3: kind of tagged to it. You guys, a job off
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  Speaker 3: the job. You just kind of want to do your
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  Speaker 3: job at the best of it.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah. Well he really didn't say anything. That's like drinking
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  Speaker 1: you know, soda or something. There's not just can pop.
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  Speaker 1: There's not a lot in there. Yeah. I'm the same
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  Speaker 1: way like when my bosses, my contract comes up and
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  Speaker 1: I negoesis, I don't do this for the money. Why
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  Speaker 1: would do this for the money? You know, take care
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  Speaker 1: of itself. You know, come on, everyone's well paid unless
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  Speaker 1: they're not. My God. Now, Brian Schottenheimer shotty Brian Schottenheimer,
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  Speaker 1: who's the puppet coach for the Dallas Cowboys. He of
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  Speaker 1: course waxed poetic about Pickens and his commitment to the
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  Speaker 1: team and the super Bowl goal, which is really funny.
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  Speaker 1: The Cowboys are still selling that super Bowl goal after
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  Speaker 1: all these years. You'd think they'd move on to something else,
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  Speaker 1: but they're not. And Shoty noted that Pickens has been golfing. Okay, well,
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  Speaker 1: that's great. He's golfing. Must be nice. You know, people
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  Speaker 1: that golf are either retired or don't really work that hard.
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  Speaker 1: If you work hard, you don't generally have a chance
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  Speaker 1: to golf. And if you do have a chance to golf,
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  Speaker 1: your body is so worn out by the hard labor
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  Speaker 1: you don't feel like golfing. That's generally how that works.
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  Speaker 1: So we'll see what happens here. Bet Pickens, Clemson, you're
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  Speaker 1: not gonna hold out. Of course, he doesn't really have
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  Speaker 1: an option to hold out. He's signed the contract. He
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  Speaker 1: will be a full participant when they to beautiful Oxnard, California,
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  Speaker 1: just north of the Fox Sports radio studio compound here
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  Speaker 1: in Sherman Oaks, just a few miles up the road.
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  Speaker 1: There well a decent drive and that's where they begin
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  Speaker 1: training camp. So that is a good jumping off point.
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  Speaker 1: Let us discuss the question do you believe George Pickson.
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  Speaker 1: We know what he said, and we played a little
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  Speaker 1: bit of it. Do you believe George Pickens is perfectly fine?
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  Speaker 1: He's good with the Dallas Cowboys franchise tax. So I've
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  Speaker 1: got trickle down gatorade and Sherlock Holmes, what up Holmes,
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  Speaker 1: And we'll combine all of these things together. We're gonna
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  Speaker 1: avoid avoid the third rail, my man, avoid the third rail,
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  Speaker 1: all r We're gonna avoid the third rail. So a
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  Speaker 1: to answer the question, is George Pickens perfectly fine with
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  Speaker 1: the situation? Do we believe him? Fat chance? Big fat chance. No,
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  Speaker 1: he's pleased with the tag like some people are pleased.
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  Speaker 1: They claim they want to pay more taxes. Yeah, right, anyway, listen,
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  Speaker 1: right now, Pickens is playing the role. He's a character.
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  Speaker 1: He's doing cosplay. He's playing the role of model employee
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  Speaker 1: of the month. He wants that parking space right in
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  Speaker 1: front of Jerry's world. Of course, it's just temporary. The
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  Speaker 1: cosplay will wear off and the first bad game Pickens
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  Speaker 1: has the first time he skips out on team meetings,
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  Speaker 1: and that will happen. We'll see how that goes. He's
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  Speaker 1: good with the franchise tag. The same way people are
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  Speaker 1: really happy about going to get a root canal. They're like,
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  Speaker 1: oh man, this is great. I'm going to get a
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  Speaker 1: root canal today. Deep down, he knows that this offseason
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  Speaker 1: was the golden opportunity to get that big contract. And
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  Speaker 1: despite the performance that he had on the field, there
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  Speaker 1: were still some questions. And I agree with the Cowboys
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  Speaker 1: not paying George Piggins. But when you look at the
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  Speaker 1: situation and the reason, you would say that he's got
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  Speaker 1: a right to be upset George Pickens financially, because if
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  Speaker 1: you look at it, the reason he was able to
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  Speaker 1: play the way he did last year was because of injury.
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  Speaker 1: Ceedee Lamb, he had injury, he was out and he
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  Speaker 1: got hurt, and so Pickens moved from supporting actor to
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  Speaker 1: the headliner. However, unless lightning strikes the same tree twice
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  Speaker 1: back to back and branch to branch, those numbers are
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  Speaker 1: headed down, down, down, down down. It's just the way
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  Speaker 1: it is.
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  Speaker 4: Right.
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  Speaker 1: Welcome to trickle down football economics that if the guy
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  Speaker 1: ahead of you stays healthy, that means you get fewer targets,
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  Speaker 1: which means you get fewer catches and fewer yards, and
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  Speaker 1: the stats are less and then that means fewer dollars.
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  Speaker 1: And that's how that works. So the Pro Football Reference
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  Speaker 1: page for George Pickens, that Pro Football Reference page is
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  Speaker 1: about to go from the penthouse suite to the economy seating,
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  Speaker 1: and good luck on that. Good luck on that. But
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  Speaker 1: and again, everyone's happy for the most part in June.
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  Speaker 1: It's hard not to be happy in the month of June.
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  Speaker 1: And just send me a text let me know when
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  Speaker 1: we're into like October, if things are still good. Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: Because happiness is generally, if you're a receiver, directly related
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  Speaker 1: to how many catches and yards you have touchdowns and
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  Speaker 1: how many commas you have. You've got a lot of commas,
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  Speaker 1: twenty seven million. It'd be the greatest thing in the
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  Speaker 1: world financially if I got it or you got it,
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  Speaker 1: and so it should be happy. I just I'm skeptical.
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  Speaker 1: I am skeptical. And this feels like a we'll cross
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  Speaker 1: that bridge when we get to its situation where it's
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  Speaker 1: going to pop up. Now we stay in Texas. We
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  Speaker 1: now go to the court system in Texas where Cansau
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  Speaker 1: City Chiefs wide receiver Rashie Rice, the speed racer Rashie Rice,
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  Speaker 1: who almost killed moremultiple people on the streets of Dallas.
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  Speaker 1: That was a little while back. Well, Rashi Rice, who
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  Speaker 1: does not follow any of the safety laws when driving,
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  Speaker 1: it would appear or not most of them. So Rashi
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  Speaker 1: Rice was released from Dallas County jail. He saved thirty
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  Speaker 1: days for a probation violation situation. The sentence all stemming
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  Speaker 1: from Rice's involvement when he went speed racer. I was
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  Speaker 1: back in twenty twenty four. You might remember he was
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  Speaker 1: renting a high end the car and zoom zoom around
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  Speaker 1: the streets of Dallas there and got into an accident
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  Speaker 1: and then just like left the car and walked off
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  Speaker 1: the highway and not my problem, you're hurt, Okay, call
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  Speaker 1: one of those billboard lawyers. Why not knocked yourself out?
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  Speaker 1: Now he had pled guilty to related charges, Rashi Rice,
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  Speaker 1: including racing and causing bodily in which seems like a problem.
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  Speaker 1: The probation violation of the reason he was in jail
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  Speaker 1: was because he couldn't stay away from the weed. The
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  Speaker 1: marijuana and he was hanging out with Mary Jane, and
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  Speaker 1: Mary Jane got him in trouble and so that led
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  Speaker 1: to his booking for a thirty day stay at the
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  Speaker 1: Gray Bar Hotel, all expenses paid. Now pawna his release.
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  Speaker 1: Here's the story. So, Rashi Rice, I don't if he
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  Speaker 1: saw this or not. Even our blind listeners saw. I
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  Speaker 1: think blind Emmett saw it and blind Sea Bass saw it.
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  Speaker 1: So Rashie Rice, he gets out of jail, and there's
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  Speaker 1: a couple of cameras in the waiting room at the
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  Speaker 1: Dallas County Jail like they knew, Hey, he's going to
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  Speaker 1: get out. Let's get a shot of him walking out
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  Speaker 1: of the jail. We'll get an interview. That'll be good. Okay, solid,
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  Speaker 1: thank you, Okay, So how'd that go? So Pan has
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  Speaker 1: released Rice, the Chiefs wide receiver. He spotted the TV
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  Speaker 1: cameras and a bunch of dudes with iPhones because that's
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  Speaker 1: the new paparazzo, the iPhone mob. And so he spotted
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  Speaker 1: these guys, these middle aged dudes with the iPhones out
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  Speaker 1: and one had a TV camera and he saw them
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  Speaker 1: and he thought about, hey, listen, I'm playing for the Chiefs.
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  Speaker 1: This is zone coverage. Iszig here iszag there? I get
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  Speaker 1: to the open field and I'm gone touchdown. Rashie Rice, Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: that's kind of what you did cuz I'm gonna try
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  Speaker 1: to discover it. So he sees the people trying to
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  Speaker 1: get video of him. He then zigs and zags. He
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  Speaker 1: then dashes darts down the street into a waiting suv
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  Speaker 1: and sped away. Zoom zoom. Got out of it. Now.
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  Speaker 1: The video footage went viral on social media, and there
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  Speaker 1: were people grumbling, of course, complaining about the reporters chasing
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  Speaker 1: after Rashie Rise. Oh this is the media. Oh my god,
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  Speaker 1: this is poor Rachie Rise. Boo. All right, question, do
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  Speaker 1: you feel bad? Do you feel bad for Wide Receiver
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  Speaker 1: Rashie Rice, the chiefs Wide Receiver, for having to dodge
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  Speaker 1: a gaggle of reporters leaving the Dallas jail. Yeah, so
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  Speaker 1: anyone that believes that, And I'm skeptical how many people
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  Speaker 1: are realizing that. As you know from listening to the
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  Speaker 1: show in my Fifth Hour podcast, it is the matrix.
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  Speaker 1: It's a hall of mirrors social media. So I'm not
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  Speaker 1: sure what's legit not and I think a lot of
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  Speaker 1: it's just bull crap. However, if you are in that
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  Speaker 1: minority of people that thinking this is not right, poor Rashie, right,
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  Speaker 1: I give you stink gye I'm giving you the stink guy,
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  Speaker 1: is what I'm giving you. Rice did not dodge the media.
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  Speaker 1: He treated them like cones in a combine shuttle drill
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  Speaker 1: is what he did. And honestly, people painting Rice as
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  Speaker 1: the victim, like, what is that mindset? You're not using
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  Speaker 1: a broad brush. You're using a roller brush, is what
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  Speaker 1: you're doing. Jeez, bad boys, bad boys. What you're gonna
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  Speaker 1: do when the camera's chase you? Yeah, how's that gonna go?
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  Speaker 1: So what we saw was the ultimate reverse perp walk.
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  Speaker 1: You know, it's like the police the just in New
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  Speaker 1: York a lot. I don't do it everywhere, but like
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  Speaker 1: in New York, when somebody gets arrested a high profile
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  Speaker 1: they parade them in front of the cameras into the precinct.
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  Speaker 1: It's tradition going way back to the old days in
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  Speaker 1: New York. They do it in Boston a few other places.
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  Speaker 1: And this was like the reverse perp walk for Rashie Rice,
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  Speaker 1: Like he's coming out, same cameras, same chaos, same circus,
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  Speaker 1: just walking out instead of inn of course, he ran,
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  Speaker 1: he didn't walk in this case, and he didn't exactly
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  Speaker 1: look bothered by it. He had In fact, he looked
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  Speaker 1: like a guy who was loving it. He had a
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  Speaker 1: smile on his face, and it appeared he thought for
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  Speaker 1: a moment, he was giving an audition tape to the
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  Speaker 1: people over at Gatorade for a commercial. He was auditioning
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  Speaker 1: for a Gatorade and for rocking that fish eating grin.
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  Speaker 1: And it's like, oh man, this is great. Like he
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  Speaker 1: was like signing autographs instead of leaving jail, and he
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  Speaker 1: was gonzo. And forget the whole debate we've had about
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  Speaker 1: turf versus grass. You've heard that debate, turf versus grass
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  Speaker 1: and all that fund debate. Rice was running a four
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  Speaker 1: to four on concrete sidewalks in Dallas. So that's pretty impressive, right,
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  Speaker 1: That's how the fields used to be in the eighties.
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  Speaker 1: Kids at the Veterans Stadium in Philadelphia and a few
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  Speaker 1: other places, they just had concrete and they put they
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  Speaker 1: put green carpet on top of the concrete, no padding.
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  Speaker 1: And that's how the boys played football back in the day.
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  Speaker 1: And that's why a lot of their brains are scrambled
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  Speaker 1: eggs right now. Yeah, so you know, Andy Reid must
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  Speaker 1: have been watching that good old big ran. Andy Re's
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  Speaker 1: getting his tucks fitted for that big wedding between his
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  Speaker 1: tight end and that singing lady. Anyway, So Andy Reid
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  Speaker 1: he didn't need a medical update because what he saw there,
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  Speaker 1: He watched Rashie Rice hit tops on the streets of Dallas,
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  Speaker 1: and so he's ready for camp. That was his sign,
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  Speaker 1: Rashie Rice letting Andy Reid know and the boys in
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  Speaker 1: Kansas City that he's ready to go. All right. Last
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  Speaker 1: word to the draft, we go what the draft was
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  Speaker 1: at April, you big dummy. Well there's another draft coming up. Now.
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  Speaker 1: We know that Texas Tech quarterback Brendan Soorsby, the gambling man,
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  Speaker 1: Brendan Soorsby, is planning to enter the NFL supplemental Draft.
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  Speaker 1: He's made that official bypassing what would have been his
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  Speaker 1: final year of eligibility and his third different college, Cincinnati, Indiana.
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  Speaker 1: He was going to play at Texas Tech. The ongoing
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  Speaker 1: scuttle butt, which is all about the big My god,
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  Speaker 1: what's going on here with the gambling, the controversy, NCUBLEA
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  Speaker 1: eligibility lawsuits. There's talk that Texas Tech may end up
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  Speaker 1: having to leave the Big twelve as a result of
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  Speaker 1: all of this that happened, even though he's not going
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  Speaker 1: to play there. So Soorsby's old coach at Cincinnati is
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  Speaker 1: old coach there, Scott Saderfield said people from the NFL
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  Speaker 1: have already started reaching out to him about Soorsby, and
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  Speaker 1: so the coach at Cincinnati. His old college coach at Cincinnati,
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  Speaker 1: said he expects an NFL team to give Sorsby an
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  Speaker 1: opportunity despite the many bets that he made on football
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  Speaker 1: and his own team and against his own team and
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  Speaker 1: all of that. All right, So the question NFL teams
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  Speaker 1: already making inquiries about the Texas Tech quarterback Brendan Sorosby,
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  Speaker 1: Are you surprised?
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  Speaker 2: All right?
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  Speaker 1: So on this one, I just shrugged my shoulders. I
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  Speaker 1: just shrugged my shoulders, is what I do. You don't
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  Speaker 1: need to bring in Sherlock Holmes here to see that
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  Speaker 1: much of this reporting is being fed by the It's
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  Speaker 1: like a plant from Camp sorsby the PR people. They're like, hey, listen,
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  Speaker 1: we're gonna make this seem like this guy's really popular.
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  Speaker 1: Why don't we get some dopey bloggers and some social
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  Speaker 1: media influencers. The easy people, the easiest people to pay off.
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  Speaker 1: For social media influencers, they will take money for anything
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  Speaker 1: it's the easiest crowd. Magine if they put actual we
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  Speaker 1: have in radio, we have Paola rules and laws that
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  Speaker 1: we have to follow because DJ's in the sixties and seventies,
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  Speaker 1: we're getting paid to play records. Imagine if they did
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  Speaker 1: that with social media would kill the whole industry. If
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  Speaker 1: like you actually had to disclose legitimately who's paying you
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  Speaker 1: to say stuff, Oh my god, that would be the end.
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  Speaker 1: That would be Anyway, the point of all this is
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  Speaker 1: it just seems and it smells. Yeah, it smells like
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  Speaker 1: a plant. That smells like a plant to me. And
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  Speaker 1: if you believe that, teams are scratching and clawing and
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  Speaker 1: trying to get information, desperately trying to figure out how
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  Speaker 1: to draft this guy. I've got a nice bridge in
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  Speaker 1: Brooklyn that we can put your name on. You can
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  Speaker 1: change the name it which call you. This is class.
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  Speaker 1: It's a pre draft, even for the supplemental draft. Myth
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  Speaker 1: making you inflate the narrative and hope that somebody bites,
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  Speaker 1: that someone believes the bullshoy that you're serving up. And
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  Speaker 1: let's let's be real. Do I doubt that there is
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  Speaker 1: no interest? No, there's obviously some level of interest, But
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  Speaker 1: it's more of it. Its insurance is what it is.
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  Speaker 1: I think of it like insurance where the NFL kicks
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  Speaker 1: every single tire. They go to tire rack, they kick
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  Speaker 1: every tire. Then they go to the parking lot, they
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  Speaker 1: kick the tire, even the bull the ball tires, they
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  Speaker 1: kick them. And this is nothing more than your basic
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  Speaker 1: due diligence dressed up in a talx and pretending it
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  Speaker 1: is a gala is what it is. And nobody's fighting
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  Speaker 1: for the gambling man, like, well, see take a flyer
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  Speaker 1: on him. Maybe you know who cares about a six
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  Speaker 1: round draft pick or something like that. Of course, if
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  Speaker 1: you were a sourceby you'd rather not get drafted and
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  Speaker 1: then just pick the team you want to go to.
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  Speaker 1: And then that's it. And they're just doing their homework,
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  Speaker 1: do I. They're making sure that he's not totally radioactive source.
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  Speaker 1: So our lead this hour is from baseball. We'll get
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• 19:37
  Speaker 1: Los Angeles, where Kyle Tucker is off to a rough
• 19:41
  Speaker 1: start for the Doyers, who won a one nothing game
• 19:44
  Speaker 1: against the Tampa Bay Rays in a random Tuesday night
• 19:49
  Speaker 1: at the Ravinee. I love when the broadcasters get excited
• 19:52
  Speaker 1: because the game was less than two hours. The people
• 19:54
  Speaker 1: that paid money likely wanted the game to go longer,
• 19:57
  Speaker 1: but the broadcasters have orgasms when these games go so
• 20:00
  Speaker 1: under two hours. Anyway, it was like the shortest Dodger
• 20:02
  Speaker 1: game since the early nineties, like ninety two or something
• 20:05
  Speaker 1: like that. Anyway, So if you didn't see the Kyle
• 20:08
  Speaker 1: Tucker story, we talked about this in a previous episode
• 20:11
  Speaker 1: of the show. He has not only been a baseball player,
• 20:13
  Speaker 1: he's been lousy. Now, if you're polite, you'll say he's inconsistent.
• 20:18
  Speaker 1: He's on pace for thirteen home runs and eighty seven RBIs,
• 20:23
  Speaker 1: which is not exactly what you were hoping for when
• 20:26
  Speaker 1: he got the big contract. Now, when asked about his
• 20:28
  Speaker 1: pathetic performance for the Doyers so far this year, he
• 20:33
  Speaker 1: dabbled Kyle Tucker in some self debrecating humor, a little
• 20:38
  Speaker 1: self deprecation. So if you didn't hear what he said,
• 20:41
  Speaker 1: perhaps not Kyle Tucker. He spoke about the lack of consistency,
• 20:46
  Speaker 1: the need for consistency and noting that even good at
• 20:50
  Speaker 1: bats don't mean much if you can't sustain that over
• 20:55
  Speaker 1: the long season. He said, quote it can work for
• 20:58
  Speaker 1: one at bat or two bad something, but just got
• 21:01
  Speaker 1: to make it consistent. Just got to try and come
• 21:04
  Speaker 1: back and do that every single time, so he said,
• 21:09
  Speaker 1: and there was there were some other quotes, but that's
• 21:11
  Speaker 1: a good jumping off pot. So let us discuss the
• 21:12
  Speaker 1: question where are you at on the Doyer's outfielder Kyle
• 21:17
  Speaker 1: Tucker using some i'll say light light self deprecation in
• 21:24
  Speaker 1: the humor department on his performance for the Dodgers. So
• 21:28
  Speaker 1: I've got fingerprinted, squeaky floorboard, and flying elephant, and we
• 21:34
  Speaker 1: will combine all of these things together and we will
• 21:38
  Speaker 1: say ABC and one two three. That's what we're gonna
• 21:43
  Speaker 1: do here. So number one, number one, one, one one one. Honestly,
• 21:52
  Speaker 1: we love it. And if I quit this job and
• 21:55
  Speaker 1: decide to go into public relations, I will advise the
• 22:00
  Speaker 1: people that take my counsel that the way to go
• 22:04
  Speaker 1: is self deprecation. There was a broadcaster in San Francisco
• 22:08
  Speaker 1: years ago, or Ralph Barbie area, I believe was he
• 22:12
  Speaker 1: entered every broadcast by saying angels fly because they take
• 22:15
  Speaker 1: themselves lightly, which is a great quote, not his quote.
• 22:17
  Speaker 1: He just stole it and used it because that's what
• 22:19
  Speaker 1: we do in radio. We steal things and use it,
• 22:21
  Speaker 1: and it's accurate. I believe that Tucker should have leaned
• 22:24
  Speaker 1: into it more. Of course, it's easy to have self
• 22:26
  Speaker 1: deprecation when the money's guaranteed. If you know what I mean,
• 22:30
  Speaker 1: you're not singing for your supper. Your supper is already
• 22:33
  Speaker 1: paid for. It's like getting on the boat and it's
• 22:36
  Speaker 1: an all inclusive cruise. Well, everything's already paid for. You
• 22:40
  Speaker 1: can be a pig pointintintint oint. But self deprecating humor
• 22:46
  Speaker 1: is the it's at the very top of the humor pyramid.
• 22:50
  Speaker 2: Uh.
• 22:51
  Speaker 1: It is self deprecating humor. It's the sports equivalent of
• 22:54
  Speaker 1: a preemptive strike. And these guys is so full of themselves,
• 22:58
  Speaker 1: these athletes, they don't know how to do it. Most
• 23:01
  Speaker 1: of them are not good at it. A few the
• 23:05
  Speaker 1: greatest would be Charles Barkley. He's fine goofing on himself
• 23:09
  Speaker 1: and he didn't have a problem with that and all that,
• 23:11
  Speaker 1: But it is a preemptive strike when you use self
• 23:13
  Speaker 1: depreciating humor, and Kyle Tucker is doing the one thing
• 23:17
  Speaker 1: that the struggling jock almost never does, and he's when
• 23:24
  Speaker 1: you use self deprecation, you get ahead of the criticism.
• 23:27
  Speaker 1: And these guys are so obtuse a lot of them
• 23:29
  Speaker 1: they don't understand that, and they every want to admit
• 23:32
  Speaker 1: that they're bad and they're terrible and all that everyone
• 23:34
  Speaker 1: sees it. So if you're willing to crack a few
• 23:37
  Speaker 1: jokes about your own lousy play, then what you have done,
• 23:42
  Speaker 1: as you have de escalated the opposition, you have taken
• 23:48
  Speaker 1: away their ammunition, is what you have done. And you
• 23:52
  Speaker 1: have upset the mob that is carrying the pitchforks and
• 23:56
  Speaker 1: the torches, because what you have done is you say, okay, well,
• 24:00
  Speaker 1: if they say you suck, you've already said you suck.
• 24:02
  Speaker 1: So whooped hee dam doo. And believe me, the mob
• 24:06
  Speaker 1: is restless. And the Dodgers paid a premium. They thought
• 24:10
  Speaker 1: they were getting a Kentucky Derby winning thoroughbred, and what
• 24:14
  Speaker 1: they have gotten is a three legged mule. That is
• 24:18
  Speaker 1: what they have gotten. Who is pulling a produce cart
• 24:21
  Speaker 1: with three legs? In fact, mark the full name guy
• 24:24
  Speaker 1: who's in a wheelchair right now is able to move
• 24:26
  Speaker 1: more than the mule that the Dodgers got named Kyle Tucker.
• 24:30
  Speaker 1: At this point, based on just his performance on the field,
• 24:33
  Speaker 1: Kyle Tucker deserves to be fingerprinted and booked on grand
• 24:38
  Speaker 1: larceny charges against the Dodgers' payroll and impersonating a good
• 24:45
  Speaker 1: all star level baseball player. And if you look at
• 24:49
  Speaker 1: the deal he signed, the highest Kyle Tucker signed the
• 24:52
  Speaker 1: highest average AAV average annual value deal in baseball and
• 24:58
  Speaker 1: is currently if you look at his his performance and
• 25:01
  Speaker 1: how he has played, he is delivering the McDonald's dollar
• 25:05
  Speaker 1: menu back in the day production and that's what he's
• 25:09
  Speaker 1: what he's doing. If contracts were based on current production,
• 25:14
  Speaker 1: Tucker would be getting paid with arcade tokens. Go play
• 25:19
  Speaker 1: the ski ball. Here's some tokens. Okay, thank you, I'll
• 25:22
  Speaker 1: go play the ski ball. Why not? And so the
• 25:26
  Speaker 1: thing is, if you're going to be playing like a
• 25:29
  Speaker 1: swamp donkey, if you're playing like a swamp donkey, at
• 25:32
  Speaker 1: least be self aware as a swamp donkey. And Tucker,
• 25:36
  Speaker 1: he could have gone deeper into it. He gave a
• 25:39
  Speaker 1: little self deprecation, which we fully support. And again he's
• 25:42
  Speaker 1: got the guaranteed money. He can opt out if he wants.
• 25:44
  Speaker 1: That would be funny. That would be really funny if
• 25:46
  Speaker 1: he opted out, considering the way he's played. All right now,
• 25:48
  Speaker 1: paytrue to the Bronx, the Boogey down Brox where Aaron
• 25:51
  Speaker 1: Judge is at and John Carlos Stanton, all these guys
• 25:54
  Speaker 1: always hurt for the Yankees. However, the Yankees have a
• 25:58
  Speaker 1: problem with Major League base Ball stepping in. Do you
• 26:01
  Speaker 1: see this? No? All right, So the Yankees were given
• 26:06
  Speaker 1: some guidance from the League office on utility man Jose Caballero.
• 26:11
  Speaker 1: Good name, Jose Caballero. Not a good player, but a
• 26:14
  Speaker 1: good name. So the pitchclock routine. If you've watched any
• 26:19
  Speaker 1: of the Yankees, well, this guy's played. You've noticed. Over
• 26:21
  Speaker 1: the last couple of weeks this has become problematic for
• 26:24
  Speaker 1: other teams that play the New York Yankees. It has
• 26:26
  Speaker 1: sparked controversy, which we love and baseball does not, and
• 26:31
  Speaker 1: particularly in a recent game against the Blue Jays where
• 26:35
  Speaker 1: Caballero was on the Knatty list of Major League Baseball.
• 26:40
  Speaker 1: So he apparently must appear alert and engage. This is
• 26:43
  Speaker 1: from Major League Baseball. He must appear alert and engaged
• 26:45
  Speaker 1: with the pitcher by the time the pitch clock reaches
• 26:50
  Speaker 1: eight seconds. Are you keeping track of what I'm saying?
• 26:54
  Speaker 1: So that when the pitch clock gets down to eight seconds,
• 26:56
  Speaker 1: you've got to be engaged, all right? You gotta be
• 26:58
  Speaker 1: alert the peer alert, and the deadline for a batter
• 27:03
  Speaker 1: to acknowledge the picture is the eight second mark. Now.
• 27:06
  Speaker 1: Yankees manager Aaron Boone, who's got tenured employment in the
• 27:10
  Speaker 1: Yankee dugout, Aaron Boone said Major League Baseball emphasized looking
• 27:15
  Speaker 1: up with plenty of time to be visibly ready, as
• 27:20
  Speaker 1: some might interpret looking down or late engagement as not
• 27:23
  Speaker 1: being alert. So that was the memo from baseball, the
• 27:27
  Speaker 1: guidance to clarify what alertness means. That's exciting. Again, the
• 27:33
  Speaker 1: core is the eight second deadline. Now, Cavallero, he says, hey, listen,
• 27:38
  Speaker 1: I'm following the rules. I'm not breaking the rules here.
• 27:42
  Speaker 1: The batter has until eight seconds on the clock to engage.
• 27:47
  Speaker 1: And that's what he's doing. He just does all these
• 27:49
  Speaker 1: gyrations and all this stick and he's got this whole
• 27:54
  Speaker 1: thing and he's like a throwback. A bunch of players
• 27:57
  Speaker 1: used to do that kind of crap back when I
• 27:58
  Speaker 1: was a kid and throwback to that, and he said
• 28:02
  Speaker 1: that he still needs more clarification from Baseball. Caballero and
• 28:06
  Speaker 1: he's planned to talk, he was gonna talk to the
• 28:07
  Speaker 1: umpires about this and all. He refuses to give up
• 28:10
  Speaker 1: control of the timing to the opposing pitcher. And so
• 28:15
  Speaker 1: this story is not over yet. The question right, major
• 28:19
  Speaker 1: League Baseball looking to put the squeeze play the stop
• 28:23
  Speaker 1: the Yankee Jose Cavallero, his pitchclock shenanigans, his routine around
• 28:28
  Speaker 1: the pitchclock. How does this land for you? So baseball
• 28:34
  Speaker 1: in the past, it's a sport that has always rewarded
• 28:37
  Speaker 1: the pest. Am I wrong on that? I don't believe
• 28:40
  Speaker 1: I'm wrong on that. That's a sport that has always
• 28:43
  Speaker 1: approved the player who is annoying like Jose Caballero just
• 28:49
  Speaker 1: happens to be a modern shot clock, if you will,
• 28:54
  Speaker 1: because that's kind of what it is at pitchclock, the
• 28:56
  Speaker 1: pitchclock era agitator. He's playing for the Yankees, and he
• 29:02
  Speaker 1: can turn a fifteen second timer into psychological warfare. It's
• 29:08
  Speaker 1: a thriller. It is an absolute thriller. Major League Baseball
• 29:11
  Speaker 1: created the pitch clock that was Rob Manford's baby, and
• 29:15
  Speaker 1: Caballero created a loophole for the pitch clock. And he's
• 29:19
  Speaker 1: the guy. Let me tell you, this guy is Caballero
• 29:21
  Speaker 1: is the guy who finds the one squeaky floorboard and
• 29:26
  Speaker 1: then steps on it every single time, every single time,
• 29:31
  Speaker 1: just to annoy you. It's classic gamesmanship. I'm fine with gamesmanship.
• 29:35
  Speaker 1: It should be encouraged, not discouraged. You push the edges,
• 29:40
  Speaker 1: the edges of the rule book to disrupt the pitcher
• 29:44
  Speaker 1: and give yourself a competitive advantage without actually violating the
• 29:48
  Speaker 1: letter of the law. Like you know, people say, oh,
• 29:51
  Speaker 1: you were complaining about the cheating ass one one thousand
• 29:54
  Speaker 1: and two one thousand holes in Houston, and that is
• 29:58
  Speaker 1: true because they broke the rules. They were you using
• 30:00
  Speaker 1: buzzers and trash cans and whistles and all that. That's
• 30:03
  Speaker 1: not a lot. This is different. And if you don't
• 30:06
  Speaker 1: understand that, that's a you problem. That's not my problem.
• 30:10
  Speaker 1: That's a you problem. And so it's gamps of ship.
• 30:13
  Speaker 1: He sees it as protecting is it bat and the opposition?
• 30:16
  Speaker 1: And I guess some umpires are like, well, you're stalling.
• 30:19
  Speaker 1: You're not following the rules the proper way. However, let's
• 30:23
  Speaker 1: just be real for a second here. If pitchers are
• 30:26
  Speaker 1: getting rattled by a little deliberate timing by a batter,
• 30:32
  Speaker 1: that to me is not the rule, is not the
• 30:36
  Speaker 1: issue here. It's a mental toughness issue. And you've got
• 30:40
  Speaker 1: a puddle on the mound, is what you got, And
• 30:43
  Speaker 1: that's the problem there, you know, puddle on the mound,
• 30:47
  Speaker 1: and that would be the thing. So this is what
• 30:50
  Speaker 1: mischief makers do. And Cavallero would be that for the
• 30:55
  Speaker 1: Yankees on the old line, you love him when he's
• 30:57
  Speaker 1: on your team. You don't like him when he's on
• 30:58
  Speaker 1: the team on the other team. And I'm certainly not
• 30:59
  Speaker 1: a fan. I'm not, However, that type of player. I
• 31:05
  Speaker 1: want more of that. I want my team to have
• 31:07
  Speaker 1: that type of player, because that's the kind of player
• 31:09
  Speaker 1: that gets under the skin of the others and those
• 31:10
  Speaker 1: that are weak minded fall victim to this type of activity.
• 31:14
  Speaker 1: And then there's apparently a lot of pitchers in the
• 31:16
  Speaker 1: American League that have have issues in this department, and
• 31:20
  Speaker 1: so Baseball is looking to stop him. Of course they are,
• 31:23
  Speaker 1: because people are complaining and he's leaning into it. He's
• 31:26
  Speaker 1: like well, no, I'm not gonna stop, and then you know,
• 31:29
  Speaker 1: everyone losing their minds. I can't believe this all right. Now,
• 31:32
  Speaker 1: that being said, final point, we go to Milwaukee. We
• 31:34
  Speaker 1: had a star studded debut for.
• 31:36
  Speaker 6: The brew Crew.
• 31:38
  Speaker 1: Say what, Yes, the Brewers called up their twenty one
• 31:43
  Speaker 1: year old shortstop Cooper Pratt, who Cooper Pratt from TRIPAA Nashville.
• 31:49
  Speaker 1: He made his Major League baseball debut on Tuesday night,
• 31:55
  Speaker 1: starting at shortstop, batting eighth in a game the Brewer
• 32:00
  Speaker 1: would win over the team named after a bridge, the Guardians.
• 32:05
  Speaker 1: So Pratt had three at bats, he went over three.
• 32:08
  Speaker 1: He had at least one error. When I was watching
• 32:10
  Speaker 1: this game, had a lot of family there unfortunately that
• 32:13
  Speaker 1: I think he's from Mississippi, and they were they were
• 32:16
  Speaker 1: there checking them out. But he went over three with
• 32:18
  Speaker 1: an error. Now, the reason this debut got attention is
• 32:21
  Speaker 1: back in April, you might remember, the Brewers signed this
• 32:24
  Speaker 1: guy site unseen without any big league service time, to
• 32:28
  Speaker 1: an eight year contract for fifty million dollars. He won
• 32:33
  Speaker 1: the power Ball with a club option a couple of
• 32:37
  Speaker 1: years after that. So yeah, we're looking at extra ten
• 32:41
  Speaker 1: million based on performance. On top of the fifty million
• 32:45
  Speaker 1: dollar contract. So the question on this one real quick,
• 32:47
  Speaker 1: what are the odds? What are the odds that Cooper
• 32:50
  Speaker 1: Pratt becomes a superstar for the Brewers or even a star,
• 32:55
  Speaker 1: even a star. So based on the number one measure
• 33:00
  Speaker 1: device in all of overnight talk radio, the Malor Sportsbook odds,
• 33:06
  Speaker 1: based on the Malar Sportsbook, gods, he has a one
• 33:11
  Speaker 1: fifty batting average. That's a fifteen percent chance. When it
• 33:14
  Speaker 1: comes to being a star, and I'm talking legitimate star,
• 33:17
  Speaker 1: true star in Major League Baseball, meeting multiple All Star games,
• 33:22
  Speaker 1: starting All Star games, MVP level, season's top tier. The
• 33:27
  Speaker 1: nerds call it war wins above replacement and all of that.
• 33:32
  Speaker 1: So that means, if my math is correct, my Malor math,
• 33:35
  Speaker 1: and it's always correct, that means that there's an eighty
• 33:37
  Speaker 1: five percent chance that Cooper Pratt does not reach that
• 33:42
  Speaker 1: upper tier and insteadland somewhere between solid regular and nice
• 33:49
  Speaker 1: player who never becomes the face of anything. That is
• 33:54
  Speaker 1: the overwhelming favorite. That's the overwhelming favorite. Here. The Brewers
• 33:59
  Speaker 1: are paying an absolute premium, and this has become in vogue.
• 34:02
  Speaker 1: They're paying a premium for a trip to Fantasy Land,
• 34:06
  Speaker 1: and they're riding dumbos. Flying elephant is what they're doing,
• 34:11
  Speaker 1: round and round and round. Then they're gonna go to
• 34:13
  Speaker 1: Peter Pan's thing over there. They're gonna do that next.
• 34:15
  Speaker 1: But they're fifty million dollars. This is all in vogue
• 34:17
  Speaker 1: now and baseball a bunch of teams are doing it.
• 34:18
  Speaker 1: They're like, oh, cost certainty, we're betting this guy's gonna
• 34:21
  Speaker 1: We're gonna bet a little relatively speaking, because then this
• 34:24
  Speaker 1: guy turns out to be an all star and as
• 34:26
  Speaker 1: good as in a face of the franchise guy. Fifty
• 34:28
  Speaker 1: million dollars in that sport is peanuts. So they're betting
• 34:32
  Speaker 1: fifty million dollars that they're right, he's gonna become good
• 34:35
  Speaker 1: over the next eight years. It's an analytical bet, is
• 34:38
  Speaker 1: what it is. They didn't buy a star. What they
• 34:41
  Speaker 1: did is they they bought hope wholesale. Wholesale hope is
• 34:45
  Speaker 1: what the brew crew bought in baseball using this back
• 34:50
  Speaker 1: in the old days, it was a situation. They rewarded production.
• 34:54
  Speaker 1: You had a big year, you got paid. Now you
• 34:57
  Speaker 1: get paid on a projection. Some algorithms spits out that
• 35:02
  Speaker 1: you're going to be good for the next seven or
• 35:03
  Speaker 1: eight years. Let's pay the guy so you're rewarded not
• 35:07
  Speaker 1: on what you actually do. And I'm always skeptical of
• 35:09
  Speaker 1: these guys that take the big contracts and don't bet
• 35:12
  Speaker 1: on themselves. Not that I wouldn't do the same thing.
• 35:15
  Speaker 1: I'm just skeptical of the mindset and how motivated they're
• 35:18
  Speaker 1: going to be throughout their career because they've already gotten
• 35:22
  Speaker 1: the forever money. With proper investment, you never have to
• 35:25
  Speaker 1: work again. And so this is what happens when the
• 35:28
  Speaker 1: nerds have taken over, hostile takeover by the nerds of baseball.
• 35:31
  Speaker 1: They fall in love with projections. They forget about the
• 35:34
  Speaker 1: reality that life gets in the way. You get older,
• 35:38
  Speaker 1: you have family responsibilities, and you've got relatives that start
• 35:43
  Speaker 1: getting older, they drop dead. You got to deal with
• 35:45
  Speaker 1: all that crap called life, and your performance often falls off,
• 35:48
  Speaker 1: and they just don't factor that in to the equation.
• 35:51
  Speaker 1: So do me a favorite text me. I want you
• 35:53
  Speaker 1: to text me my friends in Wisconsin, my brother, he
• 35:56
  Speaker 1: didn't listen, he's an appletont just send me a text there.
• 35:59
  Speaker 1: When this guy starts, it's actually hitting and dominating major
• 36:03
  Speaker 1: League Baseball pitching, let me know when that happened until then,
• 36:06
  Speaker 1: he's got a chance to be average. And that's it,
• 36:10
  Speaker 1: and it's just spreadsheet fiction.
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  Speaker 6: To the third degree? This is one big.
• 36:26
  Speaker 1: Ben gets grilled Cooblo.
• 36:28
  Speaker 4: Calvin Johnson said in an interview on Monday that it's
• 36:31
  Speaker 4: only a matter of time until someone breaks his single
• 36:33
  Speaker 4: season receiving record. He said there's no doubt it'll happen
• 36:36
  Speaker 4: when the NFL goes to eighteen games, Ben, do you
• 36:38
  Speaker 4: think it'll happen before then?
• 36:40
  Speaker 1: Yeah, We've come real close. Cooper Cup came the closest
• 36:44
  Speaker 1: to breaking Calvin Johnson's record with the Rams a couple
• 36:46
  Speaker 1: years ago. Justin Jefferson had a monster year a few
• 36:50
  Speaker 1: years ago with the Vikings. Yeah, I mean, I agree
• 36:52
  Speaker 1: with him. I think it's inevitable it's going to be broken,
• 36:54
  Speaker 1: but it is seventeen games instead of sixty.
• 36:56
  Speaker 4: Next forty nine Ers fullback Kyle Yustchek said that the
• 37:00
  Speaker 4: Niners are being overlooked, but he likes it that way, saying,
• 37:02
  Speaker 4: if people want to forget about us. That's fantastic, Ben.
• 37:05
  Speaker 4: Are the forty nine ers being overlooked as contenders?
• 37:07
  Speaker 1: No, they're not a real contender, So they're getting the
• 37:09
  Speaker 1: attention they want. I will promise you, though, Koper Loop,
• 37:12
  Speaker 1: should the Niners outperform expectations, the same, Kyle check will say,
• 37:16
  Speaker 1: nobody thought we could do it, Nobody believed in us.
• 37:24
  Speaker 1: That's my Kyle. You checked impersonations that I couldn't even
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  Speaker 1: tell it with you. Thank you.
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  Speaker 4: It was reported this week that the Celtics are quote
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  Speaker 4: running the risk of alienating Jalen Brown by shopping him
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  Speaker 4: in trade talks.
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  Speaker 1: God forbid.
• 37:36
  Speaker 4: If something doesn't materialize, Brown could ask for a trade himself.
• 37:39
  Speaker 1: Oh no, Ben, do you think it's going to come
• 37:41
  Speaker 1: down to that. All indicators are the Celtics are looking
• 37:45
  Speaker 1: to trade anybody and everybody other than Jason Tait and
• 37:48
  Speaker 1: my moles in Boston. That's what they're talking about. They
• 37:51
  Speaker 1: want to reshuffle everything. There's an ownership change coming to
• 37:55
  Speaker 1: the Celtics and which is taking place kind of a
• 37:58
  Speaker 1: slow transition in there. So yeah, I would be surprised
• 38:02
  Speaker 1: if Jaylen Brown's on the Celtics next year. I'm concerned
• 38:05
  Speaker 1: he might end up on my clippers. I think not
• 38:07
  Speaker 1: a bad player, but I don't know. He's got just
• 38:10
  Speaker 1: got one hand, not too Hey, how do we do coobolo?
• 38:13
  Speaker 1: You pass? They win, chick.
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  Speaker 6: Exciting new she wants to talk to you, great tramise.
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  Speaker 1: That's the rumor.
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  Speaker 7: I hope you guys are having love and love luck
• 39:08
  Speaker 7: in your love life, love in your luck life.
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  Speaker 1: I don't know, easy for use or not. Yeah, all right,
• 39:14
  Speaker 1: are you ready for questions?
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  Speaker 6: Yes?
• 39:16
  Speaker 1: All right, it's very exciting here we have actual questions
• 39:19
  Speaker 1: from actual listeners. JT. The Wiman writes, and he says,
• 39:23
  Speaker 1: if the man grills the food for dinner, is it
• 39:26
  Speaker 1: fair to assume that the woman should be the dish
• 39:30
  Speaker 1: do the dishes after dinner?
• 39:34
  Speaker 6: Well?
• 39:35
  Speaker 7: I do like the tit for tat mentality on that,
• 39:38
  Speaker 7: but usually the females also making side dishes and doing
• 39:42
  Speaker 7: other things too. I like the group activity all around,
• 39:45
  Speaker 7: even grilling together, like let me get you a beer
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  Speaker 7: while you're grilling. You know it can all be a
• 39:50
  Speaker 7: group activity.
• 39:51
  Speaker 1: Well, I am the dishwasher at the Malord Manchion. It
• 39:53
  Speaker 1: is a I also cook a lot. You have a
• 39:55
  Speaker 1: washing machine too, Well, let's call the dish washer. My
• 39:58
  Speaker 1: mind's broken right now, there's more on that. It was
• 40:01
  Speaker 1: fixed and then it broke again, so it's a bit
• 40:03
  Speaker 1: of a problem.
• 40:03
  Speaker 7: You're doing manual hand washing, yes, which is really apporting.
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  Speaker 7: Now do you do it because you're more meticulous and
• 40:09
  Speaker 7: you like it done a certain way?
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  Speaker 4: Yes?
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  Speaker 1: Yes. The reason I did it is because I used
• 40:13
  Speaker 1: to My wife used to do the dishes, and then
• 40:16
  Speaker 1: I one time looked in the dishwasher at the bottom
• 40:18
  Speaker 1: there were pieces of spaghetti and peas and macaroni and
• 40:21
  Speaker 1: it made me. It made me disgust it. So I
• 40:24
  Speaker 1: was like, all right, I better do that. I'll do it. Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: I don't want I don't want that. So yeah, I
• 40:29
  Speaker 1: wash everything off. Let's see what else do we have.
• 40:31
  Speaker 1: Lady Sideburns rights In says, what are some good safe
• 40:34
  Speaker 1: words for playtime? That's the lady side.
• 40:36
  Speaker 7: Oh, safe words are fun and a great way to communicate.
• 40:41
  Speaker 1: You know.
• 40:42
  Speaker 7: It could be anything, nothing too simple, though, it can't
• 40:45
  Speaker 7: be like, oh I love it like, it can't be
• 40:47
  Speaker 7: something like that, right. It has to be something that
• 40:49
  Speaker 7: you wouldn't here normally.
• 40:51
  Speaker 1: It can't be something that you might say.
• 40:53
  Speaker 7: Right, so you would never say cum quat when you're
• 40:55
  Speaker 7: going to you know, kum quot. Could be fun.
• 40:59
  Speaker 1: Vegetables, Yes, yeah, we love our vegetables. Yes, all right,
• 41:02
  Speaker 1: let's say hello to James in Tacoma on the phones.
• 41:06
  Speaker 1: It's the Queen of Hearts. Say hello to Lorena James. Hello,
• 41:10
  Speaker 1: Hi James.
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  Speaker 7: What kind of love question you got?
• 41:14
  Speaker 1: Well?
• 41:14
  Speaker 5: Question is next week.
• 41:17
  Speaker 1: Seattle is having her annual naked bike ride fun and Mike. Yeah, Mike,
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  Speaker 1: doctor Toby.
• 41:23
  Speaker 7: I need to exercise more.
• 41:25
  Speaker 1: My question is I weigh three hundred and ten pounds.
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  Speaker 2: So do you think do you think.
• 41:30
  Speaker 7: Me riding a bike knew me a great exercise for me?
• 41:33
  Speaker 1: I mean, yeah, I get out there. I wouldn't want
• 41:38
  Speaker 1: to be the bike seat. You might want to get
• 41:41
  Speaker 1: one of those whites how we rode a bike.
• 41:45
  Speaker 7: I don't even have a bike right now. If I
• 41:47
  Speaker 7: can borrow one.
• 41:48
  Speaker 6: Plus I'm also fifty seven years old.
• 41:50
  Speaker 1: Oh yeah, i'd be perfect. You'd be the star of
• 41:52
  Speaker 1: the show there. Fifty seven year old, three hundred pound.
• 41:54
  Speaker 7: Naked to get a mini bike, one of those miniature bikes.
• 41:57
  Speaker 1: Even better, get a tricycle.
• 41:58
  Speaker 7: Yeah, are you in a cycle?
• 42:01
  Speaker 1: And think of the women that will be all over you? There,
• 42:03
  Speaker 1: James that women love three hundred pound men on tricycles.
• 42:07
  Speaker 1: Nice to thank you, James. There you go enjoy your
• 42:10
  Speaker 1: naked bike ride. Andrew is in Bakersfield, Hello Andrew, Hey.
• 42:16
  Speaker 6: Ben, A cinnamon roll is a dang donut?
• 42:20
  Speaker 1: Right?
• 42:20
  Speaker 4: Uh?
• 42:21
  Speaker 1: Ferg Dog says, how can I mean that's not what
• 42:23
  Speaker 1: he called about? How can I get my girl to
• 42:26
  Speaker 1: shut up about Love Island while I'm trying to watch
• 42:28
  Speaker 1: the beautiful game soccer?
• 42:30
  Speaker 7: Put a donut in her mouth?
• 42:31
  Speaker 2: Hell?
• 42:31
  Speaker 6: Question is that?
• 42:33
  Speaker 1: Well, there's a joke there, and then skip over the joke.
• 42:36
  Speaker 1: Why not did I do the one from Rob? In
• 42:39
  Speaker 1: the three to one? Rob Roada says, if you start
• 42:41
  Speaker 1: courting a mate and you find out that her favorite
• 42:44
  Speaker 1: team is your team's main rival, is it a bad
• 42:48
  Speaker 1: idea to move forward?
• 42:50
  Speaker 7: I've gotten this question before, and I like the rivalry
• 42:53
  Speaker 7: in that relationship. But I do see a lot of
• 42:56
  Speaker 7: girls jump ship and join their men's team, so you
• 42:58
  Speaker 7: know I sell out.
• 43:00
  Speaker 1: Late night drug tester quickly says, is it bad taste
• 43:03
  Speaker 1: to have the newly married woman's and daya on my
• 43:06
  Speaker 1: hall pass list?
• 43:07
  Speaker 6: No?
• 43:08
  Speaker 7: Keep her right there, as that's where she should be.
• 43:10
  Speaker 1: That's where she belongs.
• 43:11
  Speaker 6: Right there, she'd be on my list too.
• 43:13
  Speaker 1: Really, oh interesting, that'll be next week.
• 43:16
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• 43:24
  Speaker 2: and the password.
• 43:25
  Speaker 6: Is password, you idiot. Password the word Game of the Stars.
• 43:31
  Speaker 6: Here's Ben Maler, all right to it?
• 43:33
  Speaker 1: Jed? Who fled's gonna play? Hello?
• 43:35
  Speaker 2: Jed?
• 43:38
  Speaker 6: I'm Jed?
• 43:40
  Speaker 1: Who a you teaming up with Jay? You have me?
• 43:41
  Speaker 1: Lorena or Coop? Let's go with hurry let's hoa Lorenna Lyon?
• 43:49
  Speaker 1: All right, Mark on the north end? Hello, Mark, welcome,
• 43:54
  Speaker 1: good to have you? You got me?
• 43:55
  Speaker 6: Or Coop?
• 43:57
  Speaker 1: I'm going with the man. You all right? You're out
• 43:59
  Speaker 1: of the show, Coop, Okay, here we go. Listen the
• 44:01
  Speaker 1: words I said, Cooper Rye all right, one to ten,
• 44:04
  Speaker 1: number four, Jed? You say number four, Lorrain and number four,
• 44:08
  Speaker 1: we're number four.
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  Speaker 7: This one's a good one. Let's go for a champion.
• 44:15
  Speaker 1: Winner. No, it's not it a good clue. Let's go
• 44:20
  Speaker 1: really wasn't. How about she said champing? How about star.
• 44:29
  Speaker 6: MVP?
• 44:30
  Speaker 1: No, all right, that's not I'll go ahead, Lorraine. Super
• 44:35
  Speaker 1: You didn't say it, right, Super, you still did Super, No,
• 44:40
  Speaker 1: don't help her out.
• 44:41
  Speaker 6: It wasn't.
• 44:41
  Speaker 7: I wasn't trying to do a Mallard maneuver.
• 44:43
  Speaker 1: But I mean, I guess I.
• 44:45
  Speaker 6: Could have word.
• 44:46
  Speaker 1: Go ahead, y'all talk too much. We're gonna go to
• 44:48
  Speaker 1: the next one. Y'all talk to much?
• 44:49
  Speaker 2: No, get it.
• 44:49
  Speaker 1: You gotta get it, Super, I got yeah, all right, Mark?
• 44:56
  Speaker 1: Picking number one to ten? Oh my god, the number one?
• 45:01
  Speaker 1: How about incarcerated?
• 45:07
  Speaker 6: Prison?
• 45:08
  Speaker 1: No?
• 45:09
  Speaker 7: Good one, good one.
• 45:10
  Speaker 6: Let's go with detain Jed, detained and incarcerated.
• 45:17
  Speaker 1: You should sounds like you should be like this should
• 45:19
  Speaker 1: be the chid.
• 45:19
  Speaker 7: The what should we kid? What should we gid?
• 45:21
  Speaker 1: He doesn't know you should know this. This is something
• 45:23
  Speaker 1: that happens to a lot. But I got it. Imprisoned, imprisive, No,
• 45:28
  Speaker 1: go ahead, Mark, arrested. Yeah, there you go. Take that.
• 45:32
  Speaker 1: We have the lead. I think we have the lead.
• 45:33
  Speaker 1: I think it's tied to go ahead. Picking a hurry up, Jed? Hurry?
• 45:41
  Speaker 1: What do you say?
• 45:41
  Speaker 2: No?
• 45:43
  Speaker 6: Hurry?
• 45:47
  Speaker 1: Rush, Come on, that's bull crab, that's not right. Protest, protest, protest, protest,