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Thursday Thunderdome w/GiraffeNeckMarc · The Favorites Sports Betting Podcast

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  Speaker 1: Welcome to the Favorites, the podcast from the Volume podcast Network.
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  Speaker 1: It's Thursday. That means it's time to enter the Thursday Thunderdome.
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  Speaker 1: On today's show, our special guests welcompete alongside my co host,
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  Speaker 1: my companion, my BFF, professional sports better Simon Hunter, in
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  Speaker 1: an epic test of wagers and wits that's made this
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  Speaker 1: show the most celebrated sports betting trivia show in history
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  Speaker 1: and the marvel of the Western world. Simon. That introduction
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  Speaker 1: gets more mortal of up to every single time we
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  Speaker 1: do this show. I see that you have left the
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  Speaker 1: beautiful beaches of Lake Tahoe and you are now back
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  Speaker 1: in your hovel on the East Coast, a new beggining
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  Speaker 1: reason for them. Then, I'm just kid. I want to
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  Speaker 1: sing the all the songs, but England's in the finals. Chat,
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  Speaker 1: We've made it, it's coming home, We've done It's I
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  Speaker 1: am just listen. Only one of us is allowed to
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  Speaker 1: sing on this podcast. I cut myself off. I didn't
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  Speaker 1: go full a song, but I'm just so excited right now.
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  Speaker 1: I'm excited for you. Look, I think it was last
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  Speaker 1: week or the week before when we were on the
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  Speaker 1: podcast and we were watching England beat Germany and they
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  Speaker 1: scored both of their goals while we were on the show,
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  Speaker 1: and you know, joke lost your marbles and had to
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  Speaker 1: leave the show for a second. And I was thinking
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  Speaker 1: about you yesterday while watching UH the England Denmark game.
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  Speaker 1: You know, we have been bought by Better Collective. They
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  Speaker 1: are a English company. We had a present a two
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  Speaker 1: hour presentation this morning for our new bosses at Better Collective,
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  Speaker 1: the first one that we've had for them, reviewing the business,
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  Speaker 1: going over our future plans UH since the acquisition. And
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  Speaker 1: I watched the game yesterday and I was rooting for
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  Speaker 1: England because I'm rooting for you, and I'm a bit
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  Speaker 1: of an England phile, and I just love England generally,
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  Speaker 1: but part of me wanted Denmark just because I wanted
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  Speaker 1: my new bosses to be in as good a mood
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  Speaker 1: as possible when we gave our presentation about the business
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  Speaker 1: this morning. I don't care what even happens anymore. I
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  Speaker 1: I do. I do hate Italy, but not as much
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  Speaker 1: as I hated Germany or the French. Those are the
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  Speaker 1: big ones in England. We really hate the French, We
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  Speaker 1: really hate the Germans. So I know it's gonna happen.
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  Speaker 1: There's no way England beats Italy. Italy is so much
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  Speaker 1: better than us. I love the bookmakers. They made us
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  Speaker 1: favorite because they know Joe Public's gonna bet England. Most
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  Speaker 1: people are gonna bet England. But I'm peaking right now, Chat,
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  Speaker 1: so I'm just gonna be celebrating until the game, which
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  Speaker 1: we all know it's gonna go to penalty kicks. Harry,
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  Speaker 1: he's gonna hit the crossbar, he's gonna miss. Italy's gonna
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  Speaker 1: win and penalty kick. So it's a it's a hard life.
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  Speaker 1: It was an amazing match yesterday. Truly loved it. I'm
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  Speaker 1: really excited for you. I am going to be rooting
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  Speaker 1: for you and for all our friends across the pond
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  Speaker 1: on the British Isles, because that's what I would like
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  Speaker 1: to see happen. Okay. Also, I love the days. Simon
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  Speaker 1: your first challenger. He is a young content king. His
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  Speaker 1: passion for all things baseball have helped him amass a
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  Speaker 1: YouTube audience of almost two hundred thousand subscribers, which is
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  Speaker 1: I'm honestly jealous of his YouTube audience. Considered the greatest
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  Speaker 1: South Carolina game cod Baseball product since Jackie Bradley Jr.
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  Speaker 1: It's Mark Luino a k A giraffe neck Mark. What's
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  Speaker 1: going on? Body? What's up? Everybody? Thanks for having me on,
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  Speaker 1: super excited and yes, go game. Cox is always represent
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  Speaker 1: South Carolina whenever we can. I feel like your neck
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  Speaker 1: is not as giraffe like as your name has sort
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  Speaker 1: of promised. When I was in my younger days, I
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  Speaker 1: filled into my body a little bit more recently. You know,
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  Speaker 1: when I was around seventeen eighteen nineteen, the next seemed
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  Speaker 1: a little bit more elongated than it does now. Did
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  Speaker 1: did you give yourself that nickname or did someone give
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  Speaker 1: it to you? So I was streaming on Twitch and
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  Speaker 1: it was under a different name at the time. It
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  Speaker 1: was Jubiling Gamer, which I was doing and basically I
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  Speaker 1: was playing FIFA opening packs and my Twitch account got
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  Speaker 1: banned because one of my roommates at South Carolina came
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  Speaker 1: in and mooned the camera. So my Twitch account got
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  Speaker 1: banned in because everyone was making fun of how long
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  Speaker 1: my neck was at the time, like, oh, you have
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  Speaker 1: a giraftneck. I was like the best way to get
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  Speaker 1: these thousands of viewers back to my channel and watching
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  Speaker 1: After I got banned changed the name to Draft Neck,
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  Speaker 1: so that's that's where it came from. I can't believe
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  Speaker 1: that somebody in college mooned alive audience. That just doesn't
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  Speaker 1: seem college. Like Simon, your second challenger today, is one
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  Speaker 1: of the hardest working, longest, tenured, handsomest men behind the
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  Speaker 1: scenes at the Action Network. Also very much in front
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  Speaker 1: of the scenes because he would do his Saturday you know,
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  Speaker 1: hangover videos. His passion for the world of sports betting
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  Speaker 1: is eclipsed only by his passion for tasty. Taylor Swift
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  Speaker 1: jam sessions are very own. Jimmy Garoppolo looklike Danny Donna Hue.
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  Speaker 1: What's going on? Buddy? What's up? Guys? Thanks for having me? Yeah. Unfortunately, yeah,
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  Speaker 1: I'm not in my natural state today. I'm very clear minded,
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  Speaker 1: so I can only imagine that's gonna hurt me. You
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  Speaker 1: are probably uh you are You mean you're not hungover,
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  Speaker 1: but you probably are overcaffeinated. I'm Duncan. This is definitely true.
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  Speaker 1: How many Duncan donuts have you had today? One and
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  Speaker 1: a half? You want to hear something the shocking chat.
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  Speaker 1: I've never drank a full cup of coffee in my
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  Speaker 1: entire life. I've had a sip, never dranking a full
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  Speaker 1: cup of coffee. Don't like it. I'm just I'm British tea.
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  Speaker 1: I just drink tea if I'm gonna drink something like that,
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  Speaker 1: but I was gonna go through. I would love to
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  Speaker 1: hear what nicknames we would all have based on the internet,
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  Speaker 1: because I mean, you got all the light. That's a
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  Speaker 1: nice that's not that bad being called giraff snack like
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  Speaker 1: off top my head. Just this week someone told me
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  Speaker 1: I looked like a potato with down syndrome. I feel
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  Speaker 1: like I want to hear what Chad's is big? What
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  Speaker 1: what do people call you? Chad? God? I don't know.
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  Speaker 1: I can't. I can't think of anything mean because I'm
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  Speaker 1: just not that self critical. You can think of it
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  Speaker 1: for me. Signon, Here we go. Should we play the game?
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  Speaker 1: We do it? Here's how it's played today. You'll answer
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  Speaker 1: to two kinds of questions. Traditional trivia questions about sports, sports, betting,
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  Speaker 1: and the world at large. Second, completely subjective and totally assinine,
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  Speaker 1: open endd questions or prompts that I alone will judge.
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  Speaker 1: To accumulate points, you must answer the trivia questions correctly,
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  Speaker 1: and also convinced me that your responses to those open
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  Speaker 1: ended prompts are better than the responses from your opponents. Reminder,
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  Speaker 1: I'm rooting for Simon Hunter. Let's begin Part one. Got
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  Speaker 1: a little uh Atlanta themed question here ready. In the
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  Speaker 1: NBA's Eastern Conference Finals, the upstart Atlanta Hawks fell to
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  Speaker 1: the Milwaukee Box, adding one more chapter to Georgia's long
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  Speaker 1: history of sports shortcomings. Let's look at a few recent examples. Mark.
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  Speaker 1: In the two thousand eighteen College Football Playoff National Championship Game,
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  Speaker 1: the Georgia Bulldogs blew a thirteen point halftime lead. They
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  Speaker 1: lost to Alabama in overtime after the Crimson Tide brought
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  Speaker 1: in freshman Ta taga via Looa at halftime to replace
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  Speaker 1: this starting quarterback who later transferred to Oklahoma and is
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  Speaker 1: now a starter in the NFL. Mark, this one's for you, okay,
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  Speaker 1: So that quarterback would be Jalen Hurts. Well done. I
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  Speaker 1: feel like Mark is going to be really good at
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  Speaker 1: this game. I do a lot of trivia on my channel.
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  Speaker 1: Granted it's baseball, but I've got sports knowledge. I'm in
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  Speaker 1: the zone. I feel like he's as he knows everything
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  Speaker 1: about Danny. Danny the two thousand four two thousand five
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  Speaker 1: Atlanta Hawks finished with a record of thirteen and sixty nine,
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  Speaker 1: the worst winning percentage of any protein in Atlanta sports history.
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  Speaker 1: But that team was coached by the talented Mike Woodson,
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  Speaker 1: and the Hawks record would improve each of his six
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  Speaker 1: seasons in Atlanta. Today, Woodson is the coach of this
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  Speaker 1: Big Ten team, returning to his alma mater after Celtics
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  Speaker 1: coach Brad Stevens allegedly turned the job down. Well, thank
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  Speaker 1: you for throwing him that, Brad Stevens hint at the end, Yes,
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  Speaker 1: this would be Indiana in a university. And if we're
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  Speaker 1: gonna be singing Indiana, Indiana, Indiana, we're all for you.
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  Speaker 1: We will fight for the cream and crimson and the
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  Speaker 1: glory of old ayou. I don't need to go on,
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  Speaker 1: but go Hoosiers, all right, Simon. Super Bowl fifty one
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  Speaker 1: is considered the own jewel of Atlanta sports heartbreak. The
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  Speaker 1: Falcons blue third quarter lead before losing to the Patriots
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  Speaker 1: in overtime. Although some fans blame ex coach Dan Quinn,
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  Speaker 1: many more have scapegoaded this now departed offensive coordinator Kyle Shannon.
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  Speaker 1: That is definitely why I blame as well. I gotta
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  Speaker 1: say these were the easiest first round questions we've ever had.
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  Speaker 1: Here's the prompt. Letdowns have been the norm for the
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  Speaker 1: city of Atlanta. They've hosted NFL, NBA, and Major League
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  Speaker 1: Baseball franchises since night and in nearly one and sixty
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  Speaker 1: combined seasons, their teams have captured just a single title,
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  Speaker 1: the Braves World Series. For this prompt, your job is
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  Speaker 1: to cast judgment on another pro sports city. If you
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  Speaker 1: had to select another town to endure a similar stint
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  Speaker 1: of endless heartbreak effective of the Italy, who would you
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  Speaker 1: choose and why? This is a good one. Oh my god,
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  Speaker 1: I know what I would do simon Europe first, such
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  Speaker 1: a layup. Thanks for let me go first. Boston. We
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  Speaker 1: hate you, Boston. Everyone hates Boston. As a Philadelphia sports fan,
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  Speaker 1: it's just never ending heartbreak from them. I think we
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  Speaker 1: got them with the three that we had, the three
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  Speaker 1: oh comeback against the Boston Bruins, which was leaving day.
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  Speaker 1: We didn't want to stand the Cup. We lost Stanley Cup.
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  Speaker 1: Next year the Bruins beat the crap out of us
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  Speaker 1: and they go win a Stanley Cup. I hate, I
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  Speaker 1: hate Boston. Luckily we beat them on the one Super Bowl.
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  Speaker 1: But yeah, if I could cur someone for the next
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  Speaker 1: hundred years, it has to be the people's self proclaimed
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  Speaker 1: title town, Boston. Boston. We all hate you, Listen. I
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  Speaker 1: can't disagree. It was my first instinct. It is obnoxious,
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  Speaker 1: it is insufferable. It is everything that you don't want
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  Speaker 1: to be a part of if you are not someone
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  Speaker 1: who lives in the city and roots for those teams,
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  Speaker 1: which by the way, include Foods. Danny Donahue, Boston native.
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  Speaker 1: He's up right now. So now I see why I
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  Speaker 1: was invited on today. So thanks again for having me. Um.
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  Speaker 1: I get it, I get it. It's an easy answer,
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  Speaker 1: But Chad, it's a reactive answer. It's easy to say,
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  Speaker 1: here's a team that's doing well, here's a city that's
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  Speaker 1: doing well, and and I want to just cast sadness
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  Speaker 1: on them for eternity. That's easy. I'm going to give
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  Speaker 1: you a proactive answer, and it might mean that I'm
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  Speaker 1: never allowed back on this show. No, not by you,
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  Speaker 1: not by you, by our our lovely producer Matt Mitchell.
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  Speaker 1: Because there is a city that's getting too too good
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  Speaker 1: at football, and it will ruin them Oh my god.
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  Speaker 1: I can't believe you're gonna go there. There are certain
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  Speaker 1: things in life and sports that are just correct, and
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  Speaker 1: Buffalo not winning football championships, not winning Super Bowls is correct.
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  Speaker 1: We need them to remain Builds mafia so that we
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  Speaker 1: can still all like them, and I'll root for him
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  Speaker 1: if they win. They're no longer builds mafia, so I
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  Speaker 1: am to can get proactive approach here and saying I
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  Speaker 1: want Buffalo to remain heartbroken. Wow. Wow, that is one
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  Speaker 1: of the meanest things that anybody has ever said to
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  Speaker 1: Matt Mitchter, who is exhibiting extraordinary professionalism by not jumping
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  Speaker 1: onto the podcast right now. You're the reason why I
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  Speaker 1: get up at four o'clock in the afternoon and pump
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  Speaker 1: iron until my chest is positively sick. I'm just gonna
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  Speaker 1: come right out and say it. I hate you. I
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  Speaker 1: hate you forever. I will say this, I don't disagree
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  Speaker 1: with your logic. Years ago, before the Cubs one of
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  Speaker 1: the World Series, a buddy of mine, his name is
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  Speaker 1: Rick Talonder, who is a prominent columnist at the Chicago
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  Speaker 1: Suntimes and for years had been a senior writer at
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  Speaker 1: Sports Illustrated and one of the more decorated sports writers
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  Speaker 1: of the past thirty forty years. He's from Chicago and
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  Speaker 1: he and I were talking before the Cubs one of
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  Speaker 1: the World Series. He was like, I wouldn't mind if
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  Speaker 1: the Cubs never won the World Series because part of
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  Speaker 1: them Conte you need to lose is what makes them
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  Speaker 1: such a lovable, interesting story, and when they win the
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  Speaker 1: World Series, they become just another team. Now, I say
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  Speaker 1: this looking across my podcast studio at the w Flag
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  Speaker 1: and the World Series ticket that I had from two
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  Speaker 1: thousand sixteen. Wouldn't trade it for the world. I want
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  Speaker 1: that from Mitchell. I like your answer, Danny down here,
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  Speaker 1: it is evil. You delivered it with class, So I'm
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  Speaker 1: putting you ahead of signment right now. Mark, you got
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  Speaker 1: some catching. Yeah. So I think this is a little
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  Speaker 1: bit of a ricochet shot at Simon. Unfortunately, I don't
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  Speaker 1: know what it is with the guests taking shots at
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  Speaker 1: the people who are part of this. But I hate
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  Speaker 1: the city of Philadelphia and I want nothing good to
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  Speaker 1: ever happen to any team in that city. I mean,
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  Speaker 1: my saying is it's a garbage city filled with garbage people.
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  Speaker 1: They threw snowballs at Santa Claus. They ate horse poop
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  Speaker 1: after they won the Super Bowl the Eagle, their fans
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  Speaker 1: are deplorable. I hate that city. I feel like it's
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  Speaker 1: such a second rate city, the armpit of America. It's awful.
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  Speaker 1: Nothing good should ever happen in Philadelphia. Their cheese steaks.
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  Speaker 1: You can get a good cheese steak anywhere. Wow wow Wow,
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  Speaker 1: garbage city, second rate city, bad cheese steaks. Doesn't want
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  Speaker 1: anything good to happen. The vitriol level of Philadelphia on that.
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  Speaker 1: In that answer, Simon, we have to say here, I mean,
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  Speaker 1: the guy with the school in South Carolina doesn't know
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  Speaker 1: what a real city looks like. M this is a
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  Speaker 1: really tough one. I loved. I'm not a I'm not
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  Speaker 1: surprised that Boston and Philly are two of the three answers. Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: and I love the Mark's answer. I thought it was
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  Speaker 1: delivered with passion and energy and creativity. And I loved
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  Speaker 1: how he completely went after Philly and like not just
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  Speaker 1: the city but the people, Like he doesn't want anything
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  Speaker 1: good to happen to the people in Philadelphia, but everything.
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  Speaker 1: By the way, that's also the problem. Buffalo is such
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  Speaker 1: an out of the box answer and feels both thoughtful
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  Speaker 1: and creative and like Danny said, proactive. It's good for
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  Speaker 1: the community of Buffalo. Doesn't win. There's more entertainment if
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  Speaker 1: Buffalo doesn't win. Also, there's that little bit of added
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  Speaker 1: sort of juice and poison against Matt Mitchell. I'm giving
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  Speaker 1: it to Danny down here. Let's go. I knew you'd
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  Speaker 1: see the I knew you'd see the light there. Thank you. Now,
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  Speaker 1: you did a very nice job there. Part two, It
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  Speaker 1: pays to be number one. The Jacksonville Jaguar has just
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  Speaker 1: signed number one overall pick Trevor Lawrence to his rookie contract.
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  Speaker 1: But since a new collective Bargaining agreement changed rookie contracts
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  Speaker 1: in two eleven, these signings have been boring. So let's
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  Speaker 1: look back at some other more eventful contracts for number
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  Speaker 1: one overall picks. Signon. Trevor Lawrences deal pales in comparison
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  Speaker 1: to that of this number one overall pick in two
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  Speaker 1: thousand ten with no cap on rookie contractor let me
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  Speaker 1: finish reading the question, because Matt Mitchell worked so hard
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  Speaker 1: on sort of giving the clues. So this quarterback named
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  Speaker 1: Sam Bradford signed a seventy six million dollar rookie deal
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  Speaker 1: worth more than double that of Trevor Lawrence even before inflation,
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  Speaker 1: but he'd never live up to those lofty expectations. In
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  Speaker 1: eight NFL seasons, he'd earned a reputation as a weak
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  Speaker 1: arm injury prone game manager, including a stint with Simon
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  Speaker 1: the Philadelphiagos which you said he didn't live up to
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  Speaker 1: the hype. You're forgetting about his one preseason game where
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  Speaker 1: threw three touchdowns in the first quarter against the Packers,
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  Speaker 1: which I mean, come on, yeah, that's pretty good for
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  Speaker 1: August football. I feel like he made upwards of a
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  Speaker 1: hundred and fifty million in his in his career in
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  Speaker 1: guarantees because of like one decent game in one season
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  Speaker 1: and someone signed him too some massive, massive guaranteed deal.
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  Speaker 1: But whatever, Simon, you got it. Mark. The record for
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  Speaker 1: the largest signing bonus ever given to a drafted pitcher
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  Speaker 1: was set during the two thousand eleven Major League Baseball Draft,
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  Speaker 1: and despite receiving an eight million dollar bonus, this number
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  Speaker 1: one overall pick has lived up to expectations. Today, ten
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  Speaker 1: years later, he's moved to the American League and is
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  Speaker 1: tied with Jacob D. Graham as the third highest paid
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  Speaker 1: player in baseball. That would be Garrett Cole. Garrett Cole,
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  Speaker 1: This is gonna be an intense game, Danny. You gotta
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  Speaker 1: score just to keep up here, Danny. The number one
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  Speaker 1: pick in the two thousand seven NFL draft was quarterback
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  Speaker 1: and infamous bust JaMarcus Russell. However, his rookie contract was
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  Speaker 1: not the largest in his class. That distinction belonged to
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  Speaker 1: this number two overall pick, who became arguably the greatest
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  Speaker 1: NFL y artificist generation with inarguably the greatest nickname. That
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  Speaker 1: would be Megatron Calvin Johnson who These are freaking all
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  Speaker 1: stars on this trivia show. Nobody's missing any question, and
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  Speaker 1: here's the prompt. The best part about any athletes contracts
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  Speaker 1: are the crazy clauses and bizarre bonuses. For example, when
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  Speaker 1: Manna Ramires signed with a Japanese team at the end
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  Speaker 1: of his career, his contract included unlimited free sushi. And
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  Speaker 1: when Roy Oswald won the deciding game of the two
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  Speaker 1: thousand five NLCS, the Astros gave him a two hundred
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  Speaker 1: thousand dollar bulldozer as his bonus. Now imagine you are
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  Speaker 1: a prized rookie signing your first deal with a pro
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  Speaker 1: sports team. What contract clause would you like to add
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  Speaker 1: to the deal? Danny, I feel like I know this answer,
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  Speaker 1: but give it to me. I actually don't think you
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  Speaker 1: to do Chada. This is a it's a it's a
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  Speaker 1: very simple one. All I want is a perfectly right
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  Speaker 1: banana delivered to me every morning, because I ate a
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  Speaker 1: banana for breakfast every day. But I do my grocery
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  Speaker 1: shopping once a week. That means I'm buying bunches of
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  Speaker 1: seven and I'm buying them green because they need to
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  Speaker 1: last all week. So the first two days at least
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  Speaker 1: are green, the last two days at least are brown,
• 19:04
  Speaker 1: and maybe yet one perfect banana on like a Wednesday
• 19:07
  Speaker 1: or something. I want every day to be that Wednesday.
• 19:10
  Speaker 1: So just deliver me it perfectly right banana every morning,
• 19:13
  Speaker 1: and I'll sign with the Detroit Tigers. I don't care.
• 19:16
  Speaker 1: I love that answer. You're more of a freak than
• 19:19
  Speaker 1: I thought. I agree with you about the bananas. I
• 19:23
  Speaker 1: love bananas. I don't about you. But I put my
• 19:26
  Speaker 1: banana on a little bit of super health bread toast
• 19:30
  Speaker 1: with some peanut butter. Sometimes I put a little bit
• 19:33
  Speaker 1: of cinnamon on top in the morning. Is delicious. And um,
• 19:37
  Speaker 1: I again, like you, I don't like anything close to
• 19:40
  Speaker 1: a green banana. I prefer a ripe to overripe banana.
• 19:43
  Speaker 1: So I completely understand why you'd be very specific in
• 19:46
  Speaker 1: particular about this very good answer, revealing so much more
• 19:50
  Speaker 1: about yourself than I think you probably anticipated on the
• 19:53
  Speaker 1: show Mark, can you beat the beauty and cleanliness of answer?
• 20:00
  Speaker 1: Mine might get a little messy. It's a little more
• 20:03
  Speaker 1: out there, it's a little more exotic. I will sign
• 20:05
  Speaker 1: with any sports team if they could get me a
• 20:07
  Speaker 1: pet giraffe. Now it's also my namesake on YouTube, but
• 20:10
  Speaker 1: it is my favorite animal. It's always been. And these
• 20:13
  Speaker 1: guys are billionaires, they run big companies. They know people
• 20:17
  Speaker 1: who can get me a giraffe. If you can get
• 20:19
  Speaker 1: me a pet giraffe to live in my backyard and
• 20:22
  Speaker 1: wherever my mansion is, with my hundreds of million dollars
• 20:24
  Speaker 1: to the contract I just signed, I will play for
• 20:26
  Speaker 1: your miserable franchise, even in Philadelphia. I'll play for you.
• 20:30
  Speaker 1: Second question, when you get the pet giraffe, would you
• 20:33
  Speaker 1: include in the contract of clause that the maintenance and
• 20:36
  Speaker 1: upkeep of set giraffe, it's habitat, etcetera. UH is paid
• 20:42
  Speaker 1: for by the team in perpetuity. They don't need to
• 20:45
  Speaker 1: worry about like maintaining it. I'll hire the right people
• 20:48
  Speaker 1: with the contract. I just got to take care of
• 20:50
  Speaker 1: my pet giraffe the proper way. I'm also gonna want
• 20:53
  Speaker 1: to feed my draft. I'm gonna have a relationship with it.
• 20:55
  Speaker 1: It's my favorite animal. I want to get to know it.
• 20:58
  Speaker 1: But you get me the animal I'm in. That is
• 21:01
  Speaker 1: very interesting signon. I've actually experienced having a giraft outside
• 21:07
  Speaker 1: my window UH in Africa. Woke up and they're just
• 21:10
  Speaker 1: hanging out. Wait if you'd open up your window and
• 21:11
  Speaker 1: give them food in the morning, so that if you're
• 21:13
  Speaker 1: looking for that experience, I would do pretty cool to
• 21:15
  Speaker 1: have a pet draft, especially the fact that they knock
• 21:17
  Speaker 1: on your window to get food in the morning. I
• 21:19
  Speaker 1: kind of misunderstood the question. I thought I had to
• 21:21
  Speaker 1: be an actual franchise. So I love Kraft Mac and Cheese.
• 21:26
  Speaker 1: I am a truly a child at heart. So if
• 21:28
  Speaker 1: I could sign with the Patriots, and that was part
• 21:30
  Speaker 1: of the clause where you just get never ending free
• 21:32
  Speaker 1: mac and cheese, I would sign with the Patriots, even
• 21:35
  Speaker 1: though I hate them. They're Winners and Freemac and Cheese
• 21:38
  Speaker 1: for Life. So to me, that's a new brand. I
• 21:40
  Speaker 1: would definitely go with the Patriots. I don't even know
• 21:42
  Speaker 1: what to say to that answer. You would sign like Danny's.
• 21:48
  Speaker 1: Danny's is food oriented and it's so simple, and it's
• 21:52
  Speaker 1: like it's not even about the money. It's just about
• 21:55
  Speaker 1: the happiness and joy of that one moment in the
• 21:59
  Speaker 1: morning when he eats the banana. Yours is almost slovenly. Yeah,
• 22:04
  Speaker 1: mine's weird because I like the weird ones too. I
• 22:06
  Speaker 1: like the SpongeBob mac and cheese. I like the little pieces.
• 22:09
  Speaker 1: It's they're more fun to eat. Ken vouch. Oh my gosh,
• 22:18
  Speaker 1: I gotta say. And I know I feel badly about this.
• 22:21
  Speaker 1: I love Danny's answering you Chad, thank you. And I
• 22:24
  Speaker 1: know you're a health guy too, So I had a
• 22:26
  Speaker 1: feeling that banana what would work nicely. Some people don't
• 22:28
  Speaker 1: get that that simple happiness. I am with you, Like,
• 22:32
  Speaker 1: listen to me in the morning. My mornings have become
• 22:35
  Speaker 1: so peak precious, like the ritual of making the stuff
• 22:39
  Speaker 1: that I like to have in the morning. It's become
• 22:41
  Speaker 1: so important to me, like I'm almost upset if I
• 22:43
  Speaker 1: have to start traveling again. So I totally get the
• 22:47
  Speaker 1: consistency and beauty of how you want to start your
• 22:50
  Speaker 1: day with a very specific type of food. I love it,
• 22:54
  Speaker 1: and I love also like you're not asking for too much,
• 22:57
  Speaker 1: one thing that is hard to get that will just
• 22:59
  Speaker 1: make your life better. That's the beauty in it. He
• 23:01
  Speaker 1: tells me a lot about who you are. By the way,
• 23:04
  Speaker 1: Mark incredibly greedy and outrageous. Simon, he's just like he's
• 23:10
  Speaker 1: fucking stop. He just wants to eat mac and cheese. So, Danny, congratulations,
• 23:14
  Speaker 1: you now lead. You have four points. Mark has two points.
• 23:18
  Speaker 1: Simon has two points. Where we got a lot of
• 23:20
  Speaker 1: game left. We got a lot of game left. Part
• 23:22
  Speaker 1: of three. Lord Stanley's Cup. The Stanley Cup Final ended
• 23:26
  Speaker 1: last night with the Tampa Bay Lightning beating the Montreal
• 23:30
  Speaker 1: Canadiens for one to win their second straight Stanley Cup.
• 23:36
  Speaker 1: To celebrate, let's find out how much you guys know
• 23:41
  Speaker 1: about the Stanley Cup itself, Danny. The Stanley Cup was
• 23:45
  Speaker 1: originally a gift from Frederick Arthur Stanley, better known as
• 23:49
  Speaker 1: the Lord Stanley of Preston, who served as the Governor
• 23:52
  Speaker 1: General of Canada in the late nineteenth century. This position
• 23:56
  Speaker 1: still exists today, with governors Generals serve as a vice
• 24:01
  Speaker 1: regal representative of the Canadian monarch, a royal title currently
• 24:07
  Speaker 1: held by this person. Name any monarch you've heard of.
• 24:13
  Speaker 1: Oh no, I'm gonna name any Canadian person I've heard of.
• 24:16
  Speaker 1: Go ahead, justin Trudeau. Well you're wrong. The Canadian monarch
• 24:22
  Speaker 1: we are referring to is also the English monarch, Queen
• 24:26
  Speaker 1: Elizabeth the Second. Okay, good to know Canada, of course,
• 24:31
  Speaker 1: once upon a time, being part of the British Empire mark.
• 24:36
  Speaker 1: A total of three Stanley Cups exists in the world.
• 24:39
  Speaker 1: One is the Presentation Cup, the one awarded to the
• 24:42
  Speaker 1: winning team on the ice. There's also a replica Cup
• 24:45
  Speaker 1: which is used as a stand in when the Presentation
• 24:48
  Speaker 1: Cup is unavailable, but the original Cup, the one originally
• 24:52
  Speaker 1: presented by Lord Stanley and used from eight to nine seventy,
• 24:56
  Speaker 1: is now safely stored in the vault room at the
• 24:59
  Speaker 1: Hockey Hall of Fame, located in this city, the largest
• 25:02
  Speaker 1: in Canada. Uh, we're gonna go with Quebec. Wow, the
• 25:09
  Speaker 1: answers have just fallen off a fucking cliff. First, Danny
• 25:13
  Speaker 1: Donahue doesn't know about Queen Elizabeth. And now you're going
• 25:16
  Speaker 1: with Quebec city in Canada. What about Toronto? Oh yeah,
• 25:23
  Speaker 1: that place exists. The Blue Jays haven't played there in
• 25:25
  Speaker 1: like two years. That city is not relevant Toronto for
• 25:29
  Speaker 1: the record. Uh. When I was a big, you know,
• 25:32
  Speaker 1: big wig headhun show with ESPN, the Stanley Cup came
• 25:35
  Speaker 1: to ESPN one day and I had invited it into
• 25:39
  Speaker 1: our morning meeting and the presenter took it out of
• 25:42
  Speaker 1: the box. It had his gloves on. Uh, he stood
• 25:45
  Speaker 1: it up on the table. We got to see it
• 25:48
  Speaker 1: and look at it. And and I will say, even
• 25:50
  Speaker 1: though I'm not a hockey guy in any way, it
• 25:53
  Speaker 1: is a sight to behold and it it does give
• 25:55
  Speaker 1: you butterflies to think about the history of the Stanley Cup.
• 25:58
  Speaker 1: It is an incredible looking trophy. To look at the
• 26:00
  Speaker 1: engraved names. It's really, um, it's really something special. When
• 26:04
  Speaker 1: your true story. I could have I could have saw
• 26:07
  Speaker 1: the Stanley Cup in person. As a child, I chose
• 26:10
  Speaker 1: to go see Pocahontas and said, we all make our mistakes.
• 26:15
  Speaker 1: I was eight. Now I get it, totally get it.
• 26:18
  Speaker 1: Um Simon, the Stanley Cup. This is your chance to
• 26:20
  Speaker 1: make it up. The Stanley Cup is just like us.
• 26:22
  Speaker 1: It's not a perfect There are two famous team names
• 26:26
  Speaker 1: misspelled on the Cup. One is for the seventy two Bruins,
• 26:30
  Speaker 1: with the word Boston spelled with queues instead of Oh's.
• 26:34
  Speaker 1: The second misspelling or You're gonna love This is for
• 26:38
  Speaker 1: this other East Coast team, the one champions and the
• 26:42
  Speaker 1: favorite team of your favorite Action Network employee. Thank you
• 26:48
  Speaker 1: for the lab Chad. The Islanders New York Islanders spelled
• 26:53
  Speaker 1: on the Stanley Cup Islanders I L L A and
• 26:57
  Speaker 1: d E R S Danny. Then games of twelve women
• 27:01
  Speaker 1: appear on the Stanley Cup. The first was Marguerite Norris
• 27:05
  Speaker 1: in nineteen fifty five, who served as president for this franchise.
• 27:09
  Speaker 1: The winners of eleven Stanley Cups, the most of any
• 27:13
  Speaker 1: American team. Gonna go with the Red Wings. The Red
• 27:17
  Speaker 1: Wings mark you've got some catching up to do. According
• 27:21
  Speaker 1: to legend in Hive, the Stanley Cup had a rather
• 27:24
  Speaker 1: wet evening after the winning team drunk on victory and
• 27:28
  Speaker 1: also alcohol, kicked it into the canal. In this city,
• 27:32
  Speaker 1: the capital of Canada, they have a now defunct Triple
• 27:36
  Speaker 1: A baseball franchise Ottawa nothing gets by me except the
• 27:41
  Speaker 1: largest city in Canada. No, haply not simon. Two young
• 27:46
  Speaker 1: people have experienced this Christian religious right inside the Stanley Cup.
• 27:51
  Speaker 1: The most recent was at the request of Red Wings
• 27:54
  Speaker 1: player Thomas Holmstrom in two thousand eight. Um to get
• 27:59
  Speaker 1: married with the Stanley Cup. There no religious right. Yeah,
• 28:06
  Speaker 1: a young person experiences I got this. I forget the
• 28:10
  Speaker 1: name is the Jewish thing, isn't it? No, it's got
• 28:15
  Speaker 1: to be uh baptized right, boom baptism bang sigmon. I
• 28:20
  Speaker 1: should take away a point a for not even knowing
• 28:23
  Speaker 1: what the Jewish thing could be? Did you are you
• 28:25
  Speaker 1: thinking like that someone got a brisk they had their
• 28:28
  Speaker 1: foreskin cut off the Stanley Cup. Yeah, and that's what
• 28:32
  Speaker 1: I was thinking, like they put they put the foreskin
• 28:33
  Speaker 1: in the cup. Jesus correct. Could someone get this guy
• 28:37
  Speaker 1: some fucking mac and cheese? All right, here we go,
• 28:40
  Speaker 1: here's the prompt. It is hockey tradition that every player
• 28:44
  Speaker 1: on the Stanley Cup winning team gets one day with
• 28:46
  Speaker 1: the cup. But winning the Stanley Cup is hard, especially
• 28:49
  Speaker 1: if you aren't the professional hockey player. So imagine if you,
• 28:52
  Speaker 1: a regular person, were allowed one day with the Stanley Cup.
• 28:56
  Speaker 1: What would you do, Danny Europe first, Okay, so you
• 28:59
  Speaker 1: thought my last answer made me a freak. Just get
• 29:03
  Speaker 1: ready for this. So I have one day with the cup,
• 29:05
  Speaker 1: but I assume I have some days beforehand to prepare
• 29:08
  Speaker 1: for my one day with the cup. So what I'm
• 29:09
  Speaker 1: gonna do is either buy some apple seeds or some
• 29:13
  Speaker 1: apple trees in their infancy stage, to find some land
• 29:16
  Speaker 1: somewhere and set up a row of apple trees. Then
• 29:19
  Speaker 1: on my day with the cup, I'm filling it up
• 29:21
  Speaker 1: with water, watering all these trees so that the coming fall,
• 29:24
  Speaker 1: I have an apple orchard where people can pick apples
• 29:27
  Speaker 1: that were blessed by Lord Stanley himself. And if you
• 29:30
  Speaker 1: don't think that this is a cash cow, I think
• 29:32
  Speaker 1: you're crazy. You know how they like sell the Rosary
• 29:34
  Speaker 1: beads outside the Vatican blessed by the Pope to these apples.
• 29:38
  Speaker 1: You can eat them, but they're, you know, blessed by
• 29:40
  Speaker 1: the Stanley Cup, the Rosary things outside the Vatican. That's
• 29:43
  Speaker 1: the Jewish thing, right I believe. I believe that's right. Yeah, Danny,
• 29:47
  Speaker 1: holy shit, you are bringing it next level today. This
• 29:54
  Speaker 1: is outstanding. Mark. I am always rooting for our guests
• 29:59
  Speaker 1: because they're taking their time and they're usually uh much
• 30:03
  Speaker 1: higher profile and bigger and more important than any of
• 30:05
  Speaker 1: us here at the Action Network. I don't know how
• 30:08
  Speaker 1: you're gonna beat this, Yeah, I don't. I'm just gonna
• 30:11
  Speaker 1: lean into like South Carolina just out of college. I'm
• 30:14
  Speaker 1: going to go on a bar crawl with Lord Stanley's
• 30:16
  Speaker 1: Cup and we're just gonna fill it with a different
• 30:18
  Speaker 1: beer from a different bar every single time and just
• 30:20
  Speaker 1: have a really fun night and hopefully I wake up
• 30:22
  Speaker 1: with the cup next to me the next day. So, uh,
• 30:25
  Speaker 1: you're basically gonna do the Alexander Ovechkin. Yes, I'm just
• 30:30
  Speaker 1: going to get absolutely obliterated while drinking out of the
• 30:33
  Speaker 1: Stanley Cup. I mean, it's sweet. It's not a cash cow. No,
• 30:37
  Speaker 1: it's not growing magic. You know, apples, Simon, what do
• 30:42
  Speaker 1: you got? I'm right there with him. I would take
• 30:44
  Speaker 1: it to England and just do a pub crawl with it.
• 30:46
  Speaker 1: Everyone England taking drinks out of the Stanley Cup. Everyone
• 30:49
  Speaker 1: get a little taste of Lord Stanley in England. I
• 30:51
  Speaker 1: think that would be pretty cool over there. You'd be
• 30:53
  Speaker 1: surprised people actually do care about hockey. So I think
• 30:56
  Speaker 1: it would be cool to bring it over there. Let
• 30:58
  Speaker 1: me tell you how badly Danny be you guys on that.
• 31:02
  Speaker 1: Before I even scrolled down to announce what the scorers currently,
• 31:07
  Speaker 1: Matt Mitchell had already filled in Danny winning that round.
• 31:10
  Speaker 1: Danny has five, Marquess three, Simon is three. As we
• 31:15
  Speaker 1: go into the grand finale, Here's the good news plays
• 31:18
  Speaker 1: right to Mark's strengths because the topic is the home
• 31:23
  Speaker 1: run derby. First, tell me how much you guys would
• 31:26
  Speaker 1: like to risk. Each of you close your eyes, hold
• 31:29
  Speaker 1: up your fingers with your wager amount, Danny you can
• 31:32
  Speaker 1: do up to five, Mark and signing up to three.
• 31:34
  Speaker 1: Here we go. One of the most popular parts of
• 31:37
  Speaker 1: the MLB All Star Break experience is the home run derby,
• 31:41
  Speaker 1: which has been beloved by fans since. Incredibly, the derby
• 31:45
  Speaker 1: wasn't nationally broadcast until ESPN aired it in and it
• 31:49
  Speaker 1: wouldn't be shown live until but that year. In one
• 31:53
  Speaker 1: of the derby's biggest potential attractions, declined to participate after
• 31:58
  Speaker 1: ESPN schedule his team to play a late game the
• 32:02
  Speaker 1: night before, But after please from Hall of famers Joe
• 32:05
  Speaker 1: Morgan and Frank Robinson, he'd eventually relent and would go
• 32:09
  Speaker 1: on to win his second home run Derby, and he'd
• 32:13
  Speaker 1: go on to win the next year too. He's one
• 32:15
  Speaker 1: of only six Hall of Famers to win a home
• 32:17
  Speaker 1: run Derby Crown, and remains the only player to win
• 32:20
  Speaker 1: it three times. You're gonna name this player the Teaker's
• 32:25
  Speaker 1: part of the past. Mark, please give me your answer
• 32:37
  Speaker 1: to for the record. You had three points, You've risked
• 32:41
  Speaker 1: three points. Please give me your answer. I believe it's Ken.
• 32:45
  Speaker 1: Ken Griffey Jr. Is the right answer. Mark, you now
• 32:49
  Speaker 1: have six points. You are in the lead. Simon, you
• 32:54
  Speaker 1: of course went all in. What is your answer? Looks
• 32:57
  Speaker 1: like we might have some overtime boys, I put in
• 33:00
  Speaker 1: Griffy Jr. See this is why the game gets exciting.
• 33:03
  Speaker 1: No matter how big a lead someone has, you get
• 33:05
  Speaker 1: in the final round and all bets are on. Get it. Danny,
• 33:13
  Speaker 1: you had five, you risked three. If you get this right,
• 33:17
  Speaker 1: you're the champion. If not, we are going to overtime.
• 33:23
  Speaker 1: Sammy says, Oh my god. Miraculously, Mark and Simon are
• 33:30
  Speaker 1: now tied for first and we have to go to
• 33:33
  Speaker 1: our overtime answer. Are you ready do it? Matt Mitchell?
• 33:38
  Speaker 1: Do you want to take us through sudden death. Gentlemen,
• 33:42
  Speaker 1: welcome back to the Thursday Thunderdome Sudden Death Challenge. Because
• 33:48
  Speaker 1: we've spent so much time discussing Canada today, here is
• 33:53
  Speaker 1: your question, classic prices, right rules, closest without going over,
• 33:59
  Speaker 1: what is the total population of Canada? Simon, you go
• 34:04
  Speaker 1: first every time. That's that's correct. I don't know Canada. Um,
• 34:11
  Speaker 1: I'll go with thirty million. Oh man, that's such a
• 34:16
  Speaker 1: good guest. You're right around where I wanted to go.
• 34:18
  Speaker 1: I'm gonna got million. The answer is thirty seven point
• 34:24
  Speaker 1: seven million. Congratulations. Wow. Mark Luino giraffeneck Mark is the
• 34:34
  Speaker 1: YouTube channel. He is a baseball savants and apparently a
• 34:39
  Speaker 1: Canadian savant as well. That was incredible, incredible comeback for
• 34:45
  Speaker 1: Giraffe neeck Mark, who has proven why he is such
• 34:48
  Speaker 1: a king of all media by winning today the Favorites
• 34:53
  Speaker 1: Thursday thunder Dome edition of the podcast. Before we sign off,
• 34:59
  Speaker 1: here's a word from our fearless leader, Action Network CEO,
• 35:01
  Speaker 1: Patrick King. I don't even know where to begin, very
• 35:05
  Speaker 1: very disappointed, and each and every one of you this
• 35:08
  Speaker 1: company has a favorite is um and it is professionalism,
• 35:12
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• 35:15
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• 35:18
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• 35:22
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• 35:28
  Speaker 1: talking all things baseball at Giraffe Nick Mark. Of course,
• 35:32
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• 35:36
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