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Hour 3 - Father Knows Best · The Ben Maller Show

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Speaker 1: Boom, Shaka Laca. It's our number three, our three, and
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Speaker 1: boom as we begin with some pro bouncy ball, and
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Speaker 1: I know you love your pro bouncy ball. Is Cleveland
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Speaker 1: keeping a roster spot open for Bronnie James a legitimate
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Speaker 1: strategy or a desperate thirst trap for lebron We'll talk
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Speaker 1: about that. Also. Is Jalen Brown actually overrated the newest
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Speaker 1: member of the seventy six ers, and we're all just
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Speaker 1: too scared to say it. Another story out saying he's overrated?
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Speaker 1: Talk about that. Also in baseball, should the Red Sox
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Speaker 1: first baseman Wilson Contreras have apologized for his recent muck
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Speaker 1: racking as he's gotten into a couple of dust ups
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Speaker 1: in recent Red Sox games. We'll talk about all of
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Speaker 1: those things and more right now. Settle in. It's our
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Speaker 1: number three.
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Speaker 1: a fall guy, must have a fall guy. All right. Anyway,
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Speaker 1: we're back at it, and we thank you for coming
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Speaker 1: because at some point they'll get rid of it and
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Speaker 1: just enjoy it. So our lead this hour is from
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Speaker 1: the Land, From the Land Lebron James. Now, while I
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Speaker 1: was away, Lebron said bye bye to the Lakers. Lebron
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Speaker 1: told the Lakers he's leaving in free agency and now
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Speaker 1: going to play in his twenty fourth NBA season. So
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Speaker 1: at least one more teams like the Golden State Warriors,
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Speaker 1: the Cleveland Cadavers, and the Heatles have all reached out
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Speaker 1: seventy six ers, all horny to get themselves some Lebron James.
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Speaker 1: The Heat the gambling market over the weekend, the Heat
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Speaker 1: were seen as the favorite. Okay, However, however, we have
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Speaker 1: learned that Cleveland has a plan.
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Speaker 4: To seduce Lebron James and get him back to the
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Speaker 4: mother ship in Ohio. Did you see this or not? No,
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Speaker 4: you missed it? Okay, good. I know Wayne and Duluth
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Speaker 4: is all over this story, so I don't know if
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Speaker 4: you were into it or not. So over the weekend,
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Speaker 4: we learned that the Calves have a master plan. They're
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Speaker 4: going to leave a roster spot open. Now, why would
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Speaker 4: you care about them leaving a roster spot open? Why
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Speaker 4: does that matter? I'll tell you why it matters. Here's why.
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Speaker 4: If Lebron wants to go back home, come home again,
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Speaker 4: Lebron he wants to go back home, they plan to
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Speaker 4: trade with the Lakers, give up some second round picks
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Speaker 4: or some other garbage, and get Bronnie James.
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Speaker 1: The plot thickens. Yep, father son duo can stay together.
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Speaker 1: So that is a good jumping off point. Let us
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Speaker 1: discuss the question is Cleveland's pro bouncy ball team. Is
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Speaker 1: Cleveland keeping a roster spot open the idea for Bronnie
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Speaker 1: James a legitimate strategy or a desperate first trap for Lebron?
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Speaker 1: All right, So I've got costco, bedbugs and the notes
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Speaker 1: app and we will combine all of these things together,
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Speaker 1: and we are going to make some chicken alfredo yum
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Speaker 1: yum to my tum tom. All right. So first of all,
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Speaker 1: the Calves, if you believe the reporting, the latest master
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Speaker 1: plan for the Cavaliers is essentially a Hallmark movie filmed
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Speaker 1: in Vermont. That's it, right, It's a father returns home,
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Speaker 1: reunites with son in hometown, wins another champion in ship,
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Speaker 1: and then fades away. And that's all fade to black
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Speaker 1: because I would say, grow up, is what I would say.
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Speaker 1: I would say, grow up. Let's call this way this,
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Speaker 1: this idea, the blueprint is apparently out there is pathetic pandering.
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Speaker 1: It is a desperate thirst trap for lebron. The Calves
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Speaker 1: are actually, if you believe this, are willing to flush
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Speaker 1: away a roster spot. They are willing to have. It's
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Speaker 1: like a make a wish thing, which the Lakers did,
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Speaker 1: all right. The Lakers are the same thing. All to
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Speaker 1: appease the King. Gotta have Brine, who doesn't deserve to
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Speaker 1: be in the NBA. He's not qualified to be a
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Speaker 1: pro basketball player. Maybe somewhere overseas, but not in the NBA.
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Speaker 1: He's a fraud. And there he is, Bronni James. He
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Speaker 1: was on the Lakers for a couple of years. And
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Speaker 1: the Calves are willing to just flush away a roster
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Speaker 1: spot for Bronni, a kid who stinks, averaging a robust
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Speaker 1: two point nine points per game, and they're gonna do
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Speaker 1: that in the cave, there's just to.
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Speaker 2: Lure Lebron James back.
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Speaker 1: You know what Bronnie James is. 'm gonna tell exactly
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Speaker 1: what he is. Bronnie James is like the dollar fifty
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Speaker 1: hot dog in drink combo at Costco. You know what
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Speaker 1: that is. It's called a lost leader. Bronnie James is
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Speaker 1: a lost leader. Now. That thing's been going on since
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Speaker 1: the eighties. The hot dog in the drink for a
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Speaker 1: dollar fifty. The NBA's most valuable emotional support player, Bronnie James.
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Speaker 1: That's it. Drafted purely because Lebron wanted him. It's the
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Speaker 1: Lebron Drama O Rama, Lebron Drama camp, and he's the
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Speaker 1: one pulling the strings. Of course, Lebron does it through surrogates. Oh,
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Speaker 1: I didn't know the Lakers wont to draft my kid
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Speaker 1: who can't play. I'm shocked they wanted and I'm the
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Speaker 1: same thing will happen in Cleveland. Oh, I'm so amazed
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Speaker 1: the Cavs wanted a guy that averaged less than three
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Speaker 1: points a game, and he happens to be my son.
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Speaker 1: It's an amazing thing. I can't believe it. Yeah, it's
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Speaker 1: that whole thing. I know it's all done through back
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Speaker 1: channels and and all that. It is more blatant nepotism.
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Speaker 1: And I realized this is widespread in all sports, and
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Speaker 1: the coaches or the sons of coaches, the players and
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Speaker 1: the sons of players. I get all that. I'm not naive.
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Speaker 1: It doesn't mean I have to like it. Right, So
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Speaker 1: the Cavs are like, let's offer Lebron a glorified family airbnb.
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Speaker 1: That seems like a good idea. Sure, why not? Now
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Speaker 1: here's the kicker, all right, Cleveland. Last I checked, they
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Speaker 1: didn't play very well, but they were in the Eastern
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Speaker 1: Conference finals? Were they not against the Knickerbockers?
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Speaker 2: Right?
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Speaker 1: Did I imagine that or did that actually happen? I
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Speaker 1: believe that actually happened. I believe that actually happened. So
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Speaker 1: by pulling this stunt, whether it works or not to
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Speaker 1: be determined, they're admitting, though, even if they don't get
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Speaker 1: Bronni James and Lebron, they are admitting that, hey, listen,
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Speaker 1: that the group we have not good enough. They're not
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Speaker 1: that Donovan Spider, Mitchell, James Harden, well, no, he's not
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Speaker 1: good enough. Evan Mobley and Jared Allen, all these guys,
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Speaker 1: they're not good enough that they need help. They need
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Speaker 1: the grand Poobah of the NBA, Lebron James. Of course,
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Speaker 1: Lebron never won a championship with the Lakers, so why
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Speaker 1: would he win one in Cleveland? I don't I mean
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Speaker 1: they did. They have another pandemic and you get three
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Speaker 1: months off before the playoffs. I guess that would work.
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Speaker 1: I guess that would work. But man, it's like they
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Speaker 1: need they need this other player. They need Lebron. They
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Speaker 1: got to win this, you know, the whole thing. And
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Speaker 1: they've got a spot for Lebron and Bronnie James can
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Speaker 1: be theirs, the mascot, and oh man, that's a great
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Speaker 1: idea right now. Secondly to Phila Delphia, we go and
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Speaker 1: I was away from the Watchtower and the Overnight when
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Speaker 1: one of the great giveaways. There's been a lot of
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Speaker 1: great promotions over the years in basketball, never as productive
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Speaker 1: a giveaway as the Boston Celtics, who clearly felt bad
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Speaker 1: for their division rifle seventy six Ers and said, you
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Speaker 1: know what, let's help the good people the Philadelphia Let's
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Speaker 1: help Fats in Philadelphia out and Jonathan over in Delaware.
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Speaker 1: Let's make them feel better about their team. And so
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Speaker 1: they just gave away Jalen Brown. Now I mentioned that
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Speaker 1: over the weekend an anonymous NBA general manager. I love
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Speaker 1: my anonymous NBAGM. I cuddle with them. So this anonymous
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Speaker 1: NBA general manager said he does not view the now
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Speaker 1: former Celtic and current seventy six er Jalen Brown as
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Speaker 1: a top fifty player. Said quote, though the idea of
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Speaker 1: him being viewed as the seventh best player that was
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Speaker 1: a story we talked about before I went away, seventh
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Speaker 1: best player on a given team was widely mocked. The
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Speaker 1: anonymous GM said a recent report that one front office
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Speaker 1: member saw Brown in that way illuminated the reality. And
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Speaker 1: then he talks you about advanced analytics and all that stuff.
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Speaker 1: It essentially said, listen, the guy's not a top fifty player.
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Speaker 1: The current GM, speaking again off the record, no name
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Speaker 1: associated with it. I wonder if this GM, by the way,
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Speaker 1: is Brad Stevens. They spoke to the Athletic and said
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Speaker 1: Brown not a top fifty player in the NBA the
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Speaker 1: year of twenty twenty six. That is a good jumping
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Speaker 1: off point. So let's discuss the question.
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Speaker 2: Is Jalen Brown actually overrated, overrated?
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Speaker 1: Or is everyone just too scared to say that? Listen,
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Speaker 1: this is the situation if you feel me on that.
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Speaker 1: So to answer the question, I'm shaking my head. No,
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Speaker 1: what I believe is going on right now, And listen,
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Speaker 1: I don't agree with Jalen Brown a lot of the
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Speaker 1: crazy things he believes in. I think he's nuts in
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Speaker 1: terms of just basketball though. Oh he's pretty good. He's
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Speaker 1: not great, he's pretty good. Uh, pretty deep, pretty deep,
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Speaker 1: pretty good, as Larry David would say back in the day.
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Speaker 1: And so this is like a mud pie special classic
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Speaker 1: Commonwealth mud sling. And you do it very well in Boston,
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Speaker 1: you know you do. This is a special skill. You
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Speaker 1: get rid of a player who's deemed valuable, You say
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Speaker 1: bye bye to the player. In this case, you give
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Speaker 1: the player away. You give the player away, you get
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Speaker 1: clown for what you got in return. It's embarrassing. And
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Speaker 1: then what do you do? So you got to bury
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Speaker 1: the guy In this case, you've got the In today's NBA,
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Speaker 1: you have the anonymous NBA GM smear campaign and the
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Speaker 1: anonymous GM smearing players, the way teenagers smear each other
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Speaker 1: on social media. It's the same thing. It's narrative warfare,
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Speaker 1: is what's going on right now. It's narrative warfare. And
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Speaker 1: on the surface, it is vintage Boston. We dumped him,
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Speaker 1: so now he stinks he's bum bum bum bum bum
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Speaker 1: is what he is. That's it. Jalen was not traded.
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Speaker 1: There's a myth that Jalen Brown was traded to the
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Speaker 1: seventy six ers. I can tell you he was not.
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Speaker 1: He was left on the curb and they said, all right,
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Speaker 1: let's call one eight hundred got junk, And they said, okay,
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Speaker 1: we'll call them, and they called them and they came
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Speaker 1: right right over to pick him up, right next to
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Speaker 1: a broken lamp. And there was a bed bug infested
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Speaker 1: futon that was left out near Jalen Brown, and those
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Speaker 1: also got picked up by the salvage truck. So the
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Speaker 1: Sixers absolutely fleeced the Celtics. This is like one of
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Speaker 1: the most ridonculous things. When I heard about it, and
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Speaker 1: I was away from my post, when I got some
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Speaker 1: text messages from friends, I you see this, and I said, oh,
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Speaker 1: this must be fake. You guys, you're so stupid. You
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Speaker 1: fell for Sports Talk, Barry, you fell for sat tie
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Speaker 1: butt cracks. Sports NBA Sentel like, what's wrong with you losers? No,
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Speaker 1: it's real. So the Celtics sent Jalen Brown, who plausibly
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Speaker 1: has at least a couple more good years left in
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Speaker 1: him for the rotting carcass of podcast p Has anyone
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Speaker 1: cursed more NBA franchises than Paul George? Seriously just said.
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Speaker 1: Paul George was the guy that that Canadian basketball player
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Speaker 1: Kawhi Leonard wanted on the Clippers. Everyone wanted Kawhi Leonard
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Speaker 1: and Kawhi When the Clippers are like, all right, we'll
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Speaker 1: do whatever you want. We've got all these draft picks,
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Speaker 1: well whatever you Wantawi is like, listen, I want Paul George.
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Speaker 1: And then clipers like, well, yeah, you know we got this.
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Speaker 1: He's played for Oklahoma City and we've got these pretty
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Speaker 1: good young player named Shaye Jogis Alexander. No, no, no, I
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Speaker 1: want Paul George. So the Clippers traded SGA and a
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Speaker 1: gaggle of draft picks to get Paul George. And that
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Speaker 1: was a disaster. And now the Celtics have acquired Paul George.
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Speaker 1: Now who knows if they're gonna keep him, maybe they
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Speaker 1: they'll trade him. They got some keynote cards as well.
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Speaker 1: It's Boston's version now now they're trashing him. Of course,
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Speaker 1: Well we never really liked him anyway. We never really
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Speaker 1: liked him anyways. That it's that whole thing. You mix
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Speaker 1: that bitter front office spin with the analytical cult, the
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Speaker 1: analytical cult there, and it's officially they've gone full scientology, right.
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Speaker 1: You know what I'm saying is they're really into it,
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Speaker 1: and they're out recruiting and they're like, oh yeah, this
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Speaker 1: guy's a this guy's These nerds built an entire worldview.
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Speaker 1: They came up with like one fugazy stat and they
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Speaker 1: hang their hat on that. The advanced metrics say that
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Speaker 1: Jalen Brown is not good. Oh what Yeah, yeah, there's
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Speaker 1: some nerds stat there and it's like it's vague, it's
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Speaker 1: it's convened, it misses. It's just a drive by smear campaign,
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Speaker 1: is what it is. And it's like, oh, he shoots
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Speaker 1: too many mid ranger, he's only got one hand and
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Speaker 1: all that. You know, Okay, wonderful. Absolutely all right, Now
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Speaker 1: final thought to Boston, Boston, we go and we'll go
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Speaker 1: to baseball. The story here, I saw this over the weeend.
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Speaker 1: So the first he's really a catcher, but he's playing
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Speaker 1: first base. Wilson Contreras issued a public apology over the weekend,
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Speaker 1: so that got my attention, very emotional public apology for
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Speaker 1: being part of not one but two bench clearing incidents.
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Speaker 1: In the previous week redsc game against the Yankees. You
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Speaker 1: might remember, Contrera's got into a stare down with Will Warren,
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Speaker 1: the pitcher for the Yankees, and benches cleared. That was
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Speaker 1: just you know, grab ass. That was just grab ass.
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Speaker 1: Then you had against the Nationals some of that natitude.
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Speaker 1: You had some of that natitude going on, and and
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Speaker 1: after being struck out by somebody named cad Cavali who
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Speaker 1: then shouted in taunted him Contrara's through his helmet towards
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Speaker 1: the mound. Things got escalated rather quickly. So you had
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Speaker 1: you had that both dugouts and bullpens emptied and anyway,
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Speaker 1: as a result, Concera's was suspended for seven games. Last
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Speaker 1: I saw, he is appealing that suspension. He said though
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Speaker 1: the situations quote could have been avoided and controlled and
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Speaker 1: handled better. Said this while the Red Sox were playing
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Speaker 1: the Angels in aneim over the weekend. He said, the situations,
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Speaker 1: as I said, could have been handled better. He used
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Speaker 1: the earthquakes in his native Venezuela as the thing that
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Speaker 1: caused him to snap. That's that's what he said, all right.
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Speaker 1: So the question should Red Sox first baseman Wilson Contreras
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Speaker 1: have apologized for his recent muck raking. Now, the answer
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Speaker 1: is absolutely not. This is self inflicted turbulence is what
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Speaker 1: this is. And it just you don't stabilize the plane
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Speaker 1: by confessing to the turbulence. Yeah, you don't. Sometimes the
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Speaker 1: quiet part shouldn't be said out loud. It should not,
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Speaker 1: especially while you are literally in the appeals process for
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Speaker 1: the suspension interviewing you should apologize. Now is not the time.
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Speaker 1: Now is not the time to apologize. Concereo's basically walked
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Speaker 1: into Major League Baseball's headquarters and said, hey, I want
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Speaker 1: you to have this. Well what is it? Well it's
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Speaker 1: a binder. Well why are you giving us a binder? Well,
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Speaker 1: it's a binder, And it said, here's why you should
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Speaker 1: uphold my punishment, my seven game suspension. Here's the binder. Okay,
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Speaker 1: thank you very much, appreciate that. Thank you for giving
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Speaker 1: us the binder. No wonder the Players Association told him
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Speaker 1: to stay quiet. Me quiet now, be very why okay, yes,
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Speaker 1: very nice, be very quiet. The whole thing just looks
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Speaker 1: like a desperate pr damage control trying to soften the image.
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Speaker 1: There was also an All Star snub that took place.
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Speaker 1: You should never get that upset by All Star snubs
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Speaker 1: because half these guys I saw Vladimir Guerrero shouldn't even
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Speaker 1: be on the All Star team. Everyone who ate Poutine
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Speaker 1: and Canada voter for him to be on the All
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Speaker 1: Star team. But he's skipping out of the All Star
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Speaker 1: Game to rest. I want to get he. I want
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Speaker 1: to guess he rests somewhere in the in the island,
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Speaker 1: somewhere with nice big pools and beaches with beautiful people
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Speaker 1: and bikinis. Sure, why not? A bunch of these guys
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Speaker 1: will skip the All Star Game and so Concereros will
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Speaker 1: likely be in the All Star Game as they replaced me.
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Speaker 1: But the old school guys back in the old country,
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Speaker 1: the old school guys would have apologized, but hitting a
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Speaker 1: double and driving in a couple of runs, not by
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Speaker 1: reading the notes app on their phone like some kind
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Speaker 1: of hostage letter and all this stuff in the high
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Speaker 1: stakes business of pro sports. Just over apologize. No, you know,
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Speaker 1: I'm getting to the whole emotional response and all that,
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Speaker 1: But the apology thing. That's not a good president, you know,
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Speaker 1: chirping and flare ups. That is the life life blood
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Speaker 1: of baseball. I don't even talked earlier on in the
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Speaker 1: overnight about Cebe Buckner and baseball getting rid of him
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Speaker 1: and some of the other umpires that have personality because
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Speaker 1: they don't want that. They are they sure they want
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Speaker 1: some of the players that person but they want to
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Speaker 1: get rid of it. They don't. And I feel like
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Speaker 1: Contrera's is the same thing like Contrara's. He plays with
21:35
Speaker 1: an edge. If he's on your team, I guess you
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Speaker 1: kind of like him. If he's not on your team,
21:38
Speaker 1: you think he's a douche, a douche canoe. But here's
21:42
Speaker 1: the thing, you know, that's the way he's played. He's
21:45
Speaker 1: always been that annoyance over the years, and so we
21:51
Speaker 1: either like him or not, and he tries to rattle you,
21:55
Speaker 1: and in this case, he's the one that got rattled,
21:58
Speaker 1: so should have kept this inn. That would have been
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Speaker 1: the Malar advice. Give them a flat, typical I'm appealing
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Speaker 1: next question instead of this like sobbing apology thing and
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Speaker 1: all that stuff. The bottom line, though, if you're going
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22:19
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Speaker 2: Time now though, for the Mallar riddle of the day.
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Speaker 2: The Texas Rangers. We're talking about the baseball team, not
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Speaker 2: the actual law enforcement. The Texas Rangers celebrated the fourth
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Speaker 2: of July by setting a Guinness World Record for the
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Speaker 2: largest blank in recorded history. Again, the Texas Rangers. That's
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Speaker 2: a baseball team, not the law enforcement. The Texas Rangers
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Speaker 2: celebrated the fourth roues Live by setting a Guinness World
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Speaker 2: Record for the largest blank in recorded history.
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Speaker 1: I time now for the mallor riddle of the day,
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Speaker 1: and here it is the Texas Rangers. I'm told that's
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Speaker 1: a baseball team, not the law enforcement group. The Texas
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Speaker 1: Rangers celebrated the fourth of July by setting a Guinness
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Speaker 1: World Record for the largest blank in recorded history. That
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Speaker 1: is the question. What is the answer? I see? Does
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Speaker 1: anyone know the answer? We go to the great Unwashed.
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Speaker 1: Here the silent majority malord prop guy says the world's
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Speaker 1: largest reenactment of Nolan Ryan Noogie Knight. Yeah, one of
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Speaker 1: the great moments in baseball history. They should have Robin
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Speaker 1: Ventura come every year and say, hey, what's going up?
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Speaker 1: Keith Ocho Texto says, the largest bunch of ignorant a holes,
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Speaker 1: all right, how do you really feel? Keith Ocho Texto,
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Speaker 1: largest serving of fried pickles from alf the Alien ol
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Speaker 1: chugging champion Eric Badlands Booker guess by Donkey Sausage, the
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Speaker 1: Nathan's Hot that guy, I did you this weekend? I
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Speaker 1: was watching the Nathans thing, and I did think about
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Speaker 1: our buddy, the late Great Big Sexy, who was a
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Speaker 1: Mallard militia guy, a competitive eater and a friend of
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Speaker 1: the show. Passed away in Denver, and he was at
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Speaker 1: he was in the Nathan's Contest. We had him in studio,
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Speaker 1: just a good dude. He wore the foam cowboy hat,
26:37
Speaker 1: and so I thought of him this weekend for a
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Speaker 1: few minutes there watching Joey Chestnut win another title. Michael
26:43
Speaker 1: Leprechaun says, they arranged one million cats around the Stadium
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Speaker 1: conga line from JT. The Wingman, Sluggy in Vegas at
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Speaker 1: head Buddy, the world's largest jar of spit, A large
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Speaker 1: meatball sub from Bill largest Ouey gooey, overrated s'mores from
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Speaker 1: the Pizza Papa. That's his answer, and Sir smokes a lot,
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Speaker 1: says the largest yodel is the answer. Mister irrigation says,
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Speaker 1: something to do with Don Lemon. He's still obsessed with
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Speaker 1: my guy. I love mister Irrigation. He's still obsessed with
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Speaker 1: Don Lemon as he calls him Lemon. All right, enough
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Speaker 1: of that time, now for the payoff. The Texas Rangers
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Speaker 1: celebrated the fourth of July by setting a Guinness World
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Speaker 1: Record for the largest blank in recorded history. Lorena, the
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Speaker 1: largest fireworks show. The largest firework show? Is that correct? No?
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Speaker 2: The world's largest glass of beer? Glass of beer?
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Speaker 1: How big was it? I don't know how big? Do
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Speaker 1: you think it was?
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Speaker 7: Forty five ounces?
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Speaker 1: Let's do gallons? How about gallon? How many gallons? How
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Speaker 1: many gallons of beer for? How many gallons of beer
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Speaker 1: on the wall? How many games of beer? Four gallons?
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Speaker 1: All right, coop you in on this.
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Speaker 7: We want to guess how many gallons of.
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Speaker 1: Beer on the wall in the stadium. I'm gonna go
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Speaker 1: forty gallons. Forty gallons? All right, those are great guesses.
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Speaker 1: Thank you for not ruining the bit. The Rangers poured
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Speaker 1: six hundred and thirty eight gallons of Budweiser in a
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Speaker 1: twelve foot stall stein, breaking the world record. Six hundred
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Speaker 1: and thirty eight gallons of beer on the wall. If
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Speaker 1: one of those gallons would happen to fall, how many
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Speaker 1: gallons of beer on the wall. Let's see how big
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Speaker 1: is that? Well, it's six hundred and thirty eight, it's
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Speaker 1: twelve foot tall.
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Speaker 7: How many How many gallons of milk would I have
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Speaker 7: to squeeze into a room to get six hundred and
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Speaker 7: thirty eight?
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Speaker 1: That would be six hundred thirty eight gallons of milk
28:49
Speaker 1: you would have to squeeze in the would Yeah? Let's
28:52
Speaker 1: say hello to slug in Vegas. Hold on a sect,
28:56
Speaker 1: let me punch the right line up, Hello, slug friend,
28:59
Speaker 1: the hostess with the most just in Sidon City, cashing
29:02
Speaker 1: a golden ticket. You gotta golden ticket, you gotta go.
29:07
Speaker 1: I've got a.
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Speaker 3: First off. I saw Coop and the lovely Miss Coop
29:15
Speaker 3: over the Missus coop over the well last week, and
29:19
Speaker 3: I just want to did.
29:20
Speaker 1: He hit you up for a freeloader meal at the
29:22
Speaker 1: restaurant there? No, I gotta I got.
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Speaker 3: It's my generosity. I don't even have to ask all.
29:33
Speaker 3: Maybe one of these years you'll show up.
29:34
Speaker 2: But well, when I've been I've got hold on a
29:37
Speaker 2: sec I've tried to arrange that, and you're not there
29:40
Speaker 2: when I wanted to say you, you were not working
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Speaker 2: that night.
29:43
Speaker 3: I never worked those nights, and it's a union job,
29:47
Speaker 3: so I can't work those unless they call me in.
29:49
Speaker 1: Well, that's the problem, and I would have to take
29:52
Speaker 1: a night off to go to go to your restaurant.
29:56
Speaker 3: You've been out there on nights off and you didn't
29:58
Speaker 3: come in. Don't give me that, mallark.
29:59
Speaker 1: That's true, that's true.
30:03
Speaker 3: I still love you. But uh, Larina, did you say Jim.
30:07
Speaker 1: Cummings, Yeah, the voice actor.
30:10
Speaker 3: Yeah. I used to talk to him on the phone
30:12
Speaker 3: because I used to work Securities last uh whatever over
30:16
Speaker 3: the little place right there on Thousand Oaks, so uh
30:21
Speaker 3: security guard with Jonah's older brother. We used to paying
30:24
Speaker 3: chicks on the top floor.
30:28
Speaker 1: For some reason, he hasn't talked about that on the show.
30:30
Speaker 1: I don't know why today.
30:33
Speaker 3: Yeah, that's a whole other story.
30:35
Speaker 1: Was he dressed as Chucky Cheese while I was going
30:37
Speaker 1: on or no? Probably not?
30:40
Speaker 3: Yeah, no, probably that was right across the street for
30:43
Speaker 3: that was literally right across the street for that mall,
30:45
Speaker 3: the Chance Mall. But uh. I also would talk to
30:48
Speaker 3: people like, uh, I remember what time said a Balisterio's
30:53
Speaker 3: called in and I'm like looking at his information. He's like, uh,
30:57
Speaker 3: I'm like, yeah, is this Uh is this Steve no Survey.
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Speaker 3: I'm like, oh, okay, I didn't even realize, you know.
31:05
Speaker 1: Yeah.
31:05
Speaker 3: And then another time some little kid called up trying
31:09
Speaker 3: to rent a limbo and I'm like, you have your
31:12
Speaker 3: mom or dad called back. You got to be eighteen,
31:15
Speaker 3: you know, or twenty one if you want liquor in
31:16
Speaker 3: the car, And they're like, no, I'm an adult. Look
31:20
Speaker 3: at my information. I looked it up and it was
31:23
Speaker 3: Michele Ai. I don't know if you know she was,
31:25
Speaker 3: but it was Suge Knight's wife or girlfriend at the time.
31:29
Speaker 1: No, I mean, you don't want to mess with sug Knight,
31:31
Speaker 1: So now you can mess with me. He's in jail.
31:33
Speaker 1: But before you didn't want to mess with me.
31:35
Speaker 3: You know that was what I found that out.
31:37
Speaker 2: Uh yeah, whatever you need, whatever kind of limbo you want,
31:40
Speaker 2: all of you know, yeah, any kind of alcohol.
31:42
Speaker 1: We're good, yes, exactly.
31:44
Speaker 3: Uh well another thing, Clippers, just the bozo organization.
31:50
Speaker 1: Wash your mouth that you were doing so well. This
31:52
Speaker 1: is such a great show, slug. He was such a
31:54
Speaker 1: great caller, and then you had to ruin it with
31:56
Speaker 1: that nonsense.
31:59
Speaker 3: And then the Lakers. Thank god Lebron's on his way
32:02
Speaker 3: out because he's been a detriment in the past few years,
32:05
Speaker 3: all his shenanigans. And you know what's funny is that
32:09
Speaker 3: some people, even me, I kind of like Bronnie. He
32:11
Speaker 3: did nothing wrong, but well.
32:14
Speaker 1: He's great to have it. We should be a la
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Speaker 1: Laker girl or something like that. You know, Brownnie is
32:19
Speaker 1: a Laker girl. I see nothing wrong with that. Why
32:21
Speaker 1: not do they have any male Laker girls? I know
32:23
Speaker 1: the Rams have mailed too, they just do the Lakers
32:25
Speaker 1: have any mail?
32:26
Speaker 3: They don't. Yeah, that's that's your team.
32:28
Speaker 4: That's a that's a six.
32:30
Speaker 1: How the Raiders doing. By the way, maybe the Raiders
32:35
Speaker 1: should have a bunch of dude cheerleaders might win a
32:37
Speaker 1: few games. About that we're not.
32:40
Speaker 3: We're not the Niners.
32:42
Speaker 1: Hello, all right, get out of here? All right? There
32:45
Speaker 1: he goes up, but it's slog. Let's hello to Eddie.
32:47
Speaker 1: Thumbs up, thumbs down. Eddie Legend on the show in Charlotte. Hello,
32:52
Speaker 1: thumbs up, thumbs down Eddie, Good morning everybody. How y'all
32:56
Speaker 1: coming along? If I was any better, I wouldn't be
33:01
Speaker 1: with how many Canada and Mexico both kicked out of
33:04
Speaker 1: the World Cup. Right, yeah, I'd be one of those
33:07
Speaker 1: soccer fans that sucks they were. It would have been
33:10
Speaker 1: awesome to have like a matchup between the USA and
33:14
Speaker 1: one of those teams in the in the tournament, but
33:17
Speaker 1: it didn't happen anyway. What's up with you, Eddie? What
33:19
Speaker 1: you got for us? Okay, I'm speaking a soccer I
33:23
Speaker 1: didn't know that they could play with one player down,
33:27
Speaker 1: but and they do that in the NHL.
33:29
Speaker 3: Also, Will we like to see the NBA play with
33:31
Speaker 3: one player down? Thumbs up, thumbs down.
33:34
Speaker 1: Well, I'm happy to report Eddie that that has already happened.
33:38
Speaker 1: When Brownie plays with the Lakers, they are playing one
33:40
Speaker 1: man short. So I'm gonna go thumbs up. I'm going
33:43
Speaker 1: thumbs up. What about you? Lorena thumbs up? With you, Ben?
33:48
Speaker 1: All right? Cooper thumbs up, thumbs down, shows up, thumbs up.
33:51
Speaker 1: We all agree. Look at that. And I and I
33:54
Speaker 1: watched the Clippers back in the nineties. They often played
33:56
Speaker 1: two people short. Uh so they're not just one. They
34:00
Speaker 1: is like five on three for a period of time.
34:02
Speaker 1: All right, what's next, Eddie? What do we got? Okay?
34:05
Speaker 3: In Major League Baseball? Should the position players on defense
34:09
Speaker 3: be allowed to switch in and out?
34:12
Speaker 1: What do you mean? Like? What do you? What do
34:14
Speaker 1: you get like? Come out? Also have like defensive specialists,
34:18
Speaker 1: like a defensive yes, yes, no, I don't think that's now.
34:25
Speaker 1: I don't like that. I'm gonna go thumbs down. What
34:26
Speaker 1: about you a Lorena thumbs down.
34:28
Speaker 7: Sounds like a cheater move.
34:32
Speaker 1: What about you? Cooper definitely thumbs down. Yeah, nobody wants that. Nobody.
34:36
Speaker 3: Okay, I got a foodie for you guys.
34:39
Speaker 1: Okay, here we go. Foody You listening to live coverage
34:41
Speaker 1: is his thumbs up, thumbs down. Eddie's a big stars
34:43
Speaker 1: in Charlotte. We don't get this game that off, and
34:45
Speaker 1: we love it when we do. All right, what's next, Eddie?
34:49
Speaker 1: Chocolate it.
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Speaker 3: Budge brownies, nuts or no nuts.
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Speaker 1: I'm going nuts.
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Speaker 2: I'm going nuts, go all the way, don't go half half,
35:05
Speaker 2: go all the way. I'm going big nuts is what
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Speaker 2: I'm going. What about you, Lauren?
35:10
Speaker 7: Yeah, I gotta go with you on this one too, Ben.
35:11
Speaker 7: I love big nuts in my brownies. I think the
35:13
Speaker 7: texture in it is so much better.
35:16
Speaker 1: Right, please, our inturn is gonna get if she was listening.
35:21
Speaker 1: All right, what about you, Coop? I mean, this isn't
35:24
Speaker 1: a thumbs up her thumbs down question, but nuts up
35:27
Speaker 1: er nuts. But I'm gonna go. I'm gonna go nuts,
35:35
Speaker 1: all right. Brownie brownies are good for three on the nuts.
35:38
Speaker 1: We're all about the nuts. It's me. Well, Eddie, the
35:43
Speaker 1: Great Eddie thumbs up, thumbs down Eddie from Charlotte. We've
35:47
Speaker 1: got the instant advice line. You know who needs advice.
35:50
Speaker 1: The Celtic fans need advice. They gave away Jalen Brown
35:54
Speaker 1: for the rotting carcass of Paul George. It was such
35:57
Speaker 1: a ridiculous trade. I thought it was fake. I couldn't
35:59
Speaker 1: believe was real. We'll give advice to Celtic fans on
36:02
Speaker 1: the instant advice line. We'll get to that, and we
36:05
Speaker 1: will do it next.
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37:13
Speaker 1: Was you talking to? So here?
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Speaker 7: Some instant advice, hold that though no one's paid attention
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37:19
Speaker 1: If you don't like it, and away we go.
37:22
Speaker 2: It's the in advice line, unscreened radio.
37:26
Speaker 1: Who needs our advice? Do not attempt this at home,
37:28
Speaker 1: By the way, we're trained professionals. Well, this is easy.
37:32
Speaker 1: The Celtics gave away their second best player to the
37:37
Speaker 1: Philadelphia seventh sixters in the division, and they got squad
37:42
Speaker 1: Douche in return, one of the most lopsided, ridonculous transactions
37:49
Speaker 1: in basketball history. So advice do they call them the
37:52
Speaker 1: Green teamers? Advice to the Green Teamers the Boston Lapdogs
37:57
Speaker 1: on the Celtics giving away Jalen Brown for the rotting
38:01
Speaker 1: carcass of Paul George and some scratcher tickets. You're live
38:03
Speaker 1: on the air. When you hear my voice at eight
38:05
Speaker 1: seven seven ninety nine on Fox, call early and call
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Speaker 1: off and call her. You're on the Airline number one.
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Speaker 1: Advice Line one, please, all right, here's the question. All right?
38:15
Speaker 1: Line two your next line too, no time for questions.
38:18
Speaker 1: Line two, Hello, morning time.
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Speaker 3: You can pick your friends. You can pick your nose,
38:23
Speaker 3: but you can't pick your family laker. I mean bout Celtics.
38:26
Speaker 1: Oh, you're so close to having a perfect call Rick
38:28
Speaker 1: and Maryland eight seven, seven ninety nine on Fox. You're
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Speaker 1: next caller three. You're on their advice to the Green
38:34
Speaker 1: teamers the Celtic fans on how to deal with Jalen
38:37
Speaker 1: Brown being given away? All right, I way to have.
38:41
Speaker 3: A congressional event.
38:43
Speaker 1: Oh, he's on DC. Got two phones that Steve O
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Speaker 1: in Manhattan. You're next the line four. You're on the air. Hello,
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Speaker 1: line four, big bit pubic ears? All right? Something about pubic?
38:54
Speaker 1: Air line six? Save them shave them? Okay, why not?
38:56
Speaker 1: Good hygiene? Line six. You're on the airline six.
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Speaker 3: You're a fat fuck?
39:01
Speaker 1: All right, how do you really feel? Let's go to
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Speaker 1: you your next collar number four? Hello, line four. That
39:08
Speaker 1: was very nice. One sweep a lot of love out there.
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Speaker 1: Line line four. You're on the air.
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Speaker 3: Hello, How bad must Jalen Brown bree be? If they're
39:17
Speaker 3: signing up for Paul George?
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Speaker 1: Yeah, it's not great, supermarket Steve. Let's go to you
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Speaker 1: on a line the number three. Hello, line three, you're
39:26
Speaker 1: on the airline all right, I don't know, Ferg dog.
39:29
Speaker 1: You were screaming. I had to cut you off. Hello,
39:30
Speaker 1: you're on the air line five. You're on the air
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Speaker 1: line five.
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Speaker 3: I should have called moving man Matt for a free O.
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Speaker 2: That's right, man, Matt'll hook you up. Man, where's he been?
39:39
Speaker 2: Let's go to line six. You're on the airline six.
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Speaker 1: Hello.
39:42
Speaker 3: Put the Fifth Hour podcast on repeat.
39:45
Speaker 1: Yes, all day all that will do. One more, only
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Speaker 1: one more, Cooper, urry up. Last called pigad Line one.
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Speaker 1: You're on the air line one. Go Line one.
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Speaker 2: Not fast enough, Line one, not fast enough.
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Speaker 1: You lose