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Hour 4 - The Bickersons · The Ben Maller Show

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  Speaker 1: Bippity boppity boo. It's hour number four. Hour four. Chomping
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  Speaker 1: at the bit on the Ben Mather Show. So here
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  Speaker 1: in hour number four, did Joe Buck violate the Broadcasting
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  Speaker 1: Brotherhood by securing his $ 100 million deal without Troy Aikman?
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  Speaker 1: Terry Bradshaw has chimed in on this. I'll tell you
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  Speaker 1: what Terry had to say on that on this Thursday,
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  Speaker 1: the fifth day of November. Also, does Jacoby Brissett give
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  Speaker 1: Baltimore a fighting chance? The Ravens are going to acquire
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  Speaker 1: Brissett in a trade this weekend. Or does his arrival
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  Speaker 1: confirm the season is cooked in Maryland? And should Browns
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  Speaker 1: fans be genuinely excited that Shadur Sanders... is looking like
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  Speaker 1: he'll take over this weekend, or are they simply excited
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  Speaker 1: that Deshaun Watson isn't playing? Should Rams fans be genuinely
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  Speaker 1: excited about Shooter's Standards, or are they just excited Deshaun
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  Speaker 1: Watson's not playing? We'll talk about all that and more.
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  Speaker 1: It is a words-eye view on the world of sports.
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  Speaker 1: We'll give you goosebumps unless we don't. Here it is,
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  Speaker 1: our number four. Well, it's not about the football. It's
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  Speaker 1: about the drama-o-rama up in the broadcast booth.
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  Speaker 2: No, it is.
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  Speaker 1: This is crazy how big this story has become. The
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  Speaker 1: sports media scandal of the year. It's not really a scandal, though.
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  Speaker 1: It's just two guys that don't like each other. Welcome
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  Speaker 1: in the beginning of another hour of the Ben Maller Show.
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  Speaker 1: the world-famous Fox Sports Radio studios where Quinzel in Oakland
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  Speaker 1: and Natron, our buddy Natron, you always see him at
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  Speaker 1: And he got this message. Jay Scoop, Robbie the Mariner fan,
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  Speaker 1: and Justin in Cincinnati were all confused about what is
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  Speaker 1: America's Game of the Week. And I said, you don't
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  Speaker 1: have to dine with the devil to know what America's
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  Speaker 1: Game of the Week is. I'll tell you right now.
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  Speaker 1: This is not some kind of abstract idea. NFL Week
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  Speaker 1: 9 is here. Packers versus Patriots. It's Sunday's America's Game
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  Speaker 1: of the Week, streaming live on Fox 1. Miss it live,
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  Speaker 1: and you're just watching a highlight catch. Every play as
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  Speaker 1: it happens. Packers-Patriots live on Fox 1. I have done
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  Speaker 1: a quiz two times on this show. I did Hollering
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  Speaker 1: James and 2% Chance, and they were 0 for 2.
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  Speaker 1: And at any moment, I might do another pop quiz.
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  Speaker 1: I might sprinkle that in. So pay attention. America's Game
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  Speaker 1: of the Week, Packers-Patriots. There will be a quiz on
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  Speaker 1: this later.
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  Speaker 3: Possibly.
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  Speaker 1: Possibly. We've already done it twice. I don't know if
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  Speaker 1: we want to do it a third time. Our lead
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  Speaker 1: this hour, though, from TV land, and it is the
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  Speaker 1: story everyone is yapping about in the sports media world,
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  Speaker 1: the Bickersons of broadcasting, the Fox refugees continuing to squabble, squabble, squabble. Now,
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  Speaker 1: if you've not been paying attention, if you're living under
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  Speaker 1: a rock down by the river, they are feeding the
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  Speaker 1: content machine. Terry Bradshaw, who I used to work with
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  Speaker 1: in radio years ago, the great Terry Bradshaw, appeared with
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  Speaker 1: Brian Kilmeade. And on his, I guess he's got a
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  Speaker 1: radio show, and they discussed the relationship or the lack
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  Speaker 1: of relationship between Terry Bradshaw's former colleagues, Joe Buck and
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  Speaker 1: Troy Aikman. Bradshaw says that he personally contacted Joe Buck.
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  Speaker 1: And he has also had some correspondence with Troy Aikman.
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  Speaker 1: Says he's friends with both. And Joe Buck, they talked
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  Speaker 1: about the feud. Terry heard the broadcast partners planned to negotiate.
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  Speaker 1: This is Terry Bradshaw claiming what he has heard. He
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  Speaker 1: said the negotiation, they were going to negotiate their deals
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  Speaker 1: together with ESPN. But Joe Buck, apparently, the way Bradshaw
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  Speaker 1: told the story, he implied that Buck did some dirty
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  Speaker 1: pool and he got the deal without Aikman. He went
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  Speaker 1: around Aikman, got a six-year contract for over $ 100 million,
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  Speaker 1: which is just outstanding because not one single man, woman,
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  Speaker 1: or child has said, I wasn't going to watch that game,
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  Speaker 1: but Joe Buck's doing the game, so I'm going to
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  Speaker 1: watch the game. And you still get $ 100 million. Oh, mercy.
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  Speaker 1: My God. Anyway, but good for him. Good for him.
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  Speaker 1: I'm jealous. You know, I can say, well, to me,
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  Speaker 1: a radio show, you tune in to hear what the
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  Speaker 1: host has to say, not like an NFL game. Who cares?
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  Speaker 1: Like I watch basketball games all the time. And this
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  Speaker 1: Doris Burke's on there. So I just hit the mute button.
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  Speaker 1: I don't watch it. Let's turn the sound down.
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  Speaker 2: That's it.
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  Speaker 1: I called the Doris Burke button on my remote control
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  Speaker 1: when she's doing a game. Anyway, Bradshaw said he doubts
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  Speaker 1: that Aikman is motivated by jealousy, insisting that Aikman is
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  Speaker 1: not that type of person. He believes that the relationship
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  Speaker 1: has improved. It doesn't seem like it. And the report
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  Speaker 1: suggesting that things are so toxic that ABC slash ESPN
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  Speaker 1: think about pulling Aikman off the the games prior to
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  Speaker 1: the Super Bowl. You can actually bet on that on
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  Speaker 1: the secondary market. So 25-year relationship and getting closer and
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  Speaker 1: closer by the minute to a rather ugly divorce. That
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  Speaker 1: is a good jumping-off point. Let us discuss. So Terry
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  Speaker 1: Bradshaw chimes in on this. Here's the question. Did Joe
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  Speaker 1: Buck violate the Broadcasting Brotherhood by securing the $ 108 million
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  Speaker 1: extension without Troy Aikman? So I've got Applebee's, Paw Patrol,
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  Speaker 1: and Claw Machine. And we will combine all of these
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  Speaker 1: things together, and we're going to have a potluck. I know. Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: the potluck. We're going to push the boundaries. You're going
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  Speaker 1: to have a little matzo ball soup, the gabagool, the babaganoush,
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  Speaker 1: and the jambalaya for Benjam and all that. The gabagool
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  Speaker 1: for Tillio, of course, and the babaganoush for everyone else.
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  Speaker 1: and the matzo ball soup, and we'll have some fettuccine Alfredo,
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  Speaker 1: and I may or may not be fasting, so all
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  Speaker 1: that sounds, most of it sounds really good, really good.
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  Speaker 1: All right, so first of all, to answer the question,
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  Speaker 1: did Joe Buck violate the broadcasting brotherhood by getting a
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  Speaker 1: $ 100 million deal without Troy Aikman? So I've been in
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  Speaker 1: broadcasting my entire adult life, and there is no brotherhood.
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  Speaker 1: Everyone stabs each other in the back. There's no brotherhood.
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  Speaker 1: That doesn't exist, at least not what I've experienced. I've
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  Speaker 1: had TV shows. I've had a bunch of radio shows.
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  Speaker 1: I've never been part of a broadcasting brotherhood. I've been
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  Speaker 1: screwed over a bunch. I know that. I've been promised
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  Speaker 1: certain things by bosses I never got. I've been told certain,
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  Speaker 1: you know, sold a bill of goods from people I've
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  Speaker 1: worked with that haven't come through. But that's just the
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  Speaker 1: way it is. It's not a broadcasting brotherhood. It's a
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  Speaker 1: bunch of schmucks is what it is. For the most part.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, not everyone, obviously. There's a few people that
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  Speaker 1: have been pretty cool to me and helped me out. Mentors,
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  Speaker 1: people that helped me along the way. But if I
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  Speaker 1: did a cost-benefit analysis side-by-side, I'd say that the a-hole category,
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  Speaker 1: much bigger than the cool people category. Much, much bigger.
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  Speaker 1: So to answer the question, I'm giving this stink eye.
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  Speaker 1: Stink eye. This is not the buddy system. And I
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  Speaker 1: remember I had a conversation. There was this famous DJ.
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  Speaker 1: You don't know who this person is anymore because he's
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  Speaker 1: old and his time was in the past. This guy
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  Speaker 1: named Rick Dees was a famous DJ. He was a
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  Speaker 1: top DJ in LA at Kiss FM. He had the
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  Speaker 1: Dees sleaze. He was a big star in radio when
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  Speaker 1: I got into radio. And he could not have been nicer.
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  Speaker 1: I had a two-man show. I did a midday show.
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  Speaker 1: Believe it or not, I actually did a midday show
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  Speaker 1: for a while in L.A. and we did pretty well.
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  Speaker 1: In fact, our ratings were much better than the current
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  Speaker 1: ratings that they have today. And that was a million
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  Speaker 1: years ago. We had a bigger audience, bigger share of
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  Speaker 1: the audience than they do today on the midday shows,
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  Speaker 1: the midday sports shows in L.A. Not that I'm saying that.
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  Speaker 1: anything about that. But anyway, the point is, Deez was wonderful.
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  Speaker 1: And he had a popular morning show and all that.
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  Speaker 1: And I was doing a two-man show and he came
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  Speaker 1: up to me in the hallway and he'd walk by,
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  Speaker 1: he'd do these walk-bys where he'd give you little nuggets
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  Speaker 1: of advice, but they were walk-bys. Because he did like
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  Speaker 1: this top 40 countdown show and he had, he was
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  Speaker 1: famous for this song called Disco Duck. He did a
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  Speaker 1: late night TV show. He had a lot of cool jobs.
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  Speaker 1: But he told me, he said, listen, you do a
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  Speaker 1: two-man show, your show's very popular. When it's time to negotiate,
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  Speaker 1: you don't negotiate together. That's not the way this works.
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  Speaker 1: You do it by yourself. It's every man for himself.
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  Speaker 1: That's just the way the broadcast world is. And that
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  Speaker 1: was a long time ago. It hasn't changed. So the
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  Speaker 1: buddy system doesn't apply. It's Professional broadcasting, it's not a
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  Speaker 1: two-for-one special at Applebee's. It's not an appetizer deal at Applebee's.
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  Speaker 1: And somehow Terry Bradshaw has become the Dr. Phil in
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  Speaker 1: this chapter. He's trying to save a marriage between two
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  Speaker 1: guys with nine-figure bank accounts. It's a real sob story.
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  Speaker 1: It's a real sob story. You think Aikman's been a
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  Speaker 1: broadcaster longer than he was a player, you'd think he'd
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  Speaker 1: understand how this works, although he is... at a certain
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  Speaker 1: level in broadcasting where he hasn't had to deal with
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  Speaker 1: a lot of the bullcrap us peasants have had to
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  Speaker 1: deal with in the broadcasting world. And so did he
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  Speaker 1: start believing that he and Joe Bucker can join twins,
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  Speaker 1: that you're co-workers? You're not, as they used to say
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  Speaker 1: back in the day, Siamese twins or whatever. I mean,
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  Speaker 1: what are you doing? Here's the cold, hard truth. When
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  Speaker 1: your contract expires in this business, you are the Lone Ranger.
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  Speaker 1: That's a data reference, but you're the Lone Ranger, right?
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  Speaker 1: And even Silver, the trusty horse, had his own agent,
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  Speaker 1: separate contracts, separate hay allowances, all that. The marketplace does
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  Speaker 1: not reward loyalty by association. It rewards individual bargaining power,
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  Speaker 1: and Joe Buck got paid, and Troy Aikman believes he
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  Speaker 1: got played. And it's pretty obvious that ESPN doesn't want
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  Speaker 1: Troy Aikman. That he's got cooties. And they want to
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  Speaker 1: get rid of him. They're going to let him play
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  Speaker 1: out his contract and that's it. They want Joe Buck.
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  Speaker 1: It's rather obvious. Now there's rumors they want to hire
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  Speaker 1: Peyton Manning to replace Aikman. or Pat McAfee, one of
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  Speaker 1: those guys, or God forbid, our old morning guy, Stephen A. Smith.
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  Speaker 1: They should just hire all of them. I think they
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  Speaker 1: should have a four-man booth. Have Joe Buck, have McAfee,
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  Speaker 1: Peyton Manning, and Stephen A. And just have all of
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  Speaker 1: them lined up in a row, and I'll just hit
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  Speaker 1: the mute button. That's it. There you go. All right, secondly,
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  Speaker 1: to Baltimore we go. We have a quarterback shuffle as
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  Speaker 1: the Ravens get ready to play tonight. The Thursday night
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  Speaker 1: lid lifter on week nine. Baltimore takes on Jacksonville. We
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  Speaker 1: have learned, though, the Ravens finalizing a trade for Cardinals
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  Speaker 1: quarterback Jacoby Brissett. This after Lamar Jackson had a big
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  Speaker 1: bowl of snap, crackle, pop. Rice Krispies. Season ending. Oh,
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  Speaker 1: my thumb! Injury. And Tyler Huntley also out for the season.
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  Speaker 1: So tonight, undrafted rookie. You got to say this carefully.
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  Speaker 1: Joe Fagnano. will start the Thursday night game against Jacksonville.
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  Speaker 1: DraftKings has this as a 10-point Jaguar road favorite. We
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  Speaker 1: did Benny versus the Penny earlier, and I'm an underdog whore.
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  Speaker 1: My name is Ben Maller, and I love underdogs. I
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  Speaker 1: tried to find a reason to take Baltimore. I couldn't
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  Speaker 1: do it. Couldn't do it. Could not do it. Jacoby Brissett,
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  Speaker 1: by the way, they claimed asked for a trade after
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  Speaker 1: he was demoted to third string. His last 20 starts,
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  Speaker 1: Jacoby Brissett... Lost 16 of the last 20. Now, I
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  Speaker 1: didn't play. I didn't play in the NFL. I think
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  Speaker 1: that sucks. So Baltimore is 4-4. They're riding a three-game
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  Speaker 1: losing streak. And they need all the help they can get.
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  Speaker 1: Brissette will not be in Baltimore for that game. The
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  Speaker 1: trade will be finalized over the weekend, supposedly, from what
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  Speaker 1: I read. Question. Does Jacoby Brissette give Baltimore a fighting chance?
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  Speaker 1: Or does his arrival confirm the season... is cooked. All right,
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  Speaker 1: so Jacoby Brissett, looking at this objectively, you have acquired
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  Speaker 1: the third-string quarterback of the Arizona Cardinals. Does that get
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  Speaker 1: you warm and fuzzy? Does that get you a little horny? No,
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  Speaker 1: it does not. It does not. The Ravens have not
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  Speaker 1: found a diamond in the rough. They bought a cubic zirconia.
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  Speaker 1: at a pawn shop. Now, there is a world in
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  Speaker 1: the multiverse where this guy Joe Fagnano goes out and
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  Speaker 1: throws four touchdown passes tonight, and then Baltimore's like, well,
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  Speaker 1: you know, we don't really want your Kobe percent anymore.
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  Speaker 1: That happens like once a generation. It's already happened somewhat
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  Speaker 1: recently with Nick Foles having an out-of-body experience. The previous
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  Speaker 1: generation had Kurt Warner. So it does happen every once
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  Speaker 1: in a while. You just wouldn't want to bet on that.
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  Speaker 1: And they're exchanging an inexperienced, undrafted rookie's mistakes with in
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  Speaker 1: Joe Fagnano for a veteran warm body who's already demonstrated
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  Speaker 1: he has major limitations. So not a savior. On the
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  Speaker 1: Mallard report card, I wrote down Paw Patrol, as in
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  Speaker 1: a Paw Patrol Band-Aid. It's a Paw Patrol Band-Aid. Now,
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  Speaker 1: I would like to compliment Jacoby Brissett. What a great
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  Speaker 1: move this guy pulled off. Everyone knew this guy sucks,
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  Speaker 1: and he held out, demanded more money from Arizona, And
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  Speaker 1: they gave him more money only to eventually demote him
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  Speaker 1: to third-string status, which is just hilarious. We told him,
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  Speaker 1: what are you doing? You don't give him more money.
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  Speaker 1: He's not that good. He's a vagabond quarterback. They gave
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  Speaker 1: him the money. Now, of course, they have money to burn.
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  Speaker 1: Baltimore is adopting Arizona's unwadded baggage is what they're getting.
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  Speaker 1: One man's trash, another man's starting quarterback. Now, that being said,
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  Speaker 1: when you're trading for a guy, who just lost his
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  Speaker 1: job to Gardner Minshew. You've already lost. Jacoby Brissett is
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  Speaker 1: not the cavalry. The cavalry is coming! The cavalry is coming!
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  Speaker 1: It's not the cavalry coming over the hill. He's just
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  Speaker 1: the guy following the cavalry, delivering the hay to the
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  Speaker 1: horses out on the battlefield. That's it. Baltimore has not
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  Speaker 1: solved anything here. They've upgraded slightly, but only because this
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  Speaker 1: guy has more experience, and they don't want to play
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  Speaker 1: their emergency quarterback, and Brissett's really good if you want
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  Speaker 1: to win with field goals. He'll get you into field
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  Speaker 1: goal range. He won't get you into the touchdown department
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  Speaker 1: in the red zone very often. So congratulations, Ravens. Jacoby Brissett,
• 16:26
  Speaker 1: the NFL's version of a fire extinguisher. Unfortunately, it's already
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  Speaker 1: been used. So good luck on that. I recall one
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  Speaker 1: of the famous stories in the history of Fox Sports Radio.
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  Speaker 1: There was a car accident right outside. We were right
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  Speaker 1: on the corner of these two major streets in L.A.
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  Speaker 1: There was a car accident. Car was on fire. One
• 16:45
  Speaker 1: of our producers, I can tell this story because the
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  Speaker 1: management is dead now that did this. So they're gone,
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  Speaker 1: either fired or dead. So there was an accident right
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  Speaker 1: outside the studio. Car on fire, right? So one of
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  Speaker 1: the producers breaks the glass thing, gets the fire extinguisher,
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  Speaker 1: goes out, middle of the street, right there on Sepulveda,
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  Speaker 1: and puts out the fire. Heroic. There's a memo sent
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  Speaker 1: out how expensive it is to get the– I'm not
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  Speaker 1: making this up. How expensive it was to put the
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  Speaker 1: fire extinguisher back. You had to get the fire department
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  Speaker 1: or some fire thing to come out. You had to
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  Speaker 1: redo the– it was hilarious. So anyway. All right. Now,
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  Speaker 1: final thought. To Cleveland we go, where Shadur Sanders is
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  Speaker 1: in line. It would appear to start for the Browns
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  Speaker 1: against the Saints. This after Deshaun Watson, unavailable. Oh, I
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  Speaker 1: got a headache. He's in the concussion protocol. Shadur Sanders
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  Speaker 1: insisting that his weekly routine will not change. Whether he's
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  Speaker 1: starting or holding a clipboard, asked whether Cleveland's offense is
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  Speaker 1: up to snuff. For Shadur Sanders, he said, we could
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  Speaker 1: have figured that out in training camp. He says he's
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  Speaker 1: learning how to handle questions differently, refusing to criticize the
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  Speaker 1: offense to undermine Deshaun Watson. All right, question. Should Browns
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  Speaker 1: fans be genuinely excited they get to see Shadur Sanders,
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  Speaker 1: or are they simply excited that Deshaun Watson isn't playing?
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  Speaker 1: It's not official official. It certainly seems, based on reports
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  Speaker 1: out of the boondocks, that Watson will not play. So
• 18:32
  Speaker 1: we did a little looky-loo and a little rubbernecking at
• 18:36
  Speaker 1: the Factory of Sadness. And the four letters that popped
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  Speaker 1: up are A, B, D, W. Anybody but Deshaun Watson.
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  Speaker 1: That's the protocol at the Factory of Sadness. The Brownies
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  Speaker 1: are ready to reach back into the claw machine here
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  Speaker 1: and see what they can find. It's time to open
• 18:58
  Speaker 1: up the mystery box. What's in the box on Shadur Sanders? Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: he looked thoroughly mad when he played last year. Looked
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  Speaker 1: couple years. But who knows, right? Behind door number one
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• 19:27
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• 19:31
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• 19:35
  Speaker 1: answers in the past. He's replaced sarcastic answers with sarcastic
• 19:40
  Speaker 1: gestures and smiles and all that. He's already undefeated. Against
• 19:45
  Speaker 1: the Cleveland media. so unfortunately those wins do not count
• 19:50
  Speaker 1: they do not count in the AFC North he says
• 19:54
  Speaker 1: he's improved which is wonderful that's great I've never heard
• 19:58
  Speaker 1: an athlete say I'm actually worse now I'll let you
• 20:01
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• 20:03
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• 20:07
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• 20:13
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• 20:17
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• 20:21
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• 20:27
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• 20:32
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• 20:35
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• 21:06
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• 22:19
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• 22:24
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• 24:54
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• 25:29
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• 25:34
  Speaker 1: Seuss Dog, a mortal enemy of Marcel. Hello, Seuss Dog. Welcome.
• 25:42
  Speaker 3: What up? So you've got your little list of food.
• 25:47
  Speaker 1: You've got the baba ghanoush and the gabagool, and you've
• 25:49
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• 25:51
  Speaker 3: Well, let's– can we add something else?
• 25:54
  Speaker 1: Well, that is not a list. I would like to
• 25:56
  Speaker 1: touch up your work. That is a big board. I
• 25:58
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  Speaker 1: That is a big board, which is much different than
• 26:03
  Speaker 1: a list. A list is– All right, well, let's throw
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  Speaker 1: it on the big board. All right, let's do Benny's
• 26:09
  Speaker 1: big board. Go ahead, Benny's big board. What do we got?
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  Speaker 4: Arancini or arancino?
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  Speaker 1: Arancini, singular.
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  Speaker 3: Arancino is plural.
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  Speaker 1: What it is is they are rice balls covered with
• 26:21
  Speaker 1: breadcrumbs filled with meat. Okay, I've never had that. I mean,
• 26:28
  Speaker 1: it's like a meatball covered in breadcrumbs, right? That's essentially
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  Speaker 1: what it is.
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  Speaker 7: Pretty much.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: All right. I mean, as long as it's not some
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  Speaker 1: kind of weird part of an animal that I don't
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  Speaker 1: know about, I'll be in on it. I'm good.
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  Speaker 5: It is not.
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  Speaker 1: All right. I'm in on that. Lorena, have you ever
• 26:44
  Speaker 1: had that before, Lorena? Are you in on that or no?
• 26:47
  Speaker 1: She's not available right now. She's apparently busy. All right.
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  Speaker 1: What's next?
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  Speaker 3: You've got my favorite, which is more of a traditional
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  Speaker 3: kind of thing.
• 26:56
  Speaker 1: You've got manicotti. Oh, yeah, I've had that. That's good. Yeah,
• 27:01
  Speaker 1: I've had that. Check that box right there. This is,
• 27:04
  Speaker 1: by the way, not a list. This is a big
• 27:06
  Speaker 1: board with sous-dog. Big board. I have my own bit.
• 27:10
  Speaker 1: Do you want to be part of my bit, or
• 27:11
  Speaker 1: do you have more food items you want to name?
• 27:13
  Speaker 1: Are you going to tell me about Weebo?
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  Speaker 2: No.
• 27:18
  Speaker 1: No, I am not going to tell you. I am
• 27:21
  Speaker 1: not going to do that. We have some audio we
• 27:24
  Speaker 1: want to play here. Coop, do you have this audio?
• 27:27
  Speaker 1: I think we're ready. I want to play this for you.
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  Speaker 1: I'm not going to tell you what the mistake is.
• 27:32
  Speaker 1: I want you to listen.
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  Speaker 1: And I want you to see if you can figure
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  Speaker 1: out what the issue is, why this is such an
• 27:42
  Speaker 1: interesting soundbite. Are you cool with that?
• 27:46
  Speaker 3: All right.
• 27:46
  Speaker 1: This is Dan Quinn. He is the head football coach
• 27:51
  Speaker 1: of the team formerly called the Redskins, and he is
• 27:54
  Speaker 1: addressing the media. This is Dan Quinn, head coach in
• 27:57
  Speaker 1: the NFL. Listen to the question he's asked as the
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  Speaker 1: Washington commanders get ready to take on the Rams this weekend.
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  Speaker 1: Take a listen.
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  Speaker 7: Hey, Coach, Devontae Adams is one of those playmaking wide receivers,
• 28:11
  Speaker 7: four touchdowns on the year. What are some things secondary
• 28:14
  Speaker 7: that you know that you have to lock in on
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  Speaker 7: a receiver of his caliber?
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  Speaker 6: Yeah, the passing game alone in L.A. It's detailed. It's
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  Speaker 6: aggressive of how they utilize guys. What they do differently
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  Speaker 6: than most, Donna, is the different packages of players. Sometimes
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  Speaker 6: it's three tight ends and only one receiver.
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  Speaker 1: All right, all right. I don't need the whole thing,
• 28:37
  Speaker 1: but that's all I need. All right, so I will
• 28:39
  Speaker 1: now go to SeussDog. SeussDog, what is odd about that soundbite?
• 28:44
  Speaker 3: Did she call him DeJuante?
• 28:47
  Speaker 1: No, that's not it. Hold on a second. Let me
• 28:50
  Speaker 1: check in with my other guy here.
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  Speaker 6: She's a girl.
• 28:52
  Speaker 1: No, that's not it. Let's check in. How about, who
• 28:57
  Speaker 1: do we have? The Leprechaun. Leprechaun, what was odd about
• 29:00
  Speaker 1: that soundbite, Leprechaun? Leprechaun? Hello, Leprechaun? Mikey Mike, where you at?
• 29:06
  Speaker 1: Let's go. Where's the Leprechaun? I don't hear the Leprechaun.
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  Speaker 1: I don't know. I guess he's not there. All right.
• 29:13
  Speaker 3: Well, fine.
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  Speaker 1: He's out of the show then for this. The answer,
• 29:16
  Speaker 1: Seuss dog, that female reporter asked Dan Quinn on how
• 29:20
  Speaker 1: the Washington Commanders are going to stop Devontae Adams. And
• 29:23
  Speaker 1: I have the answer. He's out for the year with
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  Speaker 1: an injury. Oh, my God. How embarrassing for that woman.
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  Speaker 1: What are you? Did not pay any attention. Holy crap.
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  Speaker 1: That's all. as good. Do you remember Seuss dog a
• 29:43
  Speaker 1: couple of years back when Todd Bowles was asked about
• 29:45
  Speaker 1: how Tampa Bay was going to handle the weather conditions
• 29:48
  Speaker 1: of frigid conditions as they were getting ready to play
• 29:51
  Speaker 1: the Lions in Detroit? This woman asked this long... It
• 29:55
  Speaker 1: was hilarious. It was, oh, it's forecast to be 12
• 29:57
  Speaker 1: degrees in Detroit. How are you going to handle the weather?
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  Speaker 1: And then Todd Bowles pointed out, they play in a dome. Oh,
• 30:08
  Speaker 1: it's so good. Now, Dan Quinn played... He didn't, like,
• 30:11
  Speaker 1: attack the reporter because he would have gotten in trouble
• 30:13
  Speaker 1: for that because, you know, the wokesters would have gotten upset.
• 30:16
  Speaker 1: They would have been upset. So that that did not happen.
• 30:19
  Speaker 1: But he he either he I assume he would be aware.
• 30:23
  Speaker 1: I think Dan Quinn would know that Devante Adams is
• 30:26
  Speaker 1: not playing. He's probably out for the year. But anyway,
• 30:30
  Speaker 1: I thought that was funny. I love I love when
• 30:32
  Speaker 1: reporters don't pay attention. And they ask the ridiculous questions
• 30:37
  Speaker 1: like that. All right, Seuss dog, thank you. Go eat
• 30:40
  Speaker 1: your meatballs.
• 30:41
  Speaker 3: Can you do me a favor?
• 30:43
  Speaker 1: What's that? Can you tell Anthony in Louisiana I say hello?
• 30:48
  Speaker 1: He's not online, but I will try to remember that,
• 30:51
  Speaker 1: and I will let him know. He'll probably say hello.
• 30:54
  Speaker 1: I will let him know. Seuss dog wants to say
• 30:58
  Speaker 1: hello to Anthony. All right, thank you, Seuss dog. All right, outstanding. Well,
• 31:02
  Speaker 1: we have the I don't know if I want to
• 31:05
  Speaker 1: do that right now. How about this? The watch guy.
• 31:09
  Speaker 1: Not a watch guy. That's right, Anthony. Congratulations on liking football.
• 31:15
  Speaker 1: Very happy. Anthony calls up, has nothing to say, but
• 31:17
  Speaker 1: he just wants to do shout-outs. He just wants to
• 31:19
  Speaker 1: do shout-outs to Kathy and Eileen and Andrea and Jerry
• 31:24
  Speaker 1: in Rhode Island, and that's it. That's his shtick. That's
• 31:30
  Speaker 1: his deal. Well, Tom Brady... is watch guy tom brady
• 31:36
  Speaker 1: is watching i know this story pops up every weekend
• 31:39
  Speaker 1: tom wears some ridiculous watch and all that and they
• 31:43
  Speaker 1: showcased recently the six luxury watches worn by tom brady
• 31:49
  Speaker 1: this nfl season and the combined reported value okay we
• 31:57
  Speaker 1: can do a round robin on this I want you
• 32:00
  Speaker 1: listening to guess six watches featured by Tom Brady. What
• 32:04
  Speaker 1: do you think the combined value of those six watches is?
• 32:10
  Speaker 1: All right. What do you think?
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  Speaker 3: $ 2. 6 million.
• 32:12
  Speaker 1: Lorraine is going $ 2. 6 million. Coop, would you like to
• 32:17
  Speaker 1: play our game? The approximate value of Tom Brady's six
• 32:20
  Speaker 1: watches that he's worn on television. That's way too low
• 32:23
  Speaker 1: from Lorraine. There's probably a watch that's worth close to
• 32:27
  Speaker 1: that by itself. I'm going to go. Coop's breaking this down.
• 32:31
  Speaker 1: I'm going to go. You said six watches? Yeah, six watches.
• 32:36
  Speaker 1: Let's go five million. All right. So you both went over.
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  Speaker 6: Oh.
• 32:43
  Speaker 1: It's only six watches. The approximate value is a little
• 32:50
  Speaker 1: over $ 2 million. So I was right. No, it wasn't 2.6.
• 32:55
  Speaker 1: You went over, so you don't win the showcase showdown.
• 32:57
  Speaker 1: It was $ 2. 07 million. Now, if you do go back,
• 33:00
  Speaker 1: they've kept track. How about this person? Let me keep
• 33:03
  Speaker 1: track of all the watches Brady's worn. And if you
• 33:06
  Speaker 1: go back in the hot tub time machine, in December
• 33:11
  Speaker 1: of 2024, Brady, he auctioned 21 watches. He auctioned them off.
• 33:19
  Speaker 1: Those sold for a combined $ 4. 6 million. So that's, listen,
• 33:24
  Speaker 1: the guy's making, he's got a $ 375 million deal with Fox.
• 33:28
  Speaker 1: And this is his thing. The most expensive watch Brady
• 33:32
  Speaker 1: wore was during the Super Bowl, a $ 740, 000 watch. I
• 33:39
  Speaker 1: would be so paranoid if I wore something like that,
• 33:41
  Speaker 1: that somebody's going to come along and chop my wrist
• 33:44
  Speaker 1: off to take my watch, that I would be losing
• 33:48
  Speaker 1: my mind. if I wore something like that. Anyway, that's Brady,
• 33:52
  Speaker 1: watch guy. Tom Brady, watch guy. Big time watch guy.
• 33:58
  Speaker 1: And Pat O'Brien, who used to work here, the great sportscaster,
• 34:02
  Speaker 1: Pat O'Brien, watch guy. The most expensive watch I have
• 34:07
  Speaker 1: is from Pat O'Brien when he worked at our shop
• 34:11
  Speaker 1: and he ripped, I was wearing a watch and he
• 34:15
  Speaker 1: was kind of ripping it and he then went I
• 34:18
  Speaker 1: don't have the time for this, but he got me
• 34:20
  Speaker 1: a really nice watch. Maybe I'll tell the story on
• 34:21
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• 36:42
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• 36:46
  Speaker 1: We start out in Fort Wayne, Indiana. We say hello
• 36:50
  Speaker 1: to Daniel.
• 36:51
  Speaker 3: Hello, Daniel. Welcome.
• 36:52
  Speaker 1: A lot of ambient noise. Hello, Daniel.
• 36:55
  Speaker 3: Good morning, Ben.
• 36:55
  Speaker 1: I forgot my whistle.
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  Speaker 3: I had to run back home.
• 36:57
  Speaker 1: To get it. Oh, that sucks. Now, Daniel's America's favorite
• 37:00
  Speaker 1: crossing guard. Keeping the kids safe in Fort Wayne, Indiana.
• 37:04
  Speaker 1: You've got to have your whistle. Yeah, you've got to
• 37:08
  Speaker 1: have the whistle. All right, buddy.
• 37:09
  Speaker 7: Hold on.
• 37:10
  Speaker 1: Coach Russell, our high school football coach in the Orlando area. Hello, Coach. Welcome.
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  Speaker 1: You're driving.
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  Speaker 7: Hey, good morning.
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  Speaker 1: Good morning.
• 37:17
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  Speaker 1: Playoff's starting next week.
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  Speaker 3: But Daniel, stay safe out there, brother.
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  Speaker 1: All right. Thank you, Coach. We'll bye week action for
• 37:27
  Speaker 1: Coach Russell. We have Discreet. We haven't heard from Discreet
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  Speaker 1: in a while. Hello, Discreet. Welcome.
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  Speaker 4: Well, thank you, Ben.
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  Speaker 6: Anytime you and I talk, it's a brotherhood, and I
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  Speaker 6: negotiate purely based on that for myself.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, you go way back, Discreet. We have many, many years. Absolutely.
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  Speaker 3: Yes, sir.
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  Speaker 1: All right, back to the Karen Kay days, I believe.
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  Speaker 1: All right, hold on a sec. There's Discreet. We have
• 37:51
  Speaker 1: Scott from the Commonwealth. Hello, Scott. Welcome.
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  Speaker 3: Well, howdy, Ben.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, I got the day off so I can join
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  Speaker 1: the show. You're my favorite Scott in the Commonwealth. Why,
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  Speaker 1: thank you. No, seriously. I don't know why. It's something about, right, Coop?
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  Speaker 1: I mean, really nice Scott. Normal, down-to-earth.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: Right? You're a man of the people, Scott. Okay. Leisure
• 38:17
  Speaker 1: Suit Larry is in Colorado. Hello, Leisure Suit Larry. Hey, Ben.
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  Speaker 3: I got a question for you.
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  Speaker 4: What the hell is baba ghanoush and gabagool?
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  Speaker 1: It's not gabagool. Gabagool is an Italian beef, right, Coop?
• 38:37
  Speaker 1: And then the baba ghanoush is like an eggplant dip thing.
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  Speaker 1: It's like a Middle Eastern dish, so. It's just a
• 38:43
  Speaker 1: fun word to say. Here we go, gentlemen. Three stories.
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  Speaker 1: Figure out which of the three isn't true. Listen closely.
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  Speaker 1: We're going to go rapid fire here. Story number one.
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  Speaker 1: Almost two years ago, the Miami Heat revealed a statue
• 38:54
  Speaker 1: for Dwayne Wade outside their arena. The problem, it looked
• 38:58
  Speaker 1: nothing like D. Wade. Well, the statue has undergone some
• 39:01
  Speaker 1: plastic surgery. It's gotten a facelift. The original artist worked
• 39:05
  Speaker 1: closely with Wade over the course of the last year
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  Speaker 1: to sculpt a new, more accurate head that was swapped out.
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  Speaker 1: So the original statue was beheaded for the new Dwayne
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  Speaker 1: Wade head. Story number two, the Golden State Valkyries won
• 39:18
  Speaker 1: their WNBA championship after defeating the Atlanta Dream in Game
• 39:24
  Speaker 1: 7 in the finals. Gabby Williams was named MVP of
• 39:27
  Speaker 1: the series, but the trophy... isn't the only thing that
• 39:31
  Speaker 1: Williams received. Toy maker Mattel revealing that they will be
• 39:35
  Speaker 1: selling a limited edition Gabby Williams Barbie doll. How about that?
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  Speaker 1: To celebrate her achievement. And story number three, Caleb Williams
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  Speaker 1: receiving a total of $ 35, 000 plus in fines over the
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  Speaker 1: last few weeks by the NFL for wearing unauthorized Caddx cleats.
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  Speaker 1: And the company does not have a branding deal with
• 39:55
  Speaker 1: Caleb Williams. They offered to pay his fines for the
• 39:58
  Speaker 1: support and publicity charges. he has provided so one of
• 40:02
  Speaker 1: those stories is not true separating fiction from fact we
• 40:05
  Speaker 1: got a lot of judges let's start out with our
• 40:07
  Speaker 1: favorite crossing guard daniel in fort wayne which is the
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  Speaker 1: fake story daniel number one and thank you coach russell
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  Speaker 1: i will be careful all right coach russell by week
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  Speaker 1: one two or three coach i'm gonna go with number
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  Speaker 1: three all right number three discreet one two or three
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  Speaker 1: discreet number one all right scott from the commonwealth Got
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  Speaker 1: to go with number two. Scott's going number two. Leisure
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  Speaker 1: suit Larry. So which one is fake? Is that what
• 40:37
  Speaker 1: you're asking me? Yes. Yes, Larry. Yes. Oh, no problem.
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  Speaker 1: Number three. Well, there is a problem, Larry. That's not
• 40:47
  Speaker 1: the fake story. The fake story number two, the Gabby
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  Speaker 1: Williams Barbie. Unfortunately, not going to be a thing. I know. Devastated. Really,
• 40:56
  Speaker 1: that was my favorite Barbie doll.