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The Fifth Hour: "Umpires Love to Drink" · The Ben Maller Show

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  Speaker 1: Cutbooms.
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  Speaker 2: If you thought four hours a day, twelve hundred minutes
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  Speaker 2: a week was enough, think again. He's the last remnants
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  Speaker 2: of the Old Republic, a soul fashion of fairness. He
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  Speaker 2: treats crackheads in the ghetto gutter the same as the
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  Speaker 2: rich pill poppers in the penthouse. Wow to the clearing
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  Speaker 2: House of hot takes, break free for something special. The
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  Speaker 2: Fifth Hour with Ben Maller starts right now.
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  Speaker 3: In the air everywhere, The Fifth Hour with me, Ben
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  Speaker 3: Mahler and Danny g Radio on a Saturday early and Danny.
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  Speaker 1: Hanging out with us here. We are available every single day.
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  Speaker 4: as you know this podcast on Yesterday, Friday, Today, Saturday,
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  Speaker 4: and then tomorrow on Sunday. You're Danny on with Covino
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  Speaker 4: and Rich during the week on a Fox Sports radio
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  Speaker 4: and we are united to form Voltron every weekend and
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  Speaker 4: so excited to celebrate with you, Danny. Now you know
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  Speaker 4: tomorrow not tomorrow, but I's Monday, Saint Patti's Day. But
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  Speaker 4: today is National Corn Dog Day, which is a very
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  Speaker 4: very important day.
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  Speaker 1: The corn dog. What a gift, right.
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  Speaker 4: Can you imagine a world without the corn dog? My god,
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  Speaker 4: what a nightmare that would be. But here we are celebrating.
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  Speaker 4: I don't know why today is National corn Dog Day.
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  Speaker 4: Seems kind of a random day to do it, but
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  Speaker 4: it is. Nineteen twenty nine. Fun fact, the Krusty corn
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  Speaker 4: Dog Machine featured Albert pick El Barth. It was in
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  Speaker 4: a catalog at hotel supply stores and so the Corny
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  Speaker 4: Dogs vaudeville performers Carl and Neil Fletcher never heard of him,
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  Speaker 4: started selling corny dogs at the Texas State Fair. That
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  Speaker 4: was in nineteen forty two. So the corn dog is
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  Speaker 4: not that old. The corn dog is is not something
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  Speaker 4: that's been around. I mean, it's been around for almost
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  Speaker 4: one hundred years, but you know, it's not as old
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  Speaker 4: as some of the other stuff they were eating. But hey,
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  Speaker 4: I used to love corn dogs. I remember in elementary school,
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  Speaker 4: I hated the food. My mom would usually give me
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  Speaker 4: a lunch box with like a tuna fish sandwich or
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  Speaker 4: peanut butter and jelly or something like that, and I
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  Speaker 4: always hated tuna fish sandwich day because by the time
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  Speaker 4: we got the lunch the tuna was warm and disgusting,
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  Speaker 4: and I hate so much of it.
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  Speaker 1: I don't even eat seafood anymore.
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  Speaker 5: But yeah, did your mom think that lunchtime at school
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  Speaker 5: was ten thirty am?
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  Speaker 1: I think so. I think she was convinced.
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  Speaker 4: Well, she had like this little cheesy ice pack, but
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  Speaker 4: it didn't really work. In all those early ice packs
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  Speaker 4: were not the greatest thing in the world when they
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  Speaker 4: first came out.
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  Speaker 1: So it just was a bad situation.
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  Speaker 4: But every once in a while I'd get the opportunity
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  Speaker 4: when we got the schedule on the cafeteria food when
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  Speaker 4: it was corn dog day, I'm in you know, that
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  Speaker 4: was my day.
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  Speaker 1: That was my day, corn dog.
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  Speaker 4: Day that I got to be a big shot and
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  Speaker 4: eat it to school lunch lunch area.
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  Speaker 1: So that was big.
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  Speaker 5: And the best batter is when they put the honey
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  Speaker 5: in there, the honey corn dog.
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  Speaker 4: Oh yeah, it's so good. Now I have made corn
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  Speaker 4: dogs at the Malor Mansion. The problem is they're they're
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  Speaker 4: really jumbo size, which is not a problem, but they
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  Speaker 4: don't look like your traditional corn dog. I rotate nuts
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  Speaker 4: that you would buy at like a Wiener Schnitzel or
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  Speaker 4: something along those lines. But anyway, now Danny have you
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  Speaker 4: heard the phrase You're damned if you do, You're damned
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  Speaker 4: if you don't.
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  Speaker 1: You heard that phrase, right, You're damned if you do.
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  Speaker 5: Know.
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  Speaker 4: So, I feel like this podcast is a no win
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  Speaker 4: situation because for a while we didn't talk any sports,
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  Speaker 4: and we still don't talk that much sports, but on
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  Speaker 4: the Saturday, and today's being Saturday, I mean, we've tried
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  Speaker 4: to take advantage of some NFL stories and that'd be
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  Speaker 4: dated by the time I come back on Sunday night
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  Speaker 4: and Monday. And so I'm now getting people complaining that
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  Speaker 4: we're doing too much sports on the podcast, that people
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  Speaker 4: are upset that that we've gone away from what the
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  Speaker 4: podcast is supposed to be. So you can't win because
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  Speaker 4: before we were people people were complaining Danny.
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  Speaker 1: They were like, well, you know, you don't talk any sports.
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  Speaker 1: I tuned in for the sports. You don't talk any
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  Speaker 1: what's wrong with you? You the Ben Malasher.
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  Speaker 4: You talk about sports all night and then the week
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  Speaker 4: is you talk about yet for lunch, you know, and
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  Speaker 4: that kind of And I was like, Okay, so now
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  Speaker 4: I'm trying to mix it in and damned if you do,
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  Speaker 4: damn if you don't.
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  Speaker 1: But screw those people. You know, why, Nanny, Because Cooper
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  Speaker 1: Cup is now a Seattle Seahawk. Wow, Cooper Cup is
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  Speaker 1: a Seattle Seahawk.
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  Speaker 4: And I'm gonna take advantage of this opportunity because I
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  Speaker 4: don't want to waste time on the valuable airwaves of FSR.
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  Speaker 4: But Cooper Cup yesterday agreed to a deal with the
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  Speaker 4: Seattle Seahawks. And the reaction, that's really what I want
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  Speaker 4: to talk about, because that many, many people in the
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  Speaker 4: NFL world were stunned, not just fans, but a lot
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  Speaker 4: of NFL types that Cooper Cup picked the team in
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  Speaker 4: the Pacific Northwest. And now one fan, our guy Nostra Denis,
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  Speaker 4: who's one of the twelves there, this bozo. He took
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  Speaker 4: a victory lap on social media. He said, I called it.
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  Speaker 4: I called it, and he's like, I can't wait to
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  Speaker 4: hear the fifth dollar broadcast, he said tomorrow.
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  Speaker 1: Okay.
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  Speaker 4: So I would like to quote Danny the Great Vince Lombardi,
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  Speaker 4: Vincent Lombardi who said, act like you've been there before.
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  Speaker 4: No Stredenas your name is literally no Stredenis. Okay, you
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  Speaker 4: are the self titled king of predictions. You're supposed to
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  Speaker 4: be a prediction guy, so you know, zip it, zip it.
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  Speaker 4: And I wouldn't be celebrating this because Cooper Cup's on
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  Speaker 4: his last legs, So be careful what you wish for.
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  Speaker 4: And the reason why so many people are gob smacked,
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  Speaker 4: gob smacked by Cooper Cup going to Seattle, I'll tell you, hey,
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  Speaker 4: it's simple.
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  Speaker 2: Uh.
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  Speaker 4: He was at a fork in the road and Cup
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  Speaker 4: zigged when people expected him to that. Rather than sign
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  Speaker 4: with a playoff contender, he announced He's ready to go
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  Speaker 4: the extra mile. And I mean when I say extra
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  Speaker 4: miled Danny, I mean the Miles Garrett, because Miles Garrett
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  Speaker 4: is now the standard for I'm not into winning anymore.
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  Speaker 1: I just want the money.
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  Speaker 4: And when he when he had that long rant a
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  Speaker 4: couple of weeks ago about how I you know, I
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  Speaker 4: don't want to be in Cleveland anymore. I want to
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  Speaker 4: win Super Bowls and all that, and then the Browns
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  Speaker 4: made him a godfather offer and it's like, you know,
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  Speaker 4: I'm good all of a sudden, I'm okay with the
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  Speaker 4: Browns and all that.
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  Speaker 1: So when you go the extra mile.
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  Speaker 5: Don't you think that was partly the Brown's fault? They
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  Speaker 5: backed him into a corner by saying no way in
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  Speaker 5: hell that they would move him.
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  Speaker 4: No, no, they he could have held his ground and
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  Speaker 4: would have gotten traded.
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  Speaker 5: If that never works out well for NFL players though,
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  Speaker 5: when they hold.
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  Speaker 4: Out, Uh, I wouldn't say never. I mean there have
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  Speaker 4: been examples where it blows up, like Leveon Bell when
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  Speaker 4: he sat out the hole.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah, I'm talking about prolonged holdouts where you miss games.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah. See, it's all about a game of chicken. Though.
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  Speaker 4: As you know, it's like you call the bluff of
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  Speaker 4: the team and generally the attitude. I'll give you the
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  Speaker 4: idea the attitudes, like what Seattle said about DK Metcalf
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  Speaker 4: the GM there was like, well, we want people to
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  Speaker 4: want to be here, and he didn't want to be here,
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  Speaker 4: and so we traded.
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  Speaker 1: Him and all that. And I'm kidous.
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  Speaker 4: If Miles Garrett wanted to be traded, there were plenty
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  Speaker 4: of teams that would have traded and the Browns would
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  Speaker 4: have done it. And even more evidence on that, Danny.
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  Speaker 4: The story that came out I think it was on
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  Speaker 4: Thursday of this week. I ranted about it on the
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  Speaker 4: Overnight Show, was that Miles Garrett was showing up late
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  Speaker 4: to meetings and he wasn't taking part in team functions
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  Speaker 4: and stuff like that.
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  Speaker 1: They were ripping him for being a bad leader.
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  Speaker 4: You want to bet that was leaked by one of
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  Speaker 4: the teams that thought they had a trade lined up
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  Speaker 4: for Miles Garrett and they leaked that to sabotage him
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  Speaker 4: because they're like, ah, you know, we couldn't get the player.
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  Speaker 4: We thought we had a deal, and I guess he
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  Speaker 4: backed out because he wanted the Browns contract, and so
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  Speaker 4: then they start attacking it certainly didn't come from the
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  Speaker 4: Browns and it didn't come from Miles Garrett, so it
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  Speaker 4: had to come from another team. But as far as
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  Speaker 4: Cooper cup though all right mentioned that people show, you know,
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  Speaker 4: stunned by this and all that.
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  Speaker 1: But he went to Miles Garrett route. He's got his
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  Speaker 1: piece of metal.
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  Speaker 5: He's also going home. He's from Eastern Washington exactly.
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  Speaker 3: You know.
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  Speaker 4: He won the MVP of the Super Bowl for the
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  Speaker 4: Rams and all that. So the Rams, you know, they
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  Speaker 4: they they got everything they could out of him, and
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  Speaker 4: now I wish him, well, I know Seattle's apparently from
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  Speaker 4: what I read overpaying him. I've read right yesterday like
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  Speaker 4: fifteen million dollars a year and then finally.
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  Speaker 5: Just like how your rams overpaid Davonte Adams.
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  Speaker 1: R Colm down all right, com down? Uh and good
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  Speaker 1: good luck.
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  Speaker 4: And my final thought for Cooper Cup and I hope
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  Speaker 4: he will take No Stradina's with him because in January,
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  Speaker 4: when you're playing with Sam Darnold, you don't have to
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  Speaker 4: worry about winning big games or getting to the playoffs.
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  Speaker 4: So Cup and Donald and No Stradinas can all go
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  Speaker 4: to like Cancun together and have a fine time. And
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  Speaker 4: you know, fine, I listened Cooper Cup. I loved him
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  Speaker 4: as a ram. He had one of the great years
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  Speaker 4: in the history of the NFL. If you look at
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  Speaker 4: his body work, he was about a good to great
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  Speaker 4: player for maybe a year and a half, maybe a
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  Speaker 4: year and a half, and then he's just consistently gotten
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  Speaker 4: hurt and it's it's been an issue. And I'm convinced
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  Speaker 4: Danny that Seattle people will say, well, they got bamboozled
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  Speaker 4: when they picked up Cooper Cup. It was a total
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  Speaker 4: bamboozled situation.
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  Speaker 5: Well boy, right on time, there, Ben the Teimer, the
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  Speaker 5: alarm was about to go because you were talking too
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  Speaker 5: much sports.
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  Speaker 2: I know.
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  Speaker 4: I don't want to piss off people because I'm talking
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  Speaker 4: sports Sporto on the weekend.
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  Speaker 1: How well they were?
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  Speaker 5: Really?
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  Speaker 4: What was the one I did? Uh number a couple
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  Speaker 4: weeks so, I don't think you were here for this.
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  Speaker 4: It was a Pete Carroll one I did, like the
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  Speaker 4: whole thing on Pete Carroll, I think if I remember correctly.
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  Speaker 1: And I think that was here.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah, and oh yeah, you shouldn't have done that.
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  Speaker 1: You did.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah, and then you did a whole you did a
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  Speaker 5: bonus monologue on Jeno Smith. Oh yeah, because you got
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  Speaker 5: in a Twitter beef with no I got.
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  Speaker 4: Had nothing to do. I'm I'm a grown up Danny.
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  Speaker 4: I don't hold grudges. I just call it like it is.
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  Speaker 4: Sure you don't, Well, listen, you'll be gonna try hold on.
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  Speaker 4: You will be asking me for negative Geno smifth monologues
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  Speaker 4: by about week five. Okay, you will be saying can
• 10:19
  Speaker 4: you rip Gino a little more on the Overnight show?
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  Speaker 4: That's what you're gonna be telling me. You mean texting
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  Speaker 4: me messages. Can you tear into this Dow?
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  Speaker 5: Yeah, get my fair share of Gino rippage without saying
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  Speaker 5: a word to you. Well, one guy, Ben that I'm
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  Speaker 5: gonna try to not hold a grudge against a couple
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  Speaker 5: of days ago, the WiFi and the baby, the big
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  Speaker 5: Baby Koa, who, by the way, has learned to say
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  Speaker 5: the word wail.
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  Speaker 1: Nice.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah, as we were pool side, we went to the
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  Speaker 5: beautiful city you visited not too long ago to go
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  Speaker 5: to the zoo.
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  Speaker 1: Oh sure, San Diego. Love San Diego, Sonny.
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  Speaker 5: But Wendy, you know, in southern California, we have some
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  Speaker 5: leftover winter weather.
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  Speaker 1: Our California winter, California winter, which is Yeah.
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  Speaker 5: I went to the bar to order some food to
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  Speaker 5: go for us so that we could eat poolside without
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  Speaker 5: you know, being charged the twenty extra dollars to have
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  Speaker 5: some goof drop the food off to you sure, and
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  Speaker 5: drop it off cold. So I thought, well, let me
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  Speaker 5: go to the bar. I'll order it. I'll get the
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  Speaker 5: food hot and bring it pool side so big Baby
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  Speaker 5: Koa can have a cheese pizza and say whale. As
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  Speaker 5: women were walking past him, he was saying whale. A
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  Speaker 5: true story. I swear to god. It was so not embarrassing.
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  Speaker 5: It was so hilarious because the look on the ladies'
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  Speaker 5: faces they didn't know whether to say how adorable or
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  Speaker 5: to be offended.
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  Speaker 1: What it likely depended on how much they waited.
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  Speaker 5: Right likely, he said, it's so cute, he says, wa.
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  Speaker 4: Have you I'm assuming you've taken them out on a
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  Speaker 4: whale watching thing.
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  Speaker 1: Have you taken him out?
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  Speaker 5: No? But before we left left in their gift shop
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  Speaker 5: there there was a whale and a stuffed whale, and
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  Speaker 5: I got that for him for a great deal for
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  Speaker 5: fourteen ninety nine a little stuffed whale. That was the
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  Speaker 5: best deal I got a couple days ago on this trip.
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  Speaker 5: So we're pool side with the food. But before I
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  Speaker 5: delivered the food to the fam, I'm sitting at the
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  Speaker 5: bar to get the happy hour price on the wings
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  Speaker 5: that I was going to bring over along with our pizza.
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  Speaker 5: The bartender told me I needed to sit down. You
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  Speaker 5: can't get the specials if you're just taking the food
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  Speaker 5: to go. So I told him, all right, well, I'll
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  Speaker 5: sit down. I'll have one alcoholic beverage while I wait
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  Speaker 5: for the food to come out of your kitchen. And
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  Speaker 5: so it worked out. Good wife is with the co
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  Speaker 5: at the pool. He's probably calling five other women whales
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  Speaker 5: during that time span. I ordered a couple of Pizzas
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  Speaker 5: I get the wings, he slaps the wings down in
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  Speaker 5: front of me. I get a dark beer, pours the guinness,
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  Speaker 5: puts it in front of him, and there's a guy
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  Speaker 5: to the left of me with his wife and they're
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  Speaker 5: talking about how they're so excited because after they leave
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  Speaker 5: the bar they're going to go to a tattoo shop.
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  Speaker 5: Wife is going to get some new ink. So they're
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  Speaker 5: showing their tattoos. He's talking about the tattoos he's got
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  Speaker 5: on his arms, and he looks over at me and
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  Speaker 5: he could see my twenty three tattoos and he says, man,
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  Speaker 5: that's some nice ink. Start talking tattoos with this guy.
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  Speaker 5: He said, yeah, on my left leg, this whole leg
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  Speaker 5: right here is going to be my sports legh okay,
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  Speaker 5: And he says, you know, with what I do for
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  Speaker 5: a living, I actually get a lot of pro athlete signatures.
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  Speaker 1: OK.
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  Speaker 5: So I'm thinking, oh, no, don't tell me I'm sitting
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  Speaker 5: next to some sports radio guy.
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  Speaker 1: Oh boy, no.
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  Speaker 5: Ben turns out he's a referee.
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  Speaker 1: Really.
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  Speaker 5: I got like, yeah, Mike, I'm thinking to myself, well, dude,
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  Speaker 5: this guy's got a lot of ink on him for
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  Speaker 5: being a referee. But you know, maybe with the long, longer,
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  Speaker 5: short sleeve referee shirts. Maybe he hides the ink. Yeah,
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  Speaker 5: I don't know, but I'm not gonna whip out my
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  Speaker 5: phone and google this guy right in front of him.
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  Speaker 5: So he's talking about refereeing, and the people to his
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  Speaker 5: right are very impressed by his referee stories. Okay, the
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  Speaker 5: bartender starts listening as well, and we're thinking, man, did
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  Speaker 5: this guy just you know ref the suit? Was he
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  Speaker 5: part of the super Bowl crew? He's here on this
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  Speaker 5: nice vacation, it looks like, with his wife and they're
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  Speaker 5: getting new ink, and he's talking about his sports leg
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  Speaker 5: and he's gonna get he has all these NFL players autographs,
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  Speaker 5: and he's gonna he's gonna get like a mural on
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  Speaker 5: his leg of NFL stars and autographs. Sure, and I'm thinking, well,
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  Speaker 5: that's kind of a fanboy for somebody that's a referee.
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  Speaker 5: It didn't make a lot of sense to me. He
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  Speaker 5: he gets a phone call and it seemed really important,
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  Speaker 5: you know, man, Maybe Roger Goodell.
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  Speaker 1: Is calling him right now.
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  Speaker 5: Sure, because he takes his phone back and he looks
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  Speaker 5: at both parties being the other people, and he's, excuse me,
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  Speaker 5: I got to take this. So he wanders away from
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  Speaker 5: the bar, area and he's on this important call. I
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  Speaker 5: look over to his wife and she starts to talk
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  Speaker 5: to me about the tattoos she's going to get. And
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  Speaker 5: I asked her, I said, so, how long has he
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  Speaker 5: been refereeing?
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  Speaker 3: In?
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  Speaker 5: Which league? Does he referee NFL games? And she says, oh,
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  Speaker 5: oh no, no, he's a high school refer.
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  Speaker 4: Oh man, I was gonna say, I didn't want to
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  Speaker 4: off to you, but it's like, this sounds like a
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  Speaker 4: hard old guy that's like a heart high school referee.
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  Speaker 4: Oh boy, why you know, he's certainly got that.
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  Speaker 5: I felt very bamboozled because the stories he was telling
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  Speaker 5: the folks, and how proud he was about these signatures
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  Speaker 5: he says he gets from all these pro athletes, and
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  Speaker 5: just the way he carried himself. You know, you would
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  Speaker 5: have thought this was Ed Hocule's next to me.
• 15:55
  Speaker 1: Yeah.
• 15:56
  Speaker 4: Yeah, Well, isn't it like the real big time officials
• 16:00
  Speaker 4: probably don't talk about it, right, They probably say they
• 16:02
  Speaker 4: do something else or something. But that is that's amusing.
• 16:05
  Speaker 4: So he led you guys on. This guy had the
• 16:07
  Speaker 4: whole room. It sounds like he was in control of
• 16:08
  Speaker 4: the whole room. It's like the master of ceremonies.
• 16:11
  Speaker 1: At this bar.
• 16:13
  Speaker 5: I wish I had a red Challenge flag. When he
• 16:15
  Speaker 5: came back from his fake important call, I would have
• 16:18
  Speaker 5: threw the flag at him.
• 16:19
  Speaker 4: This reminds me and I think I can tell the
• 16:21
  Speaker 4: story now because everyone's dead. But when I first went
• 16:24
  Speaker 4: to Dodgertown in Vero Beach back many many I was
• 16:28
  Speaker 4: like thirty years ago, and they had a famous bar,
• 16:33
  Speaker 4: Dodgertown Bar. Nothing in Vero Beach but Dodgertown. They had
• 16:37
  Speaker 4: everything at a restaurant at the bar all that so,
• 16:39
  Speaker 4: and we were doing this the show back to La
• 16:42
  Speaker 4: and then we had a lot of downtime. There's nothing
• 16:44
  Speaker 4: to do in Vero Beach at that time. I heard
• 16:46
  Speaker 4: there's more to do there now, and so we would
• 16:50
  Speaker 4: just hang out around the Dodgertown Bar. At that time,
• 16:53
  Speaker 4: me and I was in the show It's the Dave
• 16:55
  Speaker 4: Dave Smith, and we were you know, and every single
• 16:58
  Speaker 4: guys and we just hung out in Occasionally we try
• 17:01
  Speaker 4: to go out and that one.
• 17:02
  Speaker 1: That's a whole different can of hors.
• 17:03
  Speaker 4: But I remember after some of the Dodger games, there
• 17:07
  Speaker 4: were a couple of the umpires that would come in
• 17:09
  Speaker 4: there and drink at the Dodger Town Bar, and it
• 17:12
  Speaker 4: was always odd to be I was like, what, wait
• 17:14
  Speaker 4: a minute, is it that like a conflict of interest?
• 17:17
  Speaker 4: But I guess that one of them lived in Vero
• 17:19
  Speaker 4: Beach or adjacent and that was like the that was
• 17:22
  Speaker 4: the spot.
• 17:23
  Speaker 1: They just go in.
• 17:23
  Speaker 4: There and drink and tell tell stories. One thing about
• 17:27
  Speaker 4: baseball dudes, I mean they those guys, they just love
• 17:31
  Speaker 4: telling stories. They all it is is one story after
• 17:35
  Speaker 4: another and another. That used to be this famous bar
• 17:39
  Speaker 4: in Manhattan. I think it just closed. It was open
• 17:41
  Speaker 4: for like one hundred years, and you know, going back
• 17:43
  Speaker 4: to like the late early nineteen hundreds, maybe late eighteen hundreds,
• 17:49
  Speaker 4: and it was like a rite of passage for all
• 17:52
  Speaker 4: the baseball writers that would go through New York and
• 17:55
  Speaker 4: a lot of the baseball people would go and they
• 17:57
  Speaker 4: have drinks at this bar. It was in Manhattan, Uh,
• 18:00
  Speaker 4: kind of near where the hotel the ust all stay
• 18:03
  Speaker 4: at the Grand Hyatt in Manhattan. But I think it closed,
• 18:07
  Speaker 4: but I remember going in there and there were some
• 18:08
  Speaker 4: some umpires in there too. Umpires love to drink. I
• 18:12
  Speaker 4: just all this is coming into my head because of
• 18:14
  Speaker 4: your story. Dan, I blame you just random random thoughts
• 18:18
  Speaker 4: that pop into my head about various umpires and things
• 18:21
  Speaker 4: like that. But they were actually professional umpires.
• 18:23
  Speaker 1: They were not.
• 18:24
  Speaker 5: Yeah, I was going to say that. And then before
• 18:26
  Speaker 5: he took that supposed important call, I was thinking to myself, Man,
• 18:30
  Speaker 5: this is going to be a great story to tell
• 18:33
  Speaker 5: on the podcast because I'm sitting having a drink with
• 18:35
  Speaker 5: an NFL referee.
• 18:37
  Speaker 1: Yeah, and then wrong.
• 18:40
  Speaker 4: The rest of the story is part I've interviewed two
• 18:45
  Speaker 4: officials in my career. One of them was Ken Kaiser.
• 18:50
  Speaker 4: Do you know Newmerk Ken Kaiser is an umpire, Yeah,
• 18:53
  Speaker 4: I do, kind of an overweight umpire. Ken Kaiser was
• 18:57
  Speaker 4: also like into wrestling and he was selling I'll never
• 19:00
  Speaker 4: forget because I got an email from his publicist, Ken
• 19:03
  Speaker 4: Kayser at a publicist. He was selling shark cartilage to
• 19:07
  Speaker 4: help your like your ligaments like supplements, Shark shark cartilage supplements.
• 19:13
  Speaker 1: I still remember. We had a lot. Yeah.
• 19:15
  Speaker 4: And then the other one was on this podcast. We
• 19:17
  Speaker 4: had Tim Donnie on and the guy that was betting
• 19:20
  Speaker 4: on NBA games and fixing NBA games and all that,
• 19:23
  Speaker 4: and he wrote a book and you know, one of
• 19:25
  Speaker 4: the more famous stories, and.
• 19:27
  Speaker 1: I remember that Kaiser guy.
• 19:29
  Speaker 5: He kind of looked like a walrus.
• 19:30
  Speaker 1: He did, he.
• 19:31
  Speaker 4: Did, he did actually look like That was back when
• 19:33
  Speaker 4: umpires had personality. Now it's another thing that's changed in
• 19:37
  Speaker 4: my lifetime, Danny. The over the top managers and umpires
• 19:41
  Speaker 4: were part of the show, like when we were kids, right, Danny,
• 19:45
  Speaker 4: like the it was part of the Yeah, the the
• 19:48
  Speaker 4: the confrontations between the umpire and the manager and bigger
• 19:53
  Speaker 4: than live personalities, whether they were kind of goofy, fat
• 19:56
  Speaker 4: looking dudes like Thesorda or Earl Weaver or Bill Martin
• 20:00
  Speaker 4: who was thin.
• 20:01
  Speaker 5: I was gonna say, there's no more Billy Martin's left
• 20:03
  Speaker 5: in major League baseball.
• 20:05
  Speaker 1: Nah.
• 20:05
  Speaker 4: No, they're almost all dull, like all the manager Dave
• 20:10
  Speaker 4: Roberts is whatever.
• 20:12
  Speaker 1: He doesn't say anything all that interesting.
• 20:14
  Speaker 5: And they're almost like zombie managers now who just take
• 20:18
  Speaker 5: marching orders from upstairs.
• 20:20
  Speaker 4: Yeah, they're just middle managers. Is Joe Madden. Joe Madden
• 20:23
  Speaker 4: would be. He's like one of the last ones. I
• 20:25
  Speaker 4: bet you we could get him on I have I
• 20:27
  Speaker 4: think I have his information.
• 20:29
  Speaker 1: The problem with.
• 20:29
  Speaker 4: Joe Madden I've heard is he does not want to
• 20:32
  Speaker 4: talk actual baseball.
• 20:34
  Speaker 1: I don't. I don't know if he's got any remote.
• 20:36
  Speaker 1: He might not do it unless he has something to promote.
• 20:38
  Speaker 5: But that will be perfect for this podcast. Since a
• 20:40
  Speaker 5: couple of people have complained you're talking.
• 20:42
  Speaker 4: Sports, yes, yes, I should say. I should ford those
• 20:45
  Speaker 4: emails to our bosses, Danny. I just want you to know,
• 20:48
  Speaker 4: in case you get upset that I'm not talking sports,
• 20:51
  Speaker 4: there's people also upset that I am talking sports. Just
• 20:55
  Speaker 4: for the frickin' record, I want to I want to
• 20:57
  Speaker 4: put that out there, and I failed to do this. Yes,
• 21:00
  Speaker 4: yesterday's pot was a little disjointed, not my better work.
• 21:03
  Speaker 4: I apologize. I was very tired, and I promise. I
• 21:06
  Speaker 4: think I said at some point I'm going to get
• 21:07
  Speaker 4: to this, and I didn't get to it. So I
• 21:09
  Speaker 4: want to get to it now. It's the cheese. So
• 21:11
  Speaker 4: I would like to thank listener Nico from Canada for
• 21:15
  Speaker 4: hooking up the Overnight Crew the Malord Crew with some
• 21:18
  Speaker 4: delicious treats this week, authentic Canadian goodies.
• 21:22
  Speaker 5: Well, I saw your boxing on Instagram.
• 21:25
  Speaker 4: Yeah, we got a giant variety pack of these old
• 21:27
  Speaker 4: Dutch potato chips, including had original salt and vinegar, sour cream,
• 21:33
  Speaker 4: and onion and a very unique Ketchup flavored potato chip,
• 21:37
  Speaker 4: which I've never had anything like that before.
• 21:41
  Speaker 1: And our guy Nico is big p one.
• 21:44
  Speaker 4: He said, let me let me take care of you boys,
• 21:48
  Speaker 4: and he hooked us up with these big boy cheesies
• 21:53
  Speaker 4: from the Hawkins brand. Now quick Malar food review, Danny. Now,
• 21:57
  Speaker 4: I enjoyed the potato chips. It's hard to screw up
• 22:01
  Speaker 4: a potato chip. Now, that being said, I didn't think
• 22:03
  Speaker 4: they were like light years better than anything I've eaten
• 22:05
  Speaker 4: here in the States, So they were good. I didn't
• 22:08
  Speaker 4: either were like that much better. That being said, the
• 22:12
  Speaker 4: ketchup chips. Have you ever had ketchup chips? Very very unique,
• 22:16
  Speaker 4: very unique chip. Maybe I'll bring you something. I'm worried
• 22:20
  Speaker 4: if I leave them someone else will eat them though,
• 22:22
  Speaker 4: so I don't know if I can put them somewhere where.
• 22:25
  Speaker 1: No one will will partake.
• 22:28
  Speaker 4: And as far as the cheeses are concerned, I had
• 22:31
  Speaker 4: very low expectations. I looked at the package, I said, well,
• 22:34
  Speaker 4: it's a nice package. Well that sounds dirty. But I
• 22:37
  Speaker 4: looked at the container, Danny, and I was like, well,
• 22:41
  Speaker 4: these are probably just cheetos with a Canadian maple leaf
• 22:44
  Speaker 4: logo on them you know who cares and the blessing
• 22:47
  Speaker 4: of low expectations. I could not have been more wrong.
• 22:51
  Speaker 4: These things were mind blowing. They're made with real cheddar cheese,
• 22:56
  Speaker 4: none of that fake none of that fake crap. I
• 23:00
  Speaker 4: also saw one of your guys, uh, I forget which
• 23:03
  Speaker 4: one a Covino or rich. One of them commented because
• 23:06
  Speaker 4: I posted some photos and they were like, oh that
• 23:08
  Speaker 4: these things are great, and I was like, I didn't
• 23:11
  Speaker 4: eat them at that time. I posted some photos, but
• 23:14
  Speaker 4: I hadn't eaten them yet because I do this stupid
• 23:16
  Speaker 4: fasting thing, so I only once a day. So anyway,
• 23:18
  Speaker 4: so this, uh, this is the second greatest thing that's
• 23:21
  Speaker 4: been in my mouth from Canada after poutine.
• 23:24
  Speaker 1: My god, Oh.
• 23:27
  Speaker 5: That's a drop. I'm gonna just cut out.
• 23:32
  Speaker 1: Have you ever had these cheesies things?
• 23:34
  Speaker 2: Man?
• 23:34
  Speaker 4: Oh my god, this is the second greatest thing that's
• 23:38
  Speaker 4: been in my mouth from Canada. You have crossed the rubicon.
• 23:44
  Speaker 4: There's no going back to Cheetos. There's no going back. Wowsers.
• 23:49
  Speaker 1: This is it's real cheat. It's the cheese Day.
• 23:52
  Speaker 4: It's a game changer, and I gotta get more of
• 23:56
  Speaker 4: these things.
• 23:57
  Speaker 1: I'm worried Trump's gonna put tariffs on this stuff.
• 23:59
  Speaker 4: So I gotta get more these things before the chairffs
• 24:01
  Speaker 4: in Canada because they're really good. And also several while
• 24:05
  Speaker 4: I'm at this, several Canadian p ones. I was gonna
• 24:07
  Speaker 4: save this for the mail bag tomorrow, but I'll just
• 24:09
  Speaker 4: get to it right now. Several Canadian pa ones, including
• 24:12
  Speaker 4: I want to get the names that Steve Connor and
• 24:15
  Speaker 4: somebody named Wayne. I don't know who that is. That's
• 24:18
  Speaker 4: not Wayne from Southee because he's in Canada. They all
• 24:21
  Speaker 4: reached out this week and they heard Loraina mention a
• 24:23
  Speaker 4: mallord meet and greet in Canada.
• 24:26
  Speaker 1: Now.
• 24:26
  Speaker 4: Unfortunately for Connor, who I believe is in the Winnipeg area,
• 24:29
  Speaker 4: Wayne is somewhere near Calgary. I think I got that right,
• 24:35
  Speaker 4: might have gotten those backwards. Anyway, You're not gonna be
• 24:38
  Speaker 4: happy because I don't know where Steve is. He didn't
• 24:42
  Speaker 4: say where he's at. But let me put a disclaimer
• 24:44
  Speaker 4: on this right now. Right nothing is confirmed yet and
• 24:47
  Speaker 4: I probably shouldn't be saying this, but since Lorraina brought
• 24:49
  Speaker 4: it up, I'll bring it up here for the super
• 24:52
  Speaker 4: p ones that listen to this podcast. It is looking
• 24:56
  Speaker 4: more likely than not, very promising that we will have
• 25:00
  Speaker 4: something in Canada in late May, a mallor hopefully a
• 25:05
  Speaker 4: Malor Meet and grate. I don't know all the details.
• 25:08
  Speaker 4: The event would be in Vancouver. That's the tentative plan,
• 25:14
  Speaker 4: and again it's not confirmed. No plane tickets have been purchased.
• 25:18
  Speaker 4: I don't even have my passport yet. I'm waiting to
• 25:21
  Speaker 4: get my passport, so that should be here sometime in April.
• 25:29
  Speaker 4: So if that happens, obviously I'll be able to go.
• 25:30
  Speaker 4: I think you can go to Canada without one, though,
• 25:32
  Speaker 4: but I'm not sure. And we have a super p one,
• 25:36
  Speaker 4: this guy Nico, who really wants the entire crew to
• 25:39
  Speaker 4: visit in Vancouver and check out his town and enjoy
• 25:44
  Speaker 4: the Canadian hospitality and all that. So I'm very excited
• 25:47
  Speaker 4: about that. Nothing's confirmed, but I will probably one thing
• 25:50
  Speaker 4: about this show, Danny. You know, we will promote the
• 25:53
  Speaker 4: hell out of out of this and let you know
• 25:57
  Speaker 4: once everything's confirmed. And I am still working on the
• 26:01
  Speaker 4: Ohio meet and greet too. It's gonna be a very
• 26:02
  Speaker 4: busy summer. I have a feeling a lot of traveling
• 26:06
  Speaker 4: this summer.
• 26:06
  Speaker 1: Which I'm looking forward to.
• 26:08
  Speaker 4: I pretty much do all of my traveling in the
• 26:11
  Speaker 4: span of a couple of months, like three months. That's it,
• 26:16
  Speaker 4: make all my trips, and then the rest of the
• 26:18
  Speaker 4: time I'm just bunkered down at the mallor mansion in
• 26:22
  Speaker 4: the north Woods and don't do anything, just keep my
• 26:25
  Speaker 4: head down and keep.
• 26:27
  Speaker 1: Going and going and going and going and going.
• 26:31
  Speaker 4: Anyway, all right, on that note, Danny, anything else you
• 26:33
  Speaker 4: want to Saturday?
• 26:34
  Speaker 1: What do we got today? College basketball?
• 26:38
  Speaker 5: Eh? Yeah, this is the time of the year where
• 26:42
  Speaker 5: suddenly we become experts on college basketball.
• 26:46
  Speaker 4: Yes, so sport every gas bag and blowheart ignores and
• 26:49
  Speaker 4: now starting really tomorrow and then Monday, it's on right,
• 26:54
  Speaker 4: it's Selection Sundays tomorrow, and then the tournament playing start
• 27:00
  Speaker 4: on Tuesday, I think. And then you got the greatest
• 27:04
  Speaker 4: two days for gambling Thursday and Friday of next week.
• 27:08
  Speaker 4: So it'll be an interesting time. But we'll get to
• 27:11
  Speaker 4: that when we get to it. And on that, No,
• 27:14
  Speaker 4: we got the mail bag tomorrow. I think we'll have
• 27:16
  Speaker 4: a phrase of the week tomorrow as well, So who
• 27:20
  Speaker 4: knows what else, And have a wonderful, glorious rest of
• 27:24
  Speaker 4: your Saturday.
• 27:26
  Speaker 1: Saturday, Saturday, and we'll talk to you next time.
• 27:29
  Speaker 5: Yeah, see you tomorrow for the mail bag. Asta pasta, Now.
• 27:33
  Speaker 1: You didn't, you're supposed to say later skater.
• 27:36
  Speaker 5: No, this one's at asta. I'll do a skater tomorrow,
• 27:39
  Speaker 5: all right, My Felicia