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Thursday Thunderdome with ESPN's Jordan Schultz · The Favorites Sports Betting Podcast

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  Speaker 1: Welcome to the Favorites, the podcast from the Volume Podcast Network.
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  Speaker 1: It's Thursday. That means it's time to enter the Thursday Thunderdome.
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  Speaker 1: On today's show, our special guests will compete alongside my
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  Speaker 1: co host Might b f F my companion professional sports
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  Speaker 1: better Simon Hunter, who was out with a lot of
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  Speaker 1: us on Tuesday night and survived. He is in an
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  Speaker 1: epic test of wagers and wits that's quickly made at
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  Speaker 1: this show the best invention for summertime gamblers since the
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  Speaker 1: Nathan's Hot Dog eating Contest. Oh, Simon, we gave each
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  Speaker 1: other a really big hug on Tuesday night. I would say,
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  Speaker 1: I got to this bar around seven. I think you
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  Speaker 1: got there at eight. I had a date before and
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  Speaker 1: so I wasn't really feeling it. And then you came
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  Speaker 1: into the bar and you gave me a hug and
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  Speaker 1: you wouldn't let go, and I go, Wow, Chad must
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  Speaker 1: be feeling pretty pretty good right now. So I had
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  Speaker 1: I had a couple of drinks with Stucky, heard a
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  Speaker 1: lot of stories from Stucky, didn't get fired. I got
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  Speaker 1: out of there. I knew when to leave, so I
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  Speaker 1: got just to the point of drunkness where I was like,
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  Speaker 1: I made some joke and it might have been a
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  Speaker 1: man or maybe with Christina gave me this look and
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  Speaker 1: I was just like, Okay, it's it's toime for me
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  Speaker 1: to get out of here. So it was a It
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  Speaker 1: was a good night, man. It was fun to be
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  Speaker 1: in New York City. You've learned so much about being
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  Speaker 1: a good corporate citizen since you joined the Action Network
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  Speaker 1: full time. We're all really proud of you. Simon. I
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  Speaker 1: should mention I'm still in New York. I'm recording this
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  Speaker 1: podcast from my hotel room in New York. So if
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  Speaker 1: I sound somewhat different, that is why. Simon, your first challenger,
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  Speaker 1: is an ESPN analyst co host of the Pull Up
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  Speaker 1: podcast with c J. McCullum. Recently appeared on our game
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  Speaker 1: show What's the Line where he destroyed Damn Ravel. It's
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  Speaker 1: NBA Analyst Extraordinaire Jordan Schultz. What's going on, many fellas,
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  Speaker 1: I'm doing great. That was a fun night with Darren.
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  Speaker 1: I don't know if he was embarrassed. He's definitely destroyed,
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  Speaker 1: though it was fun. It's impossible to embarrass revalve. You
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  Speaker 1: can mention or ask him to do something that no
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  Speaker 1: one else in the world would consider, and he'd be like,
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  Speaker 1: oh my god, this is terrible. I gotta do it.
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  Speaker 1: So I got that zero zero humility. Thanks for having me.
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  Speaker 1: We're glad you're here. Jordan's uh the other competitor today.
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  Speaker 1: Way back in two thousands eighteen, on this very program,
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  Speaker 1: I refer to this editor as the straw that stirs
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  Speaker 1: the Action Network. I still believe it all these years later.
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  Speaker 1: He's an avid darts better, one of Long Island's very finest,
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  Speaker 1: a man whose love for the Advancing Islanders is only
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  Speaker 1: surpassed by his love for misery. It's Michael lee Off.
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  Speaker 1: I want you to say a lot of people, but
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  Speaker 1: I want people to know that you spent the night
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  Speaker 1: at the Colisseum and I spent the night I mean
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  Speaker 1: maybe from before the game started until just this very
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  Speaker 1: second leaveoff. How are you. I'm wonderful, I'm doing great.
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  Speaker 1: I don't know how we're going to get through this
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  Speaker 1: podcast with Leaboff sounding like he had to scrape his
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  Speaker 1: voice off the ice. If you spent your night screaming
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  Speaker 1: horrible things at Bruin's head coach Bruce Cassidy last night,
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  Speaker 1: you would be you would sound the same, and I
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  Speaker 1: offered you that opportunity like fifteen times to come to
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  Speaker 1: the Cosum and you're you're afraid to go. It's not
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  Speaker 1: an invite unless you say, here's my ticket, here's the time,
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  Speaker 1: meet me at this place. That's that's how I live
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  Speaker 1: in the invite world. You're like a thirty year sports
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  Speaker 1: media executive. You can get your own ticket and we'll
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  Speaker 1: just go before we'll meet up before the game. Right,
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  Speaker 1: what is the meanest thing you said to Bruce Cassidy
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  Speaker 1: last night? Oh my god, I don't want to say it.
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  Speaker 1: You know, we just talked about being a good court
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  Speaker 1: for citizens. That's true. Well, clearly because the Islanders are advancing,
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  Speaker 1: we we got to scream it and coming off the
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  Speaker 1: ice because obviously they do the handshakes at the end
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  Speaker 1: of every series, and you know, the Colsium, you're just
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  Speaker 1: like right on top of everybody and the whole amina
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  Speaker 1: stuck around for that and he's walking off basically by himself.
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  Speaker 1: All the players have basically shuffled in and he's just
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  Speaker 1: he was just hearing it. It was he was an idiot,
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  Speaker 1: Like why would you why would you poke? Poke? Twelve
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  Speaker 1: thousand long Islanders hopped up on tall boys of natty
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  Speaker 1: light like what what an idiot? So there's nothing he
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  Speaker 1: got what was coming. Here's how the game is played today.
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  Speaker 1: You'll answer two kinds of questions. First, traditional trivia questions
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  Speaker 1: about sports, sports, betting, and the world at large. Second,
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  Speaker 1: completely subjective and totally assinine, open and did questions or
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  Speaker 1: prompts that I alone will judge. I will probably root
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  Speaker 1: for Signa. To accumulate points, you must answer the trivia
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  Speaker 1: questions correctly, and also convince me that your response to
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  Speaker 1: those open ended prompts are better than the resp bonces
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  Speaker 1: from your opponents. Let's play the game, folks. Part one.
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  Speaker 1: The pen is mightier. Last week, former quarterback Johnny Manziel
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  Speaker 1: revealed he pocketed over thirty thou dollars selling autographs in college.
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  Speaker 1: The demand for celebrity autographs dates back nearly as far
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  Speaker 1: as the pen itself. So I'll ask each of you
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  Speaker 1: an autograph themed question. Sign Him. One of the rarest
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  Speaker 1: athlete autographs of all time is from this baseball player,
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  Speaker 1: who grew up illiterate following a childhood of labor in
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  Speaker 1: South Carolina textile mills. As an adult, his wife signed
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  Speaker 1: most things on his behalf. So fewer than two dozen
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  Speaker 1: authentic autographs are known to exist. This is a crazy story.
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  Speaker 1: I don't even know this today. He's perhaps most famous
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  Speaker 1: for his permanent band for baseball following his alleged but
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  Speaker 1: never confirmed involvement in the black Socks scandal despite stellar
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  Speaker 1: play throughout that crook in World Series? Who is the
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  Speaker 1: player we are referring to? I have no idea, but
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  Speaker 1: I want to update your thing about athletes signatures. The
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  Speaker 1: oldest signature is actually gladiators. People in the room used
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  Speaker 1: to get signatures from gladiators, So just a quick update.
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  Speaker 1: They've been around for about I think two thousand years
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  Speaker 1: now signatures for athletes, so it's pretty insane. Well that
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  Speaker 1: is fantastic, But again I don't think you answer to
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  Speaker 1: the question Joe DiMaggio so close shoe was Joe Jackson.
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  Speaker 1: They got the first name, right, Uh, leaveoff. The autographs
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  Speaker 1: of American presidents have been popular for centuries. The two
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  Speaker 1: rarest presidential autographs belonged to William Henry Harrison, who died
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  Speaker 1: of pneumonia thirty days after his inauguration, and this president
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  Speaker 1: who shot four months into his presidency and died two
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  Speaker 1: months later, the idealistic James Garfield. Wow, that is incredible
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  Speaker 1: that you got that right in your condition to get
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  Speaker 1: that right and coming coming with an adjective, by the way,
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  Speaker 1: makes total sense that James Garfield would be your favorite president.
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  Speaker 1: In the late FBI executed a successful sting on a
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  Speaker 1: counterfeit sports memorabilia ring in Chicago in an effort code
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  Speaker 1: named Operation foul Ball. The success of Operation foul Ball
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  Speaker 1: led the FBI to execute a subsequent nationwide undercover operation
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  Speaker 1: that sees millions of dollars worth of phony autographed merchandise,
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  Speaker 1: including a baseball featuring a fake autograph from mother to rasta.
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  Speaker 1: Based on its origins and Operation foul Ball, the FBI
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  Speaker 1: operation was given this code name after the most famous
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  Speaker 1: warm up area in sports. So this was operation that
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  Speaker 1: is correct, batter box. That was tough. Uh, Simon, you
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  Speaker 1: would have been wrong in everything. You're getting killed the
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  Speaker 1: rest I'm drunk chat. You might still be drunk from Tuesday.
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  Speaker 1: Here's the prompt. This is Simon, where you normally make
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  Speaker 1: up your time. If you could acquire any piece of
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  Speaker 1: memorabilia and make any living athletes sign it, what would
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  Speaker 1: you choose and who would sign it. For example, I'd
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  Speaker 1: like to own the card Roger Goodell read from to
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  Speaker 1: announce the second pick in the two thousand seventeen NFL Draft,
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  Speaker 1: signed by Mitchell Drubisky. Simon, please give me your answer.
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  Speaker 1: I mean so many ways to go um, but as
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  Speaker 1: in I guess as a filed off your sports fan,
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  Speaker 1: my happiest experience of my life was the Eagle Super Bowl.
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  Speaker 1: So I thought of something kind of messed up, but
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  Speaker 1: it pulls all together. I would get the cast from
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  Speaker 1: Carson Wentz is a c L tear, and I'd have
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  Speaker 1: Nick Foles sign it. Oh my god, that is such
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  Speaker 1: a good idea. It's serendipity. It's just like all these
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  Speaker 1: things happened because of that injury. So it's it's one
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  Speaker 1: of those I feel like it's two things that would
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  Speaker 1: mean a lot to me is Nick Fole's signature and
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  Speaker 1: that Carson Wentz injury. I so love that answer. Leadoff.
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  Speaker 1: It's gonna be tough to top that answer. Yeah, that's
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  Speaker 1: a good one. But I know you guys know my
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  Speaker 1: love for the Islanders, and so this is niche, niche
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  Speaker 1: for for probably most of the listeners. But when when
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  Speaker 1: John Tavares left the Islanders, he took a picture and
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  Speaker 1: posted it on Twitter of him in his pajamas. He
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  Speaker 1: didn't say anything about like, oh, I had a great
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  Speaker 1: time on Long Island. Yet the first thing he did
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  Speaker 1: was just just tweeted a picture of himself in his
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  Speaker 1: maple leaves bedsheets and pajamas and said, like, it's not
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  Speaker 1: every day you don't you get to live out a
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  Speaker 1: childhood dream. Since then, John Tavares is one exactly zero
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  Speaker 1: playoff series and the Islanders are going to the Conference
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  Speaker 1: finals for the second year or else. So I would
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  Speaker 1: like to get that that picture and its original frame,
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  Speaker 1: and I would love to get it signed by all
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  Speaker 1: the New York Islanders and then mail it to him. Wow.
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  Speaker 1: That wraps up fandom and bitterness and is the greatest
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  Speaker 1: Leeboff answer. I love the directions are going. There so
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  Speaker 1: much rage in this fandom Jordan's are you full of
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  Speaker 1: rage today? Not quite? But in so mine Mine is
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  Speaker 1: also a little niche growing up in Seattle and I
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  Speaker 1: was a massive Mariner fan and Ken Griffy Jr. Was God.
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  Speaker 1: I was at the game when he broke his wrist
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  Speaker 1: against the Rangers. You know, he had that famous spider
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  Speaker 1: man catch against center field wall. I was at that game,
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  Speaker 1: and I want to say that happened in the seventh
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  Speaker 1: inning and the fourth inning he caught the third out
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  Speaker 1: and tossed me a ball. And when he broke his
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  Speaker 1: wrist the next day of the Seattle Times, I was
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  Speaker 1: a really young kid. There's like a picture of me
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  Speaker 1: in the background like hysterical, like I'm crying or I'm
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  Speaker 1: really scared, and you know, Ken Griffy's hobbling off the field.
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  Speaker 1: So what I would want being at that game is
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  Speaker 1: for him to sign that glove that he broke the
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  Speaker 1: wrist in because that was probably to me, it's the
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  Speaker 1: greatest catch I've ever seen, at least in person. In Seattle,
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  Speaker 1: he was everything he really he was. Obviously, you guys
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  Speaker 1: remember the video game. So I was gonna say, n
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  Speaker 1: sixty four that was the game change. Yeah, you can
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  Speaker 1: imagine in Seattle we played well, originally it was for Superintendo.
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  Speaker 1: Right in sixty four took it to an r level.
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  Speaker 1: We used to play that game for hours in the
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  Speaker 1: in the in the caveat was nobody was allowed to
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  Speaker 1: be the Mariners, Yeah, because they had the griff he
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  Speaker 1: had like his swing zone was like this big. So anyways,
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  Speaker 1: I missed, uh, I missed those days. Well, listen, that's
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  Speaker 1: a really sad story. It's even Saturday. Because you're not
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  Speaker 1: gonna win leadoff. I have to give it to you
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  Speaker 1: because ay, you can barely speak b because I know
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  Speaker 1: your hatred for John Tava's ghosts run so deep. We've
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  Speaker 1: talked about it for years, and the fact that you
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  Speaker 1: can tie it to the Islanders moving on in the playoffs.
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  Speaker 1: Last night, I feel like you win that round. So congratulations.
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  Speaker 1: We will move on to Part two. Uh. Part two
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  Speaker 1: ejectionable material is major League Baseball's All Star Game approaches
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  Speaker 1: next month. We'd like to take a moment to appreciate
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  Speaker 1: one of the most beautiful spectacles in American sports, the
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  Speaker 1: objection of a baseball manager. As here comes to my
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  Speaker 1: eye whenever I see a pristine baseball diamond and I
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  Speaker 1: see an old man wearing a full baseball uniform screaming
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  Speaker 1: himself horse at another man wearing a blazer. In honor
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  Speaker 1: of this time honored tradition of workplace rage, I'll ask
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  Speaker 1: each of you one question about baseball manager objections. Jordan,
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  Speaker 1: this will be rid of your alley a long time
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  Speaker 1: Jordan's longtime manager, Lou Pinella, is on the Mount Rushmore
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  Speaker 1: of objections. One of his signature episodes came in when
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  Speaker 1: he became so enraged during a shouting match with an
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  Speaker 1: umpire that he threw this object a full thirty five ft.
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  Speaker 1: The distance was so impressive that a newspaper held a
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  Speaker 1: fan contest to see if anyone could match his distance.
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  Speaker 1: What did he throw? A base? It was first base.
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  Speaker 1: But I'm gonna give you. I'm gonna you full credit
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  Speaker 1: because he took it. He took it off. He did
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  Speaker 1: take it off exactly, uh Simon. Arguably the most unique
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  Speaker 1: and celebrated ejection in major league history came exactly twenty
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  Speaker 1: two years ago yesterday, when this National League manager was
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  Speaker 1: ejected in extra innings, only to return to the dugout
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  Speaker 1: a short time later wearing glasses and a fake mustache.
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  Speaker 1: The sky is, in my opinion, one of the creepiest
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  Speaker 1: people to ever grace the sported baseball is a Bobby Valentino.
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  Speaker 1: Wherever his name is Bobby v. Bobby Valentine, you win
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  Speaker 1: for calling him creepy. Your spot on and you know
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  Speaker 1: who he is clearly leadoff the record for most of
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  Speaker 1: Jacksons belongs to this longtime Braves manager who was tossed
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  Speaker 1: out of a hundred and sixty one games, one game
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  Speaker 1: shy of a full major league season. I know the answer.
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  Speaker 1: I think it's Bobby Cox. And speaking of Bobby Valentine,
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  Speaker 1: he's the athletic director at my alma mater now and
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  Speaker 1: I sat out a panel with him once and I
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  Speaker 1: got to disagree. I went with that. In my head.
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  Speaker 1: I was like, this guy is a weirdo. I don't
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  Speaker 1: really like him, and he's sitting next to me and
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  Speaker 1: he couldn't have been more of a sweetheart, um simon.
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  Speaker 1: So that's how it gets that. That's how it gets
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  Speaker 1: you in. Maybe he was playing the long game, but
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  Speaker 1: I didn't join my time with him. All right, Part
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  Speaker 1: two prompt Here we go. Imagine you are a furious
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  Speaker 1: major league baseball manager. You were about to be ejected
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  Speaker 1: for arguing with an umpire. If your goal was to
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  Speaker 1: create the most memorable on field ejection of all time,
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  Speaker 1: what would you do? We bought, what would you do?
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  Speaker 1: I'd probably mooned the umpire, you moon the empire. You've
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  Speaker 1: done so well in this game so far, and that
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  Speaker 1: is a terrible answer. So I went back to Lloyd McClendon.
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  Speaker 1: He had a great one back with the Pirates. I'd
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  Speaker 1: like to mirror that. Basically, I want to take a
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  Speaker 1: step further. I want to take panelas step further. I
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  Speaker 1: want to take off first base. But now I don't
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  Speaker 1: want to throw it. I want to run around the
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  Speaker 1: stadium with it and then throw it into the stands.
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  Speaker 1: I gotta say, that's funny, and I can see I
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  Speaker 1: thought you're gonna say, I want to run around the
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  Speaker 1: basis with it, and when you get well, maybe I'll
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  Speaker 1: do that around on the basis and then I'll run
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  Speaker 1: an outfield and throw it into the stands. So the
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  Speaker 1: game is screwed up. I think that's a great answer
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  Speaker 1: making a comeback here definitely better than leadoff on this one, Simon,
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  Speaker 1: let's see what you got again. This is fictional. Uh.
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  Speaker 1: It made me think of the office and Andy. He
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  Speaker 1: was trying to quit his job and get fired. He
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  Speaker 1: could not get fired, and he couldn't. He just couldn't leave,
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  Speaker 1: so he took a dump on his boss's car. And
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  Speaker 1: that's what I would go. I would just go right
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  Speaker 1: out to the home plate and I would just drop
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  Speaker 1: try and take a dump in the middle of the field.
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  Speaker 1: That's terrible, exactly. It's disgusting to even visualize that. At
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  Speaker 1: least with Jordan's he's having a little bit of fun,
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  Speaker 1: he's getting the fans involved. He's going for broke like
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  Speaker 1: he knows, he knows he's going to be thrown out.
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  Speaker 1: He's just deciding basically to do a victory lap because
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  Speaker 1: he's doing it on behalf of the team, Like this
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  Speaker 1: is Jordan's no brain er. Simon, I'm talking us a
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  Speaker 1: memorable ejection of all time. Chat, I'm taking a dump
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  Speaker 1: in the on the field of baseball. Bro You're just
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  Speaker 1: too classy. You're you're too classy. I'm tempted to take
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  Speaker 1: away a point because I hate that answer so much.
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  Speaker 1: But here we go. Here's the score right now. Leave Off,
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  Speaker 1: you have three because of your James Garfield fandom. Jordan's
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  Speaker 1: you have three because of your genius for how you
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  Speaker 1: would get ejected from the game. Simon, you have one,
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  Speaker 1: and I'm not even that sad about it, because now
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  Speaker 1: I'm just disgusted. Part three. Let's travel back in time.
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  Speaker 1: Last week, Lebron James and the l A Lakers were
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  Speaker 1: bounced from the NBA Playoffs in the first round, and
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  Speaker 1: many are considering this to be his most disappointing finish
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  Speaker 1: since he was twenty one years old and his Cavalier's
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  Speaker 1: team missed the two thousand five class. Even back in
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  Speaker 1: two thousand five, I was already successful and accomplished member
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  Speaker 1: of the sports media elite. Our guest Jordan Schultz would
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  Speaker 1: to be on his way to Accidental College, and I
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  Speaker 1: assume our own Simon Hunter was just your typical perverted
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  Speaker 1: fifteen year old who thought about taking dumps in center field.
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  Speaker 1: But in honor of Lebron's dubious distinction, I will now
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  Speaker 1: ask you each one pop culture question and one sports
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  Speaker 1: question about two thousand five. Oh, this is good Jordan's
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  Speaker 1: In the spring of two thousand five, following an n
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  Speaker 1: c a A title at Yukon and a great rookie
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  Speaker 1: season for the Charlotte Bobcats, this player one NBA rtographer boom,
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  Speaker 1: Very nicely done. Remember Toy Howard went one, and there
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  Speaker 1: is there was some thought that a Mecca should have
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  Speaker 1: gone one. Remember that, I remember that well. In a
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  Speaker 1: few thousand five, this finish Telecom company was the leading
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  Speaker 1: manufacturer of cell phones. They also sponsored college football's Sugar
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  Speaker 1: Bowl from nine Nice Jordan's a game Leaboff back. In
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  Speaker 1: two thousand five, Nikes sold more than fifty million units
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  Speaker 1: of this ubiquitous yellow fashion accessory. A few years later,
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  Speaker 1: this inspirational figure behind this suffered a humiliating fall from
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  Speaker 1: grace and was stripped of all his primary athlete accomplishments livestrong, bracelet.
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  Speaker 1: Well done, Mike Leeboff, here's your second question. In two
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  Speaker 1: thousand five, Lebron couldn't tweet about how missing the playoffs felt.
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  Speaker 1: Twitter wasn't invented until the following year, and even if
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  Speaker 1: he'd wanted to, this exciting new social media platform was
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  Speaker 1: also unavailable because he didn't have a college email address Facebook. Wow.
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  Speaker 1: Our contestants today, except for Simon, are really good. Simon.
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  Speaker 1: For the two thousand five NFL season, this imposing a
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  Speaker 1: f C North quarterback one Rookie of the Year, Big
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  Speaker 1: Ben Ben You got it, buddy, Here we go. I
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  Speaker 1: know you love rap and hip hop, Simon. In the
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  Speaker 1: spring of two thousand five, Candy Shop was the number
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  Speaker 1: one song in America, a track performed by this famous
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  Speaker 1: rapper Bitty sent Cent. There you go, Everybody good round
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  Speaker 1: for everybody. Very impressive, Matt Mitchell, I think you found
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  Speaker 1: the wheelhouse for the majority of our contestants. Part three.
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  Speaker 1: Here's the prompt. Imagine traveling back in time to two
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  Speaker 1: thou five. You find your two thousand five self and
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  Speaker 1: you tell him the single craziest thing about the world
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  Speaker 1: of sports in a k a. The distant future. What
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  Speaker 1: is your message from the future. So at that point
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  Speaker 1: in my life, the Islanders, I've never seen the Islanders
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  Speaker 1: win a playoff series. And my friend and I Eric,
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  Speaker 1: who who's gone through all the same lowses as I have.
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  Speaker 1: We were actually having this conversation last night. I'm the
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  Speaker 1: Colosseum concrete right outside the Colosseum, and and we both
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  Speaker 1: said that if we did exactly this exercise or fifteen
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  Speaker 1: year old selves would just beat the ever living ship
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  Speaker 1: out of our now selves because they just wouldn't believe it,
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  Speaker 1: and they'd be mad that they had to wait this
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  Speaker 1: long for for happiness anyways, so that would probably be right,
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  Speaker 1: Like I'd be like you, you just eliminated the Buston
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  Speaker 1: Bruins and the series that nobody thought you had a chance,
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  Speaker 1: and he did in six games, and you made a
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  Speaker 1: villain out of out of a head coach, So I
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  Speaker 1: think that would probably be it. Yeah, it's very weird
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  Speaker 1: that that is the question, because I literally had this
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  Speaker 1: exercise last night with a friend while we were weeping.
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  Speaker 1: If you hadn't added while we were weeping, I'd probably
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  Speaker 1: think that feels small. Jordan's your next Well, I think
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  Speaker 1: it's fitting that this is my answer. I would say,
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  Speaker 1: fast forward to and you'd be able to uh wold,
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  Speaker 1: why bet hit arena? I think I would say, you know,
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  Speaker 1: sports gambling is it's not just a part of of
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  Speaker 1: the Fabrica society now, it's it's celebrated and we had
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  Speaker 1: the actions that work as a big reason why. That
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  Speaker 1: is an amazing answer. I didn't even consider that as
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  Speaker 1: being something that I would say to someone from two
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  Speaker 1: thousand five. I like it. I like it a lot.
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  Speaker 1: Simon where you got Jordan, you don't know the right people. Man.
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  Speaker 1: Back in the Beeper's day, you can still have been
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  Speaker 1: any sports arena you want it though. Back in the day,
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  Speaker 1: um I must have been Yeah, you're a good kid. Probably.
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  Speaker 1: I feel like it'd be so weird going back and
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  Speaker 1: just talking to yourself and being like Tom Brady when
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  Speaker 1: he's in his forties, is going to leave the FC
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  Speaker 1: and go to the NFC and have just as many
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  Speaker 1: Super Bowl rings is every other quarterback in the last
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  Speaker 1: fifteen years in the NFC. Like the man literally in
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  Speaker 1: his forties is still the best quarterbacks. So I feel
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  Speaker 1: like if someone came to you an oh five and
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  Speaker 1: told you that, you just couldn't wrap your head around
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  Speaker 1: it because we've just never seen anything like it before.
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  Speaker 1: So I do think it would be definitely be the
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  Speaker 1: Tom Brady. I say, you're totally right. I was gonna
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  Speaker 1: go with Jordan's because it is is amazing to think,
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  Speaker 1: you know, sixteen years after two thousand five, where betting
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  Speaker 1: was such a third rail for so many people. Um,
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  Speaker 1: you're you're able to say, oh yeah, now you can
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  Speaker 1: go bet in arenas. But but Tom Brady defying age
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  Speaker 1: and winning Super Bowls into the decade of the twenties
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  Speaker 1: after winning his first early in the two thousand's is ridiculous.
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  Speaker 1: That is something that is that is unparalleled. And nobody
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  Speaker 1: would have believed to that point either about Drew Brees
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  Speaker 1: because remember he had it, yeah, all their surgery. Yeah,
• 22:34
  Speaker 1: nobody would believe that he's you would have said, you
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  Speaker 1: know five, Drew Brees is gonna become one of the
• 22:40
  Speaker 1: best five quarterbacks of all time. I don't think that's
• 22:43
  Speaker 1: very good. All right, we are going into part four.
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  Speaker 1: Jordan's kind of played himself out of a point in
• 22:49
  Speaker 1: the final question for part three. Right now, the current
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  Speaker 1: score leave off? You have five, Jordan, you have five, Simon,
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  Speaker 1: you have four. Good comeback in the latter half of
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  Speaker 1: the game. Here is the topic for the grand finale,
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  Speaker 1: the breakout Star of two thousand five. First, before I
• 23:10
  Speaker 1: read the question, you all need to indicate how much
• 23:13
  Speaker 1: you would like to risk. Close your eyes, hold up
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  Speaker 1: your fingers with your wager amount. All right, here we go.
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  Speaker 1: In two thousand five, a new recording artist burst onto
• 23:24
  Speaker 1: the scene and has since gone on to a decorated
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  Speaker 1: and successful career, including seven Grammy wins. She's also enjoyed
• 23:32
  Speaker 1: considerable involvement in the world of sports. She dated Tony Romo,
• 23:37
  Speaker 1: married an Ottawa Senators hockey player, and she performs the
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  Speaker 1: opening theme for the highest rated prime time show ten
• 23:45
  Speaker 1: years running. Please name this recording artists? All right, Jordan's
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  Speaker 1: please tell me how much you risk? And the answer
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  Speaker 1: risk five damn all right, Jordan's got ten leave off.
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  Speaker 1: Tell me how much you risk? Give me your answer.
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  Speaker 1: I risk five, And I said, Carrie Underwood, Oh my goodness,
• 24:30
  Speaker 1: we are guaranteed a playoffs. Simon, tell me how much
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  Speaker 1: you risk in your answer? I risk it all, but
• 24:35
  Speaker 1: I had less points to them. I said, carry Underwood
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  Speaker 1: as well. Oh my god, now you're out. But listen,
• 24:41
  Speaker 1: this was our most competitive game yet. Everybody played strong.
• 24:45
  Speaker 1: So now we have to go to our playoff sudden death.
• 24:52
  Speaker 1: Are you guys ready? Yeah, let's do it all right.
• 24:54
  Speaker 1: Here we go. Home court for the Philadelphia seventies Sis
• 24:58
  Speaker 1: is the Wells Fargo Center. Home ice for the New
• 25:01
  Speaker 1: Jersey Devils is the Prudential Center in Newark, New Jersey.
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  Speaker 1: According to goal Maps, if you were to travel on
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  Speaker 1: foot from one to the other, how many hours would
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  Speaker 1: it take you. Jordan's on on foot from the Prudential
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  Speaker 1: Center in Newark to the Wells Fargo Sernilly. I guess
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  Speaker 1: eight hours, eighteen hours. Mike Lee, I was doing. I
• 25:27
  Speaker 1: was seeing if I could do the math in my head,
• 25:28
  Speaker 1: knowing having having done the drive from Jersey to Philly
• 25:31
  Speaker 1: many many times, thinking how many miles, how was a
• 25:34
  Speaker 1: mile blah blah blah blah blah. What do you got?
• 25:36
  Speaker 1: I'd say two hours and I think it's gonna Matt Mitchell,
• 25:44
  Speaker 1: the correct answer is twenty eight hours. I knew it,
• 25:48
  Speaker 1: shit man. As soon as I said that, I was like,
• 25:53
  Speaker 1: if not. Also, you got in front of a juggernaut.
• 25:55
  Speaker 1: And what I mean by that is nobody, everybody. There's
• 26:01
  Speaker 1: nothing that can stop Leeboff right now. This is when
• 26:04
  Speaker 1: you start betting on the Islanders with the Stanley Cup.
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  Speaker 1: Because he is on such a role. I cannot, I
• 26:11
  Speaker 1: cannot think that things are not going to go his way.
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  Speaker 1: That's what I believe. For Jordan, you played outstanding. Siman,
• 26:26
  Speaker 1: you did pretty well too. Congratulations to Mike Leboff for
• 26:29
  Speaker 1: his winning ways, fighting through a strained voice after single
• 26:34
  Speaker 1: handedly carrying the New York Islanders to win, right Simon Gladiator.
• 26:41
  Speaker 1: Before we sign off, here's a word from our fearless leader,
• 26:44
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• 26:49
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