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Hour 3 - Looking For a One-Way Ticket · The Ben Maller Show

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Speaker 1: The Razzle Dazzle. It's hour number three. A groovy hour
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Speaker 1: and a boom shakalaka to you here in hour number three.
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Speaker 1: Do you feel bad? Do you feel bad for Garrett Wilson,
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Speaker 1: the Jets wide receiver, being stuck in the Jets cargo bay?
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Speaker 1: We'll discuss that on the Ben Mather Show podcast. Also,
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Speaker 1: what were the Raptors thinking giving Kawhi Leonard $ 115 million
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Speaker 1: to with his injury history. By the way, he's already injured.
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Speaker 1: They didn't even make it to November. Losers. And what
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Speaker 1: message is the WNBA sending to the basketball world by
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Speaker 1: playing a matinee finals game on Thursday? Is that not
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Speaker 1: a wake-up call to those of you that have Announced
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Speaker 1: the WNBA has arrived. We'll talk about all that and
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Speaker 1: more right about now. The great googly moogly. It's our
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Speaker 1: number three. Looking for a one-way ticket out of Dodge.
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Speaker 1: on this hour. Programming note, not only is it a
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Speaker 1: newbie night, it's a big hour of bits. We've got
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Speaker 1: the riddle of the day this hour, too much or
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Speaker 1: not enough, and the Queen of Hearts, who's gained more
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Speaker 1: on this hour and the riddle of the day. It's
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Speaker 1: also a newbie night. Boy, I love these newbie nights.
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Speaker 1: Love the newbie. Need to do more. I don't want
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Speaker 1: to do too many, though. There's a sweet spot on
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Speaker 1: the newbie night. It's called the Goldilocks zone. You don't
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Speaker 1: want to do too many, but you don't want to
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Speaker 1: do too few. And I feel like once a month
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Speaker 1: is good. I think we've skipped a couple of months
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Speaker 1: this year. Bad job by us. But we're back here.
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Speaker 1: The October newbie night is right about now. And it's
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Speaker 1: been going on this night. So our lead this hour, though.
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Speaker 1: Don't bury the lead, my man. Not for the World Series.
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Speaker 1: There will be a Game 5. The Brew crew did
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Speaker 1: not get it done. They choked away, had a lead
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Speaker 1: in extra innings, and they gave it back. And the
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Speaker 1: Rays will not be swept. They will not be swept.
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Speaker 1: So there you go. But our lead is from the
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Speaker 1: swamplands of Jersey. That's where we go. We're former NFL quarterback, Mr.
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Speaker 2: Mr.
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Speaker 1: Unlimited, Russell Wilson. He has come out with a statement.
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Speaker 1: Russell Wilson's attempting to be a broadcaster. He's not very
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Speaker 1: good at that. And he believes that Jetstar receiver Garrett
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Speaker 1: Wilson should push the franchise for a trade. And the
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Speaker 1: deadline's coming up November 10th. Russell Wilson saying that the
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Speaker 1: Kansas City Chiefs would be the ideal destination. Anybody that
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Speaker 1: watched the Chiefs offense, they're disheveled. bedraggled offense against Seattle
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Speaker 1: knows they've got some work to do there. The idea
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Speaker 1: that pairing Russell said pairing Garrett Wilson with Patrick Holmes
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Speaker 1: and Andy Reid, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, would be
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Speaker 1: great and be an upgrade. A lot of frustration there
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Speaker 1: and whatnot. Russell also endorsing San Francisco, arguing that Garrett's
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Speaker 1: complete route running ability is would make him a very
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Speaker 1: valuable part of the San Francisco football team, also under
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Speaker 1: siege with injuries. So that's a good jumping off point.
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Speaker 1: Let us discuss the question. Forget the trade for a second.
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Speaker 1: There's this perception of the football media elites that Garrett
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Speaker 1: Wilson is in a really bad spot because of something
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Speaker 1: that he did not control. So that's a good jumping
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Speaker 1: off point. Let us discuss. The question is, again, how
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Speaker 1: do you feel? Do you feel bad? Let me phrase
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Speaker 1: it this way. Do you feel bad for Garrett Wilson
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Speaker 1: being stuck in the Jets cargo bay? Do you feel bad?
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Speaker 1: That's the question. So I've got Hotel California, Wikipedia, and
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Speaker 1: Senior Water Aerobics. Three things that have never, ever happened.
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Speaker 1: ever been put side by side. And yet here we are,
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Speaker 1: they will be put side by side. Those things will
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Speaker 1: be put side by side. So to lead off, to
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Speaker 1: answer the question, do you feel bad for Garrett Wilson
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Speaker 1: because of circumstances beyond his control being stuck in the
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Speaker 1: cargo bay of the Jets franchise? And so the answer
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Speaker 1: is no. No. There's not a single crocodile tear. There isn't.
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Speaker 1: Garrett Wilson, this is going to blow you away. He
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Speaker 1: willingly purchased a first-class ticket on the Hindenburg. Now, you
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Speaker 1: can say, well, he was drafted by the Jets, and
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Speaker 1: it's a raw deal, and you can claim that. Okay,
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Speaker 1: but he was drafted by the Jets. However, he had
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Speaker 1: the opportunity to shorten his time with the franchise and
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Speaker 1: And he willingly purchased a first-class ticket on the Hindenburg.
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Speaker 1: Now he's complaining about the smoke. And I don't know,
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Speaker 1: the contract, was there some kind of person with a
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Speaker 1: machete to Garrett Wilson's neck and blindfolded and the whole thing?
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Speaker 1: Is it possible that Garrett Wilson thought that J-E-T-S stood
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Speaker 1: for just enjoy the salary? Just enjoy the salary, Jets.
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Speaker 1: So if I'm not mistaken, you can correct me if
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Speaker 1: I'm wrong, Garrett Wilson was at Loggerheads on a contract.
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Speaker 1: He agreed to a cartoon-sized check. Four years, I believe
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Speaker 1: it was $ 130 million, if I remember. And I'm relatively
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Speaker 1: confident when Garrett Wilson signed that contract, he was fully
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Speaker 1: aware of the illness called Jett's itis, which is an
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Speaker 1: incurable disease when you have Jett's itis. professional football malfeasance,
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Speaker 1: and that's a problem. And yet he still clicked the DocuSign.
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Speaker 1: Garrett Wilson still clicked the thingamajig and all that. And
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Speaker 1: so you didn't sell your soul to the devil. You
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Speaker 1: didn't do that. You leased it to Woody Johnson with
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Speaker 1: an option to renew. That was your move here. So
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Speaker 1: the Jets have become football's Hotel California. You can check
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Speaker 1: in any time you like, but you can never really leave.
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Speaker 1: That stank follows you around. And you wanted Garrett Wilson,
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Speaker 1: the Dungeon of Doom. Everyone's got their price. His price
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Speaker 1: was $ 130 million. Congratulations. Congratulations. You can't sign up for
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Speaker 1: the pit of misery and then complain that there's no service. Well,
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Speaker 1: you knew there was no service, and you signed up
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Speaker 1: for that. Now, meanwhile, you've got Russell Wilson carrying the
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Speaker 1: water for Garrett Wilson and Mr. Unlimited, from Mr. Unlimited
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Speaker 1: to Mr. Expedia, trying to book his travel to get
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Speaker 1: out of there. And again, go to Kansas City, have
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Speaker 1: the Ben Maller chicken fingers at the landing there in Liberty,
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Speaker 1: or go to San Francisco. Garrett Wilson, he's got to
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Speaker 1: have one of the top jobs in America. Oh, but
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Speaker 1: he's playing for the Jets, Maller. Now, listen to me.
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Speaker 1: You talk about top jobs in America. So Garrett Wilson
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Speaker 1: makes a freaking fortune. That guy makes a fortune. He
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Speaker 1: loses a bunch of football games, and then all the
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Speaker 1: media elites tell you how unfair it is. Yet he
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Speaker 1: agreed to stay with the Jets. He signed the extension.
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Speaker 1: All right, we're going to pivot to the basketball world.
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Speaker 1: Bounce pass to our friends in Canada. Oh, Canada. We
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Speaker 1: go to Toronto where Raptors star Kawhi Leonard is expected
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Speaker 1: to miss multiple weeks, multiple weeks, if not months, because
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Speaker 1: of swelling in his knee. Now, he did have an MRI,
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Speaker 1: a medical imaging test, and it revealed there was no,
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Speaker 1: no structural damage. No major injury. Yet, Kawhi Leonard will
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Speaker 1: still be going AWOL on the Raptors. Toronto will be.
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Speaker 1: using special treatment, rehabilitation program. They will reevaluate Leonard, I
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Speaker 1: guess every week they're going to reevaluate him. His return
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Speaker 1: is likely going to take a lot longer than it's
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Speaker 1: supposed to. Kawhi's going to milk this thing. Toronto reacquired...
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Speaker 1: The 35-year-old spokesperson, Kawhi Leonard, from the Clippers this summer,
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Speaker 1: he signed a contract for $ 115 million that could, depending
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Speaker 1: on options, could run through the 2029 season. So here's
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Speaker 1: the question on this one. What were the Raptors thinking
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Speaker 1: giving Kawhi Leonard another $ 115 million with his injury history?
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Speaker 1: So this is wild. The Raptors did not sign the
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Speaker 1: Kawhi Leonard of 2019. They signed the extended warranty nightmare
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Speaker 1: of what modern day Kawhi Leonard is. This is spectacular stupidity.
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Speaker 1: Not ordinary stupidity. Not garden variety stupidity. This is spectacular stupidity.
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Speaker 1: Capital S, stupidity. And you deserve it. I hope you
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Speaker 1: enjoy it. No barbecue sauce, no honey mustard. You enjoy it.
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Speaker 1: Good to the last drop. Eat it. Eat all of it.
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Speaker 1: Toronto was, I guess, thinking with not their brains. They
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Speaker 1: weren't thinking with their brains. They were thinking with their scrapbook.
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Speaker 1: Going down memory lane, the Raptors got hoodwinked, bamboozled, and
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Speaker 1: flimflammed by Kawhi Leonard. And here's the kicker, though. The
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Speaker 1: kicker on this is that they hoodwinked themselves. They did.
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Speaker 1: Was there a physical examination? Did they give Kawhi Leonard
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Speaker 1: a workout? Did somebody just check his Wikipedia page and said,
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Speaker 1: all right, looks good to me. Let's give him the money.
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Speaker 1: At some point soon, we think this will happen before
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Speaker 1: the summer of 2027, Kawhi's medical chart is going to
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Speaker 1: qualify for As a New York Times bestseller. It just is.
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Speaker 1: And this is the most expensive nostalgia act currently going
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Speaker 1: on in the NBA. And it really is in all
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Speaker 1: of sports in many ways. Remember when they dragged Mike
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Speaker 1: Tyson back to get into the ring? That was pretty ridiculous.
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Speaker 1: That was pretty sorry. But the Raptors fell in love
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Speaker 1: with the old wedding photos. Oh, look at those wedding photos.
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Speaker 1: And they forgot about the divorce. They left that part out. Well,
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Speaker 1: you got to look at that, too. They wanted the claw.
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Speaker 1: And they got the medical claws is what they got.
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Speaker 1: Not the claw. They got the medical claws is what
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Speaker 1: they got. Hell, I'd rather have a claw machine. Because
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Speaker 1: every once in a while, you do get a stuffed
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Speaker 1: animal out of a claw machine. We know it's rigged,
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Speaker 1: but every once in a while, you can figure out
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Speaker 1: how to get a stuffy. And I'd rather have a
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Speaker 1: stuffy than Kawhi Leonard. All right, last thing. By demand,
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Speaker 1: we're going to address the Komodo dragon in the room.
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Speaker 1: The schedule. So I got an email from two different
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Speaker 1: listeners who I don't think were in codes who live
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Speaker 1: in Northern California. and admit to listening to the show
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Speaker 1: and God bless him. Thank you for that. I appreciate that.
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Speaker 1: So they emailed upset that I did not mention the
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Speaker 1: WNBA schedule. So my initial thought was, and I didn't
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Speaker 1: write back cause I'm a schmuck and you know, I
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Speaker 1: don't write back, but I thought in my head as
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Speaker 1: I'm reading this, I thought to myself, you're emailing me
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Speaker 1: about the WNBA schedule. You want me to complain about like,
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Speaker 1: what are you doing? Do you listen to the show
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Speaker 1: at all? Like, seriously? Anyway, nevertheless, if you're unaware, most
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Speaker 1: of you seem to be, the game six between a
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Speaker 1: team called the Atlanta Dream and a team called the
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Speaker 1: Golden State Valkyries has been moved from 8 p.m. Eastern time.
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Speaker 1: tomorrow on Thursday to 1230 p.m. Eastern Time, which, oh,
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Speaker 1: by the way, where our listeners in Northern California live,
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Speaker 1: that is 930 in the morning. Needless to say, these
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Speaker 1: guys apparently like the WNBA. Good for them. And they
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Speaker 1: seem to be upset that the game, they work the
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Speaker 1: night shift because they listen to our show and they
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Speaker 1: sleep at that time and they're bothered by the fact
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Speaker 1: that the WNBA is playing their championship Game 6 at
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Speaker 1: 9.30 in the morning West Coast time. As a result,
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Speaker 1: the reason they're doing it is Atlanta gets the 17,000-seat
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Speaker 1: arena instead of the 3,500-seat place they were going to play.
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Speaker 1: So there's a conflict. The Atlanta Hawks, a team that
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Speaker 1: actually has fans, not many. So the Hawks are scheduled
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Speaker 1: to play the Cleveland Cadavers in that matchup on Thursday night.
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Speaker 1: And so there's a conflict. Now, Golden State apparently leads
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Speaker 1: that series, the Valkyries. Three to two, they could clinch
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Speaker 1: while the people on the West Coast are not watching
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Speaker 1: or stuck in traffic or whatever daytime people do at
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Speaker 1: that time. So here's the question. What message, what message
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Speaker 1: is the WNBA sending to the basketball world by playing
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Speaker 1: a matinee game six of their finals? So those of
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Speaker 1: you that have been ranting and raving and saying you
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Speaker 1: need to talk more about the WNBA. And I've done
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Speaker 1: many a rant here and I pointed out that the
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Speaker 1: WNBA is just a vehicle for teams in politics, the
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Speaker 1: blue team, the red team to bitch at each other. And,
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Speaker 1: you know, it's hard to take the league seriously. The
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Speaker 1: players run off the court when the national anthem comes
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Speaker 1: on because they're afraid of the boogeyman, the national anthem
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Speaker 1: and all that. It's kind of a joke of an operation.
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Speaker 1: You'd think if they had any real leadership, it would
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Speaker 1: be run a lot better and it'd be much smoother operation.
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Speaker 1: They fall for these political traps all the time. They
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Speaker 1: don't even realize it. Apparently, there's some people over there
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Speaker 1: not that bright because you'd think you say, hey, listen,
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Speaker 1: this is going to be a. a meatball for the
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Speaker 1: political people. We don't want that. Well, no, we do
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Speaker 1: want that. Let's sprint off the court like we're trying
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Speaker 1: to win a gold medal when the national anthem comes on.
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Speaker 1: We don't want to be out there for that. We'll
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Speaker 1: just stand in the bowels of the arena. That makes sense.
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Speaker 1: But the message is, if you want to know where
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Speaker 1: the WNBA stands in the hierarchy of basketball, just look
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Speaker 1: at the schedule. The schedule doesn't lie. And it's not
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Speaker 1: me complaining from the bully pulpit. It's not some other
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Speaker 1: bozo with a microphone complaining. It's not. Game six of
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Speaker 1: the 82-game NBA regular season has been deemed more important.
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Speaker 1: The Atlanta Hawks playing that game in that arena in
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Speaker 1: the nighttime hours deemed more important than Then game six
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Speaker 1: of the WNBA finals, they get the breakfast shift. And
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Speaker 1: you can say, well, they wanted the gate at the arena,
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Speaker 1: and you can make all these things up. The bottom
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Speaker 1: line is the NBA could have jerry-rigged the schedule to
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Speaker 1: accommodate the WNBA. They could have made it work. They
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Speaker 1: chose not to. They said, listen, you are not as
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Speaker 1: important as game six of of the regular season as
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Speaker 1: opposed to game six of the finals is not as
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Speaker 1: important as game six of the regular season. It's not.
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Speaker 1: So think about this. WNBA finals have officially been moved
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Speaker 1: to the same time slot as senior water aerobics. That's
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Speaker 1: who you're competing with. You're now going head to head
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Speaker 1: with people ordering a breakfast burrito on the West Coast.
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Speaker 1: People going to traffic school. The second hour of a
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Speaker 1: dental appointment for those on the West Coast where the
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Speaker 1: team plays Golden State. Nothing screams. And even on the
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Speaker 1: East Coast, people are at work, I would assume, at 1230, right?
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Speaker 1: The people who work the day shift are at work
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Speaker 1: or at lunch or whatever. So nothing screams cultural phenomena
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Speaker 1: like scheduling your championship right in between the Price is
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Speaker 1: Right and the soap operas. Back in the day, I
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Speaker 1: don't know if they still have the soap operas, but
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Speaker 1: they used to have soap operas. There'd be the Price
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Speaker 1: is Right, there'd be some other game show, and then
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Speaker 1: they'd have, right after that, they'd have the soap operas.
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Speaker 1: And that's it. And oh, by the way, the people
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Speaker 1: that do the ratings, the television ratings, they estimate that
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Speaker 1: around 8 p.m. on a Thursday night, There are 106.2 men, women,
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Speaker 1: and children in America watching television. Isn't that wild? Now,
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Speaker 1: I know there's 330-something million or whatever it is in
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Speaker 1: the country, but still 100 million people, 106 million people
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Speaker 1: watching television on a Thursday night at 8 o'clock. You
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Speaker 1: know how many people watch television at noon Eastern time
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Speaker 1: on a Thursday? How about 44 million? That is 58.2%
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Speaker 1: fewer possible viewers than if they'd played the game at night.
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Speaker 1: And for all the hype, it turns out that the
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Speaker 1: varsity needs the gym. And when the varsity needs the gym,
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Speaker 1: the varsity gets the gym. The junior varsity gets kicked
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Speaker 1: to the morning slot. And the WNBA likes to pretend that, hey,
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Speaker 1: we have a seat now at the grown-up table and
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Speaker 1: all that stuff. And We'll be right back. And they've
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Speaker 1: got a nice little juice box and some animal crackers.
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Speaker 1: And that's it. Enjoy your 1230 tip in Atlanta, 930
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Speaker 1: on the West Coast. It is the Ben Maller Show.
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Speaker 1: Time now for the Mallor Riddle of the Day. And
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Speaker 1: Murray is getting called out for using a blank in
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Speaker 1: during his post-game interview the other day. Minnesota Vikings quarterback
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Speaker 1: Kyler Murray, one of the worst quarterbacks in football, getting
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Speaker 1: The other day. That is the Maller Riddle of the Day.
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Speaker 2: So all aspects can be discussed. The only thing I
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Speaker 2: haven't done, because I didn't have enough money, I don't
22:27
Speaker 2: own the team. I never owned a team.
22:30
Speaker 4: Listen to Football Doesn't Lie on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts,
22:34
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22:39
Speaker 1: The Ben Maller Show on Fox Sports Radio. As we
22:42
Speaker 1: continue on... Now, if too much or not enough, coming
22:46
Speaker 1: up in a couple minutes, also the Queen of Hearts
22:48
Speaker 1: with Lorena. It's a newbie night. All new callers all
22:53
Speaker 1: night long. If you would like to join the parade
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23:01
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23:15
Speaker 1: do during the show. You should never check your email.
23:18
Speaker 1: And people complaining, you didn't do a Timberwolves monologue. You
23:23
Speaker 1: don't have Anthony Edwards. He's hurt. Oh, my God. If
23:27
Speaker 1: I did a monologue every effing time an NBA player
23:30
Speaker 1: got hurt, that's all I would do. They all get hurt.
23:33
Speaker 1: I took my shot at Kawhi Leonard because I don't
23:36
Speaker 1: like the guy. He annoys me. He made me hate basketball,
23:40
Speaker 1: Kawhi Leonard. Lorraine is here, FSR Tech Queen.
23:43
Speaker 5: Yola.
23:44
Speaker 1: We need some more questions. Queen of Hearts, hashtag Queen
23:46
Speaker 1: of Hearts, hashtag Queen of Hearts, hashtag Queen of Hearts
23:49
Speaker 1: coming up later this hour. And Koopaloop, an all-Bronco fan.
23:53
Speaker 1: That's all-Bronco fan. Your comments can and will be used
23:57
Speaker 1: against you in the court of sports radio. Has anyone
24:03
Speaker 1: else noticed the Wi-Fi here does not work very well anymore?
24:05
Speaker 1: Has anyone else noticed that?
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Speaker 5: I was just complaining about this the other day.
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Speaker 3: Good.
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Speaker 1: What has happened? It used to work great. We had
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Speaker 1: great Wi-Fi in the building.
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Speaker 2: What happened?
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Speaker 5: I have to reconnect every time I close my phone.
24:16
Speaker 1: It's a nightmare.
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Speaker 6: If I close my laptop or let it go stale
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Speaker 6: for a second, I have to re-sign in.
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Speaker 1: No, I know. Who do we complain to?
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Speaker 5: I don't know.
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Speaker 1: Somebody in Texas? Who do we complain to? Is there
24:25
Speaker 1: somebody we can complain to? I stopped bothering like a
24:28
Speaker 1: year ago. Stop complaining? No, I just stopped bothering with
24:32
Speaker 1: the Wi-Fi. I just use my data. I don't even
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Speaker 1: see the Fox Sports. There used to be a Fox Sports.
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Speaker 5: It's Premier Guest.
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Speaker 1: No, I don't use that one. But I use Martha's
24:42
Speaker 1: House is what I use. Oh, I've never met Martha.
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Speaker 5: I'm shocked it doesn't say Harmon's.
24:48
Speaker 1: I know. You guys want to give out the Wi-Fi
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Speaker 1: passwords too? Yeah, we'll give it out. Yeah, why not?
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Speaker 5: Why not?
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Speaker 1: No, because I got that. That's what they use on
24:57
Speaker 1: the Steve Harvey show. So that's what I use. You'd
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Speaker 1: think that Steve Harvey's a major media star in America
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Speaker 1: and his morning show they do across the hall from us.
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Speaker 1: You'd think that they would have good Wi-Fi, you know.
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Speaker 1: This is like the worst Wi-Fi ever. Airport Wi-Fi is
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Speaker 1: more reliable than that. Airplane Wi-Fi is more. I can
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Speaker 1: fly on a Delta flight over Mississippi, and it would
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Speaker 1: be better Wi-Fi than this. Not that I'm complaining. I
25:27
Speaker 1: guess I am complaining. All right, we're fine. Yeah, Anthony Edwards,
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Speaker 1: he's going to undergo surgery, right knee, and could be
25:37
Speaker 1: out two months or longer. That seems like a problem.
25:42
Speaker 1: That seems like a problem. But don't worry. You got
25:44
Speaker 1: LaMelo Ball. You got LaMelo Ball. And that's all you need.
25:48
Speaker 1: There you go.
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Speaker 3: All right.
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Speaker 1: Time now for the always popular on a newbie night,
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Speaker 1: Malheur Riddle of the Day. Quarterback Kyler Murray, the little guy,
25:57
Speaker 1: is getting called out by some for using a blank
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Speaker 1: during his recent post-game interview. That is the question. What
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Speaker 1: is the answer? And Pauly D said a high chair.
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Speaker 1: What else do we have? A video game headset from
26:12
Speaker 1: Alf the Alien O'Piner. AI Bot from Tom in Kansas City.
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Speaker 1: The home of the Ben Maller Chicken Fingers at the
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Speaker 1: Landing in Liberty. Just a few miles away from Arrowhead
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Speaker 1: Stadium where the Chiefs play their games. A stepladder from
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Speaker 1: Eek in Roseville, Minnesota. That's his answer. What else do
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Speaker 1: we have here? He was popping bubble gum or bubble wrap, rather,
26:39
Speaker 1: bubble wrap from Late Night Drug Tester. We have page down.
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Speaker 1: Using a MetaQuest VR set from Ocho Texto. That's his answer.
26:53
Speaker 1: What else do we have? Let's see. Page down. All right.
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Speaker 1: Do you have an answer, Lorena?
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Speaker 6: Yes, I think it was because he was talking with
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Speaker 6: a mouthful of peanut butter.
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Speaker 1: Mouthful of peanut butter. Very specific. Is that correct? Kyla
27:05
Speaker 1: Murray was called out for trying to speak in a
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Speaker 1: higher voice. He sounded much different than he normally does.
27:11
Speaker 1: So he spoke in a different voice. He was trying
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Speaker 1: to sound more masculine. When I first got into radio,
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Speaker 1: there were a lot of the older guys that chain-smoked
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Speaker 1: cigarettes because your voice sounded more masculine.
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Speaker 5: He did it on purpose?
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Speaker 1: Yeah, they would smoke because they thought it made him
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Speaker 1: sound better on the air.
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Speaker 4: And smell worse.
27:31
Speaker 1: That's great. Oh, yeah. Like an ashtray. It was just terrible.
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Speaker 1: Remember this was, was it Tyrese Halliburton? Was it last year?
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Speaker 1: It must have been two years ago. Tyrese Halliburton of
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Speaker 1: the Pacers. He was caught doing the same thing. He's
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Speaker 1: got a high-pitched voice, and he was trying to sound
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Speaker 1: more masculine. I'm more masculine. I'm a man's man. Let's
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Speaker 1: go to Lauren in Minnesota real quick. Then we're going
27:54
Speaker 1: to play Too Much or Not Enough. It's newbie night,
27:56
Speaker 1: newbie night, newbie night.
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Speaker 3: Hello, Lauren.
27:58
Speaker 1: Welcome. Hey, Ben. Hello.
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Speaker 3: Hello.
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Speaker 2: Hello.
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Speaker 1: It's newbie night. Hooray for newbie night. What you got?
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Speaker 1: Real quick, Lauren. What do we got? What do we got?
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Speaker 1: What do we got?
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Speaker 3: What do we got?
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Speaker 7: Okay, I'm 48 years old. This is the first time
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Speaker 7: I've ever called into a radio show.
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Speaker 1: Welcome. We popped your cherry at age 48. Congratulations.
28:18
Speaker 2: You did.
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Speaker 1: Yes.
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Speaker 7: And I want to give you, Lorena, and Coop a
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Speaker 7: big shout out. I'm going to the dreaded day shift
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Speaker 7: on Monday.
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Speaker 5: No!
28:27
Speaker 1: No! We're losing it!
28:29
Speaker 5: Another one bites the dust.
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Speaker 1: Another one bites the dust, Lorena! Another day shift! And
28:34
Speaker 1: another one down. Damn it.
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Speaker 7: But I'll be listening to your podcast.
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Speaker 3: All right.
28:39
Speaker 7: I'll try to keep in touch whenever I'm on.
28:42
Speaker 2: All right.
28:42
Speaker 1: But I want to thank you guys.
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Speaker 7: For everything you do for us night shift guys.
28:46
Speaker 1: Well, I appreciate that. And you might be back on
28:49
Speaker 1: the night shift down the line, right? Maybe?
28:50
Speaker 7: Possibly? You know, I just applied for a new job
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Speaker 7: that's like five minutes away from my house.
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Speaker 1: Oh, okay.
28:56
Speaker 7: And it's looking pretty good that I'll probably end up there, so.
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Speaker 1: All right.
28:59
Speaker 5: Well, good luck.
29:00
Speaker 1: I hope you make lots of money and you love
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Speaker 1: your job and you get more time and that'd be wonderful.
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Speaker 1: So good luck to you. Thanks for listening, Lauren. Yep.
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Speaker 7: Sounds good.
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Speaker 1: Take care. Be well. Let's get in the game.
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Speaker 5: Here we go.
29:09
Speaker 1: Here we go. Here we go. Here we go. Here
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Speaker 1: we go. Here we go. Here we go.
29:12
Speaker 3: It's another Ben Maller game.
29:13
Speaker 1: We've endured too many of these. Is it too much
29:16
Speaker 1: or not enough? Enough already. Perito says we got to
29:18
Speaker 1: play the game. Let's play the game. Josh is in Oklahoma.
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Speaker 1: Sooner bread, sooner board, and when I die, I'll be
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Speaker 1: sooner dead, unless he lives on the other side of Oklahoma,
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Speaker 1: and then that doesn't apply. Hello, Josh.
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Speaker 3: Welcome.
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Speaker 1: Absolutely not. Horns down. Okay. Gotcha. Gotcha.
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Speaker 2: Very good.
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Speaker 1: Well, welcome to the show here, Josh. Good to have you.
29:39
Speaker 1: What do you do for work i'm not a lot
29:44
Speaker 1: i don't think i'm allowed to say but you're not
29:46
Speaker 1: allowed to say okay he's either a career criminal or
29:51
Speaker 1: fighting crime or none of the above he's superman could
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Speaker 1: be are you superman that'd be cool can we say
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Speaker 1: you're superman Okay. We have Superman. DC Comics. Here we go.
30:06
Speaker 1: Got to get three right to win the game. Are
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Speaker 1: you ready, Josh? Absolutely. All right. Good luck to you.
30:11
Speaker 1: Here we go. Question number one. If the Rays are
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Speaker 1: only the sixth team in World Series history with an
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Speaker 1: extra inning comeback to stave off elimination, is that too
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Speaker 1: much or not enough? Not enough. All right. Josh is
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Speaker 1: not enough. The answer is too much. They are only
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Speaker 1: the fourth team to do it. So you are incorrect.
30:37
Speaker 1: Question number two. Yaxel Lindenborg is only the second player
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Speaker 1: in the draft lottery era with 85 or more points
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Speaker 1: and 35 or more rebounds in their first four career games.
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Speaker 1: Is that too much or not enough? Is the answer wow?
30:59
Speaker 1: You're going too much? Is that your answer? Yeah. All right.
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Speaker 1: Let's see if Josh is right. This is not going
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Speaker 1: well at all here, Josh. The answer is not enough.
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Speaker 1: He is the fourth to do it, joining Patrick Ewing,
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Speaker 1: David Robinson, and Shaquille O'Neal. So you are 0 for 2, Josh.
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Speaker 5: Maybe you want to try a different approach. Go with
31:23
Speaker 5: the opposite of what you think it would be.
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Speaker 6: I just woke up five minutes ago.
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Speaker 1: Okay, I understand. You don't need to make excuses. It's fine.
31:38
Speaker 1: All right. I'm sure if you were wide awake, you'd
31:40
Speaker 1: still suck at the game. Here we go. Question number three.
31:42
Speaker 1: Here we go. Victor Wimbanyama just became the– by the way,
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Speaker 1: do you have any good dreams while you're sleeping? No.
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Speaker 1: I don't remember my dreams.
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Speaker 2: I'm awake.
31:52
Speaker 1: I don't remember my dreams. And you usually forget your dreams.
31:55
Speaker 1: Even if you have dreams, within like five minutes of
31:57
Speaker 1: waking up, you forget dreams. Anyway, question number three. Victor Wimbanyama.
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Speaker 1: just became the 12th player in NBA history to have
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Speaker 1: 20 career games of at least 25 points, 10 rebounds,
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Speaker 1: and five blocks. Is that too much or not enough?
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Speaker 1: Not enough. All right, let's find out here. Does the
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Speaker 1: opposite work? Wow! Congratulations, Josh. You have gotten all the
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Speaker 1: questions wrong. That is almost harder to do than to
32:34
Speaker 1: get them all right. The answer was too much. He's
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Speaker 1: only the eighth player to have 20 such games now.
32:39
Speaker 1: The bad news is you lost the game, Josh. The
32:41
Speaker 1: good news is we have a nice parting gift, a
32:43
Speaker 1: lifetime supply of nothing. The holidays are coming up, so
32:47
Speaker 1: you want to get all your friends nothing, call us up.
32:49
Speaker 1: We'll send you nothing.
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Speaker 3: Can I say something about Kyler Murray?
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Speaker 1: Yeah, go ahead. Take a shot at Kyler. Go ahead.
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Speaker 1: I thought he had his tablet. It was the last
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Speaker 1: thing I could think of. He had what?
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Speaker 7: I thought Kyler Murray brought his tablet.
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Speaker 1: Oh, tablet. Tablet, yeah. No, he changed his voice. He
33:06
Speaker 1: tried to sound more masculine. Well, Josh, either go back
33:09
Speaker 1: to bed or good luck waking up. Put some water
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Speaker 1: in your face. Drink something hot. He needs some coffee.
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Speaker 1: Have some coffee. If you drink coffee, whatever you do.
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Speaker 1: Thank you, Josh. Good luck. There's Josh. Just woke up
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Speaker 1: in Oklahoma. And he would have been better off if
33:22
Speaker 1: he had been sleeping. That would have been more effective
33:25
Speaker 1: had he just been sleeping. Straight ahead, we need more questions.
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Speaker 1: Hashtag Queen of Hearts. Lorena is here. She'll give love advice.
33:33
Speaker 1: She'll give stock market advice, real estate advice, any kind
33:37
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Speaker 6: How to get the best pedicure ever and get your
33:43
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Speaker 1: I could do that, too. On the pulse of the
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Speaker 1: American Sports Talk radio listener, we'll get to the Queen
33:48
Speaker 1: of Hearts with Lorena, and we will do it!
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Speaker 1: Queen of hearts She wants to talk to you Lorena
35:40
Speaker 1: Soon she'll be making your hearts be one Lorena Well,
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Speaker 1: most anybody. Most anybody?
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Speaker 5: Yeah, you know, some people don't even want to look
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Speaker 5: for love, so.
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Speaker 1: Yeah. Well, people love other things. They love inanimate objects. Television. Television.
36:08
Speaker 1: I don't have a television much anymore. Dolls. Movies, dolls.
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Speaker 5: You ever seen those ones at like Hustlers? I'm like, hmm.
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Speaker 5: That's interesting.
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Speaker 1: Oh, I thought you meant like a doll collection.
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Speaker 5: No, I meant like life-size, inflatable.
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Speaker 1: I've not done a deep dive on the dolls that
36:26
Speaker 1: are out there. I imagine they're... Very detailed. Yes, I
36:30
Speaker 1: would think so.
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Speaker 6: You know, we're going to move into robots one day, so.
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Speaker 1: I think they already have in some of the... I
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Speaker 1: saw online, is it China or Japan or something like that?
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Speaker 5: Oh, gosh, how scary.
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Speaker 1: I saw some video last year about that.
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Speaker 5: Find a real woman! Or whatever you want.
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Speaker 4: Your preference.
36:46
Speaker 1: There you go.
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Speaker 5: Real plastic.
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Speaker 1: All right. Lorena, here we go. Will T. writes in.
36:52
Speaker 1: Hashtag Queen of Hearts.
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Speaker 5: Will T.
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Speaker 1: Lettuce. He says, can you tell how good a person
36:58
Speaker 1: will be as a lover by the way that they eat?
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Speaker 6: Um, that's a good question. I've never compared the two.
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Speaker 1: No, you've never done a Venn diagram. If somebody eats
37:12
Speaker 1: mostly fruit and vegetables, they're better than somebody that eats
37:14
Speaker 1: potato chips.
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Speaker 6: See, and I was thinking more of how they eat, right?
37:17
Speaker 6: So if you're like a really messy eater, you might
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Speaker 6: be really messy, you know, in the bed, you know
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Speaker 6: what I'm saying? Down to do some dirty things. So
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Speaker 6: maybe the messier of an eater.
37:27
Speaker 5: You are, the better.
37:28
Speaker 1: But I was thinking like the... The smells, you know,
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Speaker 1: certain things you eat, you know, if you eat a
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Speaker 1: lot of garlic or something like that, as opposed to
37:35
Speaker 1: eating like.
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Speaker 6: Yeah, and if you do eat something that smells bad,
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Speaker 6: you have to make sure you both eat it so that,
37:39
Speaker 6: you know, not one of you is suffering.
37:41
Speaker 1: Different fruits that make you smell better.
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Speaker 5: Yeah.
37:46
Speaker 1: JT the Wingman. We've met him. We love JT the Wingman.
37:49
Speaker 1: He's a great friend of the show and big Brewers
37:51
Speaker 1: fan and a little concerned after the Brewers lost last night.
37:53
Speaker 1: He says, if I am out on a singles cruise,
37:57
Speaker 1: what type of... What accent should I use to impress
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Speaker 1: the ladies and get more attention?
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Speaker 5: Hello, governor.
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Speaker 1: Oh, you're going to English. He says the sexiest accents,
38:08
Speaker 1: according to what he found on the Internet, the sexiest
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Speaker 1: accents in the United States. Number five is general American.
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Speaker 1: What is that?
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Speaker 5: I think that's what we speak.
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Speaker 1: Miami English. I don't know what that is. New York
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Speaker 1: City English. Louisiana Cajun. And then Southern American English.
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Speaker 6: I'm shocked that they're all American accents.
38:32
Speaker 1: Oh, yeah, there's a lot. There's a lot. Like the
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Speaker 1: Boston accent. I mean, there's different dialects.
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Speaker 3: I guess.
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Speaker 6: I just thought he would go more, like, globally.
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Speaker 5: You know what I'm saying?
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Speaker 1: No, no, no. He's all American. And he lives in Tennessee,
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Speaker 1: so he's probably mastered the Southern dialect. That's Southern Belle.
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Speaker 1: All right, so any of those? No?
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Speaker 5: I couldn't even tell you. Maybe New York accent I
38:51
Speaker 5: think would be kind of cool.
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Speaker 1: Oh, that's annoying. That Long Island Yenta? Oh, my God,
38:55
Speaker 1: that's so annoying. I have family members that speak like that.
38:58
Speaker 1: Holy crap. I kind of get a kick out of
39:02
Speaker 1: the Boston accent, like the hardcore Boston accent I get
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Speaker 1: a kick out of. But, again, not romantically. I just
39:07
Speaker 1: think it's a new.
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Speaker 3: No, yeah.
39:08
Speaker 1: That's what I'm thinking. I'm like, I don't. I don't
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Speaker 1: know if I'd call that romantic. It's great. Good luck
39:14
Speaker 1: doing that on a cruise ship. Michael in Tulsa says, Lorena,
39:18
Speaker 1: what is the best Halloween movie for a date?
39:23
Speaker 5: Oh, there's so many good ones.
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Speaker 6: You've got to find a scary one, though, and make
39:27
Speaker 6: sure that you know you have like the blanket and
39:29
Speaker 6: you can pull her close when it gets really scary.
39:32
Speaker 5: It depends on what kind you like, though.
39:34
Speaker 1: Just give one out. I like Insidious.
39:36
Speaker 5: I like that one.
39:36
Speaker 1: That's your go to. OK.
39:37
Speaker 5: He doesn't like that one.
39:38
Speaker 1: Truck Stop Funk says, Lorena, how do I approach the
39:41
Speaker 1: old battle axe about her pungent flatulence? While we're getting romantic,
39:45
Speaker 1: this is from.
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Speaker 5: Oh, that's the worst. I'd just walk out. I would
39:49
Speaker 5: be like, no, I can't do this. And just walk out.
39:51
Speaker 5: I think your point would get across.
39:53
Speaker 1: Party's over.
39:55
Speaker 5: Doors are closed.
39:56
Speaker 1: Queen of Hearts with Lorraine.