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Speaker 1: Night is from pro Bouncy Vault. But I'm not gonna

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Speaker 1: start with that. I'm not all right you think I'm

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Speaker 1: starting with I'm gonna keep you off balance. So a

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Speaker 1: lot of chatter in the last couple of weeks, really

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Speaker 1: poison for pro basketball. So a lot of noise about

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Speaker 1: the salary cap and it's not right. They gotta change it.

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Speaker 1: It's ugly and they gotta do something this hardline cap.

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Speaker 1: So I was somewhat recently contacted by someone who knows

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Speaker 3: They know what they're talking about.

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Speaker 1: And of course they know a thing or two because

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Speaker 1: we'll just say, has given me some good intel in

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Speaker 1: the past. Now, this person does not beat a thousand. However,

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Speaker 1: if they were a baseball player, they'd be like mister

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Speaker 1: Podre Tony Gwinn, so pretty good batting average. Get to

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Speaker 1: the point, please, all right, So let me boil this down.

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Speaker 1: The word on the street is that despite the public

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Speaker 1: owners do not like this, they're trying to change the

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Speaker 1: salary cap because it is so aggressive towards.

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Speaker 1: Well, it turns out, according to my insider, that the

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Speaker 1: it gives them a for something like we have an archwer,

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Speaker 1: the golden ticket. If you will to keep calls down right,

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Speaker 1: question with these whispers that NBA owners actually love the

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Speaker 1: serious plans to dramatically change it, despite speculation to the contrary.

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Speaker 1: Do you buy or sell this, You buy or sell this.

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Speaker 1: So I've got my observations on this. I've got loaded dice, Gumbo,

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Speaker 3: So number why, I said number why. That's right. So

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Speaker 3: I am buying this. I'm not selling it.

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Speaker 1: I'm buying it, and I believe the fix is in,

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Speaker 1: NBA's Billionaire Boys Club, the owners of the NBA are

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Speaker 1: Just can't get enough of this. And the reason why,

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Speaker 1: And so the oligarchs and the aristocrats are popping champagne

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Speaker 1: And they don't get to keep everything, but they get

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Speaker 3: But the trade market is limited. But this is all

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Speaker 1: Green but not the green team, the green Backs, And

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Speaker 3: You know what it is.

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Speaker 1: It's a classic sports radio caller to this show from

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Speaker 1: about twenty years ago. A guy named Zigzag used to

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Speaker 1: with loaded dice. The dice are loaded, the robber barons

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Speaker 3: Then all of a sudden there's like alarm bells that

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Speaker 1: And now for some owners they don't give a crap,

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Speaker 1: It's just unsustainable the salaries, polaise, I say, Polaise.

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Speaker 1: And the owners, you know, they're having a yacht party

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Speaker 1: But I'm sorry, that's actually more of an asset than

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Speaker 1: the owners spoiler alert, they are the architects of this

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Speaker 3: A big story. The last couple of weeks in.

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Speaker 1: The NBA malcontent overrated stiff DeAndre Ayton joining the Lakers

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Speaker 1: after being fired by the Portland Trailblazers and dumped by

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Speaker 1: the Phoenix Suns. So DeAndre Ayton was recently asked if

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Speaker 1: he had heard from Lebron James or Luca Dancik, and

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Speaker 3: Here's what DeAndre had to say. Take a list. Hey DeAndre,

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Speaker 3: have you have you spoken to Lebron?

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Speaker 4: Have you spoken to Luca?

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Speaker 5: Not really yet, but I've definitely got a text from Luca.

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Speaker 5: I know how to off season go. You know, this

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Speaker 1: That was I think that was our buddy Sadana right,

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Speaker 1: the seven to ten over there, all right. So he said,

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Speaker 1: if you didn't understand what DeAndre Aton said, he said, listen,

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Speaker 1: I'm still waiting on Lebron. Lucas sent a text though,

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Speaker 1: and then DeAndre made a bunch of excuses about the

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Speaker 3: So that's a great jumping off point. That is a

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Speaker 1: So DeAndre Ayton says he still hasn't spoken with Lebron James,

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Speaker 3: What do you read into this? What are you reading this?

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Speaker 1: So if you cut through the Hayes, people in La

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Speaker 1: Through that, Luca the he's the new golden boy, right,

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Speaker 1: And so he found time to tap tap tap a text. Meanwhile, Lebron,

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Speaker 1: he's so busy in his offseason he cannot be bothered

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Speaker 1: to send a measly emoji. So we all know it

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Speaker 1: That is a lot of work for Lebron. I understand,

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Speaker 1: the man's in his forties now, he could injure a

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Speaker 3: We do not want that, all right, So here's the deal.

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Speaker 1: That is not obviously an oversight after several minutes of deliberation.

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Speaker 1: That is a statement by Lebron James. Now, the rumor

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Speaker 1: has it that Lebron not exactly doing cartwheels about the

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Speaker 1: possibility of playing with DeAndre Ayton. And as I learned

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Speaker 1: that the silence is golden, but not if you're doing

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Speaker 1: a talk show. It suggests that Lebron's not buying in.

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Speaker 1: But it's also bigger than that. If you think of

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Speaker 1: it in terms of gumbo. Think of it in terms

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Speaker 3: The cloud that he still has some.

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Speaker 1: But not that much, and that the Lakers it's like

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Speaker 1: they started dating the new girl, the new hot girls,

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Speaker 1: Luca and he's the old woman, you know. And then

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Speaker 1: he's like, well, I've been around for a while, but no, no,

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Speaker 1: we like Luca. Luca's hotter, and lucas the one has

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Speaker 3: So this is the theory. And so Lebron's like, ah,

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Speaker 3: this is this blows and it feels like a.

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Speaker 1: Rental car and the Lakers are Luca's team, and Lebron

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Speaker 1: he's not Blind Scott or inca Terror, Blind Emmett or

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Speaker 1: Stevie Meatballs or any of the other blind listeners. So

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Speaker 1: he sees the writing on the wall and the writing

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Speaker 1: is in Slovenian, and it's like, the Lakers are so

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Speaker 1: into Luca at this moment. I wouldn't be shocked if

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Speaker 3: You're going to start to show oh with that game

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Speaker 3: On long after Lee passed away for many many years.

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Speaker 3: Right downtown and print it.

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Speaker 7: Here, my sacking ass, and nobody's going work because.

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Speaker 2: Eighty five percent of the fucking world's working.

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Speaker 7: The other fifteen come out here a fucking playground for the.

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Speaker 3: All right. He actually went on even longer than that.

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Speaker 1: What are your reflections on the passing of former Cub

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Speaker 3: So I've got Michael Angelo.

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Speaker 1: So a Lee Ilia, while he wore a baseball uniform,

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Speaker 1: There have been many great rants by coaches and people

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Speaker 1: He's the Michelangelo of the Meltdown. It wasn't just a rant,

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Speaker 1: It was more than that. It was painting the Sistine.

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Speaker 1: Every sentence that I heard, there was a brushstroke of

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Speaker 1: greatness right every syllable perfection.

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Speaker 3: It was raw, it was unfiltered emotion.

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Speaker 1: Gotta remember, in those days, Wrigley Field did not have lights.

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Speaker 1: Every one of the Cub home games was a day game.

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Speaker 1: So he essentially said anyone that came to watch Cubs

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Speaker 1: baseball didn't have a job.

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Speaker 3: He said, the entire fan base didn't have a job.

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Speaker 3: He didn't just call out the fans.

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Speaker 1: He excommunicated the entire Chicago cub fan base.

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Speaker 3: He called them nickelin dime people.

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Speaker 1: Eighty five percent of the world's work, the other fifteen

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Speaker 1: percent come out here.

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Speaker 3: It's a playground for the blank blanks.

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Speaker 1: And he didn't just defend his players, he canonized them.

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Speaker 1: I mean, I just can't tell you enough how great

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Speaker 1: that was and how we'll likely never get that in

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Speaker 1: our lifetime. Maybe somewhere down the line or time goes

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Speaker 1: on forever, some generation will get someone that will top that.

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Speaker 3: But I won't be around and you won't be around.

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Speaker 3: Lee Elia etched his name in the Book of Legends.

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Speaker 3: He said, well, who's the greatest quarterback?

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Speaker 1: People say, well, Tom Brady, who's the all time greatest

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Speaker 1: NBA player? The real ones will say Michael Jordan, Right,

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Speaker 1: Michael Jordan, who's the greatest baseball player? Most people say

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Speaker 1: Babe Ruth right, who gave us the greatest coaching meltdown?

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Speaker 3: Lee Ilia? Period. Stop. That's it. Now.

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Speaker 1: In Cub history, lee Ilia is somewhere like near bart

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Speaker 1: Man and Billy the Billy Goat Curse and all that stuff.

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Speaker 1: But it is one of the most endearing works of

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Speaker 1: art that here we are over forty years later, and

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Speaker 1: we still play it, we still smile.

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Speaker 3: New generations are introduced to this audio.

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Speaker 1: I was lucky enough years ago my travels to meet

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Speaker 1: Les Grobstein, who was the one that recorded that. Was

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Speaker 1: a radio man in Chicago actually did the overnights at

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Speaker 1: the score for years. Lee Less actually passed away a

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Speaker 1: couple years back. But rest in peace to the goat,

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Speaker 1: and make sure this weekend you pour one out for

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Speaker 1: our homie of the coaching tirade, the greatest of all time,

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Speaker 1: Lee Ilia. And remember eighty five percent of the world's work.

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Speaker 1: The other fifteen percent come out to Wrigley Field. It's

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Speaker 1: a playground for the blank blanks, all right. Meanwhile, we

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Speaker 1: go now to the A t L. Why a lot

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Speaker 1: of social media chatter, a lot of social media chatter

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Speaker 1: that the Bravos could say bye bye to star Ronald

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Speaker 1: Acuno Jr. So a lot of chatter that he's on

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Speaker 1: the trading block. Is that fair.

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Speaker 3: Or foul? Is it fair or foul?

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Speaker 1: So, despite popular opinion by the people who are insiders,

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Speaker 1: it's a fair.

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Speaker 3: Ball fair ball.

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Speaker 1: Now some of the baseball media elites have come out here,

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Speaker 1: the guardians of the game, and they are dismissing the

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Speaker 1: very notion that Ronald Lacuna Jr. Could be available preposterous.

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Speaker 1: It's just click bait, right, they talking. I know better

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Speaker 1: than you call me a sucker, but I buy it.

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Speaker 3: I do.

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Speaker 1: I believe it's it's in play. I'm not say he's

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Speaker 1: gonna be traded. I believe there are conversations. If it's

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Speaker 1: so laughable that the Braves would trade Ronald Lacuna Jr.

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Speaker 1: Why does the rumor persist. I'll tell you why, because

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Speaker 1: there's some truth to it, right, And remember, taste budgs change.

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Speaker 1: You probably like stuff you didn't like when you're eight

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Speaker 1: years old, and if you're eight years old, you shouldn't

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Speaker 1: be listening.

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Speaker 3: So who cares this?

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Speaker 1: This is his his stick, you know, his act Ronald

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Speaker 1: Lacuna Junior is it is an acquired taste taste budge change, right,

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Speaker 1: and he's put up good numbers offensively there. But there

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Speaker 1: are factions in Atlanta. There are factions that I ask guy,

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Speaker 1: you know, the stopping and the bat flipping and the

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Speaker 1: check me out jogs around the bases he's got when

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Speaker 1: he hits a home run, Now he's got a different

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Speaker 1: celebration for every ten feet around the base. So that

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Speaker 1: has a limited shelf life if you're always getting hurt.

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Speaker 3: And that's the that's the rub on this.

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Speaker 1: For all of the grand standing and all of the

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Speaker 1: swag walking, Kuna is made out of paper mache. Should

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Speaker 1: have been a basketball player. With all of the injuries

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Speaker 1: and since debuting in twenty eighteen, he has had not

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Speaker 1: one but two torn acls, one on each each knee.

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Speaker 1: He's had the following injuries. He's missed games because of

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Speaker 1: a groin injury, quad, hammy, wrist, back, foot, all of

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Speaker 1: it in Atlanta. Having a tough time this week in

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Speaker 1: Oakland or not in Oakland. There's a Freudian been Sacramento

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Speaker 1: or not just Sacramento, West Sacramento. But the Braves are

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Speaker 1: a middling team and it makes you wonder. I like

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Speaker 1: the whispers continue out there that they're listening. They're not

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Speaker 1: actively trying to get rid of the player, but they're listening,

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Speaker 1: and it's I think it's more than just tabloid nonsense.

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Speaker 1: And they also some smoke. There a little smoke, there's gas,

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Speaker 1: there's smoke. There's probably some fire, and the Braves will

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Speaker 1: never admit it. If the Red Sox called the Atlanta

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Speaker 1: Braves up and said, we'll send you Jaron Duran and

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Speaker 1: a couple of our top minor league pitchers and we'll

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Speaker 1: throw some other stuff in there, would the Braves make

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Speaker 1: that deal the Angels?

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Speaker 3: They need all kinds of help, right.

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Speaker 1: Would the Angels trade some players to Atlanta and the

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Speaker 1: Angels and Braves, that's essentially all they do is trade

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Speaker 1: players to each other. How about a team like the Tigers,

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Speaker 1: who are the top team in baseball this year, they

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Speaker 1: want to make another big splash move before the July

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Speaker 1: thirty first trade deadline. Inquiring minds would like to know

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Speaker 1: all right now, last word, we go down to New

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Speaker 1: York where New York Metropolitan out thea there, Brandon Nemo.

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Speaker 1: Doesn't that sound like a Disney ride? Brandon Neimo.

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Speaker 3: He thinks that Major League Baseball needs to change a rule.

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Speaker 1: That's right, Brandon Nimo believes that it's it's time to

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Speaker 1: forget this. Every team gets an All Star rep rule

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Speaker 1: says it's broken.

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Speaker 3: Brandon Nimo.

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Speaker 1: Because we really care what Brandon Nimo has to say,

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Speaker 1: he says it should only be the best players, not

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Speaker 1: the best players on every team.

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Speaker 3: So are you on board? Are you on board with this?

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Speaker 3: So I am not.

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Speaker 1: I am not that this is mostly Brandon Nemo cheerleading

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Speaker 1: for his homie Juan Soda.

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Speaker 3: Now, as for the meat of the map on this one.

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Speaker 1: Like we've gone back and forth on this over the

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Speaker 1: years and today, my position is that they should keep

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Speaker 1: it the way it is.

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Speaker 3: The rule exists for a reason. You're supposed to grow

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Speaker 3: the game.

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Speaker 1: Baseball has continued to be for probably thirty years now.

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Speaker 1: It's been a regional sport. It's been a regional sport,

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Speaker 1: and there are so many teams that blow, like the

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Speaker 1: Pirates and the Rockies and the White Sox, and you

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Speaker 1: want people that like those teams for some reason.

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Speaker 3: To watch.

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Speaker 1: And if their team's got nobody in the game, either

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Speaker 1: they're not going to watch or they're flipping over to

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Speaker 1: Netflix by the second inning. Now, for me, it's nostalgic

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Speaker 1: because I remember back in the day, there was a

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Speaker 1: time the Dodgers sucked, right, they were a bad team,

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Speaker 1: they didn't have good players. There was one it was

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Speaker 1: actually a couple of years they only had one All Star.

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Speaker 1: The most famous year in Dodger history, though in modern

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Speaker 1: times there was I think it was the early nineties.

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Speaker 1: They had one All Star. It was Mike Sharperson, the

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Speaker 1: late Mike Sharperson. It's like, man, that's things are not

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Speaker 1: going well for the Dodgers. But I remember watching I

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Speaker 1: was like, I was hoping he would get into the

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Speaker 1: game and listen. I get the fact that the Yankees

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Speaker 1: and the Dodgers have all the top If you said

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Speaker 1: only the top player is going to be and it'd

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Speaker 1: be mostly Yankees and Dodgers, a few Red Sox and

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Speaker 1: you know a couple of other teams.

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Speaker 3: The Tigers would obviously be in there. But the players don't.

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Speaker 1: Even like the All Star games. It's a nuisance. The

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Speaker 1: All Star Game is a nuisance for the players. They

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Speaker 1: don't like it. They're not fans of it. So anyway,

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Speaker 1: those are my thoughts on the All Star Game. It's

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Speaker 1: just just an exhibition. It did matter for a little bit,

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Speaker 1: not just an exhibition.

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Speaker 2: Be sure to catch live editions of The Ben Meller

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Speaker 2: Show weekdays at two am Eastern eleven pm Pacific.

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Speaker 3: Here we Go, Here we go, Here we go, Here

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Speaker 3: we go, Here we go, Here we go, Here we go.

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Speaker 3: This is one Big Ben gets grilled.

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Speaker 8: They report on the TJ. Watt situation with the Steelers.

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Speaker 8: Insists in that Pittsburgh has no intention of trading Watt. Ben,

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Speaker 8: how do you think this stalemate ends?

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Speaker 1: So you always say you're not going to trade the player.

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Speaker 1: You don't say you're going.

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Speaker 3: To trade the player because you lose leverage, so it

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Speaker 3: doesn't matter. They say they're should.

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Speaker 1: However, that being said, I believe they will agree to

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Speaker 1: a contract within the next two weeks. Training camp starts

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Speaker 1: next week for most NFL teams.

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Speaker 3: TJ.

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Speaker 1: Watt will stay in Pittsburgh. They'll reach a compromise. He

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Speaker 1: will not be leaving the Steelers next.

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Speaker 8: Jared Goff said on the Netflix series Quarterback that he

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Speaker 8: felt betrayed by the Rams when they traded him, and

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Speaker 8: that it was the fact that they didn't even have

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Speaker 8: a conversation with them. He didn't even know they were

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Speaker 8: planning to move on Ben. Did the Rams do golf dirty?

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Speaker 1: No, that the Jared Goff should be sending flowers and

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Speaker 1: chocolates to Sean McVay.

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Speaker 3: The Rams.

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Speaker 1: Jared Goff, I'm told by our listeners in Detroit, he's

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Speaker 1: on like every other commercial on local TV. He's a

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Speaker 1: beloved member of the sports community.

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Speaker 3: He was never that.

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Speaker 1: He never would have been that with the Rams, Matthew

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Speaker 1: Stafford won a Super He's not as beloved as Jared

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Speaker 1: Goff is in Detroit as Stafford is in La Now.

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Speaker 1: He didn't think he was gonna get moved because of

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Speaker 1: his contract, but he should be happy.

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Speaker 3: That was a great thing for Jared Goff.

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Speaker 8: Next there was There are three reported front runners to

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Speaker 8: sign Damian Lillard. Those are the Celtics, the Warriors, and

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Speaker 8: the heat Ben. Could you see him making a meaningful

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Speaker 8: impact on any of those teams?

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Speaker 1: I love Dame time the guys in his mid thirties

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Speaker 1: coming off of popt achilles.

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Speaker 3: I don't see it. I hope I'm wrong.

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Speaker 1: He didn't want to play for Miami, so why wouldn't

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Speaker 1: he want to play for Miami now?

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Speaker 3: Maybe because they suck? How did we do you pass

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Speaker 3: this edition?

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Speaker 5: I am.

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Speaker 3: Another way for golf. Add that to my total for golf.

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Speaker 3: Come on.

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Speaker 3: It's Big Ben's lame joke of the week. Let's do

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Speaker 3: it lame jokes.

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Speaker 1: when our bosses are sleeping.

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Speaker 3: Weed Man Hippie has been.

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Speaker 1: My hole, hurt, ho hoort, unpaid, underappreciated. He does it

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Speaker 1: for the love of radio. Did you ever think you'd

658
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Speaker 1: have your own weekly bit on the radio weed Man

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Speaker 1: back in the day.

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Speaker 5: No, I love you Ben hurting Miss irrigation.

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Speaker 4: Please send me another ding.

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Speaker 3: Okay, yeah, he's already begging. He's already begging. All right,

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Speaker 3: I'm sure he'll take care of you. But you you

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Speaker 3: can also enter the malor Palooza and win one. You

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Speaker 3: could do that. You could do that. All right, let's

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Speaker 3: get to.

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Speaker 5: The butt for I know, kenby wy it was beautiful.

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Speaker 3: Eye yeah yeah, yeah, yeah, I know.

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Speaker 1: Well you you lost it because you had a hoarding problem.

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Speaker 3: Anyway, all right, here we go here, Yes, all right?

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Speaker 3: Have you cleaned up your actors? Your place a mess?

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Speaker 5: Now?

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Speaker 4: No?

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Speaker 3: Not pretty great? It's not there.

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Speaker 1: Okay, good, okay, Well these are actual jokes by actual lists.

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Speaker 1: What is the difference between David Vasse and weed Man

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Speaker 1: after bouncing off a wall? What weed Man wouldn't roll

678
00:37:23,040 --> 00:37:30,760
Speaker 1: around crying like a little girl? What is weed Man's

679
00:37:30,760 --> 00:37:35,080
Speaker 1: favorite part of the football field? What the hash marks

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00:37:35,400 --> 00:37:39,600
Speaker 1: big fan of? That's Dan Dan in South Carolina. Why

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00:37:39,600 --> 00:37:41,760
Speaker 1: does weed Man avoid atm machines?

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Speaker 5: Why?

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00:37:43,640 --> 00:37:46,799
Speaker 3: Well, besides being broke, he's terrible at withdrawals.

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Speaker 1: That's Drew in Minnesota. All right, Uh, what do you

685
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Speaker 1: call it when you see weed Man having an unfortunate

686
00:37:57,120 --> 00:37:58,520
Speaker 1: seizure in the bathtub?

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00:38:00,800 --> 00:38:02,920
Speaker 3: What do you do? Well? You throw? Are You're throwing

688
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Speaker 3: a load of his laundry? Is what you do? If

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Speaker 3: you see that in the abato?

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Speaker 5: Yeah?

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Speaker 1: Did you hear that weed Man's call for love advice

692
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Speaker 1: to Lorena earlier this week?

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Speaker 3: Hear about that?

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Speaker 5: Yeah?

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Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, Well a lot of people missed it. But

696
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Speaker 3: she told weed Man the meeting with.

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Speaker 1: His parole officer and social worker at the same time

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Speaker 1: was not actually a thropple. That's a Joe in Virginia

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Speaker 1: Beach there, Thank you, Joe. What did Lisa? What did

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Speaker 1: Lisa do when weed man fell off a boat. What

701
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Speaker 1: she drove the boat away?

702
00:38:41,640 --> 00:38:42,000
Speaker 3: Is what she?

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Speaker 2: Eric?

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Speaker 3: Eric?

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Speaker 1: Eric in Kansas. It's the Big Ben's lame jokes. A week,

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Speaker 1: Eric sent another one. Did you hear that weed Man?

707
00:38:53,000 --> 00:38:54,560
Speaker 1: Weed Man is starting a.

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00:38:54,520 --> 00:38:59,600
Speaker 3: New magazine dedicated to the homeless? Wow? Cool? Yeah, yeah,

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Speaker 3: it's a big deal.

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Speaker 1: It's called no homes and sleeping in gardens is what

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Speaker 1: it's called. That's not that's not nice. What do blind

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00:39:11,960 --> 00:39:16,279
Speaker 1: Scott and weed Man have in common? What? They don't

713
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Speaker 1: work and are really obnoxious? That's Eric again, like that

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00:39:22,360 --> 00:39:24,960
Speaker 1: Big Ben's lame jokes of the week. What does poppy

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Speaker 1: have in common with a poppy seed?

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Speaker 5: What?

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Speaker 8: Well?

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Speaker 1: They can both make you positive on a drug test.

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Speaker 1: That's Drue in Minnesota, Rob and the three two one sentence.

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Speaker 1: What does Shane and des Moine and the scent of

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Speaker 1: a new car have in common?

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Speaker 3: What? Nothing? People will always love the smell of a

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Speaker 3: new car. There you go are Did you hear that.

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Speaker 1: Blind Scott asked out a girl in Braille?

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Speaker 3: Yeah? Yeah, she left him on felt is what? That's uh?

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Speaker 3: That's Noah in Austin.

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Speaker 1: What did I say to Mike the Leprecaun when he

728
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Speaker 1: said he listens to every episode of the Ben Malor Show.

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Speaker 1: What I said, I respect that I rishpec guy surfer

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Speaker 1: Todd the comedian.

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Speaker 3: What does P did he? What does P? Did he say?

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Speaker 3: He will do as soon as he gets out of prison?

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Speaker 2: What?

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Speaker 1: Well, he didn't get into specifics, but he said he

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Speaker 1: has big plans for.

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Speaker 3: The weekend, is what he said.

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Speaker 8: There's uh server.

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Speaker 3: Todd the comedian. Let's see what do we have here?

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Speaker 3: What do you call an extortion attempt from Mike the leprecaun?

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Speaker 3: What a shamrock shakedown?

741
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Speaker 1: Is?

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Speaker 3: What you call it?

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Speaker 8: Air?

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Speaker 5: What?

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Speaker 3: What?

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Speaker 1: What does Loraina and the FSR security guard have in common?

747
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Speaker 1: What they both don't have the time of day for?

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Speaker 1: That's Michael epercun Why why shouldn't blind Scott be allowed

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Speaker 1: to drive a forklift at costco?

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Speaker 2: Wow?

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Speaker 1: Why he might run over Loraina and Holler and James

752
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Speaker 1: at the food court and on their blind date? All right,

753
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Speaker 1: beg you as Mike as well, beg you weed man.

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Speaker 1: All right, there you go, and now we get over

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Speaker 1: the coop A loop for the coop scoop on entertainment.

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Speaker 3: Here we go, Ray for Holly, Ray for how.

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Speaker 4: All right? Ben?

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Speaker 8: Just a few things this week, but they are some exciting,

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Speaker 8: you know, a few exciting things. First, in theaters, we

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Speaker 8: have Superman. That's right, the new Superman.

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Speaker 3: Movie from They've never made those before.

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Speaker 8: No, but this is the first one in the new

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Speaker 8: DC Studios, the first feature film from DC Studios.

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Speaker 3: Where are the DC studio.

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Speaker 4: That's a good question. I'm not sure.

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Speaker 8: But it's from director James Gunn and is in the

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Speaker 8: newly imagined DC universe, and it stars David corn Sweat

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Speaker 8: as Superman.

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Speaker 4: Name, yeah, Koran Sweat.

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Speaker 3: He's okay because he's Superman. He probably got picked on

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Speaker 3: in second grade though.

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Speaker 4: I know right.

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Speaker 8: It also stars Rachel Brosnahan, Nicholas Holt, and Anthony Kerrigan

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Speaker 8: who you may know from Barry Fame.

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Speaker 3: And it's just a racing movie thing.

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Speaker 4: Is that f one?

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Speaker 3: Yeah, I've been I've been told I need to see

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Speaker 3: that this weekend. My wife wants to see. Is any good?

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Speaker 3: Have you seen it?

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Speaker 8: I have not seen it because racing movies do not

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Speaker 8: interest me.

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Speaker 3: But I didn't say it interests me either, I was asked.

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Speaker 8: It does have great reviews. It is from Apple. It

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Speaker 8: is actually a yeah in Apple movie, and it is

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Speaker 8: I don't think so, but it is so far it

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Speaker 8: is their their most successful film to date.

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Speaker 4: And uh yeah, so.

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Speaker 8: It's both the critics and it's actually got a higher

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Speaker 8: audience score than the critics. Critics given an eighty three

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Speaker 8: percent and audience scores ninety seven percent.

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Speaker 3: So I will make my own decision if I am

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Speaker 3: forced to go see it.

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Speaker 8: Yeah, let me know and then and then maybe I

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Speaker 8: might watch it. I guess F one's like the coolest

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Speaker 8: kind of racing that you could pick right.

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Speaker 1: Yes, it's the It's kind of like in America people

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Speaker 1: don't ready watch F one, but around the world it's

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Speaker 1: like soccer.

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Speaker 3: Nobody in America really watches it, but around the world

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Speaker 3: it's very popular.

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Speaker 4: Yes, exactly, all right.

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Speaker 8: Moving over to television, we have the return of Dexter. Yes,

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Speaker 8: the the serial killer who only kills other killers is

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Speaker 8: back in Dexter Resurrection. Now. The first two episodes are

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Speaker 8: available to stream on Paramount Plus right now. It'll air

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Speaker 8: on regular cable on Showtime this Sunday, and all of

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Speaker 8: the characters you know, Michael C. Hall is returning as

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Speaker 8: Dexter and all of the other actors who are still

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Speaker 8: alive in that storyline will be making their return as well.

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Speaker 3: And even the ones that are dead are going to

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Speaker 3: be back to the amazing.

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Speaker 4: Well, I mean they can bring him back season kind of.

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Speaker 8: I mean, like you know, spoiler alert, spoiler alert if

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Speaker 8: you haven't watched the original Dexter show, he dies at

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Speaker 8: the end of it. So they're bringing him back.

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Speaker 3: So that's good. Yeah, it was just they're gonna make

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Speaker 3: it a dream sequence.

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Speaker 8: I think it's gonna be like, you know, we never

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Speaker 8: actually saw him die. We just saw him get shot

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Speaker 8: in the chest and so he somehow survives that.

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Speaker 4: Yeah. But there are some big names guest.

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Speaker 8: Starring this season, including Uma Thurman, Peter Dinklage, Kristin Ritter,

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Speaker 8: Neil Patrick Harris, and Eric stone Street, among others. And

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Speaker 8: moving on, the last thing that I want to point

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Speaker 8: out is a new documentary you know, the train Wreck

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Speaker 8: series on Netflix. I recently mentioned the Poop Cruise edition

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Speaker 8: of the train Wreck series on Netflix. I did watch

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Speaker 8: that documentary special. It was quite interesting. But this Tuesday

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Speaker 8: will be train Wreck Balloon Boy documentary special that I

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Speaker 8: don't know if you remember when the Hot Air balloon

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Speaker 8: was or the it was like, oh.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, I do remember that.

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Speaker 8: It wasn't even a hot air balloon. It was like

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Speaker 8: a weather balloon. And they and it was a hoax.

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Speaker 8: They said that their kid was in there.

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Speaker 4: And then he wasn't I do remember that.

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Speaker 8: What is that on That is on Netflix, train Wreck,

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Speaker 8: balloon Boy and that is it for Koop scoopler Nament