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Speaker 1: nine minutes away from truly starting our New Year's Eve celebration.

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Speaker 1: Welcome to the Ultimate the Big Ben Malor Show here

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Speaker 1: on Fox Sports Radio. My name is Chris Blank, sitting

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Speaker 1: in Happy New Year's Eve. Everybody, Now, I did have

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Speaker 1: to laugh. Well, first of all, Lorrain is here, Coop

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Speaker 1: is here. They're carrying the show for me tonight. MIKEE

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Speaker 1: Leprechaun tried to bring it down, but I fought through Lorrain,

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Speaker 1: a big fan of Michael Eprecaun. I did have to

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Speaker 1: excited about it, and I got this tweet from let

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Speaker 1: me see who. I want to make sure I give

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Speaker 1: proper credit because the oh it was not a burner?

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Speaker 1: Knot well done? Who writes let's get some list radio?

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Speaker 1: Give us the list now? Not a burner. I am

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Speaker 1: aware how Big Ben Malor pushes back against list to radio,

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Speaker 2: Been zero lists.

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Speaker 1: But coming up in our final segment, I will give

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Speaker 1: in because I have a list of the top sports

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Speaker 1: It's real easy to do a top sports moment of

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Speaker 1: I mean, it's just these are moments that everybody realizes

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Speaker 1: are quote unquote memorable moments in twenty twenty five. But

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Speaker 2: Not a burner. I understand.

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Speaker 1: I understand the pushback by the Mallard militia according to

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Speaker 2: Coming up later on this.

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Speaker 1: Hour, I owe you a second preview, a second preview

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Speaker 1: because I did not get my ole Miss Georgia take

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Speaker 1: quickly becoming one of my favorite college football coaches. If

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Speaker 1: you're not familiar with him, dude can't give a take

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Speaker 1: But in the meantime, if you're just getting up, you're

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Speaker 1: just getting added. Here's a couple of things that you missed.

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Speaker 1: You heard the saga in the update. What a wild

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Speaker 1: finish to the TCU USC game. In the out first first,

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Speaker 1: TCU decided to kick a field goal rather than try

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Speaker 2: Full the tip Calkila will stap it.

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Speaker 3: Back kick from Livermot is up and it is cold.

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Speaker 2: Over time we cope it's Senantorio ten Seals leads the

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Speaker 1: Now some we're questioning whether or not in set Alamobile,

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Speaker 1: you decide and again we can fight over bowl games

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Speaker 1: all we want. Bowl games are meaningless. You bet unless

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Speaker 1: It's meaningless. Why are we even watching you? Sound like

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Speaker 1: this is a springboard. This is something we can build

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Speaker 1: But TCU played for overtime, and by god, it worked

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Speaker 5: Oh, the horn Frogs have filed the bedrick against USC.

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Speaker 6: One four times.

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Speaker 1: TCU beats USC thirty to twenty seven in overtime. But

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Speaker 3: Kick off his hammer downfield, but the wind's gonna hold

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Speaker 1: We do It's God, I'm sorry, I just I had

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Speaker 2: Stop it, that's what we do. No, it's not.

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Speaker 1: First of all, I don't blame USC for not wanting

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Speaker 2: I take that tank, go ahead. What are you talking about?

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Speaker 2: What's he talking about? I've said this publicly.

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Speaker 2: And it's rich coming from him because he couldn't beat

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Speaker 7: Really, if you look at his record, I mean, I

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Speaker 1: great sport. It's the second highest rated sport, period. Embrace it.

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Speaker 11: No, this the phone digs thing like, how do you

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Speaker 2: Right now, what's that?

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Speaker 4: We're gonna take our time. Maybe Stefans is a really

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Speaker 2: Maybe he is patience my friend, So what's on your

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Speaker 11: Come out. He'll come out of jail. But he needs

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Speaker 11: he's gonna be. But he's a great player now for

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Speaker 11: all the stupid things he just did, and mindset and

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Speaker 11: You don't hit a woman. You don't do any of

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Speaker 2: Well, you know, let me let me clean us up

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Speaker 1: It's like, are you a defending Stefan Digs? No, No, no,

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Speaker 1: I'm just saying we live in a society where we

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Speaker 1: usually just ride away say well, there's a felony charge

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Speaker 1: of strangulation and a misdemeanor charge for an alleged assult. Guilty.

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Speaker 1: Guilty guilty, throw them under the jail. We don't know.

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Speaker 1: There was a motion hearing that took place yesterday and

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Speaker 1: the arraignment is set for January twenty thirty, which, by

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Speaker 1: the way, is the Friday before the AFC Championship Game.

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Speaker 1: So I just I didn't mean to cut you off.

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Speaker 1: Will be bye, Blair. I just think that there's a

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Speaker 1: long way to go. The Stefan Digg's side is denying

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Speaker 1: the allegation. Quote they're unsubstantiated, uncorroborated, and were never investigated

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Speaker 1: because they did not occur. The timing and motivation, rights

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Speaker 1: David Meyer, the attorney for Stefan Diggs, the timing and

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Speaker 1: motivation for making this allegation is crystal clear. They are

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Speaker 1: the direct result of an employee employer financial dispute that

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Speaker 1: was not resolved to the employer's employee satisfaction. STEFAR looks

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Speaker 1: forward to establishing the truth in a court of law.

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Speaker 1: So the team had a statement that said, and I

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Speaker 1: quote we support STAFUND. We will continue to gather information

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Speaker 1: and will cooperate fully with the appropriate authorities and the

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Speaker 1: NFL is necessary out of respect for all parties involved,

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Speaker 1: and given that this is an ongoing legal matter, we

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Speaker 1: will have no further comment at this time. The NFL

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Speaker 1: is added their aware of the matter and has been

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Speaker 1: in contact with the Patriots. So don't learning. Did I

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Speaker 1: do a good job of cleaning it up?

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Speaker 2: Whenever? It will be by Cot just one.

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Speaker 4: There should be no legal issues now, thank you none.

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Speaker 1: Hey, Scott Shapiro, Bud, I'm looking out for us, all right,

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Speaker 1: I'm looking out for Fox Sports Radio.

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Speaker 2: All right? What do you say we make this the

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Speaker 2: last call of the night? Coop you good with that? Loreni,

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Speaker 2: You're good with that? Sorry? All right?

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Speaker 1: How fitting is it that it is Marcel that gets

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Speaker 1: the last word tonight on this show and the last

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Speaker 1: word on the Ben Malors Show, at least for the

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Speaker 1: Central and Eastern time zones in twenty twenty five?

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Speaker 2: What's going on? Marcel? Welcome to the show.

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Speaker 9: All good morning, Chris, you're filling in for mister Ben Mahler,

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Speaker 9: Loreena and Coopy Loop. Happy New Year's Eve so both

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Speaker 9: of the three of you, is a matter of fact,

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Speaker 9: thank you, and Happy New Year's Eve to all of you.

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Speaker 9: Can't wait for twenty twenty six. I love to have

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Speaker 9: the Caller of the Year still four times and looking

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Speaker 9: forward for five and the Benny Awards mom next year.

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Speaker 9: And I'm so excited. You're so excited.

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Speaker 2: About it, Chris, I'm excited about it.

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Speaker 9: Oh yes, I hope you all vote for me in

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Speaker 9: this next year's Beny Awards, picking down Mike the idiot

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Speaker 9: con Mike in New Hampshire, we'll be Pie Blair and

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Speaker 9: of course, last, without least all the transgender long we

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Speaker 9: don't say transgender on radio because Boston blind. As a

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Speaker 9: matter of fact, those are four New England villains of mine.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, Marsa, you're calling them all out tonight, All right,

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Speaker 1: well go ahead, don't let me stop you.

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Speaker 9: Oh yes, the last picks. We saw the food picks

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Speaker 9: and now the TV picks. This is the last Teavy

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Speaker 9: picks of twenty twenty five. I know, I know, I know,

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Speaker 9: I know, I know. My friends, we'll do some more

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Speaker 9: picks for you in twenty twenty six from yours truly.

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Speaker 9: So it's a new dawn and it's a new day.

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Speaker 9: So Mala militia, let's get into it. And we've got

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Speaker 9: the phone calls are playing along with me. So let's

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Speaker 9: see what line'es one through three going to be taking place,

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Speaker 9: and Coopy Loop is going to be standing by. If not, Chris,

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Speaker 9: Willina and Coopie Loop will play along with me.

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Speaker 2: I don't know.

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Speaker 1: I tried to shut the calls down, Marcel, I was

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Speaker 1: giving you the last words. So I think we're playing

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Speaker 1: along here.

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Speaker 2: Okay? Is that fine?

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Speaker 9: Oh? Absolutely?

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Speaker 2: Okay?

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Speaker 9: The phone calls pass and straight to the personalities of

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Speaker 9: overnight radio. Chris, you're a filly in for ban Let's go.

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Speaker 2: Okay. I don't know the rules of the game.

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Speaker 4: You guess what he watched on.

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Speaker 1: TV last night. Oh, this is not eating anymore? Okay,

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Speaker 1: Food Picks was the other day. Oh okay, so this

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Speaker 1: is what you watched. What you watched on TV the

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Speaker 1: USC TCU Bowl game.

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Speaker 9: Oh this is not the mixed matches all industry, but

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Speaker 9: thank you for that, Chris. Do you say, speaking of USC,

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Speaker 9: you love USC, aren't you me?

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Speaker 2: I mean no, I don't. I think they're soft all.

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Speaker 9: Oh wow, what a shame for the Trojans instead, how

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Speaker 9: lost it is? But not a mixed match. It is

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Speaker 9: a La reno. This is the last TV Picks of

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Speaker 9: the year, so go right ahead.

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Speaker 6: Oh it's so hard since it's since it's the last

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Speaker 6: one of the year, we're gonna go with you watched

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Speaker 6: the final three episodes of Stranger Things.

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Speaker 9: Oh good, guess Stranger Jings on Netflix Stranger Things, Stranger Things.

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Speaker 2: Yes, yes, I don't think he was just like the eighties.

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Speaker 4: They do look like the eighties. Yes, oh, well done.

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Speaker 9: Well'll believe it or not, my friend, not a mixed match.

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Speaker 9: It is Fiskey correct and Coopley looked the last TV

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Speaker 9: pits of twenty twenty five. Go right ahead, buddy, I

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Speaker 9: think you.

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Speaker 2: Were watching Hit and Run, which is episode four of

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Speaker 2: season six of Better.

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Speaker 9: Call Saul Ooh ooh, Better Call Us on HBO Max.

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Speaker 2: It's on Netflix.

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Speaker 9: All the same on Netflix with you and Lorena. Yes,

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Speaker 9: oh wow, what a ball, what a shame? And this

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Speaker 9: is not a mixed match.

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Speaker 4: Okay, given to your general Sorry big answer.

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Speaker 9: Here my last TV picks of twenty twenty five. It's

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Speaker 9: the NBA on NBC. What that?

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Speaker 2: Wow wow.

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Speaker 9: And a lot of surprise. I hope you all having

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Speaker 9: a great new year. For more my calls in twenty

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Speaker 9: twenty six, be back on Friday to start the new one.

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Speaker 9: I promise you that. And Coop your Coop's coop on entertainment,

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Speaker 9: the announce the one from yours truly coming from you

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Speaker 9: see you?

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Speaker 2: Then thank you Marcel. We'll talk to you then.

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Speaker 9: Yeah.

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Speaker 1: Up on Friday, there's a well are you guys off?

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Speaker 1: Are you guys getting a couple of days off? Off?

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Speaker 2: I'll be for you vote. I will have tonight like

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Speaker 2: you know, gotcha New Year's Day?

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Speaker 4: I will not I will be here, but.

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Speaker 8: I will be.

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Speaker 2: I will be back for Friday and coop scoop on entertainment.

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Speaker 2: Do you know I got?

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Speaker 1: I gotta say I every single time I don't get

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Speaker 1: to fill in for Ben as much as I will,

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Speaker 1: it never takes any time off. But when I get

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Speaker 1: to I forget the unabashed brilliance of Marcell's phone calls,

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Speaker 1: because there is only a handful of people on the

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Speaker 1: planet who could turn either a what they ate or

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Speaker 1: what they watched on TV into a full radio segment.

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Speaker 1: But here's Marcel. I apologize for getting confused. I've only

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Speaker 1: done the food segment and what he ate? All right,

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Speaker 1: That's all I've ever done with Marcel, So the TV

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Speaker 1: kind of threw me off a little bit.

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Speaker 2: Coop, that's on me.

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Speaker 4: Okay, look at the spread in your wings.

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Speaker 2: Fill in. You know, I'm learning a little bit. I

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Speaker 2: do appreciate too.

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Speaker 1: How we say all right, we'll take the last phone call,

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Speaker 1: and he's trying to get more phone calls, and what

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Speaker 1: are you doing, Marcel, I'm giving you the last word

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Speaker 1: on the show. I wasn't quite expecting you to say,

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Speaker 1: all right, let's go to the phones. I'll be better

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Speaker 1: prepared next time. Thanks for all the calls tonight, man,

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Speaker 1: is yours M A L L E R. For those

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Speaker 1: of you that have problems with that spelling side of things.

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Speaker 1: I had a couple more quick tweets that I wanted

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Speaker 1: to get to, and I got my non talked about

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Speaker 1: stories of twenty twenty five that we do have to

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Speaker 1: talk about, though, I will say there are some of

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Speaker 1: you that are already starting to look ahead, like Eddie

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Speaker 1: the nature.

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Speaker 2: Boy's been on fire tonight, he writes.

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Speaker 1: Prediction, we will look back at twenty twenty five when

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Speaker 1: everyone thought the Lakers were ascending and the Clippers were

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Speaker 1: a dumpster fire, only to find out the opposite ended

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Speaker 1: up being true. Boy, that would take quite a rally

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Speaker 1: from the Los Angeles Clippers. But again, knowing this, I've

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Speaker 1: been threatened earlier to not talk too terribly much about

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Speaker 1: the NBA.

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Speaker 2: The Lakers look awful.

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Speaker 1: They look terrible, and again I know that huh changed,

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Speaker 1: I know what do what happened? But they went from

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Speaker 1: being a team that was kind of up there being

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Speaker 1: talked about with maybe competing with OKC. We'll see what

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Speaker 1: the Jokic Nicole Yokich injury. It looks like Spurs look

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Speaker 1: really good this year. But now now all of a sudden,

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Speaker 1: you're looking at a team that I don't know, can't

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Speaker 1: seem to get out of its own way. They've lost

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Speaker 1: four of their last five games. It's the NBA, so

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Speaker 1: it's a long season, so I'm not going to freak

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Speaker 1: out too terribly much.

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Speaker 2: But we'll see.

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Speaker 1: They got back to back games coming up on Friday

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Speaker 1: and against Memphis. Memphis, I mean that should get you

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Speaker 1: back on track. They've struggled a bit this year, so

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Speaker 1: we'll see. We'll see if maybe the Lakers can't get

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Speaker 1: things right. I will say I do appreciate that JJ

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Speaker 1: But suddenly you look at the Clippers and they're starting

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Speaker 1: to put some things together. They've won five straight games,

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Speaker 1: So maybe nature Boy, you're right, Maybe you're right. I

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Speaker 1: who said chin up to all the Raiders fans. After all,

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Speaker 1: nobody thought the Patriots would be where they are today,

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Speaker 1: one strangler away from the playoffs, allegedly, allegedly, Eddie allegedly.

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Speaker 1: All right, when we come back, I have the top

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Speaker 1: non talked about stories of twenty twenty five, the things

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Speaker 1: Sitting here looking at all this audio I had queued up.

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Speaker 1: We never got to Kirby Smart, RPTE Golding, We never

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Speaker 1: heard from Kurt Signetti. We didn't hear from Ryan Fowler.

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Speaker 1: I had some good stuff on coaching searches, never got there.

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Speaker 1: But that's fine because I like hanging with you guys

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Speaker 1: and taking your calls. Two quick tweets before we get

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Speaker 1: out of here. Craig followed up on his college football

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Speaker 1: playoff tweet, writing, I know college football is not going

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Speaker 1: to drop teams from the playoffs. Too much money involved,

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Speaker 1: along with all the bowl games rewarding four to five

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Speaker 1: and six win teams after this iteration of twelve, by

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Speaker 1: twenty thirty, it'll probably be thirty two teams. So dumb,

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Speaker 1: So three and four lost teams are going to be

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Speaker 1: in And Lefty, who's been on fire tonight, Lefty rights.

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Speaker 1: The news on Stefan dis is all messed up. I've

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Speaker 1: read from news websites that he's been charged with a felony. Well,

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Speaker 1: if that was true, wouldn't he be in jail. He's

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Speaker 1: not in jail. The lawyer for the chef obviously has

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Speaker 1: a media savvy lawyer. Has anyone heard from Gloria Alredy.

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Speaker 1: Here's just kind of become my go to take whenever

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Speaker 1: it comes to every legal issue. Let the process play out.

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Speaker 1: We don't have to be knee jerky in first like

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Speaker 1: life lesson. No one wants to hear that. It's like,

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Speaker 1: by god, I want to know now is he playing?

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Speaker 1: Is he gonna play? Is gonna be okay for the playoffs.

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Speaker 1: But let the Stefon big situation play out. He doesn't

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Speaker 1: even even have a hearing until what the Friday before

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Speaker 1: the AFC Championship game, So the Patriots season could be

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Speaker 1: done by that point, or it becomes a major story

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Speaker 1: by the time we get to that moment in the season.

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Speaker 1: Patriots have said they're standing behind him. NFL has no

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Speaker 1: comment now. Twenty twenty five was a wild year. Twenty

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Speaker 1: twenty five was a wild year. Dodgers went back to back,

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Speaker 1: Eagles won the Super Bowl. You had a college football

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Speaker 1: national champion in Ohio State who might be able to

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Speaker 1: repeat this year. It's a fun year. NBA title from

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Speaker 1: my Oklahoma City thunder who looked like they're gonna win

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Speaker 1: it again and no one's gonna stop him.

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Speaker 2: Maybe ever.

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Speaker 1: But I think what continues to be the wildest stories

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Speaker 1: in sports come to us from the gambling world. Let's

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Speaker 1: go back a little bit, give you a little perspective.

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Speaker 1: Twenty twenty three, we had NFL players suspended, You had

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Speaker 1: an iwhen Iowa state controversy. You had the Shohei Otani

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Speaker 1: controversy with his interpreter. Yeah, John Tay Porter, who was

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Speaker 1: permanently banned from the NBA after withdrawing early from games

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Speaker 1: to get out from under a gambling debt so he

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Speaker 1: can hit us under. There's FBI involvement in games that

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Speaker 1: grew and grew and grew. But in twenty twenty five,

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Speaker 1: that trend has not slowed down. And I tipped my

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Speaker 1: cap to those areas that have really done a good

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Speaker 1: job of making sure that you're getting things right. You know,

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Speaker 1: we're not having people try to fudge the system. I

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Speaker 1: don't know if we've had a more wild story than

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Speaker 1: following the Terry Rosier, Chauncey Billups, Damon Jones arrests, conspiracy

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Speaker 1: to commit wire fraud and money laundring that came win

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Speaker 1: Rosier scary Terry was already under investigation by the NBA

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Speaker 1: in February. We weren't done there. You had the Cleveland

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Speaker 1: Guardians pitcher pittures Emanuel Class and Luis Ortiz, who were

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Speaker 1: placed on leave by Major League Baseball over the summer

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Speaker 1: because they threw specific pitches in certain games to profit

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Speaker 1: from illegal wagers on whether or not there would be

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Speaker 1: first pitch strikes.

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Speaker 2: We also had an in It's I.

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Speaker 1: Guess you could say an instance in February where umpire

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Speaker 1: Pat Hoberg was fired for sharing legal sports gambling accounts

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Speaker 1: with a friend who bet on baseball games, and he

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Speaker 1: intentionally deleted emails and messages that were perting it to

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Speaker 1: the league's investigation. Oh and let's not forget the FBI

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Speaker 1: also busted an illegal sports betting ring that was allegedly

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Speaker 1: operated by a member of the what is it the

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Speaker 1: Lucisi crime family New Jersey, in which two of the

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Speaker 1: fourteen arrested were former NCAA wrestlers who were charged with

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Speaker 1: racketeering in the first degree. Oh, that's not it. In September,

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Speaker 1: we had three D one basketball players that were banned

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Speaker 1: from the NCAA for betting on their own games. You

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Speaker 1: want to find the juiciest stories of twenty twenty five,

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Speaker 1: you don't have to look in the in the NBA column,

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Speaker 1: or in the college football column, or in the baseball column.

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Speaker 1: You look right in the gambling world, where we continue

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Speaker 1: to try to get an edge. And kudos to those

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Speaker 1: who are holding everyone accountable. All right, Lorena, have a

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Speaker 1: great New Year's Eve celebration. Coop always appreciated. Thanks to

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Speaker 1: everyone who checked in on the phones. And on X Tonight,

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Speaker 1: stick Around, two pros and a cup of Joe is

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Speaker 1: coming up next. Have a great New Year's, don't drink

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Speaker 1: and drive, and we'll see you in twenty twenty six

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Speaker 1: on Fox Sports Radio