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Speaker 1: And we begin talking Bay's ball. Yeah that's cool, Yeah,

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Speaker 1: all right, this tucks some baseball here, Dynamo. Well, it

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Speaker 1: was supposed to be our lead this hour, coming from

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Speaker 1: local start, really more like five thirty sunshine, nice skies.

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Speaker 1: Marlin's man, my buddy was there sitting behind home plate.

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Speaker 1: Friend of the show, senior member of the celebrity division

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Speaker 1: of the Malin Militia, the great Marlins Man who was

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Speaker 1: sending me photos of him and the Giants mascot. The

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Speaker 1: game was that boring, so you had to hear the

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Speaker 1: Yankees and the Giants. They raised the curtain on the

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Speaker 1: twenty twenty six regular season to find out who is

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Speaker 1: going to finish second to the Dodgers. This year, we

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Speaker 1: are two hundred and twelve days away from Game number

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Speaker 1: one of the World Series. Two hundred and twelve days

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Speaker 1: away from the World Series. Now, were you watching this game?

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Speaker 1: It was on It was on Netflix. Yeah, I was

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Speaker 1: looking for a true crime documentary and I stumbled into

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Speaker 1: a baseball game. So perhaps you did not watch. Well.

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Speaker 1: Aaron Judge went out there and saw Wing Barra. So

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Speaker 1: Wing Barra, swing Batra, swing Barra. Yeah, he was hitless,

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Speaker 1: and someone named Jose Caballero. That's a good name, Jose

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Speaker 1: Jose Caballero drove in the go ahead run with an

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Speaker 1: RBA single in the second inning. And that was at

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Speaker 1: five run second inning. The Yankees did not just beat

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Speaker 1: the Giants. They vaporized the Giants seven to nothing in

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Speaker 1: the MLB lid Lifter. Now, as you know, we normally

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Speaker 1: save this for the postseason or gung ho, it's opening

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Speaker 1: full thing's gonna happen on Thursday. So fine, but we

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Speaker 1: believe in a mantra. There's a few mantras we have

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Speaker 1: better stories in the losing locker room. They say, well,

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Speaker 1: it's one of one hundred and sixty two. And while

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Speaker 1: the hometown team here because they went out and hired

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Speaker 1: their handpicked skipper from the Southeastern Conference, Tony Vytello, the manager,

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Speaker 1: making his debut in the big leagues, his much bally

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Speaker 1: I know Danny and Nashville, who's now in Miami, and

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Speaker 1: So the question, how would you describe Tony Vytello's first

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Speaker 1: Tony Vitello, the manager, welcome to the big leagues. Now

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Speaker 1: you only get I was told this years ago, you

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Speaker 1: What the Giants did? His team after a month and

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Speaker 1: to focus on CC Sabathia. So, Sabathia, this is great.

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Speaker 1: So he pre preemptively Sabathia defended Aaron Judge prior to

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Speaker 1: And so Sabbathia compared Aaron Judge to former Bronx bomber

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Speaker 1: Whip, it's cool. Sabathia got you know what he's got.

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Speaker 1: He's got those Yankee ambassador pom poms, and so he's

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Speaker 1: And Aaron Judge is a guy who you look at

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Speaker 1: the biggest stage, World Series. Some of you guys pumping

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Speaker 1: he's he's the goofy guy. He's the yash shucks pitch

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Speaker 1: How painful. Now. The boys over there at Netflix chatted

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Speaker 1: that was the fifth inning, and the mission of Baseball said,

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Speaker 1: just a storybook story. Is there anything more heartwarming than

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Speaker 1: the Dodgers finding a fresh way to pick your pocket?

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Speaker 1: It's so good. They have officially turned over these last

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Speaker 1: couple of years Blue Heaven on Earth into a high

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Speaker 1: end boutique. That's what it is. And I'm just asking

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Speaker 1: an innocent question. How many twenty dollars medellos or twenty

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Speaker 1: five dollars medellos does it take to pay for this,

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Speaker 1: that and the other thing? And I said, no, this

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Speaker 1: is just it's not gonna cost the fans any money. Okay,

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Speaker 1: it's the Japanese clothing company logo is now all over

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Speaker 1: Dodger Stadium because they paid a lot of money for it.

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Speaker 1: I get it. And for the fans, though, the Dodgers

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Speaker 1: continue to have this masterclass in its mark up. Madness

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Speaker 1: is what it is. The stadium is already the most

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Speaker 1: expensive experience in the big leagues. I love that we

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Speaker 1: are in the ear. It's the experience it's all about

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Speaker 1: the experience. A place where a family of four needs

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Speaker 1: a second mortgage just to park the car, not even

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Speaker 1: get into the game. And now we get the privilege

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Speaker 1: of sitting at Unique Low Field at Dodger Stadium. Now

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Speaker 1: does the name change come with a discount, Because the

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Speaker 1: Dodgers in this stateium, they're like, hey, listen, this is great.

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Speaker 1: This is going to help out the Dodger fan and

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Speaker 1: the LA community. Okay, So does that mean then that

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Speaker 1: they're going to discount the exploitative ticket prices that they've

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Speaker 1: been know So this is the old lose lose wrapped

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Speaker 1: in a very expensive sweater. As for Unique Low, I

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Speaker 1: would say that I don't know what they're thinking either.

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Speaker 1: They've essentially dropped their marketing budget into a bonfire somewhere

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Speaker 1: in Santa Monica. And I don't know anyone's gonna call

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Speaker 1: it Unique Low Field at Dodger Stadium. It's just Dodger Stadium.

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Speaker 1: That's it, period stop. And what do I know. I

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Speaker 1: just see the Overnight show. But it seems rather frivolous

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Speaker 1: spending for the alleged name recognition. So it's it's kind

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Speaker 1: of like buying naming rights and saying, Hey, I'm going

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Speaker 1: to sell the naming rights to the Pacific Ocean. Well no,

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Speaker 1: it's already been named the Pacific Ocean. But no, I'm

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Speaker 1: going to sell you naming rights. What do I get

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Speaker 1: for that? Well, I eat a lot of salt and

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Speaker 1: we get a lot of money. We get a lot

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Speaker 1: of money. And at the end of the day, it's

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Speaker 1: just water. That's all. That's all it is. And but

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Speaker 1: I'm getting old because I remember when I started going

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Speaker 1: to the dog to Dodger Stadium back in the day.

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Speaker 1: O'Malley still owned the team and they had one advertisement

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Speaker 1: in Dodger Stadium. As I recall, one prominent advertisement, it

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Speaker 1: was the seventy six ball that they had the seventy

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Speaker 1: six logo, which was the reason the seats were orange

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Speaker 1: at Dodger Stadium was because of that. But anyway, all right,

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Speaker 1: final point to Chicago we go where your femi's all

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Speaker 1: fired up, trees excited. I don't know about phase, but

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Speaker 1: the boys are excited, hear the Cubbies. Are the Cubs

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Speaker 1: legit or are they not legit? Well, third basement Alex

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Speaker 1: Bregman set the bar high for the Chicago Cubs. He

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Speaker 1: gave a quote recently here before opening Day saying for

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Speaker 1: the season to be a success, we have to win

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Speaker 1: the whole thing, we being the Cubbies. It is a

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Speaker 1: quote from Alex Bregman. Now, the question is Alex Bregman

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Speaker 1: setting the Cubs up for failure to say it's World

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Speaker 1: Series or bust? So I thought about it. I am

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Speaker 1: ambivalent on this one. On an iPad tablet, that should

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Speaker 1: be the mission statement. Like you look at the tablet,

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Speaker 1: that should be the mission statement. Absolutely, you don't enter

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Speaker 1: the season aiming for a participation trophy and a pad

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Speaker 1: on the back. It's not like summer camp. It's got

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Speaker 1: to play meaningful games when it's cold outside in October,

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Speaker 1: and that's it. However, this is the part where the

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Speaker 1: malor alarm bells start going off, just like that, the

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Speaker 1: moment Bregman walks walked into Wrigleyville, the moment he walked

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Speaker 1: into Riggyville, he brought luggage. And I'm not talking about

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Speaker 1: Lui Vauton. I'm talking about the haunted suitcase from the

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Speaker 1: cheating astros at the trash Cad Symphony. It still echoes.

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Speaker 1: That's not just baggage. That is radioactive material. Is what

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Speaker 1: that is. And so you got Bregman who's now with

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Speaker 1: the Cubs, with Jose Alboubey, Carlos core it's a cheetah.

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Speaker 1: He's back with the cheaters, George Springer who was sent

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Speaker 1: out of the country to Toronto. They have spread out

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Speaker 1: some of them. Korea played for the Twins and then

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Speaker 1: came back to the cheaters. Altuba is the only one

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Speaker 1: that stayed for the full run in Houston. But these

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Speaker 1: guys who are still playing from the twenty seventeen a holes,

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Speaker 1: It's like a traveling cover band, is what it is,

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Speaker 1: called the stink bombs. The real fans remember what happened

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Speaker 1: and cannot unsee the cheating Astros residue permanent marker on

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Speaker 1: your baseball soul. And who handed out what? Rob Manford

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Speaker 1: handed out? What no punishment? Right step right up, Rob

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Speaker 1: man Fraud, the spineless, gutless commissioner Major League Baseball who

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Speaker 1: treated the World Series scandal like it was a parking

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Speaker 1: ticket or a jaywalking ticket. So yeah, when Bregman says

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Speaker 1: World Series or bust, it sounds noble. Yet when you've

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Speaker 1: got that kind of baseball karma, dining with the devil

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Speaker 1: swirling around like a tornado of doom. It's less of

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Speaker 1: a goal for the Cubbies and more of like a

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Speaker 1: countdown to combustion. It's impossible, impossible for us to pull

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Speaker 1: for any team that has a cheating a hole on it.

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Speaker 1: Cannot happen, will not happen. Sorry, not sorry. So the

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Speaker 1: Cubs went from lovable losers to just losers with Alex

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Speaker 1: Bregman adding Bregman to the team, and he was a

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Speaker 1: diminishing asset with the Red Sox that we're not supposed

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Speaker 1: to talk about that part. He did not play very

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Speaker 1: well in the second half of the baseball season in

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Speaker 1: twenty twenty five.

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Speaker 2: For what it's worth, be sure to catch live editions

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Speaker 2: of The Ben Meller Show weekdays at two am Eastern

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Speaker 2: eleven pm Pacific.

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Speaker 1: Here we go, Here we go, Here we go, Here

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Speaker 1: we go, Here we go. It smaller. How about that

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Speaker 1: to the third degree?

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Speaker 2: This is one big event.

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Speaker 1: Gets rail cool.

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Speaker 5: Earlier this week, Victor webbin Yama gave reporters three reasons

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Speaker 5: why he should be NBA MVP. They were that fifty

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Speaker 5: percent of the game is defense, their record against the Thunder,

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Speaker 5: and his overall impact on offense.

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Speaker 4: Ben will Wemby win MVP.

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Speaker 1: Well, he will win many MVPs in his career. He

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Speaker 1: will not win the MVP this year, although there's only

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Speaker 1: a few games to go in the NBA seasons. I

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Speaker 1: think Shade jogis Alexander A Jalen Brown, Wemby Aaroll a

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Speaker 1: neck and neck and know Lucas getting some late love here,

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Speaker 1: but he will now he's not gonna win it this year. Next.

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Speaker 5: Speaking of winning MVP, Cad Cunningham's collapse lung will likely

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Speaker 5: cause him to fall short of the newly required sixty

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Speaker 5: five game mark to be eligible for season awards. This

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Speaker 5: has caused the NBA Players Association to demand that the

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Speaker 5: league either abolishes or reforms the rule.

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Speaker 4: Ben, do you think the league will get rid of

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Speaker 4: the requirement?

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Speaker 1: No, they shouldn't get rid of it the players. If

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Speaker 1: you can't play sixty five games, you should not be

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Speaker 1: the MVP. This is not that hard. Everyone's having a

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Speaker 1: hiss f You're a bunch of losers. Okay, how about

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Speaker 1: you show up to work at Morons next.

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Speaker 5: It's been twenty years since Arnie Marino decided that the

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Speaker 5: team would be known as the Los Angeles Angels rather

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Speaker 5: than Anaheim Angels his marketing move. Yeah, an assemblyman has

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Speaker 5: an introduced legislation that could require any sale or new

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Speaker 5: lease of stadium property to be conditioned upon the team

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Speaker 5: reverting back to the Anaheim Angels name.

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Speaker 4: If anything, it'll happen.

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Speaker 1: I don't know how that legally is allowed, Like, I

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Speaker 1: don't think that's legally allowed. Or they should be called

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Speaker 1: like the Orange County Angels or something like the OC

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Speaker 1: Angels or something like that.

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Speaker 2: I don't know.

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Speaker 1: That's stupid.

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Speaker 4: How do we do, Koblo, you pass this decision?

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Speaker 1: That is they went put it on the bar on

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Speaker 1: Chicken Dida.

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Speaker 2: listen live. It's now time for time more Harry.

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Speaker 1: I mean, wait, ask that Twitter said?

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Speaker 2: Is your questions on Twitter?

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Speaker 1: Now?

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Speaker 2: Man?

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Speaker 1: Oh, we go, it's not ever asked. Ben, your questions

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Speaker 1: are answered for the rest of the hour. For the

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Speaker 1: rest of the hour, and it's Ben and Friends, And

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Speaker 1: now we go to the reading of the questions and

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Speaker 1: the coop a loop coop.

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Speaker 5: All right, We're gonna start off with a question from

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Speaker 5: Lucky Tony. He wants to know if you had to

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Speaker 5: per like a lion every time you were happy, or

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Speaker 5: roar like a lion every time you were mad, and

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Speaker 5: you don't get to choose, it's controlled by your emotions,

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Speaker 5: which would you pick?

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Speaker 1: I would get? I guess I would go per because

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Speaker 1: I don't I'm not that over the top happy that much,

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Speaker 1: so I would I would think that would be less annoying.

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Speaker 1: You feel me on that, you know what I'm saying, Like,

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Speaker 1: I wouldn't. I can't control it, but you know, if

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Speaker 1: you really I'm like really really happy, not you know, occasionally,

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Speaker 1: not all that often, So I would do that because

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Speaker 1: it wouldn't happen that open. What about you, Lorena?

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Speaker 6: I already per all the time, So I'm just gonna.

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Speaker 1: Go with this now, Lorena, Anthony's listening in Louisiana.

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Speaker 4: Oh he's my cousin.

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Speaker 1: Come on, cuz, what are you doing? Hall? Lorena? What

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Speaker 1: about your coop?

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Speaker 5: I would pick that one as well. I feel like,

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Speaker 5: you know, women would find it endearing. But like, if

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Speaker 5: you're roaring all the time when you're angry, it's you know,

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Speaker 5: who's gonna want to be around you.

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Speaker 4: It's scary if you get.

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Speaker 1: Some major street cred, if you could pull that off right,

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Speaker 1: Like you imagine you go anywhere and somebody kind of

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Speaker 1: scares you and you get angry and you start roaring

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Speaker 1: like a line. All right, what's next? Here we go,

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Speaker 1: what's next? It's ask Ben. Your questions are answers for

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Speaker 1: our rest of the hour.

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Speaker 5: This is a question from Ferg Dog. He wants to

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Speaker 5: know does let us add anything to a hamburger?

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Speaker 1: Yes? And here's why, Ferg Dog. It gives you the

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Speaker 1: illusion that you're eating something healthy when you're really not.

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Speaker 1: It doesn't add anything to the taste. Like I do

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Speaker 1: try to find. I eat a lot of like tacos,

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Speaker 1: and I'll put lettuce on them because it makes me

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Speaker 1: feel like, well, it's not that unhealthy. I'm eating lettuce.

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Speaker 1: You know the same thing with burgers. Put a little

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Speaker 1: lettuce on there. I don't necessarily like it, but it's like, hey,

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Speaker 1: you know, I'm healthy. I'm eating lettuce, leafy greens. What

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Speaker 1: about you, Lorraine up?

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Speaker 6: Yeah, the more veggies the better. It makes it more

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Speaker 6: into a salad. You know what I'm saying. What if

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Speaker 6: you got rid of the bun altogether and you just

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Speaker 6: did protein style.

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Speaker 4: It's so good. It's refreshing.

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Speaker 1: Stop stop, don't get crazy. I also tell you I

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Speaker 1: do love throwing in like I throw in the beef

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Speaker 1: I make, I put the onion and the bell pepper,

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Speaker 1: little cheakcoat, little cheek coat. You get the veggies, but

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Speaker 1: you don't really taste them that much off there too.

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Speaker 5: It adds texture. That's what it's there for. Really a

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Speaker 5: little bit of a little bit of crunch.

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Speaker 1: It depends how fresh the lettuce is.

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Speaker 4: But yeah, true, true, All.

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Speaker 1: Right, what is next year? It's ask Ben And this

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Speaker 1: is a voted category for the Benny, So remember that

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Speaker 1: this is a voted category for the Benny.

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Speaker 4: The King Rory would like to know have you ever

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Speaker 4: had an ingrown toenail?

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Speaker 1: Yes? Yes, I have had a lot of toe issues

647
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Speaker 1: over the years. For a long time, I wore shoes

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Speaker 1: that were not the proper size and that created some

649
00:37:16,760 --> 00:37:20,800
Speaker 1: really weird looking toes. I have had ingrown toenails and

650
00:37:21,000 --> 00:37:26,160
Speaker 1: it is an absolute bach. My god, what a nightmare.

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Speaker 1: Yeah what about you, Lorena? I had that?

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Speaker 5: No, I have not.

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Speaker 6: My daughter, though, suffers from her one of her big toes.

654
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Speaker 6: It just one nail goes into the side so much.

655
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Speaker 6: But I enjoy the whole process of like cutting it out,

656
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Speaker 6: you know, pulling out the ground.

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Speaker 1: That's kind of sick.

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Speaker 6: You like soak the foot in hot water first so

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Speaker 6: that the skin around the toe is nice and soft,

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Speaker 6: and then you do surgery.

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Speaker 4: Pretty much, it's super fun.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, I don't think so, you know, have fun, that

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00:37:53,480 --> 00:37:55,960
Speaker 1: is what about you? Cooperlutle.

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Speaker 5: Yes, I had it so bad in high school that

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Speaker 5: I had to have like a little surgical a sizure.

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Speaker 1: Yep.

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Speaker 4: You can't let it get that bad.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, it.

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Speaker 4: Sucks. But I also didn't have to participate in pee

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Speaker 4: because it was that bad.

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Speaker 3: Oh.

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Speaker 1: Well, I've had off and on I've had. This is

673
00:38:11,120 --> 00:38:13,040
Speaker 1: so hilarious because I am like the last person you

674
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Speaker 1: would think that have this. It's called like runner's toe

675
00:38:16,239 --> 00:38:18,320
Speaker 1: or something like that, where because I go on the

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Speaker 1: treadmill a lot and your toe will turn black your

677
00:38:20,840 --> 00:38:25,319
Speaker 1: TONI wow stop, no, no, yeah, and you think, oh

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Speaker 1: my god, but it's doesn't really hurt, it's just it's weird.

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Speaker 6: So your toe hasn't fallen off.

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Speaker 1: Oh I've had some tonios fall off with that. Yeah

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Speaker 1: in Midyeah, all right, what's next year, Let's ask Ben

682
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Speaker 1: your questions are answers.

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Speaker 5: Polly b says, plumbers recommend draining your hot water heater

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00:38:43,719 --> 00:38:45,839
Speaker 5: once a year to remove sediment and prolong the life

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Speaker 5: of the water heater.

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Speaker 4: Have you ever had Have you ever had that done?

687
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Speaker 1: No? No? What I do is I use the water

688
00:38:52,560 --> 00:38:55,200
Speaker 1: heater until it stops getting hot water, and then I

689
00:38:55,280 --> 00:38:56,920
Speaker 1: call someone to put a new water heater in.

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Speaker 2: That's what I do.

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Speaker 1: What about you, Lorena?

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Speaker 6: No man, same thing.

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Speaker 4: When the water stops coming out hot, you just buy

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Speaker 4: a new one.

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00:39:04,880 --> 00:39:05,360
Speaker 1: Exactly.

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Speaker 6: Does that?

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Speaker 1: Yeah?

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Speaker 5: I've never done that, but mine mine. I use it

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00:39:09,280 --> 00:39:12,840
Speaker 5: until it like flooded the garage.

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Speaker 1: And I am worried about that. That does concern me

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Speaker 1: quite a bit.

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Speaker 4: It happens. Yeah, yeah, it was not final.

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00:39:20,960 --> 00:39:21,160
Speaker 3: I know.

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00:39:21,239 --> 00:39:23,520
Speaker 1: I'm hoping the water will just not get warm and

705
00:39:23,560 --> 00:39:25,960
Speaker 1: then then I'll know it's time to replace it, rather

706
00:39:26,080 --> 00:39:29,239
Speaker 1: than the thing exploding. What's the next is ask Ben?

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00:39:29,320 --> 00:39:31,279
Speaker 1: Your questions are answered, so the rest of the hour.

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Speaker 1: You like this, we do it every week if you

709
00:39:32,800 --> 00:39:35,200
Speaker 1: really like it. There's a ripoff version on Sunday called

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00:39:35,239 --> 00:39:37,879
Speaker 1: the Mailbag. On the Fifth Hour podcast What's Next? Cool?

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Speaker 4: Uh Andy and Lionel lakes Hi.

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Speaker 5: Andy wants to know, when it comes to your car SUV,

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Speaker 5: do you prefer foreign or domestic?

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Speaker 1: Yeah, I'd rather have American, but I don't. I don't

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Speaker 1: really at this point. I know, I just want something

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Speaker 1: that's somewhat affordable and gets good gas milets. That's all

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Speaker 1: I care about it at this point. What about you? Lorraina?

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Speaker 6: Oh is a hard one because born and raised in

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Speaker 6: a FORID factory. But I do love my Toyota and

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Speaker 6: I've seen some really good durable Hondas, so I got

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Speaker 6: to give it to the foreign.

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Speaker 1: Yeah. We have a couple of you, me and the wife.

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Speaker 1: So we have one American car and one foreign car,

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Speaker 1: and you know it's whatever. We pretty much ride the

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Speaker 1: cars into the ground is what we do.

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Speaker 4: So same Ben, Same two.

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Speaker 1: Hundred thousand miles, no problem. What's next? Coop? What do

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Speaker 1: we got? Rob?

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Speaker 4: Do you want to answer that foreign? Foreign?

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00:40:27,719 --> 00:40:28,319
Speaker 1: For me? For him?

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Speaker 5: Yeah?

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Speaker 1: Rob?

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Speaker 5: The goat Man wants to know what is one discontinued

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Speaker 5: food or beverage You wish they would bring back.

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Speaker 1: The apple pie Deep Friday McDonald's. Remember the old apple

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Speaker 1: Pie Coop? Remember that? Yes, so much better than the

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Speaker 1: baked one they have now. I think there's one location

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Speaker 1: in Downey that still has the region. What about you

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00:40:50,280 --> 00:40:50,839
Speaker 1: learning quickly?

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Speaker 4: Not sure? Choo and Chicken Chiloopa at Taco Bell, Coop,

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Speaker 4: Tuble Decker, Taco Supreme at Taco Bell.

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Speaker 1: You guys are addicted to Taco Bell Man, You're all

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Speaker 1: about it at the Taco Bell. Taco Bell, Taco Bell,