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Speaker 1: small Man, play the hits. One of our bosses used

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Speaker 1: hour is from the big A in Anaheim, the greatest

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Speaker 1: way they can f this up. Well, the sweep complete

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Speaker 1: the lowly Halos, a pathetic, wretched franchise with the longest

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Speaker 1: bad News Bears and Anaheim, and they sent the gutless

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Speaker 1: Dodgers into base ball Hell. And if you didn't see

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Speaker 1: catcher Logan o'hoppy coming up big late in the game.

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Speaker 1: He had a two run ribby single in the eighth inning,

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Speaker 1: and the Angels swept the season Freeway series with a

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Speaker 1: six to five win over the once proud Dodger franchise.

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Speaker 1: The sub five hundred Angels somehow, some way, swept both

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Speaker 1: series against the supposedly immortal Dodgers this season. They have

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Speaker 1: now won going back to last year's seven straight. That's

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Speaker 1: a franchise record against the team. They wish they were

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Speaker 1: maybe the Angels plan Anaheim, which is an Orange county

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Speaker 1: call themselves the La Angels because they want to be

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Speaker 1: the Dodgers anyway. Yeah, but it's not about that. Did

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Speaker 1: you hear the latest pearls of wisdom from Dave Roberts?

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Speaker 1: Dave Roberts, If you did not see this or hear

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Speaker 1: to spin in spin bad baseball, bad baseball played by

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Speaker 1: the Dodgers played as they got swept. I'm not making

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Speaker 1: I'm not making this up, Roberts said across the board,

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Speaker 1: Robert said, in a vacuum we played well. Close quote.

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Speaker 1: you take away from Dave Roberts. As the Dodgers have

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Speaker 1: we're going to go. So number now, it is appropriate

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Speaker 1: that Dave Roberts mentioned a vacuum. You see, Dave Roberts,

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Speaker 1: Dave Roberts sounds like the mayor of Los Angeles Karen Bass,

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Speaker 1: and the mayor in LA had nothing to worry about here.

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Speaker 1: It's complacency at its finest, Like I don't want you

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Speaker 1: the bare minimum. That's the Dodger way, that's the dot.

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Speaker 1: The sword is rolling over his grave right now, do

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Speaker 1: And that line in a vacuum that is chef's kiss,

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Speaker 1: chef's kids. That's just like managers speak for, ignore the scoreboard,

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Speaker 1: to the Podreys, right. It doesn't matter. Yeah, see, Dave,

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Speaker 1: For some people, I know, not a lot, but for

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Speaker 1: the standings do matter. And your guys look flat. They

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Speaker 1: have been outplayed by clearly inferior team and instead of

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Speaker 1: trying to light a fire under them. It appears you're

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Speaker 1: handing out juice boxes, is what you're doing. Now. There

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Speaker 1: find the sound by, but there was a manager of

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Speaker 1: rant when the seattle he was like a temporary manager

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Speaker 1: of the marriage. But he went on a rant. You know,

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Speaker 1: sick and tired of losing. I'm sick of I want

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Speaker 1: love to have Dave Roberts come out and just explode

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Speaker 1: like John McLaren and say I'm sick and tired of losing.

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Speaker 1: These guys are sick and tired of losing and just

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Speaker 1: I don't want that. Don't say that. Never say that

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Speaker 1: you suck. Your team blows right now? You know, well

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Speaker 1: I thought we compete it. Yeah, I mean, come on,

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Speaker 1: it's ridiculous, all right, this is what this is. A

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Speaker 1: I want Roberts to sound like this stay a list.

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Speaker 4: We're playing ours off every day and got nothing to

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Speaker 5: I'm tired of losing.

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Speaker 2: I'm trying to get my ax beating.

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Speaker 1: And so those guys, we're gonna change this around and

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Speaker 1: get after it.

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Speaker 2: And only we can do it.

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Speaker 4: The fans are pissed off, and I'm pissed off, and

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Speaker 4: the players are pissed off. And that's the way it is.

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Speaker 4: There's no easy way out of this. Can't feel sorry

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Speaker 4: Tired of damn losing is every night and we bust her.

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Speaker 2: It's gotta be a toe team.

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Speaker 5: Never turn this thing around.

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Speaker 2: And that's it.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, that's what I want. I want that I don't want. Hey,

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Speaker 1: we did a good job competing in a vacuum. We

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Speaker 1: want the other guy. That's what I want. It's like

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Speaker 1: So it's like they just have this mindset. Well, we'll

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Speaker 1: the Dodger fan. I watched some of that Angel Dodger game.

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Speaker 1: Angel fans, right, it was like Dodger Stadium in Anheim,

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Speaker 1: and they're so used. The Dodger fans so used this

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Speaker 1: other things that I observed while I was perusing the

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Speaker 1: I was watching some of the Yankee Twins game from

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Speaker 1: I watched this game maybe I had a financial investment in,

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Speaker 1: your reaction to Twins starter Joe Ryan screaming if you

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Speaker 1: It's Joe Ryan and Byron Buxton and a bunch of

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Speaker 1: there dropping F bombs like it's a Scorsese movie. And uh,

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Speaker 1: and that's I think it was the fifth of the

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Speaker 1: sixth inning. You clearly I was on the Amazon feed.

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Speaker 1: You clearly heard f I can't say clear as day.

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Speaker 1: The Amazon broadcast Mike's picked it up and every syllable

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Speaker 1: was hilarious. I was texting my buddies, take turn on

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Speaker 1: the Yankee game. This is great. Joe Ryan is out there.

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Speaker 1: He's like that old comedian and Andrew dice Clay from

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Speaker 1: Kind of pretending like, yeah, you're not really hearing what

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Speaker 1: gave up on that after a while, like, well, Joe,

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Speaker 1: Ryan's out there saying shucks. No, he's not saying shocks.

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Speaker 2: Now.

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Speaker 1: I don't hate this, by the way, I don't hate this.

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Speaker 1: The guy's intense. He's got a weird thing, borderlines spectrum.

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Speaker 1: There's not that many guys like that left in baseball,

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Speaker 1: and I enjoyed it. You know, he missed a pitch

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Speaker 1: by an inch and boom, you know f word, you know,

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Speaker 1: The Gift that keeps on giving Baby ever day he

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Speaker 1: yet again, So the Cowboy owner Jerry Jones has yet

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Speaker 1: little sticky, little human. In Jerry's world, the ratings and

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Speaker 1: the franchise value that is much more important than the

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Speaker 1: Super Bowl trophy. It just is now page two. Staying

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Speaker 1: with this theme, if you will, staying with this theme.

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Speaker 1: So Michael Parsons was spotted this week watching Cowboy practice,

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Speaker 1: not taking part watching, and he was only a couple

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Speaker 1: of feet away from Jerry Jones, the afore mentioned Jerry

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Speaker 1: Jones who liked the Cowboys so much he bought the

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Speaker 1: team and then became the GM, and he's been the

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Speaker 1: gym longest tenure GM in the NFL. So Jerry Jones

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Speaker 1: and Michael Parsons are standing just feet away from each

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Speaker 1: other on the sidelines, but nothing has changed regarding the

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Speaker 1: long contract negotiation between the two sides. So Jerry Jones

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Speaker 1: was asked what is preventing the sides from talking? And

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Speaker 1: Jerry Jones said really. He then paused and said nothing.

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Speaker 1: Nothing again he said nothing would be that, Jones said,

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Speaker 1: and we might or we might not talk, and the

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Speaker 1: rest of that gets into what we do every day.

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Speaker 1: All right, Well, confusing there, but close quote Parsons declining

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Speaker 1: to comment as he sashaded his way off the practice field.

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Speaker 1: There for the cowboys. So let's do a fill in

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Speaker 1: the blank question. Fill in the blank. I'm gonna go first.

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Speaker 1: Then you can go if you want and call in

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Speaker 1: and send a message in cowboys hitting the pause button,

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Speaker 1: hitting the pause button on the remote controls like that

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Speaker 1: hitting the pause button in Micah Parson's negotiation is blank.

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Speaker 1: Fill in the blank. So my word on this is premeditated.

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Speaker 1: That is my word premeditated. Again. My position is that

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Speaker 1: Jerry Jones is going to take this to the buzzer,

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Speaker 1: right to the buzzer, like every good Bond movie where

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Speaker 1: there's the diet sticks of dynamite wrapped in tape, there's

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Speaker 1: there's weird wires, and you gotta figure out how you

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Speaker 1: cut the blue wire the red wire, and you got

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Speaker 1: to do it right before the clock strikes, you know,

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Speaker 1: zero zero and all that stuff. And so that's what's

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Speaker 1: gonna happen here. Choreograph choreographed chaos. As I learned from

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Speaker 1: the Wolf of Wall Street, it's all for Gayzy or

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Speaker 1: for Gazi. Uh you know, for Gayzy is though. Uh

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Speaker 1: it's fake, that's what it is. So it's all it's

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Speaker 1: that's what it is, all right. Now, last word, we

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Speaker 1: move from Jerry's world and we go to the land

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Speaker 1: of the insert Petsburg Steelers. That is where, of all people,

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Speaker 1: Mavericks general manager Nico Harrison. Yes, that Niko. Yes, that's

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Speaker 1: the same guy, Nico Harrison. So the Mavericky of Nico

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Speaker 1: Harrison was spotted meeting at Steeler training camp with Aaron Rodgers,

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Speaker 1: among others. Now, how do I know this? How am

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Speaker 1: I aware of this? Because the picture that they took

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Speaker 1: sitting at a table has gone viral And maybe you

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Speaker 1: saw it, maybe you heard about it. Maybe you didn't

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Speaker 1: hear about it, Maybe you didn't see it.

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Speaker 2: I don't know.

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Speaker 1: That's your your life. But I saw it, and if

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Speaker 1: I hadn't seen it, I had people sending to me,

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Speaker 1: did you see this? Ah my god, you gotta talk

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Speaker 1: about this Oh my god. Okay, I don't know that

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Speaker 1: I have to talk about this, but I am talking

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Speaker 1: about it. I am talking about So I did a

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Speaker 1: little investigating and it's like, well, how does Nico Harrison

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Speaker 1: end up at a table with Aaron Rodgers. It seems

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Speaker 1: very bizarre to me. So it turns out that one

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Speaker 1: of the good friends of Nico Harrison, one of the

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Speaker 1: good friends of Nico Harrison, is Steeler's coach, My Tomlin.

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Speaker 1: Their besties their besties. That's an odd tearing, isn't it? Like?

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Speaker 1: How did they become buddies? That seems odd. There must

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Speaker 1: be some story there. I don't know what the story

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Speaker 1: is anyway. So Tomlin and Nico Harrison are buddies, and

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Speaker 1: apparently Nico Harrison was at training camp the last couple

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Speaker 1: of years. Of course, nobody knew who he was. Nobody

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Speaker 1: cared about Nico Harrison. Now, of course that story has

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Speaker 1: changed dramatically. So question on this one, question on this one.

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Speaker 1: Why why do you think the picture of Nico Harrison

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Speaker 1: and Aaron Rodgers created such a visceral reaction? So I'll

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Speaker 1: give my psychobabble and then you can chime in and

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Speaker 1: just my reaction seeing the photo of the Mavericks GM

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Speaker 1: and then the NFL's resident evangelist of the Ayahuasca, Aaron Rodgers,

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Speaker 1: it felt like you were ease dropping in on something

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Speaker 1: that you weren't supposed to see. It looked like there

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Speaker 1: was some kind of secret handshake that was going on.

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Speaker 1: You know, they were like shaking hands, like a couple

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Speaker 1: of Bond villains. To use the bond reference there, a

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Speaker 1: couple of Bond villains. It was a snapshot so surreal

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Speaker 1: that you were like, whoa, I mean, what's going on?

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Speaker 1: I mean, there they were. Harrison the man who traded

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Speaker 1: Luka Doncik, not really a trade. He just gave Luka

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Speaker 1: Doncik to the Lakers for a bag of Orville Reddenbacker popcorn,

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Speaker 1: a stale bag of Orville Reddenbacker popcorn. And I think

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Speaker 1: he got invited to like a Laker chat, like an

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Speaker 1: online chat, not in person online. And then you've got

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Speaker 1: Aaron Rodgers best he's with Joe Rogan, right, the quarterback

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Speaker 1: treats every conversation like he's doing a Ted talk about

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Speaker 1: quantum consciousness and all that stuff. And together side by

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Speaker 1: side at a table with others, with others at Steelers

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Speaker 1: training camp, looking like they were plotting some kind of

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Speaker 1: cross sport coup a coup d'eta. And you had Harrison

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Speaker 1: there was he trying to recruit Rogers. Hey, Aaron, how

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Speaker 1: would you like to be the offensive coordinator of the Mavericks. Well, Nico,

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Speaker 1: whether you guys don't have an offensive corner, I don't care,

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Speaker 1: We'll make you one. And as Rogers probably I'm imagining.

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Speaker 1: He's like, Oh, listen, Nico, I know there's there's a

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Speaker 1: way now you can break down teams based on the

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Speaker 1: holistic abilities. Forget analytics, go with holistic analytics, which is

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Speaker 1: a different thing. And it's it's we'll bring in Andrea

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Speaker 1: from Berkeley. We'll bring Andrew in, the astrology insider, and

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Speaker 1: she'll base what moves we make on the cycle of

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Speaker 1: the moon. You know, is it is it going to

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Speaker 1: be a wolf moon? What is it going to be? Uh?

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Speaker 1: You know, we'll look at the Farmers Almanac, we'll figure

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Speaker 1: it out and we'll just do things on gut feelings

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Speaker 1: and uh. And then Nico's like, well, I don't know

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Speaker 1: if we should do that. I don't I don't know

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Speaker 1: about that. Or maybe they were just bonding Rogers and

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Speaker 1: Nico over the shared love they have for alienating sports

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Speaker 1: fans and redefining dysfunction dysfunction. But listen, whatever it is

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Speaker 1: that the photo, it was like this rogue asteroid seeing

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Speaker 1: these two figures that you know, again, I don't know

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Speaker 1: about you, but for me, I'm a little too into

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Speaker 1: the weeds here in this job. And I've talked a

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Speaker 1: lot about Nico Harrison over the last year, and I've

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Speaker 1: talked for years about Aaron Rodgers. I mean, we I

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Speaker 1: go so far back that here at Fox Sports Radio,

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Speaker 1: I did a show with this guy named Chris Landry

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Speaker 1: on the weekends in the early days of Fox Sports Radio,

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Speaker 1: and we used to have Aaron Rodgers on after games

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Speaker 1: he played at Cal. And I always thought, well, he

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Speaker 1: must not that be be that good because he's coming

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Speaker 1: on our show. And then, you know, if he's a

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Speaker 1: big star, he's not going to come on a radio

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Speaker 1: show half an hour after Cal played Arizona State or

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Speaker 1: whatever back in the day. But he did. He came on,

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Speaker 1: He's fine, he was nice, and that was it. And

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Speaker 1: then he's gone on and this this amazing polarizing run

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Speaker 1: in the NFL with all these different teams. But if

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Speaker 1: Nico Harrison and Airon Rogers are the architects of chaos,

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Speaker 1: I then that means that you and I those of

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Speaker 1: us that either know about the photo if you're blind,

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Speaker 1: or saw the photo if you're not blind, we are

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Speaker 1: all just spectators. And this is like the demolition Derby.

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Speaker 1: That's what it is.

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

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

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Speaker 1: Here we go, it's Mallard. How about here we go

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Speaker 1: a third degree? This is one big Ben gets grilled

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Speaker 1: poler all Right.

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Speaker 5: The Atlanta Falcons have the second longest playoff drought in

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Speaker 5: the NFL, and they are actually a popular bet to

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Speaker 5: end that drought this season. Ben, how do you feel

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Speaker 5: about that?

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Speaker 1: Yeah, I'm not on board. Raheem Morris a good coordinator.

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Speaker 1: I know he's a very good coach. And I'm not

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Speaker 1: completely sold on Michael Pennix junior. And you gotta have

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Speaker 1: a quarterback. I'm not you know, he can prove me

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Speaker 1: wrong here. I'm not buying it. The reason people were

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Speaker 1: picking the Falcons, it's a wide open division, right, Carolina sucks.

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Speaker 1: The Saints are gonna be the worst team in the NFL,

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Speaker 1: so it's really between Atlanta and Tampa Bay. Next.

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Speaker 5: Jose Ramirez and the Cleveland Guardians are heating up at

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Speaker 5: the right time last night. Notwithstanding, they have gone twenty

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Speaker 5: two to nine over the last thirty one games, put

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Speaker 5: themselves into position for a wild card spot. Ben, do

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Speaker 5: you think they could ride this way two a division title?

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Speaker 1: Well? Whould they? Yes? I mean, listen, the Tigers are

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Speaker 1: a better team. The problem with the team, like the Guardians,

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Speaker 1: is they just don't hold up in a playoff environment.

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Speaker 1: They don't give you nightmares, they don't give you a

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Speaker 1: sleep panic. There's no boogeyman there. It's just like a

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Speaker 1: regular season team. The playoffs are going to be a

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Speaker 1: debacle next.

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Speaker 5: When the cruiz Beck family sold the Celtics in March,

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Speaker 5: it was reported that wit grus Beck would stay on

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Speaker 5: as the Celtics CEO and governor through the twenty seven

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Speaker 5: twenty eighth season. Now that's no longer the case, and

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Speaker 5: new owner of Bill Chisham will take over once the

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Speaker 5: sales final. Same thing happened to Mark Cuban when he

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Speaker 5: stole the MAVs. You think Genie Buss could be pushed

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Speaker 5: out early as well.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, so the gross back thing because he didn't own

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Speaker 1: fifteen percent. He can't be the you know, the person

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Speaker 1: at the table. But yeah, Genie Bush, this should be out.

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Speaker 1: How do we go? Ass?

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Speaker 2: I guess Fox Sports Radio has the best sports talk

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Speaker 2: lineup in the nation. Catch all of our shows at

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Speaker 2: Foxsports Radio dot com and within the iHeartRadio app search

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Speaker 2: FSR to listen live.

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Speaker 5: It's now time for time for honey, Honey, wait.

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Speaker 1: Ask Ben Twitter?

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Speaker 2: Send us your questions on Twitter.

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Speaker 1: Now and oh ware we go is ask Ben? Your

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Speaker 1: questions are answers for the rest of the hour. These

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Speaker 1: are actual questions by actual listeners who are building castles

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Speaker 1: in the air, and for the reading of the questions,

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Speaker 1: I go to Justin Cooper.

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Speaker 5: All right, Ben, We're gonna start with one from Ryan here.

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Speaker 2: Hi.

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Speaker 1: Ryan.

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Speaker 5: He wants to know for everyone, could any of you

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Speaker 5: finish the nine to nine to nine challenge? It is

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Speaker 5: apparently nine dogs, nine beers, nine innings.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, so the hot dog thing I don't believe would

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Speaker 1: be a problem now. It might be, but back in

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Speaker 1: the day. Yeah, I yah, it's harder now. I think

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Speaker 1: that's harder now because baseball games are quicker. Back in

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Speaker 1: the old back in the old days, Red Sox game

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Speaker 1: be five hours, Dodger game will be four hours. Now,

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Speaker 1: you've got about two and a half hours. So could

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Speaker 1: you eat nine hot dogs and drink nine beers into Yeah,

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Speaker 1: it's close. I think I could do it, Lorena.

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Speaker 7: Absolutely, I could. I eat so much food it's ridiculous.

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Speaker 1: That is true. And you don't get any weight, which

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Speaker 1: really annoys me.

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Speaker 5: What about you, Kooperloo, there's a zero chance the rain

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Speaker 5: I could.

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Speaker 1: Do that, and she'd take one bite of every hot right.

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Speaker 5: Exactly what counts. I would not be able to do it.

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00:36:56,960 --> 00:37:00,440
Speaker 5: I could do the nine dogs, but nine yours I

640
00:37:00,480 --> 00:37:01,360
Speaker 5: would not be able to.

641
00:37:01,800 --> 00:37:03,400
Speaker 1: Nine years and two and a half hours, you'd be

642
00:37:03,480 --> 00:37:07,840
Speaker 1: laying on the ground. What's me? You know what?

643
00:37:07,920 --> 00:37:08,080
Speaker 5: Lee?

644
00:37:08,360 --> 00:37:12,959
Speaker 1: Lee calls that a Tuesday.

645
00:37:13,600 --> 00:37:16,160
Speaker 5: I guess, I guess this one's just for Lorena. It

646
00:37:16,239 --> 00:37:20,160
Speaker 5: is from a GABS and they say, why did Loraina

647
00:37:20,239 --> 00:37:22,879
Speaker 5: join a sports show if she doesn't know anything about sports?

648
00:37:23,320 --> 00:37:26,120
Speaker 5: Why not a music radio station?

649
00:37:26,800 --> 00:37:30,640
Speaker 7: Well, it's funny they hire board ops wherever because technically

650
00:37:30,680 --> 00:37:31,799
Speaker 7: they don't all talk on the air.

651
00:37:32,360 --> 00:37:33,319
Speaker 1: But I do.

652
00:37:33,440 --> 00:37:37,160
Speaker 7: I like sports. I'm getting better, but I do prefer

653
00:37:37,239 --> 00:37:38,440
Speaker 7: music radium to be honest.

654
00:37:38,719 --> 00:37:43,839
Speaker 1: Oh, body blow, body blow body celebrities. But you know what,

655
00:37:43,880 --> 00:37:45,279
Speaker 1: I think athletes are celebrities.

656
00:37:45,360 --> 00:37:47,840
Speaker 7: I'm finding a nice niche between celebrities and sports with

657
00:37:47,880 --> 00:37:50,400
Speaker 7: their dating. So it's it's kind of a nice little window.

658
00:37:50,800 --> 00:37:52,920
Speaker 1: And yes, LORAINI just to now she's not happy? All right,

659
00:37:52,920 --> 00:37:54,799
Speaker 1: what's next? Where are we at here? What I said,

660
00:37:54,960 --> 00:37:56,799
Speaker 1: that's what it sounded like to me. I don't know.

661
00:37:58,680 --> 00:38:01,439
Speaker 5: Alf the alien opineer. This one is just for you, Ben,

662
00:38:02,120 --> 00:38:03,680
Speaker 5: He says, do you know what LARP is?

663
00:38:05,560 --> 00:38:05,880
Speaker 1: Larp?

664
00:38:06,560 --> 00:38:07,640
Speaker 5: Yeah, it's an achrona.

665
00:38:08,680 --> 00:38:10,440
Speaker 1: No, what is it like? Uh?

666
00:38:11,040 --> 00:38:12,799
Speaker 5: He doesn't give the answer, but I know that it's

667
00:38:12,960 --> 00:38:17,279
Speaker 5: live action role play. Oh like people battle.

668
00:38:17,280 --> 00:38:20,279
Speaker 1: Yes, like godsplay or like yeah, like they like.

669
00:38:20,239 --> 00:38:22,799
Speaker 5: They pretend that they're like Civil war.

670
00:38:23,320 --> 00:38:26,839
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, yeah, you know. I was actually at Gettysburg.

671
00:38:26,960 --> 00:38:29,960
Speaker 1: I visited the Gettysburg site and they had it was

672
00:38:29,960 --> 00:38:32,319
Speaker 1: pretty cool and there were some people doing that.

673
00:38:32,560 --> 00:38:34,120
Speaker 5: I mean, I think the one he's referring to is

674
00:38:34,120 --> 00:38:35,680
Speaker 5: more as like the nerdy kind where you pretend you're

675
00:38:35,719 --> 00:38:40,479
Speaker 5: like you're a wizard or a Star Wars guy. Yeah yeah, yeah, yeah,

676
00:38:40,520 --> 00:38:42,920
Speaker 5: but no that's not. But they're all live action role

677
00:38:42,920 --> 00:38:44,040
Speaker 5: play anyway, all right.

678
00:38:44,960 --> 00:38:46,319
Speaker 1: But whatever gets you through the day. If you want

679
00:38:46,360 --> 00:38:48,080
Speaker 1: to dress like a furry, it just don't bother me,

680
00:38:49,080 --> 00:38:49,640
Speaker 1: do you think?

681
00:38:50,200 --> 00:38:50,319
Speaker 3: Uh?

682
00:38:50,920 --> 00:38:55,920
Speaker 5: I believe this one's probably just for uh so, I guess.

683
00:38:56,120 --> 00:38:57,960
Speaker 5: I guess Lorena, you could you could use it for

684
00:38:58,360 --> 00:39:01,839
Speaker 5: with your with your baby daddy. I forty ian would

685
00:39:01,880 --> 00:39:04,000
Speaker 5: like to know did your in laws like you when

686
00:39:04,000 --> 00:39:06,800
Speaker 5: you first met, and did your folks like your significant

687
00:39:06,840 --> 00:39:08,319
Speaker 5: significant other the first time they met?

688
00:39:09,480 --> 00:39:12,279
Speaker 1: Yeah? Yeah, absolutely, I I have had my in laws.

689
00:39:12,320 --> 00:39:14,560
Speaker 1: I get along with everybody. There's only one. I hate

690
00:39:15,239 --> 00:39:18,520
Speaker 1: everyone else in school and uh yeah, my mom and

691
00:39:18,719 --> 00:39:21,120
Speaker 1: my dad loved when I met my wife, they loved her.

692
00:39:21,160 --> 00:39:23,759
Speaker 1: And I was very worried about that, my mom. But yeah,

693
00:39:23,960 --> 00:39:25,360
Speaker 1: what about you cool?

694
00:39:27,239 --> 00:39:32,680
Speaker 5: Uh you know, I get along with them. Oh no,

695
00:39:32,840 --> 00:39:36,719
Speaker 5: I mean her her dad is just like the complete

696
00:39:36,840 --> 00:39:39,799
Speaker 5: opposite of me, like politically.

697
00:39:39,320 --> 00:39:44,560
Speaker 8: And oh more like Justin and Cincinnati worse worse, oh

698
00:39:44,680 --> 00:39:48,600
Speaker 8: worse than the Oh yeah, uh but I mean it's

699
00:39:48,600 --> 00:39:50,319
Speaker 8: still it's it's fine, you know, it's good.

700
00:39:50,440 --> 00:39:53,399
Speaker 5: And and my my family all love her.

701
00:39:53,920 --> 00:39:56,239
Speaker 1: Yeah they're cool. I mean they're not like not really

702
00:39:56,320 --> 00:39:58,799
Speaker 1: sports people, So they asked me the awkward who's gonna

703
00:39:58,800 --> 00:40:00,000
Speaker 1: win the World service, Who's gonna win?

704
00:40:00,320 --> 00:40:00,520
Speaker 5: Like that?

705
00:40:01,040 --> 00:40:01,440
Speaker 1: Lorraino.

706
00:40:01,640 --> 00:40:03,359
Speaker 7: Yeah, I've always had a great connection with my baby

707
00:40:03,400 --> 00:40:06,799
Speaker 7: daddy's parents. I still call his mom mom. We still

708
00:40:06,840 --> 00:40:08,160
Speaker 7: talk and say I love you and stuff.

709
00:40:08,160 --> 00:40:08,520
Speaker 5: It's nice.

710
00:40:08,520 --> 00:40:11,239
Speaker 1: That's cool, that's nice. All right, what's next, we'd ask

711
00:40:11,360 --> 00:40:12,080
Speaker 1: Ben quickly.

712
00:40:12,719 --> 00:40:15,120
Speaker 5: Ferd Dog wants to know what is the therm set

713
00:40:15,160 --> 00:40:18,120
Speaker 5: set to in the studio, And you know in your studio, man.

714
00:40:18,480 --> 00:40:21,279
Speaker 1: It is at sixty two degrees because it won't go

715
00:40:21,360 --> 00:40:23,840
Speaker 1: lower than that. Oh my god, yeah.

716
00:40:23,520 --> 00:40:25,239
Speaker 7: I think we're at seventy right now.

717
00:40:25,400 --> 00:40:26,600
Speaker 1: Oh, come on, seventy.

718
00:40:27,600 --> 00:40:28,480
Speaker 7: I need a blankets.

719
00:40:28,800 --> 00:40:31,160
Speaker 5: No, sixty two is an ice box.

720
00:40:31,320 --> 00:40:33,839
Speaker 1: No it's not. I want a colder. The damn air

721
00:40:33,840 --> 00:40:35,200
Speaker 1: condition won't go below sixty