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Speaker 1: Welcome to Dodger Blue Dream. I'm Richard Parks, the Third.

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Speaker 1: It's Saturday, October twenty fifth, twenty twenty five. The Blue

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Speaker 1: Jays trounced the Dodgers in Game one of the World

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Speaker 1: Series last night in front of a hometown crowd in Toronto.

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Speaker 1: The final score was eleven to four. Rough one.

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Speaker 2: Garbage, garbage, garbage, garbage, like nothing good.

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Speaker 1: I got on the phone with my co host Wes

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Speaker 1: Theovula to debrief right after the game.

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Speaker 3: I don't know they're going to take one. I knew

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Speaker 3: that they're going to take one. Hopefully this is the

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Speaker 3: one that they're going to take. You know, Cauzy got

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Speaker 3: you need to let them get their egos hide.

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Speaker 1: We told you that the characterization of the Blue Jays

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Speaker 1: as underdogs was a false narrative, and last night proved

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Speaker 1: that beyond a shadow of a doubt, with the Jays

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Speaker 1: relentless offense looking good against our ace pitcher Blake Snell,

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Speaker 1: who after a string of historically dominant outings, took the

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Speaker 1: loss here giving up five earned runs. The matchup of

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Speaker 1: these two teams going in was always going to be

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Speaker 1: what our dominance starting pitching could do against the Jays

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Speaker 1: relentless offense. Snell was struggling with his control, not in

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Speaker 1: the zone enough, and when he was, the Jays showed

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Speaker 1: us why they have the best contact rate in the

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Speaker 1: major leagues. And then the bullpen, which we told you

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Speaker 1: is the Dodgers' weakest area, which thus far in this

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Speaker 1: postseason hasn't really been tested, was tested last night and failed.

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Speaker 2: They looked good until like the fifth or whatever.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, the Dodgers looked okay until the fifth, maybe the sixth.

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Speaker 1: We scored one in both the second and third innings

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Speaker 1: after loading the bases both times, which it would have

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Speaker 1: been nice to have gotten more in those situations. And

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Speaker 1: Snell had given up a two run homer in the fourth,

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Speaker 1: but that's nothing huge. It's a two to two game.

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Speaker 1: But then in the bottom of the sixth, the Jays

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Speaker 1: offense put the game away. It started with Snell giving

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Speaker 1: up a leadoff walk followed by a single. Then on

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Speaker 1: a full count, Snell beamed Dalton Varshow on his one

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Speaker 1: hundredth pitch to load the bases, he threw that pitch

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Speaker 1: that almost hit that guy in the face. Yeah, he

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Speaker 1: was not wasn't in control.

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Speaker 2: No, he didn't have it.

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Speaker 1: Dodgers manager Dave Roberts took out the hook and young

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Speaker 1: Emmitt Shean, who's actually a starting pitcher, came out of

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Speaker 1: the bullpen.

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Speaker 2: They put up she and she like completely.

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Speaker 1: He gave up a single with the Jays going station

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Speaker 1: to station, giving them a one run lead, and that

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Speaker 1: was followed by a bases loaded walk. Shean walked in

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Speaker 1: a run. Yeah, I mean, that's excusable. Basses still loaded.

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Speaker 1: That was followed by another single, giving the Jays another run.

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Speaker 1: Time for Dave Roberts to take out the hook again.

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Speaker 1: Doc calls for Anthony Bonda, our lefty reliever, to face

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Speaker 1: Addison Barger, lefty on lefty, and Barger hit the first

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Speaker 1: ever in history and most impactful pinch hit World Series

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Speaker 1: houls struggles Right. So the Dodgers are down zero games

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Speaker 1: to one in this best of seven series with Game

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Speaker 1: two tonight in Toronto at five pm Pacific time. And

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Speaker 1: we're looking for three major things from the Dodgers. Number one,

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Speaker 1: the bullpen. It's gotta be better.

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Speaker 2: It was terrible. It's like and like, but who do

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Speaker 2: you put in? Who do you put in when the bullpens?

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Speaker 1: Like that good question, because the Dodgers' bullpen situation has

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Speaker 1: recently gone from bad to even worse.

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Speaker 3: You know, it probably would have been Vesia spot instead

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Speaker 3: of Bonda, who knows, you know, he usually he's pretty

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Speaker 3: good in those really fun, messed up, tough situations.

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Speaker 1: Alex Vesia, one of our key dogs and a lefty

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Speaker 1: out of the bullpen, isn't on the World Series roster

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Speaker 1: as he and his wife Kayla deal with a quote

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Speaker 1: deeply personal matter. The couple had announced in April that

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Speaker 1: Kayla was pregnant with their first child, and we send

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Speaker 1: our prayers to Alex Vesia and his family. But so

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Speaker 1: instead of Vessia, it was Bonda.

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Speaker 3: As soon as he hit the home run the grand slam,

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Speaker 3: I was like, okay, no, thes my cab all they

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Speaker 3: getting out of here.

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Speaker 2: I don't want to hear grand Salami in a home run.

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Speaker 2: You fun, they'll get out of here. And then I

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Speaker 2: was like, watch, they're.

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Speaker 3: Going to give up another one, and he did give

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Speaker 3: up another one.

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Speaker 1: I was and by the way, after the grand slam,

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Speaker 1: the hits just kept on coming.

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Speaker 3: Can I get a out d just a random out?

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Speaker 3: They're like, no, let's clear the bases first, get somebody

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Speaker 3: else on.

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Speaker 2: It's just it was really disappointing.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, the Grand Salami was deflating, but the two run

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Speaker 1: homer after that was like, yeah, yeah, once they get

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Speaker 1: to double digits, it feels different. It stopped, but you

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Speaker 1: can't hang this all on the bullpen and a less

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Speaker 1: than perfect start. To get this done against the Blue Jays,

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Speaker 1: the Dodgers' bats are gonna have to wake up. So

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Speaker 1: that's thing too the offense. The offense needs to come alive.

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Speaker 1: Suck because the offense hasn't been doing much this entire postseason.

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Speaker 1: Though it's been the pitching. Nobody's really been hitting all

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Speaker 1: postseason long. The starting rotation has really carried us to

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Speaker 1: this point, and we're gonna have to score more runs

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Speaker 1: to win this World Series.

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Speaker 3: I feel like the Dodgers going to capitalize on a

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Speaker 3: couple of baits loaded like early on and just really

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Speaker 3: like stepped on them, but they didn't.

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Speaker 1: The Dodgers loaded the bases against twenty two year old

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Speaker 1: rookie starter Trey Yasavage in the second inning but didn't

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Speaker 1: bring in a run, and then one inning later they

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Speaker 1: stranded Will Smith at third. In all, the Dodgers' offense

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Speaker 1: was three for seven with runners in scoring position and

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Speaker 1: left seven runners on base in Game one, the lone

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Speaker 1: highlight being sho hey Otani hitting his first ever World

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Speaker 1: Series home run.

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Speaker 2: Like show he gets a home run for nothing.

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Speaker 1: We had like a lot of opportunities.

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Speaker 3: A lot, and they just were not like capitalizing it.

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Speaker 3: It's like bass loaded with it.

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Speaker 1: Wes is singling out Andy Pies, our center fielder who

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Speaker 1: has had a particularly rough postseason.

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Speaker 2: You know what I mean, He's like still Oero for thirty.

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Speaker 3: It's like, maybe Bot should consider like putting in Kim

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Speaker 3: or call, you know, giving these guys a shot. Dude,

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Speaker 3: gotta try something different, especially if he's like batting before Showy.

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Speaker 3: It's almost like it's a guaranteed out. Like the last

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Speaker 3: month it's been just completely so.

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Speaker 1: But it's not just Pies who bats ninth, but like

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Speaker 1: Freddy needs to get going. One of these guys needs

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Speaker 1: to get going.

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Speaker 3: Freddie and Tommy need to get going man big time, YEP,

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Speaker 3: giving sleeping MVPs.

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Speaker 1: We're gonna need Mooki and Freddy to do more. And

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Speaker 1: guys like Tao Muncy even show He apart from the

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Speaker 1: home run, which was very nice to see, it kind

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Speaker 1: of had his number.

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Speaker 3: Apart from that, yeah, it's like, stop swinging at the

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Speaker 3: sweeper away, dude.

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Speaker 1: Our offense just hasn't produced to its potential.

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Speaker 2: Make that. Just start hitting the ball. It's not that HRD.

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Speaker 1: All right. Third thing, yesterday is gone. It's all about today.

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Speaker 1: We need Yams to come out and have a really

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Speaker 1: strong outing. If Yoshiobu Yamamoto can keep the Jays bats

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Speaker 1: at bay and go deep into this game, we could

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Speaker 1: split these first two games in Toronto and head back

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Speaker 1: to Los Angeles for the next three games tied at

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Speaker 1: one game apiece. If we do that, I like our chances.

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Speaker 3: I mean it's really disappointing, but I don't think it's

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Speaker 3: over till it's over them out like one game, we'll

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Speaker 3: see in the next three you know what happens.

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Speaker 1: And we need to get away from this surprisingly spicy

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Speaker 1: Toronto Blue Jays crowd.

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Speaker 3: Because they were chanting we don't need you or something

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Speaker 3: towards the end of the game to show hey, I

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Speaker 3: heard that.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, so that was to show hey, like referring to

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Speaker 1: how they almost signed him.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, they're chanting that we don't need you, so that

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Speaker 3: I can hear that. You can feel like the fans

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Speaker 3: getting arrogant, you know what I mean. So it's like,

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Speaker 3: all right, we'll see, we'll see.

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Speaker 2: It's one game.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, I was surprised to see such poor sportsmanship from

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Speaker 1: a Canadian crowd.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, it's all good. You know, they're they're really really

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Speaker 2: wanting one.

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Speaker 1: Maybe they just poked the bear and lit the fire

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Speaker 1: that will burn down the boreal forest metaphorically speaking. We'll

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Speaker 1: see what happens in game two. All right, it's a

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Speaker 1: long series.

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Speaker 2: I'll talk to you all right.

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Speaker 1: Dodger Blue Dream is written and produced by me Richard Parks,

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Speaker 1: the third. My co host is Chef wes Avula. Original

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Speaker 1: music in this episode by William Ryan Fritch, Jonathan Snipes,

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