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Speaker 2: This is the best of the Jason Smith Show with

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Speaker 3: Greetings and welcome in. We begin another beautiful week here

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Speaker 3: Fox Sports or Radio. As the Big Voice guy said,

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Speaker 3: there is no Smith. He is gone and gallivanting. Therefore,

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Speaker 3: like Keith Richards, I'm saddling up, sidling up to the

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Speaker 3: big microphone in the spotlight. I'll sing you a couple

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Speaker 3: of songs over the course of the week with some

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Speaker 3: guest stars. First up, coming off the left of the stage,

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Speaker 3: our guy Chris Plank at Plank Show. You hear him

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Speaker 3: on the weekends with our guy Arnie Spaniard. He's been

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Speaker 3: doing yeomen's work between his college football and softball work,

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Speaker 3: and then four straight days here on the network. So

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Speaker 3: let's see if he sounds like his aforementioned colleague, Arnie Spander.

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Speaker 3: It's Chris Blank. What's going on? Chris? Come on, man?

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Speaker 3: Four days in a row is child's play here? It's

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Speaker 3: it's all good. Jayson already fire. Well, you get it

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Speaker 3: good man. We're getting close to football. The countdown is on.

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Speaker 3: We got a game next Thursday that everyone will be

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Speaker 3: the start of the first Saturday of college football. So

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Speaker 3: game on, Micha. Let's have some fun. Tonight should be

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Speaker 3: a fun week for you. You do have a very I

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Speaker 3: So it stays fresh? Well, I mean maybe Jason's got

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Speaker 3: on that level like you Harmon I and Arnie you know,

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Speaker 3: So I got to find that level good stuff. Man, Well,

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Speaker 3: Glad to have you with as we've got some college

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Speaker 4: and up until recently most people didn't even know who

427
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Speaker 4: the hell he was running again, I I don't know.

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Speaker 4: I mean, clearly was doing clownish, buffoonish stuff. He wasn't

429
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Speaker 4: there that long. This started immediately. How yeah, Like, how

430
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Speaker 4: did he ever get that position in the first place?

431
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Speaker 4: How much of a leadership vacuum was there? And is there?

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Speaker 4: You know, do they need to have an independent audit,

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Speaker 4: some third party come in there and make recommendations like

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Speaker 4: do they need to make it a prerequisite that whoever

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Speaker 4: they hire next has had significant experience at a different

436
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Speaker 4: labor union, maybe ideally a sports labor union, and has been,

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Speaker 4: you know, in somewhat of a prominent role, whether current

438
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Speaker 4: or past. Like, yeah, I mean, and certainly there's discord,

439
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Speaker 4: there's a lack of harmony. I think among the players.

440
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Speaker 4: We're talking about what is it right now? Right he

441
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Speaker 4: had ninety eyes on rosters, you've got thirty teams. Do

442
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Speaker 4: the math. It's a lot of people at various points

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Speaker 4: in their career, with various earning potential and various earning

444
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Speaker 4: past and various earning futures. It's it's it's hard to

445
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Speaker 4: get them on the same page. I mean, looks how

446
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Speaker 4: hard it is to get thirty two billionaires on the

447
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Speaker 4: same page. And now we're talking about, you know, twenty

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Speaker 4: seven hundred guys.

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Speaker 3: It's gonna be tough. Jason Loking, for is our guest.

450
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Speaker 3: All right, on the well kind of on the field stuff.

451
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Speaker 3: It looks like Michael Parson's gonna be still showing up

452
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Speaker 3: at Cowboys camp. But Jerry Jones is doing Jerry Jones things.

453
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Speaker 3: The bottom line more than anything else, he usually gets

454
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Speaker 3: these deals done. What kind of situation do you feel

455
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Speaker 3: like this ends up being for the Cowboys? Do they

456
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Speaker 3: get it done? Does it cost him too much? Or

457
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Speaker 3: could this one drag on a bit?

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Speaker 4: No, they'll get it done. They'll get it done, probably

459
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Speaker 4: right before the Jesus starch, So yeah, it'll cost them

460
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Speaker 4: too much. Us still have the egg on their face.

461
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Speaker 4: I'll probably regret it within a couple of years. It's

462
00:24:11,640 --> 00:24:14,239
Speaker 4: just the same old dog and pony show. I mean,

463
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Speaker 4: like we were talking last week, Garry eats this stuff up.

464
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Speaker 4: I mean the fact that there's all this discord and

465
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Speaker 4: disharmony and then he eventually gives the guy more than

466
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Speaker 4: anybody else would have, and so you know, the guy

467
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Speaker 4: eventually gets a smile on his face. But the star

468
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Speaker 4: culture continues and certain people are propped up, and there's

469
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Speaker 4: an underbelly to that roster. There's never really cohesion in

470
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Speaker 4: that locker room because certain guys are treated like rock stars,

471
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Speaker 4: and you know, everybody else just is sort of everybody else.

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Speaker 4: And you know, I think Jerry's gotten increasingly callous and

473
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Speaker 4: flipp it with how he talks about injuries and talks

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Speaker 4: about players worth. And it really kind of started, you know,

475
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Speaker 4: around the Kaepernick stuff, and I feel like it's kind

476
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Speaker 4: of escalated since then, and he continues to message to

477
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Speaker 4: that locker room in a way that I don't think

478
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Speaker 4: resonates with a lot of those guys, especially the ones

479
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Speaker 4: who aren't being paid as best to breed in their positions.

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Speaker 4: So yeah, I mean, he'll get his, like that got his,

481
00:25:21,040 --> 00:25:24,720
Speaker 4: but he'll end up hurting the team because of the

482
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Speaker 4: contract structure and because of what else they won't be

483
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Speaker 4: able to do.

484
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Speaker 3: And he just.

485
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Speaker 4: He's just so stuck in his own ways, and the

486
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Speaker 4: older he gets, the more stubborn he gets, and it's

487
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Speaker 4: his way or the highway, and it's just going to

488
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Speaker 4: be another, I think, pedestrian season in Dallas.

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Speaker 3: Another big effort from us here out on Monday Night

490
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Speaker 3: from our guy, Jason Lock and for at Jason Lock

491
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Speaker 3: and for is where you find him in the Twitter verse.

492
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Speaker 3: See what he's got going on. The Want to Be Podcast,

493
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Speaker 3: and so much else than he does one O five

494
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Speaker 3: to seven the fan there in Baltimore, Jayceon, thanks for

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Speaker 3: taking a few time minutes out with us here on

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Speaker 3: a Monday night. Next time we'll be talking about more

497
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Speaker 3: camp fun and getting ready for that Hall of Fame game.

498
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Speaker 4: Yeah, get on Malmo and get on FC cloth and

499
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Speaker 4: from the Czech Republic tomorrow and Champions League qualifying. Think

500
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Speaker 4: of that. Take them both on the money line, maybe

501
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Speaker 4: parliam together.

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Speaker 3: Malmo is a wonderful place to visit, by the.

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Speaker 4: Way, gorgeous.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, it's wonderful, lovely. Yeah, I can't wait to go back.

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Speaker 3: Thanks for hanging out with us, Bundy. We'll talk to again, guys.

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Speaker 4: Thank you.

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Speaker 2: Be sure to catch live editions of The Jason Smith

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Speaker 2: Show with Mike harmon weekdays at ten pm Eastern, seven

509
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Speaker 2: pm Pacific.

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Speaker 3: I was really getting ready to send a bunch of

511
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Speaker 3: really nasty, all right, kind of funny texts to my mom,

512
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Speaker 3: you know, Cubs fan, even though she still has now

513
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Speaker 3: adopted the raise as another part of her cheering section.

514
00:26:54,800 --> 00:26:56,960
Speaker 3: Hey it is what it is. White Sox were absolutely

515
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Speaker 3: bludgeoning the Cubs and it's like a a shutout going

516
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Speaker 3: into the seventh and all of a sudden, a three

517
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Speaker 3: run barrage. And it's not quite as fun once they

518
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Speaker 3: get a crooked number up there, but we'll celebrate it

519
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Speaker 3: as we will over the course of the show. We

520
00:27:12,520 --> 00:27:16,320
Speaker 3: got so much going on. We got the NFLPA with

521
00:27:16,480 --> 00:27:20,080
Speaker 3: more chaos, just as we predicted. The other day, I

522
00:27:20,200 --> 00:27:24,160
Speaker 3: saw a couple of movies one very late night as

523
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Speaker 3: Happy Gilmour two came out, and then I'm a fantastic

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Speaker 3: four nerd. I started a new program outside of our

525
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Speaker 3: sports world, Arnie. So we'll tease that ahead where people

526
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Speaker 3: can interact socially. There we got linn O MESSI a messy,

527
00:27:40,800 --> 00:27:45,359
Speaker 3: messy situation. And then we've got a strike. And no

528
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Speaker 3: it's not the WNBA, it's not Major League Baseball. No,

529
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Speaker 3: it's the concession workers at Fenway Park as the Dodgers

530
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Speaker 3: come in for a big series this weekend. Dodgers take

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Speaker 3: the opener five to two. Walker Buehler gets his ring

532
00:28:03,600 --> 00:28:08,600
Speaker 3: before the game and everything else. But they had striking

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Speaker 3: workers all around the facility. Don't buy food walking the

534
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Speaker 3: picket line. You've got the era mark, the concession vendor

535
00:28:18,960 --> 00:28:22,920
Speaker 3: fighting with their union and the Red Sox going, hey, everything,

536
00:28:23,040 --> 00:28:25,439
Speaker 3: we can tell you it's not us, it's not on us.

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00:28:25,600 --> 00:28:30,919
Speaker 3: Bernie Sanders chiming in respect the picket line the union posted.

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Speaker 3: We know ticks are expensive. We're not asking you to

539
00:28:33,600 --> 00:28:36,399
Speaker 3: stay away from the home games, but we're asking you

540
00:28:36,600 --> 00:28:40,479
Speaker 3: not to buy concessions. No purchase of pretzels, pickles or peanuts.

541
00:28:40,600 --> 00:28:43,240
Speaker 3: How many of those folks then set up stands outside

542
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Speaker 3: and still made some money, like you know those mobile

543
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Speaker 3: hot dog carts that are everywhere here in Los Angeles.

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Speaker 5: Yeah, that wild like a serious and by the way, hello,

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Speaker 5: how are you my f I'm great body.

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Speaker 3: What's going on?

547
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Speaker 4: Well?

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Speaker 3: I feel we got four hours of pleasantries touting me

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Speaker 3: nine thousand times.

550
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Speaker 5: I had four hours. I think that's going to wrap

551
00:29:02,080 --> 00:29:04,040
Speaker 5: up the show. So I'll been to you next week.

552
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Speaker 5: Thank you for for By the way, you threw me off,

553
00:29:07,360 --> 00:29:10,520
Speaker 5: I didn't know you were driving tonight, so but that's okay.

554
00:29:11,000 --> 00:29:13,440
Speaker 5: You'll never learn how to drive unless you do it,

555
00:29:13,560 --> 00:29:15,600
Speaker 5: so I'm gonna let you go ahead and do that.

556
00:29:15,680 --> 00:29:16,840
Speaker 5: It's good to speak to ice.

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Speaker 3: It's good to have a you know, a kindred smart

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Speaker 3: ass in the chair. You and I go way back

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Speaker 3: I'm sorry, Arnie Spaniard, do we have any trumpets or

560
00:29:25,920 --> 00:29:30,160
Speaker 3: anything for his arrival that we want Red Cardiff? But

561
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Speaker 3: I'm like, he's got to get to be right. I mean,

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Speaker 3: we're I think this is our three now. I I

563
00:29:35,800 --> 00:29:41,800
Speaker 3: just had dinner, Like there you go, his Royal Highness

564
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Speaker 3: and side Sunday Night's a longside, Chris Blank. He and

565
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Speaker 3: I go back a long way in these sporting highways

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Speaker 3: and my ways. He's he's honored to be in with

567
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Speaker 3: me tonight. It's our guy, Arnie Spaniards. Fire on the

568
00:30:00,440 --> 00:30:04,040
Speaker 3: man all night long. We've been hearing that for weeks.

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Speaker 3: That's gonna drive me crazy. He's been buying that. That's

570
00:30:06,960 --> 00:30:09,560
Speaker 3: got nothing to do with you be on the show. No,

571
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Speaker 3: I know, it's it's driving me batty. And it's only

572
00:30:13,320 --> 00:30:16,040
Speaker 3: been twice right now. It's one of the great drops

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Speaker 3: that you've given us. There are many I saw.

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Speaker 5: I saw a grateful Dead cover band my friend had

575
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Speaker 5: not my friend some lady I met invited me to

576
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Speaker 5: our house to wait for a cover band.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, you gotta bet you want to get a stand

578
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Speaker 3: up bass player as you try to tell these stories

579
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Speaker 3: that I hear you call me.

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Speaker 5: Yeah, exactly know this. This lady called my name in

581
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Speaker 5: the parking lot. I didn't know who she was, but

582
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Speaker 5: she's like, hey, you should come to our party. We're

583
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Speaker 5: having a cover band. It's Grateful Dead. So I told

584
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Speaker 5: my wife and we just kind of, you know, crashed.

585
00:30:50,080 --> 00:30:51,720
Speaker 5: We didn't know anybody there, but it was a good.

586
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Speaker 3: Did you throw the keys in the right bucket or what?

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Speaker 4: Yeah?

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00:30:55,240 --> 00:30:57,240
Speaker 3: Yeah, there you go, there you go. You gotta be

589
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Speaker 3: a certain age. You go look that up on the

590
00:30:59,200 --> 00:31:03,160
Speaker 3: exactly and your innerwebs and what I'm talking about.

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Speaker 5: But yeah, hey, what's going on? I saw you like

592
00:31:05,720 --> 00:31:09,720
Speaker 5: thirty six topics today. That's like an all time record.

593
00:31:09,760 --> 00:31:11,640
Speaker 5: Are we gonna get to every one of them?

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Speaker 3: I know, because a bunch of them are actually a

595
00:31:13,920 --> 00:31:18,960
Speaker 3: little dated in that I've been doing shows dated show wow. No, no, No.

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Speaker 3: The point is we're pretty good. I think between Frostburg

597
00:31:23,880 --> 00:31:26,800
Speaker 3: Alex when when Steve's in with us last night, Dan

598
00:31:26,880 --> 00:31:30,120
Speaker 3: Byer Monty Belango sending with us that we grab what's

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Speaker 3: current and new, which means it doesn't get to jest

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Speaker 3: date and see which way the dot you to that point.

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Speaker 3: Seven of them we already did. There's a couple that

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Speaker 3: I'm I like our license with the FCC. We know

603
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Speaker 3: one of the principles and in some of the notes

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Speaker 3: that you sent me is very litigious, resides here in

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Speaker 3: Los Angeles, doesn't show up when he says he's supposed

606
00:31:53,160 --> 00:31:56,120
Speaker 3: to show up at a pizza place. May or not,

607
00:31:56,480 --> 00:31:59,800
Speaker 3: may not be trying to force his way out despite

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Speaker 3: picking up a fifty two point six million dollar player option.

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00:32:03,640 --> 00:32:06,240
Speaker 3: By declining it would have written made his life a

610
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Speaker 3: lot easier. But instead it's look at me, look at me, hey, hey,

611
00:32:11,240 --> 00:32:14,160
Speaker 3: look at me like I'm going straight. Things and ten

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00:32:14,280 --> 00:32:17,640
Speaker 3: things I hate about you say plenty of movie references

613
00:32:17,680 --> 00:32:20,120
Speaker 3: over the course of the night, but you know, the

614
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Speaker 3: Lebron James stuff. It's fun to kind of look at

615
00:32:24,680 --> 00:32:27,680
Speaker 3: and wave at. I mean, we can talk about the team.

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Speaker 5: It's changed today today, it's changed actually today because Jeff

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Speaker 5: Tigue walked it backward.

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Speaker 3: But he can't. No, no, you can't walk that back Well,

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Speaker 3: what no, you can't. You can't under him, you might

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Speaker 3: you might have gotten threat of legal recourse, so you

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Speaker 3: will issue a public apology and you know, and walk

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Speaker 3: it back and like that had that siren truck.

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Speaker 5: If it's true, you can't sue, right, I mean, that's

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Speaker 5: that's a pretty good defense at least I thought.

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Speaker 3: I Well, for those unaware Jeff Tigue implying that miss

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Speaker 3: time by Lebron James in the past, I mean, since

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Speaker 3: you know you're walking it there, we'll go through it

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00:33:05,960 --> 00:33:11,920
Speaker 3: implying shenanigans in terms of availability and in terms of

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Speaker 3: readiness to play and maybe supplements. How do you like that?

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Speaker 3: We'll dance around it that way. But and then immediately

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Speaker 3: within twenty four hours after backlash and we have seen

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Speaker 3: litigiousness on the part of Clutch Sports and Lebron James

633
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Speaker 3: that suddenly, oh, I you know, I was just speaking

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Speaker 3: off the cup. No, no, no, you knew exactly what

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Speaker 3: the hell you were doing. And it was only when

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Speaker 3: you got the call note multiple notes, maybe a courier

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Speaker 3: that showed up with a you know, a nice Manila

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Speaker 3: envelope of stuff that suddenly you're walking it back. So yeah,

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Speaker 3: you got that there. Whether you want to believe stuff

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Speaker 3: or not, right, I mean, that's up to you the

641
00:33:52,560 --> 00:33:55,440
Speaker 3: listening audience. You're an intelligent group of people, and I'm

642
00:33:55,480 --> 00:33:57,960
Speaker 3: not going to try to swell you one way or another. Arnie.

643
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Speaker 3: That's not what we're here to do. In the end,

644
00:34:00,920 --> 00:34:04,200
Speaker 3: I enjoy what's in between the white lines. History will

645
00:34:04,240 --> 00:34:07,720
Speaker 3: decide the rest of it. I don't care to be

646
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Speaker 3: honest with you. And I'm talking about all athletes. I'm

647
00:34:11,120 --> 00:34:12,360
Speaker 3: not just talking about Lebron.

648
00:34:12,840 --> 00:34:15,360
Speaker 5: What supplements they're using, what they're putting in their body,

649
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Speaker 5: what they're trying to do to make themselves healthier, trying

650
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Speaker 5: to overcome get back from some injury, a steroid, whatever

651
00:34:23,719 --> 00:34:26,880
Speaker 5: it is, whatever doctor says, if the doctor says, hey,

652
00:34:26,960 --> 00:34:29,719
Speaker 5: this is gonna make you heal faster. They put their

653
00:34:29,840 --> 00:34:33,400
Speaker 5: bodies through so much, Mike and I and I'll speak

654
00:34:33,480 --> 00:34:36,839
Speaker 5: for America, how about that. I don't think Americans can

655
00:34:36,920 --> 00:34:39,680
Speaker 5: care anymore. I don't think anybody sits back right now.

656
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Speaker 5: Go ah, look at that guy, he's a running back.

657
00:34:42,520 --> 00:34:46,080
Speaker 5: He's gotta be on steroids. Or look at that baseball player.

658
00:34:46,200 --> 00:34:48,359
Speaker 5: Look at what he home runs he has. He's got

659
00:34:48,480 --> 00:34:52,680
Speaker 5: to be on something. Nobody cares, Nobody thinks about it anymore. Mike,

660
00:34:52,760 --> 00:34:55,839
Speaker 5: it's not important. And like I said, if you're gonna

661
00:34:55,840 --> 00:35:00,320
Speaker 5: put your body through that much stuff, you deserve to

662
00:35:00,400 --> 00:35:03,000
Speaker 5: go ahead and heal as fast as possible to get

663
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Speaker 5: back to the field and and whatever doctor says, do it.

664
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Speaker 5: Then it's not like you're, you know, putting you should

665
00:35:09,080 --> 00:35:11,400
Speaker 5: put bad things in your body. These are all healthy

666
00:35:11,480 --> 00:35:15,120
Speaker 5: things and good things to make you heal. So I

667
00:35:15,440 --> 00:35:18,719
Speaker 5: just don't think people care anymore. That's why maybe he's

668
00:35:18,800 --> 00:35:21,240
Speaker 5: walking it back. Maybe it's because he was gonna get sued.

669
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Speaker 5: But I'm on the Bron's side on this. I don't

670
00:35:24,239 --> 00:35:26,480
Speaker 5: think anybody cares what he you know, he should do

671
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Speaker 5: whatever it is good for his body.

672
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Speaker 3: All right, So he's hijacked the show once. Keep that

673
00:35:31,160 --> 00:35:33,480
Speaker 3: score count over there to saga. As we get through

674
00:35:33,520 --> 00:35:35,560
Speaker 3: the night, we'll have the h We'll ring the bell

675
00:35:36,280 --> 00:35:39,640
Speaker 3: each and every time. I wanted to talk about labor strife,

676
00:35:39,640 --> 00:35:42,759
Speaker 3: instead we go down this. Sure they'll be twisted road

677
00:35:43,000 --> 00:35:45,800
Speaker 3: what But no, I mean yesterday, look, we commemorated the

678
00:35:45,880 --> 00:35:49,960
Speaker 3: life and life and times uh wrestling in particular and

679
00:35:50,480 --> 00:35:53,560
Speaker 3: Master Thespian that of Hulk Hogan. Tonight they did the

680
00:35:53,600 --> 00:35:56,520
Speaker 3: big ten bell, will salute his part of SmackDown. But

681
00:35:57,000 --> 00:35:59,520
Speaker 3: to that point, plenty of stuff back in the day

682
00:35:59,600 --> 00:36:04,920
Speaker 3: with home and substances which mayor you know, not just

683
00:36:05,040 --> 00:36:07,120
Speaker 3: training and saying your prayers and eating your vitamins, but

684
00:36:07,200 --> 00:36:09,440
Speaker 3: a big thing, and there's plenty of documentaries on it

685
00:36:09,840 --> 00:36:13,080
Speaker 3: through it all in the ends, that bridge between sports

686
00:36:13,120 --> 00:36:16,600
Speaker 3: and entertainment and trying to figure out where the lines are.

687
00:36:16,760 --> 00:36:20,719
Speaker 3: And certainly we've seen we'll commemorate the Hall of Fame

688
00:36:20,840 --> 00:36:24,520
Speaker 3: inductions this week and every year it becomes the same

689
00:36:24,680 --> 00:36:27,880
Speaker 3: question of all right, you leave certain people out, and

690
00:36:28,000 --> 00:36:30,160
Speaker 3: then you've got the other guys who might have been

691
00:36:30,280 --> 00:36:33,560
Speaker 3: better to the media or maybe had a better reputation, right,

692
00:36:34,080 --> 00:36:37,640
Speaker 3: weren't a jerk and dismissive of some questions in the clubhouse.

693
00:36:38,120 --> 00:36:40,040
Speaker 3: They're the ones that get left out. And then you've

694
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Speaker 3: got a couple of other guys that like, well maybe,

695
00:36:43,560 --> 00:36:46,800
Speaker 3: but hey they're in, and you know they get voted in.

696
00:36:46,960 --> 00:36:49,680
Speaker 3: And I think you all immediately as I'm saying that,

697
00:36:49,800 --> 00:36:52,959
Speaker 3: you get one, two, maybe eight names of the last

698
00:36:53,040 --> 00:36:56,359
Speaker 3: twenty years that suddenly pop into your brain. But it's

699
00:36:56,520 --> 00:36:59,040
Speaker 3: all to your point, aren't you In the end, if

700
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Speaker 3: it's going to get a player back on the field

701
00:37:01,800 --> 00:37:04,680
Speaker 3: and our all stars are there and available, something we

702
00:37:04,800 --> 00:37:08,600
Speaker 3: can plain about ad nauseum, particularly during the NBA season,

703
00:37:09,120 --> 00:37:11,360
Speaker 3: that you know, there is something to be said for

704
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Speaker 3: what availability is the best ability that our audience cares?

705
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Speaker 3: Do you think our people I think in general, I

706
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Speaker 3: think I think there is. I think there is to

707
00:37:23,960 --> 00:37:28,200
Speaker 3: a point, right, you know, the sense of fair play, truth,

708
00:37:28,440 --> 00:37:30,320
Speaker 3: justice in the American way and all that. I'm watching

709
00:37:30,320 --> 00:37:33,920
Speaker 3: Superman in between all my baseball games here. But all

710
00:37:34,000 --> 00:37:37,160
Speaker 3: of that to say that you're you're trying to figure

711
00:37:37,200 --> 00:37:41,040
Speaker 3: out you know, the quote level playing field, which, let's

712
00:37:41,080 --> 00:37:43,279
Speaker 3: face it, from day one, as soon as you put

713
00:37:43,320 --> 00:37:46,800
Speaker 3: on a pair of cleats, grab a bat whatever, like

714
00:37:47,080 --> 00:37:54,040
Speaker 3: science and uh, genealogy is you're already having problems. There's

715
00:37:54,080 --> 00:37:54,840
Speaker 3: no correlation.

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Speaker 5: Yeah, there's no correlation between you know, taking a steroid

717
00:37:58,880 --> 00:38:01,280
Speaker 5: and saying that you're gonna hit more home runs. Otherwise

718
00:38:01,360 --> 00:38:03,600
Speaker 5: everybody would be doing it, and a lot of people

719
00:38:03,680 --> 00:38:06,560
Speaker 5: were doing it. I just think now people just want

720
00:38:06,600 --> 00:38:08,600
Speaker 5: to see their favorite athletes. They want to see big

721
00:38:08,640 --> 00:38:10,920
Speaker 5: time athletes. The way to do that is, you know,

722
00:38:11,360 --> 00:38:13,560
Speaker 5: keep yourself healthy. That's tough, man.

723
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Speaker 3: You see what these do football players go through? You

724
00:38:16,840 --> 00:38:20,920
Speaker 3: such like football, nobody ever cared. Occasionally you'd have to

725
00:38:21,520 --> 00:38:27,360
Speaker 3: nab somebody who didn't follow the protocol right calendar and

726
00:38:27,440 --> 00:38:32,359
Speaker 3: they would get popped or occasionally the wrong thing at

727
00:38:32,400 --> 00:38:35,680
Speaker 3: the wrong time, and you'd have, you know, the sacrificial lamb.

728
00:38:35,760 --> 00:38:38,359
Speaker 3: But I mean football. You know, I think we've all

729
00:38:38,480 --> 00:38:40,120
Speaker 3: just kind of shrugged and laughed at that for a

730
00:38:40,239 --> 00:38:42,359
Speaker 3: long time. I can't know us. Why do you think

731
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Speaker 3: we stopped texting testing? Why do you think we stopped

732
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Speaker 3: testing from.

733
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Speaker 5: Marijuana in the NBA and in all sports?

734
00:38:47,560 --> 00:38:47,719
Speaker 4: Huh?

735
00:38:47,880 --> 00:38:52,040
Speaker 3: Well, it also got legalized in the vast majority of states,

736
00:38:52,280 --> 00:38:54,920
Speaker 3: so you know, to that end, it became a wait,

737
00:38:55,120 --> 00:38:58,640
Speaker 3: this is helping guys fight through their pains and issues. Yeah,

738
00:38:58,800 --> 00:39:03,120
Speaker 3: let's go. So yeah, not the topic I was planning

739
00:39:03,160 --> 00:39:06,520
Speaker 3: to start with. I was celebrating the great American pastime

740
00:39:06,560 --> 00:39:08,920
Speaker 3: in another way. But well we we roped it back

741
00:39:09,000 --> 00:39:11,400
Speaker 3: in uh with some Hall of fame and with some

742
00:39:11,520 --> 00:39:15,239
Speaker 3: of the chaos uh and rumor conjecture speculation. Uh. So

743
00:39:15,400 --> 00:39:19,560
Speaker 3: you ended up getting that in shoehorning that topic into

744
00:39:19,800 --> 00:39:23,239
Speaker 3: the show. So take the w the it's your last

745
00:39:23,280 --> 00:39:27,120
Speaker 3: one of the nights. Put you unnoticed, now, Paal, Okay.

746
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Speaker 5: There you go. I won't steer us into a ditch anymore.

747
00:39:31,120 --> 00:39:34,480
Speaker 3: And I'm watching the the White Sox and the Cubs.

748
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Speaker 3: One of the great innovations of our time. Uh, the

749
00:39:37,600 --> 00:39:41,800
Speaker 3: White Sox wearing what looked like bulls uniforms that on

750
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Speaker 3: the MLB network.

751
00:39:43,040 --> 00:39:43,960
Speaker 5: Is that what you're watching it on?

752
00:39:44,440 --> 00:39:47,400
Speaker 3: Ummm no, I think I think this one's just your normal.

753
00:39:47,480 --> 00:39:50,680
Speaker 3: There is the Apple Friday game was I think the

754
00:39:50,760 --> 00:39:53,840
Speaker 3: Phill Easton Jay got that one going for you. But

755
00:39:54,160 --> 00:39:57,200
Speaker 3: which you know, again, people complain, cough up a buck

756
00:39:57,400 --> 00:39:59,520
Speaker 3: or don't watch. Well, it's upon a time you got

757
00:39:59,640 --> 00:40:00,799
Speaker 3: like three games a week?

758
00:40:00,960 --> 00:40:01,320
Speaker 4: Is that what it?

759
00:40:01,360 --> 00:40:03,400
Speaker 3: Shut the hell up? Is that what it cast? How

760
00:40:03,440 --> 00:40:04,840
Speaker 3: much does it cost from I don't even know what.

761
00:40:04,960 --> 00:40:08,520
Speaker 3: Apple's like one hundred bucks a year? Okay, Apple plus

762
00:40:08,600 --> 00:40:12,719
Speaker 3: and you get and you get shrinking. Yeah, well, I

763
00:40:12,800 --> 00:40:15,439
Speaker 3: mean that that is true. Your bunny ears thing isn't

764
00:40:15,440 --> 00:40:15,919
Speaker 3: gonna work.

765
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Speaker 4: You know.

766
00:40:16,239 --> 00:40:18,840
Speaker 3: It's part of the larger move topic. I was trying

767
00:40:19,239 --> 00:40:21,600
Speaker 3: trying to get to and tease with you. Here is

768
00:40:22,000 --> 00:40:23,960
Speaker 3: Arnie's on the move. So we're gonna try to help

769
00:40:24,000 --> 00:40:27,600
Speaker 3: his sports life along the way. Hashtag fire on the

770
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Speaker 3: Mountain at Fox Sports Radio at Stinking Genius one at

771
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Speaker 3: Swaltwen Dome for that as we try to navigate that.

772
00:40:34,640 --> 00:40:36,839
Speaker 3: But no, the the White Sox went and they they

773
00:40:36,960 --> 00:40:40,240
Speaker 3: found a nice hybrid of some of their their colors

774
00:40:40,280 --> 00:40:43,320
Speaker 3: and logos. Add to the bulls with the black and

775
00:40:43,480 --> 00:40:46,120
Speaker 3: the red, and you come up with something that looks

776
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Speaker 3: pretty pretty good. They also have a promotion that I

777
00:40:50,880 --> 00:40:53,439
Speaker 3: saw on ad for during this game, White Sox twelve

778
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Speaker 3: three lead here in the eighth wedding in a minute.

779
00:40:58,360 --> 00:41:00,799
Speaker 3: Oh like an old Bill Veck promotion. So you can

780
00:41:00,880 --> 00:41:05,520
Speaker 3: apply to get your marriage done on the mound in

781
00:41:05,600 --> 00:41:09,360
Speaker 3: a minute. So the change in a game that's a

782
00:41:09,480 --> 00:41:12,960
Speaker 3: total Bill vectig, Well, that screams you, and it screams

783
00:41:13,000 --> 00:41:16,120
Speaker 3: our guy Andy Furman back there in Cincinnati, we love you.

784
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Speaker 3: Some of the stuff Andy used to do at the

785
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Speaker 3: restaurant