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Speaker 1: So we had some really good feedback, not that that

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Speaker 1: necessarily matters all that much, but newby Night was a

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Speaker 1: critically acclaimed, critically acclaimed night of the show, and we're

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Speaker 1: happy about that, and we don't want the newbies to

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Speaker 1: just avoid us, but you feel free to calling. We'll

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Speaker 1: give out the number in a little bit, and I

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Speaker 1: know the regulars are excited to be back. However, our

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Speaker 1: lead this hour from the peak leak, if you will.

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Speaker 1: The owners tried, they went to court, they tried. It

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Speaker 1: turns out they failed to keep the NFL Players Association

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Speaker 1: report cards from becoming public. This was not that hard

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Speaker 1: to predict. As a distant relative of Nostra Damis and

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Speaker 1: former friend of Nostra Denis, it was pretty obvious that

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Speaker 1: this information was going to get into the public sector,

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Speaker 1: and it did so earlier this month. You might remember

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Speaker 1: the NFL. This is about a couple of weeks ago.

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Speaker 1: I think it was a couple of weeks ago. The

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Speaker 1: NFL won a grievance that, in theory, prevented the NFL

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Speaker 1: Players Association from publishing the results of the team report

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Speaker 1: just one or two, or three or four or five,

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Speaker 1: not all thirty two teams letter grades were posted online

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Speaker 1: for everyone to see. Fun for all ages. So I

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Speaker 1: don't know if you checking this out, maybe you missed it.

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Speaker 1: So the team that is con at the very top

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Speaker 1: out about that unbelievable Dolphins top spot among all the

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Speaker 1: players surveyed for the third consecutive year. Now, if I

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Speaker 1: have to send a check to Pat Riley, but I'd

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Speaker 1: put three P the Miami Dolphins three P. Now, the

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Speaker 1: team that was at the very bottom, looking up at

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Speaker 1: the tuckers of everyone else in the NFL, the once

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Speaker 1: were the very bottom right there in the sewer. For

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Speaker 1: the first time. Pittsburgh received a very low grades, very

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Speaker 1: low grades from the players there in several categories. You

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Speaker 1: you a couple of them. The players claimed inadequate maintenance,

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Speaker 1: God forbid, these players need the feeld to themselves. Note

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Speaker 1: let any of those high school kids on that field, please,

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Speaker 1: So they criticize the the field, technology, the facilities in general.

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Speaker 1: So that's a good jumping off point. Let us discuss,

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Speaker 1: all right, let us discuss. We're gonna discuss right now.

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Speaker 1: So the question here, what's coming up for you when

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Speaker 1: you when you look at these complaints. I yeah, maybe

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Speaker 1: what's coming up for you when you look at these

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Speaker 1: complaints by these Steelers players? So I've got I've got truffles,

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Speaker 1: Jimmy Buffett and Sasquatch, and we will combine all of

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Speaker 1: this when I when I saw the complaints was I thought, well, boily,

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Speaker 1: Monongahela is just so many tiers from these Pittsburgh players.

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Speaker 1: These Steelers players complained about a number of things. The

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Speaker 1: That's it. That's all. So that is a Heinz Field

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Speaker 1: or whatever the stadium's called. Now some act, for sure,

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Speaker 1: something something level tragedy. Right there, be still my beating heart.

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Speaker 1: The Steeler franchise. You've changed. Another thing that's changed in

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Speaker 1: We have a ninety nine percent male staff. There are

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Speaker 1: And they used to have both bathrooms open back in

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Speaker 1: just a tone deaf group of people. Right. The players

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Speaker 1: And it's just great, right you think about you know,

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Speaker 1: see if you can find any divots and fill them in.

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Speaker 1: That's it. So the Dolphins, who've apparently built a beat

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Speaker 1: And what did that get him? A bland plate of

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Speaker 1: You know, the Jets are less, No, they weren't. The

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Speaker 1: The Jets don't count. That's Pop Warner. They don't count

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Speaker 1: said in life, comfort breeds complacency. The next generation is

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Speaker 1: not as gung ho to get it done. It's kind

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Speaker 1: Mark Davis cares as much as Al Davis. Hell no, Like,

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Speaker 1: come on now, Genie boss a joke of an owner

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Speaker 1: in the NBA with the Lakers, terrible if he's selling

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Speaker 1: Buss and you and I listen. I mean, there's plenty

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Speaker 1: that some kind of hardship actually builds character. Hair on

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Speaker 1: your chest, right, yeah, but you imagined if discovering that

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Speaker 1: this NFLPA survey. It does. It does so Unfortunately for

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Speaker 1: Our last word here, So the NFL Players Association report card. Great, right,

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Speaker 1: Come on, the NFL, a multi billion dollar conglomerate, a cartel,

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Speaker 1: has instructed the members of their car RTELL to refrain

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Speaker 1: the union's media campaign. They're calling it a media which

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Speaker 1: it obviously is a media campaign to sway public sentiment

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Speaker 1: those poor NFL players and there are I'm always fascinated

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Speaker 1: by this, Like the real fanboys. You know who they are. Oh,

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Speaker 1: so sad they didn't get tuna tartar. It's really bad

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Speaker 1: NFL says they will review the leak. They're going to

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Speaker 1: review the leak. And the question what legal options do

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Speaker 1: report card? Quagmire. So I do believe that those are

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Speaker 1: If the NFLPA is running the public smear campaign, which

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Speaker 1: I don't us sit there and take it. Hey, these

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Speaker 1: draws closer, with spring training underway, world Baseball class is

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Speaker 1: coming up. This group, this group, they are telling you,

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Speaker 1: and they're telling me that there's only eight teams that

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Speaker 1: have any kind of chance of contending for the World Series.

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Speaker 1: Eight teams. There's thirty teams in baseball, which means, if

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Speaker 1: my math is correct, twenty two other baseball teams are

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Speaker 1: essentially the Washington Generals, not the Nationals, although they are

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Speaker 1: they might as well be called the Washington Generals. But

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Speaker 1: that's it. So this argument is the game is broken,

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Speaker 1: competitive balance is dead. We need parody. We need a

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Speaker 1: world where the Las Vegas athleticsir, I guess they're in Sacra,

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Speaker 1: the Sacramento Athletics have a chance to win, you know,

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Speaker 1: que the violins and all that. So question, tell me

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Speaker 1: what stands out to you about this grassroots campaign here.

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Speaker 1: You know, Major League Baseball complaints about the game being

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Speaker 1: broken because of the lack of parody, the few teams

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Speaker 1: that have a chance to win, so the game is broken.

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Speaker 1: Chorus is this is the same dusty vinyl record that

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Speaker 1: baseball owners have been spinning like DJs for thirty plus years.

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Speaker 1: Every single time labor talks are on the horizon. You

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Speaker 1: get the funeral potatoes, you get the funeral music, and

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Speaker 1: you have a party if you're the owner. Baseball is dying.

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Speaker 1: Oh by it's dad. Yeah. And there are people, they're

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Speaker 1: called dumb people who have been fighting the baseball is dead.

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Speaker 1: They've been yelling baseball is dead, dying on that mountain

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Speaker 1: for years since I was a kid. I did some

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Speaker 1: shows on this years ago. But we went back and looked,

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Speaker 1: and you could go through the archives of newspapers going

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Speaker 1: back to the eighteen late eighteen hundreds. There were people.

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Speaker 1: There was a famous column written by somebody from northern California,

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Speaker 1: long dead, long dead, who traveled to the East coast

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Speaker 1: to watch the sport of baseball and determined in the

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Speaker 1: late eighteen hundreds that baseball was no longer popular that

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Speaker 1: it would not last that long, and wrote a whole

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Speaker 1: column about it. And here we are over well over

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Speaker 1: one hundred years after that, one hundred and twenty something

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Speaker 1: years and still going, still going. But the baseball dying.

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Speaker 1: That caucus is a very loud, voisterous caucus. It is competitive,

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Speaker 1: balance is crubling. Hide the women, hide the children, right,

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Speaker 1: And this is often the default setting of the Major

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Speaker 1: League Baseball owners, the robber barons. This is their setting.

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Speaker 1: It's the card they pull from the bottom of the

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Speaker 1: deck whenever the labor negotiations are no way. Now, Scott

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Speaker 1: Boris told me this years ago, and he's still mentioned

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Speaker 1: this from time to time. He correctly has jabbed at

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Speaker 1: the owners over the years, the most powerful man in baseball,

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Speaker 1: Scott Borrows that if the sport is in such a

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Speaker 1: sinkhole financially, if you believe that to be true, if

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Speaker 1: you believe that to be true, it's like the Flat

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Speaker 1: Earth Society, if you believe the earth is flat, and

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Speaker 1: why are certain things the way they are? But if

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Speaker 1: you're someone that thinks the sport of baseball is in

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Speaker 1: a sinkhole financially, why aren't owners selling at clearance prices?

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Speaker 1: Why are the hedge fund hotshots, the hedge fund bros

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Speaker 1: scratching and cloging to get in before anyone buys the team.

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Speaker 1: You know how this works if you're gonna buy an

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Speaker 1: investment that big. If you're one of the people that's

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Speaker 1: qualified to buy a baseball team, you go in there

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Speaker 1: and you have your team of bean counters and they

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Speaker 1: crack open the and they look at the finances and

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Speaker 1: they go over all the numbers. So you're a prospective

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Speaker 1: owner of a big league baseball team and you get

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Speaker 1: to play peek a boo with the spreadsheets before buying

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Speaker 1: the team, and they see what what do they see?

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Speaker 1: They see black ink, They don't see red ink. There's

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Speaker 1: not ready. There's black ink. Now the dirty little secret here.

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Speaker 1: And baseball owners they want you to be on the

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Speaker 1: side of campaigning for them. But owning an MLB team

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Speaker 1: is a country club membership that prints money. And you know,

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Speaker 1: Arti Morino is a great example. He's incompetent, he doesn't

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Speaker 1: know what he's doing. He's a complete loser as an owner,

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Speaker 1: but he makes money. The Angels make money, and he's

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Speaker 1: gonna make more money by not putting certain games on

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Speaker 1: Spring training on TV, no games are on TV, and

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Speaker 1: announcing that the moms of Orange County are the fans

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Speaker 1: of the Angels don't care about winning because they're just

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Speaker 1: moms and they just want to have a place to

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Speaker 1: take their kids and eat hot dogs and popcorn and

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Speaker 1: nachos and then watch the game and then go home

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Speaker 1: and they don't care who wins. That's already murro. It's

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Speaker 1: a country club membership, print money, passive income. You get

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Speaker 1: subsidized by the taxpayers because politicians want free season tickets

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Speaker 1: and jackets and all that stuff. So what a hustle

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Speaker 1: owning a sports team. That's why it was lining up

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Speaker 1: to do it. And it doesn't matter. This whole conversation

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Speaker 1: is irrelevant. The players are not going to swallow a

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Speaker 1: salary cap. They're not unless they see the books. The

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Speaker 1: owners won't allow them to see the books, so that's

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Speaker 1: not gonna happen. So forget about it, and you know,

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Speaker 1: that's it, and we can, you know, have this merry

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Speaker 1: go round around the carousel of hypocrisy. And the other

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Speaker 1: thing people have discounted here is if you ever got

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Speaker 1: to that point where they opened up the books and

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Speaker 1: the players said, okay, we'll go to a salary cap

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Speaker 1: and I don't think it'll happen in my lifetime. At

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Speaker 1: some point, eventually it will happen, but in my lifetime

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Speaker 1: won't happen. The players can say, Okay, we got to

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Speaker 1: get rid of the arbitration system. So then the small

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Speaker 1: market teams are screwed again because nobody wants to play there,

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Speaker 1: so they're they're kicked in the nuts and the players

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Speaker 1: get make some other means. But that's not gonna happen anyway,

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Speaker 1: because imagine how much money the Pittsburgh Pirates are making,

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Speaker 1: and the Athletics and these suck bag teams, the Rockies

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Speaker 1: that don't even try to win, and they're just making

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Speaker 1: money hand over fist, and they're crying poverty. Let's say

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Speaker 1: the players agreed, you know what we're gonna We're gonna

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Speaker 1: do the sour give let us see the books. They're

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Speaker 1: gonna see the books, and they're gonna psych I ain't

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Speaker 1: doing that.

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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. How

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00:32:34,400 --> 00:32:39,360
Speaker 2: about that to the third degree, this is one big

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Speaker 2: event gets grilled.

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Speaker 4: Kobolo bo Nick celebrated his twenty sixth birthday on Wednesday,

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Speaker 4: which led to social media trolls pointing out how he's

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Speaker 4: only played two years but is already the age of

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Speaker 4: a season veteran. Then, how big of a deal is

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Speaker 4: Nicks being older than the other quarterbacks in his draft class?

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Speaker 1: Well, it doesn't. You're really worried about your thirty seven

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Speaker 1: and thirty eight. No, you know, it's that famous quote,

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Speaker 1: yesterday's history. Tomorrow is a mystery. Today's a gift. Just

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Speaker 1: enjoyed today. And if he's good, it doesn't matter. You

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Speaker 1: can plan. You cannot plan on these guys playing for

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Speaker 1: fifteen years. It always is like ridiculous to me. And

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Speaker 1: when it happens, it's it's breaking the norm. If Lebronco's

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Speaker 1: got six good years out of Boat Nicks, they should

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Speaker 1: be happy.

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Speaker 4: Next, we've talked about Lebron James returning to the Cavaliers,

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Speaker 4: but it's now being reported that the Knicks are a

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Speaker 4: potential free agent destination for Lebron. But do you think

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Speaker 4: there is any chance that Lebron lands somewhere other than Cleveland?

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Speaker 1: Well, not in New York. He's avoided New York like anthrax.

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Speaker 1: He doesn't want to play for Dolan. Dolan's still there,

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Speaker 1: so I don't buy that. It's either Cleveland maybe Miami,

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Speaker 1: but he hates pat Riley too, so it's Cleveland. Next.

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Speaker 4: TMZ caught up with Kenny Smith and asked him about

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Speaker 4: the recent retirement of Chris Paul. The Jet pretty much

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Speaker 4: guaranteed that CPTE will end up being a head coach

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Speaker 4: at some point, Ben, do you think that's what's in

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Speaker 4: Chris Paul's future?

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Speaker 1: No, he's living the life for Riley. You really want

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Speaker 1: to back to back in Sacramento and Salt Lake City

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Speaker 1: as an NBA coach? Come on, he made you. He

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Speaker 1: made four hundred million on the court, plus all the

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Speaker 1: endorsements and all the insurance stuff. He's got to live

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Speaker 1: the heat in this lifestyle, right, the pursuit of pleasure?

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Speaker 1: You why don't you even fut's around with that? No? No, no,

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Speaker 1: don't be a coach? Why would you do that? By

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Speaker 1: there it is mallardly third degree? How did we do?

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Speaker 1: I guess you passed. That's not a guess, that's a

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Speaker 1: solid degree right there.

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Speaker 1: Knock Knock, Who's there? Blame Weed Blame week too. It's

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Speaker 1: Big Ben's lame joke of the week. Yeah, here we go,

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Speaker 1: Big Ben's lame jokes of the week. And yeah, what's

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Speaker 1: going on? Weed man?

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Speaker 5: Hippie?

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Speaker 1: All right? Very good? And we actually have an added bonushit.

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Speaker 1: Why don't we do this right now so I don't

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Speaker 1: forget because I know I'm gonna forget, and I don't

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Speaker 1: want to forget because I like this guy and I

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Speaker 1: hope he becomes a regular. So we only don't allow

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Speaker 1: anyone to read jokes to you. But we have a

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Speaker 1: celebrity caller, Mikey the insomniac from Tampa, would like to

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Speaker 1: tell you a joke. Are you ready, weed man?

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Speaker 5: Wow?

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Speaker 3: How are you doing? My dude?

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Speaker 5: I'm doing great, weed Man. Listen, just say no, because

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Speaker 5: I know you're gonna say yes to this, but I

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Speaker 5: want you just to say no. I have you ever found

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Speaker 5: a dead body in the woods? Oh no, no, no, no, no,

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Speaker 5: I have I have twice. And she was like when

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Speaker 5: I left her, I'm sorry Lorena.

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Speaker 1: She was, oh, all right, there you go, Mikey starts

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Speaker 1: us off the joke. These these are jokes.

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Speaker 4: Now.

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Speaker 1: If you want to be a joke writer, if you

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Speaker 1: think you're funny and you want to write a joke

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Speaker 1: for hundreds of thousands of people, whatever it is, this

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Speaker 1: is your opportunity right here. Yes, then you share who

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Speaker 1: sho chips and candy? Well, I'm I'm not sure I

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Speaker 1: was it. Parito was sitting. I think Pirito had sent

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Speaker 1: you some stuff. I don't know if anyone else sent you,

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Speaker 1: I don't know.

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Speaker 4: Okay, did you get the air fryer from sir scratch Off?

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Speaker 1: No? I did not, shocking, shocking. Yeah, yeah, Well, we

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Speaker 1: had a great Mallard meet and greet in Arkansas, Remember Coop,

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Speaker 1: how fun that was going to Arkansas and our listeners there.

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Speaker 1: It was great and it was really fun. Devy Case

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Speaker 1: those were delicious. Those were really good too. But because

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Speaker 1: of that, our buddy, our buddy in Hartford hooked us

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Speaker 1: up with the mother load a couple of times, right,

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Speaker 1: mother load of those. Did you know that weed Man

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Speaker 1: is getting Okay, calm down. Did you know that weed

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Speaker 1: Man is getting invited to the Summer Olympics.

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Speaker 5: Wow.

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Speaker 1: Really, yeah, you're gonna represent the USA and the dumpster

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Speaker 1: high dive, So congratulations on that. That's Noah in Austin.

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Speaker 1: And why did weed Man hate school?

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Speaker 5: Really?

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Speaker 1: Yeah, you hated school. The teachers always gave you home work.

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Speaker 1: That's everybody, Mike the Leprechaun. Who is weed Man's favorite

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Speaker 1: Star Wars character? Who can't Chewbacca is the answer. That's

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Speaker 1: Kurt Good Joe, Kurt from Earth. How old is weed Man?

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Speaker 1: How old he's so old that rolling a joint will

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Speaker 1: soon mean his ankle? That's Eat in Roseville, Minnesota. Here's

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Speaker 1: another one from our buddy Eat. Very nice man. I

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Speaker 1: met him weed Man. I met him at the Mallard

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Speaker 1: years back. Yes, what did weed Man write on his

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Speaker 1: jail cell wall? What for a good time? Called Ben

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Speaker 1: Maller eight seven seven ninety nine? One fox? All right?

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Speaker 1: How was weed Man hippie? How has weed Man Hippie

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Speaker 1: lasted so long with Lisa? How how well they both

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Speaker 1: believe in a long distance relationship. That's Daryl in the Ozarks.

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Speaker 1: Thank you. Daryl met Darryl as well back in the day.

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Speaker 1: All right in the Kansas City meet and greet did

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Speaker 1: you know that weed Man was able to buy a

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Speaker 1: new set of chompers for just one dollar? I wish. Wow, Yeah,

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Speaker 1: it's a it's a deal and now you have buck teeth.

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Speaker 1: So congratulations. That's our buddy, Surfer. That's Surfer Todd, the

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Speaker 1: comedian who was at He's always at the mallor meet

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Speaker 1: and greets in Vegas, and I guess he'll be at

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Speaker 1: the one we hopefully do it this year, slug willing

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Speaker 1: and all that, and he'll come by and he lives

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Speaker 1: in Vegas part of the time. Now, all right, what

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Speaker 1: happened when a judge asked weed Man Hippie why he

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Speaker 1: was driving under the influence?

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Speaker 5: Why?

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Speaker 1: Well, weed May Hippie pled the fifth is what he did?

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Speaker 1: That just George, George and Grbaldi Texas sent that one

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Speaker 1: in the eighth Hello, did you hear that weed Man's

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Speaker 1: about weed Man's new beer?

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Speaker 4: No?

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Speaker 1: Really, yeah, big news week Man. It's called Lincoln Road

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Speaker 1: Living the Low Life. That's from Drew in Minnesota. All right, Well,

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Speaker 1: apparently weed Man Hippie, as you start, you started having

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Speaker 1: a smoothie every day for breakfast? Is that correct, weed Man?

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Speaker 3: Yeah?

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Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, apparently not having any teeth. It's the only

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Speaker 1: way you can get high fiber in your diet. High

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Speaker 1: fiber in your diet, say Darryl again in the Ozar.

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Speaker 1: So why did weed man get rejected when he tried

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Speaker 1: to join the Lakers?

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Speaker 5: Why?

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Speaker 1: Lakers said, we have enough guys standing around doing nothing.

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Speaker 1: That's Eric in Kansas. Very funny, All right, fine man,

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Speaker 1: all right, another one from our buddy Eric on the

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Speaker 1: Big Ben's Lame Jokes of the Week. These are actual

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Speaker 1: jokes by actual listeners. Were pretty much roasting weed man.

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Speaker 1: Hippie lives in Florida. That's what we're doing right now.

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Speaker 1: While let's hear Wow, why did Lisa start her own

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Speaker 1: pest control business?

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Speaker 5: Wow?

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Speaker 1: Well, she said, twenty five years of experience keeping weed

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Speaker 1: man far away. That's Eric in Kansas. Who set that

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Speaker 1: one in? What does everyone do after weed man enters

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Speaker 1: a room? What they checked the bottom of their shoes? Wow?

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Speaker 1: That's lucky Tony. Oh all right? How does weed man

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Speaker 1: hold his liquor?

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Speaker 4: Wow?

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Speaker 1: By the ears? That's Dan in South Carolina. What else

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Speaker 1: do we have here? Let's see page Dan, your weed

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Speaker 1: man is training for the twenty eighth Summer Olympics in

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Speaker 1: La Wow. Cool. Yeah, yeah, to be part of the

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Speaker 1: high jump. Weed Man, the high jump, i'd uh last one.

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Speaker 1: Did you hear that Jed who fled won a gold

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Speaker 1: medal in the Olympics. No really, yes, in the man's

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Speaker 1: crack pipe. So congratulations to Jed who fled. That was

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Speaker 1: from Jeopardy al So thank you guys all everyone that

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Speaker 1: sent jokes in wonderful job. Thank you weed Man. It's fact,

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Speaker 1: don't you