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Speaker 1: Welcome to the Favorites, the podcast from the Volume podcast Network.

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Speaker 1: It's Thursday. That means it's time to enter the Thursday Thunderdo.

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Speaker 1: On today's show, our special guests. We'll compete alongside my

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Speaker 1: co host, my companion, my BFF, professional sports better Simon Hunter,

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Speaker 1: in an epic test of wagers and wits that's made

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Speaker 1: this show the most celebrated sports betting trivia show in

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Speaker 1: history and the marvel of the Western world. Simon. That

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Speaker 1: introduction gets more mortal of up to every single time

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Speaker 1: we do this show. I see that you have left

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Speaker 1: the beautiful beaches of Lake Tahoe and you are now

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Speaker 1: back in your hovel on the East Coast, a new begining,

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Speaker 1: a reason for them. Then I'm just kid. I want't

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Speaker 1: sing the whole song, but England's in the finals. Chat,

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Speaker 1: We've made it, it's coming home. We've done it. Chat.

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Speaker 1: I listen. Only one of us is allowed to sing

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Speaker 1: on this podcast. I cut myself off. I didn't go

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Speaker 1: full a song, but I'm just so excited right now.

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Speaker 1: I'm excited for you. Look, I think it was last

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Speaker 1: week or the week before when we were on the

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Speaker 1: podcast and we were watching England beat Germany and they

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Speaker 1: scored both of their goals while we were on the show,

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Speaker 1: and you know, joke lost your marbles and had to

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Speaker 1: leave the show for a second. And I was thinking

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Speaker 1: about you yesterday while watching U the England Denmark game.

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Speaker 1: You know, we have been bought by Better Collective. They

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Speaker 1: are a English company. We had a present a two

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Speaker 1: hour presentation this morning for our new bosses at Better Collective,

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Speaker 1: the first one that we've had for them, reviewing the business,

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Speaker 1: going over our future plans since the acquisition. And I

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Speaker 1: watched the game yesterday and I was rooting for England

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Speaker 1: because I'm rooting for you, and I'm a bit of

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Speaker 1: an England file and I just love England generally, but

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Speaker 1: part of me wanted Denmark just because I wanted my

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Speaker 1: possible when we gave our presentation about the business this morning.

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Speaker 1: I don't care what even happens anymore. I do hate Italy,

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Speaker 1: but not as much as I hated Germany or the French.

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Speaker 1: Those are the big ones in England. We really hate

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Speaker 1: it's gonna happen. There's no way England beats Italy. Italy

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Speaker 1: is so much better than us. I love the bookmakers.

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Speaker 1: They made us favorite because they know Joe Public's gonna

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Speaker 1: bet England. Most people are gonna bet England. But I'm

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Speaker 1: peaking right now, chat, so I'm just gonna be celebrating

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Speaker 1: until the game, which we all know it's gonna go

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Speaker 1: to penalty kicks. Harry, he's gonn hit the crossbar, he's

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Speaker 1: it's a hard life. It was an amazing match yesterday.

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Speaker 1: Truly loved it. I'm really excited for you. I am

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Speaker 1: going to be rooting for you and for all our

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Speaker 1: what I would like to see happen. Okay. Also, I

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Speaker 1: love the Danes. Simon your first challenger. He is a

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Speaker 1: young content king. His passion for all things baseball have

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Speaker 1: helped him amass a you Tube audience of almost two

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Speaker 1: YouTube audience. Considered the greatest South Carolina Gamecock baseball product

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Speaker 1: since Jackie Bradley, Junior. It's Mark Luino aka Giraffe Neck Mark.

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Speaker 1: What's going on, buddy? What's up everybody? Thanks for having me.

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Speaker 1: I'm super excited and yes, go game. Cox has always

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Speaker 1: represent South Carolina whenever we can. I feel like your

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Speaker 1: neck is not as giraffelike as your name has sort

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Speaker 1: of promised. When I was in my younger days, I

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Speaker 1: it came from. I can't believe that somebody in college

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Speaker 1: your second challenger today, is one of the hardest working, longest, tenured,

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Speaker 1: do his Saturday you know hangover videos. His passion for

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Speaker 1: Jimmy Garoppolo looklike Danny Donna, hughe what's going on, buddy?

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Speaker 1: I'm not in my natural state today. I'm very clear minded,

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Speaker 1: You are probably you are You mean, you're not hungover,

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Speaker 1: but you probably are overcaffeinated on Duncan. This is definitely true.

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Speaker 1: How many Duncan donuts have you had today? Coffees one

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Speaker 1: and a half? You want to hear something the shocking chat,

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Speaker 1: I've never drank a full cup of coffee in my

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Speaker 1: entire life. I've had a sip never dranking a full

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Speaker 1: but I was gonna go through. I would love to

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Speaker 1: hear what nicknames we would all have based on the internet,

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Speaker 1: because I mean, you got off light. That's a nice,

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Speaker 1: that's not that bad being called giraffnack like off top

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Speaker 1: want to hear what Chad's is big? What do people

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Speaker 1: call you? Chad? God? I don't know. I can't. I

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Speaker 1: can't think of anything mean because I'm just not that

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Speaker 1: self critical. You can think of it? Formed me? Signon?

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Speaker 1: Here we go. Should we play the game? Yes, we

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Speaker 1: can do it. Here's how it's played today. You'll answer

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Speaker 1: to two kinds of questions. Traditional trivia questions about sports, sports, betting,

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Speaker 1: open ended questions or prompts that I alone will judge.

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Speaker 1: I'm rooting for Simon Hunter. Let's begin Part one. Got

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Speaker 1: a little Atlanta themed question here ready. In the NBA's

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Speaker 1: of sports shortcomings. Let's look at a few recent examples. Mark.

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Speaker 1: this game. I do a lot of trivia on my channel.

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Speaker 1: Granted it's baseball, but I've got sports knowledge. I'm in

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Speaker 1: Indiana in a university. And if we're going to be

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Speaker 1: I know what I would do Simon Europe first, such

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Speaker 1: a layup. Thanks for letting me go first. Boston, We

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Speaker 1: and I want to just cast sadness on them for eternity.

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Speaker 1: That's easy. I'm going to give you a proactive answer,

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Speaker 1: and it might mean that I'm never allowed back on

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Speaker 1: this show. No, not by you, not by you, by

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Speaker 1: our lovely producer Matt Mitchell. Because there is a city

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Speaker 1: that's getting too too good at football and it will

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Speaker 1: gonna go there. There are certain things in life and

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Speaker 1: remain Bills Mafia so that we can still all like them,

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Speaker 1: approach here and saying I want Buffalo to remain heartbroken. Wow. Wow,

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Speaker 1: that is one of the meanest things that anybody has

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Speaker 1: I'm just going to come right out and say it.

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Speaker 1: I hate you. I hate you forever. I will say this.

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Speaker 1: I don't disagree with your logic. Years ago, before the

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Speaker 1: Cubs one of the World Series, a buddy of mine,

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Speaker 1: his name is Rick Tellender, who is a prominent columnist

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Speaker 1: room at the Hockey Hall of Fame, located in this city,

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Speaker 1: the largest in Canada. Uh, we're gonna go with Quebec. Wow,

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Speaker 1: the answers have just fallen off a fucking cliff. First,

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Speaker 1: Danny Donahue doesn't know about Queen Elizabeth, and now you're

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Speaker 1: going with Quebec city in Canada. What about Toronto? Oh yeah,

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Speaker 1: that place exists. The Blue Jays haven't played there in

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Speaker 1: like two years. That city is not relevant Toronto for

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Speaker 1: the record. Uh. When I was a big, you know,

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Speaker 1: big wig headhunshow at ESPN, the Stanley Cup came to

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Speaker 1: ESPN one day and I had invited it into our

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Speaker 1: morning meeting and the presenter took it out of the box.

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Speaker 1: It had his gloves on. He stood it up on

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Speaker 1: the table. We got to see it and look at it.

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Speaker 1: And I will say, even though I'm not a hockey

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Speaker 1: guy in any way, it is a sight to behold

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Speaker 1: and it does give you butterflies to think about the

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Speaker 1: history of the Stanley Cup. It is an incredible looking trophy.

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Speaker 1: To look at the engraved names, it's really um it's

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Speaker 1: really something special when you hear a true story. I

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Speaker 1: could have I could have saw the Stanley Cup in person.

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Speaker 1: As a child. I chose to go see Pocahontas and said,

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Speaker 1: we all make our mistakes. I was eight. Now I

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Speaker 1: get it, totally, get it um simon the Stanley Cup.

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Speaker 1: This is your chance to make it up. The Stanley

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Speaker 1: Cup is just like us. It's not perfect. There are

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Speaker 1: two famous team names misspelled on the Cup. One is

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Speaker 1: for the seventy two Bruins, with the word Boston spelled

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Speaker 1: with ques instead of Oh's. The second misspelling oh You're

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Speaker 1: gonna love This is for this other East Coast team,

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Speaker 1: the nineteen eighty one champions and the favorite team of

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Speaker 1: your favorite Action Network employee. Thank you for the lab Chad.

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Speaker 1: The Islanders New York Islanders spelled on the Stanley Cup

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Speaker 1: for nineteen eighty one Islanders I L L A and

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Speaker 1: D E R S. Danny. The name games of twelve

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Speaker 1: women appear on the Stanley Cup. The first was Marguerite

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Speaker 1: Norris in nineteen fifty five, who served as president for

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Speaker 1: this franchise. The winners of eleven Stanley Cups, the most

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Speaker 1: of any American team. Canna go with the Red Wings.

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Speaker 1: The Red Wings mark You've got some catching up to do,

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Speaker 1: According to legend, In nineteen oh five, the Stanley Cup

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Speaker 1: had a rather wet evening after the winning team drunk

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Speaker 1: on victory and also alcohol kicked it into the canal.

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Speaker 1: In this city, the capital of Canada. They have a

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Speaker 1: now defunct Triple A baseball franchise Ottawa. Nothing gets by

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Speaker 1: me except the largest city in Canada. No, definitely not, simon.

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Speaker 1: Two young people have experienced this Christian religious rite inside

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Speaker 1: the Stanley Cup. The most recent was at the request

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Speaker 1: of Red Wings player Thomas Holmstrom in two thousand and

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Speaker 1: eight to get married with the Stanley Cup there no,

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Speaker 1: oh religious right, Yeah, a young person experiences I got this.

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Speaker 1: I forget the name is the Jewish thing, isn't it? No,

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Speaker 1: it's got to be a baptized right, boom, baptism bang, Simon,

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Speaker 1: I should take away a point a for not even

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Speaker 1: knowing what the Jewish thing could be. Did you are

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Speaker 1: you thinking like that someone got a brisk they had

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Speaker 1: their foreskin cut off the Stanley Cup. Yeah, and that's

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Speaker 1: what I was thinking, like they put they put the

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Speaker 1: foreskin in the cup. Jesus correct. Can someone get this

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Speaker 1: guy some fucking mac and cheese? All right, here we go,

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Speaker 1: here's the prompt. It is hockey tradition that every player

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Speaker 1: on a Stanley Cup winning team gets one day with

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Speaker 1: the Cup. But winning the Stanley Cup is hard, especially

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Speaker 1: if you aren't the professional hockey player. So imagine if you,

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Speaker 1: a regular person, were allowed one day with the Stanley Cup.

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Speaker 1: What would you do? Danny, You're up first. Okay, so

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Speaker 1: you thought my last answer made me a freak. Just

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Speaker 1: get ready for this. So I have one day with

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Speaker 1: the cup, but I assume I have some days beforehand

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Speaker 1: to prepare for my one day with the cup. So

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Speaker 1: what I'm gonna do is either buy some apple seeds

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Speaker 1: or some apple trees in their infancy stage, to find

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Speaker 1: some land somewhere and set up a row of apple trees.

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Speaker 1: Then on my day with the cup, I'm filling it

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Speaker 1: up with water, watering all these trees so that the

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Speaker 1: coming fall, I have an apple orchard where people can

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Speaker 1: pick apples that were blessed by Lord Stanley himself. And

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Speaker 1: if you don't think that this is a cash cow,

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Speaker 1: I think you're crazy. You know how they like sell

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Speaker 1: the rosary beads outside the Vatican blessed by the Pope.

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Speaker 1: So these apples, you can eat them, but they're, you know,

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Speaker 1: blessed by the Stanley Cup. The Rosary things outside the Vatican.

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Speaker 1: That's the Jewish thing, right. I believe that's right. Yeah, Danny,

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Speaker 1: holy shit, you are bringing it next level today. This

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Speaker 1: is outstanding. Mark. I am always rooting for our guests

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Speaker 1: because they're taking their time and they're usually much higher

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Speaker 1: profile and bigger and more important than any of us

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Speaker 1: here at the Action Network. I don't know how you're

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Speaker 1: gonna beat this. Yeah, I don't. I'm just gonna lean

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Speaker 1: into like South Carolina just out of college. I'm going

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Speaker 1: to go on a bar crawl with Lord Stanley's Cup

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Speaker 1: and we're just gonna fill it with a different beer

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Speaker 1: from a different bar every single time and just have

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Speaker 1: a really fun night and hopefully I wake up with

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Speaker 1: the cup next to me the next day. So you're

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Speaker 1: basically gonna do the Alexander Ovechkin. Yes, I'm just going

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Speaker 1: to get absolutely obliterated while drinking out of the Stanley Cup.

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Speaker 1: I mean, it's sweet. It's not a cash cow. No,

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Speaker 1: it's not growing magic. You know, apples, Simon, what do

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Speaker 1: you got? I'm right there with them. I would take

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Speaker 1: it to England and just do a pub crawl with it.

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Speaker 1: Everyone in England taking drinks out of the Stanley Cup,

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Speaker 1: everyone getting a little taste of Lord Stanley in England.

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Speaker 1: I think that would be pretty cool over there. You'd

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Speaker 1: be surprised people actually do care about hockey, so I

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Speaker 1: think it would be cool to bring it over there.

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Speaker 1: Let me tell you how badly Danny be you guys

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Speaker 1: on that. Before I even scrolled down to announce what

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Speaker 1: the scores currently, Matt Mitchell had already filled in Danny

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Speaker 1: winning that round. Danny has five, Marquess three, Simon is three.

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Speaker 1: As we go into the grand finale, Here's the good

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Speaker 1: news plays right to Mark's strengths because the topic is

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Speaker 1: the home run derby. First, tell me how much you

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Speaker 1: guys would like to risk. Each of you close your eyes,

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Speaker 1: hold up your fingers with your wager amount. Danny you

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Speaker 1: can do up to five, Mark, and sign it up

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Speaker 1: to three. Here we go. One of the most popular

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Speaker 1: parts of the MLB All Star Break experience is the

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Speaker 1: home run derby, which has been beloved by fans since

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Speaker 1: nineteen eighty five. Incredibly, the derby wasn't nationally broadcast until

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Speaker 1: ESPN aired it in ninety three, and it wouldn't be

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Speaker 1: shown live until ninety eight. But that year in nineteen

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Speaker 1: ninety eight, one of the Derby's biggest potential attractions declined

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Speaker 1: to participate after ESPN schedule his team to play a

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Speaker 1: late game the night before, but after please from Hall

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Speaker 1: of Famers Joe Morgan and Frank Robinson, he'd eventually relent

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Speaker 1: and would go on to win his second home Run Derby,

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Speaker 1: and he'd go on to win the next year two.

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Speaker 1: He's one of only six Hall of Famers to win

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Speaker 1: a home Run Derby Crown and remains the only player

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Speaker 1: to win it three times. You're gonna name this players

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Speaker 1: part of the Mark. Please give me your answer for

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Speaker 1: the record. You had three points, You've risked three points.

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Speaker 1: Please give me your answer. I believe it's Ken Griffey Jr.

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Speaker 1: Ken Griffey Junior is the right answer. Mark. You now

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Speaker 1: have six points. You are in the lead. Simon, you

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Speaker 1: of course went all in. What is your answer? Looks

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Speaker 1: like we might have some overtime boys, I put and

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Speaker 1: Griffy Jr. See this is why the game gets exciting.

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Speaker 1: No matter how big a lead someone has, you get

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Speaker 1: in the final round and all bets are on. Get it. Danny,

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Speaker 1: you had five, you risked three. If you get this right,

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Speaker 1: you're the champion. If not, we are going to overtime.

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Speaker 1: Sammy says, oh my god. Miraculously, Mark and Simon are

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Speaker 1: now tied for first and we have to go to

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Speaker 1: our overtime answer. Are you ready do it? Matt Mitchell?

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Speaker 1: Do you want to take us through sudden death? Gentlemen,

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Speaker 1: welcome back to the Thursday Thunderdome Sudden Death Challenge. Because

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Speaker 1: we've spent so much time discussing Canada today, here is

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Speaker 1: your question. Classic prices, right rules, closest without going over

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Speaker 1: what is the total population of Canada? Simon, you go

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Speaker 1: first every time. That's that's correct. I don't know Canada. Um,

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Speaker 1: I'll go with thirty million. Oh man, that's such a

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Speaker 1: good guest. You're right around where I wanted to go.

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Speaker 1: I'm gonna go thirty five million. The answer is thirty

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Speaker 1: seven point seven million. Congratulations, who Wow? Mark Luino giraffneck

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Speaker 1: Mark is the YouTube channel. He is a baseball savants

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Speaker 1: and apparently a Canadian savant as well. That was incredible,

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Speaker 1: incredible comeback for giraffneck Mark, who has proven why he

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Speaker 1: is such a king of all media by winning today

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Speaker 1: the Favorites Thursday Thunderdome edition of the podcast. Before we

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Speaker 1: sign off. Here's a word from our fearless leader, Action

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Speaker 1: Network CEO, Patrick King. I don't even know where to begin,

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Speaker 1: very very disappointed, and each and every one of you

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Speaker 1: this company has a favoriteism and it is professionalism. All right.

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Speaker 1: This has been the favorites from the Volume podcast Network.

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Speaker 1: My thanks, my very special thanks to our guests Danny

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Speaker 1: Donahue who revealed so much about himself today, Giraffe neck

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Speaker 1: Mark Luino. Go check out his YouTube channel talking all

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Speaker 1: things baseball at Giraffe neeck Mark. Of course, I want

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Speaker 1: to thank Simon Hunter as well as a reminder. The

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Speaker 1: Thanks for listening. Love you,