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Speaker 1: the selection committee. Selection Sunday has come and now gone.

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Speaker 1: The twenty twenty six NC Double A men's basketball bracket

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Speaker 1: Locked in Stone, Locked in Stone, And as I mentioned,

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Speaker 1: I'm looking at Duke here, and yeah, Duke's got Cameron Boozer,

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Speaker 4: Now.

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Speaker 1: Was Paul Skins good? Sure? He was good? He was good? Yes,

428
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Speaker 1: he was good. I said that he was good. Legendary

429
00:25:53,119 --> 00:25:55,480
Speaker 1: is that the stuff of legends? Not where I come from?

430
00:25:55,520 --> 00:25:57,520
Speaker 1: Maybe where you come from, but where I come from.

431
00:25:57,840 --> 00:26:01,280
Speaker 1: That is not the stuff of legends. It's not He

432
00:26:01,320 --> 00:26:04,960
Speaker 1: went four and a third innings, seventy one pitches for

433
00:26:05,040 --> 00:26:09,840
Speaker 1: Paul Skins. That's it, seventy one. What was you Rambo?

434
00:26:09,920 --> 00:26:12,560
Speaker 1: He's not Rambo. That was not a Rambo performance. That

435
00:26:12,640 --> 00:26:16,360
Speaker 1: was a guy jogging on a treadmill that Planet Fitness. Okay, good,

436
00:26:16,359 --> 00:26:19,360
Speaker 1: you're on a trademill. Congratulate, but you're not running the marathon.

437
00:26:19,920 --> 00:26:22,760
Speaker 1: That's not the marathon. You were on a treadmill at

438
00:26:22,760 --> 00:26:25,920
Speaker 1: Planet Fitness. That's it. Part of the issue that we

439
00:26:26,040 --> 00:26:29,880
Speaker 1: have with the World Baseball Classic is that it's training

440
00:26:29,920 --> 00:26:33,679
Speaker 1: wheels baseball with the pitching. It's training wheels baseball that

441
00:26:34,200 --> 00:26:39,000
Speaker 1: they're not buying in. Everyone's worried about liability and protecting

442
00:26:39,040 --> 00:26:42,680
Speaker 1: the players and all that, and there's a lot of

443
00:26:42,680 --> 00:26:44,960
Speaker 1: money involved. I get it, but you can't sell this

444
00:26:45,160 --> 00:26:48,440
Speaker 1: as the end all be all when you have caps

445
00:26:48,560 --> 00:26:52,240
Speaker 1: on everything. When it comes to the pitching, you can't

446
00:26:52,240 --> 00:26:55,520
Speaker 1: do it. It's training wheels. Baseball said, well, you're not

447
00:26:55,560 --> 00:26:57,080
Speaker 1: going to win the Tour de France if you got

448
00:26:57,119 --> 00:27:00,399
Speaker 1: the training wheels on, You're not. That's not it. Now,

449
00:27:00,440 --> 00:27:03,480
Speaker 1: the crowd was pro Dominican, even though the game was

450
00:27:03,480 --> 00:27:06,960
Speaker 1: in Miami and it was like a home game for

451
00:27:07,520 --> 00:27:10,639
Speaker 1: the team from the Dominican Republic there, and it seemed

452
00:27:10,680 --> 00:27:12,680
Speaker 1: like a great atmosphere watching on TV. I don't know

453
00:27:12,720 --> 00:27:14,639
Speaker 1: if it was actually in the ballparker on it. Sometimes

454
00:27:14,640 --> 00:27:18,080
Speaker 1: that's misleading. It looked like it was pretty cool in

455
00:27:18,119 --> 00:27:23,359
Speaker 1: the ballpark and all that. Now that said, the Legends

456
00:27:23,520 --> 00:27:28,840
Speaker 1: of Team USA didn't nominate, didn't I didn't see a

457
00:27:28,840 --> 00:27:31,040
Speaker 1: lot of domination. I did not. They were dodging a

458
00:27:31,040 --> 00:27:35,040
Speaker 1: lot of bullets. They did that. Bryce Harper and Aaron

459
00:27:35,119 --> 00:27:37,640
Speaker 1: Judge combined to go two for eight in this game.

460
00:27:37,720 --> 00:27:41,400
Speaker 1: Judge did have a home run taken away by Jay

461
00:27:41,480 --> 00:27:44,080
Speaker 1: Rodd in center field, so we got to hit it

462
00:27:44,119 --> 00:27:46,040
Speaker 1: further than just at the base of the at the

463
00:27:46,200 --> 00:27:48,480
Speaker 1: very top of the wall, otherwise there's a chance the

464
00:27:48,480 --> 00:27:50,240
Speaker 1: ball will be taken back and he will lose a

465
00:27:50,240 --> 00:27:53,600
Speaker 1: home run. And those guys batting two fifty in this game,

466
00:27:53,600 --> 00:27:58,080
Speaker 1: they were upstaged Bryce Harper and Aaron Judge upstayed staged

467
00:27:58,080 --> 00:28:01,800
Speaker 1: by Gunner Henderson and Roman Anthony as they hit the

468
00:28:02,119 --> 00:28:05,320
Speaker 1: home runs. And Roman Anthony was on the postgame on

469
00:28:05,440 --> 00:28:08,040
Speaker 1: FS one, there didn't seem all that thrilled to get

470
00:28:08,040 --> 00:28:10,560
Speaker 1: a T shirt from Big Poppy. They might want to

471
00:28:10,640 --> 00:28:12,800
Speaker 1: upgrade the prize on that. Those guys never seem all

472
00:28:12,840 --> 00:28:14,800
Speaker 1: that excited to get a T shirt from Big Poppy

473
00:28:15,119 --> 00:28:17,640
Speaker 1: on the FS one pre game anyway or post game.

474
00:28:17,760 --> 00:28:20,119
Speaker 1: So page two the losers side, Now, you know, the

475
00:28:20,200 --> 00:28:23,679
Speaker 1: better story is in the losing locker room and many

476
00:28:24,119 --> 00:28:28,119
Speaker 1: questioning the integrity of the umpire in that final pitch

477
00:28:28,760 --> 00:28:31,320
Speaker 1: to the Dominican Republic and the two to one loss

478
00:28:31,320 --> 00:28:35,240
Speaker 1: to the United States there and the pitch was clearly

479
00:28:35,280 --> 00:28:37,800
Speaker 1: not a strike, but it was called a strike that

480
00:28:37,920 --> 00:28:41,840
Speaker 1: ended the game. There is no reviews, so that's it.

481
00:28:42,000 --> 00:28:45,040
Speaker 1: And imagining next time they do this in a couple

482
00:28:45,080 --> 00:28:50,360
Speaker 1: of years, they will have they will have the review available,

483
00:28:50,520 --> 00:28:52,120
Speaker 1: they didn't have it this time. So that was it,

484
00:28:52,280 --> 00:28:56,040
Speaker 1: and the Dominican Republic losers. Now Albert Pulos, who's getting

485
00:28:56,040 --> 00:28:57,880
Speaker 1: paid ten million dollars a year by the Angels to

486
00:28:57,920 --> 00:29:04,400
Speaker 1: manage the Dominican Republic game. So Albert there is out

487
00:29:04,440 --> 00:29:07,120
Speaker 1: there and he didn't put blame. He said he didn't

488
00:29:07,120 --> 00:29:09,720
Speaker 1: put any blame on the umpires. The manager of the

489
00:29:09,720 --> 00:29:12,000
Speaker 1: Dominican Republic says, I don't want to focus on that

490
00:29:12,120 --> 00:29:16,840
Speaker 1: last pitch. Albert Pulo said, I'm not going to criticize

491
00:29:16,840 --> 00:29:20,800
Speaker 1: any of that. It wasn't meant to be close. Quote Okay,

492
00:29:20,960 --> 00:29:26,320
Speaker 1: So question here it is who gets the biggest bowl

493
00:29:27,120 --> 00:29:33,040
Speaker 1: of blame Stu? The biggest bowl of blame Stu for

494
00:29:33,120 --> 00:29:37,480
Speaker 1: the Dominican Republic stars, an all star squad not getting

495
00:29:37,520 --> 00:29:41,840
Speaker 1: it done. So I would consider that scoring one run

496
00:29:42,360 --> 00:29:45,480
Speaker 1: in a game to advance to the championship for a

497
00:29:45,600 --> 00:29:50,000
Speaker 1: roster as loaded as the Dominican the World Baseball clas

498
00:29:50,000 --> 00:29:52,280
Speaker 1: it's only been around for twenty years, that's got to

499
00:29:52,320 --> 00:29:56,800
Speaker 1: be greatest choke job, greatest choke job by a loaded

500
00:29:56,840 --> 00:29:59,680
Speaker 1: offense in the history of the World Baseball Classic. Does

501
00:29:59,720 --> 00:30:02,400
Speaker 1: any disagree with that? No one disagrees with that. Okay,

502
00:30:02,400 --> 00:30:06,880
Speaker 1: good good. That roster. You look at the line up

503
00:30:06,920 --> 00:30:10,520
Speaker 1: there for the World Baseball Classic, the Dominican Republic team,

504
00:30:10,640 --> 00:30:14,320
Speaker 1: it was like the The Avengers movie is what it was.

505
00:30:15,080 --> 00:30:17,480
Speaker 1: And the pitching, which is supposedly the weak spot for

506
00:30:17,520 --> 00:30:20,520
Speaker 1: the Dominican Republic, they only limited the USA squad to

507
00:30:20,600 --> 00:30:22,920
Speaker 1: two runs. You figure, if us A only scores two runs,

508
00:30:23,280 --> 00:30:25,840
Speaker 1: the Dominicans are going to win the game. It's not

509
00:30:25,880 --> 00:30:28,280
Speaker 1: like Paul Skeen's pitched the entire game. He went, as

510
00:30:28,280 --> 00:30:30,560
Speaker 1: we said, four and a third innings and that was it.

511
00:30:30,600 --> 00:30:33,479
Speaker 1: This roster if you didn't see the game loaded, if

512
00:30:33,480 --> 00:30:36,040
Speaker 1: you hadn't watched the Dominican Republic team, you can't watch

513
00:30:36,080 --> 00:30:38,960
Speaker 1: them now because they're out. But roster loaded with MVP

514
00:30:39,120 --> 00:30:44,240
Speaker 1: candidates literally in the air everywhere. You had chest puffing,

515
00:30:44,360 --> 00:30:47,800
Speaker 1: pelvic thrusting, bat flipping like they'd already won the whole

516
00:30:47,880 --> 00:30:49,959
Speaker 1: damn thing. Early on in the game, they were very

517
00:30:50,000 --> 00:30:55,000
Speaker 1: excited and then poof squad douche. You get Squad Doush.

518
00:30:55,600 --> 00:31:00,480
Speaker 1: Six of the top ten most Valuable player of voters

519
00:31:01,040 --> 00:31:02,520
Speaker 1: in terms of the guys he got the votes for

520
00:31:02,560 --> 00:31:06,920
Speaker 1: the MVP six of the top ten were playing in

521
00:31:06,960 --> 00:31:10,400
Speaker 1: this for the Dominican team, and those guys mostly went

522
00:31:10,560 --> 00:31:14,000
Speaker 1: about as quiet as it's like going to the library

523
00:31:14,640 --> 00:31:19,120
Speaker 1: during finals week at to pick your favorite university. Back

524
00:31:19,160 --> 00:31:26,800
Speaker 1: in the day, the Supersized Bowl, the supersized Bowl of suck. Stu, Well,

525
00:31:26,840 --> 00:31:31,960
Speaker 1: that goes to one. Soto, come on down one. Congratulations, Yes,

526
00:31:32,800 --> 00:31:37,640
Speaker 1: seven hundred and sixty five million. The Mets are paying

527
00:31:37,640 --> 00:31:39,160
Speaker 1: this guy. I don't know. It wasn't a Mets game.

528
00:31:39,200 --> 00:31:42,280
Speaker 1: I get all that he had four bats, he went

529
00:31:42,400 --> 00:31:47,880
Speaker 1: over four. Juan Soto. The lights bright. Now the Mets,

530
00:31:48,040 --> 00:31:50,360
Speaker 1: who knows if they're ever going to make the League

531
00:31:50,440 --> 00:31:53,880
Speaker 1: Championship Series of the World Series with Juan Soto, there's

532
00:31:53,920 --> 00:31:57,600
Speaker 1: no guarantee. One one of the great bag chasing stories

533
00:31:57,600 --> 00:31:59,680
Speaker 1: of my lifetime, and based on the money he made

534
00:31:59,680 --> 00:32:02,880
Speaker 1: the great bag chasing story. Good for him. He also

535
00:32:03,000 --> 00:32:06,560
Speaker 1: butter fingered in error fielding a ball out in the outfield.

536
00:32:07,080 --> 00:32:11,240
Speaker 1: So not exactly a superstar performance on the big stage

537
00:32:11,280 --> 00:32:14,600
Speaker 1: here for Juan Soto. More like a ghost, more like

538
00:32:14,640 --> 00:32:18,720
Speaker 1: a go seven hundred and sixty five million. And there

539
00:32:18,800 --> 00:32:22,280
Speaker 1: was a gunfight and he brought a butter knife. That's

540
00:32:22,400 --> 00:32:24,520
Speaker 1: not that great, but what do I know? I just

541
00:32:24,520 --> 00:32:26,160
Speaker 1: do the Overnight show. What do I know here? And

542
00:32:26,280 --> 00:32:29,320
Speaker 1: the how about the Padre bash brothers? How about these

543
00:32:29,320 --> 00:32:31,520
Speaker 1: twos for Broni's. Did you see what they were up to,

544
00:32:31,600 --> 00:32:36,240
Speaker 1: Fernando Tatiz and Manny Machato. They went two for eight.

545
00:32:37,320 --> 00:32:39,080
Speaker 1: My computer like brain tells me that's a two to

546
00:32:39,080 --> 00:32:43,320
Speaker 1: fifty batting average. The Big Boppers turned in two floppers

547
00:32:44,120 --> 00:32:47,840
Speaker 1: in this in this game, and eight guys left on

548
00:32:47,920 --> 00:32:51,760
Speaker 1: base for the Dominican Republic team eight. And again they

549
00:32:51,760 --> 00:32:53,640
Speaker 1: were strutting around here. At the beginning of this game.

550
00:32:53,680 --> 00:32:55,720
Speaker 1: They were like Pete Cox with their feathers up in

551
00:32:55,800 --> 00:32:57,760
Speaker 1: the air, and even early in the tournament and they

552
00:32:57,760 --> 00:32:59,600
Speaker 1: were hitting all I think they set a record for

553
00:32:59,640 --> 00:33:04,160
Speaker 1: home run in the World Baseball Classic. And then the

554
00:33:04,200 --> 00:33:09,280
Speaker 1: bill came and they shrank. They had alligator arms, is

555
00:33:09,320 --> 00:33:11,760
Speaker 1: what they had. Not Kyler Murray, but they just had

556
00:33:11,800 --> 00:33:15,880
Speaker 1: alligator arms. That's it. And so the last strike was garbage.

557
00:33:15,960 --> 00:33:17,479
Speaker 1: I'm not gonna sit here and argue it and say, well,

558
00:33:17,520 --> 00:33:20,680
Speaker 1: the umpire got it right. No, But however, it should

559
00:33:20,720 --> 00:33:23,560
Speaker 1: never have come down to that. I'll concede that was

560
00:33:23,600 --> 00:33:27,800
Speaker 1: not a strike, which is obvious you cry about it.

561
00:33:27,880 --> 00:33:30,360
Speaker 1: How do you only have one run going to that

562
00:33:30,440 --> 00:33:33,520
Speaker 1: point again, Paul Skames did not pitch into the eighth inning.

563
00:33:34,160 --> 00:33:37,240
Speaker 1: You had the flotsam and jetsam of the team USA

564
00:33:37,360 --> 00:33:42,920
Speaker 1: bullpen and a lot of okay pitchers, not great pitchers

565
00:33:42,920 --> 00:33:45,440
Speaker 1: out there, and you didn't do anything in terms of

566
00:33:45,520 --> 00:33:49,880
Speaker 1: scoring runs. Bad job by. You had plenty of chances

567
00:33:49,880 --> 00:33:51,520
Speaker 1: to avoid leaving the game in the hands of the

568
00:33:51,600 --> 00:33:55,960
Speaker 1: umpire in the ninth inning. So loser talk. USA was

569
00:33:56,000 --> 00:33:57,680
Speaker 1: better in the moment, only by a little bit. A

570
00:33:57,680 --> 00:33:59,239
Speaker 1: couple of home runs. That's all it took to win

571
00:33:59,280 --> 00:34:03,520
Speaker 1: the game. Final point to pro bouncy ball. Why we

572
00:34:03,560 --> 00:34:07,320
Speaker 1: need to pause and celebrate one of the great hustles

573
00:34:08,160 --> 00:34:10,919
Speaker 1: of the modern world. You talk about getting the bag.

574
00:34:10,960 --> 00:34:12,880
Speaker 1: We talked about Juan Soto getting the bag. Well, this

575
00:34:12,920 --> 00:34:14,879
Speaker 1: is next level as well. After sitting out the game

576
00:34:14,920 --> 00:34:22,880
Speaker 1: on Sunday for Philly, congratulations clap here. Congratulations to sixer

577
00:34:22,960 --> 00:34:27,280
Speaker 1: star Joel Embiid, who has now officially missed as many

578
00:34:27,440 --> 00:34:32,160
Speaker 1: regular season games as he has played in during his career.

579
00:34:32,320 --> 00:34:35,200
Speaker 1: So very hard to do, but Joel Embiid has managed

580
00:34:35,200 --> 00:34:38,560
Speaker 1: to do it. Somewhere on the other side, Bill Walton

581
00:34:39,120 --> 00:34:42,880
Speaker 1: across the pearly gates is shaking his head. So yeah,

582
00:34:43,120 --> 00:34:46,640
Speaker 1: let's let that marinate for a second. Joel Embiid has

583
00:34:46,640 --> 00:34:49,400
Speaker 1: missed as many games as he has played in in

584
00:34:49,440 --> 00:34:53,000
Speaker 1: his NBA career. So the question for the panel, how

585
00:34:53,040 --> 00:34:57,400
Speaker 1: do you react to Joel Embiid and that amazing factoid

586
00:34:57,560 --> 00:34:59,960
Speaker 1: that he has now missed as many games as he's

587
00:35:00,040 --> 00:35:02,919
Speaker 1: played in during his NBA career four hundred and eighty

588
00:35:02,960 --> 00:35:06,400
Speaker 1: five games missed, four hundred and eighty five games played in.

589
00:35:06,960 --> 00:35:10,640
Speaker 1: That's it, that's all. So my first thought is this

590
00:35:10,680 --> 00:35:13,480
Speaker 1: is something out of the Twilight Zone. It is out

591
00:35:13,520 --> 00:35:17,319
Speaker 1: of the Joel Embiid is a living, breathing, fifty to

592
00:35:17,320 --> 00:35:21,359
Speaker 1: fifty raffle ticket. You never know what you're gonna get

593
00:35:21,360 --> 00:35:23,480
Speaker 1: when you show up to the arena. Will Joel Embid

594
00:35:23,480 --> 00:35:26,520
Speaker 1: play or not? Now, remember the old slogan they were

595
00:35:26,560 --> 00:35:31,880
Speaker 1: shoving down everyone's throat in Philadelphia. Trust the process, Trust

596
00:35:31,880 --> 00:35:36,120
Speaker 1: the process. That was not a rebuilding plan. It was

597
00:35:36,160 --> 00:35:39,000
Speaker 1: not a rebuilding But that was a late night infomercial

598
00:35:39,080 --> 00:35:41,879
Speaker 1: is what it was. And they were selling snake oil

599
00:35:42,040 --> 00:35:45,200
Speaker 1: and it was a bogo buy one, get one freeze

600
00:35:45,200 --> 00:35:48,400
Speaker 1: snake oil deal. Come on down, everybody. Now you just

601
00:35:48,520 --> 00:35:54,640
Speaker 1: wait three to five years and prestale, you're gonna win

602
00:35:54,680 --> 00:35:58,240
Speaker 1: a championship. The championship will magically appear. Trust the process.

603
00:35:58,880 --> 00:36:01,319
Speaker 1: We don't want that. No, just listen, it's gonna work.

604
00:36:01,360 --> 00:36:04,719
Speaker 1: And we said no, no, no, Well listen, we've now gone

605
00:36:04,840 --> 00:36:08,160
Speaker 1: way more than five years and the results are in.

606
00:36:08,920 --> 00:36:12,359
Speaker 1: They suck, and when they don't suck, they blow. There

607
00:36:12,520 --> 00:36:16,279
Speaker 1: she blows the seventy six ers. Joel Embiid. Remember he

608
00:36:16,360 --> 00:36:20,120
Speaker 1: came into the NBA with a medical report that was

609
00:36:20,200 --> 00:36:25,440
Speaker 1: thicker than a cheesecake factory menu. Philly knew it, everybody

610
00:36:25,520 --> 00:36:27,040
Speaker 1: knew it. Now the guy had to get for gap.

611
00:36:27,080 --> 00:36:29,080
Speaker 1: Coming out of Kansas, Joel mb He's like, wow, this

612
00:36:29,160 --> 00:36:34,960
Speaker 1: guy's got that star aura. However, in the modern NBA,

613
00:36:35,360 --> 00:36:37,640
Speaker 1: you think about where we are right now, in the NBA,

614
00:36:38,960 --> 00:36:42,120
Speaker 1: where they baby and coddle the players, and they never

615
00:36:42,239 --> 00:36:44,880
Speaker 1: expect you to do more than the bare minimum. Joel

616
00:36:44,920 --> 00:36:47,560
Speaker 1: embid has failed to meet that threshold, which is hard

617
00:36:47,560 --> 00:36:51,040
Speaker 1: to do. All right, bubble wrap you spoon feed you minutes.

618
00:36:51,080 --> 00:36:53,480
Speaker 1: Early in his career, he didn't even play the first

619
00:36:53,520 --> 00:36:56,760
Speaker 1: couple of years getting paid. He didn't even play load

620
00:36:57,080 --> 00:37:02,760
Speaker 1: management to infinity and beyond load management, the whole spa treatment,

621
00:37:02,760 --> 00:37:06,480
Speaker 1: the manny, the petty, the whole thing. And now congratulations,

622
00:37:06,520 --> 00:37:08,799
Speaker 1: happy birthday today as we're doing this in real time,

623
00:37:08,920 --> 00:37:11,880
Speaker 1: is Joel Embid's birthday, So happy birthday to Joel Embiid,

624
00:37:12,640 --> 00:37:15,000
Speaker 1: one of the great scam artists of our time. Thirty

625
00:37:15,040 --> 00:37:18,919
Speaker 1: two years old now, Joel Embiid, and in big man

626
00:37:19,040 --> 00:37:22,640
Speaker 1: years in the NBA. A lot of gray hairs in

627
00:37:22,719 --> 00:37:25,560
Speaker 1: the beard, yeah, a lot of gray hairs. It's not

628
00:37:25,719 --> 00:37:28,759
Speaker 1: no gray, no, no, there's a lot of gray, a

629
00:37:28,800 --> 00:37:31,200
Speaker 1: lot of gray. And the athletic prime, the hour glass,

630
00:37:31,200 --> 00:37:35,120
Speaker 1: the sands of the hour glass running out in the

631
00:37:35,160 --> 00:37:39,279
Speaker 1: athletic prime of Joel Embiid as he gets hemorrhoids on

632
00:37:39,320 --> 00:37:42,239
Speaker 1: the bench. Now, when he's played, has he been great? Sure,

633
00:37:42,400 --> 00:37:45,440
Speaker 1: most of the time. The numbers are good. Play fantasy basketball,

634
00:37:45,520 --> 00:37:50,680
Speaker 1: very very good, absolutely one rather bogus MVP didn't win it.

635
00:37:51,560 --> 00:37:54,279
Speaker 1: Nicole Jokic should have, could have would have won, but

636
00:37:54,400 --> 00:37:56,800
Speaker 1: it went to Joel Embiid. And he's played, he's mostly

637
00:37:56,800 --> 00:37:59,560
Speaker 1: put up dominant stats and all that. But in an

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Speaker 1: era with Kawhi Leonard, in an era with Anthony Davis.

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Speaker 1: Joel Embiid is the epitome of what this era is. Drafted,

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Speaker 1: missed two years and gotten paid all this money good

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Speaker 1: for him, the riches of Solomon, and he doesn't seem

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Speaker 1: bothered by it. It's like he just doesn't seem to

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Speaker 1: care that he doesn't play. It's like I must be

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Speaker 1: the generation I like when I miss work, I feel guilty.

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Speaker 1: I'm like, oh my god, I shouldn't they need me,

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Speaker 1: you know, like I need to be there. These guys

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Speaker 1: in the NBA like we don't care. It's so good.

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Speaker 1: I wish I was wired that way. It'd be great.

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Speaker 1: Live your life like that. Who cares if he show

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Speaker 1: up to work? You know? If we getting paid thirty

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Speaker 1: forty million dollars year, doesn't matter and embid for all

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Speaker 1: the numbers. When the playoffs come around, the Sixers keep

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00:38:50,560 --> 00:38:53,799
Speaker 1: waiting for Superman to show up, and instead they get

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Speaker 1: Johnny Thunder. An ordinary human is what they get.

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

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Speaker 2: Show weekdays two A. I'm eastern eleven pm Pacific.

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Speaker 1: Let's give out another Benyward. What do you say here?

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Speaker 1: Let's come on, we gotta get on track, Stay on track?

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Speaker 1: And what is up next? Here we have two back

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Speaker 1: to back to give out here female Caller of the Year.

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Speaker 1: Let's see we have well, we have the Intoxicated Caller

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Speaker 1: of the Year and Female Caller of the Year. Next up,

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Speaker 1: let's see what's say this is. We have Intoxicated Caller

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Speaker 1: of the Year. The nominees are this is our most

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Speaker 1: competitive category. The nominees are keg Drinking Steve jay Dot

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Speaker 1: in Utah, now working with dreaded day shift mouthwash, Mike

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Speaker 1: from Las Vegas, always fresh, What a legend. Mike in Tucson,

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Speaker 1: who famously gave his wife the phone while she was

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Speaker 1: in the hospital, called us up, screaming like a lunatic.

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Speaker 1: The Black irishman who also woke his daughter. These cats

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Speaker 1: are so hammerdo his daughter of so she could say hello,

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Speaker 1: oh my god. And a man who found our show

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Speaker 1: wall in jail, Jed who fled. Those are the nominees

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Speaker 1: envelope please right now here you are Ben all right,

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Speaker 1: thanks said paper.

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Speaker 4: Don't rip off.

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Speaker 1: She's got to ruin it all. Let me get on

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Speaker 1: my things. And the winner of the Intoxicated Caller of

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Speaker 1: the Year on The Ben Malors Show Congratulations to Jed

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Speaker 1: who fled. Lifetime Achievement Award for Jed. This guy is

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Speaker 1: he's really hit it hard. I really has. They're in

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Speaker 1: the red Neck Riviera of Florida. So congratulations to Jed

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Speaker 1: who fled. And it wasn't even that close. It wasn't mouthwashed.

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Speaker 1: Mike finished in second place, but Jed dominated. Oh let's

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Speaker 1: give out another one. Here we go meet Female Caller

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Speaker 1: of the Year. The nominees for Female Caller of the Year.

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Speaker 1: We have Andrea the Astrology Insider and Robin from Ventura, California.

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Speaker 1: Every here we go the Female Caller of the Year envelope.

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Speaker 1: Please this was a little light, but it's still beautiful.

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Speaker 1: That's what she said. Here we got small but mighty.

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Speaker 1: What does it say?

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Speaker 2: Ben?

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Speaker 1: And the winner, the Benny Award for Female Caller of

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Speaker 1: the Year, as voted by the Malin Militia, goes to

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Speaker 1: Andrea the Astrology Insider. Female Caller of the Year, Andrea

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Speaker 1: in Berkeley. Congratulations, you have kept the female gender alive

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Speaker 1: and well on the Ben Mahlor Show this year. Congratulations

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Speaker 1: you are the big winner as voted by the people.

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Speaker 4: Andrea, Yes, well, thank you to the Ben Mahlor show

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Speaker 4: an organization, the Malar Militia, all those who voted and

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Speaker 4: tuned in, and you know.

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Speaker 5: Coop and Lorena Ben. It's a real team effort, as

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Speaker 5: you know, so thank you for that.

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Speaker 1: We love you, Andrea. You do a great job, Andrea.

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Speaker 1: People love your astrology and you always let us know

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Speaker 1: when there's big cosmic events like you name it full

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Speaker 1: moons or mercury and retrograde all that stuff. So such

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Speaker 1: great information and congratulations Andrea. And again our friend Femi

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Speaker 1: I mentioned this earlier, but he made a digital certificate,

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Speaker 1: so if you're interested in that, oh, let us know. Yes,

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Speaker 1: And that's.

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Speaker 5: Just great to share my two passions of sports and

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Speaker 5: astrology with the Malor Militia and your loyal listeners. Yeah,

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Speaker 5: I'd love a.

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Speaker 6: They get this out all right?

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Speaker 1: Cool? Well, very good. We will let Femmy know and

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Speaker 1: anyone else who's won tonight on the Overnight who wants

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Speaker 1: that let us know. If Emmy's on X so he'll

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Speaker 1: he'll figure that out, all right, Thank you so much.

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Speaker 1: I would like to say, yes, we need more female callers.

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Speaker 1: I know we're scaring them all the way. Tammy and Montana,

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Speaker 1: She messages on Twitter all the time. I love Tammy.

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Speaker 1: I want Tammy to call. We missed Tammy's car in Vegas. Sorry,

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Speaker 1: oh well, I missed Tammy in Vegas. I missed Tammy.

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Speaker 1: I'm you know, anyone you feel free to. It's intimidating, though, ladies,

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Speaker 1: all right, you feel free, come on down. We can

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Speaker 1: have a ladies night, like once a month, strictly ladies.

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Speaker 1: I don't know but that. But we can have more

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Speaker 1: women call the show. Idea. It's a terrible idea, but

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Speaker 1: we can have more women call the show, you know,

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Speaker 1: because it's you know, it's mostly dudes. But that's fine.

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Speaker 1: We have women calling too. I don't do it, ladies.

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Speaker 1: The greatest call in the history of the show is

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Speaker 1: a woman, Genie and Medford and a lot of people

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Speaker 1: spend years. Geenie passed away a number of years ago,

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Speaker 1: but she was amazing and we loved you she was

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Speaker 1: I thought she was fake. I didn't think Genie and

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Speaker 1: metfor was a real person for several years. I thought

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Speaker 1: I was getting catfished or punked or something like that.

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Speaker 1: I thought there was no way. And it was effortless too.

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Speaker 1: It wasn't putting on an act. Yeah, she wasn't doing stick.

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Speaker 5: No, maybe you want to hang out with me, she'd

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Speaker 5: better getting me that good stuff.

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Speaker 1: One of the great nights was when Pete and Pittsburgh,

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Speaker 1: who's an all time great caller, and Genie and Medford

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Speaker 1: went into the octagon and Genie started doing like gangster

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Speaker 1: rap and that's and it wasn't bad. We were all like,

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Speaker 1: what the f is is the old woman in Oregon

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Speaker 1: doing gangster rap? Like, and why is my head bobbing?

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Speaker 1: It was pretty It was pretty wild. It was pretty wild.

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Speaker 1: My my goodness are congratulations and Andrea the astrology inside her.

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Speaker 1: She wins the Female Caller of the Year. And next

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Speaker 1: up that damn that that Oh hey, time now for

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Speaker 1: the nominees for the twenty twenty six Beer Drinking Brian

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Speaker 1: Worst Caller of the Year. The Beer Drinking Brian Worst

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Speaker 1: Caller of the Year. The nominees are from Long Island

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00:45:22,480 --> 00:45:29,000
Speaker 1: E Dog tremendously terrible calls. E Dog is a non

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Speaker 1: sequitur guy. He just talks about random crap from the

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Speaker 1: Commonwealth and lives out in the Sticks, but loves Boston

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Speaker 1: Mike the leprechan They also love suntan lotion and and

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00:45:47,080 --> 00:45:55,520
Speaker 1: Dad jokes from Minneapolis, Minnesota, hollering James. His claim to

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Speaker 1: fame is snoring on the show and taking thirty six

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Speaker 1: pills in the more wanting thirty six pills at night,

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Speaker 1: which means he should have been well, I guess he

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Speaker 1: was a No, he wasn't. One of the nominees were intoxicated.

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Speaker 1: Call of here. Interesting clear oversight by the committee. Other

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Speaker 1: now hollow and James for intoxicated call year because on

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Speaker 1: those meds. You know, I told you that, I mean,

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Speaker 1: I told him I did all right. Other, Yeah, but

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Speaker 1: I don't think they're like, you know, recreational. No, No, well,

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Speaker 1: let's I don't know if we want to get into here.

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Speaker 1: Let's just say that sometimes people in the medical industry

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Speaker 1: take advantage of certain people and give them pills they

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Speaker 1: may or may not need, you know what I'm saying. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: all right. We have Poppy in San Diego, who I

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Speaker 1: believe is one back to back, Yes, Poppy, I've three

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Speaker 1: times a three in a row, shoying for four in

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Speaker 1: a row. Poppy Man. Dorko, the comedian from Honolulu, Hawaii.

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00:46:54,360 --> 00:46:57,000
Speaker 1: We kept waiting for Darko to say something funny, and

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00:46:57,040 --> 00:47:01,120
Speaker 1: we're still waiting all right, and the person who's been

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00:47:01,440 --> 00:47:06,320
Speaker 1: attacking us on social media throughout the show, blind Scott

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Speaker 1: from the North End of Boston. Those are the nominees.

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Speaker 1: Envelope please, Lorena, and here you are, Ben. I tried

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Speaker 1: to keep some of the beer off of it. Thank you.

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Speaker 1: This is the Benny Award for the twenty twenty six

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Speaker 1: Beer Drinking Brian Worst Caller of the Year. Many of

787
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Speaker 1: the people that love the show think this is the

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Speaker 1: most competitive category. Here we go and the Benny Award

789
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Speaker 1: for the Worst Caller of the Year. The Beer Drinking

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Speaker 1: Brian Worst Caller of the Year goes to Mike dileprekah O,

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Speaker 1: my lord, all really, congratulations Mike dielepre con you are

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Speaker 1: the winner. Congratulations Mike, you're the worst caller, the Beer

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Speaker 1: Drinking Brian worst caller on the show. Actually, I guess

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Speaker 1: that's sense. Mike. Are you there, Mike, Mike speech speege

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Speaker 1: speech speech speech right.

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Speaker 6: I'm I'm very honored. Thank you, Matther Militia. I hadn't

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Speaker 6: any box, but anyways, I will be back tomorrow with

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Speaker 6: my regular dad jokes and anyways, I'm flattered, and congratulations

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Speaker 6: to all the nominees.

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Speaker 5: And to my kids who write my jokes.

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Speaker 1: Here, you edged out a very close competition. You edged

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00:48:28,760 --> 00:48:31,120
Speaker 1: out blind Scott for the worst caller of the year.

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Speaker 6: Well that wouldn't okay, do you know what Bland Scott

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Speaker 6: should have been up for.

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Speaker 5: The female caller of the Earth.

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00:48:35,800 --> 00:48:38,719
Speaker 1: Just well, next year we'll make sure Scott is all

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00:48:38,920 --> 00:48:41,279
Speaker 1: of the Earth Caller of the Year, because that'll of course,

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00:48:41,320 --> 00:48:43,440
Speaker 1: nothing will make Scott have you anyway? Right there you are,

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00:48:43,719 --> 00:48:47,320
Speaker 1: Michael lepre God, does this mean Poppy is growing on people?

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00:48:47,400 --> 00:48:48,000
Speaker 4: What? Uh?

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Speaker 1: Poppy's got to really get back to his level of suck.

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00:48:51,880 --> 00:48:55,319
Speaker 1: He's he's actually occasionally he makes a good phone call. Well,

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00:48:55,640 --> 00:48:58,400
Speaker 1: giving a concession speech is e dog? E dog? You

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Speaker 1: did not win. You were right there, but you did

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Speaker 1: not get it done. E dog?

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Speaker 5: All rights real quick?

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Speaker 1: Yeah, go ahead?

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Speaker 2: This is what gud Barns and blue and one too.

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Speaker 1: I can't believe win. I'm so sorry you really you

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Speaker 1: really deserve to win some terrible calls this year, and

821
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Speaker 1: it's shocking you did not win. You're pretty much every

822
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Speaker 1: call sucked, but it was amazing you did not win.

823
00:49:30,040 --> 00:49:33,320
Speaker 5: What I have great jokes.

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00:49:33,520 --> 00:49:37,640
Speaker 1: And you tell stories about that, right, and you know

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00:49:37,680 --> 00:49:42,040
Speaker 1: you're different women that yeah, yeah, you are any of

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Speaker 1: these women real or they all imagine they yeah, you don't.

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Speaker 1: Actually you don't know, they're just imaginary. Care I got

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Speaker 1: you you dog, you didn't win, but better luck next year, dog. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: all right, all right, thank you. There he is and

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Speaker 1: one category left and oh my god, I cannot believe

831
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Speaker 1: that we are almost do We're not gonna right now, No, no, them,

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00:50:12,840 --> 00:50:16,319
Speaker 1: the Crown Jewel, the Holy Grail, It's coming. Who is

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00:50:16,360 --> 00:50:19,600
Speaker 1: going to win the twenty twenty six Geni in Medford

834
00:50:19,640 --> 00:50:22,399
Speaker 1: were the top caller, top caller on the show, top

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Speaker 1: caller on the show. We'll find out. We're minutes away

836
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Speaker 1: from that. Stay tuned, Wake up the kids, wake up

837
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Speaker 1: the family, gather around the radio like it's the nineteen thirties.

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Speaker 1: It's gonna be amazing. We'll get to that and we

839
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Speaker 1: will do it next.

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Speaker 2: Fox Sports Radio has the best sports talk lineup in

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Speaker 2: the nation. Catch all of our shows at Foxsports Radio

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Speaker 2: dot com and within the iHeartRadio app search FSR to

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Speaker 2: listen live.

844
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Speaker 1: We now present the Ultimate The Crown Jewel, the Geni

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Speaker 1: in Medford Memorial Caller of the Year. I want to

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Speaker 1: thank everyone that voted hundreds and hundreds of votes. You

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Speaker 1: guys did a great job. Everyone that participates in the show,

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Speaker 1: we cannot thank you enough. The nominees for the Genie

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Speaker 1: at Medford Memorial Caller of the Year Lucky Tony from

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Speaker 1: San Francisco, Blind Scott from the North End of Boston

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Speaker 1: who's currently mfing us on social media, Marcel in Brooklyn

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Speaker 1: who's won multiple times as the call of the Year,

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Speaker 1: Jed who fled Rick in Maryland, morning time legend on

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Speaker 1: the show Rick and Maryland, weed Man Hippie from Hollywood, Florida.

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Speaker 1: And Mike in New Hampshire, one of the great trolls.

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Speaker 1: Mike in New Hampshire busting the balls of Marcel and Brooklyn.

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Speaker 1: The envelope please, Lorena's the big golden one here. It

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Speaker 1: is good luck to everyone. I have no idea who's

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Speaker 1: going to win this, This is so close.

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Speaker 6: Here we go.

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Speaker 1: Who is it? Ben and the winner of the twenty

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Speaker 1: twenty six Benny Award, the Genie had meant for Caller

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Speaker 1: of the Year. Oh my god, we got an upset

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Speaker 1: weed Man hippie. We mad Hippie. Collar of the Year.

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Speaker 1: Unbelievable upset by just a few votes, edging out Marcel

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Speaker 1: in Brooklyn. Congratulations to weed man hippie. His name Billy,

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Speaker 1: and the great thing is he has no idea. Don't

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Speaker 1: worry right who he has no idea he won because

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Speaker 1: we'll have to let him know. But that is it.

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Speaker 1: The caller of the year, our buddy. We've had thanks

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Speaker 1: to everybody. Unbelievable job by all of you.