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Speaker 1: Ben Maller starts right now in the air everywhere and

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Speaker 1: welcome into another edition, a new weekend of the Fifth

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Speaker 1: Hour with Ben Maller and Danny G Radio. In a

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Speaker 1: programming note before we get to the meat of the matter,

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Speaker 1: and this will obviously be dated if you're listening after today.

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Speaker 1: On this Friday, we will be out Friday night in

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Speaker 1: Southern California. A Mallard meet and greet my cell and

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Speaker 1: a restaurant in lamar Rata And if you want more details,

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Speaker 1: If you want to come out, we'd love to meet you.

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Speaker 1: It'd be great. Uh. Eddie wanted everyone to be scheduled,

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Speaker 1: but he wound up in a hospital because of Bernie

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Speaker 1: the Brewer's slide. It did not go as expected at

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Speaker 1: It was quite the debacle. And I thought this was

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Speaker 1: Now I could have just text these questions, did David Vasse?

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Speaker 1: Fifth Hour with Ben Maller and Danny g and David. Welcome,

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Speaker 1: and so we'll start with this. How has your are

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Speaker 1: social media, again is the undoing of many people, and

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Speaker 1: I'm proof of that. But look, Ben, I'm I'm I'm

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Speaker 1: it being aired. Um, But I wish I could have

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Speaker 1: LA and five seventy Now you mentioned your wife kind

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Speaker 1: of giving you a hard time but supportive. What about

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Speaker 1: the kids? I say, were your kids busting your chops? There?

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Speaker 1: Were they? Like? Were they blown away that this became

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Speaker 1: a global thing. Like where were your kids at on this? Yeah,

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Speaker 1: my kids were telling me, uh, I stopped being so

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Speaker 1: silly and doing silly things. So they had a great

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Speaker 1: spirit about it too. So your kids are giving you

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Speaker 1: growing up growing advice, which is outstanding. But by what

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Speaker 1: is this? I mean for those that don't know David.

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Speaker 1: Of course he those Dodgers talk. But you dominate, you

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Speaker 1: get more downloads. I think you're one of the top

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Speaker 1: people at all of my heart on that Dodger tip.

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Speaker 1: What is what is your secret sauce, David? How are

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Speaker 1: how are you able to dominate the downloads on that?

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Speaker 1: Because you are a monster. My everyone, everyone at the

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Speaker 1: companies like, how did this? Vest say? Is unbelievable with

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Speaker 1: these downloads? How do you do it? Number one? Then

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Speaker 1: I think it proves that it's Yankee fans are Red

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Speaker 1: Sox fans that are the most passionate fan base in baseball.

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Speaker 1: It's l A fans. They get a bad rap. And

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Speaker 1: number two, I just keep it real. I'm not a homer.

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Speaker 1: People listen because they know it's not just gonna be

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Speaker 1: the company line. So that's the secret sauce. Keep it real,

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Speaker 1: don't be you know a player hater like Ben Maller,

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Speaker 1: and don't be a homer like other broadcast post game shows. No,

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Speaker 1: I call it like it is now. Listen, I already

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Speaker 1: removed I think it was back in June. Craig Kimbrell

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Speaker 1: not listened to me. Uh say, I'll get you out

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Speaker 1: on a couple of Dodging questions because you are the

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Speaker 1: Dodger guy, the Dodger insiders. So here we sit in

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Speaker 1: late August, heading into the final part of the regular season.

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Speaker 1: Do you trust Craig Kimbrell. I don't trust him. Do

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Speaker 1: you trust him? Did the Dodgers really trust him that

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Speaker 1: he's gonna be out there? Okay, they don't. And what

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Speaker 1: are they gonna say? Kimbero will not be closing games

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Speaker 1: in October for the Dodgers, And who's gonna be closed?

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Speaker 1: You don't have to worry about it. Then they have

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Speaker 1: a twenty game lead right now, they have the luxury

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Speaker 1: they need his arm for right now. When Blake training

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Speaker 1: comes back, it will be a different story and he

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Speaker 1: will not be closing games in October. I promise you

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Speaker 1: all right, you heard Davids said it, and you mentioned

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Speaker 1: that Dodgers making a mockery there. They've been hovering around

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Speaker 1: fifty games, give or take above five d They're dominating.

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Speaker 1: This is one of the great Dodger teams I've ever seen.

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Speaker 1: They've had. This is the glory days of Dodger baseball

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Speaker 1: the last few years. But I I gotta tell you, though,

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Speaker 1: all right, I'm a little I'm a little concerned because

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Speaker 1: I know last year against the Braves there's a guy

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Speaker 1: named Eddie Rosario who looked like Pete Rose or Ty

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Speaker 1: Cobb and the playoffs, and I'm concerned that that same

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Speaker 1: nonsense is gonna happen again. It's a totally different world,

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Speaker 1: as you know, David, in the playoffs. So is this

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Speaker 1: team designed for that? And they've got a lot of

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Speaker 1: guys that strike out at the back of that lineup.

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Speaker 1: Are they ready for playoff baseball? Because it's a much

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Speaker 1: different animal. Hey, I think they've proven that beating up

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Speaker 1: on Sandy al Cantata and also Corbin Burns in the

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Speaker 1: last uh in the last week. Then so yeah, I

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Speaker 1: think they are all right. And and as far as

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Speaker 1: the starting pitching, now, the other thing here. You know

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Speaker 1: I'm a concert You called me a negative even on

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Speaker 1: your podcast. You're so negative. I'm not. I'm a realist.

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Speaker 1: I keep it real, essay. That's what I do. I

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Speaker 1: keep it real. And I love Tony Gonslin. I hope

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Speaker 1: he should win the Cy Young Award. He has been great.

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Speaker 1: The guy is got moxie on the mound. I love

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Speaker 1: watching that Guy's my favorite Dodger pitcher right well, other

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Speaker 1: than the fact guy in the open, but him, and

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Speaker 1: uh and Tyler Anderson. Uh. These guys have been insanely good.

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Speaker 1: I looked the other day the Dodgers have when those

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Speaker 1: two guys pitched. Not their record, but they're the team's record.

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Speaker 1: They have an eight hundred plus winning percentage when Anderson

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Speaker 1: and Gonslin pitch. But here's my thing, essay again, from

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Speaker 1: watching the playoffs over the years, and I've seen guys

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Speaker 1: that are great Cinderella stories in the regular season and

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Speaker 1: then we get the playoff baseball and they take a

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Speaker 1: ride on the vomit comment. So, what is the level

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Speaker 1: of confidence that we will not see that happen to

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Speaker 1: these two guys, because that is the rock of the

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Speaker 1: Dodger rotation. These guys have been amazing. It's it's it's

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Speaker 1: insane how good they've been during the regular season. So, uh,

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Speaker 1: do these guys have the the intestinal fortitude of essay

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Speaker 1: to get it done in in playoff baseball? Yeah, I

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Speaker 1: would say so. Tony has done it before, and Tyler

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Speaker 1: Anderson has shoved people down trying to, you know, run

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Speaker 1: into him on a tag play. I forgot who that was.

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Speaker 1: But Tyler has got a lot of country in him

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Speaker 1: and he's not gonna back down from anybody. So I

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Speaker 1: think at this point in time you have to give

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Speaker 1: them the benefit of the doubt. I know, for a

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Speaker 1: player hater like yourself, that's very difficult to do. But

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Speaker 1: think at this point you have to give everybody on

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Speaker 1: this Dodger team the benefit of the doubt, except for

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Speaker 1: Craig Kimball, who has been erratic, but he's been able

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Speaker 1: to get the job done with three or three or

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Speaker 1: four run lead in the ninth inning. One run a

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Speaker 1: lot different, but he has served the purpose this year

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Speaker 1: during the regular season, so I think you have to

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Speaker 1: give him credit for that too. Well, again, you keep

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Speaker 1: calling me a player, but I'm a jaded realist. Okay,

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Speaker 1: that's how I'm gonna promote your show after Dodger Talk

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Speaker 1: coming up next. The player hater himself, Ben Malla, a

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Speaker 1: jaded realist. I I go by the begging. Stop begging

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Speaker 1: for me to promote your show. No, not at all.

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Speaker 1: Why would I do that because you get eight billion downloads?

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Speaker 1: Why would I want you to? Why would I want

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Speaker 1: that at all? But no, I go by the Missouri motto.

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Speaker 1: I'm in the show me state of mind. Besset listen.

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Speaker 1: I want the Dodgers, you know, I want them to win.

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Speaker 1: I've been around the Dodges a long time. I love

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Speaker 1: when they have good teams and they win. But I

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Speaker 1: gotta see, right, I gotta see. I'm a skeptic. I

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Speaker 1: am unconvinced, unbelieving until I see it. And I don't

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Speaker 1: see another. I'm having nightmares about Eddie Rozzario again from

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Speaker 1: last year in the NLCS. Alright, we'll get you out.

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Speaker 1: We we wasted enough of your time, David, anything to

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Speaker 1: promote at all, anything at all, any future viral videos

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Speaker 1: that you have planned. You're have you thought about going

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Speaker 1: on TikTok David, because well, I have thought about it,

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Speaker 1: but I'm not on yet. It's amazing how you brought

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Speaker 1: up my social media for thirty minutes, but you haven't

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Speaker 1: plugged it once. No yet, you want me to plug

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Speaker 1: your your show. No, it's gonna be in the in

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Speaker 1: the see the way the podcast game works, and you

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Speaker 1: should know this because you're the king of the downloads.

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Speaker 1: But the way the podcast were in the description, there

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Speaker 1: will be a glowing review that will be slobbering all

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Speaker 1: over the legend that is David Vasse, who at one

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Speaker 1: point I knew as the guy at Costco that was

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Speaker 1: pushing the cards, but now is a global phenomena and

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Speaker 1: you just like everyone else if I say, you have

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Speaker 1: zoom passed me in the broadcast world. And so we

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Speaker 1: will put all of that in the profile, including uh,

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Speaker 1: well I know your Twitter, I don't know your first

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Speaker 1: No wonder you don't get anybody to come on this podcast.

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Speaker 1: You don't plug anything. What are you talking about that

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Speaker 1: you don't plug anything. No, we had Brent Musburger on

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Speaker 1: the Great You're Looking Live Fred Musburger legends living legends

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Speaker 1: on this podcast. Anyway, All right, thank you, David, take care,

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Speaker 1: good luck and how long? How long until your wrist

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Speaker 1: is healed? By the way, do we know how long

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Speaker 1: that's gonna take. I don't know. It's day to day,

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Speaker 1: day to day, all right, Thank you David, thank you Ben,