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Speaker 1: So our lead this hour, we go back to the

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Speaker 1: well one more time in free agency in the NFL

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Speaker 1: players moving around, a lot of musical chairs going on

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Speaker 1: and quite the uproar as the mode Joe has been

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Speaker 1: kicked in Vegas by the Ravens and it is official.

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Speaker 1: I had a dream, not a good dream, but I

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Speaker 1: had a dream on a previous episode of this show

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Speaker 1: was that the Ravens were going to totally just screw

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Speaker 1: over the Raiders and the entire NFL here with their

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Speaker 1: master plan. And sure enough it has happened. The Ravens

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Speaker 1: were able to complete the Hornswaggle of the football world.

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Speaker 1: The people in a lather, in an absolute lather over

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Speaker 1: what they did in Baltimore. So if you've not been

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Speaker 1: following this. I don't know how you could have missed

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Speaker 1: it if you loved the transaction. This is a humm

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Speaker 1: dinger of a story. So the Ravens, we are told,

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Speaker 1: agreed to sign free agent defensive end edge rusher Trey Hendrickson,

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Speaker 1: late of the Cincinnati Bengals. So Hendrickson stays in the division,

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Speaker 1: goes to Baltimore. It's a shady pivot after they snaked

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Speaker 1: their way they being the Ravens out of the Max

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Speaker 1: Crosby trade with Vegas. Hendrickson. It's a four year contract

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Speaker 1: worth up to My favorite term this time of the

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Speaker 1: year is up to. It's like when you go clicking

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Speaker 1: around the website, say up to seventy five percent off

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Speaker 1: and then you're like, well, no, there's nothing off. Actually

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Speaker 1: it says up to it's not. Yeah, all right, so

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Speaker 1: up to one hundred and twelve million, and actually can

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Speaker 1: be worth more than that with incentives. And really what

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Speaker 1: is what you worry about. And the guaranteed money sixty million,

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Speaker 1: fully guaranteed, sixty million, fully guaranteed, and he got a

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Speaker 1: cartoon sized check. Trey Hendrickson from the business there in

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Speaker 1: Maryland for twenty million dollars as a signing bos slightly

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Speaker 1: more than I got when I resigned my latest deal

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Speaker 1: here at Fox Sports Radio. Just a little bit more

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Speaker 1: so that is a good jumping off point. Let us

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Speaker 1: discuss that. Let's get to the story here and the

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Speaker 1: question the Ravens going from Max Crosby, who they had

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Speaker 1: even though he never played for them and was technically

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Speaker 1: him out to Nevada, and now Trey Hendrickson is who

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Speaker 1: they've chosen. Is this an upgrade, a down grade or

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Speaker 1: going to be Max Crosby to Trey Henderson, is that

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Speaker 1: an upgrade, downgrade or a lateral move? So I've got Starbucks,

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Speaker 1: is what we're going to do. All right. So a

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Speaker 1: many people say, well, this is just a lateral move.

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Speaker 1: It's brilliant because they keep the draft picks, and so

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Speaker 1: it's it's not a downgrade, not even an upgrade, but

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Speaker 1: it's a lateral move. So I used the the Mallard

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Speaker 1: It is a downgrade. And you know it. You do.

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Speaker 1: Don't pretend you know it. The Ravens they had Max Crosby,

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Speaker 1: they didn't finish it. They didn't finish it. It's kind

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Speaker 1: of like ordering a coffee and you wanted I'm not

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Speaker 1: And here's the irony of this whole episode and why

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Speaker 1: that the people that believe what the Ravens are saying

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Speaker 1: and they're worried about Max Crosby's help, which is fine.

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Speaker 1: is hip issue. And yeah, now this is validation. It

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Speaker 1: It's true. The Ravens just did the thing that you

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Speaker 1: so it's true. All right. Now, a lot of reaction.

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Speaker 1: We'll turn the page here, a lot of reaction to

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Speaker 1: the GM there in Baltimore. Eric DaCosta is his name,

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Speaker 3: Take it was in terms of Trey, we came to

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Speaker 3: better as a football team, Trey kind of made a

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Speaker 1: Again, I think it was disappointing.

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Speaker 3: To us, and probably in a way, you know, disappointing

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Speaker 1: All Right, so that was the bull crap on Trey Hendrickson.

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Speaker 1: If you believe that, I'd like to sell you a

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Speaker 1: Eric DeCosta, GM Baltimore Ravens here, this is the one

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Speaker 1: that has gone viral. I believe Eric Acosta, he wants

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Speaker 3: Nobody's more upset about this than me. Got it by it. Actually,

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Speaker 3: a football team, and I think there's many many opportunities

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Speaker 3: for us to grow as a team, to become a

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Speaker 1: All Right, So this whole thing lasted like nineteen minutes.

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Speaker 1: The cost times got relatively emotional. Didn't sound like it

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Speaker 1: there as you heard the SoundBite trying to trying to

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Speaker 1: reach a somber tone, and he attempted multiple times to

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Speaker 1: remorse and that's why they hit the eject button on

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Speaker 1: the trade. Well, we have a long eye. Let's play

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Speaker 1: a long one line. We're here, We're getting nothing else

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Speaker 1: going on. Here's a longer version of Eric the cost

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Speaker 3: I mean, I understand it, you know, I understand it.

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Speaker 1: We live in that.

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Speaker 3: Age of skepticism and people question, especially people that don't

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Speaker 3: Every decision we make is based on this idea, is

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Speaker 3: I understand how people might, maybe from a far would

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Speaker 3: as as a football team, and I think there's many

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Speaker 1: Okay, wow, A question is what you just heard? Is

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Speaker 1: this Ravens GM Mike da Costa or Eric? Who Mike is?

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Speaker 1: I used to work with a guy named Mike de Costa?

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Speaker 1: But Eric de Costa? All right? Is the GM there

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Speaker 1: having deep regard threats over the botched Max Crosby trade?

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Speaker 1: Is the GM DaCosta there? Is this believable? Or is

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Speaker 1: this just the team thinking that the fan base is

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Speaker 1: believe the fan base is feeble minded? It's possible they are.

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Speaker 1: I don't know, But what a what a Greek tragedy

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Speaker 1: for Eric DaCosta the GM there? You know what this is?

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Speaker 1: It's another Hollywood remake. Yeah, it's another Hollywood remake in

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Speaker 1: the late Great Robin Williams comedy actor Robin Williams the

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Speaker 1: classic The Dead Poet Society. They've changed the manuscript. It

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Speaker 1: tells the story of an NFL GM who inspires his

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Speaker 1: fans and players through the teachings of the ancient work

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Speaker 1: of skulduggery. Because this is skullduggery. Da Costa tried to

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Speaker 1: called out on it. Right, He also talked both sides

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Speaker 1: As you heard the SoundBite, he said, we want to

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Speaker 1: the club. And then on the other hand, he essentially said,

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Speaker 1: if everything was on the up and up here, if

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Speaker 1: everything was kosher, why the Shakespearean tragedy routine, If why

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Speaker 1: would you be hurt you did everything right? Why the

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Speaker 1: personal regret? Now this sounds like a guy that got

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Speaker 1: a lot of blinking, There was some rocking back and forth.

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Speaker 1: Those are dead giveaways, nervous energy, straight out of the

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Speaker 1: FBI Handbook to Spot a liar, and on the Swindler spectrum.

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Speaker 1: On the Spindler spectrum, the Swindler spectrum. This news conference

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Speaker 1: registered somewhere between used car salesman and a Barracuda circling

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Speaker 1: the chum bucket. The Ravens DM there is just hoping,

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Speaker 1: hoping that the people that are his customers are so

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Speaker 1: USA did not play did not play on Wednesday night.

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Speaker 1: would be Detroit Tigers ace Trek Schoubel, a man who's

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Speaker 1: Trek Scooble has responded to the many critics who have

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Speaker 1: Okay, maybe not. Schooble got up on the bully pulpit.

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Speaker 1: where are you at on the Tigers as Tek Schooble

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Speaker 1: It is required in fandom. It is required. It is

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Speaker 1: Scooble is pretending like he's this damsel in distress, this

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Speaker 1: head yes on this. I'm nodding my You can't see

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Speaker 1: me unless you're watching on YouTube. I'm closing my eyes

428
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Speaker 1: and nodding my head yes, repeatedly, over and over Okay,

429
00:26:46,320 --> 00:26:50,200
Speaker 1: it's like a neck massage. Now, as a distant relative

430
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Speaker 1: of Nostradamus and friend of nostra Denis will former friend,

431
00:26:54,720 --> 00:26:59,480
Speaker 1: former friend until the super Bowl. We have seen the future.

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Speaker 1: We have seen the future, one of the great soothsayers

433
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Speaker 1: of our time. So all of that vitriol, all that

434
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Speaker 1: hater raide, all those nasty posts online, people calling radio shows,

435
00:27:14,840 --> 00:27:19,560
Speaker 1: you're an American, you're a turncoat. All of that that

436
00:27:19,720 --> 00:27:24,040
Speaker 1: is fuel. That is jet fuel. You take that online, Hey,

437
00:27:24,240 --> 00:27:27,960
Speaker 1: half a witch is probably bots anyway, it's just bot

438
00:27:28,080 --> 00:27:32,800
Speaker 1: army over from Maldova. And okay, so you got, boss,

439
00:27:32,840 --> 00:27:34,800
Speaker 1: you got there's some real people in there. And just

440
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Speaker 1: let that bake in the sun. Let that get really

441
00:27:39,240 --> 00:27:42,760
Speaker 1: crusted from the sun and it hardens up. It forms

442
00:27:42,760 --> 00:27:49,119
Speaker 1: this very thick, unpenetrable rhinos skin. Get that rhinos skin,

443
00:27:49,880 --> 00:27:52,560
Speaker 1: and Scoob's gonna need it. He's gonna have to fuel

444
00:27:52,640 --> 00:27:57,480
Speaker 1: that Gulf stream. And here's why, because he eventually, after

445
00:27:57,520 --> 00:27:59,720
Speaker 1: this season, will test the free agent market and he'll

446
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Speaker 1: sign one of those monster eight year, six hundred and

447
00:28:04,119 --> 00:28:07,920
Speaker 1: forty million dollar contracts with the LA Dodgers and he'll

448
00:28:07,960 --> 00:28:11,400
Speaker 1: then be paid out what eighty million a year, most

449
00:28:11,400 --> 00:28:14,119
Speaker 1: of it deferred. Last check will come in on the

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Speaker 1: three hundred and fiftieth anniversary in one hundred years of

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Speaker 1: the United States, and that'll be that. And you know

452
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Speaker 1: how the Dodgers operate. The criticism that Schooble's getting here

453
00:28:25,840 --> 00:28:30,720
Speaker 1: and all that, that's just a preview of coming attractions.

454
00:28:30,760 --> 00:28:35,679
Speaker 1: It's a light sprinkle compared to the burn, baby burn,

455
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Speaker 1: if you end up signing with the Dodgers, not final

456
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Speaker 1: point staying with baseball. So there's still some noise about

457
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Speaker 1: Mark de Rosa. I want to get back into this.

458
00:28:46,040 --> 00:28:48,200
Speaker 1: The nonsense and the reason I want to get into this,

459
00:28:48,280 --> 00:28:50,920
Speaker 1: and it's still got legs is because of a stunt

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Speaker 1: that Major League Baseball pulled. And I'm a little taken

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Speaker 1: aback by this because it's been this way for at

462
00:28:58,000 --> 00:29:02,360
Speaker 1: least seventeen or eighteen years, if not longer, if not

463
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Speaker 1: longer in my book, in my book, So Major League

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Speaker 1: Baseball pulled the clip where Mark DeRosa famously said prematurely,

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Speaker 1: the team USA had punched its World Baseball Classic quarterfinal ticket,

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Speaker 1: and so they pulled that and then surprise, it was

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Speaker 1: back now thanks again to the Italians. The USA did

468
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Speaker 1: advance to the quarterfinal. However, DeRosa's team he rested some

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Speaker 1: people and they looked some of those guys looked like

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Speaker 1: they may or may not have been hungover, hungover and

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Speaker 1: went out there and lost to a undermanned team representing Italy.

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Speaker 1: And so that stunt, that stunt by Major League Baseball

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Speaker 1: to try to pull the thing and everything here, that's

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Speaker 1: what I was talking about. I say, oh my god,

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Speaker 1: this is MLB's website and this is what they did.

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Speaker 1: So the question where are you at on Major League Baseballs?

477
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Speaker 1: Now you see it. Now you don't vanishing act with

478
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Speaker 1: Mark DeRosa's clueless comments. So when I saw this, and

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Speaker 1: I'm not a consumer of MLB dot com, I very

480
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Speaker 1: rarely go there. I just it's not that I hate it.

481
00:30:18,680 --> 00:30:21,520
Speaker 1: I just not in my rotation of things to look at.

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Speaker 1: It's kind of been running on fumes. So when I

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Speaker 1: saw this, I was like, well, that's like it's like

484
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Speaker 1: a frat house prank. And I was like, let's go

485
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Speaker 1: out and steal the Ronald McDonald's statue at Mickey De's

486
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Speaker 1: and we'll put it in the dorm and then we'll

487
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Speaker 1: take selfies with it. And then when the campus police

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Speaker 1: show up, We'll sneak it back and pretend nothing happened.

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Speaker 1: Whatn't us, We didn't do it. And now the media,

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Speaker 1: a lot of these media elites are outraged. I can't

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Speaker 1: believe that Major League Baseball, the bastion of baseball journalism,

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Speaker 1: would do this and then delete it. And yeah, so

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Speaker 1: I say, is this the Great Awakening? Are we looking

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Speaker 1: at the Great Awakening? Is this now where people realize

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Speaker 1: that NFL dot com, MLB dot com, NBA dot com

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Speaker 1: are just pr people? No chance, no chance, this is

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Speaker 1: the Great Awakening? This is just a blip. MLB media

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Speaker 1: is run by MLB. It's been that way since the

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Speaker 1: very beginning. It's state funded media with a baseball logo

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Speaker 1: on it. It's rainbows and lollipops. What did you think

501
00:31:28,880 --> 00:31:31,800
Speaker 1: you were going to get at MLB's website, a blizzard

502
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Speaker 1: and a cocktail of bleach. Come on. When he's not

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Speaker 1: prancing around playing manager in the dugout for Team USA,

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Speaker 1: Mark de Rosa works for MLB Network.

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Speaker 2: Hmm.

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Speaker 1: Things that make you go hmm. They're all sleeping in

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Speaker 1: the same bed, they're sharing the same pillow, and you're

508
00:31:53,160 --> 00:31:58,520
Speaker 1: shocked that the coverage is softy mixedsoft and keep in

509
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Speaker 1: mind that it is the state sponsored journalism, and the

510
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Speaker 1: blueprint has been around since the late nineties. I was told,

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Speaker 1: I've talked about this in the past. I was told

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Speaker 1: by somebody that worked for a Major League Baseball team

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Speaker 1: that this was the vision. There was a time when

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Speaker 1: there were a bunch of these things called newspapers, and

515
00:32:14,160 --> 00:32:16,360
Speaker 1: they all had a couple beat writers that covered the

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Speaker 1: hometown team, and they were critical and all that, and

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Speaker 1: the people that baseball said, this guy said, listen, our

518
00:32:22,760 --> 00:32:25,040
Speaker 1: plan is we're going to have you know, in twenty years,

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00:32:25,640 --> 00:32:28,160
Speaker 1: we are going to have people just feeding out of

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Speaker 1: the palm of our hand. And while the older generation

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00:32:31,680 --> 00:32:34,400
Speaker 1: might not buy into it, future generations that's all they're

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Speaker 1: going to know, and they'll just believe anything we tell them.

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Speaker 1: And sure enough, it's been over twenty years, it's been

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Speaker 1: post to thirty years now, and that conversation one of

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Speaker 1: the most memorable conversations that I've had. That long term

526
00:32:48,360 --> 00:32:52,120
Speaker 1: vision board of Major League Baseball has become reality. Control

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00:32:52,200 --> 00:32:57,320
Speaker 1: the message, massage the fans, and then hope that nobody

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00:32:57,440 --> 00:33:00,680
Speaker 1: notices the strings on the puppet. The strings on the

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Speaker 1: puppet and for the most part, it's work. We have

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Speaker 1: the younger generation of fans, it's all they know. They've

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Speaker 1: been indoctrinated in that. They don't know any better, so

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Speaker 1: I can't rip them. That's all they know. They like

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Speaker 1: it row Team, Way to go. We so exciting. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: that's what they want. That's what they want. So that's

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Speaker 1: what Baseball's website gives them. And so anything negative just

536
00:33:21,760 --> 00:33:24,480
Speaker 1: kind of make it go away. You know, if a

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Speaker 1: star player gets caught up in a gambling operation, just

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Speaker 1: don't talk about it or just downplay. You know, somebody's

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Speaker 1: doing a line of coke off of strippers, act ask

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Speaker 1: just don't talk, don't bring it up. You know, let's

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Speaker 1: leave it alone. You know that that kind of thing.

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

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Speaker 2: Show weekdays at two am Eastern eleven pm Pacific.

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Speaker 1: Like the smaller how about that to the.

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Speaker 2: Third degree, this is one big event gets grilled.

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Speaker 4: So we have yet to get a decision from Aaron

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Speaker 4: Rodgers on if he wants to continue his career and

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Speaker 4: if he wants to do it in Pittsburgh. Ben, how

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Speaker 4: long do you think the Steeler is gonna wait before

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Speaker 4: they start shopping for quarterbacks.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, well they likely know. I'm assuming Rodgers has told them.

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Speaker 1: He just hasn't announced anything. Well, supposed that you're gonna

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00:34:08,000 --> 00:34:12,239
Speaker 1: talk Steelers have a zoom call with Kyler Murray allegedly

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Speaker 1: and all that. But it doesn't really matter. Rogers. They

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Speaker 1: can't wait because they'll they can always you always find

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Speaker 1: a bad quarterback. I think they'll give them another month

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Speaker 1: or so.

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Speaker 4: Next, with MLB opening Day only a couple of weeks away,

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Speaker 4: which managers do you think will be starting off the

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00:34:26,320 --> 00:34:28,280
Speaker 4: season on the hottest seat.

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Speaker 1: Well, it's teams that are supposed to be good, like

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Speaker 1: the Mets and the Phillies. Carlos Mendoza with the Mets

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Speaker 1: and Rob Thompson with the Phillies. Those are the two

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Speaker 1: guys that you'd think to be the hottest seat. And

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Speaker 1: then Joe is spot off from the cheating Astros in

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Speaker 1: the American League.

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Speaker 4: Next, it was announced on Tuesday that seventy six Ers

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Speaker 4: start Tyrese Maxey as a tendon injury and will be

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Speaker 4: reevaluated in three weeks. Ben will the seventy six Ers

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Speaker 4: still be in the playoff picture at the time Maxi returns.

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Speaker 1: Well, it's the playing. Everyone's so kind of I think

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Speaker 1: that pugesy playing thing. Coop is what they have. How

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Speaker 1: do we down? Thank you very much, Type one, I'm

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Speaker 1: a winner.

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Speaker 1: why here we go. It's time now for ask men.

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Speaker 1: sure to vote. All right, coople, the reading of the questions,

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Speaker 1: it won't sound like you're reading on ask Ben make

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Speaker 1: it make sense.

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Speaker 4: If you don't have Facebook or Twitter for X or whatever,

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Speaker 4: you can email me Ben Mallar, Producer at gmail dot

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Speaker 4: com and I'll send you the like. Uh all right,

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Speaker 4: let's start off with eke.

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Speaker 1: I eke in Roseville, Minnesota.

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Speaker 4: He wants to know would you rather do a jigsaw

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Speaker 4: puzzle or a crossword puzzle.

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Speaker 1: I don't mind both. I'm more into words because in

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Speaker 1: my job, I love words. I love hearing new words

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Speaker 1: and learning new words. So I'm gonna go. I play

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Speaker 1: scrabble a lot on my phone. It's one of my

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Speaker 1: things I fus around with, so I'll go. I'll go

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Speaker 1: a word crossword puzzle Lorena.

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Speaker 6: Ah, so hard, but I gotta go with jigsaw. Jigsaw Yeah,

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Speaker 6: I like the pieces.

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Speaker 4: Okay, congratulations Coople loop definitely crossword puzzle.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, okay, very good. What's next? Let's ask Ben. Your

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Speaker 1: questions are answers for the rest of the album.

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Speaker 4: Third Dog would like to know what is your favorite

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Speaker 4: girl Scout cookie, and then he says thin mints are overrated.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, so I've always been a thin mid guy. I

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Speaker 1: like the peanut butter chocolate.

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Speaker 4: I don't know what that's called tagalongs.

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Speaker 1: Tag along Those are pretty.

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Speaker 4: More peanut butter patties depending on which bakery.

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00:37:12,360 --> 00:37:16,120
Speaker 1: And the lemon, but very controversial take. There's two lemons.

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Speaker 1: One of them is really good, the other one sucks.

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Speaker 4: I don't I miss the old one.

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Speaker 6: The round one with the fluffer like the powdered sugar

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Speaker 6: on the outside.

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Speaker 1: But you can still get that some places there's you know,

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Speaker 1: big girl scouts really messing around with that. I don't

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Speaker 1: like the girl scout messing with our cookies. But still, yeah,

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Speaker 1: what about you, laraid, I do not expect no none

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Speaker 1: of them none, okay, we do not.

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Speaker 6: I don't like that they use sell their cookies.

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Speaker 4: Okay, but a scandal. That's a bad take.

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Speaker 2: Uh.

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Speaker 4: The taglongs are my favorite ones. And then also I

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Speaker 4: like the I like the lemonades. Those are the lemon

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Speaker 4: ones with the like frosting. It's almost like a like

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Speaker 4: a lemon chalk texture thing on the bottom, you know

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Speaker 4: what I mean. It's like a lemon cream.

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Speaker 2: I don't know.

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Speaker 1: Okay, generally like lemon cookies. So sure, what's next? It's

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Speaker 1: ask ben. Your questions are answers for the rest of

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Speaker 1: the hours. The late Great Larry King would.

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Speaker 4: Say, Lady Sideburns would like to know what foul smell

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Speaker 4: do you secretly like?

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Speaker 1: Well, I don't know if it's foul, but I've always

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Speaker 1: loved the smell of gasoline and tires. I love going

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Speaker 1: through an auto port that smell. Oh, I love it.

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Speaker 1: I could sit there at the Costco gas station sniffing

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Speaker 1: gasoline for hours. I love it. And I love going

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Speaker 1: to an auto part. So I just feel masculine when

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Speaker 1: I go in there. I feel like a real man,

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Speaker 1: you know. Smelling the rubber and the tires. Oh my god,

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Speaker 1: it's so good, Lorena, skunk. You enjoy the smell of.

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Speaker 6: Skunk, like real raw skum. Yeah, the one that's just

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Speaker 6: been freshly hit on the.

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Speaker 4: Side of the road. Yeah, that's a good one.

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Speaker 1: You're cool.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, that's a good one. I also like the smell

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Speaker 4: of gasoline. All right, what is next year?

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Speaker 1: It's as the ben Your questions are answered.

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Speaker 4: Donkey sausage. You'd like to know were you part Were

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Speaker 4: you a part of any school clubs?

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Speaker 1: Oh god, no, no, I mean I barely.

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Speaker 4: You know.

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Speaker 1: I played football a little bit and basketball, but no,

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Speaker 1: What about you, Lorena.

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Speaker 6: I was in choir, but not like an after school

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Speaker 6: school club.

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Speaker 4: I was in dance too, but that was good.

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Speaker 1: Watch out for those choir girls. What about you, cool?

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Speaker 4: I was in poetry club.

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Speaker 1: Boy, you're a poet and he doesn't even know.

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Speaker 4: Next question.

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Speaker 1: This is a red visor and I can do poetry

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Speaker 1: better than you, all right, what's that?

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Speaker 4: JT. The Wingman wants to know who is your favorite

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Speaker 4: Sesame Street muppet?

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Speaker 1: Oh Man, I loved appropriately enough Snuffleophagus because he was

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Speaker 1: hardly on Oscar the Grouch. A big fan of Oscar

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Speaker 1: the Grouch as well. What about you, Lorena, It's gotta

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