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Speaker 1: Ben Maller starts right now in a way. We go

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Speaker 1: on a Friday, Friday, Friday with the World Series going on.

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Speaker 1: Because hey, four hours a night, five days a week

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Speaker 1: No small talk. We don't have time for small talk.

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Speaker 1: Okay we don't. I'm sorry. But back in the podcast

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Speaker 1: Assault Mine a star, radio, you name it. He's all

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Speaker 1: over television over the years. He writes about Major League Baseball.

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Speaker 1: He's been a beat guy for baseball for multiple teams, columnists.

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Speaker 1: He's a renaissance man, a debonair man, of mystery. You

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Speaker 1: Mason affiliate the great Rob Parker. Welcome Rob, Good to

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Speaker 1: have you back. Hey. First of all, the open to

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Speaker 1: So we're as we're talking here, we're two games into

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Speaker 1: you put him in the Hall of fame? You have

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Speaker 1: to look at the entire career. It's a slippery slope.

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Speaker 1: And I will admit that because he wasn't individually, you know,

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Speaker 1: ever suspended or ever you know, penalized as an individual.

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Speaker 1: So I always look at it is I'm not the

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Speaker 1: judge and jury, just like I think a lot of

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Speaker 1: my brethren in the b b W A A have

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Speaker 1: made mistakes. They've lett they've let guys in who they

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Speaker 1: have been talked to rumors about, you know, with with

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Speaker 1: steroid and h G H. Those guys have gotten in,

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Speaker 1: but they want to hold tight against Bonds and Clemens.

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Speaker 1: When uh Pudge Rodriguez got in on his first ballot

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Speaker 1: and Jose Canseco, can we all say that his book

437
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Speaker 1: was real and true. I don't remember any lawsuits against

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Speaker 1: against him, and he was also uh mentioned uh that

439
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Speaker 1: he used to actually uh inject um um. I'm just

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Speaker 1: a Pudge rod week as you know what I mean,

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Speaker 1: like why are you letting Pudge in? Why are you

442
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Speaker 1: letting bag Well? And why are you letting Mike Piazza?

443
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Speaker 1: And I mean these are all names that we've all

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Speaker 1: been associated with and and without positive tests. I think

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Speaker 1: it's wrong that Gary Sheffield has over five hundred home

446
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Speaker 1: runs not in I vote for him. I think it's

447
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Speaker 1: wrong for Bonds. I think it's wrong for Clements. I

448
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Speaker 1: don't think that's my job. And Bonds is the home

449
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Speaker 1: run king never tested positive for steroids and major League Baseball.

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Speaker 1: I don't think that that's my right to keep him

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Speaker 1: out of the Hall of Fame. That's just how When

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Speaker 1: on that I agree, you know, I'll never have a

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Speaker 1: Hall of Fame vote like you, But you're right. But

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Speaker 1: when I I think the Hall of Fame I was

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Speaker 1: for years during the Stereota when Bonds and all that

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Speaker 1: was going on, and that was a big deal with

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Speaker 1: McGuire and Sosa. When that stuff started coming out, I

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Speaker 1: was like, all right, none of these guys are getting

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Speaker 1: all the fame. But then as you just laid out

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Speaker 1: the road map where there's a bunch of these guys

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Speaker 1: bag Well and all the cats that were pretty confident

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Speaker 1: we're up to some funny business or in the Hall

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Speaker 1: of Fame. So I don't agree with drawing. I would

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Speaker 1: put Bonds and Clemens in there too, And I was

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Speaker 1: I was completely against those guys being in all of Fame,

466
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Speaker 1: but they've opened door. But as far as Altobe, to me,

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Speaker 1: that's a little different. I wouldn't put them in there.

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Speaker 1: And as you pointed out with the fans, Rob and

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Speaker 1: how people don't want to forget, and I'm one of

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Speaker 1: those people what happened in seventeen. I was at those

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Speaker 1: games in l A, the Dodgers and Astros. But I

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Speaker 1: think also you have to that has to follow these

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Speaker 1: guys around and and and I've had people in Houston

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Speaker 1: asked me, well, what are you gonna forget about the

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Speaker 1: astros cheating thing? And I'm like, well, when the last

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Speaker 1: member of the seventeen Astros is no longer playing, maybe then,

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Speaker 1: maybe then I'll move on. But until then, I don't

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Speaker 1: think it's it's gonna it's gonna be a thing. Still,

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Speaker 1: So I grew, And that's why I think that people

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Speaker 1: can't say, well, there's only four guys left, you should

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Speaker 1: get over it. No, uh, those are four big guys.

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Speaker 1: There's still a part of that. What they did is

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Speaker 1: that they went the extra mile and cheating. We always

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Speaker 1: we know guys are looking for an advantage, and maybe

485
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Speaker 1: the catchers lazy. He doesn't he doesn't cover up his signs.

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Speaker 1: If you're at second base bend, is it okay? If

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Speaker 1: if you're at second basically trying to relay and put

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Speaker 1: your hand on your hip that the curveball is coming

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Speaker 1: and try to help me out at the plate, that's cool,

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Speaker 1: that's fair game, that's sportsmanship, right, that's uh, that's okay.

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Speaker 1: But banging trash cans and and and taping a a

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Speaker 1: buzzer to your chest or whatever that was that al

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Speaker 1: two ray. I mean, you know, I thought the best

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Speaker 1: part about it is, you know, you could actually do

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Speaker 1: an on field interview with Altay, you know, without even

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Speaker 1: adding any equipment to him. I mean, that's how easy

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Speaker 1: it would have been. My favorite part of this whole

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Speaker 1: thing was Major League Baseball and you know this, Rob

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Speaker 1: because you're all over this stuff. So Baseball was told

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Speaker 1: by other teams the Astros were cheating. They investigated the

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00:28:06,520 --> 00:28:09,359
Speaker 1: Astros and set up we didn't find any evidence of

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Speaker 1: anything inappropriate. And it wasn't until that story in the

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Speaker 1: Athletic came out where you had the whistleblower. If that

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Speaker 1: hadn't happened, nothing, none of this punishment would have taken

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Speaker 1: You're right, and that was that was a picture. I

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Speaker 1: can't forget it. I forgot his name, Mike Fires, Mike

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Speaker 1: Fires right right, he was on the team. He mean,

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Speaker 1: you couldn't ignore that. You couldn't ignore it. And I

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Speaker 1: think that Baseball was forced and we saw with the

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00:28:35,400 --> 00:28:39,240
Speaker 1: Red Sox, uh and there's which wasn't nearly the same.

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Speaker 1: But Cora got fired and we hired. I mean, think

512
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Speaker 1: about that. Um so it was weird that of course

513
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Speaker 1: in baseball, the two teams with with the cheating scandals

514
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Speaker 1: of course made it to the a LCS. You know,

515
00:28:51,000 --> 00:28:53,880
Speaker 1: like you know, you can't win sometimes, but it is

516
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Speaker 1: what it is. Um the World Series first two games entertaining.

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Speaker 1: I'm looking forward to this. I think it will go

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Speaker 1: six or seven games. I picked the Braves in six

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Speaker 1: and I'm gonna stick with my pick. Well, I from

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Speaker 1: your Lips to God's Ears. Let's hope that happens. And

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Speaker 1: what one final final note Rob on the cheating thing.

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Speaker 1: So I saw the story that it was behind a

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Speaker 1: paywall in the Houston Chronicle, so I didn't actually read

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Speaker 1: the story, but I saw the headline and then I

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00:29:18,200 --> 00:29:20,440
Speaker 1: read more about it on some people that that that

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Speaker 1: fed the story. So apparently the Astro there was a

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Speaker 1: group of Astro fans that were heckling in game one.

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Speaker 1: Rob Manford, the commissioner there for her punishing the Astros

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00:29:32,600 --> 00:29:35,560
Speaker 1: is like a scapegoat, and I would think this has

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Speaker 1: gotta be at the very top of the hutzpah scale,

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Speaker 1: considering none of the players, none of the star players

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Speaker 1: were punished. The people on the field that we're actually

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Speaker 1: actively doing it. You know. I know people bring up

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00:29:49,160 --> 00:29:51,920
Speaker 1: Carlos Beltron, but he was done by the time he

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Speaker 1: got punished. But the players, none of them were punished.

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Speaker 1: Do you imagine the Houston fans thinking that Rob Manford

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Speaker 1: had done them wrong. If why was the commissioner, I

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Speaker 1: would have banned the Astros in the postseason for five

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00:30:03,600 --> 00:30:06,200
Speaker 1: or ten years. I wouldn't even allow them. And all

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00:30:06,200 --> 00:30:08,480
Speaker 1: those players who have been suspended, they got off easy.

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Speaker 1: I can't. I can't get it through my head Rob,

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Speaker 1: that there's some fans in Houston that think somehow they're

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Speaker 1: the victims in this. It's unbelievable to me explain this time.

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00:30:17,040 --> 00:30:20,400
Speaker 1: I don't understand it. I agree with you that they

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00:30:20,440 --> 00:30:24,400
Speaker 1: got off very light. But I do understand, like from

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00:30:24,400 --> 00:30:26,840
Speaker 1: from one standpoint, because we saw this in the NFL

547
00:30:26,880 --> 00:30:31,360
Speaker 1: with bounty gate bend. But when the coaches are involved, right,

548
00:30:31,520 --> 00:30:34,080
Speaker 1: players are more apt to go along and and the

549
00:30:34,160 --> 00:30:37,200
Speaker 1: big thing is when you have a J. Hinch and

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00:30:37,280 --> 00:30:40,640
Speaker 1: the and the general manager and they know what's going on.

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00:30:40,800 --> 00:30:44,800
Speaker 1: It's an organizational thing. A J. Hins when they first

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00:30:44,800 --> 00:30:47,560
Speaker 1: hooked that thing up, could have went and pulled the

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Speaker 1: plug on that stuff and said, we're not doing that here.

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Speaker 1: Do you know what I mean? Alright, my man, the

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00:30:54,600 --> 00:30:58,160
Speaker 1: great Rob Parker, you hear him. He's a colleague. I'm

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Speaker 1: very happy to call him a colleague of ours. David

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00:31:01,240 --> 00:31:05,000
Speaker 1: Gascon here on Fox Sports Radio with Rob and Chris

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00:31:05,320 --> 00:31:10,719
Speaker 1: the Odd Couple every single afternoon or evening, depending on

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Speaker 1: your time zone. He's got the website. He's a Hall

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00:31:13,040 --> 00:31:16,840
Speaker 1: of Fame voter, he's a renaissance man, and I promise

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Speaker 1: you that I will pass this by my wife. I

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00:31:20,360 --> 00:31:24,840
Speaker 1: have a no attempt Gascon to travel on Spirit Airlines.

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00:31:25,440 --> 00:31:29,960
Speaker 1: If you can fly coast to coast for a hundred

564
00:31:29,960 --> 00:31:33,320
Speaker 1: dollars round or you know, a hundred and twenty or

565
00:31:33,360 --> 00:31:35,560
Speaker 1: whatever was round trip, I'm in. I'm in on that.

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00:31:35,560 --> 00:31:40,240
Speaker 1: That's that mallar, that's mallor approved airfare. That is insane

567
00:31:40,280 --> 00:31:42,720
Speaker 1: to me. So I'm excited about this. This was a

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00:31:42,800 --> 00:31:44,800
Speaker 1: I did not expect when we when you told me

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Speaker 1: we had had Rob on the on the podcast, I

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00:31:46,720 --> 00:31:48,640
Speaker 1: was looking forward to talking about. I had no idea

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00:31:48,680 --> 00:31:51,600
Speaker 1: that I would get a life multiple life acts. He

572
00:31:51,600 --> 00:31:54,600
Speaker 1: also named that website you can sell clothes on, and

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00:31:55,560 --> 00:31:58,640
Speaker 1: that's great. So random though, because I had worked with

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00:31:58,720 --> 00:32:03,440
Speaker 1: him earlier in the week and during the show he

575
00:32:03,520 --> 00:32:06,240
Speaker 1: was talking to Chris and talking to Bob Gara about

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00:32:07,040 --> 00:32:09,880
Speaker 1: something he did, and you know, normally buying stuff and

577
00:32:09,960 --> 00:32:11,800
Speaker 1: returning in or getting on the chief and just like

578
00:32:11,840 --> 00:32:14,520
Speaker 1: fucking Rob is just digging deep into something else. What

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00:32:14,600 --> 00:32:17,760
Speaker 1: does he got? And then, honest to god, he shows

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00:32:17,800 --> 00:32:20,280
Speaker 1: him the damn receipt and he talks about an air

581
00:32:20,320 --> 00:32:22,640
Speaker 1: and I'm like, you know, two three pair of jeans

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00:32:22,680 --> 00:32:24,760
Speaker 1: and he gets him for a penny. I was just

583
00:32:25,080 --> 00:32:29,640
Speaker 1: un unbelievable. So only Rob Parker man, Well, you get

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00:32:29,720 --> 00:32:31,880
Speaker 1: him for a penny, and then what he'll probably do,

585
00:32:31,920 --> 00:32:34,240
Speaker 1: he'll wear him for a couple of months and then

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00:32:34,720 --> 00:32:36,920
Speaker 1: he'll put those on the website and sell him for all,

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00:32:36,920 --> 00:32:39,360
Speaker 1: you know, two hundred bucks or something like that. So good,

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00:32:40,280 --> 00:32:43,200
Speaker 1: that's good man. It's a great way to a little

589
00:32:43,200 --> 00:32:46,360
Speaker 1: side hustle. Yeah, I gotta get I always like the

590
00:32:46,360 --> 00:32:49,760
Speaker 1: site house. I gotta get more of a side house. Yeah.

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00:32:50,000 --> 00:32:52,440
Speaker 1: I did find in the in the Mallard garage here

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00:32:53,120 --> 00:32:58,040
Speaker 1: boxes of old Mallard theme shirts that I am looking.

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00:32:58,360 --> 00:33:02,000
Speaker 1: I'm gonna probably put those up on the interweb for

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00:33:02,040 --> 00:33:04,360
Speaker 1: a nominal fee to cover shipping and things like that.

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00:33:04,400 --> 00:33:07,920
Speaker 1: But thinking about about doing that, it looks are class

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00:33:07,920 --> 00:33:10,840
Speaker 1: of shirts from the Mallard militia of past. Yeah, you

597
00:33:10,880 --> 00:33:12,880
Speaker 1: know you need to do I mean you're already late

598
00:33:12,880 --> 00:33:14,400
Speaker 1: in the game. But you know, when you want to

599
00:33:14,440 --> 00:33:17,680
Speaker 1: buy new stuff for the house, you have your wife

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00:33:17,720 --> 00:33:20,520
Speaker 1: pick it out and then you send it to to Rob.

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00:33:21,400 --> 00:33:23,400
Speaker 1: You said, go find me this, Rob, because they'll get

602
00:33:23,400 --> 00:33:26,880
Speaker 1: it on the cheap for you. Rob, I needs back

603
00:33:26,960 --> 00:33:32,080
Speaker 1: splash from my kitchen. Can you can you find Rob's

604
00:33:32,080 --> 00:33:36,680
Speaker 1: good man? Rob's into it all. Yeah, I listen. I'm impressed, man.

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00:33:36,760 --> 00:33:39,320
Speaker 1: I love Rob Parker. All right, anyway, that's it. Guess

606
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Speaker 1: we've got a whole weekend of podcast to come and amazingly,

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00:33:42,520 --> 00:33:45,080
Speaker 1: I think you're gonna be with us all weekend, which

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Speaker 1: is to me. I know this is this is very

609
00:33:47,520 --> 00:33:50,080
Speaker 1: frustrating for you having to work all weekend, but we

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Speaker 1: thank you that for being here. And uh, tell a

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Speaker 1: friend subscribe Sharing is caring if you haven't subscribed yet

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Speaker 1: to the podcast and we will catch yet next time.

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Speaker 1: Fun