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Speaker 1: In our lead from the World Baseball Classic. It was

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Speaker 1: of the game on Monday night getting a date with

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Speaker 1: USSE USA. No check this out, I just watch it.

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Speaker 1: I was watching so Rodal Lacuna Junior Braves, Mike kel

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Speaker 1: Giants now. They all had run scoring two out singles

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Speaker 1: in a seven thinning rally to sparkle for the team

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Speaker 1: for Venezuela. They went four to two in the game

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Speaker 1: on Monday night. You come back and vault past the

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Speaker 1: team representing Italy, even though all the players are from here.

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Speaker 1: But they beat Italy, and now that sets up the

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Speaker 1: matchup with the United States on Tuesday night and the

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Speaker 1: dancing will end, and then it'll be on at Duardo

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Speaker 1: the Americans going with the New York Mets. Alleged prodigy

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Speaker 1: Nolan MacLean will get to start for the USA, and

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Speaker 1: hopefully he doesn't right the vomit comet. In this game,

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Speaker 1: we will find out to listen, there's not a lot

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Speaker 1: of buy in. These guys are all delicate little flowers

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Speaker 1: and they all must be protected. We must protect our

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Speaker 1: pictures at all costs. And so this is what you get, right,

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Speaker 1: You're upselling this as a world series. You're upselling this

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Speaker 1: is a big deal and everyone's wrapped in bubble wrap.

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Speaker 1: So do what you want with that. That's the reality now.

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Speaker 1: In the lead up to this matchup, the Captain made

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Speaker 1: I thought this was interesting going into what is going

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Speaker 1: to be a racous supposed environment in Miami, because they

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Speaker 1: these comments still have legs here this week, the Yankees

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Speaker 1: Captain Aaron Judge on the environment of the World Baseball Classic,

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Speaker 1: what it's like playing in these games. He laid it

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Speaker 1: talking about how he feels like a kid again playing

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Speaker 1: he said he believes the World Baseball Classic feels bigger

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Speaker 1: of the fans. The environment is better than the World Series.

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

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Speaker 1: been to the World Baseball Classic. I don't have any

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Speaker 1: Aaron Judge thinks this is better than the World Series.

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Speaker 1: question what did Aaron Judge accomplish. The Yankees Captain Aaron

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Speaker 1: Judge accomlished by saying, the World Baseball Classic feels bigger

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Speaker 1: Does that become his nickname?

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Speaker 1: It's not like he's played all that. Well, he's in

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Speaker 1: But in terms of the wide angle wins, Aaron Judge

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Speaker 1: And here's thereon Judge like, oh no, this is better.

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Speaker 1: The twenty twenty six World Baseball Classic. Has it been

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Speaker 1: It's like, well, we can sell some games to Netflix

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Speaker 1: And you know, the World Baseball Classic. Think of it

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Speaker 1: I'm gonna I'm gonna do it. And this is damage control. Loud, clumsy,

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Speaker 1: something like that, well that's great, but ultimately you get

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Speaker 1: everyone wins other than Don Mattingly, everyone wins with the Yankees.

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Speaker 1: You got to go back one hundred years for someone

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Speaker 1: I guess they have a trophy? Do they have a trophy?

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Speaker 1: That's all I got to say. Close quote So good. God,

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Speaker 1: using the term best. I mean as good as all

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Speaker 1: Our lead this hour from pro Bouncy Ball trying to expand,

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Speaker 1: lose games, you get some lottery balls and that doesn't

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Speaker 1: work out, and then you rinse, wash and repeat, And

425
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Speaker 1: now you're inviting the Seattle and Vegas franchises to join

426
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Speaker 1: the group. Chat of dysfunction. Come on down. The price

427
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Speaker 1: is right, that's the culture. And doesn't it seem like

428
00:24:38,040 --> 00:24:41,600
Speaker 1: Vegas would have been great ten years ago? Also not now.

429
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Speaker 1: I still enjoy going to Vegas. I don't like going

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Speaker 1: to the strip very much. And I got friends in

431
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Speaker 1: Vegas who live there. I got family that lives in Vegas.

432
00:24:49,440 --> 00:24:51,760
Speaker 1: I go there quite a bit. But it's not a

433
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Speaker 1: great town right now. The parkings outrageous. They price godge

434
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Speaker 1: their customers. It's embarrassing. What that town has become. And

435
00:24:58,760 --> 00:25:01,639
Speaker 1: hopefully someone will get a clue and they'll change Vegas

436
00:25:01,680 --> 00:25:03,680
Speaker 1: around and make it Maybe the mob can come back

437
00:25:03,720 --> 00:25:06,560
Speaker 1: in and run Vegas and make it good again, because

438
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Speaker 1: it sucks right now. And I was told by somebody

439
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Speaker 1: in Vegas the reason they one of the reasons they

440
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Speaker 1: started charging for parking on the strip was because of

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Speaker 1: the NHL that they put the NHL team. There's an

442
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Speaker 1: arena right behind New York, New York, in the middle

443
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Speaker 1: of the strip, and they're like, we can't have a

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Speaker 1: hockey team without parking revenue, and so okay, we'll start

445
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Speaker 1: charging for parking. And then we have to charge it

446
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Speaker 1: all the hotels because otherwise people just walk. They'll park

447
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Speaker 1: far away and they'll walk, and we won't get the revenue. Okay,

448
00:25:36,960 --> 00:25:40,159
Speaker 1: So now everyone's charging and it's embarrassing. And then and

449
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Speaker 1: the NBA and plus the NBAB the last team in

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Speaker 1: the last team because that year, I believe the A's

451
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Speaker 1: if they ever get that thing done, the athletics will

452
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Speaker 1: be in there. So the hockey team's been there, the

453
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Speaker 1: Raiders have been there. You're gonna add a baseball team

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Speaker 1: and a basketball team. Okay, there you go. Now, as

455
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Speaker 1: far as the whole mindset that some have said, well,

456
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Speaker 1: the talent delution, this is a big problem. The dilution

457
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Speaker 1: of talent in the NBA is not enough good players

458
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Speaker 1: to go around. Well, the product again, it's already deluded. Uh,

459
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Speaker 1: load management is king, that's Adam Silver's baby load management

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Speaker 1: and all that. I would argue, though, if teams actually

461
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Speaker 1: were committed to trying to win, the product would not

462
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Speaker 1: be as bad as it is. I believe that the

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Speaker 1: product the NBA has is a byproduct of the commitment

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Speaker 1: to sucking, and it just the whole thing is rotten.

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Speaker 1: The whole thing is rotten. And if you actually put

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Speaker 1: a mindset in that even these crappy teams that mathematically

467
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Speaker 1: have no chance, if they actually tried, if they coached

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Speaker 1: up players, you'd be amazed at how much better the

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Speaker 1: product would be. Of Course, I'm I'm just a boomer,

470
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Speaker 1: I would have I know, all right. Meanwhile, keeping the

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Speaker 1: ball bouncing. So the found out with Seattle getting a team.

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Speaker 1: They're going to be called the SuperSonics. The Thunder the

473
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Speaker 1: team that was purchased as the Sonics by an oil

474
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Speaker 1: baron and moved to Seattle. The Thunder would give up

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Speaker 1: all of the records, the supersonic records, which were kind

476
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Speaker 1: of theirs but not really, those would all go back

477
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Speaker 1: to the Pacific Northwest. And we've seen this before with

478
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Speaker 1: the Charlotte Hornets and also with the New Orleans Pelicans,

479
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Speaker 1: who were the old Charlotte Hornets. It's all very confusing,

480
00:27:32,480 --> 00:27:35,000
Speaker 1: all very confusing, but they just got to keep the

481
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Speaker 1: records and that's how that went. So the question what

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Speaker 1: do you make of the plan for the Sonics, the branding,

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Speaker 1: the green and gold to return to the NBA. What

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Speaker 1: do you make of this? So this is one thing

485
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Speaker 1: we've been very critical, get paid to be a critic,

486
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Speaker 1: very critical of Adam Silver. We've taken our wetua's cheap

487
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Speaker 1: shots at Adam Silver in the NBA. This is something

488
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Speaker 1: in the NBA actually got right. And I'll be Benny

489
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Speaker 1: Bright said on this one. They got it right. You

490
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Speaker 1: write it down, you know, man bites dog. NBA got

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Speaker 1: something right. They got it right. You know, alert the authorities.

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Speaker 1: You might want to wake up the village elders. They

493
00:28:17,680 --> 00:28:20,680
Speaker 1: got it right. They did. Adam Silver, the guy that

494
00:28:20,800 --> 00:28:25,360
Speaker 1: we roast as a lizard person in a tailored suit

495
00:28:25,960 --> 00:28:30,679
Speaker 1: from somewhere outside the Milky Way galaxy is finally stumbled

496
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Speaker 1: onto something here where this is good, and he's done

497
00:28:32,840 --> 00:28:36,800
Speaker 1: it now a couple of times. But the basic common sense,

498
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Speaker 1: basic common sense, the Sonic brand belongs in Seattle, period,

499
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Speaker 1: full stop. It does. And when I become the almighty,

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Speaker 1: all powerful death spot of sports, which will happen sooner

501
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Speaker 1: than you think, and I'm in charge, and I'm in

502
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Speaker 1: the catbird seat when I am in charge, mark my words.

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Speaker 1: Right now. You move a franchise, you relocate a franchise

504
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Speaker 1: in a money grab. You get that tax money, and

505
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Speaker 1: you leave the name, You leave the colors, you leave

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Speaker 1: the history, all of that. Leave it right on the

507
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Speaker 1: kitchen table. The Chicago Bears, if they move to Indiana,

508
00:29:15,840 --> 00:29:19,080
Speaker 1: they're no longer the Chicago Bears. But it's just across

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Speaker 1: it's a few miles away. I don't care. You lose

510
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Speaker 1: the name, do it? Would you still do it? Would

511
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Speaker 1: would you think the Chicago Bears would move across the

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Speaker 1: state line there in Indiana if they had to change

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Speaker 1: the name. And I would have had the Giants and

514
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Speaker 1: Jets change their name. They play in New Jersey. I

515
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Speaker 1: don't care if it's across the way you move. That's it.

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Speaker 1: Those are the rules. I'm the boss, you're cooked. That's

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Speaker 1: the way that goes. And that'd be a cross board NFL,

518
00:29:47,440 --> 00:29:51,080
Speaker 1: major League Baseball, NHL, all of it. And you know,

519
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Speaker 1: don't drag the ghost of a sports team's past like

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Speaker 1: some kind of stolen some weirdo steals of family album.

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00:30:00,720 --> 00:30:02,960
Speaker 1: I was like, well, that needs nothing to you. You're

522
00:30:03,000 --> 00:30:04,880
Speaker 1: not part of that family. You don't need those photos.

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00:30:05,600 --> 00:30:09,120
Speaker 1: Get out of here with that, and so Seattle. By

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Speaker 1: the time this team comes back to the NBA in

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Speaker 1: twenty twenty eight, twenty twenty nine, it will have been

526
00:30:14,520 --> 00:30:18,320
Speaker 1: nearly twenty years I think almost exactly twenty years since

527
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Speaker 1: the Sonics were taken away and moved to Oklahoma City.

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Speaker 1: There and like a proud old mansion, we'll live again,

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Speaker 1: and they'll fix the windows, some paint and all that

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Speaker 1: and the whole thing. Bring all of it back, the

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Speaker 1: green and the gold. I want every Sonic legend, dead

532
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Speaker 1: or alive, to be celebrated, whether it's the X Man,

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Speaker 1: Xavier McDaniel, Tom Chambers, Gary Payton, Nate McMillan, Jack Sikma,

534
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Speaker 1: Ray Allen Dale, Ellis Downtown Freddie Brown. I don't care.

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Speaker 1: Bring them all back, dead or alive, and celebrate the

536
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Speaker 1: old old Sonics and that's it. And don't forget the masks. Now,

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Speaker 1: the original maskcot. A lot of people to know this,

538
00:30:58,440 --> 00:31:00,200
Speaker 1: because it's been a long time. You've forgotten. Maybe you

539
00:31:00,200 --> 00:31:02,600
Speaker 1: weren't alive when it happened. The original Sonics mascot was

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Speaker 1: Wheedle on the needle, Wheedle on the needle. Now after

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Speaker 1: that that mascot was retired. Then they brought in Squatch

542
00:31:10,000 --> 00:31:13,120
Speaker 1: for Sasquatch, so they had that bring back the mascots.

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00:31:13,480 --> 00:31:17,640
Speaker 1: I'd have both of them. Who says no? And power

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Speaker 1: to the people.

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Speaker 3: Why not?

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Speaker 1: All right? Now? Final point to the gambling market of

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Speaker 1: the NFL. The gambling market of the NFL. The updated

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Speaker 1: updated odds, updated odds, and Sean mcvay's Rams are now

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Speaker 1: plus seven hundred.

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Speaker 3: They are the betting favorite.

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00:31:39,840 --> 00:31:42,760
Speaker 1: The off season has adjusted the odds and the Rams

552
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Speaker 1: are the betting favorite to win Super Bowl sixty one.

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Speaker 1: Let me repeat that for those of you a little slow.

554
00:31:48,920 --> 00:31:52,840
Speaker 1: The La Rams are now the betting favorite, LA grabbing

555
00:31:52,960 --> 00:31:56,320
Speaker 1: the top spot on the updated odds after the free

556
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Speaker 1: agency in the first round of trades, keeping Matthew Stafford

557
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Speaker 1: and the core of the team intact, the team that

558
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Speaker 1: won that Fluke Super Bowl. The Seahawks are at plus

559
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Speaker 1: nine point fifty, followed by the Buffalo Bills, the Ravens,

560
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Speaker 1: and for some reason, the Chargers. Can we just stop

561
00:32:16,000 --> 00:32:20,160
Speaker 1: with the Chargers? Can we justin Herbert sucks? Can we

562
00:32:20,320 --> 00:32:23,440
Speaker 1: just stop with the Chargers? Please? The guy's a regular

563
00:32:23,520 --> 00:32:25,800
Speaker 1: season player. He can't get it done in the playoffs.

564
00:32:25,800 --> 00:32:28,320
Speaker 1: He's a fraud. And yet I got to hear about

565
00:32:28,320 --> 00:32:30,760
Speaker 1: the Chargers being great and all that stuff. Anyway, and

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Speaker 1: then you got the Chiefs and the forty nine ers

567
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Speaker 1: after that plus sixteen hundred. Question, do the Rams the Lams?

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00:32:37,680 --> 00:32:41,400
Speaker 1: Do they deserve to be the team to beat? Based

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Speaker 1: on the gamble odds? They are? So, I one hundred

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Speaker 1: percent rubber stamp this. I notarize it. I send it

571
00:32:50,120 --> 00:32:55,160
Speaker 1: FedEx overnight. I'm right there. The Rams are walking in

572
00:32:55,320 --> 00:32:57,120
Speaker 1: and there's still moves to be made. Obviously they're the

573
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Speaker 1: draft and all that, But the Rams are walking into

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Speaker 1: next season right now like a Hollywood reboot with a

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Speaker 1: bigger budget and a better group of special effects, and

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Speaker 1: it's just gonna be awesome. It's just gonna be awesome.

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Speaker 2: Now.

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Speaker 1: The weakest link the Rams had they had bad special teams,

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Speaker 1: and their secondary was not very good. They've addressed all

580
00:33:15,200 --> 00:33:18,120
Speaker 1: of those things, and we haven't even gotten to the draft.

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00:33:18,520 --> 00:33:23,080
Speaker 1: The secondary. They went on the prow They raided Arrowhead Stadium,

582
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Speaker 1: the stockpile the Chiefs had of defensive backs, and they

583
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Speaker 1: got them not on the cheap, they were expensive. Trent

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00:33:30,120 --> 00:33:32,680
Speaker 1: McDuffie's the highest paid defensive back in the NFL. Now

585
00:33:33,200 --> 00:33:35,560
Speaker 1: they got him and his buddy. And so that is

586
00:33:35,640 --> 00:33:39,680
Speaker 1: how you treat a leaky boat, all right. They didn't

587
00:33:39,920 --> 00:33:41,920
Speaker 1: just have a dinghy come and take them away. They

588
00:33:42,040 --> 00:33:45,520
Speaker 1: fixed the boat. They got some of those infomercial ceiling

589
00:33:45,600 --> 00:33:47,760
Speaker 1: products and they fixed the boat. And that's it. You

590
00:33:47,880 --> 00:33:51,400
Speaker 1: got Matthew Stafford, the reigning MVP, coming back and he's

591
00:33:51,400 --> 00:33:55,000
Speaker 1: still slinging it like a blackjack dealer there, who's on

592
00:33:55,120 --> 00:33:58,200
Speaker 1: a on a healer, a heater. And you got Poula Nacua,

593
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Speaker 1: who's been living the Hollywood life, going around having a

594
00:34:00,960 --> 00:34:03,800
Speaker 1: great time and all that. So that roster, with what

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00:34:03,960 --> 00:34:06,840
Speaker 1: they kept and what they've added the Rams, it's like

596
00:34:07,000 --> 00:34:10,240
Speaker 1: a late night run to Taco Bell, right, it's chaotic,

597
00:34:10,280 --> 00:34:12,360
Speaker 1: there's a long line. You gotta wait, and it just

598
00:34:12,480 --> 00:34:15,600
Speaker 1: hits the spot. And it might not look good later

599
00:34:15,640 --> 00:34:17,359
Speaker 1: because you might be on the toilet, but it looks

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00:34:17,440 --> 00:34:21,200
Speaker 1: good in the moment. It feels pretty good. And let's

601
00:34:21,239 --> 00:34:25,040
Speaker 1: also address the elephant in the room here and the

602
00:34:25,120 --> 00:34:27,200
Speaker 1: elephant doing jumping jacks in the side of the room,

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00:34:27,200 --> 00:34:30,600
Speaker 1: and that'd be Seattle. The Seahawks did not just win,

604
00:34:31,520 --> 00:34:34,600
Speaker 1: they won with help. That's why they're not the favorite anymore.

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00:34:34,600 --> 00:34:39,000
Speaker 1: And they've also been rated that phantom two point conversion.

606
00:34:39,680 --> 00:34:43,160
Speaker 1: Chances of that happening again are not particularly good. It

607
00:34:43,320 --> 00:34:45,080
Speaker 1: was right out of the twilight zone. I don't know.

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00:34:45,200 --> 00:34:46,920
Speaker 1: Jj N Renton would agree with me on that, and

609
00:34:46,960 --> 00:34:49,600
Speaker 1: so would Nostradinas when it comes to that. But the

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00:34:49,719 --> 00:34:54,279
Speaker 1: regression to the mean and Seattle overachieved last year got

611
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Speaker 1: some help. Those things won't happen likely this year here,

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00:34:56,600 --> 00:35:00,759
Speaker 1: so that tax bill will come do Rams at plus

613
00:35:00,880 --> 00:35:06,040
Speaker 1: seven hundred on the board. And that's not elementary school

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00:35:06,320 --> 00:35:13,440
Speaker 1: cafeteria mystery meat that is dry aged and hand carved

615
00:35:13,719 --> 00:35:17,600
Speaker 1: table side steak is what that is. That's just delicious.

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00:35:17,640 --> 00:35:19,960
Speaker 1: And then the Rams are not just contenders here. They

617
00:35:20,000 --> 00:35:21,880
Speaker 1: are the team to beat at this point based on

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Speaker 1: the offseason adjustment to the gambling market. It's hard to

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Speaker 1: argue with that. Against that, Rather, it's hard to argue

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Speaker 1: against that. I don't know how you could argue for

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Speaker 1: anyone else. No one's had a more impressive run than

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Speaker 1: the Rams this offseason.

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

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Speaker 2: Show weekdays at two am Eastern eleven pm Pacific, It's grill.

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Speaker 5: It was reported recently that through the first week of

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Speaker 5: free agency that the Saints have not received any inquiries

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Speaker 5: yes from teams regarding the potential trade of Derrek Carr's

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Speaker 5: contract rights. Ben, what are the chances car stays retired?

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Speaker 5: But it sounds like he wants to play. So if

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Speaker 5: you want to play, you're going to play. Like you'll

631
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Speaker 5: find a way to play. If you want to play,

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Speaker 5: He's not gonna go to a good team.

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Speaker 1: He's gonna have to either you've got two options, go

634
00:36:11,560 --> 00:36:15,279
Speaker 1: to a bad team or just wait, wait until guys

635
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Speaker 1: start getting hurt and then like he passed on the

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Speaker 1: Bengals and the Colts last year, what are you doing?

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Speaker 3: But they'll'll be.

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Speaker 5: Jobs if you want to play next some people around

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Speaker 5: the league think that the salary cap should take state

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Speaker 5: incomes into account.

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Speaker 3: Ben, do you think that's a good idea?

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Speaker 5: Uh?

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Speaker 1: Well, would you so you'd pay them more if they're

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Speaker 1: in California or New York or something like that. Is

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Speaker 1: that that would work? Or yeah?

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Speaker 2: Nah?

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Speaker 1: I think the states that tax people that much should

648
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Speaker 1: be punished. So I think you should punish states that

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Speaker 1: tax that. It's insane, So I think you should continue

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Speaker 1: punishing them, and players should go to the states where

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Speaker 1: they keep more of their money. Next.

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Speaker 5: The New York Jets have targeted and obtained older players

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Speaker 5: this offseason and an attempt to get the team's culture

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Speaker 5: quote under control.

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Speaker 3: Ben, do you think this is a sound strategy? Uh?

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Speaker 1: Well, sure on a on a tablet coop, it sounds

657
00:37:05,200 --> 00:37:08,120
Speaker 1: like a good strategy. Why not? The problem is an

658
00:37:08,160 --> 00:37:11,000
Speaker 1: execution because the Jets are gonna suck again and then

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Speaker 1: it doesn't matter if they're older, young players. They're gonna

660
00:37:13,320 --> 00:37:16,000
Speaker 1: start having hissy fits. So it's not gonna work. How

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Speaker 1: do we do? Koople loop you passed that as a win?

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00:37:18,360 --> 00:37:22,080
Speaker 1: Put it on the bad Chicken Dinna.

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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.

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00:37:34,960 --> 00:37:37,480
Speaker 1: Game time, game time, game time, game time, game time,

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Speaker 1: game time.

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Speaker 3: You know we need to sign Are we playing the

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Speaker 3: imaging before or after forget.

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Speaker 2: To the top.

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00:37:44,640 --> 00:37:46,319
Speaker 1: Well, you already decided the rain and you just.

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Speaker 3: Played it, so you made it seem like I needed

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Speaker 3: to play something.

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00:37:50,080 --> 00:37:54,359
Speaker 1: I don't care. It's fine, it's all right, it's all good.

676
00:37:54,600 --> 00:37:58,640
Speaker 1: We've got and see here money mode. D block is

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00:37:58,760 --> 00:38:03,160
Speaker 1: in Miami. Hello, oh d Block, Welcome, good morning, good

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00:38:03,200 --> 00:38:06,280
Speaker 1: morning on a rainy Miami day. Man, it's a typical

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00:38:06,600 --> 00:38:09,560
Speaker 1: chamber of commerce Miami day, a little tropical rain for it.

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Speaker 1: H R D buke. You're gonna play the game? Who

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00:38:13,719 --> 00:38:14,880
Speaker 1: do you? Who do you want to partner on with

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00:38:14,960 --> 00:38:18,600
Speaker 1: d block? With two? With two? Well, thank you? All right?

683
00:38:18,640 --> 00:38:21,520
Speaker 3: Hold on a second, mister popular.

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00:38:21,320 --> 00:38:23,799
Speaker 1: LORRAINA picked door number one or door number three?

685
00:38:24,520 --> 00:38:26,440
Speaker 3: Well I like door number three today.

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00:38:26,600 --> 00:38:30,560
Speaker 1: Okay, Well you have picked j C, who's just down

687
00:38:30,640 --> 00:38:33,239
Speaker 1: the street from us here in beautiful Sherman Oaks, California.

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00:38:33,280 --> 00:38:34,080
Speaker 1: Hello j C.

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00:38:35,640 --> 00:38:38,239
Speaker 2: Oh my god, it's a big, big fan and just

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00:38:38,400 --> 00:38:41,680
Speaker 2: actually known the reason why I caught in You play

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00:38:41,760 --> 00:38:44,360
Speaker 2: that song by the Eagles, big big fan.

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Speaker 3: And I was, I was motivated. That was actually the

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Speaker 3: MAM's in the papas.

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Speaker 1: No, oh, okay, who cares?

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00:38:54,520 --> 00:38:55,680
Speaker 2: Alright, I want to win.

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00:38:55,760 --> 00:38:56,600
Speaker 1: I want to win, Benny.

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Speaker 2: I want to win, Benny.

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Speaker 1: Okay, Well, you're in it. You're you're gonna play the game,

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00:38:59,480 --> 00:39:02,520
Speaker 1: jac and let's go. You want to partner up with

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Speaker 1: Loraina or Coop?

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00:39:04,440 --> 00:39:06,640
Speaker 3: Coop? Okay? Wine?

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00:39:06,719 --> 00:39:06,879
Speaker 1: Good?

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00:39:06,960 --> 00:39:08,279
Speaker 3: Yeah, good, good? Good call?

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Speaker 1: Hurry where the categories here? Coop? Please?

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Speaker 5: All right, gentlemen, this is good. This is Malard's Mountain

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00:39:14,520 --> 00:39:18,080
Speaker 5: of Money. Billy Corgan edition, lead singer of the Smashing Pumpkins. Yes,

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Speaker 5: I lookxcited. He turns fifty nine years old today. The

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Speaker 5: categories are chareup rock, nineteen seventy nine, bullet with Butterfly Wings.

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Speaker 3: And zero and let's s let's see d block. You're

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00:39:33,640 --> 00:39:37,240
Speaker 3: on the air. First, Which category would you like? Nineteen

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Speaker 3: seventy nine?

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00:39:37,760 --> 00:39:38,080
Speaker 2: All right?

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00:39:38,840 --> 00:39:39,120
Speaker 1: That one?

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Speaker 3: Which category would you like? Jac Man?

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Speaker 1: I wanted nine? Well I know you can't.

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00:39:46,600 --> 00:39:48,759
Speaker 3: Yeah, Now which one do you want? All right?

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Speaker 1: Rock?

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00:39:49,400 --> 00:39:49,520
Speaker 5: Rock?

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Speaker 1: Okay, all right, very good? I feel like there's from

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Speaker 1: pregame Saint Patti's Day celebration going on with JC. I

721
00:39:55,560 --> 00:39:59,000
Speaker 1: feel like he's starting the party early. Everyone hold on

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00:39:59,239 --> 00:40:01,799
Speaker 1: here with don't hang up. If you're on hold as

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Speaker 1: one of our backups, you stand by. If one of

724
00:40:04,000 --> 00:40:06,360
Speaker 1: these guys hang up, we'll go to the bullpen and

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00:40:06,440 --> 00:40:08,440
Speaker 1: you'll get the chance to play. It's gonna be moments

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Speaker 1: from now, Malors Mountain of Money. We'll get to that

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Speaker 1: and we will do it next.

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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: All right, back to it. Here we go. Let's play

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Speaker 1: the game. We've got my guy d Block. You cut

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Speaker 1: him open. It's like deep dish Chicago pizza. But he's

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Speaker 1: in Miami.

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Speaker 3: Jeez.

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Speaker 1: He's enjoying the nice weather and JC in southern California

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Speaker 1: and he's also enjoying the nice weather. All right, here

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Speaker 1: we go, gentlemen, Let's play the game. Coop. Who's going first?

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Speaker 1: I believe I him going first? Is that it is correct?

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00:40:50,520 --> 00:40:54,399
Speaker 1: All right? You picked nineteen seventy nine d Block? Are

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Speaker 1: you ready? Does not sound like d Block is right? Hello?

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00:41:01,840 --> 00:41:02,000
Speaker 3: Yes?

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Speaker 1: Third? All right, here we go. Here we go, d Block.

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Speaker 1: Are you at work right now? All right? I do

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00:41:09,000 --> 00:41:12,240
Speaker 1: not want to get you in trouble. Are these athletes

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00:41:12,280 --> 00:41:15,440
Speaker 1: we're all born in nineteen seventy nine. Then we need

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00:41:15,560 --> 00:41:17,640
Speaker 1: first and last name and we're on our way.

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Speaker 2: Go.

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00:41:18,520 --> 00:41:25,479
Speaker 1: Greatest quarterback in New Orleans Saints history, he almost signed

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00:41:25,520 --> 00:41:29,719
Speaker 1: with the Dolphins, all right. The greatest running back in

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00:41:30,080 --> 00:41:34,640
Speaker 1: San Diego Chargers history also played with the Jets. Great

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00:41:34,960 --> 00:41:39,200
Speaker 1: what hal Man? Oh boy, all right, we're doing very well.

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00:41:39,480 --> 00:41:42,680
Speaker 1: The Greek god of walks for the Boston Red Sox.

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00:41:45,160 --> 00:41:47,480
Speaker 3: I think you should go to somebody else, all right.

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00:41:47,719 --> 00:41:50,160
Speaker 1: A tight end for the Colts with Peyton Manning in

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00:41:50,200 --> 00:41:53,680
Speaker 1: the early two thousands. The tight end then you you.

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Speaker 3: I'm sorry, man, I'm breaking part different.

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00:41:57,800 --> 00:42:02,640
Speaker 1: I'm sorry, man. Okay, NBA player changed his name.

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00:42:04,200 --> 00:42:05,880
Speaker 3: Wow, I think we still have time. You can have

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00:42:05,960 --> 00:42:08,440
Speaker 3: someone could you could have gone to the bullpen at anytime?

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00:42:08,520 --> 00:42:10,480
Speaker 1: All right? D Block? I love you, man, I'm going

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00:42:10,680 --> 00:42:13,640
Speaker 1: I'm hanging up on you next time. All right, next time, Ray,

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00:42:13,719 --> 00:42:15,759
Speaker 1: you're my bullpen guy. Ray, I'm coming to the I

763
00:42:15,880 --> 00:42:17,560
Speaker 1: need you out of the bullpen, all right.

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Speaker 3: Hold all right, jac we have cherub Rock right by

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Speaker 3: the Way.

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Speaker 1: Drew Brees, Ladanian, Tomlinson. What else did a Kevin Yuclus

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Speaker 1: the Greek got to Walks Dallas Clark? Oh my god?

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Speaker 5: All right, jac these athletes were or are so clean

769
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Speaker 5: cut that they're almost angelic.

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Speaker 3: U s in your opinion?

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00:42:38,520 --> 00:42:39,960
Speaker 1: Coop forty that's objective.

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00:42:40,200 --> 00:42:42,560
Speaker 3: Forty five seconds on the clock. Let's begin.

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Speaker 5: Longtime quarterback for the Seattle Seahawks went to the Broncos

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00:42:46,239 --> 00:42:48,600
Speaker 5: and the Giants, and he sucks.

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00:42:48,640 --> 00:42:52,440
Speaker 3: Now Wilson, what's his full name?

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00:42:54,920 --> 00:43:01,040
Speaker 5: His name is, Okay, of the best pitchers of all

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00:43:01,120 --> 00:43:02,640
Speaker 5: time for the Los Angeles Dodgers.

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00:43:02,680 --> 00:43:07,480
Speaker 3: He just retired. Uh, what's his first name?

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00:43:07,520 --> 00:43:13,880
Speaker 1: I need the full name. I don't know.

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00:43:14,160 --> 00:43:14,440
Speaker 3: Okay.

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00:43:14,920 --> 00:43:19,000
Speaker 5: How about the quarterback from Florida who who kneeled and

782
00:43:19,160 --> 00:43:23,359
Speaker 5: he was he was drafted by the Broncos, Heisman Trophy winner.

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00:43:25,239 --> 00:43:29,759
Speaker 1: His name is Oh did this really happen?

784
00:43:30,080 --> 00:43:32,680
Speaker 3: There's no way this is happening right now? You ja

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00:43:32,800 --> 00:43:36,280
Speaker 3: c Russell, Wilson, Clayton Kershaw.

786
00:43:36,239 --> 00:43:39,040
Speaker 1: I got I got right? Well, you know you got

787
00:43:39,160 --> 00:43:41,319
Speaker 1: to say the full name. That's the bit. The bit

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00:43:41,480 --> 00:43:42,359
Speaker 1: is the full name.

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Speaker 3: And then Tim Tebow, Tim Tebow, bad clues by you Coop, I.

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00:43:48,280 --> 00:43:50,120
Speaker 1: Think I won. I've got better than well if the

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00:43:50,160 --> 00:43:52,320
Speaker 1: game's not over yet. So just for the record, the

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00:43:52,680 --> 00:43:56,040
Speaker 1: listeners so far do not know who Drew Brees, Ladenian Thominson,

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00:43:56,120 --> 00:43:59,839
Speaker 1: Kevin Euchlist, Dallas Clark, Russell Wilson, Clayton kershar Tim t Barr.

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00:44:00,040 --> 00:44:02,359
Speaker 1: And we're doing the sports talk radio sh Yes, how

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00:44:02,400 --> 00:44:06,440
Speaker 1: about all right for me? Yes, I'm going to I'm

796
00:44:06,480 --> 00:44:12,120
Speaker 1: going to my believer Ray from Milwaukee. Hello, Ray, Okay,

797
00:44:12,280 --> 00:44:16,080
Speaker 1: we've we've got bullet with butterfly wings and zero?

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00:44:17,200 --> 00:44:17,920
Speaker 3: Which category?

799
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Speaker 1: All right? What do you say? He said? Zero? Okay?

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00:44:23,440 --> 00:44:23,520
Speaker 2: Uh?

801
00:44:23,600 --> 00:44:29,759
Speaker 1: These athletes all war or where number zero? Are you ready? Read?

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00:44:30,200 --> 00:44:30,600
Speaker 1: All right?

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00:44:31,480 --> 00:44:31,560
Speaker 5: Here?

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00:44:31,600 --> 00:44:34,480
Speaker 1: You're forty five seconds? Journeyman guard. He's for the Sacramento Kings.

805
00:44:34,520 --> 00:44:37,360
Speaker 1: Now he had he had a triple double. He averaged

806
00:44:37,400 --> 00:44:43,319
Speaker 1: the entire season for Oklahoma City. He's still playing. Yes,

807
00:44:44,080 --> 00:44:47,279
Speaker 1: start for the Boston Celtics. He's he was out most

808
00:44:47,320 --> 00:44:49,160
Speaker 1: of this year. He just came back helped the Celtics

809
00:44:49,200 --> 00:44:54,919
Speaker 1: win the championship. Forward for the Celtics, No, uh played?

810
00:44:55,000 --> 00:44:57,759
Speaker 1: How about this guy played for the Milwaukee Bucks. Number

811
00:44:57,920 --> 00:45:05,040
Speaker 1: zero was traded back to the Portland Trailblazers. Oh my god,

812
00:45:05,600 --> 00:45:09,080
Speaker 1: all right, we're getting punked her. Cool. Yeah, there you go.

813
00:45:09,239 --> 00:45:14,160
Speaker 1: All right. Agent zero for the Washington Wizards back in

814
00:45:14,239 --> 00:45:19,680
Speaker 1: the day. All right, wow, what are we doing?

815
00:45:19,880 --> 00:45:20,760
Speaker 3: You got forty points?

816
00:45:21,239 --> 00:45:23,800
Speaker 1: I need Andrea? Andrea is there's something going on with

817
00:45:23,880 --> 00:45:24,680
Speaker 1: the moon. Alright?

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00:45:25,040 --> 00:45:28,560
Speaker 3: All right, JC, we got we got bullet with butterfly wings.

819
00:45:32,480 --> 00:45:35,680
Speaker 1: You said that last time, he said that last time.

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00:45:35,840 --> 00:45:42,160
Speaker 5: These athletes all struggled with fame. All right, these athletes,

821
00:45:42,239 --> 00:45:46,839
Speaker 5: all these athletes all struggled with fame. All right, forty

822
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Speaker 5: five seconds. Let's begin. Boxer who bit somebody's ear off, Yes,

823
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Speaker 5: let's go. All right, running back for the Dolphins back

824
00:45:57,920 --> 00:46:02,359
Speaker 5: in the day. He smoked a bunch of weed. His name,

825
00:46:03,320 --> 00:46:06,040
Speaker 5: all right, this guy was the worm on the bulls.

826
00:46:06,120 --> 00:46:09,799
Speaker 5: He had colored hair. He's yeah right away, knew that right,

827
00:46:09,840 --> 00:46:12,920
Speaker 5: all right? This guy was His nickname was Money. He

828
00:46:13,040 --> 00:46:15,440
Speaker 5: did the money sign. He played for Texas A and

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Speaker 5: m or He all right, Uh, this guy was the

830
00:46:20,760 --> 00:46:23,279
Speaker 5: power forward for the Cavaliers and the Timberwolves.

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Speaker 3: His white guy.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, let's go, let's go. Come on. I think that's it.

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00:46:32,960 --> 00:46:38,279
Speaker 1: We win, we win. Good job, Jay Sealings go listen.

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Speaker 2: De Block.

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Speaker 1: I don't know what happened. De Block took he took

836
00:46:43,120 --> 00:46:46,279
Speaker 1: the wrong medicine today. He took stupid pills today, d Block,

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Speaker 1: you didn't do much better, by the way, Uh, jac.

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Speaker 3: You gotta go to ticket jay Z.

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00:46:53,000 --> 00:46:55,680
Speaker 1: All right, all right, say all right, get back to

840
00:46:55,760 --> 00:46:58,400
Speaker 1: your party. You know what's going on. Everyone's they're doing

841
00:46:58,480 --> 00:47:01,560
Speaker 1: the Saint Patty's Day thing. I'm convinced now. Normally that

842
00:47:01,640 --> 00:47:04,200
Speaker 1: doesn't affect the show because we have drunks call the

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00:47:04,200 --> 00:47:07,000
Speaker 1: show all the time. But I feel like there's something

844
00:47:07,120 --> 00:47:10,520
Speaker 1: going on with Saint Patty's Day. And I thought, normally

845
00:47:10,560 --> 00:47:13,280
Speaker 1: you wait till the sun comes up on Saint Patty's

846
00:47:13,320 --> 00:47:15,839
Speaker 1: Day to celebrate the day. But these guys are These

847
00:47:15,880 --> 00:47:18,960
Speaker 1: guys are pregaming for Saint. They're drinking the green beer.

848
00:47:19,040 --> 00:47:22,279
Speaker 1: They're having a grand old time here. They celebrate green bagel, yeah,

849
00:47:22,360 --> 00:47:25,040
Speaker 1: eating the grain I mean, or smoking some green stuff.

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00:47:25,040 --> 00:47:27,000
Speaker 1: They got a lot going on here, man,