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Now we know 41 00:02:31,400 --> 00:02:34,079 Speaker 1: what happened. We were here to document it. Kyle Schwarber 42 00:02:34,240 --> 00:02:38,000 Speaker 1: the fight, and Phil was the star. He was the 43 00:02:38,000 --> 00:02:40,880 Speaker 1: first ever MVP as far as a position player to 44 00:02:40,880 --> 00:02:43,360 Speaker 1: not get a hit in the actual All Star Game 45 00:02:43,400 --> 00:02:46,560 Speaker 1: and be named MVP. But he won the swing off. 46 00:02:46,639 --> 00:02:49,640 Speaker 1: More on that in a minute. Game was a tie 47 00:02:49,720 --> 00:02:53,720 Speaker 1: until the swing off. Now, many nice things have been written, 48 00:02:54,240 --> 00:02:57,000 Speaker 1: many nice things have been said into microphones about the 49 00:02:57,120 --> 00:03:00,480 Speaker 1: Dinger party. You always have the end to the right. 50 00:03:00,480 --> 00:03:02,320 Speaker 1: You got the end of the yang, and in this 51 00:03:02,440 --> 00:03:05,560 Speaker 1: case it would be the Komodo dragon in the room. 52 00:03:06,320 --> 00:03:09,840 Speaker 1: And the storyline continues to be the biggest stars of 53 00:03:09,880 --> 00:03:17,560 Speaker 1: baseball getting roasted for skipping town. Now, so what did 54 00:03:17,600 --> 00:03:18,639 Speaker 1: Major League Baseball do? 55 00:03:18,760 --> 00:03:19,320 Speaker 4: Did you see this? 56 00:03:20,919 --> 00:03:23,080 Speaker 1: Were you paying attention? You were not paying attention. It's 57 00:03:23,080 --> 00:03:26,359 Speaker 1: a bad job by you. So they circled the wagons, 58 00:03:27,200 --> 00:03:29,359 Speaker 1: is what they did. Now, you always have the jock sniffers, 59 00:03:29,440 --> 00:03:32,720 Speaker 1: the fanboys. They always support the athletes no matter what. 60 00:03:33,120 --> 00:03:36,120 Speaker 1: But then you had Aaron Judge, Shoe a Otani called out, 61 00:03:36,600 --> 00:03:41,000 Speaker 1: they pulled the Great Houdini Act, and Abra kadabra. 62 00:03:40,640 --> 00:03:43,040 Speaker 4: Vanished before the thing was even over. 63 00:03:43,120 --> 00:03:44,760 Speaker 1: They couldn't even stand out in the field in their 64 00:03:44,800 --> 00:03:48,320 Speaker 1: street clothes because they were on planes, trains, and automobiles. 65 00:03:48,360 --> 00:03:50,600 Speaker 4: They were out of there. Now, they were not alone. 66 00:03:51,080 --> 00:03:54,240 Speaker 1: However, when you're the faces of baseball, you're the ones 67 00:03:54,360 --> 00:04:00,520 Speaker 1: getting roasted. And both Judge and Otani bailing out of Atlanta. 68 00:04:00,360 --> 00:04:03,720 Speaker 4: Like it was sheboygan before the swing off. 69 00:04:03,760 --> 00:04:08,960 Speaker 1: So baseball media elites had run around, they were doing 70 00:04:09,080 --> 00:04:13,960 Speaker 1: damage control, trying to downplay the situation. I saw a 71 00:04:14,000 --> 00:04:16,320 Speaker 1: lot of that in the baseball conversation. 72 00:04:16,680 --> 00:04:18,360 Speaker 4: Was not that big a deal. 73 00:04:18,480 --> 00:04:23,440 Speaker 1: It doesn't murder, it's their vacation, it's the All Star break, 74 00:04:23,600 --> 00:04:24,880 Speaker 1: you know, give them a break. 75 00:04:25,279 --> 00:04:26,680 Speaker 4: All that a right, A lot of. 76 00:04:26,600 --> 00:04:30,800 Speaker 1: Excuse making by the people in the baseball media, the elites. 77 00:04:30,960 --> 00:04:36,400 Speaker 1: So let us discuss the question what's really happening behind 78 00:04:36,480 --> 00:04:41,080 Speaker 1: closed doors? In the story the Fiasco with Aaron Judge 79 00:04:41,120 --> 00:04:44,640 Speaker 1: and shohel Tani among the defenders, what's happening behind closed doors? 80 00:04:44,680 --> 00:04:50,239 Speaker 1: So I've got fire hydrant, storybook circus, and Churchill downs, 81 00:04:50,760 --> 00:04:53,720 Speaker 1: and we will combine all of these things together and 82 00:04:53,760 --> 00:04:56,640 Speaker 1: we are going to make ballpark nachos in a helmet, 83 00:04:57,320 --> 00:04:59,760 Speaker 1: which you have to eat quick because if you don't 84 00:04:59,760 --> 00:05:03,600 Speaker 1: eat quick, it gets all saggy and the chips are chewy, 85 00:05:03,640 --> 00:05:05,120 Speaker 1: and nobody wants chewy chips. 86 00:05:05,640 --> 00:05:10,039 Speaker 4: Nobody wants that. So a what's going on behind. 87 00:05:09,760 --> 00:05:13,839 Speaker 1: Closed doors is that it is a terrible look for 88 00:05:14,320 --> 00:05:16,560 Speaker 1: the powers that be in baseball it's a bad look 89 00:05:16,560 --> 00:05:19,880 Speaker 1: for Aaron Judge and Shoeotani, and you are the brand 90 00:05:19,960 --> 00:05:23,359 Speaker 1: ambassadors of a multi billion dollar business. Judge has a 91 00:05:23,400 --> 00:05:26,360 Speaker 1: three hundred and fifty million dollar contract with the Bronx Bombers, 92 00:05:26,520 --> 00:05:29,800 Speaker 1: Otani seven hundred million, although most of it won't be 93 00:05:29,839 --> 00:05:32,560 Speaker 1: paid till later because the People's Republic of California. But 94 00:05:32,640 --> 00:05:37,400 Speaker 1: with the Dodgers and Otani's the international man of mystery. Now, 95 00:05:37,440 --> 00:05:41,480 Speaker 1: while technically Baseball allowed this to happen, it was scheduled. 96 00:05:41,560 --> 00:05:43,760 Speaker 1: They had it all planned out. You don't just go 97 00:05:43,839 --> 00:05:46,080 Speaker 1: down to the airport and jump on a private plane. 98 00:05:46,720 --> 00:05:50,000 Speaker 1: The logistics of that, getting the crew and the pilot 99 00:05:50,080 --> 00:05:52,920 Speaker 1: ready to go, you have to have it all planned out. 100 00:05:53,080 --> 00:05:55,760 Speaker 1: There are limits on when planes can take off at 101 00:05:55,760 --> 00:05:59,360 Speaker 1: certain airports and whatnot. So this was all planned out 102 00:05:59,640 --> 00:06:03,960 Speaker 1: way in advance. It was, as we said, scheduled. So 103 00:06:04,160 --> 00:06:10,560 Speaker 1: now the people at Baseball have deputized the useful, well 104 00:06:10,600 --> 00:06:15,280 Speaker 1: not really useful, they're useless, useless idiots. The people in 105 00:06:15,360 --> 00:06:19,800 Speaker 1: baseball media that are in the tank for the league, 106 00:06:20,360 --> 00:06:24,320 Speaker 1: the media one percenters, and they've said, listen, boys, you've 107 00:06:24,320 --> 00:06:29,360 Speaker 1: been deputized. You have to clean up our mess. And 108 00:06:29,400 --> 00:06:32,719 Speaker 1: they said, okay, that's right, major League Baseball opening up 109 00:06:32,760 --> 00:06:33,960 Speaker 1: the old fire hydrant. 110 00:06:34,800 --> 00:06:35,560 Speaker 4: And what did they do. 111 00:06:35,720 --> 00:06:40,320 Speaker 1: They started pumping out propaganda rather than call out the players. 112 00:06:40,480 --> 00:06:43,120 Speaker 1: Rather than say, hey, fellas, maybe you should just hang. 113 00:06:43,000 --> 00:06:44,760 Speaker 4: Around to the end of the game just in case. 114 00:06:45,880 --> 00:06:48,880 Speaker 1: I'm just saying it's one night, major League Baseball rolled 115 00:06:48,920 --> 00:06:53,920 Speaker 1: out the loyal media lap dogs to run interference, queue 116 00:06:54,000 --> 00:06:57,600 Speaker 1: up the deep think piece about how it's actually noble 117 00:06:57,680 --> 00:07:01,040 Speaker 1: to leave the All Star Game early give other people 118 00:07:01,120 --> 00:07:05,960 Speaker 1: the opportunity. It's just an old fashioned disinformation campaign. It's 119 00:07:06,000 --> 00:07:10,240 Speaker 1: all spin, spin, spin, spin, spin, all of it. So 120 00:07:10,480 --> 00:07:13,080 Speaker 1: it's the same playbook you get in politics, right, just 121 00:07:13,160 --> 00:07:18,280 Speaker 1: gaslight everybody into thinking this is okay, it's okay. Spoiler alert, 122 00:07:18,400 --> 00:07:19,280 Speaker 1: spoiler y, it's not. 123 00:07:19,560 --> 00:07:21,520 Speaker 4: It's not. It's not major League Baseball. 124 00:07:21,560 --> 00:07:21,760 Speaker 2: Now. 125 00:07:21,920 --> 00:07:26,360 Speaker 1: They want the stars to play, and for the most part, 126 00:07:26,400 --> 00:07:28,320 Speaker 1: they do play in the All Star Game unless you're 127 00:07:28,320 --> 00:07:30,040 Speaker 1: onon SODO and can't even make the All Star team. 128 00:07:31,160 --> 00:07:32,640 Speaker 4: But then Baseball. 129 00:07:32,200 --> 00:07:36,160 Speaker 1: Also wants the star players to They want to cater 130 00:07:36,280 --> 00:07:39,520 Speaker 1: everything so they can get their nice tropical vacation. Keep 131 00:07:39,560 --> 00:07:42,400 Speaker 1: in mind, if you're a baseball player, it's kind of 132 00:07:42,480 --> 00:07:45,760 Speaker 1: like a teacher, except you get paid a lot more money. 133 00:07:45,840 --> 00:07:49,080 Speaker 1: It's worked into the scared It's literally baked into the 134 00:07:49,120 --> 00:07:51,200 Speaker 1: schedule that you're going to get three or four months 135 00:07:51,240 --> 00:07:51,680 Speaker 1: off a year. 136 00:07:52,600 --> 00:07:53,440 Speaker 4: So I don't know what you do. 137 00:07:53,560 --> 00:07:55,720 Speaker 1: Maybe you drive a truck, maybe you work in a factory. 138 00:07:55,800 --> 00:07:58,600 Speaker 1: I do talk radio. I don't get three months off 139 00:07:58,600 --> 00:08:00,240 Speaker 1: a year. I don't get four months off for you. 140 00:08:00,280 --> 00:08:03,880 Speaker 1: Do you do you know anyone that gets three or 141 00:08:03,880 --> 00:08:07,160 Speaker 1: four months off a year to enjoy a nice downtime. 142 00:08:07,080 --> 00:08:08,720 Speaker 4: Because I don't. I don't. 143 00:08:08,760 --> 00:08:10,920 Speaker 1: I don't get it in this job. I mean, hell, 144 00:08:10,960 --> 00:08:13,560 Speaker 1: I take a day off. You people lose your freaking mind. 145 00:08:14,120 --> 00:08:18,200 Speaker 1: You know, you send me nasty letters and correspondence on 146 00:08:18,240 --> 00:08:21,560 Speaker 1: social media. So I get that baseball is trying to 147 00:08:21,600 --> 00:08:24,000 Speaker 1: thread a needle. But the players, I don't feel bad 148 00:08:24,040 --> 00:08:28,520 Speaker 1: for the players. They live the life of Riley. They 149 00:08:28,640 --> 00:08:31,160 Speaker 1: travel in luxury, they stay at luxury hotels, and they 150 00:08:31,160 --> 00:08:33,360 Speaker 1: get three or four months off year. It does not 151 00:08:33,400 --> 00:08:36,040 Speaker 1: seem like hardship to me to ask them to stay 152 00:08:36,080 --> 00:08:38,600 Speaker 1: to the end of the home run derby. And so 153 00:08:38,720 --> 00:08:41,360 Speaker 1: Baseball's got one foot in, they got one foot out, 154 00:08:41,600 --> 00:08:45,080 Speaker 1: and they do the hokey pokey. So Aaron Judge and 155 00:08:45,280 --> 00:08:49,040 Speaker 1: Otani cannot be participating. They can't be participating, can't be 156 00:08:49,080 --> 00:08:52,640 Speaker 1: bothered to participate in the swing off or even stick around. 157 00:08:53,360 --> 00:08:55,920 Speaker 1: But then baseball wants the fans to stick around because 158 00:08:55,920 --> 00:08:58,359 Speaker 1: it's very important for the fan to watch. 159 00:08:58,120 --> 00:08:58,880 Speaker 4: The entire thing. 160 00:09:00,080 --> 00:09:04,040 Speaker 1: Get all that all right, now turn the page. I 161 00:09:04,080 --> 00:09:07,400 Speaker 1: thought this next one was kind of amusing. So there's 162 00:09:07,440 --> 00:09:09,920 Speaker 1: a bit of a debate. It hasn't gained a lot 163 00:09:09,960 --> 00:09:12,720 Speaker 1: of traction yet, but the question is will Major League 164 00:09:12,760 --> 00:09:18,439 Speaker 1: Baseball keep the swing off, meaning the name swing off. 165 00:09:18,400 --> 00:09:20,959 Speaker 4: Or are they going to change that name going forward. 166 00:09:22,240 --> 00:09:23,960 Speaker 1: Now, keep in mind there will be some pushback from 167 00:09:23,960 --> 00:09:27,440 Speaker 1: the players union because Aaron Judge and Otani are getting 168 00:09:27,640 --> 00:09:32,560 Speaker 1: ripped apart for leaving early. The union agreed to this format, 169 00:09:33,120 --> 00:09:36,080 Speaker 1: so now some of their players are getting ripped because 170 00:09:36,120 --> 00:09:38,320 Speaker 1: they left early, and so in the unions going, oh, 171 00:09:39,000 --> 00:09:40,679 Speaker 1: does this mean these guys have to stay to the 172 00:09:40,720 --> 00:09:43,200 Speaker 1: end of the All Star Game? So there'll be some 173 00:09:43,200 --> 00:09:45,320 Speaker 1: some pushback on that. But as far as the name thing, 174 00:09:46,559 --> 00:09:52,160 Speaker 1: we bring this up because of a grassroots campaign on 175 00:09:52,200 --> 00:09:58,080 Speaker 1: the socials, the term swing off is now underseas. Now 176 00:09:58,080 --> 00:09:59,760 Speaker 1: I think it's kind of a lame name. Anyway, we 177 00:09:59,760 --> 00:10:02,080 Speaker 1: were going it's just a home run derby. But the 178 00:10:02,160 --> 00:10:06,120 Speaker 1: term swing off is what baseball used. Now, why is 179 00:10:06,160 --> 00:10:10,800 Speaker 1: it under siege? Did you consume any of this? It 180 00:10:10,880 --> 00:10:17,200 Speaker 1: turns out the internet trolls, the keyboard commandos. Ah, yes, 181 00:10:17,960 --> 00:10:22,080 Speaker 1: you know who they are, digital degenerates, some. 182 00:10:22,000 --> 00:10:23,040 Speaker 4: Of them real, some of them not. 183 00:10:23,600 --> 00:10:26,040 Speaker 1: They are now making a lot of jokes and not 184 00:10:26,160 --> 00:10:28,240 Speaker 1: just any kind of jokes about the swing off. 185 00:10:28,960 --> 00:10:31,400 Speaker 4: What do you think they're tying into the swing off? 186 00:10:32,840 --> 00:10:40,000 Speaker 1: That's right, Diddy jokes, Sean Ditty Combs, right, the bad boy, 187 00:10:40,120 --> 00:10:42,240 Speaker 1: bad boy. What you're gonna do, What you're gonna do 188 00:10:42,240 --> 00:10:47,160 Speaker 1: when they come for you. So Sean Combs, who famously, 189 00:10:47,200 --> 00:10:50,199 Speaker 1: we learned thanks to the high profile trial, he did 190 00:10:50,240 --> 00:10:53,520 Speaker 1: get out of most of the charges, but not all 191 00:10:53,559 --> 00:10:57,360 Speaker 1: of them. They called it. He called it a freak off. Right, 192 00:10:57,360 --> 00:10:59,040 Speaker 1: That's why I was buying all the baby oil and 193 00:10:59,080 --> 00:11:02,600 Speaker 1: all that stuff. That has become the punchline for the 194 00:11:02,679 --> 00:11:07,920 Speaker 1: swing off. It is a Diddy style freak off. And 195 00:11:08,000 --> 00:11:10,440 Speaker 1: so you've got a lot of people at baseball who 196 00:11:10,720 --> 00:11:13,520 Speaker 1: don't get out a lot, and they're very paranoid. They 197 00:11:13,559 --> 00:11:18,320 Speaker 1: live in the matrix and in the infinite wisdom of 198 00:11:18,480 --> 00:11:20,840 Speaker 1: some people at Major League Baseball, and they just have 199 00:11:21,000 --> 00:11:26,520 Speaker 1: nothing but anxiety, nothing but anxiety about being memed into 200 00:11:26,600 --> 00:11:30,200 Speaker 1: some kind of oblivion and all that. So there's some 201 00:11:30,280 --> 00:11:33,080 Speaker 1: chatter they're going to change the name of the swing off, 202 00:11:33,120 --> 00:11:36,960 Speaker 1: They're going to rebrand it. Now, this is right out 203 00:11:37,000 --> 00:11:41,880 Speaker 1: of the storybook circus portion of Disneyland. That's where you'll 204 00:11:41,880 --> 00:11:45,840 Speaker 1: find the Dumbo, right, Dumbo, the flying Elephant. 205 00:11:46,640 --> 00:11:47,840 Speaker 4: So let me get this straight. 206 00:11:47,880 --> 00:11:51,800 Speaker 1: So Baseball and the people who are in the marketing 207 00:11:51,840 --> 00:11:54,880 Speaker 1: pr part of baseball are supposedly quivering. 208 00:11:54,559 --> 00:11:55,760 Speaker 4: If what we're hearing is right. 209 00:11:56,320 --> 00:12:01,480 Speaker 1: They're quivering because a few degenerates made a joke about 210 00:12:01,640 --> 00:12:05,400 Speaker 1: Diddy and his party habits and compared it to Major 211 00:12:05,440 --> 00:12:08,480 Speaker 1: League Baseball and a term they used, the swing off, 212 00:12:08,520 --> 00:12:11,199 Speaker 1: which is too close to the freak off. 213 00:12:11,960 --> 00:12:13,680 Speaker 4: So okay, So I have some. 214 00:12:13,600 --> 00:12:16,880 Speaker 1: Advice, major League Baseball. Grow a spine, right, Take the 215 00:12:16,880 --> 00:12:19,000 Speaker 1: blue pill, not that blue pill. That's what did he took. 216 00:12:19,040 --> 00:12:22,400 Speaker 1: Take the other blue pill and unplug. Right, every time 217 00:12:23,600 --> 00:12:26,520 Speaker 1: you bend to the trolls, you hand. 218 00:12:26,320 --> 00:12:29,560 Speaker 4: Them the blueprint. You should not do that. Right. In fact, 219 00:12:29,760 --> 00:12:30,240 Speaker 4: when you. 220 00:12:31,640 --> 00:12:34,160 Speaker 1: Bow down to the trolls. What you do is you 221 00:12:34,240 --> 00:12:39,319 Speaker 1: allow them to redraw your lines. Right, that's not feedback. 222 00:12:39,360 --> 00:12:43,280 Speaker 1: That's sabotage, is what that is. And so the play 223 00:12:43,360 --> 00:12:45,199 Speaker 1: here is to ignore. 224 00:12:44,880 --> 00:12:47,160 Speaker 4: Them, right, just ignore them. 225 00:12:47,240 --> 00:12:49,760 Speaker 1: Now again, I think the name is rather stupid. But 226 00:12:49,840 --> 00:12:52,720 Speaker 1: you don't change it because it's that it's got a 227 00:12:52,760 --> 00:12:57,120 Speaker 1: connection to ditty. Okay, that's not why you change it, right, 228 00:12:57,160 --> 00:12:59,200 Speaker 1: you don't all of a sudden said, well, wait a minute, 229 00:12:59,200 --> 00:13:02,160 Speaker 1: those keyboard com are attacking us. We need to do no, 230 00:13:02,360 --> 00:13:05,480 Speaker 1: I mean, just you don't need to worry about that. Okay, 231 00:13:06,040 --> 00:13:10,120 Speaker 1: just unplug, turn off the Wi Fi. You're good, all right, now, 232 00:13:10,240 --> 00:13:15,200 Speaker 1: last word, we now check the report card. That's right, 233 00:13:15,360 --> 00:13:17,720 Speaker 1: the report card. So the Major League Baseball All Star 234 00:13:17,800 --> 00:13:23,400 Speaker 1: Game drew an average of seven point two million men, women, 235 00:13:23,520 --> 00:13:28,480 Speaker 1: and children. That was on Fox, So it was actually down. 236 00:13:28,880 --> 00:13:31,800 Speaker 1: The ratings were down three percent from last year. However, 237 00:13:32,880 --> 00:13:37,360 Speaker 1: the ratings continue side by side among all the other 238 00:13:37,760 --> 00:13:42,080 Speaker 1: All Star events. It is the most watched All Star 239 00:13:42,200 --> 00:13:46,760 Speaker 1: game within the boundaries of the industrial complex of North 240 00:13:46,800 --> 00:13:52,800 Speaker 1: American sport. So question, what do the ratings show you 241 00:13:53,600 --> 00:13:55,080 Speaker 1: about Baseball's. 242 00:13:54,559 --> 00:13:55,200 Speaker 4: All Star Game? 243 00:13:55,280 --> 00:13:57,719 Speaker 1: Like, what do they show you about Baseball's All Star Game. 244 00:13:57,800 --> 00:14:00,600 Speaker 1: So I'll go first, I'll go, and you can chime 245 00:14:00,640 --> 00:14:05,160 Speaker 1: in later. So they continue actually going in the wrong direction. 246 00:14:05,240 --> 00:14:05,360 Speaker 4: Right. 247 00:14:05,360 --> 00:14:07,080 Speaker 1: They were down from last year, which I believe was 248 00:14:07,120 --> 00:14:09,959 Speaker 1: down from the year before, which was down from the. 249 00:14:09,920 --> 00:14:10,600 Speaker 4: Year before that. 250 00:14:10,920 --> 00:14:13,679 Speaker 1: The claim to fame, as we mentioned, is being head 251 00:14:13,720 --> 00:14:18,520 Speaker 1: and shoulders above the other sports Basketball, NFL and NHL, 252 00:14:19,560 --> 00:14:22,040 Speaker 1: and so that's what they're they're talking about. The Baseball 253 00:14:22,520 --> 00:14:26,040 Speaker 1: assures us that listen, we are the most watched all 254 00:14:26,040 --> 00:14:29,840 Speaker 1: Star event, and so this is a big deal. And 255 00:14:29,880 --> 00:14:33,040 Speaker 1: it's kind of like going down to Churchill Downs and 256 00:14:33,240 --> 00:14:37,960 Speaker 1: bragging you are the tallest jockey or you are the 257 00:14:38,120 --> 00:14:40,280 Speaker 1: fattest jockey at Churchill Downs. 258 00:14:40,320 --> 00:14:43,760 Speaker 4: Right now, the NBA All Star Game is unwatchable. 259 00:14:44,200 --> 00:14:48,200 Speaker 1: Pooh, all right, the NFL Pro Bowl was so bad 260 00:14:48,240 --> 00:14:50,400 Speaker 1: they got rid of it. Now they play water balloon 261 00:14:50,520 --> 00:14:54,960 Speaker 1: toss and tic tac toe and that drew four point 262 00:14:54,960 --> 00:14:57,000 Speaker 1: seven I think they both drew about the same rating, 263 00:14:57,040 --> 00:15:01,160 Speaker 1: four point seven millions. So baseball, which is plausibly still 264 00:15:01,800 --> 00:15:06,280 Speaker 1: a game when the guys aren't running off to the airport. Uh, 265 00:15:05,800 --> 00:15:09,640 Speaker 1: the the amount of people watching higher higher. So yes, 266 00:15:10,200 --> 00:15:15,280 Speaker 1: Major League Baseball, congratulations you win the All Star ratings race, 267 00:15:15,920 --> 00:15:18,840 Speaker 1: but it's really a win by default, is right. It 268 00:15:19,080 --> 00:15:21,480 Speaker 1: is like it's like a it's like saying I won 269 00:15:21,520 --> 00:15:25,320 Speaker 1: the beauty pageant, but nobody else showed up, Like everyone 270 00:15:25,320 --> 00:15:26,120 Speaker 1: else forgot it. 271 00:15:26,040 --> 00:15:26,560 Speaker 4: Was that day. 272 00:15:26,600 --> 00:15:28,280 Speaker 1: It was I was on a Saturday. They thought it 273 00:15:28,320 --> 00:15:31,000 Speaker 1: was on a Sunday. So I showed up on Saturday. 274 00:15:31,200 --> 00:15:33,640 Speaker 1: And since no nobody else showed up, I am the 275 00:15:33,640 --> 00:15:38,680 Speaker 1: beauty queen, right. Major League Baseball's All Star Game. It's 276 00:15:38,680 --> 00:15:43,680 Speaker 1: it's's something about it here where you know what it's. 277 00:15:43,720 --> 00:15:48,440 Speaker 1: It's on a giant Swan inflatable, one of those floaty things, 278 00:15:48,440 --> 00:15:50,600 Speaker 1: you know, And in summer here you're in the pool 279 00:15:51,200 --> 00:15:55,480 Speaker 1: and you can buy from from Walmart those giant Swan inflatables, 280 00:15:55,920 --> 00:15:58,280 Speaker 1: and you just kind of laying there and you're having 281 00:15:58,280 --> 00:16:02,080 Speaker 1: a drink and you're never going anywhere, a really going 282 00:16:02,200 --> 00:16:05,280 Speaker 1: you kinda you're not treading water because you're you're in 283 00:16:05,360 --> 00:16:10,080 Speaker 1: the giant Swan inflatable, but you're not really doing much 284 00:16:10,200 --> 00:16:13,760 Speaker 1: that pool. By the way, you used to be out 285 00:16:13,800 --> 00:16:16,000 Speaker 1: in the ocean. You were out in the ocean, but 286 00:16:16,080 --> 00:16:18,520 Speaker 1: now it's just a pool. Now it's just a pool. 287 00:16:18,560 --> 00:16:22,280 Speaker 1: This particular appointments. That's where they are, so you know, 288 00:16:22,480 --> 00:16:24,200 Speaker 1: that's the reality of the situation. 289 00:16:24,320 --> 00:16:26,560 Speaker 2: Be sure to catch live editions of The Ben Meller 290 00:16:26,640 --> 00:16:30,160 Speaker 2: Show weekdays at two am Eastern eleven pm Pacific on 291 00:16:30,280 --> 00:16:33,200 Speaker 2: Fox Sports Radio and the iHeartRadio app. 292 00:16:33,520 --> 00:16:35,480 Speaker 1: It's me Rob Parker. 293 00:16:36,160 --> 00:16:40,440 Speaker 5: Check out my weekly MLB podcast, Inside the Parker for 294 00:16:40,520 --> 00:16:44,200 Speaker 5: twenty two minutes of piping hot baseball talk featuring the 295 00:16:44,240 --> 00:16:46,400 Speaker 5: biggest names of newsmakers in the sport. 296 00:16:46,640 --> 00:16:49,200 Speaker 1: Whether you believe in analytics. 297 00:16:48,520 --> 00:16:51,760 Speaker 5: Or the eye test, we've got all the bases covered. 298 00:16:52,000 --> 00:16:55,920 Speaker 5: New episodes drops every Thursday, So do yourself a favor 299 00:16:56,200 --> 00:16:59,360 Speaker 5: and listen to Inside the Parker with Rob Parker on 300 00:16:59,480 --> 00:17:03,800 Speaker 5: the Ihear Radio app or wherever you get your podcast. 301 00:17:03,600 --> 00:17:05,800 Speaker 1: Traveling down Beal Street. 302 00:17:05,920 --> 00:17:11,120 Speaker 3: Welcome in the beginning of another. 303 00:17:10,720 --> 00:17:12,480 Speaker 4: Hour of the Ben Malor Show. 304 00:17:12,600 --> 00:17:20,280 Speaker 1: We are in the air, eywhere as we take a 305 00:17:20,600 --> 00:17:25,560 Speaker 1: quantum leap, we do, and we have a rollerdex full 306 00:17:25,680 --> 00:17:29,640 Speaker 1: of weirdos coast the coast, border, the border and beyond 307 00:17:30,119 --> 00:17:34,560 Speaker 1: on the mast and forcefully powerful microphones of fs are 308 00:17:34,800 --> 00:17:40,200 Speaker 1: am moinating live from the ingredients. 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Well it is now fact. 329 00:18:44,680 --> 00:18:48,240 Speaker 1: Bradley Beal and the Phoenix basketball team agreed to a 330 00:18:48,359 --> 00:18:54,359 Speaker 1: massive buyout the two years two years remaining on his 331 00:18:54,520 --> 00:18:59,680 Speaker 1: Contractveal giving back thirteen point nine million. 332 00:19:00,440 --> 00:19:01,800 Speaker 4: He will still walk. 333 00:19:01,600 --> 00:19:07,280 Speaker 1: Away with about ninety six million dollars give or take 334 00:19:07,359 --> 00:19:10,320 Speaker 1: prior to taxes. So he's got a lot of dough 335 00:19:10,520 --> 00:19:12,520 Speaker 1: coming his way. But he gives up thirteen point nine 336 00:19:12,600 --> 00:19:17,000 Speaker 1: million that the Phoenix basketball team owed him, and that 337 00:19:17,119 --> 00:19:22,000 Speaker 1: allows the Suns financial flexibility, which of course is code 338 00:19:22,000 --> 00:19:24,840 Speaker 1: for you. We think you blow and we want someone 339 00:19:24,920 --> 00:19:28,119 Speaker 1: else there on our roster. Now he's already found a 340 00:19:28,160 --> 00:19:31,800 Speaker 1: new employer. Bradley Beal has already found a new employer. 341 00:19:32,320 --> 00:19:34,280 Speaker 4: Did you see this? Maybe not? 342 00:19:34,400 --> 00:19:38,680 Speaker 1: Maybe you tuned out. Now we are told that Bradley 343 00:19:38,680 --> 00:19:42,320 Speaker 1: Beal who everybody wanted. For some reason, everybody wanted Bradley Beal, 344 00:19:43,240 --> 00:19:47,080 Speaker 1: and he has signed a two year, eleven million dollar 345 00:19:47,200 --> 00:19:54,119 Speaker 1: deal with the Clippers. Peez going to the Clippers that 346 00:19:54,160 --> 00:19:58,720 Speaker 1: includes a player option after he clears waivers. So let 347 00:19:58,800 --> 00:20:04,240 Speaker 1: us discuss the question, does this Bradley Beal signing does 348 00:20:04,280 --> 00:20:07,960 Speaker 1: it move the needle for the Clippers. So I've got 349 00:20:08,040 --> 00:20:14,560 Speaker 1: Spanish Vegas, Lounge Act and Tropicana and we will combine 350 00:20:14,600 --> 00:20:17,600 Speaker 1: all of these things together and we are going to 351 00:20:17,680 --> 00:20:21,520 Speaker 1: make a peanut butter and jelly sandwich of PB and 352 00:20:21,640 --> 00:20:25,800 Speaker 1: J is what we're gonna make. So my first point here, 353 00:20:26,280 --> 00:20:33,680 Speaker 1: number why I said number wa Yeah, Femi loves when 354 00:20:33,680 --> 00:20:37,879 Speaker 1: we do that. So Bradley Beal is a Clipper? Does 355 00:20:37,960 --> 00:20:38,960 Speaker 1: that move the needle? 356 00:20:39,040 --> 00:20:39,560 Speaker 4: Was the question? 357 00:20:39,920 --> 00:20:44,119 Speaker 1: And listen, I'm gonna I'm not gonna talk in hyperbole. 358 00:20:44,280 --> 00:20:48,320 Speaker 1: It moves the needle absolutely about an inch. It moves 359 00:20:48,359 --> 00:20:51,639 Speaker 1: it about an inch the Clippers. Maybe you draw a 360 00:20:51,680 --> 00:20:55,800 Speaker 1: little bit of blood there, like the same thing applies, right. 361 00:20:56,560 --> 00:21:01,159 Speaker 1: There is enough talent there, there's a championship roster. Until 362 00:21:01,280 --> 00:21:05,520 Speaker 1: Kawhi Leonard Strain's a nostril, then what happens. But we 363 00:21:05,600 --> 00:21:09,479 Speaker 1: are pragmatic on this one, Like I don't love the player. 364 00:21:10,359 --> 00:21:13,200 Speaker 1: He's got to prove that he's not just a stat 365 00:21:13,280 --> 00:21:17,240 Speaker 1: bandito and a guy that put up numbers in DC 366 00:21:17,640 --> 00:21:21,880 Speaker 1: on morbidly bad Washington teams. And he's got to prove 367 00:21:21,880 --> 00:21:23,920 Speaker 1: he can actually put up some numbers on a good team. 368 00:21:23,960 --> 00:21:26,560 Speaker 1: He hasn't done it yet. Had a couple of opportunities 369 00:21:26,560 --> 00:21:27,679 Speaker 1: the Suns were supposed to be good. 370 00:21:27,680 --> 00:21:28,280 Speaker 4: He didn't do it. 371 00:21:29,280 --> 00:21:32,600 Speaker 1: And I use the word pragmatic. I think that's the 372 00:21:32,600 --> 00:21:35,119 Speaker 1: proper word. Let's be clear, this is a low risk, 373 00:21:36,119 --> 00:21:39,320 Speaker 1: high reward move. If Bradley Beal is just half the 374 00:21:39,359 --> 00:21:44,080 Speaker 1: player he had been with the old Washington Bullets or Wizards. Uh, 375 00:21:44,720 --> 00:21:45,160 Speaker 1: that's fine. 376 00:21:45,200 --> 00:21:48,120 Speaker 4: He's not the savior. I mean, he is a risk. 377 00:21:48,200 --> 00:21:52,399 Speaker 1: He's made out of glass and he's like a glass cannon, 378 00:21:53,440 --> 00:21:56,040 Speaker 1: and you know he's got all kinds of issues going 379 00:21:56,080 --> 00:22:00,399 Speaker 1: into TSA right, sets off soft tissue alarms. 380 00:22:00,359 --> 00:22:00,920 Speaker 4: And all that. 381 00:22:01,080 --> 00:22:05,679 Speaker 1: But Bradley Beal is owed more cash than the GDP 382 00:22:06,320 --> 00:22:10,280 Speaker 1: of many small island nations out there. It's insane, ninety 383 00:22:10,280 --> 00:22:13,760 Speaker 1: plus million dollars. But that's the Sun's problem. That ain't 384 00:22:13,800 --> 00:22:17,119 Speaker 1: my problem, it's not your problem. And for the Clippers, 385 00:22:17,480 --> 00:22:21,879 Speaker 1: he chose the Clippers, right. Bradley Beal had options. You 386 00:22:21,960 --> 00:22:28,320 Speaker 1: believe the chatter there were double digit playoff worthy teams 387 00:22:29,119 --> 00:22:33,639 Speaker 1: that all flirted played foot see with Bradley Beal, double 388 00:22:33,920 --> 00:22:36,920 Speaker 1: digit teams and he picked in the and he picked 389 00:22:36,960 --> 00:22:37,680 Speaker 1: the people's team. 390 00:22:38,440 --> 00:22:39,760 Speaker 4: And so let that marinate. 391 00:22:39,920 --> 00:22:41,960 Speaker 1: I know Rick Oh is having a tough time dealing 392 00:22:41,960 --> 00:22:43,360 Speaker 1: with and there's a lot of other people that are. 393 00:22:43,640 --> 00:22:47,080 Speaker 4: I don't understand why would anyone would pick the Clippers. 394 00:22:47,560 --> 00:22:52,399 Speaker 1: But Bradley Beal saw something and with Steve Balmers essentially 395 00:22:52,480 --> 00:22:56,439 Speaker 1: running a rehab clinic or down trodden basketball players, and 396 00:22:56,480 --> 00:22:59,320 Speaker 1: sometimes it works. Sometimes it doesn't, but they've had a 397 00:22:59,359 --> 00:23:02,080 Speaker 1: whole host the players come through. Ben Simmons was on 398 00:23:02,119 --> 00:23:04,959 Speaker 1: the team at the end of last year. Russell west 399 00:23:05,040 --> 00:23:10,600 Speaker 1: Brick was there. And the difference here, and maybe it's 400 00:23:10,640 --> 00:23:14,240 Speaker 1: pure delusion and all that, but Balmer has so much 401 00:23:14,320 --> 00:23:19,320 Speaker 1: money he was able to use a laser printer and 402 00:23:19,480 --> 00:23:26,159 Speaker 1: chat GPT and quietly bring back the famous Spanish explorer 403 00:23:26,800 --> 00:23:33,640 Speaker 1: Ponstelyon as the trainer. So if anyone can unlock Bradley Beal, 404 00:23:33,960 --> 00:23:36,600 Speaker 1: it is Ponstelllyone, the new lead trainer of the Clippers, 405 00:23:36,600 --> 00:23:39,960 Speaker 1: and Bial he's still trying to find that fountain of youth. 406 00:23:40,040 --> 00:23:42,600 Speaker 1: He's not that old, but his body looks old and 407 00:23:42,680 --> 00:23:44,440 Speaker 1: all that stuff. And so the Clippers have this really 408 00:23:44,440 --> 00:23:48,840 Speaker 1: good cryo chamber, I'm sure. And it's just another former 409 00:23:49,000 --> 00:23:53,360 Speaker 1: All star mercenary who goes to the Clippers. Now, page two, 410 00:23:53,520 --> 00:23:55,679 Speaker 1: let's get into the nitty gritty here. What do you say, 411 00:23:56,119 --> 00:24:02,200 Speaker 1: why did Bradley Beal reject the Lakers? Lakers they were 412 00:24:02,320 --> 00:24:06,000 Speaker 1: all horny to get Bradley Beal over there in Lakerland 413 00:24:07,160 --> 00:24:11,320 Speaker 1: and he said no. He joined the Clips. So why 414 00:24:11,320 --> 00:24:13,280 Speaker 1: would you go to the people's team when Lebron is 415 00:24:13,280 --> 00:24:15,920 Speaker 1: out to get you. So this is more direct evidence 416 00:24:16,640 --> 00:24:19,680 Speaker 1: that the Lakers, who people at one time described as 417 00:24:19,720 --> 00:24:25,119 Speaker 1: the jewel of basketball royalty. That's why they wear purple Erican. 418 00:24:25,240 --> 00:24:28,520 Speaker 1: So the Lakers, but they are a team right now 419 00:24:28,720 --> 00:24:36,880 Speaker 1: of not a lot of status. Right, players mostly politely decline. Right. 420 00:24:37,000 --> 00:24:39,560 Speaker 1: It's like when you're kind of weird, uncle invites you 421 00:24:39,640 --> 00:24:41,520 Speaker 1: to dinner and I don't really want to see my uncle. 422 00:24:41,560 --> 00:24:43,440 Speaker 4: I'm not going to go to dinner with my uncle. Like, 423 00:24:43,480 --> 00:24:44,240 Speaker 4: guy's a loser. 424 00:24:45,040 --> 00:24:52,240 Speaker 1: Bradley Beal had again ten twelve playoff teams that were 425 00:24:52,320 --> 00:24:55,480 Speaker 1: texting him and calling him, and then the dust settles 426 00:24:55,480 --> 00:24:59,520 Speaker 1: and he picked Kawhi Leonard and the Beard James Harden. 427 00:25:00,280 --> 00:25:03,359 Speaker 1: He took the clips. Now, meanwhile, Acrosstown at the Church 428 00:25:03,400 --> 00:25:07,160 Speaker 1: of Lebron, like the Church of Lebron, the pews are 429 00:25:07,480 --> 00:25:09,560 Speaker 1: getting pretty empty over there. In terms of the new 430 00:25:09,600 --> 00:25:13,400 Speaker 1: players added, the Lakers are now the equivalent of that 431 00:25:13,720 --> 00:25:15,640 Speaker 1: fading Vegas lounge act. 432 00:25:15,760 --> 00:25:15,920 Speaker 4: Right. 433 00:25:15,960 --> 00:25:19,359 Speaker 1: You know, It's funny when I'm driving around on the 434 00:25:19,359 --> 00:25:23,200 Speaker 1: weekends with the wife and we drive by the Indian 435 00:25:23,240 --> 00:25:25,639 Speaker 1: casinos and we see the bands that are performing and 436 00:25:25,680 --> 00:25:26,280 Speaker 1: the comedians. 437 00:25:26,320 --> 00:25:27,879 Speaker 4: I always say, well, you're. 438 00:25:27,760 --> 00:25:30,160 Speaker 1: At that point in your career where you're now doing 439 00:25:30,720 --> 00:25:35,080 Speaker 1: you're doing the casinos circuit at the Indian casinos. You've 440 00:25:35,119 --> 00:25:38,320 Speaker 1: now reached that point, right, It's like a Vegas residency. 441 00:25:39,200 --> 00:25:41,320 Speaker 4: In this case, it's more like a Vegas. 442 00:25:41,000 --> 00:25:46,400 Speaker 1: Lounge act where you're running out of encores and all 443 00:25:46,480 --> 00:25:50,200 Speaker 1: that and oxygen and just a bad Vegas lounge act. 444 00:25:50,200 --> 00:25:53,600 Speaker 1: But even the Hookah Luca, even his fat ass, can't 445 00:25:53,600 --> 00:25:54,680 Speaker 1: save the Lakers on this one. 446 00:25:54,720 --> 00:25:58,280 Speaker 4: Luka Doncik could not close the deal with Lebron all right. 447 00:25:58,320 --> 00:26:03,119 Speaker 1: Bradley Beal rejected Luke, and Lebron didn't even hesitate. He 448 00:26:03,119 --> 00:26:05,000 Speaker 1: could have taken the exit right there at Figure Row, 449 00:26:05,080 --> 00:26:07,520 Speaker 1: gotten down to skid Row where the Lakers play, waring 450 00:26:07,560 --> 00:26:10,080 Speaker 1: that purple and gold and rubbed elbows with Lebron and 451 00:26:10,160 --> 00:26:11,960 Speaker 1: Luca every night. He didn't do it. Why did he 452 00:26:12,000 --> 00:26:16,840 Speaker 1: do it? Well, the Lakers aren't cool, they don't matter. 453 00:26:17,640 --> 00:26:22,520 Speaker 1: They're mostly a hospice for fading fading stars and all. 454 00:26:22,560 --> 00:26:25,959 Speaker 1: That's like a retirement villa, nice retirement villa and all 455 00:26:26,440 --> 00:26:30,040 Speaker 1: the Lakers they're kind of becoming like the Knicks. I 456 00:26:30,040 --> 00:26:34,560 Speaker 1: haven't won a championship since Kobe. They are all about 457 00:26:34,560 --> 00:26:36,200 Speaker 1: the marketing and that's about it. 458 00:26:36,520 --> 00:26:37,240 Speaker 4: Good marketing. 459 00:26:37,800 --> 00:26:40,120 Speaker 1: I'll give him credit on that. They talk to talk, 460 00:26:40,160 --> 00:26:43,639 Speaker 1: they don't walk the walk. And Bradley Beal, he was 461 00:26:43,680 --> 00:26:46,399 Speaker 1: at a fork in the road. At a fork in 462 00:26:46,440 --> 00:26:48,480 Speaker 1: the road, which direction am I going to go? Bradley 463 00:26:48,480 --> 00:26:52,040 Speaker 1: Beal saw the future and he had two la options 464 00:26:52,680 --> 00:26:54,959 Speaker 1: and he said, I want to go in the hood 465 00:26:55,560 --> 00:26:58,119 Speaker 1: in Inglewood where the Clippers play, and I don't want 466 00:26:58,119 --> 00:27:00,600 Speaker 1: to go to skid Row, And so he chose the top, 467 00:27:00,880 --> 00:27:03,800 Speaker 1: the team that has a pulse. Now, a lot of 468 00:27:03,840 --> 00:27:05,760 Speaker 1: things have to go right for the Clippers to win 469 00:27:05,800 --> 00:27:08,280 Speaker 1: the championship, but for any team to win the championship, 470 00:27:08,320 --> 00:27:09,440 Speaker 1: a lot of things have to go right. 471 00:27:10,400 --> 00:27:10,520 Speaker 4: Now. 472 00:27:10,560 --> 00:27:12,879 Speaker 1: I believe in the multiverse, the Mallard multiverse, and in 473 00:27:12,880 --> 00:27:16,639 Speaker 1: the Mallard multiverse, there is a dimension where Kawhi Leonard 474 00:27:16,720 --> 00:27:22,159 Speaker 1: stays healthy and James Harden doesn't take two games off 475 00:27:22,560 --> 00:27:24,679 Speaker 1: in the playoffs, and Bradley Beal turns out to be 476 00:27:24,720 --> 00:27:26,800 Speaker 1: the player that he had been in Washington and can. 477 00:27:26,720 --> 00:27:28,320 Speaker 4: Do it on a good team. 478 00:27:28,640 --> 00:27:33,000 Speaker 1: And all of a sudden, you got the ras Mataz right, 479 00:27:33,040 --> 00:27:36,359 Speaker 1: you got the Razzle Dazzle now final point. So we 480 00:27:36,440 --> 00:27:40,119 Speaker 1: turn the page now to gambling. Now, as you know, 481 00:27:41,119 --> 00:27:44,040 Speaker 1: I enjoyed, I enjoy gambling. I'm not a degenerate. I 482 00:27:44,119 --> 00:27:49,000 Speaker 1: enjoy gamb as the FEDS continue to poke and prod 483 00:27:49,080 --> 00:27:53,920 Speaker 1: at this particular point with the prop bet shenanigans going on. Now, 484 00:27:53,920 --> 00:27:56,399 Speaker 1: this is a baseball story. It's a basketball stories. It 485 00:27:56,400 --> 00:28:02,600 Speaker 1: affects pretty much everything, everything in professional sports and in 486 00:28:02,680 --> 00:28:03,399 Speaker 1: college sports. 487 00:28:03,400 --> 00:28:05,560 Speaker 4: But we're going to talk about the basketball part of it. 488 00:28:05,600 --> 00:28:11,119 Speaker 1: Because Commissioner Adam Silver, the half man, half alien. What 489 00:28:11,280 --> 00:28:13,919 Speaker 1: planet does the lizard person Adam Silver come from? So 490 00:28:14,000 --> 00:28:19,040 Speaker 1: Adam Silver broke his silence about the NBA and the 491 00:28:19,080 --> 00:28:24,960 Speaker 1: betting scandal, saying that the league is not not shutting 492 00:28:25,000 --> 00:28:28,320 Speaker 1: down gambling. They're not getting out of the gambling business 493 00:28:28,359 --> 00:28:31,240 Speaker 1: because they have a few bad actors, is essentially what 494 00:28:31,280 --> 00:28:35,720 Speaker 1: he implied. So where is your brain wave on this one, 495 00:28:36,200 --> 00:28:40,200 Speaker 1: Adam Silver? Who did address the issue, And it's like, well, 496 00:28:40,400 --> 00:28:42,680 Speaker 1: that's pretty much said, just a couple of bad actors. 497 00:28:42,920 --> 00:28:47,360 Speaker 1: So I turned to the Mallor Rosetta Stone for guidance. 498 00:28:47,800 --> 00:28:51,840 Speaker 1: The Mallow Rosetta Stone never wrong, and it translated what 499 00:28:51,880 --> 00:28:57,280 Speaker 1: Adam Silver said. It said, yes, we know, gambling is 500 00:28:57,440 --> 00:29:04,080 Speaker 1: somewhat compromising the underbelly of our business, the credibility of 501 00:29:04,120 --> 00:29:08,440 Speaker 1: our sport, and for some eroding the trust of a 502 00:29:08,560 --> 00:29:12,120 Speaker 1: percentage of fans, and those are our customers. And it 503 00:29:12,200 --> 00:29:15,360 Speaker 1: may even be influencing many more bets. 504 00:29:15,000 --> 00:29:16,120 Speaker 4: Than we would like to admit. 505 00:29:16,200 --> 00:29:20,960 Speaker 1: However, as they say at Tropicana, the juice, my. 506 00:29:21,040 --> 00:29:24,480 Speaker 4: Friends, is worth the squeeze. And here's why. 507 00:29:24,480 --> 00:29:29,040 Speaker 1: Because the gambling money is a pot of gold, and 508 00:29:29,080 --> 00:29:32,720 Speaker 1: the house always wins. The house does not lose. Right now, 509 00:29:32,880 --> 00:29:34,760 Speaker 1: you say, well, sometimes the house loses, but in the 510 00:29:34,840 --> 00:29:35,520 Speaker 1: end they always win. 511 00:29:35,600 --> 00:29:37,080 Speaker 4: And if you're just getting money. 512 00:29:36,920 --> 00:29:39,240 Speaker 1: From gambling and you're not the ones either taking the 513 00:29:39,280 --> 00:29:43,680 Speaker 1: money you're putting the bets down, you always So let's 514 00:29:43,680 --> 00:29:49,280 Speaker 1: be very clear. The NBA isn't just tolerating gambling. It's 515 00:29:49,440 --> 00:29:54,200 Speaker 1: now intertwined in the business of basketball. Gambling companies sponsor 516 00:29:54,240 --> 00:29:57,400 Speaker 1: the broadcast and I don't have an issue with it. 517 00:29:57,480 --> 00:29:59,520 Speaker 1: But it's just the way it is. It's not going away. 518 00:29:59,640 --> 00:30:01,680 Speaker 1: They don't ad space on the court and some of 519 00:30:01,680 --> 00:30:05,400 Speaker 1: these gymnasiums they even have official partnerships with the league. Now, 520 00:30:05,520 --> 00:30:09,680 Speaker 1: the referees, they don't have any gambling logos on the shirts. 521 00:30:09,720 --> 00:30:11,920 Speaker 1: I know Tim Donnie, he probably wishes he did have one, 522 00:30:12,680 --> 00:30:15,160 Speaker 1: but you know it, just don't worry about that, right, 523 00:30:15,160 --> 00:30:18,040 Speaker 1: I'm sure the algorithm is somehow working on that. And 524 00:30:18,080 --> 00:30:22,280 Speaker 1: by the way, the implication that it's just a few 525 00:30:22,440 --> 00:30:27,480 Speaker 1: bad actors, that is a phrase that you always use 526 00:30:27,600 --> 00:30:28,680 Speaker 1: when you're in the soup. 527 00:30:29,400 --> 00:30:30,520 Speaker 4: You always use it. 528 00:30:31,080 --> 00:30:35,160 Speaker 1: Remember I mentioned Tim Donnie, when Tim Donnie he was 529 00:30:35,240 --> 00:30:37,720 Speaker 1: involved in that. I think it was not just a 530 00:30:37,720 --> 00:30:39,720 Speaker 1: few bad actors. I think it was a lone wolf. 531 00:30:39,760 --> 00:30:41,800 Speaker 1: That was the one they used, the lone wolf. But 532 00:30:41,840 --> 00:30:46,880 Speaker 1: we hear that phrase a few bad actors in Wall Street, politics, big. 533 00:30:46,640 --> 00:30:48,880 Speaker 4: Pharma, all of those things. 534 00:30:49,720 --> 00:30:53,240 Speaker 1: And it's never they never say it's systemic. They never 535 00:30:53,280 --> 00:30:56,280 Speaker 1: want to say it's systemic. It's never the structure of 536 00:30:56,320 --> 00:31:00,560 Speaker 1: the foundation. It's just some cosmetic thing. It's just a 537 00:31:00,680 --> 00:31:04,120 Speaker 1: rogue ref over here. It's a crooked coach over there. 538 00:31:04,360 --> 00:31:07,240 Speaker 1: It's some player that you had some kind of weird 539 00:31:07,280 --> 00:31:10,040 Speaker 1: thing on his phone. He's got a got a code 540 00:31:10,080 --> 00:31:15,080 Speaker 1: and he started a gambling account. It's never ever the leagues, Faull, 541 00:31:15,120 --> 00:31:17,680 Speaker 1: have you noticed that? Have you noticed it's never leaves 542 00:31:17,920 --> 00:31:20,560 Speaker 1: the sports leagues. They love to brag about how they 543 00:31:20,680 --> 00:31:25,440 Speaker 1: monitor these these gambling places, and they do. 544 00:31:25,480 --> 00:31:27,760 Speaker 4: There's a lot of checks and balances. 545 00:31:27,800 --> 00:31:29,760 Speaker 1: And the main reason there's a lot of checking balances 546 00:31:29,840 --> 00:31:32,960 Speaker 1: is not because of the leagues. It's because the people 547 00:31:33,040 --> 00:31:35,640 Speaker 1: that run the gambling houses have skin in the game, 548 00:31:35,760 --> 00:31:37,640 Speaker 1: right they. As I've been told, I got some friends 549 00:31:37,640 --> 00:31:39,800 Speaker 1: that have listened to the show who are in that 550 00:31:39,920 --> 00:31:42,920 Speaker 1: business in the gambling world, work at sports books and whatnot. 551 00:31:43,040 --> 00:31:45,280 Speaker 1: They've told me kind of how it works and what 552 00:31:45,320 --> 00:31:48,320 Speaker 1: they look for and what things set off alarm bells. 553 00:31:48,360 --> 00:31:50,720 Speaker 4: And of course now everything's it's a lot easier. 554 00:31:50,400 --> 00:31:55,960 Speaker 1: Now with AI and monitoring things and Big Brother watching 555 00:31:56,000 --> 00:31:58,400 Speaker 1: and everything being done on the phones and all that. 556 00:31:59,520 --> 00:32:01,800 Speaker 4: But as I understand it, you know, what do I know? 557 00:32:01,960 --> 00:32:02,640 Speaker 4: But as I. 558 00:32:02,640 --> 00:32:09,320 Speaker 1: Understand it, the main reason these guys get caught is because. 559 00:32:08,960 --> 00:32:09,719 Speaker 4: Of two things. 560 00:32:10,800 --> 00:32:17,040 Speaker 1: Loose lips and they can't control themselves if they stop chatting. 561 00:32:17,120 --> 00:32:20,040 Speaker 1: Because these guys they love to brag. Gamblers love the brag. 562 00:32:20,960 --> 00:32:21,520 Speaker 4: We need more. 563 00:32:21,800 --> 00:32:23,960 Speaker 1: If you're an introvert, you don't brag, right, you just 564 00:32:24,040 --> 00:32:24,920 Speaker 1: kind of keep to yourself. 565 00:32:25,160 --> 00:32:26,720 Speaker 4: It's extroverts who are like. 566 00:32:26,680 --> 00:32:29,520 Speaker 1: Hey, I got this guy in the Cleveland Guardians and 567 00:32:29,560 --> 00:32:31,720 Speaker 1: he's in the tank, all right, So they love the 568 00:32:31,720 --> 00:32:33,320 Speaker 1: brag about how I got this guy he's gonna throw 569 00:32:33,360 --> 00:32:35,280 Speaker 1: a ball on a prop bet and then we're gonna 570 00:32:35,280 --> 00:32:38,160 Speaker 1: win the prop bet. Or I got this basketball player 571 00:32:38,480 --> 00:32:41,520 Speaker 1: for the Miami Heat and he's gonna miss this many 572 00:32:41,520 --> 00:32:42,160 Speaker 1: shots and. 573 00:32:42,120 --> 00:32:43,880 Speaker 4: All that stuff, So they love the brat. That's the 574 00:32:43,920 --> 00:32:44,440 Speaker 4: first problem. 575 00:32:44,440 --> 00:32:48,280 Speaker 1: The second problem is they simply bet too much, and 576 00:32:48,560 --> 00:32:49,960 Speaker 1: because they try to get the quick. 577 00:32:49,800 --> 00:32:51,400 Speaker 4: Score right, they want that quick score. 578 00:32:52,160 --> 00:32:55,960 Speaker 1: If you just bet a nominal amount, it does not 579 00:32:56,240 --> 00:32:57,160 Speaker 1: raise red flax. 580 00:32:57,680 --> 00:32:59,560 Speaker 4: Like there was a guy, the. 581 00:32:59,480 --> 00:33:02,520 Speaker 1: Most famous example recently, this Gibebroni on that he was 582 00:33:02,520 --> 00:33:05,760 Speaker 1: on Toronto Raptors. Right, so he's playing for the Toronto 583 00:33:05,800 --> 00:33:10,960 Speaker 1: Raptors and he ends up getting caught. But the main 584 00:33:11,000 --> 00:33:12,880 Speaker 1: reason he got caught he talked about it. Right, the 585 00:33:12,960 --> 00:33:16,800 Speaker 1: loose lips sent gambling ships. The other problem was people 586 00:33:16,800 --> 00:33:19,880 Speaker 1: were betting ridiculous amounts of money because he was telling 587 00:33:19,880 --> 00:33:22,480 Speaker 1: people and they were telling other people. They were betting 588 00:33:22,520 --> 00:33:24,960 Speaker 1: massive amounts of money. Like it's an obvious reflect You 589 00:33:25,000 --> 00:33:27,560 Speaker 1: don't need AI, you don't need some kind of supercomputer 590 00:33:27,640 --> 00:33:32,760 Speaker 1: to know if some nobody on the Toronto Raptors is 591 00:33:32,840 --> 00:33:38,400 Speaker 1: getting more action than Lebron James on a prop. Chances 592 00:33:38,440 --> 00:33:41,560 Speaker 1: are there's some funny business going on. I'm just saying, right, 593 00:33:41,800 --> 00:33:43,400 Speaker 1: And so that's the thing. These guys are always looking 594 00:33:43,400 --> 00:33:45,640 Speaker 1: for the big payday. But there is a world where 595 00:33:45,640 --> 00:33:48,280 Speaker 1: you don't tell anybody and you kind of keep it 596 00:33:48,320 --> 00:33:50,680 Speaker 1: on the down low, and you bet a nomenal amount 597 00:33:50,840 --> 00:33:55,360 Speaker 1: and you win every single time that person takes the court. 598 00:33:55,560 --> 00:33:57,600 Speaker 1: You don't win a lot, but you win a little 599 00:33:57,680 --> 00:34:02,280 Speaker 1: and it adds up. It's study gains. But these losers, they. 600 00:34:02,120 --> 00:34:02,959 Speaker 4: Won't even do that. 601 00:34:03,080 --> 00:34:05,520 Speaker 1: They have to go for the big score, and that's 602 00:34:05,520 --> 00:34:07,719 Speaker 1: how they end up getting caught, and they will continue 603 00:34:07,720 --> 00:34:10,879 Speaker 1: to get caught because of human nature and they people 604 00:34:10,920 --> 00:34:14,040 Speaker 1: can't help themselves. They want that big payday. They want 605 00:34:14,719 --> 00:34:15,640 Speaker 1: We all try to find a. 606 00:34:15,560 --> 00:34:16,840 Speaker 4: Short cut in anything. 607 00:34:16,920 --> 00:34:19,240 Speaker 2: Be sure to catch live editions of The Ben Mellor 608 00:34:19,320 --> 00:34:22,879 Speaker 2: Show weekdays at two am Eastern eleven pm Pacific. Let's 609 00:34:22,920 --> 00:34:24,920 Speaker 2: go here, we are here, We are here that to 610 00:34:24,960 --> 00:34:30,560 Speaker 2: the third degree, this is one big event gets grilled. 611 00:34:32,560 --> 00:34:34,800 Speaker 6: So it seems that Randy Moss is making the rounds 612 00:34:35,120 --> 00:34:37,520 Speaker 6: this time. In a radio interview, Moss was asked where 613 00:34:37,560 --> 00:34:41,359 Speaker 6: he'd rank Tyreek Hill in the pantheon of receivers, Moss said, 614 00:34:41,360 --> 00:34:44,439 Speaker 6: he's nowhere all time, but top five in today's game. 615 00:34:44,840 --> 00:34:48,960 Speaker 4: Ben, is that harsh? No, that's reality. Listen, that's the 616 00:34:48,960 --> 00:34:49,440 Speaker 4: way it is. 617 00:34:49,480 --> 00:34:52,600 Speaker 1: I mean, it has been amazing wide receivers in NFL history, 618 00:34:52,640 --> 00:34:56,000 Speaker 1: and Tyreek Hill's a good player in this generation. He's 619 00:34:56,040 --> 00:34:58,359 Speaker 1: got some really solid numbers and all that, but he's 620 00:34:58,400 --> 00:35:00,760 Speaker 1: not as good as Isaac Bruce or mar Arvan Harrison 621 00:35:00,840 --> 00:35:02,680 Speaker 1: or I mean there's a bunch of them from the 622 00:35:02,719 --> 00:35:06,080 Speaker 1: old school days, Calvin Johnson, Chris Carter, I can go 623 00:35:06,120 --> 00:35:09,719 Speaker 1: on and on, Tim Brown, Larry Fitzgerald, and Jerry Rice 624 00:35:09,760 --> 00:35:13,400 Speaker 1: the greatest of all time too, not close next. 625 00:35:13,800 --> 00:35:16,360 Speaker 6: Auburn coach ch You Freeze said at SEC Media Day on 626 00:35:16,400 --> 00:35:19,080 Speaker 6: Tuesday that he truly believes that Auburn will be in 627 00:35:19,080 --> 00:35:21,759 Speaker 6: the mix for the College football playoff. Ben, Auburn has 628 00:35:21,800 --> 00:35:24,360 Speaker 6: an eleven and fourteen record in two years under Freeze. 629 00:35:24,520 --> 00:35:26,080 Speaker 6: How long of a leashed do you think he has? 630 00:35:27,400 --> 00:35:32,640 Speaker 1: Well, Auburn has very passionate boosters and they have a 631 00:35:32,680 --> 00:35:35,960 Speaker 1: lot of money and if Nick Saban wants to come back, 632 00:35:36,040 --> 00:35:37,479 Speaker 1: not that he would go to Auburn, right, he would 633 00:35:37,480 --> 00:35:40,480 Speaker 1: never go to Auburn. But no, he's not long and 634 00:35:40,520 --> 00:35:42,239 Speaker 1: I like you Freeze. I think he knows what he's doing. 635 00:35:42,280 --> 00:35:45,000 Speaker 1: But you know they're not a contender. And I don't 636 00:35:45,000 --> 00:35:46,799 Speaker 1: buy it. You got to show me something and they 637 00:35:46,840 --> 00:35:48,520 Speaker 1: haven't shown me anything in the last couple years. 638 00:35:48,560 --> 00:35:51,239 Speaker 6: Next, Victor wembin Yama said over the weekend that it 639 00:35:51,280 --> 00:35:53,800 Speaker 6: is is his dream to spend his entire career with 640 00:35:53,840 --> 00:35:55,120 Speaker 6: the San Antonio Spurs. 641 00:35:55,560 --> 00:35:55,719 Speaker 1: Ben. 642 00:35:55,760 --> 00:35:58,000 Speaker 6: Do you think Wemby seems like the one team your 643 00:35:58,000 --> 00:35:58,880 Speaker 6: whole career type? 644 00:36:00,040 --> 00:36:01,439 Speaker 4: Oh? I don't. 645 00:36:01,520 --> 00:36:05,160 Speaker 1: That's that's Wemby, the Parisian prodigy speaking at the age 646 00:36:05,200 --> 00:36:08,359 Speaker 1: of twenty one. Let's see what Wemby says when he's 647 00:36:08,360 --> 00:36:12,160 Speaker 1: twenty seven, twenty eight, twenty nine, he'll be singing a 648 00:36:12,160 --> 00:36:14,640 Speaker 1: different song. Now, there have been guys that have stayed 649 00:36:14,640 --> 00:36:15,360 Speaker 1: in San Antonio. 650 00:36:15,440 --> 00:36:17,839 Speaker 4: I don't. I would bet against it. In the modern game, 651 00:36:18,120 --> 00:36:20,480 Speaker 4: How did we do? You passed? 652 00:36:21,040 --> 00:36:21,320 Speaker 1: Hey? 653 00:36:21,400 --> 00:36:23,359 Speaker 4: I won't another one. 654 00:36:23,480 --> 00:36:25,239 Speaker 1: Put her on the bard purg Dolf put her on 655 00:36:25,280 --> 00:36:26,440 Speaker 1: the forward Furgate. 656 00:36:26,120 --> 00:36:26,480 Speaker 4: Puur on. 657 00:36:28,080 --> 00:36:30,960 Speaker 2: Fox Sports Radio has the best sports talk lineup in 658 00:36:31,000 --> 00:36:34,759 Speaker 2: the nation. Catch all of our shows at Foxsportsradio dot 659 00:36:34,800 --> 00:36:39,359 Speaker 2: com and within the iHeartRadio app search FSR to listen live. 660 00:36:40,840 --> 00:36:45,319 Speaker 1: It's now time for time for Honry. Henry Hurry, ask 661 00:36:45,480 --> 00:36:47,080 Speaker 1: bad Twitter said. 662 00:36:46,920 --> 00:36:49,239 Speaker 4: Us your questions on Twitter now. 663 00:36:50,480 --> 00:36:52,879 Speaker 1: And way we go. 664 00:36:53,640 --> 00:36:55,000 Speaker 4: Time now for ask Man. 665 00:36:55,719 --> 00:37:00,480 Speaker 1: Your questions are answers for the rest of the hour, 666 00:37:01,000 --> 00:37:03,120 Speaker 1: and now over to Kooper Loop for the reading of 667 00:37:03,160 --> 00:37:06,640 Speaker 1: the questions those that have submitted questions using the hashtag 668 00:37:06,800 --> 00:37:07,600 Speaker 1: ask Ben. 669 00:37:08,920 --> 00:37:11,480 Speaker 6: All right, we are going to start off with a 670 00:37:11,680 --> 00:37:16,040 Speaker 6: question from ferm dog Hi Ferg. He wants to know 671 00:37:16,160 --> 00:37:18,399 Speaker 6: did you eat a hot dog on National hot Dog Day? 672 00:37:19,120 --> 00:37:22,279 Speaker 4: He did you know? And I did not. I did 673 00:37:22,280 --> 00:37:23,759 Speaker 4: not know it was National hot Dog Day. 674 00:37:23,800 --> 00:37:25,640 Speaker 1: I did eat a hot dog the other day, though 675 00:37:26,080 --> 00:37:27,360 Speaker 1: we do have some dogs. 676 00:37:27,719 --> 00:37:28,200 Speaker 4: I got him. 677 00:37:28,560 --> 00:37:31,160 Speaker 1: There's a kind of a costco that I get. We 678 00:37:31,200 --> 00:37:33,319 Speaker 1: always have him in the house. And yeah, I did 679 00:37:33,680 --> 00:37:35,960 Speaker 1: have one this week. I don't normally eat hot dogs 680 00:37:36,480 --> 00:37:38,600 Speaker 1: rare and appropriate. It was actually during the All Star Game. 681 00:37:38,600 --> 00:37:40,200 Speaker 1: I had a hot dog during the All Star Game, 682 00:37:40,320 --> 00:37:44,000 Speaker 1: so this week I had one, but not on the day. 683 00:37:44,120 --> 00:37:46,680 Speaker 1: And Lorena, I think you did the hot dog Tour, 684 00:37:46,840 --> 00:37:47,839 Speaker 1: is that correct? Yeah? 685 00:37:47,880 --> 00:37:49,920 Speaker 7: I was hoping to get more hot dogs down than 686 00:37:49,960 --> 00:37:52,880 Speaker 7: I did. But I went to two different places today. 687 00:37:52,960 --> 00:37:55,759 Speaker 7: I had one chili cheese dog from the Wiener Schnitzer 688 00:37:56,200 --> 00:38:00,000 Speaker 7: and I had I don't know what kind of dog 689 00:38:00,040 --> 00:38:01,920 Speaker 7: from the doghouse, but that was amazing. That was an 690 00:38:02,200 --> 00:38:02,880 Speaker 7: you dog. 691 00:38:03,200 --> 00:38:05,680 Speaker 4: In many ways, you are the glazzy gobbler. Yeah, that's 692 00:38:05,719 --> 00:38:06,560 Speaker 4: what you are today. 693 00:38:06,600 --> 00:38:08,440 Speaker 7: Indeed, all right. 694 00:38:09,440 --> 00:38:13,480 Speaker 1: Cooper Loop, did you gorge on any on any hot dogs? 695 00:38:13,480 --> 00:38:15,440 Speaker 4: If I could talk, that would help, But I did not. 696 00:38:16,239 --> 00:38:18,120 Speaker 4: I did not. All right, when's the last time you 697 00:38:18,239 --> 00:38:18,759 Speaker 4: ate a hot dog? 698 00:38:21,680 --> 00:38:22,120 Speaker 2: I don't know. 699 00:38:22,160 --> 00:38:24,319 Speaker 4: It's a good Fourth of July was just not a 700 00:38:24,320 --> 00:38:25,600 Speaker 4: few days, you know, No, it was. 701 00:38:25,680 --> 00:38:27,600 Speaker 6: It was actually when I was at the World Series 702 00:38:27,600 --> 00:38:30,240 Speaker 6: of Poker in Vegas, they were selling twelve dollars hot dogs. 703 00:38:30,520 --> 00:38:31,880 Speaker 4: Twelve dollars hot dogs. 704 00:38:31,880 --> 00:38:34,440 Speaker 1: Oh my god, yep, I'd rather fast. 705 00:38:34,480 --> 00:38:36,279 Speaker 4: All right, what's next? What do we have here? 706 00:38:37,000 --> 00:38:40,360 Speaker 1: JT the Wingman, Hi je I met him. This guy's 707 00:38:40,400 --> 00:38:42,600 Speaker 1: been to like almost all the Mallard meat greets we've 708 00:38:42,600 --> 00:38:43,640 Speaker 1: done other than Vancouver. 709 00:38:43,920 --> 00:38:46,160 Speaker 6: He wants to know what is a better summer drink, 710 00:38:46,360 --> 00:38:49,520 Speaker 6: lemonade or Sweet Slash iced tea. 711 00:38:50,400 --> 00:38:51,719 Speaker 4: Yeah, I'm team lemonade. 712 00:38:52,360 --> 00:38:54,960 Speaker 1: I don't mind in Arnold Palmer, which is where you 713 00:38:55,040 --> 00:38:59,040 Speaker 1: combine both, obviously, but I go lemonade. A nice lemonade 714 00:38:59,120 --> 00:39:03,120 Speaker 1: with the proper trueger ratio with everything is the way 715 00:39:03,160 --> 00:39:05,640 Speaker 1: to go. It's one of my favorite drinks. And really 716 00:39:05,760 --> 00:39:08,319 Speaker 1: like when I'm out, like I I'll if I if 717 00:39:08,360 --> 00:39:10,319 Speaker 1: I Usually I just drink water, but if I'm gonna 718 00:39:10,360 --> 00:39:11,840 Speaker 1: cheat a little bit, I'll have lemonade. 719 00:39:11,880 --> 00:39:13,480 Speaker 4: What about you, Reina? 720 00:39:13,719 --> 00:39:16,080 Speaker 7: Oh yeah, lemonade all day. I like it, a little 721 00:39:16,080 --> 00:39:18,319 Speaker 7: bit on the tart side to the fresh. 722 00:39:18,360 --> 00:39:21,040 Speaker 1: Sure the better, more sugar coop. 723 00:39:21,640 --> 00:39:22,800 Speaker 6: Absolutely lemonade. 724 00:39:24,239 --> 00:39:24,680 Speaker 4: There you go. 725 00:39:24,760 --> 00:39:29,360 Speaker 1: Take that all you people believease trash iced team. 726 00:39:29,360 --> 00:39:31,920 Speaker 4: And the only iced tee I like is the musician. 727 00:39:32,040 --> 00:39:32,560 Speaker 1: He's old. 728 00:39:32,880 --> 00:39:37,600 Speaker 6: Next all right, donkey sausage, Hi, donkey. You would like 729 00:39:37,640 --> 00:39:39,840 Speaker 6: to know how often do you change the sheets on 730 00:39:39,880 --> 00:39:40,320 Speaker 6: your bed? 731 00:39:41,760 --> 00:39:45,280 Speaker 1: Well, I'm married, so every week we change the sheets. 732 00:39:45,280 --> 00:39:47,600 Speaker 1: If I was single, maybe once a month, you know, 733 00:39:47,640 --> 00:39:51,440 Speaker 1: back when I was single, Florina, Well. 734 00:39:51,160 --> 00:39:54,839 Speaker 7: I have sheets under my sheets under my two comforters, 735 00:39:55,000 --> 00:39:58,120 Speaker 7: so I mostly just wash my upper comforters and never 736 00:39:58,200 --> 00:40:01,879 Speaker 7: touch my sheets. I don't go out low. I even 737 00:40:01,920 --> 00:40:03,080 Speaker 7: just use a throw blanket. 738 00:40:03,360 --> 00:40:05,080 Speaker 4: You do the top layer you wash? 739 00:40:05,280 --> 00:40:07,880 Speaker 7: Yeah, like I washed my comfort and then I use 740 00:40:07,920 --> 00:40:08,799 Speaker 7: a throw blanket on. 741 00:40:09,080 --> 00:40:11,799 Speaker 4: What about the could you sleep on a sofa or something? 742 00:40:11,960 --> 00:40:14,880 Speaker 7: No, I just have a lot of layers of blankets. 743 00:40:16,040 --> 00:40:18,520 Speaker 1: Are you living in Alaska and flying down for the 744 00:40:18,560 --> 00:40:20,200 Speaker 1: show or. 745 00:40:19,640 --> 00:40:23,640 Speaker 4: What is I don't know from Siberia. You live in 746 00:40:23,800 --> 00:40:25,200 Speaker 4: l A. There's no al right? 747 00:40:25,840 --> 00:40:27,600 Speaker 1: Cool? Uh? 748 00:40:27,840 --> 00:40:34,480 Speaker 6: Not as often as probably should. Uh, that's I'd probably 749 00:40:34,520 --> 00:40:37,720 Speaker 6: say it's it's probably around, you know, once every few 750 00:40:38,200 --> 00:40:39,200 Speaker 6: three to four weeks. 751 00:40:40,520 --> 00:40:44,680 Speaker 1: Okay, yeah, I usually once a week. Well wash, I 752 00:40:44,760 --> 00:40:47,360 Speaker 1: actually wash Moxie. 753 00:40:47,040 --> 00:40:48,240 Speaker 4: My my dog Maxia. 754 00:40:48,680 --> 00:40:50,640 Speaker 1: She lays on a on a blanket we put on 755 00:40:50,680 --> 00:40:52,440 Speaker 1: the sofa, so we have to wash that a lot more. 756 00:40:52,760 --> 00:40:52,960 Speaker 6: Yeh. 757 00:40:53,000 --> 00:40:54,839 Speaker 7: See it's different if you have animals too. 758 00:40:55,239 --> 00:40:57,000 Speaker 4: Yeah, yeah, it's a problem. Uh. 759 00:40:57,120 --> 00:41:00,560 Speaker 6: The king rory hy rory. He would to know which 760 00:41:00,600 --> 00:41:02,960 Speaker 6: is better liquid soap or bar soap? 761 00:41:05,040 --> 00:41:08,240 Speaker 1: What's the context like in the shower you're talking about 762 00:41:08,239 --> 00:41:11,439 Speaker 1: like washing your hands? Like? He doesn't he doesn't say, 763 00:41:11,480 --> 00:41:16,320 Speaker 1: he did not specify. I'm team liquid. I'm team liquid. 764 00:41:17,160 --> 00:41:19,440 Speaker 1: And if you if you share a bathroom with somebody 765 00:41:19,480 --> 00:41:21,400 Speaker 1: the bar soap, you know, do you really want to 766 00:41:21,400 --> 00:41:22,719 Speaker 1: share bar soap with someone else. 767 00:41:22,760 --> 00:41:23,440 Speaker 4: You know what I'm saying. 768 00:41:24,320 --> 00:41:25,840 Speaker 7: You never know where they put the bar. 769 00:41:26,200 --> 00:41:28,839 Speaker 1: Exactly, and they may play hide and seek with the bar. 770 00:41:29,000 --> 00:41:31,960 Speaker 4: You don't want that. So I'm team Liquid. I love 771 00:41:32,000 --> 00:41:33,320 Speaker 4: the Liquid Loraina. 772 00:41:33,120 --> 00:41:35,560 Speaker 7: Same but for different reasons. I feel like the bar 773 00:41:35,680 --> 00:41:38,400 Speaker 7: soap makes me stiff, like it really like, my skin 774 00:41:38,480 --> 00:41:40,759 Speaker 7: gets all hard and I can't move it, the same 775 00:41:40,800 --> 00:41:43,719 Speaker 7: as if I use like a moisturizing Well, aren't. 776 00:41:43,480 --> 00:41:45,919 Speaker 1: You supposed to rub some on your arm or whatever 777 00:41:45,960 --> 00:41:47,640 Speaker 1: and then take rub a lot on one part of 778 00:41:47,680 --> 00:41:49,280 Speaker 1: your arm and then from there move. 779 00:41:49,160 --> 00:41:51,919 Speaker 4: It around your body. Isn't that usually how it works? Yeah? 780 00:41:51,960 --> 00:41:53,239 Speaker 6: But with the bar soap, as soon as you rinse 781 00:41:53,280 --> 00:41:56,000 Speaker 6: it off, your skin's all like it's like almost like 782 00:41:56,000 --> 00:41:56,920 Speaker 6: the rubbery. 783 00:41:57,239 --> 00:41:58,240 Speaker 7: Yeah, it's sweet. 784 00:41:58,360 --> 00:42:01,799 Speaker 1: Yeah, So no iris for you. It's ask Ben Koopa. 785 00:42:01,920 --> 00:42:05,400 Speaker 1: You're so your team like, yes, what is next? To 786 00:42:05,600 --> 00:42:09,640 Speaker 1: ask Ben? Your questions are answers for the rest of 787 00:42:09,680 --> 00:42:10,200 Speaker 1: the hour. 788 00:42:10,320 --> 00:42:12,440 Speaker 4: There sheree blows, we say, what's next? 789 00:42:12,640 --> 00:42:15,360 Speaker 6: Well, so out the alien o piner hi Alf. 790 00:42:15,719 --> 00:42:17,560 Speaker 4: I've never met him. I got to meet him. 791 00:42:17,800 --> 00:42:19,760 Speaker 6: He's asking this and I need to address the question. 792 00:42:20,280 --> 00:42:23,080 Speaker 6: He says, are you all in for Uno being introduced 793 00:42:23,120 --> 00:42:29,640 Speaker 6: to casino gambling in Vegas. Now, yeah, this story went around. 794 00:42:30,440 --> 00:42:31,960 Speaker 6: It's not bogus. 795 00:42:32,200 --> 00:42:33,719 Speaker 7: Kind of bogus. 796 00:42:33,880 --> 00:42:37,120 Speaker 6: Well, it's they're bringing it to one like the Palms casino, 797 00:42:37,239 --> 00:42:39,680 Speaker 6: and it's like an UNO social club. You're not like 798 00:42:39,800 --> 00:42:43,960 Speaker 6: there's not actual Uno on the casino floor and all 799 00:42:44,000 --> 00:42:45,239 Speaker 6: the you know casinos. 800 00:42:46,160 --> 00:42:49,520 Speaker 1: Oh okay, and we'll move on. Can they put scrabble 801 00:42:49,560 --> 00:42:51,360 Speaker 1: in there? I think i'd win somebody at scrabble? 802 00:42:51,400 --> 00:42:51,920 Speaker 4: Can you do that? 803 00:42:52,480 --> 00:42:53,320 Speaker 1: No? 804 00:42:54,160 --> 00:42:55,360 Speaker 6: I never know, could happen? 805 00:42:56,320 --> 00:42:58,839 Speaker 1: Yeah, I did lose though. I've lost a couple of games. 806 00:42:59,239 --> 00:43:01,279 Speaker 1: I've lost my bad you touch it scrabble, which is 807 00:43:01,360 --> 00:43:03,680 Speaker 1: very upsetting. Are they're just ask man? There we go, 808 00:43:03,920 --> 00:43:05,640 Speaker 1: thank you, good job by you.