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Speaker 1: Welcome to the Favorites, the podcast from the Volume Podcast Network.

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Speaker 1: It's Thursday. That means it's time to enter the Thursday Thunderdome.

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Speaker 1: On today's show, our special guests will compete alongside my

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Speaker 1: co host, my bff, my companion Professional Sports Better Simon Hunter,

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Speaker 1: in an epic test of wagers and wits that's quickly

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Speaker 1: made this show the most anticipated thirty ish minutes of

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Speaker 1: the entire sports gambling weekly media landscape. Simon Man, Simon,

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Speaker 1: you're a Sixers fan. Sixers played the Hawks last night

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Speaker 1: recording this on Thursday, and they gave up, uh, pretty

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Speaker 1: massively lost the game. Now we're losing the series and

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Speaker 1: would looked like what could have been a pretty less

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Speaker 1: than challenging romp to the finals that might not even

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Speaker 1: get out of this round. I was there. Yeah, I

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Speaker 1: don't put my business on Twitter because I hate being

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Speaker 1: that fan that's like just complaining about their life and

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Speaker 1: about their fandom. But I mainly didn't go on Twitter

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Speaker 1: because I went on for one second to say something

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Speaker 1: and all it was was never any memes about the

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Speaker 1: Sixers and how we're a joke. I don't know, man,

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Speaker 1: I was gonna ask you, is that like, what is

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Speaker 1: your worst in person memory for sports? Like I that's

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Speaker 1: the lowest I've felt since. We were talking to Tiki

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Speaker 1: Barber about his brother pick sixing the Eagles. I was

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Speaker 1: at the Buccaneers game. It was twenty degrees freezing his

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Speaker 1: brother pick six. That was the end of the Eagles run,

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Speaker 1: pretty much with Andy Reid, and I think, honestly, until

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Speaker 1: that point the quiet thing was brutal. But that quast

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Speaker 1: shot was so amazing that I honestly wasn't even that

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Speaker 1: upset about it. And I wasn't there in person like

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Speaker 1: for this. I was in person. I said it to

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Speaker 1: my buddy. It was I think they're on a fifty

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Speaker 1: to two run Atlanta, And I said to my buddy,

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Speaker 1: we have to take Atlant alive right now because we

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Speaker 1: had way too much money. Um. Basically, the night before

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Speaker 1: me and him had money lined the nets at halftime

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Speaker 1: with the Sixers. So I had the nets plus like

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Speaker 1: to fifty or plus two sixty money lined with the

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Speaker 1: Sixers money line. So I told him, let's hedge like Atlanta,

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Speaker 1: Mike come back and win this game. So we hedged

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Speaker 1: at plus two fifty plus two forty. The woman sit

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Speaker 1: in front of us, hedged with like bet with us.

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Speaker 1: She'd be like, I'll bet with you, guys, like like

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Speaker 1: I don't think we're gonna win either, And know that

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Speaker 1: you could just feel as soon as the fourth quarter started,

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Speaker 1: no one was breathing. There was literally no air in

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Speaker 1: the entire arena. Everyone could like feel the tension. No

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Speaker 1: one was talking, you know, like there was that one

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Speaker 1: asshole guy near me that the whole game was just

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Speaker 1: like Ben Simmons, you suck, dude. We know Ben Simmons

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Speaker 1: sucks every Sixers fan there Again, I don't want to

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Speaker 1: freak out on this podcast chat. I'm trying to hold

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Speaker 1: it in. I was like literally dying inside, just the

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Speaker 1: slowest death of ever experienced. You won't be surprised to

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Speaker 1: learn that that level of pain as an experience for

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Speaker 1: me has happened twice in person, both times involving my

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Speaker 1: beloved Chicago Bears. Nineteen eighty six or eighty seven, I

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Speaker 1: forget which year they played the Niners in the NFC

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Speaker 1: title game, and they were probably heavy favorites. It was

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Speaker 1: at home. It was forty below, no joke, I was

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Speaker 1: at the game. They lost twenty seven or nothing to

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Speaker 1: the Niners. That was excruciating. And then the Bears in

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Speaker 1: the Super Bowl against the Colts the Prince halftime show,

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Speaker 1: Devin Hester runs a touchdown, returns a opening kickoff for

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Speaker 1: a touchdown. They went on to squander the lead. They

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Speaker 1: lost to Peyton Manning in the rain. Horrible game plan,

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Speaker 1: remember every second of it. Also missed the Prince halftime

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Speaker 1: show because I was called and my buddy and I

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Speaker 1: for fifteen minutes. So gut wrenching on every level. Today,

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Speaker 1: Simon d we have arranged a special rematch for you.

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Speaker 1: We are taking it back to March eighteen. Are very

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Speaker 1: first Thunderdome episode. That means you're no stranger to this

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Speaker 1: first challenger, and he is no stranger to the world

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Speaker 1: of sports betting. One of the most unabashedly enthusiastic betters

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Speaker 1: on the West Coast and one of our esteemed colleagues

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Speaker 1: at the Volume podcast Network, a return Thunderdome challenger and

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Speaker 1: the host of the Sports Gambling with Money Line Monico podcast.

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Speaker 1: Alex Monico, what an intro chad. I'm ready to run

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Speaker 1: through a Bear's wall right now, baby. Thank you for

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Speaker 1: the for the hype up. I'm ready to dance. I

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Speaker 1: I was telling them I had the six years yesterday.

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Speaker 1: So I'm struggling as well, not a personal level, but

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Speaker 1: in my pocket. And it's one of those losses you get,

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Speaker 1: you get a haircut, you trim the cosmo, you start

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Speaker 1: all over. So thank you for jamming with me the

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Speaker 1: last two hours of the throw and Mike, I'm either

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Speaker 1: going out with the hair on a win or a loss.

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Speaker 1: I'm in the six foot club for two more hours.

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Speaker 1: Let's enjoy it. Signon your second. Challenger was last seen

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Speaker 1: here wiping the floor with both you and Monaco on

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Speaker 1: his way to a decisive Thunderdome victory. One of the

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Speaker 1: most beloved handicappers here at the Action Network, the heartbeat

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Speaker 1: of our college football coverage, the pride of Razorback Nation.

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Speaker 1: I can't believe he's gotten out of bed after the

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Speaker 1: Razorbacks crushing College World Series playoff. Lost a man just

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Speaker 1: two weeks away from his second and final wedding, sporting

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Speaker 1: the mohawk. Lucky in love, Mr Colin Wilson, my brother.

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Speaker 1: Thank you for having me on. Guys, trust me, I

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Speaker 1: know having bad sports teams break your heart is a

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Speaker 1: lifelong Razor fan and alumni and a lifelong Royals fan. Uh.

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Speaker 1: The only time I've cried in my entire life, my

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Speaker 1: Madison Bumbarn Garner came out of the bullpen of the

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Speaker 1: World Series and shucker Royals down in Game seven. So

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Speaker 1: I know what it's like to be deflated. And yes,

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Speaker 1: I am getting married after being single for the last

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Speaker 1: ten years. I am once again throwing myself into the world.

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Speaker 1: The biggest gamble of man could ever make. Not even

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Speaker 1: throwing money over the counter, You're throwing money over a

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Speaker 1: different counter, the biggest gamble you could ever make. Dude,

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Speaker 1: let me tell you something. You know. I love love,

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Speaker 1: so I'm super all in on you getting married. Number

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Speaker 1: two completely agree with you. Getting married is the biggest

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Speaker 1: risk you can take. The biggest gamble you can take

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Speaker 1: is getting married, because that is a life defining, life

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Speaker 1: changing moment where every single second of your day can

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Speaker 1: be determined by your partner. Yeah. Absolutely, you have to. Uh,

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Speaker 1: you're sweating that. Every day you wake up, you're trying

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Speaker 1: your wife, right, I mean between the food and the

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Speaker 1: kids in the lawn and the two dudes, and you

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Speaker 1: day you wake up in a marriage. I can't wait.

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Speaker 1: I love it well that that bodes well for Simon

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Speaker 1: only two times I've ever cried the movies Meet Joe

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Speaker 1: to be, you know, emotional. It's a beautiful movie. Brad

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Speaker 1: to give it to Brad pittcause Benjamin Button almost did

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Speaker 1: the same thing to me. He's an amazing actor. He

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Speaker 1: deserves the Oscar that he's gotten. He deserves Springfield, Missouri

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Speaker 1: from Kickapoo High School, Great Great State Missouri. Here's how

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Speaker 1: today's game is played. You'll answer two kinds of questions,

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Speaker 1: ended questions or prompts that I alone will judge. Since

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Speaker 1: you've both been on the show, you now know that

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Speaker 1: I will most definitely favor Mr Simon Hunter. To accumulate points,

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Speaker 1: you must answer the trivia questions correctly and also convinced

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Speaker 1: me that your responses to those open ended prompts are

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Speaker 1: better than the responses from your opponents. Let's begin Part one.

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Speaker 1: I love this, I love this theme right here. Today

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Speaker 1: is a special day for sports fans across Western New York,

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Speaker 1: the ancestral home region of our producer Matt Mitchell. That

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Speaker 1: is because Josh Allen, quarterback of the Buffalo Bill's Savior

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Speaker 1: of Bills Football, will be throwing out the first pitch

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Speaker 1: at the Toronto Blue Jays game tonight, which will be

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Speaker 1: played in downtown Buffalo thanks to the Jay's ongoing pandemic

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Speaker 1: Canadian travel restrictions. Buffalo is the largest city in a

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Speaker 1: regional utopia, famous the world over not only for its

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Speaker 1: handsome but relatable natives, but also for its enormous cultural impacts.

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Speaker 1: Let's discuss a few simon one of Western New York's

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Speaker 1: most enduring cultural contributions. Is this well known dessert brand

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Speaker 1: born in Larroy, New York. In Its original five flavors

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Speaker 1: have included Jack Benny, Lucille Ball, and most famously Philadelphia

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Speaker 1: Oh dude, you don't hear too many Bill Cosby jokes anymore,

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Speaker 1: And I think you did a pretty good job on

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Speaker 1: that one. The answer is jello. God see like three

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Speaker 1: Anybody that is around our age had the pudding pop

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Speaker 1: when I was reading this, this this question, Colin, I

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Speaker 1: made with real pudding. Alex. Few people know Rochester, New York,

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Speaker 1: The Rochester Royals won the nineteen fifty one titled before

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Speaker 1: very little success. I'll go with Sacramento. Sacramentos wrecked. You

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Speaker 1: Toronto Blue Jays play their Triple A games, but I'm

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Speaker 1: Niagara Falls. Niagara Falls. Colin, You're an amazing contestant. I

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Speaker 1: kind of think I might want you to win your chat.

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Speaker 1: Remember you're the pack tall referee. This is going to Simon,

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Speaker 1: That's true. It always goes to Simon until Simon decides

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Speaker 1: to go all in on the last question and gets

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Speaker 1: it wrong and there's nothing we can do. Part one prompt,

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Speaker 1: are you guys ready? In the recorded history of Niagara Falls,

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Speaker 1: only five people have survived and unassisted swim over the

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Speaker 1: You had to bet on any living athlete to survive

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Speaker 1: a swim over Niagara Falls. Who would you choose? And

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Speaker 1: why Simon, you're up first? I mean, there's only one answer.

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Speaker 1: Ray Lewis. Every time he hit someone, it's like surviving

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Speaker 1: a car crash opposably. So if there's anyone that can

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Speaker 1: be ray Lewis. This man literally lives for impact. That's

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Speaker 1: all he wants is impact. So give me ray Lewis.

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Speaker 1: That man does not break. And here I thought when

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Speaker 1: you said ray Lewis, you were going to make some

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Speaker 1: The biggest problem with college football is the transfer portal.

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Speaker 1: Austria and Hungary. Too many Americans. The most famous Slovakian

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Speaker 1: athlete of all time maybe Peter Bondra, who spent fourteen

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Speaker 1: seasons with this DC area sports team. Uh boy, it's

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Speaker 1: gonna I mean, let's see, I could I'm old, so

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Speaker 1: it could be the Bullets. We'll go with the Capitals,

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Speaker 1: Big Washington Capitals, Very Nice Alex. The Czech Republic scored

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Speaker 1: a heart fought victory versus Scotland earlier this week after

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Speaker 1: the Checks opened at one and fifty one to claim

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Speaker 1: the euro title. Also involved in a hard fought battle

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Speaker 1: are two beer companies, one American and one Check, who've

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Speaker 1: been in a legal dispute since nine oh seven over

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Speaker 1: the trademark of this incredibly famous beer, Budweiser. Budweiser. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: the Czech Republic has more of these old buildings, so

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Speaker 1: the answer is these old buildings than anywhere in Europe,

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Speaker 1: although the aforementioned Slovakia has the most per capita. The

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Speaker 1: word can also be used as a verb describing a

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Speaker 1: move in chess. Also described it as more of these

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Speaker 1: old domiciles. I don't even I don't even have an

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Speaker 1: educated guess. It's castles. It's castles. Uh, gosh, day it gota.

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Speaker 1: I'm gonna go on a long walk. Now that is

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Speaker 1: too easy. You should get a haircut. Sign that Global

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Speaker 1: surveys ranking general citizen happiness Finland commonly scores the highest

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Speaker 1: in the world, so there is little doubt Fins were

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Speaker 1: delirious after their soccer team defeated nearby Denmark as plus

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00:26:47,359 --> 00:26:51,720
Speaker 1: one thousand underdogs in their opening game last week. But

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Speaker 1: more surprising is that Finln also leads the world in

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Speaker 1: the consumption of this globally beloved non alcoholic beverage, consuming

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Speaker 1: nearly three times more better than America Coca Cola coffee

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Speaker 1: coffee we were looking for coffee simon. The total population

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Speaker 1: of Finland is about five and a half million people,

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Speaker 1: which is less than the metro population of this southern

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Speaker 1: US city, which is hosted an MLB, NBA and NFL

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Speaker 1: franchise for over fifty years and has just one championship

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Speaker 1: to show for it, Atlanta. Yes, here's your prompt. Imagine

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Speaker 1: you made a huge bed on a euro underdog. You

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Speaker 1: must move to that country and remain there until, against

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Speaker 1: all odds, that team wins the trophy. And mid July,

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Speaker 1: if your goal was to have the most fun imaginable,

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Speaker 1: what team would you select and how would you join

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Speaker 1: in their unlikely celebration colin Euro first. Well, nobody needs

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Speaker 1: to hear this, but I traveled for fifteen years around

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Speaker 1: the world, so I know almost all the countries on

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Speaker 1: this list. So I did a little, a little thinking

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Speaker 1: and uh, you know, I just know on the Ukraine front, Okay,

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Speaker 1: I'm getting married. I don't need to go to Ukraine.

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Speaker 1: It's a great option for people on the dating market.

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Speaker 1: Simon right. So as for whales, I once got drunk

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Speaker 1: with the Queen of England's second cousin in a village

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Speaker 1: outside of Ponti Pool. It's a great story, but there's

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Speaker 1: just too many sheep in the road, so I'm not

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Speaker 1: I'm not going back there every again. I adore Scotland.

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Speaker 1: I adore golfing in the rain and how you can

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Speaker 1: blast your driver and it's still in the fairway. But

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Speaker 1: if you go for a week on a diet of

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Speaker 1: haggis and Scotch, your intestines turned into a fiery mud slide.

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Speaker 1: So that's out too it. Sex is not allowed in

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Speaker 1: the dark in Budapest hungry, so that's absolutely out. And

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Speaker 1: in Switzerland you can't plush the toilet after ten pm. True,

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Speaker 1: it's illegal, it's against the law. Denmark is where I

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Speaker 1: I got. It kind of got interesting because you know,

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Speaker 1: my my new wife, she's in this whole baby mode.

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Speaker 1: But we're way past having babies. We can't have babies.

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Speaker 1: And in Denmark if you find a child abandoned and

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Speaker 1: you can't find their parents after two hours, that's your child.

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Speaker 1: So if I go to Denmark, I don't know how

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Speaker 1: many kids I'm going to have. And that's a problem

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Speaker 1: because I actually wanted to be in Denmark for one reason.

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Speaker 1: It's it's not against the law to escape from prison.

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Speaker 1: I'm serious. I'm not lying about this. You can escape

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Speaker 1: from prison in Denmark with no repercussions whatsoever. It's a

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Speaker 1: shocking So I think just to go there so that

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Speaker 1: my new wife can be happy by finding all these

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Speaker 1: abandoned kids and making them our children, and me escaping

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Speaker 1: prison as many times as possible, just for fun. I'm

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Speaker 1: going to Denmark. Also, our new owner is better collective.

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Speaker 1: They are based in Denmark, so you could have you

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Speaker 1: could be at the corporate office every day. Yeah, I'll

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Speaker 1: tell them, I'll be right back. I'm just gonna I'm

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Speaker 1: gonna Andy dufrain myself tunnel out of this cell. If

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Speaker 1: you can escape from prison, you can be in the

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Speaker 1: opposite of your day. Oh my god, that's such a

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Speaker 1: good answer. It's going to be impossible for Alex and

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Speaker 1: Simon to top this. But Alex, you can try. The

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Speaker 1: only thing I can outer with is going to the

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Speaker 1: happiest country in the world, at least at the polling polls.

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Speaker 1: And I'm going. I'm taking my polls and I'm going

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Speaker 1: to Finland, and I am literally having a ball. They

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Speaker 1: are known. I'll give a little call. In fact, they

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Speaker 1: have three thousand saunas, saunas. I don't know why, a

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Speaker 1: lot of fits and going on, I guess, but they

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Speaker 1: have a Santa Claus village. They're also known for reindeers,

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Speaker 1: so you can find me. As Finland already tops the

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Speaker 1: boys den Mark, I'll go ahead and take a little sauna,

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Speaker 1: a little chilling with Rudolph, a little but heavy with

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Speaker 1: Santa Claus, and I'll wait for Finland to catch the

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Speaker 1: Euro doubIe. Celebrating with Finland, I get it. I get it,

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Speaker 1: UH doing a sauna. Colin would celebrate with the UH

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Speaker 1: team from Denmark and adopt babies and escape from jail,

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Speaker 1: which many of them might be doing if they were

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Speaker 1: to win the euros. Simon, I'm I know it's I

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Speaker 1: know exactly what Simon's doing. Now. You have no idea, Chad,

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00:31:04,560 --> 00:31:07,920
Speaker 1: you you're all into class and love. Those are two

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Speaker 1: things I think of Chad of class and love grants

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00:31:10,960 --> 00:31:13,040
Speaker 1: the language of love, and it's one of the classiest

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Speaker 1: places in the world. So are we not going to

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Speaker 1: be chilling in south of France. I don't know what

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Speaker 1: these guys are doing right now, but it was just

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Speaker 1: sitting there. So I'm taking it south to France. Give

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Speaker 1: me France every day, so and I get to go

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Speaker 1: with you. I get to go with you. Oh, you're

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00:31:26,160 --> 00:31:30,040
Speaker 1: common chaff dude and your wife no kids though, no kids? Simon,

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Speaker 1: you are a hundred percent when this prompt you know

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00:31:34,240 --> 00:31:38,040
Speaker 1: exactly what to say that if we could make it

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Speaker 1: to a visa in the next two weeks before my wedding,

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Speaker 1: I'd like to join that too. At the end of

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Speaker 1: the day, he said, I'm classy and I love love,

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Speaker 1: and if that's what he's gotten from me in these

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Speaker 1: past couple of years, I'm totally good with that. All right.

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Speaker 1: Here's the current score. Colin Wilson, you have five. Alex Monico,

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Speaker 1: you have three, Simon Hunter, you have four. The topic

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Speaker 1: for the final for the Grand fin Alley famous Us.

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Speaker 1: How much would you like to risk? Please close your eyes,

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00:32:03,600 --> 00:32:07,920
Speaker 1: hold up your fingers with your wager amount Budweiser is

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00:32:07,960 --> 00:32:12,720
Speaker 1: the most advertised beer brand in America, boasting a massive

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00:32:12,920 --> 00:32:16,440
Speaker 1: domestic advertising budget that of course includes the annual Super

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00:32:16,480 --> 00:32:20,120
Speaker 1: Bowl commercials. In two thousand three, bud Wise released one

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Speaker 1: of their most popular Super Bowl commercials of all time,

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Speaker 1: entitled Referee. This commercial featured their iconic Clydesdale horses playing

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00:32:29,440 --> 00:32:33,000
Speaker 1: a game of football that becomes interrupted by an instant

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Speaker 1: replay review. Appropriately enough, in the commercial, this replay review

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Speaker 1: was conducted by a referee from the Animal Kingdom, portrayed

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Speaker 1: by a well known African animal who was the animal

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Speaker 1: to play the referee in this commercial. Here comes the King,

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Speaker 1: who comes the big number one? But why the beer?

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00:32:55,680 --> 00:33:00,240
Speaker 1: The King is second and none? Just say? But why said?

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00:33:01,000 --> 00:33:07,920
Speaker 1: You've said it all comes the killing of But why

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00:33:08,000 --> 00:33:12,360
Speaker 1: the beer's the one that's leading the list? And what

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Speaker 1: I think makes it bitt telling you? There's Alex, you

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Speaker 1: have three points, you risked three points. Give me your answer.

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Speaker 1: I missed listening to the question, but too late, I said, horses, Dude,

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Speaker 1: I don't even know what to say to that. Damn it.

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Speaker 1: You have zero points now, Alex Monico Simon, you have

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Speaker 1: four points. You risked four points. No shock there. What

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Speaker 1: is your answer? Zebra right, Zebra, Zebra. Simon, you now

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Speaker 1: have eight points. Colin, you have five points. Here's the thing.

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Speaker 1: He only risked three points, which means we are potentially

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Speaker 1: headed for the playoff if Colin got the right answer. Colin,

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Speaker 1: I answered chimp. Oh my god, massive. This is a

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Speaker 1: Hawks like come from behind victory two weeks in a

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Speaker 1: row for our reigning champion, my best friend, the guy

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Speaker 1: I'm tilting the game for. Anyways, Mr Simon Hunter, before

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00:34:36,200 --> 00:34:38,719
Speaker 1: we get to Simon to gloat, Colin, I would like

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Speaker 1: to hear a little bit about how you're feeling right now.

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Speaker 1: I feel like the Arkansas Razorbacks came in as the

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Speaker 1: number one seed. I didn't lose one weekend series. I

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Speaker 1: am seventeen four against everybody that's in Oma all right now,

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00:34:49,880 --> 00:34:51,880
Speaker 1: and I just lost. So I'm a little embarrassed. I

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00:34:51,920 --> 00:34:54,759
Speaker 1: think you should be embarrassed. I think not getting that

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Speaker 1: last answer, you're probably, in many ways the smartest person

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Speaker 1: that the action work, and the fact that you knew

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00:35:02,760 --> 00:35:05,880
Speaker 1: so much about every single thing we talked about today

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Speaker 1: and then went with chimp instead of Zebra. Yeah, all right,

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Speaker 1: Before we sign off, here's a word from our fearless leader,

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Speaker 1: Action Network CEO, Patrick King. It's just the international system

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Speaker 1: of currency which determines the totality of life on this planet,

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Speaker 1: and you have metal with the primal forces of make sure.

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Speaker 1: This has been the Favorites from the Volume Podcast Network.

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Speaker 1: My thanks to our guests Alex Monico, Colin Wilson and

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Speaker 1: our champions Simon Hunter. As a reminder of the Volume

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