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Speaker 1: back at it again and a story that broke overnight

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Speaker 1: last night is our lead this hour. As we knew

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Speaker 1: and now it's like a jigsaw puzzle. You got to

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Speaker 1: kind of figure out which pieces fit wear and that

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Speaker 1: doesn't fit there, but that one does fit, but it

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Speaker 1: the left hand side. I don't know. So from the

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Speaker 1: hood in Inglewood, the People's team, the Clippers making big headlines.

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Speaker 1: Everyone's talking about the Clippers. It's hiped the clip yet again.

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Speaker 1: They decided to fire the point God. You can't fire

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Speaker 1: of the night. Oh my God. Now I assume you're

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Speaker 1: heard by now if you care about this. It's a

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Speaker 1: good story. Even if we're not a basketball fan, it's

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Speaker 1: it's still a good story. So it is a doozy,

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Speaker 1: an absolute doozy. So the Clippers, this guy's got a

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Speaker 1: big time GM. Lawrence Frank, who used to be a

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Speaker 1: coach in the NBA, has been an executive for a

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Speaker 1: number of years. Lawrence Frank decided to remove Chris Paul

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Speaker 1: from the roster. The Clippers had some flight problems. These

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Speaker 1: are first world problems. They fly on chartered planes. Every

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Speaker 1: once in a while, the engine breaks in a chartered plane.

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Speaker 1: You have to sit around for a while, and then

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Speaker 1: these guys bitch and complain non stop. My god, what

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Speaker 1: a nightmare. Try flying Spirit Airlines sometime, you losers. Anyway, Anyway,

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Speaker 1: here's Lawrence Frank commenting on the demise about Chris Paul.

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Speaker 1: I now, listen, they're trying to say, we're not trying

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Speaker 1: to blame anyone. Take a listen.

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Speaker 3: I take full responsibility for our record. We are not

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Speaker 3: scapegoating Chris Paul. We have many issues and we're going

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Speaker 3: to address each issue.

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Speaker 4: For our underperformance.

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Speaker 3: We have great respect for Chris for the career that

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Speaker 3: he's had and for his impact on the organization, what

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Speaker 3: he did to help transform the franchise, and we're not

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Speaker 3: blaming him for underperforming.

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Speaker 1: But yeah, so they did say one I said, it's

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Speaker 1: not one isolated incident. That have been multiple issues behind

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Speaker 1: So that's it. It happened, and the overnight hours Paul

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Speaker 1: clashing with Tylou the Clippers coach there. So those reports

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Speaker 1: came out today claiming that CP three was very vocal

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Speaker 1: and all of this led to, of course pandemonium among

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Speaker 4: Do you read the room?

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Speaker 1: How do you read the room? Regarding Chris Paul's hasty

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Speaker 1: departure from the good Ship Clip which is sinking to

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Speaker 1: Locksmith and we will combine all of these things together

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Speaker 1: and everything will go according to plan unless it doesn't.

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Speaker 1: So a the whole Chris Paul Clipper fiasco. It is

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Speaker 1: a battle of messages right now, and so you knew

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Speaker 1: this was coming, and it really just depends on who

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Speaker 1: the cage where both sides are launching spin moves. These

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Speaker 1: with the Stars. You talk about reading the room, This

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Speaker 1: mouth to mouth, narrative warfare. You've got CP three's camp

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Speaker 1: with his useful idiots, many of them former jocks who

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Speaker 1: you the gospel of accountability. Jesus that CP three is accountability, Jesus,

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Speaker 1: he is. He was holding everyone accountable. He's the good guy.

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Speaker 1: The player's staff coaches, the janitor, the person that charges

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Speaker 1: you too much for parking. All that, right, police, this

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Speaker 1: is the same ultimate winner. He's the ultimate winner who

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Speaker 1: never won a damn thing besides State Farm Spokesman of

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Speaker 1: the decade. That's about it. When he played for the

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Speaker 1: went around to facetiming Blake Griffin and DeAndre Jordan like

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Speaker 1: they were reenact the Notebook and it was all smiles,

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Speaker 1: all kumbai yah, all designed of course to make you

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Speaker 1: feel like he's this lovable old hoops hero being wrong

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Speaker 1: by the evil Empire and all this stuff. Now, meanwhile,

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Speaker 1: the Clippers, they were leaking their own information out, their

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Speaker 1: through the useful idiots the Clippers were talking to. CP

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Speaker 1: three is washed up. He was insubordinate. He was the

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Speaker 1: pebble inside the Nike sneaker, a nuisance, the squeaky wheel,

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Speaker 1: the gnat. You never go to the barbecue in the

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Speaker 1: summer and there's a gnat flying around, You're like, boy,

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Speaker 1: that's really annoying. I don't need that. Why is that

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Speaker 1: there's more than one? Now, of course we all know

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Speaker 1: if Chris Paul was actually good. He sucks. If he

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Speaker 1: was good right now, I was playing as an All

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Speaker 1: Star and playing big minutes and all that. You swallow it,

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Speaker 1: you just you handle it. But the guy left that.

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Speaker 1: That guy left the building years ago. And now Chris

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Speaker 1: Paul is essentially a flip phone. The good news is

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Speaker 1: it's got the Ringtones, but I know it's a flip poet.

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Speaker 1: I don't need a flip phone. I want a smartphone.

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Speaker 1: But it's got the twelve Ringtones, I know. But I

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Speaker 1: got a thousand on my regular phone anyway. So and

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Speaker 1: this did not just sour like this thing is beyond that.

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Speaker 1: It was spoiled, curdled. I think I see some fuzz growing.

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Speaker 1: He's really bad. It's so bad. I mean, this is

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Speaker 1: a messy divorce where both sides are swearing they're the victim,

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Speaker 1: you know, the you know I'm not the bad guy,

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Speaker 1: they're the bad guy. And of course the truth is

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Speaker 1: somewhere in the middle, all right, the truth is somewhere

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Speaker 1: in the middle. Unlucky there everyone's guilty Chris Paul's bad

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Speaker 1: at basketball. Now he's washed up, and the Clippers there's

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Speaker 1: no accountability. I don't know what ty Law is doing

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Speaker 1: or ty Loo ty Law would be better. I don't

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Speaker 1: know what ty Lou is doing because he's suddenly he's

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Speaker 1: coaching much. They didn't win against Atlanta, and Atlanta sucks also,

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Speaker 1: all right now turning the page, page two. So the

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Speaker 1: question on this, this next part of it, is what

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Speaker 1: do you make of the outrage? Oh my god, the outrage.

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Speaker 1: It's not fair because Chris Paul is going to well,

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Speaker 1: he's been fired. He's not going to get the full

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Speaker 1: blown farewell tour from the Clippers, although likely will latch

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Speaker 1: on like a vermin somewhere else. So what do I

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Speaker 1: make of the outrage machine being cranked up because Chris

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Speaker 1: Paul was let go during his final season? I say, stop,

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Speaker 1: if you're bad at spelling, that's stop. Police. Even mouthwashed

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Speaker 1: Mike roaming around the Belagio in Vegas knows that enough

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Speaker 1: with the what I call the Vermont maple syrup, it's

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Speaker 1: point in fact, there are people who are at risk

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Speaker 1: of diabetic danger. Chris Paul is not Kobe, He's not

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Speaker 1: Michael Jordan. And I go down to the long big board,

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Speaker 1: not a list, the big board. Chris Paul is not

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Speaker 1: getting a rocking chair gift at half court every city

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Speaker 1: he goes to. He's just not. And there's the reasons

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Speaker 1: why that is Because during the Lob City now this

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Speaker 1: of Clipper basketball, when the bright's when the light lights

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Speaker 1: got the brightest, right bright lights, big city, big playoff games,

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Speaker 1: big moments for Chris Paul, the lights flickered and CP

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Speaker 1: three I heard, Oh, I got he's so good, he's

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Speaker 1: so great, he's so amazing. And he's also like Copperfield

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Speaker 1: or Penn and Teller or Houdini. In the fourth quarter disappeared.

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Speaker 1: Whether it was because he couldn't play well or he

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Speaker 1: just got hurt, he wasn't there when the Clippers needed

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Speaker 1: him most to make plays down the stretch. And you

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Speaker 1: It's like a rotisserie chicken that's been spinning for several

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Speaker 1: days and you got to throw that bad boy away,

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Speaker 1: and if you take the name out, you do the

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Speaker 1: call the challenge. If you take the name off the

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Speaker 1: back of the jersey of Chris Paul, all right, you

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Speaker 1: take it out, and you just look at the skill set.

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Speaker 1: He would not sniff. He would not sniff an NBA roster.

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Speaker 1: The way he's played, He's basically a hood ornament at

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Speaker 1: this point. Who can I guess, sit on his backside

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Speaker 1: for forty five minutes a night and enjoy the view

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Speaker 1: and get old Cardio in and the crowd will cheer

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Speaker 1: him on. And that's it. And now, of course people

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Speaker 1: want a league wide tear filled goodbye journey, a tour,

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Speaker 1: which I'm nauseating when even the players that deserve those

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Speaker 1: get those things, I think it's ridiculous. All those things

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Speaker 1: are sickening. This is nauseating. I don't need the schmaltzy overload.

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Speaker 1: I realize I'm in the minority on that and that

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Speaker 1: And ultimately, though a lot of this, a lot of

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Speaker 1: what's gone on the last twenty four hours or so.

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Speaker 1: The dog pile is because of what I call CJ.

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Speaker 1: Clipper jealousy. It is, and most of it's being driven

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Speaker 1: by bot farms being run by Laker historians. You know,

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Speaker 1: these people losers, these absolute losers, like Rick and Fresno

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Speaker 1: and some of these other guys, the ones who whine

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Speaker 1: in denial that they're being given all this stuff. You know,

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Speaker 1: Lakers always get the shiny toys, you know, being fed.

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Speaker 1: It's like a funnel. They're fed the top player. Every

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Speaker 1: pay attention, say boom, the Reds tried, they tried, They

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Speaker 1: just don't have enough Moody. They tried, you know, optics marketing,

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Speaker 1: all of that stuff, season ticket sugar coating. Meanwhile, Schwarbs,

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Speaker 1: who's on the hunt for that last Glory Road payday

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Speaker 1: and he's at the intersection, Kyle Schwarbert of Glory Road

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Speaker 1: and the Yellow Brick Road paved with Benjamin Franklin's that's

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Speaker 1: what he wants. He's right there, Glory Road converses with

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Speaker 1: Yellow Brick Road. The man Monster mashed fifty six homers.

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Speaker 1: That's a lot of dinger stinging, ding ding ding. That's

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Speaker 1: a lot of thingers drove in one hundred and thirty

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Speaker 1: two runs for the Fighting Phills. You don't slap a

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Speaker 1: discount sticker after a season like that. That is a

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Speaker 1: war daddy performance by Kyle Schwarber. He was ooey gooey,

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Speaker 1: baseball goodness is what he was. That's s'mores level. Now,

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Speaker 1: I'm not a big smores guy. Everyone saw you go

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Speaker 1: out camping. You feel like it's a right of passage.

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Speaker 1: If you go camping, you gotta have some smores and

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Speaker 1: all that. I get that chalk that the marshmallows, the

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Speaker 1: Graham crackers, all that delicious. But only once in a while,

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Speaker 1: if you need it too much, it's like not so good.

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Speaker 1: But Cincinnati's not a real contender. They're not. They're the

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Speaker 1: window shopper, not the buyers what they are. The Phillies

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Speaker 1: will simply drop the bag. They'll nod politely and say hey,

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Speaker 1: and they'll walk away, uh with with Schwarber like they're

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Speaker 1: picking up their dry cleaning. You know, I've got my

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Speaker 1: I need my Can I get my jacket? Okay, yeah,

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Speaker 1: I got to jack. What well, my wife's got a dress.

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Speaker 1: Can we get that shore We'll get you that as well.

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Speaker 1: But keep an eye on the the Red Sox. Also

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Speaker 1: the Texas Rangers. Teams like that. The Mets, they spent

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Speaker 1: a lot of money. I don't know about the Padres.

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Speaker 1: I've heard the Podres mentioned. I feel like they're gonna

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Speaker 1: down grade and get rid of some guys this offseason.

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Speaker 1: All right, now, page two to la the raining back

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Speaker 1: to back champions of Major League Baseball talking baseball. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: so the Dodgers, big money, big money, big money. No

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Speaker 1: emmy nommys stop. Yeah, big money, big money. All right.

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Speaker 1: So the Dodgers manager, who I have fired no less

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Speaker 1: than twelve times over the years, Dave Roberts, is now

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Speaker 1: endorsing the draconian salary cap.

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Speaker 4: Did you see this?

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Speaker 1: Yeah, the guy said, We're gonna go out and ruin baseball,

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Speaker 1: Dave Roberts. So the question Dodgers managed. Dave Roberts said

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Speaker 1: he supports a Major League Baseball plan for a salary

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Speaker 1: cap and a salary floor. He did this in a

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Speaker 1: recent television interview. Do you believe that this would be

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Speaker 1: the magic plus cebo to fix baseball?

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Speaker 4: All right?

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Speaker 1: So this let me explain this, and I've talked about

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Speaker 1: this in the past and previous episodes of the show,

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Speaker 1: and I don't want to lose my mind on this again.

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Speaker 1: I don't need to do that. I'm sure we're talking

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Speaker 1: about this issue more as we go forward. Just soar

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Speaker 1: on the same page. But my position. The thumbnail recap

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Speaker 1: of this. This will fix baseball the same way if

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Speaker 1: you have a sinkhole, you just put some duct tape

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Speaker 1: together and you'll fix the sinkhole. Everything will be fine.

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Speaker 1: Just well, it's a big foal. I know, it's a

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Speaker 1: big hole. But we've got some really good We've got

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Speaker 1: some duct tape and you know what, I'll throw in

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Speaker 1: some gorilla glue. So we'll get the duct tape and

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Speaker 1: the gorilla glue and then we'll be good. But it's

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Speaker 1: a sinkhole, I know, But just go with it. Why not?

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Speaker 1: So Dave Roberts knows it's not happy the union and

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Speaker 1: he was part of that as a player. The Union

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Speaker 1: would turn this thing into a civil war followed by

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Speaker 1: a nuclear winter. You would need a hazmat suit just

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Speaker 1: to attend the bargaining sessions if that would happen. And

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Speaker 1: the very notion that a salary floor magically, it's like

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Speaker 1: magically delicious. It will create this competitive balance that all

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Speaker 1: you people want pollaise. This has already been debunked. It

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Speaker 1: has already been debunked. Only the unsophisticated rubes by that nonsense.

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Speaker 1: So let me use some malord math on this. I'll

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Speaker 1: give you some other math. So the salary cap floor,

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Speaker 1: whatever it is, whatever the salary cap floor is, does

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Speaker 1: not build contenders. What it does is it builds toxic

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Speaker 1: waste uh depots, if you will, for bad contracts like

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Speaker 1: we've seen the we've seen this, We've read the book.

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Speaker 1: We've read the book before. For example, I'll give you

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Speaker 1: an example. Let's say the Red Sox, the Boston Red Sox,

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Speaker 1: about they sign a guy a picture. It turns out,

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Speaker 1: you know, it's good for a couple of years, and

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Speaker 1: then he gets hurt. He's by the time he's got

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Speaker 1: like three or four years left in the contract, he's

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Speaker 1: a thirty four year old picture with a ucl stitched

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Speaker 1: together like a quilt and a contract fatter than a

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Speaker 1: buffet back when they used to have good buffets in Vegas,

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Speaker 1: Like really big contract, right, Tommy John A couple of times,

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Speaker 1: what do you do? You ship them off to Pittsburgh?

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Speaker 1: Or how about the Dodgers, Say the Dodgers have a

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Speaker 1: thirty seven year old slugger who's hitting a buck sixty

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Speaker 1: with four home runs in the bat speed of a

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Speaker 1: rotary phone. What are you gonna do? You send them

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Speaker 1: to West Sacramento, to the Athletics in West Sacramento, and

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Speaker 1: they will gladly take him. And the reason those teams

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Speaker 1: will take them is because they need to reach the floor.

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Speaker 1: You've got to reach. The floor is lava. You have

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Speaker 1: to reach the floor. They'll become the household the teams

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Speaker 1: like the A's and the Pirates and Marlins and Tampa Bay,

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Speaker 1: these type of teams will become the household hazardous waste

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Speaker 1: collection center of Major League Baseball. Bring your expired meds

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Speaker 1: and your useless veterans and we'll take them all. A

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Speaker 1: cap doesn't fix baseball, it does not, and a floor

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Speaker 1: does not fix it. It just makes tanking easier. The

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Speaker 1: problem is the lack of ambition. And it's a dirty

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Speaker 1: little secret that everyone kind of knows about. It's an

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Speaker 1: open secret that you don't really have to try to

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Speaker 1: make money. You don't have to sell tickets to make money.

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Speaker 1: You don't even have to get people to watch your

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Speaker 1: games on TV to make money. It's it's the kind

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Speaker 1: of a business where just by owning it you're going

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Speaker 1: to make money. Now, the way that a lot of

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Speaker 1: these teams are complaining they're not making enough money is

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Speaker 1: the oldest trick in the book is like, well, we

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Speaker 1: made Let's take a random team and we use of course,

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Speaker 1: this is for entertainment purposes only. But let's take a

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Speaker 1: team the Cleveland the Indian slash Guardians. I guess its

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Speaker 1: called the Guardians now because you wokesters. But the team

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Speaker 1: in Cleveland, let's say in twenty twenty four, they made

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Speaker 1: a profit out of all the expenses and all that

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Speaker 1: that's said, they cleared forty five million dollars. Okay, it's

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Speaker 1: a lot of money, not maybe as much as saying

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Speaker 1: but let's just say forty five million just for the

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Speaker 1: purposes of this demonstration. So forty five million. And then

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Speaker 1: you pivot to twenty twenty five and they they made

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Speaker 1: they only made this year, they made twenty five million.

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Speaker 1: So then the ownership in Cleveland said, well, we lost

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Speaker 1: twenty million dollars. This is not sustainable. You still made

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Speaker 1: twenty five million. Numb nuts, But yeah, but we made

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Speaker 1: forty five the year before. Who he lost twenty No,

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Speaker 1: he didn't lose twenty million dollars, dumb, dumb. But the

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Speaker 1: main issue is teams that just don't really care. They

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Speaker 1: just don't care, and they're they're just kind of hanging

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Speaker 1: out and they're malingering is what they are now. Final

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Speaker 1: point to New York City. We go and after agreeing

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Speaker 1: to a ridonculous deal with the New York Metropolitans relief pitcher,

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Speaker 1: Devin Williams decided, Hey, I'm a Met, now let me

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Speaker 1: take a swipe at the Yankee fan. He did this

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Speaker 1: on the Gram Instagram, Yeah, he did it. On Instagram.

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Speaker 1: Williams posted quote for a bunch of people that didn't

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Speaker 1: want me back on your team, y'all sure are mad

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Speaker 1: in the DM, highlighting Devin williams apparent frustration with the

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Speaker 1: inconsistent fans support by the kiddos in the Bronx. So

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Speaker 1: the question how do you read Mets reliever Devin Williams

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Speaker 1: busting the chops of Yankee fans on social media? So

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Speaker 1: on this one, Devin Williams has officially entered. Based on

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Speaker 1: a minute long deliberation by The Ben Mather Show, Devin

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Speaker 1: Williams has officially entered his DreamWorks animation era. The guy

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Speaker 1: leaves the Bronx and immediately stars in Trolls three. The

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Speaker 1: Queen's addition, yes, cannot help yourself, cannot do it? No

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Speaker 1: chance can I do it's classic internet malpractice. Classic internet malpractice.

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Speaker 1: You'd think after years in Milwaukee and a cup of

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Speaker 1: coffee with the Yankees, like five. His biggest contribution with

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Speaker 1: the Yankees is they thought he was so good that

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Speaker 1: they changed their facial hair policy to coddle Devin Williams

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Speaker 1: so he could go out there and have an ERA

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Speaker 1: of almost five. If they had known he was going

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Speaker 1: to pitch like that, they'd still have the facial hair

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Speaker 1: policy in the Bronx. But nonetheless, listen the rule number one.

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Speaker 1: Rule number one is of the Internet. Don't you don't

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Speaker 1: feed the trolls. Feeding the trolls only creates more trolls.

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Speaker 1: You don't do it. And most of the trolls are

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Speaker 1: not real anyway, They're all bought farms in Moldova. And

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Speaker 1: so instead my man, my pots and pans, my man

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Speaker 1: Devin Williams. He dives in headfirst like he's bobbing for

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Speaker 1: apples at a frat party. And in the Yankee fans,

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Speaker 1: now they should be thrilled. This guy's gone. He's the

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Speaker 1: poster boy. If somebody can't handle pressure in Yankee Stadium

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Speaker 1: was four to seventy nine. The dude goes out post

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Speaker 1: A four to seventy nine era, which in baseball terms,

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Speaker 1: if you're a shutdown closer, means you sucked precisely when

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Speaker 1: you're not allowed to suck. That is a felony as

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Speaker 1: a closer and in the Bronx, and his punishment is

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Speaker 1: that he goes across to the Mets and they cut

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Speaker 1: him a check for fifty one minute. I think E

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Speaker 1: Dog is the one that cut him that check there.

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Speaker 1: I believe E Dog on Long Island, I took care

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Speaker 1: of him. But you talk about falling upward like this

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Speaker 1: guy's got anti gravity boots strapped on, like he's training

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Speaker 1: for NASA, and now he's chirping at the Yankee fans

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Speaker 1: and his DMS and all that stuff, and you'll save

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Speaker 1: the inspirational speech, is big fella. Okay, the trolls are

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Speaker 1: the only reason anyone's talking about you. And it is December,

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Speaker 1: But welcome to Queens, Devin. You might want to bring

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Speaker 1: a helmet there, because the Mets fans will be doing

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Speaker 1: the same thing by about May first. By about May first,

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Speaker 1: they'll be doing the same thing. Mark my words, mark

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Speaker 1: my words.

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

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

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Speaker 1: Here we go, Here we go, Here we go. This

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Speaker 1: is one big Ben gets grilled cool.

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Speaker 7: The Lions have not won back to back game since

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Speaker 7: Week five, and on Tuesday, Dan Campbell said that the

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Speaker 7: team's margin for ERA is small. Then do you think

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Speaker 7: that the Lions could miss out on the playoffs? Oh?

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Speaker 1: Absolutely, I mean they're not in the playoffs now, and

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Speaker 1: then they got the Cowboys tonight, they got the Rams.

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Speaker 1: They gotta still play. They gotta play the Bears, although

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Speaker 1: they absolutely smoke the Bears the last time they played them,

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Speaker 1: So yeah, it's legit. They've already lost five games. They

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Speaker 1: don't have a lot of margin. Bearer, They don't feel

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Speaker 1: like a playoff team the way they play. They feel

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Speaker 1: like a like a Steeler team, a five hundred type team.

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Speaker 4: Next the Giant Joe Shane. Joe Shane the Giants GM.

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Speaker 7: Joe Shane told the media this week that quote, the

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Speaker 7: pieces are there for the Giants and that he has

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Speaker 7: confidence that they will find the right coach to lead

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Speaker 7: the organization.

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Speaker 4: Ben, do you think the Giants are the right head coach?

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Speaker 4: Away from it all clicking?

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Speaker 1: Well, here's what's gonna happen. I saw a little bit

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Speaker 1: of that Joe Shane news conferce. We didn't talk about

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Speaker 1: it on the show. Joe Shane's gonna be fired at

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Speaker 1: the end of the year, total debacle. He did not

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Speaker 1: handle that. Well, he won't be there, so he won't

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Speaker 1: be hiring the coach. Yeah, if you hire a good coach,

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Speaker 1: you can win. The Rams suck for years. They hired

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Speaker 1: Sean McVay. But if you hire a coach and knows

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Speaker 1: what they're doing and get halfway decent players, it's not

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Speaker 1: that hard.

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Speaker 7: Next, it was imported Tuesday that UNC has committed to

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Speaker 7: Bill Belichick quote for at least one more year. Ben,

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Speaker 7: do you think that Belichick will actually last another year

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Speaker 7: at North Carolina.

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Speaker 1: Well, Belichick is trying to move the moutains to get

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Speaker 1: an NFL head coaching job. He's working back channels. He's

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Speaker 1: using all his buddies to try to massage owners to

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Speaker 1: get a job. If if you can get a job

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Speaker 1: in the NFL is gone. I don't think he can

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Speaker 1: be able to get a job. I would like to

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Speaker 1: see him in the NFL, the chances are very low,

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Speaker 1: so I think therefore he goes back to North Carolina

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Speaker 1: and there it is malon a third Degrede how dead?

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Speaker 1: Wait ask Ben?

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Speaker 8: Twitter said us your questions on Twitter now and away

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Speaker 8: we go to ask Man. Your questions are answers for

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Speaker 8: the rest of the hour and the reading of the question,

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Speaker 8: we go over to the couple.

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Speaker 7: Of all right, Ben, this is a question for you.

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Speaker 7: All right, I guess that's for everybody. I think it's

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Speaker 7: for you.

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Speaker 4: Donkey sausage size, Donkey, hi doggy?

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Speaker 7: What he says other than then let me correct your

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Speaker 7: work here, Donkey's sausage other than Bullball's jerky.

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Speaker 4: What is the most exotic thing that you have eaten.

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Speaker 1: I'm trying to think I have a pretty basic palate

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Speaker 1: when it comes to food. I don't really leave the

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Speaker 1: I know what I like, and I like what I like,

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Speaker 1: and that's all I want. And so I'm trying to think,

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Speaker 1: like what else I did eat? At one time? I

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Speaker 1: ate chicken fingers and I thought I was eating honey mustard,

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Speaker 1: and I put a giant spoonful of horse radish into

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Speaker 1: my mouth and I cried. I cried like a baby.

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Speaker 1: It was so painful. But I don't eat exotic things, Lorraine.

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Speaker 1: Any weird stuff you.

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Speaker 9: Eat, Pete, Oh yeah, yeah, I got sent that pack

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Speaker 9: of really weird beef jerkys.

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Speaker 1: Oh yeah, you ate all that.

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Speaker 4: I'm still working my way through it.

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Speaker 9: But the python was a very interesting one for sure.

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Speaker 1: The python.

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Speaker 9: Yeah, I like snails to the s cargo.

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Speaker 1: I'm a big fan who does cool.

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Speaker 4: I have also had s cargo.

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Speaker 7: I have had iguana, grilled iguana ooh fans. Yeah. And

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Speaker 7: I think I've had alligator and a couple other things

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Speaker 7: that I can't think of right now.

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Speaker 1: All right, Well, what is next year's ask? Ben? Your

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Speaker 1: questions are answers for the rest of the hour, the

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Speaker 1: whole hour. This is from Cowboy Killa High Cowboy.

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Speaker 7: He wants to know what outside temperature do you consider cold?

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Speaker 1: Yeah, so that's a good question. I As I've gotten older,

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Speaker 1: I guess I get a little colder than I used to.

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Speaker 1: I don't really think it's cold until it's like to me,

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Speaker 1: it's like under fifty degrees, I think it's really kind

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Speaker 1: of cold. But I think it's cool between fifty in sixty.

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Speaker 1: It's cold under fifty, so i'd say under fifty, what about.

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Speaker 4: You, Lorena?

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Speaker 9: Under seventy is cold for me.

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Speaker 4: And also I need to be in the sun.

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Speaker 1: So if it's like if you gotta grow some hair

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Speaker 1: on you, even.

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Speaker 9: If it's low seventies and it's in the shade, I

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Speaker 9: will be cold.

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Speaker 1: Wow, such a California softie. What about you, Coop?

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Speaker 7: I think I agree with you, Ben. I gotta go

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Speaker 7: like right around fifty or under.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, you usually get said it's at night, and even

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Speaker 1: in California, we do, you know in the valley it

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Speaker 1: gets into the forties at night often this time of

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Speaker 1: the year. Actually, it's fifty.

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Speaker 9: Three right now and I'm really cold when I walk outside.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, all right? What is when you see your breath?

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Speaker 1: It's like, yeah, all right, what's next? What do you got?

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Speaker 4: Adrian would like to know what is yo?

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Speaker 1: Adrian? Yo? Adrian?

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Speaker 4: What is everyone's favorite Christmas movie?

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Speaker 1: Die Hard? No? Harry Potter, Harry Potter. Yeah, exactly. What

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Speaker 1: do I watch? Every last couple of years, we watched Elf.

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Speaker 1: That was not my favorite before, but the last couple

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Speaker 1: of years, I'll go with that. Lorena, that's a good one.

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Speaker 9: Miracle on thirty fourth Street is one of my favorites.

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Speaker 9: But yeah, no, no, that's a that's a Christmas story.

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Speaker 9: Also a really.

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Speaker 7: Good movie, The Miracle on three whatever three fourth Street threes.

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Speaker 9: That's the one with where Santa Claus gets arrested.

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Speaker 1: Yeah.

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Speaker 7: Yeah, Santa Claus is played by the guy in Jurassic Park.

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Speaker 9: Yeah, and it's got Young Matilda in it.

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Speaker 4: Yes, yeah, it's super cute.

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Speaker 1: Love that movie.

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Speaker 7: No, mine's the Santa Claus. No, it's the Santa Claus

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Speaker 7: with Tim Allen.

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Speaker 1: What about Bad Chance?

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Speaker 4: Like I love Bad Santa. That's a great movie.

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Speaker 1: It's not a bad movie. It is not a bad movie.

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Speaker 1: All right, what is next? It's ask ben your question

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Speaker 1: to answers. If you like it, we're here every week.

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Speaker 1: If you don't like it, yeah, who cares? This once

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Speaker 1: a week?

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Speaker 7: Chill out due everybody's gonna get mad at me. But

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Speaker 7: I have another one from Donkey Sausage. It's just a

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Speaker 7: good don't you a good.

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Speaker 1: This is where I get the email school. What does

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Speaker 1: Cooper only use certain people's questions and he doesn't use

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Speaker 1: my questions?

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Speaker 4: I don't notice.

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Speaker 7: If you mentioned sports in your question, I'm not reading it.

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Speaker 7: And if it's a lame question, I'm not reading it.

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Speaker 7: But anyway, this is a good one. He wants to

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Speaker 7: know what is the most embarrassing fashion trend that you

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Speaker 7: have ever rocked?

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Speaker 1: Well, I, I will say I didn't know it at

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Speaker 1: the time because I was a child, but there are photos,

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Speaker 1: you know, my parents passed away and I went through

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Speaker 1: the old photo albums and there were photos of little

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Speaker 1: Fat Benny and bell bottoms, so I would say that

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Speaker 1: would probably be But I did also when I there

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Speaker 1: was what were those pants that was guy's name in Oakland?

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Speaker 4: They were like mc hammer, Yeah, mc hammer.

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Speaker 1: They had the weird puff pants or hairshoe pants. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: parashute pants had larina.

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Speaker 9: I like the ones with the zippers on them. But

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Speaker 9: I really don't regret any of my fashion choices. Fashion changes,

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Speaker 9: and we'll constantly do that and I will rock every

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Speaker 9: single one.

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Speaker 1: Until okay, all right, cool.

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Speaker 7: I went through a little phase in high school was

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Speaker 7: very short.

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Speaker 1: That one you dressed like a Tampa.

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Speaker 7: No, that was for Halloween. But I did wear a

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Speaker 7: trench coat for a little bit.

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Speaker 9: Oh you weirdo.

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Speaker 4: Why would you do that?

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Speaker 6: Hey?

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Speaker 7: Look, I was trying to you know, I didn't know where,

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Speaker 7: you know, just finding myself.

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Speaker 1: A teenager could have gone goth. You know, he was

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Speaker 1: thinking maybe golf.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, you know I was. I was questioning, am I

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Speaker 4: going to go down that road? And you know it

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Speaker 4: has a child start. You can do whatever you want.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, wow, look at that? All right? What's next year? Quickly?

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Speaker 4: If you could travel to a fictional land, what would

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Speaker 4: it be?

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Speaker 1: Uh, fictional land? Probably when I was a kid. I

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Speaker 1: love Star Wars, So I'd go to like the Death

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Speaker 1: Star and walk around.

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Speaker 9: What about you, Lorrena, I'd go to where Alice in

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Speaker 9: Wonderland is?

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Speaker 4: I go to Wonderland?

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Speaker 1: Think you do that? Day? Baby? Cool?

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Speaker 7: Setting myself up for a joke here, but never land duh.

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Speaker 4: Well, but the fictional one, not the real one.

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Speaker 1: A lot of kids were there, Cooper, the change their

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Speaker 1: lives not maybe for the better, Coop. I'm just saying,

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Speaker 1: you know, back in the day, a