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Speaker 1: It's all over. All those holier than now baseball riders

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Speaker 1: Baseball there, rob Manfreud, that's it. Welcome to the hall,

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Speaker 1: electronic espionage. Can anyone make it make sense? Can they?

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Speaker 1: I mean to me, this isn't morality. This is again

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Speaker 1: Hall of Fame already. Now you've gone next level and say,

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Speaker 1: think peace sermons. I can already tell you that they're

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Speaker 1: You've just soiled the Hall of Fame. You have, You've

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Speaker 1: the pro bouncy ball Hall of Fame with Muffett McGraw

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Speaker 1: Hall of Fame. The fine print rule right below that,

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Speaker 1: man's in his late forties. He made a lot of money.

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Speaker 1: He's not hit any more home runs I checked, no

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Speaker 1: likely than not, Andrew Jones is sitting around eating cinnabun

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Speaker 1: and then you put Andrew Jones in, who had seven

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Speaker 1: comment away our lead this hour from the Trading Post.

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Speaker 1: We have a deal. We have a deal in baseball.

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Speaker 1: far far ago, you had Luis Robert Jr. Who got

426
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Speaker 1: MVP votes. He was considered a luxury brand. Think of

427
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Speaker 1: it like if it was a watch, he would have

428
00:25:47,640 --> 00:25:50,600
Speaker 1: been a rolex with the white sox. He just broke out.

429
00:25:50,720 --> 00:25:53,000
Speaker 1: Was amazing and almost forty home runs, drove in a

430
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Speaker 1: bunch of runs. He was great. At this point in

431
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Speaker 1: the story, We're at the point in the story where

432
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Speaker 1: Luis Robert j You're is like a scratched fit bit

433
00:26:03,280 --> 00:26:06,560
Speaker 1: sitting in the clearance bin at the Nordstrom rack. That's

434
00:26:06,600 --> 00:26:09,920
Speaker 1: where he is right now, red tag final sale as

435
00:26:10,119 --> 00:26:13,159
Speaker 1: is no returns there you go. Keep in mind, the

436
00:26:13,200 --> 00:26:17,080
Speaker 1: Mets wanted Kyle Tucker. They thought they were gonna get

437
00:26:17,160 --> 00:26:21,720
Speaker 1: Kyle Tucker. Instead, the Mets are now convincing themselves the

438
00:26:21,760 --> 00:26:26,639
Speaker 1: front office that the broken dreams of this guy Robert

439
00:26:26,760 --> 00:26:29,199
Speaker 1: they got from the White Sox. They just needed a

440
00:26:29,200 --> 00:26:31,720
Speaker 1: new zip code. Give him a new zip code. Everything.

441
00:26:32,200 --> 00:26:37,959
Speaker 1: Change of scenery, classic change of scenery, rebirth story arc

442
00:26:38,760 --> 00:26:42,760
Speaker 1: at Sportscasting Clown College. So there is that, and it's

443
00:26:42,840 --> 00:26:46,840
Speaker 1: kind of like the house plan is dying on your window. Still,

444
00:26:47,720 --> 00:26:49,480
Speaker 1: You've got a right on the windows kind of dying there,

445
00:26:49,480 --> 00:26:51,159
Speaker 1: and so we'll just move it a little over to

446
00:26:51,160 --> 00:26:53,240
Speaker 1: the right and then it'll be good. So let's talk

447
00:26:53,280 --> 00:26:55,520
Speaker 1: about geography. You want to talk about geography. Oh, it's

448
00:26:55,520 --> 00:26:58,399
Speaker 1: a sports radio show. We don't care about geography. So

449
00:26:58,440 --> 00:27:02,560
Speaker 1: the Mets play in Queens, the Borough of Queens, more

450
00:27:02,600 --> 00:27:07,480
Speaker 1: specifically Flushing, which could not be more appropriate, could not

451
00:27:07,640 --> 00:27:12,480
Speaker 1: be more appropriate. That's not branding. That is baseball destiny.

452
00:27:13,040 --> 00:27:17,680
Speaker 1: That is baseball destiny. Careers don't blossom there, they don't.

453
00:27:17,720 --> 00:27:21,720
Speaker 1: They don't blossom there, and they go down the porcelain

454
00:27:21,960 --> 00:27:24,840
Speaker 1: is where they go right, do the old swirly swirl

455
00:27:25,720 --> 00:27:28,480
Speaker 1: right there, swirl swirl and then you know where that

456
00:27:28,600 --> 00:27:31,680
Speaker 1: ends up right right around the ball and disappears into

457
00:27:31,680 --> 00:27:34,840
Speaker 1: the East River. And then someone goes and catches a

458
00:27:34,880 --> 00:27:37,440
Speaker 1: fish and the fish is in well, you know what

459
00:27:37,520 --> 00:27:40,720
Speaker 1: happens anyway. So the Mets, what do they need pitching?

460
00:27:41,480 --> 00:27:46,080
Speaker 1: You gotta get pitching. You gotta get pitching, you gotta

461
00:27:46,119 --> 00:27:49,520
Speaker 1: get and do the Mets have that. No, Instead, they're well,

462
00:27:49,520 --> 00:27:51,440
Speaker 1: we didn't get talkers, so let's go out and get

463
00:27:51,560 --> 00:27:55,520
Speaker 1: some gold. Of course, it's it's fool's gold, is what

464
00:27:55,640 --> 00:27:58,080
Speaker 1: it is, right, And so of course many people, oh,

465
00:27:58,160 --> 00:28:02,200
Speaker 1: it's great, wonderful, not exactly the championship kind of move

466
00:28:03,040 --> 00:28:06,320
Speaker 1: when you're looking for the career renaissance. Good luck. It's

467
00:28:06,320 --> 00:28:08,919
Speaker 1: a flyer. It's a flyer that the Mets are playing.

468
00:28:09,080 --> 00:28:11,600
Speaker 1: They're paying this guy twenty million. I spent the flyer

469
00:28:11,640 --> 00:28:13,760
Speaker 1: twenty million dollars. I read the Mets are paying this guy.

470
00:28:14,280 --> 00:28:16,800
Speaker 1: So the Mets are playing the runner up ribbon game,

471
00:28:17,160 --> 00:28:19,480
Speaker 1: as are twenty nine other teams, because all of you

472
00:28:19,520 --> 00:28:21,119
Speaker 1: have told me it's all over. There's no need to

473
00:28:21,119 --> 00:28:22,880
Speaker 1: play this season. The Dodgers are gonna win the World Series.

474
00:28:22,880 --> 00:28:24,760
Speaker 1: There's no chance they don't win the World Series. They're

475
00:28:24,760 --> 00:28:27,960
Speaker 1: gonna win the World Series. So twenty nine other teams

476
00:28:28,000 --> 00:28:30,280
Speaker 1: are playing for the silver medal. The Dodgers have already

477
00:28:30,280 --> 00:28:31,800
Speaker 1: wrapped up the gold medal. The Mets are one of

478
00:28:31,840 --> 00:28:33,320
Speaker 1: those teams. But you look at the Mets. They have

479
00:28:33,359 --> 00:28:36,800
Speaker 1: a history of lies and promises that were never met

480
00:28:37,359 --> 00:28:41,160
Speaker 1: and hope that's always on layaway. That's the Mets, That's

481
00:28:41,200 --> 00:28:44,960
Speaker 1: the Metway, same song, years have changed, different kind of disappointment.

482
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Speaker 2: Now.

483
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Speaker 1: Meanwhile, we head to pro bouncy ball, where the Parisian

484
00:28:49,040 --> 00:28:54,600
Speaker 1: prodigy making some headlines. Here Spurs star Victor wembon Yama.

485
00:28:55,280 --> 00:28:58,240
Speaker 1: Victor Omanyama said this week, I want name of the

486
00:28:58,280 --> 00:28:59,800
Speaker 1: All Star team and all that. I want a big

487
00:28:59,840 --> 00:29:02,800
Speaker 1: face of the new age of the NBA, he said, quote.

488
00:29:02,880 --> 00:29:05,440
Speaker 1: I want to push the great players of this sport

489
00:29:05,520 --> 00:29:08,320
Speaker 1: to play in the All Star Game just as hard

490
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Speaker 1: as I will. Wemby stated, We'll see how it goes,

491
00:29:13,280 --> 00:29:16,000
Speaker 1: but if they don't play hard, I'll do it without them.

492
00:29:16,040 --> 00:29:21,160
Speaker 1: Close quote it's Victor Webber Nama. Here's the question, what

493
00:29:21,200 --> 00:29:24,000
Speaker 1: are the chances just between us, what are the chances

494
00:29:24,040 --> 00:29:27,840
Speaker 1: that Wemby, the San Antonio Spurs star Wemby helps make

495
00:29:27,880 --> 00:29:32,960
Speaker 1: the All Star Game great again by actually hustling? So

496
00:29:33,160 --> 00:29:36,719
Speaker 1: the odds malar odds on this. We spent about thirty

497
00:29:36,760 --> 00:29:40,160
Speaker 1: seconds deliberating the available information on the NBA All Star Game,

498
00:29:40,880 --> 00:29:45,440
Speaker 1: and the odds say squad Douche gets an S for

499
00:29:45,520 --> 00:29:49,440
Speaker 1: Squad Douche. Good luck on that. This is adorable though

500
00:29:50,880 --> 00:29:54,560
Speaker 1: it is right, how naive you can be and think

501
00:29:54,600 --> 00:29:56,640
Speaker 1: that this is all going to work out for It's

502
00:29:56,720 --> 00:29:58,680
Speaker 1: kind of like a kid shown up to a poker

503
00:29:58,760 --> 00:30:01,400
Speaker 1: game with a bunch of Monopoly money in a rule book.

504
00:30:01,440 --> 00:30:03,400
Speaker 1: It's like, you might want to sit this one out,

505
00:30:03,440 --> 00:30:06,280
Speaker 1: you know. I'm just saying so. Wemby says he's gonna

506
00:30:06,280 --> 00:30:09,520
Speaker 1: play hard. He's gonna play hard. And the other stars,

507
00:30:10,440 --> 00:30:14,280
Speaker 1: of course, they don't like that, right, and he says

508
00:30:14,280 --> 00:30:16,080
Speaker 1: if they don't pay attention, he'll just do it alone.

509
00:30:16,080 --> 00:30:18,400
Speaker 1: And that's what he's gonna do. It's terrific, very noble

510
00:30:19,160 --> 00:30:22,360
Speaker 1: of wem ban Yama to say that he's also showing

511
00:30:22,400 --> 00:30:30,000
Speaker 1: the world he's absolutely clueless, absolutely clueless. Why this Just

512
00:30:30,080 --> 00:30:32,440
Speaker 1: in to the Ben mal Show on Fox Sports Radio,

513
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Speaker 1: the NBA All Star Game is not broken. People think

514
00:30:36,360 --> 00:30:40,920
Speaker 1: it's broken. It's not broken. It is working exactly as

515
00:30:41,200 --> 00:30:45,440
Speaker 1: it is designed to work. They keep futzing around with

516
00:30:45,520 --> 00:30:48,400
Speaker 1: the format, but it's working the way they want it

517
00:30:48,440 --> 00:30:51,440
Speaker 1: to work. When I say they, I'm talking about the

518
00:30:51,440 --> 00:30:53,680
Speaker 1: people that are on the court. It is a corporate

519
00:30:53,760 --> 00:30:57,760
Speaker 1: retreat with sneakers. That's what the NBA All Star Game is.

520
00:30:57,800 --> 00:31:01,680
Speaker 1: A corporate retreat in sneakers. It is a showroom. It

521
00:31:01,840 --> 00:31:08,440
Speaker 1: is a handshake, grab ass convention with a basketball problem. Right.

522
00:31:08,520 --> 00:31:10,320
Speaker 1: The problem is they're supposed to play in the All

523
00:31:10,320 --> 00:31:11,520
Speaker 1: Star Game. They don't want to play in the All

524
00:31:11,520 --> 00:31:16,360
Speaker 1: Star Game. And years ago, with no one asking, the

525
00:31:16,480 --> 00:31:20,320
Speaker 1: players of the NBA were so soft. How soft were they?

526
00:31:20,480 --> 00:31:24,959
Speaker 1: They were so soft, these players that they voted with

527
00:31:25,040 --> 00:31:29,880
Speaker 1: their feet wildcat style, wildcat strike style, and their effort

528
00:31:30,040 --> 00:31:32,280
Speaker 1: or the lack of effort in the NBA All Star Game.

529
00:31:33,120 --> 00:31:37,400
Speaker 1: They stop caring and we stop caring, all right, so

530
00:31:37,560 --> 00:31:41,360
Speaker 1: nobody cares. That's the NBA All Star Game. No defense,

531
00:31:41,480 --> 00:31:45,000
Speaker 1: no diving for loose balls, no sweat stains. Some of

532
00:31:45,000 --> 00:31:46,400
Speaker 1: these guys in the Also Game. They don't even need

533
00:31:46,480 --> 00:31:48,840
Speaker 1: to take showers after the game because they don't put

534
00:31:48,840 --> 00:31:51,360
Speaker 1: no effort into the All Star Game. It's all about

535
00:31:51,560 --> 00:31:54,840
Speaker 1: positive vibes and all that, you know, and the social

536
00:31:54,880 --> 00:31:58,200
Speaker 1: media selfies and you know, put on the gram and

537
00:31:58,240 --> 00:32:01,640
Speaker 1: TikTok and the occasion we just every once in a while,

538
00:32:02,240 --> 00:32:06,240
Speaker 1: the uncontested circus dunk. Uh, that's just to keep the

539
00:32:06,280 --> 00:32:08,600
Speaker 1: sponsors from panicking, just to keep them from panicking and

540
00:32:08,640 --> 00:32:10,840
Speaker 1: all that stuff. So every few years, and this just

541
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Speaker 1: happens to be Wemby, But every few years in all

542
00:32:13,000 --> 00:32:16,520
Speaker 1: these sports, there's a young buck that comes along, that

543
00:32:16,640 --> 00:32:21,320
Speaker 1: shows up like a fire breathing dragon, and listen, I'm

544
00:32:21,320 --> 00:32:23,960
Speaker 1: gonna play. I gotta earn my money, i gotta sing

545
00:32:24,040 --> 00:32:26,920
Speaker 1: for my supper, and I'm gonna play hard even though

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00:32:26,920 --> 00:32:31,120
Speaker 1: it's the All Star Game. And inevitably what happens is

547
00:32:31,920 --> 00:32:35,440
Speaker 1: tap tap, They'll get the tap on the shoulder. Hey

548
00:32:35,600 --> 00:32:38,840
Speaker 1: hey kid, we'd like to talk to you. What is it? Yeah,

549
00:32:38,920 --> 00:32:41,280
Speaker 1: so you know you're making us look bad here. It's

550
00:32:41,280 --> 00:32:43,520
Speaker 1: a it's a marathon, not a wind sprint the All

551
00:32:43,560 --> 00:32:48,680
Speaker 1: Star Game. Save save the energy, save the calories. Nobody's

552
00:32:48,720 --> 00:32:52,240
Speaker 1: getting paid extra for caring. No one's getting extra money

553
00:32:52,240 --> 00:32:52,760
Speaker 1: for hustling.

554
00:32:53,440 --> 00:32:53,760
Speaker 3: Uh.

555
00:32:53,800 --> 00:32:56,640
Speaker 1: So there you go. So listen, Wembley. Wemby can play hard.

556
00:32:57,440 --> 00:33:02,160
Speaker 1: Good for him, But the revolution changing the All Star Game,

557
00:33:02,200 --> 00:33:04,320
Speaker 1: making it great again is not going to happen here,

558
00:33:04,920 --> 00:33:08,320
Speaker 1: and just not. So that's how the NBA hot Dogs

559
00:33:08,320 --> 00:33:10,240
Speaker 1: are made. Good luck, I recall when I was covering

560
00:33:10,280 --> 00:33:13,320
Speaker 1: baseball years ago before the Dodgers became good, when they sucked,

561
00:33:13,320 --> 00:33:16,000
Speaker 1: and I was doing the Dodger programming in another life,

562
00:33:16,560 --> 00:33:18,200
Speaker 1: and there was a guy on the team that they

563
00:33:18,320 --> 00:33:22,040
Speaker 1: called up from Triple A Albuquerque Albuquerque Dukes. And this

564
00:33:22,120 --> 00:33:26,040
Speaker 1: guy was hustling and running wild and young, young outfielder,

565
00:33:26,320 --> 00:33:29,280
Speaker 1: and he got the talk and he was taught about

566
00:33:29,280 --> 00:33:31,200
Speaker 1: the what they call it the big league jog. It's

567
00:33:31,200 --> 00:33:33,640
Speaker 1: still a thing in baseball where you hit a ball

568
00:33:33,720 --> 00:33:37,280
Speaker 1: that's almost guaranteed to be an out and you don't hustle.

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00:33:37,960 --> 00:33:39,840
Speaker 1: This guy would hustle, and he would make the other

570
00:33:39,880 --> 00:33:42,400
Speaker 1: guys look bad because they were lazy. They were lazy,

571
00:33:43,080 --> 00:33:45,240
Speaker 1: so he got the talk. The veteran player said, listen,

572
00:33:45,600 --> 00:33:48,200
Speaker 1: making us look bad. Here, come on, like, what are

573
00:33:48,240 --> 00:33:50,880
Speaker 1: you doing all right? Now? Final point to Buffalo. Here

574
00:33:50,920 --> 00:33:56,120
Speaker 1: we go, Buffalo Bill's mafia going through these seven stages

575
00:33:56,160 --> 00:33:59,520
Speaker 1: of grief after they lost in Denver and then lost

576
00:33:59,560 --> 00:34:01,760
Speaker 1: their head. And I read an interesting story here. I

577
00:34:02,080 --> 00:34:05,920
Speaker 1: saw this or not. The Bill's organization on the leaders

578
00:34:05,960 --> 00:34:09,360
Speaker 1: had a pow wow. Was Sean McDermott, the former coach,

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00:34:09,400 --> 00:34:13,640
Speaker 1: and McDermott pointed out. According to the story, McDermott pointed

580
00:34:13,680 --> 00:34:17,200
Speaker 1: out the many flaws in the Buffalo Bill's roster that

581
00:34:17,560 --> 00:34:23,480
Speaker 1: were preventing the team from reaching the promised land. So,

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00:34:23,800 --> 00:34:30,080
Speaker 1: according to the reporting breathless reporting, the GM mister Bean

583
00:34:30,880 --> 00:34:35,040
Speaker 1: and Terry Pegoula, the owner, were not happy. They were

584
00:34:35,280 --> 00:34:39,960
Speaker 1: upset with McDermott and they got annoyed that he was

585
00:34:39,960 --> 00:34:43,239
Speaker 1: complaining about the way the roster was built there in

586
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Speaker 1: Western New York. So the question for you, and I'm

587
00:34:47,200 --> 00:34:50,239
Speaker 1: gonna answer this first, but here's the question. Former coach

588
00:34:50,280 --> 00:34:54,000
Speaker 1: Sean McDermott pointing out that the Bill's roster was not

589
00:34:54,239 --> 00:34:58,360
Speaker 1: up to standard, it was a bit broken and being rejected,

590
00:34:59,360 --> 00:35:05,120
Speaker 1: rejected by ownership. How do you decode this particular report.

591
00:35:06,160 --> 00:35:10,239
Speaker 1: So let's use the Malar decoder ring on this one.

592
00:35:10,320 --> 00:35:12,960
Speaker 1: We're also going to open up the MiB. So not

593
00:35:13,120 --> 00:35:15,439
Speaker 1: only are we using the Mallard Dakota ring, We're gonna

594
00:35:15,440 --> 00:35:17,520
Speaker 1: open up the MiB. Now that's not men in Black,

595
00:35:17,960 --> 00:35:21,799
Speaker 1: that's the Malor Investigative Bureau, so you can investigate. So

596
00:35:21,880 --> 00:35:27,600
Speaker 1: this leak out of Buffalo and it smells, it smells

597
00:35:27,600 --> 00:35:31,799
Speaker 1: like some rotting chicken wings from the anchor, bar and

598
00:35:31,840 --> 00:35:35,080
Speaker 1: grill that were left outside to rot. Is what it sounds.

599
00:35:35,280 --> 00:35:37,879
Speaker 1: It smells like that. Yeah yeah, So this is another

600
00:35:37,920 --> 00:35:40,879
Speaker 1: one to the low information fan, to the casual fan.

601
00:35:41,719 --> 00:35:44,600
Speaker 1: They see this headline and it makes the bills look

602
00:35:44,920 --> 00:35:51,160
Speaker 1: like villains twirling their mustaches. You know, the classic cartoon

603
00:35:51,280 --> 00:35:54,160
Speaker 1: villain twirling the mustache. That's what it looks like if

604
00:35:54,160 --> 00:35:56,720
Speaker 1: you just look at the way the story was reported.

605
00:35:57,000 --> 00:36:01,239
Speaker 1: Oh no, my coach, who I love you? What better players?

606
00:36:01,800 --> 00:36:06,200
Speaker 1: And the mean owners said no, no, no, no, you

607
00:36:06,280 --> 00:36:10,600
Speaker 1: don't get better players. And how's my acting on? That? Was?

608
00:36:10,600 --> 00:36:13,399
Speaker 1: All right? Not bad, not bad, not bad thing. I'll

609
00:36:13,440 --> 00:36:16,239
Speaker 1: be here all week anyway. If you don't like, it's

610
00:36:16,239 --> 00:36:17,839
Speaker 1: an overnight If you liked it, I'll be here all week.

611
00:36:17,840 --> 00:36:19,879
Speaker 1: If you don't like, it's an overnight show. So chill out, dude,

612
00:36:19,880 --> 00:36:23,080
Speaker 1: it's wrong with you. Go have a beer, all right anyway,

613
00:36:23,200 --> 00:36:26,319
Speaker 1: So let's be level headed on this one. I'm gonna

614
00:36:26,320 --> 00:36:29,560
Speaker 1: be level headed. Uh, I'm gonna play the parlor game.

615
00:36:29,600 --> 00:36:31,040
Speaker 1: What do you say? You and I are gonna play

616
00:36:31,040 --> 00:36:32,799
Speaker 1: the parlor game. So the parlor game works like this,

617
00:36:33,120 --> 00:36:34,799
Speaker 1: who not? Who done it?

618
00:36:34,880 --> 00:36:35,560
Speaker 3: Who leaked it?

619
00:36:36,520 --> 00:36:40,279
Speaker 1: We always ask two questions, why leak it now? And

620
00:36:40,360 --> 00:36:44,200
Speaker 1: who does the leak benefit? And so I've done that

621
00:36:44,400 --> 00:36:50,400
Speaker 1: and activating the Malard Investigative Bureau. This one is child's play.

622
00:36:50,840 --> 00:36:53,960
Speaker 1: This is easy. This is like beginner level. This is

623
00:36:54,000 --> 00:36:58,640
Speaker 1: an entry level question. I'm gonna ask my students. It is.

624
00:36:59,360 --> 00:37:02,480
Speaker 1: It's child's way. It sure as hell wasn't the Buffalo

625
00:37:02,520 --> 00:37:04,880
Speaker 1: Bill's ownership. Can we all agree on that? You're nodding

626
00:37:04,880 --> 00:37:07,279
Speaker 1: your head, Yes, it wasn't the Bill's ownership, because this

627
00:37:07,400 --> 00:37:10,480
Speaker 1: makes them look like a bunch of country bumpkins. You

628
00:37:10,800 --> 00:37:15,480
Speaker 1: can't handle the truth. Now, if you follow the cookie

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00:37:15,480 --> 00:37:20,480
Speaker 1: crumbs from Felexus in Buffalo and Bill's monster, if you

630
00:37:20,600 --> 00:37:24,920
Speaker 1: follow and also inca tear. If you follow the cookie crumbs,

631
00:37:24,960 --> 00:37:28,879
Speaker 1: they lead right to the Sean McDermott Caucus. Is where

632
00:37:28,920 --> 00:37:34,279
Speaker 1: they lead. And this is a where's Waldough situation? So

633
00:37:34,360 --> 00:37:36,319
Speaker 1: where's Waldo situation? Now? What do I mean by that?

634
00:37:37,000 --> 00:37:45,000
Speaker 1: Everyone and their uncle they're looking at the roster. And meanwhile, Waldo,

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Speaker 1: if you look for Waldo, were in a headset saying, hey,

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Speaker 1: hey I didn't choke. I didn't choke in those big games.

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Speaker 1: My toys were broken. This is what's called reputation laundering

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Speaker 1: by the Sean McDermott group, the people that are invested

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Speaker 1: in McDermott getting another head coaching job. It is public

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Speaker 1: relations scented candle, like like light the candle, you'll change

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Speaker 1: the smell in the room and all that stuff. Flip

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Speaker 1: the script, right, you flip the script. Sean McDermott goes

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Speaker 1: from playoff underachiever to misunderstood martyr. He had. Oh it

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Speaker 1: wasn't his fault. He knew they needed better players and

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Speaker 1: they didn't get him better players. Of course that's a

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Speaker 1: loser's attitude, right, You complain about the the ingredients, the

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Speaker 1: tools you have, and you'll figure it out, all right,

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Speaker 1: you figure it out. That's the way you're supposed to

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Speaker 1: do it. And it's also a day get it. It's

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Speaker 1: a tell buffalo brass. We obviously didn't leak it again,

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Speaker 1: no chance this was leaked intentionally because Sean McDermott would

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Speaker 1: like to get the Raider job or the Browns job,

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Speaker 1: one of these other jobs that is open. So simpon

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Speaker 1: you have playing the tug at the heartstrings. Symphony Symphony, Symphony.

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Speaker 1: I can't say the word. There you go the uh,

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Speaker 1: trying to get public favor if you will, that sells.

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Speaker 1: I'm going to court a public opinion and all this.

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

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

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Speaker 1: Here We're going, It's We're gone to the third degree.

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Speaker 1: This is one big Ben gets gral cool.

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Speaker 5: In his ten games with the Seahawks, Rashid Shahed has

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Speaker 5: returned to kickoff for a touchdown three times now summer

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Speaker 5: crediting Shahied with changing Seattle season. Ben is the trade

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Speaker 5: for Shahied the best deadline deal since the forty nine

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Speaker 5: ers dealt for McCaffrey.

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Speaker 1: First of all, he didn't change their season. They were

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Speaker 1: having a good year. That what changed their season is

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Speaker 1: Puka Nakula went on a podcast and ripped the NFL

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Speaker 1: officials or a live stream in the NFL officials violated

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Speaker 1: the rule book and helped Seattle out in that game

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Speaker 1: on that Thursday night. That helped a lot more than

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Speaker 1: anything else but the playoff game against the Night. They

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Speaker 1: could have had Doug Baldwin out there or Tyler Lockett

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Speaker 1: and they would have won that game the way the

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Speaker 1: forty nine ers played, it's been a good trade. Let's

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Speaker 1: not get crazy, though, Come on place Next.

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Speaker 5: There's been a call for full time reps for years now,

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Speaker 5: but former VP of Officiating Mike Pereira might be the

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Speaker 5: most prominent person calling for that. Peira said in before

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Speaker 5: the divisional round that the seventeen referees who lead each

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Speaker 5: of the officiating crews should be full time employees. Ben,

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Speaker 5: with that and all the controversy over the weekend, do

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Speaker 5: you think the NFL finally takes a shot at this.

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Speaker 1: No, Because the NFL loves controversy, it wouldn't end the controversy.

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Speaker 1: Baseball has full time umpires, People still wrap up umpires.

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Speaker 1: NBA has got full time officials. How often does Scott

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Speaker 1: Foster get ripped in the NBA? Doesn't change it. The

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Speaker 1: issue is the subjective nature of the calls. That's never

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Speaker 1: going to change. The NFL likes it that way.

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Speaker 5: Next, these Charlotte Hornets are eleven games under five hundred,

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Speaker 5: but analyst Brian Winhorse believes that they would beat the

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Speaker 5: Lakers in a series.

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Speaker 3: Ben, if the Lakers you that bad, well, if.

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Speaker 1: Brian wind Horse said it, the Hornets have They did

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Speaker 1: play well against the Lakers this year, but now in

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Speaker 1: a seven game series, it would be different. I would

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Speaker 1: like to think they would beat the Hornets. Otherwise, JJ

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Speaker 1: Redick will be back doing podcast full time. A fact

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Speaker 1: of the case, how did we do Kopolo?

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Speaker 3: You pass as? They would play? Won again?

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Speaker 1: Hollowing James, I won, James Hollowing, James I won.

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Speaker 7: It's town for love on this beautiful hump day. How

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Speaker 7: you doing over there?

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Speaker 1: Ben? Oh? Listen live in the dream here Lorrain and

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Speaker 1: the button the buttons are fixed. Everything's good here. I

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Speaker 1: haven't seen cockroaches walking around the building, so things are good.

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Speaker 6: All good?

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Speaker 1: Yeah, feeling feeling good? Are you ready to answer some

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Speaker 1: questions here?

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Speaker 5: Yes?

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Speaker 1: Yes, Ferg Dog writes and he says, hey, Lo Raina.

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Speaker 1: Do women buy dude wipes or are they fine with

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Speaker 1: single ply toilet paper. Great question.

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Speaker 7: I think wet wipes have been around for a long time.

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Speaker 1: Now these are dude wipes, so this is a better product,

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Speaker 1: right right?

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Speaker 7: Well, I think the dude branding is to get you

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Speaker 7: guys to want.

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Speaker 1: To use They're special. There's something mad. I don't know

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Speaker 1: where it is, but in my opinion, it's magical. Well.

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Speaker 7: I did buy a whole bunch of dude wipes here

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Speaker 7: a couple months back. I did, I did, and I

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Speaker 7: put a whole box of them in there, and Alex

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Speaker 7: tight Shirt stole all of them.

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Speaker 3: Oh is that right?

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Speaker 1: Yes? I like that. You added him on the air.

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Speaker 1: Does he work here anymore? I never see him?

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Speaker 7: I don't know. I think it's Mary all the time.

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Speaker 1: Now, Yeah, the vegan Alex, the vegan kaus of got

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Speaker 1: in a relationship. Oh is that why? I think so?

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Speaker 1: So they're not allowed to work. He's in a related

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Speaker 1: What kind of weird you should ask him? None of

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Speaker 1: my business. I just I never see him. I used

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Speaker 1: to see him all the time. Like what happened?

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Speaker 2: Man?

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Speaker 1: All right? Next up, Mike the lepregaunt says, is it

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Speaker 1: a red flag when on a first date you discover

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Speaker 1: that your very good looking date has already had three divorces.

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Speaker 7: No, I think you should be really thankful that she's

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Speaker 7: gotten rid of those husbands so that she could be

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Speaker 7: on this date with you. You should be thankful and

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Speaker 7: not hold her past against her.

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Speaker 6: Huh.

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Speaker 1: Probably, I say we all get one mulligan. I don't

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Speaker 1: know though, maybe even two, but three.

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Speaker 7: I think Jlo's on what six?

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Speaker 1: And she Yeah, she's a nut job. She's a nut job.

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Speaker 1: Comes back? Well, yeah, because I d even went back

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Speaker 1: three times. She's got money and all that, but she's

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Speaker 1: you know, I'm sure she's talented in some areas, but

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Speaker 1: come on now, no, you you got one or two,

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Speaker 1: but once you get to three, that's you're in the

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Speaker 1: danger zone at that point.

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Speaker 7: Maybe she's a hopeless romantic or.

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Speaker 1: Or what she's a whacker doodle? How about that?

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Speaker 7: Maybe she's a oh what's that called? You should find

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Speaker 7: out for X husbands are dead. That's what you should

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Speaker 7: worry about.

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Speaker 1: There you go poisoned? Yes, yeah, okay, I have your problem. Yeah.

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Speaker 1: Danny is in Toronto on the phones. He has a question.

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Speaker 1: Hello Danny, welcome, Hello Ben. Hello.

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Speaker 6: So here's here's my question for Lorena, And this is

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Speaker 6: a genuine question. This is honest here. So I dated

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Speaker 6: a girl for three months this summer. So imagine you

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Speaker 6: were dating a guy for three months and everything was perfect.

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Speaker 6: He checks all the boxes. He's handsome, he's got a

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Speaker 6: great sense of humor.

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Speaker 1: You guys have ever had paycheck? Uh huh? Yeah?

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Speaker 7: Keep going?

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Speaker 3: What's up?

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Speaker 7: Sounds like you didn't keep going?

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Speaker 5: Uh huh?

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Speaker 1: But but hurry upset.

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Speaker 6: Everything's perfect and then you find out he gets cold sores?

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Speaker 2: Are you in?

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Speaker 5: Oh?

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Speaker 1: Okay, so pre existing? Can I believe? Yes?

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Speaker 7: Yes, you know a lot of people have cold soares

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Speaker 7: aka herpes. They have it in their face, and we didn't.

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Speaker 1: Doctor Drew say that pretty much like I think.

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Speaker 7: I think eighty percent of the people people.

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Speaker 1: Don't even know they haven't.

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Speaker 7: Yeah, so you know, just watch for outbreaks, and if

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Speaker 7: you really like the person, you should just make sure

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Speaker 7: you're protecting yourself or just.

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Speaker 1: Enjoy some private time with yourself. What do you want

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Speaker 1: me to do? All right? Thank you, Danny? All right?

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Speaker 1: Man alive? All right? What else do we have?

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Speaker 2: Bob?

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Speaker 1: Question Bobby? Yeah, wonderful question, Bobby, and Florida says, is

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Speaker 1: anything that gives every woman the ick factor? Besides being

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Speaker 1: a leprechaun.

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Speaker 7: Being overly like on top of that person like stop.

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Speaker 1: Stop space j The women says, when in a relationship,

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Speaker 1: should you start traveling by.

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Speaker 7: Plane as soon as you want to go on a

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Speaker 7: date somewhere?

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Speaker 1: That's not that's more than a date, Lorrange, No, I

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Speaker 1: used to do that.

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Speaker 7: All the time, especially if you're a long distance I'll

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Speaker 7: meet you anywhere, baby.

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Speaker 1: Let's go about that one.

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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. Attention everyone,

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Speaker 2: and the password is password, you idiot, password the word

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Speaker 2: Game of the Stars.

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Speaker 1: Here's Ben Meler. All right, let's do it. Password time.

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Speaker 1: We welcome in our contestants for password. We know I

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Speaker 1: got to see here. Manuel and Gardena is going to

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Speaker 1: be one and Soca Hello, Manuel, welcome.

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Speaker 3: Manny Bong Ribs, what's please?

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Speaker 1: And my man? We Man good to hear from you.

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Speaker 1: And who would you like to be partnered up with?

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Speaker 1: Manuel and Guardina? You all right? We're in it to

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Speaker 1: win it? Okay, very good. We're gonna be one of

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Speaker 1: the teams. And Lorena pick between two and six. Pick

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Speaker 1: a number between two and six.

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Speaker 7: Darn, let's go with two.

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Speaker 1: Really sure about that?

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Speaker 7: Six?

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Speaker 1: Okay? Six? Okay? Six? It is he talked you out it?

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Speaker 2: Two?

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Speaker 1: Well you picked Chris in Boston. Hello, Chris, welcome, good morning,

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Speaker 1: How are you? Good morning, sir, welcome to the show.

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Speaker 1: Who would you like to partner up with? There, Chris Cooper?

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Speaker 1: Don't seem very confident. I wouldn't be confident either.

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Speaker 7: A the better choice, though, for sure.

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Speaker 1: I don't know about that.

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Speaker 5: I don't know.

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Speaker 1: About that not lately. Let's play the game. We have

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Speaker 1: a list of words one to ten and Manuel you

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Speaker 1: were on the air first, so please pick a number

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Speaker 1: number number the oho. Al right, here we go. Let's

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Speaker 1: see you. Let's go with and I could do the

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Speaker 1: malar maneuver on this right, I could. Right, let's see

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Speaker 1: if you can all right, uh, potted soil?

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Speaker 2: What?

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Speaker 1: No?

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Speaker 3: Go ahead?

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Speaker 5: Cool?

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Speaker 3: Are you on the right word?

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Speaker 7: Are we looking at the same word?

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Speaker 1: Well, I just grabbed this out of the printer, he said, Oh,

854
00:47:54,440 --> 00:47:56,440
Speaker 1: I thought, he says, okay, all right, all right, all right,

855
00:47:56,440 --> 00:47:58,440
Speaker 1: I screwed that up. Go ahead there there you're screwed.

856
00:47:58,440 --> 00:47:59,319
Speaker 1: Then you're screwed, then.

857
00:47:59,239 --> 00:48:01,839
Speaker 3: Yours, Chris. Let's go with courageous.

858
00:48:03,239 --> 00:48:04,920
Speaker 2: Great, yeah, there we go.

859
00:48:05,239 --> 00:48:07,239
Speaker 1: It was easy. Come on, please, all right, I gave

860
00:48:07,280 --> 00:48:09,520
Speaker 1: you that one. I spotted you. But go ahead there

861
00:48:09,560 --> 00:48:11,240
Speaker 1: picking number Chris.

862
00:48:12,680 --> 00:48:14,240
Speaker 3: Let's go in honor of Marcello.

863
00:48:14,320 --> 00:48:18,040
Speaker 1: Number two. Wow, it's a shot. Yeah, good luck, coop.

864
00:48:20,320 --> 00:48:20,719
Speaker 3: Number two.

865
00:48:21,880 --> 00:48:22,520
Speaker 1: That's what you said.

866
00:48:22,600 --> 00:48:27,320
Speaker 3: Okay, let's go with uh foliage.

867
00:48:30,320 --> 00:48:32,440
Speaker 1: No, no, all right, U man, Well let's go with

868
00:48:32,760 --> 00:48:34,680
Speaker 1: U container.

869
00:48:40,760 --> 00:48:43,879
Speaker 3: What are you in the right number again?

870
00:48:44,200 --> 00:48:44,560
Speaker 1: I don't know.

871
00:48:44,680 --> 00:48:50,320
Speaker 3: Maybe all right, Chris, I'm gonna do the valor of Duba.

872
00:48:50,400 --> 00:48:52,120
Speaker 1: I don't do the mall of maneuver. Don't do that.

873
00:48:52,200 --> 00:48:53,640
Speaker 3: Hurry up, potted.

874
00:48:55,040 --> 00:48:55,360
Speaker 5: Toil.

875
00:48:55,760 --> 00:49:00,560
Speaker 1: No, alright up flower and well.

876
00:49:02,440 --> 00:49:07,040
Speaker 7: Oh quickly.

877
00:49:08,760 --> 00:49:13,120
Speaker 6: Wait no, no, no, we're out.

878
00:49:13,239 --> 00:49:13,919
Speaker 1: We're out of time.

879
00:49:14,040 --> 00:49:14,640
Speaker 3: It's the word.

880
00:49:14,760 --> 00:49:16,000
Speaker 6: Was the word.

881
00:49:16,680 --> 00:49:20,360
Speaker 1: It was bland play. That was my that was my

882
00:49:21,000 --> 00:49:23,360
Speaker 1: partner that got that win, the winner, kicking down. I

883
00:49:23,400 --> 00:49:27,000
Speaker 1: didn't win anything, you know. It's a for Gayzy list.

884
00:49:27,120 --> 00:49:29,319
Speaker 1: It's for Gayze. This list, my god,