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Speaker 1: Oh what fun it is. We were trying to I

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Speaker 1: was talking to some of the other day, was trying

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Speaker 1: to figure out, O, what's gonna be the big story

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Speaker 1: of the NFL offseason. What's gonna be the one that

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Speaker 1: kind of gets us through after the draft until training

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Speaker 1: camp that everyone's gonna be talking about. I did not

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Speaker 1: have this on my radar. We go to Los Angeles,

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Speaker 1: our lead this hour, and is it true that we

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Speaker 1: have our first big, first, big possible NFL scandal to

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Speaker 1: carry us through the off seat. He's in the silly season.

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Speaker 1: And now if you didn't hear about this, perhaps not.

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Speaker 1: It is a developing story. Some random woman in southern

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Speaker 1: California claims that La ra Am wide receiver Puka Nakua

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Speaker 1: both made an anti Semitic comment and later took a

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Speaker 1: bite out of her bit her what is he a vampire?

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Speaker 1: And broke the skin the alleged victim keyword. They're alleged

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Speaker 1: in a application for a temporary restraining order straining order

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Speaker 1: laid out which he clames TMC's got all the details

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Speaker 1: there that this happened on New Year's Eve? How is

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Speaker 1: your New Year's Eve? I stayed home. I didn't go out, okay, Pooka,

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Speaker 1: I just went out and there was a group outing.

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Speaker 1: They were over in Century City here in La La Land.

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Speaker 1: The woman says, the night got off off the way

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Speaker 1: rocky start and the way TMZ reported it that they

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Speaker 1: were having a nice group dinner and then all of

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Speaker 1: a sudden, in the middle of the group dinner, Pooka

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Speaker 1: allegedly yelled out f all the jos. But that doesn't

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Speaker 1: seem very nice during the dinner, what would lead to

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Speaker 1: that comment? Now, the group apparently a group of they

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Speaker 1: just they went out after that and continued things escalated.

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Speaker 1: According to the claim, Pooka was rude or vulgar and

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Speaker 1: threatening and violent and harassing and all that, and after

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Speaker 1: they had the meal, The woman who's making these clips

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Speaker 1: says that she and her friend, along with Pooka and others,

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Speaker 1: got into a sprinter van. Was that the one Dan

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Speaker 1: Patrick was giving away a couple of years ago? Probably

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Speaker 1: not anyway, Apparently Pooka New Year's Eve? What little touchy pheely,

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Speaker 1: little touchy peely. She's claiming that Pooka, out of nowhere

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Speaker 1: just rmly bit her friend's thumb. That the friends screamed,

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Speaker 1: hold the pain. And then Pooka turned to her and

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Speaker 1: bit her left shoulder and broke the skin like a vampire.

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Speaker 1: And there's photographic evidence. TMZ. How much have they paid

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Speaker 1: for this? How much is that story worth to TMZ?

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Speaker 1: Is that twenty thousand, forty fifty thousand? How much do

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Speaker 1: you pay for that? I don't know they paid for it.

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Speaker 1: I'm assuming they didn't get that one for free. Now,

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Speaker 1: the alleged victim in this says that she went to

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Speaker 1: the police a day later filed an incident report. And

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Speaker 1: what about Pooka Nakoa? His attorney says, the whole claim

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Speaker 1: is do you think he said completely true? Absolutely? Puoka

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Speaker 1: moonlights as a vampire. If other teams want to stop him,

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Speaker 1: just wrap yourself in garlic or turn the sun on

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Speaker 1: and yeah, uh anyway.

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Speaker 1: The lawyer for Pokinica claims that this is just a

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Speaker 1: classic shakedown attempt and says it was. He claims that

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Speaker 1: there was a bite mark, but it was horseplay, all right,

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Speaker 1: and the woman was asking for millions. Hey if I

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Speaker 1: if she gets million, I'll let pooka bite me. If

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Speaker 1: I get I can take a million, I'll take a

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Speaker 1: I'll take a million bucks after taxes.

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Speaker 1: Anyway, that's a good jumping off board. So we have

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Speaker 1: what everyone loves. A he said, she said, situation, You

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Speaker 1: make the call. Okay, So let's discuss the question you

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Speaker 1: got rams Wide receiver pokin accused of making a random,

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Speaker 1: So I've got my thoughts on this, I got vending machine, AMC.

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Speaker 1: Bucket and mister Miagi, and we will combine all of

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Speaker 1: We're gonna go upside down, is what we're gonna do.

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Speaker 1: So a at first glance, this is a version of

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Speaker 1: the truth, just not the whole truth, and nothing but

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Speaker 1: three sides to every story. There's her side, there's Puka's side,

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Speaker 1: of both sides of the story. That's Pukah's gonna say

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Speaker 1: one side completely completely accurate. And you see the headline though,

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Speaker 1: this is a monster, a monster living amongst us. So

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Speaker 1: debauchery in this story. You've got Pookah going around like

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Speaker 1: using bad language and all that stuff. Then you dig deeper,

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Speaker 1: notes on the professional victim playbook. If you've ever seen

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Speaker 1: the Professional Victim playbook, this has a lot of those

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Speaker 1: pillars in that she was offended by Pooka Nicoua's rude

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Speaker 1: case was looking for a nice vending machine. Maybe there

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Speaker 1: she wanted to get a delicious candy bar. She did

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Speaker 1: not want the Three Musketeers or the Snickers bar. She

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Speaker 1: carbel wanted some of that. Now. TMZ says the parties

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Speaker 1: a dead nuit. So they had a mediation and shockingly,

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Speaker 1: it failed. It failed. The crisis PR team was unable

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Speaker 1: what did she do? She went with the nuclear option,

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Speaker 1: I'm gonna drop a bomb on you, and she did.

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Speaker 1: She built the the I say hurts her lawyer built

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Speaker 1: this for maximum shock value and the neutron bomb for

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Speaker 1: Puka Nakula because he would not send over a bag

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Speaker 1: he had paid her. I think I'm right now, So

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Speaker 1: have never known about this. We we have never known

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Speaker 1: because he didn't pay her what she wanted. This is

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Speaker 1: the result of that? Is that? And do I have

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Speaker 1: That's the way I read the story. The way I

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Speaker 1: and so now it's like, okay, all right, you're dead.

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Speaker 1: I'm gonna ruin you, and now here's what I'm doing.

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Speaker 1: So if I'm right, that makes this seem like a shakedown,

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Speaker 1: like a class Hollywood shakedown, NFL style. All right, Now,

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Speaker 1: keeping the pooka conversation going here on the Ben Maler

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Speaker 1: Show on Fox. Another question I had with the Rams

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Speaker 1: Is this something that the league is going to address

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Speaker 1: will tell you the NFL is not gonna do anything

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Speaker 1: right away, though they'll issue some statement we are aware

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Speaker 1: Sometimes the dough doesn't rise properly and you don't get anything,

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Speaker 1: and so it becomes a numbers game. Like you really

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Speaker 1: boom goes to dynamite. The league will immediately all of

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Speaker 1: a sudden care. They'll pretend to care anyway. They don't

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Speaker 1: investigate the truth. They investigate the headlines is what they

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Speaker 1: just a nice little shrug emoji. If it's one, two, three, four, five, seven, eight,

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Speaker 1: he's certainly gone for it. Party boy USA, Poka nkoa meatthead,

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Speaker 1: and you know he likely had a harem of groupies

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Speaker 1: So there, if he was acting like a vampire going

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Speaker 1: that lifestyle leads to some issues there. So, like we said,

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Speaker 1: right now, we're at the he said, she said situation.

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Speaker 1: And does this remain just a single allegation or do

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Speaker 1: there around the building saying Pooka spat on me, not

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Speaker 1: we have seen this type of movie before. I remember

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Speaker 1: that Shaun Watson story. That night we were on the

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Speaker 1: that part. I haven't seen any of their accusations at

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Speaker 1: this moment. Now, last word to the country Cousins department

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Speaker 1: if the price is cheap, because he's not gonna get

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Speaker 1: League Baseball. Well, the Chicago White Sox needed the express

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Speaker 1: written consent of Frank Thomas. And so you look at

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Speaker 1: this you've got without that. You used his name, his number,

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Speaker 1: put those things together. That's not very subtle. It's not

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Speaker 1: very subtle. It's in your face. So yes, on an iPad.

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Speaker 1: If you look at the iPad ding ding ding ding

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Speaker 1: ding textbook violation. So you're nodding your head. I'm nodding

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Speaker 1: my head. We're both nodding our everyone's nodding, nodding like

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Speaker 1: a bibblehead. We're nodding. And now reality walks in and

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Speaker 1: gives you the bird. The bird is the word. It

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Speaker 1: gives you the bird. Now the bird is that? Do

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Speaker 1: you think that fanatics Major League Baseball, which means the

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Speaker 1: White Sox and Nike, that their lawyers are gonna say, hey, yeah, well,

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Speaker 1: we're absolutely right, we're gonna give you whatever you want.

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Speaker 1: Or are they gonna say, this isn't Frank Thomas the man,

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Speaker 1: it's a historical team uniform which is property of the

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Speaker 1: Chicago White Sox. Translation, the lawyers will say, we're not

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Speaker 1: actually selling Frank Thomas, We're selling nostalgia and stitching. And

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Speaker 1: of course he'll be up to Major League Baseball to

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Speaker 1: get the dumbest people they can possibly find in the

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Speaker 1: Chicago land area who are cub fans and get them

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Speaker 1: on the jury and that would be perfect right. And

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Speaker 1: courts sometimes will buy the fact that you say, wow,

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Speaker 1: we're selling We're not selling him, We're selling nostalgia. There

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Speaker 1: was a case I remember back in the nineties, a

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Speaker 1: bunch of the old Mets players from the nineteen sixty

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Speaker 1: nine Mets sued the Mets and they won like six

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Speaker 1: figures in court in the nineties, won a bunch of money.

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Speaker 1: So sometimes you'll win it. It's really you know, it's

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Speaker 1: up to the jury and all that stuff, and it

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Speaker 1: comes down to licensing spaghetti, old agreements, major League Baseball entanglements.

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Speaker 1: Is it possible that Frank Thomas signed some kind of

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Speaker 1: deal back in nineteen ninety three or four while he

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Speaker 1: was eating clubhouse spaghettios and he doesn't remember about it.

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Speaker 1: So Discovery at that point will turn to archaeology, and so, yes,

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Speaker 1: it is winnable. Absolutely, it's a winnable case. It seems

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Speaker 1: pretty open and shut and all that. Is it going

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Speaker 1: to be easy. No, as we laid out, you're going

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Speaker 1: up against a triple headed hydra of billionaire sports litigation.

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Speaker 1: By the time this ends up getting out of Discovery,

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Speaker 1: Nike is going to own Frank Thomas's house. Fanatics will

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Speaker 1: own the firstborn grandsons naming rights, and you'll be having

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Speaker 1: to be wearing a jumpsuit that says property of Major

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Speaker 1: League Baseball. By the way, the deal with the Players

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Speaker 1: Association once you retire from baseball, like if you're in

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Speaker 1: the Union, Baseball teams can do whatever they want. There's

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Speaker 1: a partnership agreement with your likeness and image, and once

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Speaker 1: you're retired, though, they have to get you to sign

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Speaker 1: off on that, or technically you could file a lawsuit

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Speaker 1: and I think this will go to a settlement. Just

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Speaker 1: save time, save money, that kind of thing. And it's

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Speaker 1: usually how these things work out in the legal system,

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Speaker 1: even when you're right, even when it looks like you've

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Speaker 1: got everything lined up in a row. You're still negotiating

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Speaker 1: your own surrender. All right, final point. We had a

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Speaker 1: coaching change in college basketball quick way, North Carolina. Bye bye,

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Speaker 1: Hubert Davis. He's out. He got whacked after that choke

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Speaker 1: job by the Tar Hills gagging away a nineteen point lead. Embarrassing.

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Speaker 1: We knew that Hubert Davis was going to be fired

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Speaker 1: when they canceled his radio show this week. That is

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Speaker 1: a dig you what So Hubert Davis five seasons, five

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Speaker 1: seasons in the Carolina Blue and had a winning percentage

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Speaker 1: of almost seven hundred and yet didn't do it in

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Speaker 1: the tournament enough and so he's out. The question, did

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Speaker 1: Hubert Davis get a raw deal from North Carolina? Hell no,

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Speaker 1: They're given like five million dollars to go away. That's

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Speaker 1: a sweetheart deal. He'll get another job if he wants,

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Speaker 1: or he can go do some bad television like he

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Speaker 1: did before ESPN. Someone will hire him. It's just a

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Speaker 1: high cost of living in a spookky neighborhood haunted by

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Speaker 1: the ghost of Dean Smith who lives in the shadow

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Speaker 1: of the Dean Dome. So we sent the physical, chemical, biological,

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Speaker 1: and digital evidence to the crime lab on this and

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Speaker 1: the results came back really really clean, just really really

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Speaker 1: really clean. No foul play, no foul play on this,

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Speaker 1: just a cold blooded accounting of the blue blood ledger.

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Speaker 1: And that's how it works. And so you have been

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Speaker 1: excommunicated from the Chapel the Chapel Hill, bye bye. And

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Speaker 1: Hubert Davis was grant did several mulligans in the tournament.

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Speaker 1: Hower eventually it turns out that the country club there

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Speaker 1: in North Carolina ran out of golf ball. So it

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Speaker 1: turns out blowing a nineteen point lead to VCU was

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Speaker 1: the final nail in the coffin. That is a Hasmatt situation.

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Speaker 1: It is messy, it is loud, and you cannot ignore that,

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Speaker 1: and especially when you didn't succeed the year before. And

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Speaker 1: so if you don't survive back to back years in

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Speaker 1: the first round of the tournament, that's not a slump.

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Speaker 1: That is a mortal sin, is what that is. And

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Speaker 1: so yeah, there were injuries, I get it. And you

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Speaker 1: know that's a mere footnote on this. The opponent VCU

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Speaker 1: is irrelevant, doesn't matter. It's open payroll. North Carolina's got

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Speaker 1: a payroll here. Boosters demand a hefty ROI return on investment,

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Speaker 1: and they don't invest that amount of money the boosters

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Speaker 1: to have a night at the improv. They don't do that, right,

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Speaker 1: they don't. You don't need to pay a lot of

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Speaker 1: mone I need to become a laughingstock. You don't have

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Speaker 1: to do that. So it's make or miss business. And

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Speaker 1: it was a brick house again. Hubert Davis is gonna

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Speaker 1: walk away with five million dollars. He'll get some bad

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Speaker 1: TV job, or some lower level college basketball job or

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Speaker 1: an NBA assistant gig, and he'll be on his merry way.

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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. It's maller.

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Speaker 6: How about that?

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Speaker 2: To the third degree.

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Speaker 1: He's seven and zero on opening day.

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Speaker 2: This is one big event.

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Speaker 1: Gets grilled good.

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Speaker 3: Hello. According to a report this week, an anonymous GM

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Speaker 3: predicted that Anthony Richardson will end up on the Green

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Speaker 3: Bay Packers. Now, Ben, could you see the Packers taking

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Speaker 3: a chance on Richardson?

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Speaker 1: Yeah, because you're not gonna play, so who cares? Sit

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Speaker 1: him on the bench? And that's great? Why not? Jordan

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Speaker 1: Love will play? And then if Jordan Love gets hurt,

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Speaker 1: the Packers are screwed, so they'll they'll let Richardson go.

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Speaker 1: And that's what they just did. They just had a

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Speaker 1: guy that sucked in Tennessee and now he's getting paid

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Speaker 1: thirty million dollars a year for the Miami dall Dolphins.

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Speaker 1: So that's the model for the Green Bay Packers. That's

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Speaker 1: what they used to do back in the day. They

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Speaker 1: just stashed quarterbacks and try to rehab them. And the

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Speaker 1: only difference is the Packers didn't trade this latest example next.

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Speaker 3: Though the Lakers win streak ended at nine games on Monday,

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Speaker 3: their recent success and Lebron James's acceptance of a lesser

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Speaker 3: role has led some to believe that Lebron's staying with

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Speaker 3: the Lakers for another season as a viable option.

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Speaker 1: Ben, do you think Lebron could stay? Oh? Could he? Yeah?

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Speaker 1: The multiverse, there's a world where Lebron James stays. He

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Speaker 1: does love La. He loves hanging out with all these

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Speaker 1: Hollywood f's and all that everyone in La. Oh Lebron,

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Speaker 1: they kiss his ass anywhere. I still think he's going

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Speaker 1: back to Cleveland. I think that's where he ends his career.

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Speaker 1: He's got a problem, though, because if Lebron leaves the Lakers,

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Speaker 1: the first move the Lakers make is they release his kid.

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Speaker 1: So that's that's the problem, because the only reason on

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Speaker 1: the team is because of that. Next.

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Speaker 3: Celtics point guard Derek White was recently outed as a

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Speaker 3: conspiracy theorist by his head coach, and on a recent podcast,

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Speaker 3: he said he wouldn't call himself a conspiracy theorist, but

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Speaker 3: he admits that he doesn't believe we landed on the moon. Yeah, Ben,

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Speaker 3: is there any conspiracy theory that you subscribe to? Yeah,

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Speaker 3: there's a bunch.

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Speaker 1: I think there are. There's another species living on the

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Speaker 1: planet in the oceans, lizards under the oceans. I also

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Speaker 1: believe that the cal Ripken streak should have ended. You

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Speaker 1: got no flight with Kevin Kostner, I believe that conspiracy.

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Speaker 1: How do we do coop? He passes it's so we

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Speaker 1: put it on the bold.

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Speaker 6: Ry you heard the man, It's time for love here

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Speaker 6: on the Ben Malice Show.

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Speaker 1: What do we got today? Ben?

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Speaker 2: Oh?

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Speaker 1: You want questions? Is that what your Yeah?

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Speaker 6: Well, I was gonna, I was gonna give some advice.

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Speaker 1: You know your word? Do you have any unsolicited advice

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Speaker 1: that you would like to give? Ask you?

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Speaker 4: Yeah?

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Speaker 6: Well, you know, I've just had I've had a lot

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Speaker 6: of men, potential suitors who meet me one day and

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Speaker 6: they're like, what are your intentions with me?

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Speaker 1: I'm like, I don't even know you.

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Speaker 6: Slow your horses answers right now, I don't got answer?

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Speaker 1: All right, I got you? All right, Let's see what

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Speaker 1: do we get? Our patience? Nobody has patience. It's you know,

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Speaker 1: it's twenty twenty six. I think I think it's twenty

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Speaker 1: twenty six. I here's some questions. Lorena Andy in Lionel Lakes,

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Speaker 1: Minnesota says, hey, Lorena, Hey Loraina. So I think fetishes

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Speaker 1: can be healthy for a relationship. For example, I like

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Speaker 1: to watch my girlfriend cook dinner, clean the entire house.

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Speaker 1: And with spring coming up, there's all kinds of yard

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Speaker 1: work to do. Do I need therapy?

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Speaker 7: No?

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Speaker 6: You know what I really enjoy that you are. I

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Speaker 6: like how you're putting it, at least, because if I

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Speaker 6: was your woman, I'd be like, let's play with this,

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Speaker 6: let me put on a made outfit, like you could

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Speaker 6: really have fun with your kinks, you know what I'm

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Speaker 6: talking about.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, I think he doesn't want to do anyth physically.

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Speaker 1: He just wants to watch their like colok and clean.

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Speaker 1: I mean you could.

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Speaker 6: Say that, but he's still making it a dual activity

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Speaker 6: like she may be doing it, but he's enjoying.

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Speaker 1: The show, eating with popcorn like a bucket of popcorn.

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Speaker 1: And you missed that you got a dust over there, honey,

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Speaker 1: I'm sorry.

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Speaker 6: At Can you bend down under the counter one more time?

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Speaker 3: Please?

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Speaker 1: All right? Ferg Dog says, do women like guys who

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Speaker 1: are cool under pressure like Ben was when his tire

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Speaker 1: burst into flames on the way to the World Series.

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Speaker 6: Fact, Yes, being under pressure is so attractive. That means

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Speaker 6: you can regulate your emotions in stressful times, and as

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Speaker 6: a woman, we want to feel like our men can

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Speaker 6: handle those types of scenarios. So yes, I think it

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Speaker 6: is very attractive.

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Speaker 1: JT. The wingman from Severville, Tennessee, not Knoxville Severville, Tennessee,

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Speaker 1: says what is the best food item to introduce into

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Speaker 1: the bedroom, and then he listed a bunch of food

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Speaker 1: items that appear to look like pallasis all right? Oh interesting?

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Speaker 6: Okay, Well, when I think of food in the bedroom,

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Speaker 6: I think of like, you know, sexy eats like strawberries

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Speaker 6: and whipped cream. There was one time a guy want

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Speaker 6: ice cream. Ice cream could also be a fun.

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Speaker 1: Summertime. Want to melt?

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Speaker 6: The melting is the fun part.

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Speaker 1: Oh hello, all right, let's go to the phones. We

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Speaker 1: It's like Russian Roulette. When we talked to blind Sophie,

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Speaker 1: which personality we can get? Nice? Blind Sophie, angry, blind

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Speaker 1: Sophie flirty blind Sophie. Will blind Sophie morph back into

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Speaker 1: blind Scott. Nobody ever knows but blind Sophie. Hello, blind Sophie,

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Speaker 1: welcome to turn her mind. Yeah, there you go, Hello blind.

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Speaker 5: So I think I think I might move to Jazzy's

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Speaker 5: place in San Francisco or a group home in San Francisco.

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Speaker 5: I'm trying to game. I'm I'm really depressed and having

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Speaker 5: psychosist and serious depression. You think I should move to

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Speaker 5: a homeless shelter to try to run away from stress

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Speaker 5: in my life to try to rebuild my life. You

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Speaker 5: think that's a good idea case, I could say a

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Speaker 5: grand a month if I live in a homeless shelter

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Speaker 5: for three months?

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Speaker 1: Are you just make.

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Speaker 6: Sure that you're taking care of yourself and not trying

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Speaker 6: to pull other.

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Speaker 3: People into you.

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Speaker 1: Can't think of a better place to go than a

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Speaker 1: homeless shelterday here yourself. That's really good. Seems like a

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Speaker 1: well thought out plan to me. I don't know about

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Speaker 1: you or not. Queen of Hearts.

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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 7: Attention everyone, and the password is password, you idiot. Password

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Speaker 7: the word Game of the Stars. Here's Ben Meler, let's

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Speaker 7: know it.

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Speaker 1: Here we go. We welcome in our contestants.

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Speaker 7: We have.

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Speaker 1: Daniel, America's favorite crossing guard in Fort Wayne. Hello Daniel, Well,

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Speaker 1: good morning, Ben.

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Speaker 5: I got a few more dates than I'm off on

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Speaker 5: spring break.

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Speaker 1: Okay, well, you're you're called in here. Who do you

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Speaker 1: want to partner up with on this edition? Daniel, Man,

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Speaker 1: I have to go with you.

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Speaker 5: I gotta win in again.

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Speaker 1: I got Okay, we're gonna win. We're gonna win it.

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Speaker 1: And Lorena picked one, two, three, four, one, two, three,

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Speaker 1: five or six.

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Speaker 6: Oh, I'm gonna go with number six.

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Speaker 1: Number really? Yes? All right, well you have picked. Let's

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Speaker 1: see here, Daniel is there and Mike in New Hampshire. Hello, Mike, welcome.

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Speaker 1: Hey now hey now hey now all right, my god,

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Speaker 1: we went a lot of time. So who do you

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Speaker 1: want to partner up with? Mike in New Hampshire farmer coop? Okay,

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Speaker 1: work down in l next to your name. So it

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Speaker 1: was words Daniel from one to ten, Daniel, one to ten,

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Speaker 1: and please pick a number. No cheating, no cheating.

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Speaker 5: I want to take the lead, not to con seed

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Speaker 5: number three.

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Speaker 1: Number three are well good one. I don't know if

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Speaker 1: it's a good one. Let's let's go with blah blah

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Speaker 1: blah blah blah. How about hmm harasser, harasser.

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Speaker 4: Stalker?

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Speaker 1: All right, Mike, let's try thug.

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Speaker 5: Instigator.

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Speaker 1: All right. Uh, I'm gonna try something a little different here.

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Speaker 3: Oh I was gonna try something a little different.

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Speaker 1: How about I mentioned what did I mention? Was my aggressor?

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Speaker 1: How about how about school.

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Speaker 5: Bully?

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Speaker 7: Yeah?

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Speaker 1: I got it.

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Speaker 6: I just want to say I don't know where you

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Speaker 6: got the word aggressor from. That was not your first clue,

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Speaker 6: your first one.

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Speaker 1: That is incorrect. You're right, black cause, all right, you

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Speaker 1: know that's louis Lie. She's making that up, all right.

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Speaker 1: Picking a number, Mike, we've got the lead, Daniel. Pick

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Speaker 1: a number, Mike two, number two. All right, go ahead,

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Speaker 1: Coop chop chop, chop, chop chop chop. Hurry up. Let's

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Speaker 1: go with very upset.

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Speaker 3: Let's go with I'm gonna try a Mallard maneuver here.

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Speaker 1: Uh huh, ball point man, Yeah, we would not know

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Speaker 1: you didn't win the game. You can't use ball as

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Speaker 1: two words. Ball point it's two words. It's two words.

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Speaker 1: Three weeks three one win a winner