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Speaker 3: They used to be known as the Big Blue Wrecking Crew,

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Speaker 4: You know who you are. You idiots reached out to me.

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Speaker 5: You better start with that. You're not gonna talk about it.

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Speaker 5: You're gonna hide from I'm not. First of all, I

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Speaker 5: don't work for the team. They don't even want me

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Speaker 5: the games anymore. I'm not a spokesman for the Dodgers.

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Speaker 4: I'm not so. But I will start with that.

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Speaker 1: That's the story you seem to want, based on the

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Speaker 1: the red eye flight. So we'll start out in the

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Speaker 1: cream City, hardball heaven right now. Oh man, they are

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Speaker 1: flying high. The beard tastes better than ever. The sky

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Speaker 1: is falling in La Laland, the sky is falling. The

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Speaker 1: top record in baseball six games ago and not anymore.

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Speaker 1: So if you have not been paying attention, perhaps not, because,

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Speaker 1: as one of my friends likes to say, why do

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Speaker 1: you watch baseball? They play one hundred and sixty two games.

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Speaker 1: Ye reminds me of a caller used to have. Judgmental

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Speaker 1: John from Michigan used to call me up every every

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Speaker 1: weekend and complain there's too many baseball games. Well, listen,

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Speaker 1: you don't have to watch every game. Number one, Number two.

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Speaker 1: Those of us that like to watch shit most of

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Speaker 4: So stay in your lane.

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Speaker 1: Anyway, In Milwaukee, a Mattinee Jackson Churio singling home the

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Speaker 1: winning run. The Brewers came back to tie it late,

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Speaker 1: they complete the first ever home sweep of the Dodgers

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Speaker 1: in franchise history. Holy Bernie Brewer, Batman Race the Sausages

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Speaker 1: So Milwaukee. The only other times they swept the Dodgers,

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Speaker 4: But the better story here, the better story is that's right,

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Speaker 1: So the better story is in the losing locker room,

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Speaker 1: The Doyers have lost not one, not two, not three,

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Speaker 1: us discuss the formerly known Big Blue wrecking crew with

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Speaker 1: all these losses getting swept by the Brewers. So what

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Speaker 1: So my thoughts on this, I've got Oiji board, Jeff Bezos,

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Speaker 1: which I think have more power at this point, more

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Speaker 1: Right, we are assigned by the powers at this multi

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Speaker 4: We have to worry about today. So today, as I.

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Speaker 1: Talk to you one on one, me to you the

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Speaker 1: The team this week has been crumbling and Dave Roberts,

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Speaker 1: The game and it's like he's he's doing a wine

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Speaker 1: I mean, in this moment, they are spiraling into the

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Speaker 1: swept by Cleve What frauds the a holes are right,

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Speaker 1: I mean of course, you get up for the Dodgers,

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Speaker 4: How embarrassing. Anyway, it's about the Dodgers.

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Speaker 1: So they got smashed by the cheating a holes and

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Speaker 1: you step right up again. It's like the State Fair.

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Speaker 1: You win a stuffed animal, beat the Dodgers. Right now,

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Speaker 1: this week everyone is drowning and shredding, the Dodgers and

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Speaker 4: The sweet spirit of the late great Tommy Lasorda. Oh man,

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Speaker 4: what are you doing? Just bear with me? Lasorda.

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Speaker 1: If he was managing a team, he never had a

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Speaker 1: My opinion is went on unsucked and it's just it's great.

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Speaker 4: The team up, go third base.

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Speaker 1: He'd take a gatorade cooler, toss it down like he

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Speaker 1: a medically induced coma when you watch and certain guys

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Speaker 1: have just stopped hitting. Freddie Freeman and Mookie Betts for

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Speaker 1: to that, they've not performed. The big bullpen picked ups

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Speaker 1: the Dodgers got. They spent a lot of money on

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Speaker 1: Tanner Scott. All the Nerds had their pants down for

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Speaker 1: Tanner Scott, Kirby Yates and these guys me god Arson squad.

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Speaker 1: Tanner Scott leads baseball with six blown saves. That was

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Speaker 1: their big addition to the bullpen. Tanner Scott and Kirby Yates.

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Speaker 1: Everyone talks about how great his stuff is.

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Speaker 4: And I watch it. I'm like, well, he looks like

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Speaker 1: There's a lot of meatballs there. No, I do realize

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Speaker 1: get all that, but we have to worry about today, right,

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Speaker 1: And there's a lot of people and I get this,

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Speaker 1: We're on the Dodger flagship in LA that's our our

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Speaker 1: They say, well, you're too emotional, right, And these people

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Speaker 1: because they have so much talent, And is that how

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Speaker 1: But in this particular chapter, the Dodgers find themselves in

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Speaker 1: a deep dark place and someone needs to Maybe Dave

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Speaker 1: Roberts can hire someone to hand the players a torch

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Speaker 1: LED flashlight with one thousand lumens in a bright, reliable illumination,

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Speaker 1: and then like a map, and then they're maybe GPS

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Speaker 4: Turn the page. So we go now to Queens.

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Speaker 1: The gift that keeps giving the New York Metropolitans outfielder

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Speaker 1: One Soto. One Soto, the highest fed player in Baseball

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Speaker 1: so one, Soto was asked if he would have liked

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Speaker 4: Did you see this? Hear about it now?

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Speaker 1: So Juan Soto responded by saying, what do you think

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Speaker 1: I think? Sodo said, it's a lot of money on

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Speaker 1: is true Soto will miss out on one hundred thousand

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Speaker 1: say about Juan Soto? So, I'm gonna go first, and

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Speaker 1: call it it's confirmation. Now he's obviously not just a ballplayer.

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Speaker 1: Now there is love from Juan Soto, the love of

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Speaker 4: With a side of fletmeon right, in all seriousness, this

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Speaker 1: It's like DJ lem Mayhew appeared on Family Feud with

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Speaker 4: We're gonna cut a No, we're gonna cut a check

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Speaker 4: Right, and you still got to pay for the open bar.

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Speaker 1: begin in the Grand Canyon State. Everyone's talking about this

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Speaker 1: raising Arizona, at least raising the payroll of Arizona money.

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Speaker 1: Many money, big money, big money, big money. No waymies

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Speaker 4: So if you didn't see this or hear about it,

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Speaker 1: Sun superstar Devin Booker has agreed to a two year,

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Speaker 4: Is that how you see it?

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Speaker 1: Do you agree with the sentiment of a good chunk

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Speaker 1: a loyalty play by Devin Booker. So I've got kidney, Spago,

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Speaker 1: and Deli counter, and we will combine all of these

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Speaker 4: Make a crackpot.

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Speaker 1: Now, crackpot is a person that thinks this is because

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Speaker 1: of loyalty's that's a crackpot, all.

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Speaker 4: Right, absolutely not.

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Speaker 1: I am one hundred and eighty degrees the opposite direction

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Speaker 1: now must be a different dimension that I resided than

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Speaker 1: the people that are saying that in the multiverse. And

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Speaker 1: this is not a contract that Devin Booker got. This

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Speaker 1: two games a year for the Sons. It's powerball with

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Speaker 1: a jump shot. Good for him. And yet, somehow, some way,

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Speaker 1: there are so many fanboys out there that an obvious

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Speaker 1: knuckle dragging fan you know who you are treating this like.

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Speaker 1: Devin Booker just donated a kidney to a hospital in Phoenix.

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Speaker 7: Like, oh my god, he stead he's so loyal, Who

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Speaker 7: my god, It's just amazing, and they're clutching their foam

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Speaker 4: It's not about loyalty. Devin Booker's rich.

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Speaker 1: He was already rich. Now he's richer than rich. He's

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Speaker 1: not giving the Sons a hometown discount. He's not sacrificing

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Speaker 4: It is a hometown heist, is what it is. And

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Speaker 4: Devin Booker he.

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Speaker 1: Didn't stay with the Suns because he loves the desert

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Speaker 1: the Southwestern cuisine.

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Speaker 4: He stayed because the.

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Speaker 1: Suns offered him every dollar they legally could offer him

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Speaker 1: under the salary cap, and he said, yes, please, I

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Speaker 1: will take that. And I'd also like a statue to

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Speaker 4: In a doggyback? So this is not a feel good story.

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Speaker 4: I have no problem Devin Booker getting paid. He's a star.

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Speaker 1: It's not my cup of tea and all that. But

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Speaker 1: I'm not a Suns fan. So if you like him, great.

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Speaker 1: He puts up numbers. I feel like they're empty numbers.

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Speaker 1: And you know, let's stop pretending it's a capitalism move.

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Speaker 1: That's fine, but let's stop pretending this is some kind

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Speaker 1: of Disney movie. I see this reaction, I'm like, is

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Speaker 1: this real? Are there actually people that are living amongst

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Speaker 1: us in the sports world that are like this.

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Speaker 4: He didn't fall on a grenade. I mean, what are

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Speaker 4: you doing? He didn't rescue people, you know, like they

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Speaker 4: I saw. I was reading the story that tragedy in Texas.

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Speaker 1: The flood and this horrible story, and there was a

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Speaker 1: guy from the Coast Guard, this like first mission ever.

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Speaker 4: This guy in his.

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Speaker 1: Twenties, I think he's twenty six, and he rescued, like,

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Speaker 1: helped rescue one hundred, one hundred people more than that.

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Speaker 4: It's just crazy.

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Speaker 1: That's that's a that's a hell of a story anyway,

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Speaker 1: all right now, Page two to La we Go, La

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Speaker 1: La Land. So the new details out on the fallout

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Speaker 1: from the Lakers record smashing ten ten billion. That's ten million,

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Speaker 1: ten billion, ten million, yeah, right, ten billion dollars sale.

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Speaker 1: So we are now hearing that it is official. The

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Speaker 1: deal allows Genie Buss to remain as the team's acting

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Speaker 1: own Of course, the NBA won't say owner, they're woke.

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Speaker 4: They say governor. Anyway, for at least five years.

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Speaker 1: Different report, however, from Front Office Sports says that Genie

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Speaker 1: Buss will only be able to stay for at most

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Speaker 1: five years.

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Speaker 4: Now.

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Speaker 1: Either way, she is sticking around. The Bus family legacy

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Speaker 1: will continue for a few more years.

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Speaker 4: So where do you stand on lame duc Genie Buss

463
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Speaker 4: continuing to be the face of Laker ownership.

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Speaker 1: At league meetings, she has a seat at the table

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Speaker 1: even though she agreed to sell the franchise.

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Speaker 4: All right, So when I first heard about.

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Speaker 1: This, I was like, wow, this is just it was crazy,

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Speaker 1: and I said, well, maybe this won't actually happen, but

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Speaker 1: it appears to have happened now. So this feels like

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Speaker 1: something you would This kind of a deal feels like

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Speaker 1: something you would write on a cocktail napkin at Spago

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Speaker 1: during happy hour. It reminds me of one of my

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Speaker 1: favorite radio stories. There was a guy named Gene Autry.

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Speaker 1: You probably don't know who that is if you're below

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Speaker 1: a certain age, if you're really old, you know who

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Speaker 1: Genautry is. He was known as the singing cowboy back

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Speaker 1: in the old days of country music, Gene Autry, and

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Speaker 1: he owned a bunch of radio stations on the Angels,

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Speaker 1: a bunch of radio stations. And I heard from somebody

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Speaker 1: that worked at one of his radio stations, worked at

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Speaker 1: the old KMPC, that Gene Autry at the holiday party,

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Speaker 1: at the Christmas party would get completely hammered and would

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Speaker 1: he was very friendly. You know, there's different kinds of drunks.

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Speaker 1: There's the angry drunk, there's a happy drunk. There's the

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Speaker 1: I will give out ridiculous contracts. So there was a story,

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Speaker 1: famous radio story that was told early in my career

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Speaker 1: by somebody that worked for gen Autry that on the

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Speaker 1: back of a napkin at a restaurant in Hollywood, he

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Speaker 1: signed one of his DJs to a lifetime contract that

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Speaker 1: did stand up in court.

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Speaker 4: And that reminds me of he is. Like Genie bus

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Speaker 4: probably was a Spago.

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Speaker 1: She had a cocktail of a happy hour there and

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Speaker 1: she somehow finagled I'll get five more years over at

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Speaker 1: half five more seasons minimum or at the most.

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Speaker 4: Either way, that is not.

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Speaker 1: Governance, is it is cosplays. I mean, this isn't about basketball.

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Speaker 1: It's not about winning championships. It's about ego, right, It's

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Speaker 1: all about optics and ego. It's about walking into the

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Speaker 1: arena there down on skid Row in LA and watching

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Speaker 1: nineteen thousand people nod and oh, look at that royalty.

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00:28:28,680 --> 00:28:33,080
Speaker 1: You know, it's about making sure that she sticks around,

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Speaker 1: because that's what it's all about.

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Speaker 4: The Lakers sale agreement. It's like a prenup, very.

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Speaker 1: Bizarre, right, It's got this clause in there where it's

506
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Speaker 1: like institutional sentimentality.

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Speaker 4: It's not a business.

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Speaker 1: It's like performance art in really expensive heels. At this point,

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Speaker 1: and my belief maybe I'm wrong on this, but I

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Speaker 1: have always said that the person that has the checkbook,

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Speaker 1: the person that writes the checks, is the one with

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Speaker 1: the power.

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Speaker 4: So in this particular story.

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Speaker 1: That would be Mark Walter and the Guggenheim partners who

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Speaker 1: bought the Lakers. They own the Dodgers, also not Genie Buss.

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Speaker 1: So the blueprints have changed. They've transferred over the deed

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Speaker 1: to the team and Genie Buss is going around as

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Speaker 1: the figurehead.

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00:29:22,440 --> 00:29:24,480
Speaker 4: She's like the Queen of England, being.

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Speaker 1: Trotted out for ceremonial appearances, have a spot of tea

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Speaker 1: while the real power brokers play geopolitical chess. Mark Walter

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Speaker 1: and all them behind the.

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Speaker 4: Velvet rope and all that stuff.

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Speaker 1: But Gen you can walk on the red carpet, but

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Speaker 1: they'll take care of the business in the back.

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Speaker 4: Now final point.

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Speaker 1: We now go old guy radio.

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Speaker 4: Who that's right, We're doing old guy radio.

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Speaker 1: So we flashback to a by God era long long

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Speaker 1: ago and a much different world in the NBA. So

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Speaker 1: we learned that frank Leyden You might not know who

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Speaker 1: that is. Frank Laden, a man that had the gift

533
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Speaker 1: of gab, former coach of the Utah jazz.

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Speaker 4: Led them to the playoffs for the first time. He's dead.

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Speaker 4: Now when I found out, we were like, I didn't

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Speaker 4: even know he was still alive.

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Speaker 1: I mean, frank was an old guy when he was

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Speaker 1: working in the NBA, but he made it all the

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Speaker 1: way to.

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Speaker 4: Ninety three ninety three.

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Speaker 1: So I wanted to spend a few minutes going down

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Speaker 1: memory lane. I think it's important when someone that touched

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Speaker 1: my sports fandom and I certainly wasn't a Utah jazz fan,

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Speaker 1: but someone that touched my fandom passes away. I think

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Speaker 1: it's the proper respect. We used to do a six

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Speaker 1: line tribute. Then they changed the phone system and now

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Speaker 1: we can't put six lines on the air, so that

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Speaker 1: went to hell. So the question what are you going

549
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Speaker 1: to remember about long ago jazz coach? And he was

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Speaker 1: the jam well for years, Frank Layton. So the first

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Speaker 1: thing is a life well lived? Ninety three is a

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Speaker 1: great run ninety three. I mean we'd all take that

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Speaker 1: right now, we'd sign up for that. Say give me

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Speaker 1: ninety three.

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Speaker 4: I'm good. I'm pretty good.

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Speaker 1: The bigger than life personality, and I was thinking about

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Speaker 1: it when I was coming into the studio. Frank Layden's

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Speaker 1: life story like an old school Hollywood comedy. It really

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00:31:29,720 --> 00:31:31,480
Speaker 1: is like an old school Hollywood company. So if you

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Speaker 1: don't know his backstory, this is a street wise guy,

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Speaker 1: fat guy from Brooklyn, you know, typical over the top,

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Speaker 1: in your face New York guy, right out of Central Casting,

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Speaker 1: and he ended up coaching the New Orleans Jazz He

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Speaker 1: then got dropped into Mormon country and it's like he

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Speaker 1: took some kind of wrong turn. I think he was

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Speaker 1: coming out of the Holland Tunnel and he went the

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Speaker 1: wrong way and then he ended up waking up in

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Speaker 1: someplace in Salt Lake.

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Speaker 4: City holding a clipboard. In the early nineteen eighties, now.

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Speaker 1: You understand it was a much different time in professional sports,

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Speaker 1: this corporate bull crap we have today in sports. Frank

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Speaker 1: Laydon was a byproduct of a mom and pop era.

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Speaker 1: In the NBA, he was the coach, he was the

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Speaker 1: general manager, but it looked like he belonged behind the

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Speaker 1: deli counter, yelling next, right, who's got next?

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Speaker 4: What do you want? So pastrami? What do you want? Corn? Beef? Yeah, okay,

577
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Speaker 4: roast beef, turkey, haym, what do you want?

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Speaker 1: Like? He could have been a taxi cab driver in

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Speaker 1: another life and nobody would have thought anything of it.

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00:32:45,680 --> 00:32:48,480
Speaker 1: And he didn't waste his time crunching analytics and player

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Speaker 1: efficiency ratings and all that crap. Didn't worry about it,

582
00:32:52,640 --> 00:32:57,920
Speaker 1: didn't need a computer back then, when the computers were archaic.

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Speaker 1: When he was doing his thing, he had a rotary

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Speaker 1: home landline, rotary phone, no cell phone, and he picked

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Speaker 1: players on gut instinct. Oh my god, if you went

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Speaker 1: into the front offices of basketball, baseball, and football and said,

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Speaker 1: all right, no computers, no analytics.

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Speaker 4: You just got to go by your gut.

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Speaker 1: How many people would resign, how many people would have

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Speaker 1: a heart attack. But back then it was just the

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Speaker 1: way you did things right. But the thing that I

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Speaker 1: remember also about Frank.

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Speaker 4: Layden the charisma that you can't teach.

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Speaker 1: And I was waxing poetic about my early days. It

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Speaker 1: was I started in the radio business as a reporter,

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Speaker 1: but it was it was in the early relative early nineties,

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Speaker 1: and a lot of the guys from the eighties were

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Speaker 1: still in the NBA, and it.

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Speaker 4: Was such a different era.

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Speaker 1: Like Doug ma and Frank Layden and these big personalities

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Speaker 1: goofball coaches, and it was wonderful to get sound as

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Speaker 1: a radio guy because they just gave the most ridiculous quotes.

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Speaker 4: It was wonderful.

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Speaker 1: But Frank drafted John Stockton and Carl Malone back to

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Speaker 1: back years, yeah, back to back years in the draft,

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00:34:08,560 --> 00:34:10,719
Speaker 1: and one year we got stocked. In the next year

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00:34:10,719 --> 00:34:13,120
Speaker 1: we got Carl Malone Hall of Famers to the all

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Speaker 1: time greats. And I'll bet you dollars to donuts that

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00:34:16,680 --> 00:34:19,520
Speaker 1: Frank Laydon spent more time choosing what kind of hogi

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00:34:19,920 --> 00:34:22,320
Speaker 1: he was going to have at lunch than he did

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00:34:23,000 --> 00:34:26,160
Speaker 1: scouting or you know, there was no algorithms or anything

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Speaker 1: like that, so he didn't think about predictive models or

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Speaker 1: any of that stuff. All right, please, Yeah, the idea

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Speaker 1: of analytics, Frank Layden was from an era where you

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Speaker 1: shoo a hand, you made a joke, you know, you

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00:34:39,440 --> 00:34:43,160
Speaker 1: told the zinger a one liner, a wise crack, and

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Speaker 1: he coached with a towel. Frank Laydon slung over his shoulder,

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Speaker 1: was already sweaty at the old Salt Palace there in

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Speaker 1: Salt Lake City, and it always looked like he when

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Speaker 1: he was coaching, it looked like he was working at

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Speaker 1: the YMCA and he was going to clean the court

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Speaker 1: and grab the mop. And his news conferences would be

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Speaker 1: stand up comedy.

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Speaker 4: It was back in those days.

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Speaker 1: You just criticize the players, and that's just it just

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00:35:08,160 --> 00:35:12,000
Speaker 1: goofun Now, if you criticize the players as a war tribunal,

627
00:35:12,560 --> 00:35:14,640
Speaker 1: you lose the locker room. Back then, you know that

628
00:35:14,680 --> 00:35:16,560
Speaker 1: guy's fat, that guy's out of shape. You know that

629
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Speaker 1: guy's a loser. That guy should know. But it was

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Speaker 1: a different time. And and Frank Laydon was a throwback

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Speaker 1: again to a time when the NBA was like.

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Speaker 4: Half game, half vaudeville. And listen, younger, young peoples. Oh

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Speaker 4: it was terrible. Yeah, you know that.

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Speaker 1: Losers like that podcaster JJ Reddick like to rip the

635
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Speaker 1: old days.

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Speaker 4: But Frank Laydon, I mean it was. It was great.

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Speaker 4: I have fun memories. So rest in peace, Frank Laydon,

638
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Speaker 4: a life well lived.

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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.

641
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Speaker 4: Here we all the degree, this is one big event.

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Speaker 8: Gets grilled and Cho's wide receiver Marvin Mim said on

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Speaker 8: a radio appearance that quote, you can really feel that

644
00:36:04,840 --> 00:36:07,440
Speaker 8: the times are changing for us, referring to the Broncos.

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Speaker 4: Ben.

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Speaker 8: Last year, the Broncos snapped a streak of eight years

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Speaker 8: without making the making it to the playoffs. Do you

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Speaker 8: think a streak of making it to the postseason has begun?

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Speaker 4: So the math is no on this. It is about

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Speaker 4: the bow show, Bow Nicks.

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Speaker 1: He's at the launching pad, does he go up, up

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Speaker 1: and away with Sean Payton? Denver is going to have

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Speaker 1: a pretty good defense. They figured it to be right, there.

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Speaker 1: You can't say it's the start of a streak because

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Speaker 1: you look at the AFC, the Chiefs are still right

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Speaker 1: there in the penthouse. You've got Buffalo and Baltimore the

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Speaker 1: top teams. But then you look at the wild Cards

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Speaker 1: and so it's the Chargers. The Broncos are in the

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Speaker 1: mix with the Ravens, the Bengals. I think the Patriots

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Speaker 1: will be better this year, and so no, I'm gonna

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Speaker 1: go knowing that next.

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Speaker 8: According to analysts and betting markets, Zach Wheeler and Paul

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Speaker 8: Skeens are neck and neck in the nl CY Young race.

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Speaker 8: Who do you think should win?

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Speaker 4: Well?

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Speaker 1: Major League Baseball would like they don't vote on this,

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Speaker 1: the writers vote on this, but they would like Paul

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Speaker 1: Skeens to win. It's a good story. The pitiful Pirates

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Speaker 1: breakout star. He's got the social media influencer, you know,

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Speaker 1: woman in his life and the whole thing. Zach Wheeler.

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Speaker 1: Though he actually pitches in meaningful games. It's very odd

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Speaker 1: because normally these things are decided the last month of

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Speaker 1: the season. The Pirates, they're not going to play any

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Speaker 1: meaningful games till the grape Fruit League next year. So

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Speaker 1: he's Paul Skeens is gonna have to dominate and then.

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Speaker 1: But I think because of the meaningful games, I give

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Speaker 1: it to Zach Wheeler next.

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Speaker 8: Chiefs Jim Brett Veach said this week that Travis Kelcey

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Speaker 8: may not have it every week, but he can find

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Speaker 8: it when they need it.

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Speaker 9: Ben, Do you think that will be the case for Kelsey, Well,

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Speaker 9: he didn't have it in.

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Speaker 4: The Super Bowl. It looked like he was.

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Speaker 1: Sleepwalking in the Super Bowl, which was the biggest of

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Speaker 1: them all, the granddaddy of them all. He's gonna turn

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Speaker 1: thirty six during the NFL season. Let's put it this way.

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Speaker 1: He's not going to lead the Chiefs in statistics. I

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Speaker 1: wouldn't be betting on him dominating this year.

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Speaker 9: How did we do?

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Speaker 4: It's already over. We won, It's already over.

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Speaker 4: Try ask bad. Twitter said us your questions on Twitter

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Speaker 4: now and now No, of course it's x but you

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Speaker 4: know you know what I mean, So it is ask ban.

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Speaker 1: Your questions are answers a sampling as we are yet

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Speaker 1: again on the pulse of the North American people and

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Speaker 1: globally as well.

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Speaker 4: And now over to Justin for the reading of the questions.

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Speaker 8: All right, Ben Perito would like to know have any

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Speaker 8: of you let loose in Tijuana in your party days? Uh?

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Speaker 4: No, No.

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Speaker 1: I was real close to it in San Diego, and

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Speaker 1: I worked down there years ago, but I haven't spent

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Speaker 1: spent much time in Tijuana, although I did hear some

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Speaker 1: amazing tales about certain shows involving animals you'd see at

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Speaker 1: a zoo Lorena.

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Speaker 10: I don't know if it was Tijuana. I think it

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Speaker 10: was wherever Papa's and beer is. But I definitely had

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Speaker 10: enough Margarita's to fall asleep on the way back across

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Speaker 10: the border.

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Speaker 4: Was it? Was it just across the word because Tijuana

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Speaker 4: was like right across the.

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Speaker 10: Yeah, it was literally just right across the way. Yeah,

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Speaker 10: I was probably in Tijuana.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, you were in Tijuana for sure. Cool.

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Speaker 8: I have driven through Tijuana. I have never stopped in Tijuana.

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Speaker 4: Where were you going?

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Speaker 8: I was going to via di Guadaloupe. It is the

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Speaker 8: wine country of Mexico.

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Speaker 4: Ooh, oh, okay, very good. I know that surfer Todd

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Speaker 4: the comedian.

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Speaker 1: He likes going to Baja California surf great surfing down here.

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Speaker 1: Just gotta have money to pay off the federal allies

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Speaker 1: in the cartel.

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Speaker 4: All right, let's see what is next year? What do

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Speaker 4: we have?

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Speaker 9: What is Ferg Dog would like to know, high Ferg

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Speaker 9: Hi Fergie?

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Speaker 8: Is there anything that you no longer eat after it

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Speaker 8: made you throw up or you almost choked on it?

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Speaker 1: Yes, Rocky Mountain oysters, that was disgusting. I don't eat that,

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Speaker 1: And I'm sure there's some other things, but that's the

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Speaker 1: first thing that popped in my head.

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Speaker 4: That Bible video from years ago. What about you have

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Speaker 4: a raina?

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Speaker 10: Oh my goshuh Nacho cheese jerritos?

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Speaker 4: What Yeah?

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Speaker 10: I got sick on those one time when I was

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Speaker 10: camping when I was little, and they just don't taste

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Speaker 10: the same. Ever since, they always remind me of vomit.

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Speaker 10: Now whenever I eat them.

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Speaker 4: I got food poisoning.

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Speaker 1: I went to the Crazy Chicken and they didn't cook

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Speaker 1: the chicken right one time.

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Speaker 4: But no, I haven't really been back there since that happened. Cool.

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Speaker 8: So when I was a kid, and I don't think

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Speaker 8: it was related to the food at all. And I

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Speaker 8: don't know what happened, but I threw up eating a

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Speaker 8: sugar donut, and for at least ten to fifteen years,

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Speaker 8: I did not eat any sugar donuts.

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Speaker 9: But now I'm back on the sugar donut game.

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Speaker 4: At what point did you cross back over?

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Speaker 9: That was probably late late teenage years.

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Speaker 4: Okay, yeah, thank got you? All right? What is next?

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Speaker 2: Here?

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Speaker 4: It is ask Ben?

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Speaker 1: Your questions are answers for the rest of the hour.

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Speaker 1: These are actual questions by actual listeners of the show.

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Speaker 9: What's next, donkey sausage?

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Speaker 8: Hi, Donkey would like to know for everybody bed or

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Speaker 8: couch for a nap?

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Speaker 1: Yeah, I'm definitely a team cow jump team sofa. You know,

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Speaker 1: settle in there, you get the pillow and you kind

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Speaker 1: of lean on your side, get the TV on.

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Speaker 4: Definitely, definitely.

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Speaker 1: I feel like when you go to bed it's got

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Speaker 1: to be for the full night, not just for a nap.

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Speaker 9: What about you of a rain I am team bed Ben.

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Speaker 4: Bad answer, you lose, you get nothing that's wrong. Cool.

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Speaker 9: So it really depends.

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Speaker 8: If I am super tired because I got like very

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Speaker 8: little sleep the night before, then I might go for

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Speaker 8: a serious nap, an ultra nap. And in that case

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Speaker 8: I will go to the bed, but just for your

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Speaker 8: regular run of the mill naps, couch all the way.

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Speaker 1: Normally Friday, I gotta I record like podcasts on Friday.

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Speaker 4: Like and so I usually by the end of that

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Speaker 4: I'm just like gassed and I'll.

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Speaker 1: Lay down and take a I won't even realize about fallsey.

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Speaker 4: What's next? What do we ever? It's ask Ben. Your

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Speaker 4: questions are answers.

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Speaker 8: The King Rory would like to know hiking best brand

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Speaker 8: of bottled water.

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Speaker 4: I think they're all the same.

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Speaker 1: I don't really, I don't care whatever whatever is in

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Speaker 1: that side Kirkland I use, I guess we mostly in

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Speaker 1: the house we have Kirkland brand water, which is fine.

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Speaker 4: So I just used that.

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Speaker 1: I don't I don't really taste. I don't taste the difference.

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Speaker 1: If I taste something in the water. It sucks.

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Speaker 4: What about you, Lorrena.

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Speaker 10: You know it's not about just taste, it's about the bottle.

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Speaker 10: I'm a big fan. I'm a big fan of Smart water,

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Speaker 10: just squirt it.

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Speaker 1: Why don't you just use the fun Do you buy

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Speaker 1: a bottle and then just fill it up with tap water?

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Speaker 2: Ew?

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Speaker 9: That is one of these California tapwater.

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Speaker 1: That is one of the biggest waste bottled water. One

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Speaker 1: of the great hustles of all time is convincing people

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Speaker 1: to buy bottled water unless.

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Speaker 4: You're in Flint, Michigan. Okay, all right, uh.

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Speaker 8: Coop, I have Kirkland at home, but I do enjoy

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Speaker 8: a nice Fiji water or yeah, smart water is good

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Speaker 8: as well.

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Speaker 4: All right, quickly, what's next? What are we ha here?

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Speaker 9: We've got We've got a question from Have you ever?

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Speaker 8: Freddie wants to know have you ever broken a bone before?

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Speaker 4: Nothing major? Just like a finger and toes a Lorena?

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Speaker 8: No?

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Speaker 4: Never, Oh your.

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Speaker 9: Due, Coop, Nope, not a single one, no wow

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Speaker 4: One team, no break team, no break