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Speaker 1: I appreciate that. And I imagine your third shift guy.

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Speaker 1: That's cool that you can just keep working third shift.

426
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Speaker 1: I thought, I know the department my wife works that

427
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Speaker 1: they have to change shifts every every four months. I

428
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Speaker 1: think it is on a rotating thing. You have to

429
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Speaker 1: work at least once a year. You have to work

430
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Speaker 1: during the day. You can't just work overnights and all.

431
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Speaker 1: That's good. Keep you healthy. I don't know what you're

432
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Speaker 1: talking about. Here's one me like show copraate interview. Good

433
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Speaker 1: you and Gus gone funny? Sorry email too long, Must

434
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Speaker 1: go get beer on tractor now sign I'm a pilot. Yeah, excited,

435
00:23:03,359 --> 00:23:07,600
Speaker 1: you got me excited. You coherent. The words are spelled

436
00:23:07,640 --> 00:23:14,679
Speaker 1: out accurately, great diction, good grammar. I love that guy. Yeah,

437
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Speaker 1: there you go. You should get a room. You can

438
00:23:17,600 --> 00:23:22,840
Speaker 1: get a room well, first class cabin. Yeah. Uh. Joe

439
00:23:23,080 --> 00:23:25,359
Speaker 1: and Darcy in Florida? How about that. I think this

440
00:23:25,400 --> 00:23:27,199
Speaker 1: is the first time we've heard from Joe and Darcy.

441
00:23:27,359 --> 00:23:30,200
Speaker 1: Where's the whiskey couple? Man? I don't know what happened

442
00:23:30,200 --> 00:23:32,160
Speaker 1: to him. I hope they're still I hope you okay?

443
00:23:32,280 --> 00:23:36,199
Speaker 1: And and Jay, I hope they're okay. I'm worried. We

444
00:23:36,280 --> 00:23:38,520
Speaker 1: tried to smoke him out last weekend. They didn't come through.

445
00:23:39,680 --> 00:23:41,960
Speaker 1: My theory as you said something that was offensive and

446
00:23:41,960 --> 00:23:44,520
Speaker 1: they stopped listen. No, the last time we communicated with

447
00:23:44,560 --> 00:23:46,920
Speaker 1: them was I think during Beny versus the Penny when

448
00:23:46,960 --> 00:23:50,960
Speaker 1: they sent that bourbon over hat. I wear the hats

449
00:23:50,960 --> 00:23:54,920
Speaker 1: in my rotation, the Hilltoppers. That's a cool hat. That's

450
00:23:55,000 --> 00:23:57,160
Speaker 1: that's the kind of thing I was talking about. Unique hat,

451
00:23:57,320 --> 00:24:00,919
Speaker 1: college hats. Pretty cool in my my hat rotation. Anyway,

452
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Speaker 1: this is from Joe and Darcy. Stay focused, guest says

453
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Speaker 1: number one. Do you and gascon agree with me that

454
00:24:06,840 --> 00:24:10,480
Speaker 1: the word narrative has become one of the misused and

455
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Speaker 1: overused words in the English link So that's that's one

456
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Speaker 1: of your your words there that according I guess Joe

457
00:24:18,800 --> 00:24:23,800
Speaker 1: is just annoyed by the word narrative. I do use

458
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Speaker 1: the word narrative. It is a synonym for story. So

459
00:24:28,400 --> 00:24:33,800
Speaker 1: rather than just keep saying story, I will say narrative. Um.

460
00:24:33,840 --> 00:24:35,440
Speaker 1: And there's only so many ways you can again I

461
00:24:35,680 --> 00:24:37,320
Speaker 1: talked about earlier, there's only so many ways you can

462
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Speaker 1: say the same thing. So I do use it. Is

463
00:24:40,000 --> 00:24:42,680
Speaker 1: it played out? I don't really pay attention to it.

464
00:24:42,680 --> 00:24:44,280
Speaker 1: It's not played out for me. I try to mix

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Speaker 1: it up. But I might be guilty of using it

466
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Speaker 1: too much, depending really the judge of that. Do you

467
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Speaker 1: have a problem with the word narrative? Um? I think

468
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Speaker 1: the phrase I'll say this, let's played out a lot now.

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Speaker 1: The one that really bothers me is my pet peeve

470
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Speaker 1: at the end of the day. Yeah, I hate that

471
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Speaker 1: about the start of the day. Why is it always

472
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Speaker 1: the end of the day. My day starts in the morning,

473
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Speaker 1: So at the end of the morning, you know, I

474
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Speaker 1: could say at the end of the morning, and I

475
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Speaker 1: go to bed in the morning. The worst phrase that

476
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Speaker 1: I have these days, especially with the NFL Draft passing,

477
00:25:19,880 --> 00:25:23,399
Speaker 1: is whenever guys in the NFL, whether they're pundits or

478
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Speaker 1: experts or whatever the funk they are, when they refer

479
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Speaker 1: to a receiver as a good pass catching and receiver,

480
00:25:32,720 --> 00:25:37,040
Speaker 1: that's redundant. It's just a receiver. You're not a pass

481
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Speaker 1: catching receiver. You are a receiver. Like no one talks

482
00:25:41,400 --> 00:25:45,160
Speaker 1: about a stock blocking wide receiver. They talk about a receiver.

483
00:25:45,240 --> 00:25:47,560
Speaker 1: Can you catch? Yes? If you can't catch, guess what

484
00:25:47,640 --> 00:25:51,359
Speaker 1: you are? A corner? Yeah. Well, you understand that you

485
00:25:51,400 --> 00:25:53,399
Speaker 1: have time to fill as a broadcaster, and so you

486
00:25:53,440 --> 00:25:55,200
Speaker 1: have to mix in the alphabet soup. You have to

487
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Speaker 1: you have to concoction together of words, a rich tapestry

488
00:26:00,800 --> 00:26:05,199
Speaker 1: of words, and make makes you sound really smart. That

489
00:26:05,280 --> 00:26:06,879
Speaker 1: reminds me. I thought I was. We used to we

490
00:26:06,920 --> 00:26:08,280
Speaker 1: used to have fun with Looney when we did the

491
00:26:08,280 --> 00:26:11,120
Speaker 1: Blitz and and he would always mock them by saying,

492
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Speaker 1: this guy's a football player, and I was like, well,

493
00:26:13,280 --> 00:26:15,719
Speaker 1: they're all football players, you know. I was like, yeah,

494
00:26:15,840 --> 00:26:17,760
Speaker 1: the funniest thing. I've said this before, but if you're

495
00:26:17,760 --> 00:26:21,000
Speaker 1: new to the podcast, when I did an NFL show,

496
00:26:21,119 --> 00:26:25,240
Speaker 1: we interviewed the NFL, Fox broadcasters and NFL players for

497
00:26:25,400 --> 00:26:27,520
Speaker 1: We did that for like eight years on Sundays, and

498
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Speaker 1: it was a lot of fun. It was like a

499
00:26:28,520 --> 00:26:31,679
Speaker 1: red red zone around the NFL type deal. We had

500
00:26:31,720 --> 00:26:34,240
Speaker 1: a lot of fun with it um, but it was

501
00:26:34,320 --> 00:26:37,200
Speaker 1: very frustrating interviewing the players because we we really thought

502
00:26:37,200 --> 00:26:40,280
Speaker 1: about the questions we asked, and we we attempted to

503
00:26:40,320 --> 00:26:43,800
Speaker 1: ask good questions and we wanted these great answers, and

504
00:26:44,119 --> 00:26:46,640
Speaker 1: once we crossed over were getting terrible answers. But once

505
00:26:46,680 --> 00:26:51,080
Speaker 1: we just asked cliche, hokey questions, the answers were great.

506
00:26:51,880 --> 00:26:56,359
Speaker 1: Like we were speaking the language the lexicon of the

507
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Speaker 1: football player, and all of a sudden, are it changed

508
00:27:00,080 --> 00:27:03,399
Speaker 1: the whole thing. It's like, wait a minute, we're speaking

509
00:27:03,440 --> 00:27:07,480
Speaker 1: the native tongue the lingo. You know it was good.

510
00:27:07,840 --> 00:27:13,879
Speaker 1: You gotta speak, athletes speak and you will get good answers. Anyway. Uh,

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00:27:14,000 --> 00:27:17,640
Speaker 1: let's see here. Number two from Joe and Darcy. Why

512
00:27:17,640 --> 00:27:20,600
Speaker 1: do former NFL players on TV and radio always insist

513
00:27:20,680 --> 00:27:24,640
Speaker 1: on saying National Football League as opposed to NFL when

514
00:27:24,640 --> 00:27:27,840
Speaker 1: discussing the league? Is that an official directive mandate from

515
00:27:27,840 --> 00:27:31,160
Speaker 1: the NFL? I find it nauseating. I love the radio

516
00:27:31,160 --> 00:27:34,760
Speaker 1: show and podcast. Well, thank you and Darcy. I do

517
00:27:34,880 --> 00:27:36,800
Speaker 1: hear that a lot, and I say it sometimes you

518
00:27:36,960 --> 00:27:38,600
Speaker 1: change again, It's another way to change it out. But

519
00:27:38,600 --> 00:27:42,040
Speaker 1: I don't say it all the time. Wasn't Chris Berman

520
00:27:42,080 --> 00:27:43,160
Speaker 1: the one that used to do that all the time

521
00:27:43,200 --> 00:27:47,120
Speaker 1: that n Ash Football League? Was it Howard Costell? Beforing they? Yeah,

522
00:27:47,160 --> 00:27:51,399
Speaker 1: they both did it. Yeah, Tim writs in and says

523
00:27:51,960 --> 00:27:55,280
Speaker 1: happy belated birthday, Bend love the show listening from davinport

524
00:27:55,400 --> 00:27:58,399
Speaker 1: Iowa on I heart no thank you for that does

525
00:27:58,520 --> 00:28:01,560
Speaker 1: great job on the Rodster Earling impression, by the way,

526
00:28:01,720 --> 00:28:05,200
Speaker 1: very well done. But that also hopefully no more poulter

527
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Speaker 1: Geist scratching at your door. I would scare the absolute

528
00:28:08,640 --> 00:28:10,040
Speaker 1: hell out of me. Yeah, Tim, we didn't have that

529
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Speaker 1: this week's bella State in the House, no Scratching at

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Speaker 1: the door Berry in Music City, Nashville, Tennessee, says Yo

531
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Speaker 1: Yo Mo Benny. What is the one thing you have

532
00:28:20,680 --> 00:28:25,159
Speaker 1: done in your career where you got the most notoriety,

533
00:28:25,440 --> 00:28:31,360
Speaker 1: good or bad. That's a pretty solid question, And off

534
00:28:31,400 --> 00:28:33,280
Speaker 1: the top of my head, I'm trying to think, what

535
00:28:33,359 --> 00:28:38,680
Speaker 1: was it that got the most publicity. Uh. We've had

536
00:28:38,680 --> 00:28:41,760
Speaker 1: a few dust ups where I've made the local newspaper

537
00:28:41,800 --> 00:28:44,760
Speaker 1: in Phoenix or in Houston or Cleveland or something like that,

538
00:28:44,760 --> 00:28:47,920
Speaker 1: where I'll attack one of the local stars and they'll

539
00:28:48,000 --> 00:28:52,600
Speaker 1: unload on me. But I'm trying what was the mall?

540
00:28:52,720 --> 00:28:55,640
Speaker 1: I guess the thing that I probably got known for

541
00:28:55,840 --> 00:29:00,360
Speaker 1: the most was the bashing of the Cavaliers against the

542
00:29:00,400 --> 00:29:05,040
Speaker 1: Warriors with Lebron James. When remember the Warriors blew with

543
00:29:05,080 --> 00:29:07,000
Speaker 1: three to one lead, and I was like, the Calves

544
00:29:07,000 --> 00:29:09,120
Speaker 1: aren't winning. I did all these rants. I was screaming

545
00:29:09,120 --> 00:29:11,480
Speaker 1: into the microphone, They're not when they sucked, they're not

546
00:29:11,480 --> 00:29:14,640
Speaker 1: gonna come back. It's just for ratings purposes, and uh,

547
00:29:14,720 --> 00:29:17,760
Speaker 1: and then they won. And of course everyone loves goofing

548
00:29:17,800 --> 00:29:20,040
Speaker 1: on a prediction that doesn't go the right way, and

549
00:29:20,080 --> 00:29:22,800
Speaker 1: that was so crazy that period of time, the Cleveland

550
00:29:22,840 --> 00:29:26,480
Speaker 1: papers were writing about it, and I ended up at

551
00:29:26,480 --> 00:29:29,040
Speaker 1: the Calves. I still have this photo in my office

552
00:29:30,160 --> 00:29:32,640
Speaker 1: of a guy at the Cavalier parade after they had

553
00:29:32,640 --> 00:29:35,800
Speaker 1: beaten Golden State, ending the curse of Cleveland sports, and

554
00:29:35,840 --> 00:29:38,560
Speaker 1: he had to sign up and it listed all the

555
00:29:38,560 --> 00:29:40,640
Speaker 1: people that didn't believe in the Cavaliers, and I like,

556
00:29:40,800 --> 00:29:43,720
Speaker 1: right next to Skip Bayliss and Stephen A. Smith. That

557
00:29:43,840 --> 00:29:46,400
Speaker 1: was That was pretty cool. That was that was pretty neat.

558
00:29:46,440 --> 00:29:47,800
Speaker 1: But I mean there's been this's, but other things I'm

559
00:29:47,800 --> 00:29:51,720
Speaker 1: probably forgetting. Uh it says also for David Barry says,

560
00:29:51,960 --> 00:29:54,640
Speaker 1: what year do you think Ben will finally grill up

561
00:29:54,680 --> 00:30:00,000
Speaker 1: that Tomahawks steak? Well, I'll screw you, Barry. How dare you? Uh?

562
00:30:00,160 --> 00:30:03,800
Speaker 1: Dave in Mill Valley, I'm blaming it on COVID. Dave

563
00:30:03,840 --> 00:30:07,320
Speaker 1: and Mill Valleys has been uh frequently Lame Joe contributor

564
00:30:07,360 --> 00:30:10,400
Speaker 1: and Talent Show judge Inca Terror has been described as

565
00:30:10,480 --> 00:30:14,320
Speaker 1: a classically trained musician who has played all over the world.

566
00:30:15,120 --> 00:30:19,480
Speaker 1: Wanting to know more, I searched extensively via Google, YouTube,

567
00:30:19,520 --> 00:30:24,880
Speaker 1: et cetera, using multiple spellings variations can't find any reference whatsoever,

568
00:30:25,560 --> 00:30:28,720
Speaker 1: which is rather odd, especially for a professional blind piano

569
00:30:28,760 --> 00:30:32,800
Speaker 1: player living in New York. One would think there would

570
00:30:32,800 --> 00:30:38,080
Speaker 1: at least be a passing mentioned somewhere. So, Ben, is

571
00:30:38,200 --> 00:30:42,160
Speaker 1: this guy for real? Or have we been hoodwinked and

572
00:30:42,320 --> 00:30:51,040
Speaker 1: horns swaggled not to mention bamboozled from Dave in Mill Valley. Uh, well,

573
00:30:51,840 --> 00:30:55,000
Speaker 1: here's the the plot twist on us. I actually know

574
00:30:55,240 --> 00:31:00,520
Speaker 1: for a fact that Inco Terror is a classically trained musician.

575
00:31:01,920 --> 00:31:04,680
Speaker 1: But you're ready for the plot thickening here? Are you

576
00:31:04,720 --> 00:31:08,200
Speaker 1: ready for this? Uh? The reason you cannot find any

577
00:31:08,240 --> 00:31:12,200
Speaker 1: revenge to inco Terror is that's a pseudonym. That's his

578
00:31:12,320 --> 00:31:14,440
Speaker 1: name on the show. He goes by a different name.

579
00:31:14,480 --> 00:31:18,440
Speaker 1: He's got a very uh long name, shall we say.

580
00:31:18,800 --> 00:31:20,080
Speaker 1: A lot of guys do this, you know, you get

581
00:31:20,120 --> 00:31:22,640
Speaker 1: the funky name or the long name that's not easy

582
00:31:22,720 --> 00:31:24,520
Speaker 1: for the normal idiot like me to pronounce, and you

583
00:31:24,560 --> 00:31:29,000
Speaker 1: go with a pseudonym. Uh. And so he's he uses

584
00:31:29,040 --> 00:31:32,320
Speaker 1: inco Terror as an alias, and I don't know if

585
00:31:32,320 --> 00:31:35,000
Speaker 1: he wants. I mean, we'll have him on incoter is great,

586
00:31:35,200 --> 00:31:38,680
Speaker 1: very funny. I'd love for him to run a little

587
00:31:38,680 --> 00:31:40,800
Speaker 1: tune for the show. He hasn't done that. He's he's

588
00:31:40,840 --> 00:31:44,520
Speaker 1: beyond our show. Um, but that's that's just a stage

589
00:31:44,600 --> 00:31:46,840
Speaker 1: name he uses inco Terror. But if he wants him,

590
00:31:46,840 --> 00:31:48,480
Speaker 1: he can give his name out if he wants us to.

591
00:31:48,560 --> 00:31:51,200
Speaker 1: I don't think I can properly pronounce it, but he

592
00:31:51,240 --> 00:31:56,600
Speaker 1: can pronounce it. And he's performed in Russia, um, in Moscow,

593
00:31:56,880 --> 00:32:00,960
Speaker 1: there in Russia, all over Europe. Obviously not recently because

594
00:32:00,960 --> 00:32:05,840
Speaker 1: of the the pandemic. Kevin in Kansas. Right since this man,

595
00:32:05,880 --> 00:32:08,640
Speaker 1: I have listened to a number of baseball broadcasts where

596
00:32:08,640 --> 00:32:11,840
Speaker 1: the announcers are reporting the games live from a studio.

597
00:32:12,440 --> 00:32:15,280
Speaker 1: As someone who used to cover games and do interviews

598
00:32:15,320 --> 00:32:18,400
Speaker 1: at the venue, do you see this current trend replacing

599
00:32:18,400 --> 00:32:22,040
Speaker 1: the old ways? If so, what would be be gaining

600
00:32:22,120 --> 00:32:25,640
Speaker 1: and losing? Alright, so Kevin, let me answer you this way.

601
00:32:25,840 --> 00:32:30,000
Speaker 1: Uh Ay, we would be gaining the opportunity for teams

602
00:32:30,040 --> 00:32:33,040
Speaker 1: to save money. It's very expensive to travel, and the

603
00:32:33,080 --> 00:32:35,960
Speaker 1: teams have ridiculous travel budgets, even though they have and

604
00:32:36,000 --> 00:32:38,160
Speaker 1: I travel with the Dodgers very briefly years ago, but

605
00:32:38,200 --> 00:32:40,960
Speaker 1: they have huge travel budgets. They have deals with the hotels,

606
00:32:41,320 --> 00:32:43,680
Speaker 1: and they have deals with the airlines and the bus services,

607
00:32:43,680 --> 00:32:45,600
Speaker 1: but it still costs them a bunch of money out

608
00:32:45,600 --> 00:32:49,520
Speaker 1: of pocket cost of doing business. So if you don't

609
00:32:49,520 --> 00:32:51,880
Speaker 1: have to send the radio crew, you know how to

610
00:32:51,960 --> 00:32:55,200
Speaker 1: send the TV the production crew that usually travels with

611
00:32:55,280 --> 00:32:58,320
Speaker 1: the team. Uh. And then you talked about you know,

612
00:32:58,920 --> 00:33:01,560
Speaker 1: you know Spanish radio. Oh, you know some teams have

613
00:33:01,640 --> 00:33:06,040
Speaker 1: other languages other than Spanish. You know, you're talking conceivably

614
00:33:06,080 --> 00:33:09,200
Speaker 1: as a broadcast wing. Let's say you've got two radio

615
00:33:09,240 --> 00:33:13,480
Speaker 1: guys to TV guys, to producer, director, sideline reporter that

616
00:33:13,600 --> 00:33:16,280
Speaker 1: what are we up to? That's uh, that's five six

617
00:33:16,360 --> 00:33:19,400
Speaker 1: seven Spanish radio. That's a couple more plus an engineer.

618
00:33:20,280 --> 00:33:23,480
Speaker 1: You're talking about ten to twelve people that are broadcasters

619
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Speaker 1: that travel with the team. So you don't have to

620
00:33:25,560 --> 00:33:27,840
Speaker 1: pay for their hotel rooms. You don't have to. You know,

621
00:33:28,400 --> 00:33:31,160
Speaker 1: every head on the plane, they charge money the airline

622
00:33:31,160 --> 00:33:33,760
Speaker 1: on the charter flights. From what I understand, so you

623
00:33:33,760 --> 00:33:36,960
Speaker 1: don't have the teams will be gaining a savings. What

624
00:33:37,040 --> 00:33:40,280
Speaker 1: would be losing, Well, I think we'd be losing a lot.

625
00:33:40,320 --> 00:33:42,960
Speaker 1: I think to properly call a game, listen, I I

626
00:33:43,000 --> 00:33:45,760
Speaker 1: can call a game off of television. But when you're

627
00:33:45,800 --> 00:33:48,600
Speaker 1: there and you can see things that the camera doesn't show,

628
00:33:49,400 --> 00:33:51,560
Speaker 1: like guests and you're a play by play guy, right,

629
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Speaker 1: I mean you you would admit, I mean, it's a

630
00:33:54,840 --> 00:33:57,040
Speaker 1: much different experience. Yeah, you can call a game, it'll

631
00:33:57,080 --> 00:33:59,400
Speaker 1: be fine, it would be paint by numbers whatever the

632
00:33:59,440 --> 00:34:02,320
Speaker 1: camera shows. But when you're actually at a game, you

633
00:34:02,360 --> 00:34:04,880
Speaker 1: see crap that's not on the camp. But you also

634
00:34:04,920 --> 00:34:07,560
Speaker 1: pick up the stories too. You pick up antidotes from

635
00:34:07,840 --> 00:34:11,279
Speaker 1: either other broadcasters, your beat writers, the reporters that are

636
00:34:11,320 --> 00:34:15,600
Speaker 1: their TV personalities, the players, the coaches, the trainers. Like

637
00:34:15,640 --> 00:34:18,360
Speaker 1: you get to pick up all those things and ingested

638
00:34:18,400 --> 00:34:21,600
Speaker 1: into your broadcast. And yeah, when you're working remotely, you

639
00:34:21,640 --> 00:34:24,360
Speaker 1: can't do any of that stuff. Yeah, oh true. I

640
00:34:24,400 --> 00:34:26,759
Speaker 1: mean listen, we had Charlie Steiner on and Charlie's a

641
00:34:26,800 --> 00:34:29,600
Speaker 1: famous schmoozer and he'd be down there during batting practice

642
00:34:29,680 --> 00:34:32,400
Speaker 1: and John Sterling is the same way, yeah, walking around

643
00:34:32,480 --> 00:34:34,799
Speaker 1: and and that's how those guys do it there. That's

644
00:34:34,960 --> 00:34:36,719
Speaker 1: those are the stories they get, and you pick up

645
00:34:36,800 --> 00:34:39,120
Speaker 1: gems to Most of these guys won't talk to you

646
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Speaker 1: unless you develop a report with them, So that's the

647
00:34:41,920 --> 00:34:43,920
Speaker 1: best way to do is when you're traveling, that's when

648
00:34:43,960 --> 00:34:46,080
Speaker 1: they kind of divulge all that information. Do you build

649
00:34:46,120 --> 00:34:48,160
Speaker 1: trust that way, and then of course you get to

650
00:34:48,360 --> 00:34:52,399
Speaker 1: uh solidify some relationships. Yeah, it's it sucks, but there's

651
00:34:52,400 --> 00:34:54,320
Speaker 1: a lot of these guys that are out there nowadays

652
00:34:54,320 --> 00:34:57,319
Speaker 1: that just look up all that information online and then

653
00:34:57,360 --> 00:35:00,279
Speaker 1: just reported as or talking about it as they got

654
00:35:00,280 --> 00:35:02,360
Speaker 1: it from that source, which is unfortunate, but that's the

655
00:35:02,400 --> 00:35:05,319
Speaker 1: kind of the world we live in now. Yeah. Yeah,

656
00:35:05,600 --> 00:35:07,759
Speaker 1: and then there's also a lot of the straw men

657
00:35:07,840 --> 00:35:12,520
Speaker 1: they bring up and whatnot. The straw man. Pierre from Springfield, Massachusetts,

658
00:35:12,520 --> 00:35:16,840
Speaker 1: home of the pro why did you make that noise?

659
00:35:16,880 --> 00:35:20,040
Speaker 1: Because it's just I'm just waiting for this awful email.

660
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Speaker 1: It's great. It's like a colonoscopy. Everyone on this guy

661
00:35:24,960 --> 00:35:29,439
Speaker 1: is wonderful. This guy gets it. He gets it. Pierre

662
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Speaker 1: from Springfield says, I would like to thank the listener

663
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Speaker 1: that unearthed the audio confirming your nickname Benny the Bopper.

664
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Speaker 1: That was a big story on the show this week,

665
00:35:36,760 --> 00:35:39,759
Speaker 1: Benny the Bopper, But I would like to touch up

666
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Speaker 1: his or her her work because they forgot that you

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Speaker 1: are also known as the Seth Strike him out, sent

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Speaker 1: him down, as evidenced by your first pitch at the

669
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Speaker 1: Bakersfield Blaze game. Any truth to the rumor that you

670
00:35:53,600 --> 00:35:57,480
Speaker 1: essentially shut down a minor league franchise because you embarrassed

671
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Speaker 1: the collection professional pictures, some of which have never made

672
00:36:01,920 --> 00:36:06,399
Speaker 1: the major leagues because they were so humiliated. Also, did

673
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Speaker 1: they suspend the media game at Dodger Stadium because of

674
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Speaker 1: the bomb you hit off a former professional player? Well,

675
00:36:11,960 --> 00:36:14,640
Speaker 1: those are great questions, Pierre Uh, and I do think

676
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Speaker 1: I had a small role. Um The bigger role would

677
00:36:17,120 --> 00:36:20,000
Speaker 1: actually Gascon. As far as Bakersfield going out of business,

678
00:36:20,360 --> 00:36:24,239
Speaker 1: the Gascon touch, the sodom touch of Gascon caused the

679
00:36:24,280 --> 00:36:26,200
Speaker 1: franchise that had been around for almost a hundred years

680
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Speaker 1: to go away. But yeah, I have been vindicated. The

681
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Speaker 1: lollipop curve, which is my bread and butter on the

682
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Speaker 1: mound outstanding, and now Major League Baseball players are copying that,

683
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Speaker 1: honest to goodness Mallard creation, the lollipop curve, And so

684
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Speaker 1: I do create, take credit, and I embarrass some of

685
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Speaker 1: those minor leaguers for the Seattle Marriers, clearly, oh boy,

686
00:36:54,160 --> 00:36:59,680
Speaker 1: every week that guy gives you just lollipop questions it's embarrassing. Yeah,

687
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Speaker 1: you know, Peter, are you get a golden ticket? I'm

688
00:37:01,120 --> 00:37:02,680
Speaker 1: gonna give Pierre. You can't give m a golden ticket

689
00:37:02,719 --> 00:37:05,640
Speaker 1: on a podcast. I can't. You can't do anything I want.

690
00:37:05,800 --> 00:37:07,239
Speaker 1: You know what, I'll give him another. You get two

691
00:37:07,280 --> 00:37:09,400
Speaker 1: golden ticket. You had a golden ticket. You had a

692
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Speaker 1: golden ticket. There you go, p here, congratulations. He didn't

693
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Speaker 1: call anybody, so who cares case everyone's one. Remember he

694
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Speaker 1: sent a bunch of pickle stuff because Eddie hates pickles.

695
00:37:18,800 --> 00:37:22,080
Speaker 1: A bunch of pickles, chips, all kinds of pickle items

696
00:37:22,120 --> 00:37:24,160
Speaker 1: to the That was pretty funny. It was a good

697
00:37:24,360 --> 00:37:27,960
Speaker 1: busting of the balls there. Paris in Nashville, writes in

698
00:37:28,719 --> 00:37:31,000
Speaker 1: He says, what's going on, gentlemen? A long time no speak.

699
00:37:31,719 --> 00:37:36,439
Speaker 1: I'll jump right into it. Have been absolutely fucking madd

700
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Speaker 1: He says, on top of all the political nonsense, I

701
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Speaker 1: broke my kneecap, femur and hip in a car accident.

702
00:37:44,440 --> 00:37:49,800
Speaker 1: That's wow. That's like the Holy Trinity right there. Knee, cap, femur,

703
00:37:50,000 --> 00:37:55,080
Speaker 1: and hip. Holy crap down, how old Paris is? That's

704
00:37:56,239 --> 00:37:58,920
Speaker 1: and I've heard that that hip man, that ale that'll

705
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Speaker 1: addle han You man, the pain in that hip game changer. Yeah,

706
00:38:03,440 --> 00:38:06,839
Speaker 1: that's terrible, man, I feel bad. Wow, that sucks, he says.

707
00:38:06,840 --> 00:38:08,640
Speaker 1: I was out of work for four to five months,

708
00:38:08,640 --> 00:38:11,040
Speaker 1: so I missed the podcast. I finally caught up to

709
00:38:11,120 --> 00:38:14,839
Speaker 1: the fifth hour, some one hundred odd episodes, but it

710
00:38:14,880 --> 00:38:16,680
Speaker 1: was worth the time. I couldn't listen to the main

711
00:38:16,719 --> 00:38:19,520
Speaker 1: show because your other co workers aren't nearly as good

712
00:38:19,560 --> 00:38:23,319
Speaker 1: as guests. Holy crap, Why did you pay this guy

713
00:38:23,320 --> 00:38:29,200
Speaker 1: to write that gag? On Jesus? David Gaffagan right over there? Uh,

714
00:38:29,239 --> 00:38:31,040
Speaker 1: it says, I would love to leave review, but as

715
00:38:31,040 --> 00:38:35,719
Speaker 1: an Android user, this isn't possible. If there becomes a

716
00:38:35,760 --> 00:38:39,000
Speaker 1: way let the people know so we can show support

717
00:38:39,200 --> 00:38:41,400
Speaker 1: and again listen if you have an Android, I get it.

718
00:38:42,000 --> 00:38:44,920
Speaker 1: The main way you support the show is just subscribing

719
00:38:44,960 --> 00:38:49,040
Speaker 1: to the podcast, downloading the podcast, telling your friends you

720
00:38:49,080 --> 00:38:51,440
Speaker 1: don't have to, you know, shove it down their throats,

721
00:38:51,480 --> 00:38:53,800
Speaker 1: but just bring it up casually. Hey I got this podcast.

722
00:38:53,840 --> 00:38:55,880
Speaker 1: You know, it's kind of it's a hidden gem that

723
00:38:55,960 --> 00:38:59,560
Speaker 1: kind of thing. Um, but whatever. The guerrilla marketing, that's

724
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Speaker 1: how we roll the Mallard Militia, and you've been very

725
00:39:02,239 --> 00:39:04,960
Speaker 1: very good. We we the numbers are from what we're hearing,

726
00:39:05,000 --> 00:39:07,560
Speaker 1: gascon very good. For the podcast, they continue to go up,

727
00:39:08,320 --> 00:39:11,200
Speaker 1: and that's a that's really not us, that's you. We're

728
00:39:11,200 --> 00:39:14,319
Speaker 1: doing the same marginal podcast that we did when we

729
00:39:14,360 --> 00:39:18,359
Speaker 1: started it. The only thing different is that listeners like

730
00:39:18,400 --> 00:39:20,520
Speaker 1: yourself are spreading the word. Well. I don't know. I

731
00:39:20,560 --> 00:39:25,480
Speaker 1: think that the production I think has been fantastic. I

732
00:39:25,480 --> 00:39:28,319
Speaker 1: think the product. My favorite podcast we when you were

733
00:39:28,320 --> 00:39:32,440
Speaker 1: producing and we had an interview and you couldn't understand

734
00:39:32,440 --> 00:39:35,920
Speaker 1: anything during the entire interview because everything was overmodulated. That

735
00:39:36,000 --> 00:39:40,919
Speaker 1: was your work, but you you did not change, Big Mike,

736
00:39:41,280 --> 00:39:44,879
Speaker 1: how to properly produce the podcast Bad job by you.

737
00:39:44,880 --> 00:39:50,000
Speaker 1: You sabotaged a great interview with mel Proctor Baltimore Oriole

738
00:39:50,239 --> 00:39:55,840
Speaker 1: Broadcasting legend. I had a headache listening to that podcast.

739
00:39:55,960 --> 00:39:58,840
Speaker 1: What do you what do you think about his his

740
00:39:58,920 --> 00:40:02,120
Speaker 1: approval though the show? Oh, I mean the podcast compared

741
00:40:02,160 --> 00:40:04,360
Speaker 1: to the show, Like, do you think that that warrants

742
00:40:04,400 --> 00:40:09,840
Speaker 1: me to come in every night to be on your show? No? No,

743
00:40:10,320 --> 00:40:12,520
Speaker 1: Coop's holding down the ford. I think we're okay. Well,

744
00:40:12,560 --> 00:40:14,880
Speaker 1: I mean you have him to produce, but yes, you

745
00:40:14,960 --> 00:40:16,839
Speaker 1: know that that wouldn't be my role if I came

746
00:40:16,840 --> 00:40:20,520
Speaker 1: out on this. No, no, I will tell you I

747
00:40:20,560 --> 00:40:26,880
Speaker 1: would prefer you over that at stage five cleaner guy

748
00:40:27,400 --> 00:40:30,120
Speaker 1: that is also from I believe West of the four

749
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Speaker 1: oh five Brian Familey. I forget the guy's name. I

750
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Speaker 1: don't know that. I don't I don't say his name.

751
00:40:35,200 --> 00:40:42,120
Speaker 1: That's an FCC violation. But that the Art Martinez Flinger

752
00:40:42,840 --> 00:40:45,560
Speaker 1: already out of the blue. The great Art Martinez when

753
00:40:45,840 --> 00:40:48,600
Speaker 1: to me the gold standard. He is the greatest. With

754
00:40:48,640 --> 00:40:50,719
Speaker 1: all due respect to Roberto and Danny g and the

755
00:40:50,719 --> 00:40:57,799
Speaker 1: other engineers. I've had Julio Art Martinez amazing as an engineer.

756
00:40:58,600 --> 00:41:01,279
Speaker 1: The soundbites he play is, oh my god, he's great.

757
00:41:01,280 --> 00:41:03,360
Speaker 1: But anyway, Art, I didn't talked to Art in months,

758
00:41:03,960 --> 00:41:06,160
Speaker 1: and he randomly sent me a text. He was complaining

759
00:41:06,200 --> 00:41:09,840
Speaker 1: about the Dodgers, like they lost to the Cubs the

760
00:41:09,920 --> 00:41:12,480
Speaker 1: other day. The hell is going on with ourt Dodgers,

761
00:41:12,520 --> 00:41:15,319
Speaker 1: you know, and he's getting angry. He's pretty funny. It

762
00:41:15,440 --> 00:41:18,319
Speaker 1: was it was pretty good, uh, he said last week?

763
00:41:18,360 --> 00:41:20,880
Speaker 1: Then you mentioned feeding a dog human food and it

764
00:41:21,040 --> 00:41:26,360
Speaker 1: is not good for them. Paris says, well, in actual reality,

765
00:41:26,560 --> 00:41:29,359
Speaker 1: kibble isn't good for them either they have a hard

766
00:41:29,400 --> 00:41:33,920
Speaker 1: time digesting kibble. I feed my husky raw and have

767
00:41:34,160 --> 00:41:36,120
Speaker 1: since he was a pup, and he is by far

768
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Speaker 1: the healthiest dog I know. I love huskies. Huskies are great,

769
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Speaker 1: big big dogs are cool, like to hang out with

770
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Speaker 1: for a day or two. But then they shipped everywhere

771
00:41:47,640 --> 00:41:51,920
Speaker 1: and it's like, I'm more into the little lap dogs,

772
00:41:52,040 --> 00:41:54,520
Speaker 1: a little little bitch boy dogs like the little lap

773
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Speaker 1: dogs dogs. Good dog dog was sitting in your lap

774
00:41:59,560 --> 00:42:01,960
Speaker 1: watch Team you with the couch potato dog. Anyway, he

775
00:42:02,000 --> 00:42:04,040
Speaker 1: gave me his website. He says he gets his food

776
00:42:04,080 --> 00:42:06,600
Speaker 1: from we feed raw dot com. You ever heard of that?

777
00:42:07,040 --> 00:42:10,000
Speaker 1: How don't you go look it up? For men? It's

778
00:42:10,040 --> 00:42:13,439
Speaker 1: a porn size. I mean, you think this is a joke.

779
00:42:13,560 --> 00:42:16,080
Speaker 1: And then I'm not gonna look. Now I'm not gonna look.

780
00:42:16,120 --> 00:42:19,319
Speaker 1: I'm now you scared me. Now I'm not gonna go

781
00:42:19,360 --> 00:42:22,000
Speaker 1: to we feed draw dot com because I uh, yeah,

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00:42:22,680 --> 00:42:27,920
Speaker 1: we feed raw right, excuse me? We feed raw all right?

783
00:42:30,160 --> 00:42:32,480
Speaker 1: He says, what is the What is the worst movie

784
00:42:32,880 --> 00:42:36,440
Speaker 1: you've seen recently? He says, I watched Without Remorse that

785
00:42:36,560 --> 00:42:40,959
Speaker 1: debuted on Amazon Prime this weekend, and it was fucking terrible. Yeah,

786
00:42:41,040 --> 00:42:43,200
Speaker 1: Michael beat Jordan. Everyone's gonna heart on for him. I

787
00:42:43,200 --> 00:42:45,680
Speaker 1: don't know why you haven't seen a lot of movies.

788
00:42:45,760 --> 00:42:47,839
Speaker 1: I'm watching a lot of documentaries. But there's nothing that's

789
00:42:47,840 --> 00:42:50,439
Speaker 1: been terrible. There's a lot of average stuff. He says,

790
00:42:50,440 --> 00:42:52,759
Speaker 1: ps that email from I'm a Pilot last week was

791
00:42:52,800 --> 00:42:56,440
Speaker 1: absolutely hilarious. So good see someone else that agrees with

792
00:42:56,520 --> 00:43:00,120
Speaker 1: me on this. I mean, I'm a poltis magnificent, a

793
00:43:00,160 --> 00:43:02,440
Speaker 1: little long winded, and we appreciate that because he's got

794
00:43:02,440 --> 00:43:07,040
Speaker 1: tales from going over them. We have limited time. I

795
00:43:07,040 --> 00:43:09,200
Speaker 1: gotta hurry up here, he says. Also, if you if

796
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Speaker 1: you add a fourth date of the podcast till now,

797
00:43:11,640 --> 00:43:13,480
Speaker 1: that's not happening, But he says, if you did, just

798
00:43:13,560 --> 00:43:18,280
Speaker 1: do movie reviews, I'm good. Travis and Roseberg Oregon says,

799
00:43:18,320 --> 00:43:22,200
Speaker 1: with the trend of celebrity fights, who would you like

800
00:43:22,360 --> 00:43:26,279
Speaker 1: to get in the ring with given the chance? Well,

801
00:43:26,880 --> 00:43:30,960
Speaker 1: I think you mentioned the name earlier there, Keiscon. I

802
00:43:31,000 --> 00:43:34,279
Speaker 1: forget the guy's name there, but he's a Stage five cleaner. Well,

803
00:43:34,280 --> 00:43:36,680
Speaker 1: a couple of punches, that guy would be down and

804
00:43:36,719 --> 00:43:40,279
Speaker 1: he would be saying no moss, no moss. He'd be

805
00:43:40,520 --> 00:43:42,960
Speaker 1: crying for mommy. That's what he would be doing. You're

806
00:43:43,000 --> 00:43:46,760
Speaker 1: not the violent type. But when I get the rage,

807
00:43:47,880 --> 00:43:52,440
Speaker 1: when I get angry enough, it is impending doom. Uh.

808
00:43:52,920 --> 00:43:54,320
Speaker 1: And you talk to any of my producers. You know,

809
00:43:54,320 --> 00:43:57,799
Speaker 1: I'm pretty mellow, pretty calm, but every once in a while, uh,

810
00:43:57,880 --> 00:44:04,200
Speaker 1: Mount Benny explodes called boom. When you get bad, I laugh, Oh,

811
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Speaker 1: I've really got I got angry with Bergie one time.

812
00:44:07,040 --> 00:44:10,000
Speaker 1: I've gotten angry with Coop. Uh. Not so much with

813
00:44:10,000 --> 00:44:12,520
Speaker 1: Bob Garret, but some of these other guys. I've screamed,

814
00:44:12,520 --> 00:44:15,680
Speaker 1: been shouted. And you ever did that ship to me,

815
00:44:16,280 --> 00:44:20,879
Speaker 1: I would laugh in your face. Sometimes you gotta bring

816
00:44:20,960 --> 00:44:23,040
Speaker 1: down the hammer. Got John the jailer says. It's been

817
00:44:23,080 --> 00:44:27,040
Speaker 1: reported It's been reported that Bill Gates had a stipulation

818
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Speaker 1: before getting married that he would still be allowed once

819
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Speaker 1: a year to go on vacation with an ex girlfriend.

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00:44:32,719 --> 00:44:35,200
Speaker 1: Is that true? Ben? I was wondering if you had

821
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Speaker 1: any plans on renewing your vows, maybe you could slip

822
00:44:39,560 --> 00:44:42,560
Speaker 1: this in there when you guys get married again. We

823
00:44:42,680 --> 00:44:49,520
Speaker 1: got married in July of you got what twe years

824
00:44:49,520 --> 00:44:54,080
Speaker 1: away then from renewing agreement. I didn't know it was

825
00:44:54,120 --> 00:44:55,680
Speaker 1: just a ten year deal and you had to renew

826
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Speaker 1: the contract. They didn't realize that a lifetime deal. I

827
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Speaker 1: don't know. I know a lot of people that do

828
00:44:59,400 --> 00:45:04,040
Speaker 1: it like in mentally every five years. Uh. Yeah, I'm fine,

829
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Speaker 1: my wife wants to do it, okay with it? Uh?

830
00:45:08,719 --> 00:45:11,800
Speaker 1: This is uh also gascon. Would you attempt to convince

831
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Speaker 1: your future bride or groom to agree to such terms? Yeah?

832
00:45:16,640 --> 00:45:18,040
Speaker 1: Would you like to have like it's the de Andre

833
00:45:18,160 --> 00:45:20,160
Speaker 1: Cairolinko think John that jail are saying we'll get some

834
00:45:20,239 --> 00:45:24,719
Speaker 1: free pass. Would never share? Yeah? Well I know. I

835
00:45:24,760 --> 00:45:26,920
Speaker 1: think it's more she doesn't get to share, but you

836
00:45:26,920 --> 00:45:31,040
Speaker 1: get to have a little uh side action side. Nah.

837
00:45:31,160 --> 00:45:34,399
Speaker 1: You just go down a dark hole and you do that. Yeah,

838
00:45:34,520 --> 00:45:36,800
Speaker 1: that is true. And even when people say it's no

839
00:45:36,960 --> 00:45:39,919
Speaker 1: big deal, it's a big deal. Yeah, it's a big deal.

840
00:45:39,960 --> 00:45:43,399
Speaker 1: A balls fan Jimmy from Fayetteville, Tennessee, says, Ben, if

841
00:45:43,400 --> 00:45:45,920
Speaker 1: you walked into the studio and saw a gag on

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Speaker 1: both the show and Brian Finley, what would your expectations be?

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Speaker 1: Will they be very low? Uh? And just being sincere here,

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Speaker 1: they'd be very low. I look around the room, I

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Speaker 1: say what what did I do to this? Or of this?

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Speaker 1: You know what? What kind of the marginal shoddy inferior people.

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Speaker 1: I'm surrounded by what a rinky dink outfit? This is

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Speaker 1: how dare you out there? You? Shame on you? But

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Speaker 1: really I did talking about you get gone? Yeah, I

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Speaker 1: want to point that out. Yeah, great, colleague, I think

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Speaker 1: we're out of time. Thanks to Kevin from Rockford, Illinois.

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Speaker 1: He had a question about He said he went hiking

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Speaker 1: in Manito Springs Incline in Colorado. Ever heard of that? No?

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Speaker 1: But did he have a did he send a picture? No?

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Speaker 1: But I saw some some photos of it. He's, uh,

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Speaker 1: it's pretty cool. I don't know that would be He says,

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Speaker 1: you can once you do that, you can skip the

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Speaker 1: treadmill for a few days. I bet it looks beautiful.

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Speaker 1: I looked at some photos of it. M A. N.

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Speaker 1: I t o U Springs Incline in Colorado, So you

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Speaker 1: can check that up. Charlie and Memphis Will in Springfield

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Speaker 1: sent questions. We didn't have time to get to your questions,

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Speaker 1: so we thank you. Big. Mike from Courtland, New York,

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Speaker 1: the Crown City he sent a question as well, and

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Speaker 1: we just ran out of time, So bad job by us,

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Speaker 1: but we do acknowledge you contributing content to the podcast

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Speaker 1: and that is the most important thing. All right, Gas,

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Speaker 1: thank you. We'll be back on the radio tonight. Another

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Speaker 1: amazing addition of the Ben Maller Radio program. All the

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Speaker 1: big news of the weekend. Will catch you then and

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Speaker 1: have a wonderful rest of your day. Be sure to

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Speaker 1: catch live editions of The Ben Maller Show weekday, said

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Speaker 1: two am Eastern eleven pm Pacific, on Fox Sports Radio

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