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Speaker 3: Well if you had the American League Championship Series over

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Speaker 3: not get the memo. They did not get the memo.

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Speaker 1: from the Blue Jay locker room, not dead yet, not

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Speaker 1: dead yet, that is our lead. We go to Seattle,

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Speaker 1: the beautiful Pacific Northwest, the eye of the baseball universe,

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Speaker 1: as the only team from the Cartel of Baseball that

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Speaker 1: Series two wins away, trying to trim that down a

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Speaker 1: little bit more. There was some buzz in the air.

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Speaker 1: One fired up there and how did that go? Mariners

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Speaker 1: Series in Island game it was hump day all that

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Speaker 1: and if you were not watching on Fox, maybe you

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Speaker 1: missed it. Vladdie no longer in a slump. Vladimir Guerrero

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Speaker 1: Junior with not one, not two, not three, but four hits,

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Speaker 1: Blue Jays hit not one, not two, not three, not four,

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Speaker 1: but five ding dongs. That's a lot of ding dongs.

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Speaker 1: Hollering James with like that amount of ding dongs, pasting

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Speaker 1: the Mariners, absolutely pacing them thirteen to four the final

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Speaker 1: in Game three, and we had forever dirty, cheating Astro

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Speaker 1: alumni George Springer also had a dinger and three hits

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Speaker 1: shots as Toronto finished with. As we mentioned the five

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Speaker 1: I'm told that's a lot. The better story, though, is

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Speaker 1: we will begin as we discuss the question when a

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Speaker 1: team gets absolutely smoked like this, what an embarrassment? The

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Speaker 1: question is who gets the blame for cal Raley's Mariners

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Speaker 1: God awful starting pitching right, utterly worthless. And while Kirby

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Speaker 1: He did not change the diaper. He said, you know what,

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Speaker 1: Now the mallord advice to the Seattle baseball team. I

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Speaker 1: take a deuce, you don't sit there and look at it. No, no,

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Speaker 1: The Mariners, who absolutely that was more of a diarrhea

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Speaker 1: and we have road field advantage in baseball. It's something

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Speaker 1: It's been that way for years since the players' union complained,

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Speaker 1: They're away from their families. They like that. But you're

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Speaker 1: star Vladimir Guerrero Junior and his big night. Now, we

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Speaker 1: Junior had been absolutely monster matching against the Yankees, against

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Speaker 1: And now in this game, it was like vintage Joe

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Speaker 1: the bouncer at the door there, and he was telling

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Speaker 1: get out of here, You're not invited. The vodoo bugaloo,

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Speaker 1: the mental voodoo boogoloo, the classic slumpbuster stuff. Mark Grace

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Speaker 1: the mental undressing of the matches. They say, when you

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Speaker 1: clearly approached things much differently. The Blue Jays decided to

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Speaker 1: me hit ball, caveman approach. Right, all eighteen hits within

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Speaker 1: No I'm gonna try to outsmart you, and no it

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Speaker 1: was a sledgehammer. Now it did help. It absolutely helped

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Speaker 1: that the Mariner pitchers, led by the aforementioned mister Kirby,

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Speaker 1: bistro and serve oversized meatballs right there. Or another way

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Speaker 1: to look at it, it's like a kid's birthday party

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Speaker 1: and they don't have any blindfolds. They have a giant

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Speaker 1: I granted this is something for me and you might

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Speaker 1: And I'm sitting there watching this game and I heard

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Speaker 1: was more than that. John Smoltz on the broadcast kept

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Speaker 1: saying momentum. Like every inning he said momentum, every single inning.

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Speaker 1: There must have been a momentum button that they pressed.

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Speaker 1: his clear addiction to using the word momentum during these

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Speaker 1: playoff broadcasts. Well, it is the elephant in the room,

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Speaker 1: the Komodo dragon in the room. John Smoltz is out there.

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Speaker 1: He's tossing around the word momentum like he's in the

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Speaker 1: French corner in New Orleans and he's tossing beads out

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Speaker 1: at Marti Gras just about every at bat. It seemed

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Speaker 1: I may or may not be embellishing every foul ball

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Speaker 1: Momentumness momentum that I swear if he could have trademarked momentum,

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Speaker 1: imagine how much money he would have made from revenue

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Speaker 1: from that, I mean the royalties. By the third inning,

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Speaker 1: what he would have done. It was like he was

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Speaker 1: praying to the flying spaghetti Monster of baseball, because momentum

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Speaker 1: is as real in baseball as the flying spaghetti monster.

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Speaker 1: You all told me, you said, Oh my god, the

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Speaker 1: Mariners have all the momentum. How'd that work out for you? Good?

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Speaker 1: You use a lot of money. I hope you lost

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Speaker 1: a lot of money. A lot of money, all right,

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Speaker 1: So might as well just pray to the flying spaghetti monster.

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Speaker 7: Fair not life isn't fair. People are gonna say what

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Speaker 7: they have to say. We win, we lose. People have

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Speaker 7: stuff to say, it's lucky. It was not lucky. People

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Speaker 7: have stuff to say, Hey, you know, I have a

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Speaker 7: bad game.

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Speaker 1: Have a good game.

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Speaker 7: People have stuff to say. So it's it's it doesn't matter.

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Speaker 7: We're only worried about what's going on here within.

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Speaker 1: This building and with these guys.

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Speaker 7: That's all I can say about that.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, Yeah, I got the I got the over, I

436
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Speaker 1: got the I wait, I win the Cha Williams game.

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Speaker 1: What do I win? Lraya, Do I win a golden ticket?

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Speaker 6: You?

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Speaker 1: Did I win a gold Take it? I want to go.

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Speaker 1: I want gold Okay, back to the point, So he's

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Speaker 1: not well spoken. Fine, neither was I. When I was

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Speaker 1: age age, However, I knew I couldn't versus could he

443
00:26:00,600 --> 00:26:03,760
Speaker 1: said I could care less. He meant to say, I couldn't.

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00:26:04,000 --> 00:26:06,199
Speaker 1: Am I nitpicking? Yes, I'm a talk show host. That's

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Speaker 1: what I do. Oh my goodness. So if Caleb Williams

446
00:26:10,080 --> 00:26:14,000
Speaker 1: didn't care about what Troy Aikman said, he would not

447
00:26:14,280 --> 00:26:17,880
Speaker 1: have fired up the Graham and typed it was lucky

448
00:26:18,200 --> 00:26:23,080
Speaker 1: ta for Troy Aikman with a little smirk emoji and

449
00:26:23,119 --> 00:26:25,520
Speaker 1: then hit the send button, the post button on that.

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00:26:25,600 --> 00:26:31,399
Speaker 1: You don't post a shadow quote unless it stings a

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00:26:31,440 --> 00:26:37,440
Speaker 1: little bit. It just common sense. This is classic I'm

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Speaker 1: not mad, I'm laughing energy, except you are mad. You

453
00:26:43,400 --> 00:26:47,040
Speaker 1: are mad. That was a needle. You were poked with

454
00:26:47,119 --> 00:26:55,000
Speaker 1: a needle. Troy Aikman essentially called him not good lucky

455
00:26:55,640 --> 00:26:59,680
Speaker 1: on national television, not poised, not clutch for the game

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00:26:59,720 --> 00:27:03,920
Speaker 1: winning ve lucky with a capitol L for a guy

457
00:27:04,040 --> 00:27:08,040
Speaker 1: like Caleb. You talk about coddle, professional athlete who spent

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Speaker 1: his whole life back in his days in high school

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Speaker 1: and then going to Oklahoma and the University of Southern

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00:27:13,400 --> 00:27:18,359
Speaker 1: California as the Golden Boy. That is a punch to

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Speaker 1: the ego, not the gut the ego. Hall of Famer

462
00:27:21,800 --> 00:27:24,600
Speaker 1: Dallas Cowboy legend. Do you understand Kayla Williams entire life.

463
00:27:24,640 --> 00:27:29,080
Speaker 1: The Cowboys have sucked. They've been terrible. Caleb Williams entire life,

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00:27:29,119 --> 00:27:31,760
Speaker 1: the Cowboys have med So Troy Aikman's like a ghost

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00:27:31,840 --> 00:27:34,680
Speaker 1: from a previous life when you talk about him being

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Speaker 1: a great Dallas Cowboy quarterback. Nonetheless, here's a Hall of

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00:27:37,880 --> 00:27:43,199
Speaker 1: Famer questioning the football IQ of the quarterback of the

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Speaker 1: Chicago Bears for millions and millions of people. And Caleb

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00:27:47,280 --> 00:27:50,840
Speaker 1: said he was just messing around. No, you weren't. If

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00:27:50,920 --> 00:27:55,439
Speaker 1: you've got to explain the joke, the rule is you

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00:27:55,520 --> 00:27:59,000
Speaker 1: weren't joke and that's it. And there is a little

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Speaker 1: bit of truth in every joke. If he really didn't care,

473
00:28:03,080 --> 00:28:05,199
Speaker 1: he would have just iced it out. That's what you do.

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00:28:05,280 --> 00:28:08,040
Speaker 1: You say nothing, you do nothing. You let the highlights

475
00:28:08,040 --> 00:28:11,640
Speaker 1: speak for yourself. You say, I didn't watch the broadcast.

476
00:28:11,680 --> 00:28:13,399
Speaker 1: I don't know what you're talking about. I didn't hear

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00:28:13,400 --> 00:28:16,600
Speaker 1: any of that noise. I was playing in the game. Instead,

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00:28:17,680 --> 00:28:21,879
Speaker 1: What did Caleb do? He screenshot it, he subtweeted, He

479
00:28:22,000 --> 00:28:25,320
Speaker 1: posted on Instagram like a high schooler after a breakup.

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00:28:25,920 --> 00:28:29,640
Speaker 1: We imagine it's more likely than not that Caleb Williams

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00:28:30,240 --> 00:28:34,919
Speaker 1: claps back with a manicure, and then the cartoon bubble

482
00:28:35,040 --> 00:28:37,960
Speaker 1: in my head. I imagine he would respond like a

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00:28:38,200 --> 00:28:43,960
Speaker 1: gen Z super villain. Not sending flowers, He's painting fingernails.

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00:28:44,040 --> 00:28:47,160
Speaker 1: Don't be shocked if in the next Chicago Bears game

485
00:28:47,240 --> 00:28:53,280
Speaker 1: he gets Troy Aikman's face painted on his cuticlesters his fingernails,

486
00:28:53,320 --> 00:28:55,640
Speaker 1: and he is a little circle and then an X

487
00:28:55,960 --> 00:29:01,160
Speaker 1: right across Akman's face. Now that would be super villain activity,

488
00:29:01,320 --> 00:29:03,680
Speaker 1: turning the face. Speaking of supervillain, we go to Cleveland,

489
00:29:04,000 --> 00:29:07,920
Speaker 1: where the Browns edge rusher Miles Garrett is publicly enemy

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00:29:08,120 --> 00:29:15,040
Speaker 1: number one and he has been under siege for attitude issues.

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00:29:15,120 --> 00:29:20,000
Speaker 1: After the Browns had a no show an absenteeism performance

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Speaker 1: by Miles Garrett against the Pittsburgh football team, he was

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Speaker 1: asked if it's harder to keep playing with the Browns

494
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Speaker 1: as they are one in five on the season now,

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00:29:29,680 --> 00:29:36,800
Speaker 1: and Garrett gave a one word answer. Y Ea, h yeah,

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00:29:37,440 --> 00:29:40,240
Speaker 1: was his response. Now, this comes after a game in

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00:29:40,280 --> 00:29:45,160
Speaker 1: which the Steelers did whatever they wanted against Miles Garrett.

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00:29:45,160 --> 00:29:47,520
Speaker 1: Garrett had as many sacks as you had. He had

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Speaker 1: as many quarterback hits as you and I had combined,

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00:29:50,360 --> 00:29:55,600
Speaker 1: and two tackles, no individual tackles, they were assist tackles.

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00:29:55,880 --> 00:29:59,760
Speaker 1: He's been called out by members of the Cleveland Fourth

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00:29:59,720 --> 00:30:04,000
Speaker 1: of for being a bad leader, among other things. Question,

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00:30:05,120 --> 00:30:09,800
Speaker 1: does Miles Garrett deserve all the noise, all of the

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00:30:09,800 --> 00:30:15,560
Speaker 1: noise being directed his way from the Cleveland media. So,

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Speaker 1: Miles Garrett, based on the quotes that I've been reading

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Speaker 1: from postgame in Pittsburgh, sounded like a man floating on

507
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Speaker 1: a pontoon boat with a lawn chair and a mimosa

508
00:30:31,400 --> 00:30:35,040
Speaker 1: as the Cuyahoga River caught on fire and he wasn't

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Speaker 1: in any hurry to get off the Cuyahoga River. It

510
00:30:37,760 --> 00:30:39,600
Speaker 1: was on fire, and he just put that lawn chair

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00:30:39,720 --> 00:30:41,480
Speaker 1: down there and he just kind of enjoyed his drink,

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00:30:41,520 --> 00:30:44,560
Speaker 1: and that was It sounded like that guy Rafael from

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00:30:44,640 --> 00:30:50,040
Speaker 1: Orlando they called Last Hour. It's not some Shakespearean tragedy.

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00:30:50,080 --> 00:30:54,000
Speaker 1: It's Cleveland. It's what they do. This is the Cleveland

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00:30:54,000 --> 00:30:58,480
Speaker 1: Browns living up to the franchise charter. Miles Garrett physically

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00:30:58,600 --> 00:31:01,320
Speaker 1: is built like a Donnis. He's a cheat code. However,

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00:31:02,120 --> 00:31:05,960
Speaker 1: it's not Captain America here. It's not, he's a football

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00:31:06,040 --> 00:31:10,280
Speaker 1: mercenary two hundred and four million dollars miles. Garrett said,

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Speaker 1: I don't want to play in Cleveland. I don't want

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00:31:12,720 --> 00:31:15,440
Speaker 1: to play here. We can't win here. The Brown said,

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Speaker 1: we want to keep you. Garrett said, I don't want

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Speaker 1: to play here. I want to go somewhere else. The

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Speaker 1: Brown said, here's two hundred and four million miles. Garrett says,

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Speaker 1: I love Cleveland. In January love it got to no

525
00:31:26,760 --> 00:31:33,600
Speaker 1: trade claws Fort Knox a Fort Knox gold Bouyon type payout.

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00:31:33,880 --> 00:31:37,360
Speaker 1: The Browns backed up all of the Brins trucks they

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00:31:37,360 --> 00:31:41,320
Speaker 1: could get, and now they filled it instead of gold Bouyon,

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00:31:41,400 --> 00:31:44,080
Speaker 1: they filled it with brown colored monopoly money. I didn't

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Speaker 1: know they made that. And handed him the keys to

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Speaker 1: the vault and said here, knock yourself out. Okay, I'll

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Speaker 1: take that key to the vault, thank you very much.

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00:31:51,320 --> 00:31:53,960
Speaker 1: And he said, yeah, sure, I'll stay inside the Factory

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Speaker 1: of Sadness. It's warm in here, and the Wi Fi

534
00:31:58,320 --> 00:32:03,520
Speaker 1: works pretty good. And that's it has that thousand yard stare,

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Speaker 1: if you know what I mean, looking off into the

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00:32:05,360 --> 00:32:07,960
Speaker 1: distance like I could have been there. I could have

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00:32:08,000 --> 00:32:11,280
Speaker 1: been there, I could have been over there and again,

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00:32:11,360 --> 00:32:13,760
Speaker 1: no sacks, no quarterback hit. It's a whole lot of

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00:32:13,800 --> 00:32:16,960
Speaker 1: woe is Me postgame in the sound bites. And my

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00:32:17,120 --> 00:32:21,000
Speaker 1: man signed the deal with full knowledge that the Browns

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00:32:21,040 --> 00:32:25,720
Speaker 1: are essentially a Netflix reboot of their own misery every season,

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00:32:27,000 --> 00:32:29,600
Speaker 1: and so it's not unfair criticism. This is the rent

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00:32:29,680 --> 00:32:31,600
Speaker 1: coming due. This is part of the deal when you

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00:32:32,320 --> 00:32:35,640
Speaker 1: cash this time. He signed the deal, the biggest non

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00:32:35,760 --> 00:32:39,960
Speaker 1: quarterback check in the history of that business. The town,

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00:32:40,240 --> 00:32:42,360
Speaker 1: those that care about the football team in the town,

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00:32:42,600 --> 00:32:45,600
Speaker 1: they're like, well, listen, this place eats quarterbacks. It's a

548
00:32:45,600 --> 00:32:50,520
Speaker 1: graveyard for quarterbacks. And you're supposed to get to quarterbacks

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00:32:50,680 --> 00:32:52,880
Speaker 1: on the other team like a great white shark in

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00:32:52,920 --> 00:32:55,640
Speaker 1: a kiddie pool. You're not doing that. And you don't

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00:32:55,680 --> 00:32:59,280
Speaker 1: get to cry about the current when you built your

552
00:32:59,320 --> 00:33:01,720
Speaker 1: house on the river. You don't get to do that.

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00:33:01,760 --> 00:33:05,400
Speaker 1: Miles Garrett isn't being picked on. He's being paid on

554
00:33:05,800 --> 00:33:09,120
Speaker 1: a lot of money. And the Cleveland Marching and Shoudow

555
00:33:09,200 --> 00:33:15,480
Speaker 1: Society are watching their armored tank show all right, going

556
00:33:15,520 --> 00:33:19,840
Speaker 1: to battle, and somehow that armored tank gets stuck in

557
00:33:19,880 --> 00:33:24,040
Speaker 1: a pothole the size of Lake Erie. That's not good,

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00:33:24,240 --> 00:33:27,440
Speaker 1: and so Miles Garrett wanted the bag. He got the bag.

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00:33:27,600 --> 00:33:30,080
Speaker 1: You got the bag. What's in the bag? Money? Money, money,

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00:33:30,200 --> 00:33:34,000
Speaker 1: a lot of money. You got the bag. Congratulations, and

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00:33:34,040 --> 00:33:37,000
Speaker 1: now you get the heat. He's got a no trade

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00:33:37,040 --> 00:33:40,040
Speaker 1: claus Is it outrageous? I'm thinking out loud here asked

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00:33:40,080 --> 00:33:43,680
Speaker 1: a question. Is it outrageous to think the trade deadline's

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00:33:43,720 --> 00:33:46,120
Speaker 1: clemming up in a couple of weeks. Here the Cleveland

565
00:33:46,120 --> 00:33:48,800
Speaker 1: Browns would go to Miles Garrett say it's not working out.

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00:33:49,440 --> 00:33:52,479
Speaker 1: It's not you, it's us. You have the no trade.

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00:33:53,000 --> 00:33:55,360
Speaker 1: Where would you like to go? Let's make a deal.

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00:33:55,520 --> 00:33:57,600
Speaker 1: Let's get you out of here. You got your money.

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00:33:58,280 --> 00:34:00,760
Speaker 1: I know the salary caps are p but we can

570
00:34:00,760 --> 00:34:03,440
Speaker 1: finagle and cook the books because that's what we do,

571
00:34:03,680 --> 00:34:06,520
Speaker 1: and we'll find you a new team. Is there a

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00:34:06,560 --> 00:34:09,560
Speaker 1: world where that happens? Would a team like the New

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00:34:09,560 --> 00:34:13,040
Speaker 1: England Patriots or the La Rams trade a bunch of

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00:34:13,200 --> 00:34:16,239
Speaker 1: draft picks to get Miles Garrett? And where would he

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00:34:16,280 --> 00:34:20,160
Speaker 1: even want to go? If it's as toxic as it appears,

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00:34:21,440 --> 00:34:24,239
Speaker 1: it's not out of the realm of possibility. All right,

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00:34:24,280 --> 00:34:28,160
Speaker 1: fun point to the World Wide Web, where former Eagles

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00:34:28,160 --> 00:34:33,640
Speaker 1: center Jason Kelsey is fighting back against misinformation. Was he

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00:34:33,680 --> 00:34:37,920
Speaker 1: a politician? Yeah, he's upset with social media. Now. Kelsey

580
00:34:37,960 --> 00:34:41,279
Speaker 1: went on the platform formerly known as Twitter, now known

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00:34:41,320 --> 00:34:45,480
Speaker 1: as X to make a public decree and a plea

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00:34:45,760 --> 00:34:50,400
Speaker 1: to his followers, and he said, listen, do not believe

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00:34:50,840 --> 00:34:55,720
Speaker 1: Listen to me. Do not believe anything attributed to Travis

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00:34:55,800 --> 00:34:59,799
Speaker 1: Kelcey or Jason Kelcey or anyone named Kelsey unless it

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00:35:00,280 --> 00:35:04,279
Speaker 1: from the direct platform. He said, we don't know, you know,

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00:35:04,320 --> 00:35:06,200
Speaker 1: you don't know for sure what's going on and all

587
00:35:06,239 --> 00:35:08,399
Speaker 1: that stuff. You got to go here, this is where

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00:35:08,440 --> 00:35:11,520
Speaker 1: you need to be. Now. There were multiple posts that

589
00:35:11,640 --> 00:35:16,080
Speaker 1: made the rounds on social media that quoted Jason Kelsey

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00:35:16,880 --> 00:35:21,239
Speaker 1: and gave let's just say, they gave an impression that

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00:35:21,520 --> 00:35:24,840
Speaker 1: he was a douche. It was about Bad Bunny and

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00:35:24,920 --> 00:35:30,080
Speaker 1: the Halftime Show. And Jason Kelsey pointed out that he

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00:35:30,120 --> 00:35:33,919
Speaker 1: said listen there, these are not my words. He didn't

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00:35:33,960 --> 00:35:36,520
Speaker 1: say that directly. That's clearly what he was upset about.

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00:35:36,760 --> 00:35:41,200
Speaker 1: So the question what is your viewpoint on Jason Kelsey

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00:35:41,800 --> 00:35:48,200
Speaker 1: attempting to fight social media misinformation? So this is the

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00:35:48,239 --> 00:35:50,480
Speaker 1: attempt is there? This is the attempt to go to

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00:35:50,520 --> 00:35:54,360
Speaker 1: the Sahara Desert and get all the gear you need

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00:35:54,400 --> 00:35:58,799
Speaker 1: to survive the wretched conditions in the Sahara Desert, and

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00:35:58,840 --> 00:36:01,040
Speaker 1: then saying I'm going to make this a great desert.

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00:36:01,080 --> 00:36:04,560
Speaker 1: I'm going to plow the Sahara Desert and I'm going

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00:36:04,600 --> 00:36:08,000
Speaker 1: to use a plastic four. It is a futile effort.

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00:36:08,080 --> 00:36:12,960
Speaker 1: Jason Kelsey is entering the fund zone. He's playing whack

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00:36:12,960 --> 00:36:15,760
Speaker 1: a mole. He's playing whack a mole in an attempt

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00:36:15,800 --> 00:36:21,239
Speaker 1: to whack down bogus stories about him faster on X.

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00:36:21,640 --> 00:36:24,239
Speaker 1: Then the other ones pop up. Now you and I

607
00:36:24,360 --> 00:36:26,839
Speaker 1: both know this is what It is, an unwinnable game.

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00:36:27,880 --> 00:36:32,279
Speaker 1: The house always wins, and Kelsey's crime here is not

609
00:36:32,880 --> 00:36:35,840
Speaker 1: moral outrage. That's not what this is about. It's believing

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00:36:37,080 --> 00:36:42,560
Speaker 1: that this digital funhouse can be reasoned with. That if

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00:36:42,800 --> 00:36:46,680
Speaker 1: Jason Kelsey stands on a digital soapbox from the bully

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00:36:46,800 --> 00:36:52,400
Speaker 1: pulpit and points out that's a bogus story, that's a

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00:36:52,440 --> 00:36:56,680
Speaker 1: bogus story, and that's a bogus story and waves his

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00:36:56,840 --> 00:37:00,319
Speaker 1: arms in the air everywhere, people will suddenly stop sharing

615
00:37:00,400 --> 00:37:05,080
Speaker 1: those stories. That is not how the matrix works. It's

616
00:37:05,120 --> 00:37:07,520
Speaker 1: not the matrix doesn't work like that. This is the

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00:37:07,560 --> 00:37:12,399
Speaker 1: platform where conspiracy meets clickbait. Bots marry bad actors, and

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00:37:12,440 --> 00:37:14,959
Speaker 1: the bots and bad actors have babies. They give birth

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00:37:14,960 --> 00:37:19,680
Speaker 1: to parody accounts with an extra underscore, masquerading as official sources.

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00:37:19,840 --> 00:37:22,880
Speaker 1: You do not win here. The whole game is to survive,

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00:37:23,600 --> 00:37:26,719
Speaker 1: and if you cannot survive, you ignore. So it's either

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00:37:26,760 --> 00:37:29,840
Speaker 1: survive or ignore, and therefore you do survive. But Jason

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00:37:29,960 --> 00:37:34,000
Speaker 1: Kelsey is doing what you'd say, good people. They're trying

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00:37:34,040 --> 00:37:36,799
Speaker 1: to keep his name clean, his good name unsullied. The

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00:37:36,880 --> 00:37:42,279
Speaker 1: trouble is on social media. The lie. The lie is

626
00:37:42,560 --> 00:37:47,439
Speaker 1: already running the marathon and at the twenty mile mark,

627
00:37:48,239 --> 00:37:51,480
Speaker 1: while the truth is still trying to tie at shoelaces.

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00:37:51,719 --> 00:37:54,000
Speaker 1: It's just a mess. It's just a mess. And by

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00:37:54,040 --> 00:37:58,759
Speaker 1: the time Kelsey hits send on his public play, the

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00:37:58,880 --> 00:38:05,279
Speaker 1: false quote has been screenshoted, memified, reposted, and stripped of

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00:38:05,280 --> 00:38:11,759
Speaker 1: any context and passed along by thousands of fake accounts

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00:38:11,760 --> 00:38:16,440
Speaker 1: with those little egg things and usernames like NFL fanboy

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00:38:16,880 --> 00:38:21,320
Speaker 1: nine eight two seven two three. It is a noble effort,

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00:38:21,400 --> 00:38:24,680
Speaker 1: but it is fighting a wildfire with a nerve super soaker.

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00:38:24,719 --> 00:38:28,200
Speaker 1: The odds of success are not good. The digital wildfire

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Speaker 1: does not care about the truth, the facts and all

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Speaker 1: that stuff. It's fed by rage. The rage clicks right.

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Speaker 1: We know human nature. People both love to complain about

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Speaker 1: negativity and are helpless to stop consuming it. It's the

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Speaker 1: people that do the news business learn this long ago

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Speaker 1: that if it bleeds, it leads. If it's negative, people

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Speaker 1: love it. And it's the fight or flight nature of

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Speaker 1: the human condition that you need that information. And in

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Speaker 1: social media, if you're upset, you're engaged, and that gets

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Speaker 1: monetized by the algorithm, and you don't even blink when

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Speaker 1: you're you know, somebody's reputations on the line, you don't

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Speaker 1: worry about Jason Kelsey's again, he can't win this. If

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Speaker 1: there's any lesson here, it's not for him, it's for

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Speaker 1: everyone else. To stop treating every single stupid post like

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Speaker 1: the holy scriptures that are out there. Stop rewarding the

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Speaker 1: dopes with engagement. And Jason Kelsey's swinging his mallet, remember

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Speaker 1: playing Whack a mole, And he's hitting that next mole

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Speaker 1: and the next, and the next, and the next, and

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Speaker 1: the net and we're just watching here, laughing and wasn't

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Speaker 1: that funny. That's that's not gonna work. That's that's not

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Speaker 1: gonna work at all.

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

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

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Speaker 1: It's Mallar how about that? To the third degree? This

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Speaker 1: is one big vent gets grilled Coba Loo.

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Speaker 8: There are some analysts suggesting that Saints quarterback Spencer Rattler

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Speaker 8: has played well enough to deserve a look beyond twenty

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Speaker 8: twenty five. They point out that Rattler actually has similar,

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Speaker 8: if not better stats than Michael Pennocks Junior this season.

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Speaker 5: Ben, does Rattler deserve to be considered long term?

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Speaker 1: No, because Michael Pennix Junior does not look like the

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Speaker 1: long term quarterback in Atlanta. So No, the Saints suck

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Speaker 1: and they're gonna get a top five pick in the draft,

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Speaker 1: and they're going to draft a quarterback who will also

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Speaker 1: likely suck. But No, I don't buy what they're selling there,

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Speaker 1: And a lot of those numbers are garbage time numbers.

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Speaker 8: Next, Kyle Schwarber is coming off the best season of

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Speaker 8: his career, and the timing couldn't be better as he

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Speaker 8: heads into free agency. It's being reported that he'll be

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Speaker 8: seeking a five year deal worth an average of thirty

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Speaker 8: million per year. Ben, do you think the Phillies will

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Speaker 8: pony have to keep him?

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Speaker 1: Yeah? I think he's perfect. You got the designated hitter

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Speaker 1: in that town. Schwarber's getting a little older, it becomes

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Speaker 1: a problem, but he can still hit home runs. He's

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Speaker 1: not gonna be able. He's never been a fast guy.

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Speaker 1: I think it'll work out for him in Philly.

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Speaker 8: Next, member of the Celtics media. Members of the Celtics

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Speaker 8: media played a pickup game against members of the Celtics

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Speaker 8: coaching staff got blown out fifty seven to four. But

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Speaker 8: if you had to recruit members of the FSR staff

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Speaker 8: to play a game against Celtics coaches, who would you choose?

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Speaker 8: And you can't pick any former pro athletes?

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Speaker 1: Uh? Well, I mean my guy Rob Parker. We got

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Speaker 1: a lot of like knucklehead guy like, we got a

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Speaker 1: lot of like I don't.

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Speaker 5: Know Patrick most times.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, not a lot of athletic people that work here.

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Speaker 1: That's the problem. No, Yeah, you ask the problem. All right,

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Speaker 1: here you go.

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Speaker 1: It's now time for It's time for Harry Harry Horry

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Speaker 1: Waite Ask Ben. Twitter said, this is your questions on Twitter.

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Speaker 1: Now anyway we go with to ask Ben. Your questions

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Speaker 1: are answers for the rest of the hour. These are

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Speaker 1: actual questions by actual listeners like yourself. You can submit

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Speaker 1: questions via a hashtag Ask Ben. Hashtag ask Ben out

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Speaker 1: of the Cooper Loop for the reading of the questions.

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Speaker 8: All right, we're gonna start off with a question from

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Speaker 8: Mike the Leprechaun.

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Speaker 1: Him, Mike the Leprecaun.

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Speaker 5: He wants to know, are you fans of avocado?

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Speaker 2: No?

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Speaker 1: I do not like things that are green other than money,

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Speaker 1: so not a fan of the avocado, although I have

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Speaker 1: my wife likes avocado. So I have had to take

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Speaker 1: the pit out of the avocado and like everyone else,

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Speaker 1: almost cut myself a million times. What about you, Lorraine?

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Speaker 5: I love avocado. Put some salt on that thing that

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Speaker 5: can be a whole meal.

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Speaker 8: Not for me.

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Speaker 5: What about you, Coop love avocado?

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Speaker 1: It's so okay. Well on the wrong set of history. Next,

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Speaker 1: all right, to ask Ben. Your questions are answers for

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Speaker 1: the rest of the hour. As we bumble along.

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Speaker 5: Here's a question from Cowboy Killer.

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Speaker 1: High Cowboy Killer.

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Speaker 8: He wants to know how big is the TV you

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Speaker 8: use the most at home?

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Speaker 1: Well, that's a sore subject because we didn't the wife

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Speaker 1: or went by TV and she didn't realize that the

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Speaker 1: way they measured TVs is diagonal. It's not across, and

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Speaker 1: so I think we just got like a like a

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Speaker 1: fifty five inches not. I mean, it's big, but it's

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Speaker 1: not like I've been to other people's houses. They have

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Speaker 1: those really big one hundred inch TVs are like three

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Speaker 1: thousand dollars. I don't have one of lows. It's like

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Speaker 1: a normal size. You know, it's a little I got

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Speaker 1: it like Costco years ago or best Buy someone like that.

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Speaker 1: What about you, Lorena?

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Speaker 5: Was the question do I like watching TV?

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Speaker 1: Or how big? It was like, I think it was

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Speaker 1: the side I understood that the guise of the TV.

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Speaker 5: The TV that you used the most, How big is it?

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Speaker 5: It's like twenty two inches?

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Speaker 1: What it's small?

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Speaker 5: I have a small TV. Damn, Why does it need

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Speaker 5: to be big?

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Speaker 1: I thought you'd want something bigger. What about you? Coop.

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Speaker 8: You use it boys, it's a I believe it's sixty

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Speaker 8: five inches.

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Speaker 1: Oh that's what That's what she said. All right, now

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Speaker 1: what is next? Very uncomfortable, that will be imagine tried

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Speaker 1: to run with that, it would be very difficult. Yeah

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Speaker 1: all right, yeah the way, I don't know.

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Speaker 5: Maybe you guys know what this is?

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Speaker 8: Bobby and Florida asked, Hi, Bobby, have you ever participated

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Speaker 8: in Mischief Night?

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Speaker 5: Do you know where that is?

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Speaker 4: Uh?

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Speaker 2: No?

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Speaker 1: Is that it's obviously something around Halloween. It's not not

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Speaker 1: Devil's Night, which they used to like burn everything up

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Speaker 1: the around Halloween, and I remember that was in Detroit.

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Speaker 1: I don't know what is? What is that? Loraina? Do

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Speaker 1: you know what that is?

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Speaker 8: I think it's just where you go and cause havoc

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Speaker 8: throughout your neighborhood, you know, But no, I have not.

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Speaker 1: If that's what you know? It had a formal name,

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Speaker 1: like when we were kids in high school. Yeah, we

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Speaker 1: destroyed pumpkins, toilet paper, people's houses, see that kind of stuff. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: I did that when I was a kid. Yeah, sure, next,

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Speaker 1: all right, Late night drug tester high drug tester.

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Speaker 5: He says, tomorrow is National pasta Day. What is your

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Speaker 5: favorite pasta shape?

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Speaker 1: Well, I ate. The problem is, I ate a lot

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Speaker 1: of spaghetti. When I was a kid, my mom was

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Speaker 1: a cheap meal We had a lot of spaghetti, and

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Speaker 1: there were three or four things that we ate all

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Speaker 1: the time. One of them was spaghetti. So now as

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Speaker 1: an adult, I don't eat spaghetti. I love fetichini, Alfredos

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Speaker 1: might go to. When I go to an Attian restaurant,

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Speaker 1: I go fettichini. I love fettichcini noodle, which is like

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Speaker 1: a fat or spaghetti. What about you, Lorraine? Also rabby

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Speaker 1: always good, but that's not really the same thing. Go ahead, Lorrain.

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Speaker 8: Yeah, I'm a big fan of fettucini, and I like

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Speaker 8: the ones that are I think it's penny, the one

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Speaker 8: that has the hole through the center and you can

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Speaker 8: fill it with sauce.

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Speaker 1: I don't think.

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Speaker 8: Okay, all right, Cooph, Rigatoni is my favorite.

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Speaker 1: Coop takes his pasta very seriously.

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Speaker 5: Yes I do.

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Speaker 8: I do. But Rigatoni it's got the it's got the

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Speaker 8: ridges so it can really soak up the sauce.

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Speaker 5: That's it's good stuff.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, I've had it. I've had it in the past,

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Speaker 1: for sure. It's asked Ben. Your questions are answer is

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Speaker 1: hashtag ask Ben for the rest of the hour. These

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Speaker 1: are actual questions by actual listeners. And what's next?

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Speaker 5: Fer Dog would like to know?

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Speaker 8: Hi, Fergie, will you be giving out fun size or

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Speaker 8: full size candy bars this year?

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Speaker 1: Yeah? So the candy thing is, I don't even know

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Speaker 1: if we're giving out candy this year. The reason why

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Speaker 1: is the last couple of years has been hardly any kids.

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Speaker 1: We buy this giant sized bag from Costco and I

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Speaker 1: end up eating getting I get it out, I know,

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Speaker 1: So what's the point now? I could buy a small

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Speaker 1: bag of candy. I think it's usually Halloween happens during

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Speaker 1: the weekend. I gotta work, It's on a night we

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Speaker 1: don't do the radio show. So I might actually go

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Speaker 1: to my niece and nephew's house and they'll go trick

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Speaker 1: or t I don't know. I've not decided, but most

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Speaker 1: likely we'll not be giving out anything this year. What

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Speaker 1: about you, Lorraina, I don't give out candy, I go

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Speaker 1: trick or treating. No, you don't, I do. Come on, Loraina,

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Speaker 1: you're a grown woman.

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Speaker 5: I'll bring in the candy for you.

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Speaker 1: Okay, Well, that's fine. Go ahead, Coop.

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Speaker 5: I will not be giving out candy this year. I

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Speaker 5: will be in Las.

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Speaker 1: Vegas, Lost Wages, Nevada. All right, what is next year?

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Speaker 1: It's ask Ben. Your questions are answers. We're doing the

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Speaker 1: extended dance remix of Ask Ben until you scream bloody

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Speaker 1: murder and then we'll stop.

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Speaker 5: All right. This question is from Donkey Sausage.

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Speaker 1: Hi, Donkey.

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Speaker 8: He wants to know what is your favorite unsolved mystery?

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Speaker 1: So I've mentioned this on the show several times over

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Speaker 1: the years. It was a famous hijacking in the Pacific Northwest.

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Speaker 1: dB Cooper, I'd love to know it's not like the

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Speaker 1: great like Roswell's another wonderful one, which would likely trump

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Speaker 1: dB Cooper. I read so much about dB Cooper years ago.

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Speaker 1: I loved that story. The Roswell thing is great too, Like,

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Speaker 1: what was that? Really? What about you, Lorena?

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Speaker 8: I'm gonna have to go with whether Walt Disney is

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Speaker 8: actually dead or frozen in a capsule.

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Speaker 1: Oh my god, that's okay, that's a good one. Okay,

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Speaker 1: all right, moving on.

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Speaker 5: In the broadcast, the spoiler, I learned he's dead, and.

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Speaker 1: Even if he was alive, he'd still be dead. Yes,

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Speaker 1: go ahead.

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Speaker 8: Uh, I think I gotta go with maybe the identity

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Speaker 8: of Jack the Ripper, right, they never figured that out.

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Speaker 1: Right, I don't know, I don't think. But what about

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Speaker 1: the cool roswelt goblins Aliens?

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Speaker 5: I believe in aliens. I mean, I'm pretty sure that's I.

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Speaker 1: Know, But if they actually landed there? See, I think

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Speaker 1: the cell phone, the Internet, it's all alien technology. How

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Speaker 1: about that?

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Speaker 5: Yeah, that's that surprised me.

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Speaker 1: Everything kind of took off after Roswell New Mexico. I'm

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Speaker 1: gonna go coast to coast move over, George Norri