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Speaker 1: We will walk it off, well not quite a walkoff,

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Speaker 1: our lead this hour is don't bear the lead, ma

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Speaker 1: Man from the All Star festivities in hot Atlanta, the

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Speaker 1: atl Truest Park out in the suburbs there. That is

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Speaker 1: where the scene was for the ninety fifth Midsummer Classic,

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Speaker 1: the Cream of the Crop. We were told from the

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Speaker 1: National League and the All American League All Stars. They're

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Speaker 1: wrangling on a humid night in the South, and it

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Speaker 1: was on Fox. Did you watch? Were you? Were you

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Speaker 1: watching Joe Davis and John Smoltz as they were the

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Speaker 1: Chatterbox the soundtrack to the All Star Game on television?

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Speaker 1: Maybe not, Maybe you didn't watch it, Perhaps you had

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Speaker 1: something else to do. I was texting a couple of

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Speaker 1: friends of mine during the All Star Game with snarky

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Speaker 1: that kind of defeated the whole purpose of the snarky

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Speaker 1: messages that I was sending. But it was a historical

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Speaker 1: night and it ended I assume you know by now

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Speaker 1: in a couple hours back. Maybe not though the fighting

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Speaker 1: the Phils. Kyle Schwarber did not get a hit in

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Speaker 1: the real portion of the All Star Game, but yet

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Speaker 1: he was the first person to do something in baseball history.

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Speaker 1: Kyle Schwarbert three swings, three bombs in the All Star

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Speaker 1: Games first ever swing off, not a derby, not a derby,

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Speaker 1: They won four to three in the swing off, so

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Speaker 1: the official final score is seven to six. The actual

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Speaker 1: All Star Game traditional Baseball was a six to six tie,

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Speaker 1: but Baseball is calling this a seven to six win

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Speaker 1: for the National League All Stars as the NL blew

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Speaker 1: Dave Roberts mismanage a bullpen in a big game. There

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Speaker 1: he was for the Dodgers. This is baseball's equivalent. Remember

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Speaker 1: they announced this a couple of years ago, and we

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Speaker 1: Baseball's equivalent to the penalty kick shootout in soccer. Olay olay,

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Speaker 1: three batters that supposedly were selected before the game, three

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Speaker 1: years ago, and I said, we will never have ties again.

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Speaker 1: That's what we're gonna do, all right, So let us

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Speaker 1: discuss we got something new, something new to talk about.

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Speaker 1: We don't often get new things to talk about, so

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Speaker 1: Benny the downer. I am going to go sideways thumb.

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Speaker 1: a good sign when you have to google, just google

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Speaker 1: it the name of the person who has the All

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Speaker 1: Would it have killed Aaron Judge and show Hail Tani

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Speaker 1: I don't know what to do now, I don't know

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Speaker 1: They're like, Oh, it's not that big a deal. It's okay.

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Speaker 1: Oh they are Uh bull crap, right, bull crap, swing

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Speaker 1: and miss so wing Barra, so wing Barra. Yeah, and

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Speaker 1: so deserves a big, giant fat fail stamped right across

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Speaker 1: it that Otani and Judge were not part of this thing.

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Speaker 1: The biggest boppers in baseball tapped out to get on

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Speaker 1: a Delta Airlines flight from the Atlanta Hartsfield Airport. Of course,

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Speaker 1: these guys probably play private. Private is what they do.

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Speaker 1: check my notes here, we had someone named Kyle Stowers

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Speaker 1: of the Marlins and then the aforementioned Jonathan Rand of

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Speaker 1: the Rays in a swing off. What the damn do? Yes,

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Speaker 1: such a bad look for baseball, Such a bad look

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Speaker 1: on a night where this was their night. They had

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Speaker 1: it up. Now, Pete Alonso did not hit he was

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Speaker 1: have Alonzo hit because they had already won before. Alonzo

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Speaker 1: and that was a showcase of raw talent, that's what

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Speaker 1: like the people behind baseball thought they had the Tony

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Speaker 1: You have to plan everything out. Now, am I ball

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Speaker 1: humbug guy on this? I don't think I am. Oh, Ben,

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Speaker 1: you're so negative, Okay, I'm just telling you my experience

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Speaker 1: watching Now. It's possible you had a different experience. But

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Speaker 1: the Major League Baseball scriptwriters worked overtime to plan all

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Speaker 1: I just got that. The thing is like they were.

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Speaker 1: These were not organic moments, but that's what they wanted, right.

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Speaker 1: They were more concerned about going viral, becoming a trending

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Speaker 1: topic on social media. Now, for reference, why don't we

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Speaker 1: start with Clayton Kershaw. He was taken out in the

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Speaker 1: second inning, the Dodgers left hander who didn't really really

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Speaker 1: want to go to the All Star Game. They dragged

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Speaker 1: him as the Commissioner's pick at age thirty seven. He

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Speaker 1: I know some of you guys are hanging on. You

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Speaker 1: fire breathing dragon. It's like the NBA's version of the

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Speaker 1: modern rat pack of the NBA and the Mavericks. Now,

427
00:26:31,560 --> 00:26:34,359
Speaker 1: I'm old enough to remember when they could not convince

428
00:26:35,119 --> 00:26:40,159
Speaker 1: top level players to go to Dallas. They couldn't get him.

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Speaker 1: They offer him a mistake dinner and a Cuban cigar.

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Speaker 1: It didn't matter. And I'm not talking about a Mark

431
00:26:46,000 --> 00:26:48,359
Speaker 1: Cuban cigar. I'm talking about a literal Cuban cigar. It

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00:26:48,359 --> 00:26:50,720
Speaker 1: wouldn't matter. And so now they're the darlings of the

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Speaker 1: Betty market. To get Lebron James the Elder Statesman and

434
00:26:54,160 --> 00:26:58,400
Speaker 1: pro bouncy ball. Now, I would say forget the Heat

435
00:26:59,200 --> 00:27:03,400
Speaker 1: because Lebron still got his panties in a bunch over

436
00:27:03,480 --> 00:27:07,240
Speaker 1: pat Riley and didn't really like Eric Spolstra. Last I checked,

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00:27:07,240 --> 00:27:11,200
Speaker 1: they're still with the Heat, so I would dismiss them.

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00:27:11,600 --> 00:27:14,880
Speaker 1: I don't see the Warriors. I'm not gonna dismiss Golden state.

439
00:27:14,920 --> 00:27:18,000
Speaker 1: But I don't see that. I'd forget about the Knickerbockers.

440
00:27:18,640 --> 00:27:22,240
Speaker 1: Lebron's had multiple opportunities to go to Gotham, and he

441
00:27:22,320 --> 00:27:26,119
Speaker 1: wants nothing to do with New York City, nothing to

442
00:27:26,160 --> 00:27:29,520
Speaker 1: do with that, running from the grind of the Big Apple.

443
00:27:29,640 --> 00:27:34,800
Speaker 1: So forget that possibility. And so you're you're looking around

444
00:27:34,840 --> 00:27:38,600
Speaker 1: and what else is going on? Now? I'm just not

445
00:27:38,840 --> 00:27:44,639
Speaker 1: feeling the Mavericks. I'm not. And it's I've got the microphone,

446
00:27:44,680 --> 00:27:46,560
Speaker 1: I've got the headphones, the tools of ignorance here, So

447
00:27:46,640 --> 00:27:50,600
Speaker 1: I'm just not feeling it. I like the storylines, It's

448
00:27:50,640 --> 00:27:54,760
Speaker 1: just not there now. I have my spidy senses tingling

449
00:27:55,160 --> 00:27:58,240
Speaker 1: and not in a good way with his story, not

450
00:27:58,280 --> 00:28:00,399
Speaker 1: in a good way with his story, Like Ron with

451
00:28:00,440 --> 00:28:05,119
Speaker 1: the Mavericks. It just doesn't connect. The jigsaw puzzle piece

452
00:28:05,119 --> 00:28:08,720
Speaker 1: to me doesn't fit. Now. Secondly, what makes the most

453
00:28:08,760 --> 00:28:15,879
Speaker 1: sense as we psychoanalyze Lebron James, So let me point

454
00:28:16,200 --> 00:28:18,480
Speaker 1: that the I want to get this right out of

455
00:28:18,520 --> 00:28:21,399
Speaker 1: the way. We have long said the gambling market is

456
00:28:21,440 --> 00:28:26,440
Speaker 1: a pretty good indicator. Generally speaking, it is a solid

457
00:28:26,560 --> 00:28:29,720
Speaker 1: indicator of what's going to happen. The reason is they

458
00:28:29,760 --> 00:28:33,080
Speaker 1: have some skin in the game, they have financial liability.

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00:28:33,480 --> 00:28:36,560
Speaker 1: At the same time, there are times where the gambling

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00:28:36,640 --> 00:28:40,560
Speaker 1: market will change some things up because they know they

461
00:28:40,640 --> 00:28:43,960
Speaker 1: can get some dumb money and they love dumb money,

462
00:28:44,160 --> 00:28:46,800
Speaker 1: and people react. And just by me talking about this

463
00:28:46,960 --> 00:28:50,080
Speaker 1: or seeing somewhere on the interweb that the Mavericks are

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00:28:50,080 --> 00:28:52,520
Speaker 1: the betting favorite for Lebron, some of that dumb money,

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00:28:52,760 --> 00:28:55,560
Speaker 1: I better bet on the Mavericks. They're the favorite and

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00:28:55,600 --> 00:28:58,800
Speaker 1: all that stuff. So while it is a touchdoone that

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00:28:58,800 --> 00:29:02,040
Speaker 1: we use, it's not the old thing that we use then.

468
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Speaker 1: And you have to use your own intelligence when you

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Speaker 1: look at these kind of things. And so regardless, I

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00:29:07,440 --> 00:29:11,680
Speaker 1: just have it sideways on this one. I do now

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00:29:11,760 --> 00:29:14,920
Speaker 1: Lebron he's got a no trade clause. He's one of

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00:29:14,960 --> 00:29:17,000
Speaker 1: two people in the NBA that have a no trade class,

473
00:29:17,040 --> 00:29:20,960
Speaker 1: Bradley Beal and Lebron who doesn't belong anyway. So that

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00:29:21,160 --> 00:29:25,080
Speaker 1: means that he's got the Lakers by the balls, okay,

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00:29:25,440 --> 00:29:28,320
Speaker 1: And if he wants out, it's his call. He'll hand

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Speaker 1: pick the team and then the Lakers will have to

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00:29:31,280 --> 00:29:33,400
Speaker 1: be the Dallas Mavericks in that trade. They're the ones

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00:29:33,440 --> 00:29:36,080
Speaker 1: that are gonna get bent over and if you know

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00:29:36,120 --> 00:29:39,520
Speaker 1: what I mean, they're gonna have to get nothing, nothing

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00:29:39,560 --> 00:29:43,000
Speaker 1: in return. And so if Lebron wants out, it's going

481
00:29:43,040 --> 00:29:45,760
Speaker 1: to be his call. He's gonna say bye bye and

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00:29:45,800 --> 00:29:48,960
Speaker 1: then step right into the portal. Now for me, And

483
00:29:49,040 --> 00:29:52,480
Speaker 1: if I'm putting my money down, I am betting on Cleveland,

484
00:29:53,480 --> 00:29:56,160
Speaker 1: the mistake by the Lake. That's where I'm betting by money.

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00:29:56,200 --> 00:29:59,400
Speaker 1: The Calves are the team that makes the most sense.

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Speaker 1: If Lebron leaves the Lakers, it makes the most sense, right. Good,

487
00:30:04,520 --> 00:30:07,240
Speaker 1: I'm not gonna go great roster. Some people say great roster.

488
00:30:07,320 --> 00:30:09,360
Speaker 1: I don't think it's a great roster. I'm gonna say good.

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00:30:10,080 --> 00:30:15,720
Speaker 1: Lebron's heart from Akron, which is not Cleveland, but close enough,

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00:30:16,040 --> 00:30:19,160
Speaker 1: the closest NBA team. Lebron's heart is still there. Now,

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00:30:19,200 --> 00:30:21,840
Speaker 1: what is my evidence? Let me make my evidence here.

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00:30:21,880 --> 00:30:26,400
Speaker 1: So Lebron, he's still interacting, right, he just said We

493
00:30:26,440 --> 00:30:28,160
Speaker 1: talked about this in a previous episode of the show.

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00:30:28,200 --> 00:30:31,920
Speaker 1: Lebron just sent out a congratulatory message on social media

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Speaker 1: to some Cavalier executives. It's like he's ready. He's like, hey, congratulations,

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Speaker 1: By the way, can I get the locker next? To

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Speaker 1: Evan Mobley, by the way, can I get that? Yeah,

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Speaker 1: he didn't send that on X, but he thought about it.

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Speaker 1: He's in recent weeks been spotted working out at the

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Speaker 1: Cavaliers facility. Hello. Yes, he has worn back in Ohio

501
00:30:55,280 --> 00:31:00,920
Speaker 1: a welcome home, a welcome home hat. He's done that.

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00:31:01,680 --> 00:31:09,120
Speaker 1: He's essentially leaving neon breadcrumbs like that old the old game,

503
00:31:09,200 --> 00:31:11,760
Speaker 1: the old the movie tron from back in the day, right,

504
00:31:12,200 --> 00:31:17,920
Speaker 1: if you're into nostalgia, He's leaving neon bread crumbs around.

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00:31:18,040 --> 00:31:21,480
Speaker 1: And so the Cavaliers are quietly lurking there at plus

506
00:31:21,560 --> 00:31:25,440
Speaker 1: five point fifty on the updated gambling market. And if

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00:31:25,480 --> 00:31:30,600
Speaker 1: you think Lebron does not know, does not know exactly

508
00:31:30,640 --> 00:31:33,320
Speaker 1: what he's doing here, and he's just going to drag

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00:31:33,360 --> 00:31:34,960
Speaker 1: this thing out as long as he can, then eventually

510
00:31:34,960 --> 00:31:38,880
Speaker 1: he'll he'll hit the button and he's got the code.

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00:31:38,920 --> 00:31:41,440
Speaker 1: He's got the nuclear code. You just have him been

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00:31:41,440 --> 00:31:46,320
Speaker 1: paying attention. And so again, while the Mavericks Wald Mavericks,

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00:31:46,360 --> 00:31:49,160
Speaker 1: maybe the bookies picked, they may be the books pick.

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00:31:50,840 --> 00:31:54,440
Speaker 1: I would not bet the mortgage on any of these teams.

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00:31:54,440 --> 00:31:59,160
Speaker 1: I certain wouldn't better on Dallas. Lebron's bunker is in.

516
00:32:00,400 --> 00:32:03,640
Speaker 1: It's in Ohio, not Cleveland as an acrid, but that

517
00:32:03,840 --> 00:32:07,000
Speaker 1: is his happy place. That is his happy place, and

518
00:32:07,040 --> 00:32:10,719
Speaker 1: that's where the wine flows. And he goes down memory

519
00:32:10,800 --> 00:32:15,440
Speaker 1: lane like, oh man, memories are alive. Man, I love

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00:32:15,520 --> 00:32:19,040
Speaker 1: that town. And it's got statues everywhere. Probably there's a

521
00:32:19,080 --> 00:32:22,920
Speaker 1: statue there. Why not? All right? Now? Final thought? So,

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00:32:23,560 --> 00:32:29,120
Speaker 1: how would the Lakers end up spinning a Lebron James trade? Like,

523
00:32:29,160 --> 00:32:31,320
Speaker 1: how do you end up spinning this? What's the move

524
00:32:31,400 --> 00:32:35,560
Speaker 1: if you end up trading Lebron? So you bring in here?

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00:32:35,600 --> 00:32:37,680
Speaker 1: What you do is you bring in Star Jones. You

526
00:32:37,720 --> 00:32:41,040
Speaker 1: know Star Jones, Right, she's I think she's still on

527
00:32:41,160 --> 00:32:44,600
Speaker 1: Divorce Court. Last night, watched that show a while back.

528
00:32:44,640 --> 00:32:46,560
Speaker 1: She was on there, So I'm going to say that

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00:32:46,560 --> 00:32:48,880
Speaker 1: that she's still on there. And you know, thirty minute

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00:32:48,880 --> 00:32:52,480
Speaker 1: episode of Divorce Court and the Lakers come out and say, oh,

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Speaker 1: we had a great relationship. It was really good, it

532
00:32:54,840 --> 00:32:56,600
Speaker 1: was wonderful. We didn't win a championship. We just got

533
00:32:56,640 --> 00:32:58,480
Speaker 1: that Mickey Mouse ring, but we're happy with that. We

534
00:32:58,520 --> 00:33:01,880
Speaker 1: pretend that's a real championship from that bogus bubble the

535
00:33:01,920 --> 00:33:05,560
Speaker 1: resort in Orlando, So you celebrate that celebrate the good times,

536
00:33:05,600 --> 00:33:08,640
Speaker 1: and you thank Lebron and you just say listen, you

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00:33:08,760 --> 00:33:13,440
Speaker 1: tell Star Jones in that divorce court, like many relationships,

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00:33:13,800 --> 00:33:17,200
Speaker 1: he reconcilable differences. That's it. Put that check that box.

539
00:33:17,760 --> 00:33:21,200
Speaker 1: And the differences, of course are that Luca is now

540
00:33:21,320 --> 00:33:25,600
Speaker 1: the bell of the ball and there's no joy on

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00:33:25,760 --> 00:33:29,160
Speaker 1: skid Row where the Lakers play, right, So it does

542
00:33:29,200 --> 00:33:32,280
Speaker 1: get a little dicey. It does get a little bit

543
00:33:32,480 --> 00:33:37,080
Speaker 1: dicey because the Lakers have a lot of dead weight.

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00:33:37,240 --> 00:33:40,880
Speaker 1: It's the family business. And that's no one's talking about this.

545
00:33:40,920 --> 00:33:42,800
Speaker 1: We're the only ones bringing this up. No one else

546
00:33:42,840 --> 00:33:45,240
Speaker 1: is bringing this up. If you get rid of Lebron James,

547
00:33:46,080 --> 00:33:49,880
Speaker 1: it has to be a package deal. It's got to

548
00:33:49,880 --> 00:33:52,120
Speaker 1: be a package. What do I mean by that? Any

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00:33:52,440 --> 00:33:58,840
Speaker 1: Lebron James trade you have to include Bronnie James. Bronnie

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00:33:58,920 --> 00:34:02,320
Speaker 1: James and Lebron must be traded together. It's like a

551
00:34:03,080 --> 00:34:06,560
Speaker 1: complimentary item when you go to Jack in the Box

552
00:34:07,040 --> 00:34:10,399
Speaker 1: and you want to upgrade to a combo meal. Right,

553
00:34:10,440 --> 00:34:13,160
Speaker 1: So it's a combo meal. It's like going to Mickey

554
00:34:13,200 --> 00:34:17,680
Speaker 1: D's or Harte's or Chick fil at. You want a

555
00:34:17,719 --> 00:34:21,200
Speaker 1: combo meal. If you're the Lakers, you have to include

556
00:34:21,200 --> 00:34:23,560
Speaker 1: Bronnie Jims. Now, why do you have to include Bronnie James.

557
00:34:23,640 --> 00:34:27,080
Speaker 1: It would be malfeasance if you don't include it. Because

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00:34:27,400 --> 00:34:31,120
Speaker 1: Bronnie James he has to exit stage right now. He

559
00:34:31,200 --> 00:34:33,640
Speaker 1: might be able to exit stage love, but he's got

560
00:34:33,640 --> 00:34:37,560
Speaker 1: to be gone if Lebron's gone. Bronni is only there.

561
00:34:37,640 --> 00:34:43,080
Speaker 1: He's a marketing mascot. He's a great tribute to Lebron

562
00:34:43,320 --> 00:34:47,040
Speaker 1: and the powers of persuasion. By Lebron James, he gets

563
00:34:47,040 --> 00:34:49,040
Speaker 1: to play dress up. It's like make a wish. You

564
00:34:49,080 --> 00:34:52,120
Speaker 1: get to be on the Lakers. You're an emotional support

565
00:34:52,160 --> 00:34:57,440
Speaker 1: player for Lebron James, your daddy. Congratulations. Right without Lebron,

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00:34:57,960 --> 00:35:02,840
Speaker 1: Without Lebron, Bronnie James is not even sniffing a summer

567
00:35:02,920 --> 00:35:07,000
Speaker 1: league opportunity. The guy can't play. It's fascinating that there

568
00:35:07,000 --> 00:35:11,640
Speaker 1: are dumb people that think he can play. Right, he'd

569
00:35:11,640 --> 00:35:15,800
Speaker 1: be sitting courtside maybe if Lebron bought tickets, if Lebron

570
00:35:15,880 --> 00:35:18,239
Speaker 1: didn't pull strings to get him on the Lakers. And

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00:35:18,480 --> 00:35:24,960
Speaker 1: so the statuet reads, Okay, the stat sheet reads with Brownie,

572
00:35:25,640 --> 00:35:30,280
Speaker 1: it reads like a witness protection profile like barely. They're

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00:35:30,560 --> 00:35:32,960
Speaker 1: hoping not to be noticed. When you look at the

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00:35:33,000 --> 00:35:37,279
Speaker 1: stats of Bronnie James, there the spawn of bron the

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00:35:37,400 --> 00:35:40,800
Speaker 1: spawn of bron Now, maybe one day Bronnie, I'm not

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00:35:40,840 --> 00:35:43,040
Speaker 1: gonna be completely negative, I'll be Benny bright Side. There

577
00:35:43,080 --> 00:35:46,280
Speaker 1: is a possibility in the multiverse that one day Bronnie

578
00:35:46,360 --> 00:35:50,319
Speaker 1: James becomes a serviceable rotation guard. Of course that'll be

579
00:35:50,320 --> 00:35:55,399
Speaker 1: in Serbia or in Russia or China, but it ain't

580
00:35:55,440 --> 00:35:59,000
Speaker 1: gonna be in the NBA. Right right now, he is

581
00:35:59,040 --> 00:36:03,440
Speaker 1: a member of the inn Innational International Union of Bricklayers.

582
00:36:04,120 --> 00:36:07,759
Speaker 1: It is always a brick house with Bronnie James there.

583
00:36:07,800 --> 00:36:09,720
Speaker 1: So cut the cord. If you're gonna get rid of Lebron,

584
00:36:09,760 --> 00:36:12,279
Speaker 1: you got to get rid of Bronnie James. And they

585
00:36:12,280 --> 00:36:15,200
Speaker 1: can ride off into the sunset together because when Lebron's

586
00:36:15,200 --> 00:36:16,880
Speaker 1: out of the NBA, Broni's going to be out of

587
00:36:16,880 --> 00:36:19,560
Speaker 1: the NBA. Now, maybe they can do a podcast together,

588
00:36:19,680 --> 00:36:23,200
Speaker 1: right to a podcast? Who's Lebron doing a podcast with?

589
00:36:23,320 --> 00:36:26,279
Speaker 1: Somebody said, I've not listened to Lebron's podcast. Somebody said

590
00:36:26,280 --> 00:36:29,040
Speaker 1: he's doing one with Steve Nash. Does that mean Steve

591
00:36:29,160 --> 00:36:31,800
Speaker 1: Nashill replace Jason Kidd as the coach of the Mavericks.

592
00:36:31,840 --> 00:36:33,960
Speaker 1: Is that because that's how you do it, right, Lebron?

593
00:36:33,960 --> 00:36:38,120
Speaker 1: Whoever's doing the podcast with Lebron, they get to coach Lebron, right.

594
00:36:38,160 --> 00:36:40,120
Speaker 1: I mean that's how jj Reddick got the job. He

595
00:36:40,160 --> 00:36:42,560
Speaker 1: didn't know he's doing, and he's pretending to be a

596
00:36:42,600 --> 00:36:43,160
Speaker 1: Laker coach.

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00:36:43,719 --> 00:36:46,200
Speaker 2: Wild be sure to catch live editions of The Ben

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00:36:46,239 --> 00:36:49,719
Speaker 2: Meler Show weekdays at two am Eastern eleven pm Pacific.

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00:36:52,200 --> 00:36:53,800
Speaker 1: Like that to the third degree.

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00:36:55,440 --> 00:36:58,360
Speaker 2: This is one big Ben gets grilled.

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00:36:58,760 --> 00:37:00,000
Speaker 1: All right, cooler, what do we got?

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00:37:00,320 --> 00:37:02,560
Speaker 6: It was reported on Monday that breakout forty nine Ers

603
00:37:02,600 --> 00:37:05,680
Speaker 6: receiver Juan Jennings wants a new contract from the forty

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00:37:05,760 --> 00:37:07,959
Speaker 6: nine Ers or to be traded. Ben, what's the most

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00:37:08,000 --> 00:37:08,719
Speaker 6: likely outcome here?

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00:37:09,440 --> 00:37:12,680
Speaker 1: Yeah, so they can't pay everyone the Niners obviously, if

607
00:37:12,680 --> 00:37:14,800
Speaker 1: they've given out a lot of money, the salary cap

608
00:37:15,040 --> 00:37:20,000
Speaker 1: is fugezy. But they've already paid brockberdy Kittle, they've paid

609
00:37:20,680 --> 00:37:24,120
Speaker 1: Warner on defense big money. You got Brandon Ayuck recovering.

610
00:37:24,600 --> 00:37:29,879
Speaker 1: They have a second year receiver, Ricky Piersol, so Jennings

611
00:37:30,040 --> 00:37:34,359
Speaker 1: is replaceable, so he's not gonna. He's not gonna. He's

612
00:37:34,360 --> 00:37:36,560
Speaker 1: a one year wonder. If he did it for more

613
00:37:36,600 --> 00:37:39,320
Speaker 1: than one year, he was good last year, he stepped

614
00:37:39,400 --> 00:37:43,359
Speaker 1: up with guys getting hurt. But he's not someone that

615
00:37:44,040 --> 00:37:46,120
Speaker 1: you're going to pay a lot of money too because

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00:37:46,120 --> 00:37:47,440
Speaker 1: he's only done it for one year and you've got

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00:37:47,440 --> 00:37:48,400
Speaker 1: other players next.

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00:37:48,760 --> 00:37:51,800
Speaker 6: A recent survey of NFL league executives, coaches, and scouts

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Speaker 6: ranked Baker Mayfield as the tenth best quarterback in the NFL.

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Speaker 1: How do you feel about that ranking? It doesn't seem

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00:37:58,280 --> 00:38:01,280
Speaker 1: legit to me, and Bakers played well Tampa. It's a scheme.

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00:38:01,360 --> 00:38:04,680
Speaker 1: He's a scheme guy. He's scheme dependent, and he's he's

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Speaker 1: been a roller coaster. Baker Mayfield with Cleveland, good rookie year,

624
00:38:08,440 --> 00:38:13,240
Speaker 1: a radic up and down injury, sucked in Carolina, Okay

625
00:38:13,239 --> 00:38:15,839
Speaker 1: with the Rams for like two games, and then he's

626
00:38:15,880 --> 00:38:19,040
Speaker 1: become okay in Tampa. I I just don't trust him,

627
00:38:19,239 --> 00:38:21,680
Speaker 1: and he just he still throws a lot of interceptions. Next.

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Speaker 6: Johnny Manziel said in a recent interview that if nil

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Speaker 6: had existed back when he was playing at Texas A

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Speaker 6: and M, he would have been taking a pay cut

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Speaker 6: to play in the NFL.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, Bennessee, right, Yeah, that's not hyperbole, it's not. I

633
00:38:34,719 --> 00:38:38,840
Speaker 1: mean they raised over four hundred million in booster money

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Speaker 1: for the stadium. Because of Johnny Manziel. He would have

635
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Speaker 1: been making twelve million dollars a year at Texas A

636
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Speaker 1: and M, which is more than he would have made

637
00:38:46,400 --> 00:38:48,360
Speaker 1: as a rookie in the envia. How did we know

638
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Speaker 1: you pass?

639
00:38:50,000 --> 00:38:51,279
Speaker 2: That's the way I won.

640
00:38:52,239 --> 00:38:56,239
Speaker 1: I'm a winner for GoGG, I won for God.

641
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Speaker 2: Fox Sports Radio has the best sports talk lineup in

642
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643
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Speaker 2: dot com and within the iHeartRadio app. Search FSR to

644
00:39:07,680 --> 00:39:08,360
Speaker 2: listen live.

645
00:39:09,840 --> 00:39:14,239
Speaker 5: It's love It Buzz with lir Rain at nine clean

646
00:39:14,360 --> 00:39:18,480
Speaker 5: Up Hearts, Gonna Help You, dear Rye, Dear ride to night,

647
00:39:19,040 --> 00:39:20,600
Speaker 5: dear Rye to Night.

648
00:39:21,040 --> 00:39:21,560
Speaker 1: Dear Rye.

649
00:39:22,560 --> 00:39:24,640
Speaker 7: Am I the only one who sings that. I absolutely

650
00:39:24,719 --> 00:39:26,319
Speaker 7: love it. Sometimes I sing it at home.

651
00:39:26,880 --> 00:39:28,840
Speaker 1: Now. This was the temporary open.

652
00:39:29,040 --> 00:39:30,759
Speaker 7: Yes, but I'm just in love with you. Love it,

653
00:39:31,080 --> 00:39:35,320
Speaker 7: love it, It's sure, It's sweet, perfect. Yeah.

654
00:39:35,600 --> 00:39:37,560
Speaker 1: All right, so these are actual questions. You have an

655
00:39:37,600 --> 00:39:40,040
Speaker 1: opening statement radio you actually you know it? Do you

656
00:39:40,080 --> 00:39:40,320
Speaker 1: love me?

657
00:39:40,400 --> 00:39:43,680
Speaker 8: A good opening statement and it is the summer of love.

658
00:39:44,120 --> 00:39:46,719
Speaker 8: Do not forget to take your lady or your man

659
00:39:46,760 --> 00:39:50,080
Speaker 8: out on special date nights to the ocean, go have

660
00:39:50,160 --> 00:39:52,680
Speaker 8: a corn dog at the fair, take them on a

661
00:39:52,719 --> 00:39:55,239
Speaker 8: carnival ride. Oh my gosh, kissing on top of the

662
00:39:55,239 --> 00:39:58,239
Speaker 8: ferris wheel is so romanic.

663
00:39:58,440 --> 00:40:00,200
Speaker 1: You know what if you live in Nebraska and go

664
00:40:00,239 --> 00:40:01,840
Speaker 1: to the ocean, so you go like the lake? Is

665
00:40:01,880 --> 00:40:02,879
Speaker 1: that the movie? Yeah?

666
00:40:02,920 --> 00:40:03,080
Speaker 5: You know?

667
00:40:03,120 --> 00:40:05,680
Speaker 7: Maybe a fountain, a water fountain.

668
00:40:05,680 --> 00:40:12,320
Speaker 1: Fountain, how about it? What a toilet work? Yeah? The days?

669
00:40:12,480 --> 00:40:15,040
Speaker 8: Yeah, but day it's like a stand in front of

670
00:40:15,040 --> 00:40:17,240
Speaker 8: it with your pants on. Probably not to my father.

671
00:40:17,400 --> 00:40:18,960
Speaker 1: Probably not a good idea. Probably.

672
00:40:19,600 --> 00:40:21,680
Speaker 7: Anyways, what we got today, Ben Well.

673
00:40:21,600 --> 00:40:23,680
Speaker 1: I thought this was a really interesting question. This is

674
00:40:23,960 --> 00:40:26,680
Speaker 1: so this guy, Doug or Douglas, has been a long

675
00:40:26,719 --> 00:40:28,839
Speaker 1: time listening to the show. He lives in Mississippi. You

676
00:40:28,840 --> 00:40:31,919
Speaker 1: hear me mention his name sometimes. So Douglas says, after

677
00:40:32,000 --> 00:40:34,720
Speaker 1: my wife of twenty plus years passed away, I married

678
00:40:34,760 --> 00:40:38,600
Speaker 1: her best friend a year later, but I had her

679
00:40:38,640 --> 00:40:42,680
Speaker 1: permission before she passed. What's your take on that?

680
00:40:42,880 --> 00:40:43,080
Speaker 2: Oh?

681
00:40:43,120 --> 00:40:47,040
Speaker 8: I love this because I also have a best friend, right,

682
00:40:47,239 --> 00:40:48,799
Speaker 8: and she had a best friend.

683
00:40:48,920 --> 00:40:52,279
Speaker 1: I do send that out on. Somebody has the best

684
00:40:52,760 --> 00:40:53,879
Speaker 1: is that the one that came in here.

685
00:40:53,760 --> 00:40:57,719
Speaker 8: And that's Victoria. Sarah lives in Oregon. I've known her

686
00:40:57,719 --> 00:41:00,360
Speaker 8: since kindergarten. But her she told me that if she

687
00:41:00,480 --> 00:41:03,760
Speaker 8: dies before her husband, that I have to marry her husband.

688
00:41:03,840 --> 00:41:05,040
Speaker 7: I don't even have a choice.

689
00:41:05,080 --> 00:41:07,920
Speaker 1: I have to marry that'll be because that's he'll be

690
00:41:08,000 --> 00:41:09,480
Speaker 1: helpless without.

691
00:41:09,080 --> 00:41:12,120
Speaker 8: Her, and she doesn't want the kids alone with him, right,

692
00:41:12,280 --> 00:41:13,120
Speaker 8: he's the.

693
00:41:13,160 --> 00:41:15,440
Speaker 1: Kids alone, want the kids alone with him?

694
00:41:15,520 --> 00:41:18,040
Speaker 7: It will be the new maternal figure. So yeah, no,

695
00:41:18,600 --> 00:41:19,719
Speaker 7: we joke about it every time.

696
00:41:19,760 --> 00:41:21,800
Speaker 8: And if he really did do that, you know, usually

697
00:41:21,840 --> 00:41:24,240
Speaker 8: you have a good connection with your wife's best friend.

698
00:41:24,520 --> 00:41:26,800
Speaker 8: You have a lot of bonding moments, good memories.

699
00:41:26,840 --> 00:41:28,719
Speaker 7: I think it's actually really healthy. I think it's healthy.

700
00:41:28,760 --> 00:41:31,240
Speaker 1: It's very nice of your wife Douglas when she before

701
00:41:31,280 --> 00:41:33,759
Speaker 1: she checked out to give you the okay on that

702
00:41:34,560 --> 00:41:37,759
Speaker 1: Bobby and Florida right since says how do you get

703
00:41:37,840 --> 00:41:42,000
Speaker 1: the the back door to open up? If you if

704
00:41:42,000 --> 00:41:45,760
Speaker 1: you keep knocking and it hasn't opened yet? From Bobby there.

705
00:41:45,960 --> 00:41:48,719
Speaker 7: Well, it all starts with a good conversation and.

706
00:41:48,680 --> 00:41:53,600
Speaker 8: A little bit before play, you know, but you know

707
00:41:53,640 --> 00:41:55,880
Speaker 8: you got to get them tempted into the idea, So

708
00:41:55,920 --> 00:41:58,040
Speaker 8: you got to introduce it in a fun way, and

709
00:41:58,080 --> 00:41:59,319
Speaker 8: then they're like, oh, I don't like that.

710
00:41:59,360 --> 00:42:01,000
Speaker 7: You'd be like, but you could like it. Let me

711
00:42:01,040 --> 00:42:02,080
Speaker 7: take you to the shop.

712
00:42:02,320 --> 00:42:04,719
Speaker 8: They got dilators, they got all sorts of fun things

713
00:42:04,719 --> 00:42:07,480
Speaker 8: that you can use to make it more comfortable, a

714
00:42:07,520 --> 00:42:11,080
Speaker 8: lot of products. My my best thing when I was younger,

715
00:42:11,120 --> 00:42:16,040
Speaker 8: I actually asked a man who you know, liked that

716
00:42:16,120 --> 00:42:19,080
Speaker 8: type of play, what his opinion and what to do.

717
00:42:19,160 --> 00:42:22,600
Speaker 8: So really, yeah, pick their curiosity, see what they think.

718
00:42:22,680 --> 00:42:26,080
Speaker 1: The yoda of that exactly third Dog rights in is

719
00:42:26,080 --> 00:42:29,880
Speaker 1: my brother's dating a girl who's obsessed with Disneyland. Should

720
00:42:29,880 --> 00:42:32,480
Speaker 1: I tell him to break up with her? No, that's

721
00:42:32,520 --> 00:42:35,799
Speaker 1: an expensive lorraina. That's an expensive habit. That is a

722
00:42:35,960 --> 00:42:38,880
Speaker 1: that you might as well be a drug addict. It's cheaper, Okay,

723
00:42:39,000 --> 00:42:41,240
Speaker 1: it's cheaper to buy fentanyland.

724
00:42:41,440 --> 00:42:44,279
Speaker 8: You'd rather have your girlfriend on the streets of Disneyland

725
00:42:44,400 --> 00:42:45,920
Speaker 8: than on the streets of downtown.

726
00:42:45,960 --> 00:42:48,520
Speaker 1: I don't know, man, there's some homeless people in Tonetown.

727
00:42:48,600 --> 00:42:49,399
Speaker 1: I don't know about that.

728
00:42:49,600 --> 00:42:51,800
Speaker 7: Maybe pass it out in the grass the trees.

729
00:42:52,360 --> 00:42:55,040
Speaker 1: I've been there, yeah, yeah, be careful man.

730
00:42:55,200 --> 00:42:56,560
Speaker 7: But it is a little expensive.

731
00:42:56,640 --> 00:42:57,399
Speaker 1: But you don't little.

732
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Speaker 8: You don't always have to go to with them either.

733
00:43:00,040 --> 00:43:01,960
Speaker 8: I'm sure she has friends that can go to Disney.

734
00:43:02,000 --> 00:43:02,759
Speaker 7: You don't have to go.

735
00:43:02,719 --> 00:43:05,399
Speaker 1: With well, like those passes you got to pay every month,

736
00:43:05,480 --> 00:43:07,560
Speaker 1: or I say, paying a car payment. It is yeah,

737
00:43:07,600 --> 00:43:10,759
Speaker 1: it's very similar. Mike the Leprechaun writes and says, what

738
00:43:10,800 --> 00:43:15,480
Speaker 1: would be a good first date, Lorena? For someone dating blind?

739
00:43:15,560 --> 00:43:20,120
Speaker 1: Scott says, your options are the Wimbledon Final, Kentucky Derby,

740
00:43:20,440 --> 00:43:24,640
Speaker 1: or a day at either Disneyland Universal Studios or a

741
00:43:24,680 --> 00:43:26,880
Speaker 1: trip in Mike in New Hampshire's truck.

742
00:43:27,680 --> 00:43:32,520
Speaker 8: Huh interesting options there to be honest, I don't know.

743
00:43:33,280 --> 00:43:37,080
Speaker 8: I think I'd want to do something like auditory, you know, yeah,

744
00:43:37,280 --> 00:43:40,200
Speaker 8: I go listen to music or something. Yeah, I think

745
00:43:40,200 --> 00:43:41,600
Speaker 8: that would be a better experience.

746
00:43:41,640 --> 00:43:42,480
Speaker 1: Boston Pops.

747
00:43:42,600 --> 00:43:45,440
Speaker 8: Yeah, I don't want to be responsible for them running

748
00:43:45,440 --> 00:43:47,520
Speaker 8: into anything out in the wild, you know what I'm saying?

749
00:43:48,640 --> 00:43:51,520
Speaker 1: A little tough. JT. The Wingman writes in Good Questions,

750
00:43:51,520 --> 00:43:53,760
Speaker 1: by what happened, all I had to do is complain?

751
00:43:54,200 --> 00:43:57,080
Speaker 1: You know what that is, Lorena? Tough love. Tough love

752
00:43:57,200 --> 00:43:59,719
Speaker 1: people respond to tough love. They like it this younger

753
00:43:59,760 --> 00:44:02,239
Speaker 1: jenner if they can't handle tough anyway. JT. The wing

754
00:44:02,280 --> 00:44:05,080
Speaker 1: man rights and says says, I'm a truck driver and

755
00:44:05,160 --> 00:44:08,600
Speaker 1: don't work in an office or for a work wife.

756
00:44:08,680 --> 00:44:15,720
Speaker 1: Is it okay to have a malor show wife instead? Yes?

757
00:44:15,960 --> 00:44:18,720
Speaker 7: And if you do, make sure you send her lots

758
00:44:18,719 --> 00:44:22,959
Speaker 7: and lots and lots of gift packages. Really yes, because

759
00:44:23,000 --> 00:44:24,480
Speaker 7: you must treat your wife nice.

760
00:44:24,640 --> 00:44:27,200
Speaker 1: Your work wife, yes, radio wife.

761
00:44:27,000 --> 00:44:27,200
Speaker 9: I mean.

762
00:44:27,239 --> 00:44:30,080
Speaker 8: And if your job is driving, we're technically with you

763
00:44:30,200 --> 00:44:32,320
Speaker 8: in the car, right, so we are your work.

764
00:44:34,000 --> 00:44:37,359
Speaker 1: We're a voice in your head. Oh, Lorraina. What is these?

765
00:44:37,960 --> 00:44:40,160
Speaker 1: Shanean nooy? What is the smallest amount of makeup you

766
00:44:40,200 --> 00:44:42,520
Speaker 1: can leave the house wearing? Still for comfortable? Quickly?

767
00:44:42,840 --> 00:44:43,480
Speaker 7: Mascarat?

768
00:44:43,640 --> 00:44:45,359
Speaker 1: That's it. As long as you have that, you're going.

769
00:44:45,440 --> 00:44:47,800
Speaker 1: Because I've got that, I'm good to go else. Baby,

770
00:44:47,840 --> 00:44:50,239
Speaker 1: that's all just a mass scare. You're fine, that's it.

771
00:44:50,320 --> 00:44:52,880
Speaker 7: And a smile. Gotta always have your smile on.

772
00:44:53,200 --> 00:44:54,680
Speaker 1: Oh, of course, yes, smile.

773
00:44:55,640 --> 00:44:57,959
Speaker 2: Be sure to catch live editions of The Ben Mellor

774
00:44:58,040 --> 00:45:02,240
Speaker 2: Show weekdays at two am Eastern eleven pm Pacific. Attention

775
00:45:02,480 --> 00:45:04,520
Speaker 2: everyone and The password.

776
00:45:04,160 --> 00:45:10,480
Speaker 1: Is password, you idiot. Password the word Game of the Stars.

777
00:45:10,840 --> 00:45:13,480
Speaker 1: Here's Ben Meler and right to password we go. We

778
00:45:13,680 --> 00:45:17,840
Speaker 1: have let's hear any meenie money more. We have Mark

779
00:45:17,960 --> 00:45:21,560
Speaker 1: on the North End. Hello, Mark, Welcome, Good morning Ben.

780
00:45:22,040 --> 00:45:23,800
Speaker 1: Good to have you Mark. You're going to play password?

781
00:45:23,800 --> 00:45:27,640
Speaker 1: Who do you want to partner up with? Mark? All right,

782
00:45:27,800 --> 00:45:30,239
Speaker 1: we're in it, Mark in North End. We're gonna win.

783
00:45:30,400 --> 00:45:33,120
Speaker 1: Just put a W next to our name right now,

784
00:45:33,640 --> 00:45:35,360
Speaker 1: hold on, say Mark out. You're gonna play. And we

785
00:45:35,440 --> 00:45:39,840
Speaker 1: have who do we have? See Mikey in the state

786
00:45:39,880 --> 00:45:42,920
Speaker 1: of Texas. It's kind of a big state. Hello Mikey, Welcome,

787
00:45:44,040 --> 00:45:45,960
Speaker 1: Good morning Sarah. How are you guys going?

788
00:45:46,040 --> 00:45:47,080
Speaker 5: Glad to be on with shoe?

789
00:45:47,160 --> 00:45:49,560
Speaker 1: Thanks to welcome? And where are you at in Texas?

790
00:45:49,600 --> 00:45:54,640
Speaker 1: Mikey and Jefferd fifty miles north east, a little north

791
00:45:54,640 --> 00:45:57,880
Speaker 1: of Houston. I got you a very cool let's play it.

792
00:45:57,920 --> 00:45:59,520
Speaker 1: Who do you want to partner? Have you got Loraina

793
00:45:59,640 --> 00:46:04,680
Speaker 1: or cool? Then go with the loop? Okay, coop. The

794
00:46:04,680 --> 00:46:07,040
Speaker 1: loop is the pick. And we have a list of

795
00:46:07,080 --> 00:46:11,560
Speaker 1: words here. You can see them. You're cheating, don't cheat.

796
00:46:12,840 --> 00:46:16,719
Speaker 1: You can see them calling my attorney. All right, let's

797
00:46:16,719 --> 00:46:20,279
Speaker 1: see your pick a number. Mark on the north end.

798
00:46:20,320 --> 00:46:23,680
Speaker 1: Pick a number one to ten, please, one to ten.

799
00:46:26,360 --> 00:46:28,880
Speaker 1: Oh oh, I say, it's not even up. Let's see

800
00:46:29,160 --> 00:46:32,479
Speaker 1: on the phones. Let's say all right, there you go, Mark,

801
00:46:32,719 --> 00:46:34,800
Speaker 1: What is the word you would like here?

802
00:46:36,239 --> 00:46:37,040
Speaker 5: Number one?

803
00:46:38,320 --> 00:46:47,960
Speaker 1: All right, let's go with UH regulations rule. There you go.

804
00:46:48,000 --> 00:46:51,800
Speaker 1: All right, good job, and it's ten to nothing, strong starry,

805
00:46:51,920 --> 00:46:56,040
Speaker 1: good guys. Okay, Mikey, you are up with Coop. Pick

806
00:46:56,080 --> 00:47:00,480
Speaker 1: a number two to ten, please, two to ten. Let's

807
00:47:00,480 --> 00:47:05,920
Speaker 1: go with number ten, number ten? Yeah, alright, like ambient

808
00:47:06,040 --> 00:47:09,680
Speaker 1: noise in the background. All right, Mikey, let's go with

809
00:47:11,920 --> 00:47:13,760
Speaker 1: Let's go with tremble.

810
00:47:16,320 --> 00:47:16,600
Speaker 3: Quake.

811
00:47:17,520 --> 00:47:22,640
Speaker 1: No, now, let's go with he said tremble.

812
00:47:22,680 --> 00:47:33,000
Speaker 10: I'll say cold Shriver. Yeah, wow, Gas nineteen nineteen.

813
00:47:33,320 --> 00:47:35,560
Speaker 1: You think it's over now, it's probably we got plenty

814
00:47:35,560 --> 00:47:38,279
Speaker 1: of it's over. Pick another number, Go ahead, Mark, let's

815
00:47:38,320 --> 00:47:41,000
Speaker 1: run up the score. Mark. Pick another number. Mark. Let's

816
00:47:41,040 --> 00:47:45,919
Speaker 1: run Mark three, number three. Number. He got that last

817
00:47:45,920 --> 00:47:47,919
Speaker 1: one from my cliff, No, I got it from mine.

818
00:47:48,320 --> 00:47:51,080
Speaker 1: Let's go. I'm gonna use the mall. The mal remover

819
00:47:51,080 --> 00:47:53,480
Speaker 1: will work. I kind of want to use the malume.

820
00:47:53,840 --> 00:47:55,520
Speaker 1: You know, we got such a big lead. I don't care.

821
00:47:55,560 --> 00:48:04,240
Speaker 1: I'll use the malle maneuver. Here we go, save safety.

822
00:48:04,960 --> 00:48:11,640
Speaker 1: Not a chance had has it? No, that's not all right, Sorry, Mikey.

823
00:48:13,800 --> 00:48:19,680
Speaker 1: Let's go with her. Let's go with quilt blanket. Yeah,

824
00:48:19,760 --> 00:48:21,800
Speaker 1: let's go. We're back. And got it back and he

825
00:48:21,880 --> 00:48:24,319
Speaker 1: got it off my clue. He got it off Mike.

826
00:48:24,520 --> 00:48:27,080
Speaker 1: Another number, Mike got it off my clue. That was

827
00:48:27,160 --> 00:48:29,719
Speaker 1: my clue. He got it off of all right, Ben,

828
00:48:29,760 --> 00:48:30,200
Speaker 1: we got it.

829
00:48:30,239 --> 00:48:35,839
Speaker 6: Take another mark number, Mikey, Mike Lee.

830
00:48:36,280 --> 00:48:42,239
Speaker 1: What number? Oh, I'm sorry, number nine, number nine. All right,

831
00:48:43,400 --> 00:48:44,799
Speaker 1: let's something Coop needs to do.

832
00:48:46,719 --> 00:48:57,239
Speaker 9: Let's go with let's go with or yeah, rest rest rest, No,

833
00:48:57,400 --> 00:48:58,359
Speaker 9: we're out of time.

834
00:48:58,480 --> 00:48:59,600
Speaker 8: And we were loss.

835
00:49:00,000 --> 00:49:03,839
Speaker 1: The word was relaxed. The word was relaxed. I come

836
00:49:03,960 --> 00:49:07,359
Speaker 1: too slow. We won, great job Mark on the north end.

837
00:49:07,400 --> 00:49:09,520
Speaker 1: You get a golden ticket. Unbelievable. What a win. One

838
00:49:09,520 --> 00:49:10,839
Speaker 1: of my greatest wins of all time.