October 23, 2025 • 40 mins
Ben Maller talks about the biggest thing new Giants manager Tony Vitello is going to have to overcome if this is gonna work in San Francisco, new Angels manager Kurt Suzuki getting only a 1-year deal in Anaheim, the NFL looking into AI to help officials, #AskBen, and more!
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Playball. It's our number three.
Speaker 2 (00:04):
Our number three is ready to go. Talk to Bay's ball.
Not about the World Series though, not about the World Series. Instead,
we have some new managers in Major League Baseball.
Speaker 1 (00:15):
We'll start out in the Bay Area.
Speaker 2 (00:17):
What's the biggest thing Tony Vottello is going to have
to overcome if this is gonna work for him as
the San Francisco Giants manager. He has no big league experience.
He was a college baseball coach. We'll discuss that. Also,
can you decode the fine print in Anaheim? As Kurt
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Suzuki Kirk Suzuki was named the new Angels manager. He
only got a one year deal. That's it, one year
contract to manage the Angels, and NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell
says the league is looking into a I artificial intelligence
to potentially help officials.
Speaker 1 (00:56):
You okay with us? We'll talk about that as well.
Right now here. It is our number three.
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It's a giant move, but will it turn out to
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it this hour and our lead story talking Baysball, but
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not that kind of basemin talk about the World Series.
Speaker 1 (03:01):
I mean, nothing going on with that.
Speaker 2 (03:03):
The World Series will begin on Friday, as the Doyers
will head.
Speaker 3 (03:09):
To oh.
Speaker 1 (03:12):
I believe they're already there to take on the Blue Jays.
Speaker 2 (03:15):
Will be a workout today for the World Series, so
there should be some good stuff come out today about
the matchup in the World Series. And then the games
begin on Friday night. But our lead is from a
blood rival of the Doyers. We go to San Francisco
another day. Another manager has been hired. Not a Rehred,
not a Reshred, not some former star who's going to
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be a mascot. Yesterday's rumor, today's news. It's official. The
docu sign has been turned in. University of Tennessee coach
Tony Vittello has been named the new skipper of the Giants.
Speaker 1 (03:53):
Now we mentioned this in a previous episode of the show.
Speaker 2 (03:56):
It's been a rumor since the weekend, and now here
we are on this Thursday, of the deal is done.
This marks the first time that a big League team
has hired a I don't call him a whipper snapper
because he's been around, but he's just having a professional
coach has not been a professional coach. The first time
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ever a big League team has hired a manager directly
from a college program without any experience on the professional level.
So Vittello replaces boring Bob Bob Melvin. That's my Bob
Melvin impersonation.
Speaker 1 (04:32):
Yeah, yeah, right.
Speaker 2 (04:33):
He was fired back on September twenty nine. The Giants
are the definition of average. They were eighty one and eighty.
Speaker 1 (04:41):
One, very average.
Speaker 2 (04:44):
So the Giants' fourth consecutive year without a playoff Berth,
I'm told that's not good, But what do I know.
Speaker 1 (04:51):
I just do the Overnight show.
Speaker 2 (04:52):
So that's a good jumping off, boy. So let us
discuss the question what's the biggest thing Tony Vottello is
going to have to overcome if he's going to have
success in San Francisco as the Giants manager. So my
observations on this, I've got Star Trek, Kentucky Derby, and snake.
Speaker 1 (05:14):
Oil and do not have a narrow mind. Do not
be nearrow Mindy.
Speaker 2 (05:19):
We'll combine all of these things together and we are
gonna make the Gabba Goo.
Speaker 1 (05:23):
We're gonna make the Gabba gool so number.
Speaker 2 (05:29):
Number This was either brilliant or a complete train wreck.
Speaker 1 (05:40):
When I that's the vibe I get.
Speaker 2 (05:42):
It's written all over it's he gonna be brilliant or
a complete train wreck. I'm leaning towards train wreck. I'm
leaning towards train wreck because I know the mind of
the ballplayers. I know how they operate. There's really no
middle ground here, Tony Vittello, he is getting special treatment?
Why is he getting special treatment? The Giants were so
horny to hire this guy, right, they were so turned
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on by this guy as their manager. They paid three
million dollars to hire the guy. At three million dollars,
you imagine how many world series is you?
Speaker 1 (06:15):
None? He's got no success at the big league level.
Speaker 2 (06:19):
Now I realize Danny and Nashville is gonna He's gonna
carpet bomb my timeline by the time I wake up.
Speaker 1 (06:26):
He listens on the podcast. Now it works the dreaded
day shift.
Speaker 2 (06:29):
But Danny and Nashville, who's in Miami. He's a loves
Tennessee and he's.
Speaker 1 (06:33):
Like, oh, this guy is so good. The Giants are
gonna win.
Speaker 2 (06:36):
The world sore every Tennessee player that goes to the
pro is gonna win the championship whatever sport they're in.
But for Tony mittelllo for the Giants to pay three
million dollars to hire this guy. This is the Star
Trek treatment. Beam me up, Scottie to the big leagues. Done,
Beam me up Scotty.
Speaker 1 (06:53):
To the big leagues.
Speaker 2 (06:55):
No minor league seasoning, no bench coach, apprenticeship, nothing, didn't
ride buses in the minor leagues, didn't coach somewhere in
the major leagues.
Speaker 1 (07:04):
Welcome to the show. Now, this does a couple things.
Speaker 2 (07:09):
It proves that Major League Baseball teams consider that job
to be a big league manager one where you don't
need experience. And why is that? Because it's not about
the ex's and o's. This is really hot take validation.
What the Giants are saying is we can hire anyone,
even a guy that has no business being a big
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league manager because he's never been even been a coach
in the major leagues.
Speaker 1 (07:34):
But we can hire him.
Speaker 2 (07:36):
And here's why, because everything's almost done for him. It's
like Hamburger Helper. The meals pretty much made for you.
The algorithm, the front office spreadsheets, get everything ready to
go and whatever Buster Posey and the people around him
come up with the nerds squad. Whatever they hand down,
you're good. The value of a guy like this is
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the clubhouse. And if that is the old flopper, if
that is, if that's a no fly zone, then this
is not a Cinderella story.
Speaker 1 (08:06):
It is not. There's nowhere to hide.
Speaker 2 (08:09):
I covered a baseball team when I was a radio
reporter back a million years ago, and they had a
skipper that had no big league experience. He actually was
a decent He managed like four teams in the Major League.
The guy had no experience in the major leagues, though,
and he actually managed another team before he got to
the Angels. There was a clubhouse revolt because this guy
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was kind of a hard ass, hard o guy, and
the players, some of them, were like, well, he never played,
so we don't respect him.
Speaker 1 (08:37):
And it became a very sticky situation, if you will.
Speaker 2 (08:42):
And as a distant relative of Nostra Damas and friend
of Nostradinis, I look out into the future and I'm like, okay,
so that's where we are. You gotta win the hearts
and minds of the players. You got cats like Rafael Devers,
who seemingly hustles when he wants to hust and doesn't
hustle most of the time Matt Chapman's been around. Those
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are the two veteran players on the Giants season, big
league players sitting.
Speaker 1 (09:07):
There like you. There's this college guy.
Speaker 2 (09:11):
I don't want to win the SEC. I want to
win the Nation League West. I want to win the
National League Pennant. I don't want to win the College
World Series in Omaha. So if they don't buy in,
then he's not just in trouble. He's not Tony Btello
is lunch. He will be eating for lunch. And it's
the brotherhood. It's Major League Baseball players. They cannot stand interlopers,
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cannot do it. That union is strong. Now it's a
bold move for Buster Posey. This is like hiring some podcaster,
and so I relate to it like if you running
a radio network and you hire a podcaster, like some
podcaster wearing a hoodie to do a live, four hour
terrestrial radio show with callers and live reads.
Speaker 1 (09:58):
And all of that stuff is so different.
Speaker 2 (10:02):
It's audio content, but podcasting is so much easier than
live radio.
Speaker 1 (10:07):
It's a different skill set.
Speaker 2 (10:09):
Podcasting, you can wear your pajamas, you can edit out
any mistakes you make.
Speaker 1 (10:16):
This is live, it's right now.
Speaker 2 (10:19):
I'm here, you're there if you're listening live to us,
and that's it. And podcasting you have your buddies on,
you play grab ass with your friendly guests that you've
known for a long time, and you just futs around
and OUI, we're having a good time.
Speaker 1 (10:37):
Whoop do do. Yeah, it's a little different. So it's
a similar thing.
Speaker 2 (10:41):
It's like what you said, well, it's audio contents pudget,
but it's a different skill set, like managing in college
and managing in the major leagues. Managing in the major leagues,
that is standing in the middle of a media mosh pit.
One hundred and sixty two games a year plus days off,
we'll have to talk to the media, getting grilled for
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every bullpen meltdown, every bonehead base running move, every ridiculously
bad defensive play.
Speaker 1 (11:10):
That is right there. You're in the middle of it.
Speaker 2 (11:12):
And if you bomb on live radio, the audience will
turn to some other place. Real time, most people just
listen to podcasts and kind of forget.
Speaker 1 (11:22):
About it and they'll play in the background.
Speaker 2 (11:24):
But the same deal here right in one bad stretch,
one bad stretch, and those players will smell weakness.
Speaker 1 (11:31):
You got the big nose, smell that. Yeah, what's that weakness? Yeah?
Speaker 2 (11:34):
Like sharks smelling blood in the water. Good luck now,
speaking of blood in the water. Follow up, follow up
to the follow up, We go to Anaheim, go to Anaheim.
News out this week and the Angels hired their manager.
They introduced their manager. We were told Kurt Suzuki was
introduced a titan from cal State Fullerton. He was introduced
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as the Angels skipper.
Speaker 1 (11:57):
Yesterday.
Speaker 2 (11:59):
And what you get like a seven or eight year contract,
probably long term, right, Angels haven't been good.
Speaker 1 (12:04):
It's gonna take a while for the team to get good.
Speaker 2 (12:05):
So they probably gave him a big contract and said, Okay,
you're a guy, we believe in you, we're on the
cutting edge. We want you to be our guy, and
we'll keep you around for a long time. Either that
or they gave him a one year make good contract.
One year number one, one year.
Speaker 1 (12:25):
That's it. Question.
Speaker 2 (12:30):
Can you decode what the one year deal from Kirk
Suzuki means in Anaheim? So if you've ever driven down
the road and you see those yellow flashing signs when
they're doing roadwork, the flashing LED sign. So they put
those up and they're doing roadwork. There's also something they
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put up there. They'll flash sometimes wrong way, you're going
the wrong way, and this is flashing. There's a flashing
led sign for the age.
Speaker 1 (13:00):
Wrong way. Wrong way is what it's flushing.
Speaker 2 (13:05):
So this is a prove it or your toast situation
and managing the Halos is the ultimate temp job in sports.
Speaker 1 (13:14):
Now.
Speaker 2 (13:15):
My money is on Ferg Dog as the interim manager.
When they fire Kurt Suzuki can put Ferg Dog as
the interim manager there. The Angels have had the last
eight years, not one, not two, not three, not four,
not five, six, They've had six managers the last eight years.
How many playoff appearances do the Angels have zero in
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that time? How many losing seasons in a row do
the Angels have ten? Ten in a row? You can
right now without even worrying, you can pencil in ninety
plus losses, ninety plus losses and you're gonna cash the ticket.
Speaker 1 (13:53):
Most years.
Speaker 2 (13:55):
It's like being a jockey at the Kentucky Derby and
you're all excited.
Speaker 1 (14:01):
Okay, here we go. I'm in the derby. This is
gonna be good.
Speaker 2 (14:05):
And then you go to the stables to get the horse,
and they gave you the horse named Hoppy, not Poppy Hoppy.
And the reason they call the horse hoppy is because
it has three legs. Good luck, good luck, And don't
forget the subplot. Ardi Morino's not trying to win, He's.
Speaker 1 (14:22):
Trying to bunk her down. And this is a dead give.
Speaker 2 (14:25):
It's an open secret now that the ownership class at
Major League Baseball, the well heeled owners are already preparing
for a twenty twenty seven lockout. The CBA is going
to expire, and they are prepping for a lockout. They
are doomsday preppers. Doomsday preppers is what they are. And
so the wise words, you hire Kurt Suzuki as a
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temporary one year manager. His deal runs out, so you
don't have to pay him for twenty twenty seven because
you don't have a manager and because you don't have
a season, and they're preparing for the nuclear winter, and
the salary cap is what they want, or they want
a mushroom cloud. And that's the message from the small market.
Speaker 4 (15:07):
Now.
Speaker 2 (15:07):
The Angels are not a small market team. They're just
run like a small market team. And the goal there's
a single goal among the baseball owners outside of a
handful stop the Dodgers. At all costs, stop the Dodgers.
So Suzuki is not a long term solution. Possibly turns
out to be good. He's hired as a seat warmer.
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He's hired as a seat warmer, a human post it note,
kind of holding things down until already fires off the nukes.
So it's not rebuild the Angels. I don't believe in
rebuilding anyway. I think that's bull cap. You should try
to win every year. It's suspended animation. That's what it is,
all right, final point. We go back to football for
the final point. These zebras are getting downgraded or are they?
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NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell makes a lot of money. Roger
Goodell says the league is looking into artificial intelligence to
help officials.
Speaker 1 (16:05):
AI on the way.
Speaker 2 (16:08):
Developing hot dot dot dot. So question the NFL preparing
and they're looking and it's not official official, but this
wouldn't have been brought up if they were not seriously
considering it. The NFL turning to AI to help the referees.
Speaker 1 (16:23):
Are you okay with this.
Speaker 2 (16:26):
Okay, So in the mountain of thought, a very tall
mountain of thought.
Speaker 1 (16:31):
This is a terrible idea. It's a terrible idea.
Speaker 2 (16:34):
The minute I heard Roger the Dodger Goodell chatting about
artificial intelligence officiating, I was drinking some ice.
Speaker 1 (16:45):
Water, and I nearly split the icewater out. I said,
I don't know about this.
Speaker 2 (16:49):
Is it true that it is more likely than not,
more likely than not that the NFL power brokers allowed
a presentation and and in that presentation they were hoodwinked
by some smooth talking Silicon Valleys snake oil snake oil
salesman with a.
Speaker 1 (17:09):
PowerPoint deck and a ted talk.
Speaker 2 (17:12):
The almighty, all powerful algorithm will fix everything, everything with officiating.
Give me a break. Seriously, the game is played by humans.
Check humans are flawed. Check humans make mistakes. Check emotion
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is involved. Check things get messy. Check check check. Here's
the problem. You're not selling a video game, the product
the very ethos of the product. You're selling real life.
The coaches are not perfect, the players are not perfect.
The referees aren't perfect. They're not supposed to be perfect.
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It's part of the theater. So what's next. We're going
to replace the fans because the fans don't always cheer properly.
Speaker 1 (18:03):
You don't, you dopes don't cheer? How about AI fans?
Who says no, We'll get better fans.
Speaker 2 (18:09):
I want every game to have the greatest possible fan experience,
So every team should have at least one section with
AI generated sound. Who says no, Because those AI fans
will be better fans. They'll know when to cheer, they
won't boom because the algorithm says not to boot.
Speaker 1 (18:28):
Those are great fans. Why not. We're gonna replace everything else,
Just replace the fans. That's it.
Speaker 2 (18:35):
See the point is stop trying to sterilize everything with tech, right.
Not everything needs to be optimized, it just doesn't. Sometimes
your product is good enough, you know, you don't need
to keep adding things so the price, Like in and
out Burger sells what do they sell? They sell burgers,
fries and shakes. They don't sell chicken, they don't sell
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fish and they I'm sure they've had people say why
don't we sell you fish or checking, No, we'd sell burgers,
and we sell this is what we sell. That's it
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for the Mallord Riddle of the day. And here's the
Mallard Riddle of the day. Pete Carroll, his son Brennan Carol,
a Raiders assistant coach, has gone viral after constantly blanking
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during an interview he did this week again, Pete Carroll's
son Brennan Carrol, a Raiders assistant coach, has gone viral.
Has been this clip has been seen millions of times
after constantly blanking during a recent interview.
Speaker 1 (20:01):
That is the Mallard Riddle of the day. The answer next.
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Speaker 2 (22:00):
We do, go back to it, and we pay off
the Mallard Riddle of the day. Pete Carroll's son Brennan,
who's a Raider coach. I'm sure that's not nepotism. You're
in the old fashioned way, not being born into the
right DNA pool. Pete Carroll's son Brennan, a Raider assistant coach,
has gone viral after constantly blanking during an interview that
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he did recently. That is the question. What is the answer?
Let's see, does anyone know the answer to the Mallor
Riddle of the day? Page down burning Gara burning garbage
from Donkey Sausage.
Speaker 1 (22:37):
See who else do we have?
Speaker 2 (22:38):
Let's see, can't read that crushing gum like his dad
from the clam constantly.
Speaker 1 (22:44):
Yawning ferg Dog says.
Speaker 2 (22:46):
He says, By the way, when I become the Angels manager,
I'm gonna be He says, Ben, You're gonna be.
Speaker 1 (22:51):
My third base coach. That's great. I like, can I
be the pitching coach? I kind of want to be
the pitching coach. That'd be fun. Get to go out
to the mound a few times a game.
Speaker 7 (22:58):
You can be whatever you want to be.
Speaker 1 (23:00):
Thank you, Loray, I appreciate that.
Speaker 2 (23:02):
Late night drug tester says collecting Christmas donations before Halloween?
Speaker 1 (23:06):
Who else do we have? A page down?
Speaker 2 (23:08):
Alf says he kept refreshing his TikTok feed looking for
new content from whoopee Pie.
Speaker 1 (23:14):
Blair Bill says.
Speaker 2 (23:16):
Pete Carroll's son kept farting during the news conference, licking
his elbows from Lady Sideburns. Fudgie says, the answer is
t bowing.
Speaker 1 (23:27):
What else we have? Page doown? Far out?
Speaker 2 (23:28):
Dave says John Cida's John Cena's can you can't see me?
Speaker 1 (23:33):
You can't see me?
Speaker 2 (23:34):
Andy also went with the Pete Carroll bubblegum chewing thing
that his dad does. Sean and Portland says, humming the
Notre Dame fight song, King Rory drinking hot sauce.
Speaker 1 (23:47):
Is his answer us really good hot sauce.
Speaker 2 (23:50):
It's something from Moxy My dog BP says he was
constantly drooling palm desert rat checks and says he kept
dropping the F bomb. Now Craig got it right, must
be cheating. Bad job by him. It was very creepy though,
and he got it right. Crying guessed by chiefs TI
Guy fondling his beard from Eke and Roseville, Minnesota. JT
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the Wingman said he kept scratching his ear, sniffing his
fingers from Doug in South Korea. Big Rig Robb says
he was constantly munching on snicker doodle grits. It's one
of the better answers we've gotten on a game show
in a while. Snicker doodle grits outstanding, outstanding. All right, Lorrainer,
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do you have an answer, Lorader to the mallor riddle
of the day again. Pete Carroll, his son Brennan, the
Raiders assistant coach, has gone viral after constantly blanking during
an interview he did this.
Speaker 7 (24:50):
Week, clearing his throat.
Speaker 3 (24:51):
Ben Okay, thank you, he's.
Speaker 1 (24:55):
A little acting there. Appreciate that. No, it is see
correct the answer.
Speaker 2 (25:00):
Brandan Carroll, the son of Pete Carroll, went viral this
week for constantly rolling his eyes to the back of
his head. Sure, any of you if you're old enough
to remember the professional wrestler named the Undertaker back in
the day many years ago, just like that, just like
the Undertaker.
Speaker 1 (25:22):
Which is that a medical problem?
Speaker 2 (25:26):
Whereas just some people just randomly roll the eyes like
out of their head, like to the back of their head.
Speaker 1 (25:31):
I don't know.
Speaker 2 (25:31):
Let's go to the phones. Let's say hello to hollering James.
Who's in Minneapolis, Minnesota. Hello hollering James, Hey Ben, Oh
you're awake.
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Look at you?
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Are you're outside? You're walking around?
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I'm up scrolling an exercise.
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Time to walk here, they always say to go out
about three thirty in the morning, the perfect time to
get a nice walk in.
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Well, Minnesota's got cooler, weathered. Many would love it.
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He's one of my favorite callers.
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Why is that?
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Yeah, who are the top? Let's try to guess here,
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Hollering James. Top three callers to the Ben Mallor Show
not named.
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Hollering James. I know I know one of them. You're
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Oh okay, I see what you did there?
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All right?
Speaker 1 (26:54):
Well were real answers. Please, hollering James, Chop.
Speaker 9 (26:56):
Chop, okay, weed hippie.
Speaker 8 (26:59):
That's why we got we got them. Uh yead day David?
Speaker 9 (27:10):
Who who Dave?
Speaker 2 (27:14):
Huh?
Speaker 1 (27:15):
I don't know who that is?
Speaker 8 (27:17):
You know, Dave?
Speaker 1 (27:20):
No, you're just making up name. You're making up names.
Speaker 2 (27:22):
Now?
Speaker 1 (27:23):
Could you only name one caller?
Speaker 8 (27:26):
Or if it's one, if I name one, that will
to golden ticket?
Speaker 1 (27:31):
James.
Speaker 2 (27:31):
You listen every night, you can only name one?
Speaker 8 (27:35):
Ben on a short term memory. I'm focused on one project,
and that's fixing my sunglasses. There were really cool bair
of sunglasses. The had gold trim until I broke the stem.
Speaker 2 (27:48):
James, why do you need sunglasses? It's three thirty, a
little after three thirty in the morning where you are.
Speaker 1 (27:54):
Why do you need sunglasses?
Speaker 8 (27:56):
Got to be cool with your cool sunglasses. There's a
song like day, it's wrapped and roll. Okay, thank you,
I gotta take for you. Did Anthony Edwards shot across
the world?
Speaker 2 (28:15):
Yes, I'm sure right now in Guam they're celebrating. In Indonesia,
they're very happy because Anthony Edwards made.
Speaker 8 (28:22):
A shot a green trim jersey with the pine trees.
Speaker 1 (28:30):
I was very kind of for her to do that.
And I'm going to hang up on you now. Thank you.
Let's go to Andrea in Berkeley.
Speaker 2 (28:35):
We do have ask Ben coming up in a few minutes,
so if you want to send questions in hashtag ask
Man the astrology Insider, there's some cosmic news. And when
cosmic news breaks, we turned to our insider.
Speaker 1 (28:49):
Her name is Andrea.
Speaker 2 (28:50):
She's in Berkeley and she's on the radio right now.
Hello Andrea, Welcome, Hello Dan.
Speaker 9 (28:55):
How are you?
Speaker 2 (28:57):
If I was any better, I would be a giant,
but not a San Francisco giant because I don't know
how this is going to work out.
Speaker 1 (29:04):
But you didn't call about that. What is on your
mind here? Andrea?
Speaker 4 (29:07):
Yes, actually did because oh I agree with the timing.
We have the new moon in Libra, we have Son
in Scorpio. So happy Scorpio season, Coop and Lorena. So
that said, the new moon in Libra and Tony Vitello
happens to be a Libra October ninth, nineteen seventy eight,
(29:31):
so new moon's are new beginning. So I agree with
the timing, but I don't agree with the choice necessarily.
I'm kind of old school. I like more experience and
you know, things of I mean, Bob Melvin was three
time manager of the year, twenty years experience. You know,
Tony Vitello doesn't have any experience with the major League
(29:54):
baseball team, so it'll be kind of like trial and error.
And the Giants finished five hundred in eighty one, so frankly,
I don't think they're in a position to kind of
have a lot of, you know, more ups and downs.
But that said, he is having a Jupiter return once
every twelve years, so he, you know, in his own way,
(30:14):
is at the right time, at the right place. But
I really don't know. I don't feel confident that it's
going to work out for the Giants. But on the
new moon in Libra, he's a Libra, so on some
level he was ready for a new beginning, and there
he was, and Curiously, Buster Posey is an Airy, so
they're opposites, so I don't know if opposites attracted, they
(30:36):
kind of repel. So it'll be interesting to see how
they get along. Posy March twenty seventh, nineteen eighty seven.
So I'm working on their compatibility, so it'll be interesting
to see. But I would have picked a more seasoned veteran,
or at least summer with more Major League Baseball experience.
So I'm kind of skeptical.
Speaker 2 (30:57):
Yea fair, It's it's gonna be dicey. The managing part
of it, I think is fine. It's if things go
bad and then he's got he don't have the experience,
and then the players are going to hold him to
a different a different standard. But I would love for
someone to want me to work for their company so
much that they would pay three million dollars just to
have the right to hire me. The Giants paid three
(31:18):
million dollars to the University of Tennessee to have the right.
Speaker 1 (31:21):
That was the buy out to hire this guy.
Speaker 4 (31:24):
That's bananas, yeah right, And then he's to pay Bond
Melvin four million dollars because they extended a contract through
next season. And then Buster Posey were named on that,
so I don't think they're making the best choices. That's
interesting that they paid three million just for the opportunity
to interview him, so I.
Speaker 1 (31:45):
Don't know what to hire him is pretty well?
Speaker 2 (31:47):
Yeah, all right, well Andrea, thank you, and there you go.
Some cosmic news right there from our friend Andrea checking in.
Appreciate that. And real quick, let's go to any meaning
money Moe. Let's go to Steve in Manhattan. Hello, STEVEO
in Manhattan.
Speaker 10 (32:04):
W wait a minute now, back in the New York Group,
Ben stinguished panel, expanding audience to listen.
Speaker 9 (32:15):
I want to try out a new.
Speaker 11 (32:16):
Line on this audience because it's big and he's got
a lot of people in it that have different opinions.
Speaker 8 (32:21):
Go Curtisely, We'll go, go Curtisely, We'll go, go Curtisely,
We'll go, go, go go.
Speaker 1 (32:28):
What do you think, folks, Yeah, it's wonderful.
Speaker 2 (32:31):
You should you should go to the top of the
Empire State Building and just yell that down.
Speaker 1 (32:35):
You should do that.
Speaker 9 (32:37):
Well, I'm trying out of line it. We need it
for the next two weeks here, you know.
Speaker 1 (32:42):
Yeah, you think that's gonna work for you.
Speaker 5 (32:44):
I don't know.
Speaker 9 (32:45):
I don't.
Speaker 4 (32:45):
I don't.
Speaker 9 (32:46):
It'll get votes, but we'll get some attention.
Speaker 11 (32:48):
What about Andrew Cuomo and Joe piscopol going to Hollywood
and making any kind of movie. I think those two
guys in a movie, Andrew could play ahead.
Speaker 1 (32:58):
That would be great.
Speaker 2 (32:59):
Now.
Speaker 1 (32:59):
They would do that if it was like nineteen eighty nine,
they would do that. But I don't know about today.
You know what I'm saying.
Speaker 11 (33:05):
No, Andrew, I'm telling you, he could be the getaway driver.
Speaker 9 (33:09):
He could be, you know, play the heavy There's a
lot of things you can play in the movie.
Speaker 8 (33:14):
You know.
Speaker 1 (33:15):
Yeah, Yeah, that's an interesting take. I did not expect
that take from you, Steven Man. I did not expect that.
Speaker 11 (33:21):
We had to try it out.
Speaker 9 (33:21):
I wanted to try it down here.
Speaker 1 (33:23):
Where have you?
Speaker 2 (33:23):
Where have you been? You go away for a while,
you come back. He's like a rotation or something like that.
I don't understand. It's very odd.
Speaker 11 (33:31):
Well, you know, I'm kind of busy too, and sometimes
what are you doing?
Speaker 1 (33:35):
You are you working?
Speaker 9 (33:37):
Of course I work, all right.
Speaker 1 (33:41):
I'm just wondering. I don't know what you got going on.
I have no idea.
Speaker 9 (33:45):
No, I have to worry.
Speaker 1 (33:46):
Maybe you're a maybe you're a trust fund baby.
Speaker 9 (33:48):
I have no idea or off the book surgeon or something. Listen, man,
but I'm telling you listen New York City. We know
it's a nutouts and everything, but they're really turning on Curtis.
Is it really? I think it's discussed on what they're doing.
Speaker 4 (34:04):
You know.
Speaker 9 (34:05):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (34:05):
I mean my brother lives there, so I followed a
little bit and it's I agree with you. It is disgusting.
I gotta let you go. Thank you, Steven Manhattan.
Speaker 8 (34:13):
There.
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Speaker 12 (35:43):
All right, Ben, We're gonna start off with a question
from Georgia Boy.
Speaker 1 (35:48):
Hi, Georgia Boy, what is.
Speaker 3 (35:50):
The worst Halloween candy?
Speaker 1 (35:55):
See?
Speaker 2 (35:55):
The worst was always when there were people give like
candy apples.
Speaker 1 (35:59):
So I don't if that counts. I always like, well,
I don't want that, I want I want candy. I
guess Almond Joy has always been the worst.
Speaker 2 (36:06):
That's always you always judge it by what's left at
the bottom of the bag. It's always almond Joy. That's
always the last one left. There's like seven or eight
almond Joys and everything else is gone.
Speaker 1 (36:16):
Loreena, Oh that's a hard one.
Speaker 13 (36:18):
But do you remember those old fashioned type candies that
almost taste like peanut butter.
Speaker 7 (36:22):
They come in the orange and black wrappers and they're
like super old.
Speaker 1 (36:26):
What do I know what you're talking about?
Speaker 2 (36:28):
Yeah, I don't.
Speaker 13 (36:28):
I'm gonna have to go find them. But those are
my least favorite. Like I get those and I just
throw them in the trash.
Speaker 1 (36:33):
I don't even want right in the trash.
Speaker 2 (36:34):
Okay, I'll bring them here and give them the people
eat them. But you know, all right, cool.
Speaker 3 (36:39):
Almond Joy or Mounds, they're both terrible.
Speaker 7 (36:41):
Sometimes you feel like a nut. Sometimes you don't.
Speaker 1 (36:44):
Most of the time you don't. Yes, all right, what's
next us?
Speaker 3 (36:49):
The King Rory would like to know.
Speaker 1 (36:52):
Hi, Rory, have you ever gone.
Speaker 3 (36:55):
To the bathroom out in the wild and an outhouse
does not count?
Speaker 2 (37:00):
Uh?
Speaker 1 (37:00):
We're talking two or one here?
Speaker 4 (37:02):
Now?
Speaker 1 (37:02):
Ones are the twos? What are we talking about here?
She said?
Speaker 3 (37:04):
Either?
Speaker 2 (37:05):
Okay, yeah, well, of course, I driving back.
Speaker 1 (37:08):
I've made some long you know on the West coast.
You drive.
Speaker 2 (37:11):
I'm driven back from Sacramentos to La San Francisco to
La Vegas to La sometimes is at night. The thing
that sucks is when you go to you want to
go to the bathroom. Have you ever had this happen?
You got to go, You make it in time to
the restaurant, and then they have a code to get
to the bathroom.
Speaker 1 (37:28):
Oh yeah, So what I do is I just go outside?
And I said, well, I tried. I tried to be
the you know, you didn't so I got to go
outside and take your business.
Speaker 2 (37:37):
Yeah, but I'll even they pull over whatever on side
of the road, and Lorena, do you.
Speaker 13 (37:43):
This is actually one of my horror stories from my childhood.
Speaker 7 (37:46):
Really had to go to the bathroom.
Speaker 13 (37:48):
We were house shopping up in Salem with my mom
and we missed the exit to the hotel and I
really had to go.
Speaker 7 (37:54):
I'm holding my new you urn a corn in my lab.
I'm crying. I'm like I have to pay.
Speaker 13 (37:57):
My Mom's like, if you pay my car, Lorena, I
swear to go. So we pulled over underneath the bridge
on the side of the freeway on the five in Salem,
Morgan and I had to squat under said bridge.
Speaker 7 (38:08):
It was horrible, horrible.
Speaker 2 (38:11):
Every time, you won't buy that bridge after though, you
always remember, right, yeah.
Speaker 7 (38:14):
It was cod and that pinkorn.
Speaker 1 (38:19):
Uh, alright, what about you, Coop?
Speaker 12 (38:23):
I have I've had to do uh the number two
once when I was a kid, where I was like
fishing out in like the forest my grandpa.
Speaker 3 (38:35):
It was terrible. It scarred me for life never again.
Speaker 7 (38:40):
Doing a number two in the wilderness is diabolical.
Speaker 1 (38:43):
That's the issue with the two, is not the two itself.
Speaker 2 (38:46):
It's what happens after the two, right, probably, yes, that's
the issue because there's no.
Speaker 1 (38:49):
Way to the ground. I don't know.
Speaker 2 (38:51):
It was no way to probably clean up the you know,
it was all all right?
Speaker 1 (38:54):
What is next?
Speaker 2 (38:55):
Years ask Ben? Your questions are answers for the rest
of the hour. If you like this, we do it
every week. If you don't like it, we only do
it once a weeks. To who they all cares?
Speaker 1 (39:02):
What's next?
Speaker 3 (39:03):
Donkey Sausage would.
Speaker 1 (39:04):
Like, Hi, Donkey, I.
Speaker 3 (39:06):
Have you ever totaled the car?
Speaker 2 (39:10):
Uh?
Speaker 1 (39:10):
No? Uh?
Speaker 2 (39:12):
And I've come I've had many accidents I've usually sandwich
accidents where I the traffic stops all of a sudden,
I'll bump into a couple of times I've stopped and
then I get hit from behind and I hit the
car in front of me.
Speaker 1 (39:26):
But I've never totaled the car. It's always just cost
thousands of dollars to fix.
Speaker 7 (39:30):
What about you, Lorena, Nope, never totaled.
Speaker 1 (39:34):
I did see a car.
Speaker 2 (39:35):
I saw Carl Rodge last night that looked like it
should be total for some reason.
Speaker 1 (39:39):
But they like to did you what car I'm talking about?
You see that?
Speaker 7 (39:41):
Yeah, the one that's out there that's like missing half
of its bumper.
Speaker 1 (39:44):
Yes, yes, it's very odd. It looks like it came
from a junkyard. What about you, Coop, I have not no.
Speaker 2 (39:50):
Okay, what's next? It's asked Bed your question? Our answers
all right?
Speaker 3 (39:55):
Uh out the alien opiner high Alf.
Speaker 12 (39:58):
You would like to know do you fool close right
out of the dryer or does it go right back
in the basket.
Speaker 1 (40:05):
Yeah, there's not a lot of folding that goes on it.
Speaker 2 (40:07):
There's a big sofa thing we throw it on at
first and then eventually gets transferred to where it needs
to go.
Speaker 1 (40:12):
But yeah, it's not getting folded right away, you.
Speaker 7 (40:14):
Know, Lorena, I try to be really good about it.
Speaker 13 (40:17):
I don't have a lot of space to like store it,
so I got a pretty much folded and put away.
But the pile on my bed does build up every
now and then.
Speaker 2 (40:24):
Yeah, yeah, there's a there's a mountain of clothes at
our house. It's uh, you know, my wife and I
we we it's like bigger than the biggest mountains.
Speaker 7 (40:32):
You just feed out of the clean pile, you know.
Oh look, here's some socks, my underwear.
Speaker 1 (40:36):
Yeah, what about you? Cool? Quickly, cool quickly.
Speaker 3 (40:38):
Sometimes it doesn't even make it out of the dryer.
Speaker 1 (40:41):
Oh wow, just leave it in the dryer. There you go,
all right,
Playball. It's our number three.
Speaker 2 (00:04):
Our number three is ready to go. Talk to Bay's ball.
Not about the World Series though, not about the World Series. Instead,
we have some new managers in Major League Baseball.
Speaker 1 (00:15):
We'll start out in the Bay Area.
Speaker 2 (00:17):
What's the biggest thing Tony Vottello is going to have
to overcome if this is gonna work for him as
the San Francisco Giants manager. He has no big league experience.
He was a college baseball coach. We'll discuss that. Also,
can you decode the fine print in Anaheim? As Kurt
(00:38):
Suzuki Kirk Suzuki was named the new Angels manager. He
only got a one year deal. That's it, one year
contract to manage the Angels, and NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell
says the league is looking into a I artificial intelligence
to potentially help officials.
Speaker 1 (00:56):
You okay with us? We'll talk about that as well.
Right now here. It is our number three.
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not that kind of basemin talk about the World Series.
Speaker 1 (03:01):
I mean, nothing going on with that.
Speaker 2 (03:03):
The World Series will begin on Friday, as the Doyers
will head.
Speaker 3 (03:09):
To oh.
Speaker 1 (03:12):
I believe they're already there to take on the Blue Jays.
Speaker 2 (03:15):
Will be a workout today for the World Series, so
there should be some good stuff come out today about
the matchup in the World Series. And then the games
begin on Friday night. But our lead is from a
blood rival of the Doyers. We go to San Francisco
another day. Another manager has been hired. Not a Rehred,
not a Reshred, not some former star who's going to
(03:36):
be a mascot. Yesterday's rumor, today's news. It's official. The
docu sign has been turned in. University of Tennessee coach
Tony Vittello has been named the new skipper of the Giants.
Speaker 1 (03:53):
Now we mentioned this in a previous episode of the show.
Speaker 2 (03:56):
It's been a rumor since the weekend, and now here
we are on this Thursday, of the deal is done.
This marks the first time that a big League team
has hired a I don't call him a whipper snapper
because he's been around, but he's just having a professional
coach has not been a professional coach. The first time
(04:16):
ever a big League team has hired a manager directly
from a college program without any experience on the professional level.
So Vittello replaces boring Bob Bob Melvin. That's my Bob
Melvin impersonation.
Speaker 1 (04:32):
Yeah, yeah, right.
Speaker 2 (04:33):
He was fired back on September twenty nine. The Giants
are the definition of average. They were eighty one and eighty.
Speaker 1 (04:41):
One, very average.
Speaker 2 (04:44):
So the Giants' fourth consecutive year without a playoff Berth,
I'm told that's not good, But what do I know.
Speaker 1 (04:51):
I just do the Overnight show.
Speaker 2 (04:52):
So that's a good jumping off, boy. So let us
discuss the question what's the biggest thing Tony Vottello is
going to have to overcome if he's going to have
success in San Francisco as the Giants manager. So my
observations on this, I've got Star Trek, Kentucky Derby, and snake.
Speaker 1 (05:14):
Oil and do not have a narrow mind. Do not
be nearrow Mindy.
Speaker 2 (05:19):
We'll combine all of these things together and we are
gonna make the Gabba Goo.
Speaker 1 (05:23):
We're gonna make the Gabba gool so number.
Speaker 2 (05:29):
Number This was either brilliant or a complete train wreck.
Speaker 1 (05:40):
When I that's the vibe I get.
Speaker 2 (05:42):
It's written all over it's he gonna be brilliant or
a complete train wreck. I'm leaning towards train wreck. I'm
leaning towards train wreck because I know the mind of
the ballplayers. I know how they operate. There's really no
middle ground here, Tony Vittello, he is getting special treatment?
Why is he getting special treatment? The Giants were so
horny to hire this guy, right, they were so turned
(06:04):
on by this guy as their manager. They paid three
million dollars to hire the guy. At three million dollars,
you imagine how many world series is you?
Speaker 1 (06:15):
None? He's got no success at the big league level.
Speaker 2 (06:19):
Now I realize Danny and Nashville is gonna He's gonna
carpet bomb my timeline by the time I wake up.
Speaker 1 (06:26):
He listens on the podcast. Now it works the dreaded
day shift.
Speaker 2 (06:29):
But Danny and Nashville, who's in Miami. He's a loves
Tennessee and he's.
Speaker 1 (06:33):
Like, oh, this guy is so good. The Giants are
gonna win.
Speaker 2 (06:36):
The world sore every Tennessee player that goes to the
pro is gonna win the championship whatever sport they're in.
But for Tony mittelllo for the Giants to pay three
million dollars to hire this guy. This is the Star
Trek treatment. Beam me up, Scottie to the big leagues. Done,
Beam me up Scotty.
Speaker 1 (06:53):
To the big leagues.
Speaker 2 (06:55):
No minor league seasoning, no bench coach, apprenticeship, nothing, didn't
ride buses in the minor leagues, didn't coach somewhere in
the major leagues.
Speaker 1 (07:04):
Welcome to the show. Now, this does a couple things.
Speaker 2 (07:09):
It proves that Major League Baseball teams consider that job
to be a big league manager one where you don't
need experience. And why is that? Because it's not about
the ex's and o's. This is really hot take validation.
What the Giants are saying is we can hire anyone,
even a guy that has no business being a big
(07:31):
league manager because he's never been even been a coach
in the major leagues.
Speaker 1 (07:34):
But we can hire him.
Speaker 2 (07:36):
And here's why, because everything's almost done for him. It's
like Hamburger Helper. The meals pretty much made for you.
The algorithm, the front office spreadsheets, get everything ready to
go and whatever Buster Posey and the people around him
come up with the nerds squad. Whatever they hand down,
you're good. The value of a guy like this is
(07:58):
the clubhouse. And if that is the old flopper, if
that is, if that's a no fly zone, then this
is not a Cinderella story.
Speaker 1 (08:06):
It is not. There's nowhere to hide.
Speaker 2 (08:09):
I covered a baseball team when I was a radio
reporter back a million years ago, and they had a
skipper that had no big league experience. He actually was
a decent He managed like four teams in the Major League.
The guy had no experience in the major leagues, though,
and he actually managed another team before he got to
the Angels. There was a clubhouse revolt because this guy
(08:31):
was kind of a hard ass, hard o guy, and
the players, some of them, were like, well, he never played,
so we don't respect him.
Speaker 1 (08:37):
And it became a very sticky situation, if you will.
Speaker 2 (08:42):
And as a distant relative of Nostra Damas and friend
of Nostradinis, I look out into the future and I'm like, okay,
so that's where we are. You gotta win the hearts
and minds of the players. You got cats like Rafael Devers,
who seemingly hustles when he wants to hust and doesn't
hustle most of the time Matt Chapman's been around. Those
(09:03):
are the two veteran players on the Giants season, big
league players sitting.
Speaker 1 (09:07):
There like you. There's this college guy.
Speaker 2 (09:11):
I don't want to win the SEC. I want to
win the Nation League West. I want to win the
National League Pennant. I don't want to win the College
World Series in Omaha. So if they don't buy in,
then he's not just in trouble. He's not Tony Btello
is lunch. He will be eating for lunch. And it's
the brotherhood. It's Major League Baseball players. They cannot stand interlopers,
(09:35):
cannot do it. That union is strong. Now it's a
bold move for Buster Posey. This is like hiring some podcaster,
and so I relate to it like if you running
a radio network and you hire a podcaster, like some
podcaster wearing a hoodie to do a live, four hour
terrestrial radio show with callers and live reads.
Speaker 1 (09:58):
And all of that stuff is so different.
Speaker 2 (10:02):
It's audio content, but podcasting is so much easier than
live radio.
Speaker 1 (10:07):
It's a different skill set.
Speaker 2 (10:09):
Podcasting, you can wear your pajamas, you can edit out
any mistakes you make.
Speaker 1 (10:16):
This is live, it's right now.
Speaker 2 (10:19):
I'm here, you're there if you're listening live to us,
and that's it. And podcasting you have your buddies on,
you play grab ass with your friendly guests that you've
known for a long time, and you just futs around
and OUI, we're having a good time.
Speaker 1 (10:37):
Whoop do do. Yeah, it's a little different. So it's
a similar thing.
Speaker 2 (10:41):
It's like what you said, well, it's audio contents pudget,
but it's a different skill set, like managing in college
and managing in the major leagues. Managing in the major leagues,
that is standing in the middle of a media mosh pit.
One hundred and sixty two games a year plus days off,
we'll have to talk to the media, getting grilled for
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every bullpen meltdown, every bonehead base running move, every ridiculously
bad defensive play.
Speaker 1 (11:10):
That is right there. You're in the middle of it.
Speaker 2 (11:12):
And if you bomb on live radio, the audience will
turn to some other place. Real time, most people just
listen to podcasts and kind of forget.
Speaker 1 (11:22):
About it and they'll play in the background.
Speaker 2 (11:24):
But the same deal here right in one bad stretch,
one bad stretch, and those players will smell weakness.
Speaker 1 (11:31):
You got the big nose, smell that. Yeah, what's that weakness? Yeah?
Speaker 2 (11:34):
Like sharks smelling blood in the water. Good luck now,
speaking of blood in the water. Follow up, follow up
to the follow up, We go to Anaheim, go to Anaheim.
News out this week and the Angels hired their manager.
They introduced their manager. We were told Kurt Suzuki was
introduced a titan from cal State Fullerton. He was introduced
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as the Angels skipper.
Speaker 1 (11:57):
Yesterday.
Speaker 2 (11:59):
And what you get like a seven or eight year contract,
probably long term, right, Angels haven't been good.
Speaker 1 (12:04):
It's gonna take a while for the team to get good.
Speaker 2 (12:05):
So they probably gave him a big contract and said, Okay,
you're a guy, we believe in you, we're on the
cutting edge. We want you to be our guy, and
we'll keep you around for a long time. Either that
or they gave him a one year make good contract.
One year number one, one year.
Speaker 1 (12:25):
That's it. Question.
Speaker 2 (12:30):
Can you decode what the one year deal from Kirk
Suzuki means in Anaheim? So if you've ever driven down
the road and you see those yellow flashing signs when
they're doing roadwork, the flashing LED sign. So they put
those up and they're doing roadwork. There's also something they
(12:52):
put up there. They'll flash sometimes wrong way, you're going
the wrong way, and this is flashing. There's a flashing
led sign for the age.
Speaker 1 (13:00):
Wrong way. Wrong way is what it's flushing.
Speaker 2 (13:05):
So this is a prove it or your toast situation
and managing the Halos is the ultimate temp job in sports.
Speaker 1 (13:14):
Now.
Speaker 2 (13:15):
My money is on Ferg Dog as the interim manager.
When they fire Kurt Suzuki can put Ferg Dog as
the interim manager there. The Angels have had the last
eight years, not one, not two, not three, not four,
not five, six, They've had six managers the last eight years.
How many playoff appearances do the Angels have zero in
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that time? How many losing seasons in a row do
the Angels have ten? Ten in a row? You can
right now without even worrying, you can pencil in ninety
plus losses, ninety plus losses and you're gonna cash the ticket.
Speaker 1 (13:53):
Most years.
Speaker 2 (13:55):
It's like being a jockey at the Kentucky Derby and
you're all excited.
Speaker 1 (14:01):
Okay, here we go. I'm in the derby. This is
gonna be good.
Speaker 2 (14:05):
And then you go to the stables to get the horse,
and they gave you the horse named Hoppy, not Poppy Hoppy.
And the reason they call the horse hoppy is because
it has three legs. Good luck, good luck, And don't
forget the subplot. Ardi Morino's not trying to win, He's.
Speaker 1 (14:22):
Trying to bunk her down. And this is a dead give.
Speaker 2 (14:25):
It's an open secret now that the ownership class at
Major League Baseball, the well heeled owners are already preparing
for a twenty twenty seven lockout. The CBA is going
to expire, and they are prepping for a lockout. They
are doomsday preppers. Doomsday preppers is what they are. And
so the wise words, you hire Kurt Suzuki as a
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temporary one year manager. His deal runs out, so you
don't have to pay him for twenty twenty seven because
you don't have a manager and because you don't have
a season, and they're preparing for the nuclear winter, and
the salary cap is what they want, or they want
a mushroom cloud. And that's the message from the small market.
Speaker 4 (15:07):
Now.
Speaker 2 (15:07):
The Angels are not a small market team. They're just
run like a small market team. And the goal there's
a single goal among the baseball owners outside of a
handful stop the Dodgers. At all costs, stop the Dodgers.
So Suzuki is not a long term solution. Possibly turns
out to be good. He's hired as a seat warmer.
(15:29):
He's hired as a seat warmer, a human post it note,
kind of holding things down until already fires off the nukes.
So it's not rebuild the Angels. I don't believe in
rebuilding anyway. I think that's bull cap. You should try
to win every year. It's suspended animation. That's what it is,
all right, final point. We go back to football for
the final point. These zebras are getting downgraded or are they?
(15:53):
NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell makes a lot of money. Roger
Goodell says the league is looking into artificial intelligence to
help officials.
Speaker 1 (16:05):
AI on the way.
Speaker 2 (16:08):
Developing hot dot dot dot. So question the NFL preparing
and they're looking and it's not official official, but this
wouldn't have been brought up if they were not seriously
considering it. The NFL turning to AI to help the referees.
Speaker 1 (16:23):
Are you okay with this.
Speaker 2 (16:26):
Okay, So in the mountain of thought, a very tall
mountain of thought.
Speaker 1 (16:31):
This is a terrible idea. It's a terrible idea.
Speaker 2 (16:34):
The minute I heard Roger the Dodger Goodell chatting about
artificial intelligence officiating, I was drinking some ice.
Speaker 1 (16:45):
Water, and I nearly split the icewater out. I said,
I don't know about this.
Speaker 2 (16:49):
Is it true that it is more likely than not,
more likely than not that the NFL power brokers allowed
a presentation and and in that presentation they were hoodwinked
by some smooth talking Silicon Valleys snake oil snake oil
salesman with a.
Speaker 1 (17:09):
PowerPoint deck and a ted talk.
Speaker 2 (17:12):
The almighty, all powerful algorithm will fix everything, everything with officiating.
Give me a break. Seriously, the game is played by humans.
Check humans are flawed. Check humans make mistakes. Check emotion
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is involved. Check things get messy. Check check check. Here's
the problem. You're not selling a video game, the product
the very ethos of the product. You're selling real life.
The coaches are not perfect, the players are not perfect.
The referees aren't perfect. They're not supposed to be perfect.
(17:54):
It's part of the theater. So what's next. We're going
to replace the fans because the fans don't always cheer properly.
Speaker 1 (18:03):
You don't, you dopes don't cheer? How about AI fans?
Who says no, We'll get better fans.
Speaker 2 (18:09):
I want every game to have the greatest possible fan experience,
So every team should have at least one section with
AI generated sound. Who says no, Because those AI fans
will be better fans. They'll know when to cheer, they
won't boom because the algorithm says not to boot.
Speaker 1 (18:28):
Those are great fans. Why not. We're gonna replace everything else,
Just replace the fans. That's it.
Speaker 2 (18:35):
See the point is stop trying to sterilize everything with tech, right.
Not everything needs to be optimized, it just doesn't. Sometimes
your product is good enough, you know, you don't need
to keep adding things so the price, Like in and
out Burger sells what do they sell? They sell burgers,
fries and shakes. They don't sell chicken, they don't sell
(18:58):
fish and they I'm sure they've had people say why
don't we sell you fish or checking, No, we'd sell burgers,
and we sell this is what we sell. That's it
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this hour, we will have ask Pen. But time now
for the Mallord Riddle of the day. And here's the
Mallard Riddle of the day. Pete Carroll, his son Brennan Carol,
a Raiders assistant coach, has gone viral after constantly blanking
(19:46):
during an interview he did this week again, Pete Carroll's
son Brennan Carrol, a Raiders assistant coach, has gone viral.
Has been this clip has been seen millions of times
after constantly blanking during a recent interview.
Speaker 1 (20:01):
That is the Mallard Riddle of the day. The answer next.
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Speaker 1 (21:41):
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Speaker 2 (21:43):
Say hello to Loraina FSR Tech Queen and Coop at
upbronco fan. Your comments, Cannon most certainly will be used
against you in the kangaroo court of sports radio, so please.
Speaker 1 (21:54):
Act accordingly and now back to it.
Speaker 2 (22:00):
We do, go back to it, and we pay off
the Mallard Riddle of the day. Pete Carroll's son Brennan,
who's a Raider coach. I'm sure that's not nepotism. You're
in the old fashioned way, not being born into the
right DNA pool. Pete Carroll's son Brennan, a Raider assistant coach,
has gone viral after constantly blanking during an interview that
(22:21):
he did recently. That is the question. What is the answer?
Let's see, does anyone know the answer to the Mallor
Riddle of the day? Page down burning Gara burning garbage
from Donkey Sausage.
Speaker 1 (22:37):
See who else do we have?
Speaker 2 (22:38):
Let's see, can't read that crushing gum like his dad
from the clam constantly.
Speaker 1 (22:44):
Yawning ferg Dog says.
Speaker 2 (22:46):
He says, By the way, when I become the Angels manager,
I'm gonna be He says, Ben, You're gonna be.
Speaker 1 (22:51):
My third base coach. That's great. I like, can I
be the pitching coach? I kind of want to be
the pitching coach. That'd be fun. Get to go out
to the mound a few times a game.
Speaker 7 (22:58):
You can be whatever you want to be.
Speaker 1 (23:00):
Thank you, Loray, I appreciate that.
Speaker 2 (23:02):
Late night drug tester says collecting Christmas donations before Halloween?
Speaker 1 (23:06):
Who else do we have? A page down?
Speaker 2 (23:08):
Alf says he kept refreshing his TikTok feed looking for
new content from whoopee Pie.
Speaker 1 (23:14):
Blair Bill says.
Speaker 2 (23:16):
Pete Carroll's son kept farting during the news conference, licking
his elbows from Lady Sideburns. Fudgie says, the answer is
t bowing.
Speaker 1 (23:27):
What else we have? Page doown? Far out?
Speaker 2 (23:28):
Dave says John Cida's John Cena's can you can't see me?
Speaker 1 (23:33):
You can't see me?
Speaker 2 (23:34):
Andy also went with the Pete Carroll bubblegum chewing thing
that his dad does. Sean and Portland says, humming the
Notre Dame fight song, King Rory drinking hot sauce.
Speaker 1 (23:47):
Is his answer us really good hot sauce.
Speaker 2 (23:50):
It's something from Moxy My dog BP says he was
constantly drooling palm desert rat checks and says he kept
dropping the F bomb. Now Craig got it right, must
be cheating. Bad job by him. It was very creepy though,
and he got it right. Crying guessed by chiefs TI
Guy fondling his beard from Eke and Roseville, Minnesota. JT
(24:14):
the Wingman said he kept scratching his ear, sniffing his
fingers from Doug in South Korea. Big Rig Robb says
he was constantly munching on snicker doodle grits. It's one
of the better answers we've gotten on a game show
in a while. Snicker doodle grits outstanding, outstanding. All right, Lorrainer,
(24:36):
do you have an answer, Lorader to the mallor riddle
of the day again. Pete Carroll, his son Brennan, the
Raiders assistant coach, has gone viral after constantly blanking during
an interview he did this.
Speaker 7 (24:50):
Week, clearing his throat.
Speaker 3 (24:51):
Ben Okay, thank you, he's.
Speaker 1 (24:55):
A little acting there. Appreciate that. No, it is see
correct the answer.
Speaker 2 (25:00):
Brandan Carroll, the son of Pete Carroll, went viral this
week for constantly rolling his eyes to the back of
his head. Sure, any of you if you're old enough
to remember the professional wrestler named the Undertaker back in
the day many years ago, just like that, just like
the Undertaker.
Speaker 1 (25:22):
Which is that a medical problem?
Speaker 2 (25:26):
Whereas just some people just randomly roll the eyes like
out of their head, like to the back of their head.
Speaker 1 (25:31):
I don't know.
Speaker 2 (25:31):
Let's go to the phones. Let's say hello to hollering James.
Who's in Minneapolis, Minnesota. Hello hollering James, Hey Ben, Oh
you're awake.
Speaker 1 (25:43):
Look at you?
Speaker 8 (25:45):
It white, awake and ready to go. I'm rocking in
the rolling and fixing sunglasses because I'm shrilling.
Speaker 1 (25:53):
Are you're outside? You're walking around?
Speaker 8 (25:56):
I'm up scrolling an exercise.
Speaker 2 (26:00):
Time to walk here, they always say to go out
about three thirty in the morning, the perfect time to
get a nice walk in.
Speaker 8 (26:06):
Well, Minnesota's got cooler, weathered. Many would love it.
Speaker 2 (26:11):
Oh you want to You guys should live together. That
would be a wonderful reality show. You and weed Man
side by side.
Speaker 8 (26:18):
He's one of my favorite callers.
Speaker 1 (26:22):
Why is that?
Speaker 8 (26:24):
Because you know he's on your shake com as weed Man?
Speaker 1 (26:29):
Yeah, who are the top? Let's try to guess here,
who are the top three weed Man's want him? So
I need two more?
Speaker 2 (26:36):
Hollering James. Top three callers to the Ben Mallor Show
not named.
Speaker 1 (26:40):
Hollering James. I know I know one of them. You're
gonna name I know one. Let's see here.
Speaker 2 (26:49):
Oh okay, I see what you did there?
Speaker 8 (26:53):
All right?
Speaker 1 (26:54):
Well were real answers. Please, hollering James, Chop.
Speaker 9 (26:56):
Chop, okay, weed hippie.
Speaker 8 (26:59):
That's why we got we got them. Uh yead day David?
Speaker 9 (27:10):
Who who Dave?
Speaker 2 (27:14):
Huh?
Speaker 1 (27:15):
I don't know who that is?
Speaker 8 (27:17):
You know, Dave?
Speaker 1 (27:20):
No, you're just making up name. You're making up names.
Speaker 2 (27:22):
Now?
Speaker 1 (27:23):
Could you only name one caller?
Speaker 8 (27:26):
Or if it's one, if I name one, that will
to golden ticket?
Speaker 1 (27:31):
James.
Speaker 2 (27:31):
You listen every night, you can only name one?
Speaker 8 (27:35):
Ben on a short term memory. I'm focused on one project,
and that's fixing my sunglasses. There were really cool bair
of sunglasses. The had gold trim until I broke the stem.
Speaker 2 (27:48):
James, why do you need sunglasses? It's three thirty, a
little after three thirty in the morning where you are.
Speaker 1 (27:54):
Why do you need sunglasses?
Speaker 8 (27:56):
Got to be cool with your cool sunglasses. There's a
song like day, it's wrapped and roll. Okay, thank you,
I gotta take for you. Did Anthony Edwards shot across
the world?
Speaker 2 (28:15):
Yes, I'm sure right now in Guam they're celebrating. In Indonesia,
they're very happy because Anthony Edwards made.
Speaker 8 (28:22):
A shot a green trim jersey with the pine trees.
Speaker 1 (28:30):
I was very kind of for her to do that.
And I'm going to hang up on you now. Thank you.
Let's go to Andrea in Berkeley.
Speaker 2 (28:35):
We do have ask Ben coming up in a few minutes,
so if you want to send questions in hashtag ask
Man the astrology Insider, there's some cosmic news. And when
cosmic news breaks, we turned to our insider.
Speaker 1 (28:49):
Her name is Andrea.
Speaker 2 (28:50):
She's in Berkeley and she's on the radio right now.
Hello Andrea, Welcome, Hello Dan.
Speaker 9 (28:55):
How are you?
Speaker 2 (28:57):
If I was any better, I would be a giant,
but not a San Francisco giant because I don't know
how this is going to work out.
Speaker 1 (29:04):
But you didn't call about that. What is on your
mind here? Andrea?
Speaker 4 (29:07):
Yes, actually did because oh I agree with the timing.
We have the new moon in Libra, we have Son
in Scorpio. So happy Scorpio season, Coop and Lorena. So
that said, the new moon in Libra and Tony Vitello
happens to be a Libra October ninth, nineteen seventy eight,
(29:31):
so new moon's are new beginning. So I agree with
the timing, but I don't agree with the choice necessarily.
I'm kind of old school. I like more experience and
you know, things of I mean, Bob Melvin was three
time manager of the year, twenty years experience. You know,
Tony Vitello doesn't have any experience with the major League
(29:54):
baseball team, so it'll be kind of like trial and error.
And the Giants finished five hundred in eighty one, so frankly,
I don't think they're in a position to kind of
have a lot of, you know, more ups and downs.
But that said, he is having a Jupiter return once
every twelve years, so he, you know, in his own way,
(30:14):
is at the right time, at the right place. But
I really don't know. I don't feel confident that it's
going to work out for the Giants. But on the
new moon in Libra, he's a Libra, so on some
level he was ready for a new beginning, and there
he was, and Curiously, Buster Posey is an Airy, so
they're opposites, so I don't know if opposites attracted, they
(30:36):
kind of repel. So it'll be interesting to see how
they get along. Posy March twenty seventh, nineteen eighty seven.
So I'm working on their compatibility, so it'll be interesting
to see. But I would have picked a more seasoned veteran,
or at least summer with more Major League Baseball experience.
So I'm kind of skeptical.
Speaker 2 (30:57):
Yea fair, It's it's gonna be dicey. The managing part
of it, I think is fine. It's if things go
bad and then he's got he don't have the experience,
and then the players are going to hold him to
a different a different standard. But I would love for
someone to want me to work for their company so
much that they would pay three million dollars just to
have the right to hire me. The Giants paid three
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million dollars to the University of Tennessee to have the right.
Speaker 1 (31:21):
That was the buy out to hire this guy.
Speaker 4 (31:24):
That's bananas, yeah right, And then he's to pay Bond
Melvin four million dollars because they extended a contract through
next season. And then Buster Posey were named on that,
so I don't think they're making the best choices. That's
interesting that they paid three million just for the opportunity
to interview him, so I.
Speaker 1 (31:45):
Don't know what to hire him is pretty well?
Speaker 2 (31:47):
Yeah, all right, well Andrea, thank you, and there you go.
Some cosmic news right there from our friend Andrea checking in.
Appreciate that. And real quick, let's go to any meaning
money Moe. Let's go to Steve in Manhattan. Hello, STEVEO
in Manhattan.
Speaker 10 (32:04):
W wait a minute now, back in the New York Group,
Ben stinguished panel, expanding audience to listen.
Speaker 9 (32:15):
I want to try out a new.
Speaker 11 (32:16):
Line on this audience because it's big and he's got
a lot of people in it that have different opinions.
Speaker 8 (32:21):
Go Curtisely, We'll go, go Curtisely, We'll go, go Curtisely,
We'll go, go, go go.
Speaker 1 (32:28):
What do you think, folks, Yeah, it's wonderful.
Speaker 2 (32:31):
You should you should go to the top of the
Empire State Building and just yell that down.
Speaker 1 (32:35):
You should do that.
Speaker 9 (32:37):
Well, I'm trying out of line it. We need it
for the next two weeks here, you know.
Speaker 1 (32:42):
Yeah, you think that's gonna work for you.
Speaker 5 (32:44):
I don't know.
Speaker 9 (32:45):
I don't.
Speaker 4 (32:45):
I don't.
Speaker 9 (32:46):
It'll get votes, but we'll get some attention.
Speaker 11 (32:48):
What about Andrew Cuomo and Joe piscopol going to Hollywood
and making any kind of movie. I think those two
guys in a movie, Andrew could play ahead.
Speaker 1 (32:58):
That would be great.
Speaker 2 (32:59):
Now.
Speaker 1 (32:59):
They would do that if it was like nineteen eighty nine,
they would do that. But I don't know about today.
You know what I'm saying.
Speaker 11 (33:05):
No, Andrew, I'm telling you, he could be the getaway driver.
Speaker 9 (33:09):
He could be, you know, play the heavy There's a
lot of things you can play in the movie.
Speaker 8 (33:14):
You know.
Speaker 1 (33:15):
Yeah, Yeah, that's an interesting take. I did not expect
that take from you, Steven Man. I did not expect that.
Speaker 11 (33:21):
We had to try it out.
Speaker 9 (33:21):
I wanted to try it down here.
Speaker 1 (33:23):
Where have you?
Speaker 2 (33:23):
Where have you been? You go away for a while,
you come back. He's like a rotation or something like that.
I don't understand. It's very odd.
Speaker 11 (33:31):
Well, you know, I'm kind of busy too, and sometimes
what are you doing?
Speaker 1 (33:35):
You are you working?
Speaker 9 (33:37):
Of course I work, all right.
Speaker 1 (33:41):
I'm just wondering. I don't know what you got going on.
I have no idea.
Speaker 9 (33:45):
No, I have to worry.
Speaker 1 (33:46):
Maybe you're a maybe you're a trust fund baby.
Speaker 9 (33:48):
I have no idea or off the book surgeon or something. Listen, man,
but I'm telling you listen New York City. We know
it's a nutouts and everything, but they're really turning on Curtis.
Is it really? I think it's discussed on what they're doing.
Speaker 4 (34:04):
You know.
Speaker 9 (34:05):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (34:05):
I mean my brother lives there, so I followed a
little bit and it's I agree with you. It is disgusting.
I gotta let you go. Thank you, Steven Manhattan.
Speaker 8 (34:13):
There.
Speaker 2 (34:13):
It is the Ben Maler Show. We are going to
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We'll get to that. We'll do it next.
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Speaker 12 (35:43):
All right, Ben, We're gonna start off with a question
from Georgia Boy.
Speaker 1 (35:48):
Hi, Georgia Boy, what is.
Speaker 3 (35:50):
The worst Halloween candy?
Speaker 1 (35:55):
See?
Speaker 2 (35:55):
The worst was always when there were people give like
candy apples.
Speaker 1 (35:59):
So I don't if that counts. I always like, well,
I don't want that, I want I want candy. I
guess Almond Joy has always been the worst.
Speaker 2 (36:06):
That's always you always judge it by what's left at
the bottom of the bag. It's always almond Joy. That's
always the last one left. There's like seven or eight
almond Joys and everything else is gone.
Speaker 1 (36:16):
Loreena, Oh that's a hard one.
Speaker 13 (36:18):
But do you remember those old fashioned type candies that
almost taste like peanut butter.
Speaker 7 (36:22):
They come in the orange and black wrappers and they're
like super old.
Speaker 1 (36:26):
What do I know what you're talking about?
Speaker 2 (36:28):
Yeah, I don't.
Speaker 13 (36:28):
I'm gonna have to go find them. But those are
my least favorite. Like I get those and I just
throw them in the trash.
Speaker 1 (36:33):
I don't even want right in the trash.
Speaker 2 (36:34):
Okay, I'll bring them here and give them the people
eat them. But you know, all right, cool.
Speaker 3 (36:39):
Almond Joy or Mounds, they're both terrible.
Speaker 7 (36:41):
Sometimes you feel like a nut. Sometimes you don't.
Speaker 1 (36:44):
Most of the time you don't. Yes, all right, what's
next us?
Speaker 3 (36:49):
The King Rory would like to know.
Speaker 1 (36:52):
Hi, Rory, have you ever gone.
Speaker 3 (36:55):
To the bathroom out in the wild and an outhouse
does not count?
Speaker 2 (37:00):
Uh?
Speaker 1 (37:00):
We're talking two or one here?
Speaker 4 (37:02):
Now?
Speaker 1 (37:02):
Ones are the twos? What are we talking about here?
She said?
Speaker 3 (37:04):
Either?
Speaker 2 (37:05):
Okay, yeah, well, of course, I driving back.
Speaker 1 (37:08):
I've made some long you know on the West coast.
You drive.
Speaker 2 (37:11):
I'm driven back from Sacramentos to La San Francisco to
La Vegas to La sometimes is at night. The thing
that sucks is when you go to you want to
go to the bathroom. Have you ever had this happen?
You got to go, You make it in time to
the restaurant, and then they have a code to get
to the bathroom.
Speaker 1 (37:28):
Oh yeah, So what I do is I just go outside?
And I said, well, I tried. I tried to be
the you know, you didn't so I got to go
outside and take your business.
Speaker 2 (37:37):
Yeah, but I'll even they pull over whatever on side
of the road, and Lorena, do you.
Speaker 13 (37:43):
This is actually one of my horror stories from my childhood.
Speaker 7 (37:46):
Really had to go to the bathroom.
Speaker 13 (37:48):
We were house shopping up in Salem with my mom
and we missed the exit to the hotel and I
really had to go.
Speaker 7 (37:54):
I'm holding my new you urn a corn in my lab.
I'm crying. I'm like I have to pay.
Speaker 13 (37:57):
My Mom's like, if you pay my car, Lorena, I
swear to go. So we pulled over underneath the bridge
on the side of the freeway on the five in Salem,
Morgan and I had to squat under said bridge.
Speaker 7 (38:08):
It was horrible, horrible.
Speaker 2 (38:11):
Every time, you won't buy that bridge after though, you
always remember, right, yeah.
Speaker 7 (38:14):
It was cod and that pinkorn.
Speaker 1 (38:19):
Uh, alright, what about you, Coop?
Speaker 12 (38:23):
I have I've had to do uh the number two
once when I was a kid, where I was like
fishing out in like the forest my grandpa.
Speaker 3 (38:35):
It was terrible. It scarred me for life never again.
Speaker 7 (38:40):
Doing a number two in the wilderness is diabolical.
Speaker 1 (38:43):
That's the issue with the two, is not the two itself.
Speaker 2 (38:46):
It's what happens after the two, right, probably, yes, that's
the issue because there's no.
Speaker 1 (38:49):
Way to the ground. I don't know.
Speaker 2 (38:51):
It was no way to probably clean up the you know,
it was all all right?
Speaker 1 (38:54):
What is next?
Speaker 2 (38:55):
Years ask Ben? Your questions are answers for the rest
of the hour. If you like this, we do it
every week. If you don't like it, we only do
it once a weeks. To who they all cares?
Speaker 1 (39:02):
What's next?
Speaker 3 (39:03):
Donkey Sausage would.
Speaker 1 (39:04):
Like, Hi, Donkey, I.
Speaker 3 (39:06):
Have you ever totaled the car?
Speaker 2 (39:10):
Uh?
Speaker 1 (39:10):
No? Uh?
Speaker 2 (39:12):
And I've come I've had many accidents I've usually sandwich
accidents where I the traffic stops all of a sudden,
I'll bump into a couple of times I've stopped and
then I get hit from behind and I hit the
car in front of me.
Speaker 1 (39:26):
But I've never totaled the car. It's always just cost
thousands of dollars to fix.
Speaker 7 (39:30):
What about you, Lorena, Nope, never totaled.
Speaker 1 (39:34):
I did see a car.
Speaker 2 (39:35):
I saw Carl Rodge last night that looked like it
should be total for some reason.
Speaker 1 (39:39):
But they like to did you what car I'm talking about?
You see that?
Speaker 7 (39:41):
Yeah, the one that's out there that's like missing half
of its bumper.
Speaker 1 (39:44):
Yes, yes, it's very odd. It looks like it came
from a junkyard. What about you, Coop, I have not no.
Speaker 2 (39:50):
Okay, what's next? It's asked Bed your question? Our answers
all right?
Speaker 3 (39:55):
Uh out the alien opiner high Alf.
Speaker 12 (39:58):
You would like to know do you fool close right
out of the dryer or does it go right back
in the basket.
Speaker 1 (40:05):
Yeah, there's not a lot of folding that goes on it.
Speaker 2 (40:07):
There's a big sofa thing we throw it on at
first and then eventually gets transferred to where it needs
to go.
Speaker 1 (40:12):
But yeah, it's not getting folded right away, you.
Speaker 7 (40:14):
Know, Lorena, I try to be really good about it.
Speaker 13 (40:17):
I don't have a lot of space to like store it,
so I got a pretty much folded and put away.
But the pile on my bed does build up every
now and then.
Speaker 2 (40:24):
Yeah, yeah, there's a there's a mountain of clothes at
our house. It's uh, you know, my wife and I
we we it's like bigger than the biggest mountains.
Speaker 7 (40:32):
You just feed out of the clean pile, you know.
Oh look, here's some socks, my underwear.
Speaker 1 (40:36):
Yeah, what about you? Cool? Quickly, cool quickly.
Speaker 3 (40:38):
Sometimes it doesn't even make it out of the dryer.
Speaker 1 (40:41):
Oh wow, just leave it in the dryer. There you go,
all right,
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