Fingergate

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Episode Transcript

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Are we ready to roll? Yeah? Are we rolling? Hey? This
is the power Trip after party.I don't know how you because it's fucking
rabbit puke. You know that,it's it's all that's left. I don't
fucking scale scale on one to ten. How pissed are you about piscavengers?
Piss because I'm pissed because A II honestly I didn't have one, because

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A I'm trying to lose weight.I didn't have one. But god damn
it, there's like six fucking peoplein this building. I saw one individual
who works for the station down thehall. He had multiple fucking plates,
and multiple times when I walked outthere, he goes, oh, Dave
wants some Dave has fucking legs.Dave can come get it. What the

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fuck are we doing? Like Ijust I watched multiple people go back three
times. Now you're going, Paul, you probably have done this, sure,
but like A like let some peoplewho don't have MATHO. I've never
onced. I don't know if youhave. I've never once when other food
is in the building for other shows, assumed it's for me if people leave

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it in the breakroom, because it'slike for everybody that's different if it's outside
of one of the studios. Idon't assume that's for me. I've never
once just taken other people's food.I just want I don't get it.
Man. Like, like every towardsthe end of the year, Dave will
do like a big like breakfast buffetfor everybody that he pays for and brings
it in the like he invites everybody. I don't know how all of a
sudden, everyone I saw. Itmakes me mad because it's like there's multiple

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people. I'm not trying to bea dick, but I'm gonna be a
dick. There are people in thisbuilding who took multiple plates of food that
could buy lunch for literally the wholefucking building, the whole building, not
just this floor. It's Corey's fuckingendorsement. We don't need to come and
take If you want to have two, have two, fine, You're not
taking a fucking lunch earth. Imean there was a guy who took I

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bet eight of them, and multiplepieces of toast, multiple fucking sauces.
This isn't a fucking cafeteria. Ijust I it's just it's the it's it's
just it's being rude, and likewe've talked about, there are people who
don't fucking show up every day,but all of a sudden, there's food

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down here, and I'm gonna walkmy happy fucking ass down here and take
a ton of it. Fuck that, it's fucking ridiculous. They brought.
I would bet they brought one hundredand fifty fucking chicken fingers and in the
Power Trip staff got I bet atotal of let me do the math here,
m Rosie, maybe at three orfour, and they'd had a couple,

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you had a couple of mats,had a couple of twenty to twenty
five. They're all gone. Therest of them are gone. Yeah,
they're all gone. And I getit, like, hey, there's some
people like you know, they're they'refucking hungry. That's the beauty of the
radio business is that there's always freefood. There is. But like they
were out there before we even gota chance to get out there and get

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some. I don't know, man, people don't give a fuck anymore.
And there were people from that stationwho literally didn't come down to get food,
and they were just down there talkingto Pauliska, who is here for
the first time. There are plentyof people who said I'm not here to
get your free food. But theywere like two or three of them,
where you would have thought it wasthe last fucking meal on earth, and
they just fucking took and took andtook. Not two or three of them.

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That's fine. There's plenty if all. If there's what forty people in
the building, if we want tohave two or three of them, that's
fine. Don't take ten of them. Don't take six pieces of toast,
four fucking sauces, and ten fuckingchicken fingers. That's in my exact order.
It's ridiculous. Though they're none left. God damn it. Fuck exact

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your thoughts. Yeah, I mean, I don't know. I was a
little shocked and almost by the waytoo. Um, you know, we've
got a few minutes for the break, and I'm in charge of the board,
so like, I don't I haveto really be there for the most
part. I can step out realquick. But it's like when you step

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out there and there's like a linegoing around the fucking corner, and I'm
like, uh, because you know, I'd like to delve in and dive
in and get it, get acouple and I'm having to wait for you
know, this station and that stationand this other station to get through.
Um. Yeah, it wasn't tootoo happy about that. But come back
to your points. It's about itbeing my endorsement, right, because Kenes

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are my guys. To me,it's more about it's our shows food,
right, Like from the people fromDrip Drop were here a couple of weeks
ago and they dropped off all thosedrip Drop packets or whatever. Chris didn't
take all of them home. He'slet our team split him up. Right.

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When I get when Kenes drops offfood for quote me, I you
need one hundred and fifty, right, But it's it's for the power trip.
And we normally have Hawk here,labor here on a Thursday, depending
on what time the food drop is, Tommy exactly. That's my whole point
is if if everybody's here on aThursday, we have like eight people,

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right give or take, it's forthose eight first, and then if there's
still tons left over, and therealmost always is, if one of us
doesn't want to bring some of ithome, then it's for the rest of
everybody else, right, Isn't thathow that works? I don't know why.
That seems pretty common sense to me, But I don't know. It's
supposed to be the Power Trips food. Of course, jump you've been using

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mic for the whole time. Ohno, no, we were that one
sauce through that microphone. Uh,in disgust that he did, he pushed
it away in great, great anguish. Why did I just get an email
from Adam Silver an easier year?Is this the other Paul Lambert at iHeartMedia

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that gets so Nate? What doyou think about? What? What was
your take on the chicken strip Fiascafrom This Morning So Chicken? It's it's
one of those things where it's thelack of common courtesy, like and it's
it's selfish behavior that people only thinkof themselves. And uh, there's a

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saying that you can tell a lotabout someone's character by how they act when
they're hungry and when people are takingyou know, an eighth of the amount
of chicken that's out there, andyou know they may say, oh,
it's for other people as well.No, that's not how this works.
If if you want part of thisfood that was brought in specifically for this

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show, they can walk. No, I don't have any problem with people
having sub I don't. I don't, But it's the fucking common courtesy of
taking ten of them. Absolutely,you just like have a couple of them.
There's plenty of it. There isplenty of it for everybody that's here
to have a couple of them.But you don't need ten of them,

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God damn it. And if somebodydoes take ten, it better be a
member of the Power Trip Morning Show. Yeah, that's our Max and Zacho
could take twenty of them if theywant it. Yeah, because it's part
of the show. Yeah yeah.What if what if we have some some
restaurant that isn't necessarily an on airpartner bringing a whole bunch of food,

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but then we like dump in itor something, you know what I'm saying,
and then we just leave it outthere and then watch all the scavengers
get just horrific diseases, like you'renot You're That idea is maybe fifty fifty
the idea of leaving it into thestudio right and forcing people to walk in

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and look at you, be like, I'm I'm taking your food without asking,
because if they have to look atyou, they that will cut down
on the amount of people that arelike, oh, let me take this
entire pan so I can have breakfast, lunch, and dinner for the next
two days from now on. That'sthe deal, right when Kines drops off.
Oo, we're just bringing it intothe main studio, not leaving it
in the hallway, because otherwise thescavengers are just gonna get it. We

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joked about the scavenger forever. Thisis the worst. This was awol today.
They just they devoured the whole thing. So why are you looking up
Alejandro Lyrics? I believe Zach saidhe's writing a love letter to are you?
Are you adding Alijandro Lyrics? Idon't know. I just got it

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was like, was it really justhot like Mexico Rejoices? Really? The
line it was because I was singingin my head and I'm like, is
it really high? Are you singinglike Mexico Rejoice? Yeah? I mean
it's a good, good song becauseI don't know, I've planned at the
end of the show and it cameout when I was in high school.
So you know what else was likeMexico Rejoiced was the chicken fingers from Canes

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when they first showed up. Yeah, and then by the time they were
in the bellies of everybody else inthe building and they were probably ice cold.
Went how long did it take youto get your chicken fingers? There
was at least one one break.Yeah, so twenty minutes the last yeah
they were getting it was getting prettyit was getting pretty dicey. By the
time I walked out. There nota lot left to pick from. Yeah,

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it was incredible. I've never seenit like that. It was like
Shark's chumming chumming. So this isprobably not worth even mentioning because this might
deserve a full segment on The PowerTrip one day, like Zach Gott.
No, it's a different kind ofuh segment. It's not um an outing

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um the new Elon algorithm, thenew Twitter algorithm. I get a whole
bunch of stuff on my timeline thatI don't follow. Yeah, and then
I also get stuff pretty frequently whereI'm like wow, why, I wonder
why Twitter thinks I would like thisright? But then once in a while
I get something in between those two, which is all right, I don't

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follow this account, but this issomething I would normally click on, So
like, wow, all right,they're doing something right because this is a
suggested tweet that I'm like, Yeah, I would normally find anyway. I'm
scrolling the other day and I seea picture of a tiger shark shark,
and again I'm going, look atElon's little fucking algorithm. I like sharks.

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So I start reading this story.Do you want me to read it
to you? Yes? This isif this ain't a fucking movie at some
point. Doesn't have anything to dowith the guy they got eaten in Egypt
a couple days ago. No,that video was one of the worst things
I've ever seen in my life.No, this is almost a hundred years

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ago. This is the most fascinatingthing I've heard in a long time.
And now I gotta scroll back.Hang on, talk amongst yourselves, Rhode
Island, neither a road nor anIsland, discuss uh sauce. Do you
have any other bets on golf thisweek? Or just yeah? I took
the top three favorites, and thenI took Corey's Guy Morikawa, because my

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whole bit was, if I getthe first pick in the bed, I'm
gonna take Scottie Scheffler. So Igot on him anyway, because getting Scottie
Scheffler at you know twenty whatever itis, we can get him through our
bed. It'd be way better.So yeah, I have a few of
them, all right. I foundout here we go Sauce. I'm gonna
ask you to pay attention because thisstory is fucking unbelievable. But by all
accounts, because I looked it upon a couple of the websites, this

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is a true story. This hasto be a movie. Go ahead,
tell me when you're ready. Suretext textra Beck later, Betty, check
this shit out. Nineteen thirty five. Fisherman in Sydney, Australia catch a
tiger shark and they put it ondisplay in an aquarium. So they catch
it, keep it alive, theythrow it on, throw it on,

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displaying an aquarium cool a tiger sharksswiming around. About a week later,
the shark seems to get sick andthrows up in front of a small crowd.
Pukes up something that had previously leavingthe left hand and forearm of a
man bearing a distinctive tattoo floating inthe pool. So a tiger shark pukes

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up a forearm and a hand,but the forearm has a tattoo on it.
That's pretty distinct, so they're like, oh shit. Fingerprints of the
hand identified the arm as that offormer boxer and petty criminal James or Jim
Smith, who had been missing sinceApril of that year. So missing dude

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gets puked up by a tiger shark. Pretty crazy, right that maybe he
never gets found if that tiger sharkjust processes that forearm cleanly, but instead
he gets stick and throws it up. Here's where the story gets crazy.
Examination revealed that the limb had beensevered with a knife, which resulted then

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in a murder investigation. So thecops realized, oh, wait a minute,
this dude just didn't get eaten bya tiger shark. Somebody cut off
this guy's arm and the shark ateit. Jesus. Early inquiries implicated a
Sydney businessman named Reginald William Lloyd Holmes. Holmes was a fraudster and a smuggler

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who also managed a successful family boatbuilding business. Holmes had employed Smith several
times to work insurance scamps. Soagain, the guy that's dead also a
troublemaker, right into illegal stuff.The pair then soon began engaged in criminal
activity with Patrick Francis Brady, anex serviceman and convicted forger. So again

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a whole bunch of circle over theplace Ye Smith was lasting drinking and playing
cards with Patrick Francis Brady at theCecil Hotel in Sydney, all right outside
of Sydney on April seventh of nineteenthirty five, after telling his if he
was going fishing. Brady had renteda small a cottage at the time Smith
became missing. Police alleged that Smithwas murdered at this cottage. Port Hacking

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and Gunna Mata Bay were searched bythe Navy in the Air Force, but
the rest of Smith's body was neverfound. Brady was arrested on May sixteenth
and charged with the murder of Smith. Again there's one last just crazy twist
here. So initially this guy Holmesdenied any association with Brady, but four
days later, on May twentieth,nineteen thirty five, he goes into a

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boat shed and tries to shoot himselfin the head, to kill himself because
I think he knows crap. Theyknow they know it's me. So he
goes to shoot himself with you mightcall it a three fifty five magnet,
but it was actually a thirty twocaliber pistol, but instead the bullet flattens
against the bone of his forehead,so he was merely stunned. So he

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tries to shoot himself in the head. The bullet flattens against the dude's forehead.
He gets stunned, revives himself aftertrying to kill himself, climbs into
a boat and gets into a fourhour police chase before they eventually catch him,
and then he's convicted and all thatstuff. So if that tiger shark
doesn't puke up the guy's arm,all of these other things don't happen,

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guy tries to kill himself, survivesit, and then gets in a four
hour boat chase. Well, hemust be a relative a bot if his
head stopped a bullet. Holmes eventuallycooperated with a police stating that Brady had
killed Smith. So again, Holmeswasn't the one that did it, but
Brady did. Brady had killed Smithdismember Oh, by the way, how
about this, I forgot to tellyou this part. This isn't in the

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post, but it was on theWikipedia entry. So Brady kills Smith,
dismembers his body, stows it intoa trunk that he had thrown into the
bay. According to Wikipedia, thetiger shark had eaten a smaller shark that
had eaten the army. Oh soit wasn't even that the tiger shark ate

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it. The speculation is that thatshark ate another shark that had eaten the
arm This is like fucking Odell Lake. This is incredible. Yeah, this
is not a movie. It shouldbe. So here's the real question.
How did Twitter know you'd love that? Because we talk a lot about sharks.
I saw that I'm showing you guys, I saw that picture of a
shark and I'm like, I'm readingthis post. I get about two paragraphs
and I'm like, what the fuckis happening? What happening? So here's

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a here's a serious Twitter question foryou. Then, how much of your
guys this show prep is legitimately Twitter? Mine is a good amount. Yeah,
I would say mine is fifty eightis sixty percent. Mine's a good
amount because most of the stuff thatyou just said and Hockey just said is

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either gonna a lot of a lotof times, like big stories like when
we'll like when we talked about thekids in was it Columbia. Ye,
any follow up story from that.All three of us and even Zacho,
we're all tagged at it, sothen I'll read it. Most of mine
is off that. There's like fiveor six websites I peruse at night and

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then I look at them again becausethey're updated. But yeah, most of
it is Twitter for me. SoI think the difference is is my website
rotation for the big hitters, right, like sports scores, schedules, trades,
retirements, all that kind of stuff, right, signings that's ESPN dot
com, SI dot com, CBSSports dot com, yeah, whatever,
pro football talk. I go throughdot Com. I go through like my
six to ten websites, though thosehave all the headlines and a lot of

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them obviously overlap. What Twitter isgood for is like, you know,
uh, Jorge Polanco got a tattooof you know, Elmo on his ass
cheeks, and I'm like, well, that's more interesting than the sports score
they founded in a shark take,right, So yeah, your rim is
on his arm. I think Twitteris better for fun stories, like for

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exams. I'll give you. I'llgive you one. In the last twenty
four hours, all those websites Ijust named had no mention of the Karl
Anthony Towns quote. I saw allof that on Twitter. Yeah, so
that's the most preposterous thing we talkedabout this morning outside. You know,
we talked about US Open Twins scoreuh right. So a lot of times

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Twitter is like my fringe sports andthen the west of the rest of the
websites, of the headlines. Sure, Twitter is the fun stuff. Twitter
is Twitter as Twitter do. So, you know, but let's go full
circle. We can wrap we canwrap up the podcast like this. Think
about this. So dude gets dismembered, right, stay with me. Dude
gets dismembered, and a shark eatsthe dismembered arm. Then another tiger shark

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eats that shark. Right, atleast those fuckers had access to some arm
to eat because some other shark whodoesn't work for that radio station didn't eat
that arm first. That that secondtiger sharks Like, motherfucker, that was
supposed to be my arm. Butlittle shark comes in and it's like,
I'm hungry. There's a forearm.It's not your fucking forearm. This is

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one Tonnamo Bay or whatever I justsaid. In Australia. Yeah, this
is one Tonnamo Bay in nineteen thirtyfive. This is my forearm territory.
Don't you dare eat it? Sowhat did he do? He killed that
son of a bitch ate a shark. He ate a forearm. Point is
more of the story. Kids don'teat other people's raising cane's chicken fingers or

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sauce will dismember you and feed youto sharks. Yeah, man, I
don't know. I think I mayhave got a little bit overboard. But
my whole thing is like this Natewas saying, just common decency. Don't
take forty of them, take two. Were there people when you were watching
them? Steel chicken fingers from us? If somebody had stopped time and said

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you can throw this person into ashark infested water right now, would you
have done it? No, becausethat one person didn't take it. M
Oh, I got you. Uhum, yeah, I got dark weird
show. Sure you are. Whata weird podcast? Have Corey have fun
in Vegas, man, Go tothe parade. I'm gonna win. Go

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to the parade. It's my year. I'm gonna win. Oh no,
yeah, yeah, that paride,Not that not that paride, the other
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