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our number one of the Ben Maller Show podcast. A happy Thursday to you. It is the 29th day, 29th day of October, and the first day since the World Series ended, because last night in the Sunshine State, inside the dome. The Brew Crew, Milwaukee, got it done. They're the champions of baseball. Is the Brew Crew winning the World Series a shot in the arm for Major League Baseball or a commercial disaster? We'll discuss that. And where did things go wrong for Rays manager Kevin Cash in Game 5 of the World Series? I'm going to get on my bully pulpit and rant and rave. There was something that happened in this game that upset me so much that I needed to use my microphone as a tool of therapy. It was therapeutic to rant and rave about a certain move involving the pitching that I had to rant about. Also, Pat Murphy's Brewers changed the formula for winning.
the World Series now that they played. Not like everyone else. They put the ball in play and they got on base and weren't just sitting back waiting to get home runs. We'll talk about all that and more as the baseball season is over here in our number one. Well, that is game, set, and match. It is all over. Bye-bye baseball. Welcome in the beginning of another night of the Ben Maller Show. We are in the air everywhere. You there, me here, as we drive the big bus. The wheels on the bus go round and round, round and round. Coast to coast, border to border, and beyond. On the vast and satisfyingly powerful microphones of FSR emanating live. Don't touch.
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And we are back in the saddle again and again and again. And yet another baseball season has reached the finish line. Our lead this hour from the Sunshine State, fresh off avoiding the old sweep. Tampa Bay trying to pull another upset, put a little more pressure on Milwaukee. It was game five of the 2026 World Series on Fox. You had Joe Davis and professional golfer John Smoltz who had the call. So I don't know if you watched this game or not.
I don't know what else you were doing. There was some bad basketball on. You could have been watching that. Maybe some hockey. The baby-faced ace, Jacob Mizorowski, throwing five and two-thirds scoreless innings, and then he had a boo-boo and came out of the game. While rookie Cooper Pratt, who didn't play all that well this year, but played very well in the World Series, a couple more hits, a couple more runs batted in, and the Brewers.
Something that has never been said before, the Milwaukee Brewers are the champions of Major League Baseball. They beat the Rays 4-1. Congratulations. As they get her done on a hump day Wednesday night, they become World Series champions for the first time ever, their first championship in the history of the franchise, 44 years after their only previous appearance in 1982. So this is kind of a win also for Seattle. The Brewers were the Seattle Pilots, so that's a big win for you. Also, the used car salesman Bud Selick, somewhere in the greater Phoenix area where he's retired. Bud, I'm sure, enjoying.
Abud, the old owner of the Brewers, the used car salesman. So Milwaukee wins. They had a top record during the regular season. 103 regular season wins. And they backed it up in the playoffs. Played 13 playoff games. Won 11 of them. I'm told that's good. They swept the once-proud Dodgers and the NLCS. And then they take care of Tampa Bay in the gentleman's sweep. Four games to one. That's more of a basketball term than a baseball term. So that means the Tampa Bay Rays, the weird scientists of baseball, have been in three World Series. And loss, loss, loss. Yeah, they're 0 for 3. That's not.
Particularly great. Not particularly great. It is a good jumping-off point, though, just the World Series in general. So let us discuss the question. Is the Brew Crew winning the World Series here for Pat Murphy and company there? A shot of the arm for baseball or a commercial disaster?
So I've got Big Tech, Jack in the Box, and Squiggly Line. And we will combine all of these things together, and we are going to take a joyride, is what we're going to do in the overnight. So A, to answer the question, is the Brew Crew winning the World Series a shot in the arm for baseball or a commercial disaster? We actually went to the judges' scorecards. We did not have to look at the CompuBox stats on this. It is a split decision. A split decision. On one hand, the Brewers winning the World Series is lousy for the business of baseball.
Let's not kid ourselves here. Milwaukee has all the glamour of a cheese curd convention. I love the cheese curd. I do. I'm a big fan. They lack the marquee name brand superstar. They don't have a household name on the team. They just don't. And there's really not much sexy about the Brewer roster. They'll sell a mountain of merch.
And people will be lining up. They'll set all kinds of records in Wisconsin for T-shirts and hats and things like that. The television executive, the advertising people, I'm sure, are not exactly popping champagne here. From a baseball standpoint, the reason it's a split decision, from a baseball standpoint, this was a booster shot. The Brewers rejected the modern baseball obsession with the Big Bopper.
And I loved it. I did. I enjoyed watching that. I didn't like the pitching stuff, because I'll get to that in a minute, just in general. But in terms of an offensive approach to baseball, it was refreshing, is what it was. It was great. They played like a collection of pests and instigators and dirt bags and grinders and all those big words. And it was beautifully obnoxious baseball. Beautifully obnoxious baseball. And it put several people in their place. And I love it. Now, you've also got, turning the page, Pat Murphy, who is the Colonel Sanders of Major League Baseball. It's official now. If you know anything about business...
The guy behind Colonel Sanders. Not a real colonel, by the way. Holland Sanders. He started franchising KFC at the age of 65. All right, that's when he became big at age of 65. Now, the cantankerous Pat Murphy got his big managerial break. Full-time gig, not fill-in, full-time gig in Milwaukee just before his 65th birthday a few years ago. And so you can say it's extra crispy championship baseball. There's also an odd quirk to this. The Brewers winning the World Series and the MVP catcher, William Contreras, the World Series MVP. Now, he did bat 381. He threw a bunch of base dealers out. I think there were four base dealers that he threw out. And he turned the automated strike zone challenge system into his personal bonanza.
And this is the first World Series with this part of it, and it's fair to say that William Contreras is the man who can thank big tech for this trophy. If he just batted 381 and threw out four base dealers, does William Contreras win the MVP? No! He wins the MVP because of technology. There were 13 appeals that he went to the replay, the automated ball strike challenge system, and he hit 10 of the 13. That's a 77% win rate, much to the disgust of John Smoltz. But he hit 77%, which means he has a better idea of the strike zone than the home plate umpire. Contreras should just become a home plate umpire. He was playing chess while the umpires were playing Candyland or Chutes and Ladders. All right, meanwhile, turning the page on the Tampa Bay side.
The question, where did things go wrong for Rays manager Kevin Cash? Let's just focus in on game five of the World Series. Because everyone seems to be blaming the Tampa Bay offense. They did not score until a token run in the ninth inning. It's certainly fair to blame the Tampa Bay offense for not getting her done against the Miz. However, if you will allow me, this is therapeutic for me. I would like to climb onto the bully pulpit and discuss a pet peeve of mine. The continued softification of Major League Baseball pitching.
So Drew Rasmussen started the game for Tampa Bay. He pitched four innings on three days rest. Four innings on three days rest. He threw 48 pitches. And the television gas bags and the baseball establishment treated Rasmussen like he had single-handedly built the Panama Canal. One of the great advancements by humanity. And it was done by the bare hands of Drew Rasmussen. I don't know if you saw any of the pregame festivities with David Ortiz and Jeter and A-Rod and all those guys who I'm pretty confident were ready to nominate.
Drew Rasmussen for the Congressional Medal of Honor. That was even before the game. And for what exactly? Showing up to work? The whole thing, watching him being celebrated by his teammates for that gutty outing, made me want to puke in my mouth. Four innings, 48 pitches. What an iron man! More like an ironing board is what that was. So I would like to go classic old guy. I'd like to go old guy.
I get emails, well, you're such an old a-hole, whatever. Maybe I am. But here's the point. When I was a kid, there was a standard back in my day. And so I judged things by that standard. So I would like to go classic Jack in the Box. When I see a guy throw 48 pitches and get celebrated, I flashback, there was a pitcher, you probably don't know who this is anymore, named Jack Morris. Now, he was mostly good for the Detroit Tigers, but he went over to the Twins. And in 1991, a million years ago, this guy Jack Morris, in Game 7 of the World Series, threw 126 pitches.
In one game in the World Series against the Atlanta Braves, he pitched all 10 innings of shutout baseball and led the Twins to the championship in Game 7. He then, believe it or not, by the way, his arm did not have to be amputated after the game. He came back the next year at age 37, I believe, and pitched 230, 240 innings or something like that. Of course, now you'd have to be shut down for the following season if you pitched that many pitches in a game. And oh, my God. I said that was then. This is now. I am fascinated by the baseball establishment that has conditioned the younger generation of fans to believe that four innings and 48 pitches is some kind of test of endurance, pushing the limits of the human body.
My God, it is so pathetic. Baseball is not raising the workhorse anymore. It's raising the show pony. There's a lot of show ponies out there, a whole lot of show ponies. Meanwhile, the last word here. So moments after the World Series had ended, the chatter started. And this is a yearly ritual. I have determined no matter who wins the World Series, the same boilerplate story pops up. So the Brewers, by winning, have challenged the...
industrial complex of baseball. They've challenged a big spending blueprint of professional baseball. Milwaukee ranked 19th in payroll. $134 million, whatever, the luxury tax payroll, which is roughly $250 million behind the loser Dodgers. $250 million behind the Dodgers, whom the Brewers swept in the league championship series.
Now, you know where I'm going with this, right? You're nodding your head yes. So their championship, clearly the line, if you follow the line of thinking, suggests that, hey, sustainable success for the Brewers, that's scouting, player development, savvy trades, continuity in the organization, and you don't have to have the most buying power. You don't have to have the biggest roster, and that this somehow is going to change things. So I'll ask the question. Have Pat Murphy's Brewers changed the formula for winning the World Series?
So I have two words as a rebuttal. Stop it. Just stop it. This is not Moneyball 2.0. This is Coupon Ball. And the Brewers model, in terms of this being the new normal, is a fairy tale. Listen, they played very well in October. Good for them. But let's not all of a sudden rewrite baseball economics. Milwaukee did not reinvent the baseball wheel.
They did not. They discovered what happens when everything goes right for a month in the postseason. The Brewers are the exception. They're the squiggly line. The squiggly line, not the new normal. This is not the updated instructional manual. It is not. Milwaukee showed up to the World Series with a Groupon and a Dream. They had nine homegrown players making a combined $26 million.
So nine of the players on their roster, the core of the roster, was making less than $30 million. And, of course, that's what the Dodgers spend on their clubhouse aromatherapy is about $30 million in the private plane just for the players who can't be around the unwashed, the support staff. It's crazy. But the idea that the Dodgers and Yankees... All of a sudden, they're going to stop spending. They need to operate like Milwaukee. Please. They actually have money. They want to spend. Why would you voluntarily put yourself on food stamps? I'm going to sign up for that card so I can get some food. No. Don't confuse financial necessity with revolutionary genius. And the Brewers, they're being celebrated. They won. Congratulations. They're being celebrated for extreme couponing. There's a lot of the baseball media that love this storyline. The underdog. Oh, man, they didn't spend the money. They won. Oh, this is so great. And all that stuff.
But everyone loves the underdog story until, this is the point where you don't love it, until your team, which has deep pockets, your team that can spend money, starts trading all-stars to save a couple of bucks. At that point, you're like, I don't know if I like that anymore. I don't know if I want to. Because if everyone was doing what the Brewers were doing, it wouldn't work either. There has to be a little bit of balance in all this. That's where we are. So the Brewers have won the World Series. If you'd like to comment on that or anything else.
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That hangs out five nights a week and really seven days a week with the fifth hour podcast on the weekends. The Brewers have won the World Series, something that had never been said ever in the history. At least not accurately, because the Brewers had never won the World Series before a few hours ago. We're talking about that. It is all over. Will there be another World Series in 2027? Yeah, there will be. Although there likely will not be a full 162 game season. That's a different conversation. 877-99 on Fox. That's 877-996-6369. If you'd like to be part of the program. And you can also hit us up on the X machine at Ben Maller. You can say hello to Lorena. She's right over there at FSR Tech Queen. Hi, Ben. Hi, Ben. And there's a Koopa Loop right there. You can say hello to Koop at all.
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COVID-esque. That's right. We have proven beyond a reasonable doubt that there is no need for baseball. We like baseball. We'd like to watch baseball. But we'll be fine without it. We'll be perfectly fine. And I flash back. I flash way, way, way, way, way, way, way back to March 11th of 2020 when the entire world of sports shut down. The entire world shut down. That was the night the last NBA and NHL games were played. It was on March 11th of 2020. And there were no games played until July 23rd of that year. 134 days of.
Nothing. It was the nuclear spring and summer for sports, the industrial complex, the legacy sports leagues all shut down in America. And yet, I've been at Fox Sports Radio pretty much my entire adult life. I've been here 25 years, and we had the highest listenership we've ever had during the pandemic. We had more people listening when the pandemic was going on than any other time, which tells you the thing that's really holding Fox Sports Radio back is the sports. That's what's holding us back. If we can get rid of the sports, we'll have great ratings if there's no baseball. Oh, my God. It'll be amazing. It'll be great.
Anyway, let's see. What else do we have? I see page down here. I'm going to read that. It's kind of boring. Barbecuing Len checks in from his compound. He says, congratulations to the brew crew. He says, well done. I just wonder which ones earned the chance to wear Dodger blue in the future.
Yeah. Well, there's already chatter that Contreras is not going to be on the Brewers next year, that he'll be gone, and that'll be that. Now, King Rory, who's in the belly of the beast in Wisconsin and a regular in the Mallard Militia, says, behind my Packers winning the Super Bowl, and I guess the Bucs winning the NBA Finals, but ahead of marrying my wife and the birth of my kids, the Brewers winning the World Series is the best day of my life. Is it accurate to say that the Green Bay Packers now have the longest championship drought in the state of Wisconsin? Put that in your pipe and smoke it. Those loser Packers, they can't win.
Jerry in a jar writes in. He says, tell JT the wingman my magic eight ball was correct. Never doubt the eight ball. Brewers in five. That's the key to life. That is the key to life. Late night drug tester says congratulations to the Brewers. It just can't help but think there is some country that will think the Devil Rays have won their third World Series in less than 20 years. Did they already print up the shirts? I guess they have to have those done in advance. It's not like the Rays came anywhere close to winning the World Series. They were down three games to none.
Fergdog writes in, says, congrats to the Brewers and all, but I hope they know the only reason they won the World Series is because the Dodgers won 100 games. If the Doyers had just lost one more game, they'd be the ones hoisting the Lombardi Trophy right now. That's correct. Well, not the Lombardi Trophy, but the hunk of metal, the piece of metal. Yeah, remember the guy called up, oh, the Dodgers can't win because they won 100 games? Oh, they cannot win the World Series. Yeah, okay. Dum-da-dum-dum-dum. Euphemi in Chicago says, hey, Maller, A-plus on the Maller monologue, but I want you to know that I am the person who fixes everything.
As in IT. So tell Lorena, if she still works there, that I cannot fix the blankety blank from the blank, blank, blank, blank. Ben? Yes, what? Do I not talk enough? Should I talk more? I don't want people to think I don't work here anymore. I don't know what that was about. I have no idea. I'm here all the time. He's a Cub fan. He's probably complaining because all these guys in Chicago are pissed off because the Brewers won and they don't like each other and all that stuff. Yeah, I get it. Gunner writes in six. Amazing opening monologue. Go Panthers. Hey, where were you, Gunner, last week? Did you take the week off like the Carolina Panthers took the week off? Is that what happened? Like the team didn't show up so you didn't show up?
Well, isn't that convenient? Isn't that convenient? Michael in Tulsa writes in. He says, hey, Ben, I was born in Milwaukee and could not be happier. I'm sure my grandfather, who worked for Miller Brewing Company for 35 years, and a big Milwaukee Braves and Brewers fan is looking down from the pearly gates and is smiling. All right. That's good. All my peeps. A lot of ex-Wisconsin people who have moved all over the country that are fans of the show, including the aforementioned JT, the wingman. I did not realize Michael in Tulsa, originally from Wisconsin. Kathy, who's in Madison, and she's a legend. She's the Haymona woman. She says, this is Kathy in Madison partying all night.
And she's listening on her phone and then listening on the Ben Maller Show on the Big 1070 in Madison. How about that? Look at that. You're actually listening on the local station in Madison. She says, go Brewers.
Go Brewers. Yes, Curmudgeon Wayne also celebrating the fact that some kids in Zimbabwe will be celebrating the Tampa Bay Rays World Series. Truckstop Fungus wearing his tighty-whities eating a bowl of chili from a truck stop somewhere in the backwoods of Arkansas says, just a thought, is it possible MLB went with some low-budget teams this year for a bargaining chip with the up-and-coming negotiations to prove small market teams can compete? Well, no, the owners don't want this. The owners, they want the salary cap to help the small market teams.
So this is the worst-case scenario for the ownership side. If anything, the conspiracy trucks, the players colluded to help the Brewers and the Rays get to the World Series because it absolutely kills all of the argument the owners have been making. They've been out there saying, well, we just need a salary cap because these teams can't win, and we need a cap for the little guys. They don't need a cap, you idiots. I love juicy conspiracies. Well, I hope people wake up here, Lorena. I mean, there's so many dumb people out there. Oh, no, we've got to have a salary cap. No, the reason teams like the Pirates and the A's don't win and the Rays is because they don't try to win. They're just happy collecting. They make a lot of money in baseball.
baseball they're very happy about that very happy and they make more money giving the illusion that they're developing through the minor league system and you idiots buy all that crap uh ben dover writes in i don't think that's his real name he says do you think the brewers winning the world series hurts the cba negotiations since it proves you don't need a big market payroll yeah we're just talking about that ben dover absolutely spot on 100 if you're the players association you're like all right you guys say we need a cap because competitive balance and all that okay well the team in the american league that won the pennant and the team that won the world series the national league they don't spend money They don't spend money. That's it. All right, let's go to the phones, and let's start out. The Brewers have won the World Series. We'll go to Wisconsin, and a man who is running around banging on pots and pans right now celebrating the championship. His name is Roy, and he is on the Ben Maller Show on Fox. Hello, Roy. Welcome. Yo, Ben. Oh, so happy.
So happy right now. You're speechless. You're a man of few words. You don't know what to say. So I'm going to tell you, what you need to say is it's all about Fox 1. There's nothing like live. This fall, every NFL on Fox game streams live on Fox 1. Every Sunday, every rivalry, miss it live. And you're just watching a highlight catch. Every play as it happens, NFL on Fox, streaming on Fox 1. Now back to Rory in Wisconsin. And how long have you been a Brewer fan, Rory? Roy, how long have you been a Brewer fan? Most of my life. Most of my life, I've been a Brewer fan. It's just a dream come true, like I said on X.
It's probably the second best day of my life behind the Packers winning Super Bowl 45 and right behind the Bucs winning the NBA Finals and, you know, marrying my wife and my kids. You know, that's life. You got to say that. You put that in there. Definitely. I'm happy. I truly wish Bob Uecker was here to enjoy it. But, you know.
He lived to 90. That's a solid run. That is a really good run to make it to 90. Plus, he experienced a World Series championship with the St. Louis Cardinals. Yeah, for sure. And I'm with you. I don't want a salary cap for the MLB or a floor. They just prove it. They just prove it. It's unnecessary. You just need the right manager, tell them what to do, and they'll get it done.
There you go. There is a way. If you're actually trying, that's the problem. A lot of these teams, they don't spend money. They don't try. Tampa Bay, to their credit, Milwaukee, they found a formula. They tried. And they're not just like, like the athletics, just draft guys, develop them. And they're like, Mason Miller's a great example. This great relief pitcher. The athletics, you know, they had him for a couple of years, pitched well. They traded him to the Padres. And they're just like, that's all they do. They just draft these guys. Some of them turn out to be good. And they're just like a minor league feeder team for the rest of baseball. Now, did you know, Roy, the person that everyone's dogpiling on after the Brewers ended up winning the World Series, there's one person getting a lot of crap.
After the Brewers won. You know who that is? You want to take a guess? I know I'm putting you on the spot here, but that's fine. Is it Drohan? Is it cheap-ass Mark Asiano? I'm not quite sure. It is none other than Craig Council. Oh, yeah. Yeah, Craig Council. He was the manager of the Brewers from Wisconsin, right? Local guy, all that. And he left.
He had a harder challenge, so he went to his other favorite team, Chicago. And I know some people will be like, oh, it was just a setup. He left just to tank the Cubs so the Brewers can win it all, whatever. I don't think anyone's saying that. And by the way, I don't think he left. He said he left for baseball reasons. He left for money. He got $40 million from the Cubs. If the Brewers had offered him $40 million, that would have been fine. I believe he more than doubled his salary for the same job just moving from Milwaukee to Chicago. Who wouldn't do that? I would do that for an extra job. If I doubled my salary, I would go somewhere and work there. If they doubled my salary for the same job, who wouldn't do that? I don't know if he still is, but he was the highest paid manager in baseball when he left to go to the Cubs.
But you can goof on him all you want. I don't think he's too worried, Roy, financially. I think he's all right. I think he'll be okay. And I know a bunch of Cub fans that live in Wisconsin. They were all mad that Craig Council became their manager, and they were all mad. He's not going to do Jack Diddley, just like he did. He did Diddley Poo for the Cubs. He didn't do Diddley Squat. Diddley Squat. That's the word. Thank you, Roy. Go celebrate. There's Roy. Buy the T-shirt and the hat.
Or you just buy the hat, not the t-shirt. You've got to buy both, right? It's unlikely the Brewers are going to win again in your lifetime, so you've got to buy all the crap, all the merchandise and all that stuff. You've got to get everything lined up. That's the way to do it. All right, let's see. Eeny, meeny, miny, moe. Do we have time for another call? Actually, we should pause for the call because it is by the clock, for the clock, plausibly all about the clock. Love that. As the World Series continues. Time now for the Who Am I game, and this is when I pretend to be somebody else, and here we go. Cooper Pratt, the Brewers, the brew crew.
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All right, back to it. We'll pay off the Who Am I game in a second. I did want to take one of these great calls. Let's go to Pete, who's in St. Pete. And Pete is next on the Ben Mouser. All right, he's gone. Let's go to Nathan in Florida. What's going on? That's representing the entire state of Florida. What's going on, Nathan? What's up, man? Hey, Lorena, just for the record, Brandi from the Meet and Greet misses you. She is sleeping right now. Oh, I was just thinking about you two the other day. Oh, that's this, Nathan. Oh, yeah, I remember you. You flew out with me. Love you guys. Love you guys. Love you guys. Thank you, Lorena. I appreciate that. So I have a real question for you, Ben. Oh, my God.
This was all set up because if the Dodgers won again, it was going to be like, okay, everybody with big money wins, so you think there's going to be no salary cap? I do not believe, Nathan, there's going to be a salary cap in Major League Baseball. The players will not go for it. I do love the conspiracy. I think we should make a movie, you and I, Nathan. We should write the movie, The Illuminati of Baseball Got Together, The New World Order. I agree. Wouldn't that be great? I just feel like they put the small market teams in there on purpose.
It doesn't really work for the owners. It works for the players. Like the players conspired, some satanic conspiracy. It would make a lot of sense. You'd let the Brewers win the World Series and the Rays play in the World Series if it meant another 10 years of no salary cap. Of course you would do that. Who cares? But it really didn't matter who won. You know what I mean? I'm a Red Sox fan, so you know how I...
No, no, I know you're a New Englander at heart. I got you. All right, I got to go. We love you. Thanks for meeting us in Vegas. We'll do it again next year. Hopefully you guys can come out there. Time now for the Who Am I game. Cooper Pratt drove in seven runs for the Brewers during the 2026 World Series. I am the player who holds the all-time record for the most RBIs in a single World Series by a player aged 22 or younger. With nine. Nine. Who am I? That is the question. And what is the answer? Let's see. Does anyone know? We go page down, page down. Chuck Knobloch from Andy in Lionel Lakes, Minnesota. Madison Beer. Guessed by FergDog, unless that's not his answer. What else do we have? Joe Maurer from Femi.
Here's a good name. Tito Landrum from Maler Prop Guy. Bob Uecker from Alfie. Alien O'Piner. Oh, look at that. There's Uecker right there. Is that me? I think that's me. We have Mookie Betts, Overton High School legend. Mookie Betts from Larry reporting from Nashville. Blue Moon Odom from Doc Dan in Minnesota. John Allerud from Dat Dude. Drew Peacock, guest by Mr. Irrigation. Satchel Paige from Steelers Nasty. Homer Bush from Chip in the Qs. What say you, Lorraine? It's obviously Dua Lipa. Stop. Clue? Unless it's not. It's Addison Russell of the Cubs, who is supposed to be a star. How's that working out for Addison Russell? Do we know? No, not a star. Not a star. Not a star. This is an iHeart Podcast.
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