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Speaker 1: our lead this hour, I was debating going with baseball.
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Speaker 1: We did that the other day and I got several
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Speaker 1: complaints with baseball.
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Speaker 3: It's only June. I don't understand.
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Speaker 1: Let me, my God didn't play million more than tapes,
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Speaker 1: So shut up. I wanna tell you about a sport
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Speaker 1: they're not even gonna play this. Well, there's a couple
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Speaker 1: of basketball games no one will be watching this week
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Speaker 1: starting on Thursday, but no games until late in the year,
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Speaker 1: late in the year. But our lead this hour is
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Speaker 1: from pro bouncy Ball. Pro bouncy Ball. Now, we got
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Speaker 1: a bunch of downtime before the matchup with the Cornfield
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Speaker 1: versus the Soybean in the NBA Finals. Now, to fill
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Speaker 1: the void, we have cranked up the rumor machine. It
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Speaker 1: has been working over time and serving up some Greek food.
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Speaker 1: That's right, a little Greek food on that And if
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Speaker 1: you have not been following, it's a bad job by you.
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Speaker 1: Some chatter that the Milwaukee Bucks superstar, the man that
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Speaker 1: held up the championship trophy a couple of years ago.
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Speaker 1: Giannis Adenta Cumbo has a wondering eye and he has
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Speaker 1: been and looking north of the border, all eyeing Toronto,
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Speaker 1: the Raptors. There is said to be in breathless reporting
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Speaker 1: mutual interest, mutual interest between the Bucks. Giannis a dent
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Speaker 1: to Cumbo and Toronto. So Jannis, who's one, not one,
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Speaker 1: but two Most Valuable Player awards, So I'm told that's
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Speaker 1: pretty good. I'm playing in the NBA and the championship
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Speaker 1: and all that stuff. And it has been widely speculated
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Speaker 1: that he is considering a relocation situation. The Bucks have
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Speaker 1: had not one, not two, but three consecutive first round
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Speaker 1: departures from the postseason. They have been decommissioned in the
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Speaker 1: first round three years in a row. And you compound
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Speaker 1: that with not having a coach. They're the headless deer
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Speaker 1: Doc Rivers. I'd rather have an actual do as my
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Speaker 1: coach then a fake doctor Doc Rivers. When you hire Doc,
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Speaker 1: you're not trying to win. You're not When you hire
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Speaker 1: Doc Rivers, you're trying to give good soundbites to the
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Speaker 1: media and have nice things said about you. Because it's
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Speaker 1: Doc Rivers. Everyone loves Doc. He's Devin Air, He's got
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Speaker 1: the smile. Everyone loves them. Can't coach his way out
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Speaker 1: of a wet paper bag. That's a side. Then you've
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Speaker 1: got the Dame train which has gone off the tracks,
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Speaker 1: and the Dame enjoying a steady diet of rice crispy, snap,
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Speaker 1: crackle and pop, and the Achilles there. So those are
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Speaker 1: all the ingredients that have gotten to this point. Now
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Speaker 1: you know that Toronto, they're out there kicking the time.
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Speaker 3: They need that headline.
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Speaker 1: They don't anybody, not that we talk much Raptors basketball here,
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Speaker 1: but they don't. So Milwaukee's championship windows seems to close,
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Speaker 1: and it seems to be done dead bolted.
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Speaker 3: See it later.
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Speaker 1: It's not even a window anymore. It's like a wall
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Speaker 1: at this point. So let us discuss the question. You
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Speaker 1: make the call? You make the call question, if you're
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Speaker 1: the Raptors, do you go all in for Giannis a
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Speaker 1: Dentakumbo and do you actually have a chance to get
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Speaker 1: the player? So my thoughts on this, I've got Da Vinci,
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Speaker 1: saber tooth, Tiger, and slow churn, and we will combine
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Speaker 1: all of these things together and we are going to
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Speaker 1: make some ice. Ice baby, is what we're gonna make.
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Speaker 1: So a to answer the question, if you're the Raptors,
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Speaker 1: you all in yes, I'm not in my head, yes
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Speaker 1: of course. Now do you have a chance to actually
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Speaker 1: get the player? Well, that's where things get a little foggy.
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Speaker 1: That's where things get a little foggy. But from the
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Speaker 1: Toronto site, it's a no brainer, right, It's an absolute
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Speaker 1: no brainer. Well, it is generally considered taboo for any
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Speaker 1: star players to sign with the Toronto Raptor. You can
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Speaker 1: be traded there, but to actually sign now and this
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Speaker 1: would be a trade. This would be a trade, but
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Speaker 1: it's kind of trade where the player wants to go there,
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Speaker 1: So it's a fake trade, like a real trade is
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Speaker 1: the player doesn't want to go there, you trade him anyway,
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Speaker 1: This would be a faux trade. Toronto for big names
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Speaker 1: in the NBA is seen as a barren wasteland. You
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Speaker 1: just don't go there, and you can get players in
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Speaker 1: the draft. You can have a bunch of no name,
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Speaker 1: no brand type players and Yannis though, the reason that
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Speaker 1: there's something there, the reason I'm buying that there's something
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Speaker 1: there is Yanni's is a different breed a kitty cat,
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Speaker 1: a different breed of kitty cat here, and doesn't seem
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Speaker 1: like he needs the suntan lotion, the bikini bottoms.
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Speaker 3: That you get in La or Miami or anything like that.
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Speaker 1: But much like Da Vinci or Michelangelo, a renaissance man
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Speaker 1: to a point, I do believe the last couple of
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Speaker 1: years since winning the championship that Yannis has more more
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Speaker 1: into line with all the other a holes in the NBA.
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Speaker 1: He still got that international flavor, flavor flavor.
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Speaker 3: He's got that going for him.
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Speaker 1: And he could be convinced that hey, I can go
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Speaker 1: and enjoy maple syrup, powdered powered snowblowers and all that stuff.
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Speaker 1: And maybe he always wanted to play near the CN
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Speaker 1: Tower and that he really wanted that. And yeah, and
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Speaker 1: there's a great Greek town. One of our listeners that
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Speaker 1: met at the meet and greets, well, Toronto's got there's
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Speaker 1: a big Greek population there and they've got a great
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Speaker 1: Greek jown.
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Speaker 3: All right.
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Speaker 1: Uh honest, is I believe under contract, if I'm not
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Speaker 1: mistaken for another couple of seasons, it would have to
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Speaker 1: be a trade. Any bucks I am told will demand
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Speaker 1: a king's ransom you also have the meddling NBA power
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Speaker 1: brokers who we are going to try to encourage, encourage
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Speaker 1: Yiannis to go to a.
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Speaker 3: Big, big, big, big big market.
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Speaker 1: The usual suspects LA Miami, New York, and those are
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Speaker 1: the usual. Maybe Golden State, maybe a Golden State gets
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Speaker 1: mixed in there, and he's a known commodity. Though you're
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Speaker 1: the raptors and you're trying to get that big guy.
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Speaker 1: That's a guy you can actually get, and you're gonna
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Speaker 1: have to give up a bunch of promissory notes and
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Speaker 1: you get a proven star who's in the near end
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Speaker 1: of his prime. A couple more years of Giannis and
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Speaker 1: then it's a slow decline, all right now, turning the page,
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Speaker 1: the round mound of rebound. He was known as that
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Speaker 1: when he played Charles Barkley making some news. He's announced
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Speaker 1: that he has it all mapped out, his great escape
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Speaker 1: from television, appearing right here on Fox Sports Radio with
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Speaker 1: Dan Patrick, who also has got it all mapped out.
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Speaker 1: Dan's got a plan to retire, so Charles Barkley revealed
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Speaker 1: that he only intends to work two more years.
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Speaker 3: That's it.
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Speaker 1: He's got a two hundred million dollar contract. But here's
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Speaker 1: Barkley explaining what his plan is is. He's still with
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Speaker 1: Warner Brothers. It's kind of weird, but it's gonna be
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Speaker 1: on ESPN. But he's not gonna really be an ESPN
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Speaker 1: and play anyway. Listen, here's what Barkley had to say.
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Speaker 1: I actually have seven years left on my contract. Like, yeah,
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Speaker 1: there's no way I'm working seven years.
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Speaker 3: I says.
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Speaker 1: You know, I'm gonna be a good soldier for Kenny,
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Speaker 1: Ernie and Shack and the people I work with, because
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Speaker 1: I love the people I work with, especially behind the scenes.
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Speaker 3: I said, But the best I can do is two years.
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Speaker 1: All right, So he said two years. He says also concerned.
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Speaker 1: He says, if ESPN overworks him, even though he's gonna
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Speaker 1: be working for Turner, he.
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Speaker 3: Said, he'll just go home. He said, He'll just go home.
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Speaker 1: So let us discuss how much Stark how much doc
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Speaker 1: do you give Charles Barkley, the greatest ex jock turned
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Speaker 1: player That jock Ocracy usually produces crap with former players
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Speaker 1: on television, but Charles Barkley is not that he is
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Speaker 1: at the very top of the food chain when he
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Speaker 1: comes to broadcasting. So how much doc do you give
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Speaker 1: Charles Barkley, as he has announced he is planning to
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Speaker 1: retire from TV in two years. So after a thorough
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Speaker 1: deliberation of the available information, we have given this a
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Speaker 1: solid zero, a solid yeo.
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Speaker 3: So Charles Barkley.
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Speaker 1: One thing I've come to know over the last ten
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Speaker 1: plus years of talking about Charles Barkley, and it's been
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Speaker 1: longer than that, but just the last decade plus, Charles
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Speaker 1: Barkley loves a saber tooth tiger. But really what he
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Speaker 1: loves is saber rattling. He loves saber rattling when talking
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Speaker 1: about his future. I guess everyone all worked up into
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Speaker 1: a nice tizzy and likes Barkley is the guy that
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Speaker 1: will spit in your pocket and announce that it's raining.
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Speaker 1: As he's spitting a nice thick loogie in your pocket,
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Speaker 1: he'll announce its rain. Now, we went back to the
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Speaker 1: copious amounts of notes that we do on a daily
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Speaker 1: basis for these mallar monologues, and we.
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Speaker 3: Went all the way back, back, back back back back
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Speaker 3: in the hot top.
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Speaker 1: Time machine to twenty twelve, and we then searched keywords
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Speaker 1: and we determined that Charles bark has publicly discussed or
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Speaker 1: announced he's done with television six times since twenty twelve,
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Speaker 1: six times I'm out, And every time Barkley's continue to work.
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Speaker 1: Every time we in our notes we had twenty twelve,
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Speaker 1: twenty fifteen, twenty eighteen, twenty twenty one, twenty twenty two,
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Speaker 1: and twenty twenty four, and now we can add twenty
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Speaker 1: twenty five. Although he didn't announce he's going to quit
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Speaker 1: right away, he say it's going to be a couple
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Speaker 1: of years and all that. And every time he's announced this,
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Speaker 1: every single time, he has continued to work. He's signed
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Speaker 1: new contracts, and he has reversed those retirement plans.
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Speaker 3: But wait, there's more.
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Speaker 1: Barkley also loved in the past claiming he was going
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Speaker 1: to become the governor of Aloe, Obama. This was a
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Speaker 1: big thing that Barkley brought up many times. There were
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Speaker 1: four times that goes back to the nineties where Barkley
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Speaker 1: announced that he was going to be the governor of
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Speaker 1: his home state, his native state of Alabama. He did
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Speaker 1: that in the nineties six as well, eight and actually
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Speaker 1: twice in eight he announced he was going to become
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Speaker 1: a governor of Alabama. And either time or all the
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Speaker 1: times I should say all the times he failed. Barkley
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Speaker 1: failed to actually run for governor of Alabama and never
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Speaker 1: did it. He always abandoned that plan, and his political
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Speaker 1: ambitions were bullshoy. We're absolutely bullshoy. Now there is an
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Speaker 1: age situation which is a factor, but only a little bit.
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Speaker 1: Barkley is now sixty two, so's he's at the point
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Speaker 1: he's got a lot of money, and he's got a
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Speaker 1: lot of money because of television. He's got money because
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Speaker 1: of TV, not because of basketball, because of basketball and TV.
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Speaker 1: But Charles Barkley is a TV commentator. He's not a
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Speaker 1: former player. He's a TV guy. And it really isn't work.
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Speaker 1: Like I've been lucky enough alasco years had a TV
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Speaker 1: show and like this has worked. Like the radio shows
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Speaker 1: where I do everything for the show, put it all together.
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Speaker 1: Like the TV show, there's people that help you. There's
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Speaker 1: like support staff, producers and directors and people that make
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Speaker 1: you look good and it helps out a lot, and
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Speaker 1: it's wonderful to be in that environment. So if you're
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Speaker 1: doing TV like Barkley, I mean, you got a million
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Speaker 1: people helping you. You just show up and you don't
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Speaker 1: have to worry about putting monologues together and doing all
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Speaker 1: the other You don't worry about it, right because you
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Speaker 1: know people actually help you out. It's amazing thing. And
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Speaker 1: Barkley's getting twelve and a half million dollars per year
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Speaker 1: and he has earned a massive amount more as a
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Speaker 1: TV guy than a player. In fact, I went back
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Speaker 1: I look Barkley when he played for the Sixers and
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Speaker 1: the Suns and bounced around the NBA a little bit,
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Speaker 1: mostly the Suns the Sixers, but Charles Barkley played with
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Speaker 1: the Rocket Sliz.
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Speaker 3: But his total.
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Speaker 1: Earnings like forty million, which a lot of money. And
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Speaker 1: let's hold old money. Forty million as a player, he
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Speaker 1: has made it's estimated close to two hundred million as
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Speaker 1: a broadcaster, so forty million as a player, I think
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Speaker 1: it's like one hundred and seventy hundred and seventy five
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Speaker 1: million something in that ballpark, which is a good ballpark.
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Speaker 1: And that does not even include like the endorsement stuff
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Speaker 1: that he's he's got, so he's cashing in.
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Speaker 1: pro bouncy ball. Noda na dada, he good bye. Fresh
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Speaker 1: off the upstart playoff run, the toast of the NBA,
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Speaker 1: overcoming demons of years gone by, the New York Knickerbockers
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Speaker 1: said bye bye to their head coach. They shot their shot.
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Speaker 1: This is so great, this is outsteading. I love this.
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Speaker 1: It is such incompetence. It is malfeasance. So if you
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Speaker 1: haven't heard by now, what are you doing. It's a
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Speaker 1: bad job, ay you? So we learned in the afternoon hours,
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Speaker 1: the Knickerbockers had decided to paul axe their head coach,
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Speaker 1: Tom Thibodeau. He going bye bye. He's out of there now.
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Speaker 1: This is one year after signing a three year, big
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Speaker 1: money extension with New York. Thibodeau is kicked out of Gotham, get.
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Speaker 3: Out of here. So New York New York will be
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Speaker 3: looking for a new voice to.
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Speaker 1: Bark underneath Penn Station there, try to get over the
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Speaker 1: hump five years of coach Tibbs and no more. The
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Speaker 1: Knickerbockers say bye bye. Still trying to win a championship
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Speaker 1: for the first time in over fifty years, since the
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Speaker 1: early seventies, which was before the Internet. We know that
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Speaker 1: it was before cable television existed. In fact, in nineteen
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Speaker 1: seventy three, more people were listening to radio then we're
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Speaker 1: watching even television. It was a crossover point back then.
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Speaker 1: But there were radio was much more popular even than television.
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Speaker 1: So it's been a minute, so let us discuss the
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Speaker 1: question did the Knicks do coach Tom Thibodeau dirty?
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Speaker 3: Did they do him dirty with this pink slip?
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Speaker 1: So I've got infomercial, Sesame Street, and iPad and we
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Speaker 1: will combine all of these things together and we're going
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Speaker 1: to make a nice trip to can Kuhn. Tom Thibodau
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Speaker 1: does not appear to be the kind of guy that
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Speaker 1: would go to can Kuhn, but he can, he can
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Speaker 1: afford it, and he's got plenty of free time. Plenty
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Speaker 1: of free time. So my first thought here as I
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Speaker 1: learned from one of my teachers as a kid that
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Speaker 1: my teacher was named doctor Seuss. I think that doctor
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Speaker 1: Seuss got canceled somewhere along the way, but you know,
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Speaker 1: not in my world. So doctor Seuss taught me when
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Speaker 1: I was a child. That's sometimes in life the questions
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Speaker 1: are complicated and the answers are simple, and this would.
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Speaker 3: Be one of those times.
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Speaker 1: The answer to the question that we posed whether or
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Speaker 1: not the Knicks did Tom Thibodeau dirty? Is apse of
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Speaker 1: freaking loutely that is the answer here. We're talking about
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Speaker 1: a basketball travesty. Of course, knowing it's just basketball, what
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Speaker 1: is that from a pure just hoop head perspective? Right now,
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Speaker 1: we can question how much coaches matter and all that stuff,
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Speaker 1: and why do you even need a coach? That aside
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Speaker 1: that conversation, We've had that conversation, you and I, but
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Speaker 1: that aside, just talk about from the basketball side.
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Speaker 3: What are you doing here? Seriously, what are you doing.
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Speaker 1: Watching Tom Thibodeau coach the Knicks over the last five years.
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Speaker 1: I'm a big fan of infomercials. When I was a
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Speaker 1: little kid, I you know, I hang out at night
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Speaker 1: watching infomercials. Back in the old days and infomercial I
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Speaker 1: remember it was one infomercial that was very popular, old
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Speaker 1: school infomercial.
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Speaker 3: It was the Jack Lulane. Most people don't even know
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Speaker 3: who that is anymore.
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Speaker 1: He's gone, but Jack Lane Power juicer was very popular infomercial.
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Speaker 1: And I was singing about that when I was watching
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Speaker 1: the fallout from the coaching change in New York, because
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Speaker 1: coach Tibbs squeezed every ounce of talent, every ounce of
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Speaker 1: talent out of that roster, that locker room, however you
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Speaker 1: want to say it. And it was like he was
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Speaker 1: taking a rock and juicing a rock and he got
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Speaker 1: something out of it.
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Speaker 3: He did.
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Speaker 1: They had back to back fifty win regular seasons. Well
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Speaker 1: it doesn't monitor it's the regular season, okay, back to
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Speaker 1: back fifty win seasons, Eastern Conference finals for the first
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Speaker 1: time in a generation, a bleeping generation, and doing that
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Speaker 1: while looking like a swamp donkey coaching the next I mean,
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Speaker 1: his whole life dependent on every game. He was been draggled.
21:03
Speaker 1: He just did not care about his appearance. He just
21:06
Speaker 1: was trying. He was a coach.
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Speaker 3: And that's it.
21:08
Speaker 1: In Big Apple Fashion Week in Manhattan and he's out
21:11
Speaker 1: there like a slob because he's just a coach. He's
21:15
Speaker 1: just grinding away every single game and all that stuff,
21:19
Speaker 1: and he helped it. Wasn't the only reason. Wasn't even
21:22
Speaker 1: the main rees. The players are ultimately the ones that matter.
21:24
Speaker 1: But that being said, Tom Thibodeau took over a team
21:30
Speaker 1: that was a laughing stock.
21:32
Speaker 3: Everyone would point their finger.
21:33
Speaker 1: And say haha, like Nelson from The Simpsons, and they
21:37
Speaker 1: turned that into a team that would punch back and
21:41
Speaker 1: did punch back and professionally.
21:44
Speaker 3: I mean, let me be clear, you've got two.
21:47
Speaker 1: Dimensions at the same time, because you've got the professional
21:50
Speaker 1: dimension from a again a hoop standpoint may.
21:54
Speaker 3: And that blows, boyd does that blow?
21:57
Speaker 1: And then on the other side you've got the personal
22:01
Speaker 1: side of it and financially in that dimension. This is
22:04
Speaker 1: a wonderful mitzvah for Tom Thibodeau because the Knicks, if
22:09
Speaker 1: my mal or math is correct, the Knicks have to
22:11
Speaker 1: pay him thirty million dollars to do nothing.
22:16
Speaker 3: He doesn't have to work again.
22:18
Speaker 1: He can go move to Key West and you know,
22:21
Speaker 1: smoke weed all day and all night and all that
22:23
Speaker 1: and just knock himself out, go play pickleball, sit on
22:27
Speaker 1: he's sit on a sofa for the next several years
22:31
Speaker 1: and just watch TikTok videos and the Knicks gotta pay
22:34
Speaker 1: him thirty million.
22:35
Speaker 3: I mean, my god, what is wrong with that? But
22:38
Speaker 3: but yes, you've got two different things going on.
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Speaker 1: It does not appear that coach Tibbs is hardwired to
22:45
Speaker 1: be that guy who's just like, hey, I don't really
22:48
Speaker 1: care about whether I work or not. It seems like
22:50
Speaker 1: a guy that actually likes his job, takes pride in
22:52
Speaker 1: his work, doesn't cut corners things like that. Now page two.
22:56
Speaker 1: So the question is who done it? Oh, it's a
23:01
Speaker 1: great mystery, it's just sports radio. But so who done it?
23:06
Speaker 1: This is not the kind of a move that is
23:08
Speaker 1: normally made.
23:11
Speaker 3: You overcame the odds, the Knicks.
23:13
Speaker 1: We're not supposed to even get to the final four
23:15
Speaker 1: of the NBA this year, and they did.
23:18
Speaker 3: So who pulled the trigger?
23:20
Speaker 1: Who's the one that's fingerprints are on the trigger? There
23:27
Speaker 1: to move to change coaches for the Knickerbockers. So there
23:31
Speaker 1: is this great debate. There are a couple of camps
23:35
Speaker 1: here that have there's three possibilities, like Triangle, there's three possibilities.
23:42
Speaker 1: I'm gonna give you the possibilities A, B and C,
23:45
Speaker 1: and then you make the call. But I'm actually gonna
23:46
Speaker 1: make the call first because I have the Buldie pulpit,
23:49
Speaker 1: So I'm going to make the call before you. So
23:52
Speaker 1: the very top, you always start out with the disgruntled
23:56
Speaker 1: star player, because that's what usually happens in that business.
23:59
Speaker 1: Lebron snaps his fingers, coach gets fired, all right, that's
24:03
Speaker 1: normally how that works. Nikole Jokic has a problem with
24:06
Speaker 1: Michael Malone. He gone done matter three days before the
24:09
Speaker 1: three games before the end of a seasons.
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Speaker 3: Coach.
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Speaker 1: It's called the coach killer. I don't get the sense
24:15
Speaker 1: that's going on here. Not to say that Jalen Brunson
24:19
Speaker 1: and Tom Thibodeau were sitting around the campfire and smoking
24:23
Speaker 1: and singing Kumbaya and all that. I don't think that
24:25
Speaker 1: was going on. Uh, there was a pretty good relationship.
24:30
Speaker 1: Jalen Brunson fully blossomed under the guidance or the tutelage
24:36
Speaker 1: or just the freedom to play from Tom Thibodeau and
24:40
Speaker 1: became an all NBA level player where you know, the
24:43
Speaker 1: hot take artists or like, hey, wait a minute, this
24:45
Speaker 1: guy is like in the same category of this guy
24:47
Speaker 1: and that guy just like that. Now we believe they
24:53
Speaker 1: had a sincere bond. Maybe we're gullible. It's possible, you know,
24:58
Speaker 1: what do we know? It's just I don't get the
25:00
Speaker 1: sense and I'm I'm not great at the English language.
25:04
Speaker 1: I don't really know much. You know, I know some
25:06
Speaker 1: weird and random words from different languages around the world.
25:09
Speaker 1: But body language, oh man, that's my wheelhead. I know
25:12
Speaker 1: the body language and uh right there right, So so
25:17
Speaker 1: it's not the player. Well then you go, well, what
25:19
Speaker 1: about the executive? Was their bad blood? And Leon Rose
25:23
Speaker 1: was the executive? The president of Basketball Operation, I believe
25:27
Speaker 1: is the official title. So was it Leon Rose? What
25:32
Speaker 1: about the the owner James Dolan? So I have looked
25:37
Speaker 1: at the available evidence. I have deliberated in the jury room.
25:41
Speaker 1: I do not believe it was Leon Rose. I don't.
25:44
Speaker 1: I do not think it was Leon Rose. Leon Rose
25:48
Speaker 1: before he came to the next was the agent for
25:51
Speaker 1: who Tom Thibodeau. Yes, they were, they were, buddy Leon
25:58
Speaker 1: Rose calling me, you got ah, this guy hired TIBs. Okay,
26:03
Speaker 1: So I don't buy that. Now agents are slime balls
26:06
Speaker 1: and sleeves balls. I have had agents, and they're generally losers.
26:11
Speaker 1: They're just bad people. So it's conceivable, like maybe like
26:15
Speaker 1: two percent that Leon Rose is just a snake and
26:19
Speaker 1: he didn't. But I don't buy that. I don't buy that.
26:21
Speaker 1: I look at Sesame Street. I look at Sesame Street
26:26
Speaker 1: and a cookie monster who lives on Sesame Street. And
26:30
Speaker 1: you follow the cookie crumbs, and when you follow the
26:33
Speaker 1: cookie crumbs, they lead back to James Dolan.
26:38
Speaker 3: The plot thickens.
26:39
Speaker 1: James Dolton had his hand in the cookie jar, and
26:43
Speaker 1: that's where I'm going. The Knicks were the popular pick
26:46
Speaker 1: by popular people. Once they upset the Celtics. You had
26:49
Speaker 1: a celebration through the Canyon of Heroes. You had the
26:52
Speaker 1: Nick fans throwing trash and celebration. Everyone will saying, oh
26:57
Speaker 1: the Knicks got this, they got home court at the
26:59
Speaker 1: God they're playing the Hicks from Indiana. There's no way
27:04
Speaker 1: they're going to lose that series of the Pacers, Are
27:06
Speaker 1: you kidding me? It is a layup And if we
27:11
Speaker 1: saw that crap, I'm pretty confident that James Dolan going
27:16
Speaker 1: to his Hampton hodown and schmoozing and drinking those Moscow
27:20
Speaker 1: mules and the long island, iced teas, hanging out with
27:25
Speaker 1: Olive Arks and aristocrats and all the things that rich
27:29
Speaker 1: people do. The percent of the one percent. They were all, Oh,
27:34
Speaker 1: you got this, Dolan, this is great. You're ready to go,
27:37
Speaker 1: way to go, James dol Oh my god, this is amazing.
27:41
Speaker 1: And so they were quick. Also the other thing, even
27:46
Speaker 1: if you don't believe that I'm right, the.
27:49
Speaker 3: Thing that is the dead give way the Knicks.
27:53
Speaker 1: Using useful idiots in the media, their bodies behind paywalls.
27:58
Speaker 1: The Knicks made sure to say that it was leon
28:00
Speaker 1: Rose's decision.
28:01
Speaker 3: They leak that.
28:03
Speaker 1: Now, what does that tell us? That tells us it
28:05
Speaker 1: wasn't leon Rose's decision. That tells us that he was
28:09
Speaker 1: not the one that made the call. That he is
28:11
Speaker 1: being propped off as the fall guy. He's they got
28:15
Speaker 1: to blame somebody because it's not a popular move, so
28:19
Speaker 1: gonna blame him. It was an irrational move by Dolan,
28:22
Speaker 1: the owner of the team. The Knicks had a plumbing issue.
28:25
Speaker 1: Think of it this way. You got a problem with
28:29
Speaker 1: your plumbing and instead of saying I'm gonna call like
28:33
Speaker 1: Roto Ruter or whatever, I'm gonna call some plumber. Instead
28:37
Speaker 1: of calling about go to the website, sending an email
28:40
Speaker 1: getting the plumber. James Dolan determined that the best solution
28:44
Speaker 1: to the plumbing problem, to the leaky faucet was to
28:48
Speaker 1: burn the house down. There's the fastest league of a bit,
28:54
Speaker 1: so let's burn the damn thing down.
28:55
Speaker 3: Let's do it.
28:56
Speaker 1: Which is I think I believe the word is beta.
28:59
Speaker 1: That is a beta move by doing now the last
29:02
Speaker 1: word quick, right, the last word here? Where do the
29:07
Speaker 1: Knickerbockers go now to replace Tom Thibodeau, Like, what's the
29:11
Speaker 1: chess move here?
29:12
Speaker 3: Now?
29:12
Speaker 1: You got the gambling market. The gambling market, they immediately said,
29:17
Speaker 1: X Knicks associate coach Johnny Bryant. I don't really know
29:23
Speaker 1: who that is, but apparently he's the darling, the next
29:26
Speaker 1: big thing in coaching, Johnny Bryant. Bryant has been with Cleveland.
29:30
Speaker 1: He is a finalist for the Phoenix Sun's job. Some
29:35
Speaker 1: saying the reason the Knicks fired Thibodeau when they did
29:37
Speaker 1: is because they want that guy, and to get that guy,
29:40
Speaker 1: they had to do this because otherwise Bryant.
29:42
Speaker 3: Would go coach the Sons and he'd be.
29:45
Speaker 1: Out in the desert hanging out with cactus and they
29:47
Speaker 1: didn't want that and all that stuff. The other read
29:52
Speaker 1: on the gambling market. You got Kenny Atkinson, who's the
29:55
Speaker 1: second choice, and he's the coach of the year who
29:59
Speaker 1: lost to in so he knows a thing or two
30:02
Speaker 1: about that in the playoffs. And then you've got the
30:05
Speaker 1: usual rejects like Frank Vogel and Budenhozer and.
30:09
Speaker 3: The names like that.
30:10
Speaker 1: And then further page down, Pat Strake, Ewing, Mark Jackson,
30:17
Speaker 1: long shots, unrealistic options, unrealistic options. And so now we
30:24
Speaker 1: do not know, We do not know. Our crystal ball
30:27
Speaker 1: is not working right now. We do not know who
30:28
Speaker 1: the next coach or the Knicks is going to be,
30:30
Speaker 1: but we do know what they're going to be like.
30:33
Speaker 1: And I will gare Auntie the profile. You know how
30:37
Speaker 1: the FBI does profiling of what they think some whack
30:42
Speaker 1: a doodle is like, what they're like.
30:44
Speaker 3: So here's the profile of the next Knicks coach. Okay,
30:49
Speaker 3: the next.
30:49
Speaker 1: Next coach will be an innovative, offensive mind players coach
30:56
Speaker 1: who likes drinking oat milk and hanging out doing hot yoga,
31:02
Speaker 1: drawing up plays on his iPad while I'm doing hot yoga.
31:06
Speaker 1: That'll be the next coach, right, the coddle coach, because
31:10
Speaker 1: you go from a hard ass coach like Tom Thibodeau,
31:13
Speaker 1: and the hard ass is relative. It's you know, it's
31:16
Speaker 1: not that it's not a drill sergeant at Marine boot camp,
31:20
Speaker 1: but it's it's like it's my NBA standards. So you
31:23
Speaker 1: have a coddle coach who drives the mister softy truck.
31:27
Speaker 1: You've got that, and that'll be somebody that comes in
31:30
Speaker 1: here and like rub shoulders with you know, people hanging
31:33
Speaker 1: out those art galleries over over and soho. You know,
31:35
Speaker 1: the art gallery crowd and it goes to fashion Week,
31:39
Speaker 1: you know, and dresses up as you know, Fashion East
31:41
Speaker 1: and all that stuff. Just everything that Tom Thibodeau isn't
31:44
Speaker 1: like he didn't Thibodau didn't care about.
31:46
Speaker 3: All that crap.
31:47
Speaker 1: He's just worried about coaching and obviously doesn't take any
31:50
Speaker 1: pride in his personal appearance. He looks like Shrek, and
31:53
Speaker 1: the next coach will not be that.
31:55
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32:01
Speaker 1: Let's welcome in our contessants. We have we are going
32:03
Speaker 1: to play Maus amount of money. We've got Mike in Boston.
32:06
Speaker 3: Hello. Oh, he's boy. He's got the radio turned all
32:10
Speaker 3: the way up. Holy crap. That's like talk radio one one.
32:13
Speaker 3: They've had a delay and talk radio.
32:15
Speaker 1: Since the nineteen fifties. All right, let's try are you there, Mike?
32:21
Speaker 3: Oh crap? All right, Well let's try Kelly in Des Moines.
32:25
Speaker 3: Maybe that'll work.
32:27
Speaker 1: See Kelly in the Moinn. Hello, Kelly, Hi man, Hello, Kelly, welcome.
32:31
Speaker 1: You're gonna play maus amount of money. Who would you
32:33
Speaker 1: like to partner up with? Our friend Kelly?
32:38
Speaker 3: I'm gonna go with you, all right. We're in it
32:41
Speaker 3: to win it, all right.
32:44
Speaker 1: And you're already in the league because you know that
32:46
Speaker 1: there's a delay and you can't have your audio turned
32:49
Speaker 1: all the way up.
32:51
Speaker 3: So you're in the lead. And we've got Mike in
32:54
Speaker 3: Boss and CVS there. Hello, Mike, Hi, Sorry about that
32:58
Speaker 3: bad job by you? All right, mikeeh, who do you
33:00
Speaker 3: want to partner up with? Mike? All right, well you
33:04
Speaker 3: good choice, Mike.
33:06
Speaker 1: Picklarida. What are the categories? This go quickly, quickly, quickly, quickly.
33:10
Speaker 1: It's Malar's Mountain of Money, gentlemen. This is the Mallards
33:14
Speaker 1: Mount of Money, Dana Carvey edition. He turned seventy years
33:17
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33:17
Speaker 3: Oh my god, no, church lady.
33:19
Speaker 4: All right, h the categories aren't This is spinal tap, Opportunity,
33:24
Speaker 4: Knocks Moving, and Wayne's World. Kelly, which category would you?
33:32
Speaker 3: You're like? Hold on? Hold on, sake me, punch this guy?
33:35
Speaker 3: Go ahead? Oh that's not Kelly.
33:37
Speaker 1: Go ahead, Kelly, I would like to Wayne's World.
33:41
Speaker 3: Wayne's Well, okay, good choice. What about you, Mike? This
33:45
Speaker 3: is spinal tap? Okay?
33:47
Speaker 1: Those are the categories. Everyone, hold on, do not hang up.
33:50
Speaker 1: We're gonna have Mallars Mount of Mine.
33:52
Speaker 3: Who's gonna win?
33:53
Speaker 1: Get your bets in, Get your bets in, Go over
33:56
Speaker 1: to DraftKings, get your bets in. We're gonna have it.
33:59
Speaker 1: Kelly into more, she's gonna win. So she's steaming with
34:02
Speaker 1: me and then Mike in Boston with Coop.
34:04
Speaker 3: We'll get to that. We will do it next.
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34:29
Speaker 3: Let's do it. Here we go. The matchup is set
34:31
Speaker 3: Kelly in the Moines formerly in Nashville.
34:33
Speaker 1: She is canoodling with a fellow listening to the show
34:38
Speaker 1: The Power Couple of Eye where she and in the
34:40
Speaker 1: morn and Kelly, everything good with you two kids?
34:42
Speaker 3: Kelly, Yes, yes, it's amazing man, Thank you.
34:46
Speaker 1: Wonderful outs Masle talk all right. And Mike in Boston
34:50
Speaker 1: is teamed up with Cooper Loop. The Dana Carvey Edition
34:55
Speaker 1: turned seventy on Monday. And you're a first Kelly, you
35:00
Speaker 1: Wayne's world? Is that correct?
35:02
Speaker 5: Correct?
35:02
Speaker 3: Okay?
35:03
Speaker 1: We got forty five seconds. These athletes have all been
35:06
Speaker 1: considered sidekicks. We need the first and last name. Are
35:09
Speaker 1: you ready, Kelly? Yes, all right, forty five seconds.
35:12
Speaker 3: We're on our way.
35:13
Speaker 1: Go. Michael Jordan's right hand man for the Bulls, Yes,
35:17
Speaker 1: tight end for the Patriots with Tom Brady white guy right. Yes,
35:23
Speaker 1: running back for the Broncos. Some say he was the
35:26
Speaker 1: sidekick to John Elway. Others say he was the main
35:29
Speaker 1: player for those great Bronco teams.
35:32
Speaker 3: Oh, okay.
35:34
Speaker 1: Carl Malone's sidekick with the Utah Jazz, John Cockett. Yes,
35:40
Speaker 1: Barry Bonds sidekick, although he won an MVP with the
35:42
Speaker 1: San Francisco Giants. A second baseman, white guy wore a
35:45
Speaker 1: porn mustache. Oh all right, the other wide receiver for
35:50
Speaker 1: the forty nine ers in the eighties next to you
35:53
Speaker 1: had Jerry Rice on one side and this guy on
35:55
Speaker 1: the other.
35:58
Speaker 5: Come on, sorry, that was a pretty good clue.
36:04
Speaker 1: All right, she was Okay, I got seventy points.
36:12
Speaker 3: All right, Mike. You didn't get John Taylor either.
36:15
Speaker 5: Oh that's who was the other Terrell Davis is the
36:19
Speaker 5: running back there, it is, thank you. Wow, it doesn't
36:23
Speaker 5: help now, Mike, Uh, we have this is spinal tap.
36:29
Speaker 1: Uh.
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Speaker 4: These athletes were all in a band at one point
36:32
Speaker 4: in their life. Mike, are you ready?
36:35
Speaker 1: Yep?
36:36
Speaker 3: All right? Forty five seconds to begin.
36:38
Speaker 4: Super Bowl winning quarterback for the Cowboys.
36:42
Speaker 3: Yes.
36:43
Speaker 4: Uh. This guy was one of the best dunkers of
36:46
Speaker 4: his time. Started with the Raptors. He yes.
36:49
Speaker 1: Uh.
36:50
Speaker 4: This guy was a catcher for the Dodgers. He got
36:52
Speaker 4: traded to the Mets.
36:54
Speaker 3: Mike, that's correct.
36:56
Speaker 4: This guy was a center fielder for the Yankees in
36:58
Speaker 4: the in the nineties when they won all their chimpions. Yes,
37:02
Speaker 4: this guy was a linebacker for the Patriots in the
37:06
Speaker 4: nineties and two thousands.
37:08
Speaker 3: White guy.
37:10
Speaker 4: Yes, this guy was a shortstop for a bunch of teams.
37:16
Speaker 3: Uh, the Indians, Yeah.
37:21
Speaker 4: Uh. And this guy was a Hall of Fame quarterback
37:23
Speaker 4: for the Brown Okay, all right.
37:26
Speaker 3: All right, what was that, Kelly? Yes, and I'm sorry,
37:33
Speaker 3: don't break my heart. She's already apologized. Come on, how
37:37
Speaker 3: did he get from that clue? Probably cheating? You're cheating? Okay,
37:47
Speaker 3: all right.
37:47
Speaker 1: You just Kelly, You're losing to a guy that cloud
37:51
Speaker 1: your category.
37:52
Speaker 3: Kelly, opportunity knocks are moving?
37:58
Speaker 2: Wait? What were the options?
37:59
Speaker 4: I'm sorry, take your time, opportunity knocks or moving otnity?
38:03
Speaker 3: Okay.
38:05
Speaker 1: These athletes all started as backups and became stars. Forty
38:09
Speaker 1: five seconds.
38:09
Speaker 3: On the clock. We're on our way.
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Speaker 2: Go.
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Speaker 1: Greatest quarterback in NFL history for the Patriots. He was
38:16
Speaker 1: a quarterback for the forty nine ers. He took a
38:18
Speaker 1: knee during the national anthem. Yes, French point guard for
38:23
Speaker 1: the great Spurs teams of the two thousands. Tony Kukoch now,
38:31
Speaker 1: wow you okay? No, the Iron Horse for the Yankees.
38:35
Speaker 1: He had the all time most consecutive games played until
38:38
Speaker 1: cal Ripken broke his streak Okay White quarterback from the
38:44
Speaker 1: eighties Giants. He replaced Phil Simms. He also had a
38:47
Speaker 1: porn mustache and won a Super Bowl with the New
38:50
Speaker 1: York Giants in the mid nineteen eighties or nineties early nineties.
38:55
Speaker 3: Come on, come on, come on, you got the first
39:02
Speaker 3: name right. It was Tony Parker, Tony Well, Tony kukok
39:05
Speaker 3: was a player for the Bulls, but not Kelly. He
39:09
Speaker 3: broke my heart. Kelly Surry, then lou Gerig. I'm devastated. Kelly.
39:14
Speaker 3: You won, Mike. Now figure out the delay on your radio.
39:19
Speaker 1: You gotta golden, take a you gotta gold Got a
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Speaker 1: golden chickads