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Hour 1 - City of Angels · The Ben Maller Show

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Speaker 1: Here we go. Welcome, It's our number what our one
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Speaker 1: of the original Recipe podcast up all night, Happy Wednesday.
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Speaker 1: It's hump Day, the fifth day of February. As we
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Speaker 1: are together yet again, reacting to reports that say Luca
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Speaker 1: Donzig is not guaranteed to sign an extension with the
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Speaker 1: Lakers this summer. Are you buying that line of thinking? Also,
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Speaker 1: how did Luca's body language look during his opening news
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Speaker 1: conference with the Lakers? And the Lakers feel the blueprint
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Speaker 1: with Lebron and Luca Donzig is to try to outscore teams?
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Speaker 1: Is that a sound plan? We'll talk about all of
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Speaker 1: that and who knows what else. Get ready to partay
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Speaker 1: in our Number one. Those la kind of knights. Welcome,
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Speaker 1: Saw our guy Kevin big p One here in southern California.
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Speaker 1: He's a public address announcer at a local look like
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Speaker 1: a high school there, and he was using on the
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Speaker 1: microphone Malors Show related phrases while he was doing the
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Speaker 1: public address announce Yeah. I thought that was kind of cool.
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Speaker 1: I liked that, So good job by Kevin. So I
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Speaker 1: lead this hour from La La Land a welcoming committee
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Speaker 1: lining up to lick the toes of Luka Doncic on
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Speaker 1: a Tuesday. So if you did not pay attention to this,
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Speaker 1: maybe you actually have a life and you had other
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Speaker 1: things going on. So Luca had his introductory news conference
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Speaker 1: with the Lakers in front of a packed house of
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Speaker 1: excited media fanboys. They were so happy their their favorite
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Speaker 1: team had a new hero, Luca. And like all of
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Speaker 1: these things, it was designed as a pep rally. It
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Speaker 1: was designed as a revival that the pathetic dormantler franchise
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Speaker 1: is back. Because the Mavericks decided to give away their
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Speaker 1: best player and just hand it to the Lakers and
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Speaker 1: only the Lakers. No one else, right, nobody else, only
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Speaker 1: the Lakers. Now, this comes amid reports that it is
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Speaker 1: not a guarantee that Luka Doncik will sign a max
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Speaker 1: contract extension with the Lakers this offseason. The very large
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Speaker 1: Brian Winderhurst there classifies himself as some kind of NBA guru,
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Speaker 1: and he says there is a chance that don Chik
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Speaker 1: may want to see how things play out, may want
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Speaker 1: to see how things play out, okay, or he agrees
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Speaker 1: to any type of extension with the Lakers. So it
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Speaker 1: seems like it's worthy of some conversations. So let us
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Speaker 1: discuss the question the report saying that Luca is not
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Speaker 1: garanteed Luka Doncik to sign an extension with the Lakers.
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Speaker 1: Are you buying that line of thinking? So I have
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Speaker 1: a nursery rhyme, Mark Jackson and Red Lobster and we
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Speaker 1: will combine all of these things together as it is
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Speaker 1: not your father's kind of sports radio show. It's not
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Speaker 1: so a So here's the deal. I'm not pulling out
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Speaker 1: the Apple pay on this one. I'm not I'm not
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Speaker 1: buying what I'm hearing, I'm not. There is a financial hit,
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Speaker 1: which is part of the reason that this is being
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Speaker 1: floated out there also to enhance the drama. But this
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Speaker 1: trade was very costly in terms of on court earnings
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Speaker 1: for Luca. It just is that he was set to
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Speaker 1: make another five year, three hundred and forty five million
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Speaker 1: dollar Supermax contract agreement. If he had stayed in Dallas
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Speaker 1: this offseason, the Mavericks would have been likely. I don't
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Speaker 1: know how they wouldn't have done this to give him
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Speaker 1: a five year contract for three hundred and forty five million,
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Speaker 1: that's the going rate for that level of player. But
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Speaker 1: the Mavericks said, you know what, we're going to trade you.
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Speaker 1: So they're the only team, as I understand it, that
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Speaker 1: could make that offer. So that means that even if
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Speaker 1: Lucas signs for the Max contract with the Lakers, it's
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Speaker 1: four years, four years, two hundred twenty nine million. Hopefully
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Speaker 1: he'll be able to put food on the table and
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Speaker 1: not have to go down to the soup kitchen those
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Speaker 1: hard scrabble streets with two hundred twenty nine million. But
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Speaker 1: when you do the math and you include the People's
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Speaker 1: Republic of California, taxation where your money goes to not
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Speaker 1: provide water when there's fires and things like that. It's
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Speaker 1: about one hundred and twenty five million or so, maybe
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Speaker 1: even more than that, just some chicken scratch back of
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Speaker 1: the napkin math, it's at least one hundred and twenty five
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Speaker 1: and one hundred and sixteen on the court. But then
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Speaker 1: you add in the taxes, the extra taxes and whatnot,
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Speaker 1: so it's like one hundred and twenty five million plus.
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Speaker 1: So nevertheless, you're gonna make some of that back from marketing.
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Speaker 1: Is a marketing just that alone. Madison Avenue and the
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Speaker 1: love of the bonanza, the financial bonanza. We know, the
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Speaker 1: NBA is happy, Nike is smiling, ear to ear, it's
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Speaker 1: richie rich, It's the rich get richer. Now this report, though,
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Speaker 1: if you read between the words, or in this case,
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Speaker 1: listen between the words, the report sounded like a nursery rhyme.
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Speaker 1: To me, it sounded very similar to Pop goes Louisel,
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Speaker 1: a lot of weasel words, a lot of weasel words.
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Speaker 1: Luca would have to go superman like, superman like to
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Speaker 1: spurn the Lakers. There is only one star level player
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Speaker 1: in recent NBA history, Last generation and really the last
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Speaker 1: two generations who said I'm gonna reject the Lakers. I
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Speaker 1: don't want to go there when offered a fair market deal.
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Speaker 1: The only player that's done that is Dwight Howard. Dwight said,
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Speaker 1: Skau you and then he eventually ended up backing the
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Speaker 1: Lakers anyway, but he didn't decided I want to play there.
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Speaker 1: He took off. That's it. That's the list, Dwight Howard.
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Speaker 1: I do not include Dennis Shrewder as a star player
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Speaker 1: in the NBA. He also didn't want to play for
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Speaker 1: the Lakers anymore, and skidad all out of town now
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Speaker 1: page two. So we mentioned at the very top of
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Speaker 1: this Mallet monologue there was an introductory news conference in La.
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Speaker 1: The Lakers welcomed the Luca. They put him on a
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Speaker 1: pedestal and everyone took turns giving him a manny and
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Speaker 1: a petty. But how did Luka Doncik's body language look
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Speaker 1: during his opening news conference with the Lakers. So I
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Speaker 1: watched this about thirty minutes. I was sleeping when it
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Speaker 1: was going on, and I watched it on the YouTube
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Speaker 1: and he looked to me, and I'm gonna describe this
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Speaker 1: for Inka terror blind Scott Blind, Emmett Stevie meat Balls
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Speaker 1: and all the other blind fans of the show Legally Blind, Christopher,
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Speaker 1: We're big in the blind community. So Luka Dancik's body language,
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Speaker 1: it looked to me like he was stupefied. He was
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Speaker 1: numb as a bug. Read the room. I would say, right,
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Speaker 1: Luca gave terrible body language. He looked like a broken
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Speaker 1: man at this news conference. Now, Mark Jackson, before he
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Speaker 1: was whacked as an NBA broadcaster, he used to say
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Speaker 1: hand down, man down. That was one of his catchphrases
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Speaker 1: for Luca. It's head down, man down. Sign language, non
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Speaker 1: verbal communication, big body language, guy, big body language guy.
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Speaker 1: Head down, Okay. Head down is a gesture that is
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Speaker 1: universally interpret interpreted rather interpreted as a feeling of shame
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Speaker 1: or guill. So when you're communicating and you have your
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Speaker 1: head down, like Luca did, you are letting the world
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Speaker 1: know that you feel some shame, there's some guilt here,
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Speaker 1: like you're sad. It also means you're feeling down or depressed.
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Speaker 1: So that's the body language, the unspoken words of Luca.
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Speaker 1: He's not happy, he's not happy, he's bummed out right,
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Speaker 1: He's bummed out and it sure look like that very
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Speaker 1: very mellowtone delivery. Just there was not a lot of joy,
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Speaker 1: not a lot of joy from Luca at that event.
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Speaker 1: He had to do it. And it's like, you know,
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Speaker 1: you do something in school you don't really want to
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Speaker 1: do and they make you do it, and you're like,
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Speaker 1: I don't want to do that, but I'll do it
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Speaker 1: because I have to do it, but I want to
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Speaker 1: do it. I'll do it. Fine, I did it. That's it.
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Speaker 1: It doesn't mean I like doing it, but I'll do
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Speaker 1: it because I gotta do it now. Last word, So
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Speaker 1: what jumps out to you you about one quote in
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Speaker 1: particular from the Lakers skinny jeans wearing general manager Rob Polinka? Who, man,
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Speaker 1: this guy, this guy just reeks a boy elitism, Rob Polinka?
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Speaker 1: So what jumps out at you about the Lakers sham?
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Speaker 1: Rob Polinka? He gave a quote here saying that the
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Speaker 1: MAVs executive Nico Harrison was instrumental in bringing Luca to
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Speaker 1: Los Angeles, and Rob Polinka thanked him for staying true
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Speaker 1: to the negotiation. So what jumps out at you about
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Speaker 1: that particular line of commentary from Rob Polinka saying the
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Speaker 1: Mavericks executive Nico Harrison was instrumental in making Luca a
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Speaker 1: Laker and thanking him for staying true to the negotiations.
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Speaker 1: So it does mean that Rob Polinka is a troll,
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Speaker 1: is what it means. That's a troll move, is what
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Speaker 1: that is. That's kick king Harrison in the balls, is
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Speaker 1: what it is. There is a uprising in Dallas. We'll
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Speaker 1: get to it a little bit later, but the Maverick
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Speaker 1: fan base is literally melting down. There's an insurgency among
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Speaker 1: the rank and file for the Dallas Mavericks because of
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Speaker 1: this trade. And Rob Polinka as the hutzpa to say, yeah,
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Speaker 1: you know, but he was instrumental. I want to thank
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Speaker 1: Nico Harrison. I do. Rob Polinka having supper at Red Lobster,
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Speaker 1: thanking Nico Harrison with that smug fish eating grin, just
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Speaker 1: that smug look. Now. Meanwhile, a lot of the noise
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Speaker 1: around the NBA is that the Lakers blueprint going forward
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Speaker 1: once once Luca actually gets off his fat ass and plays.
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Speaker 1: He didn't play in the game, I'm told on Tuesday Night,
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Speaker 1: But the blueprint with Lebron and Luca is to try
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Speaker 1: to outscore teams. That a sound plan. Now, outside of
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Speaker 1: the obvious, that's the only way to win any athletic
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Speaker 1: event is to outscore the opponent. You fundamentally have to
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Speaker 1: outscore the opponent every if you play defense, you got
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Speaker 1: to score more than the opponent otherwise you don't win
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Speaker 1: the game. That aside, That aside, right, we're saying you
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Speaker 1: gotta score more to win. But when Luca and Lebron
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Speaker 1: eventually get out in the court at some point and
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Speaker 1: they play side by side, they're very similar type players,
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Speaker 1: which means on offense, assuming they can work together and
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Speaker 1: find some synergy, Luca and Lebron, the Lakers will be
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Speaker 1: on the power play on offense at all times. Imagine
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Speaker 1: a two man game with Lebron and kicking it back
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Speaker 1: to Luca to shoot him, and it's unstoppable. It's also
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Speaker 1: unstoppable on defense because in hockey jargon, they'll be shorthanded,
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Speaker 1: two men down in the penalty box when they're on defense, Lakers,
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Speaker 1: it's gonna be five on three most of the game.
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Speaker 1: That's just the way it's going to be. Because Luca
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Speaker 1: and Lebron are often on defense, like they're in the
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Speaker 1: penalty box, they're resting up, waiting to run back out
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Speaker 1: on the ice and score a goal. A lackluster, a
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Speaker 1: couple of Mattadors, hooray. That's how they play defense, their
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Speaker 1: Matador defense there, and so that's what you got. But
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Speaker 1: we'll worry about that down the line. And you know,
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Speaker 1: Luca will likely come back and then miss a bunch
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Speaker 1: of games, because that's how this usually goes in that sport.
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Speaker 1: That's how they do business in the NBA and play
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Speaker 1: a little bit, miss miss a lot of I'm told
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Speaker 1: Anthony Davis missed his Maverick debut in Philadelphia. Dallas lost,
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Speaker 1: and he was back to his old self, his mid
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Speaker 1: season form. He was street closed Davis, Anthony sitting on
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Speaker 1: the bench, sitting that out. But I do love the
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Speaker 1: uprising among the the Maverick fan the rebellion, the insertion,
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Speaker 1: and I don't know how everyone say it right. It's
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Speaker 1: very chaotic. There is a sense of confusion and chaos
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Speaker 1: among the fan base there as Nico Harrison has passed
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Speaker 1: everyone by on the Dallas sports scene as public enemy
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Speaker 1: number one. And somewhere on a yacht out in the
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Speaker 1: Atlantic Ocean somewhere, Jerry Jones is smiling from ear to
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Speaker 1: ear and he's probably buying Chocolate's high end chocolate for
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Speaker 1: Nico Harrison, saying thank you, thank you, thank you, thank you,
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Speaker 1: up shortly after we get done with the show. Supermarket
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Speaker 1: Steve writes in says Nike and the NBA marketers can't
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Speaker 1: be that excited about Luca going to the Lakers. It's
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Speaker 1: not like a lot of those Eastern European countries have
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Speaker 1: a lot of money to spend on sporting goods. Otani
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Speaker 1: had the Japanese crowd and they love to spend their
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Speaker 1: yen ell. There's money there in debate, there's more money
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Speaker 1: in Japan than there is collectively for Luca. There's money.
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Speaker 1: There's money that's not US, money that they can make,
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Speaker 1: that's extra added money that they can make globally. Eugene
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Speaker 1: in Chicago Eugene writes in What Happened to blairin man
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Speaker 1: We haven't heard from Blair in Manual, Eugene writes in
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Speaker 1: From Chicago, he says, the La Rams been no loyalties.
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Speaker 1: We'll call a non sequitor from our man Eugene in Chicago,
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Speaker 1: he says, the Rams no loyalty. Cooper Cup deserves better.
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Speaker 1: I would argue that he got paid well. He made
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Speaker 1: ninety plus million dollars. And it's no different than this job,
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Speaker 1: or any job for that matter. When they can find
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Speaker 1: someone cheaper that will do as well or better, they
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Speaker 1: will replace you. That is how it works. And if
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Speaker 1: you think that there's loyalty, it's not the nineteen when
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Speaker 1: women did loyalty. Stop the nineteen sixties. Here's stories out
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Speaker 1: When I was a kid, I heard stories about people
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Speaker 1: that work at a factory, you know, some factory in
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Speaker 1: Ohio or Michigan their whole life, and you know, they
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Speaker 1: get a solid tension out of it, and they get
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Speaker 1: health insurance and all that they were loyal to the company.
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Speaker 1: And I'm pretty sure that ended. I'm relative. I know
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Speaker 1: in my business it never existed. I don't know about
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Speaker 1: out there where you are. Maybe you can fill me
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Speaker 1: in if it still exists. Supermarke Receive also says at
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Speaker 1: least Rob Polenka didn't make a reference to him and
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Speaker 1: Kobe's sitting down to dinner and them talking about the
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Speaker 1: Luca Davistrat.
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Speaker 3: Yeah.
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Speaker 1: I was waiting for Rob Polenka to say, oh yeah,
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Speaker 1: Kobe contacted me from behind the pearly gates. He reached
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Speaker 1: out to me in a dream, and Kobe told me
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Speaker 1: to make this happen. He said, I have to make
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Speaker 1: this happen. And so I made it happen because of Kobe. Uh,
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Speaker 1: he didn't do that. I did not do that. Steve
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Speaker 1: also says that in three weeks, Anthony Davis is going
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Speaker 1: to go down with an abdominal injury. In a month,
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Speaker 1: Luca will go out with a hamstring injury, thus making
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Speaker 1: this trade completely pointless for this year, like Blockworth. Yeah,
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Speaker 1: all right, Dukitch, I kind of feel like that. I
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Speaker 1: thought that would be funny as you played again on
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Speaker 1: the Ran played the drop guy, Dukisch the guy called
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Speaker 1: up the other day. But in retrospect, maybe it's funnier
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Speaker 1: if it's me saying, how do you pronounce the guy's name?
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Speaker 1: Because but Dukich. What's the guy? He's Dukich. He said,
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Speaker 1: that's what he said. What else do we have? Guess
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Speaker 1: he can't read that on the air. King Rory writes
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Speaker 1: and says, let's not overlook the return to the court
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Speaker 1: of Joel NB. Pretty sure once he heard Anthony Davis
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Speaker 1: was not going to play and be decided to play
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Speaker 1: and record a triple double. The seventy six ers are
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Speaker 1: so totally back. Late Night Drug tester says, I do
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Speaker 1: not think Ben that Jerry Jones is getting off the
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Speaker 1: hook that easy. The typical Texan will be still upset
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Speaker 1: with the way the Cowboys are being run this offseason.
22:18
Speaker 1: We all know that football rules the world. Ab absolutely
22:24
Speaker 1: rules the world. David writes in and sends video and boyd,
22:29
Speaker 1: look it does look unhappy. That's good video there, Davey.
22:32
Speaker 1: It looks very like forced, like a kind of a
22:34
Speaker 1: forced smile. Bad just bad sign right there. For sure.
22:40
Speaker 1: I'd be very concerned if I was the Lakers. What
22:42
Speaker 1: have we done here? He does not look like he
22:45
Speaker 1: wants this. He's not interested in this. This is not
22:48
Speaker 1: a good thing in his mind right now.
22:50
Speaker 4: Anyway, if you want to be for did he didn't
22:52
Speaker 4: see him sitting on the bench during the game, clapping
22:55
Speaker 4: and smiling and cheering.
22:58
Speaker 1: Well, that's justin Cooper interloping on the show. It's the
23:01
Speaker 1: Kooper Loop. Now, who's your favorite basketball team? Coop?
23:05
Speaker 5: Who's your least favorite basketball team?
23:06
Speaker 1: Ben? I asked you a question.
23:11
Speaker 5: I asked you the same question.
23:13
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, but I asked the question. I asked the question.
23:16
Speaker 5: Yeah, the Lakers are my favorite team. Who's your favorite team?
23:20
Speaker 1: My favorite team is whoever? I bet is your favorite team?
23:24
Speaker 5: Is the one that got blown out tonight?
23:26
Speaker 1: I know, and listen, I would be happy if the
23:28
Speaker 1: Lakers never beat the Clippers. So I think this is
23:30
Speaker 1: a big night and it shows you the Clippers matter
23:32
Speaker 1: that you're happy the clip that Lakers beat the Clippers.
23:35
Speaker 4: That, yeah, the Lakers destroyed them and Luca didn't even
23:37
Speaker 4: score a single point.
23:39
Speaker 1: There you go. I'm listen. That's I'm happy for you.
23:41
Speaker 1: It's been a tough decade. The Clippers have run LA
23:44
Speaker 1: for the last ten years now.
23:45
Speaker 4: The Clippers have never run LA. The Lakers have run
23:48
Speaker 4: LA the entire time. They still run LA.
23:51
Speaker 1: They have the richest owner in LA, they have the
23:54
Speaker 1: greatest arena in LA. They have the most loyal real
23:57
Speaker 1: fans in La. No, they dominate LA and unlike unlike
24:01
Speaker 1: the Lakers, they don't need the NBA to drop stars
24:05
Speaker 1: into their lap like the Lakers do. No, people just
24:08
Speaker 1: want to rather obviously by by by the minute here.
24:11
Speaker 1: This was orchestrated by Adam Silver in the NBA.
24:13
Speaker 5: They played Rob Plink is just a genius.
24:16
Speaker 1: Yeah, Rob, Please? When I look at Rob, he looks
24:20
Speaker 1: like every other a hole in La Rob Polinka, He's
24:22
Speaker 1: just like he's too much time in the sun, too
24:24
Speaker 1: much time on designer clothes, just like you're a loser. Okay,
24:29
Speaker 1: who would want to hang out with Rob Polinka? And
24:32
Speaker 1: if you I don't know if you saw the news conference,
24:34
Speaker 1: but he had one of those like designer jackets on
24:36
Speaker 1: where it looked like the zipper was broken but you
24:39
Speaker 1: paid extra money for it. Have you seen the video?
24:42
Speaker 1: I don't know if you watched the news comers, but
24:44
Speaker 1: he had this jacket he was wearing and it looked
24:46
Speaker 1: like you know, when your zipper you pull your zipper
24:48
Speaker 1: up and the thing kind of it goes.
24:50
Speaker 4: Under called high fashion. Ben, you wouldn't know anything about that.
24:54
Speaker 1: Well, because I'm a man of the people, Coop. I'm
24:56
Speaker 1: not some elitist. I relate to the common man. Okay.
24:59
Speaker 1: My people are working in factories and truck to everything,
25:03
Speaker 1: not some Beverly Hills a hole. Okay, not some Hollywood ahle.
25:06
Speaker 1: I'm not those people are just looks like such an
25:09
Speaker 1: unlikable person. He's just very unlikable and Lucas. He's like,
25:15
Speaker 1: I just got the vibe watching the news, like, well,
25:17
Speaker 1: this is really bad. I I don't want He had
25:20
Speaker 1: his like funeral sweater on, Like that's the clothes he
25:23
Speaker 1: wears to a funeral. He had that going on. That's
25:26
Speaker 1: just a bad vibe, man, just a bad, bad vibe.
25:30
Speaker 5: He just doesn't like the media.
25:32
Speaker 1: He doesn't like the media.
25:33
Speaker 5: Yeah, that's that's all it was. That's that's the Why would.
25:35
Speaker 1: You not like the Lake? The Laker media where knee
25:38
Speaker 1: pads for the players. I don't know why you wouldn't
25:39
Speaker 1: like them. I've been out there with the Laker media, man,
25:41
Speaker 1: they worshiped those media. But on the bench, the Laker media, though,
25:45
Speaker 1: suck up media. I don't ask anything.
25:47
Speaker 5: He was just laughing. He's cheering on Brownie with his
25:49
Speaker 5: first career three pointer.
25:51
Speaker 1: I know they make a wish kid. You have three points. Shot.
25:54
Speaker 1: That's cool. Let's go to Uh who do we have?
25:56
Speaker 1: Let's go Brian. Brian is in Michigan and he is
26:00
Speaker 1: up next. It is the Ben Maglis Show. Hello Brian, Welcome.
26:04
Speaker 3: Hello Ben.
26:05
Speaker 6: How are you tonight?
26:06
Speaker 1: If I was any better, I'd be sleeping, But I'm
26:10
Speaker 1: not here I am.
26:12
Speaker 3: So listen.
26:12
Speaker 6: This is the third time I've called you, and I
26:16
Speaker 6: need a nickname, So I'm gonna give you some time
26:19
Speaker 6: between now. I'm the next time I call. If you
26:22
Speaker 6: remember last time I called, we talked about I'm a steelhauler,
26:27
Speaker 6: so I gotta have a nickname, all right.
26:30
Speaker 1: So the way this works, Brian, is the people that
26:34
Speaker 1: listen to the show will send submissions for a nickname. So, okay,
26:39
Speaker 1: you got to give us a little more than that, Brian.
26:41
Speaker 1: So your haul steel? And you're born and raised in
26:45
Speaker 1: Michigan or did you live somewhere else before? No.
26:48
Speaker 6: I was born and raised in Michigan. And I can
26:50
Speaker 6: answer your question man about about the loyalty out here
26:54
Speaker 6: and the factories and things. There's still some degree of loyalty.
27:00
Speaker 6: They don't have pensions and all that anymore, and these
27:03
Speaker 6: factories so a lot of that's went away. Now these
27:06
Speaker 6: people got to fund their own retirement so that there's
27:09
Speaker 6: no more loyalty.
27:11
Speaker 1: So no more loyalty.
27:14
Speaker 6: The reason why I called was the whole trade thing.
27:19
Speaker 6: I got a different spin on this. I think the
27:23
Speaker 6: Mavericks got the best deal out of this trade because
27:27
Speaker 6: Ad plays a little bit more defense, well a lot
27:29
Speaker 6: more defense than Luca does. And I mean he is
27:34
Speaker 6: still he's getting older. Yeah, he's on the bench more
27:37
Speaker 6: than he plays, but so is Luca. And I think Luca,
27:41
Speaker 6: with his conditioning and things, I think that dude's gonna
27:44
Speaker 6: fizzle out in a few years. I don't even think
27:46
Speaker 6: they win a championship with that guy. I think Denver
27:49
Speaker 6: will win a championship with Ad.
27:51
Speaker 3: What do you think?
27:52
Speaker 1: Do you think Denver's gonna win a championship with Ad?
27:55
Speaker 1: I do? I listen if they If den wins a
28:00
Speaker 1: title with a D I will give you five thousand dollars.
28:03
Speaker 1: How about that.
28:05
Speaker 6: I won't take your money, Ben.
28:06
Speaker 3: But I don't know.
28:08
Speaker 5: I'll throw another five thousand in there.
28:10
Speaker 1: Coople top down for a five? How about this? Cool?
28:12
Speaker 1: We each All we need is one hundred dollars each,
28:14
Speaker 1: and you get the five thousand. If Denver wins because
28:16
Speaker 1: of a d how about that?
28:19
Speaker 6: No, no, no, you don't want to do that. No,
28:21
Speaker 6: all right, you think la got the better Larina?
28:24
Speaker 3: You want in on this, Lorena wins, I'm not going
28:28
Speaker 3: that much.
28:29
Speaker 1: I'll throw for one hundred dollars.
28:32
Speaker 5: Come on, Lauren, Okay, fine, one hundred dollars, all.
28:36
Speaker 1: Right, So that's three hundred from us. And if Denver
28:40
Speaker 1: Denver wins, will give you five thousand, how about that?
28:43
Speaker 6: If if if Denver wins, yeah, I'll come out to
28:47
Speaker 6: your meet and greet and you buy my dinner. And
28:50
Speaker 6: if they don't win one in the next three years, okay,
28:54
Speaker 6: I'll come out and buy yours and Lorena a.
28:56
Speaker 1: Right and goo all right? Fair enough? So again, but
28:59
Speaker 1: Denver has to mean the Nuggets have to win. I
29:01
Speaker 1: thank you. Uh has a nickname. This is one of
29:04
Speaker 1: our new guys, Brian from.
29:07
Speaker 5: Michigan already got it. Then he's the real Steel.
29:13
Speaker 1: Steel, the real Don. Wasn't that an old DJ name,
29:17
Speaker 1: the real Don Steele?
29:18
Speaker 5: You have no idea that No, yeah, that's too old
29:20
Speaker 5: for me.
29:20
Speaker 1: But come on, wow wow, Yeah that was DJ old
29:25
Speaker 1: radio guy back in the back in the day popular
29:28
Speaker 1: disc jock. I think he was called the boss jock
29:31
Speaker 1: in the in the in the heyday radio, back in
29:33
Speaker 1: the day. The Real Dons is an l A DJK
29:37
Speaker 1: earth in l A.
29:38
Speaker 5: I love care well.
29:39
Speaker 1: I think that was a lot. He worked other places,
29:41
Speaker 1: but the.
29:42
Speaker 5: Real Los Angeles, all right, they.
29:48
Speaker 1: Worked there out there. That's a Hall of Famer, Top
29:51
Speaker 1: forty DJ hall of Famer, the real Don Steels. You
29:54
Speaker 1: would like to give this guy in Michigan, Brian, I
29:59
Speaker 1: guess his name then? And all those cities that start
30:03
Speaker 1: with the are kind of the same, aren't they. They're
30:05
Speaker 1: all kind of the same. Let's go to Vegas right now,
30:08
Speaker 1: and we have a golden ticket. We'll say hello to
30:11
Speaker 1: our friend Slug and I'm.
30:17
Speaker 3: Gonna hey, buddy.
30:22
Speaker 6: Am I gonna get bleeped if I use the R word?
30:26
Speaker 5: Yes?
30:29
Speaker 1: I wouldn't. I wouldn't do the word in Michigan?
30:37
Speaker 3: What is he talking about? Now? And I love you?
30:40
Speaker 3: But what's up of your clippers?
30:43
Speaker 1: Well? I didn't see the game. I don't know. Apparently
30:46
Speaker 1: they didn't play. Well. I can't win them all. I
30:49
Speaker 1: can't win them all. That's fine, I'll be well, uh,
30:54
Speaker 1: but I am on listen. I am on it because
30:56
Speaker 1: I remember there was a time you just you assume
30:58
Speaker 1: the Lakers would beat the Clippers. But now the Clippers
31:00
Speaker 1: are so important to you guys. You get so worked
31:02
Speaker 1: up when they when they when you beat the Clippers,
31:04
Speaker 1: this is like your championship. The Lakers beat the Clippers.
31:06
Speaker 1: I got it. You know, you beat the big boys
31:08
Speaker 1: in l A. I understand.
31:10
Speaker 3: Hey, we we're working on them there. I mean Elewood,
31:13
Speaker 3: that's a that's our old home there.
31:15
Speaker 1: Do you understand how many times? Wait? Wait, do you
31:17
Speaker 1: do you understand how many times Steve Bomber could buy
31:20
Speaker 1: the Lakers over and over? And Jeanie Buss. I mean,
31:22
Speaker 1: the guy's got insane amount of mine every day, every
31:24
Speaker 1: like three days he makes enough money to buy the Lakers.
31:27
Speaker 1: What's that?
31:28
Speaker 3: You can't buy a championship though, can he?
31:30
Speaker 1: Oh that's coming. I've seen the script that's coming.
31:34
Speaker 5: That's been it's been coming for like the past fifteen years.
31:36
Speaker 5: But Ben saw the script.
31:38
Speaker 1: There's been some rewrites on that. It's gonna happen.
31:41
Speaker 3: I'll get used to it about uh the next ten
31:45
Speaker 3: years or so, I have you probably get two or
31:47
Speaker 3: three more chips. I'm pretty sure with Luca and everybody
31:49
Speaker 3: else is gonna haven't.
31:50
Speaker 1: Won one since Kobe's so I don't know about that.
31:53
Speaker 5: We're undefeated in the Luca era.
31:56
Speaker 3: You guys haven't won anything.
31:57
Speaker 1: And really, this is what you can't expect, right, I mean,
32:01
Speaker 1: Lucas sitting on the bench, that's what you're gonna get.
32:04
Speaker 1: More importantly, where did Luca have dinner after the game?
32:06
Speaker 1: But can we get anybody in LA listening to us
32:08
Speaker 1: right now on AM five seventy, our flagship in LA.
32:11
Speaker 1: Can we get a report what restaurant Lucas having dinner at?
32:14
Speaker 1: The real needs That's what we want to know. For
32:18
Speaker 1: what bars he hanging out at in La? That's what
32:20
Speaker 1: I want to find out. Get somebody over in Beverly
32:23
Speaker 1: Hills at one of those bars over there. Let me
32:26
Speaker 1: know what the establishment Luke is drinking at tonight. I
32:29
Speaker 1: want to know. Man, all right, slug, our buddy, be good.
32:33
Speaker 1: There's our buddy, Slug. He takes care of us. We're
32:36
Speaker 1: in Vegas. Slug is he rolls out the red carpet.
32:39
Speaker 1: He does well. Speaking of rolling out the red carpet,
32:43
Speaker 1: that would be pat Riley Ryle's getting ready for the
32:47
Speaker 1: NBA trade deadline which is coming up on Thursday, and
32:52
Speaker 1: pat Riley is hoping that Patrick Mahomes gets that third
32:57
Speaker 1: Super Bowl win in a row. You see, the NFL
33:00
Speaker 1: marketing people and pat Riley have reached a deal and
33:05
Speaker 1: they have an agreement in place to use the three
33:08
Speaker 1: peat trademark that pat Riley got way back in the eighties,
33:13
Speaker 1: forty years ago or so a little less than that,
33:16
Speaker 1: but pat Riley trademark three pat And if the Chiefs
33:20
Speaker 1: win the Super Bowl, they're printing up T shirts that'll
33:23
Speaker 1: save three peat on them. And so pat Riley will
33:28
Speaker 1: make a bunch of dump, You'll make a bunch of cash.
33:31
Speaker 1: Here how much, we're not really sure. There's a he
33:35
Speaker 1: had variations of the term three peat trademark, and he's
33:38
Speaker 1: had this for years. This goes back actually in nineteen
33:42
Speaker 1: eighty nine. And there's also a three peat trademark he's
33:46
Speaker 1: got on not just Sportsmanmobilia, but jewelry and all of
33:52
Speaker 1: that file with the US Patent and Trademark Database their
33:57
Speaker 1: office there. And so how much when the Chicago Bulls
34:03
Speaker 1: got the three pete, pat Riley made three hundred thousand
34:10
Speaker 1: dollars from that for just having the trademark, and so
34:15
Speaker 1: he'll likely make more than that. Inflation, it's been twenty years,
34:19
Speaker 1: so he'll make make a bunch. More of the estimate
34:23
Speaker 1: is if the Chiefs win the super Bowl now because
34:25
Speaker 1: of inflation, pat Riley is going to make over one
34:31
Speaker 1: million dollars. If Kansas City wins for just filing a
34:37
Speaker 1: piece of paper with the government years ago.
34:40
Speaker 5: That's wild.
34:41
Speaker 1: That is so crazy. Can you imagine doing something in
34:43
Speaker 1: the rain in nineteen eighty eight. That's like writing a
34:45
Speaker 1: song and then it ends up being still popular, you know,
34:50
Speaker 1: forty years.
34:50
Speaker 5: Or Yeah, it's unheard of.
34:53
Speaker 1: How come in I work in the worst entertainment business.
34:55
Speaker 1: We work in radio. Wouldn't it be great if we
34:57
Speaker 1: did a really solid show. If I did a show
34:59
Speaker 1: like in two thousand and two and I'm still getting
35:03
Speaker 1: money from that all these years. We live in a world.
35:06
Speaker 1: Our world is disposable entertainment. It sucks. Why can't we
35:11
Speaker 1: be like that? That's amazing? A million bucks if the
35:14
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35:18
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37:39
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