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Ben Maller Show Best of the Week · The Ben Maller Show

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  Speaker 2: This is the best of the Ben Maler Show on
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  Speaker 1: The rare and appropriate, the rare and appropriate Malard monologue
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  Speaker 1: about golf.
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  Speaker 3: That is our lead. And we're going to start out
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  Speaker 3: in the.
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  Speaker 1: Woods of Georgia because that is where the big event
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  Speaker 1: of the weekend took place.
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  Speaker 3: And we're going there.
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  Speaker 1: Why I watched it, so rather than just waste my time,
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  Speaker 1: I'm going to talk about it because I watched the
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  Speaker 1: site of the eighty ninth edition of The Masters. They
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  Speaker 1: don't have fans, no, no, no, they're not fans there.
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  Speaker 1: They have patrons at the Masters, the elites of the elites,
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  Speaker 1: hanging out, schmoozing with one another. There was a record
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  Speaker 1: amount of pollen in the air everywhere, which meant the
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  Speaker 1: sinus issues were popping up right and left. Now, I
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  Speaker 1: don't know if you saw this or not, if you
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  Speaker 1: watched any over the weekend. I usually consume very little
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  Speaker 1: of the Masters early on. Part of that is because
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  Speaker 1: it's not the easiestly the easiest thing to watch. You've
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  Speaker 1: a lot of streaming things and whatnot. But by the
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  Speaker 1: weekend normally I'm more more engaged to it, depending on
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  Speaker 1: other things I have going on. But I watched, and
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  Speaker 1: so we watched so you would not have to the
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  Speaker 1: events over the weekend. And it's our act of public service,
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  Speaker 1: it's our way to give back. And it was actually
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  Speaker 1: a doozy. It was not a event that sucked. It
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  Speaker 1: didn't It wasn't terrible. I assume you know by now
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  Speaker 1: that Roy mackell won the Masters in a playoff over
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  Speaker 1: Justin Rose there at the Augusta tournament there in Georgia,
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  Speaker 1: and the course, the Beautiful Course, completes the career Grand
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  Speaker 1: Slam his eleventh attempt, eleven years after I guess this
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  Speaker 1: is what twelve of the temp eleven years after the
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  Speaker 1: last major championship. So it's been it's been a minute
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  Speaker 1: over a decade since Roy McElroy won. And then he
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  Speaker 1: fell down dramatically with raw emotion fell down to the
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  Speaker 1: ground and he had his head.
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  Speaker 3: Tucked between his arms. There was water flowing from his eyes.
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  Speaker 1: Oh so dramatic drama off human sport athletic competition. Now
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  Speaker 1: McElroy becomes the sixth player to claim the career Grand Slam.
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  Speaker 1: And not only does Roy McElroy get the green jacket,
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  Speaker 1: which most people don't really want a green jacket, but
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  Speaker 1: there you do.
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  Speaker 3: You ever seen me wear a green jacket public? I've
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  Speaker 3: never seen.
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  Speaker 1: Anyone wear a green jacket public anyway at the Augusta
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  Speaker 1: Tournament's big deal. So he got the green jacket, He's
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  Speaker 1: got that and jumbo size check, one of those cartoon
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  Speaker 1: checks for four point two million. Four point two million,
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  Speaker 1: that's a jumbo size check right there. The runner up,
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  Speaker 1: Justin Rose, the loser, first loser, he only got two
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  Speaker 1: point two million, so after taxes, that's like point two
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  Speaker 1: after taxes, and twenty one million was dished out from
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  Speaker 1: the tournament. They're not allowed to talk about that though
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  Speaker 1: on the broadcast because they don't like to admit that
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  Speaker 1: it's all about the money. They think it's about something else.
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  Speaker 1: But that is the second major in a row where
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  Speaker 1: mister Rose has finished second so runner up doesn't get
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  Speaker 1: it done. So let us discuss the events here. Do
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  Speaker 1: you find how Roy McElroy got her done? And one
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  Speaker 1: green jacket significant? How he had the lead going to
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  Speaker 1: the back nine, gagged it and then ended up forcing
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  Speaker 1: the extra playoff and then ends up winning it.
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  Speaker 3: So I've got.
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  Speaker 1: Steering wheel, bamboo and brand ambassador, and we will combine
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  Speaker 1: all of these things together and we're gonna give you
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  Speaker 1: a headache unless we don't.
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  Speaker 3: We're gonna try not to give you a headache. So
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  Speaker 3: a do you find it?
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  Speaker 1: The question again, do you find how Roy McElroy won
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  Speaker 1: the Master's significant? Well, yes, right now in the moment,
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  Speaker 1: one hundred percent. And the way these things work over
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  Speaker 1: the course of time, you're not gonna remember what happen.
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  Speaker 1: You're gonna remember he won eight. You're not gonna remember
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  Speaker 1: exactly the events of the day. But right now, in
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  Speaker 1: this moment, yes, we are remembering, and that is certainly
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  Speaker 1: a big part of the store. So I'm nodding my
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  Speaker 1: head yes to answer the question. There it will fade
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  Speaker 1: over time. We only have so much space in our
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  Speaker 1: little brains there to remember all this nonsense. But macelroy
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  Speaker 1: was absolutely in control, and it was to the point
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  Speaker 1: where I was like, oh, this is gonna be boring. Now,
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  Speaker 1: this is gonna be boring. But then I realized it's
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  Speaker 1: golf and there are no bigger chok artists than golfers.
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  Speaker 3: The last day of a major, it is a.
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  Speaker 1: Tradition, unlike any other golfers gagging on the back nine,
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  Speaker 1: and there we.
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  Speaker 3: Were set up yet again.
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  Speaker 1: Originally after nine holes the broadcast, the tone was like,
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  Speaker 1: this was a coronation for Roy McElroy. But in the
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  Speaker 1: back of my head I was like, well, you know
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  Speaker 1: he's got He's had some big gags and the old
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  Speaker 1: slip on the banana peel. So for sixty eight of
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  Speaker 1: the seventy two holes over the weekend, McElroy was a
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  Speaker 1: dominant figure at Augusta National. And in those sixty eight holes,
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  Speaker 1: Roy McElroy was nineteen under par. Of course, the problem
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  Speaker 1: is you play seventy two the other four holes, don't
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  Speaker 1: ask the sixty eight halls where he was nineteen under.
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  Speaker 1: That's one stroke off of Dustin Johnson's Master's record of
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  Speaker 1: twenty under.
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  Speaker 3: But that was during the COVID.
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  Speaker 1: Where there were no patrons and at the event and
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  Speaker 1: all that stuff, So the conditions were different. But we
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  Speaker 1: were waiting for that trapdoor to open up. We were
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  Speaker 1: hoping that trapdoor would open up, and sure enough it did,
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  Speaker 1: although it didn't open up all the way into the
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  Speaker 1: pit of vipers because Roy McElroy ended up. If you've
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  Speaker 1: seen we only really talk about the majors here, but
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  Speaker 1: there's been many missed putts. There have been many collapses.
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  Speaker 1: And on cue right around the midway point there, Roy
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  Speaker 1: McElroy sat, he moved over the seat, he moved over
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  Speaker 1: to the driver's seat, and he got behind the steering wheel,
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  Speaker 1: and he decided to drive the drive the struggle bus.
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  Speaker 1: And boy did he do it, almost completely into a ditch,
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  Speaker 1: almost completely new dish. Driving the struggle bus, Roy bluwod
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  Speaker 1: two shot lead in two holes at the beginning, but
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  Speaker 1: then he got a four shot lead and on the
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  Speaker 1: back nine in a matter if my mouther of math
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  Speaker 1: is correct here, in the matter of not one, not two,
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  Speaker 1: but three holes, that that was all gonzo. So he
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  Speaker 1: fed that up right away, and much like an elevator,
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  Speaker 1: up and down, up and down, up and down, and
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  Speaker 1: during the weekend. Now I mentioned sixty eight of the
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  Speaker 1: seventy two holes. McElroy on his way to completing the
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  Speaker 1: career Grand Slam was amazing. Nineteen hundred five. The other
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  Speaker 1: four holes, not one, not two, not three, four double bogies. Now,
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  Speaker 1: even if you're not a golf person, you know that's
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  Speaker 1: not good, right, double bogie not good? Two of them
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  Speaker 1: on Thursday, but then he had none on Friday, none
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  Speaker 1: on Saturday, but he made sure to have not one but.
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  Speaker 3: Two on Sunday.
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  Speaker 1: And in the history of this event, the only person
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  Speaker 1: to win with even three double bogies in the tournament
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  Speaker 1: was the Walrs Craig Stadler years ago, and so that
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  Speaker 1: means Roy McElroy had the most terrible shots in four
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  Speaker 1: different holes double bogey, double bogie, double bogie, double bogie.
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  Speaker 3: And end up winning the tournament there so he went.
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  Speaker 1: Also, he tied for the largest first round deficit, another
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  Speaker 1: reason not to watch the first round of the Masters.
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  Speaker 1: But down seven shots and he comes back and wins.
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  Speaker 1: That is tied for the largest rally. Back now page two.
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  Speaker 1: As for the main stream, the elitist golf media and
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  Speaker 1: their narrative, if you've been paying attention, it's essentially after
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  Speaker 1: eleven years, eleven years without a major, what does this
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  Speaker 1: victory say about Ry McElroy And.
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  Speaker 3: They are laying it on thick. I am talking.
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  Speaker 1: Full bubble bath, full bubble bath for Rory McElroy, and
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  Speaker 1: they're just over the top.
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  Speaker 3: Now listen.
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  Speaker 1: It was a case of resilience, sure, but mcl kind
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  Speaker 1: of liked the bamboo. He had the phrase of the
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  Speaker 1: bamboo there the bamboo bends in the wind, and McElroy
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  Speaker 1: certainly bent in the wind. He did not break. And
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  Speaker 1: it's not a case where he just flat out was
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  Speaker 1: at the top of Suck Mountain for the last decade plus.
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  Speaker 1: There's this misnomer that McElroy was just god awful, just
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  Speaker 1: god awful, and then he came back and he won,
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  Speaker 1: and it's like this great redemption story. And it was
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  Speaker 1: his seventeenth start at Augusta, and the nerds have pointed
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  Speaker 1: out that that is the second most to get the
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  Speaker 1: first win at Augusta. Sergio Garcia had gone nineteen consecutive Masters.
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  Speaker 1: I think I think it was consecutive nineteen Masters starts
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  Speaker 1: without without winning before he had. But the eleven year
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  Speaker 1: gap now that is tied for the longest span between
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  Speaker 1: major wins. However, again, he was not trash it wasn't
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  Speaker 1: garbage over that stretch. He won nineteen times on the
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  Speaker 1: PGA Tour over those ten years, so he was averaging
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  Speaker 1: It was eleven years, but he was averaging about two
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  Speaker 1: about two wins per year, and there were a bunch
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  Speaker 1: of other high finishes as well. He was only outside
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  Speaker 1: of the NERD Golf rankings, the World Golf rankings one
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  Speaker 1: year out of those eleven years, so the most part
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  Speaker 1: he was still among the top players in the money,
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  Speaker 1: the top ten in the sport, and he had six
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  Speaker 1: of those years where he was in the top three.
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  Speaker 1: So again he was just like he was hanging around.
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  Speaker 1: You make a lot of money at golf, not winning,
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  Speaker 1: but just kind of hanging out in the top ten.
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  Speaker 1: You make a lot of money doing that. They pay
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  Speaker 1: a lot of money. Rich people love golf. It's a
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  Speaker 1: rich man sport. I went to go buy golf clubs,
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  Speaker 1: obviously about buying golf clubs last year, and I went
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  Speaker 1: to a golf shop and I saw how much they
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  Speaker 1: wanted for new golf clips. I walked right out. I said,
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  Speaker 1: I'm done. I don't like golf that much. I'm gonna
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  Speaker 1: golf like once every six months at the most I
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  Speaker 1: ain't putting that kind of cash down on something I'm
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  Speaker 1: gonna do once every six months. But it's a rich man,
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  Speaker 1: elitist game, and that's why they have so much money.
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  Speaker 1: You can finish in the top ten and you're good
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  Speaker 1: to go. And we know he won a bunch of
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  Speaker 1: tournaments McElroy. However, Roy McElroy, nobody pays attention to the
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  Speaker 1: Waste Management Open other than when the hoodlams go there
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  Speaker 1: just get hammered and cause debauchery. But other than that,
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  Speaker 1: it's like you're not watching these other tournaments. Only the
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  Speaker 1: heart o golf people are watching. That's the issue. The
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  Speaker 1: rank and file watch the majors and that's it, and
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  Speaker 1: that's the problem with the sport. Now, last word, So
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  Speaker 1: Jim Nance is part of the story here. Jim Nance,
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  Speaker 1: who is synonymous with this event. He has embraced it,
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  Speaker 1: he is into it, he's all about it. So Jim
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  Speaker 1: Nance made a couple of costs. There was a lot
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  Speaker 1: of silence after Roy McElroy won the green jacket.
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  Speaker 3: I think we have some audio.
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  Speaker 1: Here that we're gonna play though, but his line after
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  Speaker 1: McElroy got very emotional. Nance is being called out for
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  Speaker 1: this take. A listen to the call on.
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  Speaker 3: This tass is his putter, he troubles to the sacred side. Yeah,
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  Speaker 3: there's a lot of ambia nos. I don't know if
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  Speaker 3: you could hear that. Play it again us here tass
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  Speaker 3: is histter troubles to the sacred side.
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  Speaker 1: So, Jim Nance, if you couldn't hear that because there's
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  Speaker 1: a lot of ambient crowd noise there. Nance said he
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  Speaker 1: I think he said he clutches his putter and then
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  Speaker 1: he stumbles to the sacred sawd was what he said?
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  Speaker 1: That last part, that is the key part of this
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  Speaker 1: Jim Nance describing the emotion of Roy McElroy and that
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  Speaker 1: he stumbled to the sacred side. So how do you
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  Speaker 1: rank this call? How do you rank this call? So
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  Speaker 1: I've thought about some people very upset. How can you
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  Speaker 1: say that it's just a stupid golf course and all
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  Speaker 1: that stuff? I would argue, if you hire Jim Nance
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  Speaker 1: to call a golf tournament or any sporting event, this
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  Speaker 1: is what you're gonna get, right. That's who Jim Nance is.
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  Speaker 1: That is the essence of Jim Nance. That if you're
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  Speaker 1: an officia NATO of his work, this is what you want.
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  Speaker 1: That's the kind of bull crap you want from a
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  Speaker 1: guy like Jim Nance, you know you're gonna get it.
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  Speaker 1: Jim Nantz is like the brand ambassador of Cheetos, right.
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  Speaker 1: It ain't easy being cheesy, but that's jim Nantz.
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  Speaker 2: Man.
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  Speaker 1: The guy's just a cheese ball. He's always been a
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  Speaker 1: cheese ball. And I've known a lot of guys like
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  Speaker 1: that dude in the broadcasting business. There's a lot of
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  Speaker 1: hard dudes like Jim Nantz. And hey, Nance is much
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  Speaker 1: more successful than I'll ever be, so good for him,
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  Speaker 1: but he's a hard Oh come on, he's like he's
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  Speaker 1: like a puffy guy too in the booth, right, he's
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  Speaker 1: like at that dangerously cheesy I think was their slogan
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  Speaker 1: back in the day for the cheese from Jim Nance.
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  Speaker 1: And that's just the way it is. Listen for him,
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  Speaker 1: I get it. This is the Mecca. This is what
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  Speaker 1: he's known for, the Masters and all that. And so
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  Speaker 1: if you want cheese, boom check, if you want extra surrupy, check,
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  Speaker 1: Nance will make it extra syrupy for you. And it
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  Speaker 1: is amusing though, when you juxtaposed the event this weekend
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  Speaker 1: and how we were in here on Friday before the
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  Speaker 1: weekend and the story. Remember the story from round one
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  Speaker 1: you talk about going full circle at the eighty ninth Masters.
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  Speaker 1: So the Masters began on Thursday, and some no name
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  Speaker 1: golfer who had gone to Arizona State.
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  Speaker 3: Treated the Sacred Sod.
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  Speaker 1: As Jim Nance likes to call it there as an
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  Speaker 1: outhouse by taking a leak at Raised Creek.
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  Speaker 3: And then it.
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  Speaker 1: Ends with the golfer on his hands and knees there
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  Speaker 1: on the again sacred Sword of Augusta. So they have
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  Speaker 1: certainly gone full circle.
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  Speaker 2: Be sure to catch live editions of The Ben Meller
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  Speaker 1: The story that caught my attention, You kind of knew
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  Speaker 1: it was coming, but it happened.
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  Speaker 3: It's from Pro Bouncy.
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  Speaker 1: Ball, and the guillotine has fallen down, down, down, down down. Now,
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  Speaker 1: the regular season ended on Sunday. There was nothing basketball
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  Speaker 1: wise on Monday, and there's really nothing until the playoffs
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  Speaker 1: start this weekend. And list you're into the for Gazy
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  Speaker 1: Playing Tournament, which is ridiculous, that will be going on
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  Speaker 1: starting on Tuesday. But the wings of change howling, and
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  Speaker 1: we start out in the Grand Canyon State where everything
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  Speaker 1: under the sun is in play at this point, everything
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  Speaker 1: under the sun. And if you have not been following
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  Speaker 1: the game of musical chairs, by chance here maybe not.
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  Speaker 1: These Suns decided to whack. They played whack a mole.
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  Speaker 1: They got rid of their coach, Mike Budenhozer. Coach Bud
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  Speaker 1: gone see you later, persona non grada excommunicated from the
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  Speaker 1: team Phoenix missing the playoffs when everyone gets in the
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  Speaker 1: play the suck bag teams getting the playoffs, and the
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  Speaker 1: Suns could even get in the playing tournament, and so
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  Speaker 1: they're out now. In a prepared statement released by some
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  Speaker 1: empty suit for the organization in Arizona, they said that
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  Speaker 1: competing at the highest level remains our goal, and we
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  Speaker 1: failed to meet expectations this season. Our fans deserve better.
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  Speaker 1: Change is needed close quote, which is a nice way
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  Speaker 1: of saying, we have no idea what we're doing. This
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  Speaker 1: didn't work, so we'll try something else. We're gonna keep
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  Speaker 1: throwing pasta against the wall until something sticks. Okay, So,
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  Speaker 1: third consecutive, third consecutive offseason that Matt Ishbia, the very
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  Speaker 1: wealthy owner of the Phoenix Pro bouncy ball team is
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  Speaker 1: in the business of trying to hire a coach. So
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  Speaker 1: let us discuss. And before we look ahead, we must
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  Speaker 1: look back. So did Mike Budenholzer get a raw deal
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  Speaker 1: in Phoenix? Only there for one year and was in
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  Speaker 1: Milwaukee when they won the championship. And when you win
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  Speaker 1: a title, you get that tag of having the championship
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  Speaker 1: pedigree and all that, and so that's why the Suns
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  Speaker 1: brought him in.
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  Speaker 3: As he lasted one year and then he's kicked out.
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  Speaker 1: So I've got tug boat, Beverly Hills, and Budweiser, and
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  Speaker 1: we will combine all of these things together, every single
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  Speaker 1: thing together, and we are going to make a cactus,
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  Speaker 1: which is what the Suns, through Mike Budenholzer on a
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  Speaker 1: cacti is what they did right there, all the prickly cactus,
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  Speaker 1: little parts of it.
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  Speaker 3: Enjoy all that.
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  Speaker 1: So number there we go. So you got to start
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  Speaker 1: up the band. Earlier, I said number, Well, you know
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  Speaker 1: what this is? Okay, you know what season this is?
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  Speaker 1: Now somebody's no, no, it's not the number one. Someon
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  Speaker 1: would say it's spring.
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  Speaker 3: Right, spraying that time of the year and all that stuff.
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  Speaker 1: I would say it's the season of no as in,
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  Speaker 1: uh no, this was not a raw deal. Not a
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  Speaker 1: raw deal, not a raw deal. No no, no, no, no,
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  Speaker 1: no no. And here's why, all right, this is the
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  Speaker 1: opposite of a raw deal. What this is for Mike
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  Speaker 1: Budenholzer is the American dream. It is the American dream.
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  Speaker 1: It is a sweetheart deal. It is it's a sweetheart deal.
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  Speaker 1: Me explain why. Because he is holding the winning lottery
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  Speaker 1: numbers to the Arizona Lottery. He's got them, and he
• 18:55
  Speaker 1: didn't buy a lottery ticket. He just happened to get
• 18:59
  Speaker 1: the ticket somehow popped into his hand, it did. Budenholzer
• 19:03
  Speaker 1: accepted a five year contract for fifty million dead presidents
• 19:10
  Speaker 1: last offseason, so a year ago, less than a year ago. Now,
• 19:16
  Speaker 1: he attempted to agree, signed the docu sign there, got
• 19:19
  Speaker 1: the fifty million dollar contract, and he's gone after one year.
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  Speaker 3: That's it.
• 19:24
  Speaker 1: And unlike most regular jobs, where if you have a
• 19:28
  Speaker 1: deal and you're done, that's it. You don't get a
• 19:30
  Speaker 1: bunch of money and you're gone and goodbye. In the
• 19:35
  Speaker 1: cartoonish world of pro bouncy ball and professional sports, what
• 19:40
  Speaker 1: happened here in a landlocked state of Arizona. Mike Budenholzer
• 19:45
  Speaker 1: was given a tug boat. It was a golden tug boat,
• 19:49
  Speaker 1: and that golden tugboat to escape a sinking franchise, the
• 19:53
  Speaker 1: Pathetic Suns. And he was given forty million, forty million
• 19:59
  Speaker 1: to not coach a bunch of Prima donna a whole players,
• 20:06
  Speaker 1: and that was his gift.
• 20:07
  Speaker 3: Does that sound like he got a rod?
• 20:09
  Speaker 1: Do you if I said, listen, you got to put
• 20:11
  Speaker 1: up for one year, you got to put up with this,
• 20:14
  Speaker 1: We'll get We'll get your forty million, and you don't
• 20:16
  Speaker 1: have to put up with it anymore, and you can
• 20:18
  Speaker 1: do whatever you want. You're good as long as you
• 20:20
  Speaker 1: don't trash the team. You get the forty million done, done,
• 20:24
  Speaker 1: And but wait, there's more, As every great infomercial says,
• 20:28
  Speaker 1: but wait, there's more. So Additionally, when he left the
• 20:31
  Speaker 1: Bucks he had he didn't leave the Bucks. He got
• 20:33
  Speaker 1: let go by the box, he had sixteen million that
• 20:36
  Speaker 1: the Bucks owed him approximately, so that means, based on
• 20:41
  Speaker 1: just buyouts from the Milwaukee and Phoenix basketball team, Budenholzer,
• 20:46
  Speaker 1: by the time this deals up in Arizona will have
• 20:49
  Speaker 1: made fifty six million to not coach pro bouncy ball
• 20:55
  Speaker 1: fifty six million to sit on your ass and get
• 20:59
  Speaker 1: hemorrhoids and not coach Budenholzer is financially as snug as
• 21:04
  Speaker 1: a bug in the rug.
• 21:06
  Speaker 3: He is good to go now, page two.
• 21:09
  Speaker 1: So when you have a coaching change in the NBA,
• 21:12
  Speaker 1: it always goes back to the players. There has never,
• 21:15
  Speaker 1: in the modern era been a coaching change that was
• 21:17
  Speaker 1: not based on recommendations by the players. It doesn't happen.
• 21:22
  Speaker 1: The players are the ones that drive the bus in
• 21:26
  Speaker 1: that business. And so which player shoulders the most blame
• 21:32
  Speaker 1: for Mike Budenholzer not working out? There a quick departure
• 21:36
  Speaker 1: from the Suns Now. The rumors for the last couple
• 21:39
  Speaker 1: of months were that it was Kevin Durant, that Durant
• 21:42
  Speaker 1: was the schmuck and he was the problem. Well, now
• 21:45
  Speaker 1: we have a plot twist, and what is the plot twists?
• 21:49
  Speaker 1: Things thicken up here. So the plot twist is the
• 21:53
  Speaker 1: whispers indicate that the palace intrigue is not focused on
• 21:57
  Speaker 1: Kevin Durant. No, no, no, that this was an issue
• 22:01
  Speaker 1: with Devin Booker. The plot thickens, Yeah, Devin Booker, supposedly,
• 22:08
  Speaker 1: Now Budenholzer had issues connecting with the locker room this season,
• 22:12
  Speaker 1: which is really just some of the players didn't like
• 22:14
  Speaker 1: the way he was talking. That's how that goes, and
• 22:18
  Speaker 1: he did not resonate, did not motivate them to go
• 22:23
  Speaker 1: out there and do things that you were supposed to do,
• 22:26
  Speaker 1: that you shouldn't need be to be told what to do.
• 22:29
  Speaker 1: But nonetheless, so apparently his charismatic I say that with
• 22:35
  Speaker 1: a winking or not, his charismatic approach did not win
• 22:38
  Speaker 1: the room. So Budenholzer's main flaw, the biggest issue the
• 22:44
  Speaker 1: Komodo dragon in the room for Mike Budenholzer was his
• 22:48
  Speaker 1: inability to get on the same page with Devin Booker.
• 22:53
  Speaker 1: And he had the hutzpa, as my grandfather used to say,
• 22:57
  Speaker 1: the hoodspa to try to tell Devin Booker to on
• 23:00
  Speaker 1: the talk a just tone it down a couple of
• 23:04
  Speaker 1: decibel points. Just tone it down a little bit and
• 23:07
  Speaker 1: we'll be good to go. And you would have thought
• 23:10
  Speaker 1: that Mike Budenholzer had said, why don't we cut off
• 23:14
  Speaker 1: your right foot and that'll make the team better, And
• 23:17
  Speaker 1: Devin Booker said, I like my right foot. I don't
• 23:20
  Speaker 1: I don't want to get rid of my right foot.
• 23:21
  Speaker 1: I'd like to keep my right foot, so why don't
• 23:24
  Speaker 1: we not do that? And then there was a problem.
• 23:26
  Speaker 1: So there you go. And it does remind me that
• 23:31
  Speaker 1: this cartoon image in my head, it's not a cartoon.
• 23:34
  Speaker 3: It's actually a real movie.
• 23:34
  Speaker 1: There's old movie Beverly Hills Cop back in the day,
• 23:37
  Speaker 1: and I think of that when I think of this,
• 23:39
  Speaker 1: like the coach of the Sons going up to Devin Bookers, Hey,
• 23:41
  Speaker 1: you know, I'm here.
• 23:42
  Speaker 3: I want to make this thing work.
• 23:43
  Speaker 1: I just need you to not talk that much and
• 23:46
  Speaker 1: kind of tone it down a little bit, be one
• 23:48
  Speaker 1: of the leaders on the team.
• 23:49
  Speaker 3: And then and then.
• 23:50
  Speaker 1: Devin Booker's like the character for Eddie Murphy in that movie,
• 23:54
  Speaker 1: the old movie Beverly Hills Cop. And he physically physically
• 23:59
  Speaker 1: blocked blocks the ears with his fingers.
• 24:03
  Speaker 3: And says, la la la la la la la la
• 24:06
  Speaker 3: la la la la la la. I'm not here. I
• 24:07
  Speaker 3: can't hear you. La la la la la la la
• 24:09
  Speaker 3: la la.
• 24:10
  Speaker 1: Like that, Just like that, there you go, and Devin,
• 24:14
  Speaker 1: you are what your record says you are. This guy
• 24:16
  Speaker 1: is one of the epic coach killers. In the end,
• 24:19
  Speaker 1: is very bigger coach kill. We talk about Lebron James
• 24:21
  Speaker 1: as a coach killer, but Devin Booker not in a
• 24:25
  Speaker 1: big media market. But Devin Booker, you talk about toxic.
• 24:29
  Speaker 1: If you're a head coach, Holy crap. Oh man, if
• 24:33
  Speaker 1: you're even in the same room with this guy as
• 24:35
  Speaker 1: a coach, you're in jeopardy of being fired with Devin Booker,
• 24:38
  Speaker 1: My god, it's unreal, the math on this. Seven coaches
• 24:44
  Speaker 1: in ten years, and most of the last well the
• 24:48
  Speaker 1: last part of that seven years or so, Devin Booker
• 24:50
  Speaker 1: has been a headliner for the Suns, and so he's
• 24:54
  Speaker 1: obviously somebody is not easy to work with, and it's
• 24:58
  Speaker 1: it's one of those things. But your main job as
• 24:59
  Speaker 1: a the coach is just to lick the toes of
• 25:02
  Speaker 1: the star players. That's how you keep the job. Coaches
• 25:04
  Speaker 1: are completely irrelevant, yet they make It's such a weird
• 25:07
  Speaker 1: juxtaposition in the NBA because everyone agrees coaches don't matter,
• 25:11
  Speaker 1: they don't do anything, yet they get paid ten million
• 25:15
  Speaker 1: dollars in some cases more than that per year, and
• 25:19
  Speaker 1: yet they're easily replaceable. Like it's not like, well, you
• 25:23
  Speaker 1: get rid of your top player. It's a big problem.
• 25:26
  Speaker 1: Every once might give rid of the coach, bring some
• 25:28
  Speaker 1: other nerd in, like the Nuggets. The Nuggets had Michael Malone,
• 25:33
  Speaker 1: who most people thought was a pretty good coach. They
• 25:35
  Speaker 1: hired this Beta Poindexter nerd who's a NEPO baby, as
• 25:41
  Speaker 1: the interim coach, and we'll figure it out.
• 25:44
  Speaker 3: You know.
• 25:44
  Speaker 1: It's like, it's like so bizarre that why would you
• 25:47
  Speaker 1: bother paying them that much. It's like the NFL determined
• 25:50
  Speaker 1: running backs don't need to get paid a lot of money,
• 25:52
  Speaker 1: so like only two or three running backs get paid
• 25:54
  Speaker 1: any money. Everyone else gets paid peanuts. It's very bizarre,
• 25:57
  Speaker 1: And congratulations to Matt Eshba. You have a semi the
• 26:00
  Speaker 1: worst team that money could buy. NBA version, the Phoenix
• 26:04
  Speaker 1: Suns the highest payroll in NBA history this past season.
• 26:09
  Speaker 1: They totaled out at four hundred and forty two million.
• 26:12
  Speaker 1: How is that possible? Well, the payroll for the actual
• 26:15
  Speaker 1: player salaries was two hundred nineteen million. And then because
• 26:18
  Speaker 1: all the cheap, tightwatch, small market pathetic owners complained and.
• 26:23
  Speaker 3: Said, oh man, it's not fair.
• 26:25
  Speaker 1: So they put all these taxes, these tariffs, if you will,
• 26:28
  Speaker 1: on the big money teams.
• 26:30
  Speaker 3: In sports, and so in the NBA.
• 26:33
  Speaker 1: So they ended up paying one hundred and eighty four
• 26:34
  Speaker 1: million dollars in luxury tariff penalties, if you will, And
• 26:40
  Speaker 1: they couldn't even make the play in tournament.
• 26:42
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• 26:54
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• 26:59
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• 26:59
  Speaker 1: Time now for Mahler's Mountain of Money? And who do
• 27:03
  Speaker 1: we have here? We've got Li's eeny meanie niney mo.
• 27:07
  Speaker 1: We've got Tyler in Boston. Who's gonna play?
• 27:10
  Speaker 3: Hello? Tyler? Welcome? What's going on? Benny?
• 27:14
  Speaker 2: Yeah?
• 27:14
  Speaker 3: What's up? You want to play well with me? Ben?
• 27:16
  Speaker 3: You got koobl Loop? Who do you want to partner
• 27:17
  Speaker 3: up with?
• 27:17
  Speaker 1: You?
• 27:18
  Speaker 3: Tyler?
• 27:19
  Speaker 1: All right, Ben, let's take this?
• 27:21
  Speaker 2: All right?
• 27:21
  Speaker 3: We got it? Tyler? Very good? All right?
• 27:23
  Speaker 1: Hold on a second, and then uh let's see the
• 27:26
  Speaker 1: rando picked door number door number one or door number.
• 27:29
  Speaker 3: Two number two? Okay, fly Scott is uh hey is
• 27:36
  Speaker 3: this Tyler brilliant?
• 27:37
  Speaker 1: Boston?
• 27:38
  Speaker 3: I don't think he's brilliant.
• 27:39
  Speaker 1: You're already attacking Tyler. Yeah, you're already attacking him. Come on,
• 27:44
  Speaker 1: no fun.
• 27:45
  Speaker 2: I'm a real bos Johnny, and I'm out here building
• 27:47
  Speaker 2: bridges and stuff so you can get around that.
• 27:49
  Speaker 3: Look at that. This guy's a real man. I'd like you,
• 27:52
  Speaker 3: bly Scott.
• 27:53
  Speaker 2: Did you fix to tn Bridge?
• 27:55
  Speaker 4: Man?
• 27:55
  Speaker 3: It took you like five years? Alright? I can't pick
• 27:58
  Speaker 3: number one? She picked up.
• 28:00
  Speaker 5: You gotta play the game. We gotta play the game.
• 28:02
  Speaker 5: One of the categories hurry up?
• 28:03
  Speaker 3: Are you up?
• 28:04
  Speaker 4: Are you? This is the Chris Stapleton addition. He turns
• 28:06
  Speaker 4: forty seven today. Categories are tennessee, whiskey, traveler, was it
• 28:11
  Speaker 4: twenty six?
• 28:11
  Speaker 3: And either way?
• 28:12
  Speaker 2: All right?
• 28:12
  Speaker 3: Which one do you want? Tyler?
• 28:15
  Speaker 2: Traveler?
• 28:16
  Speaker 3: What do you say? Traveler? Yeah? Traveler? All right, what
• 28:18
  Speaker 3: do you want? Blind Scott? I'll take the other one?
• 28:23
  Speaker 3: All right, So we're gonna go to the bullpen. We
• 28:26
  Speaker 3: hadn't even played, yeah, number he hasn't even played. Hurry out,
• 28:30
  Speaker 3: you're wasting time, Anthony. Do you want to play? Yes, sir?
• 28:34
  Speaker 3: All right? What do you want? Uh?
• 28:36
  Speaker 4: Tennessee, whiskey? Was it twenty six? Or either way?
• 28:40
  Speaker 3: All right? All right? Very good?
• 28:42
  Speaker 5: And Tyler, we're on the board and here we go.
• 28:45
  Speaker 5: You picked a traveler? These athletes all played for seven
• 28:48
  Speaker 5: or more teams.
• 28:49
  Speaker 3: Are you ready ready to go? All right? Here we go.
• 28:54
  Speaker 1: First and last name, running back known as he was
• 28:56
  Speaker 1: an MVP for the Minnesota Vikings, beat up a ky,
• 29:00
  Speaker 1: bounced around the NFL.
• 29:02
  Speaker 3: Yes, the boy Tyler only time.
• 29:06
  Speaker 1: He was a center for the Orlando Magic not not shack,
• 29:10
  Speaker 1: not w Yes, that is true, all right. Known as
• 29:16
  Speaker 1: Eric Canada for the Raptors. One of the great slam
• 29:18
  Speaker 1: dunk artists of all time. Yes, mister big shot for
• 29:22
  Speaker 1: the Detroit Pistons, though he was picked, you know, he
• 29:24
  Speaker 1: was picked by the Celtics. Actually a guard. Yes, let's
• 29:30
  Speaker 1: see here. Senator Michael Jordan drafted him out of high school.
• 29:34
  Speaker 1: Was a disaster, threw a cake when he was with the.
• 29:37
  Speaker 4: Local No, no, kwawnny Brown?
• 29:43
  Speaker 3: All right, go ahead, cool, one hundred points that's what
• 29:45
  Speaker 3: all right, Anthony? We've got was it twenty six? Right,
• 29:49
  Speaker 3: that's the one he chose?
• 29:51
  Speaker 4: Yeah, alright, these athletes all wore or where number twenty six?
• 29:55
  Speaker 4: I need the first and last name, Anthony? All right,
• 29:58
  Speaker 4: forty five seconds, let's begin. He just rushed for over
• 30:01
  Speaker 4: two thousand yards for the Eagles. Yes, this guy was
• 30:04
  Speaker 4: the lead running back for the Steelers. He held out
• 30:06
  Speaker 4: for an entire season. Oh, all right, this guy, yes,
• 30:17
  Speaker 4: that's correct, all right, all right, so this guy, this
• 30:21
  Speaker 4: guy was a defensive back for the Raiders.
• 30:25
  Speaker 3: Us a bold clue. Hall of famer. No, all right,
• 30:33
  Speaker 3: lit'sten well, hall of fame.
• 30:35
  Speaker 4: Third baseman for the Red Sox and then the later
• 30:38
  Speaker 4: the Tampa Bay Raised.
• 30:40
  Speaker 3: Don't answer, Tyler. Oh that was bad. That was that
• 30:46
  Speaker 3: was on me? All right, terrible job. How many points
• 30:49
  Speaker 3: is that?
• 30:49
  Speaker 2: Thirty?
• 30:50
  Speaker 3: Thirty? Anthony were back up?
• 30:53
  Speaker 4: Do you want Tennessee whiskey or either way?
• 30:57
  Speaker 3: All right, let's go.
• 30:59
  Speaker 4: These athletes for them, for you, Jesus were all born
• 31:02
  Speaker 4: in Tennessee. For forty five seconds, let's begin. Current quarterback
• 31:06
  Speaker 4: for the Jaguars, Her Lawrence. Yes, he is the center
• 31:10
  Speaker 4: field for the Dodgers. He used to be on the
• 31:12
  Speaker 4: Red Sox. Came over to trade guys. Yes, whatever.
• 31:19
  Speaker 3: The current The current coach for the Lakers, Garbingham. Oh no, no,
• 31:27
  Speaker 3: I didn't even know the Lakers, all right, No, no, no.
• 31:30
  Speaker 5: No, no, no, shut up?
• 31:34
  Speaker 3: What he didn't I need to hear his answer. He's
• 31:37
  Speaker 3: not answering, he's googling. Oh my god, you're cheating. I
• 31:40
  Speaker 3: win the game. You went to the bullpit. Okay, you
• 31:43
  Speaker 3: cheated by going to the building.
• 31:44
  Speaker 5: You're disqualified. I went job, Anthony, you got a golden take.
• 31:49
  Speaker 5: You're a real man out there building a bridge. Tyler,
• 31:51
  Speaker 5: you're a stunt unlike these other losers. The guy's actually
• 31:55
  Speaker 5: out there building a bridge. Tyler wings.
• 31:57
  Speaker 3: You gotta goal the deck, you gotta call the ticket.
• 32:00
  Speaker 3: All the take, and he gets the golden ticket, Tiler.
• 32:03
  Speaker 3: He wins. Tyler