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  Speaker 1: we get. And not that I write back to any
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  Speaker 1: the day and they give me feedback, and I try
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  Speaker 1: to say, off the social media, that's the devil's playground.
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  Speaker 1: But I did get a lot of a commentary about
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  Speaker 1: something that happened in Indianapolis, and it wasn't about what
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  Speaker 1: happened at night. I guess it was an all day affair.
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  Speaker 1: It was a Lebron Day in the Hoosier State. I
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  Speaker 1: don't know if the governor declared it Lebron Day, but
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  Speaker 1: apparently it was. I didn't get that memo. So anyway,
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  Speaker 1: Lebron James capping off his day with a buzzer beater,
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  Speaker 1: a Obama like bailout of the Lakers, a ten point
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  Speaker 1: fourth cord of Luca had missed what was supposed to
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  Speaker 1: be the game winning shot. He had thirty four points
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  Speaker 1: of Lakers barely got by the Indiana Pacers by a whisker.
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  Speaker 1: Not impressed. That is a bad win for the Lakers,
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  Speaker 1: who are clearly in trouble. The real ones know that
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  Speaker 1: the Lakers are not going anywhere. But that was the undercart, right,
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  Speaker 1: So that was the undercart and everyone was he happened
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  Speaker 1: about the underc not the main event. So what was it?
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  Speaker 1: I'll tell you. So Lebron James did an interview. Wow,
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  Speaker 1: who knew? So Lebron went in studio with Pat McAfee
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  Speaker 1: and he hammed it up on the YouTube Influencers show
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  Speaker 1: with his pals. Oh, I was so excited. You see
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  Speaker 1: any of this? No, well probably not, probably missed it.
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  Speaker 1: So some of the talking points here and I could
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  Speaker 1: do the whole thing, but I'll give you some of
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  Speaker 1: them that you were like, did you see what Lebron did?
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  Speaker 1: I believe Lebron did that. Lebron ripped the rotund Brian
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  Speaker 1: Windhorse saying the NBA reporter, well, brother, let me tell you.
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  Speaker 1: Let's hear Lebron himself. Here's Lebron commenting on Windy, a
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  Speaker 1: longtime NBA reporter who went to the same high school
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  Speaker 1: as Lebron in Ohio.
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  Speaker 3: I see a lot of too, Like I've seen Brian
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  Speaker 3: Wainhurst one of these shows not too long ago.
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  Speaker 4: Like you played you guys played together.
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  Speaker 3: Guy was like you know, says he's like my best friend,
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  Speaker 3: and these guys are just just weird.
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  Speaker 1: Just weird, all right, So someone say Lebron's weird?
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  Speaker 4: Here is Lebron?
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  Speaker 1: Also, he talked back and forth about Stephen A. Smith.
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  Speaker 1: He compared Stephen A. Smith to well to Taylor Swift.
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  Speaker 1: He went on on that rant, said that he's on
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  Speaker 1: a Taylor Swift like tour run. With this particular point,
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  Speaker 1: he also explained why he stepped in to honor his
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  Speaker 1: son and his teammate there when things got off the rails,
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  Speaker 1: and uh, here's a little taste of what that was.
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  Speaker 5: Like.
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  Speaker 3: He's like on a Taylor Swift tour run right now,
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  Speaker 3: we're watching. If there's one person Kelsey couldn't wait to
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  Speaker 3: the video to drop so you can address it, is
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  Speaker 3: your ass. Like seriously, he completely like missed the whole point.
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  Speaker 3: Never would I ever not allow people to talk about
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  Speaker 3: the sport, criticize players about what they do on the court.
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  Speaker 1: That is your job.
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  Speaker 3: But when you take it and you get personal with it,
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  Speaker 3: it's my job to not only protect my damn household,
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  Speaker 3: but protect the players.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, well, do that in public. You could have done
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  Speaker 1: that in private. But wait, there's more. Lebron also broke
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  Speaker 1: down his relationship with Michael Jordan. Spoiler alert, he says
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  Speaker 1: he has none, says that's not going to happen till
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  Speaker 1: Jordan retires. Also double spoiler alert, they ain't hanging out
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  Speaker 1: when when he retires Lebron retires either. But wait, there's more.
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  Speaker 1: Lebron also suggesting the twenty oh three lottery, that the
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  Speaker 1: draft lottery that saw the Hometown Cadavers win the Lebron sweepstakes,
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  Speaker 1: that that was a rigged deal. That he implied that
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  Speaker 1: that was rig So let us discuss the question what
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  Speaker 1: vibe did you get from the very lengthy n on
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  Speaker 1: James fireside chat with Pat McAfee. So I've got Egyptian
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  Speaker 1: roller coaster and Mick millions, and we will combine all
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  Speaker 1: of these things together and we are going to make
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  Speaker 1: a mirror. Because there's one thing Lebron loves more than anything,
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  Speaker 1: and it's glazing at himself in the mirror. He loves it,
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  Speaker 1: all right. So A obviously there's a lot to chew
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  Speaker 1: on here. And I did watch a big chunk of
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  Speaker 1: this was I was on the treadmill and I wanted
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  Speaker 1: to poke my eyes out till they started bleeding. But
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  Speaker 1: the big takeaway is this was obviously an oasis or Lebron.
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  Speaker 1: A couple of years ago the very popular term safe space.
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  Speaker 1: This was a safe space for Lebron, a very secure environment.
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  Speaker 1: And watching the YouTube clip and then hearing the audio
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  Speaker 1: and putting everything together, it reminded me of ancient ship,
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  Speaker 1: ancient Egypt, the ancient Egyptians. And you see some of
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  Speaker 1: the drawings they left behind from ancient Egypt and the hieroglyphs,
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  Speaker 1: and imagine, if you will, in the cartoon bubble above
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  Speaker 1: your head, because this is what I was envisioning. Lebron
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  Speaker 1: is a pharaoh and he's sitting on the Pat McAfee pedestal,
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  Speaker 1: surrounded by McAfee fan bearers, and they use those Ostrich
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  Speaker 1: feathers because that's what they did in Egypt. They use
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  Speaker 1: those Ostrich feathers and they fan Lebron to comfort him.
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  Speaker 1: And if that doesn't work for you, you could go more
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  Speaker 1: like a more modern reference that Lebron was at a
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  Speaker 1: seven to eleven and the only item that he was
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  Speaker 1: getting from the McAfee crew was the slur Peit. It
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  Speaker 1: was a slurp fest. Slurp, slurp, slurp, slurp even at
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  Speaker 1: Rich Paul, the right hand man for Lebron, the deal
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  Speaker 1: maker who was in the studio making sure that everything
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  Speaker 1: went just as planned. Don't ask about that. Don't ask
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  Speaker 1: about that. Be careful what you talk about all right now?
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  Speaker 1: Page two. So, how did Lebron's general commentary about his
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  Speaker 1: NBA journey striking? Because a lot of it was fluff
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  Speaker 1: about Lebron the kid from Akron, blah blah blah blah.
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  Speaker 1: So that part of it was like a roller coaster ride.
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  Speaker 1: And I'm not talking about a real white knuckle roller coaster.
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  Speaker 1: I'm talking about Dumbo, the flying elephant, and the Lebron
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  Speaker 1: half man, half elephant. He's got the memory of an elephant.
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  Speaker 1: He never seems to forget near photographic memory for those
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  Speaker 1: who have taken shots at him. Now, the part that
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  Speaker 1: I liked the most was he's still bitter. All these
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  Speaker 1: years later, it's almost been a generation, and Lebron's still
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  Speaker 1: bitter about people pointing out how absurd that WHU gayzy
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  Speaker 1: decision thing was in Connecticut and how absurd that was,
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  Speaker 1: and he claimed, well, that was the turning point, you know,
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  Speaker 1: That's when I realized that I didn't like that media.
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  Speaker 1: You know, and really Lebron's not all that special. He's
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  Speaker 1: just your classic grudge holder. And this is a diamond dozen.
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  Speaker 1: As I have said for many, many years, my position
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  Speaker 1: has not changed. The most important element in sport is
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  Speaker 1: the critic. Because every team that wins, every player, even
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  Speaker 1: a guy like Lebron James who's been dominating the regular
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  Speaker 1: season for years and then usually screws up in the playffs.
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  Speaker 1: But Lebron still has that chip on his shoulder because
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  Speaker 1: of the critic. Right, he retains all those negative comments
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  Speaker 1: and he just stews in those juices. He just stews
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  Speaker 1: in them. He's determined to prove the doubter is wrong,
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  Speaker 1: and even when it's manufactured outrage, it doesn't seem to
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  Speaker 1: matter all right now, last word here, So is there
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  Speaker 1: a deeper meaning? Let's get to that. What I thought
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  Speaker 1: was the most interesting part of this was Lebron James
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  Speaker 1: implying that their draft lottery has regularly been rigged, and
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  Speaker 1: it certainly was rigged when the Calves picked him back
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  Speaker 1: in three. So yeah, yeah, there is a deeper me.
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  Speaker 1: I think this is a big deal, and it's one
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  Speaker 1: thing for Joe Blow talk show host to say it's
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  Speaker 1: rig It's another thing for some dopey bot or algorithm
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  Speaker 1: on social media to say it's rigged. But this is
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  Speaker 1: the bloody face of the league who seemingly believes that
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  Speaker 1: the NBA is a corrupt organization. How else could you
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  Speaker 1: take that? It seems like that's gonna have legs. Keep
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  Speaker 1: in mind that this storyline is as old as time.
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  Speaker 1: Is old as time, and I remember the former commissioner,
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  Speaker 1: the late Great Venerable David Stern, who dealt with this
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  Speaker 1: because he was the commissioner when they first rigged the
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  Speaker 1: lottery for Patrick Ewing in the nineteen eighties. And David
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  Speaker 1: Stern dismissed it at the time. In fact, he said
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  Speaker 1: he didn't really care as long as people were talking
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  Speaker 1: about the NBA. Yeah, but now we're in the age
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  Speaker 1: where you shouldn't talk about us because I don't like
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  Speaker 1: what you're saying. But back then they're like, oh, how
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  Speaker 1: long you're talking about it? Now? There obviously is no
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  Speaker 1: hard evidence, meaning no one's come out. There's no whistleblower
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  Speaker 1: that has said, yeah, the lottery's rigged and here's how
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  Speaker 1: they did it. There's none of that. There's no hard evidence.
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  Speaker 1: There's a lot of circumstantial clues. There's many convenient outcomes
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  Speaker 1: that have driven the conversation, such as Lebron referenced when
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  Speaker 1: he won, or his team the Cavaliers, his local team,
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  Speaker 1: you know from Ackman over in Cleveland. One in three
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  Speaker 1: hometown kids stays in Cleveland. The Chicago Bulls got their
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  Speaker 1: local hero Derek Rose in eight and I believe they
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  Speaker 1: had a less than two percent chance that year of
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  Speaker 1: winning the draft lottery. And then the other thing is
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  Speaker 1: when Lebron left for Miami, the conspiracy was, well, to
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  Speaker 1: make things better for the Cavaliers and Dan Gilbert the older,
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  Speaker 1: We'll make sure that you get some good players in there.
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  Speaker 1: So the Cavaliers in the span of you know, how
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  Speaker 1: long was Lebron in Miami four years or something like that,
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  Speaker 1: the Cavaliers got three number one picks in that time
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  Speaker 1: while Lebron was in South Florida twenty eleven, twenty thirteen
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  Speaker 1: to twenty fourteen. And so that raised some mybro I said,
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  Speaker 1: wait a minute, what's going on with that? Trying to
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  Speaker 1: set the calves up? And like the league took care
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  Speaker 1: of Cleveland because they lost Lebron, and that lost a
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  Speaker 1: lot of capital. Nobody wanted to go to those games.
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  Speaker 1: The draft lottery truthers will point to these patterns and
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  Speaker 1: also the ultimate storyline. It's a TV show. You need
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  Speaker 1: good stories for a TV show, even though it's supposed
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  Speaker 1: to be real, and you know, you do the whole
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  Speaker 1: fiction nonfiction thing's supposed to be real. However, you know
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  Speaker 1: you gotta have storylines and if you need to nudge
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  Speaker 1: those along a little bit, and it helps the revenue,
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  Speaker 1: it helps the bottom line, you do it. And the
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  Speaker 1: idea that it's impossible that there's too many people loved
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  Speaker 1: to hear that a lot. But remember that that mcmillions.
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  Speaker 1: I saw that documentary a few years ago. It's great.
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  Speaker 1: I recommend it. It's still around. You can find it if
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  Speaker 1: you know where to look. But that was the one
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  Speaker 1: where they rigged the much beloved McDonald's monopoly game, and
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  Speaker 1: so they if you can rig that, and they got
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  Speaker 1: away with it for a very long time before before
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  Speaker 1: somebody stepped in there. I guess I remember Uncle Jerry.
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  Speaker 1: If you saw the documentary, Uncle Jerry, some mob guy
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  Speaker 1: was setting it up. But since the weighted system started
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  Speaker 1: in nineteen ninety, so that's that's almost thirty almost thirty
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  Speaker 1: five years of the draft lottery, the team with the
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  Speaker 1: top odds has one the number one overall pick about
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  Speaker 1: twenty five percent of the time, about twenty five percent
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  Speaker 1: of the time. And the nerds, the people that are
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  Speaker 1: good at math, will say, well, that's that's right on
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  Speaker 1: par with the probabilities. So that's there's nothing there's nothing
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  Speaker 1: wrong with that. That's that's all good. But the theory
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  Speaker 1: is that you don't manipulate it every year, because not
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  Speaker 1: every year is they're a generational player. There just isn't right.
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  Speaker 1: There's a lot of years there's like suck bag guys.
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  Speaker 1: You know, some dude from France you've never heard of,
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  Speaker 1: who will who will not sell a single ticket, So
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  Speaker 1: you don't really rig it for that who cares? But
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  Speaker 1: when it's rare and appropriate that you can help a
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  Speaker 1: storyline along and listen, I buy it. I buy it.
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  Speaker 1: And I have worked over the years with some people
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  Speaker 1: that were part of that famous nineteen eighty five draft
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  Speaker 1: lottery where the Knickerbocker's got Patrick Ewing, and based on
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  Speaker 1: what they have said, uh and others I have spoken
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  Speaker 1: to totally now you know there, I don't think you
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  Speaker 1: do it every year but rare and appropriate. There's some
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  Speaker 1: funny business that goes on.
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  Speaker 1: So our lead this hour, as we slide into our
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  Speaker 1: number two, the word salad. Now, I am an anti
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  Speaker 1: salad guy. I think that vegetables should should live a
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  Speaker 1: full life, and I don't want to see any vegetables
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  Speaker 1: killed for someone's pleasure for food. So I don't eat.
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  Speaker 1: I don't eat salad, and I have that in common
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  Speaker 1: with al Michaels and Pokinnakua. We don't eat salad. But
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  Speaker 1: our lead this hour is from Minnesota Quarterback Room upset department,
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  Speaker 1: the Minnesota Vikings, who do not have an established quarterback.
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  Speaker 1: They didn't have one last year in Sam Darnold, and
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  Speaker 1: they won a bunch of games. Right worked out pretty well.
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  Speaker 1: She didn't work out very well at the end in
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  Speaker 1: the final couple games. But the GM of the Vikings
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  Speaker 1: quasy adolpho mensa. That's a mouthful, quazy adolpha mensa. Now
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  Speaker 1: he confirmed that Aaron Rogers and Kevin O'Connell. That's the
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  Speaker 1: coach had a powwow. They in fact a lot of conversations,
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  Speaker 1: and that prompted in organizational dialogue about Rogers. Now, what
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  Speaker 1: is this all about?
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  Speaker 2: You?
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  Speaker 1: I don't if you heard the rest of this. The
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  Speaker 1: GM there, Adolpho Mensa, said, it's a new thing to
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  Speaker 1: talk about a player at that caliber, sounding giddy, sounding excited.
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  Speaker 1: The GM said that about Rogers. Now, Udolpha Mensa, the
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  Speaker 1: GM in Minnesota said that he did not rule out
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  Speaker 1: eventually circling back to Rogers. However, he said, quote right now,
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  Speaker 1: we're really happy with our quarterback room. Both quote all right,
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  Speaker 1: So let us discuss question why didn't the Vikings general
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  Speaker 1: manager Quazy Adolpha Mensa, Why didn't this guy rule out
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  Speaker 1: the pursuit of Aaron Rodgers. So I've got Bruno, Mars,
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  Speaker 1: Evil Twin and Rodent. We'll combine all these things together.
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  Speaker 1: We're gonna make a juicy Lucy that is the go
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  Speaker 1: to food and delicious in Minnesota's absolutely wonderful. So number wa,
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  Speaker 1: I said number. So the GM of the Vikings here,
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  Speaker 1: it's weasel terminology, right, corporate speak. The GM here at
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  Speaker 1: Adolpha Mensa. Now, he said the Vikings were very happy
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  Speaker 1: with their quarterback room. But if you listen closely, you
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  Speaker 1: could hear a Bruno Mars song leave the door open,
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  Speaker 1: Like that's what he's said, leaving the door open. The
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  Speaker 1: Minnesota GM added the stipulation right now, right like, I'm
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  Speaker 1: full right now, but I could be hungry. I might
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  Speaker 1: be hungry later and I'll probably but right now I'm full.
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  Speaker 1: I can't guarantee I'm gonna be full an hour from now,
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  Speaker 1: two hours from now. So there's some fine print. Now,
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  Speaker 1: Aaron Rodgers is running the four corners offense, and he
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  Speaker 1: is dragging this out. And remember that our friend Andrea,
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  Speaker 1: the sports astrology lady Virgo and service there on X.
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  Speaker 1: She says that Rogers is likely waiting as close as
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  Speaker 1: he can to mercury, getting out of retrograde, but it'll
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  Speaker 1: still be in retro shade. But that's April seven, so
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  Speaker 1: we've got I think it's April SI, we got some time.
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  Speaker 1: It's in early April, so we got some time before
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  Speaker 1: we get to that point. We assume he's inching closer
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  Speaker 1: to Pittsburgh, could be walking there. So until he's off
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  Speaker 1: the board, you're saying there's a chance the Minnesota will
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  Speaker 1: add a veteran to the mix at some point. They
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  Speaker 1: have to. And if the GM of the Vikings thinks
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  Speaker 1: the quarterback room of Brett Rippon and JJ McCarthy is good,
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  Speaker 1: if that's a good mix, then he must be having
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  Speaker 1: some really good acid. My god, you are tripping if
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  Speaker 1: you think Brett Rippon is good. Now, Hey, I'm a poet.
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  Speaker 1: I don't even know it now. We also hear that internally,
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  Speaker 1: there's some chatter the reason the Vikings were even contemplating
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  Speaker 1: bringing in Aaron Rodgers is despite the exterior of JJ
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  Speaker 1: McCarthy being pretty solid, right, there's some questions about how
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  Speaker 1: mature he is behind the scenes there. Apparently he's got
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  Speaker 1: some some things you gotta work through, is every young
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  Speaker 1: player does, and so there's some issues about that inside
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  Speaker 1: the building. Now, McCarthy is currently recovered from snap crackle
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  Speaker 1: Poppy had pornnisse, oh my oh, my name, my meniscus.
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  Speaker 1: He suffered that just before the start of last season.
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  Speaker 1: Remember had that big preseason game and then and then
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  Speaker 1: that was it. So certainly McCarthy's in the pole position,
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  Speaker 1: but you I can't eliminate Rogers until he goes and
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  Speaker 1: signs and he hasn't signed with Pittsburgh yet, And every
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  Speaker 1: day that goes by, there's more of a chance that
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  Speaker 1: he will not go to Pitchman, even though it seems
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  Speaker 1: like it's guaranteed. Maybe he's on vacation somewhere. He might
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  Speaker 1: be out in the Amazon drinking some ayahuasca with Joe Rogan.
• 20:15
  Speaker 1: Who knows all right now, page two to Jersey we
• 20:19
  Speaker 1: go now. One day, just one day after agreeing to
• 20:23
  Speaker 1: a deal, Russell Wilson came out and announced that he
• 20:27
  Speaker 1: expects to be the Giants starting quarterback in twenty twenty five.
• 20:33
  Speaker 1: Wilson got a one year deal with ten and a
• 20:37
  Speaker 1: half million dollars guaranteed. It's loaded with incentives. It must
• 20:41
  Speaker 1: be nice. Here is Russ letting the world know, letting
• 20:44
  Speaker 1: you know that he's locked in on this. Yeah.
• 20:49
  Speaker 5: I expect to get get started and coming here and
• 20:51
  Speaker 5: be rated rock and roll every day to build a lead.
• 20:53
  Speaker 5: I think this team's really looking for somebody to lead
• 20:55
  Speaker 5: them in every way in terms of the process, you know,
• 20:58
  Speaker 5: in the off season, during the seat, in our habits
• 21:01
  Speaker 5: and our thought process and how we create you know,
• 21:04
  Speaker 5: a great winning culture and how do we continue to
• 21:06
  Speaker 5: establish that and and to really build on all the
• 21:09
  Speaker 5: things that we do well and the things that we
• 21:10
  Speaker 5: continue to need to do.
• 21:13
  Speaker 1: So as you know, uh Russ, Well, I'll get into
• 21:16
  Speaker 1: it in a minute. But Russell Wilson, boy, listen to
• 21:18
  Speaker 1: him talk how uplifting. So Russell Wilson says, as you
• 21:21
  Speaker 1: heard there, he expects to be the giants. QB Number one,
• 21:28
  Speaker 1: are you surprised? So obviously you roll your eyes. And
• 21:33
  Speaker 1: why would you be surprised? Right? Remember Eric Spolsro years
• 21:36
  Speaker 1: ago said I wouldn't have it any other way, and
• 21:38
  Speaker 1: Russ would say I wouldn't have it any other way.
• 21:41
  Speaker 1: And here's why blame Russell Wilson's evil twin, mister mister unlimited,
• 21:49
  Speaker 1: Mister unlimited Russell Wilson. That's his alter ego, Total jack
• 21:54
  Speaker 1: Wagon sprinkles the clown. Now, financially, Russell Wilson needs to
• 21:59
  Speaker 1: play so he can make an extra ten and a
• 22:02
  Speaker 1: half million dollars. Otherwise he's going to have to be
• 22:04
  Speaker 1: down at the soup kitchen and he won't be able
• 22:06
  Speaker 1: to pay his mortgage. So there's a variety of incentives
• 22:10
  Speaker 1: and escalators, and of course, if you don't don't play
• 22:14
  Speaker 1: those escalators become elevators, and they only go down. They
• 22:18
  Speaker 1: only go down. Now we are hearing that the carrot
• 22:22
  Speaker 1: on the stick. Here, the Giant's front office insinuated that
• 22:26
  Speaker 1: Russell Wilson would get the first crack at the starting job.
• 22:30
  Speaker 1: Wilson is joined by Tommy Cutlass, Tommy DeVito, folk hero
• 22:34
  Speaker 1: who's hanging on by a thread, and also fellow free
• 22:37
  Speaker 1: agent Jamis Winston on the depth chart. Now, Winston is
• 22:41
  Speaker 1: being paid a backup contract, so it's more likely he's
• 22:44
  Speaker 1: not there. The Veto's toast. If the Giants draft a
• 22:46
  Speaker 1: quarterback high and so, what I would do is I
• 22:51
  Speaker 1: would pencil in Russell Wilson on your depth chart. I
• 22:54
  Speaker 1: would pencil him in with a number two pencil with
• 22:58
  Speaker 1: a nice eraser, and I would not use ballpoint pen.
• 23:00
  Speaker 1: I would avoid a ballpoint pan. I wouldn't use a
• 23:02
  Speaker 1: ballpoint pen. There's no need for a ballpoint pan because
• 23:06
  Speaker 1: it's subject to change. I would go with Jameis Winston
• 23:10
  Speaker 1: would side by side. I would rather play Jameis Winston.
• 23:13
  Speaker 1: You're gonna suck either way, right, All roads lead to Suckville.
• 23:17
  Speaker 1: But I'd rather go to Suckville on the Jameis Winston
• 23:22
  Speaker 1: Trade the one man band, mister fun. Russell Wilson's not fun.
• 23:27
  Speaker 1: What does he know about winning? I mean, Russell Wilson
• 23:29
  Speaker 1: jumped on the backs of the legion of boom defense
• 23:31
  Speaker 1: in Seattle, and since he left Seattle it's been a
• 23:35
  Speaker 1: hot mess all right. Now. Final point to the rules
• 23:39
  Speaker 1: of the game. The rules of the game. So after
• 23:43
  Speaker 1: much debate in past years, it appears that the NFL
• 23:48
  Speaker 1: will not be tinkering with one of the worst parts
• 23:53
  Speaker 1: of the sport. They are satisfied to keep one of
• 23:55
  Speaker 1: the worst worst parts of the sport as it is now.
• 23:58
  Speaker 1: The NFL executive president of Football Ops, Troy Vincent, used
• 24:03
  Speaker 1: to play back in the day he announced that the
• 24:05
  Speaker 1: league will not be overhauling the on side kick play,
• 24:10
  Speaker 1: which is a nothing burger. Vincent saying that all this
• 24:15
  Speaker 1: talk of different gimmicky ideas that the NFL decided these
• 24:20
  Speaker 1: are not up to standard for the National Football League
• 24:25
  Speaker 1: like it somehow is below the billion dollar babies to
• 24:28
  Speaker 1: have a play that actually has a chance of succeeding
• 24:33
  Speaker 1: where the current setup does not. So question for the
• 24:38
  Speaker 1: esteem panel, what will it take for the NFL to
• 24:41
  Speaker 1: consider a quote gimmicky on sidekick alternative, what would it take.
• 24:48
  Speaker 1: So I've got Rodents, lab Rats and we'll mix those together,
• 24:55
  Speaker 1: and that is what's gonna take. Because you've got the
• 24:57
  Speaker 1: Canadian Football League and the UFL. I don't even know
• 25:00
  Speaker 1: what you I think the UFL is what the XFL
• 25:02
  Speaker 1: used to be and another league and they mor merged together.
• 25:06
  Speaker 1: I don't know, I don't watch it. So if you
• 25:08
  Speaker 1: take the Canadian Football leage on one side, and then
• 25:11
  Speaker 1: you mix together in a mixing bowl, a stand mixer,
• 25:14
  Speaker 1: and you put the Canadian Football League in the UFL
• 25:16
  Speaker 1: together and he was put in there like the BC
• 25:19
  Speaker 1: Lions and the Winnipeg Blue Bombers, and you put them
• 25:22
  Speaker 1: in there and you experiment with the recipe. You gotta
• 25:25
  Speaker 1: do some beta testing now. I remember years ago when
• 25:29
  Speaker 1: Vince McMahon was in good standing and the professional wrestling
• 25:33
  Speaker 1: operations started the XFL, the original XFL. They had strippers
• 25:38
  Speaker 1: and hot tubs in the end zone. They had he
• 25:40
  Speaker 1: Hate Me. It was wild, and the NFL people just
• 25:45
  Speaker 1: snubbed their nose, you know that West of the four
• 25:47
  Speaker 1: h five elitist attitude. They were just we're so we're
• 25:51
  Speaker 1: so much better for snickety and it turned out that
• 25:55
  Speaker 1: a couple of the ideas that the XFL were testing,
• 25:58
  Speaker 1: they were doing the beta testing lone it came to
• 26:01
  Speaker 1: the NFL. They fetched around, and so that's what it's
• 26:04
  Speaker 1: gonna take. That then the NFL can see I recommend
• 26:08
  Speaker 1: a fourth down and fifteen play one play to get
• 26:13
  Speaker 1: a first down, and if you get it, you get
• 26:15
  Speaker 1: to keep possession of the ball. I think that'd be
• 26:16
  Speaker 1: a lot of fun. I think that'd be great. It's
• 26:19
  Speaker 1: rather pointless. It's a futile act. The on side kick
• 26:24
  Speaker 1: the way it is right now, these minor league organizations
• 26:27
  Speaker 1: are the test kitchen for the NFL, and you see
• 26:31
  Speaker 1: if what you're serving up people like, and then the
• 26:34
  Speaker 1: NFL gets off their high horse and they're like, all right,
• 26:36
  Speaker 1: well maybe we'll do it, but we didn't test it out.
• 26:39
  Speaker 1: Same thing happens in television and a buddy of mine
• 26:43
  Speaker 1: worked on They should be a show at Fox called
• 26:45
  Speaker 1: the best damned sports Show period, and it was mocked
• 26:48
  Speaker 1: and ridiculed back in the day. But they tried different stuff,
• 26:52
  Speaker 1: and some of the things on that show that were
• 26:54
  Speaker 1: experimental have become over the years, they become standard. But
• 26:59
  Speaker 1: they were the first ones to do it. They were
• 27:00
  Speaker 1: the guinea pig. They tested it out, and that's usually
• 27:03
  Speaker 1: how it works. It's normally how that operation goes.
• 27:07
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• 27:10
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• 27:14
  Speaker 1: It's mallard. How about that?
• 27:16
  Speaker 2: To the third degree, this is one big Ben gets grilled.
• 27:22
  Speaker 1: Probably.
• 27:23
  Speaker 4: Damian Lillard was diagnosed diagnosed with deep vein thrombosis on Thursday.
• 27:29
  Speaker 4: On Tuesday, and he was ruled out indefinitely. Now, Ben,
• 27:32
  Speaker 4: is this essentially a death knell to the Bucks season?
• 27:35
  Speaker 1: No, because they were already dead. They hired Doc Rivers
• 27:38
  Speaker 1: as the coach, So, uh, it doesn't matter, right, I mean,
• 27:42
  Speaker 1: I hope Lillard obviously can come back. I mean it
• 27:45
  Speaker 1: sounds like he's gonna miss the rest of the year
• 27:46
  Speaker 1: and all that, and they got to get that straight
• 27:48
  Speaker 1: in the way, obviously, because that can kill you. But no,
• 27:51
  Speaker 1: he's uh, it's not the kill. The Bucks have already
• 27:54
  Speaker 1: been killed. They hired Doc Rivers. Now, maybe they'll win
• 27:57
  Speaker 1: three games in a playoff series and it'll take credit
• 27:59
  Speaker 1: for it. They'll lose, But no, the Bucks weren't going
• 28:01
  Speaker 1: anywhere anyway.
• 28:02
  Speaker 4: Next Luca Donzik's father did an interview with a TV
• 28:05
  Speaker 4: news station in Slovenia. Lately and watching Slovenia news coop, Yeah,
• 28:10
  Speaker 4: that's one of my favorite pastimes. He talked about Lucas
• 28:12
  Speaker 4: trade to LA and he went on to say, I,
• 28:15
  Speaker 4: and this is translated by the way, I just believe
• 28:17
  Speaker 4: that he is born for this city and this city
• 28:19
  Speaker 4: has made for him. I won't say literally, but it
• 28:22
  Speaker 4: fits with his character. I believe he'll succeed there. Ben,
• 28:25
  Speaker 4: what do you think the odds are that Lucas stays
• 28:26
  Speaker 4: with LA pass his current contract.
• 28:28
  Speaker 1: Well, based on recent history, it's not as great as
• 28:32
  Speaker 1: it used to be. But money talks and loyalty walks,
• 28:34
  Speaker 1: and as long as the money's there, Lucas like an
• 28:37
  Speaker 1: LA guy. People that Laker historians kiss his ass. So
• 28:40
  Speaker 1: I think he'll stay. I would be shocked if he left.
• 28:43
  Speaker 1: I think it was a ninety five percent chance, he states.
• 28:46
  Speaker 4: Next, it's being reported that Texas quarterback quin Youwrs is
• 28:48
  Speaker 4: drawing steady interest from the New Orleans Saints and that
• 28:51
  Speaker 4: other NFL teams were impressed with his pro day, Ben,
• 28:55
  Speaker 4: do you think a team could be getting a steal
• 28:56
  Speaker 4: with yours in the second or third round.
• 28:57
  Speaker 1: Well, no, I don't think he's that good, so I'm
• 29:00
  Speaker 1: gonna go. Know, Coop, that's a win for me. I won,
• 29:02
  Speaker 1: Faya Lorena said, I won. I won. That's a win
• 29:07
  Speaker 1: for me. I got the cabbage.
• 29:09
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• 29:21
  Speaker 1: It's now time for It's time for Horry Horry. Ask Ben.
• 29:26
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• 29:32
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• 29:36
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• 29:41
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• 29:46
  Speaker 1: to it here with the reading of the questions as
• 29:48
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• 29:50
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• 29:53
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• 29:55
  Speaker 4: Ben, We're gonna start off with a question from ferg Dog.
• 29:58
  Speaker 1: Hi Fergie, he wants no, it's.
• 30:01
  Speaker 4: A question for everybody. When's the last time you've been
• 30:03
  Speaker 4: on a boat?
• 30:06
  Speaker 1: Oh? Maybe try to think. I like to go on
• 30:09
  Speaker 1: boats when I go places. I'm trying to think that.
• 30:12
  Speaker 1: I think the last time I was on a boat
• 30:15
  Speaker 1: was God, it's been a while. Oh you know. No,
• 30:18
  Speaker 1: it was in Charleston. I went on one in Charleston.
• 30:20
  Speaker 1: We went a little boat tour around Charleston. And then
• 30:24
  Speaker 1: before that was in Minnesota. We went to Lake Superior
• 30:26
  Speaker 1: and took a boat ride around the Brown Water to
• 30:29
  Speaker 1: Lake Superior. It was beautiful, very cold, but it was beautiful.
• 30:32
  Speaker 4: What about you, Lorraina, Oh goodness, it was just a
• 30:36
  Speaker 4: couple of weeks months ago.
• 30:38
  Speaker 1: I was on the Queen Mary for brunch.
• 30:41
  Speaker 4: That's a ship.
• 30:42
  Speaker 1: That's not a moraina that it's not really it's a hotel.
• 30:46
  Speaker 4: Yeah, that's a ship.
• 30:46
  Speaker 1: It's not and it doesn't it doesn't know. It doesn't
• 30:49
  Speaker 1: go anywhere. That doesn't count. It is landlocked the sense
• 30:53
  Speaker 1: I know it's in the water, but it doesn't go
• 30:55
  Speaker 1: out to see it doesn't know.
• 30:58
  Speaker 4: Well, that's my answer. That's yeah, that doesn't count. No,
• 31:02
  Speaker 4: it'she the last time you were on a boat, like
• 31:04
  Speaker 4: a boat.
• 31:05
  Speaker 1: Actually had went out in the ocean.
• 31:09
  Speaker 4: It was like a year ago. Okay, that I mean,
• 31:13
  Speaker 4: that's also a ship.
• 31:15
  Speaker 1: But okay, where did you go on the cruise?
• 31:18
  Speaker 4: We did the port of Mexico stuff.
• 31:20
  Speaker 1: Yeah, okay, cool, God, terrible answer.
• 31:23
  Speaker 4: You're a terrible answer.
• 31:25
  Speaker 1: The last time I was at least at least you know,
• 31:27
  Speaker 1: place for the Seahawks.
• 31:31
  Speaker 4: The last time I was on a boat was last
• 31:35
  Speaker 4: July in Chicago. I went on the architectural like river boat.
• 31:42
  Speaker 1: Oh I've done that. That's cool.
• 31:44
  Speaker 4: Yeah, it was really cool.
• 31:44
  Speaker 1: There's some really neat It was on that.
• 31:46
  Speaker 4: One boat in Louisiana.
• 31:48
  Speaker 1: In New Orleans, I did the boat with the crocodiles.
• 31:53
  Speaker 1: Alloted time to the honorable Larina. We moved on to
• 31:55
  Speaker 1: your time as ad the air boat.
• 31:57
  Speaker 4: Yes, that counts as a boat. Anyway, Moving on, JT
• 32:04
  Speaker 4: the Wingman would like to know IJT. Since it's opening
• 32:07
  Speaker 4: day in Major League Baseball, what is your favorite ballpark food?
• 32:13
  Speaker 1: So? I love the pretzel, the soft pretzel, But it
• 32:17
  Speaker 1: can't be one of those I don't want to name
• 32:20
  Speaker 1: him because they might be a sponsor at some point here.
• 32:22
  Speaker 1: But there's a national pretzel chain which doesn't make very
• 32:25
  Speaker 1: good ballpark pretzels. But if you're in a town that
• 32:27
  Speaker 1: has good pretzels, like Philadelphia or New York or somewhere
• 32:31
  Speaker 1: like that, I love a ballpark soft pretzel nachos and
• 32:36
  Speaker 1: a bag of peanuts. I'm good and in San Francisco
• 32:39
  Speaker 1: garlic fries, but that's about it. What about you lorrain
• 32:42
  Speaker 1: hot dog all day?
• 32:46
  Speaker 4: Yes, most of.
• 32:47
  Speaker 1: The ballpark hot dogs suck. Only a few of them
• 32:48
  Speaker 1: have been good. Cleveland's got good hot dogs, Boston's got
• 32:51
  Speaker 1: good hot dog. What about you?
• 32:52
  Speaker 4: Google loop nachos? But not not just like the regular
• 32:57
  Speaker 4: like nacho cheese and you know the round chip nachos.
• 33:01
  Speaker 4: I mean like with meat and sour cream, and you
• 33:05
  Speaker 4: want to mean guacamole. Yeah.
• 33:08
  Speaker 1: My only problem with nachos is the same problem I
• 33:10
  Speaker 1: have with cereal. You've got to eat it fast, and
• 33:13
  Speaker 1: every second that goes by with your out eating the
• 33:16
  Speaker 1: nachos or the cereal, it becomes a lesser meal. Like cereal,
• 33:19
  Speaker 1: I used to like it when I was a kid,
• 33:20
  Speaker 1: but I had to eat it so fast because it
• 33:22
  Speaker 1: becomes soggy. And the same thing with nachos. You have
• 33:24
  Speaker 1: to eat it very fast or it's soggy. It's not
• 33:26
  Speaker 1: that good anyway. What is next?
• 33:28
  Speaker 4: What are we at all right now? This one seems
• 33:30
  Speaker 4: like it was gonna be a good question, but I
• 33:32
  Speaker 4: think it ends up not being a good question because
• 33:34
  Speaker 4: I think it's obvious.
• 33:35
  Speaker 1: Make it a good question.
• 33:36
  Speaker 4: Well, well, Chicago Bears twenty four.
• 33:41
  Speaker 1: He wants to know he's in Nebraska.
• 33:43
  Speaker 4: Would you rather taste everything your hands touch or everything
• 33:46
  Speaker 4: your feet touch? That's an obvious one, right.
• 33:50
  Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean yeah, unless you're you're just walking. No,
• 33:54
  Speaker 1: I don't know what you would be walking on and
• 33:56
  Speaker 1: you want to yeah I can hands.
• 33:58
  Speaker 4: Yeah, yeah, all right, let's gut skip ahead of that.
• 34:01
  Speaker 1: That's gotta be the dumbest question we've ever been asked.
• 34:05
  Speaker 4: I mean it was getting creative, which is good. I
• 34:07
  Speaker 4: like that, but then it was just too easy.
• 34:09
  Speaker 1: I just gave up at the end.
• 34:10
  Speaker 4: Yeah. Out the wants to know what was your go
• 34:14
  Speaker 4: to beverage growing up, excluding soda.
• 34:18
  Speaker 1: I'll give you one. It's tang. I meant when I
• 34:21
  Speaker 1: was a kid, my mom so oh, this is the
• 34:24
  Speaker 1: stuff astronauts were drinking in space, and it was just
• 34:27
  Speaker 1: like like sugar tang. What about you voted a quick
• 34:31
  Speaker 1: like Tampico Tampico cool loop I liked. I remember when
• 34:37
  Speaker 1: Snapple took off. There was a period where Snapple everyone
• 34:41
  Speaker 1: was drinking three bottles a day. Oh man, so popular.
• 34:44
  Speaker 1: Remember that that when you took the lid off, That
• 34:47
  Speaker 1: that snap sound, that's the name