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Hour 4 - Someone's Gotta Defend It · The Ben Maller Show

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Speaker 1: Boom, shaka Laca. It's our number four, our number four,
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Speaker 1: ready to go, and this is such a wild story
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Speaker 1: out of the Commonwealth, we have to focus on it.
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Speaker 1: For most of the monologue, Brad Stevens, seemingly with a
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Speaker 1: straight face, claimed the Celtics traded Jalen Brown for optionality.
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Speaker 1: That's the word he used. How does that sound to you? Also,
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Speaker 1: what's your takeaway from Brad Stevens tap dancing around questions
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Speaker 1: of whether or not Paul George makes the ones proud
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Speaker 1: Celtics a better team and on the scale of one
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Speaker 1: to ten, with ten being the gospel, how much faith
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Speaker 1: do you have in Celtic's owner Built Chisholm and his
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Speaker 1: reasoning that the Jalen Brown trade was not about saving money.
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Speaker 1: That's what he claimed. We'll talk about all that and
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Speaker 1: more right now. Buckle in. It's our number four on
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Speaker 1: But I have Argentina, So that's what I have. France? Sure, No,
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Speaker 1: who has I don't know. We did the World Cup
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Speaker 1: lottery which we had here. I did not get them.
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Speaker 1: I know I did not get them, but I would
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Speaker 1: review who we still have alive? As we are down
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Speaker 1: we are well globe people, we are we are globe trekkers.
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Speaker 1: Yeah what we are, all right? We freaking love the world. Okay,
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Speaker 1: we love the fricking world. Is what we love, all
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Speaker 1: right is the Ben Males Show. Let's get into it
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Speaker 1: right now and we begin this hour. Our lead this
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Speaker 1: hour is actually from Boston. Now, I was away the
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Speaker 1: rare and appropriate to step away for a few days
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Speaker 1: from the microphone. And while I was away, a whole
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Speaker 1: bunch of crazy things happened. Nothing crazier though, than the
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Speaker 1: Boston Celtics giving away one of the pillars of the
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Speaker 1: franchise for a bag of trash. It's unbelievable.
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Speaker 2: I can't.
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Speaker 1: I talked about this the other night. You might not
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Speaker 1: been listening with that when this happened. I was at
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Speaker 1: a tropical destination, shall we say, and I thought it
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Speaker 1: was satire. I thought there's no way the Celtics would
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Speaker 1: just give away Jalen Brown. Except they did give away
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Speaker 1: Jalen Brown. And now that the tea's have been crossed
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Speaker 1: and the eyes have been dotted on the docu sign
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Speaker 1: and it's all done, we've getten the lip service now
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Speaker 1: on the most lopsided trade we have seen in many,
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Speaker 1: many years. Not a trade. A trade means you're trying
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Speaker 1: to improve the team. This is not trying to improve
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Speaker 1: the team. So if you didn't hear the latest on this,
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Speaker 1: perhaps not. Brad Stevens, the president of Basketball ops and
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Speaker 1: the new owner of a relatively new owner built Chisholm.
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Speaker 1: Both went in front of the microphones and the cameras
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Speaker 1: and defended the trouble. Of course they defended the trade well,
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Speaker 1: he said, oh yeah, we're a bunch of Dingleberrys and
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Speaker 1: all that. They defended the trade. Jalen Brown went to
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Speaker 1: the sixers for fault George. So good, that's better than
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Speaker 1: any stand up comic. Paul George is a Boston Celtic.
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Speaker 1: Oh my god, multiple first round picks. We who cares
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Speaker 1: second round picks? Who cares even less than that? And
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Speaker 1: so the Seas are citing the second Britain. Yeah, there's
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Speaker 1: severe penalties. That's their excuse. It was a major factor.
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Speaker 1: Brad Stevens acknowledging the deal is unpopular with the Green
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Speaker 1: team people, the fans there who think that this is
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Speaker 1: one of the great injustices of the Western world, that
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Speaker 1: this has happened there, and he explained the rationale. And
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Speaker 1: this is the key part of this, he said, Brad Stevens,
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Speaker 1: the reason the Celtics trade. Well, rather than me tell you,
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Speaker 1: let's go to the audio tip. Here is Brad Stevens,
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Speaker 1: seemingly with a straight face, trying to explain the unexplainable
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Speaker 1: take a US.
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Speaker 3: That is a hard thing to trade a guy that you,
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Speaker 3: first of all care so much about, but secondly have
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Speaker 3: so much respect and admiration for to a team that
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Speaker 3: just beat you in the playoffs and that you're going
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Speaker 3: to literally play six times before the playoffs next year.
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Speaker 3: But I do think that ultimately, when you do a deal,
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Speaker 3: you have to be thinking about you first and the
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Speaker 3: optionality it creates for you.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, that's the word right there, the money quote kids, optionality.
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Speaker 1: When's the last time you use the word optionality? Never?
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Speaker 4: Never, No.
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Speaker 1: So that is a good jumping off point. Let us
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Speaker 1: discuss the question Brad Stevens claiming the Celtics traded away
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Speaker 1: Jalen Brown for nothing because of optionality. How does that
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Speaker 1: sound to you. I've got doctorate pigeon and Lowry's prime
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Speaker 1: rib and we will combine all of these things together
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Speaker 1: and we are gonna have the gobba gul and a
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Speaker 1: sign of baba ganoosh. All right, So to tip off here,
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Speaker 1: you would have to be an absolute ma mo o
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Speaker 1: luke okay, a mauluke to believe that this was even
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Speaker 1: Brad Stephens call. All right, So let's start with that, like,
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Speaker 1: this was not a decision. This is at an ownership level.
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Speaker 1: This is not at Brad Stevens level. And so what
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Speaker 1: Brad Stevens is doing is running interference like these said
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Speaker 1: these things in football called the full back, a blocking
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Speaker 1: full back, clearing the lane for the ownership, and it's
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Speaker 1: you got to have somebody to be the fall guy.
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Speaker 1: I gotta have a fall guy. So that's what's going
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Speaker 1: on here. Brad Stevens is covering for the owner who
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Speaker 1: said you gotta trade this guy. I don't want to
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Speaker 1: pay him, gotta get rid of it. And what is
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Speaker 1: the tell? The tell is the lexicon. He used the
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Speaker 1: word optionality Brad Stevens. And it turns out I didn't
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Speaker 1: know this, but Brad Stevens has a doctorate. He is
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Speaker 1: a doctor of spin. A spin doctor is what he is.
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Speaker 1: He're trying to win a game of scrabble, game of
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Speaker 1: scrabble instead of winning trays. Now I've played some of
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Speaker 1: you on the scrabble thing. I'm a jig. I got
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Speaker 1: on my phone and typically what happens, I want to
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Speaker 1: play mallard, I kick your ass and you don't want
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Speaker 1: to play anymore. I understand now, for the record, the
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Speaker 1: word optionality is worth sixteen points. It's on scrabble. I
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Speaker 1: looked it up. It's worth sixteen points on scrabble. And
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Speaker 1: the side effects of optionality. I also looked that up.
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Speaker 1: The side effects of optionality include dizziness, lightheadedness, and nasera.
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Speaker 1: All of that you traded away a pillar. No, I
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Speaker 1: don't think Jalen Brown's the greatest of the greatest Celtics
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Speaker 1: of all time. He's pretty good. He's pretty deep, pretty good,
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Speaker 1: proven commodity, second third, fourth team All NBA. Whatever it
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Speaker 1: is there, and you traded for what amounts to something
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Speaker 1: that you picked up in someone's driveway that they said free,
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Speaker 1: come pick it up, and then some lottery scratcher thingam
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Speaker 1: a jiggs. There is a word for this. It is
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Speaker 1: a capital M. Malfeasance is the word malfeasance with a
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Speaker 1: capital M. Now, furthermore, keeping the beat going here, So
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Speaker 1: Brad Stevens, the president of Baskets other otherwise known back
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Speaker 1: in the old days as a GM. He was asked
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Speaker 1: whether or not the Celtics improved the roster by adding
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Speaker 1: Paul George. And this is a basic question you learned
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Speaker 1: the first day of Sports Media clown College basic question,
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Speaker 1: you made a trade. Are you a better team with
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Speaker 1: the thing you got for the thing that you gave up?
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Speaker 1: Have you fundamentally approved improved the team Brad Stevens. Did
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Speaker 1: he a say absolutely, the Celtics are a much better team.
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Speaker 1: Did he be say no, we are measurably worse or
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Speaker 1: see no comment noncommittal. The answer it believe it or not,
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Speaker 1: wasn't a. It wasn't it was it was actually c
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Speaker 1: it was actually it was it was actually see. He
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Speaker 1: was asked whether or not they are better in Boston
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Speaker 1: with Paul George. Oh my god, are you? Are you
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Speaker 1: guys in Boston the busted my balls when the Clippers
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Speaker 1: got Paul George a few years ago. I hope you
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Speaker 1: enjoy every missed game, every missed big shot by Paul George.
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Speaker 1: I hope you enjoy all of them. And may he
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Speaker 1: be a Celtic the rest of his failed career anyway.
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Speaker 1: Brad Stevens when asked about whether or not the Celtics
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Speaker 1: are better with Jalen Brown gone and Paul George, and
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Speaker 1: he said, quote three words, will find out. George is
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Speaker 1: owed fifty four million. You got a player option. The
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Speaker 1: following year, he did opt out of some money for
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Speaker 1: reasons that are beyond comprehension, and all that. The question
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Speaker 1: on this one, what is your takeaway? Give me your
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Speaker 1: takeaway from Brad Stevens tap dancing around the very simple
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Speaker 1: question are you a better team with Paul George than
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Speaker 1: with Jalen Brown? All right, So Brad Stevens didn't just
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Speaker 1: sidestep the question. He performed and he honored Chad Johnson
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Speaker 1: aka Ocho Cinco with the river dance. He did a
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Speaker 1: little river dance right there. Very impressive, Brad Stevens. A
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Speaker 1: non answer, actually the loudest answer possible on this topic.
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Speaker 1: Stevens did not hedge heat. What he did was a
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Speaker 1: brief filipbuster. And when the front office Poohba, the grand
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Speaker 1: Poohba of the front office says, we'll find out whether
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Speaker 1: we're better swapping what is what is GM's like late
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Speaker 1: twenties twenty seven, eight twenty nine, something like that and
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Speaker 1: pretty good score, not the greatest of all time, but
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Speaker 1: pretty good for a mid thirties broken down jalopi. So
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Speaker 1: he traded a freight train for a galope? Is what
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Speaker 1: you did? That's not great and it's institutional ambivalence is
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Speaker 1: what it is. It's a mouthful institutional ambivalence, That's what
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Speaker 1: that is. They're dressed up as professionalism. Just love that.
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Speaker 1: Paul George the Booby Prize is now a Boston Celtic Pg. Thirteen.
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Speaker 1: He's got a medical chart like the CVS receipt. It
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Speaker 1: just keeps going and going and going. The Celtics. To
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Speaker 1: use a tech analogy, the Celtics traded a MacBook Pro
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Speaker 1: with Starlink Internet hooked up to it for a Royal
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Speaker 1: typewriter and a messenger pigeon. We got a pigeon. That's great,
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Speaker 1: you got a pigeon. Okay, I'd rather have the high
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Speaker 1: speed Internet. But that's just me. That's just me. Now,
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Speaker 1: Brad Stevens knows that by any reasonable analysis, the Celtics
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Speaker 1: are a worse team now than they were before this transaction,
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Speaker 1: and yet he put on a happy face. All right now,
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Speaker 1: last thing, I'd like to have the Celtics new owner.
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Speaker 1: And this is such a bad trade I gotta keep
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Speaker 1: going here. So Bill Chisholm, the owner of the Celtics.
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Speaker 1: So this is a weird transition phase thing happening now,
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Speaker 1: he emphasized when he spoke with the gaggle of reporters.
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Speaker 1: The Celtics owners said that the move to deal Jalen
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Speaker 1: Brown away for nothing of value was not primarily about
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Speaker 1: saving money. Oh no, we're not trying to save money.
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Speaker 1: No no, no, no no, do do do doo. That's
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Speaker 1: essentially what he said. It's about building a winning roster.
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Speaker 1: And of course they climb out. It's the CBA constraints.
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Speaker 1: It's the CBA constraints. Okay, fine, question On the Malor
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Speaker 1: scale of truth one to ten, with ten being this
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Speaker 1: is the gospel, all right, scale one to ten, ten
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Speaker 1: being the gospel. How much faith do you have that
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Speaker 1: the Celtic owner build Chisholm. His reasoning is legit that
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Speaker 1: Jalen Brown the trade wasn't about saving a couple of
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Speaker 1: shekels or pesos. So on the Malor scale one to
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Speaker 1: ten with again ten being the gospel. And I'm gonna
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Speaker 1: be fair. Listen, I'm not gonna be a douche. I'm
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Speaker 1: gonna be fair. That's what I do. I've got minus
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Speaker 1: seventy seven is what I've got on the scale of
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Speaker 1: one to ten. I mean, this guy makes Pinocchio look
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Speaker 1: like a rookie. Buil Chisholm's actions speak much louder than words.
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Speaker 1: If you look at what has happened in the Celtic roster.
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Speaker 1: They had that championship team and they were they won
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Speaker 1: the whole thing, and ever since then in the ownership change,
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Speaker 1: they've been working like a man at one of those
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Speaker 1: stations at Lowry's Prime Rib, trimming away the fat. They're
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Speaker 1: cutting the meat, is what they're doing there, Damage control DC,
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Speaker 1: damage control. And you follow the pattern, patternicity and move
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Speaker 1: after move the Celtics have made not to be better,
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Speaker 1: but instead cost cutting. In fact, there even talking about
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Speaker 1: trading Ferg Dog and Mike the Leprechaun. Not sure about
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Speaker 1: Blind Scott he's a retired caller, but possibly Mike the Leprechaun.
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Speaker 1: And in addition Alf will be traded. So just save money.
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Speaker 1: It's wild, absolutely well so, but you follow the pedant.
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Speaker 1: All these moves are cost cutting moves. And yes, you
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Speaker 1: paid six billion dollars, okay, just say we paid six
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Speaker 1: point one billion whatever it was, and we don't want
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Speaker 1: to spend more than this amount of money, and that's it.
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Speaker 1: And you go back and the unicorn Christops Porzingis was
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Speaker 1: dumb to ended up getting rid of Al Horford and
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Speaker 1: average Al and Drew Holliday and a bunch of other
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Speaker 1: moves which were cost cutting moves. That's it, Like the
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Speaker 1: second apron is manna from heaven for these these NBA owners.
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Speaker 1: It is so good. You saw it with the Knickerbockers.
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Speaker 1: Now you see it with the Celtics. Right. That second
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Speaker 1: apron is the monopoly card that never goes bad, it
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Speaker 1: never expires. It's it's wonderful. When anyone questions any roster
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Speaker 1: move going forward in the NBA, you just kind of
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Speaker 1: shrug your shoulders and you point, you point right over there.
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Speaker 1: It's the apron, second apron. What do you want me
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Speaker 1: to do? Can't do anything? Second apron. It's the new boogeyman,
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Speaker 1: just like those dumb NFL fans. Oh, the Sorrycap. We
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Speaker 1: gotta get rid of these does because the bull crap
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Speaker 1: Cybercap owners love it. It is in baseball. You idiots
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Speaker 1: want baseball to have this. You're so stupid you want
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Speaker 1: baseball to have this nonsense they have in these other
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Speaker 1: sports where it's just a big fat excuse to get
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Speaker 1: rid of guys and not compete. Well, we'd love to
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Speaker 1: keep our great player, however, but we you know, second apron,
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Speaker 1: that's it new boogeyman. You can hide behind it, you can't.
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23:01
Speaker 1: is men's US soccer. Clearly alf the alienal Piner writes,
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Speaker 1: and he says the word optionality was only surpassed by
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Speaker 1: the word um during the news conference for the Celtics.
23:17
Speaker 1: Do you see the c's flipping podcast p before the
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Speaker 1: start of the season. Absolute And that's the value that
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Speaker 1: they'll say, Well, the value is he's got a it's
23:30
Speaker 1: not even really an expiring contract, it's just a shorter contract. Yeah,
23:35
Speaker 1: they can find a bigger dumb dum. It's the greater
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Speaker 1: fool theory. If you can find a greater fool to
23:43
Speaker 1: take Paul George, you would absolutely do it. And there's
23:47
Speaker 1: teams in the NBA that only exist for the bad
23:51
Speaker 1: contracts to end. Up on. You see those the same
23:56
Speaker 1: teams that are in the NBA lottery every year. The
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Speaker 1: teams that aren't trying to win. They're not they're not
24:02
Speaker 1: trying to win. I don't know exactly what they're doing.
24:04
Speaker 1: They're just kind of doing their their thing. The Washington Wizards,
24:09
Speaker 1: the Brooklyn Nets, the Utah Jazz, Sacramento, Memphis, New Orleans,
24:14
Speaker 1: all those teams just filler teams. Let's go the phones
24:17
Speaker 1: before before we did that Cooper loop. But gentlemen, Justin
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Speaker 1: Cooper has something to say. Yes, would you like would
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Speaker 1: you like to review the World Cup? Pick them right now?
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Speaker 7: Uh?
24:26
Speaker 1: Yeah, we can do that. So we did this lottery
24:29
Speaker 1: ball thing that we did and it was a huge
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Speaker 1: success and people loved it, and we did it for
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Speaker 1: the NFL book them. So we brought it back for
24:37
Speaker 1: the World Cup thing and it's we got to find
24:39
Speaker 1: reasons to use it. And how we got eight teams
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Speaker 1: left right? Eight teams?
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Speaker 8: We have won two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight, nine,
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Speaker 8: ten teams?
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Speaker 1: Oh because but by the end of today we'll be
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Speaker 1: down to eight. Is that right?
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Speaker 7: Yes?
24:51
Speaker 1: Okay, so okay, well but but yes, correct, right? All right? Yeah,
24:55
Speaker 1: so where are we at so.
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Speaker 8: They're ten teams remaining, and somehow Ben has four of them.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, baby, you know, I just see a little fishy.
25:06
Speaker 1: There's nothing. Don't even sorry that you listen, you saw
25:09
Speaker 1: the hopper. That's it. The hopper was the hopper. Don't
25:13
Speaker 1: question the hopper. Well, so, oh, who do I got? England?
25:17
Speaker 1: I know that? Who else do I have? You have England?
25:19
Speaker 1: You have Spain? Oh man, I got Man. That's great.
25:23
Speaker 1: You have Belgium, I got I didn't. I was really
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Speaker 1: I was pulling for USA and I should have been
25:29
Speaker 1: pulling for Belgium. What an idiot. But Belgium and Spain
25:32
Speaker 1: play each other in the next round. But I'm guaranteed
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Speaker 1: in one advancing though, so I'm guaranteed of having one
25:37
Speaker 1: team in the final four, although you won't call it
25:40
Speaker 1: the final four, coop non Uh, let's see, I got Spain, Belgium, England,
25:47
Speaker 1: who else? And Columbia. Ah, give me some of that
25:51
Speaker 1: good Colombian powder. The Colombian bam bam.
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Speaker 8: All right, I have two teams remaining, yet they are
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Speaker 8: playing each other today. Oh no, I have Argentina and Egypt. Okay,
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Speaker 8: well Argentina is gonna win. Yeah, games, So you know,
26:08
Speaker 8: you have Argentina and there people.
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Speaker 1: Think they're gonna win. So yeah, yeah, Loraina, does she
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Speaker 1: have anything? Loraina has one team remaining?
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Speaker 8: You got She has Norway, the the hot exciting team
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Speaker 8: of the World Cup with the blond Viking looking dude.
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Speaker 1: So it's really cool. I feel really cool, are you king? Yes,
26:32
Speaker 1: Loraina claims everything. You're a bit of a mutt and
26:38
Speaker 1: you you good. Good for you. That's one of my
26:41
Speaker 1: more dominant Okay, all right, you did a DNA test
26:45
Speaker 1: or something like that. Yeah, okay, I got you. I
26:47
Speaker 1: think I want to see proof of that. What about
26:51
Speaker 1: and then the listeners, that's right, the listeners, evil listeners.
26:55
Speaker 1: The listeners have two teams. Oh wait, no, listeners have
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Speaker 1: three teams remaining. Okay, he there's ten right now. So
27:03
Speaker 1: I have four, you have two. Lorena's got one, so
27:07
Speaker 1: that would be three.
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Speaker 8: Yes, the listeners have Morocco, no chance, but they also
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Speaker 8: have France. France and Morocco play each other, so they
27:16
Speaker 8: are also guaranteed somebody in the final four. And they
27:20
Speaker 8: also have Switzerland.
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Speaker 1: All right, so that's it, very exciting. One of us
27:26
Speaker 1: is going to be the winner of the World Cup.
27:27
Speaker 1: Pick them and we need to find things to use
27:30
Speaker 1: the hopper for. So that's the big update there. The
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Speaker 1: World Cup and we're down to ten. We'll be down
27:37
Speaker 1: to eight by the end of the day. Let's say
27:39
Speaker 1: hello to Mike the Bricon, who's a soccer savant, at
27:44
Speaker 1: least he claims to be. Hello, Mike the Leprican.
27:50
Speaker 7: I am at soccer savant. I know a lot about soccer.
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Speaker 7: The final four will be France, Spain, Argentina and Norway,
27:57
Speaker 7: and France is going to win the whole thing and
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Speaker 7: the dark horse is our Morocco and England regards.
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Speaker 1: Unfortunately, you're wrong. The English team is going to win
28:06
Speaker 1: and that's it.
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Speaker 7: No, they're not. They're going to choke, will not They
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Speaker 7: choke at.
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Speaker 1: The will not choke. Oh, it's a bad take.
28:13
Speaker 7: Lorena is not a Viking. Loraina is not a Viking.
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Speaker 1: Not a chance. Well, she's a Minnesota vice.
28:18
Speaker 7: She doesn't look like a Viking.
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Speaker 8: She has shown me the the DNA test and forty
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Speaker 8: Scandinavian I win.
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Speaker 1: Oh my god, I got my day to day I am.
28:32
Speaker 1: I am seventy percent clown, that's what I Yes, I'm
28:37
Speaker 1: under the big top.
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Speaker 7: What what percent of Jemaiah. So one hundred percent.
28:43
Speaker 1: Oh you're one hundred percent goofball. We know that. Come
28:45
Speaker 1: on the leper cut.
28:47
Speaker 7: Okay. By the way, yesterday two of my cows had
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Speaker 7: a fight in the backyard. Apparently they had a beef.
28:54
Speaker 1: Oh, we're doing we're doing dad jokes. We're still doing
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Speaker 1: the dead. What is your actor to be in the paloozer?
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Speaker 7: Yah, it's going to be I'm going to play piano
29:02
Speaker 7: and have a song.
29:03
Speaker 1: And he's just gonna squeeze his check in. Who's lying here? Notrena.
29:09
Speaker 7: Last week he talked about last Lorena. Last week he
29:12
Speaker 7: talked about hugging baby animals. Correct, remember that? Would you
29:17
Speaker 7: prefer to hug a baby grizzly or a baby leprechaun?
29:23
Speaker 1: Oh she took a shot at you, a little shot there.
29:29
Speaker 7: Oh my. Anyway, Brazil long gone. The glitter of Brazilian
29:33
Speaker 7: gold long gone. And by the way, Norway is a
29:36
Speaker 7: great team. They have They have the Golden Boy Hollands
29:41
Speaker 7: and Mambape rhymes with poppy and if you want to
29:44
Speaker 7: go for England, Harry Kane is their captain and he's
29:48
Speaker 7: a great goalscorer and Messi of course, they're all having
29:50
Speaker 7: a great battle for the.
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Speaker 1: Golden I know I've been watching. I mean, I understand,
29:54
Speaker 1: I've been checking it out. I don't watch every second
29:56
Speaker 1: of it, but I've flipped it over when they go
29:58
Speaker 1: to commercial in the baseball game, I'm watching off, flip
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Speaker 1: over and check it out. Watch it.
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Speaker 7: They won't be fun true woods.
30:06
Speaker 1: Yeah, well how did that? How did that Country Roads?
30:09
Speaker 1: How did that Country Roads?
30:10
Speaker 7: Thing did not work out?
30:12
Speaker 2: But I do love the I do love the row.
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Speaker 7: Row row your boats from the vikings.
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Speaker 2: Row.
30:19
Speaker 7: Merrily down on the stream. Now, the male players are
30:24
Speaker 7: very attractive looking.
30:25
Speaker 1: I know.
30:25
Speaker 7: Lorena said that as well.
30:27
Speaker 1: A new side of Mike. How about that, Mike.
30:32
Speaker 7: I like looking at the ladies, at the ladies in
30:35
Speaker 7: the stand.
30:36
Speaker 1: I have noticed there are some beautiful fans that have
30:39
Speaker 1: popped up. I don't know how the Fox cameras keep
30:41
Speaker 1: finding these beautiful, crevacious women. I don't know how to do.
30:46
Speaker 1: They never seem to show ugly people. Why do they show?
30:48
Speaker 1: If I was the director of a game, I just
30:51
Speaker 1: show ugly fat people all game. That's what I would show.
30:56
Speaker 7: They do that too. By the way, Boston is absolutely
30:59
Speaker 7: in up in arms about the jail and Brown move.
31:03
Speaker 1: Well, this should be it's dumb, it's stupid, it's ridiculous.
31:07
Speaker 1: And and Brad Stevens being called out, he is that
31:10
Speaker 1: you got to defend the owner. I get it, you know,
31:12
Speaker 1: the owners, the idiot that made the decision. So we've
31:15
Speaker 1: all had bosses that have made stupid decisions, and then
31:17
Speaker 1: most of us have and then you get us that
31:19
Speaker 1: they're and defended.
31:21
Speaker 7: What Lebron is going to come to Boston for one year. Lebron,
31:24
Speaker 7: just like Shock for one year to retire.
31:27
Speaker 1: That is not going to happen. There is a hot take,
31:29
Speaker 1: no chance.
31:30
Speaker 2: Well that is not a.
31:31
Speaker 1: Hawk as a lukewarm take. That is not a hot take.
31:33
Speaker 1: That is a lukewarm take. You understand lukewarm take. I
31:37
Speaker 1: go away?
31:38
Speaker 5: How Pal?
31:40
Speaker 1: Speaking of Lebron, do you see this, hal Pal? Lebron
31:43
Speaker 1: for some reason decided that he's not he's too busy
31:47
Speaker 1: to meet with any teams even though he's a free agent,
31:49
Speaker 1: wants to play next year. So Lebron is not going
31:53
Speaker 1: to take any meetings with teams. He's gonna have that
31:55
Speaker 1: that guy riding his coattails, the hanger on guy that
31:59
Speaker 1: thinks he's famous, Rich Paul or whatever to do the
32:02
Speaker 1: dirty work. I think that's the guy's named Rich Paul. Hey,
32:04
Speaker 1: what's going on?
32:04
Speaker 7: Hal Pal?
32:07
Speaker 2: Yo Ben, Yes, hal Pal, this.
32:09
Speaker 1: Is hal Pal in age town. He is ready to
32:12
Speaker 1: dazzle you. He's Halal.
32:15
Speaker 2: How Pal and blind Guts are in the house.
32:18
Speaker 1: Oh we got blind Gus side by side. Look at that?
32:22
Speaker 2: Oh yeah, I can't. I love it.
32:24
Speaker 5: And look here. I was gonna tell you, man, I've
32:26
Speaker 5: been watching this soccer and I ain't gonna lie. All
32:29
Speaker 5: them guys they run up down that field, they bust
32:32
Speaker 5: their ass, they fall them back like idiots sometimes. But hey,
32:36
Speaker 5: I agree with George Kittle.
32:39
Speaker 2: Uh, all them NFL players need to play on that
32:42
Speaker 2: field that as SUT players are playing on.
32:45
Speaker 1: No, I agree. All the NFL players can take a
32:48
Speaker 1: little less money and then they'll spend the money on
32:50
Speaker 1: the field, and then they can play on their grass field.
32:52
Speaker 1: They won't make as much money. That's fine, you know,
32:55
Speaker 1: that's what happens. Give back and then every player donates
32:59
Speaker 1: some money to the GRASP Fund, and then they'll all
33:03
Speaker 1: play on grass.
33:03
Speaker 2: How about that, Well, all their.
33:06
Speaker 1: Needs will be in better shape.
33:07
Speaker 2: I guarantee that.
33:09
Speaker 1: I don't know, you don't know that some of you guys,
33:11
Speaker 1: some of the players actually like playing on turf more
33:13
Speaker 1: because they feel like they're faster on the turf.
33:17
Speaker 5: Hey, Ben, you always need your knees.
33:21
Speaker 1: Let me write that down. I've never did you. Have
33:24
Speaker 1: you heard that before? Lorraina, You've never really thought about it,
33:27
Speaker 1: but you know that it's a great point, hal Pal,
33:31
Speaker 1: how about this one? How about this one? How Pal
33:35
Speaker 1: got to use your brain? How about that one?
33:39
Speaker 5: You like it?
33:39
Speaker 2: You ain't use your brain? Your cheat yourself?
33:42
Speaker 1: Yeah, it's good, right solid?
33:44
Speaker 2: You like that?
33:45
Speaker 7: Right?
33:46
Speaker 2: Keep that piece, man, Thank you?
33:48
Speaker 1: All right? Go away? There is Halpal where he goes.
33:51
Speaker 1: Only he knows. I'm getting people message You mean saying,
33:55
Speaker 1: what do I sun up for the Malopolosa? Do you
33:58
Speaker 1: not listen? Either contact Coop or email me Ben malorshow
34:03
Speaker 1: at gmail dot com. I got a message the other
34:05
Speaker 1: day from a guys. What happened to Cowboy John bred
34:08
Speaker 1: I need to hear Cowboy John brad Well, your dreams
34:12
Speaker 1: have come true. A rare and appropriate appearance by the
34:16
Speaker 1: legend from Windsor, Ontario, south of the MotorCity. Cowboy John
34:22
Speaker 1: brad Oh, I been well.
34:24
Speaker 2: Yesterday was my birthday.
34:26
Speaker 1: Happy birthday, Happy, happy birthday, and congratulations cowboy just turned
34:32
Speaker 1: twenty eight yet again. Congratulations, Oh yeah, twenty.
34:36
Speaker 2: Eight for the forty fifth straight year.
34:38
Speaker 1: Yeah, I know, yeah, amazing, amazing.
34:40
Speaker 2: It is a a I never seen the age. Well
34:44
Speaker 2: I think, well, you.
34:44
Speaker 1: Told me that, you told me you do not age, right,
34:47
Speaker 1: you stopped aging number of years ago because your cowboy,
34:49
Speaker 1: John Bred You're a legend.
34:51
Speaker 2: Oh yeah, well we legends never die. Well anyway, I
34:54
Speaker 2: think yesterday, how old are you?
34:56
Speaker 1: Cowboy? By the way, sev three, unbelieve look at you,
35:00
Speaker 1: stud you are cowboy. Amazing.
35:02
Speaker 2: Yeah, well as I as I always said, you got
35:05
Speaker 2: to be a boy to be a cowboy. But let's
35:08
Speaker 2: see yesterday. Also Jason Thompson trying to think of some
35:13
Speaker 2: of the other Oh, George W. Boyce Bert Ward who
35:16
Speaker 2: was a Robin On Batman from nineteen sixty six to
35:20
Speaker 2: sixty eight, you know ABC TV before any of you
35:23
Speaker 2: were born. And Willie Randolph former WBC wet featherweight champion,
35:31
Speaker 2: Danny Little Red Lopez and the Delhi Lama and Sylvester
35:36
Speaker 2: Stallone we'll see t and Tamara, Maori, Kevin Hart, among others.
35:42
Speaker 2: All you know shared their birthday with me yesterday?
35:46
Speaker 1: Well I think that really you were the biggest name,
35:50
Speaker 1: right you tell?
35:50
Speaker 2: I think?
35:51
Speaker 7: Oh?
35:51
Speaker 2: I think so too.
35:52
Speaker 1: Yeah, did you mention? It was also this week Fred
35:55
Speaker 1: Dryer's birthday.
35:56
Speaker 2: Friend Fred Ryer's birthday was yesterday.
35:58
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, Rady fred ry the only you know what
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Speaker 1: record Fred Dryer has Friend of the show. No, he's
36:05
Speaker 1: he had two safeties in a game. Yeah, yeah, right,
36:09
Speaker 1: you knew that, you knew?
36:11
Speaker 2: Yeah? By the way, is he called the show recently
36:13
Speaker 2: because I used to watch Hunter Incident one.
36:15
Speaker 1: I actually did you know? I just I text him
36:17
Speaker 1: Happy birthday, he wrote back. I'm gonna try to get
36:20
Speaker 1: him in studio if you can. I think he just
36:22
Speaker 1: turned eighty or something like that. Fred Fred's alive. Yeah,
36:25
Speaker 1: all right, I gotta go Cowboy.
36:26
Speaker 2: And I'll probably be back for sites bite.
36:29
Speaker 1: All right, There he goes Cowboy John Brad Where he
36:31
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Speaker 4: It's time now to site site a bite where we
37:36
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37:39
Speaker 4: and entertainment cliches spoken by so called experts you try to.
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Speaker 5: Tell us talking.
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Speaker 1: I call early and often call early, and offen on
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Speaker 1: site to bite some of them sports the last seven
37:52
Speaker 1: to ten days. Could be a coach, a player, former coach,
37:54
Speaker 1: former player, media, gas bag, blow hard, know it all,
37:59
Speaker 1: someone of note, as Eddie used to say, games of note.
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Speaker 1: These are people of note, So let's go to the
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Speaker 1: he's not. Because he's not. Is that Brandon Auck?
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Speaker 7: Oh?
38:17
Speaker 1: Because he's not. Will anyone get this right? I'm gonna
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Speaker 1: All right? Uh? Sue Stogg is in the leadoff chair.
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Speaker 1: Sue's Doogg?
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Speaker 7: Who is it?
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Speaker 1: Sue's dogg? Is that Kurt Russell? Is that Kurt Russell? No?
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Speaker 1: It is not Kurt Russell? Eight seven seven ninety nine
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Speaker 2: Who is it?
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Speaker 8: Oh?
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Speaker 2: Is that Ringo star? Who's eighty six today?
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Speaker 1: Is that Ringo Star? The Beatles?
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Speaker 7: No?
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Speaker 1: That is not, Thank you, cowboy? All right? This person
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Speaker 1: won the Francis Pomeroy Naysmith Award as the best college
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Speaker 1: player in the nation. Six feet tall or under. Played again,
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Speaker 1: played again because he's not he's not, all right. Petza
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Speaker 3: Good morning?
39:24
Speaker 2: Ben That was clearly Ron Louisiana Lightning Guidry.
39:29
Speaker 1: Is that rock? You know who Ron Guttriy is Lorena.
39:32
Speaker 1: Now it's a Yankee legend. Come on, of course, forty
39:36
Speaker 1: years ago Yankee. But that is we're out of time,
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Speaker 1: by the way it is Tim Hardaway. Tim Hardaway is
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Speaker 1: the answer hard the way that didn't sound like him,
39:45
Speaker 1: But that's it fairly as a