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Hour 2 - Silver-Tongued Devil · The Ben Maller Show

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Speaker 2: some pro bouncy ball with you. This our interesting developments
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Speaker 2: in terms of criticism directed at the face of leadership
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Speaker 2: in the NBA. Thumbs up or thumbs down? Should NBA
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Speaker 2: owners look to replace Commissioner Adam Silver? The product has
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Speaker 2: gone bad, The customers are not happy, they're making money.
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Speaker 2: The product is not good. It's not sustainable the way
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Speaker 2: the product is in the regular season. We'll talk about that,
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Speaker 2: and also how much stock do you put in Memphis
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Speaker 2: Grizzly star Jahn Morant supposedly changing his ways because he's baffled,
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Speaker 2: he's untradable.
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Speaker 1: We'll talk about that.
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Speaker 2: And Steph Curry is being praised for being a class
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Speaker 2: act defending his former Warrior teammate Jonathan Kaminga. Kaminga accused
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Speaker 2: of having a family member take too much food.
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Speaker 1: Is that how you see it? We'll talk about all
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Speaker 1: that and more.
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Speaker 2: Settle in It's our number two, the silver Tongued devil.
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Speaker 2: Our Lee miss hour from pro bouncy Ball, and we
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Speaker 2: begin with this as we prepare for Influencer Weekend. It's
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Speaker 2: not All Star weekend, it's Influencer Weekend. The NBA gave up.
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Speaker 2: They said, listen, this product sucks. Nobody wants to watch it.
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Speaker 2: Let's just allow a bunch of annoying TikTokers to run
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Speaker 2: around and then people still won't watch it, but at
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Speaker 2: least we'll say we're doing something. So there is a
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Speaker 2: fog of apathy that has covered the NBA.
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Speaker 1: It is.
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Speaker 2: It's very odd because they're making money. Yet it's not
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Speaker 2: a good product. It's not an entertaining product. And yet
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Speaker 2: you've got grousive people that are like, well, not that bad,
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Speaker 2: and then the other people are like, oh, it's pretty bad.
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Speaker 1: It's not great.
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Speaker 2: You know, this is this is what happens before the
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Speaker 2: bottom falls out. So the unthinkable, the unimaginable has started
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Speaker 2: to happen.
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Speaker 1: And you might know where I'm going with this, but
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Speaker 1: maybe not.
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Speaker 2: For a number of years, it has been tamboo to
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Speaker 2: mention anything negative about the silver tongue devil who runs
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Speaker 2: the NBA as the leader of the cartel of basketball. Well,
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Speaker 2: the tide is starting to turn against NBA Commissioner Adam Silver.
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Speaker 2: A handful of media dopes, some more prominent than others,
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Speaker 2: including at one point a mainstream commentator, now he's just
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Speaker 2: a podcast guy, Bill Simmons, that they have started to
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Speaker 2: question whether Adam Silver is the right person to lead
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Speaker 2: the NBA. So that is a good jumping off point.
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Speaker 2: Let us discuss the question. We'll keep it simple because
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Speaker 2: look at the time thumbs up or thumbs down, thumbs
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Speaker 2: up er thumbs down should NBA owners look to replace
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Speaker 2: the commissioner Adam Silver. So my observations, I've got the
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Speaker 2: Phantom of the Opera, TSA and Gumbo, and we will
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Speaker 2: combine all of these things together and we are gonna
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Speaker 2: go ABC.
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Speaker 1: Is what we're going to do, all right.
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Speaker 3: So number one, I'm gonna give this one a thumbs up,
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Speaker 3: a thumbs up on booting the lizard person.
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Speaker 2: Commissioner Adam Silver has proven to be a total fraud,
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Speaker 2: a total fraud. He's a glorified accountant who has benefited
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Speaker 2: from the Peter principle reaching his highest level of incompetence,
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Speaker 2: and he's just kind of settled in and that's it.
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Speaker 2: And I wish he had learned from a real commissioner
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Speaker 2: like David Stern, but unfortunately he didn't. And there's dumb
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Speaker 2: people that act like Adam Silver is a genius all
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Speaker 2: because of the television money that keeps going.
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Speaker 1: Up, up and away. Please, all right, let me tell
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Speaker 1: you something right now.
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Speaker 2: I consulted with my guy Fergdog and he confirmed to
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Speaker 2: me that you could put Patrick Starr in the NBA
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Speaker 2: headquarters on Fifth Avenue and have Patrick Starr drool all
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Speaker 2: over the.
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Speaker 1: Desk for eight hours a day.
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Speaker 2: And the networks would still dump billions right there in
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Speaker 2: the office building.
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Speaker 1: In a streaming world.
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Speaker 2: Professional sports is an idiot proof business. Now, it's not
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Speaker 2: going to always be like this once the younger generations
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Speaker 2: get in charge. They don't like sports as much as
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Speaker 2: the older generations, and that's part of the greed of
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Speaker 2: the professional sports industrial complex. They haven't been able to
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Speaker 2: convince enough younger people to like sports the way the
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Speaker 2: older generations did. But right now it works. It sells
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Speaker 2: itself despite the leadership, not because.
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Speaker 1: Of the leadership. Do you feel me on that?
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Speaker 2: It's not it's despite the people in charge, not because
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Speaker 2: of the people in charge. And under Adam Silver's guardianship,
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Speaker 2: if you will, the NBA has become the only business
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Speaker 2: on earth where the product calls in sick more than
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Speaker 2: the customers.
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Speaker 1: It's wild. It's so crazy.
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Speaker 2: People pay hundreds of dollars, paying five hundred bucks for
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Speaker 2: a ticket because they want to watch Wemby or Luco
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Speaker 2: or Lebron.
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Speaker 1: And what do you get.
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Speaker 2: You get, Like the case of Lebron, you get a
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Speaker 2: dnp old or some phantom injury. And then you also get,
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Speaker 2: as an added bonus, a middle finger from the box
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Speaker 2: office is what you get. Their customer service mode at
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Speaker 2: the NBA is yeah, we heard your complaints. Now go
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Speaker 2: kick rocks, get out of here, you losers. So yeah,
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Speaker 2: get get rid of Adam Silver. Right, what's the downside
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Speaker 2: of it? Like, seriously, what's the downside of it? Make
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Speaker 2: me be interim Commissioner, the Mather Doctor. The first thing
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Speaker 2: I do on day number one where I be everything,
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Speaker 2: okayler ren, First thing I do, Okay, first thing I
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Speaker 2: do here is I stop fleecing the fans.
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Speaker 1: I do that.
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Speaker 2: I know it's a copycat league and all that, So
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Speaker 2: the NBA should rip off the Phantom of the Opera
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Speaker 2: back in the day Wicked the Book of Mormon on Broadway,
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Speaker 2: if the headliner is absent because of illness, vacation, or
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Speaker 2: any other reason, you are entitled to a full refund
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Speaker 2: or exchange. This is a long standing but not widely
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Speaker 2: advertised norm on Broadway in Manhattan. So would it really
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Speaker 2: killed the NBA. They'd lose a couple of bucks. Most
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Speaker 2: people wouldn't even take advantage of it. Most people are
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Speaker 2: so lazy. So I got to fill out a thing
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Speaker 2: on my phone and then I get another ticket.
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Speaker 1: I don't want to do that. I forget it. I
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Speaker 1: don't want to go.
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Speaker 2: So yeah, they'd lose a few bucks. However, they would
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Speaker 2: gained goodwill. They gained goodwill. They gained the trust of
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Speaker 2: people that spend money to go to these games, and
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Speaker 2: that's worth something. There's some value in that, because right
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Speaker 2: now they look like a bunch of dopes and dingle
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Speaker 2: berries and all that.
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Speaker 1: Now.
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Speaker 2: Page two to the leftovers department. The leftovers department, circling
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Speaker 2: back to the NBA trade deadline. The NBA trade deadline
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Speaker 2: one name.
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Speaker 1: That we had highlighted as.
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Speaker 2: A stone cold lock to be traded and wasn't traded,
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Speaker 2: is miffed by the whole situation.
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Speaker 1: We're talking about Grizzly star John Morant. Did you see this? Okay? Yeah,
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Speaker 1: Jahn Morant, who was said to be shocked that no team,
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Speaker 1: no team wanted him this season. And according to what
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Speaker 1: we were reading here, there's.
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Speaker 2: A major wake up call for Jahn Morant, and now
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Speaker 2: he's committed to restoring his value.
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Speaker 1: A great comeback story. So the question how much stalk?
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Speaker 2: All right, how much stock do you put in Grizzly
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Speaker 2: star Ja Morant changing his ways because he's baffled that
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Speaker 2: he became untradable at the deadline.
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Speaker 1: So how much stock do I put?
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Speaker 2: I put a pinch of salt. I don't you want
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Speaker 2: to put the whole thing the whole shaker, put the
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Speaker 2: whole I don't care put the whole thing in Jaws
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Speaker 2: talent nuclear his judgment in a smartphone world, he is
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Speaker 2: a flip phone when it comes in fact, I would
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Speaker 2: even argue rotary phone when it.
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Speaker 1: Comes to the judgment.
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Speaker 2: The NBA's mantra, all these professional sports leagues of the mantras,
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Speaker 2: you never give up on talent.
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Speaker 1: You never give up on talent.
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Speaker 2: Ever, unless the talent keeps giving up on itself. Now,
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Speaker 2: Ja Morant basically put himself on the basketball version of
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Speaker 2: a TSA No fly List. Radioactive, right, radioactive, Ja Morant,
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Speaker 2: he's a radioactive asset. Contract too big baggage, just too
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Speaker 2: heavy even for the NBA. I mean, there's guys who
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Speaker 2: have done some really nasty stuff, which actually worse than
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Speaker 2: what John Moran's done, and they're playing in the NBA.
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Speaker 2: But John Morant, now, they're not gonna talk him. They're
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Speaker 2: not gonna go there now. As for the Great Awakening,
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Speaker 2: all right, this is a spin off of the A
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Speaker 2: and E franchise Beyond Scared Straight. It's a spin off.
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Speaker 2: It's called Beyond Self Aware starring Ja Morant. Beyond self Aware.
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Speaker 2: Three seasons now removed. You realize we're three seasons removed
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Speaker 2: from that after glow of the All Star Game appearances,
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Speaker 2: the All NBA stuff, And so when you look at
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Speaker 2: those two years, he's a two hit wonder, not a
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Speaker 2: one hit wonder.
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Speaker 1: John Moran a two hit wonder and that's about it.
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Speaker 2: The highlights when he plays hasn't played that much, but
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Speaker 2: when he plays, they still pop pogo stick athleticism, which
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Speaker 2: is great and electric, exciting player to watch, good ballplayer
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Speaker 2: when you're watching as a fan. The availability is a
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Speaker 2: skill that's lacking, and the reliability is a currency, which
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Speaker 2: is also lacking. So you keep waiting for that epiphany.
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Speaker 2: While Jaw lives in his own world, he lives somewhere
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Speaker 2: up in the wackadoodle land, and where he lives, consequences
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Speaker 2: are optional and all that, and apologies are not worth
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Speaker 2: the bandwidth they took to.
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Speaker 1: Send the apologies.
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Speaker 2: You might remember the great and the incident Denver there
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Speaker 2: with the strippers and the guns and all that. Then
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Speaker 2: he they sent him to some for gayzy rehab.
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Speaker 1: And then he came back and like did the same stuff.
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Speaker 4: It was.
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Speaker 1: The whole thing was so still the same thing again
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Speaker 1: or close to it.
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Speaker 2: But I'll believe there's some kind of great, real life,
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Speaker 2: real world true.
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Speaker 1: When this lasts longer than an NBA road trip.
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Speaker 2: Until then, it's a tee situation, talented entertaining enigma.
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Speaker 1: All right.
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Speaker 2: Meanwhile, we go now final point to the Bay Area
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Speaker 2: where the Warriors recently said bye bye, bye bye.
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Speaker 1: They said bye bye to Jonathan Kaminga. They mistraded.
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Speaker 2: We were on the air that night, was broadcasting from
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Speaker 2: the remote studio in San Francisco, and a little bit
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Speaker 2: before the show, Cominga was traded to the.
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Speaker 1: Atlanta Hawks for the often injured Unicorn. So there was
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Speaker 1: a story. This is a good start. I love this guy.
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Speaker 1: Like NBA.
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Speaker 2: These stories are better than the product on the court,
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Speaker 2: which says a lot about the NBA. But the story
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Speaker 2: is that the Warriors and Jonathan Cominga reached a a
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Speaker 2: tense They call it a flare up in the story,
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Speaker 2: they call it a flare up. You could use some
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Speaker 2: other verbiage on this, but this was in December when
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Speaker 2: Jonathan Kaminga missed a team event and was told that
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Speaker 2: someone around him was taking too much food from the
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Speaker 2: family room so barely they had a hall monitor, and
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Speaker 2: somebody was getting too many snacks, and somebody a deep
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Speaker 2: throat for the Warriors then rated out Jonathan Kaminga well.
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Speaker 2: The Warriors traded him to the Hawks for Chris tops porzingis.
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Speaker 1: Who I saw sitting on the bench. I was watching
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Speaker 1: some of the Golden.
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Speaker 2: State game with the Spurs. I had it on the background.
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Speaker 2: He was sitting on the bench, porzingis there. He's got
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Speaker 2: an expiring contract. Now, the reporting says that the disconnect
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Speaker 2: between the player and the Warriors had grown so petty, so.
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Speaker 1: Petty by that point.
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Speaker 2: And then the news came out about this food fetish situation,
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Speaker 2: thing of a jig, the what you might call it,
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Speaker 2: and even Steph Curry, the most boring man on the planet.
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Speaker 2: Steph Curry offered what was essentially an eye roll in response.
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Speaker 2: His response was, I'm sorry, bro, this is ridiculous.
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Speaker 1: Go be great. That's it. That's all he said. That's
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Speaker 1: nine words, nine words, and that's it.
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Speaker 2: So the question, because of that, Steph Curry is being
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Speaker 2: praised for being a class act and defending a former
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Speaker 2: Golden State Warriors teammate, Jonathan Kaminga.
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Speaker 1: Is that how you see it?
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Speaker 2: Does Steph Curry deserve praise for saying, I'm sorry, bro,
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Speaker 2: this is ridiculous, Go be great.
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Speaker 5: So the.
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Speaker 1: Long answer is no. The short answer is me shaking
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Speaker 1: my head like it's exhausting.
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Speaker 2: Like now we're handing out class act medals to Stephan
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Speaker 2: Curry because of an Instagram post that is nine words
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Speaker 2: long about Jonathan Kaminga. That's where we are right now,
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Speaker 2: the bars at that point. Okay, it's like a nice
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Speaker 2: Hallmark card. You can go up to Vermont and shoot
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Speaker 2: a Hallmark card and put a jump shot on it
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Speaker 2: and all that stuff. The whole thing with the Golden
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Speaker 2: State Warrior is the food room drama, the leaks about that.
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Speaker 1: It's so great.
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Speaker 2: The Cold War so dramatic, simmering, like a big giant
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Speaker 2: tub of bad gumbo, just sitting there for months and
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Speaker 2: simmering and bubbling up and all that. Now we're pretending
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Speaker 2: Steph just discovered empathy. All right, that's gluten free. By
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Speaker 2: the way, I would argue the word I will use
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Speaker 2: on this one.
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Speaker 1: I love words.
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Speaker 2: I didn't love words. I wish I love words in school.
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Speaker 2: I've loved words since I got out of school. I
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Speaker 2: hated words in school, I hated math. I hated words.
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Speaker 2: But as an adult, I guess I'm an adult. I
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Speaker 2: talk about athletes, I talk about balls all the time.
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Speaker 2: But it is performative. My word is performative, is the
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Speaker 2: word I will use on this It's a polite shrug.
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Speaker 2: While the team that Steph Curry's the face of is
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Speaker 2: leaking petty stuff. I'm gonna go out and live and
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Speaker 2: say Jonathan Kaminga was not the one leaking that that
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Speaker 2: that came from the Warriors, and we traded this guy.
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Speaker 2: This guy was so out of control that he was
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Speaker 2: even eating too much kettle corn. He was hoarding the
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Speaker 2: kettle corn.
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Speaker 1: He had bad etiquette at the buffet, bad buffet etiquette.
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Speaker 1: Gotta get rid of him, all right. Keep in mind
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Speaker 1: my theory, and.
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Speaker 2: I'm never wrong about this. If Steph Curry truly wanted
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Speaker 2: Jonathan Kaminga to still be in the Bay Area, he'd
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Speaker 2: still be there. Superstars move mountains in that business. And
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Speaker 2: Kaminga was stuck in a basketball detention and living in
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Speaker 2: the penalty box of Steve Kerr, and everyone knew that eventually.
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Speaker 1: He was gonna get out. He was supposed to be
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Speaker 1: traded Kmminga before the year, and they kept him around
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Speaker 1: till the trade deadline.
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Speaker 2: But Steph's quote, it's a nice colown, it's an expensive cologne,
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Speaker 2: and it's being sprayed right over a dumpster.
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Speaker 1: Smells nice. However, the trash is still still there. It's
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Speaker 1: still there.
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Speaker 2: Ryan says, I have two excellent candidates to replaces Ryan
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Speaker 1: How about Larry Scott or Rob Mansfield? And I think
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Speaker 1: you met Rob Manford.
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Speaker 2: I think, but well, Larry Scott's is Larry Scott not
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Speaker 2: the single worst commissioner in the history of American sport,
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Speaker 2: and there should be documentaries made about how incompetent that
21:44
Speaker 2: guy was. In my opinion, I was out there when
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Speaker 2: he got hire as the PAC ten commissioner. Under his watch,
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Speaker 2: the amount of frivolous spending, from what I've read, and
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Speaker 2: his decision making led to the the PAC ten Conference, which.
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Speaker 1: Became the PAC twelve.
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Speaker 2: I know it's still technically around with a bunch. If
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Speaker 2: I ask someone, can you name two schools in the pack?
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Speaker 2: Well three schools, I'll go three schools the guys Washington
22:14
Speaker 2: State and Oregon State are still in it.
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Speaker 1: But name some other schools in the Pac twelve or whatever.
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Speaker 1: You couldn't do it.
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Speaker 2: And that was all under the guidance of Larry Scott
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Speaker 2: who was hired. It was a tennis guy and they
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Speaker 2: hired him.
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Speaker 1: And oh my god, oh my god.
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Speaker 2: Not a burner right since says a new TV series
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Speaker 2: is in the works. Walter White will be teaching Bad
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Speaker 2: Bunny to speak and sing in English, he said. Ferg
22:44
Speaker 2: Dog writes in says, You're welcome to the Patrick Star
22:47
Speaker 2: fun fact. Ben, it really brought the Mallard monologue together.
22:51
Speaker 2: Don't worry. I've got a whole lot more SpongeBob references
22:55
Speaker 2: where that came from.
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Speaker 1: Well, thank you for that.
22:59
Speaker 2: I appreciate that I needed a Tillo, writes in. He's
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Speaker 2: the godfather of the Gabba, ghoul A Tillo and he
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Speaker 2: says spot on Ben the NBA it blank blanks. Moose
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Speaker 2: Balls says he has not watched the product for years now.
23:17
Speaker 1: Michael moose Balls, Ben, No, the only thing I lost
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Speaker 1: the testicles. Well, I was in moose Balls. That was
23:25
Speaker 1: Rocky Mountain Oysters.
23:26
Speaker 2: I lost a bet and as I I'll pay off
23:29
Speaker 2: all of my bets, and I had to eat Rocky
23:31
Speaker 2: Mountain oisters. It was disgusting and I did it, and
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Speaker 2: it's I'm still embarrassed by the fact.
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Speaker 1: That I had to eat. Wasn't it jerky?
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Speaker 5: It was?
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Speaker 2: It was it was the testicles of you know, the
23:46
Speaker 2: Rocky Mountain oisters. It's it's bull testicles. What is Michael
23:50
Speaker 2: says Ben, on a scale of one to five, what
23:52
Speaker 2: part of Adam Silver is actually human? That's tough.
23:59
Speaker 1: I'm gonna say, skill of one to five, Adam Silver
24:01
Speaker 1: as a human? Two. I'll go two. And I'm being
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Speaker 1: I think this is the outer part I believe is human.
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Speaker 1: I don't know about the inside.
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Speaker 7: I don't know.
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Speaker 1: I'm gonna go too. That's my that's my answer, and
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Speaker 1: that's what I'm going with. I'm going with the two
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Speaker 1: is what I'm doing. Let's go to the phones and
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Speaker 1: eenie meanimighty ma mo.
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Speaker 2: Let's say hello to do we have you? Let's go
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Speaker 2: to Steven in Manhattan. Hello, Steve, Welcome.
24:34
Speaker 8: I'm standing on a corner in Tucson, Arizona. Ben the
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Speaker 8: stinguished panel expanding audience. Welcome guy.
24:42
Speaker 9: He I listen, man, Do you want to have a
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Speaker 9: little fun, a little true entertainment here tonight? If somebody
24:50
Speaker 9: wants to call up and ask me about the kidnapping
24:55
Speaker 9: in Arizona. They can go right ahead if they have
24:57
Speaker 9: a quick because all these.
24:57
Speaker 8: Experts on TV and radio a bunch of clowns.
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Speaker 9: We know that they repeat the same nonsense.
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Speaker 8: A bunch of junior high school kids to come in.
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Speaker 2: So again, just to reset here, So Steve in Manhattan,
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Speaker 2: you believe and this is the ultimate non sequitor.
25:14
Speaker 1: So you've called up? Now you you know, like where
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Speaker 1: what the show is?
25:18
Speaker 8: Right?
25:18
Speaker 1: You understand what we do here, Like you're aware of
25:20
Speaker 1: like the thing that we do and the whole thing. Right,
25:23
Speaker 1: you're aware of that, right of course?
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Speaker 2: All right, how many other shows you said you've been
25:29
Speaker 2: banned by all the other show there's got to be
25:31
Speaker 2: some other shows that you still call into, Like what
25:33
Speaker 2: are the shows do you call into?
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Speaker 8: Well, well, I'll let the kid out of the bag.
25:39
Speaker 8: And also, like you have a tremendous screen, it also
25:42
Speaker 8: depends on who the screen is.
25:43
Speaker 5: So a lot of times, well.
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Speaker 1: You're you're you're sucking up so you can get on
25:47
Speaker 1: the air more. I understand.
25:48
Speaker 2: But but I'm just asking, like name, just name a show,
25:53
Speaker 2: Just just entertain me and name a show. Go and
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Speaker 2: name another show that you call into.
25:56
Speaker 8: Go ahead, Joe Beningo.
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Speaker 1: Joe, but all right, but Joe Beningo's there's like a
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Speaker 1: podcast now right. Is he still doing radio?
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Speaker 9: Is he?
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Speaker 5: No?
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Speaker 9: No, He's on wf A n on Saturday mornings at
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Speaker 9: five a m.
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Speaker 8: Eastern time.
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Speaker 1: Okay, all right? And then how He Car is still
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Speaker 1: doing stuff?
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Speaker 8: Is that right?
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Speaker 1: How he called?
26:17
Speaker 8: I think County Car is tremendous.
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Speaker 7: You know.
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Speaker 1: All right? So you got all right, so you call
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Speaker 1: Howie up and say, Howie, I know what you're talking about.
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Speaker 2: Listen, listen, Steve, you call how We call up? You say, listen,
26:27
Speaker 2: how He You got a lot of good takes on
26:29
Speaker 2: politics and all that. Let's break down. I want to
26:32
Speaker 2: break down the depth chart on the Kansas City Royals.
26:36
Speaker 2: What is how we going to do to you?
26:39
Speaker 8: How we?
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Speaker 9: First of all, he doesn't know me as Steve from Manhattan.
26:43
Speaker 8: He just knows me as Steve.
26:44
Speaker 1: But but the point, the point is, you know, you
26:47
Speaker 1: don't you don't know where you're at. You know when
26:50
Speaker 1: in Rome? You know I'm just I'm just saying, but
26:54
Speaker 1: I will I will passify you. So Steve, listen, all right,
26:56
Speaker 1: I'll make a deal with you.
26:57
Speaker 2: I'm gonna put you on hold, and if anyone wants
26:59
Speaker 2: to call up and talk to Steven Manhattan, I will
27:03
Speaker 2: go to you, okay, And if they want to address
27:05
Speaker 2: what you brought up, I will allow them.
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Speaker 1: I'm gonna keep you on hold. And then is that
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Speaker 1: is that good for you? Are you okay with that?
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Speaker 9: I agree with it, But I just let me just
27:14
Speaker 9: one caveat Remember I'm the one who solved the Beltway.
27:19
Speaker 8: Sniper case on the radio. Remember that. I'll put my
27:22
Speaker 8: cards on the table with that one.
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Speaker 1: So you believe you can solve the mystery of the
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Speaker 1: missing uh mother of the TV anchor? You can do it.
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Speaker 1: You think you can solve it. I think the kids
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Speaker 1: did it.
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Speaker 9: I can put out some good things that could be
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Speaker 9: possibilities that you know, Sherlock Holmes would have trouble with
27:42
Speaker 9: this one.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, well, there is there photographs the guy who's wearing
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Speaker 1: a mask. But there's photography they have like a ring camera.
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Speaker 7: Why don't they band together and use all the ring
27:52
Speaker 7: cameras in the neighborhood?
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Speaker 1: Right, But look it was.
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Speaker 9: At night and yeah, but look at the guy with
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Speaker 9: the mask on. Does he look like he's troubled?
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Speaker 8: Got along is going to go off?
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Speaker 1: No, right, calm, cool, collected. Well, yeah, all right, I'll
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Speaker 1: put you on hold, Steve.
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Speaker 2: If somebody wants to engage Steven Manhattan, you can call
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Speaker 2: us up here. Is it?
28:13
Speaker 1: Does it say? Patrick Starr is calling in?
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Speaker 6: Is that right?
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Speaker 1: Coop?
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Speaker 7: Is that?
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Speaker 9: Is that?
28:17
Speaker 2: Am I reading my board? All right, let's go to
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Speaker 2: that line, line six. I didn't think that Patrick Starr
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Speaker 2: was a listener, but here he is. Hello Patrick Starr,
28:27
Speaker 2: Welcome An Hivan.
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Speaker 5: Oh yeah, I have a little nervous here. So I
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Speaker 5: thought SpongeBob and I were listening and we heard my name,
28:42
Speaker 5: and I was curious what you were trying to say
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Speaker 5: about me.
28:47
Speaker 2: Yeah, no, I would saying you're you're so good that
28:49
Speaker 2: you could be the commissioner of the NBA. They could,
28:52
Speaker 2: the NBA could hire you from Smongebob SquarePants. And I
28:56
Speaker 2: know you'd be very upset because you'd have to, you know,
28:58
Speaker 2: leave mister Crabs and and all your friends over there,
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Speaker 2: and but but then you'd be the commissioner of the n.
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Speaker 1: B A right, how great would that be? And you
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Speaker 1: can you can have tickets to SpongeBob and it'd be great.
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Speaker 5: Yeah, the No Babies a loudly. My friend wants to
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Speaker 5: talk to you.
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Speaker 1: Hi, Ben, how are we doing this evening?
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Speaker 8: Thank God for the Internet.
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Speaker 2: Alf the alien ol plotter says, what's going on with
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Speaker 2: the clock? Uh, I don't know, asked Lorrainer. She's decided
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Speaker 2: to break early.
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Speaker 1: I guess not. A bursays I didn't hear the answer trivia.
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Speaker 1: We didn't give it out again, not my decision.
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Speaker 8: Uh.
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Speaker 1: Fergnak says commercial break really snuck up on me. Didn't
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Speaker 1: see that one coming. I agree.
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Speaker 2: I didn't see it coming either. I had no idea
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Speaker 2: it was coming. It's it's amazing, it's uh. I have
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Speaker 2: heard the open twice an hour. I mean, there's a
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Speaker 2: lot of things going on here. There's a lot of
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Speaker 2: a lot of things going on on the show.
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Speaker 1: I don't I don't even know. I'm just I'm talking.
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Speaker 1: Maybe you'll hear some of this stuff. I have no idea.
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Speaker 2: Maybe yet on your end, who knows.
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Speaker 1: It could happen. I don't know.
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Speaker 2: Maybe you will just break early. But here's the Insta trivia,
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Speaker 2: which you would have heard a few minutes ago.
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Speaker 1: But actually was a very on time break. Click at home.
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Speaker 1: Here's the end the Insta trivia. Sure, okay, just do
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Speaker 1: what you want.
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Speaker 2: Lakers guard Austin Reeves has never missed the dunk in
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Speaker 2: his NBA crease thirty seven for thirty seven since the
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Speaker 2: NBA began tracking shot locations back in the mid nineties,
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Speaker 2: Blank is the only player that has recorded more dunks
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Speaker 2: without a miss. Again, Austin Reeves has never missed a
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Speaker 2: dunk in his NBA He's thirty seven for thirty seven
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Speaker 2: since the NBA began tracking shot locations. That was back
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Speaker 2: in the mid nineties, Blank is the only player that
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Speaker 2: has recorded more dunks.
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Speaker 1: Without a miss. That is the question, what is the answer?
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Speaker 2: And you'll you'll hear it here and we'll have Mallard
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Speaker 2: of the third degree coming up in a moment. Here's
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Speaker 2: the payoff on the insterta trivia. See how many people
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Speaker 2: were able to answer that. We did the bonus makeup spot.
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Speaker 2: Here's the answer trivia. Lakers guard Austin Reeves the He'll
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Speaker 2: Billy Kobe has never missed a dunk in his NBA
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Speaker 2: careers thirty seven for thirty seven now, since they started
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Speaker 2: tracking that shot location back in the mid nineties, so
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Speaker 2: it's been thirty years, Blank is the only player that
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Speaker 2: has recorded more dunks without a miss.
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Speaker 1: That is the question, what is the answer?
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Speaker 2: Instant trivia is go the answer by Eileen on the
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Speaker 2: Anst Trivia is Steven Manhattan Shane in the Moines going
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Speaker 2: with Kobe Else, we have a CP three says the
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Speaker 2: answer is Shannon Sharp although misspelled Shannon Sharp.
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Speaker 1: That's uh, that's it? Who else?
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Speaker 2: We have Basketball Jones by Alf the Alien o'piner. Uh,
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Speaker 2: Firk Ducks's wrong button.
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Speaker 1: Bob, I guess that's funny. Uh Bob Bob Yucker guessed
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Speaker 1: by not a burner. Uh that was the answer.
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Speaker 2: Andy in lion O Lakes, Minnesota going with Shaq where
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Speaker 2: you at Shack?
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Speaker 5: Uh?
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Speaker 2: No, the correct answer. In my lifetime, there have been
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Speaker 2: three people that made me feel really tiny, like really small,
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Speaker 2: and this is one of those three people. George Murasan
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Speaker 2: is hal the Washington Bullets back in the day.
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Speaker 1: George Morasan one of the biggest people. There's a handful Biller.
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Speaker 2: The people in mind when I covered the NBA regularly
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Speaker 2: was George Mirasan with Washington Yao ming for the Rockets, Shaquille.
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Speaker 1: O'Neill, and and then Minute Bowl. Those were the.
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Speaker 2: People that made me feel very small, very very small. Well,
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Speaker 2: we now know how many we're gonna till the third
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Speaker 2: degree in a minute. But we now know how many people,
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Speaker 2: how many people have issues with bunnies allergic to bunnies.
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Speaker 2: The numbers as the NFL sent out and their advertisers,
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Speaker 2: how they set a record or it was like the
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Speaker 2: second most watched halftime show, but how many people actually
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Speaker 2: did turn off the TV? How many people did the
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Speaker 2: NFL lose when Bad bunny came on at halftime?
35:32
Speaker 1: Right?
35:32
Speaker 2: So they I think all these numbers are I think
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Speaker 2: they're manipulated. So take this with a grand assault. But
35:37
Speaker 2: however so, the estimate is that during Bad Bunnies halftime show,
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Speaker 2: the NFL lost.
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Speaker 1: Nearly seven million viewers from the end of the second quarter, and.
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Speaker 2: That kind of lines up a little bit with the
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Speaker 2: YouTube numbers that the alternative halftime show got like six mint.
35:56
Speaker 2: Of course, it's not everyone went to watch the YouTube
35:59
Speaker 2: halftime show, but they've lost about seven million viewers, and
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Speaker 2: they were also down nearly ten million viewers from the
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Speaker 2: peak of the Super Bowl. So I went and got
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Speaker 2: snacks at halftime. I don't really care about the halftime show,
36:12
Speaker 2: but a lot of you are all worked up into
36:14
Speaker 2: a ladder.
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Speaker 1: About that and the wild wemby.
36:18
Speaker 2: So Victor Wembanyama, the Parisian prodigy who is the perfect
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Speaker 2: next star in San Antonio. Has any town had more
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Speaker 2: boring stars than San Antonio? Kawhi, Leonard boring, Tim Duncan barring,
36:32
Speaker 2: Tony Parker barring, Manu Genobili barring, and Wemby borring anyway.
36:39
Speaker 2: Wemby was asked as plans for the All Star weekend
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Speaker 2: and he said, this is gonna blow you away.
36:44
Speaker 1: Wemby claimed that he might go to bed one hour later.
36:51
Speaker 2: He's going to stay up an extra hour in La
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Speaker 2: wild Child. Victor Wembanyama wild Child. All right, let's get
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Speaker 2: to the third degree.
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Speaker 1: Here we go, Here we go. It's mallard. How about
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Speaker 1: that to the third degree. This is one big event.
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Speaker 1: Gets grilled, all right, Coole.
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Speaker 2: By the way, I did see the great slug the
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Speaker 2: hostess with the Moses who gets it's a great name.
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Speaker 2: I didn't see this until a second ago, The great
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Speaker 2: World B Free love the name slug love the name
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Speaker 2: not world b free, but a great name. All right,
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Speaker 2: Cooper Loop, what do we have here?
37:25
Speaker 7: Deshaun Watson has started his throwing program as he looks
37:28
Speaker 7: to regain the starting job in Cleveland. A new Brown's
37:31
Speaker 7: coach Todd Munkin has expressed interest in working with Watson.
37:34
Speaker 7: And do you think there's any chance that these starts
37:36
Speaker 7: for Cleveland?
37:38
Speaker 2: A lot of people would have to have ankle injuries
37:41
Speaker 2: and knee injuries. No, I think there's a better chance
37:45
Speaker 2: that they just get rid of him and he's.
37:47
Speaker 1: Not even on the team next year than he's actually
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Speaker 1: playing for the Browns.
37:50
Speaker 2: But it is the Cleveland Browns, and they are the
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Speaker 2: poop emoji team, the Cleveland Browns, So it's it's a
37:58
Speaker 2: very I'd say it's a less than ten chance they
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Speaker 2: go with Deshaun Watson, but they don't really have a
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Speaker 2: quarterback sually.
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Speaker 1: Your Sanders sucks, so it's not like they have anybody
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Speaker 1: who's any good.
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Speaker 7: All right, next, dan Quinn met with the media on
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Speaker 7: Tuesday and said he expects the offense to look different
38:12
Speaker 7: with Jayden Daniels going under center more often, with David
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Speaker 7: Bloun now calling the plays. Ben, do you think the
38:19
Speaker 7: Commanders can get back to being contenders in the NFC?
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Speaker 1: Well, they were a fluke team when they got to
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Speaker 1: the final four.
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Speaker 2: They were not They played much like the Patriots this year,
38:30
Speaker 2: played a soft schedule and they took advantage of it,
38:32
Speaker 2: and Washington took advantage of it.
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Speaker 1: And then went, you know, after Burners and got there.
38:38
Speaker 2: I would say they're a middleweight team in the NFC,
38:41
Speaker 2: that they're gonna be right around eight or nine wins,
38:45
Speaker 2: and we don't.
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Speaker 1: I think it makes some great moves this offseason. But
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Speaker 1: right now you're asking me, right now, coop the answers.
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Speaker 2: I see them as an eight or nine win team
38:52
Speaker 2: in a pretty blot NFC East. The Cowboys are no good,
38:56
Speaker 2: the Giants are no good. Philadelphia is on the way down,
38:59
Speaker 2: so it's not a great next.
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Speaker 7: Former number one pick Kenyon Martin recently went off on
39:03
Speaker 7: NBA team's tanking, saying, quote, this disgusting display of non
39:07
Speaker 7: competitive organizations. I think it's awful for the game. I
39:10
Speaker 7: think it's awful for sports. Something has to be done, Ben,
39:14
Speaker 7: What what can be done?
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Speaker 2: Well, you get rid of Adam Silver, because he's allowed
39:18
Speaker 2: this to happen, so you gotta get rid of him.
39:20
Speaker 2: And I would get rid I would consider getting rid
39:22
Speaker 2: of the lottery or they've tried to tweak it, but
39:27
Speaker 2: it's really the culture.
39:28
Speaker 1: Of the NBA.
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Speaker 2: They embrace it. The people that work in that business embrace.
39:31
Speaker 2: It's really said, how did we do, Coppolo?
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Speaker 1: You pass this edition