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  Speaker 2: This is the best of the Ben Maler Show on
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  Speaker 1: We're back at it in the audio sweatshop. That does
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  Speaker 1: So our lead this hour is from Human Resources. What
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  Speaker 1: the bleepity blee? What is this? Follow up? Follow up?
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  Speaker 1: Major update on the NFL insider floozy and the football coach.
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  Speaker 1: If you have not heard, If you have not heard,
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  Speaker 1: the eagle has landed. The eagle has landed, and not
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  Speaker 1: a Philadelphi eagle. Diana Russini, Bye bye. She's the insider
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  Speaker 1: lady caught in a hot tub with Patriots head coach
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  Speaker 1: Mike Vrabel in Sedona, Arizona, last month, and she has
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  Speaker 1: now quit her job. She resigned. Finizio done out of here,
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  Speaker 1: Bye bye Athletic, She's out of there. Russini submitted a
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  Speaker 1: public letter of resignation to her now former employer, saying
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  Speaker 1: that she had handled her responsibilities with professionalism and dedication.
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  Speaker 1: She did look dedicated in that hot dump, she said.
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  Speaker 1: Throughout her career, she stands by every story featuring her byline.
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  Speaker 1: She clearly earned those scoops. Diana, seeming with a straight face,
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  Speaker 1: that she's leaving not because she did anything wrong, no no, no,
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  Speaker 1: no no, but because of the self feeding speculation that
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  Speaker 1: is simply unmoored from the facts. And so the note continued.
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  Speaker 1: But wait, there's more, she said. I have no interest
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  Speaker 1: in submitting to any public inquiry that has already caused
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  Speaker 1: far more damage than I am willing to accept. Interesting.
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  Speaker 1: I wonder if she's holding Varibel's hands while she typed
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  Speaker 1: that with her other hand. Maybe possibly, I don't know.
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  Speaker 1: Rather than allowing this to continue, I have decided to
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  Speaker 1: step aside now, she claimed, before my current contract expires
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  Speaker 1: on June thirtieth. I do I do so not, she continued,
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  Speaker 1: because I accept the narrative that has been constructed around
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  Speaker 1: this episode. But you know what that means. But because
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  Speaker 1: I refuse to lend it further oxygen or to let
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  Speaker 1: it define me or my career. A right, So that's
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  Speaker 1: a good jumping off point. Let us discuss lots to
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  Speaker 1: unpack here. And the question, now that we know the
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  Speaker 1: conclusion of this part of the story here, what's the
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  Speaker 1: deal with Diana Rossini's resignation letter? What does it tell you?
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  Speaker 1: All right? What does this tell you? So I've got
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  Speaker 1: Caesar's Palace, Capitol Hill, and Star Wars, and we will
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  Speaker 1: combine all of these things together, and we're going to
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  Speaker 1: make this Mallard monologue one hundred and ten proof is
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  Speaker 1: what we're going to do. Yes, very strong, very strong,
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  Speaker 1: all right? So ay, my first thought is the G word,
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  Speaker 1: gobbledee gook. That's what I thought of when I read this.
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  Speaker 1: Diana Rossini has given the story which she claimed has
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  Speaker 1: no credibility, credibility. Congratulations, Abra cadabra. There you go. Now,
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  Speaker 1: Rassini said she won't let lend oxygen to this story.
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  Speaker 1: Yet by doing what she did, she's pouring unleaded gasoline
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  Speaker 1: all over it. Burn baby, burn, if you will, and
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  Speaker 1: leaving before it's it's finished. Wouldn't it be easy? I'm
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  Speaker 1: just asking the question if you were with a bunch
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  Speaker 1: of girls on your girlfriends there on the trip. One
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  Speaker 1: thing I know about women, they love taking photos, They
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  Speaker 1: love taking ath So wouldn't you think there'd be a
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  Speaker 1: bunch of photos of all the girls and her? And well,
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  Speaker 1: you no problem, and you just send that over to
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  Speaker 1: the athletic. Okay, we got your good job by you. Okay,
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  Speaker 1: you're good. What happened? Maybe somebody had leaded all her photos?
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  Speaker 1: Is that possible? So how do you square I stand
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  Speaker 1: by my work with I'm leaving before my contract expires.
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  Speaker 1: The math the mal or math ain't math on that.
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  Speaker 1: And so what she's done here and then the other
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  Speaker 1: part of it, which just rubbed me the wrong way,
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  Speaker 1: is she's got her deck of Caesar's Palace playing cards,
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  Speaker 1: and she pulled the victim hood card from the bottom
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  Speaker 1: of the deck right there, and a masterclass in avoiding accountability.
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  Speaker 1: I am going to avoid the accountability. Uh. And so
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  Speaker 1: this is damage control dressed up as martyrdom. She really
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  Speaker 1: the victim. I know that's very popular. There's a cottage industry.
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  Speaker 1: You get a lot of that faux sympathy. Oh victim,
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  Speaker 1: tell me more, tell me more. Uh yeah, all right.
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  Speaker 1: So I looked at it's like gas lighting one on one,
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  Speaker 1: gaslighting one on one, the old misdirection, misdirection play. If
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  Speaker 1: you will, you feed false information, you're trying to hornswaggle
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  Speaker 1: the public to question what they know to be true,
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  Speaker 1: like looking at the photographs. Uh. And the thing about it,
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  Speaker 1: she's claiming she was the victim when we are one
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  Speaker 1: of literally a handful of shows that we're talking about this.
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  Speaker 1: I was getting message in people who work in the business.
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  Speaker 1: Why are you talking about that? You know you're never
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  Speaker 1: going to get a daytime show. You talk, that's why
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  Speaker 1: you're on nights. You talk. And these guys all look
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  Speaker 1: like donkeys, every single one of them. Every one of
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  Speaker 1: those mainstream daytime guys looked like donkeys. Radio silent. You know,
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  Speaker 1: we do overnights obviously here at Fox, and we're not
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  Speaker 1: part of the machine. We sneak in, we commandeer the
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  Speaker 1: microphones overnight. The daytime radio and television. They got a
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  Speaker 1: lot of egg on their face on this story, a
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  Speaker 1: lot of egg on their face. The establishment mouthpieces in
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  Speaker 1: the media business did not touch this. They didn't how
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  Speaker 1: about the NFL insider crowd, nothing Buppkus squad, douche from
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  Speaker 1: Adam Schefter and the rap sheet and all those guys.
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  Speaker 1: They shut it up. They got nothing but scoops. But
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  Speaker 1: I guess they ran out of ice cream on this one.
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  Speaker 1: No scoopage, No scoopage here. And then the other part
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  Speaker 1: of is that Diana Rassini went down to home depot.
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  Speaker 1: I don't know why she'd go there, but she went
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  Speaker 1: down to home depot and she picked up some ballerina nails. Now,
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  Speaker 1: why did she pick up ballerina nails? Because those are
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  Speaker 1: the ones she made her bed with and the bed
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  Speaker 1: of nails and just like a coffin right there, boom.
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  Speaker 1: As far as NFL insider, that's it now, keeping it going,
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  Speaker 1: keeping the beat going. So the question now is if
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  Speaker 1: she's if she did nothing wrong, If she did nothing wrong,
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  Speaker 1: why did the now for former Athletic NFL insider Diana
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  Speaker 1: Russini resign from a really good gig. We are told
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  Speaker 1: she was the highest paid employee at the Athletic, which
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  Speaker 1: blows my mind, but that's what Who knows if that's true.
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  Speaker 1: I read that on the internet. Might not be true.
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  Speaker 1: But I read that, so I believe it because I've
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  Speaker 1: read it on the internet, so it must be true.
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  Speaker 1: So why did you resign? Now that's the quest, and
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  Speaker 1: so giving this one little side eye, it's a little
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  Speaker 1: bit of side I hear. And the question you ask
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  Speaker 1: in these situations is did she jump or was she pushed?
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  Speaker 1: And it is more likely than not, based on all
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  Speaker 1: of these circumstantial evidence and years and years of story
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  Speaker 1: similar to this in the past, that it's more likely
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  Speaker 1: than not that this was a preemitive eject button pressed.
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  Speaker 1: Let me press the button. Okay, press the button. Boom,
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  Speaker 1: there you go. Her deal was up June thirtieth. And
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  Speaker 1: this smells, yeah, it smells like the media version of
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  Speaker 1: you can't fire me, I quit. Now, you do understand
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  Speaker 1: who your employer is when you work for the under
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  Speaker 1: the umbrella of the old Gray Lady, When your employer
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  Speaker 1: is the old Gray Lady, all stuffy and all that
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  Speaker 1: stuff the New York Times, the Old Gray Lady, the
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  Speaker 1: optics matter more than oxygen. I wonder if the editor
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  Speaker 1: also got whacked at the Athletic the dumbass who came
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  Speaker 1: out fully supporting Diana Russini before getting any information my god. Anyway,
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  Speaker 1: So when you work for the New York Times, you can't.
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  Speaker 1: You can't get away with this. You can't. So now,
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  Speaker 1: if she worked at Barstool, she'd probably get a raise, different,
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  Speaker 1: more money, But not at the New York Times, not
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  Speaker 1: there at all. So on the Malard scale of scandal,
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  Speaker 1: the Malor scale of scandal, spin.
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  Speaker 3: Uh.
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  Speaker 1: You know the lines she used, I refuse to lend
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  Speaker 1: this oxygen. That is first ballot Hall of Fame deflection.
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  Speaker 1: It is rubber stamped, rubber stamped by the boys on
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  Speaker 1: Capitol Hill, textbook crisis management. And it's where you resign
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  Speaker 1: early on in the scandal. You control the narrative, you
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  Speaker 1: get your word out, you avoid the public guillotine. Of course,
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  Speaker 1: on this case it's a little rough. Although she did
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  Speaker 1: do something we'll talk about a little bit later that
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  Speaker 1: lends you to believe, lends you to believe that there's
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  Speaker 1: more to the story. But nonetheless, the translation of all
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  Speaker 1: that is you exit stage left before they give you
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  Speaker 1: the Gong show treatment and get you off the stage
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  Speaker 1: and all that. And so the athletic quietly is like,
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  Speaker 1: all right, listen, we're gonna get rid of you, and
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  Speaker 1: we're going to allow you, though, to make it seem
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  Speaker 1: like you're the one leaving and we're gonna even let
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  Speaker 1: you write your own goodbye poem. Yeah, you know, is
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  Speaker 1: it fiction or nonfiction? Well, this is like reading Harry Potter.
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  Speaker 1: That's what it sounds like to me. You read this
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  Speaker 1: note here, and so now let's look at let's circle back.
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  Speaker 1: The word. One of the words she used was unmoored,
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  Speaker 1: and for those with the lexicon issues, that word means unfettered,
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  Speaker 1: essentially like a goose chase, like there was some kind
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  Speaker 1: of witch hunt, if you will, And so she was
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  Speaker 1: attempting it would appear whoever wrote that letter. I don't
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  Speaker 1: if she wrote the letter or not, but some lawyer
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  Speaker 1: likely vetted or wrote most of it. Fine, because there
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  Speaker 1: there could be some lawsuits. These things usually lead the lawsuits.
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  Speaker 1: That being said, playing scrabble, here's the fun fact. Do
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  Speaker 1: you know the word I believe I'm correct on this is?
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  Speaker 1: I play a lot of scrabble. Do you know the
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  Speaker 1: word that has the highest point value in scrabble? It's
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  Speaker 1: a word that I use a lot on the show.
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  Speaker 1: Do you know what you don't know what it is?
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  Speaker 1: I'm and you can check check me on this, but
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  Speaker 1: I believe I'm right. I looked this up a while back.
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  Speaker 1: The word that has the highest point total un scrabble
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  Speaker 1: is rasmataz. That's the words worth Yes, it's worth forty
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  Speaker 1: eight points by itself. Forty eight points by itself is
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  Speaker 1: rasmataz because it's got the four z's in it and
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  Speaker 1: not the four tops the four z. So I believe
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  Speaker 1: that is the word worth the most. So she could
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  Speaker 1: have used that, put a little rathmataz in there. That
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  Speaker 1: would have been a good word. It's fun word, we
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  Speaker 1: said all the times. Great word. You know, people smile
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  Speaker 1: when they ear rasmatas. Razzle dazzles another fun word. All right, Now,
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  Speaker 1: last part of this. Now we know it takes two
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  Speaker 1: to tango and she was in the hot tub with
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  Speaker 1: an NFL coach, Hello, Mike Rabel. Now we circle back
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  Speaker 1: and look at what Mike Rabel said when the story
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  Speaker 1: first came out in the New York Post. Because that
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  Speaker 1: reads like comedy gold Rabel said it was quote laughable
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  Speaker 1: to consider the picks showed anything but an innocent interaction. Oops.
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  Speaker 1: All right, question for the esteem panel. So the question is,
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  Speaker 1: how does coach Mike Rabel walk into the Patriots facility,
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  Speaker 1: like nothing happened when the reporter that he was in
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  Speaker 1: the hot tub with just resign from a great job.
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  Speaker 1: So my theory is that Rabel grew up a fan
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  Speaker 1: of Star Wars. He's a big fan of Star Wars.
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  Speaker 1: Say what Yeah, so Rabel trying the Jedi mind trick
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  Speaker 1: and these aren't the droids you're looking for. These aren't
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  Speaker 1: the droids you're looking for, trying to sell calm. Everything's
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  Speaker 1: good here while the building smells like burnt toast. Man,
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  Speaker 1: smell that burnt toast. Now, he would have gotten away
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  Speaker 1: with it if it weren't for you meddling PI private
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  Speaker 1: investigator whoever ended up taking the story. There'll be some
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  Speaker 1: Netflix docu series on this in about a year and
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  Speaker 1: it'll be really good, and we'll find out how the
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  Speaker 1: photos were taken and who took them and who sold
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  Speaker 1: them and the whole thing that'll be coming out before
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  Speaker 1: you know it. Yeah, the person you said there's nothing,
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  Speaker 1: nothing hanky panky going on here, the person you were
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  Speaker 1: in the hot tub with resigning in a blaze of
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  Speaker 1: glory from her job. So Diana Rassini might not be
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  Speaker 1: on the NFL payroll, She's not technically, however, she swims
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  Speaker 1: in that ecosystem, and that obviously matters. That's a big
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  Speaker 1: part of it. And canoodling with a vendor slash client
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  Speaker 1: is problematic. I know this because I have graduated every
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  Speaker 1: year for the last ten years or so from iHeart University,
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  Speaker 1: and I have had the extreme training online courses. It's
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  Speaker 1: like going to traffic school every year. So I tell
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  Speaker 1: my boss, say, I didn't get a traffic ticket. Why
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  Speaker 1: don't have to go to traffic school. Way you got't
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  Speaker 1: do what ever here, I said, But I didn't get
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  Speaker 1: a ticket, but you got to do the thing. So
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  Speaker 1: I've learned over the years. You know, these vendors, you
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  Speaker 1: can't you can't fool around, can't do it. That's HR
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  Speaker 1: one oh one, page forty five of the HR Handbook
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  Speaker 1: in bold print, unless, of course, you've got a force
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  Speaker 1: field of football privilege. So there's a big push now
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  Speaker 1: to see Mike Rabel punished by the Patriots and to
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  Speaker 1: have something happen to Vrabel that he is culpable here
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  Speaker 1: because he was doing the doing the naddy whatever that means.
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  Speaker 1: And we went in the bedroom. But certainly seems like
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  Speaker 1: the way they were holding hands, it was more than
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  Speaker 1: just reporter coach relationship. So either way, the reason it's
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  Speaker 1: next is there the odds of getting any in any
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  Speaker 1: real trouble are less than five percent, less than five percent.
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  Speaker 1: And the reason is because he's got the anti person.
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  Speaker 1: He's got, not old spies, not he's got w spice
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  Speaker 1: is what he's got. Because in the NFL, winning is
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  Speaker 1: the most amazing deodorant. And if this was Gerard Mayo
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  Speaker 1: or some Jabbroni coaching the Patriots, and they have had
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  Speaker 1: some before, Belishick, there were many Jibbronis, although Gerard Mayo
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  Speaker 1: was the last one. He was won and done in
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  Speaker 1: ji Broni. If you bring somebody like that in, that
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  Speaker 1: person would have been escorted out of the Patriots facility
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  Speaker 1: already in a timely manner with a cardboard box holding
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  Speaker 1: their half eaten bag of skittles from their office. That's
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  Speaker 1: how that would have gone down. Coach of the year,
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  Speaker 1: You're in the Super Bowl, Okay, we can look the
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  Speaker 1: other way. It's all good here, it's all we're all
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  Speaker 1: good now. Rabel's got some things he's got an answer
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  Speaker 1: to at his house. I would think, who knows what's
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  Speaker 1: going on they go the wild swing lifestyle. I don't know,
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  Speaker 1: but otherwise they got some explaining to do. All it
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  Speaker 1: is the Ben Malor show your thoughts on what is
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  Speaker 1: for now the conclusion of this story. Also, where does
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  Speaker 1: Diana Russini en up? I know our guy? I guess
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  Speaker 1: somebody's send me an email saying Stu Gott's offered her
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  Speaker 1: job here at this company. Really, okay, I didn't know
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  Speaker 1: you had that kind of money.
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  Speaker 3: Is that a joke?
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  Speaker 1: I don't know. I thought he was joy, but I don't.
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  Speaker 1: Somebody send me your guys. Stu Gotts offered her job,
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  Speaker 1: You're gonna have to be working with rus. First of all,
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  Speaker 1: even if she got a job here, she'd worked during
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  Speaker 1: the day and I would never see her.
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  Speaker 3: I would love to meet her.
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  Speaker 1: I would never see her in one my idol. Now
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  Speaker 1: you might be your hero. Yeah, and she definitely went
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  Speaker 1: above and beyond the call due to get scoops anyway, apparently,
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  Speaker 1: what do I know? Eight seven seven ninety nine on Fox.
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  Speaker 1: I bet she gets you know, she'll do a podcast.
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  Speaker 1: Everyone nobody listens to most of these podcasts. She'll do
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  Speaker 1: a podcast, or she'll work at bars podcast. Hello, Hello,
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  Speaker 1: the hot Top the Sedona Podcast, you could call it. Yeah, anyway,
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  Speaker 1: I'm sure she'll be fine. And she she's now infamous,
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  Speaker 1: and in some ways she's more famous now than she's ever. Actually,
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  Speaker 1: most of the way she's more famous now she ever
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  Speaker 1: would have been just being a regular run of the
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  Speaker 1: mill like seventh or eighth most popular NFL insider like.
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  Speaker 1: She didn't reach the upper echelon of NFL insider despite
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  Speaker 1: going to great lengths to try to go in the
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  Speaker 1: upper echelon, she did not reach that level. Now she
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  Speaker 1: has in terms of infamy.
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  Speaker 1: laid against the Portland Trailblazers, so they're out. And the
• 18:58
  Speaker 1: game we're going to talk about, though Eacher here involves
• 19:02
  Speaker 1: the Hornets in the heat and it went to overtime,
• 19:06
  Speaker 1: a little overtime action. Kobe White had a big shot
• 19:09
  Speaker 1: to send the game into an overtime situation, but LaMelo
• 19:13
  Speaker 1: Ball having a ball, LaMelo Ball making a layup with
• 19:18
  Speaker 1: less than five seconds on the clock, four point seven
• 19:21
  Speaker 1: seconds left in overtime, and then Miles Bridges somehow able
• 19:26
  Speaker 1: to leap up despite having all that baggage, Miles Bridges
• 19:30
  Speaker 1: able to block the Davion Mitchell attempt. He went coast
• 19:35
  Speaker 1: to coast to try to lay it up and win
• 19:37
  Speaker 1: the game for Miami. Keyword there, try at the buzzer
• 19:41
  Speaker 1: block shot. Good afternoon, good evening, and good night. And
• 19:46
  Speaker 1: from Miami, Nana na na nanaaa hey go bye? Is
• 19:52
  Speaker 1: the Hornets win? The Hornets win? They couldn't make a
• 19:54
  Speaker 1: three point shot. There are two big guys. Could not
• 19:56
  Speaker 1: make a three point shot. But they went anyway. Won
• 19:59
  Speaker 1: twenty seven to one to twenty six to the final
• 20:02
  Speaker 1: in a wacky beginning to the play in and then
• 20:06
  Speaker 1: the Portland Trailblazers taking the late game. But Charlotte will
• 20:10
  Speaker 1: play the loser of the seventy six years Magic Game
• 20:16
  Speaker 1: in the playoffs, the real playoffs. And despite the late
• 20:19
  Speaker 1: fireworks and the dramatic the block shot, the layup to
• 20:22
  Speaker 1: win the game for the Charlotte Hornets. Despite all that,
• 20:26
  Speaker 1: the subplot which everyone's yapping about, well, it happened earlier
• 20:31
  Speaker 1: in the game. The Heat played much of the game
• 20:34
  Speaker 1: without their star center. As the season wrapped up for Miami,
• 20:39
  Speaker 1: bam out of Bio. Yeah yeah, we know who he is. Yeah,
• 20:44
  Speaker 1: so Bam out of Bio suffered a back injury. Oh
• 20:47
  Speaker 1: my aching back back injury. First half. And that's where
• 20:52
  Speaker 1: the controversy is. And I learned this in sports talk
• 20:54
  Speaker 1: radio Clown College. You focus in on the controversy because
• 20:57
  Speaker 1: everyone has a hot take on the controversy. So here's
• 21:00
  Speaker 1: the hot take, or here's the play, and then we'll
• 21:02
  Speaker 1: get to the hot take. So there was a incident late.
• 21:07
  Speaker 1: It was in the first half, so it's a second quarter,
• 21:10
  Speaker 1: a second quarter, and Lamello Ball was falling down, down, down, down,
• 21:18
  Speaker 1: and on the slow motion replay, it appeared that he
• 21:23
  Speaker 1: reached out to grab the ankle of Bam outa Bio.
• 21:28
  Speaker 1: Now that led to a nuclear reaction from Eric Spolstra.
• 21:35
  Speaker 1: I don't know if the editors got this or not.
• 21:37
  Speaker 1: I imagine they didn't because they normally don't get these things.
• 21:39
  Speaker 1: But it was really good audio, really good audio. Spolstra
• 21:44
  Speaker 1: was asked about the play Lamello Ball reaching out as
• 21:48
  Speaker 1: he was falling down there said he should have been
• 21:50
  Speaker 1: ejected by what he said was a dangerous play. He said, quote,
• 21:54
  Speaker 1: I don't this is Eric Spolstra. I don't think it's cute.
• 21:57
  Speaker 1: I don't think it's funny. I think it's just stupid play.
• 22:00
  Speaker 1: Spoilster tall report, All right, well, I guess we have
• 22:02
  Speaker 1: I was playing that we have it. I didn't think
• 22:04
  Speaker 1: we had it. Here we go, here's the Eric Spolster.
• 22:05
  Speaker 1: Oh Coop found it. And of course the editors don't
• 22:07
  Speaker 1: they in their back having a social hour. All right,
• 22:10
  Speaker 1: go ahead, but hit that hit the button, see.
• 22:11
  Speaker 5: It, but that. I don't think it's cute. Don't think
• 22:13
  Speaker 5: it's funny. I think it's a stupid play. It's a
• 22:15
  Speaker 5: dangerous play. Obviously our best players out. I'm not making
• 22:19
  Speaker 5: an excuse the Hornets. Uh e great, they made those
• 22:25
  Speaker 5: plays down the stretch. We we had our opportunities to win.
• 22:28
  Speaker 5: I just that's a shame. You know, he should be
• 22:30
  Speaker 5: penalized for that. I don't think that belongs in the game.
• 22:33
  Speaker 5: You know, tripping guys, you know Shenanigans, and you know
• 22:37
  Speaker 5: Curtis was there. It's his responsibility to see that. And
• 22:40
  Speaker 5: if it's not his responsibility, then Zach's got to see it.
• 22:42
  Speaker 5: If you know, somebody has got to see that, and that,
• 22:46
  Speaker 5: you know, he should have been thrown out of the game,
• 22:48
  Speaker 5: you know, for that I don't know him from you know, anyone.
• 22:53
  Speaker 5: I just there's no place in the game for that, obviously. Uh,
• 22:57
  Speaker 5: you know it took bam out of the game.
• 23:00
  Speaker 1: Right. There's Eric Spolstra there, and I think it's cute.
• 23:02
  Speaker 1: I don't think it's funny, dangerous play, all of that,
• 23:05
  Speaker 1: all right, So good jumping off point. Let us discuss
• 23:09
  Speaker 1: as you heard there the Heat coach Eric Spolstra saying
• 23:12
  Speaker 1: that LaMelo Ball should have been injected, get out of here,
• 23:16
  Speaker 1: get out of here, for what he called a dangerous play,
• 23:18
  Speaker 1: causing the bam ade bio back injury. So where does
• 23:23
  Speaker 1: your mind go on this one? Where does your mind
• 23:26
  Speaker 1: going this one? So I've got cosmic brass bonanza and
• 23:30
  Speaker 1: the Philly fanatic and we will combine all of these
• 23:34
  Speaker 1: things together and we are going to take a shot
• 23:38
  Speaker 1: in the dark, is what we're going to do, because
• 23:40
  Speaker 1: that's what we do now, number one one. So this
• 23:47
  Speaker 1: is a feeding frenzy. And it's also a bit of
• 23:51
  Speaker 1: an overreaction. It's a bit of an overreaction. I realize
• 23:54
  Speaker 1: I'm an age where I grew up watching basketball at
• 23:57
  Speaker 1: a different time. I do chuckle considering the things that
• 24:01
  Speaker 1: have happened in NBA games and the over the top
• 24:05
  Speaker 1: feeding frenzy, the attack on lamellow ball, It's like slow down. Now.
• 24:11
  Speaker 1: When I heard the rant, which we were able to
• 24:14
  Speaker 1: play for you because Coop found it, the Spoe rant
• 24:17
  Speaker 1: I expected, I went back and I watched it, cause
• 24:20
  Speaker 1: I watched it in real time. I was like, Okay,
• 24:22
  Speaker 1: I expected a felony. I expected a felony, not a
• 24:27
  Speaker 1: relatively routine play, A little on the edge, a little
• 24:32
  Speaker 1: on the edge of things. But it was not. This
• 24:34
  Speaker 1: does not deserve a courtroom drama O rama. It does
• 24:39
  Speaker 1: not deserve that. And it also feels like selective ouverage.
• 24:42
  Speaker 1: If you asked me, do you have any kind of
• 24:44
  Speaker 1: empathy for Eric Spolster, who sounded like a broken man
• 24:48
  Speaker 1: talking about this play, the answers no. The answer is no.
• 24:52
  Speaker 1: It's funny because I kept some notes. I went back
• 24:55
  Speaker 1: and I recall a couple of years back, I don't
• 24:58
  Speaker 1: remember Eric spols For giving a sermon about Caleb Martin,
• 25:02
  Speaker 1: who was playing for him at the time, a similar
• 25:04
  Speaker 1: play on Jason Tatum. If my notes are correct, I
• 25:08
  Speaker 1: don't recall Eric Spolstra saying that there's no place in
• 25:12
  Speaker 1: the game for this, and you know you gotta be
• 25:14
  Speaker 1: kicked out, gotta be suspended, all that stuff. No, so
• 25:18
  Speaker 1: spare me, spare me. You're on the other side all
• 25:20
  Speaker 1: of a sudden, Oh, this is not right. I can't
• 25:22
  Speaker 1: believe this is Oh my god. Now I have an
• 25:24
  Speaker 1: unpopular opinion. I have an unpopular pin. I had to
• 25:27
  Speaker 1: share with the class, an unpopular pin. My hand, my
• 25:29
  Speaker 1: hand is raised. I might share an unpopular opinion. So
• 25:32
  Speaker 1: Spoe shouldn't be mad at LaMelo ball? Why not?
• 25:36
  Speaker 2: Bam and the ball got hurt.
• 25:38
  Speaker 1: Couldn't be very upset? Shout up? All right, Spoe should
• 25:42
  Speaker 1: not be upset with LaMelo ball. He should be filing
• 25:45
  Speaker 1: a complaint in the court of karma, as in karma
• 25:50
  Speaker 1: with a capital k erg cosmic justice. Cosmic justice. Now
• 25:59
  Speaker 1: I go back and for on this, and my counselor,
• 26:02
  Speaker 1: Andrea in the Bay Area, the astrology Insider, can help
• 26:06
  Speaker 1: me out on this. But this certainly seems like cosmic justice.
• 26:09
  Speaker 1: I'll tell you why. The basketball gods also keep notes.
• 26:14
  Speaker 1: They keep notes, and Miami turns out they got some
• 26:17
  Speaker 1: debt they had to pay. Well, what did they do?
• 26:19
  Speaker 1: You're making things up? There's no car over the Miami Heat.
• 26:22
  Speaker 1: Shut up. They stage dah, they staged they eighty three
• 26:30
  Speaker 1: point farcical. You remember that that circus under the Big
• 26:35
  Speaker 1: Top there in Miami. I remember it against the Wizards.
• 26:39
  Speaker 1: That was some bad sorceries. What that was. We're going
• 26:43
  Speaker 1: full wwe like writing and you do that and expect
• 26:49
  Speaker 1: no blowback. You don't think the universe is gonna bite
• 26:52
  Speaker 1: your ass back when you do that kind of bull
• 26:54
  Speaker 1: crap in an NBA game. Yeah, well guess what it happened.
• 26:58
  Speaker 1: It's not that complicated. It really isn't that complicated. The
• 27:03
  Speaker 1: universe saw Eric Spolstra giggling and laughing. Remember they were
• 27:06
  Speaker 1: intentionally fouling the Washington Wizards so they could get more possessions,
• 27:11
  Speaker 1: so Bam out of Bayo could get the eighty three
• 27:13
  Speaker 1: point game. So that happened. That kind of funny business.
• 27:19
  Speaker 1: And this was just a nice little reminder. Hey, remember
• 27:23
  Speaker 1: remember the cosmic basketball gods. Well we're still here. Balance
• 27:29
  Speaker 1: has been restored, so enjoy your off season. You live
• 27:33
  Speaker 1: in Miami, So what do you go on vacation when
• 27:35
  Speaker 1: you live in Miami. It's to stay in Miami because
• 27:37
  Speaker 1: that's where everyone goes on vacation. So you just stay
• 27:39
  Speaker 1: there all right. Now, Pat you're speaking of the heat
• 27:43
  Speaker 1: from thirty thousand feet up in the sky, the big
• 27:47
  Speaker 1: picture and the better story from the losing locker room.
• 27:51
  Speaker 1: So with it, game over for the Miami Heat. They
• 27:58
  Speaker 1: lost a bunch of games to end the year, and
• 28:00
  Speaker 1: that's why they ended up in the situation. They were
• 28:01
  Speaker 1: in the plant anyway. So what is the master plan
• 28:04
  Speaker 1: to turn around a franchise which is stuck in the
• 28:07
  Speaker 1: mud the Miami Heat. Things not going so well for Miami,
• 28:12
  Speaker 1: So what is the what is the master plan? So
• 28:16
  Speaker 1: you got pat Riley, who's in the big chair. Pat
• 28:19
  Speaker 1: Riley is behind the plate there and he's at he's
• 28:23
  Speaker 1: behind the wheel. He's at the wheel. Riley and the
• 28:28
  Speaker 1: Heat are out. They're looking out on the horizon. They're
• 28:30
  Speaker 1: in a boat and they're looking for a whale. They're
• 28:34
  Speaker 1: trying to find a whale. And the problem is it
• 28:37
  Speaker 1: has been many years since they caught a whale. They
• 28:40
  Speaker 1: haven't actually been able to harpoon a whale for some time.
• 28:44
  Speaker 1: It's a problem, and so they're trying to get that
• 28:46
  Speaker 1: where's the whale? We need a whale? Can I get
• 28:50
  Speaker 1: a whale? Riley's looking around. And so now yet again
• 28:55
  Speaker 1: another season has fizzled away for the Miami Heat, and
• 28:59
  Speaker 1: yet again they are going full Hartford Whalers brass bonanza
• 29:04
  Speaker 1: if you know, you know, brass bonanza, dreaming of dragging
• 29:09
  Speaker 1: in the freak. Let's get freaky as in Giannisi Denta Kumbo,
• 29:15
  Speaker 1: the Greek Freak. And every squabble involving a superstar player
• 29:20
  Speaker 1: in the last twenty years, every squabble involving a star
• 29:24
  Speaker 1: player in the NBA turns into a carnival. For the
• 29:28
  Speaker 1: Miami Heat, it's either the Lakers or the Heat. It's
• 29:32
  Speaker 1: always those teams. Everyone's gonna go to those teams. And
• 29:35
  Speaker 1: so it's often been more smoke without fire. Normally there's
• 29:41
  Speaker 1: not smoke without fire. Somehow there is regarding this and
• 29:45
  Speaker 1: so this is not just a fish story. It's not
• 29:49
  Speaker 1: just any fish storre. I mean, there's a lot of
• 29:50
  Speaker 1: fish stores. But this is the one that Riley's been chasing,
• 29:56
  Speaker 1: and he had it years ago with Chris Bosh and
• 29:59
  Speaker 1: Lebron James and has been unable to recreate that magic,
• 30:03
  Speaker 1: has been unable to recreate that magic, and he's trying,
• 30:07
  Speaker 1: and he's out there and it's like, oh, we got it,
• 30:09
  Speaker 1: we gotta do it, we gotta make this happen. And sure, Giannis,
• 30:12
  Speaker 1: certainly with Milwaukee, it feels shakier than ever and we've
• 30:17
  Speaker 1: heard this song and dance before and nothing's happened as
• 30:21
  Speaker 1: of yet. A year after year Miami, they line up
• 30:25
  Speaker 1: the harpoon, they're ready to go, and they come back
• 30:28
  Speaker 1: with the big thing of sardines. While we didn't want sardines,
• 30:31
  Speaker 1: but that's all you got. You didn't get the whale. Well,
• 30:32
  Speaker 1: why didn't you get the whale? Well, I don't know.
• 30:34
  Speaker 1: We tried to get the whale, but we just ended
• 30:36
  Speaker 1: up with these sardines. And there's a lot of them. Yeah,
• 30:38
  Speaker 1: So close unfortunately does not conquer kingdoms or the NBA.
• 30:44
  Speaker 1: It does not do that. And so here's the gut check.
• 30:47
  Speaker 1: Pat Riley does he still have the magic pixie dust
• 30:51
  Speaker 1: at age eighty one or is this just what pat
• 30:54
  Speaker 1: Riley was and is just some memories of the legend
• 30:56
  Speaker 1: of Ryles, who's been in Miami seemingly forever. But if
• 31:00
  Speaker 1: he misses again, if Giannis ends up on the Knickerbockers
• 31:03
  Speaker 1: or somewhere else and doesn't go into to Miami. This
• 31:06
  Speaker 1: franchise will continue to be on the hamster wheel of mediocrity.
• 31:11
  Speaker 1: And the Heat haven't been catching whales. They've been chasing
• 31:14
  Speaker 1: a lot of ghosts. Though a lot of ghosts. All right,
• 31:18
  Speaker 1: Now we move on. The sneaker heads would like to
• 31:21
  Speaker 1: chime in on this.
• 31:22
  Speaker 5: Now.
• 31:22
  Speaker 1: I am not a sneaker. I'm not not really a
• 31:26
  Speaker 1: car guy, not a sneaker guy. I'm just a guy,
• 31:29
  Speaker 1: that's all I am. I'm a headphone guy. Oh, I'm
• 31:33
  Speaker 1: at Yeah, I'm a hack guy. I'm a heck guy.
• 31:34
  Speaker 1: That's my thing. That's right. I'm a hat guy. I
• 31:36
  Speaker 1: do like cats, but if I had a full head
• 31:39
  Speaker 1: of hair, I don't think I would. I would be
• 31:40
  Speaker 1: a hat guy, you know. I think that's more of
• 31:42
  Speaker 1: a byproduct of my situation. Like to blame my parents anyway,
• 31:46
  Speaker 1: So a sneaker guy. Interesting story. Now, I got sent
• 31:51
  Speaker 1: this by a listener. I did not see this on
• 31:52
  Speaker 1: my own. I am not keeping up on the sneaker world.
• 31:55
  Speaker 1: I know a lot of you boys love sneakers. Good
• 31:57
  Speaker 1: for you. A way to go, I remember, I think
• 32:01
  Speaker 1: I know Rob Parker's got a great collection. Bobo on
• 32:05
  Speaker 1: the radio. I love Bubbo. Bobo had an epic collection
• 32:08
  Speaker 1: of sneakers. And I see Bobo usually once a year
• 32:12
  Speaker 1: at the holiday party, the Ugly Sweater Party. I always looked
• 32:15
  Speaker 1: forward seeing Bobo. Good, good dude. I loved when he
• 32:17
  Speaker 1: worked on the show. And Bubbo he had a huge
• 32:19
  Speaker 1: I remember, massive collection to match every out he had one.
• 32:23
  Speaker 1: All right, So get to the point, all right, I
• 32:24
  Speaker 1: get to the poet. So Nike has unveiled a new sneaker. Now,
• 32:29
  Speaker 1: normally this does not reach the level of malat monologue.
• 32:33
  Speaker 1: Times are a changing. Did you see this? Nike is
• 32:37
  Speaker 1: giving a sneaker too, Bronnie James, Yes, not lebron Bronnie James.
• 32:47
  Speaker 1: Yep that Bronnie James. Yes, Nike has introduced the Lebron
• 32:52
  Speaker 1: nine witness whatever thing that is. Nike said, the shoe
• 32:56
  Speaker 1: is quote inspired by Bronni's recovery and journey back to
• 33:00
  Speaker 1: the court. All right, question, what is the word? What
• 33:05
  Speaker 1: is the word for Lakers benchwarmer Bronnie James? What is
• 33:10
  Speaker 1: the word for Lakers bench warmer Bronnie James getting his
• 33:13
  Speaker 1: own sneaker? So I have two words stolen valor are
• 33:20
  Speaker 1: my my two words? Basketball? Stolen valor. This is not
• 33:26
  Speaker 1: a shoe drop, if you will, for Bronnie James. It
• 33:30
  Speaker 1: is a participation trophy with laces. Congratulations. Well why does
• 33:34
  Speaker 1: it have laces. Well, it's a trophy, but it's got
• 33:36
  Speaker 1: the laces. I don't understand. So this is the greatest
• 33:39
  Speaker 1: case of NBA hype inflation since years ago when some
• 33:44
  Speaker 1: of you idiots tried to tell me that Kyle Kuzma
• 33:47
  Speaker 1: was the next big thing in the NBA. I remember,
• 33:50
  Speaker 1: you just don't understand. You're a Laker hater. Kyle Kuzma
• 33:53
  Speaker 1: is going to be so good. You're You're just a hater.
• 33:56
  Speaker 1: That's what you're doing the Overnight Show. Okay, how's Kyle
• 34:00
  Speaker 1: kho'sman doing. Is he's even still in the NBA anyway? Yeah,
• 34:03
  Speaker 1: I know he is. I know he is. So let's
• 34:06
  Speaker 1: keep this real here, just between me and you, let's
• 34:08
  Speaker 1: keep this real. This is the first sneaker, the Bronnie
• 34:11
  Speaker 1: James sneaker, inspired by a player's journey to ride his
• 34:17
  Speaker 1: daddy's coattails to the bench. That's about It's about where
• 34:21
  Speaker 1: we are. That's about where we are at this particular point.
• 34:25
  Speaker 1: Even sneaker heads are tapping out they're like, hey, I
• 34:29
  Speaker 1: can't even defend this, like this is really bad. You know,
• 34:31
  Speaker 1: this is like the Laker historians like, Okay, that's a
• 34:34
  Speaker 1: little too far. It's a little too far, Like what
• 34:37
  Speaker 1: are you doing now? I gotta tell you. When I
• 34:39
  Speaker 1: got sent this, I thought, Okay, this guy's trying to
• 34:41
  Speaker 1: punk me. I think the guy's name is Mike. He
• 34:43
  Speaker 1: did not say where he's from, so I don't know.
• 34:44
  Speaker 1: I assume he's from southern California, but who knows. H
• 34:47
  Speaker 1: So he sent me, you know, I was like okay.
• 34:49
  Speaker 1: So I clicked on it, and I was like, okay,
• 34:51
  Speaker 1: I thought this must be satire. This guy's gonna bust
• 34:53
  Speaker 1: my balls and he wants me to do something on this.
• 34:55
  Speaker 1: So I checked and it's apparently not. It's like legit,
• 34:58
  Speaker 1: Nike sent this out on their own accounts. You think
• 35:01
  Speaker 1: they kind of keep that on the DL. They did not,
• 35:04
  Speaker 1: And so I thought, well, this is satire Sports Talk
• 35:08
  Speaker 1: Barry Butt Crack Sports, one of those deals NBA sentel.
• 35:13
  Speaker 1: And then I thought, well, this must be Nike trolling.
• 35:16
  Speaker 1: It's not satire, but they're troll No, No, it wasn't
• 35:19
  Speaker 1: that Wasn't that just some good old fashioned nepotism with
• 35:22
  Speaker 1: a swoosh, swoosh, swoosh. Yeah, if my dad played in
• 35:26
  Speaker 1: the NBA, I'd have my own shoe too. Think about
• 35:29
  Speaker 1: while lebron James plays the puppet master, Bronnie James putting
• 35:34
  Speaker 1: up video game tutorial numbers. He's averaging in his career
• 35:37
  Speaker 1: less than three points a game, less than three points
• 35:41
  Speaker 1: a game, and he's a career thirty seven percent shooter.
• 35:46
  Speaker 1: He's essentially the Philly fanatic mascot wearing a Laker jersey
• 35:51
  Speaker 1: is what he is. Yeah, this isn't marketing, it's propaganda.
• 35:56
  Speaker 1: It's propaganda, is what it is. In the tagline, inspired
• 35:59
  Speaker 1: by irrelevance, Inspired by irrelevance, And at this rate, doesn't
• 36:05
  Speaker 1: Nike have to hook up some other insider basketball friend guy,
• 36:11
  Speaker 1: Like if you give it to Bronnie James, If you
• 36:14
  Speaker 1: hook Bronnie James up and say, okay, you're gonna get
• 36:16
  Speaker 1: a shoe because your dad, you know who the comps
• 36:19
  Speaker 1: are to Bronnie James, there's no real great comp The
• 36:21
  Speaker 1: closest I could come up with is Isaiah Wong of
• 36:26
  Speaker 1: the Hornets and Deuce McBride, a guy named Deuce for
• 36:32
  Speaker 1: the I believe, the place with the Knicks. So unfortunately,
• 36:35
  Speaker 1: Isaiah Wong's daddy did not run Nike or did not
• 36:39
  Speaker 1: have a ownership share like lebron does, and so does
• 36:42
  Speaker 1: not get a shoe and Deuce McBride, that would be
• 36:45
  Speaker 1: a fun name. Let's buy the Deuce be a fun
• 36:48
  Speaker 1: name for a shoe. Are they gonna get shoes? Probably not?
• 36:50
  Speaker 1: Probably not not gonna get shoes. So Bronnie will be
• 36:55
  Speaker 1: the first player I believe in history whose sneaker comes
• 36:59
  Speaker 1: with a disclaimer. You now, what does the disclaimer say?
• 37:03
  Speaker 1: The disclaimer will say warning, wearing these sneakers will cause
• 37:09
  Speaker 1: your performance to decline. That because there's always like you want.
• 37:13
  Speaker 1: Only a few guys got basketball sneaker deals. And I
• 37:17
  Speaker 1: know as a kid because I was of the age
• 37:19
  Speaker 1: when this kind of became a thing, although even before
• 37:23
  Speaker 1: it became a thing, like Converse had Larry Bird and
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  Speaker 1: Magic Johnson and guys like that. But he as a kid,
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  Speaker 1: You're like, Okay, through the eyes of a child, if
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  Speaker 1: I put on these shoes, I'm going to play as
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  Speaker 1: well as that player. I'm gonna have superpowers. In this case,
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  Speaker 1: Here we go, Here we go, Here we go quickly,
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  Speaker 1: Chris Maller, how about that? To the third degree?
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  Speaker 6: Longtime forty nine Ers full back Kyle Yuscheck made a
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  Speaker 6: radio appearance this week where he said about brock Perney,
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  Speaker 6: I don't know what it is, what it's going to
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  Speaker 6: take for this guy to finally get the respect I
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  Speaker 6: think he truly deserves.
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  Speaker 3: Then what will it take?
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  Speaker 1: He's already got it. He signed a massive contract. He
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  Speaker 1: signed a two hundred and sixty five million dollar contract.
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  Speaker 1: He's he got a forty million dollar Jake, one hundred
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  Speaker 1: and eighty two million. That is respect. I want that
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  Speaker 1: kind of respect. Did me put some respect in my name?
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  Speaker 6: Next, it was supported over the weekend that X Miami
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  Speaker 6: defensive end Reuben Bain Junior was involved in a fatal
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  Speaker 6: car accident back in twenty twenty four. He was initially
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  Speaker 3: Ben, he's a top prospect. Do you think this will
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  Speaker 3: hurt his draft position?
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  Speaker 1: Ah? If he's good. It won't hurt him. And it's
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  Speaker 1: very odd. This story randomly popped up on a very
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  Speaker 1: slow NFL news day, almost like somebody was trying to
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  Speaker 1: bring it back to get some engagement online. No, he's
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  Speaker 1: if he's good, he's like, well, he's just he's learning
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  Speaker 1: to drive. If not, and they'll say that's why he
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  Speaker 1: didn't get draft, He'll be fine next.
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  Speaker 6: Anthony Davis this week acknowledged that it would be extremely
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  Speaker 6: difficult for the Wizards to go from worse to first,
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  Speaker 6: but vowed to build a winning culture with Washington. But
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  Speaker 6: any think the Wizards will at least have a winning
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  Speaker 6: record next season, let me tell you something.
• 39:03
  Speaker 1: I think Anthony Davis is gonna look great sitting on
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  Speaker 1: that Wizard's bench. He is going to get all the
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  Speaker 7: Heard the man. It's time for love here on the
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  Speaker 1: Who Yes, Lorena, you have an opening love thought here.
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  Speaker 7: You know, just don't be too overwhelming with your advances.
• 40:01
  Speaker 1: Oh is that? Are people overwhelming? Are they a little
• 40:04
  Speaker 1: over the top there? Yeah, they don't know any property.
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  Speaker 7: I'm sure you communicate. Communication is key.
• 40:10
  Speaker 1: Well, some guys like to make a splash entry. They
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  Speaker 1: like to be like the kool Aid man.
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  Speaker 7: I love a good surprise splash like.
• 40:17
  Speaker 1: They like to break through the wall right now, because
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  Speaker 1: you know, they figure a lot of guys will hit
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  Speaker 1: on good looking women, so they try to make their
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  Speaker 1: mark a different way, you know.
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  Speaker 3: Yuck. Anyways, all right, what have we got?
• 40:29
  Speaker 1: I ferg Dog says, I'm making dinner at home for
• 40:34
  Speaker 1: a first date this weekend, and I need to know
• 40:36
  Speaker 1: do girls prefer the peanut butter on top or bottom
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  Speaker 1: of the PBN J Okay.
• 40:43
  Speaker 7: Well, your first mistake is having someone over for a
• 40:46
  Speaker 7: first date at your house. I've been watching a lot
• 40:49
  Speaker 7: of TikTok videos of girls who go on first dates
• 40:52
  Speaker 7: at homes to specifically steal from men. So you go
• 40:55
  Speaker 7: to the bathroom and they take your airfrac Really, there's
• 40:58
  Speaker 7: a girl.
• 40:58
  Speaker 1: Who has a whole that's hard to say, yes, And
• 41:01
  Speaker 1: how do you steal an air fryer in the purse?
• 41:02
  Speaker 7: You unplug it and you walk out with it. You
• 41:04
  Speaker 7: don't got to take it in your par They wait
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  Speaker 7: till you're in another room. Your video game consoles, DVD players.
• 41:10
  Speaker 7: Be careful in fighting random strangers into your head.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, no, you know you can't. Guys do that?
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  Speaker 2: Really?
• 41:16
  Speaker 1: Women come over? I thought women. You know, any woman
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  Speaker 1: that will come to your back in my day, I
• 41:20
  Speaker 1: don't know about now. You know it's been years, but
• 41:21
  Speaker 1: any woman that would come to your house right away
• 41:23
  Speaker 1: was generally not their long term if you know what
• 41:27
  Speaker 1: I mean. You know what I'm saying, And usually had
• 41:28
  Speaker 1: it took a while for that to happen. Yeah, a
• 41:31
  Speaker 1: lot of public appearances for that to happen, because I
• 41:34
  Speaker 1: never had to worry about someone coming to my house
• 41:36
  Speaker 1: to steal anything. So anyway, that's very impressive for it.
• 41:40
  Speaker 1: Mentionine Ferdduck picking up chicks. Yeah, I'm gonna cook for
• 41:42
  Speaker 1: you Okay, that's exciting. I want to surprise you. Okay,
• 41:45
  Speaker 1: even better. And then they come over and it's a
• 41:47
  Speaker 1: peanut butter and jelly sandwich.
• 41:48
  Speaker 7: Sounds delicious.
• 41:49
  Speaker 3: Actually, Now the.
• 41:50
  Speaker 1: Key, Lorraine, as you know, is you can't cut it.
• 41:52
  Speaker 1: When you cut the peanut butter the other sandwich, you
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  Speaker 1: can't get it down the middle cutting at an angle.
• 41:56
  Speaker 7: The diagonal exactly.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, it is a.
• 41:59
  Speaker 1: More impressive sand which when you cut diagonally. Mike writes
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  Speaker 1: in he says, what if right after your work your
• 42:06
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• 42:08
  Speaker 1: you be careful not to have too much fun in
• 42:10
  Speaker 1: case you showed up on the kiss fan cam. That's
• 42:14
  Speaker 1: the question.
• 42:15
  Speaker 7: I'm gonna go with my motto, you know you only
• 42:18
  Speaker 7: live every day?
• 42:19
  Speaker 1: That's true, yo ed or something like only only yoli ed?
• 42:28
  Speaker 1: All right, Mike the Leprechaun. Michael Different. Michael writes and says, Lorrain,
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  Speaker 1: if you had an expansion sports team, what would you
• 42:37
  Speaker 1: name it? Great question, Michael, great question. What would you
• 42:40
  Speaker 1: name a sports team? Loraina?
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  Speaker 6: Oh?
• 42:41
  Speaker 1: Good love advice.
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  Speaker 7: That's a good question.
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  Speaker 1: Actually we could he Oh, you would you go with
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  Speaker 1: something unique?
• 42:51
  Speaker 7: It could be like the love gamblue team.
• 42:53
  Speaker 1: Is named after socks. Imagine how exciting the world was
• 42:55
  Speaker 1: when we said we'll name our team the White Sox
• 42:57
  Speaker 1: or the Red Sox.
• 42:58
  Speaker 7: What if we named it? I don't know if I
• 43:00
  Speaker 7: can say this.
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  Speaker 1: If you went in doubt, leave it out of the
• 43:04
  Speaker 1: panty hose. Let's go with the hose, the panty hose.
• 43:10
  Speaker 1: We'll say it all all right, very good? Shane and
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  Speaker 1: de Moyes, says Lorena, Who are some of your female crushes?
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  Speaker 2: Oh?
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  Speaker 7: Of women that I love? Anna Hathaway, Oh, I love
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  Speaker 7: her to death. Britney Spears used to be one, but
• 43:25
  Speaker 7: now I worry about her.
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  Speaker 1: She needs your love more now than never.
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  Speaker 7: A social distancing hug for her.
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  Speaker 1: Okay, I might get some penicillin after you huggers, I understand.
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  Speaker 7: Oh my gosh. Who else do I love right now?
• 43:40
  Speaker 1: Oh?
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  Speaker 7: Me Aubrey Plaza, I love Aubrey Pla JT.
• 43:43
  Speaker 1: The Wingman writes, Sin says, I'm trying to up my
• 43:46
  Speaker 1: game with the lady. Should I take advice from hollering
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  Speaker 1: James or Anthony and Louisiana?
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  Speaker 7: I would probably do Anthony Anthony.
• 43:54
  Speaker 1: Okay, all right. Miranda's black boyfriend quickly says, Miranda is
• 43:58
  Speaker 1: my Tony Romo. Lorena is my Dak Prescott. How about that.
• 44:02
  Speaker 1: That's a legend from me back in the day. I
• 44:04
  Speaker 1: haven't heard from that account in a while. What he
• 44:06
  Speaker 1: means by that, I'll tell you off here.
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  Speaker 2: and the password is password, you idiot? Password the word
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  Speaker 1: Here's Ben mellin testing the lexicon of the average consumer
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  Speaker 1: of sports talk radio for many, many years. As welcome
• 44:31
  Speaker 1: our contestants. We have Austin who's in Maine. Who's gonna
• 44:36
  Speaker 1: play password? Hello Austin, welcome, Hey, good morning. All right,
• 44:42
  Speaker 1: I see a big Red Sox guy, Jared Durand just
• 44:44
  Speaker 1: gave you the bird, so there you go. All right,
• 44:47
  Speaker 1: he gave a Twins fan of bird last night. Anyway, Austin,
• 44:51
  Speaker 1: who do you want to partner up with? You got
• 44:52
  Speaker 1: me Ben? You got Lorraine or the Koubaloo. I'll go
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  Speaker 1: with you.
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  Speaker 7: How about that?
• 44:58
  Speaker 1: All right? We're in we are in it to win
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  Speaker 1: it very nice and uh one or three? Lorena number one?
• 45:07
  Speaker 1: You have picked Brandon in cans Uh City Ello, Brandon Brandon,
• 45:15
  Speaker 1: I don't hear man.
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  Speaker 7: There's no place like home. He's flown off and all.
• 45:19
  Speaker 1: Let me see if I put this guy home brand.
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  Speaker 1: Are you there? Brandon? Huh? And I don't hear him?
• 45:26
  Speaker 1: Are you there? Wake up?
• 45:28
  Speaker 3: Brandon?
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  Speaker 1: Brandon? Okay, I don't want to know what he was doing.
• 45:33
  Speaker 1: Let's go to Mark on the north end. Mark, would
• 45:35
  Speaker 1: you like to play? Mark? Yeah, my own, I'm popping off.
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  Speaker 1: All right, who do you want to partner up with? Quickly?
• 45:41
  Speaker 1: I'll pick Coop. All right, Coop, you're in it. Lorena,
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  Speaker 1: you're out of the show. All right. List of words here, Austin,
• 45:47
  Speaker 1: take a number one to ten, Austin, Devin quickly, number seven.
• 45:53
  Speaker 1: All right, let's go with there's a couple of ways
• 45:59
  Speaker 1: I can do this. Let's go with calendar, Uh, seasonal? No?
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  Speaker 3: Cool, Let's go with uh an engagement anniversary.
• 46:14
  Speaker 1: No, let's go with Oh I got it, I got
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  Speaker 1: it a day.
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  Speaker 3: Uh Kurt?
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  Speaker 1: Wow?
• 46:25
  Speaker 3: All right, Mark, you think you have it, but I'm
• 46:27
  Speaker 3: gonna give you a clue. Anyway. Let's go with rendezvous.
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  Speaker 1: That would be yeah, go ahead, pick another number, hurry up,
• 46:34
  Speaker 1: pick a number. Pick a number Mark, number one, number one.
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  Speaker 3: All right, let's go with vegetables.
• 46:45
  Speaker 2: Green.
• 46:45
  Speaker 1: No, let's go with Oh boy, I don't know what
• 46:50
  Speaker 1: you do. You screwed up. I was going a different
• 46:52
  Speaker 1: way on that coop.
• 46:52
  Speaker 3: But you can still go a different way.
• 46:55
  Speaker 1: No, let's let's go. We'll go carrots.
• 47:00
  Speaker 6: Uh, I don't know, Mark, Let's let's go with fruit.
• 47:08
  Speaker 1: Yeah, it's only because I got Brandon wasn't there. It's
• 47:16
  Speaker 1: because Brandon