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  Speaker 2: This is the best of the Ben Maler Show on
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  Speaker 3: So we have made our way the never ending journey.
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  Speaker 1: We've arrived here from a very secret location somewhere in
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  Speaker 1: northern California, not far away. We're not actually at Radio Row.
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  Speaker 1: We're not allowed at Radio Row. They won't allow me
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  Speaker 1: in there. I'll be there during the day, but at
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  Speaker 1: night they don't want the riffraff. The overnight crowd not
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  Speaker 1: permitted at Radio Row. That is taboo. So we are
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  Speaker 1: at a secret location with very high ceilings here.
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  Speaker 3: Now.
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  Speaker 1: I understand that tomorrow it'll sound better, will be in
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  Speaker 1: a different location, but for tonight you just have to
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  Speaker 1: put up with it. Not anything's that bad. I don't
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  Speaker 1: think it's that bad at the proper microphone. So the
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  Speaker 1: show goes on. We're excited to be here, and there's
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  Speaker 1: not too much going on with the Super Bowl. I
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  Speaker 1: wish there was, but there's just not a lot of
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  Speaker 1: great stories. These teams aren't that interesting, that they don't
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  Speaker 1: have dynamic personalities, and there's really no star power on
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  Speaker 1: either team, which is problematic if you do a talk
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  Speaker 1: radio show.
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  Speaker 3: The good news is that pro Bouncy Ball has been
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  Speaker 3: very active and the trade deadline.
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  Speaker 1: Now it's still late on a Wednesday on the West Coast,
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  Speaker 1: but we're sliding into a Thursday.
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  Speaker 3: Everyone will be into a Thursday shortly.
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  Speaker 1: And yet again, the NBA trade deadline has upstaged super
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  Speaker 1: Bowl Week and proven to be more fruitful than the
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  Speaker 1: unwatchable product they put on the court most nights in
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  Speaker 1: the NBA. Now, we'll get into the NBA once the
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  Speaker 1: playoffs come around. Playoffs, as Fox Sports radio legend Jim
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  Speaker 1: Morris said back in the day, but a lot of
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  Speaker 1: back room wheeling and dealing has continued, and we are monitoring,
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  Speaker 1: even in this remote studio, we are monitoring all activity.
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  Speaker 1: If anything happens, if there's a trade two hours from now,
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  Speaker 1: we are gonna be all over it.
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  Speaker 3: We're gonna give you the inside skinny on that.
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  Speaker 1: Now, with the trade deadline music coming to a stop
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  Speaker 1: later on Thursday afternoon, the mav Rex did some last
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  Speaker 1: minute I guess it's not spring, so it wasn't spring cleaning.
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  Speaker 1: They just decided to do some cleaning here in early February.
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  Speaker 1: And I assume you've heard by now, but maybe not.
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  Speaker 1: Maybe you've been down by the river and you haven't
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  Speaker 1: been paying attention. But the Mavericks have dumped Anthony David. Yep,
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  Speaker 1: Anthony that guy, I know, Anthony Davis, along with some
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  Speaker 1: spare parts like D'Angelo Russell. Boy, that guy gets shipped around.
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  Speaker 1: Don't you like a fruitcake? They all go to the
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  Speaker 1: Wizards in an eight player mega deal.
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  Speaker 3: Now.
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  Speaker 1: In exchange, the mav Rex received Chris Middleton, Chris Middleton
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  Speaker 1: and spare parts plus two first round draft picks.
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  Speaker 3: Who cares about that? Those come via the Wizards.
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  Speaker 1: They get one from Oklahoma City, which will be next draft.
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  Speaker 1: That'll probably be the last pick, and then a twenty
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  Speaker 1: to thirty pick by Golden State. They might be back
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  Speaker 1: to the Donald Foyle Warriors. They made a trade as well.
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  Speaker 1: We'll get to that in a minute, but that's a
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  Speaker 1: Warriors pick in twenty thirty and I gaggle of second
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  Speaker 1: round picks. Now that is a good jumping off point,
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  Speaker 1: so let us discuss. We're going to keep this simple.
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  Speaker 1: No need to get too difficult on this. So the
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  Speaker 1: question you make the call who wins the Anthony Davis
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  Speaker 1: trade to Washington? As this is the second consecutive here
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  Speaker 1: almost to the day that Anthony Davis.
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  Speaker 3: Has been traded.
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  Speaker 1: He went from the Lakers to Dallas in one of
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  Speaker 1: the darkest moments in Maverick's history and really embarrassing for
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  Speaker 1: the NBA.
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  Speaker 3: And then Davis now goes to Washington.
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  Speaker 1: So my thoughts on this, I've got beater car, PB
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  Speaker 1: and C and whaling and we will combine all of
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  Speaker 1: these things together and we are going to make.
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  Speaker 3: Some delicious, delicious.
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  Speaker 1: Garlic onion pizza is what we're gonna make. I drove
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  Speaker 1: through on my way here. I didn't fly I'm an
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  Speaker 1: overnight guy and I'm fly drive, and I drove through Gilroy,
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  Speaker 1: which is one of my favorite spots. I didn't get
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  Speaker 1: to stop there, unfortunately, because I was on a tight schedule.
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  Speaker 1: But the Garlic Mecca, the Holy Land of the Garlic.
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  Speaker 1: Oh so good Town smells like garlic. I should just
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  Speaker 1: move there.
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  Speaker 3: It smells like garlic anyway.
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  Speaker 1: So who wins? You make the call? Who wins the
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  Speaker 1: Anthony davistrade to Washington. So on this one, we're gonna
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  Speaker 1: flip a We're gonna flip the magical coin, and we
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  Speaker 1: look at this unlike Benny versus the penny, which is
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  Speaker 1: now up. You can watch the super Bowl thing. Don't
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  Speaker 1: do it now though, because we're doing the radio shows.
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  Speaker 1: So wait till the show's over. They can watch it.
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  Speaker 1: But we flip the magical coin up, the malord magical coin,
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  Speaker 1: and it lands heads. You lose tails, You also lose,
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  Speaker 1: so lose lose. This is you get root canal. You
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  Speaker 1: get root canal. Everyone gets root canal. However, if you
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  Speaker 1: put a butcher knife to my neck and forced me
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  Speaker 1: to pick, it is Dallas by default. Dallas wins this
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  Speaker 1: trade by default. It's not exactly a moral you know,
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  Speaker 1: a celebratory moment, victory parade. Now my word for all
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  Speaker 1: of this, the reason I'm giving the edge to the
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  Speaker 1: Dallas Mavericks on the Anthony Davis trade to Washington, the
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  Speaker 1: word is therapeutic.
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  Speaker 3: This is the.
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  Speaker 1: Dallas Mavericks walking into group therapy group of counseling and saying.
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  Speaker 3: Hey, yeah, we got a problem, we got a problem.
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  Speaker 1: And Anthony Davis, I know he didn't play because he's
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  Speaker 1: you know, nicknamed street clothes.
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  Speaker 3: Why would he play.
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  Speaker 1: But when he does show up and sit on the bench,
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  Speaker 1: it is a painful reminder of the systemic incompetence of
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  Speaker 1: the reign of terror by Nico Harrison that they just
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  Speaker 1: gave Luca away. He gave him to the Lakers for
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  Speaker 1: that stiff Anthony Davis. Davis is an emotional splinter, and
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  Speaker 1: I saw.
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  Speaker 3: It, you know what it's like.
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  Speaker 1: It's like having you know, every not every neighborhood has this,
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  Speaker 1: but some neighbors I used to live in one, and
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  Speaker 1: they you go down the street and then there's a
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  Speaker 1: couple of people that are just hoarders and they have
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  Speaker 1: like those junk beater cars on wooden blocks out in
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  Speaker 1: front of their house on the driveway, and there's like
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  Speaker 1: mosque growing on it. There's a family of raccoons that
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  Speaker 1: are living inside. It's it's a pest motel, all kinds
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  Speaker 1: of vermin, and you end up lowering the property values.
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  Speaker 1: The unibrow I think the number I read was twenty
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  Speaker 1: nine games in one year in Dalla us the most
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  Speaker 1: fragile man.
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  Speaker 3: In the world.
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  Speaker 1: They should change the beer commercials, stay thirsty or just
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  Speaker 1: stay sitting on your took us. So Dallas turned this
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  Speaker 1: into a salvage and recovery mission. I love the fact
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  Speaker 1: that the trade they got with Washington, the featured player
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  Speaker 1: or the featured item is former Bucks supporting actor Chris Middleton,
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  Speaker 1: who is an extra with the speaking line. And that's
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  Speaker 1: who the Mavericks got back. And I said, listen, they
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  Speaker 1: got the kid, the prodigy from Maine. That's who the
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  Speaker 1: Mavericks are building around. And it's his world now and
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  Speaker 1: the flag is up. But the return this was a
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  Speaker 1: hoarders paradise. You've got Florida ceiling role players, has bins
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  Speaker 1: and never wears bingo cards masquerading his draft picks.
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  Speaker 3: And the point is.
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  Speaker 1: Though, that this is is addition by subtraction. You won't
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  Speaker 1: have to stare at Anthony Davis sitting there with a
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  Speaker 1: day's look on his face on the bench because he
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  Speaker 1: can't play because he's always hurt. So Dallas didn't win
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  Speaker 1: because of talent. I don't care about draft picks. You do,
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  Speaker 1: that's your michig Os.
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  Speaker 3: I'm over it.
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  Speaker 1: I've grown up. I don't care about draft picks. I
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  Speaker 1: hate them. So the Dallas won, they won some relief. Now, Meanwhile,
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  Speaker 1: it takes two to tango, I'm told in the NBA
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  Speaker 1: trading game unless you just trade and release people, which
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  Speaker 1: there are a couple of trades that have happened this
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  Speaker 1: week where you just traded for a player not to
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  Speaker 1: keep them.
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  Speaker 3: It blows me away that still goes on in the NBA. Anyway.
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  Speaker 3: The question on this one.
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  Speaker 1: Why why would the Wizards, knowing what we know about
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  Speaker 1: the Unibrow, why would the Wizards sign up for the
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  Speaker 1: Anthony Davis Experience?
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  Speaker 3: Like, seriously, why would they do that? Well, I have a.
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  Speaker 1: Theory on this after a minute long Mallard deliberation. It
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  Speaker 1: is because this is what bad teams do when they
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  Speaker 1: finally lose their appetite of sucking. Washington has been playing
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  Speaker 1: Dungeons and Dragons for years. They're stuck in the dungeon
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  Speaker 1: the cellar, and they're they're rolling the dice and they're
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  Speaker 1: searching for a dragon. They can't find a fire breathing dragon.
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  Speaker 1: They can't even find any dragons. The dragon never shows up.
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  Speaker 1: At some point you look down and realize that for
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  Speaker 1: almost a decade you have been eating PB and C sandwiches.
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  Speaker 1: Not PB and J those are good. You've been eating
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  Speaker 1: PB and C sandwiches. That's peanut butter and crap jelly
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  Speaker 1: sandwiches for eight straight seasons.
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  Speaker 3: Everybody beats the Wiz.
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  Speaker 1: There used to be a great ad campaign when I
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  Speaker 1: would visit my brother in New York, and it was
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  Speaker 1: nobody beats the Wiz. But this is a updated Everyone
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  Speaker 1: beats the Whiz. So they finally hit the inflection point,
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  Speaker 1: the breaking point, if you will. You can only get
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  Speaker 1: vaporized so many years in a row before you say,
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  Speaker 1: you know what, I'd rather be medio than a punching bag.
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  Speaker 1: And that's what to me, that is what this symbolizes.
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  Speaker 1: If you're the Washington Wizards, if you're Rick and Maryland,
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  Speaker 1: he said morning time, right, So they trade for Anthony
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  Speaker 1: Davis soon to be thirty three next month, Happy early birthday.
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  Speaker 1: The injury report. I looked this up. It's amazing. You
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  Speaker 1: can look it up on Wikipedia. Anthony Davis's injury report
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  Speaker 1: is longer than a filibuster on the Senate floor, and
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  Speaker 1: people still grumble. I did an entire podcast, my Fifth
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  Speaker 1: Hour podcast, which I know you listen to because you're
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  Speaker 1: not a fraud, fake p one, You're a real p one.
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  Speaker 3: So you listen to the Fifth Hour podcast.
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  Speaker 1: I know Alf's shaking his head or nodding his head,
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  Speaker 1: and so's Fergduck and malor Propkay.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, So we did a whole rant about all the
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  Speaker 3: injuries the most.
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  Speaker 1: He literally is the most injured man in the NBA.
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  Speaker 1: And you know, spoiler for the Wizards rebuilding forever. Tanking
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  Speaker 1: and drafting is not a plan. It is a lifestyle choice.
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  Speaker 1: Is not a good lifestyle choice. The Wizards chose adult
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  Speaker 1: and they get to pair Anthony Davis for once. He
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  Speaker 1: play twenty five percent of the games. Congratulations, twenty five
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  Speaker 1: percent of the games with Trey Young. You raise the
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  Speaker 1: floor for those games. You sell maybe a few tickets.
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  Speaker 1: Some of those hacked politicians in DC will go watch
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  Speaker 1: you play, and you play a better brand of basketball.
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  Speaker 3: Is it risky? Well? Is it really?
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  Speaker 1: I mean I guess to some degree. Right, tanking though,
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  Speaker 1: is a slow death. It's a slow death, and this
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  Speaker 1: is at least a different kind of pain. It's still
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  Speaker 1: pain because Anthony Davis is a heartbreaker. He doesn't play,
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  Speaker 1: he doesn't like basketball. He's always hurt. Just I guess bad.
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  Speaker 1: It's good genetics, and Bade, it's good genetics because he's
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  Speaker 1: a professional athlete and he's massively built to play in
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  Speaker 1: the NBA.
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  Speaker 3: Ain't bad because he can't play.
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  Speaker 1: It's like mid level misery beats bottom feeding humiliation.
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  Speaker 3: And that is the whole story. Now the last word here.
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  Speaker 1: We go now head to the Bay Area where we're
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  Speaker 1: broadcasting from. Golden State has entered the flea market, and
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  Speaker 1: we have learned a trade that happened not that long
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  Speaker 1: ago before we cracked the microphones here on Fox Sports
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  Speaker 1: Radio on the Ben Malors Show, Atlanta and Golden State
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  Speaker 1: have gotten together and they are sending Chris stops.
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  Speaker 3: Porzingis to the Warriors.
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  Speaker 1: Atlanta is for Jonathan Kaminga and Buddy Ball Buddy Healed.
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  Speaker 3: The Unicorn is headed to San Francisco.
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  Speaker 1: So the question, what is your assessment of Chris stops
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  Speaker 1: porzingis a trade that went down not that long ago.
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  Speaker 3: As he is headed to Golden State. All right, so
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  Speaker 3: this is this.
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  Speaker 1: I love the spin job, and you always go with
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  Speaker 1: the spin job and say, well that's not true, you.
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  Speaker 3: Go with the spin job.
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  Speaker 1: The Warriors for the last two months have been connected
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  Speaker 1: to who connect the dots? Giannis adent to Coombo. Now Yannis,
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  Speaker 1: unless it just happened, has not been traded. He's still
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  Speaker 1: property of the Milwaukee Bucks, not playing also as he
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  Speaker 1: has a protest there in the land of the Cheese.
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  Speaker 3: So the Warriors, they went out whaling.
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  Speaker 1: They were hoping to catch the big blue whale or
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  Speaker 1: in this case, the green whale, and they had a
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  Speaker 1: yacht sized net out. The Golden State Warriors did. And
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  Speaker 1: they came back and they looked at what they had caught,
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  Speaker 1: and it wasn't a blue whale. It wasn't any kind
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  Speaker 1: of whale. They had a nice can of sardines.
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  Speaker 3: That's what they got. They got a can of sardines.
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  Speaker 1: So instead of the Greek freak, they land Chris tops Porzingis.
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  Speaker 1: This is known as the better Luck Next Time bundle. Well,
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  Speaker 1: I didn't want that bundle, but you got the bundle.
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  Speaker 1: You got the better Luck Next Time bundle. This is
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  Speaker 1: the thanks for Trying gift bag. We really do thank
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  Speaker 1: you for trying. It's really cool that you tried. And
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  Speaker 1: here's a nice gift back. Zingis isn't bad. He's not bad.
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  Speaker 1: But let's call it what it is. This is a
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  Speaker 1: poor man's Anthony Davis. We just did about ten minutes
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  Speaker 1: fifteen minutes on Anthony Davis. When he plays much like Davis.
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  Speaker 1: When Porzingis can shoot, he in theory, would be the
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  Speaker 1: perfect addition to what the Warriors playoffensively. He can stretch
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  Speaker 1: the floor, he can score. It's the when part of it.
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  Speaker 1: That is the Komodo dragon in the room and Steve
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  Speaker 1: Kerr swing back swing bat well, he swung big and
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  Speaker 1: he missed and the mighty curR struck out. And now
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  Speaker 1: I guess they want applause for landing the consolation prize. Eh,
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  Speaker 1: give you a golf clap, give you that. And so
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  Speaker 1: this is an expiring contract, so it's low risk. Okay,
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  Speaker 1: I don't really care about that. That's that's your deal.
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  Speaker 1: I don't work on Wall Street. That's a count and talk.
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  Speaker 1: That's bean counter talk. And this doesn't scare anybody when
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  Speaker 1: May gets around, because they know porzing this is going
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  Speaker 1: to break down. Now he is reunited with his old
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  Speaker 1: pow from the Celtics, Al Horford. I'm sure that all
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  Speaker 1: feels great. Reunited it feels so good. Cute little story,
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  Speaker 1: zero intimidation. Meanwhile, in Atlanta, Jonathan Kaminga escapes Steve kurrz doghouse.
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  Speaker 3: He gets a fresh start, a bigger role, and another.
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  Speaker 1: One of these guys where you're like, Okay, is this
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  Speaker 1: the guy?
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  Speaker 3: Is this the guy? Can't he be the man?
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  Speaker 1: You're never going to be the man when Steph Curry
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  Speaker 1: is the man in Golden State. And you might remember
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  Speaker 1: a couple of years ago, the Golden State Warriors had
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  Speaker 1: another player. All Right, this guy's pretty good, but he's
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  Speaker 1: being held back. Not a fan favorite for Draymond Green.
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  Speaker 1: Not a fan favorite for Draymond Green. But you might
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  Speaker 1: remember the Warriors they traded into Washington. He end up stinking,
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  Speaker 1: ended up stinking there in Washington. We'll see what happens
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  Speaker 1: with Kaminga in Atlanta. And he's not had the opportunity
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  Speaker 1: to be the alpha. There's no alphas in Atlanta. They
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  Speaker 1: all stink the Hawks. I guess if he turns out
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  Speaker 1: to be good, fine, I'm buddy, heal Its just a
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  Speaker 1: he might be traded again by before the deadline. He's
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  Speaker 1: just a shooter, that's it. One, not a five skill player.
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  Speaker 1: Is a one skill player. So again the Warriors tried
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  Speaker 1: to get Giannis and they wanted the crown jewel and
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  Speaker 1: they ended up getting costume jewelry is what they got.
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• 18:06
  Speaker 1: that a this is a follow up to a mile
• 18:08
  Speaker 1: of monologue that we gave you the other day. Free
• 18:11
  Speaker 1: agent pitcher Framburg Valdez, late of the cheating as Rose,
• 18:17
  Speaker 1: and he has agreed to terms with the Detroit Tigers
• 18:21
  Speaker 1: on a one hundred and fifteen million dollars three year contract.
• 18:26
  Speaker 3: A little birdie was chirping, trip trip, trip trip.
• 18:32
  Speaker 1: Now Liberty says it will be the highest average annual
• 18:36
  Speaker 1: value aa V, as the kids like to say, for
• 18:40
  Speaker 1: a left handed pitcher in baseball history. So take that,
• 18:44
  Speaker 1: Sandy Kofax and all you other losers, this Framber Valdez,
• 18:49
  Speaker 1: the highest paid on a single year average in baseball history.
• 18:54
  Speaker 1: Now Valdez, who has been somewhat durable, but he's a
• 18:58
  Speaker 1: place for the cheaters.
• 19:00
  Speaker 3: He has played for the cheers.
• 19:01
  Speaker 1: So now he will take his talents to the Detroit
• 19:04
  Speaker 1: Tigers rotation, which is currently anchored by the top pitcher
• 19:06
  Speaker 1: in baseball American League, Cy Young winner Trek Scouoble, a
• 19:12
  Speaker 1: multi time Platinum Trek Scooble, who is still hanging out
• 19:16
  Speaker 1: in Motown. He's also going to arbitration. That ruling should
• 19:18
  Speaker 1: be down soon, and you gotta think he's gonna win that. However,
• 19:23
  Speaker 1: stranger things have happened. Human beings are involved anyway. So
• 19:27
  Speaker 1: the story here is that Framber Valdez, it looked like
• 19:30
  Speaker 1: nobody wanted him, and he ends up getting a contract.
• 19:34
  Speaker 1: I of course immediately got an email from a how
• 19:38
  Speaker 1: should I say it? I want to keep my job,
• 19:40
  Speaker 1: A deplorable a hole fan? How about that from Houston?
• 19:43
  Speaker 3: So you were wrongballer. You did twenty minutes on Frambervelt
• 19:47
  Speaker 3: Dees and he designed with the Tigers and you don't
• 19:50
  Speaker 3: know what you're talking about. Okay, thank you.
• 19:53
  Speaker 1: I'm glad that you emailed me, and I did. I
• 19:56
  Speaker 1: right back to this guy. Now, why would I write back?
• 19:58
  Speaker 1: I have the bully pulpit. I can bury the guy
• 20:00
  Speaker 1: right here. Okay, I can bear the guy right here.
• 20:02
  Speaker 1: So that's a good jumping off point. Let us discuss
• 20:05
  Speaker 1: the question what is your knee jerk reaction to starting
• 20:09
  Speaker 1: pitcher Franbur Valdez heading to the Detroit Tigers Big Baseball
• 20:14
  Speaker 1: signing there? Spring training starts in less than two weeks.
• 20:19
  Speaker 1: Less than two weeks, all right, So my observations, I've
• 20:21
  Speaker 1: got bowling ball, porterhouse, steak, and wandering officer, and we
• 20:28
  Speaker 1: will lock all of these things together and we are
• 20:31
  Speaker 1: going to play Connect three is what we're.
• 20:33
  Speaker 3: Going to play. So this is number one. All right?
• 20:39
  Speaker 3: This is a late night TV commercial. Wait, there's more.
• 20:43
  Speaker 3: All right. Operators are standing by right now.
• 20:46
  Speaker 1: You can pull out props and be like a prop
• 20:51
  Speaker 1: comedian or a late night infomercial and drop a bowling
• 20:54
  Speaker 1: ball on a pillow, A my pillow. It's a my
• 20:58
  Speaker 1: pillow contract, no bound. So I was actually right about this.
• 21:01
  Speaker 1: This is a pillow contract. And bring in Mike Lindell
• 21:06
  Speaker 1: and all that. Not the five to six year contract
• 21:09
  Speaker 1: that Valdez wanted for the schmuck a astro fan astro fan.
• 21:14
  Speaker 1: He wanted a five or six year deal. Nobody offered
• 21:16
  Speaker 1: him that. This is now, it's a pillow contract. It's
• 21:19
  Speaker 1: a luxury pillow with an opt out tag that's still
• 21:22
  Speaker 1: attached to it. He's got a lot of cash per year, however,
• 21:25
  Speaker 1: just not the full price that he wanted. And so
• 21:29
  Speaker 1: Valdez will stay for two years. It's got two years,
• 21:34
  Speaker 1: and then he can hit the eject button and go
• 21:36
  Speaker 1: back into the transfer portal, go back to the market,
• 21:38
  Speaker 1: hit the snooze button, and of course if he doesn't pitch, well,
• 21:44
  Speaker 1: if he doesn't pitch, well, he's going to continue to
• 21:46
  Speaker 1: winter in Michigan.
• 21:47
  Speaker 3: Like he's spent his summer in Michigan.
• 21:49
  Speaker 1: And don't forget also that Framberg got a little He's
• 21:54
  Speaker 1: still got a little bit of that funky funky bo
• 21:59
  Speaker 1: from Houston on him hanging out all those years with
• 22:02
  Speaker 1: the cheating you know who, the cheating you know who,
• 22:07
  Speaker 1: banging on trash cans and blowing into whistles.
• 22:09
  Speaker 3: Hey, I check them for the buzzer, checking for the buzzer. Now.
• 22:13
  Speaker 1: He also last season famously during a game this made
• 22:18
  Speaker 1: for good talk radio. It was taboo in the community
• 22:21
  Speaker 1: of baseball. He called out his catcher and went deeper
• 22:26
  Speaker 1: than that. So despite this big AAV average annual value Framberg,
• 22:33
  Speaker 1: he's going to a team where he's not going to
• 22:35
  Speaker 1: be the alpha in Motown.
• 22:38
  Speaker 3: He is not. He is the sidekick.
• 22:41
  Speaker 1: He's the Robin to Trek Schouble as batman, which in
• 22:47
  Speaker 1: theories like, well, you're not the number one guy, there's
• 22:49
  Speaker 1: limited pressure in that. You slide in as the number
• 22:52
  Speaker 1: two and you pitch in October and then you're hiding
• 22:58
  Speaker 1: out behind school ball. Let the Tigers do the heavy
• 23:01
  Speaker 1: lifting and all that stuff. Detroit's loaded. Legit loaded the
• 23:06
  Speaker 1: world like World Series loaded? And Toronto are they? Are
• 23:11
  Speaker 1: they going to replace Toronto as the American League team
• 23:14
  Speaker 1: in the World Series? Because it's really the Dodgers have
• 23:17
  Speaker 1: already won the National League pennant.
• 23:19
  Speaker 3: I don't know if you know that.
• 23:19
  Speaker 1: The Dodgers wrapped up the National League pennant, and so
• 23:22
  Speaker 1: we're just waiting to find out who's gonna win the
• 23:24
  Speaker 1: American League pennant.
• 23:25
  Speaker 3: And that's it.
• 23:26
  Speaker 1: Uh and so again, But the wider angle lens, the
• 23:31
  Speaker 1: wider angle lens on this it's a, it's a game
• 23:35
  Speaker 1: of back back Chicken and Valdez Framber Valdez flinched. He
• 23:41
  Speaker 1: should have taken the Council of the Malar Think Tank
• 23:44
  Speaker 1: and waited, uh, once arms start popping, we mentioned rice
• 23:50
  Speaker 1: crispy snap crackle pop, and it's gonna happen in less
• 23:53
  Speaker 1: than two weeks. In the Cactus League and the Grapefruit League,
• 23:56
  Speaker 1: prices go up, teams get desperate, and instead he said,
• 24:00
  Speaker 1: you know what I want, A nice pillow right now.
• 24:02
  Speaker 1: I hope it's a memory foam pillow. That's what I
• 24:05
  Speaker 1: hope for you. Fram Burg, All right now, page two
• 24:08
  Speaker 1: we go to La speaking of Sho hal Tani and
• 24:11
  Speaker 1: he shall appear. So the Dodgers superstar, the face of Baseball,
• 24:16
  Speaker 1: Sorry Aaron Judge, Global Baseball Shoe Haotani. Dodgers are the
• 24:21
  Speaker 1: most popular team at Shoe Heotani. So, Shoeotani admitted recently
• 24:26
  Speaker 1: did an interview. He doesn't do a lot of interviews,
• 24:28
  Speaker 1: but he admitted that he likes the team. This is
• 24:30
  Speaker 1: going to shock you. He likes the team. Spending spree
• 24:34
  Speaker 1: the Dodgers over the last couple of off seasons. And yeah,
• 24:38
  Speaker 1: they've they've been getting a lot of pushback. You know,
• 24:40
  Speaker 1: a lot of you people are losers and you push
• 24:42
  Speaker 1: back against the Dodgers. So Otani said, he believes that
• 24:46
  Speaker 1: the Dodgers massive spending spree is good for baseball. Third rail, momaam,
• 24:52
  Speaker 1: that's the third rail, he said. Quote this is a
• 24:55
  Speaker 1: quote from Otani translated. He said, yeah, I think with
• 24:59
  Speaker 1: what the ownership group has done, it's great.
• 25:01
  Speaker 3: Otani said.
• 25:02
  Speaker 1: I mean, obviously the fans pay money, they buy tickets,
• 25:06
  Speaker 1: and they you know, he said, they come to the game.
• 25:09
  Speaker 1: So I think that the money is being used back
• 25:13
  Speaker 1: to sign these great players and put up and put
• 25:17
  Speaker 1: out a winning product on the field.
• 25:19
  Speaker 3: Close quote.
• 25:21
  Speaker 1: All right, question shoe Aotani says the Dodgers spending spree
• 25:26
  Speaker 1: is good for baseball.
• 25:28
  Speaker 3: How is that going over? How is this going over?
• 25:32
  Speaker 3: These comments by Otani.
• 25:33
  Speaker 1: So this is after a two minute, not three minute,
• 25:37
  Speaker 1: not one minute, two minute, two minute investigation, This is
• 25:42
  Speaker 1: actually a penalty, and in the eyes of the baseball community,
• 25:45
  Speaker 1: it's an instigator penalty. And Otani actually has to go
• 25:49
  Speaker 1: to the penalty box for two minutes, two minutes instigator
• 25:52
  Speaker 1: penalty for show ALTONI. This is Otani lighting a cigar.
• 25:56
  Speaker 3: I love it.
• 25:56
  Speaker 1: Lighting a cigar with a double double wrapped hundred dollar
• 26:00
  Speaker 1: bills and right in front of the poverty franchises in Major.
• 26:05
  Speaker 3: League Baseball is what he's doing. And the thing that
• 26:08
  Speaker 3: blows me away.
• 26:08
  Speaker 1: And I've talked about this in the past, but there's
• 26:10
  Speaker 1: new people listening all the time to The Ben Mathershow,
• 26:13
  Speaker 1: and we thank you for that. Tell a friend, these
• 26:15
  Speaker 1: loser fans who don't have the fighting spirit. It's bad enough,
• 26:21
  Speaker 1: they're teams that they follow have no guts. Right, the
• 26:28
  Speaker 1: fan bases have embraced that. It blows me away. Why
• 26:31
  Speaker 1: are you like that? You don't want to be the
• 26:33
  Speaker 1: team that beats Goliath? Apparently, No, no, no, no.
• 26:37
  Speaker 3: For my entire life growing up, it was always.
• 26:40
  Speaker 1: Man, you want to take down that big, powerful, dominant team, Right,
• 26:43
  Speaker 1: you wanted to beat whenever the Yankees had a dynasty.
• 26:46
  Speaker 1: You want to be the team that took down the Yankees, Right,
• 26:48
  Speaker 1: you want to take them down and all that. In
• 26:50
  Speaker 1: this case, though, it's like, well, it's a Dodgers and
• 26:54
  Speaker 1: we can't beat them, so we'll run from the grind
• 26:58
  Speaker 1: and instead we just want Major League Baseball to cut
• 27:01
  Speaker 1: the blue Dodger balls off and give them real blue balls,
• 27:04
  Speaker 1: no balls.
• 27:06
  Speaker 3: So Otani what he does? What he did here?
• 27:08
  Speaker 1: Otani tossed a porterhouse steak into a hungry lion's den.
• 27:14
  Speaker 1: It's sea salt on an open wound. It's also hilarious
• 27:18
  Speaker 1: seeing the reaction, the feeding frenzy from fans of suck
• 27:21
  Speaker 1: bag teams who aren't trying to win, and they're already
• 27:25
  Speaker 1: bleeding and all that. And Otani strolls in there wearing
• 27:28
  Speaker 1: a blue and gold iron Man armor outfit and says, hey.
• 27:33
  Speaker 3: This is great, man? Is this great? What did you
• 27:38
  Speaker 3: expect him to say? You expect? Well, I'm a little embarrassed.
• 27:42
  Speaker 1: The Dodgers spend too much money and I happen to
• 27:44
  Speaker 1: be one of the players that's on the team. And
• 27:46
  Speaker 1: please Gougenheim group, tighten the purse strings, Please don't spend
• 27:50
  Speaker 1: this money.
• 27:50
  Speaker 3: Come on, no, come on, the Dodgers spoil these players.
• 27:55
  Speaker 3: They travel better than all the other American sports athletes.
• 27:59
  Speaker 1: And I believe globally there might be some soccer team,
• 28:02
  Speaker 1: but from what I heard, they're the only team that segregates.
• 28:06
  Speaker 1: The players have one plane, and the media, the trainers,
• 28:10
  Speaker 1: the coaching staff, all the supports staff there have a
• 28:12
  Speaker 1: different plane. That's how spoiled the rotten These Dodgers are right,
• 28:17
  Speaker 1: And you want Otani to say, nah, we don't need that.
• 28:20
  Speaker 1: This is the Gilded Age. It's what it is, and
• 28:23
  Speaker 1: he's the king. This is Rockefeller, like vibes. If you've
• 28:27
  Speaker 1: studied American history, it's Rockefeller. Otani's living in Baseball's taj Mahal.
• 28:35
  Speaker 3: And all these people are out there.
• 28:36
  Speaker 1: Protesting, saying, you gotta you can't be doing that, Oh
• 28:39
  Speaker 1: my god, and Otani basically says, suck it to the trolls.
• 28:42
  Speaker 1: And I love it, right, I love it. It's great. The
• 28:45
  Speaker 1: fans get gouge Dodger fans with overprized merch and overpriced
• 28:50
  Speaker 1: snacks and all that ticket price is parking the whole thing.
• 28:54
  Speaker 1: And at least the ownership group they spend, they spend,
• 28:58
  Speaker 1: and good for them.
• 29:00
  Speaker 3: So that's it. That's the sales pitch.
• 29:02
  Speaker 1: The fans overpay for this junk the owners spends, and
• 29:06
  Speaker 1: that's what's supposed to happen. In other places, that's not
• 29:09
  Speaker 1: the case. And if you sign with the Dodgers, you
• 29:12
  Speaker 1: get the red carpet, not a coupon book like you're
• 29:14
  Speaker 1: playing for the Pirates or the Rays or the A's.
• 29:18
  Speaker 1: It's capitalism with pine tar all over it. Here's the truth.
• 29:23
  Speaker 1: Nobody wants to say out loud. This isn't about baseball health.
• 29:27
  Speaker 1: It's about cheap owners getting exposed.
• 29:30
  Speaker 3: Is what it is, all right.
• 29:31
  Speaker 1: Meanwhile, final point, we go to the NFL. That's right,
• 29:34
  Speaker 1: we go from baseball to the NFL. I had to
• 29:36
  Speaker 1: mention this. Go to Arizona. The Cardinals. I don't know if
• 29:39
  Speaker 1: you saw this or not. They agreed to a deal
• 29:42
  Speaker 1: with Nathaniel Hackett as their offensive coordinator.
• 29:47
  Speaker 3: Yep, yep, that's.
• 29:49
  Speaker 1: The same guy. That's not you know, he thought he
• 29:51
  Speaker 1: might have changed his name. Nathaniel Hackett. He's in his
• 29:55
  Speaker 1: mid forties. He was an offensive coordinator for Matt LeFleur
• 30:00
  Speaker 1: in Green Bay. He was in Jacksonville. He's bounced around
• 30:05
  Speaker 1: the NFL. He's not good at his job. He also
• 30:07
  Speaker 1: failed spectacularly with the Broncos. And now Nathaniel Hackett will
• 30:12
  Speaker 1: team up with the other Lafleur. That's how he's known,
• 30:14
  Speaker 1: Mike LeFleur in Arizona. So the question for the esteem panel,
• 30:21
  Speaker 1: Nathaniel Hackett picks up the keys to the Cardinals offense.
• 30:26
  Speaker 1: How on God's green Earth does Nathaniel Hackett keep getting
• 30:30
  Speaker 1: these gigs? Seriously? So it's not and I knew this
• 30:36
  Speaker 1: going in. It's not what you know because he's pretty
• 30:38
  Speaker 1: bad at his job. It's who you know. And Nathaniel
• 30:42
  Speaker 1: Hackett is a NEPO baby. He was he was born
• 30:45
  Speaker 1: into a coaching family. I covered the University of Southern
• 30:48
  Speaker 1: California Trojans'. His dad, Paul Hackett, was the coach, not
• 30:52
  Speaker 1: a good one back in the day. And so Nathaniel
• 30:56
  Speaker 1: Hackett's that's the family business in coaching, and that helps out.
• 31:01
  Speaker 3: Now I should be clear.
• 31:03
  Speaker 1: Hackett, Nathaniel Hackett is not going to be calling the
• 31:04
  Speaker 1: plays for the Cardinals, And so that means this is
• 31:08
  Speaker 1: one of those plum gigs. You get the title, you
• 31:10
  Speaker 1: get the corner office. It's a smile and just nod
• 31:13
  Speaker 1: in the meetings. Make sure you bring the right donuts.
• 31:16
  Speaker 1: Make sure you bring the right donuts. Want the glazed donuts,
• 31:20
  Speaker 1: A couple of Long Johns, a bear claw and an
• 31:23
  Speaker 1: apple fritter, and you got to go to the meetings.
• 31:27
  Speaker 1: Make sure that those again bear claw, apple fritter, glazed donuts.
• 31:32
  Speaker 1: And then you bring those to the meeting and don't
• 31:35
  Speaker 1: touch anything else. Don't touch the overhead projector don't do it,
• 31:39
  Speaker 1: don't do not do it. And Hackett is like, you know,
• 31:42
  Speaker 1: he's like, he's like that degenerate cousin that nobody trusts
• 31:47
  Speaker 1: with the car keys. However, you feel bad for him.
• 31:50
  Speaker 1: It's like a friend of the family. And so I
• 31:52
  Speaker 1: guess the Flair family. They keep letting him crash on
• 31:56
  Speaker 1: the couch and he smells, he doesn't shower, he's got
• 32:01
  Speaker 1: disheveled the whole thing.
• 32:04
  Speaker 3: Wow, So seriously, why.
• 32:05
  Speaker 1: Does Hackett keep landing chops? Now my theory on this,
• 32:09
  Speaker 1: I've got free words. Uh, barbecue pit boss are my
• 32:15
  Speaker 1: three words. In Green Bay, they swore up and down
• 32:20
  Speaker 1: that this guy could smoke meat like a wizard. Okay,
• 32:24
  Speaker 1: he was the wizard of smoked meat. Forget red zone efficiency.
• 32:29
  Speaker 1: Who cares about that? This guy his offense is a
• 32:33
  Speaker 1: mean brisket. And if you've ever had properly cooked brisket,
• 32:37
  Speaker 1: it's one of the great things about being alive. You
• 32:40
  Speaker 1: never want to die because of the brisket. You want
• 32:42
  Speaker 1: to live forever, so you're gonna have more brisket. You
• 32:44
  Speaker 1: do even if you're a vegan, you want more brisket.
• 32:47
  Speaker 1: It's that good. So Hackett is wandering. He's you know what,
• 32:51
  Speaker 1: He's a wandering officer. And I believe that's the phrase,
• 32:56
  Speaker 1: wandering officer, drifting from team to team and the personal
• 33:02
  Speaker 1: the personnel file is sealed and failures are buried under experience.
• 33:09
  Speaker 3: He's experienced. He's really good with a side of.
• 33:14
  Speaker 1: Cow and protected by the good old boys network of coaching.
• 33:19
  Speaker 1: And they're desperate and they just keep hiring these same people.
• 33:23
  Speaker 1: This isn't innovation, it's football nepotism. And there are some
• 33:27
  Speaker 1: sauce stains from the brisket.
• 33:30
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• 33:32
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• 33:37
  Speaker 3: It's Mallar how about that? To the third degree? This
• 33:42
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• 33:45
  Speaker 5: On Tuesday, new Cardinals head coach Mike Lafleur had his
• 33:48
  Speaker 5: introductory press conference and revealed that the team is undecided
• 33:52
  Speaker 5: on the future of Kyler Murray.
• 33:53
  Speaker 6: Ben, do you think Murray is in Arizona at the
• 33:55
  Speaker 6: start of the season.
• 33:56
  Speaker 1: Oh, he might be there to play video games, but
• 33:59
  Speaker 1: he's not gonna be playing quarterback for the Cardinals.
• 34:00
  Speaker 3: Now he will be traded.
• 34:02
  Speaker 1: And when you say you're when you say you're undecided,
• 34:04
  Speaker 1: you're not bringing him back. He's They got to find
• 34:07
  Speaker 1: a sucker to take it. Maybe the Steelers will take him.
• 34:09
  Speaker 1: The little fella alligator arms right.
• 34:11
  Speaker 5: Next, it was reported this week that before getting dealt
• 34:13
  Speaker 5: to the Rockets, Kevin Durant veto to trade to the Timberwolves.
• 34:16
  Speaker 5: Rockets are playoff contenders in the West at thirty one
• 34:19
  Speaker 5: and seventeen, Wolves aren't far behind. Ben, do you think
• 34:21
  Speaker 5: Minnesota is better off not having gotten Durant?
• 34:24
  Speaker 3: Uh?
• 34:24
  Speaker 1: Yeah, they seem like they're doing Okay. We'll find out
• 34:26
  Speaker 1: in the playoffs. I guess Durant didn't want the cold weather.
• 34:29
  Speaker 1: He wanted to hang on Houston. I guess that's the thing.
• 34:30
  Speaker 1: But for now we'll soo cokay. I mean, it's really
• 34:33
  Speaker 1: just how you play that two months stretch in the playoffs.
• 34:35
  Speaker 5: Next, Michael Porter Junior made a recent podcast appearance where
• 34:38
  Speaker 5: he said that he believes Jamal Murray is underappreciated and
• 34:41
  Speaker 5: has his reputation hurt by playing alongside Nikola Jokic.
• 34:44
  Speaker 6: Do you think that's true?
• 34:46
  Speaker 1: Uh, yeah, Yeah, I think that's true. I think he
• 34:49
  Speaker 1: was thought of as a weaker player because that how
• 34:51
  Speaker 1: we do kopol Loop.
• 34:52
  Speaker 3: How'd we do?
• 34:53
  Speaker 6: You passed this edition?
• 34:54
  Speaker 3: That is it? When put her on the board right there?
• 34:56
  Speaker 3: You can't?
• 34:56
  Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean porters. You know you play with Jokics.
• 34:59
  Speaker 1: It's all about right, It's all about Yokis. So it's
• 35:02
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• 35:03
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• 35:26
  Speaker 1: It's another riving edition, a riveting edition of Ask Ben.
• 35:31
  Speaker 1: Your questions are answers for the rest of the hour.
• 35:35
  Speaker 1: These are actual questions by actual listeners sent in using
• 35:38
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• 35:42
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• 35:46
  Speaker 5: All right, Ben, We're gonna start off with a question
• 35:48
  Speaker 5: from Donkey Sausage. Hi, Donkey, he wants to know are
• 35:53
  Speaker 5: you doing anything special for Valentine's Day?
• 35:56
  Speaker 1: I have not spent one second thinking about that, although
• 35:59
  Speaker 1: I probably should. It's ten days away. I didn't even realize.
• 36:03
  Speaker 1: I'm just trying to make it through the day. Donkey sausage.
• 36:06
  Speaker 1: I haven't thought about that. What about you? Big plans?
• 36:09
  Speaker 1: Mark and Coop mark Valentine's Day and then go work
• 36:13
  Speaker 1: your magic somewhere.
• 36:14
  Speaker 7: Yes, zero plans, all right, Coop?
• 36:18
  Speaker 3: Any big plans there?
• 36:20
  Speaker 6: I have dinner reservations.
• 36:22
  Speaker 3: Oh you already have reservations. That's planning ahead.
• 36:24
  Speaker 6: Yep.
• 36:25
  Speaker 3: Did you make them? Or did she make them?
• 36:27
  Speaker 6: I made them?
• 36:27
  Speaker 1: Oh?
• 36:27
  Speaker 3: Okay, I did that? Do you want to go there
• 36:30
  Speaker 3: more than she does? Or does she want to go
• 36:31
  Speaker 3: there more.
• 36:32
  Speaker 6: Than you do? We both chose the place.
• 36:36
  Speaker 3: Oh you like the restaurant? I got you? What's next?
• 36:38
  Speaker 3: Just ask man? Your questions are answers right now?
• 36:41
  Speaker 1: What day of the week is Saturday?
• 36:44
  Speaker 3: I was a Saturday? Oh good, Okay, we're not We're
• 36:45
  Speaker 3: not working that day.
• 36:46
  Speaker 6: Yeah, all right?
• 36:47
  Speaker 3: What's next?
• 36:48
  Speaker 6: All right?
• 36:49
  Speaker 5: The King Rory? Two good questions here from the King Rory.
• 36:53
  Speaker 5: Let's go with what is your favorite type of soup?
• 36:57
  Speaker 1: Favorite type of soup? Let's see your favorite type of soup. Well,
• 37:01
  Speaker 1: I love mazzi ball soup like chicken massible soup. I
• 37:04
  Speaker 1: also love French onion those are the big two. A
• 37:07
  Speaker 1: good French onion, which is hard to find.
• 37:09
  Speaker 3: Great? What about you mark just.
• 37:12
  Speaker 7: Your average chicken noodle soup?
• 37:14
  Speaker 3: You know you're just a basic? Uh, you know what?
• 37:20
  Speaker 7: Basic? And some crackers. I'm a big fan of crackers.
• 37:23
  Speaker 1: What about what about the bagel chips? It's a form
• 37:27
  Speaker 1: of a cracker. You know, it's a bagel. You ever
• 37:30
  Speaker 1: had those?
• 37:31
  Speaker 6: Never heard of them?
• 37:32
  Speaker 3: Really?
• 37:33
  Speaker 1: You gotta go over well, you go to Langers, or
• 37:35
  Speaker 1: you go in l A here, you can go to
• 37:37
  Speaker 1: any of the big delis.
• 37:39
  Speaker 3: Have about cool? What about you coop?
• 37:41
  Speaker 7: Uh?
• 37:42
  Speaker 5: I like pretty much all soup, but if I had
• 37:44
  Speaker 5: to pick a favorite, I think I'd.
• 37:46
  Speaker 6: Have to go with clam chowder.
• 37:49
  Speaker 1: Clam chatta, Yeah, sucking up to the people in Boston.
• 37:52
  Speaker 1: I see what you're doing there. What's next year in
• 37:54
  Speaker 1: New England? Clam chowder?
• 37:55
  Speaker 3: Yeah?
• 37:57
  Speaker 6: All right, let's see. Lady Sideburns.
• 38:01
  Speaker 1: Hi, Lady Sideburns. My favorite lady with sideburns is Lady Sideburns.
• 38:05
  Speaker 5: Likes to know when strolling through the grocery store, you
• 38:08
  Speaker 5: spot a loaf of bread that had fallen on the floor.
• 38:11
  Speaker 6: Do you pick it up and put it back? Or
• 38:12
  Speaker 6: do you pretend that you never even saw it.
• 38:15
  Speaker 1: Yeah, So it depends if I'm in a hurry or not.
• 38:17
  Speaker 1: Usually I'll try to help out and pick it up.
• 38:19
  Speaker 1: There have been times, I'm not gonna lie. There have
• 38:21
  Speaker 1: been times where I'm in.
• 38:22
  Speaker 3: A hurry and I do not do that.
• 38:25
  Speaker 1: And there have been times I walk through the grocery
• 38:27
  Speaker 1: store I'm like, how did this happen? Like there's a
• 38:29
  Speaker 1: ton of stuff on the floor, Like it's like it's amazing.
• 38:32
  Speaker 1: But I usually, if it's like one thing and I
• 38:34
  Speaker 1: am not in a hurry, I'll help out.
• 38:37
  Speaker 7: What about you, Mark, I'll pick it up and make
• 38:40
  Speaker 7: sure the name shows you know you put it put
• 38:43
  Speaker 7: it back properly.
• 38:44
  Speaker 3: Oh, you'll put it professionally.
• 38:46
  Speaker 7: I do what I can.
• 38:47
  Speaker 1: Yes, giving back to the community and supermarket. Steve thanks
• 38:51
  Speaker 1: you in advance. He does, he does.
• 38:53
  Speaker 3: Yeah, all right, what's next year? It's ask Ben.
• 38:56
  Speaker 1: Your questions are answers for the rest of the hour
• 38:59
  Speaker 1: hashtag ask band. And we do have a lot of
• 39:02
  Speaker 1: people working at grocery stores that listen to the show.
• 39:06
  Speaker 5: Third Dog would like to know, yer, have you ever
• 39:08
  Speaker 5: turned off the Big Game because it was a blowout?
• 39:12
  Speaker 3: Uh?
• 39:13
  Speaker 1: Not turn it off? But I've not paid attention. It's
• 39:16
  Speaker 1: in the background. It's really lopsided. All not really like
• 39:19
  Speaker 1: the Chiefs game last year with the Eagles and Chiefs
• 39:22
  Speaker 1: was a blowout.
• 39:23
  Speaker 3: I didn't really pay attention in the fourth quarter. What
• 39:25
  Speaker 3: about you, Mark, No, I'll leave.
• 39:27
  Speaker 7: It on just so I could see what happens to
• 39:28
  Speaker 7: the rest of it.
• 39:30
  Speaker 3: I got you, all right, cool.
• 39:32
  Speaker 5: I have never turned it off, but I do specifically
• 39:35
  Speaker 5: remember that my dad and I both fell asleep during
• 39:38
  Speaker 5: the Raiders Tampa Bay Super Bowl back in the day.
• 39:41
  Speaker 1: That was the Rich Gannon special there with all the interceptions. Yes,
• 39:45
  Speaker 1: Barrett Robbins going to Tijuana, that's right, Yeah, all right,
• 39:49
  Speaker 1: what's next year?
• 39:50
  Speaker 6: Gunnar wants to know do you like what do you
• 39:51
  Speaker 6: like more? Fishing or hunting?
• 39:54
  Speaker 3: Fishing? What about you, Mark?
• 39:56
  Speaker 7: I like buying my food, all right.
• 39:58
  Speaker 6: Yeah, I've never gone hunting, and fishing kind of sucks.
• 40:02
  Speaker 3: Yeah, well, fishing