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  Speaker 1: Always about the apron. It's always about the apron. Welcome
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  Speaker 1: in the beginning of another night of the Benmahlord Show.
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  Speaker 1: Double dip here and our lead this hour Begin the
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  Speaker 1: Night is from pro Bouncy Vault. But I'm not gonna
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  Speaker 1: start with that. I'm not all right you think I'm
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  Speaker 1: starting with I'm gonna keep you off balance. So a
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  Speaker 1: lot of chatter in the last couple of weeks, really
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  Speaker 1: since the NBA Finals when we had that dud of
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  Speaker 1: an NBA Finals with OKC and Indiana, a bit of
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  Speaker 1: poison for pro basketball. So a lot of noise about
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  Speaker 1: the salary cap and it's not right. They gotta change it.
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  Speaker 1: It's ugly and they gotta do something this hardline cap.
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  Speaker 1: So I was somewhat recently contacted by someone who knows
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  Speaker 1: a thing or two about the workings of the business
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  Speaker 1: of basketball and very knowledgeable in that department.
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  Speaker 3: They know what they're talking about.
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  Speaker 1: And of course they know a thing or two because
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  Speaker 1: they've seen a thing or two. And this particular person,
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  Speaker 1: we'll just say, has given me some good intel in
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  Speaker 1: the past. Now, this person does not beat a thousand. However,
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  Speaker 1: if they were a baseball player, they'd be like mister
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  Speaker 1: Podre Tony Gwinn, so pretty good batting average. Get to
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  Speaker 1: the point, please, all right, So let me boil this down.
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  Speaker 1: The word on the street is that despite the public
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  Speaker 1: opinion that the big market teams like the Celtics and
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  Speaker 1: the Lakers and the Clippers and the next teams like
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  Speaker 1: that Warriors, despite the the buzz that the big market
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  Speaker 1: owners do not like this, they're trying to change the
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  Speaker 1: salary cap because it is so aggressive towards.
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  Speaker 3: Teams that spend a lot of money.
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  Speaker 1: Well, it turns out, according to my insider, that the
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  Speaker 1: owners actually love the hardcap, the hard line cap. They
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  Speaker 1: like the apron, and the reason they like that is
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  Speaker 1: it gives them a for something like we have an archwer,
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  Speaker 1: the golden ticket. If you will to keep calls down right,
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  Speaker 1: you get a golden ticket. So let us discuss the
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  Speaker 1: question with these whispers that NBA owners actually love the
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  Speaker 1: second apron of the salary cap and they have no
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  Speaker 1: serious plans to dramatically change it, despite speculation to the contrary.
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  Speaker 1: Do you buy or sell this, You buy or sell this.
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  Speaker 1: So I've got my observations on this. I've got loaded dice, Gumbo,
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  Speaker 1: and Coachella, and we will combine all of these things
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  Speaker 1: together and we are going to make a brick house,
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  Speaker 1: is what we're going to make.
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  Speaker 3: So number why, I said number why. That's right. So
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  Speaker 3: I am buying this. I'm not selling it.
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  Speaker 1: I'm buying it, and I believe the fix is in,
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  Speaker 1: if you will. Not to be too dramatic, but the
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  Speaker 1: NBA's Billionaire Boys Club, the owners of the NBA are
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  Speaker 1: grinning from ear to ear. They have a cheshire cat smile.
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  Speaker 1: Just can't get enough of this. And the reason why,
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  Speaker 1: the secret on this is the as we talked about,
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  Speaker 1: the owners like it that the cap is the built
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  Speaker 1: in get out of jail free card. It's kind of
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  Speaker 1: like if you're in high school and you're you know,
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  Speaker 1: one of your parents is a cop and you're getting trouble, say, oh, yeah,
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  Speaker 1: my so and so is a cop.
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  Speaker 3: I give you a break on this, you know.
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  Speaker 1: And so the oligarchs and the aristocrats are popping champagne
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  Speaker 1: over the second apron chokeold right, you talk about paying dividends. Uh,
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  Speaker 1: And they don't get to keep everything, but they get
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  Speaker 1: to keep a lot more, right, and their wallets fatter
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  Speaker 1: and all that stuff. So I'd buy this conspiracy. I
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  Speaker 1: would say, don't be hornswaggled by all the rhetoric that
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  Speaker 1: the NBA owners toss out and the friends of the
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  Speaker 1: league in the media about competitive balance. They give these
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  Speaker 1: sermons about that and the brutal penalties. And there are penalties,
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  Speaker 1: a loss of draft picks, no mid level exception, things
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  Speaker 1: like that, and not to get into the minutia.
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  Speaker 3: But the trade market is limited. But this is all
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  Speaker 3: about the.
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  Speaker 1: Green but not the green team, the green Backs, And
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  Speaker 1: it's not about winning, not about that.
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  Speaker 3: You know what it is.
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  Speaker 1: It's a classic sports radio caller to this show from
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  Speaker 1: about twenty years ago. A guy named Zigzag used to
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  Speaker 1: call the show. One of my regular callers. One of
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  Speaker 1: the great characters on the show, Zigzag, and then unfortunately
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  Speaker 1: he grew up and no longer was Zigzag. But this
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  Speaker 1: is a misdirection play, right. The NBA owners are playing
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  Speaker 1: with loaded dice. The dice are loaded, the robber barons
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  Speaker 1: set the rules, and if you cross this magic line,
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  Speaker 1: I think it's like one hundred and ninety something million
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  Speaker 1: dollars or whatever.
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  Speaker 3: Then all of a sudden there's like alarm bells that
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  Speaker 3: go off, and that all it.
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  Speaker 1: And now for some owners they don't give a crap,
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  Speaker 1: like Steve Balmer, he goes to the bathroom, his morning
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  Speaker 1: bowot movement, and he makes enough money to cover all
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  Speaker 1: of the fees and all that stuff.
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  Speaker 3: And Joe lacub with the Warriors doesn't seem to care
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  Speaker 3: too much.
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  Speaker 1: He's not really sweating, and so they've got all the
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  Speaker 1: cash they could possibly want.
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  Speaker 3: However, for the others, if they want.
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  Speaker 1: If they choose to play this card, they can dump players,
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  Speaker 1: avoid big signings, like for example, the Boston Celtics are
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  Speaker 1: doing that right now.
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  Speaker 3: And at the same time they can cry wolf.
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  Speaker 1: It's just unsustainable the salaries, polaise, I say, Polaise.
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  Speaker 3: They are pocketing massive profits.
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  Speaker 1: And the owners, you know, they're having a yacht party
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  Speaker 1: and they're laughing at all the commoners. Right, they get
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  Speaker 1: the private jets all that, and they've got the money.
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  Speaker 3: Good for them. And we want to keep the players.
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  Speaker 3: Oh yeah, we want to keep that player.
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  Speaker 1: But I'm sorry, that's actually more of an asset than
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  Speaker 1: a player. And everyone wants to play the victim. They
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  Speaker 1: all play the victim. Players want to play the victim.
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  Speaker 1: Owners want to play the victim. But in terms of
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  Speaker 1: the owners spoiler alert, they are the architects of this
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  Speaker 1: and they've done this to inflate the profit margin and
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  Speaker 1: also give them plausible deniability when they get rid of
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  Speaker 1: a player deemed popular. All right now, page two to
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  Speaker 1: La La Land we go.
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  Speaker 3: A big story. The last couple of weeks in.
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  Speaker 1: The NBA malcontent overrated stiff DeAndre Ayton joining the Lakers
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  Speaker 1: after being fired by the Portland Trailblazers and dumped by
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  Speaker 1: the Phoenix Suns. So DeAndre Ayton was recently asked if
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  Speaker 1: he had heard from Lebron James or Luca Dancik, and
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  Speaker 1: he revealed, Well, let's go to the audio tape.
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  Speaker 3: Here's what DeAndre had to say. Take a list. Hey DeAndre,
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  Speaker 3: have you have you spoken to Lebron?
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  Speaker 4: Have you spoken to Luca?
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  Speaker 5: Not really yet, but I've definitely got a text from Luca.
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  Speaker 5: I know how to off season go. You know, this
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  Speaker 5: is not my first rolio. People are probably busy and
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  Speaker 5: you know, training then even times with their families. But
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  Speaker 5: I'm just waiting. I'm just really just trying to I
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  Speaker 5: did to great myself with the team and get to
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  Speaker 5: know everybody.
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  Speaker 3: All right.
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  Speaker 1: That was I think that was our buddy Sadana right,
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  Speaker 1: used to work here Fox Sports Radio alumni guys, Sadana
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  Speaker 1: the seven to ten over there, all right. So he said,
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  Speaker 1: if you didn't understand what DeAndre Aton said, he said, listen,
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  Speaker 1: I'm still waiting on Lebron. Lucas sent a text though,
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  Speaker 1: and then DeAndre made a bunch of excuses about the
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  Speaker 1: off season and all that.
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  Speaker 3: So that's a great jumping off point. That is a
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  Speaker 3: great jumping off point.
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  Speaker 1: So DeAndre Ayton says he still hasn't spoken with Lebron James,
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  Speaker 1: but Luca text him after his Laker agreement there, so.
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  Speaker 3: What do you read into this? What are you reading this?
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  Speaker 1: So if you cut through the Hayes, people in La
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  Speaker 1: call it Hayes, other people call it smog.
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  Speaker 3: But if you cut.
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  Speaker 1: Through that, Luca the he's the new golden boy, right,
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  Speaker 1: Lucas the new golden boy for the Lakers and all that.
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  Speaker 1: And so he found time to tap tap tap a text. Meanwhile, Lebron,
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  Speaker 1: he's so busy in his offseason he cannot be bothered
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  Speaker 1: to send a measly emoji. So we all know it
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  Speaker 1: takes a lot of time to grab your phone. You
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  Speaker 1: gotta futs around with your phones. You gotta go to
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  Speaker 1: the message thing, you gotta find the number, and then
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  Speaker 1: you got to click the proper emoji to you, the
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  Speaker 1: smiley emoji, do you do?
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  Speaker 3: The crying emoji?
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  Speaker 1: Like, which emoji do you do? And then you've got
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  Speaker 1: to click send on it. And that's a lot of work.
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  Speaker 1: That is a lot of work for Lebron. I understand,
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  Speaker 1: the man's in his forties now, he could injure a
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  Speaker 1: fingernail and we don't want that.
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  Speaker 3: We do not want that, all right, So here's the deal.
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  Speaker 1: That is not obviously an oversight after several minutes of deliberation.
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  Speaker 1: That is a statement by Lebron James. Now, the rumor
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  Speaker 1: has it that Lebron not exactly doing cartwheels about the
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  Speaker 1: possibility of playing with DeAndre Ayton. And as I learned
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  Speaker 1: years ago when I first got into the radio world,
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  Speaker 1: that the silence is golden, but not if you're doing
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  Speaker 1: a talk show. It suggests that Lebron's not buying in.
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  Speaker 1: But it's also bigger than that. If you think of
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  Speaker 1: it in terms of gumbo. Think of it in terms
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  Speaker 1: of gumbo. So the word on the street is King
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  Speaker 1: James is still stewing like gumbo over.
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  Speaker 3: The cloud that he still has some.
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  Speaker 1: But not that much, and that the Lakers it's like
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  Speaker 1: they started dating the new girl, the new hot girls,
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  Speaker 1: Luca and he's the old woman, you know. And then
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  Speaker 1: he's like, well, I've been around for a while, but no, no,
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  Speaker 1: we like Luca. Luca's hotter, and lucas the one has
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  Speaker 1: now got the keys.
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  Speaker 3: So this is the theory. And so Lebron's like, ah,
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  Speaker 3: this is this blows and it feels like a.
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  Speaker 1: Rental car and the Lakers are Luca's team, and Lebron
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  Speaker 1: he's not Blind Scott or inca Terror, Blind Emmett or
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  Speaker 1: Stevie Meatballs or any of the other blind listeners. So
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  Speaker 1: he sees the writing on the wall and the writing
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  Speaker 1: is in Slovenian, and it's like, the Lakers are so
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  Speaker 1: into Luca at this moment. I wouldn't be shocked if
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  Speaker 1: Luca does a podcast with somebody. The Lakers fire JJ
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  Speaker 1: Reddick and hire whoever Luca gets the host of podcasts
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  Speaker 1: with him, because that's what they did with JJ Reddick, right.
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  Speaker 3: So file this at this point.
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  Speaker 1: File this as a quiet protest against the Laker front
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  Speaker 1: office and the shifting in allegiances and lebron he's got
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  Speaker 1: the pep right, He's pouting and plotting.
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  Speaker 3: He's pouting and plotting at this point. Stay tuned.
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  Speaker 1: More developments to come in the off season soap opera
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  Speaker 1: from pro pouncy Ball. All right, now, final point. So,
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  Speaker 1: I got a bunch of emails, I say a bunch.
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  Speaker 1: I got three emails.
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  Speaker 3: You're going to start to show oh with that game
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  Speaker 3: in Vegas. I know you are no. Uh no.
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  Speaker 1: In fact, I didn't evenally want to talk about this,
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  Speaker 1: but I will address it, and I will address the
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  Speaker 1: question of why we did not begin this extra spicy
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  Speaker 1: Mallard monologue with the let me check my notes here
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  Speaker 1: Summer League matchup between Cooper Flag of the mav Recks
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  Speaker 1: and Bronnie James the NEFO Baby.
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  Speaker 3: So why did we not begin the night with that?
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  Speaker 3: So the reason we did not my belief.
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  Speaker 1: And I've been to the Summer League. It used to
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  Speaker 1: be in LA I was in Irvine at one.
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  Speaker 3: Plas a long beach.
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  Speaker 1: So I've been to the Summer League in years past,
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  Speaker 1: many years ago, the NBA Summer League is the equivalent
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  Speaker 1: of trying to pass off a night like a Friday
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  Speaker 1: night karaoke as going to Coachella.
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  Speaker 3: It's the same thing.
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  Speaker 1: You know, it's the saying they're just doing lip syncing,
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  Speaker 1: but it's the say, you know, you drink beer, it's cheaper,
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  Speaker 1: there's no dirt. It's like going to Coachella. I mean,
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  Speaker 1: come on, and we're talking about in the summer league
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  Speaker 1: that the dudes who won't most of them won't make
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  Speaker 1: the rotation, most will never sniff any meaningful minutes in
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  Speaker 1: the NBA. Half of them won't even make an NBA roster.
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  Speaker 1: Maybe they'll play in Europe, or they'll be selling real
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  Speaker 1: estate before the next NBA season. It's amateur out. You
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  Speaker 1: know where the megastars are in the NBA. They're either
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  Speaker 1: golfing in Lake Tahoe or they're getting sun tan lotion
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  Speaker 1: on and they're eating appetizers and drinking cocktails on mega
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  Speaker 1: yachts in the South of France. And now other people, wow,
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  Speaker 1: it's player development.
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  Speaker 3: Ben, You just don't get it. And to that, I say,
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  Speaker 3: it's nonsense.
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  Speaker 1: Right, if we wanted to watch the developmental project? Then
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  Speaker 1: would they sell tickets to go to like a middle
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  Speaker 1: school science fair or something like that. And if you
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  Speaker 1: if you watch it, if you watch it, enjoy it, fine,
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  Speaker 1: do whatever.
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  Speaker 3: You gotta do. I just don't believe it's worthy of
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  Speaker 3: breaking it down a full fledged Mallard.
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  Speaker 1: Monologue on the bully pulpit that we have here and
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  Speaker 1: we don't even talk I was thinking about this earlier.
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  Speaker 1: We don't even talk about the NBA regular season games
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  Speaker 1: until it used to be Christmas. We used to always kid, wow,
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  Speaker 1: don't we don't talk basketball till Christmas, like the games
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  Speaker 1: because nobody pays attention. But now we've moved all the
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  Speaker 1: way past, all the way past New Year's we're now
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  Speaker 1: about Valentine's Day. It's like the Valentine's Day massacres, like, well,
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  Speaker 1: we'll talk about it Valentine's Day.
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  Speaker 3: And why is that? Well load management.
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  Speaker 1: And these games are glorified cardio games before that, So
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  Speaker 1: we're not going to talk about regular season, regular season
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  Speaker 1: NBA games, then why would we talk.
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  Speaker 3: About a knockoff version.
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  Speaker 1: It's like back in the old days, you'd come across
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  Speaker 1: if you're of a certain age, you know, what I'm
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  Speaker 1: about to say here, you'd come across a bootleg DVD
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  Speaker 1: that you'd find in a parking lot at a quickie mart.
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  Speaker 3: You know He's okay.
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  Speaker 1: If you want me to break a break down something
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  Speaker 1: in Vegas, I would much rather talk about the fact
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  Speaker 1: that Penn and Teller are able to sell, sell tickets
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  Speaker 1: and make illusions in their seventies.
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  Speaker 3: They have a stage show Invage.
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  Speaker 1: How about Caratop who has continued to sell tickets doing
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  Speaker 1: prop comedy and has his own Vegas residencies, had it
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  Speaker 1: for years. Right, So to recap, we do not do
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  Speaker 1: full malle monologues on the Vegas Summer League because we
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  Speaker 3: So it's a.
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  Speaker 1: Baseball story, but we paused the standard Major League baseball
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  Speaker 1: chatter for something a little bit different. And people talk
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  Speaker 1: about legends of the game and who's the greatest the
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  Speaker 1: goat talk. But if you haven't heard what we're gonna
• 19:41
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  Speaker 3: You might not know what I'm talking about.
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  Speaker 1: But there's a gentleman who managed the Cubs and the
• 19:52
  Speaker 1: Philadelphia Phillies named Lee.
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  Speaker 3: Ilia, and Lee Ilia died this week. He was eighty seven.
• 20:00
  Speaker 1: News came out, News came out yesterday. And if you're
• 20:05
  Speaker 1: of a certain age, you might not know that name.
• 20:08
  Speaker 1: You probably don't know that name. Maybe you've heard it
• 20:10
  Speaker 1: a little bit if you've been listening to any sports radio.
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  Speaker 3: But Lee Ilia.
• 20:14
  Speaker 1: We mentioned he managed the Cubs very briefly, very briefly,
• 20:19
  Speaker 1: over forty years ago. He then got another job in
• 20:23
  Speaker 1: Philadelphia in nineteen eighty seven, and so he had a
• 20:28
  Speaker 1: couple of jobs. He had a losing record, he never
• 20:32
  Speaker 1: made the playoffs as a manager. And yet the day
• 20:36
  Speaker 1: that he dies, everyone has a story about Lee Ilia.
• 20:40
  Speaker 1: Everyone wants to talk about Lee Ilia. So why is
• 20:44
  Speaker 1: everyone talking about this guy? Well, because Lee Ilia gave
• 20:48
  Speaker 1: the world a gift. He left the world a gift
• 20:53
  Speaker 1: that will live.
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  Speaker 3: On long after Lee passed away for many many years.
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  Speaker 3: And this is the standard. This is the gold standards.
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  Speaker 3: So let's take you back to April.
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  Speaker 1: Twenty ninth, nineteen eighty three, Wrigley Field, Chicago. The Cubs
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  Speaker 1: were playing the Dodgers, and the Dodgers won the game.
• 21:14
  Speaker 1: The Cubs were off to a terrible start, miserable baseball.
• 21:18
  Speaker 1: And in those days, it was a mom and pop
• 21:21
  Speaker 1: operation at Wrigley Field. So these ballparks were all crap holes.
• 21:26
  Speaker 1: And so the Doug, the clubhouse for the Cubs, was
• 21:31
  Speaker 1: in center field.
• 21:32
  Speaker 3: It was down in the outfield.
• 21:34
  Speaker 1: So after you lost the game, you had to leave
• 21:36
  Speaker 1: the dugout at Wrigley and you had to walk out
• 21:39
  Speaker 1: to the clubhouse in center field, and the bleacher bumps
• 21:43
  Speaker 1: in Chicago started throwing trash at the Cub players. Well,
• 21:47
  Speaker 1: that led to then Cub manager Lee Ilya letting the
• 21:51
  Speaker 1: world know what he thought of the Cub fans and
• 21:54
  Speaker 1: what he thought of people that go to Wrigley Field.
• 21:56
  Speaker 1: Take a listen, let's go to the audio tape. We
• 21:59
  Speaker 1: got it.
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  Speaker 7: All these so called freaking fans that come out there,
• 22:02
  Speaker 7: Cup fans that are supposed.
• 22:04
  Speaker 2: To be behind you, ripping every seacking thing you do.
• 22:07
  Speaker 2: I'll tell you one second thing.
• 22:09
  Speaker 3: I hope we get seaking.
• 22:10
  Speaker 7: Hotter and get it just to stuff it up them
• 22:12
  Speaker 7: three thousand freaking people that show up every freaking day,
• 22:17
  Speaker 7: because if they're the real Chicago fucking fans, they can
• 22:20
  Speaker 7: kiss my seaking ass.
• 22:22
  Speaker 3: Right downtown and print it.
• 22:25
  Speaker 2: They're really really behind you around.
• 22:27
  Speaker 7: Here, my sacking ass, and nobody's going work because.
• 22:32
  Speaker 3: You guys are written good.
• 22:35
  Speaker 5: What the fuck am I supposed to do?
• 22:36
  Speaker 7: Go out there and letting my fucking players get destroyed
• 22:38
  Speaker 7: every day and be quiet about it. For the fucking
• 22:41
  Speaker 7: Nickel dyin people to show up.
• 22:43
  Speaker 2: The motherfuckers don't even work.
• 22:45
  Speaker 4: They why you're out at the fucking game.
• 22:47
  Speaker 3: They'll goad and get a fucking.
• 22:48
  Speaker 7: Job and find out what it's like to go out
• 22:49
  Speaker 7: there in a fucking living.
• 22:51
  Speaker 2: Eighty five percent of the fucking world's working.
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  Speaker 7: The other fifteen come out here a fucking playground for the.
• 22:58
  Speaker 2: Rip that mother.
• 23:01
  Speaker 7: Like the players. People pooh, and that's the Cubs my ass.
• 23:10
  Speaker 3: All right. He actually went on even longer than that.
• 23:12
  Speaker 3: But that is art. What you heard. There is art,
• 23:16
  Speaker 3: That is magic, that is audio gold. So let us discuss.
• 23:22
  Speaker 1: What are your reflections on the passing of former Cub
• 23:27
  Speaker 1: manager Lee I what are your reflections on his life
• 23:30
  Speaker 1: in baseball?
• 23:31
  Speaker 3: So I've got Michael Angelo.
• 23:34
  Speaker 1: Taste buds, and cheerleading, and we'll combine all of these
• 23:38
  Speaker 1: things together and we'll have a deep dish Chicago pizza.
• 23:41
  Speaker 1: So a Lee Ilia, while he wore a baseball uniform,
• 23:47
  Speaker 1: was like Robin Williams or Dave Chappelle. He made people smile,
• 23:52
  Speaker 1: he made people laugh. Very rarely does one reach perfection
• 23:56
  Speaker 1: in life. People always strive for perfection. You often come
• 23:59
  Speaker 1: up just a little bit short. But on that day,
• 24:03
  Speaker 1: in nineteen eighty three. In April of nineteen eighty three,
• 24:06
  Speaker 1: Lee Elia gave the world the magnum opus. It was
• 24:11
  Speaker 1: his magnum opus and we all get to enjoy it.
• 24:14
  Speaker 1: There have been many great rants by coaches and people
• 24:17
  Speaker 1: in sports over the years, and I know later on
• 24:20
  Speaker 1: on the Fifth Hour podcast, I'll talk about some of
• 24:23
  Speaker 1: my favorites. But whether it's Tommy Lasorda, or Dennis Green,
• 24:27
  Speaker 1: or Bobby Knight or so many others, all.
• 24:31
  Speaker 3: Of them were good. None of them.
• 24:34
  Speaker 1: None of them can match what you heard moments ago
• 24:38
  Speaker 1: from Lee Ilia. What Lee Elia did is the Michelangelo.
• 24:44
  Speaker 1: He's the Michelangelo of the Meltdown. It wasn't just a rant,
• 24:49
  Speaker 1: It was more than that. It was painting the Sistine.
• 24:52
  Speaker 3: Chapel with words, with audio.
• 24:55
  Speaker 1: Every sentence that I heard, there was a brushstroke of
• 25:00
  Speaker 1: greatness right every syllable perfection.
• 25:04
  Speaker 3: It was raw, it was unfiltered emotion.
• 25:09
  Speaker 1: Gotta remember, in those days, Wrigley Field did not have lights.
• 25:13
  Speaker 1: Every one of the Cub home games was a day game.
• 25:16
  Speaker 1: So he essentially said anyone that came to watch Cubs
• 25:20
  Speaker 1: baseball didn't have a job.
• 25:22
  Speaker 3: He said, the entire fan base didn't have a job.
• 25:26
  Speaker 3: He didn't just call out the fans.
• 25:28
  Speaker 1: He excommunicated the entire Chicago cub fan base.
• 25:32
  Speaker 3: He called them nickelin dime people.
• 25:36
  Speaker 1: Eighty five percent of the world's work, the other fifteen
• 25:39
  Speaker 1: percent come out here.
• 25:40
  Speaker 3: It's a playground for the blank blanks.
• 25:43
  Speaker 1: And he didn't just defend his players, he canonized them.
• 25:47
  Speaker 1: I mean, I just can't tell you enough how great
• 25:50
  Speaker 1: that was and how we'll likely never get that in
• 25:54
  Speaker 1: our lifetime. Maybe somewhere down the line or time goes
• 25:57
  Speaker 1: on forever, some generation will get someone that will top that.
• 26:00
  Speaker 3: But I won't be around and you won't be around.
• 26:03
  Speaker 3: Lee Elia etched his name in the Book of Legends.
• 26:07
  Speaker 3: He said, well, who's the greatest quarterback?
• 26:09
  Speaker 1: People say, well, Tom Brady, who's the all time greatest
• 26:13
  Speaker 1: NBA player? The real ones will say Michael Jordan, Right,
• 26:15
  Speaker 1: Michael Jordan, who's the greatest baseball player? Most people say
• 26:19
  Speaker 1: Babe Ruth right, who gave us the greatest coaching meltdown?
• 26:23
  Speaker 3: Lee Ilia? Period. Stop. That's it. Now.
• 26:28
  Speaker 1: In Cub history, lee Ilia is somewhere like near bart
• 26:32
  Speaker 1: Man and Billy the Billy Goat Curse and all that stuff.
• 26:36
  Speaker 1: But it is one of the most endearing works of
• 26:39
  Speaker 1: art that here we are over forty years later, and
• 26:44
  Speaker 1: we still play it, we still smile.
• 26:46
  Speaker 3: New generations are introduced to this audio.
• 26:49
  Speaker 1: I was lucky enough years ago my travels to meet
• 26:52
  Speaker 1: Les Grobstein, who was the one that recorded that. Was
• 26:55
  Speaker 1: a radio man in Chicago actually did the overnights at
• 26:57
  Speaker 1: the score for years. Lee Less actually passed away a
• 27:02
  Speaker 1: couple years back. But rest in peace to the goat,
• 27:05
  Speaker 1: and make sure this weekend you pour one out for
• 27:08
  Speaker 1: our homie of the coaching tirade, the greatest of all time,
• 27:12
  Speaker 1: Lee Ilia. And remember eighty five percent of the world's work.
• 27:16
  Speaker 1: The other fifteen percent come out to Wrigley Field. It's
• 27:19
  Speaker 1: a playground for the blank blanks, all right. Meanwhile, we
• 27:23
  Speaker 1: go now to the A t L. Why a lot
• 27:28
  Speaker 1: of social media chatter, a lot of social media chatter
• 27:31
  Speaker 1: that the Bravos could say bye bye to star Ronald
• 27:36
  Speaker 1: Acuno Jr. So a lot of chatter that he's on
• 27:39
  Speaker 1: the trading block. Is that fair.
• 27:43
  Speaker 3: Or foul? Is it fair or foul?
• 27:45
  Speaker 1: So, despite popular opinion by the people who are insiders,
• 27:51
  Speaker 1: it's a fair.
• 27:52
  Speaker 3: Ball fair ball.
• 27:55
  Speaker 1: Now some of the baseball media elites have come out here,
• 28:00
  Speaker 1: the guardians of the game, and they are dismissing the
• 28:04
  Speaker 1: very notion that Ronald Lacuna Jr. Could be available preposterous.
• 28:09
  Speaker 1: It's just click bait, right, they talking. I know better
• 28:14
  Speaker 1: than you call me a sucker, but I buy it.
• 28:19
  Speaker 3: I do.
• 28:19
  Speaker 1: I believe it's it's in play. I'm not say he's
• 28:21
  Speaker 1: gonna be traded. I believe there are conversations. If it's
• 28:24
  Speaker 1: so laughable that the Braves would trade Ronald Lacuna Jr.
• 28:29
  Speaker 1: Why does the rumor persist. I'll tell you why, because
• 28:33
  Speaker 1: there's some truth to it, right, And remember, taste budgs change.
• 28:38
  Speaker 1: You probably like stuff you didn't like when you're eight
• 28:40
  Speaker 1: years old, and if you're eight years old, you shouldn't
• 28:43
  Speaker 1: be listening.
• 28:43
  Speaker 3: So who cares this?
• 28:45
  Speaker 1: This is his his stick, you know, his act Ronald
• 28:49
  Speaker 1: Lacuna Junior is it is an acquired taste taste budge change, right,
• 28:53
  Speaker 1: and he's put up good numbers offensively there. But there
• 28:57
  Speaker 1: are factions in Atlanta. There are factions that I ask guy,
• 29:02
  Speaker 1: you know, the stopping and the bat flipping and the
• 29:05
  Speaker 1: check me out jogs around the bases he's got when
• 29:08
  Speaker 1: he hits a home run, Now he's got a different
• 29:11
  Speaker 1: celebration for every ten feet around the base. So that
• 29:15
  Speaker 1: has a limited shelf life if you're always getting hurt.
• 29:19
  Speaker 3: And that's the that's the rub on this.
• 29:21
  Speaker 1: For all of the grand standing and all of the
• 29:24
  Speaker 1: swag walking, Kuna is made out of paper mache. Should
• 29:29
  Speaker 1: have been a basketball player. With all of the injuries
• 29:33
  Speaker 1: and since debuting in twenty eighteen, he has had not
• 29:37
  Speaker 1: one but two torn acls, one on each each knee.
• 29:42
  Speaker 1: He's had the following injuries. He's missed games because of
• 29:46
  Speaker 1: a groin injury, quad, hammy, wrist, back, foot, all of
• 29:52
  Speaker 1: it in Atlanta. Having a tough time this week in
• 29:57
  Speaker 1: Oakland or not in Oakland. There's a Freudian been Sacramento
• 30:01
  Speaker 1: or not just Sacramento, West Sacramento. But the Braves are
• 30:06
  Speaker 1: a middling team and it makes you wonder. I like
• 30:09
  Speaker 1: the whispers continue out there that they're listening. They're not
• 30:15
  Speaker 1: actively trying to get rid of the player, but they're listening,
• 30:18
  Speaker 1: and it's I think it's more than just tabloid nonsense.
• 30:22
  Speaker 1: And they also some smoke. There a little smoke, there's gas,
• 30:26
  Speaker 1: there's smoke. There's probably some fire, and the Braves will
• 30:30
  Speaker 1: never admit it. If the Red Sox called the Atlanta
• 30:34
  Speaker 1: Braves up and said, we'll send you Jaron Duran and
• 30:38
  Speaker 1: a couple of our top minor league pitchers and we'll
• 30:41
  Speaker 1: throw some other stuff in there, would the Braves make
• 30:44
  Speaker 1: that deal the Angels?
• 30:45
  Speaker 3: They need all kinds of help, right.
• 30:47
  Speaker 1: Would the Angels trade some players to Atlanta and the
• 30:50
  Speaker 1: Angels and Braves, that's essentially all they do is trade
• 30:52
  Speaker 1: players to each other. How about a team like the Tigers,
• 30:55
  Speaker 1: who are the top team in baseball this year, they
• 30:57
  Speaker 1: want to make another big splash move before the July
• 31:00
  Speaker 1: thirty first trade deadline. Inquiring minds would like to know
• 31:05
  Speaker 1: all right now, last word, we go down to New
• 31:07
  Speaker 1: York where New York Metropolitan out thea there, Brandon Nemo.
• 31:13
  Speaker 1: Doesn't that sound like a Disney ride? Brandon Neimo.
• 31:16
  Speaker 3: He thinks that Major League Baseball needs to change a rule.
• 31:20
  Speaker 1: That's right, Brandon Nimo believes that it's it's time to
• 31:26
  Speaker 1: forget this. Every team gets an All Star rep rule
• 31:30
  Speaker 1: says it's broken.
• 31:31
  Speaker 3: Brandon Nimo.
• 31:32
  Speaker 1: Because we really care what Brandon Nimo has to say,
• 31:34
  Speaker 1: he says it should only be the best players, not
• 31:40
  Speaker 1: the best players on every team.
• 31:43
  Speaker 3: So are you on board? Are you on board with this?
• 31:48
  Speaker 3: So I am not.
• 31:49
  Speaker 1: I am not that this is mostly Brandon Nemo cheerleading
• 31:54
  Speaker 1: for his homie Juan Soda.
• 31:57
  Speaker 3: Now, as for the meat of the map on this one.
• 32:01
  Speaker 1: Like we've gone back and forth on this over the
• 32:04
  Speaker 1: years and today, my position is that they should keep
• 32:09
  Speaker 1: it the way it is.
• 32:11
  Speaker 3: The rule exists for a reason. You're supposed to grow
• 32:14
  Speaker 3: the game.
• 32:14
  Speaker 1: Baseball has continued to be for probably thirty years now.
• 32:19
  Speaker 1: It's been a regional sport. It's been a regional sport,
• 32:23
  Speaker 1: and there are so many teams that blow, like the
• 32:26
  Speaker 1: Pirates and the Rockies and the White Sox, and you
• 32:29
  Speaker 1: want people that like those teams for some reason.
• 32:33
  Speaker 3: To watch.
• 32:34
  Speaker 1: And if their team's got nobody in the game, either
• 32:38
  Speaker 1: they're not going to watch or they're flipping over to
• 32:41
  Speaker 1: Netflix by the second inning. Now, for me, it's nostalgic
• 32:44
  Speaker 1: because I remember back in the day, there was a
• 32:46
  Speaker 1: time the Dodgers sucked, right, they were a bad team,
• 32:49
  Speaker 1: they didn't have good players. There was one it was
• 32:52
  Speaker 1: actually a couple of years they only had one All Star.
• 32:54
  Speaker 1: The most famous year in Dodger history, though in modern
• 32:56
  Speaker 1: times there was I think it was the early nineties.
• 33:00
  Speaker 1: They had one All Star. It was Mike Sharperson, the
• 33:02
  Speaker 1: late Mike Sharperson. It's like, man, that's things are not
• 33:05
  Speaker 1: going well for the Dodgers. But I remember watching I
• 33:08
  Speaker 1: was like, I was hoping he would get into the
• 33:09
  Speaker 1: game and listen. I get the fact that the Yankees
• 33:13
  Speaker 1: and the Dodgers have all the top If you said
• 33:15
  Speaker 1: only the top player is going to be and it'd
• 33:16
  Speaker 1: be mostly Yankees and Dodgers, a few Red Sox and
• 33:20
  Speaker 1: you know a couple of other teams.
• 33:22
  Speaker 3: The Tigers would obviously be in there. But the players don't.
• 33:25
  Speaker 1: Even like the All Star games. It's a nuisance. The
• 33:29
  Speaker 1: All Star Game is a nuisance for the players. They
• 33:32
  Speaker 1: don't like it. They're not fans of it. So anyway,
• 33:37
  Speaker 1: those are my thoughts on the All Star Game. It's
• 33:39
  Speaker 1: just just an exhibition. It did matter for a little bit,
• 33:42
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  Speaker 8: They report on the TJ. Watt situation with the Steelers.
• 34:02
  Speaker 8: Insists in that Pittsburgh has no intention of trading Watt. Ben,
• 34:06
  Speaker 8: how do you think this stalemate ends?
• 34:08
  Speaker 1: So you always say you're not going to trade the player.
• 34:10
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• 34:11
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• 34:13
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• 34:15
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• 34:23
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• 34:27
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• 34:30
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• 34:32
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• 34:35
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• 34:41
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• 34:47
  Speaker 1: Jared Goff, I'm told by our listeners in Detroit, he's
• 34:50
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  Speaker 3: He was never that.
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• 34:58
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• 35:02
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• 35:08
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• 36:59
  Speaker 1: Well you you lost it because you had a hoarding problem.
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  Speaker 3: Anyway, all right, here we go here, Yes, all right?
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  Speaker 3: Have you cleaned up your actors? Your place a mess?
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  Speaker 5: Now?
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  Speaker 4: No?
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  Speaker 3: Not pretty great? It's not there.
• 37:12
  Speaker 1: Okay, good, okay, Well these are actual jokes by actual lists.
• 37:15
  Speaker 1: What is the difference between David Vasse and weed Man
• 37:18
  Speaker 1: after bouncing off a wall? What weed Man wouldn't roll
• 37:23
  Speaker 1: around crying like a little girl? What is weed Man's
• 37:30
  Speaker 1: favorite part of the football field? What the hash marks
• 37:35
  Speaker 1: big fan of? That's Dan Dan in South Carolina. Why
• 37:39
  Speaker 1: does weed Man avoid atm machines?
• 37:42
  Speaker 5: Why?
• 37:43
  Speaker 3: Well, besides being broke, he's terrible at withdrawals.
• 37:46
  Speaker 1: That's Drew in Minnesota. All right, Uh, what do you
• 37:53
  Speaker 1: call it when you see weed Man having an unfortunate
• 37:57
  Speaker 1: seizure in the bathtub?
• 38:00
  Speaker 3: What do you do? Well? You throw? Are You're throwing
• 38:02
  Speaker 3: a load of his laundry? Is what you do? If
• 38:05
  Speaker 3: you see that in the abato?
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  Speaker 5: Yeah?
• 38:10
  Speaker 1: Did you hear that weed Man's call for love advice
• 38:14
  Speaker 1: to Lorena earlier this week?
• 38:15
  Speaker 3: Hear about that?
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  Speaker 5: Yeah?
• 38:17
  Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, Well a lot of people missed it. But
• 38:19
  Speaker 3: she told weed Man the meeting with.
• 38:22
  Speaker 1: His parole officer and social worker at the same time
• 38:25
  Speaker 1: was not actually a thropple. That's a Joe in Virginia
• 38:32
  Speaker 1: Beach there, Thank you, Joe. What did Lisa? What did
• 38:35
  Speaker 1: Lisa do when weed man fell off a boat. What
• 38:40
  Speaker 1: she drove the boat away?
• 38:41
  Speaker 3: Is what she?
• 38:45
  Speaker 2: Eric?
• 38:46
  Speaker 3: Eric?
• 38:47
  Speaker 1: Eric in Kansas. It's the Big Ben's lame jokes. A week,
• 38:49
  Speaker 1: Eric sent another one. Did you hear that weed Man?
• 38:53
  Speaker 1: Weed Man is starting a.
• 38:54
  Speaker 3: New magazine dedicated to the homeless? Wow? Cool? Yeah, yeah,
• 38:59
  Speaker 3: it's a big deal.
• 39:00
  Speaker 1: It's called no homes and sleeping in gardens is what
• 39:03
  Speaker 1: it's called. That's not that's not nice. What do blind
• 39:11
  Speaker 1: Scott and weed Man have in common? What? They don't
• 39:16
  Speaker 1: work and are really obnoxious? That's Eric again, like that
• 39:22
  Speaker 1: Big Ben's lame jokes of the week. What does poppy
• 39:25
  Speaker 1: have in common with a poppy seed?
• 39:27
  Speaker 5: What?
• 39:29
  Speaker 8: Well?
• 39:29
  Speaker 1: They can both make you positive on a drug test.
• 39:32
  Speaker 1: That's Drue in Minnesota, Rob and the three two one sentence.
• 39:40
  Speaker 1: What does Shane and des Moine and the scent of
• 39:42
  Speaker 1: a new car have in common?
• 39:44
  Speaker 3: What? Nothing? People will always love the smell of a
• 39:48
  Speaker 3: new car. There you go are Did you hear that.
• 39:53
  Speaker 1: Blind Scott asked out a girl in Braille?
• 39:58
  Speaker 3: Yeah? Yeah, she left him on felt is what? That's uh?
• 40:06
  Speaker 3: That's Noah in Austin.
• 40:08
  Speaker 1: What did I say to Mike the Leprecaun when he
• 40:11
  Speaker 1: said he listens to every episode of the Ben Malor Show.
• 40:15
  Speaker 1: What I said, I respect that I rishpec guy surfer
• 40:21
  Speaker 1: Todd the comedian.
• 40:22
  Speaker 3: What does P did he? What does P? Did he say?
• 40:26
  Speaker 3: He will do as soon as he gets out of prison?
• 40:28
  Speaker 2: What?
• 40:29
  Speaker 1: Well, he didn't get into specifics, but he said he
• 40:31
  Speaker 1: has big plans for.
• 40:32
  Speaker 3: The weekend, is what he said.
• 40:34
  Speaker 8: There's uh server.
• 40:37
  Speaker 3: Todd the comedian. Let's see what do we have here?
• 40:42
  Speaker 3: What do you call an extortion attempt from Mike the leprecaun?
• 40:45
  Speaker 3: What a shamrock shakedown?
• 40:48
  Speaker 1: Is?
• 40:48
  Speaker 3: What you call it?
• 40:49
  Speaker 8: Air?
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  Speaker 5: What?
• 40:51
  Speaker 3: What?
• 40:52
  Speaker 1: What does Loraina and the FSR security guard have in common?
• 40:56
  Speaker 1: What they both don't have the time of day for?
• 41:00
  Speaker 1: That's Michael epercun Why why shouldn't blind Scott be allowed
• 41:06
  Speaker 1: to drive a forklift at costco?
• 41:09
  Speaker 2: Wow?
• 41:09
  Speaker 1: Why he might run over Loraina and Holler and James
• 41:12
  Speaker 1: at the food court and on their blind date? All right,
• 41:15
  Speaker 1: beg you as Mike as well, beg you weed man.
• 41:17
  Speaker 1: All right, there you go, and now we get over
• 41:20
  Speaker 1: the coop A loop for the coop scoop on entertainment.
• 41:25
  Speaker 3: Here we go, Ray for Holly, Ray for how.
• 41:30
  Speaker 4: All right? Ben?
• 41:31
  Speaker 8: Just a few things this week, but they are some exciting,
• 41:35
  Speaker 8: you know, a few exciting things. First, in theaters, we
• 41:39
  Speaker 8: have Superman. That's right, the new Superman.
• 41:41
  Speaker 3: Movie from They've never made those before.
• 41:44
  Speaker 8: No, but this is the first one in the new
• 41:48
  Speaker 8: DC Studios, the first feature film from DC Studios.
• 41:51
  Speaker 3: Where are the DC studio.
• 41:53
  Speaker 4: That's a good question. I'm not sure.
• 41:55
  Speaker 8: But it's from director James Gunn and is in the
• 42:00
  Speaker 8: newly imagined DC universe, and it stars David corn Sweat
• 42:06
  Speaker 8: as Superman.
• 42:08
  Speaker 4: Name, yeah, Koran Sweat.
• 42:10
  Speaker 3: He's okay because he's Superman. He probably got picked on
• 42:13
  Speaker 3: in second grade though.
• 42:14
  Speaker 4: I know right.
• 42:15
  Speaker 8: It also stars Rachel Brosnahan, Nicholas Holt, and Anthony Kerrigan
• 42:19
  Speaker 8: who you may know from Barry Fame.
• 42:22
  Speaker 3: And it's just a racing movie thing.
• 42:24
  Speaker 4: Is that f one?
• 42:26
  Speaker 3: Yeah, I've been I've been told I need to see
• 42:28
  Speaker 3: that this weekend. My wife wants to see. Is any good?
• 42:30
  Speaker 3: Have you seen it?
• 42:30
  Speaker 8: I have not seen it because racing movies do not
• 42:33
  Speaker 8: interest me.
• 42:34
  Speaker 3: But I didn't say it interests me either, I was asked.
• 42:40
  Speaker 8: It does have great reviews. It is from Apple. It
• 42:45
  Speaker 8: is actually a yeah in Apple movie, and it is
• 42:51
  Speaker 8: I don't think so, but it is so far it
• 42:54
  Speaker 8: is their their most successful film to date.
• 42:57
  Speaker 4: And uh yeah, so.
• 42:59
  Speaker 8: It's both the critics and it's actually got a higher
• 43:02
  Speaker 8: audience score than the critics. Critics given an eighty three
• 43:05
  Speaker 8: percent and audience scores ninety seven percent.
• 43:07
  Speaker 3: So I will make my own decision if I am
• 43:09
  Speaker 3: forced to go see it.
• 43:10
  Speaker 8: Yeah, let me know and then and then maybe I
• 43:14
  Speaker 8: might watch it. I guess F one's like the coolest
• 43:17
  Speaker 8: kind of racing that you could pick right.
• 43:20
  Speaker 1: Yes, it's the It's kind of like in America people
• 43:23
  Speaker 1: don't ready watch F one, but around the world it's
• 43:25
  Speaker 1: like soccer.
• 43:25
  Speaker 3: Nobody in America really watches it, but around the world
• 43:27
  Speaker 3: it's very popular.
• 43:28
  Speaker 4: Yes, exactly, all right.
• 43:29
  Speaker 8: Moving over to television, we have the return of Dexter. Yes,
• 43:35
  Speaker 8: the the serial killer who only kills other killers is
• 43:40
  Speaker 8: back in Dexter Resurrection. Now. The first two episodes are
• 43:45
  Speaker 8: available to stream on Paramount Plus right now. It'll air
• 43:48
  Speaker 8: on regular cable on Showtime this Sunday, and all of
• 43:53
  Speaker 8: the characters you know, Michael C. Hall is returning as
• 43:56
  Speaker 8: Dexter and all of the other actors who are still
• 43:59
  Speaker 8: alive in that storyline will be making their return as well.
• 44:03
  Speaker 3: And even the ones that are dead are going to
• 44:05
  Speaker 3: be back to the amazing.
• 44:06
  Speaker 4: Well, I mean they can bring him back season kind of.
• 44:11
  Speaker 8: I mean, like you know, spoiler alert, spoiler alert if
• 44:14
  Speaker 8: you haven't watched the original Dexter show, he dies at
• 44:17
  Speaker 8: the end of it. So they're bringing him back.
• 44:23
  Speaker 3: So that's good. Yeah, it was just they're gonna make
• 44:27
  Speaker 3: it a dream sequence.
• 44:28
  Speaker 8: I think it's gonna be like, you know, we never
• 44:30
  Speaker 8: actually saw him die. We just saw him get shot
• 44:33
  Speaker 8: in the chest and so he somehow survives that.
• 44:39
  Speaker 4: Yeah. But there are some big names guest.
• 44:41
  Speaker 8: Starring this season, including Uma Thurman, Peter Dinklage, Kristin Ritter,
• 44:45
  Speaker 8: Neil Patrick Harris, and Eric stone Street, among others. And
• 44:50
  Speaker 8: moving on, the last thing that I want to point
• 44:52
  Speaker 8: out is a new documentary you know, the train Wreck
• 44:56
  Speaker 8: series on Netflix. I recently mentioned the Poop Cruise edition
• 45:02
  Speaker 8: of the train Wreck series on Netflix. I did watch
• 45:04
  Speaker 8: that documentary special. It was quite interesting. But this Tuesday
• 45:09
  Speaker 8: will be train Wreck Balloon Boy documentary special that I
• 45:13
  Speaker 8: don't know if you remember when the Hot Air balloon
• 45:17
  Speaker 8: was or the it was like, oh.
• 45:18
  Speaker 3: Yeah, I do remember that.
• 45:20
  Speaker 8: It wasn't even a hot air balloon. It was like
• 45:21
  Speaker 8: a weather balloon. And they and it was a hoax.
• 45:24
  Speaker 8: They said that their kid was in there.
• 45:25
  Speaker 4: And then he wasn't I do remember that.
• 45:29
  Speaker 8: What is that on That is on Netflix, train Wreck,
• 45:32
  Speaker 8: balloon Boy and that is it for Koop scoopler Nament