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  Speaker 1: is from mone of Money, Mega millions, the negotiating table
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  Speaker 1: guard Austin Reeves. Yep, that guy. He is no longer
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  Speaker 1: a free agent as that has ended. If you have
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  Speaker 1: not heard, it's not official. Official will be announced next
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  Speaker 1: week I believe, sometime maybe the week after and when
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  Speaker 1: the new league year begins. However, despite having interest from
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  Speaker 1: teams outside of La La Land, the Pistons among other
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  Speaker 1: teams who had some interest, it turns out that if
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  Speaker 1: you haven't heard by now, Austin Reeves has decided he
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  Speaker 1: wants the Razzled and he's choosing the razzle Dazzle Reeves.
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  Speaker 1: We are told we'll re sign with the Lakers, that
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  Speaker 1: team formerly from Minneapolis, a four year, one hundred and
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  Speaker 1: eighty five million dollars max contract. He also has a
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  Speaker 1: player option for the final season of the contract, meaning
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  Speaker 1: if he's not very good, he'll opt in. If he's bad,
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  Speaker 1: he'll opt out. Reeves decline of fourteen point nine million
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  Speaker 1: dollar player option and he gets the new contract. So
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  Speaker 1: he turned down fourteen point nine million, ended up, if
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  Speaker 1: my math is correct, a ninety one point nine percent raise.
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  Speaker 1: When is the last time you got a ninety one
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  Speaker 1: point nine percent raised? You know? Yeah? Never, I'm I'm
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  Speaker 1: still waiting for mine. I'm still hell I'll take a
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  Speaker 1: cost of living rais. I would be excited about that. Well,
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  Speaker 1: it becomes the richest contract in NBA history for an
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  Speaker 1: undrafted player. We had mentioned in a previous hour the
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  Speaker 1: record had been held by Fred Van Vliet with the Rockets,
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  Speaker 1: and so that means if the numbers are correct, Austin
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  Speaker 1: reeves forty one point three million in his first year. Now,
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  Speaker 1: after he pays taxes to the People's Republic of California,
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  Speaker 1: he should come out with about seventeen dollars and thirty
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  Speaker 1: five cents so that'll be what he gets the first
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  Speaker 1: year after he pays all the taxes and all that.
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  Speaker 1: So good. Jumping off point, let us discuss the question
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  Speaker 1: what direction are the Lakers headed? Where they go? Where
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  Speaker 1: they headed by keeping Austin Reeves as a foundational peace.
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  Speaker 1: So my observations on this, I've got cal State, Northridge
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  Speaker 1: pre existing and Clydesdale, and we will combine all of
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  Speaker 1: these things together, and we are going to awaken a
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  Speaker 1: sleeping giant, is what we're going to do. That's how
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  Speaker 1: we're gonna do this. So number one, number one, number one,
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  Speaker 1: number one, number one? Why stop? I said stop? If
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  Speaker 1: Austin Reeves is your number two, I said number two.
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  Speaker 1: If he's your number two, yes, sorry. If he is
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  Speaker 1: your number two option, you are building a raising Canes
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  Speaker 1: combo meal, which means you are headed straight into the
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  Speaker 1: deep frior you feel me on that? Okay, thank you?
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  Speaker 1: That is a value menu is what that is, and
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  Speaker 1: not a very good value. And mark my words, and
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  Speaker 1: I'm never wrong about these bold decrees. The Lakers will
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  Speaker 1: never win a title with a starting backcourt of Austin
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  Speaker 1: Reeves and Luka Doncik. It will not happen. Period stop,
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  Speaker 1: So you've just signed up to be on the hamster
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  Speaker 1: wheel of mediocrity. Congratulations, congratulations. You're not gonna win with
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  Speaker 1: that as your starting back court. Not in this universe,
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  Speaker 1: not in the Mallard multiverse, not even in the simulation
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  Speaker 1: that we're all living in. There is not enough Clarton
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  Speaker 1: on the market to treat two play who are allergic
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  Speaker 1: to playing defense. You can skate buying the regular season.
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  Speaker 1: There have been teams that put up big records in
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  Speaker 1: the regular season with players that are allergic to defense. However,
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  Speaker 1: in the playoffs, that is where the rubber meets the road.
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  Speaker 1: That's where the rubber meets the road, and the Lakers
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  Speaker 1: are building a defense that is designed around what it
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  Speaker 1: is a suggestion box defense, meaning do you have any
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  Speaker 1: suggestions on how to play defense? It is mathematically impossible
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  Speaker 1: to win a championship when your top two players are
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  Speaker 1: qualified to be the mascot at cal State North Bridge
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  Speaker 1: as in the Mattadors. They yes, they listen. Luca. Now
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  Speaker 1: he's lazy. He just is like a designated hitter. He
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  Speaker 1: just wants to worry about his offense. He doesn't even
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  Speaker 1: try on defense. Now Austin reeves he gets pushed around
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  Speaker 1: like a wheelbarrow at a construction site. The Lakers are
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  Speaker 1: headed towards a continuous cycle of second round exus. It's
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  Speaker 1: like a time share in the second round here. Now,
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  Speaker 1: they will be above average during the regular season, mid
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  Speaker 1: level team record wise in the regular season, and sure
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  Speaker 1: they'll have some good highlights on a random Tuesday night
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  Speaker 1: against Memphis or a Friday against Sacramento. However, when it
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  Speaker 1: gets down to the postseason, it is not a sustainable
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  Speaker 1: situation now, page two. So the defense is obviously a
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  Speaker 1: bit of an issue here, we've laid that out. Let's
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  Speaker 1: dig a little deeper, though, we're just scratching the service here.
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  Speaker 1: Let's go a little deeper. Now, a little deeper. So
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  Speaker 1: the question is Playoff Austin as in Austin Reeves nickname,
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  Speaker 1: Playoff Austin a problem going forward with the Lakers or
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  Speaker 1: is it too small of a sample size? So it
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  Speaker 1: is a small sample size. However, Playoff Austin is not
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  Speaker 1: just a nickname. It is a warning label for a chronic,
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  Speaker 1: pre existing condition that he is now going to carry
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  Speaker 1: for the next couple years. He is your classic lights
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  Speaker 1: two bright guy. Now we all know the light's too
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  Speaker 1: bright guy who turns high leverage situations into low returns
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  Speaker 1: and that's it. Regular season stardom shrinking the second the
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  Speaker 1: defense tightens up, and when the stakes rise, it's absolute
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  Speaker 1: clank up palosa, clank doink all that, and Austin Reeves
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  Speaker 1: he morphs into a high volume, low efficiency creator who's
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  Speaker 1: three point shooting completely collapses his driving in that part
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  Speaker 1: of the game, the aggressive part of it. It doesn't
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  Speaker 1: typically translate into foul shots, and that leaves him a
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  Speaker 1: player who is listed as an a wall player, a liability.
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  Speaker 1: And my favorite part is we've seen the last couple
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  Speaker 1: of years in the playoffs, when you play teams that
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  Speaker 1: know what they're doing and actually try and you said, well,
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  Speaker 1: we don't have to worry about Austin Reeves. They dare
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  Speaker 1: him to shoot three point shots and that's it. And
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  Speaker 1: on the other end, he's a defensive buffet. Consistently targeted
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  Speaker 1: teams attack whoever he's guarding, and then they do the
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  Speaker 1: old switch and the pick and rolls and all that.
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  Speaker 1: And if you've got someone who's able to get has
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  Speaker 1: good speed and can get by on the outside, athletic
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  Speaker 1: wing type player, you can certainly blow past Austin Reeves,
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  Speaker 1: so good luck on that. Now, good for him as
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  Speaker 1: an undrafted player getting paid. However, the reputation he's built
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  Speaker 1: early in his career as a guy who disappears in
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  Speaker 1: the playoffs, he actually is a net negative. He hurts
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  Speaker 1: you in the postseason and so big money, big money,
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  Speaker 1: big money, and whammy whammy wamy. Yeah, that is I
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  Speaker 1: legitimate concer as a Laker hater, We're very happy about this.
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  Speaker 1: We think it's great, and we wish the Lakers nothing
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  Speaker 1: but the great memories from losing in the second round
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  Speaker 1: for years to come. I think that's wonderful. So unless
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  Speaker 1: somehow he's able to fix the efficiency defensively the consistency
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  Speaker 1: of his offense as possible, he can go on timu
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  Speaker 1: and buy some stuff on there and there you go.
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  Speaker 1: So this is a capital overpay, capital overpay, and it
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  Speaker 1: should haunt them for the next couple of years. One,
• 11:34
  Speaker 1: speaking of haunting, we do have a haunting situation in
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  Speaker 1: San Antonio follow up follow up to the Spurs gagging
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  Speaker 1: dagging multiple games in the NBA Finals, giving the Knickerbockers
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  Speaker 1: the championship in embarrassing fashion. So the Spurs have announced
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  Speaker 1: they have the ultimate faith in Daron Fox, despite despite
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  Speaker 1: his epic collapse in the NBA Finals. He was so bad,
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  Speaker 1: How bad was he? He was so bad that the
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  Speaker 1: Knickerbocker fans were buying Fox Nicks jerseys to celebrate that.
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  Speaker 1: He was the secret sauce for them winning the championship.
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  Speaker 1: They were so punch drunk after they won that they
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  Speaker 1: went out and they got her done. They got it done.
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  Speaker 1: Now the GM for the Spurs somebody named Brian Wright.
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  Speaker 1: I have no idea who that is. You could put
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  Speaker 1: him in a police lineup and say, here we go.
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  Speaker 1: I'll give you a million dollars if you can pick
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  Speaker 1: out Brian Wright, and I would not be able to
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  Speaker 1: do it. I would just guess. I would just guess. Anyway,
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  Speaker 1: The jam with the Spurs strongly issuing a vote of
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  Speaker 1: confidence to the embattled de Aaron Fox, again saying that
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  Speaker 1: they have the ultimate faith in him as a player
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  Speaker 1: and a person. He praised Fox for playing through injury
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  Speaker 1: without excuses and noted the high confidence in him heading
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  Speaker 1: into the offseason where he'll get even better, just leaving
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  Speaker 1: out that part you only get credit when you play injured.
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  Speaker 1: If you play well. If you don't play well, if
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  Speaker 1: you don't go the extra mile, it becomes problematic. It
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  Speaker 1: does become problematic, all right. Now, question, can you explain
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  Speaker 1: why the Spurs fresh off and embarrassing loss, heavily favored
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  Speaker 1: home court, all that good stuff, and they choked in
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  Speaker 1: the NBA finals and Wemby turned out to be a
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  Speaker 1: fraud and all that. Can you explain why the Spurs
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  Speaker 1: would have ultimate faith in de Aaron Fox? So this
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  Speaker 1: is not faith, it's bookkeeping. It's bookkeeping. They back themselves
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  Speaker 1: into a corner. The Spurs have back themselves into a corner,
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  Speaker 1: and now they're pretending like this is their strategy and
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  Speaker 1: this was always their strategy. No, it wasn't. No, it wasn't, No,
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  Speaker 1: it wasn't. He quite literally is a ball and chain
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  Speaker 1: de Aaron Fox. Four years, two hundred twenty nine million.
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  Speaker 1: That is a max extension, which would not be a
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  Speaker 1: problem if this guy has not proved himself to be
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  Speaker 1: a fraud in big spot that he just goes away.
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  Speaker 1: He's slimmer in big situations. So the two hundred and
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  Speaker 1: twenty nine million that kicks in next season and a
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  Speaker 1: contracts so massive. How massive is it? It's so massive,
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  Speaker 1: this contract that it's got its own gravitational pull. I'm
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  Speaker 1: told that's big everything orbits around it. Whether it actually
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  Speaker 1: works or not, it's the classic sunk cost fallacy. As
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  Speaker 1: these Spurs did a nosedive in the NBA Finals. So
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  Speaker 1: San Antonio, they are currently sleeping on a specially designed
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  Speaker 1: sleep number bed. It is the sleep number bed of
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  Speaker 1: nails that they made for themselves. They miscalculated the room
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  Speaker 1: and the setting is permanently stuck on regret. So the
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  Speaker 1: sleep number bed of nails is set to regret. Now,
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  Speaker 1: they thought they bought a Thoroughbread at the horse auction.
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  Speaker 1: They thought they got a Thoroughbred and they ended up
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  Speaker 1: with a Clydesdale. And now they're prepping to shovel the manure.
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  Speaker 1: You got to prepare for this. They're doing the prep
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  Speaker 1: work because they have to shovel the manure every single night.
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  Speaker 1: If it's a close game and Daron Fox is out there,
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  Speaker 1: it's Betty bye, It's bye bye, go to bed, because
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  Speaker 1: he'll screw it up at the end. Now, the only
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  Speaker 1: actual faith, the only actual faith remaining here is this
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  Speaker 1: desperate hope that they have in San Antonio that somewhere
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  Speaker 1: out there, somewhere out there exists a greater fool, and
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  Speaker 1: you gotta find the greater fool, a fool who's on
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  Speaker 1: the spectrum and has enough cap space to swim against
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  Speaker 1: the stream and take the Booby Prize off the market.
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  Speaker 1: De Aaron Fox, Yeah, good luck, good luck on that. Meanwhile,
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  Speaker 1: Dylan Harper is a two way dynamo who played pretty well.
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  Speaker 1: Didn't have the full opportunity in the NBA Finals. Pretty
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  Speaker 1: good performance overall by Dylan Harper. There were some things
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  Speaker 1: he could touch up as well. However, side by side
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  Speaker 1: he should be ahead of Darren Fox on the Spurs
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  Speaker 1: depth chart, so that should not be an issue. He's
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  Speaker 1: still a little under the radar, a little under the radar.
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  Speaker 1: Got off to a good start for his career, pretty
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  Speaker 1: solid start, so we'll keep an eye on that. It
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  Speaker 1: slash disclosure. So we did have the second round of
• 20:56
  Speaker 1: the NBA draft. Does that do anything for it? Does
• 20:59
  Speaker 1: that get your all all excited? You're not. You're not
• 21:03
  Speaker 1: fired up for the second round of the draft. Now,
• 21:05
  Speaker 1: how much of the second round of the draft did you?
• 21:09
  Speaker 1: Did you watch? Did you you didn't know? You were
• 21:11
  Speaker 1: not partaking in the Yeah? No, no, I didn't. I
• 21:14
  Speaker 1: was watching. I was flipping around. I had the World Cup, right,
• 21:19
  Speaker 1: that's the meat on the bone. I had the World Cup,
• 21:21
  Speaker 1: and then I was flipping to some random baseball games
• 21:24
  Speaker 1: because that's what you do. And yet again, when you
• 21:28
  Speaker 1: talk about the NBA the story of stories here, the
• 21:31
  Speaker 1: story that I want to talk about is a trade
• 21:35
  Speaker 1: which hasn't even happened yet, but it's supposedly in the
• 21:38
  Speaker 1: works to happen allegedly. So we're going to start with that.
• 21:42
  Speaker 1: Our lead from the speculation machine in pro bouncy ball.
• 21:47
  Speaker 1: That's right, the speculation machine. We start out in Charlotte.
• 21:51
  Speaker 1: There is a basketball team that hadn't been very good.
• 21:54
  Speaker 1: They were actually okay last year. Typically they suck, and
• 21:58
  Speaker 1: they made some headlines on Day umber two of the
• 22:05
  Speaker 1: of the NBA Draft as the Hornets. They supposedly, if
• 22:10
  Speaker 1: you believe the scuttle butt here, they are engaged deep
• 22:15
  Speaker 1: in the weeds on a trade involving a player we've
• 22:20
  Speaker 1: heard of, and that always gets us a little excited.
• 22:22
  Speaker 1: A player we've heard of? Who would that player be?
• 22:25
  Speaker 1: Did you see this at all? No, you did not
• 22:28
  Speaker 1: see this. Okay, that would be star. I say this
• 22:31
  Speaker 1: in air quood star. Don't know how big a star
• 22:32
  Speaker 1: you are? When you played for the Charlotte Hornets point
• 22:35
  Speaker 1: guard LaMelo Ball. All about LaMelo Ball, Yes, Now, we
• 22:42
  Speaker 1: were big fans of LaMelo Ball's dad, LeVar Ball, who
• 22:46
  Speaker 1: for about a month, well actually more than that, man,
• 22:49
  Speaker 1: maybe like a six months a few years back, was
• 22:53
  Speaker 1: like a really big deal and he did all the
• 22:56
  Speaker 1: debate shows and everyone went crazy for him. Oh it's
• 23:00
  Speaker 1: so exciting. They were so fired up. Well that was
• 23:04
  Speaker 1: a long time ago. I haven't heard much from LeVar
• 23:07
  Speaker 1: I know he had some medical problems in all that,
• 23:08
  Speaker 1: but his kid Bamelo of the balls in the NBA,
• 23:13
  Speaker 1: clearly the most talented LaMelo Ball of the Hornets. And
• 23:19
  Speaker 1: it's one of these deals did last day or so,
• 23:22
  Speaker 1: this all of a sudden popped up. His name had
• 23:24
  Speaker 1: not been mentioned. And remember, for those who say, why
• 23:27
  Speaker 1: are you talking about basketball? What are you doing the basketball?
• 23:30
  Speaker 1: Let me explain, all this stuff is much more interesting
• 23:35
  Speaker 1: than the actual regular season. Give me a whole bunch
• 23:40
  Speaker 1: of whatever this is, the rumor, the speculation, give me this.
• 23:46
  Speaker 1: I will gladly take this over the regular season activity.
• 23:52
  Speaker 1: So anyway to get to the way. So, by all accounts,
• 23:55
  Speaker 1: LaMelo Ball is perfectly happy in Charlotte. However, supposedly a
• 24:00
  Speaker 1: trade is eminy and in the next twenty four to
• 24:04
  Speaker 1: forty eight hours or so. So the question on this one,
• 24:10
  Speaker 1: all right, you got a player, LaMelo Ball, who by
• 24:12
  Speaker 1: all accounts is not I mean, unless there's something going
• 24:15
  Speaker 1: on behind the scenes we don't know about, is perfectly content,
• 24:18
  Speaker 1: perfectly content to stay with the Hornets. And yet the
• 24:23
  Speaker 1: Hornets are looking to unload him. And it certainly seems
• 24:27
  Speaker 1: like somebody's going to happen, and likely already has done,
• 24:29
  Speaker 1: they just haven't announced it yet. One of those type deals. Typically,
• 24:33
  Speaker 1: when this stuff gets out, it is already way down
• 24:36
  Speaker 1: the road and ready for takeoff, and we're the last
• 24:39
  Speaker 1: to know. So on this one, I've got Candy Land,
• 24:43
  Speaker 1: We've got the team shop and some interesting stew some
• 24:50
  Speaker 1: interesting stew. But will begin with this. So LaMelo Ball,
• 24:56
  Speaker 1: who is still pretty You know, all these guys are
• 24:59
  Speaker 1: young to play in the NBA and a lot of
• 25:01
  Speaker 1: old guys in the NBA. Is in his mid twenties,
• 25:05
  Speaker 1: and if you look at his career, he has been
• 25:08
  Speaker 1: really good at getting hurt and being a ratic as
• 25:13
  Speaker 1: a player. Like the numbers, he'll get his numbers, and
• 25:17
  Speaker 1: you know this. This past regular season he actually played
• 25:20
  Speaker 1: a lot of games. By his account, played seventy two
• 25:23
  Speaker 1: games and averaged twenty points and seven assists and all
• 25:27
  Speaker 1: that stuff. So he had he had good stats. If
• 25:30
  Speaker 1: you're a stat humper, you're like, I don't know, you
• 25:32
  Speaker 1: get rid of him. The main issue here is he's
• 25:34
  Speaker 1: been usurped. That's the problem. Like the people who run
• 25:38
  Speaker 1: the team from their nerds, like every other team in sports,
• 25:43
  Speaker 1: they've made a calculator decision that they would like to
• 25:48
  Speaker 1: build whatever that is the monarchy around Brandon Miller and
• 25:54
  Speaker 1: Kan Canipple, and we support Khan Canipple. We're Team Canipple
• 26:00
  Speaker 1: is what we are there. So those are the two guys.
• 26:02
  Speaker 1: He was the big hot shot rookie. You remember last
• 26:04
  Speaker 1: year con Cannipple who hit a bunch of three point
• 26:06
  Speaker 1: shots and people got all excited about that. And Brandon
• 26:08
  Speaker 1: Miller's been there for a little while. He was the
• 26:10
  Speaker 1: second overall pick in the twenty twenty three drafts. So
• 26:13
  Speaker 1: those guys have jumped over LaMelo Ball. Supposedly they've jumped
• 26:21
  Speaker 1: over LaMelo Ball on the big to do there. So
• 26:24
  Speaker 1: with that being said, who is most likely to make
• 26:29
  Speaker 1: a run at LaMelo Ball? Knowing this is already way
• 26:33
  Speaker 1: down the line and we were the last to know
• 26:36
  Speaker 1: about all this, So you begin by saying that LaMelo
• 26:40
  Speaker 1: ball is an acquired taste. He's not for everybody, not
• 26:44
  Speaker 1: for everybody. He definitely ooses, hey, I'm a star. Like
• 26:47
  Speaker 1: if you were to go back and say, what are
• 26:49
  Speaker 1: the tropes? What are the cliches of a professional basketball player?
• 26:53
  Speaker 1: Like all the excess, all that stuff, you know, the sex, drugs,
• 26:57
  Speaker 1: and rock and roll, at least, maybe not the drugs,
• 26:59
  Speaker 1: but the rock and R and the other good stuff there,
• 27:02
  Speaker 1: expensive cars, the whole thing. He's got all that right.
• 27:06
  Speaker 1: And he's also if you have a sweet tooth, LaMelo
• 27:09
  Speaker 1: ball would be perfect because he lives in Candyland. He
• 27:13
  Speaker 1: lives in candy Land. There's a lot of empty calories
• 27:15
  Speaker 1: there with LaMelo. Now, we use the Mallar crystal ball
• 27:19
  Speaker 1: to try to determine how this would all go down.
• 27:21
  Speaker 1: So using the Mallar Crystal ball on this, the three
• 27:27
  Speaker 1: things that came up. You got the juicy, lucy cheese,
• 27:29
  Speaker 1: Kurds and poutine. Those came up. That would be the
• 27:34
  Speaker 1: timmber Wolves who just unloaded Julius Randall just gave him away.
• 27:40
  Speaker 1: It's a season of giving Minnesota. The Milwaukee Bucks who
• 27:45
  Speaker 1: are looking to already unload hero Ball, they just got
• 27:49
  Speaker 1: him in their trade for Giannis giving away Yiannis Di Dentekoobo.
• 27:53
  Speaker 1: And then the Toronto Raptors the great sweet Canadian poutine.
• 27:58
  Speaker 1: I know it's a Montreal thing, but there's no basketball
• 28:00
  Speaker 1: team in Montreal, so just work with me on this.
• 28:02
  Speaker 1: And so's that's it right now, Those would be the
• 28:04
  Speaker 1: three teams. So you've got a couple of Midwestern teams
• 28:06
  Speaker 1: and a Canadian team and LaMelo Balls camps like, well,
• 28:11
  Speaker 1: we're the sexy teams. We would like a nice sexy
• 28:14
  Speaker 1: team to enter the chat, and so far that has
• 28:16
  Speaker 1: not not been the case. Meanwhile, we had another transaction
• 28:23
  Speaker 1: of note if you will, it's action note another giveaway
• 28:28
  Speaker 1: in the NBA the Detroit Pistons. Now this is a
• 28:32
  Speaker 1: rotation player, not a star player, but a rotational player.
• 28:36
  Speaker 1: The Pistons have said bye bye to Isaiah Stewart, who
• 28:41
  Speaker 1: was part of one of the great highlights a couple
• 28:43
  Speaker 1: of years ago. It was a dust up between the
• 28:46
  Speaker 1: Lakers and the Pistons, and Isaiah Stewart, if I remember correctly,
• 28:50
  Speaker 1: had one of the great highlights where he was going
• 28:53
  Speaker 1: scorched earth against everybody back in the day. So anyway,
• 28:57
  Speaker 1: he has been traded to the Memphis grizz So it's
• 29:00
  Speaker 1: not one of those big trades or anything like that,
• 29:02
  Speaker 1: is Stuart. It's a rotation player in the NBA and
• 29:06
  Speaker 1: three second round picks. That's it. That's it for a
• 29:10
  Speaker 1: twenty five year old guy who was in the running
• 29:12
  Speaker 1: for the sixth man of the year and you know,
• 29:15
  Speaker 1: typical big guy. They'll get a few points on a
• 29:17
  Speaker 1: few rebounds and block some shots and all that stuff.
• 29:21
  Speaker 1: And so he goes now to Memphis or he'll likely
• 29:23
  Speaker 1: be relocated eventually. You're to stay there that long? Nobody
• 29:27
  Speaker 1: says there that long. So the reason I bring this
• 29:29
  Speaker 1: up the Pistons and the people who cover the Pistons
• 29:32
  Speaker 1: all excited because of sou recap space. We sou recap space,
• 29:39
  Speaker 1: so fired up for the salary cap space, so exciting.
• 29:43
  Speaker 1: So uh, and the speculations already begun, well begun the Pistons.
• 29:47
  Speaker 1: Now they got rid of us is Stewart and they're
• 29:49
  Speaker 1: gonna move some numbers around. And what are they gonna
• 29:53
  Speaker 1: do with that extra cash that they have there? What's
• 29:56
  Speaker 1: the move here for the Pistons front office to go
• 29:59
  Speaker 1: because they've been on the brink day of the top
• 30:01
  Speaker 1: record during the regular season and then went belly up
• 30:04
  Speaker 1: in the playoffs, did not get it done. So the
• 30:08
  Speaker 1: names being tossed out, this is great. You want you
• 30:10
  Speaker 1: want to hear fun This is Lebron James and Kawhi Leonard. Yeah,
• 30:16
  Speaker 1: if Lebron James ends up in a Piston's uniform. I
• 30:21
  Speaker 1: am going to become the ambassador to Belgium. There's in fact,
• 30:25
  Speaker 1: there's a better chance I become the ambassador to Belgium.
• 30:28
  Speaker 1: And my only connection to Belgium is I've had waffles.
• 30:32
  Speaker 1: That is my own. Literally, my only connection has been
• 30:34
  Speaker 1: the waffles, and that's it. That's all I've had here.
• 30:39
  Speaker 1: As far as Kawhi, the idea of Kawhi leanders great.
• 30:43
  Speaker 1: The Clippers are certainly open to to moving on from Kawhi.
• 30:46
  Speaker 1: They're not married to Kawhi Anymorekawhi it's been like Bigfoot,
• 30:51
  Speaker 1: hasn't really worked out very well. I don't see Kawhi
• 30:54
  Speaker 1: in Detroit either, and if they did get him, I
• 30:56
  Speaker 1: wouldn't get very excited if I was a Piston fan,
• 30:58
  Speaker 1: because it's a cautionary tale. It is much more likely
• 31:01
  Speaker 1: than not, much more likely than not that the Pistons
• 31:05
  Speaker 1: will just end up resigning the guy that turned into
• 31:09
  Speaker 1: a pumpkin in the playoffs, Jalen Duran or Jalen Durant,
• 31:13
  Speaker 1: who was just horrific, just horrible, had the biggest meltdown
• 31:19
  Speaker 1: from regular season to the playoffs we've seen since back
• 31:23
  Speaker 1: when Elgin Baylor was playing back in the day, so
• 31:29
  Speaker 1: that's more likely than not. What's gonna happen. But yeah, Lebron,
• 31:32
  Speaker 1: he's I think he's going to Cleveland. I maintain that
• 31:35
  Speaker 1: that's been my hot take. I'm not recycling that take.
• 31:37
  Speaker 1: That take has been my take for a long time.
• 31:40
  Speaker 1: I'm gonna stay by that take. I'm not changing that take.
• 31:43
  Speaker 1: That's where I've been. And then the other possibility would
• 31:46
  Speaker 1: be to stay with the Lakers. I think that's less
• 31:48
  Speaker 1: likely the Lakers. We'll talk more about this later. They
• 31:51
  Speaker 1: completely overpaid Austin Reed. This is such a great thing
• 31:56
  Speaker 1: for those of us that just enjoy the Lakers not winning,
• 31:59
  Speaker 1: because they ain't gonna win anything with that guy as
• 32:01
  Speaker 1: one of their top two players. Holy crap, I thought
• 32:03
  Speaker 1: they hired smart people. Oh my god. Anyway, final part
• 32:07
  Speaker 1: of this, now, the final point here. We go now
• 32:10
  Speaker 1: to the NBA coaching carousel. Say what, Yeah, the NBA
• 32:17
  Speaker 1: coaching carousel. We go to Now, why do we go
• 32:19
  Speaker 1: to the NBA coaching carousel. We go to the NBA
• 32:22
  Speaker 1: coaching carousel because there is a new coach. And this
• 32:25
  Speaker 1: happened the other day. The Portland Trailblazers, which are barely
• 32:29
  Speaker 1: an NBA team, the Trailblazers, went out and hired Micah Norri,
• 32:35
  Speaker 1: who was a lead assistant with the Minnesota basketball team.
• 32:40
  Speaker 1: Now I say they hired him, it's more like their
• 32:43
  Speaker 1: beta testing Mike and Norri as the coach on the
• 32:47
  Speaker 1: Oregon Trail As. It has been tossed out by many
• 32:53
  Speaker 1: that Nori's contract with the Blazers is one year guaranteed
• 33:00
  Speaker 1: one year contract and then there's team options on the
• 33:03
  Speaker 1: second and third year, so he's really is a year
• 33:06
  Speaker 1: to year situation. He's also being paid below market for
• 33:10
  Speaker 1: a base salary, and it's a lot of incentives for
• 33:14
  Speaker 1: a team that is not really close to winning, like
• 33:19
  Speaker 1: they seem pretty far away. Still, I guess if you
• 33:21
  Speaker 1: try to win, that helps you out more so. This
• 33:25
  Speaker 1: of course made the rounds and the other coaches started
• 33:29
  Speaker 1: chiming in. Now the money quote here is from JB. Bickerstaff,
• 33:34
  Speaker 1: the guy that refused to criticize his team after they
• 33:37
  Speaker 1: lost by a gazillion points in Game seven at home.
• 33:40
  Speaker 1: So you know, take this with a grand assault. However, JB. Bickerstaff,
• 33:44
  Speaker 1: whose dad Bernie, was a longtime coach in the NBA.
• 33:47
  Speaker 1: He is the head of the national Basketball Coaches Association.
• 33:51
  Speaker 1: He's like the president of that operation, and he said
• 33:54
  Speaker 1: that the Trailblazers contract to Mike and Norry is a
• 33:57
  Speaker 1: quote slap in the face to the value of the coaches.
• 34:02
  Speaker 1: And there were others around the NBA that ranted and
• 34:05
  Speaker 1: raved and this whole thing as a Noiri's contract again
• 34:10
  Speaker 1: below market's basically a one year contract and all that.
• 34:14
  Speaker 1: So the question is do you agree or distrie What
• 34:18
  Speaker 1: is your takeaway from JB. Bickerstaff saying the Portland Trailblazers
• 34:24
  Speaker 1: gave a slap in the face to the value of
• 34:26
  Speaker 1: NBA coaches with their newest hire Mike and Norry. So
• 34:29
  Speaker 1: this is it's a throwback. It's it's old school, is
• 34:34
  Speaker 1: what it is. Now. There was a point when I
• 34:36
  Speaker 1: was like a kid. I'm old now, but when I
• 34:37
  Speaker 1: was a kid that coaches had one year contract, that's it,
• 34:41
  Speaker 1: and they just went year to year and that's that's
• 34:43
  Speaker 1: how things operated. And we've gotten so far away from that.
• 34:47
  Speaker 1: This seems this seems like it's just out of the
• 34:52
  Speaker 1: Milky Way galaxy, somewhere far far away, and you know,
• 34:55
  Speaker 1: some place far far out in the cosmos, and I
• 35:00
  Speaker 1: would get this is just on brand. The Trailblazer's owner. Yeah,
• 35:04
  Speaker 1: I said owner Draymond Green, not governor. There's a governor
• 35:07
  Speaker 1: in the state, not an owner anyway. Tom Dundonne, undone done.
• 35:13
  Speaker 1: Tom Dundon, the guy who's apparently a legendary titwad who
• 35:17
  Speaker 1: owns the team, he didn't. He didn't hide from this.
• 35:21
  Speaker 1: He pretty much told the world this is what I'm
• 35:22
  Speaker 1: gonna do. I am cheap and this is how I'm
• 35:25
  Speaker 1: going to operate, and that's that. That's all I'm going
• 35:30
  Speaker 1: to do. I'm just going to be cheaping. And so
• 35:31
  Speaker 1: he's following up on what he said he was going
• 35:33
  Speaker 1: to do, and if he could get away with it,
• 35:37
  Speaker 1: he would hire a coach and say, okay, listen, Mike
• 35:41
  Speaker 1: and Norri, I'm gonna hire you and I'm going to
• 35:44
  Speaker 1: give you some social media clout on TikTok and Instagram
• 35:49
  Speaker 1: and store credit at the Portland Trailblazers team shop so
• 35:53
  Speaker 1: you can get all kinds of shirts and hats and
• 35:55
  Speaker 1: things and jackets with the Trailblazer logo and that'll be
• 35:58
  Speaker 1: part of your compensation. Okay, sure, why not listen? This
• 36:01
  Speaker 1: guy want a job, and it does undermine it does
• 36:05
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• 36:07
  Speaker 1: and there's always every once in a while will be
• 36:08
  Speaker 1: some ex jock that gets a radio show. Of course,
• 36:11
  Speaker 1: they have no business being on the radio, most of them,
• 36:13
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• 36:15
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• 36:20
  Speaker 1: money they don't need it. But it undermines everyone else,
• 36:23
  Speaker 1: the professionals that do this for a living, and it's
• 36:25
  Speaker 1: just it's not not ideal. So this is what you got.
• 36:30
  Speaker 1: And a lot of the chatter is the trail blazerous
• 36:33
  Speaker 1: guy Tom Dundan. He's gonna run the team so so
• 36:37
  Speaker 1: cheap that eventually they leave Portland and go somewhere else,
• 36:40
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• 36:42
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  Speaker 1: we go and time to pay off the Insta Trivia
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  Speaker 1: and the question of the Day, the Question of the
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  Speaker 1: driver from Minnesota's going with the Kooper loop as his answer.
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  Speaker 1: Us we have alf the alien O Pinter, says meteorologist
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  Speaker 1: Gordon Shumway is the correct answer, Mallard prop guy goes
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  Speaker 1: with Darko the comedian. I think that's a cousin of Dorko.
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  Speaker 1: I believe that might be a cousin mister Furley from
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  Speaker 1: JT the Wingman. That is his answer. Who else do
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  Speaker 1: we have here? Kathy in Madison, says the reverend marrying
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  Speaker 1: Travis and Taylor. Is it possible that Kathy and Madison
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  Speaker 1: will perform at the wedding? She could do? Hey, mona, Hey,
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  Speaker 1: that would Can you imagine how excited would Taylor Swift
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  Speaker 1: be and Travis Kelcey if they were able to book
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  Speaker 1: Kathy from Madison? Who we think we're going to get.
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  Speaker 4: Mona.
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  Speaker 1: Come on, Patty, is that woman not a star? Patty?
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  Speaker 1: Come on, be honest you that's a that's a rock star, right,
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  Speaker 1: that's a rock star. Listen all the boys they love her,
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  Speaker 1: can't get enough of her. Brian Wu guests by Johnny Q.
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  Speaker 1: Truck stop Fungus wearing his tidy whities eating chili at
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  Speaker 1: a truck stop near you, says Travis Tritt is the
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  Speaker 1: correct answer. What else do we have about page? Dan Bozo,
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  Speaker 1: the district Attorney says, you think maybe the Madison Square
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  Speaker 1: garden stuff is just a smoke screen and they're really
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  Speaker 1: getting married in Cleveland. No, that did not answer the question.
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  Speaker 1: Drew Peacock guess by mister Irrigation, Robbie the Mariner fan
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  Speaker 1: from Rob the Goatman. Look at Robbie looking pretty good there?
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  Speaker 1: Look at that very nice King Roy's going with President
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  Speaker 1: Obama as his answer. Future Benny Winner Andrew and Bakersfield.
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  Speaker 4: What say you, Lorraine gotta be Madonna?
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  Speaker 1: Is it Madonna?
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  Speaker 2: Is it?
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  Speaker 1: No? It's you know who the D train is? You
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  Speaker 1: know who the D train is? No, that's Don trell Willis,
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  Speaker 1: Don Treill Willis. I love the fact that stats are
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  Speaker 1: now based on a wild era which started in the
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  Speaker 1: mid nineties. Here we go, Here we go. He how
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  Speaker 4: Patty Hi Ben, Hi, guys, all right, so let's go
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  Speaker 4: from mall to the third degree. I got a question
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  Speaker 4: for you, Ben.
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  Speaker 1: So.
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  Speaker 4: Marykycabot of Cleveland dot Com for the Browns recently stated
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  Speaker 4: that newly acquired Jared Verse maybe more of a force
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  Speaker 4: multiplier and unifier than Miles Miles Garrett was for the Browns.
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  Speaker 4: Do you buy that from, Mary Kay?
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  Speaker 1: I buy that as classic propaganda being fed to there's
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  Speaker 1: this term here, Patty. It's useful idiots in the media
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  Speaker 1: like so Miles Garrett, who's a Hall of Famer and
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  Speaker 1: the greatest defensive player in Cleveland Brown's history, and Jared
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  Speaker 1: vers what I like. I don't hate Jared Verse. We're
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  Speaker 1: supposed to believe that Jared Versus to be somehow better
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  Speaker 1: and it's just bull crap, is what it is. Next?
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  Speaker 1: All right?
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  Speaker 4: Next up? So uh Hi May Hawkes Junior was traded
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  Speaker 4: along others to the Bucks in that Yo. You know
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  Speaker 4: that Yannis trade? Right, Well, he found briefly briefly, well,
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  Speaker 4: he found out about that trade while he was working
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  Speaker 4: on in La fitness at the gym uh And actually
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  Speaker 4: it wasn't his own team that told him. It was
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  Speaker 4: a fellow, you know, basketball workout guy with them at
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  Speaker 4: the gym's Like, hey man, you got traded. That's how
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  Speaker 4: you found out. He did not hear from his organization
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  Speaker 4: at that time. Do you have a problem with how
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  Speaker 4: that unfolded?
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  Speaker 1: All right, so let me these guys act like being
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  Speaker 1: traded as being fired. Have you ever been fired Patty
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  Speaker 1: from a job?
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  Speaker 4: No, I can't say.
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  Speaker 1: You're a young guy. I've been fired. Let me tell
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  Speaker 1: you something multiple times. You've heard the show I sucked.
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  Speaker 1: I've been fired many radio stations. I've been fired by
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  Speaker 1: Fox Sports Radio in the past. And there's no good
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  Speaker 1: way to be fired. Like, what is the good way?
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  Speaker 1: I don't know what. I've been fired three four different ways.
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  Speaker 1: I had people ghost me. I found out we found
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  Speaker 1: out reading the New York Post that I was gonna
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  Speaker 1: lose my job because it was in the New York Post. Like,
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  Speaker 1: there's no good way, so just deal with it. It's life.
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  Speaker 1: Life's not easy. It says this bumps along the way.
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  Speaker 1: There are worse problems to have in life than finding
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  Speaker 1: out from some meatthead at LA Fitness that you've been traded.
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  Speaker 1: And for him, it's actually probably a better opportunity as
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  Speaker 1: hockeys will have a bigger role with the bucks because
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  Speaker 1: they sucked next.
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  Speaker 4: All right, next up? So he said problem, Well, here's
• 44:30
  Speaker 4: a problem that Wyndham Clark had. So he revealed that
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  Speaker 4: his I think it was in twenty sixteen tweet where
• 44:36
  Speaker 4: he claimed that he hated Baker Mayfield. Well, it's revealed
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  Speaker 4: now why he hated him. It's do to He revealed
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  Speaker 4: that Wyndham Clark's girlfriend at the time back then apparently
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  Speaker 4: cheated on him with Baker Mayfield. Everybody, do you care
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  Speaker 4: about that?
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  Speaker 1: Then? Well, I don't know Wyndham Clark nor Baker Mayfield.
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  Speaker 1: I do like the sultry, taboo nature of it. And
• 45:03
  Speaker 1: my experience has been Patty that there are certain women
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  Speaker 1: that when they're around star athletes, they can't control themselves,
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  Speaker 1: and these guys take full advantage of it. It's a
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  Speaker 1: great ecosystem for them. But do I really care? Does
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  Speaker 1: it affect my life. Not really. It's a greed right.
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  Speaker 1: It'll make for a good porno, which I think our
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  Speaker 1: did we do? That's a three for three again?
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  Speaker 4: Man?
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  Speaker 1: He no wa not checking.
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  Speaker 4: Yes, all right, let's go for ask Ben. I here's
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  Speaker 4: for everyone. If you could only listen to one band
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  Speaker 4: or artist for the rest of your life, who would
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  Speaker 4: it be?
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, so I've explained a huge Johnny Cash fan. I
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  Speaker 1: know he's dead, so he's not making any new music,
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  Speaker 1: although hey, I could make new music with him. I
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  Speaker 1: love a lot of the old Johnny Cash stuff, so
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  Speaker 1: I would listen to that. What about you, Lorena? Ah
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  Speaker 1: so hard?
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  Speaker 4: I listened to so much music. I'm gonna have to
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  Speaker 4: go with my girl Brittany though.
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  Speaker 1: Really it's babe, one more time for a big part
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  Speaker 1: of your life growing up here? All right? What about you, Patty?
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  Speaker 4: I go with a Lincoln Park. It's always been my
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  Speaker 4: favorite band.
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  Speaker 1: Have you ever been to Lincoln Park. Have you No,
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  Speaker 1: there's a Lincoln Park in LA. There's one in Chicago.
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  Speaker 1: There's a lot of Lincoln parks. All right, I guess
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  Speaker 1: Lincoln was a big deal. What's next? It's ask Ben,
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  Speaker 4: This comes from my guy, fer Dog Dog. Yeah, he asks,
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  Speaker 4: what would you put on your mount rush more of
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  Speaker 4: for the July foods?
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  Speaker 1: Uh? First, see what that is? Patty? Is Ferg Dog mocking?
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  Speaker 1: As you know, I do not do this. I will
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  Speaker 1: do a big board. If you want Ferg Dog, I
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  Speaker 1: will do a big board. Uh and uh yeah, but
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  Speaker 1: this and that is the day. Then Nathan Nathan's hot
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  Speaker 1: dog eating contest is the wiener. The sausage is obviously
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  Speaker 1: at the very top, and then everything else is Who cares?
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  Speaker 1: I think he's mocking us, Lorraina, you want to participate?
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  Speaker 4: I agree?
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  Speaker 1: On the big board, it's got to be a big
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  Speaker 1: old hot dog. Yeah, giant oversized sausage. Just that's the
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  Speaker 1: way to go kill Vasa. Yeah, what's funny about that? Patty?
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  Speaker 1: What are you talking about? You ever seen the sausage
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  Speaker 1: race in Milwaukee in the Brewers game moment? No, you should,
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  Speaker 1: man I've been in there the old I've been in Milwaukee.
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  Speaker 1: I've been in Milwaukee, but i've been to a game
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  Speaker 1: in a long time and they had I was able
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  Speaker 1: to go in the room where they kept the costumes,
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  Speaker 1: and those things smelled so disgusting. It's just horrible. I
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  Speaker 1: don't clean them during the season. They didn't anyway back
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  Speaker 1: in the day. What's next year is ask Ben? Your
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  Speaker 1: questions are answers all right?
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  Speaker 4: Next up, we have a late night drug tester.
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  Speaker 1: Asks high late night drug tester for the.
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  Speaker 4: Crew, what is one song you imagine will be playing
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  Speaker 4: on repeat in hell?
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  Speaker 1: Uh? Well, there's a ton of so. I cannot stand
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  Speaker 1: music that just repeats itself over like the lyrics. It
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  Speaker 1: drives me nuts. And my wife will be listening to
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  Speaker 1: the stuff and it just repeats over and over and over,
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  Speaker 1: and I lose my mind. I'm trying to think there's
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  Speaker 1: one song in particular that's it's like a nineteen eighty song,
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  Speaker 1: and I'm not I'm having a mental block. So let
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  Speaker 1: you go Lorrain, and then I'm gonna try to think
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  Speaker 1: of the song that I this is.
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  Speaker 2: The song that never runs and it goes on and on.
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  Speaker 1: My friends some people started singing, and what it was.
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  Speaker 4: You're singing it forever just because this is a song.
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  Speaker 1: That idea. It's so it's so terrible. These the songs
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  Speaker 1: that would be the song that would be the one
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  Speaker 1: for you. It would just yeah, what about you, Patty.
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  Speaker 4: It would absolutely have to be. Don't stop believing?
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  Speaker 1: All right? What about whip it from Devo? You don't
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  Speaker 1: even know what that is? Probably that's too much repeating.
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  Speaker 1: What is next?
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  Speaker 2: Stop it?
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  Speaker 4: No?
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  Speaker 1: Next? All right?
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  Speaker 4: For the crew again, this is from alf the alien opiner.
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  Speaker 1: Hi Alph for the crew. I've met him, by the way.
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  Speaker 1: He's a big stud, that guy. Nice beautiful wife, good family,
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  Speaker 1: good guy.
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  Speaker 4: Ellyeah for little alien. Well, he asks us, have you
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  Speaker 4: ever had a bad allergic reaction of poison IVY?
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  Speaker 1: I have not. I I was warned as a kid
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  Speaker 1: every time I went out to watch out my mom,
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  Speaker 1: watch out for the poison. I never touched poison. I
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  Speaker 1: never did. What about you, Lorene, I don't think I've
• 50:59
  Speaker 1: ever gotten it. Yeah, well, you touch it and then
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  Speaker 1: you get what about you? Katty? Quickly?
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  Speaker 4: No, I have not.
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  Speaker 1: There you go to ask Ben, your questions are answers
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  Speaker 1: unbelievable