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  Speaker 2: This is the best of the Ben Mahler Show on
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  Speaker 1: So our lead this hour. We're gonna start with the
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  Speaker 1: biggest story in sports, which is not the Carolina Hurricanes
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  Speaker 1: taking down my Vegas Golden Knights with my favorite coach Torts.
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  Speaker 1: Who some of those hockey losers are ripping those bozos?
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  Speaker 1: How dare you attack? Torts? Look like a gold to me? Anyway,
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  Speaker 1: I did watch the game. But we're gonna start with
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  Speaker 1: the story out of the Bronx. The Bronx Zoo is
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  Speaker 1: where we begin, where El Kapatan is El goonzo. I
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  Speaker 1: feel like we've had this monologue perfected over the years.
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  Speaker 1: We have done it pretty much every other season since
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  Speaker 1: Aaron Judge became a thing. If you didn't see this,
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  Speaker 1: perhaps not the Yankee Star Aaron Judge, a multi time
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  Speaker 1: platinum superstar for the Bronx Bombers, has been diagnosed just
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  Speaker 1: days after the Yankee said it's just a day to
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  Speaker 1: day injury. He's been diagnosed with a stress fracture in
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  Speaker 1: the rib, one of the ribs on his right side.
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  Speaker 1: So I'm sure there's some guys out there in New
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  Speaker 1: York willing to offer their own ribs. And Judge had
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  Speaker 1: missed the last three games. He underwent just about every
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  Speaker 1: test you could possibly have. They poked, they prodded, the MRI. Here,
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  Speaker 1: a CT scan there, an X ray up top, and
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  Speaker 1: a gaggle of doctors. You know, the doctors love those
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  Speaker 1: celebrity clients, right, they can brag to the other doctors
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  Speaker 1: when they go figure. It's got to be so much
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  Speaker 1: fun for those doctors. It's like, oh, yeah, he they
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  Speaker 1: examined there in Judge, Oh you did really yeah yeah,
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  Speaker 1: all right, yeah, you're up your shot. Okay, I'll tell
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  Speaker 1: you when I'm done putting here. So now we are
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  Speaker 1: told that Judge will miss quote significant time close quote. However,
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  Speaker 1: actually they said but which you know is a lie.
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  Speaker 1: By the way, when they say the word but it's
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  Speaker 1: a lie, is expected return later during the twenty twenty
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  Speaker 1: six season, and they say the best as good as
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  Speaker 1: all the rest of the best case scenario for Aaron
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  Speaker 1: Judge is that he would return sometime in August. So
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  Speaker 1: let's do some malor math on that. It is June,
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  Speaker 1: we're heading into June fifth, so it's about June fifth, right,
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  Speaker 1: still late on the West coast. It's June fourth, but
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  Speaker 1: June fifth, So then you take that July and then
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  Speaker 1: we're looking at the very minimum two months likely take
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  Speaker 1: the over on that. So this is like a three
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  Speaker 1: month at least situation. So that is a good jumping
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  Speaker 1: off point. Let us discuss the question why why do
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  Speaker 1: the Yankees always act Why they always act like every
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  Speaker 1: Aaron Judge injury is just a minor boo boo, that's it.
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  Speaker 1: When history tells us it never is, it never is.
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  Speaker 1: And yet every time, every time, oh no, it's day
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  Speaker 1: to day. It'll be fine as they line up every
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  Speaker 1: top doctor they can get to examine Aaron Judge. So
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  Speaker 1: my thoughts on this, I've got the tooth, fairy Will,
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  Speaker 1: the beasts, and spirit airlines, and we will combine all
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  Speaker 1: of these things together and we are going to bang
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  Speaker 1: the drum is what we're going to do. We're going
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  Speaker 1: to bang the drum and a the Yankees having done
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  Speaker 1: this job and talked about Aaron Judge because he's one
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  Speaker 1: of the big names in baseball for years. Aaron Judge
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  Speaker 1: with the Yankees, they treat him and when he gets
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  Speaker 1: hurt the same way the people over at Apple treat
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  Speaker 1: your battery issues. They deny it, they downplay it, and
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  Speaker 1: then quietly admit the truth weeks and weeks later. It
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  Speaker 1: is an endless gift loop of denial playing over and
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  Speaker 1: over and over and over again. Manager Aaron Boone has
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  Speaker 1: officially become the Skipper who cried Wolf, the skipper who
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  Speaker 1: cried Wolf. And if you're shocked that Judge is hurt,
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  Speaker 1: you must also believe in the tooth Fairy. Every single year,
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  Speaker 1: every single year, we watch a similar script play out.
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  Speaker 1: It's just a little tweak. We're very optimistic that he'll
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  Speaker 1: be fine. Okay, oh, there's been a setback. Long silence,
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  Speaker 1: and finally we're reevaluating. We're reevaluating. The glass is half empty.
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  Speaker 1: You guys never learned if injuries were birthdays, Aaron Judge
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  Speaker 1: would need a cake the size of Manhattan. This isn't
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  Speaker 1: a setback. This is an annual subscription for the New
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  Speaker 1: York Yankees. The man gets hurt almost every season. Like
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  Speaker 1: the way you know, I have to renew your driver's license,
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  Speaker 1: go down to a DMV and renew your driver's license
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  Speaker 1: and all that. It's very similar to that, And at
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  Speaker 1: some point it's not bad luck. It's just as we
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  Speaker 1: said in a previous episode, it's just physics. He's six
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  Speaker 1: seven eighty and yet he's got some Humpty Dumpty in him,
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  Speaker 1: a lot of Humpty Dumpty with elite exit velocity the
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  Speaker 1: VE low. What do the nerds say about that? Can
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  Speaker 1: we check in with the nerds that Humpty Dumpty with
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  Speaker 1: vlow exit vmail come on? And it's never one specific thing.
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  Speaker 1: It's an all inclusive resort of injuries. Whatever your heart desires,
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  Speaker 1: you shall receive ultiple oblique strains. Over the years, for
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  Speaker 1: Aaron Judge, he's had barkin left shoulder, broken wrist, right
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  Speaker 1: shoulder issue, calf strain, left side injury, they said, left side,
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  Speaker 1: the entire left side, back spasms, right hip, big toe,
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  Speaker 1: I'm not done, left hand and now the right well,
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  Speaker 1: he had the right elbow flexer now the rib, now
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  Speaker 1: the rib, and it's the old bone song. You know,
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  Speaker 1: this bone's connected to that bone, and Judges had more
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  Speaker 1: body parts breakdown than a used Ford focus. At this point,
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  Speaker 1: it's wild and it's only going to get worse as
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  Speaker 1: he stumbles along. Here is getting older and he's out
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  Speaker 1: of his athletic prime. So you figure this becomes a
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  Speaker 1: normal situation just by swinging the bat saw wing, saw wing,
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  Speaker 1: just like that, all right now, page two. So now
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  Speaker 1: to the job at hand. Yankees have a good record,
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  Speaker 1: not a great record. They have a good record. They're
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  Speaker 1: not in the catbird seat in the American League's Eastern Division.
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  Speaker 1: So the question can the Yankees survive the mid season strets.
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  Speaker 1: We're not just talking about a brief stress. We're talking
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  Speaker 1: about two or three months at least without Aaron Judge
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  Speaker 1: in the middle of everything the Yankees do. So now
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  Speaker 1: they should be used to it by now. As we've
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  Speaker 1: documented here over the last amount of time. It is
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  Speaker 1: an annual event. So you figure the players just mark
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  Speaker 1: it on their phones on the calendar apps say okay,
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  Speaker 1: this is abound. Sometime around June or July. He's gonna
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  Speaker 1: get hurt. It's like the monarch butterflies migrating to Mexico,
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  Speaker 1: or the wild of beasts crossing East Africa. Aaron Judge
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  Speaker 1: going snap, crackle, pop, it happens, the corporate attitude out
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  Speaker 1: of the Bronx, very corporate team. They're the Yankees, and
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  Speaker 1: they all say the same bull crab, next man up,
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  Speaker 1: Blame Bill Belichick for that. Now, suck it up, do
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  Speaker 1: your job. All those things and true if you look
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  Speaker 1: in the Malord multiverse, and I do believe in the multiverse,
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  Speaker 1: it's possible in this reality that I'm in. I don't
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  Speaker 1: know about you. Maybe we're in different realities and the
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  Speaker 1: streams are crossing over. But when you get down to
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  Speaker 1: the nuts and bolts of it, it's not probable. Like
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  Speaker 1: I wouldn't bet the Family Jewels on it. You take
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  Speaker 1: Judge out of that Yankee lineup, and it's Hamlet without
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  Speaker 1: the prints, and that Broadway show would not last very
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  Speaker 1: long and it'd be people demanding refunds and whatnot. And
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  Speaker 1: so this team doesn't. They don't need optimism. They need
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  Speaker 1: bubble wrap, is what they need for Aaron Judge too
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  Speaker 1: late now and a Judge getting hurt. A seasonal certainty
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  Speaker 1: kind of like hurricane season. If you live in Florida
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  Speaker 1: or the Carolina's at some point there's likely going to
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  Speaker 1: be a hurricane, except the forecast is always a rib
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  Speaker 1: discomfort or left side stuff. So, in terms of answering
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  Speaker 1: the question, get to the point, please, what happens to
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  Speaker 1: the Yankees without Aaron Judge? Like where do they go?
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  Speaker 1: You got minor leaguers Spencer Jones and he got a
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  Speaker 1: brief cup of coffee and if I remember correctly, sucked
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  Speaker 1: at a time he cannot suck. And Jason Dominguez, who
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  Speaker 1: Yankee fans have been wearing knee pads for for a
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  Speaker 1: couple of years. There those guys and Dominga is obviously
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  Speaker 1: different positions, but the bat is the big thing. Right. Defensively,
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  Speaker 1: you can always plug the whole. Defensively, the bat is
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  Speaker 1: the problem. And then when those guys don't work out,
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  Speaker 1: Brian Cashman and his Dorksville USA squad will start googling
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  Speaker 1: available outfielders with a pulse the obvious names. Here, there's
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  Speaker 1: two names that are obvious, and it's a twin killing
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  Speaker 1: if you will, with a halo on top. Byron Buxton,
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  Speaker 1: who's got a big contract and is in Minnesota and
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  Speaker 1: the next time the Twins are good is when Kirby
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  Speaker 1: Puckett comes back from the other side, and then they'll
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  Speaker 1: be good. So Byron Buxton and I'm sure that he'll
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  Speaker 1: get some text messages, Hey, what do you think about
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  Speaker 1: playing for the Yankees? And I believe he has a
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  Speaker 1: no trade clause and seems to like living near Hollering
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  Speaker 1: James there in Minnesota and all the boys and Eke
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  Speaker 1: and Roseville, Minnesota. And also the other problem with bucks
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  Speaker 1: And is he has a medical chart which is very
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  Speaker 1: similar can rival Aaron Judge. So that's the problem. And
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  Speaker 1: then you look out in Anaheim and the Angels are
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  Speaker 1: a Triple A team and they might as well be
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  Speaker 1: in the Pacific Coast League. The Halo's. You got Joe Adell,
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  Speaker 1: who can rob you of three home runs one game
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  Speaker 1: and then give you a doink off the head home
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  Speaker 1: run in another. And that's a name that has been
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  Speaker 1: talked about for a while for the Yankees, long standing
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  Speaker 1: person of interest for the Bombers. So we'll see if
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  Speaker 1: that happens. He's a right handed power back in theory,
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  Speaker 1: and he's under team control for a couple of years.
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  Speaker 1: If you're into that kind of thing, depending on what
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  Speaker 1: happens with the work stoppage. More portly, the Angels suck
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  Speaker 1: and when they don't suck, they blow. So it's one
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  Speaker 1: of those two things. Some days they suck and then
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  Speaker 1: you come to the ballpark, well, we don't suck today. Good,
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  Speaker 1: you don't suck. Okay, you blow today. Good, congratulations. So
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  Speaker 1: they're the perfect logical dance partner for the New York
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  Speaker 1: Yankees to make it true. I'm sure Mike Trout will
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  Speaker 1: be mentioned. We'll talk more about him later. And pretty
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  Speaker 1: much any crap bag team in baseball, and there's a
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  Speaker 1: lot of them. There's a lot of really bad teams.
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  Speaker 1: So you just go to the bad teams, or you
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  Speaker 1: go to the cheap teams that don't like spending money
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  Speaker 1: and you can play that game. And yeah, the Padres
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  Speaker 1: Fernando tatiase against these guys and it's always a match.
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  Speaker 1: Position wise. Machado sucks this year. Speaking of that, let's
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  Speaker 1: go to San Diego. The Padres are stinking offensively, How
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  Speaker 1: bad are they? They're so bad that Manny Machado, who's
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  Speaker 1: playing third base, has openly ranted after the Padres were
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  Speaker 1: just kicked in the Nuts by the Philadelphia Phillies. This week,
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  Speaker 1: the Phillies swept both series within It's like within two
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  Speaker 1: weeks here. They swept him in San Diego and now
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  Speaker 1: in the Delaware Valley. And that led to Manny Machado going,
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  Speaker 1: any Meani mighty mod let me go, which reporter should
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  Speaker 1: I ran to? He said? Of the Potteries, he said,
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  Speaker 1: people are frustrated. The fans want us to win games,
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  Speaker 1: so do we. That's good. Sometimes the pie just don't
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  Speaker 1: look like you want to win. We're more frustrated than anybody.
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  Speaker 1: Really don't seem like it. We're playing like dog poo pooh.
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  Speaker 1: I cleaned that up for the radio. Aren't you proud
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  Speaker 1: because you can't hear the S word because you're you know,
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  Speaker 1: lightning will strike you and you'll dive you hear the
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  Speaker 1: S word. We're playing like dog poo or if you
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  Speaker 1: think of it in a nautical term like dog and
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  Speaker 1: then one one thousand ship. You know what I'm saying.
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  Speaker 1: Machado again said, we want to win. We've got to
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  Speaker 1: blank hit. I think that was the F word fun.
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  Speaker 1: We've got a fun hit uh and needs to come
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  Speaker 1: from AUSSI set. They say he's ran any thing, rabies.
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  Speaker 1: People are frustrated. He kept repeating himself the same tak
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  Speaker 1: fucking points, and we want things to turn around, and
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  Speaker 1: everyone on his ball club's trying to do that. All
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  Speaker 1: the same nonsense everyone says, and he just kept repeating
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  Speaker 1: himself over and over. So the question is this perceived frustration,
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  Speaker 1: is it real from Manny Machado or is this just
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  Speaker 1: the annual padre star says something tough to sound good
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  Speaker 1: in the media speech with zero follow through, with zero
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  Speaker 1: follow through. So we turned in to the Malar home
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  Speaker 1: brew and there's an arrow attached to the Mallor home brew,
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  Speaker 1: and the arrow on this one is pointing towards zero calories.
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  Speaker 1: Manny's frustration is as real as the quality of movie
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  Speaker 1: theater buttered popcorn being real food that you need. You're hungry,
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  Speaker 1: you haven't eaten in a couple of days. What do
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  Speaker 1: you want to eat? Let me eat some buttery movie
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  Speaker 1: theater popcorn looks pretty good. It's big, got some crunch
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  Speaker 1: to it, a little loud. There not a lot of substance.
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  Speaker 1: In fact, I would argue zero substance. So this is
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  Speaker 1: last I checked, And I'm not sure if I'm right
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  Speaker 1: about this because I just do the overnight show. I'm
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  Speaker 1: not part of the mainstream. Mainstream is six am, six pm,
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  Speaker 1: and then we do the rogue version of Radio Overnight.
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  Speaker 1: So believe this is a results based business and San
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  Speaker 1: Diego at this point is delivering the same impact as
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  Speaker 1: Spirit Airlines. You know what happened to them? The Podreys
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  Speaker 1: have lost if I'm not If I'm not incorrect, here
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  Speaker 1: nine of their last ten, which I don't think is good.
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  Speaker 1: Oh man, you're piling on the pod squad. Yeah, they'll
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  Speaker 1: nine of ten and they lead the majors in an
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  Speaker 1: aptitude in a league with teams that are not trying
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  Speaker 1: to win. I believe the Podreys have scored the fewest
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  Speaker 1: runs in baseball. They'd be better off putting fish tacos
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  Speaker 1: at home plate and giving them a bat to swing
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  Speaker 1: the bat. Then the guys they're paying all this money
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  Speaker 1: to they have the lowest batting average this season. Oh,
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  Speaker 1: you're just a boomer. You care about batting average? What
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  Speaker 1: about expected batting average? Okay, I can't. I got nothing
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  Speaker 1: for you. I got nothing for you on that. And
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  Speaker 1: the greatest part about all this is you've got Manny
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  Speaker 1: Machado and Fernando Tatis, the heart and soul of the team,
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  Speaker 1: the core of the team that they're matched as a
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  Speaker 1: set of albatross you buy on layaway San Diego. If
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  Speaker 1: the math is riding on this, I eive they're paying
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  Speaker 1: them five hundred and seventy two million combined for two
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  Speaker 1: guys that are hitting at this point here in June,
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  Speaker 1: like backup infielders on a winter ball traveling squad, Machado
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  Speaker 1: in particular. Now Tatis is bad Machado's they're both at
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  Speaker 1: Machado is hitting a career low one to seventy four
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  Speaker 1: with eleven home runs and thirty two runs batted in,
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  Speaker 1: and the Podres still have to pay him two hundred
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  Speaker 1: and eighty six million dollars for that miserable production. He's
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  Speaker 1: under contract for the next seven and a half years.
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  Speaker 1: That'll bog you down. Meanwhile, to tease, now we ranted
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  Speaker 1: about him last week, he then went out and hit
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  Speaker 1: a home run, which is one more home run than
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  Speaker 1: you've hit for the Podres and I've hit. He's on
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  Speaker 1: pace now for three home runs to tease, and forty
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  Speaker 1: eight runs batted in, which I don't think is good
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  Speaker 1: and to tease. At this point, you don't worry about
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  Speaker 1: changing the swing. There's no mechanical adjustment. He just needs
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  Speaker 1: jumper cables and a Costco sized tub of Jim juice,
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  Speaker 1: if you know what I'm saying. Because the only only
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  Speaker 1: time Machada was good, he was on the Jim jew
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  Speaker 1: or not Machada, but to tease on the Jim juice.
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  Speaker 1: There and so he needs some ringworm medication. Get that
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  Speaker 1: man some ringworm medication and he'll be fine.
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  Speaker 1: our lead this hour is from pro bouncy Ball. Was
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  Speaker 1: there a game in pro bouncy Ball last night?
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  Speaker 3: Well?
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  Speaker 1: No, they don't play back to back. What do you
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  Speaker 1: want the players to die? Oh my god, they're bitching
• 17:49
  Speaker 1: because they have days off between games and not enough
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  Speaker 1: time off. These guys, he's modern glaudiators of athletic competition.
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  Speaker 1: That's not we're going to start with, though, we'll get
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  Speaker 1: to game two later. We're gonna focus in the story
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  Speaker 1: everyone's yapping about. This is how great the NBA is.
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  Speaker 1: You had a game that was somewhat closed, the Spurs
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  Speaker 1: blew a fourteen point lead, allowed the Knicks to score
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  Speaker 1: the final eleven points of the game. And the thing
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  Speaker 1: that everyone's talking about is some young dope who stormed
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  Speaker 1: the court. That's what everyone's yapping about. That's your NBA
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  Speaker 1: in a nutshell. So if you didn't see it, you
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  Speaker 1: didn't hear about it. I don't know what you've been doing.
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  Speaker 1: So one guy ran on the court, but there were
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  Speaker 1: two fans that were involved in this year. Because you
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  Speaker 1: got to have a partner in crime. Everyone knows that.
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  Speaker 1: So you had the guy that ran out in the court,
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  Speaker 1: the dumb dumb and then his partner. These two guys,
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  Speaker 1: they were hit with lifetime NBA arena bands. Yeah, ban
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  Speaker 1: for life, and they're young. I believe they're not even adults,
• 18:58
  Speaker 1: so of course, who knows these days. But anyway, so
• 19:02
  Speaker 1: they've been banned for life all of that because of
• 19:05
  Speaker 1: the prank. In Game one of the finals where the
• 19:08
  Speaker 1: Knicks would go on to win. With six twenty eight
• 19:10
  Speaker 1: left in the fourth quarter and the Knickerbockers leading by
• 19:14
  Speaker 1: six points in the fourth quarter, this guy, one fan,
• 19:18
  Speaker 1: ran out on the court. He tried to take a
• 19:20
  Speaker 1: selfie with Victor Wembanyama. Now play was briefly stopped. Security
• 19:26
  Speaker 1: quickly grabbed the guy and dragged him off the court.
• 19:31
  Speaker 1: Now the fan, we believe he's a juvenile. Does that
• 19:34
  Speaker 1: mean he goes to juvenile hall? He goes to juvie?
• 19:36
  Speaker 1: Is that okay? Anyway, we'll see. So he was arrested and,
• 19:40
  Speaker 1: as we said, banned for life from all the arenas.
• 19:43
  Speaker 1: The second guy involved also received a lifetime ban, and
• 19:48
  Speaker 1: this guy's facing criminal charges including courting to TMZ, criminal trespass,
• 19:53
  Speaker 1: and disrupting a public event. Yeah, all right, so that
• 19:58
  Speaker 1: is a good jumping off point, let us discuss the question,
• 20:03
  Speaker 1: will will this Adam Silver NBA punishment stop future idiots
• 20:10
  Speaker 1: or inspire the next TikTok daredevil to run out to
• 20:15
  Speaker 1: the middle of the court during an NBA Finals game.
• 20:18
  Speaker 1: So my observations here, I've got fully immersed tsa agent
• 20:24
  Speaker 1: and pumpkin pie, and we will combine all of these
• 20:29
  Speaker 1: things together and we hope to hit a gold mine.
• 20:34
  Speaker 1: We hope. So we know we're gonna move a mile
• 20:35
  Speaker 1: a minute. We know that. So number why number one?
• 20:40
  Speaker 1: Number one? Number one?
• 20:43
  Speaker 2: Run?
• 20:45
  Speaker 1: All right, enough, all right, so let's keep it real here, Okay,
• 20:49
  Speaker 1: Adam Silver. Adam Silver did not deter if the goal
• 20:54
  Speaker 1: was deterred. He did not deter these kids. He just
• 20:58
  Speaker 1: gave them a new challenge to get new higher level
• 21:02
  Speaker 1: of challenge to reach. Right, these cats are fully immersed
• 21:06
  Speaker 1: in the matrix, indoctrinated and brainwashed into the social media world,
• 21:12
  Speaker 1: the brain rot of TikTok and all that. So they're
• 21:14
  Speaker 1: in it. They're fully in it, and they have no
• 21:17
  Speaker 1: idea what they're involved in and how it's all being
• 21:20
  Speaker 1: manipulated and all that. And that's a different conversation, all right.
• 21:23
  Speaker 1: Remember there wasn't there a guy that ran onto the
• 21:26
  Speaker 1: field during the Super Bowl and then did it again
• 21:28
  Speaker 1: a couple of years later. Remember that. Yeah, Like, there's
• 21:32
  Speaker 1: an adrenaline rush when you do that kind of thing.
• 21:34
  Speaker 1: And if that's you, I guess your jolly's off. You're
• 21:37
  Speaker 1: gonna try to do it again. And these Mama Lukes
• 21:40
  Speaker 1: the thing about the Lifetime band, which I just laugh at,
• 21:43
  Speaker 1: it's obvious they're not NBA fans. We get that whole
• 21:46
  Speaker 1: lecture from the broadcaster. They're leglar about, Oh yeah, these
• 21:50
  Speaker 1: are all this was terrible for basketball at all. They're
• 21:53
  Speaker 1: not basketball fans. These dopes. Listen, they're you know what
• 21:57
  Speaker 1: they are. We said this the other they're non playable character,
• 22:00
  Speaker 1: just waiting for their next side quest and all that.
• 22:03
  Speaker 1: And charging the guy that ran on the court with
• 22:07
  Speaker 1: misdemeanor whatever. You know, these two misdemeanor charges, it's like
• 22:11
  Speaker 1: giving a mosquito a parking ticket. Well, the mosquito don't
• 22:15
  Speaker 1: really care. You don't ban these guys give I'm gonn
• 22:18
  Speaker 1: tell you exactly right now. I'm gonna help out Adam
• 22:21
  Speaker 1: Silver and society in general from the bully pulpit. The
• 22:24
  Speaker 1: powers invested to me here on the Ben Malor Show.
• 22:27
  Speaker 1: If you want to stop these guys that are trying
• 22:31
  Speaker 1: to get clout on TikTok, running out on the court,
• 22:33
  Speaker 1: live stream and everything, I'll tell you what you do, okay,
• 22:36
  Speaker 1: And you need society to be on board with this.
• 22:40
  Speaker 1: Forget banning them from NBA game. I don't care about
• 22:42
  Speaker 1: the NBA. You ban them from the Internet, you ban
• 22:46
  Speaker 1: them from social media. If you do that, you say,
• 22:49
  Speaker 1: if you run on and interrupt in one of our
• 22:51
  Speaker 1: beloved cultural events here, professional sports, overpaid athletes. If you
• 22:55
  Speaker 1: interrupt that and rich people sitting in the front row,
• 22:58
  Speaker 1: celebrity elites, one percenters that watch these games. If you
• 23:01
  Speaker 1: stop the one percenters and the professional athletes from enjoying
• 23:05
  Speaker 1: their activity, you are banned from social media for life.
• 23:09
  Speaker 1: You're banned from the Internet. That would put the kabash
• 23:13
  Speaker 1: on this. It would never happen again because the only
• 23:16
  Speaker 1: reason you do it is because you want to get
• 23:19
  Speaker 1: clout online and you cannot scare a generation that thinks
• 23:26
  Speaker 1: consequences are just like another filter on their phone. If
• 23:29
  Speaker 1: they can't get on their phone because they don't have
• 23:31
  Speaker 1: the Internet, then there you go. The goal, obviously was
• 23:34
  Speaker 1: to go viral. He go was live streaming as he
• 23:37
  Speaker 1: was running out on the court. He wanted to go viral,
• 23:39
  Speaker 1: and that's exactly what happened. That's exactly what happened. And sure,
• 23:43
  Speaker 1: Victor wi Miyama, you know, he didn't seem too upset
• 23:45
  Speaker 1: by it. He seemed he was surprised. He smiled towards
• 23:48
  Speaker 1: the phone, and he compared it to the bat flying
• 23:52
  Speaker 1: around the arena across the court prior to the game.
• 23:57
  Speaker 1: Why are there so many bats at that arena in
• 24:00
  Speaker 1: San Antonio? Can anyone like, I know there's bats everywhere.
• 24:03
  Speaker 1: I get it. I'm not naive to that fact. It
• 24:04
  Speaker 1: seems like of all the arenas in the NBA, there
• 24:08
  Speaker 1: are more bats at that arena. Famously, Manu Genobili was
• 24:12
  Speaker 1: bitten by a bat at a Spurs game years ago.
• 24:17
  Speaker 1: It just seems like that's their thing. You know how
• 24:20
  Speaker 1: in Cleveland they have the MiGs or whatever they're called,
• 24:24
  Speaker 1: those little bugs. It's like out of the Bible there.
• 24:27
  Speaker 1: They just come and they just attack everything, the little
• 24:31
  Speaker 1: annoying bugs midge midges, I think they're called there in
• 24:34
  Speaker 1: Cleveland in that area. But San Antonio they got bats,
• 24:37
  Speaker 1: and I never I watched a lot of Batman as
• 24:40
  Speaker 1: a kid. I don't ever remember Batman being in San Antonio?
• 24:43
  Speaker 1: Why not? I don't get it anyway, how it gets
• 24:46
  Speaker 1: back to the point. So the only thing this kid
• 24:49
  Speaker 1: actually assaulted was his own dignity, by the way, And
• 24:52
  Speaker 1: if you're gonna go out there and get a lifetime band,
• 24:55
  Speaker 1: granted you don't really care about it. It's like, you know,
• 24:58
  Speaker 1: like banning a fat guy from us salad bar. Well,
• 25:00
  Speaker 1: they're not going to care about it because they don't
• 25:02
  Speaker 1: really eat salad. So who cares in banning a guy
• 25:04
  Speaker 1: doesn't like basketball from basketball next time? If you're gonna
• 25:08
  Speaker 1: risk some kind of criminal charges and all this stuff,
• 25:12
  Speaker 1: can you at least be cognizant enough to get the
• 25:17
  Speaker 1: selfie to get when Banyama's head in the damn frame,
• 25:21
  Speaker 1: your dummy, Like, what are you doing? Did you not
• 25:24
  Speaker 1: think that? Wait a minute, this guy's seven four whatever,
• 25:28
  Speaker 1: he is seven to five, and this the guy that
• 25:30
  Speaker 1: ran out in the court is probably like five nine
• 25:33
  Speaker 1: or something like that. Like, what are you doing all
• 25:35
  Speaker 1: right now? Page two? Jalen Brunson, you know who that is?
• 25:40
  Speaker 1: You do all right? Good for you? So Jalen Brunson
• 25:43
  Speaker 1: is he's got a thing. He's got a thing that
• 25:47
  Speaker 1: he it's a bit of a Michig Goss. So Jalen Brunson,
• 25:50
  Speaker 1: we understand, is staying away, far away from the Larry
• 25:55
  Speaker 1: O'Brien trophy. Now, that's the hunk of metal. The piece
• 25:58
  Speaker 1: of metal is rob Manfred would say, they give out
• 26:00
  Speaker 1: to the top basketball team. It's just a piece of metal.
• 26:03
  Speaker 1: It's a superstition. As the NBA Finals go on. Now,
• 26:07
  Speaker 1: we heard that the people over at ABC and the
• 26:10
  Speaker 1: NBA had a photo shoot and they were attempting to
• 26:15
  Speaker 1: get all of the star players to take photos with
• 26:18
  Speaker 1: the trophy. However, Jalen Brunson, the Knicks guard, said no.
• 26:24
  Speaker 1: He refused to even enter the room or participate in
• 26:28
  Speaker 1: the promotional shoot that featured the NBA's championship trophy, the
• 26:33
  Speaker 1: Larry O'Brien Award. This was done at the media day
• 26:37
  Speaker 1: prior to the NBA Finals. Now, when asked about it,
• 26:41
  Speaker 1: Bruntson what did he say? Did he say, A, I
• 26:45
  Speaker 1: ain't touching that thing. I don't want to die, I'll
• 26:48
  Speaker 1: kill me, b I just I felt sick or see
• 26:51
  Speaker 1: no comment. Well, he did respond, see no comment variations
• 26:55
  Speaker 1: of no comment, and asked, how how do you hear
• 27:00
  Speaker 1: about that? He essentially said he talk about it all once.
• 27:04
  Speaker 1: The trophy is actually within reach, meaning the Knicks still
• 27:07
  Speaker 1: have to win three more games. So the question for
• 27:11
  Speaker 1: the esteem panel, and you can answer this, I'll give
• 27:13
  Speaker 1: out the numbered a minute. The question how does Nicks
• 27:17
  Speaker 1: start Jalen Brunson keeping away His activity of keeping away
• 27:21
  Speaker 1: from the Larry O'Brien NBA championship trophies strike you? So
• 27:27
  Speaker 1: this has happened from time to time. You know, usually
• 27:30
  Speaker 1: in football you don't touch the conference championship trophy like
• 27:35
  Speaker 1: you're not supposed to do that. Jalen Brunson got a
• 27:38
  Speaker 1: straight up. I guess he's got an allergy. He's allergically.
• 27:42
  Speaker 1: What are he gonna break out in hives? Jalen Brunson
• 27:44
  Speaker 1: if he gets too close here, he's practicing championship celibacy.
• 27:49
  Speaker 1: No touching, no touching until the vows are official. No,
• 27:55
  Speaker 1: he's treating the Larry O'Brien trophy like it's patient zero
• 27:59
  Speaker 1: and there's another pandemic. Mask up, sanitize. Don't even breathe here,
• 28:04
  Speaker 1: it do not breathe. And I'm a man I still
• 28:07
  Speaker 1: go round. I see people wearing a mask. It blows
• 28:09
  Speaker 1: me away, you know, six years later, chill out, man,
• 28:12
  Speaker 1: I see it all the time. But he's giving that trophy.
• 28:14
  Speaker 1: Six feet of social distancing space is what he's doing.
• 28:18
  Speaker 1: Like it just coughed on the team bus and he's
• 28:21
  Speaker 1: worried about it and all that. And I'm sure based
• 28:23
  Speaker 1: on this, the nick fans are probably already out there
• 28:25
  Speaker 1: buying toilet paper and bottled water. Why not? And I
• 28:30
  Speaker 1: get the mindset. Bruntson is clearly a superstitious guy. He
• 28:35
  Speaker 1: must be, and he's running the ultimate JINX prevention protocol.
• 28:41
  Speaker 1: Think of it like Jalen Brunson is a tsa agent
• 28:45
  Speaker 1: of premature celebration, and nothing, I probably nothing gets through
• 28:50
  Speaker 1: without a full inspection. You don't measure, the says in politics,
• 28:54
  Speaker 1: you don't measure the drapes until you've won the election.
• 28:57
  Speaker 1: I've heard that line over the years. And you the
• 29:00
  Speaker 1: confetti cannons on standby because Jalen Brunson will not let
• 29:05
  Speaker 1: a single single paper shred get optimistic. And somewhere there's
• 29:12
  Speaker 1: already a fat lady who has not even warmed up yet,
• 29:16
  Speaker 1: and he will not let her clear her throat or
• 29:19
  Speaker 1: drink some water. That's how diabolical Jalen Brunson is. And
• 29:26
  Speaker 1: it's completely on brand for the supposed mentality of the
• 29:30
  Speaker 1: legend of Jalen Brunson. The job is not done. The
• 29:32
  Speaker 1: Knicks ultra focused, the legend, building, the myth building, avoiding
• 29:37
  Speaker 1: anything that feels like a premature party Kobe level insanity. Yeah,
• 29:42
  Speaker 1: Jalen Brunson acting like touching the trophy before the buzzer
• 29:46
  Speaker 1: is a federal crime and you'd be eaten by a
• 29:49
  Speaker 1: black mamba. So don't do it. And it is pretty common,
• 29:53
  Speaker 1: it's not that rare. It's pretty common for athletes to
• 29:56
  Speaker 1: have this superstition. I know, I will never touch a
• 29:58
  Speaker 1: Marconi award until I win. I will not touch the Marconi.
• 30:02
  Speaker 1: That's my equivalent here in radio. When I get the Marconi,
• 30:05
  Speaker 1: I'll hug it and i'll kiss it and I'll make
• 30:06
  Speaker 1: out with it. Until then, though, I'm not touching the Marconi. Now.
• 30:09
  Speaker 1: I have worked at a couple of stations that won
• 30:11
  Speaker 1: the Marconi. That's a team award though, and I want
• 30:14
  Speaker 1: the individual Marconi, and so until then, I'm not touching.
• 30:18
  Speaker 1: I'm not gonna do it. Not gonna happen. So but
• 30:21
  Speaker 1: avoiding the hardware until you've earned it and all that,
• 30:25
  Speaker 1: and so this little extreme, extreme, little extreme. Now, speaking
• 30:30
  Speaker 1: of extreme, we go to La La Land reports bouncing
• 30:33
  Speaker 1: around the echo chamber that guard Austin Reeves, who is
• 30:38
  Speaker 1: now an unrestricted free agent, Well not officially because the
• 30:41
  Speaker 1: new league year has to kick in after the finals
• 30:43
  Speaker 1: and all that stuff, but he will be an unrestricted
• 30:45
  Speaker 1: free agent. He declined the player option, and multiple reports
• 30:51
  Speaker 1: telling us that Austin Reeves is demanding a max contract,
• 30:56
  Speaker 1: and I hope he has better luck than I did
• 30:58
  Speaker 1: When I asked for a max contract, I got laughed
• 31:00
  Speaker 1: at and told to go wash the dishes. So Austin
• 31:04
  Speaker 1: Reeves wants two hundred and forty one million dollars. I
• 31:09
  Speaker 1: suppose he wants to stay with the Historians. He's played
• 31:13
  Speaker 1: there his entire career. However, he's not willing to give
• 31:18
  Speaker 1: a hometown discount. Oh boo hoo hoo. I've given so
• 31:21
  Speaker 1: many hometown discounts. I'm a discount store at this point.
• 31:24
  Speaker 1: So Lonzo Ball and others have argued that Austin Reeves
• 31:29
  Speaker 1: is not a true alpha star worth that kind of money.
• 31:35
  Speaker 1: So the question is Austin Reeves truly worth a max
• 31:39
  Speaker 1: contract which he is demanding with the Lakers. So there
• 31:46
  Speaker 1: are a lot of players who have been given the
• 31:49
  Speaker 1: max contract who I roll my eyes at and say, well,
• 31:52
  Speaker 1: that's you know, that's what are you doing. That's not
• 31:54
  Speaker 1: a max player. It's a whole different conversation. And look,
• 31:58
  Speaker 1: you're worth what somebody is dumb enough to pay you.
• 32:01
  Speaker 1: That's always been the case and doesn't mean we can't
• 32:04
  Speaker 1: rip you for making the amount of money you're making. However,
• 32:08
  Speaker 1: unless you put a knife to someone's throat or a
• 32:10
  Speaker 1: gun to their head, it doesn't really it doesn't really matter.
• 32:14
  Speaker 1: Reeves turned down a smaller extension he bet on himself
• 32:19
  Speaker 1: in free agency, and now the Lakers can offer him
• 32:22
  Speaker 1: the full max, the famous bird rights. If you're a
• 32:26
  Speaker 1: salary kap NERD, you know exactly what the bird rights are.
• 32:29
  Speaker 1: Now that said, I certainly do not see this ballplayer
• 32:33
  Speaker 1: as indispensable, and I would if I don't. Obviously, I
• 32:37
  Speaker 1: don't like the Lakers. I hate the Lakers. I wouldn't
• 32:40
  Speaker 1: really be upset if he left if I cared about
• 32:42
  Speaker 1: that team. Austin Reeves is what you call a nice player. However,
• 32:47
  Speaker 1: max players are not supposed to be called nice players.
• 32:50
  Speaker 1: There's something, there's a higher level. So when you say
• 32:53
  Speaker 1: Austin Reeves is a nice player, I would agree he's
• 32:55
  Speaker 1: a nice player. However, max players are something else. He
• 32:59
  Speaker 1: is a complementary piece, not a center piece. That's what
• 33:03
  Speaker 1: I'm trying to say. And you can't be a max
• 33:05
  Speaker 1: player if every postseason you're turned into a piece of
• 33:09
  Speaker 1: pumpkin pie at midnight. And Austin Reeves, he's a tesla
• 33:15
  Speaker 1: in the regular season, and he's a used corolla in
• 33:20
  Speaker 1: the playoffs. Playoffs, and everyone loves to bash Playoff Harden.
• 33:25
  Speaker 1: And I've spent a lot of my time here in
• 33:27
  Speaker 1: very valuable real estate behind the microphones with Fox Sports
• 33:30
  Speaker 1: Radio treating Playoff Harden as a pinata. And he's earned it.
• 33:35
  Speaker 1: You know who gets a pass, Playoff Austin. Playoff Austin.
• 33:40
  Speaker 1: It's a real thing, and it's a horror movie. In
• 33:43
  Speaker 1: the postseason, he has been exposed like a vampire to garlic,
• 33:48
  Speaker 1: as someone who does not possess postseason stardust. It's not
• 33:53
  Speaker 1: my opinion, it's a fact. He is a liability. Last
• 33:58
  Speaker 1: two years liability against Minnesota, a couple of years ago,
• 34:01
  Speaker 1: liability this year against Oklahoma City struggling to guard elite
• 34:06
  Speaker 1: quicker players. That he's just not good enough on the perimeter.
• 34:11
  Speaker 1: And the biggest problem is that, well he's bad defensively. Okay,
• 34:14
  Speaker 1: Well he makes up for it offensively, No, he doesn't.
• 34:17
  Speaker 1: He's been a bad three point shooter in the playoffs.
• 34:20
  Speaker 1: He's got a lot of turnovers under pressure. He's got
• 34:24
  Speaker 1: this thing that goes sideways to what you would call
• 34:27
  Speaker 1: it doesn't quite work. There's also some durability concerns about
• 34:31
  Speaker 1: Austin Reeves. And am I saying that no one's gonna
• 34:34
  Speaker 1: pay him. No, of course he'll get paid. The Lakers
• 34:36
  Speaker 1: will likely pay him, despite my tongue lashing. They'll pay him.
• 34:39
  Speaker 1: And then I'll enjoy every bad playoff game he has,
• 34:43
  Speaker 1: and I'll be very happy, and I'll say I told
• 34:45
  Speaker 1: you so, no no, no, no, no, no, no, I told you,
• 34:49
  Speaker 1: And That's how I'm gonna celebrate. So doesn't magnive a
• 34:52
  Speaker 1: sermon every day about Austin Reeves is not all that good,
• 34:55
  Speaker 1: and it doesn't matter.
• 34:56
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• 34:58
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• 35:02
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• 35:04
  Speaker 2: That to the third degree.
• 35:07
  Speaker 1: This is one big Ben gets grilled good.
• 35:12
  Speaker 3: When speaking to the media on Wednesday, Max Crosby said
• 35:15
  Speaker 3: that the failed trade by the Raiders is quote water
• 35:17
  Speaker 3: under the bridge.
• 35:18
  Speaker 4: I'm here and I want to be here. Ben. Do
• 35:20
  Speaker 4: you believe him?
• 35:22
  Speaker 1: Well, I believe that's what he's saying his talking point.
• 35:24
  Speaker 1: Let's check back around week nine or ten when the
• 35:27
  Speaker 1: Raiders are two and seven and the Baltimore Ravens are
• 35:31
  Speaker 1: seven and two, and let's see what Let's see what
• 35:34
  Speaker 1: Max Crosby's saying. He asked for a trade, he got
• 35:37
  Speaker 1: a trade, and then it didn't work out because he
• 35:39
  Speaker 1: failed because the Ravens panicked and all that. So I
• 35:42
  Speaker 1: don't believe Next.
• 35:43
  Speaker 3: Miles Garrett said in his introductory news conference that in
• 35:46
  Speaker 3: la he sees a position to solidify himself among the
• 35:49
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• 35:50
  Speaker 4: Ben. Don't you think he's already done that?
• 35:53
  Speaker 1: Yeah, it's just like the final brick on the on
• 35:56
  Speaker 1: the building. It's a championship, is a team awards. He's
• 35:59
  Speaker 1: done everything can do individually. So if you win a championship,
• 36:02
  Speaker 1: it's like it does you get a higher level, but
• 36:04
  Speaker 1: he's already done everything next.
• 36:06
  Speaker 3: Some executives and gms think that if the Chiefs were
• 36:08
  Speaker 3: to win the Super Bowl this season, that Andy Reid
• 36:10
  Speaker 3: would call it a career. But how much longer do
• 36:12
  Speaker 3: you think redals stick around if they don't win it
• 36:14
  Speaker 3: all this season?
• 36:15
  Speaker 1: Yeah, he's definitely on the short list. They fire or
• 36:18
  Speaker 1: coaches leave ten ten coaches every year, and the Chiefs
• 36:21
  Speaker 1: had a bad year last year, have another bad year,
• 36:23
  Speaker 1: or they win. He's on that short list to leave.
• 36:25
  Speaker 1: He's sixty eight, Coop, He's sixty eight. How do we
• 36:28
  Speaker 1: do you pass?
• 36:29
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  Speaker 1: Boy, you just realized this today. You just realize yer, Yes,
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  Speaker 1: the time today.
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  Speaker 4: The world is changing.
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  Speaker 2: Monday.
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  Speaker 1: We're going to change the world. Monday, We're gonna change it,
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  Speaker 1: my world change right. Well, not on the mail bag though,
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  Speaker 1: because I tried to get weed Man. I did invite
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  Speaker 1: weed Man on the mail bag. You cannot figure out
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  Speaker 1: the technology? Is that correctly?
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  Speaker 2: And then it stopped?
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  Speaker 1: All right, we'll see if we can figure that out.
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  Speaker 4: Well.
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  Speaker 1: These are actual jokes by actual listeners. If you'd like
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  Speaker 2: Make me laugh all right.
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  Speaker 1: Again, Benmaller Show at gmail dot com. Jokes in the
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  Speaker 1: headline if you want a right jokes And these are
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  Speaker 1: actual jokes by actual listeners to the show. And we
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  Speaker 1: are on our way. First one from Eke in Roseville
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  Speaker 1: Minnesota says, what was Weedman in the choir?
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  Speaker 3: What?
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  Speaker 1: Well, it turns out you were the a soprano. You'd
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  Speaker 1: always hit the high notes. Man the great eke in Roseville, Minnesota.
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  Speaker 1: Why didn't Weedman graduate high school? Why I couldn't pass
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  Speaker 1: the drug test? That's Brendan from Boston. We sent that
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  Speaker 1: on in, said Big Ben's lame Jokes of the week.
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  Speaker 1: These are actual jokes by actual listeners to the show.
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  Speaker 1: Let's see page that. What is weed Man's favorite dessert?
• 39:11
  Speaker 1: What baked Alaska? Big fan? Big Fan? That's Mike the Leprechaun.
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  Speaker 1: I'm outside Boston. Who sent that one in? Why does
• 39:21
  Speaker 1: weed Man love Elton John song titled Rocketman? Why? Well,
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  Speaker 1: your favorite line is I'm gonna be high as a
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  Speaker 1: kite by then you love it? You can't love it?
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  Speaker 1: So the Leprechaun again. What do weed Man getting a
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  Speaker 1: job and the Lakers winning another championship? Have in common?
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  Speaker 1: What things that are never going to happen? That's Eric
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  Speaker 1: in Kansas, Go Go. Why are you gonna watch the
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  Speaker 1: game to night? Yes? Okay? Why is weed Man Hippie's nickname? Newspaper?
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  Speaker 1: Why there is a new issue with him every day.
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  Speaker 1: That is true weed man, you have you know that's George,
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  Speaker 1: George from Uvalde, Texas. Now this next one is from
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  Speaker 1: John in Youngstown, Ohio. You know John loves to bust
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  Speaker 1: your chops weed man, He says, how is man? How
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  Speaker 1: does weed man hippie get warm when it gets cold
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  Speaker 1: in Florida? How apparently you pick up the fresh, steamy
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  Speaker 1: hot pile of dog poo to warm John? How is
• 40:39
  Speaker 1: weed man like a politician? How you both demand change?
• 40:45
  Speaker 1: That surfer taught the comedians multi time lame joke Rider
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  Speaker 1: of the Year, The Great Surfer Topic comedian. Why doesn't
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  Speaker 1: weed man Hippie remember his candy benefactor's name? Why? Because
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  Speaker 1: the number of syllables is too high. That's Gerald and
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  Speaker 1: the Osars. Do you do you know what his name is?
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  Speaker 1: Do you know his name? Do you know his name? Oh? Perdie, perdie, perdie, Right, No,
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  Speaker 1: it's it's like it's like you sound like Krusty the
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  Speaker 1: c It's like a burrito. What what was what was
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  Speaker 1: the work for you? All right? What was the working title?
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  Speaker 1: Readma's rejected Broadway script. It was called Rats. That's from
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  Speaker 1: Alan Fresno Overnight, Alan Fresno.
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  Speaker 4: That one's for you.
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  Speaker 2: Your cooperament a Friday tradition, Hoorai for Hollywood.
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  Speaker 3: Starts right now.
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  Speaker 4: Thank you, Marcel.
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  Speaker 1: Fantastic phone call, spicy segment of radio.
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  Speaker 4: Yes, it was great.
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  Speaker 3: All right, We're going to start off in the theaters
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  Speaker 3: as we always do here on Koop Scoop on Entertainment,
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  Speaker 3: and this is a big weekend at.
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  Speaker 4: The movie theaters.
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  Speaker 3: First of all, we have the return of the Scary
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  Speaker 3: Movie franchise.
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  Speaker 4: Yes, it is back.
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  Speaker 1: And how many have they made now?
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  Speaker 4: I think this is the sixth one.
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  Speaker 1: Oh my god.
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  Speaker 4: But it's been a very long time since they've made.
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  Speaker 1: One, so oh okay.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, I think I think Scary Movie five was in
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  Speaker 3: twenty thirteen, so it's been.
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  Speaker 1: It doesn't seem like that said long ago, but I
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  Speaker 1: guess it is.
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  Speaker 3: Unfortunately it is. And as as one might be able
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  Speaker 3: to predict, the critics thought that this movie was terrible,
• 42:44
  Speaker 3: while audiences loved it. So I think that's kind of
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  Speaker 3: par for the course with these Scary movie parodies. But
• 42:51
  Speaker 3: it's supposed to be super offensive, So go run and
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  Speaker 3: check it out. I know I will be also in
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  Speaker 3: theaters this weekend is Masters of the Universe. That's right, Ben,
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  Speaker 3: this is this is right up your alley, right, yeah,
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  Speaker 3: it's he Man.
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  Speaker 1: This before Saturday Morning cartoons, Coop. You wouln't understand that
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  Speaker 1: was a cultural experience if you have a certain age.
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  Speaker 3: Well we had we had. I had Saturday Morning cartoons.
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  Speaker 3: They were just different cartoons.
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  Speaker 1: Like well, ours were better, but.
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  Speaker 4: Mine was Mine was like Pokemon and and Recess.
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  Speaker 1: We had had he Man, we had, Uh what else
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  Speaker 1: did we have? We had? Uh, I forget we had
• 43:34
  Speaker 1: a bunch. It was the superhero a lot of superhero stuff.
• 43:36
  Speaker 1: G I Joe. There was a G I Joe cartoon,
• 43:39
  Speaker 1: the documentary on Netflix about the toys that made us
• 43:42
  Speaker 1: remember this year they all had. Part of the deal
• 43:45
  Speaker 1: was if you had new toys, you had to get
• 43:46
  Speaker 1: a TV show on Saturday morning to sell the toys.
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  Speaker 4: Well there you go.
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  Speaker 3: That.
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  Speaker 1: Uh.
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  Speaker 3: This this movie, Masters of the Universe, it is. It
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  Speaker 3: is being praised by both critics and audiences alike.
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  Speaker 4: Uh.
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  Speaker 3: The actor who plays he Man, I have never heard
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  Speaker 3: of before Nicholas.
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  Speaker 1: Gallat scene, but there's a question mark at the end
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  Speaker 1: of his name.
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  Speaker 4: Yes, But there are some.
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  Speaker 3: Actors that you may recognize also starring in this, such
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  Speaker 3: as Alison Bree, Kristin Wig, Jared Leto, Idris Elba. Jared
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  Speaker 3: Leto plays Skeletor by the way.
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  Speaker 4: So that should be interesting.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, so you know, all kinds of good stuff in
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  Speaker 3: theaters this weekend. Moving over to television, we have this
• 44:34
  Speaker 3: is kind of a reboot.
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  Speaker 4: It is Cape Fear.
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  Speaker 3: So this is a new series on Apple TV based
• 44:41
  Speaker 3: off of the novel, but also there was the movie
• 44:46
  Speaker 3: adaptations in nineteen sixty two and nineteen ninety one, and
• 44:50
  Speaker 3: so basically this follows a happily married couple, Amy Adams
• 44:55
  Speaker 3: and Patrick Wilson, who are stalked by a man from
• 44:57
  Speaker 3: their past, a killer who has just been released from
• 45:00
  Speaker 3: is played by Javi R. Bar Dam who plays a
• 45:03
  Speaker 3: great villain. As you may know, Martin Scorsese and Steven Spielberg,
• 45:07
  Speaker 3: who directed and produced the nineteen ninety one film, both
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  Speaker 3: serve as producers on this new series on Apple TV
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  Speaker 3: that is available to stream right now.
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  Speaker 4: Also on television.
• 45:19
  Speaker 3: We have you know, this is something that I'm gonna
• 45:22
  Speaker 3: bring up just you know, something for you to watch
• 45:24
  Speaker 3: with your lady. It's a rom com. It's a rom
• 45:27
  Speaker 3: com movie on Netflix available right now. It's called Office
• 45:30
  Speaker 3: Romance and it stars the Queen of rom coms, Jennifer
• 45:34
  Speaker 3: Lopez and Brett Goldstein from from the some other Thing,
• 45:42
  Speaker 3: the show with the Soccer Coaching.
• 45:48
  Speaker 1: Oh, the the oh yeah the Poppers TV. You talk
• 45:52
  Speaker 1: about the yeah, I yes, yeah, yeah, my wife liked
• 45:56
  Speaker 1: that show.
• 45:57
  Speaker 3: Yes, it's a great show. Why am I ted lassa
• 45:59
  Speaker 3: there we coach? I definitely never watched that great show.
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  Speaker 4: You should check it out.
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  Speaker 1: Very popular show.
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  Speaker 3: But basically this is a raunchy straight to streaming on
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  Speaker 3: Netflix movie.
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  Speaker 4: Uh.
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  Speaker 3: Basically, Jennifer Lopez plays the CEO of an airline who
• 46:15
  Speaker 3: finds herself attracted to one of her new employees. Betty Gilpin,
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  Speaker 3: Edward James almost Amy Sedaris also star.
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  Speaker 4: In this movie that is on Netflix.
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  Speaker 3: And last, but not least, I'm gonna bring this up
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  Speaker 3: because it was popular at Cannes Series, which is the
• 46:34
  Speaker 3: international TV festival held in can Just you know, not
• 46:38
  Speaker 3: the movie one, but it.
• 46:39
  Speaker 4: Is called Alison Steve.
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  Speaker 3: It is on Hulu on Monday, June eighth, And this
• 46:43
  Speaker 3: is supposed to be an anti romantic comedy. A British
• 46:47
  Speaker 3: anti romanmantic comedy is getting a good good reviews. Check
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  Speaker 3: that out, Alison Steve Hulu Monday. And that is Cooop
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