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  Speaker 1: Catburg seat. From the Business of sport, the business of basketball.
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  Speaker 1: If you will, big news out, big news if you
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  Speaker 1: love financial transactions on some spreadsheets. Somewhere, Man was at
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  Speaker 1: a good day for you. God was at an exciting
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  Speaker 1: day for you. So you have not heard yet, and
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  Speaker 1: perhaps not. We learned that the Bus family has decided
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  Speaker 1: to say bye bye to the Lakers. What kind of
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  Speaker 1: They will no longer control the majority ownership of the
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  Speaker 1: once proud, now floundering franchise that is the Lakers. As
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  Speaker 1: Mark Walter, the gazillionaire from Chicago who is the face
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  Speaker 1: of the Gougenheind group that owns the Dodgers, he's buying it.
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  Speaker 1: He had a chance to buy. He owned part of
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  Speaker 1: the Lakers anyway. It's not that he's coming out of
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  Speaker 1: left field. Mark Walter owned a percente of the Lakers,
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  Speaker 1: had the option of buying the rest of the team.
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  Speaker 1: I had heard it several years back that this was
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  Speaker 1: likely going to happen, and it has happened. So Mark
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  Speaker 1: Walter is going to pay ten billion, ten billion, and
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  Speaker 1: it will be the largest sale when they cross all
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  Speaker 1: the t's and doty isaik, what's a weekend.
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  Speaker 2: It's all on docu sign.
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  Speaker 1: But when they do the docu sign, it'll be the
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  Speaker 1: largest sale price for a US professional sports franchise of
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  Speaker 1: all time. The Bus family will keep a little bitty share,
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  Speaker 1: just a little bitty share of the team, just over
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  Speaker 1: fifteen percent. And Genie Buss, we are told, will continue
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  Speaker 1: as the face of the ownership group.
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  Speaker 2: They can't get rid of her. She's like a cockroach.
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  Speaker 1: She won't be Walter the face of the Dodgers ownership
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  Speaker 1: as we said there, and people just thinking he'll just
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  Speaker 1: spend endless amounts of money and it'll just be amazing
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  Speaker 1: and all that. So let us discuss the question, like
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  Speaker 1: the pending sale. Will de pending sale of the Lakers
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  Speaker 1: from the Bus family to the Mark Walter Guggenheim Group
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  Speaker 1: be a dramatic change, because all I've heard is all
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  Speaker 1: my god, happy days are here again. Happy days are
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  Speaker 1: here again. Mark Walter is the owner. So is it
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  Speaker 1: really gonna change. It's gonna be dramatic. So my thoughts
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  Speaker 1: to this, I've got goose fanatic and farmers market, and
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  Speaker 1: we will combine all of these things together and we're
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  Speaker 1: gonna put the biscuit in the basket.
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  Speaker 2: We'll take the biscuit and we'll put the biscuit in
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  Speaker 2: the basket, just like that.
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  Speaker 1: So to answer the question, will this pending sale lead
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  Speaker 1: to a dramatic change now that somebody actually has money
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  Speaker 1: the Google heind group will own the Lakers are supposed
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  Speaker 1: to gene Bus, The answer is no, it's not going
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  Speaker 1: to be a dramatic change. In fact, I would say
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  Speaker 1: nothing changes. Not a zip b o bupkus is going
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  Speaker 1: to change. And here's why. Right, the Lakers are just
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  Speaker 1: going to continue strutting through the NBA like they own
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  Speaker 1: the joint because that's how they've always operated. And there
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  Speaker 1: are different rules in the NBA that baseball doesn't have
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  Speaker 1: in terms of how much money you can pay deferred money,
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  Speaker 1: and deferred money you can't push it back to lower
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  Speaker 1: your salary cap number to get under these aprons and
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  Speaker 1: all that bull crap. So it's not like the stuff
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  Speaker 1: the Dodgers have been able to get away with. The
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  Speaker 1: NBA has got clauses in there that you can't do
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  Speaker 1: that in the NBA, So all the tricks that the
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  Speaker 1: Dodgers have used doesn't work. Now. I don't know who
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  Speaker 1: the top NBA player in Japan is, but whoever that is,
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  Speaker 1: I expect you to end up on the on the Lakers,
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  Speaker 1: like immediately, like later on today, he'll end up on
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  Speaker 1: the Lakers. Consider how much money they've milked off Otani
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  Speaker 1: from from Japan. So the Lakers are at this point,
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  Speaker 1: they continue to be the golden goose the NBA. We
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  Speaker 1: are convinced rigged the Luka Donzig trade to send him
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  Speaker 1: to the Lakers. Let's make sure with TV ratings are down,
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  Speaker 1: the Lakers don't have a star, no one really, you know,
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  Speaker 1: Lebron's washed up nobody.
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  Speaker 2: Let's make sure we hook them up. So they did.
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  Speaker 2: And so how is that gonna change? So they have
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  Speaker 2: a new owner and.
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  Speaker 1: Genie Boss is kind of kind of step aside. More
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  Speaker 1: than that in a second, but it's just gonna be
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  Speaker 1: more of the same special treatment.
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  Speaker 2: The Lakers have always gotten special treatment, and all that's.
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  Speaker 1: Different is Mark Walter is the one that's right, the
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  Speaker 1: check and the Googen Hind group, and then that's it.
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  Speaker 1: The NBA has always bent over backwards my entire life
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  Speaker 1: for that pathetic purple and gold crap. It's been that
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  Speaker 1: way for decades and we're talking about multiple.
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  Speaker 2: Generations where it's been that way.
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  Speaker 1: And so you think Adam Silver is going to allow
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  Speaker 1: under his watch them to slide into irrelevance. Of course,
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  Speaker 1: they just went out and gave the Lakers Luca, even
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  Speaker 1: though he's fat, they gave him Luca.
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  Speaker 2: They still hooked him up.
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  Speaker 1: Come on, so anyway, and the other thing two is
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  Speaker 1: the referees will continue to help the Lakers out.
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  Speaker 2: You know, those fifty to fifty.
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  Speaker 1: Calls will go the direction they will go the direction
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  Speaker 1: of the Lakers, and the free agent market will still
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  Speaker 1: tilt to the Lakers and all that. And the players
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  Speaker 1: nobody's signing with the Lakers because in the order, if
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  Speaker 1: that was the case, no one would have played for
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  Speaker 1: the Lakers. And gee Bus didn't know what she was doing.
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  Speaker 1: And the Lakers continue to get playures. Do you think
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  Speaker 1: Lebron James when he went to the Lakers left Cleveland,
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  Speaker 1: You think Lebron said I really want to play for
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  Speaker 1: one of Jerry Buss's kids.
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  Speaker 2: That's what I that's the owner. I want to play for.
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  Speaker 2: No right, not at all.
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  Speaker 1: Lebron James he came there because he wanted to make
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  Speaker 1: business deals with movie people and things, and he did.
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  Speaker 1: He's gotten all that. He made some cheeseball movies. His
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  Speaker 1: production company took off.
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  Speaker 2: You know. He has a stupid barber shop show like.
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  Speaker 1: All that stuff. But it wasn't because of the Genie Bus.
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  Speaker 1: It was because of La right. So that's that's the way.
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  Speaker 1: Is not that it matters, by the way, But again
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  Speaker 1: it doesn't matter. I mean the players that flocked to
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  Speaker 1: the to the Lakers like a moth to a flame.
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  Speaker 1: And Mark Walter will spend money. There's a real salary cap,
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  Speaker 1: although I'm a salarycap truth. When he comes to the NFL,
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  Speaker 1: and if they're just willing to listen, the teams are
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  Speaker 1: if you have enough money, you can pay and who cares,
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  Speaker 1: it doesn't really matter that much, and you just pay
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  Speaker 1: all the money and then the other teams can play
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  Speaker 1: and say it's not fair, and then you can't make
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  Speaker 1: certain trades.
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  Speaker 2: And all that stuff. Now, the other part of this can.
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  Speaker 1: You explain why Genie Buss is selling the team but
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  Speaker 1: is demanding, apparently to continue on in her role as
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  Speaker 1: the face of the Laker ownership group after the cell. Now,
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  Speaker 1: the NBA went woke years ago and they claim they
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  Speaker 1: don't have owners. They're so woke that they have governors,
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  Speaker 1: not owners. Every other sport has owners. NBA has got governors,
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  Speaker 1: which is lame. So we know realities will own a
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  Speaker 1: team and they're not governors.
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  Speaker 2: They're not voted in anyway.
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  Speaker 1: So the point of this with Genie Bus is rather
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  Speaker 1: obvious that this woman is addicted to the spotlight. Right
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  Speaker 1: can we all agree on that that those court side
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  Speaker 1: seats and all the celebrities coming up and shaking her
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  Speaker 1: hand there the red carpet at the Hollywood premieres that
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  Speaker 1: she gets invited to.
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  Speaker 2: She loves that.
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  Speaker 1: You want to give that up? You don't get that
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  Speaker 1: if you're not the Lakers owner anymore, you don't you
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  Speaker 1: fade off into the sunset in irrelevantce you're just another
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  Speaker 1: rich person surrounded by other rich people. And so she
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  Speaker 1: can still play the part as the fall Laker royalty.
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  Speaker 2: Owner and all that.
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  Speaker 1: So she gets a But Genie Buss think about what
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  Speaker 1: she's about to become. So the team's being sold to
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  Speaker 1: Mark Walter, She's going to continue going to the league
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  Speaker 1: meetings and all this stuff. She's about to become the
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  Speaker 1: Philly fanatic. She's going to be the mascot of the Lakers.
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  Speaker 1: She's like the San Diego chicken back chick out, the
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  Speaker 1: Laker mascot, wearing a pantsuit, going to league meetings, you know,
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  Speaker 1: waving to the fans, high fans. Yeah, but Mark Walter
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  Speaker 1: is the one who will be deciding where the money
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  Speaker 1: goes and all that stuff. And it's a symbolic nod.
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  Speaker 1: They claim to the Bus family legacy and all that,
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  Speaker 1: but no titles with Genie Buss's owner.
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  Speaker 2: Nobody who knows ball will say that she wanted any that.
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  Speaker 1: Mickey Mouse bubble doesn't count in a resort in Orlando
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  Speaker 1: back in twenty twenty. And my favorite Genie Bus story
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  Speaker 1: is when well Phil Jackson thing is like next level.
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  Speaker 1: But also the Bus Family revolt was that like twenty seventeen.
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  Speaker 1: I want to say, remember there was a revolt. The
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  Speaker 1: brothers the other kids got into a Jim and Johnny
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  Speaker 1: and they were all fighting. There was like a coup
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  Speaker 1: to get control of the Lakers. It was like some
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  Speaker 1: kind of mob movie or something like that. And then
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  Speaker 1: they worked it out. They massaged that, they got through that.
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  Speaker 1: She fired I think she fired the brother. I don't
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  Speaker 1: know how you do that because he owned part of
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  Speaker 1: the team. Also got rid of him. Can Mitch Cupjack
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  Speaker 1: he was out, brought in Magic Johnson that was a
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  Speaker 1: hot mess, and got rid of him. Then now they
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  Speaker 1: have this guy skinny jeans, Rob Polenka, who without NBA intervention,
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  Speaker 1: would have already lost his job, but the league helped
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  Speaker 1: him out and got him some players. Otherwise he didn't
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  Speaker 1: know what he's doing. And there you go. So another
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  Speaker 1: case old family money, right, the Bus family. Jerry Buss
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  Speaker 1: bought the Lakers in nineteen seventy nine for less than
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  Speaker 1: I think it was. Was it like seventy million or
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  Speaker 1: something like that, nineteen seven nine, which a lot of
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  Speaker 1: money nineteen seventy nine, but still real estate guy Jerry Buss,
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  Speaker 1: tremendous philanderer, unbelievable with the ladies, Jerry Buss, and so
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  Speaker 1: less than seventy million, and now the team's going to
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  Speaker 1: be sold for ten billion. I wonder what the capital
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  Speaker 1: gains tax on that is that must be insane, right
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  Speaker 1: you ten billion?
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  Speaker 2: I wonder what the capital gains to anyway.
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  Speaker 1: Regardless, so Genie Buss again will be the new Laker mascot. Congratulations,
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  Speaker 1: call them the buses and have her face on the uniforms.
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  Speaker 1: There a purely ceremonial role for sure. Now the last
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  Speaker 1: word here the question of why the Lakers sold for
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  Speaker 1: ten billion, and multiple people sending me a message, I
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  Speaker 1: don't understand why the Lakers are worth ten billion and
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  Speaker 1: the Boston Celtics sold just a few months ago for
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  Speaker 1: six point one billion, So why why did the Lakers
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  Speaker 1: go for essentially four billion dollars more than the Boston Celtics.
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  Speaker 1: And so the whole valuation I Forbes every year in
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  Speaker 1: front off of sports and sport. It go all these
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  Speaker 1: business sites in sports, many of them have their evaluations
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  Speaker 1: they come out with every year about teams are worth X,
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  Speaker 1: Y and z, and it's it's obviously things are just sorry.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, because there's a lot of rich people who
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  Speaker 1: are a little skittish because they don't know the stock market.
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  Speaker 1: You know, you end up dropping bombs somewhere and the
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  Speaker 1: prices go down, or there's oil problems here and things
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  Speaker 1: get all messed up, and uh so they don't they
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  Speaker 1: look a gun shy on the on the stock mart.
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  Speaker 1: So they're, oh, I can buy a team, and if
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  Speaker 1: I buy a team, I not only make money, but
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  Speaker 1: all the other people want to kiss my ass at
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  Speaker 1: the cocktail parties and the Hampton's or Beverly Hills or
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  Speaker 1: South Beach Man that's the lot. So they're willing to
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  Speaker 1: spend ridiculous amounts of money. And so it's like a
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  Speaker 1: farmer's market, right. It's farmers market here. And the Lakers
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  Speaker 1: operate in the second largest media market in the United
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  Speaker 1: States with over thirteen million, the Greater LA Area, the
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  Speaker 1: LA bas in southern California, La Base it's much bigger
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  Speaker 1: than that metro area. And then you got Boston right
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  Speaker 1: in Boston, major market, smaller metro population like the metro
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  Speaker 1: populations like five million or something like that. So it's
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  Speaker 1: like an eight million dollar difference. And despite the Celtics
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  Speaker 1: being much more successful than the Lakers, there's less of
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  Speaker 1: a market, so it's just a business deal. And the
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  Speaker 1: other thing, the biggest thing here is the arena. The
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  Speaker 1: Celtics do not own the garden that they play in,
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  Speaker 1: and it's it's a weird set up the Lakers because
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  Speaker 1: the Anshootz group owns where what I used to call
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  Speaker 1: Staples Center now it's like the Crypt, I think is
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  Speaker 1: what they call now. They play at the Crypt, which
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  Speaker 1: is appropriate because the franchise is dead. So the Crypt
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  Speaker 1: is owned by the anshoots group, but it's like they
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  Speaker 1: own They actually own part of the Lakers also, so
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  Speaker 1: it's like all tied together and all that. And so
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  Speaker 1: the Celtics do not own the arena, which is one
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  Speaker 1: of the reasons. The chatter is the Celtics will eventually
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  Speaker 1: leave a likely downtown Boston where they play and go
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  Speaker 1: out to the suburbs somewhere and build a nice, big,
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  Speaker 1: shiny arena and that'll be that the Bruins. The guy
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  Speaker 1: that owns the Bruins actually owns the arena there for
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  Speaker 1: the Celtics in Boston.
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  Speaker 1: Our lead this hour is from Pittsburgh, PA, the land
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  Speaker 1: of the Insers. Now why are we starting here? I
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  Speaker 1: the show, so we'll start with this. A little nugget,
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  Speaker 1: not a chicken nugget, gold nugget, but it was a
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  Speaker 1: nugged that made its way out on the inspiration the
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  Speaker 1: motivation for the Steelers to trade wide receiver George Pickens.
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  Speaker 1: You might remember Pickens was unloaded to the Dallas cowboy
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  Speaker 1: Is in a trade and they gave they, being the Steelers,
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  Speaker 1: they gave Pickens to Dallas for I believe they got
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  Speaker 1: two safety pins and a handful of pocket lint in
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  Speaker 1: that deal. That's what they got for George Pickens. So
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  Speaker 1: if you didn't see the motivation, perhaps not. I thought
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  Speaker 1: it was interesting. The Pittsburgh football team had determined that
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  Speaker 1: it was a toxic situation. If Aaron Rodgers were to
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  Speaker 1: play with George Pickens, they could not coexist. They could
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  Speaker 1: not co mingle, said the aforementioned report. So Rogers was
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  Speaker 1: not They knew that Rogers was coming to Pittsburgh, even
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  Speaker 1: though it took months and months for it to all
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  Speaker 1: be worked out. But Rogers was not going to be
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  Speaker 1: able to deal with George Pickens and his interesting perspective
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  Speaker 1: on football life. So they said, all right, we gotta
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  Speaker 1: get rid of Pickens. So Tomlin and on the other
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  Speaker 1: big shots there in Pittsburgh unloaded Pickens in a proactive
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  Speaker 1: move to accommodate Aaron Rodgers the guy that hadn't agreed
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  Speaker 1: to the contract yet, at least not as far as
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  Speaker 1: we know. He said, well, I'm probably gonna go there,
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  Speaker 1: but he hadn't agreed to it. So let us discuss
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  Speaker 1: the question thumbs up or thumbs down, thumbs up thumbs
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  Speaker 1: down on the Steelers trading George Pickens to accommodate Aaron Rodgers.
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  Speaker 2: That that's why they made the move.
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  Speaker 1: giving this the old sideways thumb. And here's why I
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  Speaker 1: feel like it's part of the story, but not the
• 18:09
  Speaker 1: entire story. Here, George Pickens was already on thin ice.
• 18:13
  Speaker 2: Can we all.
• 18:13
  Speaker 1: Agree on that? I think we can all. You're nodding
• 18:15
  Speaker 1: your head, yes, we oh, yes. He was at Loggerheads
• 18:18
  Speaker 1: with Mike Tumman. We documented it behind the Bully Pulpit
• 18:22
  Speaker 1: here on FSR. We documented there there were some issues
• 18:25
  Speaker 1: there Mike Tomlin and Pickens were not seeing eye to
• 18:29
  Speaker 1: eye and all that stuff, and he had become a walking,
• 18:33
  Speaker 1: talking destruction for the Pittsburgh football team. Immature, the critics said,
• 18:38
  Speaker 1: And was the stuff of locker room legend, locker room legend,
• 18:42
  Speaker 1: George Pickens, which is great talk radio.
• 18:46
  Speaker 2: As we have pointed.
• 18:47
  Speaker 1: Out, the players that cause problems, the players that have
• 18:51
  Speaker 1: issues are good talk radio. And George Pickens. Was that
• 18:54
  Speaker 1: a sideline outburst here that gets you an entire monologue?
• 18:58
  Speaker 1: All right, that's good half hearted blocking being called out
• 19:02
  Speaker 1: by teammates.
• 19:03
  Speaker 2: There's another monologue. Boom boom boom boom boom.
• 19:06
  Speaker 1: Line them up, knock them down right, and the eye
• 19:09
  Speaker 1: rolls from teammates. Bad body language on the sidelines. There's
• 19:14
  Speaker 1: another one in another one in another one. And so
• 19:19
  Speaker 1: the front office in Pittsburgh did not trust George Pickens.
• 19:24
  Speaker 1: That he was good as a wide receiver but not
• 19:27
  Speaker 1: cold enough and could not be trusted to play nice
• 19:30
  Speaker 1: in the sandbox. So rather than allow him to be
• 19:33
  Speaker 1: in the sandbox, they kicked his ass out and send
• 19:36
  Speaker 1: him the town. And with DK Metcalf coming in a
• 19:40
  Speaker 1: similar type player as George Pickens, it didn't make a
• 19:44
  Speaker 1: lot of sense to keep them both around, and so
• 19:46
  Speaker 1: Pickens was expendable, and so.
• 19:47
  Speaker 2: They got rid of him.
• 19:48
  Speaker 1: The Aaron Rodgers wrinkle to the story here that they
• 19:54
  Speaker 1: used the Aaron Rodgers story of his addition as the
• 20:00
  Speaker 1: the thing that lit the flame for the trade that
• 20:04
  Speaker 1: the Rogers was like a human shield if you will,
• 20:07
  Speaker 1: to cover for the trade. That's more of a it's
• 20:11
  Speaker 1: like a therapeutic cleansing. For Mike Tom it's a DIY project. Now,
• 20:17
  Speaker 1: normally they tell you that this is not a DIY project.
• 20:19
  Speaker 1: You don't do this yourself. But the Steelers decided to
• 20:22
  Speaker 1: do it themselves. When I say that, they said, we've
• 20:25
  Speaker 1: got to clean out the lead, the asbestis the carcinogens.
• 20:29
  Speaker 1: We've got to get rid of all of that in
• 20:31
  Speaker 1: the toxic mold in the attic over the Steelers' facilities.
• 20:35
  Speaker 1: So they got rid of the lead, the asbestos, the carcinogens,
• 20:38
  Speaker 1: all of that, the toxic mold.
• 20:39
  Speaker 2: Just one move done and.
• 20:42
  Speaker 1: Rogers, of course, it would have been good for our
• 20:44
  Speaker 1: purposes if Pickens had stayed with the Steelers, because that
• 20:49
  Speaker 1: would have guaranteed Rogers, with some passive aggressive behavior, would
• 20:55
  Speaker 1: have eaten Pickens lunch would have gone on Joe Rogan,
• 20:59
  Speaker 1: drink some iowasca and had a field day with Pickens,
• 21:03
  Speaker 1: And you look around this.
• 21:06
  Speaker 2: Likely in his last year.
• 21:07
  Speaker 1: It logically makes no sense for the Steelers to get
• 21:11
  Speaker 1: rid of Pickens if they're merely doing it for Aaron Rodgers,
• 21:16
  Speaker 1: because Rogers is gonna be in Pittsburgh for one year,
• 21:18
  Speaker 1: and then some other washed up quarterback will come and
• 21:20
  Speaker 1: play for the Steelers next year.
• 21:21
  Speaker 2: It's revolving door.
• 21:23
  Speaker 1: So why would you get rid of a guy who's good,
• 21:26
  Speaker 1: not great George Pickens?
• 21:28
  Speaker 2: And why would you do that? Why would you tailor
• 21:30
  Speaker 2: the roster?
• 21:31
  Speaker 1: Why would you tailor the roster for Aaron Rodgers liking
• 21:34
  Speaker 1: when he's only gonna be there one year? It made sense,
• 21:37
  Speaker 1: all right now, Page two to Baltimore, we go the
• 21:39
  Speaker 1: transaction wire lighting up.
• 21:44
  Speaker 2: There was actually that was a sound. It made NFL
• 21:47
  Speaker 2: try and Jack Shaddon very exciting.
• 21:49
  Speaker 1: So the former former Green Bay Packer defensive back Jayyear
• 21:54
  Speaker 1: Alexander has a new home. He's becoming a poet, a
• 22:00
  Speaker 1: Baltimore poet better known as the Ravens the Dead Poet Society,
• 22:05
  Speaker 1: and so Jaire Alexander will join his old college buddy
• 22:10
  Speaker 1: Lamar Jackson with the Ravens. Will this be a bromance
• 22:15
  Speaker 1: or a bust in Baltimore for Jair Alexander. So, after
• 22:20
  Speaker 1: a minutes long, minutes long Mallard deliberation on Jaii Alexander,
• 22:26
  Speaker 1: we are going with option three.
• 22:27
  Speaker 2: All of the above.
• 22:28
  Speaker 1: It will both be a bromance and it will be
• 22:30
  Speaker 1: a bust or go.
• 22:33
  Speaker 2: The Ravens aren't going to win the super Bowl.
• 22:35
  Speaker 1: They're not going to get to the super Bowl, and
• 22:37
  Speaker 1: Jayi Alexander is on the on the back side of
• 22:40
  Speaker 1: dominance in the NFL. However, However, that does not mean
• 22:45
  Speaker 1: that they will not be sweet nothings whispered between the
• 22:49
  Speaker 1: two teammates day the old college buddies. This is being
• 22:52
  Speaker 1: built as the NFL's feel good buddy flick of twenty
• 22:55
  Speaker 1: twenty five. Couple old college pals reunite it and it
• 23:00
  Speaker 1: feels so good, A tug at the heartstrings type.
• 23:04
  Speaker 2: Story, right, tug at the heartstrings type story.
• 23:07
  Speaker 1: Disney like college pals get together to win a championship
• 23:12
  Speaker 1: in Baltimore, and the confetti rains down and the crowd
• 23:16
  Speaker 1: goes wild and all that now, Alexander Jahi Alexander at
• 23:19
  Speaker 1: one point was an elite, elite.
• 23:22
  Speaker 2: Defensive back to the Green Bay football team. He was
• 23:26
  Speaker 2: and not anymore, but he was for a couple of
• 23:29
  Speaker 2: years there.
• 23:30
  Speaker 1: And now he got fired because the packers asked him
• 23:33
  Speaker 1: to take a pay cut. He said, I ain't taking
• 23:34
  Speaker 1: a pay cut. So he ditched the frozen thunder, which
• 23:38
  Speaker 1: is not frozen this time of the year. He said
• 23:39
  Speaker 1: bye bye. And now the story is why he turned
• 23:42
  Speaker 1: down more money. That's the report, jaire, Alexander turned out
• 23:46
  Speaker 1: more money to play with Lamar Jackson in Baltimore. However,
• 23:50
  Speaker 1: the chatter is the team that offered more money is
• 23:53
  Speaker 1: the Carolina Panthers, which are barely an NFL team, barely
• 23:58
  Speaker 1: an NFL team, and so he ends up getting a
• 24:01
  Speaker 1: one year contract the former Green Bay package. I here
• 24:04
  Speaker 1: Alexander one year contract six million to play alongside his
• 24:08
  Speaker 1: old Louisville pale Lamar Jackson. Of course they won't be
• 24:12
  Speaker 1: playing at the same time because one plays defense, one
• 24:14
  Speaker 1: plays offense. Thus the conundrum. But you get the point,
• 24:18
  Speaker 1: and so this is being hyped up. I mentioned the
• 24:21
  Speaker 1: Buddy Flick chicken soup for the soul type story here. Unfortunately,
• 24:27
  Speaker 1: this is not some rom com or anything like that.
• 24:30
  Speaker 1: And it's more like an episode of Seinfeld than you
• 24:33
  Speaker 1: might remember. The soup Nazi, No soup for you, No
• 24:36
  Speaker 1: chicken soup for you.
• 24:38
  Speaker 2: So it just doesn't pass the smell test.
• 24:42
  Speaker 1: Again, there will be the hey, we are buddy, buddy
• 24:45
  Speaker 1: and all that stuff, but it smells more like a
• 24:48
  Speaker 1: risky gamble. It's not risky in terms of the finances
• 24:51
  Speaker 1: because it's not a lot of money.
• 24:53
  Speaker 2: It's a one year deal for the Ravens and all that.
• 24:56
  Speaker 2: But the idea that this is the missing piece. The
• 24:58
  Speaker 2: Ravens already had a pretty good secondary.
• 25:00
  Speaker 1: Every year, the Ravens have a good defense and then
• 25:03
  Speaker 1: something just a little off, just a hair here, just
• 25:07
  Speaker 1: something just a little sideways, and it doesn't work right.
• 25:11
  Speaker 1: He doesn't work And so yeah, it's not a lot
• 25:15
  Speaker 1: of money and all, but it's a diminishing asset. And
• 25:17
  Speaker 1: here's why this guy was an elite player. Jay R
• 25:21
  Speaker 1: Alexander locked down big chunks of real estate for the
• 25:25
  Speaker 1: Green Bay Packers, oozing with the Swagger capitals for the Swag.
• 25:30
  Speaker 2: He had aura. He had aura, which a big thing.
• 25:33
  Speaker 1: However, that is the player that he was, not, the
• 25:36
  Speaker 1: player that he is today until proven all the wise.
• 25:39
  Speaker 1: I thought he can go out there and dominate and
• 25:40
  Speaker 1: make me look like a total donkey. But at this
• 25:42
  Speaker 1: point we do the show today, and he has been
• 25:45
  Speaker 1: camping out a lot in the injury tent. He has
• 25:49
  Speaker 1: missed twenty games. Twenty games over the last two years.
• 25:54
  Speaker 1: That is more than half of the available games he
• 25:58
  Speaker 1: has missed. And so he's been out a lot a
• 26:01
  Speaker 1: long time, all kinds of ailments. It looks like a
• 26:05
  Speaker 1: medical book and some college medical students looking at on
• 26:09
  Speaker 1: different parts of the body that can be injured. Their
• 26:11
  Speaker 1: hamstring here, a shoulder.
• 26:13
  Speaker 2: Over there, you name it, and so green bed they
• 26:16
  Speaker 2: got fed up. Whatever.
• 26:17
  Speaker 1: The Packers are weird franchise the way they're operating there,
• 26:21
  Speaker 1: and they cut them loose. But the bottom line here
• 26:24
  Speaker 1: on this particular transaction is the Ravens were already a contender, right,
• 26:31
  Speaker 1: They're a heavyweight contender. They're not quite as good as
• 26:34
  Speaker 1: the Chiefs, and the Bills are right there, and the
• 26:38
  Speaker 1: Bills are a little bit better than them. Usually you
• 26:40
  Speaker 1: think that that's close. So they're there and Alexander injury
• 26:45
  Speaker 1: pro player and all that, and it's more of like
• 26:48
  Speaker 1: a lottery ticket. Now, people do win the lottery. People
• 26:53
  Speaker 1: do win the lottery. It does happen more people lose
• 26:56
  Speaker 1: the lottery than win. We used to have a guy
• 26:59
  Speaker 1: who he quit the shit a while back from Arkansas,
• 27:03
  Speaker 1: Sir scratch Off and that was that was his nickname.
• 27:05
  Speaker 1: And he's won some money in the lottery. He's also
• 27:08
  Speaker 1: lost a lot of money in the lottery. All right, now,
• 27:09
  Speaker 1: final point. We head now to Dallas. Why because there
• 27:15
  Speaker 1: was a story that caught my attention. Jerry Jones, who
• 27:19
  Speaker 1: loves stars, loves to hang out with famous people, loves
• 27:23
  Speaker 1: being Jerry Jones wants to live to be one hundred
• 27:26
  Speaker 1: and eighty because he's living the greatest life you can
• 27:29
  Speaker 1: possibly live. Rich guy owns the Dallas Cowboy. So Jerry
• 27:32
  Speaker 1: Jones is giving out of the kindness of his heart.
• 27:36
  Speaker 1: It's being reported he's giving the Dallas Cowboy cheerleaders a
• 27:40
  Speaker 1: four hundred percent increase in pay, yes four Now they
• 27:46
  Speaker 1: were making nothing but four hundred percent. So what does
• 27:49
  Speaker 1: that signify to you? What does that signify to you?
• 27:52
  Speaker 1: So I'll go first year this is it signifies to
• 27:55
  Speaker 1: me bing binge, watching Gone Bad, Inge, watching Gone bat
• 28:01
  Speaker 1: Meaning let me explain that Jerry was catching up watching
• 28:06
  Speaker 1: some of the Netflix documentary that's out there about the
• 28:10
  Speaker 1: Dallas Cowboy Cheerleaders and had a metamorphosis. He's like, wait
• 28:14
  Speaker 1: a minute, here, the Cowboy cheerleaders were bitching. They were
• 28:18
  Speaker 1: complaining about how much money they were making. It's been
• 28:20
  Speaker 1: this way, of course, for fifty years. The Cowboy cheerleaders
• 28:23
  Speaker 1: have made no money. They're an ad on item for
• 28:27
  Speaker 1: the Cowboys and just absolute chump change. It's been that
• 28:31
  Speaker 1: way since the beginning. And Jerry Jones has decided now
• 28:36
  Speaker 1: to open up the vault and he's gone in there.
• 28:39
  Speaker 1: He's dusted off the bank vault and opened it up
• 28:44
  Speaker 1: and all that after the Netflix sob story called America's Sweethearts,
• 28:50
  Speaker 1: I believe that's the name of it.
• 28:51
  Speaker 2: I think that's the name of it, and the show that.
• 28:55
  Speaker 1: Featured the Dallas Cowboy cheerleaders there whining about having to
• 29:00
  Speaker 1: work multiple jobs and practicing forty hours a week for
• 29:04
  Speaker 1: the Cowboy cheerleading squad and doing it all for pennies
• 29:08
  Speaker 1: on the dollar, pennies on the dollar, and of course
• 29:13
  Speaker 1: unpopular opinion. Nobody forced you. Nobody forced you to try
• 29:18
  Speaker 1: out for the Dallas Cowboy cheerleading squad, and once they
• 29:22
  Speaker 1: told you how much it paid, you didn't have to
• 29:24
  Speaker 1: continue to do the job.
• 29:25
  Speaker 2: I'm just saying, but.
• 29:27
  Speaker 1: Chances are you probably wanted the spotlight. You wanted the
• 29:31
  Speaker 1: trimmings that come with that job and the photo shoots
• 29:34
  Speaker 1: and all that stuff and the celebrity that you get.
• 29:37
  Speaker 1: Right if you're a Dallas Cowboy cheerider, that's kind of
• 29:39
  Speaker 1: a big deal and people talk about you differently and
• 29:43
  Speaker 1: near your friends back in high school, like, oh, she's
• 29:46
  Speaker 1: a Cowboy cheerleader. That's like a big deal. But that
• 29:48
  Speaker 1: doesn't pay the rent, I don't think until now, and
• 29:52
  Speaker 1: even now it's not that much. But Jerry tried to
• 29:57
  Speaker 1: downplay the negative vibe brations around that story about how
• 30:01
  Speaker 1: cheap the Cowboys owner was and bad PR, bad PR.
• 30:06
  Speaker 1: And Jerry likes everyone to say how great he is,
• 30:08
  Speaker 1: and so he's been dodging lawsuits related to the Cowboy cheerleaders.
• 30:12
  Speaker 1: There was a high profile lawsuit while back, and he's
• 30:15
  Speaker 1: looking to cut the lawyers off at.
• 30:17
  Speaker 2: The pass, so we'll pay him more money and that's
• 30:20
  Speaker 2: that's it. Now.
• 30:22
  Speaker 1: Another unpopular opinion, if Jerry Jones won, he just disbanded
• 30:28
  Speaker 1: the Cowboy cheers. Cheerleaders are not necessary. You can have
• 30:32
  Speaker 1: an NFL team without cheerleaders. In fact, they're certainly a
• 30:36
  Speaker 1: luxury more than a necessity in the in the NFL,
• 30:40
  Speaker 1: and it's like a window dressing, it's like a relic
• 30:44
  Speaker 1: from a different era. In the NFL was a mom
• 30:46
  Speaker 1: and pop operation, and back in the nineteen seventies, even
• 30:52
  Speaker 1: before that, but really the nineteen seventies was the heyday
• 30:55
  Speaker 1: for the cheerleaders, and back in those days when the
• 30:58
  Speaker 1: NFL was owned by families and not conglomerates.
• 31:01
  Speaker 2: Although I say this.
• 31:02
  Speaker 1: As Jerry Jones is a family ownership group, a family
• 31:06
  Speaker 1: ownership group.
• 31:07
  Speaker 2: But they were like, hey, man.
• 31:09
  Speaker 1: Let's throw some hot chicks out there, and these trunk
• 31:12
  Speaker 1: losers will be happy. You know, the team sucks, but
• 31:15
  Speaker 1: they'll look at the beautiful girls and they'll be happy.
• 31:17
  Speaker 2: And so they did. But the times have certainly changed
• 31:20
  Speaker 2: since then.
• 31:21
  Speaker 1: And it's just fluff and it often leads to more losses.
• 31:26
  Speaker 1: How many cheerleading squads have sued NFL teams? I know
• 31:30
  Speaker 1: in Washington the team formerly knows the Redskins. There was
• 31:33
  Speaker 1: a high profile lawsuit. The Cowboys have had a lawsuit.
• 31:36
  Speaker 1: I believe the Arizona Cardinals have had a lawsuit, and
• 31:39
  Speaker 1: I'm sure there's others that's just off the top of
• 31:41
  Speaker 1: my head, but they're not needed and it's more of
• 31:44
  Speaker 1: a hassle than anything.
• 31:45
  Speaker 2: Now, the Cowboys do find a way.
• 31:47
  Speaker 1: To make money, and then there's a little more glamour
• 31:49
  Speaker 1: there with the Cowboys and other teams. But my evidence
• 31:52
  Speaker 1: that they're not needed, if I'm not mistaken, twenty five
• 31:55
  Speaker 1: percent of the NFL doesn't have cheerleaders.
• 31:59
  Speaker 2: There's thirty two members of the.
• 32:00
  Speaker 1: Cartel, and twenty five eight of the thirty two teams
• 32:04
  Speaker 1: don't have cheers. The Bears, the Packers, the Browns, the Giants,
• 32:08
  Speaker 1: although the Bears do have Tony in the Bey air.
• 32:10
  Speaker 1: He is a cheerleader for the for the Chicago Bears,
• 32:13
  Speaker 1: but not a formal cheerleader. And they get the Jets.
• 32:15
  Speaker 1: They don't have the Bills. Some of these teams have
• 32:18
  Speaker 1: had them at past. The Steelers don't, even the Chargers.
• 32:21
  Speaker 1: They're able to play their games without pomp pomps. They're
• 32:23
  Speaker 1: able to do it and it doesn't seem to affect
• 32:26
  Speaker 1: the bottom line.
• 32:27
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• 32:30
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• 32:33
  Speaker 2: Here we go, here we go, Here we go, we go.
• 32:36
  Speaker 2: How about here we go, here we go, here we go.
• 32:39
  Speaker 3: This is one gets grailed.
• 32:42
  Speaker 2: All right.
• 32:44
  Speaker 6: So the Packers will not be extending the contracts of
• 32:46
  Speaker 6: Matt Lafleur and g and Brian Goodakouns before the season
• 32:49
  Speaker 6: team president and policy.
• 32:52
  Speaker 2: Yeah that sounds like his porn name. Yeah yeah.
• 32:55
  Speaker 6: He also said that he is generally opposed to the
• 32:58
  Speaker 6: head coach and general manager working as lane. So this
• 33:01
  Speaker 6: would imply that those two will either have extensions by
• 33:03
  Speaker 6: this time next year or be fired by this time
• 33:05
  Speaker 6: next year.
• 33:06
  Speaker 2: Yeah. Which do you have your money on? Ben? All right?
• 33:08
  Speaker 1: So you go back the Green Bay Packers since the
• 33:11
  Speaker 1: year two thousand, the year two thousand, I believe they've
• 33:15
  Speaker 1: had three coaches in the last twenty five years. That's it.
• 33:19
  Speaker 1: That's all. So there is a weird setup ownership. I'm
• 33:23
  Speaker 1: gonna go they keep everyone. Nothing changes status quo at
• 33:28
  Speaker 1: lambeau Field. That they'll get extensions Lafour unless he wants
• 33:32
  Speaker 1: to go somewhere else.
• 33:33
  Speaker 2: And Gouda Kuns Gotta be careful how you say that name.
• 33:35
  Speaker 6: Next Jaguars gym James Gladstone set an interview on Tuesday
• 33:39
  Speaker 6: that Travis hunter stamina is so incredible that he could
• 33:42
  Speaker 6: play offense and defense for an entire game.
• 33:45
  Speaker 2: Ben, do you think we'll get a chance to see that?
• 33:46
  Speaker 3: Yeah? Why not?
• 33:47
  Speaker 2: Jacksonville socks.
• 33:48
  Speaker 1: You might as well play him every single play, Play
• 33:50
  Speaker 1: them on special teams, play them on defense, play them
• 33:52
  Speaker 1: on offense. Give people a reason to watch a pathetic
• 33:56
  Speaker 1: team with the overrated Trevor Lawrence, who's been a bust,
• 34:00
  Speaker 1: who was supposed to be God's gift at the quarterback position,
• 34:03
  Speaker 1: the flowing walks like Samson, and the guy stinks at quarterbacks.
• 34:07
  Speaker 1: So why not just play? Play him every play? And
• 34:09
  Speaker 1: you know that's you have nothing else to watch? The
• 34:12
  Speaker 1: Jags for it next.
• 34:13
  Speaker 6: Lebron James will turn forty one in December, but isn't
• 34:16
  Speaker 6: prepared to offer a timeline to when he will hang
• 34:18
  Speaker 6: it up, saying that he will just see how his
• 34:20
  Speaker 6: body and family reacts.
• 34:22
  Speaker 2: Ben, what are the chances this is his last season?
• 34:24
  Speaker 1: Well, I'll guarantee you Lebron's not just gonna walk away
• 34:28
  Speaker 1: without a good retirement tour. Everyone kisses his ass, so
• 34:31
  Speaker 1: you'll know when Lebron's ready to hang it up because
• 34:33
  Speaker 1: he don want to get a rocking chair, bottles of wine,
• 34:36
  Speaker 1: pieces of art. He wants everyone to he can bend over,
• 34:40
  Speaker 1: everyone can kiss his ass on his way out of
• 34:42
  Speaker 1: the NBA.
• 34:43
  Speaker 2: So he'll announce when he's gonna retire. It give me
• 34:45
  Speaker 2: a couple more years. How do we do? He passes?
• 34:47
  Speaker 1: It is that to win on the ball won the game,
• 34:50
  Speaker 1: hollering James, that's a winner, James.
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• 35:16
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• 35:31
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• 35:36
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• 35:39
  Speaker 1: picked and who doesn't get picked. So you guys that
• 35:42
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• 35:44
  Speaker 1: what do we have here?
• 35:45
  Speaker 6: Coop ask better questions. And also we don't do sports questions,
• 35:50
  Speaker 6: so I just completely skip over those.
• 35:52
  Speaker 2: Okay, all right, I don't know what I don't know
• 35:54
  Speaker 2: what questions they're asking.
• 35:55
  Speaker 6: They just complain what We're gonna start off with a
• 35:58
  Speaker 6: question from fergda.
• 36:00
  Speaker 2: Oh there you go. We've never heard from ferg dog.
• 36:02
  Speaker 2: We don't.
• 36:03
  Speaker 6: He wants to know. Are you able to watch an
• 36:05
  Speaker 6: entire movie without checking your phone?
• 36:10
  Speaker 7: Yeah?
• 36:10
  Speaker 1: You know, I can do that. I mean, if it's
• 36:12
  Speaker 1: a good movie, the movie sucks, I'm going on my phone.
• 36:15
  Speaker 1: I will absolutely go to my phone. But if I'm
• 36:17
  Speaker 1: engaged in the movie. Yeah, like old school movies, I
• 36:21
  Speaker 1: don't really nothing these days. I get my attention that one.
• 36:24
  Speaker 2: What about you Larena movie theaters.
• 36:26
  Speaker 7: No, in my house, Yes, especially if there's a dull moment,
• 36:31
  Speaker 7: keep my attention.
• 36:33
  Speaker 2: Wait wait wait, so you mean yes and no if
• 36:35
  Speaker 2: you switch that around. So at the movie theater. Not
• 36:39
  Speaker 2: in the theater, you will not check your phone.
• 36:40
  Speaker 7: But on a regular movie.
• 36:42
  Speaker 2: Yeah, I'm the same way. I can.
• 36:45
  Speaker 6: I can go a whole movie without checking my phone.
• 36:47
  Speaker 6: If I'm in the theater, but at home, I'm picking
• 36:50
  Speaker 6: up my phone.
• 36:51
  Speaker 2: Well, my problem in the theater, if it is a
• 36:52
  Speaker 2: boring movie, I fall asleep. I'm gone.
• 36:56
  Speaker 1: It's a dark room, comfortable seat, air conditioned, I'm sleep.
• 37:00
  Speaker 2: Well, what's next? What are we have to ask?
• 37:01
  Speaker 3: Man?
• 37:02
  Speaker 2: Your questions are answers?
• 37:03
  Speaker 6: Bobby in Florida, Hi, Bobby, you'd like to know now
• 37:06
  Speaker 6: that summer heat is here?
• 37:07
  Speaker 3: Yeah?
• 37:08
  Speaker 2: Would you rather cool off in the ocean, a lake,
• 37:10
  Speaker 2: or a pool? Yeah?
• 37:13
  Speaker 1: So I'm a big pool guy. There's not really a
• 37:16
  Speaker 1: lake that I go to.
• 37:17
  Speaker 2: I've only been to a lake a few times. Ocean's okay.
• 37:22
  Speaker 1: I don't really like the ocean around here because it's polluted,
• 37:25
  Speaker 1: So I guess i'll go pool Loreina.
• 37:27
  Speaker 7: Yeah, any of those, as long as it's not a river.
• 37:29
  Speaker 7: I don't like super fast running water like that. Not
• 37:31
  Speaker 7: a strong stroke swimmer.
• 37:33
  Speaker 2: No, did you have a lake in Oregon when you
• 37:35
  Speaker 2: were growing up.
• 37:35
  Speaker 7: Yeah, we had a couple of them, but you weren't
• 37:37
  Speaker 7: supposed to swim in them. One of them had a
• 37:39
  Speaker 7: really high mercury content.
• 37:41
  Speaker 6: Yeah.
• 37:41
  Speaker 2: Lakes are kind of disgusting. Yeah, because they're sitting water. Yeah,
• 37:44
  Speaker 2: gotcha cool.
• 37:47
  Speaker 6: I'll be totally Honest, I'm not a fan of like
• 37:50
  Speaker 6: any of them, but I would pick Pool over with
• 37:52
  Speaker 6: the other two.
• 37:53
  Speaker 7: More of an air conditioner type of guy.
• 37:54
  Speaker 2: Huh Yeah, nice tropical.
• 37:56
  Speaker 1: I got a nice exotic luxury pool though with a fountain.
• 38:00
  Speaker 2: Yeah, that's nice resort. Yeah, so way to go.
• 38:04
  Speaker 1: I walk around the beaches here and I got oil
• 38:07
  Speaker 1: on my feet. I can't imagine what's in the water.
• 38:08
  Speaker 1: If I'm getting oil my feet from the sand. What
• 38:11
  Speaker 1: is next to do we have here? Late night drug Tester, high,
• 38:15
  Speaker 1: Late night drug Tester, you would like to know in
• 38:17
  Speaker 1: honor of National Clean your Aquarium Day? Yes, have you
• 38:21
  Speaker 1: ever had pet fish? Well, technically yes, although reality no,
• 38:28
  Speaker 1: there were a few times that, Like the little community
• 38:31
  Speaker 1: fair thing that we had when I was growing up,
• 38:33
  Speaker 1: I won a goldfish and we had a little tank
• 38:37
  Speaker 1: and that, you know, typical story, cliche story.
• 38:40
  Speaker 2: The goldfish lasted.
• 38:41
  Speaker 1: About a day and then that was it died. So
• 38:44
  Speaker 1: in my head I had a fish and an aquarium,
• 38:47
  Speaker 1: and I have been to the pet store and they
• 38:50
  Speaker 1: look amazing. Those aquariums are awesome. And what was that
• 38:53
  Speaker 1: show on Discovery Channel or one of those they.
• 38:56
  Speaker 2: Did they build?
• 38:57
  Speaker 3: Really?
• 38:58
  Speaker 1: Yeah, the guys in Vegas, but they're from New York
• 39:01
  Speaker 1: and they build these crazy. That's a good show. That's
• 39:05
  Speaker 1: something you do if you're really, really rich. And I'm
• 39:07
  Speaker 1: not really really rich.
• 39:07
  Speaker 2: So no, what about you, Lorrena?
• 39:09
  Speaker 7: As a kid, I remember having one, but it might
• 39:11
  Speaker 7: have been a dream.
• 39:12
  Speaker 2: A dream. Yeah, do you dream about a fish tank? Really?
• 39:16
  Speaker 7: I'm pretty sure we had one though?
• 39:18
  Speaker 2: Did you ever goldfish? I had goldfish?
• 39:19
  Speaker 1: I think I give them a little plastic bags when
• 39:21
  Speaker 1: I was a kid. One of them and then they
• 39:23
  Speaker 1: were dead within two.
• 39:25
  Speaker 7: Just remember the fish that suck on the walls.
• 39:28
  Speaker 2: Is that what they sound like?
• 39:29
  Speaker 4: Yes?
• 39:29
  Speaker 2: Okay, oh cool? What about you?
• 39:32
  Speaker 6: Yes, as a child at my family home, we had
• 39:36
  Speaker 6: a we had two fish tanks. One the downstairs one
• 39:40
  Speaker 6: was a regular fresh water tank and the upstairs was a.
• 39:43
  Speaker 2: Salt water tank. And who cleaned them?
• 39:46
  Speaker 6: We got suckerfish so that they would clean the tank.
• 39:50
  Speaker 2: Not smart? Yes, all right? So what is next year?
• 39:54
  Speaker 3: Is?
• 39:54
  Speaker 2: Ask man?
• 39:55
  Speaker 1: Your questions are answers for the rest of the hour.
• 40:00
  Speaker 6: Donkey sausage, Hi, donkey, you would like to know sandals
• 40:03
  Speaker 6: or sneakers?
• 40:04
  Speaker 1: I'm team sandals man all the time. I wear a
• 40:07
  Speaker 1: year round sam I come in here. I'm always sporting
• 40:09
  Speaker 1: the sandals no matter what, Lorraina.
• 40:12
  Speaker 7: I love a good pair of sandals, but my feet
• 40:15
  Speaker 7: get really cold, So I am kind of a sneaker girl.
• 40:18
  Speaker 2: Nah. So the reason you get in the radio is
• 40:21
  Speaker 2: to wear sandals. Otherwise you do TV. I wear shoes.
• 40:23
  Speaker 2: What about you, Coop.
• 40:25
  Speaker 6: I'm the same as Loraina. I typically like I never
• 40:28
  Speaker 6: get cold to get like. I love the cold, but
• 40:31
  Speaker 6: my feet get ridiculously cold for some reason.
• 40:34
  Speaker 2: So cold.
• 40:35
  Speaker 1: I don't really have that problem. I'm always too warm
• 40:38
  Speaker 1: no matter what.
• 40:40
  Speaker 2: I don't have that. What is next you is ask Ben.
• 40:42
  Speaker 1: Your questions are answers to the rest of the After
• 40:45
  Speaker 1: you like this, we do it every week.
• 40:46
  Speaker 2: If you don't like it, we only do it once
• 40:47
  Speaker 2: a week.
• 40:48
  Speaker 1: If you really really like it, we have something that
• 40:50
  Speaker 1: is nothing like this on the fifth hour mail bag
• 40:52
  Speaker 1: on Sunday.
• 40:53
  Speaker 6: What's next, Lady Sideburns is trying to start some stuff,
• 40:56
  Speaker 6: Lady Sideburns. Lady Sideburns would like to know which color
• 41:00
  Speaker 6: would you least enjoy being handcuffed too for twenty four hours?
• 41:03
  Speaker 2: Which caller?
• 41:04
  Speaker 1: Yes, all of them, every one of them. Now let
• 41:10
  Speaker 1: me see well Blind Scott would be at the very top.
• 41:14
  Speaker 1: And the amount of emails that Blind Scott sends me,
• 41:16
  Speaker 1: I can't imagine having to I mean that would be
• 41:20
  Speaker 1: a horror show.
• 41:20
  Speaker 2: What about you, Lorena, don't ask dumb questions? Oh yeah, Leprecaun,
• 41:24
  Speaker 2: Yeah yeah, mine's pretty easy. Will you be calling in sick?
• 41:29
  Speaker 6: Oh?
• 41:29
  Speaker 2: Yours is hollering, James? Yeah, I might be out of town.
• 41:31
  Speaker 7: Who knows.
• 41:32
  Speaker 2: Yeah.
• 41:33
  Speaker 1: By the way, Leprechaun sent me, he wants to come
• 41:35
  Speaker 1: in for two nights. I said no, yeah, I said no.
• 41:37
  Speaker 1: We're not even supposed to really have being a life.
• 41:39
  Speaker 2: Get a job, yeah, real quick. Next, what's cool? Donkey
• 41:43
  Speaker 2: Sausage wants to know.
• 41:44
  Speaker 6: Have you ever considered being a ref or umpire for
• 41:46
  Speaker 6: like a high school gamer or something like that.
• 41:47
  Speaker 1: Well, I wasn't a yso you soccer referee for you
• 41:50
  Speaker 1: really back in the day. Yeah, if you did not
• 41:52
  Speaker 1: go very well, I was a bad referee.
• 41:54
  Speaker 2: What about you? No, no coop, nah no nah. It's
• 41:59
  Speaker 2: easy side money.
• 42:01
  Speaker 1: Although you get yelled at a lot, people goof on
• 42:03
  Speaker 1: you and all that soccer mom.
• 42:06
  Speaker 2: There you go, bring the oranges and then those peanut
• 42:09
  Speaker 2: butter and jellies like the crustables. You can bring the
• 42:12
  Speaker 2: crustables or