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Hour 2 - Called to the Hardwood · The Ben Maller Show

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Speaker 1: Boom shack a lackays the great Wheels said back in
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Speaker 1: his day. We'll join you here for our number two
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Speaker 1: the Ben Mathers Show, and here a hour number two
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Speaker 1: on the podcast Original Recipe podcast. An anonymous anonymous nbagm
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Speaker 1: calling out the half man, half Alien Commissioner Adam Silver saying, quote,
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Speaker 1: Adam Silver is obsessed with tournaments playing in season now
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Speaker 1: All Star. They've not proven to benefit our league. What
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Speaker 1: is your initial reaction to that? Also, how do you
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Speaker 1: process Kevin Durant saying it's more fun to complain about
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Speaker 1: the NBA than it is to actually watch the NBA.
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Speaker 1: And just how terrible was the new look All Star
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Speaker 1: game for television viewers. We have the tail of the tape.
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Speaker 1: We'll get to all of that and more. Right now,
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Speaker 1: give it up for our number two, called to the hardwood,
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Speaker 1: not the carpet, the hardwood. Welcome. In the beginning another
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Speaker 1: the Way tire Buying SHOWB. So our lead this hour
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Speaker 1: is a hybrid of sorts. We're gonna start with pro
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Speaker 1: bouncy ball. We'll start with that and we'll bouncy bouncy around.
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Speaker 1: I realized that Daleen Muskegan is not gonna like that,
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Speaker 1: and he says that many of the fans at the
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Speaker 1: Gray Bar Hotel are triggered when I mentioned pro bouncy ball.
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Speaker 1: So just bear with me, but listen, I'm gonna do
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Speaker 1: it in a different kind of way. This is not
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Speaker 1: gonna be boring pro bouncy ball talk. This will be
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Speaker 1: exciting pro bouncy ball talk. It'll be engaging, and if
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Speaker 1: you don't like it, you'll get your money back because
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Speaker 1: you paid nothing. You paid nothing for the show. Right now,
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Speaker 1: our lead this hour is from the day after and
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Speaker 1: the days of our Lives drama. The day after here
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Speaker 1: the all Star Game post mortem, the autopsy on the
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Speaker 1: All Star Game. Commissioner on blasts on blast for the
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Speaker 1: fugsey the dingle Berry edition of the All Star Game.
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Speaker 1: The only one I know who likes it other than
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Speaker 1: the Commissioner is Andre and his dog willis from the Commonwealth.
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Speaker 1: So over the All Star weekend, we had a cheating
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Speaker 1: scandal in a skill Bill's challenge with Wemby the next
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Speaker 1: Face of the NBA and Chris Paul. You had Lebron
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Speaker 1: James show up late on Saturday and he couldn't be
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Speaker 1: bothered to put on his uniform for the team photo,
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Speaker 1: and then an hour or so before the game, skipped
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Speaker 1: out on playing in the All Star Game rather than
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Speaker 1: allowing someone else the opportunity to play in the All
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Speaker 1: Star Game. If he had done it the right way
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Speaker 1: and announced, I don't know Thursday or Friday he wasn't
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Speaker 1: going to play in the All Star Game, and then
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Speaker 1: you had the game interrupted because of a Mister Beast challenge.
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Speaker 1: The All Star Game. You also had an interruption for
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Speaker 1: a very public eulogy for the TNT broadcast crew which
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Speaker 1: A is not dead and B will be broadcasting NBA
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Speaker 1: games next year. But they paused all of that. Now,
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Speaker 1: if you have not heard the latest on this, it
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Speaker 1: gets even better. I think this is a great story,
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Speaker 1: and I have the editorial control of the microphones right now.
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Speaker 1: The bully pulpits So perhaps you didn't see this, maybe not.
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Speaker 1: An anonymous NBA general manager, The anonymous The anonymous NBA
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Speaker 1: general manager calling out Adam Silver, unfiltered commentary, quote, Adam
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Speaker 1: Silver is obsessed with tournaments, play in in season now
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Speaker 1: All Star. They've not proven to benefit our league. Close quote. Okay,
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Speaker 1: then how do you really feel? That's what we call kids?
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Speaker 1: The money quote? I know you're excited by that. You
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Speaker 1: knew that was the money quote. Of course it is.
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Speaker 1: So let us discuss the question for the esteem panel.
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Speaker 1: This anonymous NBA executive calling out Adam Silver, the face
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Speaker 1: of the NBA leadership, the Commissioner's office in Midtown Manhattan
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Speaker 1: there saying, quote, Adam Silver is obsessed with tournaments, play
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Speaker 1: in in season now All Star. They have not proven
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Speaker 1: to benefit our league. What is your initial reaction to that?
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Speaker 1: So I've got grasshopper cake and balloons and Wendy's and
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Speaker 1: we will combine all of these things together and we
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Speaker 1: are going to make a forty first point which could
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Speaker 1: not have been scored, could not have been scored in
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Speaker 1: the All Star Game because they stopped playing at forty
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Speaker 1: in each game, could not have gone to forty one.
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Speaker 1: So my first thought, na burn, I said, nab Burn Ye,
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Speaker 1: the comment from the unknown executive. I would say, it
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Speaker 1: hit the bullseye. It hit the bullseye. If it was
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Speaker 1: a lego, it snapped together with another lego, it worked.
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Speaker 1: And Adam Silver has been infatuated with this michigas of
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Speaker 1: these tournaments, and it's because of football. That's why European basketball.
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Speaker 1: But football has had a lot of success with friendlies
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Speaker 1: and these type of things. And so Adam Silver it's
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Speaker 1: his life's passion. He has a grasshopper up his tushy
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Speaker 1: for more tournaments. He thinks this is the path to
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Speaker 1: the yellow brick road, that here's a tournament. There's a tournament,
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Speaker 1: everyone gets a tournament. We now, there is no evidence
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Speaker 1: that any of this is helping the business of basketball.
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Speaker 1: It's not the funny thing about the tournament thing. There
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Speaker 1: is one tournament I will garn to you that would
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Speaker 1: be a success for the NBA, would be a money
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Speaker 1: maker for the NBA would be great for basketball, and
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Speaker 1: Adam Silver and the leadership in the NBA don't want
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Speaker 1: to do it because it goes against the core values
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Speaker 1: of the NBA. What is that That is NBA Stars
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Speaker 1: in America versus the World Stars, and you wouldn't do that.
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Speaker 1: Wouldn't really be a tournament, more like a one on one,
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Speaker 1: you know, team All Star game. We have the US
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Speaker 1: All Stars versus the World Stars. And from what I
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Speaker 1: have deciphered from people that I've spoken to, they don't
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Speaker 1: want to do it because they would have to wrap
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Speaker 1: themselves in pro America. Because there's nothing the American sports
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Speaker 1: fan loves more. And really anywhere wherever you're from, you
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Speaker 1: love wrapping yourself and patriotism for your country. And the
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Speaker 1: NBA has long stood anti America stuff. They love that.
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Speaker 1: You know, they've done a lot of anti American things
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Speaker 1: over the years. So for them to all of a
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Speaker 1: sudden wrap themselves around the flag and be like, all right,
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Speaker 1: this is organ We're gonna have a World Stars versus
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Speaker 1: American Stars and all the marbles be a massive success,
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Speaker 1: huge ratings, be great, but somebody might wrap themselves in
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Speaker 1: the flag and that would go against the core principles
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Speaker 1: of the end. So they won't do that. So instead
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Speaker 1: we have this lame oh in season tournament, lame to
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Speaker 1: the membrane. You have the All Star Tournament, which is unnecessary.
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Speaker 1: You've got the playing tournament, which is ridiculous. You already
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Speaker 1: have an eighty two game play in tournament to decide
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Speaker 1: who's in the playoffs, but then you have to give
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Speaker 1: some of the losers an extra chance to try to
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Speaker 1: get in the playoffs. And so we have all this,
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Speaker 1: but wait, there's more. I'm not done. You think I'm done,
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Speaker 1: but I'm not done. All right, Adam Silver wants to
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Speaker 1: add another tournament to the All Star Game, a one
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Speaker 1: on one tournament. That's right. There's a lot of chatter
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Speaker 1: that Adam next year at the All Star Game, a
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Speaker 1: one on one action with a one million dollar prize,
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Speaker 1: which for me would be life changing. I imagine for
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Speaker 1: you if you got a million dollar prize, and after taxes,
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Speaker 1: that's about one hundred thousand. But still it's it's a
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Speaker 1: lot of money, a lot of money, right, And they
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Speaker 1: want this one on one thing. But the problem is
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Speaker 1: the biggest stars in the NBA A won't do it,
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Speaker 1: and B don't need that money because they're all making
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Speaker 1: forty fifty sixty million dollars a year. So what do
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Speaker 1: they care. They wiped their ass and they make a
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Speaker 1: million dollars when they flushed the toilet paper down the
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Speaker 1: commode there that they make a million dollars, So what
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Speaker 1: do they care? By one on one tournament and somebody
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Speaker 1: needs to send Adam Silver to a twelve step program
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Speaker 1: at this point, okay, and he is obsessed with these tournaments.
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Speaker 1: It's not working for the customer. It's not any thinks, well,
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Speaker 1: I just keep doing it, you know, be a way
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Speaker 1: to go. You're handing out a championship. This in season
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Speaker 1: thing that's like the lamest of them all, Like no
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Speaker 1: one's watching before Christmas. So let's have an in season
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Speaker 1: tournament and we'll hang a banner. Dumb du dumb, dumb dum.
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Speaker 1: Marright now, pitch two. So Kevin Durant went off, unhinged
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Speaker 1: all star Kevin Durant. He will parts the words Duran
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Speaker 1: He went on an a rant on social media. If
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Speaker 1: you didn't see this, Durant, I will, I will pretend
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Speaker 1: I'm Kevin Durant. I am not Kevin Durant. Kevin Durant said,
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Speaker 1: I quote, I think it's more fun to complain about
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Speaker 1: the NBA than to actually watch it, meaning the NBA
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Speaker 1: crazy cancel All Star weekend, Kevin Durant said, and let's
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Speaker 1: just give everybody a break since we're so miserable around
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Speaker 1: this time. Well, that is another money quote. Yeah, that's
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Speaker 1: a great quote. Now Durant's complaining because people complain about
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Speaker 1: them playing and how bad the product is. So how
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Speaker 1: do you process? Here's the question, how do you process
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Speaker 1: Kevin Durant, Many time All Star Hall of Fame player,
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Speaker 1: Kevin Durant, one of the great ball players of his generation.
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Speaker 1: Kevin Durant saying, it's more fun to complain about the
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Speaker 1: NBA than to actually watch the NBA. So obviously there
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Speaker 1: was some sarcasm in play here. As someone that dabbles
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Speaker 1: in the ancient art of sarcasm, I understand that. But
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Speaker 1: someone should buy KD cake and balloons, cake and balloons,
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Speaker 1: because he is having a pity party. He's having a
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Speaker 1: pity party. Right, there's sarcasm, but there's some truth in that.
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Speaker 1: He's like, he's annoyed, he's anyone out there to play
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Speaker 1: in the All Star Game. And it bothers him that
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Speaker 1: people don't appreciate the fact that he's playing in the
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Speaker 1: All Star Game. Boohoo hoo. The customers are complaining, which
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Speaker 1: is actually a good thing. That means that they want
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Speaker 1: to like your product. And I go back to the
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Speaker 1: most powerful thing that you have as a consumer, whether
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Speaker 1: it's buying products, whether it's watching sports, it's the a word,
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Speaker 1: not ass apathy. And if you show apathy and you
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Speaker 1: just don't care and you don't watch and you don't consume,
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Speaker 1: that is poison, that is asbestos that will do them in.
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Speaker 1: But as long as you care and you're upset, that
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Speaker 1: means you want to like the product. So it's actually
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Speaker 1: a good thing that many people are upset with the NBA.
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Speaker 1: And I look at it this way. I'll use an analogy,
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Speaker 1: like you're in a restaurant. You're in a deli, and
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Speaker 1: they say you're running a deli. You have a forty
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Speaker 1: eight page menu at the dela. It's a pretty big menu,
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Speaker 1: forty eight pages, and you open the deli and people
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Speaker 1: seem to enjoy pretty much everything in the menu, all
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Speaker 1: forty eight pages. People like the menu. You've got a
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Speaker 1: good variety of items, and people are ordering things from
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Speaker 1: all forty eight pages of the menu. So things are
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Speaker 1: going well. For years, people enjoy the variety of foods,
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Speaker 1: but over time customers start not enjoying the vast majority
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Speaker 1: of the pages of the menu at the Delhi and
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Speaker 1: instead they order they only like like three things. That's it.
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Speaker 1: So how do you handle that situation? You run the deli?
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Speaker 1: What do you do well? Kevin Durant says, nothing good happens,
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Speaker 1: nothing good enough happens for the fans right now, He said,
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Speaker 1: the only thing they enjoy is playoffs, trade deadline, free agency,
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Speaker 1: and when players beef with each other. And all of
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Speaker 1: that is true. And the reason all of that is
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Speaker 1: true is because it's compelling. All of that is entertaining.
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Speaker 1: You know, it's not entertaining. Load management on a random
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Speaker 1: Tuesday night in the NBA. That's not entertaining. That's not right.
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Speaker 1: And those things that Durant mentioned are all interesting and
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Speaker 1: it creates engagement. Playoff basketball players actually try. They take
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Speaker 1: pride in that it's a big deal that matters. Trade
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Speaker 1: deadline and free agency are captivating because your mind wanders,
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Speaker 1: what's the team going to be like now with the
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Speaker 1: new player? And you get to see the players in
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Speaker 1: their new uniforms, and that's exciting players. Grumbling is always fun.
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Speaker 1: Who doesn't like a nice workplace debate? If you will
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Speaker 1: solid right, a regular season is not entertaining. The All
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Speaker 1: Star Game sucks, and on and on. So rather than
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Speaker 1: improve the ingredients, Kevin Durant's argument is, hey, let's just
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Speaker 1: let's just get you know, we'll just get rid of it.
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Speaker 1: Let's take a vacation, go go wherever Paul George is.
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Speaker 1: Put some suntannocean on. All right, now, final point. We
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Speaker 1: now have the tail of the tape, the tail of
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Speaker 1: the tape? Just how bad, how terrible was the new
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Speaker 1: look NBA All Star Game? For the viewer of the
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Speaker 1: All Star Game? I remember we took a call from
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Speaker 1: Andre and the Commonwealth, who loved the All Star Game.
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Speaker 1: He thought it was great. But for everyone else and
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Speaker 1: their mother, they were like, man, this blows all right, So,
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Speaker 1: just how terrible the new look All Star Game was?
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Speaker 1: The tail of the tape. It was like watching a
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Speaker 1: commercial for Windy's back in the day. Where's the beef?
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Speaker 1: Where is the beef? Where is it? Or in this case,
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Speaker 1: where's the basketball? They've done the math, the broadcast had
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Speaker 1: forty two minutes of actual basketball over three games, with
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Speaker 1: one hundred and thirty eight eight minutes of commercials. Let
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Speaker 1: me repeat that for those of you that are inebriated,
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Speaker 1: So forty two minutes of actual basketball, one hundred and
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Speaker 1: thirty eight minutes of commercials or filler like mister Beast
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Speaker 1: and Charles Barkley and Shaq and Kenny Smith being eulogized
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Speaker 1: like they've just dropped dead when they're still very much alive,
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Speaker 1: and we'll be calling NBA games next year. If you
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Speaker 1: want to break down my computer, like brain tells me
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Speaker 1: using malor math, that works out to seventy six point
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Speaker 1: six percent filler, seventy six point six percent filler, eighty
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Speaker 1: minutes were straight commercials. Eighty minutes were straight commercials, nothing
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Speaker 1: but commercials, and I love commercials. But that means, if
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Speaker 1: you do the math on this, the actual basketball for
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Speaker 1: the All Star Game was twenty three point three percent
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Speaker 1: and the advertisements were forty four point four percent. The
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Speaker 1: math ain't mathing on that. The numbers just don't add up.
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Speaker 1: Whoever signed off on that being an upgrade? Who goofed?
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Speaker 1: I've got to know, should be sent out to Siberia
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Speaker 1: is where they should be sent, like, what are you
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Speaker 1: doing here? That's your showcase event and it's twenty three
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Speaker 1: per point three percent basketball, and then there's whatever that
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Speaker 1: mister Beast thing was, and then forty four point four
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Speaker 1: percent commercials. Man, all right, you want to comment on
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Speaker 1: it's not nonsense, Bill at all. It's it's a talk
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Speaker 1: show doing God's work, talking about overpaid athletes. Late night
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Speaker 1: drug tester. Right since has Ben I agree with Kevin
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Speaker 1: Durant cancel All Star Weekend? The players will just schedule
18:40
Speaker 1: their extra days off during the season. He says, one
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Speaker 1: of my favorite emails I got a couple of days
18:48
Speaker 1: ago was from a guy and this was not from
18:50
Speaker 1: late night drug tester. Guy emailed me said, well, he
18:52
Speaker 1: should just shorten the season to sixty eight games and
18:55
Speaker 1: then the players will play all sixty eight games and
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Speaker 1: there'll be no problem. And I thought, mom, boy, how
19:01
Speaker 1: dumb can someone be? I mean, how is this? How
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Speaker 1: is this person able to a get email? Track down
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Speaker 1: my email address and send me that email. Because if
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Speaker 1: you limit the season of sixty eight games, you'll have
19:13
Speaker 1: to cut everyone salary. You'll have to take away fourteen
19:16
Speaker 1: game checks, which I'm thinking they won't do. But what
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Speaker 1: do I know. I just do the overnight show. So
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Speaker 1: even if if you work out the financials, if the
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Speaker 1: games are sixty eight, they'll be well, that's too many
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Speaker 1: and we need load management on that. So we're only
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Speaker 1: going to play fifty eight out of an abundance of caution.
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Speaker 1: Follow the science. That worked out well in twenty twenty
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Speaker 1: for everyone, right, yeah, the whole world shut down. Follow
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Speaker 1: the science. Absolutely, that's the way to go. Absolutely. King
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Speaker 1: Rory writes, since says the only way to improve the
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Speaker 1: NBA All Star Weekend is to have a game of
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Speaker 1: donkey basketball. Who would not want to watch a bunch
19:53
Speaker 1: of NBA players riding donkeys while playing basketball. Instant ratings hit. Yeah, clearly,
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Speaker 1: let's see Chicago Bears guy says, gotta love these snowy roads,
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Speaker 1: trying to get around the delivering papers and oh it's
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Speaker 1: minus twenty one outside right now. Wow, no, thank you man.
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Speaker 1: I don't know he's a Chicago Bears guy. I don't
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Speaker 1: know if he's in Chicago or not. I have no idea,
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Speaker 1: but it does look like the Arctic. He's in the
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Speaker 3: Laurenne, Well, technically, Ben the pants I'm wearing right now?
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Speaker 1: Oh is that right? Okay, okay, okay, very nice. It's
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Speaker 1: the catwalking.
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Speaker 2: But they're fleece lined and they're water resistant on the outside.
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Speaker 1: So put some boots on these babies.
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Speaker 4: You're good to go.
21:24
Speaker 1: Those boots are made for walking, right there. Now heard
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Speaker 1: that somewhere, Mister Luciana writes and says ten out of
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Speaker 1: ten on the opening mall of monologue this hour with
21:32
Speaker 1: some lebron James tears on the side. Just like the
21:34
Speaker 1: Pro Bowl, the All Star Game is a joker. There
21:37
Speaker 1: you go Richie wrights in, and Richie is in the
21:41
Speaker 1: Bay Area. He's the bartender guy. He says, it's the
21:44
Speaker 1: actual game that is disliked. I would expand on the
21:47
Speaker 1: skills competition and the three point dunk contest and the
21:52
Speaker 1: celebrity game, considering the actual All Star Game is just
21:55
Speaker 1: a three point dunk showcase. I think these skills stuff
21:58
Speaker 1: is far more entertaining then the game itself. Ferg Dog's
22:03
Speaker 1: upset with the top of the hour live read, he says,
22:05
Speaker 1: please don't remind me of the forecast. It is brutal,
22:09
Speaker 1: he says, brute tale. All right. Bill Wrights in from
22:14
Speaker 1: La says, last time I saw a forty two minute
22:17
Speaker 1: basketball game, it was because the peach bucket broke. It's
22:21
Speaker 1: James Naismith right there and brought to you by Chef
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Speaker 1: Boyard the twelve twenty twenty and fifty eight degrees right
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Speaker 1: now here on the Ben mallage. I was giving the weather.
22:34
Speaker 1: We're good on that. Nick the Wendy's Guy checks in,
22:36
Speaker 1: He says, Ben Buddy. After twelve years, I might not
22:39
Speaker 1: be Nick the Wendy's Guy. Looking into other jobs. Oh man, hey, Nick,
22:44
Speaker 1: for our show, you should become Nick the Canes guy,
22:47
Speaker 1: the raising Canes game. Upgrade your Chicken game over to Canes. Okay,
22:53
Speaker 1: you got upgrade. Give us all the inside dirt on Canes.
22:57
Speaker 1: Be Nick the Canes guy. That's the way to do.
22:59
Speaker 1: It's go the phones. Let's hello Chris in Boston. Hello, Chris, welcome. Yeah,
23:05
Speaker 1: we love the chicken Chicken.
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Speaker 5: Yeah, this is this is Chris and the Commonwealth. Then,
23:11
Speaker 5: first time I've actually haven't played this game with yeah,
23:13
Speaker 5: you know it's freezing. I'm plowing right now. You know,
23:16
Speaker 5: I'm a plow truck driver. Ras I get. Yeah, you
23:19
Speaker 5: get someone to choose you as a partner Ben for
23:22
Speaker 5: this game, dude, then you know on uh, it's minus
23:25
Speaker 5: sixty eight degrees on Killington right now. I said it's
23:29
Speaker 5: below it's below zero with the windshill. Like it's like
23:32
Speaker 5: if you're a plow truck driver, like you haven't been
23:34
Speaker 5: able to plow much snow in New England like over
23:37
Speaker 5: the past five years, Like you went broke if that's
23:39
Speaker 5: the only business you have, Like, I don't know what
23:41
Speaker 5: I do when I'm not plowing, but I'll play right now.
23:44
Speaker 5: If I saw angry Bill, I'd hit him with my
23:46
Speaker 5: plow right now. But we're getting so much now. We're
23:48
Speaker 5: getting another storm on Thursday at Boston. Yeah, we've got
23:52
Speaker 5: snow all weekend too.
23:54
Speaker 1: Like, oh, that's great, Blizzard Radio. You can do Blizzard
23:57
Speaker 1: Radio call into the shows during the blizzard.
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Speaker 5: Yeah, we need those, We need those times.
24:01
Speaker 2: You know.
24:01
Speaker 5: I like to play those games too, you know, dude.
24:05
Speaker 5: One other say, like we have the Four Nations Classic
24:08
Speaker 5: going on here in Boston right now, So it's like Finland. Uh,
24:12
Speaker 5: we hate Canada. So I heard Trump showing up on
24:15
Speaker 5: Thursday night the United States versus Canada. Trumps shall be
24:18
Speaker 5: going to drive his motorcade around the rink before the game.
24:21
Speaker 5: We're going to give all the We're gonna give all
24:23
Speaker 5: the Canadians, you would give all the middle finger, all
24:25
Speaker 5: the Canadians. We're gonna send him back there back.
24:28
Speaker 1: Then you put Trump on a zamboni, have the president
24:30
Speaker 1: drive around the first ever presidential Has the president, an
24:33
Speaker 1: active president ever driven a zamboni before? That would be
24:35
Speaker 1: a first. Put him on a zamboni driving round.
24:38
Speaker 5: You think you think he's mad? I bet he's really mad.
24:40
Speaker 5: Like they were really booing, like like inside it's a
24:43
Speaker 5: Four Nations classic. And then outside you got Honduras, Ecuador, Belize, Guatemala.
24:50
Speaker 5: These people they just write mopeds like I'm a plow driver,
24:52
Speaker 5: you know, yeah, drive the mopeds on the sidewalk. And
24:55
Speaker 5: then they got the Feds and they're trying to catch
24:57
Speaker 5: these people. It's like a different type of force.
24:58
Speaker 6: Wow, a third ye man, Yeah, sectuary place here.
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Speaker 5: You know what I mean?
25:04
Speaker 1: I understand, Chris, I understand.
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Speaker 2: Yeah.
25:06
Speaker 5: Would would you when you're a oh you know what
25:09
Speaker 5: the thing about plowing. Anybody can do it anymore. I
25:12
Speaker 5: can do it. Ben, you should do it. You just
25:14
Speaker 5: jump in and you can just plow. You hit whatever
25:16
Speaker 5: you want. It's not like like over the weekend, my
25:18
Speaker 5: girlfriend she broke up with her boyfriend. So I had
25:20
Speaker 5: my mom's triple a tower car from Stowton Tolloe. You
25:24
Speaker 5: have to be really smart to hold up a car
25:25
Speaker 5: in the flatbed, but to get in the plow, any
25:28
Speaker 5: moron can do this is you know, we love Duncan too,
25:30
Speaker 5: because we're in Boston.
25:32
Speaker 6: Yeah, so we like that with Bill.
25:33
Speaker 5: You know Bill Boltrick's girlfriend.
25:35
Speaker 1: I've heard. I've heard of her. Yeah, she's young.
25:37
Speaker 6: Oh she was mean with.
25:38
Speaker 5: The Four Nations but the Foreign Nations. Did you see
25:41
Speaker 5: her sitting right at the table.
25:42
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, I saw Kenny Albert though I heard Kenny
25:45
Speaker 1: Albert on the call there on Turner. I was watching
25:47
Speaker 1: the game last Oh yeah I was.
25:49
Speaker 5: I was Cyberstock and Kevin Hyland. He listens to this show,
25:52
Speaker 5: the Ben Maller Show. He's from Milwaukee, but I think
25:56
Speaker 5: I saw where he lived. Maybe it's public. Oh he's
25:59
Speaker 5: on tea and.
26:01
Speaker 1: He's from Wisconsin. As Dad was like the big executive
26:04
Speaker 1: with the packers and he lives in Kansas City.
26:08
Speaker 5: Baby. Oh yeah, so well.
26:09
Speaker 1: You didn't go to broadcasting, I mean, but yeah, all right,
26:12
Speaker 1: I gotta go. Thank you, christ I mean your bow
26:14
Speaker 1: guarding in the time. Three minutes of air time for that.
26:15
Speaker 1: My god. Let's say hello to Jay. Now it says
26:19
Speaker 1: here this guy is Jay Bruce. Is this really Jay Bruce?
26:23
Speaker 4: Yes, sir, you ask me anything you want, I'll tell you.
26:28
Speaker 4: I called it in about five years ago.
26:32
Speaker 1: Why why are you called way? That was not blind Scott,
26:36
Speaker 1: that was Chris and Boston. No, he said his name
26:41
Speaker 1: was Chris and Boston. Are you saying that he's a
26:42
Speaker 1: liar that call her?
26:44
Speaker 4: That's what I'm saying.
26:45
Speaker 1: Really, ask me, why why do you Why do you
26:49
Speaker 1: think you're Jay Bruce? Why?
26:50
Speaker 4: Why is that I am Jay Bruce?
26:53
Speaker 1: Why why would Jay? Why would Jay Bruce call an
26:55
Speaker 1: overnight radio show to your surprise?
26:59
Speaker 4: And haven't done both listen on a regular basis. We
27:04
Speaker 4: talk about it last. We laugh at Marcell Yeah, is
27:08
Speaker 4: that right? All that stuff?
27:09
Speaker 1: But Coop asked this guy some questions. See if we
27:12
Speaker 1: can find out if this is the real Jay Bruce.
27:14
Speaker 1: Here is going to play the game, and this guy
27:16
Speaker 1: claims to be former Major league outfielder Jay Bruce. And
27:20
Speaker 1: how many how many teams did you play for? There?
27:24
Speaker 1: And see your name them?
27:27
Speaker 4: Philly Seattle, the Rads of course, the Mets.
27:35
Speaker 1: Oh boy, your memories going there? Jay, I don't know
27:38
Speaker 1: what happened.
27:41
Speaker 4: Philly Settle Mets.
27:44
Speaker 1: You missed one. Oh, there you go go, Cleveland. Do
27:48
Speaker 1: you go to Baseball Reference right now and look at
27:50
Speaker 1: that up and you do that?
27:52
Speaker 4: No?
27:52
Speaker 1: You did not.
27:54
Speaker 3: What what was your what? What was the amount of
27:56
Speaker 3: your first contract that you ever signed in the in
27:59
Speaker 3: Major League Baseball?
28:00
Speaker 4: Five years, fifty five million dollars in the Reds?
28:05
Speaker 1: Is that first contracts the second he signed out of
28:09
Speaker 1: Oh my very first.
28:10
Speaker 4: One when they signed me out of high school? Yeah, oh,
28:14
Speaker 4: I don't remember that.
28:16
Speaker 1: What was the name of your high school?
28:21
Speaker 4: You got me right? I?
28:28
Speaker 1: Oh, you almost had me, Jay Bruce, the fake Jay Bruce,
28:31
Speaker 1: You almost had me.
28:32
Speaker 4: Hey, I'm gonna keep going back. I switched the second
28:36
Speaker 4: ship for first shift.
28:37
Speaker 1: All right, Well, we'll be here every night, Fake Jay
28:39
Speaker 1: Bruce will be here. Okay, thank you for all right,
28:42
Speaker 1: call back Fake j Bruce. There, that's great. It's what
28:52
Speaker 1: a weird athlete to choose. Yeah. I don't know how that, guys,
28:56
Speaker 1: but he probably fell in love with baseball watching Jab
29:00
Speaker 1: Bruce back like you know, sixteen years ago or something
29:03
Speaker 1: like that, and he's like, that's my favorite player. I'm
29:05
Speaker 1: all grown up. I'm going to be Jay Bruce. I'm
29:08
Speaker 1: going to call an overnight show as Jay Bruce. And
29:13
Speaker 1: he would have gotten away with it. He almost got
29:15
Speaker 1: away with it. No good investigative skills. Good cop, bad cop.
29:20
Speaker 1: We got to the bottom of it. Let's go to
29:22
Speaker 1: Nick in Cansah City. Hello, Nick, Welcome.
29:27
Speaker 6: Hey Ben, good to finally talk to you. I want
29:31
Speaker 6: to talk about the boring NBA. And I'm not a
29:36
Speaker 6: huge basketball fan, impact of hardly any much of a
29:39
Speaker 6: basketball fan, but I of the four professional sports, basketball
29:46
Speaker 6: in this modern era of the bigger, stronger, faster athlete, Yeah,
29:51
Speaker 6: is the only sport that can't cope with the bigger, faster,
29:56
Speaker 6: stronger athlete.
29:58
Speaker 1: Well, they could cope with it, just have chosen to
30:01
Speaker 1: sell out to the nerds. It's that's the way the
30:05
Speaker 1: game is played is because the NBA industry embraced the analytics,
30:12
Speaker 1: and it's that's the only way everyone plays the same way.
30:14
Speaker 1: It's pop a shot from the three point line. It's
30:17
Speaker 1: either get a basket in the paint or shoot from
30:20
Speaker 1: beyond the arc. And the thing that is great is
30:23
Speaker 1: how many times you watch an NBA game and they're
30:25
Speaker 1: running a fast break and they kick it back out
30:29
Speaker 1: for a three point shot rather than a layup.
30:32
Speaker 6: But why doesn't anybody ever talk about it's the only
30:38
Speaker 6: one of the four major sports where the bigger, faster,
30:41
Speaker 6: stronger athlete has outgrown the playing surface.
30:45
Speaker 1: Because I don't think that's the issue, because the way
30:48
Speaker 1: they play the game is the problem. It's not that
30:51
Speaker 1: they've outgrown the court. I think it's just a case
30:54
Speaker 1: where they play the game, as I said, where they
30:57
Speaker 1: just shoot three point shots and everything's in the middle,
30:59
Speaker 1: and it's not designed for the dominant center or the
31:04
Speaker 1: bigger player. They choose to marginalize the bigger, stronger, faster
31:09
Speaker 1: player because of the way they want to play.
31:11
Speaker 6: What about a what about a change the rim, change
31:14
Speaker 6: a rim height, change a rim diameter, change the ball
31:17
Speaker 6: down something, something, Because I mean they look like they're
31:21
Speaker 6: playing on an elementary school court.
31:26
Speaker 1: Yeah, well you can. They're not going to change the
31:28
Speaker 1: way the game that that part of it they're not
31:30
Speaker 1: going to change. And they added the last big addition
31:34
Speaker 1: was the three point shot years ago. And if anything,
31:37
Speaker 1: they're going to add a four point shot. They have
31:40
Speaker 1: from mid court. We'll have a four point shot. We'll
31:42
Speaker 1: call it the Steph Curry line, and you can shoot
31:44
Speaker 1: three point shots.
31:46
Speaker 6: But all the other sports have changed a lot of rules,
31:48
Speaker 6: they've changed, you know, hockey's made great changes. I don't
31:52
Speaker 6: know how they saw this coming with the bigger, faster,
31:55
Speaker 6: stronger player, but they may change.
31:57
Speaker 1: They they made change, well, they made some, but the
32:00
Speaker 1: trying to downgrade fighting when the greatest thing that happened
32:03
Speaker 1: in hockey in recent history was a fight, three fights
32:06
Speaker 1: that happened on Saturday. And that's why everyone's talking. It's
32:09
Speaker 1: not because of the hockey itself. It's because the people
32:11
Speaker 1: were fighting with each other and they loved it. People
32:14
Speaker 1: loved fighting, and Gary Bettman tried to get rid of
32:17
Speaker 1: fighting and all that. So anyway, all right, well thank
32:20
Speaker 1: you Nick, the great Nick. In Kansas City, it is
32:23
Speaker 1: the Ben Mahlor Show. We're gonna have Mallard the third
32:26
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32:29
Speaker 1: It should be done in in a few. It should
32:33
Speaker 1: be done in a few we're anticipating that, and we'll
32:38
Speaker 1: get to the free money later on. We'll push that back.
32:41
Speaker 1: Request denied, we'll push that back as well. Time now
32:43
Speaker 1: for the Insta trivia. The last two NBA players with
32:47
Speaker 1: at least ten games of five or more steels in
32:49
Speaker 1: a single season are Hawks guard Dyson Daniels this season
32:55
Speaker 1: and Blank again. The last two NBA players to have
32:57
Speaker 1: at least ten games of five more steals in a
33:02
Speaker 1: single season are Atlanta Hawks yard Dyson Daniels. I never
33:05
Speaker 1: heard of him this season and Blank. That is the
33:09
Speaker 1: Insta trivia, the answer and Mallard of the third Degree.
33:11
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Speaker 1: Ben here. By the way, last two I know, last
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Speaker 1: two NBA players to have at least ten games of
34:29
Speaker 1: five or more steels in a single season are Atlanta
34:33
Speaker 1: Hawks Yard Dyson Daniels. Doesn't that sound like a fake name?
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Speaker 1: Dyson Daniels and that's this year and blank and blank,
34:41
Speaker 1: that is the question. What's the answer? Shane and Tomoy
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Speaker 1: going with Charles Oakley Otis Nixon half man, half skeleton
34:50
Speaker 1: from I forty I in who else you have sewn?
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Speaker 1: Michaels from mister Luciano, that's his answer. Virgil Runnels from
34:59
Speaker 1: King Rory better known as Dusty Rhodes, a Cupid guest
35:03
Speaker 1: by alf the Alien Opiner. You are Andre Carolinko, who
35:10
Speaker 1: is forty four a K forty seven. You think he
35:14
Speaker 1: still gets that hall pass? Andre Kirolinko that once a
35:18
Speaker 1: year he can go out and stoop whoever he wants.
35:21
Speaker 1: Great pastor Yeah, his wife gave that Horny Jeff Horniseck
35:26
Speaker 1: from Eke in Roseville, Minnesota, Blind Scott driving around Boston
35:29
Speaker 1: from Milkman, Mike Mister Spudhead from Donkey Sausage, Chris in Houston. Wow,
35:36
Speaker 1: Chris has changed his wardrobe from Robbie the Mariner fan.
35:40
Speaker 1: Who else do we have? I can't read that Chris
35:46
Speaker 1: from Boston. Guests by Timothy Picky in the Brain from
35:50
Speaker 1: Trucker Joe Benito, San Diago guest by DJ Spen Patrick
35:55
Speaker 1: in San Diego, Dino Raja from Ricardo. It's his answer,
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Speaker 1: Mark and Santa Monica going with Jay Bruce is his answer.
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Speaker 1: Late Night Drug answer says I love the New Game,
36:06
Speaker 1: Real or fake? Former athlete caller, all right, Laraya. This
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Speaker 1: My last two NBA players that at least ten ten
36:16
Speaker 1: games of five or more steels in a single season
36:18
Speaker 1: are Hawks guard Dyson Daniels this season and Blank and
36:23
Speaker 1: Clark Griswold of the vacations, Ben, Yeah, what was your
36:27
Speaker 1: favorite vacation movie? Probably Christmas one.
36:30
Speaker 3: Yeah, that's the most part where they go to the
36:32
Speaker 3: Rocky and Bullwinkle Park.
36:33
Speaker 1: That was fun. That was filmed right around here, Yeah,
36:36
Speaker 1: film right right, all right, wally World, Wally World. It
36:40
Speaker 1: was actually it was the big amusement park out what's
36:44
Speaker 1: it called the Magic Mountain? Oh?
36:46
Speaker 3: Is that where they did it?
36:47
Speaker 1: Well, some of it there, they did some of it
36:48
Speaker 1: at Santa Nea. The parking lot was actually at Santa Neita. Anyway,
36:51
Speaker 1: the correct answer is Ricky Rubio. Ricky Rubio back in
36:54
Speaker 1: twenty fourteen for the tail.
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Speaker 2: To the third degree. This is one gets here we go.
37:07
Speaker 1: Let's go over to Kooba loop the reading of the
37:10
Speaker 1: questions on Malard to the third degree.
37:12
Speaker 3: The Washington Commanders are currently the betting favorite to land
37:15
Speaker 3: disgruntled Brown star Miles Garrett. Now Benwood landing Garrett close
37:18
Speaker 3: the gap between the Commanders and the Eagles.
37:21
Speaker 1: Well, yeah, obviously, yes, he's a good player. Yes, so yeah,
37:24
Speaker 1: you add another good player. That's a nice edition. And
37:27
Speaker 1: Miles Garrett he hasn't closed the gap for the Cleveland
37:30
Speaker 1: Browns because they don't have a quarterback. They have bad
37:32
Speaker 1: players all over the place. But the big thing here
37:35
Speaker 1: is what happens to the Commanders now that they came
37:37
Speaker 1: out of nowhere and they got to the NFC Championship game.
37:41
Speaker 1: Now they've got a bullseye on him. So how do
37:43
Speaker 1: they handle that and all the immense pressure. But yes,
37:48
Speaker 1: adding Miles Garrett where he could make three or four
37:50
Speaker 1: impact plays per game that could turn a game in
37:54
Speaker 1: your favor, could kill the other team's drives, absolutely, that
37:57
Speaker 1: would be a massive pickup for the Commandersnah.
38:00
Speaker 3: Along with hating on the All Star game format, Draymond
38:02
Speaker 3: Green also announced that the Warriors would win another championship
38:06
Speaker 3: this year with Jimmy Butler. Yes, Ben, what is the
38:08
Speaker 3: actual ceiling for the Warriors?
38:10
Speaker 1: No? I agree. I think as long as they stick
38:12
Speaker 1: to video games, the Golden State Warriors can win a
38:14
Speaker 1: championship this year. But you didn't Steph Curry like laugh
38:17
Speaker 1: at that. Even like Steph was laughing at that. He
38:19
Speaker 1: thought that was like comedy, like Draymond was working material
38:23
Speaker 1: for his podcast or something like that. No, I love
38:25
Speaker 1: Jimmy Butler, I don't love him as much because of
38:28
Speaker 1: the Shenanni as he pulled in Miami and all that
38:29
Speaker 1: he got into a beef with Riley. I don't know
38:31
Speaker 1: what really happened there, but the Warriors are good. They're old, though,
38:36
Speaker 1: and old teams break down, and they will break down.
38:39
Speaker 1: And so because of that, the ceiling is the second
38:41
Speaker 1: round of the playoffs next.
38:43
Speaker 3: Justin Verlander and Max Schurz are both in their forties
38:45
Speaker 3: and nearing the ends of their illustrious careers. They're number
38:49
Speaker 3: ten and number eleven, respectively on the all time strikeout
38:52
Speaker 3: leaders list, separated by only nine strikeouts. Ben, who do
38:55
Speaker 3: you think finishes the career higher on the list.
38:57
Speaker 1: So I'm gonna go with Verlander because I just don't
38:59
Speaker 1: try sure. I mean, they both hurt a lot. They're
39:01
Speaker 1: both passed the expiration date, but Verlander with the Agantes
39:05
Speaker 1: for half a year until he's traded to a good team.
39:07
Speaker 1: I'll go Verlander. How do we know you pass the
39:10
Speaker 1: right house?
39:12
Speaker 5: Another win?
39:13
Speaker 1: I've got more wins than anybody at this game. I'm
39:17
Speaker 1: the only one that plays really