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Ben Maller Show Best of the Week · The Ben Maller Show

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  Speaker 1: The Jokers Wild, oh Maybe Welcome in the begaining of
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  Speaker 1: yet another night of the Benmahlor Show. We are in
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  Speaker 1: who I met they were at the Mallor meet and
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  Speaker 1: The congregation of the Malord Militia has reunited. Here reunited
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  Speaker 1: and a lot going on, a lot of moving parts here.
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  Speaker 1: Now a story that is a developing story. We're gonna
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  Speaker 1: start with this. The Mile High City. There's a lot
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  Speaker 1: of things moving around. The pinball machine there and pro
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  Speaker 1: bouncy ball, the silly season. As yet again, we are
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  Speaker 1: on the pulse of what many of you find repulsive gossip,
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  Speaker 1: speculation and rumor mongering. That's right, but interesting. Wrinkle out
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  Speaker 1: of Denver. We have a mantra on this show. We
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  Speaker 1: have many mantras, but one of the mantras is we
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  Speaker 1: just we wake up. We don't know what's going on,
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  Speaker 1: and then you know, we don't even know what's going
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  Speaker 1: on when we go to bed, but we wake up
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  Speaker 1: and I'm like, whatever's interesting, whatever the news of the
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  Speaker 1: day is, and we just talk about And so I
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  Speaker 1: thought this was interesting, and I have editorial control, So
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  Speaker 1: I'm gonna I'm talking about now. Someday I'll give that
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  Speaker 1: up and supermarket Steve will have editorial control. We'll talk
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  Speaker 1: WNBA and then they'll turn the transmitter off and that's it.
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  Speaker 1: But if you didn't hear, maybe not so multi time
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  Speaker 1: Platinum ENVP guy, the whole thing. Nicola j okicch we
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  Speaker 1: learned will not will not sign a extension with the
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  Speaker 1: Nuggets this offseason. Not gonna happen. There was a standing
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  Speaker 1: offer there by the Denver basketball team.
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  Speaker 4: He is not going to do it.
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  Speaker 1: Now, the Nugget media is, well, it's not really that
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  Speaker 1: big a deal because he can make more money in
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  Speaker 1: a couple of years.
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  Speaker 4: Or actually just in a year. So just like wait,
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  Speaker 4: and he is under contract.
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  Speaker 1: So let us discuss though, because there were other factions,
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  Speaker 1: other factions, enemy combatants who say, not so fast, my friend,
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  Speaker 1: So let's discuss the question. Nicole Jokic, we are told,
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  Speaker 1: has let the Nuggets know that he does not plan
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  Speaker 1: to sign a contract extension this offseason. So what does
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  Speaker 1: that signify? To get cut through the fog? What does
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  Speaker 1: that signify signify to you? So I've got gatorade, Early
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  Speaker 1: Bird and kneepads, and we will combine all of these
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  Speaker 1: things together and we are gonna make the Gabba ghoul.
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  Speaker 4: We're gonna make the gobbagool. So he what does it signify?
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  Speaker 3: All right?
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  Speaker 1: This is not that deep. It's sports direct from Europe.
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  Speaker 1: All away from Europe. Ladies and gentlemen, step right up
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  Speaker 1: under the big top.
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  Speaker 4: That's right under the big top.
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  Speaker 1: The greatest show in the basketball off season is underway.
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  Speaker 1: Get a glimpse. Get a glimpse. It's not for the
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  Speaker 1: faint of art, but get a glimpse of the Serbian sledgehammer,
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  Speaker 1: the drama. Oh my god. Now Jokic telling the Nuggets
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  Speaker 1: to go pound sand that he's not going to sign
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  Speaker 1: a two hundred and twelve million dollar contract extension this offseason.
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  Speaker 4: Now that has opened the floodgates.
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  Speaker 1: Whether you like it or not, it's opened the floodgates
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  Speaker 1: from Walla Walla, Washington to kalamazoo. Okay, every team that
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  Speaker 1: plausibly plays basketball and occasionally wants to win, and they
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  Speaker 1: have dreams of championships, and the whispering is underway. Could
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  Speaker 1: we get the joker in the deck? Could we get
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  Speaker 1: the joker in the deck?
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  Speaker 3: Now?
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  Speaker 4: The party poopers, you know who they are.
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  Speaker 1: Oh, they say, listen, Nicole Yoki, he's just waiting. He's
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  Speaker 1: just he's gonna get an extra eighty million dollars more
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  Speaker 1: if he just waits a year. And really, what is
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  Speaker 1: a year?
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  Speaker 4: Time flies? The older you get just goes by fast.
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  Speaker 1: So while that is certainly possible, that is certainly possible.
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  Speaker 1: I don't dismiss that. I don't dismiss that. But he
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  Speaker 1: is also ridiculous to dismiss the possibility that this is
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  Speaker 1: the beginning of the end for Nikola Jokic in Denver.
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  Speaker 1: Remember the owner came out said there is a scenario
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  Speaker 1: where Jokic isn't going to stay in Denver.
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  Speaker 4: He tossed that out unsolicited.
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  Speaker 1: By the way, And now just a few days later,
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  Speaker 1: Jokic says, I ain't signing that extension.
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  Speaker 4: Okay.
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  Speaker 1: So in the multiverse, you put everything together. In the multiverse,
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  Speaker 1: it's possible that this is a foreshock. What Nicola Jokic
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  Speaker 1: did is a foreshock to a larger seismic event. Plot
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  Speaker 1: thickens now regardless, the power Brokers, if you want to
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  Speaker 1: call them that, and my favorite, the gossip hounds. They're
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  Speaker 1: like bloodhounds of gossip and they're all salivating, Oh my god,
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  Speaker 1: like Pavlov's dogs the sound of the dinner bell man.
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  Speaker 1: Are they excited?
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  Speaker 5: Now?
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  Speaker 1: Jokic, he's not going anywhere today unless he wants that.
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  Speaker 1: But remember anything as possible at anytime, like the NBA could
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  Speaker 1: call the Nuggets up and say, hey, we want Jokic
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  Speaker 1: to play for a real team like the Clippers, and
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  Speaker 1: we say we believe the conspiracy.
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  Speaker 4: That's how Luca ended up with the Lakers.
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  Speaker 1: It's not because of some slick GM work by Skinny
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  Speaker 1: Jeans Rob Polinka. It's like, well, the NBA TV ratings
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  Speaker 1: were down, let's get Luca in La.
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  Speaker 4: We'll get the ratings up. Why not?
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  Speaker 1: But technically Jokich has not one but two years left
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  Speaker 1: on the deal from what we understand it based on
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  Speaker 1: a minute long investigation, also has a player option forget
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  Speaker 1: about that that will not be activated. And the Nuggets. Publicly,
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  Speaker 1: he's the franchise, he's the cornerstone. Certainly is all those things.
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  Speaker 1: Certainly is all those things. And Denver, seemingly to pacify
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  Speaker 1: Jokicic went out and made some moves. They traded Michael
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  Speaker 1: Porter Junior for someone named Cam Johnson. We're not sure
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  Speaker 1: who that is. And they added you Val Valentunis, who
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  Speaker 1: was so excited about that. He's thinking about leaving and
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  Speaker 1: not even playing for the Nuggets. But the effort was
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  Speaker 1: made to bolster the depth on the Denver Nuggets, and
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  Speaker 1: Yokich himself had asked for more depth, so they went
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  Speaker 1: out and made some moves to get more depth. Now,
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  Speaker 1: regardless of the math, I'm even talking about Mallard math,
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  Speaker 1: I'm talking about contractual math. I'm not talking about the
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  Speaker 1: Malad math, which is different. It's a version of math,
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  Speaker 1: but it's not the actual math. It's the malor math.
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  Speaker 1: It's different. So Yo Kitch in my head, that little
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  Speaker 1: cartoon bubble over my head. Yo Kich is filming a
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  Speaker 1: Gatorade commercial for the Denver Nuggets. Make them sweat, all right,
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  Speaker 1: He's making them sweat a little bit. Yeah, Sure, there's
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  Speaker 1: a world where he gets that extra eighty million dollars
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  Speaker 1: and we're all good. We are all good.
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  Speaker 4: Right.
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  Speaker 1: It is a savvy move for a guy. He's not
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  Speaker 1: chasing a championship, but guy's his little hunk of metal.
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  Speaker 1: Finals MVP three, regular season MVPs. The Nugget Backers, though,
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  Speaker 1: the real Nugget back they're they're biting their fingernails a
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  Speaker 1: little bit. Uh and for good reason. You know, Well,
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  Speaker 1: it's a savvy business play for now. It's a business
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  Speaker 1: plan for now.
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  Speaker 5: Uh.
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  Speaker 4: And you know, is he.
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  Speaker 1: Gonna end up in New York or LA or you know,
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  Speaker 1: the Warriors in San Francisco.
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  Speaker 4: We don't know. But the whispers are only gonna get
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  Speaker 4: louder louder and louder.
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  Speaker 1: And the vultures, those NBA vultures, Yes, the hyenas.
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  Speaker 4: They're out and they're gonna.
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  Speaker 1: Get altitude sickness. The recruiting is underway. I guaranfing to
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  Speaker 1: you that the recruiting is underways. Hey, you know, I
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  Speaker 1: just talk to Jokics, you know, go while he's having
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  Speaker 1: some pints of beer watching a horse race somewhere in
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  Speaker 1: someplace far far away. Yah, just the centem a text,
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  Speaker 1: you know, Hey, Yeah, Nicolay you ever thought about coming
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  Speaker 1: to Milwaukee in the winter, beautiful weather. Yes, So the
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  Speaker 1: circus is just getting started with what I'm trying to
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  Speaker 1: say right now, Turn the page, page two. So to
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  Speaker 1: the Bay Area, the aforementioned Bay Area, we go wild
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  Speaker 1: ending in the baseball game.
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  Speaker 5: There.
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  Speaker 1: We're not talking about that right now. I'll get to
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  Speaker 1: that later. But some late night musings, some late night musings,
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  Speaker 1: and we're hearing now the Golden State Warriors, the Golden
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  Speaker 1: State wars who would have been the San Francisco Warriors,
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  Speaker 1: but they kept winning championships, so they decided not to
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  Speaker 1: change the name. They were gonna change the name to
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  Speaker 1: San Francisco Warriors, which it had been, but they was
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  Speaker 1: we kept winning, so we're gonna go back, you know,
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  Speaker 1: keep the name Golden State Warriors. Anyway, the Golden State Warriors,
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  Speaker 1: we are told have a handshake deal. I'm shaking your head,
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  Speaker 1: a handshake deal with Al Horford, late of the Boston Celtics.
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  Speaker 1: Al Horford, late night news, Al Horford handshake deal. He
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  Speaker 1: will join the roster of the Golden State Warriors. So
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  Speaker 1: how do you feel about that? How do you feel
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  Speaker 1: about this particular move? Al Horford with the Warriors. So
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  Speaker 1: I have this on my note app, the notes app
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  Speaker 1: on my front eye. Put the word sketchy. That's what
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  Speaker 1: I put. Because which version of Al Horford are the
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  Speaker 1: Warriors going to come on down? Which version of Al
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  Speaker 1: are you getting? Is he going to be locked in?
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  Speaker 1: Is he going to be what he had been quite
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  Speaker 1: a bit in Boston? His nickname average, Al was his nickname,
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  Speaker 1: He's the average And Horford, as of twenty four hours ago,
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  Speaker 1: was said to be debating whether or not he wanted
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  Speaker 1: to go out to the West Coast, to go to
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  Speaker 1: San Francisco or to a nice retirement a time share
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  Speaker 1: in Boca with tea time at three o'clock of the afternoon.
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  Speaker 1: So let's not sugarcoat this. There's no need to sugarcoat
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  Speaker 1: the Al Horford story. Horford has certainly been more of
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  Speaker 1: the early bird special version of basketball player than the
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  Speaker 1: stretch five specialists. The difference maker is not that guy.
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  Speaker 1: Hadn't been that guy for the better part of a
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  Speaker 1: couple of seasons now and in Boston, and and sure
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  Speaker 1: he's had occasional moments returned to glory. He's hit some
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  Speaker 1: corner threes, and I'm sure he'll do a little bit
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  Speaker 1: of that with the Golden State Warris and occasionally some
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  Speaker 1: defensive plays will make a play here and there, and
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  Speaker 1: and fine, but he's been around since like the flip phone.
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  Speaker 1: You know, he's been in the NBA since the flip
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  Speaker 1: phone was still still a popular thing. And so, but
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  Speaker 1: don't confuse a few random playoff performances that looked okay
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  Speaker 1: on the boob tube. Don't confuse that with some kind
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  Speaker 1: of renaissance career renaissance. I do not believe this is
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  Speaker 1: a Benjamin and not be like not me but Benjamin
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  Speaker 1: Button type situation. Uh, the the mileage has piled up
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  Speaker 1: there in the NBA. Again, Horfe is not a bad player.
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  Speaker 1: He is never a great player. Yeah, you're not that guy, Pal,
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  Speaker 1: You're not that guy. He's just he's just kind of
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  Speaker 1: air and it does a little bit of this, a
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  Speaker 1: little bit of that, but not a lot of anything.
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  Speaker 1: And there's eighteen minutes a game and a couple of
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  Speaker 1: screens here broadcasters slobbering all over him. Sure, you know
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  Speaker 1: I can get a good back in the day story.
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  Speaker 1: Remember Al Horford back in the day with the Atlanta
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  Speaker 1: Hawks when they had no good players.
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  Speaker 4: You know who you are. You idiots reached out to me.
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  Speaker 7: You better start with that. You're not gonna talk about
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  Speaker 7: you're gonna hud from I'm not. First of all, I
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  Speaker 7: don't work for the team. They don't even want me
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  Speaker 7: the games anymore. I'm not a spokesman for the Dodgers.
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  Speaker 7: I'm not so but I will start with that.
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  Speaker 1: That's the story you seem to want based on the
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  Speaker 1: customer feedback that we're getting here as we just begin
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  Speaker 1: the red eye flight. So we'll start out in the
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  Speaker 1: cream City hardball heaven right now. Oh man, they are
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  Speaker 1: flying high. The beard tastes better than ever. The sky
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  Speaker 1: is falling in La Laland the sky is falling. The
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  Speaker 1: top record in baseball six games ago and not anymore
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  Speaker 1: so if you have not been paying attention. Perhaps not because,
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  Speaker 1: as one of my friends likes to say, why do
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  Speaker 1: you watch baseball? You play one hundred and sixty two games. Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: reminds me of a caller we used to have. Judgmental
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  Speaker 1: John from Michigan used to call me up every every
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  Speaker 1: weekend and complain there's too many baseball. Well, listen, you
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  Speaker 1: don't have to watch every game. Number one, number two.
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  Speaker 1: Those of us that like to watch shit most of
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  Speaker 1: the games, check them out, scan them. We enjoy it.
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  Speaker 4: So stay in your lane.
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  Speaker 1: Anyway, In Milwaukee, a Mattine Jackson Churio singling home the
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  Speaker 1: winning run. The Brewers came back to tie it late,
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  Speaker 1: they win it in the tenth inning, and the brew
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  Speaker 1: crew get the win over La three to two, and
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  Speaker 1: they complete the first ever home sweep of the Dodgers
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  Speaker 1: in franchise history. Holy Bernie Brewer Batman Race the Sausages
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  Speaker 1: so Milwaukee. The only other times they swept the Dodgers.
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  Speaker 1: You gotta go back to the year twenty seventeen in
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  Speaker 1: August of that year, and then back in twenty twelve
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  Speaker 1: as well. But the better story here, the better story
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  Speaker 1: is that's right, you pay attention. Good job by you.
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  Speaker 1: So the better story is in the losing locker room,
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  Speaker 1: the NL West leading.
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  Speaker 4: They still lead the NLS.
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  Speaker 1: The Doyer have lost not one, not two, not three,
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  Speaker 1: not four, not five, six consecutive baseball games. So let
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  Speaker 1: us discuss the formerly known Big Blue wrecking crew with
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  Speaker 1: all these losses getting swept by the Brewers. So what
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  Speaker 1: do you make of the current state of the Dodgers.
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  Speaker 1: So my thoughts on this, I've got Ouiji board, Jeff Bezos,
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  Speaker 1: and family feud, and we will combine all of these
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  Speaker 1: things together and we are going to make some peanut eminem's,
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  Speaker 1: which I think have more power at this point, more
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  Speaker 1: crunch than the current Dodger lineup. So my first thought
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  Speaker 1: on this, the word that pops in my head, the
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  Speaker 1: current state of the Dodgers is the D word disheartening.
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  Speaker 1: Now we have a mantra and it's been the mantoe
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  Speaker 1: we've had for many, many years around these parts that
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  Speaker 1: we don't worry about too far into the future or
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  Speaker 1: too far into the past.
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  Speaker 4: We have to worry about today. Right.
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  Speaker 1: We are assigned by the powers at this multi million
• 19:05
  Speaker 1: dollar business that we work at to talk about what's
• 19:08
  Speaker 1: going on today. We have to worry about today. So today,
• 19:11
  Speaker 1: as I talk to you one on one, me to
• 19:13
  Speaker 1: you the Dodgers are a sad sack operation, and I
• 19:19
  Speaker 1: realize they are the reigning champions of baseball. However, Dave
• 19:23
  Speaker 1: Roberts gives me no confidence and I'm gonna die on
• 19:28
  Speaker 1: that mountain.
• 19:28
  Speaker 4: Like the team this week has.
• 19:30
  Speaker 1: Been crumbling, and Dave Roberts, you watch him there standing
• 19:33
  Speaker 1: in the dugout and it's like his mind is wandering,
• 19:38
  Speaker 1: like he's trying to remember. And they showed him in
• 19:39
  Speaker 1: the dugout. It looks like he's like, maybe I left
• 19:41
  Speaker 1: the oven on in my home before I left on
• 19:43
  Speaker 1: the road trip.
• 19:44
  Speaker 4: You know, It's like, maybe I should I call somebody.
• 19:46
  Speaker 4: I think the oven's on in my kitchen. I don't
• 19:48
  Speaker 4: know what it's like.
• 19:49
  Speaker 1: He's got that look and and then you watch him
• 19:53
  Speaker 1: later in the game and it's like he's he's doing
• 19:57
  Speaker 1: a wine tasting at awake. With the the Dodgers offense
• 20:02
  Speaker 1: and the team, I mean, in this moment, they are
• 20:05
  Speaker 1: spiraling into the alligator death role against the cheating astros
• 20:12
  Speaker 1: who then got swept by Cleve What frauds the A
• 20:15
  Speaker 1: holes are, right, I mean, of course you get up
• 20:17
  Speaker 1: for the Dodgers, brought those trash cans out for the Dodgers,
• 20:20
  Speaker 1: and he played the Cleveland Guardians and got swept.
• 20:23
  Speaker 4: How embarrassing. Anyway, it's a by the Dodgers.
• 20:25
  Speaker 1: So they got smashed by the cheating a holes and
• 20:30
  Speaker 1: now the Brewers. So it's one of these things. We
• 20:32
  Speaker 1: step right up again. It's like the state Fair. You
• 20:35
  Speaker 1: win a stuffed animal, beat the Dodgers. Right now this
• 20:37
  Speaker 1: week everyone is drowning and shredding the Dodgers and the
• 20:42
  Speaker 1: smaller bite sized pieces. Now it's moments like these when
• 20:46
  Speaker 1: I see Dave Roberts in the dugout that I long
• 20:49
  Speaker 1: for the good old days. I need a Wigi board.
• 20:52
  Speaker 1: I need a Wigi board to someone that I knew
• 20:55
  Speaker 1: a little bit. We weren't friends, but he knew who
• 20:57
  Speaker 1: I was, and we chatted when we ran into each other.
• 20:59
  Speaker 1: The sweets spirit of the late great Tommy Lasorda.
• 21:02
  Speaker 4: Oh man, what are you doing?
• 21:04
  Speaker 1: Just bear with me, Lasorda, if he was managing a team,
• 21:07
  Speaker 1: he never had a team as talented as this current
• 21:09
  Speaker 1: Dodger team. But if Asorta was managing a team, this good, right,
• 21:14
  Speaker 1: and he watched a week of baseball like this. If
• 21:17
  Speaker 1: he were around to have witnessed the malaise of this
• 21:21
  Speaker 1: baseball team, he would have already thrown a fit volcanic.
• 21:27
  Speaker 1: They would have gotten FEMA involved because of what Lasorda
• 21:31
  Speaker 1: was doing. You would have had the media meltdown. My
• 21:35
  Speaker 1: opinion the king was of performance, my opinion of the bullpens.
• 21:41
  Speaker 1: What do you think my opinion is doing that and sucked?
• 21:45
  Speaker 1: And it's just it's great. So he would he would coach.
• 21:49
  Speaker 1: Lasorda would coach like third base, right, we gotta fire
• 21:51
  Speaker 1: the team up, go third base. He'd take a gatorade cooler,
• 21:54
  Speaker 1: toss it down like he was spiking football, give a
• 21:58
  Speaker 1: speech that that would make Vince Lombardi, you know, just
• 22:03
  Speaker 1: you know shaking in the boots or in this case,
• 22:05
  Speaker 1: the grave. But Dave Roberts, on the other hand, he
• 22:09
  Speaker 1: has the aura of a guy trapped in a medically
• 22:13
  Speaker 1: induced coma. When you watch and certain guys have just
• 22:17
  Speaker 1: stopped hitting Freddie Freeman and Mookie Betts for the last
• 22:20
  Speaker 1: really not just the last six games. Prior to that,
• 22:23
  Speaker 1: they've not performed the big bullpen pickups the Dodgers got.
• 22:27
  Speaker 4: They spent a lot of money on Tanner Scott.
• 22:30
  Speaker 1: All the Nerds had their paints down for Tanner Scott,
• 22:33
  Speaker 1: Kirby Yates, and these guys me god Arson squad. Tanner
• 22:37
  Speaker 1: Scott leads baseball with six blown saves. That was their
• 22:42
  Speaker 1: big addition to the bullpen. Tanner Scott and Kirby Yates.
• 22:46
  Speaker 1: Everyone talks about how great his stuff is.
• 22:49
  Speaker 4: And I watch it.
• 22:51
  Speaker 1: I'm like, well, he looks like it's an Italian restaurant.
• 22:53
  Speaker 1: There's a lot of meatballs there. No, I do realize
• 22:56
  Speaker 1: that in the big picture, the wide angle lens, the
• 22:59
  Speaker 1: famous quote from Lou Holtz that you're never as good
• 23:02
  Speaker 1: as everyone tells you you are when you win, You're
• 23:04
  Speaker 1: never as bad as they say when you lose. I
• 23:06
  Speaker 1: get all that but we have to worry about today, right.
• 23:09
  Speaker 1: And there's a lot of people and I get this.
• 23:11
  Speaker 1: You know, people like the Dodgers listen to the show.
• 23:13
  Speaker 1: We're on the Dodger flagship in LA. That's our our
• 23:16
  Speaker 1: flagship on Fox Sports Radio. So we have a lot
• 23:18
  Speaker 1: of Dodger fans that listen to the show and Dodger
• 23:21
  Speaker 1: fans around the country. And they always push back against me.
• 23:25
  Speaker 1: They say, well, you're too emotional, right, And these people
• 23:29
  Speaker 1: just assume the Dodgers are going to flip the switch
• 23:32
  Speaker 1: because they have so much talent, And is that how
• 23:36
  Speaker 1: it works? Is I always thought baseball it's not the
• 23:38
  Speaker 1: most talented team that wins. And at the moment, to me,
• 23:45
  Speaker 1: that's hard to swallow. I mean, in a week from now,
• 23:47
  Speaker 1: when seven games in a row or something that we
• 23:49
  Speaker 1: can we visited, but I realize that when you get
• 23:52
  Speaker 1: to October, all that matters is who does better in
• 23:55
  Speaker 1: the moment. I understand that I've preached about that for
• 23:58
  Speaker 1: a long time. But in this particular chapter, the Dodgers
• 24:03
  Speaker 1: find themselves in a deep dark place and someone needs
• 24:05
  Speaker 1: to Maybe Dave Roberts can hire someone to hand the
• 24:08
  Speaker 1: players a torch and a map, Maybe just a well
• 24:11
  Speaker 1: not a torch, how about an LED flashlight with one
• 24:14
  Speaker 1: thousand lumins in bright reliable illumination and then like a
• 24:19
  Speaker 1: map and then there maybe GPS on the phone.
• 24:22
  Speaker 4: Just get him out of there, Just get him out
• 24:24
  Speaker 4: of it.
• 24:24
  Speaker 2: Be sure to catch live editions of The Ben Maller
• 24:26
  Speaker 2: Show weekdays at two am Eastern eleven pm Pacific.
• 24:30
  Speaker 4: I think we have our contestants ready to go, so
• 24:31
  Speaker 4: let's welcome them in. Right now. We have Corey in
• 24:36
  Speaker 4: Reno who wants to play? Is that correct? Core You
• 24:39
  Speaker 4: want to play? Mallards amount of money?
• 24:41
  Speaker 3: That's right? Big man?
• 24:42
  Speaker 4: All right, well, welcome to the show.
• 24:44
  Speaker 1: What do you got going on there? In America's biggest
• 24:47
  Speaker 1: little city?
• 24:48
  Speaker 3: Right?
• 24:48
  Speaker 4: Isn't that the slogan a Reno.
• 24:49
  Speaker 3: The biggest little city.
• 24:51
  Speaker 5: In the world?
• 24:51
  Speaker 4: That's right? Is it still the littlest It's pretty pretty
• 24:54
  Speaker 4: big right now?
• 24:55
  Speaker 3: It's going crazy since that m misole monk infiltrated it
• 25:00
  Speaker 3: town and ruin the housing market?
• 25:02
  Speaker 1: Did they did he root it or raise the prices
• 25:05
  Speaker 1: of housing for everyone?
• 25:07
  Speaker 3: Well? That's it. You know, they can't build taft enough
• 25:09
  Speaker 3: and all these people have moved here for his You
• 25:13
  Speaker 3: know Panasonic.
• 25:16
  Speaker 4: I don't know about that.
• 25:16
  Speaker 1: I actually have some friends that moved to Reno because
• 25:19
  Speaker 1: of they want to get out of California.
• 25:21
  Speaker 3: So they're like, well and that too, let me no, no, yeah,
• 25:23
  Speaker 3: because you know everybody's getting the chaft there with the taxes,
• 25:26
  Speaker 3: so yeah.
• 25:27
  Speaker 4: Everybody exactly.
• 25:28
  Speaker 1: But and then eventually Nevada is going to have the
• 25:30
  Speaker 1: same tax problem California, so they're going to move somewhere
• 25:33
  Speaker 1: else and go keep moving to different states and all. Anyway,
• 25:36
  Speaker 1: that's a different conversation.
• 25:38
  Speaker 4: Corea. Who do you want to partner with? You got
• 25:40
  Speaker 4: me Ben or Cooper? If you really want some fun? Loraina?
• 25:45
  Speaker 3: Well, I think you just picked the choice and didn't.
• 25:48
  Speaker 4: You're going with Loraina.
• 25:50
  Speaker 3: There you go.
• 25:50
  Speaker 4: All right, congratulations Lorena, you're gonna play.
• 25:53
  Speaker 1: I lost my voice, she.
• 25:55
  Speaker 4: Lost her I can't. Apparently she does not want to play.
• 25:58
  Speaker 4: She's choosing not to. Unfortunate.
• 26:00
  Speaker 3: All right, Well, you know we'll go with Coop. I'm
• 26:02
  Speaker 3: a big Elvis fan. I know Cooper's too.
• 26:04
  Speaker 4: Oh wow, that's deep cut.
• 26:06
  Speaker 1: All right, Hold on a second, and we have Mike
• 26:09
  Speaker 1: in the Great State of Texas.
• 26:11
  Speaker 4: Hello, Mike, Welcome. What part of Texas are you in there, sir.
• 26:15
  Speaker 3: McCallen.
• 26:16
  Speaker 1: McCallen, Texas a fine, fine city. All right, and what
• 26:19
  Speaker 1: do you what are you go going on there in McCallum.
• 26:22
  Speaker 3: I'll do that in the work this morning.
• 26:24
  Speaker 4: Yeah, what kind of work do you do?
• 26:27
  Speaker 3: Data? Annaly?
• 26:28
  Speaker 4: Oh nice?
• 26:28
  Speaker 1: All right, well, you're gonna match up with me. What
• 26:31
  Speaker 1: are the categories here?
• 26:31
  Speaker 4: Quickly? Coop please? All right?
• 26:33
  Speaker 5: This is the Ringo Star edition of Mallard's Amount of Money.
• 26:36
  Speaker 5: He turned eighty five on Monday. Uh, the categories are
• 26:39
  Speaker 5: with a little help from my friends, don't pass me by,
• 26:43
  Speaker 5: Octopus's garden and photograph and.
• 26:47
  Speaker 4: Corey was on first. So Corey, which category would you like?
• 26:53
  Speaker 4: All right? And how about you? Mike? All right, sorry,
• 26:59
  Speaker 4: I didn't hear you. Just pick, just pick the first
• 27:02
  Speaker 4: one whatever, I don't care for. What was the first
• 27:04
  Speaker 4: with a little help from my friend? All right?
• 27:06
  Speaker 1: Everyone, hold stay right there, Malor's mount of Money in
• 27:09
  Speaker 1: it's entire to the Ringo Star Edition.
• 27:11
  Speaker 4: We'll get to that and we will do it next.
• 27:13
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• 27:24
  Speaker 2: listen live now please Malor's Mountain of Money. Do you
• 27:31
  Speaker 2: have what it takes to get to the top? Probably?
• 27:35
  Speaker 3: Not?
• 27:36
  Speaker 4: Allright, list soon. Here we go play the game. It's
• 27:38
  Speaker 4: the Ringo Star Edition, Mallers amount of money.
• 27:40
  Speaker 1: We've got Corey in Reno teamed up with Koop.
• 27:43
  Speaker 4: They're gonna lose.
• 27:44
  Speaker 1: Mike on his way to work in McCallen, Texas, teamed
• 27:48
  Speaker 1: up with me.
• 27:48
  Speaker 4: Then we're gonna win. All right, here we go. It's
• 27:51
  Speaker 4: gonna start.
• 27:52
  Speaker 5: All right, Corey, we have a photograph. We need the
• 27:55
  Speaker 5: first and last name of the athlete. These athletes are
• 27:58
  Speaker 5: in some of the most famous sports photographs of all time.
• 28:03
  Speaker 5: All right, you ready, Corey?
• 28:06
  Speaker 3: Ready, let's do it. Coop, let's let's approve that with Loredo.
• 28:10
  Speaker 5: I'm wrong, all right, forty five seconds, let's begin.
• 28:13
  Speaker 4: Uh.
• 28:13
  Speaker 5: This NBA player scored Hi. This NBA player scored one
• 28:18
  Speaker 5: hundred points in a game.
• 28:21
  Speaker 3: Uh well, yes.
• 28:24
  Speaker 5: This guy was the flash number three on the Miami Heat.
• 28:27
  Speaker 5: He won a championship with Lebron and Shack. Anyway, Yes,
• 28:32
  Speaker 5: this guy is the logo for the NBA.
• 28:36
  Speaker 4: Yes. Uh, this guy's nickname was the Doctor.
• 28:40
  Speaker 3: Hey, that great herby.
• 28:42
  Speaker 4: What's his first name, Doug, Doug Julie Surry. Yes, uh.
• 28:47
  Speaker 4: This guy was a quarterback for the Chiefs.
• 28:48
  Speaker 5: He was smoking a cigarette during halftime of Super Bowl One.
• 28:56
  Speaker 4: All right, let's not let's kip it. God.
• 28:58
  Speaker 5: This Toronto Toronto Blue Jays player was famous for.
• 29:01
  Speaker 4: His bat flip. Mom, all right, play one hundred point
• 29:05
  Speaker 4: hundred fours?
• 29:06
  Speaker 1: All right?
• 29:06
  Speaker 4: Are you ready there? Mike?
• 29:08
  Speaker 1: There McCallan, Texas, which is right, the southern tip of Texas?
• 29:11
  Speaker 4: Am I correct on that?
• 29:12
  Speaker 3: Yeah?
• 29:13
  Speaker 4: Let's go? All right?
• 29:14
  Speaker 1: Well but right, all right, okay, Well a little hope
• 29:18
  Speaker 1: for my friends. These star athletes want to ring well
• 29:21
  Speaker 1: past their prime years.
• 29:22
  Speaker 4: Are you ready there, Mike? All right?
• 29:26
  Speaker 1: Forty five seconds? Run away, go John. He was known
• 29:29
  Speaker 1: as a Giants wide receiver one with the Rams. Friend
• 29:32
  Speaker 1: of Diddy. Yes, nicknamed Shady, was a running back for
• 29:38
  Speaker 1: the Bills and the Eagles. He's on McCoy yes, known
• 29:42
  Speaker 1: as the glove for the SuperSonics back in his career. Yes,
• 29:46
  Speaker 1: quarterback for the Cleveland Browns in the eighties. Dick and
• 29:49
  Speaker 1: Dayton loves this guy played at my bat Miami, all right,
• 29:53
  Speaker 1: the Big hurt for the Chicago White Sox in the
• 29:56
  Speaker 1: two Yes, wide receiver for the Charges in like the
• 29:59
  Speaker 1: seven in the sixties named Bambi nicknamed Bamby white guy
• 30:04
  Speaker 1: all right, outfielder for the Mets and the Royals from
• 30:08
  Speaker 1: Puerto Rico. Was on the Astros when they cheated in
• 30:12
  Speaker 1: twenty seventeen. Funny we got the lead you missed?
• 30:17
  Speaker 5: Lance Alworth with Bambi and Bernie Kozar, the quarterback for
• 30:20
  Speaker 5: the Browns, and Carlos Beltran was the last.
• 30:23
  Speaker 4: Oh you're wasting all right, hurry Oberrey. Would you like
• 30:26
  Speaker 4: don't pass me by? Or octopus his garden? All right?
• 30:31
  Speaker 5: These athletes all war number eight forty five seconds, let's begin.
• 30:35
  Speaker 5: He is the quarterback for the Ravens right now. Yes,
• 30:40
  Speaker 5: this guy was the quarterback for the Cowboys when they
• 30:42
  Speaker 5: won the Super Bowls in the nineties.
• 30:46
  Speaker 4: What's his first name? Yes?
• 30:48
  Speaker 5: All right, this guy has the iron Man streak in baseball. Yep,
• 30:56
  Speaker 5: this guy is one of the best second basement of
• 30:58
  Speaker 5: all time.
• 30:59
  Speaker 4: He was on the sin the Natty Reds.
• 31:04
  Speaker 2: Morgan.
• 31:05
  Speaker 5: Yes, this guy just broke Wayne Gretzky's all time scoring record.
• 31:11
  Speaker 4: What's first name?
• 31:13
  Speaker 3: I say it.
• 31:15
  Speaker 1: Over this guy?
• 31:17
  Speaker 4: You did get it. This guy's the only button we win.
• 31:21
  Speaker 4: I know, you know Bears defensive story in the eighties.
• 31:24
  Speaker 4: Not with the name Richard Dent.
• 31:30
  Speaker 1: We were looking for the name Richard Dent here. That
• 31:33
  Speaker 1: is not an incomplete game, not a not a not
• 31:36
  Speaker 1: a loss, not a loss