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Hour 1 - Return to Sender? · The Ben Maller Show

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Speaker 1: Raptors have played the Elbow song return to Cender on
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Speaker 1: Kawhi Leonard for now. Are the Clippers going to be
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Speaker 1: stuck with the claw machine? We'll talk about that. What
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Speaker 1: do you read in to NBA teams leaving Lebron James
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Speaker 1: voice memos in order to recruit him in free agency?
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Speaker 1: Now we pause the meat of the show we'll get
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Speaker 1: back to the show. We'll have a Mallord monologue now,
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Speaker 1: the program, all right, because that's the most important part.
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Speaker 1: As I've always said, the most important part. The late
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Speaker 1: great John Sterling taught me on my podcast. You said,
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Speaker 1: you got to sell the soap, and in this case,
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Speaker 1: you got to sell home Depot. You gotta sell Fox,
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Speaker 1: the tires, the whole thing. All right, So our lead
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Speaker 1: this hour from the Trade Machine say why Yeah? So
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Speaker 1: I was told by one of my friends in the
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Speaker 1: state of Ohio that if I did not start with
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Speaker 1: this story, I would be a total fraud. Now, normally
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Speaker 1: I ignore this because who the hell cares some random dude
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Speaker 1: I don't know. However, I do find this a compelling
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Speaker 1: story and worthy of a few good minutes of talk
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Speaker 1: into the very powerful bully pulpit we have here the
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Speaker 1: microphones of Fox Sports Radio. So the trade hurd round
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Speaker 1: the NBA, which happened not that long ago, Well it
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Speaker 1: hasn't actually happened. If you didn't see this, perhaps not.
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Speaker 1: Why are you being so vague, malor why are you
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Speaker 1: being vague? Penny boy? All right, So we've learned now
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Speaker 1: that Kawhi Leonard, the man that made me hate the NBA,
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Speaker 1: Kawhi Leonard his trade from the Clippers to the Raptors.
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Speaker 1: They hit the pause button on it. It's in a
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Speaker 1: holding pattern right now, pending the NBA's never ending investigation
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Speaker 1: into potential salary cap shenanigans, the circumvention of the salarycap. Now,
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Speaker 1: the deal was agreed to at the end of last month.
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Speaker 1: Toronto would get Kawhi Leonard so he can sit on
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Speaker 1: their bench and get hemorrhoids in exchange for Brandon Ingram,
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Speaker 1: who will likely be traded by the Clippers to somebody else,
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Speaker 1: and Grady Dick. Also a bunch of unprotected first round
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Speaker 1: draft picks and the pick swaps and you can wipe
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Speaker 1: your tuckus with that second round picks. Who the hell cares?
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Speaker 1: What be damn do? The deal cannot be finalized until
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Speaker 1: the NBA concludes it's probe, which has been going on
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Speaker 1: and on and on. Now. The Raptors already announced it,
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Speaker 1: they promoted it. It's all over the place. From what
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Speaker 1: we understand, the Toronto media having a field day like
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Speaker 1: this is some kind of chicken soup for the soul story,
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Speaker 1: and the Raptors do not want to inherit any penalties
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Speaker 1: like a fine or suspension or draft pick forfeiture or
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Speaker 1: anything like that which would be tied to Kawhi from
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Speaker 1: his time with the Clippers. And so the NBA has
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Speaker 1: essentially said, listen, if you trade for Kawhi Leonard and
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Speaker 1: we punished him, whoever has him on the roster has
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Speaker 1: to pay the piper. And Toronto's like, we're not We're
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Speaker 1: absent minded, but we're not that absent minded, all right.
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Speaker 1: So that is a good jumping off point. Let us
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Speaker 1: discuss the question the Raptors playing essentially the Elvis song
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Speaker 1: returned to sender, putting Kawhi Leonard back. It's weird because
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Speaker 1: the Clipper said return to senator to Toronto, and now
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Speaker 1: it's like they're going back and forth like a tennis
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Speaker 1: match and they're volleying back and forth. So it's the
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Speaker 1: Elvis song right, return to center on Kawhi Leonard for now?
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Speaker 1: Are the Clippers going to be stuck with the claw?
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Speaker 1: All right? So my thoughts, I've got replay Center, the
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Speaker 1: Bachelor and Chick fil A, and we will combine all
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Speaker 1: of these things together and we are going to be
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Speaker 1: on pins and needles, Pins and needles, all right, So
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Speaker 1: a the Kawhi saga is it's like if you my
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Speaker 1: friends that live in Florida and know this, if you've
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Speaker 1: ever been to Florida, most people have. It's like the
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Speaker 1: humidity in Florida. It's sticky, it's uncomfortable, and you're not
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Speaker 1: sure when you're gonna get a break. It is, I
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Speaker 1: believe the math. Last I checked, it had been ten months.
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Speaker 1: Ten months the League has been investigating this no show
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Speaker 1: job for Kawhi. Now the Clippers are claiming they were
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Speaker 1: victims of Aspiration, that's the business that went out of business.
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Speaker 1: But they're saying they were the victims of fraud. I
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Speaker 1: don't believe that. I doubt that's the case. Despite some
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Speaker 1: podcast clown barking and winning awards for this, there does
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Speaker 1: not appear to be any smoking gun. Now, why is
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Speaker 1: there no smoking gun? Thinking it like going to the
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Speaker 1: NBA's replay center, the call is either upheld, overturned, or stands.
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Speaker 1: This Kawhi investigation has gone on for ten months. That
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Speaker 1: tells you it's more likely than not the call stands,
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Speaker 1: meaning there's nothing there there and I expect at most
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Speaker 1: a mosquito bite penalty, not a great white shark biting
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Speaker 1: off your leg and the association, and I said this
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Speaker 1: several months ago. I have some people that still talk
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Speaker 1: to me that work around those worlds, and the theory
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Speaker 1: that has been passed on is that they are simply
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Speaker 1: too paranoid at the league office that if they really
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Speaker 1: do give the hammer of God to the Clippers and
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Speaker 1: ding them, that that will trigger an avalanche. Is also
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Speaker 1: complicated because Clippers have traded away pretty much all their
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Speaker 1: draft picks. Still I don't have many draft picks, which
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Speaker 1: I don't mind because of various trades, mostly the fallout
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Speaker 1: from the Paul George transaction. So the problem is they're
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Speaker 1: concerned about this tsunami of similar ghost jobs or other
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Speaker 1: similar setups for superstar players from the Pacific to the Atlantic.
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Speaker 1: And that's the problem. Now. As a distant relative of
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Speaker 1: Nostradamus and a friend of noster Denis he lives in Seattle,
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Speaker 1: I know the Claw will not be in the Twilight
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Speaker 1: Zone very long. He'll be eating that great Canadian poutine
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Speaker 1: before you know it. Now I have boots on the ground,
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Speaker 1: because you gotta know, I said this on the podcast
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Speaker 1: they do in the weekend. You gotta have a guy,
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Speaker 1: whatever the case, you gotta have a guy. Right, have
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Speaker 1: a car guy, you gotta have a home improvement guy.
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Speaker 1: You just have a guy. So I got my guy,
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Speaker 1: my Canadian guy, Nico. It's Canadian sports insider Nico. He
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Speaker 1: tells me Toronto they want that Kawhi two point zero storyline.
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Speaker 1: I might be embellishing this. They want it so badly.
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Speaker 1: How badly they want it so badly that they would
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Speaker 1: trade the CN Tower if it had a player option
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Speaker 1: for Kawhi. That's how bad they want this. That temporary
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Speaker 1: return deceender from the Elvis song that's gonna fade away.
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Speaker 1: They'll work it out. They'll figure it out. They will
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Speaker 1: likely be a massive fine. Steve Balmer goes to bed
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Speaker 1: takes a bowel movement and he can cover the fine,
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Speaker 1: and the Clippers will end up sending Kawhi to Toronto,
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Speaker 1: and Toronto will send the Clippers Dick. They will get
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Speaker 1: Grady Dick, that's what they're gonna get, and some scratcher
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Speaker 1: tickets and that'll be that, and everyone who loves jokes
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Speaker 1: can make their jokes. I know I'm gonna get a
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Speaker 1: bunch of photos of Grady Dick and a Clipper jersey
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Speaker 1: with Dick on the back. I know because that's his name,
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Speaker 1: all right now. Meanwhile to Lebron, watch at a golf
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Speaker 1: course near you, Lebron James, what is he? Forty one?
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Speaker 1: Now in the middle of another drawn out everyone look
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Speaker 1: at me, everyone look at me. Recruiting process. Not as
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Speaker 1: much choice to this one as the ones previous one.
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Speaker 1: He was actually good. Multiple NBA teams said to be
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Speaker 1: aggressively pursuing rather than casually pursuing. Aggressively pursuing like he's
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Speaker 1: the hottest cougar at the bar. The cougars are coming.
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Speaker 1: The cougars are coming. And the part of the story
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Speaker 1: now where it's gone off the hinges, is there. There's
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Speaker 1: a story bouncing around that some teams have been sending
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Speaker 1: personalized voice memos to a agent, Rich Paul, the guy
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Speaker 1: riding Lebron's coattails. So let me repeat that for those
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Speaker 1: of you in the back of the room, if you're
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Speaker 1: not paying that close attention because it's late at night
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Speaker 1: and all that. So NBA executives, general managers, owners, presidents,
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Speaker 1: all out of these big multi billion dollar basketball franchises
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Speaker 1: are recording sales pitches outlining their vision of Lebron joining
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Speaker 1: their team, and then they're being relayed through the middleman,
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Speaker 1: Rich Paul. Now this is happening supposedly with several of
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Speaker 1: the leading suitors, and you know who they are, Cleveland, Miami,
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Speaker 1: a couple of former teams that Lebron. And so that's
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Speaker 1: where we are. Lebron has been on vacation. I know,
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Speaker 1: we're very concerned about other people's vacations. It's doing a
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Speaker 1: lot of golfing with family and friends, and big story
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Speaker 1: there out with Draymond Green. Oh my god. And Lebron
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Speaker 1: has set no timetable for a decision. I think we're
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Speaker 1: in week two or three at this point. All right,
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Speaker 1: So the question what do you read in to these
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Speaker 1: NBA teams leaving Lebron James voice memos, but they're leaving
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Speaker 1: them with Rich Paul in order to recruit Lebron in
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Speaker 1: free agency. So the league, if you didn't believe this before,
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Speaker 1: has definitely turned into a very dramatic middle school hallway.
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Speaker 1: At this point, it's junior high school. Lebron is the
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Speaker 1: only player in I can recall in history recruited like
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Speaker 1: he's choosing between private islands. It just strikes me as pathetic.
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Speaker 1: I get the business element of it. I understand that Lebron,
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Speaker 1: even though he's slowing down a bit. The basketball side
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Speaker 1: is one thing, and the nostalgia and the romanticizing of Lebron.
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Speaker 1: You can sell some tickets. Low information fans will buy tickets.
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Speaker 1: The casuals will buy tickets. Though. The league, though used
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Speaker 1: to have some pride. Now it's a bunch of I
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Speaker 1: assume grown dudes in suits recording audio love notes to Lebron,
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Speaker 1: like the old days when you'd call up Delilah, I
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Speaker 1: guess she's still around a night on the radio, Delilah,
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Speaker 1: can you make a love request for my so and so? Yeah?
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Speaker 1: All right, So the gms are sending memos. It in
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Speaker 1: my head, in the cartoon bubble of my head. It's
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Speaker 1: like contestants on the Bachelor. It's like, Hey, Lebron, if
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Speaker 1: you could give us this rose and thirty five points
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Speaker 1: a night, that would be pretty good. Imagine the Cavaliers
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Speaker 1: voicemail probably started, Hey, hey, Lebron, you up, you up Laura.
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Speaker 1: The greatest, though, has to be the venerable pat Riley
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Speaker 1: at age eighty one recording his sales pitch for the
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Speaker 1: Miami Heat. Hey, Lebron, it's Pat. You know. I know
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Speaker 1: I said some things in the past about you, but
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Speaker 1: I've changed, man, I've changed Lebron. Give me a call. Thanks, Pat. Bye.
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Speaker 1: And then he's hitting the buttons because you know, you know,
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Speaker 1: we don't know how to old guys don't know how
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Speaker 1: to do the voicemail thing and all that. Now, meanwhile,
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Speaker 1: Lebron is pulling out his putter. I imagine Lebron listening
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Speaker 1: to all these voice memos on like one and a
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Speaker 1: half speed, just to get through them, all the begging
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Speaker 1: and all that. And I don't know what he's doing
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Speaker 1: with all the packages, the care packages, the edible arrangements,
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Speaker 1: the apology balloons that he's getting. I have no idea. Meanwhile,
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Speaker 1: we now go to the last word scandal. Scandal in
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Speaker 1: broadcasting so involves the Alamo, the runner up the silver
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Speaker 1: medal winners of the NBA, the San Antonio Spurs, and
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Speaker 1: Jacob Toby. Who the F is this guy? Apparently he
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Speaker 1: was the lead play by play announcer for the San
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Speaker 1: Antonio Spurs. We say that in past tense, following a
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Speaker 1: viral accusation, which appears to be accurate considering what happened next,
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Speaker 1: that he had a Tawdrey affair. Although he wasn't married,
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Speaker 1: he had a girlfriend. And this is a hum dinger
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Speaker 1: of a story if you somehow missed this one. This
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Speaker 1: guy Tolby, who's a young, upstart broadcaster not anymore, joined
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Speaker 1: the Spurs a couple of years ago. They have a
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Speaker 1: dream job, right, NBA play by play guy. Those are
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Speaker 1: the kind of jobs you can have for thirty years, right.
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Speaker 1: Somehow I've ended up at this job for almost thirty years.
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Speaker 1: But that's a job you can have for like thirty years.
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Speaker 1: And so he joined the Spurs a couple of years ago.
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Speaker 1: He'd worked in Denver and done some regional stuff. And
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Speaker 1: he has been kicked out of San Antonio after his
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Speaker 1: now former girlfriend accused him of cheating on him on
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Speaker 1: her with the sister of a Spurs player. I remember
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Speaker 1: the famous quote hell has no for like a woman scorned.
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Speaker 1: Well here we go. So the girlfriend, I don't know
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Speaker 1: whether she hacked his Instagram or she just found this.
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Speaker 1: Maybe he left his phone on. I don't know how
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Speaker 1: this went, but we'll get to the bottom of it.
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Speaker 1: I'm I'm sure at some point, because we care about
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Speaker 1: these things unless we don't. So this chick was all offended,
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Speaker 1: you know, because this guy was stooping around, and she
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Speaker 1: then posted on his social media and within a few hours,
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Speaker 1: this guy was given the walking papers and said get
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Speaker 1: out of here. You're done. Girlfriend said, that's it. They
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Speaker 1: were together like six years and what a way to
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Speaker 1: go out. This is the nuclear option, boys, nuclear option.
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Speaker 1: Some are questioning why san Antonio ended up firing the
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Speaker 1: broadcaster instead of some other punishment, suspension, fine, things like that,
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Speaker 1: right question. Some have even said I think our homeboy
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Speaker 1: Cowherd said that there should be a lawsuit here. Question
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Speaker 1: is broadcaster now former Spurs broadcaster Jacob Toby have a
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Speaker 1: lawsuit over getting whacked by the San Antonio basketball team
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Speaker 1: for an affair. So, as you know, I am not
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Speaker 1: a lawyer. I do practice law every night for four
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Speaker 1: hours on the radio. So I am shaking my head. No,
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Speaker 1: I'm shaking my head. Nope, nope, nope, no, no, no,
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Speaker 1: no no. Here's why the legal gobbledegook. That's why every
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Speaker 1: contract I've signed with Fox Sports, Radio, Slash, iHeart and
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Speaker 1: other places I've worked, NBC a bunch of other radio
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Speaker 1: stations over the years has had what they called the
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Speaker 1: bad boy clause. Bad boys, bad boys, what you're gonna
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Speaker 1: do when they come for you? Now that clause is standard.
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Speaker 1: It is a boilerplate clause. And I believe pretty much
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Speaker 1: every contract of a public figure, and I assume other
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Speaker 1: people that have to sign contracts, but it allows the
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Speaker 1: Spurs to excommunicate you or whatever business you work for,
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Speaker 1: for embarrassing the business or, in this case, the organization.
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Speaker 1: The legalese is simple, don't be stupid. I think the
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Speaker 1: line was don't fish off the company pier. Now technically
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Speaker 1: this the girlfriend or the other woman was not employed
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Speaker 1: by the Spurs, but her brother was. Tolby you apparently
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Speaker 1: skipped that part of the contract. Who reads the minutia
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Speaker 1: in those contracts? So nobody does? Nobody reads that stuff anyway. Now,
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Speaker 1: there's always wiggle room. I will tell you there's always
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Speaker 1: wiggle room. I've seen it from my years in broadcasting.
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Speaker 1: If you're really good and you do something like this
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Speaker 1: and you sleep with the Dallas Cowboy cheerleading squad, if
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Speaker 1: you're good, they'll look the other way. Didn't happen here, right,
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Speaker 1: The Spurs. They got rid of this guy, they sent
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Speaker 1: him away and he was decommissioned with the efficiency of
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Speaker 1: a Chick fil a drive through like this happened sometime
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Speaker 1: at night or overnight. And this this cat clearly not
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Speaker 1: the second coming of the great Bill Shooning, longtime Spurs guy.
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Speaker 1: He retired a couple of years ago. And this Toby
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Speaker 1: character was allegedly again canoodling. Somebody named what it was.
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Speaker 1: It was the sister of the Spurs backup. So you
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Speaker 1: got Waters the third and then you've got Lauren Waters
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Speaker 1: and all that. So this is the real theory I
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Speaker 1: have on why this happened. If you've been around for
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Speaker 1: a few years, you think, I think you know where
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Speaker 1: I'm going with this this story in that town, it's
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Speaker 1: kosher salt in an open wound. Kosher salt in an
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Speaker 1: open wound. For San Antonio. Here's why the Parisian Torpedo,
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Speaker 1: not the Parisian Prodigy, the Parisian Torpedo. The Spurs franchise
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Speaker 1: still has PTSD from Tony Parker cheating with a teammate's wife.
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Speaker 1: This goes back. I think it's been seventeen something like that,
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Speaker 1: close to twenty years. But I think it's been like
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Speaker 1: sixteen seventeen years since this all went down. If you
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Speaker 1: don't believe me, google it. So I know it's a
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Speaker 1: little different because it's a sister of a player, but
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Speaker 1: it's still taboo. How do you do in the Alamo?
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Speaker 1: We have dueling pianos. We'll get to that dueling pianos,
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Speaker 1: and the sports definition of hutzba all right, the definition
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Speaker 1: so I should do that right now. I should wait
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Speaker 1: a little bit and then call up. Eventually, back to it,
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Speaker 1: we'll get to the definition of hutsbah And is it
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Speaker 1: possible Is it possible that the Lebron James story has
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Speaker 1: been scooped by a baker? A candle maker, No, an
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Speaker 1: actual baker.
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Speaker 4: We'll give you the gingerbread man.
24:07
Speaker 1: Well, you'll have to stay tuned, but there's an interesting
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Speaker 1: story out there. There are also dueling reports. I love
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Speaker 1: the dueling reports. I can't get enough of that. At
24:17
Speaker 1: the dueling reports. Now Adam Schefter, who's last I checked.
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Speaker 1: He's a football guy, not a basketball guy. So Schefter's
24:24
Speaker 1: claiming that Lebron's going to Miami. Then you have what's
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Speaker 1: that guy, Bill Simmons, Is that the guy's name. He's
24:32
Speaker 1: claiming that Lebron's going to Cleveland. However, last was it
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Speaker 1: last week or two weeks ago? He bet his life
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Speaker 1: that Lebron was going to Golden State. So that means
24:43
Speaker 1: I guess he's Oh, that's it for Bill Simmons, he
24:45
Speaker 1: because no, okay, anyway, So that is where we are.
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Speaker 1: I will give you the Baker update on that, because
24:53
Speaker 1: that's very important you need to know because a lot
24:56
Speaker 1: of big stories over the years in my life have
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Speaker 1: come from people that work at the confectionery or you know,
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Speaker 1: the popsicle stand, the ice cream shop. It just that's
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Speaker 1: just the way it is. That's the way it will
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Speaker 1: it will be. So I we'll have that for you
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Speaker 1: coming up in a minute. The also the definition of
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Speaker 1: hutzpot in sports. In sports will go there and Bill Hoosier.
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Speaker 1: Bill says, Ben, thank you. I said somebody paid money
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Speaker 1: for a new ad. I nearly fell out of my yaris.
25:33
Speaker 1: All right, there's always new new ads. Late night drug
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Speaker 1: tester says announcers getting asked for cheating Tony Romo better
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Speaker 1: watch out the way he slobbers over quarterbacks. His wife
25:44
Speaker 1: may reach her limit. Well, that's every broadcaster Aikman doesn't
25:49
Speaker 1: do it as much, but Chris Collinsworth has knee pads
25:52
Speaker 1: with the NBC logo there when he's calling those games
25:54
Speaker 1: on Sunday Night. It's wild, absolutely wild. And I usually
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Speaker 1: hit the mute button when Brady on because he annoys me.
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Speaker 1: But I don't know if he does the same thing
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Speaker 1: Chip and the Q's rights and says a plus on
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Speaker 1: the Mallar monologue. If that dude the Spurs whack decides
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Speaker 1: to sue the team, I'll assume he's made up his
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Speaker 1: mind that he'll never want to do that job ever again.
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Speaker 1: No other team will ever consider hiring him if they
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Speaker 1: think he may sue them too at some point. Well,
26:21
Speaker 1: that's not necessarily true. There's a guy in Minnesota Vikings
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Speaker 1: defensive coordinator's got an active lawsuit against the NFL, Brian Flores,
26:29
Speaker 1: who's still coaching the Minnesota Vikings defense. It's rare. I
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Speaker 1: agree with you, it's rare. Does happen? I always thought
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Speaker 1: that's not because I had a buddy of mine that
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Speaker 1: sued one of the radio stations I worked at years ago,
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Speaker 1: my good friends in radio, and he won. He beat
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Speaker 1: ever work at that company again. He's been blacklisted, so
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Speaker 1: he's out. Yeah, all right, Jay Scoop writes in he says,
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Speaker 1: my wife and I arrived late to see a movie tonight,
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Speaker 1: Disclosure Day, and we got lucky because previews were still playing.
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Speaker 1: Came home and turned on the Ben Maller Show a
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Speaker 1: little late and the live reads were still in progress. Well,
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Speaker 1: very simple. Yes, Now I believe the movie. You want
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Speaker 1: to go there, and you want to see the previews
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Speaker 1: because you want to know what's coming up. It's kind
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Speaker 1: of exciting. A lot of people tune in and they
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Speaker 1: want to hear the commercials, and we lose listeners. When
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Speaker 1: I get to the monologue, it's the wildest thing. It's
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Speaker 1: the craziest thing. Eileen in San Francisco says a plus
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Speaker 1: on the opening Mallard monologue, This Lebron decision is pathetic.
27:26
Speaker 1: Hopefully it's buried his legacy. Yeah, I don't think that's happened.
27:31
Speaker 1: And now Curmudgeon Wayne into luth not a Mallard Plus subscriber.
27:35
Speaker 1: Curmudgeon Wayne not a Mallard Plus subscriber. He's out there
27:39
Speaker 1: swimming around the brown waters of Lake superior. He says, hell, yeah, Ben,
27:44
Speaker 1: that's just what we need. More NBA talk. Can't get
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Speaker 1: enough of it when the NFL is right around the corner.
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Speaker 1: And again, listen, Wayne, just send Why don't you just
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Speaker 1: do the monologues and then I'll just come in here
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Speaker 1: and then I'll just do the reads. And that's that. Yeah.
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Speaker 1: Kyle from Parts Unknown rights and he says the Spurs
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Speaker 1: play by play guy is a Mallard clone, except Mahler
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Speaker 1: has never been caught. Okay, I don't know what that means.
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Speaker 1: And I don't think that photo is accurate. I know
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Speaker 1: there's a photo of the alleged girlfriend. I don't think
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Speaker 1: that somebody told me that was not actually heard. It's
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Speaker 1: just somebody else, but I don't know. It's been bouncing
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Speaker 1: around the internet. Doc Dan not a real doctor, he
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Speaker 1: plays one on the radio from Minnesota. Says, has the
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Speaker 1: La Riot of the Big three league contacted Lebron Yet,
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Speaker 1: we'll check on that. We're we're gonna effort that Nature
28:37
Speaker 1: boy answering the call to the wild rights and he says,
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Speaker 1: I suggest the Lakers there he is right. There have
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Speaker 1: a new award called the Bronni for the least impactful player.
28:50
Speaker 1: Did I read that Bronnie James is not going to
28:52
Speaker 1: participate in the summer League. I bet you. The Lakers said, listen, Bronnie,
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Speaker 1: we don't want you to participate because you could get
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Speaker 1: hurt and we're gonna sucker either the heat of the
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Speaker 1: calves to trade for you. So we don't want to
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Speaker 1: mess that up. Let's go to a man who said
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Speaker 1: he would not be calling the show until next week
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Speaker 1: because of major dental surgery. We go to the great
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Speaker 1: state of Louisiana and we say hello to our friend.
29:17
Speaker 1: He's like family, the one and only, the man, the myth,
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Speaker 1: the legend, Anthony in Louisiana. Hey, man, you survived Anthony,
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Speaker 1: you survived your medical procedure. Oh Tuesday, Oh I died.
29:37
Speaker 1: Oh I didn't do so they instead, they couldn't. They
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Speaker 1: couldn't my teeth. Oh they just clean. You said you
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Speaker 1: were having an operation. I thought, on you're you're having
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Speaker 1: dental surgery.
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Speaker 2: I thought, I'm not a mistake.
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Speaker 1: Oh okay, well that's kind of a bit yeah yeah, yeah, yeah,
29:53
Speaker 1: I know that, but it's kind of a big mistake.
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Speaker 1: You know. It's like, Hey, I'm going in, I'm gonna
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Speaker 1: have open heart surgery. Oh really, oh man, my thoughts
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Speaker 1: and prayers. Uh no, no, you need to take a
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Speaker 1: bowel movement.
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Speaker 4: Just using the stethoscope. No, but but Anthony, Hi, you
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Speaker 4: told you, Anthony, you told me that you got your
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Speaker 4: teeth cleaned, but you still are going to have surgery
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Speaker 4: later on?
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Speaker 1: Is that?
30:21
Speaker 4: Is that not what's happening? Yeah, okay, so you still
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Speaker 4: do have to do the surgery.
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Speaker 1: Uh huh okay, okay, all right, So well hopefully everything
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Speaker 1: will be fine. I'm sure you'll be okay.
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Speaker 5: Hey, because just so you know, I'm getting my teeth
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Speaker 5: cleaned on the thirteenth.
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Speaker 4: I'm very exciting. I love to the dentist.
30:43
Speaker 2: Right.
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Speaker 5: Oh, she's so good. She's sitting over here, she's not listening. Tesla,
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Speaker 5: your cousin, Anthony says, hey, hello.
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Speaker 1: You all right, thank you Anthony.
31:08
Speaker 5: Her name's Tesla.
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Speaker 1: Yeah. Yeah, okay, thank your Gooay there he goes, all right,
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Speaker 1: there's Anthony in Louisiana going for dental stirs.
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Speaker 3: Yeah.
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Speaker 1: No, I just had to clean my uh my teeth.
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Speaker 1: There that's all. There you go, Bill writes, and he says, Ben, uh,
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Speaker 1: you are appointment listening for the listeners who want to participate.
31:34
Speaker 1: Commercial breaks are short and entertaining. I think that's what
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Speaker 1: Bill meant to write. He might have written something very
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Speaker 1: rude and offensive. However, I believe that's what he meant.
31:44
Speaker 1: The ethics of that, you know, that's what That's what
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Speaker 1: he was going for. And right now Bill's such a
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Speaker 1: big fan of show. He's upset because home depots closed.
31:53
Speaker 1: He said, Ben, I want to go to home. People said,
31:54
Speaker 1: who's your Bill's not They're not open right now. I said, okay,
31:56
Speaker 1: I'm being Hawaii either open not not here. And so
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Speaker 1: you have to go tomorrow. And when you go tomorrow,
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Speaker 1: make sure to upgrade your FIFA World Cup twenty twenty
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Speaker 1: six set up, build it like Beckham from living room
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Speaker 1: to lawn with the home depot and take the fast
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Speaker 1: twenty twenty six Supporter, subject to availability. And we have
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Speaker 1: our first member of the final four? Am I gonna
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Speaker 1: get killed? You said the final fours? Not the final four?
32:28
Speaker 1: What are you saying that there's four teams left after
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Speaker 1: we get through this round and we have our first
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Speaker 1: team into the final four at the wild card or
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Speaker 1: the World the World Cup and that would be France.
32:42
Speaker 1: All right, So France is in and what did Poppy
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Speaker 1: call this guy in Mape? Is that what he called
32:47
Speaker 1: him yesterday? And bape mapi mapi, oh MAPI called the MAPI.
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Speaker 1: That's right, Poppy, our soccer guy. And when France won
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Speaker 1: over Morocco two nothing, Yeah, go France, Go France, France, France,
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Speaker 1: the French there, that's not even your team, I know.
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Speaker 5: But I want France and Norway to win because I
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Speaker 5: have the surrogate family in France and I am Norwegian.
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Speaker 1: So you don't care about your own joy of winning
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Speaker 1: the World Cup. Pick them? You're okay?
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Speaker 5: No, no, it's okay.
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Speaker 2: You do.
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Speaker 4: You do have Norway?
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Speaker 3: Right?
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Speaker 1: Or no?
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Speaker 4: No, I don't.
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Speaker 1: So who had? Uh? Then that France will play either
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Speaker 1: Spain or Belgium. It's gonna be Spain, right.
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Speaker 4: Yeah, that what everybody thinks. Yeah you have you have Spain.
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Speaker 1: England of England. You have England, all right?
33:34
Speaker 4: H Yeah, Lorena has Norway and and I have Argentina.
33:42
Speaker 4: So yeah, you've got listeners. Have the listeners have France?
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Speaker 1: Yeah, So we don't want France to win because we
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Speaker 1: want we want one of us to win, not on
33:52
Speaker 1: an evil listener to win. We don't want that we
33:54
Speaker 1: did the World Cup if you were, So, what are
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Speaker 1: you talking about, malor that we did this World Cup?
33:58
Speaker 1: We had the hopper, did the World Cup lottery and
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Speaker 1: we all picked teams based on numbered balls and that's
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Speaker 1: how that went. So this bakery story, real quick, this
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Speaker 1: bakery story. So there's a guy in Ohio. All good
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Speaker 1: stories start out with a guy in Ohio, not Ohio
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Speaker 1: al as far as I know, it's not Dick and Dayton.
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Speaker 1: So this guy who is he owns a bakery in
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Speaker 1: Ohio and he is claiming that not only will Lebron
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Speaker 1: James be joining the Cavaliers, Cleveland is going to trade
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Speaker 1: for Draymond Green from the Golden State Warriors, so they're
34:35
Speaker 1: gonna have Lebron and Dreymont Gris, why are you talking about?
34:38
Speaker 1: What's some guy that runs a bakery is saying, Well,
34:42
Speaker 1: the legend is that this cat many many years ago,
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Speaker 1: correctly predicted before the usual suspects. NBA insiders predicted that
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Speaker 1: Lebron was going to return to Cleveland when he left
34:56
Speaker 1: the Miami Heat, although most people thought he was going
34:58
Speaker 1: to go back to Cleveland, anyway. So this guy's got
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Speaker 1: I guess a little street credibility. So the owner of
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Speaker 1: a bakery in Oha. This is our NBA inside Welcome
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Speaker 1: to twenty twenty six kids. That's right, major addition, big
35:15
Speaker 1: big news, big news. This guy lebron is coming back
35:20
Speaker 1: to Cleveland, but he's bringing Bronnie and Draymond with him.
35:25
Speaker 1: There you go, so buy your cupcakes. By your cupcakes,
35:28
Speaker 1: knock yourself out with the cupcakes. It is the Ben
35:31
Speaker 1: Mahler Show. Time now for the who am I? Game?
35:33
Speaker 1: This is where we pretend to be somebody else else.
35:35
Speaker 1: We call it the who am I? Game? Ben Rice
35:37
Speaker 1: is oh so nice. He's got twenty eight home runs
35:40
Speaker 1: this season that is tied for the sixth most by
35:44
Speaker 1: a Yankee batter before the All Star break. This is
35:46
Speaker 1: in the wild Card era, So the wildcard era. He
35:50
Speaker 1: joins Aaron Judge, who's done it four times, A Rod
35:54
Speaker 1: and Blank, who like I said me, I guess it's
35:58
Speaker 1: how over so again? Ben Rice twenty eight home runs
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Speaker 1: and this season that is tied for the sixth most
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Speaker 1: by a Yankee batter for the All Star break. In
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Speaker 1: the wild Card Here he joins Aaron Judge, who's done
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Speaker 1: it four times a rod and me? Who am I?
36:15
Speaker 1: That's the question. The answer. We'll get to it and
36:18
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38:05
Speaker 1: Back to where we go and time to pay off
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Speaker 1: the somewhat exciting who am I? Game? We've gone to
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Speaker 1: baseball baseball for the who am I? Game? And here
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Speaker 1: we go. Ben Rice is oh so nice. He's got
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Speaker 1: twenty eight home runs this season Bronx Bombers. He's tied
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Speaker 1: for the sixth most by a Yankee batter before the
38:26
Speaker 1: All Star break in the wild Card era, joining Aaron
38:30
Speaker 1: Judge who did it four times? A Rod and me?
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Speaker 1: All right, that is ool question. What is the answer?
38:40
Speaker 1: Let's see does anyone in the malle militia know the answer?
38:43
Speaker 1: Mallard prop guy going with Yankee legend Marv Thornberry, who
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Speaker 1: as his answer, let's you don't know your Yankee baseball?
38:51
Speaker 1: Bad job by you. Muhammad Ali. Remember when Muhammad Ali
38:54
Speaker 1: played for the Yankees. That he was a right fielder
38:57
Speaker 1: I believe for the Yankees and he did the liver
39:00
Speaker 1: some wallops here and there. That's from Femi the Uber
39:03
Speaker 1: eats Driver, Alf the Alien. Ol Piner is going with
39:07
Speaker 1: criminal mel Hall? Is he still in jail? Mel Hall?
39:10
Speaker 1: I know he got sentenced to a lot of time
39:12
Speaker 1: in jail. He was a player back in the in
39:15
Speaker 1: the eighties, briefly played with the Yankees. What else do
39:18
Speaker 1: we have here? Mark the Walker from Rochester says you
39:22
Speaker 1: are a legendary bowler. I'm not going to try to
39:26
Speaker 1: pronounce that name, but I know who you're talking about,
39:28
Speaker 1: but I'm not going to say that name. Jose Vdro
39:30
Speaker 1: from James that's his answer. What else do we have?
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Speaker 1: Paige Down Dave FN Kingman from the Nature Boy now
39:38
Speaker 1: Nature Boy answering the call the wild. You understand Nature
39:41
Speaker 1: Boy that the sort of rant on Kingman was good.
39:46
Speaker 1: The one about Bavoqua Kurt Bovaqua was even better. Steelers
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Speaker 1: Nasty's going with Bye Bye Balbony as his answer. What
39:56
Speaker 1: else do we have, Page Dan, rubber Faced, Jim Carrey,
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Speaker 1: that's his answer. Eileen in San Francisco says Bobby from
40:04
Speaker 1: the Sopranos Baccalari I believe is his name. Do you
40:08
Speaker 1: have an answer, Lorraine, No, it's not Billy Blanks from
40:11
Speaker 1: alaprop Guy. I'm going to go with Captain Crunch. Captain Crunch,
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Speaker 1: great Yankee hitter back in the nineties, is incorrect. It's
40:18
Speaker 1: another Yankee from the nineties, Tino the Bambino Tino Martinez
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Speaker 1: in ninety seven for The New York Yanke Tino Martinez