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Hour 3 - Dynasty Makers · The Ben Maller Show

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  Speaker 1: Well, Hey, how's it going. Hope your early Monday morning
• 0:04
  Speaker 1: is going fine. Happy Mother's Day to the mama's out there, Hope.
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  Speaker 1: Sunday was awesome. Lot to get to this hour, Lots
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  Speaker 1: to get to, including the lottery. Love the lottery. A
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  Speaker 1: couple of teams went well for them, couple of teams
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  Speaker 1: So it was the NBA Draft lottery on Sunday, and
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  Speaker 1: so the order of the draft, at least the top
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  Speaker 1: fourteen picks is in stone right, So they had the
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  Speaker 1: ping pong balls, the whole thing, and the winner. Well, actually,
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  Speaker 1: this is out I would was unveiled with the last
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  Speaker 1: two teams. It's up for grabs between the Jazz between
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  Speaker 1: the wizards. Here's how it sounded on ABC.
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  Speaker 2: Picking second will be the Utah Jazz, and that means
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  Speaker 2: that the number one pick in the twenty twenty six
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  Speaker 2: NBA Draft.
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  Speaker 1: Goes to the Washington Wizards.
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  Speaker 3: The Washington Wizards win the twenty twenty six NBA Draft lottery.
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  Speaker 3: Remember they made a huge trade last season. They added
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  Speaker 3: Anthony Davis, they added Trey Young, and now they will
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  Speaker 3: have a number one pick to pair alongside their young core.
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  Speaker 1: There you go. So the Washington Wizards, they win the
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  Speaker 1: draft lottery, they will have the number one overall pick.
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  Speaker 1: They will have the chance to, most likely, I think,
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  Speaker 1: take aj Debonza out of Byu. This is kind of
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  Speaker 1: what's crazy too, is the Bonza Byu right right down
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  Speaker 1: the street from the Utah Jazz and they have the
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  Speaker 1: second overall pick. So there's a good chance that the
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  Speaker 1: Utah Jazz do not get the Bonsa and he goes
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  Speaker 1: to Washington. We'll we'll see what the Wizards end up doing.
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  Speaker 1: But if it were up to me, I would take
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  Speaker 1: the Bonsa myself and not to do a whole long
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  Speaker 1: tail of the tape with these two players. Between the
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  Speaker 1: Bonza and Darren Peterson, he was the stud from Kansas.
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  Speaker 1: I take the Bonsa man. The Bonsa is a hardcore
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  Speaker 1: competitor and productive as well. And I'm not saying that
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  Speaker 1: Darren Peterson is not a competitor, but you at least
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  Speaker 1: have to question how competitive is he actually because he
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  Speaker 1: was missing games left and right. The latest thing that
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  Speaker 1: we got was, oh, I was cramping up because of creatine.
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  Speaker 1: That's what we've heard from Darren Peterson. And it's like,
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  Speaker 1: that is that a thing?
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  Speaker 4: Is that?
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  Speaker 1: Actually? What's going on here? I went to a game.
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  Speaker 1: I went to fog Allen this past year, one of
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  Speaker 1: the great basketball venues in this country. It was amazing.
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  Speaker 1: I loved it. Went to a Kansas Jayhawks game. Always
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  Speaker 1: wanted to go see Rock Chalk finally made it. It
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  Speaker 1: was against number one Arizona at the time, and I'm like,
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  Speaker 1: all right, let's do this baby. And then on my
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  Speaker 1: phone I get an alert and it's like, no, Darren
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  Speaker 1: Peterson tonight he is h he's an active and it's like, what,
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  Speaker 1: what's the deal here? Is like, yeah, he's just not
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  Speaker 1: feeling one. I'm like, he's playing the number one teaven
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  Speaker 1: the country. What And that was the story time and
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  Speaker 1: time and time. It was cramps here. It was maybe
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  Speaker 1: a little flu was more cramps so it's like, what
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  Speaker 1: is going on with this freaking guy. Man, it felt
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  Speaker 1: like load management during the season, even as head coach
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  Speaker 1: Bill self was like, the way to get the naysayers
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  Speaker 1: to stop naysaying is to play. Even his coach was
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  Speaker 1: saying that, So, no, I'm not taking Darren Peterson number one.
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  Speaker 1: He is a walking bucket, got a lot of talent,
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  Speaker 1: and the team that drafts him might have a great player.
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  Speaker 1: But when the Bons is putting up huge numbers, he's productive,
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  Speaker 1: and he's a competitive maniac, and he's not missing any games.
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  Speaker 1: I'm going with the Bons and myself. We'll see what
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  Speaker 1: the Washington Wizards do. Man the big loser Lou Hooser.
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  Speaker 1: In the draft lottery, it was tied to the number
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  Speaker 1: five overall pick as the lottery balls won a certain way.
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  Speaker 1: This is how it sounded on ABC.
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  Speaker 2: The fifth pick in the NBA Draft will be made
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  Speaker 2: by the La Clippers.
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  Speaker 3: So the Clippers received this pick from the Piecers because
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  Speaker 3: of the Evitza Zubots trade.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, so the Aviza Zubots trade. We go back to February.
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  Speaker 1: The Pacers make a trade with the Clippers. The Pacers
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  Speaker 1: get Zubots, who's a good player. He turned twenty nine
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  Speaker 1: in March, so you know he's not in his early twenties.
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  Speaker 1: But the Pacers were trying to replace Miles Turner. Miles
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  Speaker 1: Turner went over to the Milwaukee Bucks. So they need
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  Speaker 1: a center, they need a starting level center. So that's
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  Speaker 1: why the Pacers made this trade for Vitza zu Bots.
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  Speaker 1: So part of the trade it was two first round picks,
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  Speaker 1: two second round picks, so the first round pick this year,
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  Speaker 1: the Pacers were hoping the draft pick was between numbers
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  Speaker 1: one or number four. If it was between number one
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  Speaker 1: and number four, the Pacers kept the draft pick. If
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  Speaker 1: the pick was between numbers five and nine, the Clippers
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  Speaker 1: got the draft pick. So it turns out to be
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  Speaker 1: number five, which means the Clippers maintained that number five
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  Speaker 1: overall pick. In a rich loaded draft, the Pacers don't
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  Speaker 1: get a first round pick. They don't have a first
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  Speaker 1: round pick. They basically traded it along with some others
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  Speaker 1: for a Viza Zoo bots. And the Pacers made this
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  Speaker 1: deal while gambling that the ping pong balls would go
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  Speaker 1: a certain way and they would get one of the
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  Speaker 1: top four picks. They'd be able to add a top
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  Speaker 1: four pick to their roster along with a Vitza zoo
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  Speaker 1: Bots and a team that was in Game seven of
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  Speaker 1: the NBA Finals last season will now get Tyrese Haliburton
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  Speaker 1: back and it's all systems go. Baby, Well, that's not
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  Speaker 1: what happened. That's not what happened to the ping pong balls.
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  Speaker 1: The Clippers maintain that pick because it was number five
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  Speaker 1: overall and the Pacers swinging a miss, swinging a miss,
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  Speaker 1: and actually there was a there was a tweet that
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  Speaker 1: was pretty interesting on uh on Sunday, they had their
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  Speaker 1: they had Pritchard. He he fired up the old X
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  Speaker 1: machine and basically apologized. He's like, my bad, I'm sorry
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  Speaker 1: for that old They quite work out. We needed a center.
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  Speaker 1: We got a center. So that's good. That's good, we
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  Speaker 1: got a center. Let's not forget that we needed a center.
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  Speaker 1: But bad, bad that we uf we lost the number
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  Speaker 1: four overall pick. Not what we were trying to do,
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  Speaker 1: not the uh not the design exactly, not the intended consequence.
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  Speaker 1: But uh, my bad Pacers Nation is basically what what
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  Speaker 1: Prichard was saying right there, and uh man that that's
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  Speaker 1: a swing and a miss when you when you try
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  Speaker 1: to get a player and maintain your draft pick, and
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  Speaker 1: you do not maintain your draft pick. That's that's tough man. Now,
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  Speaker 1: this is what Kevin Pritchard wrote on x I'm really
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  Speaker 1: sorry to all our fans. That's the first sentence. Just
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  Speaker 1: think about that. I'm really sorry to all of our fans.
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  Speaker 1: I own taking this risk. Surprise that came up fifth
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  Speaker 1: after this year. I thought we would do some luck.
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  Speaker 1: But please remember this team deserved the starting center to
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  Speaker 1: compete with the best teams next year. We have always
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  Speaker 1: been resilient. Wow, there's a lot to unpack right there.
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  Speaker 1: By the way, that tweet has six point one million views.
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  Speaker 1: So yeah, that's that's the Indiana Pacers president of basketball
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  Speaker 1: operations saying my bad. That's really what it is. Where
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  Speaker 1: you know, he's not apologizing for trading for a starting center. Again.
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  Speaker 1: If Viza Zubats is a good player, I like him,
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  Speaker 1: but he's not twenty one years old. He's twenty nine
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  Speaker 1: years old, and he's only got a couple of years
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  Speaker 1: left on his deal. And the Pacers don't get a
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  Speaker 1: first round pick because of the way the ping pong
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  Speaker 1: balls fell this year in a loaded draft. So that's
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  Speaker 1: a tough one right there. Man, and you think about
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  Speaker 1: the Pacers. They had the same percentage chance to get
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  Speaker 1: the number one pick as the Wizards had, and also
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  Speaker 1: as the Brooklyn Nets have, And so what happened was
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  Speaker 1: the Wizards got the number one overall pick. Wizards had
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  Speaker 1: a fourteen percent chance to get the number one pick,
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  Speaker 1: so did the Pacers, so did the Nets. All three teams,
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  Speaker 1: because they had the three worst records, had a fourteen
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  Speaker 1: percent chance to get pick number one. The Wizards get
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  Speaker 1: picked number one, the Pacers get picked number five, which
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  Speaker 1: means it's actually the Clippers that get pick number five
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  Speaker 1: because five through nine was not protected, so that pick
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  Speaker 1: goes right to the Clippers, and the Pacers have to
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  Speaker 1: wave goodbye to like bye bye top pick. Gosh, we
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  Speaker 1: wish the ping pong balls would have fallen in a
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  Speaker 1: different way and we could have a top four pick,
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  Speaker 1: even the number one overall pick. They could have added
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  Speaker 1: a number one overall pick along with getting Tyrese Haliburton healthy,
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  Speaker 1: along with getting a Vitza Zubots in the trade. But
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  Speaker 1: they just get Haliburton healthy, Zubots and no top four pick.
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  Speaker 1: Punk Balls, Man, Sometimes they will screw you. The other
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  Speaker 1: team that came up on the losing end would be
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  Speaker 1: the Brooklyn Nets. So they had they were tied for
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  Speaker 1: the best odds to have the number one overall pick.
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  Speaker 1: They ended with the sixth pick. What happened with the Nets,
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  Speaker 1: but at least they're picking sixth, that is their pick.
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  Speaker 1: The Pacers number five pick is gone, bye bye wave
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  Speaker 1: bye bye to it. It's the Clippers pick now because
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  Speaker 1: of that trade for a vitza zu Bots, so that
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  Speaker 1: it is unfortunate for any Pacer fan. Not good, not
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  Speaker 1: a good outcome whatsoever. But the big winners the Washington Wizards.
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  Speaker 1: The other winners were the Jazz They jumped up from
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  Speaker 1: the fourth best odds, tied for the fourth best odds.
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  Speaker 1: They got the number two picks, so you move up
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  Speaker 1: a couple of spots. The Grizzlies they had the sixth
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  Speaker 1: best odds, they get the number three pick, and then
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  Speaker 1: the Bulls my balls, they move up. They had the
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  Speaker 1: ninth best odds. They end up with the number four
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  Speaker 1: overall pick. So those are winners. The biggest winners, I
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  Speaker 1: would say the Wizards, followed by the Wizards with the
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  Speaker 1: number one pick, followed by the Clippers with the number
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  Speaker 1: five pick. Because who knows what's going to happen with
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  Speaker 1: that franchise, the Kawhi Leonard situation. Kawhi, you know, he
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  Speaker 1: definitely was taking Mondy money under the table to become
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  Speaker 1: a Clipper. How crazy, Just the ripple effect of stuff
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  Speaker 1: that happened. Just think about this for a second. Okay,
• 11:25
  Speaker 1: can we get NBA nerdy for a little bit. Just
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  Speaker 1: think about the Clippers and their impact on what could
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  Speaker 1: be a dynasty in Okay. See, these two franchises are
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  Speaker 1: absolutely linked together. So the Clippers they get Kawhi Leonard,
• 11:45
  Speaker 1: Kawhi Leonard signs with the Clippers, and then Pablo Torre
• 11:50
  Speaker 1: his podcast, they do this deep dive. Pablo Torre finds
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  Speaker 1: out and it's like, oh, so the Clippers are just
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  Speaker 1: paying why Leonard a bunch of extra money under the table.
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  Speaker 1: And there are all these documents, all this stuff, all
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  Speaker 1: this information that links Kawhi to the Clippers, these monstrous
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  Speaker 1: payments going directly to him, all these conversations on all
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  Speaker 1: this stuff, and so it's like, oh gosh, it's just
• 12:21
  Speaker 1: staring the NBA in the face that they had this.
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  Speaker 1: They're circumventing the salary cap, right, That's what's happening right there,
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  Speaker 1: clear as day, and so far the NBA is just
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  Speaker 1: dragging its heels and like E D, we don't really
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  Speaker 1: want to open this can of worms because probably happen
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  Speaker 1: in other places. They have to they have to do
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  Speaker 1: something about that. But let's stay focused on the ripple effect. Okay,
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  Speaker 1: Kawhi Leonard signs with the Clippers. The Clippers are like,
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  Speaker 1: we'll make it worth your while. What do you need?
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  Speaker 5: What do you need?
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  Speaker 1: You need extra? You need extra? This extra that?
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  Speaker 6: All right?
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  Speaker 1: We got you, So Kawhi is there. Then they get
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  Speaker 1: Paul George. They trade for Paul George. They trade all
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  Speaker 1: these first round picks for Paul George. Kawhi Leonard's like,
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  Speaker 1: I need a real running mate. This Shay gild just
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  Speaker 1: Alexander guy. I need a real running mate. I need
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  Speaker 1: Paul George. Clippers make this huge trade to get Paul
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  Speaker 1: George from the Thunder. Meanwhile, what did the Thunder get? Okay, see,
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  Speaker 1: well they get a guy named Shay gil just Alexander
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  Speaker 1: in the deal, played one year with the Clippers. So
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  Speaker 1: they get SGA. Who's gonna be a back to back MVP.
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  Speaker 1: It's gonna be announced any day now. Right, So they
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  Speaker 1: get SGA. They also get another first round pick. Turned
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  Speaker 1: out to be Jalen Williams. Pretty good guy, went to
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  Speaker 1: Santa Clara, dropped forty points in a finals game just
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  Speaker 1: last season. Really good player. They got him in the
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  Speaker 1: deal as well. They also got the number twelve overall
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  Speaker 1: pick this year. They just with the draft, right they
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  Speaker 1: This is how it sounded on ABC. Yet again, let's hear.
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  Speaker 2: This kicking twelve in the draft will be the Oklahoma
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  Speaker 2: City Thunder.
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  Speaker 1: I remember the Thunder.
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  Speaker 3: They received this pick from the Clippers because of the
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  Speaker 3: Paul George trade in twenty nineteen.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, so they just got another for another one. They
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  Speaker 1: got another first round pick, the twelfth overall pick in
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  Speaker 1: this year's draft. Okay, see has that pick because of
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  Speaker 1: the twenty nineteen trade with the Clippers for Paul George.
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  Speaker 1: So you have SGA, you have Jalen Williams, you got
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  Speaker 1: a number twelve pick and a loaded draft. Maybe they
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  Speaker 1: get a real player, maybe they get a contributor this year. Also,
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  Speaker 1: that's all tied to Kawhi initially going to the Clippers
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  Speaker 1: and then the Clippers trading for Paul George. That's what
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  Speaker 1: got Okase off and running. And Sam Presty, who is
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  Speaker 1: a wizard as a you know, a Grand Pooba personnel
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  Speaker 1: evaluator GM, President of Basketball Operations whatever his fancy titles
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  Speaker 1: over there. He's the main guy that does all the
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  Speaker 1: roster stuff with OKAC, and he's done a marvelous job.
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  Speaker 1: If Kawhi never goes to the Clippers, Paul George doesn't
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  Speaker 1: go to the Clippers, the thunder don't have this trade
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  Speaker 1: with all of this stuff. SGA, what turns out to
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  Speaker 1: be Jaylen Williams. It turns out to be another twelfth
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  Speaker 1: overall pick. How crazy is that?
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  Speaker 4: Right?
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  Speaker 1: Jalen Williams was the twelfth overall pick. Okay, see, just
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  Speaker 1: got another twelfth overall pick because of the way the
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  Speaker 1: ping pong balls fell on Sunday, So they what if
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  Speaker 1: they get another talent that's anywhere near Jalen Williams. By
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  Speaker 1: the way, SGA was a number eleven overall pick. You
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  Speaker 1: can find talent in the draft, It's not Klay Thompson
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  Speaker 1: was a number eleven overall pick. Right, It's not every
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  Speaker 1: single year you get talent like that, but their talent,
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  Speaker 1: you know, you can find dudes. So yeah, we'll see
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  Speaker 1: if Oka see can strike gold again. But all of
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  Speaker 1: that is tied to Kawhi Leonard initially going to the Clippers,
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  Speaker 1: and then the Clippers trading for Paul George, and it
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  Speaker 1: looks like a dynasty in the making. With Okac, they're
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  Speaker 1: the clear favorites to win it again this season and
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  Speaker 1: like the future is bright. They got all these picks
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  Speaker 1: going forward to I'll tell you what's gonna happen with Okac.
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  Speaker 1: Not to drag this out too long, but what's gonna
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  Speaker 1: happen with Okac is they're just gonna keep retooling this thing.
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  Speaker 1: That's what they're gonna do. Okay, So they're going to
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  Speaker 1: keep their core. They're gonna keep Sga, They're gonna keep
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  Speaker 1: Jalen Williams, the Santa Clara, Jalen Williams, to probably keep
• 16:32
  Speaker 1: Chet Homegrin. Like they're gonna build around that core. And
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  Speaker 1: then when anybody else gets a little pricey, you know,
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  Speaker 1: all right, we gotta we gotta let lou Dort go.
• 16:42
  Speaker 1: We gotta move Lou Dort, we gotta move aj Mitchell,
• 16:46
  Speaker 1: we gotta move this guy. That guy. They're gonna move dudes, right,
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  Speaker 1: They're not gonna keep everybody it's like, all right, we
• 16:51
  Speaker 1: gotta part ways with Hartenstein. All Right, it was good
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  Speaker 1: he helped us, but you know, we'll just draft a
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  Speaker 1: new Heartenstein. They're just gonna keep going, yell young Young,
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  Speaker 1: all these draft picks. They're gonna trade draft shrewdly and
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  Speaker 1: build around their core. That's where they're gonna constant re
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  Speaker 1: retool it. That's what's gonna happen. You're gonna try to
• 17:10
  Speaker 1: go cheap with the the supporting cast, but they're gonna
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  Speaker 1: build around that, that main core, and they're probably gonna
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  Speaker 1: keep it afloat for a long time. Man. Like that's
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  Speaker 1: think about what the Bulls did that. That's sort of
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  Speaker 1: what the Bulls did in ways, right, where you had
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  Speaker 1: your core. You had Michael Jordan, Scottie Pippen, that's your
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  Speaker 1: main core. And then the first three championships they had
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  Speaker 1: like Horace Grant, they bj Arms, so you know those
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  Speaker 1: role players there. And then the next three championships, well
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  Speaker 1: they didn't have Horace Grant, they had Dennis Rodman. They
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  Speaker 1: have a couple other different They've got Tony Koh coach, right,
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  Speaker 1: so they're just keeping the core and then shifting pieces
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  Speaker 1: around that, like John Paxson is the first go around.
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  Speaker 1: He's not there for the second goal. It's Steve Kerrz
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  Speaker 1: there for the second goal. Right, That's what the OKC
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  Speaker 1: is gonna do. They're gonna keep their core intact and
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  Speaker 1: they're just gonna move pieces around that. They're gonna move
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  Speaker 1: pieces out, bring pieces in, they're gonna move pieces out,
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  Speaker 1: draft new pieces, but they're gonna keep that core the same.
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  Speaker 1: That's what's gonna happen, man, And they're gonna be printing championships.
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  Speaker 1: They're gonna be really tough for a long long time.
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  Speaker 1: Last thing i'll say, maybe I get very ready.
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  Speaker 7: No.
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  Speaker 1: Last thing I'll say is the dumbest thing that I
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  Speaker 1: heard for a long time that was regarding OKC is
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  Speaker 1: after they won a championship last season, it was met
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  Speaker 1: with WHOA, let's pump the breaks on this being a dynasty. Okay,
• 18:46
  Speaker 1: we all thought that Russell Westbrook and Kevin Durant and
• 18:51
  Speaker 1: James Harden, all those guys, they were gonna be winning
• 18:54
  Speaker 1: championship after championship after championship, and they didn't win one championship,
• 18:58
  Speaker 1: so let's pump the breaks. And it's like, that's such
• 19:01
  Speaker 1: a bad take. The previous thunder that that doesn't mean
• 19:05
  Speaker 1: it they have anything to do with the current thunder.
• 19:08
  Speaker 1: They have nothing to do with the current thunder. Okay,
• 19:11
  Speaker 1: just go through great dynasties in NBA history. What if
• 19:16
  Speaker 1: after the Lakers won their first championship, right nineteen eighty,
• 19:20
  Speaker 1: Magic Johnson, what if someone said, whoa, whoa, well, let's
• 19:23
  Speaker 1: pump the brakes on this being a dynasty, Like how
• 19:26
  Speaker 1: did it work out for Jerry west and Wilt Chamberlain.
• 19:30
  Speaker 1: Huh Like, so let's let's tone it down and let's
• 19:33
  Speaker 1: let's let's pump the brakes a little bit. You could
• 19:35
  Speaker 1: play that game left and right. You could play it
• 19:38
  Speaker 1: with the Spurs. It's the Spurs win their first championship
• 19:41
  Speaker 1: ninety nine, right, It's like, whoa, let's slow it down
• 19:44
  Speaker 1: with Tim Duncan and David Robinson, and we thought they
• 19:48
  Speaker 1: would have a lot more success with this roster and
• 19:51
  Speaker 1: this coach and map bab It had nothing to do,
• 19:55
  Speaker 1: nothing to do with what was the current iteration. And
• 20:00
  Speaker 1: they were printing championships too, So I never bought that
• 20:03
  Speaker 1: dumb argument. KD and Westbrook and Harden not winning a championship.
• 20:08
  Speaker 1: It has absolutely zero impact on how many championships SGA,
• 20:13
  Speaker 1: Jalen Williams, Ched Holmgren, how many they win together. It's
• 20:18
  Speaker 1: just crazy to me, all the Bulls. That Bulls won
• 20:21
  Speaker 1: a championship in ninety one. Let's slow down. Let's slow
• 20:25
  Speaker 1: down with the Bulls. Remember Bob Love thought they're gonna
• 20:27
  Speaker 1: do it really well with Bob Love. And it's like,
• 20:30
  Speaker 1: that's just such a dumb argument. Man, don't be someone
• 20:33
  Speaker 1: that makes that argument and don't buy into that argument.
• 20:36
  Speaker 1: It's dumb. It makes no sense, that makes no sense.
• 20:39
  Speaker 1: You can play that game with football too. We don't
• 20:41
  Speaker 1: have dynasties in football, but the Chiefs were the closest thing.
• 20:46
  Speaker 1: Chiefs have rattled off numerous Super Bowls. If after their
• 20:49
  Speaker 1: first Super Bowl, we said, whoa pump the breaks this
• 20:53
  Speaker 1: Mahomes guy. I mean, look, we thought they were gonna
• 20:56
  Speaker 1: win titles, you know, previous seasons with really talented teams,
• 21:00
  Speaker 1: and they never did, so let's slow it. Then it's
• 21:03
  Speaker 1: like they want another super Bowl and another super Bowl.
• 21:05
  Speaker 1: They're in super Bowl after super Bowl. It's like, just
• 21:08
  Speaker 1: because a previous regime didn't win championships left and right,
• 21:13
  Speaker 1: doesn't mean the current regime won't do that either it's
• 21:17
  Speaker 1: just dumb. It's a dumb way to think about it.
• 21:19
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• 21:33
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• 21:39
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• 21:43
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• 21:47
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• 21:49
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• 21:49
  Speaker 1: It's a great thought, isn't it, Lorena? Be honest. I
• 21:52
  Speaker 1: would be tempted to at least do a little play
• 21:55
  Speaker 1: by play of what was happening, right, Like, holy cow,
• 21:58
  Speaker 1: she showed up out of nowhere. No right to the militia, right,
• 22:03
  Speaker 1: very tall woman five eight is that what it is?
• 22:06
  Speaker 1: Maybe five eight in heels? I'm not sure the very
• 22:10
  Speaker 1: tall woman Dua Lipa. But yeah, even if she was
• 22:13
  Speaker 1: walking by, she's like trying to talk to me. Is
• 22:16
  Speaker 1: if you're doing a you know you're doing a show
• 22:18
  Speaker 1: on location and you've got headphones on a microphone in
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  Speaker 1: you guys, It's like, we're doing the show right now, rightly. Know,
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• 23:41
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• 23:44
  Speaker 1: that in a little bit. But I said I would
• 23:46
  Speaker 1: go straight to the militia. I am a man of
• 23:48
  Speaker 1: my word. Let me go to Aaron in Minnesota wants
• 23:51
  Speaker 1: to check in over here. What's going on, Aaron? You're
• 23:53
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• 23:55
  Speaker 5: Hey, Visa going good? You know, Minnesota just one today?
• 23:59
  Speaker 5: The real dynasty out Oklahoma.
• 24:03
  Speaker 1: Okay, all right, so what we got a dynasty in
• 24:05
  Speaker 1: the making with the Timberwolves. That what you're saying.
• 24:07
  Speaker 4: I think.
• 24:08
  Speaker 5: So, you know, you're comparing the Thunder to the Chicago Bulls.
• 24:14
  Speaker 5: I feel like Minnesota is more of the Chicago Bulls
• 24:16
  Speaker 5: with Anthony Edwards, Michael Jordan's and Jay McDaniels more of
• 24:20
  Speaker 5: a Scottie Pampin guy.
• 24:22
  Speaker 1: I mean, that's fine, but dude, dynasty like we gotta
• 24:26
  Speaker 1: get to the conference finals first. Well, we got to
• 24:29
  Speaker 1: get to the finals for like dynasty.
• 24:31
  Speaker 5: Dude, we went to back to back conference finals though, Yeah.
• 24:34
  Speaker 1: Back to back conference finals and we're talking dynasty. That's
• 24:38
  Speaker 1: crazy talk.
• 24:40
  Speaker 5: So how can you say the Thunder will be a
• 24:42
  Speaker 5: dynasty and they've only won one championship. It's not looking
• 24:45
  Speaker 5: like there hasn't been a back to back winner since
• 24:47
  Speaker 5: the Warriors. It's almost ten years ago. How can you
• 24:50
  Speaker 5: say that the Thunder will be a dynasty?
• 24:53
  Speaker 1: I don't know. Maybe they have the back to back MVP.
• 24:56
  Speaker 1: They've got a ridiculous corps. They share the ball, they
• 25:00
  Speaker 1: play team defense, like I don't know. The Sam Presty
• 25:03
  Speaker 1: is a wizard. I've been playing it. They've got a
• 25:05
  Speaker 1: war chest of picks. Still, Like, how could you say
• 25:10
  Speaker 1: there's a team that has a better chance to be
• 25:12
  Speaker 1: a dynasty than OKC?
• 25:14
  Speaker 5: I would argue, I would say the Spurs have a
• 25:16
  Speaker 5: better chance. You know, they're sitting on picks. They got
• 25:18
  Speaker 5: Dela Harper playing like a stud, and you have the timbles.
• 25:21
  Speaker 5: I will assume Anthony Edwards, J McDaniels, nas Read, a
• 25:24
  Speaker 5: young nucleus, Karen Shannon off the bench, like if I don't,
• 25:28
  Speaker 5: I don't know how you can see say the Timbles
• 25:30
  Speaker 5: are not a dynasty in the making.
• 25:32
  Speaker 1: That's crazy, dude. You gotta make sense next time.
• 25:34
  Speaker 5: Aaron.
• 25:34
  Speaker 1: I appreciate you calling in, man, I know you love
• 25:36
  Speaker 1: the team, but good lord, Like, yes, that's just true.
• 25:43
  Speaker 1: It's a terrible take. Like they've been to the conference
• 25:46
  Speaker 1: finals in back to back years. Okay that, like I said,
• 25:51
  Speaker 1: I love Anthony Edwards. Let me start with the things
• 25:54
  Speaker 1: I love about Okay about Minnesota. Anthony Edwards is a superstar.
• 25:59
  Speaker 1: I love Anny Edwards. I started the show saying, this
• 26:02
  Speaker 1: dude has two bad knees, two of them. He's hardly
• 26:06
  Speaker 1: missed any time once. They have missed any time at
• 26:09
  Speaker 1: all in this series against the Spurs, and we didn't
• 26:13
  Speaker 1: know if he was even gonna be able to play
• 26:14
  Speaker 1: in the series. And he hasn't missed one game. So
• 26:18
  Speaker 1: Anthony Edwards as my full respect, I love the guy.
• 26:21
  Speaker 1: I won a nice bet thanks to Jaden McDaniels. I
• 26:25
  Speaker 1: bought a Jaden McDaniel's shirt. I had to based on principle.
• 26:30
  Speaker 1: I had an in game this is degenerate as it gets, baby,
• 26:33
  Speaker 1: but it cashed, so it doesn't count as degenerated if
• 26:37
  Speaker 1: it cashes. Those are the rules right there. But in
• 26:40
  Speaker 1: what game three? I had an in game bet the
• 26:44
  Speaker 1: first half over and it just so happened where both
• 26:47
  Speaker 1: teams were missing free throws in the second quarter, I
• 26:50
  Speaker 1: needed a last second buzzer beater from three from Jaden McDaniels,
• 26:55
  Speaker 1: and guess what he delivered. So I'm like, you know what,
• 26:58
  Speaker 1: based on principle, I'm buying a Jaden mc daniel's T
• 27:00
  Speaker 1: shirt right now. I ordered it at halftime. So I
• 27:02
  Speaker 1: love Jayden McDaniels, Julius Randall, he's a good player. I
• 27:08
  Speaker 1: like nasrid a lot Rudy is a great rebounder, great defender.
• 27:12
  Speaker 1: There are things I like about their team, but they're
• 27:15
  Speaker 1: not even close to a dynasty in the make it.
• 27:18
  Speaker 1: Maybe that's just a troll call. I don't know. I
• 27:21
  Speaker 1: seemed like he believed what he was saying. That just
• 27:23
  Speaker 1: to me, that's I don't like. Okay, See, I don't
• 27:26
  Speaker 1: want them to be a dynasty. I wear Timberwolves underwear.
• 27:30
  Speaker 1: I want them to be a dynasty. That's that's what
• 27:33
  Speaker 1: it equates to in my mind. But I don't know
• 27:35
  Speaker 1: who knows. Let me get back out to the phones.
• 27:37
  Speaker 1: Let's give this another try. Let me go with Mark
• 27:40
  Speaker 1: the full name guy. What's going on? Mark?
• 27:44
  Speaker 4: Why know? How are you doing?
• 27:47
  Speaker 1: Pretty good?
• 27:47
  Speaker 8: Man?
• 27:47
  Speaker 1: How are things?
• 27:49
  Speaker 4: I just listening to you talk in the NBA. I
• 27:52
  Speaker 4: was wondering, like, how is it that Baumer, aside from
• 27:57
  Speaker 4: the fact that he's Richard Snilner, gets away with some
• 28:00
  Speaker 4: of the things he gets away with, Like, it's unbelievable
• 28:05
  Speaker 4: to me. I knew that Omber was doing some stuff
• 28:10
  Speaker 4: that was, let's say, against the rules, if not against
• 28:14
  Speaker 4: the law, certainly against NBA rules. As far as I know,
• 28:19
  Speaker 4: he was doing some funny stuff to actually gain access
• 28:23
  Speaker 4: to that team in the first place. Ben Mallard didn't
• 28:27
  Speaker 4: like the direction the team was going with the old owner,
• 28:31
  Speaker 4: mister Sterling. There were some people that didn't like some
• 28:35
  Speaker 4: of the players, some of the next players, because he
• 28:39
  Speaker 4: wasn't trying to buy a championship and he probably didn't
• 28:46
  Speaker 4: care if they won as well as he was making money.
• 28:49
  Speaker 4: I can't blame him for that, but maybe he should
• 28:53
  Speaker 4: have sold the team off sooner, but he waited for
• 28:55
  Speaker 4: a good deal. Except Barmber pulled some pretty funny move
• 29:00
  Speaker 4: gaining access to that team. They call it a a
• 29:04
  Speaker 4: leverage buyout. I think he used blackmail and extortion. I
• 29:09
  Speaker 4: think the leveraged buyout is pretty soft terms for what
• 29:14
  Speaker 4: was really going on behind the scenes. And now it's
• 29:19
  Speaker 4: evident that Bomber has been paying. Yeah, it's the biggest
• 29:24
  Speaker 4: star in the team under the table. That's crazy that
• 29:28
  Speaker 4: he can get away with that. You know, worry about
• 29:33
  Speaker 4: Bomber coming after me. I'm seventy years old. What can
• 29:37
  Speaker 4: he do to me that hasn't been nothing to me already.
• 29:40
  Speaker 1: I don't think he can.
• 29:40
  Speaker 4: Mark.
• 29:41
  Speaker 1: I think you're good. I don't think he's coming after you.
• 29:43
  Speaker 1: But yeah, it's just so clear.
• 29:45
  Speaker 4: We wouldn't put it passing though. I really don't like
• 29:48
  Speaker 4: that guy. When they see him jumping off a trampoline
• 29:51
  Speaker 4: to dunk a basketball, I thought to myself, I really
• 29:56
  Speaker 4: don't like that guy. I don't like watching him do that.
• 30:00
  Speaker 4: An embarrassment to watch a white man with all that
• 30:03
  Speaker 4: kind of money doing that. No, No, there was something
• 30:07
  Speaker 4: just very wrong about him from the very started. I
• 30:10
  Speaker 4: don't care if he's forced to sell the team.
• 30:13
  Speaker 5: I really don't matter.
• 30:15
  Speaker 4: Now A might go kicking and screaming about it, but
• 30:18
  Speaker 4: I don't care if he's sports out of the league.
• 30:21
  Speaker 1: Well, hey, man, I appreciate your call. Mark, that was fun.
• 30:24
  Speaker 1: I love that. Look, I'll say this, I'll say this,
• 30:28
  Speaker 1: and listen. We can have different views on Bamber. The
• 30:31
  Speaker 1: first part of it is I personally love Bamber. I
• 30:36
  Speaker 1: love that he's a competitive maniac. I love that he's
• 30:39
  Speaker 1: a wacko, you know. I love just his overall energy.
• 30:42
  Speaker 1: I love the guy. He's just like a He's a
• 30:45
  Speaker 1: walking sitcom to me or something walking reality TV show.
• 30:49
  Speaker 1: But you know you hate him. I like him, no
• 30:52
  Speaker 1: big deal. But the thing here is I said this
• 30:55
  Speaker 1: with with Wemby. This is a weird comparison, but follow
• 30:59
  Speaker 1: me on this. Wemby threw an elbow hit nos Reid
• 31:04
  Speaker 1: flagrant to he's ejected. And Wembin Yama is a really
• 31:09
  Speaker 1: competitive dude, and I love that about him. But every
• 31:13
  Speaker 1: now and then there's a situation where keeping it competitive
• 31:17
  Speaker 1: goes wrong. You know, it's like the Dave Chappelle when
• 31:20
  Speaker 1: keeping it real goes wrong. There are great competitors and
• 31:24
  Speaker 1: sometimes it's their greatest strength. Sometimes it's the greatest weakness.
• 31:28
  Speaker 1: And at least on Sunday night, Wemby's competitiveness, and I
• 31:35
  Speaker 1: guess his youth, his playoff, inexperience, you know, it's a
• 31:38
  Speaker 1: few things. But he was ticked off he didn't get
• 31:40
  Speaker 1: a call, and he just elbows nos Reid in his
• 31:44
  Speaker 1: throat and he gets kicked out of the game. Right, That,
• 31:48
  Speaker 1: to me is when keeping it competitive goes wrong. And
• 31:52
  Speaker 1: if you look at Steve Balmer, I would say the
• 31:54
  Speaker 1: same thing about him is he is super competitive. He
• 31:58
  Speaker 1: wants his team to be viable, he wants them to win,
• 32:01
  Speaker 1: and he's like, what's it going to take, Kawhy, you
• 32:04
  Speaker 1: need some extra cash under the table? We got you.
• 32:07
  Speaker 1: You know, that's when keeping it competitive goes wrong. That's
• 32:10
  Speaker 1: even a better example than Wemby. Like Wemby is like
• 32:14
  Speaker 1: youth frustration. You know, I didn't get the call. You know,
• 32:18
  Speaker 1: wham what elbow in your throat? How about that? It's like,
• 32:20
  Speaker 1: well you've got to hit the showers now, Wemby, that
• 32:22
  Speaker 1: was a stupid move. But what when really like keeping
• 32:26
  Speaker 1: it competitive goes wrong. It's circumventing the salary cap. It's
• 32:31
  Speaker 1: leaving a trail for Pablo Torre to uncover it. And
• 32:35
  Speaker 1: it's like, clearly, you're circumventing the cap and we'll see
• 32:39
  Speaker 1: what the league does about it. If David Stern were around,
• 32:42
  Speaker 1: It's like Joe Smith. There was an old story with
• 32:45
  Speaker 1: Joe Smith. The Timberwolves got hammered for circumventing the salary cap,
• 32:49
  Speaker 1: and that was under David Stern, right David Stern's watch.
• 32:53
  Speaker 1: There's no way the Clippers would get away with doing
• 32:56
  Speaker 1: what they did with Kawhi Leonard. But with Adam Silver,
• 32:58
  Speaker 1: I don't know. I don't know what to tell you.
• 33:00
  Speaker 1: I don't know what he's gonna do, if anything, he should.
• 33:04
  Speaker 1: I mean, they like they should do a lot to
• 33:07
  Speaker 1: the Clippers where they're either losing Kawhi, they're losing valuable
• 33:13
  Speaker 1: draft picks. I don't think Steve Balmer would have to sell,
• 33:18
  Speaker 1: but you know it's got to be significant, and I
• 33:23
  Speaker 1: guess there. I don't know if there would even be
• 33:25
  Speaker 1: a shot if David Stern were around, If he would,
• 33:28
  Speaker 1: you know, be be urging for that to take place.
• 33:30
  Speaker 1: But I don't know. The long story short, you might
• 33:34
  Speaker 1: hate Steve Balmer. I might like Steve Balmer a lot,
• 33:37
  Speaker 1: but it doesn't really matter. I think that's what got
• 33:40
  Speaker 1: him in hot water is he's so competitive. He wants
• 33:43
  Speaker 1: to win, and he went about it in a way
• 33:45
  Speaker 1: that's actually illegal. It goes completely against the CBA. You
• 33:50
  Speaker 1: can't circumvent the salary cap. You can't say, hey, we'll
• 33:53
  Speaker 1: pay you thirty million dollars wink wink or whatever the
• 33:56
  Speaker 1: contract is, and like here's a boatload of cash on
• 33:59
  Speaker 1: this side. You can can't do that, and that's what
• 34:01
  Speaker 1: they were doing. So yeah, pretty wild stuff. Let me
• 34:06
  Speaker 1: see over here real fast. All right, we'll pick it
• 34:09
  Speaker 1: back up here because I don't want to short change
• 34:11
  Speaker 1: to any of the militia that's on hold, So we'll
• 34:13
  Speaker 1: pick it back up right around the corner. Eight seven
• 34:16
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• 34:19
  Speaker 1: X is where you can find me at the no Show.
• 34:21
  Speaker 7: Oh.
• 34:21
  Speaker 1: I wanted to say Rob and Coco Beach, good lord,
• 34:26
  Speaker 1: my guy Rob. So he just writes, Brian knows take
• 34:30
  Speaker 1: on Dua Lipa walking by just told me everything I
• 34:35
  Speaker 1: need to know about him. Dua is a goddess and
• 34:38
  Speaker 1: Brian's just a JABBRONI another awful take. I don't know.
• 34:43
  Speaker 1: I don't know what Rob and Coco Beach thought I said,
• 34:47
  Speaker 1: but all I said was this Dua Lipa as amazing
• 34:52
  Speaker 1: as she is and as huge of a fan as
• 34:54
  Speaker 1: I am. If she just walked by me right now,
• 34:58
  Speaker 1: I wouldn't describe what was going on. I would take
• 35:01
  Speaker 1: a call from the militia. All I was saying was,
• 35:05
  Speaker 1: I'm not going to talk about the bounce back music.
• 35:08
  Speaker 1: I'm not gonna get distracted by I'm like a squirrel distracted. Yeah, right,
• 35:13
  Speaker 1: like something catches my attention, I'm like, I just start
• 35:15
  Speaker 1: talking about it. I might talk about it for a
• 35:17
  Speaker 1: lot longer than I intended to talk about it, right,
• 35:20
  Speaker 1: That's all I was saying. Is no dis du Aleapa
• 35:23
  Speaker 1: at all? Lorena, how much do I love doual Liipa?
• 35:25
  Speaker 1: You love do Alipa so much? I love her so much.
• 35:29
  Speaker 1: I love her so much. She's a goddess. We talk
• 35:33
  Speaker 1: about her all the time. Yeah, but somehow Rob thought
• 35:35
  Speaker 1: I was dissingdual Liipa. He doesn't mean it, Rob, Rob
• 35:39
  Speaker 1: doesn't know how to listen, Lorena. It's you know, is
• 35:44
  Speaker 1: got the ear wax build up going on right there.
• 35:48
  Speaker 1: Listen to the podcast. Listen again, Listen nine times to
• 35:52
  Speaker 1: the podcast, and maybe you hear something that is a
• 35:57
  Speaker 1: little bit different than how you initially interpreted it right.
• 36:00
  Speaker 1: That's all. That's okay, all right, we'll get to the calls.
• 36:03
  Speaker 1: Militia wants to check in. I should have teased Robin
• 36:07
  Speaker 1: Coco Beach, but I screwed that up, so I paid
• 36:09
  Speaker 1: that off right here, So we'll get to other stuff.
• 36:12
  Speaker 1: I'm gonna try to get some non NBA stuff. I
• 36:14
  Speaker 1: got a million NBA takes, but not a ton of NFL.
• 36:19
  Speaker 1: I'll tell you this right around the corner. The schedule
• 36:22
  Speaker 1: will be released on Thursday, and so the two teams
• 36:27
  Speaker 1: at the top of my list that I'm most interested
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  Speaker 1: in seeing what their schedule turns out to be, especially
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  Speaker 1: the beginning of it, I'll share that with you. We
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  Speaker 1: got to get some ball talk in here. I'm Jones
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  Speaker 1: for some football talk over here. We'll do that right
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  Speaker 1: go out to the Malard militia. Here, proud member Mike
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  Speaker 1: the Leprechaun, he joins us here on Fox Sports Radio. Now, Mike,
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  Speaker 1: I gotta say something real fast, buddy, is uh? You
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  Speaker 1: roll out the red carpet. You roll out the red
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  Speaker 1: carpet for Coop, You roll out the red carpet for
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  Speaker 1: lorraina like five star meals, hotel, accommodations, all this nice stuff,
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  Speaker 1: and all you do is talk trash and say you'd
• 37:35
  Speaker 1: rather have Chris Blank host the show than me. What's
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  Speaker 1: up with that? Mike?
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  Speaker 7: Good Morne, Chris? How are you?
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  Speaker 4: Oh right?
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  Speaker 7: I'm tired? Yeah, no, I must say. After I got
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  Speaker 7: home reb site sometime around six thirty, I was tired.
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  Speaker 7: I was sad because all this planning skin together in
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  Speaker 7: a fun way, and I'm happy because it was a
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  Speaker 7: great time and anyway, so yeah, it was a great time.
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  Speaker 7: And Ben did the first pitch yesterday. Even though he
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  Speaker 7: was a he wanted to strike he was a ball.
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  Speaker 7: But anyway, so my buddy, her name is Loreno, she's
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  Speaker 7: not so bad in person.
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  Speaker 5: Be honest.
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  Speaker 1: Okay, not a little easy on the eyes, is what
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  Speaker 1: you're saying here, Mike.
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  Speaker 7: Well, no, she met this other girl called Michelle I
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  Speaker 7: think down at Wooster and she was jealous of her.
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  Speaker 7: And no, Lorena was a nice woman. So there was
• 38:38
  Speaker 7: let's let's compare it to Iran and the war.
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  Speaker 1: Hold on, I'm going to turn off your mic. You
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  Speaker 1: might as well just talk anything else. Brand I have
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  Speaker 1: a read I could do that. That's what that's my
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  Speaker 1: go to with you know, when Mike is on I
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  Speaker 1: just there, he just say that about my sister. Like,
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  Speaker 1: what did he just say out loud on the radio?
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  Speaker 1: Right there? I'm not having that.
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  Speaker 4: I like you are.
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  Speaker 1: You're not going to start some war between me and
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  Speaker 1: female on the air. Absolutely not, No, not on your watch. Absolutely.
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  Speaker 4: You know what.
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  Speaker 1: In the meantime, Lorena, how about this, If you're skilled
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  Speaker 1: in manufacturing, skip the online job search nightmares. Express employment
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  Speaker 1: professionals connect skilled machinists, welders, and technicians with contract and
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  Speaker 1: full time manufacturing jobs. That's better than Mike starting a war,
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  Speaker 1: right That was so good. Thank you.
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  Speaker 4: You know.
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  Speaker 3: Her name was Mikayla by the way, Yeah, right, So
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  Speaker 3: she was an aspiring model.
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  Speaker 1: So he said, I don't get the order. He said
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  Speaker 1: Michelle when it was Kayla or the other way around.
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  Speaker 1: He said Michelle. And her name's Michaela. Michaela, Oh, Michelle
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  Speaker 1: mchal That's that's pretty far off. I'm not even in
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  Speaker 1: the same ballpark right there. What do we think of
• 39:52
  Speaker 1: Mike the Leprechaun. He's better in person, okay, when I
• 40:01
  Speaker 1: can walk away from when needed. He's an acquired taste.
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  Speaker 1: It's what you're telling me here, huh, okay, fair enough.
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  Speaker 1: We get to the NFL schedules that are released on Thursday,
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  Speaker 1: very excited about two teams in particular,