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Hour 1 - Micah Nori's Contract · The Ben Maller Show

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  Speaker 1: Wowie Kauz Howie. It's our number wan, our one, and
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  Speaker 2: in hour one of the Ben Mahler Show. It is Thursday,
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  Speaker 1: It's a spin off of this overnight sporty radio show.
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  Speaker 1: So here in our number one, La mellow Ball, good
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  Speaker 1: old lamellow Ball, has expressed happiness in Charlotte. So why
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  Speaker 1: are the Hornets looking to trade him?
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  Speaker 2: A lot of rumors overnight that LaMelo Ball is about
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  Speaker 2: to be traded. Also, the story involving the coaching is
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  Speaker 2: Micah Nori's new deal with the Trailblazers, a slap in
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  Speaker 2: the face to NBA coaches.
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  Speaker 1: As that has been tossed out by the Pistons coach.
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  Speaker 2: So we did have the second round of the NBA draft?
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  Speaker 2: Does that do anything for it? Does that get you
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  Speaker 2: all all excited?
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  Speaker 1: You're not.
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  Speaker 2: You're not fired up for the second round of the draft. Now,
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  Speaker 2: how much of the second round of the draft did you?
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  Speaker 1: Did you watch? Did you you didn't know? You were
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  Speaker 1: not partaking in the Yeah? No, no I didn't. I was.
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  Speaker 2: I was watching. Uh, I was flipping around. I had
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  Speaker 2: the World Cup, all right, that's the meat on the bone.
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  Speaker 2: I had the World Cup and then I was flipping
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  Speaker 2: to some random baseball games, cause.
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  Speaker 1: That's what you do.
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  Speaker 2: And yet again, when you talk about the NBA, the
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  Speaker 2: story of stories here, the story that that I want
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  Speaker 2: to talk about is a which hasn't even happened yet,
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  Speaker 2: but it's supposedly in the works to happen allegedly.
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  Speaker 1: So we're gonna start with that.
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  Speaker 2: Our lead from the speculation machine in pro bouncy ball.
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  Speaker 2: That's right, the speculation machine. We start out in Charlotte.
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  Speaker 2: There is a basketball team that hadn't been very good.
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  Speaker 2: They were actually okay last year. Typically they suck, and
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  Speaker 2: they made some headlines on day number two of the
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  Speaker 2: of the NBA Draft as the Hornets. They supposedly, if
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  Speaker 2: you believe the scuttle butt here, they are engaged deep
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  Speaker 2: in the weeds on a trade involving a player we've
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  Speaker 2: heard of, and that always gets us a little excited.
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  Speaker 2: A player we've heard of? Who would that player be?
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  Speaker 2: Did you see this at all? No, you did not
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  Speaker 2: see this. Okay, that would be star. I say this
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  Speaker 2: in air quot start how big a star you are
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  Speaker 2: when we play for the Charlotte Hornets. Point card LaMelo Ball,
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  Speaker 2: All about LaMelo Ball. Yes, Now, we were big fans
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  Speaker 2: of LaMelo Ball's dad, LeVar Ball, who for about a month,
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  Speaker 2: well actually more than that, man, maybe like a six
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  Speaker 2: months a few years back, was like a really big deal,
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  Speaker 2: and he did all the debate shows and everyone went
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  Speaker 2: crazy for him. Oh it's so exciting, they were so
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  Speaker 2: fired up. Well that was a long time ago. I
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  Speaker 2: haven't heard much from LaVar. I know he had some
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  Speaker 2: medical problems in all that. But his kid, LaMelo of
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  Speaker 2: the balls in the NBA, clearly the most talented LaMelo
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  Speaker 2: Ball of the Hornets, And it's one of these deals
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  Speaker 2: did last day or so, this all of a sudden
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  Speaker 2: popped up.
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  Speaker 1: His name had not been mentioned. And remember for those
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  Speaker 1: who saying, why are you talking about basketball? What do
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  Speaker 1: you doing the basketball? Let me explain.
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  Speaker 2: All right, this stuff is much more interesting than the
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  Speaker 2: actual regular season. Give me a whole bunch of whatever
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  Speaker 2: this is, the rumor, the speculation, give me this. I
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  Speaker 2: will gladly take this over the regular season activity.
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  Speaker 1: So anyway to get to the way.
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  Speaker 2: So, by all accounts, LaMelo Ball is perfectly happy in Charlotte.
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  Speaker 1: However, supposedly a trade.
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  Speaker 2: Is eminent and in the next twenty four to forty
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  Speaker 2: eight hours or so. So the question on this one,
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  Speaker 2: all right, you got a player, LaMelo Ball, who by
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  Speaker 2: all accounts is not I mean, unless there's something going
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  Speaker 2: on behind the scenes, we don't know about. Is perfectly content,
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  Speaker 2: perfectly content to stay with the Hornets, and yet the
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  Speaker 2: Hornets are looking to unload him. And it certainly seems
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  Speaker 2: like somebody's going to happen, and likely already's done, they
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  Speaker 2: just haven't announced it yet. One of those type deals. Typically,
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  Speaker 2: when this stuff gets out, it is already way down
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  Speaker 2: the road and ready for takeoff, and we're the last
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  Speaker 2: to know.
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  Speaker 1: So on this.
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  Speaker 2: One, I've got Candy Land, we've got the team shop
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  Speaker 2: and some interesting stew, some interesting stew.
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  Speaker 1: But we'll begin with this.
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  Speaker 2: So LaMelo Ball, who is still pretty You know, all
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  Speaker 2: these guys are young to play in the NBA and
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  Speaker 2: a lot of old guys in the NBA. Is in
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  Speaker 2: his mid twenties, and if you look at his career,
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  Speaker 2: he has been really good at getting hurt and being
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  Speaker 2: a ratic as a player. Like the numbers, he'll get
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  Speaker 2: his numbers, and you know this. This past regular season
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  Speaker 2: he actually played a lot of games. By his account,
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  Speaker 2: played seventy two games and averaged twenty points and seven
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  Speaker 2: assists and all that stuff.
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  Speaker 1: So he had he had good stats. If you're a stat.
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  Speaker 2: Humper, you're like, I don't know how you get rid
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  Speaker 2: of him. The main issue here is he's been surped.
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  Speaker 2: That's the problem. Like the people who run the team
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  Speaker 2: from their nerds, like every other team in sports, they've
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  Speaker 2: made a calculator decision that they would like to build
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  Speaker 2: whatever that is the monarchy around Brandon Miller and Khan Canipple,
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  Speaker 2: And we support Khan Canipple.
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  Speaker 1: We're team Canipple is what we are there.
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  Speaker 2: So those are the two guys that he was the
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  Speaker 2: big hot shot rookie. Remember last year kN Canipple who
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  Speaker 2: hit a bunch of three point shots and people got
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  Speaker 2: all excited about that. And Brandon Miller's been there for
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  Speaker 2: a little while. He was the second overall pick in
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  Speaker 2: the twenty twenty three drafts. So those guys have jumped
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  Speaker 2: over LaMelo ball. Supposedly they've jumped over LaMelo ball on
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  Speaker 2: the on the big to do there. So with that
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  Speaker 2: being said, who who is most likely to make a
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  Speaker 2: run at LaMelo ball? Knowing this is already way.
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  Speaker 1: Down the line, we are the last to know about
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  Speaker 1: all this.
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  Speaker 2: So you begin by saying that LaMelo ball is an
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  Speaker 2: acquired taste. He's not for everybody, not for everybody. He
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  Speaker 2: definitely oozes. Hey, I'm a star. Like if you were
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  Speaker 2: to go back and say, what are the tropes? What
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  Speaker 2: are the cliches of a professional basketball player? Like all
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  Speaker 2: the excess, all that stuff, you know, the sex, drugs,
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  Speaker 2: and rock and roll, at least maybe not the drugs,
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  Speaker 2: but the rock and roll and the other good stuff there,
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  Speaker 2: expensive cars, the whole thing.
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  Speaker 1: He's got all that right.
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  Speaker 2: And he's also if you have a sweet tooth, LaMelo
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  Speaker 2: Ball would be perfect because he lives in Candyland. He
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  Speaker 2: lives in candy Land. There's a lot of empty calories
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  Speaker 2: there with LaMelo. Now, we use the Mallar crystal ball
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  Speaker 2: to try to determine how this would all go down.
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  Speaker 2: So using the Mallar crystal ball on this, the three
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  Speaker 2: things that came up, you got the juicy, lucy cheese,
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  Speaker 2: kurds and poutine.
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  Speaker 1: Those came up.
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  Speaker 2: That would be the timber Wolves who just unloaded Julius
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  Speaker 2: Randall just gave him away.
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  Speaker 1: It's a season of giving Minnesota.
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  Speaker 2: The Milwaukee Bucks who are looking to already unload hero Ball,
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  Speaker 2: they just got him in their trade for Giannis, giving
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  Speaker 2: away Giannis Di Dentekoobo and then the Toronto Raptors, the
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  Speaker 2: great sweet Canadian poutine. I know it's a Montreal thing,
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  Speaker 2: but there's no basketball team in Montreal, so just work
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  Speaker 2: with me on this. And so that's that's it right now.
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  Speaker 2: Those would be the three teams. So you've got a
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  Speaker 2: couple of Midwestern teams and a Canadian team and LaMelo
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  Speaker 2: Balls camps.
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  Speaker 1: Like we're the sexy teams.
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  Speaker 2: We would like a nice sexy team to enter the chat,
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  Speaker 2: and so far that has not not been the case. Meanwhile,
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  Speaker 2: we had another transaction of note.
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  Speaker 1: If you will, it's actually a note.
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  Speaker 2: Another giveaway in the NBA the Detroit Pistons. Now this
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  Speaker 2: is a rotation player, not a star player, but a
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  Speaker 2: rotational player. The Pistons have said bye bye to Isaiah Stewart,
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  Speaker 2: who was part of one of the great highlights a
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  Speaker 2: couple of years ago. It was a dust up between
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  Speaker 2: the Lakers and the Pistons, and Isaiah Stewart, if I remember correctly,
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  Speaker 2: had one of the great highlights where he was going
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  Speaker 2: scorched earth against everybody back in the day. So anyway,
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  Speaker 2: he has been traded to the Memphis Grizzlies, and so
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  Speaker 2: it's not one of those big trades or anything like that.
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  Speaker 2: I say it, Stuart's a rotation player in the NBA
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  Speaker 2: and three second round picks. That's it for a twenty
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  Speaker 2: five year old guy who was in the running for
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  Speaker 2: the sixth Man of the Year and you know, typical
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  Speaker 2: big guy. They'll get a few points, a few rebounds
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  Speaker 2: and block some shots and all that stuff. And so
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  Speaker 2: he goes now to Memphis or he'll likely be relocated eventually.
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  Speaker 1: You stay there that long? Nobody says there that long.
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  Speaker 2: So the reason I bring this up the Pistons and
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  Speaker 2: the people who cover the Pistons all excited because of
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  Speaker 2: soalreek cap space. We salarycap space, so fired up for
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  Speaker 2: the salary cap space, so exciting. So and the speculations
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  Speaker 2: already begun, well begun the Pistons. Now they got rid
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  Speaker 2: of us is Stewart, and they're gonna move some numbers around.
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  Speaker 2: And what are they gonna do with that extra cash
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  Speaker 2: that they have there? What's the move here for the
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  Speaker 2: Pistons front office to go because they've been on the brink.
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  Speaker 2: They had the top record during the regular season and
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  Speaker 2: then went belly up in the playoffs, did not get
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  Speaker 2: it done. So the names being tossed out. This is great.
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  Speaker 2: You want to hear fun. This is Lebron James and
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  Speaker 2: Kawhi Leonard. Yeah, if Lebron James ends up in a
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  Speaker 2: Pistons uniform, I am going to become the ambassador to Belgium.
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  Speaker 2: There's in fact, there's a better chance I become the
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  Speaker 2: ambassador to Belgium. And my only connection to Belgium is
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  Speaker 2: I've had waffles.
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  Speaker 1: That is my own.
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  Speaker 2: Literally, my only connection has in the waffles, and that's it.
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  Speaker 2: That's all I've had here. As far as Kawhi, the
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  Speaker 2: idea of Kawhi leanders, the Clippers are certainly open to
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  Speaker 2: to moving on from Kawhi. They're not married to Kawhi
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  Speaker 2: Anymorekawhi it's been like Bigfoot hasn't really worked out very well.
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  Speaker 2: I don't see Kawhi in Detroit either, And if they
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  Speaker 2: did get him, I wouldn't get very excited if I
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  Speaker 2: was a Piston fan. Because it's a cautionary tale. It
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  Speaker 2: is much more likely than not, much more likely than
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  Speaker 2: not that the Pistons will just end up re signing
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  Speaker 2: the guy that turned into a pumpkin in the playoffs.
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  Speaker 1: Jalen Duran or Jalen Durant, who was just.
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  Speaker 2: Horrific, just horrible, had the biggest meltdown from regular season
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  Speaker 2: to the playoffs we've seen since back when Elgin Baylor
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  Speaker 2: was playing back in the day. So that's more likely
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  Speaker 2: than not. What's gonna happen. But yeah, Lebron, he's gonna
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  Speaker 2: I think he's going to Cleveland. I maintain that that's
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  Speaker 2: been my hot take. I'm not recycling that take. That
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  Speaker 2: take has been my take for a long time. I'm
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  Speaker 2: gonna stay by that take. I'm not changing that take.
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  Speaker 2: That's that's where I've been. And then the other possibility
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  Speaker 2: would be to stay with the Lakers. I think that's
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  Speaker 2: less likely the Lakers. We'll talk more about this later.
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  Speaker 2: They completely overpaid Austin Reied. This is such a great
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  Speaker 2: day for those of us that just enjoy the Lakers
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  Speaker 2: not winning because they ain't gonna win anything with that
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  Speaker 2: guy as one of their top two players.
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  Speaker 1: Holy crap, I thought they hired smart people. Oh my god. Anyway,
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  Speaker 1: final part of this, now, the final point here.
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  Speaker 2: We go now to the NBA coaching carousel. Say what Yeah,
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  Speaker 2: the NBA coaching carousel we go to? Now, why do
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  Speaker 2: we go to the NBA coaching carousel. We go to
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  Speaker 2: the NBA coaching carousel because there is a new coach.
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  Speaker 2: And this happened the other day the Portland Trailblazers, which
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  Speaker 2: are barely an NBA team. The Trailblazers went out and
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  Speaker 2: hired Micah Nori, who was a lead assistant with the
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  Speaker 2: Minnesota basketball team.
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  Speaker 1: Now I say they hired.
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  Speaker 2: Him, it's more like they're beta testing Mike and Norri
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  Speaker 2: as the coach on the Oregon Trail As it has
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  Speaker 2: been tossed out by many that Nori's contract with the
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  Speaker 2: Blazers is one year guaranteed. It's a one year contract
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  Speaker 2: and then there's team options on the second and third year,
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  Speaker 2: so he's really is a year to year situation. He's
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  Speaker 2: also being paid below market for a base salary, and
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  Speaker 2: it's a lot of incentives for a team that is
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  Speaker 2: not really close to winning, like they seem pretty far away. Still,
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  Speaker 2: I guess if you try to win, that helps you
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  Speaker 2: out more so. This of course made the rounds and
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  Speaker 2: the other coaches started chiming in.
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  Speaker 1: Now the money quote here is from JB.
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  Speaker 2: Bickerstaff, the guy that refused to criticize his team after
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  Speaker 2: they lost by a gazillion points in Game seven at home,
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  Speaker 2: so you know, take this with a grant assault. However, JB. Bickerstaff,
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  Speaker 2: whose dad Bernie was a longtime coach in the NBA,
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  Speaker 2: he is the head of the National Basketball Coaches Associations,
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  Speaker 2: like the president of that operation, and he said that
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  Speaker 2: the Trailblazers contract to Mike and Nory is a quote
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  Speaker 2: slap in the face to the value of the coaches.
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  Speaker 1: And there were others.
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  Speaker 2: Around the NBA that ranted and raved and this whole
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  Speaker 2: thing as a noiri's contract again below markets basically one
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  Speaker 2: year contract and all that. So the question is do
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  Speaker 2: you agree or dissrie, What is your takeaway from JB.
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  Speaker 2: Bickerstaff saying the Portland Trailblazers gave a slap in the
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  Speaker 2: face to the value of NBA coaches with their newest
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  Speaker 2: hire Mike and Norry. So this is it's a throwbacks.
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  Speaker 2: It's old school, is what is not. There was a
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  Speaker 2: point when I was like a kid. I'm old now,
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  Speaker 2: but when I was a kid that coaches had one
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  Speaker 2: year contract, that's it, and they just went year to
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  Speaker 2: year and that's how that's how things operated. And we've
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  Speaker 2: gotten so far away from that. This seems this seems
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  Speaker 2: like it's just out of the Milky Way galaxy, somewhere
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  Speaker 2: far far away in you know, someplace far far out
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  Speaker 2: in the cosmos. And I would get this is just
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  Speaker 2: on brand the Trailblazer's owner. Yeah, I said owner, Draymond Green,
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  Speaker 2: not governor. There's a governor in the state, not an
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  Speaker 2: owner anyway.
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  Speaker 1: Tom Dundonne, undone done.
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  Speaker 2: Tom Dundon, the guy who's apparently a legendary titwad who.
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  Speaker 1: Owns the team. He didn't.
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  Speaker 2: He didn't hide from this. He pretty much told the
• 18:47
  Speaker 2: world this is what I'm gonna do. I am cheap,
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  Speaker 2: and this is how I'm going to operate, and that's that.
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  Speaker 2: That's all I'm going to do. I'm just going to
• 18:56
  Speaker 2: be cheaping. And so he's following up on what he
• 18:58
  Speaker 2: said he was going to do, and if he could
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  Speaker 2: get away with it, he would hire a coach and say, okay, listen,
• 19:06
  Speaker 2: Mike and Norri, I'm gonna hire you and I'm going
• 19:09
  Speaker 2: to give you some social media clout on TikTok and
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  Speaker 2: Instagram and store credit at the Portland Trailblazers team shop
• 19:18
  Speaker 2: so you can get all kinds of shirts and hats
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  Speaker 2: and things and jackets with the Trailblazer logo, and that'll
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  Speaker 2: be part of your compensation.
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  Speaker 1: Okay, sure, why not listen?
• 19:26
  Speaker 2: This guy want a job, and it does undermine It
• 19:30
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• 19:32
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• 19:33
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• 19:36
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• 19:38
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• 19:41
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• 19:45
  Speaker 1: Much money they don't need it.
• 19:46
  Speaker 2: But it undermines everyone else, the professionals that do this
• 19:49
  Speaker 2: for a living.
• 19:50
  Speaker 1: And it's just it's not not ideal. So this is
• 19:54
  Speaker 1: what you got.
• 19:55
  Speaker 2: And a lot of the chatter is the Trailblazer's guy,
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  Speaker 2: Tom Dundan. He's going to run the team so cheap
• 20:02
  Speaker 2: that eventually they leave Portland and go somewhere else, and
• 20:06
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• 22:29
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  Speaker 1: We can only hope, so we can own the only hope.
• 24:01
  Speaker 1: So what else do we have here?
• 24:04
  Speaker 2: Spock's weed from the Oregon Trail he writes in and
• 24:11
  Speaker 2: he says, could we get QBC to buy the Ben
• 24:14
  Speaker 2: Maler show and we could have commercials all the time.
• 24:18
  Speaker 2: It would be epic. Alf and ferg Dog would be
• 24:22
  Speaker 2: in to sell the merch. It's not a bad idea,
• 24:26
  Speaker 2: not a bad idea. What else do we have? The
• 24:28
  Speaker 2: Baltimore Freeloaders account says the only thing better than leading
• 24:31
  Speaker 2: off a show with an NBA free agent story is
• 24:35
  Speaker 2: multiple World Cup breaths. Well, and that was not a
• 24:37
  Speaker 2: bad job by you, Baltimore Freeloader. That was a trade rumor,
• 24:42
  Speaker 2: which is much better than a free agent story. A
• 24:44
  Speaker 2: trade rumor is ten times better than a free agent store.
• 24:49
  Speaker 2: Clearly soccer sells, according to the Baltimore Freeloader, might you
• 24:54
  Speaker 2: consider a soccer podcast? I know you have some free time,
• 24:59
  Speaker 2: and I think as a sidekick.
• 25:01
  Speaker 1: Would be a money maker. Yeah, he's too late on
• 25:05
  Speaker 1: the World Cup goes on for another couple of weeks,
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  Speaker 1: right mid July it ends. Yeah, it's almost done. Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: it's nice. I bought some soccer balls today.
• 25:15
  Speaker 2: Congratulations. You always remember when you buy soccer balls. Were
• 25:18
  Speaker 2: they full size regulation soccer balls?
• 25:21
  Speaker 1: Where did they have the World Cup logo on them?
• 25:23
  Speaker 2: Or did you buy them on the street somewhere from
• 25:25
  Speaker 2: a guy named lou Well?
• 25:27
  Speaker 1: I got them from a Mediterranean dinner spot. And yes,
• 25:32
  Speaker 1: well that's actually where FIFA gets the balls for the
• 25:35
  Speaker 1: World Cup. They go to a Mediterranean restaurant and they
• 25:39
  Speaker 1: get a box of balls. One is a USA ball
• 25:42
  Speaker 1: and one is a Mexico ball, So okay each Wow,
• 25:46
  Speaker 1: congratulations and plan on kicks. Now, I've not looked at
• 25:50
  Speaker 1: my bracket. That's a bad World Cup job by me.
• 25:52
  Speaker 2: But I would assume is there a path if we
• 25:55
  Speaker 2: have Mexico and USA playing at least here in southern
• 25:59
  Speaker 2: California we do the show from That would be next
• 26:01
  Speaker 2: level if that matchup happens. But I have not seen
• 26:03
  Speaker 2: the bracket to see if that's I guess eventually, if
• 26:06
  Speaker 2: they keep winning, they they'll run into each other, chipping
• 26:09
  Speaker 2: the Ques writes in he says a plus on the
• 26:10
  Speaker 2: opening monologue. You don't have to settle just for Belgian waffles.
• 26:15
  Speaker 2: You could also have Belgian chocolate and Belgian fries or
• 26:18
  Speaker 2: Belgian beer. Yeah, isn't the fry thing. I feel like
• 26:22
  Speaker 2: I've talked about this on my podcast where I don't
• 26:24
  Speaker 2: really talk about sports, on the Fifth Hour podcast on
• 26:26
  Speaker 2: the weekends, I just talked about my life, and some
• 26:28
  Speaker 2: people seem to like it.
• 26:29
  Speaker 1: I don't know why. I don't live a very interesting life.
• 26:31
  Speaker 2: One of the things I remember talking about years ago
• 26:33
  Speaker 2: was the fact that the French fry is bull crap.
• 26:37
  Speaker 1: I believe I read.
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  Speaker 2: Somewhere and I could be talking out of Mike took
• 26:40
  Speaker 2: us right now that the fry it's really from Belgium,
• 26:45
  Speaker 2: and that it was stolen by the French, and it's
• 26:48
  Speaker 2: the It should be Belgium fries, but we say French fries.
• 26:52
  Speaker 1: That's what I heard. You kidding me.
• 26:55
  Speaker 2: That's food bubery, fun fact or well, it's a speculation,
• 27:02
  Speaker 2: but it is a fun fact. At the same time,
• 27:04
  Speaker 2: Supermarket Steve writes in from Aisle six at the grocery story, says,
• 27:08
  Speaker 2: it really does seem that since you guys started up
• 27:11
  Speaker 2: the book, them again, these NFL players are just losing
• 27:14
  Speaker 2: their minds. Is it just because we now have points
• 27:18
  Speaker 2: on the line that we're actually noticing, or is this
• 27:21
  Speaker 2: actually happening more now?
• 27:23
  Speaker 1: Well, here's the deal.
• 27:26
  Speaker 2: I certainly feel like it's just a feeling that we
• 27:29
  Speaker 2: are in a higher level of arrests, like there's more
• 27:33
  Speaker 2: action going on right now, I believe with the arrest
• 27:38
  Speaker 2: and this is always the busy time of the year.
• 27:39
  Speaker 1: This is always the busy time of the year.
• 27:41
  Speaker 2: Because everyone's on vacation in the NFL. Training camp starts
• 27:45
  Speaker 2: in about three weeks or so, so you are free
• 27:50
  Speaker 2: to roam around the country, which the weather's good right
• 27:56
  Speaker 2: summertime in the city.
• 27:57
  Speaker 1: You got a lot of money, you got a lot
• 28:00
  Speaker 1: of free time. You got a lot of beautiful women
• 28:02
  Speaker 1: that want to hang out with you. You got a
• 28:04
  Speaker 1: lot of buddies. You know, the boys from back home
• 28:06
  Speaker 1: you want to hang out with. They want to get
• 28:07
  Speaker 1: you into trouble.
• 28:08
  Speaker 2: And you put all of these ingredients together and what
• 28:11
  Speaker 2: do you get a tinderbox.
• 28:13
  Speaker 1: Kboom, kaboom, kamoom kmoom. I absolutely know that a statistic
• 28:18
  Speaker 1: says that the warmer weather days cause more aggression and
• 28:23
  Speaker 1: more violence and more arrests.
• 28:25
  Speaker 2: So you're you're saying that we need an ice age
• 28:27
  Speaker 2: and then there will be less arrests.
• 28:29
  Speaker 1: People will calm down. Well.
• 28:31
  Speaker 2: Dateline, Tampa, Florida, detroit Lyon football player Tehran Arnold has
• 28:38
  Speaker 2: been arrested arrested in the Sunshine State and he is
• 28:43
  Speaker 2: facing kidnapping and robbery.
• 28:47
  Speaker 1: Charges.
• 28:48
  Speaker 2: Involved in a kidnapping and robbery. He's accused of being
• 28:51
  Speaker 2: a being the.
• 28:52
  Speaker 1: Quote primary conspirator. That sounds bad.
• 28:56
  Speaker 2: Before three men in their late teens were held at
• 28:59
  Speaker 2: gun point and battered and pistol whip. That doesn't sound good. Now,
• 29:05
  Speaker 2: this didn't just happen. We're just hearing about it right now.
• 29:07
  Speaker 2: This happened back in February in Tampa, and some of
• 29:13
  Speaker 2: the stuff was stolen supposedly for some of the guys
• 29:16
  Speaker 2: there who claiming to be the victim. The Tampa police,
• 29:21
  Speaker 2: the Hillsboro County State Attorney's office, and the Tampa police
• 29:25
  Speaker 2: involved in this. They'd already arrested six other suspects who
• 29:30
  Speaker 2: were part of it.
• 29:30
  Speaker 1: But that's a lot what's going on here. And anyway, the.
• 29:36
  Speaker 2: Attorney, well, I guess this is actually the somebody for
• 29:39
  Speaker 2: the Agency for The Lions player Arnold, of course, said
• 29:45
  Speaker 2: he denied being involved, saying there is no credible evidence
• 29:49
  Speaker 2: linking mister Arnold to these allegations, the spokes hack said
• 29:54
  Speaker 2: for the agency. Instead, the government appears to be relying
• 29:57
  Speaker 2: on testimony from multiple con victed felons who have admitted
• 30:02
  Speaker 2: their own involvement and may have substantial incentives to shift
• 30:05
  Speaker 2: the blame in an effort to lessons there lesson they're
• 30:08
  Speaker 2: sitting so they're claiming like this and uh, these guys
• 30:11
  Speaker 2: are are not credible. Here's my question though, wasn't the
• 30:16
  Speaker 2: guy from the Lions hanging out with those guys?
• 30:18
  Speaker 1: How else would they know? You know what I mean?
• 30:20
  Speaker 1: Is that? Is that a bad take? Is that okay?
• 30:22
  Speaker 2: Because if these your agents like, well, these guys are
• 30:25
  Speaker 2: a bunch of felons and essentially saying they're a bunch
• 30:27
  Speaker 2: of thugs, but.
• 30:29
  Speaker 1: Wasn't your guy hanging out with them? So I'm just
• 30:32
  Speaker 1: I'm just I'm just throwing that out there. What do
• 30:34
  Speaker 1: you think this was about?
• 30:36
  Speaker 2: That's kind of random. A lot more that we don't know,
• 30:40
  Speaker 2: who knows, there's nothing to it. Usually there's a little
• 30:45
  Speaker 2: something there, there's a little little something there. Yeah, ALF
• 30:49
  Speaker 2: the alienal planter rights and since they says since the
• 30:52
  Speaker 2: ALF mobile was decommissioned yesterday, I was wondering if there
• 30:55
  Speaker 2: was any forthcoming Malor merch in bumper sticker form that
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  Speaker 2: will be available soon for the new ride. Well, Femi
• 31:03
  Speaker 2: is the guy you go to.
• 31:04
  Speaker 1: Now.
• 31:05
  Speaker 2: We had the great meet and greet in Minnesota, and
• 31:07
  Speaker 2: Femi on his own printed up a bunch of Malor
• 31:11
  Speaker 2: bumper stickers and that's it. I did get a message
• 31:15
  Speaker 2: I want to make sure to mention this before before
• 31:17
  Speaker 2: I forget. So Dorko, the comedian had reached out to
• 31:20
  Speaker 2: me and he's like, hey, I want to make some
• 31:23
  Speaker 2: shirts for the show and all that, and I was, okay,
• 31:26
  Speaker 2: you know, I have nothing to do with this. Really,
• 31:28
  Speaker 2: if you want to help promote the show and make
• 31:30
  Speaker 2: some merch and that's fine as long as we don't
• 31:33
  Speaker 2: get in trouble with the management. So I was like, okay, okay.
• 31:36
  Speaker 2: People have done this in the past, and I've always
• 31:37
  Speaker 2: been pretty supportive of it. So he sent me some
• 31:40
  Speaker 2: of the artwork and asked me to green light it
• 31:43
  Speaker 2: and he had I guess Dorko had made something on
• 31:48
  Speaker 2: AI and it looked nothing like me, and he wanted
• 31:52
  Speaker 2: to print these.
• 31:53
  Speaker 1: T shirts with like the Ben Mahler Show and my
• 31:56
  Speaker 1: image on it.
• 31:56
  Speaker 2: And I was like, I'm good now, my douche, because
• 32:00
  Speaker 2: I just I felt like, why bother?
• 32:01
  Speaker 1: It doesn't look anything like me.
• 32:03
  Speaker 2: If we're gonna make some shirts, shouldn't it at least
• 32:05
  Speaker 2: kind of look like me if you're going to go
• 32:07
  Speaker 2: that direction rather than just some generic middle aged white
• 32:10
  Speaker 2: dude in front of a microphone.
• 32:13
  Speaker 1: That's my position. So I turned that down.
• 32:15
  Speaker 2: Let's go to the phones and let's say hello to
• 32:18
  Speaker 2: Lucky Tony, who's in the Bay Area.
• 32:20
  Speaker 1: Hello, Lucky Tony, Welcome.
• 32:23
  Speaker 5: Hey man. I'm not trying to plug nothing except Victoria Valencia.
• 32:27
  Speaker 5: But I was listening to the Real Fifth Hour podcast
• 32:30
  Speaker 5: and you mentioned the Cancer Research Institute and also something
• 32:35
  Speaker 5: about was it the NFL gambling?
• 32:41
  Speaker 1: Yeah, we touched on a bunch of that stuff. Yeah,
• 32:43
  Speaker 1: what about it?
• 32:46
  Speaker 2: What was that?
• 32:47
  Speaker 1: Well? Yes, you're very staticy what about it?
• 32:51
  Speaker 5: Oh? What I was saying is, did you guys do
• 32:55
  Speaker 5: like the whole season for the NFL? Or was it
• 32:57
  Speaker 5: just like one week? How'd that work?
• 33:01
  Speaker 2: I'm confused? Am I missing something? I feel like I'm
• 33:04
  Speaker 2: missing something.
• 33:04
  Speaker 1: I I, I don't know, Tony. I think we have
• 33:09
  Speaker 1: a failure to communicate here. So are you talking about
• 33:13
  Speaker 1: the prop bets?
• 33:13
  Speaker 2: I'd mentioned that we had deal with one of the
• 33:16
  Speaker 2: gambling outfits years ago and we had a contest for
• 33:22
  Speaker 2: prop bets. That was just at the Super Bowl, I
• 33:24
  Speaker 2: believe I talked about this past.
• 33:25
  Speaker 1: Weekend, and then.
• 33:27
  Speaker 2: They gave us some money to donate to a charity,
• 33:31
  Speaker 2: and then I was explaining how I did research and
• 33:34
  Speaker 2: a lot of charities are I don't know that you
• 33:37
  Speaker 2: want to use the word scam my opinion, you can't
• 33:40
  Speaker 2: sue me. From my opinion, very scam like. As when
• 33:45
  Speaker 2: it comes to disease, whether it's cancer anything else, the
• 33:48
  Speaker 2: most important thing is research. That's what actually gets the cure,
• 33:52
  Speaker 2: not the The weasel term is a weasel term that
• 33:56
  Speaker 2: they use awareness, which to me is you know, not
• 34:01
  Speaker 2: a not a fan, not a fan. So I did
• 34:03
  Speaker 2: my rant about that. King Rory writes in from the
• 34:07
  Speaker 2: Land of the Cheese and says, why would you make
• 34:10
  Speaker 2: the assumption that the hometown boy, Tyler Hero wants out
• 34:13
  Speaker 2: of Milwaukee. Maybe he actually wants to play for the Bucks,
• 34:17
  Speaker 2: at least until his contract runs out.
• 34:19
  Speaker 1: And then he go wherever he wants.
• 34:21
  Speaker 2: Well, I'm making that assumption, King Roy, because the Internet
• 34:23
  Speaker 2: showed me his booty model wife or girlfriend or whatever.
• 34:29
  Speaker 2: And she doesn't look like a Milwaukee girl to me
• 34:32
  Speaker 2: that that looks like a woman that does not want
• 34:34
  Speaker 2: to step into the state of Wisconsin. So she's got
• 34:36
  Speaker 2: involved in that. I think they have kids, I believe
• 34:39
  Speaker 2: from what I read on the internet. So good luck
• 34:42
  Speaker 2: on that. Good luck on that one.
• 34:45
  Speaker 1: I'm sure. I'm sure he'll be very excited about that time.
• 34:48
  Speaker 1: Now for the the who Am I?
• 34:50
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• 34:50
  Speaker 1: This is where we pretend to be somebody else, as
• 34:52
  Speaker 1: we call it the who am I? Game?
• 34:54
  Speaker 2: And you can answer at Ben Mallard. That's at Ben Malleth,
• 34:59
  Speaker 2: who played the game, never heard on ex at Ben Maler.
• 35:02
  Speaker 1: Austin Reeves we'll talk more about this next hour.
• 35:04
  Speaker 2: But Austin Reeves, we'll talk about bamboozling a clueless franchise.
• 35:08
  Speaker 2: Austin Reeves agreed to a record breaking four year, one
• 35:12
  Speaker 2: hundred and eighty five million dollar extension with the Lakers.
• 35:15
  Speaker 2: Imagine if you'd actually been good in the playoffs, how
• 35:17
  Speaker 2: much he would have gotten. Now that surpassed the previous
• 35:20
  Speaker 2: record held by me for an undrafted player. Again, Austin
• 35:26
  Speaker 2: Reeves agreed to a record setting four year, one hundred
• 35:30
  Speaker 2: eighty five million dollar extension with the Lakers. Now that's
• 35:33
  Speaker 2: a past the previous record for an undrafted player that
• 35:37
  Speaker 2: had been held by me. Who am I? That is
• 35:41
  Speaker 2: the question the answer. We'll get to it and we
• 35:43
  Speaker 2: will do it.
• 35:46
  Speaker 1: Next.
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  Speaker 1: off the who am I? Game? The who am I?
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  Speaker 3: Game?
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  Speaker 1: This is where I pretend to be somebody else? As
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  Speaker 1: we call it, the who am I? Game? So Austin Reeves,
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  Speaker 1: this is so great.
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  Speaker 2: It's really a good day for being a Laker hater
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  Speaker 2: because they have just screwed themselves.
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  Speaker 1: It is outstanding. Anyway, Austin Reeves agreed to a record
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  Speaker 1: breaking four year, one five minute dollar condrug. It's so bad.
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  Speaker 1: Oh my god? Is that embarrassing for the Lakers? Anyway?
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  Speaker 2: That surpassed the previous record for an undrafted player, which
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  Speaker 2: had been.
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  Speaker 1: Held by me. Who am ah? That is the question?
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  Speaker 1: What is the answer? And Malard prop guy says, Duncan
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  Speaker 1: Robinson is the answer? Who else? Do we have a
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  Speaker 1: late night drug tister? Said some YouTuber who I've never
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  Speaker 1: heard of but looks somewhat attractive.
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  Speaker 2: Who is thirty today? I don't know who it is?
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  Speaker 2: Alf the ilin opiner says, you're a radio pile.
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  Speaker 1: Carl Malone the Mailman.
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  Speaker 2: Yes, well, Carl Malone did a radio show and I
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  Speaker 2: worked alongside him, did the show after Karl Malone.
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  Speaker 1: He was a basketball player for the Utah Jazz.
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  Speaker 2: And that was quite It'll be my book someday if
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  Speaker 2: I can find someone to publish my book. Robbie the
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  Speaker 2: Mariner fan going with Wesley Matthews is his answer. Nine
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  Speaker 2: Roberts guessed by Neil and fall River.
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  Speaker 1: There's a good name, Fred Roberts boog Powell from Johnny Q.
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  Speaker 1: That's his answer.
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  Speaker 2: What else do we have about page dan By the way,
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  Speaker 2: the specialist says that I am correct that he says
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  Speaker 2: he looked it up on AI that the Belgiums did
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  Speaker 2: come up with the fries and it was stolen valor
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  Speaker 2: by the French.
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  Speaker 1: It's a bad job by the French. I can't believe
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  Speaker 1: they would do that. That's evil of them. What's wrong
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  Speaker 1: with what about the toast? Is the toast really French?
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  Speaker 1: H Probably not? Probably not. I'd have to go do
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  Speaker 1: a deeper dive on that. But yeah, there's a very
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  Speaker 1: strong case that the French fries originated in Belgium. See
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  Speaker 1: it's all about Mark. I have learned that, like you know,
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  Speaker 1: we have to have the product. You have to market
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  Speaker 1: the product or else none of it it works. What
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  Speaker 1: else do we have to see? Page down here. I
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  Speaker 1: can't read that on the air, just a random dribble
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  Speaker 1: from Hoosier Bill Lorenda. Do you have an answer again?
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  Speaker 1: Austin Reeves agreed to a record breaking four year, one
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  Speaker 1: hundred and eighty five million dollar extension with the Lakers.
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  Speaker 1: That is a bad old deal man.
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  Speaker 2: That surpassed the previous record for an undrafted player, which
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  Speaker 2: had been held by me.
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  Speaker 1: Who am I lrena Bill Russell? So you think Bill
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  Speaker 1: Russell was not drafted into the NBA.
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  Speaker 2: That is outstanding. That is ten out of ten. Unfortunately
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  Speaker 2: as incorrect. The answer he has bounced around the NBA.
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  Speaker 1: His name is Fred van Vliet, Fred van Vleet.
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  Speaker 2: He had the previous record, a three year contract for
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  Speaker 2: one hundred and thirty million he agreed to with the Rockets,
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  Speaker 2: and that was a max level contract, which it was
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  Speaker 2: the largest at the time for an undrafted player when
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  Speaker 2: that happened. Prior to that, just a couple of years earlier,
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  Speaker 2: it was Duncan Robinson who had been mentioned by Mallard
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  Speaker 2: prop guy Duncan Robinson.
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  Speaker 1: Not close at all, Not close at all.
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  Speaker 2: He had the previous record at ninety million, So imagine
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  Speaker 2: being undrafted getting up ninety one hundred and thirty one
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  Speaker 2: hundred and eighty five million dollars, and the NBA said
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  Speaker 2: you weren't even good enough to be drafted when you
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  Speaker 2: came out of college or high school. I