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Hour 2 - Tabloid Fodder? · The Ben Maller Show

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Speaker 1: Boom, shaka laka. It's our nume Bert, Our number two
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Speaker 1: is ready for you. We start out in Gotham and
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Speaker 1: that is where a developing story about the Nicks problems
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Speaker 1: behind the scenes, palace intrigue or garden intrigue. Multiple Knickerbocker
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Speaker 1: players unhappy with Jalen Brunson's daddy having such a strong
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Speaker 1: presence and voice on the Knickerbocker coaching staff. What does
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Speaker 1: that signify to you? We'll break it down, toss it
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Speaker 1: up and put some spice on it. Also, Commissioner Adam
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Speaker 1: Silver asked about the lack of interest for two small
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Speaker 1: market teams meeting in the NBA Finals tonight, the Thunder
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Speaker 1: and the Pacers. He said, if we were going into
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Speaker 1: a Super Bowl it was Packers versus Steelers, you guys
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Speaker 1: would celebrate that. Does that comp work for you? Well,
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Speaker 1: answer that question and NBA broadcast. Doris Burke is supposedly
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Speaker 1: on the hot seat over at ESPN to your fancy
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Speaker 1: a thought on this one. We'll get to that as well.
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Speaker 1: All of it's coming away right now. We're cooking it
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Speaker 1: up as we speak. It's our number two. Filling the
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Speaker 1: tabloids with nonsense or is it real. Welme in the
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Speaker 1: our lead this hour is from the Big Apple. The
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Speaker 1: Big Apple. The only big apple I've ever seen. When
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Speaker 1: I've never seen a big apple anywhere else. So follow
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Speaker 1: up to the follow up, follow up to the follow up,
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Speaker 1: coach Tom Thibodeau escorted out of the building, out of
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Speaker 1: the building in Gotham. Have you heard the latest on this?
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Speaker 1: Perhaps not? Well, you can't just get rid of a
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Speaker 1: coach and then just have the story go away. The
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Speaker 1: story's got legs. So what is the latest? The scuttle
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Speaker 1: butt as the streets around midtown Manhattan are talking, and
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Speaker 1: we are told a handful of Knickerbocker players were not happy.
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Speaker 1: They were unhappy. What were they unhappy about? Because everyone's
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Speaker 1: got to be happy. You can't have anyone who's not happy.
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Speaker 1: So the Knicks players were unhappy with the presence of
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Speaker 1: an assistant coach. But not just any assistant coach. That's right,
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Speaker 1: Rick Brunson. The plot thickens according to something called hoops Wire.
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Speaker 1: I don't know what that is, but they say that
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Speaker 1: multiple Knicks players have been unhappy with the presidence of
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Speaker 1: assistant coach Rick Brunson. If that name sounds familiar, that
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Speaker 1: is the forefather of Jalen Brunson. That's the Papa Bear.
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Speaker 1: That's the Papa Bear. Now the problem, the problem is
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Speaker 1: that Rick has had too big a say in the
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Speaker 1: goings on with the Knickerbockers behind the scenes. Okay, so
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Speaker 1: that's the report, simple players upset. Rick Brunson, the daddy
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Speaker 1: of Jalen Brunson, has become too influential with the New
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Speaker 1: York basketball team. So let us discuss the question for
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Speaker 1: the esteem panel, which you find yourself part of? How
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Speaker 1: am I part of a panel? You are? You just
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Speaker 1: go with it. You're part of the esteem panel. So
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Speaker 1: question multiple nick players unhappy? They're unhappy with Jalen Brunson's
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Speaker 1: daddy that he has such a strong presence on the
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Speaker 1: coaching staff. What does this signify to you? So I've
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Speaker 1: got mad men, zip code, and workshop, and we will
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Speaker 1: combine all of these things to get and we're gonna
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Speaker 1: have some chills and thrills and try not to stumble
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Speaker 1: and bumble like the Knickerbockers did in those games. So
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Speaker 1: my first thought, A there's one word that sums this up.
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Speaker 1: It is prevalent. It is a disease. It is in
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Speaker 1: all of our professional sports, all of them. The disease.
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Speaker 1: It is a one word. It's it's starts with an N.
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Speaker 1: In fact, capital n nepotism, nepotism, capital end. This is
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Speaker 1: El Classico, the NBA family business. It's a coaching version
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Speaker 1: of lebron and he's running the Lakers a GM by
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Speaker 1: proxy and wors Bronnie, who has no business being in
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Speaker 1: the NBA, but his daddy is the star of the Lakers.
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Speaker 1: So tada Bronnie. James draft in the second round and
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Speaker 1: then went out there and embarrassed himself. So they're catering
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Speaker 1: to one guy, right, the Nicks are and Jalen brunts it. Well,
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Speaker 1: he gave them a hometown discount. We okay, good congratulations.
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Speaker 1: Now we like the player. We like Jalen Brunson, solid ballplayer.
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Speaker 1: This just does not feel right though. The whole thing
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Speaker 1: doesn't feel right, and it's like, well, you're doing you know,
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Speaker 1: because it's in the news. Well, it didn't feel right before.
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Speaker 1: In fact that the talk was that the reason that
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Speaker 1: Rick Brunson was hired by the Knicks was because they
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Speaker 1: were trying to woo Jalen Brunson the whole thing. So
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Speaker 1: it's just not a professional set up in the real world,
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Speaker 1: I would say. And then every time I bring this up, well, everyone,
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Speaker 1: every business you know, how many you know, how many
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Speaker 1: lawyers I deal with Their father was a lawyer and
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Speaker 1: they get hired at the law firm or doctor and all, okay, well,
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Speaker 1: I know in radio it usually doesn't work that way.
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Speaker 1: It just doesn't, which it did, but that does not
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Speaker 1: work that way. Now, the second you start building your
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Speaker 1: organization around family ties, family ties instead of just based
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Speaker 1: on performance, it doesn't immediately wound it. It doesn't. But
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Speaker 1: there's cracks, there's little like fissures, you know, you know,
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Speaker 1: like the earthquakes. They say, well, when the big earthquake happens,
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Speaker 1: there's usually some four shocks leading up to that. It's
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Speaker 1: internal politics. And this is not why New York lost
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Speaker 1: to Indiana. The fact that Jalen Brunson's daddy was on
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Speaker 1: the bench is not why they lost. However, it is
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Speaker 1: a symptom to a bigger condition, like bigger problem. It
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Speaker 1: sounds like the guys in the locker room are sick
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Speaker 1: of the dad being right there and they feel like
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Speaker 1: there's only one set of rules for Jalen Brunson and
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Speaker 1: then for the rest of the team, and you know
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Speaker 1: it's outside of the inner circle. That's what it sounds like.
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Speaker 1: The picture that is being painted, which is a term
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Speaker 1: that I think. We're leading down a road that leads
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Speaker 1: to a dead end street, and the dead end street
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Speaker 1: is conflict. There's one one street this is conflict. Then
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Speaker 1: there's another of and then the third street is interest.
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Speaker 1: And so they're all connected. Conflict of interest just a
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Speaker 1: little too cozy, just a little too cozy. And the
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Speaker 1: argument is, how can you hold the guy accountable when
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Speaker 1: his father is literally standing right there, right right over
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Speaker 1: over there, that's right there. And this is not the
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Speaker 1: first time Rick Brunson has been accused of having too
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Speaker 1: much influence. So when you take a couple of steps back,
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Speaker 1: it's like a mad Men situation, right, there's an inner
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Speaker 1: circle within an inner circle. It's all kind of like
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Speaker 1: weird thing, this weird castle role. And you got some
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Speaker 1: players who feel like they're being iced out a little bit,
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Speaker 1: and and yeah, you know, you got issues, all right,
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Speaker 1: but that's their problem. You want to bet that whoever
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Speaker 1: gets the head coaching job of the Knicks retains Rick
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Speaker 1: Brunson as an assistant coach. You can't get rid of him.
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Speaker 1: He's like their mascot. You cannot get rid of Rick Brunson.
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Speaker 1: He's gonna have a job all right now, Page two
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Speaker 1: to the Finals. Can you feel the buzz in the air?
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Speaker 1: Can you feel the excitement for the NBA Finals twenty two,
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Speaker 1: twenty five? No, that's actually a mosquito. You just got
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Speaker 1: bitten by a mosquito. That's what you felt. You got
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Speaker 1: bitten by a mosquito. Now it is on. Not like
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Speaker 1: Donkey Kong. No, no, no, it's like a ripoff version
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Speaker 1: of Donkey Kong in sleepy Oklahoma City. The Thunder will
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Speaker 1: rain down. Thunder and Pacers the least attractive NBA Finals
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Speaker 1: matchup in the history of the NBA Finals. There has
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Speaker 1: never been a worst matchup in terms of star power,
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Speaker 1: in terms of national appeal than this. This is it
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Speaker 1: right here. Your congratulations. So the commissioner, Adam Silver, half man,
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Speaker 1: half alien, half lizard person. Adam Silver asked he was
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Speaker 1: asked in an interview on FS one. He was asked
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Speaker 1: about two small market teams meeting in the finals and
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Speaker 1: that this is not a good product. You're selling an
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Speaker 1: inferior product. And I'm paraphrasing some of this. So what
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Speaker 1: did Adam Silver say? He responded by saying, quote, this
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Speaker 1: is a quote from Adam Silver. If we were going
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Speaker 1: into a Super Bowl and it was Packers versus Steelers,
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Speaker 1: you guys would celebrate that close quote. Does that comp
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Speaker 1: work for you? Does it work for you? So my
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Speaker 1: answer is CCS classic corporate spin mixed with what about ism?
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Speaker 1: What about this? What about that? Okay, So, does he
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Speaker 1: understand that he's not the NFL commissioner? Does he realize
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Speaker 1: that it's He's not in charge of the Packers and
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Speaker 1: the Steelers. He's in charge of the Thunder and the Pacers.
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Speaker 1: So you're comparing the Thunder and the Pacers, two NBA
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Speaker 1: teams that are basically invisible unless you happen to be
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Speaker 1: inside their zip code. If you're outside the zip code,
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Speaker 1: forget about it. To the Pets Bring Steelers, the Insers,
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Speaker 1: and the Green Bay Packers, teams that have national followings
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Speaker 1: because band wagner fans jump on band wagons and those
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Speaker 1: teams have won, and so they have fans all over
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Speaker 1: the country. The Green Bay Packers are a team where
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Speaker 1: and when they need more money, they just put more
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Speaker 1: stock up and then people pay money and they get
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Speaker 1: a stock option in the Green Bay Packers and that's it.
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Speaker 1: But these are two of the most iconic brands that
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Speaker 1: have a national following, historically rich franchises in NFL history,
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Speaker 1: and that is your analogy. That's how you're going to
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Speaker 1: defend the thunder and the Pacers, is you're going to
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Speaker 1: compare these two. So what you should have done will
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Speaker 1: be like, Okay, so if we had a Super Bowl
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Speaker 1: with the Carolina Panthers and they were taking on Jacksonville,
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Speaker 1: would you guys celebrate that? Now? Of course not. Of
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Speaker 1: course wouldn't celebrate that. I mean, his work. How stupid
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Speaker 1: are you? Seriously? The commission of the NBA a billion
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Speaker 1: dollar business. I have been by your headquarters there in Manhattan,
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Speaker 1: a big skyscraper and all that. That's that's what you
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Speaker 1: came up with. That's what you came up with. Okay, interesting,
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Speaker 1: that's odd, all right? So I would think that you're
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Speaker 1: trying to insult what little intelligence your customers have by
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Speaker 1: acting like the finals or you know, some kind of
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Speaker 1: cultural moment that people want to watch, and you know,
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Speaker 1: no matter what and all that stuff, the numbers will
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Speaker 1: ultimately tell the story. You are going to get absolutely
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Speaker 1: waxed in the television ratice. And this is a TV show,
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Speaker 1: make no mistake. As much as we talk about this, that,
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Speaker 1: and the other thing. When you get down to it,
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Speaker 1: it's a TV show. The reason that the industrial complex
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Speaker 1: of American sport North American sport is as big as
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Speaker 1: it is is because of television. And you're putting on
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Speaker 1: a show that if you put the pilot on, no
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Speaker 1: one would watch watch the other episodes, like, you're gonna
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Speaker 1: have up to seven episodes of this mini series, minimum
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Speaker 1: four episodes, and most will not want to watch more
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Speaker 1: than one. And that's that's what you've got. And I
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Speaker 1: will laugh when the NBA Finals gets beat in the
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Speaker 1: ratings by the Thousand Pounds Sisters Show or the rerun
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Speaker 1: of Doctor Pimple Popper. This is Z you know that show,
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Speaker 1: which is a fine show. It's just just great, you know,
13:32
Speaker 1: pushing parody over pedigree and all that stuff. Yeah, it's
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Speaker 1: all about the parody. Everyone loves parody until you actually
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Speaker 1: get parody, and then you don't like to taste a parody.
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Speaker 1: But you're not supposed to say that because you say, oh,
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Speaker 1: we don't like we like it, but you don't really
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Speaker 1: like it and all that stuff, and now it'll be great.
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Speaker 1: We've got listeners in Oklahoma City we're on in Indianapolis,
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Speaker 1: and so for them, congratulations. And you're a bartender in
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Speaker 1: Oklahoma City, man, that's great. You'll get extra tips. People
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Speaker 1: will be buying a lot of booze. It'll be great
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Speaker 1: if you're a farmer in Indianapolis. Outstanding. For the rest
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Speaker 1: of us, you know, the struggle is real. Well again,
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Speaker 1: I have a talk show to do, so it's not
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Speaker 1: like this is going to vanish into thinner. I just
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Speaker 1: proved I can do a monologue about anything, as I
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Speaker 1: did a hockey monologue and actually watched the Florida Panthers
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Speaker 1: and the Edmonton Oilers which went to overtime. Now last ward,
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Speaker 1: here we go to the broadcast world, or as we
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Speaker 1: like to call it, the yaka the Act, the Yakady Act.
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Speaker 1: That is where a headline which I did not initially see.
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Speaker 1: The great thing about the power of the bully pulpit
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Speaker 1: is so many of you reach out to me. Many
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Speaker 1: of you be email, but some of you on social
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Speaker 1: media and you want me to see certain stories. And
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Speaker 1: you're like, boy, I hope, hope, you know you know
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Speaker 1: this idiot will talk about this story. I think it's
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Speaker 1: a good story, and this one absolutely I had several
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Speaker 1: of you send me this story, and I totally agree.
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Speaker 1: It's a great story. It's something we've talked about in
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Speaker 1: previous episodes of the show. What is this story? I'll
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Speaker 1: get to the story. So NBA broadcaster Doris Burke, the
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Speaker 1: much maligned on these airwaves. Doris Burke, Okay, she is
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Speaker 1: supposedly on the hot seat as in Dune Skis at ESPN,
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Speaker 1: is the lead NBA commentator. Do you fancy a thought
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Speaker 1: on this one? All right? Do you fancy a thought
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Speaker 1: on this one? So I have. But for many wolkesters
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Speaker 1: will be an unpopular opinion. We are going to say
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Speaker 1: the quiet part out loud. We are going to do it.
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Speaker 1: We're not mainstream, We're not We're on overnight. We can
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Speaker 1: do this. We can do it. Those daytime people have
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Speaker 1: to be politically correct and all that stuff. We don't
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Speaker 1: have to do it, all right, we don't have to.
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Speaker 1: So nobody wants to say this. Nobody at the ESPN
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Speaker 1: wants to say this. They're sports media. People don't want
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Speaker 1: to say they don't have the balls to say it.
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Speaker 1: If Doris Burke is your number one NBA commentator, you've
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Speaker 1: done something terribly wrong. You have there, I said it. Oh,
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Speaker 1: I don't like it. Tough. Listen, I get that the
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Speaker 1: Wolkester's over at ESPN. They fell in love with the headline.
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Speaker 1: You know, look at us, we're progressive. You know, female
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Speaker 1: analysts call in the finals. Okay, now what now? You
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Speaker 1: actually have to do the work. And she stinks right,
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Speaker 1: And I have not listened to her recent work, but
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Speaker 1: I heard enough of it, you know, running the x's
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Speaker 1: and o's, trying to do the old workshop that. Hey,
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Speaker 1: I know my basketball and I'm gonna workshop this, that
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Speaker 1: and the other. Not entertaining, Not entertaining. Knowing the game
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Speaker 1: does not make a great broadcast. Being a great broadcaster
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Speaker 1: knowing the game two different things. I want entertainment, I
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Speaker 1: want energy. I want juice. Give me the juice. I
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Speaker 1: need the juice. I need it. Give me something. And
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Speaker 1: I have said for years when she is working, it's
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Speaker 1: tap tap on the mute, mute, tap tap mute, mute,
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Speaker 1: tap tap mute mute. That's what I do. To think
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Speaker 1: that Doris is not on the the we goofed On,
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Speaker 1: Mark Jackson too and Jeff Van Gundy, but side by
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Speaker 1: side they are. It's like Marv Albert and Mike Furtello
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Speaker 1: calling a game when Van Gundy and Jackson are there
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Speaker 1: compared to when Doris Burk's there. You know, Mama, there
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Speaker 1: goes that. Man. I'll take that nine days a week,
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Speaker 1: nine days a week, and that booth ran circles around
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Speaker 1: what they had. They put that podcast guy JJ Reddick
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Speaker 1: in there briefly. I mean, they don't even know what
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Speaker 1: they're doing. They're even trying. They're not even trying, right,
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Speaker 1: and so now who knows who's next? Man, be careful.
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Speaker 1: Doc Rivers will probably be fired in Milwaukee. He'll put
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Speaker 1: docback on there. That'll be great, oh man, So be
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Speaker 1: careful what you ask for. I still amaze. I believe
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Speaker 1: the conspiracy that the NBA forced ESPN to get rid
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Speaker 1: of Jeff Van Gunny and Mark Jackson because of criticism
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Speaker 1: directed at the officials and just the general lack of
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Speaker 1: sense of humor when it comes to the commentary Jeff
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Speaker 1: Van Gundy had. You don't leave the top network television
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Speaker 1: gig to become an assistant coach with the Boston Celtics,
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Speaker 1: which is what Jeff Van Gundy did. You don't make
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Speaker 1: that move. Maybe you leave to become a head coach
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Speaker 1: with you don't leave to become an assistant coach, and
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Speaker 1: he got lacked and Mark Jackson also Mark Jackson for
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Speaker 1: reasons that we can get into whether you want to.
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Speaker 1: I mean, he listen that. People say he's too religious,
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Speaker 1: he's got some skeletons. The whole thing is he bumbles
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Speaker 1: along and whatever he did, he's toxic. No one will
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Speaker 1: hire him to be a head coach. No one will
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Speaker 1: hire Mark Jackson to be a coach. So why would
18:51
Speaker 1: he leave? They kicked him out. It is the Ben
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Speaker 1: and so when I need to use the company email,
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Speaker 1: I'll get an email from one of the bosses saying, hey, hey,
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Speaker 1: numb Nuts, you should probably log in there, and I say, yeah, yes, boss,
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Speaker 1: back again. I then put a new password in that
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Speaker 1: I know I have not used. Then I get it
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Speaker 1: a message saying, well, that's a good password, but it's
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Speaker 1: not remember this password the new password, So I guarantee
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Speaker 1: again have to jump through seventeen hoops. I know how
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Speaker 1: That is so exciting. So I love that almost as
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Speaker 1: much as when you're clicking on something and their way
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Speaker 1: you like a picture which is in little boxes, and
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Speaker 1: is in the picture. And that is the security system.
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Speaker 1: That is the way to do it. That if you
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Speaker 1: just click on the boxes, and then there's always that
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Speaker 1: one box where you're not sure whether or not that's
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Speaker 1: part of the motorcycle because it's just a little piece
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Speaker 1: of the motorcycle. Is that does that count? Who knows?
25:28
Speaker 1: Who knows? Anyway? It is the Ben Maler Show. As
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Speaker 1: we are rolling, rolling, rolling, rolling along through the overnight
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Speaker 1: and Troy says, Doris Burke is the less woke version
25:43
Speaker 1: of Ben Mallar, who will boycott if we who will
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Speaker 1: boycott if she's taken off boycott boycotting, I mean, my
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Speaker 1: mute button will probably be upset if she's off ESPN. Ah,
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Speaker 1: she turned the audio on again, which will be a
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Speaker 1: be a problem. Yeah. Drummer Dave Wrights and says that
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Speaker 1: thanks Ben for the thoughtful Stanley Cup Final Game one breakdown,
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Speaker 1: and especially calling out ESPN for continuing to force the
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Speaker 1: awful Doris Burke on whatever fan base the NBA has left. Thankfully,
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Speaker 1: because of hypocrites like the Fraud and Curry, I no
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Speaker 1: longer have to waste time watching probouncable. All right, well
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Speaker 1: that's good for you. I have a talk short, so
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Speaker 1: I do the show. Ferg Dog says, I've got a
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Speaker 1: thought on Doris Burke. She has a boring, monotone voice
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Speaker 1: and adds zero value to the commentary three person booth.
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Speaker 1: It's a stupid concept and she's not good enough to
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Speaker 1: be in a two person booth. There you go. It's
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Speaker 1: a hot take from Dog. Yes, that's a hot take
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Speaker 1: there from good old Fergie. Absolutely August says, I would
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Speaker 1: bet you love Hube Brown's voice sounding like he's talking
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Speaker 1: from a grave. I think Huby he's retired. He aged out,
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Speaker 1: and a normal retirement ages, like in your mid sixties,
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Speaker 1: so he'll be lasted till he was in his mid nineties,
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Speaker 1: not have a lot to say. Let's see here. I
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Speaker 1: Vicky stepped away from the phone or does not have
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Speaker 4: Yes, then maw the ultimate player hater player hating no
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Speaker 4: the NBA Finals. It's it's good to see you in
28:34
Speaker 4: fine form. There's plenty of reasons to hate the NBA,
28:38
Speaker 4: but my favorite Ben Malor reason is the markets aren't
28:41
Speaker 4: big enough. So Ben has been trasts the NBA Finals.
28:46
Speaker 4: He hates them. He hated because it's not good enough
28:49
Speaker 4: for his show to provide, to provide content. So you
28:53
Speaker 4: hate it because the markets are too small?
28:57
Speaker 1: Yes, and he let me let me explain something. Do
29:00
Speaker 1: you know what I do for a living? I know
29:02
Speaker 1: you're usually just completely looking up. Do you understand what
29:05
Speaker 1: I do for a living? You understand the job? What
29:07
Speaker 1: is my job? Go ahead? What is my job? I'll
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Speaker 1: wait for you.
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Speaker 4: Do you understand that the next ten years are gonna
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Speaker 4: be the players? The NBA Finals are probably gonna be
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Speaker 4: at the Oklahoma Sate, so you better get used.
29:17
Speaker 1: To just like it's just like you're such a such
29:21
Speaker 1: a dope, Just like last year the Celtics wa and
29:23
Speaker 1: this is the start of a dynasty. They're gonna win
29:26
Speaker 1: with Denver Wan every team that wins, it's the same
29:29
Speaker 1: stories rating. They're already writing the story right now. And
29:32
Speaker 1: if Indiana, If Indiana wins, it's Halliburton's league, They're gonna
29:36
Speaker 1: dominate the East for the next ten years. That is
29:38
Speaker 1: the craziest boring story. So again I'll ask you again,
29:43
Speaker 1: what do I do? What is my job?
29:45
Speaker 4: I ask you what is your job? Your job is
29:48
Speaker 4: to make the Oklahoma City Thunder one of the greatest
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Speaker 4: teams of all time?
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Speaker 5: And listen, correct The one point you are.
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Speaker 4: Correct is Doris Doris Burke is in the epitome of
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Speaker 4: the menachimes Holly Rose School of Broadcasting, DEEI hires who
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Speaker 4: will never They're like Supreme Court justices. They're mediocre, they'll
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Speaker 4: never get There are plenty of decent reasons to hate
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Speaker 4: the NBA, but but not anointing the Oklahoma City Thunder
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Speaker 4: one of the greatest of all time?
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Speaker 1: Is?
30:27
Speaker 4: Is not it? I mean market?
30:29
Speaker 1: They have not answered my question. I will ask you
30:32
Speaker 1: a third time. Go ahead, what do I do for
30:36
Speaker 1: a living? What it was your job?
30:38
Speaker 4: Your job is to review what happened that day in
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Speaker 4: a factual manner and then make sure to convey to
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Speaker 4: the audience that that they are witnessing greatness and their time.
30:50
Speaker 4: You know, they may not realize it yet, but they
30:52
Speaker 4: are realizing the greatest, the one of the greatest ball
30:57
Speaker 4: teams in the history of their life's.
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Speaker 1: And now I have a question. It's a gentleman in
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Speaker 1: the back of the room here. I've got my hand
31:05
Speaker 1: in the air, So can I ask you a question?
31:08
Speaker 1: Is it true you got whiplash jumping on the thunder bandwagon?
31:12
Speaker 1: Is it true that you suffered whiplag? Because you've called
31:15
Speaker 1: me for you called me for years. Mostly you call
31:17
Speaker 1: the chiefs propaganda. Usually, yeah, that's true. But now all
31:21
Speaker 1: of a sudden, you've jumped on this bandwagon. Are you okay?
31:25
Speaker 1: Did you injure yourself when you jumped on the bandwag?
31:27
Speaker 1: Is everything okay? Maybe you hurt your ankle a little bit,
31:30
Speaker 1: your elbows? Did anything happen?
31:33
Speaker 4: I've loved them ever since, ever since Hardened, and ever
31:38
Speaker 4: since we had three MVPs and we were in these
31:40
Speaker 4: finals ten This run, this all time run, should have
31:44
Speaker 4: happened ten years ago, when we had Harden, when we
31:47
Speaker 4: had Westbrook, when we had the greatest amalgamation of talents
31:52
Speaker 4: ten years ago. It's just the salary capture. The salary
31:56
Speaker 4: cap structure is so messed up that we couldn't We
31:58
Speaker 4: couldn't dominate the We already dominate the NBA NFL. Now
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Speaker 4: we're going to dominate the NBA, which because we have
32:04
Speaker 4: a bunch of more draft. If you guys hate it,
32:07
Speaker 4: you're a Boston guy, don't, don't, just admit it. You
32:10
Speaker 4: love it.
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Speaker 1: Yes, I'm a proud Bostonian.
32:12
Speaker 4: Clearly Boston. You don't. Don't. You don't have to hide
32:15
Speaker 4: it and then just lay back, enjoy it and and
32:18
Speaker 4: and and love this Oklahoma city ride that you're gonna
32:23
Speaker 4: have to endure. I know you hate it. I know
32:25
Speaker 4: you hate it begause God markets are too small and
32:31
Speaker 4: doesn't ignite the Nashville the national audience. But you're just
32:34
Speaker 4: gonna have to lie back and enjoy it and get
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Speaker 4: used to it.
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Speaker 1: I don't have to. I don't have to enjoy it.
32:39
Speaker 1: I don't have to enjoy it. I don't know. I mean,
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Speaker 1: that's your your opinion on that. But but thank you
32:45
Speaker 1: for not answering my question. I appreciate it. So Mark
32:48
Speaker 1: from Queens who's living in Arlington, Texas. So many people
32:52
Speaker 1: from Queens relocate to Arlington. They love it. Mark says
32:58
Speaker 1: it's broadcasting, narrow casting exactly. That's the point, and that
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Speaker 1: numb nuts would not ask it, would not answer the question.
33:06
Speaker 1: But that's it. Listen, we do broad We try to
33:08
Speaker 1: have a broad audience. We don't want to do narrowcasting.
33:11
Speaker 1: That's why we don't talk a lot of hockey. Stanley
33:13
Speaker 1: Cup finals are the exception of the rule. We're allowed
33:15
Speaker 1: to talk hockey because it's a national event. It's a
33:18
Speaker 1: big event and we can talk about it, and so
33:20
Speaker 1: it's broadcasting. You want to have a broad audience. And
33:24
Speaker 1: I promise you that if we talk a lot about
33:28
Speaker 1: the thunder and the pacers, that I might get a
33:31
Speaker 1: headache from hearing all the radios and the phone devices,
33:34
Speaker 1: the iHeart app all tune out and that would affect
33:37
Speaker 1: I need idew profen because I'd have a big headache
33:41
Speaker 1: and it would be a big problem. Fergduck says, Keg
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Speaker 1: drinking Steve is wrong. Your job is to divide background
33:47
Speaker 1: sound to people playing video games, not whatever he said.
33:51
Speaker 1: That is correct, Jeremy. He points out, if the next
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Speaker 1: ten NBA finals start in Okac, the NBA will be bankrupt.
33:59
Speaker 1: By year six. How about year four? Just god, I
34:04
Speaker 1: forget six is being optimistic? How about year four? We'll
34:09
Speaker 1: go year four? All right, Ben Malor show as we
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Speaker 1: the NBA Finals tonight, it is important to mention that
34:42
Speaker 1: Blank holds the record for the most career points in
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Speaker 1: NBA Finals history. I've been playing this for a long
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Speaker 1: of the third degree right after that, back to back,
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Speaker 1: belly to belly, and here is the Insta Trivia question
36:12
Speaker 1: of the hour. A lot of reaction to Keg drinking
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Speaker 1: Steve's phone call, but here it is OKAYC and Indiana.
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Speaker 1: They are playing tonight and Blank still holds the record
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Speaker 1: for the most career points in an NBA Finals game. Again,
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Speaker 1: Blank holds the record for the most career points in
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Speaker 1: an NBA Finals game. That is the question. What is
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Speaker 1: the answer? Let's see does anyone know the answer? You
36:40
Speaker 1: go to the great Unwashed Mike de Leperchon from Boston
36:44
Speaker 1: says Donald Trump answer alf the Alien Opineter going with
36:49
Speaker 1: fifty as his answer. Very funny. Who else do we have?
36:54
Speaker 1: Page down? Mister Tony Batti from Keith OsO Tech Show,
36:59
Speaker 1: Marcus Coles, who's forty two today? From Late Night Drug
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Speaker 1: Tester keg Drinking Steve guessed by King Roy. That's a
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Speaker 1: good photo of him. That's pretty good. Who else do
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Speaker 1: you have? Page down? Blind Scott's Muse, Miss Rafferty from Milkman,
37:14
Speaker 1: Mike and Colorado Joe Joe White guess by Ike and Roseville, Minnesota.
37:21
Speaker 1: Page down, Perito says Ben Benny. Oklahoma City in the
37:24
Speaker 1: finals is going to kill us. All I was hearing
37:27
Speaker 1: the banjo's already. I'm peddling faster to get the FAA
37:30
Speaker 1: from my radio. Okay, Palm Desert Rat is up late
37:34
Speaker 1: with us. He's a pale A friend of the show,
37:36
Speaker 1: says Traquille O Le the other friend of the show,
37:37
Speaker 1: stuck in Sacramento going with Clipper Great Chris Cayman as
37:42
Speaker 1: his answer, what do we have page down? I can't
37:46
Speaker 1: read that. Dennis Harra from Donkey's Sausage. You can ram
37:48
Speaker 1: it all day, you can ram it all night. Alex
37:51
Speaker 1: the cynical says Kobe's future steps on. Wow, all right,
37:55
Speaker 1: do you have an answer? Lorena?
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Speaker 3: My guess what's gonna be?
37:58
Speaker 1: Kobe Bryant? All right, Kobe, right now, this is in't correct.
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Speaker 1: It is the logo. You know who the logo is? Lorena. Oh,
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Speaker 1: this was on the test the other week ago. Yeah,
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Speaker 1: and you know I don't remember, all right. Jerry West,
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Speaker 1: Jerry West logan most points and Finals takes me. Here
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Speaker 1: we go, Here we go, Here we go. It's one
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Speaker 1: big event. Gets grilled. All right? What are we have here?
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Speaker 6: Kol The Pacers are the biggest NBA Finals underdog in
38:30
Speaker 6: seven years. They're at plus five hundred. How many people
38:33
Speaker 6: think the series will be a sweeper? A gentleman sweep
38:35
Speaker 6: for the thunder Ben is an OKC injury. The only
38:38
Speaker 6: hope that Indiana has no.
38:41
Speaker 1: Shay jogis Alexander could go out there and just poop
38:45
Speaker 1: the bed, right, Just suck at a time you cannot
38:47
Speaker 1: suck and they can miss a bunch of Indiana is
38:52
Speaker 1: an exciting team. They're a good offensive team. There's a
38:55
Speaker 1: lot of randomness on a given night. You lose one game,
38:58
Speaker 1: then it's snowballs, and there's a fluke in another game,
39:02
Speaker 1: and then all of a sudden, you're like, well, wait
39:05
Speaker 1: a minute, that's not supposed to happen. I'm not buying
39:08
Speaker 1: that this is going to be a domination situation. I
39:11
Speaker 1: don't believe the hype. An injury obviously changes everything, but
39:15
Speaker 1: Indiana they're the inter lopers here, but so's Oklahoma City.
39:19
Speaker 1: They're also they're uninvited guest. Nobody wants to see them
39:22
Speaker 1: in the finals, So uh no. Next.
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Speaker 6: Ravens offensive coordinator Todd Mounkin told reporters on Tuesday that
39:28
Speaker 6: they need to get Zay Flowers the ballb war this
39:30
Speaker 6: season and have they been under utilizing Flowers.
39:33
Speaker 1: They're not going to get in the ball. Lamar Jackson
39:35
Speaker 1: loves his tight ends. They're a running team and so
39:38
Speaker 1: it's all June talk. They're not going to get Flowers
39:41
Speaker 1: to the ball.
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Speaker 6: More next Now, the Rams offensive coordinator said that DeVante
39:44
Speaker 6: Adams isn't showing his age at thirty two. Many people
39:47
Speaker 6: have been expecting deppcoming season for Adams to be like
39:49
Speaker 6: last season for Derrick Henry. But I think Adams is
39:52
Speaker 6: down the fountain of youth in la I don't.
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Speaker 1: It's June. He's wearing a visor in shorts. You don't
39:58
Speaker 1: show your age when you're wearing short and advisor. And
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Speaker 1: he's so stupid. I'll believe it when he does it
40:05
Speaker 1: in the season.
40:05
Speaker 6: How do we do?
40:06
Speaker 1: He passed? There? It is, that's a win. There you go,
40:08
Speaker 1: Devoi of style points. But a win is a win,
40:11
Speaker 1: is a win is a win? I won.
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Speaker 2: I think what