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  Speaker 2: This is the best of the Ben Maler Show on
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  Speaker 1: So our lead this hour is from the wacky world
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  Speaker 1: of pro bouncy Ball. A light card by design. By design,
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  Speaker 1: as they spread out the NBA schedule, you don't want
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  Speaker 1: too many games on a random Monday night, so we
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  Speaker 1: didn't get that. We had a light card in the NBA.
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  Speaker 1: One of the games that was highlighted by n b
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  Speaker 1: C Showcase game you had the spur and the Pistons
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  Speaker 1: who met in the NBA Finals many many years ago
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  Speaker 1: before we were all alive, and that was a dud.
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  Speaker 1: Oh Man, that was a dud of an NBA Finals,
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  Speaker 1: But nonetheless, the current vintage of these two teams, You've
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  Speaker 1: got two teams on the come. As they say, Victor
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  Speaker 1: Wemba Nyama got the best of this matchup. There twenty
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  Speaker 1: one points, seventeen rebounds, and six assists. San Antonio ends
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  Speaker 1: up winning comfortably. Kid Cunningham, who we're going to talk
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  Speaker 1: about here, he struggled in this game. He got sixteen
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  Speaker 1: points on twenty six shots. That's Alan Iverson like from
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  Speaker 1: back in his day. There just five of twenty six
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  Speaker 1: for Kid Cuttingham in the loss. However, despite that, popular
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  Speaker 1: opinion by popular people has Kid Cuttingham? Where do you
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  Speaker 1: know where he is? At the very top of MVP mountain? Say,
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  Speaker 1: why are you kidding me? Joe Dumar's batman? What are
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  Speaker 1: you talking about? That's like Rashid Wallace. Craziness is what
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  Speaker 1: that is. Well, yeah, he's supposedly right there, neck and
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  Speaker 1: neck as we go down the stretch. In the NBA
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  Speaker 1: regular season, the NBA has a sixty five game rule,
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  Speaker 1: very controversial to the writers that lick the toes of
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  Speaker 1: the players. They're very upset by that. Not fair, not right.
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  Speaker 1: You actually have to show up and play. Woo they
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  Speaker 1: can play. So the rule was introduced not that long
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  Speaker 1: ago because the players in the NBA don't like actually playing.
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  Speaker 1: It's a problem and the integrity of the awards on
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  Speaker 1: the line and so you put all this together, they
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  Speaker 1: put this rule in and so this is the season
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  Speaker 1: where things are getting really really crazy in many ways.
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  Speaker 1: So the the MVP race under the guidelines, as we mentioned,
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  Speaker 1: player must appear in sixty five games to qualify for
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  Speaker 1: the honors, and they have about a quarter of the
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  Speaker 1: NBA season to go, about a quarter remaining in the NBA,
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  Speaker 1: and several of the front runners are dropping like a
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  Speaker 1: trash over garbage and they're just falling down, and a
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  Speaker 1: couple others are walking a tight rope to be eligible.
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  Speaker 1: And so by default, Kate Cunningham is looking more and more,
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  Speaker 1: if you look at the prediction market and the gambling
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  Speaker 1: market and all that stuff, looking more and more like
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  Speaker 1: the MVP this season in the NBA, he's played forty
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  Speaker 1: nine now, I guess fifty fifty of fifty six games
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  Speaker 1: now and he's only missed six games, Kid Cunningham, So
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  Speaker 1: that gives him, if my math is correct, eleven game cushion.
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  Speaker 1: He's got eleven game cushion before this becomes an issue.
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  Speaker 1: So he's got a lot of leeway. Whereas players like Sga,
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  Speaker 1: Lukeka Wemby and the Joke do not do not have
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  Speaker 1: the cushion. They don't have the cushion there. They are
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  Speaker 1: missing the bare necessities, if you will, all right, so
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  Speaker 1: good jumping off point. Let us discuss the question do
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  Speaker 1: you have a problem or would you have a problem
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  Speaker 1: with Piston Star Kaid cutting him sneaking away with an
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  Speaker 1: MVP award just because he happened to play the required
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  Speaker 1: number of games, unlike these other bozos who doesn't look
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  Speaker 1: loow be able to even get to sixty five games.
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  Speaker 1: So just by staying healthy, you can win the MVP award.
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  Speaker 1: So I've got day Spa my thoughts. You're day Spa,
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  Speaker 1: Kentucky Derby and DNA embedded, and we will combine all
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  Speaker 1: of these things together. We're gonna make biscuits and gravy,
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  Speaker 1: is what We're gonna make, delicious biscuits and gravy. So
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  Speaker 1: to begin here, though, A, I have no problem, zero
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  Speaker 1: problem with this. If Caid cutting him tiptoes through the tulips,
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  Speaker 1: it ends up going past the velvet ropes and takes
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  Speaker 1: home the MVP title. Because Sga, Luca Wemby, the Alien Guy,
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  Speaker 1: the Parisian Prodigy Guy, and the Joker were busy flirting
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  Speaker 1: with the attendance office, so be it. I'm fine. Good
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  Speaker 1: for him. Availability is valuable. And it's not like Kate
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  Speaker 1: Cunningham stings. He's had good He's had very good season.
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  Speaker 1: Pistons have been they were the top team. I don't
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  Speaker 1: have that lost to the Spurs. They're still the top team,
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  Speaker 1: but they they have been one of the top teams
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  Speaker 1: in the NBA most of the year. So you have
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  Speaker 1: a player who's their top player and he happens to
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  Speaker 1: be in position to win the MVP. It's not outrageous, right,
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  Speaker 1: and he has been dependable the others playing Bud Chicken
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  Speaker 1: with the calendar, but Buck Chicken with the calendar. Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: they are like the way I look at it, you know,
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  Speaker 1: I'm someone to prize myself in showing up the work
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  Speaker 1: and being here. And I think part of this job
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  Speaker 1: is that it becomes part of the routine.
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  Speaker 2: Right.
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  Speaker 1: If you listen to something, you want to hear that
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  Speaker 1: person there, and if they're not there, then you'll find
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  Speaker 1: something else to do. And I think it's a big
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  Speaker 1: part of it. And I also think if you're on
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  Speaker 1: a team and you've got people depending on you, you
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  Speaker 1: kind of not you kind of need to be there
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  Speaker 1: that kind of you need to be there. It's a
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  Speaker 1: big deal. And so if you're you're absent, if you
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  Speaker 1: can't reach sixty five games out of eighty two, you're
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  Speaker 1: not getting robbed out of anything. You're absent. And I
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  Speaker 1: would say even at sixty five games, if my math
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  Speaker 1: is correct, you're still missing. You're missing twenty percent, about
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  Speaker 1: twenty percent of the schedule the grind. So do your job.
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  Speaker 1: When the league installed the sixty five game threshold, it
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  Speaker 1: wasn't performance art, it wasn't it was like, listen, we've
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  Speaker 1: got a problem here. This was a direct response to
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  Speaker 1: load management theater, load management theater, which is going on
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  Speaker 1: here starring the biggest names in the association. They're all
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  Speaker 1: doing it. You know, they're all doing cosplay as street
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  Speaker 1: clothes Anthony Davis. They're like, hey, I like that street
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  Speaker 1: close guy, Anthony Davis. Let's be more like him. Let's
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  Speaker 1: miss a bunch of games. So if you want the MVP,
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  Speaker 1: it's not that hard. Will be the adults. You show
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  Speaker 1: up and you play, You punch the clock, you lace
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  Speaker 1: them up. You play the games against the Wizards when
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  Speaker 1: no one's there. You play the games against Sacramento when
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  Speaker 1: nobody wants to see that game because it's Sacramento. You
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  Speaker 1: show up to those games, right And if Kate cutting
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  Speaker 1: him ends up cashing in because he stayed vertical while
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  Speaker 1: the others were in a lazy boy chair, then so
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  Speaker 1: be it. The NVP award in the NBA should not
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  Speaker 1: stand for a most vacation Player. And if you give
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  Speaker 1: it to someone who plays less than sixty five games,
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  Speaker 1: you're giving someone who did not do their jobs. So
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  Speaker 1: why would you reward them? But I do know we
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  Speaker 1: live in the age where you do reward this kind
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  Speaker 1: of thing. A lot of soft people that like this,
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  Speaker 1: They may want players to miss more games, And I
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  Speaker 1: always chuckle because those people are called losers. All right now,
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  Speaker 1: Page to the Bay Area we go. When I was
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  Speaker 1: seeing the fallout of a trade at the deadline, here
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  Speaker 1: the Golden State Warriors. They wanted Yannis ident to Coombo,
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  Speaker 1: wanted the Greek Freak. They couldn't get the Greekreek. Where's
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  Speaker 1: the could get him? Where's the great Freak? Couldn't get him?
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  Speaker 1: So they had to settle for their backup plan. You
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  Speaker 1: might remember Chris stops Porzingis and already alarm bells have
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  Speaker 1: been sounded just like that. Porzingis he missed Golden State's
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  Speaker 1: last game and he is expected to miss the next
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  Speaker 1: two games because of an illness. And the word is Porzingis.
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  Speaker 1: When he was with the Celtics, he was diagnosed with pots.
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  Speaker 1: Look it up, not pot but pots. It's an illness
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  Speaker 1: and it's affected him. Going back a couple of years
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  Speaker 1: to at least of the playoffs in twenty twenty four
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  Speaker 1: with Boston, and this season, the unicorn has appeared in
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  Speaker 1: not one, not two, not three, not four? How about
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  Speaker 1: eighteen games? That's it. Eighteen games, not much, not much.
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  Speaker 1: So the question will the Warriors be haunted by the
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  Speaker 1: Christops Porzingis trade, as there are some reports out saying
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  Speaker 1: that is the case. The war is already afraid that
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  Speaker 1: they have made a terrible mistake in acquiring Porzingis. So
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  Speaker 1: to answer the question, I am nodding my head. Yes,
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  Speaker 1: I'm nodding my head. Yes, that this is bad mojo
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  Speaker 1: for the Golden State Warriors. Here the Warriors who are
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  Speaker 1: already and we're a couple weeks into this, they're already
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  Speaker 1: sleeping with the lights on because of the Porzingis trade, Like,
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  Speaker 1: what have we done? The Boogeyman, we've fired, but Boogeyman,
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  Speaker 1: bad job by us. You can hear the floorboards creaking
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  Speaker 1: at the Chase Center there in downtown San Francisco. Right,
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  Speaker 1: buyer's remorse. Oh yeah, absolutely, a case of buyer's and
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  Speaker 1: morse here and it's alive and well by the bay.
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  Speaker 1: They traded away Jonathan Kuminga, who is not Kaminga, is
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  Speaker 1: not like the greatest thing in the world or anything
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  Speaker 1: like that. However, that was their last shiny asset. That
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  Speaker 1: was their last piece of the pie. That they could
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  Speaker 1: get something somebody that wasn't washed up in a million
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  Speaker 1: years old, who can't play anymore like Draymond Green. They
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  Speaker 1: could have gotten something of value for Kuminga, who was
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  Speaker 1: in Steve Kurz doghouse, and they got an expiring contract
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  Speaker 1: in bubble wrap is what they got. That's what they
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  Speaker 1: got from Atlanta. Porzingis is a seven footer. He should
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  Speaker 1: wear that costume with the question marks on it from Batman, right,
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  Speaker 1: the Joker and all this because it's it's insane or
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  Speaker 1: the Riddler. Rather, it's not a corner stone. He's not
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  Speaker 1: a cornerstone guy. And they knew going in he wasn't
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  Speaker 1: gonna be a cornerstone player, but they were hoping he
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  Speaker 1: would not be just another Jenga piece, and that's where
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  Speaker 1: he's at at this particular point. It's kind of like
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  Speaker 1: the Warriors went to the auction, the thoroughbred auction. They
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  Speaker 1: bought a thoroughbred at the auction, and they were all
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  Speaker 1: excited about They started texting everybody they knew. They said,
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  Speaker 1: oh man, we're going to the Kentucky Derby. We just
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  Speaker 1: went to the horse auction. We just got a thoroughbred.
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  Speaker 1: Oh you did right. They left out the part that
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  Speaker 1: the horse they bought was on discount because it had
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  Speaker 1: three legs. It was missing a leg. So good luck
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  Speaker 1: with that, pal, Good luck. I'm sure you'll do very
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  Speaker 1: well in Churchill downs here. And also, I don't want
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  Speaker 1: to hear the well when healthy speech. I've heard enough
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  Speaker 1: of that. I don't need to hear that one more time.
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  Speaker 1: When healthy, if only you stay healthy. This just into
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  Speaker 1: Fox Sports Radio injury prone player get injured video on
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  Speaker 1: eleven Injury prone players get injured shocking, A shocking revelation here,
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  Speaker 1: So come on, and porzingis now it's not all bad.
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  Speaker 1: He does have a seat granted, it's a booster seat. Porzingis,
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  Speaker 1: Christops Worzingis at the kiddy table with street clothes, Anthony Davis,
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  Speaker 1: Joe ellenb Ben Simmons, who's think. I think he's fishing
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  Speaker 1: now he's not even in the NBA and Kawhi Leonard
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  Speaker 1: and Paul George isn't even invited and he should be invited.
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  Speaker 1: But Paul George, he's not invited. So it's feast or famine,
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  Speaker 1: mostly famine, mostly famine at this particular restaurant. And it's
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  Speaker 1: a bridge to nowhere. This Jonathan kaminga trade other than
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  Speaker 1: salary cap relief. I don't know anyone that gets excited
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  Speaker 1: about salary cap relief. And if you do, you might
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  Speaker 1: want to question your decision making if you're like that.
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  Speaker 1: So one minute, the Warriors are hanging championships. It's the
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  Speaker 1: dynasty by the bay Alam to lose. All excited, right,
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  Speaker 1: Oh man, this is the greatest thing in the world.
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  Speaker 1: And now inch by inch, the Warriors are going backwards,
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  Speaker 1: back to a time when a Donald Foyle was the star, right,
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  Speaker 1: And where have you gone? Baron Davis and those Monte
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  Speaker 1: Ellis and those guys bring back Mike Montgomery as the
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  Speaker 1: coach that era of the Golden State Warriors. There and
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  Speaker 1: good luck the fog rolling in on what had been
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  Speaker 1: a great run of the Golden State Warriors and everyone's like,
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  Speaker 1: what is going on? What have they done? My god?
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  Speaker 1: They might want to contact Joe the ghost Hunter, who
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  Speaker 1: will try to push back on the ghosts there that
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  Speaker 1: have already moved in to the Warriors' offices. All right, now,
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  Speaker 1: last word, we're going to pivot to college basketball. But
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  Speaker 1: it's a crossover because it does relate to the NBA
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  Speaker 1: world in many ways. Here the star and many of
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  Speaker 1: these teams in the NBA that are not trying to
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  Speaker 1: win and are just going out there trying to lose,
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  Speaker 1: and they don't want to they want any part of that,
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  Speaker 1: and they want the lottery and they're the top player.
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  Speaker 1: There's a debate who the top guys. Like three players
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  Speaker 1: at the very top there. One of them is the
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  Speaker 1: Kansas star Darren Peterson, who has fired back at the
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  Speaker 1: many critics who have been burying him for his malfeasance.
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  Speaker 1: We talked about load management. Well, here's a guy that
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  Speaker 1: is doing load management in college basketball and he's claiming, well,
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  Speaker 1: I don't want to miss games is what he says.
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  Speaker 1: So quote, basketball is my life. If I could have,
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  Speaker 1: he says, if I could have been out there every
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  Speaker 1: game this year, Peterson said, I would have. If you
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  Speaker 1: would have asked me last year, what were my goals
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  Speaker 1: for this year? I would have never mentioned missing games.
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  Speaker 1: Close quote all right, question, do you believe Kansas star
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  Speaker 1: and projected top pick in the NBA draft Darren Peterson
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  Speaker 1: that when he says I don't want to miss games,
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  Speaker 1: but do you think he will be downgraded? You think
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  Speaker 1: you will be downgrade in the eyes of the NBA
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  Speaker 1: because of all the time that he's missed this season
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  Speaker 1: for the Jayhawks. So the whole story smells like the
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  Speaker 1: whole thing smells. And I was asked about this a
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  Speaker 1: couple of weeks ago. I go on on the radio
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  Speaker 1: every Thursday with my guy Bob Fesco and Dusty and
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  Speaker 1: those guys in their morning show in Kansas City, and
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  Speaker 1: we talked about Peterson at that particular time, and I
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  Speaker 1: was like, you know, he's still gonna get the opportunity.
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  Speaker 1: I was gonna get the opportunity. This thing is continued, though,
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  Speaker 1: it's continued the spiral, and I'm looking at it now
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  Speaker 1: and this whole season he plays, he plays well. It's
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  Speaker 1: like it's like an NBA type storyline, but it's about
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  Speaker 1: college basketball. And it smells really bad. It's like if
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  Speaker 1: you've ever left out a tuna fish sandwich on the
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  Speaker 1: dashboard in the summertime. You know, it's really nasty. You
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  Speaker 1: know the smell and you can't get it out of
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  Speaker 1: your car and it's just horrific and all that stuff.
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  Speaker 1: But NBA teams have to take note. They have to
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  Speaker 1: take note here doing your job, we are witnessing a
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  Speaker 1: full blown infestation in the NBA. The asbestis of apathy
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  Speaker 1: among those that are the workers of the NBA. It
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  Speaker 1: is seeped into the fabric of everything. It's literally in
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  Speaker 1: the floor there, all over the pit. The spores are
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  Speaker 1: in the air everywhere from the asbestos. It's not good.
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  Speaker 1: And so you look at that, and we have seen
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  Speaker 1: the damage this has done. We've seen this before. We've
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  Speaker 1: seen this movie in the NBA. And now you're talking
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  Speaker 1: about the Jayhawks and Bill Self and Kansas and all that.
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  Speaker 1: They had a guy who knows a thing or two
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  Speaker 1: about this lifestyle, Joel Embiid. You just mentioned him, right,
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  Speaker 1: his teammates with the invisible man, Ben Simmons for the Sixers,
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  Speaker 1: and Peterson's got a grocery list of excuses. You've got
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  Speaker 1: a hamstring here, the quad, the ankle, he had, the flu,
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  Speaker 1: the thing of a jig. My personal favorite, though, chronic cramping, crapping,
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  Speaker 1: chronic cramping. I love that, which tells you that he's
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  Speaker 1: not drinking enough water. I think you can't make it up.
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  Speaker 1: You cannot make this up. And so it is a
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  Speaker 1: it is a medical mystery, or it's load management, the
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  Speaker 1: virus of load management mutating into its final form at
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  Speaker 1: this moment here. And either he's faking it, Peterson of Kansas.
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  Speaker 1: He's either faking it or he's damaged goods. Neither outcome
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  Speaker 1: is ideal. Either the guy is is agent. People around
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  Speaker 1: him are telling them, hey, you gotta not play this
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  Speaker 1: many minutes. You got to save yourself for the NBA paycheck,
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  Speaker 1: and he's like, okay, why not. Or he actually does
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  Speaker 1: have all these ailments. They're all legit and he is
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  Speaker 1: just soft and that's not good. Right. But looking at
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  Speaker 1: this objectively, once that did not play, rest pops up
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  Speaker 1: in the box score over and over that DNA gets
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  Speaker 1: embedded into your system, nineteen years old, something like that.
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  Speaker 1: Eighteen nineteen, he's nineteen. You're cooked by the time he
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  Speaker 1: gets twenty seven. Forget about thirty. You don't magically become
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  Speaker 1: an iron man if that's how you play. And you know,
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  Speaker 1: if you're Zion Williamson two point zero your first NBA paycheck,
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  Speaker 1: you're you're just a red flag for the for the NBA.
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  Speaker 1: And so he's he's getting paid in college too. That's
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  Speaker 1: the other time he's getting paid. It's not like back
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  Speaker 1: in the day he'd say, you got to rest up
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  Speaker 1: for the NBA check, and guys, we're getting paid that anyway.
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  Speaker 1: He's getting checked. He's getting paid, and he's sitting on
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  Speaker 1: a throne of ice packs, is what he's doing at
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  Speaker 1: this point. So the skills are there, clearly, the skill
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  Speaker 1: set is there. You gotta ding the mentality, you gotta
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  Speaker 1: ding it, ding ding ding ding ding. You gotta do it.
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  Speaker 1: You know, you gotta be out there and play. He's
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  Speaker 1: the Ghost of the Be sure.
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• 19:42
  Speaker 3: is from Atlanta via the Scouting Combine.
• 19:46
  Speaker 1: It's gonna be a big news week if you're into
• 19:48
  Speaker 1: that kind of thing. You like rumors and gossip and
• 19:51
  Speaker 1: all that great stuff. The Scouting Combine, that's really all.
• 19:54
  Speaker 1: It's therefore the Underwear Olympics. The meat market opens up.
• 19:59
  Speaker 1: Here is the the players who are trying to get
• 20:02
  Speaker 1: jobs in the NFL next year will be poked and
• 20:06
  Speaker 1: prodded and measured and just like cattle at a cattle auction,
• 20:11
  Speaker 1: and it'll be human beings. And then the NFL executives
• 20:14
  Speaker 1: will go to Saint Elmo's Steakhouse in Indianapolis and run
• 20:16
  Speaker 1: up their expense account, the other restaurants there, and then
• 20:19
  Speaker 1: the drunk text NFL insiders information that they want out,
• 20:25
  Speaker 1: but they're going to pretend like they're just hammered and
• 20:27
  Speaker 1: that's why they're doing it. So without that said, I
• 20:30
  Speaker 1: thought this was mildly interesting. Mildly interesting. And if you
• 20:35
  Speaker 1: have not heard yet, perhaps not. We've learned that the
• 20:38
  Speaker 1: Atlanta Falcons, that's a football team, not a good one.
• 20:40
  Speaker 1: Sorry Tommy in Atlanta, that's not a good team. But
• 20:43
  Speaker 1: the Atlanta Falcons are planning to play tag you're it
• 20:47
  Speaker 1: franchise tag on Kyle Pitts. Now, if that's not the Pits,
• 20:53
  Speaker 1: I don't know what is a first ballot social media
• 20:58
  Speaker 1: rock star built like a Donnis often doesn't play like
• 21:04
  Speaker 1: a Donnis. D that just like he should be on
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  Speaker 1: the box of of cereal and not the good kind
• 21:10
  Speaker 1: of cereal, not the good kind of cereal. So Pitts,
• 21:13
  Speaker 1: if this is accurate, we believe it is. Kyle Pitts
• 21:15
  Speaker 1: is going to get a one year contract worth about
• 21:20
  Speaker 1: sixteen million. Between fifteen and sixteen million dollars for Kyle Pitts,
• 21:26
  Speaker 1: I hope he can save up and be able to
• 21:28
  Speaker 1: pay his bills. With that that contract, and they're supposedly
• 21:33
  Speaker 1: trying to give him a long term contract. I don't
• 21:35
  Speaker 1: believe that that's the story. So good jumping off point.
• 21:39
  Speaker 1: Let us discuss the question. Has tight end Kyle Pitts?
• 21:46
  Speaker 1: Has tight end Kyle Pitts shown you enough to earn
• 21:50
  Speaker 1: the franchise tag from the Falcons? So I've got Urban Legend, Airport,
• 21:57
  Speaker 1: Chilis and DMV and we will combine all of these
• 22:03
  Speaker 1: things together and we're going to plow through the lizard,
• 22:08
  Speaker 1: is what we're going to do. All right? So number WA,
• 22:12
  Speaker 1: I said, number WA, has Kyle pitch shown enough? I'll
• 22:17
  Speaker 1: on need his two letters N and oh N and
• 22:21
  Speaker 1: oh no no no no no, no no no now
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  Speaker 1: is the answer? That's it? No. Now, I'm told I
• 22:28
  Speaker 1: have to go longer than just saying no, So I
• 22:30
  Speaker 1: will expand on my answer which is no. How about
• 22:34
  Speaker 1: absolutely not? Does that work for you? All right? So
• 22:39
  Speaker 1: Coyle Pits, if my math is correct, he had five
• 22:42
  Speaker 1: touchdown receptions this season, five and if I'm also correct,
• 22:46
  Speaker 1: three of those came in one game, on a Thursday
• 22:49
  Speaker 1: night game against Tampa, So that means the rest of
• 22:54
  Speaker 1: the season he had not one but two two touchdown
• 22:59
  Speaker 1: reception the rest of the year. That's his breakout year?
• 23:05
  Speaker 1: Are you kidding me? Even Ozzie Wise is shaking his head,
• 23:08
  Speaker 1: He's like, what are you talking about. That's not a
• 23:10
  Speaker 1: breakout year. You hit three in one game and to
• 23:13
  Speaker 1: the rest of the year. What is that? What is that?
• 23:16
  Speaker 1: That's fool's gold, baby is what that is here? And
• 23:20
  Speaker 1: and that's that's been the case ever since the draft Knicks.
• 23:25
  Speaker 1: Ironically enough, around this time of the year, around combine time,
• 23:28
  Speaker 1: they looked at the ability athletic ability of Kyle pitts.
• 23:32
  Speaker 1: Oh Man, I started salivating, Oh, this guy's gonna be great.
• 23:36
  Speaker 1: Oh Man, built like a Donnis and all that is
• 23:40
  Speaker 1: the whole thing. And he does. He's like a mone
• 23:43
  Speaker 1: From a distance, it looks good. It looks good, and
• 23:46
  Speaker 1: you get up close, it's not that good, all right,
• 23:50
  Speaker 1: And uh you know, from from a distance, okay, you
• 23:53
  Speaker 1: bite into it though, you crack a molar. That's a problem.
• 23:56
  Speaker 1: It is a problem. And Kyle Pitch is a board
• 24:00
  Speaker 1: certified teas. That is what he is, Board certified teas.
• 24:04
  Speaker 1: He's an urban legend, the zombie of Atlanta. That's a
• 24:08
  Speaker 1: real thing. By the way, the zombie of Atlanta. You
• 24:11
  Speaker 1: hear about Kyle Pitts, you never really see it though,
• 24:17
  Speaker 1: I never really see it for any elongated period of
• 24:21
  Speaker 1: time here. So they're paying the Falcons one year because
• 24:27
  Speaker 1: of the P word potential, not the P word production.
• 24:32
  Speaker 1: He's got dueling p words. You've got potential in production,
• 24:36
  Speaker 1: and so the Falcons have decided we're gonna go with
• 24:38
  Speaker 1: potential rather than production. Kyle Pitts, even in what you
• 24:42
  Speaker 1: told me was his breakout year this past season, still
• 24:46
  Speaker 1: disappears for weeks on end. Now, the Marching and Chowder
• 24:50
  Speaker 1: Society of the Kyle Pitts movement will tell you it's
• 24:53
  Speaker 1: because he didn't have a cornerback. Yes, we've never seen
• 24:57
  Speaker 1: players rack up statf without having elite quarterbacks. The only
• 25:02
  Speaker 1: way to have a great stat line is because you
• 25:05
  Speaker 1: have to have an elite quarterback. Wait a minute, that's
• 25:07
  Speaker 1: bull crap. That's bull crap. That's right anyway, So that's
• 25:13
  Speaker 1: where we are. And then the main reason that despite
• 25:16
  Speaker 1: that lack of protection or lack of production for Kyle Pitch,
• 25:21
  Speaker 1: the reason he's getting the contract despite disappearing is he
• 25:26
  Speaker 1: is the beneficiary of Fomo. Is his FOMO management in
• 25:32
  Speaker 1: the NFL. It's like, well, he's not been that great
• 25:35
  Speaker 1: for us, been around some different coaches, but let's get
• 25:40
  Speaker 1: rid of this guy. But no, no, you can't imagine.
• 25:43
  Speaker 1: Then you can't get rid of him because what if
• 25:45
  Speaker 1: he comes back to bite us in the tuck us?
• 25:47
  Speaker 1: What if he goes out to the Chiefs or goes
• 25:50
  Speaker 1: to the Eagles or the Rams or the Niners and
• 25:53
  Speaker 1: ends up catching twelve touchdown passes next year. Oh man,
• 25:57
  Speaker 1: we'd look like a bunch of pumpkins. We can't look
• 25:59
  Speaker 1: like a bunch of country bumpkins. We cannot do that.
• 26:02
  Speaker 1: So because of that, the fomo Kyle Pitts gets, he's
• 26:07
  Speaker 1: like Poultergeist. He gets a one year massive amount of money.
• 26:11
  Speaker 1: They're writing the check mainly to calm their nerves and
• 26:15
  Speaker 1: cover their took us or CYA cover your ass. I
• 26:19
  Speaker 1: like took us better, so I'd beat CTA cover took
• 26:22
  Speaker 1: us or whatever it is. I think CTA would be it.
• 26:25
  Speaker 1: But anyway, nonetheless, the point is all right. The point
• 26:29
  Speaker 1: is this is not a cornerstone player, despite what all
• 26:31
  Speaker 1: you idiots told me. He was gonna be a cornerstone player.
• 26:34
  Speaker 1: And if you look at the numbers, they're misleading. You
• 26:36
  Speaker 1: watch the Falcons, he's just as likely to have two
• 26:39
  Speaker 1: catches in the game as he is to have even
• 26:42
  Speaker 1: one touchdown in a game. In fact, he's more likely
• 26:44
  Speaker 1: to have just two catches and be an afterthought, not
• 26:47
  Speaker 1: demand the ball, not be aggressive. That's Kyle Piston.
• 26:50
  Speaker 3: Now.
• 26:50
  Speaker 1: Meanwhile, we go to we go to Indianapolis, not to
• 26:53
  Speaker 1: combine the headquarters of the Indianapolis Colls also making news.
• 26:57
  Speaker 1: It sounds it's sounds as though Daniel Jones, Yep, that
• 27:04
  Speaker 1: guy Daniel Jones is going to remain with the Horseshoes
• 27:09
  Speaker 1: for the upcoming season via a multi year contract extension.
• 27:15
  Speaker 1: According to State funded the propaganda arm of the NFL,
• 27:19
  Speaker 1: who's now in bed with ESPN NFL Network. The two
• 27:22
  Speaker 1: sides have been negotiating what does that mean, like sending
• 27:27
  Speaker 1: messages on text back and forth. I want twenty gazillion dollars. Okay,
• 27:31
  Speaker 1: we're only gonna pay a fifteen gazillion dollars. But all right,
• 27:34
  Speaker 1: let's go seventeen gazillion. Now we're not paying seventeen. How
• 27:38
  Speaker 1: about seventeen and a half? Well, I said we're not
• 27:40
  Speaker 1: paying seventeen, Okay, sixteen gazillion deal done, take it done, done, done,
• 27:47
  Speaker 1: just like that. So they've gone back and forth, multi
• 27:50
  Speaker 1: year deal. So the question, while it is not complete yet,
• 27:53
  Speaker 1: it hasn't been docu signed for the Indianapolis Colts, the
• 27:57
  Speaker 1: question remains, are the Colts making a right call by
• 28:01
  Speaker 1: bringing back Daniel Jones? Is this the right call? So
• 28:05
  Speaker 1: this is not romance. This is not some kind of romance.
• 28:09
  Speaker 1: It's not a rom com this particular story. This is
• 28:13
  Speaker 1: two people, the Colts their organization and Daniel Jones, who
• 28:20
  Speaker 1: are stuck at a airport Chili's at midnight. The airport
• 28:27
  Speaker 1: is shut down, all flights got canceled. It is a
• 28:30
  Speaker 1: marriage of convenience, is what it is. And Indianapolis boxed
• 28:35
  Speaker 1: themselves into a corner. We said it at the time.
• 28:38
  Speaker 1: This is not revisionist history. They said it. We said it.
• 28:41
  Speaker 1: They were stuck. They shipped out multiple first round drafts.
• 28:45
  Speaker 1: We don't have a problem with it. You go for it.
• 28:48
  Speaker 1: They thought they had a good team. The team turned
• 28:50
  Speaker 1: out to be a fraud. It was fake. It wasn't
• 28:53
  Speaker 1: legit that that start was bogus at the time, though
• 28:58
  Speaker 1: they thought it was real. They got all and they
• 29:00
  Speaker 1: like we gotta go for it. So they went out
• 29:02
  Speaker 1: and traded multiple draft picks to get high draft picks
• 29:05
  Speaker 1: to get Sauce Gardener. And then right when Sauce Gardner arrived,
• 29:08
  Speaker 1: he brought that Jets losing attitude with him. He got
• 29:13
  Speaker 1: hurt and everyone started getting hurt, including Daniel Jones. And
• 29:18
  Speaker 1: so as a result of pushing all of their chips
• 29:21
  Speaker 1: to the middle of the table. On defense, they paved
• 29:25
  Speaker 1: a single lane highway. The Colts are on a single
• 29:30
  Speaker 1: lane highway. There are no exits, there are no U turns.
• 29:35
  Speaker 1: It's just Daniel Jones. That's it, Danny Dimes driving a
• 29:40
  Speaker 1: rental car with a donut tire and just shredding his achilles.
• 29:46
  Speaker 1: Because that's what happened, right, That's why this is going
• 29:49
  Speaker 1: to happen. The Colts thought that he was gonna stay healthy,
• 29:51
  Speaker 1: and if he'd stayed healthiest, price would have been big
• 29:53
  Speaker 1: and all that stuff. His achilles, by the way, looked
• 29:55
  Speaker 1: like a pulled pork barbecue sandwich, I'm told. So who
• 29:59
  Speaker 1: knows if he's ready to art the year? Probably not,
• 30:01
  Speaker 1: And so he Daniel Jones didn't have much of a
• 30:04
  Speaker 1: much of a path to find a new job, somewhere
• 30:07
  Speaker 1: else coming off the injury and the debate whether or
• 30:10
  Speaker 1: not Jones would be able to start the season ready
• 30:12
  Speaker 1: to go. So he didn't have any wiggle room. You
• 30:14
  Speaker 1: gotta wiggle, you gotta do the wiggle. He couldn't wiggle.
• 30:17
  Speaker 1: There's no wiggling. And so you're at a It wasn't
• 30:22
  Speaker 1: a fork in the road. It wasn't a fork in
• 30:24
  Speaker 1: the road. It was the GPS was saying, Okay, you're
• 30:27
  Speaker 1: on this single road, paved, single road, highway. That's it.
• 30:32
  Speaker 1: And it was the GPS that started announcing here, continue
• 30:36
  Speaker 1: straight for the next three years. What the next three
• 30:42
  Speaker 1: years with this guy? Survival? Now, sometimes you married for love,
• 30:47
  Speaker 1: all right. Sometimes you're marry for love, and then sometimes
• 30:50
  Speaker 1: you're married because you got bills to pay and you
• 30:53
  Speaker 1: need the money, all right. Now, final point, we keep
• 30:56
  Speaker 1: the theme of this part of the hour going and
• 30:59
  Speaker 1: the question what is your level of confidence that the
• 31:03
  Speaker 1: aforementioned Daniel Jones. What is your level of confidence that
• 31:06
  Speaker 1: Daniel Jones can lead the Colts on a deep playoff run,
• 31:11
  Speaker 1: a deep playoff run. So my confidence level is both
• 31:18
  Speaker 1: slim and none, and currently none is stuck in a
• 31:23
  Speaker 1: snow bank at this particular moment and just can't go anywhere.
• 31:27
  Speaker 1: So you're just kind of stuck there deep playoff run
• 31:30
  Speaker 1: and Daniel Jones don't go side by side. They don't.
• 31:34
  Speaker 1: This is not mac and cheese. It's not This is
• 31:37
  Speaker 1: orange juice and toothpaste is what that is. That's the
• 31:40
  Speaker 1: reality there, and in order for this to happen. Now,
• 31:44
  Speaker 1: I believe in the multiverse. I've talked about that at
• 31:47
  Speaker 1: the multip I get burned by the multiverse a lot
• 31:49
  Speaker 1: because I have bold opinions. The multiverse every once in
• 31:52
  Speaker 1: a while gives you the odd ball scenario like Joe
• 31:56
  Speaker 1: Flacco playing out of his mind for a month and
• 31:59
  Speaker 1: leading the Raven to the Super Bowl, or Nick Foles
• 32:02
  Speaker 1: doing something similar for the Philadelphia Eagles in their playoff run,
• 32:06
  Speaker 1: or just this past year, a suck bag Sam Donald,
• 32:10
  Speaker 1: who led the NFL in turnovers and everything went right
• 32:15
  Speaker 1: for the Blueprint, got a little help from the referees
• 32:17
  Speaker 1: in the NFL, actually a lot of help. The two
• 32:19
  Speaker 1: point conversion, which was bogus given a Seattle one of
• 32:22
  Speaker 1: the most egregious calls in NFL history. That benefited Sam Donald,
• 32:26
  Speaker 1: and that gave them home field, which means they didn't
• 32:29
  Speaker 1: have then to buy, which meant they didn't have to
• 32:31
  Speaker 1: play an extra game and all that stuff. And so
• 32:36
  Speaker 1: you look at Daniel Jones. So last year seven and
• 32:38
  Speaker 1: one to begin the year, thirteen touchdowns, three picks, had
• 32:43
  Speaker 1: a passer rating of almost one hundred and ten of
• 32:45
  Speaker 1: almost one hundred and ten, and then the horror film
• 32:49
  Speaker 1: settled in, the script changed, it changed. The final five
• 32:53
  Speaker 1: games he played with Indianapolis last year, Daniel Jones had
• 32:56
  Speaker 1: just six touchdowns and five interceptions and seven seven fumbles.
• 33:03
  Speaker 1: That was the trapdoor at Lucas Oil opening up and
• 33:09
  Speaker 1: a pit of vipers down below for Daniel Jones. That
• 33:13
  Speaker 1: is not the franchise savior. No no, no, no no.
• 33:16
  Speaker 1: That is Giants era Danny Dimes. He just went down
• 33:21
  Speaker 1: to the DMV did the change of address for him,
• 33:24
  Speaker 1: and he's in a different zip code. It's the same guy.
• 33:27
  Speaker 1: It's Vanilla Vic. He needs the entire toolbox to get
• 33:33
  Speaker 1: it done right. Top and you have a top five defense,
• 33:36
  Speaker 1: you gotta have an elite stud wide receiver and a
• 33:39
  Speaker 1: clean pocket and a little hell that's what Sam Donald got.
• 33:43
  Speaker 1: If all those things happened, the Colts can win a championship.
• 33:46
  Speaker 1: It's the Sam Donald blueprint. You stack the roster, you
• 33:49
  Speaker 1: pray the quarterback doesn't light the whole team on fire.
• 33:53
  Speaker 1: And that's it. And so the jury's obviously still out.
• 33:56
  Speaker 1: We'll find out the dollars on this and the culture
• 33:58
  Speaker 1: loaded they must have been. Maybe Jim Rsey left some
• 34:03
  Speaker 1: stuff behind when he checked out. I don't know with
• 34:05
  Speaker 1: my guy, So load up the roster. I don't know
• 34:08
  Speaker 1: how you do that, but you gotta do it, and
• 34:09
  Speaker 1: good luck.
• 34:10
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• 34:12
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• 34:15
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• 34:19
  Speaker 2: To the third degree? This is one big Ben gets grilled?
• 34:25
  Speaker 1: All right, cooling.
• 34:27
  Speaker 4: The one good thing about the Cleveland Browns last season
• 34:29
  Speaker 4: was their defense. Now they have a new head coach
• 34:32
  Speaker 4: and a new defensive coordinator, with Jim Schwartz leaving after
• 34:35
  Speaker 4: not getting the head coaching job. Linebacker Carson Schwessinger easier
• 34:40
  Speaker 4: for you to say yes, said that he doesn't expect
• 34:43
  Speaker 4: things to look much different on defense this upcoming season.
• 34:47
  Speaker 4: And do you think Lewland Swartz will have an impact?
• 34:49
  Speaker 1: Okay, so let's see, they lost their defensive coordinator who
• 34:53
  Speaker 1: kind of built that identity of what he wanted the
• 34:55
  Speaker 1: team to play. Like. They have a new Schmoe in there,
• 34:58
  Speaker 1: and nothing's going to change. It's like it's kind of
• 35:01
  Speaker 1: like radio ratings. We get graded on different periods of
• 35:05
  Speaker 1: the year, different ratings periods, and it doesn't carry over
• 35:08
  Speaker 1: and from one NFL season to another. Each individual season
• 35:13
  Speaker 1: is its own vintage. So there is absolutely going to
• 35:17
  Speaker 1: be a lot of change in Cleveland. What they really
• 35:19
  Speaker 1: need to do is find a quarterback because they have
• 35:21
  Speaker 1: no quarterback. Zippo at quarterback all right.
• 35:24
  Speaker 4: Next, So the seventy six ers have now lost four
• 35:27
  Speaker 4: in a row after losing at home to the lowly Pelicans.
• 35:30
  Speaker 1: It's embarrassing.
• 35:31
  Speaker 4: Yeah, that led to chance of fire Mory throughout their
• 35:34
  Speaker 4: home arena bym bending and Darrel Mory is on the
• 35:39
  Speaker 4: hot seat.
• 35:40
  Speaker 1: Well, even if he is on the hot seat, he'll
• 35:42
  Speaker 1: just get another job. That guy who was caught up
• 35:45
  Speaker 1: in that whole huge China controversy thing, I remember that
• 35:51
  Speaker 1: was right around the pandemic time, and the fact that
• 35:53
  Speaker 1: he kept his job and got another job is one
• 35:55
  Speaker 1: of the great great accomplishments in NBA history. He is
• 36:00
  Speaker 1: a bull crap artist. He will get it another job.
• 36:02
  Speaker 1: The Sixers are a mess. They put all their chips
• 36:05
  Speaker 1: with Paul George and Joel Embiid. Those guys can't stay healthy.
• 36:09
  Speaker 1: I still don't think he's gonna get fired. I think
• 36:11
  Speaker 1: they will give him a chance to try to fix
• 36:12
  Speaker 1: this mess and recreate what the Sixers are next.
• 36:17
  Speaker 4: Freddie Freeman said that he hopes to play another four
• 36:20
  Speaker 4: seasons and retire with the Dodgers.
• 36:22
  Speaker 1: Ben, do you think four more years? Yeah? Was he
• 36:25
  Speaker 1: running for the presidency. He wants to play four more years?
• 36:28
  Speaker 1: Four more years?
• 36:30
  Speaker 4: Do you think he'll be able to make it to
• 36:31
  Speaker 4: the three thousand hit club?
• 36:34
  Speaker 1: All right, So let's do some malor math on the
• 36:36
  Speaker 1: fly for Freddie Freeman. So, Freddie Freeman is in his
• 36:40
  Speaker 1: mid thirties, he's starting to slow down a little bit.
• 36:44
  Speaker 1: He's not a two hundred hit guy. He's like one
• 36:46
  Speaker 1: hundred and fifty hit guys thirty five and he has
• 36:50
  Speaker 1: twenty two, four hundred and thirty one hits. So it's doable,
• 36:55
  Speaker 1: but he's not gonna He'd have to play as like
• 36:57
  Speaker 1: a DH and they already have dhs. I don't I
• 36:59
  Speaker 1: say the odds are less than twenty percent. How about
• 37:02
  Speaker 1: that that freeman gets to three thousand? It's all right?
• 37:04
  Speaker 1: How do we do? Komlo? You pass the sas away?
• 37:06
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• 37:26
  Speaker 1: All right, we have our contestant. Let's introduce them right now,
• 37:28
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• 37:33
  Speaker 1: Block in Miami. Hello, d Block, Welcome, Good morning, sir,
• 37:38
  Speaker 1: Happy Tuesday. You have answered the call, d Block. You
• 37:41
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• 37:43
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• 37:45
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• 37:49
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• 37:53
  Speaker 1: All right, d Block, You're gonna play the game. Who
• 37:55
  Speaker 1: would you like to partner up with? D Block? Let
• 37:58
  Speaker 1: me see you with your best choice?
• 38:01
  Speaker 3: Alright?
• 38:03
  Speaker 1: All right, finally Lorraina gets picked. Unbelievable kid. You have
• 38:07
  Speaker 1: to go with Coop instead? Whoever you are? Cooper me.
• 38:12
  Speaker 1: Who do you want? D block? Let's go away, all right,
• 38:17
  Speaker 1: you'll be a loser. And Ryan is in Wisconsin? Hello, Ryan, Hello,
• 38:22
  Speaker 1: welcome in what part of Wisconsin is kind of a
• 38:24
  Speaker 1: big state?
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  Speaker 4: Uh?
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  Speaker 1: Northwestern Wisconsin? Okay, all right, you got you, I get
• 38:29
  Speaker 1: some some family out over an a week. What's that
• 38:33
  Speaker 1: wake country? Oh? Nice? All right, well very good. You're
• 38:36
  Speaker 1: gonna play our game. And Ryan, you're gonna be partnered
• 38:39
  Speaker 1: up with me? The what are we at the Drew
• 38:41
  Speaker 1: Barrymore Edition? Is that correct? Turned fifty one last weekend?
• 38:45
  Speaker 1: Drew Barrymore?
• 38:47
  Speaker 2: Drew?
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  Speaker 1: Okay, very nice? And d block? What are the categories?
• 38:51
  Speaker 1: We have e T, never been kissed, fifty first dates
• 38:56
  Speaker 1: and miss you already? D block? Which one do you want?
• 39:00
  Speaker 1: Which category? Let me go with ET? That's okay, you're
• 39:04
  Speaker 1: dating yourself with the ET. Yeah, all right, very nice.
• 39:08
  Speaker 1: Worst marketing move all time. The people that M and
• 39:11
  Speaker 1: m's not being included in it, they have the chance
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  Speaker 1: to be an ET and they chose to pass. All right,
• 39:16
  Speaker 1: stop wasting time? All right? And Ryan, which one do
• 39:19
  Speaker 1: you want? You have never been kissed, fifty first dates
• 39:21
  Speaker 1: or miss you already? All right? Very good? Everyone, hold
• 39:25
  Speaker 1: on we will get to the game in its entirety.
• 39:29
  Speaker 1: It's mallards amount of money and it's next.
• 39:32
  Speaker 2: Be sure to catch live editions of the Ben Malors
• 39:34
  Speaker 2: Show weekdays at two am Eastern eleven pm Pacific. Now
• 39:39
  Speaker 2: Malor's mountain of money. Hell, do you have what it
• 39:44
  Speaker 2: takes to get to the top? Probably?
• 39:47
  Speaker 1: All right to he Here we go the trewe verymore. Addition,
• 39:50
  Speaker 1: the teams are d Block on his way to work
• 39:52
  Speaker 1: in Miami and Ryan in Wisconsin. D Block with Coop
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  Speaker 1: and Ryan with me. All right, let's get started here.
• 39:59
  Speaker 4: Cooper, all right, Block, we have e T I need
• 40:02
  Speaker 4: the first and last name of the athlete to get points.
• 40:04
  Speaker 1: Uh.
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  Speaker 4: These pro athletes weren't born in the U s A.
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  Speaker 4: Are you ready, d Block?
• 40:09
  Speaker 1: Yes, sir?
• 40:10
  Speaker 4: All right, forty five seconds, let's go. He is the
• 40:13
  Speaker 4: newest Star Laker. He's from Sleslovenia. He was he was
• 40:19
  Speaker 4: on the Mavericks. He was traded for the Mavericks. All right, skin,
• 40:26
  Speaker 4: that's a hard questions. He's the biggest player in Major
• 40:29
  Speaker 4: League Baseball. He's from Japan. Yeah, that's good enough.
• 40:36
  Speaker 1: Uh.
• 40:36
  Speaker 4: This guy is the tall French guy in the NBA.
• 40:39
  Speaker 4: He's on the Spurs.
• 40:42
  Speaker 5: Full name, Uh, yes, all right, this guy is the
• 40:50
  Speaker 5: five foot two player from the Astros, the cheating Astros.
• 40:54
  Speaker 1: He's like five foot it doesn't care. Didn't get the
• 40:58
  Speaker 1: full name, all right? So you got the six needs
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  Speaker 1: and last name. All right? That sucks. Let's show him.
• 41:04
  Speaker 1: Hows done? Ryan, Let's show him do? Are you ready? Ryan?
• 41:07
  Speaker 1: What you mack? Fifty first dates? Is that the category?
• 41:10
  Speaker 4: I think?
• 41:10
  Speaker 1: Yes, believe these athletes have all suffered disorienting head injuries.
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  Speaker 1: Are you ready? Ryan?
• 41:17
  Speaker 2: Yeah? All right?
• 41:18
  Speaker 1: Forty five seconds. Run away quarterback for the Miami Dolphins currently,
• 41:22
  Speaker 1: although they're gonna get rid of him. Yes, star for
• 41:26
  Speaker 1: the Celtics this year. He was the number two option
• 41:29
  Speaker 1: behind Jason Tatum, but now he's in the number one option. Yes,
• 41:34
  Speaker 1: quarterback after Joe Montana for the forty nine ers in
• 41:37
  Speaker 1: the eighties. Yes, a white guy for the Minnesota Timberwolves.
• 41:43
  Speaker 1: Power forward, stop talking d block. Yes, linebacker for the
• 41:48
  Speaker 1: old San Diego Chargers. Unfortunately he killed himself. Yes, Monday
• 41:52
  Speaker 1: night football broadcaster for years. He played for the Giants
• 41:55
  Speaker 1: back in the fifties. Was an MVP. It was on
• 41:58
  Speaker 1: Monday Night for what's an him? What's his first name,
• 42:02
  Speaker 1: good question. Okay, Man Gifford, I heard after the buzzer, count.
• 42:10
  Speaker 2: Right the names?
• 42:13
  Speaker 1: No he did not.
• 42:13
  Speaker 4: You can't go after the buzzer. Hit points, all right,
• 42:15
  Speaker 4: that d block? Which category would you like? Never been
• 42:19
  Speaker 4: kissed or miss you already?
• 42:23
  Speaker 1: Kids? All right?
• 42:24
  Speaker 4: These athletes have never kissed a championship trophy. They've never
• 42:27
  Speaker 4: won a championship. Forty five seconds on the clock. Let's begin.
• 42:30
  Speaker 4: Longtime quarterback for the Dolphins.
• 42:34
  Speaker 1: Yes.
• 42:35
  Speaker 4: Uh, this guy was a long time tight end for
• 42:37
  Speaker 4: the San Diego Chargers. Oh yes, uh, this guy was
• 42:45
  Speaker 4: a quarterback for the Buffalo Bills. He lost like four
• 42:47
  Speaker 4: Super Bowls in a row. Yes, this guy's nickname is
• 42:51
  Speaker 4: mister Padre.
• 42:56
  Speaker 2: Da waynefield him.
• 42:57
  Speaker 4: No, okay, this guy was African center He like waved
• 43:02
  Speaker 4: his finger.
• 43:02
  Speaker 1: Went no, no, no.
• 43:05
  Speaker 4: Yes, this guy was the last baseball player to hit
• 43:08
  Speaker 4: four hundred in Major League Baseball. Yes, wow, okay, let's
• 43:16
  Speaker 4: go that was how many points I didn't count yet?
• 43:20
  Speaker 1: You gotta hurry up by Let's go up category four?
• 43:23
  Speaker 1: Missie already? Are you ready? Ryan seventy, a white guy,
• 43:27
  Speaker 1: won the MVP for the Blue Jays, played for the
• 43:28
  Speaker 1: Athletics and Yankees. As well, third baseman. No more recently,
• 43:35
  Speaker 1: more recently, what's all right? Guard for the Celtics when
• 43:40
  Speaker 1: they won the championship and O eight we went. We
• 43:44
  Speaker 1: won because she didn't do the math in time. We
• 43:49
  Speaker 1: won the game. Thank you, we win, Ryan, you get
• 43:51
  Speaker 1: a golden day, guy. No, you don't know she didn't
• 43:53
  Speaker 1: do the math in time.
• 43:54
  Speaker 4: It doesn't I won