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  Speaker 2: This is the best of the Ben Maler Show on
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  Speaker 3: It wasn't supposed to be that close.
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  Speaker 1: It was not welcome in the beginning of another night
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  Speaker 1: two things I know are true. And we are back
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  Speaker 1: at it now. The NBA Playoffs have not started. There
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  Speaker 1: is a misnomer that the playoffs began with two games. No, no, no,
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  Speaker 1: that was the Qwighlight Zone. It doesn't exist. It's you know,
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  Speaker 1: there's a show back in way back in the nineties.
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  Speaker 1: I was like a little kid and it was called
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  Speaker 1: Seinfeld and they said it was it was the show
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  Speaker 1: about nothing.
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  Speaker 3: So they called the show.
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  Speaker 1: Well, the playing tournament is basketball games about nothing. There
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  Speaker 1: is no record. They just these games just vanish. They
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  Speaker 1: don't exist, but for the moment they did exist. And
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  Speaker 1: so that is our lead here pro bouncy ball to
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  Speaker 1: play in games.
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  Speaker 3: I don't know if you watch. We're going to start out.
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  Speaker 1: In the Bay Area in San Francisco, where Jimmy Butler
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  Speaker 1: put up a show thirty eight points at a bunch
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  Speaker 1: of other stats, but thirty eight points to lead the way.
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  Speaker 1: Stephen Curry with thirty seven and that one two punch.
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  Speaker 3: Was barely enough.
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  Speaker 1: The Warriors outlasted the Grizzlies, who had an unimaginable f
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  Speaker 1: up at the end of this game, like the kind
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  Speaker 1: of f up that should cause the franchise to go
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  Speaker 1: to the G League.
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  Speaker 3: That kind of f up.
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  Speaker 1: But the Warriors win it, and so they have earned
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  Speaker 1: the seventh seed. Make sure to fill out your bracket accordingly.
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  Speaker 1: Golden State, the seventh seed in the West. That means
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  Speaker 1: they will go to Houston to hang out in the
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  Speaker 1: den of.
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  Speaker 3: Iniquity, and they will iniquity there.
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  Speaker 1: They will hang out where the a holes have the
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  Speaker 1: trash cans and all that the baseball team, So that's
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  Speaker 1: where they're headed. Desmond Bain, who sounds like a superhero villain,
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  Speaker 1: had thirty points. And Ja Morant, we almost had our
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  Speaker 1: first injury in the Benny bracket challenge that we're doing
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  Speaker 1: calling it, come on, dumb name. But Ja Morant did
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  Speaker 1: leave this game with a ankle injury. He came back
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  Speaker 1: in he had twenty two points. And so the Grizzlies
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  Speaker 1: now they're still alive. It's not an elimination situation. But
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  Speaker 1: Memphis will head home and then they will await the
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  Speaker 1: winner of the mav Recks and the Kings.
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  Speaker 3: That'll be Sacramento that wins that matchup.
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  Speaker 1: That game being played here later on Wednesday night in
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  Speaker 1: the capital of the People's Republic of California to determine.
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  Speaker 1: So it'll be the winner of that game, which will
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  Speaker 1: be Sacramento. They will take on Memphis. I don't even
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  Speaker 1: know why they're bothering to play that game. So let
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  Speaker 1: us discuss the question. Let's focus in first on the
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  Speaker 1: team that won, and we know they're in the plus,
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  Speaker 1: how should Steph Curry and friends, Steph Curry and friends,
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  Speaker 1: how should all of them be feeling about the Warriors
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  Speaker 1: after a rather up and down playing win over Memphis.
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  Speaker 1: So I've got thingam a jig, a Christmas story, and
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  Speaker 1: double whammy, and we will combine all of these things
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  Speaker 1: together and we are gonna make the Gabba Ghoul.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, We're gonna We're gonna make the Gabba Ghul. Al Right, So.
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  Speaker 1: A uh, the the thought I had two words here,
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  Speaker 1: sweating bullets. Sweating bullets like you're in a hot yoga studio.
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  Speaker 1: The Warriors team, it's fair to say, despite the gotty
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  Speaker 1: record when they went out and got Jimmy Butler, if
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  Speaker 1: you look at how they played the last couple of
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  Speaker 1: weeks in key games, they are not hitting on all cylinders.
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  Speaker 1: You don't have to be some kind of basketball insider
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  Speaker 1: to know that, just have to have some kind of
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  Speaker 1: marginal elementary knowledge of basketball. The struggle is real. And
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  Speaker 1: that wasn't playoff Jimmy, because this is not a playoff game.
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  Speaker 1: It was playing Jimmy on the roster and with him
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  Speaker 1: it was supposed to be calm waters. You had a
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  Speaker 1: team on the other side that fired their coach for
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  Speaker 1: some reason right before the end of the year, and
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  Speaker 1: instead of calm waters, com pond water that doesn't move,
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  Speaker 1: it was turbulent seas is what you had. Their Golden
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  Speaker 1: State was not able to hit the thing of a jig.
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  Speaker 1: The thing of a jig didn't work that it was
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  Speaker 1: supposed to turn on the after burners, and so the
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  Speaker 1: thing of a jig got stuck and they couldn't turn
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  Speaker 1: on the afterburs. It looked at one point if you
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  Speaker 1: watch the game, and that's my act of goodwill, that's
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  Speaker 1: my active kindness, I watched the game so you would
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  Speaker 1: not have to. But they were unable to go full throttle.
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  Speaker 1: They did have a twenty point lead Golden State in
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  Speaker 1: the second quarter, and at that point you're like, all right,
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  Speaker 1: they're looking like they're gonna blow out the Grizzlies, and
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  Speaker 1: I can go watch some baseball game and just focusing
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  Speaker 1: on that up twenty second quarter, and then you end
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  Speaker 1: up having a finger biting fiesta at the end there.
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  Speaker 3: And even with.
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  Speaker 1: John Morant and his air hand grenades and air guns
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  Speaker 1: and all the fake weaponry, he did suffer a sprained ankle.
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  Speaker 1: That was not a fake sprain ankle. That was a
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  Speaker 1: real sprain ankle. But even with that, Steph Curry and friends,
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  Speaker 1: if you look at the way they play the lost
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  Speaker 1: home loss to San Antonio, the loss of the Clippers,
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  Speaker 1: which you know, that's a good loss. Clippers a better
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  Speaker 1: team than Golden State. But going to the Rockets, now,
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  Speaker 1: the Warriors have that veteran pedigree as they take on
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  Speaker 1: the Rockets that it also looks the way they're going
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  Speaker 1: here that they need a shaman and a couple of
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  Speaker 1: witches on the team playing down there to take on Houston.
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  Speaker 3: Good luck, Steph Curry. Is he washed up?
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  Speaker 4: No?
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  Speaker 3: I don't wash I had a big game here. But
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  Speaker 3: is he gassed? I think that's the word I was
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  Speaker 3: looking for. Gas. And there were some.
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  Speaker 1: Quotes if you listen between the words of Steve Kerr
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  Speaker 1: and some of the others that indicated the Warriors are tired.
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  Speaker 3: They can't handle the schedule.
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  Speaker 1: All right, my god, all right, now, let's get to
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  Speaker 1: the Komodo dragon.
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  Speaker 3: In the room. Can you explain in one word?
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  Speaker 1: Can you explain in one word the Memphis Grizzlies plausibly
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  Speaker 1: an NBA team down three points fourth quarter, win and
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  Speaker 1: you're in the playoffs. Lose, you gotta play another game.
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  Speaker 1: Win and you're in the playoffs. Lose, you gotta play
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  Speaker 1: another game down three five point four seconds left on
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  Speaker 1: the clock, ball out of bounds, ball out of bounds.
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  Speaker 1: How on God's green Earth do you commit a five
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  Speaker 1: second violation in that situation that The word I have
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  Speaker 1: is I jotted this down on my notesapp on my phone. Malfeasance.
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  Speaker 1: Don't ask me to smell it. Malfeasance is the word
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  Speaker 1: that was why MCA like it is what that was.
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  Speaker 1: And I don't even know the name of the interim
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  Speaker 1: coach with the Grizzlies. There's no need to learn the
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  Speaker 1: name because he ain't keeping that job. But my god,
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  Speaker 1: what are you doing? I mean, I mean, holy you know.
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  Speaker 3: What I mean?
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  Speaker 1: You're right there? He got to get there. You can't
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  Speaker 1: get the ball and bounds. At least get a shot up.
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  Speaker 1: Get the ball that Desmond Baine who was was killing it,
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  Speaker 1: and they didn't do that.
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  Speaker 3: All right, Now we turn the page.
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  Speaker 1: We go to Orlando where Mickey Mouse lives down the street.
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  Speaker 1: Cole Anthony, he said, I'm no Mickey Mouse, I'm not Goofy,
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  Speaker 1: I'm not Donald Duck. But he went wacky off the
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  Speaker 1: bench twenty six points, a lot of extended garbage time
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  Speaker 1: as a bench player. Cole Anthony led the way twenty
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  Speaker 1: six points, six assists, and the Orlando basketball team gets
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  Speaker 1: a one, twenty ninety five blowout. That's a vaporizing, a
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  Speaker 1: vaporizing of the team from Georgia, the Hawks. And so
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  Speaker 1: that's that was the early game, the Eastern Conference game.
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  Speaker 1: Paulo Bonceno seventeen points, nine rebound, seven assists for the Floridians.
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  Speaker 1: As they have locked their ticket in, they have earned
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  Speaker 1: the Eastern Conference seven seed, a five hundred record, forty
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  Speaker 1: one up, forty one down, and the Magic or the
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  Speaker 1: seventh seed. That means they have a date in the Commonwealth,
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  Speaker 1: the Magic and Celtics that'll kickoff on Sunday, and Orlando
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  Speaker 1: split four games against Boston during the regular season. But
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  Speaker 1: you can't judge anything off that because the players don't
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  Speaker 1: try in the regular season.
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  Speaker 3: Most of them do not show up to work.
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  Speaker 1: It is a massive problem in that business and it
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  Speaker 1: continues to be a problem no matter what they do.
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  Speaker 3: The players just are soft. They're weak. They can't handle it.
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  Speaker 1: The better story though, in this one, was in the
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  Speaker 1: losing locker room. There was some faux outrage at the
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  Speaker 1: end of this game. As the Hawks now they will
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  Speaker 1: play at home Friday night. They're not eliminated. They'll play
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  Speaker 1: for the eighth spot. They'll play the winner of the
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  Speaker 1: Bulls and.
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  Speaker 3: The Heat on Friday night.
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  Speaker 1: But Hawks star guard Trey Young was ejected with four
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  Speaker 1: forty eight left in the fourth quarter. He picked up
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  Speaker 1: not one, but two quick technical fouls, the first one
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  Speaker 1: for throwing the ball at an official in an angerly manner,
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  Speaker 1: the second for kicking the ball away before the magic
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  Speaker 1: shot foul shots, and that was the old seal. Later
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  Speaker 1: get out of here. So somebody will say, oh, you
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  Speaker 1: can't eject Trey Young, what are you doing here? So
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  Speaker 1: was Trey Young? Was Trey Young's ejection with a little
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  Speaker 1: less than five minutes to go fair or foul. So
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  Speaker 1: upon an experedited review a seconds long. I only needed
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  Speaker 1: to watch this one time. Fair ball, fair ball, fair call,
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  Speaker 1: fair ball, fair call. Tray Young?
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  Speaker 3: What he did here? He went a Christmas story.
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  Speaker 1: He tripled dog dared, triple dog dared.
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  Speaker 3: James Williams, the generically named official.
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  Speaker 1: And you and I both know if you triple dog
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  Speaker 1: dare someone, they gotta do it. It's a triple dog dare.
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  Speaker 1: And it was a triple dog dare by Trey Young.
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  Speaker 1: And he wanted to get out of there. And he
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  Speaker 1: was like he was singing, Nana na na eh, good bye.
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  Speaker 1: It was premeditated. The Hawks were getting spit roasted by Orlando.
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  Speaker 1: They were down by twenty. It seemed like the entire
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  Speaker 1: game they were getting there, you know what hand of them.
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  Speaker 1: And so Trey Young decided that he would get a
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  Speaker 1: jump on everybody. The creature comforts in the locker room
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  Speaker 1: as opposed to hemorrhoids sitting.
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  Speaker 3: On the bench.
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  Speaker 1: All right now, turning the page away from these Hugaysey
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  Speaker 1: playing games, we go now to the Big Easy where
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  Speaker 1: the streets are talking and they are telling us that
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  Speaker 1: the inevitable is about to have become reality if you're
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  Speaker 1: looking ahead in the hot top time machine and trying
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  Speaker 1: to figure out what's going to be the big story
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  Speaker 1: of the silly season. Because every year in the silly
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  Speaker 1: season in pro bouncy ball, you gotta have at least
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  Speaker 1: two big name players that change teams, or at least
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  Speaker 1: the talk that at least two big name players that
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  Speaker 1: change teams. They do it every year. It's all part
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  Speaker 1: of the writing. The writing team there in the writing
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  Speaker 1: room they put that together.
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  Speaker 3: So one of the.
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  Speaker 1: Names, according to the chatter, they're telling us that the Pelicans,
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  Speaker 1: silly named basketball team there in Louisiana, that they have
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  Speaker 1: given the ownership there has given the newly appointed Joe Dumars.
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  Speaker 3: That's right. You think Joe Dumares had this job like
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  Speaker 3: a month ago or two months ago. Probably did.
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  Speaker 1: Joe Dumars, who's now the GM there, the old Piston guy,
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  Speaker 1: and he has been mandated to deal away the dead
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  Speaker 1: weight otherwise known as Zion Williamson. So how do you
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  Speaker 1: digest how do you digest Zion Williamson trade talks that
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  Speaker 1: will pop up here as we get through the next
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  Speaker 1: couple of months and through the playoffs and all that
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  Speaker 1: in New Orleans. So I digest this like Zion digests
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  Speaker 1: a tray of Begnet's. I'm talking about the puffy pastry,
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  Speaker 1: that delicious, that donut just wonderful. Uh. And Zion, who
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  Speaker 1: was drafted number one overall number and recall at the time,
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  Speaker 1: the guy was so good he was literally jumping out
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  Speaker 1: of his shoes at Duke the handful of games he
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  Speaker 1: played for Duke, and so every one said, oh man,
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  Speaker 1: this guy's God's gift of basketball. He's the next prodigy
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  Speaker 1: and all that stuff. So they tagged him.
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  Speaker 3: With the capitol P potential.
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  Speaker 1: And again, a prospect is a suspect until proven otherwise.
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  Speaker 1: And Zion, because of that, he wrote checks that were
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  Speaker 1: massive and even though he has a just jumbo size,
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  Speaker 1: just absolute jumbo size, padunkadunk could not cash those checks.
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  Speaker 1: And he's got the double whammie Zion. He's overweight and
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  Speaker 1: injury prone. Overweight and injury prone and injury prone. That's
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  Speaker 1: a dime a dozen in the NBA. But you toss
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  Speaker 1: in the overweight. Oh boy, So who do you see.
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  Speaker 3: Making a run at Zion on the trade market? Now?
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  Speaker 1: Looking in to our Malar crystal ball, which is never wrong.
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  Speaker 1: The Mallard crystal ball, never wrong. We see my Miami, Miami, Miami, Miami, Chicago, Brooklyn,
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  Speaker 1: and as a wild card, the crystal ball, which is
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  Speaker 1: never wrong. The Charlotte Hornets go back close to home.
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  Speaker 1: He's from South Carolina. That's the closest team there in
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  Speaker 1: North Carolina. The Hornets go down there below the Mason
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  Speaker 1: Dixon line, Miami. If they can get some of that
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  Speaker 1: water that the fountain of youth from Ponce de Leon.
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  Speaker 3: If they can do that, you go to Miami.
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  Speaker 1: Nothing good happens in basketball in Brooklyn, and the Bulls
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  Speaker 1: have to suck for like one hundred years because they
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  Speaker 1: had Michael Jordan for all those years. But Zion, either way,
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  Speaker 1: he's a diminished asset. The bloom is off the rose
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  Speaker 1: at this particular point. But there's enough people in that business.
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  Speaker 1: There's enough people that will say, well, he's young enough
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  Speaker 1: and he just hasn't been coached up the right way,
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  Speaker 1: and we'll just get him big bottle of ozepic and
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  Speaker 1: he'll be lean and mean, and we'll keep them away
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  Speaker 1: from the only fans models and the watch out.
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  Speaker 3: There to the moon, to the Moon, to the Moon,
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  Speaker 3: To the Moon, to the Moon, To the Moon, to
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  Speaker 3: the Moon.
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  Speaker 2: Be sure to catch live editions of The Ben Meller
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  Speaker 2: Show weekdays at two am Eastern eleven pm Pacific on
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  Speaker 1: This hour is from the Lone Star State High Drama.
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  Speaker 1: We have a mantra we go where these stories of
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  Speaker 1: the day take us and right now this hour deep
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  Speaker 1: in the heart of Texas and that is where the
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  Speaker 1: mav Res and they are the Maverrecks.
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  Speaker 3: Now they will play, proving there are too many.
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  Speaker 1: Teams involved in the NBA postseason slash play and the
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  Speaker 1: Mavericks the mav rex will take on Sacramento later on tonight,
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  Speaker 1: but Maverick GM Nico Harrison addressing Yes Fire Niko, Nico
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  Speaker 1: Harrison addressing the Komodo draft in the room and really
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  Speaker 1: more like the snuffleofagus in the room. Nico addressing the
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  Speaker 1: media in only ways that he can do it in
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  Speaker 1: a very private round table cloak and dagger like discussion.
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  Speaker 1: This took place on Tuesday, was the first time since
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  Speaker 1: giving away the Family Jewels, literally giving away Luca in
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  Speaker 1: one of the most absurd moments in the history of Sports.
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  Speaker 3: Well, I've been doing this job anyway.
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  Speaker 1: So if you didn't hear what he said, and maybe
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  Speaker 1: not Nico Harrison, chances are you didn't hear it.
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  Speaker 3: There's no video of it. So Nico Harrison said that
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  Speaker 3: he has no.
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  Speaker 1: Regrets, no regrets trading the Maverick superstar, no regrets trading Luca,
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  Speaker 1: despite universal backlash, every single person.
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  Speaker 3: In lockstep that you're wrong.
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  Speaker 1: He is standing Nico Harrison on top of if mountain
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  Speaker 1: and he said, no, I'm right.
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  Speaker 3: So if you didn't hear the quote. Now, we don't
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  Speaker 3: have video of this, and I don't believe.
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  Speaker 1: There's any that is out there. It's not allowed. We'll
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  Speaker 1: explain why in a second. But Nico Harrison said he
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  Speaker 1: has no regrets trading away the aforementioned Luca. He said,
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  Speaker 1: there's no regrets on the trade. He grumbled during this
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  Speaker 1: roundtable discussion with the media. Part of it is doing
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  Speaker 1: the best thing for the MAVs. Now Nico Harrison gushed
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  Speaker 1: that he believes the team post trade, which was intended
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  Speaker 1: to be on the court before all the injuries, is
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  Speaker 1: a quote championship team. Nico added that once everyone is
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  Speaker 1: at full strength, the team will have one of the
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  Speaker 1: strongest front lines in the NBA. Okay, let us discuss.
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  Speaker 1: So why don't we play the what's the word game?
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  Speaker 1: Let's play what's the word game? I love what's the
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  Speaker 1: word game? One of my favorite games.
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  Speaker 3: What's the word? I love words? I like the lexicon.
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  Speaker 3: All right, here's the what's the word game? Question?
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  Speaker 1: MAVs GM Nico Harrison, saying that he has no regrets
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  Speaker 1: for giving away Luka Donzik to the Lakers is blank.
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  Speaker 1: So I've got Captain Jack Sparrow, Charlie Latuna, and Aretha Franklin,
• 19:22
  Speaker 1: and we'll combine all these things together and we are
• 19:26
  Speaker 1: going to make some ant acid, which is what the
• 19:31
  Speaker 1: Dallas fan needs. So again, answer the question, maverism Nico Harrison,
• 19:35
  Speaker 1: saying he has no regrets for giving away Luka Doncic
• 19:38
  Speaker 1: to the Lakers is blank.
• 19:40
  Speaker 3: What's the word? My word is.
• 19:44
  Speaker 1: Devilish, as in crafty and devilish. All right, that's my
• 19:50
  Speaker 1: word here. That's number one. Every man, woman and child,
• 19:56
  Speaker 1: every man one a child knows that this was not
• 19:58
  Speaker 1: a trade, this was a give this would give away.
• 20:02
  Speaker 1: This is a I'm I'm done with college, I'm moving.
• 20:06
  Speaker 1: I don't want my ikea furniture. Come pick what you want.
• 20:10
  Speaker 1: I'm not taking anything with me.
• 20:12
  Speaker 3: I'm out. I'm done. That's what that is, right. And
• 20:17
  Speaker 3: it's akin to arson, is what it is. Right.
• 20:21
  Speaker 1: If it was a crime, it would be arson. You'd
• 20:24
  Speaker 1: burn the building now right. The house is on fire.
• 20:28
  Speaker 1: The house is on fire. It's a five alarm fire.
• 20:31
  Speaker 1: It's an unforced error. Unforced error. It is such a
• 20:36
  Speaker 1: terrible move. This is one of those things. It's like
• 20:38
  Speaker 1: so wild and crazy to me. It is such an
• 20:42
  Speaker 1: f up that most people truly believe that there must
• 20:46
  Speaker 1: be some kind of conspiracy involved.
• 20:48
  Speaker 3: That no one in their right mind, no one.
• 20:51
  Speaker 1: That is not on some kind of pharmaceuticals or mandata
• 20:55
  Speaker 1: to make this kind of move, would make this move.
• 20:57
  Speaker 1: That is where we're at. So, either it was the
• 20:59
  Speaker 1: Maverick owners who want to move the team out of
• 21:02
  Speaker 1: Dallas and move them to Vegas, and they want the
• 21:05
  Speaker 1: fans to turn on the team, and so they traded
• 21:07
  Speaker 1: the top player for nothing, gave them away, or it's
• 21:11
  Speaker 1: at a higher level. NBA TV ratings were terrible, no
• 21:15
  Speaker 1: one was watching. Ratings were in the toilet. Adam Silver
• 21:18
  Speaker 1: and the people in New York there on fifth Avenue
• 21:21
  Speaker 1: got together and the TV people are saying, we're paying
• 21:23
  Speaker 1: you a lot of money and you're not giving us
• 21:26
  Speaker 1: return on investment, and we're going to have to give
• 21:28
  Speaker 1: make goods because in television and sometimes in radio two,
• 21:33
  Speaker 1: if you promise an advertiser a certain audience and you
• 21:36
  Speaker 1: don't give them that audience, you have to then make
• 21:39
  Speaker 1: up those commercials. And there's nothing that executives in television
• 21:44
  Speaker 1: and radio hate more than make goods. They can't stand
• 21:49
  Speaker 1: it because they're giving free spots away because they didn't
• 21:54
  Speaker 1: provide the audience they promised to pride. It's problematic. It's problematic.
• 21:59
  Speaker 1: So that that's one of the conspiracies. And while we
• 22:03
  Speaker 1: are in line, and I want the record to show
• 22:06
  Speaker 1: that we are in line, that Nico Harrison is a
• 22:09
  Speaker 1: big dummy. He's a big dummy, He's a Schmendrick. I
• 22:14
  Speaker 1: have an unpopular take. I'm about to share an unpopular take.
• 22:18
  Speaker 1: I'd like to warn all the affiliates. Unpopular take coming
• 22:24
  Speaker 1: down the pike. The part of Nico Harrison not apologizing
• 22:31
  Speaker 1: is the correct call. It is the right call.
• 22:34
  Speaker 3: Let me explain.
• 22:35
  Speaker 1: It's Captain Jack Sparrow like it is savvy. It is
• 22:40
  Speaker 1: savvy public figures. I've said this for years. This is
• 22:43
  Speaker 1: not an original take, but it applies to this. If
• 22:46
  Speaker 1: you're a public figure, you should never apologize, and in
• 22:49
  Speaker 1: this case, you certainly shouldn't not tell you why, because
• 22:52
  Speaker 1: the Maverick fan is not going to forgive you. This
• 22:56
  Speaker 1: is an unforgivable sin. What you have done is a
• 22:59
  Speaker 1: war crime in in the sporting world.
• 23:00
  Speaker 3: It's a war crime.
• 23:02
  Speaker 1: We need to have a tribunal here. The fan also
• 23:06
  Speaker 1: does not care if you're sorry. They don't care if
• 23:09
  Speaker 1: somebody else told you to do it. They just want
• 23:13
  Speaker 1: to use your apology against you. And the moment that
• 23:16
  Speaker 1: Nico Harrison apologizes, he's essentially he's admitting culpability.
• 23:22
  Speaker 3: He's admitting guilt. It's not gonna make anyone feel better.
• 23:25
  Speaker 1: It's not like Luca's gonna walk back and put on
• 23:27
  Speaker 1: a Maverick uniform again, and it's just going to pour
• 23:31
  Speaker 1: gasoline on the fire and the lunatics are going to
• 23:35
  Speaker 1: go ten times harder after Nico Harrison. So the top
• 23:40
  Speaker 1: course of action here is to just not acknowledge the outrage.
• 23:46
  Speaker 3: And so I actually agree with that part of it.
• 23:48
  Speaker 3: Now there's other parts.
• 23:49
  Speaker 1: Of this that are completely ridiculous now turning the page two.
• 23:53
  Speaker 1: One of those would be Nico Harrison. He was asked
• 23:56
  Speaker 1: at this little shindig, if he feels an obligation to
• 24:00
  Speaker 1: the Maverick fan, if there's an obligation to the fan,
• 24:04
  Speaker 1: and he said no. He said, no, my obligations are
• 24:09
  Speaker 1: to the Dallas Mavericks. What's in the best interest of
• 24:14
  Speaker 1: the Dallas mav Rex that's the most important thing.
• 24:17
  Speaker 3: Close quote.
• 24:20
  Speaker 1: So how do you decode Nico Harrison and his word
• 24:25
  Speaker 1: about not caring about the Maverick fan. See, this was
• 24:30
  Speaker 1: a unforced error, much like the Luca Doncik trade. It
• 24:35
  Speaker 1: was also Charlie the Tuna like now, Charlie Latuna was
• 24:39
  Speaker 1: his character back in the day, and the players on
• 24:42
  Speaker 1: the New York Giants used to pick on Bill Parcells
• 24:45
  Speaker 1: and they said, you look like that Charlie the Tuna,
• 24:47
  Speaker 1: And Bill Parcells had a quote he said, if you
• 24:50
  Speaker 1: listen to the fans, he said, you'll be sitting.
• 24:52
  Speaker 3: Up there with him.
• 24:53
  Speaker 1: So it's that mindset. However, on this one, it's a
• 24:58
  Speaker 1: very simple answer. It's like, yeah, the without the fan,
• 25:03
  Speaker 1: the Mavericks are nothing. The whole business model is based
• 25:07
  Speaker 1: on the fan. So if your obligation is not to
• 25:10
  Speaker 1: the fan, then it's like, well, I don't care about
• 25:14
  Speaker 1: the customers. You're literally serving the customers, you moron. And
• 25:20
  Speaker 1: what do you need in that profession? You know it,
• 25:22
  Speaker 1: and I know it. Everyone knows it. You need stars.
• 25:26
  Speaker 1: You gotta have the star. It's the entertainment world, it's
• 25:30
  Speaker 1: show business. That is the world you're in. And part
• 25:36
  Speaker 1: of me is wondering, is that a tel? Is that
• 25:39
  Speaker 1: a tel? What does that mean? Did Harrison reveal that
• 25:43
  Speaker 1: he was simply following the orders of ownership and so
• 25:47
  Speaker 1: he's not obligated to the fan. He's obligated to the
• 25:50
  Speaker 1: owner who told him to get rid of Luca because
• 25:52
  Speaker 1: they want to move the team to Vegas, and the
• 25:54
  Speaker 1: quickest way to move the team to Vegas is to
• 25:58
  Speaker 1: get rid of this guy right now. Final point. So
• 26:02
  Speaker 1: here's where it gets even crazier. There were reports throughout
• 26:05
  Speaker 1: the day, and some of this happened while I was sleeping,
• 26:07
  Speaker 1: But when I woke up, I was I was acutely
• 26:11
  Speaker 1: aware of what was going on.
• 26:12
  Speaker 3: I was dialed in.
• 26:14
  Speaker 1: So why did the Dallas Mavericks outlaw cameras? Why did
• 26:18
  Speaker 1: they ban cameras from the Nico Harrison news conference. So
• 26:25
  Speaker 1: not only did they ban cameras, originally they banned recording devices,
• 26:30
  Speaker 1: which I'm pretty sure makes it not a news conference
• 26:35
  Speaker 1: and makes it like just like a board meeting or
• 26:38
  Speaker 1: something like that. But my answer is the it's the
• 26:41
  Speaker 1: Aretha Franklin tune from back in the day, Chain of fools.
• 26:46
  Speaker 1: It is a pr debacle. What are you afraid of? Like?
• 26:51
  Speaker 3: What do you do?
• 26:52
  Speaker 1: And the other thing that drives me nuts. And I've
• 26:55
  Speaker 1: been battling this for a long time, these teams, and
• 26:58
  Speaker 1: we talk about it on these era you know, the
• 27:01
  Speaker 1: media elites that cover the games that are inside hand picked,
• 27:05
  Speaker 1: and the Dallas Mavericks did it, Like I would be
• 27:07
  Speaker 1: embarrassed to be on that list.
• 27:08
  Speaker 3: But the Dallas Mavericks they.
• 27:10
  Speaker 1: Picked hand picked media buddies, right media friends, useful idiots
• 27:14
  Speaker 1: in the media, and they invited them behind closed doors.
• 27:18
  Speaker 3: For this little get together.
• 27:20
  Speaker 1: And again initially they didn't want to allow any video
• 27:22
  Speaker 1: or audio, the handpicked toadies the knee pad, whereas the
• 27:29
  Speaker 1: brown nosers and the media there in Dallas they objected. Originally,
• 27:33
  Speaker 1: we were told, and then the Mavericks all right, well,
• 27:35
  Speaker 1: you can record on your little phones there or whatever.
• 27:37
  Speaker 1: You can't publish anything. You can't do it just to
• 27:40
  Speaker 1: transcribe stuff. Talk about real balls, real balls.
• 27:45
  Speaker 3: Now. The other theme here.
• 27:48
  Speaker 1: Is that the Mavericks traded for Anthony Davis, and we
• 27:52
  Speaker 1: mentioned the quote from Nico Harrison. He said, well, I
• 27:54
  Speaker 1: would have worked out if if the injuries hadn't happened.
• 28:00
  Speaker 3: And you know what that is. That is a steaming.
• 28:02
  Speaker 1: Shovel full of bullshoy. It is piping hot fertilizer, is
• 28:08
  Speaker 1: what that is. And ifs and butts were candy and nuts,
• 28:11
  Speaker 1: you'd win the championship every year. The criticism of the trade,
• 28:18
  Speaker 1: the whole point that people were going was that we
• 28:20
  Speaker 1: you didn't get enough in return, and what you got.
• 28:22
  Speaker 3: Was a damaged player in Anthony Davis.
• 28:25
  Speaker 1: You can't play the injury excuse when you trade for
• 28:30
  Speaker 1: a player that is universally known as a broken down
• 28:34
  Speaker 1: useless player because he's not dependable.
• 28:36
  Speaker 3: And then he gets broken down and becomes useless.
• 28:40
  Speaker 1: You can't then say well, if only we had stayed
• 28:42
  Speaker 1: healthy again, ifs and butts were candy and nuts, you'd
• 28:45
  Speaker 1: win the championship every year.
• 28:46
  Speaker 3: And the Mavericks now they're building.
• 28:48
  Speaker 1: Around two injury prone players, two aging players, Kyrie Irving
• 28:54
  Speaker 1: and Anthony Davis. And if you look at their injury charts,
• 28:58
  Speaker 1: it goes on page down, page down, page down.
• 29:01
  Speaker 3: Pay. I mean, it just keeps going and going going.
• 29:03
  Speaker 1: It's like an energizer, Buddy, he goes and goes and
• 29:06
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• 29:26
  Speaker 6: Former Cardinals cornerback Patrick Peterson returned to Arizona on Monday
• 29:30
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• 29:32
  Speaker 6: back in twenty eleven. Ben, do you think Peterson is
• 29:35
  Speaker 6: a Hall of Famer.
• 29:37
  Speaker 1: He's a borderline Hall of Famer. The criteria that I
• 29:40
  Speaker 1: use for the Hall of Fame, he does not. He's borderlines.
• 29:44
  Speaker 1: He wasn't All Pro three times. He was on an
• 29:46
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• 29:49
  Speaker 1: of the NFL without.
• 29:51
  Speaker 3: Mentioning Patrick Peterson.
• 29:53
  Speaker 1: There's really nothing there there that is over the top memorable.
• 29:58
  Speaker 1: He's one of those borderlines guys that it'll maybe he
• 30:02
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• 30:05
  Speaker 6: Next, quarterback Will Howard recently said the same thing that
• 30:08
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• 30:11
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• 30:12
  Speaker 3: You will regret it.
• 30:13
  Speaker 6: Ben, what is your assessment of the college football National
• 30:16
  Speaker 6: champ Uh?
• 30:18
  Speaker 3: He was fine. He's got the the size of a good.
• 30:21
  Speaker 1: NFL player, and he's got the he's got the accolades.
• 30:24
  Speaker 1: But I don't there's nothing that says this guy's going
• 30:27
  Speaker 1: to Megan now. He does not have an elite arm.
• 30:31
  Speaker 1: And if you look at all the you know, the.
• 30:33
  Speaker 3: Decision making and all that stuff that he.
• 30:35
  Speaker 1: Was locked in on receivers, he's like a second or
• 30:38
  Speaker 1: third round pick.
• 30:39
  Speaker 3: And maybe he'll make it.
• 30:40
  Speaker 1: Maybe he will, but I'm not overly confident that Will
• 30:43
  Speaker 1: Howard's gonna go on and be great. He may maybe'd
• 30:46
  Speaker 1: be like Brock Purty get with a good team be overrated.
• 30:49
  Speaker 6: Next, for the first time in eleven years, someone other
• 30:51
  Speaker 6: than Lebron James or Steph Curry has the best selling
• 30:54
  Speaker 6: jersey in the the in the NBA, and that player
• 30:56
  Speaker 6: is Luka Doncik. Ben, Is it safe to say that
• 30:59
  Speaker 6: with the trade Los Angeles, Luca is the next face
• 31:01
  Speaker 6: of the NBA.
• 31:03
  Speaker 3: No, it's safe to.
• 31:03
  Speaker 1: Say that he changed teams and there's a lot of
• 31:06
  Speaker 1: historians that wanted to buy his jersey and so they
• 31:09
  Speaker 1: sold a lot.
• 31:10
  Speaker 3: That's why he was numboys not the face of the NBA.
• 31:12
  Speaker 5: You failed this edition.
• 31:13
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• 32:05
  Speaker 3: This is all about you. Lorene good good week of.
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  Speaker 4: No, I'm glad you know, yes, of course. Oh my gosh,
• 32:10
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• 32:15
  Speaker 1: But it's not.
• 32:16
  Speaker 3: That's too much.
• 32:17
  Speaker 4: Why are you staring at me?
• 32:18
  Speaker 3: Like that, has it been two months since? Yes, it's April, right,
• 32:21
  Speaker 3: that was Valentine's Day. It was in February. Wow, okay,
• 32:26
  Speaker 3: wild yeah all you want you want these questions? Right,
• 32:29
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• 32:30
  Speaker 4: Oh yeah, you know we could go that way. We
• 32:31
  Speaker 4: can go that route for sure.
• 32:33
  Speaker 3: Okay, we also go always. Okay, we'll do We'll do
• 32:36
  Speaker 3: a little bit of this, a little bit of that.
• 32:37
  Speaker 1: Lorena is a an expert at relationships, and she's the
• 32:42
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• 32:52
  Speaker 5: Oh yeah?
• 32:53
  Speaker 1: Oh yeah, all right, let's see here, late night drug tester. Right, since,
• 32:57
  Speaker 1: says Lorena, are those supplements to improve bedroom performance sold
• 33:01
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• 33:10
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• 33:12
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• 33:17
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• 33:19
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• 33:21
  Speaker 4: That's interesting. That's like bragging about going to Arco for
• 33:24
  Speaker 4: their hot dogs like, Oh, if.
• 33:25
  Speaker 5: You had their hot dogs are so great.
• 33:27
  Speaker 4: But if you if you get real good hot dogs,
• 33:29
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• 33:34
  Speaker 3: Named there.
• 33:35
  Speaker 4: Yeah, and I personally have never used those enhancement pills
• 33:39
  Speaker 4: at all.
• 33:39
  Speaker 3: Well, no, I don't think anyone thought you would have
• 33:42
  Speaker 3: used them. I don't know that they're necessarily Yeah.
• 33:44
  Speaker 4: Well maybe a man can answer your team.
• 33:46
  Speaker 1: Yes, okay, you have no no comment on that late
• 33:49
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• 33:52
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• 33:52
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• 34:00
  Speaker 1: He says, I'm trying to help my showfriend ferg Dog
• 34:04
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• 34:08
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• 34:10
  Speaker 6: Yeah?
• 34:10
  Speaker 4: Yeah, Steve Covino has this one fashion tiph like to
• 34:14
  Speaker 4: wear your socks high up into your calfs.
• 34:18
  Speaker 5: Why, like a vatto.
• 34:19
  Speaker 4: I think that's what he calls it, or a fool. Yeah,
• 34:23
  Speaker 4: girls really like that, and then it gives you a
• 34:25
  Speaker 4: nice tandline. It gives you a nice handline.
• 34:30
  Speaker 3: What about your advice?
• 34:32
  Speaker 4: Make sure yeah, thrift stores, man, find your own style. Yeah,
• 34:37
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• 34:38
  Speaker 3: Way.
• 34:39
  Speaker 4: Yeah, don't wear don't wear shirts that everyone has. Don't
• 34:43
  Speaker 4: be too clean, because then you're unapproachable. You gotta look
• 34:46
  Speaker 4: like the average man.
• 34:48
  Speaker 1: Well, the average man buys stuff off the rack, though,
• 34:51
  Speaker 1: isn't that usually what the average man does?
• 34:53
  Speaker 3: Is that?
• 34:54
  Speaker 4: No, I think the average man doesn't ever go shopping
• 34:56
  Speaker 4: for new items.
• 34:58
  Speaker 5: Oh that's the thing that's probably true.
• 35:00
  Speaker 3: Yeah, all right, very go let's take a call here.
• 35:04
  Speaker 3: It is the Queen of hearts, our friend Loraina. Let's
• 35:06
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• 35:13
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• 35:14
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• 35:15
  Speaker 1: Hello, loredo, Dave.
• 35:16
  Speaker 5: Do you wear high socks?
• 35:18
  Speaker 3: Yes?
• 35:19
  Speaker 2: I do?
• 35:19
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• 35:23
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• 35:27
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• 35:29
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• 35:31
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• 35:32
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• 35:34
  Speaker 1: Whenever whenever I hear Lorena, I just get so turned on.
• 35:43
  Speaker 3: It's a little uncomfortable.
• 35:45
  Speaker 5: I don't think there was a question coming.
• 35:46
  Speaker 4: That's funny.
• 35:47
  Speaker 3: Yeah, oh yeah.
• 35:48
  Speaker 4: Shout out to all of my listeners who attempt to
• 35:50
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• 35:52
  Speaker 3: It's not going to Does that happen? Really? Is that
• 35:56
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  Speaker 3: you would love.
• 35:58
  Speaker 5: To take you out.
• 36:00
  Speaker 4: Let's go to dinner.
• 36:01
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• 36:05
  Speaker 3: Okay, isn't it? Well?
• 36:07
  Speaker 4: You know, hey, Instagram is.
• 36:11
  Speaker 1: From what I've seen, it's a lot of onlyfan models
• 36:13
  Speaker 1: on there that are trying to get customers that it appears,
• 36:16
  Speaker 1: but I don't.
• 36:16
  Speaker 3: Know, maybe maybe not, who knows, I have no idea.
• 36:18
  Speaker 1: All right, let's say hello to I'll go all the
• 36:21
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• 36:24
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• 36:26
  Speaker 3: He's neighbors with Arnie Spaniel. Hello, Dennis, welcome.
• 36:30
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• 36:33
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• 36:35
  Speaker 1: Man?
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  Speaker 3: Ah?
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  Speaker 1: All right?
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  Speaker 4: You got what's going on?
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  Speaker 1: And I'm sorry for the last scholar.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, that was creepy.
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  Speaker 5: So I've retired, like you.
• 36:54
  Speaker 2: Gotta talk to me out of retirement from Malaysia relationships.
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  Speaker 1: I'm almost done.
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  Speaker 4: Were you starred?
• 37:03
  Speaker 5: What happened? Why did you leave the game?
• 37:06
  Speaker 1: Oh?
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  Speaker 2: God?
• 37:09
  Speaker 4: Last one was a doozy.
• 37:12
  Speaker 1: Uh So I'm fifty.
• 37:14
  Speaker 2: Years old and I'm actually pretty damn good looking.
• 37:17
  Speaker 3: But I'm retired.
• 37:18
  Speaker 1: I mean, I don't know how to get out of retirement.
• 37:21
  Speaker 4: Well, you got to put yourself there if you want
• 37:24
  Speaker 4: if you want it, you got to go after it.
• 37:26
  Speaker 4: If you want that companionship, you got to put yourself
• 37:28
  Speaker 4: out there. Again. I almost don't want the companionship.
• 37:32
  Speaker 3: You do, but you do. You called up, you wanted.
• 37:35
  Speaker 4: No, No, I know you also love your peace right
• 37:40
  Speaker 4: like you have a sense of like calmness when you're alone.
• 37:43
  Speaker 4: I feel the exact same way. So find someone who's
• 37:45
  Speaker 4: okay with being flexible, with your with how you're feeling, and.
• 37:49
  Speaker 3: He wants a friend with benefits. That's what the man.
• 37:52
  Speaker 4: That's great. If that's what that, Yeah, you can find
• 37:57
  Speaker 4: that for sure.
• 37:59
  Speaker 2: You don't have to get out of retirement.
• 38:02
  Speaker 4: You just put yourself.
• 38:03
  Speaker 3: I think she said how you got it? You're not listening,
• 38:06
  Speaker 3: she said it.
• 38:06
  Speaker 4: Go outside, Go to the grocery store, go to a bar,
• 38:09
  Speaker 4: go to a breek, go to You're fifty, right, go hiking,
• 38:13
  Speaker 4: go hang.
• 38:14
  Speaker 3: Out, go to go to Ben and Jerry's.
• 38:17
  Speaker 1: Oh my god, all right, I was so close to
• 38:23
  Speaker 1: the end that we were doing.
• 38:25
  Speaker 3: We were doing so good. We were doing so good.
• 38:29
  Speaker 3: And then Dennis the Man is over there you Coop,
• 38:33
  Speaker 3: that's Coop. Yeah, I know, Coop, so cute? Up all right?
• 38:37
  Speaker 3: Moving on?
• 38:38
  Speaker 1: Fird Dog says are long distance relationship is a complete
• 38:42
  Speaker 1: waste of time.
• 38:44
  Speaker 4: No, no, They're hard to maintain for sure.
• 38:48
  Speaker 3: But only a partial.
• 38:50
  Speaker 4: Yeah, but you have to be able to travel to
• 38:53
  Speaker 4: go see them. You have to. I hate when people
• 38:55
  Speaker 4: try to make that work, like you have to be
• 38:57
  Speaker 4: able to see that person.
• 38:59
  Speaker 3: Yeah, expensive and things like that.
• 39:01
  Speaker 4: Yeah, Facetime's kind of nice though, right, eh, a little bit,
• 39:06
  Speaker 4: but you can't do the touch of feeling.
• 39:08
  Speaker 3: Queen of hearts there it is. Oh no, oh, we're good.
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• 40:26
  Speaker 1: It's welcome in our contestants and we have well, let's
• 40:30
  Speaker 1: see here. We have.
• 40:33
  Speaker 3: Daniel in Fort Wayne. Hello, Daniel, Welcome.
• 40:37
  Speaker 1: Good morning band, America's favorite crossing guard and Daniel.
• 40:42
  Speaker 3: Who do you want to partner up with? Daniel?
• 40:44
  Speaker 6: Dan?
• 40:45
  Speaker 2: I have to go with you, my friend.
• 40:47
  Speaker 3: Good job by you, Daniel. We're in it to win it.
• 40:49
  Speaker 1: And we have Daniel, you're gonna play. We also have
• 40:53
  Speaker 1: Mitchell in Ohio who's gonna play?
• 40:55
  Speaker 3: Hello Mitchell?
• 40:57
  Speaker 2: Hey, what's up?
• 40:58
  Speaker 1: Ben?
• 41:00
  Speaker 3: Mitchell? Boy? You're you're quite the care Who do you
• 41:03
  Speaker 3: want to partner on with? Mitchell?
• 41:04
  Speaker 1: You got Cooper Loreina, okay, Lorany, You're out, figure out.
• 41:10
  Speaker 3: That's all.
• 41:12
  Speaker 1: I know. Not pick that's all right, you'll get ten
• 41:15
  Speaker 1: million boxes tomorrow. Everything's good, all right, very nice. Here,
• 41:18
  Speaker 1: let's play the game and again, Daniel, crossing guard Mitchell,
• 41:22
  Speaker 1: what are you doing?
• 41:22
  Speaker 3: You're out? You used to deliver like newspapers? Right, you're
• 41:25
  Speaker 3: still doing that.
• 41:27
  Speaker 4: Yea, quite as many now do like door.
• 41:30
  Speaker 3: Dash, door dash. I got you? All right? Well, very good.
• 41:33
  Speaker 1: We have a list of words one to ten and
• 41:35
  Speaker 1: no cheating, no cheating, no cheating, and we'll start out
• 41:38
  Speaker 1: with you America's favorite crossing guard, Daniel.
• 41:41
  Speaker 3: Pick a number one to ten, Daniel.
• 41:43
  Speaker 2: I want to take the lead seed number three.
• 41:48
  Speaker 3: Number three. Let's see.
• 41:51
  Speaker 2: Good.
• 41:51
  Speaker 3: Look are you cheering for him? Is that right?
• 41:56
  Speaker 4: Just good luck?
• 41:57
  Speaker 1: Okay, okay, let's go with catastrophe. It's after all right,
• 42:04
  Speaker 1: that's it. Ten points. We're off to a good start,
• 42:07
  Speaker 1: my man, pots of pants.
• 42:09
  Speaker 3: All right, I'll go ahead.
• 42:10
  Speaker 5: Coop your up, all right, Mitchell, pick a number.
• 42:15
  Speaker 3: Number one.
• 42:17
  Speaker 1: You didn't say that, right, Mitchell, say it right, Mitchell, number.
• 42:21
  Speaker 3: One, alright, you tried it. I'll give you all.
• 42:27
  Speaker 5: Right, Mitchell. Let's go for let's go with.
• 42:32
  Speaker 3: Entryway, entry.
• 42:37
  Speaker 6: Entryway, Yeah, alright.
• 42:45
  Speaker 3: Coop got excited because he was shocked. You got it right?
• 42:47
  Speaker 3: All right?
• 42:47
  Speaker 1: Go ahead there, please, Daniel, pick a number, not one,
• 42:51
  Speaker 1: not three, ten, number ten?
• 42:56
  Speaker 3: Thank you? An easy one, that is, I haven't done
• 42:59
  Speaker 3: it yet, you don't know. How about we go with
• 43:04
  Speaker 3: frightening get shared?
• 43:08
  Speaker 1: There you go?
• 43:08
  Speaker 3: All right, that works, that'll work, all right?
• 43:11
  Speaker 1: Ten twenty to ten, we get ten points. Go ahead
• 43:14
  Speaker 1: and Coop your back up.
• 43:15
  Speaker 3: It's password the word game of the stars.
• 43:18
  Speaker 1: We are showing you the knowledge the lexicon of the
• 43:21
  Speaker 1: average overnight sports talk radio.
• 43:23
  Speaker 5: Call it all right, Michel, not one, not three, not ten?
• 43:28
  Speaker 3: Hey, number eight?
• 43:30
  Speaker 5: All right, let's go with rescue. That's right, we're back
• 43:36
  Speaker 5: in it.
• 43:37
  Speaker 3: These are baby, that was?
• 43:38
  Speaker 2: That was? Yeah?
• 43:40
  Speaker 3: Quite over there. Okay, we're gonna keep going. Danie'll pick
• 43:45
  Speaker 3: the number. Yeah, we're a lot of gone. But way five,
• 43:50
  Speaker 3: number five? All right? Well, why are you laughing at that?
• 43:56
  Speaker 3: Let's go with hmm, I think that's two words.
• 44:01
  Speaker 4: Uh.
• 44:04
  Speaker 3: Let's see here which you can Let's go with uh dismissed.
• 44:16
  Speaker 5: No, all right, Mitchell, here we go for the win.
• 44:19
  Speaker 6: Here, let's go with let's go with terminated, my man?
• 44:31
  Speaker 3: All right, I don't even know if I need to
• 44:35
  Speaker 3: give a clue.
• 44:35
  Speaker 1: I feel like you should get this already, but uh,
• 44:38
  Speaker 1: let's let's go with.
• 44:41
  Speaker 3: That's it's a word. I used a lot. I don't know.
• 44:44
  Speaker 3: Whacked fired ye cry gratulated, had of time. Now we
• 45:01
  Speaker 3: don't have any time. We're out of time.
• 45:05
  Speaker 2: Now we have no time.
• 45:07
  Speaker 1: It's all you lost, Mitchell, You lost, Mitchell, We're out
• 45:09
  Speaker 1: of time.
• 45:10
  Speaker 3: Congratulates this, Daniel, you're you're the big winning.
• 45:13
  Speaker 1: You get a golden ticket, Mitchell, you get a lifetime
• 45:15
  Speaker 1: supply nothing and a trip to nowhere. But you need
• 45:19
  Speaker 1: to call the show more, Mitchell. We love your takes.
• 45:21
  Speaker 1: Mitchell is one of the great characters that calls the show,
• 45:24
  Speaker 1: and he's had some of the more outrageous calls over
• 45:26
  Speaker 1: the years. But big winner Daniel the Crossing Guard from
• 45:29
  Speaker 1: Port Wayne gets it done.