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  Speaker 2: This is the best of the Ben Maler Show on
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  Speaker 1: To the main event, the main event, and a couple
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  Speaker 1: of auctions here on the main event, and I've decided
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  Speaker 1: to zig rather than zag. It was an all star
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  Speaker 1: kind of a night. And I had said it was
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  Speaker 1: not planning and not planning to watch the pro football
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  Speaker 1: whatever that.
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  Speaker 3: Was the thing they put out. Was not planning on
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  Speaker 3: watching it.
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  Speaker 1: However, the thing that I was watching, they had these
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  Speaker 1: commercial breaks, and so what I did is I occasionally
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  Speaker 1: would flip over. I would do the old flip flippity flip,
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  Speaker 1: and I go over there and just to sample, just
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  Speaker 1: to sample the product, just to sample what was going on.
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  Speaker 1: So I thought we would start with that, right, We'd
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  Speaker 1: start with that and kind of work our way through
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  Speaker 1: the whole thing. As I don't know that you were watching.
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  Speaker 1: I didn't watch most of it. Roger Goodell fighting for
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  Speaker 1: your eyeballs as the NFL held what at one point
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  Speaker 1: was a big deal. It was a point of pride.
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  Speaker 1: But the NFL got so big and there's so much
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  Speaker 1: money involved in the NFL, it doesn't matter anymore. The
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  Speaker 1: players have quit on it, and that's what you get.
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  Speaker 1: So they called the Pro Bowl. That's quite the name
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  Speaker 1: for it. Might as well have been played in a
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  Speaker 1: Cereal Bowl and was played in San Francisco. So if
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  Speaker 1: you didn't see it, we are told that the NFC
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  Speaker 1: outscored the AFC thirty to eight in the second half
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  Speaker 1: of this flag football game, and they came back and
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  Speaker 1: won a very low scoring defensive battle sixty six to
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  Speaker 1: fifty two. Is a defense does win championships and the
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  Speaker 1: Pro Bowl. This's the all star All Star flag football
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  Speaker 1: Game now Cowboys. Cowboys wide receiver George slim Pickens was
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  Speaker 1: named the game's offensive MVP, and he helped them come back.
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  Speaker 1: For those that watch the game now, the event has
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  Speaker 1: been universally mocked. It has been lampooned as a total
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  Speaker 1: sham by those who dared consume the product many people
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  Speaker 1: questioning how the NFL could put this product on that.
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  Speaker 1: Somebody must have been asleep at the switch. It was
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  Speaker 1: that bad of a program that the NFL put out there.
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  Speaker 3: So that's a good jumping off point.
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  Speaker 1: Let us discuss the question, do Roger Goodell and the
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  Speaker 1: NFL big shots deserve.
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  Speaker 3: To be mocked for the Pro Bowl or whatever that
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  Speaker 3: thing was?
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  Speaker 1: So I've got nuclear fallout, shelter, Olympic Gold, and Emmy Award,
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  Speaker 1: and we will combine all of these things together and
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  Speaker 1: we are going to make some delicious sourdough bread because
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  Speaker 1: there's a lot of people sour and they need some bread.
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  Speaker 1: Put those things together will make some sour dough bread.
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  Speaker 1: So a the answer is to the question, do Roger
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  Speaker 1: Goodell in the NFL people deserve to be mocked for
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  Speaker 1: the Pro Bowl? One thousand percent? Right, not one hundred
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  Speaker 1: thousand percent. Poking and prodding is not just deserved, it
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  Speaker 1: is mandatory.
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  Speaker 3: It is you.
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  Speaker 1: Could not get more small time. Ricky Dink does not
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  Speaker 1: begin to cover what this thing was. This was not
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  Speaker 1: a Pro Bowl, This is not an All Star game.
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  Speaker 1: This was a yard sale with flags sanctioned by the
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  Speaker 1: National Football League. Rubbers stamped by Roger the Dodger Goodell,
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  Speaker 1: the same man who keeps telling us that the league
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  Speaker 1: has never been healthier, that every thing is great, the
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  Speaker 1: revenues are wonderful, the products, everything's just glory and great.
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  Speaker 1: And sure if you measure a health by how quickly
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  Speaker 1: the prestige continues the flat line. It's like, how low
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  Speaker 1: can you go? I didn't think you could go that low.
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  Speaker 3: We'll do limbo. Let's do the limbo. The Pro Bowl
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  Speaker 3: at one point mattered.
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  Speaker 1: Now I realized times changed, right, and the NFL is
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  Speaker 1: not a mom and pop shop anymore. It's big money,
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  Speaker 1: and with big money come big problems. Players are spoiled,
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  Speaker 1: they're entitled. They feel it's not worth their time because
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  Speaker 1: they make.
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  Speaker 3: So much money.
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  Speaker 1: And now this is so great. So the reason, by
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  Speaker 1: and again, I didn't watch most of it. I want
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  Speaker 1: to be very clear. I did not why it's not
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  Speaker 1: a product that I'm interested in. I didn't really resonate
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  Speaker 1: with me so and I actually was at the Pro
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  Speaker 1: Bowl back in Hawaii when it was legit, and even
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  Speaker 1: then it was starting to go the wrong direction. Players complained.
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  Speaker 1: When I covered the Pro Bowl in Hawaii a million
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  Speaker 1: years ago the players complained that they had that there
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  Speaker 1: were a lot of most of the teams on the
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  Speaker 1: East and so they had to fly all the way
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  Speaker 1: across the US and fly to Hawaii. You talk about hardship,
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  Speaker 1: and that was a generation to go. The guys were
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  Speaker 1: bitching about it back then, and now here we are
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  Speaker 1: and you see what has happened. But this thing was held,
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  Speaker 1: and I'm not making this up for talk radio. This
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  Speaker 1: thing was held in the basement of a convention center
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  Speaker 1: in San Francisco, a venue I would assume normally holds
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  Speaker 1: boat shows, auto expos, doctors selling some kind of snake oil.
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  Speaker 1: Maybe you can get a new nose or a butt
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  Speaker 1: in plant or something like that. And that's where they
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  Speaker 1: put the NFL's All Star Game. They couldn't kick, not
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  Speaker 1: because they didn't want to kick. The roof was too
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  Speaker 1: low to kick. This is like back when you play
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  Speaker 1: out with your boys and you'll be like, let's go
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  Speaker 1: play in the let's say little the weather's not great,
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  Speaker 1: so let's play in the gym, and we can't throw
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  Speaker 1: it too high because it'll hit the roof. They had
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  Speaker 1: metal bleachers, but not many. It was like a high
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  Speaker 1: school gym in fact, most high schools I've been to
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  Speaker 1: have more seating then the NFL Pro Bowl had.
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  Speaker 3: It's great.
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  Speaker 1: It's like they got together at a restaurant somewhere in
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  Speaker 1: San Francisco. Maybe they went over to the Stinking Rose,
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  Speaker 1: had some garlic, and they decided, let's make the rules
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  Speaker 1: up here, and we'll just write them on a cocktail napkin,
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  Speaker 1: and that'll be.
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  Speaker 3: The rules of the Pro Bowl.
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  Speaker 1: You juxtaposed that to what I was watching. Again, I
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  Speaker 1: didn't watch much of the Pro Bowl. I flipped over
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  Speaker 1: a couple times because I couldn't believe it. It was
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  Speaker 1: like watching an eighteen car pile up on the interstate.
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  Speaker 1: You go back and I'm like, wow, I can't believe
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  Speaker 1: that happened. But you juxtapose that to the Westminster Kennell
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  Speaker 1: Club Dog.
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  Speaker 3: Show, which I watched.
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  Speaker 1: I was on FS one my former colleagues some shows
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  Speaker 1: back in the day with Chris Myers, part of the
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  Speaker 1: Fox Sports Radio Alumni Association, and Chris was in a
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  Speaker 1: tuxedo there and he had the play by play on
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  Speaker 1: the dog show. They celebrated the one hundred and fiftieth
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  Speaker 1: anniversary at Madison Square Garden. You had glitz, You had glamour,
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  Speaker 1: you had tradition. It just felt big. It had standards.
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  Speaker 3: The dogs.
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  Speaker 1: The dogs ended up in the world's most famous arena,
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  Speaker 1: the Mecca, right there, Midtown Manhattan. The Pro Bowl got
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  Speaker 1: to be played in a nuclear fallout shelter. That's Roger
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  Speaker 1: Tell's NFL. When a Doberman named Penny, who won the
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  Speaker 1: Westminster Kennel Club Dog Show. When a Doberman named Penny
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  Speaker 1: looks more big league than your star football players, heads
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  Speaker 1: should roll in the NFL is so embarrassing, right, he
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  Speaker 1: keeps saying everything's fine and all that. No, it's just
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  Speaker 1: corporate spin. You got upstaged by a dog show. If
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  Speaker 1: that is not a sign things are not going well
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  Speaker 1: for your little ful gayzy All Star game, I don't
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  Speaker 1: know what to tell you. You need a flea back.
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  Speaker 1: A damn dog show was more big league than the
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  Speaker 1: Pro Bowl. It is so great, all right now. Meanwhile,
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  Speaker 1: turning the page prior to the Pro Bowl, Prior to
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  Speaker 1: the Pro Bowl. So the Browns quarterback Shouldur Sanders puffed
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  Speaker 1: his chest out and he did an interview. So I
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  Speaker 1: don't know his bunch of these podcast people and no
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  Speaker 1: one's listened to him. But he did an interview to
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  Speaker 1: discuss his rookie season, and Sanders said, the thing that
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  Speaker 1: he quote appreciated about this year is that he proved
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  Speaker 1: to himself and he showed, I guess the NFL that
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  Speaker 1: he was able to dominate the league. Let me repeat
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  Speaker 1: that for those of you a little slow that might
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  Speaker 1: be in the back of the room not paying attention.
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  Speaker 1: Shouldur Sanders said that the thing he appreciated about this
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  Speaker 1: past year is that he proved to himself and he
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  Speaker 1: showed that he was able to dominate the league. And that, kids,
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  Speaker 1: is what we call the money quote. So meanwhile, you
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  Speaker 1: had Todd Mounkin, the Monkman, saying that nothing has been
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  Speaker 1: decided on the quarterback in Cleveland for the twenty twenty
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  Speaker 1: six seasons. So the question what are your impressions of
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  Speaker 1: the Browns shuder Sanders saying that he proved to himself
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  Speaker 1: and he's capable of dominating the league and all that stuff.
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  Speaker 1: And then you've got the new head coach, Todd munkin
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  Speaker 1: the same day not naming a starting quarterback. So this
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  Speaker 1: is a General Mills special. As yet again we are
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  Speaker 1: reminded that the top breakfast cereal for Shuder Sanders is
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  Speaker 1: cuckoo for cocoa puffs, all right, Shuldar Sanders after one
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  Speaker 1: Pro Bowl flag football game.
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  Speaker 3: This was even before the game.
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  Speaker 1: He was a replacement because seventy five other quarterbacks, we
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  Speaker 1: ain't going to that thing you want to Why do
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  Speaker 1: we want to go play in the basement? So a
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  Speaker 1: replacement Pro Bowl quarterback says that he proved he can
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  Speaker 1: dominate the NFL.
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  Speaker 3: You know what that is.
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  Speaker 1: That is slapstick comedy. It's a three stooges routine and
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  Speaker 1: a poke in the eye. Sanders dominated one thing, one
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  Speaker 1: thing last year, and that was social media. He also
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  Speaker 1: was pretty good at holding the ball until he ended
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  Speaker 1: up getting buried. His sack rate was astronomical with the Browns,
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  Speaker 1: and remember sacks are a quarterback stat, not an offensive
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  Speaker 1: line stat. He's below average it scrambling around and he
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  Speaker 1: has a very little escapability. It's kind of like trying
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  Speaker 1: to get out of a wet like a wet paper bag.
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  Speaker 3: He could even escape from that. And it does not
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  Speaker 3: have the elite elite arm, which we kind of knew.
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  Speaker 1: That's why he was drafted later, however, because he completed
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  Speaker 1: a ten yard slant in a T shirt and a
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  Speaker 1: hat in a basement at the Pro Bowl. I guess
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  Speaker 1: we're good now he's the next Mahomes so Hey, his
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  Speaker 1: overcomes Shadura Sanders. Overconfidence needs a surgeon general's warning.
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  Speaker 3: Is what it needs this particular way now.
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  Speaker 1: Meanwhile, the coach Todd Mounkin is going for Olympic gold,
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  Speaker 1: trying to win the gold in race walking as he
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  Speaker 1: is slow walking to nowhere on the quarterback news and
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  Speaker 1: he said, oh, we won't have a starter. He won't
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  Speaker 1: name a starter. He's given everyone the run around in
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  Speaker 1: an exhilarating race to mediocrity. And the factory of sadness
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  Speaker 1: never fails. The factory of sadness never fails.
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  Speaker 3: They just have to keep buying.
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  Speaker 1: The clown makeup, the clown knows and the clown shoes.
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  Speaker 1: The coaches and the players change, but the consistency of
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  Speaker 1: the brand stays the same, and they just does all
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  Speaker 1: right now the last word. We head back to the
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  Speaker 1: New York tri state area where people buzz in here
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  Speaker 1: very upset with John Harbaugh. Why are they upset with
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  Speaker 1: John Harbaugh? The former Ravens coach. Well, John Harbaugh was
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  Speaker 1: hired with much fanfare to lead the Giants out of
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  Speaker 1: the Abyss this offseason, and like everyone that comes to
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  Speaker 1: New York, the fan base immediately planned a ticker tape
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  Speaker 1: parade through the Canyon of Heroes. Unfortunately, they have to
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  Speaker 1: go out and play the games. Well, the initially optimistic,
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  Speaker 1: giddy New York Giant fan has decided that they're no
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  Speaker 1: longer happy days around.
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  Speaker 3: They're not happy.
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  Speaker 1: Why Why Because former Bears head coach and more recently
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  Speaker 1: the Chiefs offensive coordinator who had no active role in
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  Speaker 1: anything because Andy Reid runs the show.
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  Speaker 3: Matt Naggy was named the new OC.
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  Speaker 1: That would be offensive coordinator for Big Blue after Todd Munkin.
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  Speaker 1: As we mentioned, he's now the Browns coach. He was
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  Speaker 1: supposed to go to the Giants, but the Browns hired him.
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  Speaker 1: Nobody else wanted him as a head coach, so Naggy
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  Speaker 1: goes to the Giants. And this is also getting goofed
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  Speaker 1: on around the NFL and people pointing fingers and doing
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  Speaker 1: the full Nelson hah, everyone doubting that Nagy has the
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  Speaker 1: skill set the ability to develop young quarterback Jackson Dart.
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  Speaker 1: All right, so the question here is John Harbaugh guilty
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  Speaker 1: of a football folly?
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  Speaker 3: Hiring Matt Naggy.
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  Speaker 1: To help Jackson dart and be the Giants offensive coordinator.
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  Speaker 1: So I went to the Mallard scorecard. I went to
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  Speaker 1: the Mallard scorecard on this, and on the Mallard scorecard,
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  Speaker 1: this does not get an A or a B or
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  Speaker 1: a C. However, it does not get a D or
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  Speaker 1: an F. On the Mallard scorecard, I wrote down, you
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  Speaker 1: you you, that's a three U move meaning unimaginative, uninspired,
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  Speaker 1: and unoriginal, painfully unoriginal complete.
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  Speaker 3: Let that on.
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  Speaker 1: This is an Emmy Award winner though for John Harbaugh,
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  Speaker 1: and it really is. An unforced error, is what it is.
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  Speaker 1: And a bad job by him, bad job by him.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean the NFL.
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  Speaker 1: The NFL is the world's most expensive recycling operation.
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  Speaker 3: You know. I read a story a.
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  Speaker 1: Couple of years ago that, you know, a lot of
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  Speaker 1: places like they think they're helping the world by recycling.
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  Speaker 1: It plays like California whatever, a lot of recycling, and
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  Speaker 1: then most of it just doesn't end up getting recycled.
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  Speaker 1: But it makes you feel good, you know, it makes
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  Speaker 1: you feel good. These coaches get recycled and people think, well,
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  Speaker 1: they're gonna be better in their next stop. They're almost
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  Speaker 1: never better in their next stop and then but makes
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  Speaker 1: you feel good. So Naggy, I have nothing against the guy.
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  Speaker 3: I've heard.
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  Speaker 1: He's a really cool guy to hang out with. He's
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  Speaker 1: the ultimate good old boy. It's fun at parties, very social, charismatic,
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  Speaker 1: all that stuff, which is great. Unfortunately, the coaching stuff
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  Speaker 1: appears to be a problem, and he didn't do terribly
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  Speaker 1: in Chicago, considering he had Mitchell Trubisky as his quarterback.
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  Speaker 1: As another guy, Matt Naggi, who gets shuffled around the
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  Speaker 1: NFL like a deck of cards at a senior center
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  Speaker 1: because he's a player's.
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  Speaker 3: Coach and that's what they sell him as.
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  Speaker 4: And the translation on that it's it's black and it's
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  Speaker 4: a black and white silent film playing at an Imax theater.
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  Speaker 3: It kind of defeats the point.
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  Speaker 1: Right, and it's like the whole you have this sound,
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  Speaker 1: immersive experience, So why would you put an old Charlie
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  Speaker 1: Chaplin black and white silent.
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  Speaker 3: Film up there at an Imax theater? Don't makes sense.
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  Speaker 1: If Jackson darts starts barfing giant chunks of ravioli, big
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  Speaker 1: chunks of ravioli all over the field, he will get
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  Speaker 1: a Mulligan. So that's the way I look at this,
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  Speaker 1: because it was just gonna blame the offensive corners. Well,
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  Speaker 1: it's not Jackson Dart's fault, health, no accountability because of
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  Speaker 1: the Nagman Naggy, and then blame him Matt Naggy, And
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  Speaker 1: so that's a Mulligan. A Mulligan situation is what that is.
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  Speaker 1: We now get into the meat and potatoes of this
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  Speaker 1: hour number two.
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  Speaker 1: Now years ago you might not know this because maybe
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  Speaker 1: in this case, yesterday's rumors are today's news. Our lead
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  Speaker 1: story from the trading block. We are one day away
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  Speaker 1: now from the musical chairs stopping tomorrow afternoon, Thursday afternoon,
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  Speaker 1: the music will stop.
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  Speaker 6: Now.
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  Speaker 3: We did get a few big deals done if you
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  Speaker 3: have not hurt. Perhaps not.
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  Speaker 1: And yet again, yesterday's rumors, today's reality. The Clippers did
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  Speaker 1: say bye bye to James Harden. He was decommissioned and
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  Speaker 1: sent off to the Cleveland Cadavers for Darius Garland and
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  Speaker 1: a second round pick.
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  Speaker 3: Now.
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  Speaker 1: Following that trade, Harden claimed that he did not want
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  Speaker 1: to feel like he was quote holding the Clippers up
• 18:35
  Speaker 1: in their future, he said, adding that both sides got
• 18:40
  Speaker 1: what they wanted. Regarding the trade between Cleveland and la
• 18:45
  Speaker 1: Harden emphatically pushing back, push it back, now, pushing back
• 18:51
  Speaker 1: on the widespread, widespread speculation that he had requested a
• 18:55
  Speaker 1: trade from the Clippers.
• 18:58
  Speaker 3: So Harden's like, I didn't do that. Why would I
• 19:01
  Speaker 3: do that? I didn't do that? All right, that's a
• 19:04
  Speaker 3: good jumping off points.
• 19:05
  Speaker 1: So let us discuss the question do you believe James
• 19:10
  Speaker 1: Harden when he says he did not ask, did not
• 19:14
  Speaker 1: ask for an exit from the Clippers, did not request
• 19:17
  Speaker 1: the trade. So my observations on this, I've gotten made
• 19:20
  Speaker 1: off Shark Week and Tootsie Pop. And we will combine
• 19:26
  Speaker 1: all of these things together and we're gonna play Connect
• 19:29
  Speaker 1: three is what we're gonna play.
• 19:31
  Speaker 3: So number wha. All right, we'll delayed on that, all right.
• 19:43
  Speaker 1: Anyway, listen to believe this, to believe that James Harden
• 19:47
  Speaker 1: did not initiate the trade conversation. To believe this is
• 19:54
  Speaker 1: to also believe that you are living in a magical
• 19:57
  Speaker 1: forest where the Beard woke up one morning and said,
• 20:00
  Speaker 1: you know what, I don't want to be a burden.
• 20:04
  Speaker 1: I don't want to hold the clippers back because I
• 20:07
  Speaker 1: love the Clippers so.
• 20:08
  Speaker 3: Much, I don't want to hold them back. It's adorable.
• 20:11
  Speaker 3: And if you believe this, you're dumb. It's nonsense. It's farcical,
• 20:15
  Speaker 3: is what it is.
• 20:16
  Speaker 1: This is like Bernie Madeoff lecturing a room about ethical investing,
• 20:22
  Speaker 1: is what it is.
• 20:22
  Speaker 3: Come on, Harden, His track record is legendary.
• 20:26
  Speaker 1: He says he did not ask out, which is a
• 20:29
  Speaker 1: technicality wrapped in performance art by James Harden. And the
• 20:35
  Speaker 1: fact that he's bringing this up is a dead giveaway.
• 20:40
  Speaker 3: What we all thought is reality.
• 20:42
  Speaker 1: He didn't need to slam the door, he didn't need
• 20:44
  Speaker 1: to light the match, per se. And it's a game
• 20:47
  Speaker 1: of semantics. It's a game of semantics, right. All Harden
• 20:50
  Speaker 1: had to do, based on his track record. All he
• 20:53
  Speaker 1: had to do was just crack a window, wink and
• 20:57
  Speaker 1: a nod, and the entire Hire NBA executive panel starts
• 21:03
  Speaker 1: screaming like someone spotted a raccoon in the kitchen.
• 21:06
  Speaker 3: Right, you start freaking out like, well, who let that
• 21:08
  Speaker 3: in there? I didn't let that? What did you leave
• 21:10
  Speaker 3: the why's the window open? You let the thing in there?
• 21:13
  Speaker 3: What's wrong with you? The only way.
• 21:16
  Speaker 1: This trade happens, and let me say this for those
• 21:19
  Speaker 1: that are up in the upper balcony, the only way
• 21:22
  Speaker 1: this trade happens is with the blessing of James Harden,
• 21:26
  Speaker 1: full stop, full stop, for a couple of reasons. The
• 21:29
  Speaker 1: main reason is Harden had the ability to put the
• 21:32
  Speaker 1: kebash on the deal. That's obvious, right Harden. If you
• 21:35
  Speaker 1: look at his situation and he is a Rhodes scholar
• 21:41
  Speaker 1: at wearing out his welcome or just getting bored with
• 21:45
  Speaker 1: places and my entire life. No one signs off on
• 21:49
  Speaker 1: a trade at that level ballplayer to Cleveland unless they
• 21:54
  Speaker 1: want to go to Cleveland. That's also a tell you
• 21:59
  Speaker 1: think if Hardens just quietly was sitting on the sidelines
• 22:01
  Speaker 1: as like, okay, well, I guess you want to trade
• 22:05
  Speaker 1: me you can trade me.
• 22:06
  Speaker 4: I'm not going to Cleveland. I don't know who goes
• 22:08
  Speaker 4: to Cleveland on vacation.
• 22:09
  Speaker 1: Well, Hard's gonna be there for February March, and he
• 22:12
  Speaker 1: hopes all the way until the summertime.
• 22:15
  Speaker 3: But this is what he does.
• 22:16
  Speaker 1: Eventually he'll go somewhere the vibes go bad, the mojoe
• 22:20
  Speaker 1: isn't working, and he'll pack up the old station wagon
• 22:23
  Speaker 1: like a good carpetbagger and go to his next outpost
• 22:26
  Speaker 1: and sell.
• 22:27
  Speaker 3: The same snake oil to somewhere else.
• 22:28
  Speaker 1: And this time he's pretending everything's mutual and all that,
• 22:31
  Speaker 1: and both sides got what they wanted. Kurk Flewey, I say,
• 22:34
  Speaker 1: kerk floy. Now, meanwhile, the other question here, does James
• 22:38
  Speaker 1: Harden push the Cavaliers higher up on Benny's big board
• 22:46
  Speaker 1: in terms of the pecking order in the Eastern Conference,
• 22:49
  Speaker 1: because why else would you make this trade. You're only
• 22:52
  Speaker 1: getting Harden, You're only guaranteed to get hardened for a
• 22:56
  Speaker 1: couple months. So why would you make this trade if
• 23:01
  Speaker 1: you don't believe that James Harden's going to put you
• 23:03
  Speaker 1: at a higher level on the big board. So the
• 23:06
  Speaker 1: only and I looked at this all ankles. But the
• 23:10
  Speaker 1: only way I see James Harden pushing the Cavaliers to
• 23:13
  Speaker 1: a higher level is if you're playing, you get your
• 23:16
  Speaker 1: joystick out, you get your remote, your controller, and you're
• 23:19
  Speaker 1: playing NBA two K, and you make sure to have
• 23:22
  Speaker 1: the injuries turned off and defense.
• 23:25
  Speaker 3: Sent to optional. If you can do that on like
• 23:27
  Speaker 3: the rookie level, you'll you'll be in good shape.
• 23:29
  Speaker 1: This is next level Hutzba Cleveland acting like James Harden
• 23:34
  Speaker 1: is some kind of playoff elevator.
• 23:38
  Speaker 3: You might want to call the otis elevator repair people.
• 23:40
  Speaker 3: He's not an elevator.
• 23:42
  Speaker 1: He's more of an escalator that only goes down and
• 23:45
  Speaker 1: it breaks halfway down. That's James Harden playoff. Harden playoff.
• 23:51
  Speaker 1: And I tried to be Benny Brightside. I tried to
• 23:53
  Speaker 1: be optimistic. I gave Harden the benefit of the doubt,
• 23:56
  Speaker 1: and he yet again had the Presidential Suite a heartbreak
• 24:00
  Speaker 1: hotel in the playoffs. And it's a playoff. Harden is
• 24:04
  Speaker 1: a jump scare movie villain. Looks terrifying until the lights
• 24:11
  Speaker 1: get turned a little bit brighter. He's a blow average defender,
• 24:14
  Speaker 1: which is said most of the top.
• 24:16
  Speaker 3: Level offensive players are not great defensive players.
• 24:19
  Speaker 1: The problem is he gets targeted, hunted in the playoffs
• 24:22
  Speaker 1: because any coach.
• 24:24
  Speaker 3: Worth their salt knows that if you're going.
• 24:27
  Speaker 1: To attack someone's weaknesses another team, if Harden's on the team,
• 24:31
  Speaker 1: you just attack him. In the postseason, teams circle him.
• 24:35
  Speaker 1: It's like Shark Week on the Discovery Channel. And Harden's
• 24:39
  Speaker 1: effort goes in and out like bad Wi Fi on
• 24:43
  Speaker 1: a Spirit Airlines plane, right just going in. And the
• 24:46
  Speaker 1: biggest issue here though, playoff referee. It's a different game.
• 24:52
  Speaker 1: It's officiated differently. You know it, and I know it.
• 24:55
  Speaker 1: They often put the whistle to bed to take a
• 24:58
  Speaker 1: nice nap, and suddenly James Harden's entire superpower, which is
• 25:03
  Speaker 1: foul baiting turns into turnovers and really sad looking step
• 25:11
  Speaker 1: back jump shots that don't have much of a chance
• 25:13
  Speaker 1: of going in and a sour puss on his face
• 25:16
  Speaker 1: and all that stuff. Watching Harden in the playoffs, Ye,
• 25:20
  Speaker 1: you'd have as much success if you just put your
• 25:23
  Speaker 1: head in a high speed ceiling fan and made sure
• 25:27
  Speaker 1: it was turned as high as it goes, and just
• 25:29
  Speaker 1: put your head in there.
• 25:30
  Speaker 3: It's a bumpy ride if you're lucky, it's a bumpy ride.
• 25:34
  Speaker 1: And if the Cavaliers think that James Harden is going
• 25:37
  Speaker 1: to take them past the top teams in the East
• 25:39
  Speaker 1: right now, it's teams like Detroit, New York, Boston, good luck.
• 25:45
  Speaker 1: You know, I've got some ocean front property in Dayton, Ohio.
• 25:49
  Speaker 1: I can say, right on the ocean, right there, on
• 25:51
  Speaker 1: the mighty Atlantic Ocean. I can put you right there
• 25:53
  Speaker 1: all right now, page two. So the Clippers in this
• 25:56
  Speaker 1: transaction acquired All star guard Garland at what seems to
• 26:02
  Speaker 1: be a relatively speaking discounted price tag for Darius Garland
• 26:08
  Speaker 1: when you look at where he's at in his career.
• 26:10
  Speaker 3: So the question why why was.
• 26:13
  Speaker 1: Cleveland so willing to trade a twenty six year old
• 26:16
  Speaker 1: two time All Star in Darius Garland to the Clippers.
• 26:22
  Speaker 1: So on this one, it's it's a Tutsi pop problem,
• 26:26
  Speaker 1: is what it is. It's the Tutsi pop. How many
• 26:28
  Speaker 1: licks does it take before the whole thing cracks?
• 26:32
  Speaker 2: One?
• 26:32
  Speaker 1: Two, three, crunchy, crunchy, crunchy. We're talking about tow issues here,
• 26:38
  Speaker 1: toe issues there, toe issues everywhere, left toe surgery for
• 26:42
  Speaker 1: Darius Garland, right toe spraying. Suddenly Garland walking around like
• 26:46
  Speaker 1: he's stepping on legos in the dark, and every other
• 26:49
  Speaker 1: step there's a lego. And I did get an email
• 26:53
  Speaker 1: from a guy in Ohio. I think he's from Cleveland.
• 26:56
  Speaker 6: I don't know.
• 26:56
  Speaker 1: These people just send me emails and a lot of
• 26:58
  Speaker 1: you idiots now send messages about say where you're from.
• 27:00
  Speaker 3: So I just have to guess.
• 27:01
  Speaker 1: I'm gonna guess the guy's either he's from Ohio, he's
• 27:05
  Speaker 1: from Cleveland, or he used to live in Ohio and
• 27:07
  Speaker 1: he's a Cavs fan.
• 27:07
  Speaker 6: Whatever.
• 27:08
  Speaker 4: So he's explaining, well, the reason you got Garland, I
• 27:11
  Speaker 4: know you're gonna praise him, the reason you got Darius
• 27:14
  Speaker 4: Garland because he's damaged goods and he's gonna be hurt and.
• 27:18
  Speaker 3: That's why the Cavs are gonna trade him.
• 27:19
  Speaker 5: Blah blah blah blah blah blah b b b ba
• 27:22
  Speaker 5: ba ba ba.
• 27:23
  Speaker 3: Okay, So before we get to that, the talent is there.
• 27:29
  Speaker 1: The talent is there. The kid can shoot when he's right,
• 27:32
  Speaker 1: he's a flamethrower. And it is a legitimate variable that
• 27:38
  Speaker 1: availability is the cliche goes is the best ability, and
• 27:42
  Speaker 1: the NBA is a league of players that do not
• 27:44
  Speaker 1: like to play basketball. Which is unfortunate, and if they
• 27:47
  Speaker 1: have any excuse to not play basketball. They're getting hemorrhoids
• 27:51
  Speaker 1: on the bench, which is not the way it used
• 27:53
  Speaker 1: to be, but it is the way it is now,
• 27:55
  Speaker 1: and so Garland has been dressed up like an assistant
• 27:59
  Speaker 1: coach sitting on the bench getting those hemorrhoids quite a bit.
• 28:03
  Speaker 1: From the Clipper standpoint, it's risk a little, get a lot,
• 28:09
  Speaker 1: like they were gonna get rid of Harden at the.
• 28:10
  Speaker 4: End of the year.
• 28:11
  Speaker 1: Anyway, he likely wasn't gonna be back. He clearly was
• 28:13
  Speaker 1: not happy, So they were gonna get rid of Harden.
• 28:15
  Speaker 1: They flip Hardened and they take a shot. It's kind
• 28:20
  Speaker 1: of like playing with house money here. You got a
• 28:22
  Speaker 1: little bit of house money.
• 28:23
  Speaker 3: You go in there and you hope you hit a jackpot.
• 28:26
  Speaker 3: You want to hit that jackpot.
• 28:27
  Speaker 1: You get a younger player who's under contract, and it's
• 28:32
  Speaker 1: a big if. Ifs and butts were candy and nuts,
• 28:35
  Speaker 1: you'd win the championship every year. If he does get
• 28:38
  Speaker 1: back to that point, he's a cornerstone ball player in
• 28:41
  Speaker 1: the NBA. So it is a calculated It is a
• 28:46
  Speaker 1: calculated risk for Steve Balmer, and they're betting that Garland
• 28:52
  Speaker 1: will be okay. And and I know Balmer lost a
• 28:55
  Speaker 1: bunch of money because the Microsoft stock went in the
• 28:58
  Speaker 1: toilet the other day. But Balmber could still afford to
• 29:00
  Speaker 1: buy a bunch of new toes for Garland if he
• 29:03
  Speaker 1: has to. I'll get you a new big toe. I
• 29:05
  Speaker 1: can get you that middle toe. I'll get you a
• 29:07
  Speaker 1: little tiny toe, whatever toe you want. Yeah, I'll get
• 29:10
  Speaker 1: your toe, all right now. Final point. So we also
• 29:13
  Speaker 1: had trades, not as big trades, but the Utah Jazz
• 29:17
  Speaker 1: made a deal with the Memphis Grizzlies for a defensive
• 29:21
  Speaker 1: Player of the Year talent. The Chicago Bulls made a deal,
• 29:26
  Speaker 1: a couple of deals, and the Boston Celtics medi trade
• 29:29
  Speaker 1: with the Celtics. Minnesota was also involved. So the question
• 29:33
  Speaker 1: what else stood out about the NBA's trading post. What
• 29:37
  Speaker 1: else stood out about this? So the big I say
• 29:40
  Speaker 1: big relatively speaking, The big one is the Jazz acquiring
• 29:43
  Speaker 1: Jaron Jackson junior. He goes to Salt Lake from the Grizzlies.
• 29:48
  Speaker 1: Some people are saying that's a blockbuster trade. I'm not
• 29:52
  Speaker 1: that smart. Can someone explain to me how that is
• 29:54
  Speaker 1: a blockbuster trade? At this point, the Utah Jazz and
• 29:58
  Speaker 1: the Memphis Grizzlies.
• 29:59
  Speaker 3: They exist. The good teams have someone to play. You
• 30:02
  Speaker 3: know what I'm saying. You feel me on that, right.
• 30:04
  Speaker 1: So most of the players who were traded I've never
• 30:07
  Speaker 1: heard of, Like Jared Jackson, I've heard of, Okay, I
• 30:10
  Speaker 1: know who that is.
• 30:11
  Speaker 3: These other guys, they are faceless, nameless nobody's who were traded.
• 30:16
  Speaker 1: And then there were three first round draft picks that
• 30:18
  Speaker 1: go to Memphis, which is the basketball equivalent of selling
• 30:23
  Speaker 1: beachfront property because winter is coming and that we got
• 30:27
  Speaker 1: to sell it. And Jackson goes from playing the Blues
• 30:31
  Speaker 1: to playing with the Jazz. Good luck on that. From
• 30:35
  Speaker 1: barbecue smoke to Mountain Air and from Mongolia to Siberia
• 30:40
  Speaker 1: the same coal, just a different different group of people
• 30:45
  Speaker 1: living in that town. But Utah gets a in theory,
• 30:47
  Speaker 1: a defensive eraser. And this is really a play.
• 30:50
  Speaker 3: For next year, Like this is Danny Ainge, like the
• 30:53
  Speaker 3: next year is going to be the time that the
• 30:55
  Speaker 3: Jazz go for it.
• 30:57
  Speaker 1: And this is just a puzzle piece for next year's team,
• 31:00
  Speaker 1: not this year's team, because this year they blow and
• 31:03
  Speaker 1: what Memphis is gonna do is the oldest con that's
• 31:07
  Speaker 1: out there in pro sports. They're gonna sell hope, false hope,
• 31:10
  Speaker 1: a lot of false hope by the box. By the box,
• 31:14
  Speaker 1: and it's cheaper, it's easier you can store hope. Oh,
• 31:17
  Speaker 1: these draft picks are going to work, which is funny.
• 31:20
  Speaker 1: I did get another message. I'd not right back to
• 31:23
  Speaker 1: this person either, Mike from I think he's in Oklahoma.
• 31:29
  Speaker 1: I don't know Thunder fans outside of Oklahoma, so I'm
• 31:31
  Speaker 1: gonna assume he's in Oklahoma. And he sent me a
• 31:33
  Speaker 1: message like you always rip draft picks, Maul, you say
• 31:36
  Speaker 1: you hate the draft. Look at Oklahoma City. They're the
• 31:38
  Speaker 1: top team in basketball. They won the championship. It's all
• 31:40
  Speaker 1: because of the draft picks. And I'm like, no, the
• 31:44
  Speaker 1: reason the Thunder are great is because of a player
• 31:46
  Speaker 1: they acquired in a.
• 31:47
  Speaker 3: Trade from the Clippers.
• 31:49
  Speaker 1: Because the Clippers are so good they could go give
• 31:51
  Speaker 1: away a most valuable player Shay Jogis Alexander was not
• 31:55
  Speaker 1: a player.
• 31:56
  Speaker 3: That Oklahoma City drafted.
• 31:57
  Speaker 1: So it's like this Memphis getting all these draft picks.
• 32:00
  Speaker 1: It's like, well, that's wonderful. Let me know when one
• 32:01
  Speaker 1: of them turns out.
• 32:02
  Speaker 3: To be good. Who cares?
• 32:04
  Speaker 1: Okay because he can't really sell it anymore because the
• 32:07
  Speaker 1: draft picks usually just go to the G League.
• 32:09
  Speaker 3: Most of them these days.
• 32:10
  Speaker 1: Anyway, Now, soon after that trade, we had the Pistons,
• 32:13
  Speaker 1: Bulls and tim.
• 32:16
  Speaker 3: Wolves make a trade.
• 32:17
  Speaker 1: The names that you may have heard of, Jaden Ivy
• 32:21
  Speaker 1: and Mike Conley go to Chicago. Course with Conley, there's
• 32:24
  Speaker 1: always the buyout option. Then Boston acquired Nicola Vusovich from
• 32:28
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• 32:35
  Speaker 1: Now the flea market specials Vusovich. He's been a pretty
• 32:40
  Speaker 1: good box score guy. It hasn't been on good teams.
• 32:45
  Speaker 1: He exits the Chicago team.
• 32:48
  Speaker 3: It's like an escape room.
• 32:49
  Speaker 1: He got to leave and go through the escape room
• 32:51
  Speaker 1: and all that and joins the Celtics, where generally speaking,
• 32:55
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• 32:57
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• 33:02
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• 33:04
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• 33:05
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• 33:07
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• 33:10
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• 33:14
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• 33:15
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• 33:56
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• 33:58
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• 34:07
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• 34:11
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• 34:34
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• 34:37
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• 34:38
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• 34:43
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• 34:49
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, I'm right here.
• 35:48
  Speaker 1: What's going on?
• 35:48
  Speaker 5: How's it going?
• 35:50
  Speaker 3: You don't sound too excited to be here? Can you
• 35:52
  Speaker 3: pump up?
• 35:52
  Speaker 2: No? On new Way?
• 35:53
  Speaker 5: But hey, yo, before I'm sort this, I want to
• 35:56
  Speaker 5: ask y'all out here in the Bay Area already?
• 36:01
  Speaker 3: Uh no, No, I will be later later today. I
• 36:07
  Speaker 3: don't be there.
• 36:08
  Speaker 4: Because I was about I want to ask Lorraine, as
• 36:11
  Speaker 4: he was on you have to ask, So I want
• 36:13
  Speaker 4: to ask Loraine out to dinner and she was okay.
• 36:17
  Speaker 3: I'm sure. Why does she not love to go to
• 36:19
  Speaker 3: dinner with a random listener? I don't know why she
• 36:20
  Speaker 3: wouldn't want to do that? All right? Tell who do
• 36:23
  Speaker 3: you want to partner?
• 36:24
  Speaker 5: Who do you want to part Who do you want
• 36:25
  Speaker 5: to part restaurants in the city?
• 36:27
  Speaker 2: You know, I hear it?
• 36:28
  Speaker 3: All right, well I don't know. She's not here right now?
• 36:30
  Speaker 3: Who do you want to part up?
• 36:32
  Speaker 1: Damn?
• 36:33
  Speaker 3: See that will be just my love to call here?
• 36:35
  Speaker 3: Do you mean win this game right quick?
• 36:37
  Speaker 1: Maine?
• 36:38
  Speaker 6: Who are you? Who are you partnering with? I partner with?
• 36:43
  Speaker 3: About Mary? Mary Max? He's a beautiful young lady.
• 36:46
  Speaker 1: How about Mary Max's the Oh my god?
• 36:50
  Speaker 3: What do you Mary Max is here? Just picking Mary cool?
• 36:53
  Speaker 6: It's cool.
• 36:54
  Speaker 3: You don't want to choose me? Now she's offended. She's offended.
• 36:57
  Speaker 3: Now you've offended Mary mack I know, but Mary Mackison,
• 37:01
  Speaker 3: what is she? Chop liver? Come on?
• 37:04
  Speaker 6: What are we doing with? Oh my, what is going on?
• 37:11
  Speaker 3: No one's playing?
• 37:12
  Speaker 6: Mister irrigations there? And miss Brock from Ohio?
• 37:17
  Speaker 3: All right, mister, yes, okay Brock Who do you want
• 37:23
  Speaker 3: to partner up with? Brock?
• 37:24
  Speaker 6: That's mister irrigation O.
• 37:26
  Speaker 3: Mister I don't even know third base? Miss who do
• 37:30
  Speaker 3: you want to partner up with? Mister irrigation man? Okay?
• 37:34
  Speaker 3: Thank god?
• 37:35
  Speaker 4: Uh and brocky yeah, we gotter.
• 37:42
  Speaker 3: Go first, Brock, who are you going to partner with me?
• 37:44
  Speaker 2: All right?
• 37:45
  Speaker 6: Brock?
• 37:45
  Speaker 1: Alright, let's go, mister picking up, picking up. We had
• 37:47
  Speaker 1: a thirty seconds. Pick a number, please, mister irrigation.
• 37:51
  Speaker 3: Number eight, number eight, all.
• 37:55
  Speaker 1: Right, let's go with. Let's see, I get a couple
• 38:03
  Speaker 1: of ways I can go. How about flawless, flawless perfect?
• 38:10
  Speaker 6: No, but yeah, that is the word.
• 38:13
  Speaker 3: I was it. I gotta right. I didn't realize I
• 38:14
  Speaker 3: got to write. I'm so discombobulated, we gotta write.
• 38:18
  Speaker 1: Good job, all right, pick a number, Brock, Pick a number, Brock,
• 38:20
  Speaker 1: pick a number, all right, Quincell.
• 38:25
  Speaker 3: Quincell messed with my mind, dude.
• 38:28
  Speaker 6: Brock, let's go with.
• 38:31
  Speaker 3: Ballot correct.
• 38:38
  Speaker 1: No, how about election, mister irrigation.
• 38:46
  Speaker 4: Yeah, we win, that is any way. Good job, mister rogation.
• 38:50
  Speaker 4: And it was all because of Quin's l and we
• 38:52
  Speaker 4: won the game. I'd like to thank my mom and
• 38:56
  Speaker 4: everyone else.
• 38:56
  Speaker 3: Amazing