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Hour 2 - Waiting Game · The Ben Maller Show

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  Speaker 1: Boom shaka Laca. It's our number to our number two,
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  Speaker 1: as we hold a lot of promise here in our
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  Speaker 1: number two in the Ben Malers Show original recipe on
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  Speaker 1: this Thursday, the twentieth day of February, and our number.
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  Speaker 2: Two reports say Chiefs tight end Travis Kelce is leaning
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  Speaker 2: more towards returning in twenty twenty five rather than retiring
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  Speaker 2: from your vantage point.
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  Speaker 1: What do you think we'll talk about that.
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  Speaker 2: Also, Brown's running back Nick Chubb is being connected to
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  Speaker 2: the Bears, Steelers, and Cowboys. If dumped by Cleveland, does
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  Speaker 2: Chubb tip the scales?
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  Speaker 1: We'll discuss that.
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  Speaker 2: Also, the NFL salary cap continues to skyrocket up at
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  Speaker 2: least twenty two million in twenty twenty five.
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  Speaker 1: How do you dissect that one?
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  Speaker 2: And a special bonus Mini malle monologue on why Lebron,
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  Speaker 2: James and Lucas side by side talk about the odd
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  Speaker 2: couple these guys.
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  Speaker 1: My goodness, Wow, we'll explain. I'll be coming up in
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  Speaker 1: our number two here it is the waiting game continues. Well,
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  Speaker 2: So we began the show last hour talking about Lemon Luca,
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  Speaker 2: Luca the Lemon, another dud from Luca. Lakers loss to
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  Speaker 2: a dog Food Hornets team and they now have a
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  Speaker 2: losing record in games Luca has played in. And if
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  Speaker 2: Luca plays like this the rest of the year, Lakers
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  Speaker 2: will be out of the playoffs. They'll be in the
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  Speaker 2: lottery the way they're going.
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  Speaker 1: But our lead this hour is from where where or
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  Speaker 1: where or where? Well, that would be none other than
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  Speaker 1: Cana City where Travis Kelcey.
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  Speaker 2: He hasn't made a decision yet. He's got another couple
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  Speaker 2: of weeks to decide whether or not he will play
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  Speaker 2: or not play, to play or not to play, but
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  Speaker 2: the chatter says that he is.
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  Speaker 1: Getting closer to a decision.
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  Speaker 2: Time for the obligatory mal monologue about America's sweetheart tight
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  Speaker 2: End dating the most famous woman in.
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  Speaker 1: The world in terms of entertainment. So if you didn't
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  Speaker 1: hear about this, perhaps not.
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  Speaker 2: We are now told that Travis kelce is leaning towards returning,
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  Speaker 2: returning to the Chiefs rather than retiring. And it's not
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  Speaker 2: official official, however, that is the direction the wind is blowing.
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  Speaker 1: Today, all right, So let us discuss question.
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  Speaker 2: Report saying that the Chiefs tight End Travis Kelcey is
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  Speaker 2: leaning more towards returning, towards returning in twenty twenty five
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  Speaker 2: rather than retiring.
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  Speaker 1: From your vantage point, what do you think?
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  Speaker 2: So, I've got AutoNation, liquid Metal, and Outback Steakhouse, and
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  Speaker 2: we will combine all of these things together and they're
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  Speaker 2: just going to roll off the tongue. They're just gonna
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  Speaker 2: roll off the tongue, is what they're gonna do, all right.
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  Speaker 1: So to begin here, what do I think it's As
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  Speaker 1: the world turns, Travis kelce look like a player that
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  Speaker 1: was done in the Super Bowl. We've all seen the.
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  Speaker 2: Video clips that have made the rounds here, and even
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  Speaker 2: our blind listeners have seen them. Kelsey was unable to block,
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  Speaker 2: he was unable to get separation. When he did get open,
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  Speaker 2: he was unable to catch the ball most of the time.
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  Speaker 2: Is all the telltale signs of a guy that's on
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  Speaker 2: the wrong side. However, playing in twenty twenty five is logical,
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  Speaker 2: even though he's a diminishing asset the value of an
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  Speaker 2: NFL But I'm talking about from marketing, forget about the
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  Speaker 2: actual playing part. From a playing part standpoint, he should
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  Speaker 2: probably retire, But the advice is you keep going here
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  Speaker 2: because NFL player like a brand new automobile, very similar.
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  Speaker 2: When you're playing, everyone loves you, oh man. But in
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  Speaker 2: the case of Travis Kelsey, he's got Madison Avenue in
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  Speaker 2: the palm of his hand. Now a lot of that's
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  Speaker 2: because of who he's sleeping with, but everything is clicking
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  Speaker 2: right the moment you retire, the jolly good time comes
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  Speaker 2: to an end and you're no longer a jolly good fellow.
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  Speaker 1: You're not.
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  Speaker 2: The biggest depreciation hit happens right after you retire. It
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  Speaker 2: is akin to going down to AutoNation and buying a
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  Speaker 2: car on average, on average, we all know.
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  Speaker 1: This, right, and we know, I think most of us.
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  Speaker 2: That the moment you get a new car and drive
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  Speaker 2: it off the lot, it loses about fifteen percent of
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  Speaker 2: its value, and over the first two years it loses
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  Speaker 2: thirty percent of its value, and it continues to depreciate,
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  Speaker 2: and typically around five years after you've purchased the car,
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  Speaker 2: you've lost fifty five percent of the original purchase price
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  Speaker 2: in value, very similar to a football player. NFL stars
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  Speaker 2: also see a downward spiral there, and Travis Kelce is
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  Speaker 2: projected to have a much smaller role with the Chiefs
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  Speaker 2: in twenty twenty five if he does come back, and now,
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  Speaker 2: that will certainly be a blow to his machismo. But
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  Speaker 2: I had a epiphany. I had an epiphany as I
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  Speaker 2: was walking into.
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  Speaker 1: The studio here that even.
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  Speaker 2: Though he's slowed down and all that, Travis Kelce will
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  Speaker 2: benefit from what we call on this show the Liberty
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  Speaker 2: valance effect, when the legend becomes the fact. You print
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  Speaker 2: the legend the man who shot Liberty Vallence. This old
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  Speaker 2: the movie in Hollywood. To rephrase that, I'll give it
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  Speaker 2: to you a little bit different. So people don't like
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  Speaker 2: to change their minds. You make your mind up. You're
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  Speaker 2: convinced this is the way of the world. I make
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  Speaker 2: my mind up. I'm convinced the way of the world.
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  Speaker 2: But once you are perceived in one way, it's very
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  Speaker 2: difficult to change that perception because people continue to see
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  Speaker 2: you that way. People think of Travis Kelsey as as
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  Speaker 2: dominating tight end, amazing player, and all that stuff, and
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  Speaker 2: so he is considered a megastar.
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  Speaker 1: People have formed their opinion.
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  Speaker 2: And so even as he is falling apart and he's
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  Speaker 2: bedraggled and frazzled out on the field, as long as
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  Speaker 2: he plays, the perception for most.
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  Speaker 1: Will remain legend.
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  Speaker 2: It's the man that shot Liberty Bounce. When the legend
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  Speaker 2: becomes the fact, you go with the legend. The legend
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  Speaker 2: will be that, and that's the fact, and so you
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  Speaker 2: just go with it.
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  Speaker 1: And so now we head to Cleveland.
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  Speaker 2: Running back shuffle on the horizon. Say what the Cleveland
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  Speaker 2: Browns a bad football team. You can say that pretty
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  Speaker 2: much every year. These are your dad's Cleveland Browns, and
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  Speaker 2: your granddad's Cleveland Browns, and your great granddad's Cleveland Browns.
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  Speaker 2: The Browns, they have to decide the skid marks whether
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  Speaker 2: or not they're going to retain Nick Chubb.
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  Speaker 1: Chubbah love love Nick Chubb. He's our running back who
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  Speaker 1: is set to enter.
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  Speaker 2: The free agent market after another underwhelming performance.
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  Speaker 1: So that is the issue here.
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  Speaker 2: Now, the Browns running back Nick Chubb is being connected
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  Speaker 2: to do Bears, the Steelers, and the Cowboys if dumped
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  Speaker 2: by Cleveland, if the Browns do not end up bringing
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  Speaker 2: him back, So I ask the esteemed panel, does Chubb
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  Speaker 2: tip the scales? So right off the top, go back
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  Speaker 2: to what I talked about here a minute ago, the
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  Speaker 2: man that shot Liberty Valance. And when the legend becomes
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  Speaker 2: the fact, you print the legend. The legend of Nick Chubb,
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  Speaker 2: tremendous pedigree, built.
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  Speaker 1: Like a dnnis. He's got a name.
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  Speaker 2: He certain no debating that he's had some big moments
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  Speaker 2: on bad football teams. Now that said, you do wonder
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  Speaker 2: how much he's got left. In eight games coming off
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  Speaker 2: an injury, Chubb had one hundred and two carries, He
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  Speaker 2: had three touchdowns. He averaged a pedestrian three point three
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  Speaker 2: yards per carry. And if you look at how Chubb
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  Speaker 2: has played, he's been a stunt man, he's played as
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  Speaker 2: a battering ram, and so many major operations on his
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  Speaker 2: legs and his knees and other body parts there that
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  Speaker 2: at this point Nick Chubb is like the Terminator, but
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  Speaker 2: we're not sure if he's as good as the old
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  Speaker 2: character in Hollywood be a cyborg, and I'm convinced that
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  Speaker 2: if you looked behind the scenes there Nick Chubb, he's
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  Speaker 2: got living tissue on the outside, but he's got this
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  Speaker 2: robotic endo skeleton underneath. His knees are made of liquid
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  Speaker 2: metal and so in the past he could shape shape shift,
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  Speaker 2: as they say, over on coast to coast and get
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  Speaker 2: around defenders and all that. There is that Now Chicago
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  Speaker 2: would be attractive for nostalgia. You reunite the backfield. Now
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  Speaker 2: Chubb's not from Chicago and all that. But in college
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  Speaker 2: for the Georgia Bulldogs.
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  Speaker 1: You remember back then they had Nick Chubb and DeAndre
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  Speaker 1: Swift and they could be a dynamic.
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  Speaker 2: Duo there, Swift with the Bears. They would be together,
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  Speaker 2: a wintery mix of thunder and lightning rainstorm there. Now
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  Speaker 2: Pittsburgh would also be fun, but only from a Poultergeist perspective.
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  Speaker 2: Either he would be Nick Chubb. If he went to
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  Speaker 2: the Steelers, he would be a Poultergeist and haunt the Browns.
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  Speaker 2: Or he would be a player planted by the Browns
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  Speaker 2: who's washed up, who would haunt the Steelers as an
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  Speaker 2: enemy combatant sent in on a super secret mission by
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  Speaker 2: the Brownies, and he can haunt either haunt Pittsburgh or
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  Speaker 2: haunt the Steelers.
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  Speaker 1: In the division. Now he got Jerry Jones, also possibility,
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  Speaker 1: always a possibility, because Jerry Jones loves he loves designer brands.
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  Speaker 1: And Chubb is again a guy that we've heard of.
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  Speaker 1: He would be the typical Cowboys.
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  Speaker 2: Signing a name guy, a lot of name, not much game,
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  Speaker 2: possibly left to fork in the road.
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  Speaker 1: You don't know. You can get him on the cheap
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  Speaker 1: by low, maybe sell high by low, get low, who knows?
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  Speaker 1: All right? Now? Last word, something that is not low,
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  Speaker 1: that is never low. That would be the salary cap.
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  Speaker 1: That's right.
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  Speaker 2: We go to the bean counters department, the NFL salarycap
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  Speaker 2: which continues to skyrocket up, up, and away, and the
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  Speaker 2: salary cap in the NFL set to go up at
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  Speaker 2: least the bare minimum twenty two million dollars in twenty
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  Speaker 2: twenty five a couple of last couple of years to
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  Speaker 2: give me up over fifty million dollars. So how do
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  Speaker 2: you dissect this? So I have a case of major
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  Speaker 2: green eyed monster. I work in an industry, the radio business,
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  Speaker 2: where they rarely ever raise payroll. They lower payroll, they
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  Speaker 2: do not raise payroll, and they tell you they cannot
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  Speaker 2: pay more.
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  Speaker 1: And that's it. The NFL, though it's.
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  Speaker 2: Always going up, it never goes down. The NFL is
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  Speaker 2: like out back steakhouse. Business is blooming. It's a bloomin
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  Speaker 2: onion over there.
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  Speaker 1: And they're in the black. They're in the black. Everyone
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  Speaker 1: is profitable.
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  Speaker 2: The NFL owners, they all own cattle ranches, and the
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  Speaker 2: cattle ranches are filled with a special breed of cow.
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  Speaker 2: They're cash cows branded with the NFL shield on their ass.
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  Speaker 1: And the league they've got this.
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  Speaker 2: One hundred and eleven billion dollar mega TV rights deal
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  Speaker 2: that goes for eleven years. They signed it back in
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  Speaker 2: twenty twenty one, and so it goes up up, up,
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  Speaker 2: year after year. And so that is why the salary
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  Speaker 2: cap keeps going up. But we are firmly on the
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  Speaker 2: side of the aisle big picture that the cap is crap.
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  Speaker 2: We've been on that side for a while. And as
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  Speaker 2: the former president George W. Bush said back in his day,
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  Speaker 2: it's fuzzy math. The salary cap, well, it keeps going up.
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  Speaker 1: It is a myth.
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  Speaker 2: It is a act of fiction used by franchises as
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  Speaker 2: an excuse to get rid of players they no longer
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  Speaker 2: want and not pay players because they say, well.
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  Speaker 1: We just don't have the money. You've got to pinch pennies.
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  Speaker 1: And that's how it goes. And teams have been able
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  Speaker 1: to finagle it when they want to. The Rams did it,
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  Speaker 1: Philadelphia is doing it right now. You can certainly mess
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  Speaker 1: with the books. You can cook the books, as they say,
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  Speaker 1: get that Enron accounting in there and just move some
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  Speaker 1: decimal points around and you'll get your desired result. And
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  Speaker 1: you're turning signing bonuses into roster bonuses and all that. Now.
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  Speaker 1: The NFL they recalculate the cap annually, and it is
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  Speaker 1: based on an unscientific formula that is bargain bargain with
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  Speaker 1: the players out, and there's a league revenues, percentage of
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  Speaker 1: sales of merchandise and all that stuff all are factored in.
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  Speaker 2: There's a lot of variables, but it always goes up,
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  Speaker 2: it never goes down. Now, the final figure is not done, done,
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  Speaker 2: done until the league in the NFL Players Association tweaked
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  Speaker 2: the numbers. So they'll go in there with their calculators
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  Speaker 2: and they'll bring in the nerds. The union will hire nerds,
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  Speaker 2: and then on the other side, the NFL's got their
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  Speaker 2: own nerds. It's really the golden age of nerds, right,
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  Speaker 2: Holy cow, golden age of nerds. And they're just you know,
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  Speaker 2: fus around with the numbers there and they'll figure it
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  Speaker 2: out and there'll be certain exemptions, kind of like the
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  Speaker 2: big businesses in America. There's tax exemptions here, there's tax
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  Speaker 2: exemptions there.
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  Speaker 1: And you just gonna move money around and you're on
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  Speaker 1: your way.
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  Speaker 2: And as we've learned in recent weeks, many of the
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  Speaker 2: government bureaucracies are doing the same thing. They're just moving
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  Speaker 2: money around and all that, and you know why not.
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  Speaker 1: And that's true. If the Lakers had won that game,
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  Speaker 2: life and times of one Travis Kelsey. I'm a touch
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  Speaker 2: on some of we talked about last hour, the downfall
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  Speaker 2: of Luca. So I have a developing opinion, a developing take.
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  Speaker 2: mentioned this last hour. Luca just looks fat. Now I
• 18:46
  Speaker 2: have two theories as to why Luca looks bad, and
• 18:53
  Speaker 2: I would like to share this with the class if.
• 18:55
  Speaker 1: I could here. Now, I guess you.
• 18:57
  Speaker 2: Could call this in many many ways. You can call
• 19:02
  Speaker 2: this a mini Mallar monologue. All right, So why does
• 19:07
  Speaker 2: Luca look so fat as a Laker? Now, my first
• 19:13
  Speaker 2: thought is he looks fat because of the uniform. It
• 19:17
  Speaker 2: just does not look well. It is unbecoming the yellow
• 19:23
  Speaker 2: that Luca wears. And there is data to back that up.
• 19:27
  Speaker 2: I have a source named Truck or Joe who points out,
• 19:30
  Speaker 2: according to AI and this is from fashion experts here,
• 19:35
  Speaker 2: that wearing bright yellow can make you look fat. And
• 19:42
  Speaker 2: the reason it reflects a lot of light and it
• 19:45
  Speaker 2: draws attention to your body. And so if you're if
• 19:49
  Speaker 2: you're a bigger person like you don't take care of
• 19:52
  Speaker 2: your diet and all that stuff. You don't look very good.
• 19:55
  Speaker 2: And Luca does not look good at all. He looks
• 19:57
  Speaker 2: pudgy and like he's eating a lot of doughnut. Luca
• 20:00
  Speaker 2: looks like he's had a lot of donuts. The other
• 20:02
  Speaker 2: problem that Luca's got and I don't know how to
• 20:06
  Speaker 2: get around this, and I hate praising the guy, but
• 20:09
  Speaker 2: I got to praise him. Lebron James is built like
• 20:13
  Speaker 2: a Donnis. And when you see side by.
• 20:17
  Speaker 1: Side, it's like Greek mythology.
• 20:20
  Speaker 2: You've got Lebron out there like some kind of Greek
• 20:23
  Speaker 2: god chiseled out of stone at age forty. And then
• 20:27
  Speaker 2: you got a guy next to him that looks like
• 20:30
  Speaker 2: he stumbled out of an Arby's in Luca and.
• 20:33
  Speaker 1: He's like, we have the meats.
• 20:36
  Speaker 2: It's like you just like you juxtapose Lebron, and how
• 20:42
  Speaker 2: what great shape's in right? He's always beach body ready.
• 20:45
  Speaker 2: And then you've got this And I know I'm a
• 20:48
  Speaker 2: big guy man. I look like Quasimoto. I know, as
• 20:52
  Speaker 2: a fellow fat man. I know right, I know what
• 20:55
  Speaker 2: it's like to look like the hunchback of Notre Dame.
• 20:58
  Speaker 2: And Luca right now looks like the hunchback of Notre down.
• 21:02
  Speaker 2: And again you can say it's only a couple of
• 21:04
  Speaker 2: games and all that, and he'll be fine, and maybe
• 21:06
  Speaker 2: he will be fine, but we're talking right now, and.
• 21:08
  Speaker 1: Right now he is stunning.
• 21:12
  Speaker 2: The night the trade was announced, what you thought was
• 21:15
  Speaker 2: going to happen right away, and what has happened right
• 21:18
  Speaker 2: away to lose to two of the most sucked bag
• 21:22
  Speaker 2: teams in the NBA, the team from Charlotte which happened
• 21:28
  Speaker 2: on Wednesday night and the team from Utah before the
• 21:31
  Speaker 2: All Star break.
• 21:31
  Speaker 1: It's crazy. But again, I mean those two things.
• 21:33
  Speaker 2: The color yellow is not good, and then you stand
• 21:37
  Speaker 2: next to to Lebron, it's just kind of like, you know,
• 21:40
  Speaker 2: when you're back in the day, if you're a good
• 21:44
  Speaker 2: looking woman or dude and you're surrounded by kind of
• 21:48
  Speaker 2: ugly people, you look better, you know what I mean, right,
• 21:51
  Speaker 2: but you also look worse if you're the other person.
• 21:55
  Speaker 1: And Luca just looks bad right now.
• 21:57
  Speaker 2: He's also not playing well, which doesn't help thee doesn't
• 22:00
  Speaker 2: help the situation at all. But thanks to Truck or
• 22:03
  Speaker 2: Joe though for pointing that out that yellow does make
• 22:06
  Speaker 2: you look fat. Now there's a great legend which was
• 22:09
  Speaker 2: actually debunked but when I was a kid, fucking mind
• 22:14
  Speaker 2: old guy radio.
• 22:14
  Speaker 1: But when I was a kid, I remember I loved baseball.
• 22:17
  Speaker 2: I remember hearing stories when I was a little kid
• 22:20
  Speaker 2: that the New York Yankees. The reason the Yankees were
• 22:23
  Speaker 2: pinstripes is because the owner of the Yankees thought that
• 22:28
  Speaker 2: Babe Ruth was so fat that he would he would
• 22:31
  Speaker 2: look slimmer if they wore pinstripes, because pinstripes make you
• 22:36
  Speaker 2: look slimmer, and so that was supposing.
• 22:39
  Speaker 1: Now I think that's been debunked over the years. I
• 22:41
  Speaker 1: believe that is that is not the case.
• 22:44
  Speaker 2: In fact, when the Yankees started wearing pinstripes, Babe Ruth
• 22:46
  Speaker 2: was actually in shape. Still he became fat as they
• 22:49
  Speaker 2: were wearing pin stripes. But it still was a fun
• 22:51
  Speaker 2: story when when I was a kid, it was It
• 22:54
  Speaker 2: was a fun story when I was a kid.
• 22:55
  Speaker 1: Anyway, it is the Ben Maller Show.
• 22:57
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• 22:59
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• 23:06
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• 23:11
  Speaker 2: I'm late to the show. I missed our one can
• 23:13
  Speaker 2: I get a quick recap.
• 23:14
  Speaker 1: Of the monologue? Please? And thank you? I just did.
• 23:17
  Speaker 1: I just did.
• 23:18
  Speaker 2: Nature Boy says Luca does not look a pinch overweight
• 23:23
  Speaker 2: Timothy and Northern Kentucky. But Timothy's moving up the show
• 23:27
  Speaker 2: contributed to this quickly out of nowhere. Timothy says, Luca
• 23:31
  Speaker 2: looks like a human banana pudding cup.
• 23:37
  Speaker 1: Oh oh, that's good.
• 23:41
  Speaker 2: He does kind of look like that, right, you did
• 23:43
  Speaker 2: admit it, Loreena, Yeah, a nice cup of banana pudding.
• 23:46
  Speaker 6: Honestly, very accurate, and Coop laughed out loud.
• 23:50
  Speaker 1: Yeah, it's pretty funny.
• 23:51
  Speaker 2: That's solid. That's a good That is a good line.
• 23:54
  Speaker 2: That's not my line. That's Timothy in Northern Kentucky, the
• 23:58
  Speaker 2: solid line that your boy enjoyed. The hunchback of Notre Dame.
• 24:01
  Speaker 1: Who else do we have?
• 24:02
  Speaker 2: Super Marcus Steve says, did Ben just use Outback Steakhouse
• 24:05
  Speaker 2: as an example of a successful business. I'm pretty sure
• 24:09
  Speaker 2: they're closing multiple locations.
• 24:11
  Speaker 1: Well all all.
• 24:13
  Speaker 2: Restaurants who are in the middle, right, if you're stuck
• 24:15
  Speaker 2: in the middle, you're closing a lot of locations like that.
• 24:17
  Speaker 2: If you're fast food, you're doing okay, not great. In California.
• 24:21
  Speaker 2: If you're high end, you're doing okay. But those ones
• 24:23
  Speaker 2: that are in the middle are not doing very well.
• 24:25
  Speaker 2: But they're still around. Outback fun fact the Malay Show
• 24:30
  Speaker 2: fun fact.
• 24:31
  Speaker 1: Years ago, malord fun fact. I did a show with
• 24:36
  Speaker 1: Tom Looney on the radio, and we did a football
• 24:39
  Speaker 1: show and the I think the statute of limitations has
• 24:42
  Speaker 1: run out on this. So we had a deal with
• 24:45
  Speaker 1: the Outback Hotel and Casino in Vegas. We were going
• 24:49
  Speaker 1: to fly to Vegas every weekend for the football season
• 24:53
  Speaker 1: do our show from Vegas for you for gambling reasons
• 24:56
  Speaker 1: and from the Outback Hotel, and and about a week literally,
• 25:03
  Speaker 1: I think it was less than a week before we
• 25:05
  Speaker 1: were supposed to fly out to Vegas for the first show,
• 25:08
  Speaker 1: they had major financial issues and they ended up selling
• 25:11
  Speaker 1: the hotel. It's got a different name. Now, why like
• 25:14
  Speaker 1: the same time you were supposed to go out there.
• 25:16
  Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, like we had the deal was like almost done.
• 25:19
  Speaker 2: I mean it was done.
• 25:20
  Speaker 1: We had been told, you know, here, we're buy tickets
• 25:23
  Speaker 1: every weekend. You're gonna fly out, spend Saturday and Sunday
• 25:26
  Speaker 1: there and then fly back on Monday. And uh yeah,
• 25:29
  Speaker 1: did not did not work. Out. But the bloomin onion solid.
• 25:35
  Speaker 1: Does anyone not like the bloomin onion?
• 25:38
  Speaker 6: Some people don't like onions.
• 25:39
  Speaker 1: Ben Those people are called a holes. That's what they're.
• 25:42
  Speaker 6: Blasphemist for you.
• 25:43
  Speaker 1: I'm sure not right. I love the onion. I love
• 25:45
  Speaker 1: the garlic and the onion. I'm all about the garlic.
• 25:47
  Speaker 1: And it's called the phones. And let's say hello to
• 25:50
  Speaker 1: Eenie Meenie miney moll. Let's say hello to helmet Man,
• 25:54
  Speaker 1: the superhero helmet man.
• 25:56
  Speaker 2: Some some superheroes have a cape. Helmet Man just has
• 25:59
  Speaker 2: a helmet.
• 26:01
  Speaker 7: Not for the morning. Can you hear me?
• 26:06
  Speaker 1: No? I can't.
• 26:08
  Speaker 7: Oh oh h. I had some banana pancakes, wheat pancakes
• 26:18
  Speaker 7: with syrup. Banana pancakes.
• 26:22
  Speaker 2: Congratulations, you'd like to Can you said that on? Hold on,
• 26:32
  Speaker 2: stop coop? Can you said that out on social media?
• 26:35
  Speaker 1: I'd like everyone to know and do that from the
• 26:37
  Speaker 1: Fox Sports radio account, that helmet Man had wheat banana
• 26:41
  Speaker 1: pancakes with syrup. Got it? Thank you?
• 26:46
  Speaker 7: And uh. I don't know how the Lakers loft to
• 26:49
  Speaker 7: Charlotte at home. What happened?
• 26:52
  Speaker 1: Well, Charlotte scored more points than the Lakers in the
• 26:55
  Speaker 1: second half. That's how that happened.
• 26:58
  Speaker 7: They should have had marks what's the name that play on,
• 27:02
  Speaker 7: Mark Williams. They should have had him.
• 27:06
  Speaker 1: They did have him. They returned him. They gave him back.
• 27:08
  Speaker 1: They said, we don't want the product, we will send
• 27:11
  Speaker 1: it back.
• 27:12
  Speaker 7: No, he's seven foot and two and a half two
• 27:15
  Speaker 7: hundred and a half pounds.
• 27:17
  Speaker 1: Like.
• 27:19
  Speaker 2: No, I know, I know who he is. The Lakers
• 27:21
  Speaker 2: didn't want him. They said that he's damaged goods. He
• 27:24
  Speaker 2: played in the game and played fine in the game.
• 27:27
  Speaker 2: I suppose he's got some kind of chronic some kind
• 27:30
  Speaker 2: of chronic hip prom or something.
• 27:32
  Speaker 1: I read. I don't know if that's true. Who knows.
• 27:35
  Speaker 7: Willie one of them, and they know he would do good.
• 27:38
  Speaker 7: They wouldn't trade him back because why he's playing now.
• 27:42
  Speaker 7: That wasn't too long ago when they made that trick.
• 27:46
  Speaker 2: Well, hell, wing men, Well, honestly, the Lakers are betting
• 27:49
  Speaker 2: that he's not gonna stay healthy and and so that's
• 27:52
  Speaker 2: why they sent him back.
• 27:54
  Speaker 1: I mean, that's kind of an obvious thing. Otherwise, they
• 27:56
  Speaker 1: would have kept him. If they thought he was going
• 27:58
  Speaker 1: to be good and not get hurt, they would have
• 28:00
  Speaker 1: kept it. Oh my god, unaware.
• 28:07
  Speaker 7: Put in this work, they get healthy. He just got there.
• 28:12
  Speaker 1: I'm aware of all this. The back he by the way,
• 28:18
  Speaker 1: in the second half.
• 28:19
  Speaker 2: To answer your question, but U said to have did
• 28:20
  Speaker 2: the Hornets winning the second lamellow ball It was ball
• 28:23
  Speaker 2: night and Miles Bridges, I thought that guy was in
• 28:26
  Speaker 2: like handcuffs. He had seventeen in the second half and
• 28:29
  Speaker 2: LaMelo Ball had eighteen in the second half, and they
• 28:32
  Speaker 2: outplayed Lebron and Luca of the Lemon, the banana putting Luca.
• 28:38
  Speaker 2: That could be his new nickname, banana putting Luca until
• 28:41
  Speaker 2: he starts playing well, he's banana put loser.
• 28:43
  Speaker 1: Luca Luca, Luca, Yeah, Luca of the lemmon, you won't
• 28:48
  Speaker 1: get a lemon.
• 28:50
  Speaker 7: They just stop there. They got to work into playing together.
• 28:54
  Speaker 4: Luca.
• 28:55
  Speaker 1: Hold, I say, now, what about my take here, helmet,
• 28:58
  Speaker 1: It doesn't Lebron look like a donis compared to Luca.
• 29:04
  Speaker 7: Oh, I can't tell. I can't tell.
• 29:06
  Speaker 1: No, I do not tell. It's obvious. Even blind Scott
• 29:10
  Speaker 1: can see that. I think of terror can see it.
• 29:13
  Speaker 1: A blind Emmett, the Seahawks fan can see it. Legally.
• 29:16
  Speaker 1: Blind Christopher can see it.
• 29:19
  Speaker 7: Oh, I took a chart. Whatever there I got in
• 29:22
  Speaker 7: around there at two o'clock and I got out for
• 29:25
  Speaker 7: twenty in the afternoon.
• 29:27
  Speaker 1: You took a two hour and twenty minute shower. Yes.
• 29:34
  Speaker 2: If you want to know why the city of Los
• 29:35
  Speaker 2: Angeles burned down a month ago, it's because helmet man's
• 29:39
  Speaker 2: taking all the water in LA. You're not that fat
• 29:44
  Speaker 2: a helmet man. Why are you taking two hour and
• 29:46
  Speaker 2: twenty minute showers?
• 29:47
  Speaker 1: What are you doing in there?
• 29:49
  Speaker 7: Oh? I get I get too comfortable, and I get
• 29:52
  Speaker 7: the soap on me, and you know, I mean I
• 29:56
  Speaker 7: want to be cleanly, clearly clean, you know.
• 30:01
  Speaker 1: Yeah, I understand.
• 30:02
  Speaker 7: Well you only take a two to three times a week.
• 30:08
  Speaker 1: Oh, you only take two to three showers a week.
• 30:11
  Speaker 2: Well that's how about you do one today for like,
• 30:13
  Speaker 2: you know, eight minutes of the most I'm here's like
• 30:16
  Speaker 2: a five minute shower guy.
• 30:17
  Speaker 1: In and out?
• 30:19
  Speaker 7: Oh that's too short. I can't do that.
• 30:21
  Speaker 1: That's too short. Of course.
• 30:22
  Speaker 7: Yes, you think I could come in tomorrow or not?
• 30:27
  Speaker 1: No? No, no, no, not tomorrow, come in? Uh Sunday,
• 30:32
  Speaker 1: your Monday next week? Why do you come in? How
• 30:33
  Speaker 1: about that?
• 30:34
  Speaker 7: Okay?
• 30:35
  Speaker 1: Yeah, I'll be ready, okay, all right, I gotta go
• 30:38
  Speaker 1: all right there you go, all right, all right, bye,
• 30:40
  Speaker 1: Justin and Cincinnati says, I'm genuinely surprised helmet man is
• 30:43
  Speaker 1: allowed to operate a stove. What a character.
• 30:48
  Speaker 2: What I've known that guy, helmet man for man over
• 30:52
  Speaker 2: twenty years. I can't believe I know that. How long
• 30:53
  Speaker 2: I've known that dude. And he is just like he sounds.
• 30:58
  Speaker 1: There are photos of I was walking the streets of
• 31:02
  Speaker 1: LA back in the old days. I used to go
• 31:04
  Speaker 1: to games a lot. Before COVID, I stopped going quite
• 31:07
  Speaker 1: a bit and all the different rules.
• 31:09
  Speaker 2: But when I went out there a lot. I remember
• 31:11
  Speaker 2: I was walking in downtown Los Angeles. It's probably about
• 31:15
  Speaker 2: eleven eleven thirty at night, and I hear this voice.
• 31:21
  Speaker 2: It's helmet man. But it's not just helmet man. It's
• 31:25
  Speaker 2: helmet man wearing a full Baltimore Orioles uniform, including the
• 31:29
  Speaker 2: batting helmet. Because he's helmet man walking around.
• 31:32
  Speaker 1: The streets of LA.
• 31:34
  Speaker 2: And he said hello in full I thought I was
• 31:37
  Speaker 2: sitting that was like Mike Devereaux or something like Eddie
• 31:39
  Speaker 2: Murray or somebody or Cal Ripken, But no, it was
• 31:42
  Speaker 2: helmet Man. It was helmet Man right there. Amazing, all right, well,
• 31:46
  Speaker 2: let's keep it going to the phones. We'll say hello
• 31:49
  Speaker 2: to Enie, Meani miney mall. Let's say hello to Marco.
• 31:53
  Speaker 2: Who's in Charlotte.
• 31:54
  Speaker 1: What's going on? Marco? Welcome, Marco? Hello Marcolo? What a
• 32:04
  Speaker 1: white woman? Well, well, I don't know, I don't know.
• 32:07
  Speaker 1: Probably sleeping.
• 32:08
  Speaker 2: But Marco, when you were a kid, Oh yeah, they're
• 32:13
  Speaker 2: doing that, they're doing the hot tour.
• 32:14
  Speaker 8: But Marco, I wanted to say, what, hey, man, like,
• 32:19
  Speaker 8: when the Lakers is on that winning streak, they were
• 32:20
  Speaker 8: beating everybody, They beat the Seltage, they beat the Knicks.
• 32:23
  Speaker 8: I didn't hear nothing from y all. It was freakings
• 32:26
  Speaker 8: about Lebron and the Lakers. But as soon as they
• 32:28
  Speaker 8: lose a Luca and now you're doing monologue about them,
• 32:30
  Speaker 8: I'm just saying, man, you got to keep the same.
• 32:32
  Speaker 1: Well, uh, there was better stuff to talk about. It's
• 32:36
  Speaker 1: a there's a slow night.
• 32:38
  Speaker 2: There was football news, and so we talk about the
• 32:41
  Speaker 2: Today's show. It's the NBA. That was one game and
• 32:45
  Speaker 2: this was the story. That's a story right there.
• 32:48
  Speaker 1: And yeah, when you were when you were when you
• 32:50
  Speaker 1: were a.
• 32:50
  Speaker 2: Kid, Marco though, when you were a kid, right, how
• 32:53
  Speaker 2: how much did you hate the Marco Polo thing when
• 32:56
  Speaker 2: you were a kid.
• 32:57
  Speaker 8: I literally still hear it every day all the time.
• 33:00
  Speaker 9: Really, yeah, it's terrible.
• 33:02
  Speaker 8: People think it's a new joke.
• 33:05
  Speaker 1: It's horrible. Yeah, that is so bad.
• 33:07
  Speaker 8: Literally, like when I go to order food and like
• 33:09
  Speaker 8: they see my name is Mark will be like Marco
• 33:11
  Speaker 8: and they'll look at me expecting me to say Polo
• 33:13
  Speaker 8: and I'm like, really.
• 33:17
  Speaker 1: That's great. Uh yeah see.
• 33:19
  Speaker 2: And this is like when you're I bet your your
• 33:21
  Speaker 2: parents were whatever named you. They didn't anticipate that.
• 33:24
  Speaker 1: Maybe it's a family name or something. I don't know
• 33:26
  Speaker 1: who you're named after, but you naming.
• 33:29
  Speaker 2: A kid is such like a big deal because you
• 33:31
  Speaker 2: got a factory in all the jokes they're gonna get right,
• 33:34
  Speaker 2: you don't know, I mean, you got it.
• 33:35
  Speaker 1: There's a lot you have no idea the name thing you.
• 33:37
  Speaker 9: Got to think of the mind to do this day
• 33:39
  Speaker 9: to this day, man, I heard, like I don't know,
• 33:42
  Speaker 9: a couple of times a week still, like all the time.
• 33:45
  Speaker 9: I'm just you to it now, you know, Yeah, I
• 33:48
  Speaker 9: hear you. I just give people to stare and just
• 33:50
  Speaker 9: to let them know, like I'm not feeling it.
• 33:53
  Speaker 1: Well, it wasn't as best mark when I was Marco.
• 33:57
  Speaker 1: I just want to tell you, when I was a.
• 33:58
  Speaker 2: Kid, Marco, So I was growing up, there was of
• 34:00
  Speaker 2: movies's been forgotten now, but it was called Benji Benji
• 34:03
  Speaker 2: the Dog. It was very popular when I was a kid, right,
• 34:06
  Speaker 2: and so I got called Benji the Dog at school
• 34:08
  Speaker 2: because of the movie. My name is ben so they
• 34:10
  Speaker 2: called me Benji. They call me big band like the
• 34:12
  Speaker 2: clock in London. You know, I get a lot of
• 34:14
  Speaker 2: that stuff.
• 34:14
  Speaker 8: Yeah, I like Benjie the Dog.
• 34:17
  Speaker 1: But no, I don't like that name at all. I
• 34:20
  Speaker 1: don't like that at all. How dare you?
• 34:22
  Speaker 8: I know you don't like it, but I do.
• 34:24
  Speaker 1: Okay, Marco Polo, Yeah, all right, play that game.
• 34:28
  Speaker 7: Hey, but hey, I gotta go.
• 34:30
  Speaker 9: Man, I'm I'm head at the work right now. But
• 34:32
  Speaker 9: I just wanted to, you know, call in and give
• 34:33
  Speaker 9: you a little.
• 34:34
  Speaker 7: Opinion on that.
• 34:35
  Speaker 1: All right, buddy, Well, have a good night at work.
• 34:37
  Speaker 1: Thank you all go away. Marco seemed like a good dude,
• 34:41
  Speaker 1: right have him as a regular show contributor. Lives in Charlotte,
• 34:47
  Speaker 1: but he likes the Lakers. I don't know he's talking
• 34:50
  Speaker 1: about it. I mean we talk about the stories, but.
• 34:52
  Speaker 6: You can hear his voice.
• 34:54
  Speaker 1: Yes, that is true. That is true.
• 34:56
  Speaker 2: Uh, Firk Dog says, helmet man must be the best
• 34:59
  Speaker 2: selling man in LA after those two hour showers our
• 35:02
  Speaker 2: best smell. I think he meant smelling, he said selling,
• 35:05
  Speaker 2: but I think he meant smelling. Make sure a helmet
• 35:07
  Speaker 2: man comes in one of the days he takes a shower. Yeah,
• 35:11
  Speaker 2: that's probably probably the way to go on that. So
• 35:15
  Speaker 2: we have two or three days a week he takes
• 35:17
  Speaker 2: a shower. The other four days we're good. We are good, good, good,
• 35:23
  Speaker 2: good good. All right, Yes, we have some audio gold
• 35:27
  Speaker 2: crossing the pro leagueates. We'll push that back, push it back.
• 35:30
  Speaker 5: Now.
• 35:30
  Speaker 1: We also have Mallard of the third degree. We'll get
• 35:32
  Speaker 1: to that coming up in a little bit. Here's the
• 35:34
  Speaker 1: incht to trivia. Ken Griffy Jr.
• 35:38
  Speaker 2: Originally declined a trade to the Cincinnati Reds until they dropped.
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  Speaker 2: Ken Griffith junior Hall of Famer back in the day,
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  Speaker 1: for the insta trivia. Ken Garvey Junior originally declined to
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  Speaker 1: trade years ago to the Cincinnati Reds until they dropped blank.
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  Speaker 1: That is the question. What is the answer? And let's
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  Speaker 1: see does anyone know the answer?
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  Speaker 2: Todd says, Adduce is the answer? Trucker Joe says, the
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  Speaker 2: Shuttlecock of sports talk is the is the answer? Yeah,
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  Speaker 2: who else do we have page down? Let's see you
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  Speaker 2: can't read that. Our buddy Manuel from Guardina says, Shadow
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  Speaker 1: That's a good answer. Who else, Let's see can't dropped
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  Speaker 1: the soap from Nick.
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  Speaker 2: Timothy from Northern Kentucky says, dropped off the frozen turkeys
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  Speaker 2: of the Homeless one of the great episodes in TV history.
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  Speaker 2: Justin in Cincinnati says, until they dropped nude marred shot
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  Speaker 2: Bobblehead Night, until they dropped Shatzi I forty Ian Pokey
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  Speaker 2: Reese guessed by Ike and Roseville, Minnesota King Rory says,
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  Speaker 2: Rosie read the mascot.
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  Speaker 1: That's a little awkward. Rihanna, who is thirty seven today?
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  Speaker 1: From the Late Night Drug Tester?
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  Speaker 2: water Bill guessed by Scorpio Niner. Good to hear from
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  Speaker 2: Scorpio Niner again Milkman, Mike and Colorado says the price
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  Speaker 2: of Skyline Chile Lreena, do you have an answer? It's
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  Speaker 2: not until they allowed napping in the clubhouse, which barbecuing
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  Speaker 2: Len gave gave as his answer.
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  Speaker 1: Until he dropped his Lucky underwear, Ben, lucky underwear? Is
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  Speaker 1: that the answer?
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  Speaker 2: No, it's also not untill they dropped it like it's hot,
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  Speaker 2: like JT. The wingman said, Yeah, that's a good one,
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  Speaker 2: or something involving sausage from Stevie Meatball's the correct answer.
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  Speaker 2: Ken Grivey Junior held up the trade of the Reds
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  Speaker 2: until they dropped the rule on not allowing players to
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  Speaker 2: wear earrings on the field during games.
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  Speaker 1: He wanted to wear his earrings smaller. How about that?
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  Speaker 4: To the third degree, this is one big Ben gets
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  Speaker 6: In a recent article on the Athletic it was suggested
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  Speaker 6: that because of Sequon Barkley's impact on the Eagles, teams
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  Speaker 6: may approach the draft differently and we could see up
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  Speaker 6: to three running backs taken in the first round. Ben,
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  Speaker 6: do you see any chance of that happening?
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  Speaker 5: I do not.
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  Speaker 2: I'm of the mind there'll be one or two running
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  Speaker 2: backs that are gonna be draft.
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  Speaker 1: I don't think we'll get to three. I think three
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  Speaker 1: is still too many. Uh. For example, the kid.
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  Speaker 2: From Boise States supposed to be a top fifteen pick
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  Speaker 2: in the draft, and the other guys at running back
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  Speaker 2: you're talking about being picked near the end of the
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  Speaker 2: first round. I think those guys will end up going
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  Speaker 2: in the second round, so I'm gonna go. I think
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  Speaker 2: there'll be one one. I don't even think there'll be two,
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  Speaker 2: so I don't I'm I'm that's that's not going to happen.
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  Speaker 1: I go one running back, the kid from Boise State.
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  Speaker 1: That's it. Next, the early.
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  Speaker 6: Betting onds for NFL the year and twenty twenty five
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  Speaker 6: are in and Ben Johnson and Mike Rabel are tied
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  Speaker 6: for the best odds.
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  Speaker 1: Ben, do the books have the right favorites?
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  Speaker 2: Well, they have the favorites because you the formula is
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  Speaker 2: pretty simple. You take a crap bag team and they
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  Speaker 2: become good and you're new. So they have all the criteria,
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  Speaker 2: all the ingredients Rabel and Ben Johnson. Plus there's a
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  Speaker 2: lot of Bears fans and obviously a lot of Patriots
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  Speaker 2: fans from their their dynasty.
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  Speaker 1: But that's the one.
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  Speaker 2: Like Sean McVay has a good team, he's not gonna
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  Speaker 2: win because they're good every year or Tom next Now.
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  Speaker 6: According to a report on Monday, Oklahoma City stars shake
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  Speaker 6: gilgis Alexander plans to serve as his own agent going forward. Now,
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  Speaker 6: we've seen this a few times from a different star
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  Speaker 6: athletes over the past couple of years.
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  Speaker 1: Do you think it's becoming a trend. Well, he's already
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  Speaker 1: got the max contract, so it makes a lot of sense.
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  Speaker 2: You don't need an agent. You've already had to pay
• 40:49
  Speaker 2: your agent because you got the max contract. But all
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  Speaker 2: you need is a marketing person to get you endorsements.
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  Speaker 2: And so yeah, what's the point, You've already.
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  Speaker 1: Got the money. How do we do? Koope, you pass
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