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  Speaker 2: This is the best of the Ben Maler Show on
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  Speaker 1: Those la kind of nights welme in the beginning of
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  Speaker 1: another night of the Ben Mahler Show. We are at
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  Speaker 1: announce Yeah. I thought that was kind of cool. I
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  Speaker 1: like that. So good job by Kevin. So our lead
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  Speaker 1: this hour from La La Land a welcoming committee lining
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  Speaker 1: up to lick the toes of Luka Doncik on Tuesday.
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  Speaker 1: So if you did not pay attention to this, maybe
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  Speaker 1: you actually have a life and you had other things
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  Speaker 1: going on. So Luca had his introductory news conference with
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  Speaker 1: the Lakers in front of a pack house of excited
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  Speaker 1: media fanboys. They were so happy their their favorite team
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  Speaker 1: had a new hero, Luca. And like all of these things,
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  Speaker 1: it was designed as a pep rally. It was designed
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  Speaker 1: as a revival that the pathetic, dormant Laker franchise is
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  Speaker 1: back because the Mavericks decided to give away their best
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  Speaker 1: player and just hand it to the Lakers and only
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  Speaker 1: the Lakers. No one else, right, nobody else, only the Lakers.
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  Speaker 1: Now this comes amid reports that it is not a
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  Speaker 1: guarantee that Luka Doncik will sign a max contract extension
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  Speaker 1: with the Lakers this offseason. The very large Brian Winderhurst
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  Speaker 1: there classifies himself as some kind of NBA guru, and
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  Speaker 1: he says there is a chance that don Chik may
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  Speaker 1: want to see how things play out, may want to
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  Speaker 1: see how things play out, okay, or he agrees to
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  Speaker 1: any type of extension with the Lakers. So it seems
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  Speaker 1: like it's worthy of some conversations. So let us discuss
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  Speaker 1: the question the report saying that Luka is not garonteed
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  Speaker 1: Luka Doncik to sign an extension with the Lakers. Are
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  Speaker 1: you buying that line of thinking? So I have a
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  Speaker 1: nursery rhyme, Mark Jackson and Red Lobster, and we will
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  Speaker 1: combine all of these things together. As it is not
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  Speaker 1: your father's kind of sports radio show. It's not so a.
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  Speaker 1: So here's the deal. I'm not pulling out the Apple
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  Speaker 1: pay on this one. I'm not. I'm not buying what
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  Speaker 1: I'm hearing. I'm not. There is a financial hit, which
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  Speaker 1: is part of the reason that this is being floated
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  Speaker 1: out there also to enhance the drama. But this trade
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  Speaker 1: was very costly in terms of on court earnings for Luca.
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  Speaker 1: It just is that he was set to make another
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  Speaker 1: five year, three hundred and forty five million dollar Supermax
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  Speaker 1: contract agreement. If he had stayed in Dallas this offseason,
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  Speaker 1: the Mavericks would have been likely. I don't know how
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  Speaker 1: they wouldn't have done this to give him a five
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  Speaker 1: year contract for three hundred and forty five million, that's
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  Speaker 1: the going rate for that level of player. But the
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  Speaker 1: Mavericks said, you know what, we're going to trade you.
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  Speaker 1: So they're the only team, as I understand it, that
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  Speaker 1: could make that offer. So that means that even if
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  Speaker 1: Luca signs for the Max contract with the Lakers, it's
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  Speaker 1: four years, four years, two hundred and twenty nine million.
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  Speaker 1: Hopeful he'll be able to put food on the table
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  Speaker 1: and not have to go down to the soup kitchen
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  Speaker 1: those hard scrabble streets with two hundred twenty nine million.
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  Speaker 1: But when you do the math and you include the
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  Speaker 1: People's Republic of California taxation where your money goes to
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  Speaker 1: not provide water when there's fires and things like that,
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  Speaker 1: it's about one hundred and twenty five million or so,
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  Speaker 1: maybe even more than that. Just some chicken scratch back
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  Speaker 1: of the napkin math it's at least one hundred and
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  Speaker 1: twenty five and one hundred and sixteen on the court.
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  Speaker 1: But then you add in the taxes, the extra taxes
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  Speaker 1: and whatnot, so it's like one hundred and twenty five
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  Speaker 1: million plus. So nevertheless, you're gonna make some of that
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  Speaker 1: back from marketing. Is a marketing just that alone. Madison
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  Speaker 1: Avenue and the love of the bonanza, the financial bonanza.
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  Speaker 1: We know, the NBA is happy, Nike is smiling ear
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  Speaker 1: to ear, it's richie rich, it's the rich get richer. Now.
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  Speaker 1: This report, though, if you read between the words, or
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  Speaker 1: in this case, listen between the words, the report sounded
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  Speaker 1: like a nursery rhyme. To me, it sounded very similar
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  Speaker 1: to Pop Goes Louisel, a lot of weasel words, a
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  Speaker 1: lot of weasel words. Luca would have to go superman like,
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  Speaker 1: superman like to spurn the Lakers. There is only one
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  Speaker 1: star level player in recent NBA history, last generation and
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  Speaker 1: really the last two generations who said I'm gonna reject
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  Speaker 1: the Lakers. I don't want to go there when offered
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  Speaker 1: a fair market deal. The only player that's done that
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  Speaker 1: is Dwight Howard. Dwight said dokau you and then he
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  Speaker 1: eventually ended up backing the Lakers anyway, but he didn't
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  Speaker 1: decided I want to play there. He took off. That's it.
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  Speaker 1: That's the list, Dwight Howard, I do not include Dennis
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  Speaker 1: Shrewder as a star player in the NBA. He also
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  Speaker 1: didn't want to play for the Lakers anymore and skidad
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  Speaker 1: all out of town now page two. So we mentioned
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  Speaker 1: at the very top of this malle monologue there was
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  Speaker 1: an introductory news conference in La. The Lakers welcomed the Luca.
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  Speaker 1: They put him on a pedestal and everyone took turns
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  Speaker 1: giving him a manny and a petty. But how did
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  Speaker 1: Luka Doncik's body language look during his opening news conference
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  Speaker 1: with the Lakers. So I watched this about thirty minutes.
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  Speaker 1: I was sleeping when it was going on. I watched
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  Speaker 1: it on the YouTube and he looked to me. And
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  Speaker 1: I'm going to describe this for Inka terror Blind, Scott Blind, Emmett,
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  Speaker 1: Stevie meat Balls and all the other blind fans of
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  Speaker 1: the show. Legally Blind Christopher were big in the blind community.
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  Speaker 1: So Luka Dncik's body language, it looked to me like
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  Speaker 1: he was stupefied. He was numb as a bug. Read
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  Speaker 1: the room, I would say, right, Luca gave terrible body language.
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  Speaker 1: He looked like a broken man at this news conference. Now,
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  Speaker 1: Mark Jackson, before he was whacked as an NBA broadcaster,
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  Speaker 1: he used to say hand down, man down. That was
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  Speaker 1: one of his catchphrases for Luca. It's head down, man down.
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  Speaker 1: Sign language, non verbal communication, big body language, guy, big
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  Speaker 1: body language, guy. Head down, Okay. Head down is a
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  Speaker 1: gesture that is universally interpretated interpreted rather interpreted as a
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  Speaker 1: feeling of shame or guilt. So when you're communicating and
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  Speaker 1: you have your head down, like Luca did, you are
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  Speaker 1: letting the world know that you feel some shame. There's
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  Speaker 1: some guilt here, like you're sad. It also means you're
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  Speaker 1: feeling down or depressed. So that's the body language, the
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  Speaker 1: unspoken words of Luca. He's not happy. He's bummed out, right,
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  Speaker 1: he's bummed out And it sure look like that very
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  Speaker 1: very mellowtone delivery. Just there was not a lot of joy,
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  Speaker 1: not a lot of joy from Luca at that event.
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  Speaker 1: He had to do it. It's like, you know, you
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  Speaker 1: do something in school you don't really want to do
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  Speaker 1: and they make you do it, and you know, I
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  Speaker 1: don't want to do that, but I'll do it because
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  Speaker 1: I have to do it, but I want to do it.
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  Speaker 1: I'll do it. Fine, I did it. That's it. I thought.
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  Speaker 1: It doesn't mean I like doing it, but I'll do
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  Speaker 1: it because I gotta do it now. Last word, So
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  Speaker 1: what jumps out to you about one quote in particular
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  Speaker 1: from the Lakers skinny jeans wearing general manager Rob Polinka? Who, man,
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  Speaker 1: this guy, well, this guy just reeks a boy elitism,
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  Speaker 1: Rob Polinka? So what jumps out at you about the
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  Speaker 1: Lakers sham? Rob Polinka? He gave a quote here saying
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  Speaker 1: that the MAVs executive Nico Harrison was instrumental in bringing
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  Speaker 1: Luca to Los Angeles, and Rob Polinka thanked him for
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  Speaker 1: staying true to the negotiation. So what jumps out at
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  Speaker 1: you about that particular line of commentary from Rob Polinka
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  Speaker 1: saying the Mavericks executive Nico Harrison was instrumental in making
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  Speaker 1: Luca a Laker and thanking him for staying true to
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  Speaker 1: the negotiations. So it does mean that Rob Polinka is
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  Speaker 1: a troll, is what it means. That's a troll move
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  Speaker 1: is what that is. That's kicking Harrison in the balls
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  Speaker 1: is what it is. There is a uprising in Dallas.
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  Speaker 1: We'll get to it a little bit later, but the
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  Speaker 1: Maverick fan base is literally melting down. There's an insurgency
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  Speaker 1: among the rank and file for the Dallas Mavericks because
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  Speaker 1: of this trade. And Rob Polinka as the hutzpa to say, yeah,
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  Speaker 1: you know, but he was instrumental. I want to thank
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  Speaker 1: Nico Harrison. I do. Rob Polinka having supper at Red Lobster,
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  Speaker 1: thanking Nico Harrison with that smug fish eating grin, just
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  Speaker 1: that smug look. Now, meanwhile, a lot of the noise
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  Speaker 1: around the NBA is that the Lakers blueprint going forward
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  Speaker 1: once once Luca actually gets off his fat ass and plays.
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  Speaker 1: He didn't play in the game, I'm told on Tuesday night.
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  Speaker 1: But the blueprint with Lebron and Luca is to try
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  Speaker 1: to outscore teams. Is that a sound plan? Now, outside
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  Speaker 1: of the obvious, that's the only way to win any
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  Speaker 1: athletic event is to outscore the opponent. You fundamentally have
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  Speaker 1: to outscore the opponent every even you play defense, you
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  Speaker 1: got to score more than the opponent. Otherwise you don't
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  Speaker 1: win the game. That aside, That aside, right, we're saying
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  Speaker 1: you gotta score more to win. But when Luca and
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  Speaker 1: Lebron eventually get out in the court at some point
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  Speaker 1: and they play side by side, they're very similar type players,
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  Speaker 1: which means on offense, assuming they can work together and
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  Speaker 1: find some synergy, Luca and Lebron, the Lakers will be
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  Speaker 1: on the power play on offense at all times. Imagine
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  Speaker 1: a two man game with Lebron and kicking it back
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  Speaker 1: to Luca to shoot him, and it's unstoppable. It's also
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  Speaker 1: unstoppable on defense because in hockey jargon, they'll be shorthanded,
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  Speaker 1: two men down in the penalty box when they're on defense. Lakers,
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  Speaker 1: it's going to be five on three most of the game.
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  Speaker 1: That's just the way it's going to be. Because Luca
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  Speaker 1: and Lebron are often on defense, like they're in the
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  Speaker 1: penalty box, they're resting up, waiting to run back out
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  Speaker 1: on the ice and score a goal. A lackluster, a
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  Speaker 1: couple of Mattadors, hooray. That's how they play defense. They're
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  Speaker 1: Matador defense there, and so that's what you got. But
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  Speaker 1: we'll worry about that down the line, and you know,
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  Speaker 1: Luca will likely come back and then miss a bunch
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  Speaker 1: of games, because that's how this usually goes in that sport.
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  Speaker 1: That's how they do business in the NBA and play
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  Speaker 1: a little bit, miss miss a lot. I'm told Anthony
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  Speaker 1: Davis missed his Maverick debut in Philadelphia. Dallas lost, and
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  Speaker 1: he was back to his old self, his mid season form.
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  Speaker 1: He was street closed Davis, Anthony sitting on the bench,
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  Speaker 1: sitting that out. But I do love the uprising among
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  Speaker 1: the Maverick fan the rebellion, the insertion, and I don't
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  Speaker 1: know how everyone say it right. It's very chaotic. There
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  Speaker 1: is a sense of confusion and chaos among the fan
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  Speaker 1: base there as Nico Harrison has passed everyone by on
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  Speaker 1: the Dallas sports scene as public enemy number one, and
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  Speaker 1: somewhere on a yacht out in the Atlantic Ocean, somewhere,
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  Speaker 1: Jerry Jones is smiling from ear to ear and he's
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  Speaker 1: probably buying chocolates, high end chocolate for Nico Harrison, saying
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  Speaker 1: thank you, thank you, thank you, thank you, thank you.
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  Speaker 1: Nico Harrison. You're my hero. Way to go, you boob.
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  Speaker 1: the beginning of another hour of the Ben Maler Show.
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  Speaker 1: We are in the air everywhere making life interesting. We
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  Speaker 1: places over the years. But our lead this hour is
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  Speaker 1: from Super Bowl fifty nine. The media elites continue to
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  Speaker 1: run up credit card bills and get completely hammered in
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  Speaker 1: the Big Easy as we get a little bit closer
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  Speaker 1: to kickoff at the so Bridome on Sunday, and Jalen
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  Speaker 1: Hurts made sure to feed the content kitty this week.
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  Speaker 1: If you have not been paying close attention to everything,
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  Speaker 1: and there's a lot of stuff going on, maybe you've
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  Speaker 1: missed some of it. So preparing to start his second
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  Speaker 1: Super Bowl in three seasons, man made me look like
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  Speaker 1: a blithering idiot. I hey, he'd be that good, but
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  Speaker 1: he's not great. Happens to be surrounded by good players
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  Speaker 1: and that works out. But anyway, preparing to start his
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  Speaker 1: second Super Bowl in three seasons, the Eagles quarterback Jalen
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  Speaker 1: Hurts says that the loss to Canzah City back in
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  Speaker 1: Super Bowl fifty seven is something that's still is fresh
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  Speaker 1: in as his mind. Of course, it's only a couple
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  Speaker 1: of years ago. Speaking to a gaggle of ink stained
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  Speaker 1: reporters this week, Jalen Hurts said the defeat quote lit
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  Speaker 1: a fire in me. I want to go see a doctor.
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  Speaker 1: There's a pill for that or a cream. He says
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  Speaker 1: that it has made him a better player. Jalen Hurts
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  Speaker 1: said quote being able to become wiser, grow and mature
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  Speaker 1: and take all these lessons in for the next season
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  Speaker 1: and the next games. Jalen Hurts said to the media,
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  Speaker 1: it had a great driving force. It lit a fime,
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  Speaker 1: lit a fire in me, and to have the opportunity
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  Speaker 1: again is exactly what you work for. All right, close quotes,
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  Speaker 1: So let us discuss the question. Jalen Hurts, Philadelphia quarterback
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  Speaker 1: Jalen Hurts says the loss to the Chiefs in Super
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  Speaker 1: Bowl fifty seven lit a fire under him. Is this meaningful?
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  Speaker 1: So my observations I have I have Golden Corral. There
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  Speaker 1: was an early bell there. I have Golden Corral, Encore
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  Speaker 1: and Pandora's Box and there we go. See that's that
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  Speaker 1: was a premature bell. We have a pill for that. Anyway,
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  Speaker 1: we'll combine all of these things together and we'll say
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  Speaker 1: thank you for sharing, thank you for sharing. So number
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  Speaker 1: I said, naum Burn, Is it meaningful? It's as meaningful
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  Speaker 1: as leftover spaghetti in the back of the refrigerator. It's
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  Speaker 1: standard chow is what it is. And I have spent
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  Speaker 1: many nights behind the bully pulpit here at fsr ranting
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  Speaker 1: and raving about nobody thought we could do it, or
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  Speaker 1: I was motivated because this doubter over here or I
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  Speaker 1: lost this game and all that. It's like, it's like me, Sam,
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  Speaker 1: I had a bad show on Wednesday of last week.
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  Speaker 1: So now this Wednesday, right now, this is going to
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  Speaker 1: be a great show because I was motivated by that show.
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  Speaker 1: It's like when I hear an athlete say, well, I
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  Speaker 1: fire was lit let inside me because of a loss.
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  Speaker 1: I go why a wn? I yawn? Spoiler alert spoilert.
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  Speaker 1: If this is what lit the fire, the flame for
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  Speaker 1: Jalen Hurts, then he'll he'll be going to Golden Corral
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  Speaker 1: this weekend and he'll be having the all you can
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  Speaker 1: eat buffet of inspiration, all you can eat when the
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  Speaker 1: Eagles lose a second Super Bowl in three years to
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  Speaker 1: Kansas City, and the Eagles are really going to have
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  Speaker 1: a sense of purpose. If that was a fire, this
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  Speaker 1: is gonna be an inferno when Philadelphia comes up short
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  Speaker 1: again against Kansas City. I'm just saying I I'm just
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  Speaker 1: pointing that out, merely pointing that out. I do get
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  Speaker 1: a kick out of this stuff. I find it amusing.
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  Speaker 1: I am easily amused, I would say, and Jalen Hurts
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  Speaker 1: his media dealings very robotic, Jaylor. Now, he did have
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  Speaker 1: a great quote when he first took over as the
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  Speaker 1: quarterback of the Philadelphia Eagles and they got poleaxed by
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  Speaker 1: the Cowboys, if I remember, and he gave a quote
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  Speaker 1: he didn't play very well. He said, when you take
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  Speaker 1: your deuce his famous choice. So, when you take your deuce,
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  Speaker 1: he said, you don't sit there and look at it.
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  Speaker 1: He said, you don't do that. You flush it and
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  Speaker 1: you move on. You flush it. But in this case,
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  Speaker 1: he's like, well a fire has been ltting, you know,
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  Speaker 1: inside me, I am enraged because I lost the Super
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  Speaker 1: Bowl a couple of years Agourse, of course the Eagles
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  Speaker 1: lost that game because he didn't play well in the
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  Speaker 1: second half. If he had played well in the second half,
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  Speaker 1: Philadelphia could have, should have would have won that game.
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  Speaker 1: But let's not say that part out loud. But it's
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  Speaker 1: not even his team anymore. He is just along for
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  Speaker 1: the ride. This is Sequon Barkley's team. Barkley will hammer
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  Speaker 1: the Eagles offense as far as they will go, whether
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  Speaker 1: it's out of control or in the end zone. It
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  Speaker 1: is the Barkley Show. It is absolutely the Barkley Show.
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  Speaker 1: The Chiefs would love for Jalen Hurts to be the
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  Speaker 1: center of attention to beat them. They want Jalen Hurts
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  Speaker 1: to be the guy throwing the ball thirty five times,
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  Speaker 1: and they would make great inroads against the Eagles offense
• 21:24
  Speaker 1: if that were the case. All right, now pitched to
• 21:27
  Speaker 1: the business of football, the business of football, and we
• 21:32
  Speaker 1: are told, despite all the media elites free loading in
• 21:36
  Speaker 1: New Orleans trying to get people excited for Super Bowl
• 21:39
  Speaker 1: fifty nine, it just isn't working, and the ticket prices
• 21:44
  Speaker 1: on the secondary market are free falling. The get in
• 21:50
  Speaker 1: price or the big Game this weekend continues to go down, down, down, down, down, down, down, down, down, down,
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  Speaker 1: downtown down. As we get closer to kickoff. The lowest
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  Speaker 1: ticket price, which is around forty three hundred dollars. Listen,
• 22:06
  Speaker 1: it's still a ton of money. However, it was last
• 22:11
  Speaker 1: Friday fifty eight hundred dollars. Now it's forty three. That's
• 22:14
  Speaker 1: a loss of fifteen hundred dollars, and two weeks ago
• 22:18
  Speaker 1: the ticket was sixty three hundred dollars. So the ticket
• 22:22
  Speaker 1: prices for Super Bowl fifty nine in New Orleans have plummeted,
• 22:27
  Speaker 1: in some cases by over fifty percent. For Chiefs and
• 22:31
  Speaker 1: Eagles in a week fifty percent down some of the
• 22:37
  Speaker 1: ticket prices for Super Bowl fifty nine. Why are the
• 22:40
  Speaker 1: prices lower? Why have they gone lower? So I've got
• 22:44
  Speaker 1: the hotel called the Encore in Vegas. This is an
• 22:49
  Speaker 1: Encore showing it is a carbon copy. We just saw
• 22:55
  Speaker 1: this matchup in February of twenty twenty three in Super
• 22:59
  Speaker 1: Bowl fifty sevan. It is not a significant time lapse
• 23:03
  Speaker 1: between those games. This is a big ticket item. We
• 23:06
  Speaker 1: all know that, right The Super Bowl is a once
• 23:09
  Speaker 1: in a lifetime experience for most people, once in a
• 23:13
  Speaker 1: generation if you're able to go. So what does that
• 23:16
  Speaker 1: mean to me? That means that if you are someone
• 23:20
  Speaker 1: that spends your money on football tickets, you're gonna go
• 23:23
  Speaker 1: one time in your life. You're gonna spend a lot
• 23:25
  Speaker 1: of cash from your rainy day fund that you've been
• 23:28
  Speaker 1: saving up for. And this is a once in a
• 23:31
  Speaker 1: lifetime experience. Now, if you're a Kansas City fan, this
• 23:35
  Speaker 1: is becoming a yearly ritual. Three in a row, four
• 23:40
  Speaker 1: trips since twenty twenty four of five for Mahomes and
• 23:44
  Speaker 1: the Chiefs in the Super Bowl. And if you're an
• 23:47
  Speaker 1: Eagle fan, while some of the names have changed. The
• 23:51
  Speaker 1: Eagles have now been to the Super Bowl three times
• 23:55
  Speaker 1: since twenty eighteen. And it's not an event for regular Americas.
• 24:02
  Speaker 1: We know this. It's it's for the aristocrats. It's for
• 24:05
  Speaker 1: the one percenters. I saw several video clips of NFL
• 24:10
  Speaker 1: owners with two hundred three hundred million dollar yachts parked
• 24:14
  Speaker 1: in that dirty water in New Orleans, and they're mega megayachts,
• 24:20
  Speaker 1: and they just hanging out and they're coming into town.
• 24:22
  Speaker 1: The Oligarcs showing up there, and do they stay on
• 24:26
  Speaker 1: those They probably don't even stay on those yachts, right,
• 24:29
  Speaker 1: they don't, don't. I don't think they stay on those
• 24:31
  Speaker 1: yachts all right now. Final point, So the NFL made
• 24:35
  Speaker 1: some other news, and this was certainly interesting considering the
• 24:39
  Speaker 1: last five or six years that we've all lived through. Here.
• 24:42
  Speaker 1: The NFL, who was spending years and years virtue signaling,
• 24:48
  Speaker 1: they're still doing that, but they they're cutting cutting it
• 24:50
  Speaker 1: back a little bit. The NFL will remove the slogan
• 24:55
  Speaker 1: and racism from the end zones at the Superdome for
• 25:01
  Speaker 1: the game this weekend, Super Bowl fifty nine. Instead, the
• 25:05
  Speaker 1: NFL will use phrases choose love, and it takes all
• 25:11
  Speaker 1: of us. So the NFL, the genius is the National
• 25:17
  Speaker 1: Football League have decided to remove the end racism slogan
• 25:23
  Speaker 1: from the Super Bowl end zone. Is there a lesson
• 25:27
  Speaker 1: from this? Is there a lesson from it? So the
• 25:30
  Speaker 1: lesson is, you can't juggle live hand grenades forever. You can't.
• 25:35
  Speaker 1: The NFL opened up Pandora's box by virtue signaling, and
• 25:44
  Speaker 1: they were trying to demonstrate to everybody that they had
• 25:47
  Speaker 1: the moral compass and they were morally correct, and they
• 25:50
  Speaker 1: were superior and all that stuff. And now that they've
• 25:55
  Speaker 1: taken that slogan off the field, everyone's pretty much at
• 25:58
  Speaker 1: the same reaction. Everyone's going to laughing at the NFL.
• 26:01
  Speaker 1: They're pointing their finger at the NFL laughing. Why wouldn't
• 26:03
  Speaker 1: you be It's like the mission was accomplished. Racism is over.
• 26:07
  Speaker 1: The NFL's ended racism video at eleven. The NFL fixed it.
• 26:12
  Speaker 1: Roger Goodell solved the divide. He did, he did, Roger Goodell,
• 26:18
  Speaker 1: could you put a slogan on the field? That must
• 26:21
  Speaker 1: be why, otherwise you'd leave it on there. If racism
• 26:23
  Speaker 1: wasn't over, you'd leave the slogan on the field. You
• 26:26
  Speaker 1: see the slippery slope. The NFL opened up here, and
• 26:30
  Speaker 1: I'll give the NFL credit, it took them a long
• 26:33
  Speaker 1: time to get to this point. The NBA immediately realized
• 26:36
  Speaker 1: when they were putting all these slogans all over the
• 26:38
  Speaker 1: place during the COVID year that they were rapidly bleeding.
• 26:43
  Speaker 1: There were a lot, I mean, there was a lot
• 26:45
  Speaker 1: of people that were like, I ain't watching that crap,
• 26:48
  Speaker 1: and they quickly and rather quietly got rid of those
• 26:52
  Speaker 1: those things. But the NFL kept them around, but not this,
• 26:55
  Speaker 1: not in the Super Bowl. But I'm sure that people
• 26:57
  Speaker 1: saw the slogan and said, you know what, I was
• 27:00
  Speaker 1: thinking about being a racist today. But now the NFL
• 27:02
  Speaker 1: said end racism. So I'm good, no more. I will
• 27:07
  Speaker 1: not do that because it said it on the field.
• 27:08
  Speaker 1: It says it on the field that I've got to listen.
• 27:10
  Speaker 1: I like the NFL, and if the NFL tells me
• 27:12
  Speaker 1: not to do something or to do it, I'm gonna
• 27:15
  Speaker 1: do it. And that's how I do it. And I
• 27:17
  Speaker 1: did it. And right there, so good job by the
• 27:20
  Speaker 1: NFL ending racism. Good job boys, And can you put
• 27:26
  Speaker 1: it you know he should do in the field. He
• 27:28
  Speaker 1: said it a fifty year. How about in the end zone, right,
• 27:31
  Speaker 1: lower egg prices, right, lower egg prices, and then the
• 27:35
  Speaker 1: prices of eggs will get lower, and then everyone will
• 27:38
  Speaker 1: be able to buy as many eggs as they want.
• 27:40
  Speaker 1: And that'll be wonderful. Right, Just put cheaper eggs in
• 27:43
  Speaker 1: the end zone. Who says no, Hey, the NFL's got
• 27:46
  Speaker 1: the bully pulpit, They've got the power.
• 27:48
  Speaker 2: Why not be sure to catch live editions of The
• 27:50
  Speaker 2: Ben Meller Show weekdays at two am Eastern eleven pm Pacific.
• 27:55
  Speaker 1: It's maller. How about that?
• 27:57
  Speaker 2: To the third degree, this is one big event.
• 28:02
  Speaker 3: Gets grilled Google Open And as we get closer to
• 28:06
  Speaker 3: Super Bowl Sunday, who do you think has the most
• 28:08
  Speaker 3: on the line at super Bowl fifty nine?
• 28:10
  Speaker 1: Well, this is obviously it's Kansas City by a country mile.
• 28:14
  Speaker 1: They have a chance to do something that has never
• 28:16
  Speaker 1: been done in the Super Bowl era win three straight championships.
• 28:20
  Speaker 1: And they're competing against the Patriots who never did that,
• 28:24
  Speaker 1: and every other modern NFL dynasty. So if Mahomes and
• 28:28
  Speaker 1: Andy Reid can pull this off, they have an ace
• 28:32
  Speaker 1: in the hole over every other dynasty in the Super
• 28:35
  Speaker 1: Bowl era. And for Philadelphia, it'd be nice to win,
• 28:38
  Speaker 1: but it's not gonna be an all time great win.
• 28:41
  Speaker 3: Next, so, Jameis Winston has at the Super Bowl doing
• 28:43
  Speaker 3: work for Fox, and he sat down with Sequon Barkley
• 28:46
  Speaker 3: and asked him where he should sign with as a
• 28:49
  Speaker 3: free agent. Barkley said, Winston should go to the Giants.
• 28:53
  Speaker 3: And where do you think Winston should go?
• 28:55
  Speaker 1: Well, the Giants don't have a quarterback. Seattle doesn't have
• 28:57
  Speaker 1: a quarterback. I would take him as a backup with
• 29:00
  Speaker 1: I like Jameis Winston. He's fun, he's bad, fun, and
• 29:04
  Speaker 1: it's okay that he's bad because he's fun and he's entertaining,
• 29:07
  Speaker 1: and I like that. It seems like a good dude.
• 29:09
  Speaker 1: I'd put him on my team any day, all right.
• 29:12
  Speaker 3: Next, the Sons are reportedly listening to offers for Kevin Durant,
• 29:15
  Speaker 3: and there are many that believe that trading Durant is
• 29:17
  Speaker 3: the only way they can get out of the mess
• 29:19
  Speaker 3: that they are currently in.
• 29:21
  Speaker 4: Ben, do you agree with that.
• 29:23
  Speaker 1: No, there's more than one way to make a bed, right,
• 29:27
  Speaker 1: There's more than one way to get out of the situation.
• 29:30
  Speaker 1: They're going to talk more about Durant coming up here
• 29:32
  Speaker 1: in a little bit. But from the sound of it,
• 29:33
  Speaker 1: the Sons want to trade Durant and bring in Jimmy Butler,
• 29:37
  Speaker 1: who's got his own issues. So what are you really
• 29:39
  Speaker 1: accomplishing there? You're you're just changing the chairs on the Titanic?
• 29:43
  Speaker 1: How'd we do? Coop? You pass? That is a when
• 29:47
  Speaker 1: won the game? Put him on the mall in.
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• 30:06
  Speaker 1: It's a it Bizes with Lorraina till nine clean Up
• 30:11
  Speaker 1: Hawks going to health.
• 30:12
  Speaker 4: You gear rye, gear rye tonight gear right tonight.
• 30:17
  Speaker 1: Dear right.
• 30:20
  Speaker 4: That's right. You heard the man. It's time for love
• 30:23
  Speaker 4: here on the Ben Mallord Show. And it's almost Valentine's Day,
• 30:27
  Speaker 4: which is my favorite holidays. You love Valentine's Day.
• 30:30
  Speaker 1: Right, Ben? No, because you're a chick, that's what you love.
• 30:33
  Speaker 4: That's not why.
• 30:34
  Speaker 1: No, guys don't love Valentine.
• 30:36
  Speaker 4: Men love Valentine.
• 30:37
  Speaker 1: Oh they don't know, don't they? A lot of pressure
• 30:40
  Speaker 1: on dudes. You gotta take care of you. You get
• 30:43
  Speaker 1: a woman in your life, you gotta do something.
• 30:47
  Speaker 4: Thoughtful.
• 30:48
  Speaker 1: It sucks being thoughtful. Nobody wants to be thoughtful. Lorena,
• 30:51
  Speaker 1: Okay they don't. By the way, this portion your you.
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• 31:19
  Speaker 4: Oh yes, give me all the love questions from our
• 31:21
  Speaker 4: colors and listeners.
• 31:23
  Speaker 1: All right, I think love, you think the overnight listener.
• 31:26
  Speaker 1: In fact, Mike writes an he says, with only Papa Smurf,
• 31:32
  Speaker 1: how did they get all those other smurfs except from
• 31:36
  Speaker 1: from Mike good Smurf's question.
• 31:38
  Speaker 4: To begin, Well, if you think about it, the only
• 31:42
  Speaker 4: Smurfet was created by Gargamel. So the Smurfs probably reproduce
• 31:47
  Speaker 4: without needing the other thing, just like some flowers or
• 31:50
  Speaker 4: plants do. And they're really tiny, like little bugs.
• 31:52
  Speaker 1: So I think they don't even have like junk.
• 31:55
  Speaker 4: Yeah, I don't think they even have reproductive system at all.
• 31:59
  Speaker 4: I don't even think they think about that.
• 32:01
  Speaker 1: Probably not because they're smurfs. Yeah, worried about yea, worried
• 32:04
  Speaker 1: about enjoying life and avoiding or.
• 32:06
  Speaker 4: Maybe that's why they're blue.
• 32:09
  Speaker 1: Because says King Roy says, they got not blue balls,
• 32:15
  Speaker 1: they got blue skin. So if we can't find a babysitter,
• 32:18
  Speaker 1: should my wife and I include our children, whether Valentine's
• 32:23
  Speaker 1: Day dinner or just cancel it?
• 32:25
  Speaker 4: No, just let the kids at home, put on a
• 32:27
  Speaker 4: baby monitor and tell them not to hurt each other,
• 32:29
  Speaker 4: go into your spouse or lock them out of the bedroom.
• 32:32
  Speaker 4: Like they don't need to be involved. They're involved in
• 32:34
  Speaker 4: everyday life.
• 32:35
  Speaker 1: Wow, get the kids out of there. No kids, No kids,
• 32:39
  Speaker 1: they need a babysitter. So that means they're probably what
• 32:42
  Speaker 1: you think, like maybe under the age of what, under
• 32:44
  Speaker 1: the age of nine or ten or something?
• 32:46
  Speaker 4: Yeah, yeah, even ten pushing it these days.
• 32:50
  Speaker 1: When did you start using baby when you were a kid?
• 32:52
  Speaker 1: Your parents did they use babysitters up until what age? Well?
• 32:55
  Speaker 4: I had older brothers, so I never really you never.
• 32:59
  Speaker 1: Needed a baby's I am the middle child. I have
• 33:02
  Speaker 1: an older brother and a younger brother. And my parents
• 33:05
  Speaker 1: went out to a nice dinner and they allowed me
• 33:07
  Speaker 1: and my older brother to watch my younger brother. When
• 33:09
  Speaker 1: they got home, they had to take my younger brother
• 33:11
  Speaker 1: to the emergency room because we were doing professional wrestling
• 33:13
  Speaker 1: moves and he broke his arm jumping off the sofa.
• 33:17
  Speaker 1: But he really looked good when he did it.
• 33:18
  Speaker 4: But I bet your parents had a great time while
• 33:20
  Speaker 4: they were out.
• 33:21
  Speaker 1: They did. They were slightly upset when they got home
• 33:23
  Speaker 1: that they had to go to the emergency room, but
• 33:25
  Speaker 1: you know that happens. Ferg Dog says, a friend of
• 33:28
  Speaker 1: mine doesn't have a car and just ubers everywhere. How
• 33:31
  Speaker 1: big of a turnoff is that the women?
• 33:33
  Speaker 4: Oh, I don't know if i'd call it a turnoff.
• 33:38
  Speaker 4: If you're willing to pay for my Uber, that'd be great,
• 33:40
  Speaker 4: But I usually drive everywhere anyways.
• 33:43
  Speaker 1: Well, it's tough Loraina in La. But if you're like
• 33:45
  Speaker 1: in New York or somewhere where there's transit where you
• 33:47
  Speaker 1: can get around in the city car, that way better.
• 33:50
  Speaker 4: Uber is way better. Why would you want a car
• 33:52
  Speaker 4: payment and insurance?
• 33:53
  Speaker 1: Like? Yeah, I would think also, ferg Dog, if you
• 33:56
  Speaker 1: don't have a car, you should sell yourself as some
• 33:58
  Speaker 1: kind of like hippie tree hugging environmentalists, great idea and
• 34:02
  Speaker 1: that you're giving back. And then women, some women love that.
• 34:04
  Speaker 1: They get all turned on by that, like you're you're
• 34:06
  Speaker 1: saving the world. You know.
• 34:08
  Speaker 4: See, men, you are good at relationships.
• 34:10
  Speaker 1: Not really. JT. The Wingman Rights and says, are you
• 34:13
  Speaker 1: in support of old school chivalry or more of a
• 34:17
  Speaker 1: feminist that can open the door yourself.
• 34:20
  Speaker 4: Lorena, I love chivalry. I hate when I have to
• 34:24
  Speaker 4: ask for it, so I will never ask for it.
• 34:26
  Speaker 4: But I think it's always appreciated and it's not just me.
• 34:29
  Speaker 4: I think it's multiple women.
• 34:31
  Speaker 1: It's very normal. I'm annoyed. Now, that's in general. Women
• 34:34
  Speaker 1: do not they want things but don't ask for them,
• 34:36
  Speaker 1: which is quite annoying. Right, it's annoying, Loraina. Right, you
• 34:40
  Speaker 1: know what I'm saying. It's annoy Yeah, I'm You're sorry,
• 34:43
  Speaker 1: but you just say what you want. I mean, most
• 34:45
  Speaker 1: guys will, No.
• 34:47
  Speaker 4: I need everyone to read my mind twenty four to seven.
• 34:49
  Speaker 4: And if I even get a face, you have to
• 34:52
  Speaker 4: be able to decode said face.
• 34:54
  Speaker 1: Tell you about men? Men are pretty simple, black and white, right,
• 34:57
  Speaker 1: yes or no, it's not. You know, need you know
• 35:00
  Speaker 1: it's funny.
• 35:01
  Speaker 4: Because we overthink it too. We were like, oh, no,
• 35:03
  Speaker 4: there has to be more to this story.
• 35:05
  Speaker 1: No, yea, not really. Art Puffin says, is color coordinating
• 35:10
  Speaker 1: your wardrobe with your significant other? Too much or not enough?
• 35:13
  Speaker 1: I think we've been asked this before. Too much or
• 35:15
  Speaker 1: not enough? Same outfit? You gonna go out? You're wearing
• 35:18
  Speaker 1: the same I like it.
• 35:19
  Speaker 4: Let's Disney Bound like that? Yeah, we dress up the
• 35:22
  Speaker 4: same movie So cute, especially when it happens unintentionally.
• 35:29
  Speaker 1: Queen of Hearts.
• 35:30
  Speaker 2: Be sure to catch live editions of The Ben Meller
• 35:33
  Speaker 2: Show weekdays at two am Eastern eleven pm Pacific. Attention everyone,
• 35:38
  Speaker 2: and the password is password, you idiot, Password the word
• 35:44
  Speaker 2: Game of the Stars.
• 35:45
  Speaker 1: Here's Ben Meller, and it is time for password, the
• 35:49
  Speaker 1: word Game of the Stars, each and every day, and
• 35:53
  Speaker 1: not this time. About this time we played password. I
• 35:54
  Speaker 1: did want to mention the rumor, the hot rumor involving
• 36:00
  Speaker 1: the Red Sox attempting to acquire Nolan Aronado from the Cardinals,
• 36:05
  Speaker 1: which would have been a great trade five years ago
• 36:08
  Speaker 1: or four years ago or three years ago. And right now,
• 36:12
  Speaker 1: don't let a falling star fall on you. Let's welcome
• 36:14
  Speaker 1: in our consessus. We have Dominican Mike, who's up early
• 36:18
  Speaker 1: with us? Hello, Dominican Mike, welcome. All right, he's gone,
• 36:21
  Speaker 1: he's out. Let's go to Mark in Boston. Hello, Mark, welcome,
• 36:26
  Speaker 1: Good morning, Phil, Milton welcome, Mar You want to play?
• 36:29
  Speaker 1: Who do you want to partner up with? Quickly? Mark?
• 36:31
  Speaker 1: Who you got?
• 36:32
  Speaker 2: I have to I have to stick with the master?
• 36:34
  Speaker 1: Cool gives? That would be you? Ben? All right? Absolutely,
• 36:37
  Speaker 1: good job by you. Mark, hold on and you're gonna play.
• 36:38
  Speaker 1: And we have Brian and Albany. Hello, Brian, welcome, Hello, Bear,
• 36:44
  Speaker 1: welcome you. Who do you want to play with? You
• 36:46
  Speaker 1: got Loraina or Coop?
• 36:48
  Speaker 2: I'll take Coople Loop.
• 36:49
  Speaker 1: All right, Coople Loop, you're in Lorena. You're out. Let's
• 36:52
  Speaker 1: play the game here. We have a list of words. Mark,
• 36:54
  Speaker 1: what do you do in Boston? Mark? Hi, drive medical transportation.
• 36:58
  Speaker 1: I'm on the road, Land, I'm road Man's at work
• 37:00
  Speaker 1: right now. He's double dipping. All right, Here we go, Mark,
• 37:03
  Speaker 1: pick a number one to ten? Please, number one to ten?
• 37:06
  Speaker 1: Number three? Number three? All right? Uh the clue is
• 37:13
  Speaker 1: super Boys. See here. Let's go with above a uh
• 37:24
  Speaker 1: sky no, all right.
• 37:29
  Speaker 3: Brian, I'm gonna go a different direction here than than ben.
• 37:33
  Speaker 1: Uh.
• 37:34
  Speaker 3: The clue I'm gonna give you is finished.
• 37:38
  Speaker 1: Oh oh yeah, y finished up? Password. No, now we're
• 37:51
  Speaker 1: you've completely screwed us now because you went the other direction,
• 37:55
  Speaker 1: you can go back. It's your direction if you want.
• 37:59
  Speaker 1: I said above, how about uh top, I'm gonna go
• 38:08
  Speaker 1: with winner?
• 38:10
  Speaker 3: What winner? Okay, Brian, I'm gonna give you the Mallard maneuver.
• 38:15
  Speaker 3: Are you aware the mel maneuver?
• 38:16
  Speaker 1: Hurry? Are game.
• 38:19
  Speaker 2: Over?
• 38:20
  Speaker 1: Yeah? Brian? You schmuck? Do you schmuck? How dare you?
• 38:34
  Speaker 1: That's my manure? You can't use my manure. That's the
• 38:37
  Speaker 1: mall it's the move. Oh my god, you screwed me
• 38:43
  Speaker 1: over on that