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Hour 1 - Courtroom Cuban · The Ben Maller Show

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  Speaker 2: Here in our number one, we got a legal thriller
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  Speaker 2: to talk about. Why is Mark Cuban? Yep, that Mark
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  Speaker 2: Cuban taking the Mavericks current owner to court and Luka
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  Speaker 2: Doncik's name mentioned in this and does he have a
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  Speaker 2: winnable case? Also, the Milwaukee Bucks general manager said he
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  Speaker 2: it was a mutual decision.
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  Speaker 1: Do you believe him.
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  Speaker 2: We'll talk about that and what convinced Tim Hardaway Senior
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  Speaker 2: to allow his number ten jersey from the Miami Heat
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  Speaker 2: to be unretired for his son, Tim Hardaway Junior. All
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  Speaker 2: of that and more right about now. It is a
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  Speaker 1: You're suing. Wait waitute, you're what do you? What are
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  Speaker 1: you doing? Why are you? Why are you doing that?
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  Speaker 1: It's a weird thing.
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  Speaker 2: We've crossed the rubicon in terms of the overnight, so
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  Speaker 2: we had a.
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  Speaker 1: Hodgepodge of options.
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  Speaker 2: It was debating where to go to begin, and the
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  Speaker 2: thing that caught my attention, and since I still have
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  Speaker 2: editorial control over what I talk about, the story that
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  Speaker 2: I'm most interested in involves the robber barons of sports.
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  Speaker 1: This hour from Dallas.
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  Speaker 2: This is not a Jerry Jones story, So calm Down
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  Speaker 2: is not a Jerry Jones story.
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  Speaker 1: I promise you.
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  Speaker 2: Leada's in Dallas, though, where the Luca Doncik trade was
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  Speaker 2: so bad?
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  Speaker 1: How bad was it?
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  Speaker 2: That donation wasn't even a trade, it was a donation
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  Speaker 2: to the Lakers has now literally sparked a lawsuit. How
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  Speaker 2: many trades there have been trades that have caused lawsuits.
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  Speaker 2: This is this is the story. Is this not a
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  Speaker 2: Am I wrong? Am I misreading the room here? This
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  Speaker 2: is not a good story that that trade was so ridiculous. YEA,
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  Speaker 2: not a trade, It was a donation that this has
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  Speaker 2: now created a hum danger of a store. So if
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  Speaker 2: you didn't see it, and perhaps you missed it to
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  Speaker 2: hear about it, we'll give you the details here, the inside.
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  Speaker 1: Skinny, if you will.
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  Speaker 2: So there's this really rich guy that got very lucky
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  Speaker 2: and made the sweetheart deal with Yahoo years ago, uh
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  Speaker 2: rubbing audio content on the internet and has lived off
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  Speaker 2: that very well as a one percenter ever since then.
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  Speaker 1: His name is Mark Cuban.
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  Speaker 2: He bankrolled the Indiana Hoosiers college football championship this past year.
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  Speaker 2: Here well, Mark Cuban claims that he had a handshake
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  Speaker 2: slash verbal deal months before he sold his basketball team
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  Speaker 2: that gave him continued control over basketball ops.
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  Speaker 1: And we used to call it GM general manager transactions.
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  Speaker 2: And this guy Patrick Dumont, part of the rich gambling
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  Speaker 2: family from Vegas, that the Dumont crew they would handle
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  Speaker 2: the business stuff, the boring stuff, you know, the real estate,
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  Speaker 2: casino deals, that kind of stuff as opposed to who
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  Speaker 2: gets traded and who gets signed and all that stuff.
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  Speaker 2: Now here's where it gets really dicey. So Cuban sold
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  Speaker 2: about seventy percent of the Maverige. He owns twenty seven percent,
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  Speaker 2: so he still got a stake in the team. This
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  Speaker 2: is Maverick on Maverick crime. According to the court filing,
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  Speaker 2: this guy Patrick Dumont did not honor, did not honor.
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  Speaker 1: The verbal contract. Oh my god.
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  Speaker 2: Instead he gave control to that evil Nico Harrison, who
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  Speaker 2: should get his number of retired? The Lakers retire everyone's number.
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  Speaker 2: DeAndre Ayden's getting his number retired. Run on to Nico Harrison,
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  Speaker 2: just give him a number.
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  Speaker 1: That's it.
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  Speaker 2: And so Nico Harrison was in control and Cuban was not.
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  Speaker 2: And cuban explicity Mark Cuban in this whole situation referenced
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  Speaker 2: in court documents the Luca trade as evidence that the
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  Speaker 2: handshake agreement was broken.
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  Speaker 1: So that is a good jumping up point.
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  Speaker 2: Let us discuss the question why is Mark Cuban, Why
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  Speaker 2: is Mark Cuban doing this? It's embarrassing is that now
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  Speaker 2: you're taking you own the team.
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  Speaker 1: For a while, you.
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  Speaker 2: Sold the team and now years later here you're taking
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  Speaker 2: the Mavericks current owner to court. And also does Mark
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  Speaker 2: Cuban have a winnable case? Does he have a oneable case?
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  Speaker 2: So I've got Keystone, Bucket, Brigade, and rowing, and we
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  Speaker 2: will combine all of these things together and we are
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  Speaker 2: going to make some Texas toast.
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  Speaker 1: That's what we're going to make.
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  Speaker 2: So a I want to preface it, I'm not a lawyer,
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  Speaker 2: but I do play one on the radio. So you
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  Speaker 2: should never take legal advice from an overnight talk shows.
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  Speaker 2: That being said, I'm about to give out legal advice.
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  Speaker 2: So technically a handshake deal. These things, believe it or not,
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  Speaker 2: have come up over the years behind these powerful microphones
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  Speaker 2: and the bully pulpit of Fox Sports Radio. It's rather
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  Speaker 2: shocking that this story would come up, but it has
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  Speaker 2: in the past. So a handshake deal can be legally enforceable.
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  Speaker 1: Did you know that it can't? That's the good news.
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  Speaker 2: The bad news the problem is proof with a capital P.
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  Speaker 1: So that makes this a hail Mary play.
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  Speaker 2: If one person, like, let's say I came up to
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  Speaker 2: you and I said, listen, I got a deal.
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  Speaker 1: I'm gonna sell you. I've got this old like this.
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  Speaker 2: Old motorbike thing that I have, and I'm gonna give
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  Speaker 2: it to you, and then you're gonna give me, you know, thirty.
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  Speaker 1: Thousand dollars or something like that. Okay, fine, that's the deal.
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  Speaker 2: So it's the problem is you just because one person
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  Speaker 2: says you agreed to it, the other one can say no,
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  Speaker 2: I didn't, and then it becomes a credibility contest. Without
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  Speaker 2: a digital paper trail, I'm talking email, text messages, that
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  Speaker 2: kind of stuff, it becomes a credibility contest. Now, as
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  Speaker 2: for the why why has Mark youb been doing this?
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  Speaker 2: This isn't a lawsuit. This is an oligarch temper tantrum,
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  Speaker 2: is what this is. Because he's not the center of
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  Speaker 2: attention anymore, not right. Mark Cuban, one of the great
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  Speaker 2: ego maniacs of our time, is only suing because he
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  Speaker 2: cannot let go of what he had. And his entire
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  Speaker 2: identity was the Dallas Mavericks.
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  Speaker 1: They were it. That was his baby.
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  Speaker 2: That's my baby right there, his ego project for decades, decades,
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  Speaker 2: and he made a terrible deal. Now, financially, it wasn't
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  Speaker 2: that bad. He got three point five billion dollars. However,
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  Speaker 2: when you take away the emotional stake that he had
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  Speaker 2: in that team. He got out played because he gave
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  Speaker 2: it up. He gave it up, and what he had
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  Speaker 2: as the face of the Mavericks was bigger, right, it
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  Speaker 2: is bigger now. The business people they got the team.
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  Speaker 2: They used some skullduggery, they got the team. And now
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  Speaker 2: he's having sellers remorse and he's been going on. So
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  Speaker 2: instead of admitting, hey, I screwed up on that one
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  Speaker 2: by handing over control without ironclad contracts, he's running to
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  Speaker 2: the courthouse crying about a handshake deal and using Luca
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  Speaker 2: that trade as a very dramatic excuse. And deep down,
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  Speaker 2: if you go to the very core of this, the
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  Speaker 2: lawsuit is just Mark Cuban drinking Keystone light because he's
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  Speaker 2: got bitter beer face is what he's got. He's just bitter,
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  Speaker 2: and I get it, Like, why did he not think
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  Speaker 2: this through?
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, I already have enough money. You don't need money now.
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  Speaker 2: I heard from somebody that I was chatting with a
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  Speaker 2: few hours ago that said Cuban thought that for some reason,
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  Speaker 2: the price of sports teams.
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  Speaker 1: Are going to go down.
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  Speaker 2: This was the time to do it, and he wanted
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  Speaker 2: to get in. He misread the market. He misread the market.
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  Speaker 2: That's what someone I chatted with who knows a lot
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  Speaker 2: about these things. That's their theory on this. And so
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  Speaker 2: here we are. Mark Cuban cannot accept the new normal,
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  Speaker 2: and so he's filed a lawsuit against the owner of
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  Speaker 2: the Dallas Mavericks and he's inventing grievances to stay relevant,
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  Speaker 2: kind of claw back some of that influence. He's talked
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  Speaker 2: about why I should buy the team back, Well, the
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  Speaker 2: team's gonna cost more money now and it's not for sale.
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  Speaker 2: It's a classic case of a guy who's entire foundation
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  Speaker 2: is so wrapped up in owning that he's willing to
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  Speaker 2: go with the nuclear option. And you know, like the
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  Speaker 2: Brooklyn Bridge the other.
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  Speaker 1: Day, burn it up, baby, and you know.
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  Speaker 2: Rather than worry about looking petty in public and move
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  Speaker 2: on and just enjoy a great life, a life that
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  Speaker 2: so many of us wish we could have, was just
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  Speaker 2: not having to worry about bills or anything.
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  Speaker 1: He's just he's a made man.
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  Speaker 2: And just watch old episodes of Shark Tank, which you
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  Speaker 2: also quit. So Shark Tank and the Dallas Mavericks in
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  Speaker 2: the span of a very short time, so clearly the
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  Speaker 2: spell is not working now. Meanwhile, to Milwaukee, we go,
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  Speaker 2: why well, the Milwaukee Bucks gave away the franchise a
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  Speaker 2: few days ago and they now are facing the music.
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  Speaker 2: The GM John hurt Horst addressed the trade of Giannis
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  Speaker 2: Adenta Coombo.
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  Speaker 1: To the Miami Heat for the first time now.
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  Speaker 2: The Bucks GM called trading Yannis quote a very difficult decision.
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  Speaker 2: He acknowledged that Milwaukee is not a better team today
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  Speaker 2: than they were the other day without him, and he
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  Speaker 2: described Bejanness as one of the greatest players to ever
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  Speaker 2: play in the state of Wisconsin for that basketball team.
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  Speaker 2: And you'd have to say he's neck and neck with
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  Speaker 2: Kareem lou Al Sender back in the day. Right, they
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  Speaker 2: both won one championship with the Bucks and they were
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  Speaker 2: VI's in the team one and all that. So the
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  Speaker 2: Bucks framed it as a mutual best interest decision.
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  Speaker 1: That's how their positioning is.
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  Speaker 2: It was a mutual best interest decision to reset and
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  Speaker 2: build a sustainable contender, a building a new foundation for
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  Speaker 2: their coach, Taylor Jenkins, who has that great track record
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  Speaker 2: of success. The Bucks GM emphasized he was not forced
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  Speaker 2: to trade Jannis. Wink wink, nudge, nudge. All right, so
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  Speaker 2: that is a good spot. Let's let's kind of jump
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  Speaker 2: off that the question. The Bucks GM John Horst said
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  Speaker 2: he wasn't forced to trade Gianni Sadenta Cumbo and it
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  Speaker 2: was a mutual decision. Do you believe him? So, I'm
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  Speaker 2: I'm not good. I don't have a great poker face.
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  Speaker 2: It's a hard no. I believe every man, woman and
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  Speaker 2: child with even a rudimentary, rudimentary knowledge of basketball knows
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  Speaker 2: that this is gaslighting.
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  Speaker 1: It is gaslighting.
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  Speaker 2: Dis guy as an argument, and the Bucks general manager
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  Speaker 2: saying that he wasn't forced to trade I dent to Coombo,
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  Speaker 2: that it was a mutual decision. Now, as my friend
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  Speaker 2: Andy Furman likes to point out, we were born at night,
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  Speaker 2: but not last night. You would need a suspension bridge
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  Speaker 2: to support the disbelief required to buy this.
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  Speaker 1: Milwaukee just got.
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  Speaker 2: Completely pants Now, it doesn't look as bad because the
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  Speaker 2: Celtics trade was worse. What they did was worse. It's
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  Speaker 2: not great, though, It's not great right from the entire league.
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  Speaker 2: Get your pants pulled down there and you went commando style,
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  Speaker 2: and the Bucks GM is part of the bucket brigade
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  Speaker 2: doing mop up duty, trying to clean up the mess
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  Speaker 2: and painting this as noble best for both sides, best
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  Speaker 2: being as good as all the rest, of course, like
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  Speaker 2: a reset that is the broad brush equivalent of repainting
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  Speaker 2: a condemned building. Well, why would you do that? Building's
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  Speaker 2: gonna get knocked down by a wrecking ball. That makes
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  Speaker 2: no sense. Why would you paint over it?
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  Speaker 1: It's just dumb.
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  Speaker 2: It's it's having a car, a beater car that needs
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  Speaker 2: to go to the junkyard, and you're like, well, let
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  Speaker 2: me take that and get that. Give me let me
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  Speaker 2: get some new tires on that. I'll go to tire rack,
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  Speaker 2: get some new tires and put some new paint on that.
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  Speaker 1: Wy what do you do?
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  Speaker 2: Like seriously, Now, the truth is Giannis was fed up
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  Speaker 2: and he straight up forced his way out of Milwaukee,
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  Speaker 2: no ifs, hands or butts about it. After years of
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  Speaker 2: quietly sulking and not so quietly checking out, and he
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  Speaker 2: essentially quit. Uh you know, but he started calling out
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  Speaker 2: the box a couple of years ago, and then it
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  Speaker 2: got progressively more and.
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  Speaker 1: More and more and more and more and more and more.
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  Speaker 2: So it was I was like, okay, well, he basically
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  Speaker 2: held the franchise hostage until they caved in and shipped
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  Speaker 2: him out. When you start calling out management publicly, that
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  Speaker 2: is a point of no return. And now we I
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  Speaker 2: will give credit to the Bucks because at least they had.
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  Speaker 2: They're not a better basketball team. They're not as good
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  Speaker 2: today as they were.
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  Speaker 1: The other day. And that is a rare level of
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  Speaker 1: executive honesty.
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  Speaker 2: And you juxtapose that with Brad Stevens, who treats that
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  Speaker 2: like a severe food allergy. When Boston dropped Jalen Brown
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  Speaker 2: into a Salvation Army bucket, Brad Stevens cowardly used optionality
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  Speaker 2: as a crutch to avoid reality. And the Bucks at
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  Speaker 2: least didn't hide behind any kind of buzzword.
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  Speaker 1: Here. The Greek freak is gone.
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  Speaker 2: The Bucks will be an irrelevant team for years, and
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  Speaker 2: no amount of corporate spin is going to change that.
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  Speaker 1: All right, Now, last word to Miami, Miami, Miami.
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  Speaker 2: Why now I know Giannis is there, but this is
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  Speaker 2: about Hardaway, Tim Hardaway Junior. Now, we don't normally care
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  Speaker 2: about guys that are kind of washed up.
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  Speaker 1: At this point, Hardaway is in.
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  Speaker 2: As late mid to late I think he's thirty four
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  Speaker 2: to thirty five, something like that, and he's bounced her,
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  Speaker 2: and he's a journeyman NBA player. The sequel not as
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  Speaker 2: good as the not the equal to his dad. His
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  Speaker 2: dad made some headlines though recently, and Sam, I'm not
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  Speaker 2: gonna let my kid wear my old number, and so
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  Speaker 2: Hardaway he signed a one year deal, and it turns
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  Speaker 2: out he will wear papa's retired number ten jersey. I
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  Speaker 2: know you're very concerned about that, the numerical value of
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  Speaker 2: a jersey. But again, the reports last week were that
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  Speaker 2: the father, Tim Hardaway Senior, who I always associated more
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  Speaker 2: with the Golden State Warriors, in the heat, although he
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  Speaker 2: has his number retired by Miami. Of course, the Miami
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  Speaker 2: Heat retired Michael Jordan's number father embarrassing anyway.
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  Speaker 1: So it turns out this is what happened.
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  Speaker 2: The question what do you think convinced Tim Hardaway Senior,
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  Speaker 2: the dad here, to allow his Heat number ten retired
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  Speaker 2: jersey to be unretired for his kid. So I have
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  Speaker 2: a theory using some psychobabble. So Tim Hardaway Senior was rowing, rowing,
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  Speaker 2: and rowing the douche canoe, all right, Row row row,
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  Speaker 2: row your douche canoe, clutching his legacy like a bitter
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  Speaker 2: gatekeeper my legacy.
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  Speaker 1: My legacy is by. It's just by, and.
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  Speaker 2: Like somehow, if the jersey was unretired, all of the
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  Speaker 2: accomplishments would vanish. I just completely vanish if somebody else
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  Speaker 2: his spawn wore the jersey. It's a piece of laundry.
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• 19:35
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• 19:41
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• 19:45
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• 19:51
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• 19:54
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  Speaker 2: All right now, now, Junior, Tim Morroway Junior gets the
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  Speaker 1: On the heat.
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  Speaker 2: He's a rotation player who's okay, not great. And you
• 20:15
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• 20:19
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• 20:25
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• 21:51
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  Speaker 1: Yeah.
• 25:28
  Speaker 2: I don't know about that, some beautiful outdoor space there
• 25:31
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• 25:34
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• 25:38
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• 27:34
  Speaker 2: for you'd have to start a monologue with basketball, No,
• 27:37
  Speaker 2: fat Daddy, it wasn't really a basketball story. It is
• 27:40
  Speaker 2: the fact that a guy who's an oligarc sold something
• 27:44
  Speaker 2: for three and a half billion dollars and then didn't
• 27:47
  Speaker 2: want to sell it because it's his whole identity, and
• 27:48
  Speaker 2: now he's trying to get it back and it's it's crazy.
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  Speaker 2: on the Mallard monologue, Is it possible Giannis, James Harden
• 27:58
  Speaker 2: and Kawhi Leonard could all get together for the team
• 28:01
  Speaker 2: of suck? Maybe Mark Cuban could buy that team and
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  Speaker 2: get Luca back.
• 28:07
  Speaker 1: Chip in the Q's.
• 28:08
  Speaker 2: Rites and he says, hey, plus on the Mala monologue.
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  Speaker 2: Sounds to me like Mark Cuban is having sellers remorse.
• 28:15
  Speaker 2: We saw a big profit, or he saw rather a
• 28:17
  Speaker 2: big profit. Chip in the Q says, but for good,
• 28:20
  Speaker 2: but forgot the fact that once he wasn't the majority
• 28:23
  Speaker 2: the owner of the MAVs anymore, he was going to
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  Speaker 2: lose that personal spotlight. It's one of these weird things.
• 28:30
  Speaker 2: I mean, you got anything like this. If you own
• 28:33
  Speaker 2: a sports team, you're an egomaniac. Does anyone disagree with that?
• 28:37
  Speaker 2: If you're rich. There are plenty of rich people. We
• 28:40
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• 28:43
  Speaker 2: They're super wealthy, and a lot of them hide amongst us.
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  Speaker 2: They just live normal lives. Like most of the rich
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  Speaker 2: people I've I've read up on this. A lot of
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  Speaker 2: bling bling and all that. They live a rather modest life.
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  Speaker 2: The ones that are schmucks and and want everyone to
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  Speaker 2: know who they are, they're the ones to buy sports teams.
• 29:03
  Speaker 2: Another great example is Jeanie Buss, who did nothing other
• 29:06
  Speaker 2: than when the genetic lottery and happened to be the
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  Speaker 2: daughter of Jerry Buss, and so she was running leg
• 29:13
  Speaker 2: Well the Lakers got sold, but she's like, Wow, I'm
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  Speaker 2: still gonna hang out and I'm still gonna be the
• 29:18
  Speaker 2: kind of the face of the team. Well, you sold
• 29:20
  Speaker 2: the team. That's when you sell something. It's not yours anymore,
• 29:25
  Speaker 2: it's not what do we get? The Baltimore Free Loaders
• 29:29
  Speaker 2: accounts this tonight the Declaration of Independence went for slightly
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  Speaker 2: more money than a Tim Hardaway Jersey. What is Tim's
• 29:36
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  Speaker 1: It's going to make a.
• 29:43
  Speaker 2: Great coaster at cocktail parties, wasn't it? How many copies
• 29:48
  Speaker 2: of the Declaration were made?
• 29:50
  Speaker 3: Right?
• 29:50
  Speaker 2: When there were a few copies made, and then it
• 29:53
  Speaker 2: was hard to make things. They didn't have printers back
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• 30:14
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• 30:32
  Speaker 1: Yeah, you know what I mean.
• 30:33
  Speaker 2: Now, then what's that fun?
• 30:37
  Speaker 1: That's right? That is a fun fact, Lorraine. That is
• 30:39
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• 30:41
  Speaker 2: Now, if you get within like thirty feet of the
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  Speaker 2: But back then, back then, it was like, hey, come
• 30:50
  Speaker 2: on down, hang out.
• 30:52
  Speaker 1: With us, to come inside. Yes, I don't know about inside,
• 30:56
  Speaker 1: but they had a thing.
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  Speaker 2: And I remember reading that historians were trying to track
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• 31:12
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• 31:14
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• 31:30
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• 31:36
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• 31:41
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  Speaker 1: We have the meetings and all that, we go through
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  Speaker 1: the thing. Now.
• 32:07
  Speaker 2: Meanwhile, the sugar Daddies, it turns out, are US men's
• 32:12
  Speaker 2: soccer players are not only bad at soccer, they're also
• 32:15
  Speaker 2: bad at finances. Now, I remember when this deal came
• 32:21
  Speaker 2: down a couple of years ago, and I had completely
• 32:22
  Speaker 2: forgotten about it, because why would I remember it. So
• 32:25
  Speaker 2: it turns out the United States men's national team who
• 32:28
  Speaker 2: got absolutely given the atomic wedgie by Belgium in front
• 32:33
  Speaker 2: of a massive TV audience, losing four to one, which
• 32:37
  Speaker 2: was a humiliation situation, they got exposed. The goaltender looked
• 32:42
  Speaker 2: like he was playing U soccer on a Saturday at
• 32:45
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• 32:50
  Speaker 2: over the place. Well, despite that humiliation situation, the US
• 32:55
  Speaker 2: men's national team will reseved sixteen million dollars from the
• 32:59
  Speaker 2: people were there at FIFA for reaching the round of
• 33:03
  Speaker 2: sixteen beating up a bunch of tomato cans. However, it
• 33:07
  Speaker 2: turns out they got some dudes to pay. They're not
• 33:11
  Speaker 2: just bad at soccer, they're bad at finances.
• 33:13
  Speaker 1: They're sugar daddies. Yeah, the US.
• 33:16
  Speaker 2: Men's national team stars will be forking over fifty percent
• 33:22
  Speaker 2: of their money to the US soccer women's team, the
• 33:28
  Speaker 2: national team for the women. Then you might be saying, well, Ben,
• 33:31
  Speaker 2: why would that be. The women didn't play. I didn't
• 33:32
  Speaker 2: see a single woman playing out there in the World Cup.
• 33:34
  Speaker 2: I've been watching I didn't see it. I've been watching
• 33:35
  Speaker 2: Fox one, I've been buying stuff at home. Deep, I
• 33:37
  Speaker 2: didn't see any women out there. Why did they get
• 33:39
  Speaker 2: the money?
• 33:40
  Speaker 1: Well, it's all because they complained.
• 33:42
  Speaker 2: The ladies bitched and complained when they were not getting
• 33:45
  Speaker 2: enough money, and so they worked out a deal because
• 33:48
  Speaker 2: at one point the women had.
• 33:49
  Speaker 1: I don't really follow women's soccer. I guess they're not
• 33:51
  Speaker 1: very good anymore. I don't know.
• 33:53
  Speaker 2: Anyway, from what I was reading about this back in
• 33:56
  Speaker 2: twenty twenty two, there was a collective.
• 33:59
  Speaker 1: Bargaining agree and even for a single.
• 34:03
  Speaker 2: Dollar reaches the pockets of the US men's national team.
• 34:07
  Speaker 2: The Soccer Federation of the US will keep twenty percent
• 34:12
  Speaker 2: of the money. So they get twenty percent, and then
• 34:15
  Speaker 2: they break it down. The rest of the twelve point
• 34:18
  Speaker 2: eight million will be divided equal.
• 34:21
  Speaker 1: And that's the way it goes.
• 34:23
  Speaker 2: So in just in basic malor math, that means the
• 34:26
  Speaker 2: women who did not play a single minute in this
• 34:29
  Speaker 2: World Cup, because it's the men's World Cup, will each
• 34:32
  Speaker 2: receive two hundred and forty six thousand dollars per player
• 34:39
  Speaker 2: without even participating in the twenty twenty six feet a
• 34:42
  Speaker 2: World Cup meeting.
• 34:43
  Speaker 1: The US men's national team truly sugar daddies of soccer
• 34:47
  Speaker 1: in that while man, what a deal for the ladies.
• 34:51
  Speaker 1: That's great. That is who was a female soccer player? Right?
• 34:56
  Speaker 2: Come on now, yeah, I'd like to be a female
• 35:00
  Speaker 2: soccer player.
• 35:01
  Speaker 1: My god, holy crap.
• 35:03
  Speaker 3: We can make that happen.
• 35:05
  Speaker 2: So yeah, I guess it's these days. It is possible
• 35:09
  Speaker 2: with the Frankensteind or whatever. But anyway, the US women's
• 35:12
  Speaker 2: national team, their share will sit.
• 35:16
  Speaker 1: Here's it gets even better.
• 35:17
  Speaker 2: So it's gonna sit in an interest bearing account, and
• 35:21
  Speaker 2: so they'll make money on it, and then they'll get
• 35:24
  Speaker 2: that money at the end of the twenty twenty seven
• 35:27
  Speaker 2: FIFA Women's World Cup, which I guess is a thing.
• 35:32
  Speaker 2: So how about that two hundred or two hundred thousand bucks.
• 35:36
  Speaker 1: And they didn't do a damn thing. Isn't that great?
• 35:39
  Speaker 2: I mean, not for the dudes. You know, the dudes
• 35:41
  Speaker 2: do all the work and the ladies get the money.
• 35:43
  Speaker 2: Where were we seen that before? Lawn God, Larry says,
• 35:46
  Speaker 2: Get off my lawn, he says. And Manuel and Guardina
• 35:51
  Speaker 2: already answering the who am I game question, which we
• 35:54
  Speaker 2: haven't even given out yet. I wonder if that's an
• 35:56
  Speaker 2: automated message from Manuel and Guardina things that.
• 35:59
  Speaker 1: Make you go home? All right? Anyway, let's get into
• 36:02
  Speaker 1: it right now. And here is the who am I?
• 36:05
  Speaker 3: Game?
• 36:06
  Speaker 1: This is again where we pretend to be somebody else?
• 36:07
  Speaker 1: As we call it, the who am I? Going?
• 36:09
  Speaker 2: So Detroit Detroit Tiger pitcher justin Verlander. We'll talk more
• 36:12
  Speaker 2: about this later. He's announced he's going to quit. Of course,
• 36:15
  Speaker 2: he's not gonna quit now, because why would you do
• 36:17
  Speaker 2: it now? You can't play anymore. He's gonna wait until
• 36:19
  Speaker 2: the end of the year.
• 36:20
  Speaker 1: I guess it doesn't matter the Tiger's blow anyway this season.
• 36:23
  Speaker 2: So Tiger spitcher Justin Verlander and I are the only
• 36:27
  Speaker 2: players in MLB history to win Rookie of the Year,
• 36:31
  Speaker 2: Cy Young and MVP awards in our careers. Again, Justin Verlander,
• 36:38
  Speaker 2: who announced, of course he'll be on the All Star
• 36:40
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