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Hour 1 - Purple & Sold · The Ben Maller Show

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Speaker 1: Here we go.
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Speaker 2: Welcome, it's our number on, our number one of the
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Speaker 2: to say, a federal holiday today, and we're doing the
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Speaker 2: begin with the big news the Lakers sold for ten billion.
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Speaker 2: Will depending sale of the once proud Lakers from the
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Speaker 2: Bus family to Mark Walter and the Guggenheim Group be
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Speaker 2: a dramatic change? Also, can you explain why Genie Buss
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Speaker 2: will continue to serve in her role as the face
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Speaker 2: of the Lakers ownership after the sale? And why did
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Speaker 2: the Lakers sell for ten billion when the Celtics only
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Speaker 2: sold for six billion just a few months ago. We'll
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Speaker 2: talk about all of those stories and more right now,
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Speaker 2: give it up for our number one.
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Speaker 3: For the Purple and Gold to the Purple and sold.
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Speaker 3: Sell it, baby, take that bag of money. Welcome, in
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Speaker 2: play this our lead, this hours. We're back in the
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Speaker 2: catburg seat. From the business of sport, the business of basketball.
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Speaker 2: If you will, big news out big news if you
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Speaker 2: love financial transactions on some spreadsheets somewhere, Man was at
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Speaker 2: a good day for you. God was at an exciting
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Speaker 2: day for you. So if you have not heard yet,
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Speaker 2: and perhaps not, we learned that the Bus family has
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Speaker 2: decided to say bye bye to the Lakers. What kind
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Speaker 2: of They will no longer control the majority ownership of
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Speaker 2: the once proud, now floundering franchise that is the Lakers.
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Speaker 2: As Mark Walter, the gazillionaire from Chicago who is the
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Speaker 2: face of the gougenheind group that owns the Dodgers. He's
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Speaker 2: buying he had a chance to buy. He owned part
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Speaker 2: of the Lakers anyway. It's not like he's coming out
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Speaker 2: of left field. Mark Walter owned a percon send to
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Speaker 2: the Lakers, had the option of buying the rest of
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Speaker 2: the team. I'd heard it several years back that this
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Speaker 2: was likely going to happen, and it has happened. So
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Speaker 2: Mark Walter is gonna pay ten billion, ten billion, and
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Speaker 2: it'll be the largest sale when they cross all the
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Speaker 2: t's and Dothy Isaik which who we kid it's all
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Speaker 2: on docu sign, But when they do the docu sign,
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Speaker 2: it'll be the largest sale price for a US professional
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Speaker 2: sports franchise of all time. The Bus family will keep
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Speaker 2: a little bitty share, just a little bitty share of
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Speaker 2: the team, just over fifteen percent. And Genie Buss we
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Speaker 2: are told we'll continue as the face of the ownership group.
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Speaker 2: They can't get rid of her. She's like a cockroach.
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Speaker 2: She won't be Walter the face of the Dodgers ownership.
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Speaker 2: As we said there, and people just thinking he'll just
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Speaker 2: spend endless amounts of money and it'll just be amazing
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Speaker 2: and all that. So let us discuss the question the
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Speaker 2: pending sale. Will the pending sale of the Lakers from
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Speaker 2: the Bus family to the Mark Walter Guggenheim Group be
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Speaker 2: a dramatic change, because all I've heard is, ah, my God,
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Speaker 2: happy days are here again. Happy days are here again.
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Speaker 2: Mark Walter is the owner. So is it really gonna change.
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Speaker 2: It's gonna be dramatic. So my thoughts to this, I've
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Speaker 2: got Goose fanatic and farmers Market, and we will combine
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Speaker 2: all of these things together and we're gonna put the
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Speaker 2: biscuit in the basket. We'll take the biscuit and we'll
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Speaker 2: put the biscuit in the basket, just like that. So,
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Speaker 2: to answer the question, will this pending sale lead to
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Speaker 2: a dramatic change now that somebody actually has money, the
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Speaker 2: Googenheim Group will own the Lakers are supposed to gene Bus,
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Speaker 2: The answer is no, it's not going to be a
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Speaker 2: dramatic change. In fact, I would say nothing changes. Not
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Speaker 2: a zipp o bupkus is going to change. And here's why. Right,
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Speaker 2: the Lakers are just to continue strutting through the NBA
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Speaker 2: like they own the joint because that's how they've always operated.
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Speaker 2: And there are different rules in the NBA that Baseball
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Speaker 2: doesn't have in terms of how much money you can
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Speaker 2: pay deferred money, and deferred money you can't push it
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Speaker 2: back to lower your salary cap number to get under
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Speaker 2: these aprons and all that bull crap. So it's not
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Speaker 2: like the stuff the Dodgers have been able to get
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Speaker 2: away with. The NBA has got clauses in there that
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Speaker 2: you can't do that in the NBA. So all the
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Speaker 2: tricks that the Dodgers have used doesn't work.
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Speaker 4: Now.
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Speaker 2: I don't know who the top NBA player in Japan is,
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Speaker 2: but whoever that is, I expect you to end up
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Speaker 2: on the on the Lakers, like immediately, like later on today,
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Speaker 2: he'll end up on the Lakers. Consider how much money
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Speaker 2: they've milked off Otani from Japan. So the Lakers are
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Speaker 2: at this point they continue to be the golden goose
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Speaker 2: the NBA. We are convinced rigged the Luka Donzik trade
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Speaker 2: to send him to the Lakers. Let's make sure what
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Speaker 2: TV ratings are down. The Lakers don't have a star,
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Speaker 2: no one, you know, Lebron's washed up, no let's make
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Speaker 2: sure we hook him up. So they did, and so how.
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Speaker 4: Is that gonna change?
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Speaker 2: So they have a new owner and Genie Boss is
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Speaker 2: kind of kind of step aside. More on that in
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Speaker 2: a second, but it's just gonna be more of the
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Speaker 2: same special treatment. The Lakers have always gotten special treatment.
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Speaker 2: And all that's different is Mark Walter is the one
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Speaker 2: that's riding the check and the googenheind group and then
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Speaker 2: that's it. The NBA has always bent over backwards my
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Speaker 2: entire life for that pathetic purple and gold crap. It's
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Speaker 2: been that way for decades and we're talking about multiple
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Speaker 2: generations where it's been that way. And so you think
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Speaker 2: Adam Silver is going to allow under his watch them
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Speaker 2: to slide into irrelevance. Of course, they just went out
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Speaker 2: and gave the Lakers Luca. Even though he's fat, they
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Speaker 2: gave him Luca. They still hooked him up. Come on,
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Speaker 2: So anyway, and the other thing two is the referees
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Speaker 2: will continue to help the Lakers out. You know, those
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Speaker 2: fifty to fifty calls will go the direction they will
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Speaker 2: go the direction of the Lakers, and the free agent
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Speaker 2: market will still tilt to the Lakers and all that
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Speaker 2: and the players nobody's signing with the Lakers because in
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Speaker 2: the Arder, if that was the case, no one would
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Speaker 2: have played for the Lakers. And Genie Bus didn't know
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Speaker 2: what she was doing. And and the Lakers continue to
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Speaker 2: get players. Do you think Lebron James when he went
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Speaker 2: to the Lakers left Cleveland, you think Lebron said, I
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Speaker 2: really want to play for one of Jerry Buss's kids.
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Speaker 2: That's what I that's the owner I want to play for. No, right,
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Speaker 2: not at all, Lebron James. He came there because he
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Speaker 2: wanted to make business deals with movie people and things.
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Speaker 2: And he did. He's gotten all that. He made some
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Speaker 2: cheeseball movies. His production company took off. You know, he
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Speaker 2: has a stupid barber shop show like all that stuff.
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Speaker 2: But it wasn't because of the Genie Buss. It was
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Speaker 2: because of la Right. So that's that's the way. Is
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Speaker 2: not that it matters, by the way, right again, it
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Speaker 2: doesn't matter. I mean the players that flocked to the
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Speaker 2: to the Lakers like I'm off to a flame and
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Speaker 2: Mark wall Alter will spend money. There's a real salary cap.
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Speaker 2: Although I'm a salarycap. Truth when it comes to the
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Speaker 2: NFL and if they're just willing to listen. The teams
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Speaker 2: are if you have enough money, you can pay and
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Speaker 2: who cares, It doesn't really matter that much, and you
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Speaker 2: just pay all the money and then the other teams
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Speaker 2: can plain and say it's not fair, and then you
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Speaker 2: can't make certain trades and all that stuff. Now, the
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Speaker 2: other part of this, can you explain why Genie Buss
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Speaker 2: is selling the team but is demanding apparently to continue
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Speaker 2: on in her role as the face of the Laker
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Speaker 2: ownership group after the cell Now, the NBA went woke
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Speaker 2: years ago and they claim they don't have owners. They're
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Speaker 2: so woke that they have governors, not owners. Every other
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Speaker 2: sport has owners. NBA has got governors, which is lame.
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Speaker 2: So we know realities will own a team and they're
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Speaker 2: not governors. They're not voted in anyway. So the point
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Speaker 2: of this with genieus it's rather obvious that this woman
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Speaker 2: is addicted to the spotlight. Right can we all agree
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Speaker 2: on that that those court side seats and all the
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Speaker 2: celebrities coming up and shaking her hand there the red
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Speaker 2: carpet at the Hollywood premieres that she gets invited to.
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Speaker 2: She loves it. She want to give that up. You
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Speaker 2: don't get that if you're not the Laker's owner anymore,
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Speaker 2: you don't you fade off into the sunset in irrelevance.
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Speaker 2: You're just another rich person surrounded by other rich people.
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Speaker 2: And so she can still play the part as the
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Speaker 2: faux Laker royalty owner and all that. So she gets
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Speaker 2: a but Geeni Buss, think about what she's about to become.
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Speaker 2: So the team's being sold to Mark Walter, She's going
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Speaker 2: to continue going to the league meetings and all that stuff.
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Speaker 2: She's about to become the Philly fanatic. She's going to
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Speaker 2: be the mascot of the Lakers. She's like the San
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Speaker 2: Diego Chicken bar. Check out the Laker mascot wearing a
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Speaker 2: pantsuit going to league meetings, you know, waving to the
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Speaker 2: fans high fans. Yeah, but Mark Walter is the one
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Speaker 2: who will be deciding where the money goes and all
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Speaker 2: that stuff. And it's a symbolic nod. They claim to
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Speaker 2: the Bus family legacy and all that, But no titles
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Speaker 2: with Genie Buss's owner. Nobody who knows ball will say
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Speaker 2: that she wonted that Mickey Mouse bubble doesn't count in
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Speaker 2: a resort in Orlando back in twenty twenty. And my
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Speaker 2: favorite Genie Bus story is when the Phil Jackson thing
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Speaker 2: is like next level, But also the Bus family revolt
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Speaker 2: was that like twenty seventeen. I want to say, Remember
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Speaker 2: there was a revolt. The brothers the other kids got
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Speaker 2: into a Jim and Johnny and they were all fighting.
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Speaker 2: There was like a coup to get control of the Lakers.
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Speaker 2: It was like some kind of mob movie or something
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Speaker 2: like that. And then they worked it out. They massaged that,
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Speaker 2: they got through that. She fired I think she fired
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Speaker 2: the brother I don't know how you do that because
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Speaker 2: he owned part of the team. Also got rid of him,
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Speaker 2: can Mitch Cupjack he was out, brought in Magic Johnson
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Speaker 2: that was a hot mess, and got rid of him.
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Speaker 2: Then now they have this guy skinny jeans, Rob Polenka,
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Speaker 2: who without NBA intervention would have already lost his job,
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Speaker 2: but the league helped him out and got him some players.
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Speaker 2: Otherwise he didn't know what he's doing. And there you go.
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Speaker 2: So another case old family money, right, the Bus family.
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Speaker 2: Jerry Buss bought the Lakers in nineteen seventy nine for
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Speaker 2: less than I think it was. Was it like seventy
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Speaker 2: million or something like that nineteen seven nine, which a
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Speaker 2: lot of money nineteen seventy nine, but still real estate
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Speaker 2: guy Jerry Buss, tremendous philanderer, unbelievable with the ladies, Jerry Buss,
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Speaker 2: and so less than seventy million. And now the team's
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Speaker 2: going to be sold for ten billion. I wonder what
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Speaker 2: the capitol gains tax on that is? That must be insane,
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Speaker 2: right you ten billion? Wondered what the capital gains to anyway? Regardless,
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Speaker 2: So Genie Buss again will be the new Laker mascot. Congratulations,
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Speaker 2: call him the buses and have her face on the uniforms.
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Speaker 2: They're a purely ceremonial role for sure. Now the last
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Speaker 2: word here the question of why the Lakers sold for
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Speaker 2: ten billion, and multiple people sending me messages I don't
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Speaker 2: understand why the Lakers are worth ten billion and the
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Speaker 2: Boston Celtics sold just a few months ago for six
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Speaker 2: point one billion. So why why did the Lakers go
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Speaker 2: for essentially four billion dollars more than the Boston Celtics,
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Speaker 2: And so the whole valuation I Forbes every year in
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Speaker 2: front off of sports and sport it co all these
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Speaker 2: business sites in sports. Many of them have their evaluations
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Speaker 2: they come out with every year about teams are worth X,
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Speaker 2: Y and Z, and it's it's obviously things are just soorry.
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Speaker 2: I mean, because there's a lot of rich people who
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Speaker 2: are a little skittish because they don't know the stock market.
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Speaker 2: You know, you end up dropping bombs somewhere and the
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Speaker 2: prices go down or there's oil problems here and things
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Speaker 2: get all messed up, and so they don't they're a
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Speaker 2: gun shy the on the stock mart. So they're, oh,
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Speaker 2: I can buy a team, and if I buy a team,
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Speaker 2: I not only make money, but all the other people
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Speaker 2: want to kiss my ass at the cocktail parties in
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Speaker 2: the Hamptons or Beverly Hills or South Beach Man. That's
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Speaker 2: the lot. So they're willing to spend ridiculous amounts of money.
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Speaker 2: And so it's like a farmer's market, right. It's farmers
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Speaker 2: market here. And the Lakers operate in the second largest
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Speaker 2: media market in the United States with over thirteen million,
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Speaker 2: the Greater LA Area, the La bas In southern California.
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Speaker 2: La bas It's much bigger than that metro area. And
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Speaker 2: then you got Boston, right in Boston, major market, smaller
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Speaker 2: metro population, like the metro populations like five million or
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Speaker 2: something like that, so it's like an eight million dollar difference.
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Speaker 2: And despite the Celtics being much more successful than the Lakers,
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Speaker 2: there's less of a market, so it's just a business deal.
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Speaker 2: And the other thing, the biggest thing here is the arena.
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Speaker 2: The Celtics do not own own the garden that they
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Speaker 2: play in, and it's a weird set up the Lakers
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Speaker 2: because the Anshootz group owns where what I used to
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Speaker 2: call Staples Center now it's like the Crypt, I think
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Speaker 2: is what they call it now. They play at the Crypt,
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Speaker 2: which is appropriate because the franchise is dead. So the
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Speaker 2: Crypt is owned by the anshoots group, but it's like
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Speaker 2: they own They actually own part of the Lakers also,
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Speaker 2: so it's like all tied together and all that. And
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Speaker 2: so the Celtics do not own the arena, which is
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Speaker 2: one of the reasons. The chatter is the Celtics will
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Speaker 2: eventually leave likely downtown Boston where they play, and go
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Speaker 2: out to the suburbs somewhere and build a nice, big,
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Speaker 2: shiny arena and that'll be that The Bruins, the guy
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Speaker 2: that owns the Bruins actually owns the arena there for
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Speaker 2: the Celtics in Boston. Anyway, it is the Bane Mather Show.
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Speaker 2: to it we go, and ferk Dog, what a perfect
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Speaker 2: way to start. As we were back into it, firk
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Speaker 2: Dog says, welcome back, Ben. The one good thing about
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Speaker 2: Genies selling the Lakers is Mark Walter won't let the
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Speaker 2: cronies at Clutch Sports can roll the team anymore. The
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Speaker 2: sooner Lebron James is run out of town, the better.
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Speaker 2: Late night drug tester from Parts Unknown says, welcome back, man.
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Speaker 2: I hope you're a couple of days off.
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Speaker 5: Well.
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Speaker 2: I know if I was invited to the Bezos Sanchez
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Speaker 2: wedding in Venice, Italy next week, I would need time
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Speaker 2: to pick out the proper outfit. Are they getting married
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Speaker 2: next week? Thought they already got married? They didn't get maried,
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Speaker 2: and Tony writes in he says, uh, let's see here, Paige, Dad,
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Speaker 2: he says, uh, the Laker fans are in the fetal position.
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Speaker 2: He says, because the Laker franchise is in trouble. That's
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Speaker 2: according to Tom. I agree they are in tro They're not.
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Speaker 2: They're not going anywhere fast. I don't don't have to
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Speaker 2: worry until they start sucking their thumbs. Brian Brian writes
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Speaker 2: and says Lakers dominance and dynasty will be back. We
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Speaker 2: lest Brian admitting the Lakers suck right now. That's his
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Speaker 2: way of admitting it. He says, Sir Walter. Yeah. The
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Speaker 2: other problem is, though, like if you're Mark Walter, you
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Speaker 2: start earning or start owning more teams. What has happened
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Speaker 2: is these rich guys get the portfolio and they owned
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Speaker 2: a bunch of teams, and then weird crap happens. Like
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Speaker 2: John Henry was thought of as one of the great
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Speaker 2: owners in sports with the Red Sox. They won a
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Speaker 2: bunch of World Series. Everyone loved John Henry. But John
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Speaker 2: Hemery then bought a soccer team, and he bought a
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Speaker 2: hockey team, and he's got cable networks and all these
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Speaker 2: other things, and suddenly he didn't give a crap about
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Speaker 2: the Red Sox anymore. And I'll give you a great example.
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Speaker 2: This last week, the Red Sox unloaded rafae Old Devers,
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Speaker 2: gave him away for a bag of peanuts, half eaten,
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Speaker 2: half eaten bag of peanuts, sent him to the Giants,
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Speaker 2: and there were some issues, but they got nothing in
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Speaker 2: return of value. And at the same time, the soccer
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Speaker 2: team John Henry runs spent like one hundred and fifty
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Speaker 2: million dollars in transfer fees to add a player. So
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Speaker 2: it's like you lose one player on the Red Sox,
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Speaker 2: but your portfolio you add another player, So it's it
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Speaker 2: crosses each other out is what it does? What else
18:52
Speaker 2: we have? Ryan rights in from San Diego, He says,
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Speaker 2: purple and gold crap. How do you really feel about
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Speaker 2: the Lakers? What did I say that was incorrect? Ryan?
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Speaker 2: I don't say anthing incorrect, spocks Weed writes and says,
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Speaker 2: I love record bys for major league teams. What a country.
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Speaker 2: The fact that spreadsheets are involved are the icing on
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Speaker 2: the cake? Glorious, absolutely glorious. Scrooge in the Bay Area's
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Speaker 2: up with us? He's checking in, Slim Tim, he writes
19:20
Speaker 2: in He's the very proud cheesehead. He says he's happy
19:24
Speaker 2: that the show is back in the pole position in
19:27
Speaker 2: the overnight circus, and Eileen also checking in as well.
19:32
Speaker 2: We'll take your calls eight seven seven nine on Fox.
19:35
Speaker 2: So we mentioned the Lakers being sold, although it's not
19:39
Speaker 2: done yet. It was announced and they still have to
19:42
Speaker 2: go through a bunch of lawyers vetting everything to make
19:45
Speaker 2: sure it all works. So I bring this up because
19:48
Speaker 2: Genie Boss we mentioned this in the monologue, but she
19:51
Speaker 2: plans to stick around. She's not leaving. She's not. Many
19:57
Speaker 2: wish she would leave, but she's not. She loves being
19:58
Speaker 2: the Lakers owner and and everyone kiss her ass and
20:01
Speaker 2: say how great she is and get invited all the
20:03
Speaker 2: parties in Hollywood and all that stuff. So she plans
20:05
Speaker 2: to stay as the team's owner for a couple of years,
20:09
Speaker 2: even though she is no longer the majority person. Typically
20:14
Speaker 2: the way it works, they have these league meetings, they
20:16
Speaker 2: get together, they eat cocktails or they drink cocktails, eat,
20:20
Speaker 2: you know, the whole thing. They have big meals and
20:23
Speaker 2: fine restaurants and all that, and they run up the
20:26
Speaker 2: expense account. But the people that are there are the
20:27
Speaker 2: majority owners. The person is the majority of own are
20:30
Speaker 2: not some bit owner. But it's becoming now normal in
20:33
Speaker 2: the NBA. These people are such ego maniacs that own
20:37
Speaker 2: these NBA teams. They don't want to leave. They sell
20:40
Speaker 2: the team, but they don't want to leave. For example,
20:44
Speaker 2: Geenie Buss is the latest. Mark Cuban, Remember he sold
20:50
Speaker 2: He sold the Maverick franchise to the Gambling family in
20:52
Speaker 2: twenty twenty three. How'd that go? Well? The Gambling family
20:56
Speaker 2: then gave away Luca, although we think that was league mandated,
21:00
Speaker 2: but nonetheless, if Mark Cuban had kept control of the team,
21:03
Speaker 2: that would not have happened. Conceivably he would not allowed
21:06
Speaker 2: that to happen anyway. So the Mavericks's sold in twenty
21:08
Speaker 2: twenty three is twenty twenty five, and Cuban has continued
21:13
Speaker 2: ass continued. You know, he initially said he was going
21:15
Speaker 2: to make the decisions. He was still going to make
21:17
Speaker 2: the decision. That's not true, that's not the case. But
21:19
Speaker 2: he's still going to the league meetings representing the Mavericks
21:23
Speaker 2: like he's the majority owner. And Wick Grossbeck, who is
21:27
Speaker 2: selling the Celtics to this group by led by Bill Chisholm,
21:30
Speaker 2: whoever that is. He says, I'm going to hang around.
21:34
Speaker 2: I'm not leaving either, and I'm gonna be there at
21:36
Speaker 2: least through twenty twenty eight. Now keep in mind all
21:39
Speaker 2: of this going on while Adam Silver, the lizard Person
21:44
Speaker 2: Commissioner of the NBA. Adam Silver has been saying since
21:48
Speaker 2: last year that he does not does not like these
21:52
Speaker 2: people to hang around, right, he does not want them
21:54
Speaker 2: to hang around, but he doesn't have the balls to
21:56
Speaker 2: tell them to go pound saying and go away like
22:00
Speaker 2: once you're not the majority owner. This is what he said.
22:03
Speaker 2: This is last April, over a year ago. Mark Cuban
22:06
Speaker 2: came out and said, no, I'm not Mark Cuban. Adams.
22:08
Speaker 2: Olber said, off Mark Cuban and Wick Grossbeck and these
22:11
Speaker 2: other owners. He said, no, once you sell the team,
22:14
Speaker 2: you don't stick around. You're not there. And yet they
22:18
Speaker 2: continue to allow that to happen, transaction after transaction after transaction.
22:25
Speaker 2: So we'll see how this plays out, if there's any
22:27
Speaker 2: kind of snaffoo there, if there's any kind of funny
22:30
Speaker 2: business that goes on. And it's like the remember years
22:33
Speaker 2: ago in radio and I got in a radio there
22:35
Speaker 2: was regulation. Bill Clinton killed radio in that period anyway,
22:40
Speaker 2: because he deregulated radio. So companies ended up buying tons
22:43
Speaker 2: of radio station. There was like a limit on amy station.
22:46
Speaker 2: You know, there's some sports have a limit on how
22:48
Speaker 2: many sports teams you can own. I'll have you owned
22:52
Speaker 2: a certain team in a certain league. You can't own
22:53
Speaker 2: a lead a team in this league and all that.
22:56
Speaker 2: So we'll see how this all plays out. But for now,
22:58
Speaker 2: the Lakers being sold to the Mark Walter Group and
23:02
Speaker 2: go to the faults, and we'll say hello to a
23:05
Speaker 2: man who told me send me an email, said I'm
23:06
Speaker 2: not calling you all week. It's not going to happen,
23:10
Speaker 2: blind Scott shockingly? Is there? Hello, blind Scott?
23:14
Speaker 6: Hey? What's I mean?
23:16
Speaker 5: This?
23:16
Speaker 6: Lakers Stort's all right? If we can like make jokes
23:19
Speaker 6: about the Lakers franchise, Like, if we can't make fun
23:21
Speaker 6: of the Lakers franchise right now, what's the point?
23:23
Speaker 2: Now? Make fun of them? Go ahead, I'm made fun
23:26
Speaker 2: of you.
23:27
Speaker 6: Yeah, you find out Geni Bus doesn't really own the team.
23:30
Speaker 6: I've been around these wealthy circles before they've cut me
23:33
Speaker 6: off like I've had him in my family. You find
23:36
Speaker 6: out that, like there's sick symbol and one of them
23:38
Speaker 6: just has no money because they invested in something that's
23:41
Speaker 6: just completely awful, you know what I mean? So now
23:44
Speaker 6: they sell the team. Who knows why? Maybe under durest.
23:47
Speaker 6: But nobody's getting along. But then Jeanie still needs to
23:50
Speaker 6: be faced of the franchise. Nobody cares that she wants
23:53
Speaker 6: to do that. People think that's like a clown show.
23:56
Speaker 6: You know, you want to have someone cool up there,
23:57
Speaker 6: like Ariana Grande. I don't know.
24:00
Speaker 2: Ben Maller, Yes I should. I would be a great owner.
24:03
Speaker 2: I considered it, but it didn't it didn't fit my portfolio. Scott,
24:06
Speaker 2: I have other things I want to invest in.
24:08
Speaker 6: Yeah, like a basketball person there, Like, I mean, we
24:12
Speaker 6: have this going on in Boston right now. Pe boy,
24:15
Speaker 6: Josh Kraft, he ran the Boys and Girls if he
24:18
Speaker 6: wants to be the mayor of Boston. Now, I mean,
24:20
Speaker 6: I'm not saying that. I don't want to get into
24:22
Speaker 6: political here. That was last night's show when we talked
24:24
Speaker 6: about the w NBA.
24:25
Speaker 2: Oh really, I go away. They took w NBA. Really.
24:29
Speaker 2: Oh man, no wonder, no one's listening to Night Shocking.
24:32
Speaker 6: All right, Yes, it went WNBA went political. So here's
24:35
Speaker 6: a new thing that happened. The lines. The lines have
24:37
Speaker 6: all been down, so all the callers went to the
24:39
Speaker 6: Toucher and Hardy show.
24:41
Speaker 2: So Fred, good again, you're again with touching every show
24:45
Speaker 2: is my God. All right, I gotta go think. So
24:48
Speaker 2: I have prison mail here. This was sent a while
24:51
Speaker 2: back from Let's see here. I have the prison number
24:55
Speaker 2: from Waymart, Pennsylvania. I believe it is Waymart, Pennsylvania is
25:00
Speaker 2: on the envelope here. This correspondence is from an inmate
25:03
Speaker 2: currently in the custody of the Federal Bureau of Prisons.
25:06
Speaker 2: All right, so we have the actual the actual mal
25:11
Speaker 2: This is the third prison. This is the third prison
25:14
Speaker 2: letter I've gotten first one in a while. In the
25:17
Speaker 2: last year and a half, I've got like three prison later.
25:19
Speaker 2: We have the I have a collection of them home.
25:21
Speaker 2: Let me see them in my bag. I have a
25:25
Speaker 2: folder with prison prison letters. I don't know where they
25:28
Speaker 2: put them. Do they smell like prison, ben? What does
25:30
Speaker 2: prison smell like? What would that be? Maybe a little musty,
25:34
Speaker 2: a little musty? No, it's regular. I don't know if
25:36
Speaker 2: they lick like the metal bars. No. Now this was
25:40
Speaker 2: sent at the end of May, and here we are
25:42
Speaker 2: in the middle of June. I hope this gentleman is listening.
25:45
Speaker 2: And his name is Dan. Dan the man will call him,
25:50
Speaker 2: says howdy from Federal Prison, Maximum Security edition. It says,
25:56
Speaker 2: I hope this finds you all well. I Prison. This
25:59
Speaker 2: is again, prison mail, says I just wanted to drop
26:03
Speaker 2: y'all a quick note of thanks and praise. Well, okay,
26:08
Speaker 2: getting praised from behind the Gray Bar Hotel as an
26:11
Speaker 2: incarcerated individual, and then mentions here, I guess unarmed I
26:19
Speaker 2: think he said unarmed robbery, I think is what he said. Anyway,
26:22
Speaker 2: no matter, the circumstance is here to say, I say
26:26
Speaker 2: awake till till three am, two to three am, every
26:30
Speaker 2: damn night or morning, and he's a big fan of
26:34
Speaker 2: the show. He listens every day. Says it's a godsend.
26:37
Speaker 2: You see that we're a godsend. Originally from Chicago, Dan says,
26:41
Speaker 2: but I'm I'm doing my time at a federal joint
26:45
Speaker 2: in northeastern Pennsylvania. And then he even promotes the radio station,
26:50
Speaker 2: shout out to one oh two point seven on the
26:53
Speaker 2: FM dial as we are rocking the prison yard on
26:56
Speaker 2: one O two point seven the Ben Malas Show. So
26:59
Speaker 2: he says, in the we hours in the morning, I
27:01
Speaker 2: end up starting starting staring at my cell walls here
27:07
Speaker 2: and listening to your show and waiting for them to
27:10
Speaker 2: crack the doors. There you go. So he said some
27:16
Speaker 2: nice things about the show. He liked that he's from Chicago.
27:18
Speaker 2: He says, we talked about Caleb Williams, which you do
27:21
Speaker 2: because he gives us content. Absolutely, Dan, and he says,
27:25
Speaker 2: very sadly, he says he has no outside support. He says,
27:29
Speaker 2: don't have anything in the way of friends or family,
27:32
Speaker 2: outside support. So random Bear's news, Dan says, the closest
27:37
Speaker 2: he can get to conversations from home. There you go. Well,
27:41
Speaker 2: that's that's a bummer. That's a bummer. And he says,
27:45
Speaker 2: not even sure if you're going to get this where
27:46
Speaker 2: we got it, Dan, We got it, And it's continued
27:49
Speaker 2: on the backside here and this part I can't read
27:52
Speaker 2: very well, although there is an email address here, so
27:54
Speaker 2: I think I could probably write back to this guy,
27:56
Speaker 2: and maybe I will. Maybe I will write back to him.
27:58
Speaker 2: I don't know do you have email in prison now?
28:01
Speaker 2: I think they have libraries that have computers yet, really, Okay,
28:05
Speaker 2: we had a guy years ago from jail in Montana
28:09
Speaker 2: that had cell phone because he couldn't sleep. He had
28:12
Speaker 2: some illness where he couldn't sleep. That was a guy
28:13
Speaker 2: who said, King Eddie that drop and then he once
28:16
Speaker 2: he got out of jail, that was it. He was done.
28:19
Speaker 2: And he says, please promise to think about doing a
28:23
Speaker 2: Malord meet and greet in Chicago or anywhere in Illinois
28:26
Speaker 2: after I get out in January of twenty twenty eight.
28:30
Speaker 2: I'm well, I do have a cousin. I have a
28:33
Speaker 2: couple of cousins in Chicago. I have one that lives
28:35
Speaker 2: out in the and the burbs there. So I love Chicago.
28:38
Speaker 2: My brother's up in Wisconsin. So you know, why not
28:41
Speaker 2: I told you we should do a jail tour, Ben, Yeah, well,
28:44
Speaker 2: give a big sponsor, Lorena. We'll go on the jail tour.
28:47
Speaker 2: We will travel to every jail in the land and
28:51
Speaker 2: be like that old Johnny Cash, you know, prison blues
28:54
Speaker 2: and all that. We'll just go around there and it'll
28:56
Speaker 2: be amazing. So I do like this letter, Dan more
29:00
Speaker 2: than the last one. There was a guy that sent
29:02
Speaker 2: I don't I have a stack of them and I
29:04
Speaker 2: don't know which one it is, and so I don't
29:06
Speaker 2: have time to go through them all. But there was
29:07
Speaker 2: a guy that wrote from prison and the first line
29:11
Speaker 2: was saying that I'm an idiot for doing intermittent fasting.
29:14
Speaker 2: That was like the first thing the guy said. I
29:16
Speaker 2: popped the envelope open. The guy's like, what are you doing?
29:19
Speaker 2: You shouldn't be doing that?
29:20
Speaker 1: And I'm like, really, you know you're say I mean,
29:24
Speaker 1: that's the first line, and that's the first thing you
29:28
Speaker 1: say in the in the correspondence is you shouldn't be
29:31
Speaker 1: doing that?
29:32
Speaker 2: Like, what do you a health expert? I mean, come on, anyway, now,
29:37
Speaker 2: speaking of wild stories, and this is gonna trigger some
29:41
Speaker 2: of you you know who you are. So there is
29:43
Speaker 2: a story bouncing around just how much Travis Kelcey got
29:47
Speaker 2: paid to endorse Pfizer. That's very controversial endorsement. People very
29:55
Speaker 2: upset with Kelsey, like what are you doing? And all
29:57
Speaker 2: this there's like controversy. And now Kelsey, who still kind
30:03
Speaker 2: of hanging out in Kansas City rights looked like he's
30:05
Speaker 2: washed up in the Super Bowl. He's gonna come back
30:07
Speaker 2: in place, says he wants to play another year after
30:08
Speaker 2: this and why not. Well, now there's a story bouncing
30:12
Speaker 2: around that says Travis Kelcey made more for endorsing Pfeiser,
30:17
Speaker 2: the drug company, than he did his salary in the NFL.
30:22
Speaker 2: And in this next contract. He started his partnership during
30:27
Speaker 2: the COVID stuff, trying to get people to take the vaccine,
30:29
Speaker 2: which it turns out didn't work the vaccine anyway, that's
30:32
Speaker 2: a different conversation. But Kelsey his salary in twenty twenty five,
30:37
Speaker 2: he is set to make seventeen point one million from
30:41
Speaker 2: the Chiefs, but the Peiser deal he's got is said
30:45
Speaker 2: to be worth over twenty million dollars according to reports.
30:53
Speaker 2: So wow, that's pretty pretty much. Remember Aaron Rodgers, not
30:58
Speaker 2: a fan of the drug companies. Rogers then issued a
31:02
Speaker 2: nickname I believe he called the Kelsey Mister Pfiser was
31:05
Speaker 2: his nickname there, but twenty million. As I learned years ago,
31:09
Speaker 2: there was a book. They made a movie it was
31:10
Speaker 2: not very good, called The Magic Christian. But the book
31:15
Speaker 2: was about a rich guy that was just bored and
31:17
Speaker 2: figured that people would do pretty much anything. Everyone has
31:21
Speaker 2: a price, and so that was the premise of the book.
31:24
Speaker 2: And here's an example. Travis Kelcey. It's like a beer
31:28
Speaker 2: drinking dude from Cleveland. Now he is like taking twenty
31:31
Speaker 2: million dollars a year from Pfizer, and he's got the
31:34
Speaker 2: seventeen million he's with Taylor Swift. He's loaded, absolutely loaded.
31:40
Speaker 2: But the base of that, the base of that at
31:43
Speaker 2: the beginning, he would not have done that unless you
31:45
Speaker 2: know twenty million. You change a lot of views for
31:47
Speaker 2: twenty million dollars. So we will, we'll see how that
31:51
Speaker 2: plays out. But he's not hurting, no wonder. He's living
31:55
Speaker 2: the life of Riley. And I'm going to guess that
31:58
Speaker 2: he's not using any of that Taylor Swift money. I
32:00
Speaker 2: don't think that's uh he's not getting his hands on that,
32:03
Speaker 2: not yet anyway. And if they do get married, they'll
32:05
Speaker 2: be one hell of a prenup. One ginormous prenup will
32:10
Speaker 2: be taking place, all right. Yes, a timeout for the
32:14
Speaker 2: who am I?
32:14
Speaker 4: Game?
32:15
Speaker 2: This is where we pretend to be somebody else. While
32:17
Speaker 2: I was away from the watchtower, we did have a
32:20
Speaker 2: Stanley Cup champion, which is the same Stanley Cup champion
32:24
Speaker 2: we had the previous year. The reigning champs are now
32:27
Speaker 2: the back to back champs from the Sunshine State. For
32:30
Speaker 2: these seven people that enjoyed that, well, the Florida Panthers
32:34
Speaker 2: Brad Marshant, who lit it up in the Stanley Cup final,
32:38
Speaker 2: did not win the MVP of that, but Brad Marshant
32:41
Speaker 2: became the eighth player in the major North American sports
32:46
Speaker 2: So NHL, NBA, NFL, major League Baseball to go fourteen
32:51
Speaker 2: or more years between titles. Now, someone named Babe Adams
32:57
Speaker 2: did that in baseball with the Cardon and the Pirates
33:01
Speaker 2: and me from hockey, we share the record with a
33:05
Speaker 2: sixteen year gap between championships. Again, the Florida Panthers, Brad Marshant,
33:11
Speaker 2: the eighth player in the NHL, NBA, NFL or Major
33:15
Speaker 2: League Baseball go fourteen or more years between titles. Babe Adams,
33:19
Speaker 2: a baseball player for the Cardinals and Pirates millions of
33:22
Speaker 2: years ago, and me from hockey share the record with
33:25
Speaker 2: a sixteen year gap between championships. Who am I? That
33:31
Speaker 2: is the question. The answer. We'll get to it and
33:33
Speaker 2: we will.
33:34
Speaker 1: Do it.
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Speaker 2: Back to it we go. Time now for the who
34:28
Speaker 2: am I? Game? This is where we pretend to be
34:30
Speaker 2: somebody else, as we call it the who am I? Game?
34:32
Speaker 2: So this week the Florida Panthers Brad Marshaant, longtime Bruin
34:36
Speaker 2: captain Brad Marshan, became the eighth player in NHL, NBA, NFL,
34:42
Speaker 2: or Major League Baseball history to go fourteen or more
34:45
Speaker 2: years between titles. Now, somebody named Babe Adams who played
34:49
Speaker 2: for the Cardinals and the Pirates and baseball years ago,
34:52
Speaker 2: and me from hockey share the record with a sixteen
34:56
Speaker 2: year gapity gap between championships. So who am I? That
35:00
Speaker 2: is the question. What is the answer? Let's se does
35:03
Speaker 2: anyone know the answer? Spock's weed checking in from the
35:11
Speaker 2: Oregon Trail, says the kool Aid Man. Oh yeah, that
35:16
Speaker 2: that's the answer. O g art Puffin says cal Cutterbuck
35:21
Speaker 2: one of the all time great names in the NHL.
35:25
Speaker 2: Who else do we have? Page down? Alf the Alien
35:27
Speaker 2: of Piner, says says Sheen Little feather Who that's that's
35:31
Speaker 2: the name. There you go. What else do we have?
35:34
Speaker 2: Page down? Supermarket Steve from malaprop Ge. That's about right.
35:40
Speaker 2: That's imagine, I imagine that's what he looks like I
35:42
Speaker 2: haven't met him, That's what he looks like. The rat
35:44
Speaker 2: king from ferg Dog. Who else do we have? Mister
35:47
Speaker 2: nice Guy's going with Sterling Hitchcock as his answer, you
35:51
Speaker 2: ain't as Cesspidis. Watch out for those holes, those those
35:56
Speaker 2: those holes out of the field. You might step in one,
35:58
Speaker 2: as the former met from sco Rouge. Who else do
36:01
Speaker 2: we have? Zoe sloughed Dana, who's forty seven to I
36:05
Speaker 2: don't know who that is Zoey Saldonia. I don't know
36:07
Speaker 2: who that is, but good for Milkman, Mike says. Lone
36:11
Speaker 2: Wolf McQuaid is the answer. Mark from Queen's going with
36:15
Speaker 2: Reggie Dunlap. Dunlap there from the movie slap Shot. Joe
36:21
Speaker 2: Boo from Yaphimi and Chicago. Who else do you have?
36:24
Speaker 2: Paige Dan? I can't read that. Terry in England says
36:29
Speaker 2: Skinny Jeans. Rob Polinka is the answer. Gumby Dave's going
36:34
Speaker 2: with King Eddie. Who else Paige Dan? Chris Chelly hos
36:38
Speaker 2: guests by our friend Enzo who was at the Malla
36:41
Speaker 2: meet and greet there in Vancouver. A loyal minion to
36:44
Speaker 2: the show. Stan Mkdah from Eke in Roseville, Minnesota. Who
36:48
Speaker 2: else do we have a Reek in Minnesota's says Brett
36:52
Speaker 2: Hall of the Saint Louis Blues Donkey Kong guessed by
36:56
Speaker 2: Slim Tim. Do do you have an answer the ring?
36:58
Speaker 5: Yes?
36:58
Speaker 3: So I got so many long time players, I'm going
37:01
Speaker 3: to go with Chris Chellios.
37:03
Speaker 2: Ben, you are interesting, interesting answer? And who gave you answer?
37:08
Speaker 2: Was it some of them? Yeah? My longtime not hockey knowledge, Ben?
37:12
Speaker 2: Is that right? Well? That is correct? Chris Cellios is
37:14
Speaker 2: the all right ruining the game. I'm glad, I'm back.
37:19
Speaker 2: All right, wonderful. Let's go to Zach and see what's
37:22
Speaker 2: going on? Is that Chris Jelly's went sixteen years in
37:23
Speaker 2: the NHL. A bunch of hockey guys are on that list. Hello, Zach,
37:27
Speaker 2: what's going on? Well?
37:29
Speaker 4: Always good to jump on here. Uh long time listener
37:33
Speaker 4: all four or five times out delivering food as a
37:36
Speaker 4: side also for my daughters. Welcome back on the airwaves.
37:39
Speaker 4: But I wanted to call because it's uh man watching
37:42
Speaker 4: these NBA finals being a play of Seattle Light and
37:46
Speaker 4: that's you know, that's basically my team, right, it is
37:50
Speaker 4: my team, but I can't root for them. But what's
37:52
Speaker 4: wild to me is that both teams are there because
37:55
Speaker 4: of the assets they got from trading away Paul George.
37:59
Speaker 4: It's it's just it's so funny, it's and wild.
38:02
Speaker 2: You know, like, well, there's also some injuries helped the
38:06
Speaker 2: Pacers out and the Thunder. They just traded for a
38:11
Speaker 2: zillion draft picks. And then the funny thing about that
38:14
Speaker 2: is the player that they got who they didn't draft,
38:16
Speaker 2: that's a Clipper draft pick, SGA, and that's the guy
38:20
Speaker 2: that is responsible for them being in this position. So
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Speaker 2: it's it's not they traded all for all these draft picks,
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Speaker 2: and yet it's the guy they got who wasn't drafted
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Speaker 2: by them that's going to be the hero for them, Right.
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Speaker 4: But didn't they get some draft picks for Chat and
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Speaker 4: a couple of other guys through that.
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Speaker 2: Well, No, the MVP of the NBA and the guy's
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Speaker 2: gonna be the finals MVP is shape Julius Alexander and
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Speaker 2: he yeah, that was the guy that was on the Clippers,
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Speaker 2: so they didn't draft him. They drafted all these other guys.
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Speaker 2: And that's fine. But a home Gren he's been hot
38:51
Speaker 2: and cold and been mostly cold in the finals.
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Speaker 4: Okay, And the other piece is real quick, with NBA
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Speaker 4: likely expanding to Seattle in Vegas. It's interesting to me
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Speaker 4: the timing of the Celtics and Lakers, because six billion,
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Speaker 4: ten billion, the expansion fee is just going to continue
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Speaker 4: to go up up, you know what I mean?
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Speaker 2: Well, yeah, you are you? Are you working now? Are
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Speaker 2: you delivering food? So you have enough money to buy
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Speaker 2: that NBA team? Is that why you're out there, Zach?
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Speaker 2: You're putting a fund together, a hedge fund to buy.
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Speaker 4: I used to work, but I used to work for
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Speaker 4: the Kraken, and I know what they paid for their
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Speaker 4: their expansion. But it's just the timing of it is
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Speaker 4: pretty pretty fun to me.
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Speaker 2: Well, no, it's it's it's actually smart, right because all
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Speaker 2: these teams sell, and because if whatever the expansion fee
39:34
Speaker 2: is is going to be based on obviously it's simple business,
39:36
Speaker 2: maybe based on everything else. So they had to take
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Speaker 2: care of this. And you got to think behind the
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Speaker 2: scenes that Genie buss And was communicating, I got to
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Speaker 2: get out, I don't know what I'm doing here. I'm
39:46
Speaker 2: a terrible loan I gotta sell the Lakers, and and
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Speaker 2: she let Adam Silver know and so they waited until
39:52
Speaker 2: this was done. I don't know how many other teams
39:53
Speaker 2: are going to be sold. They got to get all
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Speaker 2: this squared away before they end up putting an expansion
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Speaker 2: or two expansion teams out there. But be careful, Zach.
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Speaker 2: Don't trust these people. And they've been saying for how
40:03
Speaker 2: many years have they been saying, Oh, Seattle and Vegas
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Speaker 2: are going to get expansion teams. They've been saying it
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Speaker 2: and saying it and saying it, and nothing has happened yet.
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Speaker 2: So you know, somebody else could come in from the
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Speaker 2: outside and be like, hey, well I want to buy
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Speaker 2: a team. I'll spend I'll spend twelve billion for some
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Speaker 2: expansion team. Then what are you going to do