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Hour 1 - The Flagg Has Been Captured · The Ben Maller Show

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Speaker 1: one is our retrospective on the number one pick of
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Speaker 1: the twenty twenty five NBA Draft, which was last night.
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Speaker 1: We stayed up all night to talk about Cooper Flag.
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Speaker 1: How excited should Cooper Flag be with the Mavericks. We'll
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Speaker 1: talk about that. Also, what are the chances that Cooper
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Speaker 1: Flag ends up a first team All NBA level player
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Speaker 1: for the Mavericks And a former NBA player Kendrick Perkins
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Speaker 1: now a gas bag, he recently compared Cooper Flag to
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Speaker 1: a lebron James Kevin Garnett love child. Why would he
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Speaker 1: do that? We'll talk about all of that and much more.
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Speaker 1: So our lead this hour is from the boardroom keyp
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Speaker 1: part of that board. Wow, the made for TV spectacular
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Speaker 1: the twenty twenty five NBA Draft which has now been
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Speaker 1: sliced up. It used to be a one night affair,
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Speaker 1: but now it is two nights. You got The first
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Speaker 1: round was held on Wednesday night in Brooklyn and then
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Speaker 1: around two with dozens and dozens of people excited about
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Speaker 1: that tuned in for the next round on Thursday. But
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Speaker 1: I don't know if you watched any of this, probably not.
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Speaker 1: I think it was on seventeen channels. I was getting
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Speaker 1: text messages from people. Why is the draft on so
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Speaker 1: many channels? I don't understand. So as we like to say,
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Speaker 1: and has pointed out by the Ostrich and I went
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Speaker 1: during the draft and I was was futz around and
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Speaker 1: the Austrigrants said, we thank you for watching, so we
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Speaker 1: do not have to. It is our good Mitch for
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Speaker 1: the day. And Cooper Flag, the flag is up. Cooper Flag,
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Speaker 1: who had been the consensus number one pick prior to
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Speaker 1: him even declaring out of Duke, I say out of Duke.
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Speaker 1: He played there for like a minute, but he was
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Speaker 1: projected way back to be the number one pick in
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Speaker 1: the draft, and it went as choreographed. The mav Rex
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Speaker 1: drafted Cooper Flag with the top pick. They remember the
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Speaker 1: MAVs the Great Conspiracies theory. The Mavericks won the draft lottery,
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Speaker 1: his payment for handing over Luca to save NBA television
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Speaker 1: ratings to the Lakers for some pocket lint, and a
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Speaker 1: broken down, washed up player named Anthony Davis. MAVs had
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Speaker 1: a one point eight percent chance of winning the first
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Speaker 1: pick and they did, and so Cooper Flagg said, seemingly
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Speaker 1: all the right things there, He said, it felt amazing
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Speaker 1: dream come true, all that after being picked at the
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Speaker 1: very top of the draft. So his family was there
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Speaker 1: and all that. You know, usual bells and whistles at
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Speaker 1: this type of thing. So let us discuss the question,
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Speaker 1: how excited should Cooper Flag be with the Mavericks. He
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Speaker 1: could play with any of these teams in the lottery,
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Speaker 1: he ends up playing with the Mavericks. Some would say
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Speaker 1: it was scripted that way, But how excited? How excited
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Speaker 1: should Cooper Flag be with the Mavericks. I've got what
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Speaker 1: a burger, Kirby Pucket and Frankenstein, and we will combine
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Speaker 1: all of these random things together. We're gonna make some
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Speaker 1: Matza ball soup and some pastrami fries, is what we're
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Speaker 1: gonna make. So a being drafted by the Dallas basketball
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Speaker 1: team in twenty twenty five is akin to getting beat
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Speaker 1: front property in Albuquerque. Right. It's you know, you think, well,
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Speaker 1: that's that's pretty good. It's I got some good land there,
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Speaker 1: I got some good value. Sure, it's it's not that
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Speaker 1: close to the water. It's pretty dry. You're gonna get sunburned,
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Speaker 1: and you're You're like, why are people building sand castles
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Speaker 1: on on the cement there? I don't understand. But Cooper
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Speaker 1: is joining a team where there doesn't appear to be
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Speaker 1: any kind of real plan, the owner is not engaged,
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Speaker 1: the franchise kept Nico Harrison, which is Malfeasan's if for
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Speaker 1: even if you were forced to trade Luca, you still
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Speaker 1: have to get rid of Nico as a human sacrifice
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Speaker 1: where he loses his job, but you kept him around
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Speaker 1: where the fans were rhythmically chanting booing a Nico Harrison
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Speaker 1: the day of the draft, and so again Nico got yeah,
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Speaker 1: fire Niko. There must be some compromising photos of Nico
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Speaker 1: has of certain people with different animals, but it's it's
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Speaker 1: it's wild. It is wild that he's still calling the shot.
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Speaker 1: So you're going to a team that did not have
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Speaker 1: the foresight to get rid of Nico Harrison, right, who
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Speaker 1: is credited with giving away the family Jewels for nothing? Right?
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Speaker 1: And so in Dallas sounds amazing at first if you're
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Speaker 1: a guy like Cooper Flag, I mean, just everything's bigger, right, Texas,
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Speaker 1: big steaks, big energy, everything bigger in Texas. But sooner
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Speaker 1: or later wearing that Maverick laundry. You realize the culture
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Speaker 1: of the Mavericks is what like a what a burger
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Speaker 1: and a cowboy hat? Wearing a cowboy hat? What a
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Speaker 1: burger with a cowboy hat on top? But Cooper Flag
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Speaker 1: walks in to that Maverick locker room, he better be
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Speaker 1: on his best behavior because one glance from Kyrie e
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Speaker 1: being even though he's hurt, could either spark a sermon
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Speaker 1: or some kind of locker room crisis. Very delicate there,
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Speaker 1: and we'll see what kind of development. There are conflicting
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Speaker 1: reports about just how dominant Cooper Flag is going to
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Speaker 1: be in the NBA, and I'm in a show me
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Speaker 1: state of mind. Show me, let's see, right, does he
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Speaker 1: need a structured offense from Jason Kidd? And is that
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Speaker 1: when he needs to succeed? And if that's the case,
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Speaker 1: he might want to play around on Minecraft to try
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Speaker 1: to structure his own offense because I think you get
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Speaker 1: a better chance of that working out now Page two.
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Speaker 1: So Cooper Flag is not not Luca two point zero right,
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Speaker 1: not in Dallas, not gonna be Luca two point zero.
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Speaker 1: Infect the projections which are almost always wrong, almost always wrong.
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Speaker 1: One of the reasons I loathe the draft is because
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Speaker 1: I have been hornswaggled. I have been led astray too
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Speaker 1: many times about the players in the draft. So he's
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Speaker 1: projected more like like a Scottie Pippen type player, not
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Speaker 1: the president, more the vice president, the running mate, not
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Speaker 1: the president. Now, that said, the expectations are sky high.
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Speaker 1: So for this exercise, will pose the question to the
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Speaker 1: esteem panel, what are the chances that Cooper Flag ends
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Speaker 1: up a first team All NBA level player. Now we're
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Speaker 1: not talking about All Star, which is a different conversation.
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Speaker 1: First team All NBA, not second team, not third team,
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Speaker 1: first team All NBA for the Mavericks. So what are
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Speaker 1: the chances? So, based on a minutes long, minutes long investigation,
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Speaker 1: we have determined the chances of Cooper Flag ending up
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Speaker 1: a first team All NBA player with the Mavericks. It's
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Speaker 1: a Kirby Pucket meaning the Minnesota Twins legend from years
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Speaker 1: gone by, many many years ago, who was a career
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Speaker 1: three eighteen hitter for the Twinkies. Based on recent history,
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Speaker 1: and I'm not going all the way back to the
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Speaker 1: beginning of time, the number one overall if you go
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Speaker 1: back to past generation since the year two thousand, Since
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Speaker 1: the year two thousand, since the year two thousand, number
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Speaker 1: one on one picks becoming all NBA first team players.
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Speaker 1: It has happened. It's a three twenty batting average thirty
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Speaker 1: two percent of the time it has happened. The top
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Speaker 1: picks with at least one all NBA first team Lebron Dwight, Howard,
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Speaker 1: Derreck Rose, Anthony Davis, Carl Anthony Towns, ant Man, Victor Wembanyama, Hello,
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Speaker 1: that happened quick, and Cade Cunningham, which did not happen quick,
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Speaker 1: but did happen now for the Pistons. So you got eight.
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Speaker 1: That still leaves seventeen players who were drafted with the
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Speaker 1: top pick since the year two thousand who did not
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Speaker 1: reach that level. I'll keep in mind, as the great
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Speaker 1: retired sportscaster Dick Stockton taught me, stats tell you what
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Speaker 1: has happened, not what's going to happen. And Flag is
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Speaker 1: going to start in Dallas surrounded by injury prone players
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Speaker 1: like Anthony Davis and Klay Thompson mentioned Kyrie Irving out
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Speaker 1: with an ACL injury. He will not play until January,
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Speaker 1: probably February, and so Cooper Flagg is going to be
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Speaker 1: a long win from his home in Maine. He will
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Speaker 1: enjoy that there is no state income tax in Texas,
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Speaker 1: so he'll make more money to do the same job
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Speaker 1: as opposed to playing in a high tax state like
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Speaker 1: California or with the team closest to Maine, the Celtics.
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Speaker 1: He'll like the hot and muggy weather unless he doesn't,
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Speaker 1: and the barbecue. And he'll also get to experience the
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Speaker 1: Texas sized cockroaches, the large mosquitoes, and those fire ants
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Speaker 1: that are all over the place. Everything's bigger, everything is bigger,
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Speaker 1: all right now? Last word here. So former NBA player
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Speaker 1: turned gas bag Kendrick Perkins in the lead up to
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Speaker 1: the draft, several of you sent me this story and said,
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Speaker 1: did you see what he said? I can't believe he
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Speaker 1: said it, So, okay, I will address this. So Kendrick
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Speaker 1: Perkins compared Cooper Flag. He said to a Lebron James
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Speaker 1: Kevin Garnett love child. Yeah, he said, Well, if Lebron
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Speaker 1: and Kevin Garnett, I guess if they fornicated, they got
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Speaker 1: a kid that would be Cooper Fly. So why would
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Speaker 1: he do that? Why would he do that? But I'll
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Speaker 1: tell you why, and it was actually a brilliant move.
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Speaker 1: It's sneaky, brilliant by Kendrick Perkins. It's it's the great race.
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Speaker 1: It's advanced jockocracy. That's the term, right, all these jocks
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Speaker 1: on TV and stuff, it's jockocracy. They get jobs. They're
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Speaker 1: not trained broadcasters, but they get jobs. So it's jockocracy.
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Speaker 1: And Perkins is a He's a contestant in the ex
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Speaker 1: jock Olympic Games where they hand out the gold medal
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Speaker 1: to whoever can say the most outrageous thing and not
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Speaker 1: break character. Yet you gotta be the straight man, you
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Speaker 1: gotta have the straight face. So he was tasked with
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Speaker 1: trying to hype up Cooper fly trying to promote the
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Speaker 1: NBA Draft. So Kendrick Perkins in the lead up to
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Speaker 1: the draft, he say, I am going to go Frankenstein
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Speaker 1: and I'm gonna stitch together a couple of Hall of
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Speaker 1: famers hype this guy up. And you know, I hadn't
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Speaker 1: played a second at the NBA level. And spoiler alert
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Speaker 1: spoiler it actually worked here. I am I'm the dope.
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Speaker 1: I'm talking about it. Mission accomplished. And it's not even
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Speaker 1: about this, It's about clickety click clickety click. It's about
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Speaker 1: saying something so astonishing, so ridiculous, raw jaw dropping, the absurd,
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Speaker 1: that it ends up trending before you even go to
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Speaker 1: the next commercial break. Right in a sports media landscape,
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Speaker 1: right now, it is as crowded as a costco on
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Speaker 1: a Saturday afternoon. Right, everyone is screaming, I need attention,
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Speaker 1: demanding it now. Of course I don't scream, I talk
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Speaker 1: in a raised voice. But I go back to the
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Speaker 1: old country, the art of gas baggery. But the new
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Speaker 1: guys man, you got to scream for attention. And the
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Speaker 1: moment you step away from playing and you're no longer
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Speaker 1: a baller. Every second goes by, you become more and
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Speaker 1: more irrelevant. You're not needed. Your opinion doesn't matter. You're
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Speaker 1: the old head. You're washed up. You can't play anymore.
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Speaker 1: You stink blah blah blah blah blah blah blah. Right,
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Speaker 1: so you can't in order to stay relevant. You can't
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Speaker 1: do nuance, the whole nuance thing that doesn't really work.
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Speaker 1: And you don't need a candle, right, you know, no
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Speaker 1: no candles need You need a like a lightning strike.
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Speaker 1: of the a holes. He says, malar hyped as hell,
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Speaker 1: the new Great White Hope Cooper flag. He's taking over
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Speaker 1: the NBA like it's his personal porn heaven. Okay, well,
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Speaker 1: how Ace Bailey was so pissed off to be drafted
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Speaker 1: by the Jazz in the fifth spot, further proof that
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Speaker 1: coming up a little bit later. Who else do we
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Speaker 1: have to see? Page down Tacoma Drew checks in. He says,
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Speaker 1: but I thought you said Kad Cunningham was the first
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Speaker 1: team All NBA guy. There you go. I must have
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Speaker 1: out of Phoenix that had the Suns games on, and
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Speaker 1: there was this gentleman named Al McCoy who was the
21:32
Speaker 1: play by play guy for the Suns. I mean out.
21:35
Speaker 1: I think he just passed away recently. He lived to
21:37
Speaker 1: be a very old man and I had to meet
21:39
Speaker 1: him a few times. But I was a kid listening
21:41
Speaker 1: and anytime the Suns would hit a three point shot,
21:44
Speaker 1: I was probably ten years old or whatever, and he'd say,
21:47
Speaker 1: what a shot? What a burger? And I have family
21:49
Speaker 1: in Phoenix, so when we would go to like a
21:52
Speaker 1: family reunion, we used to have those in the greater
21:54
Speaker 1: Phoenix area, and we'd get there and my mom would
21:57
Speaker 1: be like, Hey, we're gonna be in Phoenix. What do
22:00
Speaker 1: you want to do? And I said, I want a
22:03
Speaker 1: What a burger? I said that I didn't even know
22:05
Speaker 1: what it was because of the stupid Suns games that
22:07
Speaker 1: I would listen to late at night on the Raider,
22:09
Speaker 1: And I told Al McCoy that the guy was a
22:11
Speaker 1: playoff play guy. He loved it, he said, it was
22:13
Speaker 1: like the It was one of the first product placements
22:16
Speaker 1: in an NBA broadcast in that era. I guess they
22:21
Speaker 1: had done it back in the sixties or whatever. It
22:23
Speaker 1: stopped in the seventies. For some reason in the eighties
22:25
Speaker 1: they brought it back. So there you go. That's my
22:28
Speaker 1: what a burger story? Nature voice says, is it me?
22:32
Speaker 1: Or was there excessive man crying on ESPN? Well, I
22:38
Speaker 1: didn't watch too much. I watched the draft and I
22:41
Speaker 1: will have some hot takes on what look like back
22:45
Speaker 1: in the old days, we'd call it public access television.
22:48
Speaker 1: The quality of the broadcast. Holy crap, I mean, are
22:52
Speaker 1: they even trying over there? I mean, come on now,
22:55
Speaker 1: how about some pride in your product? How about a
22:57
Speaker 1: little pride in your product? That would be that? Would
23:00
Speaker 1: I just go to the phones and who do we
23:02
Speaker 1: have your aenie meenie, miney moe. Let's say hello to
23:05
Speaker 1: he's back tiger Man in Utah, Hello tiger Man.
23:11
Speaker 5: And one time past I hope every team's going well
23:15
Speaker 5: another day, and I guess you just forget to mention
23:18
Speaker 5: that LSU just won the College World Series. But it's fine,
23:22
Speaker 5: you know, big day for BYU top eight pick, but
23:26
Speaker 5: also a terrible day for college basketball. A lot of
23:29
Speaker 5: the Blue Buds not getting any draft picks, like Kansas
23:32
Speaker 5: and Kentucky and Indiana, so kind of a bad day.
23:35
Speaker 5: And as a huge college basketball fan, and yeah, it's
23:39
Speaker 5: a little little sad to see some of the big
23:41
Speaker 5: guys not getting drafted.
23:43
Speaker 1: Well, you should go to Rutgers. If you want to
23:44
Speaker 1: get drafted, you got to go to Rutgers. Man, but Scataway,
23:47
Speaker 1: New Jersey, Baby, forget UCLA or all these other power schools.
23:52
Speaker 1: It's all about Rutgers.
23:55
Speaker 5: Yeah, well, Ben, I did also just want to mention
23:58
Speaker 5: one thing if anybody will watched that Houston Duke game.
24:02
Speaker 5: Cooper Flag was really really kind of uncompetitive. So I
24:07
Speaker 5: don't think that he's all that great.
24:09
Speaker 1: Are you saying right now? Are you calling him a bust?
24:12
Speaker 1: Is that what you're calling You're saying Cooper Flag is
24:13
Speaker 1: a bus? Is that what you're saying, sir.
24:16
Speaker 5: H Not necessarily a bus, but definitely.
24:19
Speaker 1: Own the take. You got to own the take? Do
24:22
Speaker 1: you own the take?
24:24
Speaker 5: I'm just saying that he's not gonna be that good.
24:26
Speaker 5: And honestly, nobody really cares about the NBA. We all
24:30
Speaker 5: just care about college basketball. But yeah, Ben, you know,
24:34
Speaker 5: go Kog's, go Tigers and always great to catch.
24:37
Speaker 1: Up, All right and go home. There you go, hang
24:40
Speaker 1: up on yourself, tiger man who doesn't care about the NBA.
24:43
Speaker 1: But he's annoyed because the traditional blue bloods were not
24:49
Speaker 1: the stars of the show at the NBA draft. That bothered.
24:53
Speaker 1: So if you don't care about the NBA, like, why
24:55
Speaker 1: would you care? Like I don't. I don't understand it.
24:59
Speaker 1: I don't get it. Yeah, I don't. Yeah, we had
25:04
Speaker 1: well Cooper Flag went to Duke because he's obviously the top.
25:07
Speaker 1: But then you got a guy from Rutgers, Baylor, another
25:10
Speaker 1: Duke guy, another Rutgers guy, and uh and down down
25:15
Speaker 1: the list. The first international player was what the pick,
25:20
Speaker 1: pick twelve. I think I think I'm right on that.
25:24
Speaker 1: I after pick after right, yeah, yeah, the guy that
25:28
Speaker 1: was drafted by was it the Bulls or something? But
25:31
Speaker 1: I after pick five when Ace Bailey got drafted and
25:36
Speaker 1: sent to Guantanamo Bay there, I flipped over to watch
25:40
Speaker 1: some baseball, and I was slipping back because I didn't
25:43
Speaker 1: I don' want to spend too much time on the
25:45
Speaker 1: you know, the ins and outs of picks. You know,
25:48
Speaker 1: pick eleven fifteen, that doesn't really interest me that much.
25:52
Speaker 1: So but I did watch. I did watch the I
25:55
Speaker 1: kept going back to it. And the great thing about baseball,
25:58
Speaker 1: every half inning there's eight minutes of commercials. So it
26:00
Speaker 1: seems so you're able to go back and forth and
26:03
Speaker 1: all that eight seven seven ninety nine on Fox is
26:06
Speaker 1: the number eight seven seven nine nine six sixty three
26:10
Speaker 1: sixty nine if you'd like to be part of the
26:13
Speaker 1: program of the whom I game coming up in a
26:15
Speaker 1: little bit. But the number one pick in the draft,
26:17
Speaker 1: Cooper Flag the night he was picked by the Dallas
26:20
Speaker 1: Mavericks is talking conspiracy theories. The plot thickens. Do you
26:26
Speaker 1: see this?
26:27
Speaker 4: No?
26:28
Speaker 1: All right? So the media got together is said, this
26:31
Speaker 1: is so exciting, we were so happy you were drafted
26:34
Speaker 1: with the top pick, and we'd like to ask you
26:36
Speaker 1: a series of questions, and Cooper Flagg was asked about
26:41
Speaker 1: the widespread conspiracy theory that the NBA draft lottery was
26:47
Speaker 1: rigged so the Dallas Mavericks would get the number one
26:51
Speaker 1: pick in the draft. During a news conference in the
26:54
Speaker 1: bowels of the Barkley Center, just down the street from
26:57
Speaker 1: Marcel and Brooklyn, someone had the balls to ask Cooper
27:01
Speaker 1: Flag about this widespread conspiracy in which the NBA orchestrated
27:07
Speaker 1: a giveaway of Luca to save their fledgling, crappy TV
27:11
Speaker 1: product and get people to watch, and send him to
27:14
Speaker 1: the Lakers for a bag of beans and pocket lint,
27:18
Speaker 1: go back to Dallas, and then in return they got
27:20
Speaker 1: the top pick in the draft. Well, it turns out
27:24
Speaker 1: that this was not a line of questioning that Cooper
27:26
Speaker 1: Flag was expecting. He paused for a second, said quote,
27:30
Speaker 1: I have no insider information. I just feel blessed for
27:34
Speaker 1: the way it all worked out. Keep in mind, first
27:37
Speaker 1: of all, that is not a denial. He didn't say no,
27:40
Speaker 1: there was no conspiracy. He just said he doesn't have
27:43
Speaker 1: information on the conspiracy. But that didn't end the talk
27:47
Speaker 1: of the conspiracy. All right. So, if I'm riding the
27:51
Speaker 1: headline and I used to do this, Cooper Flag refuses
27:56
Speaker 1: to deny the NBA rig the draft lottery. Done. There
28:02
Speaker 1: you go, that's it. That's it. That's the headline right there,
28:06
Speaker 1: because he did not he did not deny. The quote
28:10
Speaker 1: was I have no insider information. And then he pivoted
28:13
Speaker 1: and said, I feel blessed all the way it worked out.
28:16
Speaker 1: Are you blessed because of an inside job? Is that
28:19
Speaker 1: why Dallas is a big TV market. It's not really
28:24
Speaker 1: a basketball town. It's football time, but it's a big,
28:26
Speaker 1: big media market. If you do well there, make some
28:29
Speaker 1: money off the court. And all that Flag said, I
28:31
Speaker 1: don't know what to say about that quote continues, I
28:35
Speaker 1: have no insider information. If that's what you're looking for.
28:38
Speaker 1: That was the full quote from Cooper Flag. So big story. Well,
28:44
Speaker 1: next we'll find out what he thinks about the Grassy Knoll.
28:47
Speaker 1: He's playing in Dallas. You gotta get a take on
28:49
Speaker 1: the Grassy Noll. I guess that. When I was a
28:51
Speaker 1: younger man, everyone's that was like the number one conspiracy
28:54
Speaker 1: theory if you have a certain age, it was like
28:55
Speaker 1: that was the one, dude. It's like, you know, how
28:58
Speaker 1: many was there a second shooter?
29:00
Speaker 4: Uh?
29:00
Speaker 1: JFK, the Grassy Knoll, the Library Tower, like that was it.
29:04
Speaker 1: But it's been a long time. So now we've moved
29:06
Speaker 1: on to other conspiracies. So what's the go to. I
29:10
Speaker 1: guess the UFO things big right now. There was the
29:14
Speaker 1: I guess nine to eleven conspiracies. Pete Carroll was in
29:17
Speaker 1: on that. There's a bunch a bunch, you know, as
29:20
Speaker 1: always anything that happens, there's certain people think anything that happens,
29:24
Speaker 1: there are people that think it was it was supposed
29:27
Speaker 1: to happen that way. There's always that crowd, right, whatever happens,
29:30
Speaker 1: they orchestrated it. There's like I read a great book
29:35
Speaker 1: about great book, but years ago I read a book
29:39
Speaker 1: about conspiracies. There's like four or five conspiracy theories that
29:43
Speaker 1: are that are the same basic outline anytime anything happens,
29:48
Speaker 1: and people just kind of rotate those four or five.
29:52
Speaker 1: I think, no, no, I am not dismissing conspiracies. I
29:56
Speaker 1: believe some. Uh there are some in sports, the the NBA,
30:00
Speaker 1: most of them involving the NBA. And it's inconvenient, the
30:05
Speaker 1: inconvenient truth when a conspiracy is confirmed. For example, Tim
30:11
Speaker 1: Donnie Right, I remember doing talk radio when the Lakers
30:14
Speaker 1: are playing the Kings and there was a belief that
30:18
Speaker 1: the officials were rigging the games for the Lakers. We
30:23
Speaker 1: said it on talk radio at the time, and people said, well,
30:27
Speaker 1: you're just a talk show host. You're just a loser.
30:29
Speaker 1: You don't know what you're doing talk radio. You're just
30:31
Speaker 1: trying to get a reaction. Well years later we were right.
30:35
Speaker 1: There was absolutely it was a rig job. And I
30:38
Speaker 1: also to expand on that, do not believe that Tim
30:42
Speaker 1: donne he was a lone wolf that David Stern said.
30:45
Speaker 1: I don't believe that at all. I think there were
30:47
Speaker 1: other people involved in it, and for various reasons that
30:52
Speaker 1: did not get out. Josh writes in from Nebraska. He's
30:57
Speaker 1: a Bears fan. He says, Ben a Cooper flag will
31:00
Speaker 1: be a jag. Just a guy. Wasn't that impressed? Hashtag bust.
31:06
Speaker 1: All right, well let's see truck stop fungus rites In says,
31:10
Speaker 1: are we going to discuss Tyrese Halliburton again tonight? Yes.
31:15
Speaker 1: In fact, I will on the air give a massage
31:19
Speaker 1: to Tyrese Halliburton's poor popped and shredded achilles just for you,
31:25
Speaker 1: truck stop fungus. I will Spock's weed, writes in from
31:29
Speaker 1: the Oregon Trail and says some NBA team wrote the
31:33
Speaker 1: vomit comment tonight I'm just not sure who. Yeah, well
31:36
Speaker 1: we don't. We don't know because we the after pick five.
31:41
Speaker 1: It's come on, even pick five, it's not not great.
31:45
Speaker 1: Super Market Steve says, I love how none of these
31:48
Speaker 1: gas bags compared compared him to Jubbari Parker. I guess
31:52
Speaker 1: he's talking about Ace Bailey also a oh no, he's
31:56
Speaker 1: he's talking about the number one pick here, Cooper fly White,
32:00
Speaker 1: athletic blah blah blah blah blaes. He gives a detailed
32:02
Speaker 1: Breakdore Supermarcus Steve on that, Ferg Dog says, my favorite
32:09
Speaker 1: conspiracy is what FSR management was smoking when they let
32:15
Speaker 1: you go, only to realize their mistake six months later. Well,
32:18
Speaker 1: Ferg dogg it was six months and twenty six days.
32:21
Speaker 1: I still remember it was January twentieth of nine. That's
32:25
Speaker 1: been a long time since then. Holy crap, January twenty
32:28
Speaker 1: to nine, and got the gay team. Yeah, Chop chop
32:35
Speaker 1: done done, see you later. And then they realized six
32:38
Speaker 1: months twenty six days later, I was close to a
32:41
Speaker 1: gig somewhere else and they said we want you back,
32:43
Speaker 1: and so I said, okay, I'll I'll come back, And
32:47
Speaker 1: here we are, all these years later, I've actually been
32:49
Speaker 1: here in my second run at Fox Sports Radio. I've
32:51
Speaker 1: been here longer. I was at Fox Sports Radio for
32:54
Speaker 1: what was it nine and a half ten years? No, no,
32:58
Speaker 1: it was more than that. Not long enough. Uh no,
33:01
Speaker 1: I think it was like ten ten plus ten plus
33:04
Speaker 1: years and then and then this runs. Boy, I don't
33:07
Speaker 1: date myself, but it's been longer, much longer. Holy crap.
33:11
Speaker 1: All right, anyway, if you want to be part eight
33:13
Speaker 1: seven seven ninety nine on Fox eight seven seven nine
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Speaker 1: nine six sixty three sixty nine, we had an amazing
33:22
Speaker 1: moment captured on camera during the NBA Draft that I'm
33:27
Speaker 1: going to assume not everyone loved. I thought it was hilarious.
33:31
Speaker 1: Oh natural, raw, I thought it was great. We will
33:35
Speaker 1: get to that. We'll take some more of these calls
33:36
Speaker 1: as well. Time now though, for the who Am I Game?
33:39
Speaker 1: And this is where we pretend to be somebody else's
33:42
Speaker 1: we call it, but we called it the who Am I? Game?
33:45
Speaker 1: So Cooper Flag goes to the Dallas Mavericks. He became
33:50
Speaker 1: the first white American player drafted number one over since me,
33:58
Speaker 1: it's been a minute again. Cooper Flag now a member
34:02
Speaker 1: of the Dallas Mavericks becoming the first white American player
34:06
Speaker 1: drafted number one overall, scenes under it's been a minute.
34:11
Speaker 1: Who am I? Well, that's the question. See I pretend
34:16
Speaker 1: to be somebody else and then you have to answer
34:18
Speaker 1: the question at Ben Mahler on X. That's at Ben
34:21
Speaker 1: Maller on X again, the Maverick Scooper flag first white
34:24
Speaker 1: American player drafted number one overall since me? Who am I?
34:29
Speaker 1: The answer?
34:29
Speaker 3: Who?
34:30
Speaker 1: We'll get to it. I'll tell you, just gotta keep listening.
34:33
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34:36
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34:58
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35:51
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35:56
Speaker 3: Who?
35:56
Speaker 1: This is where I will see. This is where I
35:57
Speaker 1: pretend to be somebody else. So this is where I
36:00
Speaker 1: who am my game? Now? The mav Rex had the
36:04
Speaker 1: top pick in the draft, and so they took Cooper Flag.
36:07
Speaker 1: He became the first white American player drafted number one
36:11
Speaker 1: overall since me? Since me? Who am I? That is
36:17
Speaker 1: the question? What is the answer? Let's see does anyone
36:22
Speaker 1: know the answer? We go now to the Hoy Peloyd
36:25
Speaker 1: the Great Unwashed to try to see if anyone knows
36:28
Speaker 1: the answer. And this is the part of the show
36:31
Speaker 1: where I read a bunch of dumb names. And then
36:33
Speaker 1: we move on and then we'll take a call and
36:37
Speaker 1: all that. Let's see here, what do we have here?
36:41
Speaker 1: Sling blade blind Scott from Milkman, Mike, that's his answer,
36:45
Speaker 1: Steve Nash guest by King Rory Prison Blank, Aaron from
36:50
Speaker 1: Just Josh, Thank you for that. William got this right.
36:54
Speaker 1: Bad job by him. Stuck in Sacramento, said Ben's sisters, brothers,
37:01
Speaker 1: Uncle Nostradamis is the way to go. He hates suck.
37:06
Speaker 1: He hates Zuckramento as everyone should. And don't forget my
37:11
Speaker 1: good friend Nostra Denis who lives in Seattle. Haven't heard
37:14
Speaker 1: from him much anymore. Who I don't blame him. The
37:17
Speaker 1: Seahawks signed Sam Darnold. I'd go into hiding two Femi
37:20
Speaker 1: is going with Abraham Lincoln, his answery, funny al Knipper,
37:26
Speaker 1: the old Red Sox from the eighties from Mister Knights
37:28
Speaker 1: Guy good got good find there. Overnight, Joe checks in
37:33
Speaker 1: and says, Jerry West is the answer. He says, also,
37:36
Speaker 1: I have been listening to you through both tours of
37:40
Speaker 1: duty at Fox Sports Radio. There you go, I says
37:43
Speaker 1: he would not have survived working overnights if it was
37:46
Speaker 1: not for you. Well, thank you, overnight, Joe, I know,
37:48
Speaker 1: I recognize I recognize that name, Joe, I recognize that
37:52
Speaker 1: you have also worked the gig. He works at a
37:56
Speaker 1: TV station. I believe at least he did. I don't
37:58
Speaker 1: know if he still does a donkey sausage. He says.
38:00
Speaker 1: The the Da Beatles is the answer. Palm Desert, Palm
38:05
Speaker 1: Desert rat going with the big redhead. Bill Walton alf
38:09
Speaker 1: the Alien opiner says, the first white guy drafted since
38:12
Speaker 1: Tiger Woods. Wow, who else do we have? Page down?
38:15
Speaker 1: Christian Latner name spelled wrong by Josh Joe Joe White
38:20
Speaker 1: from Bay City, Tony. Well, you guys are you're on
38:23
Speaker 1: point today? You're on point? Fred and Nebraska. Let's see here,
38:28
Speaker 1: he says, you are on point yet again? Well, thank you, Fred.
38:33
Speaker 1: I think Fred's got a problem. He listens to too
38:35
Speaker 1: much talk. Rady. You might want to want to tune
38:38
Speaker 1: down a little bit, not this show. Of course. Who
38:40
Speaker 1: else do we have? Page down? Can't read that? Bimbo
38:44
Speaker 1: Coles guessed by Big Lou that's his answer, Joe the
38:47
Speaker 1: ghost Hunter says, Angry Bill who quit the show? Yeah, well,
38:51
Speaker 1: angry Bill quit the show because he got his Aaron
38:53
Speaker 1: Rodgers take wrong, so he didn't want to apologize as
38:56
Speaker 1: a sween Nator from Sean in the Valley of this
39:00
Speaker 1: on Slim Tim who is a proud cheesehead, going with
39:04
Speaker 1: Abdullah the Butcher. It's a good good name there. Fred
39:08
Speaker 1: and Nebraska did get it right. Because he has too
39:12
Speaker 1: much time on his hands. Ozzie was says Sidney Sweeney
39:16
Speaker 1: is the pick there. Well. A lot of our listeners
39:19
Speaker 1: love her as well for different reasons. Who else do
39:21
Speaker 1: we have? Robin Minnesota's going with Ronnie Cychlely, Nature Boy,
39:25
Speaker 1: says fat Bastard Trucker. Joe's going with the ham Burglar,
39:30
Speaker 1: Mike the leperkhn says first white player since Elon Musk.
39:33
Speaker 1: All right, do you have an answer, Lorraine? Uh, yes,
39:36
Speaker 1: I'm going with Kobe the Mamba Bryant Ben. All right, Kobe,
39:40
Speaker 1: is it Kobe the Mamba Bryant? No, that would be
39:44
Speaker 1: none other than the great Kent Benson nineteen seventy seven.
39:52
Speaker 1: Nineteen seventy seven, he was the first overall pick. He
39:55
Speaker 1: played college ball at Indiana. Now, remember what team drafted
39:58
Speaker 1: in Lorena. Remember it's gotta be the Yankees, that is right,
40:02
Speaker 1: the Milwaukee Yankees of the NBA. Just they changed the
40:05
Speaker 1: name to the Bucks after that, but the Milwaukee Yeah Bucks.
40:08
Speaker 1: It's great. Let's go quickly out of the phones. And
40:10
Speaker 1: we have an actual comedian who is standing by, Bennett
40:15
Speaker 1: the Comedian. Hello, Bennett the Comedian. He's in the Pacific Northwest.
40:20
Speaker 1: He'll be coming to Chuckles Comedy Club near you. Hello, Bennett.
40:23
Speaker 6: How are you doing? Ben?
40:25
Speaker 1: How's life treating you? Man? You're done with school for
40:27
Speaker 1: the summer? Right? Summertime?
40:29
Speaker 5: Now?
40:29
Speaker 1: Everything good?
40:29
Speaker 6: Yes, I am done with the I am done with school.
40:33
Speaker 6: Just got back from my second basketball camp of a sun.
40:37
Speaker 1: Nice. Look, you're that wonderful man. You join your.
40:39
Speaker 6: Summer four days each camp and we're playing three games
40:44
Speaker 6: a day. It was a lot of fun.
40:46
Speaker 1: Yeah, you're scoring a lot of points there.
40:48
Speaker 6: Oh yeah, I'm dropping a few here and there, but
40:50
Speaker 6: playing varsity and playing some really good teams. So that's
40:52
Speaker 6: been fun.
40:54
Speaker 1: Nice. How about you?
40:55
Speaker 6: How have you been?
40:56
Speaker 1: I have not been playing basketball. I have been doing
40:59
Speaker 1: talk read every night and a podcast every day on
41:01
Speaker 1: the weekends. We did go to Vancouver though, had a
41:03
Speaker 1: great time in Vancouver, not that far away from you.
41:06
Speaker 1: It was wonderful. So it's all, it's all, we don't
41:09
Speaker 1: have a lot of time. But what is it? Give
41:11
Speaker 1: me amazing an amazing take, Ben at the Comedian, or a.
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Speaker 6: Great joke, amazing take. Well, here's my amazing take. Cal
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Speaker 6: Rawley is winning the MLB MVP this year.
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Speaker 1: Huh okay, So and you're gonna you're gonna hijack Aaron
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Speaker 1: Judge and send him where are you sending him?
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Speaker 6: Where am I sending him? Well, he can win the
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Speaker 6: MVP next year or whatever. Cal Rawley's having an a
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Speaker 6: staric here as a catcher, and the Mariners need him,
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Speaker 6: and he's sitting two home runs.
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Speaker 1: Cal Rally's been great. The Mariners are not great. Cal
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Speaker 1: Rawley's been great. And you do have the problem. Thank
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Speaker 1: you for the call the great Ben at the Comedian,
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Speaker 1: And that is the East Coast bias. You have a
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Speaker 1: time zone problem. Is what you have Southern Alaska? That
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Speaker 1: would be the problem.