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Hour 2 - Feeling Green · The Ben Maller Show

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  Speaker 1: Boom, Shaka laka.
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  Speaker 2: It's our number two, Our number two. The wild Goose
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  Speaker 2: Chase continues on the podcast here on this Wednesday, the
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  Speaker 2: twenty ninth day of April and the NBA. Oh, what
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  Speaker 2: an embarrassing night it was in the Commonwealth. Who gets
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  Speaker 2: the Boston cream pie to the face for the Celtics
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  Speaker 2: malfunction They blew a thirteen point second athlete losing to
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  Speaker 2: the lowly sixers at home. Also, how does this Adam
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  Speaker 2: Silver lottery reform in the NBA sound to you? The
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  Speaker 2: changing of the guard with the draft lottery? And you
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  Speaker 2: go thumbs up or thumbs down on Carmelo Anthony's take
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  Speaker 2: that former GM Nico Harrison should be getting credit for
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  Speaker 2: the Mavericks drafting Cooper flag.
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  Speaker 1: Yikes.
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  Speaker 2: We'll talk about all that and more right now. Settle in.
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  Speaker 2: It's our number two. It's a case of feeling green.
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  Speaker 2: this hour from pro I don't see ball. Oh yeah,
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  Speaker 2: big ratings winner. So we had three games, three of
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  Speaker 2: them on the card on Tuesday, and I have made
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  Speaker 2: the editorial decision that only one of them, only one
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  Speaker 2: of them, is worthy of some conversation. So you had
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  Speaker 2: the Knicks that charbroiled the Hawks. That was BA did
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  Speaker 2: Atlanta think that was like a random Wednesday night? And
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  Speaker 2: they had played four games in five nights and they
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  Speaker 2: were at the end of a long road.
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  Speaker 1: Trip, That's what it seemed like.
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  Speaker 2: And then the Spurs molly wopped the Trailblazers and so
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  Speaker 2: those series, those games not very very good for talk radio.
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  Speaker 2: So our focus is on the seventy six ers and
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  Speaker 2: the Boston Celtics. So if you didn't see this game,
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  Speaker 2: this is our good MITSUA as just Josh in Cincinnati
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  Speaker 2: points out, I mean he's I think it was the first.
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  Speaker 2: And we do this as a public service, so you
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  Speaker 2: do not have to watch these games. And Joe l
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  Speaker 2: and beat he had eight points in the fourth quarter
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  Speaker 2: thirty three points in the game and Tyrese Maxi adding
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  Speaker 2: twenty five points and the Sixers boomeranged back. They were
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  Speaker 2: down a good chunk of this game in the fourth quarter, though,
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  Speaker 2: games are won and lost down the stretch in Philadelphia
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  Speaker 2: gets the when Boston still leads in series three to two,
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  Speaker 2: and they are headed back to Philly for game number
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  Speaker 2: six in a couple of days. The Celtics blowing a
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  Speaker 2: thirteen point second half lead at home, uh gully, And
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  Speaker 2: that's good for talk radio, and it's also a good
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  Speaker 2: jumping off point. So let us discuss the question who's
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  Speaker 2: getting the Boston cream pie to the face, if you will.
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  Speaker 2: For the Celtic's malfunction. The thingam a jig did not
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  Speaker 2: work at a time it was supposed to work. So
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  Speaker 2: I've got Union contractors, drive through and trail mix, and
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  Speaker 2: we will combine all all of these things together and
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  Speaker 2: we are going to play tick tack toe, is what
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  Speaker 2: we're going to do. So number one, number one, All right,
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  Speaker 2: line them up, all right, here's I got the cream
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  Speaker 2: pies lined up here the Boston cream Pipe. We've got
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  Speaker 2: Jason Tatum, Jalen Brown, and Derek White. He gets one
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  Speaker 2: as well. Step right up. Not Bolba's bakery. This is
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  Speaker 2: the bakery of shame, the bakery of shame. So this
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  Speaker 2: was a full blown fourth quarter heist in this game.
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  Speaker 1: Nobody saw this coming.
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  Speaker 2: Normally in the NBA, you fall behind three games to one,
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  Speaker 2: there's not a lot of fight and teams roll over
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  Speaker 2: and the Sixers looked like they were toast. We mocked
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  Speaker 2: and ridiculed the Sixers the way they played in the
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  Speaker 2: previous game, get run off the court, the coach questioning
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  Speaker 2: the dedication of the roster, and then they showed up
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  Speaker 2: late and in this game, so you tip the camp
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  Speaker 2: the Celtics, though they missed fourteen straight shots to close
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  Speaker 2: the game, their final fourteen shots doink, brick clunk. That
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  Speaker 2: is the longest drought to close a playoff game in
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  Speaker 2: a generation since twenty oh five, twenty one years ago.
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  Speaker 2: And at one point the Celtics missed sixteen consecutive shots.
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  Speaker 2: It was at the point where they kept missing. He
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  Speaker 2: was like, well, this has got to be a gag
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  Speaker 2: or something. Maybe somebody put something in the basketball or
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  Speaker 2: did the Celtics turn out to be union contractors and
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  Speaker 2: they were laying the foundation for a new gymnasium. There
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  Speaker 2: a new garden for them to play in there. And
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  Speaker 2: so Tatum, Brown and White in the fourth quarter they
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  Speaker 2: took eleven shots. How many did they make? You got
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  Speaker 2: a number? You made as many and I made as
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  Speaker 2: many as they made. A zero for eleven squad douche
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  Speaker 2: bupkis nothing. Now, do not allow the box score sniffers
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  Speaker 2: to say that Jason Tatum played well because he had stats.
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  Speaker 2: Jason Tatum at Stadt. You know the people that love
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  Speaker 2: the stats, they get all excited. Twenty four point sixteen rebounds. Oh,
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  Speaker 2: I think those were his numbers, had good numbers, so
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  Speaker 2: solid night. Tatum did his job. And you're like, well,
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  Speaker 2: no misleading. Optical illusion. Optical illusion is what that is
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  Speaker 2: here because you realize it, like late in the game.
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  Speaker 2: It was a ghost story and he was the ghost
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  Speaker 2: right there. Jalen Brown also he had a disappearing trick
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  Speaker 2: at the end, and so Jalen Brown, the two big stars,
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  Speaker 2: Jalen Brown and Jason Tatum did not show up there
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  Speaker 2: at the end. And the offense in general, it's kind
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  Speaker 2: of like if you have too many windows. You have
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  Speaker 2: like the Chrome browser, and you have too many windows,
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  Speaker 2: you have like forty nine windows.
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  Speaker 1: I usually do that.
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  Speaker 2: I have a lot of windows open on my computer
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  Speaker 2: and so everything slows down. And that was the Celtics
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  Speaker 2: in this game. And then you have the coach Joe Mizzoula.
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  Speaker 2: Let him play Joe, Let him play Joe, and that
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  Speaker 2: philosophy was on this night. Let him miss everything, let
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  Speaker 2: him miss everything, Joe, Joe Missoula, who looks like a
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  Speaker 2: Looney Tune out there, and he stood there and had
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  Speaker 2: that dazed and confused hell Ben He's the greatest coach
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  Speaker 2: in the analytical era because whatever he is told by
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  Speaker 2: the dorks, he just does it right. Whatever it's like,
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  Speaker 2: he just repeats it. It's like it's not working.
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  Speaker 1: Might wanna try?
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  Speaker 2: Someone goes, no, no, no, no, no, it's gonna work. Jeep shooting,
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  Speaker 2: keep shooting, keep going, keep going. The Cethic started this
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  Speaker 2: game missing a bunch of three point shots. They still
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  Speaker 2: had the lead though, and then you saw late in
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  Speaker 2: the game what happened there, and it was man as
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  Speaker 2: we like to say, and this from the Great Mike Leach,
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  Speaker 2: the late great Mike Leach college football legend. You're either
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  Speaker 2: coaching it or you're allowing it to happen. So either way,
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  Speaker 2: Joe Missoula gets a nice piece of that Boston cream
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  Speaker 2: pie there. And in general, championship teams you win that game.
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  Speaker 2: And so there's questions, legitimate questions about the Celtics or
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  Speaker 2: they flinched.
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  Speaker 1: They flinched so hard?
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  Speaker 3: How hard?
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  Speaker 2: So hard that the part k ratle a little bit.
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  Speaker 2: Now the good news and this is one of those
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  Speaker 2: bizarro as they say on that show that used to
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  Speaker 2: be on TNT, the bizarro stat of the night, if
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  Speaker 2: you will. The Celtics in this particular era where they
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  Speaker 2: have been consistently good and they've won a championship with
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  Speaker 2: Jason Tatum and Jaylen Brown. So if you go back
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  Speaker 2: to twenty seventeen, the Celtics in the playoffs with these
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  Speaker 2: two guys are better on the road than they are
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  Speaker 2: at home. They have a road court advantage. Did you
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  Speaker 2: know that the Celtics have a road court advantage. It's
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  Speaker 2: very odd. At home, they haven't been bad at home.
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  Speaker 2: They have a five to ninety five winning percentage of
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  Speaker 2: the playoffs with Tatum and Brown. However, on the road
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  Speaker 2: they're almost seven hundred. They're twenty five and eleven in
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  Speaker 2: the opposing Arena. Who go, I've got to know all right,
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  Speaker 2: onwards to the lottery we go. And if you love
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  Speaker 2: the lottery, this is not a good day for you.
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  Speaker 2: This is not They didn't get rid of the lottery.
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  Speaker 2: They just manipulated, they being the NBA. And I was
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  Speaker 2: gonna talk about another one of those games. There's literally
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  Speaker 2: nothing to bring up here on San Antonio and Portland
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  Speaker 2: or the Knicks and the Hawks.
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  Speaker 1: Just nothing for talk radio. So we'll talk about the lottery.
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  Speaker 2: The NBA letting teams know that it is almost on
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  Speaker 2: the new anti tanking measures that are coming to the
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  Speaker 2: NBA here. They're calling it the three two one lottery.
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  Speaker 2: I wonder how they came up with that. That includes
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  Speaker 2: expanding the draft lottery in the NBA to sixteen teams.
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  Speaker 2: They're flattening the odds and they have a relegation zone,
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  Speaker 2: that's what they're calling it. Any relegation zone where the
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  Speaker 2: bottom three teams the worst of the worst, the worst
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  Speaker 2: of the worst. Here, the bottom three teams would actually
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  Speaker 2: be penalized with fewer lottery balls for the number one pick.
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  Speaker 2: So that's the plan, and this will go into play,
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  Speaker 2: not obviously this year, but in twenty twenty seven.
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  Speaker 1: So a year from now, the.
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  Speaker 2: Question, how does this Adam Silver lottery reform in the NBA?
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  Speaker 2: How does that sound to you? So I would say,
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  Speaker 2: welcome to the NBA, where the smartest guys in the
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  Speaker 2: room are trying to solve a problem that they created.
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  Speaker 2: It's so good. They're the one the reason we have this.
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  Speaker 2: And I goof on the players in the NBA a lot.
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  Speaker 2: The people who are coaching and the executives have encouraged
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  Speaker 2: this bad behavior for many, many years in the NBA,
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  Speaker 2: and so the players have really leaned into it. And
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  Speaker 2: these dingle Berris have optimized and taken the soul right
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  Speaker 2: out of the sport, treating losing as a legitimate, positive
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  Speaker 2: business model and none of that. They've mentioned a lot
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  Speaker 2: of low information fans, the dumb dums, that that's the
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  Speaker 2: way to go, that they buy in it.
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  Speaker 1: Oh yeah, that's great, that is freaking wonderful. Let's lose.
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  Speaker 1: It's the point.
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  Speaker 2: Now, when your team actually wins a game, sometimes these
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  Speaker 2: people are upset that they win a game, those that
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  Speaker 2: are still paying attention here, And so.
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  Speaker 1: I looked at the rules. Do I love them?
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  Speaker 4: No?
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  Speaker 2: I don't love them. It's like the people getting all
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  Speaker 2: worked up. I don't think you get worked up over
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  Speaker 2: it over this. These rules, you know what they are.
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  Speaker 2: They're a confession. The critics were right, people that were
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  Speaker 2: using gas baggery and whatnot.
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  Speaker 1: The league did not.
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  Speaker 2: They didn't change the rules for fun, right.
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  Speaker 1: They didn't change the rules for fun.
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  Speaker 2: The teams that were tanking, and so many of them,
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  Speaker 2: they had no choice.
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  Speaker 1: They had to do this. It's like when you go
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  Speaker 1: to the drive through menu.
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  Speaker 2: And you're like, oh, I want to I don't want
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  Speaker 2: them order. Well, there's only one thing on the menu.
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  Speaker 1: What is that?
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  Speaker 2: Well, it's Stu. What kind of stew is it? It's
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  Speaker 2: tank Steu. I don't want tank stew. It's all worth
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  Speaker 2: serving night after night after night. Well, eventually at some
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  Speaker 2: point you're like, well, I'm not going to go to
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  Speaker 2: the drive through anymore. I don't want tank stew. And
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  Speaker 2: the customers stopped showing up for dinner. And the NBA
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  Speaker 2: and they love to spin numbers and talk about how
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  Speaker 2: the ratings are still good and all that stuff. And
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  Speaker 2: I know, I used to have a program director in radio.
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  Speaker 2: When the ratings would come out, he'd go into his
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  Speaker 2: little closet and he'd get a calculator and he had
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  Speaker 2: a pen and a pad of paper and he would
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  Speaker 2: find a way to find that one demo where we
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  Speaker 2: had good ratings and he would.
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  Speaker 1: Then say, wow, our number, you know, number one.
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  Speaker 2: In this demo. And this is you know, the whole
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  Speaker 2: thing and just spinning numbers, you know, the old the
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  Speaker 2: old Boston Mayor mccheese back in back in the day.
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  Speaker 2: But but seriously, the whole tank and load manage we got.
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  Speaker 2: You can't just do tanking without doing load management. This
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  Speaker 2: is the asbestis of that sport, and they've broken the
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  Speaker 2: product in the regular season where it's mostly unwatchable, and
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  Speaker 2: so they're trying to do something. It also tells you
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  Speaker 2: the TV partners are like, hey, we're paying a lot
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  Speaker 2: of money, dude, there's a lot of money. You gotta
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  Speaker 2: give us something. And this isn't just a lottery tweak.
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  Speaker 2: I think of it like a quality control issue. And
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  Speaker 2: it's like if you go to Starbucks at McDonald's and
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  Speaker 2: it's pretty much the same everywhere. There's other restaurants you
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  Speaker 2: go to and it really depends. It's like I like
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  Speaker 2: bo Jangles. Every time I go to the Bojangs some
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  Speaker 2: Bojangles really good. Others I've had some issues not good.
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  Speaker 2: It just depends. The quality control is a big part
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  Speaker 2: of it. The NBA had to step up, They had
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  Speaker 2: to be the grown up in the room because these
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  Speaker 2: franchises it was not getting better. It was getting worse,
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  Speaker 2: worse and worse and worse. And when half the teams
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  Speaker 2: in the NBA are like, we're better off losing, Like, no,
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  Speaker 2: if you want a better product, and you just got
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  Speaker 2: to stop incentivizing and rewarding the worst behavior. I would
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  Speaker 2: love to see a league just get rid of the draft,
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  Speaker 2: just say it's outdated, we don't need it, We're gonna
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  Speaker 2: get rid of it, and have kind of like they're
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  Speaker 2: doing football or soccer, and you give a budget. They
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  Speaker 2: don't have a Premier league draft, which is you all
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  Speaker 2: tell me is the most popular sport in the world,
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  Speaker 2: and all that they don't have a draft, they have
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  Speaker 2: budgets and they have different rules and just go to that.
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  Speaker 1: It's so ridiculous.
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  Speaker 2: And I've never understand even when I was a young
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  Speaker 2: and I used to buy into the draft, like why
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  Speaker 2: are you rewarding teams that aren't good? Doesn't make much
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  Speaker 2: sense to me, But they've done it this way. It's like, well,
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  Speaker 2: why do you do it well, because we've always done
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  Speaker 2: it that way, We shouldn't do it like that. Well,
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  Speaker 2: we've always kind of done it like that, all right, now,
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  Speaker 2: final point to the outrageous TV take.
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  Speaker 1: The outrageous TV take from.
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  Speaker 2: NBC's Carmelo Anthony, who said, I thought I imagine this.
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  Speaker 2: I thought this might be some kind of parody like
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  Speaker 2: Sports Talk Berry or butt Crack Sports or something like that,
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  Speaker 2: but apparently it's legit. So Carmelo Anthony wants former Mavericks
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  Speaker 2: GM Nico Harrison to get credit for Cooper Flag's Rookie
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  Speaker 2: of the Year award in Dallas that he just won
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  Speaker 2: here this week and beating out con Canipple of the
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  Speaker 2: Charlotte Hornets.
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  Speaker 1: So the question do you go thumbs up?
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  Speaker 2: You're gonna go thumbs up or thumbs down on Carmelo
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  Speaker 2: Anthony's take that the former GM Nico Harrison should get
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  Speaker 2: special credit for the Mavericks landing Cooper Flag. So we're
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  Speaker 2: gonna go two thumbs down on this, two thumbs down
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  Speaker 2: on this. And this is not one of those things
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  Speaker 2: where both both things can be true. It's not one
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  Speaker 2: of those both things can be true situations. No, and
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  Speaker 2: keep in mind the Mavericks. They got that pick by
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  Speaker 2: tanking hello, which you shouldn't reward and in fact, if
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  Speaker 2: you are caught tanking, you would either lose your pick
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  Speaker 2: or go to the very bottom of the draft. Here's
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  Speaker 2: the Carmelo Anthony on the Mallor report card. This take
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  Speaker 2: gets an F. It's friendly, fluffy and fundamentally unserious at
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  Speaker 2: F F F F F F on the Malleor report card.
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  Speaker 2: You don't praise the guy who literally detonated the franchise.
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  Speaker 2: It was such a terrible trade that many convinced it
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  Speaker 2: was orchestrated by ownership to move the team to Las Vegas.
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  Speaker 2: Do you realize how bad a transaction has to be?
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  Speaker 2: Like Lucas obviously got issues everyone talked about. He was
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  Speaker 2: a donasy, lost all this weight and he was in shape.
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  Speaker 1: He's hurt.
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  Speaker 2: He's not there for the Lakers in the playoffs right now?
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  Speaker 2: Why is he not there? I mean he's the greatest
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  Speaker 2: shape at all his stats and all that, and so
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  Speaker 2: they're obviously issued Luke at and played defense. He's like
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  Speaker 2: a designated hitter. Still they got nothing for him, nothing,
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  Speaker 2: It's not like the Cooper flag pick was the Lakers
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  Speaker 2: pick that they got in the trade. No, Mavericks traded
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  Speaker 2: Luca and they got in return a half eaten bag
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  Speaker 2: of trail mix with extra raisins. And everyone knows the
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  Speaker 2: filler in trail mix is the raisin It's kind of
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  Speaker 2: like if you buy a burrito, they put extra rice
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  Speaker 2: or beans in there because that's the filler. I said, well, no,
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  Speaker 2: I'd like some more chicken or some beef. No will
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  Speaker 2: put extra rice, and no, I want I want the
• 18:28
  Speaker 2: main thing. I'm anti filler and the trail mix. The raisins.
• 18:33
  Speaker 2: That's the filler and trail me. I want more the peanuts,
• 18:36
  Speaker 2: and I want the cashoes, and I want the other stuff.
• 18:37
  Speaker 2: I don't want that anyway. So you don't get flowers
• 18:41
  Speaker 2: for lighting the house on fire.
• 18:43
  Speaker 1: You don't. And it's like, I don't know what.
• 18:45
  Speaker 2: The relationship is with Carmelo Anthony and Nico Harrison. I
• 18:49
  Speaker 2: imagine that they are buddies. You wouldn't have that ridiculous
• 18:52
  Speaker 2: to take unless you have a personal relationship and you're
• 18:56
  Speaker 2: trying to throw some cologne on a very sticky situation.
• 19:01
  Speaker 2: And I'm not saying Cooper flag is not good the
• 19:04
  Speaker 2: Prodigy have made. He's a good player, right, nice player
• 19:08
  Speaker 2: and on his way. The fact that they just gave
• 19:12
  Speaker 2: away Luca, it does not justify that. And the damage done,
• 19:17
  Speaker 2: the ill will that you did to your customers. My god,
• 19:21
  Speaker 2: for I guess you can't say pennies on the dollar
• 19:23
  Speaker 2: anymore dimes on the dollar because you're getting rid of
• 19:27
  Speaker 2: the penny and all that.
• 19:28
  Speaker 1: But man, it's crazy.
• 19:30
  Speaker 2: You said it, You actually said it from all Anthony
• 19:34
  Speaker 2: giving credit to Nico Harrison for one of the all
• 19:38
  Speaker 2: time worst trades.
• 19:39
  Speaker 1: It's so bad.
• 19:39
  Speaker 2: It's like Babe Ruth, the Babe Ruth trade from the
• 19:42
  Speaker 2: Red Sox where the owner of the Red Sox had
• 19:46
  Speaker 2: to pay off Broadway Show and gave Babe Ruth to
• 19:50
  Speaker 2: the Yankees, like that kind of stuff.
• 19:51
  Speaker 1: It's crazy.
• 19:52
  Speaker 2: So it's like somebody takes your car out for a
• 19:54
  Speaker 2: spin to go to the store and wrecks your car
• 19:57
  Speaker 2: and you're like, oh, let's give them the Driver of
• 20:00
  Speaker 2: the Year award. Well that's no, they're not the dry
• 20:02
  Speaker 2: They wrecked your car.
• 20:03
  Speaker 1: That's not it.
• 20:04
  Speaker 2: So anyway, it is the Ben Mahlor Show. If you'd
• 20:06
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• 20:24
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• 20:27
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• 20:31
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• 20:34
  Speaker 2: From bloopers and practical jokes, we'll get to that oops
• 20:38
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• 20:44
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• 22:01
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• 22:05
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• 22:07
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• 22:12
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• 22:18
  Speaker 2: But we will be coming to the Boston area. We
• 22:21
  Speaker 2: had the Great Ohio Cincinnati, Ohio literally across the Ohio
• 22:27
  Speaker 2: River and with people in Cincinnati go to buy cheap
• 22:29
  Speaker 2: cigarettes and booze is in Newport, Kentucky and Covington.
• 22:33
  Speaker 1: We were in Newport right across the way there lower taxes.
• 22:38
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• 22:38
  Speaker 2: There are photos of that event available new photo dump,
• 22:42
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• 22:45
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• 22:48
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• 22:54
  Speaker 2: That's Ben Mahller on Fox and you can see some photos.
• 23:00
  Speaker 2: It went to a Reds game, wh the Reds are
• 23:02
  Speaker 2: playing well, this exciting team they got going on there
• 23:07
  Speaker 2: and also had the famous Cincinnati ice cream and they
• 23:12
  Speaker 2: went to BUCkies. I like the perfect Cincinnati. I felt
• 23:14
  Speaker 2: like I was on YouTube doing a travel video thing
• 23:16
  Speaker 2: twenty four hours in Cincinnati. You should have.
• 23:19
  Speaker 4: I should.
• 23:20
  Speaker 2: Yeah, that's all right anyway, So check those photos out. Also,
• 23:24
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• 23:28
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• 23:38
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• 23:42
  Speaker 2: That's all Bronco fan, and your comments can and we'll
• 23:47
  Speaker 2: be used against you in the quarter of Sports Room.
• 23:50
  Speaker 2: So the dates on the Boston event, we'll promote it more.
• 23:54
  Speaker 2: There's one thing I have no problem doing is promoting things.
• 23:57
  Speaker 2: So that'll be a week from Friday. The plan is
• 24:00
  Speaker 2: we're going to a Red Sox game. You're not invited
• 24:02
  Speaker 2: that unless you already have a ticket. We'll beat the
• 24:04
  Speaker 2: Red Sox game. Then afterwards we're gonna go out and
• 24:06
  Speaker 2: hang out, have a good time and hang out with
• 24:08
  Speaker 2: a bunch of listeners. And then on Saturday we're going
• 24:11
  Speaker 2: to back to back We're gonna woo Sox game and
• 24:14
  Speaker 2: that's triple A team for the Red Sox out in Wooster.
• 24:16
  Speaker 2: And then we're going to go to a Irish pub
• 24:20
  Speaker 2: and hang out. And there's that's gonna be crit It's
• 24:22
  Speaker 2: gonna be a band. I think I love it, you'll
• 24:26
  Speaker 2: be a band. I think that's a catered event. Does
• 24:30
  Speaker 2: that mean free food? I don't know if that I
• 24:32
  Speaker 2: shouldn't say that.
• 24:33
  Speaker 8: I don't know if that means it's not the one
• 24:34
  Speaker 8: where the finger licking French fries are going to be ht.
• 24:37
  Speaker 2: There is a special malar themed menu for that event.
• 24:40
  Speaker 2: I I get so many emails from the Leprechaun. I
• 24:44
  Speaker 2: don't really open many of them because it's a lot.
• 24:46
  Speaker 2: You know, there's a lot going on here. Spammy, Yeah, Yeah,
• 24:49
  Speaker 2: less is more, so ayway, save the date.
• 24:53
  Speaker 1: We'd love to meet you.
• 24:54
  Speaker 2: Hopefully we can see Alf the Alien, Opineern some other
• 24:59
  Speaker 2: big names that we have not met. And we're really
• 25:01
  Speaker 2: doing that to honor Masshole Mickey who passed away. Met
• 25:06
  Speaker 2: him at a meet and greet, a very kind of
• 25:10
  Speaker 2: brief one we did. He was a big fan of
• 25:11
  Speaker 2: the show. He died in a car accident. He wanted
• 25:14
  Speaker 2: us to come to Worcester to throw out the first
• 25:16
  Speaker 2: pitch at a Woo Socks game, and a bunch of
• 25:19
  Speaker 2: other people have been great. We have a lot of
• 25:20
  Speaker 2: listeners in that area, and we're going to go there
• 25:23
  Speaker 2: and and and we're going to pour one out for mass.
• 25:25
  Speaker 1: Home Mickey before it sounds amazing.
• 25:27
  Speaker 2: Yeah, it'll be fun, so honor him and he passed
• 25:30
  Speaker 2: away way too young.
• 25:32
  Speaker 8: Do you want to reiterate something really fastened?
• 25:34
  Speaker 4: Yes?
• 25:34
  Speaker 2: What do we want to reiterate?
• 25:35
  Speaker 1: What I've heard?
• 25:36
  Speaker 8: There's some confusion listeners that they thought that only callers
• 25:42
  Speaker 8: could go to these meet and greets.
• 25:44
  Speaker 2: Yeah, no, I heard.
• 25:45
  Speaker 1: I heard the same thing.
• 25:46
  Speaker 2: Somebody said. I don't want to name him, but a
• 25:48
  Speaker 2: very famous member of the show thought only callers, No.
• 25:50
  Speaker 8: One and I was like, no, no, no, no, no, no,
• 25:53
  Speaker 8: this is everyone listeners. You don't even have to ever
• 25:56
  Speaker 8: call the show.
• 25:56
  Speaker 1: Ever, most people never call the show.
• 25:58
  Speaker 2: If only the people that call the show the people listening,
• 26:01
  Speaker 2: we are completely screwed people. We'd be out of work.
• 26:04
  Speaker 2: We'd be picking up trash on the side of the road.
• 26:07
  Speaker 2: If that was I'd be hanging out on Lincoln Road
• 26:08
  Speaker 2: in Miami's what do shy, shy? And as I always say,
• 26:12
  Speaker 2: even if you're an introvert, because I'm an introvert. So
• 26:15
  Speaker 2: my move, if you're an introvert, just sit in the
• 26:17
  Speaker 2: back and just observe and then we'll find you. We'll
• 26:21
  Speaker 2: come up to you. You don't have to like come
• 26:22
  Speaker 2: up to us or anything like. Definitely sit in the
• 26:25
  Speaker 2: back of the room. Hopefully we'll have some name tags.
• 26:27
  Speaker 4: I did.
• 26:28
  Speaker 2: I was gonna go out and buy some name tags
• 26:29
  Speaker 2: at the thing we did in in Newport, Kentucky. There
• 26:32
  Speaker 2: as strong brick oven pizzeria. However I didn't didn't end
• 26:36
  Speaker 2: up buying them.
• 26:36
  Speaker 8: I will see if I can find.
• 26:38
  Speaker 2: Well, if you have something that would be great.
• 26:40
  Speaker 8: I have those papers from the last one.
• 26:41
  Speaker 2: Oh that's right, yeah, yeah, yeah, all right, let's see
• 26:44
  Speaker 2: here Bill, who's your? Bill says, when you're in Boston,
• 26:47
  Speaker 2: make sure to get the world famous blank blank ice cream.
• 26:53
  Speaker 2: Oh no, he says, there's a role in Boston. I
• 26:56
  Speaker 2: don't know.
• 26:56
  Speaker 1: I've never heard of that.
• 26:57
  Speaker 2: I don't know what you're I don't know what you're
• 26:59
  Speaker 2: talking about. Uh, you fee me in Chicago, says I
• 27:02
  Speaker 2: blacked out during the pro bouncy ball talk, but remembered
• 27:05
  Speaker 2: more about earnest movies. So that was nice.
• 27:08
  Speaker 4: All right, very good.
• 27:09
  Speaker 2: Let's go to the phones and we'll say hello eenie meenie,
• 27:12
  Speaker 2: miney moe. Let's say hello to Let's go to Pat
• 27:18
  Speaker 2: pat Is in South Dakota.
• 27:20
  Speaker 1: What's going on?
• 27:21
  Speaker 2: Pat?
• 27:21
  Speaker 1: Welcome?
• 27:23
  Speaker 4: Is this Ben Malor?
• 27:25
  Speaker 1: Let me check?
• 27:25
  Speaker 2: Hold on?
• 27:26
  Speaker 1: Second?
• 27:26
  Speaker 2: Is that hold on? I think he's out having a
• 27:31
  Speaker 2: drink right now? I don't know you want to talk
• 27:32
  Speaker 2: to him?
• 27:33
  Speaker 4: No, No, this has Ben Mallar. I noticed, Ben, you
• 27:36
  Speaker 4: are not the best. You are the greatest, ore a legend.
• 27:40
  Speaker 2: Well, thank you, buddy, Very kind of you to say that.
• 27:43
  Speaker 2: I did somebody did somebody force you to say that?
• 27:45
  Speaker 2: Did somebody make you say that?
• 27:46
  Speaker 4: Now? I am sitting alone in a hospital room. I
• 27:50
  Speaker 4: had my knee replaced fifteen hours ago.
• 27:54
  Speaker 1: Oh my god, what was that my brand new knee? Congratulations?
• 27:58
  Speaker 2: Are you like the terminator? Now you have a new
• 28:00
  Speaker 2: and you're gonna check everyone's ass Now, I doubt that.
• 28:04
  Speaker 4: I'm sixty five. I could. I'd rather just talk, Okay, right,
• 28:08
  Speaker 4: but I am a little bit of a terminator. I
• 28:10
  Speaker 4: got my left shoulder replaced a few years ago, and
• 28:12
  Speaker 4: now I got the left knee or something of the
• 28:14
  Speaker 4: left side.
• 28:15
  Speaker 2: Okay, So the left side is a little wonky, but
• 28:17
  Speaker 2: that's why they have medicine and they put new parts
• 28:20
  Speaker 2: in you and you're good to go and all that.
• 28:21
  Speaker 1: And what part of South Dakota are you in?
• 28:25
  Speaker 4: Brookings, the home of the jack Rabbits, who, by the way,
• 28:29
  Speaker 4: had more people drafted in the NFL Draft for the
• 28:32
  Speaker 4: last two years than the Wisconsin pickle Badgers.
• 28:38
  Speaker 2: You know what that is? That's a fun fact from Pat.
• 28:41
  Speaker 2: That's a fun factor.
• 28:43
  Speaker 5: Fun fact.
• 28:44
  Speaker 2: No, it's a Pat fun fact, not a Ben mallardpump. Okay,
• 28:47
  Speaker 2: So you had on a Are you on a lot
• 28:49
  Speaker 2: of medication right now?
• 28:50
  Speaker 1: Are you heavily drugged?
• 28:52
  Speaker 4: That would Actually I'm in recovery and I'm staying away
• 28:56
  Speaker 4: from it as best they can.
• 28:58
  Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, exactly.
• 29:00
  Speaker 4: So I probably take probably take a few pain pills
• 29:02
  Speaker 4: home tomorrow, and my wife were regulated.
• 29:04
  Speaker 2: Okay, yeah, better that way. You don't want to get
• 29:06
  Speaker 2: hooked on that stuff, you know, mess you up.
• 29:08
  Speaker 4: And no, I've had I've had more than my share
• 29:10
  Speaker 4: of everything out there.
• 29:11
  Speaker 2: I got you. Well, I'm glad, thank you, very kind
• 29:14
  Speaker 2: of Do you listen all the time? You just chose
• 29:16
  Speaker 2: tonight to call it?
• 29:17
  Speaker 4: Yeah, fifteen, you're listener the first time I recall.
• 29:21
  Speaker 1: Look at that the silent majority.
• 29:24
  Speaker 2: That's the backbone right there, the backbone of the show,
• 29:27
  Speaker 2: guys like Pat.
• 29:28
  Speaker 1: I thank you Pat. That's quite wonderful.
• 29:30
  Speaker 4: Yes. But but then I'd like to also give kudos
• 29:33
  Speaker 4: to Lorena. What a great addition to the show. I
• 29:36
  Speaker 4: love it.
• 29:36
  Speaker 1: Well, I thank You're just gonna get a big head now, no,
• 29:38
  Speaker 1: come on.
• 29:40
  Speaker 4: Already quite a lot then, and then Captain Coop, I
• 29:44
  Speaker 4: just I think the guy you know, he's taking care
• 29:47
  Speaker 4: of your calls. He's the guy, he's the man, he's
• 29:50
  Speaker 4: a captain.
• 29:51
  Speaker 1: All right, Well, what about the ghost update person?
• 29:54
  Speaker 2: You want to things?
• 29:57
  Speaker 4: No? Go oh Bill, No, I'm no.
• 30:00
  Speaker 2: No, no, no, let's get oh yeah, yeah, all right, Well, Pat,
• 30:04
  Speaker 2: thank you for listening to all these years. I appreciate it,
• 30:06
  Speaker 2: and I'm glad you're you're on the road to recovery.
• 30:09
  Speaker 2: What's what's next after the need you hitting me? Like
• 30:11
  Speaker 2: an elbow replaced? What are we looking at here? It'd
• 30:13
  Speaker 2: be a toe new.
• 30:14
  Speaker 4: Toe now probably probably the other knee, the other knee.
• 30:18
  Speaker 2: Oh yeah, I've told this server before, but I was
• 30:21
  Speaker 2: I had a kind of a casual relationship with this
• 30:23
  Speaker 2: guy named Tommy Lasorda who managed the Dodgers and Thesorda
• 30:25
  Speaker 2: had his hips replaced, and he said it was the
• 30:28
  Speaker 2: most painful thing.
• 30:29
  Speaker 1: He ever had, like ever done.
• 30:31
  Speaker 2: Having you know, something taken out of you and in
• 30:34
  Speaker 2: replaced with like a metal rod or whatever it was,
• 30:35
  Speaker 2: and he is like the worst thing ever. So I
• 30:38
  Speaker 2: but hopefully it's better now. That was a long time ago,
• 30:40
  Speaker 2: so I'm sure it's better now.
• 30:41
  Speaker 4: So yeah, it's actually really good. My parents everything. Oh,
• 30:44
  Speaker 4: by the way, that reminds me. Yeah, look little shout out.
• 30:48
  Speaker 4: My ninety one year old dad enjoys your show.
• 30:52
  Speaker 1: Oh God, bless him. That's great. Love it, I love it.
• 30:56
  Speaker 4: Oh, it's not in your I know, he's not in
• 30:57
  Speaker 4: your age.
• 30:58
  Speaker 2: No, no, no, what we do. We have a rule.
• 31:01
  Speaker 2: We have a rule when you're ninety one. We flip
• 31:03
  Speaker 2: that around with dyslexic. He's nineteen. He's nineteen again, so
• 31:06
  Speaker 2: he's not ninety one, he's nineteen. He's right in the demo.
• 31:09
  Speaker 1: We love him. What's your pop's name? What's your pop's name?
• 31:13
  Speaker 4: Bob? Bob Graham?
• 31:14
  Speaker 9: Bob?
• 31:15
  Speaker 4: All right?
• 31:15
  Speaker 1: Well, thank you for listening. Bob. I appreciate that way
• 31:17
  Speaker 1: to go. What about Bob?
• 31:19
  Speaker 7: All right?
• 31:19
  Speaker 1: Thank you?
• 31:20
  Speaker 2: Pat?
• 31:20
  Speaker 1: All right, buddy? Anything else that's good.
• 31:22
  Speaker 4: I appreciate your kicking.
• 31:23
  Speaker 1: All right, thank you, buddy. There's Pat all right. See,
• 31:26
  Speaker 1: I thought he wanted to take the old puddy.
• 31:28
  Speaker 2: You just want to give compliments, and I'm fine with that.
• 31:31
  Speaker 2: Let's say hello to Philip, who's in southern California. It
• 31:35
  Speaker 2: is the Ben Malors Show. I hear Philip adjusting his
• 31:39
  Speaker 2: phone right now. He's about to dazzle you. He's in
• 31:41
  Speaker 2: Chino Hills. What's going on, Philip?
• 31:43
  Speaker 1: Welcome?
• 31:44
  Speaker 3: All right? Ben?
• 31:46
  Speaker 4: I have a question for you.
• 31:47
  Speaker 7: Okay, last week you had declared the LA Lakers had
• 31:53
  Speaker 7: absolutely no chance to beat the Houston Rockets without Luca.
• 31:58
  Speaker 3: And Austin reives. Yeah, Now, what's your opinion of that?
• 32:02
  Speaker 3: Now with them up three the games to one with
• 32:05
  Speaker 3: the fifth game.
• 32:06
  Speaker 2: Tomorrow, all right, well, a Philip, it's not over yet, right,
• 32:10
  Speaker 2: or you have to win another game. So that's the
• 32:12
  Speaker 2: first thing. Secondly, when I did the malor math, Philip,
• 32:15
  Speaker 2: I did not count on Kevin Durant being what he
• 32:19
  Speaker 2: has been. I assume that Durant would give an honest
• 32:21
  Speaker 2: performance here. I did not realize that he would miss
• 32:23
  Speaker 2: a couple of games and when he's when he played,
• 32:26
  Speaker 2: didn't play well. I listen, you would admit, also, the
• 32:29
  Speaker 2: series should be too too. You'd admit that, yes, correct, Okay,
• 32:33
  Speaker 2: all right, So it wasn't like a terrible take because
• 32:36
  Speaker 2: there was an all time gag by the Rockets on
• 32:39
  Speaker 2: that Friday night when they blew the six point lead
• 32:43
  Speaker 2: with twenty something seconds to go.
• 32:44
  Speaker 1: It's ridiculous, so correct, All right, what is your level?
• 32:48
  Speaker 7: You said?
• 32:48
  Speaker 1: Are you very confident?
• 32:49
  Speaker 2: You seem very common you're calling up to brag here,
• 32:52
  Speaker 2: you seem very confident.
• 32:53
  Speaker 3: Well, the Lakers are going to win tomorrow because this
• 32:56
  Speaker 3: is the opportunity they got to beat him tomorrow and
• 32:58
  Speaker 3: they move on and play the second round.
• 33:01
  Speaker 2: Well, they'll get absolutely smoked by the thunder, right, so
• 33:03
  Speaker 2: it's just a mat. I'll be right, but we have
• 33:05
  Speaker 2: to wait till the second round. They're not beating okay,
• 33:07
  Speaker 2: so you'd admit that, yes.
• 33:08
  Speaker 1: Yes, yeah, okay.
• 33:10
  Speaker 3: So did you get the Facebook message I sent you
• 33:13
  Speaker 3: today about the rat inputation at Anna Stadium?
• 33:18
  Speaker 2: It was, yeah, we met it was in the owner's box, right,
• 33:20
  Speaker 2: the rat was in the owner's box at the Big A.
• 33:22
  Speaker 3: No no, Section four, two and five other places in
• 33:28
  Speaker 3: the Big A rat infestations and they're not doing anything
• 33:33
  Speaker 3: about it, and they closed that section down in other sections.
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  Speaker 2: They should just be they should lean into it. They
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  Speaker 2: should be like, hey, the teams, the Angels are starting
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  Speaker 2: to suck. They played well for like a week to
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  Speaker 2: start the year, but they're starting to suck, so they
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  Speaker 2: should really lean into it. How about this Philip rat
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  Speaker 2: corn Dogs who says no, yes, no, yeah, rat on
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  Speaker 2: a stick, rat a tat tat on a stick?
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  Speaker 3: No, All right, when's already gonna sell the team? It's
• 33:57
  Speaker 3: about time they get The MLB tells them they to
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  Speaker 3: sell the team.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, well, don't hold member. He said he was going
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  Speaker 2: to sell a couple years ago, and they said, psych,
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  Speaker 2: I'm not selling it, baby, I'm holding on a team.
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  Speaker 7: That's right.
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  Speaker 3: He's going to keep it till the day he dies
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  Speaker 3: and move move my mind.
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  Speaker 2: Unless there's a hostile takeover like the baseball people did
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  Speaker 2: with Frank McCourt. Got him out of there all right, now,
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  Speaker 2: thank you, Philip. Look at that big fan there he goes, Philip.
• 34:22
  Speaker 2: Let's say hello to Aeny Meenie money more Larrow Junior,
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  Speaker 2: my guy, former producer of mine back in my brief
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  Speaker 2: stint at w I what's going on, Lauro? How you doing?
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  Speaker 4: Buddy?
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  Speaker 9: Happy birthday? Then we share the same birthday I'd like
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  Speaker 9: to see. I wish you and your staff true happiness
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  Speaker 9: you Loreina.
• 34:46
  Speaker 4: Is it Cooper is his name?
• 34:48
  Speaker 1: Yes, he's new on the show, Cooper Loop.
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  Speaker 4: Yes, yes, I wish all.
• 34:51
  Speaker 9: Of y'all true happiness, as well as your listeners, your
• 34:55
  Speaker 9: next listener, whoever that is. I wish them true happiness,
• 34:58
  Speaker 9: a hope. What days have before all of you. Thank
• 35:01
  Speaker 9: you for the privilege of your time. It's nearly almost
• 35:05
  Speaker 9: four am here and I have to get up in
• 35:07
  Speaker 9: a few minutes.
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  Speaker 2: You can go to work. Oh no, okay, we'll get
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  Speaker 2: your rest, Laura, I have great memories.
• 35:13
  Speaker 1: We hung out together back in the day.
• 35:15
  Speaker 2: You and I think my brother, Me and my brother
• 35:18
  Speaker 2: we gave you a ride back to your place, right,
• 35:20
  Speaker 2: I was your uber.
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  Speaker 4: Cool.
• 35:24
  Speaker 9: If you want a good rats, you know what I'm thinking. Right,
• 35:27
  Speaker 9: So we celebrate the same birthday today. So I'm turning
• 35:31
  Speaker 9: fifty one. I'm old people. By the way, I'm old people.
• 35:34
  Speaker 9: So I should have been born earlier.
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  Speaker 4: In the year.
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  Speaker 9: Because my biggest fear. If you want a good last
• 35:42
  Speaker 9: and if you want to take a poll, my biggest
• 35:44
  Speaker 9: fear is dragonflies. Big butterflies, any big insect, but dragonflies
• 35:51
  Speaker 9: is my my my biggest fear. I know the harmless,
• 35:55
  Speaker 9: I don't. I know, they don't do anything. They're good
• 35:57
  Speaker 9: for us because they eat dangerous insights, mosquitoes and bees. Yeah,
• 36:01
  Speaker 9: but that's my biggest fair I should have been born
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  Speaker 9: in the winter, so.
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  Speaker 4: I hear you.
• 36:06
  Speaker 9: Yeah, if you wanted to take a poll, I know
• 36:08
  Speaker 9: the homless, but that's my biggest fair man.
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  Speaker 1: Okay, all right, well I appreciate it.
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  Speaker 2: All right, Well, Laura, be have a great day. But
• 36:15
  Speaker 2: thanks for standing up and calling us in. Good luck
• 36:17
  Speaker 2: with work and all that come see us. I'll be
• 36:19
  Speaker 2: in town May eighth and May nights, so hopefully you
• 36:22
  Speaker 2: can come out to one of the events.
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  Speaker 1: Okay, I'd love to see you again.
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  Speaker 4: Teach.
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  Speaker 1: There you go. There's Laurel Laura. He worked at the.
• 36:29
  Speaker 2: Station in Boston and he's a good dude, good people,
• 36:33
  Speaker 2: good as many years. That was the twenty seventeen or
• 36:37
  Speaker 2: something like that. That's been almost ten years. No, I
• 36:38
  Speaker 2: think that was actually before. I think that goes back
• 36:40
  Speaker 2: even further. I think that goes back to like twenty
• 36:44
  Speaker 2: twelve or something. Man, that's been a long time. Anyway.
• 36:46
  Speaker 2: It is the Ben Mallord Show. As we press on,
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  Speaker 2: the inch to trivia. So the Padres infielder Nick Casthianos,
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  Speaker 2: and Winns slugger Matt Wallner, and Blank are all tied
• 37:04
  Speaker 2: as the worst player in baseball this season based on
• 37:08
  Speaker 2: the warstat the Baseball Reference Wins above replacement stat. Again,
• 37:12
  Speaker 2: Nick Kathleyanos, the Padres, Matt Walner of the Twins, and
• 37:16
  Speaker 2: Blank are all tied as the worst player in baseball
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• 38:14
  Speaker 2: We have malardly third degree, but first time to pay
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  Speaker 2: off the instat trivia at the start of the day.
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  Speaker 1: On Tuesday.
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  Speaker 2: Tuesday Tuesday, padres infield, Nick Castianos and twin slugger Matt
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  Speaker 2: Walner and Blank We're all tied as the worst player
• 38:31
  Speaker 2: in baseball this season based on the wins above replacement
• 38:36
  Speaker 2: stat on Baseball Reference.
• 38:38
  Speaker 1: So that is the question. What is the answer?
• 38:42
  Speaker 2: Butch Hopson, guessed by Alf the Alien upon are very funny. Yeah,
• 38:47
  Speaker 2: cocaine is a hell of a drug. Bozo, the district
• 38:50
  Speaker 2: attorney said, the Rockford Peaches center fielder.
• 38:54
  Speaker 1: All the way?
• 38:56
  Speaker 2: May who else do a late night drug? Tester says?
• 38:58
  Speaker 2: You are Willie Nelson, who is ninety three today? How
• 39:01
  Speaker 2: about that? Doesn't he live in Hawaii? Willie Nelson?
• 39:03
  Speaker 1: I think so?
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  Speaker 2: Mister unlimited, going with Femi, going with mister and mister
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  Speaker 2: unlamited as his answer. Daniel vogel Bach from Rob the Goatman.
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  Speaker 2: All right, plaster Paul's burner account says the goat Man.
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  Speaker 1: Do you have an answer?
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  Speaker 5: Lorraine?
• 39:18
  Speaker 1: Han Solo? Han Solo? No, is not Han Solo. It
• 39:20
  Speaker 1: is none other than Rafi Devers, the former Red Sox.
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  Speaker 2: He's been the worst player in baseball this year for
• 39:26
  Speaker 2: the Giants so far.
• 39:27
  Speaker 1: What happened there?
• 39:30
  Speaker 5: It's maller?
• 39:31
  Speaker 2: How about that?
• 39:31
  Speaker 5: To the third degree? This is one big Ben gets grill.
• 39:38
  Speaker 10: The NFL announced that the Draft had thirteen point two
• 39:41
  Speaker 10: million viewers. That's a huge number, but it's down from
• 39:44
  Speaker 10: last year's thirteen point six million. Ben, do you think
• 39:46
  Speaker 10: this is a one off due to an underwhelming draft
• 39:49
  Speaker 10: class or is this a start of a trend.
• 39:50
  Speaker 2: Yeah, so I'm gonna go with the latter. There, I
• 39:51
  Speaker 2: believe it is because of the draft. Not having for
• 39:54
  Speaker 2: Banana Mindulza doesn't move the needle as the number one pick.
• 39:57
  Speaker 2: Next year, Arch Manning will be there. It's a big name.
• 40:00
  Speaker 2: I don't think he's that good. It'll be better, and
• 40:03
  Speaker 2: it's really what TV wants. TV wants a shorter time
• 40:06
  Speaker 2: between picks, and so they'll keep it the way it is.
• 40:10
  Speaker 1: I'd be surprised if they go back next.
• 40:12
  Speaker 10: I was reported on Monday that there is quote zero
• 40:14
  Speaker 10: indication that Nikola Yolkicch intends to pursue a move out
• 40:17
  Speaker 10: of Denver this offseason. Ben, do you think Yelkich is
• 40:19
  Speaker 10: a Nuggets for life, a Nugget for life, Nuggets for
• 40:23
  Speaker 10: life now? No, I think he will.
• 40:25
  Speaker 2: He doesn't seem to be that interested in anything other
• 40:27
  Speaker 2: than horses. You know, if you say there's a big race,
• 40:30
  Speaker 2: like the third race at the track back in his
• 40:33
  Speaker 2: home country, be like, okay, I'm in the rest of it. No,
• 40:35
  Speaker 2: it doesn't seem like the guy that really is that
• 40:36
  Speaker 2: motivated to go anywhere else next.
• 40:38
  Speaker 10: Yeah, go ahead, Steve Kurmaine comments about potentially limitating the
• 40:41
  Speaker 10: three point lines, which Phil Jackson replied and said, for
• 40:44
  Speaker 10: fifteen years he's been trying to get the NBA to
• 40:45
  Speaker 10: widen the court, to make the three point line the
• 40:47
  Speaker 10: same distance all around. Ben, do you think either of
• 40:49
  Speaker 10: those things will ever happen.
• 40:51
  Speaker 2: I could see them widening the court, and Phil did
• 40:54
  Speaker 2: complain about that when he was coaching the Lakers. I
• 40:56
  Speaker 2: remember him bitching about that back in the day. I
• 40:58
  Speaker 2: could see them tweaking it. How did we do come about?
• 40:59
  Speaker 4: It?
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  Speaker 1: Passes?
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  Speaker 4: There?
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  Speaker 1: You go, put her on the bar.
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  Speaker 4: Wh