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Hour 2 – New York One Hit Wonder Knicks · The Ben Maller Show

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  Speaker 2: Welcome in, Happy Wednesday to you. We're all on the
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  Speaker 2: no show, I'll get to one of the tweets that
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  Speaker 2: just came in highly complimentary of Lorena, so we have
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  Speaker 2: to get that on in here. We gotta do a
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  Speaker 2: quick mention. I got to get to the one hit
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  Speaker 2: Wednesday at eight pm, so probably just one sleep from now.
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  Speaker 2: I can't sleep for everybody. There might be some early,
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  Speaker 2: early early risers on the East Coast with us right now,
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  Speaker 2: but for most of us, one sleep away and then
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  Speaker 2: it's Team USA against Bosnia and Herzegovina. I can't pronounce that.
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  Speaker 2: I just go Bosnia. Goodness. When you get over three syllables,
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  Speaker 2: I'm out, what are we doing over here? Goodness? Let's
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  Speaker 2: shorten this thing up Bosnia and h you know I
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  Speaker 2: can do that. That's too much going on right there.
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  Speaker 2: But I got some scathing thoughts on Team USA. I'll
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  Speaker 2: get to next hour, start a next hour. I'm not ready,
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  Speaker 2: not prepared, not ready. I still want to have some
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  Speaker 2: laughs before we get to hard hitting, you know, throat
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  Speaker 2: slashing type stuff over here. By the way, the complimentary
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  Speaker 2: tweet from Sean g he's the guy who was born
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  Speaker 2: August twenty fifth, just like Sean Connery, as we found
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  Speaker 2: out in the who Am I game? He says, please
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  Speaker 2: thank Lorena for the compliment. I'm blushing. I think Lorena
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  Speaker 2: is more lovely than Hathaway and Missus Deadpool.
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  Speaker 3: Ah, that is just the sweetest, most untrue thing I've
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  Speaker 3: ever heard.
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  Speaker 4: But it just so nice. Thank you.
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  Speaker 2: It would be way sweeter if he said, you know,
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  Speaker 2: like Sophia Virgara or Blake Lively and Missus Deadpool, then
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  Speaker 2: it would have been a strong compliment, like a heartfelt compliment.
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  Speaker 2: And Hathaway is kind of like, that's nice. It's nice
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  Speaker 2: in a shoulder shruggish kind of way.
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  Speaker 4: She's like a nice loaf of baked bread.
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  Speaker 2: She's uh yeah, she's kind of like lovely. She's like
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  Speaker 2: when you have to switch over to wheatbread because of
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  Speaker 2: health reasons.
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  Speaker 4: Are you kidding me?
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  Speaker 2: I am.
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  Speaker 4: You cannot say that about Anne Hathaway. Absolutely not.
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  Speaker 2: You know that was a funny line, though, Breede, come on,
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  Speaker 2: you're in serious mode right there. That was a funny line.
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  Speaker 4: Come on, funny No.
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  Speaker 2: Nothing now, So you're in Anne Hathaway.
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  Speaker 5: I think she's gorgeous and she hasn't aged like she
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  Speaker 5: looks exactly the same that she didn't Princess Diaries as
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  Speaker 5: she does.
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  Speaker 4: And Devil wears Prada too, it's.
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  Speaker 2: Because she has worked onne each year. Come on, no, Holly,
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  Speaker 2: what can't she does?
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  Speaker 4: I don't think she does.
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  Speaker 2: I don't think she does.
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  Speaker 4: People just take care of themselves.
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  Speaker 2: Blake Lively was born August twenty fifth. Anne Hathaway has
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  Speaker 2: worked done every August twenty fifth. Yeah, what's happening?
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  Speaker 6: You know?
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  Speaker 4: Wow?
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  Speaker 5: Also, Blake Lively was involved in that whole lawsuit with
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  Speaker 5: what's his face from that movie?
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  Speaker 4: Remember? Yeah, that was all that was like gnarly that
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  Speaker 4: that's O uninvited. IM pretty sure that's why she's not
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  Speaker 4: to Taylor's Takes wedding. Yeah, she's icky over.
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  Speaker 2: That ou man ripple effect right there.
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  Speaker 5: Like Lively back in the gossip Girl days. I understand
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  Speaker 5: and look us gossiping.
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  Speaker 2: I know.
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  Speaker 5: No, I just can't, Brian, I'm just you can't. You can't,
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  Speaker 5: you can't.
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  Speaker 2: Well, this is a callback because we had a whole
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  Speaker 2: thing when Coop was here.
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  Speaker 4: Loves Anne Hathaway.
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  Speaker 2: He just told me in a break He's just like, hey,
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  Speaker 2: by the way, Uh, I think it's People, isn't it is?
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  Speaker 4: People magazine Most Beautiful People?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, she named She was named most Beautiful uh person
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  Speaker 2: in twenty twenty six. And I'm like, that's ridiculous, and
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  Speaker 2: it became this ridiculous ridiculous. But listen, she's beautiful. Don't
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  Speaker 2: get me wrong. She's a beautiful woman. She's not the
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  Speaker 2: most beautiful, Okay, Like there's a clear distinction between the two.
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  Speaker 4: Dupa or Ianne Hathaway.
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  Speaker 2: I take due all day.
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  Speaker 4: That's also hype of beautiful, like beautiful.
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  Speaker 2: What's that?
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  Speaker 4: Like a type of beautiful like Dua Lipa is.
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  Speaker 5: Like beautiful, uh huh, And like Anne Hathaway is beautiful too,
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  Speaker 5: Like I just like, I just like Blake Lively versus
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  Speaker 5: Anne Hathaway. It's just like they're on different stratus series
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  Speaker 5: to me, atmospheres in.
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  Speaker 2: Terms of just pure looks.
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  Speaker 4: In terms yeah, a little bit of both. Like I
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  Speaker 4: just think Anne Hathaway is the person just seems very
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  Speaker 4: down to earth and like humble.
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  Speaker 5: So you're saying you'd rather marry Blake Lively versus Anne Hathaway.
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  Speaker 2: I'm just saying Blake Lively is more beautiful. That's all
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  Speaker 2: I'm saying. Okay, you know what, But everybody hits me
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  Speaker 2: was like you know what, Anne Hathaway is talented. It's like, okay, cool,
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  Speaker 2: Like so is Jalen Brunson. Does that mean Jalen Brunson's
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  Speaker 2: the most handsome man of twenty twenty six.
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  Speaker 3: No, he was not voted the most handsome man of
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  Speaker 3: twenty twenty six. So your claim has nothing to stand
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  Speaker 3: on it.
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  Speaker 2: It's like it's an example. It's an example.
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  Speaker 4: It was voted most beautiful.
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  Speaker 2: She was. She was because people are blinded by talent,
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  Speaker 2: like the talent factors in, but they're factoring it in
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  Speaker 2: way too much when it comes to Anne Hathaway.
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  Speaker 5: That's all I'm You're with standards when it comes to women, Bryan,
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  Speaker 5: I just I don't know, man.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, you're making me a questions things. Yeah, man, Yeah, seriously, I.
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  Speaker 2: Don't understand why where the questions are coming from. I'm
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  Speaker 2: not saying that she's ugly. I'm not saying that, Oh gosh,
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  Speaker 2: I'd rather have a tin can than Anne Hathaway over here, Like, no, thanks.
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  Speaker 5: The comparison between the two is like baffling, Like Julia
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  Speaker 5: Roberts or Anne Hathaway.
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  Speaker 2: Julia Roberts classic beauty.
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  Speaker 5: Though beautiful, yeah, but a type of like I think
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  Speaker 5: classic beauty that's the perfect word. I think Anne Hathaway
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  Speaker 5: is classically beautiful. I think I think Blake Lively is
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  Speaker 5: just like hot beautiful.
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  Speaker 2: That's exactly right.
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  Speaker 4: She's like hot sexy.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah, but that says an age well, like I don't
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  Speaker 5: think Blake Lively is still hot like when she was
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  Speaker 5: when she was younger, Like this is the girl.
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  Speaker 2: We're not forecasting into the future, like who's hotter at
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  Speaker 2: fifty seven?
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  Speaker 1: Over?
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  Speaker 2: It's just for twenty two six free, that's it.
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  Speaker 4: I don't know why.
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  Speaker 5: I'm just having a really hard time with this. So
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  Speaker 5: you know what, all the tower to your eyes? Okay, man,
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  Speaker 5: you got it, Bryan, all you boo.
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  Speaker 2: Man, I've taken more. I've taken more flak for my
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  Speaker 2: Anne Hathaway is not the most beautiful woman of twenty
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  Speaker 2: twenty six than anything I've ever said on the Fox
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  Speaker 2: Sports radio airwaves before, and I've I've said some things
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  Speaker 2: that people have looked sideways over or just you know,
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  Speaker 2: pushed back. People push back on anything, you know, I
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  Speaker 2: could be like the sky is blue, someone will push back.
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  Speaker 2: No one has pushed back as much as as Ann Hathway.
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  Speaker 6: Thing.
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  Speaker 2: That's funny to me, but it's fun. It's fun, all right.
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  Speaker 2: I'll get to uh, let me get to Kawhi Leonard
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  Speaker 2: here real fast, and oh, I'll get to a take that.
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  Speaker 2: There will absolutely be some pushback, I believe it. I'm
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  Speaker 2: not giving you this for you know, pushback reasons. But
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  Speaker 2: the first part of this is Kawhi Leonard getting traded
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  Speaker 2: to the Toronto Raptors. In my mind, Toronto becomes a
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  Speaker 2: legit title contender again. They are absolutely contenders in the East.
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  Speaker 2: They're one of the top three teams in the East,
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  Speaker 2: and I think they can give the Knicks a run
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  Speaker 2: for their money. We're not jumping the ball up right now,
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  Speaker 2: right there are still moves that can be made, so
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  Speaker 2: all these rosters are not set in stone just yet,
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  Speaker 2: so pieces can move here and there. But who knows
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  Speaker 2: where it's gonna go. I told you before, Brian Windhorst,
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  Speaker 2: he threw it out there. If the Cleveland Cavaliers are somehow,
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  Speaker 2: some way able to trade for Jalen Brown, that might
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  Speaker 2: entice Lebron to sign back with the Cavs. So the
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  Speaker 2: point is we're just entering free agency. It just began
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  Speaker 2: at six pm Eastern time on Tuesday, so we're what
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  Speaker 2: we're just six plus three nine hours into free agency
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  Speaker 2: right now. A lot can change. A lot can change,
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  Speaker 2: And I think that the Raptors. Now you have Scottie Barnes,
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  Speaker 2: with Kawhi le RJ Barret, you got some good players
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  Speaker 2: on that squad. So I do think that they are
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  Speaker 2: in the mix to contend for the East. Kawhi Leonard,
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  Speaker 2: he can't downplay the season he had last year. He
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  Speaker 2: was outstanding last season. But just because the Clippers started
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  Speaker 2: off so badly, they had to win a ton of
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  Speaker 2: games try to scratch into the playoffs. They didn't get there.
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  Speaker 2: They were a play in contender, didn't make it to
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  Speaker 2: the playoffs. But you know, Kawhi Leonard, he had a
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  Speaker 2: sensational season individually. So him going to Toronto, that gives
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  Speaker 2: the Raptors legitimate shot in the East. Now, if we
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  Speaker 2: broaden this beyond the Raptors, I look at the Knicks. Okay,
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  Speaker 2: Now that the Raptors are a legit contender in the East,
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  Speaker 2: we'll see what happens with the Celtics. Does Jalen Brown
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  Speaker 2: stay put? Is he on the move? What did the
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  Speaker 2: Celtics look like either way roster wise, So they're a
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  Speaker 2: bit of an unknown Cleveland. Do they get Lebron, do
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  Speaker 2: they get Jalen Brown Miami now with Giannis teamed up
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  Speaker 2: with Bam. They've at least got an outside shot, and
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  Speaker 2: they got some shooting. On Tuesday, they came to an
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  Speaker 2: agreement with Tim Hardaway Junior from the Nuggets, who's a
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  Speaker 2: sharp shooter. They need shooting. They just got a shooter.
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  Speaker 2: So the Knicks have some competition in the East and
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  Speaker 2: they got some competition in the West. If they're thinking
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  Speaker 2: about repeating, right, it might have to go through the
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  Speaker 2: Spurs again, might have to go through OKC. I would
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  Speaker 2: sign up for that right now. By the way, I'd
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  Speaker 2: sign up for Thunder Knicks NBA Finals. Oh, that would
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  Speaker 2: be tasty. Right there, Nick's trying to repeat Thunder, trying
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  Speaker 2: to prevent that Thunder taking on the Knicks for the
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  Speaker 2: first time in the final. That would be outstanding. I'd
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  Speaker 2: be totally up for the last two champions going toe
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  Speaker 2: to tow. That'd be great. I will say this, and
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  Speaker 2: this is not designed, I promise you at riling up
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  Speaker 2: Nick fans, which is incredibly easy to do. All you
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  Speaker 2: have to do, you wanna you know how to rile
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  Speaker 2: up Nick fans. Just say that the Spurs did something
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  Speaker 2: wrong and somehow Nick fans will twist that into your
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  Speaker 2: taking all credit away from the Knicks. How dare you
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  Speaker 2: they're the reason they're amazing, Jalen Brunton, They're off and running. Man,
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  Speaker 2: if you just say man, the Spurs wet themselves in
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  Speaker 2: the fourth quarter time and time again. Oh Nick fan
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  Speaker 2: is riled up. It doesn't take much. I think that
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  Speaker 2: the Knicks are the one hit wonder of the NBA.
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  Speaker 2: I think they're the one hit wonder of the sports
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  Speaker 2: world right now. I don't think they're gonna repeat this
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  Speaker 2: coming season. I don't think they're gonna win a title
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  Speaker 2: again with this current iteration of the Knicks. And I'll
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  Speaker 2: give you a couple of reasons why. One they caught
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  Speaker 2: lightning in a bottle. This was the perfect storm for
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  Speaker 2: the Knicks to win a championship. Their path was favorable.
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  Speaker 2: Let's not be ridiculous on this one. Here, their path
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  Speaker 2: was favorable. You look at their path through the East
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  Speaker 2: Hawks sixers with a banged up embad with like just
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  Speaker 2: a little bit of gas in the tank. After getting
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  Speaker 2: past the Celtics in seven games in the first round,
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  Speaker 2: the Calves with absolutely no heart whatsoever, who quit in
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  Speaker 2: Games three and four that was their path in the
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  Speaker 2: East Hawks sixers calves. They stand to face a way
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  Speaker 2: tougher path this coming season. And then I'm not taking
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  Speaker 2: credit away from them. They won the chip and they
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  Speaker 2: deserved it, and they beat the Spurs in five games.
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  Speaker 2: I didn't think I'll be honest with you, I didn't
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  Speaker 2: think they were going to beat the Spurs when that
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  Speaker 2: series started. But the Knicks were way better down the
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  Speaker 2: stretch in those games, way more clutch. They deserved it.
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  Speaker 2: But does that happen again? Like this next season. We
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  Speaker 2: haven't had a repeat champion in the last eight years,
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  Speaker 2: and the Knicks they're gonna buck the trend. They're not
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  Speaker 2: going to I got news for it. It's not going
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  Speaker 2: to happen. I think they are the Baja Men of
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  Speaker 2: the NBA. It's appropriate that Mike Brown, the head coach,
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  Speaker 2: had the rallying cry of who let the dogs out?
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  Speaker 2: Because that's what the Knicks are. They are a one
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  Speaker 2: hit wonder. It's like we didn't even know it was
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  Speaker 2: subliminal advertising right there. He was saying, who let the
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  Speaker 2: dogs out? Because they got a bunch of dogs on
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  Speaker 2: that team. They do Jalen Brunson's a dog Ognu and
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  Speaker 2: Aenobe is a dog. Mckel Bridges breeze, former guy from
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  Speaker 2: the Suns, dog yet plenty, Josh Hart dog got a
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  Speaker 2: lot of dogs. I do love that roster, but I
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  Speaker 2: don't see them repeating. I don't see them winning a
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  Speaker 2: championship again. I mean, ask yourself this. You could look
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  Speaker 2: at it both ways. I look at it and say,
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  Speaker 2: they set the all time NBA record for best point
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  Speaker 2: differential in a single playoff run. They were plus two
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  Speaker 2: eighty three in the playoffs this past season. Do you
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  Speaker 2: think that sustainable? Some might look at that and say
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  Speaker 2: that shows how strong they are. That shows where they're
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  Speaker 2: headed again, And I wouldn't call you crazy for that takeaway.
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  Speaker 2: I would look at that and say, we're due for
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  Speaker 2: some regression to the mean right here. Do you think
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  Speaker 2: that they are this all time team or do you
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  Speaker 2: think they went on an all time run. I think
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  Speaker 2: it's the latter. They went on an all time run,
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  Speaker 2: so no, I think that they are Mavericks esque. I
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  Speaker 2: would draw comparison to the twenty eleven Dallas Mavericks. Right,
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  Speaker 2: you have a true superstar in Dirk Navitzky. Jalen Brunson
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  Speaker 2: is a true superstar. He's sensational. And the Dallas Mavericks
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  Speaker 2: they had some good role players, have some good players
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  Speaker 2: here and there, and they caught lightning in a bottle.
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  Speaker 2: You're looking at that finals against the Heat and JJ
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  Speaker 2: Berea is punking Lebron James and You're like, what is
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  Speaker 2: happening right now? This is insane. They didn't win another title.
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  Speaker 2: They were one and done. That's what I think the
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  Speaker 2: Knicks will be. And I think with Kawhi Leonard going
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  Speaker 2: to the Raptors, that's one of a handful of hurdles
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  Speaker 2: that the Knicks will have to jump over just to
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  Speaker 2: get to the finals. So I think their path is
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  Speaker 2: going to be a lot tougher. I think that was
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  Speaker 2: one of their secret sauce type ingredients to winning a
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  Speaker 2: championship was they made it through each stage of the
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  Speaker 2: playoffs pretty quickly. The longas series was against the Hawks
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  Speaker 2: in round one when they're their freshest. That was a
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  Speaker 2: six game series. Then they swept the Sixers, swept the Calves,
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  Speaker 2: and that helped them a lot against the Spurs. I
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  Speaker 2: think in the finals, I don't look for them to
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  Speaker 2: only lose two games in root to the finals. I
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  Speaker 2: don't think that's going to happen. So I think that
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  Speaker 2: the Knicks will not repeat. And more than that, I
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  Speaker 2: don't think they're going to win a title again with
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  Speaker 2: anybody from the title winning team on their rosters going forward.
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  Speaker 2: I would bet against them winning again. And listen, everybody
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  Speaker 2: looks like really viable after they just won a championship.
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  Speaker 2: That's what we thought about. The Nuggets were like Jo
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  Speaker 2: kich unbelievable, this guy best basketball player in the world.
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  Speaker 2: How many championships are they gonna win? Well, that's the
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  Speaker 2: only one they've won so far. We were looking at
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  Speaker 2: the Celtics and you know, their path was favorable, there
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  Speaker 2: was some injury luck on their way. But at the
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  Speaker 2: time we're like, wow, man, Tatum and Brown, how many
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  Speaker 2: titles they're talking about trading Jalen Brown right now? They
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  Speaker 2: might not win another title again with the Tatum Brown
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  Speaker 2: duo right there. So I know the Knicks look like
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  Speaker 2: monsters and who's going to even challenge these guys that
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  Speaker 2: they are not going to be the team that sneaks
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  Speaker 2: up on anybody. They are going to be the hunted
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  Speaker 2: as title. They're trying to defend their championship as a
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  Speaker 2: team that's just won it all. They're gonna be absolutely hunted,
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  Speaker 2: and I can't imagine they're What would you bet right now,
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  Speaker 2: what would you bet that the Knicks not only make
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  Speaker 2: it to the finals, but they only lose two games
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  Speaker 2: on their way to that happening? I bet everything I
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  Speaker 2: own that it doesn't happen that way. The odds are
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  Speaker 2: overwhelmingly in your favor that they don't even make it
• 17:23
  Speaker 2: to the finals, let alone if they did only lose
• 17:25
  Speaker 2: two games, they have two sweeps of the three series.
• 17:30
  Speaker 2: I just don't see that happening, man. I just don't.
• 17:32
  Speaker 6: So.
• 17:33
  Speaker 2: I think that the Knicks are the one hit wonders
• 17:37
  Speaker 2: of the sports world. They are the Baha Men of
• 17:40
  Speaker 2: the NBA. Who's saying who let the Dogs Out? Is
• 17:43
  Speaker 2: the perfect song for the Knicks going forward, because I
• 17:47
  Speaker 2: think they're a one hit wonder. It was the perfect
• 17:49
  Speaker 2: song for twenty twenty five, twenty six because they are
• 17:51
  Speaker 2: dogs and they deserved all the accolades, they deserve, the
• 17:54
  Speaker 2: ring they earned it not taking anything away from them.
• 17:58
  Speaker 2: I just don't think it's sustainable. East is getting better.
• 18:01
  Speaker 2: I think their path is harder, and I don't think
• 18:03
  Speaker 2: they're gonna repeat that we had one repeat team in
• 18:06
  Speaker 2: eight years, and they're gonna be the squad. Color me
• 18:10
  Speaker 2: skeptical is what I say? All right? Eight seven, seven
• 18:13
  Speaker 2: ninety nine on Fox is your number? Also on X
• 18:18
  Speaker 2: hit me up at the No Show if you have
• 18:19
  Speaker 2: any thoughts on that or anything else you want to
• 18:21
  Speaker 2: change the subject back to Blake Lively, be my guest.
• 18:24
  Speaker 2: It's fine with me, all right. Coming up next, one
• 18:26
  Speaker 2: athlete took the high road, well, another athlete took the
• 18:30
  Speaker 2: low road. My best attempt attempt to get some ball
• 18:35
  Speaker 2: into this conversation, a little bit of football talk right
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  Speaker 2: I really don't. I'm not familiar with three to zero
• 19:43
  Speaker 2: three by the way. Uh, what city is that? By
• 19:48
  Speaker 2: area code? You know what's three?
• 19:52
  Speaker 5: It's gotta be I think Colorado loocause they're from Colorado.
• 19:57
  Speaker 2: Yeah, Denver Boulders.
• 19:58
  Speaker 4: Oh there we go, yeah, because that's where they're huh okay.
• 20:02
  Speaker 2: Fun facts right there, just named themselves three oh three.
• 20:06
  Speaker 2: Huh okay.
• 20:07
  Speaker 3: And then you hold your hand up where you have
• 20:09
  Speaker 3: your pinky, your ring finger in your middle finger, and
• 20:13
  Speaker 3: then your index finger in your thumb, meet your other
• 20:16
  Speaker 3: index finger in your thumb, so you have the three
• 20:18
  Speaker 3: O three with your hands.
• 20:19
  Speaker 2: Oh wow, that's their whole thing.
• 20:21
  Speaker 4: Huh amazing, amazing.
• 20:25
  Speaker 2: So it's they ripped it off from what is it?
• 20:29
  Speaker 2: The Hunger Games?
• 20:29
  Speaker 6: Right?
• 20:30
  Speaker 2: Wasn't that the thing from the do they do the
• 20:32
  Speaker 2: same signal with the threes? Was that?
• 20:34
  Speaker 8: For?
• 20:34
  Speaker 9: What?
• 20:35
  Speaker 6: Was it?
• 20:35
  Speaker 2: Real?
• 20:41
  Speaker 4: You've never seen who came up with that first?
• 20:45
  Speaker 2: Oh my gosh, come on, no, I don't know what
• 20:47
  Speaker 2: you guys.
• 20:48
  Speaker 4: Are talking about. Yeah, where she whistled? She goes, I
• 20:52
  Speaker 4: can't I can't sing on G.
• 20:56
  Speaker 2: You can't whistle on G. Yeah, though the first one
• 20:59
  Speaker 2: was good. Yeah, it's like I can't do it either.
• 21:02
  Speaker 2: I'm terrible. It's like, so the best I can do,
• 21:10
  Speaker 2: that's the best I can do? Right there?
• 21:12
  Speaker 6: All right?
• 21:12
  Speaker 2: Eight seven, seven ninety nine on Fox, Very upset. I
• 21:15
  Speaker 2: was excited to talk to two percent chance in Bama,
• 21:18
  Speaker 2: but had to roll head to roll. Welcome to chime
• 21:22
  Speaker 2: back in. Let's get a couple of calls here. I
• 21:25
  Speaker 2: want to get to an athlete that took the high road,
• 21:27
  Speaker 2: athlete that took the low road. Two different athletes here.
• 21:30
  Speaker 2: But first, hey, listen, the malicious. The malicious waiting, so
• 21:34
  Speaker 2: we don't like to keep them on hold too long.
• 21:36
  Speaker 2: James is in Tacoma. What is going on? James, you're
• 21:39
  Speaker 2: on Fox Sports Radio.
• 21:41
  Speaker 6: All right, question for you?
• 21:42
  Speaker 8: Are you okay with teams that restrict who.
• 21:45
  Speaker 6: Can purchase tickets, like, for example, of mayors this weekend
• 21:48
  Speaker 6: are hosting Blue Jays and they're doing the same thing
• 21:52
  Speaker 6: they did last year, where if you have a Canadian
• 21:55
  Speaker 6: zip code or Canadian phone number, you're not mirror or
• 22:00
  Speaker 6: tickets this weekend. Are your favorite teasa do that?
• 22:03
  Speaker 2: I think it's lame, James. I would. I would just
• 22:07
  Speaker 2: hope that your fan base is strong enough that they're
• 22:09
  Speaker 2: not selling tickets to the rival fan base, you know,
• 22:13
  Speaker 2: But it just shows that your fan base is lame
• 22:16
  Speaker 2: if you have to put that little circle around the
• 22:18
  Speaker 2: general area. So no, I'm not in favor of it.
• 22:21
  Speaker 2: I get why they do it. They want the home
• 22:23
  Speaker 2: crowd to be the loudest, but it just shows that
• 22:26
  Speaker 2: your home crowd is weak and that they're slaves to
• 22:28
  Speaker 2: the dollar. Right there is what it shows. James.
• 22:32
  Speaker 8: Yeah, I just all you need.
• 22:33
  Speaker 6: Thank you?
• 22:34
  Speaker 2: Yeah, you got it. There he is, James and Tacoma.
• 22:36
  Speaker 2: Right there, We've got Andrew is in Berkeley wants to
• 22:40
  Speaker 2: check on in here. Andrea, what is going on? How
• 22:42
  Speaker 2: are things? Oh, we're getting to Andrea, I just heard
• 22:47
  Speaker 2: give me a second. What's going on, Andrea? How are you?
• 22:51
  Speaker 10: Yeah? I know, I'm gonna say happy till Moon and
• 22:55
  Speaker 10: enjoying your show. In quite a cosme coincidence about the
• 22:59
  Speaker 10: two fellow virgos, I'm a virgo, but i'm September seventeenth,
• 23:04
  Speaker 10: August twenty fifth for one max month. See nineteen ninety
• 23:09
  Speaker 10: August twenty fifth, two thousand and two for the other one.
• 23:13
  Speaker 10: And you know what's even more cosmic coincidence is that
• 23:18
  Speaker 10: they were born twelve years apart, and they're both having
• 23:21
  Speaker 10: the same transit, which happens every twelve years known as
• 23:25
  Speaker 10: a Jupiter return, which is Jupiter expansion abundance opportunity. So
• 23:31
  Speaker 10: it's really interesting. Not only do that have the same
• 23:34
  Speaker 10: birth date, but they're having similar transits, meaning their forecast
• 23:38
  Speaker 10: has some similarities as well. So it's really interesting. I mean,
• 23:43
  Speaker 10: I've known about them but for a while, but it's
• 23:45
  Speaker 10: really great to hear you talk about them on your show.
• 23:49
  Speaker 10: And I also want to mention that Mercury's retrograde, Brian,
• 23:53
  Speaker 10: you know, that's the time to review reflect redo and
• 23:58
  Speaker 10: the dates was yesterday June twenty ninth until July twenty third,
• 24:06
  Speaker 10: So that's the time to double check travel, allow extra
• 24:10
  Speaker 10: time communication, some technology snaff woos.
• 24:16
  Speaker 2: How often do we go it was mercury and mercury
• 24:19
  Speaker 2: and retrograde during a calendar year here, Andrea, it seems
• 24:22
  Speaker 2: like it's always in retrograde?
• 24:24
  Speaker 1: Is it just me?
• 24:25
  Speaker 10: Well, no, it's the next question. It's three or four
• 24:28
  Speaker 10: times a year, and for three weeks at a time.
• 24:31
  Speaker 10: But we feel that two weeks before and two weeks after,
• 24:35
  Speaker 10: which is known as retro shade, so it's not quite
• 24:39
  Speaker 10: as strong, but we still feel like it's not quite
• 24:42
  Speaker 10: at one hundred percent. So if we add the extra
• 24:47
  Speaker 10: two weeks on either side to say three of the
• 24:49
  Speaker 10: mercury retrograde cycles per year, that is like just under
• 24:54
  Speaker 10: six months on and off that mercury is retrograde. So
• 24:58
  Speaker 10: you know, just good. You know, information is power, So
• 25:02
  Speaker 10: if you know mercury's retrograde, just allow extra time for travel,
• 25:07
  Speaker 10: double check communications, and shining on the dotted line.
• 25:12
  Speaker 2: I recognized, Andrea that you did your homework on the
• 25:15
  Speaker 2: Max Munsey's right there. Did you also do your homework
• 25:19
  Speaker 2: on the real August twenty fifth birthday, which is the
• 25:22
  Speaker 2: birthday of Blake Lively.
• 25:24
  Speaker 10: Blake Lively about turn.
• 25:26
  Speaker 4: Your microphone off.
• 25:27
  Speaker 2: Brian's that's outrageous. Lorena, come on, you can't do that
• 25:32
  Speaker 2: talk show over here?
• 25:34
  Speaker 10: Oh should I go ahead?
• 25:36
  Speaker 6: Yeah?
• 25:36
  Speaker 2: Yeah, you're fine. You're fine. Loreena's just trying to throw
• 25:38
  Speaker 2: you off, you know, trying to heckle you basically tonight here.
• 25:41
  Speaker 2: Don't worry about it.
• 25:44
  Speaker 10: I'm used to it, being a virgo astrologer. No problem.
• 25:49
  Speaker 10: And yeah, no, no, I didn't you know, look out
• 25:52
  Speaker 10: much about what year Blake Lively is? You know what
• 25:56
  Speaker 10: year her birthday is?
• 25:57
  Speaker 2: I think I read that she's thirty eight. I could
• 26:00
  Speaker 2: check it out right now. We can do our homework
• 26:02
  Speaker 2: together here. This would be a good building experience.
• 26:05
  Speaker 10: Too, because she's heading into her midlife crisis. If she's
• 26:08
  Speaker 10: thirty eight to forty.
• 26:09
  Speaker 2: There she go, she's yeah, nineteen eighty seven, she's thirty
• 26:13
  Speaker 2: eight years old.
• 26:14
  Speaker 10: Whoa, Yeah, thanks for looking that up. Yeah, so thirty
• 26:18
  Speaker 10: eight to forty forty one is known as a midlife crisis.
• 26:22
  Speaker 10: We think and we revitalize our land life path, we
• 26:26
  Speaker 10: make some major changes. So it's really interesting to be
• 26:31
  Speaker 10: having that. You know, it's still young, but you know,
• 26:34
  Speaker 10: compared to baseball players. It sounds old, isn't that kind
• 26:38
  Speaker 10: of crazy?
• 26:39
  Speaker 9: Yeah?
• 26:40
  Speaker 2: I know, right, yeah, it's funny. Yeah right, that's uh yeah.
• 26:43
  Speaker 2: If you're in sports Man when you hear thirty eight,
• 26:46
  Speaker 2: you're like, holy cow, ancient, you know, and it's yeah,
• 26:49
  Speaker 2: I have a lot of life to live most likely.
• 26:51
  Speaker 10: Yeah, yeah, but you know that's interesting now for your
• 26:54
  Speaker 10: listeners out there as well, Brian, thirty eight to forty
• 26:57
  Speaker 10: is the midlife crisis. So this is not quite the
• 27:00
  Speaker 10: right word. Transformation probably a better word. Making a lot
• 27:05
  Speaker 10: of stages. I'm revitalizing and moving, you know, renewing your
• 27:09
  Speaker 10: life path. So they used to call it the revolt
• 27:12
  Speaker 10: of the middle aged man when they took off with
• 27:14
  Speaker 10: the younger woman in the sports car, and now it's universal,
• 27:18
  Speaker 10: it's chronological. It happens to everyone from thirty eight to forty.
• 27:22
  Speaker 2: I do like, what is it instead of midlife crisis?
• 27:25
  Speaker 2: Renewing your life path? Is that what it is? That
• 27:28
  Speaker 2: sounds weird? That sounds much better.
• 27:31
  Speaker 10: Yes, revitalizing and renewing your life path. Yes, you like that.
• 27:37
  Speaker 2: I'm gonna I'm gonna do that. I'm going to renew
• 27:38
  Speaker 2: my life's path. I'm going to do that.
• 27:41
  Speaker 10: What old are you by?
• 27:43
  Speaker 2: I am forty eight years old, Andrea.
• 27:45
  Speaker 10: Oh, time has slown by. You look and sound a
• 27:48
  Speaker 10: lot younger than that with you.
• 27:52
  Speaker 2: Yeah, oh no, I'm an old man, Andrew. I just
• 27:54
  Speaker 2: sound like, you know, I drink mountain dew before shows.
• 27:57
  Speaker 2: I sound, you know, like twenty years younger that way.
• 28:00
  Speaker 10: I grew up on that stuff for New York mountain dew.
• 28:03
  Speaker 2: Yeah, tremendous conector of the gods right there, Andrea. It's tremendous.
• 28:08
  Speaker 10: There's no little sugar, nothing wrong with that.
• 28:10
  Speaker 2: Nothing wrong.
• 28:12
  Speaker 10: That's interesting, all right, Andrew.
• 28:14
  Speaker 2: Well, hey, listen, I gotta get to some of the
• 28:16
  Speaker 2: other militia here. But it's always great visiting with you.
• 28:18
  Speaker 2: Always very good, and I appreciate you checking in there.
• 28:22
  Speaker 2: She goes Andrea and Berkeley. She has a fantastic early
• 28:27
  Speaker 2: morning right there. Very nice our guy. Two percent chance
• 28:30
  Speaker 2: he's back and bam, what's going on? Two percent?
• 28:34
  Speaker 9: I appreciate it. I didn't mean to drop off earlier
• 28:36
  Speaker 9: with technical difficulties, so problem, yeah, no problem, so o
• 28:41
  Speaker 9: j simpleman. I'm a huge Buffalo Bills fan, right, I'm
• 28:45
  Speaker 9: only I just turned thirty nine, so it will be
• 28:47
  Speaker 9: seated before my time. But I got no problem, absolutely
• 28:51
  Speaker 9: no problem that him not being on the U. I
• 28:54
  Speaker 9: guess we call it the wall fame. I think that's
• 28:56
  Speaker 9: what we call it. I believe he had the best
• 28:59
  Speaker 9: single even year of any running back. I believe it
• 29:02
  Speaker 9: was nineteen seventy three, and it was fourteen games. He
• 29:05
  Speaker 9: got two thousand and three yards. I don't think that'll
• 29:08
  Speaker 9: ever be beaten in fourteen games. But I don't care.
• 29:13
  Speaker 9: Every time I went to a those games, I've been
• 29:14
  Speaker 9: to a ton, right, I seen his name up there,
• 29:17
  Speaker 9: and I didn't think about, man, he must have been
• 29:19
  Speaker 9: darn good, or I didn't let me check his YouTube.
• 29:22
  Speaker 9: I thought of a terrible murder scene. I thought of,
• 29:25
  Speaker 9: you know, horrible things. So I'm glad they kicked him off.
• 29:29
  Speaker 9: I hope other teams will fall suit whenever if something
• 29:32
  Speaker 9: bad happens, Like let's pretend Aaron Hernandez had a few
• 29:35
  Speaker 9: great Super Bowls, right, I would hope that the Patriots
• 29:38
  Speaker 9: won't stick him up on their hall or wall fame.
• 29:42
  Speaker 9: But anyways, and one more thing on lebron Man. We're
• 29:46
  Speaker 9: gonna miss that man. He's gone. He has so many haters.
• 29:49
  Speaker 9: I don't think his legacy can be tarnished in any way.
• 29:52
  Speaker 9: I hope he gets one more ring. The only knock
• 29:55
  Speaker 9: I've ever had on the guy is I wish you
• 29:57
  Speaker 9: just take a little bit less money like Brady did,
• 29:59
  Speaker 9: or to dunkin did I know it's just right, not
• 30:01
  Speaker 9: too I'm not saying you have to. I just wish
• 30:04
  Speaker 9: he would so he could get more rings. This but man,
• 30:09
  Speaker 9: I think people hate on him because he's just such
• 30:12
  Speaker 9: a nice guy. And it's hard to find fault with
• 30:14
  Speaker 9: the man in my opinion. And I hope he goes
• 30:17
  Speaker 9: to maybe the Heat or maybe back to Cleveland.
• 30:21
  Speaker 2: Well we'll see how it goes. Two percent chance. I
• 30:23
  Speaker 2: appreciate you checking in a couple of things. I agree
• 30:27
  Speaker 2: as far as the OJ Simpson thing goes. I mean, listen, man,
• 30:30
  Speaker 2: he was a fantastic football player. But the double murder thing,
• 30:34
  Speaker 2: it's more than a little speed bump right there. I
• 30:37
  Speaker 2: meant to listen to it. Because they put these newsletters
• 30:40
  Speaker 2: together for iHeart and Rob Parker. I just saw the headline.
• 30:45
  Speaker 2: I used to work with Rob. We did a show
• 30:47
  Speaker 2: together for I don't know half a year or something.
• 30:49
  Speaker 2: Rob's a great dude. I love Rob. But the headline.
• 30:53
  Speaker 2: It was just like a little title and it was
• 30:55
  Speaker 2: like Rob Parker rips the Buffalo Bills for not including
• 30:58
  Speaker 2: OJ Simpson. I'm like, I wonder what this take is.
• 31:02
  Speaker 2: I didn't get a chance to listen to it, but
• 31:05
  Speaker 2: Rob's taken the opposite view. I just look at it
• 31:08
  Speaker 2: and say, I totally understand why a franchise would distance
• 31:11
  Speaker 2: themselves from a guy like O. J. Simpson? Are we
• 31:15
  Speaker 2: supposed to pretend like that didn't happen. So if you're
• 31:18
  Speaker 2: at the stadium and you know, little Johnny looks up like,
• 31:21
  Speaker 2: oh wow, O J. Simpson, Dad, what's the deal with him?
• 31:24
  Speaker 2: You just have to look down heck of a running back? Son.
• 31:27
  Speaker 2: That's a We'll just keep it at that. You know, Like,
• 31:30
  Speaker 2: I can totally understand why the Bills would distance themselves
• 31:33
  Speaker 2: from Oas.
• 31:34
  Speaker 3: What I saw was Rob Parker said that he was like,
• 31:38
  Speaker 3: why are you.
• 31:39
  Speaker 4: Doing it now?
• 31:39
  Speaker 3: Why wouldn't Why didn't you do it when he was alive,
• 31:42
  Speaker 3: even if he was found not guilty or you know whatever,
• 31:45
  Speaker 3: If you really thought that you were going to take
• 31:47
  Speaker 3: him out of your Hall of fame, why didn't you
• 31:49
  Speaker 3: do it when he could see you do it? He said,
• 31:51
  Speaker 3: it was cowardice for them to do it. Now, that's
• 31:54
  Speaker 3: what that was.
• 31:55
  Speaker 2: What's the saying there's never a wrong time to do
• 31:58
  Speaker 2: the right thing?
• 31:59
  Speaker 6: Oh?
• 31:59
  Speaker 2: I love that's a good one.
• 32:01
  Speaker 6: Right.
• 32:02
  Speaker 2: So are we are we supposed to because we got
• 32:05
  Speaker 2: it because they got it wrong in Rob's opinion way back,
• 32:09
  Speaker 2: when they're supposed to keep getting it wrong? Is that that?
• 32:12
  Speaker 2: That's a silly takeaway. I don't get that at all.
• 32:15
  Speaker 2: Like I argue that with Hall of Fame stuff, we
• 32:17
  Speaker 2: want to bring it back to sports where you know,
• 32:21
  Speaker 2: just because this guy wasn't in h what's the word
• 32:26
  Speaker 2: for it? It's uh? Oh gosh, when what is it?
• 32:30
  Speaker 2: I have undisputed in my head? And it's not undisputed,
• 32:34
  Speaker 2: it's uh. When a Hall of Famer goes in unanimously,
• 32:38
  Speaker 2: that's it. We don't have a whole lot of unanimous
• 32:40
  Speaker 2: Hall of famers. Like, just because we don't have a
• 32:43
  Speaker 2: bunch of unanimous Hall of famers, are we supposed to
• 32:46
  Speaker 2: keep doing that? That's ridiculous to me. There are some
• 32:50
  Speaker 2: guys that should absolutely be unanimous Hall of famers, but well,
• 32:53
  Speaker 2: because we don't have a long list, we're not supposed
• 32:56
  Speaker 2: to keep doing that. That's just dumb. It's silly thinking
• 32:59
  Speaker 2: just because because it was wrong way back when we're
• 33:02
  Speaker 2: supposed to keep doing things wrong. That doesn't make any
• 33:04
  Speaker 2: sense to me. So if that was the take, I
• 33:07
  Speaker 2: don't agree with it. I don't care that the Bills
• 33:11
  Speaker 2: should have done it before they finally did it. Now
• 33:13
  Speaker 2: get out. Yeah, sorry about that, Rob, I'm gonna have
• 33:16
  Speaker 2: to disagree with you on that one. Every now and
• 33:19
  Speaker 2: then I'll text Rob no one. I don't bombard him
• 33:22
  Speaker 2: with uh boy, that was a horrible take, Rob. Nobody
• 33:24
  Speaker 2: wants to hear that. It's just like, oh gosh, dude,
• 33:27
  Speaker 2: I got enough of that to deal with it. So
• 33:29
  Speaker 2: every now and now I good take Rob, Good job Rob.
• 33:31
  Speaker 2: And then I'll sneak in like this one sucked though,
• 33:33
  Speaker 2: What are you thinking?
• 33:34
  Speaker 6: Right?
• 33:37
  Speaker 2: So yeah, maybe I'll hit him on OJ. They're real fast.
• 33:40
  Speaker 2: Joel is in Seattle. Let's sneak Joel in here, shall we? Joel?
• 33:43
  Speaker 2: You're on Fox Sports Radio? What's going on?
• 33:46
  Speaker 6: Not much?
• 33:47
  Speaker 8: How are you good?
• 33:48
  Speaker 6: Joel? Hey? Yeah?
• 33:51
  Speaker 8: OJ definitely doesn't deserve any fours anyway. I was one
• 33:59
  Speaker 8: of what you taught of the police blotterer and uh
• 34:03
  Speaker 8: all of all of Sports Today with uh, I don't
• 34:07
  Speaker 8: know this one guy getting busted for kidnapping and what's
• 34:12
  Speaker 8: the other thing, all of the the two x NBA
• 34:15
  Speaker 8: players with the gambling problems.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, man, Yeah, Terry and Arnold got released by the Lions.
• 34:26
  Speaker 2: We'll see what happens with the legal case. And yeah,
• 34:30
  Speaker 2: you're talking about Malik Beasley and Ed Davis. Yeah, gambling stuff,
• 34:34
  Speaker 2: We'll see what's what's going on with the thing with
• 34:36
  Speaker 2: Malik Beasley blows my mind is that guy was making
• 34:39
  Speaker 2: huge money, huge money, and I can't imagine he made
• 34:43
  Speaker 2: that much with the gambling stuff. So I don't understand
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  Speaker 2: why he would risk his his contract was he got
• 34:50
  Speaker 2: paid pretty well and he was in line to make
• 34:52
  Speaker 2: pretty good money going forward, and he was out of
• 34:55
  Speaker 2: the NBA all last season. And I don't know. I
• 34:59
  Speaker 2: don't get these guys at gamble. I get. I can understand.
• 35:02
  Speaker 2: I'm not saying it's right. I can understand some like
• 35:05
  Speaker 2: college players that are barely making any money and someone's like, hey, man,
• 35:09
  Speaker 2: you want to make twenty g's real quick, all you
• 35:11
  Speaker 2: gotta do is miss a couple of free throws. I
• 35:12
  Speaker 2: can understand how that happens when you're not making money,
• 35:16
  Speaker 2: but when Malik Beasley is making millions and millions of dollars,
• 35:21
  Speaker 2: I do not understand why you would risk that money
• 35:24
  Speaker 2: that is guaranteed for a little bit of potential money
• 35:28
  Speaker 2: on the side with shaving points or whatever you're involved in. Right,
• 35:31
  Speaker 2: that makes absolutely no sense. But it's not only a
• 35:35
  Speaker 2: good right now for Malik Beasley. We'll see how it
• 35:37
  Speaker 2: all unfolds right there, but I appreciate you checking in.
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  Speaker 2: I do want to get to the high road and
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  Speaker 2: the low road, So I find this interesting. So they
• 37:01
  Speaker 2: were informed by Lebron James, I don't want to play
• 37:04
  Speaker 2: for you suckers anymore, right, So Lebron's taking a show
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  Speaker 2: on the road, maybe to the Warriors, maybe to the Calves,
• 37:10
  Speaker 2: maybe to the Heat. We'll find out. He's a free
• 37:12
  Speaker 2: agent now, will not return to the Lakers. And the
• 37:16
  Speaker 2: thing that was interesting to me, one of the things was,
• 37:19
  Speaker 2: remember a few months ago when Jeanie Buss there was
• 37:23
  Speaker 2: the report that came out and it was pretty negative
• 37:26
  Speaker 2: toward Lebron. It was man Lebron's high maintenance, you know,
• 37:31
  Speaker 2: that was that was the tone. He's got. Gosh, there's
• 37:35
  Speaker 2: a lot of a lot of work, there's a lot
• 37:37
  Speaker 2: that comes along with Lebron. That was the tone of
• 37:40
  Speaker 2: the report, and you know Lebron heard that. Lebron hears
• 37:45
  Speaker 2: all of this stuff. Remember, Lebron was ticked off because
• 37:48
  Speaker 2: he didn't get enough recognition in the locker room in
• 37:52
  Speaker 2: his estimation when he set the total number, the all
• 37:56
  Speaker 2: time number of wins, you know, through regular season and
• 37:59
  Speaker 2: the playoff, and they were just like they recognized him
• 38:02
  Speaker 2: for a hot second, and then it was the life
• 38:04
  Speaker 2: and times of JJ Reddick and Lebron didn't like that.
• 38:07
  Speaker 2: So Genie Buss thought what she thought about Lebron little
• 38:12
  Speaker 2: high maintenance. Lebron absolutely heard that. We can be sure
• 38:15
  Speaker 2: he didn't like that. But when Lebron let the Lakers
• 38:19
  Speaker 2: know that he's going elsewhere on Tuesday, well we get
• 38:22
  Speaker 2: a couple of comments here, one from Genie Buss. Lebron
• 38:27
  Speaker 2: James is one of the greatest athletes in history. We
• 38:30
  Speaker 2: will always be thankful for his eight years with the Lakers,
• 38:33
  Speaker 2: including the title he led us to in the twenty
• 38:36
  Speaker 2: twenty Let us do in twenty twenty under the toughest
• 38:40
  Speaker 2: imaginable circumstances, circumstances and the countless records he broke in
• 38:45
  Speaker 2: Purple and gold. I need a violin in the background.
• 38:48
  Speaker 2: We wish him all the best in the future, both
• 38:50
  Speaker 2: on the court and off. He will always be a
• 38:53
  Speaker 2: cherished part of the Lakers family. Wow, that is beautiful
• 38:57
  Speaker 2: right there. It's hard to believe she was talking trash
• 38:59
  Speaker 2: about lebron On in his high maintenance ways just a
• 39:01
  Speaker 2: couple of months prior. And this is lebron No, thank you.
• 39:07
  Speaker 2: Truly an honor to wear the purple and gold while
• 39:10
  Speaker 2: trying to continue the greatness and legacies that came before me. Hope,
• 39:15
  Speaker 2: I made a few proud during my stint. That's what
• 39:18
  Speaker 2: you do on the way out, you take the high road. Okay,
• 39:23
  Speaker 2: there's an athlete that didn't take the high road like Lebron.
• 39:26
  Speaker 2: So the last week our guy, Brandon Ayuk, current receiver
• 39:30
  Speaker 2: with the forty nine Ers, he's trying to get to
• 39:32
  Speaker 2: the Washington Commanders. He released a YouTube video was talking
• 39:36
  Speaker 2: about the current forty nine ers GM John Lynch this way. Now,
• 39:39
  Speaker 2: you tell me if this is the high road or not.
• 39:41
  Speaker 2: General Manager gonna pull up to our house. Oh weirdo.
• 39:45
  Speaker 2: So I'm looking at my camera, my front door camera.
• 39:48
  Speaker 6: See a big old white boy.
• 39:51
  Speaker 2: He's a weird white boy is what Brandon ayukus. That's
• 39:55
  Speaker 2: not taking the high road right there. It's just it's
• 39:57
  Speaker 2: not a good look. It's at best unprofessional, it's at
• 40:03
  Speaker 2: worst a total clown move. But that that's just not
• 40:07
  Speaker 2: that's not a professional approach at all. Take it from Lebron.
• 40:11
  Speaker 2: You think Lebron was happy hearing those reports about Genie
• 40:14
  Speaker 2: Buss calling him a handful, high maintenance, all this stuff. No,
• 40:19
  Speaker 2: he took the high road at the end. That's what
• 40:21
  Speaker 2: you do on your way out. You take the high road,
• 40:22
  Speaker 2: all right, Coming up next, I'm rooting against us.