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  Speaker 2: This is the best of the Ben Maler Show on
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  Speaker 1: And we are reunited, and it feels so good here
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  Speaker 1: hanging out another night and the comedy club open up.
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  Speaker 1: Later on Big Ben's Lame Jokes of the Week. That'll
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  Speaker 1: be an hour three of the Big Radio program. And
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  Speaker 1: later on this hour as well, we will have the
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  Speaker 1: who Am I Game and some surprises along the way.
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  Speaker 1: I thought this story really resonated, and we're going to
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  Speaker 1: start with it. Go to Cleveland where James Harden is
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  Speaker 1: settling in the cadaver guard James Harden and he was
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  Speaker 1: asked recently why it has become the standard, not the occasion,
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  Speaker 1: the standard in pro bouncy ball for guys.
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  Speaker 3: To bounce, bounce, bounce, bounce.
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  Speaker 1: From team to team to team and being passed around
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  Speaker 1: like a collection plate on a Sunday at Church. Well,
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  Speaker 1: Harden was just traded a few days ago from the
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  Speaker 1: people's team, the Clippers, to the mistake by the Lake
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  Speaker 1: there that is now his sixth team. Six teams, So
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  Speaker 1: he's got Cleveland, the Clippers, what else, Houston, Brooklyn, Philadelphia
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  Speaker 1: and Okasec.
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  Speaker 3: So Harden was asked about all of this, and what
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  Speaker 3: did he say? I guess we have it.
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  Speaker 1: So here's a Harden he's settling into the Cavaliers locker room.
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  Speaker 1: And here's what Harden had to say about and players
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  Speaker 1: changing teams tail.
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  Speaker 4: Less and the whole quote unquote loyalty thing is I
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  Speaker 4: think it's overrated. You know.
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  Speaker 3: I think this is a business at the end of the.
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  Speaker 4: Day, and it's a lot of money involved and a
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  Speaker 4: lot of decisions that has to be made, you know
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  Speaker 4: what I mean. So like if a player isn't producing,
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  Speaker 4: or if you don't see him the future, or you know,
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  Speaker 4: front office some of them have to do like a
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  Speaker 4: job and want to keep their job, you know, so
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  Speaker 4: they got to feel like they got to do it's
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  Speaker 4: best for you know, to keep their job, and they
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  Speaker 4: trade players. Or if a guy isn't happy and he
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  Speaker 4: wants to be traded to somewhere else. Then it's a problem.
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  Speaker 4: It's just so many different dynamics that go into it.
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  Speaker 4: This is a business at the end of the day,
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  Speaker 4: so like you know, not even just the NBA, but
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  Speaker 4: like people that have normal jobs have you know, have
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  Speaker 4: those same problems.
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  Speaker 3: It's just not magnified, all right.
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  Speaker 1: So that is the voice of James Harden, and the
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  Speaker 1: money part of that was the whole quote unquote loyalty thing.
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  Speaker 1: I think it's overrated and the standard. It's just business
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  Speaker 1: at the end of the day. So that's all a
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  Speaker 1: good jumping off point. Let us discuss the question for
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  Speaker 1: the Esteemed panel, James Harden saying that loyalty in the
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  Speaker 1: NBA is over rated, over rated. How do you categorize?
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  Speaker 1: Categorize this one right?
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  Speaker 3: How you catalog it?
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  Speaker 1: So I've got blueprint, salamander and mind virus, and will
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  Speaker 1: combine all of these things together and we're gonna make
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  Speaker 1: some delicious soft pretzels because James Harden in the playoffs
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  Speaker 1: turns into a soft pretzel, which is not good, not good.
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  Speaker 1: So a I I saw the sound, but I thought, wow,
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  Speaker 1: this is probably AI.
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  Speaker 3: You know, he wouldn't actually say this, but he did.
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  Speaker 1: Any said that James Harden calling loyalty overrated is like
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  Speaker 1: a raccoon lecturing you about the proper etiquette involving trash,
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  Speaker 1: how to dispose of trash, Like, yeah, it's a loud order,
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  Speaker 1: but let's not pretend that you're the authority on this.
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  Speaker 1: It's just a business that that is the standard default
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  Speaker 1: answer in times like this. And yeah, so he's if
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  Speaker 1: I'm math is right, Hardin has had not one, not two, three,
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  Speaker 1: but four trade requests since twenty twenty one. He ballooned
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  Speaker 1: up to get out of Houston and caused problems in.
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  Speaker 3: Brooklyn and in Philadelphia.
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  Speaker 1: I'm sure it's all just a coincidence, though it's I
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  Speaker 1: would say behavioral patterned for James Harden. Now, when you
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  Speaker 1: ask out of Houston, he was beloved with the Rockets, right,
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  Speaker 1: that was his team and all that, and he wanted
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  Speaker 1: out of there. Brooklyn was a hot mess, Philly wasn't
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  Speaker 1: any better, and the Clips was just mediocre. And so
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  Speaker 1: now he needs another fresh vibe in Cleveland. And at
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  Speaker 1: some point, at some point you say, well, wait, you
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  Speaker 1: are the common denominator and it stops being capitalism and
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  Speaker 1: starts becoming just musical chairs for what exactly. It's not
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  Speaker 1: like Cleveland's in any better position.
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  Speaker 3: To win anything. Cavs an't gonna win anything this year.
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  Speaker 1: So this is a microcosm of what is wrong, the
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  Speaker 1: underlying condition with the NBA. And the most amazing thing
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  Speaker 1: about it is I sit here from the bully pulpit
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  Speaker 1: and it's like the people who are in there don't.
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  Speaker 3: Realize what they're doing.
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  Speaker 1: It fascinates me that they don't understand that this has
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  Speaker 1: had long term ramifications on the sport. This is the
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  Speaker 1: quit and run generation I have. It's too hard run
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  Speaker 1: away from it. The blueprint was drawn up by Lebron
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  Speaker 1: James and it was then laminated by Kevin Durant, and
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  Speaker 1: I guess notarized by James Harden. I guess notarized the
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  Speaker 1: whole thing Lebron famously, I'm taking my talents to Miami,
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  Speaker 1: Hi cat win in Cleveland, so I'm leaving. Okay, loyalty
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  Speaker 1: over rated. Of course, it's overrated for James Harden because
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  Speaker 1: that requires grit and moxie. Right, these are things that
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  Speaker 1: it's just easier to go to a different team staying put.
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  Speaker 1: That's uncomfortable, that's difficult. Why would you do difficult? You
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  Speaker 1: shouldn't do difficult. And that's the times we live in, right,
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  Speaker 1: that's it. You know, this generation of players treats adversity
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  Speaker 1: like it's expired milk. You sniff it, you toss it,
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  Speaker 1: you move on, and then that's it. And here's the
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  Speaker 1: dirty little secret. And this is the part of the
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  Speaker 1: jigsaw puzzle which the players.
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  Speaker 3: Don't seem to get.
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  Speaker 1: When the players stop caring and the players don't even
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  Speaker 1: attempt to be loyal, what do you think the customers do?
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  Speaker 1: What do you think the fans do? Yeah, the smart consumer.
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  Speaker 1: You got a lot more options now, a lot more options,
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  Speaker 1: and there's less emotional investment. And so you're like, Okay,
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  Speaker 1: I agree with James Harden. You know what, He's got
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  Speaker 1: a great point. Overrated. So I will not be loyal
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  Speaker 1: to any team in the NBA. I will not support
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  Speaker 1: any individual team that's a suckers game. James Harden's right,
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  Speaker 1: So why would you support any team?
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  Speaker 3: Now?
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  Speaker 1: Just don't do it, because listen, if the teams that
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  Speaker 1: canna be good every year can have bad year, it's
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  Speaker 1: gonna have been a couple of bad years in a row,
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  Speaker 1: So why bother make a business decision, just don't support them.
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  Speaker 1: That's the mindset. That's the thing that James Harden, Lebron
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  Speaker 1: and these guys have brought to the to the modern NBA.
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  Speaker 1: And and of course there's the fanboys that whatever these
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  Speaker 1: athletes do, they just sit there with your knee pads
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  Speaker 1: on and they can't get enough of it. Now, as
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  Speaker 1: far as the James Harden honeymoon, the hard and honeymoon Cleveland,
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  Speaker 1: right now, it's still.
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  Speaker 3: Also about like a week or so. It's it's it's.
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  Speaker 1: The honeymoon phase, the chocolates, the roses, the Instagram captions,
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  Speaker 1: all that stuff. There is an expiration date and it
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  Speaker 1: is stamped in bold writing bold and it says playoff basketball.
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  Speaker 3: That's the expiration date for the Harden honeymoon.
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  Speaker 1: Meanwhile, we have another grumbling basketball player and the Green Machine,
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  Speaker 1: Draymond Green.
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  Speaker 3: He's never angry at all.
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  Speaker 1: I don't understand why would Raymond be angry anyway. Screenshots
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  Speaker 1: plausibly associated with Draymond Green criticizing Doris Burke. Draymond Green
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  Speaker 1: is wasting his time worried about Doris Burke on social media.
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  Speaker 1: The allegation is that she ignored fouls against him during
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  Speaker 1: the Spurs Warriors game the other night with Wemby when
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  Speaker 1: they were tied up together, and only partially praised the positive,
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  Speaker 1: seizing on critical elements of Draymond's game. Draymond, according to
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  Speaker 1: the Internet screenshots, claimed to have said, she will always
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  Speaker 1: ignore things happening to me and only half mention the
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  Speaker 1: good and take shots when they are available. Been that
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  Speaker 1: way for a while. Close quote all our question whose
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  Speaker 1: side are you on? You make the call to? He said,
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  Speaker 1: She said, situation? Whose side are you on?
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  Speaker 3: The Warriors?
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  Speaker 1: Draymond Green beefing with TV commentator Doris Burke.
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  Speaker 3: All right, so Draymond Green is what is he doing?
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  Speaker 1: He's firing digital darts at Doris Burke. Am I supposed
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  Speaker 1: to get worked up into the ladder? I thought he
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  Speaker 1: was the enforcer for the Golden State Warriors. Wink wink,
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  Speaker 1: nod nod here the human smoke alarm right, the emotional
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  Speaker 1: spirit animal of the Golden State Warriors. There, and he's
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  Speaker 1: upset because of a TV analyst. So yeah, let me
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  Speaker 1: get that. So you're worried about the tone of the
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  Speaker 1: announcer calling the game. So after a seconds long Mallard deliberation.
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  Speaker 1: I am siding with Doris Burke. And you know, I
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  Speaker 1: know Alf right now snickering, and so is Terry in
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  Speaker 1: England and Fergdog and all those guys. You know, I
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  Speaker 1: am not acte the president of the Doras Burke Marching
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  Speaker 1: in Chowders Society. She is why the mute button was invented.
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  Speaker 1: She doesn't bother me because I don't pay attention.
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  Speaker 3: I hit the mute button. I hit them mute button
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  Speaker 3: with Dars Burke. Mute Mute, Mute, Mute, Mute, mute mute.
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  Speaker 3: It's mutiny on the bounty. Mute mute mute.
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  Speaker 4: Uh.
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  Speaker 1: Draymond's got rabbit ears? Does he also have salamander skin
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  Speaker 1: as well? Like?
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  Speaker 3: What is it like? Do you're the man in the arena?
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  Speaker 1: All you guys, all you jocks love to brag or
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  Speaker 1: in the arena, we don't care what you say, okay,
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  Speaker 1: mister Gladiatorman. So why are you peeking behind the curtain?
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  Speaker 1: And the other thing about is how do you even
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  Speaker 1: know what she said? Did you borrow the malar surveillance
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  Speaker 1: van and park it outside the Chase Center there in
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  Speaker 1: San Francisco?
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  Speaker 3: Piping in the audio.
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  Speaker 1: Were you wearing earbuds so you'd hear feels very conspiratorial.
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  Speaker 1: It's great you start complaining as the athlete about the messenger.
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  Speaker 1: Could it be because that hit a throo close to home?
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  Speaker 1: Could that be why Draymond has been in the anvay
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  Speaker 1: a long time? And in terms of the basketball party fouls,
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  Speaker 1: there's a lot The rap sheet is thicker than Wikipedia.
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  Speaker 1: Technicals here, suspensions, they're kicking guys in the nuts over there.
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  Speaker 1: That's a lot of stuff. Draymond's had a very productive career.
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  Speaker 1: He's been good for business, been good for business. You
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  Speaker 1: can't be the villain and then whine about the narrator
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  Speaker 1: voice person.
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  Speaker 3: You can't do that, you know, never let them see
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  Speaker 3: a sweat.
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  Speaker 1: And just by Draymond commenting on this, I give the
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  Speaker 1: wind to Doris Burk.
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  Speaker 3: I seriously, what do you do your sweating? All right?
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  Speaker 3: Last word?
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  Speaker 1: We now go to the league office and there was
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  Speaker 1: a story a couple of days ago Utah Jazz pretty
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  Speaker 1: much just came out and said, hey.
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  Speaker 3: We are tanking. We are tanking. We're all about the.
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  Speaker 1: Tank, and the NBA decided, eh, you know, we don't
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  Speaker 1: really like the optics on that.
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  Speaker 3: So the NBA kicked off the All Star Break.
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  Speaker 1: There's some on Thursday, but not many. It was really
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  Speaker 1: the All Star festivities beginning on Friday. It's influencer All
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  Speaker 1: Star weekend, so let me know how that goes.
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  Speaker 3: But the NBA.
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  Speaker 1: Kicking off the All Star break by finding the Utah
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  Speaker 1: Jazz half a million dollars five hundred thousand dollars. The
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  Speaker 1: Indiana Pacers got dinged one hundred thousand.
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  Speaker 3: The league use some.
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  Speaker 1: Weasel, weasel language, weasel language. Both teams ended up sitting
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  Speaker 1: healthy players in recent games, and the NBA said that
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  Speaker 1: the moves compromised the integrity. When's the last time the
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  Speaker 1: NBA had integrity?
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, I'm asking for a friend or go the NBA.
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  Speaker 1: What they didn't just come out and say is the
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  Speaker 1: Jazz and Pacers are tanking games and they want a
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  Speaker 1: better chance to win the draft lottery. And there was
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  Speaker 1: a statement prepared statement by the Lizard person Adam Silver,
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  Speaker 1: who said, overt behavior like this that prioritizes draft position
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  Speaker 1: over winning undermines the foundation of NBA competition.
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  Speaker 3: Oh, it's been going on for twenty five years.
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  Speaker 1: More than that probably, and Silver continue to say we
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  Speaker 1: will respond accordingly to any further actions that compromise.
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  Speaker 3: The integrity of our games.
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  Speaker 1: We've had an NBA coach tossed out for gambling this year,
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  Speaker 1: We've had players taken out for gambling. You've got teams tanking,
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  Speaker 1: and Adam Silver in mid February is like, we will
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  Speaker 1: not we will not do anything.
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  Speaker 3: Our integrity matters. That's so good, it's so great, all right.
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  Speaker 1: So anyway, question, does this Adam Silver punishment against the
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  Speaker 1: Jazz and the Pacers tanking games?
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  Speaker 3: Does it? It doesn't work? Is a wake up call
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  Speaker 3: for teams trying to lose?
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  Speaker 1: Okay, So if you think Adam Silver, this little slap.
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  Speaker 3: On the wrist is going to stop.
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  Speaker 1: The NBA's race, not the race for the gold medal,
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  Speaker 1: not the race for the finish line, the race to
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  Speaker 1: the bottom, then I have a really, really nice bridge
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  Speaker 1: that goes all the way over the Great Salt Lake,
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  Speaker 1: and I'll sell that to you. Now you want to
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  Speaker 1: wake up call. This isn't a siren. This is the
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  Speaker 1: snooze button, the snooze option. Now for the Jazz and
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  Speaker 1: the Pacers tanking, this is just the cost of doing business.
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  Speaker 1: So you got fine five hundred grand or one hundred
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  Speaker 1: thousand dollars. Okay, fine, it's the kind of all of stupidity,
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  Speaker 1: is what it is.
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  Speaker 3: And that's today's NBA.
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  Speaker 1: You got Will Hardy Will, who I don't even know
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  Speaker 1: his name, I guess, the coach of the Jazz who
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  Speaker 1: practically held up a sign saying we're.
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  Speaker 3: Losing on purpose.
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  Speaker 1: Yes, because he was asked why he didn't put his
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  Speaker 1: two best players back in the game in a game
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  Speaker 1: a few days ago, and we're not doing that. Wasn't
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  Speaker 1: even considering that. So Silver responds and he fined the Jazz.
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  Speaker 1: These guys have no.
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  Speaker 3: Shame in their game. They don't.
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  Speaker 1: Have you seen the Washington Wizards by the way they're
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  Speaker 1: doing it? Also, Oh my god, they're so bad. And
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  Speaker 1: it's this mind virus that has continued for many, many years.
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  Speaker 3: It's right in the.
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  Speaker 1: Same family of viruses with load management, which is also
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  Speaker 1: a terrible virus. The participation trophies all that stuff. Now,
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  Speaker 1: what is my evidence? Both the Jazz and the Pacers
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  Speaker 1: made trades for players that we've heard of, right, Utah
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  Speaker 1: traded for Jaron Jackson from Memphis and Indiana grab Iviza
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  Speaker 1: Zubats from the Clippers. These are real players, like these
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  Speaker 1: are legitimate NBA players, Well, it turns out they're just
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  Speaker 1: hood ornaments because Jack has already been shut down for surgery,
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  Speaker 1: and Zoubots, who was playing every game for the Clippers,
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  Speaker 1: got to Indy and suddenly he's a ghost. He can't play.
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  Speaker 1: I didn't even play for a game in a game yet.
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  Speaker 1: For the Pacers haven't played yet. And so they're treating
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  Speaker 1: these established players like inventory in a warehouse.
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  Speaker 3: And for what if you look at the twenty twenty
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  Speaker 3: six draft and.
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  Speaker 1: You're looking at who's the top couple players Darren Peterson
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  Speaker 1: to Kansas and aj De Bonza of BYU are the
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  Speaker 1: top suspects in the next draft lottery. But let's be real,
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  Speaker 1: you're like, neither one of these guys is the second
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  Speaker 1: coming here. We're burning the house down for a couple
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  Speaker 1: of maybe stars, maybe stars. And so my advice the
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  Speaker 1: NBA they need to stop rewarding the bottom feeders. And
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  Speaker 1: it's always annoyed me this setup, because like, why would
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  Speaker 1: you reward in competence? Seriously, you want to fix the league?
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  Speaker 1: Just get whoever wins the championship gets the number one pick.
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  Speaker 1: Do that for ten years or five years or whatever
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  Speaker 1: and just say, you know what, figure it out.
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  Speaker 3: You bad teams, figure it out. And I used to.
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  Speaker 1: Do rants regularly about relegation, which they have in European soccer,
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  Speaker 1: and boy, that would be great.
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  Speaker 3: Will never happen in American sport.
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  Speaker 1: But that's one thing they are much better at in
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  Speaker 1: Europe than they are in the United States. You imagine
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  Speaker 1: if you were actually punished for being bad at your
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  Speaker 1: job and.
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  Speaker 3: Not rewarded, because you're rewarded right now.
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  Speaker 1: If you're really, really bad, you get a couple extra
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  Speaker 1: bouncy ping pong balls and you're in good shape.
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  Speaker 3: There.
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  Speaker 1: So force the bad teams to actually figure things out
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  Speaker 1: in the old fashioned way rather than just channeling the
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  Speaker 1: Washington generals and praying for the lottery gods to smile
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• 19:05
  Speaker 3: So I leave this hour a follow up, a follow up.
• 19:09
  Speaker 1: To a conversation we had a previous episode of the
• 19:13
  Speaker 1: show from Philadelphia spring training camp.
• 19:16
  Speaker 3: The Phillies have made their decision.
• 19:18
  Speaker 1: They have decided to ex communicate outfielder Nick Costeanos.
• 19:24
  Speaker 3: He's out.
• 19:24
  Speaker 1: The team is going to eat twenty million dollars. They're
• 19:27
  Speaker 1: gonna get some barbecue sauce, some honey mustard, and they're
• 19:31
  Speaker 1: gonna cook that up and then eat that twenty million
• 19:34
  Speaker 1: dollars to get rid of them.
• 19:36
  Speaker 3: Isn't that great?
• 19:37
  Speaker 1: You imagine that you're so annoying at your job that
• 19:41
  Speaker 1: the company's gonna pay you twenty million dollars to go away. Now,
• 19:45
  Speaker 1: Costeanos was in the final year of a five year,
• 19:49
  Speaker 1: one hundred million dollars contract and the Phillies kicking him
• 19:54
  Speaker 1: to the curb by report emerged following his ejection from
• 20:01
  Speaker 1: the Phillies. You knew that was happening when they said,
• 20:04
  Speaker 1: don't show up to work. That Castianos ostracized himself from
• 20:08
  Speaker 1: the rest of the team. A very detailed report behind
• 20:11
  Speaker 1: a paywallt The Old Gray Lady says that many teammates
• 20:15
  Speaker 1: had come to resent Castianos for his attitude. More than
• 20:18
  Speaker 1: a dozen more than a dozen Phillies players, staff members,
• 20:23
  Speaker 1: and officials all agreed to talk to the athletic on
• 20:27
  Speaker 1: what condition you want to take a guess, ding ding
• 20:30
  Speaker 1: ding ding ding, Yes, the condition that their names would.
• 20:33
  Speaker 3: Not be used. Yeah, anonymity, baby.
• 20:38
  Speaker 1: So the report illustrated that the player Castianos was a
• 20:44
  Speaker 1: brash schmuck who put himself ahead of the team. Then
• 20:48
  Speaker 1: they gave some examples. There was an instance that was
• 20:52
  Speaker 1: referenced in this story of Castillanos playing music.
• 20:57
  Speaker 3: This is going to really offend you. I hope you're
• 20:58
  Speaker 3: not offended by his band.
• 21:00
  Speaker 1: Played music from his own speaker, his own speaker after
• 21:05
  Speaker 1: having a good game, but the Phillies lost, and that
• 21:08
  Speaker 1: was used as a really sad example.
• 21:11
  Speaker 3: What that's terrible. That is selfish, horrific. But wait, there's more. Now.
• 21:17
  Speaker 1: The flashpoint occurred in a game against the Marlins last summer.
• 21:23
  Speaker 1: Castianos was taken out of the game a defensive substitution
• 21:27
  Speaker 1: in the eighth inning, and he decided, Hey, I'm not
• 21:30
  Speaker 1: going to play anymore, so I'm gonna go grab in
• 21:33
  Speaker 1: the clubhouse. I'm gonna grab a Presidente beer and I'm
• 21:37
  Speaker 1: going to open it up and I'm gonna bring it
• 21:39
  Speaker 1: into the dugout and then I'm going to berate the manager,
• 21:42
  Speaker 1: Rob Thompson and the other coaches and give them the
• 21:46
  Speaker 1: business in front of the entire team.
• 21:49
  Speaker 3: Now, that appears they did not appreciate that.
• 21:50
  Speaker 1: He was suspended for that, but that is being used
• 21:53
  Speaker 1: against him here as he was fired from his job
• 21:57
  Speaker 1: in Philadelphia. So off point, let us discuss question, how
• 22:03
  Speaker 1: did this story about Nick Castianos being the Philly problem
• 22:08
  Speaker 1: child play with you?
• 22:11
  Speaker 3: So I've got Church Lady, Voodoo, and Old Glory.
• 22:17
  Speaker 1: And we'll put all of these things together and we're
• 22:20
  Speaker 1: gonna go one, two, three, but we always start with number.
• 22:23
  Speaker 3: WA, number W.
• 22:29
  Speaker 1: All right, So the Nick Castianos reporting is a classic
• 22:34
  Speaker 1: hit piece.
• 22:35
  Speaker 3: I mean, it was just so obvious.
• 22:38
  Speaker 1: And the reason you do this is because a low
• 22:41
  Speaker 1: information fans love it. They they have no critical thinking.
• 22:45
  Speaker 1: They believe everything. They're fed like Pavlov's dogs. So you
• 22:49
  Speaker 1: go with it.
• 22:50
  Speaker 3: Now, I don't know Nick Costianos. I don't know the guy,
• 22:52
  Speaker 3: all right.
• 22:54
  Speaker 1: And he could be the greatest schmuck in the world.
• 22:56
  Speaker 1: But I know a hit piece when I see a
• 22:58
  Speaker 1: hit piece, and this was a hit piece. Okay, classic.
• 23:01
  Speaker 1: The Phillies are eating twenty million dollars to flush this
• 23:04
  Speaker 1: guy down the toilet, and suddenly, right on Q the
• 23:08
  Speaker 1: anonymous team sources pop up. Line them up, baby, they
• 23:14
  Speaker 1: come crawling out of the woodwork to tell the athletic
• 23:17
  Speaker 1: what a locker room cancer.
• 23:20
  Speaker 3: This guy was. And this happens all the.
• 23:23
  Speaker 1: Time in these situations, right, it's you're an old old head.
• 23:28
  Speaker 1: As the kids say, Remember there was a classic character
• 23:31
  Speaker 1: years ago on Saturday Night Live, the church lady. Well,
• 23:33
  Speaker 1: isn't that convenient? Isn't that conven It smells like a rat.
• 23:38
  Speaker 1: This has mister editor vibes from the Phillies PR Department
• 23:44
  Speaker 1: written all over it.
• 23:46
  Speaker 3: As I understand it.
• 23:46
  Speaker 1: Normally these things are encouraged, if not mandated, from the
• 23:52
  Speaker 1: PR people. They had to roast the player, Nicostianos. They
• 23:57
  Speaker 1: had roast him like a pig at a traditional Hawaiian
• 23:59
  Speaker 1: luau just to win the court of public opinion because
• 24:03
  Speaker 1: there were groups of fans that actually liked caste Onos.
• 24:07
  Speaker 3: They thought that his act was good.
• 24:09
  Speaker 1: So this looks like an inside job, right you stiff around.
• 24:16
  Speaker 1: It just smells like an inside job. You're telling me
• 24:19
  Speaker 1: that it's all about the agenda.
• 24:21
  Speaker 3: R the reporter here.
• 24:24
  Speaker 1: You you couldn't find twelve other guys to say what
• 24:27
  Speaker 1: a great teammate he was. That not you couldn't find
• 24:29
  Speaker 1: those people. As far as the beer drinking stuff. Again,
• 24:36
  Speaker 1: it's all about perspective, right, and the Red Sox were
• 24:39
  Speaker 1: eating fried chicken and beer and went on playoff runs.
• 24:42
  Speaker 3: Back in the day.
• 24:44
  Speaker 1: And if this was the nineteen ninety three fills. Right,
• 24:48
  Speaker 1: Oh my god, that's thirty almost thirty five years ago.
• 24:51
  Speaker 3: But the ninety three fills.
• 24:53
  Speaker 1: And if they're bringing Presidente Beers into the dugout, you know,
• 24:58
  Speaker 1: you're like, oh, man, that's so cool, dude, John Kruk
• 25:02
  Speaker 1: and Lennydistra.
• 25:03
  Speaker 3: And those guys. Ah man.
• 25:05
  Speaker 1: Now, of course, because the way it's being presented that
• 25:09
  Speaker 1: the player is a selfish brat because he played music
• 25:13
  Speaker 1: after a loss.
• 25:15
  Speaker 3: And the whole thing.
• 25:17
  Speaker 1: You know, again, it's about presentation, use some critical thinking,
• 25:21
  Speaker 1: give me a break.
• 25:22
  Speaker 3: And again the guy I'm not saying the guy's, you know,
• 25:25
  Speaker 3: a saint.
• 25:25
  Speaker 1: He's probably a knucklehead. And as he's said, he takes
• 25:29
  Speaker 1: everything personally.
• 25:30
  Speaker 3: And all that. But I will garrion effin to you.
• 25:33
  Speaker 1: If Nick Castianos was hitting three hundred with forty home
• 25:37
  Speaker 1: runs a year and driving in one hundred runs a
• 25:38
  Speaker 1: game and hitting forty five doubles a year, he would
• 25:41
  Speaker 1: be called a rare competitor, a rare competitor, and the
• 25:44
  Speaker 1: life of the party, the soul of the team.
• 25:48
  Speaker 3: However, he's not.
• 25:49
  Speaker 1: He's an average ballplayer who's being paid twenty million dollars
• 25:53
  Speaker 1: a year. And has turned into a pumpkin in the
• 25:56
  Speaker 1: playoffs as a Philly. I think he's hit like to
• 26:00
  Speaker 1: a little over two hundred in the playoffs, and the
• 26:02
  Speaker 1: power numbers aren't good and all that stuff.
• 26:04
  Speaker 3: That is the real crime here. That is the real car. Again.
• 26:07
  Speaker 1: You can be the biggest a hole in the world
• 26:12
  Speaker 1: as long as you produce, and when that stops. It's
• 26:15
  Speaker 1: just how it works.
• 26:16
  Speaker 3: We all know that.
• 26:17
  Speaker 1: When it's it goes with any business. I've been in
• 26:20
  Speaker 1: the radio business my entire doll life. We've had some
• 26:23
  Speaker 1: people that have passed through this building that were mourning,
• 26:25
  Speaker 1: people who were complete I can't I want to curse.
• 26:29
  Speaker 1: I can't say what they were. Bad people, bad dudes.
• 26:32
  Speaker 1: But they got ratings. They made money for the company,
• 26:34
  Speaker 1: so they kept the moment the ratings went down, the
• 26:37
  Speaker 1: moment of.
• 26:37
  Speaker 3: The affiliates weren't happy. They give him the boot. Get
• 26:39
  Speaker 3: out of here, go away, you're done with you.
• 26:42
  Speaker 1: That's what happens. It happens in any business. But in baseball,
• 26:46
  Speaker 1: if you're mid you're mad. You're a prima donna. If
• 26:50
  Speaker 1: you're elite, you're just a character. Oh he's such a character.
• 26:53
  Speaker 1: Oh he likes to drink beer in the dugout, he
• 26:56
  Speaker 1: plays it out in music.
• 26:58
  Speaker 3: He's an individual.
• 27:00
  Speaker 1: Yeah, they're only killing him now because the production dried up,
• 27:06
  Speaker 1: and so they had to make it clear that this
• 27:08
  Speaker 1: is we're paying twenty million dollars to this guy to
• 27:10
  Speaker 1: go away, and he sucks, and so this is what
• 27:14
  Speaker 1: he's done and get out here all right now, turning
• 27:17
  Speaker 1: the page to what's next for the player that just
• 27:21
  Speaker 1: got absolutely given the guillotine by a Philly scribe.
• 27:26
  Speaker 3: I'm sure that was not hand.
• 27:28
  Speaker 1: Delivered by the Philadelphia Phillies PR people anyway. Question, you
• 27:32
  Speaker 1: are the unofficial career counselor congratulations, you're the career counselor
• 27:38
  Speaker 1: what is your advice to Nick Castianos after he was
• 27:42
  Speaker 1: just excommunicated from the Philadelphia Phillies.
• 27:46
  Speaker 3: So what is your advice? Now? I'm really good at
• 27:48
  Speaker 3: giving out advice.
• 27:49
  Speaker 1: I sit here at the bully pulpit and give out
• 27:51
  Speaker 1: advice for four hours a night, five days a week,
• 27:53
  Speaker 1: and an hour a day on the weekends on the
• 27:55
  Speaker 1: Fifth Hour podcast. But as a baseball refugee, which is
• 27:59
  Speaker 1: what this guy is, obviously, he's at a crossroads. He's
• 28:02
  Speaker 1: at the old fork in the road all that to
• 28:05
  Speaker 1: the right. If you look off to the right the sign,
• 28:10
  Speaker 1: I don't know if you can see it because there's
• 28:11
  Speaker 1: some some fog.
• 28:12
  Speaker 3: But if you look, is that fog or is that
• 28:14
  Speaker 3: steam from hell?
• 28:17
  Speaker 1: But if you look, it says right there at the sign,
• 28:21
  Speaker 1: it's highway Voodoo Bugaloo is the highway, and that's off
• 28:26
  Speaker 1: to the right. Now if you if you look the
• 28:27
  Speaker 1: other way, if you look the other way, that's uh, that's.
• 28:31
  Speaker 3: The waiting Highway. And it's like for the waiting game.
• 28:34
  Speaker 1: So the Phillies plausively tried to trade this guy Castilios
• 28:40
  Speaker 1: all off season. Nobody wanted because he's got the cooties,
• 28:43
  Speaker 1: and the cooties are he's making a lot of money.
• 28:46
  Speaker 1: He's a defensive liability, and he's not hitting as much
• 28:49
  Speaker 1: as he did in the past, and he's like.
• 28:51
  Speaker 3: A glorified d h at this point.
• 28:54
  Speaker 1: He treats the glove and the baseball like it's a
• 28:56
  Speaker 1: hot potato.
• 28:57
  Speaker 3: It's not good.
• 28:58
  Speaker 1: So my advice, as the the unofficial career counselor unofficial
• 29:03
  Speaker 1: career counselor through the magic the powers of talk radio,
• 29:07
  Speaker 1: the advice here is to sit in your jacuzzi and
• 29:10
  Speaker 1: drink your Presidente beer and just wait through the first
• 29:16
  Speaker 1: three weeks of spring training.
• 29:18
  Speaker 3: Games are going to begin.
• 29:19
  Speaker 1: In a couple of weeks, you wait for the spring
• 29:21
  Speaker 1: training games to begin, and then somewhere, whether it's in
• 29:25
  Speaker 1: Florida or Arizona, a outfielder, a designated hitter will have
• 29:31
  Speaker 1: the HGW hammy go whammy. And when the hammy go whammy,
• 29:38
  Speaker 1: the phone starts a ring and the text messages start
• 29:41
  Speaker 1: coming in. Now, if you cannot wait, if you don't
• 29:43
  Speaker 1: want to play the waiting game, you could plausibly convince
• 29:46
  Speaker 1: a team like the Podres or the Blue Jays to
• 29:49
  Speaker 1: take a flyer on you. Now, if you're really really impatient,
• 29:54
  Speaker 1: then you can go play for a pretender like the
• 29:57
  Speaker 1: White Sox or some other rotten team.
• 30:00
  Speaker 3: Like the Nationals, and go knock yourself out.
• 30:02
  Speaker 1: It's a soft landing spot, it's a pillow fort, and
• 30:06
  Speaker 1: you'd go there for half the season and then and
• 30:09
  Speaker 1: they'd flip you with the deadline, And of course, in
• 30:13
  Speaker 1: order for that to happen, try not to bat one
• 30:15
  Speaker 1: thirty six we're heading into the trade deadline, because that
• 30:20
  Speaker 1: would be problematic.
• 30:21
  Speaker 3: Otherwise you're not a trade ship.
• 30:22
  Speaker 1: You're just a hazardous waste spill and nobody wants that.
• 30:26
  Speaker 3: All right, final.
• 30:27
  Speaker 1: Point, We now go to a viral story from the
• 30:30
  Speaker 1: Bay Area. It kind of evolves gambling. Some random person
• 30:35
  Speaker 1: on the TikTok went viral after traveling to the Bay
• 30:40
  Speaker 1: Area and what appears to be loitering around outside Levi's
• 30:46
  Speaker 1: stadium with a high powered microphone. Now, they were not
• 30:50
  Speaker 1: there for the Super Bowl. This was in the lead
• 30:52
  Speaker 1: up to the Super Bowl and they were out there
• 30:56
  Speaker 1: pretty much all afternoon for Charlie Pooh's Super Bowl anthem rehearsal.
• 31:03
  Speaker 1: And so, yeah, you probably know where this is going,
• 31:05
  Speaker 1: you do, Okay, Yeah, So this this dude was out
• 31:08
  Speaker 1: there and he had the high powered microphone. He's waiting
• 31:10
  Speaker 1: for the anthem rehearsal. He of course timed it and
• 31:15
  Speaker 1: that enabled him to win a bet. He timed the
• 31:18
  Speaker 1: the anthem rehearsal for Charlie Pooth and it was under
• 31:23
  Speaker 1: and of course people have ripping him.
• 31:24
  Speaker 3: Oh that's insider trading. You can't do that. What are
• 31:27
  Speaker 3: you doing?
• 31:29
  Speaker 1: And suppose it from what I read, he turned one
• 31:31
  Speaker 1: hundred dollars bet on the prediction market into a thousand dollars.
• 31:37
  Speaker 3: I don't even know if that's possible. I didn't look
• 31:39
  Speaker 3: at it.
• 31:39
  Speaker 1: I don't pay much attention to the anthem bet, but
• 31:42
  Speaker 1: that's what I read. Of Course, I would argue that
• 31:45
  Speaker 1: if you knew that well that the time was.
• 31:48
  Speaker 3: Going to be under, why would you only bet one hundredllars?
• 31:50
  Speaker 3: Why wouldn't you be more?
• 31:51
  Speaker 1: All right, question, did this random TikTok guy crossed the
• 31:56
  Speaker 1: line with insider trading by timing out the national anthem
• 32:02
  Speaker 1: rehearsals before Super Bowl sixty for betting purposes?
• 32:06
  Speaker 3: All right? So I don't even know.
• 32:07
  Speaker 1: This is a question, like I saw something stop insider trading.
• 32:12
  Speaker 1: We're not talking about the stock exchange here. It's he
• 32:16
  Speaker 1: wasn't in the stadium. He was outside the stadium. It's
• 32:19
  Speaker 1: a football game with fireworks and flyovers, and he's timed out.
• 32:24
  Speaker 1: He brought a stop watching, a big microphone thing of
• 32:28
  Speaker 1: a jig and all that, and it's not insider trading
• 32:31
  Speaker 1: for us. He was outside, so I guess it was
• 32:33
  Speaker 1: outsider trading. But he used the rehearsal to beat the
• 32:36
  Speaker 1: prop And whose fault is that if the curtain is
• 32:41
  Speaker 1: open and you can see how they do the magic trick.
• 32:45
  Speaker 1: Don't blame the audience for watching. It's not criminal, it's capitalism.
• 32:50
  Speaker 1: You know, it's smart.
• 32:52
  Speaker 3: This is not the first time this has happened.
• 32:54
  Speaker 1: This has happened many times over the years, and the
• 32:57
  Speaker 1: sportsbooks hate it because it exposes loophole and these anthem props.
• 33:03
  Speaker 1: It's like carnival games. It's a three card monty wrapped
• 33:06
  Speaker 1: in old glory. Wrap yourself in old glory. You leave
• 33:09
  Speaker 1: rehearsal wa open because even if it's a dome stadium,
• 33:14
  Speaker 1: most Super Bowls were played in domes.
• 33:15
  Speaker 3: This was an outdoor stadium.
• 33:18
  Speaker 1: There's always somebody in there cleaning something or adjusting something,
• 33:23
  Speaker 1: and they are able to hear the anthem and they
• 33:25
  Speaker 1: can time it and all that stuff. So they exposes
• 33:28
  Speaker 1: the carnival game that is the anthem, and you leave
• 33:32
  Speaker 1: the rehearsal wide open, and someone's going to time it
• 33:35
  Speaker 1: like it's the Olympic Trials, and this person did. And
• 33:39
  Speaker 1: of course you can't keep anything quiet. You have to
• 33:41
  Speaker 1: do it for clout, so you have to post about it.
• 33:44
  Speaker 1: It's next level dedication for clicks. Yes, it's why they
• 33:48
  Speaker 1: put caps on how much you can bet on the
• 33:52
  Speaker 1: gambling sites I don't know about the I'm not really
• 33:54
  Speaker 1: two up on the prediction market. I haven't gotten into
• 33:56
  Speaker 1: that much. But it's they put limits on it. They
• 34:00
  Speaker 1: protect themselves. It's classified information, and it is obviously different.
• 34:05
  Speaker 1: The ecosystem is different on the prediction market. If this
• 34:08
  Speaker 1: is though a crime, like, shouldn't you have to lock
• 34:12
  Speaker 1: up everyone that does the weather? Don't they check the
• 34:15
  Speaker 1: radar before they give you the weather?
• 34:17
  Speaker 3: Shoot, you check the radar, You check the radar. You
• 34:20
  Speaker 3: should just know the weather. What's wrong with you? Oh
• 34:22
  Speaker 3: my god? There you go.
• 34:24
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• 34:30
  Speaker 3: Here we go, how about that? To the third degree.
• 34:38
  Speaker 6: The Ravens are starting a new era in Baltimore, and
• 34:40
  Speaker 6: a lot of that is thanks to Lamar Jackson. The
• 34:42
  Speaker 6: former MVP wasn't himself last season and the new regimes
• 34:44
  Speaker 6: hoping to get him back on track. You think Jackson
• 34:47
  Speaker 6: will ever get back to MVP for.
• 34:48
  Speaker 1: Him, No, he will not win another MVP, but he
• 34:51
  Speaker 1: has to be better than he was this past year. Right.
• 34:53
  Speaker 3: He just looks like a broken.
• 34:55
  Speaker 1: Down guy and you can get away with that for
• 34:58
  Speaker 1: one year, but if you come back and that again,
• 35:00
  Speaker 1: all of a sudden, it's like and I still think
• 35:02
  Speaker 1: there's a chance they trade him, So.
• 35:03
  Speaker 3: I don't think it's out of the realm of possibility.
• 35:05
  Speaker 1: He's playing for another team this year, but yeah, he's
• 35:07
  Speaker 1: not gonna be an MVP again.
• 35:08
  Speaker 6: Next apparently Mark Cuban is looking to buy back controlling
• 35:11
  Speaker 6: share of the Mavericks by partnering with an investment group. Whoever,
• 35:14
  Speaker 6: the new owners made a statement this week saying it's
• 35:16
  Speaker 6: uh making it clear that the team is not for
• 35:18
  Speaker 6: sale and in fact, they're trying to increase their equity.
• 35:20
  Speaker 3: But do you think this could get ugly?
• 35:23
  Speaker 1: Well, it's why did he sell the team for the
• 35:25
  Speaker 1: first play?
• 35:26
  Speaker 3: What are you thinking you had the team? Dummy? I mean,
• 35:30
  Speaker 3: I don't care. You shouldn't get the team back. You
• 35:32
  Speaker 3: sold it. Moren then they got rid of Luca because
• 35:34
  Speaker 3: of you.
• 35:34
  Speaker 6: Next, the finalists for the Pro Basketball Hall of Fame
• 35:37
  Speaker 6: have been announced, and Doc rivers as a finalist for
• 35:39
  Speaker 6: the second year in a row. I know you don't
• 35:41
  Speaker 6: think he deserves to get in, but do you think
• 35:43
  Speaker 6: there's a chance that he doesn't?
• 35:45
  Speaker 4: Uh?
• 35:45
  Speaker 3: No, He's gonna get in.
• 35:46
  Speaker 1: Everyone loves Doc Rivers and unless he coaches your team,
• 35:50
  Speaker 1: it's a joke.
• 35:52
  Speaker 3: The guy's are choke.
• 35:53
  Speaker 1: The greatest choke artist in coaching history, Doc Rivers.
• 35:56
  Speaker 3: Throw him cope. Ah, you pass it up, Doc, Doc
• 36:03
  Speaker 3: Rivers quick.
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  Speaker 2: to listen live Knock Knock, Who's there?
• 36:19
  Speaker 3: Blame weed Blame we too. It's Big Ben's lame joke
• 36:23
  Speaker 3: of the week. And away we go.
• 36:28
  Speaker 1: Hello to weed Man, hippie in Miami, Miami, wash you
• 36:32
  Speaker 1: Hollywood Ford to Hello, weed Man?
• 36:35
  Speaker 4: Love you laugh?
• 36:37
  Speaker 3: All right? You sound addressed?
• 36:38
  Speaker 1: Can you?
• 36:39
  Speaker 3: Can you say hello to hollering James. He wants to
• 36:42
  Speaker 3: talk to you. James say hello to weed Man real quick, James, Hey, Howard, James?
• 36:48
  Speaker 1: Hey?
• 36:48
  Speaker 4: We then rowing Man?
• 36:52
  Speaker 1: Good? Okay, all right, go away, James, why do we
• 36:57
  Speaker 1: do that? Okay, that was dumb, bad job by me. Anyway,
• 36:59
  Speaker 1: here we know these are actual jokes. Are you ready,
• 37:01
  Speaker 1: weed Man?
• 37:02
  Speaker 3: Yeah? Everything, okay, sound a little bit press today.
• 37:05
  Speaker 1: You know you're not as jolly as you or he's
• 37:08
  Speaker 1: a jolly good fellow, which nobody can and I why
• 37:11
  Speaker 1: did why did weed go? Why did weed Man Hippie
• 37:16
  Speaker 1: decide not not to go to the dairy farm slash
• 37:22
  Speaker 1: weed dispensary?
• 37:24
  Speaker 3: Why he thought? Butter of it? Our buddy Darryl and
• 37:32
  Speaker 3: the Ozarks.
• 37:33
  Speaker 1: Did you see weed Man was on the ice after
• 37:36
  Speaker 1: the USA Olympic Hockey game the other day?
• 37:39
  Speaker 3: Wow? Really?
• 37:41
  Speaker 1: Yeah?
• 37:41
  Speaker 3: You were?
• 37:41
  Speaker 1: You were scouring the eyes for lost teeth to make
• 37:45
  Speaker 1: set adventures.
• 37:46
  Speaker 3: That's Joe and Virginia Beach. Where's your teeth? And we
• 37:51
  Speaker 3: weed Man? Why why should you wear a cape? Weed Man? Why?
• 37:56
  Speaker 3: Because you're super dumb?
• 37:57
  Speaker 1: That's Lucky Tony in the Bay Areas at that one
• 38:00
  Speaker 1: in but youre weed Man? Cut a radio commercial for
• 38:05
  Speaker 1: his local used car dealership.
• 38:08
  Speaker 3: Wow. Really yeah.
• 38:09
  Speaker 1: The commercial said, on the value of your trade in
• 38:13
  Speaker 1: when they go low, we get high. That's Tom in Indiana.
• 38:20
  Speaker 3: All right. What does weed Man Hippie see in the
• 38:22
  Speaker 3: mirror every morning?
• 38:24
  Speaker 2: What?
• 38:26
  Speaker 1: Well, besides another useless day ahead? Absolutely nothing? That's not right,
• 38:30
  Speaker 1: John and Youngstoin, Ohio.
• 38:32
  Speaker 3: Dare you well? That's not funny? That's right? Jeanie. Did
• 38:36
  Speaker 3: you hear that Cupid is going to drop off some
• 38:39
  Speaker 3: gifts for weed Man hippie. Wow.
• 38:42
  Speaker 1: Really yeah, yeah, you're getting a case of heartburn, a
• 38:45
  Speaker 1: box of chicklets, and a heart shaped urinal cake.
• 38:48
  Speaker 3: So congratulations on that. Andy in Lionel Lakes, Minnesota.
• 38:52
  Speaker 1: What did weed Man say when he made a try sexual?
• 38:56
  Speaker 1: What he's willing to try anything? That's surf for Todd
• 39:00
  Speaker 1: the comedian, He said that one in Daryl from the
• 39:05
  Speaker 1: Ozarks said, what's the only candy bar weed Man hippie has.
• 39:08
  Speaker 3: Ever seen or has never seen? Actually?
• 39:13
  Speaker 1: Pay day, pay day, payday is the candy bar. That's
• 39:19
  Speaker 1: Daryl again. Why did weed Man move into an apartment?
• 39:23
  Speaker 3: Why? He was thinking outside the box. That's Mike. What
• 39:32
  Speaker 3: does weed Man have a date for Valentine's Day?
• 39:36
  Speaker 2: Wow?
• 39:38
  Speaker 1: Well, yes, yes, he knows. It's always on February fourteenth,
• 39:42
  Speaker 1: That's what he knows. That's Mike, Mike the leper gun.
• 39:45
  Speaker 1: Why would weed Man be a good slalom skier?
• 39:50
  Speaker 3: Why?
• 39:51
  Speaker 1: Well, his adult life has been all downhill, zigging and
• 39:55
  Speaker 1: zagging at every turn.
• 39:56
  Speaker 3: That's true, right, weed Man? You bet a zigg and
• 39:58
  Speaker 3: zag a lot?
• 39:59
  Speaker 1: Yeah? Well, well, what is the what is the best
• 40:01
  Speaker 1: Valentine's Day present? Weed Man's wife Lisa gave him. Why
• 40:06
  Speaker 1: that one way bus ticket to Miami. What a sweetheart?
• 40:10
  Speaker 1: That's eg in Roseville, Minnesota. Why is Lisa still waiting
• 40:15
  Speaker 1: for Valentine.
• 40:16
  Speaker 3: From weed Man? Why? Well, apparently we man got shot
• 40:21
  Speaker 3: with by by stupid arrows. I guess that's the problem.
• 40:24
  Speaker 3: That's true in Minnesota. Why.
• 40:28
  Speaker 1: Why has weed Man been identifying himself as blind hippie?
• 40:33
  Speaker 1: Why because after seeing his reflection in the mirror, he
• 40:37
  Speaker 1: was blinded by the blight.
• 40:39
  Speaker 3: Blinded by the blind.
• 40:43
  Speaker 1: What's what's weed Man's favorite form of potato?
• 40:47
  Speaker 3: What a baked potato. He's a big fan of baked potato.
• 40:51
  Speaker 3: There loves that.
• 40:51
  Speaker 1: That's Noah in Austin. That sounds pretty good. What toy
• 40:56
  Speaker 1: looks like the most? Like Mike the Leprechaun? Why, mister
• 41:01
  Speaker 1: potato head? That's Eric in Kansas? Who said that one?
• 41:04
  Speaker 6: In there?
• 41:06
  Speaker 1: Fine?
• 41:07
  Speaker 3: Oh, here we go.
• 41:07
  Speaker 1: Here's the one about Nostre Denis's wife forty nine or
• 41:10
  Speaker 1: Frank said this one, and people should have You shouldn't
• 41:13
  Speaker 1: have a problem with no St Denis's wife being a vegan.
• 41:16
  Speaker 1: Why you can't have a beef with her?
• 41:24
  Speaker 3: All right? That's a forty nine fact.
• 41:26
  Speaker 1: What does blind Scott have in common with Nick Castianos What?
• 41:31
  Speaker 3: Everyone hates him too.
• 41:32
  Speaker 1: Everyone hates That's not Come on, we man, thank you,
• 41:36
  Speaker 1: We have a great weekend, buddy.
• 41:38
  Speaker 3: Enjoyia Valentine Day. Lie. There you go, weed man, hippie