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Hour 1 - Made For TV · The Ben Maller Show

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Speaker 1: Here we go. Welcome. It's our number one, our number
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Speaker 1: one of the original Recipe podcast. This the NBA Power Hour.
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Speaker 1: I've been told it's the biggest story in sports the
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Speaker 1: last twenty four hours, So we'll start with that. What
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Speaker 1: stood out about Luca Donsik's first matchup against his former team,
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Speaker 1: the Mavericks. The game was in La, it was not
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Speaker 1: in Dallas. Also, Celtics star Jason Tatum still feels like
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Speaker 1: he doesn't get the credit he deserves. Tatum said flat
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Speaker 1: out no when asked by a scribe if he feels
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Speaker 1: appreciated for his accomplishments at this point in his career.
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Speaker 1: Do you have empathy for Tatum? And Jimmy Butler? Jimmy
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Speaker 1: Buckets feels the Warriors are the best organization he's played for.
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Speaker 1: How does that vibe with you? We'll get to all
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Speaker 1: that and more right now here. It is our number one,
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Speaker 1: a made for TV extravaganza, or so they they say.
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Speaker 1: I know that so many people have reached out a
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Speaker 1: fan of the show. They're very excited about the Benny's
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Speaker 1: which are coming up this weekend, and people trying to
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Speaker 1: manipulate the vote, you know, pointing out that they did
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Speaker 1: things that were more impressive than other people that have
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Speaker 1: been nominated for awards. So I'm dealing with that. Fortunately,
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Speaker 1: I haven't really written back to many of you idiots,
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Speaker 1: but there is a online x vote if you want
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Speaker 1: to vote for these social media contributors. Three rounds, so
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Speaker 1: it's round one. We're gonna whittle it down from I
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Speaker 1: think we started with thirty six there were four buys,
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Speaker 1: and then we've got thirty two slots, and we'll get
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Speaker 1: whittled that down and then eventually we'll get down to
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Speaker 1: the champion, the winner of the Benny Award for X contributions.
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Speaker 1: But our lead this hour. Don't bare the lead, my man,
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Speaker 1: as one of our big muckety MUCKs has said, over
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Speaker 1: the years, don't bear lead. It's our lead. This hour
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Speaker 1: is from just adjacent to skid row. The Lakers for
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Speaker 1: all the glitz and glamour play and the arm of
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Speaker 1: Los Angeles, horrible place where they play, and that was
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Speaker 1: where the showcase game of the night. And I've been
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Speaker 1: told this is a big deal and I need to
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Speaker 1: talk about If I don't talk about it, I'm doing
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Speaker 1: a bad job. I don't want to do a bad job.
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Speaker 1: So I will talk a little regular season pro bouncy ball,
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Speaker 1: something I tried to avoid at all costs. But here
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Speaker 1: we are, as far as the games are concerned. Souka.
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Speaker 1: Luca Donzig matching up against his old buddies, his teammates
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Speaker 1: is forever team that kicked him to the curb, said
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Speaker 1: bye bye as Dallas. Now, this game would have been
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Speaker 1: much more exciting had it been in Texas, but it
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Speaker 1: was in LA and that was the first time Luca
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Speaker 1: took on his former team there since the trade. I
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Speaker 1: don't know if you saw any of this. It was
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Speaker 1: nationally broadcast on Turner. They had the game there. I
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Speaker 1: watched you did I don't know, maybe not? Maybe you know,
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Speaker 1: I watched it for you. It's my good mits for
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Speaker 1: the day. So we took one for the team. We
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Speaker 1: did watch this game, and Luca I didn't have a
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Speaker 1: gaudy stat line in terms of, you know, score for
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Speaker 1: forty or fifty points or anything like that, but you
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Speaker 1: did have a triple double nineteen points, fifteen rebounds and
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Speaker 1: twelve assists and a partridge in a pear tree and
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Speaker 1: the Lakers barely squeezing by a game that was tight
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Speaker 1: up in the fourth quarter with a few minutes to go,
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Speaker 1: and the Lakers end up beating the MAVs one oh
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Speaker 1: seven to ninety nine. So let us discuss the question
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Speaker 1: for the esteem panels you're part of. You're part of
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Speaker 1: the esteem panel. What stood out? What stood out about
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Speaker 1: Luka Donzik's first matchup against his former team, the mav Rex.
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Speaker 1: So I've got serenaded yellow pages and top rope. I'll
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Speaker 1: explain what the yellow pages are. For those of you
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Speaker 1: that have no idea what the yellow pages are, I'll
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Speaker 1: explain now. A let's start out being forced I'm getting
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Speaker 1: paid for it, so I'm not really forced to do this.
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Speaker 1: But watching the Mavericks and the Lakers, my first takeaway
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Speaker 1: was not impressed with the Lakers. I was told this
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Speaker 1: is God's gift to basketball when they beat the Denver
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Speaker 1: Nuggets over the weekend and people were upset and talking
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Speaker 1: about it. So I was like, well, the Lakers probably
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Speaker 1: should win this game by what forty points? I mean,
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Speaker 1: Dallas blows right, They're not very good, they don't have
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Speaker 1: a bunch of guys, and yet I'm watching it and
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Speaker 1: you had the flotsam and jetsum for Dallas. Yet Kyrie
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Speaker 1: Irving the fossil of Klay Thompson, and I don't know
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Speaker 1: who any of these other guys are. I mean, a
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Speaker 1: bunch of stiffs, and yet they were going blow for
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Speaker 1: blow with the Lakers. It was a tie game in
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Speaker 1: the fourth quarter, and so by Mike count and I
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Speaker 1: stopped counting. Actually ran into the Great Steve de Sager
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Speaker 1: in the hallways. We have virtual to saga all night,
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Speaker 1: but I ran into him as he was exiting the
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Speaker 1: building here and we were trying to go over our
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Speaker 1: notes here, and I said, I counted at least twelve
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Speaker 1: wide open three point shots that Dallas missed wide open.
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Speaker 1: So I don't is that good Laker defense? Just leave
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Speaker 1: him open, let him miss. Maybe that is I don't know.
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Speaker 1: Some of the things I jotted down on the notes
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Speaker 1: thing on my iPhone watching this game, some random observations.
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Speaker 1: Lebron James, for the second time at least this season,
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Speaker 1: airballed a free throw. He did this against the people's team,
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Speaker 1: the Clippers at the Intuit Dome, the greatest arena in
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Speaker 1: Los Angeles, Grissrine and basketball. So Lebron in the fourth
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Speaker 1: quarter airball the foul shot. Did Jordan ever? Maybe he did?
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Speaker 1: Maybe did Jordan airball the fous shot? I don't know.
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Speaker 1: I have no idea. And that is something I would
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Speaker 1: give Lebron credit. That is something that is very relatable
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Speaker 1: to every man, woman and child, to airball a foul shot.
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Speaker 1: We can all do that thousand percent. We can all
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Speaker 1: do that. Also, it's good to know, despite my tough
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Speaker 1: love of the Laker franchise over the years, that the
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Speaker 1: EXAUS executives over there are closeted p ones, that the
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Speaker 1: Laker people are closeted p ones. Now, how did I
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Speaker 1: determine that means playing. We have ranted multiple times on
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Speaker 1: this program that since Luca came to the Lakers that
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Speaker 1: the yellow uniforms the Lakers wear are unbecoming for Luca.
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Speaker 1: He's a chubby chubby And so they put them in
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Speaker 1: mouthball and mothballs is the word I'm looking for. They
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Speaker 1: put them in mothballs for the game against the Mavericks
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Speaker 1: there and they wore their weird, ugly like third jersey
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Speaker 1: purple thing is what they had on there. But that
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Speaker 1: is validation, Okay, that is validation that Luca looks like
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Speaker 1: an obese lemonhead candy in the gold Laker uniform. And
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Speaker 1: as fashionistas have pointed out, if you wear the color
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Speaker 1: yellow and your fat, you look even fatter. You just
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Speaker 1: do right. Yellow makes you appear larger because it reflects
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Speaker 1: more light and thus makes the body seem bigger. So
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Speaker 1: Luca looked a little more in shape, even though it's
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Speaker 1: all an optical illusion and all that. Now, I will
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Speaker 1: do the rare and appropriate, rare and appropriate tip of
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Speaker 1: the cap to the Laker historians. There was something that
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Speaker 1: took place here that I chuckled at and I thought,
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Speaker 1: you know what, that's a good job by you, and
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Speaker 1: I am fair. People think I'm just a critic and
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Speaker 1: I just take potshots here behind the microphone and I unload.
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Speaker 1: I'm never Benny Brightside, but I will be Benny bright Side.
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Speaker 1: I will tip the cap to my mortal enemy, the
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Speaker 1: Laker historians, because I chuckled multiple times throughout the game
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Speaker 1: when Luca was at the foul line, and the Laker
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Speaker 1: historians got into a like a Krooner position of you
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Speaker 1: where they were serenading Nico Harrison, the Dallas general manager,
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Speaker 1: who will be unemployed and should probably get just hired
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Speaker 1: by the Lakers at some point here, I would think
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Speaker 1: I'll get a job in the Laker from office. But
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Speaker 1: that boob, Nico Harrison, who is being blamed for now,
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Speaker 1: is the one that was solely responsible for the trade,
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Speaker 1: which not really a trade of Luca to the Lakers,
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Speaker 1: and so the historians decided to serenade Luca. I think
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Speaker 1: we do we have that. I think we have to
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Speaker 1: take a listen here, this is a little clip here,
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Speaker 1: think a little.
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Speaker 2: Bit, now.
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Speaker 1: You Nico, Thank you Nico. I love rhythmic chanting. Yeah,
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Speaker 1: thank you Nico. Now I chuckle when that happened and
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Speaker 1: It happened multiple times, and some were kind of light,
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Speaker 1: other times it was a little louder. I did appreciate, though,
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Speaker 1: the fact that that is an admission by the Laker
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Speaker 1: historians that this was not a trade. This was a
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Speaker 1: train heist. It was not a trade. It was a
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Speaker 1: train heist, and so they're admitting them by thanking Nico.
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Speaker 1: They're realizing this is not really a trade. A trade
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Speaker 1: is where you know quid pro quo. You don't trade
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Speaker 1: a broken down stiff like Anthony Davis for someone in
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Speaker 1: the prime of their career, which is what happened here. Now,
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Speaker 1: I would love to know how deep this goes. I
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Speaker 1: have one of my media buddies swears I think he's
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Speaker 1: wearing a tinfoil hat, but he swears to me that
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Speaker 1: this goes above Nico Harrison, above Maverick ownership. That when
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Speaker 1: they agreed to buy the team from Mark Cuban, this
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Speaker 1: is like part of some grand plan where the NBA
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Speaker 1: TV contracts, that they agreed to the new TV deal
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Speaker 1: which kicks in with NBC and Amazon next year and
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Speaker 1: they will continue with ESPN, that they had to prop
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Speaker 1: up the Laker franchise, that the Lakers fomp an old
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Speaker 1: man lebron On forty years old. So my buddy's convinced
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Speaker 1: that this came at the league office on Fifth Avenue
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Speaker 1: in Manhattan. They're like, hey, we got to do a
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Speaker 1: solid we got to make sure the Lakers have a
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Speaker 1: young star, and we'll just well, this is the way
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Speaker 1: we're gonna do it. Now. That's his theory. Other people
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Speaker 1: agree with that. I believe it will all come out
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Speaker 1: at some point. But if the NBA had a real commissioner,
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Speaker 1: and let's say the NBA didn't do that that Adam
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Speaker 1: Silver was not involved half man, half alien, Adam Silver.
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Speaker 1: If that didn't happen that way and they had a
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Speaker 1: real commissioner, the trade would have been voided because they
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Speaker 1: the NBA used to have a real commissioner named David
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Speaker 1: Stern back in the day, and he voided the Chris
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Speaker 1: Paul trade because it was lopsided. All right, now we
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Speaker 1: go to Boston, of all places, these Seas are yet
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Speaker 1: again one of the NBA's top teams after winning the championship. However,
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Speaker 1: boo hoo, who says Celtics star Jason Tatum, he still
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Speaker 1: feels Jason Tatum, he still feels that he doesn't get
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Speaker 1: the proper do he doesn't get the proper credit? Tatum
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Speaker 1: was asked about that. He said flat out no, when
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Speaker 1: asked to by a scribe, a basketball scribe, if he
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Speaker 1: feels appreciated for his individual accomplishments in a Celtic uniform
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Speaker 1: at this point in his career. And so I asked
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Speaker 1: the question, do you have empathy for Jason Tatum who
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Speaker 1: feels sad because he's not getting enough of his ass
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Speaker 1: kissed by the basketball media and fans. So I give
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Speaker 1: this one a shoulder shrug and I just kind of
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Speaker 1: shrugged my shoulders on this. It is another self inflicted
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Speaker 1: wound by Jason Tatum. Another self inflicted wound by Jason Tatum.
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Speaker 1: Overly self conscious is unbecoming. And maybe it happened, and
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Speaker 1: I don't recall it, but in my memory, I don't
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Speaker 1: ever remember Michael Jordan or Kobe Bryant or players of
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Speaker 1: that ILK complaining because they were worried about the perception
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Speaker 1: of other people. I don't recall that. Maybe it happened,
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Speaker 1: but Tatum last I checked, and who knows, Maybe I'm
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Speaker 1: wrong on this. He's still writing the manuscript and so
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Speaker 1: you don't get your flowers until the story is complete.
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Speaker 1: The story is not complete. And my malord advice, my
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Speaker 1: malord advice is be like the old slogan. They used
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Speaker 1: to be this thing before the Internet, called the Yellow
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Speaker 1: Pages where you needed it to get phone numbers and
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Speaker 1: things like that, before everyone started texting everyone and the
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Speaker 1: Internet was around, and so their slogan was let your
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Speaker 1: fingers do the talking. So Jason Tatum, let your body
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Speaker 1: of work speak for itself. And as we pointed out
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Speaker 1: many times, if you are one of the all time grades,
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Speaker 1: you don't have to tell people you are. They will
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Speaker 1: tell everyone else for you. But that's not what's going
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Speaker 1: on here. The Celtics did break through there the reigning
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Speaker 1: champions of the NBA, and Jason Tatum was upstaged by
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Speaker 1: Jalen Brown in that playoff run, then embarrassed himself after
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Speaker 1: the series ended by taking a bunch of quotes from
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Speaker 1: other players and repackaging them as his own. It's like
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Speaker 1: he went through the NBA archive of what you say
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Speaker 1: when you win a championship and let me repeat that.
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Speaker 1: But Tatum in those playoff games was the beta, not
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Speaker 1: the alpha. And there was that stat I remember we
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Speaker 1: talked about on the show. The first eight NBA Finals
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Speaker 1: games Jason Tatum played in his career, he had the
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Speaker 1: worst shooting percentage in history for anyone with one hundred
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Speaker 1: and fifty shot attempts in that In that sport, he
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Speaker 1: plays a style that lacks a lot of rasmatas. While efficient,
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Speaker 1: it lacks the rasmataz the way Jason Tatum plays. And
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Speaker 1: let's also not forget Steve Kirk benched him in the
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Speaker 1: Olympic run that Jason Tatum was an afterthought. He was
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Speaker 1: getting hemorrhoids on the bench during that Olympic run. Right now,
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Speaker 1: last word to the Bay Area where the Golden State
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Speaker 1: Warriors took on the Charlotte basketball team and they put
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Speaker 1: the Hornets on a shish kebab. They beat Charlotte by
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Speaker 1: thirty six points on Tuesday while the Lakers were playing
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Speaker 1: the mav Rex. So that seems like a pretty big
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Speaker 1: win thirty six points and Golden State improved to six
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Speaker 1: and one. Since they picked up Jimmy Buckets, They're winning
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Speaker 1: by twenty plus points in pretty much all of these
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Speaker 1: games lately, and the early returns are pretty good now.
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Speaker 1: Jimmy Butler only had six points in that game. Didn't
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Speaker 1: have to play much because the game was over. Charlotte
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Speaker 1: should have just forfeited and saved everyone the trouble of
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Speaker 1: going out to the arena in San Francisco. But that's
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Speaker 1: not the story. The story, quick right, The story is
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Speaker 1: Jimmy Butler, who believes the Warriors are better than any
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Speaker 1: other organization. He has been a part of that. According
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Speaker 1: to Shams Sharania, the mouthpiece for Jimmy Buckets, fawning report
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Speaker 1: to fawning report to lick lick, lick, licklick, shoulder up
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Speaker 1: bubble bath from Sham Sharania, that Butler has been staying
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Speaker 1: late for shoot rounds and practices and spending extra time
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Speaker 1: to get to know his teammates in the meal room.
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Speaker 1: And he's going above and beyond the call of duty
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Speaker 1: to integrate himself with the Golden State basketball team. So,
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Speaker 1: Jimmy Butler, let's get to the money part of this.
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Speaker 1: So Jimmy Butler, a quoting to the story, feels the
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Speaker 1: Warriors are the best organization he's played for. So how
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Speaker 1: does that vibe with you? All right? So imagine, if
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Speaker 1: you will, imagine, if you will, Jimmy Buckets climbing up
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Speaker 1: to the top rope like your favorite professional wrestler and
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Speaker 1: bringing down the atomic elbow on pat Riley's forehead boom,
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Speaker 1: just like that. This is a personal beef. There was
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Speaker 1: an ugly divorce, Make no mistake, this is personal and
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Speaker 1: Jimmy Butler, who I like, I like the player, I
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Speaker 1: like Jimmy Butler. However, he is looking to send a
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Speaker 1: torpedo through the myth of the Heat culture. They want.
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Speaker 1: He wants to send that to the shadow realm, the
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Speaker 1: Heat called you know that whole nonsense about and it's
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Speaker 1: not really not. The Heat generally have gotten players off
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Speaker 1: the scrap heap that have been very effective, very good
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Speaker 1: pat Riley hand crafting over the years. Whatever Heat culture
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Speaker 1: is the commitment to winning, blue collar hard work, which
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Speaker 1: really was the embodiment of what Jimmy Butler had been
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Speaker 1: in Miami. And now Butler is claiming, after just a
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Speaker 1: couple of weeks with the team in San Francisco that that,
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Speaker 1: by the way, a team he didn't want to play for.
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Speaker 1: Remember he originally vetoed the trade and then the Warriors
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Speaker 1: tossed him some more dead presidents and then he's like,
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Speaker 1: I can get into that, I can get into that,
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Speaker 1: and so now they're head and shoulders above everyone else.
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Speaker 1: And he's played for a lot of teams, Minnesota, Chicago, Philadelphia,
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Speaker 1: He's bounced around, he's been on the Hobo Express, Jimmy
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Speaker 1: Butler around the NBA. All right, we're gonna open up
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Speaker 1: There's later this Houri, former NFL, former NFL, former NBA
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Speaker 1: star tossing out a wild conspiracy theory, one of the
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Speaker 1: crazier conspiracy theories we've heard in pro bouncy ball. We'll
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Speaker 1: get to that. Also, the kryptonite for Lebron and Luca.
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Speaker 1: There is apparently one person that is the kryptonite. We'll
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Speaker 1: explain what that's all about. We'll get to it. We'll
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Speaker 1: was she took somebody as r candy? Well, Brie took
20:49
Speaker 1: our candy. That's not right. I think I could have
20:52
Speaker 1: eaten that candy. I think it's lovely. Dare you? Anyways?
20:56
Speaker 1: I also today I got Last Forever Candy diamond candles.
21:01
Speaker 1: So in the candles are diamonds, so you you burn
21:05
Speaker 1: them down and there's jewelry inside. What the f are you?
21:10
Speaker 1: What is that? Hold it? Up forever with diamond candles
21:14
Speaker 1: I've never had. I got four of them. What kind
21:16
Speaker 1: of scam is this? I've never heard that. You ever
21:18
Speaker 1: heard of that? Coop diamond candles? Yeah? I have, really, Yeah,
21:22
Speaker 1: I got How pretty the box is. There's a lot
21:25
Speaker 1: of lights in here. It looks like a pink box
21:27
Speaker 1: with a photo like to sniff right. Uh, yeah, well,
21:30
Speaker 1: I don't know what that looks like. I don't know
21:33
Speaker 1: about that depends what I'm sniffing. Stop it please anyway?
21:37
Speaker 1: All right? Uh in the candle section, you got candles,
21:41
Speaker 1: You've got some other random, random stuff outstanding. Yes, well,
21:47
Speaker 1: there's the daily update on the life and times of Lorrain. Uh.
21:52
Speaker 1: Let's see who do we have you? Let's see page then.
21:55
Speaker 1: FIRG Dogs is getting a first round by for the
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Speaker 1: Benny social Media Contributor to the Year. Might do more
22:00
Speaker 1: harm than good, bet, I, along with the other three
22:04
Speaker 1: won't have any momentum any Yes, that will lead in
22:08
Speaker 1: round two of the online vote. Great point for dog
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Speaker 1: rust versus Rest. The rust versus Rest debate for the
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Speaker 1: online one so stupid. But you can't vote the social
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Speaker 1: media Contributor of the Year. And I put this up
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Speaker 1: six seven hours ago or something. As we're doing the
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Speaker 1: show in real time. There are literally so many people
22:34
Speaker 1: we couldn't even include everyone. And I always say there's
22:37
Speaker 1: only like seven or eight people that actually listened to
22:39
Speaker 1: the show, but we had so many people that have
22:42
Speaker 1: contributed over the last year to the content on the show,
22:46
Speaker 1: and there's only so many slots available. Otherwise this thing
22:49
Speaker 1: would go on and on. But it's the Social Media
22:51
Speaker 1: Contributor of the Year Benny Award, Round one. There are
22:55
Speaker 1: literally eight categories. Now I've noticed a number of people
22:58
Speaker 1: are voting for the first category and the second, and
23:01
Speaker 1: then and as we get all the way down, all
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Speaker 1: the way down to number number seven and not that
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Speaker 1: many eight, there's a lot, actually a fair amount. And
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Speaker 1: I'm looking at the early results here on the voting,
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Speaker 1: and I have noticed some of these. I tried to
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Speaker 1: spread everything out as much as I could because I thought, well,
23:20
Speaker 1: maybe we'll get some balance in here. I guess I
23:23
Speaker 1: screwed up because there's a lot of lopsided voting. I
23:26
Speaker 1: would say the closest bracket, what do you think of
23:29
Speaker 1: the closest one is maybe bracket five that appears to
23:34
Speaker 1: be somewhat within the margin and definitely bracket three. Bracket
23:39
Speaker 1: three is neck and neck. That is a very competitive
23:42
Speaker 1: bracket Bracket three. But you can check that out. It's
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Speaker 1: on the X page, my ex page. Follow me on
23:49
Speaker 1: there at Ben Mahlor And these are all the legends,
23:51
Speaker 1: and I read these names off every night. They send
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Speaker 1: stupid things in like Spacoli and I forty and Art
23:58
Speaker 1: Puffin and Bobby the Meredith fan and econ Roseville, Minnesota.
24:02
Speaker 1: You femi, all these legends of the show. Mister Luciano,
24:06
Speaker 1: mister Irrigation. There's a lot of misters h And we
24:10
Speaker 1: use the content for the show. And so you can
24:12
Speaker 1: vote on who you want and the top eight will
24:15
Speaker 1: advance and then we'll have the four first round byes.
24:18
Speaker 1: We'll put them in there. Yeah, Scrooge says, after years
24:22
Speaker 1: of voting, this year's Benny Awards may have been the
24:25
Speaker 1: hardest to vote for in terms of who to vote
24:28
Speaker 1: for and who not. All right, fair enough, let's see
24:32
Speaker 1: page down. Late night drug tester says, judging Luca's bloated
24:36
Speaker 1: look in the yellow jersey, I can safely say he
24:39
Speaker 1: has failed in taking his ozempic prescription. Yeah, I think
24:44
Speaker 1: he's his prescription is poutine. Uh, the great Canadian dish there. Now,
24:49
Speaker 1: by the way, coo, we're not gonna talk about this
24:51
Speaker 1: on there, but is there is there possibility? Could you
24:54
Speaker 1: think that's legit or bogus? A possible first ever Canadian
24:59
Speaker 1: malar meet mery? I think that's legitimate. You think we're
25:01
Speaker 1: getting punked here? What do you think? I mean? You
25:04
Speaker 1: got to investigate? Right, Yeah, I have reached out and replied,
25:08
Speaker 1: but uh, there's a there's a super fan of the show.
25:11
Speaker 1: That is his first time reaching out though, right, yeah, no,
25:15
Speaker 1: he says he He says, he emailed you a while back. Really, yeah,
25:18
Speaker 1: I better go check my email. If I wrote back,
25:21
Speaker 1: probably didn't. Yeah, all right, but uh but yeah I
25:25
Speaker 1: don't know the name. Okay, you know, just okay, you know,
25:28
Speaker 1: all right, Well, keep me posted on that because I'm
25:31
Speaker 1: trying to plan the schedule here. We're getting into almost
25:33
Speaker 1: into March, and so I gotta start playing in some
25:35
Speaker 1: of these mallor meet and grees. We're definitely doing Vegas, right,
25:37
Speaker 1: Everyone in on Vegas. We're all in on Vegas. Everyone's
25:39
Speaker 1: gonna go to Vegas. We'll do l A right. We
25:42
Speaker 1: we have a location the venue in La. So we'll
25:45
Speaker 1: do LA. That's two. I got to get to Ohio
25:47
Speaker 1: at some point. You guys probably won't go, but I
25:49
Speaker 1: got it. L Well, Ohio. But Dick and dateon Hello
25:54
Speaker 1: Dick and Dad. We got to go for the dixter.
25:56
Speaker 1: I would love to do. Yeah you can, oh man,
25:58
Speaker 1: I mean, oh he met you, Oh my goodness. So
26:01
Speaker 1: I'm definitely doing that at some point, most likely Columbus,
26:05
Speaker 1: although people are sending me messages and we'll go to
26:07
Speaker 1: Cincinnati that's where most of the people are. But I
26:09
Speaker 1: feel like Columbus is central. That's more central than if
26:13
Speaker 1: I go to Cincinnati. That's like northern Kentucky, as I
26:15
Speaker 1: pointed out. And then if I go to Cleveland, that's
26:19
Speaker 1: the northern part of Ohio. And so if I go there,
26:22
Speaker 1: then I'm like, well, people have to drive all the
26:23
Speaker 1: way up from Cincinnati. No one's going to do that.
26:25
Speaker 1: They don't like me that much to drive all the
26:27
Speaker 1: way uprom Cincinnati. But like Columbus is like middle groundery
26:31
Speaker 1: if you look at that. Actually was consulting with Arena
26:33
Speaker 1: because you're the queen of geography and you know the
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Speaker 1: state of Ohio map there. I love Ohio, as Dick
26:39
Speaker 1: and Dayton has pointed out, our great caller, that is
26:41
Speaker 1: a sovereign nation, Ohio. It is its own country, the
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Speaker 1: state of Ohio. And Dick has not left Ohio his
26:49
Speaker 1: entire life. That he's born and bred, and when he dies,
26:52
Speaker 1: he'll be Ohio dead and he loves it. Random Ryan
26:57
Speaker 1: and Carolina right since says a plus and a bo
26:59
Speaker 1: Jangles agent fial a biscuit on the opening Millet monologue.
27:03
Speaker 1: The NBA wanted Bronnie to be the story this year.
27:05
Speaker 1: That flamed out quick, so they resorted to more drastic measures.
27:10
Speaker 1: So random Ryan buying into My Buddies conspiracy theory that
27:12
Speaker 1: this came from the League office, the Luca Trade big
27:15
Speaker 1: Rig Rob Wrights and says it is absolutely highly likely
27:19
Speaker 1: that Puka going to the Fakers or the Flakers as
27:23
Speaker 1: he calls them to act with Laflop was orchestrated by
27:27
Speaker 1: Adam Silver. Not your best work to open the show,
27:31
Speaker 1: So no soup for you, c minus at best. Well,
27:34
Speaker 1: I'll take no soup. I got let go by the
27:36
Speaker 1: company in nine fifteen years ago, and I was replaced
27:40
Speaker 1: by the Fox Sports Radio soup. They replaced me with
27:44
Speaker 1: that Bill's Monster rights and says, hey, Ben, great opening monologue.
27:48
Speaker 1: The Lakers are championship caliber. They will be the Kings
27:51
Speaker 1: of LA this season. No, No, that's bull crap. The
27:56
Speaker 1: NBA is finally getting good this season. No, it's not.
27:59
Speaker 1: You make that up, Bills Monster. You clearly did not
28:01
Speaker 1: watch the game. It's a bad job by you. Shame
28:05
Speaker 1: on you. Supermarket Steve says, does anyone out there even
28:08
Speaker 1: remember who won the in season tournament in the NBA
28:12
Speaker 1: this year? I honestly don't. I think it was the Bucks,
28:16
Speaker 1: but I'm not sure was it Milwaukee. I'm just guessing.
28:19
Speaker 1: I remember they were in it, I don't know if
28:21
Speaker 1: they won it, and I don't remember who they played,
28:24
Speaker 1: But I think the Bucks. I want to say the
28:25
Speaker 1: Bucks won, but I don't know. Am I right? Am
28:28
Speaker 1: I wrong? Yes? I am right? Yes? Look at that?
28:31
Speaker 1: All right? Another championship for Doc Rivers. Yeah? Do I
28:35
Speaker 1: not have great NBA knowledge? Come on, you're brilliant, Ben,
28:38
Speaker 1: Thank you. Timothy from Northern Kentucky says I didn't get
28:41
Speaker 1: to see Banana Pudding Cup don Chick tonight. However, I
28:45
Speaker 1: did see Grimace grimas Donzik for the first time. Yeah,
28:49
Speaker 1: you did a little bit like Grimace a little bit.
28:52
Speaker 1: I score the phones America's favorite and I do mean
28:55
Speaker 1: favorite drag queen, call it and called up before it
28:57
Speaker 1: was cool to be a drag queen. We go now
28:59
Speaker 1: to the mean streets of Buffalo, New York, and we
29:02
Speaker 1: say hello to Felexis. Hello Flexus, Hello, the voice of
29:09
Speaker 1: an angel, the voice of an angel. Right there you go.
29:13
Speaker 2: Right, how come I'm not nominated for anything I would have.
29:16
Speaker 1: Took on this. Well, you don't really call that much
29:20
Speaker 1: anymore for Lexis. So we we love you, but you
29:23
Speaker 1: know you're not as active as in the past. Everybody,
29:28
Speaker 1: Well that is true. No, we love you. Flexis is
29:30
Speaker 1: not an active disrespect, but we we couldn't include everybody.
29:34
Speaker 1: And you, you know years you would admit in years
29:36
Speaker 1: past used to call the show like three or four
29:38
Speaker 1: times a.
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Speaker 2: Week Sports three.
29:41
Speaker 1: I'm the one that made you what you are today
29:43
Speaker 1: and look at you. Yes, yes, I am the overnight
29:49
Speaker 1: guy because of you. Yes, I am locked into a
29:53
Speaker 1: lifetime and I'm like a tenured professor on the worst
29:56
Speaker 1: shift in talk radio because of Felexus. Yes, that is correct,
30:02
Speaker 1: damn right. If I had only if I only whether
30:05
Speaker 1: that Boardwalk Bob or MotorCity Mike or some of those guys,
30:09
Speaker 1: or Johannis John in Michigan. It would have been much
30:12
Speaker 1: different back then, or or remember the guy in Nashville
30:15
Speaker 1: used to call the show. What was his name? I
30:17
Speaker 1: forget his name. You guy drove a sweeper truck in
30:19
Speaker 1: that well. Daryl from Knoxville. Yeah, Darryl from Knoxville used
30:23
Speaker 1: to sing Rocky Top together. I remember that guy too.
30:25
Speaker 1: That was That was a legend back in the day.
30:28
Speaker 2: Hey Ben, I got a joke.
30:34
Speaker 1: I thought that was a joke. The silence was the joke.
30:38
Speaker 2: How can you tell differ between the head real homosexual Pia?
30:43
Speaker 1: All right, thank you for that. It is the h
30:46
Speaker 1: I wanted to know the line, why do you call
30:48
Speaker 1: him up? How about that? Give him a call? And
30:52
Speaker 1: how you want to do? You know, knock yourself out?
30:54
Speaker 1: Coop Oh, I will never know, We'll never know. Spacolia
31:00
Speaker 1: rights and says, speaking of Dayton, I am in Dayton
31:03
Speaker 1: in some very dicey neighborhood getting gas. There you go,
31:09
Speaker 1: So he's on the wrong side of the tracks in Dayton.
31:13
Speaker 1: Bagel Boy sending video of Luca getting in shape. Theyre
31:16
Speaker 1: wall really good shape. There's a solid not bad at all. Well,
31:20
Speaker 1: the Lakers won a bunch of games here with Luca,
31:23
Speaker 1: but not all sunshine, rainbows and lollipops for the Lakers.
31:29
Speaker 1: Despite despite the solid record, a solid record, the NBA
31:37
Speaker 1: anonymous executive chiming in saying the Lakers are not to
31:40
Speaker 1: be taken seriously. They are not a legitimate threat this season.
31:45
Speaker 1: And there is one player that is why. That player,
31:49
Speaker 1: Jackson Hayes, is that player. And the story saying he's
31:54
Speaker 1: the only lob thread and so you can't take the
31:57
Speaker 1: executive are these Actually you can't take the Lakers seriously
32:01
Speaker 1: in the West because of that. But I see a
32:05
Speaker 1: lot of mediocrity. I see a lot on a nightly basis.
32:09
Speaker 1: I always have something. He's a good lob thread. What
32:11
Speaker 1: is But he's the only one. That's the problem. They're
32:13
Speaker 1: claiming that you can't take them seriously if he stays healthy,
32:17
Speaker 1: if he stays healthy, if he stays a little fired up, Coop,
32:21
Speaker 1: I know you've got a Laker fever. You got the fever, Coop,
32:24
Speaker 1: that's it's it's happening. When first first year, first half
32:28
Speaker 1: year with Luca, we're getting the chip now you're not.
32:32
Speaker 1: But you haven't won one since Kobe, so you're not
32:34
Speaker 1: gonna win one. You're not gonna happen. That's such a
32:36
Speaker 1: tired I'm playing. I'm not. I'm not tired of it.
32:40
Speaker 1: Will later this hour, if not this hour, we don't
32:42
Speaker 1: have time this hour. Get to it later on. But
32:44
Speaker 1: a former MVP believing in a wild NBA conspiracy theory,
32:50
Speaker 1: and it has repackaged that conspiracy theory. We'll get to that.
32:54
Speaker 1: And time now for the who am I? Game? This
32:57
Speaker 1: is where I pretend to be somebody else NBA propagame
33:00
Speaker 1: from the league office or adjacent to the league office.
33:04
Speaker 1: So Luca in his last two games with the Lakers
33:07
Speaker 1: has at fifty one points, twenty five rebounds, nineteen assists,
33:11
Speaker 1: seven steals, and three blocks in his last two games.
33:13
Speaker 1: I was the last NBA player to reach those numbers.
33:17
Speaker 1: Who over a two game span? Again, Lukka, He's got
33:22
Speaker 1: fifty one points, twenty five rebounds, nineteen assists, seven steels,
33:25
Speaker 1: three blocks, and a partridge in a pair tree over
33:27
Speaker 1: his last two games. I was the last NBA player
33:30
Speaker 1: to reach those numbers over a two game span. Who
33:34
Speaker 1: am I? That is the question. The answer, We'll get
33:38
Speaker 1: to it and we will do it next.
33:41
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35:03
Speaker 1: Back to It we go, and over to Bend. That's right, Bill,
35:07
Speaker 1: Back to it we go, And time now for the
35:11
Speaker 1: who am I? Game? So Lukeka has had fifty one points,
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Speaker 1: twenty five rebounds, nineteen assists, seven steals, three blocks over
35:19
Speaker 1: his last two games. I was the last NBA player
35:22
Speaker 1: to reach those numbers over a two game span. Who
35:27
Speaker 1: am I? That is the question. What is the answer?
35:31
Speaker 1: Unless he does? Anyone know the answer? Miguel on Fire,
35:35
Speaker 1: says former Phillies pitcher minor leaguer Steve Schwartz, is the answer?
35:41
Speaker 1: Random Ryan and Carolina going with Rob Parker as his answer.
35:46
Speaker 1: Luca the Savannah Banana from Malor Prop Guy Mo Cheeks
35:52
Speaker 1: from Eke and Roseville, Minnesota. Who else do we have?
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Speaker 1: Coco Beware the Legend from I forty Ian Bugs, Bunny
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Speaker 1: tossed out by Scrooge, Jeff Tedford from Ferg Dog. That's
36:05
Speaker 1: Eddie's old buddy. Celtic Warrior Sheemus from Shane in Des
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Speaker 1: Moines Fergnall's in law's apartment from Alf the Alien opinter Dan,
36:17
Speaker 1: Please act from mister Lego Guy otherwise known as mister
36:20
Speaker 1: nice Guy. Late Night Drug Tester says you are Marshall Falk,
36:24
Speaker 1: who's fifty two years young today. Who else do we
36:28
Speaker 1: have page down? Can't read that? How about Flint Tropics
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Speaker 1: Megastar Sugar Dunkerton from Milkman Mike in Colorado, Andy in
36:41
Speaker 1: Line o' Lakes, Minnesota, Andy going with fat Albert as
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Speaker 1: his answer. Fang t Rattler the mascot from King Rory
36:52
Speaker 1: Chuck Nevitt NBA nineteen eighties legend and Victory Cigar Chuck
36:56
Speaker 1: Nevitt from Steve. That's a tall white dude. Who I
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Speaker 1: think last I heard Chuck Nevitt was like he was
37:02
Speaker 1: working as like a I got pe coach somewhere some
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Speaker 1: high school. I don't know that he's probably retired now.
37:10
Speaker 1: Who else do we have page down? Jim Otto from
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Speaker 1: Rob in Minnesota. Trucker Joe says his spirit animal old
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Speaker 1: dirty Bastard is the answer, Greg Olster tag from James
37:23
Speaker 1: that says answer Big Country Bryan Reeves good answer from
37:26
Speaker 1: Bagel Boy the Oakman, Charles Oakley from Timothy in Northern Kentucky.
37:30
Speaker 1: Who else do we have page down? The whole Minnesota
37:33
Speaker 1: Timberwolves team. Go Wolves. Well, we're all gonna be pulling
37:37
Speaker 1: for the Wolves on Thursday against the Lakers. Mister Whipple
37:41
Speaker 1: from Amy, She's going with mister Whipple. Meteorologist Mallard from
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Speaker 1: Slim tim the Proud cheesehead mark in Queens, says Lebron James.
37:51
Speaker 1: All right, Lorraine, do you have an answer? Lorraine? Luca
37:56
Speaker 1: fifty one point twenty five rebounds nineteen it says, seven steels,
37:59
Speaker 1: three blocks over his last two games. I was the
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Speaker 1: last NBA player to reach those numbers over a two game.
38:04
Speaker 2: Span, those exact same numbers like that is so crazy
38:07
Speaker 2: to think.
38:08
Speaker 1: I know, it's pretty wild. I think Jonas Valentin did it. Wow,
38:14
Speaker 1: so Coop gave you the name and you butchered? No,
38:16
Speaker 1: do I say, right, Volunteerinas Funny valentis?
38:21
Speaker 2: Yes? Is that it?
38:23
Speaker 1: You were not close? Okay that no, it's not. You
38:27
Speaker 1: were not at all close. You could not have been
38:30
Speaker 1: no farther. The last NBA player to reach all those numbers,
38:35
Speaker 1: we are told over two game span was the Hick
38:39
Speaker 1: from French Lick. You know who the Hick from French
38:40
Speaker 1: Lick was? No, who do you think it was?
38:43
Speaker 2: Hick?
38:43
Speaker 1: We're asking, are you smarter than in the FSR tech
38:46
Speaker 1: queen who is nicknamed the hick from French Lick? What
38:49
Speaker 1: do you think it's gotta be that Larry the cable
38:52
Speaker 1: guy who plays Tomato. Yes, that is correct, the cable guy.
38:57
Speaker 1: For a second there, I was like, oh my god,
39:00
Speaker 1: she was gonna get it too. I was like, oh crap,
39:02
Speaker 1: you're gonna ruin the bank. Yeah, Larry Bird actually was
39:07
Speaker 1: a basketball player. What team he played for? I'm gonna say, Larry,
39:10
Speaker 1: but you don't know what team he played nineteen ninety
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Speaker 1: two Celtics. Yeah, oh, look at you miss basketball over there.
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Speaker 1: I'm believing