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  Speaker 1: Sticking around, well, kind of sticking around. Welcome in the
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  Speaker 1: another weekend and we have now made it to the
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  Speaker 1: brand new week whoo. All right, so our lead, there's
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  Speaker 1: a lot of moving parts going on in We love transactions.
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  Speaker 1: I always love the transaction. Now I like the rumor.
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  Speaker 1: I like the rumor more than the transaction. I like
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  Speaker 1: what might happen rather than what has happened. Now that
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  Speaker 1: being said, we have a mix of what has happened
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  Speaker 1: and what is going to happen. But our lead this
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  Speaker 1: hour is from Pro Bouncy Ball the Kingdom as it's
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  Speaker 1: the King James Kingdom of Basketball, filling the content machine,
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  Speaker 1: yet again, filling the content machine. So over the weekend,
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  Speaker 1: Lebron James decided that he wanted to stay with the
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  Speaker 1: Lakers kind of fifty million dollars, got it, fifty two
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  Speaker 1: zero point six million dollar player option, Just to click
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  Speaker 1: that box right there and you do the DOCU sign
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  Speaker 1: and then you're on your way. And so instead of
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  Speaker 1: signing a new max extension, Lebron's to take the contract
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  Speaker 1: that he had signed in a previous deal. So we
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  Speaker 1: are told Lebron could have made an extra one point
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  Speaker 1: five million one point five million by signing the new
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  Speaker 1: max at thirty five percent of the cap and a
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  Speaker 1: lot of gibberish in that contract. Ad chose not to
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  Speaker 1: do that, and so Lebron gets one extra year. And
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  Speaker 1: then you have the commentary of Lebron James agent Rich
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  Speaker 1: Paul is right hand man, is intermediary between the media
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  Speaker 1: and whatnot. Anyway, Rich Paul issued a clear statement, I
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  Speaker 1: don't if you saw this or not. Maybe maybe you
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  Speaker 1: missed it. So I'll give you the highlights on this.
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  Speaker 1: I'm not going to be the whole thing. I'll give
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  Speaker 1: you the highlights. So Lebron wants to compete for a championship.
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  Speaker 1: Rich Paul snickered. He knows the Lakers are building for
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  Speaker 1: the future. Yes, yes, the Lakers are building for the
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  Speaker 1: taking for draft picks. Rich Paul continues, says, Lebron understands that,
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  Speaker 1: but he values a realistic chance of winning it all.
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  Speaker 1: Rich Paul pumped his chest out and said, we meaning
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  Speaker 1: Rich Paul and Lebron, we do want, do want to
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  Speaker 1: evaluate what's best for Lebron at this stage in his
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  Speaker 1: life and career. He wants to make every season he
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  Speaker 1: has left count close quote. So that is Rich Paul
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  Speaker 1: his commentary on the status of Lebron. So let us
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  Speaker 1: discuss the question for the Esteem panel. Can you please
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  Speaker 1: decode decode the message from Rich Paul on Lebron, James
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  Speaker 1: and his future with the Lakers. So I've got prenup, Home, depot,
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  Speaker 1: and verdict, and we will combine all of these things
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  Speaker 1: together and we are gonna make the Gabba ghul. We're
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  Speaker 1: gonna make the Gabba goal to start the week. That's
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  Speaker 1: what we're gonna do. So first of all, look, King James,
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  Speaker 1: the opt in. I liked that Lebron's camp's trying to
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  Speaker 1: paint this as some kind of heroic act by Lebron
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  Speaker 1: that he could have gotten more money. You talk about hutzba,
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  Speaker 1: as my grandfather used to say, that's hootsba you guys
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  Speaker 1: getting fifty two point six million dollars and wants you
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  Speaker 1: to believe this is some kind of Robin Hood situation.
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  Speaker 1: So that's my first thought on this as I decode
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  Speaker 1: the life and times of Lebron and rich Ball. So
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  Speaker 1: the other thought, which is rather obvious, I'm sure you
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  Speaker 1: thought the same thing. I don't know how you could
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  Speaker 1: have come into any of the conclusion. This is like
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  Speaker 1: a hostage note by Rich Ball. It's like, listen, it's
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  Speaker 1: disguised as some kind of news release or whatever, but
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  Speaker 1: it's a hostage letter by Rich Paul for Lebron James.
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  Speaker 1: You build a contender for Lebron or else, which is
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  Speaker 1: code for it's never Lebron's fault. It's just the players
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  Speaker 1: around Lebron are not that good. That's what Rich Paul saying.
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  Speaker 1: He's like, listen, if we don't win, it's on you.
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  Speaker 1: If we win, it's Lebron. That's it, period, stop now
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  Speaker 1: or else? What else is? There's Lebron gonna film another
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  Speaker 1: crappy space jam movie or something like that during the season.
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  Speaker 1: I don't know, Baby, they'll make another one what the hell,
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  Speaker 1: and they'll do it during the season, and that'll be that.
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  Speaker 1: It'll be wonderful. Now, once again, we find ourselves in
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  Speaker 1: sports gas baggery land. You and I. We find ourselves
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  Speaker 1: trapped in the never ending docu drama The Life and
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  Speaker 1: Times of Lebron James Lebrand Lebron the brand, not the
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  Speaker 1: basketball player. No, No, it's really about the brand. It's
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  Speaker 1: all about the brand. That's what it's about. It's about
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  Speaker 1: the brand. Now, this is not so much a renewal
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  Speaker 1: of vowels, right, It's not like they're renewing their vows here.
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  Speaker 1: The Lakers Lebron, this is a prenup agreed to buy
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  Speaker 1: Lebron and file the media. It's a leverage play. It's
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  Speaker 1: a leverage play, is what it is. And so for
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  Speaker 1: the Lakers, they must use every possible trade asset they have.
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  Speaker 1: I don't think they even a draft pick til like
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  Speaker 1: twenty fifty. But they got to trade those right and
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  Speaker 1: build a championship contender or else we're breaking up with you.
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  Speaker 1: We're gonna find it's not you, it's somebody else. And
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  Speaker 1: that's it. And a trade, of course, becomes far easier
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  Speaker 1: to facilitate based on the contract Lebron opted into. So
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  Speaker 1: he does clear the way for him to be traded
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  Speaker 1: somewhere else easier. Of course, if Leron wants to be traded,
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  Speaker 1: it'll be traded. It doesn't matter what the contract is.
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  Speaker 1: They'll work it out. They'll finagle the rules to make
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  Speaker 1: sure Lebron goes where Lebron watched the oh and so
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  Speaker 1: It's the classic play by Lebron James where you opt
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  Speaker 1: in with one hand and then keep your finger on
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  Speaker 1: the eject button with the other says I'm in, but
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  Speaker 1: I could get good get out of here. See you now,
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  Speaker 1: I don't believe Lebron wants to leave. He loves I'll
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  Speaker 1: tell you why. He loves everything that comes with being
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  Speaker 1: in Los Angeles, those Hollywood Knights, hanging out with all
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  Speaker 1: those Hollywood f's, those fake people in LA. He loves
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  Speaker 1: it right. He can't get enough of those people, that
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  Speaker 1: whole lifestyle. That's why Lebron came to LA. He didn't
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  Speaker 1: come to LA for basketball. He hasn't won as a
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  Speaker 1: Laker's been an abject failure as a Laker. He came
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  Speaker 1: for Hollywood. Now business wise and entertainment, Lebron's done very well.
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  Speaker 1: That's why he came to Lakers. So in terms of winning,
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  Speaker 1: he's winning the Hollywood game entertainment. Now basketball not not
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  Speaker 1: if you want to win, you don't go to the Lakers.
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  Speaker 1: Not now. Not on her Genie Boss and she's selling
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  Speaker 1: the team. But the team's been been terrible since she
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  Speaker 1: took control of the team. But it's all about Hollywood.
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  Speaker 1: If you look at Lebron's time with the Lakers, he
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  Speaker 1: has a fail rate of over seventy one percent. Seventy
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  Speaker 1: one percent of the time Lebron James has failed. And
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  Speaker 1: there's no if sands or butts about it. That's it.
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  Speaker 1: I'll get no pushback. You can't push back. That's a fact.
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  Speaker 1: It's a fact. Now, what's my math? How did I
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  Speaker 1: get to seventy one point four percent? That is the
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  Speaker 1: rate Lebron has either missed the playoffs. Lakers have missed
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  Speaker 1: the playoffs multiple times with Lebron James, or one and done,
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  Speaker 1: bumped out of the playoffs in the first round. Right,
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  Speaker 1: and again, not my opinion, it's not I'm not giving
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  Speaker 1: some kind of opinion. This a fact. It is a fact.
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  Speaker 1: Seven seasons with the Lakers, the Lakers missed the playoffs twice.
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  Speaker 1: They got bumped in the first round three times Suns, Nuggets,
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  Speaker 1: and then this past year by the Minnesota ten Wolves
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  Speaker 1: three times first round and out. And the Lakers have
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  Speaker 1: not won a championship that matters since Kobe Bryant, and
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  Speaker 1: Kobe's not walking back through that door. Okay, And that's
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  Speaker 1: that's not my adding commentary. I've now that has been validated.
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  Speaker 1: That is hot take validation. That take validated by Alex
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  Speaker 1: Caruso in a moment of clarity. He took some truths
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  Speaker 1: from them called alcohol, and he said the quiet part
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  Speaker 1: out loud. Alex Caruso said after Oklahoma City won, he
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  Speaker 1: said that that Mickey mouse bubble ring not a real one,
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  Speaker 1: and that now he had a real one, which is
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  Speaker 1: what all of us knew all along, but somebody on
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  Speaker 1: the team finally had the balls to say it. So
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  Speaker 1: Lebron hasn't won as a Laker, and he's making some
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  Speaker 1: kind of the myth because again, it's not gonna be
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  Speaker 1: about Lebron not being good enough. It's gonna be a
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  Speaker 1: bad well the other players on the team weren't that
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  Speaker 1: good enough. Eta. Meanwhile, to Minnesota, a team that beat
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  Speaker 1: the Lakers and Lebron in the playoffs in the first round,
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  Speaker 1: and they have made a roster move, although not official official,
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  Speaker 1: the teas must be crossed, the daw the eyes dotted.
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  Speaker 1: We're hearing now that Julius Randall, vagabond NBA player Julius
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  Speaker 1: Randall has agreed to re sign with the Timber Puffs
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  Speaker 1: and he'll stay there in Minnesota, three years, one hundred
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  Speaker 1: million dollars. Does that signing move the needle? Does that
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  Speaker 1: move the needle at all? So I'll answer this first
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  Speaker 1: because you're not here, so I'll go first. Does this
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  Speaker 1: move the needle? Sure, it moves the needle due south
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  Speaker 1: at least come May, when you get into the meat
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  Speaker 1: and potatoes of the playoffs, you move the needle south.
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  Speaker 1: So you know what to do. Our guys in Minnesota.
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  Speaker 1: You buckle up, right, it's a roller coaster, you buckle up.
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  Speaker 1: That's it. And of course Julius Randall in many ways
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  Speaker 1: is your standard mid level star player in the NBA,
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  Speaker 1: where he's the roller coaster that breaks down right before
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  Speaker 1: the big drops, similar to this, and James Harden does
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  Speaker 1: the same thing. You go down. You know, there's plenty
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  Speaker 1: of players like that that just vanish in key moments.
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  Speaker 1: Karl Anthony Towns, who played in Minnesota, is traded for Jewis.
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  Speaker 1: Randall's another guy like that you can't depend on. And
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  Speaker 1: Julius Randall's got a blind spot, clearly not a blind
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  Speaker 1: spot that will cost him any money. One hundred million
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  Speaker 1: dollars over three years, I mean, my god, so so
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  Speaker 1: good for him, and he's like Randall's like Houdini with
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  Speaker 1: a headband because he's out there in the Abrica dabraa
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  Speaker 1: hocus focus and not a big game player, not a
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  Speaker 1: big game player. Now, during the regular season, there are
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  Speaker 1: nights that Randall looks like a world beater and he'll
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  Speaker 1: get you twenty five points and ten rebounds, no problem,
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  Speaker 1: and look like he can do it every game. Twenty
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  Speaker 1: five points, ten rebounds. He'll be physical, he'll be aggressive.
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  Speaker 1: During the regular season, all fine attributes, and at times
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  Speaker 1: he'll look unstoppable, and then the calendar will flip over
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  Speaker 1: to April and pressed down. Suddenly, what happens. He's serving
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  Speaker 1: up more bricks than the loading at home depot. You
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  Speaker 1: get a brick, you get a brick, you get a break.
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  Speaker 1: Sometimes he didn't even make he didn't take many bricks
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  Speaker 1: because he doesn't shoot. He becomes passive two for eleven
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  Speaker 1: or one for eight or something like that. In the playoffs,
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  Speaker 1: and then the fourth quarter, forget about it. In the
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  Speaker 1: fourth quarter, come on, fourth quarter, you gotta leave early,
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  Speaker 1: beat the traffic. Normally, when you play for the team,
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  Speaker 1: you're not supposed to leave early to beat the traffic.
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  Speaker 1: But it happens. Those those demons they come back. They
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  Speaker 1: haunt you like Hayzan Minnesota haunt you. They just kind
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  Speaker 1: of haunch you, they do. And so good luck, good
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  Speaker 1: luck to ant Man. This is your running mate, this
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  Speaker 1: is your sidekick. Now Anthony Edwards has some issues too.
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  Speaker 1: I meant, there's some games I recall where he didn't
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  Speaker 1: didn't do much. So now they're together again. Back to
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  Speaker 1: back final four appearances for the Timberwolves, and they are
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  Speaker 1: locking in Julius rand All. Right, now, final thought. We
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  Speaker 1: go down to the Pacific Northwest, where the other is
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  Speaker 1: good most of the time. Terms you like fresh air
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  Speaker 1: and all that stuff, and rain and sports they suck.
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  Speaker 1: Now there used to be two teams, actually there used
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  Speaker 1: to be three teams at one point in the Pacific Northwest.
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  Speaker 1: Now there's only one. That's the Portland Trailblazers. Now the
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  Speaker 1: Trailblazers we learned over the weekend plan to buy out,
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  Speaker 1: to spend millions of dollars to buy out center DeAndre Ayton.
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  Speaker 1: Here you going, he's about to hit the market. He'll
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  Speaker 1: go to the highest bidder in free agency. So what
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  Speaker 1: stands out? What stands out about the bitter end of
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  Speaker 1: DeAndre Ayton and him hitting the market here via a
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  Speaker 1: buyout from the Trailblazers, and there'll be a lot of
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  Speaker 1: talk in the coming days about teams fighting to get
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  Speaker 1: their hands on DeAndre Eighton. So the Trailblazers, the fact
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  Speaker 1: that they are paying him to go away like that
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  Speaker 1: is a massive thing. I don't think you can undersell
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  Speaker 1: the fact that they're paying him to go away. Let
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  Speaker 1: that marinate for a moment. This guy was the number
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  Speaker 1: on an overall pig in the NBA draft a number
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  Speaker 1: of years ago. They're not trading him for assets. They're
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  Speaker 1: not trading him for draft picks or some young up
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  Speaker 1: and coming players. They're not attaching him to a bad
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  Speaker 1: contract to get rid of the player and clear out
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  Speaker 1: the roster. They're not doing that. They're not trying to
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  Speaker 1: rehab his value. They've given up on that. No, no, no,
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  Speaker 1: Like all of those things are things that you would
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  Speaker 1: think teams would do a player like that has some value. Still,
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  Speaker 1: you'd say, Okay, I'm gonna try to sugarcoat this and
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  Speaker 1: we're gonna try to put some good stories out there
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  Speaker 1: and make it seem like this guy's turned things around
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  Speaker 1: and all that stuff. No, they are at the point
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  Speaker 1: now they are cutting their losses. They're like this guy blows, there,
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  Speaker 1: she blows, We're better off without him. We are better
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  Speaker 1: off without now. How did they come to that conclusion?
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  Speaker 1: How did Chauncey Billups and the team in Portland come
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  Speaker 1: to that decision? Because, for of all portlandt really want
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  Speaker 1: they got him in that it was that weird Damian
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  Speaker 1: Lillard multi team thing, and they moved everyone around and
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  Speaker 1: ate and became part of the trade and all that stuff.
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  Speaker 1: But he arrived when he arrived in Portland just like
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  Speaker 1: when he arrived in Phoenix. He's got all the size
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  Speaker 1: and the athletic ability, He's got that pedigree to be
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  Speaker 1: a dominant big man and all that. And you saw
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  Speaker 1: some highlights on Instagram, You're like, wow, he looks good
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  Speaker 1: and all that stuff, and then you had to watch
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  Speaker 1: him play, and then you had to watch him play,
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  Speaker 1: and when the game started, the one word we all
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  Speaker 1: had watching DeAndre Eaton play was eh man. He was eh,
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  Speaker 1: you know, it's like whatever, right now. He put up
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  Speaker 1: some numbers. They were empty number stat banddto what do
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  Speaker 1: we always talking? We talked about Dak Prescott. We talked
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  Speaker 1: about some of his elia stat Bandito's where he has
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  Speaker 1: some double doubles, but they're empty double doubles. It's empty
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  Speaker 1: stat long rebounds. No one can tested right. Things like
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  Speaker 1: that points when the game's already decided either for or
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  Speaker 1: against your team, And so the numbers like, oh, you know,
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  Speaker 1: the low information fan, the dumb fans, they're like, oh,
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  Speaker 1: this guy's pretty good. Look at the numbers. Look at
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  Speaker 1: the stats. Right, box score readers of Chris the box
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  Speaker 1: were lied. It lied, And then the real ones know.
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  Speaker 1: And so the jury has made its ruling. The jury
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  Speaker 1: has made its ruling, and the experiment is over. You're
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  Speaker 1: a loser. You wear the scarlet letter the L for loser,
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  Speaker 1: and the buff's been called by the Trailblazers, and the
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  Speaker 1: verdict is in. The verdict is clear from the jury,
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  Speaker 1: and DeAndre Ayton is a losing player. That's what they're saying.
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  Speaker 1: The guy's a loser, and that's just the way it is.
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  Speaker 1: He doesn't impact winning. He didn't do it in Phoenix,
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  Speaker 1: he didn't do it in Portland, and he's not going
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  Speaker 1: to do it where he goes next. And I will
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  Speaker 1: laugh at the bidding war that will take place for
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  Speaker 1: DeAndre Ayton as he'll try to sit on the bench
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  Speaker 1: somewhere on a good team and piggy back his way
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  Speaker 1: to some playoff success here, and so let him go
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  Speaker 1: to the Lakers. So I'd love that that would be
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  Speaker 1: so good a loser like DeAndre eight on the Lakers.
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  Speaker 1: I hope that happened. All the wars, it doesn't matter,
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  Speaker 1: and the same thing's gonna happen. He's not gonna change
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  Speaker 1: all of a sudden. It's one of those things in life.
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  Speaker 1: And there's a lot of things like this in life
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  Speaker 1: where he sounds better in theory than reality. Right, it
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  Speaker 1: sounds better in theory than reality. And there's a lot
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  Speaker 1: of things like that in life. In sports there's things
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  Speaker 1: like that also, and DeAndre eight would be an example
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  Speaker 1: where if you look at the SISO and I know,
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  Speaker 1: going back my entire time just as an adult, but
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  Speaker 1: around basketball in particular, in all sports. But I remember
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  Speaker 1: years ago when I was I was doing stuff every
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  Speaker 1: day at team events and practices, and there'd always be
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  Speaker 1: guys that could not just didn't get it, but teams
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  Speaker 1: would keep giving them opportunities because they thought every coach
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  Speaker 1: is like I'm gonna turn this guy around. I have
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  Speaker 1: the code to unlock the safe. They all, all coaches
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  Speaker 1: are wired that way. They all think, oh man, we
• 18:53
  Speaker 1: just get this guy going watch out. And ninety eight
• 18:57
  Speaker 1: point seven percent of the time that does not happen.
• 19:00
  Speaker 1: That is one percent. People bring up the one percent.
• 19:02
  Speaker 1: Oh yeah, it happened this time. Okay, yeah, it happens
• 19:04
  Speaker 1: to that time. But the rest of the time, forget
• 19:07
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  Speaker 1: at Ben Maller. At Ben Maller, Mary is in. She's
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  Speaker 1: you in the court of sports radio. And now back
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  Speaker 1: to it. We go, all right, and back to it,
• 20:33
  Speaker 1: and we have in studio here. I promised this guy
• 20:36
  Speaker 1: a couple of months ago. I said, if you come
• 20:37
  Speaker 1: to LA, we'll have you in here and we'll turn
• 20:41
  Speaker 1: your mic hold on said here there's the voice of
• 20:44
  Speaker 1: Mike the Leprica. Look at this guy, and thank you
• 20:48
  Speaker 1: for giving me the VIP trippment.
• 20:50
  Speaker 4: Mary already won the She already won the prizes, well
• 20:54
  Speaker 4: fifth place, but that's.
• 20:55
  Speaker 1: Her bonus from management. Yes, where's Bill? Where's Bell? Bill Miller? Well, Bill,
• 21:00
  Speaker 1: you can't see him, but you know he's here.
• 21:02
  Speaker 2: I know.
• 21:03
  Speaker 1: So here's the thing, michel Leprecaun. So we had agreed
• 21:06
  Speaker 1: that you were going to come in here. You tried
• 21:08
  Speaker 1: to invite yourself for two days, right, you tried to.
• 21:11
  Speaker 1: We have very strict rules here at the company who
• 21:13
  Speaker 1: can come in here and who can't come in here.
• 21:15
  Speaker 1: So I'm minding my own business. I'm I'm like, I'm
• 21:19
  Speaker 1: not harming anyone. I didn't even do the show last night.
• 21:22
  Speaker 1: I had something else I had going on. I couldn't
• 21:24
  Speaker 1: be at the show the way, Well, congratulations. So so
• 21:28
  Speaker 1: then my phone starts like, I'm getting messages during the day.
• 21:32
  Speaker 1: I like, what happened? I didn't do anything. I went
• 21:35
  Speaker 1: even in the building last night, And so I get
• 21:38
  Speaker 1: these this message for management that that someone was one
• 21:42
  Speaker 1: of my visitors, was at the building during the day
• 21:47
  Speaker 1: trying to get into the building. And I'm like, well,
• 21:50
  Speaker 1: I work at night. I don't work during the day.
• 21:52
  Speaker 1: The daytime people don't know nighttime people. Michael leppergunt have
• 21:57
  Speaker 1: I not told you? But first of all, what were
• 21:59
  Speaker 1: you doing here during the day. My hotel is five
• 22:02
  Speaker 1: minutes down this tree. I understand, but this is a major.
• 22:05
  Speaker 1: You can't just walk into a major like there's a
• 22:07
  Speaker 1: big radio company here. You can't just walk in that.
• 22:10
  Speaker 4: I was improded. I took pictures of Seacrest's sign, but.
• 22:14
  Speaker 1: Then congratulations, that's a good sign. It's a great, solid sign. Solid.
• 22:18
  Speaker 1: Did you see that there's a Coast to coast sign up?
• 22:20
  Speaker 1: Did you take a photo over that? I took? No?
• 22:23
  Speaker 1: What about what other signs are out there? Just Steve
• 22:25
  Speaker 1: Harvey Sigin's still out there. This is his old studio, okay,
• 22:30
  Speaker 1: in his own So anyway, you just wanted to see
• 22:32
  Speaker 1: You were so excited you wanted to come here. When
• 22:35
  Speaker 1: I go to a news and say yes, yes, you
• 22:37
  Speaker 1: were excited because you wanted to be here and see
• 22:40
  Speaker 1: the studio.
• 22:41
  Speaker 4: Yes, and know where it was because if I drove
• 22:44
  Speaker 4: it would take me ten minutes and have.
• 22:45
  Speaker 1: To have You have to understand, okay, my we do
• 22:49
  Speaker 1: a different show. The daytime shows are like normal. They
• 22:53
  Speaker 1: don't understand the people that listen to the show. I've
• 22:56
  Speaker 1: gotten into arguments with management. So we're just like we
• 22:59
  Speaker 1: high out in the night and when you show up
• 23:02
  Speaker 1: during the day, it's like they've seen a monster or
• 23:05
  Speaker 1: something like that. The reaction of the daytime people that
• 23:08
  Speaker 1: work here. Well, the security guard was a monster, But well,
• 23:10
  Speaker 1: I do not I don't know. Listen, I'm actually happy.
• 23:13
  Speaker 1: We've had some security guards that just sleeped all the time,
• 23:15
  Speaker 1: so I'm actually happy. They actually the security guard was
• 23:17
  Speaker 1: paying it. They walked me off the property. But you
• 23:19
  Speaker 1: seem like a very nice person. I don't know why
• 23:22
  Speaker 1: they would have this reaction. I've been nothing but nice.
• 23:25
  Speaker 1: You've been here a little bit, right, You've been in
• 23:27
  Speaker 1: the building.
• 23:28
  Speaker 4: So let me tell you what they said. He said,
• 23:30
  Speaker 4: I'm I told him I'm coming on Ben Mallor tonight,
• 23:33
  Speaker 4: and he said, who's Ben Maller.
• 23:35
  Speaker 1: Well, he knew Ben mall you are the daytime guy.
• 23:37
  Speaker 1: I knew who I want. He knew Lorena. But Lorena's
• 23:40
  Speaker 1: not here. She's actually not here.
• 23:41
  Speaker 4: But then I said, and then he said, you can't
• 23:44
  Speaker 4: be possibly going to Ben Mallor because you don't have.
• 23:48
  Speaker 1: His cell phone number. And I said, well, Bill Maller,
• 23:50
  Speaker 1: and I did. I don't give out my number because
• 23:53
  Speaker 1: you call me, because well I called you after I
• 23:57
  Speaker 1: got management at the company upset. The one thing I
• 24:01
  Speaker 1: try to avoid, Mike the Leprechaun is management even knowing
• 24:05
  Speaker 1: I exist, and you come in here like a wrecking
• 24:08
  Speaker 1: but you like to kool aid man breaking your Yeah,
• 24:12
  Speaker 1: that's why you get paid the big bucks. Paul, Sure, yes,
• 24:14
  Speaker 1: let me tell you. Okay. Anyway, so you're here, now,
• 24:17
  Speaker 1: I'm here, and you're a big fan of the show.
• 24:19
  Speaker 1: You love the show. My goal for the week is
• 24:21
  Speaker 1: not to get arrested by ice. Okay, Okay, I think
• 24:24
  Speaker 1: you're okay. I think you're all right, although you almost
• 24:26
  Speaker 1: did already get arrested for trying to enter the building.
• 24:29
  Speaker 1: Guys said he was going to call the cops. I know. Well.
• 24:32
  Speaker 1: The good thing is in l A, you call the cops,
• 24:33
  Speaker 1: it takes two days for them to show up, so
• 24:34
  Speaker 1: you don't have to worry about that. You're probably fine
• 24:36
  Speaker 1: by the time you leave, go back to Boston. They'll
• 24:38
  Speaker 1: they'll show up. But anyway, you're here, now, I am here.
• 24:41
  Speaker 1: You have a whole bunch of material. You have a
• 24:42
  Speaker 1: notepad full of material, you have shtick, you have things planned,
• 24:45
  Speaker 1: you have you have what do you have? You have
• 24:47
  Speaker 1: your chicken?
• 24:48
  Speaker 2: There?
• 24:48
  Speaker 1: You have you have for bland Scott. Bland Scott was illegal. Okay,
• 24:53
  Speaker 1: would would you like to have a full bank of calls.
• 24:55
  Speaker 1: Would you like to talk to anyone on hold? You
• 24:58
  Speaker 1: want to take a call, or you would you want
• 24:59
  Speaker 1: to do your matil? Like what do you know? Oh no, no,
• 25:01
  Speaker 1: Bland Scott tell him that this is really it's a
• 25:05
  Speaker 1: blind Scott. Michael Leprecaun wants you to know that he's
• 25:07
  Speaker 1: got a real chicken here, blind real plastic chicken. Are
• 25:11
  Speaker 1: you there, blind Scott?
• 25:13
  Speaker 5: The thing?
• 25:13
  Speaker 6: The thing with Michael Epcoon is he's been a fifth
• 25:15
  Speaker 6: grade teacher. He has no self awareness how to act
• 25:18
  Speaker 6: around adults. He thinks, because he's a fifth grade teacher,
• 25:20
  Speaker 6: you can just stroll into the place like it's a
• 25:22
  Speaker 6: fifth grade classroom.
• 25:23
  Speaker 1: Didn't. Yeah, it was a place of business. Michael Leprecaun,
• 25:26
  Speaker 1: I mean kind of we talk about sports all that.
• 25:29
  Speaker 5: Management I talked.
• 25:30
  Speaker 6: I've talked to management before, but not about Ben's show.
• 25:33
  Speaker 5: And they have talked back to me, and.
• 25:35
  Speaker 6: They have thanked me for my contribution to Ben's show.
• 25:38
  Speaker 6: They said, thank you for all your hard work and contributions.
• 25:40
  Speaker 6: Because I'm a respectful person I have managed. I don't
• 25:44
  Speaker 6: tell I don't Mike you. Mike, you told the Rainy
• 25:51
  Speaker 6: you were gonna she really rows your boat. Now she's
• 25:54
  Speaker 6: all the way in Oregon now because you, dude, you
• 25:58
  Speaker 6: you were just the biggest con every dude should.
• 26:01
  Speaker 1: What do you have to say, Blind Scott, he's making
• 26:03
  Speaker 1: serious accizations here about Michael leprechan Rather, what do you
• 26:06
  Speaker 1: have to say? My goose has a common first, But blind.
• 26:09
  Speaker 6: You have Mike you don't even have a radio voice.
• 26:11
  Speaker 5: Dude, you came in to.
• 26:12
  Speaker 1: Come to the ten Irish al in this color broke
• 26:17
  Speaker 1: just getting ugly here?
• 26:18
  Speaker 6: This is this is what I got an Irish accent to.
• 26:20
  Speaker 1: I went to, No, you have an Italian you guys
• 26:25
  Speaker 1: are you guys are both from the Commonwealth here and
• 26:27
  Speaker 1: you're fighting it. Adam, this is very ugly guy. I
• 26:31
  Speaker 1: will bring you to the two men.
• 26:34
  Speaker 5: Dude, I'm not coming near you, all right.
• 26:37
  Speaker 1: He's very very up So why is just so upset
• 26:39
  Speaker 1: with you? Michael leprecun I don't understand the one word jealous.
• 26:42
  Speaker 1: He's jealous, all right, Blind Scott? Are you jealous? Is
• 26:45
  Speaker 1: that true? Blind Scott? Are you jealous of the celebrity
• 26:47
  Speaker 1: of Michael Leprechaun? I want to be.
• 26:49
  Speaker 6: Jealous of a guy that walks around with squeaky toys
• 26:52
  Speaker 6: and he lifts off his parents' money from.
• 26:56
  Speaker 1: Oh no, is that true. It's a terrible accusation.
• 27:00
  Speaker 5: He told us how much money is in his back.
• 27:02
  Speaker 1: All right, we don't people. Okay, what are we doing? Okay,
• 27:06
  Speaker 1: I got a comment. I'm in a comment. Yeah, we're
• 27:10
  Speaker 1: all talking into a microphone.
• 27:12
  Speaker 4: Yes, I brought poverty in Irelands.
• 27:16
  Speaker 1: I made my millions in America. There you go. All right,
• 27:19
  Speaker 1: take that point, Mike.
• 27:21
  Speaker 6: Why do we have to know how much money you have?
• 27:24
  Speaker 1: All right? Nobody cares? Listen? All right, do you want
• 27:26
  Speaker 1: to take another call? You have somebody else you have
• 27:27
  Speaker 1: to do what you have? You want to pick a call?
• 27:29
  Speaker 1: Everyone's here? Can I do my jokes the other day? Well?
• 27:33
  Speaker 1: Do I have a choice? I mean, I feel like,
• 27:34
  Speaker 1: you know, you brought a bunch of gifts. That's a
• 27:36
  Speaker 1: good way by the kids. Get you know what you
• 27:38
  Speaker 1: should have done. Let me tell you them next time.
• 27:40
  Speaker 1: First of all, nobody that gun. Let's calm down. But
• 27:43
  Speaker 1: but when you when you run into a security guard,
• 27:47
  Speaker 1: I was just give him a gift. You didn't give
• 27:50
  Speaker 1: him a gift. I give him. The key to life
• 27:52
  Speaker 1: is to just, you know, give gifts. How many gifts
• 27:55
  Speaker 1: I gave you today. I mean there's a ton I
• 27:57
  Speaker 1: don't even get in the fridge. I put it in
• 28:00
  Speaker 1: the rain and Cooper not here and they won't be
• 28:03
  Speaker 1: here till next week. But I, uh yeah, I have
• 28:05
  Speaker 1: a few jokes. Just do just do one. I gotta
• 28:07
  Speaker 1: take a call. Eight seven seven ninety nine off. I sorry,
• 28:10
  Speaker 1: but this is Mike the Leprechaun. He's in studio. He's
• 28:12
  Speaker 1: wearing the world's tallest Leprechaun shirt, He's got an Ireland
• 28:16
  Speaker 1: hat on, He's covered in tattoos. Unbelieve you got the
• 28:19
  Speaker 1: red all this Boston sports teams tattooed on your body?
• 28:22
  Speaker 1: You guys. You see the Red Sox. Hold on, you
• 28:24
  Speaker 1: see your arm there? You got the h Oh, there's
• 28:26
  Speaker 1: the oh that's that's that's not the Celtics Leprechaun. Well
• 28:29
  Speaker 1: there's the Celtic logo. You got the Patriots and then
• 28:31
  Speaker 1: the Bruins over here and a bunch of other Is
• 28:34
  Speaker 1: that is that an Olympic thing here? Like the Olympic tattoo? Oh,
• 28:38
  Speaker 1: the Olympic rings. I was there, remember right, look at that. Okay,
• 28:40
  Speaker 1: I'll do your little dad joke then we'll take it.
• 28:42
  Speaker 1: It's a one rad joke. I got one dad joke here.
• 28:44
  Speaker 4: This is for one of the other construction workers. Do
• 28:47
  Speaker 4: you want to hear a construction joke?
• 28:49
  Speaker 1: Ben?
• 28:50
  Speaker 4: Uh?
• 28:50
  Speaker 1: Sure, sure, Mike the Leprechaun. Sorry, I'm still working on it.
• 28:55
  Speaker 1: Oh there you go? All right? Uh pick pick your poisoning?
• 28:58
  Speaker 1: Where do you want to go? Pick at? We got
• 29:00
  Speaker 1: a full border calls here. Where do you want to go?
• 29:02
  Speaker 1: This is Mike the Leprechaun. He's analyzing all the names.
• 29:06
  Speaker 1: Holler James, you want to go? Hollering James. All right,
• 29:08
  Speaker 1: you've made his dreams come true? Hollering James in Minnesota.
• 29:13
  Speaker 1: My god, what an exciting mom of two legends talking
• 29:16
  Speaker 1: to each other. Here we've got Mike to Leprecaun and
• 29:19
  Speaker 1: hollering James. Hello, hollering James in Minneapolis, Minnesota.
• 29:24
  Speaker 5: Hollering Jews. Let's say, why do you like taking these
• 29:27
  Speaker 5: kind of phone call? These guys are never sold.
• 29:32
  Speaker 1: Wow. Okay, so you're you're calling Mike the Leprecaun and imbeciles?
• 29:35
  Speaker 1: How are you calling him? James?
• 29:37
  Speaker 5: I am flowing him out as a mesaul because you
• 29:40
  Speaker 5: don't know the meanings from human beings.
• 29:44
  Speaker 6: And your clime and beans you make coffee.
• 29:48
  Speaker 1: James, Can you pretend to be sleeping? Your calls are
• 29:50
  Speaker 1: better when you're sleeping. Can you pretend to be sleeping, James,
• 29:52
  Speaker 1: I mean your friends. I like you. Yeah, you kind
• 29:54
  Speaker 1: of ripped him, hollering James, he chose you. If I
• 29:56
  Speaker 1: got a full banker calls, he chose you. Hollering James,
• 30:00
  Speaker 1: were all these other callers.
• 30:02
  Speaker 5: I'm sorry, Mike, let me read.
• 30:04
  Speaker 1: This is one of the few people that actually like you.
• 30:06
  Speaker 4: The worst, the worst I could have done was called
• 30:08
  Speaker 4: Marcelle is Marcella.
• 30:09
  Speaker 1: No, no, he only calls the last dollar you got me?
• 30:13
  Speaker 5: Holler James is right here?
• 30:15
  Speaker 1: How many?
• 30:19
  Speaker 5: Let me tell you this that pretty good?
• 30:22
  Speaker 4: Sometimes? Thank you well, James. I loved the song about you,
• 30:28
  Speaker 4: the thirty six Pills of the Day.
• 30:29
  Speaker 1: That's right, thirty six pers. No, we can't play it
• 30:33
  Speaker 1: because nobody puts in the system. These guys are so
• 30:36
  Speaker 1: lazy and having each other's over there. Well, Coop's supposed
• 30:38
  Speaker 1: to put in the system. He's very lazy. He doesn't
• 30:40
  Speaker 1: do it, and then Larida doesn't put it in the system,
• 30:42
  Speaker 1: and neither one is there anyway. So the only way
• 30:43
  Speaker 1: we can play it is one of them was here,
• 30:45
  Speaker 1: but they're not here. So Mary was beil Miller because
• 30:48
  Speaker 1: it's not Bill Miller is here. Don't dare you talk
• 30:50
  Speaker 1: trash on Bill Miller? All right, James, anything else for please?
• 30:53
  Speaker 1: I have one more comment for him? Yes, guess he
• 30:56
  Speaker 1: know Murphy's law. Hollering James, you know Murphy's Law.
• 31:00
  Speaker 5: Murphy it is happen, It will happen.
• 31:05
  Speaker 1: You're close. It's no what could go that's not it's
• 31:11
  Speaker 1: what what will go wrong? Sorry?
• 31:13
  Speaker 4: What could go wrong? Will go wrong? So you better
• 31:16
  Speaker 4: go back to snoring.
• 31:20
  Speaker 1: All right, thank you, James. Allry, that's hollering James, bohy God.
• 31:23
  Speaker 1: Two legends on the radio. It's the Ben Mathers Show.
• 31:26
  Speaker 1: We're rolling on. We've got Mike the leprech on here.
• 31:28
  Speaker 1: He's in studio. He's demanding, what do you want to
• 31:31
  Speaker 1: talk to the black Irishman? Really never talked to him?
• 31:34
  Speaker 1: You've never spoken to the black Irishman. Well, you're, of
• 31:36
  Speaker 1: course an irishman. You're reading in the island. That's appropriate
• 31:39
  Speaker 1: with the mallet Pellusa at eight seven seven ninety nine
• 31:42
  Speaker 1: of fives. Well, the Mallet Palooza is coming up. I
• 31:44
  Speaker 1: know you'll be entering that as well. Yes, in mid
• 31:46
  Speaker 1: July rookie this year anymore? Right, well, you can generally
• 31:50
  Speaker 1: you can't be marcell. It won't be Marcell Is at Duck, Tennessee.
• 31:55
  Speaker 1: He's going down. You're annoying me with that stupid duck.
• 31:57
  Speaker 1: Let's go to the Black Irishman. Here. You're listening to
• 31:59
  Speaker 1: our live coverage. Very rare in studio guests. A man
• 32:02
  Speaker 1: that's already gotten me in trouble with management. Michael Leprechaun. Hello,
• 32:06
  Speaker 1: Black irishman. Hey, you're killing me, Black irishman. You're on,
• 32:12
  Speaker 1: hold on, you're on with You're on with the I
• 32:15
  Speaker 1: mean everybody needs to relax, relaxed, chill dude.
• 32:20
  Speaker 5: Amen, I won't say me I like to apologize for
• 32:22
  Speaker 5: something he didn't. If I send anybody, you know what
• 32:27
  Speaker 5: I'm saying.
• 32:27
  Speaker 1: You're very chilled. No one knows who you are. Don't
• 32:29
  Speaker 1: worry about that.
• 32:30
  Speaker 5: Please, I won't say you know, Amen.
• 32:32
  Speaker 1: Your voices like relaxed. It's like two irishmen just out
• 32:36
  Speaker 1: to you. But you're a black man. You know what
• 32:38
  Speaker 1: their most black Irish people are. It's a Jamaica.
• 32:41
  Speaker 5: That's me.
• 32:41
  Speaker 1: No, not calmed down now, Black Irishman. Your daughter is
• 32:46
  Speaker 1: away for the summer. Is that correct? Your daughter, man,
• 32:50
  Speaker 1: normally she's playing video games while you he calls.
• 32:52
  Speaker 5: In the man, she actuallytes you know.
• 32:55
  Speaker 1: She's a smart one, a smart young lady. Me. No,
• 32:59
  Speaker 1: me not. You like the leopard I didn't bring, I'm
• 33:03
  Speaker 1: gonna win it when I go to Boston. So you're
• 33:05
  Speaker 1: the Boston You're a leper Gun. You got to make
• 33:06
  Speaker 1: sure they pick up the TV show so I'll come
• 33:08
  Speaker 1: to Boston right now. No, I'm this is a brook
• 33:11
  Speaker 1: and dodgery.
• 33:14
  Speaker 5: Geez, please for as hey, man, I was gonna say,
• 33:16
  Speaker 5: you made the Seahawks sleeper.
• 33:18
  Speaker 1: Team this year, Michael Lepergun you with his Seahawks take
• 33:21
  Speaker 1: from the Black Irish.
• 33:22
  Speaker 5: But they got they got my boy. What's his name?
• 33:26
  Speaker 1: Quarterback?
• 33:27
  Speaker 4: Yeah, quarterback Tom Brady for Minnesota last year.
• 33:31
  Speaker 1: Leper Con says, Tom Brady is the Seahawks quarterack. That's
• 33:34
  Speaker 1: what he is.
• 33:34
  Speaker 5: No man, what's his name?
• 33:36
  Speaker 4: Yeah, Jimmy Buffalo Donald Donald, Yes, Donald, Let me.
• 33:40
  Speaker 1: Tell you about the Seahawks. You it's like it's like
• 33:43
  Speaker 1: a boat that's gonna sink. It's fair. It's more like
• 33:46
  Speaker 1: the Dodo boot. It's like a Dodo extinct.
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  Speaker 5: How you go on the damn game. Before you play,
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  Speaker 5: it's like, okay, have a player. Okay, they want me
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  Speaker 5: to what to score one touchdown. I ain't got to
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  Speaker 5: score nothing.
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  Speaker 1: I could just again, before I hang up on you,
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  Speaker 1: I want to thank.
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  Speaker 5: You for that that hat.
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  Speaker 1: I want to thank you for the hat that you
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  Speaker 1: sent me, A very nice my Creighton blue the Creighton
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  Speaker 1: Blue Jay hat. Are Can I say, I can't say
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  Speaker 1: that word? I mean, I know he's you got that right? Yes,
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  Speaker 1: well he said the effort. Hey, jeez, you hear it
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  Speaker 1: on the podcast. Can I say a shout out to
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  Speaker 1: weed men? We don't do shoutouts? Well, no, I love
• 34:30
  Speaker 1: with men. You're like the Irish weed man. I feel
• 34:33
  Speaker 1: like you're the Irish. Passed a few homeless people today,
• 34:36
  Speaker 1: shocking in l A you'd pass homeless people. Well, not
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  Speaker 1: so many here, but trust me, they're out there. I
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  Speaker 1: know that. Yeah.
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  Speaker 4: And in my hotel there's a there was a conference
• 34:45
  Speaker 4: today of lawyers from Dallas and they gave me a
• 34:48
  Speaker 4: whole bunch of nonsense about the Dallas teams. There's a
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  Speaker 4: Cleveland person. So I lived down like anyway.
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  Speaker 1: But you don't live your staying. I'm saying it's a
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  Speaker 1: whole tell you know, you can't say that you're living
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  Speaker 1: there because you can't for the week for anyway.
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  Speaker 4: Weed Man, So I'm going to say about all homeless people.
• 35:07
  Speaker 4: And that's a genuine Jesus struggled to make in his
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  Speaker 4: meat as well. And weed Man is a very nice man.
• 35:14
  Speaker 1: Oh we love weed Man. Weed Man's heart he was less.
• 35:18
  Speaker 1: All right, you want to take one more call here?
• 35:20
  Speaker 1: Who's on the media. We got we got well vaned
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  Speaker 1: It says Ben on there, but it's Van the one
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  Speaker 1: legged man, Bama man. He had his leg bitten off
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  Speaker 1: by an alligator. We have Lee and Toronto. Who do
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  Speaker 1: you see here? I still Scott? Well, he's still there.
• 35:33
  Speaker 1: He won't hang up. I don't know you want me
• 35:35
  Speaker 1: to hang up on him? You want me? You want
• 35:37
  Speaker 1: to go back to him Blind Scott? Yeah, leper Con
• 35:39
  Speaker 1: says hello to you again. My blind Scotty didn't.
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  Speaker 6: Go with him to Los Angeles. He talks about homeless
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  Speaker 6: people like his mother Teresa. He's flying dude.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, why didn't you bring blind Scott? What do you
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  Speaker 1: guys could have traveled together? Amazing?
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  Speaker 4: Can I educate you there? Blind Scott's she was born
• 35:58
  Speaker 4: in Albania, went to college.
• 36:01
  Speaker 1: You know everything. Stop, Let's take another call. Let's go
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  Speaker 1: to Lee in Toronto. I just want to talk to
• 36:05
  Speaker 1: a nice Canadian fellow. Hello, Lee and Toronto. Welcome Lee. Hello,
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  Speaker 1: wee man. This is not this is not Lee in Toronto.
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  Speaker 1: This is something else? Is somebody else?
• 36:21
  Speaker 3: All right?
• 36:21
  Speaker 1: He and Ronnie, you got punked by holloween James. Holloween James.
• 36:27
  Speaker 1: All right, that's a good one. Holler I have something
• 36:29
  Speaker 1: for you. Hollering James. There you go. Enjoy that sneaky.
• 36:32
  Speaker 1: That was sneaky. All right. Now, I'm I'm afraid because
• 36:34
  Speaker 1: he's here. I don't know if any of these guys
• 36:36
  Speaker 1: are who they say. I like that guy. Uh And
• 36:39
  Speaker 1: James is sneaky. He disguised his voice for He's not sneaky.
• 36:43
  Speaker 1: You know I've met him. There's nothing sneaky about Halloween James.
• 36:47
  Speaker 1: Nothing like James. He's the size of job of the
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  Speaker 1: Hut from the old Star Wars movies. Let's go to
• 36:52
  Speaker 1: uh very large Anthony. I think this is probably I
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  Speaker 1: think everyone's a phony phone called now hello Anthony, Hello,
• 36:58
  Speaker 1: what the hello? Oh this is You're from the Louisiana. Right, yeah, oh,
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  Speaker 1: I remember this is this is a fun guy, Anthony,
• 37:08
  Speaker 1: like a girl. But no, no, this is no don't
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  Speaker 1: say that. How dare you this is a very masculine man. Okay, Anthony,
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  Speaker 1: I'm surprised you called the Raina's not here, Anthony. You
• 37:16
  Speaker 1: want to see how to marry? Hey Mary? Mary is
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  Speaker 1: dressed like a bumblebee? Hello Mary? Hey? How you doing chill?
• 37:24
  Speaker 1: How are you Mary's? I hope you haven't heavy for
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  Speaker 1: to last?
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  Speaker 3: I know?
• 37:30
  Speaker 1: How about it? Too? Happy for July? You're not you're
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  Speaker 1: not working here Mary on the fourth or actually, oh
• 37:35
  Speaker 1: you are on the night or during the day, on
• 37:37
  Speaker 1: the night. Really, that's missing out on a party.
• 37:40
  Speaker 4: I'm going to well I won't be, but I'm going
• 37:42
  Speaker 4: to be watching Joey Chests.
• 37:44
  Speaker 1: Doing the evening hot dog. Yeah. So, Anthony, you're in
• 37:46
  Speaker 1: Louisan What part of Louisa is it? Street Port? Where
• 37:48
  Speaker 1: are you at Louisiana? Greenwood, Louisian Okay, Greenwood? Very nice?
• 37:52
  Speaker 1: And you're on with Mike the Leprechaun. This is a
• 37:55
  Speaker 1: the world's tallest leprechaun. He lives in the Massabon. Since
• 37:58
  Speaker 1: he's visiting us, here in l A. And I'm so
• 38:01
  Speaker 1: pleased to meet you. What's your name against Anthony? Anthony, Anthony.
• 38:04
  Speaker 1: That's a great name, but you should change it. But
• 38:06
  Speaker 1: that's no. He's a wonderful name. There. I love this
• 38:08
  Speaker 1: you ever called Tony. He's one of my favorite callers.
• 38:10
  Speaker 1: This guy anything I like. And Justin doesn't call anymore.
• 38:14
  Speaker 1: He's retired.
• 38:15
  Speaker 4: He couldn't take it. He gave up call anyway. So
• 38:17
  Speaker 4: what do you want to talk about, Anthony. I'm having
• 38:21
  Speaker 4: a great time. Let me tell you about l A.
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  Speaker 4: The moon that's a beautiful mew when this guy Andrea
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  Speaker 4: would be proud. The rules are brilliant and like the
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  Speaker 4: Boston potholes, palm trees are blower. And there's fast food,
• 38:33
  Speaker 4: fast women, and fast something else.
• 38:39
  Speaker 1: You got a note fat he's reading off.
• 38:40
  Speaker 4: Of fast food, fast women, and fast something, not fast
• 38:44
  Speaker 4: cars because fast fancy cars.
• 38:46
  Speaker 1: Oh my god, the cars. The cars are nice. But well, hello,
• 38:53
  Speaker 1: she she ran on hello ran now yeah, okay, she's
• 38:58
  Speaker 1: not here, but we love you, Anthony, and I love
• 39:01
  Speaker 1: that you just called in to say hello and checking
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  Speaker 1: me and callmore often. Maybe next time I have something
• 39:05
  Speaker 1: to say. Okay, all right, be good there's Anthony. All right,
• 39:09
  Speaker 1: very good. We will pause for us. And normally at
• 39:12
  Speaker 1: this point in the show we would we would do
• 39:14
  Speaker 1: Mallard of the third degree. But I think because you're
• 39:16
  Speaker 1: here and you're only here till the end of the hour,
• 39:18
  Speaker 1: will time shift Mallard of the third degree. But here's
• 39:21
  Speaker 1: the Insta trivia. So the Red Sox in honter of you,
• 39:24
  Speaker 1: Mike del Leprecan the Red Sox. William Abra became the
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  Speaker 1: first player to hit a grand slam in an inside
• 39:30
  Speaker 1: the park on the same game. Since Blake, Yes, since Blake,
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  Speaker 1: don't answer it, do not answer it. You have to
• 39:35
  Speaker 1: answer it all x at Ben Mallor that's the Insta Trivia,
• 39:38
  Speaker 1: the answer and more of these riveting phone calls with
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• 39:57
  Speaker 1: Who's there? Blame Week, Blame Week? Who It's Big Ben's
• 40:01
  Speaker 1: lame Joke of the Week. These are actual jokes by
• 40:05
  Speaker 1: actual listeners of the show. And even on a holiday.
• 40:08
  Speaker 1: Do we have to pay this guy time and a half?
• 40:11
  Speaker 1: Weedman hippie in Miami? Hello Weedman, hippie.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah, aamy.
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  Speaker 1: Weed man, A hero to children, especially in Minnesota. They
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  Speaker 1: look up the weed Man. I don't know that that's
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  Speaker 1: good or bad, but here here he is, the great
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  Speaker 1: weed Man hippie. All right, these are actual jokes. Are
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  Speaker 1: you ready, weed Man? Yeah?
• 40:33
  Speaker 5: I love you name there.
• 40:35
  Speaker 1: All right? What are you doing for the fourth today?
• 40:36
  Speaker 1: You have big plans.
• 40:38
  Speaker 5: I want to see fireworks.
• 40:40
  Speaker 1: You might have to leave your apartment to see fireworks. Yeah,
• 40:46
  Speaker 1: all right, Well, here we go and you can send
• 40:49
  Speaker 1: jokes in care of Benmahlor Show at gmail dot com.
• 40:53
  Speaker 1: Ben Maler Show at gmail dot com. Why did weed
• 40:56
  Speaker 1: Man quit his job at Goodyear? Why it was tiring?
• 41:04
  Speaker 1: Surfer Todd, Surfer Todd the comedian. I just realized you
• 41:08
  Speaker 1: are getting up there in age, weed Man. I'm old. Yeah, yeah,
• 41:13
  Speaker 1: you're a little long in the gums at long birday eight.
• 41:18
  Speaker 1: That's hurt from you. Are you looking for a birthday
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  Speaker 1: shout out? By the way, July twenty eighth, eight twenty
• 41:25
  Speaker 1: eighth is coming up here. What day of the week
• 41:27
  Speaker 1: is that are you gonna have to work on your birthday? No,
• 41:30
  Speaker 1: your birthday is on a that's a Monday, Monday night, right,
• 41:34
  Speaker 1: Monday night?
• 41:34
  Speaker 6: All right?
• 41:36
  Speaker 1: Yeah, very nice, everyone sent weed Man. Remember when people
• 41:39
  Speaker 1: were you had to PayPal me money thing and people
• 41:41
  Speaker 1: were sending you one cent? That was that. Yeah, some
• 41:47
  Speaker 1: of the a holes that listen to the show weed
• 41:49
  Speaker 1: Man would be like, PayPal me money, and some of
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  Speaker 1: these schmucks would send. He'd be all excited and he'd
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  Speaker 1: open up his PayPal and it'd be like, you know,
• 41:57
  Speaker 1: ten cents. Heyea very funny. What was wrong when weed
• 42:04
  Speaker 1: Man woke up in a puddle of mud? What it wasn't? Mud?
• 42:12
  Speaker 1: Was not mud. That's another one from Surfer Todd, the comedian.
• 42:17
  Speaker 1: What do weed Man and a laundromat and Lebron have
• 42:20
  Speaker 1: in common? We met at We met at a laundromat
• 42:24
  Speaker 1: and Lebron? What are they have in common? What? Load management?
• 42:29
  Speaker 1: Load management? Eric Eric in Kansas a prolific joke writer.
• 42:34
  Speaker 1: Eric doesn't write jokes every week, but when he does,
• 42:37
  Speaker 1: he's good for seven or eight jokes a week, and
• 42:40
  Speaker 1: he sends them the right format. He knows the format
• 42:43
  Speaker 1: of the jokes. He knows do the Q and A jokes.
• 42:46
  Speaker 1: Why did weed Man get excited during Blair's most recent call.
• 42:50
  Speaker 1: Why because he wants an appearance fee to go on
• 42:54
  Speaker 1: Blair and Maine's new podcast. Right, weed Man, you'll go
• 42:57
  Speaker 1: on there if he pays you. That's a that's Eric
• 43:02
  Speaker 1: in Kansas. Well, weed Man, what should you say to
• 43:06
  Speaker 1: kids who look up to you? What tell them to
• 43:10
  Speaker 1: lay off the crack? That's Tony in the in the
• 43:14
  Speaker 1: Bay Area. It's Big Ben's lame jokes of the week.
• 43:18
  Speaker 1: What do DeAndre Ayton of the Lakers and weed Man's
• 43:22
  Speaker 1: last relationship have in common? What the hontingmoon will be
• 43:27
  Speaker 1: over before two years? Yeah, that's right. How's Lisa? How's
• 43:33
  Speaker 1: Lisa doing? By the way, how's Lisa?
• 43:37
  Speaker 5: Hi?
• 43:37
  Speaker 1: Lisa happy? Happy? For Oh? Look at that there she is?
• 43:42
  Speaker 1: What a What a romance? What a romance these two
• 43:46
  Speaker 1: have all these years? Every night Lisa's on the phone
• 43:48
  Speaker 1: with weed Man. That's a that's a dedicated loyal woman.
• 43:51
  Speaker 1: All right. What do you call a whimpering timber pup
• 43:55
  Speaker 1: with its tail between its legs? What gunner from the
• 44:00
  Speaker 1: Walmart in Northern Minnesota. That's a we haven't heard from
• 44:04
  Speaker 1: him in a while, Tony in the Bay Area. What
• 44:06
  Speaker 1: do Mike the leper Kahn and weed Man have in common?
• 44:10
  Speaker 1: What getting escorted out of places by security? Uh? Yeah,
• 44:18
  Speaker 1: it's Big Ben's lamb jokes of the league. What do
• 44:21
  Speaker 1: Mike the leper Kahn and weed Man have in common?
• 44:24
  Speaker 1: I already did that one, didn't I? Yes? All right, Oh,
• 44:26
  Speaker 1: here's the next one we've met. What does Robbie the
• 44:28
  Speaker 1: Mariner fan think of Buffalo quarterback Josh Allen? What? He's
• 44:34
  Speaker 1: a big, beautiful bill is what he thinks. That's Robbie
• 44:39
  Speaker 1: from Eke in Roseville, Minnesota. Which city does Poppy in
• 44:44
  Speaker 1: San Diego want the Ohio mallor meet and greet to
• 44:47
  Speaker 1: be in? What mentor? Ohio? That's Eric Eric in Kansas.
• 44:55
  Speaker 1: What is the name of blind Scott's dog? What blind
• 45:01
  Speaker 1: Spot is the name of his dog? That's a surfer,
• 45:04
  Speaker 1: Todd Surfer, Todd the Comedian. What is wrong with lizz
• 45:08
  Speaker 1: O licking her chops before eating?
• 45:11
  Speaker 5: What?
• 45:12
  Speaker 1: Well, she's actually licking her pork chops? Weed Man, her
• 45:15
  Speaker 1: pork chops. That's from the Great Surfer Todd the Comedian.
• 45:22
  Speaker 1: It would be great weed Man if you and surfer
• 45:24
  Speaker 1: Todd the comedian hung out. I think you guys would
• 45:26
  Speaker 1: be immediate friends if you guys ever got together. That
• 45:29
  Speaker 1: would be so nice. All right, great? Yeah? Yeah? Are
• 45:32
  Speaker 1: you going to show up? Weed man? There's rumors that
• 45:33
  Speaker 1: are going to show up to the mallor meet and
• 45:35
  Speaker 1: greet in Vegas? Is there any truth to that? Wow?
• 45:38
  Speaker 5: I wish I hit loo?
• 45:39
  Speaker 1: Did I come okay? Because of the woman? The women
• 45:44
  Speaker 1: rather upsetting him with the nudity on the apps? What
• 45:49
  Speaker 1: app is? Whoopee pie Blair joining? Now? Which one grinder? Uh? No,
• 45:55
  Speaker 1: come on, that's uh that's Noah in Austin. Who sent
• 45:58
  Speaker 1: that one? And out? Day? Why does Mike the Leprecaun lose?
• 46:03
  Speaker 1: Why does Michael eleprecun lose at the casinos? Why? Because
• 46:07
  Speaker 1: he always keeps dublin down. He's doublin downread mare. So
• 46:14
  Speaker 1: that's Eke in Roseville, Minnesota. These are actual jokes by
• 46:18
  Speaker 1: actual listeners. If you want to send a joke in
• 46:20
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• 46:23
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• 46:27
  Speaker 1: in the headlines Benmaller Show at gmail dot com, and
• 46:31
  Speaker 1: we move on. Buttermilk Chavo sent this one in. What
• 46:35
  Speaker 1: do you call an angry leprechaun that doesn't realize he
• 46:38
  Speaker 1: is cursing on the air? What a hot Mike? A hot?
• 46:48
  Speaker 1: All right? Why? Why did Mike the Leprechaun cross the road?
• 46:52
  Speaker 1: Why to get on Lorena's bad side? It's buttermilk Chavo there.
• 46:59
  Speaker 1: What nickname is Mike the Leprecaun responsible for what? Lorena?
• 47:05
  Speaker 1: Who fled? That's from Chip in May. Yeah, she was
• 47:09
  Speaker 1: not here, not here with Mike the Leprechaun. What do
• 47:13
  Speaker 1: you call unscreened cocaine? What do you call that? The
• 47:18
  Speaker 1: instant advice line? That's Kurt from Earth who sent that
• 47:23
  Speaker 1: one there? What was the best thing about Mike the
• 47:27
  Speaker 1: Leprechaun's studio visit? What it made? The cockroaches seem less? Annoying?
• 47:34
  Speaker 1: That's from Chip and made last one. How can Mike
• 47:37
  Speaker 1: the lepreca How can Mike the Leprechaun stop stop bringing
• 47:42
  Speaker 1: it being Lorena's enemy? How can that happen?
• 47:44
  Speaker 6: Wow?
• 47:46
  Speaker 1: Give her a pot of acapuco gold. That's buttermilk, Chabo.
• 47:53
  Speaker 1: I know you want that also, weed Man, have a
• 47:55
  Speaker 1: great fourth Enjoy that fireworks, weed Man all over Miami
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  Speaker 1: Tonight