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Hour 1 - A Mile High Goodbye · The Ben Maller Show

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  Speaker 1: Here we go.
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  Speaker 2: Welcome, It's our number one and a happy April ninth.
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  Speaker 2: It's Wednesday, hump Day, and we are together here on
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  Speaker 2: the Original Recipe podcast. As I Ben and you, we
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  Speaker 2: thank you for riding shotgun with us here in our
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  Speaker 2: number one.
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  Speaker 1: It's all about pro bouncy ball.
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  Speaker 2: Why did the Nuggets make this decision to whack Michael
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  Speaker 2: Malone the postseason looming on the horizon? Also, what does
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  Speaker 2: this move by the Nuggets say about Michael Malone's value
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  Speaker 2: to the Denver basketball team? And with Michael Malone gone,
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  Speaker 2: how does this impact Nikola Jokicic's future long term with
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  Speaker 2: the Nuggets.
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  Speaker 1: We'll talk about that.
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  Speaker 2: Also, a bonus Mini Mallard monologue in the B block.
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  Speaker 2: Bonus Mini Mallard monologue on Luca's ejection with the Lakers
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  Speaker 2: in Oklahoma City. How do you process Luca getting the
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  Speaker 2: boot for his big fat mouth in Oklahoma?
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  Speaker 1: We'll talk about all that.
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  Speaker 2: And more here it is our number one.
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  Speaker 1: A mile high.
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  Speaker 2: Goodbye, Yeah, Welcome, in the beginning of another night of
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  Speaker 2: Show'd be so our lead this, we'll do pro bouncy
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  Speaker 2: ball and some of you idiots, you're gonna lead with
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  Speaker 2: the regular season again because a Laker player can't control
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  Speaker 2: himself because he's a loser and deserve to get kids out. Vocain,
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  Speaker 2: We're not only with that who cares Lakers as as
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  Speaker 2: we thought. Frauds lost to Oklahoma City and free falling
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  Speaker 2: in the Western Conference standings, and I cannot wait. I've
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  Speaker 2: actually marked the date on my iPhone the day we
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  Speaker 2: will do the funeral for the Lakers. That'll be fun
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  Speaker 2: the downfall when they are eliminated and all you losers
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  Speaker 2: will say, well, it's.
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  Speaker 1: Only year one. Everything's gonna be.
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  Speaker 2: Okay, yeah, okay, takes time, yeah okay, But our lead
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  Speaker 2: is from a team that that did win a legitimate
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  Speaker 2: championship a couple of years ago in pro bouncy ball
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  Speaker 2: and have decided to clean house.
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  Speaker 1: See you later.
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  Speaker 2: Another one bites the dust, Another one bites the dust,
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  Speaker 2: and that would be a head coach and a general manager,
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  Speaker 2: a two for one special in the NBA.
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  Speaker 1: If you have not heard, I assume you've heard by now,
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  Speaker 1: but maybe not.
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  Speaker 2: We learned that the Nuggets, the Chicken Nuggets, have sacked
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  Speaker 2: head coach Michael Malone.
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  Speaker 1: Here going and I'll put you a nine out of ten.
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  Speaker 2: Casual observers didn't even know the name of the general
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  Speaker 2: manager of the Denver basketball team, Calvin Booth. He was
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  Speaker 2: also paull axed from Denver just days before the regular
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  Speaker 2: season ends, like this weekend, it's over, and here we are.
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  Speaker 2: Here we are the coaching change. Someone named David Adelman.
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  Speaker 2: I used to interview his old man, who never did much,
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  Speaker 2: coached a lot of teams, didn't really win anything, Rick Adelman.
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  Speaker 2: But that's the spawn of Rick Adelman. So another another
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  Speaker 2: coach who is is a neo baby. Another neo baby
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  Speaker 2: in sports, as David Adalman takes over, and so don't
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  Speaker 2: bury the lead mam Man. Who cares about the gm
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  Speaker 2: who cares about the interim coach?
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  Speaker 1: That's not the story.
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  Speaker 2: The story here is Michael Malone, who has been with
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  Speaker 2: the Denver basketball team for a decade and was there
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  Speaker 2: when they won the championship. He was on the sideline
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  Speaker 2: calling up the plays and all that. And now he
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  Speaker 2: is persona non grata.
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  Speaker 1: He has been given the.
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  Speaker 2: Pink slip see you later. So let us discuss the
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  Speaker 2: question why why did the Nuggets make the decision to
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  Speaker 2: whack Michael Malone? Now the postseason is looming, like this
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  Speaker 2: is this is even more bizarre than Memphis. Like Memphis
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  Speaker 2: is that well, they're not really going anywhere, and there's
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  Speaker 2: issues with John Morant that was eleven days prior and
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  Speaker 2: the Grizzlies they decided to maul their head coach.
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  Speaker 1: But this is supposedly a Denver team.
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  Speaker 2: That, even though they were not playing great in the moment,
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  Speaker 2: was a contender because of the joker in the middle.
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  Speaker 2: So I've got disco, paper plates and vultures, and we
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  Speaker 2: will combine all of these things together and we will
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  Speaker 2: provide a nice sparkly new hat, which you know, Lorraina
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  Speaker 2: gets a lot of food and stuff over there, she
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  Speaker 2: gets a lot of good See, this is a new hat.
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  Speaker 2: This is a Buffalo Bison hat. It's a solid looking hat. Right,
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  Speaker 2: It's a good hat fits could solid hat. So that's
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  Speaker 2: what we're gonna make that all right. So my first
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  Speaker 2: thought answering the question why why did the Denver basketball
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  Speaker 2: team eliminate the coach and the GM with the postseason
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  Speaker 2: looming in the horizon. So this is a Red Bull special?
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  Speaker 2: Is a Red Bull special trying to give a little
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  Speaker 2: bit of a jolt to the roster and looking to
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  Speaker 2: wake up a team that has been napping since the
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  Speaker 2: All Star break. However, if you dig a little deeper,
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  Speaker 2: there's this weasel, your little weasel. As a certain MMA
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  Speaker 2: guy used to say, Josh Kroncky, who you talk about
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  Speaker 2: winning the genetic lottery. Josh Kronkie is in the Cronky family,
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  Speaker 2: and they have all the money in the world. I mean,
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  Speaker 2: they are just loaded. So Josh Cronky won the genetic
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  Speaker 2: lottery and so as a result he gets to run
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  Speaker 2: a sports team. And so Josh Crocky, the son I
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  Speaker 2: believe of the owner said in the future, the immediate expectations,
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  Speaker 2: immediate expectations for the Nuggets following the coaching change. He
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  Speaker 2: said all of five words. He said, play hard and
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  Speaker 2: have fun. Hard and have fun. That's the money quote.
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  Speaker 2: You know what that also is? Say it with me now,
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  Speaker 2: dead give way. That is a dead giveaway. Yeah, captain obvious.
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  Speaker 2: What does that tell you? Okay, Now you are the investigator,
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  Speaker 2: you are analyzing that quote. What does that quote tell you?
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  Speaker 2: You play talk radio host? What does that quote tell you?
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  Speaker 2: I know what to tell I know on this side.
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  Speaker 1: What about you? So to me, it don't change your
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  Speaker 1: answer to me. It tells you that the Denver.
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  Speaker 2: Nuggets were A not playing hard and B we're not
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  Speaker 2: having fun. They were not having fun. Okay, So that's
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  Speaker 2: what that tells you. Otherwise you wouldn't need to encourage
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  Speaker 2: the team to play hard and try to have fun.
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  Speaker 2: If they're already having fun and playing hard, it doesn't matter.
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  Speaker 2: You don't need to say it. You're just it's obvious.
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  Speaker 2: Now after the fact. I love the after the fact
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  Speaker 2: breathless reporting. So, Michael Malone is a popular figure with
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  Speaker 2: the Denver basketball team and someone that is beloved by
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  Speaker 2: many in the basketball media. So when you get rid
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  Speaker 2: of someone who is deemed popular, you then need to
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  Speaker 2: turn to character assassination, which is what the Denver Nuggets
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  Speaker 2: are doing, trying to bury Michael Malone on his way
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  Speaker 2: out of Colorado. And it's exactly what's happening here, this
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  Speaker 2: breathless reporting that there was a civil war going on
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  Speaker 2: between Michael Malone and the GM Calvin Booth.
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  Speaker 1: They weren't even talking to each other.
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  Speaker 2: They hated each other's guts, and Malone was upset because
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  Speaker 2: he didn't like the way the roster was built. They
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  Speaker 2: got a bunch of suck bag young players on the bench.
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  Speaker 2: It's not a championship bench, and Malone was annoyed by that.
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  Speaker 2: And there was also some debates about certain guys were
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  Speaker 2: playing that the GM wanted other people to play, and
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  Speaker 2: so they painted the picture that Malone was just a.
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  Speaker 1: King of all a holes and that's why he was like,
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  Speaker 1: oh U coseu.
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  Speaker 2: The Nuggets, the ownership group of the executives there, what
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  Speaker 2: happens is they leak stories. There's a story leaked that
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  Speaker 2: Malone was giving preferential treatment. And this is going to
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  Speaker 2: blow you in the NBA They never do this in
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  Speaker 2: the NBA, giving special star treatment to Nikola Jokic and
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  Speaker 2: Jamal Murray. O MG, can you imagine that star players
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  Speaker 2: in basketball would be treated special?
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  Speaker 1: That's a yet, It's unbelievable.
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  Speaker 2: I mean I know here that like myself and my colleague,
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  Speaker 2: Colin Cowherd are treated exactly s other than the extra
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  Speaker 2: zeros on his contract and the people that follow him
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  Speaker 2: around in case there's any crumbs that drop down from
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  Speaker 2: his mouth and.
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  Speaker 1: They're there to clean it up.
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  Speaker 2: Other than that, very similar, very very similar, very similar
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  Speaker 2: lives me and you know, my teammate, because there's no
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  Speaker 2: star system.
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  Speaker 1: We don't have a star.
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  Speaker 2: Everyone has a star system. Yamara, what's wrong with you?
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  Speaker 2: It's a nice spin, but my breakdown on this is
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  Speaker 2: pretty simple. So night out on the town. It is
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  Speaker 2: a visit to the disco. It is panic at the
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  Speaker 2: disco is what it is now. This is turning into
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  Speaker 2: a total boondoggle, and I'm there for it. I'm there
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  Speaker 2: a big bucket of buttered popcorn. Denver is eleven and
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  Speaker 2: thirteen since the All Star break. It is a desperation
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  Speaker 2: play by the Nuggets, a total desperation play. It's a
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  Speaker 2: little caffeine, little red bull. They're trying to jump start
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  Speaker 2: things and trying to squeeze one more, one more playoff
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  Speaker 2: run with some no name assistant coach and hoping beyond hope,
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  Speaker 2: which I don't think hope is a great strategy. I
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  Speaker 2: don't think that they tell you that that's the way
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  Speaker 2: to turn to hope doesn't usually go so well. Now
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  Speaker 2: page two here, So what does this particular move by
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  Speaker 2: the Nuggets say about Michael Malone's value, Because there's the
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  Speaker 2: public perception and then there's the private perception.
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  Speaker 1: Right, So, publicly, as we talked about.
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  Speaker 2: Here, Malone is considered one of the upper echelon head
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  Speaker 2: coaches in the NBA. This guy is prepared, He is
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  Speaker 2: methodical with his work. He is someone that lives breeze, eats,
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  Speaker 2: sleeps basketball and puts the work in and all that.
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  Speaker 2: But then he realized privately in the bowels of the
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  Speaker 2: facility there where the Nuggets hold down the fort, that
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  Speaker 2: they are really just whistling Dixie is what they're doing there.
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  Speaker 2: It's a reminder that Michael Malone and all NBA coaches
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  Speaker 2: are like those Dixie paper plates, disposable, right, Everyone's disposable.
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  Speaker 2: You know the average tenure, the average tenure of an
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  Speaker 2: NBA coach is about two and a half seasons. That's it,
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  Speaker 2: two and a half seasons. It is a merry go round,
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  Speaker 2: round and round and round and round on the merry
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  Speaker 2: go round, and it spins fast and you better be
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  Speaker 2: careful and you're to be thrown off it. It's a
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  Speaker 2: whirlwind situation. So the Nuggets ownership, though, I will point
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  Speaker 2: out years ago when I used to go to those
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  Speaker 2: NBA games and then back in the good old days,
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  Speaker 2: and I believe it, I even went to like Laker
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  Speaker 2: games and Phil Jackson was the coach of the Lakers
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  Speaker 2: and he ranted, which was amusing because Phil lasted in
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  Speaker 2: Chicago and LA for a long time. But Phil used
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  Speaker 2: to preach and I guess the Nuggets are really following
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  Speaker 2: the Zen philosophy. But Phil Jackson preached that a coach's
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  Speaker 2: message grows stale the longer they stay in one outpost.
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  Speaker 2: And he was an advocate that you had to change
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  Speaker 2: and go to different locations because the players tune out
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  Speaker 2: that the more the team becomes a customed And he
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  Speaker 2: also said you had to change the ross a lot
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  Speaker 2: because guys do get comfortable, and once they get comfortable,
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  Speaker 2: they put on the ear muffs.
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  Speaker 1: And they're like, hey, we're good. We're out on that.
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  Speaker 1: And so Malone was there ten years and he ends
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  Speaker 1: up getting decommissioned.
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  Speaker 2: Our last word here, Now we go to the Komodo
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  Speaker 2: Dragon in the room. Now what is the Komodo Dragon room?
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  Speaker 2: With Michael Malone dispatched from Denver? How does this impact
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  Speaker 2: Nicola Jokic and his long term future with the Nuggets.
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  Speaker 2: So Yogic, by all accounts, is a top twenty all
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  Speaker 2: time NBA player already, even if he retired today, be
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  Speaker 2: a top twenty all time NBA player, probably top ten
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  Speaker 2: based on his accomplishments. He doesn't get the credit because
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  Speaker 2: he isn't playing a big market and so people dismiss him.
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  Speaker 2: But he's been amazing. He's been absolutely amazing for the
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  Speaker 2: Nuggets and all that stuff. However, my default position is
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  Speaker 2: no different on this than it was on John Morant
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  Speaker 2: in Memphis. My position is that Nikola Jokicic was fully
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  Speaker 2: aware that this was an option, and he did not
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  Speaker 2: put his foot down and use his star influence to
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  Speaker 2: keep Michael Malone as coach of the Nuggets. If Nikola
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  Speaker 2: jokicch truly had an issue that he I'm sure he
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  Speaker 2: likes Michael Malone personally, but if he wanted him professionally
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  Speaker 2: to be the coach of the Nuggets, still Malone would
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  Speaker 2: still be the coach of the Nuggets. They would have
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  Speaker 2: gotten rid of the GM, they would have kept Michael Malone.
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  Speaker 2: You in that business. It has been this way as
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  Speaker 2: my entire life in the NBA. Right, I find it
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  Speaker 2: impossiblieve that this was not greenlit by Nicola jokicch that
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  Speaker 2: you know, chatter was Now there's stories being thrown out
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  Speaker 2: that he was frustrated with the Nuggets defense, and of
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  Speaker 2: course I'm sure a lot of people were frustrated. The
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  Speaker 2: team blows right now, they're not playing very well. And
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  Speaker 2: so you also have the vultures now who are circling
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  Speaker 2: overhead and in e with that ominous music playing and
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  Speaker 2: so trying to poach talent, trying to get some some talent.
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  Speaker 2: And I said, well, there's no way the Nuggets would
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  Speaker 2: ever trade NICOLEA. Jokic. This guy's a nugget for life. Well,
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  Speaker 2: he said the same thing about Luca and and how
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  Speaker 2: that work out. So if you follow the gambling market.
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  Speaker 2: I don't think I need to tell you who the
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  Speaker 2: favorite is to acquire to acquire these services of the Joker. Yeah,
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  Speaker 2: that's a team that the NBA rigs for everyone to
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  Speaker 2: go to over the course of their career. They're halfway decent,
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  Speaker 2: that ugly purple and gold team now followed by Jokis.
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  Speaker 2: The other option would be Jokic leaving the NBA altogether,
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  Speaker 2: leaving not just the Nuggets but the NBA and going
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  Speaker 2: and playing for one of the teams in his homeland
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  Speaker 2: there in Serbia and just saying I'm out. That's it,
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  Speaker 2: see you later. I'm done. I'm gonna get out of
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  Speaker 2: here and I go back to my old life. I'm
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  Speaker 2: gonna drink three leaders of Coca Cola day and I'll
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  Speaker 2: live my greatest life.
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  Speaker 1: Some of the other teams mentioned, you've got the.
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  Speaker 2: Usual suspects, the Warriors, the Clippers, and the wild card,
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  Speaker 2: the Toronto Raptors.
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  Speaker 1: They were tossed out there as well.
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  Speaker 2: And for the Lakers here, they got to hope that
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  Speaker 2: Nico Harrison gets fired and then he gets hired by Denver,
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  Speaker 2: and then his first move would be like you know,
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  Speaker 2: I remember, Jokich was a fattie coming into the NBA,
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  Speaker 2: so I'm worried he might become a fatty against so
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  Speaker 2: we'll we'll give him.
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  Speaker 1: To the Lakers.
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  Speaker 2: And we need like a like a box of sand,
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  Speaker 2: and that's I think we need like one other little
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  Speaker 2: shar of class and we're good and that would be
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  Speaker 2: make a statement and beat the Thunder yet again in
• 19:19
  Speaker 2: the game that was played on Tuesday nights.
• 19:20
  Speaker 1: So they were. They had a one point lead going
• 19:23
  Speaker 1: to the fourth quarter, and.
• 19:24
  Speaker 2: Then a total meltdown, a total meltdown by the Lakers.
• 19:30
  Speaker 1: Lakers a leading going into.
• 19:32
  Speaker 2: The fourth quarter, one aw eight to one oh seven
• 19:34
  Speaker 2: in the fourth quarter, and then the meltdown happened as.
• 19:40
  Speaker 1: Hookah, Luca got some bad hookah.
• 19:42
  Speaker 2: And you go, yeah uh if you didn't see it,
• 19:47
  Speaker 2: Luka Doncik received a second technical foul in the fourth quarter.
• 19:51
  Speaker 2: At the time Lakers were up by one, and that
• 19:53
  Speaker 2: means an automatic injection.
• 19:56
  Speaker 5: What a dumb thing to do.
• 19:57
  Speaker 1: Not the smartest Yeah, Dan.
• 20:00
  Speaker 2: We're here, Not the smartest move in the world for
• 20:02
  Speaker 2: Luca there. Now, there's a couple of theories on what happened.
• 20:05
  Speaker 2: You had the crew chief Tony Brothers, longtime NBA referee,
• 20:10
  Speaker 2: who explained the first technical fiul by Luca was directing
• 20:15
  Speaker 2: profanity at an official and the second was for using
• 20:20
  Speaker 2: vulgar language which he was looking at the referee. Now
• 20:25
  Speaker 2: that's where the debate is, because according to the NBA
• 20:30
  Speaker 2: rule Book, by the letter of the law, not the
• 20:32
  Speaker 2: spirit of law. By the letter of the law, Luca
• 20:36
  Speaker 2: has no leg to stand on, no leg to stand on,
• 20:39
  Speaker 2: because it says right there in the NBA Rulebook that
• 20:42
  Speaker 2: a player earns a technical file for using profanity, use
• 20:47
  Speaker 2: of profanity, or disrespectfully, disrespectfully addressing an official.
• 20:53
  Speaker 1: And so check, check, and then you are ejected.
• 20:57
  Speaker 2: Now Luca's claiming his defense is he said postgame that
• 21:02
  Speaker 2: he was talking to a fan and not the referee.
• 21:06
  Speaker 2: He says, I never got a fan ejected.
• 21:08
  Speaker 1: Never.
• 21:09
  Speaker 2: But if you're gonna talk, I'm gonna talk back like always,
• 21:14
  Speaker 2: like always, Lucas said. So the question on this one,
• 21:19
  Speaker 2: as we discuss here, how do you process Luca Donzik
• 21:23
  Speaker 2: getting the boot in Oka se and just the general
• 21:26
  Speaker 2: mindset that Luca has so somewhere far far away, Nico
• 21:31
  Speaker 2: Harrison is smiling and all those stories the Mavericks planted
• 21:36
  Speaker 2: in the media about Luca being uncoachable and uncontrollable.
• 21:41
  Speaker 1: This is an example. This is the argument they were making.
• 21:44
  Speaker 2: Whether you agree with it or not, this is the
• 21:45
  Speaker 2: example of Luca not being coachable.
• 21:49
  Speaker 1: That it's it's the whole.
• 21:51
  Speaker 2: Situation where you're there. You got to know you already
• 21:53
  Speaker 2: have a technical foul and what are you doing? It
• 21:56
  Speaker 2: is a lack of discipline, Luca having a conniption fit
• 22:00
  Speaker 2: like a spoiled child, like a baby, which is what
• 22:03
  Speaker 2: one of the arguments was about Luca, that he's just
• 22:05
  Speaker 2: uncoachable and he's a baby. He does whatever he wants,
• 22:07
  Speaker 2: and there's no discipline, there's no self control.
• 22:09
  Speaker 1: You don't win like that.
• 22:11
  Speaker 2: And this is a really bad omen for the Lakers
• 22:14
  Speaker 2: that he can't even control himself in a regular season
• 22:16
  Speaker 2: game on a random Tuesday night. What is going to
• 22:19
  Speaker 2: happen in a playoff environment. Oh my god, it is
• 22:25
  Speaker 2: going to be a disaster. And by the way, Luca
• 22:28
  Speaker 2: has The second part is Luca has just announced to
• 22:32
  Speaker 2: every degenerate heckler from the Pacific to the Atlantic, it's
• 22:38
  Speaker 2: on right if you are in the heckling business.
• 22:41
  Speaker 1: That was the Mona Lisa.
• 22:43
  Speaker 2: That was the Mona Lisa that you start heckling Luca
• 22:48
  Speaker 2: and he's such a non professional he can't control his
• 22:52
  Speaker 2: emotion that he gets back at you and he gets ejected.
• 22:57
  Speaker 2: That is the one of the great moments in the
• 23:00
  Speaker 2: history of heckling. And so I'm sure there are better hecklers. No,
• 23:05
  Speaker 2: you know, I don't know if that was Kyrie in
• 23:07
  Speaker 2: Okay see r P one there number one Thunderfan Kyrie.
• 23:10
  Speaker 1: I don't know if that was him or not.
• 23:12
  Speaker 2: But whoever it was, I'm guessing down the line there
• 23:16
  Speaker 2: are other hecklers that are more advanced than that particular heckler.
• 23:20
  Speaker 2: So you've got that, and then you've also got location,
• 23:24
  Speaker 2: location Location. Now I enjoy a good swear word like
• 23:28
  Speaker 2: the next red blooded American man or one. However, this
• 23:33
  Speaker 2: game was played where that's right. The belt, the Bible belt.
• 23:39
  Speaker 2: You can't use that kind of language in the Bible belt.
• 23:42
  Speaker 2: Luca's gonna get struck by lightning. He's gonna get struck
• 23:46
  Speaker 2: by the What are you doing, seriously, Luca, Bible belt,
• 23:50
  Speaker 2: read the Bible, Luke, you can't curse like that was
• 23:52
  Speaker 2: wrong with you. And then the final part of this.
• 23:57
  Speaker 2: The Lakers are in some serious trouble and I.
• 24:00
  Speaker 1: Tried to tell you, you.
• 24:01
  Speaker 2: Haven't listened to me. They're a mentally weak team. Luca's
• 24:05
  Speaker 2: mentally weak? Uh, and they completely crumble. What happened to
• 24:10
  Speaker 2: rising up? Luca got ejected? You still have you told?
• 24:14
  Speaker 2: Told me Lebron James is as good as ever and
• 24:17
  Speaker 2: you've got the greatest undrafted player of all time in
• 24:20
  Speaker 2: Austin Reeves, God's gift to basketball. And you completely fell
• 24:25
  Speaker 2: apart because you're a soft team. You're mister softy. So
• 24:29
  Speaker 2: the Lakers have a lot of problems right now, and
• 24:31
  Speaker 2: I will enjoy the demise of the Lakers. And boy,
• 24:34
  Speaker 2: that what a What a bad night for Luca. What
• 24:37
  Speaker 2: an embarrassment. You can't even contain yourself. Some guy wearing
• 24:41
  Speaker 2: cowboy boots in the front row and a and a
• 24:43
  Speaker 2: bulow tie is shouting at you and you.
• 24:46
  Speaker 1: Can't have any self control. Bad job by you? All right?
• 24:51
  Speaker 2: Is the the Ben Mahler Show. Will take some calls,
• 24:53
  Speaker 2: and where do we want to go here? It's thee
• 24:55
  Speaker 2: eeny meenie miney mo.
• 24:57
  Speaker 1: Let's saylo to Andre, who's in the Commonwealth. Hello Andre, Welcome, Hello.
• 25:04
  Speaker 4: Ben thanks for taking the call. Of course, good good
• 25:07
  Speaker 4: to be with you. Listen, what's going on in the NBA?
• 25:10
  Speaker 4: These owners, these teams have they no shame the way
• 25:13
  Speaker 4: that Mike Malone is being treated. What are we doing here?
• 25:16
  Speaker 4: What is this the new fat of the month? Okay?
• 25:18
  Speaker 4: Owner in Denver looks at the folks in Memphis, completely
• 25:21
  Speaker 4: different city, completely different you know, geography every day. Okay,
• 25:24
  Speaker 4: they're gonna fire a good coach. Okay, a little bit
• 25:27
  Speaker 4: of time left in the season, built them up, took
• 25:30
  Speaker 4: a mercurial star and put them in a position to
• 25:32
  Speaker 4: be successful. So now we the Denver Nuggets, who just
• 25:35
  Speaker 4: won an NBA championship less than two years ago. Now
• 25:38
  Speaker 4: we're gonna jump on that bandwagon. Okay, what's going on here?
• 25:43
  Speaker 4: Do these fan bases do they? Are they going to
• 25:45
  Speaker 4: tolerate these tanking owners?
• 25:47
  Speaker 1: Okay, well, you know, you know what's going on Andre.
• 25:49
  Speaker 2: They clearly think that this is going to jump start
• 25:51
  Speaker 2: these teams. And they also are are cow towing to
• 25:55
  Speaker 2: the star player, whether it's John Moran in Memphis or
• 25:58
  Speaker 2: Nicole Jokic in Denver. I I do not believe, I
• 26:01
  Speaker 2: refuse to believe that either one of those coaching changes
• 26:05
  Speaker 2: happened without the wink and the nod from the star player.
• 26:09
  Speaker 2: Because I've I've watched the NBA, I've been This is
• 26:12
  Speaker 2: not my first trip to the circus, and it's not
• 26:15
  Speaker 2: yours either. Andre you've seen it. You know how this
• 26:17
  Speaker 2: stuff works. I mean, how many times has Lebron James
• 26:20
  Speaker 2: gotten a coach fired? For example, right, he gives a
• 26:22
  Speaker 2: wink there and the coach is gone. Happens all the time,
• 26:25
  Speaker 2: not just Lebron, most of these guys does.
• 26:29
  Speaker 4: Happen all the time. Okay, But when he tried that
• 26:31
  Speaker 4: move in Miami and he had real leadership in the
• 26:35
  Speaker 4: front office, i e. Pat Riley, it didn't go down, Okay, Yeah,
• 26:38
  Speaker 4: but he left.
• 26:39
  Speaker 2: And then said it was because he couldn't have his
• 26:41
  Speaker 2: chocolate chip cookies. He said, that's why he's in Miami.
• 26:45
  Speaker 2: The heat said no to the chocolate chip cookies. And
• 26:48
  Speaker 2: I gotta tell you when I was, when I was
• 26:49
  Speaker 2: morbally obese, I would have also left a job if
• 26:52
  Speaker 2: they didn't give me chocolate chip cookies.
• 26:53
  Speaker 1: So I understand why you would do that.
• 26:56
  Speaker 4: And you need feel Ben. Yeah, the snack a room
• 27:00
  Speaker 4: in there, chocolate chip cookies a little bit of milk. Okay,
• 27:03
  Speaker 4: you get to get the juices flowing again.
• 27:05
  Speaker 2: And you're right, how more portant house. We've not heard
• 27:07
  Speaker 2: from Willis and all Is Willis Okay? Is everything okay
• 27:09
  Speaker 2: with Willis?
• 27:11
  Speaker 4: Willis is okay. He's resting right now. He's out, you know,
• 27:14
  Speaker 4: and he's a state. But event we're going into, you know,
• 27:18
  Speaker 4: a couple more weeks, will be in April, vacation, so
• 27:20
  Speaker 4: we'll be back, you know, living living a good life. Okay,
• 27:22
  Speaker 4: going out. We should be walking around these times, you know,
• 27:25
  Speaker 4: getting the fresh air. He's out there keeping the neighborhood safe,
• 27:27
  Speaker 4: you know, from from crime and you know everything else,
• 27:30
  Speaker 4: you know, keeping the neighborhood.
• 27:31
  Speaker 2: Safe, a real neighborhood hero Willis. People underestimate the power
• 27:35
  Speaker 2: of the great Willis right there.
• 27:36
  Speaker 4: Unbelievable indeed, and they should Okay, back to Denver, okay,
• 27:41
  Speaker 4: Uh please, you got to get some some love in
• 27:45
  Speaker 4: your heart here. Three days left in the season. And
• 27:47
  Speaker 4: bottom line is bottom line is this. I don't see
• 27:49
  Speaker 4: the joke signing off on this. I have it coming
• 27:52
  Speaker 4: from ownership and just saying they've had enough of the dysfunction.
• 27:55
  Speaker 4: And even if there was dysfunction, First of all, specific
• 27:57
  Speaker 4: to Yogic, she seems to have this every day you
• 28:00
  Speaker 4: know common you know man type of perspective. You know,
• 28:03
  Speaker 4: takes pride in the little things and he's grateful. So
• 28:05
  Speaker 4: I don't see him being, frankly, a backstabber. I see
• 28:08
  Speaker 4: just an ownership group that just is making.
• 28:12
  Speaker 2: I mean, I don't think he started with Jokic. But
• 28:15
  Speaker 2: they say, hey, Nicole, we're thinking about getting rid of
• 28:17
  Speaker 2: the coach. Would you have a big problem with this.
• 28:19
  Speaker 2: He didn't say yeah, I got a problem with this.
• 28:21
  Speaker 2: Otherwise Malone would have still been there. But remember the
• 28:24
  Speaker 2: phrase in sports, dance with the one who brung you right,
• 28:27
  Speaker 2: that old line, well, in the NBA Dance with the
• 28:30
  Speaker 2: interim coach. Dance with the interim coach.
• 28:32
  Speaker 4: Okay, they're gonna be They're gonna be dancing right in
• 28:34
  Speaker 4: the play in and out of the playoffs, and they're
• 28:36
  Speaker 4: gonna blow it up and then they're gonna be worse
• 28:37
  Speaker 4: off than they were before.
• 28:38
  Speaker 6: You know, there is another line.
• 28:40
  Speaker 4: You know, you should have loved the one you're with. Okay,
• 28:42
  Speaker 4: you should love the one you're with it and get
• 28:43
  Speaker 4: through the tough times. They didn't do it. Shame on
• 28:45
  Speaker 4: you Denver. Okay, you're gonna get what's coming to you,
• 28:48
  Speaker 4: and Mike Lung is gonna get another job and you're
• 28:50
  Speaker 4: gonna be successful. He's not gonnaet a job in New York,
• 28:52
  Speaker 4: but he's crazy. People talking about Tips being out of this,
• 28:54
  Speaker 4: So we can x that out. Ben, Thanks taking the call.
• 28:56
  Speaker 4: Show some respect to these great coaches. We'll be with
• 28:59
  Speaker 4: you next time.
• 29:00
  Speaker 2: Well, I've never been a big coaching matters guy in
• 29:03
  Speaker 2: the NBA. There are a few that are on the
• 29:06
  Speaker 2: short list. I thought Malone was on there, but clearly
• 29:08
  Speaker 2: the Nuggets do not agree. And by the way, the
• 29:10
  Speaker 2: People's team, you talk about a team on the run here,
• 29:12
  Speaker 2: Holy crap, everyone's afraid of this team, the Clippers. Nobody
• 29:15
  Speaker 2: wants to play the Clippers in the playoffs. And right
• 29:17
  Speaker 2: now the Clips they beat San Antonio on Tuesday night,
• 29:19
  Speaker 2: so the People's team has moved all the way up
• 29:22
  Speaker 2: to number four.
• 29:24
  Speaker 1: Lakers will lose to the Mavericks.
• 29:26
  Speaker 2: That's right, Lakers are gonna lose to the Mavericks on
• 29:28
  Speaker 2: Wednesday night and then they'll be tied. Now I think
• 29:32
  Speaker 2: the Lakers have the tiebreaker because the Clippers felt.
• 29:34
  Speaker 1: Bad and they gave some games away, quieted and playing.
• 29:38
  Speaker 2: But if the Lakers stumble again after that and the
• 29:40
  Speaker 2: Clippers went out, then all of a sudden, clips end up.
• 29:43
  Speaker 1: What number three?
• 29:45
  Speaker 2: Number three like, I don't think they're not gonnackets. Rockets
• 29:51
  Speaker 2: are locked in there with number two in the West.
• 29:55
  Speaker 2: So things shaken and shaken and stirred here in the
• 29:59
  Speaker 2: in the NBA.
• 30:00
  Speaker 1: What else do we have?
• 30:00
  Speaker 2: Ferg dog rights and says, hey, tell Bill Miller that
• 30:04
  Speaker 2: we don't give a crap whether he fasts or not.
• 30:07
  Speaker 1: Nobody's here for the Bill Miller show.
• 30:09
  Speaker 2: H Yeah, uh, Tony writes in, says Laker Nation outraged
• 30:16
  Speaker 2: about the referee there and the Luca addition. See, you'd
• 30:20
  Speaker 2: rather than blame the referee, Tony. I know you're a
• 30:22
  Speaker 2: low information fan because you like the lak You should
• 30:24
  Speaker 2: blame Luka. How about some self control? How about be
• 30:26
  Speaker 2: a professional? How about you know you've already got one
• 30:29
  Speaker 2: technical foul and you can't talk to the to the
• 30:32
  Speaker 2: hokey pokey guy in the front row.
• 30:33
  Speaker 1: How about that? What's wrong with you?
• 30:36
  Speaker 2: Late night drug tester says, hearing that there is a
• 30:38
  Speaker 2: funeral coming for the Lakers, is there a sign up
• 30:41
  Speaker 2: sheet for the luncheon afterwards. Who's making the funeral potatoes
• 30:47
  Speaker 2: and the jelly salad. Yeah, we'll take some potatoes. How
• 30:50
  Speaker 2: about some cold cuts. I'll take some cold cuts.
• 30:53
  Speaker 1: That'll be good. Why not they didn't.
• 30:54
  Speaker 5: Even fall in the standings. And that that reference.
• 30:58
  Speaker 1: That's justin Cooper, Bob that this was just being a little.
• 31:01
  Speaker 5: Bitch, because Luca does that literally every game.
• 31:03
  Speaker 7: He talks crap to the people sitting on the sideline.
• 31:06
  Speaker 2: Lorena, shut up, good morning here, Coop. This is the
• 31:10
  Speaker 2: end of the Lakers are done. It's over, Loraina.
• 31:13
  Speaker 1: Coope's gonna be a Paul.
• 31:14
  Speaker 7: Bar No, this is This is the funniest part about
• 31:17
  Speaker 7: Lorena's kiss assing.
• 31:18
  Speaker 1: She's not kissing.
• 31:19
  Speaker 5: Yes, yes, yes, that's exactly what it is like.
• 31:21
  Speaker 1: She's a lovely lady. In my apologies, she.
• 31:24
  Speaker 5: Does it just for the Lakers in the NBA is
• 31:26
  Speaker 5: as if she knows anything about the.
• 31:27
  Speaker 2: NBA is an expert. Okay, she proves that every night
• 31:30
  Speaker 2: on this show.
• 31:31
  Speaker 5: No that we watched more games than you this season.
• 31:33
  Speaker 1: Loraena, what city? What city?
• 31:35
  Speaker 2: Let me ask lorda question, Loraina, what city do the
• 31:38
  Speaker 2: Lakers move to la from?
• 31:39
  Speaker 1: What city?
• 31:40
  Speaker 5: The one over there that's right.
• 31:42
  Speaker 1: That she's right. It was over there.
• 31:44
  Speaker 2: That is correct, A shot by you. Great Now, now, Coop,
• 31:49
  Speaker 2: you're just a suck off because Luca's wearing a Laker
• 31:51
  Speaker 2: uniform deep down off the air. I know you told
• 31:53
  Speaker 2: me before the show in the hallway there you said,
• 31:55
  Speaker 2: you know what, You're right, Ben, he's a hot head.
• 31:57
  Speaker 1: The Lakers are in trouble. You told me that.
• 31:58
  Speaker 2: Now you hit on the air, you're playing the character.
• 32:00
  Speaker 2: You're you're doing theatrics here on the air claiming yeah,
• 32:04
  Speaker 2: you're you're playing a character. I know what you're doing.
• 32:06
  Speaker 7: You can literally watch every game of Luka Doncik's career
• 32:09
  Speaker 7: and he does exactly that.
• 32:11
  Speaker 5: He jaws at the fans.
• 32:13
  Speaker 1: You can't you can't do it? So existence when can
• 32:15
  Speaker 1: you not do that? Tuesday night in the fourth quarter?
• 32:19
  Speaker 1: That's what?
• 32:20
  Speaker 2: Yeah, exactly. Let's say a lot of Big Daddy who's
• 32:23
  Speaker 2: in Memphis. He would like to speak to the electorate. Hello,
• 32:25
  Speaker 2: big Daddy, what's.
• 32:27
  Speaker 6: Going on to all my fans and all mys? You know,
• 32:30
  Speaker 6: Lucas sounds like my my ball time. It just don't
• 32:35
  Speaker 6: make no sense, man, I mean growing me and why
• 32:38
  Speaker 6: lead a crown alone? They won't mess with you get
• 32:41
  Speaker 6: kicked out of the game.
• 32:42
  Speaker 1: Yeah, he tries.
• 32:43
  Speaker 2: He tries a lot, and he's very animated and all
• 32:47
  Speaker 2: that stuff. And he's been ejected. Now he's only been
• 32:49
  Speaker 2: ejected three times, but this year he's got fourteen technical files,
• 32:53
  Speaker 2: so he's two away from a suspension.
• 32:56
  Speaker 1: So he pushes, he pushes the boundaries.
• 32:59
  Speaker 6: He you know what, it's just a game. You getting
• 33:02
  Speaker 6: paid to a game. You win a regular season game.
• 33:07
  Speaker 7: No, see, okay, look we're talking about two different things here.
• 33:10
  Speaker 7: If you want to talk about him whining about calls,
• 33:12
  Speaker 7: yes he does that way too much. But like, but
• 33:16
  Speaker 7: jawing at the fans, that's a totally different thing. And
• 33:18
  Speaker 7: he brought it up when he talked about it after
• 33:20
  Speaker 7: the game. It's not like he's Russell Westbrook. If it
• 33:22
  Speaker 7: was Ru's Russell Westbrook out there in the same situation,
• 33:26
  Speaker 7: he would have like thrown up his arms, started like cursing.
• 33:29
  Speaker 7: Back of the fans called the refover, pointed the guy out,
• 33:31
  Speaker 7: had him kicked out of the arena.
• 33:34
  Speaker 2: Now you remember, big Dad, you're you're I think you're
• 33:39
  Speaker 2: big Dad.
• 33:39
  Speaker 1: I think you're around my age.
• 33:41
  Speaker 2: You remember there was a player named Vernon Maxwell and
• 33:44
  Speaker 2: Vernon Maxwell. There was a guy they called him back.
• 33:47
  Speaker 2: There was a guy that heckled him. He went in
• 33:49
  Speaker 2: the crowd and punched the guy like he literally went
• 33:52
  Speaker 2: in the crowd. I think he was with a rock.
• 33:53
  Speaker 2: I think it was like against Portland, but he went
• 33:54
  Speaker 2: in the crowd. I swear to god, I remember that
• 33:56
  Speaker 2: years ago.
• 33:59
  Speaker 6: He showed it. Yeah, Max, Man ain't nothing like. You know,
• 34:03
  Speaker 6: every time UH agreed to get rid of somebody, they
• 34:06
  Speaker 6: ain't win a championship. I wouldn't be wrong if Tyler
• 34:10
  Speaker 6: lives and be assistant coach and win a championship. It
• 34:13
  Speaker 6: just don't make no sense.
• 34:13
  Speaker 2: Well, I know they've had a lot of a lot
• 34:16
  Speaker 2: of championships there in Memphis over the years, a lot
• 34:18
  Speaker 2: of wins.
• 34:19
  Speaker 1: So it was we get rid of them.
• 34:21
  Speaker 6: They get them. Yeah, where they go, they get them. Man,
• 34:24
  Speaker 6: Hey man, I'm celebrating the birthday Thursday. I figured, I just.
• 34:29
  Speaker 1: You'll be how old.
• 34:31
  Speaker 2: Twenty one again? My you know I'm actually turning. I'm
• 34:34
  Speaker 2: turning twenty one again later this month myself, so it's
• 34:39
  Speaker 2: another twenty one birthdall.
• 34:40
  Speaker 4: Want them coops.
• 34:41
  Speaker 6: Maybe I'm gonna put it in the half.
• 34:43
  Speaker 4: I don't do no hoopers.
• 34:44
  Speaker 6: Coop, I just do the straight you know in your
• 34:46
  Speaker 6: original way.
• 34:47
  Speaker 1: You're old school, you're a purist. I got all right,
• 34:50
  Speaker 1: all right, we'll go happy.
• 34:51
  Speaker 2: We don't do for shoutouts, but otherwise we wish you
• 34:53
  Speaker 2: happy birthday.
• 34:54
  Speaker 1: We can't do but thank you. All right, all right,
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  Speaker 2: Turning twenty one. Wonderful, wonderful, wonderful. By the way, the
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  Speaker 2: Great stay awake with Jake legend, the Great Jake Warner
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  Speaker 2: informs me I was wrong. He was not against Portland,
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  Speaker 2: but it was against Utah that Mad Max punched a fan,
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  Speaker 2: so I knew he punched it. I thought it was Portland,
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  Speaker 2: but I guess according to the Great Jake Warner. By
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  Speaker 2: the way, I did contact Jake because I wanted to
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  Speaker 2: go to a Clipper game. They didn't even rate back
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  Speaker 2: the Clippers. It's so embarrassing, unbelievable, as much as I
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  Speaker 2: kissed their ass. Anyway, all right, it is the Ben
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  Speaker 2: Great pr staff they got over there the Clippers. Way
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  Speaker 2: to go boys, good job. Anyway, It is the Ben
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  Speaker 2: Mahlor Show. As we are working our way through the
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  Speaker 2: overnight hours, time now for the who am I game?
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  Speaker 2: This is where we pretend to be somebody else Le's
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  Speaker 2: We call it the who am I? Game?
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  Speaker 1: And here we go.
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  Speaker 2: Here it is so, I'm an NBA player whose production value,
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  Speaker 2: according to the analytics, production value is worth eighteen point
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  Speaker 2: eight million to my team. Yet I am being paid
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  Speaker 2: over thirty million dollars more than that, making me the
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  Speaker 2: most overpaid player based on production in the association this season.
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  Speaker 1: Who am I? The answer? We'll get to it. We'll
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  Speaker 1: do it next.
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  Speaker 2: Time to pay off the who am I? Game?
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  Speaker 1: And here is the who am I?
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  Speaker 2: Game? This is where we pretend to be some of
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  Speaker 2: the elsees we call the well it is the who
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  Speaker 2: am I?
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  Speaker 1: Game?
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  Speaker 2: That's the game, and here it is So I am
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  Speaker 2: an NBA player whose production value, according to the analytics
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  Speaker 2: is worth eighteen point eight million dollars.
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  Speaker 1: It's a lot of money, Yet.
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  Speaker 2: I am being paid thirty point four million more than that,
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  Speaker 2: making me the most overpaid player in the association this season.
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  Speaker 2: com today. That's expresspros dot com. All right, does anyone
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  Speaker 2: know the answer?
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  Speaker 1: Mark?
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  Speaker 3: Who?
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  Speaker 1: Mark and Queens says?
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  Speaker 2: Podcast P Trucker Joe says, some random white guy who
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  Speaker 2: played in the NBA but was also a plumber. The
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  Speaker 2: fan who got Luca ejected? Guests by the KC Carl haller,
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  Speaker 2: who else do we have? Page down Victor Roebliss from
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  Speaker 2: Shane in Des Moines, whose heart is in Seattle.
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  Speaker 1: Who else do we have?
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  Speaker 2: Charlie in Wisconsin says is it blind Scott who sat
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  Speaker 2: on a plunger with no shame?
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  Speaker 1: How does Charlie know that that's before you were alive? Charlie?
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  Speaker 1: Who else do we have? Alf says?
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  Speaker 2: Is it the Clippers communications stuff? Well, that's a dated
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  Speaker 2: list here, that's the those people actually liked me, Alf,
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  Speaker 2: the people that you sent out there. Cedric Cornbread mac
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  Speaker 2: Swell one of the great nicknames of all time from
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  Speaker 2: Robin Minnesota, Big Country Bryant Reeves guessed by Bill that's
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  Speaker 2: his answer, milkman Mike in Colorado, says the flopping queen
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  Speaker 2: Lebum Bobby the brain heenan from our guy Rob in Vegas.
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  Speaker 2: Who's coming down from.
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  Speaker 1: The top rope? Who else do we have a page?
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  Speaker 2: Dan Ike Austin from our friend Manuel Ian Guardina. That's
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  Speaker 2: his answer. Miguel on fire with Bronnie James. Boy, Brownie's
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  Speaker 2: looking good. I gotta tell you know, I've been taking
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  Speaker 2: shots at Bronnie James. We had a great photo that
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  Speaker 2: Miguel on Fire founded Brownie James, a very very good
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  Speaker 2: looking masculine photo.
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  Speaker 1: Solid like that.
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  Speaker 2: Stuck in Sacramento, says the Sacramento smoker, the ex faker
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  Speaker 2: Vlade Divots is the answer. Who else do we have
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  Speaker 2: a little nas who is twenty six today? From late
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  Speaker 2: night drug tester? Willis? Who's resting from ferg Dog? All right, Lorena,
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  Speaker 2: what's the answer?
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  Speaker 6: Willis?
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  Speaker 1: Is only competition ben.
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  Speaker 2: Air Bud No, it is actual Jalen Brown of the
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  Speaker 2: Boston Celtics. Yeah, according to the nerds, he's overpaid.
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  Speaker 1: Nerds Nerds, Nerds, Nerds, Nerds,