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Hour 2 - Loose-Lipped Caruso · The Ben Maller Show

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Speaker 1: Boom, Shaka laka. It's our number to our number two
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Speaker 1: is ready for you. What do you make of Alex
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Speaker 1: Caruso's retraction he was wearing the Laker Mickey Mouse ring.
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Speaker 1: He wore that to the OKC parade. He had made
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Speaker 1: some comments about that cheapness of the ring. Also, what
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Speaker 1: is your position on social media ripping the crowd size
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Speaker 1: in Oklahoma City for the thunder Championship sore and guard
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Speaker 1: Drew Holliday reportedly pissed about being traded to the Trailblazers
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Speaker 1: from the Celtics.
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Speaker 2: You feel bad for him. We'll talk about that as well.
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Speaker 1: Right now, give it up for the drag race of
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Speaker 1: the podcast. It's our number two. The ring is a thing,
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Speaker 1: but not what you think it is.
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Speaker 2: Welcome.
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Speaker 1: In the beginning of another hour of the Ben Mahlor Show.
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Speaker 1: But our lead this hour as we begin in the
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Speaker 1: City of Champions, Oklahoma City. Holy crap. So the victor
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Speaker 1: goes to the parade. We'll get in depth on that
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Speaker 1: because there's nothing that people enjoy more than hot breakdowns
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Speaker 1: on parades. Oh man, Top five parades. Where you got
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Speaker 1: Rose Parade, you got the what else you got? You
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Speaker 1: get to the balloon parade there with the Thanksgiving thing,
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Speaker 1: Macy's Day parade there in New York, you got that,
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Speaker 1: the du Dah Parade, I think that's it. Any other parades, well,
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Speaker 1: the Disneyland Main Street Parade. They have a lot of
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Speaker 1: parades at Disneyland. They have a lot of that. Do
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Speaker 1: they think kids like parades? I don't know kids like parades.
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Speaker 1: You gotta sit there and watch the thing. And they
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Speaker 1: still have that electric parade. They sted to have an
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Speaker 1: electric parade. They still have it.
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Speaker 2: It just came back. Oh it came back. Thank god,
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Speaker 2: my life is now complete. They have the electric parade.
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Speaker 1: Anyway, there was a parade on a toasty day and
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Speaker 1: Okase there. I don't know if Kyrie attended that. I'm
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Speaker 1: not sure if he was there or not, our buddy,
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Speaker 1: but dozens and dozens of people lined the streets of
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Speaker 1: Oklahoma City and they celebrated the championship. There you had
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Speaker 1: SGA wrapping himself in the Canadian flag.
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Speaker 2: All god ah. You had guard Alice Caruso.
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Speaker 1: I was not planning on talking about this. He gave
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Speaker 1: me no choice. It's not my decision. He forced me.
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Speaker 1: I'm a talk show host. He did this. He did
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Speaker 1: it because he wanted me to talk about him, and
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Speaker 1: I had no choice. I have to talk about it.
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Speaker 1: So Alice Caruso, jerneyman guard in the NBA, showed up
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Speaker 1: to the parade sporting the twenty twenty Laker toy bubble ring,
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Speaker 1: that novelty ring they got in the little fake Championship
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Speaker 1: a few years back.
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Speaker 2: So I don't have you saught it out several have
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Speaker 2: you sent it to me?
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Speaker 1: So I didn't watch the parade, and I watched the
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Speaker 1: clips on the YouTube, and then I saw.
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Speaker 2: The video and he had the thing on. So there
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Speaker 2: was that.
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Speaker 1: So this fashionista, fashionista move came days after Alex Caruso
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Speaker 1: was bragging and bragging that he had finally won a
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Speaker 1: real ring, not the one the Lakers won, the real ring,
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Speaker 1: the one in Okac. He also referenced the so called
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Speaker 1: Mickey Mouse ring that the Lakers were given as a
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Speaker 1: as a as an active charity act of kindness a
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Speaker 1: couple of years ago. He said, now nobody can say anything,
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Speaker 1: Caruso was quoted as saying at the time. So later
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Speaker 1: after that quote started making the rounds, a frantic alic
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Speaker 1: Caruso took the social media to say, I was just drunk. Essentially,
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Speaker 1: I had three beers. He's what he's say. It's just
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Speaker 1: being sarcastic, just being sarcastic. Just had just the beers.
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Speaker 1: It was the beers. That was why it was the beers. Yes, okay,
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Speaker 1: So let us discuss the question what do you make
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Speaker 1: of Alex Caruso's retraction, or at least attempted retraction and
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Speaker 1: then wearing the Mickey Mouse Laker ring to the OKC parade.
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Speaker 1: So I've got toothpaste, DreamWorks and home depot, and we
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Speaker 1: will combine all of these things together and we will
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Speaker 1: put the biscuit in the basket. So number, I said
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Speaker 1: number number, all right, So my first thought is how
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Speaker 1: disrespectful it is of Alex Caruso to wear that novelty
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Speaker 1: ring to the thunder parade. What a what a loogie
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Speaker 1: to the face of every Oklahoma City fan? Does he
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Speaker 1: not realize how bad that is?
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Speaker 2: Does he?
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Speaker 1: Does he not understand how inappropriate that is Alice Caruso
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Speaker 1: to wear that cheap ripoff ring when you want a
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Speaker 1: legitimate ring, and you bring that trash to the Oklahoma
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Speaker 1: City celebration. And we know why you did it all.
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Speaker 1: We know this was not for that. This was a
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Speaker 1: day to celebrate Oklahoma City's championship. It was not for
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Speaker 1: your little trinket, which you admitted is worthless. You essentially
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Speaker 1: said that in so many words, it's worthless and that
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Speaker 1: was done for damage control. Every man, woman and child
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Speaker 1: knows the reason Caruso showed up with that ugly novelty
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Speaker 1: mickey Mouse ring was because he did something where you're
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Speaker 1: not he went somewhere you're not supposed to go right
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Speaker 1: safe to assume that once that quote started going around
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Speaker 1: the echo chamber, that his phone blew up. There were
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Speaker 1: text messages, there were phone calls from past team may
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Speaker 1: from people around the NBA, what are you doing? And
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Speaker 1: so the fact that he wore the ring, that contraband
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Speaker 1: that ugly cheap toy ring, the Disney ring the Lakers
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Speaker 1: got there, that he wore that ring to the thunder parade,
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Speaker 1: his confirmation that what he initially said was the naked truth.
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Speaker 1: He said something you're not supposed to say. Is there
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Speaker 1: a better lie detector on the planet than booze?
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Speaker 2: Is there?
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Speaker 1: Seriously, alcohol, going back to the beginning of humanity is
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Speaker 1: the one thing that is more reliable than the polygraph test.
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Speaker 1: At Caruso, what he did was he said the thing
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Speaker 1: you can't say at the time, he can't say it.
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Speaker 2: That's the truth. People don't like the truth.
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Speaker 1: You can't handle the truth, right, he spoke to a
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Speaker 1: real truth, a real truth. The one thing that he said,
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Speaker 1: that bubble ring comment, right, Oh, it was a joe
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Speaker 1: whether it's truth in humor and when you're consuming alcohol.
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Speaker 1: My god, the little novelty thing they got at the
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Speaker 1: Disney resort and then they had the cute little cardboard cutouts.
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Speaker 2: That was nice. It was so cute. Yeah, it was great.
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Speaker 1: And Caruso didn't just let the the championship celebration, the
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Speaker 1: pop and circumstances of the other night, Oklahoma City winning,
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Speaker 1: the champagne flowing and all that. He didn't let that
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Speaker 1: just flow. He let the truth flow, is what he
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Speaker 1: did there. Now, my favorite part of this story is
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Speaker 1: Caruso immediately blamed the beer. He blamed the beer for
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Speaker 1: saying what he said. And then he shows up and
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Speaker 1: wears the Lakers' little goofy ring there. It was a
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Speaker 1: Donald duckout on maybe both uh. And he's trying to
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Speaker 1: take the toothpaste and put it back in the tube,
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Speaker 1: is what he's trying to do.
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Speaker 2: Sorry, Sorry, that was not the beer talking, Alex Caruso
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Speaker 2: was not. That was you.
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Speaker 1: That was you without some kind of media filter that
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Speaker 1: most everyone uses. You didn't have your filter on, right,
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Speaker 1: that was just keeping it real. You were keeping it real.
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Speaker 1: And the version that you gave that doesn't approve Lebron
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Speaker 1: does not approve that right, that doesn't go in lockstep
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Speaker 1: with what you're supposed to say. And but you said it,
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Speaker 1: and you said it the right way. And anyone that
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Speaker 1: knows ball knows you take three months off and you
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Speaker 1: don't have to travel and all that, and you're hanging
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Speaker 1: out at a resort that is pick up basketball. That
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Speaker 1: is not real championship basketball, pick up basketball. No fans,
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Speaker 1: you know, friends and family. I guess we're there at
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Speaker 1: the end of it. But it was It was a joke.
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Speaker 1: It's not legit. And Crusoe knows that. That's why he
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Speaker 1: said what he said. And alcohol is a microphone for
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Speaker 1: the soul.
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Speaker 2: And he said it, and he said it right.
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Speaker 1: And the fact that he's protesting so much, trying to
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Speaker 1: undo and unring the bell tells you what he said
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Speaker 1: is accurate.
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Speaker 2: In that moment.
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Speaker 1: Alice Crusoe was not drunk, get that drunk off three beers.
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Speaker 2: He was just honest, that's all he was. And I
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Speaker 2: commend him.
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Speaker 1: So sad to me that he's protesting so much here
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Speaker 1: trying to undo what he did, because we know what
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Speaker 1: he said initially was the correct thing. You always go
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Speaker 1: by the initial statement, not the retraction or the correction,
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Speaker 1: not page two. What is your position, Let's get right
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Speaker 1: down to it. So I got a bunch of photos
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Speaker 1: from the I say, a bunch like three or four
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Speaker 1: photos of Caruso at the ring, and then there were people.
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Speaker 2: Saying, oh, look at this, there's nobody there. Some of
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Speaker 2: you more. That's what a Clipper parade's gonna look like.
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Speaker 1: A very funny Clipper parade will be the greatest parade
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Speaker 1: of all time. Clipper Daryl will be there, I'll be there.
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Speaker 1: It'll be magical, and it's going to happen soon here.
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Speaker 1: But stick to the topic and it. So, what is
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Speaker 1: your position on the social media ripping apart the crowd
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Speaker 1: shots from Oklahoma City for the Thunder Championship.
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Speaker 2: Parade, Oh my god, there was no one there.
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Speaker 1: So this my position on this. It is on brand
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Speaker 1: for the matrix. It's on brand for the Matrix. And
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Speaker 1: as the Great Dave Chappelle said of social media, it
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Speaker 1: is the.
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Speaker 2: Bathroom wall, is what it is.
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Speaker 1: And everyone scribbles on it, and there was a lot
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Speaker 1: of that, and the snide remarks to the right, the
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Speaker 1: blurry screenshots to the left of the sparse crowd that
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Speaker 1: was over on the left side, and then the anonymous accounts,
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Speaker 1: the fake accounts, the body accounts, all turning on Oklahoma City.
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Speaker 2: And the parade is some kind.
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Speaker 1: Of national punch line, a trending topic of embarrassment and
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Speaker 1: all that stuff. And of course this is a dream
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Speaker 1: Works production. They made a movie called Trolls, and if
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Speaker 1: they could do it over the animation people over their
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Speaker 1: dream Works would do it about social media, because that's
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Speaker 1: where the trolls are. They're not in the forest somewhere, no, no, no,
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Speaker 1: they are in social media. And I love how everyone's
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Speaker 1: like a crowd size queen. Now they're all like, oh
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Speaker 1: my god, the crowd's not big enough. Oh my god,
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Speaker 1: judgment day for the crowd and all. To me, it
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Speaker 1: doesn't matter these whole these I don't watch these braids
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Speaker 1: generally because it's not my team, so who cares. I'll
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Speaker 1: occasionally watch them for content purposes because I have a
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Speaker 1: talk show to do, so I'll watch some highlights to
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Speaker 1: see if there's anything worthy of my time to mention
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Speaker 1: on the show. So I saw some clips of this,
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Speaker 1: and I watched a little bit on the YouTube. I
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Speaker 1: checked it out there, and so who cares if it's
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Speaker 1: seven hundred thousand people? The mayor of Oklahoma City, he's like, oh,
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Speaker 1: it's five hundred thousand, six hundred thousand, seven hundred thousand. There,
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Speaker 1: it's seven hundred. I don't care, And why do you care?
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Speaker 1: It doesn't matter. That was a day for the real
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Speaker 1: fans of the Thunder to be there.
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Speaker 2: That was their day.
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Speaker 1: It was very hot, the heat dome ninety plus degrees,
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Speaker 1: that nasty Oklahoma heat, which is just it just hits
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Speaker 1: a little different in Oklahoma.
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Speaker 2: Thousands of people.
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Speaker 1: Sitting and standing in a broiler right, sun beaten down
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Speaker 1: and it's like a drum line there. And just to
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Speaker 1: celebrate the basketball team.
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Speaker 2: That's it.
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Speaker 1: These parades are for civic pride. That's what they're for.
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Speaker 1: It civic pride.
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Speaker 2: And you can.
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Speaker 1: Question the market size and oh it's just flyover country.
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Speaker 1: Who cares about that all that stuff. However, I the
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Speaker 1: clips I saw, maybe I didn't see the right clips.
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Speaker 1: It looked like there were people that genuinely were genuinely
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Speaker 1: excited to be there. There was a level of enthusiasm
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Speaker 1: was kind of cool. And I saw young people and
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Speaker 1: old people and people that probably thought grown up in
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Speaker 1: Oklahoma that never see a professional sports team, first of all,
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Speaker 1: and they certainly never see a professional sports team win
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Speaker 1: a championship. So they got their day in the sun,
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Speaker 1: literally their day in the sun. Congratulations, there you go,
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Speaker 1: and Oklahoma City, you want a fun fact, I got
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Speaker 1: your fun factor.
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Speaker 2: I give you a bonus fun factor.
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Speaker 1: So Oklahoma City malor fun fact is TV market number
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Speaker 1: forty five. They have a population of seven hundred thousand men.
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Speaker 2: Women and children. I was there years ago. I haven't
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Speaker 2: been there since.
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Speaker 1: But to put down in perspective, Albertquerque, New Mexico, Harrisburg, Pennsylvania,
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Speaker 1: and Grand Rapids, Michigan are bigger than Oklahoma City.
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Speaker 2: They have a bigger population.
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Speaker 1: Bigger TV market and in the history of modern history
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Speaker 1: of American sport, again modern history of American sport, the
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Speaker 1: only market smaller, the only TV market smaller to win
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Speaker 1: the Super Bowl or championship are Green.
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Speaker 2: Bay, which is the smallest of all time.
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Speaker 1: Green Bay market number seventy and they've won some Lombardes,
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Speaker 1: and the only other market smaller than Oklahoma City to
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Speaker 1: win a championship New Orleans when there was that mass exodus.
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Speaker 1: If you're old enough to remember, there was a hurricane
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Speaker 1: called Katrina that came through New Orleans and the population
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Speaker 1: went down. And New Orleans is market number fifty three.
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Speaker 2: That's it. That's the list right there.
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Speaker 1: So you have Oklahoma City the third smallest market to
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Speaker 1: win a championship.
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Speaker 4: They had.
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Speaker 2: They're pretty good for them right now.
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Speaker 1: Final point to the Oregon Trail we go one more time.
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Speaker 1: Disgruntled NBA player developing. Turns out that guard Drew Holliday
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Speaker 1: is not not a happy camper, at least that's what
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Speaker 1: we're hearing here. A Holiday is reportedly pissed quote pissed
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Speaker 1: about his trade. Do the Trail Blazers from the Celtics
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Speaker 1: do you feel bad for him? He's upset. It's like
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Speaker 1: this team stinks. I don't want to go to Portland.
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Speaker 1: Already played there. The team's not gonna be good. I
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Speaker 1: want to go there. Do you feel bad for Drew Holiday?
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Speaker 1: Traded from a team that was a playoff team, I'm
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Speaker 1: a championship team a couple of years ago, and now
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Speaker 1: he goes to an also ran in the team that
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Speaker 1: plays in ORG. So I'm sure there are some soft
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Speaker 1: hearted fans who are shedding a tear for Drew Holliday. Me,
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Speaker 1: of course, I'm a jaded talk show host. No ix
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Speaker 1: nay on the field, bad a for Drew Holiday.
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Speaker 2: No way, no way.
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Speaker 1: On this side of the microphone, We're not buying the
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Speaker 1: SOB story. This is some kind of Shakespearean tragedy. It
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Speaker 1: is the NBA. Buddy boy, that's how it works, right,
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Speaker 1: It's some kind of daycare center and all that stuff.
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Speaker 1: That's not how basketball works. Drew Holliday has had a
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Speaker 1: career bouncing around. He's a vagabond player bouncing around. But
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Speaker 1: he's had a career that most players would die for, right,
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Speaker 1: They would kill for what he's had in his career.
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Speaker 1: He's got more hardware as a secondary player in the NBA. Then,
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Speaker 1: he's got more hardware than like home depot. Right, He's
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Speaker 1: got two championship rings with two different teams, the Bucks
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Speaker 1: and the Celtics. He's actually been an All Star multiple times,
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Speaker 1: got a bunch of Defensive Player of the Year year
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Speaker 1: award trinkets and all that stuff he's got. He's got
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Speaker 1: a gold medal from the Tokyo Olympics and all that,
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Speaker 1: and now he's crying because he's got to pack up
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Speaker 1: and get all his crap and go back down the
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Speaker 1: Oregon trug. Give me a break, Give me a bloody
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Speaker 1: break on that. Right, he's thirty five years old, he's
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Speaker 1: been around, He's been traded a bunch. He's also going
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Speaker 1: to be paid for his troubles one one hundred and
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Speaker 1: four million. Of course, after taxes, he'll make about three
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Speaker 1: million dollars, but still one hundred and four prior to taxes,
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Speaker 1: and then Uncle Sam gets its cut and all that stuff.
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Speaker 1: Boo freaking who, boo freaking who. For true holiday life
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Speaker 1: ain't exactly rough. You know what I'm saying, Drew, You're okay.
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Speaker 1: You're okay. And he showed signs last year with the
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Speaker 1: Celtics of slowing down. He averaged eleven points per game,
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Speaker 1: which is I believe the lowest since his rookie year
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Speaker 1: and his three point shooting. Did the dipsy do went
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Speaker 1: down there? So I did not do well? Is he
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Speaker 1: a fading star? Was that just an off year? We
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Speaker 1: Hoosier State. Hello Trucker Shane, welcome.
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Speaker 5: Oh, thank you man so much, and everyone else there.
20:42
Speaker 5: I love you guys, boy, yeah, you guys. You guys
20:48
Speaker 5: keep me company out here on the top of Oklahoma.
20:52
Speaker 5: There are so many people that will go online who
20:54
Speaker 5: have never even been to the state or Oklahoma City
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Speaker 5: and talk down about it and I've been there a ton,
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Speaker 5: and that is a cool city. There are some awesome
21:04
Speaker 5: people there, and I'm just happy for that place. They
21:08
Speaker 5: got a championship. I mean, it's a good place to
21:12
Speaker 5: want to do there. I people want to talk down
21:13
Speaker 5: about that, that that's a cool state.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, and then you you drive your truck there for work?
21:19
Speaker 1: Is that why you go there so much?
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Speaker 5: Well, well, I'm over the country, h yeah, but Oklahoma
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Speaker 5: City is beautiful. I'm from Florida. So every time I
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Speaker 5: get to go out to the Midwest or out west
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Speaker 5: and I just find enjoy it.
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Speaker 1: So yeah, I've been Oklahoma before. I had a good
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Speaker 1: time in Oklahoma City. But I was there for work
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Speaker 1: and it was fine, you know, and it was It
21:38
Speaker 1: wasn't the greatest, but it wasn't the worst.
21:39
Speaker 2: It was fine.
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Speaker 1: There's some good restaurants there, and pretty much every city
21:42
Speaker 1: has one or two good restaurants at least.
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Speaker 2: Right there was some, you know those years ago. I'm
21:46
Speaker 2: sure there's a lot better now than it was then.
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Speaker 5: They got some barbecue there, man, I'll tell you what.
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Speaker 5: Uh that's my only big There's people get online and
21:55
Speaker 5: they haven't even been there. If it's to get something
21:57
Speaker 5: else says they're going to go on there and just
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Speaker 5: rive Oklahoma. I mean, so what they had a small crowd,
22:02
Speaker 5: So what those people are passionate about that place?
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Speaker 1: You know, That's what I'm saying. You're parroting what I said.
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Speaker 1: How dare your truck or Shane? You're parroting what I said.
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Speaker 2: Who cares? I mean five?
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Speaker 1: I mean if five people showed up or ten million,
22:14
Speaker 1: who cares?
22:14
Speaker 2: At least they didn't say.
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Speaker 1: Remember when the Cubs won the World Series and they
22:18
Speaker 1: said it was like one of the ten greatest migrations
22:21
Speaker 1: of humanity in the history of the world. When the Cubs,
22:24
Speaker 1: it was bull crap.
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Speaker 5: Yeah, well, I'm just agreeing with you.
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Speaker 2: Well, thank you, Shane. And you're where you're headed now?
22:31
Speaker 2: So you're in Indiana. Where you're headed?
22:33
Speaker 5: Well, I wrote down yesterday and Louisiana. So I'm head
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Speaker 5: up to Chicago right now, and I'm I'm dogging it tonight.
22:39
Speaker 5: My am tire, all right, will be.
22:42
Speaker 2: Take some caffeine or something or well you guys are
22:45
Speaker 2: my caffeine?
22:46
Speaker 5: All right?
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Speaker 1: Now you're putting. Now you're putting. I can't have a
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Speaker 1: bad segment, Shane. I mean, and now you're putting pressure
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Speaker 1: on me.
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Speaker 2: How dare you?
22:53
Speaker 5: Oh, you guys are great.
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Speaker 1: Come on, all right, be safe Shane, So keep your
22:56
Speaker 1: eyes open, Okay, keep your eyes all right, So.
23:00
Speaker 2: Make sure do not lorraina.
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Speaker 1: We can't have a bad portion of the show until
23:03
Speaker 1: he gets to Chicago because we'll be responsible if something
23:06
Speaker 1: happens to his truck, Shane the trucker, and he's gonna
23:09
Speaker 1: blame us. And I don't want to be respondably liable
23:12
Speaker 1: because we did a bad segment of talk radio and
23:14
Speaker 1: then Shane has an accident or something like that. I
23:16
Speaker 1: don't want that to happen. So we got to make
23:18
Speaker 1: sure he delivers the goods. I feel like we're driving,
23:20
Speaker 1: we're riding shotgun with him.
23:22
Speaker 2: Yeah.
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Speaker 4: Have you ever done that, Ben, where you take a
23:24
Speaker 4: really long road trip and you put on sports radio.
23:27
Speaker 2: No, I haven't, but I have taken a long road
23:29
Speaker 2: tress where I I've done it before.
23:31
Speaker 4: Really yeah, and it actually it's been after I started
23:34
Speaker 4: working here, and it makes the drive go by.
23:36
Speaker 2: So is that right? Well? Somew I mean not every show.
23:38
Speaker 2: There's some shows that he doesn't.
23:40
Speaker 1: But you gotta move, you gotta move, you gotta rat
23:41
Speaker 1: a tat tat Right, it's very important to go rat
23:42
Speaker 1: attat tag. If you don't go rat at tat tat,
23:44
Speaker 1: it's problem intensity. There's some shows that just repeat themselves
23:47
Speaker 1: all the time. I can't stand those. Those are not good,
23:49
Speaker 1: but we try to avoid that already say that exactly.
23:54
Speaker 1: Let's go to Uh, let's go to Eric, who's in La?
23:58
Speaker 2: What's going on? Eric?
23:59
Speaker 1: Welcome here on the Ben Malors Show on Fox.
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Speaker 6: Hey Ben, how's it going?
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Speaker 1: You know?
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Speaker 6: Long time listener, first time callers, long.
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Speaker 1: Time listener, first time caller. Nobody, they don't do that
24:13
Speaker 1: in television.
24:14
Speaker 2: They don't do it. So we're the only great radio cliche.
24:17
Speaker 1: And when you say a long when you say a
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Speaker 1: long time listener, Eric, how long are we talking here?
24:22
Speaker 6: Uh?
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Speaker 1: So?
24:23
Speaker 6: You know, I after I called into the Kevin at
24:25
Speaker 6: Bean show way too much Kevin and.
24:27
Speaker 1: Bean on k Rock Big Morning Show in LA. They dominated, yes.
24:31
Speaker 6: And then I switched over to you know, the Colin
24:33
Speaker 6: Coward Show when that ended, And now you know, I'm
24:35
Speaker 6: a Fox Sports listener for live. I live and do
24:37
Speaker 6: it on all the road trips and quick road trips.
24:40
Speaker 6: So it's the best.
24:41
Speaker 2: All right, look at that?
24:43
Speaker 1: Can you say better than the best, because the best
24:45
Speaker 1: means as good as all the rest.
24:46
Speaker 2: So if you say better than seen, I.
24:49
Speaker 6: Have three hot takes on Drew Holiday, Lebron James, and
24:52
Speaker 6: Kevin Durana.
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Speaker 2: All right, we'd like to learn all the affiliates.
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Speaker 1: This is a three pack of hot takes from Eric,
24:57
Speaker 1: not one, not to three pack of hot takes.
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Speaker 2: There we go.
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Speaker 5: Yeah, because old though.
25:01
Speaker 6: So I'm a my mom's old family's from the Philly area,
25:05
Speaker 6: but you accidentally had me in DC. So I love
25:07
Speaker 6: the Eagles. I love the Sixers through Allen iver since
25:10
Speaker 6: and then.
25:10
Speaker 5: Excuse me, but Drew Holliday was our.
25:12
Speaker 6: Next star and I was shocked as a kid when
25:15
Speaker 6: he got traded.
25:16
Speaker 5: I was like, wait, hold up.
25:17
Speaker 6: And I looked on chat GPT, like wait, why did
25:20
Speaker 6: that happen? Because he was he was It was for
25:24
Speaker 6: the process, they said, But that got Nerlin's noel. It
25:27
Speaker 6: was like way longer until they got embed In Simmons.
25:30
Speaker 6: And imagine if it was Embeid and Drew Holliday, we
25:32
Speaker 6: might have a championship team. Myself, I'm not saying, but
25:35
Speaker 6: how upset.
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Speaker 2: Do you think Google?
25:36
Speaker 1: How do you think Google handles the fact that no
25:39
Speaker 1: one says, just google it. Now it's just chat GPT it.
25:42
Speaker 1: That's got to really piss off Google, doesn't it Like nobody,
25:46
Speaker 1: nobody who's googling anything these days.
25:48
Speaker 2: It's like, let's put it in the chat GPT. Man.
25:51
Speaker 2: I would have I will you realize if we had.
25:53
Speaker 1: Chat GBT when I was in school, I would have
25:55
Speaker 1: been I would have graduated from like Harvard if I
25:58
Speaker 1: had had access to chat g PT.
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Speaker 2: Holy crap, what would you be doing then? I don't
26:03
Speaker 2: know that's a good point. I'd probably be bored in.
26:07
Speaker 2: I think.
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Speaker 6: Yeah, Lebron James, Okay, if Lebron James, I loved him
26:13
Speaker 6: until he moved back to Cleveland. That was messed up. Okay,
26:16
Speaker 6: why do.
26:16
Speaker 5: You do that? Because he already failed there, don't go back.
26:20
Speaker 5: That's like going back to your next girlfriends.
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Speaker 1: He should have moved to La then, and yes, well
26:24
Speaker 1: he should have gone to the Clippers is where he
26:26
Speaker 1: should have gone.
26:26
Speaker 2: That's the team.
26:27
Speaker 6: Well, that's that's there. And then you know he stopped
26:30
Speaker 6: Steph Curry. He was all the championship, the legend in
26:32
Speaker 6: l A instead of like Kobe's brother or whatever.
26:35
Speaker 1: You know.
26:36
Speaker 2: Yeah, no, I hear it. So are we still on
26:38
Speaker 2: hot take one? Or is it hot take two? Is
26:39
Speaker 2: that number two?
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Speaker 1: Two?
26:41
Speaker 2: That's two? All right?
26:42
Speaker 4: Now?
26:43
Speaker 1: Number three? Number three? Here we go, third hot take,
26:48
Speaker 1: third hot take.
26:50
Speaker 6: I'll feel bad for Kevin Durant, Okay, because if you recall,
26:54
Speaker 6: he was drafted to Seattle, the Seattle Supersonic. Yeah, and
26:57
Speaker 6: he was, you know, their star until he got traded
27:01
Speaker 6: randomly to the or that they twished to the Thunder,
27:03
Speaker 6: you know, Oklahoma City Thunder. And that's kind of a
27:06
Speaker 6: disappointing move. You know, Oklahomas dope. I have a friend
27:09
Speaker 6: from there. Actually she's so stoked. They want but go Casey,
27:14
Speaker 6: but you know you did.
27:16
Speaker 2: You just do a shout out to Casey. I feel
27:18
Speaker 2: like you did.
27:20
Speaker 4: Well.
27:21
Speaker 6: Kevin Durant he so much, even to the Warriors, because
27:25
Speaker 6: he never had a home to start with.
27:27
Speaker 2: You know, well, he could have stayed in Oklahoma. You
27:30
Speaker 2: didn't have to you know, you don't have to leave
27:31
Speaker 2: me where he got drafted.
27:33
Speaker 1: I know, but he played in Oklahoma for for several
27:35
Speaker 1: years too. I think he played in Oklahoma many more
27:37
Speaker 1: years than Seattle, so he could have stayed there. That's true.
27:43
Speaker 1: I said, amazing amazing takes. I believe I can't nobody else.
27:46
Speaker 1: Everyone should hang up now and there's no more room
27:48
Speaker 1: for takes after that. I thank you Eric the hot
27:51
Speaker 1: take man. He's a hot take baker. Now, if he
27:54
Speaker 1: starts calling more, get a nickname, right, It's like, you
27:58
Speaker 1: gotta be a regular call. It's not like that guy
28:00
Speaker 1: in Santa Monica that walks around. He's been calling a
28:03
Speaker 1: few times. I hadn't called the last couple of days, right,
28:05
Speaker 1: So he's it's this pressure, you know, you know, sometimes
28:09
Speaker 1: you don't have stuff to say and you got to
28:11
Speaker 1: come up with content. It's not not easy. Not this
28:16
Speaker 1: job is not that easy. Let's go to weed Man,
28:20
Speaker 1: hippie in Miami. Hello weed Man.
28:25
Speaker 2: So weed Man.
28:25
Speaker 1: I don't know if I don't know if you were
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Speaker 1: listening yesterday, but we've got I got a letter from
28:31
Speaker 1: Daniel in Saint Paul, Minnesota, who appears to be on
28:35
Speaker 1: the younger side. I think that's fair, right, Lorraine. I
28:37
Speaker 1: think it's fair to say that Daniel. We're we're not
28:40
Speaker 1: sure how old Daniel is, but we think he's on
28:42
Speaker 1: the younger side. And he said a very very nice
28:45
Speaker 1: letter and he loves the show. And he now he's
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Speaker 1: a kid weed Man. Right, So he's a kid. He
28:51
Speaker 1: loves every loves everyone on the show. He says, I
28:54
Speaker 1: love every Friday of the jokes, they're very funny. I
28:59
Speaker 1: love weed Man, hippie. I love weed Man hippie.
29:03
Speaker 2: He wrote.
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Speaker 1: So there's a there's a kid in Minnesota, weed Man,
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Speaker 1: you're a roll. You're a role model. Hopefully his parents
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Speaker 1: don't fight out about it.
29:12
Speaker 2: But you're a role model weed Man for a child
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Speaker 2: in Minnesota. Congratulations, that's great. So would you like to
29:19
Speaker 2: say anything to Daniel? You want to send Daniel any
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Speaker 2: kind of a message or anything like that. He's a
29:24
Speaker 2: big fan.
29:24
Speaker 6: Daniel.
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Speaker 1: Thank you on Thursday night, Thursday and Friday Friday morning. Yeah, exactly, Yeah,
29:32
Speaker 1: all right, Just you just checking in, You just you're
29:35
Speaker 1: just checking in. You don't have anything to say. You
29:37
Speaker 1: don't care about Oklahoma City. You're from New York. You
29:39
Speaker 1: don't care about that, right, Let's be honest.
29:42
Speaker 2: No, you don't.
29:43
Speaker 1: You've never been to Oklahoma. Have you even been to California?
29:46
Speaker 1: Have you flown over Oklahoma?
29:48
Speaker 4: No? It guess you're too bad.
29:50
Speaker 1: The Knicks didn't be the basic That's what this is
29:53
Speaker 1: all about It's all about the knickerbockers. Right, they screwed
29:56
Speaker 1: things up, They fed up your day, the whole thing.
29:58
Speaker 5: Right, yeah, I understand.
30:01
Speaker 1: But life still, life's still good that your roommate. You
30:03
Speaker 1: still get along with your roommate. Everything's good with your roommate.
30:05
Speaker 5: Right yeah, yeah, he's not even here now that's great.
30:08
Speaker 2: Oh he's gone, all right? Where is he when he
30:10
Speaker 2: moved out or something?
30:11
Speaker 6: Is just no, no, no, he's working.
30:13
Speaker 7: It's great.
30:14
Speaker 1: Oh he works at the Walmart overnight hwh yeah how
30:18
Speaker 1: about that? Okay, it's a small world. Yeah, very cool.
30:23
Speaker 1: All right, well, well thanks for checking, Thanks, thanks for checking,
30:26
Speaker 1: and we man anything else?
30:27
Speaker 5: No, no, wait wait, so hey, you know bigcoin is
30:31
Speaker 5: one hundred and five thousand dollars.
30:33
Speaker 1: Why you got to tell me that? You know my
30:35
Speaker 1: you know my history with big cooin? And you sold
30:37
Speaker 1: yours too? Didn't you sold yours?
30:40
Speaker 4: Me too? How? Mny?
30:41
Speaker 2: How much? How what did you?
30:42
Speaker 8: What?
30:42
Speaker 2: Did you sell yours.
30:43
Speaker 5: At five thousands?
30:50
Speaker 1: Would have been so much? Well I could have bought
30:53
Speaker 1: it when it was one hundred dollars a bitcoin, So
30:55
Speaker 1: I mean I'm an even worse shape.
30:57
Speaker 2: So you need a roommate if you had that.
31:00
Speaker 1: Yeah, and why didn't you sell it? We mad because
31:04
Speaker 1: you thought it was going to go down? Is that
31:05
Speaker 1: why you sold it?
31:06
Speaker 8: No?
31:07
Speaker 2: I was not going anywhere for a long time. Yeah.
31:10
Speaker 2: Well now now it's going somewhere. It's like Superman, up,
31:14
Speaker 2: up and away. It's amazing, so.
31:16
Speaker 5: Rich right now, it's so bad.
31:19
Speaker 2: I try not to think about it, weed man, That's
31:21
Speaker 2: what I do.
31:21
Speaker 1: I just ignore it. I don't look at it. I yeah,
31:24
Speaker 1: I had a guy. A couple people tell me when
31:26
Speaker 1: it was like forty thousand, buy it now, and I said, no, good, And.
31:30
Speaker 5: Then a thousand and you gotta be choking.
31:35
Speaker 2: All right, Well that's fine. Yeah, if you got rich,
31:38
Speaker 2: you'd change weed man. You got to keep it real.
31:41
Speaker 2: You got to be related. You would really you'd have
31:44
Speaker 2: you have a better house.
31:45
Speaker 1: You'd have like a car, you'd have a boat, you'd
31:47
Speaker 1: have a plane, you'd have a butler, you'd have.
31:51
Speaker 2: You'd find your teeth, the whole thing. It would be
31:57
Speaker 2: great it what's the song, more money, more problems. We
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Speaker 2: I have more money, more problems. So you got more money,
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Speaker 2: you got more problems, you know that happy?
32:06
Speaker 1: But the good thing is if you have more problems
32:07
Speaker 1: if you have out of money, you can pay for
32:08
Speaker 1: the problems, right that you can pay for the problems.
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Speaker 2: And then yeah, all right, well I gotta go. Thank
32:14
Speaker 2: you weed man. All right, oh way, all right, they're
32:17
Speaker 2: great weed man hippie.
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Speaker 1: Daniel, a young listener there in Minnesota loves the weed
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Speaker 1: in Des Moines, not Trucker Shane from Bay City Tony
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Speaker 1: Shane Raleigh, former Mariner from Bay City ton I was.
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Speaker 2: Her answer, Laredo Jaron Duran Wow.
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Speaker 1: No, the correct answer is former met and Rocky Mike Hampton.
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Speaker 2: Mike Hampton at six home runs back in a one
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Speaker 2: before the all start break. Here we go, Here we go,
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Speaker 2: Here we go, Here we go, Here.
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Speaker 5: We go, We'll go.
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Speaker 4: How about that to the third degree, like this is
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Speaker 4: one big Ben gets grilled.
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Speaker 2: Get Roddy, we being roddy? All right, jumping right.
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Speaker 8: In NBA draft prospect Ace Bailey has garnered a lot
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Speaker 8: of attention for canceling his visit with the seventy six
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Speaker 8: ers last week. He's still the only American prospect not
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Speaker 8: to meet with a single team. Uh, Ben, do you
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Speaker 8: see this as a sound strategy for the eighteen year
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Speaker 8: old No?
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Speaker 1: I see this as him getting bad advice. Now, he
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Speaker 1: does apparently want to play, he has a team he
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Speaker 1: wants to play for. But this is you gotta play
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Speaker 1: the game right. You gotta play the game the way
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Speaker 1: it works in the NBA. There's a certain decorum that
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Speaker 1: you're supposed to have. And I don't think Ace Bailey
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Speaker 1: is God's gift of basketball. You could be the one
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Speaker 1: that breaks the mold. So it doesn't seem like it
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Speaker 1: makes a lot of sense to me. Now we'll find out.
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Speaker 1: You know, if he gets drafted to buy a really
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Speaker 1: good team that he wants to play for, then that's fine,
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Speaker 1: but it's draft manipulation.
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Speaker 8: Next, another NBA draft prospect, Noah A. Senge, who currently
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Speaker 8: plays over in Germany. He's drawing some criticism this week
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Speaker 8: because he's leaving his team in the middle of the
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Speaker 8: German League finals in attend the draft in person can leave.
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Speaker 2: The German League finals, so so, Ben, do.
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Speaker 8: You think it's okay for him to leave his teammates
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Speaker 8: out to dry if it's for such an important personal moment.
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Speaker 1: Well, it's it's for the endorsements, right, You will either
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Speaker 1: draft some emotional moment. There no Schnitzel for him though,
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Speaker 1: when he goes back to that German German league. I
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Speaker 1: don't have a brother. I'm not as high on the
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Speaker 1: draft as that used to be. I'll watch the first
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Speaker 1: five or six seven picks of the draft and then
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Speaker 1: I'm out if he's drafted in that time, on watch
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Speaker 1: and all that stuff.
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Speaker 2: But that's a big night. I get you.
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Speaker 1: Know, you want to play in the n BEHAVIOR basketball player,
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Speaker 1: that's the top league in the world. You make the
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Speaker 1: most money, So I get it. I understand why he
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Speaker 1: would want to be there. But if you have all
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Speaker 1: their business, you gotta you gotta finish what you start.
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Speaker 1: And if you agreed to play for the German team,
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Speaker 1: you gotta you gotta finish it next, all.
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Speaker 2: Right, Shams Sharania, I've heard of him.
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Speaker 4: Yeah.
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Speaker 8: The Four Letter Network, he reported that the Heat were
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Speaker 8: in the mix for Kevin Durant but couldn't get a
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Speaker 8: deal done as they were unwilling to part with certain
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Speaker 8: young players like Jaimei Hawkes, Nicola Jovic, Haywood, high Smith,
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Speaker 8: kelll Ware and the number number twenty pick in the draft. So, Ben,
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Speaker 8: do you agree with Miami valuing those young guys more
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Speaker 8: than a step?
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Speaker 2: Here's a start.
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Speaker 1: This is what pat Riley did. He and he spun
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Speaker 1: this stort. Kevin Durant didn't want to for somebody you
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Speaker 1: want to play with the Heat. If he wanted to
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Speaker 1: play with the Heat, Riley would have traded everyone to
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Speaker 1: get him. It's bull crap. I don't believe the spin
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Speaker 1: from Miami, how did we do