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  Speaker 2: This is the best of the Ben Maler Show on
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  Speaker 1: To our lead story this hour from the eNB A
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  Speaker 1: come on, boys, tell me that much you hate the show.
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  Speaker 1: Oh Chow sucks, Maler. You're talking basketball? What's wrong with
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  Speaker 1: you? You loser? That's why you're doing overnights. Talk about some
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  Speaker 1: guy on the NFL. It's got to get released at
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  Speaker 1: the end of training camp. That pulled his handy. That's
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  Speaker 1: what I want to hear. Okay, Well, we have a
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  Speaker 1: mantra on the program. We talk about the big stories
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  Speaker 1: of the day and let's just kind of figure it
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  Speaker 1: out as we go. Every day is a new day,
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  Speaker 1: every day's news. Some people say, ah, Mallard, how could
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  Speaker 1: you possibly do sports radio all these years? It's the
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  Speaker 1: same crap every damn now, now, now, now, now, no.
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  Speaker 1: Could you have imagined a couple of days ago if
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  Speaker 1: I had told you one of the crown jewels, you'all
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  Speaker 1: tell me one of the crown jewels of professional basketball
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  Speaker 1: would be tossed around like a fruitcake. But here we are,
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  Speaker 1: here we are. So if you have not heard, for
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  Speaker 1: some reason, maybe you've been hiding a worried about the
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  Speaker 1: gravity collapsing. I survived. I survived the internet bull crap
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  Speaker 1: of the day anyway, So if you miss it, the
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  Speaker 1: the Los Angeles Lakers, the once proud Los Angeles Lakers,
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  Speaker 1: are now just being passed around like a collection plate
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  Speaker 1: at a tabernacle on a Sunday morning. It's quite wild.
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  Speaker 1: It is absolutely wild. So the Lakers are being sold
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  Speaker 1: to Josh Kushner, the brother of the guy working for Trump,
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  Speaker 1: and Bob Iger, the Disney guy. Yeah, and the price
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  Speaker 1: tag twelve point five billion, with it be. I'm told
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  Speaker 1: that's a lot of money. Twelve point five billion with be.
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  Speaker 1: The franchise sale in fact said to be the biggest
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  Speaker 1: in professional sports history, at least here in America. And
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  Speaker 1: I believe the world. So A Kushner and Iiger, the
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  Speaker 1: two rich dudes, were supposed to buy the expansion team.
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  Speaker 1: I was reading last week in one of those business
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  Speaker 1: sports business websites that they were the favorite to buy
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  Speaker 1: to the Las Vegas expansion team. And then completely out
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  Speaker 1: of left field, And if you've listened to my podcast
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  Speaker 1: over the years, you know that comes from Wrigley Field.
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  Speaker 1: There used to be a mental hospital out past left
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  Speaker 1: field at Wrigley Field, and the outfielders could hear people screaming,
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  Speaker 1: mental patients screaming out in the outfield and the left field.
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  Speaker 1: So when they said out in left field, they were
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  Speaker 1: talking about a mental hospital. So out of left field
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  Speaker 1: the deal came together. Mark Walter, Well he's got some problem,
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  Speaker 1: doney man. He's a rich guy with problems, more money,
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  Speaker 1: more problems. I heard that song years ago. Well, Mark
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  Speaker 1: Walter is going to sell the controlling interest in the
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  Speaker 1: Los Angeles Lakers. So in the span of a little
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  Speaker 1: over a year, they will have gone from Genie Buss
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  Speaker 1: to Mark Walter, and that a Bob Iger, the Disney
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  Speaker 1: guy who's no longer the face of Disney, and this
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  Speaker 1: Josh Kushner weasel. So those guys will be the new owners.
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  Speaker 1: Keep in mind that Mark Walter, with much fanfare, you
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  Speaker 1: all explained to me, this is the greatest thing ever
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  Speaker 1: that there's no stopping the Lakers now because of Mark Walter.
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  Speaker 1: That was what you told me. I believed you. You
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  Speaker 1: lied to me. You know it could stop Mark Walter
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  Speaker 1: the FBI. So anyway, so Walter Bock controlled the Lakers
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  Speaker 1: some geni boss last year a bit about ten billion dollars.
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  Speaker 1: That's nothing, it's pocket change. That was the valuation, and
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  Speaker 1: so that means the team went up two and a
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  Speaker 1: half billion dollars in like nine months, so slightly better
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  Speaker 1: than my stocks are doing. So pretty good there. Now
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  Speaker 1: the deal still needs to be rubber stamp. Whag's like
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  Speaker 1: a ninety nine point nine percent chance the deal gets done.
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  Speaker 1: The NBA owners, of course, they call them the governors
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  Speaker 1: because of Draymond Green. They're all woke over there. So
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  Speaker 1: the NBA Board of Governors will vote on this. It's
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  Speaker 1: going to take a few weeks and then the next
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  Speaker 1: meeting is scheduled for September. I know you're very worried
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  Speaker 1: about that in New York City. So that is a
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  Speaker 1: good jummy'll point. Let us discuss the question what kind
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  Speaker 1: of owner will Bob Eiger be with the Lakers. We'll
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  Speaker 1: start with that. Then we'll get to the juicy stuff.
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  Speaker 1: We'll start with that. So I've got medieval pirate, treasure map,
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  Speaker 1: pawn shop, and allergy season and we will combine all
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  Speaker 1: of these things together and we are going to make
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  Speaker 1: a rotten, purple and gold piece of fruit. Because it's
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  Speaker 1: it's pretty rotten right now. All right, it's pretty rotten
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  Speaker 1: right now. So a we'll begin with this. Bob Iger
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  Speaker 1: buying the Lakers makes a lot of sense. I was
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  Speaker 1: thinking about it as I was making my way into
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  Speaker 1: the studio here, and I was like, well, how do
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  Speaker 1: I process all this? And the historians and you know
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  Speaker 1: who you are. The historians spent the last several years,
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  Speaker 1: I guess it's been five six years now, the historians
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  Speaker 1: of the team defending that Goofy Bubble championship. And now
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  Speaker 1: we can say Bob Iger made all of his money
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  Speaker 1: from that's right, Disney. So the Lakers have officially become
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  Speaker 1: a Mickey Mouse franchise. Ha ha, yep, Mickey Mouse, your
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  Speaker 1: mcckey mouse, or enjoy your little Mickey. You can get
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  Speaker 1: more Mickey Ross rings. Now, I'm sure Bob Iger still
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  Speaker 1: knows a bunch of people of Disney. Now that said,
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  Speaker 1: I don't think of Bob Iger as an owner. He's
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  Speaker 1: a corporate overlord, is what he is. And based on
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  Speaker 1: his track record, and you often when you meet someone,
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  Speaker 1: you judge them off what you know about their past
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  Speaker 1: and things like that. So when you when you look
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  Speaker 1: at Bob Iger's resume at Disney, the Lakers are not
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  Speaker 1: going to compete for titles. They're not. They're competing for
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  Speaker 1: your disposable income. They want in your wallet, and they're
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  Speaker 1: gonna get in your wallet one way or another. So
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  Speaker 1: I expect Disneyland economics to come to that little arena
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  Speaker 1: down there on skid Row in downtown LA. That's what
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  Speaker 1: I expect that under the disney Watch. Under the Disney Watch,
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  Speaker 1: ticket prices at Disneyland, the inflation under Bob Iger, they
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  Speaker 1: went up one hundred and seventy five percent, one hundred
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  Speaker 1: and seventy five percent under this weasel, Bob Iger, that's
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  Speaker 1: the guy that now owns the Lakers. That's his resume.
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  Speaker 1: That's how he made all the money to buy the
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  Speaker 1: Lakers by gouging Disney fans, by sticking it to the
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  Speaker 1: people that love Mickey Mouse, Donald Goofy and all the
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  Speaker 1: characters there in Disney. Think about one hundred and seventy
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  Speaker 1: five percent inflation on the price to go to Disneyland
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  Speaker 1: while Bob Iger was in control and all. But wait,
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  Speaker 1: there's more. He added demand tears the upcharge at Disney right,
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  Speaker 1: dynamic up charging at Disneyland. Those fast passes. They've changed
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  Speaker 1: the name now it's the it's the old medieval treasure map,
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  Speaker 1: if you will, where you monetize everything, right, in this case, nostalgia.
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  Speaker 1: You monetize that any kind of inconvenience you put a
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  Speaker 1: price tag on that. You know you want to breathe
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  Speaker 1: extra air oxygen costs money. You gotta have to pay
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  Speaker 1: some money. That's purple and gold oxygen. Pay pay, pay,
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  Speaker 1: pay the man. That kind of stuff. Now, the courtside
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  Speaker 1: seats have already been ridiculous for years with the Lakers,
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  Speaker 1: So now they're going to require an extra two bank
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  Speaker 1: robberies to get those tickets, which is fine for those people,
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  Speaker 1: and possibly a crypto scam, which is appropriate considering the
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  Speaker 1: arena they play at and parking. Of course, you're gonna
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  Speaker 1: need a loan officer to park bypassing the halftime bathroom line. Unfortunately,
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  Speaker 1: we hate to tell you that's going to cost you
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  Speaker 1: thirty nine to ninety nine for the Lakers' lightning Lane
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  Speaker 1: plus package. Iger is a mad scientist, is Bob Iger.
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  Speaker 1: He knows how to turn loyal fandom into his personal
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  Speaker 1: ATM machine. Did it at Disney and with a twelve
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  Speaker 1: point five billion dollars price tag. Yeah, I gotta get
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  Speaker 1: that money, a little bit of that back, right, And
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  Speaker 1: so somebody, not me, but maybe you will be paying
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  Speaker 1: for the Magic Kingdom of prop in Gold. And it
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  Speaker 1: ain't gonna be Mickey Mouse. It ain't gonna be Mickey Mouse.
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  Speaker 1: Who's paying for that? Now? Page two, Let's get into
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  Speaker 1: Stando radio, the stando. Oh yeah, we got a good one.
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  Speaker 1: We got a good one. No man, Well, seems that
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  Speaker 1: things are not going great for Mark Walter, the man
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  Speaker 1: that decided to buy the Lakers, went through the entire
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  Speaker 1: vetting process just to flip it like an HG TV show,
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  Speaker 1: you flip a house. I don't only do that with
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  Speaker 1: professional sports teams. So Mark Walder his sudden decision to
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  Speaker 1: get out, well, it it likely is not what you
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  Speaker 1: think it is. I mean, it's some people say, wow,
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  Speaker 1: it's just a smart business decision. He made two and
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  Speaker 1: a half billion dollars. These people are called losers carrying
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  Speaker 1: the water for Mark Walter, and I'm not gonna do that.
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  Speaker 1: I'm gonna tell you what's actually going on from what
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  Speaker 1: I've heard. So Mark Walder, the sudden sale of the Lakers,
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  Speaker 1: it was nine months, I believe was the number that
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  Speaker 1: I I saw after he got formal approval from the
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  Speaker 1: NBA to own the Lakers. So nine months less than
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  Speaker 1: a year after buying the Lakers. And that has raised
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  Speaker 1: a lot of legitimate questions about whether his stake in
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  Speaker 1: the Dodgers could eventually be sold, which will then lead
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  Speaker 1: to Shohil Tani being able to leave the Dodgers. Got
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  Speaker 1: a thing, this contract, the team sold, he can exit,
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  Speaker 1: which is a legitimate possibility. This could be Otani's final
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  Speaker 1: season with the Dodgers. And people aren't talking about this.
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  Speaker 1: But I'm telling you, I don't care what kind of
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  Speaker 1: statements Mark Walter tosses out there. It doesn't matter. These
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  Speaker 1: guys will say anything actions. He didn't say he was
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  Speaker 1: going to sell the Lakers. He just sold the Lakers.
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  Speaker 1: So you can't believe it. These guys are all weasels.
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  Speaker 1: You can't believe them, and it certainly is looking like
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  Speaker 1: the Dodgers are headed that direction as Bob Iger buys
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  Speaker 1: the Lakers. But Mark Walter is under federal investigation, federal
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  Speaker 1: scrutiny for his business dealings with the Guggenheim Group. It's
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  Speaker 1: a mess. He is facing an FBI probe. The Feds
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  Speaker 1: are sniffing around Bob Iger, all right, And there's a
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  Speaker 1: parallel SEC not the Southeastern Conference SEC investigation involving loans,
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  Speaker 1: financial disclosures connected to companies that he's in charge of. Now,
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  Speaker 1: these are not blue collar crimes. They're white collar crimes.
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  Speaker 1: So typically rich people just cut checks. So it's possible
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  Speaker 1: that that's what's going on here. But this is there's
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  Speaker 1: some meat to it, and I'll explain why. But the
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  Speaker 1: question is how does the future look for Mark Walter
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  Speaker 1: as the Dodger owner. Well, it really comes down, ironically
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  Speaker 1: to a whistle because the reason that Mark Walter is
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  Speaker 1: in the crosshairs here is because of a whistle blower.
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  Speaker 1: And that's almost always how these massive things are uncovered.
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  Speaker 1: The cheating a stros you guys, Major League Baseball investigated
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  Speaker 1: those a holes because teams were saying, hey, they're cheating
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  Speaker 1: and that schmuck rob manfraud investigated. The Astros said, we
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  Speaker 1: didn't see anything. They're fine, there's nothing to see here.
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  Speaker 1: It was only after a whistleblower on the team said hey,
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  Speaker 1: these guys are cheating. Here's how they're doing it. And
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  Speaker 1: only after that, And if I bet you, if he
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  Speaker 1: hadn't gone to the media, they would have covered it
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  Speaker 1: up major League Baseball, or they would have tried to
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  Speaker 1: cover it up. They already did with the soft cell.
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  Speaker 1: And so you've got a whistleblower who filed the complaint
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  Speaker 1: against the Guggenheim Group concerning accounting irregularities. Wow wow, yeah,
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  Speaker 1: so private credit investments and the stuff. The reason this
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  Speaker 1: is so crazy is this is the stuff that helped
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  Speaker 1: them acquire the rights to the Dodgers. So the empire
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  Speaker 1: of Mark Walter is certainly cracking at this point. It's
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  Speaker 1: now turning into a government grade escape room. And the
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  Speaker 1: Feds already have they already have the cheat codes pretty much. Man,
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  Speaker 1: you would think that the vultures are circling overhead and
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  Speaker 1: how many how many robber barons are like, hey, you
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  Speaker 1: sold the Lakers, how much is the Dodgers gonna cost?
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  Speaker 1: Can we get to get a piece of that. And
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  Speaker 1: so the vultures are out there, and you've got Uncle
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  Speaker 1: Sam who's bird dogging, bird dogging Mark Walter, and this
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  Speaker 1: whistleblower who's opened up Pandora's filing cabinet. And you know,
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  Speaker 1: if the FBI is grabbing your phone and laptop, which
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  Speaker 1: apparently when I read in the New York Post they've
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  Speaker 1: done for Mark Walter, you're not in a little trouble,
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  Speaker 1: Like that's more than a little trouble. You're in the
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  Speaker 1: kind of trouble that comes with its own theme music
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  Speaker 1: and documentaries about what happened that like that kind of trouble.
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  Speaker 1: So Walter, Now, to be fair, he hasn't been charged
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  Speaker 1: with anything. It's just a lot of circumstantial evidence that
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  Speaker 1: does not look good. It does not look good. But
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  Speaker 1: you got to say, after the decision after nine months
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  Speaker 1: to flip the Lakers like it was a house or
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  Speaker 1: disheveled the house that you bought and then you fix
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  Speaker 1: it up, put a coat of paint on it and
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  Speaker 1: re sold it, would anyone really be shocked if the
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  Speaker 1: La Dodgers hit the auctioning block within the next year.
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  Speaker 1: I wouldn't be not at all. I mean, the Dodgers
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  Speaker 1: are suddenly the Mona Lisa at a pawn shop. How'd
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  Speaker 1: the Mona Lisa end up at a pawn shop? I
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  Speaker 1: don't know. I have no IDEA priceless, fragile, and really
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  Speaker 1: one bad decision away from an all out bidding war.
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  Speaker 1: Can you imagine the bidding war? There would be no
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  Speaker 1: shortage of aristocrats and the sovereign wealth elites, private equity
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  Speaker 1: monarchs would be lining up, arriving in gold plated dinghies
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  Speaker 1: out in the Pacific, and you know they'd be ready
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  Speaker 1: to turn Chavez Ravine into the most expensive yard sale
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  Speaker 1: in baseball history. Now, there's a lot of businesses in Japan.
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  Speaker 1: I would think that would been on the Dodgers. So
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  Speaker 1: it's possible Tony stays if a Japanese company buys the team.
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  Speaker 1: Certainly in the realm of possibility, watch Dodger game. Most
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  Speaker 1: of the sponsors are from Japan, so they love endorsing
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  Speaker 1: the Dodgers. So if the team does get sold, I
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  Speaker 1: wouldn't be shocked if something like that happens. All right,
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  Speaker 1: now the last word here to the good bye note,
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  Speaker 1: and we'll mention this. I want to spen at least
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  Speaker 1: a couple of miss Russell Westbrook, someone who has been
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  Speaker 1: a big topic of conversation in these parts over his career,
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  Speaker 1: really effective at creating content for talk radio. Russell Westbrook
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  Speaker 1: has said bye bye. He has retired from the NBA.
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  Speaker 1: Believe he's thirty seven. I think announced his decision after
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  Speaker 1: he began as the number four overall pick in the
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  Speaker 1: draft years ago, and he did not go out with
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  Speaker 1: the dud. Westbrook revealing his retirement through a very corny
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  Speaker 1: video on social media narrated by actor Michael B. Jordan.
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  Speaker 1: He was the narrator there, just announcing to the world, Hey,
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  Speaker 1: I'm a douche. Here's the video, all right, and wrote,
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  Speaker 1: sometimes you don't even know when you're already watching the end,
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  Speaker 1: or you've already watched the end and now it is over.
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  Speaker 1: Westbrook was in the NBA so long. He was drafted
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  Speaker 1: by the Sonics the SuperSonics right before they transitioned to
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  Speaker 1: Oklahoma City back in eight so a long time ago.
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  Speaker 1: And there you go. His peak a couple of scoring
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  Speaker 1: titles in the NBA, won a questionable MVP Award in
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  Speaker 1: twenty seventeen, and was a top MVP candidate for most
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  Speaker 1: of that four year stretch, a year after year. So
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  Speaker 1: the question, all right, where are you at on Russell
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  Speaker 1: Westbrook and his abrupt, seemingly abrupt decision to walk away
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  Speaker 1: from the NBA after pretty much being retired last year
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  Speaker 1: in Sacramento, Because nobody watches the Sacramento Kings. All right,
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  Speaker 1: So Russell Westbrook, if you look at this objectively, he
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  Speaker 1: did not actually retire from the NBA. He was evicted
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  Speaker 1: from the NBA. His belongings were tossed out on the sidewalk,
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  Speaker 1: the locks were changed. They don't know where the forwarding
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  Speaker 1: address is, probably somewhere in Beverly Hills. He couldn't find
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  Speaker 1: a job, does anyone? Just like he tried, Like there
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  Speaker 1: were talks with bunch of teams. He couldn't find a gig.
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  Speaker 1: And so the jig is up for Russell Westbrook in
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  Speaker 1: the NBA. And he had just run out of zip codes.
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  Speaker 1: He'd run out of zip codes. And last we heard,
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  Speaker 1: we talked about this in a previous episode of the show,
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  Speaker 1: that Westbrook was supposedly talking to a team in Israel
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  Speaker 1: because he couldn't find a job in the NBA, and
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  Speaker 1: then that fizzled I guess going to the Middle East
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  Speaker 1: and playing basketball doesn't seem like a great idea when
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  Speaker 1: you got that kind of dough and you know something
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  Speaker 1: could go wrong right there. So how are we going
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  Speaker 1: to remember Russ Wesbrook? This is it? You think he's
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  Speaker 1: actually retired. So if he is retired and this is it,
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  Speaker 1: I will remember him as the ultimate walking, talking contradiction.
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  Speaker 1: A man who was built like a Donnis, just chiseled
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  Speaker 1: out of granite, Russell Westbrook, and yet somehow ended up
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  Speaker 1: emotionally covered in salamander's skin. It was always allergy season
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  Speaker 1: with Russell Westbrook. No know what do I mean by that?
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  Speaker 1: There are few stars in my time. I've been doing
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  Speaker 1: this a long time. There are few stars in my
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  Speaker 1: time doing talk radio that in that business in the
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  Speaker 1: NBA that had been more allergic to criticism and just
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  Speaker 1: couldn't handle it. Were so soft despite looking like they
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  Speaker 1: were built out of steel than Russell Westbrook. It's fascinating
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  Speaker 1: you heckel him security. Oh my god, I need help.
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  Speaker 1: I need help. Somebody shut up mean name by Russell Westbrook.
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  Speaker 1: How many times fans kicked out in multidis rhythmically chanting
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  Speaker 1: west Brick, Oh, my god, human rights violation. Human rights violation. Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: and he's always got a deck of playing cards, Westbrook
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  Speaker 1: in his back pocket, and he pulls the victim card
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  Speaker 1: from the bottom of the deck. Love to play the victim.
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  Speaker 1: And then the other thing that I'm gonna remember, because
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  Speaker 1: we talked a lot about it here on the radio show,
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  Speaker 1: was the what I call the Triple double industrial complex
• 19:30
  Speaker 1: back in his Oklahoma City days, those infamous OKC clips
• 19:35
  Speaker 1: of teammates rigging his stat sheet and he got away
• 19:40
  Speaker 1: with it. They're still up on YouTube, like you can
• 19:43
  Speaker 1: go check them out if you want. It was wild.
• 19:47
  Speaker 1: Teammates were hopping away from rebounds like they were trying
• 19:51
  Speaker 1: to get away from a live hand grenade to allow
• 19:54
  Speaker 1: Westbrook to sneak in and cherry pick rebounds to get
• 19:58
  Speaker 1: the triple double numbers. So Russ vacuum up the stats
• 20:01
  Speaker 1: and fatten up the spreadsheet. And once you it's like
• 20:06
  Speaker 1: we said, once you've seen how they make the Johnsonville sausage,
• 20:09
  Speaker 1: well you can't unsee it. You know, you can still
• 20:12
  Speaker 1: eat the Johnsonville sausage, but you can't unsee what happened there.
• 20:15
  Speaker 1: And a spectacular athlete, Westbrook absolutely he'll be a first
• 20:21
  Speaker 1: ballot Hall of Famer. Hel Muffett McGraw is in the
• 20:24
  Speaker 1: Pro Basketball Hall of Fame.
• 20:25
  Speaker 3: There.
• 20:25
  Speaker 1: But the mythology, all right, the mythology surrounding those triple doubles, Wow,
• 20:33
  Speaker 1: it is next level. You have more artificial ingredients in
• 20:41
  Speaker 1: those triple double stats than if you were to go
• 20:44
  Speaker 1: to a gas station and order a twinkie. Yeah, it's
• 20:48
  Speaker 1: just totally for gayzy is what it is.
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• 22:02
  Speaker 1: We had de Canzah City, the first man of the
• 22:08
  Speaker 1: Swifty Nation, has given a speech on his situationan so
• 22:15
  Speaker 1: we're talking about Travis Kelcey, who is thirty six in
• 22:19
  Speaker 1: real life. Thirty six isn't that old? In sports? It's old.
• 22:23
  Speaker 1: And so he gave some comments you see this at all? No, okay,
• 22:28
  Speaker 1: you missed it. I got you. So Kelsey says he
• 22:31
  Speaker 1: still has a lot of love for football. Well, that's
• 22:34
  Speaker 1: good to know. That's good to know. He loves football.
• 22:39
  Speaker 1: That's good. And he wants to prove that he can
• 22:42
  Speaker 1: still play at a higher level than he did last season,
• 22:45
  Speaker 1: when he sucked at a time he cannot suck. Most
• 22:48
  Speaker 1: anticipate this the final season of Travis Kelsey. Although people
• 22:51
  Speaker 1: said the same thing last year Kelsey returning to Andy
• 22:55
  Speaker 1: Reid's favorite NFL team. Back in March, he signed a
• 22:58
  Speaker 1: one year contract worth up to fifteen million dollars. You
• 23:03
  Speaker 1: know that's not going to be the case. And thirteen seasons.
• 23:08
  Speaker 1: This will be number thirteen for the Chiefs. Kelsey is
• 23:12
  Speaker 1: pretty much framing this is a proved season in his
• 23:15
  Speaker 1: commentary ages. He wants to prove that he can get
• 23:19
  Speaker 1: it done. And he did admit that he was not good,
• 23:22
  Speaker 1: even though the Kansas City Marching and Chowder Society ran
• 23:26
  Speaker 1: interference and claimed he's great. What are you talking about?
• 23:28
  Speaker 1: Blah blah blah, blah blah. It did not go well
• 23:31
  Speaker 1: last year for Kelsey. It's good that he's admitting that.
• 23:33
  Speaker 1: I'd wish some other people would admit that. So that's
• 23:36
  Speaker 1: a good jumping off point. Let us discuss the question
• 23:40
  Speaker 1: how much stock do you put in to Chiefs tight
• 23:44
  Speaker 1: end Travis Kelcey's declaration that he has another level left?
• 23:48
  Speaker 1: So how much stock do we put in to the
• 23:50
  Speaker 1: Chiefs tight end? Travis Kelcey hid his declaration for Football
• 23:54
  Speaker 1: Nation that he has another level left? So I've got
• 23:57
  Speaker 1: bipartisan end O Lake's butter and couples therapy. Yeah, we'll
• 24:05
  Speaker 1: combine all of these things together and we are going
• 24:10
  Speaker 1: to make a sloppy Joe is what we're going to
• 24:14
  Speaker 1: make now. First of all, as we love. One of
• 24:17
  Speaker 1: our favorite phrases comes from the state of Missouri. It's
• 24:19
  Speaker 1: the unofficial official slogan. They call it the show Me State.
• 24:24
  Speaker 1: And I'm of the mindset you gotta show me, you
• 24:28
  Speaker 1: gotta show me, and when you do, I'm in. Every
• 24:33
  Speaker 1: summer the last few years, the same training camp infomercial
• 24:38
  Speaker 1: has come out of Chiefs Camp that Kelsey feels great,
• 24:42
  Speaker 1: he's still got the fire in his belly. YadA YadA, YadA, YadA, YadA, YadA,
• 24:48
  Speaker 1: YadA YadA. At this point, at this point, Travis Kelsey
• 24:51
  Speaker 1: is He's standing in front of the mirror. He's looking
• 24:55
  Speaker 1: there and you know, he's trying to speak greatness into it.
• 24:59
  Speaker 1: It's like he's doing this infomercial. I feel great, I
• 25:02
  Speaker 1: am great, Everything's going to be wonderful. It's like he's
• 25:06
  Speaker 1: a motivational speaker selling seventy nine dollars seminar tickets at
• 25:10
  Speaker 1: the Airport Marriott. Come on, dude, and talk is cheap.
• 25:15
  Speaker 1: And I realize that every time I get my paycheck
• 25:17
  Speaker 1: here on the Overnight show, that talk is cheap. Kelsey
• 25:20
  Speaker 1: is a falling star and we talk about this a lot.
• 25:24
  Speaker 1: This is the personification of a falling star. Beautiful from
• 25:28
  Speaker 1: a distance, but yeah, don't let that sucker land on
• 25:33
  Speaker 1: your mobile home. Is not going to go good. And
• 25:35
  Speaker 1: the reality is with Travis Kelsey when it comes to
• 25:37
  Speaker 1: his status right now in the NFL. Anybody that uses
• 25:41
  Speaker 1: critical thinking is in agreement here, everyone and anyone that
• 25:44
  Speaker 1: uses critical thinking. This is a bipartisan issue. The numbers
• 25:48
  Speaker 1: and the eyeballs agree. Capital D decline, it's underway. Capital
• 25:56
  Speaker 1: D decline underway. Think of it like Kelsey and the software,
• 26:02
  Speaker 1: or like a phone, right, you know how you get
• 26:05
  Speaker 1: if you had like an iPhone five or something like that.
• 26:09
  Speaker 1: Like this stuff doesn't update. When you do update stuff,
• 26:13
  Speaker 1: it never finishes. It just is bad. So if the
• 26:17
  Speaker 1: chiefs think that Kelsey is going to be turning back
• 26:21
  Speaker 1: the clock, it better be made by Fisher price. Otherwise
• 26:25
  Speaker 1: they are porked. Okay, burnt ends is what they are there.
• 26:31
  Speaker 1: Andy Reid needs to make Travis kelce at most a decoy.
• 26:36
  Speaker 1: Do the old okie doke with Travis Kelcey at leverage
• 26:40
  Speaker 1: the name on the back of the jersey, the star power.
• 26:44
  Speaker 1: Kelsey is no longer the ribbi, the perfectly cooked, well
• 26:48
  Speaker 1: done rabbi butterfly cut. He is not. He is the
• 26:51
  Speaker 1: expensive garnish on the plate. He hopes to become the
• 26:54
  Speaker 1: mashed potatoes right now. He's the garnish he hopes to
• 26:57
  Speaker 1: turn into the mashed potatoes. Travis Kelce. He is not
• 26:59
  Speaker 1: the mashed potatoes. He is not the stay. He is
• 27:02
  Speaker 1: not that he is garnish all right. Secondly to Cleveland
• 27:05
  Speaker 1: Bad Football, Good Talk Radio, Deshaun Watson has been named
• 27:09
  Speaker 1: the preseason QB one. He'll start the game coming up
• 27:12
  Speaker 1: this weekend against the Chicago Bears. Dub Bears, Yeah, that's happening.
• 27:18
  Speaker 1: Coach Todd Munkin the Monkman said that Schadura Sanders will
• 27:23
  Speaker 1: start the second game of the preseason for the fledgling
• 27:28
  Speaker 1: Cleveland football team who's still waiting for a good quarterback
• 27:31
  Speaker 1: to spring up like a mushroom. That has not happened.
• 27:35
  Speaker 1: So Watson and Sanders have been They have been alternating
• 27:41
  Speaker 1: first team reps. Neither one looks any good. They both suck,
• 27:44
  Speaker 1: and this continues to be what they're calling the most
• 27:47
  Speaker 1: depressing quarterback competitions to the last Browns quarterback competition. And
• 27:53
  Speaker 1: while we're at it, we've that going on. We have
• 27:55
  Speaker 1: a lot of spinning plates in Cleveland. Schadur Sanders open
• 28:00
  Speaker 1: his media session with an apology. What what did he
• 28:06
  Speaker 1: apologize for? Apologize for being a canoe? What brand of canoe?
• 28:12
  Speaker 1: A douche canoe? Yes, well we have it all right.
• 28:16
  Speaker 1: Well let's go to the audio tape. Here is Shirt Sanders,
• 28:18
  Speaker 1: who issued a formal apology to the Beat reporters who
• 28:23
  Speaker 1: cover the Brownies. Take a listen.
• 28:25
  Speaker 5: The last time I came up here before, y'all, I
• 28:29
  Speaker 5: think dearly. I dislike when it's a lot of separation
• 28:34
  Speaker 5: and when something gets between the team and people get
• 28:37
  Speaker 5: painted a certain way and all this different type of stuff.
• 28:39
  Speaker 5: So that's why I get frustrated and I shut down,
• 28:43
  Speaker 5: you know, because this doesn't help us win. So it's
• 28:47
  Speaker 5: kind of like an option, but not an option. So
• 28:49
  Speaker 5: I don't I feel dreamed when I express myself to
• 28:53
  Speaker 5: people in places and cameras when it's not received and
• 28:56
  Speaker 5: taking the right way, or as we're trying to divide
• 28:58
  Speaker 5: the team or anything like that. So that's where I
• 29:01
  Speaker 5: was just trying to preserve my energy from going in
• 29:03
  Speaker 5: dewn with a lot of things.
• 29:06
  Speaker 1: You smell that buok crap Sanders. As you heard there,
• 29:10
  Speaker 1: he admitted he became drained too much for him, too
• 29:14
  Speaker 1: emotional for him to talk to a bunch of reporters. Question, question,
• 29:21
  Speaker 1: what what should we read in too? Shadur Sanders and
• 29:25
  Speaker 1: his apology as you just heard to the Cleveland gaggle
• 29:28
  Speaker 1: of reporters. So Shauldur sanders apology to the Cleveland media
• 29:33
  Speaker 1: that was about as organic as a plastic tomato at
• 29:38
  Speaker 1: one of those diner salad bar things that used to
• 29:40
  Speaker 1: have back in the day. Clearly, someone now, whether it
• 29:44
  Speaker 1: was popa Dion or a Browns executive or some public
• 29:49
  Speaker 1: relations hack hall monitor, somebody did the tap tap, the
• 29:54
  Speaker 1: tap on the shoulder and said, hey, kid, go read
• 29:57
  Speaker 1: chapter one of the NF Quarterbacking for Dummies Manual. You're
• 30:03
  Speaker 1: supposed to smile, nod, and spit out sports cliches and platitudes,
• 30:08
  Speaker 1: and that's a bad job by you. He said it
• 30:11
  Speaker 1: very monitor didn't. I don't know. I was enjoying some ganjah.
• 30:16
  Speaker 1: I don't know what he was doing, but he sounded
• 30:18
  Speaker 1: very mellow, and it seemed like he had to repeat
• 30:23
  Speaker 1: certain parts of that, and he was told talking points
• 30:26
  Speaker 1: and whatnot there, and then you dropped the news here
• 30:31
  Speaker 1: with the quarterback change and all that, because being an
• 30:35
  Speaker 1: NFL quarterback, it's gonna be a shocking take. Nobody else
• 30:37
  Speaker 1: has his take when you're an NFL quarterback. The pressure
• 30:40
  Speaker 1: cooker is part of the deal. And Tradur, he's not
• 30:44
  Speaker 1: even been named the starter. He's supposedly in a race
• 30:47
  Speaker 1: for the starting job, and he's already melted like a
• 30:50
  Speaker 1: stick of Lando Lake's butter in a frying pan. And
• 30:54
  Speaker 1: he didn't do it against a division rival. He had
• 30:58
  Speaker 1: issues with a gaggle of most middle aged sports writers
• 31:02
  Speaker 1: in cargo shorts, like what do you do with that? Like,
• 31:06
  Speaker 1: you know, the news drops that Deshaun Watson is going
• 31:10
  Speaker 1: to start the first preseason game, which leads to you
• 31:12
  Speaker 1: believe the obvious. To connect the dots, he's either got
• 31:15
  Speaker 1: the job or he's in the lead for the starting
• 31:17
  Speaker 1: job for the Browns, and Shadur instantly looks like he's
• 31:23
  Speaker 1: looking on his phone on the travel apps to try
• 31:25
  Speaker 1: to find a one way Southwest Airlines flight want to
• 31:28
  Speaker 1: get away? Like if a routine press scrum, not what
• 31:34
  Speaker 1: we used to call it involving the word gang, but
• 31:37
  Speaker 1: something else. Press scrum will clean it up for the
• 31:40
  Speaker 1: family that are listening right now. If that triggers a
• 31:44
  Speaker 1: white flag, what happens when I don't know TJ. Watt
• 31:48
  Speaker 1: tries to remove his spleen in a game like if
• 31:52
  Speaker 1: it's it's just too draining to have to talk about this.
• 31:58
  Speaker 1: My god, what a world. Even if guys felt like
• 32:02
  Speaker 1: that back in the day, they never say it. They
• 32:05
  Speaker 1: never say it, So Cleveland doesn't need a forced apology.
• 32:08
  Speaker 1: They actually need some tangible evidence that SHUDR. Sanders knows
• 32:13
  Speaker 1: what he's doing right and can handle the turbulence without
• 32:17
  Speaker 1: grabbing for the emergency exit. And at this point not
• 32:22
  Speaker 1: so good. All right? Final thought to college football we
• 32:26
  Speaker 1: go where the new Michigan coach is already already feeling
• 32:31
  Speaker 1: the heat and he hasn't even coached a game at Michigan.
• 32:34
  Speaker 1: That would be Kyle Whittingham, longtime Ute's coach. What is
• 32:39
  Speaker 1: a ute? Kyle Whittingham, Michigan coach drawing some attention recently
• 32:44
  Speaker 1: after saying about the rivalry with Ohio State. He says
• 32:48
  Speaker 1: he doesn't hate Ohio State? What what? Oh my god?
• 32:57
  Speaker 1: He said he didn't hit Ohio State. Now, I'm not
• 33:02
  Speaker 1: from Michigan. I'm not from Ohio. I got plenty of
• 33:04
  Speaker 1: friends that have crossed my life in my life from
• 33:07
  Speaker 1: Ohio and from Michigan. And I know from both sides
• 33:12
  Speaker 1: of the aisle. How big a deal that game is? Okay?
• 33:17
  Speaker 1: And at the recent Big Ten media days, Whittingham explained
• 33:22
  Speaker 1: he said hate is a strong word. He emphasized that
• 33:27
  Speaker 1: he wants to win. Well, that's good. Whittingham says he
• 33:30
  Speaker 1: wants to win the rivalry game as badly as anyone
• 33:33
  Speaker 1: in ann Arbor. He also declined he said to manufacture
• 33:38
  Speaker 1: any kind of personal animosity towards Ryan Day, the Buck
• 33:43
  Speaker 1: Guy's head coach, calling Day quote a good person, close quote,
• 33:48
  Speaker 1: arguing that rivalries can remain emotional and intense without hatred. Yeah, okay, Well,
• 34:00
  Speaker 1: the question here is rather obvious. Do you have a
• 34:02
  Speaker 1: phrase on new Michigan coach Kyle Whittingham saying he doesn't
• 34:08
  Speaker 1: hate Ohio State. So I'm going to take a phrase
• 34:12
  Speaker 1: from Wimbledon, and the phrase is unforced error. Is the phrase?
• 34:19
  Speaker 1: These words are going to come back to haunt Kyle
• 34:22
  Speaker 1: Whittingham like a personal poltergeist. Apparently nobody bothered to give
• 34:29
  Speaker 1: the new Michigan coach the packet, the orientation packet when
• 34:34
  Speaker 1: you take over. You know how to give you that
• 34:35
  Speaker 1: packet when you get a new job and say, okay,
• 34:37
  Speaker 1: here's all the rules and regulations. Okay, thank you. I
• 34:40
  Speaker 1: won't read that, but thank you, and then you gotta
• 34:43
  Speaker 1: do like now you do a docu sign. If you
• 34:44
  Speaker 1: get hired someone, you got to do a docu sign. Okay,
• 34:46
  Speaker 1: I'll click that. But I didn't read the legal lease,
• 34:49
  Speaker 1: so he I guess he didn't get it or he
• 34:51
  Speaker 1: didn't read it last I checked. You're not playing Tiddley
• 34:57
  Speaker 1: Winks in Utah anymore. And not that that's like nothing,
• 35:02
  Speaker 1: because Utah has had some really good teams there over
• 35:05
  Speaker 1: the last twenty years. They've actually had more consistently good
• 35:09
  Speaker 1: football at Utah than Michigan has had. Don't tell anybody
• 35:13
  Speaker 1: in Michigan that, but that's been the case. And they
• 35:16
  Speaker 1: have a rivalry with Byu. I think it's called the
• 35:19
  Speaker 1: Holy War if I remember correctly, and bring that up
• 35:21
  Speaker 1: every year from Great Games. However, like dude.
• 35:27
  Speaker 2: Like.
• 35:29
  Speaker 1: Look at the room, read the room. Are you. You're
• 35:32
  Speaker 1: in the big House. You're in the Big House. I
• 35:37
  Speaker 1: got a funny story, but I used to worry this
• 35:38
  Speaker 1: guy named Bob Page. He was a big sportscaster in
• 35:41
  Speaker 1: New York and he worked at Fox Sports trading the
• 35:43
  Speaker 1: early days. And Bob was a Michigan man and a
• 35:46
  Speaker 1: very serious, very serious man, very very serious. And I
• 35:53
  Speaker 1: remember I call it back when Michigan twenty years ago,
• 35:57
  Speaker 1: the good teams, and I'd say, oh, the Big House.
• 35:59
  Speaker 1: And he said, Benjamin, I'm from Michigan, and we don't
• 36:02
  Speaker 1: call it the Big House. I said, Bob, it's just
• 36:04
  Speaker 1: a phrase. It's okay, it's a colloaquial phrase. Anyway, that
• 36:07
  Speaker 1: is home, the Big House. I'll say it again, home
• 36:10
  Speaker 1: of irrational college football blood feuds, the Big House and
• 36:15
  Speaker 1: the Horseshoe and all that stuff. And it's just there's
• 36:18
  Speaker 1: a lot of hate there. Hate is like a renewable energy.
• 36:21
  Speaker 1: So when the coach says, hey, Ryan Day is a
• 36:24
  Speaker 1: good person and I'm not going to manufacture any kind
• 36:27
  Speaker 1: of you know, hates, a strong word and all that stuff,
• 36:30
  Speaker 1: you just roll your eyes because somebody in ann Arbor
• 36:34
  Speaker 1: needs to stage some kind of intervention and hand him
• 36:37
  Speaker 1: a laminated memo and say, okay, here's the bullet points.
• 36:42
  Speaker 1: Bullet point one, Ohio State bad, bullet point two, Michigan good,
• 36:48
  Speaker 1: bullet point three, Scarlet and gray are forbidden and ugly colors,
• 36:53
  Speaker 1: and a bullet point number four. I believe a Ryan Day.
• 36:58
  Speaker 1: Ryan Day is the grim shoe stole Christmas past and
• 37:01
  Speaker 1: Christmas future. And that's it. That's the party line if
• 37:05
  Speaker 1: you're coaching at Michigan. Instead, Kyle Whittingham was throwing flowers
• 37:10
  Speaker 1: at Ryan Day, complimenting him and debating whether or not
• 37:14
  Speaker 1: hate is too strong a word, like he wandered into
• 37:18
  Speaker 1: a couple's therapy session on a beach somewhere in Florida,
• 37:24
  Speaker 1: and he clearly doesn't understand the psychological hardwiring of the
• 37:29
  Speaker 1: Michigan Marching and Chowder Society. If Michigan loses in Columbus
• 37:36
  Speaker 1: late this year, every single oo week Gooi Kumbai Yah
• 37:42
  Speaker 1: quote that he has given here about Ohio State will
• 37:45
  Speaker 1: be brought up as exhibit A in the tribunal against
• 37:50
  Speaker 1: Kyle Whittingham.
• 37:51
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• 37:54
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• 37:57
  Speaker 1: We go, here we go, Here we go, Here we go,
• 37:58
  Speaker 1: Here we go go.
• 38:03
  Speaker 2: This is one big gets grilled.
• 38:08
  Speaker 1: Cupler.
• 38:09
  Speaker 3: Cal Raley addressed the media after the Mariners lost to
• 38:11
  Speaker 3: the Yankees on Tuesday. He was asked about the team's
• 38:14
  Speaker 3: recent skid, and the big Dumper took most of the blames, saying,
• 38:17
  Speaker 3: I'm awful, Ben, Which do you think is more of
• 38:21
  Speaker 3: a fluke last season or this season for cal Ray?
• 38:24
  Speaker 1: Well, it's he's somewhere in the middle. He's not as
• 38:27
  Speaker 1: bad as he is right now, and he wasn't nearly
• 38:29
  Speaker 1: as good as he was last year. But he shouldn't
• 38:31
  Speaker 1: suck this much. I was so annoyed though, I threw
• 38:34
  Speaker 1: my remote control. I was watching the Mariner Yankee game
• 38:36
  Speaker 1: last night and they brought some nerd on there trying
• 38:38
  Speaker 1: to explain, well, if you look at the swing weight
• 38:41
  Speaker 1: and the velocity, extra velocity, or just shut up, he
• 38:45
  Speaker 1: just sucks, all right, And no analytic thing is going
• 38:49
  Speaker 1: to fix cal Raley this year, And we'll see what
• 38:51
  Speaker 1: happens next year. But yeah, he's gonna be better next year.
• 38:54
  Speaker 1: If he's not better, he'll be out of baseball next.
• 38:56
  Speaker 3: A report this week says the Oklahoma City Thunder could
• 38:58
  Speaker 3: look to trade chat home going to he continues to
• 39:00
  Speaker 3: struggle against Victor Wembnyama. Ben. Do you think Holmgren is
• 39:04
  Speaker 3: still with OKAC next season?
• 39:06
  Speaker 1: Well, he'll be there next season. The question is after
• 39:08
  Speaker 1: that do they trade him at the deadline? Is he gone?
• 39:11
  Speaker 1: He really was outclassed by Victor wan Bayama. It was embarrassing,
• 39:15
  Speaker 1: total fraud chet Holmgren in that series.
• 39:18
  Speaker 3: Next, the NFL isn't the only football approaching. The college
• 39:21
  Speaker 3: season is right around the corner as well. Ole Miss
• 39:23
  Speaker 3: is ranked in the top ten and most preseason rankings.
• 39:25
  Speaker 3: How well do you think they can do after the
• 39:27
  Speaker 3: Lynn Kiffen debacle last year?
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  Speaker 1: Well, I haven't really looked at how their nil portal thing.
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  Speaker 1: You know, it's really how many players you buy. That's
• 39:36
  Speaker 1: you know, if you have good players, you spend your
• 39:38
  Speaker 1: money properly, you can win. But there's the boosters at
• 39:41
  Speaker 1: Old Miss or legendary like there are. You know, there's
• 39:43
  Speaker 1: a few rich guys there that are really paying for everything,
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  Speaker 1: so they're gonna demand success. I think they'll be okay.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, Lank Kiffin is a hype guy and a
• 39:53
  Speaker 1: gas bag and all that stuff. He left not everyone
• 39:58
  Speaker 1: vacated the program when he left. They've added a few players,
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  Speaker 1: so I think they'll be right there. It is malarly
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  Speaker 1: third degree. I think there'll be a mid level SEC team.
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  Speaker 1: Old miss, how did we do? Coopaloo?
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  Speaker 1: must listen. We wing it. On this edition of Ask Ben,
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  Speaker 1: we now pass the microphone over to the Coopoloop for
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  Speaker 1: questions for Ben and friends. These are actual questions by
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  Speaker 1: actual human beings as far as we can tell, unless
• 40:57
  Speaker 1: they're AI bots sending us questions. We will now fly
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  Speaker 1: the coop with the Kooplo.
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  Speaker 3: I'm seeing some good questions this week. I'm proud of
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  Speaker 3: you guys.
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  Speaker 1: What happened? All right?
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  Speaker 3: We're gonna start off with a question from Alf the
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  Speaker 3: alien opiner.
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  Speaker 1: I've met him, Yes, his lovely wife. I know both
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  Speaker 1: of them, they're my friends.
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  Speaker 3: He would like to know what is the tallest building
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  Speaker 3: you've ever been to the top of.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, I don't. I mean I have a story about
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  Speaker 1: tall but I guess the Sears Tower in Chicago. But
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  Speaker 1: I have nine to eleven related So I was at
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  Speaker 1: the World Trade Center about two weeks before nine to eleven,
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  Speaker 1: and it was about a half an hour before the
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  Speaker 1: observation deck was closed, and they said they were not
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  Speaker 1: going to let us stay up there more than half
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  Speaker 1: an hour. I was in the lobby, so I didn't
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  Speaker 1: go as I'll go back. So I was at I
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  Speaker 1: should have done it, and now i'll but so I
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  Speaker 1: guess the serious towers the answer. But I should have
• 41:54
  Speaker 1: gone to the top of the World Trade Center, but
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  Speaker 1: I chose not to because I was didn't want to
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  Speaker 1: waste my money. Lorena.
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  Speaker 3: Mine would probably have to be the Eiffel Tower.
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  Speaker 1: Oh look at you, Perrie. How high is that? Though
• 42:09
  Speaker 1: I don't know that would help coop.
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  Speaker 3: And I'm also is that a is that a building?
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  Speaker 1: Technically? You know? I mean, like, is it there's an elevator?
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  Speaker 3: Isn't an over and there's a restaurant in it. So yes,
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  Speaker 3: I would say there's a Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: The one in Vegas has a restaurant too. That's where
• 42:27
  Speaker 1: I've been to that Eiffel Tower.
• 42:30
  Speaker 3: The tallest building for me is the Sears Tower, or
• 42:35
  Speaker 3: I guess. I guess now it's Willis Is something else? Yeah,
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  Speaker 3: but yeah, the same for me.
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  Speaker 1: All right. By the way, the Eiffel Tower. Eiffel Tower
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  Speaker 1: is one thousand and eighty two feet it's fall.
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  Speaker 3: There you go, it's and Willis Tower is one four
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  Speaker 3: hundred and fifty in.
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  Speaker 1: Your faceline, We win, you lose. What is next? What
• 42:57
  Speaker 1: do you got? All right?
• 42:59
  Speaker 3: Next, we have a quite shouldn't hear from Mike in
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  Speaker 3: New Hampshire Ustar?
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  Speaker 1: Uh?
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  Speaker 3: Yes, yeah, she says, Hey, Ben, So I guess is
• 43:10
  Speaker 3: this a question just for you? I guess, hey, Ben,
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  Speaker 3: muscle car or supercar?
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  Speaker 1: Well, when I collected hot wheels back in the day,
• 43:20
  Speaker 1: I love the muscle cars. So I'm gonna go. I'm
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  Speaker 1: gonna go muscle cars. Lorena, you want to answer, We'll
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  Speaker 1: let you answer.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, I'm gonna probably go with muscle car.
• 43:30
  Speaker 1: You know what those are, Yeah, they're the ones.
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  Speaker 3: That are old and smelled like diesel gas.
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  Speaker 1: Okay, well, the supercar would be you know what the
• 43:42
  Speaker 1: supercar is like? No, not old?
• 43:44
  Speaker 3: Yeah, aren't those like Lamborghini's and yeah McLaren's.
• 43:49
  Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean those are nice. I wouldn't fit in
• 43:51
  Speaker 1: any of those, so, but I guess I might be
• 43:53
  Speaker 1: able to fit the old cars, so I do. Paul,
• 43:55
  Speaker 1: that's a great point.
• 43:56
  Speaker 3: I would choose the muscle cars as well. I just
• 43:58
  Speaker 3: think they'd look cooler classic.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, muscle car. All right, what's next? Let's ask Ben
• 44:03
  Speaker 1: your questions are answers.
• 44:05
  Speaker 3: JT the wingman would like to know what is your
• 44:08
  Speaker 3: favorite farm animal? And he adds that he lives next
• 44:11
  Speaker 3: to a pasture of black angus beef cattle.
• 44:15
  Speaker 1: Yeah. I think cattle are great. They just eat and
• 44:17
  Speaker 1: fart and you know, pretty good. I don't really haven't
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  Speaker 1: spent a lot of time on farms. What about you, Lorena,
• 44:22
  Speaker 1: cows are like big dogs.
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  Speaker 3: That's definitely what I would.
• 44:25
  Speaker 1: Get, and they're delicious. What about you? It's cool.
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  Speaker 3: I'll go with a horse there, cool.
• 44:32
  Speaker 1: A horse, of course. All right, quickly, one more, what
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  Speaker 1: do we got?
• 44:34
  Speaker 3: Donkey Sodge wants to know what's your ideal room temperature?
• 44:38
  Speaker 1: Fifty two degrees It can't be cold enough Lorena eighty three.
• 44:44
  Speaker 3: What oh, you're crazy cool like seventy three.
• 44:47
  Speaker 1: No, it should be at least in the mid sixties.
• 44:50
  Speaker 1: At least in the mid sixties. I like it hot,
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  Speaker 1: not