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  Speaker 1: with that. Who cares Lakers as as we thought frauds
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  Speaker 1: lost to Oklahoma City and free falling in the Western
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  Speaker 1: Conference standings and cannot wait. I've actually marked the date
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  Speaker 1: on my iPhone the day we will do the funeral
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  Speaker 1: for the Lakers. That'll be fun the downfall when they
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  Speaker 1: are eliminated, and all you losers will say, well, it's
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  Speaker 1: only year one. Everything's gonna be okay, Yeah, okay, text time,
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  Speaker 1: yeah okay. But our lead is from a team that
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  Speaker 1: did win a legitimate championship a couple of years ago
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  Speaker 1: in pro bouncy ball and have decided to clean house.
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  Speaker 1: See you later. Another one bites the dust, Another one
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  Speaker 1: bites the dust, and that would be a head coach
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  Speaker 1: and a general manager, a two for one special in
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  Speaker 1: the NBA. If you have not heard, I assume you've
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  Speaker 1: heard by now, but maybe not. We learned that the Nuggets,
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  Speaker 1: the Chicken Nuggets, have sacked head coach Michael Malone here
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  Speaker 1: going and I'll bet you a nine out of ten
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  Speaker 1: casual observers didn't even know the name of the general
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  Speaker 1: manager of the Denver basketball team, Calvin Booth. He was
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  Speaker 1: also poll axed from Denver just days before the regular
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  Speaker 1: season ends, like this weekend, it's over, and here we are. Here,
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  Speaker 1: we are the coaching change someone named David Adelman. I
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  Speaker 1: used to interview his old man, who never did much,
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  Speaker 1: coached a lot of teams, didn't really win anything, Rick Adelman.
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  Speaker 1: But that's the spawn of Rick Adelman. So another another
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  Speaker 1: coach who is a neo baby, another neo baby in sports.
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  Speaker 1: As David Adalman takes over, and so don't bury the
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  Speaker 1: lead mam man. Who cares about the GM, who cares
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  Speaker 1: about the interim coach? That's not the story. The story
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  Speaker 1: here is Michael Malone, who has been with the Denver
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  Speaker 1: basketball team for a decade and was there when they
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  Speaker 1: won the championship. He was on the sidelines calling up
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  Speaker 1: the plays and all that. And now he is persona
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  Speaker 1: non grata. He has been given the pink slip see
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  Speaker 1: you later. So let us discuss the question why why
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  Speaker 1: did the Nuggets make the decision to whack Michael Malone.
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  Speaker 1: Now the postseason is looming, Like this is even more
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  Speaker 1: bizarre than Memphis. Like Memphis is thought, well, they're not
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  Speaker 1: really going anywhere, and there's some issues with John Morant
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  Speaker 1: that was eleven days prior, and the Grizzlies they decided
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  Speaker 1: to maul their head coach. But this is supposedly a
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  Speaker 1: Denver team that, even though they were not playing great
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  Speaker 1: in the moment, was a contender because of the joker
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  Speaker 1: in the middle. So I've got disco paper plates and vultures,
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  Speaker 1: and we will combine all of these things together and
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  Speaker 1: we will provide a nice, sparkling new hat, which you know,
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  Speaker 1: Lorraina gets a lot of fo and stuff over there,
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  Speaker 1: she gets a lot of good See, this is a
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  Speaker 1: new hat. This is a Buffalo Bison hat. It's a
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  Speaker 1: solid looking hat. Right, It's a good hat fits could
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  Speaker 1: solid hat. So that's what we're gonna make that all right.
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  Speaker 1: So my first thought answering the question, why why did
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  Speaker 1: the Denver basketball team eliminate the coach and the GM
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  Speaker 1: with the postseason looming in the horizon. So this is
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  Speaker 1: a Red Bull special. This is a Red Bull special
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  Speaker 1: trying to give a little bit of a jolt to
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  Speaker 1: the roster and looking to wake up a team that
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  Speaker 1: has been napping since the All Star break. However, if
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  Speaker 1: you dig a little deeper, there's this weasel, your little weasel.
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  Speaker 1: As a certain MMA guy used to say, Josh Kronky,
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  Speaker 1: who you talk about winning the genetic lottery. Josh Kronkie
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  Speaker 1: is in the Kronky family, and they have all the
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  Speaker 1: money in the world. I mean, they are are just loaded.
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  Speaker 1: So Josh Croncky won the genetic lottery and so as
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  Speaker 1: a result he gets to run a sports team. And
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  Speaker 1: so Joshua Krocky, the son I believe of the owner,
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  Speaker 1: said in the future, the immediate expectations, immediate expectations for
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  Speaker 1: the Nuggets following the coaching change. He said all of
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  Speaker 1: five words. He said, play hard and have fun. Play
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  Speaker 1: hard and have fun. That's the money quote. You know
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  Speaker 1: what that also is? Say it with me now, dead
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  Speaker 1: give way? That is a dead giveaway. Yeah, captain obvious.
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  Speaker 1: What does that tell you? Okay, now you are the investigator,
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  Speaker 1: you are analyzing that quote. What does that quote tell
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  Speaker 1: you? You play talk radio host? What does that quote tell you?
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  Speaker 1: I know what to tell I know on this side,
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  Speaker 1: what about you? So to me, it don't change your
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  Speaker 1: answer to me. It tells you that the Denver Nuggets
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  Speaker 1: were A not playing hard and B we're not having fun.
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  Speaker 1: They were not having fun, Okay, So that's what that
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  Speaker 1: tells you. Otherwise you wouldn't need to encourage the team
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  Speaker 1: to play hard and try to have fun. If they're
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  Speaker 1: already having fun and playing hard. It doesn't matter. You
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  Speaker 1: don't need to say it. You're just it's obvious now
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  Speaker 1: after the fact. I love the after the fact breathless reporting. So,
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  Speaker 1: Michael Malone is a popular figure with the Denver basketball
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  Speaker 1: team and someone that is beloved by many in the
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  Speaker 1: basketball media. So when you get rid of someone who
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  Speaker 1: is deemed popular, you then need to turn to character assassination,
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  Speaker 1: which is what the Denver Nuggets are doing, trying to
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  Speaker 1: bury Michael Malone on his way out of Colorado. And
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  Speaker 1: it's exactly what's happening here, this breathless reporting that there
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  Speaker 1: was a civil war going on between Michael Malone and
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  Speaker 1: the GM Calvin Booth. They weren't even talking to each other.
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  Speaker 1: They hated each other's guts, and Malone was upset because
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  Speaker 1: he didn't like the way the roster was built. They
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  Speaker 1: got a bunch of suck bag young players on the bench.
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  Speaker 1: It's not a championship bench. And Malone was annoyed by that.
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  Speaker 1: And there was also some debates about certain guys were
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  Speaker 1: playing that the GM wanted other people to play, and
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  Speaker 1: so they paint the picture that Malone was just a
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  Speaker 1: king of all a holes and that's why he was like. Oh,
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  Speaker 1: and of course the Nuggets, the ownership group of the
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  Speaker 1: executives there, what happens is they leak stories. There's a
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  Speaker 1: story leak that Malone was giving preferential treatment and this
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  Speaker 1: is going to blow you. In the NBA. They never
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  Speaker 1: do this in the NBA, giving special star treatment to
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  Speaker 1: Nikola Jokic and Jamal Murray. O MG, can you imagine
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  Speaker 1: that star players in basketball would be treated special? That's ay,
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  Speaker 1: yet it's unbelievable. I mean, I know here that like
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  Speaker 1: myself and my colleague Colin Cowherd are treated exactly same,
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  Speaker 1: other than the extra zeros on his contract and the
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  Speaker 1: people that follow him around in case there's any crumbs
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  Speaker 1: that drop down from his mouth and they're there to
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  Speaker 1: clean it up. Other than that, very similar, very very similar,
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  Speaker 1: very similar lives. Mean, you know my teammate because there's
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  Speaker 1: no star system. We don't have a star Everyone has
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  Speaker 1: a star system. You maron what's wrong with you? It's
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  Speaker 1: a nice spin, But my breakdown on this is pretty simple.
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  Speaker 1: So night out on the town. It is a visit
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  Speaker 1: to the disco. It is panic at the disco is
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  Speaker 1: what it is. Now. This is turning into a total boondoggle,
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  Speaker 1: and I'm there for it. I'm there a big bucket
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  Speaker 1: up buttered popcorn. Denver is eleven and thirteen since the
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  Speaker 1: All Star break. It is a desperation play by the Nugget.
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  Speaker 1: It's a total desperation play. It's a little caffeine, little
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  Speaker 1: red bull. They're trying to jump start things and trying
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  Speaker 1: to squeeze one more, one more playoff run with some
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  Speaker 1: no name assistant coach and hoping beyond hope, which I
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  Speaker 1: don't think hope is a great strategy. I don't think
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  Speaker 1: that they tell you that that's the way to turn
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  Speaker 1: to hope doesn't usually go so well. Now page two here,
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  Speaker 1: So what does this particular move by the Nuggets say
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  Speaker 1: about Michael Malone's value, Because there's the public perception and
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  Speaker 1: then there's the private perception, right, So publicly, as we
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  Speaker 1: talked about here, Malone is considered one of the upper
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  Speaker 1: echelon head coaches in the NBA. This guy is prepared,
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  Speaker 1: He is methodical with his work. He is someone that
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  Speaker 1: lives breeze, eats, sleeps basketball and puts the work in
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  Speaker 1: and all that. But then you realize privately in the
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  Speaker 1: bowels of the facility there where the Nuggets hold down
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  Speaker 1: the fort, that they are really just whistling Dixie is
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  Speaker 1: what they're doing there. It's a reminder that Michael Malone
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  Speaker 1: and all NBA coaches are like those Dixie paper plates, disposable, right,
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  Speaker 1: Everyone's disposable. You know, the average tenure, the average tenure
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  Speaker 1: of an NBA coach is about two and a half seasons.
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  Speaker 1: That's it, two and a half seasons.
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  Speaker 3: It is a merry go round, round and round and
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  Speaker 3: round and round on the merry go round, and it
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  Speaker 3: spins fast and you better be careful and you're be
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  Speaker 3: thrown off it.
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  Speaker 1: It's a whirlwind situation. So the Nuggets ownership, though, I
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  Speaker 1: will point out years ago when I used to go
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  Speaker 1: to those NBA games and then back in the good
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  Speaker 1: old days, and I believe it. I even went to
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  Speaker 1: like Laker games and Phil Jackson was the coach of
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  Speaker 1: the Lakers and he ranted, which was amusing because Phil
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  Speaker 1: lasted in Chicago in LA for a long time. But
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  Speaker 1: Phil used to preach the and I guess the Nuggets
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  Speaker 1: are really following the Zen philosophy. But Phil Jackson preached
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  Speaker 1: that a coach's message grows stale the longer they stay
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  Speaker 1: in one outpost. And he was an advocate that you
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  Speaker 1: had to change and go to different locations because the
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  Speaker 1: players tune out that the more the team becomes a customed.
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  Speaker 1: And he also said you had to change the roster
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  Speaker 1: a lot because guys do get comfortable and once they
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  Speaker 1: get comfortable, they put on the earmuffs and they're like, hey,
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  Speaker 1: we're good. We're out on that. And so Malone was
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  Speaker 1: there ten years and he ends up getting decommissioned. Our
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  Speaker 1: last word here, Now we go to the Komodo Dragon
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  Speaker 1: in the room. Now what is the Komodo Dragon room?
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  Speaker 1: With Michael Malone dispatched from Denver? How does this impact
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  Speaker 1: Nikola Jokic and his law long term future with the Nuggets.
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  Speaker 1: So Jogic, by all accounts, is a top twenty all
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  Speaker 1: time NBA player already, even if he retired today, be
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  Speaker 1: a top twenty all time NBA player, probably top ten
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  Speaker 1: based on his accomplishments. He doesn't get the credit because
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  Speaker 1: he isn't playing a big market and so people dismiss him.
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  Speaker 1: But he's been amazing. He's been absolutely amazing for the
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  Speaker 1: Nuggets and all that stuff. However, my default position is
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  Speaker 1: no different on this than it was on John Morant
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  Speaker 1: in Memphis. My position is that NIKOLEA. Jokicch was fully
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  Speaker 1: aware that this was an option, and he did not
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  Speaker 1: put his foot down and use his star influence to
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  Speaker 1: keep Michael Malone as coach of the Nuggets. If Nikola
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  Speaker 1: Jokicch truly had an issue that he I'm sure he
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  Speaker 1: likes Michael Malone personally, but if he wanted him professionally
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  Speaker 1: to be the coach of the Nuggets, still Malone would
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  Speaker 1: still be the coach of the Nuggets. They would have
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  Speaker 1: gotten rid of the GM, they would have kept Michael Malone.
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  Speaker 1: You in that business, It has been this way as
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  Speaker 1: my entire life in the NBA. Right, I find it
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  Speaker 1: impossibly that this was not greenlit by by Nicola Jokic
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  Speaker 1: that you know, chatter was now there's stories being thrown
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  Speaker 1: out that he was frustrated with the Nuggets defense, And
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  Speaker 1: of course I'm sure a lot of people were frustrated.
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  Speaker 1: The team blows right now, they're not playing very well.
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  Speaker 1: And so you also have the the vultures now who
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  Speaker 1: are circling overhead and in you got that ominous music playing,
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  Speaker 1: and so trying to poach talent, trying to get some
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  Speaker 1: some talent. And I said, well, there's no way the
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  Speaker 1: Nuggets would ever trade NICOLEA. J Okic. This guy's a
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  Speaker 1: nugget for life. Well he said the same thing about
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  Speaker 1: Luca and and how that workout. So if you follow
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  Speaker 1: the gambling market, I don't think I need to tell
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  Speaker 1: you who the favorite is to acquire to acquire these
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  Speaker 1: services of the Joker. Yeah, that's a team that the
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  Speaker 1: NBA rigs for everyone to go to over the course
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  Speaker 1: of their care if they're halfway decent. That ugly purple
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  Speaker 1: and Gold team now followed by jokis. The other option
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  Speaker 1: would be Jokic leaving the NBA altogether, leaving not just
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  Speaker 1: the Nuggets but the NBA and going and playing for
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  Speaker 1: one of the teams in his homeland there in Serbia
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  Speaker 1: and just saying I'm out. That's it, see you later.
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  Speaker 1: I'm done. I'm gonna get out of here and I
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  Speaker 1: go back to my old life. I'm gonna drink three
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  Speaker 1: leaders of Coca Cola every day and I'll live my
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  Speaker 1: greatest life. Some of the other teams mentioned, you've got
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  Speaker 1: the usual suspects, the Warriors, the Clippers, and the wild card,
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  Speaker 1: the Toronto Raptors. They were tossed out there as well.
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  Speaker 1: And for the Lakers here, they got to hope that
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  Speaker 1: Nico Harrison gets fired and then he gets hired by Denver,
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  Speaker 1: and then his first move would be like you know,
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  Speaker 1: I remember Jokic was a fattie coming into the NBA,
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  Speaker 1: so I'm worried he might become a fatty against So
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  Speaker 1: we'll give him to the Lakers. And we need like
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  Speaker 1: a like ax of sand, and that's I think we
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  Speaker 1: need one other little shar of glass and we're good,
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  Speaker 1: and that would be an even trade.
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  Speaker 1: So our lead This hour's from Baseball'll get back to
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  Speaker 1: the hot, spicy basketball talk later on, but this hour
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  Speaker 1: we're gonna focus in on a little baseball. There's a
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  Speaker 1: developing story that continues to have legs. I didn't think
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  Speaker 1: it was gonna have legs, but it's got legs. And
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  Speaker 1: we're talking about the wretched start of the Atlanta Beroaves. Now,
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  Speaker 1: the Braves did win, so they're two and eight, now
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  Speaker 1: two and eight. They won a game over the weekend
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  Speaker 1: one here, so they're two and eight on the season,
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  Speaker 1: and a lot of noise, a lot of noise on
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  Speaker 1: the one that they got that they wished they hadn't gotten.
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  Speaker 1: So a mallor show, mallor show follow up, follow up,
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  Speaker 1: if you have not been paying attention, the Atlanta Braves
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  Speaker 1: are without their left field and they went out and
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  Speaker 1: spent some money. They signed Jerkson Profar. You might remember
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  Speaker 1: we talked about this in a previous episode of the show.
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  Speaker 1: He had been whacked eighty game suspension for putting his
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  Speaker 1: hand in the ped cookie jar and he got caught.
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  Speaker 1: He got caught. Well, now, a couple of new developments now,
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  Speaker 1: one of them a longtime baseball scrub. And you understand
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  Speaker 1: these baseball writers. It's the fraternal order of baseball. They're
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  Speaker 1: in the inner circle. They almost never crossed the line
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  Speaker 1: to criticizing players because they need to have access to
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  Speaker 1: the players. And you start criticizing players, it becomes a problem,
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  Speaker 1: so it affects your career. So they're normally wearing knee
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  Speaker 1: pads for the players. So when someone crosses the rubicon,
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  Speaker 1: I feel like that's interesting. I feel like there's something there.
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  Speaker 1: So we have that longtime baseball scribe, Bob Nightingale, who
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  Speaker 1: I knew him back when he was a Dodger beat
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  Speaker 1: writer a million years ago. But Bob Nightingale went on
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  Speaker 1: the record on the record writing that the Atlanta Braves
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  Speaker 1: were essentially scammed by Jerks and Profar. Now he's not alone.
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  Speaker 1: There have been some former players that have said this.
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  Speaker 1: Have been a number of big shots, if you will,
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  Speaker 1: in the baseball world that have come out and said, listen,
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  Speaker 1: this is dirty. What happened here is dirty. So let
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  Speaker 1: us discuss the question at this point, based on all
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  Speaker 1: these circumstantial evidence, is there even a question? Is there
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  Speaker 1: even a question if the Braves were ripped off by
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  Speaker 1: Jerkson Profar in the offseason. So I've got ozone, layer,
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  Speaker 1: Farmers Almanac, and chainsaw, and we will combine all of
• 19:02
  Speaker 1: these things together and we are going to make gringo tacos,
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  Speaker 1: the crunchy taco, my favorite kind of taco. They the
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  Speaker 1: crunchy taco the way to go there. All right, So,
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  Speaker 1: first of all, the answer the question, is there any
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  Speaker 1: kind of question whether or not the braves were ripped off?
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  Speaker 1: So on this side of the microphone, it says clear
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  Speaker 1: as vodka. Okay, it says clear as vodka. Yeah, there's
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  Speaker 1: no debate on this side. Now, you gotta understand what
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  Speaker 1: this guy pulled off. Jerkson Profar is a modern day
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  Speaker 1: lufs Tanza heist. You know that they made multiple movies
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  Speaker 1: about that heist of the cargo at the airport in
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  Speaker 1: New York. And I looked it up because I've seen
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  Speaker 1: a number of those movies. So the Luftanza heist was
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  Speaker 1: five point eight million in nineteen seventy eight. Now I
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  Speaker 1: pulled out my friend, the the inflation calculator. So I
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  Speaker 1: went to the inflation calculator and I did the map.
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  Speaker 1: So five point eight million in nineteen seventy eight in
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  Speaker 1: today's money is twenty eight point three million. So if
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  Speaker 1: you say that famous heist at the airport in New
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  Speaker 1: York was twenty eight million dollars. You say, oh my god,
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  Speaker 1: makes sense why they've made movies. Well, Jerkson profar who
• 20:18
  Speaker 1: appears to be a total fraud. His contract is forty
• 20:21
  Speaker 1: two million. So this is a bigger heist than the
• 20:27
  Speaker 1: Luftanza heist of years gone by forty two million, forty
• 20:31
  Speaker 1: two million dollars. And how did he get away with it? Now,
• 20:34
  Speaker 1: that's the other wrinkle which is fascinating. And the way
• 20:39
  Speaker 1: that he was able to get around the mistake, I
• 20:43
  Speaker 1: think you'll agree, is rather interesting. So if you haven't
• 20:46
  Speaker 1: heard about this, maybe maybe not. From what we understand,
• 20:50
  Speaker 1: there is a hole in the ozone layer. Whoa what who? Yeah,
• 20:56
  Speaker 1: the chain of command. So, as we understand it, player
• 21:01
  Speaker 1: gets tested, all right, player submits the test, the the
• 21:05
  Speaker 1: PP test there to figure out whether you got the
• 21:08
  Speaker 1: bad stuff in your body. And then there's radio silence.
• 21:12
  Speaker 1: So you've submitted the sample. It's gone to the lab
• 21:16
  Speaker 1: and the late night drug testers examining things. The league
• 21:20
  Speaker 1: and the players Association. They then get word, hey, here's
• 21:25
  Speaker 1: what's going on that player X, who's a free agent,
• 21:28
  Speaker 1: has tested positive for the magic beans. So player EX
• 21:32
  Speaker 1: is tested positive, Player X is dirty, dirty, dirty dirty.
• 21:38
  Speaker 1: The team does not know. So that is what's known
• 21:40
  Speaker 1: as a blind spot. So you got a hole in
• 21:42
  Speaker 1: the o's on the lad there's a blind spot. So
• 21:44
  Speaker 1: now that being said, I do not want to totally
• 21:48
  Speaker 1: absolve the Atlanta Braves from their level of incompetence, Like
• 21:53
  Speaker 1: what kind of Dodo birds do they have in the
• 21:56
  Speaker 1: front office. I know they're all nerds and all that stuff.
• 21:58
  Speaker 1: But Jerkson Profar was a mediocre major league baseball player.
• 22:03
  Speaker 1: Everyone can agree on that. He then has this late
• 22:07
  Speaker 1: in his prime career renaissance with the Padres. Oh and
• 22:14
  Speaker 1: by the way, his workout buddies, one of his workout
• 22:17
  Speaker 1: buddies is that dirty dog, another dirty dog by the
• 22:23
  Speaker 1: name of Fernando Tatist Junior and his famous ringworm medication.
• 22:29
  Speaker 1: So it's killed by association. The math ain't mathing on that,
• 22:34
  Speaker 1: And so now most assumed the team from Atlanta will
• 22:38
  Speaker 1: be left with a mediocre, fringe utility type baseball player
• 22:42
  Speaker 1: that they'll be paying forty two million dollars to and
• 22:45
  Speaker 1: he got away with it all right now. Secondly, so
• 22:48
  Speaker 1: the baseball season still we're still in early kind of
• 22:54
  Speaker 1: getting too mid April, so it's still early in the
• 22:56
  Speaker 1: game in baseball and watching these games. Bit of the
• 23:00
  Speaker 1: Red Sox Blue Jays game last night slipping around. I
• 23:02
  Speaker 1: had the Mets game on a bit, had the Dodgers
• 23:06
  Speaker 1: and the Nationals. That one much of a game. Dodgers,
• 23:09
  Speaker 1: I guess they hung over from visiting the White House.
• 23:12
  Speaker 1: So I've watched a few of the games and the
• 23:15
  Speaker 1: one constant was it's a winter wonderland. It's a winter wonderland,
• 23:21
  Speaker 1: and it's all over. It's just the time of the year.
• 23:23
  Speaker 1: In fact, the game time temperature for the Cleveland team
• 23:26
  Speaker 1: formerly known as the Indians for their home opener the
• 23:29
  Speaker 1: Guardian's home opener was thirty two degrees right. I ran
• 23:33
  Speaker 1: up thirty two degrees for the beginning of that game.
• 23:37
  Speaker 1: So we have seen frigid conditions all over baseball. Anyone
• 23:42
  Speaker 1: that plays east of the Mississippi or right at that
• 23:46
  Speaker 1: point has had very cold weather. And this has led
• 23:49
  Speaker 1: to a number of people complaining. This has led to
• 23:52
  Speaker 1: people saying it's unbelievable that baseball plays in these games.
• 23:54
  Speaker 1: They've got to do something about this. I've heard every
• 23:57
  Speaker 1: kind of theory from hey, they've got to play only
• 23:59
  Speaker 1: in West Coast teams early in the year, or domes
• 24:03
  Speaker 1: to they should just not start the season until sometime
• 24:06
  Speaker 1: in May, and all kinds of fugazy ideas. So let's
• 24:11
  Speaker 1: activate the Malard think tank question. What is the solution
• 24:17
  Speaker 1: to Major League Baseball's cold weather dilemma? Which has popped
• 24:21
  Speaker 1: up here yet again. But there was a scene in
• 24:24
  Speaker 1: the Blue Jays Red Sox game where it looked like
• 24:28
  Speaker 1: we were back in COVID times. Everyone had like the
• 24:31
  Speaker 1: ski mask on. It was either COVID or they were
• 24:33
  Speaker 1: getting ready to rob some banks, one of those two things.
• 24:35
  Speaker 1: All right, So my answer is no answer. There's no
• 24:41
  Speaker 1: need to fix this. They have been playing baseball in
• 24:45
  Speaker 1: April since what the eighteen hundreds. It's just part of
• 24:50
  Speaker 1: the delio. It's part of the delio. And the great
• 24:53
  Speaker 1: thing is that, well, baseball is considered America's pastime, at
• 24:57
  Speaker 1: least it was back in the day. I would argue
• 24:59
  Speaker 1: that the NF America's pastime. But the second pastime behind
• 25:03
  Speaker 1: sports is complaining. There is nothing that the human being
• 25:08
  Speaker 1: loves more than then complain your job's not good enough,
• 25:12
  Speaker 1: you don't make enough money. The food you eat sucks,
• 25:14
  Speaker 1: your house blows, your car is terrible. We love to complain,
• 25:20
  Speaker 1: and so it's good that baseball plays cold weather games.
• 25:23
  Speaker 1: It gives you something to complain about, something to bach
• 25:27
  Speaker 1: about and say, oh, it's not right. Boo hoo hoo.
• 25:29
  Speaker 1: Now spoiler alert. I have a small addendum to add
• 25:33
  Speaker 1: to this. Baseball players we know they play in all weather.
• 25:37
  Speaker 1: That that's just the way it is. Mother Nature is
• 25:40
  Speaker 1: not on the payroll, not available. So you've got that
• 25:45
  Speaker 1: going on. And I would advise you to suck it up, Buttercup,
• 25:48
  Speaker 1: that would be my advice, professional advice. Here's what you
• 25:51
  Speaker 1: need to do. You take out and dust off the
• 25:54
  Speaker 1: Farmer's Almanac. You study the Farmer's Almanac and plan according
• 26:00
  Speaker 1: You know that in these early season games most of
• 26:04
  Speaker 1: the stamps were empty. Anyway, I don't blame people for
• 26:07
  Speaker 1: not going. But if you do go, get out the
• 26:09
  Speaker 1: wool socks, get out the fleece jacket, get out the turtleneck,
• 26:14
  Speaker 1: and you have layers of close and you gotta prepare yourself.
• 26:17
  Speaker 1: And before long, your outfit's gonna change. If you go
• 26:20
  Speaker 1: to baseball games, you're gonna be wearing tank tops and
• 26:23
  Speaker 1: sandals and will be one hundred and forty degrees hotter
• 26:26
  Speaker 1: than the surface of the sun. That's right around the corner.
• 26:30
  Speaker 1: So be prepared, all right. Now, final thought to a
• 26:34
  Speaker 1: developing story here involving memorabilia. Say what now the memorabilia.
• 26:42
  Speaker 1: There's some dude, his name's not important, don't know who
• 26:44
  Speaker 1: his anyway, So this guy in southern California built a
• 26:49
  Speaker 1: very profitable business hawking memorabilia, celebrity memorabilia, sports memorabilia. They said, oh, okay,
• 26:58
  Speaker 1: that's fine. I'm sure a lot of people do that. Well,
• 27:00
  Speaker 1: now the guy's admitted the jig is up. He's admitted
• 27:03
  Speaker 1: the entire operation was phony, maloney. It was all deception.
• 27:09
  Speaker 1: It was all deception. In fact, the guy pled guilty
• 27:12
  Speaker 1: this week in court, one count of mail fraud. They
• 27:16
  Speaker 1: always get you on the mail fraud. A authorities uncovered
• 27:20
  Speaker 1: a almost decade long scam. This guy was forging autographs,
• 27:27
  Speaker 1: a lot of them, and some of the biggest names
• 27:30
  Speaker 1: in entertainment, in sports, including Kobe Bryant not available to
• 27:35
  Speaker 1: sun his autograph anymore, and the Kardashian family, among others.
• 27:40
  Speaker 1: And it's actually the Kardashian family, one of the fake
• 27:44
  Speaker 1: autographs there that got him in trouble with that, But
• 27:46
  Speaker 1: according to the Feds, he falsely claimed the items were
• 27:50
  Speaker 1: authentic and sometimes even would fabricate the certificate of authenticity,
• 27:56
  Speaker 1: which I know, if you're in that racket, that's a
• 27:58
  Speaker 1: big deal. You gott have that. That's a hustle too. Man.
• 28:01
  Speaker 1: There's a place in southern California they charge a fortune,
• 28:05
  Speaker 1: arm and a leg as the line goes, to get
• 28:07
  Speaker 1: that stuff authenticated, and it's really you have to do it.
• 28:11
  Speaker 1: But even then you're like, is it really? Is it
• 28:13
  Speaker 1: really legit? And so this cat of course left Southern
• 28:17
  Speaker 1: California and fleed to Mexico. But he has confessed to
• 28:20
  Speaker 1: defrauding collection. How much do you think those autographs were worth?
• 28:23
  Speaker 1: How about between two hundred fifty thousand and five hundred
• 28:26
  Speaker 1: and fifty thousand. That's a lot of money. That's a
• 28:30
  Speaker 1: fair amount of money in forged memorabilia. Man, he now
• 28:35
  Speaker 1: faces up to twenty years up to his weasel turm,
• 28:40
  Speaker 1: he's not getting twenty years, but he's gonna go to
• 28:42
  Speaker 1: jail for a little bit. Sensing hearing's gonna be scheduled
• 28:45
  Speaker 1: for August. So has got a few more months to
• 28:47
  Speaker 1: go with the sports memorabilia market booming right boom boom
• 28:53
  Speaker 1: boom boom boom boom boom boom boom boom boom boom
• 28:55
  Speaker 1: boom boom boom boom boom boom boom, yes boom. So
• 28:58
  Speaker 1: what is the takeaway from this latest scan at? These
• 29:02
  Speaker 1: things pop up every every other month. It's a it's
• 29:06
  Speaker 1: a regular current. So my latest advice I advice. I
• 29:12
  Speaker 1: think you should know this by now if you're in
• 29:14
  Speaker 1: that world. And I know, it's really cool to have
• 29:16
  Speaker 1: sports memorabilia. And I when I was in high school,
• 29:19
  Speaker 1: I fetched around and was in that racket to make
• 29:24
  Speaker 1: extra bucks. I would go around as an autograph hound
• 29:29
  Speaker 1: to get autographs and then I sold them for straight
• 29:32
  Speaker 1: cash homie, and so I know, I mean back in
• 29:35
  Speaker 1: those days, I'd sit outside Nolan Ryan would sign autographs
• 29:40
  Speaker 1: the last day. Everyone knew the hotels the team stayed at,
• 29:45
  Speaker 1: and he'd sign autographs at the hotel the last day.
• 29:49
  Speaker 1: Sometimes you do it in the stadium, and so you'd
• 29:51
  Speaker 1: go there and get the audiothing to sell it for
• 29:53
  Speaker 1: a few bucks, and then the person that you sold
• 29:54
  Speaker 1: it to would sell it for more money. And all
• 29:56
  Speaker 1: that stuff but this is just the tip of the iceberg. Okay,
• 29:59
  Speaker 1: it just Fortunately, unless you physically are in the room
• 30:05
  Speaker 1: and you hand the item to the person or you
• 30:07
  Speaker 1: see it being handed over and they sign it, you
• 30:12
  Speaker 1: don't really know. You don't know what, you don't know. Right,
• 30:15
  Speaker 1: you're in the danger zone. It's kind of like juggling
• 30:19
  Speaker 1: chainsaws in the air. Everywhere you're juggling chainsaws and then
• 30:23
  Speaker 1: you mix a machete in there. You're juggling macheti and chainsaws,
• 30:26
  Speaker 1: and then you add on, just for kicks, a live
• 30:28
  Speaker 1: hand grenade and you do that all at the same time.
• 30:32
  Speaker 1: And that's that's it. It's risky. It's risky business is
• 30:35
  Speaker 1: what it is. And the sports memorabilia business is over
• 30:40
  Speaker 1: sixteen billion in the United States. That's not a mom
• 30:44
  Speaker 1: and pop operation. And we know, and I know firsthand.
• 30:47
  Speaker 1: I mean, people are willing to pay big bucks to
• 30:49
  Speaker 1: get a little slice of something that is historic. And
• 30:53
  Speaker 1: these charlatans men, they'll take advantage of you. They will
• 30:56
  Speaker 1: stick it to you. So word to the wise.
• 31:00
  Speaker 2: Sure to catch live editions of The Ben Meller Show
• 31:02
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• 31:06
  Speaker 4: The third.
• 31:08
  Speaker 1: This is one thing that gets great.
• 31:12
  Speaker 5: Well, apparently there's still a debate going on about whether
• 31:15
  Speaker 5: or not to allow NFL players to play in the
• 31:18
  Speaker 5: Olympics the flag football. Now, apparently the league office they
• 31:23
  Speaker 5: really wanted to happen. Owners of teams that are not
• 31:26
  Speaker 5: so sure they are worried about their you know, players
• 31:29
  Speaker 5: getting hurt. Now, one suggestion has been made that letting
• 31:34
  Speaker 5: a crop of freshly retired NFL players do the flag football.
• 31:38
  Speaker 1: Ben, how do you feel about this retired guys doing it? No,
• 31:41
  Speaker 1: it's dumb. You know, you got the act and then
• 31:44
  Speaker 1: there's no real pushback. Jerry Jones is all for it.
• 31:46
  Speaker 1: Put the players out there. The players want to do it.
• 31:49
  Speaker 1: It's flag football. It's for uses. Put them out there,
• 31:53
  Speaker 1: put them out there. It's so stupid, bunch of belod
• 31:57
  Speaker 1: you put the active players out there. And the whole
• 31:59
  Speaker 1: point is try to get young people to play flag football.
• 32:02
  Speaker 1: So why are you gonna put a bunch of fifty
• 32:03
  Speaker 1: year olds out there playing flag football? Makes no sense.
• 32:05
  Speaker 5: Next, Buccaneers head coach Todd Bowles was asked about his
• 32:09
  Speaker 5: preferred strategy for the draft later this month, and Todd Bowles,
• 32:13
  Speaker 5: who was a defensive coordinator, surprisingly said, I never want
• 32:16
  Speaker 5: to buy pass a good offensive player to satisfy defensive needs.
• 32:19
  Speaker 1: Ben, do you agree with him on that? First of all,
• 32:21
  Speaker 1: I like Todd Bowles. Todd Bowles does not play all
• 32:25
  Speaker 1: the media games and all that stuff. He doesn't put
• 32:28
  Speaker 1: forward the narratives, he doesn't say what he's supposed to
• 32:31
  Speaker 1: say and all that stuff. I like it. No, there's
• 32:34
  Speaker 1: a great offensive player and you're a defensive coach, you
• 32:37
  Speaker 1: take the great offensive player. This is not that difficult.
• 32:40
  Speaker 1: This is not brain surgery. Most of these guys are
• 32:43
  Speaker 1: going to stink anyway, right. I mean, I've spent hours
• 32:48
  Speaker 1: of my life I'll never get back reading these fugazy
• 32:51
  Speaker 1: draft guys, and most of them are just complete fiction. Okay,
• 32:55
  Speaker 1: it's just been making crap up. It's a fairy tale.
• 32:57
  Speaker 1: So you take the player you think is gonna be great,
• 32:59
  Speaker 1: whether it's you know, the offense are not next.
• 33:01
  Speaker 5: For all intents and purposes, we know who's going to
• 33:03
  Speaker 5: be in the playoffs in the Western Conference.
• 33:05
  Speaker 1: We just don't know which order.
• 33:07
  Speaker 2: Now.
• 33:07
  Speaker 5: When it comes to the play in, everybody says it
• 33:09
  Speaker 5: doesn't really matter that it's gonna be the Memphis Grizzlies
• 33:11
  Speaker 5: and the Minnesota Timberwolves that advance.
• 33:13
  Speaker 1: The Kings and the Mavericks have no chance. Are you
• 33:15
  Speaker 1: agreeing with that? No, because you are a well placed
• 33:20
  Speaker 1: knee injury or a twisted ankle away from the lesser
• 33:24
  Speaker 1: team winning. That's why you play the games. Cool and
• 33:28
  Speaker 1: there it is malt of the thirtyree? How did we
• 33:30
  Speaker 1: do you pass on the bar? I won the light up?
• 33:35
  Speaker 1: You're impressed?
• 33:36
  Speaker 4: Right?
• 33:37
  Speaker 1: I can't hear you. I cannot very impressed. Thank you.
• 33:40
  Speaker 1: That sounded very masculine.
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• 34:17
  Speaker 6: You heard the man. It's time for love here on
• 34:20
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• 34:26
  Speaker 1: Not as me, It's I'm Ben, this is Ben, is
• 34:30
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• 34:31
  Speaker 6: Your Showrena show, Lorena show.
• 34:34
  Speaker 1: I'm gonna go out and have a smoke and you
• 34:36
  Speaker 1: take care of it.
• 34:37
  Speaker 6: Just make sure you wash your hands before you come in.
• 34:39
  Speaker 1: I hate that smile. Yeah, all right, so we have questions, Yeah,
• 34:43
  Speaker 1: they do. Late night drug tester writes in y'all need help, bro,
• 34:48
  Speaker 1: He says, when going in for an STD test, what
• 34:51
  Speaker 1: is a good fake name to use?
• 34:54
  Speaker 6: Oh goodness, I would use your brother's name. Always start
• 34:57
  Speaker 6: with your closest relatives. I for your best friend that
• 35:00
  Speaker 6: you don't like anymore.
• 35:01
  Speaker 1: I like the name Ron Mexico. That was what Michael vigers,
• 35:04
  Speaker 1: Ron Mexico. That's a good name. Yeah, solid, let's see.
• 35:10
  Speaker 1: Ferkdock says, is it wrong to only date women based
• 35:13
  Speaker 1: on cup size? Which coup are we talking about?
• 35:17
  Speaker 5: Oh?
• 35:17
  Speaker 1: Wow, unbelievable. Wow.
• 35:21
  Speaker 6: No, But if you have specific preferences that you like,
• 35:24
  Speaker 6: if you like someone who's more well endowed, goes for
• 35:27
  Speaker 6: women as well, you are allowed to be picky and
• 35:29
  Speaker 6: what you want.
• 35:31
  Speaker 1: You need to be happy. And if you're not happy,
• 35:32
  Speaker 1: what does that lead to? Ben problem? Fidelity problem? Yes,
• 35:36
  Speaker 1: all right, very nice and basketball Jerry writes, and he says,
• 35:42
  Speaker 1: what is the nicest way to break up with your
• 35:44
  Speaker 1: girlfriend because she doesn't know what position players are?
• 35:50
  Speaker 4: Oh?
• 35:51
  Speaker 6: Well, have you told her that that is a a
• 35:54
  Speaker 6: make or break thing for you? Because you've got to
• 35:56
  Speaker 6: make sure you communicate that. Other than that, throw it
• 35:58
  Speaker 6: to the curb, throw the side.
• 36:02
  Speaker 1: Wow. Alright, well here's one from Bobby and Florida. You
• 36:10
  Speaker 1: try to clean it up for the radio, he says, Lorena,
• 36:13
  Speaker 1: how do you ask a woman, uh not to take
• 36:17
  Speaker 1: the kiddy to the groomer? He says apparently he oh, okay,
• 36:23
  Speaker 1: you like more natural women? Oh? Natural? Yeah, you call
• 36:28
  Speaker 1: that seventies style. I think back, and then so Coop
• 36:30
  Speaker 1: told me, I don't know.
• 36:31
  Speaker 6: Once again, communication is key here.
• 36:34
  Speaker 1: Women want to please you.
• 36:35
  Speaker 6: So at the end of the day, if you communicate hey,
• 36:38
  Speaker 6: you don't have to shave as much as you are,
• 36:40
  Speaker 6: they might actually be thankful. Razor burn those bumps and
• 36:44
  Speaker 6: grown hairs, they're just the worst thing ever.
• 36:46
  Speaker 1: So if you tell the girl to go all natural.
• 36:49
  Speaker 6: I don't know if she's going to necessarily fight it.
• 36:50
  Speaker 6: She'll probably still keep it up up like clean and everything,
• 36:53
  Speaker 6: you know, updated.
• 36:54
  Speaker 1: But you can have preferences, you know what.
• 36:58
  Speaker 6: Moved to Europe and go get some Actually, Harry went.
• 37:00
  Speaker 1: There, you go. They don't even have razors in Europe.
• 37:03
  Speaker 1: Let's say hello to keg drinking Steve. What's up, Steve?
• 37:14
  Speaker 4: I was. I was reading in the news that remember
• 37:18
  Speaker 4: friend Dresser for the nanny.
• 37:20
  Speaker 1: Yes, I love her.
• 37:22
  Speaker 4: Oh man, this is she great? She was she had
• 37:27
  Speaker 4: like she has a man for every day of the
• 37:30
  Speaker 4: week that she goes and gets gets pleasure from How old?
• 37:36
  Speaker 4: How old is too old to be hooking up with
• 37:40
  Speaker 4: with random with random guys? That voice that that voice
• 37:44
  Speaker 4: has got gotta be gotta be a deal breaker.
• 37:48
  Speaker 6: Well, you know what's funny is I doubt they're random guys.
• 37:50
  Speaker 6: I bet these are people that she's had long term
• 37:52
  Speaker 6: relationships with. Also, Friend Dresher is fine. She is a
• 37:57
  Speaker 6: fine fox, even at her ripe age. I'm not sure
• 38:00
  Speaker 6: how old she is, early sixties, probably coople.
• 38:03
  Speaker 2: You google that for me.
• 38:05
  Speaker 1: She is fine.
• 38:05
  Speaker 6: And you know what if she if she has not
• 38:08
  Speaker 6: decided to settle down with someone and she wants to
• 38:10
  Speaker 6: live her best life, then she's.
• 38:12
  Speaker 1: Got to do what she's got to do. Isn't there
• 38:16
  Speaker 1: a point that I've heard stories like the older you
• 38:20
  Speaker 1: get like, so if you're if you're a guy, most
• 38:22
  Speaker 1: guys died before women. But if you're an old guy
• 38:24
  Speaker 1: and you make it to like the retirement home, like
• 38:27
  Speaker 1: you're the king of the castle, right, you're getting you know,
• 38:29
  Speaker 1: if you're into that, there's a lot. There's a lot
• 38:32
  Speaker 1: going on. Yes, all right, anything any other relevant questions
• 38:35
  Speaker 1: other than fran Dresser. Thank you.
• 38:37
  Speaker 4: I'm just saying, you know, fran Dresser is great, but
• 38:43
  Speaker 4: come on, I mean's she's got a had a certain
• 38:47
  Speaker 4: we don't care.
• 38:48
  Speaker 1: I think he's jealous. I think he's jealous. He would
• 38:50
  Speaker 1: love to have multiple partners. Great. JT the Wingman, We've
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  Speaker 1: met him at a Mallard meet and greed. He says,
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  Speaker 1: is it okay to ride a tandem bicycle for a
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  Speaker 1: first date so I can just see her backside in spandex?
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  Speaker 1: There's some JT. Well, GT, you have to you have
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  Speaker 1: to lead the bike.
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  Speaker 6: I think if you start out in the back of
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  Speaker 6: the bike, that's gonna give a very bad impression.
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  Speaker 1: No, you don't want to you take the d how
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  Speaker 1: to take the lead? Okay? Okay? Shane and the Moine writes,
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  Speaker 1: since says, if Manuel and Guardina beast her fiance twice
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  Speaker 1: at Mallards amount of money, do you still have to
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  Speaker 1: respect your sports knowledge that that's a hard one. That's
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  Speaker 1: a hard one.
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  Speaker 6: And don't forget she's got your baby so you got
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  Speaker 6: to make sure the baby knows sports.
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  Speaker 1: Okay, you guys can do like whatever kind of trigger.
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  Speaker 1: All right, what else do we have? Let's see page
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  Speaker 1: Uh ferk Dog says, do women enjoy Ben's nickname rundown?
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  Speaker 1: I know that men do. Oh yeah, we love it.
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  Speaker 1: Let's walk in our contentents. We have the Roadrunner from Davenport. Hello,
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  Speaker 1: hello Roadrunner, Oh man, look at you? Who do you
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  Speaker 1: want to partner up with?
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  Speaker 2: You?
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  Speaker 1: Got me?
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  Speaker 4: Ben?
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  Speaker 1: You got Lorena or Kooper loop? Oh boy, Roadrunner, Well
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  Speaker 1: I can sense a win coming. Uh and we have
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  Speaker 1: Mark on the north. Then Mark, you're on. Who do
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  Speaker 1: you want to partner up with on pass word? The
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  Speaker 1: word Game of the Stars.
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  Speaker 4: Well, but I'll go with Coop. I want to mission
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  Speaker 4: nominated for penning a worker.
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  Speaker 1: I look at this guy's got He's got his eye
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  Speaker 1: on the prize. He wants that nomination. Hardy. Let's go
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  Speaker 1: all right, we'll play the game. All right, let me
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  Speaker 1: get this guy, road Runner. We have a list of
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  Speaker 1: words one to ten. Please pick a number. We need
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  Speaker 1: a what do you say? Three? Number? Three? All right,
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  Speaker 1: let's go with let's see here. I don't want to
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  Speaker 1: be careful. How I uh think this word? Yeah? Who
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  Speaker 1: put that on there? Coop? You're getting get us in trouble.
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  Speaker 1: How about migrant migrant m I G R A N
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  Speaker 1: T migrant work? What do you say? He's a worker?
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  Speaker 1: A worker? Okay, No, all right, I was gonna let you,
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  Speaker 1: but no, go ahead, cool. Uh let's go with alien?
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  Speaker 2: Uh visitor?
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  Speaker 1: No, No, how about newcomer?
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  Speaker 5: Oh my god, it stop it, Mark traveler, traveler. Yeah,
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  Speaker 5: it's all goes together.
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  Speaker 1: Oh my god, Oh my god, we're not gonna get
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  Speaker 1: one grade.
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  Speaker 2: What are we doing?
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  Speaker 1: The work was immigrant Max. Oh my god, is that
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  Speaker 1: on a game show by The road Runner. Congratulations road Runner.