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  Speaker 2: This is the best of the Ben Maler Show on
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  Speaker 1: Our lead this hour is from the negotiating table. I
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  Speaker 1: thought this was interesting. You know that's my I've editorial control.
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  Speaker 1: I can decide what I want to talk about. So
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  Speaker 1: I don't know if you heard this or not.
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  Speaker 3: Maybe not.
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  Speaker 1: We've learned the NFL is laying the groundwork for replacement officials.
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  Speaker 1: Now I know we're sitting here in March and we've
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  Speaker 1: got months and months to go, and all this stuff
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  Speaker 1: that the NFL was preparing under the guys that they
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  Speaker 1: will be unable to agree to a new contract with
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  Speaker 1: the NFL Referees Association. And so the NFL is scouring
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  Speaker 1: trying to find a bunch of small college officials. We're
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  Speaker 1: talking like junior college, low level football people. They're going
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  Speaker 1: over one story. He said one hundred and fifty about
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  Speaker 1: one hundred and fifty low level officials, and they're going
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  Speaker 1: to contact them and say, hey, would you like to
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  Speaker 1: be an NFL official? And we have something for you
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  Speaker 1: in April, and there's a clinic there in May. And
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  Speaker 1: outside of an agreement, and doesn't look like they're close
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  Speaker 1: to any kind of agreement with the referees, this would continue.
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  Speaker 1: They would train during the summer and make visits to
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  Speaker 1: different NFL teams training camps before the regular season begins.
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  Speaker 1: And so this tossed out into the air everywhere. So
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  Speaker 1: it's a good jumping off point. Let us discuss the
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  Speaker 1: question what message, What message is the NFL sending by
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  Speaker 1: leaking obviously came from the NFL, not the referee association.
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  Speaker 1: What message is the NFL sending by leaking that they
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  Speaker 1: are preparing for scab officials. So my thoughts on this,
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  Speaker 1: I've got Mexican drug Lord, MX, black Card and fruit
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  Speaker 1: of the Loom, and we will combine all of these
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  Speaker 1: things together and we are going to come to blows.
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  Speaker 3: But not a body blow. No body blow, no, no,
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  Speaker 3: no A.
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  Speaker 1: This was clearly leaked strategically to the preferred NFL insider
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  Speaker 1: crowd handed down like the soup of the day. And
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  Speaker 1: I love the fact that the NFL's calling these guys
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  Speaker 1: who are officials in the backwoods and saying, hey.
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  Speaker 3: How would you like to be an NFL referee? These
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  Speaker 3: guys probably think they're getting punked.
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  Speaker 1: They're getting calls these small town referees out in the boondocks,
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  Speaker 1: and they're like, this is this is Joe blow from
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  Speaker 1: the NFL.
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  Speaker 3: How would you like to be a referee? But I
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  Speaker 3: don't know that I want to be a referee. I
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  Speaker 3: don't know what I want to be a referee.
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  Speaker 1: But this is top abicously the leverage, right, It's pure
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  Speaker 1: uncut leverage. The message is take our deal, or the
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  Speaker 1: NFL said either take the deal or we're gonna uber
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  Speaker 1: in some fresh herd of zebras and we'll just toss
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  Speaker 1: them out there and no one will know. The thing
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  Speaker 1: about this which stands out the NFL at this point,
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  Speaker 1: with all of the different TV deals, the NFL has
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  Speaker 1: all of that, the NFL has become like a Mexican
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  Speaker 1: drug lord.
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  Speaker 3: They have so much money they don't know what to
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  Speaker 3: do with it, Like they're burying it. I think the
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  Speaker 3: Jacksonville just buried some money because they didn't know what
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  Speaker 3: to do with it.
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  Speaker 1: I bury some money, and yet on this one, they're like,
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  Speaker 1: we're gonna draw a line in the sand here and
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  Speaker 1: that's it. We're not gonna pay the money, We're not
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  Speaker 1: gonna give the referees the rays that they want.
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  Speaker 3: He said, well why not.
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  Speaker 1: And the only reason I could come up for that
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  Speaker 1: that popped in mid is because they don't have to
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  Speaker 1: say that. Perception is reality, and the perception is that
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  Speaker 1: the NFL officials are a bunch of dingleberries and they
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  Speaker 1: don't know what they're doing their Mama Luke's And so
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  Speaker 1: the NFL owners know that, and now they're weaponizing this.
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  Speaker 1: They know that the rank and file, the customers, better
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  Speaker 1: known by their gangster name fans, are not going to
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  Speaker 1: defend the referees right generally speaking, the referee is just
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  Speaker 1: following what Park Avenue tells them to do. So I'm
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  Speaker 1: all going to decide this week we're going to call holding.
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  Speaker 1: Next week we're not going to call holding, and we'll
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  Speaker 1: call something else. And so therefore you are easily replaced
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  Speaker 1: and easily blamed in the blame game.
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  Speaker 3: Your disposable labor with whistles, and.
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  Speaker 1: This is not about improving official and not worried about
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  Speaker 1: that and not they like having They like having imperfection
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  Speaker 1: because it's good for business, it's good for conversation, and
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  Speaker 1: it just is and it doesn't really affect all that
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  Speaker 1: much in the end. So why pay extra for competence
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  Speaker 1: if you think you're just going to get more incompetence.
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  Speaker 1: So it's like, why would we pay more? You know,
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  Speaker 1: I just get on the soapbox and say, well, it
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  Speaker 1: doesn't matter if we pay you this much or that much.
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  Speaker 1: You still suck, all right, Now, turn the page to
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  Speaker 1: the rules of the game. You know, we love the
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  Speaker 1: rules of the game. Yes, absolutely, So I read that
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  Speaker 1: the Cleveland Browns. That's a I think that's something you
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  Speaker 1: put in a toilet a couple of times a day
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  Speaker 1: and you flush it. Either that or it's a football team.
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  Speaker 1: So the Browns have submitted a rule. There's sound of
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  Speaker 1: the Browns r if they're at work. So the brown
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  Speaker 1: submitted a rule that would allow teams to trade draft
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  Speaker 1: picks five years out. Currently, you are only allowed to
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  Speaker 1: trade draft picks three years out, and under this it
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  Speaker 1: would be five years. So you'd add a couple of
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  Speaker 1: extra years to unload draft picks now immediately. Immediately, the
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  Speaker 1: theory was, well, the Browns want this because they're preparing
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  Speaker 1: to trade Miles Garrett and they want to get more picks,
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  Speaker 1: and so they'd like to get picks down the road,
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  Speaker 1: and so they'll just whistle into the dark there and
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  Speaker 1: try to get those extra picks and they'll change the
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  Speaker 1: rule and then they'll be good to go and all
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  Speaker 1: that all right.
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  Speaker 3: So the question.
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  Speaker 1: Extending the window for NFL teams trading picks to five
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  Speaker 1: years out?
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  Speaker 3: Do you love it or list it? You love it
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  Speaker 3: or listen? So I love it? I love it.
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  Speaker 1: This is the NFL giving the front offices, the gms,
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  Speaker 1: the nerds, all of them an Amex black card with
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  Speaker 1: no limit and no billing address. It enables larger, blockbuster trades.
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  Speaker 1: It should enable bigger trades.
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  Speaker 3: In the NFL.
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  Speaker 1: If you're a team that's on the brink of winning
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  Speaker 1: and you're in that content, you're a top contender, you're
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  Speaker 1: not the champ. You're not to champ your top contender
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  Speaker 1: for a super Bowl. This would allow you a little
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  Speaker 1: more room to aggressively go out and get that star
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  Speaker 1: receiver that you gotta get at that defensive end that
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  Speaker 1: you need to have to complete the thing. And it
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  Speaker 1: would increase not only mid season trades, but also off
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  Speaker 1: season trades. And that's exciting. Who doesn't like a good trade,
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  Speaker 1: a nice, juicy trade. I don't know anyone that doesn't.
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  Speaker 1: Maybe closer to what the NBA, the NBA has a
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  Speaker 1: lot of trades. You have not as many as they
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  Speaker 1: used to because they they fetched around with a salary cap.
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  Speaker 1: We can rhapsodize about that if you want, and so
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  Speaker 1: there's less ways.
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  Speaker 3: To move players, but there's still a lot of trades
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  Speaker 3: compared to football. Now. The counter argument, the counter argument
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  Speaker 3: for this is that, oh.
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  Speaker 1: No, you've got to protect the dummies. Is essentially the
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  Speaker 1: counter argument that teams would over extend and they would
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  Speaker 1: trade away all the draft and they would lock themselves
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  Speaker 1: in to the dungeon.
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  Speaker 3: They'd be in the dungeon. They'd have no chance.
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  Speaker 1: They wouldn't even be mediocre, they'd be irrelevant. That would
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  Speaker 1: be that, and they it's just, oh my god, it's
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  Speaker 1: so sad, what a sob story. And to that, I say,
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  Speaker 1: I don't care. Expose them sugarness, all right, draft picks
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  Speaker 1: that far out are much more risky, have five years out.
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  Speaker 1: And I mentioned that the front offices will have essentially
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  Speaker 1: the MX black card.
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  Speaker 3: And no limit. And the reason I'll be the limit.
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  Speaker 1: Is because most of these guys don't last. These Drabbronis
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  Speaker 1: do not last five years out, like most of there's
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  Speaker 1: so much turnover in the NFL. If you're a coach
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  Speaker 1: or a general manager who cares, if you trade draft
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  Speaker 1: picks years down the line, you're not going to be there.
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  Speaker 1: And if they work out, well, you will be there.
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  Speaker 1: But if it doesn't work out, you just go somewhere else.
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  Speaker 3: That's it.
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  Speaker 1: And it's all trades anywhere. Speculative draft pick is more specultive.
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  Speaker 1: You know, no, you can trade. You know I picked
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  Speaker 1: five years out right now Seattle. You know they got
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  Speaker 1: some help from the referees to get that two point conversion.
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  Speaker 3: That was a bogus call.
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  Speaker 1: And so five years out from now they're the Super
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  Speaker 1: Bowl champs. You think they're gonna be good five years
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  Speaker 1: and they could go four, four, and thirteen five years
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  Speaker 1: from now, who knows.
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  Speaker 3: You could stink out loud. The weather changes fast.
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  Speaker 1: It does change fast, and you're just spitballing and that's it.
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  Speaker 3: You know, you think you can smell trouble, you know,
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  Speaker 3: not necessarily.
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  Speaker 1: Some of these teams that are good, all of a
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  Speaker 1: sudden they sink without a trace.
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  Speaker 3: Where'd they go? I don't know?
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  Speaker 1: All right, now, last word, we go to Chicago. We
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  Speaker 1: have learned this is this is quite the tail. So
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  Speaker 1: the Bears quarterback Caleb Williams is very very busy here
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  Speaker 1: with his lawyers. And I'm not gonna do a joke
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  Speaker 1: about him getting a many and a petty.
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  Speaker 3: I'm not doing that.
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  Speaker 1: There's a classy show. I'm not gonna make a fingernail
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  Speaker 1: polish joke. Caleb Williams has applied for multiple trademark protections
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  Speaker 1: on the term iceman.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, he wants to be known as the Iceman.
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  Speaker 1: Now, some who clearly have knee pads on are comparing
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  Speaker 1: the image of Caleb Williams throwing that touchdown pass against
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  Speaker 1: the Green Bay Packers and the playoffs to the Michael
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  Speaker 1: Jordan jumpman logo.
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  Speaker 3: This is a big thing. It's this big thing, and
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  Speaker 3: very excited, very very excited about that.
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  Speaker 1: So the question Bears quarterback Caleb Williams looking to monetize
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  Speaker 1: the iceman nickname, how would a cynic interpret this moment. Well,
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  Speaker 1: I'm glad you've asked that question, and I just asked
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  Speaker 1: it to myself because as a cynic, I will tell you,
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  Speaker 1: has anyone contacted George Gervin, the original.
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  Speaker 3: Iceman in the NBA player?
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  Speaker 2: No?
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  Speaker 3: All right, but you gotta be joking.
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  Speaker 1: This guy's out here, Caleb Williams building a brand, building
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  Speaker 1: a brand, and like he's some kind of overnight legend,
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  Speaker 1: overnight legend, and.
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  Speaker 3: He hasn't won.
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  Speaker 1: Doesn't that normally there's like a chain of events that
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  Speaker 1: have to take place there. It's connect the dots, and
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  Speaker 1: there's some dots that are missing. It's embarrassed you don't
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  Speaker 1: nickname yourself the Iceman, you know, and really lean into it.
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  Speaker 1: That's earned right now. Caleb Williams more like lukewarm tapwater man,
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  Speaker 1: and he's trying to trademark everything from the story that
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  Speaker 1: I read it. You're talking about shirts, mugs, backpacks. Trying
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  Speaker 1: to figure out what's next. He could make a deal
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  Speaker 1: with Fruit of the Loom and have Iceman under rus
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  Speaker 1: for the kiddos who throw interceptions on the playground at Recess.
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  Speaker 1: They they could have that the f Loom Iceman under
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  Speaker 1: ruse would be big and yeah, so this is this
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  Speaker 1: is what happens when the hype, when the hype goes unchecked.
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  Speaker 1: And I bring this term up from time to time,
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  Speaker 1: the man who shot Liberty balance. When the legend becomes
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  Speaker 1: the fact, you go with the legend. And the legend
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  Speaker 1: is that Caleb Williams is one of the all time
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  Speaker 1: great big game quarterbacks and that he cemented himself with
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  Speaker 1: the Chicago Bears in those two playoff games this year.
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  Speaker 1: The reality is that in those two games he played
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  Speaker 1: mostly as a fraud in the playoffs. Unpopular opinion, but
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  Speaker 1: that's reality. And he said, oh, but what about the comeback?
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  Speaker 1: Okay a yeah, what about the overall product? He had
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  Speaker 1: more picks than touchdowns. The rating was in the gutter.
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  Speaker 1: He was actually worse in the playoffs than Sexy Rexi
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  Speaker 1: Rex Grossman from.
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  Speaker 3: Back in the day.
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  Speaker 1: And now he's Michael Jordan because he he had that
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  Speaker 1: comeback pass against the Green Bay Packers. To me, that
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  Speaker 1: was more about green Bay choking than it was about
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  Speaker 1: the Bears doing any magic. But then after that went
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  Speaker 1: out had another stinker. You all told me, every one
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  Speaker 1: of you told me, He said, listen, the Bears are
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  Speaker 1: winning that game. They're at home, they're winning that game
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  Speaker 1: against a soft West Coast Dome team and Matthew Stafford
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  Speaker 1: outdoor Chicago.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, how'd that work out?
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  Speaker 4: Yeah?
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  Speaker 3: Not not so good.
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  Speaker 1: And just just let's calm down a little bit with
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  Speaker 1: the the MJ conversation with Caleb Williams. As will Smith
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  Speaker 1: said years ago at the Academy Awards, keep Michael Jordan
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  Speaker 1: name out of your ef and mouth when you're talking
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  Speaker 1: about Caleb Williams.
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  Speaker 3: His blasphemy.
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  Speaker 1: This whole thing is just classic narcissism, is pure ego.
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  Speaker 1: And you just start winning Super Bowls in Chicau, even one,
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  Speaker 1: you know, start printing the merch and that will be
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  Speaker 1: prolonged agony for guys like me.
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  Speaker 3: But do it right now.
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  Speaker 1: I've got two games as a playoff quarterback and not
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  Speaker 1: looking so good. Not It's a roller coaster for sure.
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  Speaker 1: The overall performance not great, so my god.
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  Speaker 1: You start out with a developing story in the state
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  Speaker 1: of Wisconsin. It involves a pro bouncy ball player things
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  Speaker 1: getting cranked up with the Greek freak.
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  Speaker 3: Did you see this? Non?
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  Speaker 1: Perhaps not so the Milwaukee Bucks. That's a basketball team,
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  Speaker 1: not a good one. The Milwaukee Bucks, who have found
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  Speaker 1: many opportunities to play mediocre basketball. Shocking that didn't work
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  Speaker 1: out when they hired Doc Rivers as their.
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  Speaker 3: Coach, or Doctor Rivers, as Lorraina calls them. So the Bucks.
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  Speaker 1: The story came about the Bucks want to shut down
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  Speaker 1: Giannis adent to Cumbo.
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  Speaker 3: There's not that long to go in the NBA season.
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  Speaker 1: Like about a month or so to go in the
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  Speaker 1: NBA regular season, and the Bucks are like ixnay on
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  Speaker 1: the yannise.
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  Speaker 3: We're done, get out of here and just relax.
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  Speaker 1: We want you out for the remainder of the season
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  Speaker 1: with your latest injury, and the Bucks are not going
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  Speaker 1: to make the playoffs. The chances are slim and none,
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  Speaker 1: and Slim is on standby at the airport. However, here's
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  Speaker 1: the plot twist. So the Greek freak said, I am
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  Speaker 1: going to play. I refuse your request. I want to
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  Speaker 1: keep playing. So that is a good jumping off point,
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  Speaker 1: a little twister for you. So let us discuss the question.
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  Speaker 1: Giannis a Denta kumbo committee to continuing to play this season,
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  Speaker 1: and he refuses the Bucks request to shut it down.
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  Speaker 1: What's the meaning that you're pulling from this one? What
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  Speaker 1: meaning are you taking out of this? So my observations,
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  Speaker 1: I've got stick shift, tear at cards, and Klay Travis,
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  Speaker 1: and we'll combine all of these things together and we
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  Speaker 1: are going to preach to the.
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  Speaker 3: Choir is what we're gonna do. We're gonna preach to
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  Speaker 3: the choir. So number number wa.
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  Speaker 1: I like to play the game Who Leaked the Story?
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  Speaker 1: It's my favorite parlor game to play Who Leaked the Story?
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  Speaker 1: And we always ask two questions, who benefits and why
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  Speaker 1: now benefits from the league and why now? And after
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  Speaker 1: a minutes long Mallard investigation, Giannis Adenta Koombo checks both boxes.
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  Speaker 1: Unless you're as dumb as a rock, I just run
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  Speaker 1: the same wavelength here. Now he is painting the Bucks
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  Speaker 1: like a franchise looking to flush away the final few
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  Speaker 1: weeks of the regular season out of an abundance of caution.
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  Speaker 3: Of course, what about what about the.
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  Speaker 1: People that bought tickets to watch the games and they
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  Speaker 1: want to see Yannis play and all that. Meanwhile, Yannis
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  Speaker 1: is positioning himself as the I just want a hoop guy.
• 17:38
  Speaker 1: He's the I just want a hoop guy. He grabbed
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  Speaker 1: the stick shift and he changed gears. Here into overdrive.
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  Speaker 1: Jannis went overdrive, sending this story into the drama orama land. Now,
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  Speaker 1: this is campaigning, This is public pressure. This is no
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  Speaker 1: more mister nice guy for Yannis enter Coombo. This is
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  Speaker 1: a guy trying to force his way out of Milwaukee.
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  Speaker 1: He thought he was going to be traded at the deadline.
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  Speaker 1: It didn't work out, and so now he's continuing to
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  Speaker 1: try to get the message to these dingbats in the
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  Speaker 1: front office with the Bucks saying, hey, I want out
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  Speaker 1: of here. The timing, the word I would use is surgical.
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  Speaker 1: Late in the season, it was on a day where
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  Speaker 1: there things were not that active in the sports world,
• 18:26
  Speaker 1: so you get maximum attention. If this happens when there's
• 18:29
  Speaker 1: a lot going on, it doesn't really get that much attention.
• 18:32
  Speaker 1: But it is a perfect timing. And he's turning the screws.
• 18:37
  Speaker 1: Turning the screws right, you embarrass the Bucks and everyone
• 18:41
  Speaker 1: looks bad.
• 18:42
  Speaker 3: It's it's leverage with an attitude, with an attitude, and
• 18:46
  Speaker 3: he's not playing along. That's the point.
• 18:48
  Speaker 1: He's not playing along here because he doesn't want to
• 18:52
  Speaker 1: be there. And that's why just like in Vegas, remember
• 18:57
  Speaker 1: late in the season, Max Crosby, he wanted to keep playing,
• 19:02
  Speaker 1: and the Raiders said about you, you're hurt, you can't play.
• 19:04
  Speaker 3: And then Crosby sent a sizzle reel.
• 19:06
  Speaker 1: Of him playing basketball like he was Steph Curry and
• 19:11
  Speaker 1: they're like.
• 19:11
  Speaker 3: I'm fine, I can play.
• 19:13
  Speaker 1: And so that was Max's way of pushing the Raiders
• 19:16
  Speaker 1: to trade him, which they did, and then the Ravens said,
• 19:18
  Speaker 1: now we're gonna we're gonna send that to Amazon return.
• 19:21
  Speaker 3: We don't want that. Max Crosby.
• 19:23
  Speaker 1: So it's a similar thing, obviously different sport and all that,
• 19:26
  Speaker 1: and it's the again, I go back to the word drama,
• 19:28
  Speaker 1: O rama, and it's leverage and he's he's not playing
• 19:32
  Speaker 1: along because he doesn't want to be part of this.
• 19:36
  Speaker 1: It's passive aggressive by Giannis. It's pressure, all that stuff.
• 19:40
  Speaker 1: You leak it, you embarrass the team and you make
• 19:44
  Speaker 1: things a little more uncomfortable. It's the workplace version. And
• 19:49
  Speaker 1: this happens every once in a while. It always always pops up.
• 19:52
  Speaker 1: You see it on the interweb and somebody gets a
• 19:55
  Speaker 1: tongue lashing and they go on and blast their boss
• 19:59
  Speaker 1: on lincol and while while cashing the paycheck, you know, like, hey,
• 20:05
  Speaker 1: I love the game, I hate the situation.
• 20:08
  Speaker 3: And that's a power move by honest, is what that is. Now.
• 20:12
  Speaker 1: Meanwhile, we go to LA where Lakers center DeAndre Ayton
• 20:16
  Speaker 1: made some comments recently that caught my attention. He says
• 20:18
  Speaker 1: he finally realized that he's not that guy. You're not
• 20:23
  Speaker 1: that guy, Papp, You're not that guy. Ayton said, quote,
• 20:27
  Speaker 1: I just started looking in the mirror and I said, yo, bro,
• 20:32
  Speaker 1: you're not that guy. You don't need to be on
• 20:35
  Speaker 1: this team doing that at all?
• 20:38
  Speaker 3: This team. You came here to be the effort guy.
• 20:42
  Speaker 1: All right, effort guy. Yeah, that's I don't think of
• 20:46
  Speaker 1: him as a glue guy. But there we are. So
• 20:49
  Speaker 1: the question, DeAndre Ayton embracing at least if you believe
• 20:53
  Speaker 1: a quote, embracing a second fiddle role with the Lakers,
• 20:59
  Speaker 1: how does.
• 20:59
  Speaker 3: This echo throughout the NBA? Right?
• 21:03
  Speaker 1: So, I'm pretty sure that the NBA as a collective,
• 21:07
  Speaker 1: they did not blink. This echoed with a shrug and
• 21:12
  Speaker 1: SIDEI all right, now, I know liquor historians.
• 21:17
  Speaker 3: Other teams have fanboys, they have historians. They're eating this souff.
• 21:20
  Speaker 1: He's matured. Lebron got to him, Luca got to him.
• 21:26
  Speaker 1: He's evolved. DeAndre Ayton has evolved evolved into what exactly
• 21:32
  Speaker 1: can you explain that to me in one sentence? A
• 21:34
  Speaker 1: guy who's finally finally read the job description?
• 21:38
  Speaker 3: Is that? Yeah?
• 21:38
  Speaker 1: Okay, I'm skeptical. I am skeptical. And here's why. Two
• 21:43
  Speaker 1: weeks ago, I don't even think it was two weeks ago.
• 21:45
  Speaker 1: It was in the last few weeks, but I think
• 21:46
  Speaker 1: it was less than two weeks.
• 21:48
  Speaker 3: It was. I'm not Clint Capella I'm not doing it.
• 21:52
  Speaker 1: And now all of a sudden, he's like he's essentially
• 21:54
  Speaker 1: holding Capella's paw patrol lunchbox.
• 21:57
  Speaker 3: And say, can I shadow you? I'd like to learn
• 21:59
  Speaker 3: from you. I thought you said you didn't want to
• 22:02
  Speaker 3: be me. Well, no, I'm not that other guy, but
• 22:06
  Speaker 3: I'm kind of like you. Now I have a malord theory.
• 22:09
  Speaker 3: I have a theory.
• 22:09
  Speaker 1: So DeAndre Ayton went to a fortune teller over on
• 22:13
  Speaker 1: Sunset and she shuffled the deck of tarot cards and
• 22:17
  Speaker 1: she pulled out the Hermit from the bottom of the deck,
• 22:22
  Speaker 1: and the Hermit card the tarot card the Hermit means
• 22:24
  Speaker 1: soul searching, introspection, guidance, er go. Supporting actor, Yeah, supporting actor.
• 22:34
  Speaker 1: So he went, in the span of about ten days
• 22:39
  Speaker 1: from wanting top billing to a tertiary role where he
• 22:44
  Speaker 1: fully embraces it. The third name in the credits behind
• 22:49
  Speaker 1: Luca and Lebron, background noise and also Redneck Kobe and
• 22:58
  Speaker 1: the Hillbilly Kobe and all that, but it's all background.
• 23:01
  Speaker 1: It was like, we will believe it when we see
• 23:03
  Speaker 1: it for.
• 23:03
  Speaker 3: The long haul.
• 23:04
  Speaker 1: This is like a kid cleaning his room once and
• 23:08
  Speaker 1: the parents calling a press conference and sending out a
• 23:10
  Speaker 1: group text.
• 23:11
  Speaker 3: Hey clean the room all right. Way way to go.
• 23:15
  Speaker 1: Old habits die hard. You think DeAndre Ayton suddenly loves
• 23:19
  Speaker 1: doing the dirty work, setting screens and rebounding.
• 23:23
  Speaker 3: And that kind of stuff. This guy was the number
• 23:26
  Speaker 3: one overall pick.
• 23:27
  Speaker 1: Okay, he's supposed to steamroll through teams and getting rebounds
• 23:33
  Speaker 1: and setting screens and being that player.
• 23:35
  Speaker 3: That's not who he is.
• 23:37
  Speaker 1: And I will maintain there's only been a few games
• 23:40
  Speaker 1: since this has happened.
• 23:41
  Speaker 3: Only been a few games.
• 23:43
  Speaker 1: So I'm gonna go out and limb here and say
• 23:45
  Speaker 1: that by the time we get to late April when
• 23:47
  Speaker 1: the playoffs get going, and I can't say May or
• 23:50
  Speaker 1: whatever Lakers like, it won't be in the playoffs.
• 23:51
  Speaker 3: By May, there'll be one and done yet again. But
• 23:55
  Speaker 3: that aside.
• 23:56
  Speaker 1: Before you know it, it's boom goes to dynamite, back
• 24:00
  Speaker 1: the square one.
• 24:01
  Speaker 3: He'll change his ways. He will not be happy.
• 24:04
  Speaker 1: Something that will something will happen and he will agonize
• 24:07
  Speaker 1: over it and the floodgates will open up. Now a
• 24:11
  Speaker 1: final point, so we stay in La. The news came
• 24:15
  Speaker 1: out the Lakers are looking for a new patch for
• 24:20
  Speaker 1: their uniforms. They want a new sponsor for their jersey. Now,
• 24:23
  Speaker 1: how do we know this? How do we know they
• 24:25
  Speaker 1: want a new sponsor for their jerseys? Well, the Lakers
• 24:27
  Speaker 1: announced via a press release that they have ended their
• 24:33
  Speaker 1: partnership with that Korean food company that was one hundred
• 24:37
  Speaker 1: million dollars jersey patch sponsorship that went back it started
• 24:41
  Speaker 1: in twenty twenty one and opening bids, opening bids.
• 24:48
  Speaker 3: Are they're available.
• 24:50
  Speaker 1: There's only a few games to go in the regular season,
• 24:53
  Speaker 1: but they're looking for the twenty twenty six twenty twenty
• 24:56
  Speaker 1: seven season, and so this is a direct all to
• 25:00
  Speaker 1: the public for global partners.
• 25:02
  Speaker 3: To step up. So the question.
• 25:05
  Speaker 1: Is this, why did the Lakers send out a literal
• 25:09
  Speaker 1: press release begging for a uniform sponsor.
• 25:16
  Speaker 3: Doesn't that seem a little bitzarre to you?
• 25:17
  Speaker 1: Like what happened to the Purple and Gold Royalty, Like
• 25:22
  Speaker 1: that we're too cool for school energy, that pomp is
• 25:26
  Speaker 1: west of the four h five, arrogant schmuck face energy
• 25:30
  Speaker 1: that the Lakers have because this is unbecoming, like this,
• 25:34
  Speaker 1: like seeing a Beverly Hills socialite holding a cardboard side
• 25:39
  Speaker 1: a sign rather on an offer ramp at the four
• 25:42
  Speaker 1: oh five, like the Lakers have always acted like their
• 25:46
  Speaker 1: Rodeo Drive Royalty, Like you know, their Rodeo, their Madison Avenue.
• 25:51
  Speaker 1: Everyone should line up blindfolded just to sniff their farts.
• 25:56
  Speaker 1: That's how important the Lakers are. Just to ask them,
• 25:58
  Speaker 1: they'll tell you. And yet here we are and it's
• 26:02
  Speaker 1: like they're shaking the tip jar.
• 26:05
  Speaker 3: They just want some change. So let me decode this
• 26:08
  Speaker 3: using the Malar Rosetta stone.
• 26:11
  Speaker 1: And as always, you follow the money, money, money, ding
• 26:16
  Speaker 1: ding ding ding ning. Yes, the incoming new owners of
• 26:21
  Speaker 1: the Lakers, the Guggenheim Group, from what I've heard, is
• 26:28
  Speaker 1: it true? Is it true that they have jacked up
• 26:33
  Speaker 1: the asking price like it's a Malibu beach front listing
• 26:38
  Speaker 1: one that didn't burn down in Malibu during a housing bubble.
• 26:43
  Speaker 1: They wanted King's ransom. The problem is the bidders are
• 26:49
  Speaker 1: not there, and that is why, that is why you
• 26:53
  Speaker 1: had this news release go out saying we have opened
• 26:56
  Speaker 1: up global bidding for our uniform jersey patch. And they
• 27:01
  Speaker 1: went like former Fox Sports radio morning guy Klay Travis,
• 27:04
  Speaker 1: they outkicked their coverage, is what they did here. They
• 27:07
  Speaker 1: priced it like Wago beef. The market said, no, no,
• 27:11
  Speaker 1: that's not Wagoo beef. That's mince meat. Well no, it
• 27:14
  Speaker 1: says Wagoo beef on the label.
• 27:15
  Speaker 3: No, no, no, But you can't get anybody.
• 27:17
  Speaker 1: To pay for that. They want to pay a mince
• 27:19
  Speaker 1: meat price. So now you leak, and it wasn't even
• 27:23
  Speaker 1: a leak. It's just a press release. You send it
• 27:25
  Speaker 1: out to everybody, hoping to spark some kind of bidding war.
• 27:29
  Speaker 1: It's a late night infomercial. Operators are standing by now
• 27:35
  Speaker 1: and any way you slice it, any way you slice it.
• 27:39
  Speaker 1: The Lakers misread the room they did, and now the
• 27:43
  Speaker 1: velvet rope has been replaced and say, well, now they're
• 27:46
  Speaker 1: just begging, hoping someone somewhere far away. But it will
• 27:49
  Speaker 1: just open up the wallet and throw some shekels at
• 27:53
  Speaker 1: him and all that.
• 27:54
  Speaker 3: And it's a it's gone from a velvet rope situation
• 27:57
  Speaker 3: to a clearance rack situation.
• 28:00
  Speaker 2: Be sure to catch live editions of the Ben Maler
• 28:02
  Speaker 2: Show weekdays at two am Eastern eleven pm Pacific.
• 28:07
  Speaker 3: Sailer to a third degree.
• 28:11
  Speaker 2: This is one Big Ben gets grilled.
• 28:15
  Speaker 4: Kooperlu And it was reported on Wednesday that the Dolphins
• 28:18
  Speaker 4: have been telling teams that running back to von a
• 28:20
  Speaker 4: chain is not available for trade. Now, Ben, a team
• 28:23
  Speaker 4: that's obviously not trying to win, the Dolphins, are you
• 28:26
  Speaker 4: surprised that they're holding on to a chain.
• 28:28
  Speaker 1: Well, they can say whatever they want, and anyway, why
• 28:32
  Speaker 1: would you You're not You're not talking about the greatest
• 28:34
  Speaker 1: running back. He's a good player. He's not a great players,
• 28:36
  Speaker 1: a good player in the NFL. So I don't believe
• 28:38
  Speaker 1: the Dolphins. It doesn't matter what they say public Like politicians,
• 28:42
  Speaker 1: these people say one thing publicly and then privately like,
• 28:45
  Speaker 1: all right, give us a couple of ee for picks,
• 28:46
  Speaker 1: you can have him. You know, this happens all the time.
• 28:48
  Speaker 1: So I don't think they're they're gonna hold on to him.
• 28:50
  Speaker 1: I think eventually they'll trade.
• 28:51
  Speaker 3: What's the point of keeping them.
• 28:53
  Speaker 1: It's like putting a Lamborghini in front of a you know,
• 28:56
  Speaker 1: a mobile home.
• 28:57
  Speaker 3: It doesn't make sense.
• 28:58
  Speaker 4: Next now, Well, former Alabama quarterback Ty Simpson was being
• 29:01
  Speaker 4: linked to the Steelers. It's now being reported that Pittsburgh
• 29:03
  Speaker 4: won't be looking at Simpson the twenty first overall pick,
• 29:05
  Speaker 4: and that Simpson's actually tumbling down draft boards.
• 29:08
  Speaker 3: Ben, when do you think Simpson will go in the draft?
• 29:11
  Speaker 3: What did he do to tumble down draft boards. Coop.
• 29:13
  Speaker 3: He hadn't played a game. Alabama hasn't played a game
• 29:15
  Speaker 3: in months.
• 29:17
  Speaker 1: This whole rising and falling thing about the draft is
• 29:19
  Speaker 1: another reason to hate the NFL draft. I've seen some
• 29:22
  Speaker 1: clips on YouTube. He didn't look all that good to me.
• 29:25
  Speaker 3: I watched him.
• 29:25
  Speaker 1: Obviously at Alabama they'rearn some Every game is a big
• 29:27
  Speaker 1: game at Alabama. I'm worried my rams are going to
• 29:30
  Speaker 1: take him. Fortunately, they traded their late first round pick,
• 29:33
  Speaker 1: so they won't draft him in the first round. I
• 29:35
  Speaker 1: don't draft him in the top ten. But he didn't
• 29:37
  Speaker 1: look all that good to me. But he'll still be
• 29:39
  Speaker 1: drafted in the first two rounds of the draft next.
• 29:42
  Speaker 4: Now, the Knicks fired Tom Thibodeau after a second round
• 29:44
  Speaker 4: exit last year. Now, as we approach the NBA playoffs
• 29:47
  Speaker 4: this year, do you think the Knicks are a better
• 29:49
  Speaker 4: team now than they were under Tims a year ago?
• 29:51
  Speaker 3: No?
• 29:51
  Speaker 1: No, I am a Tom Thibodeau truther. I like Tom Thibodeau.
• 29:55
  Speaker 1: I like the way he coaches and plays his guys
• 29:58
  Speaker 1: and doesn't buy into the dogma, the bull crap about
• 30:02
  Speaker 1: load management and all that. I don't think Mike Brown.
• 30:04
  Speaker 1: I don't think it's all that he's a nice guy,
• 30:05
  Speaker 1: Mike Brown. Nobody says he's a good coach. They all
• 30:07
  Speaker 1: say is a nice guy. I don't think the Knicks
• 30:09
  Speaker 1: are I think they're in the same spot they were
• 30:11
  Speaker 1: last year.
• 30:11
  Speaker 3: How do we do cope? You passed this edition? That
• 30:13
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• 30:14
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• 30:31
  Speaker 3: It's now time for time.
• 30:33
  Speaker 1: Harry, Harry, Harry, ask bad Twitter says this your questions
• 30:38
  Speaker 1: on Twitter now, man, the way we got the questions
• 30:42
  Speaker 1: are answers for the rest of the hour. This is
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• 30:50
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• 30:51
  Speaker 3: With really good questions.
• 30:53
  Speaker 1: And for the reading of the questions, it's Ben and
• 30:56
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• 31:00
  Speaker 4: We're going to start off with a question for you,
• 31:02
  Speaker 4: and I know you've explained this a few times recently,
• 31:05
  Speaker 4: but monkey Biz Doug Hi Doug. He says, as a
• 31:08
  Speaker 4: fairly new listener, please explain the Bill Miller bit. I'm
• 31:12
  Speaker 4: sure there's a backstory.
• 31:13
  Speaker 3: Yeah. Yeah.
• 31:14
  Speaker 1: So years ago the company updated the website and they
• 31:20
  Speaker 1: sent out a mass email. They were very proud of it.
• 31:23
  Speaker 1: They spent a lot of money to update the company website.
• 31:25
  Speaker 1: And this is in the early days of Fox Sports Radio.
• 31:27
  Speaker 1: So I was very excited. I was like, wow, this
• 31:29
  Speaker 1: is great, and I'm very happy to work at the company.
• 31:31
  Speaker 1: And so they wanted us all to check out the
• 31:33
  Speaker 1: website and wanted us all the write back, great feedback,
• 31:35
  Speaker 1: how great the website was. And so I clicked on
• 31:38
  Speaker 1: there and it was really beautiful. It was really Whoever
• 31:40
  Speaker 1: designed it a hell of a job. And then of
• 31:42
  Speaker 1: course I wanted to find myself on the website because
• 31:45
  Speaker 1: I'm a talk show so I'm an ego maning. So
• 31:47
  Speaker 1: I clicked on the link too. I was doing a
• 31:49
  Speaker 1: weekend show at the time, and I clicked on the
• 31:51
  Speaker 1: link and there was a photo of Tom Looney. I
• 31:55
  Speaker 1: was doing a show with Looney called The Blitz, very
• 31:57
  Speaker 1: popular show. They canceled it though, so I did show
• 31:59
  Speaker 1: with Looney. He was on one side and then I
• 32:02
  Speaker 1: was on the other and it said Tom Looney and
• 32:04
  Speaker 1: then on my side it said Bill Miller.
• 32:07
  Speaker 3: So I, yeah, yeah.
• 32:09
  Speaker 1: So I contacted the com I said, well, you know,
• 32:12
  Speaker 1: you screwed my name up, and they said, don't work.
• 32:15
  Speaker 3: You know, give us thirty minutes. We're going to I apologize.
• 32:17
  Speaker 3: We're going to fix that. We're going to we're going
• 32:19
  Speaker 3: to fix that.
• 32:20
  Speaker 1: And so so I went back to the to the
• 32:22
  Speaker 1: website and uh.
• 32:24
  Speaker 3: And then it was it was Ben Miller.
• 32:29
  Speaker 1: So that's and but then I started using that when
• 32:31
  Speaker 1: the company whacked Eddie h in November of twenty twenty four,
• 32:36
  Speaker 1: because Eddie used to do the ins and outs, and
• 32:38
  Speaker 1: so just as a tribute, that's what I started doing.
• 32:42
  Speaker 1: And I don't think I'm gonna do it forever. We'll
• 32:43
  Speaker 1: see when we might change it up, but we'll do
• 32:45
  Speaker 1: it for a little long while longer. What's next, Let's
• 32:47
  Speaker 1: ask Ben your questions are answers.
• 32:49
  Speaker 4: All right, we have a good one here from Alfi
• 32:50
  Speaker 4: alien Opiner. He wants to know for the crew, do
• 32:54
  Speaker 4: you have a fast food napkin stash in your car?
• 32:57
  Speaker 4: If so, what restaurant to the majority of them.
• 32:59
  Speaker 1: From, mostly from raising canes, and that's where I don't
• 33:04
  Speaker 1: eat a lot of fast food anymore. So mostly raising cans.
• 33:06
  Speaker 1: That's pretty much all. I'm the only fast food I'm
• 33:08
  Speaker 1: eating regularly, maybe once once a month, sometimes more, sometimes more.
• 33:14
  Speaker 1: But yeah, all raised and those are not the only
• 33:18
  Speaker 1: I would like to rip raisin cans. They have the
• 33:21
  Speaker 1: worst napkin dispensers of any restaurant I've ever been to.
• 33:25
  Speaker 1: Like the things get the napkins get jammed, You can't
• 33:29
  Speaker 1: get enough out.
• 33:30
  Speaker 3: It sucks, they rip. Can they please change that? What
• 33:34
  Speaker 3: about you? Lorraina? Oh, Lorain is probably oh my god,
• 33:36
  Speaker 3: you probably.
• 33:36
  Speaker 4: Got stop it.
• 33:37
  Speaker 6: No, I don't keep the napkins in my car, but
• 33:40
  Speaker 6: I do right now. I went to wingstop last time
• 33:42
  Speaker 6: I was in Vegas, and I took the whole role
• 33:45
  Speaker 6: of napkins.
• 33:46
  Speaker 3: That's not polite, that's not you, that's not good.
• 33:49
  Speaker 6: They didn't give me any so I was like, Oh,
• 33:50
  Speaker 6: I need these.
• 33:52
  Speaker 1: Can anyone explain I walked in the old studio the
• 33:54
  Speaker 1: other day.
• 33:55
  Speaker 3: And there was a roll of toilet paper in there.
• 33:57
  Speaker 3: Can anyone explain that to me?
• 33:58
  Speaker 4: Yes, I can explain that to you. We don't have
• 34:01
  Speaker 4: tissues anywhere at this company. And I think sometimes people
• 34:06
  Speaker 4: are tired of blowing their nose in napkins. Oh, Okay, yeah,
• 34:11
  Speaker 4: that's my assumption. I have no idea.
• 34:13
  Speaker 1: But how much money do you think the company saves
• 34:15
  Speaker 1: by by not buying tissue? Seventy Like who at the
• 34:25
  Speaker 1: corporate level says, well, let's save some money here, no tissue.
• 34:31
  Speaker 3: I don't know. It's great. I love it. That so good?
• 34:34
  Speaker 1: All right?
• 34:34
  Speaker 3: What about you? Cool?
• 34:35
  Speaker 4: Yes, all of my car napkins are from Western Bagel.
• 34:39
  Speaker 1: Oh gosh, every morning on the way home.
• 34:42
  Speaker 4: Yep, because and that's the only thing that I eat
• 34:44
  Speaker 4: in my car. Everything else I'm I'm taking home and eating.
• 34:48
  Speaker 3: Right, very good? What's next? Where are we abby?
• 34:50
  Speaker 1: Here?
• 34:50
  Speaker 3: What we got? All right?
• 34:51
  Speaker 4: JT the wingman. He wants to know what is your
• 34:54
  Speaker 4: favorite mountain? He says he is a fan. He is
• 34:58
  Speaker 4: a fan of Mount Leconte. In this smokey mountains, there's.
• 35:01
  Speaker 1: A there's a joke there, but no, Well, I lived
• 35:05
  Speaker 1: in la It's not a big mountain or anything like that.
• 35:07
  Speaker 3: There was a.
• 35:07
  Speaker 1: Mountain, uh kind of, there was a little lake. It
• 35:11
  Speaker 1: was in East l a kind of Lincoln Heights above
• 35:13
  Speaker 1: Lincoln Heights, the avenues.
• 35:14
  Speaker 3: I used to walk up there.
• 35:15
  Speaker 1: And not a real mount Kilimanjaro or something like that
• 35:19
  Speaker 1: or mount Rainier in Seattle beautiful, but that that was
• 35:21
  Speaker 1: the one I used to walk up to.
• 35:23
  Speaker 3: It was pretty cool. What about you, Loraina?
• 35:26
  Speaker 6: Probably the mountain in my hometown's it's right on the
• 35:29
  Speaker 6: side of the freeway and every year the senior class
• 35:33
  Speaker 6: goes up and puts like the year on it. So
• 35:35
  Speaker 6: it's a really cool mountain that kind of means something,
• 35:37
  Speaker 6: you know, climate.
• 35:39
  Speaker 4: Yeah, what about you, Coop, I'm gonna have to go
• 35:42
  Speaker 4: with probably Mount Fuji, oh, because you were in Japan.
• 35:46
  Speaker 3: Yeah, it's pretty cool to flex. That's a flex by Cooper.
• 35:51
  Speaker 3: What's next? Quickly?
• 35:52
  Speaker 4: All right, let me see here for dog wants to know?
• 35:56
  Speaker 4: Do you ever think we'll see a that's a sports
• 35:58
  Speaker 4: question for dog?
• 36:00
  Speaker 1: You just should we take a Benny Award away from
• 36:03
  Speaker 1: your perk dog asking a sports question.
• 36:05
  Speaker 3: You can't ask a sports question on a sports show.