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  Speaker 1: I know that so many people have reached out that
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  Speaker 1: are fans of the show. They're very excited about the
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  Speaker 1: Bennies which are coming up this weekend, and people trying
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  Speaker 1: to manipulate the vote, you know, pointing out that they
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  Speaker 1: did things that were more impressive than other people that
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  Speaker 1: have been nominated for awards.
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  Speaker 3: So I'm dealing with that.
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  Speaker 1: Fortunately, I haven't really written back to many of you idiots,
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  Speaker 1: but there is a online X vote if you want
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  Speaker 1: to vote for these social media contributors. Three rounds, so
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  Speaker 1: it's round one. We're gonna whittle it down from I
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  Speaker 1: think we started with thirty six there were four buys,
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  Speaker 1: and then we've got thirty two slots, and we'll get
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  Speaker 1: whittle that down and then eventually we'll get down to
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  Speaker 1: the champion, the winner of the Benny Award for X contributions.
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  Speaker 3: But our lead this hour, don't bare the lead, my man.
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  Speaker 1: As one of our big muckety MUCKs has said, over
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  Speaker 1: the years, don't bear leads. Our lead this hour is
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  Speaker 1: from just adjacent to skid Row, the Lakers for all
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  Speaker 1: the glitz and glamour play and the armpit of Los Angeles, horrible.
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  Speaker 3: Place where they play, and.
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  Speaker 1: That was where the showcase game of the night, and
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  Speaker 1: I've been told this is a big deal and I
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  Speaker 1: need to talk about If I don't talk about it,
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  Speaker 1: I'm doing a bad job.
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  Speaker 3: I don't want to do a bad job. So I will.
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  Speaker 1: I will talk a little regular season pro bouncy ball,
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  Speaker 1: something I try to avoid at all costs. But here
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  Speaker 1: we are as far as the games are concerned. So Luca,
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  Speaker 1: Luca Donzig matching up against his old buddies, his teammates
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  Speaker 1: is forever team that kicked him to the curb, said
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  Speaker 1: bye bye as Dallas. Now, this game would have been
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  Speaker 1: much more exciting had it been in Texas, but it
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  Speaker 1: was in LA and that was the first time Luca
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  Speaker 1: took on his former team there since the trade. I
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  Speaker 1: don't know if you saw any of this. It was
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  Speaker 1: nationally broadcast on Turner. They had the game there. I
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  Speaker 1: watched Maybe you did. I don't know, maybe not. Maybe
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  Speaker 1: you know I watched it for you. It's my good
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  Speaker 1: mits for the day, So we took one for the team.
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  Speaker 1: We did watch this game and Luca I didn't have
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  Speaker 1: a gatty stat line in terms of, you know, score
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  Speaker 1: for forty or fifty points or anything like that, but
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  Speaker 1: he did have a triple double nineteen points, fifteen rebounds
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  Speaker 1: and twelve assists and a partridge in a pear tree
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  Speaker 1: and the Lakers barely squeezing by a game that was
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  Speaker 1: tight up in the fourth quarter with a few minutes
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  Speaker 1: to go, and the Lakers end up beating the MAVs
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  Speaker 1: one oh seven to ninety nine. So let us discuss
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  Speaker 1: the question for the esteem panels you were part of.
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  Speaker 1: You're part of the Esteem panel?
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  Speaker 3: What stood out?
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  Speaker 1: What stood out about Luka Donsik's first matchup against his
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  Speaker 1: former team, the mav Rex. So I've got serenaded yellow
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  Speaker 1: pages and top rope. I'll explain what the yellow pages are.
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  Speaker 1: For those of you that have no idea what the
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  Speaker 1: yellow pages are, I'll explain now. A let's start out
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  Speaker 1: being forced. I'm getting paid for it, so I'm really
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  Speaker 1: forced to do this. But watching the Mavericks and the Lakers,
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  Speaker 1: my first takeaway was not impressed.
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  Speaker 3: With the Lakers.
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  Speaker 1: I was told this is God's gift to basketball when
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  Speaker 1: they beat the Denver Nuggets over the weekend and people
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  Speaker 1: were upset in and.
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  Speaker 3: Talking about it.
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  Speaker 1: So I was like, well, the Lakers probably should win
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  Speaker 1: this game by what forty points? I mean, Dallas blows right,
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  Speaker 1: They're not very good. They don't have a bunch of guys.
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  Speaker 1: And yet I'm watching it and you had the flotsam
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  Speaker 1: and jetsum for Dallas, yet Kyrie Irving the fossil of
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  Speaker 1: Klay Thompson.
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  Speaker 3: And I don't know who any of these other guys are.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, a bunch of stiffs, and yet they were
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  Speaker 1: going blow for blow with the Lakers. It was a
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  Speaker 1: tie game in the fourth quarter, and so by Mike
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  Speaker 1: count and I stopped counting. Actually ran into the Great
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  Speaker 1: Steve de Sager in the hallways. We have virtual Tosaga
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  Speaker 1: all night, but I ran into him as he was
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  Speaker 1: exiting the building here and we were trying to go
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  Speaker 1: over our notes here, and I said, I counted at
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  Speaker 1: least twelve wide open three point shots that Dallas missed
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  Speaker 1: wide open. So I don't know, is that good Laker defense?
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  Speaker 1: Just leave him open, let him miss. Maybe that is
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  Speaker 1: I don't know. Some of the things I jotted down
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  Speaker 1: on the notes thing on my iPhone watching this game,
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  Speaker 1: some random observations. Lebron James, for the second time at
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  Speaker 1: least this season, airballed a free throw. He did this
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  Speaker 1: against the People's team the Clippers at the Intuit Dome.
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  Speaker 1: The greatest Arene in Los Angeles, Grissorene and basketball. So
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  Speaker 1: Lebron in the fourth quarter airball the foul shot. Did
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  Speaker 1: Jordan ever?
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  Speaker 3: Maybe he did? Maybe did Jordan airball the foul shot?
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  Speaker 4: I don't know.
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  Speaker 3: I have no idea.
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  Speaker 1: And that is something I will give Lebron credit. That
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  Speaker 1: is something that is very relatable to every man, woman
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  Speaker 1: and child, to airball a foul shot. We can all
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  Speaker 1: do that thousand percent. We can all do that. Also,
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  Speaker 1: it's good to know, despite my tough love of the
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  Speaker 1: Laker franchise over the years, that the executives over there
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  Speaker 1: are closeted p ones, that the Laker people are closeted
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  Speaker 1: p ones.
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  Speaker 3: Now, how did I determine that? Let me explain.
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  Speaker 1: We have ranted multiple times on this program that since
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  Speaker 1: Luca came to the Lakers that the yellow uniforms the
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  Speaker 1: Lakers wear are unbig coming for Luca. He's a chubby
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  Speaker 1: chubby and so they put them in mouthball.
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  Speaker 3: And mothballs is the word I'm looking for.
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  Speaker 1: They put them in mothballs for the game against the
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  Speaker 1: Mavericks there and they wore their weird, ugly like third jersey.
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  Speaker 3: Purple thing is what they had on there.
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  Speaker 1: But that is validation, Okay, that is validation that Luca
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  Speaker 1: looks like an obese lemonhead candy in the gold Laker uniform.
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  Speaker 1: And as fashionist, as it pointed out, if you wear
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  Speaker 1: the color yellow and your fat, you look even fatter.
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  Speaker 3: You just do right.
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  Speaker 1: Yellow makes you appear larger because it reflects more light
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  Speaker 1: and thus makes the body seem bigger. So Luca looked
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  Speaker 1: a little more in shape, even though it's all an
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  Speaker 1: optical illusion and all that. Now, I will do the
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  Speaker 1: rare and appropriate, rare and appropriate tip of the cap
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  Speaker 1: to the Laker historians. There was something that took place
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  Speaker 1: here that I chuckled at, and I thought, you know what,
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  Speaker 1: that's a good job by you. And I am fair
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  Speaker 1: that people think I'm just a critic and I just
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  Speaker 1: take pot shots here behind the microphone and I unload.
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  Speaker 1: I'm never Benny Brightside, but I will Benny Brightside. I
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  Speaker 1: will tip the cap to my mortal enemy, the Laker historians,
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  Speaker 1: because I chuckled multiple times throughout the game when Luca
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  Speaker 1: was at the foul line and the Laker historians got
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  Speaker 1: into a like a Krooner position of you, where they
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  Speaker 1: were serenading Nico Harrison, the Dallas general manager, who will
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  Speaker 1: be unemployed and should probably get just hired by the
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  Speaker 1: Lakers at some point.
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  Speaker 3: Here, I would think I'll get a job in the
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  Speaker 3: Laker from office.
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  Speaker 1: But that boob Nico Harrison, who is being blamed for now,
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  Speaker 1: is the one that was solely responsible for the trade,
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  Speaker 1: which not really a trade of Luca to the Lakers,
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  Speaker 1: And so the historians decided to serenade Luke.
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  Speaker 3: I think we do we have that. I think we
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  Speaker 3: have to take a listen here, this is a little
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  Speaker 3: clip here, think a little.
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  Speaker 2: Bit, now.
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  Speaker 1: You Nico, Thank you Nico. I love rhythmic chanting. Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: thank you Nico. Now I chuckle when that happened, And
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  Speaker 1: it happened multiple times, and some were kind of light,
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  Speaker 1: other times it was a little louder. I did appreciate, though,
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  Speaker 1: the fact that that is an admission by the Laker
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  Speaker 1: historians that this was not a trade. This was a
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  Speaker 1: train heist. It was not a trade. It was a
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  Speaker 1: train heist. And so they're admitting them by thanking Nico.
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  Speaker 1: They're realizing this is not really a trade. A trade
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  Speaker 1: is where you know, quid pro quo. You don't trade
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  Speaker 1: a broken down stiff like Anthony Davis for someone in
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  Speaker 1: the prime of their career, which is what happened here. Now,
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  Speaker 1: I would love to know how deep this goes. I
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  Speaker 1: have one of my media buddies swears I think he's
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  Speaker 1: wearing a tenfoil hat, but he swears to me that
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  Speaker 1: this goes above Nico Harrison, above Maverick ownership, that when
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  Speaker 1: they agreed to buy the team from Mark Cuban, this
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  Speaker 1: is like part of some grand plan where the NBA
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  Speaker 1: TV contracts, that they agreed to the new TV deal
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  Speaker 1: which kicks in with NBC and Amazon next year and
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  Speaker 1: they will continue with ESPN. That they had to prop
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  Speaker 1: up the Laker franchise, that the Lakers fall up old
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  Speaker 1: man Lebron forty years old. So my buddy's convinced that
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  Speaker 1: this came at the league office on Fifth Avenue in Manhattan.
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  Speaker 1: They're like, hey, we got to do a solid, we
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  Speaker 1: got to make sure the Lakers have a young star,
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  Speaker 1: and we'll just well, this is the way we're going
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  Speaker 1: to do it. Now. That's his theory. Other people agree
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  Speaker 1: with that. I believe it will all come out at
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  Speaker 1: some point. But if the NBA had a real commissioner,
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  Speaker 1: and let's say the NBA he didn't do that, that
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  Speaker 1: Adam Silver was not involved half man, half alien Adam Silver.
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  Speaker 1: If that didn't happen that way, and they had a
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  Speaker 1: real commissioner, the trade would have been voided.
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  Speaker 3: Because the NBA used to have.
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  Speaker 1: A real commissioner named David Stern back in the day,
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  Speaker 1: and he voided the Chris Paul trade because it was lopsided.
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  Speaker 1: All right, now we go to Boston, of all places,
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  Speaker 1: these seas are yet again one of the NBA's top teams.
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  Speaker 3: After winning the championship. However, boo hoo hoo.
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  Speaker 1: Says Celtic star Jason Tatum. He still feels, Jason Tatum,
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  Speaker 1: he still feels that he doesn't get the proper do
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  Speaker 1: he doesn't get the proper credit. Tatum was asked about that.
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  Speaker 1: He said flat out no, when asked to by a scribe,
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  Speaker 1: a basketball scribe, if he feels appreciated for his individual
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  Speaker 1: accomplishments in a Celtic.
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  Speaker 3: Uniform at this point in his career.
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  Speaker 1: And so I asked the question, do you have empathy
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  Speaker 1: for Jason Tatum who feels sad because he's not getting
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  Speaker 1: enough of his ass kissed by the basketball media and fans.
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  Speaker 3: So I give this one a shoulder shrug, and I
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  Speaker 3: just kind of shrugged my shoulders on this.
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  Speaker 1: It is another self inflicted wound by Jason Tatum. Right,
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  Speaker 1: another self inflicted wound by Jason Tatum. Overly self conscious
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  Speaker 1: is unbecoming. And maybe it happened, and I don't recall it,
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  Speaker 1: but in my memory, I don't ever remember Michael Jordan
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  Speaker 1: or Kobe Bryant or players of that ILK complaining because
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  Speaker 1: they were worried about the perceptions of other people. I
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  Speaker 1: don't recall that. Maybe it happened, but Tatum last I checked,
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  Speaker 1: and who knows.
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  Speaker 3: Maybe I'm wrong on this.
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  Speaker 1: He's still writing the manuscript and so you don't get
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  Speaker 1: your flowers until the story is complete.
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  Speaker 3: The story is not complete.
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  Speaker 1: And my Malard advice, my Malord advice, is be like
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  Speaker 1: the old slugan. There used to be this thing before
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  Speaker 1: the Internet called the Yellow Pages where where you needed
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  Speaker 1: it to get phone numbers and things like that, before
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  Speaker 1: everyone started texting everyone and the Internet was around, and
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  Speaker 1: so their slogan was let your fingers do the talking.
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  Speaker 1: So Jason Tatum, let your body of work speak for itself,
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  Speaker 1: and as we pointed out many times, if you are
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  Speaker 1: one of the all time graades, you don't have to
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  Speaker 1: tell people you are. They will tell everyone else for you.
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  Speaker 1: But that's not what's going on here. The Celtics did
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  Speaker 1: break through there the reigning champions of the NBA, and
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  Speaker 1: Jason Tatum was upstaged by Jalen Brown in that playoff run,
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  Speaker 1: then embarrassed himself after the series ended by taking a
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  Speaker 1: bunch of quotes from other players and repackaging them as
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  Speaker 1: his own. It's like he went through the NBA archive
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  Speaker 1: of what you say when you win a championship and let.
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  Speaker 3: Me repeat that.
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  Speaker 1: But Tatum in those playoff games was the beta, not
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  Speaker 1: the alpha. And there was that stat I remember we
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  Speaker 1: talked about it on the show. The first eight NBA
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  Speaker 1: Finals games Jason Tatum played in his career, he had
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  Speaker 1: the worst shooting percentage in history for anyone with one
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  Speaker 1: hundred and fifty shot attempts in that In that sport,
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  Speaker 1: he plays a style that lacks a lot of rasmatas.
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  Speaker 1: While efficient, it lacks the rasmataz the way Jason Tatum plays.
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  Speaker 1: And let's also not forget Steve Kirk benched him in
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  Speaker 1: the Olympic run. That Jason Tatum was an afterthought. He
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  Speaker 1: was getting hemorrhoids on the bench during that Olympic run.
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  Speaker 1: Right now, last word to the Bay Area where the
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  Speaker 1: Golden State Warriors took on the Charlotte basketball team and
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  Speaker 1: they put the Hornets on a shish kebab. They beat
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  Speaker 1: Charlotte by thirty six points on Tuesday while the Lakers
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  Speaker 1: were playing the mav Rex. So that seems like a
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  Speaker 1: pretty big win thirty six points and Golden State improved
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  Speaker 1: to six and one. Since they picked up Jimmy Buckets,
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  Speaker 1: they're winning by twenty plus points in pretty much all
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  Speaker 1: of these games lately, and the early returns are pretty good.
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  Speaker 3: Now.
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  Speaker 1: Jimmy Butler only had six points in that game, didn't
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  Speaker 1: have to play much because the game was over. Charlotte
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  Speaker 1: should have just forfeited and saved everyone the trouble of
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  Speaker 1: going out to the arena in San Francisco. But that's
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  Speaker 1: not the story. The story, quick right, The story is
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  Speaker 1: Jimmy Butler, who believes the Warriors are better than any
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  Speaker 1: other organization. He has been a part of that. According
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  Speaker 1: to Scham's Sharania, the mouthpiece for Jimmy Buckets, fawning report
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  Speaker 1: to fawning report.
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  Speaker 3: To lick lick lick licklick.
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  Speaker 1: Shoulder up bubble bath from Shams Sharania that Butler has
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  Speaker 1: been staying late for shoot a rounds and practices, spending
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  Speaker 1: extra time to get to know his teammates in the
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  Speaker 1: meal room, and he's going above and beyond the call
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  Speaker 1: of duty to integrate himself with the Golden State basketball team.
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  Speaker 1: So Jimmy Butler, let's get to the money part of this.
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  Speaker 1: So Jimmy Butler, according to the story, feels the Warriors
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  Speaker 1: are the best organization he's played for.
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  Speaker 3: So how does that vibe with you? All right?
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  Speaker 1: So imagine, if you will, imagine, if you will, Jimmy
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  Speaker 1: Buckets climbing up to the top rope like your favorite
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  Speaker 1: professional wrestler and bringing down the atomic elbow on pat
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  Speaker 1: Riley's forehead. Boom, just like that. This is a personal beef.
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  Speaker 1: There was an ugly divorce, Make no mistake, this is
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  Speaker 1: personal and Jimmy Butler, who I like, I like the player,
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  Speaker 1: I like Jimmy Butler. However, he is looking to send
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  Speaker 1: a torpedo through the myth of the heat culture. They
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  Speaker 1: want he wants to send that to the shadow realm.
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  Speaker 1: The Heat called you know, that whole nonsense.
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  Speaker 3: About and it's not really not. The Heat generally have.
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  Speaker 1: Gotten players off the scrap heap that have been very effective,
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  Speaker 1: very good pat Riley handcrafting over the years. Whatever Heat
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  Speaker 1: culture is the commitment to winning, blue collar hard work,
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  Speaker 1: which really was the embodiment of what Jimmy Butler had
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  Speaker 1: been in Miami. And now Butler is claiming, after just
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  Speaker 1: a couple of weeks with the team in San Francisco
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  Speaker 1: that that, by the.
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  Speaker 3: Way, team he didn't want to play for.
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  Speaker 1: Remember he originally vetoed the trade and then the Warriors
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  Speaker 1: tossed him some more dead presidents and then he's like, hey,
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  Speaker 1: I can get into that. I can get into that.
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  Speaker 1: And so now they're head and shoulders above everyone else.
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  Speaker 1: And he's played for a lot of teams, Minnesota, Chicago, Philadelphia,
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  Speaker 1: He's bounced around, He's been on the Hobo Express Jimmy
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  Speaker 1: Butler around the NBA.
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  Speaker 2: Be sure to catch live editions of The Ben Meler
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  Speaker 1: So our lead this hour is from the NFL. It's
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  Speaker 1: a big news week for the NFA. You do this
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  Speaker 1: for a living. This is a big week scouting combine.
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  Speaker 1: The only reason the scouting combine exists is for gossip
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  Speaker 1: to drive the conversation. Here in the last week of February,
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  Speaker 1: the combine we'll spill in to Monday, so early March.
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  Speaker 1: It goes over the weekend, and it's nothing but content
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  Speaker 1: here there in every way, and the grapevine is alive
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  Speaker 1: and well.
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  Speaker 3: The rumors running wild this.
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  Speaker 1: Week as the event takes place there Indianapolis, and none
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  Speaker 1: of those rumors made more of an impact throughout the
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  Speaker 1: day over the last twenty four hour news cycle than
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  Speaker 1: the speculation about what former Patriot and Buccaneer tight end
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  Speaker 1: Rob Gronkowski has.
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  Speaker 3: Up his sleeve, what he is considering.
• 18:27
  Speaker 1: A story that came out of randomly Denver, of all places,
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  Speaker 1: that Rob Gronkowski reportedly wants to return to the NFL
• 18:38
  Speaker 1: after doing television in the last couple of years.
• 18:40
  Speaker 3: He has been working out in Vail.
• 18:44
  Speaker 1: It's in Colorado, the rain, working out in Vail, and
• 18:48
  Speaker 1: this offseason wants to be ready for another season, so
• 18:52
  Speaker 1: he's been working out in High altitude to prepare his
• 18:55
  Speaker 1: body training this last couple of months here, I guess
• 18:59
  Speaker 1: really lost month to prepare himself for the return to
• 19:03
  Speaker 1: the NFL, a training camp, etc.
• 19:06
  Speaker 3: Etc. If a team is interested in bringing him in.
• 19:08
  Speaker 1: Now, that report said the Broncos, which happened to be
• 19:12
  Speaker 1: in Colorado as well and also play at altitude, were
• 19:16
  Speaker 1: the team most prominently mentioned at least in this report.
• 19:20
  Speaker 1: Now hours after that started bouncing around the pinball machine
• 19:25
  Speaker 1: of the sports chat or the echo chamber. Hours later.
• 19:29
  Speaker 1: It was not Adam Schefter. Schefter did not debunk it.
• 19:32
  Speaker 1: It was Ian Rapaport from state sponsored NFL media who
• 19:38
  Speaker 1: attempted to shut down the report. He said, Nope, nonsense
• 19:43
  Speaker 1: is what rap sheet said. So let us discuss the question.
• 19:47
  Speaker 1: This NFL insider dude trying to spoil the fun. There
• 19:52
  Speaker 1: the report that Rob Gronkowski is contemplating a return to
• 19:56
  Speaker 1: glory in the NFL and attempted comeback.
• 20:00
  Speaker 3: The report said, Wow, that's nonsense. What are your.
• 20:03
  Speaker 1: Thoughts on the developments involving the Rob Gronkowski story?
• 20:09
  Speaker 3: What are your thoughts on that? So I've got Bingo card, microscope.
• 20:13
  Speaker 1: And meme coin and we will combine all of these
• 20:18
  Speaker 1: things together, and we are going to make a frat party.
• 20:23
  Speaker 1: Doesn't it always look like Gronks ready to go to
• 20:25
  Speaker 1: a frat party at any moment.
• 20:27
  Speaker 3: He's always prepared.
• 20:29
  Speaker 1: He's got like his little travel bag, his overnight bag,
• 20:32
  Speaker 1: and he's ready to go. So my first thought of this,
• 20:35
  Speaker 1: I would say number. I said number. Can I get
• 20:40
  Speaker 1: a number?
• 20:41
  Speaker 3: No, I can't number.
• 20:43
  Speaker 1: Late reaction, all right, So let's start with captain obvious
• 20:47
  Speaker 1: here at the beginning of this mallary monologue. Rap Sheet
• 20:50
  Speaker 1: does work for the prov the news service of the NFL.
• 20:54
  Speaker 1: But spiler alert.
• 20:55
  Speaker 3: He's not always right.
• 20:56
  Speaker 1: Okay, these guys are not always right. And last I checked,
• 21:01
  Speaker 1: he's not some kind of god. He's rap sheet. That's it.
• 21:06
  Speaker 1: And so Gronkowski has hinted. We know for a fact
• 21:10
  Speaker 1: that he has hinted at returning to the NFL.
• 21:13
  Speaker 3: He loves to flirt with the idea that he would.
• 21:17
  Speaker 1: Come back right and in fact, he said recently quote,
• 21:23
  Speaker 1: I might as well go back to football because I'm
• 21:25
  Speaker 1: grinding harder than I ever grinded before, and I'm not
• 21:29
  Speaker 1: even playing football. Gronkowski made that statement on The Dude
• 21:34
  Speaker 1: on Dude's podcast.
• 21:35
  Speaker 3: I don't even know what that is.
• 21:39
  Speaker 1: What kind of name is that for a Dude on
• 21:42
  Speaker 1: Dude's podcast play. If Gronk will go on the Dude
• 21:45
  Speaker 1: on Dude's podcasts, you'll probably go on the fifth Hour podcast.
• 21:47
  Speaker 1: I can probably book Gronk for my podcast My God. Anyway,
• 21:51
  Speaker 1: here's when you look down from thirty thousand feet, it
• 21:55
  Speaker 1: actually makes some sense for Gronk to try to come back.
• 21:59
  Speaker 3: He's not good at television.
• 22:01
  Speaker 1: He's not. Just be honest here, he sucks at TV.
• 22:04
  Speaker 1: There is a connection to the Broncos, if my malor
• 22:07
  Speaker 1: math is correct. Sean Payton when he was on hiatus
• 22:11
  Speaker 1: when the Saints, worked at Fox and was a colleague
• 22:13
  Speaker 1: of Rob Gronkowski.
• 22:15
  Speaker 3: So there is a relationship there.
• 22:16
  Speaker 1: So it would make sense the Broncos, Sean Payton, the
• 22:20
  Speaker 1: connection with Gronk. That part of it makes sense, and
• 22:25
  Speaker 1: the other factory. This is a standard trope of the
• 22:29
  Speaker 1: NFL off season. When you dust off the off season
• 22:33
  Speaker 1: bingo card in the NFL, the former player career renaissance
• 22:39
  Speaker 1: is on the bingo card. It's on there. That's a
• 22:42
  Speaker 1: standard storyline. There's certain storylines that fill the NFL off season.
• 22:46
  Speaker 1: Been doing this for a minute or two, and you
• 22:50
  Speaker 1: probably know these as well, and you pay attention to
• 22:52
  Speaker 1: this stuff, and you're maybe not in it as much
• 22:54
  Speaker 1: as I am, but you know what's going on. So
• 22:56
  Speaker 1: the former player coming back. Also star NFL coach thinking
• 23:01
  Speaker 1: about leaving coaching because of the grind and tired of
• 23:05
  Speaker 1: the grind and wants to do television. Sean McVay was
• 23:09
  Speaker 1: popular pick for that a couple of years ago. Mike
• 23:11
  Speaker 1: Tomlin has been mentioned in that storyline that offseason trope
• 23:16
  Speaker 1: star NFL coach thinking about going and doing TV.
• 23:19
  Speaker 3: Also, the NFL coach could be traded.
• 23:21
  Speaker 1: We already had that with the Shanahan rumors to the Bears,
• 23:24
  Speaker 1: but that's over with now because the coaching vacancies have
• 23:26
  Speaker 1: been filled. You've got something that we look forward to
• 23:30
  Speaker 1: in the next month or so. File this one away.
• 23:34
  Speaker 1: The random realtor or friend of the realtor that spotted
• 23:41
  Speaker 1: Player X looking at real estate in like Foxburg, like
• 23:47
  Speaker 1: T Higgins, There'll be a story T Higgins was looking
• 23:50
  Speaker 1: at places in Boston to rent, or another one is
• 23:57
  Speaker 1: Matthew Stafford's wife was looking. He had schools in New
• 24:01
  Speaker 1: Jersey and she was leading at private schools. In New
• 24:05
  Speaker 1: Jersey for the kids. So that means Stafford's going to
• 24:07
  Speaker 1: the Giants done. You also have, as you mentioned that
• 24:11
  Speaker 1: the Gronk thing, former player returning for years. It was
• 24:14
  Speaker 1: Colin Kaepernick, who wasn't even that good when he played,
• 24:17
  Speaker 1: but people got clicks. He's like, well, Kaepernick's gonna come back,
• 24:20
  Speaker 1: He's gonna play. You got that. All the time that
• 24:23
  Speaker 1: goes on. We had quarterbacks Kurt Warner when he left
• 24:27
  Speaker 1: the NFL. Brett Farv popped up Peyton Manning, who was
• 24:31
  Speaker 1: totally cooked his last year with the Broncos, but his
• 24:34
  Speaker 1: name kept coming up. Maybe he'll come back. Tom Brady
• 24:37
  Speaker 1: has had that one. Maybe Brady wants to come back
• 24:39
  Speaker 1: and play for the forty nine ers. Well that story
• 24:41
  Speaker 1: come back around, all right, now, pitchdo what are the
• 24:44
  Speaker 1: odds let's just say that rap sheet is wrong. What
• 24:50
  Speaker 1: are the odds that if he tried to come back,
• 24:52
  Speaker 1: Gronkowski would be successful in the comeback attempt? So this,
• 24:58
  Speaker 1: of course is the penn on what your definition of
• 25:01
  Speaker 1: success is, What my definition of success and what your
• 25:04
  Speaker 1: definition of success are to totally different things, right, But
• 25:09
  Speaker 1: looking at this objectively, putting it under the malard microscope,
• 25:12
  Speaker 1: as we like to do, the Malurd microscope, and you
• 25:14
  Speaker 1: break it down scientifically, should this story be real? And
• 25:19
  Speaker 1: I'm skeptical, right, I'm skeptical. I'm skeptical this is just
• 25:23
  Speaker 1: a pure attention grab and all that. But if that's
• 25:26
  Speaker 1: the motivation, if it is merely to get publicity, it
• 25:31
  Speaker 1: is a grand salami. It is a grand slam. Get
• 25:35
  Speaker 1: out the rye bread and the mayo and the mustard,
• 25:37
  Speaker 1: and it's a grand slam mission accomplished cheap publicity for Gronkowski.
• 25:42
  Speaker 1: If this is the real deal, and Gronkowski is actually
• 25:46
  Speaker 1: considering a return to the field, it's not an okie doke.
• 25:51
  Speaker 1: If that's the case, outset the malarodds at plus fifteen
• 25:54
  Speaker 1: hundred now plus fifteen hundred implies about a five percent
• 25:58
  Speaker 1: chance will be any good.
• 26:00
  Speaker 3: We have seen so many of these.
• 26:01
  Speaker 1: Guys leave and then a couple of years later they
• 26:05
  Speaker 1: come back and there is Shehelle. The idea of them
• 26:09
  Speaker 1: returning to greatness is nice, but they generally it just
• 26:12
  Speaker 1: doesn't work out.
• 26:13
  Speaker 3: There's a lot of ross, a lot of corrosion, a lot.
• 26:16
  Speaker 1: Of mold and all that in Gronk. The way he
• 26:20
  Speaker 1: played back in his younger days. He's in his mid
• 26:23
  Speaker 1: thirties now. He was a crash test dummy. He played
• 26:28
  Speaker 1: when he was last player. I think it was thirty two,
• 26:30
  Speaker 1: So he's gonna be thirty six by the time the
• 26:32
  Speaker 1: next NFL season comes around.
• 26:35
  Speaker 3: And you look at the contemporary.
• 26:36
  Speaker 1: Tight end that would be Travis Kelsey was about toast
• 26:40
  Speaker 1: right now at age thirty five. Travis Kelsey a right now.
• 26:43
  Speaker 1: Final point, we pivot to air Arizona, well, actually the
• 26:48
  Speaker 1: combine in Indianapolis, but the Arizona contingent where Cardinals coach
• 26:52
  Speaker 1: Jonathan Gannon was singing the virtues of Kyler Murray. Yah.
• 27:00
  Speaker 1: How much stalk do you put into the coach of
• 27:04
  Speaker 1: the Cardinals buttering the biscuits of Kyler Murrays. Well, it's
• 27:09
  Speaker 1: not his fault. The Cardinals fell apart in the second
• 27:11
  Speaker 1: alp blah blah blah blah blah blah blah.
• 27:12
  Speaker 3: That was the theme. That was the theme from the
• 27:15
  Speaker 3: coach Gannon there.
• 27:17
  Speaker 1: So think of the way I look at this, right, Agannon,
• 27:21
  Speaker 1: who you know, we don't need to remember his name.
• 27:22
  Speaker 1: He won't be there that long. The Cardinals coach is
• 27:24
  Speaker 1: always a temp job. But Gannon sounds like that kind
• 27:29
  Speaker 1: of fringe influencer guru type at the bully pulpit there
• 27:36
  Speaker 1: in my head, the.
• 27:37
  Speaker 3: Cartoon bubble above my head.
• 27:40
  Speaker 1: It's like the shady low life trying to get you
• 27:43
  Speaker 1: to buy some crypto. But it's like the meme it's
• 27:46
  Speaker 1: thinking like the Kyler Murray mean coin. We'll call it
• 27:50
  Speaker 1: the Alligator Arms meme coin, and Gannon is using misleading promotion,
• 27:55
  Speaker 1: if you will, to try to artificially hype up and
• 27:59
  Speaker 1: drive demand for the Alligator Arms meme coin. They're trying
• 28:05
  Speaker 1: to drive up demand for that and the price he
• 28:07
  Speaker 1: hopes will skyrocket, and then once it reaches a certain level,
• 28:12
  Speaker 1: the Arizona football team can sell off the meme coin.
• 28:16
  Speaker 3: Alligator Arms, get rid of it. It's called the pump
• 28:19
  Speaker 3: and dump, and there you go. The Hawk Tour.
• 28:22
  Speaker 1: Girl was accused of being part of the scam, the
• 28:26
  Speaker 1: crypto scam back and I don't know whatever happened with
• 28:28
  Speaker 1: that that went away or not, but we now know
• 28:32
  Speaker 1: that Kyler, based on previous editions of this show, is
• 28:37
  Speaker 1: very thin skin, very thin skinned, and he needs his
• 28:42
  Speaker 1: head rubbed, his shoulders rubbed, He needs to get reassurance.
• 28:47
  Speaker 1: So really what that was was a. It was knee
• 28:51
  Speaker 1: pads from Gannon. It was getting down low there, massaging everything.
• 28:56
  Speaker 1: And the whole thing's ridiculous because if you look at
• 29:00
  Speaker 1: the Cardinals, now you look at the Cardinals franchise, Arizona
• 29:03
  Speaker 1: got rid of Cliff Kingsbury.
• 29:04
  Speaker 3: They thought Cliff Kingsbury was holding back alligator arms. Murray.
• 29:08
  Speaker 3: They thought he was the problem, so they got rid
• 29:11
  Speaker 3: of him. He's gone, all right, fine.
• 29:13
  Speaker 1: Spoiler alert, spoiler alert. Guess what you know what the
• 29:16
  Speaker 1: common denominator is all these years? Ding ding ding ding.
• 29:20
  Speaker 1: That's right, that's right, Kyler common denominator. See see he's
• 29:29
  Speaker 1: got that fun size oopa loopa. Look to him, and
• 29:33
  Speaker 1: he physically cannot handle a full NFL season.
• 29:36
  Speaker 3: That's not my opinion, it's a fact.
• 29:39
  Speaker 1: The seventeen game season is too long for a player
• 29:41
  Speaker 1: the stature of Kyler Murray. We have enough of a
• 29:45
  Speaker 1: body of evidence to verify that this is the case.
• 29:49
  Speaker 1: Nobody wants to talk about it. Everyone's in the nile. No, No,
• 29:51
  Speaker 1: it's not his faults. This guy's fault, that guy's fault.
• 29:54
  Speaker 3: Blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah. So
• 29:56
  Speaker 3: what is my supporting evidence.
• 29:58
  Speaker 1: Let me give you my elevator pitch here, not only
• 30:00
  Speaker 1: the eyeballs and the bifocals, but also the numbers back
• 30:04
  Speaker 1: up what our eyes are telling us. In his career,
• 30:09
  Speaker 1: the first eight games of the NFL season, Kyler Murray
• 30:14
  Speaker 1: has been either average or above average in every key
• 30:18
  Speaker 1: category in terms of yards per pass attempt, quarterback rating,
• 30:23
  Speaker 1: completion percentage, all of that.
• 30:25
  Speaker 3: For the first eight.
• 30:26
  Speaker 1: Games, Kyler Murray is actually a functional NFL quarterback. And
• 30:30
  Speaker 1: then when you get to week nine and beyond. From
• 30:33
  Speaker 1: week nine and beyond, Kyler Murray is not only a quarterback,
• 30:37
  Speaker 1: He's a suckbag at quarterback.
• 30:39
  Speaker 3: He can't play.
• 30:40
  Speaker 1: He is tangibly worse in every major category from first
• 30:45
  Speaker 1: half to second half. That's with two different head coaches.
• 30:48
  Speaker 1: That's with a roster upheaval. The one constant con and
• 30:52
  Speaker 1: this is a consistent common denominator, is Kyler Murray sucks
• 30:56
  Speaker 1: in the second half of NFL season. In my opinion,
• 30:59
  Speaker 1: it's a fact yards per pass attempt, a completion percentage,
• 31:04
  Speaker 1: touchdown passes, interceptions go up, touchdown percentage goes down, interception
• 31:09
  Speaker 1: percentage goes up.
• 31:11
  Speaker 3: Look it up.
• 31:11
  Speaker 1: I'm not making it up. You can look it up.
• 31:13
  Speaker 1: So unless unless the Cardinals can find a sucker, a
• 31:20
  Speaker 1: sucker to take the unreliable Jalopi that is, Kyler Murray,
• 31:25
  Speaker 1: Arizona is stuck in an endless loop writing it's a
• 31:29
  Speaker 1: small world.
• 31:30
  Speaker 3: After all, It's a.
• 31:31
  Speaker 1: Small, small world, over and over again for another three years.
• 31:34
  Speaker 1: The Cardinals, the dumb bums with the Arizona Cardinals, the
• 31:38
  Speaker 1: Mama Lukes there, decided to give Kyler Murray a massive
• 31:41
  Speaker 1: contract extension, and.
• 31:43
  Speaker 3: They then took out the language. They actually has to
• 31:45
  Speaker 3: watch tape.
• 31:46
  Speaker 1: But he is a video game influencer, so he's very
• 31:49
  Speaker 1: good at the video games.
• 31:50
  Speaker 3: Kyler Murray rock solid.
• 31:51
  Speaker 1: There is no out in the contract till twenty twenty eight,
• 31:55
  Speaker 1: no escape patch, no portal.
• 31:57
  Speaker 3: They'd have to eat money.
• 31:58
  Speaker 1: Now, you eat money for a year, but you're not
• 32:00
  Speaker 1: going to do it for three years, so Kyler's not
• 32:02
  Speaker 1: going anywhere.
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• 32:15
  Speaker 3: This is one big galoblo Well the Falcons.
• 32:20
  Speaker 5: GM remains adamant that the team is comfortable keeping Kirk
• 32:22
  Speaker 5: Cousins as their backup. Most NFL reporters believe the Falcons
• 32:25
  Speaker 5: will cut Cousins. One recent report has them parting ways
• 32:29
  Speaker 5: before Saint Patrick's Day. Yeah, Ben, do you think Cousins
• 32:31
  Speaker 5: hits the market soon? Well, what's your definition of soon?
• 32:35
  Speaker 1: I think the deadline is March seventeenth, which is isn't
• 32:38
  Speaker 1: that Saint Patty's Day? March seventeenth? So yeah, that's he's
• 32:41
  Speaker 1: done by then. What's the point of keeping him the
• 32:44
  Speaker 1: one he can't play. They don't think he can play anymore,
• 32:47
  Speaker 1: and he's just going to be a distraction. So yeah,
• 32:49
  Speaker 1: they're going to release him by March seventeenth, and they'll
• 32:51
  Speaker 1: be on the Cleveland Browns and that'll be that. I'd
• 32:54
  Speaker 1: be stunned if Atlanta can say that they're comfortable keeping him.
• 32:58
  Speaker 3: But there's no he's to keep him.
• 33:00
  Speaker 1: They've got his replacement and let him go somewhere else next.
• 33:04
  Speaker 5: The Pistons are in the midst of a seven game
• 33:06
  Speaker 5: win streak because they continue to get stellar performances from
• 33:09
  Speaker 5: Cade Cunningham, Ben how High do you think the Pistons
• 33:11
  Speaker 5: can continue to climb in the East.
• 33:13
  Speaker 1: Well, it doesn't really matter what they do in the
• 33:15
  Speaker 1: regular season. It's all about the playoffs, and they look
• 33:17
  Speaker 1: like a second round and out team in the playoffs.
• 33:19
  Speaker 1: That said, I did watch the Pistons Clippers game. I
• 33:21
  Speaker 1: watched the other day I watched the Pistons feed. Do
• 33:23
  Speaker 1: you know who George Blaha is? This guy has been
• 33:27
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• 33:30
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• 33:33
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• 33:35
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• 33:38
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• 33:41
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• 33:43
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• 33:43
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• 33:45
  Speaker 5: Be the only one moving to a new position on
• 33:47
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• 33:51
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• 33:54
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• 33:56
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• 33:58
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• 33:59
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• 34:01
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• 34:03
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• 34:06
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• 34:10
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• 34:13
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  Speaker 1: Well, but often, Lorena, I have to touch up your
• 36:11
  Speaker 1: work here. But isn't it often directly related to how
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  Speaker 1: attractive you are as a man that women will find
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  Speaker 1: you less creepy?
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  Speaker 6: If you know, there have been attractive men who are
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  Speaker 6: just creepy in general. Like I said, creepy is the
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  Speaker 6: way that you present yourself.
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  Speaker 2: But really, I.
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  Speaker 1: Would argue that if you're kind of a weird looking dude,
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  Speaker 1: it's more likely that you'll be seen as creepy.
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  Speaker 3: That's my point.
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  Speaker 6: Yeah, yeah, I don't know if creepy is the word,
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  Speaker 6: but you can be more turned off by their motives
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  Speaker 6: of course.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: Anyway, all right, see here a lot of this is
• 36:40
  Speaker 1: I forty Ian Lorena says, a lot of men like
• 36:43
  Speaker 1: a woman to have short grass on their infield. Do
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  Speaker 1: women feel the same way about men? Okay, so that's
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  Speaker 1: a sporty term.
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  Speaker 4: Yes, it is a preference, and I don't know.
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  Speaker 6: It kind of goes with the where you live at
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  Speaker 6: different areas, like different things.
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  Speaker 3: Really, see, you think it's a regional thing. Some places like.
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  Speaker 4: France doesn't shave ever, right, I don't know.
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  Speaker 3: There are people.
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  Speaker 6: I just heard a rap the other day that said
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  Speaker 6: they prefer hair down there.
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  Speaker 3: I haven't said.
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  Speaker 4: You should get some cultural diversity there.
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  Speaker 5: Ben I guess, but yeah, they really hold their places
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  Speaker 5: they need more so like.
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  Speaker 1: In Poland they probably it's like a polar bear in Poland.
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  Speaker 6: Yeah, yes, they don't trim the hedges, sure exactly, or
• 37:32
  Speaker 6: you know, somewhere down here in California. You have to
• 37:34
  Speaker 6: trim the hedges all the time because you wear bikinis
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  Speaker 6: and things. Well, obviously you wear bikinis all the time.
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  Speaker 3: I do.
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  Speaker 6: I have seen your collections.
• 37:40
  Speaker 1: Need to talk about that on the airs me And
• 37:42
  Speaker 1: there's a guy named Marv Albert you know who that is,
• 37:44
  Speaker 1: but he made the bikini famous. Andy writes in from
• 37:48
  Speaker 1: Lando Lakes, Minnesota, says, since my gal had the menopause
• 37:51
  Speaker 1: five years ago, I have not been able to put
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  Speaker 1: the pickle in the in the in the you know what,
• 37:56
  Speaker 1: should I find a new box for my pickle? Asking
• 38:00
  Speaker 1: for a that's Andy and Lino Lakes. He misses putting
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  Speaker 1: the pickle in the Yeah.
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  Speaker 6: Yeah, there's actually little toys you can get at the
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  Speaker 6: store where the box fits.
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  Speaker 4: Right in your hand, right in your hand.
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  Speaker 6: And there's some sales going on right now, So go
• 38:14
  Speaker 6: and check out, you know, different things.
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  Speaker 4: Find him what works for you?
• 38:17
  Speaker 1: All right, We have a call for you, Lorena. Joey
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  Speaker 1: is in southern California in San Bernardino, the nine oh nine.
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  Speaker 3: What's going on? Joey?
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  Speaker 4: You know what they call baby Kangaroo's Joey's.
• 38:27
  Speaker 1: Really yeah, fun fact are you making that up.
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  Speaker 6: No, you should put that on the the Are you
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  Speaker 6: smarter than Lorena?
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  Speaker 1: You are? You know the answer.
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  Speaker 4: So it's what's up, Joey. Joey? M hmm, you're just snoring.
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  Speaker 3: I hope he's doing that and not something else that
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  Speaker 3: he might be.
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  Speaker 4: Well, what if you haven't?
• 38:48
  Speaker 6: Has anyone ever fallen asleep while they were getting it on?
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  Speaker 3: Hi, Joey, you're on the air.
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  Speaker 4: Joey, were you asleep?
• 38:59
  Speaker 3: All right? Thank you? You are right. We're done with him.
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  Speaker 1: King Rory writes in says, how romantic is it for
• 39:04
  Speaker 1: a couple to give each other massages? Oh?
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  Speaker 4: I love massages. I just bought a new massage toy. Okay,
• 39:12
  Speaker 4: it's a rolling massage.
• 39:13
  Speaker 1: Sure it is. Ferg dog rights Since says he wants
• 39:16
  Speaker 1: to know the raina. Are women impressed by Benny Award winners?
• 39:20
  Speaker 1: The ladies get turned on by that?
• 39:22
  Speaker 6: I don't know if Kelly and des Moines and Shane,
• 39:25
  Speaker 6: if either of them has won a Benny before, have they?
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  Speaker 3: Uh?
• 39:29
  Speaker 1: Well, we've done the Bennies a long time, I think.
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  Speaker 6: I mean, if Shane has won before, we need to
• 39:34
  Speaker 6: ask Kelly if that is part of what she is
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  Speaker 6: So attracted to.
• 39:38
  Speaker 1: Yeah. Well, ast JT the wing Man says, is it
• 39:41
  Speaker 1: love when couples choose to work out together to live
• 39:43
  Speaker 1: any healthies?
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  Speaker 4: Oh my gosh, I love that.
• 39:46
  Speaker 6: And you know what, even if it's not your love person,
• 39:49
  Speaker 6: it's just good to go to the gym with someone
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  Speaker 6: who can push you and support you and show up
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  Speaker 6: with you all the time.
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  Speaker 3: All right.
• 39:55
  Speaker 1: Last one, Shane in de Moyes says, if you're wearing
• 39:58
  Speaker 1: a denim top that is a different color denim than
• 40:01
  Speaker 1: the bottom, is that still a Canadian tuxedo?
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  Speaker 4: You should be in jail.
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  Speaker 3: Well that's a.
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  Speaker 1: Good question, though, I mean tuxedos come in different colors.
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  Speaker 3: You have black tuxeda, have the red the blue bottom exactly,
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  Speaker 3: So I say it is still a Canadian tuxedo.
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  Speaker 4: Yes it is, but you shouldn't do it all. Come
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  Speaker 4: save yourself, Save yourself.
• 40:19
  Speaker 3: Tremendous advice by the Lorraina.
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  Speaker 2: There be sure to catch live editions of The Ben
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  Speaker 2: Meller Show weekdays at two am Eastern eleven pm Pacific.
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  Speaker 2: Attention everyone, and the password is password, you idiot, password
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  Speaker 2: the word Game of the Stars.
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  Speaker 3: Here's Ben Meller.
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  Speaker 1: Okay, we've got Daniel America's favorite crossing garden fort Wayne
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  Speaker 1: teamed up with me Ben and Rob in the Commonwealth,
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  Speaker 1: who's teamed up with the koop dal loop.
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  Speaker 3: And we have a list of words one to ten.
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  Speaker 1: And if you're seeing the words right now, you're cheating. Daniel.
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  Speaker 1: Picking number one to ten, that'll be word number one
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  Speaker 1: or whatever word.
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  Speaker 3: You take the lead? That ton seed number.
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  Speaker 1: Three, number three, number three, All right, let's go with.
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  Speaker 3: Mber number three. How about preferred.
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  Speaker 6: Choice?
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  Speaker 3: No, that was gonna be my clue. Sucks to be you, Rob.
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  Speaker 3: Let's go with uh oh, treasured favorite.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, bull crap. That's bull crap.
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  Speaker 3: You got it on my word. Good job, Rob, It's nine.
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  Speaker 3: Totally got it on treasured right now? You got on mine?
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  Speaker 6: Yeah, the first one.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, see I get credit. Hey, in your face. All right,
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  Speaker 1: go ahead to pick a number Rob, one to but
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  Speaker 1: not three?
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  Speaker 2: Nine?
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  Speaker 3: Please number nine?
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  Speaker 4: All right, number nine?
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  Speaker 3: Okay, we don't have a number nine. What do we do? Oh,
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  Speaker 3: let's go with connection? Mm hmm, job back, go ahead.
• 42:24
  Speaker 1: Go ahead, playing password games, he's passing connection. Yeah, how
• 42:31
  Speaker 1: about Daniel? How about affair.
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  Speaker 3: Relationship? Yes, good guys.
• 42:44
  Speaker 1: Up tied the game.
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  Speaker 3: We've tied the game.
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  Speaker 1: Daniel. We've tied the game at nine, nine to nine,
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  Speaker 1: and we get to go next. All right, please pick
• 42:51
  Speaker 1: a number one to ten, but not one or or
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  Speaker 1: not wait, not not three and not nine, not three
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  Speaker 1: and nine.
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  Speaker 2: So my wife and I.
• 43:00
  Speaker 3: Are going to be celebrating our tahuana anniversary.
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  Speaker 2: You may we'll go with number ten.
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  Speaker 1: Number ten.
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  Speaker 3: Easy. You don't know it's easy. You have no idea.
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  Speaker 1: Uh, let's go with h how about see now you
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  Speaker 1: screwed me up, coop? Because I see now you're.
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  Speaker 3: Getting in my head here, you schmuck.
• 43:26
  Speaker 1: Now, I don't know that I want to do the
• 43:28
  Speaker 1: word I want to do.
• 43:28
  Speaker 3: Here, Let's go with screw it.
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  Speaker 1: How about mm hmm.
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  Speaker 4: Top chop ben?
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  Speaker 1: Hey, yeah, come on, all right, how about rescue?
• 43:47
  Speaker 2: Thank you, oh man, rescue, d.
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  Speaker 3: Daniel. The only thing I can think of my head
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  Speaker 3: is carry Sorry what Carrie? He said? Carry carry?
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  Speaker 2: Rob.
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  Speaker 3: Let's go with liberate what you know the audience? Freedom? No?
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  Speaker 4: No, oh, I know what.
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  Speaker 1: Never mind, I'm gonna try something a little different here, Daniel.
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  Speaker 1: I'm gonna go bullpen. Yeah, well that was good, that's
• 44:32
  Speaker 1: good baseball lingo.
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  Speaker 4: I was gonna say rescue, that's rescue.
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  Speaker 3: Was his first clue. That was my first clue. Thanks
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  Speaker 3: for listening.
• 44:41
  Speaker 1: Sure, yes, well for Larina, she points out, it's talk radio,
• 44:45
  Speaker 1: not listen radio.
• 44:46
  Speaker 3: She only likes all right, all right, Rob, let's let's
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  Speaker 3: tie this up. Pick a wait, you got nine right?
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  Speaker 2: There?
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  Speaker 3: Is it? Eight?
• 44:55
  Speaker 1: Eight?
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  Speaker 3: All right? So go ahead. Actually we can take the
• 44:58
  Speaker 3: lead and the win. Here, Rob, pick number number six.
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  Speaker 3: Oh that's easy, dude. That's a layup. Dude. I see
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  Speaker 3: what you're doing now. You don't get this right, Oh
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  Speaker 3: you are so Oh my gosh, right there. Let's go with.
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  Speaker 5: Slothful what what.
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  Speaker 3: Know? Your audience?
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  Speaker 1: Cool?
• 45:24
  Speaker 3: I mean my gun? I don't even know what that means.
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  Speaker 3: Holy crap, slothful.
• 45:33
  Speaker 2: Sloth s l O.
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  Speaker 3: T eight hurry brob.
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  Speaker 2: M.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, he's got another. How about oh, hold on, he's
• 45:46
  Speaker 3: got it.
• 45:46
  Speaker 1: No, he's not in having no hitting. No, all right, Daniel,
• 45:51
  Speaker 1: Let's go with loafing Bob.
• 45:56
  Speaker 3: How about idol idol?
• 46:00
  Speaker 1: I don't now the word is lazy. We won the game, gay, yo,
• 46:03
  Speaker 1: we won the game America's Favorite crossing Guard and Ben,
• 46:08
  Speaker 1: we won the game. That's a walk off where we
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  Speaker 1: won the game