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Hour 3 - Parade of Excuses · The Ben Maller Show

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Speaker 1: Dingdong. It's our number three, our number three, and the
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Speaker 1: post mortem, the autopsy on the downfall of the team
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Speaker 1: that was guaranteed to win the championship at the trade deadline,
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Speaker 1: the Lakers. What is your judgment on Lebron James and
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Speaker 1: his status with the Lakers? Lebron being called out by
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Speaker 1: a number of pundits and former players for his pathetic
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Speaker 1: play in the fourth quarter. Also, what do you make
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Speaker 1: of the get into championship shape quote from JJ Reddick.
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Speaker 1: He did not name any individual players. He said the
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Speaker 1: Lakers have to get into championship shape. What does that mean? Also,
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Speaker 1: Austin Reeves admitted that his struggles in the first round
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Speaker 1: loss were his fault. He took responsibility. How concerned should
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Speaker 1: the Lakers be with him going forward as he was
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Speaker 1: a total flop in the opening round of the playoffs. Well,
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Speaker 1: talk about all of that and more right now here.
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Speaker 1: It is our number three. A parade of excuses. It
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Speaker 1: is just a parade of excuses, that's all.
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Speaker 1: buying show b So our lead this hour is from La,
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Speaker 1: La Land. The post mortem that we're doing, the autopsy
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Speaker 1: on the Lakers. The body's dead there, killed by Rudy
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Speaker 1: Gobert of all peoplekes I saw video of Aunt Edwards
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Speaker 1: doing a victory lap around the arena there in La
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Speaker 1: but it should have been Rudy Gobert that was doing
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Speaker 1: a victory lap. So the autopsy on the Lakers getting
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Speaker 1: tossed into the ocean done in the NBA playoffs. So
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Speaker 1: Lebron James has been called out for his vanishing act.
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Speaker 1: The greatest player of all time at the end of
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Speaker 1: every one of those games was measurably bad. So if
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Speaker 1: you haven't been keeping track, you've got pundit After pundit
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Speaker 1: barking about Lebron this and all that. That's fine comments
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Speaker 1: that was sent to me by several listeners was a
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Speaker 1: former NBA player named Jeff Tigue who was pretty average.
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Speaker 1: It was an All Star one year, played mostly for
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Speaker 1: the Atlanta Hawks. So Jeff Tigue said that Lebron James
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Speaker 1: doesn't care about the game anymore. He's laughing and joking
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Speaker 1: in the middle of a playoff game. And that has
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Speaker 1: been the sentiment. That has been the sentiment that Lebron's
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Speaker 1: just not into it, that he's been doing this for
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Speaker 1: so long, he's just numb to it all. So let
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Speaker 1: us discuss the question, what is your judgment on Lebron
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Speaker 1: James and his approach, his attitude, his status, if you will,
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Speaker 1: all of those different things with the Lakers. So I've
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Speaker 1: got Motley Crue, Gift Basket, and the Vampire Diaries, and
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Speaker 1: we will combine all of these things together and we
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Speaker 1: are going to make crunchy talk is what We're going
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Speaker 1: to make, delicious crunchy tacos. So, first of all, Lebron
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Speaker 1: James gets a C for his Laker tenure this season
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Speaker 1: as in content, right, I see a guy who is
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Speaker 1: content I see a guy who is traveling down the
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Speaker 1: winding road is called Glory Road. Lebron is playing at
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Speaker 1: this point for two reasons. He's playing at this point
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Speaker 1: because he wants to continue to have that access to
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Speaker 1: all the Hollywood friends and all that that he's assembled
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Speaker 1: since he got to LA And obviously for his kid
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Speaker 1: who can't play who he's forced on the Lakers, Bronnie James,
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Speaker 1: who took up a roster spot. And he doesn't have
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Speaker 1: the Mamba mentality right Like you know, Kobe Bryant at
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Speaker 1: the end of his career was broken down and was
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Speaker 1: a shell of what he had been, but he approached
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Speaker 1: the game the same way that he had in his
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Speaker 1: younger days. And I look at Lebron and I don't
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Speaker 1: think Lebron ever had that. I don't think he had
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Speaker 1: that approach. However, he did have a much different attitude
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Speaker 1: than he appears to have at this point. It's just blase.
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Speaker 1: Am I wrong on that? It just feels blase? And
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Speaker 1: I was criticized in a previous hour by my producer
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Speaker 1: Justin Cooper for pointing out Lebron James as the most
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Speaker 1: overrated player in the NBA right now. But the proof
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Speaker 1: is in the pudding, or in this case, the record.
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Speaker 1: The last fourteen playoff games the Lakers have had with
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Speaker 1: Lebron James, they're two and twelve. They are two and
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Speaker 1: twelve in their last fourteen playoff games. At this point,
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Speaker 1: Lebron is like Vince Neil, you know Vince Neil at
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Speaker 1: Motley Crue music legend, right, I don't really have the
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Speaker 1: music gene, but I understand he's had some difficulty in
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Speaker 1: the vocal department, which is a problem if you're in
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Speaker 1: that world. And because of his age and you're a
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Speaker 1: rock and roll guy, you make some decisions with the sex,
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Speaker 1: drugs and rock role and all that, and mainly the
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Speaker 1: sex and the drugs, and it impacts your ability to
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Speaker 1: at this point in your life to deliver the type
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Speaker 1: of performance that people grew accustomed to. And so what
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Speaker 1: happens is you're not obviously in your heyday. Lebron. We
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Speaker 1: know he's not in his heyday, and he still looks
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Speaker 1: like Adonis. And during the regular season the numbers are there.
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Speaker 1: There's a little slippage, but like an old singer, it's
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Speaker 1: a lot of nostalgia. It's a lot of nostalgia at
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Speaker 1: this point. He's very, very dependent on the people around him.
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Speaker 1: Much like Vince Neil needs his bandmates and all that
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Speaker 1: to pick him up, Lebron needs his teammates to pick
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Speaker 1: him up. Now, would the Lakers move on from Lebron
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Speaker 1: James this offseason? And the only answer to that is
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Speaker 1: n plus oh no, Right, should they move on? Yes, like,
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Speaker 1: just allow Luca to be the center of the universe
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Speaker 1: and just build the team around Luca and that's it.
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Speaker 1: But they don't have the balls to do that. They
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Speaker 1: don't the Lakers. One of the great flaws of that franchise.
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Speaker 1: They got a terrible owner, one of the worst owners
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Speaker 1: in sports, Genei Bus. Lebron is an aging headliner, and
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Speaker 1: that franchise has been infected with celebrity worship syndrome. They
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Speaker 1: are a mix of jock sniffers, Yeah, jock sniffers and
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Speaker 1: star efforts. For example, take a listen to skinny jeans
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Speaker 1: Rob Polinka. All right, listen to Rob Polinka here. Now,
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Speaker 1: if you're running the Lakers, shouldn't you go out and say, listen,
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Speaker 1: my job is to put the top team on the
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Speaker 1: court for the franchise, for the fans, and for the people.
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Speaker 1: They are here listen to what Rob Polinka stated. The
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Speaker 1: agenda is for the Lakers and the offseason tailing.
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Speaker 3: Lebron is a goat, you know, one of the goats
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Speaker 3: of the game. And he's been a completely selfless leader.
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Speaker 3: And I think we saw that in this playoff series,
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Speaker 3: moving to playing more off the ball and committing to
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Speaker 3: the defensive end.
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Speaker 1: And I think it's just a testament to his championship
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Speaker 1: DNA and character.
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Speaker 3: And I think Lebron's going to have high expectations for
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Speaker 3: the roster and we're going to do everything we can
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Speaker 3: to meet those. But I also know that whatever it is,
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Speaker 3: he's going to still give his one hundred percent every night.
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Speaker 1: Wow, what you heard right there was Rob Polinka. It
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Speaker 1: was like he was at a seven to eleven and slurpy, slurpy, slurpey,
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Speaker 1: if you know what I mean. All right now. Secondly,
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Speaker 1: what an embarrassment that is? My God, speaking of embarrassments,
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Speaker 1: your head coach is a schmuck and a podcaster. JJ Reddick,
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Speaker 1: the first year coach who's now I guess is going
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Speaker 1: to be back. I would have fired him. He made
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Speaker 1: a comment that has gone viral in the autopsy. The
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Speaker 1: day after his team was beaten by Rudy Gobert. You
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Speaker 1: know how many coaches have advanced in the NBA playoffs
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Speaker 1: because Rudy Gobert sucks. JJ Reddick allowed Rudio Bear to
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Speaker 1: turn into Godzilla. Anyway, So the comment that has a
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Speaker 1: lot of legs here is Reddick said he urged the
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Speaker 1: roster to quote get in championship shape. Okay, that's what
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Speaker 1: he said about. Again, here's rather than me give you
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Speaker 1: the full quote, here's JJ Redick. This is the money quote.
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Speaker 1: Take a list.
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Speaker 4: I'll start with the offseason and the work that's required
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Speaker 4: in an offseason to be.
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Speaker 1: In championship shape.
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Speaker 4: And you know, we have a ways to go as
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Speaker 4: a roster, and certainly there are individuals that were in
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Speaker 4: phenomenal shape.
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Speaker 1: There's certainly other ones that could have been in better shape.
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Speaker 4: That's where my mind goes immediately is you know, we
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Speaker 4: have to get in championship shape.
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Speaker 1: Okay, so what do you make of that get into
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Speaker 1: championship shape? That's from podcaster JJ Reddick, who's mask a
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Speaker 1: Laker coach. Okay, so every man, woman and child knows
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Speaker 1: he's talking about what Hohoko Luca. He's obviously talking about Luca,
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Speaker 1: but he didn't have the balls to say that right
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Speaker 1: and just come out and name Lucas. So he said,
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Speaker 1: we have to get a championship shape. Who else on
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Speaker 1: the team's not in shape? Who? Seriously? And isn't it
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Speaker 1: your job as the coach of the team to make
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Speaker 1: sure the players are in shape? Like isn't that part
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Speaker 1: of the job? Am I mistaken? Is that now not
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Speaker 1: part of the job? Like, isn't that part of the deal?
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Speaker 1: I know you got the training staff and you got
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Speaker 1: eight million assistant coaches and all that, but how is
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Speaker 1: that not part of the deal? Like during the season
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Speaker 1: the only big addition was Luca Dunje And what really
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Speaker 1: JJ Reddicks saying you have to be in shape because
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Speaker 1: I might not play anyone other than you for the
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Speaker 1: entire game, so you better be in shape. It's also
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Speaker 1: a way to pass the blame, is it not. It's
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Speaker 1: a way to pass the blame. Every everyone knew that
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Speaker 1: Luca was jumbo sized when he came over from Dallas.
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Speaker 1: And if you didn't know that, you weren't paying attention.
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Speaker 1: Because Nico Harrison and the people around the Mavericks, they
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Speaker 1: leaked to anyone that would listen tubby, tubby tubby. He's
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Speaker 1: a tubby tubby tubby, you know. And then the Lakers, well,
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Speaker 1: he's just big boned. You know, it's genetics, it's big
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Speaker 1: bone and all that. But again, instead of calling Luca out, JJ,
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Speaker 1: the podcaster used the cliff notes version of what Lebron does?
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Speaker 1: Lebron you know, and I know why they're their besties,
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Speaker 1: No wonder their besties, right, JJ Reddick and Lebron are
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Speaker 1: the princes of passive aggressive behavior, subtle insults, little stubbornness.
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Speaker 1: Do you act like a child? Very unlikable. Now, Luca,
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Speaker 1: I would imagine when he left the Laker facility. At
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Speaker 1: his close out interview, the Lakers, JJ Reddick gave him
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Speaker 1: a gift basket and in the gift basket was a
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Speaker 1: membership to twenty four hour Fitness and a cost size
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Speaker 1: container Ovo zempic. Right here, you go, knock yourself out,
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Speaker 1: have a great offseason, and here's some hookah for you
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Speaker 1: as well. Now, nothing is going to change, right, nothing
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Speaker 1: is going to change because Luca is still a very
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Speaker 1: productive player, and he's it's one of those things that
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Speaker 1: he's fit fat. During the regular season, he can get
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Speaker 1: his numbers put up great stats and late in games
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Speaker 1: he becomes a plump chump Layton games. That's a problem.
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Speaker 1: I ain't nothing's gonna really go upside down in that direction.
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Speaker 1: I'd be stunned if that's the case. Any of he
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Speaker 1: shows up in shape, he'll start eating donuts every day
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Speaker 1: and that'll be that all right now, final thought. So,
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Speaker 1: one of the other people being called out here as
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Speaker 1: we do the autopsy, as Rudy Gobert killed the Lakers,
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Speaker 1: Minnesota advances Austin Reeves. I am old enough to remember
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Speaker 1: when I was told Austin Reeves is the greatest third
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Speaker 1: option in the NBA. I was told that he's an
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Speaker 1: all star level, all star level ballplayer. How lucky are
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Speaker 1: the Lakers Austin Reeves. They found the next big thing,
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Speaker 1: the perfect compliment to Luca and Lebron. Well, if you
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Speaker 1: saw the series between LA and Minnesota, Austin Reeves was
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Speaker 1: a ghost, not a friendly ghost. He was just a ghost.
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Speaker 1: And he admitted that he sucked at a time you
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Speaker 1: cannot suck. He essentially admitted that he was in the
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Speaker 1: very front seat on the vomit comet. In the postseason.
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Speaker 1: He took responsibility for the performance against Minnesota. How concerned
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Speaker 1: should the Lakers be with Austin Reeves going forward? So
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Speaker 1: on the malor scale of concern one to ten, with
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Speaker 1: ten being oh my god, playoff harden, Oh my god,
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Speaker 1: I'm out an eight. I'm at an eight. And this
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Speaker 1: is a reality check. It just is a reality check, right,
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Speaker 1: because Austin Reeves was on this magic carpet ride during
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Speaker 1: the regular season. He was having massive offensive games on
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Speaker 1: a regular basis, and the dopes who follow the NBA
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Speaker 1: and are supposed to be the real ones that know everything,
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Speaker 1: they were talking him up, up selling Austin Reeves as
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Speaker 1: the number three option, the greatest number three option of
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Speaker 1: the NBA, All star level talent and all of this.
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Speaker 1: It turns out he was the iceman, but not the iceman,
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Speaker 1: the ice cube man. He melted under the heat of
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Speaker 1: playoff basketball. It was the Vampire Diaries, and he saw
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Speaker 1: the sunlight. He saw the sunlight. Now, what is my evidence?
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Speaker 1: All right? Austin Reeves played more minutes in the playoffs
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Speaker 1: and on average and was measurably worse. Reeves scoring average
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Speaker 1: from the regular season of the playoffs was down almost
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Speaker 1: twenty percent, almost twenty percent. His true shooting percentage fell
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Speaker 1: thirteen percent. He was taking less efficient shots from the
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Speaker 1: regular season, he was forcing shots. But wait, there's more.
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Speaker 1: Austin Reeves field goal percentage was down, his three point
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Speaker 1: shooting was down, and so he was playing against the
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Speaker 1: team that was able to defend him in Minnesota, and
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Speaker 1: he did not have an answer. His turnovers increased, his
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Speaker 1: assist decreased across the board. Now, the question that must
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Speaker 1: be asked is is this a one off? We don't know? Right?
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Speaker 1: Is this what you're gonna get? And if this is
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Speaker 1: what you're gonna get, it doesn't matter what other moves
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Speaker 1: you make, you're cooked. You're absolutely cooked. If this is
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Speaker 1: the player who's a fraud in the plus and right now,
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Speaker 1: you'd have to say Austin Reeves is a fraud, a
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Speaker 1: total fraud. The way that he played, I'm just judging
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Speaker 1: that was the answer. All right, Lorraine, do you have
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Speaker 1: an answer? It is the Mallard riddle of the day.
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Speaker 1: Kevin Harlan made a joke recently about blank while doing
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Speaker 1: a commercial read during a recent NBA playoff game on TNT. Okay, easy,
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Speaker 1: that is a great answer, is that right? Let's see here? No?
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Speaker 1: Also also not a nine year old girl guessed by
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Speaker 1: Andy and lion O Lakes, Minnesota the correct answer. Kevin
22:17
Speaker 1: Harlane recently made a joke about tariffs terrifs.
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Speaker 4: That was going to be my other guest no joke,
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Speaker 4: and then I was like, no, I'm not getting into politics.
22:32
Speaker 1: Okay, Oh, I really did.
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Speaker 5: Threw my lip really bad though.
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Speaker 1: What were you eating?
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Speaker 3: Non?
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Speaker 1: How do you get injured eating? Non?
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Speaker 5: There's no my teeth got confused.
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Speaker 1: Really are you doing any medication here? Could that be
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Speaker 1: part of the problem? No, very unfortunate. Let's go to
22:56
Speaker 1: the phones. Let's say, oh, by the way, before we
22:58
Speaker 1: get the phones, cool, do we have podcast numbers? Coop? Now,
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Speaker 1: this is Tony in the Bay Area. He's always curious
23:04
Speaker 1: where people are listening to the show. Last time we
23:07
Speaker 1: did this in February, Ohio was the top state other
23:12
Speaker 1: than California, because we usually do very well in California.
23:15
Speaker 1: But other than that, I think it was Ohio was
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Speaker 1: number two.
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Speaker 5: That is correct, And we do have the updated numbers
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Speaker 5: for the last thirty days.
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Speaker 1: All right, last thirty days. Here we go.
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Speaker 5: First, of course, just you know, for a little extra
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Speaker 5: info here, Canada is our number two country.
23:33
Speaker 1: And we will be in Canada later this month. We
23:37
Speaker 1: are just weeks away. Oh Cada. We love our Canadian
23:41
Speaker 1: brothers and sisters. Been on the air there a lot
23:43
Speaker 1: Cooper Loop and we will be flying in to Vancouver
23:48
Speaker 1: coming up on the What day are we looking at?
23:50
Speaker 1: It is twenty ninth of the month here. So we
23:53
Speaker 1: are twenty seven days away from flying in in a
23:57
Speaker 1: meet and greet that night in Vancouver. I'll post some
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Speaker 1: details later today and also on Saturday, we'll be to soccer.
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Speaker 5: That's right. And you know when you because I can
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Speaker 5: click down, I can click on each country here and
24:08
Speaker 5: look at the top cities in the country. Okay, by
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Speaker 5: far and away, the most downloaded or the most podcast
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Speaker 5: downloads in Canada comes from Vancouver.
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Speaker 1: All right, that's my man. All Right, we're gonna have
24:23
Speaker 1: a great We're gonna have a great turnout. I can't
24:25
Speaker 1: wait now. I don't want to say this on the air,
24:27
Speaker 1: but we talked about like wardrobe. I think we're all
24:31
Speaker 1: in agreement what we're planning to do, right, We're all
24:33
Speaker 1: kind of going in that direction, right.
24:37
Speaker 6: Something today?
24:38
Speaker 1: Okay, I've not I've not made the purchase, but I'm
24:42
Speaker 1: thinking I'm gonna do that this weekend and then assuming
24:45
Speaker 1: it arrives in time, I will all be good.
24:47
Speaker 5: Should we have everyone do it or just us?
24:52
Speaker 1: I think, well, we don't want to. I don't know
24:54
Speaker 1: if we want to give it away on the air.
24:56
Speaker 1: I mean, we do it, we all do it. I
24:58
Speaker 1: think that's fine.
24:58
Speaker 5: Okay, okay, just make it.
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Speaker 1: I'm just kidding. So we're doing very well in Canada,
25:02
Speaker 1: that's great.
25:03
Speaker 5: Yes, France is the number three country.
25:06
Speaker 1: All right, how about that? That's right, the people of Love, right, Peri,
25:11
Speaker 1: the city of Love and all of France and all
25:13
Speaker 1: that one.
25:13
Speaker 5: That is correct. And and of course Paris is the
25:18
Speaker 5: top city in France for podcast downloads.
25:22
Speaker 1: But let's go, you know why, because I'm an a
25:24
Speaker 1: hole and people in Paris respect it.
25:28
Speaker 5: Yeah, probably right, all right, so let's go. Let's go
25:31
Speaker 5: to the United States.
25:31
Speaker 1: So and Amica America call my home.
25:39
Speaker 5: This is very fascinating to me how much this changes
25:42
Speaker 5: from month to month, because let's.
25:45
Speaker 1: See what we were number one in Ohio last an.
25:48
Speaker 5: Eight, Ohio has fallen to eighth place. Oh my god, yes.
25:54
Speaker 1: Bad job by Ohio slackers. Losers.
25:57
Speaker 5: California is number one, and I don't think that'll probably
25:59
Speaker 5: ever change.
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Speaker 1: The fourth largest economy in the world or something like that.
26:03
Speaker 5: Yeah, and and plus you know it's that's sorry time
26:06
Speaker 5: we're on and you know our home base here, the
26:09
Speaker 5: mother ship. Yeah, number two is Texas. Oh oh, I'm
26:16
Speaker 5: sorry the guests.
26:18
Speaker 1: I was hoping to guess, but I don't need to
26:19
Speaker 1: guess now, Okay, So look at that we're doing well
26:22
Speaker 1: in Texas. You think that's all the people in California
26:24
Speaker 1: that moved to Texas listening to the show.
26:28
Speaker 5: I don't know it could be. But interestingly enough, Texas
26:31
Speaker 5: does not even appear in the top like like twelve cities.
26:37
Speaker 1: Oh, it's a very large state too, I goes on,
26:40
Speaker 1: that's true. No passo down to the the Gulf of
26:44
Speaker 1: Mexico or America. So Texas is number two. What do
26:48
Speaker 1: we got number three? Uh, Pennsylvania.
26:53
Speaker 5: No, Pennsylvania is not in the top ten.
26:56
Speaker 1: Oh, let me guess.
26:57
Speaker 5: Let me guess. M I S S I S S
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Speaker 5: I P. That's your guess.
27:02
Speaker 1: That's a terrible Guah, you're a horrible Not a lot
27:05
Speaker 1: of people live there. Number one and number two, I mean,
27:08
Speaker 1: what do you do?
27:11
Speaker 5: Okay, jeez, Mississippian all of their pro sports teams. No,
27:18
Speaker 5: it's not Mississippi. Number three is Florida.
27:23
Speaker 1: Oh the Sunshine. I do get a lot of interaction
27:26
Speaker 1: with people who live in Florida, so we do get
27:29
Speaker 1: a lot of email, and that's not a great way
27:32
Speaker 1: to judge things. But there's a lot of people that
27:34
Speaker 1: like to email me that give me all kinds of
27:36
Speaker 1: information about their their life and all that. All right,
27:39
Speaker 1: So Florida, any other key facts? Any other countries other
27:42
Speaker 1: than US Canada that we are you said, France, So
27:45
Speaker 1: that's number three.
27:46
Speaker 5: So yeah, Australia is number four, okay, and then the
27:49
Speaker 5: United Kingdom, UK, New Zealand, Netherlands.
27:54
Speaker 1: As Terry in England likes to point out, many of
27:56
Speaker 1: our listeners are hiding from authorities so they use VPNs.
28:00
Speaker 5: So yes, who knows, uh, you know, number four on
28:03
Speaker 5: the state list and this is kind of I feel
28:06
Speaker 5: like these guys their mainstay in the top five. The
28:10
Speaker 5: order changes a lot month to month, but these guys
28:13
Speaker 5: always in the top five.
28:15
Speaker 1: Minnesota, damn damn right, that's where we did the Mallard
28:18
Speaker 1: meet and greet back a couple of years back in
28:20
Speaker 1: Minnesota because they love the show. I might have to
28:23
Speaker 1: go back to Minnesota.
28:24
Speaker 5: That's right. And Washington rounds up rounds out the top five.
28:29
Speaker 1: All right, well let's go to Washington right now. Thank
28:31
Speaker 1: you all for listening to the show live and the podcast.
28:34
Speaker 1: John There's no way Johnson Johnson Seattle, is he still there?
28:38
Speaker 1: Are you still there, John in Seattle. There's no way
28:40
Speaker 1: you're still there, John, you can't be there. You had
28:41
Speaker 1: to hang up, right, he's gone, he's got to be gone.
28:43
Speaker 1: Has he gone?
28:44
Speaker 7: Or you got John Tongue.
28:46
Speaker 1: Oh, don't hang up, John, don't hang up Johnny?
28:50
Speaker 7: Oh there bs countries.
28:53
Speaker 6: Oh do you.
28:55
Speaker 8: Remember in a favorite private Ryan when the Jeremy guy. Oh, say,
29:00
Speaker 8: can you see sech your liberty?
29:03
Speaker 2: Bro?
29:03
Speaker 6: That's where I was at. I was almost there.
29:07
Speaker 1: Oh. Man triggered, Well, we're not planning on doing that.
29:12
Speaker 1: Very violent. We don't know.
29:18
Speaker 8: I was.
29:18
Speaker 7: I was ready to be gush. Say can you see?
29:22
Speaker 1: Okay?
29:23
Speaker 7: All right?
29:24
Speaker 1: More important, more importantly, who cares about that? Everything okay?
29:28
Speaker 1: With your side? Check? Everything okay with your side? Chick?
29:30
Speaker 1: You everything all right?
29:32
Speaker 7: Uh?
29:35
Speaker 8: And and you know everything is good where?
29:43
Speaker 1: Okay? You've made up. You two kids have made up.
29:46
Speaker 1: You're okay. That's good. Okay. Do you have any advice
29:49
Speaker 1: John to Bill Belichick and his sugar baby, any advice
29:52
Speaker 1: you'd like to give Belichick?
29:54
Speaker 7: Uh?
29:55
Speaker 6: Stay off social media?
29:57
Speaker 8: That was my advice.
29:59
Speaker 6: The stay up.
30:00
Speaker 8: And I want to say this. I'm gonna get some
30:04
Speaker 8: need for this. How come it's okay for okay, how
30:11
Speaker 8: come it's okay for him to be seventy something and
30:15
Speaker 8: she's twenty?
30:17
Speaker 5: Oh I know where he's going with this.
30:19
Speaker 7: Oh yeah, you already know, you already know. And Shannon's
30:26
Speaker 7: choka chick is Belichick?
30:34
Speaker 1: Yeah something like yeah.
30:35
Speaker 7: Bo chick and Choka chick.
30:37
Speaker 5: You know, it's funny that you bring this up. John.
30:41
Speaker 5: I was going to ask Ben this like literally yesterday
30:44
Speaker 5: on the radio. I mean, look, because I mean, Shannon's
30:47
Speaker 5: getting a lot of heat for like, you know, you're
30:49
Speaker 5: a fifty something year old man, why are you dating
30:51
Speaker 5: a twenty year old? But let's also and then the
30:54
Speaker 5: reason I didn't bring it up on the air is
30:55
Speaker 5: because Shannon's being accused of like raping her and Bill
31:00
Speaker 5: Belichick is not. But what you're right, he's still getting
31:06
Speaker 5: keyped for the age difference.
31:07
Speaker 1: Well, although the finance didn't the woman want oh wait, no,
31:11
Speaker 1: isn't the story Shannon Sharp offered her? Was it ten million? Yeah?
31:14
Speaker 5: And she turned it down? Or no, yes, offer five
31:17
Speaker 5: or something or I don't I don't know.
31:18
Speaker 1: I thought I thought it was ten and she turned
31:19
Speaker 1: it down. But Belichick his side chick or I don't
31:23
Speaker 1: know if it is his main chick. But she's got
31:25
Speaker 1: nine million in real estate. So that's that she took
31:28
Speaker 1: the deal. Uh, Shannon Sharp offered the deal, the deal
31:31
Speaker 1: was not accept Belichick's lady friend took the deal. She
31:34
Speaker 1: had nine million in real estate. Now she was a
31:37
Speaker 1: cheerleader doing makeup before she met Belichick. Uh yeah, John, John,
31:47
Speaker 1: I'm sure your your side. Chick's got millions too, right
31:50
Speaker 1: from you, you probably took.
31:51
Speaker 7: Care of Oh no, she's just a freaking nurse, that's
31:53
Speaker 7: all she is.
31:57
Speaker 1: Well, that doesn't sound bad to me. I don't know.
31:59
Speaker 1: I mean, uh, Belishick probably be interested in that.
32:01
Speaker 9: But anyway, yes, and I think everyone should just stat
32:06
Speaker 9: in their uh if anyway, let me get back to
32:12
Speaker 9: what I really wanted to make it.
32:14
Speaker 1: Make a great make a great point right now, make
32:17
Speaker 1: a dazzling point. Make a good point. Put put the
32:20
Speaker 1: prolation point on the car. Go ahead, make make it
32:23
Speaker 1: your joint.
32:24
Speaker 6: Oh my god, you guys accused me?
32:27
Speaker 1: Uh j J.
32:28
Speaker 6: Reddick is the problem because Bro, we had the best
32:33
Speaker 6: defensive team and he shrunk our team down to nothing.
32:41
Speaker 8: Like what the heck? How can't you shrink the Lakers
32:45
Speaker 8: are the best team when you when you put everyone.
32:49
Speaker 6: Involved, keep submitting people.
32:52
Speaker 8: Keep not submitting people.
32:54
Speaker 1: My god, that's a different conversation. Yeah, all right, I
32:59
Speaker 1: got your You're upsee I thank you, John touch great advice. Hey,
33:04
Speaker 1: our friend John and Seattle and everyone should date a
33:07
Speaker 1: freaky nurse. According to the John and Seattle. That's all
33:10
Speaker 1: you need right there, No freak, a little freak.
33:13
Speaker 8: All right.
33:13
Speaker 1: Anyway, we'll press on. We're gonna have Big Ben's Lame
33:16
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34:53
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34:56
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35:00
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35:08
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35:10
Speaker 1: does Lorena want to burn Mike the Leprechaun with an
35:13
Speaker 1: iron Why she wants to press her luck? Is she
35:18
Speaker 1: what she wants to do? That's Kurt from Earth. Well,
35:22
Speaker 1: apparently Mike the Leprechaun is scared of Lorena getting a
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Speaker 6: Man.
35:27
Speaker 1: Why yeah, I guess she's going postal on him soon.
35:31
Speaker 1: That's Kurt from Earth again. I feel like that's a
35:36
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35:41
Speaker 8: Wow?
35:43
Speaker 1: New diaper? He got a new diaper. That's Tony in
35:46
Speaker 1: the Bay Area. Why. Why did blind Scott boycott the show?
35:53
Speaker 1: Why he was in a blind fury? That's why. Did
36:01
Speaker 1: you hear about the recent John Elway incident on the
36:03
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36:05
Speaker 2: Wow?
36:06
Speaker 1: Yeah, it does change the meaning of the drive. Now.
36:11
Speaker 1: That's JJ, JJ and Kirby from East Long Beach near
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Speaker 1: the pyramid there. We thanked them for that. What NBA
36:20
Speaker 1: award did John Morant win? Unanimously? What best shooting guard?
36:26
Speaker 1: Best shooting guard? That's Chip in Maine, Naked Chip, very nice. Here.
36:33
Speaker 1: Did you hear that Anthony Edwards was fined fifty thousand
36:35
Speaker 1: for verbally comparing his manhood with a Laker fan?
36:40
Speaker 2: Wow?
36:40
Speaker 1: Yeah? Oh yes? After visually inspecting both parties, NBA Commissioner
36:45
Speaker 1: Adam Silver agreed with Edwards and doubled the fine. Doubled it.
36:49
Speaker 1: That's Gordon Tacoma. What do you call blind Scott's Stocker mentality?
36:57
Speaker 1: What blind? That's Crewe in Minnesota. We sent that in.
37:04
Speaker 1: It's Big Bends. Lame jokes of the week. These are
37:06
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37:09
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Speaker 1: Smack weed Man Hippie in the face. That's John in Youngstoud, Ohio.
37:20
Speaker 1: What was the worst bud weed Man got on four
37:23
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37:37
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37:43
Speaker 1: you got any jokes over there?
37:44
Speaker 8: Coop?
37:46
Speaker 1: Let me see hold on, Okay, while you're working on that,
37:49
Speaker 1: did you hear that President Trump is going to cancel
37:52
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37:55
Speaker 6: Wow?
37:57
Speaker 1: Yeah, apparently Trump was enraged. Weed Man hippiees phones sounds
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Speaker 1: mouthwashed Mike and weed man hippie? What Mike baze regularly
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Speaker 1: can weed Man solve his roommate problem? Ow move out
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Speaker 4: Uh?
38:36
Speaker 5: What?
38:37
Speaker 1: Boy? I don't know. If I could read this by
38:38
Speaker 1: a probish, you'd skip over that one. I want to
38:41
Speaker 1: have a job on Monday. What are Lizzo's fondest memories
38:45
Speaker 1: from her college softball career? What the pizza parties? You
38:51
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Speaker 1: Lizzo accidentally rubbed catch up in her eyes weed mane? Wow? Yeah?
39:03
Speaker 1: What's that all? Bet? She now has Heine's sight. Econ
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39:13
Speaker 5: What is weed Man Hippie's favorite candy?
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Speaker 8: Right?
39:18
Speaker 5: Gummies? Because he has no teeth?
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Speaker 1: Yeah?
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Speaker 8: What?
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Speaker 1: What is the title of Lizzo's autobiography? What pigmy? That's
39:31
Speaker 1: a chip in Maine.
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Speaker 5: If any bright Side sent my job on beg you,
39:35
Speaker 5: Benny bright Side.
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Speaker 1: Why should you always be bruly honest to Lizzo? Why
39:40
Speaker 1: because if you sugar croat your words, She's gonna try
39:43
Speaker 1: to eat them. That's that's Noah Noah in Austin. Why
39:48
Speaker 1: does Lizzo get better service than anyone from the United
39:51
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39:57
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