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  Speaker 2: This is the best of the Ben Maler Show on
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  Speaker 1: And we begin. We begin in the Big Apple. I
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  Speaker 1: was snoozing while this was going on. I woke up
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  Speaker 1: and I had all these messages. Don't you see what happened?
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  Speaker 1: Oh my god, I say, well, whatever. There was a
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  Speaker 1: bunch of things that happened. The Knickerbockers that's a basketball team,
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  Speaker 1: usually not a good one, and they won the little
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  Speaker 1: piece of Metal. So they had a little party there
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  Speaker 1: they celebrate their little win, and a lot of odd
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  Speaker 1: things happened. Now some of these things were very predictable.
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  Speaker 1: There were so many people there, how many people that
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  Speaker 1: they actually had people stuck in subways, stations trying to
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  Speaker 1: get out, to get out and stand to be stuck
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  Speaker 1: like sardines around other people. Now I've been to parades
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  Speaker 1: in the past. I don't ever want to go to
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  Speaker 1: one again. I don't know about you if you've ever
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  Speaker 1: been one of these things. Everyone smells, there's not enough bathrooms,
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  Speaker 1: the food situation is always a bad thing, and typically
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  Speaker 1: there's a few of the people completely sauced, and then
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  Speaker 1: there's always those angry drunks. Nobody minds the happy drunks,
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  Speaker 1: that's a good thing. The angry drunks, though, ruin it
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  Speaker 1: for everyone else, and there's always a bunch of them. Anyway,
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  Speaker 1: that's not even the story. The story, that's all normal stuff.
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  Speaker 1: It turns out that the socialist mayor of New York,
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  Speaker 1: mam DONI, his administration hijacked the event. It was like
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  Speaker 1: the thing everyone was talking about, like seven messages when
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  Speaker 1: I woke up and stole the show with basketball blastom.
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  Speaker 1: You know what did a politician do? If you didn't
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  Speaker 1: hear about this, maybe not. I didn't see it. During
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  Speaker 1: the Knicks parade, they had an event at City Hall,
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  Speaker 1: and so to honor the next they said, well, let's
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  Speaker 1: honor them. Why don't we hang oversized player jersey banners.
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  Speaker 1: That'll be nice. Who would rip us for that? I
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  Speaker 1: will hang it outside, and then you know the Knicks
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  Speaker 1: having little ticker tape parade through the Canyon of Heroes.
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  Speaker 1: It was a sweet, harmless gesture until people actually noticed
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  Speaker 1: that the jerseys they hung up. While most of them
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  Speaker 1: were fine these massive banners, there was one that had
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  Speaker 1: people scratching their heads and wait a minute, what is
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  Speaker 1: what is that?
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  Speaker 3: What is that?
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  Speaker 1: I don't know what that is? Uh So it turns
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  Speaker 1: out the banner that had everyone buzzing and made the
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  Speaker 1: city of New York politicians the laughingstock of the sporting world.
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  Speaker 1: Uh the banner was for Dylan Jones keeping up with
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  Speaker 1: the Joneses. Now do you know who that is? No,
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  Speaker 1: even his family were surprised that he played for the
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  Speaker 1: next They're like, who's that? I didn't know? Really, he's
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  Speaker 1: in the NBA. Well, anyway, they put Jones's name the
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  Speaker 1: surname on there, and they gave him the number of
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  Speaker 1: legendary New York knickerbocker Patrick Ewing, the retired number thirty three.
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  Speaker 1: So there at hung this giant can't miss it jersey
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  Speaker 1: with number thirty three and Jones on the back. And
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  Speaker 1: this created quite the hulla balloo, as you might imagine.
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  Speaker 1: So people oh my god, what are you doing? Freaking out?
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  Speaker 1: Freaking out? So that's a good jumping off point. Let
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  Speaker 1: us discuss so New York City, the mayor of New York,
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  Speaker 1: the politicians there screw up a banner as they give
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  Speaker 1: Patrick Ewing's iconic number thirty three jersey to Dylan Jones
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  Speaker 1: during the Knicks parade. Who goofed? I've got to know.
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  Speaker 1: So my thoughts on this. I have confessional booth, laminated
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  Speaker 1: flash cards, and malware, and we will combine all of
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  Speaker 1: these things together and we are going to get the
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  Speaker 1: party started and we'll sing Kumbaya, is what we're going
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  Speaker 1: to do. So a let me just start out by
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  Speaker 1: telling you you cannot script comedy this good. It just
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  Speaker 1: has to happen organically. And when I when I opened
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  Speaker 1: up my phone, I genuinely I'm not making this. I
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  Speaker 1: thought that was I was getting punked. I thought, well,
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  Speaker 1: that's Sports Talk Barry, who I've had on my podcast before.
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  Speaker 1: He he must have hacked the Knicks parade or no,
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  Speaker 1: it must have been a certified you know, the artwork
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  Speaker 1: from butt Cracks Sports or something like that. And now
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  Speaker 1: I don't look legit. Maybe maybe it was AI or
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  Speaker 1: something like that. No, no, only it was Ai, and
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  Speaker 1: seven different people sent me the same thing. Turns out
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  Speaker 1: this was not a mistake. It was a trip to
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  Speaker 1: the confessional booth for the political class there in New York,
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  Speaker 1: the political bows under the mayor there completely forgot to
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  Speaker 1: measure twice cut once, handing the iconic number thirty three
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  Speaker 1: ewing Jersey, the sacred for New Yorkers to Dylan Jones.
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  Speaker 1: Who Dylan Jones, a guy who had almost no role,
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  Speaker 1: just a handful of regular season appearances and absolutely none
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  Speaker 1: in the playoffs. And so tell me you're a casual
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  Speaker 1: observer without telling me you're a casual observer of the NBA,
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  Speaker 1: like even AI would not would not f it up
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  Speaker 1: that bad. They've improved it enough, it wouldn't mess it
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  Speaker 1: up that bad. One of the great cell phones in
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  Speaker 1: parade history, a Hall of fame. Whoopsie is what? Even
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  Speaker 1: the confetti was embarrassed. If you talk to the confetti,
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  Speaker 1: they say, oh, that was embarrassing, and we were sad.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, how could that happen? We're sad, confetti, That's
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  Speaker 1: what they were saying. Of course, the Mamdanie administration of
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  Speaker 1: the Mayor of New York there managed to screw this up,
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  Speaker 1: proving that act shouldn't speak much louder than words. And
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  Speaker 1: in the real pettiness, it peaked when all these blowhards
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  Speaker 1: started giving speeches, because there's nothing you like more than
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  Speaker 1: the speeches. So the Mayor of New York he got
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  Speaker 1: to think this was intentional. He name dropped Charles Oakley,
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  Speaker 1: who's at war with James Dolan in court the owner
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  Speaker 1: in his speech, So ma'm donnie mentioned Charles Oakly. Then
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  Speaker 1: Dolan immediately fired back. He lobbed the hot potato back
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  Speaker 1: and made some comments about being a real fan, not
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  Speaker 1: needing his vote, the mayor's vote, and so the boys
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  Speaker 1: will be boys, and the viral cell phone is forever
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  Speaker 1: not quite as good as in Philadelphia and Cleveland eating
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  Speaker 1: horsepoo still pretty amusing. An all time franchise legend that played,
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  Speaker 1: you know, within the last couple generations. And you decide
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  Speaker 1: to give his number, which has been tired for years,
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  Speaker 1: to a guy that didn't even play in a playoff game.
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  Speaker 1: That is out standing. That is such an f up.
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  Speaker 1: It is wonderful all right now, Page two, keeping the
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  Speaker 1: theme of the hour going, there's a theme here, so
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  Speaker 1: the stars of the Knicks, Karl Anthony Towns, Jalen Brunson,
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  Speaker 1: they were set supporting actors here. It was the guys
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  Speaker 1: who aren't very good, the Jabbroni's that stole the show.
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  Speaker 1: So we mentioned this guy Dylan Jones. Well, one of
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  Speaker 1: his teammates, Tyler Kollik, a backup guard for the Knicks,
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  Speaker 1: probably didn't know that. I didn't know that either, and
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  Speaker 1: he was hilariously mistaken by the NYPD during the Knicks
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  Speaker 1: ticker tape parade and celebration. Is the guy Klik was
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  Speaker 1: out partying and you can see that there's much of
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  Speaker 1: different angles on this a bunch of videos. He was
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  Speaker 1: out like mingling with the fans. I'm jumping up and
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  Speaker 1: down gyrating, going oh man, this is so much fun.
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  Speaker 1: No man. And then he tried to rejoin the team
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  Speaker 1: buses to get back on the next bus because you
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  Speaker 1: seemingly was part of the Knicks, and the NYPD there
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  Speaker 1: stepped in. They didn't recognize him as a player, and
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  Speaker 1: they briefly stopped him, thinking he was just some lunatic
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  Speaker 1: drunk fan trying to sneak through security. It didn't last long.
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  Speaker 1: He eventually got you know, very quickly got through, and
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  Speaker 1: he later laughed about it on the social media. Seven
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  Speaker 1: word post said, quote, I swear I'm on the team
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  Speaker 1: bra and then three laughing emojis, which really made it
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  Speaker 1: specially three laughing emojis. So that is a good jumping
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  Speaker 1: off point. Let us discuss. So you got the Knicks
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  Speaker 1: guard this backup to the backup, to the backup, to
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  Speaker 1: the backup, to the backup, to the backup to the
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  Speaker 1: backup to the backup. So Tyler Collock stopped by the
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  Speaker 1: NYPD who thought he was just some over Zella's fan.
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  Speaker 1: Is this the most bench player thing ever? Winning a
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  Speaker 1: championship ring and still having to show your identification? It's
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  Speaker 1: us saying, so, you know what, it's perfect. The word
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  Speaker 1: is perfect. It is. This isn't about the cops blowing it.
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  Speaker 1: This is about a guy so nondescript, this guy, Tyler Collick,
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  Speaker 1: blending in so well the camouflage that he looked like
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  Speaker 1: a guy who bought a last minute ticket on stub
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  Speaker 1: hub and just kind of wandered into this event. It's
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  Speaker 1: like a Forrest Gump thing, like, what are you doing? Dude?
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  Speaker 1: Just kind of show up at these big events and
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  Speaker 1: that's what I do. But think about it. If you're
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  Speaker 1: out there drinking and you're high five in, you're chanting
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  Speaker 1: with strangers and you're screaming, let's go Nicks, what are
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  Speaker 1: the cops supposed to think? You don't look like a
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  Speaker 1: basketball But it's common sense. If you act like a fan,
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  Speaker 1: you're gonna get treated like am. And if Jalen Brunson
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  Speaker 1: had done that, or Karl Anthony Towns or og Annobe,
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  Speaker 1: I'm pretty sure that they would not have been stopped.
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  Speaker 1: But what do you expect the NYPD officers there? Should
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  Speaker 1: they have to carry the laminated flash cards with he
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  Speaker 1: Nicks backup on it. They're mugshots, their photos there to
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  Speaker 1: see please. And this guy he blended in so well,
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  Speaker 1: he could have started the chance. Let's go nix himself.
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  Speaker 1: And but you want a fun fact, fun fact, fun fact.
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  Speaker 1: So this guy Cooley, the guard who got off the
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  Speaker 1: bus there, you and I played the same number of
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  Speaker 1: NBA Finals games as he did. As in Squad Douche
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  Speaker 1: bupkis Zippo. And this is exactly what happens when a
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  Speaker 1: role player goes man of the people. And this guy
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  Speaker 1: became the most relatable champion since Brian Scalabrini back in
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  Speaker 1: the day with the Celtics and all that guy so
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  Speaker 1: anonymous that you need an identification to prove that you
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  Speaker 1: were part of the team. It's great and scalabrain is
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  Speaker 1: like a Celtics broadcast. He's parlayed being the scrub into
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  Speaker 1: a career in media. All right, last word, here to
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  Speaker 1: the chatter we go. There's a wild, absolutely bananas three
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  Speaker 1: team mega mega mega deal that is being discussed. Now,
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  Speaker 1: this is just a rumor. We'd like to alert everyone
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  Speaker 1: down the line. This is just a rumor. However, it's
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  Speaker 1: interesting enough it came to my attention. I want to
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  Speaker 1: spend a couple of minutes on it. So there's this
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  Speaker 1: mega deal being cost out that is before the NBA Draft,
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  Speaker 1: involving the Lakers, the Jazz, and the Wizards. And it's
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  Speaker 1: been floating around, bouncing around the echo chamber. And the
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  Speaker 1: deal would bring Anthony Davis back to LA. Yeah, that
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  Speaker 1: guy and the Lakers would trade some backups. Dalton connect
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  Speaker 1: and remember and he was going to be the next
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  Speaker 1: great shooter in the NBA. I remember that and Jared Vanderbilt.
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  Speaker 1: Guys aren't very good. And then a couple of draft picks,
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  Speaker 1: and they would get Ace Bailey, Anthony Davis, and some
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  Speaker 1: low level second round draft picks, and Trey Young would
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  Speaker 1: go to Salt Lake City. Of course he got a
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  Speaker 1: trade him he's opting out, so I don't know how
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  Speaker 1: that's gonna work. And then Laurie Markinen would go to Washington.
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  Speaker 1: So it's supposed to just have to happen for before
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  Speaker 1: the draft. The question just focus in on Anthony Davis
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  Speaker 1: because that's the interesting part of this. What is your
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  Speaker 1: viewpoint on the possibility, even if it's only two percent
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  Speaker 1: of Anthony Davis returning to Lakerland. So my first thought
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  Speaker 1: is to quote the great Jackie Slater, what in the world, Like,
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  Speaker 1: what in the world are we doing? Am I missing something?
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  Speaker 1: Luka Doncik publicly came out a few days ago and
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  Speaker 1: expressed a desire to have a top tier big man,
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  Speaker 1: that that's his wish list for the Purple and Gold team,
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  Speaker 1: And so it sounds if you look at the evidence here,
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  Speaker 1: it sounds like the boys are plotting. That's what it
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  Speaker 1: sounds like to me, Like the entire thing is heavily
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  Speaker 1: player driven, highlighted by what I'm told is Anthony Davis
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  Speaker 1: liking old social media posts that go back seven years
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  Speaker 1: to twenty nineteen. It's how diabolical this has become. So
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  Speaker 1: Davis is on social media and he's he's going through
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  Speaker 1: the old timeline like Lucky Tony in the Bay Area
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  Speaker 1: does with old podcasts that I do. And he's he's
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  Speaker 1: liking people random fans that were complimenting the Lakers, getting
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  Speaker 1: him from the New Orleans team named the Pelicans, and honestly,
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  Speaker 1: ad liking old Lakers post is Lebron level passive, aggressive,
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  Speaker 1: really really outstanding. And the trade as a Laker hater,
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  Speaker 1: it would be just great. It would be comedy gold,
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  Speaker 1: like you escaped the unibrow curse, the planets all lined up.
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  Speaker 1: You found a dumb, dumb a trade so bad many
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  Speaker 1: people believe it was rigged, the Dallas Mavericks trading away
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  Speaker 1: Luka Doncik for the broken bones of Anthony Davis. And
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  Speaker 1: now you're trying to summon him back like a marvel
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  Speaker 1: old villain or something like that, Like you want Anthony
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  Speaker 1: Davis back, You're you're strategizing a way to bring him back.
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  Speaker 1: It would be like the NBA's version of it. Listen,
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  Speaker 1: I had some I had some malware and it really
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  Speaker 1: effed up my computer, and I was let me reinstall
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  Speaker 1: the malware because I miss the interference, I miss the gremlins.
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  Speaker 1: I miss that and the and the inner brow. I
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  Speaker 1: was like a fourth of July fireworks show, spectacular, somewhat
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  Speaker 1: dangerous and better enjoyed from a very safe distance. And
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  Speaker 1: that's how he is. If Ady comes back to the Lakers'
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  Speaker 1: training staff, should get equity in the franchise, because you
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  Speaker 1: know that's where he's going to be.
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  Speaker 1: So our lead this hour is from the negotiating table
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  Speaker 1: where the Shedder Bay Biscuits are seasoning and all that.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, it's just wonderful. Baltimore, Maryland. Baltimore, Maryland, where
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  Speaker 1: Lamar Jackson's long term future with the Ravens continues to
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  Speaker 1: be a topic of discussion. Is he heading in to
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  Speaker 1: a bizarro season? In Baltimore? Jackson is in year number four,
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  Speaker 1: year four of his five year, two hundred and sixty
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  Speaker 1: million extension signed way back in twenty twenty three. We
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  Speaker 1: were much younger back then in twenty twenty three, so
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  Speaker 1: he has two years left. My math tells me this
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  Speaker 1: year and then the following year. Now, this year is
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  Speaker 1: not a problem because I'm very worried about the cap.
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  Speaker 1: As I've said for years, the cap is crap. Some
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  Speaker 1: of you believe it, which is your problem, not my problem.
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  Speaker 1: So anyway, the salary cap issue, it's not really an
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  Speaker 1: issue right now. It's next year that becomes problematic, which
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  Speaker 1: would lead you to believe that this year would mean
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  Speaker 1: he's a lame duck after this season because the number
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  Speaker 1: is eighty four million over eighty four or million. They
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  Speaker 1: finagled the salarycap, which is what you do. So the
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  Speaker 1: salarycap hit would be eighty four million, and that would
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  Speaker 1: be in twenty twenty seven. So if you've not heard
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  Speaker 1: the latest, perhaps not. There are whispers in hush tones
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  Speaker 1: that the Ravens are not fully ready to commit a
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  Speaker 1: long term contract to Lamar Jackson, and there's other parts
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  Speaker 1: of the football world said, well, Lamar better off waiting
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  Speaker 1: anyway and get more money the following year because the
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  Speaker 1: numbers keep going up. Lamar is coming off a underwhelming
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  Speaker 1: campaign that is underwhelming with a capital You underwhelming campaign
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  Speaker 1: in twenty twenty five unless you really enjoy injuries. If
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  Speaker 1: you really enjoy injuries, you were satisfied with Lamar Jackson
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  Speaker 1: this past year. So it's one of those interesting subplots
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  Speaker 1: to the NFL. I know, we still got another month
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  Speaker 1: before training camp opens. This is normally the time either
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  Speaker 1: players get arrested or they signed contracts and they're on vacation,
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  Speaker 1: so they go out a little too much booze and
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  Speaker 1: they end up getting in some trouble, typically with the ladies.
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  Speaker 1: And then the other thing is they sign new contracts.
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  Speaker 1: So let's discuss the question where is Liz Lamar Jackson
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  Speaker 1: contract kurf fluffle headed in Baltimore. So I've my observations here.
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  Speaker 1: I've got bugs, life, dairy queen, and Google maps, and
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  Speaker 1: we will combine all of these things together, you and
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  Speaker 1: I and we are going to plot away, plot away,
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  Speaker 1: and hopefully we'll find some good luck here. So number one,
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  Speaker 1: number one for those who in the back. Number one,
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  Speaker 1: number one and number one, Oh what fun, there's number one.
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  Speaker 1: I jumped the gun on that one. All right. Right
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  Speaker 1: now we're at the part of the story with Lamar Jackson.
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  Speaker 1: Nobody is blinking. It's a game of block block chick it.
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  Speaker 1: Who's gonna blink, Who's gonna put nobody's budget? Yeah, it's
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  Speaker 1: like sitting down your kids and serving broccoli. Nobody wants
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  Speaker 1: to eat the broccoli. Why would you serve broccoli? Mom?
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  Speaker 1: That I hate broccoli? What's wrong with you? Everyone is
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  Speaker 1: just sitting in their corner. They've got their arms folded
• 19:21
  Speaker 1: and they're just waiting. And the Ravens right now, they
• 19:25
  Speaker 1: don't want to over commit. Lamar doesn't want a discount.
• 19:29
  Speaker 1: He's not willing to take a discount. He doesn't want
• 19:32
  Speaker 1: the discount double check. He wants some of that. And
• 19:34
  Speaker 1: it would have seemed reading the room that the Ravens
• 19:38
  Speaker 1: would like some evidence that Lamar is going to be
• 19:42
  Speaker 1: able to stay healthy and consistently dominate the way he
• 19:45
  Speaker 1: used to. They just don't want to promise. They want
• 19:48
  Speaker 1: to prove. And so there seems like they're taking a
• 19:52
  Speaker 1: weight and see approach and let's see how this all
• 19:55
  Speaker 1: plays out. Of course, they're saying, well, we want Lamar
• 19:58
  Speaker 1: and Baltimore blah blah blah blah blah. That the Big
• 20:02
  Speaker 1: Bugaboo is a bugs life for Lamar as he has
• 20:07
  Speaker 1: been bitten by the injury bug and it keeps treating
• 20:10
  Speaker 1: him like in all you can eat buffe here he
• 20:13
  Speaker 1: had the hammy almost go whammy. He missed time with
• 20:15
  Speaker 1: a hamstring injury. Last year. He missed three games with that.
• 20:19
  Speaker 1: He had a back contusion, which is a fancy way
• 20:22
  Speaker 1: of saying a bruise. He missed another game. He said
• 20:25
  Speaker 1: multiple minor lower body injuries with the Ravens. Lamar also
• 20:32
  Speaker 1: has been coddled over the years by Harball, who's no
• 20:36
  Speaker 1: longer there. John Harbaugh is out. I mean you know this.
• 20:39
  Speaker 1: He's coaching the Giants now, and so who knows how
• 20:42
  Speaker 1: this is going to go with the new coaching staff.
• 20:44
  Speaker 1: Are they going to bend over backwards? There's certain things
• 20:47
  Speaker 1: that they did to make sure Lamar was taken care of.
• 20:51
  Speaker 1: As he likes to understand, stay up and have a
• 20:54
  Speaker 1: grand old time gaming and living the life. Why not?
• 20:58
  Speaker 1: And so he's been the ending way too much time,
• 21:01
  Speaker 1: in their eyes, is a guy that likes going to
• 21:05
  Speaker 1: that all inclusive resort called the Trainer's Room, and so
• 21:08
  Speaker 1: he's been hanging out there a lot of ice and
• 21:09
  Speaker 1: all that. And there's also the age thing. He turns
• 21:13
  Speaker 1: thirty during the playoffs playoffs in early twenty twenty seventh
• 21:17
  Speaker 1: birthdays in January. So running quarterbacks typically age like cottage
• 21:24
  Speaker 1: cheese that was left out in August and just outside
• 21:28
  Speaker 1: on the sidewalk there and Baltimore, if they see signs
• 21:33
  Speaker 1: of twenty twenty four Lamar, not twenty twenty five Lamar,
• 21:38
  Speaker 1: they want tangible evidence before they pay him. Now, I'm
• 21:44
  Speaker 1: always on the side and I'm almost never wrong that
• 21:48
  Speaker 1: these owners and these teams cave in to public pressure.
• 21:53
  Speaker 1: They've cave in, and that ultimately Lamar will waltz in
• 21:57
  Speaker 1: and click the DOCU sign and he'll be getting paid.
• 22:01
  Speaker 1: And if he sucks, the fans will raise Holy hell. That.
• 22:05
  Speaker 1: So it's what it is right right now. The Ravens
• 22:08
  Speaker 1: are being the tough guy. Well, we got to wait
• 22:09
  Speaker 1: and see and all that. I think ultimately, though, there
• 22:12
  Speaker 1: will be that pot of gold at the end of
• 22:13
  Speaker 1: the rainbow. Although it's fun to think about a world
• 22:15
  Speaker 1: where that doesn't happen. And then that's chaos, and we
• 22:19
  Speaker 1: love chaos. All right. Now to Dallas we go. We're
• 22:22
  Speaker 1: Quinn Williams, the defensive lineman who was acquired from the
• 22:28
  Speaker 1: Jets last year at the trade deadline mid season for
• 22:31
  Speaker 1: the Dallas football team. So he mentioned during the Cowboys
• 22:36
  Speaker 1: recent mini camp that he's never made the playoffs in
• 22:40
  Speaker 1: his seven year NFL career. Of course, that's what happens
• 22:43
  Speaker 1: when you play for the Jets and the Cowboys. You
• 22:45
  Speaker 1: don't normally make the playoffs. So Dak Prescott was asked
• 22:49
  Speaker 1: about this, and Dak responded with a bold promise. If
• 22:53
  Speaker 1: you didn't see this, maybe not Dak Prescott, what do
• 22:55
  Speaker 1: you think you said? Do you think he said, Hey,
• 22:57
  Speaker 1: don't worry about it. You're a cowboy now, it doesn't
• 22:58
  Speaker 1: matter if you make the playoffs. Idiots by all the
• 23:00
  Speaker 1: merch anyway, who cares? Or b listen if you want
• 23:04
  Speaker 1: to make the playoffs with trade of the Rams, they're
• 23:06
  Speaker 1: in the playoffs every year. Or see, we'll get you
• 23:08
  Speaker 1: in the playoffs. The answer that would be see Dak
• 23:12
  Speaker 1: Prescott said, yeah, he said, I'll get you the playoffs
• 23:15
  Speaker 1: and we need you to go help us win it.
• 23:19
  Speaker 1: But wait, there's more. So Dak emphasized that the Dallas
• 23:24
  Speaker 1: offseason has been a major upgrade on defense, and he
• 23:28
  Speaker 1: said he's excited about that new look defensive coaching staff
• 23:32
  Speaker 1: led by someone named Christian Parker, former Eagle defensive assistant
• 23:37
  Speaker 1: who's now the big cheese part of the Vic Fangio
• 23:40
  Speaker 1: coaching tree. And he waxed loquacious dak Prescott about Quinn
• 23:45
  Speaker 1: Williams and Rashaun Gary and Kenny Clark and the players
• 23:48
  Speaker 1: they have on defense. Some of them were there last
• 23:50
  Speaker 1: year for part of the year, some of them were
• 23:52
  Speaker 1: there all year. Some of them were not there at all.
• 23:54
  Speaker 1: So the question, what do you make of Dakota Prescott
• 23:59
  Speaker 1: selling some serious cowboy kool aid? What do you make
• 24:04
  Speaker 1: of it? All Right, so this is the time of
• 24:07
  Speaker 1: the year this stuff happens. These OTAs are to make
• 24:10
  Speaker 1: sure that A players are in shape and b hype
• 24:14
  Speaker 1: up the upcoming season, which is like a month away.
• 24:17
  Speaker 1: And Dak Prescott, I've been doing this job for a
• 24:20
  Speaker 1: couple of years now. So dak selling cowboy optimism is
• 24:23
  Speaker 1: the most reliable product in Dallas. If you're listening in
• 24:28
  Speaker 1: the greater Dallas here, you know that the man loves hope.
• 24:34
  Speaker 1: He loves hope. He sells hope like it's a fortune
• 24:38
  Speaker 1: five hundred commodity he does. He's the Dak Prescott is
• 24:42
  Speaker 1: the Sultan of sales. Nobody moves more cowboys hopium than
• 24:48
  Speaker 1: this guy. He sells hopium by the gallon, and every
• 24:53
  Speaker 1: June boocket, every June bookt Now Honestly, if Hope was
• 24:58
  Speaker 1: really a drug, would be the top distributor, the top guy,
• 25:04
  Speaker 1: like the people over at Pfizer would wish they could
• 25:07
  Speaker 1: sell as much product as Dak does Hopium. Right, It's
• 25:11
  Speaker 1: exactly why Jerry Jones puts up with the mediocre playing
• 25:15
  Speaker 1: big games because he loves him, because Dak is a
• 25:18
  Speaker 1: doppel ganger of Jared and Dak Prince revenue, and he
• 25:23
  Speaker 1: sells belief by the gallon, and he's able to sell.
• 25:26
  Speaker 1: He's mister Sunshine from September to December, and then he
• 25:30
  Speaker 1: turns into an item on the Dairy Queen menu in January,
• 25:36
  Speaker 1: serving up blizzards. Now, Playoff Dak, Let's talk about Playoff
• 25:42
  Speaker 1: dact for a second. There's memes about Playoff d act.
• 25:44
  Speaker 1: It is factual. It is not urban legend. It's factual
• 25:50
  Speaker 1: in the eyeballs and the numbers. He's just not an
• 25:54
  Speaker 1: elite player when it matters. Most seven playoff games in
• 25:57
  Speaker 1: his career two wins, and both the wins, if you
• 26:01
  Speaker 1: break them down, were for Gayzy. The way that he played.
• 26:05
  Speaker 1: He had some really mediocre performances. The Cowboys won in
• 26:08
  Speaker 1: spite of Dak. Prescott. Statistically, Prescott has been measurably worse
• 26:16
  Speaker 1: in the postseason than in the regular season. And so
• 26:19
  Speaker 1: if belief and hopium won you a championship, Dallas would
• 26:25
  Speaker 1: have a dynasty. Unfortunately for them, that is not the
• 26:28
  Speaker 1: pulse the part of the multiverse we live in. They
• 26:33
  Speaker 1: keep playing actual playoff games, and that's where dak is exposed.
• 26:36
  Speaker 1: Our final point to the reunion. Everyone has a reunion, right, No,
• 26:42
  Speaker 1: not a We used to have. My family just have
• 26:44
  Speaker 1: big family reunions when I was younger, and I was
• 26:47
  Speaker 1: always dragged as a kid, and we don't do that anymore.
• 26:51
  Speaker 1: And I've never been invited to a radio reunion. That
• 26:55
  Speaker 1: hasn't happened. There was some chatter that next year will
• 26:57
  Speaker 1: be the big anniversary for the original what has become
• 27:01
  Speaker 1: AM five seventy in LA, which is our home, the
• 27:04
  Speaker 1: Dodger station. I helped launch that station years ago when
• 27:08
  Speaker 1: it was on a different handle, and there's a big
• 27:09
  Speaker 1: anniversary coming up. There's probably no reunion, though probably no
• 27:12
  Speaker 1: reunion anyway. I bring that up because JR. Smith, you
• 27:15
  Speaker 1: know who that is. It's a Basketballyeah basketball player, that's right.
• 27:18
  Speaker 1: So JR. Smith has addressed the Komodo dragon in the room,
• 27:25
  Speaker 1: er go. Kyrie Irving, persona non grata, a bunch of
• 27:30
  Speaker 1: the twenty sixteen Cavaliers. I was a little kid when
• 27:33
  Speaker 1: they won Cavaliers, when they won the championship, and there
• 27:37
  Speaker 1: was a reunion that took place, a group including Lebron, James,
• 27:42
  Speaker 1: Tristan Thompson, Kevin Love and JR. Smith and Athers. They
• 27:47
  Speaker 1: all got together and they celebrated good times. You probably
• 27:52
  Speaker 1: saw some of about this, if you care about this
• 27:53
  Speaker 1: kind of crap. Tenth anniversary of the Cleveland Cavaliers, the
• 27:59
  Speaker 1: cadavers is, the were called winning a championship. They were
• 28:01
  Speaker 1: all hanging out in Europe golfing, because that's what rich
• 28:03
  Speaker 1: people do. They go to Europe to golf. Poor people
• 28:06
  Speaker 1: golf at the pitch and putt down the street. Rich
• 28:08
  Speaker 1: people go to Europe to golf. Sign you're rich, You're
• 28:11
  Speaker 1: going to Europe. Anyway, Kyrie Irving, who seemed like kind
• 28:14
  Speaker 1: of a big deal, and I dusted off some old
• 28:16
  Speaker 1: YouTube videos, watched that and looked on the Wikipedia. It
• 28:20
  Speaker 1: seemed like Kyrie was a key part of that championship
• 28:22
  Speaker 1: squad and he was not there and people noticed, They said,
• 28:27
  Speaker 1: why is Kyrie not in Europe? What happened to Kyrie?
• 28:30
  Speaker 1: So j R. Smith responded to the questions like, what
• 28:34
  Speaker 1: are you doing? Why did you not bring our guy Kyrie?
• 28:38
  Speaker 1: And he said that the follow he said that listen
• 28:45
  Speaker 1: missing none he meaning Kyrie was invited and ghosted us.
• 28:50
  Speaker 1: All So stop with that bs, which I believe means
• 28:56
  Speaker 1: bullshoy bs. Now, some said, well, Kyrie had other commitments
• 29:02
  Speaker 1: in the US. He was doing it for the children.
• 29:05
  Speaker 1: He had some basketball events for the children. So the
• 29:09
  Speaker 1: question is j R. Smith out of line for publicly
• 29:14
  Speaker 1: calling out Kyrie Irving for ghosting the twenty twenty six
• 29:19
  Speaker 1: Calves reunion. Was this a breach of protocol, a breach
• 29:24
  Speaker 1: of decorum? So the answer is no. I'm told I
• 29:30
  Speaker 1: need to expand on that. So the answer is no,
• 29:32
  Speaker 1: He's just telling the truth. Jr's public frustration was palpable
• 29:37
  Speaker 1: and it's entirely justified. The algorithm picked up on this
• 29:42
  Speaker 1: story palace intrigue or cadaver intrigue, and they were blaming
• 29:48
  Speaker 1: the social media bots were blaming Jr. Smith, Kevin Love,
• 29:52
  Speaker 1: Tristan Thompson, and Lebron James. And as a result, they said, well,
• 29:57
  Speaker 1: Kyrie Irving, he didn't show up. He was what's going on?
• 30:00
  Speaker 1: And invite him? Well?
• 30:01
  Speaker 3: And then j R.
• 30:02
  Speaker 1: Smith's like, well, no, we invited. I mean he goes
• 30:04
  Speaker 1: to the reunion and this became a bigger story than
• 30:07
  Speaker 1: the reunion itself, because who cares about a bunch of
• 30:10
  Speaker 1: old dudes golfing? Who cares about that? So Kyrie's absence
• 30:15
  Speaker 1: it is not the greatest. Look, this is just another
• 30:19
  Speaker 1: oddball chapter in the long winding, complicated Looney Tunes road
• 30:26
  Speaker 1: of Kyrie Irving and in many ways the relationship with
• 30:29
  Speaker 1: Lebron James. For some it proves Kyrie and Lebron were
• 30:32
  Speaker 1: never truly aligned. And do you believe Kyrie had other
• 30:37
  Speaker 1: commitments giving back to the children. And even if you
• 30:41
  Speaker 1: had other commitments, you can always move these things around.
• 30:44
  Speaker 1: It happens all the time. Or is this the NBA's
• 30:48
  Speaker 1: version of my phone died? My phone died, You should
• 30:53
  Speaker 1: have charged it now. In Kyrie Irving's defense, I'll be
• 30:58
  Speaker 1: Benny Brightside for Justin and Cincinnati. Maybe this was out
• 31:01
  Speaker 1: of an abundance of caution. For Kyrie, he was probably
• 31:05
  Speaker 1: worried about the Google Maps malfunctioning. If he goes to
• 31:09
  Speaker 1: Europe because if you look at the map, not the
• 31:12
  Speaker 1: map I use, but the Kyrie Irving map. If you
• 31:14
  Speaker 1: look at the map there, there is a danger when
• 31:17
  Speaker 1: you go to Europe because if you go too far,
• 31:19
  Speaker 1: you end up falling off the flat Earth. We know
• 31:22
  Speaker 1: Kyrie does not want to fall off the flat Earth,
• 31:24
  Speaker 1: so it's conceivable that he was concerned about that. It's
• 31:27
  Speaker 1: also possible that there's a portal somewhere in Europe where
• 31:29
  Speaker 1: you can fall into the hollow Earth, and Kyrie didn't
• 31:32
  Speaker 1: want that to happen. Either way, this is confirmation that
• 31:36
  Speaker 1: Kyrie was never fully fully part of the Cavs brotherhood.
• 31:41
  Speaker 1: Otherwise you'd be there, you'd find a way, come hell
• 31:45
  Speaker 1: or high water, you would be there. And so he's
• 31:48
  Speaker 1: a bit of an outsider, and we know he does
• 31:52
  Speaker 1: his own thing and all that, and that's just the
• 31:53
  Speaker 1: way it works and period stup.
• 31:56
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• 32:11
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• 32:16
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• 32:20
  Speaker 5: erlackers that he wants neither. He doesn't like the idea
• 32:22
  Speaker 5: of the Bears playing in a dome and said that
• 32:24
  Speaker 5: the Bears will lose the home field advantage of playing
• 32:26
  Speaker 5: outdoors in Chicago winters, Ben, do you think that's a
• 32:29
  Speaker 5: big advantage.
• 32:30
  Speaker 1: Well, it's helped the Bears my entire life coup every
• 32:32
  Speaker 1: couple of years they win the Super Bowl because they
• 32:34
  Speaker 1: play at Soldier Field and it's cold in Chicago in January.
• 32:37
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• 32:49
  Speaker 5: In his first year with the Cowboys, defensive tackle Quinn
• 32:52
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• 32:54
  Speaker 5: He said this week that having a full offseason with
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  Speaker 5: the team and new defensive coordinator Christian Parker will allow
• 33:00
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• 33:01
  Speaker 1: Ben.
• 33:01
  Speaker 3: Do you expect to turn around for Williams?
• 33:03
  Speaker 1: Boy?
• 33:03
  Speaker 5: Yeah.
• 33:03
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• 33:09
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• 33:12
  Speaker 1: This is the latest experiment for Jerry Jones. He's selling
• 33:15
  Speaker 1: this guy, Christian Parker. I never heard of the guy.
• 33:17
  Speaker 1: We'll find out how good a coach he is. But
• 33:19
  Speaker 1: they can't be much worse than they were last year
• 33:21
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• 33:21
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• 33:25
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• 33:28
  Speaker 3: Ben. Do you think the Bulls job is the better job?
• 33:31
  Speaker 1: Yes, because it pays more Koop. The Blazers owners a
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  Speaker 1: tight wad. He don't want to pay anybody, so he's
• 33:37
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• 33:40
  Speaker 1: aren't gonna win, but the money is better.
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• 37:11
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• 37:13
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  Speaker 1: you're right? Oh damn? All right? You remember?
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  Speaker 3: Now?
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  Speaker 1: Did you? Did you know a teacher once told weed
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  Speaker 1: Man hippie he had he had twigs for brains. Yeah, yeah,
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  Speaker 1: the comment still sticks in your mind. Apparently it still sticks. Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: Why why does why does weed Man? Why does weed
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  Speaker 1: Man never win playing solitaire?
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  Speaker 2: Why?
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  Speaker 1: Apparently you're not always playing with a full deck. That's
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  Speaker 1: from ekeon Roseville, Minnesota. Thank you, good man, I met
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  Speaker 1: a couple of years back. Why does weed Man feel
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  Speaker 1: like he's from the British Royalty? Why? Well, everyone refers
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  Speaker 1: to you as your Highness's Michael Leprechaun? Which street does
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  Speaker 1: weed Man live on in the Miami area? Which street?
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  Speaker 1: High Street? He lives on High Street? That's Mike the
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  Speaker 1: Leprechaun again big Ben's name jokes? All right? Which distant
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  Speaker 1: relative of Ben Mallard do we often not often hear
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  Speaker 1: about wish? No strict dumb ass. That's from just Mike
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  Speaker 1: in Providence. What's the difference between a poorly dressed man
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  Speaker 1: and a bicycle. Poorly dressed man in a tricycle. What
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  Speaker 1: a tire? That's it a tire? Thank you, weed man.
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  Speaker 1: There it goes, weed Man, hippie.
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  Speaker 2: Be sure to catch live editions of The Ben Meller
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  Speaker 3: And hooray for Hollywood.
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  Speaker 1: It is everybody on entertainment starts right now here.
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  Speaker 2: It's justin brat.
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  Speaker 1: Obrouckle fan on X, all yours and take it away.
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  Speaker 1: All right, I'm gonna let it. By the way, Ryan
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  Speaker 1: and Maine, I will do some foodie fun today on
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  Speaker 3: Go ahead there, cool, thank you, Marcel.
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  Speaker 5: All right, we are going to start off in the
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  Speaker 5: theaters for this week's edition of Coopscoop and Entertainment, and
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  Speaker 5: of course the big movie this weekend, Toy Story five.
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  Speaker 3: Yes, it is here.
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  Speaker 1: It's actually I'm a middle aged man or older than that, now,
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  Speaker 1: I guess I kind of. I don't know. I saw
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  Speaker 1: the commercial. It looks like it's actually a good movie.
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  Speaker 1: I don't know.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah, I I'm a little embarrassed.
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  Speaker 3: No, you shouldn't be.
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  Speaker 5: It's one of the few franchises where like you can
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  Speaker 5: go more than just like two, like more than one sequel,
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  Speaker 5: more than two sequels in there, and they're still good movies. Uh,
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  Speaker 5: this fifth one should be you know, no exception.
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  Speaker 1: I don't want to I say, I don't want to
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  Speaker 1: give it away. But isn't this like the It's the
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  Speaker 1: Toys fight Back against Tech?
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  Speaker 2: Yes?
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  Speaker 5: So basically, uh, the Gang, the Old Gang, the Toy
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  Speaker 5: Star Gang, or challenged when they come face to face
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  Speaker 5: with lily Pad, a brand new tablet device that arrives
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  Speaker 5: with her own disruptive ideas about what is best for
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  Speaker 5: their kid, Bonnie.
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  Speaker 1: That evil lily Pad.
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  Speaker 3: Yes, we'll playtime ever be the same.
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  Speaker 1: She's such a Karen, I guess, Lily.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, exactly.
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  Speaker 5: Also out this weekend in theaters is a movie called
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  Speaker 5: the Death of Robin Hood and.
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  Speaker 1: Killed Robin Hood.
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  Speaker 3: Well, and you like that movie, right?
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  Speaker 1: I like the cartoon. That was one of my favorite
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  Speaker 1: movies when I was a kid, The Disney Robinhood movie.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah with the Fox.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah yeah, this one's got good reviews from critics so far.
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  Speaker 5: Robin is played by Hugh Jackman.
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  Speaker 1: I heard him.
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  Speaker 5: Yes, Bill Scarsguard is also in this movie. And the
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  Speaker 5: premise basically, it says, grappling with his past after a
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  Speaker 5: life of crime and murder, Robin Hood finds himself gravely
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  Speaker 5: injured after a battle he thought would be his last.
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  Speaker 5: In the hands of a mysterious woman, he has offered
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  Speaker 5: a chance at salvation.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, new spin on Robin Hood right there.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, exactly.
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  Speaker 5: And like I said, it's got good reviews and Hugh
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  Speaker 5: Jackman and I like you Jackman, So there you go.
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  Speaker 5: Moving over to television, I'm gonna bring up this romantic
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  Speaker 5: comedy for the guys to watch with their girls. That's
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  Speaker 5: on Netflix. It's available right now. It's a movie called Voice.
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  Speaker 1: Wait a minute, a coup. It's Father's Day weekend. The
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  Speaker 1: women have to watch what we want to watch.
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  Speaker 5: No, yeah, you know, good luck with that.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah.
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  Speaker 5: This one is called Voicemails for Isabelle and uh. In
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  Speaker 5: this it says Zoe Douche. I thought it was I
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  Speaker 5: don't think that's her name. Look, I'm just telling you
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  Speaker 5: what it says on the screen.
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  Speaker 1: She comes to a family.
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  Speaker 3: My father was a douche and his father before him.
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  Speaker 1: Look at our little baby, baby Douche.
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  Speaker 3: Anyway, maybe that's day. Maybe not. Nick Offerman is also
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  Speaker 3: in the cast.
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  Speaker 5: Uh based on a douche. Basically, she is a young
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  Speaker 5: woman who attempts to co profestialister's death by continuing to
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  Speaker 5: leave a series of voicemails. What she doesn't know is
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  Speaker 5: the phone number has been reassigned, and a real estate
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  Speaker 5: agent becomes taken by the voicemails tries to track her
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  Speaker 5: down and meet her in person. Yeah, and I'm sure
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  Speaker 5: you know. Love ensues, and okay, I have two more
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  Speaker 5: things real quick. The third season of House of the
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  Speaker 5: Dragon premiere Sunday, June twenty first on HBO and HBO Max.
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  Speaker 5: It will be the third of what will eventually be
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  Speaker 5: four seasons. The first of eight episodes launches on Sunday.
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  Speaker 5: Good reviews on that. And then lastly, I want to
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  Speaker 5: bring up a documentary series.
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  Speaker 1: All right, here we go, you know, not a.
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  Speaker 5: New subject for a documentary, but it is America's two
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  Speaker 5: hundred and fiftieth birthday this year, and so this Netflix
• 43:47
  Speaker 5: limited series is called The American Experiment. It is on Wednesday,
• 43:51
  Speaker 5: June twenty fourth. It's a five part history series that
• 43:54
  Speaker 5: examines the founding of the United States.
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  Speaker 1: Oh, I thought only Ken Burns was allowed to do
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  Speaker 1: other people.
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  Speaker 3: You know what it might be. It might be from
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  Speaker 3: him who knows.
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  Speaker 1: I thought he was mister Pbs.
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  Speaker 3: Only I don't know. And that is that is coop
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  Speaker 3: scoop Entertainment.