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  Speaker 1: Thanks for listening to the best of the Ben Mahler
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  Speaker 2: This is the best of the Ben Maler Show on
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  Speaker 1: When I lead this hour from La La Land, as
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  Speaker 1: everyone biting their fingernails waiting to find out what's going
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  Speaker 1: to happen. Will the greatest defensive player the last generation
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  Speaker 1: joined the current greatest defensive player for a super duper
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  Speaker 1: team in the NFL. Well Miles Garrett shared his thoughts
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  Speaker 1: on the possibility of Aaron Donald coming out of retirement
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  Speaker 1: to form a voltrom on defense for the Rams, and
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  Speaker 1: I don't know if you heard what he said or not,
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  Speaker 1: perhaps not speaking on some podcast with friends and family,
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  Speaker 1: Garrett said, quote he doesn't want to pressure Aaron Donald.
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  Speaker 1: He said, I don't want to pressure Aaron Donald. And
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  Speaker 1: he respects that Aaron Donald retired feeling fulfilled after his
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  Speaker 1: career with the Rams won a Super Bowl, a bunch
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  Speaker 1: of Defensive Player of the Year awards. I believe he's
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  Speaker 1: the Rams all time sacks king all that stuff. Of course,
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  Speaker 1: the sack record doesn't go back to the beginning of football.
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  Speaker 1: That's a different conversation. So then Miles Garrett added that
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  Speaker 1: if Donald feels the itch for another another one, he'd
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  Speaker 1: be happy to have it. He also claimed that they
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  Speaker 1: haven't talked yet, but definitely expect to talk soon. Oh
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  Speaker 1: that's good to know. I'm very happy that they're gonna
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  Speaker 1: have a talk. Garrett quote continued, He said, I don't
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  Speaker 1: know what his plans are meeting Aaron Donald, but a
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  Speaker 1: lot of people are excited and thrilled about the possibility
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  Speaker 1: of him coming back. Close quote all right, so that's
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  Speaker 1: a good jumping off point. Let us discuss the question,
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  Speaker 1: how do these comments from Miles Garrett on a possible
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  Speaker 1: Aaron Donald Ram's return. How do they hit you? How
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  Speaker 1: do they hit you? So my thoughts, I've got spiritual journey,
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  Speaker 1: Jimmy Johns and land O Lakes, and we'll combine all
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  Speaker 1: of these things together and we are going to change
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  Speaker 1: the world. Unless we're not, because our buddy Billy does
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  Speaker 1: that every week, so we don't need to do that,
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  Speaker 1: all right, A how do these comments hit you? They
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  Speaker 1: are measured, you know how when you bake something you
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  Speaker 1: got to measure all the ingredients that it's like baking,
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  Speaker 1: they're measured. Miles Garrett is walking the ultimate tightrope here,
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  Speaker 1: giving a masterclass on tiptoeing a little tiptoe, tiptoe, tiptoe
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  Speaker 1: and choosing his words very carefully, so carefully. It sounds
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  Speaker 1: like he's trying to diffuse a bomb, is what he's
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  Speaker 1: trying to do. Now, why all the caution? Why would
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  Speaker 1: you be so who cares? It doesn't matter? But because
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  Speaker 1: Garrett doesn't want to be the guy who interrupts Aaron
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  Speaker 1: Donald on his spiritual journey through the weight room? Is
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  Speaker 1: that what that is? His spiritual journey through the weight room?
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  Speaker 1: As we understand it, the thirty five year old Aaron
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  Speaker 1: Donald is currently locked in the lab. It's a gymnasium,
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  Speaker 1: it's a weight room, and he is testing to see
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  Speaker 1: if his engine has a few more high speed miles
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  Speaker 1: left in it. And so he's out there in the
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  Speaker 1: garage and revving up the old engine like it's a
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  Speaker 1: cherry red nineteen sixty eight Mustang. Now, remember he walked
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  Speaker 1: away with a flawless Hall of Fame resume, and that
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  Speaker 1: was back in twenty twenty four. Now, lately he's been
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  Speaker 1: playing a little footsie. That's what he's been doing here.
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  Speaker 1: It's been flirting with the idea and admitted that Miles
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  Speaker 1: Garrett that trade got him thinking, Hey, wait a minute,
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  Speaker 1: I can have Aaron Donald on one side and Miles
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  Speaker 1: Garrett on the other and so man, I see if
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  Speaker 1: that fire can light back up. Stay tuned developing hot
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  Speaker 1: dot dot dot. Meanwhile, to Tampa, one of the top
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  Speaker 1: defensive players of the NFL is not happy with his contract.
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  Speaker 1: That's always fun. You know, a lot of us are
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  Speaker 1: not happy with what we're paid, but we still show
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  Speaker 1: up to work. Well, I bring this up because the
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  Speaker 1: Bucks coach Todd Bowles better SoundBite than coach Todd Bowles.
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  Speaker 1: We like Todd Bowles because he doesn't say the normal stuff.
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  Speaker 1: So Todd Bowles was asked about Vita Vea, the defensive tackle,
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  Speaker 1: the big fat guy in the middle there and the
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  Speaker 1: fact that he's been absence from the OTAs the mandatory
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  Speaker 1: mini camp. So he called it. Todd Bowles, he said
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  Speaker 1: it was non concerning, said not concerning, and something the
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  Speaker 1: team has dealt with before, so it says nothing. You know,
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  Speaker 1: it's just essentially mumbo jumbo. Right, It didn't seem annoyed,
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  Speaker 1: And the fact that he wasn't annoyed, of course, annoyed
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  Speaker 1: other people who were annoyed for Todd Bowles, the coach
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  Speaker 1: of the Buccaneers, because what are you doing. You're supposed
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  Speaker 1: to be upset. This is your top defensive player and
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  Speaker 1: you're not angry. He's not on the field. Oh my god,
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  Speaker 1: So I word thewise the question why is coach Todd
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  Speaker 1: Bowles so indifferent with the top defensive player on the Bucks,
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  Speaker 1: vide Vea conducting a hold in during the mandatory mini camp.
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  Speaker 1: So my theory, I'm using some psychobabble. Todd Bowles is
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  Speaker 1: basically a farmer's insurance commercial with a whistle. He knows
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  Speaker 1: a thing or two because he's seen a thing or two,
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  Speaker 1: and star players upset with their contract skipping OTAs that
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  Speaker 1: is not a crisis. That is a random Thursday in
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  Speaker 1: the NFL this time of the year. And so Todd
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  Speaker 1: Bowles is treating Videvea like the guy who called in
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  Speaker 1: sick at Jimmy John's and it's like, hey, we'll make
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  Speaker 1: the sandwiches somehow, and the smells are still free, so
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  Speaker 1: why panic. And if you look at it, Vea entering
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  Speaker 1: the final year of a four year, seventy one million
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  Speaker 1: dollar extension and you're very concerned about him paying his
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  Speaker 1: mortgage and all the car payments. He's due seventeen million.
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  Speaker 1: There is no guaranteed money, So that means.
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  Speaker 2: That is.
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  Speaker 1: Veya's leverage, right balls leverage, complete and utter indifference. That's
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  Speaker 1: his leverage. And he's been there, He's done that, been
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  Speaker 1: down this road. He knows these contract dances always end
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  Speaker 1: up the same way because it's a lot easier just
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  Speaker 1: to take a contract then go get a real job
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  Speaker 1: and earn some money, an honest job. So while everyone
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  Speaker 1: else is hyperventilating, Todd Bowles is relaxed and he's calm
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  Speaker 1: and la la la la, la, la, la la la.
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  Speaker 1: He's just sitting on his porch in a rocking chair
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  Speaker 1: and he's whiggling a piece of wood. We don't know
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  Speaker 1: where he got the piece of wood, but he's whiggling
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  Speaker 1: the piece of wood. Not losing any sleep over the
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  Speaker 1: attendance in June that's not happening. And we know that
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  Speaker 1: when training camp begins, and then obviously the end of
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  Speaker 1: training camp and then the season, that's where the real
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  Speaker 1: roll call begins. That's where it matters a little more.
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  Speaker 1: We can dance around it.
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  Speaker 2: Now.
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  Speaker 1: We actually have talk shows to do right now, So
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  Speaker 1: we talk about this and then we'll see if you're
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  Speaker 1: willing to take that nosedive vide vea. Then all right,
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  Speaker 1: Now last word to Jersey we go. Now, if you've
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  Speaker 1: been with the show a long time, you know that
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  Speaker 1: years ago, when it was a young quarterback at West Virginia,
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  Speaker 1: there was a kerfluffle that took place between a gas
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  Speaker 1: bag does the night show here at Fox may or
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  Speaker 1: may not be named Ben Maller talking to the third person,
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  Speaker 1: and that West Virginia quarterback. So I've always been gravitating
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  Speaker 1: towards stories about that former West Virginia quarterback. So I
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  Speaker 1: read that quarterback Gino Smith has impressed the Jets, and
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  Speaker 1: that got my attention. I said, whoa really does he
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  Speaker 1: know magic tricks? Maybe he hung out with Karra top
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  Speaker 1: out in Vegas and he learned some prop comedy and
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  Speaker 1: he was impressing the Jets coaches with prop comedy. Well,
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  Speaker 1: Frank Wright, the terrible head coach who everyone loves, the
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  Speaker 1: current Jets offensive coordinator. He called them up and said, hey,
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  Speaker 1: how would you like to coach the Jets offense? I
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  Speaker 1: don't know. I got some white walls on the other line.
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  Speaker 1: Somebody wants to buy anyway. Frank Wryke at the Tory
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  Speaker 1: minichamp said, I'm not making this up.
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  Speaker 2: This.
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  Speaker 1: I thought this was ai. I thought this might have
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  Speaker 1: been some of those fake accounts, online satire accounts. Frank
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  Speaker 1: Reich said, quote, I am just so impressed by Gino.
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  Speaker 1: I cannot express that enough. Man. He is on point,
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  Speaker 1: his preparation is top notch, his football mind is elite.
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  Speaker 1: Quotes quote all right, question, I'm not making that that
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  Speaker 1: was a legitimate quote.
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  Speaker 3: I know.
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  Speaker 1: Then that's sounded like, oh, this has gotta be fake.
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  Speaker 1: Come on, question, does Jets' offensive fortinator Frank Reich realize
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  Speaker 1: how dumb, the dumb, dumb dumb he sounds praising Geno Smith?
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  Speaker 1: So I will say, yes he does. He's just getting
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  Speaker 1: paid a nice, big fat check. And that's what this
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  Speaker 1: is about. It was robotic, methodically regurgitating sportscliche dot com
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  Speaker 1: while you are a slobbering slapper Sla, I'm a slava
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  Speaker 1: all over Gina and Frank Reich, the Jets offensive coordinator,
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  Speaker 1: praising Geno Smith. It's kind of like a shady realtor
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  Speaker 1: bragging about the hallway. Yeah, I know the bathrooms need upgrading.
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  Speaker 1: In the kitchen's not very good and the bedrooms are small.
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  Speaker 1: But man, that hallway, who good? Walking good walking up
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  Speaker 1: and down that hallway. Man alive, You're very lucky if
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  Speaker 1: you get this house, because that hallway, they tell you
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  Speaker 1: a lot of people are gonna be impressed when they
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  Speaker 1: walk down that hallway. He later on, so thick, How
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  Speaker 1: thick did he land on? Frank Reich? Later on, so thick.
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  Speaker 1: I thought he was auditioning for a land o' lakes
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  Speaker 1: butter commercial. Thought he was trying to there. But Frank
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  Speaker 1: Reich sounded like a guy trying to convince himself. The
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  Speaker 1: time share was a really good investment. They got free
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  Speaker 1: show tickets in Vegas and they got the time share
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  Speaker 1: and it's a really good investment. And it's an open
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  Speaker 1: secret that Gino Gino Smith has very thin skin. And
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  Speaker 1: we know from his days in Seattle and with the
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  Speaker 1: Raiders he needs to be coddle and praised at all times,
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  Speaker 1: or else he's going to have a hissy fit. And
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  Speaker 1: so Frank w Reich he also must think. Part of
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  Speaker 1: Frank Wright must think the Jets fans, I guess didn't
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  Speaker 1: pay any attention last year when Gino led the Raiders
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  Speaker 1: to the top pick in the twenty twenty six NFL draft.
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  Speaker 1: Of course this would be gaslighting. It's more likely than
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  Speaker 1: not that deep down, if you were to give Frank
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  Speaker 1: Reich some truth sor him the Jets offensive coordinator would
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  Speaker 1: say he does not believe a word that he said.
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  Speaker 1: He does not and he just again has to say it,
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  Speaker 1: reminding Jets fans, don't worry. We will lie to your
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  Speaker 1: face and insult your intelligence and your memory and all
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  Speaker 1: of that. And remember the highlight of Geno Smith not
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  Speaker 1: only getting the top pick for the Raiders, the embarrassment
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  Speaker 1: of that franchise they reached rock bottom last year. Gino
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  Speaker 1: also the highlight in Sin City. He was wandering off
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  Speaker 1: the field, believe it was before halftime, and he reminded
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  Speaker 1: everyone that he's a big bird watcher and he wanted
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  Speaker 1: everyone to watch the bird. The bird is the word.
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  Speaker 1: The bird is the word and the bird, of course
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  Speaker 1: number one. He told the Raider fans. Right there, you're
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  Speaker 1: number one, and off right off the field the bird, bird, bird,
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  Speaker 1: So there you go, Silver and Black fans, you get
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  Speaker 1: the bird. As Gino was writing the Vomit Comet, and
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  Speaker 1: he did it very well. So the Jets aren't tanking,
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  Speaker 1: wink wink wink. They're pre tanking, which is somehow worse
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  Speaker 1: than actual things, because you can't tank till the season begins.
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  Speaker 1: Then you start tanking. Right now, they're preparing for the slaughter.
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  Speaker 1: They're not technically tanking, and they're hoping their next savior,
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  Speaker 1: the next Messiah, which conventional wisdom would say would be
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  Speaker 1: Arch Manning. We'll come in there. Of course, there are
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  Speaker 1: people that say Art does want to play for the Jets,
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  Speaker 1: and the Manning family doesn't want to play for the Jets,
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  Speaker 1: so it's a moot point. Even if the Jets get
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  Speaker 1: the topic, Arch Manning will say, no, I'm gonna still
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  Speaker 1: do these Panini commercials in Austin, and I'm not going
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  Speaker 1: to play for the team in New York. I'm not
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  Speaker 1: or New Jersey. I'm not doing it. So that's it. Sorry,
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  Speaker 1: Sucker is not gonna happen.
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  Speaker 1: So our lead story this hour. We'll get back to
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  Speaker 1: the commercials in a minute. We pause now for the monologue.
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  Speaker 1: So our lead this hour is from Lebron Lane. Lebron
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  Speaker 1: not Lebron James. Lebron Lane. Another day, another fresh crop
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  Speaker 1: of chatter and speculation and backfence talk. Now, I'm assuming
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  Speaker 1: you not obsessed with this. We aren't either. We have
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  Speaker 1: a show to do and so we do pay attention.
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  Speaker 1: So if you've not heard the latest on this, maybe not.
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  Speaker 1: The latest chatter is that Lebron James is likely returning
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  Speaker 1: to the Lakers. Wink wink. A reunion is probable. It's
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  Speaker 1: also been floated that Kevin Love I didn't even know
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  Speaker 1: he was still playing Kevin Love, Well, he really wasn't playing.
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  Speaker 1: He was on the Utah Jazz last year. Kevin Love
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  Speaker 1: could also join the Lakers as well, former teammates singing
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  Speaker 1: Kumbai ya there back in their caves days. Love is
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  Speaker 1: an unrestricted free agent. He played thirty seven games in
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  Speaker 1: Salt Lake City last year, not that anyone paid any attention.
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  Speaker 1: And he's from southern California. Hey played at UCLA back
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  Speaker 1: when people used to care about Usilea basketball, and that's
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  Speaker 1: a good jumping off point. So let us discuss the
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  Speaker 1: question are you on board with Lebron and Kevin Love
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  Speaker 1: having a reunion? A calvs championship reunion with the Lakers.
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  Speaker 1: So my observations, I've got Spider Man, EpiPen and dark Arts,
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  Speaker 1: and we'll put all of these things together and we
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  Speaker 1: are gonna go Cowabunga. Dude. Now, we always start with
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  Speaker 1: number one, number one, number one, number one. Oh, I
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  Speaker 1: said number one, all right. So to answer the question,
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  Speaker 1: are you on board with Lebron and Kevin Love having
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  Speaker 1: your reunion? Now, as you know, I'm a card carrying
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  Speaker 1: member of the Laker haters society, me and Rob Parker.
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  Speaker 1: So for comedic reasons, I think this would be great
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  Speaker 1: to have Kevin Love and Lebron side by side. However,
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  Speaker 1: if you ask me as a just a basketball observer,
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  Speaker 1: I would give this the ultimate stink guy is what
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  Speaker 1: I would give this. And people are making I feel
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  Speaker 1: like people are making stuff up? Right now, do you
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  Speaker 1: agree with me or not? Regarding Lebron James, It's it's farming,
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  Speaker 1: it's it's engagement farming, and it's blatant like this is
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  Speaker 1: the NBA's version of what if Spider Man thought that
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  Speaker 1: Cocaine Bear, or if Spider Man popped up in the
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  Speaker 1: they remade Shark Nato, they made another one and then
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  Speaker 1: Spider Man got in there. Would he be eaten by
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  Speaker 1: the sharks or the cocaine Bear? Would that come? I
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  Speaker 1: don't know. It's a guessing game, right, we've officially entered.
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  Speaker 1: But my old pal Tom Looney's used to say the
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  Speaker 1: chaos theory of the universe where nobody knows anything, so
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  Speaker 1: everyone says everything. For example, the other day, Bill Simmons
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  Speaker 1: said he would bet his life that Lebron James signs
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  Speaker 1: with the Golden State Wars. Now, I don't care how
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  Speaker 1: much you love Lebron James or talking into a microphone,
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  Speaker 1: would you really risk your life on a Lebron James take?
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  Speaker 1: I mean, obviously no, it's hyperbole. I get it at
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  Speaker 1: this point though. At this point it's just like, what
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  Speaker 1: are we doing?
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  Speaker 3: You know?
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  Speaker 1: Meanwhile, there's chatter that Lebron is plotting to go back
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  Speaker 1: to Cleveland, while others say no, no, no, no, the
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  Speaker 1: Lakers are moving on from Lebron, that it's Luca's team
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  Speaker 1: now and they're gonna hand pick players that Luca wants.
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  Speaker 1: And by the way, why would the Lakers want a
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  Speaker 1: washed up Kevin Love Love I believe he's thirty seven.
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  Speaker 1: I think basically a weighted blanket at this point, comforting warm,
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  Speaker 1: completely useless in the big picture. So to add him
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  Speaker 1: and then Lebron, who's in his early forties, like, what
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  Speaker 1: are they doing? Are they trying to get a run
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  Speaker 1: in at the YMCA open gym? Knight at the YMCA?
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  Speaker 1: What is that? And I think people just making crap
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  Speaker 1: up right now? And why don't we make crap up?
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  Speaker 1: Like for example, league source is not close to the
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  Speaker 1: NBA tell us that Lebron would love to play with
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  Speaker 1: Zildrunas Ilgoscis again. While it is true Agoscas is in
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  Speaker 1: his early fifties, he has been working out on a
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  Speaker 1: treadmill and is considering a comeback. And Lebron had such
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  Speaker 1: a good time in Miami with Mario Chalmers, he's willing
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  Speaker 1: to overlook Chalmers is in his early forties now and
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  Speaker 1: would love to have him as a teammate again. You
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  Speaker 1: see how that works, all right? Meanwhile, we go to
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  Speaker 1: New York. It's parade day. It's parade day today, June eighteenth,
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  Speaker 1: Big parade for the Knickerbockers. Well, James Dolan said, hey,
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  Speaker 1: remember me, I'm the guy you all said couldn't win.
• 19:38
  Speaker 1: We won, you suckers. So the Knicks owner has publicly stated,
• 19:43
  Speaker 1: even before the parade that he will not allow the
• 19:49
  Speaker 1: Knicks to enter the NBA's second apron. I know you're
• 19:53
  Speaker 1: very concerned about aprons. How soon before somebody says that
• 19:58
  Speaker 1: sexist to say apron? Like, the NBA is so woke
• 20:01
  Speaker 1: they won't even use the word owner. They use the
• 20:04
  Speaker 1: term governor. Isn't apron offensive? Like, I mean, that's offensive
• 20:08
  Speaker 1: to people that use aprons? You think an apron is restrictive.
• 20:12
  Speaker 1: That's very that's very bad, borderline sexist by the NBA.
• 20:17
  Speaker 1: Get rid of the term apron. I'm offended for those
• 20:20
  Speaker 1: that are gonna be offended by the term apron anyway.
• 20:23
  Speaker 1: The NBA has got this punitive second apron thing, im
• 20:25
  Speaker 1: a jig. And James Dolan has announced that even after
• 20:29
  Speaker 1: the first title in over fifty years, he's not going
• 20:33
  Speaker 1: to go over that threshold. So if you didn't see
• 20:37
  Speaker 1: it or hear about this. Speaking on WFA and New York,
• 20:39
  Speaker 1: Dolan said, quote, we cannot go into the second apron.
• 20:43
  Speaker 1: He said, we're willing to stretch, but you know what
• 20:47
  Speaker 1: that means. But yeah, there's a certain thing or certain
• 20:52
  Speaker 1: things rather in the NBA that you'd have to be
• 20:56
  Speaker 1: suicidal to do. One of them is the second a apron.
• 21:00
  Speaker 1: Close quote. Now, Dolan went on to emphasize that writing
• 21:04
  Speaker 1: a as big a check as possible, but not one
• 21:10
  Speaker 1: that crosses the rubicon into that second apron. And he's
• 21:16
  Speaker 1: then said, well, it's not my call. It's Leon Rose,
• 21:19
  Speaker 1: the president. It's his call. Yeah, right, all right. Question,
• 21:23
  Speaker 1: what message is James Dolan sending to Knicks fans with
• 21:27
  Speaker 1: his pushback on the idea of spending whatever it takes,
• 21:33
  Speaker 1: including going into the second apron, to keep this team together.
• 21:37
  Speaker 1: So this is what's known as a push notification. Your
• 21:41
  Speaker 1: championship trial period has expired. Your credit card will be
• 21:46
  Speaker 1: charged thirty nine to ninety nine each month. Dolan's message
• 21:50
  Speaker 1: is simple, it's sharp, it's on brand. And here's what
• 21:55
  Speaker 1: Dolan said. He wrote a little text, congratulations on that
• 21:58
  Speaker 1: piece of metal. That's what Rob Manford calls championships a
• 22:01
  Speaker 1: piece of metal. I know it's basketball, not baseball, but
• 22:04
  Speaker 1: still congratulations on your little piece of metal and have
• 22:08
  Speaker 1: fun at your little parade. Nobody in any horse pow today,
• 22:11
  Speaker 1: like in Philadelphia or Cleveland, and that's it. But don't
• 22:16
  Speaker 1: get cute. Don't do not get cute. Daddy's not paying
• 22:20
  Speaker 1: the second Apron tax bill. That's it, your daddy. Dolan's
• 22:23
  Speaker 1: not doing it. Even a championship hangover has a budget.
• 22:27
  Speaker 1: And Dolan immediately had to remind every man, woman and
• 22:30
  Speaker 1: child that he is the hall monitor, James Dolan, and
• 22:35
  Speaker 1: that's it, and letting the Knicks fans know that Dolan
• 22:39
  Speaker 1: is going to Dolan and that's how it's going to be.
• 22:42
  Speaker 1: Despite a number one TV market in all the land
• 22:47
  Speaker 1: and deep pockets and lots of money to play with,
• 22:50
  Speaker 1: prepare for some downsizing and a little roster shuffle, do
• 22:55
  Speaker 1: the shuffle roster reshuffling. Based on the math, it would
• 23:01
  Speaker 1: appear that Dolan's comments are letting everyone know that Mitchell
• 23:05
  Speaker 1: Robinson will be missing foul shots for someone else in
• 23:07
  Speaker 1: the playoffs, and that former Clipper Landry Shammitt will sham
• 23:12
  Speaker 1: it all day and sham it all night for somebody else,
• 23:16
  Speaker 1: and they're free agents and they'll be gone. And Jose Albarado,
• 23:20
  Speaker 1: local guy he'd have to opt into his player option.
• 23:23
  Speaker 1: If he opts out, he'll be gone to In addition,
• 23:27
  Speaker 1: is it true that a popular player for popular people,
• 23:33
  Speaker 1: such as Carl Anthony Towns will be put on the
• 23:37
  Speaker 1: auctioning block to give the Knickerbockers a little leeway with
• 23:43
  Speaker 1: the Cap Towns, who played relatively well and low expectations
• 23:48
  Speaker 1: in the playoffs and had statistically the greatest plus minus
• 23:52
  Speaker 1: playoff run of all time. Karl Anthony Towns has a
• 23:56
  Speaker 1: fifty seven million dollars average anual value, which is the
• 24:02
  Speaker 1: snuff a luffagous in the room. Yeah, and oh, by
• 24:07
  Speaker 1: the way, they did film that Sesame Street over there
• 24:10
  Speaker 1: in the Queen's Astoria studios, which I did visit one time.
• 24:14
  Speaker 1: I did not see Snuffalleopogus though, or Big Bird or
• 24:17
  Speaker 1: Oscar the Grouge or any of those characters. Did not
• 24:20
  Speaker 1: see them. I was hoping to see Bert and Ernie.
• 24:23
  Speaker 1: They were not there, all right. So the CBA rules,
• 24:26
  Speaker 1: if you do go into the second apron, you are neutered. Neutered,
• 24:30
  Speaker 1: your stone walled from making most trades and draft picks
• 24:36
  Speaker 1: get lowered to the end of the round. And so
• 24:39
  Speaker 1: there's a lot of issues. Only a few teams have
• 24:42
  Speaker 1: had the stones to cross the second apron. Dolan is
• 24:47
  Speaker 1: announcing he's not one of them. He treats the second
• 24:49
  Speaker 1: apron like the Poltergeist from insidious, avoid the Boogeyman. Now
• 24:54
  Speaker 1: Dolan allergic to the second apron. How allergic is he?
• 24:58
  Speaker 1: All right? He always had as an EpiPen. He's prepared
• 25:02
  Speaker 1: because of those allergies. He's very concerned about it. Now,
• 25:05
  Speaker 1: final point. We head now to Washington. A team we
• 25:08
  Speaker 1: don't talk about that used to be called the Bullets,
• 25:10
  Speaker 1: and then people complained about that, and so it's really
• 25:14
  Speaker 1: a really chicken soup for the soul story. So there
• 25:16
  Speaker 1: was this basketball team called the Washington Bullets, and people
• 25:19
  Speaker 1: thought that was encouraging violence, so they changed their name
• 25:21
  Speaker 1: to the Wizards, and ever since then there's been no
• 25:23
  Speaker 1: gun violence in Washington, DC. It cleaned the whole problem up.
• 25:27
  Speaker 1: It turns out that just changing a team nickname solved
• 25:31
  Speaker 1: all the problems. It's just a wonderful story. Oh that
• 25:35
  Speaker 1: didn't happen. Okay, Anyway, we learned that Tray Young plans
• 25:40
  Speaker 1: to decline his player option. Now you might be wondering
• 25:44
  Speaker 1: why we're talking about this. It's a forty eight point
• 25:48
  Speaker 1: nine million dollar one year option. He's rejecting that. For
• 25:52
  Speaker 1: the upcoming NBA season, he will enter the market as
• 25:56
  Speaker 1: Trey Young will go to market. Longtime Atlanta Hawk was
• 25:59
  Speaker 1: traded mid season from the atl to the Beltway, and
• 26:04
  Speaker 1: while Washington is still said to be the front runner
• 26:07
  Speaker 1: to re sign Trey Young, there are going to be
• 26:10
  Speaker 1: multiple bidders on the market to try to whoo him.
• 26:15
  Speaker 1: Question why would Trey Young opt out after a miserable
• 26:21
  Speaker 1: season in DC, Well, the answer is three words, because
• 26:27
  Speaker 1: he can. Opting out is the basketball version of turning
• 26:32
  Speaker 1: in your homework. It's just a blank piece of paper
• 26:37
  Speaker 1: and you're demanding an A. Well, no, you don't get
• 26:40
  Speaker 1: an A. That's a blank piece of paper. However, I
• 26:42
  Speaker 1: had to get the paper. I had to bring the
• 26:45
  Speaker 1: paper to you. There's a lot of effort involved in that.
• 26:48
  Speaker 5: And just because you can't.
• 26:50
  Speaker 1: See what's on the paper, it's invisible inc Did you
• 26:52
  Speaker 1: ever think it's invisible ink? Therefore I should get an A? Okay,
• 26:56
  Speaker 1: why not? The man played I think all of fifteen
• 27:00
  Speaker 1: games last year, had a spray knee, some other stuff
• 27:03
  Speaker 1: that went wrong, and he walked into free agency and said,
• 27:07
  Speaker 1: I'm not taking that forty nine million dollars. I'm gonna
• 27:11
  Speaker 1: walk in there. I'm gonna own my own damn building.
• 27:13
  Speaker 1: And this is classic wizardry. It's wizardry as well. It's
• 27:17
  Speaker 1: the dark arts of NBA Contract one oh one. You
• 27:21
  Speaker 1: file this under extreme unadulterated HUTSPA. A lot of hudspa
• 27:27
  Speaker 1: intoday's league, and it's been this way for a number
• 27:30
  Speaker 1: of years. This is not a new revelation. On court
• 27:32
  Speaker 1: performance matters very little. It's not that it doesn't matter,
• 27:38
  Speaker 1: it just doesn't matter much. You step into the sorcerer's
• 27:41
  Speaker 1: workshop and this high wire move will allow Tree Young
• 27:45
  Speaker 1: to do a mating dance with a bunch of suitors
• 27:49
  Speaker 1: around the NBA and have all these teams whispers sweet
• 27:53
  Speaker 1: nothings into his ear, and he'll end up laughing ha
• 27:58
  Speaker 1: all the way to the bank as he gets even
• 28:01
  Speaker 1: more money, money, money, money. Now he knows the Wizards,
• 28:04
  Speaker 1: by the way, have no choice, so it is likely
• 28:06
  Speaker 1: these days in Washington, however, all it takes is one
• 28:09
  Speaker 1: team to woo him. Now who would that team be,
• 28:13
  Speaker 1: God only knows, But the Wizards have to keep him.
• 28:18
  Speaker 1: They really don't have any of their options none, zero, squad, douche,
• 28:22
  Speaker 1: bupkis all that stuff. And if you look at it
• 28:25
  Speaker 1: from the outside looking in, Trey Young's got them by
• 28:30
  Speaker 1: the basket balls, if you know what I mean. They
• 28:33
  Speaker 1: have to keep it like the whole model was all right,
• 28:36
  Speaker 1: we've been tanking for years that didn't work. So now
• 28:39
  Speaker 1: we're gonna build around Trey Young and Himfony Davis. Oh
• 28:44
  Speaker 1: my god, wow. Okay, that's that's the blueprint. That's the
• 28:49
  Speaker 1: modern blueprint, mostly because he's the only blueprint they've got left.
• 28:54
  Speaker 1: Everything else is up in flames. And then that's the
• 28:59
  Speaker 1: way it is.
• 29:00
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• 29:02
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• 29:07
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• 29:12
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• 29:15
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• 29:16
  Speaker 3: It was reported on Tuesday that these Steelers could head
• 29:19
  Speaker 3: into Week one with four quarterbacks on the roster, with
• 29:22
  Speaker 3: Rogers Mason Rudolph twenty twenty five rookie Will Howard in
• 29:25
  Speaker 3: this year's rookie Drew aller Ben. What does this say
• 29:28
  Speaker 3: about Pittsburgh's quarterback room?
• 29:30
  Speaker 1: Well, they're not gonna have four quarterbacks, so they will
• 29:32
  Speaker 1: have two quarterbacks. One of those guys, whether it's Will
• 29:35
  Speaker 1: Howard or Drew Aller, will be on the practice squad
• 29:38
  Speaker 1: and then it most likely will be Mason Rudolph, who
• 29:42
  Speaker 1: is unloaded and will not be on the team. But
• 29:44
  Speaker 1: now they have to have backup options. Aaron Rodgers at
• 29:48
  Speaker 1: his age is likely to get hurt, so I understand
• 29:50
  Speaker 1: why they would want to have multiple quarterbacks. But like
• 29:52
  Speaker 1: Will Howard and Drew Aller, those are just developmental quarterbacks.
• 29:56
  Speaker 1: They're not ready to play. Of course, some would argue
• 29:58
  Speaker 1: that Mason Rudolph is not ready to play either.
• 30:00
  Speaker 3: Next, defensive end Cam Jordan is returning for his sixteenth
• 30:04
  Speaker 3: season with the Saints, but he also announced it will
• 30:07
  Speaker 3: be his last.
• 30:08
  Speaker 5: Ben do you think Jordan has a case for the
• 30:09
  Speaker 5: Hall of Fame, Well.
• 30:11
  Speaker 1: He has a case. I wouldn't put him in the
• 30:15
  Speaker 1: Hall of He's like a borderline a Hall of Fame guy.
• 30:19
  Speaker 1: He's had a good career. He's been mister New Orleans
• 30:21
  Speaker 1: Saint all these years. You know, he was part of
• 30:25
  Speaker 1: an All Decade team, which is a big deal, made
• 30:28
  Speaker 1: a bunch of Pro Bowls. I don't care about that
• 30:29
  Speaker 1: was a first team All Pro soy, but he's a
• 30:31
  Speaker 1: borderline guy. He's not like a guaranteed Hall of Famer.
• 30:34
  Speaker 1: He'd make an All decade team and you did you
• 30:36
  Speaker 1: get me at least an All Pro one time and
• 30:39
  Speaker 1: all that. Next.
• 30:41
  Speaker 3: Nikes basketball brand has been struggling with its stock price
• 30:43
  Speaker 3: nearly half of what it was a year ago. They're
• 30:46
  Speaker 3: hoping that SGA will save it, as they announced Tuesday
• 30:48
  Speaker 3: they signed the MVP away from Converse.
• 30:50
  Speaker 5: Ben Can SGA be Nike's MVP?
• 30:53
  Speaker 1: Yes, everyone who wants to just shoot foul shots will
• 30:57
  Speaker 1: buy these shoes, scoop, and that all the middle a
• 31:00
  Speaker 1: man will buy the shoes. But oh my god, my
• 31:02
  Speaker 1: foul shot game is as good as an MVP, A
• 31:04
  Speaker 1: two time MVP. Sign me up, SGA foul shooting shoes.
• 31:09
  Speaker 1: How'd we do? Coople loop?
• 31:11
  Speaker 5: You pass this edition?
• 31:12
  Speaker 3: That is a win?
• 31:13
  Speaker 1: Putting on the bar win on chicken dinner.
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• 31:31
  Speaker 1: It's now time for time for horry, Horry carry wait
• 31:35
  Speaker 1: ask bad.
• 31:36
  Speaker 5: Twitter said this your.
• 31:37
  Speaker 1: Questions on Twitter now and no, wait we go, it's
• 31:43
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• 31:46
  Speaker 1: the rest of the hour, and Coople loop the reading
• 31:50
  Speaker 1: of the questions.
• 31:51
  Speaker 3: I hate when this happens, Ben, because I have a good,
• 31:54
  Speaker 3: a good question that I want to start out with,
• 31:56
  Speaker 3: and I think it's especially good for you. But it's
• 31:58
  Speaker 3: it's kind of one of those that where you kind
• 31:59
  Speaker 3: of need a few seconds to think, but maybe you
• 32:01
  Speaker 3: know right off the bat. JT the Wingman. He wants
• 32:04
  Speaker 3: to know who is your favorite non sports mascot.
• 32:09
  Speaker 1: So eliminate the Philly fanatic and all those right?
• 32:13
  Speaker 5: His his is Scoopy from Culver's.
• 32:16
  Speaker 1: Oh well, that's a good mascot. I didn't grow up
• 32:19
  Speaker 1: with Culvers, so it can't be that. I I think
• 32:23
  Speaker 1: the scariest mascot would be like the Burger King mascot,
• 32:26
  Speaker 1: not my favorite. I was a fan. I grew up
• 32:29
  Speaker 1: with McDonald's and Ronald McDonald had the Hamburglar. I guess
• 32:33
  Speaker 1: the Hamburger. I think I think he was retired though,
• 32:35
  Speaker 1: right didn't they get rid of him? What's your Bob's?
• 32:38
  Speaker 1: Big Boy had a mascot?
• 32:41
  Speaker 6: Yeah, there's still one Bob's Big Boy like too.
• 32:45
  Speaker 1: That was a legendary spot. Bob's Big Boy. They still
• 32:47
  Speaker 1: have a car shows and went over to Luca Lake
• 32:49
  Speaker 1: over there.
• 32:50
  Speaker 5: Yeah, all the celebrities hung out there, you know.
• 32:52
  Speaker 6: Anyways, back to the question, I have to go with
• 32:54
  Speaker 6: Tony the Tiger not bad there.
• 32:57
  Speaker 1: Solid. Yeah, that's that's a bit what cool.
• 33:01
  Speaker 3: I got it. I mean, I was you went Cereal
• 33:05
  Speaker 3: and I was gonna go Cereal as well, because I
• 33:07
  Speaker 3: can't really think of a lot of other ones besides McDonald's.
• 33:10
  Speaker 5: Uh so, yep, the Captain.
• 33:12
  Speaker 6: Captain I like to kool aid Man too, he's pretty cool.
• 33:15
  Speaker 1: What about Sonic the Hedgehog from Sonic the Driving Place
• 33:18
  Speaker 1: Now or the remember Taco Bell had the you cant
• 33:22
  Speaker 1: dockle Bell? All right? What's next? That's a good question
• 33:27
  Speaker 1: by JT the Movement. Wow, good job by you. Right next,
• 33:30
  Speaker 1: what's next? All right?
• 33:32
  Speaker 5: Rob the goat Man.
• 33:34
  Speaker 3: He wants to know if you could only watch one
• 33:37
  Speaker 3: TV program for the rest of your life, what would
• 33:39
  Speaker 3: it be?
• 33:40
  Speaker 1: The Simpsons. It's been on my entire life. There's endless
• 33:44
  Speaker 1: episodes of the Simpsons. It doesn't end. I don't even
• 33:48
  Speaker 1: know that people watch it. Anymore. It's still on every week,
• 33:50
  Speaker 1: so it's good choice. Yeah, be a long time before
• 33:53
  Speaker 1: you'd have to repeat exactly what about you? It's the
• 33:55
  Speaker 1: longest running show on television, right, the Simpsons. I believe
• 33:58
  Speaker 1: what about you? Lorrain?
• 33:59
  Speaker 6: I gotta go with X in the City.
• 34:02
  Speaker 1: That's been off the air for thirty years though, right,
• 34:04
  Speaker 1: twenty years?
• 34:05
  Speaker 5: Whoa, whoa, whoa?
• 34:05
  Speaker 6: Calm down, maybe something like that though, all right.
• 34:10
  Speaker 1: Cool, I think I'm gonna go with friends friends, Yeah,
• 34:14
  Speaker 1: solid legendary. All right, what's next? Just ask Ben your
• 34:17
  Speaker 1: questions our answers. If you like the bit, we do
• 34:18
  Speaker 1: it every week at this time. If you don't like
• 34:20
  Speaker 1: the bit, it's only once a week. If it's not
• 34:22
  Speaker 1: long enough, blame Blair and Maine because he took our time.
• 34:25
  Speaker 1: Donkey sausage. You'd like to know.
• 34:27
  Speaker 5: Are you allergic to any food or material?
• 34:31
  Speaker 1: I'm allergic to penicillin, which becomes problematic when I have
• 34:35
  Speaker 1: medical stuff. Penicillin I have allergic to, and I was
• 34:40
  Speaker 1: as a kid allergic to certain types of dogs. What
• 34:43
  Speaker 1: about you, of array up.
• 34:45
  Speaker 6: The sticky stuff on band aids, I'm allergic to h
• 34:48
  Speaker 6: that's it.
• 34:48
  Speaker 1: That's an interesting one.
• 34:50
  Speaker 3: It causes rashes, Yes, lots of stuff. Doxy Cycling is
• 34:55
  Speaker 3: an antibiotic. I'm allergic to like cheap metals like like
• 34:59
  Speaker 3: certain belt buckles will give me a rash and leachy
• 35:03
  Speaker 3: like very allergic to leachi.
• 35:06
  Speaker 5: Interesting? What is very smoothie?
• 35:08
  Speaker 6: The other day? And thought about you dying?
• 35:10
  Speaker 1: Oh wonderful. Okay, what's next? What do we got? The king?
• 35:13
  Speaker 5: Rory wants to know. Do you watch your calorie intake?
• 35:17
  Speaker 2: No?
• 35:17
  Speaker 1: I do interminute fast thing, so I don't really worry
• 35:20
  Speaker 1: what I eat. I just eat, like in thirty or
• 35:21
  Speaker 1: forty minutes. I eat everything for the whole day. That's it.
• 35:24
  Speaker 1: That's my thing. And I don't really worry about calories.
• 35:26
  Speaker 1: It's just like fast. That's the What about you, Lorena?
• 35:29
  Speaker 6: Yeah, I try to do high calories because I eat
• 35:31
  Speaker 6: small amounts.
• 35:32
  Speaker 1: Oh all right, cool, yes, okay, yes, have you ever
• 35:37
  Speaker 1: been handcuffed? He wants to know, by police or by
• 35:41
  Speaker 1: someone else
• 35:44
  Speaker 5: Exactly