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  Speaker 1: and we begin our lead story this hour from the
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  Speaker 1: ballot Box.
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  Speaker 3: We start from the ballot box. As we continue, are.
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  Speaker 1: Around the clock in depth team coverage on the snub
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  Speaker 1: heard round.
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  Speaker 3: Of football World.
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  Speaker 1: Bill Belichick tone he was stonewalled from Canton, Ohio at
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  Speaker 1: least the first chance to get into Canton, Ohio. So,
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  Speaker 1: if you've not been following this, there's been some new
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  Speaker 1: developments here over the last twenty four hours since actually
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  Speaker 1: less than that. We were last on these microphones twenty
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  Speaker 1: hours ago, so the developments have changed.
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  Speaker 3: So we now know.
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  Speaker 1: Agent number one or patient zero, however you want to
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  Speaker 1: call it. The first voter who has admitted they failed
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  Speaker 1: to vote for the Patriots legend has stepped forward, the
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  Speaker 1: first person to have the balls to put their name
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  Speaker 1: on it and publicly try to give their rationale as
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  Speaker 1: to why they decided not to vote for the greatest
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  Speaker 1: football code coach in the modern era, Bill Belichick. The
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  Speaker 1: person that did that is named Vahi gregorian I. Have
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  Speaker 1: no idea who that is. Unfairly, he's a writer in
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  Speaker 1: Kansas City for the the newspaper there. I never heard
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  Speaker 1: of this guy, but that doesn't mean much. He probably
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  Speaker 1: know who I am. So he didn't put it out
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  Speaker 1: in the open. He put it behind a paywall. Of course,
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  Speaker 1: got to help the dying newspaper get some paying customers.
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  Speaker 1: So the story was headlined Bill Belichick belongs in the
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  Speaker 1: Hall of Fame.
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  Speaker 3: But here's why I didn't vote for him. It's so good.
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  Speaker 1: Well, this should have happened, and I'm one of fifty
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  Speaker 1: people that had a chance to make it.
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  Speaker 3: Happen, but I didn't do it.
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  Speaker 1: And now I'm gonna write a column as to why
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  Speaker 1: I didn't do it. Now Grigory and the writer admitted
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  Speaker 1: that if it were a simple yes or no vote,
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  Speaker 1: he would have voted for Belichick. Of course, he wants
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  Speaker 1: you to know that blaming the process to Carpenter blaming
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  Speaker 1: their tools, He's blaming the process now. However, because he
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  Speaker 1: claimed the ballot is limited, which apparently it is limited
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  Speaker 1: to three names. You have the senior category, the coaching category,
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  Speaker 1: and the contributor pool. He decided, well, I'm gonna ditch
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  Speaker 1: the goat. I am not gonna vote for Belichick. Instead,
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  Speaker 1: this ink stained wretch voted for the three senior candidates.
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  Speaker 3: Here's who we voted for ahead of Belichick. Do you
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  Speaker 3: see this? You know these names? Okay?
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  Speaker 1: The names are quarterback Ken Anderson, running back Roger Craig,
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  Speaker 1: and el C.
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  Speaker 3: Greenwood.
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  Speaker 1: That's it. That's the list right there. That's who we
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  Speaker 1: voted for. So Ken Anderson, Ohio sports legend quarterback. I'm
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  Speaker 1: sure Dick and Dayton's happy about that. Our caller calls
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  Speaker 1: the last hour Roger Craig forty nine or running back
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  Speaker 1: and Steeler defensive star l C.
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  Speaker 3: Greenwood.
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  Speaker 1: Now, Grigorian claims the writer from Kansas City he felt
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  Speaker 1: he said essentially duty. I don't know if he said
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  Speaker 1: exactly that, but he felt like it was his responsibility
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  Speaker 1: to vote for what he believed were the richly deserving
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  Speaker 1: seniors who most likely would not ever have a chance
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  Speaker 1: to be in the Hall of Fame again. And I
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  Speaker 1: want to go back to the point. He circled back
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  Speaker 1: to the fact he claimed that Belichick should also be
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  Speaker 1: a first ballot guy. He just didn't do it. So
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  Speaker 1: that is a good jumping off point. Let us discuss
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  Speaker 1: the question for the class.
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  Speaker 3: And you're in the class.
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  Speaker 1: As I rail away here the question for you, how
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  Speaker 1: do you grade this Kansas City sports writer's explanation for
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  Speaker 1: not voting Bill Belichick into the Pro Football.
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  Speaker 3: Hall of Fame.
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  Speaker 1: So my thoughts on this, I've got Anti Ann's Woodstock
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  Speaker 1: and Rocket Roger, and we'll put all of these things
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  Speaker 1: together and we're going to make up. Oh, spaghettios, that's
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  Speaker 1: what we're gonna make. So A he was the writer here,
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  Speaker 1: and I'll give you his name again. I never heard
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  Speaker 1: of the guy. Maybe you know who is Vahi Gregorian.
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  Speaker 1: So this guy, Vahi Gregorian, was chowing down on some
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  Speaker 1: saucy nugs dripping with nostalgia from Wendy's there. I will
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  Speaker 1: give the guy this, and I'm not gonna come keep
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  Speaker 1: completely killed. I'll give the guy credit. At least he
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  Speaker 1: put his name on it, and he didn't hide under
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  Speaker 1: his bed sucking his thumb like the rest of these
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  Speaker 1: Mama lukes who vote for the Pro Football Hall of Fame. Regardless.
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  Speaker 1: That is where the compliments end. Okay, So we're now
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  Speaker 1: done with the compliments. I said, at least to put
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  Speaker 1: your name on it. Good job by you. He did
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  Speaker 1: put it behind a paywall so people could subscribe to
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  Speaker 1: the Kansas City Star. So good for you on that.
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  Speaker 1: But here's the thing, all right, So the compliments are
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  Speaker 1: over on this one. Here's the take on this. Okay,
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  Speaker 1: So this guy from the Kansas City Star that did
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  Speaker 1: not vote for Belichick and then tried to explain why
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  Speaker 1: he didn't vote for Belichick, he took a job, a
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  Speaker 1: little side hustle at Anti Ann's. He's making pretzels and
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  Speaker 1: he's using pretzel logic. This is what called pretzel logic.
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  Speaker 1: Like he voted for again, Ken Anderson, Roger Craig and
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  Speaker 1: Else Greenwood were the guys. He voted for, three dudes
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  Speaker 1: who already lost the argument for the Hall of Fame,
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  Speaker 1: and that is why they haven't gotten in the Hall
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  Speaker 1: of Fame all of these years. It's a symphony, a symphony.
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  Speaker 1: You're trying to get heartstring votes, I guess, and it worked.
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  Speaker 1: This guy voted for them. But the senior class, if
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  Speaker 1: you will, these guys are, they're older. Elsie Greenwood died
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  Speaker 1: years ago, and they're not in Canton. So we'll start
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  Speaker 1: with Elsie Greenwood, the steeler guy.
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  Speaker 3: If you look at the comp.
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  Speaker 1: I want to try to draw this in because there's
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  Speaker 1: a lot of you went around when he was playing
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  Speaker 1: in the glory days of the Pittsburgh Steelers fifty years ago.
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  Speaker 1: The comp is essentially John Abraham, which is also an
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  Speaker 1: old comp because that's like a twenty year old Abraham
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  Speaker 1: played in the early two thousands for the Jets and
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  Speaker 1: the Atlanta Falcons.
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  Speaker 3: I think he also played for the Cardinals.
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  Speaker 1: With the comparison statistically is that L. C. Greenwood was
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  Speaker 1: essentially John Abraham. Do you think John Abraham should be
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  Speaker 1: in the Hall of Fame? Remember, the championship thing is
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  Speaker 1: a team award. Now Ken Anderson, the somewhat modern day
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  Speaker 1: camp for Ken Anderson would be Carson Palmer. Anyone want
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  Speaker 1: to vote Carson Palmer into the Pro Football Hall of Fame.
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  Speaker 1: Maybe at the end of last year on the ballot,
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  Speaker 1: you're going to vote Carson Palmer in the Pro Football
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  Speaker 1: Hall of Fame. Donovan McNabb as another comparison to Ken Anderson.
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  Speaker 3: Now Roger Craig. You know he's was a good player.
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  Speaker 1: He wasn't the most important player, the second most important
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  Speaker 1: player in those forty.
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  Speaker 3: Nine er teams.
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  Speaker 1: That would be Joe Montana and Jerry Rice. And if
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  Speaker 1: you look at the modern day comp for Roger Craig,
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  Speaker 1: his performance individually in the Hall of Fame individual honor
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  Speaker 1: would be someone.
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  Speaker 3: Like Shady McCoy or Matt Forte.
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  Speaker 1: A modern comparison. Again, those guys are nice players, good careers.
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  Speaker 1: They're not immortal players. And so put the soup down,
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  Speaker 1: the sentimentality soup. You put that down. And I realized,
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  Speaker 1: I'm having this conversation because I've an old mindset.
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  Speaker 3: My mindset was that you're supposed to raise the bar.
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  Speaker 3: You don't lower the bar.
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  Speaker 1: I know recently in these Hall of Fames you've lowered
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  Speaker 1: the ball bar quite a bit because it's a nonprofit.
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  Speaker 1: You got to have people every year in the Hall
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  Speaker 1: of Fame, and so you lower the standards and all
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  Speaker 1: that stuff. You shouldn't lower the standards because you feel
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  Speaker 1: bad because someone's old or not around anymore.
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  Speaker 3: The Hall of Fame isn't like this retirement part. It's
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  Speaker 3: supposed to be.
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  Speaker 1: There's a velvet rope, and not everyone gets behind the
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  Speaker 1: velvet rope. It's the VIP section. Not everyone gets to
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  Speaker 1: go to the VIP section.
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  Speaker 3: And so there you go.
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  Speaker 1: Bill Belichick still on standby mode, which is poppycock is
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  Speaker 1: what it is now turning the page, but not far.
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  Speaker 1: The drum beat continues here. So the question what do
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  Speaker 1: you take away from the fallout? Because this has continued,
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  Speaker 1: This is like the top story everyone's happening about the
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  Speaker 1: little sporting world here in the echo chamber. So what
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  Speaker 1: do you take away from the fallout of Bill Belichick
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  Speaker 1: not making the cut as a first ballot Hall of
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  Speaker 1: Famer as this story has not just legs, it's got
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  Speaker 1: arms and the whole thing. So this has been a deluge,
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  Speaker 1: is what it's been here. If the Pro Football Hall
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  Speaker 1: of Fame think about this way, If the Pro Football
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  Speaker 1: Hall of Fame electorate, if they had just done what
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  Speaker 1: was supposed to happen, just do their job and ushered
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  Speaker 1: Bill Belichick and a gold plated chariot into the Pro
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  Speaker 1: Football Hall of Fame, this story would have gotten a mention.
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  Speaker 1: We would have cracked some jokes about Jordan Hudson, would
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  Speaker 1: have had some fun with that, right goof Don the
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  Speaker 1: Floozy would have had a.
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  Speaker 3: Good time with that. And that didn't happen. It would
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  Speaker 3: have been a yawn and a.
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  Speaker 1: Stretch story and Okay, plane lands. That's not a story, right,
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  Speaker 1: Dog bites man not a story. Man bites dog. That's
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  Speaker 1: a story, all right. So since these dopes on the
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  Speaker 1: Election committee there decided to play god duh, it has
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  Speaker 1: been a wildfire and the fallout. The only logical conclusion
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  Speaker 1: one can make based on what has happened over the
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  Speaker 1: last twenty four forty eight hours. It has become a
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  Speaker 1: total Belichickian woodstock of love for the hoodie. You got
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  Speaker 1: people coming out of the woodwork. Patrick Mahomes called it insane.
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  Speaker 1: Lebron James took time out from loving Lebron James to
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  Speaker 1: call it disrespectful. JJ Watt wondered if this was a
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  Speaker 1: knockoff Hall of Fame. President Trump tossed a body blow
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  Speaker 1: out the Hall of Fame. Jimmy Johnson was all over this,
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  Speaker 1: a right, screaming like a lunatic about jealous voters and
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  Speaker 1: even that race bader. Ryan Klauk said the institution is
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  Speaker 1: a joke. So it turns out that while this is
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  Speaker 1: a snub, it's not just a snub. It's a booster
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  Speaker 1: shot for Bill Belichick's ego, and not that he needed
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  Speaker 1: a booster shot, mind you, Bill Belichick did not need
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  Speaker 1: a booster shot. But he's got all of these heavy hitters,
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  Speaker 1: some more important than others singing lullabies to the greatness
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  Speaker 1: of Bill Belichick. Meanwhile, the Hall of Fame, the credibility
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  Speaker 1: score of the Hall of Fame, the ultimate KPI for
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  Speaker 1: trust is in the toilet. That's where it is right now.
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  Speaker 1: And just about everyone outside listen to the trolls. I
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  Speaker 1: mean they always, you know, they're doing their thing. But
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  Speaker 1: for everyone else, like the vast majority of the rank
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  Speaker 1: and file, they're acting like Nelson from the Simpsons, and
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  Speaker 1: they're pointing.
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  Speaker 3: And they're cranking up the old ha ha.
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  Speaker 1: At the Hall of Fame, it's really just embarrassing for
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  Speaker 1: the Hall of Fame, and they take themselves very seriously,
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  Speaker 1: very very seriously. We imagine there'll be some oversight that
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  Speaker 1: will take place, which means more bureaucracy and a whole
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  Speaker 1: lot of nothing will change, all right, last word, So
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  Speaker 1: a lot of the reaction early on and continues to
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  Speaker 1: be about Bill Pollion and his role.
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  Speaker 3: In all of this.
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  Speaker 1: And Pollion has given any answer you want to take,
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  Speaker 1: he's given it.
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  Speaker 3: He wasn't involved in it.
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  Speaker 1: Then there's some quotes that indicate he may have been
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  Speaker 1: involved in it.
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  Speaker 3: Pollion the initial comment was, he was shocked.
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  Speaker 1: The old cult executive, lifetime NFL guy complete a hole.
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  Speaker 1: Bill pollianan Belichick's a hole too, So it's like a
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  Speaker 1: hole a hole. It's really a zero some game on
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  Speaker 1: that because they're all schmucks. So Bill Pollion says he
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  Speaker 1: was shocked to find out that Bill Belichick didn't get
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  Speaker 1: in right. Pollion is believed early on to have been
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  Speaker 1: plotting to keep Belichick out of the Hall of Fame.
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  Speaker 1: And the great thing about this, he's got plausible deniability
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  Speaker 1: because no one's allowed to go on the record and
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  Speaker 1: say what happened in the room. You're not supposed to
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  Speaker 1: say what happened in the room. So this story still
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  Speaker 1: has a lot of life to it. Because of the
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  Speaker 1: response by Poleon, he released a statement denying a role
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  Speaker 1: in the Hall of Fame.
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  Speaker 3: Snub alublub.
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  Speaker 1: However, when asked initially if he voted for Belichick, Pollion
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  Speaker 1: told one reporter he did vote for Belichick. He then
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  Speaker 1: minutes later told another reporter he could not remember with
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  Speaker 1: one hundred percent certainty whether or not he voted for Belichick.
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  Speaker 3: To be a Hall of Famer on the first bout.
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  Speaker 3: So the question, let's let's break this down here.
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  Speaker 1: So Bill Paullion says he could not remember the second
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  Speaker 1: time he said he couldn't remember if he voted for Belichick.
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  Speaker 1: So how does all of this commute compute to you?
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  Speaker 1: How does all the Bill Pollon response? How does it
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  Speaker 1: all compute with you in your supercomputer? So this is
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  Speaker 1: a The word I would use is obviously confusion with
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  Speaker 1: a capital C.
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  Speaker 3: Another C word choreography.
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  Speaker 1: It's selective amnesia with jazz hands from Bill Poullion. Poullion
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  Speaker 1: using the rocket Roger Clemens defense, I misremembered.
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  Speaker 3: It's not forgetting. It's a lawyering without a lawyer.
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  Speaker 1: Now, Napoleon, from what I saw, did remember voting for
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  Speaker 1: Robert Kraft, so that one he he remembered voting for Craft.
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  Speaker 3: He just couldn't remember the Belichick thing, his blood rival.
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  Speaker 3: And when it comes to Belichick, the.
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  Speaker 1: Architect of the Patriots and all that, Suddenly Bill Pollyon's
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  Speaker 1: brain turns into an etch a sketch after a car ride,
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  Speaker 1: and he so he remembers dessert, but he forgot whether
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  Speaker 1: or not he had the steak. He might have had
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  Speaker 1: the tuna tartar, not the steak. So the whole thing's
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  Speaker 1: a dog whistles. I don't remember, which really means I
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  Speaker 1: remember perfectly numb nuts. But I don't want the smoke.
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  Speaker 1: I don't want your smoke. And isn't that convene. It's
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  Speaker 1: called convenient amnesia, is what it is, the kind that
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  Speaker 1: only kicks in when social media lunatics and pitchforks pop up.
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  Speaker 1: There the old geezer privilege, he's eighty three. It's that
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  Speaker 1: diplomatic passport for nonsense. Now, I've often pointed out that
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  Speaker 1: many of my friends as I've gone through life, there's
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  Speaker 1: that stage in life where you have young kids and
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  Speaker 1: you're a young parent and you play the kid card from.
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  Speaker 3: The bottom of the deck to get out of anything,
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  Speaker 3: to leave work early.
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  Speaker 1: I gotta see my kid. Got to pick my kid up, right,
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  Speaker 1: I can't go to that social event.
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  Speaker 3: I got the kit. You know, the kid card is
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  Speaker 3: the ultimate get out.
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  Speaker 1: Of trouble or things you don't Now there's trouble, but
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  Speaker 1: things you don't want to do, you have the ultimate
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  Speaker 1: excuse and nobody can question it. Right, Oh, it's a
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  Speaker 1: kid you can't question a parent trying to take their kid.
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  Speaker 1: Even a lot of the time, it's just you want
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  Speaker 1: to stay home play video games. You just happen to
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  Speaker 1: have a kid and you, but you want to stay
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  Speaker 1: home play videos. So I put this in the same
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  Speaker 1: category because when you get to a certain age, I'm
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  Speaker 1: not quite there yet.
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  Speaker 3: I look forward.
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  Speaker 1: I hope I'm lucky enough to get there when you
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  Speaker 1: become an old dude, and you can play the age
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• 18:10
  Speaker 1: of giving a straight answer.
• 18:12
  Speaker 3: Right, Just I can't. I don't remember, I'm old. I
• 18:15
  Speaker 3: don't know if maybe you don't have to speak the truth.
• 18:18
  Speaker 1: Well, I don't really remember, you know, it's that temporary
• 18:21
  Speaker 1: memory lapse. It's of course, this is not that right,
• 18:26
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• 18:28
  Speaker 1: never heats the food and all that. So Bill Polland's chuckling,
• 18:33
  Speaker 1: you know, he's chuckling from his evil layer, and.
• 18:36
  Speaker 3: So how do you like them apples? How do you
• 18:38
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• 19:02
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• 19:14
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• 19:17
  Speaker 1: So I lead this hour from the NBA and we
• 19:22
  Speaker 1: are closing in on the trade deadline. I know you're excited.
• 19:26
  Speaker 1: Try to control your emotion. It's a very emotional time
• 19:29
  Speaker 1: you've ever clemped.
• 19:31
  Speaker 3: So a shooting star leaving town. I think you know
• 19:35
  Speaker 3: where I'm going.
• 19:36
  Speaker 1: I gave the the cool way to start here, but
• 19:39
  Speaker 1: perhaps you were not paying attention. Bad job by you.
• 19:43
  Speaker 1: So we have learned that Yiannis a Dentecombo is ready.
• 19:48
  Speaker 3: For a new home.
• 19:50
  Speaker 1: Yes, this is the classic NBA drama O rama here.
• 19:54
  Speaker 3: The trade deadline is February fifth.
• 19:56
  Speaker 1: That would be next week, And there are several teams
• 20:00
  Speaker 1: that are racing, jockeying for position aggressively. I love the
• 20:06
  Speaker 1: dramatic thespian reporting here. They're jockeying for a position, making offers,
• 20:12
  Speaker 1: trying to woo woo the Milwaukee Bucks.
• 20:16
  Speaker 3: Who are I like this too?
• 20:18
  Speaker 1: Aggressively listening? How does one aggressively listen? You turn the
• 20:23
  Speaker 1: volume all the way up. You're aggressively listening? Is alf
• 20:26
  Speaker 1: aggressively listening? Fergnog?
• 20:28
  Speaker 3: Are you aggressively listening?
• 20:30
  Speaker 1: So let's pull back the curtain on the NBA's soap opera.
• 20:33
  Speaker 1: This soap opera good jumping off point. Let us discuss
• 20:37
  Speaker 1: the question who's calling the shots? Who do you think
• 20:41
  Speaker 1: is calling the shots in this Bucks? Giannis adent to
• 20:45
  Speaker 1: combo trade thriller. So my observations, I've got boarding pass
• 20:52
  Speaker 1: b oh and itchy and scratchy, and we'll put these
• 20:58
  Speaker 1: things together. One two three, We're gonna play connect three.
• 21:00
  Speaker 1: Connect three is what we're gonna do.
• 21:02
  Speaker 3: So number.
• 21:06
  Speaker 1: Number one, Okay, after a minutes long Mallard deliberation on
• 21:12
  Speaker 1: the available evidence, we have determined that Yannis, who has
• 21:17
  Speaker 1: a full note trade clause period stop, is the one
• 21:23
  Speaker 1: who's wearing the pants. End of discussion. He is the
• 21:26
  Speaker 1: Halsee Kern of this production. You know who that is
• 21:31
  Speaker 1: Gone with the Wind, the guy that edited Gone with
• 21:33
  Speaker 1: the Wind.
• 21:34
  Speaker 3: Hollywood legend. Howse see kern oscar winning editor.
• 21:38
  Speaker 1: And Yannis is in the cutting room and he's splicing
• 21:43
  Speaker 1: the scenes. He's tossing reels in the trash right now,
• 21:46
  Speaker 1: deciding where he wants to go and then roll the credits.
• 21:49
  Speaker 3: And it's not the Buck's decision. It is not the
• 21:52
  Speaker 3: Greek freak.
• 21:53
  Speaker 1: He can hold a relocation webinar at a cheesy airport hotel.
• 21:58
  Speaker 1: He's got the final he's got the final edit. Milwaukee's
• 22:02
  Speaker 1: just the travel agent. They're stamping the passport wherever he
• 22:05
  Speaker 1: wants to go, and they smile politely and say go
• 22:08
  Speaker 1: on your way. So it's not gone with the Wind,
• 22:10
  Speaker 1: per se. It's more like gone with the Wind, The
• 22:13
  Speaker 1: Great escape from the bad Doc.
• 22:15
  Speaker 3: What's up?
• 22:16
  Speaker 5: Doc?
• 22:16
  Speaker 3: Doc Rivers?
• 22:18
  Speaker 1: Has anyone screwed things up more than Doc Rivers? My goodness,
• 22:22
  Speaker 1: he is the common denominator. He is anyway, Joe Giannis,
• 22:26
  Speaker 1: as everyone kind of predicted, this is so simple telegraph.
• 22:30
  Speaker 3: He wanted to get away and get out.
• 22:32
  Speaker 1: Of basketball purgatory, so the Bucks can listen all they want.
• 22:37
  Speaker 3: Listening does not mean deciding. And this is the auction
• 22:41
  Speaker 3: where the seller does not actually own the merch.
• 22:45
  Speaker 1: You do not own the merch. Here the Greek freak
• 22:48
  Speaker 1: is basically standing at the airport gate. He's looking at
• 22:51
  Speaker 1: all the planes.
• 22:52
  Speaker 3: Out there on the tarmac and all that, and he's
• 22:54
  Speaker 3: got his.
• 22:54
  Speaker 1: Boarding pass in hand, he's got his luggage tagged Legacy upgrade,
• 22:59
  Speaker 1: Legacy upgrade. And the roll call. You have the usual suspects,
• 23:03
  Speaker 1: New York, Miami, Golden State to LA. Of course LA
• 23:08
  Speaker 1: is not really that realistic, the Lakers or the Clippers.
• 23:10
  Speaker 1: But then you got some wildcard teams there, but the
• 23:14
  Speaker 1: top teams are the bright lights, the big stage, the
• 23:16
  Speaker 1: extra sauce, extra butter.
• 23:19
  Speaker 3: On your popcorn.
• 23:20
  Speaker 1: And then you got others that are lurking around, like
• 23:22
  Speaker 1: would you want to go to Minnesota? That seems like
• 23:24
  Speaker 1: a pretty lateral move there. And then you got to
• 23:27
  Speaker 1: have annoying fans like that guy that works at the Walmart,
• 23:30
  Speaker 1: that guy bustering your you know what, so I don't
• 23:34
  Speaker 1: know if you want that, And some are saying that Giannis,
• 23:38
  Speaker 1: he's not from the states, you know, he'd be willing
• 23:41
  Speaker 1: to go to Toronto and play.
• 23:42
  Speaker 3: Most people don't want to play in Toronto, but he'd
• 23:44
  Speaker 3: be like, oh yeah, I go there. That's a wild card.
• 23:46
  Speaker 3: He saw the Raptors nixt game last night.
• 23:49
  Speaker 1: Chances are he would not want to go there. It's
• 23:50
  Speaker 1: only one game. So Toronto said to be lurking in.
• 23:53
  Speaker 3: The shadows like a poker player with a straight flush.
• 23:57
  Speaker 1: So this is a cosmic tale, as the astrology insider
• 24:01
  Speaker 1: would say, it's a cosmic tale, Yannis. In this little play,
• 24:05
  Speaker 1: it's an elementary school play. Is the Sun and all
• 24:09
  Speaker 1: of these other teams are adjusting their orbit. They're all
• 24:13
  Speaker 1: adjusting their orbit around the Sun, and the leagues waiting
• 24:17
  Speaker 1: the dramas building expect seven or eight more daily plot
• 24:22
  Speaker 1: twist on. Yannis is really liking what he's hearing from
• 24:27
  Speaker 1: Team X. However, Team Y and Z are also interested
• 24:33
  Speaker 1: the plot.
• 24:33
  Speaker 3: Dickens.
• 24:35
  Speaker 1: Yeah, so again, it's not a trading block. It's an
• 24:37
  Speaker 1: auction house paddle up billionaire owners. Giannis is like a
• 24:41
  Speaker 1: fine piece of art, and these owners are going to
• 24:43
  Speaker 1: try to get their hands on it. And so Yannis,
• 24:45
  Speaker 1: it's not exactly like being moved it's like, let me choose.
• 24:49
  Speaker 1: I can live anywhere I want, assuming it's one of
• 24:51
  Speaker 1: the members of the cartel, and I'm gonna hand pick.
• 24:55
  Speaker 3: Where i want to go. Yeah, that's the ticket. I'm
• 24:57
  Speaker 3: gonna handpick where I want to go.
• 25:00
  Speaker 1: As for the value of the Greek free is this
• 25:04
  Speaker 1: value shopping? The question is Yannis Adendakoombo a safe bet
• 25:10
  Speaker 1: to acquire prior.
• 25:12
  Speaker 3: To the trade deadline?
• 25:14
  Speaker 1: So if you look at this like the weather, you know,
• 25:17
  Speaker 1: I say, clear skies, partly cloudy, overcast, completely cloudy, You're screwed.
• 25:24
  Speaker 3: Stay inside, don't go outside.
• 25:26
  Speaker 1: It's foggy. The forecast for Giannis is foggy. In terms
• 25:30
  Speaker 1: of his long term outlooks, we're talking about a man
• 25:33
  Speaker 1: whose entire existence he's I think he's listed at two forty.
• 25:37
  Speaker 1: He probably plays a lot bigger than that, to sixty
• 25:39
  Speaker 1: two fifty two sixty bigger than that.
• 25:42
  Speaker 3: He's got the Greek god Mantra.
• 25:44
  Speaker 1: That's his whole existence, and the way he plays is explosive.
• 25:50
  Speaker 1: He's like a runaway freight train when he's at his peak,
• 25:54
  Speaker 1: and that freight train has.
• 25:55
  Speaker 3: A radiator leak. Now it is our belief and the
• 25:58
  Speaker 3: belief of many that Yannis is.
• 25:59
  Speaker 1: In bellishing the injury because he does not want to
• 26:01
  Speaker 1: get hurt legitimately before he is traded. And so what
• 26:05
  Speaker 1: Giannis is doing is the old Oh my aching back,
• 26:10
  Speaker 1: you know, it'll fix my back, a nice new jersey,
• 26:14
  Speaker 1: new uniform that'll really make my back feel better, and
• 26:17
  Speaker 1: my leg and my calf.
• 26:18
  Speaker 3: And all that stuff.
• 26:19
  Speaker 1: The reason despite the risk when you look at the
• 26:22
  Speaker 1: Comps players his age, with the injuries that he's had
• 26:25
  Speaker 1: over recent years, the comp the difference between the others,
• 26:31
  Speaker 1: I should say, is the bo. But this is not
• 26:34
  Speaker 1: your normal bo. Yeah, I'm not talking about body odor.
• 26:37
  Speaker 1: I'm talking about box Office, the sweet smelling bo box Office.
• 26:42
  Speaker 1: It's a sold out theater with a line around the
• 26:47
  Speaker 1: block at Broadway in Times Square there and going over
• 26:51
  Speaker 1: to Times Square. And then the lead actor's knees are
• 26:53
  Speaker 1: made of uncooked fetacini and it's not real, real good
• 26:57
  Speaker 1: long term that feti Cheni's gonna snap and all that stuff.
• 27:00
  Speaker 1: But the NBA is really dealing with a shortage of
• 27:05
  Speaker 1: people that move the needle, and there are many reasons
• 27:09
  Speaker 1: for that. Like the players decide over the last ten
• 27:12
  Speaker 1: years or so that they don't give a crap about
• 27:14
  Speaker 1: the regular season, so why should the fans care? And
• 27:18
  Speaker 1: they just kind of load manage, and so you load
• 27:20
  Speaker 1: managing people as fans, we load manage and so. And
• 27:24
  Speaker 1: I have noticed, I wonder if you agree with me
• 27:26
  Speaker 1: on this. Like I do watch the NBA, I don't.
• 27:29
  Speaker 1: I'm not fully involved. Like I have this whole process
• 27:31
  Speaker 1: of getting ready for the show, and I usually have
• 27:33
  Speaker 1: games on the background. I watch with half an eye open,
• 27:37
  Speaker 1: and I'm kind of not really listening to it per se.
• 27:40
  Speaker 3: Most of the broadcasters annoying me.
• 27:42
  Speaker 1: But I have noticed, like the young generation of stars
• 27:47
  Speaker 1: who are doing things that are statistically wonderful, just don't
• 27:52
  Speaker 1: move the needle. The new kids on the block in
• 27:55
  Speaker 1: the NBA, they have the charisma of a dial tone.
• 28:00
  Speaker 3: A shade. Jogis Alexander is setting records for Oklahoma City.
• 28:05
  Speaker 3: He's been around for a few years, former Clipper by
• 28:07
  Speaker 3: the way, of course, that's where he learned how to
• 28:08
  Speaker 3: play ball.
• 28:09
  Speaker 1: And SGA is doing these amazing things. He's challenging Wilt
• 28:13
  Speaker 1: Chamberlain's records and whatnot, and no one cares even wemby
• 28:19
  Speaker 1: the Parisian prodigy.
• 28:20
  Speaker 3: Most people, they don't really care. That's the vibe game.
• 28:25
  Speaker 3: Am I wrong? I don't think I'm wrong.
• 28:27
  Speaker 1: Giannis he's not the greatest sound bite. He still moves
• 28:31
  Speaker 1: the needle more than those guys. How much longer until
• 28:35
  Speaker 1: the needle snaps? That's the question on this, And the
• 28:38
  Speaker 1: bill always comes to I believe he's thirty one, I think.
• 28:41
  Speaker 1: And his superpower is that he's an athletic freak and
• 28:47
  Speaker 1: he's able to as we said, he's like a freight
• 28:49
  Speaker 1: train and all that stuff. And the body's starting to
• 28:51
  Speaker 1: whisper a little bit in recent years, and it's whispering.
• 28:54
  Speaker 3: No, and you know, I don't want to hear that.
• 28:56
  Speaker 1: And then the front offices around the NBA are screaming yes.
• 28:59
  Speaker 1: And again it's a Broadway star who conveniently gets laryngitis
• 29:03
  Speaker 1: before that big matinee performance on the weekend.
• 29:06
  Speaker 3: You're like, what are you doing?
• 29:07
  Speaker 1: Giannis is not a guarantee, however, it is a risk
• 29:12
  Speaker 1: wrapped around the headliner, and you're willing to make that risk.
• 29:15
  Speaker 1: You know at some point the lights are gonna flicker, flicker,
• 29:18
  Speaker 1: flicker flick. You know that's gonna happen all right now.
• 29:21
  Speaker 1: Final point to the Book of King James, the Book
• 29:24
  Speaker 1: of King James. Am I gonna sit here and rant
• 29:26
  Speaker 1: about Lebron James crying? Lebron played terribly.
• 29:31
  Speaker 3: Lakers lost by thirty.
• 29:33
  Speaker 1: They got a thirty burger shoved down their throat by
• 29:36
  Speaker 1: the cadavers. How about that one? So Lebron returned to
• 29:39
  Speaker 1: Cleveland his yearly trip there his native land, and the
• 29:43
  Speaker 1: Lakers were vaporized.
• 29:45
  Speaker 3: By the calves.
• 29:46
  Speaker 1: Now this comes amid chatter that Lebron James, Lebron James
• 29:51
  Speaker 1: will return to the Mistake by the Lake to hold
• 29:54
  Speaker 1: a victory lap next season. I know that our friend
• 29:56
  Speaker 1: Strip Club John's like to be very excited about that. So,
• 30:00
  Speaker 1: when asked about the chatter in general, the Lebron media
• 30:06
  Speaker 1: clan says Lebron does not necessarily want a retirement tour.
• 30:13
  Speaker 1: The reporting indicating that Lebron.
• 30:15
  Speaker 3: Is said to be concerned. I love this, This is
• 30:18
  Speaker 3: so good.
• 30:19
  Speaker 1: I pay attention to this next line, then you can
• 30:20
  Speaker 1: go back to not paying attention. So Lebron is supposedly
• 30:24
  Speaker 1: concerned that a retirement tour could bring some negative energy
• 30:30
  Speaker 1: if his body doesn't cooperate. I see he goes to
• 30:34
  Speaker 1: a city and there's one trip and everyone buys tickets
• 30:37
  Speaker 1: and he can't play, and.
• 30:39
  Speaker 3: He doesn't want to disappoint his fans. You know, he
• 30:42
  Speaker 3: doesn't want that, all right.
• 30:43
  Speaker 1: So the question this is so good are you vibing
• 30:47
  Speaker 1: with Lebron James supposedly being worried about a retirement tour
• 30:52
  Speaker 1: disappointing his fans?
• 30:57
  Speaker 3: All right?
• 30:57
  Speaker 1: So this is obviously not humility. This is premium nin
• 31:01
  Speaker 1: income poopery, is what? This is, premium grade nincome poopery.
• 31:04
  Speaker 1: It's the itchy and scratchy show. Yeah, it's the itchy
• 31:08
  Speaker 1: and scratchy show. Lebron's got an itch to scratch. It's
• 31:11
  Speaker 1: called attension. That's the itch he wants to scratch. He
• 31:14
  Speaker 1: is the all time greatest attention whore. He suffers from
• 31:17
  Speaker 1: chronic attention horse syndrome wrapped in fake empathy.
• 31:21
  Speaker 3: That's it.
• 31:22
  Speaker 1: And we've talked about it for years and years and
• 31:24
  Speaker 1: years and years. Everyone knows it. And it's the same
• 31:27
  Speaker 1: guy who once sprayed his arm. He sprained his arm
• 31:30
  Speaker 1: Lebron years ago, patting himself on the back.
• 31:33
  Speaker 3: He was out for a couple of games, it was said.
• 31:35
  Speaker 1: And now we're supposed to believe that he has had
• 31:38
  Speaker 1: this spiritual awakening and suddenly cares about the working stiff
• 31:42
  Speaker 1: who bought a ticket.
• 31:44
  Speaker 3: So if you believe this, you're a clod hopper, is
• 31:46
  Speaker 3: what you are.
• 31:47
  Speaker 1: Did you know over the last seven seasons, I went
• 31:50
  Speaker 1: and looked it up because I'm a loser and I
• 31:51
  Speaker 1: have no life.
• 31:52
  Speaker 3: Over the last.
• 31:53
  Speaker 1: Seven seasons, Lebron James has missed how many games.
• 31:57
  Speaker 3: On averages Lebron missed per year?
• 32:00
  Speaker 1: I guess on that matter, Lebron spends one He brags
• 32:02
  Speaker 1: about spending one point five million dollars on his body.
• 32:07
  Speaker 1: How many people are cashing in on that, right, Like
• 32:11
  Speaker 1: LEBRONO just pay these people and they don't really have
• 32:13
  Speaker 1: to do much.
• 32:14
  Speaker 3: And what a great hustle, What a great hustle that
• 32:17
  Speaker 3: must be.
• 32:17
  Speaker 1: Anyway, Lebron has missed eighteen games a year. That's twenty
• 32:23
  Speaker 1: two percent per season. Lebron has missed a lot of
• 32:26
  Speaker 1: those games that he has missed are with very sketchy injuries.
• 32:30
  Speaker 1: And yet he still brags about spending you know, one
• 32:33
  Speaker 1: point five million on his body. And now the Lebron stands.
• 32:38
  Speaker 3: The Lebron sick of fans will say, well, mall, you're
• 32:40
  Speaker 3: just a hater. Is an old player. You can't be
• 32:45
  Speaker 3: it can't be hard on Lebron. Old players play that.
• 32:48
  Speaker 1: Many games, all right, Well, that would be true other
• 32:52
  Speaker 1: than the fact that in my lifetime doing talk radio,
• 32:54
  Speaker 1: I covered a guy named Michael Jordan who played for
• 32:56
  Speaker 1: the Washington Wizards his final season and played all.
• 32:59
  Speaker 3: Eighty two game games.
• 33:00
  Speaker 1: Did you know that Jordan's last year in the NBA
• 33:03
  Speaker 1: played all eighty two games Michael Jordan played. I think
• 33:06
  Speaker 1: it's like fifteen years, I want to say, And I
• 33:09
  Speaker 1: know that he played every single game nine of those years,
• 33:13
  Speaker 1: every single game nine of.
• 33:15
  Speaker 3: The fifteen years. Now, let's play a little game here.
• 33:19
  Speaker 1: How many times Lebron's I think he's in your twenty
• 33:22
  Speaker 1: three Now, how many times has.
• 33:23
  Speaker 3: Lebron James played every game the eighty two game.
• 33:27
  Speaker 1: Season, every game out of twenty some of those years
• 33:31
  Speaker 1: there were not eighty two games because of the pandemic
• 33:34
  Speaker 1: or whatever.
• 33:35
  Speaker 3: Let's just let's say twenty of those years were full season.
• 33:39
  Speaker 1: So out of those twenty, how many did Lebron play
• 33:41
  Speaker 1: all eighty two?
• 33:44
  Speaker 3: You have seven times.
• 33:46
  Speaker 1: That's option A, Option B would be five times, Option
• 33:53
  Speaker 1: C would be one time, and Option D would be
• 33:56
  Speaker 1: no times. ABC or D you got your answer, all right,
• 34:01
  Speaker 1: reveal answers. The answer would be option C. The option
• 34:05
  Speaker 1: would be Lebron one time played all eighty two games.
• 34:08
  Speaker 3: That's it.
• 34:09
  Speaker 1: Wake up people, wake up, come on, snap out of it.
• 34:13
  Speaker 1: So it's not like it's not about disappointing fans. It
• 34:15
  Speaker 1: would be one of the great stunners if Lebron did
• 34:17
  Speaker 1: not have a retirement tour. In my head, he goes
• 34:22
  Speaker 1: back to Cleveland next year. The Calves are a better team.
• 34:24
  Speaker 1: Lakers are not winning anything. It's just they're just worried
• 34:26
  Speaker 1: about Luca getting stats. And he'll get his stats. He'll
• 34:29
  Speaker 1: lead the NBA in scoring, and Laker fans.
• 34:31
  Speaker 3: Go, whoa, get all excited about that. Whoopedee damn doo.
• 34:34
  Speaker 1: And we're not gonna win anything, just like the Mavericks
• 34:37
  Speaker 1: didn't win anything. But Luke will get his numbers and
• 34:38
  Speaker 1: that's all that matters, and so people will be happy
• 34:40
  Speaker 1: about that. I'll hit some circa shots and then Lebron
• 34:42
  Speaker 1: can go to Cleveland and they're not gonna win anything,
• 34:45
  Speaker 1: but at least he'll go there. They have a better chance. Right,
• 34:48
  Speaker 1: It's always been about controlling the spotlight. It's always been there.
• 34:52
  Speaker 2: Be sure to catch live editions of The Ben Meller
• 34:54
  Speaker 2: Show weekdays at two am Eastern eleven pm Pacific.
• 34:57
  Speaker 3: Let's get to it. Here we go, Here we go.
• 35:00
  Speaker 3: It's smaller. How about that to the third degree?
• 35:04
  Speaker 2: This is one big Ben gets quilled.
• 35:07
  Speaker 3: Here we go, Cooper lou what we got here? Cool?
• 35:09
  Speaker 6: Matt Naggie has been the Chiefs offensive coordinator for the
• 35:12
  Speaker 6: last three years, but his contract is up in case
• 35:14
  Speaker 6: he's bringing back Eric b enemy Reid said in an
• 35:16
  Speaker 6: interview this week that he basically let Naggie walk so
• 35:18
  Speaker 6: that he could find a new opportunity, and that that
• 35:20
  Speaker 6: opportunity should be as a head coach. Ben, do you
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  Speaker 6: think he'll get that opportunity.
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  Speaker 1: No, there's only two jobs open, the Raiders and the
• 35:28
  Speaker 1: Arizona Cardinals. He's not getting those jobs. Everyone thought he
• 35:31
  Speaker 1: was getting the Titans job. They went with Robert sala.
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  Speaker 3: He's cooked.
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  Speaker 1: He was quietly let go by the Chiefs because they
• 35:38
  Speaker 1: wanted somebody else. They were hoping he would get a
• 35:40
  Speaker 1: head coaching job. He'll land up somewhere, but not a
• 35:42
  Speaker 1: head coach.
• 35:43
  Speaker 6: Next Baker Mayfield will be playing for his fifth offensive
• 35:45
  Speaker 6: coordinator in the last five seasons, with Zach Robinson being
• 35:48
  Speaker 6: the latest. Robinson said, Baker gives you a chance to
• 35:50
  Speaker 6: win every Sunday. Ben Baker was playing some of his
• 35:53
  Speaker 6: best football and then things went downhill fast. How much
• 35:56
  Speaker 6: were injuries to blame and how much was Baker to blame?
• 35:59
  Speaker 3: Oh, Baker played like he did in Cleveland the end
• 36:01
  Speaker 3: of the year. He was terrible.
• 36:03
  Speaker 1: It's on him. He's got to own it. He's got
• 36:05
  Speaker 1: to be consistent. That's one of the reasons he's been
• 36:08
  Speaker 1: bounced around the NFL. I don't know that you can
• 36:10
  Speaker 1: trust him the way you played.
• 36:11
  Speaker 3: Next.
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  Speaker 6: Duke and quarterback Darien Mensa came to an agreement Tuesday
• 36:15
  Speaker 6: allowing Mensa to leave the program despite us to year contract.
• 36:17
  Speaker 6: He's expected to head to Miami. What do you think
• 36:20
  Speaker 6: the chances are they running back to the championship game.
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  Speaker 1: I'm gonna go less than ten percent, less than ten percent,
• 36:26
  Speaker 1: Cooper Loop, I know this is what you do now
• 36:28
  Speaker 1: in college football, just bringing.
• 36:30
  Speaker 3: The shiny new free agent. I don't think it's gonna work.
• 36:31
  Speaker 3: How did we do?
• 36:33
  Speaker 1: That's all we But I won the guy hollering James,
• 36:36
  Speaker 1: I won the.
• 36:37
  Speaker 3: Game, James.
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• 36:50
  Speaker 3: It's now time for time. Horry, horry, wait as Twitter,
• 36:56
  Speaker 3: send us your questions on Twitter. Now here we are. Oh,
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  Speaker 3: it's asked man.
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  Speaker 1: Your questions are answers for the rest of the hour.
• 37:05
  Speaker 1: The rest of the hours was the imaging.
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  Speaker 3: Say Twitter, it's.
• 37:09
  Speaker 1: Called axt Well, it's a colloquial term Twitter. It's a
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  Speaker 1: colloquial term, and we're too lazy to change the imaging.
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  Speaker 3: So there you go. Absolutely all right, very good, very exciting. Here,
• 37:21
  Speaker 3: what do we have Cooper loop for the reading of
• 37:23
  Speaker 3: the questions?
• 37:25
  Speaker 6: All right, We're gonna start off with a question from
• 37:28
  Speaker 6: mad Jack. Hi Jack, this is a good one. I
• 37:31
  Speaker 6: haven't heard this one before. What is or? I guess
• 37:36
  Speaker 6: is or? Was your favorite amusement park and favorite ride
• 37:40
  Speaker 6: or attraction?
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  Speaker 3: Yeah?
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  Speaker 1: So, I grew up in Orange County when I was
• 37:45
  Speaker 1: a kid, and I I was right near Disneyland. When
• 37:47
  Speaker 1: I was a kid, it was really cheap to go
• 37:49
  Speaker 1: to disney.
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  Speaker 3: I was very lucky. I'm old.
• 37:51
  Speaker 1: When I was a kid, I can go to Disney
• 37:52
  Speaker 1: Then whenever I wanted. It was reasonable, it was affordable,
• 37:55
  Speaker 1: especially if you lived in southern California. They had a
• 37:57
  Speaker 1: Southern California rate and it was like literally just a
• 37:59
  Speaker 1: few I was away from where I grew up, so
• 38:01
  Speaker 1: I would go quite a bit. And I loved the
• 38:03
  Speaker 1: Pirates of the Caribbean. I loved the smell of Pirates
• 38:05
  Speaker 1: of the Caribbean. I knew every character. Now they changed it.
• 38:09
  Speaker 1: Disney obviously has gone woke over the years, and so
• 38:11
  Speaker 1: they used to have the dudes chasing the women, and
• 38:13
  Speaker 1: then I think they had the women chasing the dudes.
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  Speaker 1: And I don't even know what they have now, but
• 38:16
  Speaker 1: I love that ride. I loved the Pirates of the Caribean.
• 38:19
  Speaker 3: That was. And I used to like Splash Mountain, but
• 38:21
  Speaker 3: they got rid of that. Something else.
• 38:22
  Speaker 1: Now, what about you mark any favorite ride and an
• 38:25
  Speaker 1: amusement park anything.
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  Speaker 7: Oh, and I was a kid.
• 38:27
  Speaker 5: There was a place in Chicago. It was called fun Town.
• 38:31
  Speaker 5: And here was the quick jingle, fun Town, fun Town
• 38:34
  Speaker 5: for the kids, and you ninety fifth and Stony Island Avenue,
• 38:39
  Speaker 5: fun Town, I love it.
• 38:42
  Speaker 3: You still remember all these years later, and that was
• 38:44
  Speaker 3: out there anymore.
• 38:45
  Speaker 5: There was a game you could play like every fair
• 38:49
  Speaker 5: you know, you could shoot the gun and then make
• 38:51
  Speaker 5: the balloon pop.
• 38:53
  Speaker 7: So that was yeah, that was that was my fun game.
• 38:56
  Speaker 3: Were you good at it? You have good aim?
• 38:57
  Speaker 7: Yes?
• 38:58
  Speaker 3: Oh nice? That's cool artival game. I like that. What
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  Speaker 3: about you?
• 39:01
  Speaker 6: Coop? Six Flags? Magic Mountain was my favorite theme park
• 39:07
  Speaker 6: and uh, the ride Goliath was my favorite.
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  Speaker 3: That's still there? Have they gott it is? Oh good? Yeah,
• 39:14
  Speaker 3: it's still there? All right? All right?
• 39:16
  Speaker 1: What's next is ask Ben? Your questions are answers for
• 39:19
  Speaker 1: the rest of the hour.
• 39:22
  Speaker 6: Uh, Ferg Dog would like to know.
• 39:24
  Speaker 3: My Ferg Dog? I know him. I think I don't.
• 39:27
  Speaker 6: He wants to know what is your least favorite pizza topping? Uh?
• 39:33
  Speaker 3: Yes, I'm I'm pretty boring.
• 39:35
  Speaker 1: I like garlic onion, bell pepper on my pizza, that's it. Uh,
• 39:39
  Speaker 1: and chovies and I don't like olives, so those would
• 39:44
  Speaker 1: be on my no knotty list.
• 39:46
  Speaker 3: I would.
• 39:46
  Speaker 1: I would say, Mark, you're from a great pizza city
• 39:50
  Speaker 1: in Chicago, what's your least favorite pizza topping?
• 39:52
  Speaker 7: No olives? No pineapple?
• 39:57
  Speaker 3: Pineapple, very polarizing, Cooper.
• 39:58
  Speaker 6: Looph my least favorite. I'd have to say, like any
• 40:05
  Speaker 6: kind of like hot like pepper. I'm not really like
• 40:09
  Speaker 6: a fan of that on the pizza. I don't really
• 40:12
  Speaker 6: like mushrooms either, but it's not gonna like I'm not
• 40:15
  Speaker 6: gonna toss out the pizza after there's mushrooms on there.
• 40:18
  Speaker 1: I used to eat mushrooms I was as a child,
• 40:21
  Speaker 1: and then I found out what they were and I
• 40:22
  Speaker 1: stopped eating them.
• 40:23
  Speaker 7: So I take them off because if the texture is
• 40:28
  Speaker 7: like rubber.
• 40:29
  Speaker 6: Yes, that's that's what I don't like about mushroom is
• 40:30
  Speaker 6: the texture. Like the taste is fine, if the textures.
• 40:33
  Speaker 1: Put a layer of rubber on my pizza, what's next?
• 40:37
  Speaker 1: What do we got here? It's ask bed. Your questions
• 40:40
  Speaker 1: are answered, so the rest all the hour.
• 40:45
  Speaker 6: That's my I don't know if you'll be able to
• 40:47
  Speaker 6: think of something this cord, but it's an interesting question
• 40:49
  Speaker 6: if you can. Donkey Sausage wants to know, Donkey, what's
• 40:52
  Speaker 6: something you wish you enjoyed but never can seem to.
• 40:59
  Speaker 1: I wish you know what, I would say. Soccer I
• 41:05
  Speaker 1: don't I watch it during the World Cup. I don't
• 41:07
  Speaker 1: really enjoy it. I don't understand what the rest of
• 41:09
  Speaker 1: the world season. It just bores the hell out of me.
• 41:12
  Speaker 1: I played it when I was a kid, and you
• 41:14
  Speaker 1: see the passion of I'm sure there's something better I
• 41:17
  Speaker 1: can come up with later, but you asked me right now.
• 41:19
  Speaker 3: So I would say that because I.
• 41:20
  Speaker 1: See the just like this is the world sport and
• 41:23
  Speaker 1: I think it's the dumbest thing in the world.
• 41:26
  Speaker 3: Like we just sit there.
• 41:28
  Speaker 1: You spend two and a half hours watching a soccer
• 41:30
  Speaker 1: game and it's one nothing.
• 41:31
  Speaker 3: I'm like, well, this is stupid. So I go that
• 41:34
  Speaker 3: what about you, Marky Mark?
• 41:36
  Speaker 5: If I watch a rugby game, I can never understand
• 41:39
  Speaker 5: or I don't enjoy when the rugby player is running
• 41:41
  Speaker 5: with the ball or whatever it's called. But they can't
• 41:44
  Speaker 5: run or turn this whey that way like a football
• 41:47
  Speaker 5: player does.
• 41:47
  Speaker 7: You have to.
• 41:48
  Speaker 5: They make you run a certain direction. You can't change directions.
• 41:52
  Speaker 3: See, I didn't even know that. I didn't even know that.
• 41:55
  Speaker 3: You watch cricket. You watch cricket.
• 41:57
  Speaker 7: No, I don't understand that either.
• 41:59
  Speaker 1: Biggest sport in India cricket, Yeah, and big in New Zealand.
• 42:02
  Speaker 1: I got I used to do radio like every week
• 42:04
  Speaker 1: in New Zealand. My show got covered up because of cricket.
• 42:08
  Speaker 5: I wish I understood highlight too. Yeah, those big baskets
• 42:12
  Speaker 5: on your hand.
• 42:14
  Speaker 6: I wasn't even thinking of it the way that you
• 42:15
  Speaker 6: thought of it, But now that you brought that up,
• 42:17
  Speaker 6: I would say, uh, hockey, I just can't get into it.
• 42:22
  Speaker 6: I've tried watching it, and it's just that's what everybody says.
• 42:27
  Speaker 6: I just I don't know. I've never been to a
• 42:29
  Speaker 6: game live, so maybe that's the problem. As far as
• 42:32
  Speaker 6: me physically doing something I wish I liked golf, but
• 42:35
  Speaker 6: I'm just really bad at it, So I don't.
• 42:40
  Speaker 1: Golf something I'll do once. I used to do it
• 42:43
  Speaker 1: once a year, but that's about it.
• 42:44
  Speaker 3: There you ask Ben