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  Speaker 2: This is the best of the Ben Maler Show on
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  Speaker 1: Let's get to it. So our lead this hour is
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  Speaker 1: from Super Bowl Media Night, an event I was not
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  Speaker 1: invited to and neither were you. But a lot of
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  Speaker 1: media freeloaders, media freeloaders, we're there, running around and just wonderful.
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  Speaker 1: A lot of chatter. We'll get to more of the
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  Speaker 1: media night nonsense, but we'll get to that later in
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  Speaker 1: the Meanwhile, the story here that's interesting, which has been
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  Speaker 1: bouncing around involves the head coach, he assistant to the
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  Speaker 1: head coach, the offensive guru. Mister x's and o's if
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  Speaker 1: you will me put that on a hole right there,
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  Speaker 1: So mister x's and o's. Now, I don't know if
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  Speaker 1: you heard this or not. Maybe not. The Seahawks offensive
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  Speaker 1: coordinator Clint Kubiak is expected. It's a FATA complay that
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  Speaker 1: he's gonna end up the next head coach of the Raiders,
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  Speaker 1: and that's the Booby prize. Is that not the Booby prize? Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: that's man. That is the Booby prize. Right after Super
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  Speaker 1: Bowl sixty, so Monday or Tuesday, the announcement will come down.
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  Speaker 1: Until then, he's determined. He's not gonna talk about it now.
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  Speaker 1: Kubiak said that he's got laser focus on coaching the
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  Speaker 1: Seahawks in the Super Bowl. Said this at the opening
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  Speaker 1: shindig there in Northern California, not on the Raiders job.
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  Speaker 1: He said, quote, I'm just focusing on playing this game
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  Speaker 1: and coaching this game. Been working my whole life to
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  Speaker 1: get the coach in this game, and that's where our
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  Speaker 1: focus is. Kubiak hissing towards a gaggle of reporters. Now,
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  Speaker 1: under NFL rules, and you know, these teams always follow
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  Speaker 1: the rules by the letter of the law. So under
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  Speaker 1: the NFL rules, Kubiak cannot officially be announced as the
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  Speaker 1: Raiders coach until after the Super Bowl, so nothing will
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  Speaker 1: be done at all until next week. But all indications
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  Speaker 1: all right that Kubiak's got the next job lined up,
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  Speaker 1: and he claims he wants you to know that he's
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  Speaker 1: fully focused on his current job there as Seattle will
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  Speaker 1: take the field in Super Bowl sixty against the Patriots. Now,
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  Speaker 1: despite this, there are some that believe the Seahawks performance
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  Speaker 1: on offense will be endangered because of the fact that
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  Speaker 1: Kubiak has another job lined up. So that is a
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  Speaker 1: good jumping off point. Let us discuss the question will
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  Speaker 1: will Clint Kubiak's plans to join the Raiders. He's hurt
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  Speaker 1: Seattle in Super Bowl sixty this weekend. So my thoughts
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  Speaker 1: on this, I've got pumpkin pie, wyoming, and sorcery, and
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  Speaker 1: we will combine all of these things together and we
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  Speaker 1: are going to make mac and cheese is what We're
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  Speaker 1: gonna make. Yum yum to my tum tump. So A,
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  Speaker 1: there's no need to pull out the fainting couch. This
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  Speaker 1: is not the overly dramatic here at all, Kubiak. Clint
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  Speaker 1: Kubiak saying that he's laser focused, or implying that he's
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  Speaker 1: laser focused on the Seahawks is the most predictable lie
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  Speaker 1: lie in sports, right up there with I really like
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  Speaker 1: our guys. We think we've got a good team. And
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  Speaker 1: I love when people show up to training camp or
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  Speaker 1: spring trainings, coming up into companies in the best shape
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  Speaker 1: of my life. I love that. It's also a great lie.
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  Speaker 1: Love it, love it. Of course, of course, Clint Kobiak
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  Speaker 1: brushed off the Raider chatter and all that stuff. What
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  Speaker 1: are you supposed to say? So? Yeah, I actually I know.
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  Speaker 1: I'm coaching the Seahawks and the Super Bowl. I'm half
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  Speaker 1: packed for Vegas, and I'm already printing up the receipts
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  Speaker 1: that they got from all the expenses I've got packing
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  Speaker 1: my stuff up here. I'm pricing office furniture. At this
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  Speaker 1: particular point, I'm trying to figure out where I want
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  Speaker 1: to live to. I want to live in Red Rock,
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  Speaker 1: That's where the rich people live in Vegas. Maybe I
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  Speaker 1: live on the other part of town. I don't know.
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  Speaker 1: I'm want to avoid the Strip at all costs. I'll
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  Speaker 1: live in Henderson possibly, but I don't know. That's too
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  Speaker 1: close to the facility. So he's trying to figure out
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  Speaker 1: all that now. The Raider job is a sealed envelope,
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  Speaker 1: as we said, because of the NFL rules and all
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  Speaker 1: that but do not kid yourself on this. The inks dry,
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  Speaker 1: the docu sign's been done, the bags are packed and moving.
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  Speaker 1: Man Matt is already booked to take the coach to
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  Speaker 1: going to be head coach of the Raiders to Devada.
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  Speaker 1: So by day I would imagine that the offensive coordinator
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  Speaker 1: Kobiak is drawing up plays for the Super Bow for Seattle.
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  Speaker 1: By night he's speed dialing and texting assistance like it's
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  Speaker 1: an Amazon Prime delivery system. He's got all that. They're multitasking,
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  Speaker 1: which is the American way. Now, as far as the
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  Speaker 1: will the beast in the room here, will this hurt
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  Speaker 1: the Seahawks in the Super Bowl? The answer to that
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  Speaker 1: is rather simple. Only only if Sam Donald turns back
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  Speaker 1: into a piece of pumpkin pie, good old pumpkin pie. Donald. Now,
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  Speaker 1: most smart football people know this guy's is stiff, and
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  Speaker 1: there are some people out there trying to say, oh no,
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  Speaker 1: he's a new man and all that bull crap, bug crap.
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  Speaker 1: I cannot wait to be on these microphones after the
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  Speaker 1: Super Bowl when Donald goes out there and defecates all
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  Speaker 1: over the field. It is going to be so much fun.
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  Speaker 1: I'm gonna be smiling from ear to ear of a
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  Speaker 1: cheshire Cat smile on my face when that happens. So,
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  Speaker 1: if that does take place and Seattle ends up soiling
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  Speaker 1: themselves as a favorite in the Super Bowl and national
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  Speaker 1: television with everyone watching after the fact, what's going to
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  Speaker 1: happen is everyone will say, well, it wasn't Donald's fault.
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  Speaker 1: It was because the guy was moving to the Vaders,
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  Speaker 1: and that's why. Yeah, of course the toilet will have
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  Speaker 1: overflowed because of Donald, But you can blame Clint Kobiak
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  Speaker 1: because he had an eye on Vegas. So that's the deal.
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  Speaker 1: He had an eye on Vegas and all this of
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  Speaker 1: making him a convenient scapegoat. You gotta have a fall guy.
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  Speaker 1: You gotta have a fall guy. And so there you go.
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  Speaker 1: Now Seattle wins the game and Donald the somehow gets
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  Speaker 1: it done, then of course the storyline is forgotten. It's
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  Speaker 1: down the garbage disposal and see you later, by bye,
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  Speaker 1: get out of here. And so this is the flavor
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  Speaker 1: of the month. Keep in mind that everything Tom Brady
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  Speaker 1: has touched since he became the Raiders executive has been
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  Speaker 1: an abject failure. He's one of the worst executives in
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  Speaker 1: NFL history. He just put together the worst team in
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  Speaker 1: the NFL. Tom Brady, he doesn't know what he's doing,
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  Speaker 1: He does not know what he's doing as an executive.
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  Speaker 1: So I have zero confidence that Kubiak will be any
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  Speaker 1: better because everything Tom Brady has touched has had a
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  Speaker 1: foul odor to it. So why would this be any different? Right?
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  Speaker 1: Why would this be any different? There? And so as
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  Speaker 1: far as the whole distraction thing and all that, I'm
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  Speaker 1: not big on that. That's always the great excuse. Oh,
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  Speaker 1: I was distracted, bull loney, beloney.
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  Speaker 3: Right.
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  Speaker 1: Meanwhile, the Lams making some headlines this week. The Rams
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  Speaker 1: have signed head coach Sean McVay, yet the top guy
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  Speaker 1: in the NFL. They've signed Sean McVay and GM less
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  Speaker 1: need to big money contract extensions. The one we're going
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  Speaker 1: to start with here is the head coach, the big
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  Speaker 1: ragou That would be Sean McVay. There. So the question
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  Speaker 1: what is the message? What is the message to the
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  Speaker 1: Ram fan base there? From the ownership with Sean McVeigh
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  Speaker 1: signing this extension, what is the owner's message and from
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  Speaker 1: the top down to the Ram fans there on this move?
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  Speaker 1: So the message is rather loud, it's pretty clear. It's
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  Speaker 1: like vodka. It's very clear, and the message is, hey,
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  Speaker 1: the Rams. I hate to be the bearer of bad news,
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  Speaker 1: but they're not going anywhere. Sorry, that this is a
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  Speaker 1: country club renewal. The Rams are renewing at the Big
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  Speaker 1: Boys country Club, is what they're doing. And so they're
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  Speaker 1: not saying that we were tired of winning, we want
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  Speaker 1: to suck for a few years. Bring back to the
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  Speaker 1: Jeff Fisher Eras or any of those other guys when
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  Speaker 1: they were in Saint Louis. So no, it's like, hey,
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  Speaker 1: we're happy and we're in the we get the membership
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  Speaker 1: dues picked up here at the country club and so
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  Speaker 1: we got our name on the locker and all that.
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  Speaker 1: And McVeigh has brought consistency, competence and they won a trophy,
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  Speaker 1: they've been to a couple of Super Bowls here and
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  Speaker 1: there you go. So it was a flex by ownership.
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  Speaker 1: Now Stanhronkie, who doesn't do many interviews at all. If ever,
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  Speaker 1: Stan Kronky basically said whatever it costs, fine, let's keep
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  Speaker 1: these guys around. And so for the last couple of
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  Speaker 1: years they've been rumors that McVeigh was gonna run off
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  Speaker 1: and do some bad television like every other coach and
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  Speaker 1: former player this crap television. But it turns out he's
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  Speaker 1: going to stay on as the Rams coach for the
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  Speaker 1: next however long this contract is. And stan Kronki, who
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  Speaker 1: is the largest private landowner outside of the United States
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  Speaker 1: government in America. No individual who's not with the government
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  Speaker 1: owns more land than stan Kronky. And I'm guessing he
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  Speaker 1: gave up ten acres of Wyoming real estate and didn't
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  Speaker 1: even blink. He's like, I got an extra I got
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  Speaker 1: extra stuff here. I'll give you ten ten acres of
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  Speaker 1: Wyoming real estate and then I'm good on that and
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  Speaker 1: tells the Lege the Rams are serious here. There are
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  Speaker 1: stable franchise and they're going to be continuing as fearsome
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  Speaker 1: as a barracuda for the foreseeable future. In McVeigh earned it.
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  Speaker 1: He's good as his job. The guy dragged Jared Goff
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  Speaker 1: all my friends in Michigan. If Jared Goff blows in
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  Speaker 1: big games. The Rams got to a super Bowl with
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  Speaker 1: Jared Goff to a super Bowl. Guy stinks in big games,
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  Speaker 1: got to a super Bowl, and and he takes Matthew
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  Speaker 1: Stafford all the genius is my guy Rob Parker, my
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  Speaker 1: colleague here at Fox Sports Radio, who nicknamed Matthew Stafford
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  Speaker 1: stat Padford when he was with the Lions and all that,
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  Speaker 1: and he won a Super Bowl with the Rams. So
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  Speaker 1: McVeigh will other people complain and say this is terrible,
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  Speaker 1: this guy's a turd, that guy's a turn McVeigh goes down,
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  Speaker 1: he buys some turtle wax and starts polishing the turds
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  Speaker 1: and it works out pretty well. So there was this
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  Speaker 1: weasel named Sam Hinkey, and he had trust the process.
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  Speaker 1: But this is the real trust the process. This is
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  Speaker 1: what this is, right. This is a Hey, you got
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  Speaker 1: a good coach, and you figure it out. And then
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  Speaker 1: there's some chatter about Matthew Stafford maybe retiring all that.
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  Speaker 1: No concern about that. They'll find somebody else because as
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  Speaker 1: long as he got coach, he knows how to find talent.
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  Speaker 1: They'll figure it out.
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  Speaker 2: Now.
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  Speaker 1: The last word here, as for the picker of the players,
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  Speaker 1: the picker of the players there in LA the other
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  Speaker 1: part of this, the question less snead, was also retained
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  Speaker 1: by the La Rams. So how do you rank this one?
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  Speaker 1: So if you get out your box score, if you
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  Speaker 1: look at your box score, here, you've got a not
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  Speaker 1: a base hit. It was not a double, it was
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  Speaker 1: not a pop up, it wasn't a strikeout. This was
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  Speaker 1: a dinger, a big fly, big fly keeping the gam
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  Speaker 1: around as well. And it's another no brainer. So I
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  Speaker 1: will be Benny bright Side on this one as well.
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  Speaker 1: He turned roster management, less sneed into sorcery, and he
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  Speaker 1: did what you told me. You told me this couldn't happen.
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  Speaker 1: You said it was over. You told me that, you
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  Speaker 1: told me it was over. That when the Rams went
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  Speaker 1: almost a decade without having a first round draft pick,
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  Speaker 1: like the NFL loss says, they should have landed in
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  Speaker 1: the Hague, right, because what are you doing? You violated
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  Speaker 1: the rules of the world. And instead what happened, Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: they got their Super Bowl trading all those draft picks.
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  Speaker 1: The Rams won a Super Bowl, and then the doom
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  Speaker 1: merchants came in and you know, it's all over now,
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  Speaker 1: it's all over. The grim Reaper here is here. It's
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  Speaker 1: all over. And the Rams are cooked. You told me that,
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  Speaker 1: all right, they sold their soul. It's all over. All
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  Speaker 1: over there headed to Football Siberia. Their Rams are cooked.
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  Speaker 1: Geniuses like no stradinas that fraud and others justin in
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  Speaker 1: Cincinnati back when he used to be an active member
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  Speaker 1: of the Mall of Belation. These guys, they're all trolls.
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  Speaker 1: They're low level trolls right now. Really, the Rams had,
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  Speaker 1: by my standard, one garbage season. The Rams had one
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  Speaker 1: garbage season one and then all of a sudden boom
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  Speaker 1: right back on Glory Road, Final four. They made the
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  Speaker 1: Final four this year. They cut down the nets back
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  Speaker 1: in the mix. And this is the part that a
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  Speaker 1: lot of people missed it and mentioned the sorcery. But
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  Speaker 1: the sorcery is this. You look at the less need
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  Speaker 1: the GM who got extended here, and he at one
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  Speaker 1: point was FM picks. That's why they went almost ten
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  Speaker 1: years without a first round draft pick. He closed up
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  Speaker 1: that shop. He then evolved, He pivoted, and he zigged
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  Speaker 1: when everyone else thought he was gonna zag. It's kind
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  Speaker 1: of like going out and shopping for a BMW and
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  Speaker 1: now you're dumpster diving and you found gold. You found
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  Speaker 1: solid gold here. And Pooka Nakua was one of those players.
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  Speaker 1: Thing had a couple of good guys on defense, but
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  Speaker 1: Pooka Nakua a throwaway pick, a mid round draft pick,
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  Speaker 1: and he is now one of the five top receivers
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  Speaker 1: in the entire NFL. And he wasn't a first round
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  Speaker 1: pick like Jackson Smith and Jigba. Those guys are supposed
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  Speaker 1: to be good, but mid round draft picks. You all
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  Speaker 1: told me those guys aren't very valuable. And this guy
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  Speaker 1: turned out to be pretty good, and anybody could have
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  Speaker 1: had him. Anybody could have had him there, and the
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  Speaker 1: Rams have grabbed a bunch of junkyard dogs in recent years.
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  Speaker 1: And so there you go. It proved something less snead
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  Speaker 1: that most general managers can't. He's able to build the
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  Speaker 1: castle and then blow it up, demo the thing, and
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  Speaker 1: rebuild it in a different way and it still works out. Okay,
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  Speaker 1: So it's not lady luck, it's not that. It's mastery.
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  Speaker 1: So our lead this hour is from pro Bouncy Ball.
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  Speaker 1: We'll get back to the super Bowl. I know, I
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  Speaker 1: got a bunch of guys on hold. I want to
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  Speaker 1: talk about the superb don't really care about the basketball.
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  Speaker 1: You know, the whining, the non stop whining. I know,
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  Speaker 1: I know, I know, I know. Just take take a breath.
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  Speaker 1: Everything's gonna be okay. We got a pretty good story
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  Speaker 1: that dropped in the nighttime hours and it's got some
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  Speaker 1: legs here. The trade deadline is coming up here, we
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  Speaker 1: are hanging out early on Tuesday. The trade deadline is
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  Speaker 1: on a Thursday, so there's a lot of jockeying for position,
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  Speaker 1: and we have a surprise name that has entered the
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  Speaker 1: transfer portal in the eleventh hour. If you Wilse, if
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  Speaker 1: you didn't see this, perhaps perhaps you were not paying attention.
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  Speaker 1: We have learned that the Clippers guard James Harden is
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  Speaker 1: apparently not happy and he's like, I would like to
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  Speaker 1: go somewhere else. Shocking that never happens with James Harden.
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  Speaker 1: So Harden trying to work out a deal by Thursday's
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  Speaker 1: NBA trade deadline. Harden sat out a game in Phoenix.
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  Speaker 1: They claimed it was for personal reasons. They were lying.
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  Speaker 1: He also didn't play in the Clippers game against the
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  Speaker 1: Sixers on Monday night, again personal reasons. Now we know
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  Speaker 1: the rest of the story that the personal reasons had
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  Speaker 1: nothing to do with anything other than, hey, let me
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  Speaker 1: see what's going on here, and you look around. I'm
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  Speaker 1: gonna get out my apps and see where I want
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  Speaker 1: to go live All right, So let us discuss the question.
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  Speaker 1: You make the call. I love this. You make the call.
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  Speaker 1: Who's behind these trade rumors involving the Clippers and James Harden?
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  Speaker 1: Is it the Clippers or James Harden? You make the call.
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  Speaker 1: So I've got jock Itch, highly contagious, and middle schoolers
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  Speaker 1: passing notes. And that was a weird bell. And we
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  Speaker 1: will combine all of these things together, and we're gonna
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  Speaker 1: play rock paper scissors, is what we're gonna play. What
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  Speaker 1: happened to our bell? Did we break our bell?
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  Speaker 2: What do you mean?
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  Speaker 3: That's the same beat?
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  Speaker 1: It doesn't sound like the same bel. No, that's not
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  Speaker 1: the same belt. That's not the same belt. That's not
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  Speaker 1: the same beats, literally the same belt. That's not the
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  Speaker 1: same I'm telling you it does not. That's no, it's
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  Speaker 1: not the same bel I'm telling you. It sounds different.
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  Speaker 3: To me.
• 17:56
  Speaker 1: It sounds like a different bell. I think somebody sabotage
• 17:59
  Speaker 1: to our bell might be hitting the right bell button.
• 18:01
  Speaker 1: But that did not sound like the same bell to me.
• 18:03
  Speaker 1: It still doesn't sound like the same belt. It doesn't.
• 18:06
  Speaker 1: It sounds a little different, all right, anyway back to it,
• 18:09
  Speaker 1: get back to the stay on the road dummy. All right,
• 18:12
  Speaker 1: So here's the again, you make the call who's behind
• 18:14
  Speaker 1: the trade rumors? Is it the Clippers or is it
• 18:17
  Speaker 1: James Harden? So number on that sounded the same. So
• 18:25
  Speaker 1: after a grueling minutes long Mallar investigation and deliberation where
• 18:30
  Speaker 1: we did in fact play rock Paper scissors, we did
• 18:32
  Speaker 1: play that game, we determine that these scales are leaning
• 18:36
  Speaker 1: towards the beard Beard dou beard. Yep, this is elementary,
• 18:43
  Speaker 1: my dear Watson, as how I will phrase it. Now,
• 18:46
  Speaker 1: James Harden's got the remote control, he's got all the batteries,
• 18:50
  Speaker 1: all the triple A batteries right there, and he's got
• 18:53
  Speaker 1: the no we're not doing that or yes we are
• 18:55
  Speaker 1: doing that buttons. He's got all that. He's all that
• 18:59
  Speaker 1: ready to go. And so Harden's been away from the
• 19:01
  Speaker 1: Clippers last couple of games there, and what has he
• 19:04
  Speaker 1: been doing. Well, I guess he's got some boxes and
• 19:07
  Speaker 1: some duct tape and stuff like that. It's kind of
• 19:09
  Speaker 1: putting stuff together. So now there are people that are
• 19:12
  Speaker 1: acting like the Clippers are the masterminds here and they're
• 19:16
  Speaker 1: trying to get rid of another big name player. And
• 19:18
  Speaker 1: all that I find that hard to believe if you
• 19:21
  Speaker 1: read the fine print. Right, let me tell you why. So,
• 19:25
  Speaker 1: if you read the fine print, Harden, that technically is
• 19:28
  Speaker 1: on a one year lease, but really just a lease
• 19:32
  Speaker 1: the rest of February, March in April, so it's really
• 19:34
  Speaker 1: like a three month relocation. You can stay in a hotel.
• 19:38
  Speaker 1: You don't even have to get a place to stay
• 19:39
  Speaker 1: a short term rental. If you get traded, you just
• 19:41
  Speaker 1: stay in a hotel. That's it. You get the room service.
• 19:44
  Speaker 1: He can live at a strip club, he loves those,
• 19:46
  Speaker 1: the ballet if he wants. And so he's got the
• 19:49
  Speaker 1: player options. So as I understand it, that means he's
• 19:52
  Speaker 1: got a no trade fass. He has a veto, a
• 19:54
  Speaker 1: no trade option, and that means he has the nuclear code.
• 20:00
  Speaker 1: James Harden has the nuclear codes in this if this
• 20:04
  Speaker 1: thing happens, and it's not a guarantee, but if James
• 20:06
  Speaker 1: Harden is traded by the deadline on Thursday, then he's
• 20:10
  Speaker 1: the one that is nodding his head and saying, all right,
• 20:13
  Speaker 1: let's do this. Here we go. Come on. He's got
• 20:16
  Speaker 1: the no trade veto, So I say, hey, I'm not
• 20:20
  Speaker 1: going there. I'm using my Vito I'm not going to
• 20:22
  Speaker 1: go play for that team. And so that's what he's got.
• 20:25
  Speaker 1: And when you take a couple of steps back and
• 20:27
  Speaker 1: you look out at the Serengetti and you look the
• 20:29
  Speaker 1: landscape here, you realize that this is a classic move
• 20:33
  Speaker 1: by James Harden. Classic move. We've been here behind these
• 20:36
  Speaker 1: microphones at Fox Sports Radio for many, many years, and
• 20:39
  Speaker 1: during that time, Harden has bounced from team to team
• 20:42
  Speaker 1: to team to team to team, and this is what
• 20:44
  Speaker 1: he does. He's really good at it, and he's a maestro.
• 20:48
  Speaker 1: And I give him credit. He didn't become a fatty
• 20:51
  Speaker 1: like he did in Brooklyn and Philadelphia. He didn't turn
• 20:54
  Speaker 1: into the goodyear blimp to get out. He seems like
• 20:56
  Speaker 1: he's still in some good shape there. And Harden. My
• 21:00
  Speaker 1: diagnoses is James Harden's suffering from jockitch. You know. Yeah,
• 21:05
  Speaker 1: in relationships they said there's a seven year itch. This
• 21:08
  Speaker 1: is a cousin of the seven year itch. It's a
• 21:10
  Speaker 1: version of jockeche And outside of Houston, which was the
• 21:16
  Speaker 1: outlier the Rockets. Outside of Houston, James Harden changes laundry
• 21:21
  Speaker 1: every two to three years nets Brooklyn, check Philadelphia, check check.
• 21:29
  Speaker 1: Now the Clippers. They're next, and James Harden's really good
• 21:34
  Speaker 1: at sending those awkward text messages about the breakup at
• 21:39
  Speaker 1: three in the morning. It's not you, it is you.
• 21:45
  Speaker 1: I'm out see you later, suckers, I'm gone. And so well,
• 21:49
  Speaker 1: Harden's packing the boxes and scheduling the U haul and
• 21:53
  Speaker 1: all that. He's got fresh start syndrome. Yet again, it's
• 21:58
  Speaker 1: the same movie location. You wonder how many more times
• 22:01
  Speaker 1: can Harden pull this off? As he's getting older and older,
• 22:04
  Speaker 1: but yet he is still able to pull it off.
• 22:06
  Speaker 1: And because of his contract, will the Clippers be able
• 22:10
  Speaker 1: to pull it off and get something? Now? Speaking of that,
• 22:14
  Speaker 1: one of the popular rumors bouncing around the echo chamber
• 22:17
  Speaker 1: here on the Overnight involves a trade that would send
• 22:20
  Speaker 1: James Harden to Ohio. Holy Dick and Dayton Batman, I
• 22:27
  Speaker 1: gotta get Strip club John here on here, this guy.
• 22:29
  Speaker 1: This would be the biggest news ever for Strip Club John.
• 22:32
  Speaker 1: Our guy in Cleveland's been calling me for years, a
• 22:35
  Speaker 1: purveyor of the ballet in northern Ohio. But the rumor
• 22:39
  Speaker 1: is hypothetical trade. This has been bouncing all over the place.
• 22:43
  Speaker 1: The hypothetical trade would send James Harden to Northern Ohio
• 22:47
  Speaker 1: and Darius Garland, the guy that looks like Richard Sherman.
• 22:51
  Speaker 1: Darius Garland would come back to the people's team. So
• 22:55
  Speaker 1: you make the call. You make the call who would
• 23:00
  Speaker 1: win that hypothetical trade, James Harden for Darius Garland. So
• 23:06
  Speaker 1: I'm gonna frame it this way. In the regular season,
• 23:09
  Speaker 1: after looking at both players in the regular season, Cleveland
• 23:12
  Speaker 1: would win. And not only even, it's even close, and
• 23:15
  Speaker 1: Cleveland would win the regular season version of the trade.
• 23:18
  Speaker 1: James Harden is the star of the buffet of stats
• 23:24
  Speaker 1: he is, and he's still even in his age bracket
• 23:28
  Speaker 1: where you're supposed to start slowing down, he's still capable
• 23:31
  Speaker 1: going out and scoring thirty or forty points. Step back.
• 23:34
  Speaker 1: He's got that. He got the foul shooting, he's got that.
• 23:37
  Speaker 1: He's got a little bit of everything. It's like a
• 23:39
  Speaker 1: nice Vegas brunch back when the Vegas was run by
• 23:42
  Speaker 1: the mob and you can get good deals. It's like that.
• 23:45
  Speaker 1: He's a Hall of Famer from roughly Halloween until March.
• 23:51
  Speaker 1: The Beard. Think of the Beard like a time share,
• 23:54
  Speaker 1: So it's like a time share there and awesome amenities,
• 23:58
  Speaker 1: and then everything goes away. Everything goes away once April
• 24:03
  Speaker 1: comes around, and that's the problem. Things All of a sudden,
• 24:06
  Speaker 1: I know the sound. I've heard it, I've seen it.
• 24:09
  Speaker 1: The sound is kurk fluey. That's what it sounds like.
• 24:13
  Speaker 1: It goes kurfluy, and there is no cure, there's no vaccine.
• 24:18
  Speaker 1: It's highly contagious. What is it. It's playoff Harden, playoff
• 24:23
  Speaker 1: Harden syndrome. Phs. It happens one night and this still
• 24:30
  Speaker 1: goes on. James Harden in the playoffs. One night he
• 24:31
  Speaker 1: will be Mozart and you're like, oh man, he's over it.
• 24:34
  Speaker 1: He's over playoff Harden syndrome. He's Mozart. And then the
• 24:38
  Speaker 1: next night he's out there banging pots and pans together.
• 24:43
  Speaker 1: It's like, oh your Mozart, dude, what happened? It's it's wild,
• 24:48
  Speaker 1: and it affects other players. And it's the thing is,
• 24:52
  Speaker 1: you don't know when the doo hickey, the what you
• 24:54
  Speaker 1: might call it, the thing of a jig is gonna malfunction.
• 24:58
  Speaker 1: You know that it always does. You don't know the
• 25:00
  Speaker 1: exact moment that it happens. You don't know that, But
• 25:04
  Speaker 1: you mix in the fact that Harden is looking for
• 25:07
  Speaker 1: an off ramp, and it makes sense, and the Clippers
• 25:10
  Speaker 1: have an older team, not that I'm really worried about
• 25:12
  Speaker 1: all that, but the argument would be that since they
• 25:15
  Speaker 1: traded all of their draft picks for the foreseeable future,
• 25:19
  Speaker 1: that the only way to alter the roster is via trade.
• 25:22
  Speaker 1: And if James Harden doesn't want to be there, then
• 25:24
  Speaker 1: you get rid of him because you don't want prisoners
• 25:27
  Speaker 1: who want volunteers, as the line goes, and so if
• 25:29
  Speaker 1: he's not happy, get rid of him and the Clippers
• 25:32
  Speaker 1: can have some meatball surgery here and slice it open,
• 25:36
  Speaker 1: drain the grease a little bit, and then move on.
• 25:38
  Speaker 1: And Darius Garland has been hurt and so he's younger.
• 25:44
  Speaker 1: I'm not worked up about that. Is can you play?
• 25:46
  Speaker 1: Can you not play? He has made an All Star appearance,
• 25:48
  Speaker 1: Darius Garland, So there is that he's not perfect, but
• 25:51
  Speaker 1: neither's James Harden, because James Harden sucks in the place. Like,
• 25:54
  Speaker 1: why would Cleveland want to make that deal other than
• 25:57
  Speaker 1: the fact I guess they're just done with Darius Garland.
• 25:59
  Speaker 1: But seriously, like you know, this guy has a pre
• 26:02
  Speaker 1: existing condition, James Harden, and so why would you bring
• 26:06
  Speaker 1: him in knowing what he's going to ultimately do. We
• 26:10
  Speaker 1: will cost you, at least if you're lucky, he's only
• 26:13
  Speaker 1: going to cost you one game in a playoff series
• 26:15
  Speaker 1: because he doesn't show up. If you're lucky, more likely
• 26:18
  Speaker 1: than not, he's going to suck for two games in
• 26:21
  Speaker 1: a playoff situation. And so again, you know, regular season
• 26:25
  Speaker 1: for the next couple months, the rest of February, March
• 26:28
  Speaker 1: and April. That's great for the Cavs. James Harderby wonderful.
• 26:31
  Speaker 1: And so that's it. A long game and give a
• 26:34
  Speaker 1: shot and not that Darius Garland's guarantee of being great,
• 26:37
  Speaker 1: but you give it a shot, and you pick your poison,
• 26:39
  Speaker 1: all right. Meanwhile, speaking of pitting your poison, we go
• 26:41
  Speaker 1: to the great State of Wisconsin, where the cheese curds
• 26:44
  Speaker 1: are fresh and the basketball is bad. Doc Rivers has
• 26:47
  Speaker 1: officially sunk the battleship or in this case, the Bucks
• 26:51
  Speaker 1: the full Doc Rivers experience, and everyone's jumping off the
• 26:55
  Speaker 1: Titanic as it sinks into the Atlantic Ocean or in
• 26:59
  Speaker 1: this case Lake Michigan. So if you have not heard
• 27:02
  Speaker 1: Yannis dente cumbo, the rumors are in the air everywhere everywhere,
• 27:09
  Speaker 1: swirling like a tornado. And there is a decent chance,
• 27:15
  Speaker 1: a decent chance that the Greek freak will be relocating
• 27:21
  Speaker 1: and he will be moving across the United States. But
• 27:24
  Speaker 1: how far across the United States. He's only played for
• 27:27
  Speaker 1: the Bucks. I believe it's thirteen years. I think it's
• 27:29
  Speaker 1: a long time one team, and he was always the
• 27:33
  Speaker 1: guy I want to play for one team. I'm not
• 27:34
  Speaker 1: gonna play for anybody else. And then now all of
• 27:37
  Speaker 1: a sudden today, yeah, all right, so question, all right,
• 27:43
  Speaker 1: what is on the Yannis Denta Cuombo trade radar? What
• 27:48
  Speaker 1: is on the Yannis dentic cumbo trade radar? That is
• 27:51
  Speaker 1: the question. So right now we are in the part
• 27:54
  Speaker 1: of the manuscript where people are just going with gut
• 27:59
  Speaker 1: feelings and they're reading smoke signals and sign language and
• 28:06
  Speaker 1: all this stuff. So there's no hard facts other than
• 28:11
  Speaker 1: things are heating up. Right. There's a developing interest this
• 28:16
  Speaker 1: that all the all the buzz were's just whispers and
• 28:19
  Speaker 1: vibrations and all that. And the idea that's being painted
• 28:23
  Speaker 1: here is that NBA executives are they're texting each other
• 28:27
  Speaker 1: like middle school kids passing around notes in class. Right,
• 28:33
  Speaker 1: that's that's what they're doing here. And and so the Knickerbockers,
• 28:37
  Speaker 1: they Timmber Wolves, the Trail Blazers. Imagine that the Trailblazers,
• 28:44
  Speaker 1: the Miami Heat and others are all coming together here
• 28:48
  Speaker 1: and they're all calling. They're calling the Milwaukee box and
• 28:51
  Speaker 1: say let's make a deal. And everyone and their mother
• 28:54
  Speaker 1: has kicked the tires on this and everyone's taking a
• 28:57
  Speaker 1: test drive. They're like, le's let's give it a shot.
• 29:00
  Speaker 1: And Milwaukee, they don't really have the power because it's
• 29:03
  Speaker 1: a player's league. Just like James Harden's going to decide
• 29:06
  Speaker 1: where he goes, well, Jannis adent Tokombo is going to
• 29:08
  Speaker 1: decide where he goes. And so at this point, the
• 29:11
  Speaker 1: Bucks are gonna tap Jannis on the shoulder and say,
• 29:14
  Speaker 1: hey on behalf of Sleazy Cheese and some of our
• 29:17
  Speaker 1: other friends here who are Bucks fans, Hey, big fella, Hey,
• 29:21
  Speaker 1: where do you wanna Where do you want to move to?
• 29:24
  Speaker 1: You want to go somewhere. It is interesting that, unlike
• 29:28
  Speaker 1: just about any other star player, there are people that
• 29:31
  Speaker 1: truly believe Giannis would be willing to go to the
• 29:34
  Speaker 1: Portland Trailblazers, who are a bad team and reunite with
• 29:38
  Speaker 1: Dame Lillard, who's hurt. They were together in Milwaukee and failed,
• 29:42
  Speaker 1: and now they can be together. If that happens, they'd
• 29:44
  Speaker 1: be together in Portland. And then you look at the
• 29:48
  Speaker 1: big board in Minnesota also not a team that's normally
• 29:51
  Speaker 1: involved in these kind of discussions for a star player
• 29:54
  Speaker 1: like this at the trade deadline, but supposedly Minnesota is
• 29:57
  Speaker 1: still in the thick of it. You'd say, based on
• 30:00
  Speaker 1: the comps, Giannis will end up with Miami or the Knicks,
• 30:04
  Speaker 1: and I don't even think Golden State, like why would
• 30:05
  Speaker 1: you want to go there? Like that's over. Whatever that
• 30:09
  Speaker 1: was was fine and all that, but that they're not
• 30:11
  Speaker 1: gonna win the Golden State Warriors again there. So at
• 30:14
  Speaker 1: this point it's like up to Giannis and it's like
• 30:17
  Speaker 1: real estate, and Giannis will say, all right, I'll play
• 30:19
  Speaker 1: for this team or that team as they got multiple players,
• 30:22
  Speaker 1: and then Bucks will circle back to Team X, Y
• 30:24
  Speaker 1: and Z and they'll say, all right, team X, Y
• 30:26
  Speaker 1: and Z, here last best and final offer. Last best
• 30:32
  Speaker 1: and final offer, no inspections, no contingencies. That's it. Cash
• 30:38
  Speaker 1: offers only, cash offers only. And meanwhile, you also have Giannis,
• 30:44
  Speaker 1: right now, from what we understand, who is getting the
• 30:47
  Speaker 1: full public courtship from the NBA community, meaning roses from
• 30:53
  Speaker 1: Dame Lillard, boxes of chocolates from pat Riley, and some
• 30:58
  Speaker 1: random celebrities sliding into his DMS right now saying, Hey,
• 31:01
  Speaker 1: come on now, let's play some footsie. Let's play a
• 31:04
  Speaker 1: little footsie. Come on now, you want to come over
• 31:06
  Speaker 1: and play? Come on that whole thing right under the table.
• 31:10
  Speaker 1: He was smiling. He was smiling for the cameras. They
• 31:14
  Speaker 1: got the whole the whole thing. And remember though, when
• 31:17
  Speaker 1: he gets this loud, it gets this loud, that usually
• 31:21
  Speaker 1: something's about to happen. It's normally how this works here.
• 31:24
  Speaker 1: If the speakers are thumping, and they are thumping, the
• 31:28
  Speaker 1: floor's moving, and that's going to be a trade and
• 31:31
  Speaker 1: I will be here to break it down frame by frame.
• 31:33
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• 31:40
  Speaker 1: It's Mallard, how about that?
• 31:42
  Speaker 2: To the third degree, This is one big Ben gets great.
• 31:47
  Speaker 1: CJ.
• 31:49
  Speaker 3: Stroud had a disastrous postseason and he's coming up on
• 31:51
  Speaker 3: the final year of his contract with a fifth year
• 31:54
  Speaker 3: option for twenty twenty seven. He still has the support
• 31:56
  Speaker 3: of his teammates. However, with Nico Collins calling him a
• 31:59
  Speaker 3: baller and a freak of an athlete, Ben, do Stroud
• 32:02
  Speaker 3: have to have playoff success next year to get a
• 32:05
  Speaker 3: big payday or will another good regular season do it?
• 32:07
  Speaker 2: Well?
• 32:08
  Speaker 1: Nico Collins calling him a ball or in a freak
• 32:09
  Speaker 1: of an athlete, he didn't say is a freak of
• 32:11
  Speaker 1: a quarterback. That's the problem. So he's got it. He
• 32:14
  Speaker 1: and Justin Herbert have lost a lot of market share.
• 32:16
  Speaker 1: At least Herbert already got paid. But yeah, c J.
• 32:20
  Speaker 1: Stroud is he's gone the wrong direction. He's got to
• 32:22
  Speaker 1: perform in the big games or forget about it. Next.
• 32:25
  Speaker 3: As we approach the Super Bowl, there's a lot of
• 32:26
  Speaker 3: chatter online about people boycotting because of Bad Bunny performing
• 32:31
  Speaker 3: the halftime show. Do you think this will have any
• 32:33
  Speaker 3: effect on the ratings?
• 32:34
  Speaker 1: No, I don't think it's a record super Bowl Radio,
• 32:37
  Speaker 1: and I don't watch the halftime show. I don't Bad
• 32:40
  Speaker 1: Bunny can go out there and dance around with his
• 32:43
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• 32:45
  Speaker 1: so who cares? But I don't think it's gonna in
• 32:47
  Speaker 1: fact the race next.
• 32:48
  Speaker 3: Jamal Murray finally made his first All Star team, and
• 32:50
  Speaker 3: he's hoping to change the attitude towards the exhibition game.
• 32:53
  Speaker 1: He said, I.
• 32:54
  Speaker 3: Really kind of lost interest in the All Star just
• 32:56
  Speaker 3: watching whatever they're doing out there. I'd rather go on vacation.
• 32:58
  Speaker 3: If that's the basketball we're be playing, I'd like to
• 33:01
  Speaker 3: play hard. Ben, Do you think Murray giving it one
• 33:04
  Speaker 3: hundred will sort of inspire other players to make an effort.
• 33:07
  Speaker 1: No, Murray's Wenby said the same thing. And what's gonna
• 33:11
  Speaker 1: happen is the other players will gang up on them.
• 33:13
  Speaker 1: It'll be like, no, you're not playing. You're not gonna
• 33:15
  Speaker 1: make us run. It's the All Star Game. That's what's
• 33:18
  Speaker 1: gonna happen. Cool people will shame Murray. How do we
• 33:20
  Speaker 1: doubt you? Passes that say what I want to get?
• 33:22
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  Speaker 1: Listen, let's let's do it. Let's do it here. I
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  Speaker 1: don't know, all right, okay, whatever, I don't know. I
• 34:00
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  Speaker 1: who's in San Diego? Hello Poppy, Welcome, Hey man, how's
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  Speaker 5: Yes?
• 34:23
  Speaker 1: All right, all right, all right. Well Poppy is a
• 34:27
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• 34:33
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• 34:37
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  Speaker 4: Rena delivered these oreoles.
• 35:09
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  Speaker 1: She gonna have hip problems when she gets old.
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  Speaker 3: Maybe The categories are Whenever, Wherever, Waka Waka, Hips don't Lie,
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  Speaker 1: Poppy? Yeah, I want tips, don't lie, hips don't lie
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  Speaker 1: because you know how to shake your hips. Poppy, all right?
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  Speaker 5: And then fase, how about you? All right, let's do it,
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  Speaker 5: says strip Club. Yeah, all right, very good. Well, hold
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  Speaker 1: of Money. Are you there? Poppy? Poppy? Okay, alright, there's Poppy.
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  Speaker 1: We have Phase in Chicago, Poppies in San Diego. Hello, phasego,
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  Speaker 1: Dug bars, dug bars. All right, let's play the game here.
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  Speaker 1: You're the Shakira edition. Poppy. You picked. Hips don't lie? Yes,
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  Speaker 1: all right, hips don't lie. These uh, these sports figures
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  Speaker 1: did lie. Are you ready? We'll put four forty five
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  Speaker 1: seconds on the clock. We're on our way and go.
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  Speaker 1: He was with the Yankees, he lied about steroids. Also
• 38:39
  Speaker 1: played for the Seattle Mariners infielders. Yes. Coach at Alabama
• 38:44
  Speaker 1: he said he was not. He was coaching the Dolphins.
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  Speaker 1: He said he wasn't gonna go to Alabama. Yes, all time.
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  Speaker 1: Hit king for the Cincinnati Reds in baseball. Yeah, oh,
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  Speaker 1: good job. Hebrew hammer for the Milwaukee Brewers. He lied
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  Speaker 1: about steroids. Also, all right, a linebacker from Notre Dame.
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  Speaker 1: He had a fake girlfriend that died. Matt care Yeah, coase.
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  Speaker 1: I hope we'll take that Olympic swimmer. Olympic swimmer who
• 39:12
  Speaker 1: lied about say you got robed at gunn. No, lied
• 39:16
  Speaker 1: at gunpoint. He was robb at gunpoint. He lied about it,
• 39:18
  Speaker 1: all right, Dominican infielder MVP for the Athletics. That's fine.
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  Speaker 1: You can have man Titeo. I'm still going to beat you. No,
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  Speaker 1: you're not. You're not. Ryan Lochte, Ryan.
• 39:30
  Speaker 3: Braun and Miguel Tejada were the ones that you missed there.
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  Speaker 3: All right, fase we have deja vu.
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  Speaker 1: Uh. These athletes had.
• 39:38
  Speaker 3: A second stint with the same team forty five seconds
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  Speaker 3: of the clock. Are you ready? All right, let's begin
• 39:47
  Speaker 3: the machine. In baseball, he was with the Cardinals and the Angels,
• 39:50
  Speaker 3: then back to the Cardinals. Yes, the kid. In baseball
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  Speaker 3: he was with the Mariners initially.
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  Speaker 2: The kid.
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  Speaker 1: Uh he is his dad played.
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  Speaker 2: To Robert Robert Oh damn.
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  Speaker 3: Yes, yep, all right. This guy he was running back
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  Speaker 3: for the Cowboys. He would like wear a mid drift
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  Speaker 3: a lot of the times.
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  Speaker 1: Wow, cool man.
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  Speaker 3: Recent recent recent running back for the Cowboys. Yes, uh,
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  Speaker 3: this guy was the point guard for the Pistons when
• 40:22
  Speaker 3: they won the championship against the Lakers. All right, Uh,
• 40:28
  Speaker 3: this guy has long dreads, or he used to have
• 40:30
  Speaker 3: long dreads for the Pittsburgh Pirates.
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  Speaker 1: You want to take back that guarantee, COO, because he's
• 40:34
  Speaker 1: not looking very good right now. All right, well we
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  Speaker 1: have one hundred points. Yeah, we learn one hundred and twenty.
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  Speaker 1: All right, all right? Phase?
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  Speaker 3: Do you want waka waka or whenever wherever?
• 40:46
  Speaker 1: Whatever? Whatever? No, I'm not poppy. Phase Phase, which one
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  Speaker 1: did you want? Whenever wherever? Al Right?
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  Speaker 3: These athletes have won eight championship for multiple teams. Uh,
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  Speaker 3: forty five seconds of the clock. Let's begin. He was
• 41:05
  Speaker 3: the all time leading scorer in the NBA before Lebron James.
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  Speaker 3: Oh my goodness. Uh all right, this guy was one
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  Speaker 3: of the best cornerbacks in football. He's a coach now.
• 41:18
  Speaker 3: His son is the quarter is a quarterback for the Browns.
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  Speaker 1: Yes. Uh.
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  Speaker 3: This guy was a pitcher. He had a bloody sock
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  Speaker 3: for the Red Sox. Yes uh.
• 41:30
  Speaker 1: This guy is the first basement for the Dodgers. He
• 41:33
  Speaker 1: used to be on the Braves record.
• 41:37
  Speaker 3: Yes, this guy was Jesus Shuttlesworth and he got game.
• 41:43
  Speaker 1: Uh three point shooter for the Celtics.
• 41:46
  Speaker 3: All right, Uh, this guy was the GM for the
• 41:49
  Speaker 3: Lions when they are all.
• 41:51
  Speaker 1: Right, how many yes, ray Allen? Wait, how many points
• 41:55
  Speaker 1: is there? So one night we get seventy eighty to win?
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  Speaker 1: Are you ready, Poppy, Ted ray Allen before the buzzers
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  Speaker 1: and we got that. No, it doesn't all right, walkah walka.
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  Speaker 1: These athletes were all born in Africa. Are you ready, Poppy? Yeah,
• 42:10
  Speaker 1: all right, forty five seconds on the clock. We're ready
• 42:12
  Speaker 1: to go. He was the MVP for the Sixers a
• 42:14
  Speaker 1: couple of years ago. Yes, the dream for the Rockets
• 42:19
  Speaker 1: back in the nineteen eighties and the nineties, the center. No, well, yes,
• 42:26
  Speaker 1: will take that. Yeah, alright, no, it sounds like cookie
• 42:29
  Speaker 1: monster say one, there you go. All right, we'll take that.
• 42:34
  Speaker 1: Start for the Toronto Raptors, he got traded to the
• 42:36
  Speaker 1: Indiana Pacers when Toronto won the championship. He was on
• 42:40
  Speaker 1: the team with Kawhi Leonard. All right, the Nigerian nightmare
• 42:46
  Speaker 1: running back from the nineteen eighties. Nigerian Nightmare for Kansas
• 42:51
  Speaker 1: City Chiefs. No chance, kicker, white guy. He was born
• 42:57
  Speaker 1: in too bad, Bobby, Bobby, you don't know who the
• 43:02
  Speaker 1: night you don't know who the Nigerian nightmare is. I'm
• 43:07
  Speaker 1: as giving me nightmares. That guy that nineteen That guy
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  Speaker 1: is a legend of the nickname. Even if you don't,
• 43:11
  Speaker 1: even if you weren't around, the guy's a legend. That
• 43:16
  Speaker 1: was Loreno. There's for you, Lorena. What? Yeah, who's that?
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  Speaker 1: I get a golden ticket? Oh there you go. Lorea
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