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Hour 1 - Always About the Apron · The Ben Maller Show

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Speaker 1: But here in our number one whispers that NBA owner
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Speaker 1: secretly love Love the second apron of the dreaded salary
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Speaker 1: cap and have no serious plans to dramatically change it,
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Speaker 1: buy or sell that line of thinking. Also, DeAndre Ayton
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Speaker 1: says he still hasn't spoken with Lebron James, but Luca
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Speaker 1: texts him after he joined the Lakers. What do you
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Speaker 1: We'll get to all of it right now. Give it
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Speaker 1: up to our number one, Always about the apron. It's
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Speaker 1: always about the apron. Welcome in the beginning of another
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Speaker 1: showb So we're back at it the double dip here
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Speaker 1: and our lead this hour begin the night is from
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Speaker 1: pro Bouncy Vault, but I'm not gonna start with that.
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Speaker 1: I'm not starting with you think I'm starting with I'm
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Speaker 1: gonna keep you off balance. So a lot of chatter
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Speaker 1: in the last couple of weeks, really since the NBA
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Speaker 1: Finals when we had that dud of an NBA Finals
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Speaker 1: with OKC in Indiana, a bit of poison for pro basketball.
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Speaker 1: So a lot of noise about the salary cap and
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Speaker 1: it's not right. They gotta change it. It's ugly, and
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Speaker 1: they gotta do something, this hardline cap. So I was
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Speaker 1: somewhat recently contacted by someone who knows a thing or
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Speaker 1: two about the workings of the business of basketball and
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Speaker 1: very knowledgeable in that department. They know what they're talking about.
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Speaker 1: And of course they know a thing or two because
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Speaker 1: they've seen a thing or two. And this particular person,
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Speaker 1: we'll just say, has given me some good intel in
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Speaker 1: the past. Now, this person does not bat a thousand. However,
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Speaker 1: if they were a baseball player, they'd be like mister
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Speaker 1: Podre Tony Gwinn, so pretty good batting average. Get to
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Speaker 1: the point, please, all right, So let me boil this down.
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Speaker 1: So the word on the street is that despite the
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Speaker 1: public opinion that the big market team like the Celtics
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Speaker 1: and the Lakers and the Clippers and the NIXT teams
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Speaker 1: like that Warriors. Despite the the buzz that the big
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Speaker 1: market owners do not like this, they're trying to change
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Speaker 1: the salary cap because it is so aggressive towards teams
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Speaker 1: that spend a lot of money. Well, it turns out,
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Speaker 1: according to my insider, that the owners actually love the
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Speaker 1: hard cap, the hard line cap. They like the apron,
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Speaker 1: and the reason they like that is it gives them
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Speaker 1: a for something like we have an arnswer, the golden ticket.
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Speaker 1: If you will to keep calls down right, you get
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Speaker 1: a golden ticket. So let us discuss the question with
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Speaker 1: these whispers that NBA owners actually love the second apron
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Speaker 1: of the salary cap and they have no serious plans
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Speaker 1: to dramatically change it, despite speculation to the contrary. Do
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Speaker 1: you buy or sell this? You buy or sell this.
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Speaker 1: So I've got my observations on this. I've got loaded Dice, Gumbo,
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Speaker 1: and Coachella, and we will combine all of these things
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Speaker 1: together and we are going to make a brick house,
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Speaker 1: is what we're going to make. So number why, I
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Speaker 1: said number why? That's right? So I am buying this.
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Speaker 1: I'm not selling it. I'm buying it, and I believe
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Speaker 1: the the fix is in, if you will. Not to
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Speaker 1: be too dramatic, but the NBA's billionaire boys club, the
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Speaker 1: owners of the NBA are grinning from ear to ear.
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Speaker 1: They have a cheshire cat smile. Uh, just can't get
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Speaker 1: enough of this. And the reason why the secret on
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Speaker 1: this is the as we talked about, the owners like
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Speaker 1: it that the cap is the built in get out
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Speaker 1: of jail free card. It's kind of like if you're
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Speaker 1: in high school and you're you know, one of your
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Speaker 1: parents is a cop, and you're getting trouble, say oh, yeah,
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Speaker 1: I might so, and so I give you a break
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Speaker 1: on this, you know. And so the oligarchs and the
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Speaker 1: aristocrats are popping champagne over the second apron chokeold right,
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Speaker 1: you talk about paying dividends and they don't get to
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Speaker 1: keep everything, but they get to keep a lot more, right,
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Speaker 1: and their wallets fatter and all that stuff. So I'd
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Speaker 1: buy this conspiracy. I would say, don't be hornswaggled by
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Speaker 1: all the rhetoric that the NBA owners toss out and
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Speaker 1: the friends of the league in the media about competitive balance.
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Speaker 1: They give these sermons about that and the brutal penalties.
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Speaker 1: And there are penalties, a loss of draft picks, no
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Speaker 1: mid level exception, things like that, and not to get
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Speaker 1: into the minutia, but the trade market is limited. But
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Speaker 1: this is all about the green but not the green team,
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Speaker 1: the green Backs, And it's not about winning, not about that.
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Speaker 1: You know what it is. It's a classic sports radio
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Speaker 1: caller to this show from about twenty years ago. A
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Speaker 1: guy named zig Zag used to call the show. One
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Speaker 1: of my regular callers. One of the great characters on
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Speaker 1: the show, Zigzag, and then unfortunately he grew up and
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Speaker 1: no longer was Zigzag. But this is a misdirection play, right.
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Speaker 1: The NBA owners are playing with loaded dice. That dice
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Speaker 1: are loaded. The robber barons set the rules, and if
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Speaker 1: you cross this magic line, I think it's like one
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Speaker 1: hundred and ninety something million dollars or whatever, then all
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Speaker 1: of a sudden, there's like alarm bells that go off
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Speaker 1: and that all it. And now for some owners they
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Speaker 1: don't give a crap. Like Steve Balmer, he goes to
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Speaker 1: the bathroom his morning bowol movement and he makes enough
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Speaker 1: money to cover all of the fees and all that stuff,
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Speaker 1: and Joe lacub with the Warriors doesn't seem to care
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Speaker 1: too much. He's not really sweating, and so they've got
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Speaker 1: all the cash they could possibly want. However, for the
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Speaker 1: others if they want, if they choose to play this card,
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Speaker 1: they can dump players, avoid big signings, like, for example,
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Speaker 1: the Boston Celtics are doing that right now. And at
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Speaker 1: the same time they can cry wolf it's just unsustainable
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Speaker 1: the salaries, polaise, I say, polaise. They are pocketing massive
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Speaker 1: profits and the owners, you know, they're having a yacht
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Speaker 1: party and they're laughing at all the commoners. Right, they
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Speaker 1: get the private jets all that, and they've got the money.
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Speaker 1: Good for them. And we want to keep the players,
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Speaker 1: and oh yeah, we want to keep that player. But
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Speaker 1: I'm sorry, that's actually more of an asset than a player.
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Speaker 1: And everyone wants to play the victim. They all play
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Speaker 1: the victim. Players want to play the victim. Owners want
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Speaker 1: to play the victim. But in terms of the owners
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Speaker 1: spoiler alert, they are the architects of this, and they've
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Speaker 1: done this to inflate the profit margin and also give
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Speaker 1: them plausible deniability when they get rid of a player.
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Speaker 1: Deem po All right, now pachdo to La La Land
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Speaker 1: we go a big story the last couple of weeks
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Speaker 1: in the NBA, malcontent, overrated stiff DeAndre Ayton joining the
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Speaker 1: Lakers after being fired by the Portland Trailblazers and dumped
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Speaker 1: by the Phoenix Suns. So DeAndre Ayton was recently asked
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Speaker 1: if he had heard from Lebron James or Luca Danci
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Speaker 1: and he revealed, well, let's go to the audio tape.
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Speaker 1: Here's what DeAndre had to say. Take a list. Hey DeAndre,
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Speaker 1: have you have you spoken to Lebron? Have you spoken
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Speaker 1: to Luca?
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Speaker 2: Not really yet, but I've definitely got a text from Luca.
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Speaker 2: I know how to off season go. You know, this
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Speaker 2: is not my first rodio.
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Speaker 3: People are probably busy and you know, training and even
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Speaker 3: times with their families.
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Speaker 1: But I'm just waiting.
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Speaker 2: I'm just really just trying to integrate.
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Speaker 3: Myself with the team and get to know everybody.
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Speaker 1: All right. That was I think that was our buddy Saddona, right,
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Speaker 1: used to work here Fox Sports Radio alumni guy. So Dona,
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Speaker 1: uh the seven to ten over there, all right? So
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Speaker 1: he said, if you didn't understand what DeAndre a and said,
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Speaker 1: he said listen, I'm still waiting on Lebron. Lucas sent
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Speaker 1: a text though, and then DeAndre made a bunch of
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Speaker 1: excuses about the off season and all that. So that's
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Speaker 1: a great jumping off point. That is a great jumping
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Speaker 1: off point. So DeAndre Ayton says he still hasn't spoken
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Speaker 1: with Lebron James, but Luca text him after his Laker
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Speaker 1: agreement there, So what do you read into this? What
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Speaker 1: are you reading this? So if you cut through the Hayes,
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Speaker 1: people in La call it Hayes, other people call it smag.
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Speaker 1: But if you cut through that, Luca the He's the
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Speaker 1: new golden boy, right, Luca's the new golden boy for
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Speaker 1: the Lakers and all that. And so he found time
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Speaker 1: to tap tap tap a text. Meanwhile, Lebron, he's so
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Speaker 1: busy in his offseason he can be bothered to send
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Speaker 1: a measly emoji. I mean, I don't know. It takes
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Speaker 1: a lot of time to grab your phone. You gotta
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Speaker 1: futs around with your phones. You gotta go to the
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Speaker 1: message thing, you gotta find the number, and then you
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Speaker 1: got to click the proper emoji to you, the smiley emoji.
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Speaker 1: Do you do the crying emoji, like which emoji do
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Speaker 1: you do? And then you've got to click send on it,
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Speaker 1: and that's a lot of work. That is a lot
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Speaker 1: of work for Lebron. I understand, the man's in his
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Speaker 1: forties now, he could injure a fingernail and we don't
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Speaker 1: want that. We do not want that, all right, So
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Speaker 1: here's the deal. That is not obviously an oversight after
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Speaker 1: several minutes of deliberation. That is a statement by Lebron James. Now,
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Speaker 1: the rumor has it that Lebron not exactly doing cartwheels
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Speaker 1: about the possibility of playing with DeAndre eight. And as
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Speaker 1: I learned years ago when I first got into the
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Speaker 1: radio world, that silent is golden, but not if you're
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Speaker 1: doing a talk show. It suggests that Lebron's not buying in.
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Speaker 1: But it's also bigger than that if you think of
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Speaker 1: it in terms of gumbo, think of it in terms
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Speaker 1: of gumbo. So the word on the street is King
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Speaker 1: James is still stewing like gumbo over the cloud, that
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Speaker 1: he still has some but not that much, and that
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Speaker 1: the Lakers it's like they started dating the new girl,
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Speaker 1: the new hot girls, Luca, and he's the old woman,
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Speaker 1: you know, and then he's like, well, I've been around
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Speaker 1: for a while, but no, no, we like Luca. Luca's hotter,
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Speaker 1: and lucas the one that's now got the keys. So
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Speaker 1: this is the theory. And so Lebron's like, ah, this
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Speaker 1: is this blows and it feels like a rental car
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Speaker 1: and the Lakers are Luca's team, and Lebron he's not
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Speaker 1: Blind Scott or Inka Terror or blind Emmett or Stevie
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Speaker 1: Meatballs or any of the other blind listeners. So he
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Speaker 1: sees the writing on the wall and the writing is
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Speaker 1: in Slovenian, and it's like, the Lakers are so into
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Speaker 1: Luca at this moment. I wouldn't be shocked if Luca
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Speaker 1: does a podcast with somebody, the Lakers fire JJ Reddick
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Speaker 1: and hire whoever Luca gets the host of podcasts with him,
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Speaker 1: because that's what they did with JJ Reddick, right, So
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Speaker 1: file this at this point. File this as a quiet
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Speaker 1: protest against the Laker front office and the shifting in allegiances.
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Speaker 1: And Lebron he's got the pp right, He's pouting and plotting.
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Speaker 1: He's pouting and plotting at this point. Stay tuned. More
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Speaker 1: developments to come in the off season. Soap opera from
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Speaker 1: pro pouncy Ball. All right, now, final point. So I
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Speaker 1: got a bunch of emails, I say a bunch, I
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Speaker 1: got three emails. You're going to start to show with
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Speaker 1: that game in Vegas. I know you are. No. No.
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Speaker 1: In fact, I didn't even want to talk about this,
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Speaker 1: but I will address it, and I will address the
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Speaker 1: question of why we did not begin this extra spicy
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Speaker 1: Mallard monologue with the let me check my notes here
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Speaker 1: Summer League matchup between Cooper Flag of the mav Recks
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Speaker 1: and Bronnie James the Nefo Baby. So why did we
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Speaker 1: not begin the night with that? So the reason we
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Speaker 1: did not my belief. And I've been to the Summer League.
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Speaker 1: It used to be in LA I was in Irvine
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Speaker 1: at one Plains, a long beach. So I've been to
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Speaker 1: the Summer League in years past, many years ago. The
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Speaker 1: NBA Summer League is the equivalent of trying to pass
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Speaker 1: off a night like a Friday night karaoke as going
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Speaker 1: to Coachella. Well it's the same thing, you know, it's
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Speaker 1: the same, and they're just doing lip syncing. But it's
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Speaker 1: the say, you know, you're drinking beer. It's cheaper there's
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Speaker 1: no dirt. It's like going to Coachella. I mean, come on,
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Speaker 1: and we're talking about in the summer league. The dudes
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Speaker 1: who won't Most of them won't make the rotation, most
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Speaker 1: will never sniff any meaningful minutes in the NBA. Half
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Speaker 1: of them won't even make an NBA roster. Maybe they'll
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Speaker 1: play in Europe, or they'll be selling real estate before
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Speaker 1: the next NBA season. It's amateur out. You know where
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Speaker 1: the megastars are in the NBA. They're either golfing in
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Speaker 1: Lake Tahoe or they're getting suntan lotion on and they're
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Speaker 1: eating appetizers and drinking cocktails on megayachts in the South
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Speaker 1: of France. And now other people, well, it's player development, Ben,
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Speaker 1: You just don't get it. And to that, I say,
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Speaker 1: it's nonsense. Right, if we wanted to watch the developmental project,
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Speaker 1: then would they sell tickets to go to like a
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Speaker 1: middle school science fair or something like that. And you
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Speaker 1: if you watch it, if you watch it, enjoy it, fine,
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Speaker 1: do whatever you gotta do. I just don't believe it's
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Speaker 1: worthy of breaking it down a full fledged Mallard monologue
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Speaker 1: on the bully pulpit that we have here and we
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Speaker 1: don't even talk I was thinking about this earlier. We
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Speaker 1: don't even talk about the NBA regular season games until
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Speaker 1: it used to be Christmas. We used to always kid, wow,
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Speaker 1: don't we don't talk basketball till Christmas? Like the games
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Speaker 1: because nobody pays attention. But now we've moved all the
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Speaker 1: way past, all the way past New Year's We're now
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Speaker 1: about Valentine's Day. It's like the Valentine's Day massacres, Like, well,
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Speaker 1: we'll talk about it Valentine's Day. And why is that? Well,
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Speaker 1: load management and these games are glorified cardio games before that,
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Speaker 1: So we're not going to talk about regular season, regular
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Speaker 1: season NBA games, Then why would we talk about a
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Speaker 1: knockoff version. It's like back in the old days, you'd
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Speaker 1: come across, if you're of a certain age, you know
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Speaker 1: what I'm about to say here, you'd come across a
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Speaker 1: bootleg DV that you'd find in a parking lot at
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Speaker 1: a quickie mart. You know, he said, Okay, if you
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Speaker 1: want me to break down something in Vegas, I would
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Speaker 1: much rather talk about the fact that Penn and Teller
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Speaker 1: are able to sell sell tickets and make illusions in
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Speaker 1: about Caratap who has continued to sell tickets doing prop
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Speaker 1: that at all. We have the two month warning, the
21:23
Speaker 1: two month warning. We'll get to that. Also, the mistaken
21:27
Speaker 1: confirmation situation, the mistaken confirmation situation. We'll get to all
21:33
Speaker 1: of those stories coming up a little bit later in
21:35
Speaker 1: the hour. We began with a pro bouncy ball monologue.
21:39
Speaker 1: A person that knows a lot tells me that the
21:42
Speaker 1: owners actually like the salary caps set up they put
21:46
Speaker 1: in because they have an excuse to not spend money
21:49
Speaker 1: and to make more money. And a lot of dumb
21:51
Speaker 1: fans they don't get it. They're like, oh, this is
21:55
Speaker 1: this is not You'd spend the money if you could,
21:57
Speaker 1: but you can't do it. Milkman Mike in Colorado, He
22:02
Speaker 1: writes in with his hands around some utters, he says,
22:06
Speaker 1: great openly monologue, gave four out of five teats. He says,
22:10
Speaker 1: as we tread through the molasses time of the year
22:14
Speaker 1: in sports, with so much mediocrity at the mall man,
22:18
Speaker 1: most of us will end up snoring like hollering James, Yeah,
22:25
Speaker 1: the great hollering James. Imagine having the ability his superpower
22:29
Speaker 1: is to snore. Spocks Weed. Spocks Weed writes in on
22:34
Speaker 1: the Oregon Trail, he says, so, Ben put forth the
22:38
Speaker 1: premise that Steve Balmer earns one hundred and ninety million
22:43
Speaker 1: dollars in the time he takes to have a morning
22:47
Speaker 1: bowel movement. Inquiring minds would like to know how long
22:52
Speaker 1: he spends on the toilet? Is it five or fifteen minutes?
22:57
Speaker 1: Any further information, then, well, Steve's kind of a large fellow.
23:06
Speaker 1: He's a chunky fellow. It seems like he eats a
23:08
Speaker 1: lot of good food, Steve Balmer, And I'm guessing he's
23:11
Speaker 1: got gold plated heated toilets, with those heated toilet seats
23:16
Speaker 1: made out of solid gold, and then probably got to do.
23:20
Speaker 1: I think he's got the squirt what's that thing? That
23:23
Speaker 1: squirt squirt thing day the day? I bet you he's
23:27
Speaker 1: a day guy. Yeah, hey, I'm on team today. But
23:30
Speaker 1: the day is a good way to go. It's very effeminine.
23:33
Speaker 1: But I like the bday.
23:34
Speaker 2: It's feminine to be clean, Ben.
23:36
Speaker 1: It is. It is feminine. Men like to be dirty,
23:39
Speaker 1: But I like the I admit it.
23:41
Speaker 2: Have you used it?
23:43
Speaker 1: But yes, I actually have it here. I did not
23:45
Speaker 1: buy it.
23:46
Speaker 2: The but you have one in the malor mansion.
23:48
Speaker 1: Well, the wife decided that was an important investment. I
23:52
Speaker 1: pushed back on it until I used it, and then
23:54
Speaker 1: I said, you know, this is a that she's not bad.
23:57
Speaker 1: This is there are worse things to have in life.
23:59
Speaker 1: So let's try to do the math. So one hundred
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Speaker 1: and ninety million, and let's see if we can figure
24:04
Speaker 1: out the math on this. Will they said there would
24:06
Speaker 1: be no math, but I'm gonna I'm not gonna do
24:08
Speaker 1: real math. I'm gonna do malor math. So if Steve Balmer,
24:12
Speaker 1: if my math is correct, that Steve Balmer makes one
24:16
Speaker 1: hundred and ninety million, and so that's a lot of zeros, right,
24:21
Speaker 1: that's a lot of zeros. And then we'll keep adding zeros.
24:25
Speaker 2: And we'll know how many zeros that is. But I
24:27
Speaker 2: have a lot.
24:29
Speaker 1: It's a lot. And then per let's say and you
24:33
Speaker 1: divide that. I guess you just have to do. You
24:36
Speaker 1: don't have to do the full amount. Hold on, you
24:38
Speaker 1: listen to our live coverage as I attempt to talk
24:42
Speaker 1: and do some math. And then let's see here I
24:48
Speaker 1: think that would be would that be twelve I'd mean
24:53
Speaker 1: more than that. I have twelve point six million a minute,
24:55
Speaker 1: But that's not right because twelve point six million per minute,
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Speaker 1: and then if it was a fifteen minute trip to
25:03
Speaker 1: the bathroom, that would why is you that would work? Right?
25:06
Speaker 1: I think that would be about one hundred and ninety
25:07
Speaker 1: million a lesson than Yeah, I don't know. So he'd
25:09
Speaker 1: have to he'd have to spend like, he'd have to
25:12
Speaker 1: spend fifteen and a half minutes on the toilet and
25:15
Speaker 1: then he'd be okay. So I think that's the magic number.
25:18
Speaker 1: So Bomber in the morning, as long as he spends
25:21
Speaker 1: fifteen and a half minutes on the toilet, good, He's good. Hey,
25:27
Speaker 1: if you made that kind of money, I would just
25:29
Speaker 1: spend all day on the toy I'd get hemorrhoids from
25:31
Speaker 1: sitting on the toilet. That's what I would do. But yeah,
25:34
Speaker 1: you do you boo ferg dog rights and says you
25:37
Speaker 1: and Jonas killed it earlier. Unfortunately you also killed lee Elia.
25:43
Speaker 1: But other than that great show, here you go. Yeah,
25:46
Speaker 1: we were randomly talking about. I filled in locally on
25:52
Speaker 1: AM five seventy in LA, the flagship of Fox Sports Radio.
25:55
Speaker 1: They invited me in. You're the bend that he went
25:57
Speaker 1: on with, and so I went on with Jonas and
25:59
Speaker 1: then and so we were together and we just randomly
26:03
Speaker 1: played this lee Ilia sound bite, which we're gonna do
26:05
Speaker 1: a full eulogy because when soon important dies like that
26:09
Speaker 1: a legend in sports. I mean, this is he's in
26:11
Speaker 1: the same department as Jordan lee Ilia. He's in the
26:14
Speaker 1: same department as Tom Brady, Babe Ruth. Yeah, so he died,
26:21
Speaker 1: but we didn't know he had died. We played it,
26:23
Speaker 1: and then we found out that we might have been
26:25
Speaker 1: responsible for the demise of lee Ilia. We just randomly, randomly, randomly,
26:30
Speaker 1: are you kidding me?
26:31
Speaker 2: You talked about him for the first time in a
26:33
Speaker 2: long time.
26:34
Speaker 1: And then yeah, yeah, yeah, oh yeah, the day he died.
26:37
Speaker 1: I mean, we didn't know at the time we were
26:38
Speaker 1: talking about him that that was the end of it.
26:41
Speaker 1: But that was that was it, right there, So lights out,
26:46
Speaker 1: game over. Femi, the number one driver in Minnesota, writes
26:51
Speaker 1: and says ben Ben Ben Ben Ben Ben Ben Ben
26:53
Speaker 1: Ben ben Ben. Take it easy on Lebron. It won't
26:56
Speaker 1: be long before he gets his aa ARP invitation. I'm
27:00
Speaker 1: sure what else Keith and Norcow writes, since says Lebron
27:03
Speaker 1: has mastered the art of load and management, even during
27:07
Speaker 1: the offseason. After his fingers are arrested, he will send
27:12
Speaker 1: a well composed text to DeAndre Ayton. I'm sure that
27:16
Speaker 1: will happen. I will take some calls. It is a
27:18
Speaker 1: call in show, very exciting, I know. Try to try
27:23
Speaker 1: to remain calm. We'll take your calls at eight seven,
27:25
Speaker 1: seven ninety nine on Fox. And let's see here. Who
27:29
Speaker 1: do we have? Let who do you want to start?
27:31
Speaker 1: Let's go to Justin. Who's in la? What's going on? Justin? Welcome?
27:37
Speaker 1: What does Ben Maller at Tom blake Is have in common?
27:42
Speaker 1: Let's see, I don't know that's I've heard that name
27:44
Speaker 1: in a while. What do we have in common? They both? Okay,
27:50
Speaker 1: thank you? Weird So you didn't hang up on me,
27:58
Speaker 1: just say you would have allowed him to say what
28:02
Speaker 1: he was about to say.
28:03
Speaker 2: I mean, I was curious as to what he was
28:05
Speaker 2: about to say.
28:06
Speaker 1: I don't think I've ever been compared to Tom Likeas.
28:08
Speaker 1: But I bet Lorena you don't even know who that is,
28:10
Speaker 1: do you?
28:10
Speaker 2: No?
28:11
Speaker 1: No, of course not. Tom Likeas was a huge radio star,
28:16
Speaker 1: and I think he I don't know what. I think
28:19
Speaker 1: he retired, he's like living just he made a lot
28:21
Speaker 1: of money, and he was always a hero of mine,
28:25
Speaker 1: like his because not that I ever met him, Rana,
28:27
Speaker 1: I didn't know him, but Tom did like guy talk.
28:29
Speaker 1: And he signed a massive, like a five year contract
28:35
Speaker 1: for ridiculous money with CBS to do a radio show.
28:40
Speaker 1: And it was like a year into the deal and
28:43
Speaker 1: they changed the format and they whacked him. So the
28:47
Speaker 1: deal was he got the money, but he couldn't do radio.
28:51
Speaker 1: If he did radio, he voided the contract. He sat
28:54
Speaker 1: out for like three years or three or four years,
28:56
Speaker 1: I think, and collected every single dollar and just few money,
29:03
Speaker 1: just absolutely a few money, as I remember the story.
29:06
Speaker 1: So uh, good, good for him.
29:08
Speaker 2: Yeah, streamed his last show May fifteenth, twenty twenty four.
29:12
Speaker 1: That's it. There you go. I don't really know how
29:15
Speaker 1: you retire from this job though. It's like it's kind
29:16
Speaker 1: of a weird job to retire. I mean, you're talking.
29:18
Speaker 1: You can't really. It's like it's like people that retire
29:20
Speaker 1: from golf. As long as you're healthy, you can keep golfing,
29:23
Speaker 1: Like are you gonna stop talking? You know? That's how
29:25
Speaker 1: he said. It's a weird.
29:26
Speaker 2: Maybe his voice is gone.
29:29
Speaker 1: No, I don't. I don't think that.
29:31
Speaker 3: I don't.
29:31
Speaker 1: I have no idea. I don't know what happened. Good
29:33
Speaker 1: for him. I hope he's enjoying his retirement. Whatever he's
29:35
Speaker 1: he's doing. So all right, boy, that was a great start.
29:39
Speaker 1: Let's go back to the phones, because I'm a glutton
29:41
Speaker 1: for punishment. Let's say hello, we go from we go
29:46
Speaker 1: from Justin, Let's go to Anthony in Louisiana, one of
29:50
Speaker 1: our favorites. Hello Anthony, welcome, Hey man, how you doing?
29:54
Speaker 1: Oh man? You are? You know what Anthony? I I
29:57
Speaker 1: hear your voice. I smile from EADI you gotta you
30:00
Speaker 1: got a great set of pipes. You do, hey, Narina,
30:04
Speaker 1: I also love your voice.
30:07
Speaker 2: Vacation, it wasn't a vacation, but I'm glad to be back.
30:12
Speaker 1: I miss you. Do you miss me when I'm not here?
30:17
Speaker 1: Do you, Anthony? When I'm away? Do you miss me? Yeah?
30:20
Speaker 1: I miss you too? Okay, Well that's good. That's good
30:23
Speaker 1: to know, pretty much. To Zepicon do well, I'm not
30:28
Speaker 1: as I'm not as Dad. I don't know. I can
30:30
Speaker 1: ask him later. I'm sure he'll call in later. He's
30:32
Speaker 1: listening right now. You know. Michael Lepperton told me that
30:35
Speaker 1: he actually asked He has a notepad and he actually
30:40
Speaker 1: writes down notes during the show, so he'll write down
30:42
Speaker 1: a note to thank you. You tell him, I say, hello,
30:45
Speaker 1: will you talk to him? Yeah? Yeah, for sure, Yeah,
30:49
Speaker 1: I'll love him. Know, and we should tell my other
30:51
Speaker 1: friend Adrian. I said, hey, when you when you.
30:54
Speaker 3: Talk to it? So I say, hey, oh Adrien, you
30:58
Speaker 3: know Adrien, I'll do you.
31:02
Speaker 1: Oh Andrea? Okay, Andrey, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, Okay, I
31:05
Speaker 1: got you. I got you. So you're a fan? Are
31:07
Speaker 1: you into astrology? Yeah? Okay, I'm gonna make a note
31:14
Speaker 1: right now. I'm gonna I'm gonna okay, So, Andrew, if
31:19
Speaker 1: you're listening the astrology Insider, Anthony's a fan of yours.
31:23
Speaker 1: He's in Louisiana and his birthday is October what nineteenth?
31:28
Speaker 1: October nineteen, right around Halloween. From okay, thank you, Anthony,
31:41
Speaker 1: take care? Okay, all right until next time. Man that
31:46
Speaker 1: had nothing to say, he decided to call it nothing
31:50
Speaker 1: going on and said, I I want to be part
31:53
Speaker 1: of the show, and he called it so is it
31:57
Speaker 1: true that there has been a two months warning issued?
32:01
Speaker 1: So shams or shams or I don't know how to
32:04
Speaker 1: say that. Insider guy that replaced woj says that the
32:08
Speaker 1: Lakers and Lebron James may may part ways within two months.
32:17
Speaker 1: O m gee, that's from the mouth of Shams, says
32:23
Speaker 1: la Lakers and Lebron James may go their separate ways
32:28
Speaker 1: within two months. So let's do two months. We got
32:34
Speaker 1: so July eleventh, show, it's still July tenth on the
32:38
Speaker 1: West coast. But if you go out two months, so
32:40
Speaker 1: let's let's do the math on this. So obviously you
32:44
Speaker 1: move ahead, that's that would be August, and then the
32:47
Speaker 1: month after August. If I'm correct here, I believe that
32:51
Speaker 1: would be September. Thank you for that. And September tenth,
32:57
Speaker 1: I believe is the magic day. That is is a Wednesday,
33:01
Speaker 1: September tenth, So let's mark that him. I'm gonna mark
33:04
Speaker 1: that on my calendar. Going to Schams. By September tenth,
33:09
Speaker 1: Lebron and the Lakers going to divorce court. Okay, very
33:15
Speaker 1: very exciting, mistaken confirmation situation. Say what? So? Steph Curry,
33:26
Speaker 1: while making his own update on when he will retire
33:31
Speaker 1: from the Golden State Warriors, indirectly confirmed that the Golden
33:38
Speaker 1: State Warriors have agreed to a deal with Average al
33:42
Speaker 1: average Al Horford. Wow, yeah, he broke the story. Steph
33:46
Speaker 1: Curry confirming the Warriors are signing al Horford moments after
33:50
Speaker 1: he answered a question about his own career and retirement.
33:56
Speaker 1: And it appears it's all deal. There is all the
34:02
Speaker 1: big aristocrats and sports all getting together playing grab ass
34:06
Speaker 1: in Lake Tahoe. Happens every year. And if you're you're
34:09
Speaker 1: in a sports memorabilia that is like the super Bowl
34:12
Speaker 1: for sports memorabilia, where all the autograph hounds converge on
34:17
Speaker 1: Lake Tahoe to get all the autographs and photos and
34:22
Speaker 1: all of that. All of that, we have the play
34:25
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34:30
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34:41
Speaker 1: for a good chunk of their game against the Seattle Mariners.
34:45
Speaker 1: They came back, they tied the game, and then the
34:48
Speaker 1: game ended on the most exciting play in baseball with
34:52
Speaker 1: Aaron Judge at the plate basis fall, tenth inning, five
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Speaker 1: to five, Game one one judge, high fly ball center field.
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Speaker 1: Will it be deep enough?
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Speaker 3: Rodriguez comes in makes the cash both be tags go
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Speaker 3: home on the line.
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Speaker 1: Tag say god yeah, Aaron's judge goin game on a
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35:17
Speaker 1: get any better than a sack fly to win a game? Hell?
35:20
Speaker 1: Holy crap, Holy crap. Great moments in Mariner baseball. That
35:23
Speaker 1: was Aaron Judge beating the Seattle Mariners. Who This was
35:27
Speaker 1: a big week, right, This was a week for cal
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Speaker 1: Raley to impress the New York media establishment. There for
35:34
Speaker 1: the Mariners to flex some muscle, and they got kicked
35:38
Speaker 1: in the nuts all week by the Yankees. And so
35:41
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Speaker 1: So the Yankees come all the way back. They win
36:10
Speaker 1: six to five over the Seattle Manners, who only three
36:14
Speaker 1: games above five hundred's. That's all they want to be,
36:17
Speaker 1: they don't They don't want to be really good. They
36:18
Speaker 1: just don't want to be really bad. They want to
36:19
Speaker 1: be right in the middle. That's it, that's all they want.
36:21
Speaker 1: They're getting what they want. Time now for the who
36:23
Speaker 1: am I? Game? And here it is Chicago, come phenom
36:28
Speaker 1: and that makes you Femi very happy. And Eugene in
36:32
Speaker 1: Chicago and Tree in Chicago. They all love this guy.
36:34
Speaker 1: Pete crow Armstrong. So Pete crow Armstrong became the fourth
36:39
Speaker 1: fastest player in Big League history to reach the twenty
36:43
Speaker 1: five homer twenty five steele mark in an individual season.
36:47
Speaker 1: Doing it is ninety second game. I though still hold
36:50
Speaker 1: the record by getting that record accomplished the quickest. Who
36:55
Speaker 1: am I? The answer, We'll do it, will do it next.
36:59
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37:01
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38:00
Speaker 1: Time now for the big Baffosco payoff on the who
38:04
Speaker 1: Am I? Game? So he is the phenom of Wrigleyville,
38:09
Speaker 1: the outfielder who came over from the Mets us in
38:11
Speaker 1: the Mets minor league system. Pete crow Armstrong, the son
38:16
Speaker 1: of Hollywood people actors in Hollywood. Pete crow Armstrong actually
38:21
Speaker 1: grew up right near the Fox Sports Radio studios. But
38:24
Speaker 1: Pete Crow Armstrong of the Cubs became the fourth fastest
38:27
Speaker 1: player in Major League history to hit twenty five home
38:30
Speaker 1: runs twenty five steals in a season. He did it
38:34
Speaker 1: in his ninety second game. However, I still hold the
38:37
Speaker 1: record by getting it done the quickest in a single
38:41
Speaker 1: season in baseball history. Well that's the question. See that's
38:46
Speaker 1: the gimmick. Who am I? And let's see does anyone
38:50
Speaker 1: know the answer? Page down Let's see here wild Southern boy.
39:00
Speaker 1: Mister Blunt, it says here, I don't know who that is?
39:04
Speaker 1: Says it is Lebron James, who wishes he could play
39:08
Speaker 1: for the Clippers. Who else do we have the freeze?
39:12
Speaker 1: Unleash the freeze? That is from Malard prop Guy Alf
39:17
Speaker 1: says Dale Murphy rest in peace, the great Spokkane Gary
39:23
Speaker 1: a great Dale Murphy and Spokane Gary who we lost.
39:27
Speaker 1: Spokane Gary a long time was one of the star
39:29
Speaker 1: callers of the show, and Gary's mission in life was
39:33
Speaker 1: to get Dale Murphy into the Hall of Fame. Didn't
39:35
Speaker 1: quite work out. Mister Irrigation, says La Mayor Kevin Bass,
39:40
Speaker 1: I don't think that's the right name. Who else me
39:42
Speaker 1: A Bobby in Florida says Lorena's new bff Tammy in Montana.
39:48
Speaker 1: Is quite a rivalry going there, milkman Mike in Colorado
39:51
Speaker 1: says the first Ghostbusters? Yeah? Who else do we have
39:58
Speaker 1: page down? Uh? Lauren Sanchez from mister Niska. Wow, that
40:04
Speaker 1: is uh yeah, Well, I mean I knew her when
40:08
Speaker 1: she looked then I didn't know the now I knew that.
40:10
Speaker 2: Then you knew when when she was still organic?
40:13
Speaker 1: Yes? Wow, Is that real? Is that? Yeah? That's really
40:18
Speaker 1: what she looks like. Yeah. Uh, no, you don't. It
40:22
Speaker 1: looks like a mask like wow. Uh And she married
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Speaker 1: the richest guy in the world. Okay, good for a
40:29
Speaker 1: mister potato head guessed by King Rory. Let's see here,
40:33
Speaker 1: Ferg Dog says, call her fifty eight way to make
40:36
Speaker 1: Kevin figures work. Yeah, that's right, Ferg Dog in the
40:40
Speaker 1: LBC from Just Josh, that's his answer. Uh. Fox Sports
40:43
Speaker 1: Radio sidekick Hall of Famer Scott lynn Yeah, legend, the
40:47
Speaker 1: great Scott Lynne with the zabe with his ab back
40:50
Speaker 1: in the day. Who else do we have? Jim Leland
40:52
Speaker 1: from Shane and des Moines. These guys are legends, all right, Lrea,
40:56
Speaker 1: do you have an answer to the to the who
40:57
Speaker 1: am I? Game?
40:58
Speaker 2: There's only one man who could be fast, sir, and
41:00
Speaker 2: that's the Flash Ben the Flash.
41:02
Speaker 1: All right, No, that is incorrect. The only person faster
41:05
Speaker 1: to get to twenty five home runs in twenty five
41:07
Speaker 1: steals in a single season was Cincinnati Reds legend Eric
41:11
Speaker 1: Davis back in nineteen eighty nine sixty nine games. Eric
41:16
Speaker 1: Davis