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Ben Maller Show Best of The Week · The Ben Maller Show

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  Speaker 1: have to and our lead this hours from San Francisco.
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  Speaker 3: That was the scene of a starry night.
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  Speaker 1: The NBA's mid Midsummer Midwinter Classic, the All Star Game
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  Speaker 1: or whatever that was this round robin. It was like
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  Speaker 1: an AAU tournament, but it was All Stars. Wee, do
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  Speaker 1: you watch any of this? Were you captivated by the
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  Speaker 1: All Star Game? They played a mini tournament between four teams.
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  Speaker 1: This is to avoid anyone scoring two hundred points in
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  Speaker 1: the All Star Game. You just cap each team at
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  Speaker 1: forty points first to forty and that's it. But if
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  Speaker 1: you did not watch, and you probably didn't, perhaps you
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  Speaker 1: missed it. They had comedian Kevin Hart was the MC
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  Speaker 1: of the event. And you know, you need a stand
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  Speaker 1: up comedian to host your All Star Game because you
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  Speaker 1: don't have big enough stars to carry the event. And
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  Speaker 1: we found out a few hours before the game that
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  Speaker 1: the event was not worthy of Lebron James Lebron deciding
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  Speaker 1: to tap out of the All Star Game, ending a
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  Speaker 1: twenty year streak of All Star performances.
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  Speaker 3: A coop has arrived, by the way.
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  Speaker 1: Steph Curry, Steph Curry took home the Kobe Bryant All
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  Speaker 1: Star NVP honors who Yes, he had a way listen, it.
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  Speaker 3: Was in the Bay Area.
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  Speaker 1: You got to give the local guy the All Star
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  Speaker 1: Game MVP. A twenty year streak of All Star Games.
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  Speaker 1: Stephgre's had been twenty years, but he's been there a
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  Speaker 1: lot most of the last twenty years. And Steph Curry
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  Speaker 1: was a Team Shack, the ogs of Team Shack. They
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  Speaker 1: called me a Team Shack. O G's beat Team Chuck.
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  Speaker 1: That would be Charles Barkley in the final of the
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  Speaker 1: first of forty first of forty point tournament in the
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  Speaker 1: All Star Game. Now for me, and I watched this,
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  Speaker 1: I was not captivated. This is not really for me.
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  Speaker 1: I'm not sure who this was for. I don't really know.
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  Speaker 1: It certainly wasn't for me, But I did enjoy the
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  Speaker 1: back and forth with Draymond Green, who was not playing
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  Speaker 1: in the All Star Game was not selected to the
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  Speaker 1: All Star Team.
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  Speaker 3: But Raymond Green was.
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  Speaker 1: Working the studio set for TNT and he was asked,
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  Speaker 1: on a scale of one to ten how much he
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  Speaker 1: liked the new format of the All Star Game, and
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  Speaker 1: he responded with a zero as.
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  Speaker 3: His response, he had thought it was a zero. That
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  Speaker 3: was it now?
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  Speaker 1: Charles Barkley, who was coaching, as we mentioned and also
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  Speaker 1: commentating the game that he did not coach in Charles
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  Speaker 1: Barkley responding to Raymond Green, and he said, the reason
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  Speaker 1: the NBA is doing what they're doing to the All
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  Speaker 1: Star Game is because of Raymond Green's generation of players
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  Speaker 1: in the NBA that have destroyed the All Star Game.
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  Speaker 3: So that was.
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  Speaker 1: Barkley's response, some saucy commentary, The commentary more worthy of
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  Speaker 1: conversation than the game itself. That is the NBA All
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  Speaker 1: Star experience in a nutshell. So let us discuss the question.
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  Speaker 1: We'll go back and forth here. Draymond Green again. Draymond
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  Speaker 1: Green was asked on a scale of one to ten
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  Speaker 1: what he thought of the new All Star format while
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  Speaker 1: plausibly being paid to commentate on the All Star Game,
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  Speaker 1: and Draymond said it was a zero, while Charles Barkley,
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  Speaker 1: who was being paid to participate as a sham coach
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  Speaker 1: in said All Star Game, says that the reason they're
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  Speaker 1: doing this is because of Draymond Green's generation.
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  Speaker 3: You make the call whose side are you on? Whose
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  Speaker 3: side are you on?
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  Speaker 1: So I've got bastardized hotel, pitchman, and Wizard of Oz,
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  Speaker 1: and we will combine all of these things together, and
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  Speaker 1: we are going to make a nice night taking a nap.
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  Speaker 1: That's what we're gonna make because there's not much going on.
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  Speaker 1: Let's you're like college basketball, not much going on. I
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  Speaker 1: think it's a little hockey. Get a little hockey, all right.
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  Speaker 1: So again, I've got bastardized hotel, pitchman, and Wizard of Oz,
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  Speaker 1: and we'll combine all these things together. So naber I said, Nah,
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  Speaker 1: my answer is, am I gonna go a Draymond Green
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  Speaker 1: or b Charles Barkley. My answers actually see all the above.
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  Speaker 1: I'm gonna go see all of the above. No lies detected.
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  Speaker 1: The All Star Game round robin tournament was capital l lame,
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  Speaker 1: capital l lame.
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  Speaker 3: Uh. It just was right.
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  Speaker 1: And when your customers, the most passionate people for your business,
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  Speaker 1: your product, have to google the rules on what the
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  Speaker 1: f is going on, you've done something wrong. And Draymond
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  Speaker 1: was complaining about the fact that the team from the
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  Speaker 1: Saturday Rookie or Young Stars of the Amba, whatever they're
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  Speaker 1: calling it, got to participate because they needed a fourth team.
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  Speaker 1: They had to get a fourth team in there. So
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  Speaker 1: like Dalton Connect of the Lakers who was traded to
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  Speaker 1: the Hornets and then he came back to the Lakers,
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  Speaker 1: he's kind of a nomad's He was on one of
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  Speaker 1: the teams of the Future Stars that was playing in
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  Speaker 1: the All Star Saturday or also Sunday tournament from Saturday.
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  Speaker 1: So I would have chosen to go with the kiss method,
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  Speaker 1: keep it simple, stupid, the NBA chose to crank it
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  Speaker 1: up a couple of notches and they decided to bastardize
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  Speaker 1: the All Star Game.
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  Speaker 3: It's lower in quality now.
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  Speaker 1: It's been unwatchable for years, so it's just a different
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  Speaker 1: kind of unwatchable. But Draymond is correct, Now, how did
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  Speaker 1: we end up here? Well, that's the part where Charles
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  Speaker 1: Barkley enters the chat. Charles Barkley is also spot on.
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  Speaker 1: No lies detected from Sir Charles, because it's Draymond Green's
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  Speaker 1: generation of grab Ass and Huggy Huggy during the All
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  Speaker 1: Star Game that created the mess that we have today now.
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  Speaker 1: To be fair in all sports, the All Star Game
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  Speaker 1: sucks when thing's changed in my lifetime, used to be
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  Speaker 1: a highlight of the year to see all the great
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  Speaker 1: players united together, and it was wonderful. Now it blows
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  Speaker 1: in the NBA game in particular, and there's different theories
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  Speaker 1: the AAU tournament. All these guys know each other from
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  Speaker 1: the time they're first tag for greatness, and they all
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  Speaker 1: hang out together at the same tournaments and travel the
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  Speaker 1: same circuit, and so they all know each other. So
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  Speaker 1: they don't really have any competition with any of these
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  Speaker 1: people because they're all buddy buddy, and they're all filthy
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  Speaker 1: rich in the NBA. But what has happened to the
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  Speaker 1: bug ridden NBA All Star Game? It has affected all
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  Speaker 1: of the All Stars right. The contaminations is widespread contamination.
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  Speaker 1: It's highly infectious. And the headliners, they make so much
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  Speaker 1: money in the professional ranks that they cannot be troubled
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  Speaker 1: to provide a proper night of effort and focus and
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  Speaker 1: have that competitive spirit. They just can't. And this is
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  Speaker 1: a result. You play stupid games and win stupid prizes.
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  Speaker 1: So in a perfect world for me, it will never
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  Speaker 1: likely happen this way. But you go back old school
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  Speaker 1: style where I first when I I love watching basketball.
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  Speaker 1: When I was younger, back in my day, it was
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  Speaker 1: East versus West it's gonna shock you. What I'm about
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  Speaker 1: to say is a boomer take East versus West teams
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  Speaker 1: wearing their home uniforms, meaning that if you wear a
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  Speaker 1: Celtic uniform, you're wearing your Celtic uniform during the All
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  Speaker 1: Star Game or a sixers or bowls or Suns or
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  Speaker 1: whoever you got your home uniform on.
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  Speaker 3: And that's it.
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  Speaker 1: And then the Shenanigans and you actually put some effort
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  Speaker 1: into that, And that's too much to ask. It's way
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  Speaker 1: too much, all right now, Page two to the trade
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  Speaker 1: that still has legs, The trade that still have legs.
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  Speaker 1: A few weeks after the Dallas Mavericks landed Luka and
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  Speaker 1: traded him, they said, ye, we're gonna trade Luca. We're
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  Speaker 1: gonna land him in La They traded him to the
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  Speaker 1: Lakers on a silver platter. The Commissioner over the weekend
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  Speaker 1: addressed the chatter Adam Silver over the weekend, shooting down
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  Speaker 1: the widespread conspiracy theories that the Mavericks decision to give
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  Speaker 1: away Luca.
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  Speaker 3: Old not a Signey put.
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  Speaker 1: The decision to give away Luka to the Lakers is
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  Speaker 1: to move the franchise to Las Vegas, right, people that
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  Speaker 1: own the Mavericks now are gambling people.
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  Speaker 3: They thought they were going to get a law.
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  Speaker 1: Passed in Texas to allow sports wagering and casinos, and
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  Speaker 1: they wanted to build an a reno at the casino
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  Speaker 1: and all that stuff. But Adam Silver shooting down that
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  Speaker 1: conspiracy theory that the Luca trade was to upset the
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  Speaker 1: fan base so much so they could relocate the franchise
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  Speaker 1: to Vegas. Does this end the storyline? So I'm shaking
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  Speaker 1: my head. No, not by a long shot. And my
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  Speaker 1: response is the hotel pitchman. My response is the hotel
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  Speaker 1: pitchman here, Captain obvious. Remember those commercials from years ago,
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  Speaker 1: Captain Obvious, why didn't you expect Adam Silver?
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  Speaker 3: Si?
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  Speaker 1: Can you imagine if the commission had gotten up there
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  Speaker 1: and said, but by the way, yeah, we absolutely we
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  Speaker 1: hope the franchise will move to Las Vegas.
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  Speaker 3: We want to leave Dallas and.
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  Speaker 1: We want to go to Vegas because of the gambling
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  Speaker 1: money in Vegas. Of course, he's not going to say that.
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  Speaker 1: You can't admit that. He would never admit that. But
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  Speaker 1: there's something that just doesn't smell right about the whole situation.
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  Speaker 1: No matter what Adam Silver says, and the fact that
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  Speaker 1: Adam Silver gave his blessing here on the trade, which
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  Speaker 1: makes you believe that Adam Silver, the commissioner of the NBA,
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  Speaker 1: either orchestrated that Luca ends up with the Lakers. The
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  Speaker 1: heist is allowed, or either orchestrated or allowed it to happen.
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  Speaker 1: But either way, he's the commissioner of the NBA, and
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  Speaker 1: this is a conspiracy theory. Unlike the NFL's fixing games
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  Speaker 1: for the Chiefs, this is one I can get behind.
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  Speaker 1: Either Adam Silver. The NBA is like, well, listen, we
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  Speaker 1: got to get a bigger star in Lebron's hold. We
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  Speaker 1: need the Lakers to have a star at all times.
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  Speaker 1: That's the way we've done business for the past fifty
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  Speaker 1: years in the NBA. So we've got to keep that
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  Speaker 1: street going and we've got to make sure we get
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  Speaker 1: a star with the Lakers. And so we'll have Luca
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  Speaker 1: go there and TV you'll be happy. Either that or
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  Speaker 1: the Mavericks want to relocate to Las Vegas. But back
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  Speaker 1: when the NBA had a commissioner with hair on his chest,
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  Speaker 1: and back when they had a man that wasn't from
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  Speaker 1: somewhere else out in the cosmos, in the Milky Way
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  Speaker 1: as commissioner, a real commissioner in the late David Stern.
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  Speaker 1: That was when Commissioner Stern stepped in and veto lopsided trades,
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  Speaker 1: at least one in particular, that Chris Paul trade. He
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  Speaker 1: put his foot down said no, Moss, Chris Paul, you're
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  Speaker 1: not getting traded. That's a giveaway trade. You're not going
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  Speaker 1: to the Lakers.
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  Speaker 3: Now.
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  Speaker 1: Silver never says he never considered such a move, claim
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  Speaker 1: that they don't really have the power to do that,
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  Speaker 1: even though it has happened in the past.
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  Speaker 3: Now, as far as the idea that the.
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  Speaker 1: Mavericks would would never be allowed to relocate to Nevada,
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  Speaker 1: of course, the Maps have admitted they've They've never or
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  Speaker 1: at least they say they never shopped Luca around.
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  Speaker 3: They only wanted to give him the Lakers. It's not trade.
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  Speaker 3: A trade is.
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  Speaker 1: When you see what the item is worth, you put
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  Speaker 1: it up for bid at an auction, even if it's
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  Speaker 1: a silent auction, and see what you can get, and
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  Speaker 1: then you give the item to the highest bidder. That
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  Speaker 1: was not what happened, but the idea that the NBA
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  Speaker 1: would not ever allow a team leaving a bigger market
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  Speaker 1: for a smaller market is fugazi and here's why. It
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  Speaker 1: has happened in other sports multiple times in recent years
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  Speaker 1: and over the last like thirty five years, it's happened
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  Speaker 1: many times. There were teams that left Los Angeles in
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  Speaker 1: the NFL for smaller markets, mainly the Rams who left
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  Speaker 1: for Saint Louis years ago, and then they came back
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  Speaker 1: to LA. The Raiders left LA went to Oakland. They
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  Speaker 1: then left Oakland, a bigger market the San Francisco Bay
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  Speaker 1: Area for Las Vegas, a smaller market. The Athletics and
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  Speaker 1: Major League Baseball have also done that as they went
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  Speaker 1: to a smaller TV market. The San Francisco Bay Area
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  Speaker 1: market number six in the United States and the the
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  Speaker 1: city of Las Vegas market number believe it's number forty
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  Speaker 1: two now. Dallas is the fifth biggest media market in
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  Speaker 1: the United States. So you'd move from number five to
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  Speaker 1: number forty two, but you'd make up for that in
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  Speaker 1: gambling revenue. And don't be naive to think that that
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  Speaker 1: would not be allowed to happen.
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  Speaker 1: We're going to start out with a topic of conversation
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  Speaker 1: that will be near and dear to my heart and
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  Speaker 1: in your heart as well for the coming days, coming weeks.
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  Speaker 1: That would be tag you're it, Who's getting tagged, who's
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  Speaker 1: not getting tagged? NFL free agent. It's always an important day,
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  Speaker 1: the tag day. I don't know about you, but in
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  Speaker 1: my house we circle that day.
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  Speaker 3: It's very important.
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  Speaker 1: Who's getting tagged and who's not getting tagged?
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  Speaker 3: Oh my, the So.
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  Speaker 1: There are reports out of Cincinnati that a decision hasn't
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  Speaker 1: been made on the future of T. Higgins. Many anticipating T.
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  Speaker 1: Higgins changing teams. Well, if you didn't see this, maybe
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  Speaker 1: not a surprise. Surprise, not a surprise, say what? So
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  Speaker 1: we are told the Ben Gals, the Ben Gals plan
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  Speaker 1: to use the dreaded franchise tag on T. Higgins. If
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  Speaker 1: that sounds like a doppelganger of a year ago, that
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  Speaker 1: is because that is exactly what happened last year. That
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  Speaker 1: would be the second straight offseason that the Cincinnati football
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  Speaker 1: team has used the franchise tag on T.
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  Speaker 3: Higgins.
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  Speaker 1: Now, the story says that the Higgins camp, now you
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  Speaker 1: know you're big when you.
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  Speaker 4: Have a camp. I don't have a camp. There's no camp.
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  Speaker 4: There's no Mallard camp. I don't have a camp. You
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  Speaker 4: know you're important. You have a camp, You've arrived. If
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  Speaker 4: you have a camp. How many people are in a camp?
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  Speaker 4: Could you have like two people in a camp? Does
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  Speaker 4: it have to be three? How about how many? Four?
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  Speaker 2: Five?
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  Speaker 3: How many people in camp?
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  Speaker 1: I'd like to know when does one become a camp
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  Speaker 1: because I don't have a camp. I'd like to have
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  Speaker 1: a camp, but I don't have a camp. How do
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  Speaker 1: you get a camp? How do people know when you
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  Speaker 1: have a camp? Do you announce you.
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  Speaker 3: Have a camp?
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  Speaker 1: Do you say, hey, I have a camp? Like who
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  Speaker 1: determines the camp? And what if it's a fake camp?
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  Speaker 1: What happens then? I need answers. Anyway, So Higgins expects
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  Speaker 1: to be tagged, and that would be mean that he
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  Speaker 1: would play yet again in Theory in Cincinnati and would
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  Speaker 1: not hit the free agent market. Now the reason today
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  Speaker 1: is an important day. This is our Tuesday show. It's
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  Speaker 1: still late on the West Coast on Monday, but we
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  Speaker 1: live in the world of Tuesday because this our Tuesday show.
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  Speaker 1: So the tag window officially opens. Is everyone ready? Four
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  Speaker 1: pm Eastern, one o'clock Pacific?
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  Speaker 3: Whoa yeah, woo man alive. Tag Day. It's Tag day, kids,
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  Speaker 3: It's Tag. No one go to school.
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  Speaker 1: It's Tag Day now. That begins at four pm. It'll
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  Speaker 1: last until March fourth. Wow, that's all. That's a big
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  Speaker 1: period of time. March fourth at four pm. So you
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  Speaker 1: can do the math on that. But that's the period
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  Speaker 1: of time. So let us discuss the question the Bengals
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  Speaker 1: planning to use the non exclusive, non exclusive franchise tag
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  Speaker 1: on wide receiver T Higgins for the second consecutive year.
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  Speaker 1: Can you decipher what this actually means? So I've got vegetables, Batman,
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  Speaker 1: and paradise and we will combine all of these things together.
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  Speaker 3: And we'll take a dive off a boat, is what
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  Speaker 3: we're going to do.
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  Speaker 1: So ay, I will saw all the Rubik's cube, I
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  Speaker 1: have all of the powers invested in me by the
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  Speaker 1: mighty powerful microphones of Fox Sports Radio. And I will
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  Speaker 1: use football jargon. I will keep it simple, stupid. I
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  Speaker 1: will relate to the common man. And here's the story
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  Speaker 1: on T. Higgins and the franchise tag with the Bengals.
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  Speaker 1: The Bengals are proudly accepting the yellow flag for delay
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  Speaker 1: of game.
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  Speaker 3: Delay of game in.
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  Speaker 1: Football jargon a five yard penalty, move the chains back.
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  Speaker 1: It is a procrastination situation for the Cincinnati football team.
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  Speaker 1: Now what reports say that they want to extend T.
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  Speaker 3: Higgins.
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  Speaker 1: I'm sure they do wink wink, nod nod, and they
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  Speaker 1: would like to have him under contract long term. We
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  Speaker 1: are skeptics. I much like the Great State of Missouri,
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  Speaker 1: may show me state of mind. It is more likely
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  Speaker 1: than not that there are ulterior motives in play here.
• 19:04
  Speaker 1: That the Bengals are doing what I did when I
• 19:07
  Speaker 1: was a kid. My mom would yell at me to
• 19:09
  Speaker 1: finish my food, and I would play with my vegetables.
• 19:12
  Speaker 1: The Bengals are playing with their vegetables. They are more
• 19:15
  Speaker 1: than content to go year to year to year to
• 19:18
  Speaker 1: year with Higgins, and Cincinnati would love for a team
• 19:23
  Speaker 1: like the Chargers or the Patriots to step in there
• 19:26
  Speaker 1: and negotiate a long term contract with T. Higgins and
• 19:30
  Speaker 1: work out a trade. Now, they're not going to get
• 19:33
  Speaker 1: two first round picks for T.
• 19:34
  Speaker 3: Higgins.
• 19:35
  Speaker 1: The way this usually works in the past is you
• 19:37
  Speaker 1: agree to a contractor Higgins finds a team he wants
• 19:40
  Speaker 1: to play for and then they drop the tag, and
• 19:44
  Speaker 1: then Higgins gets traded for less than two first round picks,
• 19:47
  Speaker 1: and there'll be some kind of compensation agreement. They'll work
• 19:51
  Speaker 1: out some kind of goodie bag that will go to Cincinnati.
• 19:55
  Speaker 3: Now, as for the play, you talk about hardship.
• 19:57
  Speaker 1: I don't know about you, but man, can we all
• 20:01
  Speaker 1: say a prayer for T Higgins because this now guarantees
• 20:04
  Speaker 1: him if this does happen the way it's said to happen,
• 20:06
  Speaker 1: and his camp things that's going to happen, that means T.
• 20:10
  Speaker 3: Higgins will make at the.
• 20:12
  Speaker 1: Very worst, twenty six point one million dollars in twenty
• 20:19
  Speaker 1: twenty five on the franchise tag. So he's he's buying eggs.
• 20:23
  Speaker 1: He's buying the eggs, and he'll buy eggs for everybody.
• 20:27
  Speaker 3: All right.
• 20:28
  Speaker 1: Now to Minunesoa, we go, home of an epic Malard
• 20:33
  Speaker 1: meet and greet a couple of years back. There it
• 20:36
  Speaker 1: was wonderful The Mermaid met so many great supporters of
• 20:40
  Speaker 1: the show that night.
• 20:41
  Speaker 3: But we go to Minnesota.
• 20:42
  Speaker 1: That as where a star wide receiver, Justin Jefferson is
• 20:47
  Speaker 1: publicly recruiting a new teammate which is not his teammate yet,
• 20:52
  Speaker 1: but he is making the effort to acquire Brown's defensive star,
• 20:57
  Speaker 1: Miles Garrett wants him to come to the Viking. So
• 21:01
  Speaker 1: how much juice does that have? How much juice does
• 21:05
  Speaker 1: that have? So if you look at the glass of juice,
• 21:09
  Speaker 1: the glass is ep date, it is p date. And
• 21:14
  Speaker 1: from the Great Batman cartoons, the character known as the Joker,
• 21:18
  Speaker 1: if you might remember that back in the day, the
• 21:20
  Speaker 1: Joker would say something along the lines of zero zip, zilch, nada. Yes,
• 21:28
  Speaker 1: it is nothing more than wishful thinking by Justin Jefferson.
• 21:32
  Speaker 1: And the reason I bring this up is because I
• 21:35
  Speaker 1: was contacted by more than one die hard Minnesota Viking
• 21:39
  Speaker 1: fans say hey, you should talk about this ton in
• 21:40
  Speaker 1: the show and clearly not paying attention. Every other time
• 21:44
  Speaker 1: an athlete says I'm going to public recruit another athlete, and.
• 21:48
  Speaker 3: I roll my eyes in the back of my head.
• 21:50
  Speaker 3: No different here.
• 21:52
  Speaker 1: All Jefferson does is win some Brownie points with the
• 21:55
  Speaker 1: electorate in Minnesota.
• 21:57
  Speaker 3: Good for him.
• 21:58
  Speaker 1: Other than that, it is meaningless, meaningless, meaningless, meaningless. I mean,
• 22:02
  Speaker 1: I'm sure it's cool if you're Miles Garrett to get
• 22:06
  Speaker 1: some kind of handwritten note, maybe a FaceTime call from
• 22:09
  Speaker 1: Justin Jefferson kissing your ass and saying how wonderful you
• 22:14
  Speaker 1: are and you feel the love and admiration, and that's
• 22:17
  Speaker 1: great public displays of affection.
• 22:20
  Speaker 3: Wonderful, wonderful, very flattering. It's very flattering.
• 22:25
  Speaker 1: But there's this in between bizarro world where some people
• 22:30
  Speaker 1: are convinced that this stuff actually matters. I am not,
• 22:34
  Speaker 1: I am not. Ultimately comes down to money, money, money.
• 22:38
  Speaker 1: It's always about money. That's number one. Number two would
• 22:41
  Speaker 1: be the location. Some people actually say they want to win,
• 22:45
  Speaker 1: but really just want to be closer to some relative
• 22:47
  Speaker 1: or something like that. So there's other variables in play there.
• 22:50
  Speaker 3: We know that.
• 22:51
  Speaker 1: And why would you want if you're Miles Garrett, you
• 22:54
  Speaker 1: got one spin of the wheel, one shot, why would
• 22:59
  Speaker 1: you pick them in a soda?
• 23:00
  Speaker 3: Vikings?
• 23:01
  Speaker 1: It's not the Vikings are bad. They're not bad. The
• 23:04
  Speaker 1: Vikings are a playoff team. However, the Vikings also don't
• 23:09
  Speaker 1: have a quarterback. They didn't have one last year. They
• 23:11
  Speaker 1: won a bunch of games, but they were exposed when
• 23:13
  Speaker 1: they played down the stretch against the Lions and then
• 23:16
  Speaker 1: Rams and the playoffs, and now they're going to turn
• 23:19
  Speaker 1: to another question mark from Sam Darnold. They go to
• 23:23
  Speaker 1: JJ McCarthy, who did not play it down what was
• 23:26
  Speaker 1: supposed to be his rookie year, and he takes over
• 23:29
  Speaker 1: center in Minnesota. So the Great Unknown. So if you're
• 23:32
  Speaker 1: Miles Garrett, why would you sign up for that, the
• 23:34
  Speaker 1: Great Unknown? You wouldn't You'd go to the Lions or
• 23:38
  Speaker 1: the Eagles, or the Chiefs, maybe Buffalo. But who knows
• 23:43
  Speaker 1: what Cleveland would would and wouldn't do in terms of
• 23:47
  Speaker 1: the trades. But all the indications are also that the
• 23:50
  Speaker 1: Cleveland Browns think that Miles Garrett is lying and they're
• 23:54
  Speaker 1: going to call his bluff. The Cleveland Browns. There's some
• 23:59
  Speaker 1: chatter the streets are talking. The Browns seem to think
• 24:02
  Speaker 1: that Miles Garrett is full of crap, much like the
• 24:05
  Speaker 1: Cleveland brown locker room, and that if they just throw
• 24:08
  Speaker 1: money at him, he'll just shut off and agree to
• 24:10
  Speaker 1: playing Cleveland.
• 24:11
  Speaker 3: For the rest of his career.
• 24:13
  Speaker 1: That they'll offer him some monstrous amount of money and
• 24:17
  Speaker 1: then all of a sudden, I'll say, well, I really
• 24:19
  Speaker 1: want to go from Cleveland to Canton. That's really what
• 24:21
  Speaker 1: I want to do. Stay tuned developing hot dot dot
• 24:25
  Speaker 1: dot be sure.
• 24:26
  Speaker 2: To catch live editions of The Ben Malor Show weekdays
• 24:28
  Speaker 2: at two am Eastern eleven pm Pacific. Now, Malor's Mountain
• 24:34
  Speaker 2: of money? Do you have what it takes to get
• 24:38
  Speaker 2: to the top?
• 24:40
  Speaker 3: Probably?
• 24:41
  Speaker 5: Not?
• 24:41
  Speaker 3: All right, let's do it. Here we go.
• 24:42
  Speaker 1: It's Malard's amount of money. And let's welcome in our
• 24:45
  Speaker 1: contestants for this game. We have Kyle in Boston, who's
• 24:50
  Speaker 1: going to play. Hello, Kyle, welcome, he's going on. Good
• 24:54
  Speaker 1: to have you, Kyle. You sound like you're driving around
• 24:56
  Speaker 1: you ready to play the game here, Kyle?
• 24:58
  Speaker 3: What are you up to? You working? You driv to work?
• 25:00
  Speaker 3: What are you doing?
• 25:01
  Speaker 1: Yeah, I'm just.
• 25:02
  Speaker 2: Getting out of work.
• 25:03
  Speaker 1: I work at the at the car dealers, so I'm
• 25:05
  Speaker 1: just getting out all right. Look at that people out
• 25:08
  Speaker 1: there playing some cards and this guy was helping them out.
• 25:11
  Speaker 3: All right? Who do you want to partner up with? Kyle?
• 25:13
  Speaker 3: You got me Ben Or the Kobaloop.
• 25:17
  Speaker 2: I'm gonna partner up with you, all.
• 25:19
  Speaker 3: Right, Kyle. That's a good choice. We're in it to
• 25:21
  Speaker 3: win it. Kyle.
• 25:23
  Speaker 1: Hold on a second, and we have let's go see
• 25:26
  Speaker 1: you now. I think we're go with Isaiah. Isaiah?
• 25:28
  Speaker 3: Are you there? Isaiah? I am, look at that unbelievable.
• 25:33
  Speaker 3: All right. You're in Minnesota? Is that correct? Yes? All right?
• 25:37
  Speaker 1: And are you working right now or what's going on
• 25:40
  Speaker 1: with you?
• 25:41
  Speaker 2: I'm driving into work right.
• 25:42
  Speaker 1: Now, oh man, brutal hours, all right, driving into What
• 25:45
  Speaker 1: kind of work you do?
• 25:47
  Speaker 3: I make a sour cream at a factory? Wow? Very specific?
• 25:52
  Speaker 3: All right? You like sour cream, Cooper?
• 25:53
  Speaker 6: I love so?
• 25:54
  Speaker 3: Okay, then you're gonna I don't.
• 25:55
  Speaker 6: Know the name of it here.
• 25:57
  Speaker 1: Yeah, sounds bad, all right, Isaiah. Do you eat a
• 26:01
  Speaker 1: lot of sour cream because you work and make sour cream?
• 26:03
  Speaker 1: Or do you hate sour cream because you make sour cream?
• 26:06
  Speaker 2: I'm actually lacked intolerant.
• 26:10
  Speaker 3: That's great, all right, that's outsteading.
• 26:13
  Speaker 4: All right.
• 26:14
  Speaker 3: You're gonna team up with Coop. What are the categories here, Cooper,
• 26:17
  Speaker 3: lou what are we at? All right? Gentlemen?
• 26:18
  Speaker 5: This is Malard's Mountain of money, The Doctor Dre edition.
• 26:21
  Speaker 5: He turned sixty years old later today or at some
• 26:24
  Speaker 5: point today?
• 26:25
  Speaker 3: Yeah?
• 26:26
  Speaker 6: Today?
• 26:26
  Speaker 3: Sure? All right?
• 26:27
  Speaker 5: The categories are straight out of Compton nothing but a
• 26:30
  Speaker 5: g thang the next episode and forgot about dre Uh Kyle,
• 26:36
  Speaker 5: you were on the air first him up?
• 26:40
  Speaker 3: Hold on a second. Alrighty punch you out there? You are, Kyle?
• 26:42
  Speaker 6: Hell, which category would you like?
• 26:49
  Speaker 3: Yeah, that's right, we're straight out of copy. That's how
• 26:51
  Speaker 3: we roll here.
• 26:52
  Speaker 5: Coop and Isaiah, do you want nothing but a g
• 26:55
  Speaker 5: thang the next episode?
• 26:57
  Speaker 6: Or forgot about Dre?
• 26:58
  Speaker 2: Let's go what forgot about?
• 27:00
  Speaker 1: Alright, okay, we'll start with you, Kyle. We'll put forty
• 27:04
  Speaker 1: five seconds on the clock. We need the first and
• 27:06
  Speaker 1: last answer and the first and last name, first right,
• 27:09
  Speaker 1: first name. That's it, the first and.
• 27:10
  Speaker 3: Last eswer, first and last name.
• 27:13
  Speaker 1: These athletes are all from Los Angeles, Kyle.
• 27:17
  Speaker 3: But are you ready? All right? All right? All right,
• 27:21
  Speaker 3: forty five seconds. Here we go.
• 27:22
  Speaker 1: Star for the Clippers, he's often heard he played for
• 27:24
  Speaker 1: the Toronto Raptors, won a champions Yes, star tight end
• 27:30
  Speaker 1: for Kansas City. He's on CBS's NFL coverage. I think
• 27:34
  Speaker 1: he's on Amazon now. One of the great tight ends.
• 27:36
  Speaker 1: Played for the Atlanta Falcons. Also, Yes, star for the
• 27:42
  Speaker 1: New York Yankees. Who's often hurt? Not Aaron Judge, the
• 27:46
  Speaker 1: Big D eight for the Yankees. Yeah, all right, mister Podre,
• 27:53
  Speaker 1: he's passed away the greatest Podre of all time. Outfielder
• 27:58
  Speaker 1: number nineteen. Yes, and a hero for the Angels third basement.
• 28:07
  Speaker 1: Damn all right, not bad.
• 28:08
  Speaker 6: One hundred points, all.
• 28:11
  Speaker 3: Right, didn't get Troy Gloss, didn't get it out?
• 28:14
  Speaker 6: Yeah, Isaiah, we've got forgot about dre.
• 28:18
  Speaker 5: These athletes all won a Comeback Player of the Year award.
• 28:23
  Speaker 3: Uh.
• 28:24
  Speaker 5: Forty five seconds. Let's begin. Current quarterback for the Bengals.
• 28:29
  Speaker 3: Uh yes, Uh.
• 28:31
  Speaker 6: The kid in baseball played for the Seattle Mariners.
• 28:35
  Speaker 3: Ah, I'm gonna let you.
• 28:38
  Speaker 5: Down, all right, we'll pass. Uh Colts quarterback. He retired early.
• 28:43
  Speaker 5: He looked like a Civil War Yes. Uh. This guy
• 28:47
  Speaker 5: was the Sandman closer for the Yankees, all right. This
• 28:53
  Speaker 5: guy was a linebacker for the Patriots. His last name
• 28:57
  Speaker 5: was nickname for a beer.
• 29:00
  Speaker 2: Oh god, God God, shoot.
• 29:05
  Speaker 5: All right, catcher for the Kansas City Royals right now,
• 29:08
  Speaker 5: he's been there forever. Oh man, only the answers were off,
• 29:15
  Speaker 5: you would have done very well.
• 29:16
  Speaker 3: You would have gotten them, all right, if the answers
• 29:18
  Speaker 3: had been off.
• 29:19
  Speaker 6: But how many points did we have?
• 29:20
  Speaker 3: I don't know. I think you got forty forty.
• 29:23
  Speaker 5: Forty all right, Well, we got to go back at
• 29:25
  Speaker 5: it again and earn some more points.
• 29:26
  Speaker 6: You got this, Isaiah, would you here for them?
• 29:29
  Speaker 3: Will Ray and it's wrong? Would you cheer for me
• 29:30
  Speaker 3: and Kyle? Don't cheer for Isaiah?
• 29:32
  Speaker 1: Oh?
• 29:32
  Speaker 5: Go ass Isaiah? Do you want do you want nothing
• 29:36
  Speaker 5: but a g thing? Or the next episode? All right,
• 29:41
  Speaker 5: good luck, Coop, God bless you. Well, there's there's not
• 29:44
  Speaker 5: as much baseball on this one, so all right, next episode.
• 29:47
  Speaker 5: These athletes all have fathers that were also athletes. Well,
• 29:51
  Speaker 5: hold on forty five seconds, let's begin, all right. He
• 29:55
  Speaker 5: is the sheriff for the Colts and the Broncos quarterback.
• 30:00
  Speaker 5: His nickname is the Sheriff. His brother is eli Oy Yeah,
• 30:06
  Speaker 5: first of yes.
• 30:07
  Speaker 6: Uh. He is the current running back for the forty
• 30:09
  Speaker 6: nine ers.
• 30:10
  Speaker 3: His dad was ed Ed McCay.
• 30:14
  Speaker 6: No, what's what's the son's name?
• 30:16
  Speaker 2: Oh?
• 30:17
  Speaker 5: Yes, Uh, this guy is Dion's son. He's gonna be
• 30:20
  Speaker 5: maybe the number one pick. Yes, this guy is a
• 30:25
  Speaker 5: sharp shooter for He used to be on the Warriors,
• 30:27
  Speaker 5: now he's on the Mavericks.
• 30:28
  Speaker 6: His dad was Michael.
• 30:33
  Speaker 3: When you get shop, Kyle, Kyle, what do you know?
• 30:42
  Speaker 3: What do you wind me? What do you do?
• 30:43
  Speaker 6: What do you how many post?
• 30:46
  Speaker 3: I don't know how many?
• 30:47
  Speaker 1: Kyle?
• 30:47
  Speaker 3: God? How Isaiah. God, I don't know. Ninety enough.
• 30:51
  Speaker 6: No, that's a that's enough. So total we have one
• 30:53
  Speaker 6: hundred and thirty one thirty, so you got to get
• 30:55
  Speaker 6: thirty to ornament.
• 30:57
  Speaker 3: Nothing but a G thing? Is that what we're doing here? Yes?
• 31:00
  Speaker 1: These athletes last names all start with G. Are you ready, Kyle?
• 31:05
  Speaker 4: Yes, I'm ready?
• 31:06
  Speaker 3: All right?
• 31:06
  Speaker 2: Uh?
• 31:07
  Speaker 1: The big ticket when the Celtics won a championship about
• 31:09
  Speaker 1: fifteen years ago from Minnesota.
• 31:12
  Speaker 3: Yes, a tight end for the Patriots.
• 31:15
  Speaker 1: He's on Fox right now. Yeah, Bill Witter, good job, Kyle.
• 31:25
  Speaker 1: How about this the ice the iceman for the Spurs
• 31:29
  Speaker 1: back in the seventies, in the eighties.
• 31:30
  Speaker 3: You know who that is? Nah, yeah, it's George Gerban.
• 31:34
  Speaker 3: It doesn't matter, No, George German, it doesn't matter. We
• 31:37
  Speaker 3: won the game.
• 31:38
  Speaker 1: Good, good job, Isaiah Lactose in tolerant Isaiah.
• 31:44
  Speaker 3: And there's Kyle right there. We won