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Hour 1 - Luka the Lemon · The Ben Maller Show

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Speaker 1: Here we go. Welcome, It's our number one, our number one.
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Speaker 1: In this hour, we start out with little pro bouncy
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Speaker 1: ball as the night in the NBA. Just one island
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Speaker 1: game in the NBA on this now Thursday, that was
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Speaker 1: back on Wednesday night. How concerned should the Lakers be
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Speaker 1: they lost to the lowly Hornets, and how concerned should
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Speaker 1: they be with Luca and another bad performance by the Savior,
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Speaker 1: the Messiah of the Lakers. Also Giannis Adenta Kumbo shooting
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Speaker 1: down the notion that he would request a trade from
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Speaker 1: the Buck, saying that they would have to kick me out.
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Speaker 1: Do you believe him? Also, the NBA All Star Game
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Speaker 1: ratings tanked, they had the second lowest on record, and
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Speaker 1: he advised to Adam Silver. We'll get to that and
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Speaker 1: much more right now. Buckle up, as we're on a roll.
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Speaker 1: We awaken a sleeping giant here an hour number one. Well,
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Speaker 1: you can't spell loser without an L and you can't
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Speaker 1: spell Luca without an L either. Wel come in the
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Speaker 1: show be. So our lead this hour is from pro
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Speaker 1: bouncy Ball. Now. I was debating. I was like, I
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Speaker 1: was trying to figure out I want to go with
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Speaker 1: some football stuff, and I thought, well, this is such
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Speaker 1: a nice, juicy story. I gotta go with it. I
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Speaker 1: gotta go with it. It wasn't much going on, like
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Speaker 1: random college basketball games in mid February. So our lead
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Speaker 1: is from the NBA and it was a soft launch
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Speaker 1: to the second half of the pro Bouncy Ball season.
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Speaker 1: An island game. Now, this was not supposed to be
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Speaker 1: an island game. It had been scheduled that the night
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Speaker 1: would be dark. In the NBA, no games were supposed
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Speaker 1: to be played on Wednesday night, but then the city
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Speaker 1: of Los Angeles burned down or at least part of
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Speaker 1: it a couple weeks back, and because of that, the
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Speaker 1: Lakers had to cancel some games, so the Clippers. But
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Speaker 1: this is a makeup game. The Lakers had a playdate
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Speaker 1: with the Hornets, and so the Hornets haven't had an
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Speaker 1: Island game since I think like the nineties or something
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Speaker 1: like that. But anyway, how did that go? Did you
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Speaker 1: watch the game? Probably not. I don't know if you
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Speaker 1: had a chance to watch it or how you could
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Speaker 1: have watched it. But we watched it so you would
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Speaker 1: not have to Miles Bridges, he said some issues. Twenty
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Speaker 1: nine points, the mellow ball. It was a ball night.
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Speaker 1: He had twenty seven points. And the lowly Drek of
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Speaker 1: the NBA, the Charlotte pro Bouncy Ball Team KOed Lebron
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Speaker 1: and Luca with a one hundred and ninety seven come
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Speaker 1: from behind victory right there on skid Row at the
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Speaker 1: Crypto Arena there just skid Row adjacent as the Lakers,
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Speaker 1: yet again playing like fakers, and so let us discuss. Now,
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Speaker 1: don't bury the lead, my man, all right, We're not
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Speaker 1: going to bury the lead. So the lead's all about Luke.
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Speaker 1: So he had a bunch of time off over the
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Speaker 1: All Star break to get locked in and how did
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Speaker 1: that go? Well? Not so good? So how concerned here's
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Speaker 1: the question? How concerned should the Lakers be with Luka
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Speaker 1: Luka Doncika's performance? Here as yet another game where he
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Speaker 1: didn't play well and the team lost. So I've got Ghana,
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Speaker 1: has Bro and Jump the Shark, and we will combine
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Speaker 1: all of these things together and we are going to
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Speaker 1: make inroads. And we're gonna put the biscuit in the basket,
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Speaker 1: is what we're going to do. We're gonna put the
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Speaker 1: biscuit in the basket. I know it's exciting, all right,
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Speaker 1: So Nu Burn, that's right, I said, num Burn, all right.
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Speaker 1: On the Malor scale of concern, really, the only metric
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Speaker 1: that is needed, at least here on overnight radio is
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Speaker 1: the Malord scale of concerns. So the Malard scale of
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Speaker 1: concern one to ten. And I am I wanna be
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Speaker 1: level headed here. I'm not gonna be a shock jock.
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Speaker 1: I'm at an eight. I am at an Open your
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Speaker 1: bleeping eyes, open your eyes, listen. If the eyes show
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Speaker 1: you believe them. Even our blind listeners know what's going
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Speaker 1: on here. Now. Some will say, well, it's a small
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Speaker 1: sample size, but I have to do the show today.
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Speaker 1: I do the show today, and I do the show
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Speaker 1: right now. And what I have seen is the Lakers
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Speaker 1: win one game against the Utah Jazz with Luca and
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Speaker 1: lose a game to the suck bag Jazz and the
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Speaker 1: Charlotte Hornets. And speaking of suck, Luca sucked at a
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Speaker 1: time you cannot suck. Another clunker for the prodigy from Dallas. Somewhere,
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Speaker 1: Nico Harrison was aroused watching Luca try to run up
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Speaker 1: down the court. Here another piss poor performance by the
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Speaker 1: star that everyone's been talking about. This trade five of
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Speaker 1: eighteen against one of the worst dollar for dollar teams
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Speaker 1: in pro bouncy ball, the Charlotte Hornets. Luca was five
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Speaker 1: of eighteen. That's less than thirty percent. My computer, like
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Speaker 1: brain tells me now he's one of the all time
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Speaker 1: great three point shooters for a player at his position.
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Speaker 1: He was one of nine, many of those wide open,
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Speaker 1: many of those wide open three point shots. One of
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Speaker 1: nine had fourteen points and six turnovers in thirty three minutes.
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Speaker 1: Luca was so bad. How bad was he? He was
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Speaker 1: so bad? I thought I was watching the Mayor of
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Speaker 1: Los Angeles and he was on a trip to Ghana
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Speaker 1: while the game was being played. He went to Ghana
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Speaker 1: and the game burned up right a Dodchik looked chubby,
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Speaker 1: he looked slow. The numbers back up the eyeball test
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Speaker 1: Luca with the Lakers averaging less than fifteen points a game,
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Speaker 1: seven rebounds, five assists, shooting just thirty six percent. That
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Speaker 1: blows from the floor, twenty one percent from three point ranch.
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Speaker 1: He's not even making foul shots. And with Luca, the
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Speaker 1: Lakers have lost two of three games to ping pong teams,
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Speaker 1: to ping pong teams, the Jazz and Hornets. I don't
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Speaker 1: know that you understand. Listen, I watched the NBA. We
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Speaker 1: don't talk about it that much here. We'll talk about
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Speaker 1: it more now that football season's over, and we'll work
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Speaker 1: it into the conversation. But I have paid attention. And
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Speaker 1: Charlotte and Utah are more worried about Cooper flag of
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Speaker 1: Duke in the lottery than they are about winning games,
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Speaker 1: and yet both of them were able to slay the
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Speaker 1: dragon Luke. Here's a Luca commenting postgame as the Lakers
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Speaker 1: lost to Charlotte. Here's Luca commenting on the many mistakes
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Speaker 1: that took place in that game.
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Speaker 2: Take a listen, obviously, you know he's going to take
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Speaker 2: a little time. I'll be able today. A lot of
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Speaker 2: restin us for my part. So started a game with
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Speaker 2: like four fast turnovers that can't happen. So it's got,
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Speaker 2: I know, play them basketball the right way.
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Speaker 1: Okay, well the right way. You're not playing the right way,
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Speaker 1: playing the left way, playing left handed. There was also
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Speaker 1: a comment I watched the Luca postgame and one of
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Speaker 1: the reporters asked Luca, like, if he spent the All
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Speaker 1: Star break like learning the playbook, locking in, you know,
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Speaker 1: those kind of things, And Lucas said, now, I wanted
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Speaker 1: to get away from the game. These guys played late.
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Speaker 1: At that point, he had played two games since Christmas.
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Speaker 1: He's like, I wanted to get away from the game.
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Speaker 1: I think you've been away from the game, Luca. I
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Speaker 1: believe you've been away from the game for a fair
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Speaker 1: amount of time. Now, Lucas got to do better. He's
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Speaker 1: got to be better. But let's not dismiss Lebron, who
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Speaker 1: also was manure Lebron James. He's going to get a
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Speaker 1: pass year because it's all about Luca. But Lebron was
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Speaker 1: garbage in the third quarter. If I'm not mistaken, if
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Speaker 1: my lying eyes are accurate here, he was shut out
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Speaker 1: in the third quarter. The Lakers at one point were
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Speaker 1: outscored twenty four to one. And let me put that
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Speaker 1: in perspective. So they were outscored by Charlotte twenty four
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Speaker 1: to one. Larry Johnson, Alonzo Morning and Muggsy Bogues none
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Speaker 1: of them scored, none of them. They were all shut out.
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Speaker 1: And still the Hornets got horny and went on a
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Speaker 1: twenty four to one run. Wow, all right, now turning
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Speaker 1: the page. So page two. While speaking to Greek reporters,
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Speaker 1: the player that goes by the moniker, the Greek freak,
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Speaker 1: Giannis Adentacumbo shot down the idea that he would request
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Speaker 1: an exit from Milwaukee from the box. So not if
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Speaker 1: you saw it or not, but let's discuss I. He said, quote,
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Speaker 1: I don't think that I would ever text or ask
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Speaker 1: for a trade. This is a quot from a Greek
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Speaker 1: TV report. Yanna said, I don't think I would ever
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Speaker 1: text or ask for trade. I'm not this kind of
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Speaker 1: a guy. They would have to kick me out, he said,
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Speaker 1: so Jiannas and Enderkombo shooting down the idea that he
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Speaker 1: would request a transaction out of a Bucks uniform. Do
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Speaker 1: you believe him? Do you believe him? So on this one,
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Speaker 1: I'm gonna channel Hasbro because I believe this is a
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Speaker 1: Transformer story. It's more than meets the eye, and I'm
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Speaker 1: on this one going to be the newest Transformer for
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Speaker 1: modern times. Skepticist Maximus, I am a skeptic to the max.
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Speaker 1: On this one. It's really a game of samantas. Because
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Speaker 1: Jana said, I'm not gonna send a text. Does that
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Speaker 1: mean he's gonna call somebody with the Bucks, some executive there,
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Speaker 1: or maybe meet face to face for coffee and ask
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Speaker 1: for an accident? Or does he deputize Does Luca deputize
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Speaker 1: one of his subordinates to do the dirty work, one
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Speaker 1: of his henchmen? Because all these guys, when you make
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Speaker 1: that kind of money, you've got like a team of
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Speaker 1: people that ride your coattails. They're the caboose on the
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Speaker 1: train trying to get some of that money on the
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Speaker 1: gravy train. And so again, I just I've seen it
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Speaker 1: so many times like why is he going to be different?
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Speaker 1: And in recent years, even though this comment says, hey,
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Speaker 1: he wants to stay in Wisconsin, Giannis has certainly sent
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Speaker 1: mixed messages. He's starting to starting to fall a little
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Speaker 1: bit on his hardline position about ever playing for the Bucks.
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Speaker 1: He had been now this comment would indicate he's planning
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Speaker 1: on staying and all that. But knowing how the NBA
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Speaker 1: for my entire life has funneled the star players to
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Speaker 1: glamour teams outside of you know, outside of John Stock.
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Speaker 1: Even Karl Malone, who was a great player back in
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Speaker 1: his era year years ago, he went to the Lakers
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Speaker 1: at the end of his career. But that's how Johnson
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Speaker 1: I'm trying to think of, Like who else, Like one
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Speaker 1: team that's it, And it wasn't a glamour team, Tim
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Speaker 1: dunk In, but they won a lot in San Antonio.
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Speaker 1: That would be when Tony Parker played for the I
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Speaker 1: think he was a superstar, but he played for the
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Speaker 1: Charlotte Hornets at the end of his career. That's not
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Speaker 1: a glamour team. But anyway, I leaned towards that direction.
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Speaker 1: It's good for the business of basketball, it's good for
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Speaker 1: the Business of Basketball and a final point NBA report card,
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Speaker 1: NBA report card, All Star editions. So the All Star
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Speaker 1: Game ratings are in and they were bad to the bone,
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Speaker 1: bad bad, bad bad, bad to the bone the All
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Speaker 1: Star Game ratings tank. In fact, they had the second
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Speaker 1: lowest rating on record. Wow, what is your advice to
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Speaker 1: Adam Silver in the NBA? So I have activated the
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Speaker 1: Mallard think Tank in an effort to expedite help for
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Speaker 1: Adam Silver, and the Malard think Tank is recommending that
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Speaker 1: Adam Silver get on on his phone and download the
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Speaker 1: Southwest Airlines app and get one of those I want
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Speaker 1: to get away tickets right now. Now, it's not all
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Speaker 1: on Adam so right, Ultimately, he's such a softy as
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Speaker 1: a commissioner. He was a hardline commissioner, things would be different.
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Speaker 1: But he's a walk over. He's essentially like a doormat.
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Speaker 1: You walk over him, and he's a mister soft ye.
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Speaker 1: And the NBA really needs a commissioner that's got a backbone,
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Speaker 1: and Adam Silver doesn't have a backbone. That's the problem, right,
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Speaker 1: that's the problem. Players walked all over the employees in
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Speaker 1: the NBA held a wildcat strike that's exactly what they did.
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Speaker 1: It's not approved by anybody. They just decided we're going
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Speaker 1: to treat the All Star Game like it's a nuisance,
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Speaker 1: little to no effort in the All Star Game, and
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Speaker 1: that will be a continuation of what we do most
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Speaker 1: nights in the regular season. So Adam Silver, rather than
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Speaker 1: hold the players responsible and get them to actually give
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Speaker 1: an honest effort, instead, instead Adam Silver just kind of said, please, guys,
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Speaker 1: can you please help us out? And I'll just add
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Speaker 1: an extra tournament and I'll put some more gimmicks to
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Speaker 1: save the All Star Game because that's what we need,
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Speaker 1: more gimmicks. That was an epic fail. How bad was it?
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Speaker 1: Says the person in the back of the room. Here's
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Speaker 1: how bad the twenty twenty five NBA All Star Game
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Speaker 1: had if I've read this right, they had a million
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Speaker 1: last viewers. Then the latest episode of Judge Judy You're
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Speaker 1: losing to Judge Judy or whatever his wor show is
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Speaker 1: called now, and we even had a jump the Shark moment,
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Speaker 1: which was not getting beat one on one by Judge Judy,
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Speaker 1: who I've seen in person. She's about four foot two.
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Speaker 1: Uh yeah. In fact, if they did a remake of
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Speaker 1: Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs. I believe she'd be
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Speaker 1: eligible to be one of the one of the Dwarfs anyway,
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Speaker 1: but hey, she's a lovely lady. My apologies tour, but
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Speaker 1: we had a jump the Shark moment, which, as I said,
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Speaker 1: not the judge judty th Adam Silver in a league
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Speaker 1: that loves to brag about the star power, Global Ambassadors
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Speaker 1: headliners everywhere, in a league filled with megastars, Adam Silver
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Speaker 1: in the NBA, in an effort to drum up interest,
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Speaker 1: turned to a YouTube influencer to save the day. Mister Beast,
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Speaker 1: the Beast of Burden and mister Beast he was the
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Speaker 1: big shot there that how'd that turn out? Wellkno, get
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Speaker 1: now they're talking about doing a one on one tournament.
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Speaker 1: How the mighty have fallen? And wait till the NBA
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Speaker 1: goes full NFL imagine if you will, a world where
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Speaker 1: Stephen Curry is chanting one, two, three, four, I declare
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Speaker 1: a thumb more that's coming to an All Star game
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Speaker 1: near you. How about Nikola Jokich and Luka Dancik in
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Speaker 1: a beer drinking contest sponsored by Budweiser, who says no
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Speaker 1: to that. Can I get Jason Tatum and Anthony Edwards
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Speaker 1: in a potato sack race? Yeah, Idaho Potatoes can sponsor
16:03
Speaker 1: that few more of these All Star Games, and that
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Speaker 1: stuff's gonna be happening. And just for the record, I
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Speaker 1: see Jalen Brunson winning the NBA sanctioned water balloon Toss.
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Speaker 1: Jalen Brunson of the Knickerbockers gonna win the All Star
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Speaker 1: water balloon Toss. When that comes in like twenty twenty
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Speaker 1: seven or twenty twenty eight, it is the Ben Mahlers Show. Again.
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Speaker 1: The headline here, Luka Lakers probably wish they had made
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Speaker 1: that trade instead of with the Mavericks. To the car
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Speaker 1: dealership in southern California and Orange. You won't get a lemon.
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Speaker 1: They got element so far, they got a lemon. Luca's
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Speaker 1: a lemon, Luca the Lemon. Is that his new nickname,
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Speaker 1: Luca the Lemon? Oh? That could be his new nickname,
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Speaker 1: Luca the Lemon. You won't get em. They got elevet.
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Speaker 1: in life, every once in a while, things imitate other things,
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Speaker 1: and we've had some of that recently, and I want
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Speaker 1: to explain that. So we'll call this life imitating art.
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Speaker 1: Life imitating art. It has happened. And boy, once you
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Speaker 1: see this, you can't you can't get it out of
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Speaker 1: your head. And it is true life. It really copies
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Speaker 1: art far more often than art imitates life. We'll get
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Speaker 1: Loop Coop would like Bronco memorabilia, and I don't think
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Speaker 1: him at all Bronco. That's a Bronco fan. And now
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Speaker 1: back to the talk. Yes, so a lot of talk there, Bill,
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Speaker 1: lot a lot of talk. Absolutely, malaprop Guy writes in
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Speaker 1: says another ten out of ten Mallard monologue by your
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Speaker 1: alter ego, Skepticus Maximus. They go Fergdog says the Lakers
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Speaker 1: with fat Luca and le Grahams are burnt toast. If
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Speaker 1: you want to watch a competitive, warm, buttery basketball team
19:36
Speaker 1: in La Man, the Intuitome is the only choice. Late
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Speaker 1: Night drug Tester says starting with NBA talk is a mistake.
19:45
Speaker 1: When two thirds of North America are talking about the
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Speaker 1: four Nations Championship game, Well, that hasn't been played. Late
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Speaker 1: night drug Tester that that game is on Thursday night.
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Speaker 1: It's Thursday overnight into Thursday morning, so we're gonna talk
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Speaker 1: about a game that has been played no now late night.
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Speaker 1: Joe Tester does say that he will give us a
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Speaker 1: sympathetic a for the monologue because of the hot Luca talk.
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Speaker 1: King Rory writes and says, as a Milwaukee Bucks fan,
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Speaker 1: I believe Yannis that he would never demand to be traded. Now,
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Speaker 1: could I see the Bucks trading him to get something
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Speaker 1: in return instead of just letting him walk away? Yes?
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Speaker 1: Remember though, any teams trying to acquire Giannis have to
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Speaker 1: sign his brother as well. Gunner, who works at the
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Speaker 1: Walmart in Northern Minnesota. Northern Minnesota, and he knows bad basketball.
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Speaker 1: He says, the Lakers suck and they're not as good
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Speaker 1: as the Clippers. That is right, Gunner, The Clippers. One
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Speaker 1: thing you've shocked, the one thing you've gotten, Right, Gunner.
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Speaker 1: The Clippers own La. They got the better arena, the
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Speaker 1: richer owner, and they don't have old man Lebron and
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Speaker 1: fat Luca. You won't get a Lemon Luca, the Lemon Luca,
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Speaker 1: the Lemon, three games in Luca of the Lemon.
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Speaker 5: That'd be funny, Ben, Yes, if they expected that Luca
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Speaker 5: was going to save and rename the Lakers, but in
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Speaker 5: all reality, he bombs them and the Clippers become the
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Speaker 5: new LA team.
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Speaker 4: Well, lo, Loraina, we're talking about sports.
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Speaker 1: No, no, she's.
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Speaker 4: Are you telling me to be quiet?
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Speaker 1: Wow? Coop? You know what you are? Your sexist? Coop? Wow? What?
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Speaker 4: Yeah you are?
21:28
Speaker 1: Are you come on me and Loreno, We're just gonna
21:31
Speaker 1: We're gonna talk sports without you.
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Speaker 4: It has nothing to do with her being a woman.
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Speaker 1: No, no, he does.
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Speaker 4: I think you just said that specifically you.
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Speaker 1: Did because he's a woman, because you said.
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Speaker 4: You said, this is sports talk, Lorena.
21:43
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, we're breaking it down. Me and you know what.
21:46
Speaker 4: Don't watch sports, Lorrain, And do watch sports?
21:49
Speaker 1: Loraina?
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Speaker 6: You know ball I watched more basketball than you this year, exactly.
21:53
Speaker 4: I don't.
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Speaker 3: So you know what I did?
21:55
Speaker 4: I did? How many times did you come in? I said, hey, Coop,
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Speaker 4: did you watch the game?
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Speaker 3: No?
21:59
Speaker 1: You didn't watch the game?
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Speaker 4: How much watching the game did you actually do? Were
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Speaker 4: you all of it? All right?
22:05
Speaker 1: Every second of it? Every single second? She breaks it down.
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Speaker 4: You name one player from the games that you watch
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Speaker 4: besides the Laker game. I don't watch, she doesn't watch.
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Speaker 1: He's a real bet.
22:16
Speaker 4: Then why are you talking about it.
22:18
Speaker 1: He knows the Hornets watching the Okay, you know I
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Speaker 1: do exactly, Lono, that's right? Or lamellow Ball.
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Speaker 5: Jaylen Brown, Anthony Davis.
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Speaker 4: You want to keep on naming things very well from the.
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Speaker 1: Really tall one. Yes on Charlotte now, that is correct. Listen,
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Speaker 1: do not question her basketball pedigree. Do not do that. Please?
22:50
Speaker 1: There what else do we have? Let's see if did
22:53
Speaker 1: I read this from Fat Daddy? He praised me, so
22:55
Speaker 1: I should read this again. One of the best monologues
22:58
Speaker 1: big men on point and silver. He needs to go
23:02
Speaker 1: back to being an alien out there in outer space.
23:05
Speaker 1: Maybe they'll have a flag basketball game. Boy Trucker Joel
23:12
Speaker 1: writes in, says, more people watch the Daytona five hundred.
23:16
Speaker 1: Then they did the NBA garbage All Star Game. That
23:18
Speaker 1: is true, and now more people watch the Daytona five hundred.
23:22
Speaker 1: It was they had a weather problem, right, That usually
23:25
Speaker 1: screws up the TV ratings because of the weather. And
23:29
Speaker 1: it still worked out all right. Bill writes in, says,
23:36
Speaker 1: welcome to the NBA. I said weeks ago Luca wears
23:38
Speaker 1: underwear with a blank in them. The Lakers got clowned.
23:45
Speaker 1: The Lakers got clowned. He said, there you go. Parto's
23:49
Speaker 1: also said that some kind of package has arrived for Lorraine.
23:52
Speaker 1: Well pretty much, if there's a day that ends, and
23:55
Speaker 1: why there's a package waiting for Lorrain, that's what he said.
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Speaker 1: Chalkup in the mail some kind of food item or
24:02
Speaker 1: something like that. I'm I'm fastening, so h your Femi
24:05
Speaker 1: writes in from sweet Home Chicago at I gotta, you know,
24:10
Speaker 1: I gotta make I make pizza, but I don't make
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Speaker 1: deep dish pizza. I got to make a deep dish
24:15
Speaker 1: pie at home that I'm gonna work on that deep
24:18
Speaker 1: dish pizza. I gotta. I gotta do that. That's my
24:21
Speaker 1: next thing, pizza. I gotta work. I mean that's a
24:23
Speaker 1: lot of word. I mean you got to cook the
24:25
Speaker 1: thing for like an hour and there's a lot of
24:26
Speaker 1: prep in it. But I got to make the deep dish.
24:28
Speaker 4: I've never made a deep dish pizza.
24:30
Speaker 1: Neither of I. I've made the traditional New York style pizza,
24:34
Speaker 1: but I've not made I call it the Kirkland Rand pizza.
24:38
Speaker 1: Yeah no, no, because my you know, my brother lives in
24:40
Speaker 1: New York, so I go back there every couple of
24:42
Speaker 1: years to Manhattan, and we go over to Brooklyn because
24:44
Speaker 1: that's supposedly the mecca of pizza, these Brooklyn pizzerias, and
24:48
Speaker 1: and so we went to all of the highest rated pizzerias,
24:51
Speaker 1: and this couple years ago went to the highest rated
24:53
Speaker 1: pizzerias in Brooklyn. And I'm telling you, Lorena, Kirkland Brand
24:57
Speaker 1: pizza is better.
24:58
Speaker 4: That is shocking.
24:59
Speaker 1: Yeah, my brother got kind of upset and people were
25:02
Speaker 1: upset with me, but that's true. I tasted them all.
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Speaker 1: I went to all three of the big ones and
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Speaker 1: right near the Brooklyn Bridge there at the end, and
25:10
Speaker 1: one was further in Brooklyn. And Kirkland Ram pizza better.
25:15
Speaker 1: Yaphimi says a plus on the Alien NBA Commissioner monologue.
25:19
Speaker 1: The FSR check cleared, so I am able to contribute
25:22
Speaker 1: to the live show today, third Rail. I'm on my
25:25
Speaker 1: m third rail today. Well for him it was Nick, Well,
25:31
Speaker 1: you know we paid. No one actually listened to the
25:33
Speaker 1: show if they didn't get paid or contribute. Nick writes
25:36
Speaker 1: and says, well, I'm still Nick, the Wendy's guy. Thank god.
25:38
Speaker 1: Apparently they sent my application to a different Walmart, and
25:42
Speaker 1: I called that Walmart fifteen times with no answer ticked
25:45
Speaker 1: the f off n The Windys go, well, Nick, you
25:49
Speaker 1: just keep making those square burgers and you do it, Okay,
25:52
Speaker 1: come on, Spacoli writes and says, it's a winter wonderland
25:56
Speaker 1: here in Columbus, Ohio, and the truck stops had core dogs,
26:00
Speaker 1: but no no one out of four on the corn dogs.
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Speaker 1: I believe that's what he meant on his way to
26:09
Speaker 1: Detroit detroed Buddies Detroit style pizza, and then home to
26:15
Speaker 1: surprise his mom. All right, I guess your mom must
26:18
Speaker 1: not listen to the show. What's that I don't know
26:20
Speaker 1: about that pizza place. There's a one in Detroit that
26:24
Speaker 1: I heard is really supposed to be good, but I
26:27
Speaker 1: think it's only open on Thursday, Friday, and Saturday, like
26:33
Speaker 1: on the weekends. It's like Freddie Freddy's Pizza or something,
26:37
Speaker 1: Freddy the Pizza Man. Anyone ever heard of that?
26:40
Speaker 4: No, No, I've never heard of it.
26:42
Speaker 6: I think that's the name of it, but I honestly
26:44
Speaker 6: hate somebody says they do not let me eat there
26:46
Speaker 6: on specific days.
26:48
Speaker 1: Oh really, Yeah, yeah, I think it's called I've never
26:52
Speaker 1: been there, but I've heard from people boots on the
26:55
Speaker 1: ground that that's supposedly the place, but I don't know.
26:58
Speaker 1: Maybe that's just internet buzz and my friends are full
27:01
Speaker 1: of it. But supposedly this guy he owns like a
27:03
Speaker 1: small pizza place and he runs he makes all the
27:06
Speaker 1: pizzas like by himself. And that's all. I mean, that's
27:09
Speaker 1: all the guy does. I mean pizza. But he's only
27:11
Speaker 1: opened a few days a week, and that's it. Anyway,
27:14
Speaker 1: it is the Ben Mahlor Show as we are working
27:17
Speaker 1: our way through the overnight hours, and glad you have
27:20
Speaker 1: chosen to spend some time with us. Let's go now
27:22
Speaker 1: to a guy that for so many years was a
27:24
Speaker 1: star caller on the show when he was in Venice,
27:26
Speaker 1: and then he had a couple of years stay at
27:29
Speaker 1: the Gray Bar Hotel. But now he's out and he's
27:32
Speaker 1: out in Koreatown now in La. Hello to Bill. What's
27:35
Speaker 1: going on? Bill?
27:40
Speaker 6: Bill?
27:40
Speaker 3: It's me so.
27:43
Speaker 1: No, no, no, I'm Ben. Bill Miller does the ins
27:46
Speaker 1: and outs and then I'm Ben, and then your your bill.
27:51
Speaker 1: But you might be taking a pill. Some people call
27:55
Speaker 1: me chill. Also, really who are those people called?
28:00
Speaker 4: I don't know, but I would just your show is great, man.
28:05
Speaker 1: I love I love your show. Too, Bill, I'm a
28:08
Speaker 1: big fan.
28:09
Speaker 4: M I just want to lowood.
28:13
Speaker 7: Can we describe what Lorraine looks like?
28:17
Speaker 1: Yeah, she looks like a woman. You know what a
28:19
Speaker 1: woman looks like?
28:25
Speaker 5: Oh my goodness.
28:27
Speaker 1: I never knew. I was just funny Lorraine. I had
28:29
Speaker 1: no idea that that would be. Of all the jokes
28:32
Speaker 1: I've told, no one laughed at, that's the one that
28:34
Speaker 1: got the most laughs at. Wow.
28:37
Speaker 7: Okay, why why why?
28:40
Speaker 3: Why?
28:41
Speaker 1: Why?
28:42
Speaker 7: Uh up and Lorraine?
28:45
Speaker 1: Why they have against one another? I want to why
28:51
Speaker 1: don't you ask them? Do you think there's some tension
28:52
Speaker 1: between here and angst? I think is what. I didn't
28:56
Speaker 1: say that, but he said a different words.
28:57
Speaker 4: Well, I figured it out.
28:59
Speaker 6: I think it's be because I kicked Coop in the
29:01
Speaker 6: shin when I dissed his lakers about losing Los Angeles.
29:05
Speaker 6: I think it obviously, you know, pricked him in his side,
29:08
Speaker 6: because he's not usually mean to me.
29:09
Speaker 8: He's I think Larina actually doesn't know anything that she's
29:14
Speaker 8: talking about and is purposely saying it to put a
29:18
Speaker 8: thorn in my side and annoy me because she knows
29:21
Speaker 8: maybe he shouldn't be so irritable Coop.
29:23
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, chill out, Yes, yes, Bill.
29:29
Speaker 7: I'm on your side.
29:30
Speaker 4: Thank you.
29:33
Speaker 1: You want to you want to be on the right.
29:34
Speaker 4: The listeners are always on my side.
29:36
Speaker 1: You want to be on the side of the aisle
29:38
Speaker 1: with Bill is where you want to be? Right there?
29:40
Speaker 1: A great Bill. When are you coming down to hang
29:43
Speaker 1: out with us? Bill, you've never met you. You've been
29:45
Speaker 1: listening for many years. Well, which game are you going to?
29:50
Speaker 1: There's a bunch of games. Which which one are you going?
29:55
Speaker 1: Really you're going, You're gonna You're gonna start walking Arizona?
30:00
Speaker 1: Is that what you're doing. I'm gonna listen to them
30:09
Speaker 1: on the radio, our flagship flagship radio station in La.
30:13
Speaker 4: Yeah, first pitch you said, twelve thirty.
30:18
Speaker 1: You better go to bed. It's going to get laid here.
30:21
Speaker 1: You better go to bed. It's always important to win
30:22
Speaker 1: that first spring training game, or else your season goes
30:25
Speaker 1: to crap. Yeah, I used to. I used to ditch
30:28
Speaker 1: school for spring training, like the first spring training game.
30:31
Speaker 1: I was such a loser when I was a kid,
30:32
Speaker 1: Like I was such a big deal here then here
30:35
Speaker 1: the baseball's awesome. All right, I feel like you're out
30:39
Speaker 1: of material, Bill, Thank you. Bill. All right, there he
30:41
Speaker 1: goes there's Bill, Now Laurna, you did not hear Bill's
30:47
Speaker 1: work years ago when he lived in Venice. You think
30:50
Speaker 1: Bill's crazy? Now you should have heard vintage Bill in
30:54
Speaker 1: Venice and there's another guy. Now. Bill had some issues
30:59
Speaker 1: with the authorities, shall we say, and he gave us
31:03
Speaker 1: the play by play, much like our buddy in Utah
31:06
Speaker 1: gave us the play by play as he had court
31:08
Speaker 1: dates and he was trying to bite the man.
31:10
Speaker 4: I saw him tweet recently, by the way.
31:13
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, I think he's got to take like drug
31:17
Speaker 1: tests and alcohol tests, so he's not calling the show
31:18
Speaker 1: until he can get liquored up again. I think that's
31:22
Speaker 1: my theory. I don't know. I might be making that up,
31:24
Speaker 1: but yeah, he's not in jail. But but but Bill
31:28
Speaker 1: and Venice was giving us play by play about I
31:30
Speaker 1: got a court day and I was and then he
31:33
Speaker 1: just stopped calling because he was in jail for like years.
31:36
Speaker 1: He was in jail years. Yeah, he was away for
31:39
Speaker 1: a while and he got out and he still remembered
31:42
Speaker 1: us though. I'm so honored. You know, it warms my
31:45
Speaker 1: heart when these guys, these fellows go to jail for
31:47
Speaker 1: a while and they get out and they still remember
31:50
Speaker 1: the show.
31:50
Speaker 4: They were thinking about you the whole time.
31:52
Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean, well, hopefully they were thinking about other
31:54
Speaker 1: things in me. But how dare you? I think a
31:57
Speaker 1: lot of them keep listening when they're in jail, and
31:59
Speaker 1: then they get out and they still want to, you know,
32:00
Speaker 1: want to be part of the show and all that stuff.
32:02
Speaker 1: We've got a few people that have called up like
32:04
Speaker 1: their first call out of jail, which I would think
32:06
Speaker 1: would be like your you know, your family or your
32:09
Speaker 1: you know girlfriend or something like that, but no, they
32:11
Speaker 1: call the show their first call out of jail. Let's
32:14
Speaker 1: say hello to Sean who is in North Dakota. What's
32:18
Speaker 1: going on? Sean? Welcome?
32:21
Speaker 7: Hey, how's it good?
32:23
Speaker 1: Uh? I was worried that you were falling asleep there
32:26
Speaker 1: it's all. We're alive, and well, Shaan, how can we
32:28
Speaker 1: help you? You know?
32:30
Speaker 7: I just I wanted to say that they keep talking
32:33
Speaker 7: about the ratings for the NBA All Star Game, and
32:36
Speaker 7: like I heard somebody compare it to the Super Bowl,
32:40
Speaker 7: and now you're comparing it to the but that really
32:45
Speaker 7: is the race. That race is their super Bowl for
32:47
Speaker 7: the season, so like it should get better ratings than
32:49
Speaker 7: the All Star Game.
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Speaker 1: So you you think it's okay that the NBA product
32:54
Speaker 1: is bad and that we're being mean picking on the NBA.
32:57
Speaker 7: I don't know if you're being mean. They don't put
32:59
Speaker 7: it on team free TV, so I didn't get to
33:01
Speaker 7: watch it, or I totally would have watched it, but.
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Speaker 1: Well, most sporting events are not on free TV anymore.
33:09
Speaker 7: You had the majority.
33:11
Speaker 1: Yeah, you're right, so you probably don't watch much much sports, right,
33:15
Speaker 1: other than football.
33:16
Speaker 7: I listened to Fox Sports Radio all day and all night.
33:19
Speaker 1: So you know what I'm gonna I'm gonna put a
33:22
Speaker 1: gold star near your name. You get a gold star
33:25
Speaker 1: near your name for absolutely you know what, and because
33:30
Speaker 1: I like you, Sean puffy sticker about that puffy smell?
33:34
Speaker 1: Snick you can scritching? Was it scratch and sniff?
33:37
Speaker 4: Puff?
33:38
Speaker 1: You want to scritch and snaff in there? All right, Sean,
33:44
Speaker 1: thank you, st you're defending the NBA All Star Game.
33:46
Speaker 1: There you go? All right, very good. It's Adam Silver's
33:49
Speaker 1: son lives in North Dakota calling the show. Who knew?
33:52
Speaker 1: All right? It is the Ben Mahler Show. So in life,
33:56
Speaker 1: I think it was Oscar Wilde who said life imitates
33:59
Speaker 1: art for far more than art imitates life, and I
34:04
Speaker 1: bring this up because the way Luca has looked in
34:08
Speaker 1: a Laker uniform, he just looks like he's got a lot.
34:11
Speaker 1: He's like, he does look fat. I don't know if
34:14
Speaker 1: it's just because the Mavericks kept telling everyone he's fat
34:17
Speaker 1: and all that stuff. He looks chubby as a Laker.
34:20
Speaker 1: And several of you idiots have sent me the video
34:23
Speaker 1: from years ago. I think this goes back five six
34:27
Speaker 1: years when at halftime, a guy that hosted a late
34:32
Speaker 1: night to I don't think he does this anymore, the
34:34
Speaker 1: Late Late Show with that it was hosted by James
34:36
Speaker 1: Gordon over on CBS, and he did a bit where
34:40
Speaker 1: he danced with the Laker girls. And when you I
34:44
Speaker 1: think Gronkowski was part of that. But when you look
34:46
Speaker 1: at the clip, it looks like Luca, Like Luca looks
34:50
Speaker 1: like a middle aged late night TV talk show host
34:54
Speaker 1: and he's playing for the Lakers. It's fascinating. I'm telling you.
34:58
Speaker 1: If you if you even blind, Scott thinks it's crazy.
35:00
Speaker 1: When you look at the video James Corden with the
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Speaker 1: Laker girls and it's from six years ago. It's on
35:08
Speaker 1: the YouTube. You can find it and all that. I'm
35:10
Speaker 1: telling you dead ringer, dead ringer, dead ring all right.
35:16
Speaker 1: Time now for the who am I? Game? And this
35:18
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35:19
Speaker 1: to try to figure it out in a blatant attempt
35:21
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35:25
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35:27
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35:32
Speaker 1: So we'll go to pro bouncy Ball. Hornet center Yusuf
35:35
Speaker 1: Nurkic had eight rebound, seven assists, two blocks, but no points.
35:41
Speaker 1: I was the last player to get to those numbers
35:46
Speaker 1: and have zero points in an NBA game. Again, the Hornets,
35:50
Speaker 1: Yusif Nurkic had eight rebound, seven assists, two blocks, no
35:54
Speaker 1: points in the upset of the Lakers. I was the
35:57
Speaker 1: last player to reach those numbers with zero points in
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Speaker 1: the NBA Who Am I? The answer, I'll tell you.
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37:09
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37:14
Speaker 1: And Bill, you didn't say my name? It's Ben, I
37:18
Speaker 1: host the show. And here's the who am I? Game?
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Speaker 1: A blatant attempt to get you to listen a little
37:24
Speaker 1: bit longer. And here it is Hornet Center Yusuf Nurkic.
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Speaker 1: He had eight rebounds, seven assists, two blocks in the
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Speaker 1: upset of the Luca Lakers, Luca the Lemon or Lemon
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Speaker 1: Luca and the Lakers. There I was the last player
37:41
Speaker 1: to have those numbers but have zero points in an
37:44
Speaker 1: NBA game. Who am I? That is the question? What
37:48
Speaker 1: is the answer, and let's see does anyone know the answer?
37:52
Speaker 1: Nick is going with spud Web as his answer. The
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Speaker 1: Great malor prop Guy checks in with hollering James, the
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Speaker 1: King of No Point Phone Calls says, who else? Do
38:06
Speaker 1: we have a page down? Milkman Mike says, who is Diddy?
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Speaker 1: In the All News Scared Straight series on Prime Andy,
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Speaker 1: the Animal Steel fun fact, Andy and I don't have
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Speaker 1: time to get into it here, but I didn't even
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Speaker 1: fun fact. Oh. I can't give you the whole story
38:27
Speaker 1: now because of time reasons, but I did do a
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Speaker 1: you're of my age, Polly d going with Yusuf Nurkic
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Speaker 1: as the answer. A sleepy Floyd from mister nice Guy.
38:53
Speaker 1: I did see the video. I have not clicked on
38:55
Speaker 1: it yet, though, mister nice guy, the Lego Guy, mister
38:58
Speaker 1: knice Guy should change his name the Lego Guy. Who
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Speaker 1: else do we have? Olivia Rodrigo, who's twenty two today, man,
39:05
Speaker 1: she's old? Now how she get so old? Who else
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Speaker 1: do you have? Page down? We Willie Keeler hit him
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Speaker 1: where they ain't wee Willie Keeler from I forty Ian
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Speaker 1: Timothy from Northern Kentucky says the one and only Lafayette
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Speaker 1: fat Lever, good name. Steve the misplaced San Diego going
39:27
Speaker 1: with Grandville Waiters ro that's I'm one of the iconic
39:32
Speaker 1: NBA players Grandville Waiters. Fargo Pete says, debtlift Shrimp is
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Speaker 1: the answer. Craig's going with Draymond Green. Who else do
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Speaker 1: we have? Page down? Can't read that? Spox Weed says
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Speaker 1: Anthony Davis or Elon Musk is the answer? Red Hulk
39:51
Speaker 1: from Shane in de Moine, Jesus Shuttleworth from on the Grind, JB.
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Speaker 1: Eric Montrose us some good names from James. All right,
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Speaker 1: do you have Do you have an answer? Lorraine?
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Speaker 5: Yes, the classic Larry Bird Ben the Birdman.
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Speaker 1: The bird is the word. The bird is the word,
40:10
Speaker 1: but not the answer. Unfortunately what we're looking for. Yusuf
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Speaker 1: Nurkic the first player to reach those numbers eight rebound seven.
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Speaker 1: It's just two blocks with no points since the John
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Speaker 1: Day Murray in twenty eighteen, seven years ago. John de
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