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Hour 1 - Purple & Gold Hot Potato · The Ben Maller Show

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  Speaker 1: Bippity boppity boo. How do you do?
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  Speaker 2: It's our number one, our one of the Ben Mahler
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  Speaker 2: Show podcast, and we are back behind the powerful microphones
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  Speaker 2: of Fox Sports Radio on this Thursday, the thirteenth day
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  Speaker 2: of August. And a massive story to lead off here
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  Speaker 2: the sale of the Lakers for the second time in
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  Speaker 2: less than a year.
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  Speaker 1: The Lakers are being passed around like a fruitcake at Christmas.
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  Speaker 2: And yeah, the Booby Prize, the crazy deal taking place
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  Speaker 2: this week. So what kind of owner will Disney former
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  Speaker 2: Disney boss Bob igerbe with the Lakers? Will take a
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  Speaker 2: look at that. Also, how does the future look for
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  Speaker 2: Mark Walter who's selling the Lakers as Dodger owner? The
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  Speaker 2: feds are sniffing around Mark Walter. Now all of a
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  Speaker 2: sudden he sells the Lakers. I will guarantee you that
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  Speaker 2: was not the plan when he bought the Lakers to
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  Speaker 2: own them for essentially less than a year. And where
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  Speaker 2: are you at on Russell Westbrook's abrupt departure from the NBA.
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  Speaker 2: He announced his retirement in a cheesy video online by.
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  Speaker 1: A Hollywood actor. We'll go there as well. You get
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  Speaker 1: a second bite of the audio apple here it is
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  Speaker 1: our number one.
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  Speaker 2: Well it is a purple and gold, a purple and
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  Speaker 2: gold hot potato. Did not have that on my radar.
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  Speaker 2: Did not expect that to be a thing, but sure.
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  Speaker 1: Enough it is a thing. Yes, I know. Welcmeme.
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  Speaker 2: In the beginning of another night of the Bend Malor Show.
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  Speaker 2: So be aware of that, of course, because you know
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  Speaker 2: from the world famous Fox Sports Radio studios where you
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  Speaker 2: are locked in right now.
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  Speaker 1: Boy, do we thank you for that?
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  Speaker 3: Man?
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  Speaker 1: Do we thank you for that?
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  Speaker 2: So our lead story this hour from the end be
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  Speaker 2: a come on, boys, tell me that much you hate
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  Speaker 2: the show. Oh chow sucks, Maller, you're talking basketball. What's
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  Speaker 2: wrong with you?
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  Speaker 1: You loser? That's why you're doing overnights. Talk about some
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  Speaker 1: guy on the NFL.
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  Speaker 2: It's gonna get released at the end of training camp
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  Speaker 2: that pulled his handy. That's what I want to hear. Okay, Well,
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  Speaker 2: we have a mantra on on the program. We talk
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  Speaker 2: about the big stories of the day, and let's just
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  Speaker 2: kind of figure it out as we go.
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  Speaker 1: Every day is a new day, Every day is new.
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  Speaker 2: Some people say, ah, Mallard, how could you possibly do
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  Speaker 2: sports radio all these years?
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  Speaker 1: It's the same crap every damn now. No, no, no, no, no.
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  Speaker 2: Could you have imagined a couple of days ago if
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  Speaker 2: I had told you one of the crown jewels, you'll
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  Speaker 2: tell me one of the crown jewels of professional basketball
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  Speaker 2: would be tossed around like a fruitcake.
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  Speaker 1: But here we are, here we are.
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  Speaker 2: So if you have not heard for some reason, maybe
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  Speaker 2: you've been hiding a worried about the gravity collapsing.
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  Speaker 1: I survived. I survived the internet bull crap of.
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  Speaker 2: The day anyway, So if you miss it, the Los
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  Speaker 2: Angeles Lakers, the once proud Los Angeles Lakers, are now
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  Speaker 2: just being passed around like a collection plate. At a
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  Speaker 2: tabernacle on a Sunday morning.
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  Speaker 1: It's just quite wild.
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  Speaker 2: It is absolutely wild. So the Lakers are being sold
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  Speaker 2: to Josh Kushner, the brother of the guy working for Trump,
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  Speaker 2: and Bob Iger, the Disney guy. Yeah, and the price
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  Speaker 2: tag twelve point five billion with it be. I'm told
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  Speaker 2: that's a lot of money. Twelve point five billion with be.
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  Speaker 2: The franchise sale in fact said to be the biggest
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  Speaker 2: in professional sports history, at least here in.
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  Speaker 1: America, and I believe the world.
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  Speaker 2: So A Kushner and Iiger, the two rich dudes, were
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  Speaker 2: supposed to.
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  Speaker 1: Buy the expansion team.
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  Speaker 2: I was reading last week in one of those business
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  Speaker 2: sports business websites that they were the favorite to buy
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  Speaker 2: the Las Vegas expansion team. And then completely out of
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  Speaker 2: left field, And if you've listened to my podcast over
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  Speaker 2: the years, you know that that comes from Wrigley Field.
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  Speaker 2: There used to be a mental hospital out past left
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  Speaker 2: field at Wrigley Field, and the outfielders could hear people screaming,
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  Speaker 2: mental patients screaming out in the outfield and left field.
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  Speaker 2: So when they said out in left field, they were
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  Speaker 2: talking about a mental hospital. So out of left field
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  Speaker 2: the deal came together Mark Walter, Well he's got some problem,
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  Speaker 2: doney man. He's a rich guy with problems, more money,
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  Speaker 2: more problems. I heard that song years ago. Well, Mark
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  Speaker 2: Walter is going to sell the controlling interest in the
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  Speaker 2: Los Angeles Lakers. So in the span of a little
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  Speaker 2: over a year, they will have gone from Genie Buss
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  Speaker 2: to Mark Walter and now of Bob Iger, the Disney
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  Speaker 2: guy who's no longer the face of Disney, and this
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  Speaker 2: Josh Kushner weasel.
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  Speaker 1: So those guys will be the new owners.
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  Speaker 2: Keep in mind that Mark Walter, with much fanfare, you
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  Speaker 2: all explain to me, this is the greatest thing ever
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  Speaker 2: that there's no stopping the Lakers now because of Mark Walter.
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  Speaker 1: That was what you told me. I believed you. You
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  Speaker 1: lied to me. Uh you know what could stop Mark
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  Speaker 1: Walter the FBI.
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  Speaker 2: Uh So anyway, great, So Walter bought controlled Laker's some
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  Speaker 2: geni boss last year a bit about ten billion dollars
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  Speaker 2: asks nothing, it's pocket change.
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  Speaker 1: That was the valuation.
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  Speaker 2: And so that means the team went up two and
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  Speaker 2: a half billion dollars in like nine months, so slightly
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  Speaker 2: better than my stocks are doing.
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  Speaker 1: So pretty good there.
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  Speaker 2: Now the deal still needs to be rubber stamp, which
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  Speaker 2: is like a ninety nine point nine percent chance the
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  Speaker 2: deal gets done. The NBA owners, of course, they call
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  Speaker 2: them the governors because of Draymond Green.
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  Speaker 1: They're all woke over there. So the NBA Board of
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  Speaker 1: Governors will vote on this. It's going to take a few.
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  Speaker 2: Weeks and then the next meeting is scheduled for September.
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  Speaker 2: I know we're very worried about that in New York City.
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  Speaker 2: So that is a good jummy of all point, let
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  Speaker 2: us discuss the question what kind of owner will Bob
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  Speaker 2: Eiger be with the Lakers.
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  Speaker 1: We'll start with that. Then we'll get to the juicy stuff.
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  Speaker 1: We'll start with that.
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  Speaker 2: So I've got medieval pirate treasure map, pawn shop, and
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  Speaker 2: allergy season, and we will combine all of these things together,
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  Speaker 2: and we are going to make a rotten, purple and
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  Speaker 2: gold piece of fruit. Because it's it's pretty rotten right now.
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  Speaker 2: All right, it's pretty rotten right now. So a we'll
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  Speaker 2: begin with this. Bob Iger buying the Lakers makes a
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  Speaker 2: lot of sense. I was thinking about it as I
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  Speaker 2: was making my way into the studio here, and I
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  Speaker 2: was like, well, how do I process all this, and
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  Speaker 2: the historians, and you know who you are. The historians
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  Speaker 2: spent the last several years, I guess it's been five
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  Speaker 2: six years now, the historians of the team defending that
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  Speaker 2: Goofy Bubble championship. And now we can say Bob Iger
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  Speaker 2: made all of his money from that's right, Disney. So
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  Speaker 2: the Lakers have officially become a Mickey Mouse franchise. Ha
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  Speaker 2: ha yep, McKey Mouse, your McGee mouse. So enjoy your
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  Speaker 2: little Mickey. You can get more Mickey Rosse rings. Now
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  Speaker 2: I'm sure Bob Iger still knows a bunch people of Disney.
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  Speaker 1: Uh.
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  Speaker 2: Now, that said, I don't think of Bob Iger as
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  Speaker 2: an owner. He's a corporate overlord, is what he is.
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  Speaker 2: And based on his track record. And you often when
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  Speaker 2: you meet someone, you judge them off what you know
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  Speaker 2: about their past and things like that. So when you
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  Speaker 2: when you look at Bob Iger's resume at Disney, the
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  Speaker 2: Lakers are not going to compete for titles.
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  Speaker 1: They're not.
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  Speaker 2: They're competing for your disposable income. They want in your wallet,
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  Speaker 2: and they're gonna get in your wallet one way or another.
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  Speaker 2: So I expect Disneyland economics to come to that little
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  Speaker 2: Arena down there on skid Row in Downtown LA. That's
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  Speaker 2: what I expect that under the disney Watch. Under the
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  Speaker 2: Disney Watch, ticket prices at Disneyland, the inflation under Bob Iger,
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  Speaker 2: they went up one hundred and seventy five percent, one
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  Speaker 2: hundred and seventy five percent under this weasel, Bob Iger,
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  Speaker 2: that's the guy that now owns the Lakers. That's his resume.
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  Speaker 2: That's how he made all the money to buy the
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  Speaker 2: Lakers by gouging Disney fans, by sticking it to the
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  Speaker 2: people that love Mickey Mouse, Donald Goofy and all the.
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  Speaker 1: Characters there in Disney.
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  Speaker 2: Think about one hundred and seventy five percent inflation on
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  Speaker 2: the price to go to Disneyland while Bob Iger was
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  Speaker 2: in control and all.
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  Speaker 1: But wait, there's more.
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  Speaker 2: He added demand tears, the up charge at Disney right,
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  Speaker 2: dynamic up charging at Disneyland.
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  Speaker 1: Those fast passes. They've changed the name now.
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  Speaker 2: It's the old medieval treasure map, if you will, where
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  Speaker 2: you monetize everything, right in this case, nostalgia. You monetize
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  Speaker 2: that any kind of inconvenience, You put a price tag
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  Speaker 2: on that, and you know you want to breathe extra
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  Speaker 2: air oxygen costs money. You gotta have to pay some money.
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  Speaker 2: That's purple and gold oxygen. Pay, pay, pay, pay the
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  Speaker 2: man that kind of stuff. Now, the court side seats
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  Speaker 2: have already been ridiculous for years with the Lakers, So
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  Speaker 2: now they're gonna require an extra two bank robberies to
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  Speaker 2: get those tickets, which is fine for those people, and
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  Speaker 2: possibly a crypto scam, which is appropriate considering the arena.
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  Speaker 1: They play at and parking.
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  Speaker 2: Of course, you're gonna need a loan officer to park
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  Speaker 2: bypassing the halftime bathroom line. Unfortunately, we hate to tell
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  Speaker 2: you that's gonna cost you thirty nine to ninety nine
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  Speaker 2: for the Lakers Lightning Lane plus package. Iger is a
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  Speaker 2: mad scientist, is Bob Iger. He knows how to turn
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  Speaker 2: loyal fandom into his personal ATM machine.
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  Speaker 1: Did it at Disney.
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  Speaker 2: And with a twelve point five billion dollars price tag. Yeah,
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  Speaker 2: I gotta get that money in a little bit of
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  Speaker 2: that back, right, And so somebody, not me, but maybe
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  Speaker 2: you will be paying for the Magic Kingdom of Purple
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  Speaker 2: and Gold. And it ain't gonna be Mickey Mouse. It
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  Speaker 2: ain't gonna be Mickey Mouse. Who's paying for that?
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  Speaker 1: Now? Page two. Let's get into Standle radio. The Standle.
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  Speaker 1: Oh yeah, we got a good one. We got a
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  Speaker 1: good one.
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  Speaker 2: No man, Well, it seems that things are not going
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  Speaker 2: great for Mark Walter, the man that decided to buy
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  Speaker 2: the Lakers went through the entire vetting process just to
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  Speaker 2: flip it like a HGTV show. We you flip a house.
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  Speaker 2: Don't only do that with professional sports teams. So Mark
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  Speaker 2: Walder his sudden decision to get out.
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  Speaker 1: Well it it likely is not what you think it is.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, some people say, wow, it's just a smart
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  Speaker 2: business decision made two and a half billion dollars.
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  Speaker 1: These people are.
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  Speaker 2: Called losers carrying the water for Mark Walter, and I'm
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  Speaker 2: not gonna do that.
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  Speaker 1: I'm gonna take what's actually going on from what I've heard.
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  Speaker 2: So, Mark Walder, the sudden sale of the Lakers, it
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  Speaker 2: was nine months, I believe was the number that I
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  Speaker 2: saw after he got formal approval from the NBA to.
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  Speaker 1: Own the Lakers.
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  Speaker 2: So nine months less than a year after buying the Lakers,
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  Speaker 2: and that has raised a lot of legitimate questions about
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  Speaker 2: whether his stake in the Dodgers could eventually be sold,
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  Speaker 2: which will.
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  Speaker 1: Then lead to shohial Tani being able to leave.
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  Speaker 2: The Dodgers got a thing, this contract the team sold,
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  Speaker 2: he can exit, which is a legitimate possibility. This could
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  Speaker 2: be out Tony's final season with the Dodgers. And people
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  Speaker 2: aren't talking about this. But I'm telling you, I don't
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  Speaker 2: care what kind of statements Mark Walter tosses out there.
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  Speaker 2: It doesn't matter. These guys will say anything actions. He
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  Speaker 2: didn't say he was gonna sell the Lakers. He just
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  Speaker 2: sold the Lakers. So you can't believe it.
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  Speaker 1: These guys are all weasels. You can't believe them.
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  Speaker 2: And it certainly is looking like the Dodgers are headed
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  Speaker 2: that direction as buys the Lakers. But Mark Walter is
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  Speaker 2: under federal investigation, federal scrutiny for his business.
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  Speaker 1: Dealings with the Guggenheim Group.
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  Speaker 2: It's a mess. He is facing an FBI probe. The
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  Speaker 2: Feds are sniffing around Bob Iger, all right. And there's
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  Speaker 2: a parallel SEC not the Southeastern Conference SEC investigation involving loans,
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  Speaker 2: financial disclosures connected to companies that he's in charge of. Now,
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  Speaker 2: these are not blue collar crimes, they're white collar crimes.
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  Speaker 2: So typically rich people just cut checks. So it's possible
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  Speaker 2: that that's what's going on here, but this is there's
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  Speaker 2: some meat to it, and I'll explain why. But the
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  Speaker 2: question is, how does the future look for Mark Walter
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  Speaker 2: as the Dodger owner. Well, it really comes down, ironically
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  Speaker 2: to a whistle because the reason that Mark Walter is
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  Speaker 2: in the crosshairs here is because of a whistle blower.
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  Speaker 2: And that's almost always how these massive things are uncovered.
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  Speaker 1: The cheating eh Stros, you've guys.
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  Speaker 2: Major League Baseball investigated those a holes because teams were saying, hey,
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  Speaker 2: they're cheating, and that schmuck rob manfraud investigated the Astros
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  Speaker 2: said we didn't see anything.
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  Speaker 1: They're fine, there's nothing to see here. It was only
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  Speaker 1: after a.
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  Speaker 2: Whistle blower on the team said hey, these guys are cheating.
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  Speaker 1: Here's how they're doing it.
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  Speaker 2: And only after that, And if I bet you, if
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  Speaker 2: he hadn't gone to the media, they would have covered
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  Speaker 2: it up major League Baseball, or they would have tried
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  Speaker 2: to cover it up.
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  Speaker 1: They already did with the soft cell.
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  Speaker 2: And so you've got a whistleblower who filed a complaint
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  Speaker 2: against the Guggenheim Group concerning accounting irregularities.
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  Speaker 1: Wow.
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  Speaker 2: Wow, yeah, so private credit investments and the stuff. The
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  Speaker 2: reason this is so crazy is this is this stuff
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  Speaker 2: that helped them acquire the rights to the Dodgers. So
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  Speaker 2: the empire of Mark Walter is certainly cracking at this point.
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  Speaker 2: It's now turning into a government grade escape room. And
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  Speaker 2: the Feds already have they already have the cheat codes
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  Speaker 2: pretty much. Man, you would think that the vultures are
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  Speaker 2: circling overhead and how many how many robber barons are like, hey,
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  Speaker 2: you sold the Lakers? How much is the Dodgers gonna cost?
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  Speaker 2: Can we get to get a piece of that? And
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  Speaker 2: so the vultures are out there, and you've got Uncle
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  Speaker 2: Sam who's bird dogging, bird dogging Mark Walter, and this
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  Speaker 2: whistleblower who's opened up Pandora's filing cabinet. And you know,
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  Speaker 2: if the FBI is grabbing your phone and laptop, which
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  Speaker 2: apparently when I read in the New York Post they've
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  Speaker 2: done for Mark Walter, you're not in a little trouble,
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  Speaker 2: Like that's more than a little trouble. You're in the
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  Speaker 2: kind of trouble that comes with its own theme music
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  Speaker 2: and documentaries about what happened that Like that kind of trouble,
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  Speaker 2: so Walter, to be fair.
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  Speaker 1: He hasn't been charged with anything.
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  Speaker 2: It's just a lot of circumstantial evidence that does not
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  Speaker 2: look good.
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  Speaker 1: It does not look good.
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  Speaker 2: But you got to say after the decision after nine
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  Speaker 2: months to flip the Lakers like it was a house
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  Speaker 2: or dishovel, the house that you bought and then you
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  Speaker 2: fix it up, put a coat of paint on it
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  Speaker 2: and resold it. Would anyone really be shocked if the
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  Speaker 2: La Dodgers hit the auctioning block within the next year.
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  Speaker 1: I wouldn't be, not at all.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, the Dodgers are suddenly the Mona Lisa at
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  Speaker 2: a pawnshop.
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  Speaker 1: How'd the Mona Lisa end up at a pawnshop? I
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  Speaker 1: don't know. I have no IDEA.
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  Speaker 2: Priceless, fragile, and really one bad decision away from an
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  Speaker 2: all out bidding war.
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  Speaker 1: Can you imagine the bidding war. There would be.
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  Speaker 2: No shortage of aristocrats and the sovereign wealth elites, private.
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  Speaker 1: Equity monarchs would be lining up.
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  Speaker 2: Arriving in gold plated dinghies out in the Pacific, and
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  Speaker 2: they'd be ready to turn Chavez Ravine into the most
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  Speaker 2: expensive yard sale in baseball history. Now there's a lot
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  Speaker 2: of businesses in Japan. I would think that would been
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  Speaker 2: on the Dodgers. So it's possible Tony stays if a
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  Speaker 2: Japanese company buys the team. Certainly in the realm of
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  Speaker 2: possibility watch Dodger game. Most of the sponsors are from Japan,
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  Speaker 2: so they love endorsing the Dodgers. So if the team
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  Speaker 2: does get sold, I wouldn't be shocked if something like
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  Speaker 2: that happens. All right, now, now the last word here
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  Speaker 2: to the good bye note, and we'll mention this. I
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  Speaker 2: want to spend at least a couple of minutes. Russell Westbrook,
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  Speaker 2: someone who has been a big topic of conversation in
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  Speaker 2: these parts over his career, really effective at creating content
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  Speaker 2: for talk radio. Russell Westbrook has said bye bye. He
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  Speaker 2: has retired from the NBA. I believe he's thirty seven.
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  Speaker 2: I think announced his decision after he began as the
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  Speaker 2: number four overall pick in the draft years ago, and
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  Speaker 2: he did not go out with a dud. Westbrook revealing
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  Speaker 2: his retirement through a very corny video on social media
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  Speaker 2: narrated by actor Michael B.
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  Speaker 1: Jordan.
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  Speaker 2: He was the narrator there, just announcing to the world, hey,
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  Speaker 2: I'm a douche. Here's the video, all right, and wrote,
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  Speaker 2: sometimes you don't even know when you're already watching the end,
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  Speaker 2: or you've already watched the end, and now it is over.
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  Speaker 2: Westbrook was in the NBA so long. He was drafted
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  Speaker 2: by the Sonics the SuperSonics right before they transitioned to
• 18:39
  Speaker 2: Oklahoma City.
• 18:41
  Speaker 1: Back in eight so a long time ago.
• 18:43
  Speaker 2: And there you go his peak, a couple of scoring
• 18:46
  Speaker 2: titles in the NBA, won a questionable MVP award in
• 18:50
  Speaker 2: twenty seventeen, and was a top MVP candidate for most
• 18:55
  Speaker 2: of that four year stretch, a year after year.
• 18:58
  Speaker 1: So the question where are you at on.
• 19:01
  Speaker 2: Russell Westbrook and his abrupt, seemingly abrupt decision to walk
• 19:07
  Speaker 2: away from the NBA after pretty much being retired last
• 19:11
  Speaker 2: year in Sacramento, Because nobody watches the Sacramento Kings, all right, So,
• 19:15
  Speaker 2: Russell Westbrook, if you look at this objectively, he did
• 19:17
  Speaker 2: not actually retire from the NBA.
• 19:19
  Speaker 1: He was evicted from the NBA.
• 19:22
  Speaker 2: His belongings were tossed out on the sidewalk, the locks
• 19:26
  Speaker 2: were changed. They don't know where the forwarding address is,
• 19:28
  Speaker 2: probably somewhere in Beverly Hills.
• 19:30
  Speaker 1: He couldn't find a job.
• 19:32
  Speaker 2: Does anyone just be like he tried, Like there were
• 19:34
  Speaker 2: talks with a bunch of teams. He couldn't find a gig.
• 19:37
  Speaker 2: And so the jig is up for Russell Westbrook in
• 19:40
  Speaker 2: the NBA. And he had just run out of zip codes.
• 19:44
  Speaker 2: He'd run out of zip codes. And last we heard,
• 19:47
  Speaker 2: we talked about this in a previous episode of the show,
• 19:49
  Speaker 2: that Westbrook was supposedly talking to a team in Israel
• 19:52
  Speaker 2: because he couldn't find a job in the NBA, and
• 19:54
  Speaker 2: then that fizzled. I guess going to the Middle East
• 19:57
  Speaker 2: and playing basketball didn't seem like a great idea when
• 19:59
  Speaker 2: you got that kind of dough and you know something
• 20:02
  Speaker 2: could go wrong right there. So how are we gonna
• 20:05
  Speaker 2: remember Russell Westbrook?
• 20:09
  Speaker 1: This is it? You think he's actually retired. So if
• 20:12
  Speaker 1: he is retired and this.
• 20:13
  Speaker 2: Is it, I will remember him as the ultimate walking,
• 20:17
  Speaker 2: talking contradiction. A man who was built like a Donnis,
• 20:22
  Speaker 2: just chiseled out of granite, Russell Westbrook, and yet somehow
• 20:27
  Speaker 2: ended up emotionally covered in salamander's skin. It was always
• 20:32
  Speaker 2: allergy season with Russell Westbrook.
• 20:35
  Speaker 1: Now what do I mean by that?
• 20:36
  Speaker 2: There are few stars in my time. I've been doing
• 20:39
  Speaker 2: this a long time. There are few stars in my
• 20:41
  Speaker 2: time doing talk radio that in that business in the
• 20:45
  Speaker 2: NBA that had been more allergic.
• 20:47
  Speaker 1: To criticism and just couldn't handle it.
• 20:49
  Speaker 2: Was so soft despite looking like they were built out
• 20:53
  Speaker 2: of steel than Russell Westbrook. It's fascinating you heckle him security.
• 20:58
  Speaker 1: Oh my god, it died. I need help, I need help.
• 21:01
  Speaker 2: Somebody shouldn't be named by Russell Westbrook's.
• 21:05
  Speaker 1: How many times he hit.
• 21:06
  Speaker 2: Fans kicked out in multiple areadas, rhythmically chanting west Brick,
• 21:11
  Speaker 2: Oh my god, human rights violation, Human rights violation.
• 21:16
  Speaker 1: Yeah.
• 21:18
  Speaker 2: And he's always got a deck of playing cards Westbrook
• 21:20
  Speaker 2: in his back pocket and he pulls the victim card.
• 21:24
  Speaker 1: From the bottom of the deck. Loved to play the victim.
• 21:28
  Speaker 2: And then the other thing that I'm gonna remember, because
• 21:31
  Speaker 2: we talked a lot about it here on the radio show,
• 21:33
  Speaker 2: was the what I call the Triple Double industrial complex.
• 21:38
  Speaker 2: Back in his Oklahoma City days, those infamous OKC clips
• 21:42
  Speaker 2: of teammates rigging his statuet and he got away with it.
• 21:49
  Speaker 1: They're still up on YouTube, like you can go check
• 21:51
  Speaker 1: them out if you want it. Was wild. Teammates were
• 21:55
  Speaker 1: hopping away from.
• 21:56
  Speaker 2: Rebounds like they were trying to get away from a
• 22:00
  Speaker 2: live hand grenade to allow Westbrook to sneak in and
• 22:03
  Speaker 2: cherry pick rebounds to get the triple double numbers. So
• 22:07
  Speaker 2: Russ could vacuum up the stats and fatten up the spreadsheet.
• 22:12
  Speaker 2: And once you it's like we said, once you've seen
• 22:14
  Speaker 2: how they make the Johnsonville sausage, well you can't unsee it.
• 22:19
  Speaker 2: You know, you can still eat the Johnsonville sausage, but
• 22:21
  Speaker 2: you can't unsee what happened there. And a spectacular athlete Westbrook, Absolutely,
• 22:27
  Speaker 2: he'll be a first ballot Hall of Famer. Hel Muffett
• 22:30
  Speaker 2: McGraw is in the Pro Basketball Hall of Fame there.
• 22:33
  Speaker 2: But the mythology, all right, the mythology surrounding those triple doubles, wow,
• 22:41
  Speaker 2: it is next level. You have more artificial ingredients in
• 22:49
  Speaker 2: those triple double stats than if you were to go
• 22:52
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• 22:56
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• 27:19
  Speaker 2: report that unfortunately I did not win the powerball jackpot,
• 27:25
  Speaker 2: so I did not get these billion dollars, so I
• 27:29
  Speaker 2: will be continuing the show I checked with. I have
• 27:32
  Speaker 2: a couple of relatives in Illinois. It appears that my
• 27:36
  Speaker 2: relatives either did not win the one billion dollar jackpot
• 27:41
  Speaker 2: on Wednesday night or they are not returning text messages.
• 27:45
  Speaker 2: So either way, that's that's it. So I don't know,
• 27:49
  Speaker 2: do you take the one billion prize paid out over
• 27:52
  Speaker 2: all those years, I guess.
• 27:53
  Speaker 1: Or the one time.
• 27:54
  Speaker 2: Four hundred and fifty million dollar cash payout before taxes oh,
• 28:00
  Speaker 2: the taxes are just gonna oh my god. So really
• 28:03
  Speaker 2: after TAXI, what is that like, it's still two hundred
• 28:06
  Speaker 2: million dollars? Right, two hundred and something million dollars Probably after.
• 28:08
  Speaker 1: Taxing, it is still more than I had. Well, this
• 28:13
  Speaker 1: is true, Lareenna.
• 28:14
  Speaker 2: However, when you hear a billion dollars and then you
• 28:17
  Speaker 2: slice it down.
• 28:18
  Speaker 1: Down, down, down, down, down, down down down, it's like, well,
• 28:22
  Speaker 1: wait a minute, what is going on? Yeah?
• 28:26
  Speaker 2: But fortunately whoever did win will I'm sure, I'm sure
• 28:31
  Speaker 2: spend their money wisely. Maybe they'll end up on one
• 28:33
  Speaker 2: of those TV shows where you know, lottery winners go
• 28:35
  Speaker 2: buy houses, because that'll be that'll be great, that'll be fun.
• 28:40
  Speaker 1: Yeah.
• 28:40
  Speaker 2: Absolutely, Well we are on the X machine that's at
• 28:44
  Speaker 2: Ben mallor that's at Ben Mahlor and a lot of
• 28:48
  Speaker 2: a great reaction. Now, ferg Dog says, I don't think
• 28:50
  Speaker 2: Wes Brick is a Hall of Famer, but you pointed
• 28:54
  Speaker 2: out exactly why it's going to be very hard to
• 28:56
  Speaker 2: keep him out.
• 28:57
  Speaker 1: It's total fraud.
• 28:58
  Speaker 2: Mup at McGraw can get and as she gets in,
• 29:01
  Speaker 2: anyone can get it. Yeah, Nature voices, I guess all
• 29:05
  Speaker 2: the Super Team Lakers are gone for good. At least
• 29:08
  Speaker 2: they still have their mid season tournament banner. That was
• 29:12
  Speaker 2: a tremendous accomplishment there for the Lakers. And remember the Knicks,
• 29:17
  Speaker 2: unlike the Lakers. The Knicks didn't put up their little
• 29:21
  Speaker 2: play in whatever that thing was banner, but the Lakers,
• 29:24
  Speaker 2: of course did, embarrassing the entire NBA. Just an absolute embarrassment.
• 29:30
  Speaker 2: What else do we have? Shane in Des Moines with
• 29:32
  Speaker 2: a non sequitur, he says, Ben, does anyone in the
• 29:35
  Speaker 2: Al West deserve to make the playoffs this year? Those
• 29:38
  Speaker 2: teams are doing their best version of the NFL's AFC South. Yeah, well,
• 29:43
  Speaker 2: or NFC South, any of those southern divisions in the
• 29:46
  Speaker 2: NFL usually garbage.
• 29:49
  Speaker 1: Well, that's the way it's designed.
• 29:50
  Speaker 2: And every once in a while a team that was
• 29:54
  Speaker 2: absolute dog food during the regular season ends up going
• 29:57
  Speaker 2: on a burner later on. So it is there's a
• 30:00
  Speaker 2: world where that happens. There's a world where that happens.
• 30:04
  Speaker 2: Milkman Mike in Colorado rights and says intriguing opening Mallard
• 30:08
  Speaker 2: monologue to start off a stormy night here in Colorado.
• 30:12
  Speaker 2: It now seems the Lakers have been cursed much like
• 30:15
  Speaker 2: the defense against the dark arts. The owner is now
• 30:19
  Speaker 2: the only lasting that of the owner is only not
• 30:22
  Speaker 2: lasting one year. Easy for me to say, Rob writes
• 30:27
  Speaker 2: in from Parts Unknown, and Rob says, the Lakers got
• 30:33
  Speaker 2: the next bus duo and Iiger and Kushner to continue
• 30:38
  Speaker 2: their next dynasty.
• 30:39
  Speaker 1: Okay, so that's his troll account. That's obviously a troll account.
• 30:41
  Speaker 1: Nobody believes that.
• 30:42
  Speaker 2: Come on now, Femi, the top uber eats driver in Minnesota,
• 30:48
  Speaker 2: says Ben Russell, Westbrook is still better than fifty percent
• 30:51
  Speaker 2: of players in the NBA. By the way, are you
• 30:53
  Speaker 2: saying my favorite twinkies are not natural?
• 30:56
  Speaker 1: Damn well? I used to say back.
• 30:59
  Speaker 2: In my my big eating days for me that anything
• 31:02
  Speaker 2: that is made is made with stuff found on the planet,
• 31:05
  Speaker 2: so it's all from Earth. I mean, chemicals are technically
• 31:08
  Speaker 2: from Earth, right, they might be natural.
• 31:10
  Speaker 1: Well they're natural. Well, you know they're natural. What is natural?
• 31:14
  Speaker 2: Right?
• 31:14
  Speaker 1: And maybe they're in a lab. They were naturally made
• 31:16
  Speaker 1: in a lab.
• 31:18
  Speaker 2: Some of the greatest foods are genetically modified.
• 31:20
  Speaker 1: We love them. We can't get enough of them.
• 31:22
  Speaker 2: There's natural too, right, everything, yes, exactly, all natural.
• 31:28
  Speaker 1: You know, everything's perfectly good, it's all kosher. Why not
• 31:32
  Speaker 1: Gunner is out of jail.
• 31:34
  Speaker 2: Big news, Big news, Gunner has been furloughed. Our friend
• 31:40
  Speaker 2: Gunner spent the last several months locked up there and
• 31:43
  Speaker 2: he is out. Congratulations Gunner on your furlough. He says,
• 31:47
  Speaker 2: it's been been a while eight plus. On the Malee monologue,
• 31:50
  Speaker 2: he says, just got back seventeen days away. He had
• 31:55
  Speaker 2: set seventeen. I've not had seventeen days off since I
• 31:58
  Speaker 2: got whacked my last time in radio, and I had
• 32:00
  Speaker 2: six months and twenty six days off, but that was
• 32:03
  Speaker 2: seventeen years ago, so it's been a while since I've.
• 32:05
  Speaker 1: Had that time.
• 32:05
  Speaker 2: Fat Daddy writes in from southern California. He says, great monologue,
• 32:10
  Speaker 2: big men. Can anybody say Bruce McNall, Oh, yeah, that guy.
• 32:15
  Speaker 2: Everyone loved Bruce McNall too. I remember hearing stories, legendary
• 32:20
  Speaker 2: stories about when Bruce McNall, who owned the La Kings.
• 32:23
  Speaker 2: He was a rich guy, but kind of a little
• 32:26
  Speaker 2: little shady, and he got caught up in those white
• 32:29
  Speaker 2: collar crimes and he went to jail. And I remember
• 32:32
  Speaker 2: hearing stories about the legendary softball games where all the
• 32:37
  Speaker 2: celebrity friends of Bruce McNall, not all of them, but
• 32:39
  Speaker 2: a lot of them would travel up he was at
• 32:41
  Speaker 2: a jail. If I remember the late great Stu Nahan,
• 32:44
  Speaker 2: LA sportscaster Silver Tipstu told me that Bruce McNall, they
• 32:49
  Speaker 2: go up to this jail outside Santa Barbara, and all
• 32:53
  Speaker 2: of the rich people would go watch Bruce McNall play softball.
• 32:57
  Speaker 1: I guess they had. On the weekends. You could I
• 32:59
  Speaker 1: don't know how that would work.
• 33:00
  Speaker 2: You can just invite friends and family to watch a
• 33:02
  Speaker 2: softball game at a jail.
• 33:03
  Speaker 1: I guess you could do that back then.
• 33:05
  Speaker 2: I don't know, but that's a pretty solid example. Who
• 33:10
  Speaker 2: knows this could be Just cut a check and then
• 33:12
  Speaker 2: you're good. Now, Matthew points out, and this guy knows
• 33:16
  Speaker 2: a thing or two about these kind of issues. And
• 33:18
  Speaker 2: Matthew says, you actually have to remember the taxes. He
• 33:21
  Speaker 2: is actually losing money.
• 33:23
  Speaker 1: From when he bought it nine months ago. That's right.
• 33:25
  Speaker 2: The capital gains tax. And I didn't even know what
• 33:29
  Speaker 2: that was till my parents died. Then I learned what
• 33:31
  Speaker 2: the capital gains tax was. Holy crap. Yeah, the death
• 33:35
  Speaker 2: tax also. Man, they got you, man, they got you
• 33:39
  Speaker 2: by the by the coffin when your loved ones check
• 33:42
  Speaker 2: out if they left any money behind, Uncle Sam's gonna
• 33:44
  Speaker 2: get all that money or most of it. Man a
• 33:47
  Speaker 2: dog from South Korea writes in. He says, the new
• 33:50
  Speaker 2: ownership the Lakers have will finally have an official mascot of.
• 33:54
  Speaker 1: The likes of Goofy. There you go, all right.
• 33:58
  Speaker 2: Truck Stop Fungus writes in from a truck stop somewhere
• 34:03
  Speaker 2: in the southern US, and.
• 34:05
  Speaker 1: He is sitting in the back.
• 34:08
  Speaker 2: He has a cowboy hat on, he is wearing tidy
• 34:10
  Speaker 2: whities and eating a bowl of lukewarm chili, and truck
• 34:15
  Speaker 2: stop Funkus says, I can't get enough of those Lakers
• 34:18
  Speaker 2: from malor here we go again.
• 34:19
  Speaker 1: Well, what am I supposed to do? What am I
• 34:22
  Speaker 1: supposed to do?
• 34:24
  Speaker 2: Seriously, It's the biggest story in sports, and I'm supposed
• 34:29
  Speaker 2: to ignore it.
• 34:29
  Speaker 1: Put blinders on? Is that right?
• 34:32
  Speaker 2: I about new Spocks? Weed from the Oregon Trail rights in.
• 34:37
  Speaker 2: He says, speaking of left field, that's the only position
• 34:40
  Speaker 2: on a baseball team, of on a baseball team of economics,
• 34:46
  Speaker 2: if you know, you know, all right, very very nice,
• 34:51
  Speaker 2: very very nice, Drew writes in. He says, Ben, there
• 34:55
  Speaker 2: is a five percent kicker per year on the jackpot,
• 34:58
  Speaker 2: take the annuity payments, it's over three billion when it's
• 35:02
  Speaker 2: all said and done.
• 35:04
  Speaker 1: Is that right, Drew? You sound like you know what
• 35:06
  Speaker 1: you're talking about.
• 35:06
  Speaker 2: I mean, I don't know you just you don't even
• 35:07
  Speaker 2: have an avatar on X, But it sounds like you
• 35:09
  Speaker 2: might be onto something, like you've studied that. I hope
• 35:12
  Speaker 2: to be in a position to make that decision. That
• 35:14
  Speaker 2: would be a really cool thing. If I was in
• 35:16
  Speaker 2: a position to have that, that would be great. Ruth
• 35:21
  Speaker 2: writes in she wants to know how many zeros are
• 35:23
  Speaker 2: there in one billion? And the answer, Ruth, is a lot.
• 35:28
  Speaker 2: The answer is a lot, a lot, a lot, a lot. Well,
• 35:32
  Speaker 2: my favorite story I gotta get to this is so
• 35:35
  Speaker 2: this is so delicious, This is so wonderful, this story.
• 35:38
  Speaker 2: I must get to this story. So I was smiling
• 35:42
  Speaker 2: all day. This is like a really dark day for
• 35:44
  Speaker 2: the Laker franchise. And you know, i'd being a longtime
• 35:47
  Speaker 2: Laker hater, I'm enjoying it, I admit that. And did
• 35:51
  Speaker 2: you hear the news about Bob Iger? Did you see
• 35:53
  Speaker 2: the news about Bob Iger and his history with the Lakers. Yeah,
• 35:59
  Speaker 2: so the Internet investigators, the Scooby Doo gang on the
• 36:04
  Speaker 2: Internet went back and investigated, and a couple of years ago,
• 36:09
  Speaker 2: Bob Iger did a podcast interview. It was on video,
• 36:15
  Speaker 2: and the man who now owns the Lakers explained that
• 36:21
  Speaker 2: he could not root for the Los Angeles Lakers.
• 36:24
  Speaker 1: He said, it's not in my dna. He said, he
• 36:27
  Speaker 1: grew up in New York.
• 36:28
  Speaker 2: He was a Knicks fan, and then he became a
• 36:30
  Speaker 2: fan of a different team when he moved to Los Angeles.
• 36:35
  Speaker 1: That's right, Bob Iger.
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  Speaker 2: The man that now is going to own the Los
• 36:40
  Speaker 2: Angeles Lakers is hip to clip.
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  Speaker 5: The Clipper fan, but the Lakers. Oh my god, this
• 36:58
  Speaker 5: is the greatest thing ever. This is so great, This
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  Speaker 5: is amazing. A Clipper fan bought the Lakers, you losers?
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  Speaker 5: Oh my god, how great is that? Is that not
• 37:16
  Speaker 5: the greatest? Is that not the Is that not a
• 37:19
  Speaker 5: chef's kiss? Bob Iger is about to become an owner
• 37:24
  Speaker 5: of the l A Lakers, And he said, growing up
• 37:29
  Speaker 5: he was a Knicks fan. He moved to LA because
• 37:30
  Speaker 5: of the Disney stuff, and then became a Laker fan,
• 37:36
  Speaker 5: or a Clipper fan rather.
• 37:37
  Speaker 2: But now he's buying the Laker. Oh my god, Oh
• 37:40
  Speaker 2: that is so great. Oh my god, that is amazing.
• 37:42
  Speaker 2: That is the greatest thing. Is that not great? Oh
• 37:45
  Speaker 2: my god, that's great. I'm Benny Brightside on that one.
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  Speaker 1: Baby. Wow.
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  Speaker 2: All right, we'll move on from that. Time now for
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• 37:58
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  Speaker 2: Arizona's Corbyn Carrol became the third MLB player to reach
• 38:07
  Speaker 2: one hundred or more home runs and fifty or more
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  Speaker 2: triples before their six hundred and tenth career game. I
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  Speaker 2: They're not a glamour team, so you probably don't.
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  Speaker 3: Know who that is.
• 38:19
  Speaker 2: But Corbyn Carroll for Arizona is the third MLB player
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  Speaker 2: to reach one hundred or more home runs and fifty
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  Speaker 2: or more triples before their six hundred and tenth career game,
• 38:29
  Speaker 2: joining Lou Garrick. I've heard of him and me. Who
• 38:33
  Speaker 2: am I? That's the question. The answer, we'll get to it.
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  Speaker 2: All right back to it time now for the payoff
• 39:41
  Speaker 2: on the who am I game? Swear we pretend to
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  Speaker 2: be somebody else that's called it the who am I?
• 39:45
  Speaker 1: Game?
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  Speaker 2: So Arizona's Corbin Carrol. Apparently that's a baseball player Who's
• 39:51
  Speaker 2: I guess pretty good? I remember Arizona had that run
• 39:54
  Speaker 2: a couple of years ago. They went pretty far and
• 39:57
  Speaker 2: then choked in the end, but Corbyn Carrol became I'm
• 40:00
  Speaker 2: the third MLB player to reach one hundred plus home
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  Speaker 2: runs fifty plus triples before the six hundred and tenth
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  Speaker 2: career game. I know it's an arbitrary number, but to
• 40:11
  Speaker 2: just play with it, joining Louke Garrick and me, Who
• 40:14
  Speaker 2: am I?
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  Speaker 1: That is the question? What's the answer?
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  Speaker 2: The Ostrich Aunt in DC going with Cookie Crisp as
• 40:22
  Speaker 2: his answer.
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  Speaker 1: Let's see here.
• 40:24
  Speaker 2: Clipper superfan Bob Iger is the answer. Nature Boy says,
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  Speaker 2: I'm so glad I stayed up late to hear you
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  Speaker 2: cackle of joy. Oh that was such a great when
• 40:34
  Speaker 2: I saw that. Oh my god, Bob Iger, Clipper fan
• 40:38
  Speaker 2: Laker owner Alf the Alien o Plinter going with the
• 40:41
  Speaker 2: Great Otis Nixon skeletre is his answer. Joe Mauer guests
• 40:45
  Speaker 2: by Femi Twins legend. Who else from malapropk I says
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  Speaker 2: it's Ostrich Aunt who is not celebrating a birthday today,
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  Speaker 2: not at all.
• 40:53
  Speaker 1: I'm sure he is not.
• 40:53
  Speaker 2: We we don't do shout outs, so we can't wish
• 40:55
  Speaker 2: him a happy birthday. King Roy says, Gunner is the answer.
• 40:59
  Speaker 1: Who else do we have?
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  Speaker 3: Have?
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  Speaker 2: Wee Bay from just Josh, Carol O'Connor from Stevie Meatballs,
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  Speaker 2: Roberto Clemente from analog al who else do we have?
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  Speaker 2: Page NN overnight Joe. I can't read all that right now, Joe.
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  Speaker 2: I'll read it in a minute.
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  Speaker 1: Robbie's going with the Seattle Mariners. That's about right. Loraina,
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  Speaker 1: do you have an answer? I'm gonna go with Rogers Hornsby.
• 41:25
  Speaker 1: Oh that's actual a baseball player. That's shocking.
• 41:27
  Speaker 2: Somebody must have told you that the correct answer is
• 41:29
  Speaker 2: not Rogers Hornsby. It's a man whose name became a song, Cholton.
• 41:33
  Speaker 2: Joe Damaggio. Joe Damaggio.
• 41:36
  Speaker 1: That's a pretty good company, right, that's not bad