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  Speaker 1: I'd be so our lead this hour. I was debating
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  Speaker 1: going with baseball. We did that the other day and
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  Speaker 1: I got several complaints. What just do with baseball? It's
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  Speaker 1: only June. I don't understand me. My God didn't play
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  Speaker 1: million more types. So shut up. I'm gonna tell you
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  Speaker 1: on a sport, they're not even gonna play this. Well,
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  Speaker 1: there's a couple of basketball games no one will be
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  Speaker 1: watching this week starting on Thursday, but no games until
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  Speaker 1: late in the year, late in the year. But our
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  Speaker 1: lead this hour is from pro bouncy Ball. Pro bouncy Ball. Now,
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  Speaker 1: we got a bunch of downtime before the matchup with
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  Speaker 1: the Cornfield versus the Soybean in the NBA Finals. Now,
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  Speaker 1: to fill the void, we have cranked up the rumor machine.
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  Speaker 1: It has been working over time and serving up some
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  Speaker 1: Greek food. That's right, a little Greek food on that.
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  Speaker 1: And if you have not been following, it's a bad
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  Speaker 1: job by you. Some chatter that the Milwaukee Bucks superstar,
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  Speaker 1: the man that held up the championship trophy a couple
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  Speaker 1: of years ago. Giannis Adenta Cumbo has a wondering eye
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  Speaker 1: and he has been and looking north of the border.
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  Speaker 1: Ah ca eyem Toronto, the Raptors there is said to
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  Speaker 1: be in breathless reporting mutual interest. Mutual interest between the Bucks,
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  Speaker 1: Giannis adent to Cumbo and Toronto. So Giannis who's won
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  Speaker 1: not one, but two Most Valuable Player awards, So I'm
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  Speaker 1: told that's pretty good. I'm playing the NBA and the
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  Speaker 1: championship and all that stuff. And it has been widely
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  Speaker 1: speculated that he is considering a relocation situation. The Bucks
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  Speaker 1: have had not one, not two, but three consecutive first
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  Speaker 1: round departures from the postseason. They have been decommissioned in
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  Speaker 1: the first round three years in a row. And you
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  Speaker 1: compound that with not having a coach. They're the headless deer.
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  Speaker 1: Doc Rivers. I'd rather have an actual doctor as my
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  Speaker 1: coach then a fake doctor, Doc Rivers. When you hire Doc,
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  Speaker 1: you're not trying to win. You're not When you hire
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  Speaker 1: Doc Rivers, you're trying to give good soundbites to the
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  Speaker 1: media and have nice things said about you. Because it's
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  Speaker 1: Doc Rivers. Everyone loves Doc. He's Devin Air. He's got
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  Speaker 1: the smile, everyone loves them. Can't coach his way out
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  Speaker 1: of a wet paper bag. That's a side. Then you've
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  Speaker 1: got the Dame train which has gone off the tracks,
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  Speaker 1: and the Dame enjoying a steady diet of rice crispy, snap,
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  Speaker 1: crackle and pop, and the Achilles there. So those are
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  Speaker 1: all the ingredients that have gotten to this point. Now
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  Speaker 1: you know that Toronto, they're out there kicking the time.
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  Speaker 1: They need that headline. They're not anybody, not that we
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  Speaker 1: talk much Raptors basketball here, but they don't. So Milwaukee's
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  Speaker 1: championship windows seems to close, and it seems to be
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  Speaker 1: done dead bolted.
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  Speaker 3: See it later.
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  Speaker 1: It's not even a window anymore. It's like a wall
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  Speaker 1: at this point. So let us discuss the question you
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  Speaker 1: make the call? You make the call question, if you're
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  Speaker 1: the Raptors, do you go all in for Giannis a
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  Speaker 1: Dentakuombo and do you actually have a chance to get
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  Speaker 1: the player? So my thoughts on this, I've got da Vinci,
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  Speaker 1: saber tooth, tiger, and slow churned 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 some ice. Ice baby, is what we're gonna make.
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  Speaker 1: So a to answer the question, if you're the Raptors,
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  Speaker 1: you go all in, Yes, I'm not in my head,
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  Speaker 1: yes of course. Now do you have a chance to
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  Speaker 1: actually get the player? Well, that's where things get a
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  Speaker 1: little foggy. That's where things get a little foggy. But
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  Speaker 1: from the Toronto site, it's a no brainer, right, It's
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  Speaker 1: an absolute no brainer. Well, it is generally considered taboo
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  Speaker 1: for any star players to sign with the Toronto Raptor.
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  Speaker 1: You can be traded there, but to actually sign now,
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  Speaker 1: and this would be a trade. This would be a trade,
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  Speaker 1: but it's kind of trade where the player wants to
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  Speaker 1: go there, So it's a fake trade, like a real
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  Speaker 1: trade is the player doesn't want to go there, you
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  Speaker 1: trade him anyway, This would be a faux trade. Toronto
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  Speaker 1: for big names in the NBA is seen as a
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  Speaker 1: barren wasteland. You just don't go there, and you can
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  Speaker 1: get players in the draft. You can have a bunch
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  Speaker 1: of no name, no brand type players. And Yannis though,
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  Speaker 1: the reason that there's something there, the reason I'm buying
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  Speaker 1: that there's something there is Yannis is a different breed
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  Speaker 1: a kittie cat, a different breed of kitty cat here,
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  Speaker 1: and doesn't seem like he needs the suntan lotionan the
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  Speaker 1: bikini bottoms.
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  Speaker 3: That you get in La or Miami or anything like that.
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  Speaker 3: But much like.
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  Speaker 1: Da Vinci or Michelangelo, a renaissance man to a point,
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  Speaker 1: I do believe the last couple of years since winning
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  Speaker 1: the championship that Yannis has more more into line with
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  Speaker 1: all the other a holes in the NBA. He still
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  Speaker 1: got that international flavor, flavor flavor. He's got that going
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  Speaker 1: for him, and he could be convinced that hey, I
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  Speaker 1: can go and enjoy maple syrup, powdered powered snowblowers.
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  Speaker 3: And all that stuff.
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  Speaker 1: And maybe he always wanted to play near the CN
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  Speaker 1: Tower and that he really wanted that. And yeah, and
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  Speaker 1: there's a great Greek town. One of our listeners that
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  Speaker 1: met at the meet and greets, well, Toronto's got there's
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  Speaker 1: a big Greek population there and they've got a great
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  Speaker 1: Greek town, all right, joannest Is, I believe under contract,
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  Speaker 1: if I'm not mistaken, for another couple of seasons, so
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  Speaker 1: that it would have to be a trade and the
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  Speaker 1: bucks I am told will demand a king's ransom.
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  Speaker 3: You also have the meddling NBA power brokers.
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  Speaker 1: Who are going to try to encourage encourage a Yannis
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  Speaker 1: to go to a big, big, big, big big market.
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  Speaker 1: The usual suspects LA Miami, New York, and those are
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  Speaker 1: the usual. Maybe Golden State, maybe a Golden State gets
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  Speaker 1: mixed in there, and he's a known commodity. Though you're
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  Speaker 1: the raptors and you're trying to get that big guy.
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  Speaker 1: That's a guy you can actually get, and you're gonna
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  Speaker 1: have to give up a bunch of promissory notes and
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  Speaker 1: you get a proven star who's in the near end
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  Speaker 1: of his prime. A couple more years of Giannis and
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  Speaker 1: then it's a slow decline. All right now, turning the
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  Speaker 1: page the round mound of Rebound when he was known
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  Speaker 1: as that when he played Charles Barkley making some news.
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  Speaker 1: He's announced that he has it all mapped out, his
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  Speaker 1: great escape from television, appearing right here on Fox Sports
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  Speaker 1: Radio with Dan Patrick, who also's got it all mapped out.
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  Speaker 1: Dan's got a plan to retire, so Charles Barkley revealed
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  Speaker 1: that he only intends to work two more years. That's it.
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  Speaker 1: He's got a two hundred million dollar contract. But here's
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  Speaker 1: Barkley explaining what his plan is is. He's still with
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  Speaker 1: Warner Brothers. It's kind of weird, but it's it's gonna
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  Speaker 1: be on ESPN, but he's not gonna really be an
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  Speaker 1: ESPN and play anyway.
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  Speaker 3: Listen, here's what Barkley had to say.
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  Speaker 4: I actually have seven years left on my contract. Like, yeah,
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  Speaker 4: there's no way I'm working seven years, I says. You know,
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  Speaker 4: I'm gonna be a good soldier for Kenny, Ernie and
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  Speaker 4: Shack and the people I work with, because I love
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  Speaker 4: the people I work with, especially behind the scenes. I said,
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  Speaker 4: But the best I can do is two years.
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  Speaker 1: All right, So he said two years. He says also concerned.
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  Speaker 1: He says, if ESPN overworks him, even though he's gonna
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  Speaker 1: be working for Turner, he said, he'll just go home.
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  Speaker 3: He said, He'll just go home.
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  Speaker 1: So let us discuss how much stark how much DOK
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  Speaker 1: do you give Charles Barkley, the greatest ex jock turned
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  Speaker 1: player that Jockocracy usually produces crap with former players on television,
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  Speaker 1: but Charles Barkley is not that he is at the
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  Speaker 1: very top of the food chain when he comes to broadcasting.
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  Speaker 1: So how much doc do you give Charles Barkley as
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  Speaker 1: he has announced he is planning to retire from TV
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  Speaker 1: in two years. So after a thorough deliberation of the
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  Speaker 1: available information, we have given this a solid zero. A
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  Speaker 1: solid zero. So Charles Barkley and one thing I've come
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  Speaker 1: to know over the last ten plus years of talking
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  Speaker 1: about Charles Barkley, and it's been longer than that, but
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  Speaker 1: just the last decade plus, Charles Barkley loves a saber
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  Speaker 1: tooth tiger. But really what he loves is saber rattling.
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  Speaker 1: He loves saber rattling when talking about his future. I
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  Speaker 1: guess everyone all worked up into a nice tizzy and
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  Speaker 1: likes Barkley is the guy that will spit in your
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  Speaker 1: pocket and announce that it's raining. As he's spitting a
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  Speaker 1: nice thick loogie in your pocket, he'll announce its rain. Now,
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  Speaker 1: we went back to the copious amounts of notes that
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  Speaker 1: we do on a daily basis for these Mallard monologues,
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  Speaker 1: and we went all the way back, back, back back
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  Speaker 1: back back in the hot top time machine to twenty twelve,
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  Speaker 1: and we then searched keywords and we determined that Charles
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  Speaker 1: bark has publicly discussed or announced he's done with television
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  Speaker 1: six times since twenty twelve. Six times I'm out, And
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  Speaker 1: every time Barkley's continue to work. Every time we in
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  Speaker 1: our notes we had twenty twelve, twenty fifteen, twenty eighteen,
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  Speaker 1: twenty twenty one, twenty twenty two, and twenty twenty four,
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  Speaker 1: and now we can add twenty twenty five. Although he
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  Speaker 1: didn't announce he's gonna quit right away, he says going
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  Speaker 1: to be a couple of years and all that. And
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  Speaker 1: every time he's announced this, every single time he has
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  Speaker 1: continued to work. He signed new contracts, and he has
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  Speaker 1: reversed those retirement plans. But wait, there's more. Barkley also
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  Speaker 1: loved in the past claiming he was going to become
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  Speaker 1: the governor of Alibe, Obama. This was a big thing
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  Speaker 1: that Barkley brought up many times. There were four times
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  Speaker 1: that goes back to the nineties where Barkley announced that
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  Speaker 1: he was going to be the governor of his home state,
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  Speaker 1: his native state of Alabama. He did that in the
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  Speaker 1: nineties six as well, eight and actually twice in eight
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  Speaker 1: he announced he was going to become the governor of Alabama,
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  Speaker 1: and either time or all the times, I should say
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  Speaker 1: all the times he failed. Barkley failed to actually run
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  Speaker 1: for governor of Alabama.
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  Speaker 3: And never did it.
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  Speaker 1: He always abandoned that plan and his political ambitions were bullshoy.
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  Speaker 3: We're absolutely bullshoy.
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  Speaker 1: Now there is an aide situation which is a factor,
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  Speaker 1: but only a little bit. Barkley is now sixty two,
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  Speaker 1: so's he's at the point he's got a lot of money,
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  Speaker 1: and he's got a lot of money because of television.
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  Speaker 1: He's got money because of TV, not because of basketball,
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  Speaker 1: because of basketball and TV. But Charles Barkley is a
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  Speaker 1: TV commentator. He's not a former player. He's a TV guy.
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  Speaker 1: And it really isn't work. Like I've been lucky enough
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  Speaker 1: last couple years. I had a TV show and like
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  Speaker 1: this has worked, like the radio shows where I do
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  Speaker 1: everything for the show, put it all together. Like the
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  Speaker 1: TV show, there's people that help you. There's like support staff,
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  Speaker 1: producers and directors and people that make you look good
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  Speaker 1: and it helps out a lot, and it's wonderful to
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  Speaker 1: be in that environment. So if you're doing TV like Barkley,
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  Speaker 1: I mean, you got a million people helping you. You
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  Speaker 1: just show up and you don't have to worry about
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  Speaker 1: putting monologues together and doing all the other You don't
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  Speaker 1: worry about it, right because you know people actually help
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  Speaker 1: you out. It's amazing thing. And Barkley's getting twelve and
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  Speaker 1: a half million dollars per year and he has earned
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  Speaker 1: a massive amount more as a TV guy than a player.
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  Speaker 1: In fact, I went back, I look Barkley when he
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  Speaker 1: played for the Sixers and the Suns and bounced around
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  Speaker 1: the NBA a little bit, mostly the Suns the Sixers,
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  Speaker 1: but Charles Barkley played with the rocketsallz. But his total
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  Speaker 1: earnings like forty million, which is a lot of money.
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  Speaker 1: Let's hold old money. Forty million as a player. He
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  Speaker 1: has made it's estimated close to two hundred million as
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  Speaker 1: a broadcaster, So forty million is a player. I think
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  Speaker 1: it's like one hundred and seventy hundred and seventy five
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  Speaker 1: million something like in that ballpark, which is a good ballpark.
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  Speaker 1: And that does not even include like the endorsement stuff
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  Speaker 1: that he's he's got, So he's cashing it in now.
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  Speaker 1: Last word, speaking of the jockocracy of basketball, flipping the
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  Speaker 1: page here, Warriors star Stephen.
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  Speaker 3: Curry making some news recently.
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  Speaker 1: He's not retiring from the NBA, not yet, however, he
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  Speaker 1: told CNBC. He said, Liz, I got it all mapped out.
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  Speaker 1: I got this whole plan right, this whole plan mapped
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  Speaker 1: out right, and and so what is that?
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  Speaker 3: What is the man?
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  Speaker 1: Well, so he mentioned to c NBC that TV broadcasting
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  Speaker 1: he's thinking about doing that. He's got team ownership and
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  Speaker 1: possibly playing on the PGA Tour Championship champions Tour for
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  Speaker 1: the PGA toy They got all the map, all right.
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  Speaker 1: So to me, the most interesting thing, you know, athlete
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  Speaker 1: owns a team. We've seen that with Jordan, We've seen
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  Speaker 1: you know, stars run teams like Larry Bird and Magic Johnson.
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  Speaker 1: Uh And so that doesn't really interest me. The TV thing,
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  Speaker 1: because we just talked about Barkley that interesting. So would
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  Speaker 1: Steph Curry be a good TV broadcast?
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  Speaker 3: All right?
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  Speaker 1: So let's go to the wheel of fortune here. Can
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  Speaker 1: I get an N? And can I I'd like an N?
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  Speaker 1: And can I buy a vowel?
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  Speaker 3: I would like an Oh? I would like it? Oh?
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  Speaker 1: That would be no. He is going to be terribles,
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  Speaker 1: I said, broches my god. Uh So let's break this
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  Speaker 1: down unscientifically. Now, Steph Curry is seen as a charming individual,
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  Speaker 1: He is seen as smart, he is seen as well spoken,
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  Speaker 1: and those are all positive attributes. They're all positive. Blah
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  Speaker 1: blah blah blah. All that that does not mean that
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  Speaker 1: he is cut out to sit in a broadcast booth
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  Speaker 1: or in a studio and commentate on pro bouncy ball,
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  Speaker 1: because Steph Curry is like slow churned vanilla bean ice
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  Speaker 1: cream when it comes to the things he says. He
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  Speaker 1: just is you need an edge. You need an edge
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  Speaker 1: to be good. You need to tell it like it is.
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  Speaker 1: You need to goof around, have self deprecating humor like
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  Speaker 1: Charles Barkley. And when a player goes out there and
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  Speaker 1: is a brick house and just blows and everyone knows
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  Speaker 1: the players can't hit a jumper save his life, plays
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  Speaker 1: El Mattador defense.
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  Speaker 3: And you get on.
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  Speaker 1: There and make excuses for that player or downplay it,
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  Speaker 1: You've lost all credibility.
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  Speaker 3: Your fraud is what you are.
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  Speaker 1: And Steph Curry as a broadcaster, barring some kind of
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  Speaker 1: shocking renaissance, milk toast, that's what you read, milk toast,
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  Speaker 1: And mister you know, oh, you know, gee, golly. I
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  Speaker 1: love golf. I love my family and all that stuff.
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  Speaker 1: It's very nice. It's nice to love golf. It means
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  Speaker 1: you've got money. I don't anyone poor that likes golf.
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  Speaker 1: I've never met anyone poor in my life that likes
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  Speaker 1: golf and is able to play golf. Rich people like golf,
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  Speaker 1: and super rich Pele love golf. They play it all
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  Speaker 1: the time. Right, He's much too polished Steph Curry to
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  Speaker 1: be any good as Rochester. Now, that doesn't mean he's
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  Speaker 1: not gonna get a chance. Because of the jockocracy, which
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  Speaker 1: has been around since the eighties. There's this old sportscaster
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  Speaker 1: you've never heard of named Howard Cosell who knew right away.
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  Speaker 3: What was going on.
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  Speaker 1: But you know everything Curry says now, and I don't
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  Speaker 1: think it's gonna change much. Every take that Curry has
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  Speaker 1: is dipped in sugar and then rolled in sprinkles, So
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  Speaker 1: you got the sugar, you got the sprinkles and all that.
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  Speaker 3: And he I get it.
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  Speaker 1: He's been the golden child for many in the NBA
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  Speaker 1: for over a decade and the media has been licking
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  Speaker 1: his toes for a long time here, and you know,
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  Speaker 1: give me someone who's not not afraid to ruffle some
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  Speaker 1: feathers and is not trying to stay in the upper crust.
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  Speaker 3: Of the oligarchy of the NBA.
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  Speaker 1: And because I courage, just gonna be like a sleep
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  Speaker 1: aid is what he's gonna be.
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  Speaker 2: Sure to catch live editions of The Ben Mallor Show
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  Speaker 1: Call him Joe Cool, not that he's actually cool, but
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  Speaker 1: he doesn't care. He's not worried about your hot takes.
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  Speaker 1: So our lead this hour is from football.
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  Speaker 3: Who's no football?
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  Speaker 1: Well, it's actually from Cleveland where they haven't had football
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  Speaker 1: since Jim Brown played. Well, maybe Bernie Kozar, good old
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  Speaker 1: Bernie back in the It's been a while. It's been
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  Speaker 1: a while. So the Browns are bad. They're not boring. Though,
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  Speaker 1: you can be bad as long as you're interesting, and
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  Speaker 1: so the Browns are bad interesting as a opposed to
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  Speaker 1: bad and boring the Killer Bees.
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  Speaker 3: You can't be both.
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  Speaker 1: So to prove my point, take a look at the
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  Speaker 1: burgeoning quarterback battle Royale, which for my purpose is is
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  Speaker 1: picture perfect. Now we know whoever wins the job is
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  Speaker 1: going to suck as the Browns quarterback.
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  Speaker 3: We know that to be true.
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  Speaker 1: But Cleveland's got a very crowded, very busy quarterback room.
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  Speaker 3: Now Here are the actors.
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  Speaker 1: You've got Joe Flacco, Kenny Pickett, and rookie Shooter Sanders.
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  Speaker 1: Also Dylan Gabriel, another rookie, and so those guys are
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  Speaker 1: the new actor Kenny Pickett, Gabriel and Sanders. Now Flacco
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  Speaker 1: was there, he had left and now he's back, so
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  Speaker 1: they're all kind of new. They're all kind of new,
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  Speaker 1: but somewhere old and all that. Now one storyline stands
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  Speaker 1: out head and shoulders above all the rest, which is
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  Speaker 1: really good talk radio and really good talk radio. So
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  Speaker 1: that would be I believe he's forty now, Joe Flacco
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  Speaker 1: elite quarterback. Joe flaccom ever in sports talk radio conversation
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  Speaker 1: back in the day, is Joe Flacco an elite quarterback?
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  Speaker 1: Well he was for a month and a half and
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  Speaker 1: that's all he had to beat to get a big contract.
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  Speaker 1: He was elite for a month and a half. Jump
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  Speaker 1: Ball Joe used to call him jump ball Joe. Just
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  Speaker 1: throw the ball up and let the receiver jump. Get
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  Speaker 1: that pass interference call first down for the old Baltimore Ravens.
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  Speaker 1: So forty year old Joe Flacco is by far the
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  Speaker 1: oldest of the quarterback room those that are in the competition.
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  Speaker 1: But he does not, he will not. He wants nothing
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  Speaker 1: to do with the very thought that he is going
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  Speaker 1: to go in there and mentor the young quarterbacks for
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  Speaker 1: the Cleveland football team. Flacco, you see this, No, you
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  Speaker 1: didn't see this. So Flacco has said this in the past,
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  Speaker 1: but he doubled down on it yet again. Flacco made
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  Speaker 1: it perfectly clear at the Browns OTAs that's organized team
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  Speaker 1: activities that he is solely focused on winning the starting
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  Speaker 1: job for the Browns and that he's not worried about
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  Speaker 1: helping anyone out and make them a better player and
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  Speaker 1: all that stuff. Now, this, as you might imagine, has
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  Speaker 1: not gone over well. There is nothing that upsets a
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  Speaker 1: high percentage of sports blowhards and gas bags than a
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  Speaker 1: quarterback saying I am not going to help some other
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  Speaker 1: young quarterback. I am not going to be a mentor.
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  Speaker 1: I am not going to teach them all of my secrets.
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  Speaker 1: This drives people nuts. In the media.
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  Speaker 3: You get very upset.
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  Speaker 1: So let's discuss the question question on this one. We're
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  Speaker 1: gonna frame it like this. Why We'll get to the
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  Speaker 1: white Why are people so upset with Joe Flacco for
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  Speaker 1: saying he is not a mentor in the Browns quarterback competition.
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  Speaker 1: So I've got Mickey Mouse, cliff notes, and bubble wrap,
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  Speaker 1: and we will combine all of these things together, and
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  Speaker 1: we are going to make a tissue so we can
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  Speaker 1: clean out those I buggers. You know, when you sleep,
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  Speaker 1: eat that dried mucus and clean that out, all right,
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  Speaker 1: So number I said number on my theory as to
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  Speaker 1: why people have been worked into a lather because Joe
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  Speaker 1: Flacco is not willing to give his wisdom away to
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  Speaker 1: someone else, it's because many generations of sports fans have
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  Speaker 1: been indoctrinated. It's kind of like the NC double A.
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  Speaker 1: They would say, hey, it's a student athlete, which was
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  Speaker 1: a term they made up to get out of paying
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  Speaker 1: a workers comp claim. So they just cooked up the
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  Speaker 1: term as a weasel term student athlete. They were never
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  Speaker 1: athletes or never students. They were athletes. They were the
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  Speaker 1: top football and basketball players. So they came up with that,
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  Speaker 1: and they just kept using it in all the marketing,
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  Speaker 1: and dumb people.
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  Speaker 3: Say, oh, they should it. It must be true, they're student athletes.
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  Speaker 1: Well, over the years, as observers of sports, we have
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  Speaker 1: been taught, we've been indoctrinated. If you're an older player,
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  Speaker 1: you have to give away all your secrets, all your
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  Speaker 1: secrets to someone younger than you. That's the way it works.
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  Speaker 1: And so Flacco he has been called, among other things,
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  Speaker 1: tone deaf, tone deaf, Joe, outdated, boomer, old head, embarrassing,
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  Speaker 1: all those things. So these dopes who believe that mentoring
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  Speaker 1: is part of the job, they believe that mentoring is
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  Speaker 1: part of the job, whether you like it or not, period,
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  Speaker 1: end of story. There's a lot of people that believe that,
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  Speaker 1: and we say we have an un popular opinion. Not
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  Speaker 1: so fast, my friend, unpopular opinion alert Joe Flacco, and
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  Speaker 1: I went back and I checked. When he agreed to
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  Speaker 1: return to the Browns, Joe Flacco was not was not
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  Speaker 1: hired as a camp counselor. He was not a career counselor.
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  Speaker 1: When he was hired, he was brought back to Cleveland as,
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  Speaker 1: wait for it, a quarterback, a contingency plan, not a
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  Speaker 1: muse for Shader Sanders. And so the people that are flustered,
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  Speaker 1: they're bedraggled that Joe Flacco would.
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  Speaker 3: Dare say this.
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  Speaker 1: I love his honesty, that's my first I love his
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  Speaker 1: honesty my first thought. And the people that are really upset,
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  Speaker 1: they're projecting this into some kind of hokey Disney movie
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  Speaker 1: where you know, it's a Mickey Mouse idea. It's a
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  Speaker 1: Mickey mouse idea that the veteran has to do this.
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  Speaker 1: You're romanticizing and you're not living in in reality, Like
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  Speaker 1: in what other business does that happen? Is there another
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  Speaker 1: business that that happened? I don't know one, and you
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  Speaker 1: don't owe anyone mentorship. Now, if Joe Flacco decides he
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  Speaker 1: wants to do it, that's fine. That's on him. And
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  Speaker 1: if he doesn't want to do it, that's also perfect.
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  Speaker 3: Fine.
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  Speaker 1: If Cleveland wants to hire Joe Flacco as a quarterback
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  Speaker 1: coach and pay him an extra salary as a quarterback coach,
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  Speaker 1: and he's okay with it, He's fine with it. Oh fine,
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  Speaker 1: Otherwise forget about it. Forget about it, right, Joe Flacco,
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  Speaker 1: he said the quiet part out loud, and he's just
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  Speaker 1: keeping it real now. Speaking of keeping it real, lot
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  Speaker 1: of noise coming out of Pittsburgh. Not about Aaron Rodgers.
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  Speaker 1: This is not an Aaron Rodgers monologue.
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  Speaker 3: Notice not.
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  Speaker 1: However, it is about another big name and more reporting
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  Speaker 1: over the last few hours here that there's an expectation
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  Speaker 1: the team that sells terrible towels, the Petsburgh Steelers, the
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  Speaker 1: Pittsburgh a rival I say rival of the Browns, but
• 27:09
  Speaker 1: the Browns lose to the Steelers all the time, so
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  Speaker 1: not really much of a rival. And when the Browns
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  Speaker 1: win once every couple of years, they celebrate like they've
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  Speaker 1: won the super Bowl, like they did remember the snow
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  Speaker 1: Game in Cleveland. Yeah. Anyway, So the expectation is that
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  Speaker 1: linebacker t J. Watt will have a new contract agreement
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  Speaker 1: with the Black and Yellow, Black and Yellow, Black and
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  Speaker 1: Yellow prior to the start of the regular season.
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  Speaker 3: That's going to happen. So now, TJ.
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  Speaker 1: Watt, we know there is a big money offer, big money,
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  Speaker 1: big money, big money, no way, I mean stop. So
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  Speaker 1: there's big money offer on the table from the Pittsburgh Steelers,
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  Speaker 1: but no deal yet. There is no deal yet. So
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  Speaker 1: what is going on with this situation? You got reports
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  Speaker 1: saying it's gonna happen, It's gonna happen, It's gonna happen.
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  Speaker 1: It's gonna happen, much like the Aaron Rodgers store. There's
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  Speaker 1: an offer, there's big money, but no deal. But we're
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  Speaker 1: focusing in on TJ.
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  Speaker 3: Watts. So what is going on here?
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  Speaker 1: So it's rather clear on this one that the offer
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  Speaker 1: is big. And you know that came from the Steelers.
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  Speaker 1: That didn't come from TJ. Watts camp. That came from
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  Speaker 1: the Steelers. They use their useful idiots in the media
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  Speaker 1: to get that message out. It's a big offer. It's
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  Speaker 1: not big enough. And now how do I know that? Well,
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  Speaker 1: I am a distant relative of Nostradamis and friend of Nostradinas.
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  Speaker 1: He lives in Seattle, although did not come to the
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  Speaker 1: meet and greet in Vancouver, which is just a relative
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  Speaker 1: short drive from Seattle.
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  Speaker 3: So not a big friend of mine anymore because he
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  Speaker 3: did not make the trip.
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  Speaker 1: But anyway, that aside, all right, as a distant relative
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  Speaker 1: of Nostradamis and friend of Nostradena's the offer not big
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  Speaker 1: enough because nothing has been signed. There's no docu sign,
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  Speaker 1: not a cricket's it's a we'll see situation. It's a
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  Speaker 1: we'll see what's going on situation. Now, what is following
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  Speaker 1: the outline to a t the cliff notes on how
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  Speaker 1: to let the world know you are not happy and
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  Speaker 1: you're belly aching, you want more money, you want to
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  Speaker 1: weaponize the fan base to attack the team. And he's
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  Speaker 1: following all of the key points he's checking all the boxes.
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  Speaker 1: What are the boxes? Skip OTAs, check dropping cryptic Instagram
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  Speaker 1: posts that can be interpreted multiple ways, check check. Deputizing
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  Speaker 1: his brother a relative in this case, JJ Watt to
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  Speaker 1: publicly nudge the team to get a bigger offer, which
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  Speaker 1: is akin to pouring gas on the fire. Check check check.
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  Speaker 1: But wait, there's more. You've now created a media circus.
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  Speaker 1: Check check check check. That's four checks, so we get it. TJ.
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  Speaker 1: Watt has been the last several years in Pittsburgh. He's
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  Speaker 1: not just your normal, generic brand player. He has been
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  Speaker 1: a game changer. In fact, you would argue he is
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  Speaker 1: the most famous player on the Steelers, and it's really
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  Speaker 1: not even close. They don't have anyone that's that famous
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  Speaker 1: on all offense down. They could get Aaron Rodgers, they
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  Speaker 1: likely will, but Rogers is old, he's washed up. He's
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  Speaker 1: more worried about where his next dose of ayahuasca is
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  Speaker 1: coming from than his next big win. And so you
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  Speaker 1: got a guy here is a game shit big time players,
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  Speaker 1: we said, and the identity of that team and someone
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  Speaker 1: that it would appear, wakes up in the morning and
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  Speaker 1: he does not eat a normal breakfast. He just like
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  Speaker 1: eats offensive lineman for breakfast offensive tackles. He just enjoys that.
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  Speaker 1: And the only reason, the only reason that there would
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  Speaker 1: be any kind of hesitation for the Pittsburgh Steelers here
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  Speaker 1: is because of the age. TJ. Watt is thirty. He's
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  Speaker 1: had a lot of injuries because he's a football player,
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  Speaker 1: a lot of bumps and bruises.
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  Speaker 3: It's like, well, he's only gonna get hurt more.
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  Speaker 1: There's a lot of money, but you can't not sign
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  Speaker 1: him because if you have, boy, you're screwed either way.
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  Speaker 1: You're damned if you do, and you're damned if you don't.
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  Speaker 1: All right, final point, we stay in the Keystone State,
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  Speaker 1: but we go all the way across. And I've made
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  Speaker 1: that drive.
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  Speaker 3: I've made.
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  Speaker 1: I've made drive from Philly to Pittsburgh. Beautiful country, beautiful forest,
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  Speaker 1: not a lot in between, not like one big city
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  Speaker 1: in between.
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  Speaker 3: That's it anyway.
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  Speaker 1: So running back Sequan Barkley, the cover boy for Madden
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  Speaker 1: NFL twenty six, that report was announced that Saquon Barkley
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  Speaker 1: he's got a deal. So question should the Marching and
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  Speaker 1: Shouder Society of the Eagle fan base, the Neanderthal fan
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  Speaker 1: base of the Philadelphia Eagles be concerned about the hecks?
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  Speaker 1: Should they be concerned about the hecks? So I'll answer
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  Speaker 1: this by notting my head aggressively. You can't see me
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  Speaker 1: unless you're watching on the YouTube. I'm yes, I'm nodding
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  Speaker 1: my head aggressively. Yes, Because what they have done is
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  Speaker 1: put the Voodoo Bugaloo right on top of Sequon Barkley
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  Speaker 1: and also the Lombardi Trophy. You might as well bubble
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  Speaker 1: wrap Barkley right now. Put Sequon in bubble wrap. Why
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  Speaker 1: the double whammy? You've got the double whammy? Now, let's
• 32:28
  Speaker 1: start with the time tested in Madden cover jins. He said, well,
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  Speaker 1: it's only happened a few times. So if you look
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  Speaker 1: at the data and you go back in the modern
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  Speaker 1: era of the Madden Game, we have a lot of
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  Speaker 1: data that confirms this is not just urban legend, this
• 32:45
  Speaker 1: is not just folklore. There's a there there, there's a
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  Speaker 1: Bermuda triangle situation here, and if you do the math
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  Speaker 1: on it, since nineteen ninety nine, that's a long time.
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  Speaker 1: That's a generation. So the last generation with the Madden Game,
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  Speaker 1: that's twenty six years a little over generation. Since nineteen
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  Speaker 1: ninety nine, what percentage of the Madden cover athlete has
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  Speaker 1: suffered a serious injury the season they appeared on the
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  Speaker 1: cover the following season, you have a You have a guess.
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  Speaker 1: Is it you think it's A thirty percent, B ten
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  Speaker 1: percent or C five percent or D none of the above?
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  Speaker 3: All right?
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  Speaker 1: Since night lock? Your answer, don't cheat? Do not cheat?
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  Speaker 1: All right? Survey says D none of the above. The
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  Speaker 1: answer sixty point seven percent. Sixty seven percent. You just
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  Speaker 1: said if I told you to invest in something that
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  Speaker 1: paid back sixty percent dividends, Holy crap, you'd be rich.
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  Speaker 1: Sixty a six hundred batting average sixty point seven percent
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  Speaker 1: of Madden cover athletes since nineteen ninety nine, there have
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  Speaker 1: been twenty eight seventeen out of the twenty eight set
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  Speaker 1: because a couple of years they had more than one.
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  Speaker 1: Seventeen out of the twenty eight have suffered injuries the
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  Speaker 1: season following the cover appearance, Most recently Christian McCaffrey. And
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  Speaker 1: I remember doing this very monologue last year. Christian McCaffrey
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  Speaker 1: found himself it wouldn't hurt anymore with the Niners. McCaffrey
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  Speaker 1: the latest he missed forty nine er games, multiple games
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  Speaker 1: in the twenty twenty four season, he missed the first
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  Speaker 1: game because of an achilles injury and then missed the
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  Speaker 1: last several games of the regular season with knees brands.
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  Speaker 1: But even when he was playing, he had multiple injuries
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  Speaker 1: and missed chunks of games. You won one hundred percent.
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  Speaker 1: So you mix in the fact. Now I mentioned the
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  Speaker 1: double whammy, So you've got the time tested in Madden Jinx.
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  Speaker 3: The voo Doo bugaloo. So you've got that.
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  Speaker 1: But then also you have the fact that Sequon Barkley
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  Speaker 1: went out last season and let's just call it like
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  Speaker 1: it is. He painted the Starry Night last season in Philadelphia.
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  Speaker 1: It was a work of art. It was a masterpiece
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  Speaker 1: that he put together and wasn't all him with the
• 35:21
  Speaker 1: offensive line hurts. It was a cacophony of amazing plays
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  Speaker 1: in the backfield. So what happens after you paint your
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  Speaker 1: starry Night and the next couple of paintings not that good?
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  Speaker 3: So expect a regression to the mean. A regression to mean.
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  Speaker 1: Extreme outcomes are followed by more moderate ones. Yeah, so
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  Speaker 1: that is code for the data evens out, which means
• 35:50
  Speaker 1: Barkley is going to go down. His performance will not
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  Speaker 1: be as good, and then you've got the self fulfilling
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  Speaker 1: prophecy of the Madden Hex the Jinx.
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  Speaker 4: It's mallard.
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  Speaker 3: How about that?
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  Speaker 2: To the third degree? This is one big Ben gets.
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  Speaker 4: Grail all right?
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  Speaker 1: Thirty three time here cool.
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  Speaker 5: The Arizona Cardinals took a step forward as a team
• 36:18
  Speaker 5: last year, winning eight games, but still were not able
• 36:20
  Speaker 5: to make the playoffs. Ben, the over underwin total in
• 36:23
  Speaker 5: Vegas for the Cardinals is set to eight and a half.
• 36:26
  Speaker 5: Does Arizona take another step forward?
• 36:29
  Speaker 1: No, and they don't because they don't have a quarterback.
• 36:31
  Speaker 1: Alligator arms Murray. You know what you're gonna get. Alligator
• 36:35
  Speaker 1: arms Murray falls apart. He's good for about seven or
• 36:37
  Speaker 1: eight weeks, and then the last part of the year
• 36:39
  Speaker 1: his body falls apart.
• 36:40
  Speaker 3: He's not productive. It's happened year after year.
• 36:43
  Speaker 1: So they'll be a middling team until they get a
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  Speaker 1: real quarterback, not a fun sized quarterback. Next.
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  Speaker 5: Yesterday you talked about how the Knicks overachieved to get
• 36:52
  Speaker 5: as far as they did in these playoffs.
• 36:54
  Speaker 3: Now, Ben, what moves do they need? To make in
• 36:55
  Speaker 3: order to get to the next level.
• 36:57
  Speaker 1: Well, the obvious one would be to get Yannis, and
• 36:59
  Speaker 1: this rumors that New York. We talked about Toronto, but
• 37:02
  Speaker 1: the NBA would like Giannis to play with the Knickerbockers.
• 37:06
  Speaker 1: The problem is, the whole dynamic is Jalen Brunson. He
• 37:09
  Speaker 1: is the head of the pyramid and he's not gonna
• 37:13
  Speaker 1: want to take a back seat to Giannis adent to Koombo.
• 37:15
  Speaker 1: So they're gonna have to find other support players that
• 37:18
  Speaker 1: don't vanish, like og and Enobi and some of these
• 37:22
  Speaker 1: other guys that at times just disappeared next.
• 37:25
  Speaker 5: Now, the Basketball Hall of Fame seems to let everyone in,
• 37:27
  Speaker 5: but apparently not Robert Orri. TMZ caught up with Ori
• 37:31
  Speaker 5: this past weekend, who told him that he belongs in there,
• 37:33
  Speaker 5: does he ben.
• 37:35
  Speaker 1: Well, he does, only because it's the basketball Hall of Fame.
• 37:39
  Speaker 1: If it was the Baseball Hall of Fame, you'd say
• 37:42
  Speaker 1: absolutely not. But in basketball you look at who's in there.
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  Speaker 1: In fact, I think alf the alien Opiner was inducted
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  Speaker 1: a couple of years ago in BA and nobody noticed.
• 37:52
  Speaker 1: But yeah, Robert, Robert Orri had seven or eight of
• 37:54
  Speaker 1: the biggest shots in his era of the NBA. Absolutely,
• 37:56
  Speaker 1: how did we know he passes on the ball? Twitter?
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  Speaker 1: That's welcome to our contestants we have. We are gonna
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  Speaker 1: play malls amount of Money. We've got Mike in Boston. Hello, oh,
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  Speaker 1: he said, Boy, he's got the radio turned all the
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  Speaker 1: way up.
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  Speaker 3: Holy crap. That's like talk radio one one.
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  Speaker 1: They've had a delay in talk radio since the nineteen fifties.
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  Speaker 3: All right, try get are you there, Mike? Oh crap?
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  Speaker 3: All right, Well let's try Kelly in Des Moines. Maybe
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  Speaker 3: that'll work.
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  Speaker 1: See Kelly in the moin Hello, Kelly, Hi Man, Hello Kelly, Welcome.
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  Speaker 1: You're gonna play mallus amount of Money. Who would you
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  Speaker 1: like to partner up with our friend Kelly.
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  Speaker 5: Man.
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  Speaker 1: I'm gonna go with you, all right. We're in it
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  Speaker 1: to win it, all right, And you're already in the
• 39:01
  Speaker 1: league because you know that there's a delay and you
• 39:04
  Speaker 1: can't have your audio turned all the way up, So
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  Speaker 1: you're in the lead, and we've got Mike in boss
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  Speaker 1: of CVS. There.
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  Speaker 4: Hello, Mike, Hi, Sorry about that.
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  Speaker 3: Bad job by you. All right, Mike, who do you
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  Speaker 3: want to partner up with? Mike?
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  Speaker 1: All right? Well you good choice, Mike pickled. One are
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  Speaker 1: the categories? This go quickly? Quickly, quickly, quickly. It's Malar's
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  Speaker 1: Mountain of Money.
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  Speaker 5: Gentlemen, this is the Mallards mount of Money. Dana Carvey edition.
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  Speaker 5: He turned seventy years old on Monday.
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  Speaker 3: Oh my god, no, church lady.
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  Speaker 5: All right, the categories aren't This is spinal tap, Opportunity,
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  Speaker 5: knocks Moving, and Wayne's World.
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  Speaker 3: Kelly, which category would you You're like? Hold on?
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  Speaker 1: Hold on, sake me, punch this guy?
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  Speaker 3: Go ahead. Oh that's not Kelly.
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  Speaker 1: Go ahead, Kelly.
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  Speaker 3: I would like to go Wayne Wayne's World, Wayne'sworth.
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  Speaker 1: Okay, good choice.
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  Speaker 3: What about you, Mike? This is spinal tap?
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  Speaker 1: Okay, those are the categories. Everyone, Hold on, do not
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  Speaker 1: hang up. We are gonna have Malars mount of mine.
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  Speaker 3: Who's gonna win?
• 40:10
  Speaker 1: Get your bets in, Get your bets in, Go over
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  Speaker 1: to DraftKings, get your bets in. We're gonna have it.
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  Speaker 1: Kelly in the Moines she's gonna win. So she's steaming
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  Speaker 1: with me and then Mike in Boston with Coop.
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  Speaker 3: We'll get to that. We will do it next.
• 40:23
  Speaker 2: Be sure to catch live editions of The Ben Maller
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  Speaker 2: Show weekdays at two am Eastern eleven pm Pacific. Now,
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  Speaker 2: who Mailor's Mountain of money?
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  Speaker 1: Hell?
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  Speaker 2: Do you have what it takes to get to the top?
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  Speaker 2: Probably not?
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  Speaker 1: Let's do here we go. The matchup is set Kelly
• 40:42
  Speaker 1: in the Moines formerly in Nashville.
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  Speaker 2: She is.
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  Speaker 1: Canoodling with a fellow listening to the show The Power
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  Speaker 1: Couple of Eye where she and and the Moine and Kelly.
• 40:51
  Speaker 1: Everything good with you two kids? Kelly?
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  Speaker 2: Yes, yes, it's amazing, Ben, thank you.
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  Speaker 1: Wonderful outside maslet all right, and my in Boston is
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  Speaker 1: teamed up with Cooper Loop. The Dana Carvey Edition turned
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  Speaker 1: seventy on Monday. And you're up first, Kelly, you picked
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  Speaker 1: Wayne's World? Is that correct? Correct? Okay, we got forty
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  Speaker 1: five seconds. These athletes have all been considered sidekicks. We
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  Speaker 1: need the first and last name. Are you ready, Kelly? Yes?
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  Speaker 3: All right, forty five seconds. We're on our way.
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  Speaker 2: Go.
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  Speaker 1: Michael Jordan's right hand man for the Bulls. Yes, tight
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  Speaker 1: end for the Patriots with Tom Brady, white guy right, Yes,
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  Speaker 1: running back for the Broncos. Some say he was the
• 41:36
  Speaker 1: sidekick to John Elway. Others say he was the main
• 41:39
  Speaker 1: player for those great Bronco teams. Oh, okay, Carl Malone's
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  Speaker 1: sidekick with the Utah Jazz John Yes, Barry Bonds sidekick,
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  Speaker 1: although he won an MVP with the San Francisco Giants
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  Speaker 1: a second baseman. White guy wore a porn mustache. Oh
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  Speaker 1: all right. The other wide receiver for the forty nine
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  Speaker 1: ers in the eighties. Next to you had Jerry Rice
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  Speaker 1: on one side and this guy on the other. Come on, sorry,
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  Speaker 1: that was a pretty good clue.
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  Speaker 5: Jeff, all right, she was a hole to Okay, I
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  Speaker 5: got seventy points.
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  Speaker 3: All right, Mike, you didn't get John Taylor either.
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  Speaker 4: Oh that's who was the other and.
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  Speaker 3: Terrell Davis is the running back it is, thank you.
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  Speaker 1: Wow.
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  Speaker 5: It doesn't help now, Mike, Uh we have this is
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  Speaker 5: spinal tap.
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  Speaker 1: Uh.
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  Speaker 5: These athletes were all in a band at one point
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  Speaker 5: in their life.
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  Speaker 3: Mike, are you ready?
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  Speaker 1: Yep?
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  Speaker 5: All right, forty five seconds let's begin. Super Bowl winning
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  Speaker 5: quarterback for the Cowboys. Yes, uh, this guy was one
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  Speaker 5: of the best dunkers of his time. Started with the Raptors.
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  Speaker 5: He yes, this guy was a catcher for the Dodgers.
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  Speaker 5: He got traded to the Mets. That's correct. This guy
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  Speaker 5: was a center fielder for the Yankees in the in
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  Speaker 5: the nineties when they won all their chimpions. Yes, this
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  Speaker 5: guy was a linebacker for the Patriots in the nineties
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  Speaker 5: and two thousands.
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  Speaker 3: White guy.
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  Speaker 5: Yes, this guy was a shortstop for a bunch of teams. Uh,
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  Speaker 5: the Indians, yeah.
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  Speaker 1: Uh.
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  Speaker 3: And this guy was a Hall of Fame quarterback for
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  Speaker 3: the Brown Kay. All right, all right, what was that, Kelly?
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  Speaker 2: Yes, Ben, I'm sorry.
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  Speaker 3: Don't break my heart.
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  Speaker 1: She's already about come on. How did he get from
• 43:50
  Speaker 1: that clue? Probably cheating? You're cheating? Okay, okay, all right,
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  Speaker 1: you just tell you you're losing to a guy.
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  Speaker 3: That soundgory, Kelly. Opportunity knocks are moving?
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  Speaker 1: Wait?
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  Speaker 2: What were the options?
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  Speaker 5: I'm sorry, take your time, opportunity knocks or moving opportunity?
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  Speaker 3: Okay.
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  Speaker 1: These athletes all started as backups and became stars. Forty
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  Speaker 1: five seconds on the clock, we're on our way.
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  Speaker 2: Go.
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  Speaker 1: Greatest quarterback in NFL history for the Patriots. He was
• 44:26
  Speaker 1: a quarterback for the forty nine Ers. He took a
• 44:28
  Speaker 1: knee during the national anthem. Yes French point guard for
• 44:34
  Speaker 1: the Great Spurs teams of the two thousands. Tony kukok
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  Speaker 1: no wow you okay no, the Iron Horse for the Yankees.
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  Speaker 1: He had the all time most consecutive games played until
• 44:48
  Speaker 1: cal Ripken broke his streak. Okay White quarterback from the
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  Speaker 1: eighties Giants. He replaced Phil Simms. He also had a
• 44:58
  Speaker 1: porn mustache and won a Super Bowl with the New
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  Speaker 1: York Giants in the mid nineteen.
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  Speaker 3: Eighties or nineties early nineties.
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  Speaker 1: Come on, come on, come on.
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  Speaker 3: You got the first name writing was Tony Parker, Tony Well.
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  Speaker 1: Tony Kukocks was a player for the Bulls.
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  Speaker 3: Did not Kelly, you broke my heart?
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  Speaker 1: Kelly, hurry then, lou Gerig, I'm devastated.
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  Speaker 3: Kelly, you won.
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  Speaker 1: Mike, Now figure out the delay on your radio. You
• 45:30
  Speaker 1: gotta golden. Take a you gotta golden. I got a golden.
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  Speaker 1: Chickheads