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  Speaker 1: So our lead this hour is from the owner's box,
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  Speaker 1: and we spun the wheel and we decided to stop
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  Speaker 1: right here. The Bus Family. That's right, the Bus Family.
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  Speaker 1: And I'm old enough to remember when I started in
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  Speaker 1: radio following Jerry Buss and a parade of teenagers young
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  Speaker 1: ladies who are following Jerry around at the Forum Club
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  Speaker 1: back in the day before social media. Quite the family,
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  Speaker 1: Quite the fan anyway, Jerry Buss long gone, the Bus
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  Speaker 1: Family not long gone. And the Bus Family is apparently selling,
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  Speaker 1: depending on who you believe, seventeen point eight percent of
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  Speaker 1: what was left of their ownership stake in the Lakers
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  Speaker 1: to the new majority ownership group led by Josh Kushner
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  Speaker 1: and the Disney guy Bob Iger, so hone of you
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  Speaker 1: saw this or not, it's it's perhaps you missed it.
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  Speaker 1: It's pretty wild, it's pretty crazy. And if this actually happens,
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  Speaker 1: if it actually happens the way it's being reported, that
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  Speaker 1: would mean that Genie Buss is persona non grata Bye bye.
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  Speaker 1: She's out. She will no longer serve as the Lakers owner. Yes,
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  Speaker 1: I'm a rebel, I said owner. I said owner, not governor,
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  Speaker 1: not governor. Owner. I know I'm a bad boy. I'm
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  Speaker 1: a bad boy, I said owner. Anyway, Jeanie Buss, who's
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  Speaker 1: been running the show there since the old man croaked
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  Speaker 1: years ago, and so she's been in control there. That
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  Speaker 1: would end the Bus family dynasty, and that would end
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  Speaker 1: control the franchise, which goes back many, many generations. So
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  Speaker 1: the Bus family trust always fun. When you have a
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  Speaker 1: family trust, that means you have a lot of money.
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  Speaker 1: Do you know any poor people that have a family trust.
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  Speaker 1: I don't. Anyway, the Bus family trust consists of not one,
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  Speaker 1: not two, not three, not four, not five? How about
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  Speaker 1: six siblings. You've got Genie. We know about her, Jim
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  Speaker 1: Johnny dealt with him in the past. Someone named Jeanie.
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  Speaker 1: I have no idea that is Joey seeing him a
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  Speaker 1: little bit, and Jesse Buss. So keep track. There will
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  Speaker 1: be a quiz on this later. So there's six of
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  Speaker 1: them selling the remaining stake. Required four of the six
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  Speaker 1: Bus siblings to sign off on the agreement, and they
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  Speaker 1: exercised the tag along provision. Isn't that a girl scout
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  Speaker 1: cookie the tag alongs? I think that is. I think
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  Speaker 1: that is so anyway, So it's all connected to the
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  Speaker 1: regional sale to Mark Walter, which is now a couple
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  Speaker 1: of owners ago. Now, so that is a good jumping
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  Speaker 1: off point. Let us discuss the question for the esteem
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  Speaker 1: panel what stands out to you? What stands out to
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  Speaker 1: you on Genie Buss being apparently excommunicated as even a
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  Speaker 1: bit owner of the Lakers. So I've got Game of Thrones,
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  Speaker 1: doctor shopping, and Nascar, and we will combine all of
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  Speaker 1: these things together and we are going to have a
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  Speaker 1: big bucket of tears because I gotta tell you some
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  Speaker 1: emotion people, very emotional Genie Bus out. I'm guessing she's
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  Speaker 1: crying a lot at this point too. What a story
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  Speaker 1: on just at every level as I understand, so, Jeanie Boss,
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  Speaker 1: essentially the way it comes across she had the tablecloth
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  Speaker 1: yanked out from underneath her at the Aristocrats ball. She
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  Speaker 1: was at the risk Gress ball. She was having a
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  Speaker 1: nice meal, and then all of a sudden, somebody ripped
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  Speaker 1: the tablecloth just like that, and all the champagne glasses
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  Speaker 1: and the silverware, it all went flying, the family china
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  Speaker 1: in the air everywhere. What a mess. It's like HBO
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  Speaker 1: brought back Secession and this is the NBA spin off
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  Speaker 1: of that show House of Bus. I'd watched that absolutely
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  Speaker 1: would the dark underbelly, the dark underbelly of the family
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  Speaker 1: business finally crawling out into the daylight. Oh my, you
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  Speaker 1: got old man Jerry Boss who built this massive empire
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  Speaker 1: the airs, spent years and years f over the throne.
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  Speaker 1: The kids turned it into Game of Thrones. That's what's
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  Speaker 1: going on right now with court side seats, of course,
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  Speaker 1: because you got to have those. And the genie finally
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  Speaker 1: lost the iron throne hoodwinked by her own bloodline. How
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  Speaker 1: great is that? How great is that? Now? Jim, Johnny, Joey,
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  Speaker 1: and Jesse Buss all had voted to cash in on
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  Speaker 1: the record amount of money they can make from the
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  Speaker 1: Lakers sale as part of the bargain, effectively firing their
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  Speaker 1: own sister, who had been the face of that ownership group.
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  Speaker 1: So they did it, and apparently Genie Buss not the
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  Speaker 1: nicest woman in the world. According to these stories, everyone's
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  Speaker 1: just trashing or the Bus family. Yeah, not big fans.
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  Speaker 1: How does that taste? How does that taste? So again,
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  Speaker 1: spare me the sappy violin music. I don't need that.
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  Speaker 1: If the reporting is accurate, Genie Buss either fired or
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  Speaker 1: sued every single one of her brothers since she took
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  Speaker 1: control of the team. Does that sound nice? I don't
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  Speaker 1: know that.
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  Speaker 2: Not to me.
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  Speaker 1: I have two brothers. None of them have sued me yet.
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  Speaker 1: I'll let you know when my brothers sued me. They
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  Speaker 1: have not sued me. So she sued all of her brothers,
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  Speaker 1: grabbing control. Imagine the Thanksgiving dinner at the Bus family.
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  Speaker 1: Not exactly Norman Rockwell, if anybody knows who that is anymore,
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  Speaker 1: Not quite Norman Rockwell. The only thing the siblings can
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  Speaker 1: universally lock in on is Genie Bad. That's it. Genie Bad,
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  Speaker 1: that's all, and that's all she wrote, see you later,
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  Speaker 1: get out of here, bye bye, and payback is a
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  Speaker 1: dish best served with a ejection from the ownership box.
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  Speaker 1: Get out of here, Get out of here. The Force sale.
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  Speaker 1: What a great win for the others. Bibblings in the
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  Speaker 1: Bus family and the family feud finally appears to have ended.
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  Speaker 1: And it ends the way all great Hollywood stories do.
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  Speaker 1: When you think about the history of Tinseltown, it ends
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  Speaker 1: with a giant cartoon sized check, a backstab, and somebody
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  Speaker 1: getting written out of the sequel, in this case, Genie
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  Speaker 1: Buss not quite part of the sequel. Sorry, you're not
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  Speaker 1: part of it? All right? Now the question and we
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  Speaker 1: turned the page two here, So the Lakers are completely
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  Speaker 1: divested if this happens of the Bus family, or are
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  Speaker 1: they As Lee Corso would say, not so fast, my friend,
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  Speaker 1: not so fast, my friend, Cauz. Nothing is that simple.
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  Speaker 1: Nothing is that simple. Not even things that are simply
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  Speaker 1: awful are that simple. That's just the way it is.
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  Speaker 1: So what looked like and still does the end of
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  Speaker 1: the Bus family forty year run, forty six year run
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  Speaker 1: as the Laker ownership family, the first family of the Lakers,
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  Speaker 1: and now it's becoming this It's not a Cold war,
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  Speaker 1: it's something else. It's a Bus family control war. We'll
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  Speaker 1: call it a conflict. We might have to bring in
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  Speaker 1: NATO here to work out some kind of peace treaty
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  Speaker 1: on this. Because Genie Buss's attorney, Adam Streisan, that name
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  Speaker 1: rings the bell, right, That is, I believe a second
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  Speaker 1: cousin to barb Yeah, Barbara Streisan. I'm aout. Yeah, that's
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  Speaker 1: such a typical Laker thing. Let me hire somebody related
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  Speaker 1: to Barbara Streisan as my attorney. Okay, So anyway, Adam
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  Speaker 1: Streisan sent a letter to lawyers representing her siblings. We
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  Speaker 1: just gave you all the names Jim, Johnny, Janey, Joey,
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  Speaker 1: and Jesse, stating that Genie quote has not not agreed
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  Speaker 1: to sell and that any family vote claiming otherwise would
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  Speaker 1: be would be void. Nolan Voyd. Now, the argument is
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  Speaker 1: a twenty seventeen court order established Genie as the Lakers
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  Speaker 1: controlling shareholder. There will be another quiz on this, so
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  Speaker 1: please pay close attention. So in twenty seventeen there was
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  Speaker 1: some legal wrangling and they had a court order said, hey,
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  Speaker 1: Genie is the controlling shareholder of all business with the Lakers,
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  Speaker 1: meaning a sale of the family steake cannot occur without
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  Speaker 1: her consent. Remember this is from the attorney hired by
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  Speaker 1: Genie Buss. Genie is asserting that her siblings are not allowed,
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  Speaker 1: not allowed here, cannot cash out around her, and so
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  Speaker 1: this complicates and most likely will end up delaying the
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  Speaker 1: ownership sale to the Lakers, putting the Lakers in limbo.
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  Speaker 1: Do the limbo. You gotta do the limbo, all right?
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  Speaker 1: So question is Genie Buss fighting for the Lakers with
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  Speaker 1: Does she have a legal bazooka or is this a
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  Speaker 1: water pistol? Again, for those of you in the back room,
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  Speaker 1: is Jeenie Buss fighting for the Lakers with a legal
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  Speaker 1: bazooka or is this just a water pistol? So, after
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  Speaker 1: a minutes long review and deliberation of the available information,
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  Speaker 1: we have determined this is it's a water pistol. It's
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  Speaker 1: a super soaker, which is a water pistol. And she's
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  Speaker 1: also armed with paperwork and a prayer. So good luck
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  Speaker 1: on that. Good luck on that. Now Genie is clutching
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  Speaker 1: that twenty seventeen court order like it's the holy Grail,
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  Speaker 1: and Indiana Jones is coming in with a whip to
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  Speaker 1: try to steal it away. I mean, come on, and
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  Speaker 1: there's one. It seem bit se lit. The problem. There's
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  Speaker 1: a little bit of a problem here. The calendar has
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  Speaker 1: continued to move. You see, that's a problem. And the
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  Speaker 1: reason that is a problem the calendar continuing to move
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  Speaker 1: is at this point she needs to go Genie Bus
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  Speaker 1: doctor shopping, and I recommend hiring doctor Strange to manipulate
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  Speaker 1: time because that's the problem. That's the problem. Now I'm
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  Speaker 1: not a lawyer, I can play one on the radio,
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  Speaker 1: so as I understand it from years of deciding legal
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  Speaker 1: cases behind the bully pulpit here at Fox Sports Radio
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  Speaker 1: twenty seventeen, that legal deal, the court order in twenty
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  Speaker 1: seventeen should be in a museum behind glass. Okay, it's
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  Speaker 1: a museum piece. In twenty fifteen, last I checked, that
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  Speaker 1: would be a year ago. The entire Bus family all
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  Speaker 1: got around the campfire. They roasted marshmallows and saying kumbay yah.
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  Speaker 1: They sang kombah yah. The entire Bus family, including Genie Buss,
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  Speaker 1: signed a new rule book. You might have heard about it.
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  Speaker 1: They sold control of Laker franchise to Mark Walter. They
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  Speaker 1: put a five year timer on her reign of terror
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  Speaker 1: as the owner. And so yet it turns out again
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  Speaker 1: based on the reporting that. And this is from her
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  Speaker 1: own lawyer who kept bringing up the twenty seventeen thing.
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  Speaker 1: As I understand it, they're ignoring twenty twenty five. They're
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  Speaker 1: reaching in the way back machine and they're going eight
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  Speaker 1: years ago and they're using that and saying, well, this
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  Speaker 1: is it. They're going into the attic and they're saying, well,
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  Speaker 1: let me dust that off. This twenty seventeen thing is
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  Speaker 1: the way to go. And unless you have some kind
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  Speaker 1: of mystical powers that we don't know about, she's already
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  Speaker 1: signed away what she had in twenty seventeen. Dumb, du dum,
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  Speaker 1: dumb dumb. Did she not realize that? Did no one say, hey, listen,
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  Speaker 1: if the unthinking, I guarantee you. She thought there's no
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  Speaker 1: way Mark Walter is gonna buy the Lakers and sell
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  Speaker 1: it in one year. She assumed he'd owned the team
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  Speaker 1: for ten years. She did not factor in that the
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  Speaker 1: Feds would be bird dogging the Dodger owner Mark Walter
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  Speaker 1: to try get their money back because they government, I
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  Speaker 1: don't even know about it. If you don't pay your taxes,
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  Speaker 1: they come after you anyway. So she signed away her power.
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  Speaker 1: So what is the argument here like, seriously, I mean,
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  Speaker 1: if you know more about this than I explain to me,
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  Speaker 1: because I don't understand the way I read it, She ded,
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  Speaker 1: he only twenty seventeen. She voided the deal in twenty
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  Speaker 1: twenty five, agreeing to sell the team. So unless there's
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  Speaker 1: something that we're missing here, this is just a very
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  Speaker 1: expensive stall tactic and it's grasping at the last branch
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  Speaker 1: while the family tree gets chopped down, Like seriously, all right, Meanwhile,
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  Speaker 1: to baseball, let's go to the crystal ball. In baseball,
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  Speaker 1: Blue Heaven reports trickling in a lot of noise here
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  Speaker 1: that Trek Skubele, a current Dodger former Detroit Tiger, Trek Scooble,
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  Speaker 1: not only is he a smitten kitten with the Dodgers,
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  Speaker 1: he wants to sign the DOCU sign right now. Did
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  Speaker 1: you see this? No? Okay, So scoobl who's been not terrible,
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  Speaker 1: not good, as kind of average as a Dodger. So
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  Speaker 1: he wants a new multi year contract to stay with
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  Speaker 1: the Dodgers, and he'd like it asap. You know, players
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  Speaker 1: always say I want to focus on the season. I
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  Speaker 1: don't want to I don't want to think about my
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  Speaker 1: contract till after the season, Eh not this guy, No, no, no,
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  Speaker 1: Scooba wants a deal done before the current CBA expires.
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  Speaker 1: That's the Collective Bargaining Agreement. By the way, that is
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  Speaker 1: December first, that is the deadline to get it done.
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  Speaker 1: So question on this where do you fall? Here's the question,
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  Speaker 1: where do you fall on the chatter that Trek Scooble
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  Speaker 1: wants a Dodger extension done before the offseason gets going.
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  Speaker 1: So any way you measure this, any way you measure this.
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  Speaker 1: Scott Boris is the agent here, and it's pretty easy
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  Speaker 1: to see the landscape. Scott sees storm clouds, an ominous
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  Speaker 1: dark storm and right over baseball, and he sees what
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  Speaker 1: you see and what I see. And Boris is the
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  Speaker 1: most powerful man in baseball. Rob Manford is like an
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  Speaker 1: intern for Scott Boris. You really understand that. So Scott
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  Speaker 1: Boris sees the storm clouds over baseball and he's not
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  Speaker 1: waiting around to buy an umbrella. You know those guys
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  Speaker 1: pop up anytime it rains. There's like a bunch of
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  Speaker 1: guys with buckets of umbrella. Umbrella's umbrella, ten bucks, twenty bucks,
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  Speaker 1: umbrella umbrella. You know where do those guys hide all
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  Speaker 1: the time, but it's not raining. I don't know anyway,
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  Speaker 1: boris it would appear based on reading the tea leaves
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  Speaker 1: here wants Schooble to get one of those biggie sized
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  Speaker 1: piggy banks dropped into his backyard and or Dodger Stadium, like,
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  Speaker 1: just do it right now now. The CBA expires December first.
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  Speaker 1: That means there will be a cold war that takes
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  Speaker 1: place in baseball following that. While a hard cap is
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  Speaker 1: not going to happen, it is a very long shot.
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  Speaker 1: Good luck if your team cap, because the cap is crap,
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  Speaker 1: it's not going to happen. However, there will be a compromise,
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  Speaker 1: so the players are not going to agree to a
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  Speaker 1: salary cap, so that's not going to happen. However, what's
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  Speaker 1: the common ground, Well, the common ground it would appear
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  Speaker 1: from what I've heard from people in baseball would be
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  Speaker 1: think of it like NASCAR restrictor plate rules, where they
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  Speaker 1: don't put a cap on overall team spending. They just
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  Speaker 1: cap contract length and they'll try to cut back on
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  Speaker 1: some deferred money. They'll put guardrails up on how fast
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  Speaker 1: you can go, meaning how many years and how much
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  Speaker 1: money total contract value and really just guardrails to stop
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  Speaker 1: the Dodgers' financial trapeze act is what they're going to
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  Speaker 1: try to do. Buggety, buggety, buggety. So why gamble if
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  Speaker 1: you're Scott Morris, why gamble? Scoople's already getting the free sample,
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  Speaker 1: the Kirkland brand sample from the Dodgers, and Boris knows
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  Speaker 1: all about it. He lives in Newport Beaches compound. There
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  Speaker 1: in Newport, he goes to Dodger games all the time,
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  Speaker 1: and so he's familiar with the organization. He knows that
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  Speaker 1: in this case, unlike almost every one of his other clients,
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  Speaker 1: it's better off just to take a deal right now.
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  Speaker 1: And this is essentially Scott Boris covering his badunka dunk
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  Speaker 1: okay cash in under today's rules, the rules you know
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  Speaker 1: today before Tomorrow's shrink the size of the buffet. You
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  Speaker 1: know how that shrink flation cuts down on how much
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  Speaker 1: food you get. The price of the food's the same,
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  Speaker 1: you get less food though, That's it. So stuff those
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  Speaker 1: deferred payments from the Dodgers into every mattress you can
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  Speaker 1: possibly find in La and wherever Schooble lives in the
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  Speaker 1: offseason and then let Rob manfraud and the people that
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  Speaker 1: major League Baseball in the Union bicker the Bickersons and
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  Speaker 1: they can have a field day. And so yeah, for
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  Speaker 1: Scott Bors, I understand the agent for Terry Scoople December first.
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  Speaker 1: It's not a deadline. It's the last exit before the
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  Speaker 1: toll road.
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  Speaker 1: So the NBA, they've had an investigation into the La
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  Speaker 1: no evidence that owner Steve Baumer funneled money through team
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  Speaker 1: Entertainment and Sports Network out of Bristol, Connecticut, none has
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  Speaker 1: been found. Whoa, whoa, whoa whoa whoa whoa whoa whoa.
• 20:47
  Speaker 1: All right, so that is a good jumping up point.
• 20:48
  Speaker 1: Let us discuss the question, how does this latest report
• 20:55
  Speaker 1: that claims the NBA, after over a year I believe
• 20:58
  Speaker 1: were passed a year I think now has found no
• 21:01
  Speaker 1: no Steve Balmer, shenanigans with Kawhi Leonard and the no
• 21:07
  Speaker 1: show jobs. How does this read to you? So I've
• 21:11
  Speaker 1: got trapdoor, waterbed, and al capone, and we'll combine all
• 21:19
  Speaker 1: of these things together and we're gonna go abra cadabra.
• 21:23
  Speaker 1: Hocus pocus is what we're going to do. So number one, one, one,
• 21:30
  Speaker 1: one one one, all right. Stop. So I've determined, after
• 21:41
  Speaker 1: a minutes long dive into this that the NBA investigating
• 21:46
  Speaker 1: the Clippers. They hired a two man team, well two
• 21:48
  Speaker 1: people involved here. Their lead investigator was Helen keller Uh
• 21:53
  Speaker 1: and she she handled the main parts of the investigation.
• 21:56
  Speaker 1: And then they also hired Sergeant Schultz, which is an
• 21:58
  Speaker 1: old character from a TV show. Oh that's long gone,
• 22:00
  Speaker 1: called Hogan's Heroes, and they spent a year snooping around
• 22:06
  Speaker 1: the Clippers, and they issued a joint statement, and the
• 22:09
  Speaker 1: joint statement said I see nothing, I hear nothing, I
• 22:14
  Speaker 1: know nothing. That was a statement. That's it. Of course,
• 22:19
  Speaker 1: they found no evidence. Now even I am surprised if
• 22:24
  Speaker 1: this is actually the way this plays out, because I
• 22:26
  Speaker 1: had heard, and I told you what I had been hearing,
• 22:28
  Speaker 1: that the NBA really doesn't want to punish the Clippers
• 22:31
  Speaker 1: because this kind of thing happens not all the time,
• 22:34
  Speaker 1: but for the top say two percent of NBA players,
• 22:39
  Speaker 1: they get these kind of deals. It's just common practice.
• 22:43
  Speaker 1: Nobody talks about it, and it's like the first rule
• 22:46
  Speaker 1: of fight club. You don't talk about It just kind
• 22:48
  Speaker 1: of happens. And they just don't want to avoid having
• 22:51
  Speaker 1: to punish the Clippers because that would have created a
• 22:53
  Speaker 1: bunch of headaches and all that. So even that though
• 22:56
  Speaker 1: I assumed they would give some kind of slap on
• 22:59
  Speaker 1: the wrist. That's what I assumed here, and I have
• 23:02
  Speaker 1: learned over the years. You cannot find something if you've
• 23:05
  Speaker 1: already decided you don't want to find it, so you
• 23:08
  Speaker 1: just you can't and The ugly truth is that these
• 23:11
  Speaker 1: kind of wink wink, nudge nudge side agreements around the
• 23:16
  Speaker 1: top two percent of star players are not exactly exotic
• 23:20
  Speaker 1: wildlife in the NBA's big sporty industrial complex. It's just not.
• 23:27
  Speaker 1: And Adam Silver sitting on his big perch there in
• 23:32
  Speaker 1: Midtown Manhattan and looking out the window, and he's like, Okay,
• 23:35
  Speaker 1: I got this button, and if I press the button,
• 23:38
  Speaker 1: it'll open up a trap door and we will fall
• 23:41
  Speaker 1: down into crazy Town. And I don't want to go
• 23:45
  Speaker 1: to crazy Town. I want to avoid crazy Town, the
• 23:48
  Speaker 1: baddest part of town. I don't want to go. So
• 23:50
  Speaker 1: he decided, Eh, maybe we just keep that sucker bolted
• 23:55
  Speaker 1: shut and not open that trap door, because once you
• 23:59
  Speaker 1: see it start digging in to the underbelly around Kawhi
• 24:04
  Speaker 1: Leonard's arrangement, where does the shovel stop. In fact, there's
• 24:09
  Speaker 1: chatter that the NBA already ruled that sponsors are allowed
• 24:15
  Speaker 1: to in previous years. They said in previous cases, the
• 24:18
  Speaker 1: NBA said that essentially sponsors are allowed to pay players
• 24:21
  Speaker 1: without circumventing the salarycap. So this whole thing, though, it
• 24:27
  Speaker 1: gives me vibrations of the cheating as one one thousand
• 24:32
  Speaker 1: and two one thousand holes. Yes, remember this, I remember.
• 24:36
  Speaker 1: So rival teams said, hey, we're you know, the Athletics
• 24:40
  Speaker 1: or the Mariners or whoever, and we believe beyond a
• 24:44
  Speaker 1: reasonable doubt that the team in Houston is cheating. And
• 24:48
  Speaker 1: Major League basically said, okay, this is a very serious thing.
• 24:50
  Speaker 1: We are going to investigate. We are going to hire
• 24:53
  Speaker 1: the Keystone cops to go out there and investigate the
• 24:56
  Speaker 1: team in Houston. So they went out there and they investigated.
• 24:58
  Speaker 1: Rival teams complain, they look did into it. Rob Manford
• 25:01
  Speaker 1: man Fraud's band of merry men started sniffing around, and
• 25:06
  Speaker 1: they investigated, and they said, listen, we did a full investigation,
• 25:10
  Speaker 1: and we were happy to report everything's good here. No cheating, Nope,
• 25:15
  Speaker 1: it's all good. Couldn't find the elephant in the room.
• 25:19
  Speaker 1: While Houston was at that time, the Astros were practically
• 25:25
  Speaker 1: stomping on anything they could to signal fastball or breaking ball.
• 25:30
  Speaker 1: They had a trash can band behind the dugout and
• 25:34
  Speaker 1: yet nothing to see here, folks, nothing to see, Please disperse.
• 25:38
  Speaker 1: It was only after a whistleblower on the team spilled
• 25:43
  Speaker 1: the beans. It was only after that that the people
• 25:46
  Speaker 1: at Major League Baseball were forced to open their eyes,
• 25:49
  Speaker 1: not that they actually punished anyone. As we saw cheating
• 25:52
  Speaker 1: Ahole is in the Hall of Fame, tarnishing Cooperstown this year.
• 25:55
  Speaker 1: The NBA investigated and said, well we wouldn't you know it.
• 26:00
  Speaker 1: The NBA investigated the NBA and determined that the NBA
• 26:03
  Speaker 1: is doing just fine. They're doing just fine now Page two.
• 26:08
  Speaker 1: The counter point on this. The counter point on this.
• 26:12
  Speaker 1: Less than two hours after the report we just talked about.
• 26:15
  Speaker 1: Less than two hours after report we just talked about,
• 26:18
  Speaker 1: popped up that Clippers owner Steve Baumer had been essentially
• 26:23
  Speaker 1: cleared of any wrongdoing involving Kawhi Leonard. The NBA issued
• 26:31
  Speaker 1: a prepared statement, a sharp rebuke, all right, saying that
• 26:36
  Speaker 1: the ESPN story that we've been talking about contained quote,
• 26:40
  Speaker 1: numerous and significant inaccuracies close quote. The league also pointed
• 26:47
  Speaker 1: out and noted that it declined to cooperate with ESPN's
• 26:53
  Speaker 1: reporting and said the facts will become clear once the
• 26:55
  Speaker 1: investigation is completed. Keep in mind, that's very vague. They
• 26:59
  Speaker 1: did not give any specifics. You would think if there
• 27:02
  Speaker 1: was something that was urgently needed to be rebuked, you
• 27:05
  Speaker 1: would have rebuked it right away. They chose not to
• 27:07
  Speaker 1: do that. An unnamed league insider calling the possible punishment
• 27:14
  Speaker 1: of Steve Balmer and the Clippers over sponsor shenanigans, if
• 27:19
  Speaker 1: you will, as at outrageous overreach, and the ruling would
• 27:26
  Speaker 1: contradict previous guidelines. What we talked about that this has
• 27:29
  Speaker 1: kind of been an open thing in the NBA in
• 27:32
  Speaker 1: previous years said listen, you do what you gotta do,
• 27:34
  Speaker 1: and we're not gonna you know, we're gonna bug it.
• 27:36
  Speaker 1: We'll look the other way. If these sponsors want to
• 27:38
  Speaker 1: throw their money away, then okay, that's that's fine, and
• 27:42
  Speaker 1: we're we're okay with it, all right. So the question
• 27:45
  Speaker 1: here the nb A. So the NBA says, the report
• 27:50
  Speaker 1: that the Clippers investigation of Steve Balmer contains numerous and
• 27:55
  Speaker 1: significant inaccuracies. How much muscle does does this memo from
• 28:01
  Speaker 1: the league office have? How much? How much does that have?
• 28:03
  Speaker 1: So this is kind of like you go to the gym.
• 28:07
  Speaker 1: You see those Jim bros. They're they're flexing in the
• 28:10
  Speaker 1: mirrors there and they have inflatable muscles. Essentially, what it
• 28:15
  Speaker 1: is like inflatable muscles here numerous and significant inaccuracies. Now
• 28:21
  Speaker 1: that sounds pretty menacing, doesn't it. I mean that does right,
• 28:25
  Speaker 1: It was just somewhat menacing. But you know what that means.
• 28:29
  Speaker 1: The whip they're cracking is ultimately cool whip. It's delicious
• 28:34
  Speaker 1: cool whip. And here's why. Because the NBA and ESPN
• 28:39
  Speaker 1: are lovers. They are lovers. They are lovers. That's right,
• 28:45
  Speaker 1: financial waterbed. They're in the waterbed together, ESPN ABC They
• 28:54
  Speaker 1: essentially if you look at the relationship here, the ESPN
• 28:57
  Speaker 1: ABC outfit is the sugar dad of the NBA, paying
• 29:02
  Speaker 1: around two point six billion per year for its slice
• 29:08
  Speaker 1: of the basketball pie, the eleven year media rights deal.
• 29:13
  Speaker 1: So that's every year the ESPEN people cut a check
• 29:17
  Speaker 1: for two point six billion to the NBA. And ESBN
• 29:21
  Speaker 1: knows where the guardrails are. They're business partners in. The
• 29:24
  Speaker 1: NBA knows who helps pay the palace. Palace does not
• 29:30
  Speaker 1: pay for itself. Somebody has to pay for the palace.
• 29:32
  Speaker 1: So Adam Silver can puff out his chest, mister Commissioner
• 29:36
  Speaker 1: from somewhere far out in the cosmos, out there possible
• 29:41
  Speaker 1: lizard person. So Adam Silver can puff out his chest,
• 29:46
  Speaker 1: and then you know, huff and puff and all this
• 29:47
  Speaker 1: stuff and go crazy and all that about inaccuracies and whatnot.
• 29:51
  Speaker 1: Here an issue sternly warded worded communicate right, just do
• 29:57
  Speaker 1: all that stuff and wag his finger just like that
• 30:00
  Speaker 1: wagon's finger and yell bad network bad bad bad bad
• 30:03
  Speaker 1: bad bad bad bad bad. But until Silver puts the
• 30:07
  Speaker 1: alleged inaccuracies that supposedly happened on the table, it is
• 30:12
  Speaker 1: just corporate corporate chest thumping is all it is. And
• 30:16
  Speaker 1: you can't have a hat Fields and McCoy's family feud
• 30:22
  Speaker 1: when both families share the same checking account. They have
• 30:26
  Speaker 1: a joint checking account. Understand good? All right? Meanwhile, final
• 30:31
  Speaker 1: point to the pod. To the pod we go some
• 30:37
  Speaker 1: guy named Pablo Torre. I guess he's a podcast guy,
• 30:42
  Speaker 1: and he has made a name for himself. We are
• 30:45
  Speaker 1: told just on this like nobodyknew who was. People still
• 30:49
  Speaker 1: don't really know who he is. He's not really very
• 30:51
  Speaker 1: all that well, but he's claiming, you know, people around him,
• 30:55
  Speaker 1: he's famous now because of this. So this Pablo Tory
• 30:58
  Speaker 1: who just kind of kept reporting nonsense about this lead investigator,
• 31:04
  Speaker 1: if you will, lead investigator on the Clippers story, now
• 31:09
  Speaker 1: he's in the crosshairs. If this report is accurate, this
• 31:14
  Speaker 1: is not good you talk about Mortal Kombat. So Pablo Tore,
• 31:19
  Speaker 1: for months and months has accused the Clippers of bull
• 31:24
  Speaker 1: crap no show job for Kawhi Leonard twenty eight million
• 31:29
  Speaker 1: dollars no show job endorsement deal Leonard received from Aspiration.
• 31:34
  Speaker 1: He parlayed this Pablo Torre did into winning, believe it
• 31:38
  Speaker 1: or not, the twenty twenty six Pullitzer Prize in Audio reporting.
• 31:43
  Speaker 1: I didn't even know that was a thing. Apparently it is,
• 31:47
  Speaker 1: and on his Little Friends and Family podcast. So the question,
• 31:52
  Speaker 1: with the NBA close to clearing the Clippers over the
• 31:55
  Speaker 1: Kawhi Leonard no show job, which Pablo Torre has spent
• 32:00
  Speaker 1: months and months yapping about, where does this leave the
• 32:05
  Speaker 1: podcaster Pablo Tory if this goes the way it is headed.
• 32:09
  Speaker 1: So I recommend, and I think I'm the voice of
• 32:13
  Speaker 1: reason on this, that Pablo Torre should get the Reggie
• 32:15
  Speaker 1: Bush treatment. You might remember Reggie Bush had the Heisman
• 32:18
  Speaker 1: Trophy taken away from him, and so why not repossess
• 32:24
  Speaker 1: the Pulitzer Prize, return the Pulitzer, give it back, give
• 32:28
  Speaker 1: it back, now, give it back. Because If the NBA's
• 32:32
  Speaker 1: official position is that there was no salary cap circumvention,
• 32:37
  Speaker 1: then what exactly on God's Green Earth did Pablo Torre
• 32:42
  Speaker 1: win the Pulitzer Prize Award for Creative Accounting fan fiction?
• 32:47
  Speaker 1: Is that? What? Do they have a Pulitzer Prize for fiction?
• 32:50
  Speaker 1: Is that? No, they don't. Okay, So this thing is
• 32:53
  Speaker 1: starting to look and I'm gonna day myself. But there's
• 32:56
  Speaker 1: a famous moment in television history. It was Geraldo Rivera
• 33:00
  Speaker 1: was behind it, and it was in Chicago, a famous
• 33:05
  Speaker 1: basement underneath a hotel in downtown Chicago. There the legendary
• 33:09
  Speaker 1: TV special which even though it's been forty years, people
• 33:13
  Speaker 1: still bring this up, the mystery of al Capone's fault,
• 33:17
  Speaker 1: and it was a big deal. And I think they
• 33:19
  Speaker 1: found a couple of old soda cans and some rats
• 33:23
  Speaker 1: and some cockaroaches and all that stuff. So months of
• 33:26
  Speaker 1: hype involving the Clippers, Kawhi Leonard salary cap circumvention. A
• 33:30
  Speaker 1: number of you had your pants down, you were so excited.
• 33:33
  Speaker 1: You were all waiting for this to happen, and just
• 33:36
  Speaker 1: breathless anticipation, just absolutely breathless anticipation. Cameras rolling America watching,
• 33:42
  Speaker 1: and they opened the vault and there was capital b bupkus,
• 33:47
  Speaker 1: capital b bupkus. So Pablo Torre at this point he
• 33:50
  Speaker 1: turned the Clippers Kawhi Leonard twenty eight million dollars no
• 33:54
  Speaker 1: show aspiration deal into the Zubruder film of basketball, examining
• 34:02
  Speaker 1: every little kernel, every frame, like he was cracking Watergate.
• 34:08
  Speaker 1: Oh my. And after all of that, the NBA says, essentially,
• 34:13
  Speaker 1: this report by ESPN, which is a business partner of
• 34:16
  Speaker 1: the NBA, says there's nothing to see here. There's nothing.
• 34:20
  Speaker 1: There's just nothing. So either the league investigation is a
• 34:23
  Speaker 1: whitewash and Pablo Tory exposed something real, or the Pulitzer
• 34:31
  Speaker 1: Committee handed out journalism's shiny gold star for the al
• 34:38
  Speaker 1: Capone vaults of NBA scandals. So Pablo Tory finds out,
• 34:44
  Speaker 1: we are told, is the name of his little show there.
• 34:46
  Speaker 1: And it's more like Pablo Tory found out there was
• 34:51
  Speaker 1: nothing in the vaults, nothing at all.
• 34:53
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• 34:56
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• 35:00
  Speaker 1: Come Come, let's do it, go ahead, coop.
• 35:05
  Speaker 4: A report this weekend said that Tory Lavello of the
• 35:09
  Speaker 4: d Bags, Joe A. Spota of the Ashtros, and Dan
• 35:11
  Speaker 4: Wilson and the Mariners all have to make the playoffs
• 35:13
  Speaker 4: this season or they will be out of the job.
• 35:15
  Speaker 1: Ben, how many do you think actually get fyed? So
• 35:17
  Speaker 1: I think Lavello will keep his job. Dan Wilson the
• 35:20
  Speaker 1: Manners are not very good and they're boring, so he's
• 35:23
  Speaker 1: out and Joe's spot I believe will be out in Houston.
• 35:25
  Speaker 1: So two of the three gone.
• 35:26
  Speaker 4: Next, Russell Westbrook importedly balked at an offer from the
• 35:29
  Speaker 4: Washington Wizards and Sacramento Kings before deciding to retire, Ben,
• 35:33
  Speaker 4: would you have decided to retire rather than return hiss
• 35:35
  Speaker 4: Trey Young's backup if you were Westbrook.
• 35:36
  Speaker 1: Well, he's rich, so he doesn't need the money. I
• 35:38
  Speaker 1: would have kept playing, because why not you go to
• 35:41
  Speaker 1: the team like the Wizards, and then you can go
• 35:43
  Speaker 1: to a good team. They'll trade. A good team will
• 35:45
  Speaker 1: trade for you at the deadline, So that's what I
• 35:46
  Speaker 1: would have done. Next.
• 35:48
  Speaker 4: John Beeliner is returning to the NBA as a senior
• 35:51
  Speaker 4: coaching consultant for the Lando Magic. Do you think this
• 35:54
  Speaker 4: is a stepping stone to something bigger or just a
• 35:55
  Speaker 4: way to stay in the game.
• 35:57
  Speaker 1: Well, the key part of that coop is senior coach.
• 36:00
  Speaker 1: You can consultant. You know how old John B. Line
• 36:02
  Speaker 1: is seventy three? When you're seventy three, it's not a
• 36:08
  Speaker 1: stepping stone. It's not I don't know what that is.
• 36:12
  Speaker 1: The man seventy three and there's no stepping stone. He's
• 36:15
  Speaker 1: not going anywhere. Uh, good for him. He'll get some
• 36:18
  Speaker 1: money for the grandkids. I guess you can buy him
• 36:20
  Speaker 1: cars and crap like that. There it is malardly third degree?
• 36:23
  Speaker 1: How did we do he passes? That is a went
• 36:27
  Speaker 1: put it on the bar, went a chicken dinner.
• 36:33
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• 36:44
  Speaker 2: listen live. Thank you now Malor's Mountain of money. Hey,
• 36:51
  Speaker 2: do you have what it takes to get to the top?
• 36:54
  Speaker 1: Probably not as soon as right now. Welcome in arkansesss.
• 36:58
  Speaker 1: We have Jamar, who is in Saint Petersburg, Florida. Hello Jamar, Welcome,
• 37:07
  Speaker 1: what's going on?
• 37:08
  Speaker 3: What's going on?
• 37:08
  Speaker 1: You're gonna play our game? How exciting? Is this, Jamar?
• 37:11
  Speaker 1: This is amazing he is already all right, buddy, Well,
• 37:15
  Speaker 1: good to have you. And are you working right now?
• 37:19
  Speaker 1: What do you got going on over there?
• 37:21
  Speaker 3: Yeah, I'm working.
• 37:22
  Speaker 4: I'm your looka and the Busch beer this year?
• 37:24
  Speaker 1: All right? The beer man, how about that? He's got
• 37:27
  Speaker 1: all the brew, all the Bruce keys. All right, you
• 37:29
  Speaker 1: want to play with Coop, you can play with me
• 37:32
  Speaker 1: or Lorena.
• 37:34
  Speaker 4: Play with you. Man.
• 37:35
  Speaker 1: All right, we're in it, Jamar, the beer man. I
• 37:39
  Speaker 1: love it?
• 37:39
  Speaker 2: All right?
• 37:40
  Speaker 1: Hold ont sex, buddy, and we have who do we have?
• 37:42
  Speaker 1: We have Joey in Amarillo, Texas? Hello, Joey?
• 37:47
  Speaker 3: Hey, what's up?
• 37:48
  Speaker 1: Ben? Welcome in? Joe You're driving, you're driving around. Get
• 37:51
  Speaker 1: a lot of feedback with.
• 37:53
  Speaker 4: I'm not sure you're doing door dash.
• 37:55
  Speaker 1: Oh, door dash? All right, Well, we don't have a
• 37:57
  Speaker 1: lot of time, so we gotta get into the game.
• 37:59
  Speaker 1: Other way to ask you a bunch of questions and
• 38:01
  Speaker 1: put you on hold for a second. You're gonna play
• 38:03
  Speaker 1: with Cooper Loop and let's get this party started. What
• 38:05
  Speaker 1: are the categories here, Coop Loop? Please? All right?
• 38:09
  Speaker 4: This is the Edward Norton edition of Mausmount of Money.
• 38:12
  Speaker 4: He turns fifty six years old today.
• 38:15
  Speaker 1: Yep.
• 38:15
  Speaker 4: The categories are fight Club, Moonrise, Kingdom, the Incredible Hulk,
• 38:20
  Speaker 4: and a Complete Unknown.
• 38:24
  Speaker 1: Jamar, you were on first. Which category would you like?
• 38:27
  Speaker 2: Let's go Incredible Hope.
• 38:29
  Speaker 4: Incredible Hulk? All right, and Joey, which category would you like?
• 38:34
  Speaker 4: Fight Club, Moonrise, Kingdom or a complete Unknown?
• 38:39
  Speaker 2: Fight Club?
• 38:40
  Speaker 1: Okay? Bichael, all right, we are going first. And what's
• 38:43
  Speaker 1: our category here? Coop, you've been number three? The Credible Hulk,
• 38:45
  Speaker 1: I believe are these athletes are?
• 38:47
  Speaker 4: Here?
• 38:47
  Speaker 1: We go, Jamar the beer Man. These athletes are or
• 38:51
  Speaker 1: we're all freakishly strong? Are you ready? All right? Forty
• 38:56
  Speaker 1: five seconds on the clock. We're on our way.
• 38:58
  Speaker 4: Go.
• 38:59
  Speaker 1: The Star are for the Lakers with Kobe Bryant the
• 39:02
  Speaker 1: center for the Lakers. Yes, a great defensive tackle for
• 39:07
  Speaker 1: the Rams. He retired. He might come out of retirement
• 39:10
  Speaker 1: to play again. Here Donald, Yes, running back for the Raiders.
• 39:14
  Speaker 1: He played baseball for the Royals in the nineteen eighties. Yeah,
• 39:18
  Speaker 1: look at you. Slugger for the Florida Marlins. He was
• 39:21
  Speaker 1: traded to the Yankees. He's kind of old now. Designated hitter,
• 39:25
  Speaker 1: still hits a lot of home runs. He's always hurt
• 39:28
  Speaker 1: no running back for the Cleveland Rounds. Kind of like
• 39:34
  Speaker 1: a flub if you will here? What no, what do
• 39:41
  Speaker 1: vines there? Sounds like just ruined the engine trying to
• 39:46
  Speaker 1: I didn't try to cheat.
• 39:47
  Speaker 2: I should get like.
• 39:48
  Speaker 1: An extra eighty one. Kind of like flub? Are you
• 39:51
  Speaker 1: kidding me? When is that? Okay? Jamar? You didn't get
• 39:54
  Speaker 1: it right anyway? Right, I didn't get it right exactly,
• 39:57
  Speaker 1: so we don't get penalized. Screw you group, Sure, jerk,
• 40:00
  Speaker 1: you need Jamar?
• 40:01
  Speaker 4: Alright, joe all right, Joey, we've got fight club. Uh.
• 40:07
  Speaker 4: These athletes have all been in notable fights. Are you ready, Joey? Yeah,
• 40:13
  Speaker 4: all right, forty five seconds. Let's begin. Defensive player of
• 40:16
  Speaker 4: the Year. He's on the Cleveland Browns. He hit a
• 40:18
  Speaker 4: quarterback with his helmet.
• 40:20
  Speaker 1: What's that? What's his full name?
• 40:23
  Speaker 2: Oh? Oh my god?
• 40:27
  Speaker 1: Oh all right, we're gonna skip that. Uh.
• 40:31
  Speaker 4: This guy started the malice at the Palace. Is he
• 40:34
  Speaker 4: changed his name later in his career?
• 40:36
  Speaker 1: Yes?
• 40:37
  Speaker 4: Uh, this guy was a picture for the Red Sox.
• 40:39
  Speaker 4: He had a Jerry curl. He threw Don Zimmer to
• 40:41
  Speaker 4: the ground. Uh Martinez, Yes, this guy was the best
• 40:45
  Speaker 4: wide receiver in Texans history before DeAndre Hopkins. Yes, this
• 40:52
  Speaker 4: guy choked his coach uh PJ Carlissimo.
• 40:57
  Speaker 1: Yes, let's go the ketchrick. Oh, Ben, you only got
• 41:02
  Speaker 1: sixty years? All right, all right, we're up, Jamar. We
• 41:05
  Speaker 1: have what we got moon Rise Kingdom and a complete unknown.
• 41:11
  Speaker 3: You're complete unknown?
• 41:13
  Speaker 1: Okay? H forty five seconds. These athletes became stars out
• 41:16
  Speaker 1: of nowhere. First and last name. He is the star
• 41:20
  Speaker 1: for the Denver Nuggets, nicknamed the Joker. Uh native Lokvi,
• 41:27
  Speaker 1: I love the mis pronouncing greatest show on turf. Quarterback
• 41:31
  Speaker 1: for the Saint Louis Rams. Yes. Uh. He was with
• 41:35
  Speaker 1: the San Antonio Spurs as a sixth man key player
• 41:39
  Speaker 1: in the Glory years. No, another guy off the bench,
• 41:43
  Speaker 1: all right? How about for the Knickerbockers. He was a guard,
• 41:46
  Speaker 1: missed a lot of three point shots in the nineties
• 41:49
  Speaker 1: and had a name. What oh you you're own? You're
• 41:56
  Speaker 1: every guy with the game. We wi wait a huge
• 42:04
  Speaker 1: that's Cooper Loop ruined the game for a beer man.