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  Speaker 1: Thanks for listening to the best of the Ben Maler
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  Speaker 2: This is the best of the Ben Maler Show on
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  Speaker 1: We are back at it here on early early Wednesday
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  Speaker 1: for most still late Tuesday night in the West, and
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  Speaker 1: we begin this hour from Dallas. Yes, we begin from Deuskin. Now,
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  Speaker 1: the NBA players, with all those nights off for load management,
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  Speaker 1: they needed more time off. Do you think the NBA
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  Speaker 1: players were in there on their sabbatical they like, say,
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  Speaker 1: I can't go to the beach today. I got to
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  Speaker 1: rest up so I can go to the beach tomorrow.
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  Speaker 3: Does it just is like that that disease is in
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  Speaker 3: their mind.
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  Speaker 1: They're like, Oh, you know what, I was out drinking
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  Speaker 1: and I was in the sun for four hours yesterday,
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  Speaker 1: So I'm gonna I'm gonna kind of sit back a
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  Speaker 1: little bit in the in the hammock thing and I
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  Speaker 1: don't want to be out in sun too much, the
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  Speaker 1: father to day. Well, anyway, that's not the story. The
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  Speaker 1: story here is Mark Cuban, who owned an NBA team,
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  Speaker 1: sold an NBA team, and has been leaking stories to
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  Speaker 1: his buddies the useful idiots in the media that he
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  Speaker 1: wants to buy an NBA team again, which is rather
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  Speaker 1: interesting when you consider the former majority owner of the
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  Speaker 1: Mavericks says that the fan experience, the experience you have
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  Speaker 1: if you attend an NBA game, is the main reason
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  Speaker 1: that the NBA should embrace should embrace teams trying to lose,
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  Speaker 1: better known by it's colloquial term tanking.
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  Speaker 3: Do you see this?
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  Speaker 2: No?
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  Speaker 3: Maybe not all right?
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  Speaker 1: Well, Mark Cuban with a bunch of errors because he
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  Speaker 1: did it on X and I guess he decided not
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  Speaker 1: to spell check it. Maybe he fired the person that
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  Speaker 1: was supposed to spell check him, and he said, I'm
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  Speaker 1: gonna clean this up because if I read all the typos,
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  Speaker 1: it would really work. But Cuban said that the NBA
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  Speaker 1: has been misguided this quote misguided in thinking that fans
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  Speaker 1: want to see their teams compete every night with a
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  Speaker 1: chance to win. It's never ever been that way. Cuban
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  Speaker 1: went on to say, when I got into the NBA,
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  Speaker 1: I thought Cuban said that they were in the basketball business.
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  Speaker 3: We aren't. Cuban said, okay, we are in the.
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  Speaker 1: Business of creating experiences for fans.
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  Speaker 3: God so good.
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  Speaker 1: He went on to say, seemingly with a straight face,
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  Speaker 1: that few can remember the score from the last game
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  Speaker 1: they saw or went to. They can't remember the dungk
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  Speaker 1: so the shots. What they remember is who they were
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  Speaker 1: with their family, their friends, a date. Cuban said, that's
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  Speaker 1: what makes the experienced special. Close quote so good. I
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  Speaker 1: can't believe this is real, all right, So that is
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  Speaker 1: a good jumping out point. Let us discuss the question
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  Speaker 1: for the class. What is the big takeaway from Mark Cuban,
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  Speaker 1: who owned an NBA team for years, saying that the
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  Speaker 1: NBA should just indorse tanking. They should indorse tanking. Now
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  Speaker 1: my thoughts on this, I've got Chuck E Cheese, Lone Ranger,
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  Speaker 1: and Lazy Susan and we will combine all of these
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  Speaker 1: things together and put them all together, and we're going
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  Speaker 1: to have a delicious dish of spaghetti and meatballs, is
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  Speaker 1: what we're going to have. So a congratulations to Mark Cuban,
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  Speaker 1: and I would like to congratulate mister Cuban.
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  Speaker 3: There he wins the gold jacket.
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  Speaker 1: This goes down as a first ballot haul of bad
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  Speaker 1: take winner. Congratulations Mark, what a great business strategy. Let's
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  Speaker 1: have some of our imagine, you know, pick any restaurant here,
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  Speaker 1: just pick a random, random restaurant. We'll say, well, I'll
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  Speaker 1: back Outback. I will pick Outback. We know our friend Louisiana,
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  Speaker 1: when he wants to impress a woman, he goes to Anthony,
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  Speaker 1: goes down Back.
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  Speaker 3: So let's say Outback, and I know they haven't done.
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  Speaker 1: That great the last couple of years because of the
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  Speaker 1: price points and all that, but let's say Outback said,
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  Speaker 1: why don't we have like, we'll have ten or fifteen
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  Speaker 1: of our franchises serve blooming Onion, and we'll put cockroaches
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  Speaker 1: in there, and we'll just and then we'll work on
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  Speaker 1: some other menu. We'll just try to put a bad
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  Speaker 1: product out and it doesn't really matter. People go to
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  Speaker 1: Outback for the experience to say, oh, I went out
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  Speaker 1: you know, have Anthony, and Louisiana wants to impress a woman,
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  Speaker 1: he takes a out Back. So we'll just have certain
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  Speaker 1: franchises that work for the company. We'll try to serve disgusting,
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  Speaker 1: cockroach filled blooming onions. Okay, why not, Well they don't
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  Speaker 1: do that. Why don't they do that because it's stupid.
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  Speaker 1: It's dumb, dumb, du dumb, dumb dumb. So Cuban, if
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  Speaker 1: I understand right, he thinks the paying customer is a
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  Speaker 1: complete moron. And maybe you are. I mean, he could
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  Speaker 1: be right. You know what, do I just do the overnight?
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  Speaker 1: Maybe he's absolutely right. Uh, And you don't know anything
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  Speaker 1: about basketball. You couldn't tell a basketball from a grapefruit.
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  Speaker 1: That's what Cuban thinks. You're so stupid that you just
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  Speaker 1: go out there. It's a show, all right. You know,
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  Speaker 1: he's essentially saying that the NBA not a sport. Not
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  Speaker 1: a sport. It's like an adults Chuck e cheese and
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  Speaker 1: it gets to get some tokens. Go play the ski ball,
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  Speaker 1: knock yourself out, right, said Chuck E Cheese for adults.
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  Speaker 3: That's what the NBA is. At this point. You don't
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  Speaker 3: remember the dunks, you don't remember the shots. You just
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  Speaker 3: remember that you were there. Ah. The memories, Oh, the memories,
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  Speaker 3: My God.
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  Speaker 1: Now the Mallard diagnosis, the Mallard diagnosis that Cuban is
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  Speaker 1: suffering from what I call matrix level brain rot. Matrix
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  Speaker 1: level brain rot. Now, this happens when you spend way
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  Speaker 1: too much time on social media in a climate controlled environment.
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  Speaker 1: You don't get out in the real world. This is
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  Speaker 1: what happens. And we do these Mallard meet and greets,
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  Speaker 1: and I've been very lucky to meet some of you
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  Speaker 1: in all parts of the United States, and it's been great.
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  Speaker 3: It's been fun.
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  Speaker 1: And I learn every time I do one of those things,
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  Speaker 1: the people that I come across are nothing like whatever
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  Speaker 1: that thing is on social media. It's much different world.
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  Speaker 1: The real world is much different than that world. And
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  Speaker 1: Cubans got this warped sense of reality. It would appear
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  Speaker 1: if he thinks that's it. He's defending the man's defending
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  Speaker 1: grade a low grade product by calling it an experience.
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  Speaker 1: So why would any business attempt to put quality in
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  Speaker 1: terms of entertainment.
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  Speaker 3: It's just an experience. It doesn't matter who cares because.
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  Speaker 1: The other issue here, and this is why I think
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  Speaker 1: Cuban's either a moron or he's doing some kind of
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  Speaker 1: trick here. The downstream liability of what the NBA is
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  Speaker 1: doing is insane to the membrane. Right, you serve up
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  Speaker 1: lukewarm bowls of competitive apathy. The deadliest word in all
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  Speaker 1: of sport is apathy. And you do that year after year,
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  Speaker 1: and what happens is fans stop making memories, they stop
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  Speaker 1: even knowing you exist. You become irrelevant. You're an afterthought,
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  Speaker 1: is what you are. Right and consistent, It's been proven.
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  Speaker 1: Consistency losing year after year. It isn't just a strategy.
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  Speaker 1: If you will, it is anthrax for your business. It is,
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  Speaker 1: and it can it. Just know that it drives away.
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  Speaker 1: People don't watch bad teams on television. While you say, wow,
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  Speaker 1: the arena experience. The NBA is a TV show.
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  Speaker 3: It just it.
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  Speaker 1: It's a TV show people watch on television. That's how
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  Speaker 1: they make their money. They're all actors in the TV show.
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  Speaker 1: It's been that way and as long as they can
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  Speaker 1: find people to pay them money. And they just got
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  Speaker 1: a new TV contract, that's what's about. And you look
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  Speaker 1: at the ratings of teams that have tanked and are
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  Speaker 1: not trying to win and have terribleor no one's watching.
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  Speaker 1: You think anone's watching a Washington Wizards game. Why would
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  Speaker 1: you you should go to a looney bin. They're not
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  Speaker 1: trying to win. Why would you bother watching?
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  Speaker 3: You'd be better off staring at the blank wall over
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  Speaker 3: here to my left, you'd be better off.
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  Speaker 1: So people don't don't watch losers and you are a
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  Speaker 1: TV show, so you're driving away your audience. You know
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  Speaker 1: how hard it is to get people back. I do
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  Speaker 1: a radios sho. I know how hard it is when
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  Speaker 1: people stop listening. You got eight new people listen. It's
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  Speaker 1: not the easiest thing.
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  Speaker 3: In the world. It's not.
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  Speaker 1: And if the outcome of these games does not matter,
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  Speaker 1: If that doesn't matter, then the NBA is just what
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  Speaker 1: is it? A light show with girls shaking their ass cheerleading?
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  Speaker 1: I guess that's it. What if the cheerleaders are bad, Well,
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  Speaker 1: it's an experience. Okay, thank you appreciate that. Now, keeping
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  Speaker 1: the theme of the hour going here on the Ben
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  Speaker 1: Mahl Show, So we are hearing that the main reason
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  Speaker 1: Commissioner Adam Silver recently has attempted to unring the bell,
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  Speaker 1: cracking down on late game tanking by the Utah Jazz
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  Speaker 1: and the Indiana Pacers, and there are supposedly more fines coming.
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  Speaker 1: They will announce those once they get back after the
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  Speaker 1: long hiatus.
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  Speaker 3: That said, the NBA.
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  Speaker 1: The the theory is the reason all of a sudden,
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  Speaker 1: out of the well Adam Silver has sat there and
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  Speaker 1: twiddled his thumb.
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  Speaker 3: Well, this has been going on under his entire watch,
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  Speaker 3: and even.
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  Speaker 1: Before he was there. It's because of the g man gamblers.
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  Speaker 3: That's why. So question.
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  Speaker 1: What sticks out about the chatter that Adam Silver is
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  Speaker 1: motivated to contain tanking because of gambling.
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  Speaker 3: All right, So the cartoon image in my head on
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  Speaker 3: this one, yeah, the bubble, just imagine they're like a
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  Speaker 3: cartoon bubble to the right side of my head.
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  Speaker 1: And the images Commissioner Adam Silver suddenly riding in into
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  Speaker 1: town and he's got a cowboy outfit on. He's the
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  Speaker 1: lone Ranger, got silver spurs and they're jingling along there.
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  Speaker 1: He's the lone Ranger and he's got his lasso and
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  Speaker 1: he's gonna lasso tanking and he says, hi oh Silver.
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  Speaker 1: And because he's Adam Silver, he says hi oh Silver,
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  Speaker 1: just like the lone Ranger. Keeping it real, now, Adam
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  Speaker 1: is not protecting the integrity of the game.
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  Speaker 3: We know that is not the case, it's not about
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  Speaker 3: the integrity of the game.
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  Speaker 1: That ship sailed many many years ago, and it actually
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  Speaker 1: hit an iceberg and it is currently sitting at the
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  Speaker 1: bottom of the Atlantic Division.
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  Speaker 3: Is where that is.
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  Speaker 1: But so Silver is looking to pacify his business partners,
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  Speaker 1: better known as the bookmakers, who have started to cry
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  Speaker 1: foul here, like what are you.
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  Speaker 3: Doing to us, dude? I mean, come on, now, that's
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  Speaker 3: not right.
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  Speaker 1: So the NBA is so deep and I like gambling,
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  Speaker 1: but they're so deeply they're so deeply in bed with
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  Speaker 1: the bookmakers the NBA that they're practically sharing the same pillow.
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  Speaker 1: They're cuddling and canoodling and spooning with the gambling houses.
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  Speaker 3: So Silver isn't worried.
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  Speaker 2: Now.
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  Speaker 1: He's not worried about the fan. Of course, we know
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  Speaker 1: Mark Cuban thinks you're all a bunch of idiots. Anyway,
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  Speaker 1: you loved teams losing. So Silver isn't worried about the fans.
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  Speaker 1: He's worried about the disgruntled whales. And there are some
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  Speaker 1: big blue whales out there that are angry. The suits
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  Speaker 1: that are at the gambling houses. They're the ones that
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  Speaker 1: are upset. And when you see a random coach, not
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  Speaker 1: even hide the fact that, like the Utah Jazz coach,
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  Speaker 1: Hey dude, dank come on haphazardly taking star players out
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  Speaker 1: of the lineup and then not even hiding it. The
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  Speaker 1: people that run the books, they start getting a little upset,
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  Speaker 1: they start sweating a little bit. And the phone, they
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  Speaker 1: have the special bat phone, and they contact the lizard
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  Speaker 1: person and they say, can we get ahold of Adam Silver?
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  Speaker 3: Sure, no problem, we'll put you on without him.
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  Speaker 1: And then his phone starts ringing, He gets starts getting
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  Speaker 1: those late night text messages, Hey what happened in that
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  Speaker 1: Sacramento Kings game?
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  Speaker 2: Here?
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  Speaker 1: And so again these narrow minded owners, the narrow minded
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  Speaker 1: owners who are out there, who have all gone to
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  Speaker 1: the same chat. I maybe we're on the same webinar
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  Speaker 1: or something like.
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  Speaker 3: That, where they're all.
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  Speaker 1: Indoctrinated into this cult of trust the process. Even though
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  Speaker 1: sam Hinkey got decommissioned from the NBA, excommunicated from the NBA,
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  Speaker 1: and so you're selling this snake oil of tanking. I
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  Speaker 1: would get rid of the draft. We said this in
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  Speaker 1: a previous episode. Just get rid of it. They don't
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  Speaker 1: deserve it. Let them tank. How great would it be
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  Speaker 1: if the NBA teams start tanking and there's no prize,
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  Speaker 1: they just intentionally lose for no reason. How amazing would
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  Speaker 1: that be? My God, would that be great? That would
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  Speaker 1: be so good. So my advice to Adam Silver, the
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  Speaker 1: Mather think tank was activated. We'd like to activate it
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  Speaker 1: from time to theme. So the advice to Adam Silver here,
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  Speaker 1: the NBA needs to get a deal with Procter and Gamble.
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  Speaker 1: Now why do they need to deal with Procter and
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  Speaker 1: Gamble so they can hire mister Clean. They need to
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  Speaker 1: bring in mister Clean here as a brand ambassador for
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  Speaker 1: the NBA. Bring mister Clean in. There's a lot to
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  Speaker 1: tidy up here, and there's a big grease fire. So
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  Speaker 1: I don't know that mister Clean can help with that,
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  Speaker 1: but it's a big problem. Now the last word, We
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  Speaker 1: now head to Boston. A bubbling controversy. Bubbling controversy, pro
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  Speaker 1: bouncy ball, pro bouncy ball, bubbling controversy. So, despite Jason
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  Speaker 1: Tatum being persona non grata, although I guess he's coming
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  Speaker 1: back here soon, they have to have the final episode
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  Speaker 1: of the docu series that he's putting together about his comeback.
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  Speaker 3: But Jason Tatum has been out.
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  Speaker 1: Jalen Brown has been the big man on campus for
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  Speaker 1: the Celtics, and they have positioned themselves as one of
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  Speaker 1: the better teams in the Eastern Conference, which appears to
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  Speaker 1: be pretty wide open. I don't think anyone at the
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  Speaker 1: top is like unbeatable in Eastern cons. It's pretty wide open.
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  Speaker 1: The Celtics are right in the mix. And Brown recently
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  Speaker 1: posted a graphic. I don't know if you saw this or not.
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  Speaker 1: If you're blind, you heard about it. He posted this
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  Speaker 1: thing on social media and it highlighted how essentially this
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  Speaker 1: Celtic team this year is a carbon copy. The Boston
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  Speaker 1: team is a carbon copy performance wise of what they
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  Speaker 1: were last season, which is rather shocking when you consider
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  Speaker 1: the fact the Celtics not only to get rid of
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  Speaker 1: Jason Tatum, Porzingi's average, Al Horford, some other guys A
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  Speaker 1: bunch of guys were gone from that team last year,
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  Speaker 1: Drew Holliday. It's unloaded a lot of the depth. And
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  Speaker 1: then Jason Tatum got hurt. So Brown his intentions were, wow, listen,
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  Speaker 1: I'm celebrating the team. He got tremendous backlash. Tremendous backlash
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  Speaker 1: is what he got. On social media, and he attempted
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  Speaker 1: to explain himself in a recent interview. He said, quote,
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  Speaker 1: this is Jalen Brown and the Celtics. He said, the
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  Speaker 1: thing I posted that was about celebrating our group. Jalen
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  Speaker 1: Brown said, people make it seem like it was about
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  Speaker 1: me because because that's what people wanted it to be about.
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  Speaker 1: But in reality, I'm just so proud, he said, of
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  Speaker 1: our group.
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  Speaker 3: I'm extremely proud. Question, I'll frame it this way.
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  Speaker 1: Do you believe that Jason Tatum had pure intentions with
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  Speaker 1: that graphic posting the Celtics being almost identical to what
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  Speaker 1: they were with Jason Tatum, the success they're having this season.
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  Speaker 1: So do you think his intentions you believe they were pure? So,
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  Speaker 1: after a minutes long deliberation of the available evidence, we
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  Speaker 1: have determined absolutely not. Zero point zero point zero point zero.
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  Speaker 1: Uh yeah, I imagine Jason. You know, Jason Tatum's looking
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  Speaker 1: at this, Oh, I'm offended. And then Jalen Brown, He's
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  Speaker 1: sitting there at a greasy diner in Eastie, spinning a
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  Speaker 1: Lazy Susan and saying that he's just admiring the craftsmanship
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  Speaker 1: of the lazy Susan.
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  Speaker 3: That's it.
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  Speaker 1: Right, He really actually wanted all the dishes. He wanted
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  Speaker 1: everything and all that. And last I checked the NBA,
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  Speaker 1: when the players actually show up and want to compete
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  Speaker 1: and they're not tanking or doing load management, it's the
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  Speaker 1: Star system. Am I wrong on that? Does anyone disagree?
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  Speaker 1: It's the Star system in the NBA. This is not
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  Speaker 1: a group project. It's not and not everyone gets a
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  Speaker 1: participation ribbon in the NBA. So Brown said he was
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  Speaker 1: celebrating the team. That's what he said. The Celtics were
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  Speaker 1: supposed to fall through a trapdoor into a pit of
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  Speaker 1: angry vipers without Jason Tatum. That was the narrative, and
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  Speaker 1: that has not happened.
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  Speaker 3: They're winning. Still.
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  Speaker 1: Brown is playing very well and he wants every man,
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  Speaker 1: woman and child to know in the world that he
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  Speaker 1: is strutting around right now like a disco ball at
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  Speaker 1: Studio fifty four.
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  Speaker 3: He is.
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  Speaker 1: He's letting everyone see he's like the keynote speaker Jalen Brown,
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  Speaker 1: the keynote speaker at the conference of Me, Myself and I.
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  Speaker 3: That is where he's at.
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  Speaker 1: And now that the algorhythm, the alg orrhythm is cooking
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  Speaker 1: him and he's getting cooked.
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  Speaker 3: So now He's like, well, no, no, no, I am
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  Speaker 3: the elevator operator, is what I am. And I'm just
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  Speaker 3: lifting everybody up and you're all a bunch of haters
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  Speaker 3: and all that, and that's what it is. Doesn't pass
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  Speaker 3: the smell test. Does not pass the smell test. The
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  Speaker 3: cologne on a skunk is what this is.
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  Speaker 3: So our lead this.
• 19:11
  Speaker 1: Hour is from the world of Pro football and Seattle
• 19:17
  Speaker 1: days after, just days after a rollicking good time on
• 19:21
  Speaker 1: the streets of Seattle, a winner of the Lombardi Trophy. There,
• 19:26
  Speaker 1: the team that represents the Pacific Northwest has made a
• 19:29
  Speaker 1: decision here to put the player most responsible in the
• 19:34
  Speaker 1: Super Bowl for winning the game into a place where
• 19:37
  Speaker 1: they are twisting in the wind. So, how don't you
• 19:40
  Speaker 1: saw this? Maybe you missed it, perhaps not, but we
• 19:44
  Speaker 1: learned that it is highly unlikely that the Seahawks will
• 19:49
  Speaker 1: use their franchise tag on running back and Super Bowl
• 19:54
  Speaker 1: MVP Kenneth Walker. These Seahawks have multiple free agents they
• 20:00
  Speaker 1: would like to keep all of them, and so the
• 20:05
  Speaker 1: way the story was passed on by the team and
• 20:08
  Speaker 1: representatives of the team for fan consumption was it's all
• 20:12
  Speaker 1: about paying Jackson Smith and Jigba. That is what this
• 20:16
  Speaker 1: is all about. Now. Adam Schefter, one of the messenger pigeons,
• 20:20
  Speaker 1: says that the super Bowl tax.
• 20:27
  Speaker 3: I'm sorry, I'll do this. I'll do this professionally.
• 20:31
  Speaker 1: The super Bowl tax is why they cannot do the
• 20:35
  Speaker 1: franchise tag on Kenneth Walker.
• 20:37
  Speaker 3: That's essentially what was implied by the reporting.
• 20:40
  Speaker 1: Also a good jumping off point, let us discuss the
• 20:43
  Speaker 1: question can you explain to me?
• 20:46
  Speaker 3: I would like you to explain to me like like
• 20:50
  Speaker 3: you're a child, right, What is.
• 20:52
  Speaker 1: The message the Seahawks are sending to Kenneth Walker.
• 20:57
  Speaker 3: So let me then go first.
• 20:59
  Speaker 1: I'll explain to you, and I'll just pretend you're like
• 21:01
  Speaker 1: five years old and I'll explain this to you. What's
• 21:04
  Speaker 1: the message to the Seahawks are sending in they let
• 21:05
  Speaker 1: it out. It was obviously coming from somebody in the
• 21:08
  Speaker 1: Seahawks organization that they are not going to give the
• 21:11
  Speaker 1: franchise tag to Kenneth Walker. So my observation, I've got Huggies,
• 21:16
  Speaker 1: Mega Church, and Alice Cooper and we will combine all
• 21:21
  Speaker 1: of these things together and we are going to do
• 21:24
  Speaker 1: the two man bobs led is what we're going to do.
• 21:27
  Speaker 3: So number so a reminder life comes at you fast.
• 21:38
  Speaker 1: Just a few days ago that Kenneth Walker was seemingly
• 21:41
  Speaker 1: trying to convince an intoxicated Seahawks executive to give him
• 21:46
  Speaker 1: a massive contract. And now commer heads have prevailed and
• 21:52
  Speaker 1: Kenneth Walker, who was feeling like the king of the sandbox,
• 21:56
  Speaker 1: the king of the sandbox, Kenneth Walker big game in
• 22:01
  Speaker 1: the Super Bowl didn't score a touchdown though, and now
• 22:04
  Speaker 1: reality is knocking at the door. So you got John Schneider,
• 22:10
  Speaker 1: the GM there in Seattle, who's essentially saying, hey, yeah,
• 22:13
  Speaker 1: Kenneth Walker, we really do thank you for what you
• 22:15
  Speaker 1: did in the super Bowl. It was really kind of cool.
• 22:17
  Speaker 1: But in order for you to stay, we need a
• 22:19
  Speaker 1: coupon book. We need a book of coupons. It's hometown
• 22:23
  Speaker 1: discount or.
• 22:25
  Speaker 3: Go to the highway, get out of here.
• 22:27
  Speaker 1: And they're telling Kenneth Walker, even though you are the
• 22:31
  Speaker 1: MVP of the Super Bowl and all that, and you'll
• 22:32
  Speaker 1: have that title the rest of your life, in this
• 22:36
  Speaker 1: chapter of the book, you are like Huggies. You are
• 22:41
  Speaker 1: Little Mover's disposable diapers.
• 22:43
  Speaker 3: Is what you are. You're a diaper, a disposable diaper.
• 22:45
  Speaker 3: That's it.
• 22:46
  Speaker 1: And you were great and it's wonderful. But there's no
• 22:49
  Speaker 1: way on God's Green to Earth. We're paying you almost
• 22:52
  Speaker 1: fifteen million dollars, which is what the franchise tag.
• 22:55
  Speaker 3: Is not gonna happen. You just run into piles. It's
• 22:59
  Speaker 3: not about you. It's the running back. Now.
• 23:02
  Speaker 1: Just to be clear, I wouldn't pay it running back
• 23:05
  Speaker 1: that much either. However, all I heard from my friends
• 23:09
  Speaker 1: in Seattle and the Pacific Northwest is they do things differently.
• 23:13
  Speaker 1: They're a classy operation and they keep their guys around
• 23:17
  Speaker 1: like you all told me that. Okay, so you just
• 23:18
  Speaker 1: won the Super Bowl. You're pretty much telling Kenneth Walker, Hey,
• 23:21
  Speaker 1: get out of here. That's the message, right, thanks, but
• 23:26
  Speaker 1: no thanks.
• 23:26
  Speaker 3: We don't really want you.
• 23:29
  Speaker 1: And so they're like, I mean, they're they're leaking it out.
• 23:31
  Speaker 1: We want JSN. That's what we want. And and it
• 23:34
  Speaker 1: was he vanished in the Super Bowl. He was a
• 23:36
  Speaker 1: non factor. And the guy that carried the Seahawks across
• 23:39
  Speaker 1: the finish line, they're telling him hit the road, Jack
• 23:43
  Speaker 1: and that's it. And they're really double dog daring. The
• 23:47
  Speaker 1: Seahawks are double dog daring Kenneth Walker. It's like, go
• 23:51
  Speaker 1: out and see if there's somebody else on the playground
• 23:55
  Speaker 1: wants to give you all the toys. So we don't
• 23:57
  Speaker 1: want to give you all the toys, but I'm the
• 23:59
  Speaker 1: king of the samb doesn't matter.
• 24:01
  Speaker 3: Go see if somebody else will give you all the time.
• 24:02
  Speaker 3: But I want the toys here now.
• 24:06
  Speaker 1: If you're Kenneth Walker, as I understand, he wants to
• 24:09
  Speaker 1: stay in Seattle. Think it's been pretty open about that.
• 24:11
  Speaker 1: He wants to stay there. It's got a good thing
• 24:12
  Speaker 1: going all that. Blah blah blah blah blah. Don't you
• 24:15
  Speaker 1: have to leave? If you were advising Kenneth Walker, don't
• 24:20
  Speaker 1: you have to leave? This is the high water mark
• 24:24
  Speaker 1: of the man's career. There's always a sucker out there
• 24:27
  Speaker 1: that will overpay a running back, whether that is Jerry
• 24:31
  Speaker 1: Jones and the Dallas Cowboys. The Steelers need an upgrade
• 24:34
  Speaker 1: at running back. They don't normally do things like that.
• 24:36
  Speaker 1: There's a bunch of teams that have suspects at running back.
• 24:40
  Speaker 1: So if you're Kenneth Walker, I know I want to
• 24:42
  Speaker 1: stay on him. Don't you have to go somewhere else?
• 24:45
  Speaker 1: They don't want to pay it. The Seahawks have said
• 24:47
  Speaker 1: we don't want to pay it, So don't you have
• 24:50
  Speaker 1: to leave?
• 24:50
  Speaker 3: Right?
• 24:50
  Speaker 1: I would think unless there's some kind of backroom deal
• 24:53
  Speaker 1: we don't know about, they're daring you to leave. And
• 24:57
  Speaker 1: that whole dopamine hit from winning the Super Ball and
• 25:00
  Speaker 1: how great that was, and the high which is addictive
• 25:03
  Speaker 1: of being the MVP and just a few.
• 25:06
  Speaker 3: Days later say yeah, we're good. We're good.
• 25:10
  Speaker 1: So it's either tight in the seatbelt a little bit
• 25:12
  Speaker 1: and you can hang out with Sasquatch for a couple
• 25:15
  Speaker 1: more years, or go out in the wild blue yonder
• 25:19
  Speaker 1: and walk down the winn A Mucker Road and see
• 25:20
  Speaker 1: if you can find somebody to pay.
• 25:22
  Speaker 3: And that's that. Now.
• 25:23
  Speaker 1: Page two, we go to Houston, a developing story, and
• 25:28
  Speaker 1: I know mister irrigation loves this idea. So the Texans
• 25:32
  Speaker 1: are saying, hey, we're all on board, we like our quarterback.
• 25:35
  Speaker 3: Blah blah blah blah blah blah blah. However, we are
• 25:37
  Speaker 3: hearing chatter, and I love my chatter.
• 25:42
  Speaker 1: We're hearing chatter that Texans quarterback c Jay Stroud can
• 25:47
  Speaker 1: be yours if the price is right.
• 25:50
  Speaker 3: What are you talking about? That's outrageous? Uh not really,
• 25:55
  Speaker 3: not really.
• 25:55
  Speaker 1: Now Todd McShay, who used to be somebody and now
• 25:58
  Speaker 1: he's like another pod cast guy. But Todd McShay claims
• 26:02
  Speaker 1: it is a possibility. It is a possibility. He used
• 26:06
  Speaker 1: to be the NFL draft guru and then they fight
• 26:10
  Speaker 1: with mel Kiper and then they got rid of him.
• 26:12
  Speaker 1: He had some issues and so he's gone. So mcshay's
• 26:15
  Speaker 1: tossing it out there that CJ. Stroud could be yours
• 26:18
  Speaker 1: if the price is right. So the question again, it's
• 26:22
  Speaker 1: just a report. Texans are saying, we love our guy.
• 26:25
  Speaker 1: So what is the temperature in the room. What is
• 26:29
  Speaker 1: the temperature in the room around quarterback CJ Stroud for
• 26:33
  Speaker 1: the Texans going forward? So I looked and what I
• 26:38
  Speaker 1: did is I looked at the temperature in the mashed potatoes,
• 26:41
  Speaker 1: just some garlic mashed potatoes. And I looked at the
• 26:42
  Speaker 1: temperature of the garlic mashed potatoes.
• 26:44
  Speaker 3: Lukewarm. That's the temperature in the room. Lukewarm. Garlic mashed potatoes.
• 26:49
  Speaker 3: That's it.
• 26:50
  Speaker 2: C J.
• 26:50
  Speaker 1: Stroud is at this point a false start career penalty.
• 26:58
  Speaker 3: He is guilty of a false start.
• 27:00
  Speaker 1: Looked like he had arrived and was the man, big
• 27:04
  Speaker 1: man on campus at the start. To use a horse
• 27:07
  Speaker 1: racing analogy for our friends at Churchill Downs who listen, well,
• 27:11
  Speaker 1: we have one guy at Churchill Downs that listen. It's
• 27:13
  Speaker 1: like a racehorse sprinting out of the gate. You look
• 27:16
  Speaker 1: like Secretariat and you're just running and you're leading everybody
• 27:22
  Speaker 1: and you're dominating it. And for a quarter mile c J.
• 27:25
  Speaker 1: Stroud was the BEA's knees, Oh my god.
• 27:29
  Speaker 3: And then he.
• 27:30
  Speaker 1: Decided to pull over to the side of the track.
• 27:33
  Speaker 1: And he wanted to take a nap, and so he
• 27:36
  Speaker 1: took a nap.
• 27:37
  Speaker 3: C J. Stroud right on the rail. And he's been
• 27:40
  Speaker 3: taking a nap for two years in a row in
• 27:42
  Speaker 3: the playoffs, and so.
• 27:43
  Speaker 1: You thought you had your forever quarterback. It was skulduggery,
• 27:48
  Speaker 1: is what it was. It was just sculduggery. In the
• 27:49
  Speaker 1: last couple of years, he's looked more like a guy
• 27:52
  Speaker 1: c J. Stroud who should be running a mega church
• 27:56
  Speaker 1: as a full time televangelist, to be better at that, right,
• 28:01
  Speaker 1: better at that than being a franchise quarterback. He just
• 28:05
  Speaker 1: looks like he should That's what he should be doing.
• 28:07
  Speaker 1: He should be at televangelist and not a quarterback. That's
• 28:10
  Speaker 1: the way he's played now. I got a lot of
• 28:11
  Speaker 1: crap for my friends in Houston when I mentioned this
• 28:14
  Speaker 1: prior to last season, and.
• 28:16
  Speaker 3: You don't know what you're talking about. That's why you're
• 28:19
  Speaker 3: doing the overnight show. Blah blah blah blah blah blah
• 28:21
  Speaker 3: blah blah blah blah and your face.
• 28:23
  Speaker 1: I didn't hear for one of those losers because I
• 28:26
  Speaker 1: was proven correct.
• 28:27
  Speaker 4: C J.
• 28:27
  Speaker 1: Stroud validated the Mallard monologue. And now two years.
• 28:31
  Speaker 3: In a row.
• 28:32
  Speaker 1: And so we have now reached a fork in the
• 28:35
  Speaker 1: road and they changed coordinators. Right, They've had a championship
• 28:40
  Speaker 1: level defense in Houston, They've gone through a couple offensive
• 28:42
  Speaker 1: coordinators there. The common denominator is c J. Stroud and
• 28:47
  Speaker 1: Houston is inching closer. They're inching closer to the Tua
• 28:53
  Speaker 1: zone or the Kyler Murray trap.
• 28:57
  Speaker 3: Year three entering year four, So you're already done with
• 29:00
  Speaker 3: three years in the NFL.
• 29:01
  Speaker 1: You got to decide that fifth year option thing and
• 29:05
  Speaker 1: whether you want to keep him if you pick up
• 29:06
  Speaker 1: the option. Those are all decisions that have to be made, right,
• 29:10
  Speaker 1: and then you have to said, is he the guy
• 29:11
  Speaker 1: that we're going to sign to a big contract? And
• 29:13
  Speaker 1: this is the mistake. So many of these teams make
• 29:15
  Speaker 1: guys that haven't shown they're the guy. They get paid
• 29:18
  Speaker 1: because you think they're gonna be the guy, and then
• 29:21
  Speaker 1: you get stuck. You get stuck with a stiff So
• 29:26
  Speaker 1: the doomsday clock.
• 29:28
  Speaker 3: On the future of c. J. Stroud continues. Is he
• 29:33
  Speaker 3: worthy of a massive paid it? No?
• 29:35
  Speaker 1: No, If you're related, I guess, but I'm not related
• 29:39
  Speaker 1: to him. I don't know the guy. No, Like I said,
• 29:42
  Speaker 1: he plays quarterback, like you should be a televangelist and
• 29:46
  Speaker 1: at megachurch, and there's plenty of them in Houston, so
• 29:48
  Speaker 1: he can pick which one he wants to work at.
• 29:50
  Speaker 1: But that's fine, And so is he worth aristocrat money?
• 29:54
  Speaker 1: No bueno, No, cannot do it now. Privately, my theory
• 30:00
  Speaker 1: you on this' it's like politicians. It's like politicians. You've
• 30:04
  Speaker 1: got the public versus private. Privately, the Texans are all ears.
• 30:09
  Speaker 1: Send us a text, you use your burner phone.
• 30:11
  Speaker 3: We'll figure this out. We'll figure this out together. Publicly.
• 30:15
  Speaker 1: Oh, we love our quarterback. We stand by our guy,
• 30:18
  Speaker 1: We support our quarterback. Way to go, We believe in
• 30:21
  Speaker 1: you and all this stuff. So at some point you
• 30:25
  Speaker 1: have to wake up and be the adult in the
• 30:27
  Speaker 1: room and realize that you're.
• 30:29
  Speaker 3: Not that guy.
• 30:30
  Speaker 1: Pout, You're not that guy. And that's the problem, and
• 30:34
  Speaker 1: that until proven otherwise, CJ. Stroud is a flash in
• 30:37
  Speaker 1: the pan.
• 30:38
  Speaker 3: That's it.
• 30:38
  Speaker 1: And the other problem is, even if he comes back
• 30:40
  Speaker 1: and plays well next NFL season, you still can't trust
• 30:43
  Speaker 1: him because you said two terrible seasons, So is that
• 30:46
  Speaker 1: an aberration? You got to play consistently well, You're gonna
• 30:51
  Speaker 1: have a couple of bad games in a row. Whatever
• 30:52
  Speaker 1: you gotta, you can't have back to back stinkers. And
• 30:55
  Speaker 1: he's not a big game quarterback. Did you see he
• 30:58
  Speaker 1: puked all over himself? He rode the vomit comet in
• 31:01
  Speaker 1: the playoff games?
• 31:02
  Speaker 3: All right? Now, final point?
• 31:03
  Speaker 1: Seeing right in vomit commt We go to Minnesota and
• 31:07
  Speaker 1: there's a convoy of vomit commets in Minnesota.
• 31:09
  Speaker 3: And now C J. Stroud's bad. But if you do
• 31:13
  Speaker 3: a side.
• 31:14
  Speaker 1: By side call the challenge, he is an all pro
• 31:18
  Speaker 1: compared to JJ McCarthy.
• 31:22
  Speaker 3: God is McCarthy bad.
• 31:23
  Speaker 1: His inability to run the offense in Minnesota has come
• 31:27
  Speaker 1: to light a dramatic report claiming the Vikings mid season
• 31:34
  Speaker 1: dumped their playbook, much of their playbook.
• 31:37
  Speaker 3: Did you see this?
• 31:38
  Speaker 1: No? So the reporting is that McCarthy was so bad.
• 31:42
  Speaker 1: How bad was he? He was so bad that the
• 31:45
  Speaker 1: Vikings removed almost all of the over the middle passing
• 31:49
  Speaker 1: concepts during the season to dumb down the playbook. Because
• 31:55
  Speaker 1: even though McCarthy played all those games at Michigan and
• 31:58
  Speaker 1: all this, he's a dumb dumb so they had they
• 32:01
  Speaker 1: had water down the playbook. So the question can you
• 32:05
  Speaker 1: put into context what this report of the Vikings chopping
• 32:10
  Speaker 1: down the playbook, getting read of the over the middle
• 32:14
  Speaker 1: passing plays for JJ McCarthy means. So I will put
• 32:18
  Speaker 1: it in a context, Crank up the old boombox here
• 32:22
  Speaker 1: as the Great Alice Cooper screeched back in his day.
• 32:26
  Speaker 1: No more, mister nice guy. That's the Vikings, No more,
• 32:29
  Speaker 1: mister nice guys. What they're saying, it's exactly what the
• 32:32
  Speaker 1: Viking report. That report sounds like to me. That's that's
• 32:36
  Speaker 1: what it sounds like to me. It's like, Hey, Kevin
• 32:38
  Speaker 1: O'Connell and the Viking coaching staff, they took that playbook
• 32:42
  Speaker 1: and they walked into the room with the paper.
• 32:46
  Speaker 3: Shredder and they shredded it.
• 32:47
  Speaker 1: They did a bunch of delete, delete delete on the tablets,
• 32:50
  Speaker 1: the files they had to get rid of, and they said, hey, JJ, yeah, yeah, yeah,
• 32:55
  Speaker 1: what we're gonna need the Fisher Price version for you.
• 32:59
  Speaker 1: We're gonna the Fisher Price playbook for JJ McCarthy. They
• 33:04
  Speaker 1: put training wheels on a Harley Davidson. You don't draft
• 33:07
  Speaker 1: a quarterback in the first round. I don't need to
• 33:09
  Speaker 1: tell you this, and he sits out his first year
• 33:12
  Speaker 1: is a red shirt and then you have to dumb
• 33:15
  Speaker 1: down the playbook because he's incompetent, Like that's so embarrassing.
• 33:19
  Speaker 3: My god, bubble wrapped the quarterback. You got hurt anyway.
• 33:25
  Speaker 3: So as far as the leak, we always ask the
• 33:29
  Speaker 3: question who leaked it? Why leak it? Now? Well, who
• 33:32
  Speaker 3: leaked it?
• 33:33
  Speaker 1: You think JJ McCarthy's people leaked the fact that he's
• 33:36
  Speaker 1: a moron and doesn't know the plays.
• 33:38
  Speaker 3: I'm gonna go know, So it's the vikings. Why would
• 33:40
  Speaker 3: you leak it? Not?
• 33:41
  Speaker 1: Well, you're leaking it now to let people know that
• 33:45
  Speaker 1: you're gonna bring in another quarterback and that the reason
• 33:47
  Speaker 1: you're doing that is because your current quarterback is a
• 33:51
  Speaker 1: Dodo bird and that's why you have to do it.
• 33:54
  Speaker 1: So it was not accidental. I don't believe the leak
• 33:56
  Speaker 1: was accidental. It was the organization Minnesota quietly turning off
• 34:02
  Speaker 1: the star Trek deflector shields. They turn them off, and
• 34:08
  Speaker 1: that's it, and they're preparing to bring in somebody else.
• 34:11
  Speaker 1: And whoever they bring in is also gonna stink most likely,
• 34:14
  Speaker 1: So you'll get that. But you don't simplify unless you
• 34:19
  Speaker 1: have no other options, Like that's a total panic move, right,
• 34:22
  Speaker 1: that's an I mean, everyone agree, that's a panic move
• 34:24
  Speaker 1: by the Viking.
• 34:25
  Speaker 3: You don't dumb.
• 34:26
  Speaker 1: Things down unless the test scores are coming back in crayon,
• 34:32
  Speaker 1: and you're like, what man thinking about? McCarthy had justin Jefferson,
• 34:38
  Speaker 1: top five receiver in the NFL, who was neutered Jordan Addison,
• 34:45
  Speaker 1: great player, right, good player? And the Vikings ranked twenty
• 34:48
  Speaker 1: ninth in passing offense, twenty ninth in passing offense. That
• 34:53
  Speaker 1: is not development, That is demolition. That is a dereliction
• 34:58
  Speaker 1: of duties, is what they And so the message is
• 35:01
  Speaker 1: rather clear. The gloves are off, the kid gloves are off,
• 35:05
  Speaker 1: and the Vikings are in the quarterback market, whether that's
• 35:09
  Speaker 1: Kirk Cousins coming back or taking a flyer on two,
• 35:13
  Speaker 1: a tongue of my lower or something like that the
• 35:16
  Speaker 1: Game of Musical Chairs.
• 35:17
  Speaker 2: Be sure to catch live editions of The Ben Maller
• 35:20
  Speaker 2: Show weekdays at two am Eastern eleven pm Pacific.
• 35:24
  Speaker 3: It's Mallard. How about that?
• 35:25
  Speaker 2: To the third degree? This is one big THENT gets
• 35:31
  Speaker 2: quilled all.
• 35:31
  Speaker 3: Right, Google.
• 35:33
  Speaker 4: Mike Vrabel said this week that the Patriots have quotes
• 35:36
  Speaker 4: built the foundation, but need to improve.
• 35:39
  Speaker 3: Where do you think they need to improve the most.
• 35:42
  Speaker 1: They need better wide receivers. They need at least one
• 35:44
  Speaker 1: stud wide receiver, and really that's it, other than a
• 35:50
  Speaker 1: little bit better of an offensive line. And they set
• 35:52
  Speaker 1: the foundation they have to prove and validate this following
• 35:54
  Speaker 1: year against when they play a tougher schedule that they're
• 35:58
  Speaker 1: not fraud They're not gonna have as good a rec
• 36:00
  Speaker 1: next year, but they have to legitimize it. So I
• 36:04
  Speaker 1: would go out and get a you know, Aj Brown,
• 36:05
  Speaker 1: someone like that next.
• 36:07
  Speaker 4: It is being reported that Jason Tatum will potentially make
• 36:10
  Speaker 4: his return to the court for the Celtics on March first, Ben,
• 36:13
  Speaker 4: do you think Tatum's return has these Celtics poised for
• 36:15
  Speaker 4: a finals run?
• 36:16
  Speaker 1: Well, first of all, they're already in position. There is
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  Speaker 1: no one I am. I'm a glutton for punchment. I
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  Speaker 1: ripped the NBA all the time, but I have it
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  Speaker 1: on the background and I don't see anyone in the
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  Speaker 1: Eastern Conference that is invincible. So they're right in the
• 36:28
  Speaker 1: middle of it already. So yes, assuming Tatum's actually going
• 36:31
  Speaker 1: to be able to stay healthy and play and all that,
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  Speaker 1: the Celtics have a shot to get to the NBA Finals.
• 36:36
  Speaker 1: There's no dominant team in the Eastern Conference, and he's
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  Speaker 1: doing that for NBC next.
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  Speaker 3: So Steven A.
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  Speaker 4: Smith recently took a shot at Ben Simmons, who was
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  Speaker 4: no longer in the NBA. They were asked why he
• 36:47
  Speaker 4: keeps taking shots to him. He said he will keep
• 36:50
  Speaker 4: catching strays as long as he is alive. He said,
• 36:53
  Speaker 4: there's no bigger thief in the history of the NBA
• 36:55
  Speaker 4: than that man, Ben. Do you agree with that, No
• 36:56
  Speaker 4: bigger thief?
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  Speaker 3: Financially?
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  Speaker 1: You would say Ben Simmons is at the very top
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  Speaker 1: money wise. I mean, there's been a lot of guys
• 37:04
  Speaker 1: stealing money in the NBA. Made of them played for
• 37:06
  Speaker 1: the Clippers as Ben Simmons did. How about Stephen A
• 37:08
  Speaker 1: running for president?
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  Speaker 2: Cook?
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  Speaker 3: How about that? I vote for him, You vote for him.
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  Speaker 3: I just want somebody I know to be president. I
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  Speaker 3: know him. I'd be cool. No, he's not gonna win,
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  Speaker 3: all right.
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  Speaker 5: It is officially time for love here on the Ben
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  Speaker 5: Mallor Show.
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  Speaker 6: M I love love. And you know, Coop just asked
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  Speaker 6: me a really good question.
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  Speaker 3: Was it on the air?
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  Speaker 5: No, no, no, but he was wondering, you know which
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  Speaker 5: Winter Olympics sport do you think would be the best lovers? Okay,
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  Speaker 5: I think obviously ice skaters because they're super flexible.
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  Speaker 6: You can put them in any position you want, bend
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  Speaker 6: them like a preza.
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  Speaker 3: I don't know. I don't know what sport.
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  Speaker 1: I did see a photo somebody sent me of some
• 38:15
  Speaker 1: women in those kat suits.
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  Speaker 3: They looked very very speed skaters. Who they are?
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  Speaker 1: Yeah? Oh my god, holy yeah?
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  Speaker 3: Wow?
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  Speaker 1: All right, yeah, okay, here we go, Lorena far out
• 38:30
  Speaker 1: Dave says, can you burn out the oh yeah, right
• 38:34
  Speaker 1: there button just like the first gear on a transmission.
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  Speaker 3: I'm asking for a friend.
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  Speaker 6: Do I have that button? Is that a button?
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  Speaker 3: I don't know. I don't know what he's far out, Dave,
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  Speaker 3: I don't know what he's talking about.
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  Speaker 1: Andy and Lionel Lakes, Minnesota, writes and he says I'm
• 38:47
  Speaker 1: glad Valentine's Day is behind this long story short. I
• 38:50
  Speaker 1: picked up some eatable boxer shorts for myself to spice
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  Speaker 1: things up last Saturday. When my gal on Sunday woke
• 38:58
  Speaker 1: up with e coli and pink eye, she's not happy.
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  Speaker 3: Oh I'm never shopping there again.
• 39:04
  Speaker 5: Oh, you got to get the right candy edible Endi's
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  Speaker 5: if you're going to do that.
• 39:07
  Speaker 6: They have a bunch of different ones.
• 39:08
  Speaker 3: There a black market for edible No you Spencers.
• 39:13
  Speaker 5: But I also heard Amazon is really good for a
• 39:15
  Speaker 5: little like smut stuff like that. Yeah, but you can
• 39:17
  Speaker 5: do like you know, those candy necklaces that you bite,
• 39:20
  Speaker 5: bite little people. They make those in thongs and boxers.
• 39:24
  Speaker 5: So yeah, you can get to chewing baby.
• 39:26
  Speaker 1: Imagine making your money making that, all right? Bird Dog
• 39:29
  Speaker 1: writes in and says, do girls like it? Do girls
• 39:32
  Speaker 1: like it when it rains?
• 39:34
  Speaker 2: Awe?
• 39:34
  Speaker 3: Or does it frighten them?
• 39:36
  Speaker 5: I love it when it rains. I actually sleep with
• 39:38
  Speaker 5: my window open when it happens. I just went outside
• 39:40
  Speaker 5: here doing the break to see it, put my face up,
• 39:42
  Speaker 5: got some of the eyeball.
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  Speaker 3: It was bad. I do love the I think the
• 39:45
  Speaker 3: answer is both.
• 39:46
  Speaker 4: My wife said, she loves the rain, but then when
• 39:47
  Speaker 4: I leave for work, she's texting me that it sounds scary.
• 39:50
  Speaker 3: Oh yeah, yeah, there's that. It's just like hailing last
• 39:54
  Speaker 3: last night. Get aggressive here, Yes it does.
• 39:57
  Speaker 1: JT, the wingman from outside Knoxville, Tennessee, rights in our
• 40:00
  Speaker 1: pal He says, went on a road trip to Florida
• 40:03
  Speaker 1: with your significant other in the overnight? Who gets to
• 40:06
  Speaker 1: choose the radio station? I'm asking for a friend.
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  Speaker 6: Whoever's the driver?
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, that's true.
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  Speaker 1: JT's a He's a legendary driver, so I would think
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  Speaker 1: he would get to decide.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah, it always has to be the driver because the
• 40:17
  Speaker 5: driver has to stay like awake.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah.
• 40:21
  Speaker 1: Shane and Moyne says, for the Lorena, which athletes and the
• 40:24
  Speaker 1: major sports? Does the Queen find the sexiest NBA, NHL, NFL,
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  Speaker 1: or MLB.
• 40:29
  Speaker 5: Oh, it's got to it's gotta be.
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  Speaker 3: All the above. I don't know.
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  Speaker 6: That's got to be the NFL, NFL. Yeah, I love
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  Speaker 6: a big man.
• 40:37
  Speaker 3: What about hockey, though, there's some big I worked.
• 40:39
  Speaker 5: With hockey players, used to work at the Honda Center,
• 40:41
  Speaker 5: and I never yeah, I never really catch it on those.
• 40:45
  Speaker 3: Ones, all right, Bobby and Florida, Keevi and Pop.
• 40:47
  Speaker 1: Bobby says, how do you fix a situation where your
• 40:49
  Speaker 1: woman said, don't do anything for Valentine's Day?
• 40:53
  Speaker 3: So you didn't, but she didn't really meet it. That's
• 40:59
  Speaker 3: the oldest in the woman's plightbook.
• 41:01
  Speaker 1: All this trek in the Woman's Plightbook is to say,
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  Speaker 1: don't do anything.
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  Speaker 3: No, you all you women do that, Larta, Bobby, you
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  Speaker 3: all do it.
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  Speaker 6: Shouldn't have done that. You know better, you know better.
• 41:13
  Speaker 6: But they play mind games.
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  Speaker 3: Exactly hate that. Say what you want and want what
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  Speaker 3: you say? That's what I say.
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  Speaker 6: You have to read my mind.
• 41:21
  Speaker 3: No, I'm not No.
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• 41:39
  Speaker 1: Oh, yes, do it? Password the word Game of the Stars.
• 41:43
  Speaker 1: And we welcome in our contestants. We have Mark in
• 41:47
  Speaker 1: the north end.
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  Speaker 3: Who's going to play?
• 41:49
  Speaker 1: Hello, Mark, welcome. You gotta get some WS. I know
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  Speaker 1: you're working right now. You try you're beating the traffic, right,
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  Speaker 1: you're beating the traffic? Yes, all right, Mark, you are
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  Speaker 1: going to play a password. Hold on a second, and
• 42:06
  Speaker 1: Mike the Leprecaun is gonna play.
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  Speaker 3: Hello that Mike the Leprecaun. Alright, so look at you Wednesday,
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  Speaker 3: all right? Happy? Yes, I don't know if you say happy,
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  Speaker 3: but you just did. All right? Mark, who do you
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  Speaker 3: want to partner up with?
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  Speaker 1: Here?
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  Speaker 3: Mark?
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  Speaker 2: You're the man, I'm.
• 42:23
  Speaker 3: The man, man, how coul you be a man? Scotty
• 42:25
  Speaker 3: forrel you man? You man, I'm a man? All right?
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  Speaker 2: Very good?
• 42:27
  Speaker 3: All right, very good. You're gonna play. And Mike the Leprecaun.
• 42:31
  Speaker 3: You've got Florina and Coop Mike the Leprechaun.
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  Speaker 5: Let me think about it for one second.
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  Speaker 3: All right, all right, very good, Mark. We have a
• 42:42
  Speaker 3: list of words.
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  Speaker 6: Can we call him the leper instead?
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  Speaker 1: We one to ten? One to ten and number three?
• 42:51
  Speaker 1: Al right, word number three, let's go with Let's go
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  Speaker 1: with the clue?
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  Speaker 3: Is uh uh? Integrate? Yeah?
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  Speaker 1: But they both gave the right end, you see that, Coop,
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  Speaker 1: Mike idiot.
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  Speaker 3: I'm all right, that's save points.
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  Speaker 1: Go ahead there, Coop, Mike the leppertn picking number one
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  Speaker 1: to ten, please not three.
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  Speaker 3: It's your guy, Coop, that's your guy. Uh a novel book.
• 43:29
  Speaker 1: Yes, all right, there you were tied to ten, and
• 43:32
  Speaker 1: back to you Marky. Mark picked eight, number one to ten,
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  Speaker 1: but not two.
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  Speaker 3: Not three?
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  Speaker 1: Number one?
• 43:39
  Speaker 3: All right, number one.
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  Speaker 1: Let's go with uh Jubilee.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah.
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  Speaker 6: I can't believe you got a good job.
• 43:51
  Speaker 3: Good job, Mark pick not picking number Mike.
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  Speaker 5: Oh, what's up?
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  Speaker 3: Four to ten? Yeah? Alright? Come on? Oh bees yeah, alright.
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  Speaker 1: Well, the good news is everyone got him right. The
• 44:09
  Speaker 1: bad news is it's a damn tie. It's a tie.
• 44:13
  Speaker 1: I don't want to tie.
• 44:14
  Speaker 3: Who wants to tie?