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  Speaker 1: SO I lead this hour to begin the night, The
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  Speaker 1: talk Festivus, You and I together here from the swap
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  Speaker 1: meet of football. Uh super Bowl fifty nine days away
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  Speaker 1: on tap this weekend. So the Eagles and Chiefs have
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  Speaker 1: to play game. But for everyone else, they're getting ready
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  Speaker 1: for next year. It's hurry up, get ready for next
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  Speaker 1: year and the twenty twenty five regular season, which will
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  Speaker 1: kick off sometime in early September. Big moves not surprising,
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  Speaker 1: but big moves coming from La La land. And if
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  Speaker 1: you have not been following, because you actually have a
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  Speaker 1: life and you're not obsessing with all of this, we
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  Speaker 1: have learned that wide receiver Cooper Cup has been informed
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  Speaker 1: by the RAMS his services are no longer needed for
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  Speaker 1: the team that shares Sofi Stadium, that the team will
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  Speaker 1: be seeking to trade him immediately.
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  Speaker 4: How do we know that?
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  Speaker 1: We know that because it came from the horse's mouth,
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  Speaker 1: Cooper Cups saying, quote, I don't agree with the decision,
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  Speaker 1: and I always believed it was going to begin and
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  Speaker 1: end in La close quote Cup making a statement on
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  Speaker 1: the social media. What's all that all the kids are
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  Speaker 1: doing it on the social media? So he does not
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  Speaker 1: agree with the RAMS decision. So Cup, the team working
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  Speaker 1: together allegedly they're working together to have him on the
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  Speaker 1: next train out of La La Land heading somewhere else, says.
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  Speaker 1: The effort there to find the right place to continue
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  Speaker 1: competing for championships. So the story goes and he is
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  Speaker 1: highly motivated, and he says healthy. He says, Cooper Cup's healthy.
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  Speaker 1: So let's let you know that as they head into
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  Speaker 1: the next seasons. I got healthy quick. The RAMS eliminated
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  Speaker 1: a couple weeks back. He's already healthy.
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  Speaker 4: Who knew?
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  Speaker 1: All right, so let us discuss the question. Former super
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  Speaker 1: Ball hero Cooper Cup says that he is not happy.
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  Speaker 1: He does not agree, but the Rams are working to
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  Speaker 1: trade him. Immediately, give me your school of thought on this.
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  Speaker 1: So I have Steve Harvey, bipartisan and car shopping. That
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  Speaker 1: sounded like a different bell. What happened to our bell?
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  Speaker 1: That was not the same bell? Okay, that seemed a
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  Speaker 1: little I don't know, it seems a little off. The
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  Speaker 1: original bell seemed a little offt I don't know. Did
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  Speaker 1: somebody mess with our bell? Did someone press the wrong
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  Speaker 1: bell button? I don't know, wrong? All right? Anyway, my
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  Speaker 1: first thought on this, Cooper Cup is one of the
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  Speaker 1: great overachievers. Right, Let's be real here. Cooper Cup third
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  Speaker 1: round draft pick out of a school that is not
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  Speaker 1: known as the Alabama of the Pacific Northwest and wonderful, wonderful,
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  Speaker 1: wonderful Eastern Washington. It was a third round pick and
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  Speaker 1: at one point, for the twenty twenty one season, Cooper
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  Speaker 1: Cup was the top receiver in the NFL. There was
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  Speaker 1: no one betted this guy, no one. For one year,
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  Speaker 1: Cooper Cup was at the very top of all the
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  Speaker 1: receiver numbers. He dominated the NFL for one season and
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  Speaker 1: he got paid for it, so you don't feel bad.
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  Speaker 1: He got paid ninety plus million dollars in his time
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  Speaker 1: with the Rams. A fun player to watch. However, when
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  Speaker 1: you look at this from thirty thousand feet up in
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  Speaker 1: the sky, right, you look down and the words of
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  Speaker 1: Steve Harvey. We broadcast from one of Steve Harvey's old
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  Speaker 1: studios here, and Steve Harvey had a line years ago
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  Speaker 1: that loyalty has an expiration date. So the Rams were
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  Speaker 1: loyal to Cooper Cup. Cooper Cup was loyal to the Rams.
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  Speaker 1: At some point, the Rams had an epiphany, They had
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  Speaker 1: a come to Jesus moment. They realized that they had
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  Speaker 1: taken the lemon, and they had skoweezed all of the
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  Speaker 1: juice out of the lemon, and they were done with
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  Speaker 1: the lemon. There was no more there there. They could
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  Speaker 1: make like lemon zest out of it, but they didn't
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  Speaker 1: want to do that. They just wanted to, you know,
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  Speaker 1: squeeze all the juice out of it and there you go.
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  Speaker 1: So there was loyalty. They paid him. It's like, it's
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  Speaker 1: like this business and it's like we do well here.
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  Speaker 1: If they can find someone that works cheaper and can
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  Speaker 1: make the company more money, I'll be gone. That's the
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  Speaker 1: way it works. That's how this operates. That's how anyone operates.
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  Speaker 1: So people getting upset. I get an email from Ramster
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  Speaker 1: and you should rip the Rams. I'm like, well, no,
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  Speaker 1: not really. I understand Cooper Cup will go somewhere else
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  Speaker 1: and they'll have a chance to have a second act
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  Speaker 1: in his career. But remember, at the end of this
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  Speaker 1: last regular season for the Rams, Cooper Cup was bad,
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  Speaker 1: bad to the bone, and not a good way. Not
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  Speaker 1: a good way. He was held under two catches in
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  Speaker 1: three of the final five games that he appeared in
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  Speaker 1: for the Rams, and he went over thirty yards one
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  Speaker 1: time over the final five games. That's that's not thirty
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  Speaker 1: million dollars a year. That's not you know, that's not
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  Speaker 1: top notch wide receiver money. And so pookin the Coua
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  Speaker 1: pooo ca, pookin a Coua has zoomed passed him and
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  Speaker 1: he is at the very peak of his superpowers right now,
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  Speaker 1: another unknown pookinnakua who is at the very top of
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  Speaker 1: the rammed depth chart at this particular point. So Cooper
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  Speaker 1: Cup is at a fork in the road. He's the
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  Speaker 1: crossroads here, and what does he do? What does he do? Right?
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  Speaker 1: The rams are saying he is a diminishing asset, that
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  Speaker 1: his great salad days are behind him, and that he
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  Speaker 1: will be nothing special the rest of the way. That's
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  Speaker 1: what they're betting on. So where should Cooper Cup attempt
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  Speaker 1: to relocate? Where should he go? So you immediately try
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  Speaker 1: to eliminate all these NFC teams, say, Well, the Rams
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  Speaker 1: will cover themselves. They'll think, well, he's not that good anymore.
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  Speaker 1: But we just in case he does turn out to
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  Speaker 1: be good, we're gonna send him to the AFC. So
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  Speaker 1: right away, you're like, all right, he says he wanted
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  Speaker 1: to begin and end his career in LA. Well, the
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  Speaker 1: Chargers don't have any receivers. Their receivers blow. How about
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  Speaker 1: the Chargers and stay in Sofi Stadium. The Rams and
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  Speaker 1: Chargers could work out of trade and you can go
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  Speaker 1: play there. If not the Charge Buffalo they don't have
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  Speaker 1: any receivers, so why not the Buffalo Bills, which just
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  Speaker 1: fine until he gets cold in Buffalo and then you
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  Speaker 1: it doesn't matter if you have receivers or not, because
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  Speaker 1: they don't do anything in cold weather. And the Kansas
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  Speaker 1: City Chiefs, who are always looking to add players for
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  Speaker 1: Patrick Mahomes and so that's also a possibility. They're all
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  Speaker 1: all right there at the top and there is money
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  Speaker 1: on the table for Cooper Cup. You'd have to renegotiate
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  Speaker 1: his contract. Now he's not the only, but big day.
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  Speaker 1: If you like players you've heard of in the NFL
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  Speaker 1: who would like a relocation situation, You were all joned
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  Speaker 1: up on Monday because to Cleveland we go, the land
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  Speaker 1: where Miles Garrett announced all those nice things said by
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  Speaker 1: the Cleveland front office. Yeah, I don't care. I went out,
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  Speaker 1: that's it. Yeah, So Miles Garrett announced he has requested
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  Speaker 1: a relocation. He wants a job transfer, he wants to
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  Speaker 1: enter the transfer portal and get out of Cleveland. The
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  Speaker 1: announcement coming just a few days after Andrew Barry gave
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  Speaker 1: Miles Garrett a manny and a petty on live microphones,
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  Speaker 1: licking the toes of Miles Garrett and said the Browns
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  Speaker 1: would not entertain the thought of trading Garrett well. In
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  Speaker 1: a prepared statement Miles Garrett released, Garrett said, as the
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  Speaker 1: dominant pass rusher.
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  Speaker 4: For the Browns, that his goal was not to go from.
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  Speaker 1: Cleveland to Canton, which is what Andrew Berry the GM said.
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  Speaker 1: It has always been to compete and to win a
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  Speaker 1: Super Bowl. Oh, so he says a goal the Browns,
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  Speaker 1: of course, are nowhere close to. There's some high school
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  Speaker 1: football teams that are closer to winning a Super Bowl
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  Speaker 1: than the Cleveland Browns at three and fourteen and still handcuffed,
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  Speaker 1: handcuff to the creepy quarterback. So what are the odds?
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  Speaker 1: What are the odds that Miles Garrett ends up getting
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  Speaker 1: what he wants at the Browns bend and knee and
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  Speaker 1: end up saying bye bye to Miles Garrett. So I'm
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  Speaker 1: gonna about the Mallard Sportsbook odds on this. The Mallard
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  Speaker 1: Sportsbook odds minus three hundred. Now, if you're not good
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  Speaker 1: at math, minus three hundred indicates a seventy five percent
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  Speaker 1: chance that Miles Garrett is wearing different colored laundry and
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  Speaker 1: a different colored plastic helmet when they kick off to
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  Speaker 1: twenty twenty five NFL season. And how deep here's where
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  Speaker 1: we are. How deep is Miles Garrett willing to go?
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  Speaker 1: We'd like to know, we'd like to And what about
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  Speaker 1: the Browns? Right? Are the Browns locked in? The Browns
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  Speaker 1: were saying, we haven't changed our position now Cleveland. This
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  Speaker 1: is fascinating to me. Cleveland is in such a deep
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  Speaker 1: dark place their football team that there is said to
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  Speaker 1: be bipartisan support from people that hate the Browns and
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  Speaker 1: people that like the Browns, even Brown's loyalists, that Miles
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  Speaker 1: Garrett should be traded. The team such a dumpster fire,
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  Speaker 1: that they should get rid of Miles Garrett and they
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  Speaker 1: have no ill will towards him. And we're in the
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  Speaker 1: early stages of this drama orama as it plays out
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  Speaker 1: as a high stakes, very emotional, very emotional complex situation.
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  Speaker 1: Will they heated emotions? Will they diffuse over time? Is
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  Speaker 1: there enough time for that to happen? Stay tuned, developing
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  Speaker 1: hot dot dot dot Now last word, So let's play
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  Speaker 1: Malord Matchmaker. We're gonna play Malord Matchmaker's fun game. You
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  Speaker 1: can play ifyone, but I'm gonna play first. So Malar Matchmaker,
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  Speaker 1: where should Miles Garrett look to end off this offseason?
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  Speaker 1: We've already told you the Cooper Cup, Chargers, Bills, Chiefs obvious,
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  Speaker 1: but what about Miles Garrett? He wants out where should
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  Speaker 1: he go? So much like the process of elimination we
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  Speaker 1: did earlier in this exercise, We're gonna immediately eliminate the
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  Speaker 1: AFC heavyweight contenders, the Chiefs, the Bills, the Ravens. Even
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  Speaker 1: though Cleveland is several thousand country miles away from getting
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  Speaker 1: to that level, they will likely not play ball with
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  Speaker 1: any of those teams. You eliminate them right off the top. Boom,
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  Speaker 1: there's your haircut. So then you go to the NFC
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  Speaker 1: and say, all right, well, where's a good possibility And
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  Speaker 1: my crystal Ball said car shopping as in a Ford
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  Speaker 1: or a.
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  Speaker 4: Dodge and Ford Field.
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  Speaker 1: You can stay in the Great Lakes region there the
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  Speaker 1: Rust Belt region and go up to the Lions who
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  Speaker 1: play at Ford Field and have no defense and if
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  Speaker 1: they can trade a gaggle of draft picks and other
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  Speaker 1: promissory nodes, they can combine Miles Garrett and Aiden Hutchinson
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  Speaker 1: as a dynamic duo on defense, and why not two
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  Speaker 1: impact players until they get hurt. That'd be pretty good
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  Speaker 1: for a couple of years in the Motor City, little
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  Speaker 1: Motown madness on defensive. You the Lions, why would you
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  Speaker 1: not go out and do that? In the other option,
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  Speaker 1: I mentioned car shopping and of course Ford Field for
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  Speaker 1: the Lions. But how about the Rams? Right, because much
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  Speaker 1: like a Dodge, the marketing slogan of Dodge built Ram tough,
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  Speaker 1: Miles Garrett, the Rams have a blossoming defense that started
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  Speaker 1: to really click the last part of the season. Now
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  Speaker 1: that's no guarantee they're going to be that good next year,
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  Speaker 1: But you had Miles Garrett with all those young players around,
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  Speaker 1: Miles Garrett and one of the top coaches in the NFL,
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  Speaker 1: and Sean McVay, who you know is going to be
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  Speaker 1: in the playoffs every year. Look at the division, the Niners,
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  Speaker 1: their quarterback's been exposed. Now brock Perty the Cardinals are
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  Speaker 1: sending out alligator arms Murray and Seattle. They've got Geno
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  Speaker 1: Smith at this point who stinks. So the Rams have
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  Speaker 1: a great chance of being right back in the playoffs
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  Speaker 1: again next year and with a little defense. You look
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  Speaker 1: around the NFC and nobody thinks Philadelphia is invincible. Detroit
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  Speaker 1: is certainly not. There's some good teams in the NFC,
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  Speaker 1: but there's not like a great team. There's not Kansas
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  Speaker 1: City in the NFC that does not exist.
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  Speaker 1: number ten thousand, So I lead this hour. It's not
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  Speaker 1: waste any time. Here we go to the fallout from
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  Speaker 1: the blockbuster transaction heard round the pro bouncy ball world
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  Speaker 1: over the weekend. Luca my name is Luca, or that
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  Speaker 1: guy drinking whiskey called him something else, but Luka Doncik
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  Speaker 1: handed to the Lakers in a mind bending giveaway by
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  Speaker 1: the Mavres, putting the wreck in mav Wreck the Dallas
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  Speaker 1: pro bouncy ball team Anthony Davis.
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  Speaker 4: Street closed Davis.
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  Speaker 1: And some spare parts and only one draft pick, one
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  Speaker 1: draft pick going to Lakers. So if you've not heard
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  Speaker 1: the latest on this, it continues to percolate the story.
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  Speaker 1: He might maybe you missed it. So we are now
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  Speaker 1: told that the Luca Street closed trade Luka Doncik for
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  Speaker 1: Street Close Davis originally included multiple first round draft picks
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  Speaker 1: and the Lakers' latest draft pick, Dalton Connect that they
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  Speaker 1: were all included in the original transaction. The trade those
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  Speaker 1: said to have gotten whittled down. There are reports indicating
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  Speaker 1: that the Lakers executive rob Skinny Jeans Polenka convinced the
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  Speaker 1: Mavericks to take less, saying to the Maverick says, listen,
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  Speaker 1: I'm taking the risk here Luca. According to the report,
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  Speaker 1: Luca has laid out the implied. Luca's an alcoholic and
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  Speaker 1: has a weight problem. He's addicted to food, and he's
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  Speaker 1: a drunk. That's what the report indicated. So that's, you know,
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  Speaker 1: it's interesting to think about it. Wait a minute, the
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  Speaker 1: Mavericks of the Mavericks trade this guy because he can't
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  Speaker 1: control his liquor and all that. Now, So essentially the
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  Speaker 1: argument is, and this is the argument other people are
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  Speaker 1: making now, is that the Mavericks tried to get out
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  Speaker 1: in front. Their argument is that Luca is like joel
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  Speaker 1: En Beid. He's not that interested in playing. He doesn't
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  Speaker 1: take the game seriously. He likes what being a basketball
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  Speaker 1: players about. But he's not a professional. He's an amateur
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  Speaker 1: when it comes to showing up on time, following the
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  Speaker 1: code of the West, doing what has to be done.
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  Speaker 1: So that's the spin that the Mavericks are putting out
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  Speaker 1: on it. So let us discuss the question. Thumbs up
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  Speaker 1: or thumbs down to the Lakers GM rob skinny jeans
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  Speaker 1: Polinka convincing the Mavericks to take less for Luka donc.
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  Speaker 1: That's the argument. It's being tossed out there that the
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  Speaker 1: Lakers somehow used a Jedi mind trick to convince the
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  Speaker 1: Mavericks to take less. So I'm gonna go thumbs down
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  Speaker 1: on this one. I'm going thumbs down. I've got Honkey Talk, James, Bond,
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  Speaker 1: and Bruski and we will combine all all of these
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  Speaker 1: things together and we are going to make a I
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  Speaker 1: Want to get Away weekend. Because if you're the Dallas Mavericks,
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  Speaker 1: you want to get away. They will be serenaded with
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  Speaker 1: booze for the rest of the season. It is going
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  Speaker 1: we'll get ugly in Big d. But I am going
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  Speaker 1: thumbs down. Answer the question whether or not you believe
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  Speaker 1: that Rob Polinka, Rob Polinka convinced the Mavericks to take
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  Speaker 1: less for Luca. I'm going thumbs down this latest chapter
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  Speaker 1: in this and the NBA is really good at drama.
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  Speaker 1: They're not really good at anything else at this point,
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  Speaker 1: but the drama solid it's on point. So this latest
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  Speaker 1: chapter is a Shakespearean like drama if you will. Around
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  Speaker 1: the legend building of Rob Polinka, who do you think
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  Speaker 1: leaked the story that Rob Polinka somehow convinced the Dallas
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  Speaker 1: Mavericks to take less. You think that was the Mavericks
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  Speaker 1: who leaked that, or do you think that was Rob
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  Speaker 1: Polinka's pr person that leaked that? Hmm, things that make
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  Speaker 1: you go hm, who couldn't have been? Who could have
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  Speaker 1: possibly have been? My god, Rob Polinka pumping the tires
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  Speaker 1: on Rob Polinka to genius levels. Now you really have
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  Speaker 1: to be a sucker to buy that. We're not buying it.
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  Speaker 1: But if you are good for you, you're a loser.
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  Speaker 1: My god, Polinka is the ultimate trust fun baby in
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  Speaker 1: terms of an executive. He got in good with Genie
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  Speaker 1: Buss and now he's a made man with the Lakers.
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  Speaker 1: He had Luca dropped into his lap at a silent auction.
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  Speaker 1: He wasn't even really an auction. It was like, just
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  Speaker 1: submit an offer, no offers are rejected. Just submit an
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  Speaker 1: offer and you're the only bidder in an auction. Would
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  Speaker 1: mean there's other bidders, but you're the only one that bid.
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  Speaker 1: It was a name your price situation. Now, of course
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  Speaker 1: he wants you to believe that he's some kind of
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  Speaker 1: basketball savant, that he pulled a fast one on Nico Harrison,
• 21:09
  Speaker 1: and it just makes me want to puke in my mouth.
• 21:11
  Speaker 1: The whole situation like this is somehow And then you
• 21:15
  Speaker 1: look at the reporting. He's like, well, here's why Dallas
• 21:16
  Speaker 1: traded him, And was that made up? Or are the
• 21:22
  Speaker 1: Mavericks letting people know. I was like, hey, listen, this
• 21:24
  Speaker 1: guy's a drunk and he's a fat ass and that's
• 21:27
  Speaker 1: why we trade him. Is that just being made up
• 21:30
  Speaker 1: by the media or is that somebody for the Mavericks
• 21:33
  Speaker 1: planning that seed in the media. But the Lambeau leap
• 21:37
  Speaker 1: of faith of you, I'll call it the Lambeau leap
• 21:39
  Speaker 1: of faith because it does remind me. Been doing this
• 21:42
  Speaker 1: for a minute, you might remember the cautionary tale of
• 21:46
  Speaker 1: sports gone Past. Jerry Glanville, old NFL coach. His most
• 21:50
  Speaker 1: famous line, Jerry Glandville was the NFL stands for not
• 21:53
  Speaker 1: for long when you make calls like that. But Glanville
• 21:57
  Speaker 1: famously traded away Brett farr If he was coaching the
• 22:00
  Speaker 1: Atlanta Falcons. Hall of Famer Brett Farv traded him to
• 22:04
  Speaker 1: Green Bay and then years later took a victory lap
• 22:08
  Speaker 1: dur a Glanville. He said, the reason that the Falcons
• 22:12
  Speaker 1: traded Brett Farv to Green Bay was because he could
• 22:16
  Speaker 1: not get far of sober. He was a drunk in Atlanta.
• 22:20
  Speaker 1: He had substance abuse issues, so they traded him Landville.
• 22:24
  Speaker 1: He pat himself on the back. I remember this about
• 22:25
  Speaker 1: fifteen years ago. Glanville had an interview and he patted
• 22:28
  Speaker 1: himself on the back. He said, listen, we traded him
• 22:32
  Speaker 1: to a place where the only thing to do at
• 22:35
  Speaker 1: nine o'clock is to go to Chili Joe's and you
• 22:38
  Speaker 1: can either get it with onions or without onions, and
• 22:41
  Speaker 1: that's it, and those are your only options. And so
• 22:45
  Speaker 1: but this is the antithesis of that. This is not
• 22:48
  Speaker 1: This is not that. I mean, if this reporting is
• 22:52
  Speaker 1: true and the Mavericks tried to sober up Luca and
• 22:56
  Speaker 1: he's got a drinking problem, but they sent Luca to
• 23:00
  Speaker 1: a city where the honky tonk never closes. They have
• 23:06
  Speaker 1: the bars, but then after that they have the after
• 23:08
  Speaker 1: parties in the Hollywood Hills that do not stop. They
• 23:12
  Speaker 1: do not stop. So there's some funny business going on
• 23:17
  Speaker 1: with this story. Now, Page two. What is your favorite
• 23:21
  Speaker 1: conspiracy theory that has made the rounds with the lucidotic trade.
• 23:26
  Speaker 1: And I'll go first here and if you've not been
• 23:29
  Speaker 1: following along, there are many of them. I'll give you
• 23:32
  Speaker 1: the thumbnail recap of some of my favorites. The Adelson
• 23:36
  Speaker 1: group that owns the Mavericks is trying to upset the
• 23:42
  Speaker 1: fan base the customers so much that they eventually relocate
• 23:45
  Speaker 1: the team to Las Vegas so they can they own
• 23:49
  Speaker 1: a lot of property. They're big shots in Vegas because
• 23:52
  Speaker 1: of gambling, so they want the Mavericks to be the
• 23:54
  Speaker 1: NBA team that goes. In order to do that, they
• 23:57
  Speaker 1: have to destroy the franchise and put little pieces of
• 24:03
  Speaker 1: asbestos all over the franchise, and then eventually they'll be
• 24:05
  Speaker 1: able to get rid of that and move it to Vegas.
• 24:09
  Speaker 1: So that's out there. There's the Adams Silver directed this
• 24:14
  Speaker 1: to happen because the NBA is such a crappy product.
• 24:17
  Speaker 1: Nobody cares about Oklahoma City and Cleveland, and it's killing
• 24:21
  Speaker 1: the product that the teams that are the top teams
• 24:25
  Speaker 1: are Cleveland and Okay. See, it's just bad for business.
• 24:28
  Speaker 1: So the Lakers are pretty boring, So why don't you
• 24:31
  Speaker 1: shake it up and we'll make sure Luca goes to
• 24:34
  Speaker 1: La don't even offer him to any other team because
• 24:37
  Speaker 1: he might have ended up in Oklahoma City and that
• 24:39
  Speaker 1: would have been bad. So just that's it. So it
• 24:41
  Speaker 1: was all manipulated by the League office, the association. Decent
• 24:47
  Speaker 1: conspiracy theory. But my favorite, my new favorite today ask
• 24:52
  Speaker 1: me tomorrow. I have a new favorite. But my new
• 24:54
  Speaker 1: favorite Lukeka, my name is Luca. My new favorite conspiracy
• 24:59
  Speaker 1: here is that the Mavericks GM Nico Harrison is James
• 25:07
  Speaker 1: Bond double O seven James Bond. What do I mean
• 25:12
  Speaker 1: by that he's a secret double agent provocateur, That Nico
• 25:16
  Speaker 1: Harrison is pretending to be the executive running the Dallas Mavericks,
• 25:21
  Speaker 1: trying to win in Dallas, but he is working as
• 25:24
  Speaker 1: a James Bond double agent. You see, you can take
• 25:28
  Speaker 1: the boy out of Nike, but you can't take the
• 25:31
  Speaker 1: Nike out of the boy. And for nineteen years working
• 25:35
  Speaker 1: his way up, Nico Harrison was a Nike executive. And
• 25:41
  Speaker 1: if you look at Luka doncik a proud the Nike guy.
• 25:47
  Speaker 1: If you look at Luca, they need to sell shoes.
• 25:50
  Speaker 1: You're gonna sell more shoes. With the Mavericks, You're gonna
• 25:52
  Speaker 1: sell more shoes. With the Lakers, these shoe magnets they directed.
• 25:59
  Speaker 1: The conspiracy is that Nico Harrison was directed by Nike
• 26:03
  Speaker 1: to trade Luca, but only to Los Angeles. That's it,
• 26:08
  Speaker 1: that's all. And he did it. And so when he
• 26:11
  Speaker 1: gets fired by the Mavericks for doing this, he will
• 26:14
  Speaker 1: just go back to Nike and he doesn't care because
• 26:17
  Speaker 1: they'll pay him a couple million a year and he'll
• 26:20
  Speaker 1: work for Nike. Decent conspiracy, all right, now, final point
• 26:26
  Speaker 1: from the files of the Bazaar. The Files of the
• 26:30
  Speaker 1: Bazaar on the Ben Malor show, you taught Jazz president
• 26:35
  Speaker 1: and former nemesis of the Lakers, a Celtic legend, Danny
• 26:40
  Speaker 1: Inge is do you see this? So if you saw it,
• 26:43
  Speaker 1: you're laughing right now because you know where I'm going.
• 26:45
  Speaker 1: So the story is that Danny Ainge had no idea,
• 26:50
  Speaker 1: he was totally in the dark that he was helping
• 26:53
  Speaker 1: to facilitate Luka Doncik going to Los Angeles. That remember,
• 27:00
  Speaker 1: the only way this works is if the Jazz are
• 27:03
  Speaker 1: the stool pigeons and they facilitate the trade because they
• 27:08
  Speaker 1: needed that third wheel. They needed that third wheel to
• 27:13
  Speaker 1: make this happen. And the Utah basketball team did it.
• 27:17
  Speaker 1: The boys in Salt Lakes said, yeah, we'll help you out. Sure,
• 27:19
  Speaker 1: why not? So the reporting is that Danny Ainge had
• 27:23
  Speaker 1: had no idea. He's essentially claiming ignorance until about thirty
• 27:28
  Speaker 1: minutes before the trade was finalized, that he was helping
• 27:31
  Speaker 1: to make this happen. So how does Danny Inge look
• 27:36
  Speaker 1: with this over the top claim from people around the
• 27:40
  Speaker 1: jazz that he was ignorant of what he was doing
• 27:45
  Speaker 1: and helping to be an accomplice to the giveaway of
• 27:50
  Speaker 1: Luka Dancik from Dallas to Lakers. So Danny, I'll tell you,
• 27:55
  Speaker 1: he looks. He looks like he's having a bruski. He's
• 27:57
  Speaker 1: at a local watering hole. The watering hole is named
• 28:00
  Speaker 1: the Village Idiot, and he's the mascot of the watering hole. Like,
• 28:05
  Speaker 1: come on, I understand you're all trying to get out
• 28:08
  Speaker 1: of this. It looks bad for the jazz, right the jazz.
• 28:11
  Speaker 1: Lucas in his mid twenties. So assuming he's not actually
• 28:14
  Speaker 1: an alcoholic and he needs to go to a fat farm,
• 28:18
  Speaker 1: that he's not that bad, the Lakers will be okay
• 28:21
  Speaker 1: with Luca for a few years. And the Utah Jazz,
• 28:24
  Speaker 1: who are just you know, treading waters, playing tiddley winks
• 28:28
  Speaker 1: as they waste time. I don't know what they're doing.
• 28:31
  Speaker 1: I have no idea what they're doing. The Utah Jaz
• 28:33
  Speaker 1: they just collecting draft picks for a rainy day. Just
• 28:36
  Speaker 1: collecting a lot of draft picks is what they're doing.
• 28:38
  Speaker 1: It's ridiculous. But Danny Anche does look like he's He's
• 28:41
  Speaker 1: the mascot of the watering hole known as the Village
• 28:44
  Speaker 1: Idiot pub Man. And there's a lot of people who
• 28:50
  Speaker 1: love to tell you how smart they are most of
• 28:52
  Speaker 1: the time and are very bragged nocious about what they
• 28:56
  Speaker 1: know and high basketball IQ. Those people are claiming ignorance
• 29:01
  Speaker 1: when it comes to this getting the getting the Hey,
• 29:06
  Speaker 1: I'm not my fault. I didn't know, I had no idea.
• 29:08
  Speaker 1: What are you talking about? It's getting sketchier and sketchier
• 29:11
  Speaker 1: by the minute, sketchier and sketchier by the minute.
• 29:14
  Speaker 2: Be sure to catch live editions of The Ben Maller
• 29:16
  Speaker 2: Show weekdays at two am Eastern eleven pm Pacific. Here
• 29:20
  Speaker 2: we go, Here we go, Mallard, how about that to
• 29:23
  Speaker 2: the third degree? This is one big event.
• 29:28
  Speaker 1: Gets grilled Kubbler.
• 29:30
  Speaker 5: It was announced over the weekend that Chip Kelly will
• 29:33
  Speaker 5: return to the NFL as the offensive coordinator for the
• 29:35
  Speaker 5: Las Vegas Raiders. Ben, do you think will will eventually
• 29:38
  Speaker 5: see Chip Kelly back in a head coaching position.
• 29:41
  Speaker 1: No, because he does not want to be a head
• 29:43
  Speaker 1: coach in college unless it's at one of the diamond
• 29:46
  Speaker 1: schools in the Big Ten or the SEC. He doesn't
• 29:49
  Speaker 1: want to go to a place like UCLA where they
• 29:50
  Speaker 1: don't care about football and all that. And the other
• 29:52
  Speaker 1: problem is Chip is too old. He's sixty one. He's
• 29:56
  Speaker 1: a football lifer. You look at where he has coached
• 29:59
  Speaker 1: around the United States. He started at Columbia in nineteen ninety.
• 30:03
  Speaker 1: He's been to New Hampshire, John Hopkins, Oregon, the Eagles,
• 30:09
  Speaker 1: the forty nine Ers, UCLA, Ohio State. Now he's with
• 30:12
  Speaker 1: the Raiders. The guys moves around every couple of years.
• 30:14
  Speaker 1: He's a football vagabond. But his days as a head
• 30:17
  Speaker 1: coach or over done. He will not be other than
• 30:20
  Speaker 1: an interim coach. He's not gonna be a head coach again.
• 30:22
  Speaker 5: Next, TMS caught up with Rams legend Isaac Bruce, who
• 30:25
  Speaker 5: told him that he is sure that Tory Holt will
• 30:28
  Speaker 5: be getting a call to join him in the Hall
• 30:29
  Speaker 5: of Fame this week, Ben, do you think Holt makes
• 30:31
  Speaker 5: the cut?
• 30:32
  Speaker 1: He's borderline. I was not a fan of the Saint
• 30:34
  Speaker 1: Louis Rams. I was a fan of the La Rams.
• 30:36
  Speaker 1: I still am, but the Tory Holt borderline. He was
• 30:38
  Speaker 1: only an All Pro once, although he did win the
• 30:40
  Speaker 1: Super Bowl. He did end up on an All Decade team,
• 30:44
  Speaker 1: which is pretty cool. However, you can certainly tell the
• 30:47
  Speaker 1: story of the NFL without mentioning Tory Holt's name. He
• 30:51
  Speaker 1: was good. He was part of that greatest show on turf,
• 30:52
  Speaker 1: But that greatest show on Turf should have been much
• 30:54
  Speaker 1: better for a longer period of time than they were.
• 30:57
  Speaker 1: They were like one hit wonders there.
• 30:58
  Speaker 5: Next, former Giants running back Brandon Jacobs spoke about the
• 31:02
  Speaker 5: Super Bowl and said, well, it would be cool to
• 31:04
  Speaker 5: see Kansasity achieve a three peat. That the Tom Brady
• 31:07
  Speaker 5: dynasty is still better? Is he right, man?
• 31:10
  Speaker 1: Well, of course he's gonna say that because he played
• 31:12
  Speaker 1: against the Tom Brady dynasty.
• 31:14
  Speaker 4: Of course he's gonna say that.
• 31:16
  Speaker 1: Just like when I retire from radio, someday, I'm gonna
• 31:18
  Speaker 1: say radio was better when I was in radio. That's
• 31:22
  Speaker 1: the way that it works. Of course you're gonna say
• 31:24
  Speaker 1: your ero was better than the other era. No, if
• 31:27
  Speaker 1: the Chiefs win three in a row, when people say
• 31:29
  Speaker 1: it could never happen ever again and all you know, nonsense,
• 31:33
  Speaker 1: It's never happened before, but it never happened a dynasty.
• 31:36
  Speaker 1: Because of the salary cap. It is absolutely more impressive
• 31:39
  Speaker 1: than the Patriot run. That's why everyone in Boston's pulling
• 31:42
  Speaker 1: for the Eagles. How did we do?
• 31:44
  Speaker 5: Benny passes a dition I didn say, well, but the
• 31:47
  Speaker 5: part I won again?
• 31:48
  Speaker 1: Thank you, Loryana, she's clapping, thank you. I appreciate that. Hardy, hardy, hardy. Yeah.
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• 32:06
  Speaker 1: Why don't we welcome in our contestants and then we'll
• 32:08
  Speaker 1: play the game. What do you say, let's do that?
• 32:10
  Speaker 1: Why not? Who do we have here? Let's see her
• 32:13
  Speaker 1: any Meenie miney moe. We've got Chris in the Commonwealth.
• 32:17
  Speaker 1: Who's gonna play? Hello Chris, Welcome, good morning for my
• 32:21
  Speaker 1: first crack at this so I'm a new feature in.
• 32:27
  Speaker 2: This one.
• 32:27
  Speaker 4: What were You Born? What are you Born?
• 32:28
  Speaker 1: Again? Game?
• 32:29
  Speaker 4: You play all these games? What are you talking about?
• 32:31
  Speaker 4: You love the games?
• 32:33
  Speaker 1: But I never done I've never done this one? All right?
• 32:36
  Speaker 1: All right, fine, I don't always too much that. Who
• 32:38
  Speaker 1: do you want to partner up with?
• 32:40
  Speaker 2: I'll go with two?
• 32:42
  Speaker 4: All right, hold on a sec.
• 32:43
  Speaker 1: You're gonna play.
• 32:44
  Speaker 4: And Brian is in Illinois?
• 32:46
  Speaker 1: What's going on?
• 32:46
  Speaker 4: Brian?
• 32:47
  Speaker 1: Welcome? Hey man, what's going on?
• 32:50
  Speaker 4: You want to play the game? Malls amount of money?
• 32:52
  Speaker 1: Yeah, let's give it a shot. All right? Who do
• 32:54
  Speaker 1: you want to partner up with? It was left Ben
• 32:57
  Speaker 1: or Lorena? Oh man, we'll give it a shot.
• 33:01
  Speaker 4: Okay, Sorry, Larina, you're out of the bit.
• 33:04
  Speaker 1: I'm sorry about that. You seem excited. Brian. And what
• 33:07
  Speaker 1: do you do there? Brian? You know Chris is a regular?
• 33:10
  Speaker 1: What do you do in Illinois? I'm an assembly supervisor
• 33:13
  Speaker 1: a local plant. There you go, it works for the factory. There,
• 33:17
  Speaker 1: I got you?
• 33:17
  Speaker 4: All right, Well it's real quick.
• 33:18
  Speaker 1: Cool pick the categories here, Jenner, all right, we have.
• 33:21
  Speaker 5: This is Mallard's Mountain of Money. The Warwicked Davis Edition
• 33:25
  Speaker 5: turn fifty five years old. We got Return of the Jedi, Leprechaun,
• 33:29
  Speaker 5: Harry Potter, and the Prisoner of Azkaban and small town Folk? Chris,
• 33:33
  Speaker 5: which category would you like?
• 33:35
  Speaker 2: Return of the Jedi?
• 33:36
  Speaker 1: All right, then, Brian, how about you?
• 33:39
  Speaker 2: Jim me Harry Potter?
• 33:40
  Speaker 1: All right? You got? All right? Everyone? Hold on, We'll
• 33:42
  Speaker 1: have Mallard's amount of Money. Innocent tired? You don't hang up, guys,
• 33:45
  Speaker 1: We'll get to that next.
• 33:46
  Speaker 2: Be sure to catch live editions of The Ben Maller
• 33:48
  Speaker 2: Show weekdays at two am Eastern eleven pm Pacific. Now
• 33:53
  Speaker 2: Malor's Mountain of Money. Hell, do you have what it
• 33:58
  Speaker 2: takes to get to the top? Probably?
• 34:01
  Speaker 1: Not? All right? Right to the game. Matchup a set.
• 34:03
  Speaker 1: Chris is in the Commonwealth, he's with Coop, and Brian
• 34:07
  Speaker 1: is a guy works at a factory there in Illinois.
• 34:09
  Speaker 1: He's mashed up with me and Coop. You're up first,
• 34:12
  Speaker 1: Return of the Jedi. The category will put forty five
• 34:15
  Speaker 1: seconds on the clib bye. Are you there, Chris? Yes,
• 34:18
  Speaker 1: all right? These athletes all return to their original team.
• 34:21
  Speaker 4: You're on your way. Go all right.
• 34:23
  Speaker 5: The MVP quarterback for the Carolina Panthers, Cam Newton, Yes,
• 34:29
  Speaker 5: Hall of Fame. Tight end for the Broncos, and he
• 34:32
  Speaker 5: also played for the Ravens. Oh, yes, all right, Michael
• 34:39
  Speaker 5: Jordan's sidekick.
• 34:45
  Speaker 1: Yes, you're having hard time? Oh my god?
• 34:53
  Speaker 5: Okay, number five for the Cardinals and the Angels. He's
• 34:57
  Speaker 5: a slugger from the Dominican Republic.
• 35:00
  Speaker 1: Uh, oh my god, I'm five. He's Oh you got that,
• 35:09
  Speaker 1: Cam Newton?
• 35:10
  Speaker 4: H Shannon Sharp?
• 35:12
  Speaker 5: Yeah, Scotti.
• 35:16
  Speaker 2: Told me like a ten. Then I want to remember
• 35:18
  Speaker 2: Shannon Shark.
• 35:20
  Speaker 1: I'm just take notes for next time.
• 35:24
  Speaker 4: Okay, all right, well that's all right.
• 35:25
  Speaker 1: You better luck pick Nobody knows who he is, okay,
• 35:29
  Speaker 1: Hall of Famer. Okay, now, Brian, are you there, Brian? Yeah,
• 35:34
  Speaker 1: all right, you picked Harry Cott, Harry Potter, and the
• 35:37
  Speaker 1: prisoner of h what's it?
• 35:40
  Speaker 4: Azkaban?
• 35:40
  Speaker 1: Azkaban? All right? Yeah, these athletes have all spent some
• 35:43
  Speaker 1: time in prison. Are you ready, Brian? All right?
• 35:46
  Speaker 4: Buffalo Bill's running back. He killed two people.
• 35:52
  Speaker 1: Okay, nobody knows who that is. Uh no, he was
• 35:55
  Speaker 1: convicted of in his dead anyway, who cares? Uh? Puppy
• 35:59
  Speaker 1: killing quarter back for the Atlanta Falcons. Yes, Charlie Hustle
• 36:03
  Speaker 1: for the Cincinnati Reds. He bet on baseball Yes, known
• 36:06
  Speaker 1: as Nails. He was an outfielder for the Mets in
• 36:08
  Speaker 1: the eighties and the Phillies in the nineties. He gave
• 36:11
  Speaker 1: he gives stock market advice, went to jail for that. No,
• 36:16
  Speaker 1: how about this wide receiver for the Carolina Panthers. He
• 36:19
  Speaker 1: had his pregnant girlfriend murdered in uh and went to
• 36:23
  Speaker 1: jail for a long time to smson one. Okay, well,
• 36:27
  Speaker 1: well you got it right. I don't need to go
• 36:28
  Speaker 1: back nickname big Baby for the Celtics. I think he's in. Yeah,
• 36:34
  Speaker 1: at the buzzer at the ball. Right.
• 36:36
  Speaker 4: You didn't get Ray Caruth, all right? And all right,
• 36:39
  Speaker 4: he didn't get Lenny Chris.
• 36:40
  Speaker 5: Do you once got leprechaun or small town folk.
• 36:47
  Speaker 4: Leprecawn?
• 36:47
  Speaker 1: All right?
• 36:48
  Speaker 5: These athletes all have Irish heritage. Forty five seconds, let's
• 36:50
  Speaker 5: begin the goat from the Patriots. Brady, Yes, floats like
• 36:57
  Speaker 5: a butterflies, things like a bee. What what?
• 37:08
  Speaker 1: God?
• 37:09
  Speaker 4: It didn't work out for you?
• 37:11
  Speaker 1: A bad cell reception out of the sticks outside outside Boston.
• 37:15
  Speaker 5: All right, sticks, stick to pass word, Chris, all right,
• 37:18
  Speaker 5: didn't work out.
• 37:18
  Speaker 1: We went in the golden ticket for you, Brian. You
• 37:21
  Speaker 1: win a call that taken you win a call that
• 37:23
  Speaker 1: take it, get job by you.
• 37:26
  Speaker 4: That's a winner. Muhammad Ali