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  Speaker 1: Thanks for listening to the best of the Ben Mahler
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  Speaker 2: This is the best of the Ben Maler Show on
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  Speaker 2: Fox Sports Radio.
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  Speaker 1: So I lead this hour from pro Bouncy Ball. Why
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  Speaker 1: are you talking about pro bouncy Ball? Guy? Just relax, Okay,
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  Speaker 1: just chill out. Everything's gonna be okay. Another night, another
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  Speaker 1: couple of games, a couple of duds. Yeah, that was
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  Speaker 1: not great. We start in OKC, where the most compelling
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  Speaker 1: thing about this game was Charles Barkley, Kenny Smith, and Shack.
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  Speaker 1: I don't expect to ever see them on TV, so
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  Speaker 1: when they're on TV, it's rather shocking. I used to
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  Speaker 1: know what days they were on, and I always like
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  Speaker 1: tune in to watch them. I really haven't seen them
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  Speaker 1: in months because I just don't know when they're gonna
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  Speaker 1: be on. But they were there. They were doing the
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  Speaker 1: studio stuff, the reigning champions back at work. There were
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  Speaker 1: you partaking in this probably not probably not not a
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  Speaker 1: sexy matchup. Former Clipper Shade Jogis Alexander though thirty seven points,
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  Speaker 1: keeping that Clipper pride going thirty seven points, nine assists,
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  Speaker 1: and the Thunder end up beating the Suns rather easily.
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  Speaker 1: His sons made a little bit of a token push late,
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  Speaker 1: but they when they being Oklahoma City by thirteen points,
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  Speaker 1: so the Thunder take a two to zero lead in
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  Speaker 1: the first round Western Conference playoff series. SGA was given
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  Speaker 1: the NBA Clutch Player of the Year trophy. There was
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  Speaker 1: a time in the NBA, this is before the game,
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  Speaker 1: there was a time that you didn't have to give
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  Speaker 1: an award for that because everyone just knew who the
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  Speaker 1: clutch player was. Now the NBA is like, well, we
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  Speaker 1: gotta give an award for that. Well, no, no, you didn't
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  Speaker 1: have to do that. It's just lame, is what it is.
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  Speaker 1: They've done it for a few years now, So congratulations,
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  Speaker 1: you got an award that should not exist now. Chet Holmgren,
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  Speaker 1: Skeletor and Jalen Williams each had nineteen points for the Oklahomans,
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  Speaker 1: and I'm sure Kyrie and Okay, see, our buddy's a
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  Speaker 1: big fan of the show, loves that Williams leaving the
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  Speaker 1: game though in the third quarter with a left hamstring injury,
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  Speaker 1: and he did not return amid internet reports in the
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  Speaker 1: dark Web of Doom and Gloom. Now you know how
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  Speaker 1: I operate. Normally, I just poke apart under the mallord
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  Speaker 1: microscope the team that loses and just goof on them
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  Speaker 1: and why did they lose? What did they do wrong?
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  Speaker 1: That's normally what we do here. There's a method of
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  Speaker 1: the madness. However, the Suns are such a bunch of
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  Speaker 1: tomato cans. I can't do it. I can I don't
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  Speaker 1: see a way they can win. They're just a bunch
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  Speaker 1: of ham and egger's there. They have no chance to
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  Speaker 1: win the series. If everything comes together for Phoenix, they
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  Speaker 1: can get a gentleman suite where they just win one
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  Speaker 1: game at home and then it ends up being a
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  Speaker 1: you know, that's it. Yeah, yeah, the the Oklahoma City
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  Speaker 1: Thunder win the other game. So the story here is
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  Speaker 1: the injury to Jalen Williams's generic name, not a generic game,
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  Speaker 1: and that is a good jumping off points. So let
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  Speaker 1: us discuss the question we're gonna dust off an old friend.
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  Speaker 1: Where is the malor worry OH meter for Oklahoma City?
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  Speaker 1: If if these doom and gloom reports are accurate, that
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  Speaker 1: Jalen Williams is going to be out for a fair
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  Speaker 1: amount of time here with his injury, all right, So
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  Speaker 1: that's the question, the malar worry OH meter. I've got
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  Speaker 1: my thoughts on this. I've got dental spiked and group
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  Speaker 1: hug and we'll put all of these things together and
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  Speaker 1: we are going to roll the dice and will it
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  Speaker 1: come up snake eyes. We're gonna roll the dice right now.
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  Speaker 1: So a the malor wuryometer, which nobody else has. By
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  Speaker 1: the way, everyone in radio wants to get the warial meter.
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  Speaker 1: It is not available. It is not. So the malor
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  Speaker 1: Wario meter one to ten with ten being a trip
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  Speaker 1: to can Kun for the thunder. I'm at an eight
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  Speaker 1: point one out of ten. Wooo, sirens blaring, red lights flashing,
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  Speaker 1: And now this is Oklahoma City. If they win, they
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  Speaker 1: meet the Suns blindfolded the play. I guess the Lakers
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  Speaker 1: in the next round. Unless the Rockets wake up here,
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  Speaker 1: they'll beat the Lakers with one arm tied behind their back. Eventually, though,
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  Speaker 1: they're gonna play a good team. And that's why I'm
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  Speaker 1: at eight point one. That's why I'm at eight point
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  Speaker 1: one because the playoff run here when you've already won
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  Speaker 1: the championship, it's hey, you gotta win again. And now
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  Speaker 1: it's this full blown medical mystery situation where Jalen Williams,
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  Speaker 1: who already missed you know, the regular seasons unwatchable in
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  Speaker 1: the NBA, but apparently he missed thirty games with one
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  Speaker 1: ham string problem, the hammy went whammy, and nineteen more
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  Speaker 1: because of a wrist boom boo. And now it's the
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  Speaker 1: other hammy that tapped out. And so that doesn't seem random.
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  Speaker 1: I'm not a doctor, but I can play one on
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  Speaker 1: the radio. Doesn't seem random. That seems like a pattern.
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  Speaker 1: Here the hamstrings starting to look like they're made out
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  Speaker 1: of wet dental floss. One pull and the whole thing snaps.
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  Speaker 1: You ever had that happy you're flossing your teeth? And yeah,
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  Speaker 1: so not random again, not random here? You know he's
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  Speaker 1: he being. Jalen Williams is an all star level player.
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  Speaker 1: He's also the co pilot. This is not some spirit
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  Speaker 1: part Sga is clearly the pilot but you need a
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  Speaker 1: good co pilot because something happens to the to the
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  Speaker 1: main pilot there and without him Jalen Williams, the degree
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  Speaker 1: of difficulty going higher and higher. It's kind of like
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  Speaker 1: that classic cartoon the wiley coyote holding up everything's fine,
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  Speaker 1: the sign that says everything's fine while already off the cliff.
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  Speaker 1: And you know what's gonna happen. You know, you know
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  Speaker 1: how that's gonna go. Man alive, Man alive. So the
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  Speaker 1: window is obviously open now for ok see one key
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  Speaker 1: injury though, and you can slam it shut now. One
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  Speaker 1: of the highlights postgame, Devin Booker earned himself a big fine.
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  Speaker 1: If you want to hear what it sounds like for
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  Speaker 1: someone to be fined in the NBA Devin Booker, you'll
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  Speaker 1: hear I believe the question and the answer to the
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  Speaker 1: Sun's Star who was at the end of the rope,
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  Speaker 1: and of the rope with his opinion. He believes there
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  Speaker 1: is some kind of great conspiracy to help Oklahoma City.
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  Speaker 1: Of course, you know the big market. Ok. Here is
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  Speaker 1: the Phoenix sun Star, Devin Booker, who knows a thing
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  Speaker 1: or two about losing playoff games, and he's not real happy.
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  Speaker 2: I don't know if you're aware of this, but even
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  Speaker 2: the broadcast was confused by your tech.
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  Speaker 1: What was the explanation that you got.
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  Speaker 3: I still haven't got one. It's definitely something that has
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  Speaker 3: to be looked into. I heard CRUs So tell him
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  Speaker 3: to call the tech and you know he ended up
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  Speaker 3: doing it. So that's one. Right about eleven years. I
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  Speaker 3: haven't called a ref by name, but James was terrible tonight,
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  Speaker 3: through and through. It's bad for the sport, bad for
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  Speaker 3: the integrity of the sport. You know, people are going
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  Speaker 3: to start viewing this as a WWE, you know, if
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  Speaker 3: they're not hell responsible.
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  Speaker 1: All right, Well, first of all, they already do view it.
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  Speaker 1: Devin is the WWE out here, a little late to
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  Speaker 1: the party on that. Secondly, he's talking about somebody named
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  Speaker 1: James Williams. If you get your official scorebook out, he's
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  Speaker 1: numbered sixty, not to be confused with JB. De Rosa
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  Speaker 1: or Jason Goldenberg or someone named Nate Green. Those were
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  Speaker 1: the referees in this game. But the thunder listen they
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  Speaker 1: led by his many as twenty six points. He's upset.
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  Speaker 1: It did appear it's pretty good though that Alice Caruso
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  Speaker 1: did instruct the referees to call a technic file, and
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  Speaker 1: must I point out that one of the reasons, my
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  Speaker 1: theory is that that happened is because Alice Caruso looks
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  Speaker 1: like he should be a referee, so they probably, well,
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  Speaker 1: he's he picked out the wrong costume, Caruso, and he's
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  Speaker 1: really a referee, so we're gonna call that. We're gonna
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  Speaker 1: call it tech because he it's doing cosplay. He's pretending
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  Speaker 1: to be a player, but he's really more like a official.
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  Speaker 3: Right.
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  Speaker 1: Meanwhile, to Motown we go, where Cade Cunningham had twenty
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  Speaker 1: seven points, eleven assists, and aparture to the Pear Tree,
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  Speaker 1: Detroit did something they haven't done in a long time.
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  Speaker 1: They ended up winning a game at home in the playoffs.
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  Speaker 1: Detroit led by his many as twenty seven, was close
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  Speaker 1: for a half and then bye bye for the Orlando Magic.
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  Speaker 1: As that first round series now even up the eleven
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  Speaker 1: straight home postseason games that went the wrong way over
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  Speaker 1: they hadn't want a playoff game at home since eight
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  Speaker 1: and the game three will be Saturday. I know you're
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  Speaker 1: that's your your whole weekend playing is around that. We
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  Speaker 1: will of course beat them. I guess we'll beat the
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  Speaker 1: MALLA Meet and get before that because the when that
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  Speaker 1: game plays by who cares? We'll we'll be paying very
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  Speaker 1: little attention to that. So the question the Orlando Magic
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  Speaker 1: go down, they win game one, made a statement in
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  Speaker 1: game one, and they go could put in game two?
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  Speaker 1: So who gets to wear the goofy years for the
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  Speaker 1: Orlando Magic? So we'll start with the head coach. Now,
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  Speaker 1: I am not a big head coach matters guy in
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  Speaker 1: the NBA. I mean the Lakers hired a podcaster for
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  Speaker 1: God's sakes, and that it doesn't matter. But Jamal Mosey's
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  Speaker 1: got to eat this one and go down to the haberdasherie,
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  Speaker 1: get fitted and were it proud? His team came out
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  Speaker 1: at halftime like someone had spiked their gatorade with roofies.
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  Speaker 1: Detroit made clear and obvious adjustments. They clogged up the paint,
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  Speaker 1: they cranked up the pressure. They were able to force turnaments.
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  Speaker 1: The more aggressive team here in Orlando sat there twiddling
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  Speaker 1: their thumbs. They were like playing grab ass. What were
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  Speaker 1: they doing? It was thirty to three? Was the run?
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  Speaker 1: The Pistons had a thirty to three run. You have
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  Speaker 1: to physically be trying to be that bad as a
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  Speaker 1: playoff team to get outscored by twenty seven points from
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  Speaker 1: the start of the third quarter to about the four
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  Speaker 1: to thirty mark of the quarter. That's not a run.
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  Speaker 1: That is a demolition derby situation. Good afternoon, good evening,
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  Speaker 1: and good night now. While Jamal Mosley, who's the coach,
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  Speaker 1: not for long in Orlando. We're blaming him now. At
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  Speaker 1: the same time, where did the headliners go? It was
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  Speaker 1: a starless night. Paolo Boncerro and Desmond Maine. They traded
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  Speaker 1: five first round picks for Desmond Bane and they just
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  Speaker 1: stood there, dazed and confused, couldn't do anything, just kind
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  Speaker 1: of shruged both of them as they watched the patient flatline,
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  Speaker 1: meaning their team. And there's always been the argument in
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  Speaker 1: that sport that superstars are supposed to slam the braakes.
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  Speaker 1: The reason you need them is because when things are
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  Speaker 1: going bad, one really good superstar can keep you above water,
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  Speaker 1: treading water and all that stuff. And in this case,
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  Speaker 1: these guys hit the accelerator. They went in reverse, and
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  Speaker 1: this smelled like a team that was fat and happy.
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  Speaker 1: They got game one. We got game one expecting Detroit
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  Speaker 1: to roll over again fetal position and start sucking their thumb,
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  Speaker 1: and instead the Pistons in that third quarter came out
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  Speaker 1: and threw a haymaker and you know, the second punch
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  Speaker 1: and then cleaned out the locker. So across the bord,
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  Speaker 1: Orlando failing big time, which kind of a metaphor of
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  Speaker 1: their season. They're some really good players allegedly, allegedly on
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  Speaker 1: that team, and they're just dysfunctional. It is very dysfunctional,
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  Speaker 1: all right. Last word here to the salarycaps scandal of
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  Speaker 1: the NBA. We have a major update, major update on
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  Speaker 1: the Kawhi Leonard no show job. So Aspiration that was
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  Speaker 1: the company that is in the middle of this that
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  Speaker 1: went belly up. So the co founder somebody named Joe Sandberg.
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  Speaker 1: You don't know who that is, and I don't know
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  Speaker 1: who that is, but apparently this guy was the co
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  Speaker 1: founder and he's at the heart of the NBA's Kawhi
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  Speaker 1: Leonard Clipper salary cap circumvention investigation. There was some podcast guy,
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  Speaker 1: I don't know his names, like just a little podcast
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  Speaker 1: and this he made a big deal about this, like
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  Speaker 1: this is gonna be the downfall of everyone here. So
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  Speaker 1: the lawyers are are involved in this, and so the
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  Speaker 1: guy that co founded the company at the heart of this,
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  Speaker 1: he's got loose lips. He's like talking two different lawyers
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  Speaker 1: in the NBA and whatnot. Now, the reason I bring
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  Speaker 1: this up, the latest reporting says the Clippers owner Steve
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  Speaker 1: Balmer has received a DOJ email that's from for those
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  Speaker 1: of you who don't know the initial Department of Justice.
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  Speaker 1: You do not want to get on the bad side
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  Speaker 1: of the Department of Justice, or they'll just take your
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  Speaker 1: bank accounts and they'll kill you and it's over. You're dead. Anyway.
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  Speaker 1: The email from the DOJ says that Balmer was really
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  Speaker 1: the victim of Sandberg, who pleaded guilty to federal fraud charges.
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  Speaker 1: So the question, I know, there's a lot of names here.
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  Speaker 1: You got to keep track of everything. You're likely doing
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  Speaker 1: something else. I get it. The question, how do the
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  Speaker 1: latest developments in the Kawhi Leonards salarycap circumvention investigation change things?
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  Speaker 1: So this whole saga, the way I read it, this
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  Speaker 1: whole saga, it's like a legal group hug where everyone
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  Speaker 1: everyone is winking at each other in the hallways of
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  Speaker 1: the courtroom, and it appears to be a masterclass in
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  Speaker 1: creative sentencing. So the way and there was a lot
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  Speaker 1: of words in the story I read, but the way
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  Speaker 1: I read it, this is where the lawyers all got
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  Speaker 1: together and they each handed out backscratchers, and like, I'll
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  Speaker 1: scratch your back. Okay, good, can you scratch my back?
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  Speaker 1: I'll scratch I'll scratch you. I'll scratch your here. What
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  Speaker 1: about the guy with sure no problem ensuring that everyone
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  Speaker 1: ends up smiling? So think about it. It seems like
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  Speaker 1: the latestest plan out unless I totally misread it and
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  Speaker 1: interpret it the wrong way. In the NBA, you can
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  Speaker 1: have a fraudster, a billionaire, and a superstar all claimed
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  Speaker 1: they were the ones wrong. The guy pleaded guilty, dude,
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  Speaker 1: defrauding investors of like two hundred and fifty million dollars.
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  Speaker 1: I believe it was. And now now now he's the
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  Speaker 1: NBA's whistleblower, the truth teller and all that. And I
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  Speaker 1: believe he's staring down the pike at forty years in
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  Speaker 1: the Gray Bar Hotel, the Fed, the Fed resort where
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  Speaker 1: you got to do at least eighty percent of it,
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  Speaker 1: So you suddenly become the most helpful man in America,
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  Speaker 1: just like that. So he's cooperating, which certainly seems like
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  Speaker 1: a strategy to get a reduced sentence, because you're going
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  Speaker 1: to get glowing letters from the NBA lawyer saying well,
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  Speaker 1: this really helped us out with this investigation, and he's
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  Speaker 1: got every incentive to exaggerate, fabricate, and cooperate whatever it
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  Speaker 1: took to trade the the lesser jail sentence for the information.
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  Speaker 1: Then you've got Steve Balmer, and apparently if you he
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  Speaker 1: lost like sixty million I was reading this the scam,
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  Speaker 1: and the Clippers lost like three hundred million or something
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  Speaker 1: overall in a sponsorship deal with this company. It's not
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  Speaker 1: a cap circumvention scandal. If that's the way, It's just
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  Speaker 1: the most expensive whoopsie in the history of the NBA.
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  Speaker 1: Balmer is claiming here, and he's got pretty good evidence
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  Speaker 1: claiming he's the victim. The DOJ backing his argument here,
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  Speaker 1: and the NBA gets to kind of shrug their shoulders
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  Speaker 1: on this one and say, well, you know, the investigators
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  Speaker 1: found no inconsistencies with what Balmber did, which, again, if
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  Speaker 1: I'm reading this right, means the Clippers are in the
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  Speaker 1: clear that they're gonna be okay on this and they're
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  Speaker 1: not gonna lose, you know, draft picks and Kawhi Leonard
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  Speaker 1: and all that stuff. So the question is how many
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  Speaker 1: lawyers does it take to turn twenty eight million dollars
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  Speaker 1: off book endorsement into a simple misunderstanding. Just a misunderstanding,
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  Speaker 1: that's it. So we'll see if there's something else that
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  Speaker 1: comes out. But that's the way it looks right now.
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  Speaker 1: It appears they have cleared Steve Balmer of knowingly breaking
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  Speaker 1: NBA rules and all of this because of the Department
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  Speaker 1: of Justice and federal fraud case, and seems like everyone's
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  Speaker 1: going to come out of this getting something, getting something there.
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  Speaker 1: And so you've got enough money. It's a reminder to
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  Speaker 1: try to make your money kids. Because you got enough money,
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  Speaker 1: you can find a way to get out of pretty
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  Speaker 1: much anything.
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  Speaker 1: not even be working at Walmart if it was you know,
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  Speaker 1: if his dad was not the Order of the Cowboys.
• 19:11
  Speaker 1: But anyway, Stephen Jones confirming that the team has halted
• 19:15
  Speaker 1: all negotiation on a long term contract. Pickens is essentially
• 19:21
  Speaker 1: stuck in the waiting room. Really, let's say a prayer
• 19:26
  Speaker 1: for a guy who's gonna have to play for twenty
• 19:28
  Speaker 1: seven point three million. What a sob story that is?
• 19:30
  Speaker 1: Poor guy? Can we start up go fund me for him,
• 19:33
  Speaker 1: a bake sale? Possibly, No, I'll make some brownies or something.
• 19:36
  Speaker 1: We'll help. No, Okay, So that is a good jumping
• 19:39
  Speaker 1: off point. Let us discuss the question, how are you
• 19:43
  Speaker 1: thinking about Jerry Jones' plan? If this is legit to
• 19:47
  Speaker 1: have George Pickens go year to year with the Cowboys.
• 19:53
  Speaker 1: So my observations, I've got nurse practitioner, powder room, and
• 20:00
  Speaker 1: secret handshake, and we will combine all of these things
• 20:04
  Speaker 1: together and we are going to cross examine the Cowboys plan.
• 20:09
  Speaker 1: All right, So we always start with number wa So
• 20:21
  Speaker 1: I like it. I like it. I like what I'm hearing.
• 20:25
  Speaker 1: I do. I enjoy it. I think it's good and
• 20:29
  Speaker 1: they're finally listening to the Mather Think Tank. Good job
• 20:31
  Speaker 1: by the Cowboys there, and that should leave some heartburn
• 20:36
  Speaker 1: in the greater Dallas area. This is a combustible player
• 20:42
  Speaker 1: paired with a front office who it sounds like, is
• 20:47
  Speaker 1: showing some restraint. I'm always skeptical when I hear these things.
• 20:50
  Speaker 1: Is this legat or is this just the latest chapter
• 20:54
  Speaker 1: in the Cowboy files. They're making it seem the Cowboys
• 20:58
  Speaker 1: like they're doing the thing they're supposed to be doing,
• 21:01
  Speaker 1: which is not exactly part of the brand. It's not.
• 21:05
  Speaker 1: Pickens has put a resume together. If you look at
• 21:09
  Speaker 1: his Pro Football Reference page and everything else that has
• 21:11
  Speaker 1: happened there, and you judge him based on the results
• 21:14
  Speaker 1: of his product that he's put on the field, you
• 21:17
  Speaker 1: would say that he is built for a prove it deal.
• 21:22
  Speaker 1: Because of high volatility, that is, it's really baked in
• 21:28
  Speaker 1: to George Pickens, you will get elite production. I'm talking
• 21:33
  Speaker 1: one hundred and seventy yards and a couple of touchdowns
• 21:35
  Speaker 1: in a game. We've all seen it. And then the
• 21:40
  Speaker 1: sideline theatrics the hey, I screwed up. I didn't show
• 21:44
  Speaker 1: up to something. I'm gonna not play the first series
• 21:47
  Speaker 1: for the Cowboys because something happened there. The franchise tag,
• 21:52
  Speaker 1: it gives you a little bit he It buys you control, flexibility,
• 21:56
  Speaker 1: and most importantly, no long term agree. Now the problem
• 22:01
  Speaker 1: is if he pops again, the price tag inflates and
• 22:07
  Speaker 1: the tax, it's a tax. You got to pay a tax,
• 22:09
  Speaker 1: and that's the tax that's at this point self awareness,
• 22:14
  Speaker 1: rare self awareness from Jerry Jones. Can we get a
• 22:18
  Speaker 1: nurse practitioner to check the temperature of Jerry Jones? He
• 22:22
  Speaker 1: he likely is running a fever at this particular point. Now,
• 22:25
  Speaker 1: that said, if you look at the coffee pot, a
• 22:28
  Speaker 1: holdout is a bruin here, and it's not really a holdout.
• 22:31
  Speaker 1: Pickens hasn't signed the tender. And if I understand this properly,
• 22:36
  Speaker 1: that means I believe he's able to hold out until
• 22:39
  Speaker 1: like week ten, and the Cowboys can't punish him because
• 22:44
  Speaker 1: he not signed. He's not under technically not under contract.
• 22:48
  Speaker 1: So Pickens has the tag and it's it's Pickens George
• 22:52
  Speaker 1: Pickens on a tag is like giving a firework a
• 22:56
  Speaker 1: longer fuse. Congratulations, the thing's still going to explode, just
• 23:02
  Speaker 1: at a later date, at a later time, So you're
• 23:04
  Speaker 1: you're holding out on that, and the ball goes into
• 23:08
  Speaker 1: George Pickens court. Now does he want to escalate? This
• 23:12
  Speaker 1: is Pickens wanna say, Okay, I'm gonna hold out for
• 23:16
  Speaker 1: every dollar and now I'm not gonna play on the tag.
• 23:18
  Speaker 1: And if that happens, he can get fitted for a Parka,
• 23:22
  Speaker 1: he can go join a teammate of his. Uh well, obvious.
• 23:25
  Speaker 1: They were teammates in training camp, although Michael Parsons didn't
• 23:28
  Speaker 1: play much because of his situation over in Green Bay.
• 23:32
  Speaker 1: Over in Green Bay not page two. Staying with that, Cowboys,
• 23:37
  Speaker 1: we all had a ringside seat for one of the
• 23:39
  Speaker 1: more bizarre, more bizarre moments in pre NFL draft conversation,
• 23:47
  Speaker 1: So Jerry Jones holding court there at the Star Jerry's World.
• 23:51
  Speaker 1: A reporter was asking a question during the Jerry Jones
• 23:54
  Speaker 1: news conference and Jerry interrupted, very rudely interrupted in a
• 24:00
  Speaker 1: mind boggling fashion. The news conference. He then pointed to
• 24:04
  Speaker 1: the door at the Star, the Death Star there in
• 24:07
  Speaker 1: Dallas with the Cowboys play. Of course, they called the
• 24:10
  Speaker 1: Death Star because every season ends in death, and so
• 24:12
  Speaker 1: Jerry interrupted. He pointed at the door and says, the
• 24:16
  Speaker 1: President is here to say hello. Okay, clearly Jerry is
• 24:20
  Speaker 1: drinking the ayahuasca right.
• 24:22
  Speaker 3: No.
• 24:23
  Speaker 1: Five seconds later in strolls Bill Clinton, randomly walking in.
• 24:31
  Speaker 1: And then it gets even better. Jerry Jones then stands
• 24:34
  Speaker 1: up because it's the president, former president, and he then
• 24:37
  Speaker 1: trips getting up to greet the forty second president of
• 24:42
  Speaker 1: the United States. And they had a moment and they
• 24:45
  Speaker 1: spoke of their love, their mutual love of Arkansas razorbacks
• 24:49
  Speaker 1: and all that, and right there, crazy crazy, crazy, crazy
• 24:55
  Speaker 1: crazy deal. And so as Jerry Jones eighty three, his
• 25:00
  Speaker 1: face is only like fifteen, but he's eighty three. So
• 25:03
  Speaker 1: he left his seat and all that, as we say,
• 25:05
  Speaker 1: a tripped and nearly fell down. And the Cowboys staffers.
• 25:10
  Speaker 1: I think there was one secret service, dude, there were
• 25:12
  Speaker 1: more than one. But you know, President for life gets
• 25:14
  Speaker 1: the seed with service. And so they were both trying
• 25:17
  Speaker 1: to react. They had to have ninja like skills to
• 25:20
  Speaker 1: keep Jerry Jones from falling and prevent him from injuring himself.
• 25:25
  Speaker 1: So the question is where are you at on a
• 25:28
  Speaker 1: former president Bill Clinton crashing the Dallas Cowboys NFL draft
• 25:34
  Speaker 1: news conference. So good with Jerry Jones. So I do
• 25:41
  Speaker 1: believe in the multiverse there is a version of this
• 25:43
  Speaker 1: where Jerry Jones trips, falls, hits his head and ends
• 25:47
  Speaker 1: up in an ambulance going to the hospital. And then
• 25:50
  Speaker 1: we would have seen a bunch of people on the
• 25:52
  Speaker 1: Internet saying, thank God for President Clinton, he saved the Cowboys.
• 25:56
  Speaker 1: Jerry Jones got injured, blah blah, all those trolls on
• 25:58
  Speaker 1: the internet. This is Jerry Jones, in all fairness, Jerry
• 26:02
  Speaker 1: Jones doing what Jerry Jones does. We all must appreciate
• 26:05
  Speaker 1: this because there was not There's not gonna be another
• 26:07
  Speaker 1: one like Jerry Jones in our lifetime. There eventually there'll
• 26:09
  Speaker 1: be someone like Jerry Jones that owns an NFL team.
• 26:12
  Speaker 1: But Jerry Jones is such a showman. He's such a
• 26:16
  Speaker 1: carnival barker that he turns a routine media session the
• 26:20
  Speaker 1: most mundane. Who are you gonna draft? Well, I don't
• 26:23
  Speaker 1: know who we're gonna draft because they don't want to
• 26:26
  Speaker 1: say anything. Oh, it's like this so stupid. He's got
• 26:28
  Speaker 1: all these teams hold news conference and they want to
• 26:30
  Speaker 1: say anything because they're all paranoid anyway. So Jerry turns
• 26:34
  Speaker 1: this routine, mundane event into a dinner at medieval times,
• 26:39
  Speaker 1: dinner in a show, dinner in a show. The man
• 26:42
  Speaker 1: holds a news conference, and you know he's staging an experience.
• 26:48
  Speaker 1: It's not a news conference, it's an experience. The star
• 26:52
  Speaker 1: is like a set of a live action drama, and
• 26:56
  Speaker 1: Jerry controls the lighting. He's got the script. I guess
• 27:00
  Speaker 1: she's got the guest list. So we're supposed to believe
• 27:04
  Speaker 1: that Bill Clinton, former United States president back way back
• 27:08
  Speaker 1: in the nineties, just wandered into the Cowboys press conference
• 27:12
  Speaker 1: like he was looking to take a deuce in the
• 27:15
  Speaker 1: powder room, Like what are we doing? Seriously, as I
• 27:21
  Speaker 1: understand it, like these you got secret Service protection. You
• 27:24
  Speaker 1: don't just randomly go anywhere. Everything's planned out now. It's
• 27:28
  Speaker 1: not like when you were the actual sitting president like
• 27:31
  Speaker 1: President Trump right now, but like Clinton, you just don't
• 27:34
  Speaker 1: show up places you announced, Hey, I'm going to be there.
• 27:37
  Speaker 1: And I would love to have seen the messages between
• 27:41
  Speaker 1: Jerry Jones. I don't think Jerry's much of a Texter
• 27:43
  Speaker 1: and the Clinton clan, where he's like, hey, Bill's come, Hey, Jerry,
• 27:48
  Speaker 1: can I come by?
• 27:49
  Speaker 4: Sure?
• 27:50
  Speaker 1: Hey, why don't you come by? We'll do this skit
• 27:53
  Speaker 1: and we're gonna have this news conference. Why don't you
• 27:54
  Speaker 1: just stop by and walk in? That'll be good. Yeah,
• 27:57
  Speaker 1: that'll be good. Why not? Sure? Okay, good, thank you.
• 28:00
  Speaker 1: That's the plot twist straight out of a reality show
• 28:03
  Speaker 1: writer's room. And Jerry loves the moment the way that
• 28:07
  Speaker 1: Hollywood loves the sequel. Right, those action movies, they don't
• 28:10
  Speaker 1: they stop making original comedies that are any good. They
• 28:13
  Speaker 1: just make cheesy remakes of cartoon movies, and they're bigger
• 28:16
  Speaker 1: and louder, and they're promoted heavily. It's hard to ignore them.
• 28:20
  Speaker 1: And of course a lot of the football media they
• 28:22
  Speaker 1: eat this stuff up. They're charming and they don't point
• 28:25
  Speaker 1: out it's all choreographed. And I'm at the point now,
• 28:29
  Speaker 1: was was Jerry when he tripped? Was that an actual
• 28:32
  Speaker 1: accident or was that part of the show. Was that
• 28:36
  Speaker 1: part of the script and it was just physical comedy
• 28:40
  Speaker 1: by Jerry Jones? It was? It was it And some
• 28:44
  Speaker 1: would say it was a metaphor for the way the Cowboys.
• 28:46
  Speaker 1: The Cowboys have operated. Well, he's on the team. They
• 28:50
  Speaker 1: definitely need that plot twist the Cowboys off season reality show,
• 28:54
  Speaker 1: and I can see the episode now when the President
• 28:57
  Speaker 1: visits the Star. Jerry loves the mallment loves the Molment.
• 29:02
  Speaker 1: Jerry Jones staging that moment to remind every man, woman
• 29:07
  Speaker 1: and child that the Star is Jerry at the Star.
• 29:13
  Speaker 1: That's the way it goes all right, now, final point.
• 29:15
  Speaker 1: We now go to the beach, to the beach, to
• 29:18
  Speaker 1: the beach, to the beach, to the beach, to the beach,
• 29:20
  Speaker 1: to the beach. In another one of those very predictable stories,
• 29:23
  Speaker 1: we talked about this in a previous episode of the show,
• 29:25
  Speaker 1: that the former Pittsburgh Steelers coach Mike Tomlin has gotten
• 29:30
  Speaker 1: one of the plum broadcasting jobs at NBC. On Sunday
• 29:34
  Speaker 1: Night Football, Well, former Bills coach Sean McDermott said that, well,
• 29:40
  Speaker 1: he wants to coach again. However, guess what Sean McDermott
• 29:44
  Speaker 1: is planning on doing. Yeah, that's right right out of
• 29:48
  Speaker 1: the Mike Tomlin playbook. He is exploring media opportunities. McDermott
• 29:54
  Speaker 1: is in his early fifties. He is expected to be
• 29:57
  Speaker 1: a popular name on the coaching cycle. According to his agent,
• 30:02
  Speaker 1: who leaked this information. I imagine to some media people
• 30:06
  Speaker 1: next year, twenty twenty seven, the next cycle, it'd be
• 30:08
  Speaker 1: ten coaches fired. Every year there's eight to ten coaches
• 30:10
  Speaker 1: fired in the NFL. And so if you believe that
• 30:14
  Speaker 1: little birdie, the mcdermott'll be in. But the question is this,
• 30:17
  Speaker 1: what is your viewpoint on Sean McDermott's NFL future. So
• 30:24
  Speaker 1: in the NFL, I've learned this over the years from
• 30:25
  Speaker 1: doing this talk show that the coaching carousel is not
• 30:29
  Speaker 1: a meritocracy. It is a recycling plant, plain and simply
• 30:34
  Speaker 1: with a vip entrance. It's kind of like a speak easy.
• 30:38
  Speaker 1: If you know the password, you're good to go. You
• 30:40
  Speaker 1: don't even need good results, you just need good relationships.
• 30:43
  Speaker 1: And again this goes back to what we didn't learn
• 30:45
  Speaker 1: as kids. It's not what you know, it's who you know.
• 30:49
  Speaker 1: It's now what you know, it's you know a lot
• 30:51
  Speaker 1: of times you go to these back in the day.
• 30:53
  Speaker 1: I don't even know how much this is reality these days,
• 30:55
  Speaker 1: but when I was growing up, it's like you go
• 30:57
  Speaker 1: to these big time schools, like Ivy League schools, not
• 31:00
  Speaker 1: because they're high for looton and all that. You go
• 31:04
  Speaker 1: there because your network and alumni higher alumni and that hole.
• 31:09
  Speaker 1: But in this case, it's the good old boys network
• 31:14
  Speaker 1: and that's what it is. And McDermott. The argument against
• 31:17
  Speaker 1: McDermott is, this guy had an MVP level quarterback for
• 31:22
  Speaker 1: multiple years, Josh Allen, and had home games most of
• 31:27
  Speaker 1: the time, and all they needed was a little more
• 31:30
  Speaker 1: defense and a little more special teams and they would
• 31:32
  Speaker 1: have been fine. And he couldn't. He's supposedly a defensive
• 31:35
  Speaker 1: guy and he couldn't figure it out. He could not
• 31:38
  Speaker 1: figure it out. Even though they had a lot of goodies,
• 31:41
  Speaker 1: a lot of goodies on the team. He could not
• 31:42
  Speaker 1: figure it out. That's an indictment of him. That's an
• 31:45
  Speaker 1: indictment of him. But he'll get another job because he
• 31:47
  Speaker 1: knows the secret handshake and the password and so you're
• 31:50
  Speaker 1: never really out. I can't imagine McDermott will be any
• 31:53
  Speaker 1: good on television. I just can't imagine that. But he'll
• 31:59
  Speaker 1: get the operation tunity to be on television because he
• 32:03
  Speaker 1: has the secret handshake, and he'll get back in and
• 32:07
  Speaker 1: all of those things. He just seems like a too
• 32:09
  Speaker 1: much of a hard Oh and TV is you're a
• 32:13
  Speaker 1: former coach. TV is not really a career change. It's
• 32:15
  Speaker 1: a safe house. It's comfy, it's well lit. Just toss
• 32:19
  Speaker 1: some softball questions. The other people toss softball question to you.
• 32:23
  Speaker 1: It's like you're in the witness protection program. He just
• 32:25
  Speaker 1: kind of wait it out and you wait for the
• 32:28
  Speaker 1: next owner, and you can convince that owner with this
• 32:32
  Speaker 1: vingali effect that it's time. I'll be different this time.
• 32:35
  Speaker 1: Put me in there. I'm ready to go. Because in
• 32:38
  Speaker 1: the NFL, one man's trash, one man's trash magically becomes
• 32:43
  Speaker 1: a culture guy. Culture guy. Yeah, so you're fired on Monday,
• 32:48
  Speaker 1: you rest on Tuesday, you hang out. On Wednesday, you
• 32:52
  Speaker 1: do some shopping. On Thursday, you hit the treadmill for
• 32:55
  Speaker 1: a little bit, and then on Friday you're a respected leader.
• 32:59
  Speaker 1: The resume gets polished by not doing anything, The narrative
• 33:02
  Speaker 1: gets flipped, and then you're like, well, this is exactly
• 33:06
  Speaker 1: what we need. Oh so we need a guy that
• 33:07
  Speaker 1: can't get over the hump when he has really good players,
• 33:09
  Speaker 1: because you know, mcdermot's can get one of these crap
• 33:11
  Speaker 1: jobs like the Arizona Cardinals, the Browns, somebody like that.
• 33:14
  Speaker 1: It changed coaches all the time. You're not gonna get
• 33:16
  Speaker 1: a good job. You're gonna get a crap bag job.
• 33:19
  Speaker 1: That's what you're gonna get. And so McDermott the headline
• 33:23
  Speaker 1: here from fired to desired and it's the NFL's favorite
• 33:29
  Speaker 1: recycling program. They're so good at it, they are so
• 33:33
  Speaker 1: so good at it.
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• 33:45
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• 33:49
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  Speaker 5: It is being reported that there is quote minimal interest
• 34:23
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• 34:26
  Speaker 4: Do you think he is still a cult to start
• 34:27
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• 34:29
  Speaker 1: No, I think he'll be dumped this weekend. He'll be
• 34:32
  Speaker 1: traded for a late round conditional draft pick. The Colts
• 34:36
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• 34:37
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• 34:40
  Speaker 1: The guy's at total boss. Did Jim Mersey wan on
• 34:43
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• 34:45
  Speaker 1: have been a sixth round pick. They took him in
• 34:47
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• 34:50
  Speaker 5: Mike Florio believes that with all the money flying around
• 34:52
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• 34:54
  Speaker 5: decide to ditch the draft and go back to college
• 34:56
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• 34:58
  Speaker 4: Could you see that happening soon?
• 35:00
  Speaker 1: Absolutely?
• 35:01
  Speaker 2: Why not?
• 35:01
  Speaker 1: With his state there? These guys are making tons of money.
• 35:03
  Speaker 1: It's a great life. You don't have to go to class,
• 35:06
  Speaker 1: you play football, you're on TV. I don't know why
• 35:09
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• 35:11
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• 35:13
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• 35:15
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• 35:17
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• 35:18
  Speaker 4: Do you think Hilly has a chance to pull off
• 35:19
  Speaker 4: the upset.
• 35:20
  Speaker 1: No, the Celtics are gonna win this series. They'll bounce back,
• 35:23
  Speaker 1: They'll win the next two games. That's that. And Joel Embiid,
• 35:27
  Speaker 1: I don't believe he's gonna play again for the Sixers.
• 35:29
  Speaker 1: I bet you he's traded. How about that at this point,
• 35:32
  Speaker 1: based on the information I have, I would be shocked
• 35:34
  Speaker 1: if Joel Embiid is unloaded by the Sixers. He's not
• 35:37
  Speaker 1: happy there. He's upset with the situation and supposedly he
• 35:41
  Speaker 1: could have already been playing. He's just milking this thing.
• 35:43
  Speaker 1: He didn't want to come back and play. But keep
• 35:46
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  Speaker 4: What other language would you like to be fluent in?
• 37:26
  Speaker 1: So I speak Spanglish. I live in southern California. I
• 37:29
  Speaker 1: wish I spoke Spanish. It would make life a lot easier.
• 37:32
  Speaker 1: I speak a ripoff version of it. I know a
• 37:35
  Speaker 1: few words and that's about it. I think just where
• 37:37
  Speaker 1: I live here. That would be great. Now if I
• 37:39
  Speaker 1: was single and about you know, forty years younger, but
• 37:42
  Speaker 1: mabb got forty twenty five years younger. I would like to.
• 37:46
  Speaker 1: I think that French language that dazzles the ladies. What
• 37:50
  Speaker 1: about you, Lorena?
• 37:51
  Speaker 4: Yeah, that's what I want.
• 37:52
  Speaker 6: Is I want the language of love?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah?
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  Speaker 1: All right? Have you been to France before you? Yes?
• 37:57
  Speaker 2: I have.
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  Speaker 6: When I was sixteen, I did European tour. We did Italy,
• 38:02
  Speaker 6: France and London.
• 38:04
  Speaker 1: Did you get in a lot of trouble when you
• 38:06
  Speaker 1: were over I.
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  Speaker 6: Did get because I was young and you know, they
• 38:08
  Speaker 6: have legal drinking age over there, so I was old
• 38:11
  Speaker 6: enough to partake. And yeah, I got pretty schnockered before
• 38:15
  Speaker 6: we went to the trabby fountains. So that was fun.
• 38:17
  Speaker 1: Nice. All right? What about you?
• 38:19
  Speaker 5: I would probably I would choose either Italian just because
• 38:22
  Speaker 5: of my heritage, and then also Japanese.
• 38:27
  Speaker 4: I think would be pretty cool to be fluent. Oh
• 38:28
  Speaker 4: that'd be fun.
• 38:29
  Speaker 1: Yeah, all right, very good. It's ask Ben. Your questions
• 38:33
  Speaker 1: are answers for the rest of the hour hashtag ask Ben.
• 38:38
  Speaker 5: All right, Nick would like to know what's a better
• 38:40
  Speaker 5: side dish for barbecue, mac and cheese or baked beans.
• 38:44
  Speaker 1: Oh, it's not even mac and cheese. Come on, stop
• 38:46
  Speaker 1: all right, don't even don't give me the baked beans thing.
• 38:48
  Speaker 1: I don't want the baked beans propaganda. Okay. I put
• 38:51
  Speaker 1: the baked beans right next to ranch dressing, and I
• 38:54
  Speaker 1: flush it down the toilet. Mac and cheese all day,
• 38:57
  Speaker 1: every day, Lorrene.
• 39:00
  Speaker 6: Oh gosh, I want to say mac and cheese because they.
• 39:03
  Speaker 1: Just say it, but I never.
• 39:06
  Speaker 6: Make it with barbecue.
• 39:07
  Speaker 4: I always have baked beans.
• 39:09
  Speaker 6: So I'm gonna have to do with bushes vegetarian.
• 39:12
  Speaker 4: Baked beans specifically.
• 39:16
  Speaker 6: They taste like brown sugar.
• 39:17
  Speaker 4: They're really good.
• 39:19
  Speaker 1: Oh my god, Lorena, this is what are you doing? Please?
• 39:23
  Speaker 1: Come on? This is embarrassing. All right, cool?
• 39:26
  Speaker 5: Look, I love me some some delicious baked beans. I do,
• 39:30
  Speaker 5: I do, But if I had to choose one, I gotta.
• 39:34
  Speaker 5: I have to stick with the mac and cheese. I'm tired.
• 39:37
  Speaker 1: I'm tired coop of big baked beans trying to shove
• 39:39
  Speaker 1: it down. Mac and cheese is the way to go,
• 39:42
  Speaker 1: all right, next?
• 39:43
  Speaker 5: All right, So this is a good one, and I
• 39:44
  Speaker 5: feel kind of bad because I saw it earlier and
• 39:46
  Speaker 5: I've had some time to think about it, but I'm
• 39:47
  Speaker 5: gonna throw it out to you. Alf the alien o
• 39:49
  Speaker 5: Pinter wants to know, Hi, Alf, is there something you
• 39:52
  Speaker 5: hate in one form but love in another. For example,
• 39:56
  Speaker 5: you hate ranch dressing but love cool ranch doritos. Uh?
• 40:01
  Speaker 1: Yeah, So I don't like tomatoes, I love ketchup. I
• 40:06
  Speaker 1: don't enjoy tomatoes at all. The ketchup I like, I don't.
• 40:11
  Speaker 1: I guess I've come around on onions. I used to
• 40:14
  Speaker 1: hate them. I like onion rings when I was a kid.
• 40:15
  Speaker 1: What about you, Loraina?
• 40:16
  Speaker 4: Onion rings are delicious. So I made a little list, Right,
• 40:18
  Speaker 4: So I.
• 40:19
  Speaker 1: Made a list I did. I got a big board.
• 40:21
  Speaker 1: I don't do lists, big boar.
• 40:23
  Speaker 4: I got a big board of foods that go both ways.
• 40:25
  Speaker 6: I got corn and popcorn, tomatoes and ketchup, bread into
• 40:28
  Speaker 6: croutons and water into ice. I mean, that's just a couple,
• 40:32
  Speaker 6: but I like all versions of everything. I'm so versatile.
• 40:35
  Speaker 4: Give it to you like all of those. That's not
• 40:37
  Speaker 4: even the question. You fail that way? Wow, that was
• 40:40
  Speaker 4: so bad.
• 40:41
  Speaker 1: What about the potato? Potato doesn't matter how to make it? Vodka?
• 40:46
  Speaker 2: Right?
• 40:47
  Speaker 5: I like too, But he's asking one that you don't like.
• 40:50
  Speaker 3: And.
• 40:52
  Speaker 1: I made a list a big board please.
• 40:56
  Speaker 5: I think for me, I would have to go with coconut.
• 40:59
  Speaker 5: I don't like shaved like coconut like it's too the
• 41:02
  Speaker 5: texture is weird. But if you like cover shrimp and
• 41:06
  Speaker 5: in coconut and deep fry, it delicious.
• 41:10
  Speaker 1: Okay, Well, anything I've determined anything. As Homer Simpson taught me,
• 41:13
  Speaker 1: anything fried is really good. What is next? What do
• 41:15
  Speaker 1: we have here?
• 41:16
  Speaker 4: What do we got donkey sausage? Would like tonight?
• 41:19
  Speaker 1: Donkey?
• 41:19
  Speaker 4: What is your Monopoly token of choice?
• 41:23
  Speaker 1: I feel like we've had this question before, right, we
• 41:26
  Speaker 1: might have.
• 41:27
  Speaker 4: I don't know if since Lorena's been.
• 41:28
  Speaker 1: Here death they added. I think they added, they retired
• 41:32
  Speaker 1: some and added some since I last played Monopoly. But
• 41:34
  Speaker 1: I always like the little little hat thing, the top
• 41:37
  Speaker 1: hat and the car.
• 41:39
  Speaker 6: What about you, Lorena as the woman, and I'm obligated
• 41:42
  Speaker 6: to choose the iron?
• 41:45
  Speaker 1: When's the last time you iron? Well? I think I've
• 41:49
  Speaker 1: ironed more than you.
• 41:52
  Speaker 5: Okay, Cooper, I like the top hat and the ship.
• 41:57
  Speaker 1: Ship's not bad? Yeah? Yeah, all right? What's next? Here?
• 42:00
  Speaker 1: It's asked? Ben, your questions are answered.
• 42:03
  Speaker 5: I believe we've had this before. But Ray would like
• 42:05
  Speaker 5: to know. He's a new one. I haven't seen him
• 42:06
  Speaker 5: on to hear before. Have you ever broken any bones?
• 42:10
  Speaker 1: Yeah, nothing big though, fingers hand nothing major, Lorada quickly nope,
• 42:15
  Speaker 1: Coop nope. All right, there you go. I didn't break
• 42:18
  Speaker 1: a leg or an arm or anything like that.