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  Speaker 2: This is the best of the Ben Mahler Show on
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  Speaker 1: Our lead this hour, though, is from not far away
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  Speaker 1: from Marcel in Brooklyn, the metropolitans that say baseball team
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  Speaker 1: not a good one.
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  Speaker 3: They kicked off the post All Stars.
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  Speaker 1: Stretch with a win over the Fighting Fills in the
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  Speaker 1: beginning of the second half. Now what I love about
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  Speaker 1: this is the game baseball. The marketing geniuses, the same
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  Speaker 1: marketing geniuses that for some reason thought Will Ferrell should
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  Speaker 1: pop up with the home run derby for no reason
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  Speaker 1: and they needed eight thousand distractions at the All Star Game.
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  Speaker 1: These geniuses said, you know, we're gonna have a showcase
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  Speaker 1: game because there's nothing the men, women, and children of
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  Speaker 1: American sport fandom need. Then to watch the Mets in
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  Speaker 1: an island game, And this was an Island game.
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  Speaker 3: It's just hilarious. They complete.
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  Speaker 1: It's like when they schedule Monday Night Football, Thursday night football,
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  Speaker 1: you know, before the year, and they don't early in
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  Speaker 1: the other on flex and then you get a dog
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  Speaker 1: food game. You get a dog food game like week
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  Speaker 1: six or seven.
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  Speaker 3: It's just terrible.
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  Speaker 1: This is the Phillies aren't bad. The Mets are terrible Mets,
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  Speaker 1: so they won. Who cares? The better story though, is
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  Speaker 1: at the flea market and not if you were following
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  Speaker 1: that or not, maybe not. We've learned that the Metropolitans
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  Speaker 1: are reportedly willing. They are willing to listen to trade
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  Speaker 1: offers for Francisco Lindaharr. However, there's a catch. You gotta
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  Speaker 1: read the five print the Madusha only if another team
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  Speaker 1: is prepared to meet extraordinarily high ask kicking price for
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  Speaker 1: their shortstop. Now, the big catch is also the contract.
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  Speaker 1: It's a humdinger of a contract for Lindor. He's owed
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  Speaker 1: a significant amount of money over the long haul and
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  Speaker 1: the Komodo dragon in the room. Lindor also possesses a
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  Speaker 1: full no trade clause, which means no trade protection. He's
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  Speaker 1: a ten to five guy and all that he's the
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  Speaker 1: no trade thing, but meaning that he would have to
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  Speaker 1: approve any deal himself, he'd have to sign off on it.
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  Speaker 1: So that is a good jumping off point. Let us
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  Speaker 1: discuss the question, what are the chances that Francisco Lindor
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  Speaker 1: gets traded.
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  Speaker 3: By the match?
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  Speaker 1: The deadline's coming up here in early August, as we
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  Speaker 1: sit here in the middle of July. So my thoughts,
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  Speaker 1: I've got sweet baby rays, barbecue sauce one percenter, and
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  Speaker 1: Dean Martin and those are three things that have ever
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  Speaker 1: been combined together. But we're gonna do that, and we're
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  Speaker 1: gonna make a dirty water dog. A dirty water dog
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  Speaker 1: is what we're gonna make a Right now, when you
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  Speaker 1: ask a question, what are the chances that Lindor gets traded,
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  Speaker 1: we have to fire up the Mallard trade o meter.
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  Speaker 3: The Mallard trade o.
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  Speaker 1: Meter has been activated. We're gonna set the Malards on
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  Speaker 1: this at plus three seventy five. Now, that implies a
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  Speaker 1: twenty one percent chance, all right, twenty one percent chance, which, oh,
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  Speaker 1: by the way, that two ten chance is also the
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  Speaker 1: it just as a quinkie dink it's Lindor's current abysmal
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  Speaker 1: batting average. For the match to ten, so twenty one percent.
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  Speaker 1: He's got the three Musketeers working against him. Bad attitude,
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  Speaker 1: bloated contract, and he's at the tail end of his prime.
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  Speaker 1: Good afternoon, good evening, and good night. The vibe right
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  Speaker 1: now from Lindor. He's the coworker who's got a lot
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  Speaker 1: to say, a lot of complaints at the office about meetings. However,
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  Speaker 1: never seems to show up prepared. There's always something a
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  Speaker 1: little off with Lindor. Now another question, who would even
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  Speaker 1: consider a deal for Francisco Lindor at this particular point.
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  Speaker 1: So using the time tested process of elimination a number
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  Speaker 1: of teams to get rid of one of the teams
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  Speaker 1: that you wouldn't normally get rid of, you wouldn't in
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  Speaker 1: this case. And I circled, and I did this on
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  Speaker 1: my notes app but I circled Cleveland and SAI, Well,
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  Speaker 1: there's no way. Yeah, the Guardians are a bunch of tightwads.
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  Speaker 1: I get that a Lindor played there b the Guardians
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  Speaker 1: if they can get the Mets to eat some cash.
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  Speaker 1: Big If that's his original team. He was a star.
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  Speaker 1: His coming of age story was in Cleveland as a
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  Speaker 1: star player in baseball, and their competitive American League is
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  Speaker 1: wide open. There's no great team in the American League.
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  Speaker 1: They are very conservative. It's rathermbarrassing. They're named after a
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  Speaker 1: bridge because of you Wokesters, and so a reunion would
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  Speaker 1: provide a nice boost for the team formerly known as
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  Speaker 1: the Cleveland Indians. Then there are the Blue Jays all coda,
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  Speaker 1: disappointing season. They clearly have needs. They lost Bulbushett, they
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  Speaker 1: didn't really replace him, and so there's some needs on
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  Speaker 1: the infield, and they would like to have a nice
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  Speaker 1: shiny upgrade at shortstop there. I am told in Toronto,
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  Speaker 1: how about the Yankees? Now, that would have little razzle dazzle.
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  Speaker 1: And if the Mets are convincedland Door blows, send him
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  Speaker 1: over to the Bronx crosstown rivalry, right, send him on
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  Speaker 1: the Cross Bronx Expressway. Send him over there, massive buzz.
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  Speaker 1: We all know Anthony Volpi has been flat out bad.
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  Speaker 1: How bad is He's so bad? He was at the
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  Speaker 1: game when I threw out the first pitch of the
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  Speaker 1: Wusox game playing for Scranton Wilkesbury in Triple A. That's
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  Speaker 1: how bad he is. And then you've got the Diamondbacks.
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  Speaker 1: They love swallowing bad contracts, although they don't. How about
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  Speaker 1: Nolan Aronato, they picked him up. He's average, he stinks.
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  Speaker 1: So anyway, there's options. And by the way, let me
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  Speaker 1: point out Ken Rosenthal, baseball insider. Remember a couple of
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  Speaker 1: weeks ago he said he did not believe the Mike
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  Speaker 1: Francessa inspired trade rumors about Francisco Indoor because in the
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  Speaker 1: wisdom of Rosenthal, it didn't come from the Beat writers
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  Speaker 1: in quotes. I guess now it's in place, So the
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  Speaker 1: Pope was right. Francessa was right. As I surmised Francessa,
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  Speaker 1: he's buddies with a lot of rich people in New
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  Speaker 1: York who Wall Street types, who hang out with other
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  Speaker 1: Wall Street types.
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  Speaker 3: The guy that owns the Mets as a Wall Street type, so.
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  Speaker 1: It's more likely than not he's got pretty good sourcing
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  Speaker 1: when he's tossing that out. So good luck to Kenny Rosenthal.
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  Speaker 1: I recommend some sweet baby raised barbecue sauce for the
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  Speaker 1: HOGI of crow, maybe some onions on that little bell pepper.
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  Speaker 3: And enjoy your crow sandwich.
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  Speaker 1: And just the fact that the Mets are now even
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  Speaker 1: entertaining offers for Lindor that is a drastic sea.
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  Speaker 3: Change for the Mets.
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  Speaker 1: Here that's a one eighty organizational reset. Is it on
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  Speaker 1: the horizon, stay tuned, developing hot dot dot dot one
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  Speaker 1: thing that is not developing hot at all?
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  Speaker 3: That would be the report card or what are you
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  Speaker 3: talking about? The report card?
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  Speaker 4: What you're doing?
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  Speaker 1: That would be from the home run Derby. The All
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  Speaker 1: Star Game did very well. It was on Fox. And
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  Speaker 1: you watched the twenty twenty six home run Derby on
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  Speaker 1: Netflix averages five point three million viewers, And he said, well,
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  Speaker 1: that seems like a decent number. Well, there's like three
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  Speaker 1: hundred million people in America, but that is the least
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  Speaker 1: watched home run Derby in a generation. You got to
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  Speaker 1: go back to over twenty years ago, in the early
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  Speaker 1: two thousands, the last time the home run Derby did
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  Speaker 1: this poorly. The Derby this year first time since nineteen
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  Speaker 1: ninety four that it was not televised by the small
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  Speaker 1: cable channel out of Bristol, Connecticut. It's all part of
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  Speaker 1: this new multi year agreement with Netflix and Major League Baseball.
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  Speaker 1: They lost roughly four hundred thousand viewer.
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  Speaker 3: Oh no, but it was that four hundred thousand.
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  Speaker 1: It was a number I looked at four hundred thousand
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  Speaker 1: viewers from last year, despite the fact that they were
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  Speaker 1: on a seemingly bigger platform.
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  Speaker 3: There was a lot of promotion for the home run Derby.
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  Speaker 3: It's streaming debut question.
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  Speaker 1: The MLB Home Run Derby on Netflix had its worst
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  Speaker 1: rating in a generation. Is this major, minor or meaningless?
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  Speaker 1: So for Baseball it's meaningless because they've already got their money.
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  Speaker 3: It's not great.
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  Speaker 1: For Netflix, it's major embarrassing, despite blowing tons of cash
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  Speaker 1: and bringing in a guy that makes you flip the
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  Speaker 1: channel off. Barry Bonds, just a complete a hole, and
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  Speaker 1: Albert poolhost who's not very entertaining. They pulled nineteen nineties
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  Speaker 1: public access cable TV ratings. If you remember, if you're
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  Speaker 1: old enough to remember, the east of these things called
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  Speaker 1: public access, which is kind of like YouTube. It was
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  Speaker 1: just on cable television. The actual contest was a classic.
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  Speaker 1: That's the thing that's really kicked to the nuts. It
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  Speaker 1: was really good the Cardinals Jordan Walker upset the hometown
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  Speaker 1: hero Kyle Schwarber. And it's too bad. The amateur hour
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  Speaker 1: broadcast completely sucked at a time you cannot suck. For Netflix,
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  Speaker 1: we got awful camera angles, basic stats that even non
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  Speaker 1: nerds like did not make the graphics on the TV.
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  Speaker 3: There was the.
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  Speaker 1: Cringeworthy Will Ferrell comedy routine that distracted from everything and
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  Speaker 1: Major League Baseball trying to look cool. They wanna be hip,
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  Speaker 1: they want to be with the cool kids. However, they
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  Speaker 1: ended up looking like the embarrassing old uncle who gets
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  Speaker 1: on TikTok, like what are you doing to?
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  Speaker 3: You're too old for that?
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  Speaker 1: And sure the spin doctors claim that this is the
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  Speaker 1: spin from baseball. Well, they got a lot of younger viewers,
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  Speaker 1: younger demo. However, that did not offset losing was it
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  Speaker 1: ten percent.
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  Speaker 3: Of their audience year to year?
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  Speaker 1: And if Apple sold Let me ask you, if Apple
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  Speaker 1: sold ten percent fewer iPhones, how would that affect the
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  Speaker 1: price of the stock.
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  Speaker 3: I think it would crater. I think it would go down.
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  Speaker 1: And Major leagu Basketball's home run Derby the good news
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  Speaker 1: for Baseball when it comes to their relationship with Netflix.
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  Speaker 1: The home run Derby is truly a one percenter, meaning
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  Speaker 1: they drew about one point six percent of the total
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  Speaker 1: Netflix global audience.
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  Speaker 3: Here's that Netflix is on.
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  Speaker 1: They have three hundred and twenty five million global paid subscribers.
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  Speaker 1: Do some math on that, what's the cheapest price for
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  Speaker 1: Netflix three hundred and twenty five million global paid subscribers,
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  Speaker 1: and the home run Derby drew five point three million,
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  Speaker 1: So that means there were roughly roughly another nineteen three
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  Speaker 1: hundred nineteen million other people who had Netflix had access
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  Speaker 1: to Netflix and had no interest in watching the home
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  Speaker 1: run Derby. So you can't call it a new era
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  Speaker 1: when the audience is sprinting the opposite direction. So if
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  Speaker 1: this is the streaming innovation, give me back.
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  Speaker 3: To the old barring stuff we had before.
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  Speaker 1: Not a great start, not a great So you combine
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  Speaker 1: that with that joke of a first Netflix broadcast between
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  Speaker 1: the Yankees and the Giants with all.
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  Speaker 3: Kinds of dumb d dumb dumb dumb bits not looking
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  Speaker 3: so good.
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  Speaker 1: That's this whole crossover thing not really resonating with the
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  Speaker 1: base who are the core of the broadcast. Now, last word,
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  Speaker 1: we transitioned from baseball, We go across the way to
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  Speaker 1: the land of Lebron. Cannot go more than ten minutes
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  Speaker 1: without mentioning.
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  Speaker 3: The name Lebron.
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  Speaker 1: So Lebron James made his first public appearance since he
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  Speaker 1: announced he was quitting the Lakers, and he announced. Did
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  Speaker 1: you hear the big announcement you did? Yeah, you're a liar.
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  Speaker 1: He didn't announce anything. He refused to reveal his next team.
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  Speaker 1: And he was at that fanatics fest where they price
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  Speaker 1: gouge you there in New York and when asked if
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  Speaker 1: there was a decision that was still to be made,
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  Speaker 1: Lebron doing some cheeseball podcast for friends and family said
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  Speaker 1: immediately he shut it down, said that he had already
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  Speaker 1: agreed to not discuss it. Now, I love I don't
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  Speaker 1: do interviews anymore because these guys are so terrible. When
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  Speaker 1: I used to do interviews, though, I always love when
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  Speaker 1: I get a memo from some pr hack.
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  Speaker 3: Well he's willing to go on with you, but he
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  Speaker 3: won't talk about this. Well, that's the only thing we
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  Speaker 3: want to talk about. Well he doesn't want to talk
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  Speaker 3: about Well, why is he doing the interview? Well he
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  Speaker 3: won't do the interview.
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  Speaker 1: Fine, don't do the interview, jack ass, your dumb jackwagon.
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  Speaker 3: What's wrong with you?
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  Speaker 1: It's so stupid, like you who cared Lebron. You've been
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  Speaker 1: doing this your entire life. You can get asked a
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  Speaker 1: tough question, you can't dodge the question. Y'all, I'm not
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  Speaker 1: talking about that. I am not doing that really, okay,
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  Speaker 1: all right, wonderful Now. Lebron did tease the fact of
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  Speaker 1: what's ahead, saying he's looking forward to what unfolds next
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  Speaker 1: and that it's going to be pretty fun wherever he lands,
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  Speaker 1: emphasizing he's entering the final stage of his NBA career
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  Speaker 1: more than that later. Lebron also acknowledging that he won't
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  Speaker 1: keep everyone waiting forever, just close to forever, saying I
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  Speaker 1: won't hold you guys up.
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  Speaker 4: Too much longer.
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  Speaker 3: Thank god, Lebron. Course, it don't really matter to me.
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  Speaker 3: I got a show to do with it.
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  Speaker 1: You sign tomorrow, You could go sign with a team
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  Speaker 1: in China. I gotta still do the show. Lebron declined
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  Speaker 1: to say any timeline or hints about his next destination,
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  Speaker 1: so quickly the question why is Lebron James taking so long?
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  Speaker 1: So long to decide his next NBA landing spot? So
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  Speaker 1: this is simple, all right, This is peak Lebron theater.
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  Speaker 1: The man runs these offseason clinics like he's at residency
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  Speaker 1: at Caesar's Palace in Vegas, back when they used to
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  Speaker 1: have free parking and took care of the people that gamble,
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  Speaker 1: not anymore, of course, because they don't do that. But
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  Speaker 1: they're turning free agency into a bloated Marvel sequel, a
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  Speaker 1: lot of ego and some just boring storylines that Lebron
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  Speaker 1: has mastered. If he was a baseball player, they checked
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  Speaker 1: me out. Jog around the bas is the only cardio
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  Speaker 1: powered entirely by ego. And we know that Lebron from
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  Speaker 1: years past loves the public courtship, basking in the love
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  Speaker 1: notes and the chocolates and the free drinks and from
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  Speaker 1: those desperate executives. And there's no speed dating with Lebron.
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  Speaker 1: He wants to be whined and dying. Someone just hand
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  Speaker 1: him a bottle and crank up. Dean Martin's that samar He.
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  Speaker 3: Wants the love I wants it.
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  Speaker 1: He's a total Lebron an energy vampire, and he leaves
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  Speaker 1: these front office executives emotionally and mentally depleted. Well, he
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  Speaker 1: picks a team that compliments him the most for how
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  Speaker 1: he looks on his different angles on Instagram. And so
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  Speaker 1: it's supposedly a three horse race between the Cadavers, the Heatles,
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  Speaker 1: and the Sixers, with the Warriors coming up on the
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  Speaker 1: outside until he decides, Uh, We'll just keep living our lives,
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  Speaker 1: because what else are we going to do? The NBA
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  Speaker 1: waiting around Lebron is simply waiting for that dopamine hit
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  Speaker 1: to kick in. He wants give me the dopamine. I
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  Speaker 1: need the dopamine. Okay, calm down.
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  Speaker 1: Is where the welcoming party greeted the big star known
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  Speaker 1: as the Greek freak. He was welcome with open arms
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  Speaker 1: there in South Forida. If you saw any of this
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  Speaker 1: or heard about it, perhaps not never missed an introductory
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  Speaker 1: news convers These things are like pep rowley, They are pepperrolli,
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  Speaker 1: so Jannis identikomb. He had a lot to say, he said,
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  Speaker 1: among other things, he joined the heat, he said, because
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  Speaker 1: he wanted to leave his comfort zone.
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  Speaker 3: He said, join the.
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  Speaker 1: Heat required leaving his It is a happy place, he implied,
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  Speaker 1: happy place there, describing the move at this point in
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  Speaker 1: his career is a necessary step to keep growing professionally
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  Speaker 1: and personally after thirteen seasons in the land of the
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  Speaker 1: Cheese Kurds. There in Wisconsin, in the greater Milwaukee area.
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  Speaker 1: He emphasized that chasing greatness, he said, sometimes means embracing uncertainty.
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  Speaker 3: He made it clear that he.
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  Speaker 1: Views the transac shon as a challenge rather than simply
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  Speaker 1: a change of scenery. Okay, so that is a good
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  Speaker 1: jumping off point. Let us discuss the question for the panel,
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  Speaker 1: the Blue Ribbon Panel. You're part of the Blue Ribbon Panel.
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  Speaker 1: Giannis Adenta Coombo says he is leaving his comfort.
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  Speaker 3: Zone, and that playing with the heat is going to
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  Speaker 3: be a challenge. How do you poke holes in this?
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  Speaker 3: I poke some holes in this.
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  Speaker 1: I got fork fast and furious and swizzle, And we'll
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  Speaker 1: in the beautiful turquoise waters of South Beach.
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  Speaker 3: That's what we're gonna do. But before we do that,
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  Speaker 3: we always say.
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  Speaker 1: Number number one, number one, number one, number one.
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  Speaker 3: Oh what fun?
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  Speaker 4: Number one?
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  Speaker 1: It's number one, Okay, So let's start with this. His argument,
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  Speaker 1: Yannis ident to Coobo's argument, is like a fishing net.
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  Speaker 1: There's a lot of holes in a fishing net, right,
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  Speaker 1: there's a holes in it. And speaking of fishing, you
• 18:50
  Speaker 1: can also do that year round in South Florida without
• 18:54
  Speaker 1: having to dress like an eskimo. Now, there is no
• 18:57
  Speaker 1: ice fishing in South Florida, but you can enjoy the
• 19:00
  Speaker 1: weather there. This is the classic tired athlete trope. I
• 19:05
  Speaker 1: am challenging myself while picking one of the easiest possible
• 19:10
  Speaker 1: landing spots. Gotta love it, gotta love it now. Yannis
• 19:15
  Speaker 1: talked about a comfort zone. I talked about the whole
• 19:19
  Speaker 1: comfort zone. Leaving his comfort zone, and so he's relocating.
• 19:24
  Speaker 1: He got the old U haul and he's relocating from
• 19:27
  Speaker 1: a walk in freezer to a beach front cabana.
• 19:31
  Speaker 3: Is what he's doing now. In February.
• 19:34
  Speaker 1: The average temperature in February in Milwaukee is thirty three degrees, right,
• 19:41
  Speaker 1: thirty three degrees. You know what the average temperature in
• 19:43
  Speaker 1: Miami is. Yeah, it's it's thirty five. You no, it's
• 19:48
  Speaker 1: seventy eight. So that is not discomfort. That is a
• 19:53
  Speaker 1: forty five degree improvement. That's the SPA package with the
• 19:58
  Speaker 1: manny and the petty is what that is there, and
• 20:01
  Speaker 1: it sounds pretty comfortable to me. Now, Yannis did not
• 20:04
  Speaker 1: leave Milwaukee.
• 20:05
  Speaker 3: He escaped. This has been going on for several years.
• 20:09
  Speaker 1: We have been documenting it audi audio commentary here every night.
• 20:13
  Speaker 1: And when we've talked about Giannis, there have been these
• 20:15
  Speaker 1: little signs just chipping away.
• 20:18
  Speaker 3: Chip chip chip chip chip chip chip chip chip, just
• 20:22
  Speaker 3: like Shawshank redemption.
• 20:24
  Speaker 1: And as for the challenge, right, you gotta be a
• 20:28
  Speaker 1: app slute, income poop, a sucker to buy this.
• 20:33
  Speaker 3: Oh it's a child, you know, it's a challenge. Are
• 20:35
  Speaker 3: you at the fork in the road? Okay?
• 20:38
  Speaker 1: At the fork in the road, Yannis picked the path
• 20:41
  Speaker 1: of least resistance, not that the Miami Heat were a
• 20:45
  Speaker 1: heavyweight team, because they were not the only real challenge
• 20:48
  Speaker 1: though in Miami.
• 20:49
  Speaker 3: Is choosing between the sunscreen SPF.
• 20:53
  Speaker 1: Levels, Like, what do you want to do? I don't know,
• 20:56
  Speaker 1: I don't know, thirty five. I should probably go higher
• 20:58
  Speaker 1: than that. Okay, I'll go a little higher than that.
• 20:59
  Speaker 1: I don't know.
• 21:00
  Speaker 3: I don't know what I'm doing. He hand picked the.
• 21:03
  Speaker 1: Quote Heat Culture close quote where Eric Spolstra is the
• 21:07
  Speaker 1: ultimate supposed cheat code.
• 21:09
  Speaker 3: Just to ask him, he'll tell you.
• 21:10
  Speaker 1: Yannis basically selected a team with built in bumpers and
• 21:15
  Speaker 1: a bowling lane, and the actual challenge would have been
• 21:20
  Speaker 1: to stay in Wisconsin. That would have been the hard
• 21:24
  Speaker 1: road to take. The Bucks won a championship because some
• 21:28
  Speaker 1: guys got hurt and they were able to win.
• 21:29
  Speaker 3: That's great. Things are not particularly well. The Bucks went
• 21:33
  Speaker 3: for it.
• 21:34
  Speaker 1: They got the player that Jannis wanted in Damian Lillard.
• 21:37
  Speaker 1: That didn't work out, Snap Crackle Pop. Now Lillard's back
• 21:41
  Speaker 1: with the Trailblazers and Yannis is kind of hanging, hanging
• 21:45
  Speaker 1: and all that, and if he had stayed there, that
• 21:48
  Speaker 1: would have been the challenge, all right, put the bucks
• 21:51
  Speaker 1: on your back and gallop into the winning circle again.
• 21:56
  Speaker 3: Instead, he chose the Wizard.
• 21:59
  Speaker 1: Of oz Lie Yellow Brick Road, skipping along the yellow
• 22:03
  Speaker 1: brick Road. We're off to see the Wizard. We're off
• 22:06
  Speaker 1: to see the Wizard. Pat Riley and friends. Yeah, Ryles,
• 22:11
  Speaker 1: all right, now, pitched too. As for the wide angle lens,
• 22:15
  Speaker 1: the wide angle lens.
• 22:16
  Speaker 3: Okay, So we've got a lot of.
• 22:19
  Speaker 1: Time for basketball season, so I'm sure we'll revisit this.
• 22:22
  Speaker 1: But I have a show to do today. So Jannis
• 22:24
  Speaker 1: a dent to Cumbo is expected to form. This is
• 22:27
  Speaker 1: what all the geniuses tell me, one of the premier
• 22:32
  Speaker 1: duos in professional basketball, with Bam out of Bayo, who
• 22:37
  Speaker 1: had the most bogus eighty something point game of all time. Instantly,
• 22:41
  Speaker 1: this is expected to elevate, elevate Miami into the championship
• 22:48
  Speaker 1: conversation that they're a heavyweight team now in the East
• 22:52
  Speaker 1: with Giannis and Bam out of Bayo.
• 22:55
  Speaker 3: Now, let's just assume the position that Lebron.
• 22:58
  Speaker 1: Does not go to Miami, and it's still in play.
• 23:01
  Speaker 1: We're doing the show right now. As of right now,
• 23:03
  Speaker 1: Lebron is not with the heat.
• 23:05
  Speaker 3: He's not part of.
• 23:06
  Speaker 1: The equation, so put him off the side. The question,
• 23:11
  Speaker 1: is there any way the dynamic duo of the Greek
• 23:14
  Speaker 1: creak and Bam Bam do not succeed with the heat.
• 23:19
  Speaker 1: So is there any way this does not work? Because
• 23:21
  Speaker 1: you're all telling me, man, this is so good. It's
• 23:24
  Speaker 1: like peanut butter and jelly, the Greek freaking bam.
• 23:28
  Speaker 3: So is there a way it doesn't succeed? Absolutely? It's
• 23:33
  Speaker 3: called the multiverse.
• 23:35
  Speaker 1: Now for you casuals, you all think, well, you're Honesta
• 23:37
  Speaker 1: Denta Coombo, big name multi time MVP, Bam out of
• 23:40
  Speaker 1: Bio's got some good fantasy numbers in Miami, and that
• 23:44
  Speaker 1: front court there is an instant title favorite. Just add
• 23:48
  Speaker 1: just add some water and it's all rainbows, lollipops and
• 23:53
  Speaker 1: just a tremendous defensive tandem there for the heat and
• 23:58
  Speaker 1: man they're loaded, but not so fast, my friend, No, no, no.
• 24:02
  Speaker 3: Because if this dynamic duo.
• 24:04
  Speaker 1: Fails, it'll be the most predictable plot twist since a
• 24:09
  Speaker 1: Fast and Furious movie. You feel me on that, Like
• 24:11
  Speaker 1: it's a great idea on a tablet. You look at
• 24:15
  Speaker 1: the tablet, you're like, well, yeah, that looks good playing
• 24:17
  Speaker 1: a video game, and then you realize the tablet and
• 24:21
  Speaker 1: the video game does not have five defenders packing in
• 24:25
  Speaker 1: the paint. Everyone's treating Yannis and Bam like this blessed marriage.
• 24:31
  Speaker 3: However, it's actually two people who are fighting over the.
• 24:34
  Speaker 1: Same side of the bed. They both like the right
• 24:36
  Speaker 1: side of it. Well, I want the right, Well you
• 24:37
  Speaker 1: can't have the right. I have the right. Well, no,
• 24:39
  Speaker 1: I'm honest, I want the right. Well no, I'm Bam.
• 24:41
  Speaker 1: I was here first. Then pat Riley loves me. He
• 24:43
  Speaker 1: licks my toes, so I get to have the right side.
• 24:45
  Speaker 1: Well no, but I'm honest. I've won the MVP woord
• 24:46
  Speaker 1: a couple of times. No, no, but I'm I'm the
• 24:48
  Speaker 1: chosen one. I'm the favorite son of the Miami Heat.
• 24:51
  Speaker 1: So I'm Bam out of Bio and I get the
• 24:53
  Speaker 1: right of it. But no, I'm honest, I want the right.
• 24:54
  Speaker 3: So there you go. They're fighting over the right side
• 24:57
  Speaker 3: of the bed. And they're both.
• 24:58
  Speaker 1: Non shooter who if you look at the way they've
• 25:02
  Speaker 1: played in their careers, they dominate the painted area. Neither
• 25:06
  Speaker 1: won a really great outside shooter, and so without elite
• 25:09
  Speaker 1: spacing meeting the players.
• 25:11
  Speaker 3: Around them on the Heat.
• 25:13
  Speaker 1: Unless you think Tim Hardaway Junior is going to be
• 25:16
  Speaker 1: the secret sauce there. You figure going in, teams are
• 25:20
  Speaker 1: gonna dare Giannis and Bam to beat them from the outside.
• 25:22
  Speaker 3: They're gonna clog the lane.
• 25:25
  Speaker 1: And that's what I would do, and I'm never wrong
• 25:27
  Speaker 1: about these things, and leave the half court offense looking
• 25:31
  Speaker 1: like toxic bleach and ammonia mixture. And you get all
• 25:35
  Speaker 1: bogged down there and disheveled if you can't hit the
• 25:39
  Speaker 1: outside shot you throw in Giannis's recent knee boo booze.
• 25:43
  Speaker 3: He set some issues there. And so this master.
• 25:46
  Speaker 1: Plan, the blueprint, it's just one cramped lane away from
• 25:53
  Speaker 1: being dysfunction junction.
• 25:55
  Speaker 3: What's your function? Right? Final point.
• 25:58
  Speaker 1: So one of the other highlights, I did not see
• 26:00
  Speaker 1: this live. I woke up watched it on the YouTube.
• 26:03
  Speaker 1: So during the Heat's introductory press conference, giannisident to Koombo
• 26:08
  Speaker 1: was welcome.
• 26:08
  Speaker 3: We talked about that already.
• 26:09
  Speaker 1: Pat Riley was there and at one moment which got
• 26:13
  Speaker 1: a lot of traction, pat Riley, the president of the
• 26:16
  Speaker 1: Miami Heat, praised Bam out of Baio's loyalty joking.
• 26:20
  Speaker 3: He said, quote, I don't want to get kicked out
• 26:25
  Speaker 3: or knocked out, rather knocked out.
• 26:26
  Speaker 1: I don't only get knocked out, he said, referring to
• 26:29
  Speaker 1: BAM's altercation there with the player that was traded for
• 26:33
  Speaker 1: Giannis Tyler Hero, who's currently with the Milwaukee Bucks. The
• 26:38
  Speaker 1: joke was obviously it was interpretated many different ways. It
• 26:43
  Speaker 1: was most said, well, that's a parting shot at Tyler
• 26:45
  Speaker 1: Hero and Riley doing his thing there who was sent
• 26:50
  Speaker 1: to Wisconsin. And there was that back and forth. They
• 26:54
  Speaker 1: got into it in Viva Las Vegas Tyler Hero and
• 26:57
  Speaker 1: bam At of Bayo. So the altercation at a practice
• 27:02
  Speaker 1: event stemmed from social media comments criticizing bab Adabio Tyler Hero.
• 27:10
  Speaker 1: There was some DMS and some other things that said
• 27:12
  Speaker 1: that he was essentially the teacher's pet, the preferred choice
• 27:17
  Speaker 1: of pat Riley, got preferential treatment and the value the
• 27:22
  Speaker 1: money thing and how they made sure that heat to
• 27:24
  Speaker 1: keep him around, gave him the contract and some of
• 27:27
  Speaker 1: these other guys they shopped them every year. So that
• 27:30
  Speaker 1: led to a eyeball to eyeball, nose to nose, shoulders
• 27:37
  Speaker 1: shoulder confrontation where bam Adebio went Bam Bam and I
• 27:43
  Speaker 1: suppose he struck Tyler Hero. Now these social media critics,
• 27:48
  Speaker 1: Riley actually getting some criticism. Ryle's saying that it was
• 27:53
  Speaker 1: not classy, it's unprofessional to take a cheap shot. Even
• 27:58
  Speaker 1: though he was praising out of Bio, it was perceived
• 28:00
  Speaker 1: is a cheap shot at his former player Tyler Hero. Question,
• 28:05
  Speaker 1: was this pat Riley praise of Bam out of Bio
• 28:09
  Speaker 1: a jab at Tyler heroes?
• 28:12
  Speaker 3: You know, a jabb at Tyler Hero inappropriate?
• 28:14
  Speaker 5: A right?
• 28:15
  Speaker 1: So two for one again, was it Riley's praising Adam Bio,
• 28:18
  Speaker 1: which was also a jabb at Tyler Hero inappropriate? So
• 28:23
  Speaker 1: let's go to the judges scorecards on this, and I
• 28:25
  Speaker 1: wrote down two words. Oh no, that's what I wrote down.
• 28:31
  Speaker 1: Oh my god, Riley made a joke. Pat Riley made
• 28:34
  Speaker 1: a joke. Quick someone called the sensitivity police before the
• 28:39
  Speaker 1: entire NBA collapses under the weight of their feeling. Just
• 28:49
  Speaker 1: like that, right, I just I roll my eyes at
• 28:52
  Speaker 1: this kind of crap, Because if you honestly think that
• 28:56
  Speaker 1: by pat Riley praising Bam out of bio and taking
• 29:00
  Speaker 1: and a bit of a jab at Tyler Hero, you
• 29:02
  Speaker 1: think that was inappropriate? Congratulations? You have never been within
• 29:07
  Speaker 1: forty miles of a competitive locker room environment. This is
• 29:10
  Speaker 1: a trip to the swizzle in South Beach. It's one
• 29:14
  Speaker 1: of more popular spots it was back in the day
• 29:16
  Speaker 1: there at least a few years ago in South Beach.
• 29:19
  Speaker 1: A vintage pat Riley cocktail, A little spicy, little spicy,
• 29:24
  Speaker 1: little performative, absolutely on brand for the Miami Heat executive
• 29:31
  Speaker 1: who has been doing this this type of thing, Ryles
• 29:34
  Speaker 1: for forty plus years.
• 29:38
  Speaker 3: Pat Riley has been doing this. Riley did not throw shade.
• 29:41
  Speaker 1: He threw a Miami Beach rental umbrella and told everyone
• 29:47
  Speaker 1: to relax, just like that. The former radio commentator, that's
• 29:52
  Speaker 1: how pat Riley got into all this. He was a
• 29:54
  Speaker 1: radio commentator with the late Great chick Her And you
• 29:58
  Speaker 1: can put it in the refrigerator.
• 29:59
  Speaker 3: The doors close, the jello's.
• 30:01
  Speaker 1: Jigglin Uh, and all that from the old legendary broadcaster
• 30:05
  Speaker 1: from back in the day. But if anything right, if anything,
• 30:08
  Speaker 1: this this was a message not in a bottle, but
• 30:11
  Speaker 1: it was a message about culture, the Heat, culture, accountability,
• 30:16
  Speaker 1: grown man.
• 30:17
  Speaker 3: Locker room dynamics.
• 30:19
  Speaker 1: Uh.
• 30:19
  Speaker 3: This is not some kind of moral referendum. Uh, it
• 30:22
  Speaker 3: is not.
• 30:23
  Speaker 1: And so if you're one of these humorless hall monitors
• 30:26
  Speaker 1: out there complaining.
• 30:28
  Speaker 3: I recommend you go jumping a lake. Okay, go go jump.
• 30:31
  Speaker 1: In a lake right now, and just go find something
• 30:33
  Speaker 1: real to cry about.
• 30:35
  Speaker 3: Just cry, cry, cry, cry cry, Just like that.
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• 30:45
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• 31:00
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• 31:02
  Speaker 7: Well, John Gruden said on a recent podcast appearance that
• 31:04
  Speaker 7: he wants to return to the broadcast booth, but this
• 31:06
  Speaker 7: time as a play by play announcer. Shortly after that quote,
• 31:09
  Speaker 7: he was announced that Gruden will handle play by play
• 31:11
  Speaker 7: duties for a preseason game in.
• 31:13
  Speaker 4: About a month.
• 31:14
  Speaker 7: Ben, how long before Gruden is doing regular season play
• 31:17
  Speaker 7: by play for one of the big networks?
• 31:18
  Speaker 1: Okay, so when does he settle his lawsuit against the NFL?
• 31:25
  Speaker 1: Does he get to do it just because he wants
• 31:27
  Speaker 1: to do it? Is that how that works? Like, Hey,
• 31:29
  Speaker 1: I'd like to have a network TV show again? Can
• 31:31
  Speaker 1: I get one, because I'll just ask the network. I
• 31:34
  Speaker 1: think you have to show that you can do it.
• 31:36
  Speaker 1: Number one and number two, those jobs don't come open
• 31:40
  Speaker 1: very often. You think Jim Nantz is gonna walk away. Hello, friends,
• 31:45
  Speaker 1: and I don't want to do it anymore. So I'd
• 31:47
  Speaker 1: say the chances of John Gruden getting a network play
• 31:50
  Speaker 1: by play job in the NFL are less than ten percent.
• 31:54
  Speaker 7: Next, a report on Tuesday suggested that Brownie James will
• 31:58
  Speaker 7: not necessarily be following his father to a new team.
• 32:01
  Speaker 7: Ben what are the odds you give to Bronnie staying
• 32:03
  Speaker 7: with the Lakers.
• 32:05
  Speaker 1: Well, I would say if he goes to Miami or Cleveland,
• 32:07
  Speaker 1: the Lakers will be so happy. This will make their life.
• 32:12
  Speaker 1: It would be a honkey talk over at the Lakerland there.
• 32:15
  Speaker 1: If he goes like Philadelphia or Golden State is much
• 32:17
  Speaker 1: less likely.
• 32:18
  Speaker 3: But he's not. He can't play. The kid can't play.
• 32:21
  Speaker 3: He sucks.
• 32:22
  Speaker 1: So if you can sucker the Heat or the Calves
• 32:25
  Speaker 1: to take.
• 32:25
  Speaker 3: Him, why not.
• 32:26
  Speaker 1: The problem is lebron knows this kid can't play, so
• 32:29
  Speaker 1: he'll probably be like, I'll leave in LA.
• 32:30
  Speaker 3: I don't want him on my team.
• 32:32
  Speaker 4: All right.
• 32:33
  Speaker 7: Next, the Detroit Tigers were on a little bit of
• 32:35
  Speaker 7: a hot streak going twenty to fourteen as they came
• 32:38
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• 32:39
  Speaker 3: Kids call it a burner coop. The kids call it
• 32:41
  Speaker 3: a burner.
• 32:42
  Speaker 4: Now.
• 32:42
  Speaker 7: Some think that the Tigers can make a push for
• 32:44
  Speaker 7: the playoffs because they have the second easiest remaining schedule.
• 32:48
  Speaker 4: Yeah, Ben, do you think they can push for the playoffs?
• 32:51
  Speaker 1: I would love to say no. You know, it's my
• 32:54
  Speaker 1: hobby to bury the dreams of fans. However, the American.
• 32:58
  Speaker 3: League blows, and so.
• 33:01
  Speaker 1: Yeah, I think there is a path. The American League,
• 33:03
  Speaker 1: tam is wide up. There's no good team in the
• 33:05
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  Speaker 1: What do you call a performance pill for weed Man?
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  Speaker 1: What blue can't chew? Blue can't get that curve from Earth?
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  Speaker 3: Very funny, Joe, Kurt, have you found your teeth yet?
• 35:02
  Speaker 3: Weed man.
• 35:03
  Speaker 1: No, no, okay, are they're in a landfill somewhere in Miami.
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  Speaker 3: What does weed Man Hippie laugh? Or why? Why does
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, he said he is now a big fan, so
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• 36:16
  Speaker 1: Why did weed Man Hippie get into the hot air balloon?
• 36:20
  Speaker 1: Why he wanted to get high? He wanted to get high?
• 36:25
  Speaker 1: What happened to weed man after eating too many edibles?
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  Speaker 1: If you ate too many edibles, weed man, what you
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• 36:44
  Speaker 1: All right, let's see here, dad joke Dan.
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  Speaker 5: All Mary Hart Doctors?
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, all right enough.
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  Speaker 1: Mary's starting up. She still loves the Dodgers. She still
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  Speaker 1: goes out to those Dodger games. God bless her. All right,
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  Speaker 7: So, uh this week, and I'm going to start with
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  Speaker 7: a entertainment story, a news update, if you will, ben
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  Speaker 7: you news. Yes, Now, this requires a little bit of background,
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  Speaker 7: especially for you, because I'm sure you don't know anything
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  Speaker 7: about this.
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  Speaker 3: Uh.
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  Speaker 7: So, there is a famous video game series called God
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  Speaker 7: of War.
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  Speaker 4: I don't know if you've you've heard of that one.
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  Speaker 3: I've heard of God, and I've heard of War, but
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  Speaker 3: I have not heard of that.
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  Speaker 7: All right, So in the video game, you play as Krados,
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  Speaker 7: this kind of like you know, Demi God, and you
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  Speaker 7: you fight all of the other like Norse and and
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  Speaker 7: and Greek gods.
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  Speaker 4: Uh.
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  Speaker 7: Anyway, Amazon made this into a TV show. They released
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  Speaker 7: photos from you know, the first look kind of teaser
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  Speaker 7: photos back in February of the character as Credos, and
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  Speaker 7: the reaction was bad. People were not liking it. They're like,
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  Speaker 7: this guy is not like ripped enough to be like
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  Speaker 7: a you know, God destroyer. He just doesn't really like
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  Speaker 7: look the part. People thought he just looked weak and
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  Speaker 7: so this whole backlash. Now, yesterday a new story came
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  Speaker 7: out that said God of War shocker Credos actor Ryan
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  Speaker 7: Hurst recast after on set injury.
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  Speaker 4: So the new story says that he tore his.
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  Speaker 7: Bicep and that has caused them to need to recast
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  Speaker 7: the role.
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  Speaker 3: Did they put a wink wink in there at the.
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  Speaker 7: End of that, That's what I was saying. I was like,
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  Speaker 7: do we really think that's what happened here? Or were
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  Speaker 7: they like, hey, look man, you know, and the order
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  Speaker 7: to not embarrass you will come up with something. Yeah,
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  Speaker 7: but you're out.
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  Speaker 1: Well, why wouldn't that That happens all the time in sports,
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  Speaker 1: So why would it not happen with that?
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, that's it just makes sense.
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  Speaker 3: You know, Well we'll cover for you.
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  Speaker 1: Don't worry about it, you know, And yeah, all right, right,
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  Speaker 1: just from what you've told me, and I have no knowledge.
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  Speaker 1: I'm totally uneducated. I completely agree.
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  Speaker 4: Good good, all right. So that is the That is
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  Speaker 4: the latest.
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  Speaker 7: With the God of War series on Amazon Prime now
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  Speaker 7: going over to theaters. The only thing worth mentioning this weekend,
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  Speaker 7: of course, is Christopher Nolan's The Odyssey.
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  Speaker 4: So what everybody's talking about so far?
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  Speaker 7: The reviews from both critics and audience alike are through
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  Speaker 7: the roof ninety six percent on Rotten Tomatoes on.
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  Speaker 4: Both of those.
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  Speaker 7: Obviously, the best way to see it, if you can,
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  Speaker 7: is seventy millimeters IMAX. If you don't have tickets already,
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  Speaker 7: you're not going to be seeing it this weekend.
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  Speaker 4: It is completely sold out.
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  Speaker 7: They opened up three am showings at CityWalk at Universal
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  Speaker 7: and those are sold out.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, it's sure. It's insane.
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  Speaker 3: So it's gonna do a little better than Supergirl.
• 40:54
  Speaker 4: Yeah, yeah, just a little bit.
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  Speaker 1: Somebody sent me a story from one of the trade
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  Speaker 1: papers how like Supergirl, they spent one hundred and seventy
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  Speaker 1: million on it, and I think, you know, it's already
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  Speaker 1: been out for a while, and I think they've lost
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  Speaker 1: over fifty million dollars or something like that.
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  Speaker 3: Some ridiculous amount of motion.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, I can.
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  Speaker 7: I can go see movies for free with my unlimited pass,
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  Speaker 7: and I didn't go see it.
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  Speaker 3: So it's not a great song. Yeah, not a great Yeah.
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  Speaker 4: Not at all.
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  Speaker 7: And then last, but not least on Sunday or oh
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  Speaker 7: is it Sunday? No, it is on Tuesday, Tuesday, Jus
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  Speaker 7: Jay twenty. First, Bill Maher is getting honored with the
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  Speaker 7: Mark Twain Prize for American Humor at the Kennedy Center.
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  Speaker 4: That will be a Netflix special on that.
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  Speaker 3: Are you gonna fly out for that? Coop? Is that
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  Speaker 3: in DC?
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  Speaker 5: Right?
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  Speaker 3: You're gonna play out there for that?
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  Speaker 7: No?
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  Speaker 4: No, but I will check it out on Netflix.
• 41:48
  Speaker 3: That's your guy, Bill mar Though.
• 41:49
  Speaker 4: Yeah. I love Bill Mark.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah. Have you been to the show?
• 41:51
  Speaker 4: Have you seen?
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  Speaker 3: I have you haven't?
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  Speaker 7: Yeah?
• 41:54
  Speaker 4: Waiting in line at the CBS lot to get in there.
• 41:56
  Speaker 3: They're getting rid of the CBS lot over there. Somebody
• 41:58
  Speaker 3: told me they're getting rid of that.
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  Speaker 4: I don't know.
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  Speaker 7: You can't get tickets to his show anymore, like the
• 42:02
  Speaker 7: way that I Yeah, you actually you have to get
• 42:04
  Speaker 7: to like literally go there in person line.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, that sucks. I used to like I was a
• 42:12
  Speaker 3: Letterman fan. Years ago, and I was visiting my.
• 42:13
  Speaker 1: Brother in New York, and we waited online at the
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  Speaker 1: Ed Sullivan Theater there.
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  Speaker 4: And you and you saw him.
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  Speaker 3: No, I didn't get it.
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  Speaker 1: I spent like three hours waiting in freaking line and
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  Speaker 1: wasting my time and.
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  Speaker 4: I ah, And then you never tried again.
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  Speaker 3: That was it. One time that said it's not worth
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  Speaker 3: my time, so I didn't go.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, all right, so anyway, that's coop scoop entertainment