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Hour 1 - And So It Begins... · The Ben Maller Show

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  Speaker 1: Boom! Shakalaka. It's hour number one. Hour one. Tons of
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  Speaker 1: fun here on the Ben Maller Show podcast. We stayed
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  Speaker 1: up all night to provide you fresh pod here on
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  Speaker 1: this hump day. Do the Humpty Hump on this Wednesday,
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  Speaker 1: the 21st day of October. So here in hour number one,
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  Speaker 1: how do you sum up LeBron James' first real night
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  Speaker 1: wearing Sixers colors. Philadelphia won at the Garden, spoiling the
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  Speaker 1: Garden party for the team from New York. Adam Silver
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  Speaker 1: said prior to the game that LeBron's helicopter deal is
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  Speaker 1: perfectly appropriate. He's living in New York and commuting to
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  Speaker 1: Philadelphia via helicopter. What say you? Also, what is the
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  Speaker 1: word for the Knicks hanging an NBA Cup banner in
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  Speaker 1: the rafters at Madison Square Garden? They had said they
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  Speaker 1: weren't going to do that because it's Fugazi, and they
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  Speaker 1: had a change of heart. We'll talk about all that
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  Speaker 1: and more. It's your second bite of the apple. It's
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  Speaker 1: called the Ben Maller Show podcast. You already knew that,
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  Speaker 1: and here is our number one.
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  Speaker 2: Ben, I love you.
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  Speaker 3: And so it begins yet again.
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  Speaker 1: On and on and on. What is it? Well, that
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  Speaker 1: And we are back in the saddle again here. And
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  Speaker 1: pro bouncy ball underway. I know you're excited about that.
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  Speaker 1: I cannot wait to get the feedback from some of
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  Speaker 1: the more vocal members of the Malheur Militia who never
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  Speaker 1: miss a chance to bitch. Why are you talking basketball?
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  Speaker 1: What's wrong with you, Malheur? Again, if you would like
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  Speaker 1: to program the show, feel free to send Send, what
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  Speaker 1: do we need, like $ 5 million, I think, you can
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  Speaker 1: program the show? That seems fair, right? Reasonable? That seems good, yeah.
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  Speaker 1: $ 5 million, we'll divvy that up. You can decide what
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  Speaker 1: we talk about. I don't care. I'll talk about stuff
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  Speaker 1: that nobody cares about, like the WNBA, if you want.
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  Speaker 1: If you send that in, that's fine. Oh, that would
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  Speaker 1: be so good. That would be great. And then we'd
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  Speaker 1: have no one listening. We'd actually have to turn the
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  Speaker 1: transmitters off because they'd be wasting electricity. But our lead
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  Speaker 1: is from Gotham. Home game for LeBron James. Remember, he
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  Speaker 1: lives in New York. He didn't want to live in Philadelphia.
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  Speaker 1: Why would you want to live there? So he commutes,
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  Speaker 1: and every time the Sixers play in the New York area,
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  Speaker 1: that's a home game for LeBron. So there they were,
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  Speaker 1: the Sixers and the Knickerbockers, the beginning of the NBA
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  Speaker 1: regular season. Now, it technically began with the Celtics riding
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  Speaker 1: the Vomit Comet and blowing a 22-point lead against the Pistons, but...
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  Speaker 1: That was played while we were sleeping, so who cares
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  Speaker 1: about that? The Knicks and the Sixers in prime time,
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  Speaker 1: in prime time, the curtain going up on the NBA
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  Speaker 1: regular season. And while we will certainly not be talking
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  Speaker 1: a lot on a daily basis about regular season basketball,
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  Speaker 1: why would we? There's no reason to do that. This
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  Speaker 1: is the rare and appropriate, rare and appropriate conversation that
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  Speaker 1: we're going to have. So the Knicks got their bling bling. Actually,
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  Speaker 1: when I saw the Knicks ring, I laughed. I said, boy,
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  Speaker 1: that's going to spend a lot of time in safety
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  Speaker 1: deposit boxes. No one's going to wear that. You can't
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  Speaker 1: wear it. So everyone talks about, oh, you got to
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  Speaker 1: win the ring. You got to wear the ring. No
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  Speaker 1: one's wearing that. It's going directly into a safety deposit
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  Speaker 1: box somewhere. And I still remember the rant years ago.
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  Speaker 1: There was this coach named Phil Jackson. I don't know
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  Speaker 1: what happened to him. He probably lives near the Unabomber
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  Speaker 1: house up in Montana somewhere. But Phil would rant about
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  Speaker 1: that years ago, 20 years ago. He's like, these rings
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  Speaker 1: are ridiculous. Then they've only gotten worse. But that aside,
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  Speaker 1: that aside, so the Knicks got their bling bling and
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  Speaker 1: they played Philadelphia. So I don't know if you were
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  Speaker 1: watching this game or not. It was on either NBC
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  Speaker 1: or Peacock. I don't know. They're all the same. So
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  Speaker 1: the pundits insisting that what the Sixers did in this game,
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  Speaker 1: they sent a message. Because we all know what happens
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  Speaker 1: in October matters in the summer of 2027. Damn right.
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  Speaker 1: Damn right.
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  Speaker 4: No?
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  Speaker 1: Anyway, the message apparently was sent as the Sixers rallied back.
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  Speaker 1: Rally back now. Rally back. And they get a 106-100 win.
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  Speaker 1: Behind LeBron James and Jalen Brown. But really, it was
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  Speaker 1: Tyrese Maxey. The Maxey pad game. Tyrese Maxey there had
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  Speaker 1: the big man on campus stat line at 28 points. Brown, 19,
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  Speaker 1: 8 rebounds and 6 assists for Philly. Helicopter James opened
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  Speaker 1: his NBA record-setting 24th season career. with all of 14 points,
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  Speaker 1: 9 rebounds, and 6 assists. Whee! All right, so that
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  Speaker 1: is a good jumping-off point. Let us discuss the question.
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  Speaker 1: How would you sum up LeBron James' first night wearing
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  Speaker 1: a Sixers uniform? We don't watch exhibition games, so for
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  Speaker 1: our purposes, this is the first time he ever wore
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  Speaker 1: a Sixers uniform. So I've got HGTV... Roman candles and grapefruit.
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  Speaker 1: And we will combine all of these things together, and
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  Speaker 1: we are going to cut and run is what we're
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  Speaker 1: going to do. So, A, as they say over at
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  Speaker 1: the Union Pacific Railroad Yard, LeBron James is no longer
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  Speaker 1: the steam engine. No, he's not the steam engine, not
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  Speaker 1: the locomotive there pulling the championship train. No, instead, LeBron,
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  Speaker 1: we saw this with the purple and gold historians last year. LeBron,
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  Speaker 1: at this point, is more like the caboose most of
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  Speaker 1: the time. He's the caboose along for the ride. Choo-choo. Yes,
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  Speaker 1: waving at the tourists. The whistle-stop tour for LeBron James.
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  Speaker 1: Occasionally blowing the whistle while somebody else shovels the coal.
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  Speaker 1: That's the LeBron story at this point in his career. Mallory,
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  Speaker 1: you should be kissing his ass like every other hack
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  Speaker 1: in the media. Okay, maybe I will. Unless I won't. Listen,
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  Speaker 1: a lot of my time behind microphones talking about LeBron James.
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  Speaker 1: He's good for business. And whether you like him or not,
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  Speaker 1: he's good for business. And when he's gone, it's like
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  Speaker 1: next generation. There's no one really there. Someone will step up,
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  Speaker 1: but there's no one really there that moves the needle.
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  Speaker 1: We have very few people. despite social media that really
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  Speaker 1: moved the needle legitimately. And LeBron's one of those guys.
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  Speaker 1: And at this point, the Sixers are not getting the
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  Speaker 1: vintage LeBron James. They're getting a commemorative edition of LeBron James.
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  Speaker 1: There is a difference there. And when LeBron goes out
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  Speaker 1: and scores 38 points in a game, it's a national holiday.
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  Speaker 1: It's a national holiday. Now, when LeBron drops 14 points,
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  Speaker 1: everyone gets the same talking points memo. It's like, well,
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  Speaker 1: you got to praise his high basketball IQ. That's what
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  Speaker 1: you have to do. So, yeah, LeBron is still capable
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  Speaker 1: of producing a masterpiece. But they've become special occasions instead
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  Speaker 1: of regularly scheduled programming. So LeBron, we're not saying he's
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  Speaker 1: washed up. We're just saying if you go into the laundromat,
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  Speaker 1: LeBron is on the delicate cycle, which means what? Cold water,
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  Speaker 1: low spin rate, handle with care. In his 24th season
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  Speaker 1: in the NBA, he is on borrowed athletic currency. And
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  Speaker 1: if this was an HGTV show, they would call LeBron
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  Speaker 1: an accent wall on the Sixers. Is that a fair
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  Speaker 1: take or not? That LeBron James is like an accent wall.
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  Speaker 1: Nice to look at. Diverts attention from other things in
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  Speaker 1: the room. But nobody, nobody is confusing LeBron James as
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  Speaker 1: a load-bearing wall that's not part of the foundation of
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  Speaker 1: the house at this point. And he's like a very
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  Speaker 1: expensive throw pillow. Very expensive throw pillow. Or I guess
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  Speaker 1: a better way to look at it, like a basketball scarecrow.
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  Speaker 1: LeBron James, that the reputation keeps the birds away. Got
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  Speaker 1: to keep those birds away. Very important. Now, To the helicopter.
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  Speaker 1: The blades on the helicopter spinning around. just like that.
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  Speaker 1: So prior to the Knickerbockers, by the way, Jalen Brunson
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  Speaker 1: had a dud as far as the game's concerned. We're
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  Speaker 1: not going to break the game down. But prior to
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  Speaker 1: the game, NBA commissioner, half-man, half-alien, From somewhere outside the
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  Speaker 1: Milky Way, Adam Silver got off his spaceship and defended
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  Speaker 1: LeBron James. Now, LeBron is living in New York because, again,
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  Speaker 1: why would you want to live in Philadelphia where you're working?
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  Speaker 1: So he's commuting and he's taking a helicopter. helicopter commute,
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  Speaker 1: which costs thousands of dollars each time you get into
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  Speaker 1: a helicopter. And he lives in the New York City area,
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  Speaker 1: and he's playing basketball in Philadelphia. So Adam Silver called it, quote,
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  Speaker 1: perfectly appropriate. That was the quote. LeBron has a corporate
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  Speaker 1: aviation agreement with Fanatics, which And he's traveling between Manhattan
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  Speaker 1: and Philly. His residence in New York in the Sixers
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  Speaker 1: practice facility. And I assume he'll be doing that three
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  Speaker 1: or four times a week. Now, the critics are out,
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  Speaker 1: of course. There's always critics questioning whether the luxury transportation
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  Speaker 1: circumvents the NBA salary cap rules. Of course, the commissioner
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  Speaker 1: does not appear too concerned about that. Silver insisting there's
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  Speaker 1: no violations. Because the agreement is independent of the Philadelphia
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  Speaker 1: basketball team. All right. Question. You got Commissioner Adam Silver
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  Speaker 1: who says LeBron's helicopter deal. Perfectly appropriate. That's the quote.
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  Speaker 1: Perfectly appropriate. What say you? Well, thanks for asking. So
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  Speaker 1: LeBron is using a helicopter which is provided by, I believe,
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  Speaker 1: an official NBA business merchandise partner. Am I incorrect on that?
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  Speaker 1: I believe Fanatics is the big merchandise. They've got a
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  Speaker 1: monopoly on all the sports, so they can make crappy
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  Speaker 1: products and charge full price. Actually, over full price. Just
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  Speaker 1: ridiculous prices. That's what you all tell me, that Fanatics
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  Speaker 1: is not very good in terms of the quality of
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  Speaker 1: the product and the overcharging, which I think happens quite
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  Speaker 1: a bit in professional sports. Anyway, listen, so LeBron's in
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  Speaker 1: bed with a business partner of the NBA called And
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  Speaker 1: it's all just a remarkable coinkydink. All of this stuff, right?
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  Speaker 1: That the guy that runs Fanatics used to own part
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  Speaker 1: of the Sixers. And I'm sure that's just all water
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  Speaker 1: under the bridge. All water under the bridge. So Adam
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  Speaker 1: Silver's gone full naked gun here, standing in front of
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  Speaker 1: the exploding Roman candles at the firework shop there and saying,
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  Speaker 1: nothing to see here. Please disperse. Nothing to see here.
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  Speaker 1: That's it. And so we've seen more convincing investigations. Back
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  Speaker 1: when I was younger, I used to watch, there was
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  Speaker 1: a cartoon called Scooby-Doo. You probably don't know what that is,
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  Speaker 1: but there was a popular cartoon years ago called Scooby-Doo.
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  Speaker 1: And they'd investigate these pothead. You had a dog. There was,
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  Speaker 1: I can say some other things. I won't, but that
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  Speaker 1: interesting group of people. And they would investigate. And Scooby-Doo,
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  Speaker 1: their investigations would have gotten away with it if it
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  Speaker 1: wasn't for you meddling kids. Absolutely. Absolutely. So the commissioner
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  Speaker 1: might as well have come out and said, Adam Silver,
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  Speaker 1: that LeBron James can do whatever the hell LeBron James wants.
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  Speaker 1: And if you don't like it, suck it, buttercup. They
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  Speaker 1: could have said that. And so Silver activating the LeBron
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  Speaker 1: protective cocoon, bulletproof glass, Kevlar lighting for LeBron, and a
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  Speaker 1: helicopter landing pad. You've got to have all that stuff. Now,
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  Speaker 1: the Malheur Rosetta Stone translates perfectly appropriate, which is what
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  Speaker 1: Adam Silver said, perfectly appropriate... into, hey, dum-dum, LeBron prints
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  Speaker 1: a lot of money. You idiots keep buying tickets even
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  Speaker 1: though he's a shell of what he had been. We're
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  Speaker 1: not slaughtering the golden goose. That Mallow Rosetta Stone does
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  Speaker 1: not disappoint. It was on point. Another example, rules for
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  Speaker 1: the peasants, exceptions for the king. It's always been the case.
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  Speaker 1: Remember back during the pandemic, our political leaders were out
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  Speaker 1: having nice meals at different restaurants, and we were told
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  Speaker 1: not to leave our homes. That's the way it is.
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  Speaker 1: So the NBA's got a salary cap, but apparently LeBron,
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  Speaker 1: he has a salary helicopter. It's all part of the
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  Speaker 1: deal there. And we hear there's a couple of different
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  Speaker 1: NBA rule books. You've got one for the roughly 449
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  Speaker 1: other players, and then there's one For LeBron, and that's
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  Speaker 1: how it is. So the LeBron edition of the NBA
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  Speaker 1: rulebook is printed on Charmin Ultra Soft. It's a little
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  Speaker 1: side deal there. It's two-ply. It's quilted and designed to
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  Speaker 1: wipe away any controversy. Well, that's good. All right, meanwhile,
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  Speaker 1: the New York Knickerbockers celebrated their championship by... Going back
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  Speaker 1: and reminiscing about the good old days when the Knicks
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  Speaker 1: played like that on a regular basis, played like a
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  Speaker 1: bunch of stiffs. Jalen Brunson was terrible. It's hard to
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  Speaker 1: play when you've got that big, not really ring, whatever
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  Speaker 1: that thing was that they had there, they called it
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  Speaker 1: a ring. So the Knicks had a dud, but the
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  Speaker 1: story here is that they decided... to do a 180,
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  Speaker 1: the Knicks. I don't know if you saw this or not,
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  Speaker 1: but they celebrated not one but two championships at Madison
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  Speaker 1: Square Garden before they went out and lost to the Sixers.
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  Speaker 1: New York rather quietly said, you know what, on second thought,
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  Speaker 1: why don't we hang that 2025 NBA Cup championship banner
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  Speaker 1: thingamajig and then we'll raise the actual legitimate NBA championship
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  Speaker 1: banner banner so the Knicks had become the first I
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  Speaker 1: say this in air quotes NBA Cup winner to a
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  Speaker 1: few refused I remember we talked about with some monologues
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  Speaker 1: about it months ago they were not going to put
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  Speaker 1: up the commemorative banner we applauded the Knicks we celebrated
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  Speaker 1: the Knickerbockers we said bravo finally someone with balls that
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  Speaker 1: said no we're not doing this it's ridiculous and And
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  Speaker 1: New York had declined to celebrate something that really doesn't
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  Speaker 1: deserve to be celebrated. Only stupid people take that seriously.
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  Speaker 1: So anyway, they say, hey, we're trying to win a championship, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah.
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  Speaker 1: A real championship, not a fake championship. Okay, fine. So
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  Speaker 1: the question, what is the word? What is the word
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  Speaker 1: for the Knicks doing an about face here and hanging
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  Speaker 1: an NBA Cup banner on In the rafters at the
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  Speaker 1: iconic Madison Square Garden. The world's most famous arena, they
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  Speaker 1: like to say. Because New Yorkers love to brag about
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  Speaker 1: how great they are. They love to tell the world,
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  Speaker 1: we're better than you because we're from New York. Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: I look around New York when I visit my brother.
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  Speaker 1: My brother's like, you're not better than anyone. It's terrible.
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  Speaker 1: A lot of it. Anyway, to answer the question, what
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  Speaker 1: is the word for the Knicks hanging an NBA Cup
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  Speaker 1: banner on? in the rafters at the world's most famous arena,
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  Speaker 1: Madison Square Garden. So my word is eyesore. That's my word. Eyesore.
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  Speaker 1: It's painful to look at. That's it. Now, I'm told
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  Speaker 1: I have to expand my thoughts on that, so I will.
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  Speaker 1: I will expand my thoughts. So it's a visual raw
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  Speaker 1: sewage spill is what it is. It's just an absolute
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  Speaker 1: aesthetic disaster, an absolute assault on all good taste. And
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  Speaker 1: to think they almost got it right. They almost got
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  Speaker 1: it right. The Knicks, they certainly had it right the
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  Speaker 1: first time. We know that. And they refused to hang
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  Speaker 1: the banner, that Fugazi NBA cup. And then, of course,
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  Speaker 1: reversing course, bad job by James Dolan and the Knickerbockers.
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  Speaker 1: This is the equivalent. Hanging an NBA Cup banner is
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  Speaker 1: akin to the Yankees hanging a banner for winning the
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  Speaker 1: Grapefruit League. Do you understand? The NBA Cup is like
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  Speaker 1: winning the Cactus League or the Grapefruit League.
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  Speaker 4: And yet, the.
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  Speaker 1: Leagues are, well, you got to put it up in
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  Speaker 1: the rafters. Come on. The Knicks actually won a real championship,
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  Speaker 1: like legitimate, like the real McCoy. They did. I'm shocked.
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  Speaker 1: I didn't think I'd live long enough to see that.
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  Speaker 1: They did. They won a real championship. And now they're
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  Speaker 1: giving the NBA's glorified participation trophy thing a seat at
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  Speaker 1: the grownups table. That's the basketball version of like you
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  Speaker 1: have the Hope Diamond and And right next to the
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  Speaker 1: Hope Diamond, you put a cubic zirconia. What are you doing?
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  Speaker 1: You had the moral high ground, and you gave it
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  Speaker 1: all back. What are you thinking? Dumbo?
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  Speaker 2: Seriously.
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  Speaker 1: You told the NBA cop to take a hike, hit
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  Speaker 1: the road, Jack, and don't you come back, right? And
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  Speaker 1: now you surrendered without firing a shot. Now, the smart
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  Speaker 1: money says it is more likely than not. that Adam
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  Speaker 1: Silver and his henchmen strong-armed the Knicks to do this. Like,
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  Speaker 1: just do it. Nobody will even notice. Just prove it.
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  Speaker 1: the little thing up there, and that's that. Just do it.
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  Speaker 1: All right, anyway, it is the Ben Maller Show. If
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  Speaker 1: you want to comment on any of this or the
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  Speaker 1: other games that were played, the Celtics blowing a 22-point lead,
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  Speaker 1: the San Antonio Spurs picking up where they left off,
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  Speaker 1: getting their ass kicked by the Knicks in the finals.
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  Speaker 1: They got smoked by Oklahoma City in a game that
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  Speaker 1: wasn't all that competitive for those that had it on.
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  Speaker 1: And so that's what we've got. We'll talk about that
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  Speaker 1: and who knows what else. 877-99 on Fox. That's 877-996-6369
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  Speaker 1: if you'd like to be part of the live program.
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  Speaker 1: And straight ahead. some rhythmic chanting for an NBA star,
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  Speaker 1: and caught in the act. Caught in the act. What
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• 22:59
  Speaker 1: To the immediate feedback from the Malheur Militia. Nature Boy
• 23:05
  Speaker 1: says the Knicks banner comes with a therapy dog. Curmudgeon
• 23:12
  Speaker 1: Wayne in Duluth. Says, is there a poster of LeBron
• 23:17
  Speaker 1: tacked up on your bedroom ceiling? It's kind of creepy, Wayne,
• 23:22
  Speaker 1: that you want to know what's in my bedroom. I
• 23:25
  Speaker 1: know you've got issues, but that's a little much. Little much.
• 23:29
  Speaker 1: uh chicky writes in on q he says hey mala
• 23:33
  Speaker 1: why are you talking about the nba and lebron you
• 23:37
  Speaker 1: know that we hate him yes that's why i'm talking
• 23:40
  Speaker 1: about because you hate him i actually said i woke
• 23:42
  Speaker 1: up today and i said how can i piss off
• 23:44
  Speaker 1: chicky and i said talk about lebron boom problem solved
• 23:50
  Speaker 1: problem solved yeah nature boy says yandi diaz will be
• 23:54
  Speaker 1: able to move the needle for you this month I'm sure. Yes,
• 23:58
  Speaker 1: Yandy Diaz talk is going to move the needle. I
• 24:01
  Speaker 1: would like to thank Major League Baseball for starting the
• 24:04
  Speaker 1: World Series on a Friday. I do not do the
• 24:06
  Speaker 1: overnight shift Friday into Saturday, so I will not have
• 24:10
  Speaker 1: to spend my time watching every second of that game.
• 24:14
  Speaker 1: Will not have to do that at all. What else
• 24:17
  Speaker 1: do we have? King Rory writes in, says, Is it
• 24:19
  Speaker 1: true that LeBron James and Marcel in Brooklyn share the
• 24:26
  Speaker 1: same helicopter? We'll have to ask him. We'll say, hey,
• 24:31
  Speaker 1: what's going on? What's going on with that? I believe
• 24:35
  Speaker 1: he'll call in. He usually calls in on Wednesdays. This
• 24:37
  Speaker 1: is our Wednesday show, so we'll have that. Jill writes
• 24:42
  Speaker 1: in from the Twin Cities. She says, I agree 100%.
• 24:44
  Speaker 1: It's game one of 82. All the comments are absolutely ridiculous. Yes,
• 24:52
  Speaker 1: that is correct. Curmudgeon Wayne is carpet bombing me with
• 24:56
  Speaker 1: random LeBron comments, and we're good. We're good on that.
• 25:02
  Speaker 1: I think we're okay. I think we are all right. Yeah, exactly.
• 25:09
  Speaker 1: What else do we have? I see Paige Dan. I
• 25:11
  Speaker 1: can't read that. A lot of randomness. I did see
• 25:15
  Speaker 1: the Austra Dan, our friend from D.C., was doing his thing.
• 25:20
  Speaker 1: And he's always on the pulse of what's going on.
• 25:24
  Speaker 1: And make sure to include the Ben Maller Show and
• 25:26
  Speaker 1: whatever sporting events are going on, which is very kind.
• 25:31
  Speaker 1: And you can hit us up on the X Machine
• 25:33
  Speaker 1: at Ben Maller. That is at Ben Maller. Well, LeBron
• 25:38
  Speaker 1: had a, just to piss off curmudgeon Wayne, had a
• 25:40
  Speaker 1: very productive night in terms of rhythmic chanting. As we
• 25:46
  Speaker 1: pointed out, LeBron is living a helicopter life. He's a commuter.
• 25:50
  Speaker 1: And he's working in Philadelphia, but he's living in New York.
• 25:54
  Speaker 1: And so he's taking this helicopter down. And he had
• 25:56
  Speaker 1: said that he wanted to play for the Knicks, but...
• 26:00
  Speaker 1: You know what that means. But the reason he didn't
• 26:04
  Speaker 1: go to the Knicks, he claimed, is because they won
• 26:06
  Speaker 1: the championship and he would not get the glory. Is
• 26:09
  Speaker 1: there any other way to determine that the reason LeBron
• 26:12
  Speaker 1: said he didn't go to the Knicks is because they
• 26:13
  Speaker 1: had won and the... Implication was he would not have
• 26:18
  Speaker 1: gotten the proper amount of savior status. The Sixers have
• 26:24
  Speaker 1: not won a championship since the early days of cable
• 26:28
  Speaker 1: television in the early 80s. It's been a minute since
• 26:33
  Speaker 1: the Sixers were any good. Back in the day. So
• 26:36
  Speaker 1: if LeBron wins in Philadelphia, it still won't be the
• 26:38
  Speaker 1: same because he's just a soldier of fortune, a basketball
• 26:40
  Speaker 1: player of fortune, and all that stuff. Anyway, the fans
• 26:43
  Speaker 1: at Madison Square Garden, I'd say the real Knick fans,
• 26:46
  Speaker 1: but the real Knick fans can't afford to go to
• 26:47
  Speaker 1: a Knicks game because they've been priced out. Anyway, they
• 26:51
  Speaker 1: were chanting, We don't want you! We don't want you!
• 26:58
  Speaker 1: Rhythmic chanting for LeBron. Good old rhythmic chanting. You know
• 27:02
  Speaker 1: I'm a sucker. for a rhythmic chant. I cannot get enough.
• 27:07
  Speaker 1: Cannot get enough of the rhythmic chant. Just love it,
• 27:10
  Speaker 1: love it, love it, love it, love it. Now, that
• 27:13
  Speaker 1: was not the only tale of candid LeBron, candid microphone.
• 27:19
  Speaker 1: We also had some of the great hecklers, the rich
• 27:23
  Speaker 1: guys that made enough money on Wall Street to afford
• 27:26
  Speaker 1: to buy the seats right near the court and have
• 27:30
  Speaker 1: decided to engage in engaged in some classic blank trash
• 27:36
  Speaker 1: talk with LeBron. So one of them, I don't know who,
• 27:42
  Speaker 1: some middle-aged dude, touched a nerf. And LeBron engaged, engaged
• 27:50
  Speaker 1: the Knick fan who was chirping. questioning the toughness of
• 27:55
  Speaker 1: lebron james in a now viral clip it happened in
• 27:59
  Speaker 1: the second quarter and the guy made some comment about
• 28:03
  Speaker 1: lebron being soft being from the west coast and lebron
• 28:08
  Speaker 1: was having none of it he said.
• 28:10
  Speaker 3: I'm not from the west coast i'm from ohio baby
• 28:13
  Speaker 3: and you know what the f are you talking about
• 28:16
  Speaker 3: and lebron uh you know saying all the All the
• 28:20
  Speaker 3: good stuff about how tough people are.
• 28:22
  Speaker 1: That video cracked me up. You enjoyed the LeBron.
• 28:26
  Speaker 4: Yes.
• 28:26
  Speaker 1: I'm like, are you really that sensitive? Why are you
• 28:28
  Speaker 1: even talking to people on the sideline? Focus on what
• 28:30
  Speaker 1: you're doing, my guy. No, no. LeBron's at the point
• 28:33
  Speaker 1: now where he's at the F it, I don't care
• 28:35
  Speaker 1: stage of life. Then get off the court. Well, they
• 28:38
  Speaker 1: keep paying him a lot of money to play, though.
• 28:40
  Speaker 1: But it is amusing that LeBron, at least he didn't
• 28:43
  Speaker 1: have the fan kicked out. Remember the guy, was it
• 28:45
  Speaker 1: in Memphis? There's a video of LeBron walking over and
• 28:48
  Speaker 1: pointing to have someone ejected because he didn't like what
• 28:51
  Speaker 1: they were saying, the trash talk. And there are no
• 28:55
  Speaker 1: softer players than NBA players when it comes to that
• 28:57
  Speaker 1: kind of thing. Wasn't that Westbrook? No, no. LeBron did it, too.
• 29:00
  Speaker 1: He walked over. There's a meme of him walking over
• 29:02
  Speaker 1: and pointing. Westbrook's gotten multiple fans kicked out. But LeBron,
• 29:06
  Speaker 1: I remember. He was with the Lakers. Let me see
• 29:10
  Speaker 1: if I can find it. He pointed at a fan.
• 29:12
  Speaker 1: There were two people. They were, like, in their 20s.
• 29:14
  Speaker 1: He had them kicked out. LeBron, let me see. I'm
• 29:17
  Speaker 1: going to type this in. See if I can do
• 29:18
  Speaker 1: this in real time. LeBron James, finger point... Memphis fans ejected.
• 29:26
  Speaker 1: Let's see what comes up here. Let's see here. I
• 29:30
  Speaker 1: was wrong. It was not Memphis. It was the Pacers.
• 29:35
  Speaker 1: It was Indianapolis, the Pacers. LeBron had not one, but
• 29:39
  Speaker 1: two fouls. ejected. And this happened five years ago, and
• 29:44
  Speaker 1: I still remember it. Five years ago, I still remember it.
• 29:48
  Speaker 1: There you go. That's a LeBron James Rolodex memory. Let's
• 29:53
  Speaker 1: go to the phones, and we'll start out with Lucky Tony,
• 29:58
  Speaker 1: who's in the Bay Area. Hello, Lucky Tony. Welcome. Hey, Ben.
• 30:03
  Speaker 2: Did you hear the one about Delonte West? He likes
• 30:06
  Speaker 2: some ugly. Thanks, Ben.
• 30:08
  Speaker 1: Let's say hello to Anthony in Louisiana. It's his birthday week. Hey, Ben.
• 30:18
  Speaker 1: Happy birthday to you. Happy, happy, happy, happy birthday to you.
• 30:26
  Speaker 2: I miss you, man. You was on vacation.
• 30:28
  Speaker 1: I know. It was devastating. Yeah, it was a last-minute thing.
• 30:35
  Speaker 1: Went to Mexico. It's good to know that I was missed, Anthony.
• 30:42
  Speaker 1: It's good to know that I was missed, my man.
• 30:44
  Speaker 2: Yeah, thank you for wishing me a happy birthday.
• 30:47
  Speaker 1: Did you have a big piece of cake?
• 30:49
  Speaker 2: Not yet.
• 30:50
  Speaker 1: What are you waiting for? It wasn't your birthday the
• 30:52
  Speaker 1: other day?
• 30:53
  Speaker 2: Yeah, my mom forgot. You know, she was so.
• 30:56
  Speaker 4: Busy, she forgot.
• 30:57
  Speaker 1: Oh, she forgot the cake.
• 30:58
  Speaker 4: All right.
• 30:58
  Speaker 1: Well, yeah, you don't want to buy your own cake.
• 31:00
  Speaker 1: That's a little depressing if you have to buy. You
• 31:02
  Speaker 1: know you're really old at that point when you buy
• 31:03
  Speaker 1: your own cake. That's a sign, you know. It's not good.
• 31:06
  Speaker 2: Me should have told my friend Audrey, I'd say, hey.
• 31:10
  Speaker 1: Oh, let me jot a note down.
• 31:11
  Speaker 2: All right.
• 31:11
  Speaker 1: Let's make sure if Andrea calls to wish her a hello. Okay.
• 31:18
  Speaker 1: I've jotted that down right now. Happy birthday. Have a
• 31:21
  Speaker 1: happy birthday.
• 31:22
  Speaker 4: Happy birthday.
• 31:23
  Speaker 1: Hope you had a good day. You got.
• 31:27
  Speaker 4: A beautiful voice.
• 31:28
  Speaker 1: Oh, thank you. What about my voice? I sang first.
• 31:31
  Speaker 2: What about me? I sang.
• 31:33
  Speaker 4: You didn't sing.
• 31:34
  Speaker 1: Come on. Coop, you want to sing? No.
• 31:36
  Speaker 4: No.
• 31:36
  Speaker 1: Okay. You know, when I used to work at Red Robin,
• 31:40
  Speaker 1: I loved singing the birthday songs. That was like my
• 31:42
  Speaker 1: favorite part. I love the all-you-can-eat fries at Red Robin.
• 31:45
  Speaker 1: That was a big thing. I don't know, but I've
• 31:47
  Speaker 1: been told someone here is getting old. Hey-o, hey-o.
• 31:51
  Speaker 2: Yeah, tell your daughter I said hello to her.
• 31:53
  Speaker 1: Oh, she's grounded. Uh-oh, getting in trouble. I can't talk
• 31:56
  Speaker 1: to her. She got her phone taken away. Really? What
• 31:58
  Speaker 1: kind of debauchery was she in? Bad grades. Bad grades.
• 32:02
  Speaker 1: She's not doing her schoolwork, so, you know. You want
• 32:06
  Speaker 1: to whip her into shape for me?
• 32:08
  Speaker 4: I wish I could.
• 32:09
  Speaker 1: I wish you could, too. That sounds kind of dangerous.
• 32:11
  Speaker 1: All right. Very good. Well, thank you, Anthony. It's always
• 32:16
  Speaker 1: amazing there. Where he goes, only he knows. Ferg Duck says,
• 32:22
  Speaker 1: I also want to know what's in your bedroom. Take
• 32:24
  Speaker 1: a number with Curmudgeon Wayne. Yeah. Curmudgeon says, Wayne in Duluth,
• 32:30
  Speaker 1: would you take LeBron's last name if you got married? Yes,
• 32:33
  Speaker 1: of course. Why wouldn't I? Yeah, Ben James. That's a
• 32:37
  Speaker 1: wonderful idea, Wayne. Wonderful idea. Yes. Monkey Biz Dog from
• 32:44
  Speaker 1: South Korea writes, and I think he's still in South Korea,
• 32:46
  Speaker 1: he says, Relief pitcher Jake Woodford played for both the
• 32:49
  Speaker 1: Brewers and Rays this season. The man is getting a
• 32:52
  Speaker 1: World Series ring sized pre-ordered as we speak. That's great.
• 32:59
  Speaker 1: Congratulations to the great Jake Woodford. Out outstanding that's just
• 33:05
  Speaker 1: great that happens more often than you would think uh
• 33:10
  Speaker 1: it does uh jake woodford is even on the playoff
• 33:13
  Speaker 1: uh roster for the tampa bay rays i don't think
• 33:16
  Speaker 1: he played one game for the race right so i
• 33:19
  Speaker 1: don't even know if he was on the team at
• 33:20
  Speaker 1: the end of the year all right uh let's go
• 33:22
  Speaker 1: to the phones again because i am a glutton for
• 33:24
  Speaker 1: punishment well here's a fan favorite It's man and his sidekick.
• 33:28
  Speaker 1: It's Andre and his dog, Willis, from the Commonwealth. Hello, Andre, Andre, Andre. Welcome. Welcome, Ben.
• 33:37
  Speaker 2: It's good to be back. Willis is happy to be back.
• 33:43
  Speaker 2: We had technical difficulties, Ben.
• 33:45
  Speaker 1: Yeah, what happened? Phone issues? Hello?
• 33:50
  Speaker 4: Hello?
• 33:53
  Speaker 1: I'm still here, Ben. I'm still here. Oh, okay.
• 33:56
  Speaker 4: All right.
• 33:56
  Speaker 1: I thought the dramatic pause. I thought, well, here we go.
• 33:58
  Speaker 1: The phone died. That's it.
• 34:01
  Speaker 2: I hit the mute button by accident there. I called
• 34:03
  Speaker 2: in recently. I hate when that happens.
• 34:07
  Speaker 3: Yeah.
• 34:07
  Speaker 1: Disease, man.
• 34:09
  Speaker 2: I miss my call time.
• 34:12
  Speaker 1: I'm slumbering. I understand.
• 34:13
  Speaker 2: I can't have it. It's unacceptable. So I got to
• 34:16
  Speaker 2: call back to right that wrong. How about Jason Tatum?
• 34:19
  Speaker 2: Six for 23. Speaking of righting wrongs. He's missing his
• 34:22
  Speaker 2: buddy Jalen Brown.
• 34:24
  Speaker 1: Tremendous shooting performance and really a great– when the Celtics
• 34:28
  Speaker 1: went up by 22 from that point forward, Tatum and
• 34:32
  Speaker 1: Paul George, really impressive. Really impressive from that point forward.
• 34:36
  Speaker 1: Unless they weren't. Unless they sucked. At a time you
• 34:38
  Speaker 1: cannot say.
• 34:39
  Speaker 2: Maybe they'll blame it on the 3 o'clock start time.
• 34:42
  Speaker 2: Maybe they had plans afterwards to go out in Detroit,
• 34:47
  Speaker 2: hanging out, maybe talking to Dan Campbell, seeing if they can–
• 34:51
  Speaker 2: enthusiasm for the Lions, so on and forth. But first
• 34:54
  Speaker 2: things first, I was in error before, but we're not
• 34:56
  Speaker 2: going to let that happen again. We'll also be there
• 34:58
  Speaker 2: to be my alarm clock should I be feeling a
• 35:02
  Speaker 2: little bit tired. Secondly, what the heck is going on
• 35:05
  Speaker 2: in Oklahoma City? This is supposed to be a coronation
• 35:07
  Speaker 2: for the San Antonio Spurs. How about this, Ade Mara?
• 35:11
  Speaker 2: of Michigan fame from España, all right, comes in blocking Wemby,
• 35:16
  Speaker 2: then getting the alley-oop dunk. He's been a vision. They
• 35:19
  Speaker 2: have their backup or possibly starting center. I know iHeart's
• 35:22
  Speaker 2: under contract. But that was impressive by Oklahoma City because,
• 35:25
  Speaker 2: you know, for myself and others, Spurs, you know, they
• 35:30
  Speaker 2: beat up the roster, added Tobias Harris, put Billy Donovan
• 35:33
  Speaker 2: on the bench. You know, I said this is going
• 35:34
  Speaker 2: to hot knife through butter through the Western Conference, but
• 35:37
  Speaker 2: Oklahoma City, same roster, but healthy, healthy bench. Dylan Williams
• 35:40
  Speaker 2: being there. I don't know if he means they're going
• 35:43
  Speaker 2: to beat them in the long run, but a punch
• 35:46
  Speaker 2: in the face. Glad to see it was eight. Ben,
• 35:48
  Speaker 2: you've got family in the tri-state area, so you can't
• 35:51
  Speaker 2: tell me you didn't get choked up when the banner
• 35:53
  Speaker 2: went up. I know your people in New York.
• 35:55
  Speaker 1: I was fine. I didn't get emotional. I don't live there.
• 35:59
  Speaker 1: I've never lived there. My brother lives there. That's his problem,
• 36:01
  Speaker 1: not my problem. I do love the fact that Spike
• 36:07
  Speaker 1: Lee has become a character of himself at this point.
• 36:10
  Speaker 1: He's my god. It's like he's... The Knicks don't have
• 36:14
  Speaker 1: a mascot, but he's like their mascot at this point.
• 36:17
  Speaker 1: And he's just... He had the clown costume on.
• 36:20
  Speaker 2: He's... Come on, Ben! That's a zoot suit! A zoot suit!
• 36:24
  Speaker 1: He's a clown costume. The man is... What is he?
• 36:30
  Speaker 1: 69 or something like that? Almost 70. He's... He's pushing 70. Yeah,
• 36:33
  Speaker 1: he's close to 70.
• 36:35
  Speaker 2: In his mind, you know, it's back when the Garden
• 36:37
  Speaker 2: was eaten in the 1970s, the last time the Knicks
• 36:39
  Speaker 2: won a championship. All right, so we'll agree or disagree there.
• 36:43
  Speaker 2: You know, I saw the Zoot suit, that kind of
• 36:44
  Speaker 2: a throwback to some of his former films that he made,
• 36:48
  Speaker 2: you know, period pieces going back. So I didn't mind it, but,
• 36:52
  Speaker 2: you know, it is, you know, for something that's not
• 36:53
  Speaker 2: a Spike Lee guy, you might say it's over the top.
• 36:56
  Speaker 2: But I think in the Eastern Conference, really looked good
• 36:59
  Speaker 2: that first game. sharing the ball, getting it. I mean,
• 37:03
  Speaker 2: so I think the tide's turned.
• 37:05
  Speaker 1: Listen, half these guys will be hurt by the time
• 37:08
  Speaker 1: the playoffs start, so it's kind of a futile conversation
• 37:11
  Speaker 1: to say something that happened in October is going to
• 37:14
  Speaker 1: have any impact on what happens in May and June
• 37:16
  Speaker 1: when the playoffs come around. Even Willis agrees with me,
• 37:19
  Speaker 1: by the way. Thank you for that, Willis. I believe
• 37:21
  Speaker 1: that's that. All right, I've got to leave it there,
• 37:23
  Speaker 1: but give me a final take. Real quick, final take,
• 37:27
  Speaker 1: and then blast away, Andre.
• 37:28
  Speaker 2: I'm going to make the trip to Boston when the
• 37:30
  Speaker 2: Philadelphia 76ers come down. I don't know what jersey I'm
• 37:34
  Speaker 2: going to be wearing, but I'm going to make the
• 37:35
  Speaker 2: trip just like I made the trip to Worcester for
• 37:36
  Speaker 2: the Mallorcan group. We'll see you next time.
• 37:38
  Speaker 1: All right, there you go. That's a warning. Andre will
• 37:41
  Speaker 1: be there. I don't think the dog Willis will be there,
• 37:44
  Speaker 1: but Andre will make his way. To the guard to
• 37:47
  Speaker 1: hang out. All right, it is the Ben Maller Show.
• 37:50
  Speaker 1: Time now for the Who Am I game. This is
• 37:52
  Speaker 1: where I pretend to be somebody else, and then you
• 37:54
  Speaker 1: have to figure out who I am. I am an
• 37:55
  Speaker 1: NBA superstar who holds the all-time record for the worst
• 38:01
  Speaker 1: season-opening shooting performance by a reigning first-team All-NBA player. Again,
• 38:07
  Speaker 1: I'm an NBA star. who holds the all-time record for
• 38:11
  Speaker 1: the worst season opening shooting performance by a reigning first-team
• 38:15
  Speaker 1: All-NBA player. Who am I? That's the question. The answer next.
• 38:20
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  Speaker 1: All right, back to it we go. And time now
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  Speaker 1: for the payoff on the Who Am I game. This
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  Speaker 1: is where we pretend to be somebody else. We call
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  Speaker 1: it the Who Am I game. I am a superstar
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  Speaker 1: who holds the all-time record for the worst season opening
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  Speaker 1: shooting performance by a reigning first-team offense. All-NBA player.
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  Speaker 4: Who?
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  Speaker 1: Well, that's the question. What is the answer? And let's see,
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  Speaker 1: does anyone know the answer? Femi's going with LeBron James. Alf,
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  Speaker 1: the alien alpine, or the iconic Dino Raja. That was
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  Speaker 1: my favorite era of Celtics basketball, the Dino Raja era.
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  Speaker 1: Is he in the Hall of Fame? Oh, my God.
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  Speaker 1: What do we got? What else? Page down. Chuck the
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  Speaker 1: Condor from King Roy, the iconic mascot, greatest mascot, this
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  Speaker 1: side of the Philly fanatic, the Clippers mascot. Who else
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  Speaker 1: do we have? Ron Karkovice, great name.
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  Speaker 2: Mr.
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  Speaker 1: Nice Guy can still bring it after all these years.
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  Speaker 1: Ron Karkovice. 1980s White Sox. Who else? Dennis Rodman wearing
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  Speaker 1: a dress. Uwe Blob from Steelers Nasty. Michael in Tulsa
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  Speaker 1: went with the Dennis Rodman in a dress. Who else
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  Speaker 1: do we have? Page down. Kyle says you are the
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  Speaker 1: white guy who played in Utah. That's Coop's answer or
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  Speaker 1: Coop's clue yesterday. Of course, Ricky Rubio from Eakin, Roseville, Minnesota.
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  Speaker 1: What say you, Lorena? Elvis Presley. It was actually Victor
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  Speaker 1: Wemanyama last night, one of 13 from the field. That's
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  Speaker 1: not good. That sucks.