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Ben Maller Show Best of the Week · The Ben Maller Show

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  Speaker 2: This is the best of the Ben Maler Show on
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  Speaker 1: We are back in the saddle again. Back in the
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  Speaker 1: saddle again. After a full weekend, we really leave the saddle.
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  Speaker 1: The audio sweatshop does not stop. We had a full
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  Speaker 1: weekend of the Fifth Hour podcast, which you can still
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  Speaker 1: go back and listen to, but not now because we're
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  Speaker 1: doing the live show. So don't do it now because
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  Speaker 1: we're doing the live show. But when those boring daytime
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  Speaker 1: shows are on, you can put on the Fifth Hour
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  Speaker 1: podcast and enjoy that. So our lead this hour though
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  Speaker 1: from the World Cup for the final time or will
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  Speaker 1: it be for the final time? As this was the
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  Speaker 1: last dance on Sunday with smoke in the air everywhere?
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  Speaker 1: Did you watch? It was on Fox? You were supposed
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  Speaker 1: to watch, You did not watch all right, perhaps not well,
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  Speaker 1: Spain and Argentina, and if you like goosegs, there was
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  Speaker 1: a lot of that, A lot of that, not a
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  Speaker 1: lot going on, not a lot going a lot of Cardio,
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  Speaker 1: a lot of rich people paying a lot of money
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  Speaker 1: to watch cardio. That's what that was. And in the end, though,
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  Speaker 1: all that takes is won, and that's good because that's
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  Speaker 1: all that Spain got. Spain defeats the defending champion. Argentina
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  Speaker 1: won nothing in extra time at the twenty twenty six
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  Speaker 1: FIFA World Cup there in Jersey, and they capture their
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  Speaker 1: second World Cup title, the first. I mean long, wait
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  Speaker 1: twenty ten, that's a long time ago. That's sixteen years ago.
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  Speaker 1: So Spain is your winner. Some named someone named Faran
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  Speaker 1: Torres scored the lone goal in the one hundred and
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  Speaker 1: six minute. That means, if my computer like brand is right,
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  Speaker 1: they played one hundred and five minutes with no goals
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  Speaker 1: and this guy Torres got a loose ball in the
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  Speaker 1: penalty area. And this was shortly after Argentina was down
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  Speaker 1: to ten men on the field. They're supposed to have
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  Speaker 1: eleven if you're not a soccer person, they had ten.
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  Speaker 1: That was because of penalty and that is a good
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  Speaker 1: jumping off point. Let us discuss this was a lop
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  Speaker 1: sided game, and you don't have to be mister soccer
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  Speaker 1: guy to know it was a lopsided game. So the
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  Speaker 1: question did Argentina look and play just tired or did
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  Speaker 1: Spain make them look and play tired in this finale
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  Speaker 1: at the World Cup. So I've got former FSR boardop
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  Speaker 1: Roberto Flores, wizards and dice, and we will combine all
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  Speaker 1: of those things together and we were going to make
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  Speaker 1: a Spanish omelet and some churros is what we're going
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  Speaker 1: to have. We're gonna make that meal. So a to
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  Speaker 1: answer the question, after eight minutes long Mallard deliberation, we
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  Speaker 1: have determined that Argentina didn't just look tired. I didn't
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  Speaker 1: play tired. They looked like they were auditioning to be
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  Speaker 1: the new pitchmen for sleep Numbers mattresses. They were gonna
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  Speaker 1: come out to some commercials and say, oh, here's our
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  Speaker 1: sizzle reel. Oh really, well, you do look tired. You
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  Speaker 1: definitely looked tired. There. They needed a nap and a
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  Speaker 1: juice box and no excuses. Pathetic. I saw the conspiracy
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  Speaker 1: was I saw this online somewhere said Argentina had played
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  Speaker 1: all games either in climate controlled venues or at night,
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  Speaker 1: and they never had to deal with the elements, and
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  Speaker 1: like that was a thing. I don't buy that either.
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  Speaker 1: But to Spain played very well. By my account. It
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  Speaker 1: was only one nothing, so it's not like they it
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  Speaker 1: wasn't seven to zero or something like that. But it
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  Speaker 1: was kind of like they were hosting a fashion show
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  Speaker 1: and Argentina was the runway. And that's kind of how
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  Speaker 1: that went down there, as the Spaniards were strutting around
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  Speaker 1: on the catwalk and do a little pirouette on the catwalk,
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  Speaker 1: and then Argentina committing what amounts to cardio malpractice, if
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  Speaker 1: you will. It looked like they needed oxygen, but they
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  Speaker 1: were playing in New Jersey. It's sea level sea level conditions,
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  Speaker 1: not exactly somewhere you need the oxygen tanks. They're not
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  Speaker 1: a not a great look there. How bad was it
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  Speaker 1: was so bad? It was so bad that Argentina, we
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  Speaker 1: believe they hired former Fox Sports radio board o Roberto
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  Speaker 1: Flores and park the bus. You see, he's a bus
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  Speaker 1: driven So this is I hear this term. I don't
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  Speaker 1: hear this term elsewhere, but in soccer park, the bus
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  Speaker 1: where you just play not to lose, the soccer equivalent
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  Speaker 1: of the prevent defense there, and that's what happened. Spain dominated,
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  Speaker 1: and I think the final was twenty to two. In shots,
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  Speaker 1: it was like twenty to one. Just tons of opportunities,
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  Speaker 1: not tons of opportunities because a lot of those shots
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  Speaker 1: were reckless, but they still count. And twenty to two
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  Speaker 1: I think was the final total there. And the keeper,
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  Speaker 1: the keeper, Emiliano Martinez there, Emiliano Martinez. Rather he got
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  Speaker 1: the big play here. He kept them alive. Argentina lot
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  Speaker 1: twelve saves. And the war of attrition, the war of attrition,
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  Speaker 1: always war of attrition. I tournament play, all these games,
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  Speaker 1: all this stuff, but the game flipped on a penalty
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  Speaker 1: which was called late red card violation. Enzo, bad job
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  Speaker 1: by you, Enzo Fernandez. I don't know who that is.
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  Speaker 1: He's the guy that committed the penalty there. And did
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  Speaker 1: he deserve to get slammed? Obviously we're not Argentina soccer officionados.
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  Speaker 1: But did this guy deserve to get slammed? Absolutely? Now,
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  Speaker 1: this was what's known as an Emmy winning performance. When
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  Speaker 1: I say Emmy winning, I mean mental error, which means
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  Speaker 1: it was avoidable, foolish and unnecessary. The final body blow,
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  Speaker 1: body blow, body blow, and so either way, listen, in Spain,
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  Speaker 1: as little as I watched soccer, which is pretty much
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  Speaker 1: just the World Cup. They deserve to win. The team
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  Speaker 1: that deserves to win doesn't always win conceding one goal.
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  Speaker 1: The math on this is crazy. One goal in eight matches.
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  Speaker 1: The defense for Spain. Historically it was like a medieval
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  Speaker 1: fortress for these Spaniards in the World Cup. There thirty
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  Speaker 1: eight match unbeaten streak. I believe I read that somewhere.
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  Speaker 1: That seems like a lot. That seems like a lot.
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  Speaker 1: Thirty eight. So that's where we are, all right. Now
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  Speaker 1: the other part of this page two here, as we
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  Speaker 1: continue our in depth team coverage as it's all over,
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  Speaker 1: we will not be promoting the Fox World Cup coverage
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  Speaker 1: because there is no more Fox World Cup coverage because
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  Speaker 1: that was the final game. We will not be telling
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  Speaker 1: you to build it like Beckham, because that was the
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  Speaker 1: final game. Now. The defeat likely also markie the last
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  Speaker 1: Stanza for Lionel Messi, as that's it. He will be
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  Speaker 1: decommissioned from World Cup duties. His final World Cup appearance.
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  Speaker 1: You do the math on that this thing's played every
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  Speaker 1: handful of years. He's thirty nine now. And usually the
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  Speaker 1: sign and you don't have to be mister soccer to
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  Speaker 1: know the sign that you're in the final chapter of
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  Speaker 1: your career is when you're playing in the MLS. That's
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  Speaker 1: the old cushy retirement plan. That's the four to oh
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  Speaker 1: one k go play in America when you're washed up.
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  Speaker 1: And Messi's like, Okay, I'm in, I'll go to Miami
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  Speaker 1: and hang out. Why not, you dummies will buy the
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  Speaker 1: tickets and you will, and you did, and you are
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  Speaker 1: so thirty nine years old and a puddle of tears
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  Speaker 1: as he left the field. They're very emotional, very emotional
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  Speaker 1: Messi as Spain denies Argentina and Messi an opportunity for
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  Speaker 1: back to back World Cup titles. As Messi, that was
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  Speaker 1: the goal. Everyone had the goal. I would think that
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  Speaker 1: played Argentina to stop Messi, but nobody, nobody was able
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  Speaker 1: to pull it off quite like the Spaniards did defensively
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  Speaker 1: in this game, as Messi was about as effective as
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  Speaker 1: you were, and I was out there all right. The
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  Speaker 1: question does this loss actually his final loss for Argentina
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  Speaker 1: and for Messi. Does this dent Leonel Messi and the
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  Speaker 1: legacy of Lionel Messi there? Or is this argument completely ridiculous?
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  Speaker 1: It's like, what are you doing? So? Look, it would
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  Speaker 1: be much better talk radio to sit here behind the
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  Speaker 1: microphones of Fox Sports Radio and Rant and Rave and
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  Speaker 1: do some global soccer thing about oh, this is the end,
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  Speaker 1: he's done and this ruins everything and all that. However,
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  Speaker 1: that would be performative nonsense and we don't need that.
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  Speaker 1: We have plenty of outrage of things to say here.
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  Speaker 1: We don't need to jump on that particular bandwagon there.
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  Speaker 1: But claiming that this loss, which was not very competitive,
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  Speaker 1: but this loss dense the legacy of Messi. It's kind
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  Speaker 1: of like saying, well, Michael Jordan's not the greatest of
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  Speaker 1: all time because he played for the Wizards. Or if
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  Speaker 1: Lebron James signs with Golden State this week and doesn't
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  Speaker 1: win anything because he won't, we can then sit there
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  Speaker 1: and say, well, see, it ruined his whole legacy because
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  Speaker 1: he went to Golden State, right, you're going to the Lakers.
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  Speaker 1: He didn't win with the Lakers either, that that ruined
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  Speaker 1: his legacy. Lebron and it's kind of a silly argument.
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  Speaker 1: It's like, again, Jordan at the end of his career
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  Speaker 1: with the Wizards was productive but not great, and you
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  Speaker 1: just try to block that out. So Messi's legacy took
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  Speaker 1: a hit the same way a pillow. A pillow takes
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  Speaker 1: a hit when you punch it, absolutely nothing happens. It's
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  Speaker 1: like a skyscraper, a giant tall one hundred story actually
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  Speaker 1: like one hundred and fifteen, one hundred and twenty story skyscraper,
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  Speaker 1: and then there's a little chipped brick on the one
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  Speaker 1: hundred and twelfth floor of that skyscraper. So okay, that
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  Speaker 1: doesn't take away from the entire skyscraper. So at thirty
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  Speaker 1: nine and dragging Argentina, which had some Abrika Dabor type
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  Speaker 1: wins in this World Cup to the third World Cup final,
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  Speaker 1: and what do you have? Eight goals I believe Messi
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  Speaker 1: had in this thing. And so there it is. And
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  Speaker 1: the soccer historians, which are very annoying people, they will
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  Speaker 1: point out that Pele missed his final at the World
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  Speaker 1: Cup that was back in the day, and Maridonna lost
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  Speaker 1: one that was in the early nineties, and nobody, nobody
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  Speaker 1: erased the career legacy because of that that did not happen,
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  Speaker 1: So Messi already got the proverbial monkey off the back
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  Speaker 1: in twenty twenty two. I remember having conversations about that
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  Speaker 1: years ago and the whole goat status and all that stuff.
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  Speaker 1: So one late career loss does and also down to
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  Speaker 1: ten men does not change that. And I can go
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  Speaker 1: do the retirement thing, go to the convalescent home, which
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  Speaker 1: is the MLS, and enjoy yourself. And his legacy doesn't
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  Speaker 1: just survive the NL Messi. It walks out of the stadium,
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  Speaker 1: puffing on a cigar, checking its nails and just going
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  Speaker 1: to Miami to get some sun. All right, Now, last
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  Speaker 1: word to.
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  Speaker 3: The story within the story, story within the story, and
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  Speaker 3: that would be the first ever we knew this was happening,
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  Speaker 3: but the first ever Super Bowl style World Cup halftime show.
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  Speaker 1: At the finale of the World Cup, and this sparked
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  Speaker 1: a title wave of backlash towards FIFA, many of our
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  Speaker 1: brothers and sisters who were global soccer fans, arguing that
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  Speaker 1: it interrupted the flow of the spart it made it
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  Speaker 1: feel overly americanized. I love that it was too americanized,
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  Speaker 1: and that's that's the problem. There they had a star
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  Speaker 1: studded lineup. They brought in Madonna, Yeah, Madonna, they found Madonna.
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  Speaker 1: The Beabs popped up there. My buddy, me and Beebes
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  Speaker 1: had a moment at a Laker game years ago. There
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  Speaker 1: was Biber. The Korean boy band BTS made an appearance,
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  Speaker 1: because you know I love my Korean boy bands. You
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  Speaker 1: had Shakira, burn a Boy. I can go on on here.
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  Speaker 1: It was all curated by Chris Martin of Coldplay as
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  Speaker 1: part of the new Entertainment initiative from FIFA that's brand
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  Speaker 1: new now. The musical performance has lasted about eleven minutes.
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  Speaker 1: Listen lasted about eleven minutes. However, the total halftime went
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  Speaker 1: on and on and on twenty seven minutes. Because you see,
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  Speaker 1: that stage doesn't just pop up on its own. You
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  Speaker 1: don't bring in a bunch of drones and AI and
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  Speaker 1: have the stage. It takes time. You gotta set that
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  Speaker 1: bad boy up, You got to tear that stage down.
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  Speaker 1: And so usually at halftime its fifteen minutes, I guess
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  Speaker 1: is the norm. That's the standard at these football games.
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  Speaker 1: Fifteen minutes. So this obviously not that I love the
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  Speaker 1: comment from former England captain Wayne Rooney, who had one
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  Speaker 1: of the great lines. When asked about this on BBC's coverage,
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  Speaker 1: he said, what do you think you get this halftime thing?
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  Speaker 1: I'm paraphrasing obviously some of this and he gave one word.
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  Speaker 1: One word, Wayne Rooney, you describe the halftime performance of
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  Speaker 1: Madonna and the Beebes. That would be crap with a
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  Speaker 1: capital C. Crap with a capital C. All right, question,
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  Speaker 1: where do you fall on the World Cup adding a
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  Speaker 1: halftime show to a championship game for the first time ever?
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  Speaker 1: Do you love it or do you list it? Love
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  Speaker 1: it or list it? So we're gonna We're gonna list this.
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  Speaker 1: I'm not a halftime guy. I'm not. Oh you're a
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  Speaker 1: bad American. You're supposed to love halftime.
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  Speaker 4: You know.
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  Speaker 1: I do it halftime. I take a dump and I
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  Speaker 1: get food. That's what I do at halftime. All Right,
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  Speaker 1: who watches this crap? I don't, And in the blink
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  Speaker 1: of an eye, I do agree. Soccer is becoming very
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  Speaker 1: americanized this World Cup. You talk about putting that American snamp,
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  Speaker 1: that Robert st amp on it right there. Traditions now,
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  Speaker 1: they have not died at the World Cup, they have
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  Speaker 1: not these soccer traditions have not died. They have just
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  Speaker 1: been monetized, which is the American white that's what you do.
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  Speaker 1: You monetize things. We now have commercial breaks, Crowbard in
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  Speaker 1: camouflaged as hydration breaks. We now had a Madonna halftime show.
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  Speaker 1: He doesn't get any more American than Madonna at halftime
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  Speaker 1: and the Beabs sixty seven year old Madonna up there
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  Speaker 1: shaking her ass right there on stage. Epic and just
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  Speaker 1: a tremendous And the Bieber, the Bieber guy who always
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  Speaker 1: looks like he's he's disheveled and a little late for
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  Speaker 1: some kind of zoom meeting that he was supposed to
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  Speaker 1: be on. He didn't show up to it. It was like, okay,
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  Speaker 1: they mightn't know what happened. Should have been there, didn't happen.
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  Speaker 1: So it's just a little sampler plate, cultural sampler plate
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  Speaker 1: of America. You had the legacy act Madonna, you had
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  Speaker 1: the pop star who's kind of become a legacy act
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  Speaker 1: in Bieber, and there's vague Now I love the vague
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  Speaker 1: charity tie in. So when asked about the blowback, the
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  Speaker 1: people at FIFA were getting a lot of crap for
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  Speaker 1: this because the world's like, wait a minute, dude, what
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  Speaker 1: are you doing here. You're not supposed to put these
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  Speaker 1: little halftime shows, like you're not the NFL, what are
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  Speaker 1: you doing? So when asked about the blowback, the people
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  Speaker 1: at FIFA played the classic kid shield pr force field.
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  Speaker 1: It's for education, it's for the children. And you can
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  Speaker 1: literally do anything if you say it's for the children
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  Speaker 1: or out of an abundance of caution. Now, I learned
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  Speaker 1: that last part out of an abundance of caution during
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  Speaker 1: the pandemic a few years ago when there were some
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  Speaker 1: really crazy things that they were having idiots do, and
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  Speaker 1: it was because in abundance of caution. Well, this is
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  Speaker 1: for the kids, for the kill dred, for the child
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  Speaker 1: d Yeah, you can't criticize that. You can't, come on,
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  Speaker 1: you can't criticize it's to help the kids out in
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  Speaker 1: education without sounding like you hate puppies and you hate
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  Speaker 1: literacy and rainbows and lollipops and all that. They played
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  Speaker 1: the kid card FIFA from the bottom of the deck.
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  Speaker 1: They did regardless, you just have to do the old
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  Speaker 1: duck test. If it looks and sounds like an entertainment spectacle,
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  Speaker 1: it's an entertainment speculators spectacular. Let's not pretend it's something else.
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  Speaker 1: The World Cup Final I does not need American Entertainment
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  Speaker 1: Industrial complex interference, all right, they don't need that duct
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  Speaker 1: tape to their forehead and all that. It's just there
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  Speaker 1: for the game and that's it and you don't need this,
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  Speaker 1: that and the other thing. Was it a big inconvenience though,
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  Speaker 1: because I didn't watch it. I watched clips of it online.
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  Speaker 1: But I was busy, Like I said, that's where you
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  Speaker 1: go to the powder room and you get some more snacks,
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  Speaker 1: Or was it a mistake? We have had a possibly
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  Speaker 1: If you have not heard, and perhaps here we've learned
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  Speaker 1: now that the official YouTube channel of the Miami Heat,
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  Speaker 1: the Heat had to respond. Now, did a the Miami
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  Speaker 1: Heat confirm that Lebron has agreed to terms He will
• 20:18
  Speaker 1: be rejoining the Heat and be hitting every golf course
• 20:22
  Speaker 1: in South Florida before you know it, be no comment
• 20:26
  Speaker 1: or c Listen, this was just a user error. Well,
• 20:32
  Speaker 1: according to what we've learned here, the Heat are saying
• 20:35
  Speaker 1: that it was c an internal error, an internal draft
• 20:39
  Speaker 1: that the Heat social media team created as a contingency
• 20:44
  Speaker 1: plan if Lebron does end up signing with the team.
• 20:48
  Speaker 1: They say that it is not evidence that a deal
• 20:51
  Speaker 1: has been reached. That's what they're claiming. So, as of
• 20:55
  Speaker 1: this moment in time, little slice of time, Lebron James
• 20:59
  Speaker 1: has not announced his free agent destination. He has not
• 21:04
  Speaker 1: done that. No decision from Lebron, despite many, many weeks
• 21:08
  Speaker 1: of dragging this out and getting all the attention. That's
• 21:12
  Speaker 1: what attention hores do. Lebron the biggest attention hore we have,
• 21:16
  Speaker 1: and so that's what he's doing here now. The deleted
• 21:18
  Speaker 1: video has become the biggest talking point of Lebron's free agencies.
• 21:25
  Speaker 1: You might imagine it's like, oh my god, and the
• 21:28
  Speaker 1: conspiracy theorists have been activated. The tinfoil hats are out everywhere,
• 21:33
  Speaker 1: and so the question is rather simple. Let's good jumping
• 21:36
  Speaker 1: off with the question, is this as we discuss, did
• 21:40
  Speaker 1: a Miami Heat social media intern screw up and announce
• 21:46
  Speaker 1: prematurely that Lebron James is returning to South Florida? Or
• 21:51
  Speaker 1: was this just a harmless beta test? You make the call.
• 21:57
  Speaker 1: So I've got what you might call it Ruth, Chris
• 22:00
  Speaker 1: and hash Browns, and we will combine all of these
• 22:05
  Speaker 1: things together and we are going to make a victory cigar,
• 22:09
  Speaker 1: which Lebron James will be smoking because he likes a
• 22:13
  Speaker 1: good stogy when he decides on his team. So a
• 22:17
  Speaker 1: this Miami Heat, I put this in air quotes leak
• 22:21
  Speaker 1: by the Miami Heat. It has got more layers than
• 22:25
  Speaker 1: a Flying Jay truck stop burrito. There's a lot there
• 22:29
  Speaker 1: and is just as likely as to as that burrito
• 22:31
  Speaker 1: to make you sick. Okay, So look, you don't where
• 22:35
  Speaker 1: I come from on this side of the microphone. You
• 22:38
  Speaker 1: don't accidentally upload a Lebron James is returning video on YouTube.
• 22:47
  Speaker 1: I know the video is never the placeholder. Listen. I
• 22:50
  Speaker 1: don't know much about YouTube but we did Benny Versus
• 22:52
  Speaker 1: the Penny, and when it got canceled by NBC, we
• 22:54
  Speaker 1: put it on YouTube last year as a placeholder. And
• 22:58
  Speaker 1: so I was publishing things on YouTube and I never
• 23:01
  Speaker 1: once published the wrong video. And I don't even know
• 23:04
  Speaker 1: what I'm doing, and these are people that are supposed
• 23:06
  Speaker 1: to trained on what they're doing, so I find that
• 23:09
  Speaker 1: hard to believe. It's kind of like accidentally launching a
• 23:14
  Speaker 1: nuclear missile. Somebody meant to hit the button. Somebody meant
• 23:19
  Speaker 1: to hit the button, and that's now sure, we hope,
• 23:22
  Speaker 1: we hope that this is just some over zealous intern
• 23:27
  Speaker 1: who pressed the what you might call it, when they
• 23:30
  Speaker 1: were supposed to press the doohickey and they pressed the
• 23:33
  Speaker 1: wrong thing. But if this is accurate and they jump
• 23:39
  Speaker 1: the gun on this, which seems plausible, and really either way,
• 23:44
  Speaker 1: that low level flunky for the Miami Heat should start practicing.
• 23:49
  Speaker 1: Would you like fries with that? Would you like that upsized? Okay?
• 23:52
  Speaker 1: Very good? Ice? Or no ice? Okay, light ice, okay,
• 23:56
  Speaker 1: very good? All right, hot sauce? No okay? Ketch up?
• 23:58
  Speaker 1: Would you like okay, very good? Thank you? That is
• 24:01
  Speaker 1: a fireable offense, I would say, Now we do know,
• 24:07
  Speaker 1: we do know that these announcements are prepared way in advance.
• 24:10
  Speaker 1: I learned this when I worked with some teams in
• 24:13
  Speaker 1: years past. It's only gotten worse as social media has
• 24:17
  Speaker 1: taken over in that regard even trades. When players are traded,
• 24:22
  Speaker 1: it is often em the queue for days, sometimes even longer,
• 24:27
  Speaker 1: before that stuff gets announced. So you've got Miami, who's
• 24:31
  Speaker 1: the betting favorite. Now on the gambling market, you've got
• 24:36
  Speaker 1: Cleveland in Golden State and Philadelphia. Now, we have seen
• 24:41
  Speaker 1: plenty of examples in recent years of reports of star
• 24:45
  Speaker 1: players changing teams which turned out to be complete cal manure.
• 24:53
  Speaker 1: All right. For example, I remember, I'm old enough. Remember
• 24:57
  Speaker 1: when that hack insider John Hayman reported that Arson Judge
• 25:02
  Speaker 1: was going to the Giants. Remember that not Aaron Judge,
• 25:04
  Speaker 1: his evil brother Arson Judge was going off to play
• 25:08
  Speaker 1: for the Giants. There was a baseball insider who famously
• 25:12
  Speaker 1: reported that Shohel Tani's private jet was on its way
• 25:15
  Speaker 1: to Toronto, seemingly to sign a contract with the Blue
• 25:19
  Speaker 1: Jays during free agency. So the point is these things
• 25:24
  Speaker 1: are often wrong. But either way, whether King James lands
• 25:28
  Speaker 1: in South Beach again or not, whether that happens or not,
• 25:33
  Speaker 1: it doesn't matter because the deleted YouTube leak is a thing.
• 25:39
  Speaker 1: It's got Netflix docu series written all over it. There
• 25:43
  Speaker 1: and episode titled The Intern Who Knew Too Much que
• 25:50
  Speaker 1: the open. All right, Now we go to Cleveland where
• 25:54
  Speaker 1: the Cavaliers thought they were going to get Lebron. They
• 25:58
  Speaker 1: might still he hasn't signed with anyone yet, so I
• 26:01
  Speaker 1: was amused or be mused. I was be mused when
• 26:05
  Speaker 1: I saw this, a little birdie chirping away that Lebron
• 26:10
  Speaker 1: James continues to be what the cadavers are desiring. Their
• 26:16
  Speaker 1: heart desires Lebron James a reunion. That's easy money, money, money, money,
• 26:21
  Speaker 1: So that is their top target. However, the backup plan,
• 26:26
  Speaker 1: the fallback option is Jonathan Kaminga. A sign and trade
• 26:31
  Speaker 1: for Jonathan Kaminga is the backup fallback option. So the question,
• 26:37
  Speaker 1: all right, yet again we look at this and the
• 26:40
  Speaker 1: Cavaliers and their situation, So how do you how do
• 26:44
  Speaker 1: you characterize Jonathan Kaminga as the cavaliers backup plan if
• 26:51
  Speaker 1: Lebron is going to Miami or one of these other teams.
• 26:54
  Speaker 1: So Jonathan Kaminga as a plan B if Lebron walks
• 26:59
  Speaker 1: out that that is not a plan. B that is
• 27:01
  Speaker 1: a plan? Bare Lee is what that is not a plan?
• 27:06
  Speaker 1: Why would you even let this out? This has to
• 27:08
  Speaker 1: be somehow made up right. If you're if you've got
• 27:11
  Speaker 1: any pride and you're in the position to add or
• 27:16
  Speaker 1: subtract players, what are you doing? That is embarrassing? That
• 27:21
  Speaker 1: is embarrassing. It's like going to Ruth Chris steakhouse and saying,
• 27:26
  Speaker 1: I would like to eat filet mignon. Okay, how would
• 27:28
  Speaker 1: you like to prepared? Well? I like mine? Well done? Okay,
• 27:30
  Speaker 1: we'll make it well done. Well normally the chef doesn't
• 27:32
  Speaker 1: like that, but we'll make it well done because you
• 27:34
  Speaker 1: like it well done. And can I get that butterfly cut? Yeah?
• 27:36
  Speaker 1: I don't think we can butterfly cut that, but I'll
• 27:37
  Speaker 1: make it well done. Okay, sure, thank you, no problem.
• 27:39
  Speaker 1: And then the waiter comes out and serves you a plate,
• 27:43
  Speaker 1: and there's one thing on the plate. It's a slim gym.
• 27:46
  Speaker 1: And he said, well, I wanted the filet mignon. I
• 27:48
  Speaker 1: didn't want a slim gym. I didn't order a slim gym.
• 27:50
  Speaker 1: Why'd you give me a sum JOm? Well, we decided
• 27:52
  Speaker 1: that you wanted something well done. So here's a slim Jim.
• 27:54
  Speaker 1: There you go, enjoy the slim Jim. Kaminga is a
• 27:58
  Speaker 1: big time he's he's a dime a dozen in the NBA,
• 28:02
  Speaker 1: very talented. He looks like a superstar pregame in the
• 28:06
  Speaker 1: layup line, and then when the actual game starts, forget
• 28:09
  Speaker 1: about it. Forget about it. He should come with a
• 28:12
  Speaker 1: USDA warning. Jonathan Kaminga is a completely undercooked which is
• 28:19
  Speaker 1: not safe for human consumption or trying to win consumption.
• 28:25
  Speaker 1: Not good. So he's been a human yo yo up
• 28:29
  Speaker 1: and down and all around, bouncing between disappearing acts, widely
• 28:35
  Speaker 1: considered inefficient most nights, and does not shoot the ball
• 28:39
  Speaker 1: deep very well. Decides that defense is optional. He is
• 28:43
  Speaker 1: known as a matador defensively oh o o ole, just
• 28:48
  Speaker 1: like that, so he's got that going for him. Also
• 28:52
  Speaker 1: was at loggerheads with the Golden State Warriors coaching staff
• 28:55
  Speaker 1: and front office because he thinks he's the guy. In
• 28:59
  Speaker 1: order to be the guy, you actually have to play.
• 29:01
  Speaker 1: They didn't think he was the guy, and then you
• 29:04
  Speaker 1: look around there and it's just a reality. At this point,
• 29:07
  Speaker 1: he's been in the NBA few years it looks like
• 29:09
  Speaker 1: he is just a not a glue guy, spark plug guy.
• 29:13
  Speaker 1: Not a glue guy. Jonathan kaminga spark plug guy, playing
• 29:17
  Speaker 1: the score a few points off the bench, and that's it.
• 29:19
  Speaker 1: Not a pillar, not a franchise pillar.
• 29:21
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• 29:28
  Speaker 5: Now, Mailor's Mountain of money?
• 29:33
  Speaker 2: Do you have what it takes to get to the top?
• 29:36
  Speaker 1: Probably not all. Let's do it right to the contestants,
• 29:40
  Speaker 1: we go, we have any meenie miney mode. Let's say
• 29:42
  Speaker 1: hello to Zach, who's in Indiana. Hello, Zach, Hey, how
• 29:46
  Speaker 1: you doing? Welcome in, Thanks for answering the call. Zach.
• 29:49
  Speaker 1: You're gonna play our game? And what part of Indian
• 29:53
  Speaker 1: aery in there? Zach? Beautiful? All right? Very cool? And
• 29:58
  Speaker 1: who do you want to partner up with on the game?
• 30:03
  Speaker 1: All right? Yeah, all right, you're gonna lose that. And
• 30:08
  Speaker 1: Jacob in Delaware? Hello, Jacob, welcome? Hey, what's going on?
• 30:14
  Speaker 1: Everything good in Delaware this morning?
• 30:16
  Speaker 4: I think?
• 30:16
  Speaker 2: Good man?
• 30:18
  Speaker 1: All right? Who would you like to partner up with? Jacob?
• 30:20
  Speaker 1: You've got the lorrainer or me? Ben I'm gonna go
• 30:23
  Speaker 1: with you. Seems like a wise choice.
• 30:26
  Speaker 4: Get up.
• 30:26
  Speaker 1: I'm always left out of this one. They don't pick you, Lorraina.
• 30:29
  Speaker 4: It was the wisest choice you could make, since I
• 30:31
  Speaker 4: was already selected. Oh stop, please, let's get all right game.
• 30:34
  Speaker 4: Hurry up, gentlemen. This is the Chris Cornell edition of
• 30:38
  Speaker 4: Mallardsmount of Money. He would have been sixty two years
• 30:41
  Speaker 4: old on Monday. He checked out a few years ago.
• 30:44
  Speaker 4: It's been like nine years.
• 30:45
  Speaker 1: Yeah. Wow.
• 30:46
  Speaker 4: The categories are outshined, Hunger Strike, fresh tendrils, and like
• 30:51
  Speaker 4: a stone. Zach, you're on first. Which category would you like?
• 30:56
  Speaker 1: Out dying?
• 30:57
  Speaker 4: Outshined?
• 30:57
  Speaker 1: All right? And Jacob, how about you? Hunger strike? All right?
• 31:02
  Speaker 1: All very good?
• 31:03
  Speaker 4: All right, Zach, you and I are up first. We
• 31:05
  Speaker 4: need the first and last name of the athlete to
• 31:08
  Speaker 4: get the full points. Our categories outshine. These athletes were
• 31:11
  Speaker 4: outshined by sibling. Are you ready?
• 31:14
  Speaker 1: Yes?
• 31:14
  Speaker 4: All right, forty five seconds. Let's begin. His older brother,
• 31:18
  Speaker 4: Peyton is a better quarterback.
• 31:21
  Speaker 1: Yes.
• 31:22
  Speaker 3: Uh.
• 31:22
  Speaker 4: This guy's twin brother, Ron Day is in the Hall
• 31:25
  Speaker 4: of Fame. He was a running back. He's not Stickney Barber. Yes,
• 31:30
  Speaker 4: this guy's brother is Travis married to Taylor Swift. Yes,
• 31:36
  Speaker 4: this guy's brother LaMelo is the better player for the Hornets.
• 31:44
  Speaker 1: Yes, all right.
• 31:45
  Speaker 4: This guy's brother Paw was on the Lakers. Oh yeah,
• 31:53
  Speaker 4: all right, let's give this one. Yes, Yes, that's good.
• 31:55
  Speaker 4: That's good. This guy's brother just died a NASCAR driver.
• 32:02
  Speaker 1: All right, okay, we are up here. Let's show him.
• 32:06
  Speaker 1: Out's done, Jake, have you ready?
• 32:07
  Speaker 4: All right?
• 32:08
  Speaker 5: I'm ready?
• 32:08
  Speaker 1: All right, here we go. Hunger strike. These athletes all
• 32:11
  Speaker 1: were very skinny, so skinny they look like they were
• 32:15
  Speaker 1: on a hunger strike. Are you ready?
• 32:17
  Speaker 4: I'm ready.
• 32:18
  Speaker 1: All right, we'll put forty five seconds on the clock.
• 32:20
  Speaker 1: We're on our way, and here we go. Nineteen eighties.
• 32:23
  Speaker 1: Houston Rocket, not a chem Elijah one the other. Yes,
• 32:28
  Speaker 1: played for the Washington Wizards. Seven. Yes, starting pitcher for
• 32:33
  Speaker 1: the Red Sox. He's on the Atlanta Braves right now.
• 32:35
  Speaker 1: He played for the White Sox. He's one, all right,
• 32:38
  Speaker 1: plays for the Oklahoma City Fund. It looks like skeletor
• 32:41
  Speaker 1: white guy. Yes, wide receiver for the Philadelphia Eagles. He's not.
• 32:48
  Speaker 1: He's now their number one receiver this season for me. Yes,
• 32:53
  Speaker 1: that is correct. The Parisian prodigy of the Spurs. Yes,
• 32:58
  Speaker 1: and the slim Ray first in the NBA. Yeah, what else?
• 33:03
  Speaker 1: Oh the picture for the Red Sox. He won a
• 33:05
  Speaker 1: cy Young that was impressive than we actually did it.
• 33:09
  Speaker 1: Out of order Manoupole was one hundred points. Ralph Sampson was,
• 33:12
  Speaker 1: I believe we have a league, Coop. All right, you're losing, Coop, exactly,
• 33:15
  Speaker 1: you're losing. You're losing right now.
• 33:17
  Speaker 4: Frsh tendrils or like a stone like a thone. Okay,
• 33:26
  Speaker 4: all right, Uh these football players sank like a stone
• 33:30
  Speaker 4: in the draft. Forty five seconds. Let's begin. Quarterback for
• 33:34
  Speaker 4: the Steelers right now. He's famous for the Packers.
• 33:38
  Speaker 1: Oh no, he's old.
• 33:42
  Speaker 4: This is a quarterback for you're upsetting Coop. Here Packers
• 33:45
  Speaker 4: quarterback after farm. Yes, this guy was the quarterback for
• 33:50
  Speaker 4: the Dolphins, never won a Super Bowl. This guy's dad
• 33:55
  Speaker 4: is named Dion. Quarterback for the Browns. Yes, all right,
• 34:06
  Speaker 4: this guy's on the Knicks. He won a championship with
• 34:08
  Speaker 4: the Raptors as well. Everybody thought he should have been
• 34:10
  Speaker 4: maybe in finals MVP.
• 34:14
  Speaker 1: All right.
• 34:14
  Speaker 4: This guy had a gas mask. He was smoking weed
• 34:17
  Speaker 4: out of gas masks. Dropped in the draft.
• 34:20
  Speaker 1: That did not did not count. Yes, it was clearly
• 34:24
  Speaker 1: what are you talking about, freaking buzzer? I think it
• 34:27
  Speaker 1: did yeh did not count. It did not count. It
• 34:30
  Speaker 1: didn't count clearly. Not What do we have? We have eighty? Okay,
• 34:38
  Speaker 1: that's fine, Coop, I'll give you those points. Oh shut up,
• 34:41
  Speaker 1: Here we go. These athletes all have curly hair. Are
• 34:44
  Speaker 1: you ready, Jacob, to win the game? Forty five seconds
• 34:49
  Speaker 1: on the clock. Here we go. The greatest safety in
• 34:52
  Speaker 1: Steelers history, who did all those commercials for? Yeah, we
• 34:58
  Speaker 1: won the game already, of I'm not a baseball player
• 35:01
  Speaker 1: for the Yankees, who went to the Mariners. Don't you
• 35:04
  Speaker 1: know kind of his name there? Yeah, that's right, that
• 35:08
  Speaker 1: is correct. Nineteen eighties Raiders Cleveland Brown's defensive tackle Die. Yeah,
• 35:16
  Speaker 1: look at that was one hundred points, Cobe. This guy's great,
• 35:19
  Speaker 1: this guy's We don't even need to keep going. That's
• 35:21
  Speaker 1: it all right? Hey, listen, Jacob, you know what you did.
• 35:24
  Speaker 1: You just won a goal the dick and a goal
• 35:27
  Speaker 1: the dick.
• 35:28
  Speaker 4: It.
• 35:29
  Speaker 1: Congratulations, you're smarter than the average bear. Jacob. You've upset
• 35:33
  Speaker 1: Cooper Loop, who thinks he dominates these games. He does not.
• 35:36
  Speaker 1: I am, I do, I do, I am the all
• 35:38
  Speaker 1: time wins king at these games. I've won more of
• 35:40
  Speaker 1: these game shows than anyone else in the history of radio.
• 35:43
  Speaker 1: You know, if you guys would just give me a chance,
• 35:45
  Speaker 1: I know, all right, Thank you, Jake Zach. You did terribly.
• 35:48
  Speaker 1: I'm so happy you sucked. You made Coop very upset
• 35:51
  Speaker 1: with your terrible answers. I like the effort. The effort
• 35:54
  Speaker 1: was there did not work out. And another edition of
• 35:57
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• 36:01
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• 36:04
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• 36:06
  Speaker 1: do it once a week, so who cares. It's just
• 36:09
  Speaker 1: once a week. That's it. And we try to have
• 36:11
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• 36:16
  Speaker 1: next hour, because it weren't overnight show. We're not one
• 36:19
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• 36:22
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