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Hour 1 - FIRE NICO! · The Ben Maller Show

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Speaker 1: Watch out for the wrecking Ball. Welcome in the beginning
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Speaker 1: of our number one It's the Ben Malor Show podcast.
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Speaker 1: We are together on this Wednesday, the twelfth day of November.
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Speaker 1: A major whacking in the world of sports as the
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Speaker 1: NBA says bye bye to one of the most notorious
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Speaker 1: figures in the front office of that sport. What does
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Speaker 1: the Nico Harrison pink slip do for the Maverick fanbase
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Speaker 1: who've been calling for it after the Luca trade nine
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Speaker 1: months ago? Also, how much blame for the Luca Donzik
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Speaker 1: trade goes to the Mavericks owner Patrick Dumont? How much
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Speaker 1: does he deserve for backing Harrison's Luca blunder? Also, should
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Speaker 1: the Lakers send the Mavericks a thank you note for
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Speaker 1: the Luka Doncic trade? Now that Nico Harrison has been
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Speaker 1: decommissioned as the executive in Dallas, we'll talk about all
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Speaker 2: It is Fire ny CO, fireny CA.
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Speaker 1: it's gonna start out in the NBA. That's right. So
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Speaker 1: the wings of change. You can almost hear them blowing
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Speaker 1: those winds of change in the NBA. They're actually howling.
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Speaker 1: They're not just blowing their howling the winds of change.
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Speaker 1: And so I assume you've heard by now don't bear
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Speaker 1: the lead. I didn't bear the lead, but my god,
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Speaker 1: So if you didn't see this, maybe not. The Dallas
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Speaker 1: mav Res putting the wreck in mav Reck have cranked
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Speaker 1: up the old ray Charles hit hit the Road Jack
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Speaker 1: or in this case, hit the road Nico, and they
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Speaker 1: have said bye bye to Nico Harrison nine months It's
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Speaker 1: like they gave birth nine months after he gave a
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Speaker 1: donation of luka doncic to the charity in Los Angeles,
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Speaker 1: the Purple and Gold Charity on skid Row there in
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Speaker 1: La So that move coming the day after the day
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Speaker 1: after the Mavrec owner, someone named Patrick Dumont, who was
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Speaker 1: in the right place at the right time. Family money
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Speaker 1: he believed married into. Anyway, he attended the the lost,
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Speaker 1: the mav Res loss to the Milwaukee Bucks, and in
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Speaker 1: that game, fans again doing the chanting.
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Speaker 2: Fire harny go, fireny go.
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Speaker 1: Just like that, a familiar chant ever since Harrison did
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Speaker 1: the thing that everyone shook their head at and said,
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Speaker 1: oh my god, what are we doing? He went, He
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Speaker 1: went rogue, renegade, renegade man. And of course that is
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Speaker 1: a good jumping off points. So let us discuss the question.
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Speaker 1: I think the most interesting part of this is what
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Speaker 1: does the Nico Harrison pink slip do for the mav
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Speaker 1: Res fan base. So on this one, I've got commercial
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Speaker 2: So a my.
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Speaker 1: Word to answer the question, what does the firing of
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Speaker 1: Nico Harrison do to the fan base? My word is
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Speaker 1: therapeutic obviously, right, healing, wounds. You know, like a dog
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Speaker 1: will come up to you if you have a cut
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Speaker 1: on your leg and lick the wound. This is the
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Speaker 1: licking of the wound is what this is. Here, We're
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Speaker 1: talking about months and months of bottled up range, bottled
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Speaker 1: up range, finally letting out that primal scream as the
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Speaker 1: news came down into the void, as Nico Harrison is done, decommissioned.
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Speaker 1: The fans doing the sports version of no justice, no peace.
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Speaker 1: They gave it, got no justice, they gave no peace.
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Speaker 1: They were bloodthirsty, they were on the war path, and
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Speaker 1: sure enough the day of reckoning has a And make
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Speaker 1: no mistake about this, Nico Harrison was a self made man.
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Speaker 1: He was self made man. He became because of the
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Speaker 1: moves he made a basketball anti Christ in Dallas. Congratulations Nico,
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Speaker 1: way to go, buddy. Now he does have some friends
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Speaker 1: in the media. I've seen a bunch of people trying
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Speaker 1: to defend Nico Harrison's Oh, it's not all on him,
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Speaker 1: blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah
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Speaker 1: blah blah blah. See, the thing is, it's not just
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Speaker 1: the Luca tree. There's other stuff. Involved in this. Yeah,
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Speaker 1: the Luca trad was not all him, but there's other
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Speaker 1: layers to the cake. So there's other stuff going on here.
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Speaker 1: But the rhythmic chanting fire Nico fire, Nico was louder
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Speaker 1: than the defensive chance. You know how you go to
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Speaker 1: an NBA game, if you ever been to one, and
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Speaker 1: there's always at some point and the rhythmic chant of defense,
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Speaker 1: you know that kind of thing. It was louder. He
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Speaker 1: provided Nico Harrison the voodoo bugaloo. He provided that front
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Speaker 1: office malfeasans by Nico Harrison's hubris. That's the price, the
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Speaker 1: right word there. He took a team that, granted it
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Speaker 1: was a bit of a fluke run, but they had
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Speaker 1: been in the NBA Finals Dallas against the Celtics, and
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Speaker 1: he said, you know what, I don't like that. Eh,
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Speaker 1: eh no, I'm not gonna do that. And so they're
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Speaker 1: in the NBA Finals, got smoked by the Celtics, and
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Speaker 1: he's let's turn this into the NBA's version of a
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Speaker 1: staled economy. Okay, fine, will vaporize anything good that ever
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Speaker 1: happened while I was the executive in Dallas. Check that box.
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Speaker 1: And as the saying goes, as the saying goes there,
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Speaker 1: you can be a commercial airline pilot, one of the
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Speaker 1: great pilots. You can have thousands of thousands of hours
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Speaker 1: in the sky and land every single plane, do a
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Speaker 1: tremendous job on time pilot. However, if you crash one
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Speaker 1: of those planes, they're not talking about all the planes
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Speaker 1: that you landed, you know what I'm saying. Okay, anyway,
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Speaker 1: you're remembered for something else. But Nico did the thing
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Speaker 1: you can't do at the time. You can't do it,
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Speaker 1: and everyone knows that you're supposed to build on a
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Speaker 1: championship team, build up an empire in that era. You
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Speaker 1: don't go in there and torch it. You don't do
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Speaker 1: that and gutting whatever was there there was not there
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Speaker 1: there at that particular point. And so the Luca things
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Speaker 1: won part of it, obviously the biggest part of it.
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Speaker 1: But he also fired some popular people behind the scenes
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Speaker 1: support staff with the Mavericks. There was a story that
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Speaker 1: has been well publicized about a long time staffer for
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Speaker 1: the Mavericks who was in the training staff that got
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Speaker 1: let go. Loyal people, loyal foot soldiers for the Dallas
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Speaker 1: Mavericks who got let go. You can't treat people like
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Speaker 1: that and expect that the basketball gods are going to
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Speaker 1: bless you. So this was a bit of a karmic correction,
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Speaker 1: as our astrology insider Andrea would say. And I know
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Speaker 1: there's a cosmic event going on right now, but they
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Speaker 1: sent Nico Harrison straight to the hoops. Who's goal is
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Speaker 1: what they did. They're finally some peace in Dallas now,
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Speaker 1: Page two, continuing the theme here, continuing the theme. So
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Speaker 1: the the other question that's on the tip of my
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Speaker 1: tongue here, how much blame for the Luka Donzik trade
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Speaker 1: does the Mavericks owner, this guy Patrick Dumont, how much
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Speaker 1: does he deserve backing Nico Harrison in the Luca Boner,
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Speaker 1: the blunder, the blooper, however you want to call it,
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Speaker 1: whatever b word, Blunder, blooper, boner, all good words, all
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Speaker 1: good descriptive words. They all work. So on the Malard
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Speaker 1: scale of blame, the Malar scale of blame, the owner
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Speaker 1: gets sixty percent, sixty percent, Harrison gets forty percent. And
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Speaker 1: here's why, all right, the owner always has final edit.
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Speaker 1: It's like when you make a movie, you hire the
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Speaker 1: greatest people to make the movie. You can possibly make
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Speaker 1: but ultimately there's one person that has the final edit,
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Speaker 1: final cut, and that's the person that decides what's actually
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Speaker 1: in the movie and what's not in the movie. And
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Speaker 1: so they could have, as ownership should have, would have
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Speaker 1: hit the kill switch on the Luca trade, could have
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Speaker 1: stopped it, but didn't. So this wasn't Again, this was
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Speaker 1: not just a rogue GM running around in the dark.
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Speaker 1: You can trade a lot of players without ownership signing off,
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Speaker 1: and you cannot trade the face of the franchise. You're
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Speaker 1: not gonna be able to do that. So Dumont, if
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Speaker 1: you look at it, he either rubbers stamped the trade
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Speaker 1: and said, okay, mazatav I support this. He encouraged it,
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Speaker 1: but that's bad also, or he was just asleep at
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Speaker 1: the switch. What else is there? Is there anything else?
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Speaker 1: Is so Niko or Harrison? Yeah, he might have lit
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Speaker 1: the match. He might have lit the match there. But
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Speaker 1: Patrick Dumont, the guy that's the owner of the Mavericks there,
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Speaker 1: he's the one that owned the warehouse. So you know,
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Speaker 1: I have no skin in the game. I don't and
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Speaker 1: you know we're on in Dallas and we you know,
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Speaker 1: I got a few people that are contributors. I know
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Speaker 1: a lot of people listening, but they very rarely call in.
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Speaker 1: And I wouldn't call in right now if as a
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Speaker 1: Dallas sportsman either, because of how pathetic things are. But
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Speaker 1: that said, like the vision I had for this, this
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Speaker 1: trade insurance, fraud, insurance. You know what I'm saying. No,
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Speaker 1: you feel me on that insurance. Let me explain. So
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Speaker 1: you hear those insurance scams, It's like the Mavericks just
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Speaker 1: torched their own warehouse to collect an insurance payout. Like, eh, yeah,
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Speaker 1: imagine in the cartoon bubble, You've got the owner of
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Speaker 1: the Mavericks and Niko standing side by side with matching
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Speaker 1: cans of unleaded gasoline and pretending like they don't smell
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Speaker 1: the smoke that's billowing up from the fire. Oh no,
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Speaker 1: how did this happen? Oh my hey, hey, dummy, you
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Speaker 1: lit the match? Dummy, Yeah, you're the one that did that.
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Speaker 1: So this was not a basketball decision. It was basketball arson,
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Speaker 1: is what it was. And they burned down the mansion
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Speaker 1: that Luca was living in for the insurance payout, and
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Speaker 1: now they're sifting through the rubble and the ashes, and
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Speaker 1: it's like then they have the hoodspot to say the
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Speaker 1: owders like, oh, you know, we regret, we regret this.
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Speaker 1: Oh really, well, isn't that convenient you regret it? Okay,
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Speaker 1: So you don't accidentally trade a player like you just don't.
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Speaker 1: You don't trade a player of that ilk that does
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Speaker 1: not happen, and so you don't trade them for a
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Speaker 1: brittle bag of bones, which is what you did. Who's
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Speaker 1: left legs have the shelf life of cottage cheese. You
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Speaker 1: did that. You're the ones that took that bounty back,
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Speaker 1: and so listen. It's intentional negligence, is what it is.
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Speaker 1: And after months of the rhetoric being from the maverage
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Speaker 1: will Nico, we trust in Nico, we trust the rhetoric, suddenly,
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Speaker 1: oh you know that was a mistake. I really screwed
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Speaker 1: that one up man. Bad job by us. Yeah, no kidding,
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Speaker 1: no kidding, pal My God. Now, visionist history for sure,
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Speaker 1: considering what's been going on, not a full year, but
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Speaker 1: close enough, close enough has happened in February. Now we're
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Speaker 1: in mid mid November.
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Speaker 2: Now.
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Speaker 1: The worst part, it keeps getting worse. It's like how
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Speaker 1: low can you go? The worst part is they didn't
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Speaker 1: even shop Luke like that's the part. It's one thing
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Speaker 1: as well. You shouldn't trade them, Yeah, shouldn't trade them
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Speaker 1: if you're gonna trade him. Okay, there's ways to do
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Speaker 1: this right there. There are layers this as well. There
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Speaker 1: are ways to do this. You didn't do it right.
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Speaker 1: You didn't put him on the auctioning block and say, okay,
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Speaker 1: what can we what can we get for this I
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Speaker 1: they didn't test the market. They should have put Luca
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Speaker 1: on eBay and said, okay, we've got Luca right here,
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Speaker 1: I'm gonna put him up for bid. Opening bid is
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Speaker 1: seven first round draft picks and a young star player.
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Speaker 1: That's what we want. That's oh, that's the the opening bid.
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Speaker 1: The buy now bid is nine first round draft picks
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Speaker 1: and three young star players. That's the buy now bid.
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Speaker 1: And they didn't do it, and you conceivably would have
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Speaker 1: gotten a bidding war between teams like the Warriors, the Knicks,
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Speaker 1: the Celtics, teams like that. So this becomes high crimes
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Speaker 1: and misdemeanors for good old Nico there and Nico Harrison.
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Speaker 1: If this was like the military, he'd be court martialed
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Speaker 1: and basketball treason, basketball treason, hand delivering Luka Doncik with
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Speaker 1: the help of the owner. There a generational player, an
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Speaker 1: MVP caliber player, and you just handed him to the
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Speaker 1: Lakers for a guy literally nicknamed street clothes because he
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Speaker 1: doesn't like playing basketball. The only thing that would have
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Speaker 1: been as good as that trade would have been if
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Speaker 1: they traded for Kawhi Leonard, who also doesn't like playing basketball.
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Speaker 1: They somehow missed that one. I'm surprised they didn't get
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Speaker 1: Kawhi Leonard in return in that trade as well. My god,
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Speaker 1: So this deal was so bad? How bad was it?
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Speaker 1: Thanks for asking. It was so bad that you've got
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Speaker 1: conspiracy theories saying that the Mavericks made this move. The
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Speaker 1: Mavericks made this move intentionally as an act like the
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Speaker 1: movie Major League they tanked. They wanted to relocate the franchise,
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Speaker 1: and they did this on purpose. They want to move
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Speaker 1: the team to Sin City, lost wages Nevada there, and
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Speaker 1: it's it seems outrageous to something. It wouldn't shock me
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Speaker 1: if that was somewhere in the decision making process. It
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Speaker 1: would not shock me. You follow the money. They're trying
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Speaker 1: to get some casino stuff in Texas, and there's some
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Speaker 1: bureaucracy involved in that as I understand it, And so
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Speaker 1: cash is always the king, and those bright neon lights
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Speaker 1: and lost wages Nevada. You've got this new toy, the
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Speaker 1: billionaire's toy here. And so the Mavericks listen, they can
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Speaker 1: fire Nico Harrison. They fire Nico Harrison. However, you can't
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Speaker 1: wash off the stain. You ever had an accident with
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Speaker 1: oil and you get oil on your clothes and you
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Speaker 1: can't get rid of the oil stain. Now, this is
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Speaker 1: worse than that, is Nico Harrison, and that was on
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Speaker 1: his watch and the owner signed off on it. But
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Speaker 1: man alive, all right? Now, last word, we continue in
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Speaker 1: depth team coverage on the fallout of the firing of
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Speaker 1: Nico Harrison as he was removed of his duties. So
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Speaker 1: question should let's go like this, So should the Lakers
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Speaker 1: send the Mavericks a thank you note for the leucadontic
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Speaker 1: trade now that Nico Harrison has been whacked given the guillotine.
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Speaker 1: So I'm gonna go no way on a thank you note.
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Speaker 1: I don't believe the Lakers should send a thank you note.
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Speaker 1: I don't think that's that's the right way to handle this.
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Speaker 1: That would be amateur. I think they should hand deliver
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Speaker 1: this to Nico because he's not working for the Mavericks.
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Speaker 1: So just hand deliver it to Nico Harrison and give
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Speaker 1: him a swag bag, give him some ugly purple and
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Speaker 1: gold polos, give him some of that crap, you know,
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Speaker 1: Laker sunglasses that are overpriced and crappy and all that stuff.
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Speaker 1: And lifetime pass. How about this. If he ever wants
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Speaker 1: to travel with the Lakers on the road as a fanboy,
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Speaker 1: Ico can fly on the team plane for the rest
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Speaker 1: of his life. Who says no. Nico essentially gave a
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Speaker 1: franchise that was on death doorstep, gave them a stimulus package.
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Speaker 1: He did. He went President Obama bailing out the auto
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Speaker 1: industry or the banking industry, right and government style bailout. Here,
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Speaker 1: you got boys, things are not goa. You have the Lakers.
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Speaker 1: And this is an underrated part of this this story.
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Speaker 1: The Lakers were circling the drain. Lebron's starting to show
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Speaker 1: that he was old. He certainly had. Has he played
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Speaker 1: and played this year he's old or there's other some
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Speaker 1: conspiracy theories. I'm not going to get into that now.
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Speaker 1: A butt Lebron, I do enjoy a good conspiracy. But
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Speaker 1: he's not playing. Whether whether there's something off the court
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Speaker 1: or whether that's a basketball injury, he's not playing. There's
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Speaker 1: also the possibilities just load management, and they didn't want
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Speaker 1: to call it that, so they came up with a
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Speaker 1: fugazi injury and these whatever. That's fine, but Lebron's not playing.
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Speaker 1: He's not available. Anthony Davis is made of paper mache,
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Speaker 1: as we've seen with the Mavericks. And then out of nowhere,
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Speaker 1: Luca parachutes in into the jungle like he's on a
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Speaker 1: rescue copter to save the day. And so they should
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Speaker 1: forget a swag bag. They should build a statue, a
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Speaker 1: Nico Harrison statue right next to Jerry West, the two
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Speaker 1: great executives in Laker history right there, skid Row Bronze
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Speaker 1: baby right there and skid Row. So all the homeless
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Speaker 1: can urinate right on that statue right there. For the
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Speaker 1: Maverick fans, they could do it. And hey, throw flowers
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Speaker 1: and chocolates in there if you want. You can do that,
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Speaker 1: you know, flowers from the heart of course, and the
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Speaker 1: chocolates say we love you for saving the TV ratings
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Speaker 1: and saving the franchise and all that. One sided. The
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Speaker 1: trade so one sided. You think Vince McMahon, I know
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Speaker 1: he's falling off of polite society, but you think, like
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Speaker 1: Vince McMahon is back and he's like running the NBA,
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Speaker 1: is like the shadow commissioner of the NBA. And que
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Speaker 1: that entrance music and the dramatic entrance music, and Luca
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Speaker 1: walks in the rating spike. Everyone's back watching, which is
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Speaker 1: not necessarily true, but it's a WWE style move. It's
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Speaker 1: a ww style move. Dallas face plants, the Lakers rise
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Speaker 1: from the Ashes, and Niko Harrison, the unwitting, unwitting tag
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Speaker 1: team partner who handed them the belt. There you go,
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Speaker 1: fade to black. They should retire his number, Well, he
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Speaker 1: doesn't have a number. They should retire number one is
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Speaker 1: what they should do. They should retire number one because
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Speaker 1: So touched on a few conspiracies. We didn't touch the
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Speaker 1: humdinger of conspiracies. That kind of works out like a
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Speaker 1: Martin Scorsese movie. It involves professional sports, it involves the mafiosos.
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Speaker 1: Here it is the Bain Malord show up all night,
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Speaker 1: every single night talking about the Nico Harrison whacking. I
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Speaker 1: do enjoy the hot take guys. Oh no, here's an
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Speaker 1: escape god, oh my god. Yeah, okay, yeah, dude dead
22:46
Speaker 1: overlooking the longtime Maverick employees that he got rid of
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Speaker 1: other than Luca. But yeah. Anyway, Hey, if you want
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Speaker 1: And now back to it all right here we go,
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Speaker 1: Shane and de Moines says, is someone who gave up
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Speaker 1: the NBA twenty years ago. It was there a religious holiday.
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Speaker 1: You gave up the NBA, Shane, did I not? I
23:53
Speaker 1: don't know what religion. I don't know. Do I want
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Speaker 1: to know? Is that a sacrifice? You give up the NBA,
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Speaker 1: like you know for Lent? I don't think so. Anyway,
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Speaker 1: says when Seattle, So when Seattle lost the son. So
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Speaker 1: there you go. The Mavericks firing the bum really means
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Speaker 1: very little to me. Shane in the Moynes says, but
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Speaker 1: I will enjoy your trashing of him tonight A plus plus.
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Speaker 1: There you go. Ferg Dog says, I still don't buy
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Speaker 1: Nico being responsible for the Luca trade. He was just
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Speaker 1: a fall guy. The one who orchestrated it was behind
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Speaker 1: the scenes, that was the commissioner of the NBA himself.
24:29
Speaker 1: Count Dracula Andy in Lionel Lakes, Minnesota checks in on
24:34
Speaker 1: the Ben Maler Show on Fox. Is another wonderful Mallard monologue. Benjamin,
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Speaker 1: I can't blame the MAVs GM for trading fat Buddy away.
24:42
Speaker 1: You can't just overpay these athletes three hundred million every
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Speaker 1: time they want a new contract. All right, Rob says,
24:52
Speaker 1: He says, thanks Maler, There you go. The gift of
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Speaker 1: Luca to the Lakers well, that's not gonna win. It's
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Speaker 1: not like the lager who won a championship. Who knows.
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Speaker 1: They'll probably rig it so they win it. And we've
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Speaker 1: learned a lot of these things are rigged. Let's see here.
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Speaker 1: Not a Burner writes in and says, Ben, you mentioned
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Speaker 1: last week that Tom Brady recently cloned one of his dogs.
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Speaker 1: Did you know that Ferg Dog was his first clone dog?
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Speaker 1: I did not. I remember Ferg Dog lost the X
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Speaker 1: account and then because of that, I guess, well that
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Speaker 1: is a clone. Then that would count as a clone. Yeah.
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Speaker 1: Late Night Drug Tester says two things from the opening
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Speaker 1: Malleard monologue. Didn't know the NBA played any defense, surprised fans.
25:34
Speaker 1: Chanted that also, the only Dallas sports fans are the
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Speaker 1: only Dallas sports fans that your team that they should
25:41
Speaker 1: be calling. I'm confused by this. The Dallas Stars, I think,
25:44
Speaker 1: is what he's yapping about. There you go. I think
25:46
Speaker 1: there's a word missing, Late Night Drug Tester. Maybe it's me.
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Speaker 1: It could be me. I think you missed a word there,
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Speaker 1: A key word that would have been in the middle
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Speaker 1: of that. So okay on that. Yeah, the Mavericks are
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Speaker 1: in the top ten in defense to start the NBA
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Speaker 1: season and thirtieth in offense, and they suck. There you go,
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Speaker 1: Ryan from San Diego, right since says being serious on
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Speaker 1: the day the trade happened, I'm sure you already knew
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Speaker 1: as I did. This was gonna go down as one
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Speaker 1: of the worst trades in NBA history, and it was
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Speaker 1: very one sided, which was obviously it turned out to
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Speaker 1: be true. Well now that Ryan, this is the kind
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Speaker 1: of trade. When this happened, I thought this was like
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Speaker 1: the prank. I thought this was like, you know, some
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Speaker 1: of the guys online, like was in my sports talk
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Speaker 1: Barry does a lot of that stuff, but crack sports.
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Speaker 1: I thought it was one of those deals. Oh, that's
26:34
Speaker 1: not real. It turned out to be real. Andrea the
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Speaker 1: Astrology Insider, reporting in she says, the Northern Lights can
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Speaker 1: be seen over the Bay Area. Really, there's a large
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Speaker 1: geomagnetic storm hitting me. Oh that's cool, man, o God,
26:52
Speaker 1: check out the Northern lights. Save yourself a trip over
26:54
Speaker 1: to Europe or further up north and see those Northern lights. Man,
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Speaker 1: it's the way to do it. Man alive.
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Speaker 2: All right?
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Speaker 1: What else we have? This is page down Gil in
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Speaker 1: San Diego, right since says a plus on the mall monologue.
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Speaker 1: Like always, I can't wait to be at the unveiling
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Speaker 1: of the new Nico Harrison statue right next to the
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Speaker 1: legend check her and look, although you did a little
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Speaker 1: AI think that's a beautiful statue from Nico. I think
27:18
Speaker 1: he should be holding up Gil. Can you do that
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Speaker 1: again and make a bronze foam finger like a Lakers
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Speaker 1: foam finger in bronze with Nico holding it up announcing
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Speaker 1: your number one? There you go? All right, Brock says
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Speaker 1: Nico should have been applauded for the Luca trade, not fired.
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Speaker 1: Not fired. He says, all right, very good on that.
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Speaker 1: We'll take your calls at eight seven, seven ninety nine
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Speaker 1: on Fox. Also another conspiracy that caught my attention. Let's
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Speaker 1: go to the phones. We'll say hello to Zach in
27:49
Speaker 1: Rhode Island. What's going on? Zach? Welcome, You're on Fox
27:52
Speaker 1: Sports Radio. Hey, what's going on? Dude?
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Speaker 6: So I wanted to pile onto what you were saying earlier.
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Speaker 6: You know, it's kind of like the MLB, like they
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Speaker 6: were having such low ratings and the championship last year
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Speaker 6: had such low ratings that I'm thinking the ball in
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Speaker 6: the hoop. And this is thinking about yesterday the numbers
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Speaker 6: that everyone put up, not just one team or one player,
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Speaker 6: but across the entire across the entire league was so deuced.
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Speaker 3: I'm thinking they have some new technology that we're not
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Speaker 3: even sure about it. I feel think that can't be
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Speaker 3: a magnet, because it was a magnet on the rim,
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Speaker 3: the ball would just hit the rim. It's got to
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Speaker 3: be some type of new technology that AI that sucks
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Speaker 3: produced that sucks the ball through the hoop.
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Speaker 1: I like this, So this is this, this is good allot,
28:45
Speaker 1: let's let's let's uh, let's use that as a jumping
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Speaker 1: off point. So, like, I don't know that AI is
28:50
Speaker 1: the right term. I think maybe there's some kind of
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Speaker 1: robotic like Elon Musk came up with something to put
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Speaker 1: in the ball that will you know, like the military
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Speaker 1: supposedly has these missiles that they can pinpoint within a
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Speaker 1: few feet from thousands of miles away. So it's like
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Speaker 1: military that's great, So military grade technology zach to get
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Speaker 1: the ball, but only for certain players, right, only for
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Speaker 1: like Wemby and guys like that. Yeah, okay, okay, good,
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Speaker 1: I like it.
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Speaker 6: I like it.
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Speaker 1: I like it. That's good. We're work, we're work shopping.
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Speaker 1: We're work shopping. This this is good. I like this.
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Speaker 3: And you know what I thought about too. Maybe it
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Speaker 3: was not much, but maybe it was Cuban before it
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Speaker 3: got on the shot take. He grabbed the technology before
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Speaker 3: they put it on shark Take and applied it.
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Speaker 1: To the Oh that's great. Yeah, yeah, Mark Cuban. And
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Speaker 1: it's not available. It's not available to the public. It's
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Speaker 1: it's for the military and pro basketball. Yeah. And by
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Speaker 1: the way, hold wait, hold on, hold on, how about
29:47
Speaker 1: this act? The NFL also uses it, but only in
29:51
Speaker 1: the playoffs. How about that? Come on, come on, come on,
29:57
Speaker 1: come on, any any mahomes past the kind of sales
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Speaker 1: a little bit. You just hit the button and it
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Speaker 1: goes right to the wide receiver, right in the right
30:04
Speaker 1: in the hands, right in the hands.
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Speaker 3: Oh, sometimes it still bounces off the helmet. I I uh.
30:10
Speaker 3: By the way, I'm actually saying this stuff on the radio.
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Speaker 3: I'm actually Jack from New Hampshire.
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Speaker 1: Oh why well, why did you pretend to be Zach
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Speaker 1: from Rhode Island.
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Speaker 3: Well, I might be Zact, but now that I'm saying
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Speaker 3: this stuff on the radio, I'm changing my.
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Speaker 1: Okay, I got you. Yeah, you don't want to you
30:24
Speaker 1: don't want to knock on your door from big brother.
30:27
Speaker 1: I got you. Only the MLB threatens to kill people.
30:31
Speaker 1: Yeah yeah, yeah, yeah yeah yeah.
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Speaker 6: I understand players threatened to kill people.
30:37
Speaker 1: Yeah. Well, well how about hey'll you go, I'll run
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Speaker 1: this by you. Here is Zach. You're a conspiracy theory guy,
30:43
Speaker 1: So what do you think here? I saw this bouncing around.
30:46
Speaker 1: There's a conspiracy theory. The Heat coach Eric Spolstra, unfortunately
30:50
Speaker 1: his house burned up the other day, right, so there's
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Speaker 1: a conspiracy theory that it's somehow tied in with the
30:57
Speaker 1: Terry Roseier gambling thing. Oh wow that yeah, now it's
31:01
Speaker 1: all this and this is just chatter. Who knows what's
31:03
Speaker 1: true or not. It's a conspiracy theory, so take it
31:06
Speaker 1: for what you want. But it's somehow linked. Rosier was
31:08
Speaker 1: playing for the Miami Heat. Yeah, the mob was involved
31:13
Speaker 1: in this, but Rosier the allegation is when he was
31:16
Speaker 1: doing that, it was with the Charlotte Hornets. But either way,
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Speaker 1: Spolster's home burned up at four point thirty in the morning.
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Speaker 1: I guess it was last last week. So yeah, it's
31:28
Speaker 1: pretty wild.
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Speaker 3: Huh yeah, I mean.
31:31
Speaker 1: I mean, well yeah, okay, yeah, they always checked the
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Speaker 1: toest the connection between Rosier's you know, gambling issues of
31:38
Speaker 1: the mob and you know, I know.
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Speaker 3: Paul House turning down. That's a lot. Jack from New Hampshire.
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Speaker 1: That's right, that's Jack. You had, Jack, You've never You're
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Speaker 1: not a mob guy, Jack, Right, you've never, You've never.
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Speaker 1: Oh that's right, that's right, Jack. I'm sorry, Zach. And
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Speaker 1: that's our old morning show, Zach and Jack. We used
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Speaker 1: to have a morning show called Zach and Jackie Radio back
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Speaker 1: in the day. Jack Trudeau, former Colts quarterback back. All right,
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Speaker 1: I gotta thank you, Zach.
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Speaker 2: What what what? What? What? What? What? What?
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Speaker 1: What?
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Speaker 3: I'm getting pulled over by the heavy list. I don't
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Speaker 3: even know they can do this. Maybe didn't want to
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Speaker 3: check my blood press. I'm getting pulled.
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Speaker 1: You can't get pulled over. You can't get pulled.
32:20
Speaker 3: I think I didn't know either.
32:21
Speaker 1: All Right, I gotta thank you. That guy's a character.
32:24
Speaker 1: Huh like that guy? Yeah? I need more more guys
32:27
Speaker 1: like that to call the show. She'll be better, eh.
32:32
Speaker 1: So the anybody buying that the mob was, I mean,
32:35
Speaker 1: people throw anything out. Why not what the hell hmm,
32:39
Speaker 1: people's homes do burned down? Mike Breen, the guy that
32:43
Speaker 1: was the well, he still is the face of the
32:45
Speaker 1: NBA play by I play his house burned down. Nobody
32:48
Speaker 1: said the mob was involved in that. It was they
32:50
Speaker 1: were doing some construction and somebody screwed something up and
32:53
Speaker 1: then there you go. Man alive. All right, it is
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Speaker 1: with the theme of the hour. So Golden States, Stephen
33:14
Speaker 1: Curry was called for his first flagrant foul. That's he
33:20
Speaker 1: had not had a flagrant foul in his entire career.
33:24
Speaker 1: So Curry went one thousand, one hundred and eighty nine
33:27
Speaker 1: games in the regular season and the playoffs without being
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Speaker 1: called for a flagrant foul, the fourth most since nineteen
33:36
Speaker 1: ninety six when they, I guess they put that in
33:39
Speaker 1: ninety six ninety seven. However, I hold the NBA record
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33:49
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36:05
Speaker 1: had many more points than that. And the Knicks led
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Speaker 1: by as many as twenty eight in that game, and
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Speaker 1: they end up winning comfortably. They won by thirteen a
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Speaker 1: little bit of a run by the Grizzlies lag. Anyway,
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Speaker 1: let's get to the now. Who am I get? Theme
36:18
Speaker 1: of the hour of celebrating the demise of Nico Harrison
36:21
Speaker 1: as the GM of the Dallas mav Rex. We don't
36:24
Speaker 1: feel bad. He got a big payout to go away.
36:26
Speaker 1: So here is the who am I game? Golden State
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Speaker 1: Stephen Curry was called for his first career flagrant foul.
36:35
Speaker 1: Golden State got smoked, absolutely smoked by Okay Seas. So
36:39
Speaker 1: I guess we will not hear from Alamy dlu and
36:42
Speaker 1: Lucky Tony and the Bay Area crowd is gonna be
36:46
Speaker 1: quiet on that one. But Curry had gone one eighty
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Speaker 1: nine games in the regular season and the playoffs without
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Speaker 1: being called for a flagrant foul. That was the fourth
36:56
Speaker 1: most since at least the ninety six ninety seven season.
36:59
Speaker 1: That's when they started tracking that kind of crap, and
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Speaker 1: I believe that's when the rule came in anyway. So
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Speaker 1: I hold the record for the most consecutive games without
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Speaker 1: being called for a flagrant foul in the NBA. Who
37:13
Speaker 1: am I? That is the question? What is the answer?
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Speaker 1: Sus smokes a lot says Curry gone wild? Okay air
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Speaker 1: bud from Big Greg, and I well, I met Big
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Speaker 1: Greg at the Minnesota meeting. But he's gonna be one
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Speaker 1: of our offensive linemen. I think he's scheduled to be
37:28
Speaker 1: our right tackle. I believe. Yeah, Chandler bing from Rob
37:33
Speaker 1: the goat Man. Dirk Diggler. Guess by random Ryan in Carolina. Yeah,
37:40
Speaker 1: he went with that Andy in Lina Lakes. I don't
37:43
Speaker 1: know what that's about. Ed O'Bannon guessed by Shane and Moyne.
37:46
Speaker 1: Liberachi from Alf the o'punt. It's fine. Liberachi's name came
37:52
Speaker 1: up the other day because if randomly, because we were
37:54
Speaker 1: talking about Jim Irsay in a conversation I had as
37:58
Speaker 1: they died, and I'm pretty sure Jim Ursey owns Liberachi's piano.
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Speaker 1: Liber You know, most people don't know who that is anymore,
38:04
Speaker 1: but he was a big deal back in the day.
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Speaker 1: I guess Barney the Purple Dinosaur. Guess by Femi Tanya Harding,
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Speaker 1: who has doubled Nichols today, she's fifty five. Who else
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Speaker 1: do we have? Page down? Rashid Wallace, Ball, don't lie, Ball,
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Speaker 1: don't lie. Both teams played hard, my man, both teams
38:22
Speaker 1: played hard. Miguel on Fire and I love the fact
38:24
Speaker 1: that I know the inside skinny from the late Great
38:27
Speaker 1: Trailbrezers announcer Brian Wheeler, who gave me the inside skinny
38:30
Speaker 1: on how that went down. When Rashid Wallace just kept repeating.
38:32
Speaker 1: Both teams played hard, my Man, Both teams played hard,
38:35
Speaker 1: Andy and Lionel Lake's going with Kareem Abdul Jabbar Chop Chop,
38:38
Speaker 1: Heathcliff Slocum from Mister Nice Guy, Mighty Ducks, Legend Goldberg
38:44
Speaker 1: from not a Burner in Anthony, Paper Machee Davis guess
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Speaker 1: by Malar prop Guy. That's his answer. Who else do
38:53
Speaker 1: we have? Page down? We'll skip over that. Gordy Verrell
38:57
Speaker 1: from Milkman, Mike in Colorado, Murphy guess by Gil in
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Speaker 1: San Diego, Ozzie Wiz from Western Australia where the Kangaroos
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Speaker 1: run wild, going with the Warm Dennis Rodman, Bill lame
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Speaker 1: Beer from Top Daddy. Who else do I page?
39:13
Speaker 2: Then?
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Speaker 1: Clubber Lang guess by Spockswed on the Oregon Trail. Hugh
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Speaker 1: on I five going with Eric Sleepy Floyd as his answer,
39:23
Speaker 1: Big Lou He's on number two going with Reggie Miller's
39:27
Speaker 1: insurance adjuster. Wow, All right? Who else do we have?
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Speaker 1: Johnny Q going with Shaq, Lonnie Shelton from Ryan in
39:34
Speaker 1: San Diego, Big rig Rob going with Angels, Legend, Moe
39:37
Speaker 1: Vaughn as his answer. All right, enough of that. The
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Speaker 1: correct answer, all right, reveal answers. Reveal answers a Golden
39:44
Speaker 1: State Stephen Curry, who has the fourth most games now
39:47
Speaker 1: before getting called for a flagrant foul. The record is
39:51
Speaker 1: held by Ray Allen, Celtic legend Ray Allen back in
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Speaker 1: the day.