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  Speaker 2: This is the best of the Ben Maler Show on
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  Speaker 1: So our lead this hour, don't bear the lead, mo man.
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  Speaker 1: It's silly season. We love silly season in sports. The transaction,
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  Speaker 1: the rumor, the speculation always always great, and we got
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  Speaker 1: a lot of it going on right now. In pro
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  Speaker 1: bouncy ball. Why are you talking about pro bouncybud? Won't
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  Speaker 1: you talk about that? All? Okay? I get your little
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  Speaker 1: therapy dog out and relax a little bit. Everything will
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  Speaker 1: be okay. Everything's gonna be okay. Our lead this hour
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  Speaker 1: though from the Bay Area. Now nobody can change teams
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  Speaker 1: yet we're close, like it's starting here in like a
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  Speaker 1: day or two or whatever it is coming up this week.
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  Speaker 1: So the lead from the Bay Area, where the Golden
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  Speaker 1: State wars. If you believe the scuttle button. The grape
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  Speaker 1: vine is yapping that they are looking to say bye
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  Speaker 1: bye to Jimmy Butler, Jimmy Buckets. We never seem to
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  Speaker 1: be a West Coast guy trying to unload his contract.
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  Speaker 1: And this is where it gets into satire. The Warriors
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  Speaker 1: have visions of cherry plums bouncing around in their head.
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  Speaker 1: They want to reunite the dynamic door that didn't do
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  Speaker 1: anything great with the Lakers. There are no championships, Anthony
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  Speaker 1: Davis and Lebron James. They want to bring those guys in. Now.
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  Speaker 1: A few weeks ago, as soon as that podcast guy,
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  Speaker 1: that Bill Simmons guy, he said he's betting his life.
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  Speaker 1: He's going to have to leave this mortal coil if
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  Speaker 1: Lebron does not end up with the Golden State Warriors. Now,
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  Speaker 1: if this works out the way that it's being speculated
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  Speaker 1: in the echo chamber, the Warriors would end up with
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  Speaker 1: a big four of Stephen Curry, Lebron James, Draymond Green,
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  Speaker 1: and Anthony Davis. In theory, in theory, that is how
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  Speaker 1: that would work. Always in theory, you know what I'm saying,
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  Speaker 1: all Right, So they supposedly they need somebody to take
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  Speaker 1: Jimmy Butler. This is the issue here. They've got everything
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  Speaker 1: else worked out if you believe the chatter and the
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  Speaker 1: Lebron's looking to leave the Laker And I still think
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  Speaker 1: Lebron's gonna go to Cleveland or Miami somewhere like that
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  Speaker 1: would makes no sense, but anyway, that's the chatter. They
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  Speaker 1: could also buy out Jimmy Butler. If he gets traded,
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  Speaker 1: he'll end up being bought out and then to go
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  Speaker 1: somewhere else. So all of this a lot to unpack.
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  Speaker 1: Let us discuss the question. Would Lebron Anthony Davis re united,
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  Speaker 1: joining Steph Curry and Draymond Green make the Warriors a
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  Speaker 1: heavyweight team to beat, a heavyweight team to beat in
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  Speaker 1: the Western Conference if all this goes down the way
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  Speaker 1: it's being described right now. The blueprint. So I've got Pinterest, Dominoes,
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  Speaker 1: and Dirty Bomb and we will combine all of these
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  Speaker 1: things together and we are gonna crank it up, fueled
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  Speaker 1: by the moonlight. And it's a beautiful moon. There's a
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  Speaker 1: lot going on with the moon, which means nut jobs
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  Speaker 1: are going to call the show more than normal. So hey,
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  Speaker 1: to begin this, I'm gonna answer this like Jeopardy. I'm
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  Speaker 1: gonna answer this like Jeffary the question about wood Lebron
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  Speaker 1: and Anthony Davis joining Steph Curry and Draymond Green make
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  Speaker 1: the Warriors a heavyweight team to beat in the West
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  Speaker 1: that all of a sudden, Oklahoma City and San Antonio
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  Speaker 1: are like, oh my god, no, all the Warriors with
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  Speaker 1: Lebron and Anthony Daviss. So answering it like like Jeopardy,
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  Speaker 1: I will take team that look better on paper for
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  Speaker 1: a thousand, Alex Can I get that for a thousand? Sure?
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  Speaker 1: Why not? All right? Are they smoking bath salts by
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  Speaker 1: the bay? Is that what they're doing right there? Come on,
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  Speaker 1: whose idea is this? Seriously? Like this keeps popping up,
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  Speaker 1: this idea that Lebron is going to go there. Now
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  Speaker 1: they've added Anthony Davis to the big board, not the list,
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  Speaker 1: the big board. And you know it's like a Pinterest
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  Speaker 1: page of bad ideas. Let's get all the bad ideas,
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  Speaker 1: will lay them all out in photo form. And we've
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  Speaker 1: seen better roster construction in a YMCA game of shirts
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  Speaker 1: versus skins. We've seen better pick up roster building at
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  Speaker 1: the local YMCA. Then the idea that this is going
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  Speaker 1: to work. Lebron is at age forty one. Lebron has
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  Speaker 1: slowed down noticeably to anyone paying attention compared to his prime,
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  Speaker 1: which is not like a rip. That's just the reality
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  Speaker 1: of the situation. And he looks old. You see some
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  Speaker 1: of the clips and he just looks like an old
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  Speaker 1: dude playing basketball. And he gets some numbers and occasionally
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  Speaker 1: has a big night and people get all horny for
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  Speaker 1: that and they get all excited to get their pants down.
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  Speaker 1: But the reality is he just moves around slower. He's
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  Speaker 1: not a total big lug at this point. There's not
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  Speaker 1: a lot of fluidity. He's not the freight train to
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  Speaker 1: the to the rim that he had been, which is
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  Speaker 1: you anticipate. That's how it works. That's how it's supposed
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  Speaker 1: to work, unless you're on a whole cocktail of good stuff.
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  Speaker 1: And even then, when you get to a certain age,
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  Speaker 1: it doesn't matter. And the idea that he wants to
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  Speaker 1: be reunited, this has to be coming from Lebron right,
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  Speaker 1: that he wants to be reunited with his Taco Tuesday
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  Speaker 1: homeboy Anthony Davis, and they can do funny videos on
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  Speaker 1: TikTok making tacos and all that and then you have
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  Speaker 1: the unibrow who's like he's just kind of hanging out
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  Speaker 1: waiting for someone to take him off the Wizards, and
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  Speaker 1: he didn't have that kind of power to force his
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  Speaker 1: way anywhere at this point, no way, not with his history.
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  Speaker 1: Anthony Davis is the Mona Lisa of injury prone players.
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  Speaker 1: And we are so lucky. People talk about living in
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  Speaker 1: an era where they saw the all time greats. And
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  Speaker 1: if you have a certain age, you saw the greatest
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  Speaker 1: basketball player, Michael Jordan, right, so, the greatest quarterback, Tom Brady,
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  Speaker 1: the greatest baseball player. Babe Ruth didn't see him play.
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  Speaker 1: Didn't see Babe. I saw the greatest hockey player of
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  Speaker 1: all time, Wayne Gretzky saw him play. If you want
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  Speaker 1: to see the greatest testament to modern medicine and being
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  Speaker 1: injury prone, that would be Anthony Davis. Again, the Mona
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  Speaker 1: Lisa when it comes to falling apart, always one little
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  Speaker 1: sneeze on, little sneeze away from being out for six weeks,
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  Speaker 1: six weeks absence for Anthony Davis. There if all of
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  Speaker 1: this happens, which of course likely none of it will happen,
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  Speaker 1: We've got a talk show to you, today. The rumors
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  Speaker 1: bouncing around today, So we're going to talk about it
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  Speaker 1: right now. If all of this happens in the multiverse,
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  Speaker 1: there is a dimension where this all happens. They're not
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  Speaker 1: building a contender in San Francisco. No, they would build
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  Speaker 1: a nostalgia museum, That's what That would be a nice museum.
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  Speaker 1: And they won't sniff the top of the West. Not
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  Speaker 1: gonna happen. They will dominate the Early Bird Special, though,
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  Speaker 1: they will kick absolute tail at the Early Bird Special
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  Speaker 1: They've got that. Doesn't this feel like something that somebody
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  Speaker 1: made an elevator pitch after they had a couple of
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  Speaker 1: mohitos and they're like, Hey, I got an idea. Hey,
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  Speaker 1: let's flash back eight years and we'll reunite Lebron Davis
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  Speaker 1: and put them there with Curry and Draymond Green. Why
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  Speaker 1: not bring the other splash brother back? Bring back Klay Thompson.
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  Speaker 1: He's not he can't play anymore, and he's not really
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  Speaker 1: welcome with the team in Dallas. So who Goofed? I've
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  Speaker 1: got to know a right Meanwhile, to La, speaking of
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  Speaker 1: who Goofed, I've got to know a lot of chatter.
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  Speaker 1: Number you reached out to me C Maller, your guy
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  Speaker 1: could be gone. You see it, and you see it,
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  Speaker 1: you see it. Okay. So a lot of noise about
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  Speaker 1: the people's team, the Clippers, and they have been receiving
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  Speaker 1: trade offers. People say, hey, we would really like to
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  Speaker 1: get Kawhi Leonard, whose neck and neck with Anthony Davis
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  Speaker 1: for being fragile and so Supposedly, the chatter is the
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  Speaker 1: Clippers have been fielding offers from multiple teams this offseason. However,
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  Speaker 1: the chatter that we've heard is that they're not really
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  Speaker 1: all that interested in getting out of the Kawhi Leonard business.
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  Speaker 1: Why wouldn't they be. He's done so good, he's always healthy,
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  Speaker 1: and they're committed to keeping him and giving him a
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  Speaker 1: new deal, extending Kawhi Leonard for a little while longer. Okay. Now,
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  Speaker 1: the big gossip over the weekend was that the Toronto
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  Speaker 1: basketball team and the Dallas basketball team they had their
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  Speaker 1: laser locked in on Kawhi. They were hot and heavy
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  Speaker 1: to get Kawhi. You have Massai Jira Eu Jerry rather
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  Speaker 1: the GM in Dallas who was in Toronto when Kawhi
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  Speaker 1: was there, and they just have the Toronto thing, which
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  Speaker 1: is just wonderful, Like, if you're the Raptors, why wouldn't
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  Speaker 1: you want back an older version of Lebron of Kawhi?
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  Speaker 1: Right right? We hipped Lebron for being forty one. Kawhi
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  Speaker 1: is thirty five and he's got a lot more in
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  Speaker 1: the injury tank at this point than Lebron does. So
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  Speaker 1: Kawhi Leonards supposedly we talked about this a little bitt
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  Speaker 1: the end last week, but Kawhi Leonard would sign an
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  Speaker 1: extension with Toronto and the Raptors are all into it.
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  Speaker 1: The Clippers are supposedly listing. I love the report the
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  Speaker 1: Clippers are listing. They're listening to offers doing their due diligence.
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  Speaker 1: It's all about the due diligence there and China side.
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  Speaker 1: They found the offer so far to be underwhelming. There
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  Speaker 1: are some of the offers being reported on the interweb
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  Speaker 1: and they do look very underwhelming, very very underwhelming. Like
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  Speaker 1: Dallas is going to trade some bags of trash from
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  Speaker 1: after a Cowboy game out at the Jerry's World, and
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  Speaker 1: they want to give those bags of trash. They want
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  Speaker 1: to like to give those to the Clippers for Kawhi Leonard.
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  Speaker 1: So far, the Clippers say we don't need bags of trash.
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  Speaker 1: We're good on that. Although that is really nice trash
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  Speaker 1: from the Cowboys, we're good on that. And they would
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  Speaker 1: only consider trading Kawhi the Clippers if Kawhi Leonard himself
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  Speaker 1: says La da good bye and demands a trade. So
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  Speaker 1: if that happens, then all of a sudden we got something.
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  Speaker 1: There no indication that he's interested in that. Of course,
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  Speaker 1: Kawhi is not really interested in much of anything that
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  Speaker 1: involves activity. He likes to shut down like a computer,
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  Speaker 1: you turn the computer off. Kawhi likes to just do
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  Speaker 1: his own thing and all that stuff. So there's been
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  Speaker 1: no overwhelming offers. Supposedly, that is a good jumping off point.
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  Speaker 1: So let us discuss the question what do you read
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  Speaker 1: in to the Clippers handling of the many Kawhi Leonard
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  Speaker 1: rumors as the silly season gets cranked up here in
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  Speaker 1: pro bouncy ball. So it tells you that the Clippers
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  Speaker 1: and the rest of league. The big takeaway from this,
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  Speaker 1: the Clippers and the rest of the NBA do not
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  Speaker 1: believe that there will be any kind of real punishment
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  Speaker 1: to Kawhi Leonard based on the reporting that's taken place
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  Speaker 1: here that he's not going to be disciplined in any
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  Speaker 1: way for his Sopranos style no show job, which some
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  Speaker 1: dorky podcaster won a Pulitzer Prize for the NBA. It
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  Speaker 1: sounds like they doesn't really give a crap. As we
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  Speaker 1: talked about, I had heard from somebody that works in
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  Speaker 1: the NBA that said, this would rip the scab off,
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  Speaker 1: and this is common practice, and if the Clippers get dinged,
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  Speaker 1: they'll start outing other teams that have done the same thing.
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  Speaker 1: I'm not going to sit here and say the New
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  Speaker 1: York Knicks with Jalen Brunson and one of those teams,
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  Speaker 1: you can say that. I'm not going to say that.
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  Speaker 1: Let's just say the chatter is that it's Kawhi is
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  Speaker 1: not the only one, and it's pretty open. Who's got
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  Speaker 1: special side deals And if you if you get the clips,
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  Speaker 1: which you can certainly do, then you're gonna have to
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  Speaker 1: bring down some other guys in the NBA would like
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  Speaker 1: to avoid that. We'll see if that turns out to
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  Speaker 1: be the case or not. Now, why would the Raptors
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  Speaker 1: and the Mavericks, why would they be sniffing around Kawhi
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  Speaker 1: If Kawhi is going to be sent to NBA jail
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  Speaker 1: and Guantanamo Bay. It makes no sense. Like the fact
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  Speaker 1: that the Clippers are listening is also another tell that
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  Speaker 1: they're they're listening, That is that they're not fully committed
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  Speaker 1: to keeping Kawhi. Otherwise they would say, we're not listening. No,
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  Speaker 1: we're not gonna listen to anything. You know, We're gonna
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  Speaker 1: keep the guy. We love, Kawhi Leonard, that old thing.
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  Speaker 1: So they're not doing that. They're not shutting the door
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  Speaker 1: to Kawhi. Instead, they're holding it open and they've got
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  Speaker 1: their foot in the or they're waiting for the Domino's
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  Speaker 1: delivery guy to show up and Leonard, who Today's birthday,
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  Speaker 1: by the way, Happy birthday, Happy Birthday. I know he
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  Speaker 1: wants to hear that. Anyway, Kawhi Leonard turning thirty five
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  Speaker 1: on this Monday. It's still Sunday in the West, but
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  Speaker 1: this Monday, entering the final year of a deal at
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  Speaker 1: fifty million, this upcoming season must be nice, must be
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  Speaker 1: really nice.
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  Speaker 2: There.
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  Speaker 1: He wants a two year, one hundred and twenty six
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  Speaker 1: million dollar extension. I would also like that if somebody
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  Speaker 1: wants to give me that, I'll take a two year
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  Speaker 1: one hundred and twenty six million dollar extension. The numbers
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  Speaker 1: apparently not matching at this particular point there. And that's
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  Speaker 1: what happens when you're a part time performer, part time performer,
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  Speaker 1: and you start browsing the trade market. You start looking around.
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  Speaker 1: The clips are looking around, all right, will listen, We'll listen.
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  Speaker 1: See what's out there on Amazon and Tamu and all that.
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  Speaker 1: And then heck, I'm offering if the clips, I'm fine.
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  Speaker 1: If Kawhi goes, I'm done. I'm burned out. Is one
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  Speaker 1: of the reasons I don't like basketball as much as
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  Speaker 1: I used to. Guys like Kawhi Leonard. I just can't
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  Speaker 1: stand it, that mindset of I'll play when I want
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  Speaker 1: to play, go screw yourself. So I will drive Kawhi
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  Speaker 1: to the airport. I'll make sure he gets through customs.
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  Speaker 1: I'll even have my friend Nico fly over to Toronto
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  Speaker 1: to meet Kawhi and bring him back to the Raptors.
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  Speaker 1: And that's my guy. You know, he's in Vancouver. But
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  Speaker 1: Nicole flight to Toronto to welcome Kauai and give him
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  Speaker 1: back to Toronto and all that, and why not. The
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  Speaker 1: Kawhi experience has burned me. I've been burned, right, I've
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  Speaker 1: been burned. The load management epic, epic mystery, injuries that
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  Speaker 1: don't seem like real injuries, done disappearing acts. Check. That's
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  Speaker 1: the Kauhi experience with the clips. All right. Now, last
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  Speaker 1: word to Boston, where these Celtics are rumored to be
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  Speaker 1: desperately trying to unload Jalen Brown. What can Brown do
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  Speaker 1: for you? The trade speculation post Giannis to Miami. Now
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  Speaker 1: a former NBA executive who's now on the boob tube
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  Speaker 1: pretending to talk basketball, Bobby Marx. I don't know who
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  Speaker 1: that is, but apparently he appeared on NBA radio and
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  Speaker 1: that's a thing. Yes, NBA radio is a thing that
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  Speaker 1: must be great, all right, and discussed the market, discuss
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  Speaker 1: the market for Jalen Brown. And there was a clip
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  Speaker 1: that went all over the place in the last less
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  Speaker 1: cycle on the interweb, and you might have seen it
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  Speaker 1: or heard about it. It was an edited thirty eight
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  Speaker 1: second excerpt and it was posted where Bobby Mark's former
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  Speaker 1: NBA assistant GM said, there are mixed feelings about Jalen
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  Speaker 1: Brown around the league. Now the key line here, an
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  Speaker 1: unnamed analytics guy love the unnamed analytics guy, not an executive,
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  Speaker 1: not an executive, And I suppose he said that the
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  Speaker 1: view is that Jalen Brown is roughly the seventh best
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  Speaker 1: player on a team and that his analytics are not good.
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  Speaker 1: O m G. Yeah, sad Mark's positioned himself. Of course,
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  Speaker 1: it's more of an eye test guy trying to distance
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  Speaker 1: himself while relaying the comment. Now Jalen Brown, Sorry, do
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  Speaker 1: you think Jalen Brown ignored it? Do you think Jalen
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  Speaker 1: Brown said, I agree, I'm the seventh best player on
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  Speaker 1: an NBA team? Or do you think Jalen Brown put
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  Speaker 1: a megaphone on this and put it on blasts? So
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  Speaker 1: everyone who hadn't seen the clip made sure to see
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  Speaker 1: the clip of some poindexter taking a shot at Jalen Brown.
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  Speaker 1: N name name. Yet it's that answer, it's that answer,
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  Speaker 1: so question Celtics star Jalen Brown pushing back, he said,
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  Speaker 1: he roll the ball out. None of these guys are
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  Speaker 1: better than me on both ends. And he said he
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  Speaker 1: criticized analytics so they're used to discredit and control narratives,
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  Speaker 1: and he demanded the source. He demanded the source and
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  Speaker 1: stated that analytics have and are ruining the game we play.
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  Speaker 1: He said, they're playing AI hoops. Now, they're playing AI hoops.
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  Speaker 1: Now that's the that's the line, all right. So the
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  Speaker 1: question you've got Jalen Brown, Celtics star Jalen Brown pushing
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  Speaker 1: back now, pushing back now against the nerds or the
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  Speaker 1: unnamed analytic guy in this latest story trashing him. So
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  Speaker 1: whose corner are you in on this one? Whose corner
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  Speaker 1: are you in on this one? So after a minutes
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  Speaker 1: long Mallard deliberation, we know that some things are complicated.
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  Speaker 1: This is not complicated at all. This is easy. We
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  Speaker 1: are squarely on the side of Jalen Brown and his
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  Speaker 1: position as opposed to analytics guy. I've seen in my
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  Speaker 1: life Jalen Brown actually win back basketball games with his
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  Speaker 1: ability on the court. And I have also, not be fair,
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  Speaker 1: I've seen the nerds win as well. They win arguments
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  Speaker 1: on Reddit. So that's important, very important. Analytics have been
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  Speaker 1: weaponized for a number of years now like a dirty bomb.
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  Speaker 1: They are used to disperse radioactive material and to discredit
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  Speaker 1: players and all that. As Jalen Brown said, to control narratives.
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  Speaker 1: It's all about narrative control and all that stuff. Now
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  Speaker 1: we've reached a point where the pocket Protector guy, the
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  Speaker 1: pocket protector guy treats a net rating negative net rating
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  Speaker 1: like a felony high crimes and misdemeanors. If you have
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  Speaker 1: a low net rating, there is that you get one
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  Speaker 1: cherry picked metric, just one little cherry pick metric, and
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  Speaker 1: it gets blasted into the stratosphere. And I think Jaylen
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  Speaker 1: Resben in five All Star Games, he's been a finals MVP.
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  Speaker 1: I don't think I imagine that. I think he didn't
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  Speaker 1: win finals MVP, much to the chagrin of Jason Tatum
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  Speaker 1: when the Celtics won a couple of years ago. And
• 19:12
  Speaker 1: so all of this gets turned into a math problem
• 19:16
  Speaker 1: with bad vibrations, bad vibes, bad vibes. So calling Brown
• 19:20
  Speaker 1: the seventh best player on a team because of the
• 19:25
  Speaker 1: saber Metric society or whatever it is is laughable, laughable, laughable,
• 19:31
  Speaker 1: labl unlike the playoff frauds, for example, the guys who
• 19:36
  Speaker 1: turn into pumpkins. Playoff Harden comes to mind. When the
• 19:39
  Speaker 1: lights get bright, James Harden needs to go to the
• 19:41
  Speaker 1: club and get a lap dance. But who doesn't. And
• 19:44
  Speaker 1: Brown is battle tested, Jalen Brown, He's a cornerstone player,
• 19:49
  Speaker 1: he stepped up this year that I like to line
• 19:51
  Speaker 1: a I hoops. I like it. Baseball has had this
• 19:55
  Speaker 1: issue with their sport. Basketball also has it. That's why
• 19:58
  Speaker 1: we have Papa Shot in most of these NBA games.
• 20:00
  Speaker 1: It's just stand out by the three point line and
• 20:02
  Speaker 1: take three point shot after three point shot after three
• 20:05
  Speaker 1: point shot. Unlike the baseball guys. This is a different
• 20:09
  Speaker 1: animal though, because it's much easier. It seems to control
• 20:12
  Speaker 1: basketball on where you shoot and that style of plaything,
• 20:17
  Speaker 1: which is the Celtics are all in on that. But
• 20:20
  Speaker 1: Jalen Brown's like, hey, wait a minute, you cannot chat
• 20:23
  Speaker 1: GPT your way to toughness and heart and all that stuff.
• 20:27
  Speaker 1: You can't do it. So, as with anything, moderation, moderation, moderation,
• 20:31
  Speaker 1: I'm not anti completely against analytics, but the pendulum has
• 20:35
  Speaker 1: swung way too far. It's like a cult. At this point,
• 20:39
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• 20:43
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• 20:45
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  Speaker 1: And it's rage against the corporate machine. Rage against the
• 22:18
  Speaker 1: corporate machine. NFL Receiver edition Dateline Bay Area. Yet again,
• 22:26
  Speaker 1: that is where Wide Receiver Brandon Aya continues on the
• 22:30
  Speaker 1: war path, on the war path, bitter and broken, continue
• 22:35
  Speaker 1: his public campaign against the forty nine ers with multiple
• 22:39
  Speaker 1: social media post and YouTube videos over the weekend. The
• 22:45
  Speaker 1: former forty nine er Wide receiver, who's been in the
• 22:48
  Speaker 1: doghouse our for a long time now blaming who do
• 22:53
  Speaker 1: you see this? No? Okay, got it? Who do you
• 22:57
  Speaker 1: think he's blaming? Do you think he's blaming himself? God? No,
• 23:00
  Speaker 1: are you kidding me? Kme on entitled athlete? You can't
• 23:04
  Speaker 1: blame yourself. No, no, no, So he's blaming his former
• 23:07
  Speaker 1: agent and the forty nine er organization for his problems.
• 23:13
  Speaker 1: Say what yeah, former agent, He reiterated he's not going
• 23:17
  Speaker 1: back to the forty nine ers. More on that later.
• 23:20
  Speaker 1: Io claims that someone named Ryan Williams, that's a generic name,
• 23:24
  Speaker 1: who has personal and business ties with forty nine Ers
• 23:28
  Speaker 1: General manager John Lynch started this whole poop. Now, he
• 23:34
  Speaker 1: did not use the word poop. I cleaned that up.
• 23:36
  Speaker 1: He did not use the word poop. He used a
• 23:38
  Speaker 1: different word. I forget the word. It starts with an S.
• 23:41
  Speaker 1: I don't know. It's like he's out in the ocean.
• 23:43
  Speaker 1: You can see a ship that goes on on the ocean.
• 23:46
  Speaker 1: Of ship out there on the ocean's similar to that,
• 23:47
  Speaker 1: but I don't know what it is. So anyway, this
• 23:51
  Speaker 1: after the back and forth, iook the wide receiver fired
• 23:55
  Speaker 1: the agent in November of twenty twenty five. So the
• 24:00
  Speaker 1: connecting of the dots, the way I understand it, is
• 24:03
  Speaker 1: the player says, hey, I got rid of my agent.
• 24:06
  Speaker 1: The agent then gave information to the Niners and was
• 24:10
  Speaker 1: after me. So this is the reason the Niners of
• 24:13
  Speaker 1: being a bunch of doches to me is because I
• 24:16
  Speaker 1: got rid of the agent who's tight with John Lynch.
• 24:19
  Speaker 1: That's the way I read it. Lynch was called, or
• 24:23
  Speaker 1: I should say, I have called Williams and Lynch weirdos
• 24:27
  Speaker 1: and quote creepy predators, alleging that Williams had been texting
• 24:33
  Speaker 1: his wife. I also alleged that Lynch recently showed up
• 24:37
  Speaker 1: unannounced at his home, described as seeing a big old
• 24:41
  Speaker 1: white boy on his camera. All those white boys looked
• 24:45
  Speaker 1: at say, claiming it felt unsafe for him and his wife.
• 24:50
  Speaker 1: He did not offer any actual evidence that it was
• 24:52
  Speaker 1: John Lynch. Of course, it is more likely than not
• 24:55
  Speaker 1: that if it was John Lynch, he was going over
• 24:57
  Speaker 1: there to try to have a face to face, as
• 24:59
  Speaker 1: a man, face to face conversation to try to hammer
• 25:02
  Speaker 1: things out. Of course, they did not answer the door.
• 25:05
  Speaker 1: He also, Brandon i Auk yet again held up some
• 25:09
  Speaker 1: commanders gears, some commanders gear, held up a commander's football,
• 25:15
  Speaker 1: and repeatedly said that he will sign with Washington tomorrow. Tomorrow.
• 25:21
  Speaker 1: Tomorrow is another day if he's released. So there's a
• 25:25
  Speaker 1: guy that wants to go swim in the swamp of Washington, DC.
• 25:28
  Speaker 1: So that is a good jumping off point. Let us
• 25:31
  Speaker 1: discuss the question does Brandon Iyuk. Does wide receiver Brandon
• 25:36
  Speaker 1: Ayuk make a compelling argument the forty nine er guy
• 25:40
  Speaker 1: stuck in the twilight zone? Does he make a compelling
• 25:44
  Speaker 1: argument blaming his former agent for his predicament with the
• 25:50
  Speaker 1: forty nine ers. So I've got Dodgeball, Rocky Mountain, and wheels,
• 25:56
  Speaker 1: and we will combine all of these things together. And
• 25:59
  Speaker 1: when you're gonna go one, two, three and a B
• 26:04
  Speaker 1: C is what we're gonna do. We always start out
• 26:06
  Speaker 1: with number one. Number one I said, I did not
• 26:13
  Speaker 1: say it again, number one. All right, answer the question,
• 26:17
  Speaker 1: hell no. The answer is hell to the no. That's
• 26:22
  Speaker 1: the long answer, the short answer, and the only answer,
• 26:25
  Speaker 1: all in one, a one stop shop. Hell no, Yeah,
• 26:29
  Speaker 1: hell no. He's playing the world's largest game of dodgeball.
• 26:34
  Speaker 1: Brandon Auk, of course, playing dodgeball with the A word
• 26:38
  Speaker 1: accountability is what he's doing here. Now. Brandon's my agent
• 26:43
  Speaker 1: ruined everything. He wasn't for that meddling agent. It's essentially
• 26:47
  Speaker 1: what he's saying. That's it. That, of course collapses, That
• 26:52
  Speaker 1: defense collapses instantly. It's kind of like pointing water on
• 26:58
  Speaker 1: a tissue. Uh comes, He's the problem, and he's blaming
• 27:04
  Speaker 1: the agent, and he's blaming the forty nine ers and
• 27:07
  Speaker 1: all this stuff. He's blaming others the exact problem that
• 27:11
  Speaker 1: he created. He is a creator. He created this situation.
• 27:16
  Speaker 1: And agents, if you've ever had one, and I had
• 27:19
  Speaker 1: an agent for a little bit, and it wasn't a
• 27:21
  Speaker 1: very good relationship that I had. However, when I got
• 27:24
  Speaker 1: rid of my agent, and well he got rid of me,
• 27:27
  Speaker 1: I didn't raise a hullabaloo. There was no hullabaloo. When
• 27:30
  Speaker 1: I got rid of the agent. The agents say, hey, listen,
• 27:32
  Speaker 1: I'm a human shield. They'll tell you listen, I'm the
• 27:35
  Speaker 1: bad guy. I am the person you say, hey, I
• 27:38
  Speaker 1: can't do this. My agent said this. At the same time, though,
• 27:41
  Speaker 1: it's a weird relationship because agents will always say I
• 27:44
  Speaker 1: am at your disposal, I am your employee, I am
• 27:49
  Speaker 1: an advocate for you. You pay me a percentage of
• 27:52
  Speaker 1: your money, and I will look out for you. That's
• 27:54
  Speaker 1: the agent relationship. They negotiate contracts the agents. Players have
• 27:59
  Speaker 1: to fulfill them. And Brandon IUK did not fulfill his
• 28:03
  Speaker 1: forty nine or contract, and here he is playing the
• 28:06
  Speaker 1: blame game, the blame game, blaming his former agent for
• 28:11
  Speaker 1: the rehab which he apparently did not attend with the
• 28:14
  Speaker 1: forty nine ers. Show me the clause in the NFL contract.
• 28:19
  Speaker 1: Show me the clause there where the agent made Brandon
• 28:23
  Speaker 1: Ayuc post threats online. What part of that I haven't
• 28:27
  Speaker 1: seen it. There must be a clause in there somewhere
• 28:30
  Speaker 1: I missed it. So this is external sabotage. It's external sabotage.
• 28:37
  Speaker 1: It's pure, unadulterated, it's self sabotage. It's all of that
• 28:43
  Speaker 1: The reality is that Brandon Ayuk is the common denominator
• 28:46
  Speaker 1: of doom. He is the common denominator of doom and
• 28:49
  Speaker 1: all this stuff, and he's self sabotage. You want to
• 28:51
  Speaker 1: find out who the fall guy is looking the mirror,
• 28:53
  Speaker 1: Look in the mirror. That's it. Every single disaster involved
• 28:58
  Speaker 1: in this, and it's been going on for months and months.
• 29:00
  Speaker 1: I had Brandon Iuk fatigued last week, and I guess
• 29:04
  Speaker 1: I got over it on the weekends because here I
• 29:06
  Speaker 1: am talking about the story yet again, every single mistake.
• 29:11
  Speaker 1: His fingerprints are all over. He's the arsonist complaining about
• 29:18
  Speaker 1: the smoke. But you started the fire, dummy, What do
• 29:21
  Speaker 1: you think there's no smoke. Come on. He's like he's
• 29:26
  Speaker 1: trying to turn his malpractice into martyrdom, like he's some
• 29:31
  Speaker 1: kind of martyr. And it was always this. There's always
• 29:33
  Speaker 1: the low information fan, the dumb fan, the knuckle dragging
• 29:38
  Speaker 1: Neanderthal fan that you know, the jock sniffing fan. Oh,
• 29:41
  Speaker 1: poor Brandon iuck boooooo. Of course there's a word for
• 29:46
  Speaker 1: these people. Their mama Luke's is what they are. It's ridiculous.
• 29:50
  Speaker 1: Washington Commander's gear multiple times in recent weeks in the videos.
• 29:56
  Speaker 1: That alone is a body blow, body blow to the reputation,
• 30:02
  Speaker 1: more so than anything the agent has done. There's nothing
• 30:05
  Speaker 1: the agent has done here you can say, hey, you
• 30:09
  Speaker 1: know this. This is worse than that unless the agent
• 30:13
  Speaker 1: went on the interweb and bought some of that Washington
• 30:17
  Speaker 1: Commander gear, which I'm pretty sure he did not. You
• 30:19
  Speaker 1: can't blame the GPS when you're the one who drove
• 30:23
  Speaker 1: the car straight into the lake. Cannot do it right.
• 30:26
  Speaker 1: And he voided the guarantees. His own guarantees got avoided
• 30:31
  Speaker 1: because of his actions. Brandon, you did that, not John Lynch.
• 30:36
  Speaker 1: You did that, not your agent. You you're the one
• 30:40
  Speaker 1: that no boogeyman, you're the one that did it. Congratulations now,
• 30:45
  Speaker 1: but wait, there's more. We're not done flogging a dead horse,
• 30:48
  Speaker 1: as mister nice guy likes to say, We're very good
• 30:50
  Speaker 1: at flogging dead horses. So Brand and I also escalating
• 30:55
  Speaker 1: the public feud with the Niners even more in this
• 30:57
  Speaker 1: YouTube video, Bananaza over the weekend declaring that he will
• 31:02
  Speaker 1: not report the forty nine or training camp. IOK stated
• 31:06
  Speaker 1: very confidently that he will never be stepping in that building,
• 31:10
  Speaker 1: a forty nine er facility except potentially on October nineteenth. Now,
• 31:16
  Speaker 1: what's so magic? What's so special about October nineteenth? That
• 31:20
  Speaker 1: is when the forty nine Ers host Brandon Iowk's favorite team,
• 31:24
  Speaker 1: the Washington Commanders, And he said that that's it all
• 31:28
  Speaker 1: right now, question Brandon ioks says he will not report
• 31:32
  Speaker 1: the forty nine or training camp. He says, I don't
• 31:35
  Speaker 1: care how long I got await He said, So, how
• 31:39
  Speaker 1: are you reading this defiance? This clear defiance? So Brandon
• 31:44
  Speaker 1: is talking tough. He's the tough guy, keyboard hero, YouTube
• 31:49
  Speaker 1: rockstar boxing guy, that old thing. However, the defiance, it's
• 31:56
  Speaker 1: not rebellion. It feels less like rebellion the fiance, and
• 32:01
  Speaker 1: more like a man who has stumbled on to a
• 32:04
  Speaker 1: corn maze he made and is lost in his own
• 32:07
  Speaker 1: corn maze, can't find his way out. And he sounds
• 32:11
  Speaker 1: like he just doesn't understand that he already owns the
• 32:16
  Speaker 1: ace in the hole. He's got the Trump card, not
• 32:19
  Speaker 1: the president trump card, He's got the Trump card on this.
• 32:22
  Speaker 1: He says he'll wait as long as it takes, as
• 32:26
  Speaker 1: long as it takes. And frankly, this is the part
• 32:29
  Speaker 1: that blows our mind, because he has the power. You
• 32:34
  Speaker 1: have the power. What are you doing now? He's the
• 32:37
  Speaker 1: guy who refuses to leave the restaurant. He just won't
• 32:40
  Speaker 1: order anything. Well, you got to order something. I don't
• 32:42
  Speaker 1: want to order it, but you got you gotta order something.
• 32:44
  Speaker 1: I don't want to, uh, that old thing. I mean frankly,
• 32:49
  Speaker 1: this is the first holdout I can recall in the NFL.
• 32:54
  Speaker 1: And I'm sure maybe it happened years ago in my
• 32:57
  Speaker 1: watch and I've been here a long time, like this
• 32:58
  Speaker 1: is the first holdout in the NFL where the player
• 33:00
  Speaker 1: is holding out from the actual solution. They have the solution,
• 33:05
  Speaker 1: they own the solution. It's a delivery from the Rocky
• 33:11
  Speaker 1: Mountain Chocolate Factory and Brandon IOK is he's take that delivery.
• 33:17
  Speaker 1: He's like, wait a minute, I don't want that flavor fudge.
• 33:19
  Speaker 1: What kind of fudge do you want? I've got the
• 33:21
  Speaker 1: cluster fudge, if you know what I mean. It's a
• 33:23
  Speaker 1: cluster fudge of a situation, because it really is. IOK
• 33:28
  Speaker 1: has lost a significant amount of money. All of his
• 33:31
  Speaker 1: guaranteed money is bye bye. It's out of here. And
• 33:36
  Speaker 1: veterans report to training camp in a little less than
• 33:39
  Speaker 1: a month the end of July for the forty nine ers,
• 33:43
  Speaker 1: and if he just showed up past his physical, he'd
• 33:48
  Speaker 1: forced the forty nine ers hand Brandon ayok would force
• 33:51
  Speaker 1: the forty nine ers hand. Camp would kind of be
• 33:55
  Speaker 1: like most people treat jury duty. It's a nuisance, it's
• 33:58
  Speaker 1: an inconvenience. Up, you get dismissed, you go on with
• 34:02
  Speaker 1: your day and just go home and that's it. And
• 34:06
  Speaker 1: you show up in this case, if you're the player,
• 34:09
  Speaker 1: you expedite the process. You get released and finally have
• 34:13
  Speaker 1: a chance to go to your beloved Washington commanders, if
• 34:17
  Speaker 1: they'll even have you. There are some people believe he'll
• 34:20
  Speaker 1: never play in the NFL again, that he's fed up
• 34:22
  Speaker 1: things so bad Brandon I hooked, that he will not
• 34:24
  Speaker 1: get a chance. I don't believe that, because these guys
• 34:27
  Speaker 1: will sign anybody. They literally, I mean, as long as
• 34:30
  Speaker 1: you're not wearing handcuffs. And even then they'll be like, well,
• 34:33
  Speaker 1: can we get can we trade the handcuffs for an
• 34:34
  Speaker 1: ankle bracelet? Okay, why not? That'll allow him to run.
• 34:38
  Speaker 1: The bracelet will slum down a little bit, but it's
• 34:41
  Speaker 1: better than handcuffs. What is this all about? So if
• 34:44
  Speaker 1: you missed it, Terry On Arnold turned himself in on
• 34:48
  Speaker 1: not one, not two, not three, not four, not five,
• 34:50
  Speaker 1: not six, not seven, eight felony counts related to an
• 34:55
  Speaker 1: armed robbery and kidnapping in Florida. That doesn't sound very good.
• 35:00
  Speaker 1: This happened back in mid February. They're comparing it to
• 35:04
  Speaker 1: O J. Remember OJ didn't go to jail for murder.
• 35:07
  Speaker 1: He went to jail for robbery at a hotel in Vegas,
• 35:12
  Speaker 1: getting some memorabilia back that he said was his. And
• 35:15
  Speaker 1: you're not allowed to do that the way he did it.
• 35:17
  Speaker 1: And so that's really what OJ went to jail for,
• 35:19
  Speaker 1: not for like slicing two people's heads off. You're allowed
• 35:21
  Speaker 1: to get away with that. Apparently in La you could
• 35:25
  Speaker 1: get away with it. But anyway, that's so that's the other.
• 35:27
  Speaker 1: So this is a this is a BIGS in Florida,
• 35:29
  Speaker 1: and Arnold's got a whole lot of issues to deal
• 35:32
  Speaker 1: with here and he has denied the allegations. The pre
• 35:36
  Speaker 1: child detention hearing is scheduled soon I think actually later today.
• 35:41
  Speaker 1: It's it's it's early this week, and the judge will
• 35:45
  Speaker 1: decide whether or not he remains in custody until the trial.
• 35:49
  Speaker 1: So the question, are you shedding. Are you shedding any
• 35:54
  Speaker 1: tears for Lions defensive back terry On Arnold looking at
• 35:58
  Speaker 1: losing Mews after his arrest. All right, so the answer
• 36:04
  Speaker 1: is obviously no way, come on, no way, you know.
• 36:08
  Speaker 1: And this guy Arnold, he may not be convicted yet, right,
• 36:14
  Speaker 1: he may not be convicted yet. His salary though, definitely
• 36:18
  Speaker 1: has been convicted. And I don't see a scenario other
• 36:23
  Speaker 1: than all charges being dropped the case of a misidentification.
• 36:28
  Speaker 1: Outside of that, like, I don't even know if you
• 36:31
  Speaker 1: can pay your way out of this. You know, oftentimes
• 36:35
  Speaker 1: what and I know this from this job, if you
• 36:38
  Speaker 1: get arrested with something like this, you try to work
• 36:41
  Speaker 1: out a deal with the aggrieved party and say, all right,
• 36:44
  Speaker 1: I'll cut a check for eight hundred thousand dollars. And
• 36:48
  Speaker 1: then you say, I don't want to press the charges,
• 36:52
  Speaker 1: and I don't want to. I want I want to
• 36:53
  Speaker 1: end the case right now, and occasionally that'll work. It
• 36:56
  Speaker 1: sounds like this one is beyond that, and uless, I'm
• 37:00
  Speaker 1: reading the room the wrong way. So it is an interesting,
• 37:04
  Speaker 1: interesting situation. So he's far from a boy scout, is
• 37:07
  Speaker 1: what I'm trying to say here. And if this legal
• 37:11
  Speaker 1: nightmare drags over the twenty twenty six season in twenty
• 37:16
  Speaker 1: twenty seven, which is highly likely if you have paid
• 37:20
  Speaker 1: any attention to have the wheels. The wheels go round
• 37:24
  Speaker 1: and round and round and round. The wheels of justice
• 37:27
  Speaker 1: do not go round and round. They go very slowly,
• 37:31
  Speaker 1: the slow grind of the wheels of justice, and Arnold
• 37:34
  Speaker 1: stands to lose. They did the math on this three
• 37:38
  Speaker 1: point six million This guy's gonna lose if this goes
• 37:42
  Speaker 1: the way it's headed right now and there is no
• 37:44
  Speaker 1: change of the jet stream, this will be a three
• 37:47
  Speaker 1: point six million dollar loss. And that hits him even
• 37:51
  Speaker 1: if he's not convicted, even if they say that he
• 37:54
  Speaker 1: played no role in this arm robbery, it doesn't matter.
• 38:00
  Speaker 1: Just by being detained the pre trial slap with a
• 38:05
  Speaker 1: Commissioner's exempt list type situation. We're not at all of
• 38:09
  Speaker 1: that yet. We're not far away from that. We're not
• 38:12
  Speaker 1: far away from that. And so the Lions keep in mind,
• 38:15
  Speaker 1: though the Lions traded up in the twenty twenty four
• 38:18
  Speaker 1: draft to grab the top ranked defensive back out of
• 38:22
  Speaker 1: Alabama from the Nick Saban coaching tree or playing tree,
• 38:29
  Speaker 1: and all that. The pedigree of Nick saban So Arnold
• 38:32
  Speaker 1: twenty twenty four first round, top defensive back according to
• 38:36
  Speaker 1: the radies high. I guess he was a high, high
• 38:39
  Speaker 1: character guy. I don't know. They always love to brag
• 38:41
  Speaker 1: about how they're very they do their due diligence in
• 38:44
  Speaker 1: the NFL and all that. Okay, top ranked defensive back,
• 38:48
  Speaker 1: he's playing okay for the Lions. They thought they were
• 38:50
  Speaker 1: getting Sauce Gardner two point zero franchise defensive back, and
• 38:55
  Speaker 1: instead they got legal gardener, is what they got. They
• 38:58
  Speaker 1: got a legal gardener. Luck on that, and so we'll
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  Speaker 1: see how this works. He's got a high priced defense
• 39:05
  Speaker 1: attorney that he brought in and so instead of getting
• 39:08
  Speaker 1: a shutdown defensive back Terry On Arnold, who they did get,
• 39:14
  Speaker 1: the only thing that he's been able to shut down
• 39:16
  Speaker 1: here recently is his own career in the NFL. Here,
• 39:20
  Speaker 1: so the bad news is, obviously he's gonna lose a
• 39:23
  Speaker 1: lot of money and he's likely going to have to
• 39:26
  Speaker 1: take some kind of plea deal. That's normally what ends
• 39:28
  Speaker 1: up happening on these cases. And I'll be Benny Bright
• 39:33
  Speaker 1: sid because the good news is, at least Terry On
• 39:35
  Speaker 1: Arnold is looking at being the number one pick in
• 39:40
  Speaker 1: the Longest Yard remake. Every twenty or thirty years they
• 39:43
  Speaker 1: remake the Longest Yard. It's been about twenty over twenty
• 39:46
  Speaker 1: years since the Longest Yard was remade, the last time
• 39:48
  Speaker 1: with Adam Sandler, so it's about time. So here we go,
• 39:51
  Speaker 1: bring back the Longest Yard. You could have Terry on
• 39:54
  Speaker 1: Arnold right there.