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  Speaker 1: about quiet night, Quiet night in sports. To a few
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  Speaker 1: baseball games. That was about it. So we did have
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  Speaker 1: some football stuff to cut my attention to some big
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  Speaker 1: developments which are expected. This is called a preview of
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  Speaker 1: bucket of popcorn, get some candy, so you might know
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  Speaker 1: where I'm going with this. But it's possible that you've
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  Speaker 1: not been paying attention, and that's fine, that's good. You
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  Speaker 1: actually have a life or you're working, so you might
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  Speaker 1: have missed it. But we have learned now that the Packers,
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  Speaker 1: not actual meat packers, but the football team known as
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  Speaker 1: the Packers, have submitted a revised proposal to ban the
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  Speaker 1: tush push. The Packers say no tushe. They want no toushe,
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  Speaker 1: the signature play which helped the reigning Super Ball champions,
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  Speaker 1: the Birds, Hey gee el ay, and somewhere in fats
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  Speaker 1: in Philadelphia is slathering oil on himself screaming this is
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  Speaker 1: not right. But tell yeah, the Eagles that Super Bowl
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  Speaker 1: run and how many times did they go to the
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  Speaker 1: tush push to get that short yardage place? So about
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  Speaker 1: a month ago? About a month ago, maybe a little longer,
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  Speaker 1: give or take time? What is time? So somewhat recently,
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  Speaker 1: the NFL tabled the vote which is known as a
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  Speaker 1: dead dive away. That is a dead dive away that
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  Speaker 1: day want this thing outlawed. They didn't have enough votes,
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  Speaker 1: so they said, rather than just say we don't have
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  Speaker 1: enough vote, we're gonna push it back till we get
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  Speaker 1: enough votes. Now, the owners are expected to vote on Wednesday,
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  Speaker 1: so this is our Tuesday show. You can do the
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  Speaker 1: math on that, and they'll decide the league meetings in
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  Speaker 1: Minneapolis where all the owners are beating Juicy Lucy and
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  Speaker 1: hanging out there at an airport adjacent hotel and take
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  Speaker 1: care of the league business. So the revised plan by
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  Speaker 1: the Green Bay Football Team would go back to a
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  Speaker 1: broader banishment of the plays. The language essentially was used
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  Speaker 1: from nineteen twenty when a bunch of degenerate gamblers started
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  Speaker 1: the NFL until twenty five when they changed the verbiage.
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  Speaker 1: So they go back to that prohibiting players in the
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  Speaker 1: NFL from pushing. No pushing, You cannot push, keep your
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  Speaker 1: hands to your stuff, kindergarten rules, keep your hands on yourself.
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  Speaker 1: You can't pull the runner in any other erection under
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  Speaker 1: the proposal by the Green Bay football team. Now, given
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  Speaker 1: the language in this again revised proposal, it would be
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  Speaker 1: virtually impossible, based on those that know these kind of things,
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  Speaker 1: to have the touch push. You might have to change
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  Speaker 1: it to something else, like the imaginary tushbush or something
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  Speaker 1: like that. But they need twenty four votes. We know
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  Speaker 1: the green Bay Packers are going to vote in favor
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  Speaker 1: of it because this is their idea, and the Eagles
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  Speaker 1: are going to vote against it because that's their play.
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  Speaker 1: So it's going to come down to the other thirty
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  Speaker 1: teams in the NFL that will decide this. Now, green
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  Speaker 1: Bay is closing argument, if you can call it a
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  Speaker 1: closing argument. I saw I thought this was interesting. I
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  Speaker 1: want to share it with you. So the Packers closing
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  Speaker 1: argument is that they must change the rule for player
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  Speaker 1: safety and pace of play. Let me reread that player
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  Speaker 1: safety and pace of play. So let's discuss the question.
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  Speaker 1: The Eagles are said to be campaigning right now today
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  Speaker 1: and they have the all day and then then Wednesday's
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  Speaker 1: the vote. So the Eagles are campaigning to protect the
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  Speaker 1: tush push, all right? So what is your reaction to
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  Speaker 1: this one? So I've got glitch, styrofoam, and Huey Lewis,
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  Speaker 1: and we will combine all of these things together and
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  Speaker 1: we're going to give you a migraine headache. We mecually
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  Speaker 1: stop and think about how stupid this is. We need
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  Speaker 1: to burn the toush push. Oh my god, that's so stupid.
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  Speaker 1: All right. So, hey, obviously the NFL, anybody with half
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  Speaker 1: a brain knows the league should not ban the toush push.
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  Speaker 1: It's dumb, the dumb, dumb, dumb to even think about it.
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  Speaker 1: The fact that Philly has to right now lobby NFL
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  Speaker 1: teams is absurd. With the capital A, it's absurd. It
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  Speaker 1: is a masculating for the NFL as a business that
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  Speaker 1: there's apparently a ground swell of support to ban the play. Really,
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  Speaker 1: come on the play? Hey, last I checked, And maybe
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  Speaker 1: I'm wrong on this. I think it's available for every
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  Speaker 1: team in the NFL. Just because your quarterbacks are wuss
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  Speaker 1: and your offensive line socks and you can't run the play,
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  Speaker 1: why punish the Eagles? And I'm not even an Eagles fan.
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  Speaker 1: I hate a lot of Eagle fans. They annoy me,
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  Speaker 1: But on this one, it's ridiculous. It's absolutely ridiculous. And
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  Speaker 1: instead of banning it, I don't know, copy it? How
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  Speaker 1: about that?
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  Speaker 2: Yeh?
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  Speaker 1: Copy it that anyway. I realize it is not an
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  Speaker 1: aesthetically pleasing play. I understand that part of it. However,
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  Speaker 1: it is allowed. It's been allowed. It is a creative
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  Speaker 1: stroke that the Eagles and Nick Sirianni put in there,
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  Speaker 1: and it does rely on strength and coordination and all
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  Speaker 1: of those things. And it's been called a rugby play.
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  Speaker 1: That's fine, but it's available to everyone, and the fact
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  Speaker 1: that it's so successful and there's no way to stop
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  Speaker 1: it becomes the the issue here, at least for the
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  Speaker 1: Eagles and for the Make no mistake about this, the
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  Speaker 1: Eagles have the campaign they have to save the play.
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  Speaker 1: That is the glitch in the matrix for the Philadelphia Eagles,
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  Speaker 1: and there is no debate about that. It is the
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  Speaker 1: ultimate cheat code for the birds. For some reason, all
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  Speaker 1: these other stumble bums in the NFL, many of them
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  Speaker 1: that Buffalo ran it pretty effectively, but for the most part,
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  Speaker 1: the other teams are completely clueless, completely clueless when it
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  Speaker 1: comes to running this particular But now, how good was it?
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  Speaker 1: We went back through the You know, we have a
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  Speaker 1: big staff here, a lot of people behind the scenes
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  Speaker 1: that work hard. Massive. I mean, if you knew how
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  Speaker 1: many people made this show, put the monologues together, the
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  Speaker 1: sound that you don't hear because we don't have any
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  Speaker 1: all that. I mean, there's so much stuff. I mean,
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  Speaker 1: it is just amazing. So the crack research staff here,
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  Speaker 1: based on a minutes long Malleard investigation, the Eagles converted
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  Speaker 1: the tush push into a first down or touchdownn thirty
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  Speaker 1: nine out of forty eight attempts. So that is a
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  Speaker 1: success rate of eighty one point three percent. But wait,
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  Speaker 1: there's more. As the Great ron Pole Peel, the late
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  Speaker 1: great infomercial legend said, back in the day, when you
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  Speaker 1: factor in situations where the birds attempted the first step,
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  Speaker 1: they failed. So they failed on the first attempt at
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  Speaker 1: the tushy pushy, and they followed with another tushy pushy,
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  Speaker 1: So two tushes and row. Two tushes better than one,
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  Speaker 1: So two tushes in row the very next play. The
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  Speaker 1: overall success rate was wait for it, ninety seven point
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  Speaker 1: nine percent. Nineties. Is there anything in life that is
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  Speaker 1: ninety seven point nine percent? There are two things that
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  Speaker 1: are one hundred percent, taxes and death. Other than that,
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  Speaker 1: there's nothing that is ninety seven point nine percent in life,
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  Speaker 1: but that two time toush push? Is that? Now? The
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  Speaker 1: Packers argument. I want to address this because I think
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  Speaker 1: this is hilarious and I thought this when I first
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  Speaker 1: saw this, I thought, well, this must be fake, you know,
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  Speaker 1: another one of these things. You don't know what's real?
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  Speaker 1: What's not? Am I getting punked?
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  Speaker 2: Here?
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  Speaker 1: Is this some kind of satire? Is that sports talk? Barry? So?
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  Speaker 1: The Packers argument is that it's for players safety, and
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  Speaker 1: it's for pace to play, and this is comedy gold
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  Speaker 1: is what it is. And here's why you have this
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  Speaker 1: thing called and I guess it's kind of new. It's
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  Speaker 1: called the play clock. It's a forty second play clock.
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  Speaker 1: And guess what Philadelphia when they announced they're running the
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  Speaker 1: tush push, they don't get an extra thirty seconds because
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  Speaker 1: they're gonna push the tush. They don't get that right,
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  Speaker 1: and that's it. And as far as the health factor,
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  Speaker 1: as my late great grandfather would say, that's a lot
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  Speaker 1: of hutzba to say that you're gonna do this because
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  Speaker 1: of health. So we went back and look the NFL itself,
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  Speaker 1: the league itself, which will lie about anything. They said.
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  Speaker 1: The NFL said that they have found no evidence, no
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  Speaker 1: evidence that the tush push is a risk play. There's
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  Speaker 1: no additional risk to running the play. That's the league
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  Speaker 1: itself saying that. All right, now turn to the page here.
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  Speaker 1: So is there anything to the conspiracy that is going around? Yes,
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  Speaker 1: there is actually a conspiracy theory about the tush push.
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  Speaker 1: Welcome to twenty twenty five, my friends. So is there
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  Speaker 1: anything to the Roger Goodell conspiracy that he's using the
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  Speaker 1: Green Bay Packers to push, if you will, through this
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  Speaker 1: plan to ban the tushbush. So I'm nodding my head. Yes.
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  Speaker 2: You know.
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  Speaker 1: My position, if you've heard the show over the years,
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  Speaker 1: is I go on a case by case basis. There's
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  Speaker 1: certain conspiracies that I absolutely believe. I don't think they're
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  Speaker 1: conspiracy that I think they're called reality. This is something
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  Speaker 1: I buy into. I'm nodding my head, yes that I
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  Speaker 1: do believe there's something to this. And every whisper has
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  Speaker 1: a source, right, every whisper has a source here. So
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  Speaker 1: if you can imagine me wearing my tinfoil hat here
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  Speaker 1: the whispers that the NFL is using the Packers as
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  Speaker 1: a pawn like they're playing chess here, And here's why.
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  Speaker 1: Do you know who the owner of the green Bay
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  Speaker 1: Packers is, Well, it's me. I have a stock. I
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  Speaker 1: have a piece of paper owns. Okay, yeah, you own
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  Speaker 1: a piece of stock in the Green Bay Packers. You
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  Speaker 1: have no say though, in what the team does. In fact,
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  Speaker 1: no one, no one owns the Green Bay Packers. The
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  Speaker 1: Packers do not have a single owner of the team.
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  Speaker 1: It's the most unique thing we have in American sport
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  Speaker 1: among the industrial complex of American sport, where the Green
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  Speaker 1: Bay are publicly owned and listed as a nonprofit, so
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  Speaker 1: we get all the finances of the NFL every year.
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  Speaker 1: So the way this works, Roger Goodell doesn't like the
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  Speaker 1: Torch Bush publicly, he can't trash it because he's the
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  Speaker 1: commission of the NFL and he's got to support everyone Privately,
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  Speaker 1: he hates it. TV doesn't like it. So Roger Goodell
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  Speaker 1: behind the scenes and his underlings at the NFL asking
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  Speaker 1: the Green Bay Packers CEO Mark Murphy, who I believe
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  Speaker 1: is on his way out to do the dirty work
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  Speaker 1: for the league. Hey, do us a solid. You're leaving anyway,
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  Speaker 1: and we need to help on this. We don't want
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  Speaker 1: any other owner to look like the bad guy, and
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  Speaker 1: we can. You know you'll be goofed on, so we'll
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  Speaker 1: have you do it, and and there you go, so
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  Speaker 1: and again. Every whisper has a source. Every single whisper
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  Speaker 1: has a source. Pretty pathetic though, to hide behind the
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  Speaker 1: styrofoam cheeseheads from Green Bay and using the Packers to
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  Speaker 1: do the dirty work for the league. All right, now,
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  Speaker 1: turning the page quickly, we mentioned the Eagles to the
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  Speaker 1: victor goes the spoils. They might not keep the tush push,
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  Speaker 1: but it doesn't matter. Their coach got paid. Nick Siriani
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  Speaker 1: gets a multi year lucrative extension. I believe I fired
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  Speaker 1: him seven times on radio and three times on the
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  Speaker 1: TV show we did last year. Actually the last two years,
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  Speaker 1: I've fired Sirianni multiple times. What he gets the gig
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  Speaker 1: extension for Sirianni. So is this a throwaway the key situation?
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  Speaker 1: As you say throw away the key situation. Has Nick
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  Speaker 1: Sirianni locked down the Philadelphia job for the foreseeable future,
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  Speaker 1: as you locked this thing down. So I'm not gonna
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  Speaker 1: go there. I'm not gonna go there. It's at this
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  Speaker 1: point he's got the gig and they won the Super
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  Speaker 1: Bowl and rah rah rah. But even in the after
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  Speaker 1: glow of that shiny Lombardy, even after that, Nick Sirianni,
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  Speaker 1: if he was a stock, he is a highly volatile stock,
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  Speaker 1: and the kind of a stock that could deliver you
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  Speaker 1: big gains, win a Super Bowl, and easily wipe out
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  Speaker 1: those big gains in your portfolio by being a knucklehead.
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  Speaker 1: And so that's the issue. Like I look at syrian
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  Speaker 1: is like the Huey Lewis and the news type coach there, right,
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  Speaker 1: he's Syriani's not there for a long time in Philadelphia,
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  Speaker 1: but man is he there for a good time. And
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  Speaker 1: certainly and Sirianni's sideline antics and the total lack of professionalism,
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  Speaker 1: which is great for talk radio. I don't get me wrong.
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  Speaker 1: As a talk show host, I love Nick Sirianni. He's amateur,
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  Speaker 1: he's he does everything you're not supposed to do as
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  Speaker 1: a grown up, and it's good for talk radio. It's
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  Speaker 1: really great. Like fans, heklum, and he's a pompous a
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  Speaker 1: hole and like all the stuff you're taught not to
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  Speaker 1: do he does, which is really good for what I do.
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  Speaker 1: He bites back, he doesn't keep his composure right, emotional outbursts.
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  Speaker 1: All that is wonderful for us. And it's fine if
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  Speaker 1: the Eagles are winning, and it's not going to last,
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  Speaker 1: right the Eagles. If you look at the Eagles right now,
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  Speaker 1: I would argue the success of the Eagles is based
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  Speaker 1: more on a byproduct of the talent than it is
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  Speaker 1: any kind of amazing coaching powers of Nick Sirianni. That
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  Speaker 1: that is the thing, Like the whole trash talk and
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  Speaker 1: stuff and getting into it with opposing players and the
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  Speaker 1: referees and the Eagle fans and all that, like that's
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  Speaker 1: all fun when you're good, and then when you're bad,
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  Speaker 1: it's like, wait a minute, this guy, we gotta get
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  Speaker 1: somebody else in here. This guy annoys doing.
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  Speaker 1: so our lead. This hour is from the hardwood now.
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  Speaker 1: Since the Celtics played gutless basketball on Friday and were
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  Speaker 1: exterminated by the New York Knickerbockers on that Friday night game.
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  Speaker 1: No contest, no fight, just roll over and play dead,
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  Speaker 1: getting the fetal position there. So we did not have
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  Speaker 1: a Game seven in the Eastern Conference semifinals that was
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  Speaker 1: supposed to be played on Monday night. Of course, for
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  Speaker 1: that to happen, there needs to actually be a game seven.
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  Speaker 1: There was no game set, so instead all the arenas
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  Speaker 1: went dark on Monday and the day of reflection, Day
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  Speaker 1: of reflection. Conference finals will begin here on Tuesday night,
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  Speaker 1: and a lot of chatter. And I'm all about the chatter.
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  Speaker 1: I'm in the chatter business. In fact, I live for chat.
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  Speaker 1: So the chatter about the unique look of the final
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  Speaker 1: four of the NBA. And if you have not been following,
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  Speaker 1: I don't know how you could have missed all this.
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  Speaker 1: But this is not your dad's, this is not your
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  Speaker 1: grandpa's Conference finals. You've got the Knicks who have been
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  Speaker 1: bad for a generation, twenty five years of suck. You've
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  Speaker 1: got the Pacers who are there, the Timberwolves and OKC,
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  Speaker 1: so not the usual suspects. Although you say, well, Minnesota
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  Speaker 1: and Indiana, Okay, still not used to those teams being
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  Speaker 1: in the conference final, and so some new actors on
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  Speaker 1: the stage. And when there's new actors, you either like
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  Speaker 1: the actors you don't like the actors. Now many are convinced,
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  Speaker 1: many the wise people, the cool kids, are convinced the
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  Speaker 1: lack of the traditional superstar player, the black of the
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  Speaker 1: normal franchises that we see in this round of the
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  Speaker 1: playoffs is going to be bad for the bottom line
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  Speaker 1: of basketball. So let us discuss the question what will
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  Speaker 1: it take. I'm going to deputize you as the marketing gurup,
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  Speaker 1: So what will it take to get people jazzed up
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  Speaker 1: for Knicks, Pacers and Thunder and Wolves in the conference
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  Speaker 1: finals of the NBA. So I've got ken Burns, algebra,
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  Speaker 1: together and we are going to make a line drive
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  Speaker 1: base hit right up the gut is what we're gonna make.
• 20:50
  Speaker 1: So numb burn number get a NUMBERN all right. So,
• 20:58
  Speaker 1: we obviously do not work for the NBA. We are
• 21:01
  Speaker 1: not on the dime, We're not in the tank. As
• 21:04
  Speaker 1: far as I know, the company does not have a
• 21:05
  Speaker 1: deal with the NBA. So I am not shackled to
• 21:10
  Speaker 1: kiss the tucks of Adam Silver in the NBA. And
• 21:13
  Speaker 1: this is a their problem, it's not our problem. But
• 21:16
  Speaker 1: the question for the monologue was, hey, help the NBA out.
• 21:21
  Speaker 1: What is going to get take to get people all
• 21:23
  Speaker 1: jazz dubbed as a public service. A lot of PSAs
• 21:27
  Speaker 1: get aired when I'm on the radio overnight, so as
• 21:29
  Speaker 1: a public service announcement, let's help the NBA out. So
• 21:33
  Speaker 1: it's not about the base. People mistake this as being
• 21:35
  Speaker 1: about the base. It's not about the base. It's like
• 21:39
  Speaker 1: a political convention, the political invention. You're going to fire
• 21:43
  Speaker 1: up the base, but it's not really about the base.
• 21:45
  Speaker 1: Right the basketball hard oh is going to watch. We're
• 21:50
  Speaker 1: a captive audience, absolutely a captive audience here. We have
• 21:54
  Speaker 1: a talk show to do every night, so of course
• 21:56
  Speaker 1: we're gonna watch. It's broadcast, not narrow casting, unfortunately, and
• 22:02
  Speaker 1: there's a narrow window for these these teams. It is
• 22:07
  Speaker 1: about the undecided voter. They've got to convince the undecided
• 22:12
  Speaker 1: voter to win the heart, mind and soul of the
• 22:14
  Speaker 1: undecided voter here, and when you have the usual suspects,
• 22:18
  Speaker 1: it's obviously easier. Everyone knows that you mean, you don't
• 22:21
  Speaker 1: even me to tell you it's easier if you simply
• 22:24
  Speaker 1: toss out Steph Curry, Lebron James, somebody like that, players
• 22:28
  Speaker 1: of that ilk that are in many ways prepackaged and
• 22:33
  Speaker 1: it's just ready to go. You take it off the
• 22:34
  Speaker 1: shelf and you're good to go. It's easy to sell that.
• 22:38
  Speaker 1: The NBA, I assume they have a lot of marketing people,
• 22:41
  Speaker 1: you know, highly educated marketing people there. I've been, I
• 22:43
  Speaker 1: walked by. I was last time I was in New York.
• 22:46
  Speaker 1: I was wandering around in the middle of the night,
• 22:48
  Speaker 1: which you probably should not do. You could get mugged.
• 22:50
  Speaker 1: But I'm a big guy, and I was wandering around.
• 22:52
  Speaker 1: And within about a three or four block area of
• 22:57
  Speaker 1: midtown Manhattan, you have the the NBA headquarters, You've got
• 23:02
  Speaker 1: Major League Baseball, the NFL, and also Hockey, although hockey
• 23:08
  Speaker 1: as headquarters in Toronto as well, but they're all within
• 23:11
  Speaker 1: like the Triangle of Sport Doom, all in that area,
• 23:15
  Speaker 1: just adjacent to Madison Avenue. They're all and they have
• 23:19
  Speaker 1: like the top minds and all that stuff. So the
• 23:22
  Speaker 1: NBA marketing people, you roll up your sleeves here and
• 23:26
  Speaker 1: it is storytelling one oh one. That is how you
• 23:30
  Speaker 1: close the gap. That's obviously how you close the gap.
• 23:33
  Speaker 1: And humans are hardwired for stories. We all are. We
• 23:36
  Speaker 1: learn as kids based on fables and stories, and that's
• 23:41
  Speaker 1: just the way we are programmed in the matrix, you know,
• 23:44
  Speaker 1: where it's all part of some weird glitch or something
• 23:47
  Speaker 1: like that. Anyway, the NBA in the Conference finals, if
• 23:51
  Speaker 1: I were in charge, if I were advising them, you
• 23:53
  Speaker 1: sell the heck out of Anthony Edwards, who's had some success.
• 23:58
  Speaker 1: Although he also loves to talk talk about his big date.
• 24:01
  Speaker 1: You can sell that as well. There's a crowd that
• 24:03
  Speaker 1: we're like that. Shay Gilgas, Alexander the former Clipper. Easy
• 24:08
  Speaker 1: to sell a former Clipper, obviously, Jalen brunts it. But
• 24:11
  Speaker 1: as ken Burns, who's I think done every documentary on
• 24:14
  Speaker 1: PBS of these ken Burns, the famous documentary filmmaker. He
• 24:19
  Speaker 1: once said that all story, every story is a manipulation. Okay,
• 24:27
  Speaker 1: every story is a manipulation. That the truth is a
• 24:30
  Speaker 1: byproduct of the stories, and emotional truth is something that
• 24:34
  Speaker 1: you have to build. So the league will leverage, if
• 24:40
  Speaker 1: you will, the myth building that is required here. Manipulation
• 24:44
  Speaker 1: through highlight reels, social media, sizzle, trying to squeeze out
• 24:51
  Speaker 1: other campaigns as well, trying to squeeze something out here
• 24:53
  Speaker 1: and create the legend. Your myth building is essentially what
• 24:56
  Speaker 1: you're doing. You're building the myth of these players. And
• 24:58
  Speaker 1: this is going to be the next group of players
• 25:00
  Speaker 1: that dominate the NBA. And you got to figure it out.
• 25:03
  Speaker 1: You got to like these guys because they're going to
• 25:05
  Speaker 1: be here every year and and all that. And you
• 25:08
  Speaker 1: have to hook. You have to. You have to get
• 25:10
  Speaker 1: your claws in to the know nothing, uneducated fan that
• 25:15
  Speaker 1: that not you. I mean, you're listening to a sports
• 25:16
  Speaker 1: talk radio show. God, you have highly educated, only the
• 25:19
  Speaker 1: best and brightest minds. Lorena was telling me that in
• 25:22
  Speaker 1: our production meeting. She said, Ben, you know, the smartest
• 25:25
  Speaker 1: people listen to overnight talk radio. And I said, you
• 25:27
  Speaker 1: know what, Lorenni, You're absolutely right. I did. I did it.
• 25:30
  Speaker 1: You told me that she educated me in a production
• 25:32
  Speaker 1: meeting that we had. All right, So page two here,
• 25:35
  Speaker 1: So why does the perception persist? Right? Why does the
• 25:40
  Speaker 1: perception persist that small market teams in the NBA are
• 25:46
  Speaker 1: a death sentence, that they are for television. They hurt
• 25:49
  Speaker 1: the TV ratings. Here there are examples in the past
• 25:53
  Speaker 1: where that is not the case and it's actually shown otherwise.
• 25:56
  Speaker 1: But why is it that that perception continues here? And
• 26:00
  Speaker 1: it's it's a numbers situation. And I I kind of
• 26:07
  Speaker 1: work barely in TV. I don't even have the show
• 26:10
  Speaker 1: will be picked up again for season three. I don't
• 26:12
  Speaker 1: know I have everything yet, so I get a little
• 26:13
  Speaker 1: taste of it. But it's pretty simple. It's it's like
• 26:16
  Speaker 1: anything you have a report card, and when you're in
• 26:19
  Speaker 1: the TV world or the NBA world, it's, uh, it's
• 26:22
  Speaker 1: it's a simple I guess I'll use algebra here. I'm
• 26:26
  Speaker 1: gonna use some algebra. So as a general rule of thumb,
• 26:30
  Speaker 1: basic algebra is H B M plus LF equals e S,
• 26:36
  Speaker 1: which means big market plus legacy franchise equals easy street.
• 26:43
  Speaker 1: That's the equation on that. Now, if you throw in
• 26:47
  Speaker 1: an amazing HP headline player, well then you that's even better.
• 26:53
  Speaker 1: And so you have the usual suspects. You have the
• 26:56
  Speaker 1: usual suspects. When you have them out there, you can
• 26:59
  Speaker 1: attract the casual fan. So, yeah, they used to talk
• 27:03
  Speaker 1: about the water cooler crowd. I always used to talk
• 27:05
  Speaker 1: about that. You want the people at the water cooler
• 27:08
  Speaker 1: when you have nothing to say, or you're in the
• 27:09
  Speaker 1: elevator and it's that awkward silence. You see the game
• 27:13
  Speaker 1: last night, you see what so and so, you know
• 27:17
  Speaker 1: jack Wagon did last night? You know that kind of thing.
• 27:20
  Speaker 1: That's what they're looking for. So some more malor math
• 27:23
  Speaker 1: to give you an idea of what kind of reach
• 27:27
  Speaker 1: you're going to try to get. Now, the Knicks are
• 27:29
  Speaker 1: the outlier in this Conference Finals for the NBA. You've
• 27:33
  Speaker 1: got the Knicks in the New York City Tri State area.
• 27:37
  Speaker 1: The population in the Tri State Area of New York
• 27:40
  Speaker 1: City is twenty million people. That's the number one medium
• 27:47
  Speaker 1: in the United States. So twenty million people in the
• 27:50
  Speaker 1: Tri State area. If you combine the rest of the
• 27:55
  Speaker 1: market sizes in the Conference finals, what do you think
• 27:59
  Speaker 1: the math is on how many people combined live in
• 28:04
  Speaker 1: If you were to combine You've got Oklahoma City metro,
• 28:09
  Speaker 1: Minneapolis Saint Paul Metro, and Indianapolis Metro. If you combined
• 28:14
  Speaker 1: all of those cities together, I've done the math on this.
• 28:17
  Speaker 1: It's Mallard maths, so I'm pretty close. So if you
• 28:19
  Speaker 1: combine all those cities metro population, what do you think
• 28:23
  Speaker 1: the total is now, I remember New York's at twenty million.
• 28:26
  Speaker 1: So do you have a guess in your head, use
• 28:28
  Speaker 1: your computer like brain, your calculator in your brain, come
• 28:31
  Speaker 1: up with a number. Again, I've been to all these
• 28:33
  Speaker 1: cities in my travels over my time here. So I've
• 28:36
  Speaker 1: been to Oklahoma City. Not much going on there. I
• 28:39
  Speaker 1: loved the Twin Cities beautiful, loved it, wonderful time. I
• 28:42
  Speaker 1: enjoyed my time in Indianapolis. So if you combine all
• 28:44
  Speaker 1: of those cities, the total combined population is revealed. Answers
• 28:53
  Speaker 1: six million, six millions of the number. So twenty million
• 28:58
  Speaker 1: live in the tri state area with the Nick and
• 29:01
  Speaker 1: six million total in the other three cities. Now listen,
• 29:04
  Speaker 1: that is thirty percent the combined population of New York.
• 29:08
  Speaker 1: Say they keeping in mind, not everyone in New York
• 29:10
  Speaker 1: like sports. Not everyone's a Knicks fan in New York.
• 29:12
  Speaker 1: There's a lot of people from all over the world
• 29:14
  Speaker 1: that live in that city, in that area. So there
• 29:16
  Speaker 1: is that, But that's the base. The base is always
• 29:20
  Speaker 1: the people that live in the city of the team,
• 29:22
  Speaker 1: and that's the issue. But again, it's not my problem,
• 29:25
  Speaker 1: that's their problem. They've got to figure out. I don't
• 29:28
  Speaker 1: have to figure out. You sell the stories, all right.
• 29:29
  Speaker 1: Now a final point to the fashion department, and Mike
• 29:36
  Speaker 1: sent me this very upset. Convinced the NBA Conference Finals
• 29:42
  Speaker 1: are being rigged, that the NBA is trying to screw
• 29:45
  Speaker 1: over the Indiana Pacers. Mike sent a message. He said
• 29:48
  Speaker 1: he's very upset with us. The NBA has instructed teams
• 29:52
  Speaker 1: to only use their core uniforms in the conference finals
• 29:57
  Speaker 1: in the NBA Finals, not the City the addition, the
• 30:01
  Speaker 1: City Edition uniforms, which are allowed the first two rounds
• 30:05
  Speaker 1: of the playoffs. Now, what does that mean? In layman's terms,
• 30:08
  Speaker 1: it is seen. According to Mike, he says, the Pacer
• 30:11
  Speaker 1: people are upset. The fans are upset because the it's
• 30:16
  Speaker 1: a shot. Indiana has been wearing these I love this
• 30:20
  Speaker 1: icy white they're called sorry, they're icy white City Edition jerseys.
• 30:30
  Speaker 1: They've been wearing at in home games the first two rounds,
• 30:33
  Speaker 1: but those have been outlawed. They're for boating. You're not
• 30:37
  Speaker 1: You're not allowed to wear the icy white City Edition jersey,
• 30:42
  Speaker 1: according to the big brother there in the in the NBA.
• 30:45
  Speaker 1: So let me address this for Mike who sent me
• 30:49
  Speaker 1: this email. Uh, and thank you for listening, Mike, I
• 30:52
  Speaker 1: appreciate that, all right. So what impact what impact could
• 30:55
  Speaker 1: the NBA uniform mandate have for Tyrese Haliburton's Pacers and
• 31:02
  Speaker 1: their playoff run? So I know the line is the
• 31:06
  Speaker 1: clothes maketh the man. I've heard that, like, that's an
• 31:09
  Speaker 1: old expression, the clothes maketh the man. My response is,
• 31:15
  Speaker 1: with a capital B, popkiss. That is my response, right
• 31:20
  Speaker 1: are you? Are you supposed to have me believe that
• 31:23
  Speaker 1: the reason the Pacers played well and and and and
• 31:27
  Speaker 1: did these wonderful things is because of the again Icy
• 31:31
  Speaker 1: White City edition uniform. Is that like a SpongeBob square
• 31:36
  Speaker 1: pats like Ferg Dog's favorite mermaid man in SpongeBob where
• 31:42
  Speaker 1: the elderly superpowers because of the costume and all that.
• 31:45
  Speaker 1: Come on, it's a poppycock, that's what that is. And
• 31:51
  Speaker 1: he played well or don't play well. And if Jalen
• 31:53
  Speaker 1: Brunson happens to twist an ankle or Karl Anthony Towns
• 31:58
  Speaker 1: has my grand headache. And this is a couple of games,
• 32:01
  Speaker 1: you're in good shape. So either outplay the Knicks or
• 32:05
  Speaker 1: get a really good voodoo doll. And that seems to
• 32:09
  Speaker 1: have been the formula for the pacers here is it
• 32:12
  Speaker 1: is often the formula. Just wait for people to fall apart,
• 32:15
  Speaker 1: to break down, and then you have a chance to advance.
• 32:18
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• 32:33
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• 32:36
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• 32:38
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• 32:40
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• 32:44
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• 32:48
  Speaker 3: Ceedee. Lamb said in a recent interview that he does
• 32:51
  Speaker 3: not view George Pickens as a number two receiver. Quote,
• 32:54
  Speaker 3: it ain't no Ab, none of that. It's one Ben.
• 32:58
  Speaker 3: Do the Cowboys have two number one?
• 33:00
  Speaker 1: No?
• 33:01
  Speaker 3: No.
• 33:02
  Speaker 1: There will be one receiver that gets the ball more
• 33:05
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• 33:09
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• 33:12
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• 33:14
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• 33:17
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• 33:19
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• 33:22
  Speaker 1: This is going to go come boom, and I'm there
• 33:25
  Speaker 1: for it.
• 33:25
  Speaker 3: Next, Bill Simmons believes he has figured out a great
• 33:29
  Speaker 3: trade for the Milwaukee Bucks, a player for player trade
• 33:32
  Speaker 3: with the Cleveland Calves for Evan Mobley, uh and Jiannis
• 33:36
  Speaker 3: and Tenna Koopo. Simmons points out that while Giannis is
• 33:39
  Speaker 3: a better player, Mobley is six and a half years younger,
• 33:41
  Speaker 3: and they would work out for everybody.
• 33:43
  Speaker 1: Yeah, Ben, how do you feel about this trade? Yeah?
• 33:45
  Speaker 1: First of all, there is no great trade. If Giannis
• 33:48
  Speaker 1: is leaving Milwaukee, it doesn't matter what you're getting back,
• 33:51
  Speaker 1: It is not going to be a great trade. No
• 33:53
  Speaker 1: one's gonna buy a ticket to watch Evan Mobley play
• 33:56
  Speaker 1: basketball in Milwaukee. So the moment you get rid of ya,
• 34:00
  Speaker 1: you're saying bye bye to trying to win. So there's
• 34:04
  Speaker 1: no great trade for Giannis. That's bullcrap.
• 34:06
  Speaker 3: Next, I wasn't that long ago that Tom Tibodau has
• 34:10
  Speaker 3: talked about as being on the hot seat, and now
• 34:12
  Speaker 3: he and the Knicks are about to host the Eastern
• 34:14
  Speaker 3: Conference Finals. Ben, do you think that this has secured
• 34:17
  Speaker 3: Tibb's future with the Knicks?
• 34:19
  Speaker 1: Well, No, it's New York. And if the Knicks get
• 34:22
  Speaker 1: run off the court by the Pacers, he'll be back
• 34:24
  Speaker 1: on the hot seats. So as long as they they
• 34:25
  Speaker 1: win and it don't get blown out, he'll be fine.
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• 34:53
  Speaker 1: Why don't we introduce our contestants real quick and then
• 34:55
  Speaker 1: we'll set the game up and then we'll get right
• 34:57
  Speaker 1: to the game. We have the A listener known as
• 35:01
  Speaker 1: discreet is on. Hello, Discreete, welcome.
• 35:05
  Speaker 2: Ben, thank you.
• 35:06
  Speaker 1: How are you, sir? Discreet If I was any better,
• 35:10
  Speaker 1: I would be sleeping, but I am talking, so that's
• 35:13
  Speaker 1: what I'm doing. Well. Yeah, second best is not bad, sir. Yeah,
• 35:17
  Speaker 1: it's all right. Sorry, not bad at all. So Discreete welcome.
• 35:20
  Speaker 1: You're going to play the game. And where are you at, Discreete?
• 35:23
  Speaker 1: Where you you're on the streets. Is that right? You're
• 35:26
  Speaker 1: just on the streets. I'm discreet in the streets. You know,
• 35:29
  Speaker 1: I have to remain location vague because that's why I'm discreet.
• 35:34
  Speaker 1: I understand. I would not want to blow your cover
• 35:37
  Speaker 1: at all, because you are discreet. And who would you
• 35:38
  Speaker 1: like to partner up with? You've got me or you've
• 35:41
  Speaker 1: got Coop or really want a good time? Loraina? Well,
• 35:46
  Speaker 1: when you put it that way, Rena, who's Oh no,
• 35:50
  Speaker 1: I'm busy, sorry, Marino. But Ben, they don't call it
• 35:53
  Speaker 1: the Lorena Show, So I'm going with Ben. All right,
• 35:57
  Speaker 1: very exciting. Hold on a second. We have Tyler in Boston.
• 36:01
  Speaker 1: Who's gonna play Hello Tyler, welcome. What's going on? Benny? Now,
• 36:05
  Speaker 1: you're not in the streets, you're what are you doing?
• 36:07
  Speaker 1: Tell you working? What are you up to? Build a bridge?
• 36:11
  Speaker 1: Build a b that's a man. I mean you've called before,
• 36:14
  Speaker 1: have you not? Tyler? If you called before? Oh I
• 36:16
  Speaker 1: played the game when I can. All right, Yeah, as
• 36:19
  Speaker 1: I said last time, you called very masculine job building
• 36:21
  Speaker 1: a bridge. You're very impressive. You probably have women are like,
• 36:23
  Speaker 1: oh man, this guy's a real man. He builds a bridge.
• 36:25
  Speaker 1: All right? Who do you want you, I guess you
• 36:27
  Speaker 1: want to play with Coop? Is that right? I assume
• 36:29
  Speaker 1: Coop is the choice here. Well, I mean I owe
• 36:33
  Speaker 1: a little vengeance.
• 36:34
  Speaker 2: I think you you've screwed me and Coop's replacement last time.
• 36:38
  Speaker 1: So uh, Pack, Well, you're gonna lose, and you'll lose.
• 36:43
  Speaker 1: At least you're losing a street way. What are the
• 36:45
  Speaker 1: categories here? Coop? Please quickly, please Coop. We must get
• 36:48
  Speaker 1: to the categories and then we'll get to the game.
• 36:50
  Speaker 3: This is Malard's mount of Money. The Jack Johnson addition,
• 36:52
  Speaker 3: he turned fifty years old this week. What an old fart. Yes,
• 36:55
  Speaker 3: the categories are Cookie, jar, better Together, Crying Shame, and
• 37:01
  Speaker 3: only the Ocean? And discrete was on first? Which category
• 37:06
  Speaker 3: would you like?
• 37:06
  Speaker 1: Discreete, We'll do the ocean. Okay, only the ocean, all right?
• 37:11
  Speaker 1: And Tyler, how about you best together? Better together? All right?
• 37:17
  Speaker 2: All right?
• 37:17
  Speaker 1: Everyone hold on, do not hang up. Everyone, hold on.
• 37:20
  Speaker 1: We will have Mallor's Mountain of Money innocent time. We'll
• 37:23
  Speaker 1: get to that. We'll do it next.
• 37:24
  Speaker 2: Be sure to catch live editions of the Ben Mallor
• 37:26
  Speaker 2: Show weekdays at two am Eastern eleven pm Pacific Now
• 37:31
  Speaker 2: Mailor's Mountain of money? Do you have what it takes
• 37:36
  Speaker 2: to get to the top? Probably? Not?
• 37:39
  Speaker 1: All right, to the game, so Coop doesn't bitch and discrete?
• 37:43
  Speaker 1: Are you there, discrete? Yeah, we're ready? All right the
• 37:46
  Speaker 1: category Jack Johnson edition. And you picked only the ocean?
• 37:52
  Speaker 1: Is that right? Cool?
• 37:53
  Speaker 3: Only?
• 37:54
  Speaker 2: All right?
• 37:54
  Speaker 1: Here we go forty five seconds on the clock. These
• 37:57
  Speaker 1: athletes all enjoyed surfing. Are you ready to screete? All right?
• 38:02
  Speaker 1: Here we go. A quarterback for the New Orleans Saints
• 38:04
  Speaker 1: when they won the Super Bowl. Yes, a tight end,
• 38:08
  Speaker 1: Latin tight end. Played for the Chiefs and the Atlanta Falcons.
• 38:12
  Speaker 1: He's on television now. Yes, slam dunk champ for the
• 38:16
  Speaker 1: Clippers out of Oklahoma, Okay, Oregon quarterback was a Heisman
• 38:24
  Speaker 1: guy played for the Tennis. Played for the Tennessee Titans,
• 38:27
  Speaker 1: number two pick behind Jamis Winston. Yes, quarterback for Boston
• 38:33
  Speaker 1: College they won that Hail Mary game against Miami back
• 38:37
  Speaker 1: in the day. Played for the Patriots. Yes, Mexican pitcher
• 38:42
  Speaker 1: for the Mets in the eighties. Fat guy, left handed
• 38:45
  Speaker 1: pitcher for the Mets and the.
• 38:48
  Speaker 3: No I think at he was a fat pitcher for
• 38:54
  Speaker 3: the Mets.
• 38:54
  Speaker 1: Right well, he was, but not in the eighties a
• 38:57
  Speaker 1: little bit. He was a little baby. He was a
• 38:59
  Speaker 1: fat baby in there. No, it's a sid. Fernandez was
• 39:02
  Speaker 1: the Yeah you got one sixty, let's go move.
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  Speaker 3: On, all right, till a raid over there with a
• 39:07
  Speaker 3: boss Tyler, We've got better together.
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  Speaker 1: Uh.
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  Speaker 3: These athletes were one part of a dynamic duo. Are
• 39:14
  Speaker 3: you there, Tyler?
• 39:16
  Speaker 1: There you go?
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  Speaker 3: All right, forty five seconds, let's begin. He was Shack's sidekick,
• 39:21
  Speaker 3: died in a helicopter crash. Yes, he was part of
• 39:24
  Speaker 3: the Splash Brothers. He's on the Mavericks.
• 39:26
  Speaker 1: Now.
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  Speaker 3: Yes, this guy was thunder and Lightning with Lendale White
• 39:31
  Speaker 3: in the usc backfield.
• 39:35
  Speaker 1: No, no, he went on to he was on the Saints.
• 39:39
  Speaker 3: His last name is something that women had in the seventies.
• 39:43
  Speaker 1: All right, okay.
• 39:45
  Speaker 3: This guy was Craig Bigio's partner, the Killer Bob.
• 39:54
  Speaker 1: Yes. Uh.
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  Speaker 3: This guy was the wide receiver on the other side
• 39:57
  Speaker 3: of Tory Holt on the Rams. This guy was on
• 40:00
  Speaker 3: the other side of Dwight Freeney on the Colts.
• 40:03
  Speaker 1: No, he had it. He had it out before the
• 40:09
  Speaker 1: buzzer he did. I heard it. You might You might
• 40:14
  Speaker 1: want to go to an ear doctor. He missed, and
• 40:16
  Speaker 1: he miss Clayton. But no, he did not get the
• 40:19
  Speaker 1: Robert mathis correct. He did not get that. He did
• 40:24
  Speaker 1: after the buzzer. But the red light was on. The
• 40:27
  Speaker 1: red light was on, right, the red light was on.
• 40:31
  Speaker 1: You better hurry, Ben, You're gonna run out of time
• 40:33
  Speaker 1: to win.
• 40:33
  Speaker 2: All right?
• 40:34
  Speaker 1: Yeah, just screet which one do you want? You want?
• 40:36
  Speaker 1: Cookie jar or crying shame? All right? These athletes never
• 40:43
  Speaker 1: even made the playoffs. All right, off forty five seconds?
• 40:48
  Speaker 1: You ready to screete? All right? The quarterback. You notice
• 40:52
  Speaker 1: the Amish rifle from Harvard. Oh, okay, off offense. The
• 41:00
  Speaker 1: lineman for the Cleveland Rounds for ten plus years. He's
• 41:03
  Speaker 1: on television. Now, white guy, big white guy, a generic name,
• 41:06
  Speaker 1: offensive tackle, all pro. My goodness, Okay, the can's this
• 41:17
  Speaker 1: is where you throw the game. I know this works.
• 41:18
  Speaker 1: So the Kansas comic great running back, number forty, half
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  Speaker 1: back NFL legend for the Bears.
• 41:32
  Speaker 3: Look at look at Ben getting all county because he's
• 41:36
  Speaker 3: choking away the game.
• 41:40
  Speaker 1: Cool, at least put some out. I mean, try not
• 41:42
  Speaker 1: to make it obvious.
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  Speaker 3: I get.
• 41:45
  Speaker 1: All you have. The Robert mathis which is full crap.
• 41:48
  Speaker 1: That was after the buzzer, and there was oh you go,
• 41:50
  Speaker 1: I heard the beginning of it. That Robert mathis the
• 41:54
  Speaker 1: guy's called the show for here. He's full of crap.
• 41:56
  Speaker 1: I've never heard that guy in my life that I recognize.
• 42:00
  Speaker 3: Who that guy Tyler, who's gotting you get a golden ticket?
• 42:03
  Speaker 1: That's bullcrap. That guy the street. Never call gay in
• 42:07
  Speaker 1: the street. You're dead to me. Okay, that was Meal.
• 42:09
  Speaker 1: I don't know who that is. I don't know who
• 42:11
  Speaker 1: that is. Shut up? Who doesn't know who the Kansas
• 42:14
  Speaker 1: comment is? Dude, everyone knows that. I mean, I'm so sick.
• 42:18
  Speaker 1: Every week is the same crap.