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  Speaker 1: Thanks for listening to the best of the Ben Maller
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  Speaker 2: This is the best of the Ben Maller Show on
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  Speaker 2: Fox Sports Radio.
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  Speaker 1: We are back in the saddle again here. And pro
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  Speaker 1: bouncy ball underway. I know you're excited about that. I
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  Speaker 1: cannot wait to get the feedback from some of the
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  Speaker 1: more vocal members of the Malheur Militia who never miss
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  Speaker 1: a chance to bitch. Why are you talking basketball? What's
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  Speaker 1: wrong with you, Malheur? Again, if you would like to
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  Speaker 1: program the show, feel free to. Send, what do we need,
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  Speaker 1: like $ 5 million, I think, you can program the show?
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  Speaker 1: That seems fair, right? Reasonable? That seems good, yeah. $ 5 million,
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  Speaker 1: we'll divvy that up. You can decide what we talk about.
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  Speaker 1: I don't care. I'll talk about stuff that nobody cares about,
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  Speaker 1: like the WNBA, if you want. If you send that in,
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  Speaker 1: that's fine.
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  Speaker 3: Oh, that would be so good.
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  Speaker 1: That would be great. And then we'd have no one listening.
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  Speaker 1: We'd actually have to turn the transmitters off because we'd
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  Speaker 1: be wasting electricity. But our lead is from Gotham. Home
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  Speaker 1: game for LeBron James. Remember, he lives in New York.
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  Speaker 1: He didn't want to live in Philadelphia. Why would you
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  Speaker 1: want to live there? So he commutes, and every time
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  Speaker 1: the Sixers play in the New York area, that's a
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  Speaker 1: home game for LeBron. So there they were, the Sixers
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  Speaker 1: and the Knickerbockers, the beginning of the NBA regular season. Now,
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  Speaker 1: it technically began with the Celtics riding the Vomit Comet
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  Speaker 1: and blowing a 22-point lead against the Pistons, but... That
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  Speaker 1: was played while we were sleeping, so who cares about that?
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  Speaker 1: The Knicks and the Sixers in prime time, in prime time,
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  Speaker 1: the curtain going up on the NBA regular season. And
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  Speaker 1: while we will certainly not be talking a lot on
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  Speaker 1: a daily basis about regular season basketball, why would we?
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  Speaker 1: There's no reason to do that. This is the rare
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  Speaker 1: and appropriate, rare and appropriate conversation that we're going to have.
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  Speaker 1: So the Knicks got their bling bling. Actually, when I
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  Speaker 1: saw the Knicks ring, I laughed. I said, boy, that's
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  Speaker 1: going to spend a lot of time in safety deposit boxes.
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  Speaker 1: No one's going to wear that. You can't wear it.
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  Speaker 1: So everyone talks about, oh, you got to win the ring.
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  Speaker 1: You got to wear the ring. No one's wearing that.
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  Speaker 1: It's going directly into a safety deposit box somewhere. And
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  Speaker 1: I still remember the rant years ago. There was this
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  Speaker 1: coach named Phil Jackson. I don't know what happened to him.
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  Speaker 1: He probably lives near the Unabomber. housed up in Montana somewhere.
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  Speaker 1: But Phil would rant about that years ago, 20 years ago.
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  Speaker 1: He's like, these rings are ridiculous. Then they've only gotten worse.
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  Speaker 1: But that aside, that aside, so the Knicks got their
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  Speaker 1: bling bling and they played Philadelphia. So I don't know
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  Speaker 1: if you were watching this game or not. It was
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  Speaker 1: on either NBC or Peacock. I don't know. They're all
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  Speaker 1: the same. So the pundits insisting that what the Sixers
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  Speaker 1: did in this game, they sent a message. Because we
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  Speaker 1: all know what happens in October. matters in the summer
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  Speaker 1: of 2027. Damn right. Damn right.
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  Speaker 4: No?
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  Speaker 1: Anyway, the message apparently was sent as the Sixers rallied back.
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  Speaker 1: Rally back now. Rally back. And they get a 106-100 win.
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  Speaker 1: Behind LeBron James and Jalen Brown. But really, it was
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  Speaker 1: Tyrese Maxey. The Maxey pad game. Tyrese Maxey there had
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  Speaker 1: the big man on campus stat line at 28 points. Brown, 19,
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  Speaker 1: 8 rebounds and 6 assists for Philly. Helicopter James opened
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  Speaker 1: his NBA record-setting 24th season career. with all of 14 points,
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  Speaker 1: 9 rebounds, and 6 assists.
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  Speaker 4: Whee!
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  Speaker 1: All right, so that is a good jumping-off point. Let
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  Speaker 1: us discuss the question. How would you sum up LeBron James'
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  Speaker 1: first night wearing a Sixers uniform? We don't watch exhibition games,
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  Speaker 1: so for our purposes, this is the first time he
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  Speaker 1: ever wore a Sixers uniform. So I've got HGTV... Roman
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  Speaker 1: candles and grapefruit. And we will combine all of these
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  Speaker 1: things together, and we are going to cut and run
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  Speaker 1: is what we're going to do. So, A, as they
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  Speaker 1: say over at the Union Pacific Railroad Yard, LeBron James
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  Speaker 1: is no longer the steam engine. No, he's not the
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  Speaker 1: steam engine, not the locomotive there pulling the championship train. No, instead, LeBron,
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  Speaker 1: we saw this with the purple and gold historians last year. LeBron,
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  Speaker 1: at this point, is more like the caboose most of
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  Speaker 1: the time. He's the caboose along for the ride. Choo-choo. Yes,
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  Speaker 1: waving at the tourists. The whistle-stop tour for LeBron James.
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  Speaker 1: Occasionally blowing the whistle while somebody else shovels the coal.
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  Speaker 1: That's the LeBron story at this point in his career. Mallory,
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  Speaker 1: you should be kissing his ass like every other hack
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  Speaker 1: in the media. Okay, maybe I will. Unless I won't. Listen,
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  Speaker 1: a lot of my time behind microphones talking about LeBron James.
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  Speaker 1: He's good for business. And whether you like him or not,
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  Speaker 1: he's good for business. And when he's gone, it's like
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  Speaker 1: next generation. There's no one really there. Someone will step up,
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  Speaker 1: but there's no one really there that moves the needle.
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  Speaker 1: We have very few people. despite social media that really
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  Speaker 1: moved the needle legitimately. And LeBron's one of those guys.
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  Speaker 1: And at this point, the Sixers are not getting the
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  Speaker 1: vintage LeBron James. They're getting a commemorative edition of LeBron James.
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  Speaker 1: There is a difference there. And when LeBron goes out
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  Speaker 1: and scores 38 points in a game, it's a national holiday.
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  Speaker 1: It's a national holiday. Now, when LeBron drops 14 points,
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  Speaker 1: everyone gets the same talking points memo. It's like, well,
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  Speaker 1: you got to praise his high basketball IQ. That's what
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  Speaker 1: you have to do. So, yeah, LeBron is still capable
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  Speaker 1: of producing a masterpiece in But they've become special occasions
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  Speaker 1: instead of regularly scheduled programming. So LeBron, we're not saying
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  Speaker 1: he's washed up. We're just saying if you go into
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  Speaker 1: the laundromat, LeBron is on the delicate cycle, which means what?
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  Speaker 1: Cold water, low spin rate, handle with care. In his
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  Speaker 1: 24th season in the NBA, he is on borrowed athletic currency.
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  Speaker 1: And if this was an HGTV show, They would call
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  Speaker 1: LeBron an accent wall on the Sixers. Is that a
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  Speaker 1: fair take or not? That LeBron James is like an
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  Speaker 1: accent wall. Nice to look at. Diverts attention from other
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  Speaker 1: things in the room. But nobody, nobody is confusing LeBron
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  Speaker 1: James as a load-bearing wall that's not part of the
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  Speaker 1: foundation of the house at this point. And he's like
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  Speaker 1: a very expensive throw pillow. Very expensive throw pillow. I
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  Speaker 1: guess a better way to look at it, like a
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  Speaker 1: basketball scarecrow. LeBron James, that the reputation keeps the birds away.
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  Speaker 1: Got to keep those birds away. Very important. Now, to
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  Speaker 1: the helicopter. The blades on the helicopter spinning around. Just
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  Speaker 1: like that. So prior to the Knickerbockers, by the way,
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  Speaker 1: Jalen Brunson had a dud as far as the game's concerned.
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  Speaker 1: We're not going to break the game down. But prior
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  Speaker 1: to the game, NBA commissioner, half man, half alien, from
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  Speaker 1: somewhere outside the Milky Way, Adam Silver got off his
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  Speaker 1: spaceship and defended LeBron James. Now, LeBron is living in
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  Speaker 1: New York because, again, why would you want to live
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  Speaker 1: in Philadelphia where you're working? So he's commuting. And he's
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  Speaker 1: taking a helicopter. Helicopter commute, which costs thousands of dollars
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  Speaker 1: each time you get into a helicopter. And he lives
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  Speaker 1: in the New York City area. And he's playing basketball
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  Speaker 1: in Philadelphia. So Adam Silver called it, quote, perfectly appropriate.
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  Speaker 1: That was the quote. LeBron has a corporate aviation agreement
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  Speaker 1: with Fanatics. And he's traveling between Manhattan and Philly. His
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  Speaker 1: residence in New York in the Sixers practice facility. And
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  Speaker 1: I assume he'll be doing that three or four times
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  Speaker 1: a week. Now, the critics are out, of course. There's
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  Speaker 1: always critics questioning whether the luxury transportation circumvents the NBA
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  Speaker 1: salary cap rules. Of course, the commissioner does not appear
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  Speaker 1: too concerned about that. Silver insisting there's no violations. Because
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  Speaker 1: the agreement is independent of the Philadelphia basketball team. All right. Question.
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  Speaker 1: You got Commissioner Adam Silver who says LeBron's helicopter deal.
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  Speaker 1: Perfectly appropriate. That's the quote. Perfectly appropriate. What say you? Well,
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  Speaker 1: thanks for asking. So LeBron is using a helicopter which
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  Speaker 1: is provided by, I believe, an official NBA business merchandise partner.
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  Speaker 1: Am I incorrect on that? I believe Fanatics is the
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  Speaker 1: big merchandise. They've got a monopoly on all the sports
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  Speaker 1: so they can make crappy products and charge full price,
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  Speaker 1: extra over full price, just ridiculous prices. That's what you
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  Speaker 1: all tell me, that Fanatics is not very good in
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  Speaker 1: terms of the quality of the product and the overcharging,
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  Speaker 1: which I think happens quite a bit in professional sports. Anyway, listen,
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  Speaker 1: so LeBron's in bed with a business partner, of the NBA,
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  Speaker 1: and it's all just a remarkable coinkydink, all of this stuff, right?
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  Speaker 1: That the guy that runs Fanatics used to own part
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  Speaker 1: of the Sixers, and I'm sure that's just all... water
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  Speaker 1: under the bridge, all water under the bridge. So Adam
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  Speaker 1: Silver has gone full naked gun here, standing in front
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  Speaker 1: of the exploding Roman candles at the fire workshop there
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  Speaker 1: and saying, nothing to see here, please disperse. Nothing to
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  Speaker 1: see here, that's it. And so we've seen more convincing investigations.
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  Speaker 1: Back when I was younger, I used to watch, there
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  Speaker 1: was a cartoon called Scooby-Doo. You probably don't know what
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  Speaker 1: that is, but there was a popular cartoon years ago
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  Speaker 1: called Scooby-Doo. And they'd investigate these little, you know, pothead,
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  Speaker 1: you had a dog, there was, I can say some
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  Speaker 1: other things, I won't, but that interesting group of people,
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  Speaker 1: and they would investigate, and Scooby-Doo, their investigations would have
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  Speaker 1: gotten away with it if it wasn't for you meddling kids, absolutely.
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  Speaker 1: So the commissioner might as well have come out and said,
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  Speaker 1: Adam Silver, that LeBron James can do whatever the hell
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  Speaker 1: LeBron James wants, and if you don't like it, suck it, buttercup!
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  Speaker 1: They could have said that! And so Silver activating the
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  Speaker 1: LeBron protective cocoon, bulletproof glass, Kevlar lighting for LeBron, and
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  Speaker 1: a helicopter landing pad. You've got to have all that stuff. Now,
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  Speaker 1: the Malheur Rosetta Stone translates perfectly appropriate, which is what
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  Speaker 1: Adam Silver said, perfectly appropriate... into, hey, dum-dum, LeBron prints
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  Speaker 1: a lot of money. You idiots keep buying tickets even
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  Speaker 1: though he's a shell of what he had been. We're
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  Speaker 1: not slaughtering the golden goose. That Mallow Rosetta Stone does
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  Speaker 1: not disappoint. It was on point. Another example, rules for
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  Speaker 1: the peasants, exceptions for the king. It's always been the case, right?
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  Speaker 1: Remember back during the pandemic, our political leaders were out
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  Speaker 1: having nice meals at different restaurants, and we were told
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  Speaker 1: not to leave our homes. That's the way it is.
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  Speaker 1: So the NBA's got a salary cap, but apparently LeBron,
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  Speaker 1: he has a salary helicopter. It's all part of the
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  Speaker 1: deal there. And we hear there's a couple of different
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  Speaker 1: NBA rule books. You've got one for the roughly 449
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  Speaker 1: other players, and then there's one For LeBron, and that's
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  Speaker 1: how it is. So the LeBron edition of the NBA
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  Speaker 1: rulebook is printed on Charmin Ultra Soft. It's a little
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  Speaker 1: side deal there. It's two-ply. It's quilted and designed to
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  Speaker 1: wipe away any controversy. Well, that's good. All right, meanwhile,
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  Speaker 1: the New York Knickerbockers celebrated their championship by... Going back
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  Speaker 1: and reminiscing about the good old days when the Knicks
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  Speaker 1: played like that on a regular basis, played like a
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  Speaker 1: bunch of stiffs. Jalen Brunson was terrible. It's hard to
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  Speaker 1: play when you've got that big, not really ring, whatever
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  Speaker 1: that thing was that they had there, they called it
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  Speaker 1: a ring. So the Knicks had a dud, but the
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  Speaker 1: story here is that they decided... to do a 180,
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  Speaker 1: the Knicks. I don't know if you saw this or not,
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  Speaker 1: but they celebrated not one but two championships at Madison
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  Speaker 1: Square Garden before they went out and lost to the Sixers.
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  Speaker 1: New York rather quietly said, you know what, on second thought,
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  Speaker 1: why don't we hang that 2025 NBA Cup championship banner
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  Speaker 1: thingamajig and then we'll raise the actual legitimate NBA championship banner.
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  Speaker 1: So the Knicks had become the first, and I say
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  Speaker 1: this in air quotes, NBA Cup winner to refuse. I
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  Speaker 1: remember we talked about some monologues about it months ago.
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  Speaker 1: They were not going to put up the commemorative banner.
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  Speaker 1: We applauded the Knicks. We celebrated the Knickerbockers. We said, bravo. Finally,
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  Speaker 1: someone with balls that said, no, we're not doing this.
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  Speaker 1: It's ridiculous. And New York had declined to celebrate something
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  Speaker 1: that really doesn't deserve to be celebrated. Only stupid people
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  Speaker 1: take that seriously. So anyway, they say, hey, we're trying
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  Speaker 1: to win a championship, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah. A
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  Speaker 1: real championship, not a fake championship. Okay, fine. So the question,
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  Speaker 1: what is the word? What is the word for the
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  Speaker 1: Knicks doing an about face here and hanging an NBA
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  Speaker 1: Cup banner on In the rafters at the iconic Madison
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  Speaker 1: Square Garden. The world's most famous arena, they like to say.
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  Speaker 1: Because New Yorkers love to brag about how great they are.
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  Speaker 1: They love to tell the world, we're better than you
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  Speaker 1: because we're from New York. Yeah, I look around New
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  Speaker 1: York when I visit my brother. My brother's like, you're
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  Speaker 1: not better than anyone. It's terrible. A lot of it. Anyway,
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  Speaker 1: to answer the question, what is the word for the
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  Speaker 1: Knicks hanging an NBA Cup banner on? in the rafters
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  Speaker 1: at the world's most famous arena, Madison Square Garden. So
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  Speaker 1: my word is eyesore. That's my word. Eyesore. It's painful
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  Speaker 1: to look at. That's it. Now, I'm told I have
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  Speaker 1: to expand my thoughts on that, so I will. I
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  Speaker 1: will expand my thoughts. So it's a visual raw sewage
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  Speaker 1: spill is what it is. It's just an absolute aesthetic disaster,
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  Speaker 1: an absolute assault on all good taste. And to think
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  Speaker 1: they almost got it right. They almost got it right.
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  Speaker 1: The Knicks, they certainly had it right the first time.
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  Speaker 1: We know that. And they refused to hang the banner,
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  Speaker 1: that Fugazi NBA cup. And then, of course, reversing course,
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  Speaker 1: bad job by James Dolan and the Knickerbockers. This is
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  Speaker 1: the equivalent. Hanging an NBA Cup banner is akin to
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  Speaker 1: the Yankees hanging a banner for winning the Grapefruit League.
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  Speaker 1: Do you understand? The NBA Cup is like winning the
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  Speaker 1: Cactus League or the Grapefruit League. And yet, the leagues are, well,
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  Speaker 1: you got to put it up in the rafters. Come on.
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  Speaker 1: The Knicks actually won a real championship, like legitimate, like
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  Speaker 1: the real McCoy. They did. I'm shocked. I didn't think
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  Speaker 1: I'd live long enough to see that. They did. They
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  Speaker 1: won a real championship. And now they're giving the NBA's
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  Speaker 1: glorified participation trophy thing a seat at the grownups table.
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  Speaker 1: That's the basketball version of like you have the hope
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  Speaker 1: diamond and And right next to the Hope Diamond, you
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  Speaker 1: put a cubic zirconia. What are you doing? You had
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  Speaker 1: the moral high ground, and you gave it all back.
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  Speaker 1: What are you thinking? Dumbo?
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  Speaker 2: Seriously.
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  Speaker 1: You told the NBA cop to take a hike, hit
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  Speaker 1: the road, Jack, and don't you come back, right? And
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  Speaker 1: now you surrendered without firing a shot. Now, the smart
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  Speaker 1: money says it is more likely than not that Adam
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  Speaker 1: Silver and his henchmen strong-armed the Knicks to do this. Like,
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  Speaker 1: just do it. Nobody will even notice. Just put the
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  Speaker 1: little thing up there, and that's that. Just do it.
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  Speaker 4: away from the state of wisconsin not not about the
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  Speaker 4: brewers the world series does not begin till friday so
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  Speaker 4: we'll head up north.
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  Speaker 1: To the frozen tundra. Green Bay. Fresh off an island game.
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  Speaker 1: Sunday night, the Packers taking down the Dallas Cowboys. How
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  Speaker 1: about them Cowboys? And so immediately following that game, and
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  Speaker 1: ever since then, I know we're now on to hump
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  Speaker 1: day here on Wednesday, doing the Humpty Hump. And has
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  Speaker 1: been reading here, slobbering reviews of Jordan Love.
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  Speaker 2: Slobber, slobber, slobber!
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  Speaker 1: And his performance... And if you didn't see this, perhaps not.
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  Speaker 1: There's a couple of stories bouncing around. The one that
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  Speaker 1: caught my attention from FoxSports.com, the website over there, claiming
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  Speaker 1: that Jordan Love has now entered the MVP conversation. What? Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: And it's not just that. There's others bouncing around the
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  Speaker 1: rumor mill there, arguing that Jordan Love deserves serious consideration.
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  Speaker 1: If you look at the gambling market, like with our
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  Speaker 1: friends at DraftKings, last I checked, Jordan Love was somewhere
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  Speaker 1: in the 9 or 10 category, the odds to win
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  Speaker 1: the most valuable player of the year award. And the
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  Speaker 1: argument is rather simple, that the ability to overcome a
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  Speaker 1: puke offensive line in Green Bay and the deficiencies that
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  Speaker 1: that has led to, the lack of a running game,
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  Speaker 1: has proven the value of Jordan Love. The Packers have
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  Speaker 1: the absolute worst, absolute worst rushing attack. The pass protection
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  Speaker 1: has not been good. In fact, if you look at
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  Speaker 1: some of the nerd numbers, we all love our nerd numbers.
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  Speaker 1: The dorks tell us that Jordan Love facing a league-worst 24.5%
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  Speaker 1: quick pressure rate. No idea what that was. I was
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  Speaker 1: able to grow up watching football without ever having to
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  Speaker 1: even hear quick pressure rate. You know why? It didn't exist.
• 20:19
  Speaker 1: It exists now. They claim, they that keep track of
• 20:22
  Speaker 1: the numbers, they say that Jordan Love has had just
• 20:26
  Speaker 1: 2.35 seconds before pressure arrives. It's a real sob story.
• 20:32
  Speaker 1: It really just is. Now, despite all that, Green Bay,
• 20:35
  Speaker 1: thanks to playing some tomato cans like the Dallas Cowboys,
• 20:37
  Speaker 1: the Packers are 4-2, and they would be a playoff
• 20:41
  Speaker 1: team in the rather crappy NFC. If you look at
• 20:46
  Speaker 1: the playoff picture, Green Bay would be one of the
• 20:48
  Speaker 1: playoff teams as the old wild card. So that is
• 20:51
  Speaker 1: a good jumping-off point. Let us discuss the question. Are
• 20:56
  Speaker 1: you in on the Packers-Jordan Love campaign train for MVP?
• 21:03
  Speaker 1: Are you on the Packers-Jordan Love campaign train for MVP?
• 21:09
  Speaker 1: So I've got cement mixer, polka dot bikinis, and ambulance
• 21:16
  Speaker 1: chasing billboard lawyers.
• 21:18
  Speaker 5: Yes.
• 21:19
  Speaker 1: We'll combine all of these things together, and we'll do
• 21:24
  Speaker 1: some code switching, I think, is what we're going to do.
• 21:28
  Speaker 1: I think we'll just do some code switching. So we
• 21:30
  Speaker 1: always start with number one.
• 21:33
  Speaker 6: Number one.
• 21:33
  Speaker 1: One, one, one, one, one. Number one. So we are not,
• 21:40
  Speaker 1: not on the Jordan Love train. No, we're not. We're not.
• 21:46
  Speaker 1: If we voted today, we have the show to do today.
• 21:50
  Speaker 1: If we voted today, Jordan Love would not even be
• 21:53
  Speaker 1: on our ballot, would not be on the ballot. The
• 21:56
  Speaker 1: campaign is built on what he might accomplish, what he
• 22:01
  Speaker 1: could do, but not based on what he has done
• 22:05
  Speaker 1: up until this point. So for us, we're not getting
• 22:09
  Speaker 1: on the love train. Instead, we're sleeping next to the
• 22:12
  Speaker 1: vending machine at Union Station without a pillow. I got
• 22:17
  Speaker 1: my jacket. I'll use that as my pillow. And that's that.
• 22:19
  Speaker 1: So the MVP race, you know what it looks like
• 22:22
  Speaker 1: to me at this point? And somebody called up the
• 22:23
  Speaker 1: other day about Brock Purdy or sent a message. I
• 22:26
  Speaker 1: forget what the call or a message about Brock Purdy
• 22:28
  Speaker 1: being the MVP and all this stuff. And I look
• 22:31
  Speaker 1: at the MVP race like I looked at the traffic
• 22:34
  Speaker 1: I saw in Mexico City over the weekend. Not even
• 22:37
  Speaker 1: a rush hour. Just like at any time. And I
• 22:40
  Speaker 1: look at the MVP race like that traffic in Mexico
• 22:43
  Speaker 1: City because it's gridlock. It's chaos. Everyone's honking. Nobody's separating
• 22:48
  Speaker 1: from the pack at this particular point. That's the reality
• 22:50
  Speaker 1: of the situation. Jordan Love is kind of stuck in
• 22:52
  Speaker 1: the middle lane. He's got his blinker on. He's trying
• 22:55
  Speaker 1: to change lanes. He's in the middle lane. He's stuck
• 22:58
  Speaker 1: in traffic. And you look around and he's stuck behind
• 23:02
  Speaker 1: a cement mixer and a Volkswagen Beetle. from like 1982.
• 23:09
  Speaker 1: So he currently is the 18th ranked quarterback, which is,
• 23:13
  Speaker 1: I believe, in the middle, right there in the middle
• 23:17
  Speaker 1: of NFL quarterbacks. He also is 29th in completion percentage,
• 23:22
  Speaker 1: which I don't think is good. Oh, you're being mean, Baylor!
• 23:25
  Speaker 1: You're being mean! I know.
• 23:27
  Speaker 2: I know.
• 23:27
  Speaker 1: It's a bad job by me. So we're celebrating mediocrity
• 23:30
  Speaker 1: with a little cheese fondue. How do you do on top?
• 23:35
  Speaker 1: So the argument is you want to give the guy,
• 23:39
  Speaker 1: Jordan Love, an award because the offensive line is not
• 23:44
  Speaker 1: playing well. Okay. That's how that works, right? That's not
• 23:49
  Speaker 1: an MVP. You can give him some kind of claim,
• 23:52
  Speaker 1: like a worker's comp claim, if you want. So you're
• 23:56
  Speaker 1: just going to reward bad offensive line. Whoever's the worst
• 23:59
  Speaker 1: offensive line, Joe Burrow a couple years ago, terrible offensive line,
• 24:03
  Speaker 1: should be the MVP. Great. Why don't we give our
• 24:07
  Speaker 1: favorite trash guy, Danny DeVito, in the Boston area, we
• 24:11
  Speaker 1: can give him a Nobel Prize because he overcomes the
• 24:16
  Speaker 1: foul smell of the trash rotting in his truck. So
• 24:22
  Speaker 1: we'll give him an award. Good afternoon, good evening, and
• 24:26
  Speaker 1: good night.
• 24:27
  Speaker 2: All right.
• 24:27
  Speaker 1: Now, meanwhile, to Houston, much to the dismay of our friend,
• 24:31
  Speaker 1: longtime friend of the show, Mr. Irrigation. After a wretched start,
• 24:37
  Speaker 1: the Texans picking up a little bit of steam here,
• 24:40
  Speaker 1: thanks to playing some teams that are not all that good. Tennessee,
• 24:44
  Speaker 1: for example, and Jacksonville. I was fooled. For a couple weeks,
• 24:48
  Speaker 1: I thought Jacksonville was actually good. I've changed my position
• 24:53
  Speaker 1: on the Jacksonville Jaguars. Anyway, C.J. Stroud is the story here.
• 24:58
  Speaker 1: He's being celebrated. Why? Because he bet on himself. Now, remember, Houston,
• 25:05
  Speaker 1: the story was they offered around $ 50 million annually to
• 25:11
  Speaker 1: sign C.J. Stroud to an extension before the season kicked off. But, yes, C.J.
• 25:19
  Speaker 1: Stroud said, Ixnay on the contract, eh, and rejected. He
• 25:26
  Speaker 1: rejected that offer, putting the kibosh on extension talks. Now,
• 25:30
  Speaker 1: we're hearing the chatter here. that his improved performance could, could,
• 25:36
  Speaker 1: that's a weasel word, could push his contract value towards
• 25:40
  Speaker 1: over $ 60 million a season. That here we are heading
• 25:45
  Speaker 1: into a week seven in the NFL, and already the
• 25:49
  Speaker 1: determination has been made that the price has gone up.
• 25:55
  Speaker 1: There's some inflation involving the quarterback for the team in Houston.
• 25:58
  Speaker 1: So the question for you is this. Has Texans quarterback C.J.
• 26:03
  Speaker 1: Stroud already shown you enough to get a record-setting deal?
• 26:12
  Speaker 1: So I will go first, and then we'll allow you
• 26:16
  Speaker 1: to go. So to answer the question, I am shaking
• 26:19
  Speaker 1: my head no.
• 26:21
  Speaker 2: No.
• 26:22
  Speaker 1: My eyes are closed. I'm shaking my head no. If
• 26:23
  Speaker 1: you're watching on the YouTube feed on demand later, I
• 26:26
  Speaker 1: am still shaking my head no, and I'm going to
• 26:29
  Speaker 1: be dizzy if I keep doing this, so I better stop. So, yeah,
• 26:32
  Speaker 1: I'm shaking my head no. Now, there are some stat humpers,
• 26:36
  Speaker 1: and I have friends of mine that are stat humpers.
• 26:38
  Speaker 1: They're in, like, three different fantasy football leagues. The big
• 26:42
  Speaker 1: stat humpers out there, they love C.J. Strath. Love them.
• 26:49
  Speaker 1: Call C.J. Stroud the Sultan of Statistical Satisfaction if you
• 26:55
  Speaker 1: pay attention to those kind of things. Statistics, while they're
• 26:58
  Speaker 1: nice if you're playing fantasy football, as the famous line
• 27:02
  Speaker 1: goes from back in the day, the statistics are kind
• 27:05
  Speaker 1: of like the polka dot bikinis. They show a lot,
• 27:10
  Speaker 1: but they don't show everything. There's some very important things
• 27:13
  Speaker 1: that are not being shown, and that's it. So in reality, though, C.J. Stroud,
• 27:19
  Speaker 1: I put him in that category as a Frito-Lay quarterback.
• 27:26
  Speaker 1: He's doing cosplay that for Halloween he's going to be
• 27:29
  Speaker 1: the Frito Bandito. We see this a lot, quarterbacks that
• 27:32
  Speaker 1: put up statistics that look good to the low-information fan. However,
• 27:38
  Speaker 1: they're not winning players. And I look at C.J. Stroud,
• 27:43
  Speaker 1: and there's a lot of crunch. Frito-Lay, a lot of crunch,
• 27:46
  Speaker 1: plenty of salt. And very little nutritional value in the
• 27:51
  Speaker 1: statistics that he puts up. I just don't trust C.J.
• 27:53
  Speaker 1: Stroud in big spots. I'm just done with him after
• 27:57
  Speaker 1: the playoff performances with the Texans, who've had championship-level defenses,
• 28:02
  Speaker 1: and the thing that has killed them is C.J. Stroud.
• 28:06
  Speaker 1: Multiple times. So I look at the guy like he's
• 28:09
  Speaker 1: got a virus, like some kind of Trojan horse virus.
• 28:13
  Speaker 1: There is a glitch happening. In the programming of C.J. Stroud,
• 28:19
  Speaker 1: I just don't see it. And pound for pound for
• 28:24
  Speaker 1: a quarterback on a team that supposedly is good enough
• 28:26
  Speaker 1: to win, pound for pound, C.J. Stroud is at the
• 28:30
  Speaker 1: very bottom. Now, the critics still, though, they love the trailer.
• 28:35
  Speaker 1: And we're still waiting for the feature film. And I
• 28:39
  Speaker 1: commend the Texans for not giving C.J. Stroud the contract.
• 28:43
  Speaker 1: And I do know, though, based on what I have
• 28:47
  Speaker 1: seen from my time behind the bully pulpit here at
• 28:51
  Speaker 1: Fox Sports Radio, that no matter how ridiculous this gets
• 28:56
  Speaker 1: in terms of the money game, It's not going to
• 28:59
  Speaker 1: stop with C.J. Stroud, meaning that quarterback salaries are resembling
• 29:05
  Speaker 1: modern art. Nobody seems to understand the price point, and
• 29:09
  Speaker 1: everybody pretends it's all justified, money well spent. And so
• 29:14
  Speaker 1: some jack-wagon GM will end up paying the price for C.J. Stroud. Now,
• 29:19
  Speaker 1: final point. I want to change it up a little bit.
• 29:22
  Speaker 1: A number of you have reached out to me over
• 29:24
  Speaker 1: the years and said that you collect memorabilia. Maybe you're
• 29:28
  Speaker 1: around my age, you're getting old, you have an old
• 29:30
  Speaker 1: garage full of baseball cards or somewhere in your attic
• 29:34
  Speaker 1: or somewhere in your house. And so you collected sports
• 29:37
  Speaker 1: memorabilia and you're like, well, I'm into it. That's my thing.
• 29:41
  Speaker 1: And I talk about it a lot. So I bring
• 29:44
  Speaker 1: this up because there was a major story in that world,
• 29:47
  Speaker 1: the trading card world, a bunch of trading cards worth
• 29:53
  Speaker 1: at least $ 1, 000. $ 960- something thousand dollars, almost a million dollars
• 29:58
  Speaker 1: were stolen. Did you see this? This happened the other
• 30:00
  Speaker 1: day from an unattended FedEx truck outside of Professional Sports Authenticator,
• 30:06
  Speaker 1: better known by their gangster name, PSA. This happened in
• 30:09
  Speaker 1: the hood in Santa Ana. California in the OC. Thieves
• 30:14
  Speaker 1: removed the truck's lock, stole not one but two pallets.
• 30:18
  Speaker 1: They also futched around with a third pallet of sports memorabilia. Now,
• 30:22
  Speaker 1: it's not just sports. It's also for the Pokemon nerds.
• 30:25
  Speaker 1: I know that's a tough day for our friend Ferg Dog.
• 30:28
  Speaker 1: He probably had some stuff taken. So, Pokemon and sports
• 30:31
  Speaker 1: cards were targeted. The estimated losses could... Remember, that's a
• 30:36
  Speaker 1: weasel word. Could reach in the millions involving thousands of cards.
• 30:44
  Speaker 1: Thousands of cards. One customer reportedly lost $ 500, 000 in declared
• 30:51
  Speaker 1: value because some guy robbed a FedEx truck. $ 500, 000 in
• 30:57
  Speaker 1: declared value. Now, PSA deactivated the stolen card certificates in
• 31:02
  Speaker 1: a promised fair market value compensation system. So they said, however,
• 31:08
  Speaker 1: the people that are involved in this, the people that
• 31:11
  Speaker 1: got their stuff taken, they're, of course, concerned. They said,
• 31:14
  Speaker 1: this is irreplaceable memorabilia, and we're never going to be
• 31:17
  Speaker 1: able to get this back. We can't afford to get
• 31:18
  Speaker 1: it back. We're screwed. So there are obviously some questions
• 31:23
  Speaker 1: that are being asked here. The heist, not only about
• 31:27
  Speaker 1: the FedEx truck, why it was left alone, just in general,
• 31:31
  Speaker 1: the whole system, the way the system works in that world,
• 31:35
  Speaker 1: of sports memorabilia protecting valuable collectibles when they're being shipped.
• 31:40
  Speaker 1: And it's really the only way to do it. At
• 31:42
  Speaker 1: this point, it's the only way to do it. So
• 31:45
  Speaker 1: the question, which side of the aisle are you on
• 31:49
  Speaker 1: regarding these sports memorabilia heists? Where are you at on this?
• 31:54
  Speaker 1: Some are saying, well, this is not an issue with
• 31:56
  Speaker 1: the industry. This is an issue with the people at
• 31:58
  Speaker 1: FedEx that somebody screwed up. Maybe it was an inside job, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah.
• 32:04
  Speaker 1: So here's where I stand on this. The biggest hustle,
• 32:09
  Speaker 1: the biggest hustle here is not the stealing of the
• 32:12
  Speaker 1: baseball cards, which is obviously wrong. You shouldn't steal stuff.
• 32:15
  Speaker 1: And we all learned that in kindergarten. It's convincing people,
• 32:21
  Speaker 1: grown adults to pay for professional opinion about a piece
• 32:27
  Speaker 1: of cardboard. Not a game, not a game. Cardboard. Now,
• 32:33
  Speaker 1: PSA should change the name. Right now, PSA, the name
• 32:40
  Speaker 1: they have, as we gave you, is Professional Sports Authenticator.
• 32:45
  Speaker 1: That is PSA. They should change it to Pay Somebody
• 32:49
  Speaker 1: for Approval, which is essentially what the business model is.
• 32:52
  Speaker 1: It's kind of like ambulance chasing billboard lawyers. They always
• 32:57
  Speaker 1: win in the end. The people that grade the cards
• 33:01
  Speaker 1: always win in the end. And we've invented as a
• 33:06
  Speaker 1: society a billion dollar industry where grown men mail pictures
• 33:12
  Speaker 1: of other grown men across the Americas to some dude
• 33:18
  Speaker 1: with a magnifying glass out. and wearing plastic gloves who
• 33:23
  Speaker 1: can tell them, hey, sorry, the corners are pointy on
• 33:30
  Speaker 1: this one. The line is not all the way pure
• 33:34
  Speaker 1: in the printing of this piece of cardboard. Now, the
• 33:37
  Speaker 1: American dream for some is, hey, I worked my entire life.
• 33:42
  Speaker 1: I haven't saved any money. I did have this thing
• 33:45
  Speaker 1: of baseball cards, this big giant doohickey of baseball cards.
• 33:50
  Speaker 1: And so I would like to take those cards that
• 33:53
  Speaker 1: I spent like five bucks to buy back in 1995,
• 33:57
  Speaker 1: and I'd like to take that, and I'll spend $ 100
• 34:02
  Speaker 1: to have these things inspected or whatever it is. And
• 34:07
  Speaker 1: that's it. And I'll convince another sucker because of the
• 34:11
  Speaker 1: grade to spend $ 5, 000. It is wild, though. And our
• 34:17
  Speaker 1: buddy Mike Harmon, who is in this world a lot,
• 34:20
  Speaker 1: and I see Mike, like, ships passing in the night.
• 34:23
  Speaker 1: He works on the Jason Smith Show, which is like
• 34:25
  Speaker 1: the Mike Harmon Show with Jason Smith, of course, you know.
• 34:28
  Speaker 1: And so Harmon, he's in this world, and I have
• 34:31
  Speaker 1: a bunch of old stuff, and I'm like, well, at
• 34:34
  Speaker 1: some point, I can't take it with me when I croak.
• 34:37
  Speaker 1: I might as well sell it before I croak at
• 34:40
  Speaker 1: whatever that happens. And so a PSA 9, let's say
• 34:44
  Speaker 1: you get a PSA grade of 9, that could be worth,
• 34:46
  Speaker 1: I don't know, $ 800 on some card. However, if you
• 34:50
  Speaker 1: get a PSA 10 instead of $ 800, it's $ 8, 000. Oh,
• 34:55
  Speaker 1: my God. It's wild. Same picture, same cardboard. And it's
• 35:02
  Speaker 1: just a different horoscope, if you will. So it's all subjective.
• 35:08
  Speaker 1: It's judgment masquerading as a scientific certainty. Remember, trust the science.
• 35:15
  Speaker 1: They said things change. Sports memorabilia. changes also so i've
• 35:22
  Speaker 1: i've got this interesting quagmire where i have a treasure
• 35:26
  Speaker 1: trove of sports memorabilia and it's in a secret location
• 35:31
  Speaker 1: collecting dust and i had like some good stuff when
• 35:33
  Speaker 1: i was a kid i collected a bunch of stuff
• 35:36
  Speaker 1: and in the early days of my radio career i
• 35:38
  Speaker 1: covered a lot of baseball so i was around people
• 35:41
  Speaker 1: uh they just would give me random crap To them,
• 35:45
  Speaker 1: it didn't really have any value. But to me, I
• 35:47
  Speaker 1: was like, all right, I'll take that baseball. I'll take
• 35:49
  Speaker 1: the batting gloves. I'll take the bats. Why not? And
• 35:53
  Speaker 1: I'll hold on to that stuff. Of course, these are
• 35:55
  Speaker 1: players 30 years ago that are long retired and all that. Unfortunately,
• 36:00
  Speaker 1: all that crap that I've picked up, the crap, all
• 36:03
  Speaker 1: the memorabilia, which is just great memories to look at.
• 36:06
  Speaker 1: And I do believe some of it is worth a
• 36:08
  Speaker 1: good amount of money that I could certainly use at
• 36:11
  Speaker 1: some point. As you know, doing overnight radio, they keep
• 36:15
  Speaker 1: giving you raises every year and they really take care
• 36:17
  Speaker 1: of you. So it's, you know, I really need that money.
• 36:20
  Speaker 1: You know, they really show you the way financially. Anyway,
• 36:24
  Speaker 1: but that stuff's going to stay exactly where it is
• 36:26
  Speaker 1: in that secret location. The main reason I am not
• 36:30
  Speaker 1: interested in participating in the grift where you have to
• 36:34
  Speaker 1: spend a bunch of money to have this stuff graded.
• 36:37
  Speaker 1: I'm just, I'm not into it. That's not my jam.
• 36:39
  Speaker 1: And maybe I'll be convinced at some point by somebody.
• 36:43
  Speaker 1: To be like, all right, here's what you should do.
• 36:45
  Speaker 1: There's no guarantee. You send this stuff in, it's like
• 36:47
  Speaker 1: no guarantee. I've had emails over the years from people
• 36:50
  Speaker 1: who are fans of the show who've sent stuff in
• 36:53
  Speaker 1: and they didn't get it graded the way they wanted
• 36:55
  Speaker 1: it and all that stuff. But anyway, somebody stole almost
• 36:58
  Speaker 1: a million dollars of Pokemon and sports cards. It's pretty wild.
• 37:04
  Speaker 2: Be sure to catch live editions of the Ben Maller
• 37:06
  Speaker 2: Show weekdays at 2 a.m. Eastern, 11 p.m. Pacific.
• 37:09
  Speaker 1: She was close.
• 37:10
  Speaker 2: It's Maller.
• 37:11
  Speaker 1: Yeah, very close. How about that?
• 37:12
  Speaker 2: To the third degree.
• 37:13
  Speaker 1: All right, here we go, here we go, here we go.
• 37:15
  Speaker 2: This is when Big Ben gets grilled.
• 37:19
  Speaker 1: So.
• 37:20
  Speaker 6: Giants running back Cam Skadu did not get a carry
• 37:22
  Speaker 6: in their game this past weekend. Yeah, he said he
• 37:26
  Speaker 6: was punished for the fumble from the week previous. But
• 37:30
  Speaker 6: Tiki Barber said that it was more than just a fumble.
• 37:33
  Speaker 6: There's more to it than just that to fumble against
• 37:36
  Speaker 6: the commanders.
• 37:37
  Speaker 1: What? That's what I'm asking you, Ben. Do you think
• 37:40
  Speaker 1: it's the fumble or it's more than the fumble? Tiki
• 37:41
  Speaker 1: Barber's a talk show host, and he's throwing crap out there.
• 37:45
  Speaker 1: If you know it, say it. What is he worried about? Listen,
• 37:48
  Speaker 1: Cam Scandaboo was drafted in the middle rounds. He was
• 37:50
  Speaker 1: not projected to be a star player. He's beloved because
• 37:53
  Speaker 1: of his personality. He's apparently not that good, but I
• 37:56
  Speaker 1: believe he's absolutely benched because he effed up the game
• 37:59
  Speaker 1: before against Washington. That's why it's not. Occam's razor coop,
• 38:03
  Speaker 1: the simplest answer is the right answer. Next.
• 38:06
  Speaker 6: Well, speaking of the commanders, Stefan Diggs, after their loss
• 38:10
  Speaker 6: this weekend, said on the radio.
• 38:12
  Speaker 1: It's still wide open.
• 38:13
  Speaker 6: Do you think that the commanders could still win the
• 38:16
  Speaker 6: NFC East?
• 38:17
  Speaker 1: Have you seen the NFC East, Coop? It sucks. Yes.
• 38:22
  Speaker 1: I mean, it's like a southern division. The NFC East,
• 38:27
  Speaker 1: my division as a kid was the greatest division. No,
• 38:30
  Speaker 1: the Jets are in first place at 3-2-1. No one's
• 38:32
  Speaker 1: that good. Oh, we only need two questions, right, Coop?
• 38:35
  Speaker 1: That's all we need. Sure. There it is. Mallard to
• 38:37
  Speaker 1: the third degree. How did we do? You get an incomplete. Incomplete? Oh, man,
• 38:43
  Speaker 1: I wanted to win there. Incomplete, James.
• 38:46
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• 38:58
  Speaker 7: Oh we sure do love love and it's holiday season
• 39:01
  Speaker 7: time which is the best time to be in a
• 39:04
  Speaker 7: relationship so uh if you're thinking about asking someone else
• 39:07
  Speaker 7: it might be a good time i.
• 39:08
  Speaker 1: Thought guys obviously you gotta dump the you dump the
• 39:11
  Speaker 1: girlfriend before no after halloween but before thanksgiving and then
• 39:15
  Speaker 1: get back together.
• 39:16
  Speaker 3: In january and a cheapo.
• 39:20
  Speaker 1: I'm just saying, like, that was always the move, right?
• 39:23
  Speaker 1: For dudes, you get rid of the girlfriend right after Halloween.
• 39:26
  Speaker 7: No, holiday season is when you take your girl home
• 39:29
  Speaker 7: for the first time. time and introduce them to your family.
• 39:31
  Speaker 2: Exactly.
• 39:32
  Speaker 1: That's the point. So you get rid of them and
• 39:34
  Speaker 1: then you bring them back in January.
• 39:35
  Speaker 3: You sound like you're anti-love. We're here for love.
• 39:38
  Speaker 1: Okay, all right. I'm just saying. I'm just pointing that out. Now, Halloween,
• 39:42
  Speaker 1: you keep the girlfriend for Halloween, because the women have
• 39:44
  Speaker 1: hijacked Halloween and turned it into the catwalk with as
• 39:48
  Speaker 1: little clothing as possible, which is what has happened over
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  Speaker 1: the years.
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  Speaker 3: I saw the Funnest Couple costume yesterday. I've got to
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  Speaker 3: tell you about it really fast.
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  Speaker 7: It was a guy, and he's dressed kind of normal,
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  Speaker 7: but his girl's a piñata.
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  Speaker 3: And he smacks her with a stick, and candy falls out.
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  Speaker 1: Oh, okay. All right. I thought you were going somewhere else.
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  Speaker 2: I didn't know.
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  Speaker 1: Okay. OG Art Puffin writes in. By the way, thanks
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  Speaker 1: to Milkman Mike and J Scoop who put this open together.
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  Speaker 4: Oh, yes.
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  Speaker 3: It's the best song ever.
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  Speaker 2: I love it.
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  Speaker 1: It's a really good deal. OG Art Puffin says, is
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  Speaker 1: proposing at a professional sporting event romantic or is it
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  Speaker 1: a high-pressure trap that should be banned from the OG
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  Speaker 1: Art Puffin?
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  Speaker 7: Well, hopefully, you know your woman when you propose. And
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  Speaker 7: if you think that that would be overwhelming for her,
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  Speaker 7: don't do that proposal. If they do like extravagant gestures,
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  Speaker 7: I think that's a great one. And I would let
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  Speaker 7: the stadium know beforehand so that they can do the
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  Speaker 7: camera to you and maybe have the mascot behind you.
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  Speaker 3: If you're real fans, you know what I'm saying?
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  Speaker 1: All right.
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  Speaker 3: That'd be cool.
• 40:50
  Speaker 1: I hear you. Next up, Sensei Thunder Fist.
• 40:56
  Speaker 3: Sensei.
• 40:57
  Speaker 1: I'm sure that's his real name. What would a chair
• 40:59
  Speaker 1: look like, Lorena, if your knees bent in the opposite directions?
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  Speaker 1: Great question. Oh, my gosh.
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  Speaker 3: I've never thought about that.
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  Speaker 1: Gord, this guy's smoking weed.
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  Speaker 3: Are my knees backwards or are my hips backwards?
• 41:13
  Speaker 1: Because that would be.
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  Speaker 7: Because my knees, my feet would still hang the same,
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  Speaker 7: but my feet would be in a different direction.
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  Speaker 1: It would be at a different angle if you think
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  Speaker 1: about your knees bent inward.
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  Speaker 7: But I think the chair wouldn't have to change very
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  Speaker 7: much because that's happening underneath the chair.
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  Speaker 3: It would have to be your hips. So if your
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  Speaker 3: hips were backwards, then, yeah, the chair would be different.
• 41:32
  Speaker 1: All right. Mike writes in, he says, is it true,
• 41:35
  Speaker 1: a true sign of love if your girlfriend trims your long,
• 41:38
  Speaker 1: stinky toenail fungus and all?
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  Speaker 2: It is.
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  Speaker 7: I used to do that for my first baby daddy.
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  Speaker 7: I actually enjoyed it though, because it's kind of like
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  Speaker 7: a pedicure.
• 41:47
  Speaker 1: See that? You just answered Mike the Leprechaun's question. You
• 41:49
  Speaker 1: think he's got toe fungus, Mike the Leprechaun?
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  Speaker 3: He definitely has toe fungus.
• 41:52
  Speaker 1: He definitely has toe fungus. All right. What is a
• 41:55
  Speaker 1: good food pairing for tequila? This is from Will T.
• 41:58
  Speaker 1: What is a good food pairing for tequila? Oh, tacos, obviously.
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  Speaker 1: Tacos and tequila. They almost rhyme.
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  Speaker 2: Mexico.
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  Speaker 1: Tequila coals. Yeah, yeah. They had a lot of tequila.
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  Speaker 1: Big tequila country there in Mexico. So, you know, you
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  Speaker 1: go with the tacos. JT, the wingman, writes in. He says,
• 42:15
  Speaker 1: while packing for a romantic adults-only weekend cruise, what are
• 42:19
  Speaker 1: some naughty must-haves to spice it up a little bit?
• 42:23
  Speaker 3: Oh, I love this question.
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  Speaker 7: Well, I actually just went to Hustlers the other day
• 42:28
  Speaker 7: and I found this really cool game.
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  Speaker 1: Is that still in Hollywood or is that somewhere?
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  Speaker 3: There's one over by me in my hometown.
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  Speaker 1: Okay, all right.
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  Speaker 7: Yeah, and they have like a whole game section and
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  Speaker 7: I thought that would be kind of fun for like
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  Speaker 7: a party type thing.
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  Speaker 3: They have sexy Jenga.
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  Speaker 7: Like, and you pull a different one, and it's like, oh,
• 42:46
  Speaker 7: kiss your lover's neck.
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  Speaker 3: Or, you know, send them a dirty photo. I think
• 42:51
  Speaker 3: that would be fun to do on the cruise. And
• 42:52
  Speaker 3: always take toys. Toys are a great thing to take
• 42:55
  Speaker 3: on cruises.
• 42:56
  Speaker 1: All right. JT's going to take his Hot Wheels with him,
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  Speaker 1: so that'll be good. Yeah. You know, Hot Wheels.
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  Speaker 3: Hot Wheels all day, baby.
• 43:02
  Speaker 1: All right. Let's see. Shane in Des Moines says, do
• 43:06
  Speaker 1: you or your exes snore? That's from Shane in Des Moines.
• 43:11
  Speaker 1: He wants to know about the snoring habits.
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  Speaker 2: Yes.
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  Speaker 7: I don't snore unless I'm pregnant or sick, but I
• 43:17
  Speaker 7: have dated a couple guys who snore.
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  Speaker 3: I actually kind of find it soothing. It kind of
• 43:23
  Speaker 3: puts me to bed, actually. It's not too bad.
• 43:25
  Speaker 1: Most people don't like that. Mike writes, he actually emailed in,
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  Speaker 1: Mike from Texas. He says, Lorena, is it true if
• 43:33
  Speaker 1: a woman puts a man in the friend zone, he
• 43:36
  Speaker 1: is unattractive?
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  Speaker 3: No, not true.
• 43:38
  Speaker 1: No, not true.
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  Speaker 3: Not true at all.
• 43:40
  Speaker 1: Yeah. I think it's true. I agree with this.
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  Speaker 3: I can't tell you how many attractive men I have
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  Speaker 3: put in the friend zone.
• 43:44
  Speaker 2: Yeah.
• 43:44
  Speaker 3: We just don't get along like that. You know, like
• 43:45
  Speaker 3: I don't want you to.
• 43:47
  Speaker 1: All right.
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  Speaker 2: Nope.
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  Speaker 1: All right. Michael in Tulsa, cat or dog? Cat or dog?
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  Speaker 3: Dog.
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  Speaker 1: Good answer. Good answer. Solid answer, Lorena.
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  Speaker 6: You win.
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  Speaker 3: Cats always spray me.
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  Speaker 1: I'm not, I'm allergic to cats.
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  Speaker 5: I don't know.
• 43:59
  Speaker 1: I like dog. I'm a dog person. I like dogs. Yeah.
• 44:04
  Speaker 2: Be sure to catch live editions of the Ben Maller
• 44:06
  Speaker 2: Show weekdays at 2 a.m. Eastern, 11 p.m. Pacific. Attention, everyone.
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  Speaker 2: And the password is password.
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  Speaker 5: You idiot.
• 44:16
  Speaker 1: Password, the word game of the stars.
• 44:19
  Speaker 2: Here's Ben Maller.
• 44:20
  Speaker 1: All right, real quick, quick game. Daniel is our crossing
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  Speaker 1: guard in Fort Wayne, Indiana. Daniel, welcome. Who would you
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  Speaker 1: like to partner up with, Daniel?
• 44:29
  Speaker 2: Thank you. All right, we're in it.
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  Speaker 1: Wayne, my pal from Mizzou. He's on the mend, and
• 44:35
  Speaker 1: he's back. Hello, Wayne.
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  Speaker 5: Welcome.
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  Speaker 1: Who would you like to partner up with, Wayne? I
• 44:41
  Speaker 1: would like to partner up with Lorena. Oh, all right. Lorena,
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  Speaker 1: you're in. Okay, gentlemen, quickly here. We have a list
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  Speaker 1: of words. One to ten. Daniel, you were on first.
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  Speaker 1: Please pick a... Number three. All right. Let's go. The password.
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  Speaker 1: We need the word here. We are looking for. Let's
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  Speaker 1: see here. Let's go with accident. Crash.
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  Speaker 2: All right.
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  Speaker 1: We got 10 points. We're on the board. That was
• 45:12
  Speaker 1: the word. Crash. 10 points. And you are up, Lorena,
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  Speaker 1: with our pal Wayne from Mizzou.
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  Speaker 3: All right, Wayne. What number do you want?
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  Speaker 2: Number seven.
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  Speaker 3: Number seven.
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  Speaker 1: Lucky number seven.
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  Speaker 3: That's a good one. Let's do Rise. Rise?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah.
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  Speaker 5: Up?
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  Speaker 1: No. Daniel, Crossing Guard Daniel, Fort Wayne, Indiana. Let's go
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  Speaker 1: with Hoist.
• 45:47
  Speaker 4: Hoist.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah to blow out uh 19 to nothing go ahead
• 45:55
  Speaker 1: pick a word here number.
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  Speaker 3: 10 number 10 oh i like this one too you.
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  Speaker 1: Sure about that yes all right let's see if we
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  Speaker 1: can get it here wayne let's run up the score
• 46:04
  Speaker 1: let's go with um boy i don't know this is
• 46:08
  Speaker 1: actually tougher than you think how about uh masterful.
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  Speaker 2: Thoughtful.
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  Speaker 1: No.
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  Speaker 3: Okay, Wayne, we're going to go with gifted.
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  Speaker 1: The word is talented. You won this time, Ben. Sorry, Wayne,
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  Speaker 1: I had to beat you. I like you, but I
• 46:34
  Speaker 1: had to beat you.