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Legendary sportscaster Warner Wolf interview · Curtis Sliwa & Larry Mendte In The Morning

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  Speaker 1: Well, there's been a titanic shift in the NBA power
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  Speaker 1: ratings the Philadelphia seventy six Ers, as you all know,
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  Speaker 1: by now signing one of the greatest players ever to play.
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  Speaker 1: Some people say he is the greatest Lebron James. So
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  Speaker 1: let's check in with Warner Wolf to find out exactly
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  Speaker 1: how he feels about this and if he feels like
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  Speaker 1: the seventy six Ers are now favored to go to
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  Speaker 1: the NBA Championship.
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  Speaker 2: All right, Larry, Well, first of all, Lebron said he
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  Speaker 2: didn't do it for the money, haha. He wanted to
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  Speaker 2: play for Philadelphia. He would have played for free, sure. Secondly,
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  Speaker 2: he makes it harder for the Knicks to repeat as
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  Speaker 2: Eastern Congresce champions. Third, here's a question, will Lebron be
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  Speaker 2: able to teach Joel Embiid, the king of the flop artists,
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  Speaker 2: when and where to pick his spots? And fourth, the
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  Speaker 2: biggest question goes to you, Larry. You grew up watching
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  Speaker 2: Wilt Chamberlain and the Philadelphia Warriors playing the old Civic Center,
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  Speaker 2: and now you drive back and forth every day to
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  Speaker 2: New York. Who are you going to root for the
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  Speaker 2: Knicks or Philadelphia?
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  Speaker 1: I used to go watch the Sixers when they were
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  Speaker 1: nine and seventy three and you could get out, you
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  Speaker 1: could buy a cheap seat and move down to court
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  Speaker 1: side to watch the games. I've been a Sixers fan
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  Speaker 1: all my life. I love the Knicks. I love that
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  Speaker 1: they're Villanova North, but my heart's got to stay with
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  Speaker 1: the seventy six Ers.
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  Speaker 2: Oh boy, you better watch it when you drive in
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  Speaker 2: the city.
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  Speaker 3: Come on, who expected? Who expected Lebron and go to Philly?
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  Speaker 3: The betting line?
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  Speaker 2: Nobody? I did, Nobody I did? He did.
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  Speaker 1: Let me tell you why. Yeah, let me tell you
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  Speaker 1: why I did. I bet on it on Calshi and
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  Speaker 1: I bet fifty bucks and one, four hundred and twenty five.
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  Speaker 1: And the reason I bet on it is because I
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  Speaker 1: saw a picture of Ganzi, who is the general manager
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  Speaker 1: for the Philadelphia seventy six Ers, back when he was
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  Speaker 1: in high school, with his arms around Lebron James. They
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  Speaker 1: were the first and second best player in high school
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  Speaker 1: in Ohio and they've been friends ever since. Do you
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  Speaker 1: think what or that's the reason they hired a miss
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  Speaker 1: general manager.
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  Speaker 2: Oh, there's no question about it.
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  Speaker 3: I don't know. Wow, you had that inside information there,
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  Speaker 3: Larry Oh Wow.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, must have sporned thirteen Jets, right, Yeah, you might
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  Speaker 2: not be able to call them gang green anymore. For
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  Speaker 2: their opening game against the Packers, they will wear white helmets,
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  Speaker 2: white jerseys, and white pants, So maybe they'll be known
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  Speaker 2: as gang white unless someone says, no, that's too racially.
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  Speaker 3: That ain't could happenok, like Penn stayed out on the grid, Irony,
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  Speaker 3: here's the what's the point? I don't I don't know.
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  Speaker 3: I don't get this other than to sell more paraphernalia,
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  Speaker 3: more merch.
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  Speaker 2: Sure, of course you're bien. And then they'll go back
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  Speaker 2: to the old losing green. Hey, here's the Hutspo. Quote
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  Speaker 2: of the week goes to the new thirty six year
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  Speaker 2: old Kentucky football coach Will Stein. When asked why he
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  Speaker 2: thought he could win at Kentucky, Stein, who's never been
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  Speaker 2: a head coach anywhere before, said we will win big
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  Speaker 2: at Kentucky because of me. Because of me, my do
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  Speaker 2: Stein realized he's in a semi pro league of the
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  Speaker 2: Southeast Conference with teams like Georgia, Alabama, Ole, Miss Texas
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  Speaker 2: A and m Texas Oklahoma. Come on, we'll tone it down, man. Well,
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  Speaker 2: here's one for not only do the players and coaches
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  Speaker 2: illegally bet. The NFL football Cardinals director of college scouting
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  Speaker 2: Ryan Gold has been suspended indefinitely, if not fired. He
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  Speaker 2: gave info and bet on the top five Cardinal draft
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  Speaker 2: picks before the draft, which he knew in advance, and
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  Speaker 2: he won seven hundred thousand dollars on a twenty five
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  Speaker 2: dollars parlay where all you had to do was pick
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  Speaker 2: all five picks in order, but he already knew the
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  Speaker 2: picks unless the Cardinals were going to make a trade.
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  Speaker 3: Now, Hey, don't want one last thing on this gambling thing,
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  Speaker 3: which is it's an epidemic. Now, it's an epidemic. It's everywhere.
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  Speaker 3: Now that Dave allowed all of this gambling to take place,
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  Speaker 3: professional leagues and colleges are benefiting from it. How can
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  Speaker 3: they rain it in? I mean you've seen these cycles before.
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  Speaker 2: No, this is not going to be rained it. And
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  Speaker 2: as long as you have advertising everywhere you look and
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  Speaker 2: call if you have a gambling problem called one eight hundred,
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  Speaker 2: What a joke that is. If you didn't have a problem,
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  Speaker 2: you wouldn't need to call it. I mean it's everywhere. No,
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  Speaker 2: there's too much money to be made. Now by the
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  Speaker 2: professional teams who back it. Now, this is here to stay. Man, hey,
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  Speaker 2: old school managing baseball. Over the weekend, Jay's manager John
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  Speaker 2: Schneider let his starter Dylan Cees go all the way
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  Speaker 2: on a one hitter against the Red Sox on one
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  Speaker 2: hundred and twenty pitches. One hundred and twenty pitches. That's
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  Speaker 2: old time baseball, he said, what's the score? And how's
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  Speaker 2: he doing? By the way, there's been over three thousand
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  Speaker 2: starts in the Major League so far. Gentlemen, how many
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  Speaker 2: complete games do you think that made it cease?
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  Speaker 1: Thirty two?
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  Speaker 2: Quick? What do you say?
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  Speaker 3: No, Larry's on a roll, man, He's winning all these steps.
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  Speaker 2: He's way off.
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  Speaker 1: Well, I didn't bet on it.
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  Speaker 2: Now, I here's the stooge of the week.
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  Speaker 1: What was the number?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, what was the number?
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  Speaker 1: I said, thirty two? What's the real number?
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  Speaker 2: Oh? I didn't tell you. No, you'd have to guess.
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  Speaker 2: Twelve three thousand complete stooge of the week me. New
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  Speaker 2: York Times contributed opinion a writer E. J. Dion Junior,
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  Speaker 2: whose headline said socialism capitalism, who cares? Who cares? Hey,
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  Speaker 2: mister Dion, Socialism communism has never worked anywhere, and it
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  Speaker 2: certainly won't work in New York, where the socialists tell
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  Speaker 2: us everything is free. It's free until you run out
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  Speaker 2: of other people's money and the government owns everything. Hey,
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  Speaker 2: wait till the communists say, Hey, you got a nice
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  Speaker 2: house there, let's put in six other families with you. Hey,
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  Speaker 2: mister Dion, go back to your original job singing with
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  Speaker 2: Dion and the Belmonte. Where did they get this guy from?
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  Speaker 2: You wanted to talk soccer real quick?
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  Speaker 3: Oh madn ah my? If I was going to bury
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  Speaker 3: that because you know I hate soccer, that fake phony
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  Speaker 3: fu spell with you. But the president of fe Foot
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  Speaker 3: won't let it rest. He claims that people like me
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  Speaker 3: who hate him because he's corrupt are guilty of hate
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  Speaker 3: speech and that we need to stop it. It's sort
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  Speaker 3: of like it's over, guy, The World Cup is over.
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  Speaker 3: Leaving alone. He won't leave it alone. He won't leave
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  Speaker 3: it alone.
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  Speaker 2: Well, first of all, move over super Bowl. You know
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  Speaker 2: how much money was bat on the World Cup final?
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  Speaker 2: Five hundred and seventy billion dollars, That's why they cared
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  Speaker 2: who won Spain or Argentina. This dwarfs the Super Bowl
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  Speaker 2: number one hundred and seventy six billion. And here's a
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  Speaker 2: question for you. The Women's Women's World Soccer Cup will
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  Speaker 2: take place in Brazil in twenty twenty seven. Here's the question.
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  Speaker 2: Who will be the first country to try and pass
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  Speaker 2: off a trensgender man to play in the Women's World
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  Speaker 2: Cup and get caught? That's what we want to know.
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  Speaker 3: Well, thank you very much, wanna We pretty much can
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  Speaker 3: figure it out. It will be the United States of America, right.
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  Speaker 1: Oh, I don't think so. I it'll be another country.
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  Speaker 1: But thanks a Lot Warner, legendary sportscaster with us every
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  Speaker 1: week at this time.