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Speaker 1: Mallard Palooza. I waited until just before the show and

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Speaker 1: Mallard Palooza. You can vote for your favorite there that

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Speaker 1: to the Mallar POLUSA, either live or on the podcast.

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Speaker 1: We had a bunch of acts, some of them good,

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Speaker 1: some of them will try to pretend didn't happen. And

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Speaker 1: we made it through the night. We survived. We hope

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Speaker 1: for better in the future, but we did it, and

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Speaker 1: And we'd like to have less comedy and more impersonations

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Speaker 1: and some other stuff. So nonetheless, our lead this out

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Speaker 1: not from me, Mallord palooza. No, no, no, it is

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Speaker 1: all about Jerry's world. It's all about Jerry's world. So

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Speaker 1: the Dallas Cowboys are back. You'd expect daily Cowboy updates?

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Speaker 1: Why why not? What the hell? Right? So, if you

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Speaker 1: have not been following the football news of the day

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Speaker 1: is we are in the training camp portion of the

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Speaker 1: with certain teams have arrived. So if you haven't been

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Speaker 1: following all this, perhaps not. The Dallas Cowboys always good

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Speaker 1: have done it yet again, so Jerry Jones admitted recently,

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Speaker 1: In fact, in a gaggle with reporters, he admitted that

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Speaker 1: there have been moments that he thought about stepping away.

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Speaker 1: He has been the Dallas Cowboys GM my entire life,

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Speaker 1: close to it, But Jerry Jones said there were moments

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Speaker 1: he thought about stepping away as the general manager of

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Speaker 1: the Cowboys. But not very long, he said, not very long,

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Speaker 1: small fractions of seconds, Jerry said. Jerry says he remains

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Speaker 1: he knows that now these of course older, it's in

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Speaker 1: his eighties. Now, he says, I'm living for now. Jerry

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Speaker 1: That is not a reflection. Okay. That's like indigestion. It's

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Speaker 1: It's like the moment between eating taking a bite of

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Speaker 1: It is, right, But Jerry Jones has been the Cowboys

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Speaker 1: So it's an encrypted message. Jerry saying I'm eighty two.

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Speaker 1: the Dallas Cowboys. It is ceremonial cosplay is what it is.

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Speaker 1: And know he's doubling down on all this, which is

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Speaker 1: at both Micah Parsons and Dak Prescott for getting hurt.

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Speaker 1: So where are you at on this one? All right?

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Speaker 1: So this is the give me a break? All right?

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Speaker 1: This is that, Please give me a break? What is

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Speaker 1: we paid Dak he got hurt. We might pay Micah

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Speaker 1: personal attack. That's Jerry Jones doing what Jerry Jones does

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Speaker 1: He is usane Bolt when it comes to running running

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Speaker 1: is what is the most puzzling What is the most

427
00:25:03,119 --> 00:25:07,440
Speaker 1: puzzling thing about the WNBA All Star pay us activism

428
00:25:08,040 --> 00:25:10,640
Speaker 1: with the shirts at the All Star Game. So I've

429
00:25:10,640 --> 00:25:17,040
Speaker 1: got ubering, Donnie Brasco and Designer label and we will

430
00:25:17,080 --> 00:25:21,200
Speaker 1: combine all of these things together and we are going

431
00:25:21,240 --> 00:25:27,159
Speaker 1: to make some homemade chocolate chip cookie soft and chewy,

432
00:25:27,760 --> 00:25:36,359
Speaker 1: gooey chewy goodness. So number said number one number. So

433
00:25:36,440 --> 00:25:39,640
Speaker 1: this is rich. I don't mean as in the players

434
00:25:39,680 --> 00:25:42,720
Speaker 1: are getting rich. It is just rich. And I would

435
00:25:42,800 --> 00:25:46,480
Speaker 1: argue that hutzba, which is a very enjoyable word to say,

436
00:25:46,480 --> 00:25:51,840
Speaker 1: the word hutsba, that does not quite cover the basis

437
00:25:51,840 --> 00:25:55,720
Speaker 1: on this one. Using the word hutzba, this is delusion.

438
00:25:56,160 --> 00:25:59,359
Speaker 1: Delusion is what this is there? So where do we start?

439
00:26:00,240 --> 00:26:01,920
Speaker 1: Why don't we start with this? How about we'll start

440
00:26:01,920 --> 00:26:06,480
Speaker 1: with this? So owe you? What is the question? What

441
00:26:06,600 --> 00:26:11,440
Speaker 1: exactly are you owed as a WNBA player? Last I checked?

442
00:26:11,480 --> 00:26:13,040
Speaker 1: And I don't think I'm wrong on this, But as

443
00:26:13,080 --> 00:26:17,640
Speaker 1: I understand the economics of the WNBA, the league exists

444
00:26:17,720 --> 00:26:23,280
Speaker 1: not because of overwhelming public demand, not because of amazing

445
00:26:23,320 --> 00:26:27,600
Speaker 1: ticket sales, not because of massive television ratings. No, no, no, no, no,

446
00:26:27,600 --> 00:26:31,800
Speaker 1: none of those things, none of those things. It turns

447
00:26:31,840 --> 00:26:35,520
Speaker 1: out that the WNBA exists because the NBA works as

448
00:26:35,520 --> 00:26:40,800
Speaker 1: a wait for it, sugar daddy. That's right. The NBA

449
00:26:41,080 --> 00:26:45,000
Speaker 1: is the sugar daddy. They are the ones keeping those

450
00:26:45,119 --> 00:26:47,520
Speaker 1: checks coming in there and keeping the lights on and

451
00:26:47,560 --> 00:26:50,560
Speaker 1: all that stuff. So it is a league that has

452
00:26:50,640 --> 00:26:55,000
Speaker 1: been on life support for some time, subsidized by the

453
00:26:55,119 --> 00:27:00,320
Speaker 1: sugar Nady Adam Silver and Basketball atm Adams over and

454
00:27:00,359 --> 00:27:04,720
Speaker 1: the people that own the NBA. And it's a little

455
00:27:04,800 --> 00:27:07,200
Speaker 1: money here, little money there, and it's actually a lot

456
00:27:07,200 --> 00:27:10,800
Speaker 1: of money, and they don't get a lot of bang

457
00:27:10,840 --> 00:27:12,399
Speaker 1: for their buck. There's not a lot of bang for

458
00:27:12,440 --> 00:27:17,280
Speaker 1: the buck there. And if the WNBA was a standalone

459
00:27:17,840 --> 00:27:19,920
Speaker 1: business and they had to make it on their own,

460
00:27:21,440 --> 00:27:26,520
Speaker 1: hear me, roar, they would have been so far gone.

461
00:27:27,119 --> 00:27:29,199
Speaker 1: Like the people that are complaining about this now, they

462
00:27:29,240 --> 00:27:31,560
Speaker 1: wouldn't even know the WMA existed because it would have

463
00:27:31,640 --> 00:27:35,960
Speaker 1: gone away before they were born. Okay, so it would

464
00:27:35,960 --> 00:27:39,760
Speaker 1: have been buried in a popper's grave there decades ago.

465
00:27:39,800 --> 00:27:45,600
Speaker 1: But somehow, somehow, some way, the players, because of social media,

466
00:27:45,680 --> 00:27:47,840
Speaker 1: they believe they're getting short changed. They're getting the old

467
00:27:47,840 --> 00:27:51,879
Speaker 1: screw job here, the WNBA players, and it's just wild

468
00:27:51,920 --> 00:27:58,200
Speaker 1: to me. It blows me away the sports economy, what's popular,

469
00:27:58,280 --> 00:28:01,480
Speaker 1: what's not popular? Like they live in a parallel dimension.

470
00:28:01,480 --> 00:28:04,199
Speaker 1: Maybe I'm living in a parallel demension, but it just

471
00:28:04,200 --> 00:28:06,399
Speaker 1: seems crazy that this is a league being propped up

472
00:28:06,440 --> 00:28:08,880
Speaker 1: by the NBA and these women are out there complaining

473
00:28:08,920 --> 00:28:11,840
Speaker 1: that they need to get more money without the NBA

474
00:28:12,080 --> 00:28:15,080
Speaker 1: paying the bill, Without the sugar daddy NBA paying the bill,

475
00:28:16,040 --> 00:28:19,520
Speaker 1: these teams, they wouldn't be flying charter, they wouldn't be

476
00:28:19,560 --> 00:28:22,800
Speaker 1: flying commercial, they wouldn't be flying at all. They'd be

477
00:28:22,840 --> 00:28:25,960
Speaker 1: nowhere to fly to, okay. These women would be ubering

478
00:28:26,000 --> 00:28:28,520
Speaker 1: to the why. To play pickup basketball is what they'd

479
00:28:28,560 --> 00:28:30,960
Speaker 1: be doing, okay, And they'd have the same amount of

480
00:28:30,960 --> 00:28:33,280
Speaker 1: people that care at the why as they do now.

481
00:28:34,040 --> 00:28:40,040
Speaker 1: The average WNBA player, the average NBA player thinks and

482
00:28:40,120 --> 00:28:42,040
Speaker 1: I don't know. Again, it's just because of social media.

483
00:28:42,080 --> 00:28:44,800
Speaker 1: They've convinced themselves that they are part of some kind

484
00:28:44,800 --> 00:28:50,120
Speaker 1: of cultural revolution. But in reality, it's Caitlin Clark and

485
00:28:50,200 --> 00:28:53,920
Speaker 1: one hundred and fifty six other people who are writing

486
00:28:53,960 --> 00:28:57,360
Speaker 1: her coattails. Okay, that's what's going on here, And so

487
00:28:57,920 --> 00:29:00,640
Speaker 1: she is the lottery ticket. Caitlin Clark is we've talked about.

488
00:29:00,680 --> 00:29:02,840
Speaker 1: She's the show, she's the draw, she's the anomaly. And

489
00:29:02,880 --> 00:29:05,280
Speaker 1: even when she plays poorly she has in some recent games,

490
00:29:05,280 --> 00:29:08,320
Speaker 1: apparently it doesn't matter because when the legend becomes the fact,

491
00:29:08,360 --> 00:29:10,080
Speaker 1: you go with the legend and the man that shot

492
00:29:10,080 --> 00:29:12,600
Speaker 1: Liberty balance the legend of Caitlin Clark, even if she

493
00:29:12,640 --> 00:29:15,720
Speaker 1: has terrible stat lines, it doesn't matter. It doesn't matter.

494
00:29:16,040 --> 00:29:18,680
Speaker 1: And the rest of the WNBA, it is a collection

495
00:29:18,760 --> 00:29:21,600
Speaker 1: of flotsam and jetsam, is what it is. Okay, that's

496
00:29:21,600 --> 00:29:26,200
Speaker 1: what it is. It's swirling around in her wake. There's

497
00:29:26,280 --> 00:29:28,720
Speaker 1: Caitlin Clark and all these other players are swirling around,

498
00:29:29,680 --> 00:29:35,080
Speaker 1: and it's there's a scientifical term for this. It's mistaking

499
00:29:35,280 --> 00:29:39,760
Speaker 1: relevance by association. You think you're relevant by the people

500
00:29:39,800 --> 00:29:43,200
Speaker 1: you hang out with, but no, it's their relevance. You're

501
00:29:43,280 --> 00:29:46,880
Speaker 1: not relevant. You don't have any actual relevance at all.

502
00:29:47,280 --> 00:29:51,320
Speaker 1: You don't. And so Caitlyn Clark, she's out there doing

503
00:29:51,360 --> 00:29:54,480
Speaker 1: her thing whatever, and really the other players are weighing

504
00:29:54,480 --> 00:29:57,240
Speaker 1: her down more than anything. Right, if the NBA, and

505
00:29:57,280 --> 00:30:01,240
Speaker 1: they ask you this, if the WNBA went away today.

506
00:30:01,480 --> 00:30:03,880
Speaker 1: Later day when the sun comes up, they announced the

507
00:30:03,960 --> 00:30:07,080
Speaker 1: NBAA said we're pulling the plug. X nay on the

508
00:30:07,160 --> 00:30:11,720
Speaker 1: money A We're out, no more checks, Sugar, Daddy's done.

509
00:30:12,320 --> 00:30:18,880
Speaker 1: Bye bye. If the WNBA went away, poof just vanished

510
00:30:18,920 --> 00:30:24,640
Speaker 1: in the thin air, just gone see you later. Would

511
00:30:24,720 --> 00:30:30,080
Speaker 1: you notice how many people would really care? I don't

512
00:30:30,200 --> 00:30:32,480
Speaker 1: not many. I know there'd be some woke journalists out

513
00:30:32,480 --> 00:30:34,840
Speaker 1: there that'd write think pieces on the internet, Oh my god,

514
00:30:34,880 --> 00:30:37,120
Speaker 1: this is the worst stuck in the world. Of course,

515
00:30:37,160 --> 00:30:39,760
Speaker 1: those people have the very long bios about how great

516
00:30:39,760 --> 00:30:41,920
Speaker 1: they are and all that stuff, and there'd be a

517
00:30:41,960 --> 00:30:45,560
Speaker 1: handful of lunatics out there complaining on I guess cable

518
00:30:45,600 --> 00:30:48,400
Speaker 1: news or whatever. But other than that, that's about it.

519
00:30:48,880 --> 00:30:52,720
Speaker 1: So again, if you want fairness, if we strive for fairness,

520
00:30:53,440 --> 00:30:57,400
Speaker 1: and you look at the economics here, the WNBA lost,

521
00:30:57,680 --> 00:31:02,160
Speaker 1: according to multiple sources, forty million dollars last year. They

522
00:31:02,160 --> 00:31:04,240
Speaker 1: were going to lose fifty They made up ten millions.

523
00:31:04,280 --> 00:31:07,120
Speaker 1: They lost forty million dollars last year. So let's do

524
00:31:07,240 --> 00:31:11,239
Speaker 1: some back of the napkin malar map. So roughly one

525
00:31:11,320 --> 00:31:15,440
Speaker 1: hundred and fifty six players in the WNBA divide the

526
00:31:15,560 --> 00:31:19,720
Speaker 1: forty million loss by those one hundred and fifty six players.

527
00:31:20,040 --> 00:31:21,880
Speaker 1: So each player would then have to cut a check

528
00:31:21,920 --> 00:31:24,960
Speaker 1: for over two hundred and fifty thousand dollars. That would

529
00:31:25,000 --> 00:31:28,160
Speaker 1: be fair. Do you think that's going to happen? I

530
00:31:28,200 --> 00:31:30,240
Speaker 1: don't think so. Yeah, I think we know the answer

531
00:31:30,240 --> 00:31:33,560
Speaker 1: to that. Now, Page two, let's transition to a sport

532
00:31:33,600 --> 00:31:36,520
Speaker 1: people actually do care about pro bouncy ball, the men's version.

533
00:31:37,160 --> 00:31:41,760
Speaker 1: And after weeks of chatter, chitter, chatter, weeks and weeks

534
00:31:41,760 --> 00:31:46,120
Speaker 1: of chatter, the deal is now done. The deal is

535
00:31:46,240 --> 00:31:52,400
Speaker 1: now done. What is it? C P three? Going back

536
00:31:52,400 --> 00:31:56,920
Speaker 1: to the people's team, So question, what are your expectations

537
00:31:56,920 --> 00:32:01,120
Speaker 1: for Chris Paul and his return to the Clippers for

538
00:32:01,200 --> 00:32:07,520
Speaker 1: a last dance in La La Land. So I'm gonna

539
00:32:07,560 --> 00:32:10,640
Speaker 1: tackle it this way. There's a lot of unknowledgeable people

540
00:32:11,080 --> 00:32:16,240
Speaker 1: out there, like Rico and some others who seem to

541
00:32:16,320 --> 00:32:18,520
Speaker 1: think that Chris Paul's going to go in there and

542
00:32:18,560 --> 00:32:21,120
Speaker 1: be a thirty five to forty minute a night player.

543
00:32:21,640 --> 00:32:23,920
Speaker 1: This one we call low information fan. It's a low

544
00:32:23,960 --> 00:32:27,880
Speaker 1: information fan. Am I excited about Chris Paul going to

545
00:32:27,920 --> 00:32:31,200
Speaker 1: the Clippers? No, not particularly, I'm not I know he's

546
00:32:31,320 --> 00:32:32,880
Speaker 1: gonna be a bit player. He's gonna be like kind

547
00:32:32,920 --> 00:32:34,840
Speaker 1: of a trophy, a mascot. He can hang out with

548
00:32:34,880 --> 00:32:37,840
Speaker 1: Chuck the Condor, they can do bits at halftime. So

549
00:32:39,240 --> 00:32:42,760
Speaker 1: I look at it like Chris Paul's treating the Clippers like, Hey,

550
00:32:42,760 --> 00:32:44,960
Speaker 1: I want to be in La. My family's in La now,

551
00:32:44,960 --> 00:32:47,520
Speaker 1: my life is in La. So I'm gonna treat the

552
00:32:47,520 --> 00:32:51,920
Speaker 1: Clippers like a nostalgia museum. And the Clippers are, okay,

553
00:32:52,000 --> 00:32:54,440
Speaker 1: we'll take that. We're fine. If you give us fifteen

554
00:32:54,480 --> 00:32:56,880
Speaker 1: minutes a game or whatever. We're in cahoots. Now. My

555
00:32:57,080 --> 00:33:01,080
Speaker 1: expectation is Chris Paul's gonna play a little. He'll win

556
00:33:01,200 --> 00:33:04,320
Speaker 1: a couple of games from him, He'll get hurt and

557
00:33:04,680 --> 00:33:08,040
Speaker 1: that's it. But it's like, I have no real expectations

558
00:33:08,040 --> 00:33:11,280
Speaker 1: for Chris Paul doing anything. Why would I, Because when

559
00:33:11,280 --> 00:33:13,800
Speaker 1: the moment's the biggest, he comes up the smallest. That's

560
00:33:13,800 --> 00:33:17,480
Speaker 1: what Chris Paul's always done. And you ever hang on.

561
00:33:17,920 --> 00:33:19,000
Speaker 1: I don't know how old you are, but if you

562
00:33:19,280 --> 00:33:21,880
Speaker 1: have that T shirt, that really comfortable t shirt, maybe

563
00:33:21,880 --> 00:33:24,040
Speaker 1: it's a pair of boxer shorts or whatever that you

564
00:33:24,160 --> 00:33:26,160
Speaker 1: had maybe back in college, and you hold on to

565
00:33:26,280 --> 00:33:29,600
Speaker 1: it because it's just wonderful and it brings back fond memories.

566
00:33:29,640 --> 00:33:31,640
Speaker 1: It's got sentimental value, and you're like, well, this is

567
00:33:31,640 --> 00:33:35,320
Speaker 1: pretty cool. That's essentially what CP three is. He's an

568
00:33:35,320 --> 00:33:38,520
Speaker 1: old pair of boxer shorts with holes in them, and

569
00:33:38,560 --> 00:33:40,880
Speaker 1: the clippers kind of like it. If you want to

570
00:33:40,960 --> 00:33:43,640
Speaker 1: use a food analogy to the impact Chris Paul is

571
00:33:43,680 --> 00:33:46,400
Speaker 1: going to have, it's like going through the drive through

572
00:33:46,440 --> 00:33:51,120
Speaker 1: at McDonald's and you order the big mac combo meal

573
00:33:51,840 --> 00:33:54,600
Speaker 1: from McDonald's and you go through the bag. At the

574
00:33:54,680 --> 00:33:56,880
Speaker 1: very bottom of the bag, you've taken the items out

575
00:33:56,920 --> 00:33:59,960
Speaker 1: of the bag and you take a look and there's

576
00:34:00,080 --> 00:34:03,880
Speaker 1: an extra fry at the bottom of the bag. Now,

577
00:34:03,880 --> 00:34:05,440
Speaker 1: you didn't ask for an extra fry. You said, I

578
00:34:05,440 --> 00:34:08,120
Speaker 1: don't need an extra fy. I mean, I got enough,

579
00:34:08,320 --> 00:34:11,279
Speaker 1: But you look, it's right there, and it's kind of

580
00:34:11,320 --> 00:34:13,920
Speaker 1: an older fry, maybe got caught in something in the

581
00:34:13,960 --> 00:34:17,200
Speaker 1: machine and all that, and it's getting kind of soft

582
00:34:17,239 --> 00:34:19,239
Speaker 1: and soggy and all that, and it's not that good,

583
00:34:19,719 --> 00:34:22,880
Speaker 1: but it's still food. You know. It's like, okay, technically,

584
00:34:23,080 --> 00:34:25,720
Speaker 1: you know you didn't ask for it, you didn't expect it,

585
00:34:25,960 --> 00:34:27,920
Speaker 1: but this gets to be a nonsense. This is what

586
00:34:28,040 --> 00:34:33,000
Speaker 1: I loath these retirement tours. You don't announce your retirement,

587
00:34:33,080 --> 00:34:39,360
Speaker 1: you just retire. Now I'm retiring, Just step away. Do

588
00:34:39,440 --> 00:34:41,840
Speaker 1: what Tim Duncan did. Just put on some dad jeans

589
00:34:41,960 --> 00:34:45,160
Speaker 1: and that's it. Go away. But instead it's gonna be

590
00:34:45,239 --> 00:34:48,959
Speaker 1: one video tribute after another. Every city goes to Chris Paul.

591
00:34:49,000 --> 00:34:50,880
Speaker 1: Like I said, be hanging out with Chuck the Condor.

592
00:34:51,239 --> 00:34:54,600
Speaker 1: He'll be hanging out at halftime of games. He'll be

593
00:34:54,680 --> 00:34:57,759
Speaker 1: kissing babies, taking photos with fans. They should have a

594
00:34:57,800 --> 00:35:02,439
Speaker 1: photo booth with Chris Paul. So there's that. And it's

595
00:35:02,960 --> 00:35:06,680
Speaker 1: like the Farewell Tour sponsored by AARP, which is a

596
00:35:06,760 --> 00:35:08,680
Speaker 1: sponsor of the Washington Nationals. By the way, I was

597
00:35:08,719 --> 00:35:11,640
Speaker 1: watching the Nationals game with the Reds last night and

598
00:35:11,680 --> 00:35:15,000
Speaker 1: they had on the field AARP, which I'm sure Baseball's

599
00:35:15,040 --> 00:35:17,080
Speaker 1: marketing people love because they try to trying to get

600
00:35:17,120 --> 00:35:20,960
Speaker 1: a younger crowd, so they have AARP as their sponsor. Anyway,

601
00:35:21,840 --> 00:35:24,800
Speaker 1: it's kind of like a restaurant to use a different

602
00:35:25,239 --> 00:35:27,920
Speaker 1: approach to this Chris Paul to the Clippers, it's like

603
00:35:27,920 --> 00:35:30,799
Speaker 1: a restaurant trying to revive its business by bringing back

604
00:35:30,840 --> 00:35:33,680
Speaker 1: a popular waiter they got rid of thirty years ago.

605
00:35:34,600 --> 00:35:36,640
Speaker 1: This bring that waiter back. Then people like that waiter.

606
00:35:36,680 --> 00:35:38,880
Speaker 1: We'll bring the waiter back. But Chris Paul used to

607
00:35:38,880 --> 00:35:41,560
Speaker 1: be a big deal, and I love the Lob City.

608
00:35:41,560 --> 00:35:43,520
Speaker 1: The Lob City days were fun. I don't hate the

609
00:35:43,560 --> 00:35:46,080
Speaker 1: Lob City days. I hate Doc Rivers, I hate Blake

610
00:35:46,120 --> 00:35:49,360
Speaker 1: Griffin and those guys, But the Lob City is that

611
00:35:49,440 --> 00:35:51,400
Speaker 1: was the arrival. That was the birth of the Clippers.

612
00:35:51,440 --> 00:35:53,759
Speaker 1: They were irrelevant, they didn't matter. Now they run La

613
00:35:54,600 --> 00:35:57,359
Speaker 1: La runs through the Clippers because of the Lob City days.

614
00:35:57,360 --> 00:35:58,920
Speaker 1: Ever since then, they're one of the top teams in

615
00:35:58,920 --> 00:36:01,359
Speaker 1: the NBA. The Lakers have been ambarrassment. No championships since

616
00:36:01,400 --> 00:36:04,279
Speaker 1: Kobe Bryant and the Clippers got to a Final Four.

617
00:36:04,280 --> 00:36:06,920
Speaker 1: In that time, it's been wonderful. It's been wonderful. But

618
00:36:07,040 --> 00:36:09,680
Speaker 1: in terms of him being a leading actor, Chris Paul

619
00:36:09,719 --> 00:36:12,400
Speaker 1: with the Clippers, to quote Donnie Brasco, forgot about it.

620
00:36:12,440 --> 00:36:14,799
Speaker 1: Remember that only forgot about it. Come on, if the

621
00:36:14,840 --> 00:36:20,360
Speaker 1: Clippers playoff fortunes are dependent on CP three stepping his

622
00:36:20,480 --> 00:36:24,160
Speaker 1: game up in a key Malmot in the spring. In

623
00:36:24,200 --> 00:36:26,719
Speaker 1: the summer of twenty twenty six, they're porked. They're done.

624
00:36:26,760 --> 00:36:29,200
Speaker 1: That's it, see you later, all right, now, final point.

625
00:36:29,200 --> 00:36:33,960
Speaker 1: We turned the page. After a brief sojourn with the Clippers,

626
00:36:34,920 --> 00:36:40,480
Speaker 1: the former number one overall pick NBA draft, the Aussie

627
00:36:40,560 --> 00:36:44,560
Speaker 1: muffed it Ben Simmons, making all Ben's look bad. So

628
00:36:44,680 --> 00:36:46,839
Speaker 1: Ben Simmons is looking for a gig. We are told

629
00:36:46,880 --> 00:36:51,239
Speaker 1: now the Boston Celtics, the Phoenix Suns, the New York Knickerbockers,

630
00:36:51,280 --> 00:36:55,080
Speaker 1: and the Sacramento Kings have all kicked the tires on

631
00:36:55,280 --> 00:37:00,000
Speaker 1: Ben Simmons. So how do you process a failed best

632
00:37:00,040 --> 00:37:02,319
Speaker 1: ketball player that has not one, not two, not three,

633
00:37:02,360 --> 00:37:07,320
Speaker 1: but four teams that he's drawing interest from around the NBA?

634
00:37:07,400 --> 00:37:11,320
Speaker 1: So your thoughts on on this? So Ben Simmons continues

635
00:37:11,360 --> 00:37:17,880
Speaker 1: to be tantalizing because people are stuck in a different era, right,

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Speaker 1: That's the problem in the league. They say this in

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Speaker 1: all sports, but in football and basketball you never give

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Speaker 1: up on talent. Every coach thinks they have the magic

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Speaker 1: recipe to unlock the higher ability of a player. And

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Speaker 1: so Ben Simmons is like the ultimate what if What

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Speaker 1: if he stayed healthy, what if he found a love

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Speaker 1: for basketball, What if he found a jump shot. What

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Speaker 1: if you could convince him that anything outside the painted

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Speaker 1: area is not lava and you can actually go out

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Speaker 1: there and shoot the basketball. And it's the ultimate what if,

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Speaker 1: Like if only he got his confidence? What about this?

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Speaker 1: What about that? What about? What about? What about? What about?

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Speaker 1: What about? What about? What about? What about?

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Speaker 4: What?

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Speaker 1: It's? What about? Is them? So really the Celtics, the

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Speaker 1: Knicks and these other teams that have been mentioned in

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Speaker 1: the Gossip, what they are doing is they're going HGTV.

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Speaker 1: They're doing the Beach Front bargain hunt. They're trying to

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Speaker 1: find a bargain, Like, how can we do this Ben Simmons.

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Speaker 1: It's like what Rob Parker does. Our friend Rob when

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Speaker 1: he goes shopping. Rob tries to find the designer label

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Speaker 1: on a clearance rack, and that's Ben Simmons. Ben Simmons

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Speaker 1: was a designer label. He was a prodigy, he was

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Speaker 1: international man of mystery. He was all of that and

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Speaker 1: a bag of chips and he's none of that anymore. However,

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Speaker 1: at the time you can sell it. You said, well,

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Speaker 1: this guy was the number one pick and all this stuff.

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Speaker 1: But he's on the discount rack right now and he

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Speaker 1: fits the mold for these teams, the teams that are

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Speaker 1: all trying to throw darts blindfolded at the board, hoping

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Speaker 1: to land a competent of the rotation player like Ben Simmons.

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Speaker 1: And if only the light bulb goes off? What about?

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Speaker 1: What about? What about? What about? What about? What about?

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Speaker 1: What about? What about? What about? What about? What about

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Speaker 1: all that? Yes? Now, if not, you're out? What the

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Speaker 1: veteran's minimum? Whoopedee? Damn? Do who care? They flush that

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Speaker 1: down to toilet that money.

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Speaker 2: Be sure to catch live editions of The Ben Meller

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Speaker 2: Show weekdays at two am Eastern eleven pm Pacific.

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Speaker 1: Here we go, It's mallard. How about that?

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Speaker 2: To the third degree? This is one big Ben gets.

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Speaker 1: Grilled gool rasheet.

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Speaker 4: Rice has yet to be punished by the NFL, but

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Speaker 4: it's it's coming. Now that his court case is settled,

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Speaker 4: the NFL will move forward with their own disciplinary actions.

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Speaker 4: How long of a suspension do you think Rice will get?

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Speaker 1: Ben? Well, you go by the comps on this, and

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Speaker 1: the NFL has gone softer recently. Roger Goodell player empowerment, player,

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Speaker 1: friendly guy. So even though it embarrassed the NFL, I'm

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Speaker 1: gonna say two to four games. I'm going two to

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Speaker 1: four games at the most for Rice on ice for

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Speaker 1: Kansas City. Next, with another gem.

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Speaker 4: From Derek scuogl the Tiger snapped a six game losing

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Speaker 4: streak and became the first team to sixty wins. Now,

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Speaker 4: he said he won't be satisfied until Detroit wins a championship. Ben,

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Speaker 4: do you think they have a shot. Well, I think

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Speaker 4: the Lions have a chance.

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Speaker 1: I think the things go right for the Lions in

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Speaker 1: the playoffs, they can win. I mean, the Pistons played

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Speaker 1: better last year the Tigers. No, they have a cheating

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Speaker 1: a holes manager.

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Speaker 4: Next, in an attempt to get Mookie Betts out of

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Speaker 4: a season long slum, Dave Roberts putting Mooky in the

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Speaker 4: leadoff and moved to Tanny to the two spot. Ben,

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Speaker 4: do you think this can help Mookie get back on track?

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Speaker 1: No, Mookie sucked all year. All right, It's one excuse

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Speaker 1: after another, and it's just not his year. They got

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Speaker 1: to figure it out. They're paying him for the next

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Speaker 1: like fifteen years. Mookie Betts, he's not going anywhere. He's

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Speaker 1: gonna be there. How did we do pass on the

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Speaker 1: board a win?

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Speaker 2: Fox Sports Radio has the best sports talk lineup in

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Speaker 2: listen live. Now, Mailer's Mountain of Money? Hell, do you

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Speaker 2: have what it takes to get to the top? Probably?

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Speaker 6: Not?

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Speaker 1: All right, Right to the game we go. Let's welcome

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Speaker 1: in our contestants. We have Ronnie from Cannes, U City. Hello, Ronnie,

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Speaker 1: Welcome then, ma, How you doing?

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Speaker 6: Brother?

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Speaker 1: What's going on?

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Speaker 6: Man?

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Speaker 1: Are you the guy that I met? Ronnie? Is that you?

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Speaker 1: Are you the same guy?

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Speaker 2: Is that the I am the guy who makes bullets?

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Speaker 1: I am the guy I remember you, this guy I

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Speaker 1: know Ronnie, I know you guys? All right now, Ronnie,

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Speaker 1: it's good to talk to you again. Ron Who you

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Speaker 1: like to partner up with on the on the big show?

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Speaker 4: Here, Ronnie, let's go bober that choice.

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Speaker 1: This guy? Obviously, we will crush you. Ronnie's a stud.

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00:42:04,800 --> 00:42:06,920
Speaker 1: He's tougher than you. He makes bullets all night. And

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00:42:06,960 --> 00:42:12,600
Speaker 1: we have Mike in Boston, who's gonna play. Hello, Mike, Welcome. Hey,

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Speaker 1: I hear a lot of ambient noise. Do we want

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Speaker 1: a lot of ambient noise? Do we need a lot

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Speaker 1: of ambient noise make your game better? All right?

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Speaker 2: Yeah?

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Speaker 1: All right, Mike, you want to team up with Coop

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Speaker 1: as whom your work right now? Or you're just wandering

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Speaker 1: around the streets of Boston.

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Speaker 6: I'm driving to work.

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Speaker 1: I got you, all right? What kind of work do

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Speaker 1: you do?

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Speaker 4: Kyle?

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Speaker 1: Uh? Like your high end marble? Yeah? Nice? All right, Well,

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Speaker 1: let's play the game Coop quickly please?

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Speaker 4: All right, gentlemen, this is Malardsmount of Money, the Willem

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Speaker 4: Dafoe edition. He turns seventy years old today.

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Speaker 1: Uh.

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Speaker 4: The categories are the Boondocks, Saints, Spider Man, Finding Nemo,

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Speaker 4: and the Florida Project. Ronnie, you were on first? Which

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Speaker 4: category would you like?

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Speaker 1: The quart Project?

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Speaker 4: All right? And Mike, how about you?

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Speaker 1: All right? All right, We'll put forty five seconds in

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Speaker 1: the clock, and these athletes were all born in Florida.

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Speaker 1: Pull that, Ronnie? You ready? Ronnie's all right? Here we

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Speaker 1: go forty five seconds, we run away go two time

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Speaker 1: MVP for the Baltimore Ravens their quarterback. Yes, quarterback for

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Speaker 1: the Raiders right now. He came over from Seattle. Yes,

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Speaker 1: all time leading rusher in NFL history for the Cowboys Smith. Yes,

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Speaker 1: third baseman for the Padres. He played with the Orioles

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Speaker 1: for a long time. Yes, Chocolate Thunder nineteen seventies, eighties

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Speaker 1: NBA player known for his hammer dunks. No Phoenix Suns

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Speaker 1: player played with the Knicks, became Jewish. Black guy became

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Speaker 1: Jewish with the Knicks. Two thousands. All right, a third

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Speaker 1: baseman for the Brewers play with the Dodgers. And this

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Speaker 1: last one.

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Speaker 4: Gary Sheffield, Gary Sheffield and uh Amari Stottenmeyer and Darryl Dawkins.

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Speaker 1: Chocolate Thunder darryld Dog. All right, let's what is that?

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Speaker 4: A hundred points?

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Speaker 1: That's fine?

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Speaker 4: All right, Mike, we have we have finding nemo.

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Speaker 1: Uh.

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Speaker 4: These athletes all went or go missing in the playoffs.

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Speaker 4: Are you ready?

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Speaker 2: Yep?

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Speaker 4: All right, forty five seconds, let's begin.

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Speaker 1: Uh.

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Speaker 4: He is the current star on the Yankees. Slugger Aaron Jdge.

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Speaker 1: Yes uh.

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Speaker 4: This guy is the mailman from the Utah Jazz. All right.

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00:44:42,640 --> 00:44:44,600
Speaker 4: This guy was the quarterback for the Chargers for a

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Speaker 4: long time.

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Speaker 2: Philip.

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Speaker 4: Yes uh. This guy is a picture for the Dodgers.

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Speaker 4: He disappears in the playoffs. Yes uh. This guy was

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Speaker 4: the point guard for the Raptors a long time, alongside

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Speaker 4: DeMar de Rosen.

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Speaker 1: Kyle.

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Speaker 4: Yes, this guy was a point guard for the Knicks.

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Speaker 4: He had like a discount shoe brand. He was famous

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Speaker 4: in China. Stefan Yes, Yes, this guy was a sight

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Speaker 4: young winner for the Padres.

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Speaker 1: The hundred point question and you should have led with

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Speaker 1: he was drafted by the Celtics. Stefan Marber.

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Speaker 4: Well he still got it.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, two points? All right, Well, Ronnie, we are back

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Speaker 1: up here. Ronnie. Which academy of Spider Man and was

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Speaker 1: the Boondocks Saints? Is that yep? Spider Man, spider Man,

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Speaker 1: spider Man?

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Speaker 5: All right?

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Speaker 1: Well, these athletes became famous in high school. Put forty

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Speaker 1: five seconds on the clock. Here we go. Ronnie from Akron, Ohio.

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Speaker 1: He plays for the Yes running back for the forty

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Speaker 1: nine ers. His dad played in the NFL. He's yes,

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Speaker 1: the big ticket for the Minnesota Timberwolves and the Celtics

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00:45:57,480 --> 00:46:00,200
Speaker 1: won a championship there. Yeah, was the number one pick

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00:46:00,280 --> 00:46:04,799
Speaker 1: for the Chicago Bulls. Big center you but no. No.

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Speaker 1: A black guy in the two thousands, uh pitcher for

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Speaker 1: the Red Sox. His last name was a baseball publication

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00:46:13,120 --> 00:46:16,400
Speaker 1: for trading cards. Won a World Series with the Marlins,

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Speaker 1: played with the Red Sox. All right, our quarterback for

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Speaker 1: the Cleveland Browns from Kentucky. Out of Kentucky, was the

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Speaker 1: number one pick.

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Speaker 4: In the Drowndlet's do at a time, we win.

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Speaker 6: Good job, Mike, Ronnie, Come on, Ronnie, Ronnie.

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00:46:32,680 --> 00:46:37,919
Speaker 1: That was Eddie Curry, Josh Becker, Tim Couch. Ronnie. Get

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Speaker 1: back to making those bullets, Ronnie,