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Speaker 1: We're going to start out in Wisconsin, although it's really

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Speaker 1: at the League office in New York City. The curtain

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Speaker 1: has come down, pens down, the music has paused, as

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Speaker 1: it is the All Star break in Major League Baseball,

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Speaker 1: no more real baseball. The players hate the All Star Game.

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Speaker 1: They don't want to go to the All Star Game.

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Speaker 1: They can't stand the All Star Game. But they want

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Speaker 1: you baseball does to watch the All Star Game.

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Speaker 4: More in that in a minute.

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Speaker 1: So All Star news over the weekend, get the home

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Speaker 1: it late in the week So the biggest storyline here

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Speaker 1: around the All Star Game, and it's happened and developed

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Speaker 1: and then the reaction of anger and rage at Major

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Speaker 1: League Baseball. So if you haven't heard, perhaps not the

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Speaker 1: phenom of phenoms. As somebody from Wisconsin said, I wrote

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Speaker 1: a love letter, miler monologue about the performance I saw

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Speaker 1: he is the story of baseball yet again over the weekend.

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Speaker 1: Jacob Mazerowski, the six foot seven Brewers flame thrower with

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Speaker 1: an All Star. Yes, five starts, this cat's an All Star,

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Speaker 1: not five wins. I didn't say five wins. I didn't

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Speaker 1: say five quality starts. He got lit up by the Mets.

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Speaker 1: Five starts, period.

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Speaker 1: Five all Star, five starts, All Star Game. So this

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Speaker 1: More on that in a minute. Also, longtime Major League

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Speaker 1: Baseball broadcaster Ron Darling, not happy, said it's kind of

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Speaker 4: Close quote from Ron Darley.

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Speaker 1: So let us discuss a question for the esteem panel,

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Speaker 1: and you are now on the esteem panel. So the

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Speaker 1: question Milwaukee Flamethrow Jacob Mazarowski gets All Star nod, the

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Speaker 1: All Star roster spot, thumbs up or thumbs down on

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Speaker 1: the Miz making the All Star Games. So I've got

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Speaker 1: online marketplace, Olivia Rodrigo and Hedonist, and we will combine

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Speaker 1: This is a textbook exam of lowering the standards. And again,

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Speaker 1: The standard for the All Star selection, which had been

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Speaker 1: And it reminds me of what they've done in the NFL,

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Speaker 4: With five starts five five, I mean, my god.

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Speaker 1: So they're now tossing out All Star bursts like sunflower

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Speaker 1: And why are they doing is why is Jacob Mazaraski

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Speaker 1: an All Star? Well, one word marketing, capital M marketing.

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Speaker 1: That's how right buzz brand engagement. So wow, Milwaukee's a

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Speaker 1: small market. Why does baseball care about Milwaukee? Well, it's

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Speaker 1: the story. It's the story. Everyone loves a good story, right,

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Speaker 1: We learn from stories, with all all human beings learned

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Speaker 1: from stories. But this is Major League Baseball's latest episode

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Speaker 1: of look at me and See. The issue is heaven forbid?

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Speaker 1: Heaven forbid you just allow these things to play themselves

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Speaker 1: Them is and all that as we said, however, Major

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Speaker 1: League Baseball here on this one another unforced error by

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Speaker 1: Rob Manford and his underlings at the league office. Here,

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Speaker 1: major League Baseball sticking it to the players who have

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Speaker 1: mlbshop dot com. Right, can you sell a few more jerseys?

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Speaker 1: Can you move the merch? And who's gonna move the merch?

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Speaker 1: Some nondescript pitcher has been around for a number of years.

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Speaker 1: the story, right, that's the answer. That's obviously the answer.

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Speaker 1: Marketing capital, m MLB shop sell some merch, sell some merch.

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Speaker 1: This is Jacob Mezerowski's moment. Is not supposed to be

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Speaker 4: You don't get your moment.

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Speaker 1: The reason it's his moment is because Major League Baseball's

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Speaker 1: marketing department's horny to sell some merch and create a star.

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Speaker 4: They have to create the next.

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Speaker 1: Big thing brand engagements, engagement farming, engagement from get out

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Speaker 1: the tractor graham A. It's engagement farming, and we should

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Speaker 1: Rob Manford run organization Major League Baseball that long ago

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Speaker 1: digital impressions. This is what it's all about. Baseball is

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Speaker 1: convinced they have taken the kool aid. They like the

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Speaker 1: and that's what it's all about, right, So they go

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Speaker 1: then in other areas they want to take a bulldozer

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Speaker 1: they're going to go. And miss Arowski stuff comes in,

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Speaker 4: Starts was not en off.

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Speaker 1: But considering what Baseball's done and the Mizz's story and

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Speaker 1: it doesn't happen right away all the time, but right

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Speaker 1: now in this moment, No, that's not the case.

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Speaker 4: That's not how we do things here. Now.

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Speaker 1: When there's a meme out there that Rob Manford doesn't

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Speaker 4: He's like, oh man, it's mean, mean meme.

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Speaker 1: I love the meme, I'm all about it, all about it, right,

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Speaker 1: But the All Star Game, so okay, much like the

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Speaker 4: This has been a thing which has.

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Speaker 1: been going a wrong direction for many, many years here,

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Speaker 1: but is another staged moment by Major League Baseball, right

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Speaker 1: and baseball is so desperate. They have such low self

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Speaker 1: esteem at Major League Baseball. They want to look cool.

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Speaker 1: it doesn't matter.

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Speaker 1: It's all about the clickety click clicketty clickty click atty.

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Speaker 1: And those those clips of themz on Instagram are really good.

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Speaker 1: those are some good, good looking clips on social media.

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Speaker 1: Right now, we turned the page. So in the face

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Speaker 1: They don't have to pay the Savannah Bananas. The players

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Speaker 4: That happened over the weekend.

436
00:23:45,960 --> 00:23:49,360
Speaker 1: Now, those four teams, if you believe the chatter, if

437
00:23:49,359 --> 00:23:54,240
Speaker 1: you believe the Internet chatter, those four teams contacted Lebron's

438
00:23:54,320 --> 00:23:56,359
Speaker 1: conciliary right his body.

439
00:23:56,359 --> 00:23:58,840
Speaker 4: There Rich Paul. Who is that. If you want to

440
00:23:58,880 --> 00:24:01,080
Speaker 4: talk to the mob as, you gotta go through the

441
00:24:01,119 --> 00:24:05,479
Speaker 4: Conticklar area, and that would be Rich Paul. And that

442
00:24:05,600 --> 00:24:06,600
Speaker 4: is where we are right now.

443
00:24:06,600 --> 00:24:10,920
Speaker 1: So let us discuss the question for the panel, the

444
00:24:10,960 --> 00:24:15,280
Speaker 1: blue ribbon panel. Where are you at on the fearsome,

445
00:24:15,520 --> 00:24:20,920
Speaker 1: fursome pursuing Lebron James. All right, so I've got Vintage

446
00:24:20,920 --> 00:24:27,000
Speaker 1: Cookie jar, Dali Lama and Philadelphia Original and we will

447
00:24:27,040 --> 00:24:29,920
Speaker 1: combine all of these things together and we are gonna

448
00:24:29,920 --> 00:24:32,639
Speaker 1: make the Gobaul. We're gonna make the Gobba goal for

449
00:24:32,680 --> 00:24:38,520
Speaker 1: our friend in Florida. So number I said number right. Yes,

450
00:24:38,720 --> 00:24:43,320
Speaker 1: Now we provide a skeptical eye for the regular guy.

451
00:24:43,359 --> 00:24:45,439
Speaker 1: Now I even have buyfocals on, so I have extra

452
00:24:45,960 --> 00:24:48,280
Speaker 1: skepticism is what I have on here.

453
00:24:48,480 --> 00:24:49,840
Speaker 4: But this is not the.

454
00:24:49,800 --> 00:24:54,040
Speaker 1: Lebron sweep Steaks. It was presented as the Lebron Sweepstakes.

455
00:24:54,080 --> 00:24:57,920
Speaker 1: I don't buy that that narrative. I'm not going there.

456
00:24:57,960 --> 00:25:01,119
Speaker 1: It's it's more like the Lebron flea market. Now, you

457
00:25:01,160 --> 00:25:03,639
Speaker 1: can find a nice thing every now and again at

458
00:25:03,640 --> 00:25:06,080
Speaker 1: the flea market, and that's what this is. It's the

459
00:25:06,240 --> 00:25:10,399
Speaker 1: Lebron James flea market. And it's like, what's what's going on?

460
00:25:10,480 --> 00:25:12,720
Speaker 1: Then what's on the table at the flea market? You're like,

461
00:25:12,720 --> 00:25:15,399
Speaker 1: do I want that kind of fade a little bit?

462
00:25:15,440 --> 00:25:18,480
Speaker 1: I'm not sure about that, and it was. It is

463
00:25:18,560 --> 00:25:22,359
Speaker 1: not the shiny new toy. We're not We're not auctioning

464
00:25:22,400 --> 00:25:25,920
Speaker 1: off the shiny new toy. This is Lebron James at

465
00:25:25,920 --> 00:25:29,440
Speaker 1: this point is a vintage cookie jar. It's cracked, a

466
00:25:29,480 --> 00:25:33,680
Speaker 1: little bit faded now, it still has some value. There's

467
00:25:33,680 --> 00:25:36,880
Speaker 1: still some value there. And if you squint hard enough

468
00:25:37,080 --> 00:25:40,760
Speaker 1: at the vintage cookie jar and you look at it

469
00:25:40,800 --> 00:25:45,280
Speaker 1: and you ignore the fact that the cookies inside turns stale.

470
00:25:45,520 --> 00:25:48,600
Speaker 1: Right around the time they got that little Mickey Mouse

471
00:25:48,640 --> 00:25:52,560
Speaker 1: bubble ring that doesn't really count back at Disney World,

472
00:25:52,640 --> 00:25:55,600
Speaker 1: like a nice little souvenir therey.

473
00:25:55,920 --> 00:25:58,840
Speaker 4: You get a ring, not a real one. Not a

474
00:25:58,840 --> 00:26:01,720
Speaker 4: real one. As we learned from the Oklahoma City thunder Guard.

475
00:26:01,760 --> 00:26:02,359
Speaker 4: Not everyone.

476
00:26:02,480 --> 00:26:05,560
Speaker 1: So Lebron James the greatest player of his generation, not

477
00:26:05,600 --> 00:26:07,840
Speaker 1: the greatest of all time, as he trails Michael Jordan

478
00:26:07,920 --> 00:26:12,800
Speaker 1: and others. He's also across the rubicon the Dreaded four.

479
00:26:13,000 --> 00:26:15,760
Speaker 1: He's in the Dreaded forties age range at this particular

480
00:26:15,760 --> 00:26:18,800
Speaker 1: point Lebron James, and so you put it all together,

481
00:26:19,240 --> 00:26:22,800
Speaker 1: and while he still can put up numbers for you,

482
00:26:23,960 --> 00:26:26,480
Speaker 1: and the kind of numbers that if you work over

483
00:26:26,480 --> 00:26:29,240
Speaker 1: at ESPN, right, you think Lebron's like the Dalai Lama.

484
00:26:29,800 --> 00:26:30,040
Speaker 4: You do.

485
00:26:30,160 --> 00:26:32,000
Speaker 1: You treat him like the Dalai Lama and all that,

486
00:26:32,240 --> 00:26:34,320
Speaker 1: and you can't wait to hear what he has to

487
00:26:34,359 --> 00:26:35,880
Speaker 1: say about every effing thing.

488
00:26:35,960 --> 00:26:39,000
Speaker 4: You gotta get to the bottom of Lebron James, all right.

489
00:26:39,040 --> 00:26:42,560
Speaker 1: So the impact is measured now more in a moment's

490
00:26:42,920 --> 00:26:46,960
Speaker 1: rather than months of greatness. There's individual moments on a

491
00:26:47,000 --> 00:26:49,359
Speaker 1: given night. Lebron can put up some big numbers and

492
00:26:49,359 --> 00:26:52,160
Speaker 1: all that stuff. But it's one of those buyer beware

493
00:26:52,280 --> 00:26:56,280
Speaker 1: situations for anyone that does business with Lebron James. It

494
00:26:56,320 --> 00:27:00,840
Speaker 1: is a buyer beware situation because that cookie jar Lebron

495
00:27:01,000 --> 00:27:05,240
Speaker 1: is like the flea market vintage cookie jar Lebron. It

496
00:27:05,280 --> 00:27:08,720
Speaker 1: looks okay from a distance on a shelf. You're like,

497
00:27:08,920 --> 00:27:10,920
Speaker 1: that's not that bad, and I could buy that. It's

498
00:27:11,000 --> 00:27:13,320
Speaker 1: a couple of bucks. I gotta pay cash, no credit card.

499
00:27:13,359 --> 00:27:16,240
Speaker 1: It's a couple of bucks and the lids chipped again,

500
00:27:16,280 --> 00:27:18,159
Speaker 1: though a little bit and you look at it and

501
00:27:18,200 --> 00:27:20,000
Speaker 1: the basis, you get a little closer to see a

502
00:27:20,000 --> 00:27:22,760
Speaker 1: little crack there on the base of it, and it

503
00:27:22,880 --> 00:27:25,480
Speaker 1: really only opens when it wants to, and so that's

504
00:27:25,520 --> 00:27:29,000
Speaker 1: not particularly great and all that stuff, and the four

505
00:27:29,119 --> 00:27:33,280
Speaker 1: teams that are supposedly in on this it's a nostalgia play.

506
00:27:33,320 --> 00:27:38,040
Speaker 1: It would be a nostalgia play for Lebron, and that's what.

507
00:27:37,960 --> 00:27:41,800
Speaker 4: You're going for at this particular point, and sell some stuff.

508
00:27:41,840 --> 00:27:46,520
Speaker 1: You become in the conversation. You're always in the conversation. Now,

509
00:27:46,600 --> 00:27:49,280
Speaker 1: Lebron's camp is trying really.

510
00:27:49,000 --> 00:27:50,360
Speaker 4: Hard to control the narrative.

511
00:27:51,040 --> 00:27:54,399
Speaker 1: They are working over time to try to control the

512
00:27:54,480 --> 00:27:57,520
Speaker 1: stories about Lebron. And they know how the offseason NBA

513
00:27:57,840 --> 00:28:00,640
Speaker 1: world works and so they they're the expert and all that.

514
00:28:01,080 --> 00:28:05,119
Speaker 1: So Rich Paul is the one feeding the pipeline. He's

515
00:28:05,240 --> 00:28:08,479
Speaker 1: the one out there and in our opinion, Rich Paul's

516
00:28:08,520 --> 00:28:11,919
Speaker 1: the one that is the puppet master directing everything here

517
00:28:12,280 --> 00:28:16,600
Speaker 1: in terms of media consumption on preferred destinations for Lebron.

518
00:28:16,720 --> 00:28:21,959
Speaker 1: James now in order a home cooking with the Cadavers, right,

519
00:28:22,040 --> 00:28:24,480
Speaker 1: go back to Ohio for a third time, win one

520
00:28:24,560 --> 00:28:29,359
Speaker 1: more championship with the Cavaliers fade to black Boom done right,

521
00:28:29,680 --> 00:28:33,000
Speaker 1: And of course that would be like Lebron going back

522
00:28:33,040 --> 00:28:35,679
Speaker 1: to Cleveland for a third time. It's like they're the

523
00:28:35,760 --> 00:28:39,560
Speaker 1: ex girlfriend that keeps texting you, hey, you up.

524
00:28:39,480 --> 00:28:42,080
Speaker 4: At the three in the morning or whatever. I don't know, but.

525
00:28:42,280 --> 00:28:45,240
Speaker 1: It's nostalgic to go back to Cleveland and do it

526
00:28:45,280 --> 00:28:46,200
Speaker 1: again and all that stuff.

527
00:28:46,200 --> 00:28:47,360
Speaker 4: It's also a bit delusional.

528
00:28:47,840 --> 00:28:49,920
Speaker 1: Then I would say the old Geezers Club, which would

529
00:28:49,920 --> 00:28:52,920
Speaker 1: be the Golden State Warriors, hang out in San Francisco,

530
00:28:53,080 --> 00:28:55,600
Speaker 1: and you got Steph Curry on one side, Draymond Green

531
00:28:55,640 --> 00:28:57,960
Speaker 1: on the other, Jimmy Butler, Jimmy Buckets is still there,

532
00:28:58,440 --> 00:29:02,200
Speaker 1: and Lebron and Drayman come on, can do podcasts together,

533
00:29:02,440 --> 00:29:04,960
Speaker 1: and they can fire Steve Kerr and hire some podcast

534
00:29:04,960 --> 00:29:07,680
Speaker 1: guided coach the Golden State Warriors like the Lakers did

535
00:29:07,680 --> 00:29:11,680
Speaker 1: for Lebron, and they'll get along good, Lebron and Draymond

536
00:29:11,680 --> 00:29:15,280
Speaker 1: Green until they try to hijack the clipboard from whoever

537
00:29:15,320 --> 00:29:17,720
Speaker 1: the coach is, that's Steve Kerr or somebody else.

538
00:29:17,840 --> 00:29:21,560
Speaker 4: Then it's gonna get ugly. And then you've got the reunited.

539
00:29:21,600 --> 00:29:24,480
Speaker 1: It feels so good with Anthony Davis to go to

540
00:29:24,640 --> 00:29:28,160
Speaker 1: Dallas and then stick it to the Lakers as a

541
00:29:28,280 --> 00:29:30,880
Speaker 1: mav wreck with Anthony Davis and Kyrie Irving and all

542
00:29:30,880 --> 00:29:32,960
Speaker 1: those injured guys that are on the Mavericks right now,

543
00:29:33,000 --> 00:29:35,640
Speaker 1: and they instead of Taco Tuesday, they can have Tex

544
00:29:35,720 --> 00:29:39,520
Speaker 1: Mex Wednesday in Dallas, Anthony Davis and Lebron. How great

545
00:29:39,520 --> 00:29:41,680
Speaker 1: would that be? Of course, we all know Lebron would

546
00:29:41,720 --> 00:29:43,720
Speaker 1: prefer to play for the Clippers. Who everyone wants to

547
00:29:43,720 --> 00:29:45,959
Speaker 1: play for the Clippers. It's hip to clip who wouldn't

548
00:29:45,960 --> 00:29:47,520
Speaker 1: want to play for the Clippers. But we're going to

549
00:29:47,600 --> 00:29:50,800
Speaker 1: eliminate the Clippers. And here's why. Here's why we're gonna

550
00:29:50,840 --> 00:29:53,920
Speaker 1: limit the Clippers, because there's no way the Lakers are

551
00:29:53,960 --> 00:29:54,720
Speaker 1: going to allow.

552
00:29:54,480 --> 00:29:55,000
Speaker 4: That to happen.

553
00:29:55,480 --> 00:29:58,720
Speaker 1: There's zero chants like the Clippers have a better owner,

554
00:29:58,760 --> 00:30:00,960
Speaker 1: they have a better arena, they a better fan base.

555
00:30:01,000 --> 00:30:03,800
Speaker 4: Everyone knows that in town in La. They're not going

556
00:30:03,880 --> 00:30:04,440
Speaker 4: to allow.

557
00:30:04,280 --> 00:30:07,320
Speaker 1: Lebron to go over there and embarrass the Lakers even

558
00:30:07,400 --> 00:30:09,720
Speaker 1: more so, that's not gonna happen, right, So Jeanie Buss,

559
00:30:09,760 --> 00:30:13,320
Speaker 1: he's still supposedly in charge, not gonna do that, right,

560
00:30:13,480 --> 00:30:17,720
Speaker 1: Not not gonna allow that to happen to go over

561
00:30:17,720 --> 00:30:19,920
Speaker 1: to Inglewood in the hood in Inglewood and play for

562
00:30:19,960 --> 00:30:20,440
Speaker 1: the Clippers.

563
00:30:20,440 --> 00:30:22,280
Speaker 4: So we'll eliminate them now, page two.

564
00:30:22,480 --> 00:30:25,320
Speaker 1: So we'll go to to Vegas the Summer League, which

565
00:30:25,320 --> 00:30:29,600
Speaker 1: is going on over the weekend there, and Lebron was

566
00:30:29,640 --> 00:30:30,440
Speaker 1: sitting courtside.

567
00:30:30,480 --> 00:30:31,480
Speaker 4: You see this over the weekend.

568
00:30:31,960 --> 00:30:35,640
Speaker 1: I glanced at it as Lebron sitting courtside watching his

569
00:30:35,840 --> 00:30:38,160
Speaker 1: kid that sucks at basketball play for the Lakers summer

570
00:30:38,240 --> 00:30:40,880
Speaker 1: League team because he's a Nepo baby and he won

571
00:30:40,960 --> 00:30:44,120
Speaker 1: a sweepstakes raffle to get on the Lakers. So there's

572
00:30:44,160 --> 00:30:46,400
Speaker 1: Bronni out there who sucks, but you know it's make

573
00:30:46,440 --> 00:30:48,160
Speaker 1: a wish. So he's out there playing for the Lakers,

574
00:30:48,200 --> 00:30:50,200
Speaker 1: and Lebron's watching them. They played the I guess the

575
00:30:50,200 --> 00:30:54,880
Speaker 1: Pelicans or a version a facsimile of the Pelicans in

576
00:30:54,920 --> 00:30:55,680
Speaker 1: the Summer League.

577
00:30:56,080 --> 00:31:01,040
Speaker 4: Now, ESBN invited Lebron. James invited Lebron. You see this.

578
00:31:01,040 --> 00:31:04,920
Speaker 1: They invited Lebron on air to address the speculation which

579
00:31:04,920 --> 00:31:07,240
Speaker 1: has been running rampant about where Lebron's gonna go. It

580
00:31:07,280 --> 00:31:09,440
Speaker 1: is he upset with this person, that person, the other person.

581
00:31:09,840 --> 00:31:13,040
Speaker 1: And so Lebron did he say yes, I will go

582
00:31:13,120 --> 00:31:15,840
Speaker 1: on television. I would like to talk B. I have

583
00:31:15,960 --> 00:31:20,640
Speaker 1: nothing to say or see no comment. Lebron said, quote,

584
00:31:20,960 --> 00:31:23,800
Speaker 1: if you picked B, you win. He said, quote, I

585
00:31:23,880 --> 00:31:26,600
Speaker 1: ain't got nothing to talk about. He must have learned

586
00:31:26,600 --> 00:31:28,600
Speaker 1: that in high school and acrin, I ain't got nothing

587
00:31:28,600 --> 00:31:33,120
Speaker 1: to talk about. So question, why did Lebron James refuse

588
00:31:33,320 --> 00:31:38,640
Speaker 1: the opportunity the platform to speak about his situation while

589
00:31:38,680 --> 00:31:42,520
Speaker 1: in attendance at the Las Vegas Summerly He had his

590
00:31:42,600 --> 00:31:46,080
Speaker 1: sullen look on his face, bad body language from Lebron

591
00:31:46,960 --> 00:31:50,040
Speaker 1: as he was sitting courtside there in Vegas. So the

592
00:31:50,400 --> 00:31:55,200
Speaker 1: answer is by saying nothing, By Lebron saying nothing, in

593
00:31:55,560 --> 00:31:59,640
Speaker 1: passing up the opportunity, Lebron gave a masterclass and I'm

594
00:31:59,800 --> 00:32:03,600
Speaker 1: in control control one oh one. By not saying anything

595
00:32:03,600 --> 00:32:04,800
Speaker 1: he could have popped on television.

596
00:32:04,840 --> 00:32:05,160
Speaker 4: Is true.

597
00:32:05,480 --> 00:32:07,640
Speaker 1: He was given the opportunity, he was given the platform

598
00:32:07,720 --> 00:32:10,160
Speaker 1: Lebron to jump over there on television and pretend like

599
00:32:10,200 --> 00:32:13,360
Speaker 1: everything's good, and he chose not to do it. He

600
00:32:13,440 --> 00:32:18,240
Speaker 1: had ESPN essentially throwing themselves at him and just you

601
00:32:18,240 --> 00:32:20,320
Speaker 1: know again, he said, I'm not I'm not doing it.

602
00:32:20,640 --> 00:32:23,960
Speaker 4: I'm not gonna go there, uh, and he missed the

603
00:32:24,040 --> 00:32:27,200
Speaker 4: opportunity right, the old Dali Lama line. While he could

604
00:32:27,240 --> 00:32:28,840
Speaker 4: have been you know, they treated him like the Dalai Lama.

605
00:32:28,880 --> 00:32:33,400
Speaker 1: But Lebron, he could have taken a fire extinguisher and

606
00:32:33,520 --> 00:32:34,360
Speaker 1: put out the fire.

607
00:32:34,440 --> 00:32:36,680
Speaker 4: Right, take the fire extinguisher, put out the fire. But

608
00:32:36,720 --> 00:32:37,640
Speaker 4: he likes the fire.

609
00:32:38,680 --> 00:32:42,040
Speaker 1: It's like he's warming marshmallows on a stick in the fire.

610
00:32:43,080 --> 00:32:47,560
Speaker 1: And so instead he worked to pour some kerosene on

611
00:32:47,680 --> 00:32:48,440
Speaker 1: top of the fire.

612
00:32:48,520 --> 00:32:50,840
Speaker 4: Burn, baby burn.

613
00:32:50,200 --> 00:32:54,800
Speaker 1: And it's like a cloak and dagger type mission. Have

614
00:32:54,880 --> 00:32:57,200
Speaker 1: the useful idiots, You toss out these bread crumbs. He

615
00:32:57,280 --> 00:32:59,040
Speaker 1: dropped these little bread crumbs. But you don't do it

616
00:32:59,080 --> 00:33:01,480
Speaker 1: if somebody else do it for you. So you dropped

617
00:33:01,520 --> 00:33:05,160
Speaker 1: the breadcrumbs out there, and you post cryptic things on

618
00:33:05,240 --> 00:33:07,400
Speaker 1: the Gram and all that stuff, and you let the

619
00:33:07,440 --> 00:33:09,640
Speaker 1: media do the dirty work the heavy lifting for you

620
00:33:10,120 --> 00:33:13,280
Speaker 1: and all that, and so you don't talk because you

621
00:33:13,280 --> 00:33:15,400
Speaker 1: don't have to talk. Right, other people are talking. I'm

622
00:33:15,400 --> 00:33:16,880
Speaker 1: talking about you. Everyone's talking about you.

623
00:33:16,920 --> 00:33:19,080
Speaker 4: Blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah.

624
00:33:19,320 --> 00:33:24,440
Speaker 1: Right, the machine, the machine of basketball content is discussing

625
00:33:24,960 --> 00:33:27,560
Speaker 1: Lebron James. Now this is the same guy that years

626
00:33:27,600 --> 00:33:32,560
Speaker 1: ago had the remember the zero Dark thirty stick and

627
00:33:32,600 --> 00:33:35,760
Speaker 1: the playoff run, and of course we know that often

628
00:33:35,880 --> 00:33:38,160
Speaker 1: didn't last and work so well, so he stopped doing that,

629
00:33:38,200 --> 00:33:40,120
Speaker 1: but he treated it like it was a ritual like

630
00:33:40,200 --> 00:33:44,719
Speaker 1: Marty Grass for Lebron before the playoffs there, and so

631
00:33:45,280 --> 00:33:49,880
Speaker 1: Lebron chose not to speak. Not the silence was not silence,

632
00:33:49,920 --> 00:33:53,280
Speaker 1: it was strategy. That was what what Lebron was doing here.

633
00:33:53,320 --> 00:33:58,120
Speaker 1: And by refusing to go on camera and not using

634
00:33:58,160 --> 00:34:00,240
Speaker 1: your own voice to get the message out and all

635
00:34:00,240 --> 00:34:04,360
Speaker 1: that stuff in Vegas where you want to be seen, right,

636
00:34:04,400 --> 00:34:06,280
Speaker 1: you go to Vegas to be seeing the party and

637
00:34:06,320 --> 00:34:09,400
Speaker 1: all that stuff, and everything's a show in Vegas, and

638
00:34:09,480 --> 00:34:11,640
Speaker 1: Lebron's part of the show, and he knew exactly what

639
00:34:11,680 --> 00:34:15,400
Speaker 1: he was doing. Classic passive aggressive behavior.

640
00:34:14,960 --> 00:34:16,560
Speaker 4: By Labron James.

641
00:34:16,640 --> 00:34:21,279
Speaker 1: Yet again, let the drama swirl, swirl, swirl, swirl, and

642
00:34:21,480 --> 00:34:23,520
Speaker 1: that's what he was doing there, and he just sits

643
00:34:23,560 --> 00:34:27,440
Speaker 1: back and watches the speculation and it just is everywhere

644
00:34:27,480 --> 00:34:30,239
Speaker 1: there's there's there's a residence, there's a heat. It's like

645
00:34:30,280 --> 00:34:33,440
Speaker 1: coming off the blacktop there of on the on the court,

646
00:34:33,640 --> 00:34:36,359
Speaker 1: and he's keeping it cool, right, He's sitting there, he's

647
00:34:36,360 --> 00:34:38,960
Speaker 1: got his arms fold. He's unbothered, at least he wants

648
00:34:39,000 --> 00:34:41,200
Speaker 1: you to believe he's unbothered by everything.

649
00:34:40,920 --> 00:34:41,799
Speaker 4: That's going on now.

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Speaker 1: Using my Rosetta stone, using my malleor Rosetta stone to

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Speaker 1: translate Lebron and what he meant in playing English in

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Speaker 1: layman's terms. When Lebron said, I ain't got nothing to

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Speaker 1: talk about, that was his quote.

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Speaker 4: I ain't got nothing to talk about it.

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Speaker 1: That means I know you're all panicking about where I'm

656
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Speaker 1: going to be traded or if I'm going to be traded,

657
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Speaker 1: all that, and I'm just watching you squirm, and I've

658
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Speaker 1: got an evil laugh.

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Speaker 4: Just like that. We know the routine. We all know.

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Speaker 4: Every man, woman and child knows the routine.

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Speaker 1: Now the final point, staying in Las Vegas. We talked

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Speaker 1: earlier on the Overnight show about the brain rot in

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Speaker 1: professional sports. Out of an abundance of caution, everyone must

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Speaker 1: do the bare minimum. Do not go above and beyond

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Speaker 1: the call of duty like previous generations.

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Speaker 4: You do the bare minimum.

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Speaker 1: Another example of that, the Dallas Mavericks have decided we

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Speaker 1: are shutting down Cooper Flag. The flag is down, yes,

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Speaker 1: Cooper Flag for the remainder of the NBA Summer League.

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Speaker 4: IX nay on.

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Speaker 1: The flag A as he has been shut down. I

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Speaker 1: will not be playing. Only played two games, two, that's it.

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Speaker 1: So how do you react to the number one overall

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Speaker 1: pick in the NBA draft only playing two games and

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Speaker 1: being shut down? So I give this one the old

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Speaker 1: shoulder shrug. I shrugged my shoulders of this to sign

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00:36:13,239 --> 00:36:15,480
Speaker 1: yet again, much like we talked earlier, sign of the

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Speaker 1: times in professional sports. And this infestation is everywhere. And

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00:36:21,160 --> 00:36:24,279
Speaker 1: two games, that's it. Two games, one suck bag game

680
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Speaker 1: and then one that was okay, and a couple of

681
00:36:27,080 --> 00:36:33,839
Speaker 1: glorified scrimmages in Vegas in July and that Vegas heat.

682
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Speaker 1: And that's all she wrote. That's all she wrote for

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Speaker 1: Cooper Flag, the Mavericks new teenage sensation of Maverick Nation.

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Speaker 1: They put him back into bubble wrap and they put

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Speaker 1: him into storage. That's it, that's all. And they've treated

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Speaker 1: him like some kind of high end vase they don't

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Speaker 1: want to break. And they'll put that away in the

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Speaker 1: garage and they'll take that out when we get back

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Speaker 1: to the irregular season. The Mavericks, in their infamit wisdom

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Speaker 1: also known as paranoia, the Mavericks are shutting down Cooper

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Speaker 1: Flag for the rest of the summer League. Not because

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Speaker 1: he's hurt, by the way, not because he's hurt, Not

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Speaker 1: because he asked out saying I can't handle this, I

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Speaker 1: can't do it. No, they're just being cautious out of

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Speaker 1: an abundance of caution. They're being careful because God forbid,

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Speaker 1: God forbid a young athlete who's been I assume playing

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Speaker 1: aau ball since they came out of the womb there

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Speaker 1: and that they can't mae, just a couple of extra

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Speaker 1: games and that's too much, that's too much for the

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Speaker 1: prodigy out of Maine.

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Speaker 4: Cannot do it. Cooper Flag.

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Speaker 1: I gotta shut him down, Shut him down right now, right,

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Speaker 1: I mean, that's where we are.

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Speaker 4: That is exactly where we are right.

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Speaker 1: Now, just like the baseball players trying to skip the

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Speaker 1: All Star Game because oh man, I.

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Speaker 4: Need my resting realization and recovery. I need oh that.

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Speaker 1: So now, the NBA is not just soft. They're not

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Speaker 1: just soft. They are whipped cream soft.

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Speaker 4: Is the NBA. In fact, they're not even just whipped cream.

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Speaker 1: If they were a type of cheese, they would be

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Speaker 1: a Philadelphia original Philadelphia cream cheese.

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Speaker 4: That's what they would be the NBA and a little.

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Speaker 1: Rice cake action on the side there and some cream

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Speaker 1: cheese and Philadelphia cream cheese. That's where they are there.

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Speaker 1: And Cooper Flag is just the latest example of that.

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Speaker 1: They say the Mavericks that he quote showed enough, That's

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Speaker 1: what they say.

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Speaker 4: Please, how did he show enough? Exactly? What does that

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Speaker 4: even mean? I don't even know what that means? A

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Speaker 4: vague term.

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Speaker 1: So another player that rather than try to get them

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Speaker 1: up to speed where they settle into the.

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Speaker 4: To the grind, right the grind.

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Speaker 1: Were talking to some old baseball players about that, and like,

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Speaker 1: and baseball people will complain in the base I know,

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Speaker 1: crossing the streams here, crossing the sports. But pitchers are

728
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Speaker 1: soft in baseball because they've been trained to be soft

729
00:38:59,800 --> 00:39:02,920
Speaker 1: well basketball players. Here's an opportunity with Cooper Flag to

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Speaker 1: be like, you're not gonna be like all the rest.

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Speaker 1: We're gonna we're gonna train you to not run from

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Speaker 1: the grind like these other NBA stars, and we're gonna

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Speaker 1: train you to run towards the grind. And not away

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Speaker 1: from it. But instead the Mavericks have the opportunity and

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Speaker 1: with so wing Barra, saw Wing Barra, that's it. So

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Speaker 1: instead they're sending Cooper Flag the number one, picking the

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Speaker 1: draft back back to the lab, putting him in a

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Speaker 1: test tube some cryogenic chamber somewhere in Dallas.

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Speaker 4: And he really didn't even get a real whiff of

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Speaker 4: what it's all about in the in the NBA.

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Speaker 1: And so he's I think he's still like nineteen years

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Speaker 1: old and all that stuff, and they're treating him like

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Speaker 1: he's a grizzled thirty nine year old veteran with arthritick

744
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Speaker 1: hips and his knees are all messed up and he's

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Speaker 1: he's had double knee replacement surgery and that's what they're

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Speaker 1: treating him like.

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Speaker 4: And he's a teenager.

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Speaker 1: Uh so, you know again, opportunity here, Am I crazy

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Speaker 1: to toughen this guy up? And no, it's straight pampers, baby,

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Speaker 1: It's it's pampers all the way, is what it is

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Speaker 1: for Cooper Flag. And right from the draft, get the

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Speaker 1: therapy dog out the whole thing, Get a nice warm

753
00:40:13,280 --> 00:40:17,720
Speaker 1: blankeye and a glass of milk, and you load management.

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Speaker 1: You got to get that trained early on all about

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Speaker 1: the load management. But it's even more of that. It's

756
00:40:22,239 --> 00:40:26,719
Speaker 1: like fear disguised as some kind of science and that

757
00:40:26,840 --> 00:40:29,120
Speaker 1: old phrase. We learned that in twenty twenty during the pandemic.

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Speaker 1: You can get away with almost anything. If you say

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Speaker 1: out of an abundance of caution, you can convince people

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Speaker 1: to do almost anything, and they'll do it and people

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Speaker 1: can't question it, and you just have to go with

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Speaker 1: it and you just can't question it. So this is

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Speaker 1: where we are with the NBA and Cooper Flag. It's

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Speaker 1: a out of an abundance of caution, please, So another

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Speaker 1: opportunity could have developed, didn't develop, and now they're treating

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Speaker 1: Cooper Flag like he's in a museum somewhere and you

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Speaker 1: don't want to, you know, get too violent and have

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Speaker 1: activity on the court and all that stuff. So we'll

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Speaker 1: just make sure some no dust gets on him.

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

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

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Speaker 1: Go we got this is one big Ben gets grilled

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Speaker 1: cup Ball.

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Speaker 6: Forty nine Ers fullback Kyle Yuschek told the media over

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Speaker 6: the weekend that Christian McCaffrey looks quote incredible, and that

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Speaker 6: he will change everything.

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Speaker 4: For the forty nine ers everything.

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Speaker 6: Yes, Ben, does a healthy McCaffrey drastically change the outlook

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Speaker 6: for the Niners?

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Speaker 4: No, because it's July. I don't doubt that he's healthy

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Speaker 4: in July.

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Speaker 1: Didn't he just announce the other a kid or he

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Speaker 1: had a kid, Christian McCaffrey, So listen, looking healthy in

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Speaker 1: July is one thing. McCaffrey was always hurt with Carolina.

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Speaker 1: That's one of the reasons they got rid of him.

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Speaker 1: He had a stretch of health through the Niners. The

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Speaker 1: real Christian McCaffrey is the guy gets hurt all the time.

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Speaker 1: So it doesn't change the outlook for the Niners because

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Speaker 1: he's not going to be healthy by the time we

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Speaker 1: get to reach seven or week eight next.

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Speaker 6: So the Los Angeles Angels had the number two pick

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Speaker 6: in the Umber.

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Speaker 4: Oh, yes they had.

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Speaker 6: They had the top top rated pitching prospect there on

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Speaker 6: the board, but they did not take him. Yes, and

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Speaker 6: said they took Tyler Brenner. Bremner who U nobody had

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Speaker 6: him ranked even in the top ten. Yeah, Ben, is

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Speaker 6: this a Is this a.

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Speaker 4: GM move or an ownership move. Who's the blame for this?

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Speaker 1: Well, the other argument, Coop, is this kid Holidays that

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Speaker 1: was a top player in the draft.

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Speaker 4: The Angels could have drafted him.

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Speaker 1: They could have gotten the number one guy at number two. No,

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Speaker 1: it's it's signability. It's nobody knows anything about the baseball

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00:42:32,160 --> 00:42:34,200
Speaker 1: draft anyway, nobody knows anything about the NFL or the

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Speaker 1: basketball draft.

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Speaker 4: So it's signed.

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Speaker 1: But it is odd though, when you take somebody that's

809
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Speaker 1: not even projected to be a top ten pick at

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Speaker 1: the number two pick. Something's gone terribly wrong there for

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Speaker 1: the Angels. But I think it's a signability thing. They

812
00:42:44,800 --> 00:42:46,920
Speaker 1: knew they could sign this guy from Santa Barbara, so

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Speaker 1: or he's pitching at Santa Barbara next.

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Speaker 6: Former All Pro defensive tackle Domakon Sue announced his retirement

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Speaker 6: on Saturday. He has had an impressive career since being

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Speaker 6: drafted out of Nebraska. Is it enough to get him

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Speaker 6: into the Hall?

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Speaker 2: No?

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Speaker 4: Because he blocked on Twitter.

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Speaker 1: Remember when he was about to sign with the Rams

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Speaker 1: and a listener contacted us and told him told us

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Speaker 1: he was at a hotel and he panicked and domoicon

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Speaker 1: Sue and blocked me.

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Speaker 4: On social media.

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Speaker 1: Now he's got a Hall of Fame resume, but because

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Speaker 1: he blocked me, no.

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Speaker 4: Hall of fame for you? How did we do? He passed, said,

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Speaker 4: that's it went by my bar.

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Speaker 1: No hall of fame, no hallkame, no halkime.

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

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Speaker 2: dot com and within the iHeartRadio app search FSR to

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Speaker 2: listen live. Hey you sports figure guy or girl?

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Speaker 4: Who got here? Was you talking to songs?

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Speaker 6: Here?

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Speaker 4: Some interesting advice? Hold that thought. No one's paid attention

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Speaker 4: to me for ten whole seconds. And if you don't

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Speaker 4: like it, so who needs our advice? The wisdom, the

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Speaker 4: knowledge of the malord militia.

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Speaker 1: So I was gonna do something else, but we've had

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Speaker 1: so many angry old dudes calling up the show here complaining.

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Speaker 1: So let's help out. Jerome and Charleston and Mark the

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Speaker 1: full name guy help them chill out. Any advice to

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Speaker 1: Jerome in Charleston, bring it home, Jerome and the aforementioned

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Speaker 1: Mark the full name guy who just called up helping

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Speaker 1: them chill out?

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Speaker 4: Understand? All right, let's go to the phones right.

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Speaker 1: Now, and let's see who do we have here? We'll

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Speaker 1: start out with you online one eight seven, seven ninety

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Speaker 1: nine on Fox. Caller, you're on the air advice to

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Speaker 1: Jerome and Charleston, Mark the full name guy.

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Speaker 4: To chill out in morning time? Look at you. Look

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Speaker 4: at the mystics.

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Speaker 2: They won three in a row.

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Speaker 1: All right, that's like Danny DeVito. There is another WNBA guy.

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Speaker 4: Hello, I'll call you're on the air.

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Speaker 1: Caller, your advice to Jerome and Charleston and Mark the

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Speaker 1: full name guy on how to chill out, Mark.

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Speaker 2: And Scott I usually like boobs.

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Speaker 4: All right, thank you for that.

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Speaker 1: Line number number five is you're toning the Bay area.

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Speaker 4: Line five, you're on the airline five. Hello, all right.

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Speaker 4: Line five is not paying attention. We go to line six,

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Speaker 4: Line six.

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Speaker 1: You're on the air air Line six at eight seven,

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Speaker 1: seven ninety nine on Fox.

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Speaker 4: Hello, line six. More like the miss.

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Speaker 2: He's the most mussy WWE superstar. He's proven inside the

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Speaker 2: ring and outside the ring.

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Speaker 4: And he can pitch for the Brewers as well. Hello caller,

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Speaker 4: you're on the air. Caller.

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Speaker 1: We're doing the instant advice line for Jerome and Charleston,

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Speaker 1: Mark the full name guy helping them chill out.

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Speaker 3: Hello, do it biged.

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Speaker 1: Okay, just a big bag of weed. That's we're ninety

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Speaker 1: couldn't even say it. Line four, you're on the air.

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Speaker 1: Number four Hello, Line four, fire, okay, all right? Line five, Hello,

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Speaker 1: line five, you're next. It's unscreened callers. Line five, we're

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Speaker 1: giving advice to Okay, just get some gumbo jumbalai there

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Speaker 1: from Mark, the full name guy in Jerome and Charleston.

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Speaker 4: Line six, you're on the Airline six.

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Speaker 2: Hello, you used to have a toll glasses dot my

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Speaker 2: favorite drink.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, I don't know about that.

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Speaker 1: You got the doctor, Sean the hood got you can

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Speaker 1: in line number three?

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Speaker 4: Hello, line three.

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Speaker 2: Number Yes, this problem can only be alleviated by betting

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Speaker 2: on the hot girl on girl Ah.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, yes, there's our friend the keg drinking Steve checking in.

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Speaker 4: It sounds like Line four, Hello, line four.

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Speaker 2: How many people have to.

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Speaker 4: Tell you to watch the w NBA before you finally alright?

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Speaker 4: Lines five, you're on the air.

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Speaker 1: Line five, Hello, amazing bump Okay, Yes, he costs you

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Speaker 1: some money. Line six, you're on the air. Hello, line six,

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Speaker 1: just along? Can we just get along? Yes?

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00:46:36,320 --> 00:46:36,600
Speaker 2: All right?

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Speaker 1: Last one last call for Jerome and Charleston. Mark, the

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Speaker 1: full name guy helping them chill out. Which one cool?

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Speaker 1: Line five?

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Speaker 4: Line number five, Hello, line five, you're on the air.

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Speaker 6: Go.

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Speaker 2: I don't really care about those two guys, but Shane

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Speaker 2: in the.

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Speaker 4: Mo keep all right, al, he's gonna bury Shane in

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Speaker 4: the morning right there. But he got saved by the bell,

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Speaker 4: or Shane did.