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Speaker 1: and we begin our lead story this hour from the

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Speaker 1: ballot Box.

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Speaker 3: We start from the ballot box. As we continue, are.

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Speaker 1: Around the clock in depth team coverage on the snub

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Speaker 3: Of football World.

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Speaker 1: Bill Belichick tone he was stonewalled from Canton, Ohio at

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Speaker 1: least the first chance to get into Canton, Ohio. So,

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Speaker 1: if you've not been following this, there's been some new

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Speaker 1: developments here over the last twenty four hours since actually

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Speaker 1: less than that. We were last on these microphones twenty

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Speaker 3: So we now know.

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Speaker 1: Agent number one or patient zero, however you want to

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Speaker 1: person that did that is named Vahi gregorian I. Have

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Speaker 1: no idea who that is. Unfairly, he's a writer in

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Speaker 1: So the story was headlined Bill Belichick belongs in the

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Speaker 3: But here's why I didn't vote for him. It's so good.

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Speaker 1: Well, this should have happened, and I'm one of fifty

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Speaker 3: Happen, but I didn't do it.

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Speaker 1: And now I'm gonna write a column as to why

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Speaker 1: So my thoughts on this, I've got Anti Ann's Woodstock

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Speaker 1: So this guy from the Kansas City Star that did

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Speaker 1: he's using pretzel logic. This is what called pretzel logic.

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Speaker 1: Like he voted for again, Ken Anderson, Roger Craig and

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Speaker 1: and that is why they haven't gotten in the Hall

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Speaker 1: of Fame all of these years. It's a symphony, a symphony.

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Speaker 1: You're trying to get heartstring votes, I guess, and it worked.

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Speaker 1: This guy voted for them. But the senior class, if

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Speaker 3: If you look at the comp.

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Speaker 1: With the comparison statistically is that L. C. Greenwood was

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Speaker 1: a team award. Now Ken Anderson, the somewhat modern day

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Speaker 1: Maybe at the end of last year on the ballot,

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Speaker 3: Now Roger Craig. You know he's was a good player.

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Speaker 1: I know recently in these Hall of Fames you've lowered

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Speaker 3: The Hall of Fame isn't like this retirement part. It's

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Speaker 1: There's a velvet rope, and not everyone gets behind the

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Speaker 3: And so there you go.

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Speaker 1: Bill Belichick still on standby mode, which is poppycock is

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Speaker 1: what it is now turning the page, but not far.

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Speaker 1: This is like the top story everyone's happening about the

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Speaker 1: is what it's been here. If the Pro Football Hall

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Speaker 1: Hall of Fame electorate, if they had just done what

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Speaker 1: Bill Belichick and a gold plated chariot into the Pro

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Speaker 1: We would have cracked some jokes about Jordan Hudson, would

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Speaker 3: Good time with that. And that didn't happen. It would

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Speaker 1: Stretch story and Okay, plane lands. That's not a story, right,

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Speaker 1: Well, I don't really remember, you know, it's that temporary

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Speaker 3: So how do you like them apples? How do you

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Speaker 1: So I lead this hour from the NBA and we

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Speaker 1: are closing in on the trade deadline. I know you're excited.

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Speaker 1: Try to control your emotion. It's a very emotional time

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Speaker 3: So a shooting star leaving town. I think you know

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Speaker 3: where I'm going.

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Speaker 1: I gave the the cool way to start here, but

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Speaker 1: So we have learned that Yiannis a Dentecombo is ready.

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Speaker 3: For a new home.

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Speaker 1: Yes, this is the classic NBA drama O rama here.

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Speaker 3: The trade deadline is February fifth.

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Speaker 1: That would be next week, And there are several teams

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Speaker 1: dramatic thespian reporting here. They're jockeying for a position, making offers,

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Speaker 3: Who are I like this too?

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Speaker 1: Aggressively listening? How does one aggressively listen? You turn the

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Speaker 1: Gone with the Wind, the guy that edited Gone with

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Speaker 3: Hollywood legend. Howse see kern oscar winning editor.

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Speaker 1: And Yannis is in the cutting room and he's splicing

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Speaker 3: And it's not the Buck's decision. It is not the

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Speaker 3: He wanted to get away and get out.

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Speaker 1: Boarding pass in hand, he's got his luggage tagged Legacy upgrade,

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Speaker 1: know if you want that, And some are saying that Giannis,

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00:23:38,240 --> 00:23:41,480
Speaker 1: he's not from the states, you know, he'd be willing

437
00:23:41,480 --> 00:23:42,800
Speaker 1: to go to Toronto and play.

438
00:23:42,840 --> 00:23:44,440
Speaker 3: Most people don't want to play in Toronto, but he'd

439
00:23:44,440 --> 00:23:46,240
Speaker 3: be like, oh yeah, I go there. That's a wild card.

440
00:23:46,920 --> 00:23:48,879
Speaker 3: He saw the Raptors nixt game last night.

441
00:23:49,000 --> 00:23:50,600
Speaker 1: Chances are he would not want to go there. It's

442
00:23:50,600 --> 00:23:53,080
Speaker 1: only one game. So Toronto said to be lurking in.

443
00:23:53,080 --> 00:23:57,440
Speaker 3: The shadows like a poker player with a straight flush.

444
00:23:57,760 --> 00:24:01,600
Speaker 1: So this is a cosmic tale, as the astrology insider

445
00:24:01,600 --> 00:24:05,520
Speaker 1: would say, it's a cosmic tale, Yannis. In this little play,

446
00:24:05,720 --> 00:24:09,800
Speaker 1: it's an elementary school play. Is the Sun and all

447
00:24:09,880 --> 00:24:13,399
Speaker 1: of these other teams are adjusting their orbit. They're all

448
00:24:13,400 --> 00:24:17,160
Speaker 1: adjusting their orbit around the Sun, and the leagues waiting

449
00:24:17,359 --> 00:24:22,000
Speaker 1: the dramas building expect seven or eight more daily plot

450
00:24:22,040 --> 00:24:26,840
Speaker 1: twist on. Yannis is really liking what he's hearing from

451
00:24:27,840 --> 00:24:32,440
Speaker 1: Team X. However, Team Y and Z are also interested

452
00:24:33,200 --> 00:24:33,760
Speaker 1: the plot.

453
00:24:33,800 --> 00:24:34,359
Speaker 3: Dickens.

454
00:24:35,080 --> 00:24:37,359
Speaker 1: Yeah, so again, it's not a trading block. It's an

455
00:24:37,359 --> 00:24:41,119
Speaker 1: auction house paddle up billionaire owners. Giannis is like a

456
00:24:41,160 --> 00:24:43,639
Speaker 1: fine piece of art, and these owners are going to

457
00:24:43,680 --> 00:24:45,520
Speaker 1: try to get their hands on it. And so Yannis,

458
00:24:45,720 --> 00:24:49,400
Speaker 1: it's not exactly like being moved it's like, let me choose.

459
00:24:49,560 --> 00:24:51,679
Speaker 1: I can live anywhere I want, assuming it's one of

460
00:24:51,720 --> 00:24:54,480
Speaker 1: the members of the cartel, and I'm gonna hand pick.

461
00:24:55,040 --> 00:24:57,320
Speaker 3: Where i want to go. Yeah, that's the ticket. I'm

462
00:24:57,320 --> 00:24:58,600
Speaker 3: gonna handpick where I want to go.

463
00:25:00,080 --> 00:25:03,919
Speaker 1: As for the value of the Greek free is this

464
00:25:04,080 --> 00:25:10,240
Speaker 1: value shopping? The question is Yannis Adendakoombo a safe bet

465
00:25:10,320 --> 00:25:12,560
Speaker 1: to acquire prior.

466
00:25:12,280 --> 00:25:13,359
Speaker 3: To the trade deadline?

467
00:25:14,560 --> 00:25:17,080
Speaker 1: So if you look at this like the weather, you know,

468
00:25:17,160 --> 00:25:23,880
Speaker 1: I say, clear skies, partly cloudy, overcast, completely cloudy, You're screwed.

469
00:25:24,440 --> 00:25:26,080
Speaker 3: Stay inside, don't go outside.

470
00:25:26,520 --> 00:25:30,360
Speaker 1: It's foggy. The forecast for Giannis is foggy. In terms

471
00:25:30,400 --> 00:25:33,480
Speaker 1: of his long term outlooks, we're talking about a man

472
00:25:33,560 --> 00:25:37,680
Speaker 1: whose entire existence he's I think he's listed at two forty.

473
00:25:37,680 --> 00:25:39,679
Speaker 1: He probably plays a lot bigger than that, to sixty

474
00:25:39,720 --> 00:25:41,720
Speaker 1: two fifty two sixty bigger than that.

475
00:25:42,240 --> 00:25:44,119
Speaker 3: He's got the Greek god Mantra.

476
00:25:44,680 --> 00:25:49,880
Speaker 1: That's his whole existence, and the way he plays is explosive.

477
00:25:50,480 --> 00:25:53,760
Speaker 1: He's like a runaway freight train when he's at his peak,

478
00:25:54,280 --> 00:25:55,760
Speaker 1: and that freight train has.

479
00:25:55,600 --> 00:25:58,000
Speaker 3: A radiator leak. Now it is our belief and the

480
00:25:58,040 --> 00:25:59,520
Speaker 3: belief of many that Yannis is.

481
00:25:59,440 --> 00:26:01,879
Speaker 1: In bellishing the injury because he does not want to

482
00:26:01,920 --> 00:26:05,840
Speaker 1: get hurt legitimately before he is traded. And so what

483
00:26:05,840 --> 00:26:09,760
Speaker 1: Giannis is doing is the old Oh my aching back,

484
00:26:10,119 --> 00:26:13,680
Speaker 1: you know, it'll fix my back, a nice new jersey,

485
00:26:14,160 --> 00:26:17,439
Speaker 1: new uniform that'll really make my back feel better, and

486
00:26:17,480 --> 00:26:18,919
Speaker 1: my leg and my calf.

487
00:26:18,720 --> 00:26:19,440
Speaker 3: And all that stuff.

488
00:26:19,760 --> 00:26:22,720
Speaker 1: The reason despite the risk when you look at the

489
00:26:22,720 --> 00:26:25,840
Speaker 1: Comps players his age, with the injuries that he's had

490
00:26:25,880 --> 00:26:31,119
Speaker 1: over recent years, the comp the difference between the others,

491
00:26:31,119 --> 00:26:34,639
Speaker 1: I should say, is the bo. But this is not

492
00:26:34,760 --> 00:26:36,960
Speaker 1: your normal bo. Yeah, I'm not talking about body odor.

493
00:26:37,040 --> 00:26:42,040
Speaker 1: I'm talking about box Office, the sweet smelling bo box Office.

494
00:26:42,560 --> 00:26:47,040
Speaker 1: It's a sold out theater with a line around the

495
00:26:47,040 --> 00:26:51,080
Speaker 1: block at Broadway in Times Square there and going over

496
00:26:51,080 --> 00:26:53,320
Speaker 1: to Times Square. And then the lead actor's knees are

497
00:26:53,320 --> 00:26:57,640
Speaker 1: made of uncooked fetacini and it's not real, real good

498
00:26:57,680 --> 00:27:00,280
Speaker 1: long term that feti Cheni's gonna snap and all that stuff.

499
00:27:00,359 --> 00:27:04,920
Speaker 1: But the NBA is really dealing with a shortage of

500
00:27:05,960 --> 00:27:09,200
Speaker 1: people that move the needle, and there are many reasons

501
00:27:09,200 --> 00:27:12,000
Speaker 1: for that. Like the players decide over the last ten

502
00:27:12,080 --> 00:27:14,120
Speaker 1: years or so that they don't give a crap about

503
00:27:14,160 --> 00:27:18,240
Speaker 1: the regular season, so why should the fans care? And

504
00:27:18,280 --> 00:27:20,480
Speaker 1: they just kind of load manage, and so you load

505
00:27:20,520 --> 00:27:24,080
Speaker 1: managing people as fans, we load manage and so. And

506
00:27:24,160 --> 00:27:26,080
Speaker 1: I have noticed, I wonder if you agree with me

507
00:27:26,119 --> 00:27:28,880
Speaker 1: on this. Like I do watch the NBA, I don't.

508
00:27:29,000 --> 00:27:31,880
Speaker 1: I'm not fully involved. Like I have this whole process

509
00:27:31,920 --> 00:27:33,320
Speaker 1: of getting ready for the show, and I usually have

510
00:27:33,359 --> 00:27:37,720
Speaker 1: games on the background. I watch with half an eye open,

511
00:27:37,840 --> 00:27:40,640
Speaker 1: and I'm kind of not really listening to it per se.

512
00:27:40,680 --> 00:27:41,960
Speaker 3: Most of the broadcasters annoying me.

513
00:27:42,160 --> 00:27:46,760
Speaker 1: But I have noticed, like the young generation of stars

514
00:27:47,560 --> 00:27:52,159
Speaker 1: who are doing things that are statistically wonderful, just don't

515
00:27:52,240 --> 00:27:55,639
Speaker 1: move the needle. The new kids on the block in

516
00:27:55,680 --> 00:27:59,320
Speaker 1: the NBA, they have the charisma of a dial tone.

517
00:28:00,680 --> 00:28:05,560
Speaker 3: A shade. Jogis Alexander is setting records for Oklahoma City.

518
00:28:05,560 --> 00:28:07,119
Speaker 3: He's been around for a few years, former Clipper by

519
00:28:07,119 --> 00:28:08,399
Speaker 3: the way, of course, that's where he learned how to

520
00:28:08,400 --> 00:28:08,840
Speaker 3: play ball.

521
00:28:09,520 --> 00:28:13,760
Speaker 1: And SGA is doing these amazing things. He's challenging Wilt

522
00:28:13,880 --> 00:28:18,640
Speaker 1: Chamberlain's records and whatnot, and no one cares even wemby

523
00:28:19,400 --> 00:28:20,720
Speaker 1: the Parisian prodigy.

524
00:28:20,800 --> 00:28:25,119
Speaker 3: Most people, they don't really care. That's the vibe game.

525
00:28:25,160 --> 00:28:26,359
Speaker 3: Am I wrong? I don't think I'm wrong.

526
00:28:27,359 --> 00:28:31,440
Speaker 1: Giannis he's not the greatest sound bite. He still moves

527
00:28:31,520 --> 00:28:35,119
Speaker 1: the needle more than those guys. How much longer until

528
00:28:35,119 --> 00:28:38,160
Speaker 1: the needle snaps? That's the question on this, And the

529
00:28:38,200 --> 00:28:41,200
Speaker 1: bill always comes to I believe he's thirty one, I think.

530
00:28:41,920 --> 00:28:47,320
Speaker 1: And his superpower is that he's an athletic freak and

531
00:28:47,400 --> 00:28:49,160
Speaker 1: he's able to as we said, he's like a freight

532
00:28:49,200 --> 00:28:51,160
Speaker 1: train and all that stuff. And the body's starting to

533
00:28:51,160 --> 00:28:54,720
Speaker 1: whisper a little bit in recent years, and it's whispering.

534
00:28:54,320 --> 00:28:55,920
Speaker 3: No, and you know, I don't want to hear that.

535
00:28:56,120 --> 00:28:59,280
Speaker 1: And then the front offices around the NBA are screaming yes.

536
00:28:59,280 --> 00:29:03,080
Speaker 1: And again it's a Broadway star who conveniently gets laryngitis

537
00:29:03,800 --> 00:29:06,360
Speaker 1: before that big matinee performance on the weekend.

538
00:29:06,400 --> 00:29:07,240
Speaker 3: You're like, what are you doing?

539
00:29:07,840 --> 00:29:11,120
Speaker 1: Giannis is not a guarantee, however, it is a risk

540
00:29:12,360 --> 00:29:15,200
Speaker 1: wrapped around the headliner, and you're willing to make that risk.

541
00:29:15,680 --> 00:29:18,800
Speaker 1: You know at some point the lights are gonna flicker, flicker,

542
00:29:18,880 --> 00:29:21,040
Speaker 1: flicker flick. You know that's gonna happen all right now.

543
00:29:21,120 --> 00:29:24,880
Speaker 1: Final point to the Book of King James, the Book

544
00:29:24,880 --> 00:29:26,320
Speaker 1: of King James. Am I gonna sit here and rant

545
00:29:26,320 --> 00:29:31,160
Speaker 1: about Lebron James crying? Lebron played terribly.

546
00:29:31,280 --> 00:29:33,160
Speaker 3: Lakers lost by thirty.

547
00:29:33,200 --> 00:29:36,280
Speaker 1: They got a thirty burger shoved down their throat by

548
00:29:36,320 --> 00:29:39,200
Speaker 1: the cadavers. How about that one? So Lebron returned to

549
00:29:39,240 --> 00:29:43,440
Speaker 1: Cleveland his yearly trip there his native land, and the

550
00:29:43,560 --> 00:29:45,880
Speaker 1: Lakers were vaporized.

551
00:29:45,120 --> 00:29:46,360
Speaker 3: By the calves.

552
00:29:46,520 --> 00:29:51,480
Speaker 1: Now this comes amid chatter that Lebron James, Lebron James

553
00:29:51,520 --> 00:29:54,440
Speaker 1: will return to the Mistake by the Lake to hold

554
00:29:54,440 --> 00:29:56,800
Speaker 1: a victory lap next season. I know that our friend

555
00:29:56,840 --> 00:30:00,200
Speaker 1: Strip Club John's like to be very excited about that. So,

556
00:30:00,240 --> 00:30:05,840
Speaker 1: when asked about the chatter in general, the Lebron media

557
00:30:06,040 --> 00:30:12,760
Speaker 1: clan says Lebron does not necessarily want a retirement tour.

558
00:30:13,000 --> 00:30:15,600
Speaker 1: The reporting indicating that Lebron.

559
00:30:15,280 --> 00:30:18,120
Speaker 3: Is said to be concerned. I love this, This is

560
00:30:18,120 --> 00:30:18,640
Speaker 3: so good.

561
00:30:19,080 --> 00:30:20,840
Speaker 1: I pay attention to this next line, then you can

562
00:30:20,840 --> 00:30:24,320
Speaker 1: go back to not paying attention. So Lebron is supposedly

563
00:30:24,360 --> 00:30:30,120
Speaker 1: concerned that a retirement tour could bring some negative energy

564
00:30:30,200 --> 00:30:34,000
Speaker 1: if his body doesn't cooperate. I see he goes to

565
00:30:34,080 --> 00:30:37,720
Speaker 1: a city and there's one trip and everyone buys tickets

566
00:30:37,760 --> 00:30:39,840
Speaker 1: and he can't play, and.

567
00:30:39,800 --> 00:30:42,360
Speaker 3: He doesn't want to disappoint his fans. You know, he

568
00:30:42,400 --> 00:30:43,640
Speaker 3: doesn't want that, all right.

569
00:30:43,680 --> 00:30:47,560
Speaker 1: So the question this is so good are you vibing

570
00:30:47,680 --> 00:30:52,520
Speaker 1: with Lebron James supposedly being worried about a retirement tour

571
00:30:52,760 --> 00:30:54,600
Speaker 1: disappointing his fans?

572
00:30:57,440 --> 00:30:57,680
Speaker 3: All right?

573
00:30:57,720 --> 00:31:01,200
Speaker 1: So this is obviously not humility. This is premium nin

574
00:31:01,200 --> 00:31:04,360
Speaker 1: income poopery, is what? This is, premium grade nincome poopery.

575
00:31:04,640 --> 00:31:08,400
Speaker 1: It's the itchy and scratchy show. Yeah, it's the itchy

576
00:31:08,400 --> 00:31:11,080
Speaker 1: and scratchy show. Lebron's got an itch to scratch. It's

577
00:31:11,120 --> 00:31:14,120
Speaker 1: called attension. That's the itch he wants to scratch. He

578
00:31:14,240 --> 00:31:17,440
Speaker 1: is the all time greatest attention whore. He suffers from

579
00:31:17,560 --> 00:31:21,080
Speaker 1: chronic attention horse syndrome wrapped in fake empathy.

580
00:31:21,480 --> 00:31:21,920
Speaker 3: That's it.

581
00:31:22,000 --> 00:31:24,320
Speaker 1: And we've talked about it for years and years and

582
00:31:24,360 --> 00:31:27,000
Speaker 1: years and years. Everyone knows it. And it's the same

583
00:31:27,040 --> 00:31:30,120
Speaker 1: guy who once sprayed his arm. He sprained his arm

584
00:31:30,200 --> 00:31:33,120
Speaker 1: Lebron years ago, patting himself on the back.

585
00:31:33,840 --> 00:31:35,640
Speaker 3: He was out for a couple of games, it was said.

586
00:31:35,720 --> 00:31:38,080
Speaker 1: And now we're supposed to believe that he has had

587
00:31:38,120 --> 00:31:42,440
Speaker 1: this spiritual awakening and suddenly cares about the working stiff

588
00:31:42,440 --> 00:31:43,720
Speaker 1: who bought a ticket.

589
00:31:44,160 --> 00:31:46,280
Speaker 3: So if you believe this, you're a clod hopper, is

590
00:31:46,320 --> 00:31:46,720
Speaker 3: what you are.

591
00:31:47,600 --> 00:31:50,120
Speaker 1: Did you know over the last seven seasons, I went

592
00:31:50,160 --> 00:31:51,680
Speaker 1: and looked it up because I'm a loser and I

593
00:31:51,680 --> 00:31:52,320
Speaker 1: have no life.

594
00:31:52,600 --> 00:31:53,920
Speaker 3: Over the last.

595
00:31:53,480 --> 00:31:57,840
Speaker 1: Seven seasons, Lebron James has missed how many games.

596
00:31:57,520 --> 00:31:59,280
Speaker 3: On averages Lebron missed per year?

597
00:32:00,120 --> 00:32:02,760
Speaker 1: I guess on that matter, Lebron spends one He brags

598
00:32:02,800 --> 00:32:06,640
Speaker 1: about spending one point five million dollars on his body.

599
00:32:07,640 --> 00:32:10,800
Speaker 1: How many people are cashing in on that, right, Like

600
00:32:11,280 --> 00:32:13,520
Speaker 1: LEBRONO just pay these people and they don't really have

601
00:32:13,560 --> 00:32:14,120
Speaker 1: to do much.

602
00:32:14,160 --> 00:32:17,400
Speaker 3: And what a great hustle, What a great hustle that

603
00:32:17,480 --> 00:32:17,760
Speaker 3: must be.

604
00:32:17,800 --> 00:32:23,160
Speaker 1: Anyway, Lebron has missed eighteen games a year. That's twenty

605
00:32:23,200 --> 00:32:26,760
Speaker 1: two percent per season. Lebron has missed a lot of

606
00:32:26,760 --> 00:32:30,080
Speaker 1: those games that he has missed are with very sketchy injuries.

607
00:32:30,920 --> 00:32:33,120
Speaker 1: And yet he still brags about spending you know, one

608
00:32:33,160 --> 00:32:38,600
Speaker 1: point five million on his body. And now the Lebron stands.

609
00:32:38,200 --> 00:32:40,640
Speaker 3: The Lebron sick of fans will say, well, mall, you're

610
00:32:40,720 --> 00:32:44,880
Speaker 3: just a hater. Is an old player. You can't be

611
00:32:45,120 --> 00:32:48,280
Speaker 3: it can't be hard on Lebron. Old players play that.

612
00:32:48,320 --> 00:32:52,320
Speaker 1: Many games, all right, Well, that would be true other

613
00:32:52,360 --> 00:32:54,560
Speaker 1: than the fact that in my lifetime doing talk radio,

614
00:32:54,640 --> 00:32:56,720
Speaker 1: I covered a guy named Michael Jordan who played for

615
00:32:56,760 --> 00:32:59,600
Speaker 1: the Washington Wizards his final season and played all.

616
00:32:59,360 --> 00:33:00,480
Speaker 3: Eighty two game games.

617
00:33:00,800 --> 00:33:03,440
Speaker 1: Did you know that Jordan's last year in the NBA

618
00:33:03,480 --> 00:33:06,280
Speaker 1: played all eighty two games Michael Jordan played. I think

619
00:33:06,320 --> 00:33:09,680
Speaker 1: it's like fifteen years, I want to say, And I

620
00:33:09,760 --> 00:33:12,600
Speaker 1: know that he played every single game nine of those years,

621
00:33:13,560 --> 00:33:15,760
Speaker 1: every single game nine of.

622
00:33:15,720 --> 00:33:18,080
Speaker 3: The fifteen years. Now, let's play a little game here.

623
00:33:19,320 --> 00:33:22,640
Speaker 1: How many times Lebron's I think he's in your twenty

624
00:33:22,640 --> 00:33:23,880
Speaker 1: three Now, how many times has.

625
00:33:23,840 --> 00:33:27,880
Speaker 3: Lebron James played every game the eighty two game.

626
00:33:27,720 --> 00:33:31,600
Speaker 1: Season, every game out of twenty some of those years

627
00:33:31,640 --> 00:33:34,320
Speaker 1: there were not eighty two games because of the pandemic

628
00:33:34,400 --> 00:33:34,720
Speaker 1: or whatever.

629
00:33:35,440 --> 00:33:39,320
Speaker 3: Let's just let's say twenty of those years were full season.

630
00:33:39,400 --> 00:33:41,920
Speaker 1: So out of those twenty, how many did Lebron play

631
00:33:41,960 --> 00:33:43,040
Speaker 1: all eighty two?

632
00:33:44,160 --> 00:33:46,240
Speaker 3: You have seven times.

633
00:33:46,280 --> 00:33:52,840
Speaker 1: That's option A, Option B would be five times, Option

634
00:33:53,120 --> 00:33:56,080
Speaker 1: C would be one time, and Option D would be

635
00:33:56,160 --> 00:34:00,960
Speaker 1: no times. ABC or D you got your answer, all right,

636
00:34:01,600 --> 00:34:05,360
Speaker 1: reveal answers. The answer would be option C. The option

637
00:34:05,440 --> 00:34:08,520
Speaker 1: would be Lebron one time played all eighty two games.

638
00:34:08,560 --> 00:34:08,880
Speaker 3: That's it.

639
00:34:09,200 --> 00:34:12,239
Speaker 1: Wake up people, wake up, come on, snap out of it.

640
00:34:13,200 --> 00:34:15,880
Speaker 1: So it's not like it's not about disappointing fans. It

641
00:34:15,920 --> 00:34:17,960
Speaker 1: would be one of the great stunners if Lebron did

642
00:34:17,960 --> 00:34:22,080
Speaker 1: not have a retirement tour. In my head, he goes

643
00:34:22,120 --> 00:34:24,600
Speaker 1: back to Cleveland next year. The Calves are a better team.

644
00:34:24,680 --> 00:34:26,800
Speaker 1: Lakers are not winning anything. It's just they're just worried

645
00:34:26,800 --> 00:34:29,040
Speaker 1: about Luca getting stats. And he'll get his stats. He'll

646
00:34:29,080 --> 00:34:31,600
Speaker 1: lead the NBA in scoring, and Laker fans.

647
00:34:31,480 --> 00:34:34,880
Speaker 3: Go, whoa, get all excited about that. Whoopedee damn doo.

648
00:34:34,960 --> 00:34:37,080
Speaker 1: And we're not gonna win anything, just like the Mavericks

649
00:34:37,120 --> 00:34:38,880
Speaker 1: didn't win anything. But Luke will get his numbers and

650
00:34:38,880 --> 00:34:40,359
Speaker 1: that's all that matters, and so people will be happy

651
00:34:40,360 --> 00:34:42,360
Speaker 1: about that. I'll hit some circa shots and then Lebron

652
00:34:42,400 --> 00:34:45,000
Speaker 1: can go to Cleveland and they're not gonna win anything,

653
00:34:45,040 --> 00:34:48,200
Speaker 1: but at least he'll go there. They have a better chance. Right,

654
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Speaker 1: It's always been about controlling the spotlight. It's always been there.

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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 3: Let's get to it. Here we go, Here we go.

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Speaker 3: It's smaller. How about that to the third degree?

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Speaker 2: This is one big Ben gets quilled.

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Speaker 3: Here we go, Cooper lou what we got here? Cool?

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Speaker 6: Matt Naggie has been the Chiefs offensive coordinator for the

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Speaker 6: last three years, but his contract is up in case

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Speaker 6: he's bringing back Eric b enemy Reid said in an

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Speaker 6: interview this week that he basically let Naggie walk so

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Speaker 6: that he could find a new opportunity, and that that

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Speaker 6: opportunity should be as a head coach. Ben, do you

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Speaker 6: think he'll get that opportunity.

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Speaker 1: No, there's only two jobs open, the Raiders and the

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Speaker 1: Arizona Cardinals. He's not getting those jobs. Everyone thought he

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Speaker 1: was getting the Titans job. They went with Robert sala.

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Speaker 3: He's cooked.

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Speaker 1: He was quietly let go by the Chiefs because they

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Speaker 1: wanted somebody else. They were hoping he would get a

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Speaker 1: head coaching job. He'll land up somewhere, but not a

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Speaker 1: head coach.

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Speaker 6: Next Baker Mayfield will be playing for his fifth offensive

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Speaker 6: coordinator in the last five seasons, with Zach Robinson being

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Speaker 6: the latest. Robinson said, Baker gives you a chance to

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Speaker 6: win every Sunday. Ben Baker was playing some of his

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Speaker 6: best football and then things went downhill fast. How much

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Speaker 6: were injuries to blame and how much was Baker to blame?

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Speaker 3: Oh, Baker played like he did in Cleveland the end

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Speaker 3: of the year. He was terrible.

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Speaker 1: It's on him. He's got to own it. He's got

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Speaker 1: to be consistent. That's one of the reasons he's been

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Speaker 1: bounced around the NFL. I don't know that you can

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Speaker 1: trust him the way you played.

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Speaker 3: Next.

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Speaker 6: Duke and quarterback Darien Mensa came to an agreement Tuesday

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Speaker 6: allowing Mensa to leave the program despite us to year contract.

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Speaker 6: He's expected to head to Miami. What do you think

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Speaker 6: the chances are they running back to the championship game.

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Speaker 1: I'm gonna go less than ten percent, less than ten percent,

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Speaker 1: Cooper Loop, I know this is what you do now

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Speaker 1: in college football, just bringing.

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Speaker 3: The shiny new free agent. I don't think it's gonna work.

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Speaker 3: How did we do?

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Speaker 1: That's all we But I won the guy hollering James,

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Speaker 1: I won the.

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Speaker 3: Game, James.

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

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Speaker 2: listen live.

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Speaker 3: It's now time for time. Horry, horry, wait as Twitter,

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Speaker 3: send us your questions on Twitter. Now here we are. Oh,

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Speaker 3: it's asked man.

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Speaker 1: Your questions are answers for the rest of the hour.

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Speaker 1: The rest of the hours was the imaging.

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Speaker 3: Say Twitter, it's.

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Speaker 1: Called axt Well, it's a colloquial term Twitter. It's a

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Speaker 1: colloquial term, and we're too lazy to change the imaging.

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Speaker 3: So there you go. Absolutely all right, very good, very exciting. Here,

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Speaker 3: what do we have Cooper loop for the reading of

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Speaker 3: the questions?

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Speaker 6: All right, We're gonna start off with a question from

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Speaker 6: mad Jack. Hi Jack, this is a good one. I

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Speaker 6: haven't heard this one before. What is or? I guess

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Speaker 6: is or? Was your favorite amusement park and favorite ride

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Speaker 6: or attraction?

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Speaker 3: Yeah?

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Speaker 1: So, I grew up in Orange County when I was

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Speaker 1: a kid, and I I was right near Disneyland. When

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Speaker 1: I was a kid, it was really cheap to go

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Speaker 1: to disney.

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Speaker 3: I was very lucky. I'm old.

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Speaker 1: When I was a kid, I can go to Disney

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Speaker 1: Then whenever I wanted. It was reasonable, it was affordable,

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Speaker 1: especially if you lived in southern California. They had a

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Speaker 1: Southern California rate and it was like literally just a

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Speaker 1: few I was away from where I grew up, so

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Speaker 1: I would go quite a bit. And I loved the

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Speaker 1: Pirates of the Caribbean. I loved the smell of Pirates

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Speaker 1: of the Caribbean. I knew every character. Now they changed it.

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Speaker 1: Disney obviously has gone woke over the years, and so

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Speaker 1: they used to have the dudes chasing the women, and

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Speaker 1: then I think they had the women chasing the dudes.

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Speaker 1: And I don't even know what they have now, but

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Speaker 1: I love that ride. I loved the Pirates of the Caribean.

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Speaker 3: That was. And I used to like Splash Mountain, but

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Speaker 3: they got rid of that. Something else.

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Speaker 1: Now, what about you mark any favorite ride and an

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Speaker 1: amusement park anything.

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Speaker 7: Oh, and I was a kid.

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Speaker 5: There was a place in Chicago. It was called fun Town.

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Speaker 5: And here was the quick jingle, fun Town, fun Town

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Speaker 5: for the kids, and you ninety fifth and Stony Island Avenue,

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Speaker 5: fun Town, I love it.

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Speaker 3: You still remember all these years later, and that was

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Speaker 3: out there anymore.

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Speaker 5: There was a game you could play like every fair

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Speaker 5: you know, you could shoot the gun and then make

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Speaker 5: the balloon pop.

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Speaker 7: So that was yeah, that was that was my fun game.

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Speaker 3: Were you good at it? You have good aim?

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Speaker 7: Yes?

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Speaker 3: Oh nice? That's cool artival game. I like that. What

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Speaker 3: about you?

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Speaker 6: Coop? Six Flags? Magic Mountain was my favorite theme park

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Speaker 6: and uh, the ride Goliath was my favorite.

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Speaker 3: That's still there? Have they gott it is? Oh good? Yeah,

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Speaker 3: it's still there? All right? All right?

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Speaker 1: What's next is ask Ben? Your questions are answers for

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Speaker 1: the rest of the hour.

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Speaker 6: Uh, Ferg Dog would like to know.

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Speaker 3: My Ferg Dog? I know him. I think I don't.

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Speaker 6: He wants to know what is your least favorite pizza topping? Uh?

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Speaker 3: Yes, I'm I'm pretty boring.

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Speaker 1: I like garlic onion, bell pepper on my pizza, that's it. Uh,

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Speaker 1: and chovies and I don't like olives, so those would

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Speaker 1: be on my no knotty list.

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Speaker 3: I would.

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Speaker 1: I would say, Mark, you're from a great pizza city

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Speaker 1: in Chicago, what's your least favorite pizza topping?

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Speaker 7: No olives? No pineapple?

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Speaker 3: Pineapple, very polarizing, Cooper.

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Speaker 6: Looph my least favorite. I'd have to say, like any

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Speaker 6: kind of like hot like pepper. I'm not really like

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Speaker 6: a fan of that on the pizza. I don't really

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Speaker 6: like mushrooms either, but it's not gonna like I'm not

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Speaker 6: gonna toss out the pizza after there's mushrooms on there.

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Speaker 1: I used to eat mushrooms I was as a child,

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Speaker 1: and then I found out what they were and I

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Speaker 1: stopped eating them.

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Speaker 7: So I take them off because if the texture is

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Speaker 7: like rubber.

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Speaker 6: Yes, that's that's what I don't like about mushroom is

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Speaker 6: the texture. Like the taste is fine, if the textures.

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Speaker 1: Put a layer of rubber on my pizza, what's next?

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Speaker 1: What do we got here? It's ask bed. Your questions

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Speaker 1: are answered, so the rest all the hour.

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Speaker 6: That's my I don't know if you'll be able to

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Speaker 6: think of something this cord, but it's an interesting question

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Speaker 6: if you can. Donkey Sausage wants to know, Donkey, what's

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Speaker 6: something you wish you enjoyed but never can seem to.

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Speaker 1: I wish you know what, I would say. Soccer I

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Speaker 1: don't I watch it during the World Cup. I don't

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Speaker 1: really enjoy it. I don't understand what the rest of

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Speaker 1: the world season. It just bores the hell out of me.

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Speaker 1: I played it when I was a kid, and you

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Speaker 1: see the passion of I'm sure there's something better I

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Speaker 1: can come up with later, but you asked me right now.

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Speaker 3: So I would say that because I.

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Speaker 1: See the just like this is the world sport and

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Speaker 1: I think it's the dumbest thing in the world.

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Speaker 3: Like we just sit there.

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Speaker 1: You spend two and a half hours watching a soccer

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Speaker 1: game and it's one nothing.

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Speaker 3: I'm like, well, this is stupid. So I go that

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Speaker 3: what about you, Marky Mark?

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Speaker 5: If I watch a rugby game, I can never understand

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Speaker 5: or I don't enjoy when the rugby player is running

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Speaker 5: with the ball or whatever it's called. But they can't

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Speaker 5: run or turn this whey that way like a football

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Speaker 5: player does.

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Speaker 7: You have to.

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Speaker 5: They make you run a certain direction. You can't change directions.

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Speaker 3: See, I didn't even know that. I didn't even know that.

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Speaker 3: You watch cricket. You watch cricket.

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Speaker 7: No, I don't understand that either.

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Speaker 1: Biggest sport in India cricket, Yeah, and big in New Zealand.

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Speaker 1: I got I used to do radio like every week

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Speaker 1: in New Zealand. My show got covered up because of cricket.

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Speaker 5: I wish I understood highlight too. Yeah, those big baskets

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Speaker 5: on your hand.

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Speaker 6: I wasn't even thinking of it the way that you

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Speaker 6: thought of it, But now that you brought that up,

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Speaker 6: I would say, uh, hockey, I just can't get into it.

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Speaker 6: I've tried watching it, and it's just that's what everybody says.

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Speaker 6: I just I don't know. I've never been to a

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Speaker 6: game live, so maybe that's the problem. As far as

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Speaker 6: me physically doing something I wish I liked golf, but

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Speaker 6: I'm just really bad at it, So I don't.

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Speaker 1: Golf something I'll do once. I used to do it

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Speaker 1: once a year, but that's about it.

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Speaker 3: There you ask Ben