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Speaker 1: I thought this story really resonated, and we're going to

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Speaker 1: start with it. Go to Cleveland where James Harden is

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Speaker 1: settling in the cadaver guard James Harden and he was

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Speaker 1: asked recently why it has become the standard, not the occasion,

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Speaker 1: the standard in pro bouncy ball for guys.

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Speaker 3: To bounce, bounce, bounce, bounce.

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Speaker 1: From team to team to team and being passed around

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Speaker 1: like a collection plate on a Sunday at Church. Well,

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Speaker 1: Harden was just traded a few days ago from the

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Speaker 1: people's team, the Clippers, to the mistake by the Lake

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Speaker 1: there that is now his sixth team. Six teams, So

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Speaker 1: he's got Cleveland, the Clippers, what else, Houston, Brooklyn, Philadelphia

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Speaker 3: So Harden was asked about all of this, and what

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Speaker 1: So here's a Harden he's settling into the Cavaliers locker room.

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Speaker 1: And here's what Harden had to say about and players

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Speaker 4: Less and the whole quote unquote loyalty thing is I

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Speaker 4: think it's overrated. You know.

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Speaker 3: I think this is a business at the end of the.

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Speaker 4: Day, and it's a lot of money involved and a

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Speaker 4: lot of decisions that has to be made, you know

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Speaker 4: what I mean. So like if a player isn't producing,

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Speaker 4: or if you don't see him the future, or you know,

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Speaker 4: front office some of them have to do like a

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Speaker 4: job and want to keep their job, you know, so

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Speaker 4: they got to feel like they got to do it's

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Speaker 4: best for you know, to keep their job, and they

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Speaker 4: trade players. Or if a guy isn't happy and he

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Speaker 4: It's just so many different dynamics that go into it.

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Speaker 4: This is a business at the end of the day,

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Speaker 4: so like you know, not even just the NBA, but

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Speaker 4: like people that have normal jobs have you know, have

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Speaker 4: those same problems.

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Speaker 3: It's just not magnified, all right.

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Speaker 1: So that is the voice of James Harden, and the

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Speaker 1: money part of that was the whole quote unquote loyalty thing.

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Speaker 1: I think it's overrated and the standard. It's just business

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Speaker 1: at the end of the day. So that's all a

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Speaker 1: good jumping off point. Let us discuss the question for

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Speaker 1: the Esteemed panel, James Harden saying that loyalty in the

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Speaker 1: NBA is over rated, over rated. How do you categorize?

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Speaker 1: Categorize this one right?

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Speaker 3: How you catalog it?

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Speaker 1: So I've got blueprint, salamander and mind virus, and will

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Speaker 1: combine all of these things together and we're gonna make

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Speaker 1: some delicious soft pretzels because James Harden in the playoffs

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Speaker 1: So a I I saw the sound, but I thought, wow,

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Speaker 3: You know, he wouldn't actually say this, but he did.

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Speaker 1: Any said that James Harden calling loyalty overrated is like

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Speaker 1: but let's not pretend that you're the authority on this.

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Speaker 1: It's just a business that that is the standard default

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Speaker 1: now he needs another fresh vibe in Cleveland. And at

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Speaker 1: So this is a microcosm of what is wrong, the

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Speaker 3: Realize what they're doing.

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Speaker 1: It fascinates me that they don't understand that this has

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Speaker 1: quit and run generation I have. It's too hard run

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Speaker 1: away from it. The blueprint was drawn up by Lebron

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Speaker 1: Hi cat win in Cleveland, so I'm leaving. Okay, loyalty

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Speaker 1: over rated. Of course, it's overrated for James Harden because

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Speaker 1: that requires grit and moxie. Right, these are things that

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Speaker 1: it's just easier to go to a different team staying put.

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Speaker 1: That's uncomfortable, that's difficult. Why would you do difficult? You

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Speaker 1: that's it. You know, this generation of players treats adversity

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Speaker 1: you move on, and then that's it. And here's the

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Speaker 1: dirty little secret. And this is the part of the

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Speaker 1: When the players stop caring and the players don't even

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Speaker 1: attempt to be loyal, what do you think the customers do?

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Speaker 1: What do you think the fans do? Yeah, the smart consumer.

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Speaker 1: You got a lot more options now, a lot more options,

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Speaker 1: and there's less emotional investment. And so you're like, Okay,

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Speaker 1: I agree with James Harden. You know what, He's got

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Speaker 1: a great point. Overrated. So I will not be loyal

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Speaker 1: any individual team that's a suckers game. James Harden's right,

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Speaker 1: So why would you support any team?

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Speaker 1: Just don't do it, because listen, if the teams that

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Speaker 1: So why bother make a business decision, just don't support them.

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Speaker 1: That's the mindset. That's the thing that James Harden, Lebron

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Speaker 1: And and of course there's the fanboys that whatever these

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Speaker 1: far as the James Harden honeymoon, the hard and honeymoon Cleveland,

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Speaker 3: Also about like a week or so. It's it's it's.

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Speaker 1: The honeymoon phase, the chocolates, the roses, the Instagram captions,

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Speaker 1: is stamped in bold writing bold and it says playoff basketball.

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Speaker 3: That's the expiration date for the Harden honeymoon.

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Speaker 1: Meanwhile, we have another grumbling basketball player and the Green Machine,

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Speaker 1: Draymond Green.

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Speaker 3: He's never angry at all.

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Speaker 1: I don't understand why would Raymond be angry anyway. Screenshots

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Speaker 1: plausibly associated with Draymond Green criticizing Doris Burke. Draymond Green

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Speaker 1: is wasting his time worried about Doris Burke on social media.

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Speaker 1: The allegation is that she ignored fouls against him during

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Speaker 1: the Spurs Warriors game the other night with Wemby when

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Speaker 1: they were tied up together, and only partially praised the positive,

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Speaker 1: seizing on critical elements of Draymond's game. Draymond, according to

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Speaker 1: the Internet screenshots, claimed to have said, she will always

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Speaker 1: ignore things happening to me and only half mention the

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Speaker 1: good and take shots when they are available. Been that

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Speaker 1: way for a while. Close quote all our question whose

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Speaker 1: side are you on? You make the call to? He said,

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Speaker 1: She said, situation? Whose side are you on?

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Speaker 3: The Warriors?

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Speaker 1: Draymond Green beefing with TV commentator Doris Burke.

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Speaker 3: All right, so Draymond Green is what is he doing?

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Speaker 1: He's firing digital darts at Doris Burke. Am I supposed

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Speaker 1: to get worked up into the ladder? I thought he

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Speaker 1: was the enforcer for the Golden State Warriors. Wink wink,

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Speaker 1: I am siding with Doris Burke. And you know, I

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Speaker 1: know Alf right now snickering, and so is Terry in

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Speaker 1: She doesn't bother me because I don't pay attention.

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Speaker 3: I hit the mute button. I hit them mute button

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Speaker 3: It's mutiny on the bounty. Mute mute mute.

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Speaker 1: Draymond's got rabbit ears? Does he also have salamander skin

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Speaker 3: What is it like? Do you're the man in the arena?

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Speaker 1: All you guys, all you jocks love to brag or

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Speaker 1: in the arena, we don't care what you say, okay,

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Speaker 1: mister Gladiatorman. So why are you peeking behind the curtain?

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Speaker 1: And the other thing about is how do you even

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Speaker 1: know what she said? Did you borrow the malar surveillance

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Speaker 1: San Francisco?

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Speaker 3: Piping in the audio.

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Speaker 1: Were you wearing earbuds so you'd hear feels very conspiratorial.

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Speaker 1: It's great you start complaining as the athlete about the messenger.

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Speaker 1: Could it be because that hit a throo close to home?

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Speaker 1: Could that be why Draymond has been in the anvay

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Speaker 1: a long time? And in terms of the basketball party fouls,

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Speaker 1: there's a lot The rap sheet is thicker than Wikipedia.

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Speaker 1: Technicals here, suspensions, they're kicking guys in the nuts over there.

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Speaker 1: That's a lot of stuff. Draymond's had a very productive career.

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Speaker 1: He's been good for business, been good for business. You

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Speaker 3: You can't do that, you know, never let them see

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Speaker 3: a sweat.

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Speaker 1: And just by Draymond commenting on this, I give the

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Speaker 1: wind to Doris Burk.

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Speaker 3: I seriously, what do you do your sweating? All right?

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Speaker 3: Last word?

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Speaker 1: We now go to the league office and there was

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Speaker 1: a story a couple of days ago Utah Jazz pretty

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Speaker 3: We are tanking. We are tanking. We're all about the.

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Speaker 1: There's some on Thursday, but not many. It was really

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Speaker 3: But the NBA.

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Speaker 1: Kicking off the All Star break by finding the Utah

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Speaker 1: Jazz half a million dollars five hundred thousand dollars. The

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Speaker 3: The league use some.

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Speaker 1: Weasel, weasel language, weasel language. Both teams ended up sitting

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Speaker 1: healthy players in recent games, and the NBA said that

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Speaker 1: the moves compromised the integrity. When's the last time the

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Speaker 1: NBA had integrity?

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Speaker 3: Yeah, I'm asking for a friend or go the NBA.

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Speaker 1: What they didn't just come out and say is the

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Speaker 1: Jazz and Pacers are tanking games and they want a

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Speaker 1: better chance to win the draft lottery. And there was

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Speaker 1: a statement prepared statement by the Lizard person Adam Silver,

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Speaker 1: who said, overt behavior like this that prioritizes draft position

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Speaker 3: Oh, it's been going on for twenty five years.

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Speaker 1: More than that probably, and Silver continue to say we

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Speaker 1: will respond accordingly to any further actions that compromise.

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Speaker 3: The integrity of our games.

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Speaker 1: We've had an NBA coach tossed out for gambling this year,

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Speaker 1: We've had players taken out for gambling. You've got teams tanking,

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Speaker 3: Our integrity matters. That's so good, it's so great, all right.

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Speaker 1: So anyway, question, does this Adam Silver punishment against the

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Speaker 3: Does it? It doesn't work? Is a wake up call

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Speaker 3: for teams trying to lose?

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Speaker 1: Okay, So if you think Adam Silver, this little slap.

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Speaker 3: On the wrist is going to stop.

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Speaker 1: The NBA's race, not the race for the gold medal,

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Speaker 1: the bottom, then I have a really, really nice bridge

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Speaker 1: that goes all the way over the Great Salt Lake,

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Speaker 1: and I'll sell that to you. Now you want to

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Speaker 1: wake up call. This isn't a siren. This is the

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Speaker 1: snooze button, the snooze option. Now for the Jazz and

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Speaker 1: the Pacers tanking, this is just the cost of doing business.

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Speaker 1: So you got fine five hundred grand or one hundred

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Speaker 3: And that's today's NBA.

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Speaker 1: You got Will Hardy Will, who I don't even know

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Speaker 1: practically held up a sign saying we're.

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Speaker 3: Losing on purpose.

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Speaker 1: Yes, because he was asked why he didn't put his

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Speaker 1: even considering that. So Silver responds and he fined the Jazz.

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Speaker 1: These guys have no.

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Speaker 3: Shame in their game. They don't.

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Speaker 1: it's this mind virus that has continued for many, many years.

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Speaker 3: It's right in the.

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Speaker 1: Same family of viruses with load management, which is also

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Speaker 1: a terrible virus. The participation trophies all that stuff. Now,

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Speaker 1: what is my evidence? Both the Jazz and the Pacers

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Speaker 1: Zubats from the Clippers. These are real players, like these

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Speaker 1: I didn't even play for a game in a game yet.

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Speaker 1: For the Pacers haven't played yet. And so they're treating

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Speaker 3: And for what if you look at the twenty twenty

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Speaker 3: six draft and.

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Speaker 1: You're looking at who's the top couple players Darren Peterson

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Speaker 1: to Kansas and aj De Bonza of BYU are the

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Speaker 1: top suspects in the next draft lottery. But let's be real,

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Speaker 1: you're like, neither one of these guys is the second

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Speaker 1: of maybe stars, maybe stars. And so my advice the

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Speaker 1: NBA they need to stop rewarding the bottom feeders. And

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Speaker 1: it's always annoyed me this setup, because like, why would

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Speaker 1: you reward in competence? Seriously, you want to fix the league?

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Speaker 1: Just get whoever wins the championship gets the number one pick.

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Speaker 1: Do that for ten years or five years or whatever

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Speaker 1: and just say, you know what, figure it out.

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Speaker 3: You bad teams, figure it out. And I used to.

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Speaker 1: Do rants regularly about relegation, which they have in European soccer,

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Speaker 1: and boy, that would be great.

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Speaker 3: Will never happen in American sport.

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Speaker 1: But that's one thing they are much better at in

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Speaker 1: if you were actually punished for being bad at your

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Speaker 3: Not rewarded, because you're rewarded right now.

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Speaker 1: If you're really, really bad, you get a couple extra

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Speaker 1: bouncy ping pong balls and you're in good shape.

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Speaker 3: There.

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Speaker 1: So force the bad teams to actually figure things out

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Speaker 1: in the old fashioned way rather than just channeling the

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Speaker 3: So I leave this hour a follow up, a follow up.

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Speaker 1: To a conversation we had a previous episode of the

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Speaker 1: show from Philadelphia spring training camp.

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Speaker 3: The Phillies have made their decision.

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Speaker 1: They have decided to ex communicate outfielder Nick Costeanos.

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Speaker 3: He's out.

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Speaker 1: The team is going to eat twenty million dollars. They're

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Speaker 1: gonna get some barbecue sauce, some honey mustard, and they're

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Speaker 3: Isn't that great?

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Speaker 1: You imagine that you're so annoying at your job that

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Speaker 1: the company's gonna pay you twenty million dollars to go away. Now,

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Speaker 1: Costeanos was in the final year of a five year,

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Speaker 1: one hundred million dollars contract and the Phillies kicking him

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Speaker 1: to the curb by report emerged following his ejection from

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Speaker 1: the Phillies. You knew that was happening when they said,

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Speaker 1: don't show up to work. That Castianos ostracized himself from

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Speaker 1: the rest of the team. A very detailed report behind

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Speaker 1: a paywallt The Old Gray Lady says that many teammates

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Speaker 1: a dozen more than a dozen Phillies players, staff members,

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Speaker 1: what condition you want to take a guess, ding ding

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Speaker 1: ding ding ding, Yes, the condition that their names would.

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Speaker 3: Not be used. Yeah, anonymity, baby.

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Speaker 1: So the report illustrated that the player Castianos was a

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Speaker 1: they gave some examples. There was an instance that was

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Speaker 1: referenced in this story of Castillanos playing music.

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Speaker 3: This is going to really offend you. I hope you're

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Speaker 3: not offended by his band.

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Speaker 1: Played music from his own speaker, his own speaker after

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Speaker 1: having a good game, but the Phillies lost, and that

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Speaker 3: What that's terrible. That is selfish, horrific. But wait, there's more. Now.

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Speaker 1: The flashpoint occurred in a game against the Marlins last summer.

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Speaker 1: Castianos was taken out of the game a defensive substitution

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Speaker 3: Now, that appears they did not appreciate that.

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Speaker 1: He was suspended for that, but that is being used

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Speaker 1: did this story about Nick Castianos being the Philly problem

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Speaker 3: So I've got Church Lady, Voodoo, and Old Glory.

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Speaker 1: And we'll put all of these things together and we're

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Speaker 1: All right, So the Nick Castianos reporting is a classic

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Speaker 3: I mean, it was just so obvious.

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Speaker 1: And the reason you do this is because a low

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Speaker 3: Now, I don't know Nick Costianos. I don't know the guy,

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Speaker 1: And he could be the greatest schmuck in the world.

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Speaker 1: But I know a hit piece when I see a

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Speaker 1: The Phillies are eating twenty million dollars to flush this

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Speaker 1: anonymous team sources pop up. Line them up, baby, they

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Speaker 1: come crawling out of the woodwork to tell the athletic

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Speaker 3: This guy was. And this happens all the.

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Speaker 1: Time in these situations, right, it's you're an old old head.

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Speaker 1: As the kids say, Remember there was a classic character

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Speaker 1: isn't that convenient? Isn't that conven It smells like a rat.

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Speaker 1: This has mister editor vibes from the Phillies PR Department

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Speaker 3: As I understand it.

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Speaker 1: Normally these things are encouraged, if not mandated, from the

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Speaker 1: PR people. They had to roast the player, Nicostianos. They

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Speaker 1: had roast him like a pig at a traditional Hawaiian

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Speaker 1: there were groups of fans that actually liked caste Onos.

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Speaker 3: They thought that his act was good.

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Speaker 1: So this looks like an inside job, right you stiff around.

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Speaker 1: It just smells like an inside job. You're telling me

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Speaker 3: R the reporter here.

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Speaker 1: You you couldn't find twelve other guys to say what

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Speaker 1: it's all about perspective, right, and the Red Sox were

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Speaker 3: Back in the day.

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Speaker 1: And if this was the nineteen ninety three fills. Right,

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Speaker 1: Oh my god, that's thirty almost thirty five years ago.

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Speaker 3: But the ninety three fills.

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Speaker 1: And if they're bringing Presidente Beers into the dugout, you know,

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Speaker 1: you're like, oh, man, that's so cool, dude, John Kruk

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Speaker 1: and Lennydistra.

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Speaker 3: And those guys. Ah man.

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Speaker 1: Now, of course, because the way it's being presented that

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Speaker 1: the player is a selfish brat because he played music

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Speaker 1: after a loss.

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Speaker 3: And the whole thing.

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Speaker 1: You know, again, it's about presentation, use some critical thinking,

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Speaker 1: give me a break.

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Speaker 3: And again the guy I'm not saying the guy's, you know,

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Speaker 3: a saint.

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Speaker 1: He's probably a knucklehead. And as he's said, he takes

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Speaker 1: everything personally.

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Speaker 3: And all that. But I will garrion effin to you.

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Speaker 1: If Nick Castianos was hitting three hundred with forty home

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Speaker 1: runs a year and driving in one hundred runs a

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Speaker 1: game and hitting forty five doubles a year, he would

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Speaker 1: be called a rare competitor, a rare competitor, and the

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Speaker 1: life of the party, the soul of the team.

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Speaker 3: However, he's not.

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Speaker 1: He's an average ballplayer who's being paid twenty million dollars

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Speaker 1: a year. And has turned into a pumpkin in the

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Speaker 1: playoffs as a Philly. I think he's hit like to

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Speaker 1: a little over two hundred in the playoffs, and the

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Speaker 1: power numbers aren't good and all that stuff.

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Speaker 3: That is the real crime here. That is the real car. Again.

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Speaker 1: You can be the biggest a hole in the world

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Speaker 1: as long as you produce, and when that stops. It's

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Speaker 1: just how it works.

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Speaker 3: We all know that.

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Speaker 1: When it's it goes with any business. I've been in

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Speaker 1: the radio business my entire doll life. We've had some

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Speaker 1: people that have passed through this building that were mourning,

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Speaker 1: people who were complete I can't I want to curse.

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Speaker 1: I can't say what they were. Bad people, bad dudes.

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Speaker 1: But they got ratings. They made money for the company,

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Speaker 1: so they kept the moment the ratings went down, the

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Speaker 1: moment of.

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Speaker 3: The affiliates weren't happy. They give him the boot. Get

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Speaker 3: out of here, go away, you're done with you.

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Speaker 1: That's what happens. It happens in any business. But in baseball,

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Speaker 1: if you're mid you're mad. You're a prima donna. If

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Speaker 1: you're elite, you're just a character. Oh he's such a character.

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Speaker 1: Oh he likes to drink beer in the dugout, he

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Speaker 1: plays it out in music.

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Speaker 3: He's an individual.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, they're only killing him now because the production dried up,

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Speaker 1: and so they had to make it clear that this

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Speaker 1: is we're paying twenty million dollars to this guy to

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Speaker 1: go away, and he sucks, and so this is what

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Speaker 1: he's done and get out here all right now, turning

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Speaker 1: the page to what's next for the player that just

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Speaker 1: got absolutely given the guillotine by a Philly scribe.

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Speaker 3: I'm sure that was not hand.

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Speaker 1: Delivered by the Philadelphia Phillies PR people anyway. Question, you

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Speaker 1: are the unofficial career counselor congratulations, you're the career counselor

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Speaker 1: what is your advice to Nick Castianos after he was

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Speaker 1: just excommunicated from the Philadelphia Phillies.

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Speaker 3: So what is your advice? Now? I'm really good at

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Speaker 3: giving out advice.

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Speaker 1: I sit here at the bully pulpit and give out

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Speaker 1: advice for four hours a night, five days a week,

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Speaker 1: and an hour a day on the weekends on the

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Speaker 1: Fifth Hour podcast. But as a baseball refugee, which is

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Speaker 1: what this guy is, obviously, he's at a crossroads. He's

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Speaker 1: at the old fork in the road all that to

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Speaker 1: the right. If you look off to the right the sign,

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Speaker 1: I don't know if you can see it because there's

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Speaker 1: some some fog.

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Speaker 3: But if you look, is that fog or is that

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Speaker 3: steam from hell?

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Speaker 1: But if you look, it says right there at the sign,

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Speaker 1: it's highway Voodoo Bugaloo is the highway, and that's off

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Speaker 1: to the right. Now if you if you look the

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Speaker 1: other way, if you look the other way, that's uh, that's.

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Speaker 3: The waiting Highway. And it's like for the waiting game.

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Speaker 1: So the Phillies plausively tried to trade this guy Castilios

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Speaker 1: all off season. Nobody wanted because he's got the cooties,

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Speaker 1: and the cooties are he's making a lot of money.

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Speaker 1: He's a defensive liability, and he's not hitting as much

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Speaker 1: as he did in the past, and he's like.

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Speaker 3: A glorified d h at this point.

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Speaker 1: He treats the glove and the baseball like it's a

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Speaker 1: hot potato.

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Speaker 3: It's not good.

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Speaker 1: So my advice, as the the unofficial career counselor unofficial

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Speaker 1: career counselor through the magic the powers of talk radio,

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Speaker 1: the advice here is to sit in your jacuzzi and

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Speaker 1: drink your Presidente beer and just wait through the first

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Speaker 1: three weeks of spring training.

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Speaker 3: Games are going to begin.

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Speaker 1: In a couple of weeks, you wait for the spring

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Speaker 1: training games to begin, and then somewhere, whether it's in

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Speaker 1: Florida or Arizona, a outfielder, a designated hitter will have

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Speaker 1: the HGW hammy go whammy. And when the hammy go whammy,

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Speaker 1: the phone starts a ring and the text messages start

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Speaker 1: coming in. Now, if you cannot wait, if you don't

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Speaker 1: want to play the waiting game, you could plausibly convince

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Speaker 1: a team like the Podres or the Blue Jays to

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Speaker 1: take a flyer on you. Now, if you're really really impatient,

539
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Speaker 1: then you can go play for a pretender like the

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Speaker 1: White Sox or some other rotten team.

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Speaker 3: Like the Nationals, and go knock yourself out.

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Speaker 1: It's a soft landing spot, it's a pillow fort, and

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00:30:06,920 --> 00:30:09,160
Speaker 1: you'd go there for half the season and then and

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Speaker 1: they'd flip you with the deadline, And of course, in

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Speaker 1: order for that to happen, try not to bat one

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Speaker 1: thirty six we're heading into the trade deadline, because that

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Speaker 1: would be problematic.

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Speaker 3: Otherwise you're not a trade ship.

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Speaker 1: You're just a hazardous waste spill and nobody wants that.

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Speaker 3: All right, final.

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Speaker 1: Point, We now go to a viral story from the

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Speaker 1: Bay Area. It kind of evolves gambling. Some random person

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Speaker 1: on the TikTok went viral after traveling to the Bay

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Speaker 1: Area and what appears to be loitering around outside Levi's

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Speaker 1: stadium with a high powered microphone. Now, they were not

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Speaker 1: there for the Super Bowl. This was in the lead

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Speaker 1: up to the Super Bowl and they were out there

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Speaker 1: pretty much all afternoon for Charlie Pooh's Super Bowl anthem rehearsal.

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Speaker 1: And so, yeah, you probably know where this is going,

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Speaker 1: you do, Okay, Yeah, So this this dude was out

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Speaker 1: there and he had the high powered microphone. He's waiting

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Speaker 1: for the anthem rehearsal. He of course timed it and

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Speaker 1: that enabled him to win a bet. He timed the

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Speaker 1: the anthem rehearsal for Charlie Pooth and it was under

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Speaker 1: and of course people have ripping him.

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Speaker 3: Oh that's insider trading. You can't do that. What are

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Speaker 3: you doing?

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Speaker 1: And suppose it from what I read, he turned one

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Speaker 1: hundred dollars bet on the prediction market into a thousand dollars.

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Speaker 3: I don't even know if that's possible. I didn't look

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Speaker 3: at it.

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Speaker 1: I don't pay much attention to the anthem bet, but

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Speaker 1: that's what I read. Of Course, I would argue that

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Speaker 1: if you knew that well that the time was.

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Speaker 3: Going to be under, why would you only bet one hundredllars?

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Speaker 3: Why wouldn't you be more?

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Speaker 1: All right, question, did this random TikTok guy crossed the

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Speaker 1: line with insider trading by timing out the national anthem

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Speaker 1: rehearsals before Super Bowl sixty for betting purposes?

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Speaker 3: All right? So I don't even know.

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Speaker 1: This is a question, like I saw something stop insider trading.

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Speaker 1: We're not talking about the stock exchange here. It's he

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Speaker 1: wasn't in the stadium. He was outside the stadium. It's

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Speaker 1: a football game with fireworks and flyovers, and he's timed out.

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Speaker 1: He brought a stop watching, a big microphone thing of

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Speaker 1: a jig and all that, and it's not insider trading

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Speaker 1: for us. He was outside, so I guess it was

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Speaker 1: outsider trading. But he used the rehearsal to beat the

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Speaker 1: prop And whose fault is that if the curtain is

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Speaker 1: open and you can see how they do the magic trick.

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Speaker 1: Don't blame the audience for watching. It's not criminal, it's capitalism.

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Speaker 1: You know, it's smart.

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Speaker 3: This is not the first time this has happened.

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Speaker 1: This has happened many times over the years, and the

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Speaker 1: sportsbooks hate it because it exposes loophole and these anthem props.

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Speaker 1: It's like carnival games. It's a three card monty wrapped

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Speaker 1: in old glory. Wrap yourself in old glory. You leave

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Speaker 1: rehearsal wa open because even if it's a dome stadium,

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Speaker 1: most Super Bowls were played in domes.

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Speaker 3: This was an outdoor stadium.

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Speaker 1: There's always somebody in there cleaning something or adjusting something,

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Speaker 1: and they are able to hear the anthem and they

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Speaker 1: can time it and all that stuff. So they exposes

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Speaker 1: the carnival game that is the anthem, and you leave

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Speaker 1: the rehearsal wide open, and someone's going to time it

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Speaker 1: like it's the Olympic Trials, and this person did. And

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Speaker 1: of course you can't keep anything quiet. You have to

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Speaker 1: do it for clout, so you have to post about it.

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Speaker 1: It's next level dedication for clicks. Yes, it's why they

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Speaker 1: put caps on how much you can bet on the

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Speaker 1: gambling sites I don't know about the I'm not really

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Speaker 1: two up on the prediction market. I haven't gotten into

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Speaker 1: that much. But it's they put limits on it. They

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Speaker 1: protect themselves. It's classified information, and it is obviously different.

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Speaker 1: The ecosystem is different on the prediction market. If this

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Speaker 1: is though a crime, like, shouldn't you have to lock

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Speaker 1: up everyone that does the weather? Don't they check the

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Speaker 1: radar before they give you the weather?

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Speaker 3: Shoot, you check the radar, You check the radar. You

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Speaker 3: should just know the weather. What's wrong with you? Oh

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Speaker 3: my god? There you go.

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

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

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Speaker 3: Here we go, how about that? To the third degree.

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Speaker 6: The Ravens are starting a new era in Baltimore, and

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Speaker 6: a lot of that is thanks to Lamar Jackson. The

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Speaker 6: former MVP wasn't himself last season and the new regimes

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Speaker 6: hoping to get him back on track. You think Jackson

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Speaker 6: will ever get back to MVP for.

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Speaker 1: Him, No, he will not win another MVP, but he

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Speaker 1: has to be better than he was this past year. Right.

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Speaker 3: He just looks like a broken.

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Speaker 1: Down guy and you can get away with that for

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Speaker 1: one year, but if you come back and that again,

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Speaker 1: all of a sudden, it's like and I still think

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Speaker 1: there's a chance they trade him, So.

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Speaker 3: I don't think it's out of the realm of possibility.

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Speaker 1: He's playing for another team this year, but yeah, he's

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Speaker 1: not gonna be an MVP again.

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Speaker 6: Next apparently Mark Cuban is looking to buy back controlling

641
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Speaker 6: share of the Mavericks by partnering with an investment group. Whoever,

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Speaker 6: the new owners made a statement this week saying it's

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Speaker 6: uh making it clear that the team is not for

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Speaker 6: sale and in fact, they're trying to increase their equity.

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Speaker 3: But do you think this could get ugly?

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Speaker 1: Well, it's why did he sell the team for the

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Speaker 1: first play?

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Speaker 3: What are you thinking you had the team? Dummy? I mean,

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Speaker 3: I don't care. You shouldn't get the team back. You

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Speaker 3: sold it. Moren then they got rid of Luca because

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Speaker 3: of you.

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Speaker 6: Next, the finalists for the Pro Basketball Hall of Fame

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Speaker 6: have been announced, and Doc rivers as a finalist for

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Speaker 6: the second year in a row. I know you don't

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Speaker 6: think he deserves to get in, but do you think

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Speaker 6: there's a chance that he doesn't?

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Speaker 4: Uh?

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Speaker 3: No, He's gonna get in.

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Speaker 1: Everyone loves Doc Rivers and unless he coaches your team,

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Speaker 1: it's a joke.

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Speaker 3: The guy's are choke.

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Speaker 1: The greatest choke artist in coaching history, Doc Rivers.

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Speaker 3: Throw him cope. Ah, you pass it up, Doc, Doc

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Speaker 3: Rivers quick.

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Speaker 2: dot com and within the iHeartRadio app. Search fs R

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Speaker 2: to listen live Knock Knock, Who's there?

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00:36:19,680 --> 00:36:23,439
Speaker 3: Blame weed Blame we too. It's Big Ben's lame joke

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Speaker 3: of the week. And away we go.

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Speaker 1: Hello to weed Man, hippie in Miami, Miami, wash you

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Speaker 1: Hollywood Ford to Hello, weed Man?

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00:36:35,960 --> 00:36:37,160
Speaker 4: Love you laugh?

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00:36:37,680 --> 00:36:38,840
Speaker 3: All right? You sound addressed?

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00:36:38,880 --> 00:36:39,080
Speaker 1: Can you?

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00:36:39,760 --> 00:36:42,680
Speaker 3: Can you say hello to hollering James. He wants to

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00:36:42,719 --> 00:36:47,640
Speaker 3: talk to you. James say hello to weed Man real quick, James, Hey, Howard, James?

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Speaker 1: Hey?

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Speaker 4: We then rowing Man?

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Speaker 1: Good? Okay, all right, go away, James, why do we

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Speaker 1: do that? Okay, that was dumb, bad job by me. Anyway,

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Speaker 1: here we know these are actual jokes. Are you ready,

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Speaker 1: weed Man?

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00:37:02,440 --> 00:37:05,919
Speaker 3: Yeah? Everything, okay, sound a little bit press today.

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00:37:05,920 --> 00:37:08,399
Speaker 1: You know you're not as jolly as you or he's

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Speaker 1: a jolly good fellow, which nobody can and I why

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Speaker 1: did why did weed go? Why did weed Man Hippie

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00:37:16,000 --> 00:37:22,480
Speaker 1: decide not not to go to the dairy farm slash

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00:37:22,560 --> 00:37:23,719
Speaker 1: weed dispensary?

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00:37:24,719 --> 00:37:32,480
Speaker 3: Why he thought? Butter of it? Our buddy Darryl and

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Speaker 3: the Ozarks.

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Speaker 1: Did you see weed Man was on the ice after

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Speaker 1: the USA Olympic Hockey game the other day?

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Speaker 3: Wow? Really?

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00:37:41,239 --> 00:37:41,399
Speaker 1: Yeah?

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Speaker 3: You were?

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00:37:41,960 --> 00:37:45,080
Speaker 1: You were scouring the eyes for lost teeth to make

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Speaker 1: set adventures.

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00:37:46,400 --> 00:37:51,000
Speaker 3: That's Joe and Virginia Beach. Where's your teeth? And we

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00:37:51,000 --> 00:37:56,279
Speaker 3: weed Man? Why why should you wear a cape? Weed Man? Why?

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00:37:56,440 --> 00:37:57,720
Speaker 3: Because you're super dumb?

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00:37:57,960 --> 00:38:00,560
Speaker 1: That's Lucky Tony in the Bay Areas at that one

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00:38:00,600 --> 00:38:04,960
Speaker 1: in but youre weed Man? Cut a radio commercial for

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Speaker 1: his local used car dealership.

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00:38:08,000 --> 00:38:09,640
Speaker 3: Wow. Really yeah.

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Speaker 1: The commercial said, on the value of your trade in

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00:38:13,000 --> 00:38:20,400
Speaker 1: when they go low, we get high. That's Tom in Indiana.

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Speaker 3: All right. What does weed Man Hippie see in the

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00:38:22,640 --> 00:38:23,720
Speaker 3: mirror every morning?

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Speaker 2: What?

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Speaker 1: Well, besides another useless day ahead? Absolutely nothing? That's not right,

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00:38:30,640 --> 00:38:32,120
Speaker 1: John and Youngstoin, Ohio.

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00:38:32,200 --> 00:38:36,520
Speaker 3: Dare you well? That's not funny? That's right? Jeanie. Did

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Speaker 3: you hear that Cupid is going to drop off some

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Speaker 3: gifts for weed Man hippie. Wow.

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00:38:42,480 --> 00:38:45,319
Speaker 1: Really yeah, yeah, you're getting a case of heartburn, a

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00:38:45,360 --> 00:38:48,399
Speaker 1: box of chicklets, and a heart shaped urinal cake.

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Speaker 3: So congratulations on that. Andy in Lionel Lakes, Minnesota.

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Speaker 1: What did weed Man say when he made a try sexual?

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Speaker 1: What he's willing to try anything? That's surf for Todd

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Speaker 1: the comedian, He said that one in Daryl from the

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Speaker 1: Ozarks said, what's the only candy bar weed Man hippie has.

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Speaker 3: Ever seen or has never seen? Actually?

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Speaker 1: Pay day, pay day, payday is the candy bar. That's

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Speaker 1: Daryl again. Why did weed Man move into an apartment?

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Speaker 3: Why? He was thinking outside the box. That's Mike. What

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Speaker 3: does weed Man have a date for Valentine's Day?

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Speaker 2: Wow?

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00:39:38,360 --> 00:39:42,040
Speaker 1: Well, yes, yes, he knows. It's always on February fourteenth,

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Speaker 1: That's what he knows. That's Mike, Mike the leper gun.

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Speaker 1: Why would weed Man be a good slalom skier?

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Speaker 3: Why?

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Speaker 1: Well, his adult life has been all downhill, zigging and

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Speaker 1: zagging at every turn.

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Speaker 3: That's true, right, weed Man? You bet a zigg and

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Speaker 3: zag a lot?

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Speaker 1: Yeah? Well, well, what is the what is the best

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Speaker 1: Valentine's Day present? Weed Man's wife Lisa gave him. Why

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Speaker 1: that one way bus ticket to Miami. What a sweetheart?

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Speaker 1: That's eg in Roseville, Minnesota. Why is Lisa still waiting

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Speaker 1: for Valentine.

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Speaker 3: From weed Man? Why? Well, apparently we man got shot

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Speaker 3: with by by stupid arrows. I guess that's the problem.

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Speaker 3: That's true in Minnesota. Why.

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Speaker 1: Why has weed Man been identifying himself as blind hippie?

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00:40:33,239 --> 00:40:37,600
Speaker 1: Why because after seeing his reflection in the mirror, he

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Speaker 1: was blinded by the blight.

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00:40:39,960 --> 00:40:41,120
Speaker 3: Blinded by the blind.

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Speaker 1: What's what's weed Man's favorite form of potato?

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Speaker 3: What a baked potato. He's a big fan of baked potato.

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Speaker 3: There loves that.

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Speaker 1: That's Noah in Austin. That sounds pretty good. What toy

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00:40:56,440 --> 00:41:01,160
Speaker 1: looks like the most? Like Mike the Leprechaun? Why, mister

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00:41:01,320 --> 00:41:04,600
Speaker 1: potato head? That's Eric in Kansas? Who said that one?

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Speaker 6: In there?

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Speaker 1: Fine?

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Speaker 3: Oh, here we go.

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Speaker 1: Here's the one about Nostre Denis's wife forty nine or

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Speaker 1: Frank said this one, and people should have You shouldn't

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Speaker 1: have a problem with no St Denis's wife being a vegan.

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00:41:16,640 --> 00:41:22,080
Speaker 1: Why you can't have a beef with her?

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Speaker 3: All right? That's a forty nine fact.

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Speaker 1: What does blind Scott have in common with Nick Castianos What?

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Speaker 3: Everyone hates him too.

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Speaker 1: Everyone hates That's not Come on, we man, thank you,

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Speaker 1: We have a great weekend, buddy.

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Speaker 3: Enjoyia Valentine Day. Lie. There you go, weed man, hippie