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Speaker 1: So our lead this hour from Canna City, the home

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Speaker 1: of the Ben Mallard Chicken Fingers in Kansas City, right

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Speaker 1: there the landing. We had a great Mallard meet and

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Speaker 1: greet a couple of years back there. It was awesome. I

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Speaker 1: had a couple of Mallard meet and greets in Kansas

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Speaker 1: City over the years. Well, Travis Kelcey, Yeah, did he retire? No,

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Speaker 1: he did not retire. He did not supposedly. The latest

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Speaker 1: is Travis Kelcey and the chiefs are in deep conversation

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Speaker 1: about the plans for the twenty twenty six season. Have

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Speaker 1: you been following this now because you have a life,

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Speaker 1: you're not following this. Let me fill you in, so

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Speaker 1: I have you missed it now? Kansas City expects Travis

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Speaker 1: Kelcey to play, supposedly, although they haven't gotten the official word.

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Speaker 1: Oh the drama, so they haven't gotten the official word.

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Speaker 1: They want a decision by the end of the week.

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Speaker 1: By the end of the week, and they want to

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Speaker 1: desis okay? So good? Okay? Now, that would give them

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Speaker 1: if Kelsey decides to say X nay on the football

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Speaker 1: a that would give them time to go out and

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Speaker 1: turn over some rocks and try to find another tight

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Speaker 1: end and look at the draft, the twenty six NFL

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Speaker 1: Draft if they need to find a Success's kind of

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Speaker 1: obvious there. But wait, there's more, as every great infomercial,

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Speaker 1: the late night staple, the classic. But wait, there's more

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Speaker 1: from Ron po Appeal, who was supposed to appear on

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Speaker 1: my podcast and he decided not to do it and

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Speaker 1: then died. How dare him anyway? State funded NFL Media.

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Speaker 1: State funded NFL Media tells us that the Chiefs General Manager,

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Speaker 1: Brett Veach, Brett Veach the GM there now he wants

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Speaker 1: to make sure that Travis Kelcey is all in if

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Speaker 1: he does end up playing in twenty twenty six. So

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Speaker 1: that is a good jumping off point. Let us discuss

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Speaker 1: the question. The Chiefs, according to this report, saying they

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Speaker 1: want full commitment from Travis Kelcey for the twenty twenty

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Speaker 1: six NFL season. How are you interpreting this? So I've

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Speaker 1: got subpoena jello salad and dodgeball, and we will combine

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Speaker 1: all of these things together and we are going to

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Speaker 1: have a delicious grilled these sandwiches. What we're gonna have

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Speaker 1: with the cheese on the outside and the inside of

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Speaker 1: the grilled cheese. Now a looking at the situation in

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Speaker 1: Kansas City, the Chief's Kingdom as they call it, from

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Speaker 1: thirty thousand feet looking down here and then getting a

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Speaker 1: little closer, and a little closer and a little closer.

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Speaker 1: I see a house divided. Oh the drama I do.

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Speaker 1: I see a house divided. To me, this one doesn't

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Speaker 1: pass the smell test. Now, to the average consumer, you'll say, wow,

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Speaker 1: what are you talking about, mallor you have big donkey,

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Speaker 1: You don't know what you're talking about. There is just nothing.

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Speaker 1: I think there's something there because I have a better

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Speaker 1: schnaz than you do. I can smell. I can smell

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Speaker 1: better than you. So this smells like the scent of

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Speaker 1: passive aggressive behavior. See power play, power play if you

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Speaker 1: will at one arrowhead drive there before they move to Kansas.

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Speaker 1: Now the chiefs she am here, Brett V the man

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Speaker 1: of the hour. He's out there playing mister nice guy.

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Speaker 1: It's good cop, bad cop. He's being the nice guy,

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Speaker 1: you know, good cop and all that. However, if you

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Speaker 1: listen between the words, if you read between the lines,

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Speaker 1: shall we what do you say here? When the jam?

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Speaker 1: The general manager of an NFL team comes out and

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Speaker 1: thousand percent all in. I need this player to be there.

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Speaker 1: That is not a compliment. That is not a compliment.

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Speaker 1: That is like issuing a subpoena, is what it is.

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Speaker 1: It's like, hey, think about it seriously, when you peel

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Speaker 1: back the onion, what do you get? Right? You don't

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Speaker 1: have to ask the guy who's already in the gym

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Speaker 1: at six in the morning if he's committed to the team.

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Speaker 1: So by doing this, the obvious conclusion you connect the

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Speaker 1: more time, got more miles, more air miles than he

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Speaker 1: and so they need the tailor effect. The business side,

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Speaker 1: they need that, right. The balance sheet says, let's go

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Speaker 1: the football side, see's a thirty six year old or

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Speaker 1: He's getting up there, and the GM's essentially saying the

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Speaker 1: Brettviach there is essentially saying, hey, Travis, yeah, it's it's me.

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Speaker 1: I am the GM of the Chiefs. Okay, hey, what's

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Speaker 1: going on the rock Star Live? Or the first hubby

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Speaker 1: either you put the glitter away, put the glitter away, uh,

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Speaker 1: It's an awkward pickle, is what it is. There's never

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Speaker 1: Kansas City, you know, they want the after glove, the Chiefs.

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Speaker 1: They want to continue this as long as they can

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Speaker 1: of the Taylor's swift effect. However, they need an upgrade

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Speaker 1: on the field. That's the problem. That's the conundrum. That's

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Speaker 1: the conundrum right there, it's time to decide to need

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Speaker 1: a Hall of Fame career. Blah blah blah blah blah

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Speaker 1: the last couple years, though, Kelsey, and so what are

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Speaker 1: of Minnesota. But there's a lot of stories out of

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Speaker 1: in particular. So the Vikings are window shopping for a

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Speaker 1: so they they know they need some insurance. They need

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Speaker 1: a little bit of insurance there for McCarthy. Actually need

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Speaker 1: a lot of insurance for JJ McCarthy, not a little

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Speaker 1: story that was very arrogant. It was like, Wow, they

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Speaker 1: they've got justin Jefferson that they can pretty much bring

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Speaker 1: put up big numbers and lead them to victory because

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Speaker 1: And the name that popped up here, the name that

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Speaker 1: popped off, I saw that you see this, No Geno Smith?

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Speaker 1: Geno Smith? Is that not comedy gold? My god? So good? Yeah,

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Speaker 1: the Raiders score. So the quarterback Gino Smith, who was

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Speaker 1: not very good in Seattle and approved, he wasn't very

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Speaker 1: interest for the Purple people eaters all right question. So

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Speaker 1: the Vite, if you believe the chatter, are interested in

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Speaker 1: Raiders quarterback Gino Smith, who will likely be released, better

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Speaker 1: how does that taste? How does that the fact that

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Speaker 1: the Vikings are being connected? Get your skull out right

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Speaker 1: now to Geno Smith. So you're telling me that's the

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Speaker 1: grand plan. Come on, like, that's the big Nordic reboot

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Speaker 1: in Minnesota. This is what you're gonna do, and you

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Speaker 1: JJ McCarthy, but well, we're gonna bring in Geno Smith? Really?

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Speaker 1: Is that right? You know what that tastes like? That

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Speaker 1: tastes like liverwurst and in jello salad, is what it

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Speaker 1: tastes like. Right, It's stomach turning. It's absolute stomach turning.

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Speaker 1: It's puke in your mouth. And I got nothing. I'm

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Speaker 1: not a Viking guy or anything like that. I'm not

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Speaker 1: all that, but my god, like this is so over

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Speaker 1: agent leaked it, and that says hey, float the Minnesota

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Speaker 1: connect it to Gino Smith. Maybe someone will bite there

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Speaker 1: in Minnesota and say that's a good idea. Now the

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Speaker 1: alternative is also ridonculous. Kyler Murray yep, fun sized quarterback

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Speaker 1: Kyler Murray and Geno Smith. So what I'd rather have

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Speaker 1: the Vikings, my unsolicited advice would to go out and

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Speaker 1: get Kirk Cousins and bring him back. Not that he's

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Speaker 1: Cousins is halfway decent and Geno Smith. You think about

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Speaker 1: his signature marmot with the Raiders, it was giving the

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Speaker 1: bird to Raider fans. That was it. And then in Seattle,

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Speaker 1: So that's where we are. That's where we are, Gino Smith.

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Speaker 1: When the pocket collapses, he is gift wrappeding turnovers. It's

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Speaker 1: like he's Santa Claus there. You get a turnover, you

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Speaker 1: And the decision making, which melts faster than the ice

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Speaker 1: been bad, Genos with the last year was like the

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Speaker 1: new level of bad. It was the new level of bad.

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Speaker 1: Fewer yards, more interceptions. Team was terrible. He was horrific.

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Speaker 1: And so they say, well, he's a bridge quarterback. I

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Speaker 1: It's a drawbridge to nowhere with a hole in it.

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Speaker 1: And that's the kind of drawbridge quarterback. He's meanwhile to Motown.

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Speaker 1: We go. We got a trade. We got to trade

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Speaker 1: hours after we did a Mallard monologue least part of

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Speaker 1: a Mallard monologue about David Montgomery. He's a running back,

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Speaker 1: David Montgomery. He's been traded bye bye to Detroit, say

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Speaker 1: Montgomery to the Houston Texans for offensive lineman Juice Scrugs.

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Speaker 1: Any relation to newist Scrugs, I don't know. Juice Scrugs

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Speaker 1: A fourth round pick. If you're into fourth round draft picks,

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Speaker 1: I recommend a nice therapist is what I recommend. Also

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Speaker 1: a seventh round draft pick. Well, that's even better, and

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Speaker 1: So our lead this hour from pro bouncy Ball. What

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Speaker 1: The Warriors were leading the Clippers at one point by seventeen.

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Speaker 1: Ning Ning Ning Ning, Yes, Lebron, James, Lebron, Gabe, come

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Speaker 1: have somebody step in as a peacemaker between those two. Now,

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Speaker 1: immediately the basketball community rallied around and most of the

423
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Speaker 1: talk was it's not done, big a deal, What are

424
00:25:46,720 --> 00:25:51,240
Speaker 1: you doing it? What was wrong with you? Now? Others

425
00:25:51,280 --> 00:25:54,480
Speaker 1: were concerned about this argument. This is not this is

426
00:25:54,520 --> 00:25:57,360
Speaker 1: not a great look. This is not a great look.

427
00:25:57,480 --> 00:26:01,280
Speaker 1: Luca the star player and JJ Reddick. So agent Rich

428
00:26:01,720 --> 00:26:06,919
Speaker 1: Paul Lebron's tody, the guy that's ridden Lebron's coattails and

429
00:26:07,000 --> 00:26:11,359
Speaker 1: made a fortune from the Lebron True True train. Yes,

430
00:26:11,560 --> 00:26:16,479
Speaker 1: so Rich Paul claimed that the interaction between Luca and

431
00:26:16,600 --> 00:26:22,040
Speaker 1: jj Reddick, he claimed, was part of a healthy relationship.

432
00:26:26,680 --> 00:26:29,800
Speaker 1: That's what I'm not making this up, all right. So question,

433
00:26:30,520 --> 00:26:35,399
Speaker 1: You've got Luka Doncik and JJ Reddick clearly beefing during

434
00:26:35,440 --> 00:26:41,960
Speaker 1: a Laker game, during a Laker game, and the agent

435
00:26:42,040 --> 00:26:44,440
Speaker 1: for Lebron's like, oh no, this is all healthy? Here?

436
00:26:45,080 --> 00:26:49,439
Speaker 1: Is this something or is this nothing? Is it something

437
00:26:49,520 --> 00:26:52,080
Speaker 1: or nothing. So the errow on this one is pointed

438
00:26:52,119 --> 00:26:58,320
Speaker 1: at something. It was the Rich Paul quote it was

439
00:26:58,440 --> 00:27:01,680
Speaker 1: profound respect. He said, it was profound respect. That was

440
00:27:01,720 --> 00:27:05,600
Speaker 1: one of the quotes he gave there. So this becomes

441
00:27:06,840 --> 00:27:12,199
Speaker 1: a Peekaboo special. It's a Peekaboo special, as in a

442
00:27:12,320 --> 00:27:17,359
Speaker 1: peak behind the curtain, pinkaboo behind the curtain. And what

443
00:27:17,480 --> 00:27:21,720
Speaker 1: I saw from years and years of watching similar situations

444
00:27:21,760 --> 00:27:26,200
Speaker 1: in basketball and other sports, I saw two dudes who

445
00:27:26,359 --> 00:27:30,439
Speaker 1: cannot stand each other, and this was a flashpoint. This

446
00:27:30,640 --> 00:27:34,280
Speaker 1: was a flashpoint. Didn't like each other, and for a

447
00:27:34,320 --> 00:27:36,840
Speaker 1: few seconds, I don't know if it was six, ten,

448
00:27:37,040 --> 00:27:42,120
Speaker 1: twelve seconds, whatever it was, these two guys forgot that

449
00:27:42,200 --> 00:27:44,639
Speaker 1: the red light is always on the camera. They're always

450
00:27:44,720 --> 00:27:50,640
Speaker 1: on camera. And what you saw there was reality. Luca

451
00:27:50,880 --> 00:27:55,159
Speaker 1: look like he had just had enough. He wanted no

452
00:27:55,320 --> 00:27:59,080
Speaker 1: more of podcast coach guy, the guy that got the

453
00:27:59,200 --> 00:28:02,600
Speaker 1: job because he's up to Lebron more than anybody. JJ Reddick,

454
00:28:02,640 --> 00:28:04,720
Speaker 1: who should not be an NBA coach. I think he's

455
00:28:04,760 --> 00:28:07,280
Speaker 1: proven he shouldn't be an NBA coach by the job

456
00:28:07,280 --> 00:28:10,160
Speaker 1: that he's done with the Lakers. So Lucas, I don't

457
00:28:10,160 --> 00:28:13,760
Speaker 1: want to do with this guy. And Reddick also had

458
00:28:13,840 --> 00:28:16,320
Speaker 1: he give He just gives the punch me in the

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00:28:16,320 --> 00:28:19,200
Speaker 1: phase vibe, doesn't he He's like, he's like the entitled

460
00:28:19,240 --> 00:28:22,840
Speaker 1: trust fund baby rich guy. Punch him in the face. Guy,

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00:28:23,280 --> 00:28:27,000
Speaker 1: that's JJ Redick. That's how he comes across. So and

462
00:28:27,080 --> 00:28:29,159
Speaker 1: Reddick's like pouring gas on the fire. Yeah, the other

463
00:28:29,200 --> 00:28:32,479
Speaker 1: people it's like a you know, Villian thing where they

464
00:28:32,600 --> 00:28:35,439
Speaker 1: got to come in and interrupt these guys. So, my

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00:28:35,520 --> 00:28:38,040
Speaker 1: theor is, you don't publicly snap like that knowing you're

466
00:28:38,040 --> 00:28:42,920
Speaker 1: on camera. You're it's in a game. Unless the wires

467
00:28:42,960 --> 00:28:47,440
Speaker 1: were already frayed. The wires were already frayed. And so

468
00:28:47,920 --> 00:28:52,280
Speaker 1: a healthy relationship, my fat ass healthy relationship. Come on,

469
00:28:53,200 --> 00:28:56,600
Speaker 1: that's what you say when you go out there. You

470
00:28:56,640 --> 00:28:59,160
Speaker 1: punch a hole in the drywall, And he said, I

471
00:28:59,240 --> 00:29:01,440
Speaker 1: just remodeling, you know, just no, you were angry, you

472
00:29:01,480 --> 00:29:03,520
Speaker 1: punched the drywall. There's a hole in the drywall, get

473
00:29:03,520 --> 00:29:05,959
Speaker 1: it fix? Noh, no, no, no, I was just remodeling.

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00:29:06,360 --> 00:29:07,840
Speaker 1: It was I'm not sure what I'm gonna do with it,

475
00:29:07,840 --> 00:29:09,320
Speaker 1: but I just want to remind well, no, that's what

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00:29:09,320 --> 00:29:12,480
Speaker 1: you're doing. So if it's so healthy. If this is

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00:29:12,520 --> 00:29:16,960
Speaker 1: so healthy between these two guys, right, why did they

478
00:29:16,960 --> 00:29:18,960
Speaker 1: go public with it? Right? Why did they go public?

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00:29:18,960 --> 00:29:24,440
Speaker 1: I mean it's not they're not whispering, it's it's snarling. Right,

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00:29:24,600 --> 00:29:26,840
Speaker 1: Normally you do this stuff behind closed doors. There are

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00:29:26,880 --> 00:29:28,560
Speaker 1: people that hate each other all the time. In sports,

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00:29:28,560 --> 00:29:31,680
Speaker 1: you got to live together for six seven months, depending

483
00:29:31,680 --> 00:29:34,640
Speaker 1: on the sport there. You travel together planes, trains, and automobiles,

484
00:29:35,200 --> 00:29:37,880
Speaker 1: and you don't like people normally you put up with.

485
00:29:38,640 --> 00:29:41,520
Speaker 1: Eventually you get fed up and you have a point

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00:29:41,520 --> 00:29:45,920
Speaker 1: where you snap, or you're like Juan Soto of the

487
00:29:45,960 --> 00:29:48,200
Speaker 1: Mets and you just have everyone you don't like traded

488
00:29:48,640 --> 00:29:51,600
Speaker 1: and Francisco Lindor because you don't like their politics or whatever,

489
00:29:51,600 --> 00:29:53,920
Speaker 1: so you haven't traded other teams. That's what the Mets did.

490
00:29:54,200 --> 00:29:56,280
Speaker 1: But the Lakers they just had a They had a

491
00:29:56,320 --> 00:30:01,720
Speaker 1: meltdown right there, and just Luca had that. He didn't

492
00:30:01,720 --> 00:30:04,960
Speaker 1: look inspired, let's put it that way. He looked irritated.

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00:30:05,320 --> 00:30:09,440
Speaker 1: He looked irritated to me. And sometimes you say it's passion.

494
00:30:09,640 --> 00:30:13,840
Speaker 1: I didn't get the vibe. This was passion. I did not.

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00:30:14,120 --> 00:30:18,000
Speaker 1: It was contempt of podcast coach guy, contempt of podcast

496
00:30:18,040 --> 00:30:21,240
Speaker 1: coach guy. And so there you go. And the good

497
00:30:21,280 --> 00:30:23,880
Speaker 1: news is rhetical be fired, Lebron will be gone, Htic

498
00:30:23,880 --> 00:30:27,120
Speaker 1: will be back on television, and then some other JABBRONI

499
00:30:27,160 --> 00:30:28,880
Speaker 1: will be coaching the Lakers next year. All right, now,

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Speaker 1: final point, I wanted to mention this. Several people have

501
00:30:32,280 --> 00:30:34,120
Speaker 1: sent me emails on this. We did not talk about

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00:30:34,120 --> 00:30:37,040
Speaker 1: it in the previous episode of the show, but we'll

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00:30:37,040 --> 00:30:39,040
Speaker 1: talk about it here because I just so you stop

504
00:30:39,120 --> 00:30:42,520
Speaker 1: sending me messages about it, because I'll address it. So

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Speaker 1: we go to baseball Saint Louis, Missouri, where the Cardinals

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00:30:47,040 --> 00:30:51,040
Speaker 1: the Redbirds announced over the weekend a new ticket option

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00:30:51,840 --> 00:30:59,080
Speaker 1: that offers bottomless soft drinks and various ballpark foods. Yeah, yeah,

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00:30:59,360 --> 00:31:01,880
Speaker 1: including in the price, which I believe it is twenty

509
00:31:01,960 --> 00:31:05,920
Speaker 1: nine dollars. You get a seat in Big Macland, they

510
00:31:05,920 --> 00:31:08,200
Speaker 1: give you a wristband. Now this has happened. Dodgers used

511
00:31:08,200 --> 00:31:10,760
Speaker 1: to do this back in the day, and it allows

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00:31:10,840 --> 00:31:14,840
Speaker 1: the fan to return to a specific concession stand as

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Speaker 1: many times as they want at no additional charge. Now

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00:31:19,040 --> 00:31:23,520
Speaker 1: they have a variety of food items that are available. However,

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00:31:23,560 --> 00:31:26,840
Speaker 1: you have to limit it to three items. So twenty

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00:31:26,920 --> 00:31:29,680
Speaker 1: nine dollars you get three items and you get your

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00:31:29,680 --> 00:31:34,280
Speaker 1: standard hot dog, popcorn, you've got soft drinks, you got

518
00:31:34,320 --> 00:31:37,680
Speaker 1: all this stuff on there, chicken fingers, all that. But

519
00:31:37,760 --> 00:31:40,640
Speaker 1: you can only choose three per game. So that's it.

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00:31:40,760 --> 00:31:46,320
Speaker 1: Three items. That's an art question. Can you explain what

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00:31:46,640 --> 00:31:50,040
Speaker 1: signal the Saint Louis Cardinals are sending their fans by

522
00:31:50,080 --> 00:31:54,200
Speaker 1: adding this all you can eat section? Yeah, so this

523
00:31:54,520 --> 00:31:57,960
Speaker 1: is the signal. Is a flare gun from the Cardinals

524
00:31:58,000 --> 00:32:00,280
Speaker 1: right in the night sky. It's a dog whistle, is

525
00:32:00,280 --> 00:32:03,760
Speaker 1: what it is. It's not not just for the canines

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00:32:03,760 --> 00:32:06,680
Speaker 1: on the field, because I'm old enough to remember when

527
00:32:06,680 --> 00:32:08,080
Speaker 1: the Cardinals used to win a lot and they had

528
00:32:08,080 --> 00:32:11,560
Speaker 1: good teams, and they don't anymore. They suck, they're bad.

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00:32:12,520 --> 00:32:15,760
Speaker 1: You know that roster does not look like a playoff roster,

530
00:32:16,440 --> 00:32:18,680
Speaker 1: and they might want to give fans as they leave

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00:32:18,720 --> 00:32:21,400
Speaker 1: the stadium a flea bath when you leave the stadium

532
00:32:21,400 --> 00:32:24,080
Speaker 1: because you're likely covered in fleas watching that Cardinal team

533
00:32:24,080 --> 00:32:27,240
Speaker 1: out there playing baseball. But this is the baseball version

534
00:32:27,280 --> 00:32:30,280
Speaker 1: when you announce and all you can eat section. It's

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00:32:30,360 --> 00:32:34,240
Speaker 1: the baseball version of a white flag in March. It

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00:32:34,320 --> 00:32:36,960
Speaker 1: is The Dodgers used to have this when they weren't winning.

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00:32:37,960 --> 00:32:40,080
Speaker 1: They got rid of it and they started winning the

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00:32:40,120 --> 00:32:42,240
Speaker 1: World Series. Of course they bought all the good players,

539
00:32:42,400 --> 00:32:44,800
Speaker 1: but they got rid of it. When your team, this

540
00:32:44,920 --> 00:32:49,760
Speaker 1: is a malarism, when your team starts pushing bottomless, broughtworst

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Speaker 1: and ice cream cups. Dead Dear Wight, Dead, dear Wight. Yeah,

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00:32:55,280 --> 00:32:58,720
Speaker 1: it's a long standing belief of mine. When teams suck,

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00:32:59,320 --> 00:33:02,480
Speaker 1: you lean into this kind of stuff. You cannot put

544
00:33:02,480 --> 00:33:06,320
Speaker 1: a competitive team on the field, so you lean into

545
00:33:06,720 --> 00:33:11,400
Speaker 1: Ring of Honor. You retire numbers from the glory days,

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00:33:11,520 --> 00:33:14,720
Speaker 1: you have more bobblehead nights like the Angels do. Because

547
00:33:14,760 --> 00:33:16,440
Speaker 1: the moms in Orange County don't care if they win

548
00:33:16,520 --> 00:33:17,800
Speaker 1: or not. They just want to take their kids to

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00:33:17,800 --> 00:33:19,560
Speaker 1: a ball game, and they don't really care who wins

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00:33:19,560 --> 00:33:23,160
Speaker 1: because it's Anaheim, it's Orange County. And then I toss

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00:33:23,200 --> 00:33:25,760
Speaker 1: in that same family the all you can eat, but

552
00:33:26,200 --> 00:33:30,000
Speaker 1: the all you can eat ticket, which is it's like

553
00:33:30,080 --> 00:33:34,840
Speaker 1: the Marie Antoinette of Major League Baseball. Let them eat winners,

554
00:33:35,640 --> 00:33:40,560
Speaker 1: let them eat notcho cheese from a pump. It's probably

555
00:33:40,560 --> 00:33:44,360
Speaker 1: older than your kids and your grandkids and all that.

556
00:33:44,360 --> 00:33:48,520
Speaker 1: That's cardinal baseball. Baby, there you go, you show up

557
00:33:48,840 --> 00:33:51,280
Speaker 1: the size of a small pony, and by the time

558
00:33:51,320 --> 00:33:53,000
Speaker 1: you're done with the all you can eat, you leave

559
00:33:53,120 --> 00:33:56,560
Speaker 1: as big as one of those bite Budweiser Clydesdale's. You're

560
00:33:56,640 --> 00:33:59,440
Speaker 1: just massive. They have to roll you in a wheelbarrow

561
00:33:59,520 --> 00:34:01,600
Speaker 1: out of the state. You're that big, right, and they're

562
00:34:01,600 --> 00:34:04,480
Speaker 1: still gonna make money. I'm not gonna do the rant

563
00:34:04,480 --> 00:34:06,600
Speaker 1: here you I've done it on my podcast The Fifth Hour,

564
00:34:06,680 --> 00:34:10,000
Speaker 1: like how buffets make money and what's the business model

565
00:34:10,080 --> 00:34:15,760
Speaker 1: and all that. It's mostly cheap filler food. It's mostly

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00:34:15,840 --> 00:34:20,200
Speaker 1: cheap filler food, high calorie, low cost, and they know

567
00:34:20,239 --> 00:34:22,440
Speaker 1: that you really only have a finite time Like buffets

568
00:34:23,520 --> 00:34:26,120
Speaker 1: used to have endless there was no time limit, and

569
00:34:26,160 --> 00:34:29,080
Speaker 1: then they added a time limit. So you go to

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00:34:29,160 --> 00:34:32,840
Speaker 1: like these buffets and it's like you got two hours

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00:34:32,920 --> 00:34:35,000
Speaker 1: or two and a half, three hours to eat, Well,

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00:34:35,000 --> 00:34:37,080
Speaker 1: it's about the time of a baseball game, and it

573
00:34:37,120 --> 00:34:39,440
Speaker 1: could be even less than that. Baseball now has a

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Speaker 1: clock and sometimes these games end in less than two hours.

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00:34:43,040 --> 00:34:45,520
Speaker 1: So you better go there, and you've got to starve

576
00:34:45,560 --> 00:34:48,640
Speaker 1: yourself for a day or so, do that interminute fasting

577
00:34:48,680 --> 00:34:49,399
Speaker 1: and then go for it.

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00:34:49,480 --> 00:34:51,800
Speaker 2: Be sure to catch live editions of The Ben Meller

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00:34:51,880 --> 00:34:56,000
Speaker 2: Show weekdays at two am Eastern eleven pm Pacific Wat Doutler.

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Speaker 1: How about that?

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00:34:56,960 --> 00:35:01,319
Speaker 2: To the third degree is one big?

582
00:35:01,440 --> 00:35:02,520
Speaker 1: Ben gets quiet.

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00:35:03,760 --> 00:35:06,080
Speaker 4: TMZ recently caught up with Michael Irvin, who had a

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00:35:06,120 --> 00:35:08,840
Speaker 4: bold prediction for his alma mater. He thinks that Miami

585
00:35:08,840 --> 00:35:11,720
Speaker 4: will go undefeated in twenty twenty six, Ben, what odds

586
00:35:11,719 --> 00:35:12,279
Speaker 4: do you give that up?

587
00:35:12,280 --> 00:35:17,279
Speaker 1: Happening? Let's go with what is less than zero? They're

588
00:35:17,280 --> 00:35:20,880
Speaker 1: not gonna go under. And asking Michael Irvin about the

589
00:35:21,000 --> 00:35:24,120
Speaker 1: University of Miami football team, come on, isn't he a

590
00:35:24,200 --> 00:35:26,960
Speaker 1: part of the cheerleading squad there at Miami? They'll have

591
00:35:27,000 --> 00:35:28,719
Speaker 1: a good team and they're not gonna go undefeated. No

592
00:35:28,760 --> 00:35:29,800
Speaker 1: one's gonna go undefeated.

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00:35:29,880 --> 00:35:33,800
Speaker 4: Next, it's impossible to deny that Zion Williamson his injury prone. However,

594
00:35:33,840 --> 00:35:35,920
Speaker 4: the narrative that bothers him the most is that he

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00:35:35,960 --> 00:35:38,600
Speaker 4: doesn't care about not being on the court. He said,

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00:35:38,719 --> 00:35:40,560
Speaker 4: quote as much as my critics hate it, I hate

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Speaker 4: it more.

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Speaker 1: Ben. Do you believe him? No, your actions speak louder

599
00:35:46,239 --> 00:35:47,759
Speaker 1: than your words to say, well, I hate this, I

600
00:35:47,800 --> 00:35:50,279
Speaker 1: don't like this. But the things that he does have

601
00:35:50,400 --> 00:35:53,719
Speaker 1: indicated he doesn't care that much. Does he care more

602
00:35:53,719 --> 00:35:57,799
Speaker 1: than Anthony Davis? Yes, he does, But you know there's

603
00:35:57,840 --> 00:36:00,840
Speaker 1: this gray area there. And look at when Zion he

604
00:36:00,880 --> 00:36:03,040
Speaker 1: only played a few games at Duke and he was

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00:36:03,640 --> 00:36:05,360
Speaker 1: awesome to watch him play. And you thought about this

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00:36:05,400 --> 00:36:08,120
Speaker 1: guy's going to take the NBA by storm, and uh,

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00:36:08,280 --> 00:36:10,120
Speaker 1: the only thing he's taking by storm has been the buffet.

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00:36:10,360 --> 00:36:11,200
Speaker 1: That's it. Next.

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Speaker 4: The former longtime MLB umpire Jim Joyce, was recently asked

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Speaker 4: about the implementation of the ABS challenge system this season.

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00:36:17,560 --> 00:36:19,520
Speaker 4: He said he thinks the system will actually prove how

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00:36:19,560 --> 00:36:22,600
Speaker 4: great umps are. What's an incredibly difficult job?

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00:36:22,719 --> 00:36:25,000
Speaker 1: Is he right? Well, so far, the umps have been

614
00:36:25,000 --> 00:36:28,920
Speaker 1: getting absolutely cooked in spring training, so we'll see when

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00:36:28,920 --> 00:36:31,120
Speaker 1: the regular season starts. There's a lot of like minor

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00:36:31,200 --> 00:36:33,600
Speaker 1: league umpires and all that. I'm going to go that

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00:36:33,640 --> 00:36:35,160
Speaker 1: the umps are not gonna like this by the time

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Speaker 1: we're done. How do we know? How do we know?

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Speaker 1: Pass cod I cover that combien a comida.

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Speaker 1: All right, are these the guys we're gonna have played

625
00:36:57,400 --> 00:36:59,239
Speaker 1: the game? I don't know. I don't know, but we'll see.

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00:36:59,280 --> 00:37:01,400
Speaker 1: I guess they want to play, so we'll have him play.

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00:37:01,600 --> 00:37:04,759
Speaker 1: All right, let's introduce them real quick here, and let's

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00:37:04,760 --> 00:37:11,640
Speaker 1: see who do we have. We've got d Block in Miami. Hello,

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Speaker 1: d Block in Miami. Welcome sir, Good morning, sir, Happy Tuesday,

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Speaker 1: Happy too, Happy Tuesday. This is a very important game

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Speaker 1: to me. You're not gonna hear. You're not gonna fights

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Speaker 1: around with this, right, You're gonna try. You know your sports,

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Speaker 1: You're ready to go. Yes, I'm one. Let's go on,

634
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Speaker 1: and what is your level of confidence that you're going

635
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Speaker 1: to win the game. Let's do this? Okay? All right?

636
00:37:35,880 --> 00:37:38,120
Speaker 1: Who would you like to partner up with their D block?

637
00:37:38,200 --> 00:37:41,440
Speaker 1: You got me Ben or the Kooper Loop? All right,

638
00:37:41,560 --> 00:37:44,400
Speaker 1: it's a good choice by you. And we have a

639
00:37:44,719 --> 00:37:48,400
Speaker 1: Jed who actually was online to play Mallards Mount of Money.

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00:37:48,400 --> 00:37:52,440
Speaker 1: Hello Jed, welcome back. I mean Ice is a metaphor

641
00:37:52,440 --> 00:37:54,839
Speaker 1: for Mitchell Crip sad of me? Am I not supposed to.

642
00:37:54,880 --> 00:37:55,799
Speaker 2: Go to the agency or what?

643
00:37:55,960 --> 00:37:57,719
Speaker 1: All right? Come down?

644
00:37:59,440 --> 00:37:59,640
Speaker 3: Are you?

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00:38:00,200 --> 00:38:05,440
Speaker 1: Was't mintioned, I'm sorry, I like you as a guy hockey. Okay,

646
00:38:04,800 --> 00:38:08,920
Speaker 1: what are the categories? Not?

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00:38:09,680 --> 00:38:12,840
Speaker 4: Okay? Okay, uh, this is Malard's Mountain of money. The

648
00:38:12,960 --> 00:38:16,839
Speaker 4: method Man edition method Man not not meth Man, Jed

649
00:38:16,920 --> 00:38:21,720
Speaker 4: method Man. He turned fifty five years old on Monday.

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00:38:22,400 --> 00:38:24,320
Speaker 4: Oh yes, double Nichols.

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00:38:24,440 --> 00:38:24,839
Speaker 1: That's right.

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00:38:25,120 --> 00:38:31,040
Speaker 4: The categories are protect your neck cream or c r

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Speaker 4: e A M. I believe that's a cash rules everything

654
00:38:35,239 --> 00:38:40,200
Speaker 4: around me. I love that song Judgment Day and still

655
00:38:40,280 --> 00:38:40,719
Speaker 4: on it?

656
00:38:42,200 --> 00:38:45,919
Speaker 1: And de Block on the air hold on sec punch

657
00:38:46,040 --> 00:38:48,400
Speaker 1: this guy and d Block? Hello, d Block? Which category

658
00:38:48,440 --> 00:38:54,439
Speaker 1: would you liked? Block? All right? And Jed? How about you? Hey,

659
00:38:54,440 --> 00:38:59,000
Speaker 1: I is near Sky's Judgment Day? All right, all right, gentlemen,

660
00:38:59,080 --> 00:39:01,440
Speaker 1: you say, do not up or you will be you

661
00:39:01,440 --> 00:39:04,239
Speaker 1: will lose. Do not curse or you will lose. So

662
00:39:04,680 --> 00:39:07,840
Speaker 1: those are the rules, very simple rules, not that deep.

663
00:39:07,960 --> 00:39:10,880
Speaker 1: It's not that deep. Okay. We are malmons away minutes

664
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Speaker 1: away from having this amazing competition. You got Jed whu

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Speaker 1: fled from the Redneck Riviera, and then d Block's in.

666
00:39:17,520 --> 00:39:20,640
Speaker 1: It's an all Florida matchup, a Floridian matchup here, so

667
00:39:20,719 --> 00:39:23,080
Speaker 1: we will guarantee someone from Florida is going to win

668
00:39:23,120 --> 00:39:25,440
Speaker 1: this game. Someone from Florida's gonna win the game. You

669
00:39:25,480 --> 00:39:27,279
Speaker 1: got Jed who fled with Coop. The team is gonna win.

670
00:39:27,320 --> 00:39:30,759
Speaker 1: D Block in Miami and myself and we will get

671
00:39:30,760 --> 00:39:33,800
Speaker 1: to that and we will do it next.

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Speaker 2: Be sure to catch live editions of the Ben Malors

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00:39:36,480 --> 00:39:40,520
Speaker 2: Show weekdays at two am Eastern eleven pm Pacific. Now,

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00:39:41,640 --> 00:39:46,319
Speaker 2: Malor's Mountain of money. Do you have what it takes

675
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Speaker 2: to get to the top. Probably not.

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00:39:50,480 --> 00:39:53,680
Speaker 1: Let's get right back to the game. The matchup is set.

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00:39:53,800 --> 00:39:57,800
Speaker 1: D Block is in Miami, Miami, Miami, and he's teamed

678
00:39:57,880 --> 00:40:02,960
Speaker 1: up with with me and he's gonna pla. He's talking

679
00:40:02,960 --> 00:40:04,480
Speaker 1: to someone else right now, but he's on the air,

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00:40:04,520 --> 00:40:12,239
Speaker 1: and we have Jed who fled. Hello, Jed, Okay, I'll

681
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Speaker 1: put you on hold man, that's a good point. You'll

682
00:40:14,040 --> 00:40:17,080
Speaker 1: chowby treat okay, all right, let's do it. Here we go.

683
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Speaker 1: It's the Method Man Edition and D Block You picked cream? Yes, yes,

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00:40:24,440 --> 00:40:26,880
Speaker 1: all right, very good. These athletes all held out for

685
00:40:27,000 --> 00:40:30,160
Speaker 1: more money. We put forty five seconds on the clock.

686
00:40:30,280 --> 00:40:33,680
Speaker 1: Are you ready to block? Yes, all right, let's do it.

687
00:40:33,680 --> 00:40:35,880
Speaker 1: Here we go. Quarterback, he just came out of retirement

688
00:40:35,920 --> 00:40:37,520
Speaker 1: to play for the Colts this year at the end

689
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Speaker 1: of the year. Yes, all time NFL leading rusher for

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00:40:42,520 --> 00:40:47,800
Speaker 1: the Dallas Cowboys. Yes. Uh, Pittsburgh Steeler running back. He

691
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Speaker 1: missed an entire year to go hang out in your

692
00:40:50,719 --> 00:40:56,520
Speaker 1: town of Miami and right, Jet Skis Yes, the greatest

693
00:40:56,800 --> 00:40:59,960
Speaker 1: left handed pitcher for the Dodgers played with the Brooklyn Dodgers.

694
00:41:00,000 --> 00:41:05,200
Speaker 1: There is also the La Dodgers Jewish guy. Yeah, good job,

695
00:41:05,239 --> 00:41:09,360
Speaker 1: but you Chiefs linebacker Currently he's with the Chiefs. Defensive

696
00:41:09,360 --> 00:41:11,800
Speaker 1: star held out for a big contract a couple of

697
00:41:11,880 --> 00:41:16,840
Speaker 1: years ago. Generic name fab five guy. He coached the

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00:41:17,000 --> 00:41:22,880
Speaker 1: Washington Wizards for a while. Coach he got an yeah,

699
00:41:23,280 --> 00:41:27,160
Speaker 1: too late, too late, too late. Chris Jones was the chance.

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Speaker 4: Yeah yeah, alright, alright, uh jee there, all right.

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Speaker 1: With my guy? Hold Jed, we have judgment day. Is

702
00:41:38,880 --> 00:41:44,320
Speaker 1: that correct? Yes, it is alright, alright.

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00:41:44,400 --> 00:41:48,120
Speaker 4: These athletes will be Hall of Fame eligible next year.

704
00:41:48,160 --> 00:41:50,360
Speaker 4: So twenty twenty seven, they will be Hall of Fame eligible.

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Speaker 4: H forty five seconds on the clock.

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Speaker 1: Let's begin.

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Speaker 4: H Super Bowl winning quarterback for the Pittsburgh Steelers. Yes,

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00:41:58,560 --> 00:42:00,560
Speaker 4: this guy was the power forward for the Clippers during

709
00:42:00,560 --> 00:42:04,600
Speaker 4: the Lob City days. Yes, this guy was the catcher

710
00:42:04,680 --> 00:42:06,280
Speaker 4: for the Giants like forever.

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00:42:08,800 --> 00:42:09,080
Speaker 1: Yes.

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00:42:09,360 --> 00:42:09,560
Speaker 2: Uh.

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Speaker 4: This guy was a cornerback for the Seattle Seahawks during

714
00:42:13,120 --> 00:42:14,200
Speaker 4: the Legion of Boom era.

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00:42:15,160 --> 00:42:19,719
Speaker 1: Richard Richard Yep, yep, uh.

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00:42:19,760 --> 00:42:22,640
Speaker 4: This guy beat cancer. He was a pitcher for the

717
00:42:22,680 --> 00:42:25,319
Speaker 4: Red Sox and the Cubs. One World Series with both

718
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Speaker 4: of them.

719
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Speaker 1: Chris Tay No, all right, we'll skip that one.

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Speaker 4: This guy had the same all right. He was with

721
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Speaker 4: the seventy six ers. Originally he won finals MVP with

722
00:42:37,120 --> 00:42:37,799
Speaker 4: the Warriors.

723
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Speaker 1: Oh man, how many was that with raina not good? No,

724
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Speaker 1: it was sheet Look at that. My god, Oh my god.

725
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Speaker 1: We're tired. All right, we'll all right. Oh. I was

726
00:42:57,120 --> 00:42:58,799
Speaker 1: trying to come up with ways. He kind of came

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Speaker 1: up with answered, Hey, hey, you're you're a woman. Okay,

728
00:43:02,880 --> 00:43:06,520
Speaker 1: calm down, let's see d block. We have protect your

729
00:43:06,560 --> 00:43:12,160
Speaker 1: neck and still on it, protected neck, all right, protect

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Speaker 1: your neck? Very good. Are these athletes all had major

731
00:43:18,520 --> 00:43:25,239
Speaker 1: neck injuries? Major neck injuries? Are you ready? Yeah? All right,

732
00:43:25,360 --> 00:43:27,279
Speaker 1: we're forty five seconds of the clock where we did

733
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Speaker 1: first and last name, and we are on our way

734
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Speaker 1: and go here we go all right. Uh, Colts quarterback

735
00:43:35,000 --> 00:43:36,759
Speaker 1: who played for the Broncos at the end of his career,

736
00:43:36,840 --> 00:43:43,200
Speaker 1: won a Super Bowl. Come on, uh, the playmaker for

737
00:43:43,320 --> 00:43:50,400
Speaker 1: the Cowboys. Yes, uh. Cecil's son baseball player, played for

738
00:43:50,440 --> 00:43:55,359
Speaker 1: the Brewers and the Tigers. Did a lot of home boutsfielders. Yes,

739
00:43:55,960 --> 00:43:59,520
Speaker 1: former Pittsburgh senior defensive back. He's a loudmouth on ESPN.

740
00:43:59,560 --> 00:44:02,279
Speaker 1: Now he's a talking head. He does a podcast. He

741
00:44:02,400 --> 00:44:08,520
Speaker 1: thinks he has answered all wise problems. No, uh, not Shannon,

742
00:44:08,680 --> 00:44:14,719
Speaker 1: but the other brother who played for the Packers. Yes,

743
00:44:14,920 --> 00:44:17,120
Speaker 1: good job. You a third base jump the third baseman.

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00:44:20,080 --> 00:44:29,520
Speaker 4: Alright, alright, alright, Jed, all right, Jed, we have still

745
00:44:29,640 --> 00:44:30,040
Speaker 4: on it.

746
00:44:30,760 --> 00:44:34,680
Speaker 1: Uh. These athletes are some of the oldest. These are

747
00:44:34,719 --> 00:44:35,440
Speaker 1: some of the.

748
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Speaker 4: Oldest All stars of all time. All right, forty five

749
00:44:39,680 --> 00:44:43,000
Speaker 4: seconds on the clock. Let's begin. He's the king on

750
00:44:43,040 --> 00:44:47,640
Speaker 4: the Lakers right now, Yes, the all time hit king.

751
00:44:50,040 --> 00:44:50,200
Speaker 1: Yes.

752
00:44:50,800 --> 00:44:56,000
Speaker 4: This guy was the Sandman closer for the Yankees. This

753
00:44:56,040 --> 00:44:58,960
Speaker 4: guy was a quarterback for the Baltimore Ravens. He won

754
00:44:59,000 --> 00:45:01,080
Speaker 4: a Super Bowl with them. He's still playing in the NFL.

755
00:45:03,719 --> 00:45:07,960
Speaker 1: Yes, god, yeah, oh right.

756
00:45:08,400 --> 00:45:11,239
Speaker 4: This guy's a left fielder for the Red Sox. He

757
00:45:11,280 --> 00:45:16,120
Speaker 4: played twenty three seasons back in the day, three thousand hits.

758
00:45:17,480 --> 00:45:20,160
Speaker 1: Uh, all right, this guy was a point guard.

759
00:45:20,719 --> 00:45:23,080
Speaker 4: This guy was a point guard for the Celtics in

760
00:45:23,120 --> 00:45:23,719
Speaker 4: the fifties.

761
00:45:26,600 --> 00:45:33,879
Speaker 1: Oh, Jed joke, Jed who fled? Joke? I'm absolutely means that.

762
00:45:34,239 --> 00:45:38,960
Speaker 1: Joe Flacco, Joel de Block, you won, d Block, You

763
00:45:39,000 --> 00:45:41,840
Speaker 1: getta gol the decad. You gotta go the deca. You

764
00:45:41,920 --> 00:45:47,880
Speaker 1: getta goll the decade. Good jump by you. D Block.

765
00:45:48,280 --> 00:45:50,480
Speaker 1: Yeh shot, you took down Jed? Who fled?

766
00:45:50,560 --> 00:45:50,719
Speaker 2: Jed?

767
00:45:50,760 --> 00:45:54,360
Speaker 1: How embarrassed? What do you? What do you?

768
00:45:54,480 --> 00:45:54,719
Speaker 4: What is?

769
00:45:55,200 --> 00:45:56,960
Speaker 1: What are you yelling about? What do you? I said,

770
00:45:56,960 --> 00:45:59,840
Speaker 1: you go back and check it. I definitely said Joe Bryer.

771
00:46:00,160 --> 00:46:02,280
Speaker 1: You did not say You did not say you said John,

772
00:46:02,520 --> 00:46:06,440
Speaker 1: you said name. I think he said Jim. Even if you,

773
00:46:06,560 --> 00:46:08,920
Speaker 1: even if you did, that wasn't enough points, even if

774
00:46:08,960 --> 00:46:12,600
Speaker 1: you did see that. All right, shut upbout g Block.

775
00:46:13,560 --> 00:46:15,520
Speaker 1: Anyone you want to thank d Block for this win,

776
00:46:15,640 --> 00:46:19,080
Speaker 1: unbelievable win. Go bear is the whole city at Chicago,

777
00:46:19,760 --> 00:46:22,840
Speaker 1: all right, all of Chicago. Look at that. He's in Miami.

778
00:46:22,920 --> 00:46:24,719
Speaker 1: His heart's back in Chicago. There