August 13, 2026 • 44 mins
Big Ben talks about the Lakers being sold to Bob Iger and Josh Kushner for $12 billion, Travis Kelce declaring to the media that he has another level left, Maller to the Third Degree, #AskBen, and more!
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To our lead story this hour from the eNB A
come on, boys, tell me that much you hate the show.
Oh Chow sucks, Maler. You're talking basketball? What's wrong with
you? You loser? That's why you're doing overnights. Talk about some
guy on the NFL. It's got to get released at
the end of training camp. That pulled his handy. That's
what I want to hear. Okay, Well, we have a
mantra on the program. We talk about the big stories
(00:55):
of the day and let's just kind of figure it
out as we go. Every day is a new day,
every day's news. Some people say, ah, Mallard, how could
you possibly do sports radio all these years? It's the
same crap every damn now, now, now, now, now, no.
Could you have imagined a couple of days ago if
I had told you one of the crown jewels, you'all
(01:16):
tell me one of the crown jewels of professional basketball
would be tossed around like a fruitcake. But here we are,
here we are. So if you have not heard, for
some reason, maybe you've been hiding a worried about the
gravity collapsing. I survived. I survived the internet bull crap
(01:38):
of the day anyway, So if you miss it, the
the Los Angeles Lakers, the once proud Los Angeles Lakers,
are now just being passed around like a collection plate
at a tabernacle on a Sunday morning. It's quite wild.
It is absolutely wild. So the Lakers are being sold
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to Josh Kushner, the brother of the guy working for Trump,
and Bob Iger, the Disney guy. Yeah, and the price
tag twelve point five billion, with it be. I'm told
that's a lot of money. Twelve point five billion with be.
The franchise sale in fact said to be the biggest
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in professional sports history, at least here in America. And
I believe the world. So A Kushner and Iiger, the
two rich dudes, were supposed to buy the expansion team.
I was reading last week in one of those business
sports business websites that they were the favorite to buy
to the Las Vegas expansion team. And then completely out
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of left field, And if you've listened to my podcast
over the years, you know that comes from Wrigley Field.
There used to be a mental hospital out past left
field at Wrigley Field, and the outfielders could hear people screaming,
mental patients screaming out in the outfield and the left field.
So when they said out in left field, they were
talking about a mental hospital. So out of left field
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the deal came together. Mark Walter, Well he's got some problem,
doney man. He's a rich guy with problems, more money,
more problems. I heard that song years ago. Well, Mark
Walter is going to sell the controlling interest in the
Los Angeles Lakers. So in the span of a little
over a year, they will have gone from Genie Buss
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to Mark Walter, and that a Bob Iger, the Disney
guy who's no longer the face of Disney, and this
Josh Kushner weasel. So those guys will be the new owners.
Keep in mind that Mark Walter, with much fanfare, you
all explained to me, this is the greatest thing ever
that there's no stopping the Lakers now because of Mark Walter.
(03:49):
That was what you told me. I believed you. You
lied to me. You know it could stop Mark Walter
the FBI. So anyway, so Walter Bock controlled the Lakers
some geni boss last year a bit about ten billion dollars.
That's nothing, it's pocket change. That was the valuation, and
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so that means the team went up two and a
half billion dollars in like nine months, so slightly better
than my stocks are doing. So pretty good there. Now
the deal still needs to be rubber stamp. Whag's like
a ninety nine point nine percent chance the deal gets done.
The NBA owners, of course, they call them the governors
because of Draymond Green. They're all woke over there. So
(04:31):
the NBA Board of Governors will vote on this. It's
going to take a few weeks and then the next
meeting is scheduled for September. I know you're very worried
about that in New York City. So that is a
good jummy'll point. Let us discuss the question what kind
of owner will Bob Eiger be with the Lakers. We'll
(04:53):
start with that. Then we'll get to the juicy stuff.
We'll start with that. So I've got medieval pirate, treasure map,
pawn shop, and allergy season and we will combine all
of these things together and we are going to make
a rotten, purple and gold piece of fruit. Because it's
(05:13):
it's pretty rotten right now. All right, it's pretty rotten
right now. So a we'll begin with this. Bob Iger
buying the Lakers makes a lot of sense. I was
thinking about it as I was making my way into
the studio here, and I was like, well, how do
I process all this? And the historians and you know
who you are. The historians spent the last several years,
(05:34):
I guess it's been five six years now, the historians
of the team defending that Goofy Bubble championship. And now
we can say Bob Iger made all of his money
from that's right, Disney. So the Lakers have officially become
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a Mickey Mouse franchise. Ha ha, yep, Mickey Mouse, your
mcckey mouse, or enjoy your little Mickey. You can get
more Mickey Ross rings. Now, I'm sure Bob Iger still
knows a bunch of people of Disney. Now that said,
I don't think of Bob Iger as an owner. He's
a corporate overlord, is what he is. And based on
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his track record, and you often when you meet someone,
you judge them off what you know about their past
and things like that. So when you when you look
at Bob Iger's resume at Disney, the Lakers are not
going to compete for titles. They're not. They're competing for
your disposable income. They want in your wallet, and they're
gonna get in your wallet one way or another. So
(06:38):
I expect Disneyland economics to come to that little arena
down there on skid Row in downtown LA. That's what
I expect that under the disney Watch. Under the Disney Watch,
ticket prices at Disneyland, the inflation under Bob Iger, they
went up one hundred and seventy five percent, one hundred
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and seventy five percent under this weasel, Bob Iger, that's
the guy that now owns the Lakers. That's his resume.
That's how he made all the money to buy the
Lakers by gouging Disney fans, by sticking it to the
people that love Mickey Mouse, Donald Goofy and all the
characters there in Disney. Think about one hundred and seventy
five percent inflation on the price to go to Disneyland
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while Bob Iger was in control and all. But wait,
there's more. He added demand tears the upcharge at Disney right,
dynamic up charging at Disneyland. Those fast passes. They've changed
the name now it's the it's the old medieval treasure map,
if you will, where you monetize everything, right, in this case, nostalgia.
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You monetize that any kind of inconvenience you put a
price tag on that. You know you want to breathe
extra air oxygen costs money. You gotta have to pay
some money. That's purple and gold oxygen. Pay pay, pay,
pay the man. That kind of stuff. Now, the courtside
seats have already been ridiculous for years with the Lakers,
So now they're going to require an extra two bank
(08:08):
robberies to get those tickets, which is fine for those people,
and possibly a crypto scam, which is appropriate considering the
arena they play at and parking. Of course, you're gonna
need a loan officer to park bypassing the halftime bathroom line. Unfortunately,
we hate to tell you that's going to cost you
thirty nine to ninety nine for the Lakers' lightning Lane
(08:30):
plus package. Iger is a mad scientist, is Bob Iger.
He knows how to turn loyal fandom into his personal
ATM machine. Did it at Disney and with a twelve
point five billion dollars price tag. Yeah, I gotta get
that money, a little bit of that back, right, And
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so somebody, not me, but maybe you will be paying
for the Magic Kingdom of prop in Gold. And it
ain't gonna be Mickey Mouse. It ain't gonna be Mickey Mouse.
Who's paying for that? Now? Page two, Let's get into
Stando radio, the stando. Oh yeah, we got a good one.
(09:14):
We got a good one. No man, Well, seems that
things are not going great for Mark Walter, the man
that decided to buy the Lakers, went through the entire
vetting process just to flip it like an HG TV show,
you flip a house. I don't only do that with
professional sports teams. So Mark Walder his sudden decision to
(09:36):
get out, well, it it likely is not what you
think it is. I mean, it's some people say, wow,
it's just a smart business decision. He made two and
a half billion dollars. These people are called losers carrying
the water for Mark Walter, and I'm not gonna do that.
I'm gonna tell you what's actually going on from what
I've heard. So Mark Walder, the sudden sale of the Lakers,
(09:57):
it was nine months, I believe was the number that
I I saw after he got formal approval from the
NBA to own the Lakers. So nine months less than
a year after buying the Lakers. And that has raised
a lot of legitimate questions about whether his stake in
the Dodgers could eventually be sold, which will then lead
(10:18):
to Shohil Tani being able to leave the Dodgers. Got
a thing, this contract, the team sold, he can exit,
which is a legitimate possibility. This could be Otani's final
season with the Dodgers. And people aren't talking about this.
But I'm telling you, I don't care what kind of
statements Mark Walter tosses out there. It doesn't matter. These
guys will say anything actions. He didn't say he was
(10:40):
going to sell the Lakers. He just sold the Lakers.
So you can't believe it. These guys are all weasels.
You can't believe them, and it certainly is looking like
the Dodgers are headed that direction as Bob Iger buys
the Lakers. But Mark Walter is under federal investigation, federal
scrutiny for his business dealings with the Guggenheim Group. It's
(11:02):
a mess. He is facing an FBI probe. The Feds
are sniffing around Bob Iger, all right, And there's a
parallel SEC not the Southeastern Conference SEC investigation involving loans,
financial disclosures connected to companies that he's in charge of. Now,
(11:23):
these are not blue collar crimes. They're white collar crimes.
So typically rich people just cut checks. So it's possible
that that's what's going on here. But this is there's
some meat to it, and I'll explain why. But the
question is how does the future look for Mark Walter
as the Dodger owner. Well, it really comes down, ironically
(11:46):
to a whistle because the reason that Mark Walter is
in the crosshairs here is because of a whistle blower.
And that's almost always how these massive things are uncovered.
The cheating a stros you guys, Major League Baseball investigated
those a holes because teams were saying, hey, they're cheating
(12:08):
and that schmuck rob manfraud investigated. The Astros said, we
didn't see anything. They're fine, there's nothing to see here.
It was only after a whistleblower on the team said hey,
these guys are cheating. Here's how they're doing it. And
only after that, And if I bet you, if he
hadn't gone to the media, they would have covered it
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up major League Baseball, or they would have tried to
cover it up. They already did with the soft cell.
And so you've got a whistleblower who filed the complaint
against the Guggenheim Group concerning accounting irregularities. Wow wow, yeah,
so private credit investments and the stuff. The reason this
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is so crazy is this is the stuff that helped
them acquire the rights to the Dodgers. So the empire
of Mark Walter is certainly cracking at this point. It's
now turning into a government grade escape room. And the
Feds already have they already have the cheat codes pretty much. Man,
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you would think that the vultures are circling overhead and
how many how many robber barons are like, hey, you
sold the Lakers, how much is the Dodgers gonna cost?
Can we get to get a piece of that. And
so the vultures are out there, and you've got Uncle
Sam who's bird dogging, bird dogging Mark Walter, and this
whistleblower who's opened up Pandora's filing cabinet. And you know,
(13:35):
if the FBI is grabbing your phone and laptop, which
apparently when I read in the New York Post they've
done for Mark Walter, you're not in a little trouble,
Like that's more than a little trouble. You're in the
kind of trouble that comes with its own theme music
and documentaries about what happened that like that kind of trouble.
So Walter, Now, to be fair, he hasn't been charged
with anything. It's just a lot of circumstantial evidence that
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does not look good. It does not look good. But
you got to say, after the decision after nine months
to flip the Lakers like it was a house or
disheveled the house that you bought and then you fix
it up, put a coat of paint on it and
re sold it, would anyone really be shocked if the
La Dodgers hit the auctioning block within the next year.
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I wouldn't be not at all. I mean, the Dodgers
are suddenly the Mona Lisa at a pawn shop. How'd
the Mona Lisa end up at a pawn shop? I
don't know. I have no IDEA priceless, fragile, and really
one bad decision away from an all out bidding war.
Can you imagine the bidding war? There would be no
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shortage of aristocrats and the sovereign wealth elites, private equity
monarchs would be lining up, arriving in gold plated dinghies
out in the Pacific, and you know they'd be ready
to turn Chavez Ravine into the most expensive yard sale
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in baseball history. Now, there's a lot of businesses in Japan.
I would think that would been on the Dodgers. So
it's possible Tony stays if a Japanese company buys the team.
Certainly in the realm of possibility, watch Dodger game. Most
of the sponsors are from Japan, so they love endorsing
the Dodgers. So if the team does get sold, I
wouldn't be shocked if something like that happens. All right,
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now the last word here to the good bye note,
and we'll mention this. I want to spen at least
a couple of miss Russell Westbrook, someone who has been
a big topic of conversation in these parts over his career,
really effective at creating content for talk radio. Russell Westbrook
has said bye bye. He has retired from the NBA.
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Believe he's thirty seven. I think announced his decision after
he began as the number four overall pick in the
draft years ago, and he did not go out with
the dud. Westbrook revealing his retirement through a very corny
video on social media narrated by actor Michael B. Jordan.
(16:11):
He was the narrator there, just announcing to the world, Hey,
I'm a douche. Here's the video, all right, and wrote,
sometimes you don't even know when you're already watching the end,
or you've already watched the end and now it is over.
Westbrook was in the NBA so long. He was drafted
by the Sonics the SuperSonics right before they transitioned to
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Oklahoma City back in eight so a long time ago.
And there you go. His peak a couple of scoring
titles in the NBA, won a questionable MVP Award in
twenty seventeen, and was a top MVP candidate for most
of that four year stretch, a year after year. So
the question, all right, where are you at on Russell
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Westbrook and his abrupt, seemingly abrupt decision to walk away
from the NBA after pretty much being retired last year
in Sacramento, Because nobody watches the Sacramento Kings. All right,
So Russell Westbrook, if you look at this objectively, he
did not actually retire from the NBA. He was evicted
from the NBA. His belongings were tossed out on the sidewalk,
(17:17):
the locks were changed. They don't know where the forwarding
address is, probably somewhere in Beverly Hills. He couldn't find
a job, does anyone? Just like he tried, Like there
were talks with bunch of teams. He couldn't find a gig.
And so the jig is up for Russell Westbrook in
the NBA. And he had just run out of zip codes.
He'd run out of zip codes. And last we heard,
(17:40):
we talked about this in a previous episode of the show,
that Westbrook was supposedly talking to a team in Israel
because he couldn't find a job in the NBA, and
then that fizzled I guess going to the Middle East
and playing basketball doesn't seem like a great idea when
you got that kind of dough and you know something
could go wrong right there. So how are we going
to remember Russ Wesbrook? This is it? You think he's
(18:03):
actually retired. So if he is retired and this is it,
I will remember him as the ultimate walking, talking contradiction.
A man who was built like a Donnis, just chiseled
out of granite, Russell Westbrook, and yet somehow ended up
emotionally covered in salamander's skin. It was always allergy season
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with Russell Westbrook. No know what do I mean by that?
There are few stars in my time. I've been doing
this a long time. There are few stars in my
time doing talk radio that in that business in the
NBA that had been more allergic to criticism and just
couldn't handle it. Were so soft despite looking like they
were built out of steel than Russell Westbrook. It's fascinating
(18:48):
you heckel him security. Oh my god, I need help.
I need help. Somebody shut up mean name by Russell Westbrook.
How many times fans kicked out in multidis rhythmically chanting
west Brick, Oh, my god, human rights violation. Human rights violation. Yeah,
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and he's always got a deck of playing cards, Westbrook
in his back pocket, and he pulls the victim card
from the bottom of the deck. Love to play the victim.
And then the other thing that I'm gonna remember, because
we talked a lot about it here on the radio show,
was the what I call the Triple double industrial complex
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back in his Oklahoma City days, those infamous OKC clips
of teammates rigging his stat sheet and he got away
with it. They're still up on YouTube, like you can
go check them out if you want. It was wild.
Teammates were hopping away from rebounds like they were trying
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to get away from a live hand grenade to allow
Westbrook to sneak in and cherry pick rebounds to get
the triple double numbers. So Russ vacuum up the stats
and fatten up the spreadsheet. And once you it's like
we said, once you've seen how they make the Johnsonville sausage,
well you can't unsee it. You know, you can still
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eat the Johnsonville sausage, but you can't unsee what happened there.
And a spectacular athlete, Westbrook absolutely he'll be a first
ballot Hall of Famer. Hel Muffett McGraw is in the
Pro Basketball Hall of Fame.
Speaker 3 (20:25):
There.
Speaker 1 (20:25):
But the mythology, all right, the mythology surrounding those triple doubles, Wow,
it is next level. You have more artificial ingredients in
those triple double stats than if you were to go
to a gas station and order a twinkie. Yeah, it's
(20:48):
just totally for gayzy is what it is.
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Speaker 1 (22:02):
We had de Canzah City, the first man of the
Swifty Nation, has given a speech on his situationan so
we're talking about Travis Kelcey, who is thirty six in
real life. Thirty six isn't that old? In sports? It's old.
(22:23):
And so he gave some comments you see this at all? No, okay,
you missed it. I got you. So Kelsey says he
still has a lot of love for football. Well, that's
good to know. That's good to know. He loves football.
That's good. And he wants to prove that he can
still play at a higher level than he did last season,
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when he sucked at a time he cannot suck. Most
anticipate this the final season of Travis Kelsey. Although people
said the same thing last year Kelsey returning to Andy
Reid's favorite NFL team. Back in March, he signed a
one year contract worth up to fifteen million dollars. You
know that's not going to be the case. And thirteen seasons.
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This will be number thirteen for the Chiefs. Kelsey is
pretty much framing this is a proved season in his
commentary ages. He wants to prove that he can get
it done. And he did admit that he was not good,
even though the Kansas City Marching and Chowder Society ran
interference and claimed he's great. What are you talking about?
(23:28):
Blah blah blah, blah blah. It did not go well
last year for Kelsey. It's good that he's admitting that.
I'd wish some other people would admit that. So that's
a good jumping off point. Let us discuss the question
how much stock do you put in to Chiefs tight
end Travis Kelcey's declaration that he has another level left?
So how much stock do we put in to the
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Chiefs tight end? Travis Kelcey hid his declaration for Football
Nation that he has another level left? So I've got
bipartisan end O Lake's butter and couples therapy. Yeah, we'll
combine all of these things together and we are going
to make a sloppy Joe is what we're going to
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make now. First of all, as we love. One of
our favorite phrases comes from the state of Missouri. It's
the unofficial official slogan. They call it the show Me State.
And I'm of the mindset you gotta show me, you
gotta show me, and when you do, I'm in. Every
summer the last few years, the same training camp infomercial
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has come out of Chiefs Camp that Kelsey feels great,
he's still got the fire in his belly. YadA YadA, YadA, YadA, YadA, YadA,
YadA YadA. At this point, at this point, Travis Kelsey
is He's standing in front of the mirror. He's looking
there and you know, he's trying to speak greatness into it.
(24:59):
It's like he's doing this infomercial. I feel great, I
am great, Everything's going to be wonderful. It's like he's
a motivational speaker selling seventy nine dollars seminar tickets at
the Airport Marriott. Come on, dude, and talk is cheap.
And I realize that every time I get my paycheck
here on the Overnight show, that talk is cheap. Kelsey
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is a falling star and we talk about this a lot.
This is the personification of a falling star. Beautiful from
a distance, but yeah, don't let that sucker land on
your mobile home. Is not going to go good. And
the reality is with Travis Kelsey when it comes to
his status right now in the NFL. Anybody that uses
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critical thinking is in agreement here, everyone and anyone that
uses critical thinking. This is a bipartisan issue. The numbers
and the eyeballs agree. Capital D decline, it's underway. Capital
D decline underway. Think of it like Kelsey and the software,
(26:02):
or like a phone, right, you know how you get
if you had like an iPhone five or something like that.
Like this stuff doesn't update. When you do update stuff,
it never finishes. It just is bad. So if the
chiefs think that Kelsey is going to be turning back
the clock, it better be made by Fisher price. Otherwise
(26:25):
they are porked. Okay, burnt ends is what they are there.
Andy Reid needs to make Travis kelce at most a decoy.
Do the old okie doke with Travis Kelcey at leverage
the name on the back of the jersey, the star power.
Kelsey is no longer the ribbi, the perfectly cooked, well
(26:48):
done rabbi butterfly cut. He is not. He is the
expensive garnish on the plate. He hopes to become the
mashed potatoes right now. He's the garnish he hopes to
turn into the mashed potatoes. Travis Kelce. He is not
the mashed potatoes. He is not the stay. He is
not that he is garnish all right. Secondly to Cleveland
Bad Football, Good Talk Radio, Deshaun Watson has been named
(27:09):
the preseason QB one. He'll start the game coming up
this weekend against the Chicago Bears. Dub Bears, Yeah, that's happening.
Coach Todd Munkin the Monkman said that Schadura Sanders will
start the second game of the preseason for the fledgling
Cleveland football team who's still waiting for a good quarterback
(27:31):
to spring up like a mushroom. That has not happened.
So Watson and Sanders have been They have been alternating
first team reps. Neither one looks any good. They both suck,
and this continues to be what they're calling the most
depressing quarterback competitions to the last Browns quarterback competition. And
(27:53):
while we're at it, we've that going on. We have
a lot of spinning plates in Cleveland. Schadur Sanders open
his media session with an apology. What what did he
apologize for? Apologize for being a canoe? What brand of canoe?
A douche canoe? Yes, well we have it all right.
(28:16):
Well let's go to the audio tape. Here is Shirt Sanders,
who issued a formal apology to the Beat reporters who
cover the Brownies. Take a listen.
Speaker 5 (28:25):
The last time I came up here before, y'all, I
think dearly. I dislike when it's a lot of separation
and when something gets between the team and people get
painted a certain way and all this different type of stuff.
So that's why I get frustrated and I shut down,
you know, because this doesn't help us win. So it's
(28:47):
kind of like an option, but not an option. So
I don't I feel dreamed when I express myself to
people in places and cameras when it's not received and
taking the right way, or as we're trying to divide
the team or anything like that. So that's where I
was just trying to preserve my energy from going in
dewn with a lot of things.
Speaker 1 (29:06):
You smell that buok crap Sanders. As you heard there,
he admitted he became drained too much for him, too
emotional for him to talk to a bunch of reporters. Question, question,
what what should we read in too? Shadur Sanders and
his apology as you just heard to the Cleveland gaggle
(29:28):
of reporters. So Shauldur sanders apology to the Cleveland media
that was about as organic as a plastic tomato at
one of those diner salad bar things that used to
have back in the day. Clearly, someone now, whether it
was popa Dion or a Browns executive or some public
(29:49):
relations hack hall monitor, somebody did the tap tap, the
tap on the shoulder and said, hey, kid, go read
chapter one of the NF Quarterbacking for Dummies Manual. You're
supposed to smile, nod, and spit out sports cliches and platitudes,
and that's a bad job by you. He said it
(30:11):
very monitor didn't. I don't know. I was enjoying some ganjah.
I don't know what he was doing, but he sounded
very mellow, and it seemed like he had to repeat
certain parts of that, and he was told talking points
and whatnot there, and then you dropped the news here
with the quarterback change and all that, because being an
(30:35):
NFL quarterback, it's gonna be a shocking take. Nobody else
has his take when you're an NFL quarterback. The pressure
cooker is part of the deal. And Tradur, he's not
even been named the starter. He's supposedly in a race
for the starting job, and he's already melted like a
stick of Lando Lake's butter in a frying pan. And
he didn't do it against a division rival. He had
(30:58):
issues with a gaggle of most middle aged sports writers
in cargo shorts, like what do you do with that? Like,
you know, the news drops that Deshaun Watson is going
to start the first preseason game, which leads to you
believe the obvious. To connect the dots, he's either got
the job or he's in the lead for the starting
job for the Browns, and Shadur instantly looks like he's
(31:23):
looking on his phone on the travel apps to try
to find a one way Southwest Airlines flight want to
get away? Like if a routine press scrum, not what
we used to call it involving the word gang, but
something else. Press scrum will clean it up for the
family that are listening right now. If that triggers a
(31:44):
white flag, what happens when I don't know TJ. Watt
tries to remove his spleen in a game like if
it's it's just too draining to have to talk about this.
My god, what a world. Even if guys felt like
that back in the day, they never say it. They
(32:05):
never say it, So Cleveland doesn't need a forced apology.
They actually need some tangible evidence that SHUDR. Sanders knows
what he's doing right and can handle the turbulence without
grabbing for the emergency exit. And at this point not
so good. All right? Final thought to college football we
(32:26):
go where the new Michigan coach is already already feeling
the heat and he hasn't even coached a game at Michigan.
That would be Kyle Whittingham, longtime Ute's coach. What is
a ute? Kyle Whittingham, Michigan coach drawing some attention recently
after saying about the rivalry with Ohio State. He says
(32:48):
he doesn't hate Ohio State? What what? Oh my god?
He said he didn't hit Ohio State. Now, I'm not
from Michigan. I'm not from Ohio. I got plenty of
friends that have crossed my life in my life from
Ohio and from Michigan. And I know from both sides
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of the aisle. How big a deal that game is? Okay?
And at the recent Big Ten media days, Whittingham explained
he said hate is a strong word. He emphasized that
he wants to win. Well, that's good. Whittingham says he
wants to win the rivalry game as badly as anyone
(33:33):
in ann Arbor. He also declined he said to manufacture
any kind of personal animosity towards Ryan Day, the Buck
Guy's head coach, calling Day quote a good person, close quote,
arguing that rivalries can remain emotional and intense without hatred. Yeah, okay, Well,
(34:00):
the question here is rather obvious. Do you have a
phrase on new Michigan coach Kyle Whittingham saying he doesn't
hate Ohio State. So I'm going to take a phrase
from Wimbledon, and the phrase is unforced error. Is the phrase?
These words are going to come back to haunt Kyle
(34:22):
Whittingham like a personal poltergeist. Apparently nobody bothered to give
the new Michigan coach the packet, the orientation packet when
you take over. You know how to give you that
packet when you get a new job and say, okay,
here's all the rules and regulations. Okay, thank you. I
won't read that, but thank you, and then you gotta
(34:43):
do like now you do a docu sign. If you
get hired someone, you got to do a docu sign. Okay,
I'll click that. But I didn't read the legal lease,
so he I guess he didn't get it or he
didn't read it last I checked. You're not playing Tiddley
Winks in Utah anymore. And not that that's like nothing,
because Utah has had some really good teams there over
(35:05):
the last twenty years. They've actually had more consistently good
football at Utah than Michigan has had. Don't tell anybody
in Michigan that, but that's been the case. And they
have a rivalry with Byu. I think it's called the
Holy War if I remember correctly, and bring that up
every year from Great Games. However, like dude.
Speaker 2 (35:27):
Like.
Speaker 1 (35:29):
Look at the room, read the room. Are you. You're
in the big House. You're in the Big House. I
got a funny story, but I used to worry this
guy named Bob Page. He was a big sportscaster in
New York and he worked at Fox Sports trading the
early days. And Bob was a Michigan man and a
very serious, very serious man, very very serious. And I
(35:53):
remember I call it back when Michigan twenty years ago,
the good teams, and I'd say, oh, the Big House.
And he said, Benjamin, I'm from Michigan, and we don't
call it the Big House. I said, Bob, it's just
a phrase. It's okay, it's a colloaquial phrase. Anyway, that
is home, the Big House. I'll say it again, home
of irrational college football blood feuds, the Big House and
(36:15):
the Horseshoe and all that stuff. And it's just there's
a lot of hate there. Hate is like a renewable energy.
So when the coach says, hey, Ryan Day is a
good person and I'm not going to manufacture any kind
of you know, hates, a strong word and all that stuff,
you just roll your eyes because somebody in ann Arbor
needs to stage some kind of intervention and hand him
(36:37):
a laminated memo and say, okay, here's the bullet points.
Bullet point one, Ohio State bad, bullet point two, Michigan good,
bullet point three, Scarlet and gray are forbidden and ugly colors,
and a bullet point number four. I believe a Ryan Day.
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Ryan Day is the grim shoe stole Christmas past and
Christmas future. And that's it. That's the party line if
you're coaching at Michigan. Instead, Kyle Whittingham was throwing flowers
at Ryan Day, complimenting him and debating whether or not
hate is too strong a word, like he wandered into
(37:18):
a couple's therapy session on a beach somewhere in Florida,
and he clearly doesn't understand the psychological hardwiring of the
Michigan Marching and Chowder Society. If Michigan loses in Columbus
late this year, every single oo week Gooi Kumbai Yah
(37:42):
quote that he has given here about Ohio State will
be brought up as exhibit A in the tribunal against
Kyle Whittingham.
Speaker 2 (37:51):
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We go, here we go, Here we go, Here we go,
Here we go go.
Speaker 2 (38:03):
This is one big gets grilled.
Speaker 1 (38:08):
Cupler.
Speaker 3 (38:09):
Cal Raley addressed the media after the Mariners lost to
the Yankees on Tuesday. He was asked about the team's
recent skid, and the big Dumper took most of the blames, saying,
I'm awful, Ben, Which do you think is more of
a fluke last season or this season for cal Ray?
Speaker 1 (38:24):
Well, it's he's somewhere in the middle. He's not as
bad as he is right now, and he wasn't nearly
as good as he was last year. But he shouldn't
suck this much. I was so annoyed though, I threw
my remote control. I was watching the Mariner Yankee game
last night and they brought some nerd on there trying
to explain, well, if you look at the swing weight
and the velocity, extra velocity, or just shut up, he
(38:45):
just sucks, all right, And no analytic thing is going
to fix cal Raley this year, And we'll see what
happens next year. But yeah, he's gonna be better next year.
If he's not better, he'll be out of baseball next.
Speaker 3 (38:56):
A report this week says the Oklahoma City Thunder could
look to trade chat home going to he continues to
struggle against Victor Wembnyama. Ben. Do you think Holmgren is
still with OKAC next season?
Speaker 1 (39:06):
Well, he'll be there next season. The question is after
that do they trade him at the deadline? Is he gone?
He really was outclassed by Victor wan Bayama. It was embarrassing,
total fraud chet Holmgren in that series.
Speaker 3 (39:18):
Next, the NFL isn't the only football approaching. The college
season is right around the corner as well. Ole Miss
is ranked in the top ten and most preseason rankings.
How well do you think they can do after the
Lynn Kiffen debacle last year?
Speaker 1 (39:29):
Well, I haven't really looked at how their nil portal thing.
You know, it's really how many players you buy. That's
you know, if you have good players, you spend your
money properly, you can win. But there's the boosters at
Old Miss or legendary like there are. You know, there's
a few rich guys there that are really paying for everything,
so they're gonna demand success. I think they'll be okay.
(39:50):
I mean, Lank Kiffin is a hype guy and a
gas bag and all that stuff. He left not everyone
vacated the program when he left. They've added a few players,
so I think they'll be right there. It is malarly
third degree. I think there'll be a mid level SEC team.
Old miss, how did we do? Coopaloo?
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(40:50):
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the coop with the Kooplo.
Speaker 3 (41:03):
I'm seeing some good questions this week. I'm proud of
you guys.
Speaker 1 (41:06):
What happened? All right?
Speaker 3 (41:09):
We're gonna start off with a question from Alf the
alien opiner.
Speaker 1 (41:12):
I've met him, Yes, his lovely wife. I know both
of them, they're my friends.
Speaker 3 (41:16):
He would like to know what is the tallest building
you've ever been to the top of.
Speaker 1 (41:24):
Yeah, I don't. I mean I have a story about
tall but I guess the Sears Tower in Chicago. But
I have nine to eleven related So I was at
the World Trade Center about two weeks before nine to eleven,
and it was about a half an hour before the
observation deck was closed, and they said they were not
going to let us stay up there more than half
an hour. I was in the lobby, so I didn't
(41:46):
go as I'll go back. So I was at I
should have done it, and now i'll but so I
guess the serious towers the answer. But I should have
gone to the top of the World Trade Center, but
I chose not to because I was didn't want to
waste my money. Lorena.
Speaker 3 (42:00):
Mine would probably have to be the Eiffel Tower.
Speaker 1 (42:03):
Oh look at you, Perrie. How high is that? Though
I don't know that would help coop.
Speaker 3 (42:14):
And I'm also is that a is that a building?
Speaker 1 (42:17):
Technically? You know? I mean, like, is it there's an elevator?
Speaker 3 (42:21):
Isn't an over and there's a restaurant in it. So yes,
I would say there's a Yeah.
Speaker 1 (42:24):
The one in Vegas has a restaurant too. That's where
I've been to that Eiffel Tower.
Speaker 3 (42:30):
The tallest building for me is the Sears Tower, or
I guess. I guess now it's Willis Is something else? Yeah,
but yeah, the same for me.
Speaker 1 (42:41):
All right. By the way, the Eiffel Tower. Eiffel Tower
is one thousand and eighty two feet it's fall.
Speaker 3 (42:49):
There you go, it's and Willis Tower is one four
hundred and fifty in.
Speaker 1 (42:54):
Your faceline, We win, you lose. What is next? What
do you got? All right?
Speaker 3 (42:59):
Next, we have a quite shouldn't hear from Mike in
New Hampshire Ustar?
Speaker 1 (43:05):
Uh?
Speaker 3 (43:06):
Yes, yeah, she says, Hey, Ben, So I guess is
this a question just for you? I guess, hey, Ben,
muscle car or supercar?
Speaker 1 (43:18):
Well, when I collected hot wheels back in the day,
I love the muscle cars. So I'm gonna go. I'm
gonna go muscle cars. Lorena, you want to answer, We'll
let you answer.
Speaker 3 (43:28):
Yeah, I'm gonna probably go with muscle car.
Speaker 1 (43:30):
You know what those are, Yeah, they're the ones.
Speaker 3 (43:33):
That are old and smelled like diesel gas.
Speaker 1 (43:40):
Okay, well, the supercar would be you know what the
supercar is like? No, not old?
Speaker 3 (43:44):
Yeah, aren't those like Lamborghini's and yeah McLaren's.
Speaker 1 (43:49):
Yeah, I mean those are nice. I wouldn't fit in
any of those, so, but I guess I might be
able to fit the old cars, so I do. Paul,
that's a great point.
Speaker 3 (43:56):
I would choose the muscle cars as well. I just
think they'd look cooler classic.
Speaker 1 (44:00):
Yeah, muscle car. All right, what's next? Let's ask Ben
your questions are answers.
Speaker 3 (44:05):
JT the wingman would like to know what is your
favorite farm animal? And he adds that he lives next
to a pasture of black angus beef cattle.
Speaker 1 (44:15):
Yeah. I think cattle are great. They just eat and
fart and you know, pretty good. I don't really haven't
spent a lot of time on farms. What about you, Lorena,
cows are like big dogs.
Speaker 3 (44:24):
That's definitely what I would.
Speaker 1 (44:25):
Get, and they're delicious. What about you? It's cool.
Speaker 3 (44:29):
I'll go with a horse there, cool.
Speaker 1 (44:32):
A horse, of course. All right, quickly, one more, what
do we got?
Speaker 3 (44:34):
Donkey Sodge wants to know what's your ideal room temperature?
Speaker 1 (44:38):
Fifty two degrees It can't be cold enough Lorena eighty three.
Speaker 3 (44:44):
What oh, you're crazy cool like seventy three.
Speaker 1 (44:47):
No, it should be at least in the mid sixties.
At least in the mid sixties. I like it hot,
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out as we go. Every day is a new day,
every day's news. Some people say, ah, Mallard, how could
you possibly do sports radio all these years? It's the
same crap every damn now, now, now, now, now, no.
Could you have imagined a couple of days ago if
I had told you one of the crown jewels, you'all
(01:16):
tell me one of the crown jewels of professional basketball
would be tossed around like a fruitcake. But here we are,
here we are. So if you have not heard, for
some reason, maybe you've been hiding a worried about the
gravity collapsing. I survived. I survived the internet bull crap
(01:38):
of the day anyway, So if you miss it, the
the Los Angeles Lakers, the once proud Los Angeles Lakers,
are now just being passed around like a collection plate
at a tabernacle on a Sunday morning. It's quite wild.
It is absolutely wild. So the Lakers are being sold
(02:00):
to Josh Kushner, the brother of the guy working for Trump,
and Bob Iger, the Disney guy. Yeah, and the price
tag twelve point five billion, with it be. I'm told
that's a lot of money. Twelve point five billion with be.
The franchise sale in fact said to be the biggest
(02:22):
in professional sports history, at least here in America. And
I believe the world. So A Kushner and Iiger, the
two rich dudes, were supposed to buy the expansion team.
I was reading last week in one of those business
sports business websites that they were the favorite to buy
to the Las Vegas expansion team. And then completely out
(02:43):
of left field, And if you've listened to my podcast
over the years, you know that comes from Wrigley Field.
There used to be a mental hospital out past left
field at Wrigley Field, and the outfielders could hear people screaming,
mental patients screaming out in the outfield and the left field.
So when they said out in left field, they were
talking about a mental hospital. So out of left field
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the deal came together. Mark Walter, Well he's got some problem,
doney man. He's a rich guy with problems, more money,
more problems. I heard that song years ago. Well, Mark
Walter is going to sell the controlling interest in the
Los Angeles Lakers. So in the span of a little
over a year, they will have gone from Genie Buss
(03:29):
to Mark Walter, and that a Bob Iger, the Disney
guy who's no longer the face of Disney, and this
Josh Kushner weasel. So those guys will be the new owners.
Keep in mind that Mark Walter, with much fanfare, you
all explained to me, this is the greatest thing ever
that there's no stopping the Lakers now because of Mark Walter.
(03:49):
That was what you told me. I believed you. You
lied to me. You know it could stop Mark Walter
the FBI. So anyway, so Walter Bock controlled the Lakers
some geni boss last year a bit about ten billion dollars.
That's nothing, it's pocket change. That was the valuation, and
(04:10):
so that means the team went up two and a
half billion dollars in like nine months, so slightly better
than my stocks are doing. So pretty good there. Now
the deal still needs to be rubber stamp. Whag's like
a ninety nine point nine percent chance the deal gets done.
The NBA owners, of course, they call them the governors
because of Draymond Green. They're all woke over there. So
(04:31):
the NBA Board of Governors will vote on this. It's
going to take a few weeks and then the next
meeting is scheduled for September. I know you're very worried
about that in New York City. So that is a
good jummy'll point. Let us discuss the question what kind
of owner will Bob Eiger be with the Lakers. We'll
(04:53):
start with that. Then we'll get to the juicy stuff.
We'll start with that. So I've got medieval pirate, treasure map,
pawn shop, and allergy season and we will combine all
of these things together and we are going to make
a rotten, purple and gold piece of fruit. Because it's
(05:13):
it's pretty rotten right now. All right, it's pretty rotten
right now. So a we'll begin with this. Bob Iger
buying the Lakers makes a lot of sense. I was
thinking about it as I was making my way into
the studio here, and I was like, well, how do
I process all this? And the historians and you know
who you are. The historians spent the last several years,
(05:34):
I guess it's been five six years now, the historians
of the team defending that Goofy Bubble championship. And now
we can say Bob Iger made all of his money
from that's right, Disney. So the Lakers have officially become
(05:55):
a Mickey Mouse franchise. Ha ha, yep, Mickey Mouse, your
mcckey mouse, or enjoy your little Mickey. You can get
more Mickey Ross rings. Now, I'm sure Bob Iger still
knows a bunch of people of Disney. Now that said,
I don't think of Bob Iger as an owner. He's
a corporate overlord, is what he is. And based on
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his track record, and you often when you meet someone,
you judge them off what you know about their past
and things like that. So when you when you look
at Bob Iger's resume at Disney, the Lakers are not
going to compete for titles. They're not. They're competing for
your disposable income. They want in your wallet, and they're
gonna get in your wallet one way or another. So
(06:38):
I expect Disneyland economics to come to that little arena
down there on skid Row in downtown LA. That's what
I expect that under the disney Watch. Under the Disney Watch,
ticket prices at Disneyland, the inflation under Bob Iger, they
went up one hundred and seventy five percent, one hundred
(06:58):
and seventy five percent under this weasel, Bob Iger, that's
the guy that now owns the Lakers. That's his resume.
That's how he made all the money to buy the
Lakers by gouging Disney fans, by sticking it to the
people that love Mickey Mouse, Donald Goofy and all the
characters there in Disney. Think about one hundred and seventy
five percent inflation on the price to go to Disneyland
(07:20):
while Bob Iger was in control and all. But wait,
there's more. He added demand tears the upcharge at Disney right,
dynamic up charging at Disneyland. Those fast passes. They've changed
the name now it's the it's the old medieval treasure map,
if you will, where you monetize everything, right, in this case, nostalgia.
(07:45):
You monetize that any kind of inconvenience you put a
price tag on that. You know you want to breathe
extra air oxygen costs money. You gotta have to pay
some money. That's purple and gold oxygen. Pay pay, pay,
pay the man. That kind of stuff. Now, the courtside
seats have already been ridiculous for years with the Lakers,
So now they're going to require an extra two bank
(08:08):
robberies to get those tickets, which is fine for those people,
and possibly a crypto scam, which is appropriate considering the
arena they play at and parking. Of course, you're gonna
need a loan officer to park bypassing the halftime bathroom line. Unfortunately,
we hate to tell you that's going to cost you
thirty nine to ninety nine for the Lakers' lightning Lane
(08:30):
plus package. Iger is a mad scientist, is Bob Iger.
He knows how to turn loyal fandom into his personal
ATM machine. Did it at Disney and with a twelve
point five billion dollars price tag. Yeah, I gotta get
that money, a little bit of that back, right, And
(08:52):
so somebody, not me, but maybe you will be paying
for the Magic Kingdom of prop in Gold. And it
ain't gonna be Mickey Mouse. It ain't gonna be Mickey Mouse.
Who's paying for that? Now? Page two, Let's get into
Stando radio, the stando. Oh yeah, we got a good one.
(09:14):
We got a good one. No man, Well, seems that
things are not going great for Mark Walter, the man
that decided to buy the Lakers, went through the entire
vetting process just to flip it like an HG TV show,
you flip a house. I don't only do that with
professional sports teams. So Mark Walder his sudden decision to
(09:36):
get out, well, it it likely is not what you
think it is. I mean, it's some people say, wow,
it's just a smart business decision. He made two and
a half billion dollars. These people are called losers carrying
the water for Mark Walter, and I'm not gonna do that.
I'm gonna tell you what's actually going on from what
I've heard. So Mark Walder, the sudden sale of the Lakers,
(09:57):
it was nine months, I believe was the number that
I I saw after he got formal approval from the
NBA to own the Lakers. So nine months less than
a year after buying the Lakers. And that has raised
a lot of legitimate questions about whether his stake in
the Dodgers could eventually be sold, which will then lead
(10:18):
to Shohil Tani being able to leave the Dodgers. Got
a thing, this contract, the team sold, he can exit,
which is a legitimate possibility. This could be Otani's final
season with the Dodgers. And people aren't talking about this.
But I'm telling you, I don't care what kind of
statements Mark Walter tosses out there. It doesn't matter. These
guys will say anything actions. He didn't say he was
(10:40):
going to sell the Lakers. He just sold the Lakers.
So you can't believe it. These guys are all weasels.
You can't believe them, and it certainly is looking like
the Dodgers are headed that direction as Bob Iger buys
the Lakers. But Mark Walter is under federal investigation, federal
scrutiny for his business dealings with the Guggenheim Group. It's
(11:02):
a mess. He is facing an FBI probe. The Feds
are sniffing around Bob Iger, all right, And there's a
parallel SEC not the Southeastern Conference SEC investigation involving loans,
financial disclosures connected to companies that he's in charge of. Now,
(11:23):
these are not blue collar crimes. They're white collar crimes.
So typically rich people just cut checks. So it's possible
that that's what's going on here. But this is there's
some meat to it, and I'll explain why. But the
question is how does the future look for Mark Walter
as the Dodger owner. Well, it really comes down, ironically
(11:46):
to a whistle because the reason that Mark Walter is
in the crosshairs here is because of a whistle blower.
And that's almost always how these massive things are uncovered.
The cheating a stros you guys, Major League Baseball investigated
those a holes because teams were saying, hey, they're cheating
(12:08):
and that schmuck rob manfraud investigated. The Astros said, we
didn't see anything. They're fine, there's nothing to see here.
It was only after a whistleblower on the team said hey,
these guys are cheating. Here's how they're doing it. And
only after that, And if I bet you, if he
hadn't gone to the media, they would have covered it
(12:29):
up major League Baseball, or they would have tried to
cover it up. They already did with the soft cell.
And so you've got a whistleblower who filed the complaint
against the Guggenheim Group concerning accounting irregularities. Wow wow, yeah,
so private credit investments and the stuff. The reason this
(12:50):
is so crazy is this is the stuff that helped
them acquire the rights to the Dodgers. So the empire
of Mark Walter is certainly cracking at this point. It's
now turning into a government grade escape room. And the
Feds already have they already have the cheat codes pretty much. Man,
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you would think that the vultures are circling overhead and
how many how many robber barons are like, hey, you
sold the Lakers, how much is the Dodgers gonna cost?
Can we get to get a piece of that. And
so the vultures are out there, and you've got Uncle
Sam who's bird dogging, bird dogging Mark Walter, and this
whistleblower who's opened up Pandora's filing cabinet. And you know,
(13:35):
if the FBI is grabbing your phone and laptop, which
apparently when I read in the New York Post they've
done for Mark Walter, you're not in a little trouble,
Like that's more than a little trouble. You're in the
kind of trouble that comes with its own theme music
and documentaries about what happened that like that kind of trouble.
So Walter, Now, to be fair, he hasn't been charged
with anything. It's just a lot of circumstantial evidence that
(13:59):
does not look good. It does not look good. But
you got to say, after the decision after nine months
to flip the Lakers like it was a house or
disheveled the house that you bought and then you fix
it up, put a coat of paint on it and
re sold it, would anyone really be shocked if the
La Dodgers hit the auctioning block within the next year.
(14:20):
I wouldn't be not at all. I mean, the Dodgers
are suddenly the Mona Lisa at a pawn shop. How'd
the Mona Lisa end up at a pawn shop? I
don't know. I have no IDEA priceless, fragile, and really
one bad decision away from an all out bidding war.
Can you imagine the bidding war? There would be no
(14:44):
shortage of aristocrats and the sovereign wealth elites, private equity
monarchs would be lining up, arriving in gold plated dinghies
out in the Pacific, and you know they'd be ready
to turn Chavez Ravine into the most expensive yard sale
(15:04):
in baseball history. Now, there's a lot of businesses in Japan.
I would think that would been on the Dodgers. So
it's possible Tony stays if a Japanese company buys the team.
Certainly in the realm of possibility, watch Dodger game. Most
of the sponsors are from Japan, so they love endorsing
the Dodgers. So if the team does get sold, I
wouldn't be shocked if something like that happens. All right,
(15:25):
now the last word here to the good bye note,
and we'll mention this. I want to spen at least
a couple of miss Russell Westbrook, someone who has been
a big topic of conversation in these parts over his career,
really effective at creating content for talk radio. Russell Westbrook
has said bye bye. He has retired from the NBA.
(15:48):
Believe he's thirty seven. I think announced his decision after
he began as the number four overall pick in the
draft years ago, and he did not go out with
the dud. Westbrook revealing his retirement through a very corny
video on social media narrated by actor Michael B. Jordan.
(16:11):
He was the narrator there, just announcing to the world, Hey,
I'm a douche. Here's the video, all right, and wrote,
sometimes you don't even know when you're already watching the end,
or you've already watched the end and now it is over.
Westbrook was in the NBA so long. He was drafted
by the Sonics the SuperSonics right before they transitioned to
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Oklahoma City back in eight so a long time ago.
And there you go. His peak a couple of scoring
titles in the NBA, won a questionable MVP Award in
twenty seventeen, and was a top MVP candidate for most
of that four year stretch, a year after year. So
the question, all right, where are you at on Russell
(16:54):
Westbrook and his abrupt, seemingly abrupt decision to walk away
from the NBA after pretty much being retired last year
in Sacramento, Because nobody watches the Sacramento Kings. All right,
So Russell Westbrook, if you look at this objectively, he
did not actually retire from the NBA. He was evicted
from the NBA. His belongings were tossed out on the sidewalk,
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the locks were changed. They don't know where the forwarding
address is, probably somewhere in Beverly Hills. He couldn't find
a job, does anyone? Just like he tried, Like there
were talks with bunch of teams. He couldn't find a gig.
And so the jig is up for Russell Westbrook in
the NBA. And he had just run out of zip codes.
He'd run out of zip codes. And last we heard,
(17:40):
we talked about this in a previous episode of the show,
that Westbrook was supposedly talking to a team in Israel
because he couldn't find a job in the NBA, and
then that fizzled I guess going to the Middle East
and playing basketball doesn't seem like a great idea when
you got that kind of dough and you know something
could go wrong right there. So how are we going
to remember Russ Wesbrook? This is it? You think he's
(18:03):
actually retired. So if he is retired and this is it,
I will remember him as the ultimate walking, talking contradiction.
A man who was built like a Donnis, just chiseled
out of granite, Russell Westbrook, and yet somehow ended up
emotionally covered in salamander's skin. It was always allergy season
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with Russell Westbrook. No know what do I mean by that?
There are few stars in my time. I've been doing
this a long time. There are few stars in my
time doing talk radio that in that business in the
NBA that had been more allergic to criticism and just
couldn't handle it. Were so soft despite looking like they
were built out of steel than Russell Westbrook. It's fascinating
(18:48):
you heckel him security. Oh my god, I need help.
I need help. Somebody shut up mean name by Russell Westbrook.
How many times fans kicked out in multidis rhythmically chanting
west Brick, Oh, my god, human rights violation. Human rights violation. Yeah,
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and he's always got a deck of playing cards, Westbrook
in his back pocket, and he pulls the victim card
from the bottom of the deck. Love to play the victim.
And then the other thing that I'm gonna remember, because
we talked a lot about it here on the radio show,
was the what I call the Triple double industrial complex
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back in his Oklahoma City days, those infamous OKC clips
of teammates rigging his stat sheet and he got away
with it. They're still up on YouTube, like you can
go check them out if you want. It was wild.
Teammates were hopping away from rebounds like they were trying
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to get away from a live hand grenade to allow
Westbrook to sneak in and cherry pick rebounds to get
the triple double numbers. So Russ vacuum up the stats
and fatten up the spreadsheet. And once you it's like
we said, once you've seen how they make the Johnsonville sausage,
well you can't unsee it. You know, you can still
(20:12):
eat the Johnsonville sausage, but you can't unsee what happened there.
And a spectacular athlete, Westbrook absolutely he'll be a first
ballot Hall of Famer. Hel Muffett McGraw is in the
Pro Basketball Hall of Fame.
Speaker 3 (20:25):
There.
Speaker 1 (20:25):
But the mythology, all right, the mythology surrounding those triple doubles, Wow,
it is next level. You have more artificial ingredients in
those triple double stats than if you were to go
to a gas station and order a twinkie. Yeah, it's
(20:48):
just totally for gayzy is what it is.
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Speaker 1 (22:02):
We had de Canzah City, the first man of the
Swifty Nation, has given a speech on his situationan so
we're talking about Travis Kelcey, who is thirty six in
real life. Thirty six isn't that old? In sports? It's old.
(22:23):
And so he gave some comments you see this at all? No, okay,
you missed it. I got you. So Kelsey says he
still has a lot of love for football. Well, that's
good to know. That's good to know. He loves football.
That's good. And he wants to prove that he can
still play at a higher level than he did last season,
(22:45):
when he sucked at a time he cannot suck. Most
anticipate this the final season of Travis Kelsey. Although people
said the same thing last year Kelsey returning to Andy
Reid's favorite NFL team. Back in March, he signed a
one year contract worth up to fifteen million dollars. You
know that's not going to be the case. And thirteen seasons.
(23:08):
This will be number thirteen for the Chiefs. Kelsey is
pretty much framing this is a proved season in his
commentary ages. He wants to prove that he can get
it done. And he did admit that he was not good,
even though the Kansas City Marching and Chowder Society ran
interference and claimed he's great. What are you talking about?
(23:28):
Blah blah blah, blah blah. It did not go well
last year for Kelsey. It's good that he's admitting that.
I'd wish some other people would admit that. So that's
a good jumping off point. Let us discuss the question
how much stock do you put in to Chiefs tight
end Travis Kelcey's declaration that he has another level left?
So how much stock do we put in to the
(23:50):
Chiefs tight end? Travis Kelcey hid his declaration for Football
Nation that he has another level left? So I've got
bipartisan end O Lake's butter and couples therapy. Yeah, we'll
combine all of these things together and we are going
to make a sloppy Joe is what we're going to
(24:14):
make now. First of all, as we love. One of
our favorite phrases comes from the state of Missouri. It's
the unofficial official slogan. They call it the show Me State.
And I'm of the mindset you gotta show me, you
gotta show me, and when you do, I'm in. Every
summer the last few years, the same training camp infomercial
(24:38):
has come out of Chiefs Camp that Kelsey feels great,
he's still got the fire in his belly. YadA YadA, YadA, YadA, YadA, YadA,
YadA YadA. At this point, at this point, Travis Kelsey
is He's standing in front of the mirror. He's looking
there and you know, he's trying to speak greatness into it.
(24:59):
It's like he's doing this infomercial. I feel great, I
am great, Everything's going to be wonderful. It's like he's
a motivational speaker selling seventy nine dollars seminar tickets at
the Airport Marriott. Come on, dude, and talk is cheap.
And I realize that every time I get my paycheck
here on the Overnight show, that talk is cheap. Kelsey
(25:20):
is a falling star and we talk about this a lot.
This is the personification of a falling star. Beautiful from
a distance, but yeah, don't let that sucker land on
your mobile home. Is not going to go good. And
the reality is with Travis Kelsey when it comes to
his status right now in the NFL. Anybody that uses
(25:41):
critical thinking is in agreement here, everyone and anyone that
uses critical thinking. This is a bipartisan issue. The numbers
and the eyeballs agree. Capital D decline, it's underway. Capital
D decline underway. Think of it like Kelsey and the software,
(26:02):
or like a phone, right, you know how you get
if you had like an iPhone five or something like that.
Like this stuff doesn't update. When you do update stuff,
it never finishes. It just is bad. So if the
chiefs think that Kelsey is going to be turning back
the clock, it better be made by Fisher price. Otherwise
(26:25):
they are porked. Okay, burnt ends is what they are there.
Andy Reid needs to make Travis kelce at most a decoy.
Do the old okie doke with Travis Kelcey at leverage
the name on the back of the jersey, the star power.
Kelsey is no longer the ribbi, the perfectly cooked, well
(26:48):
done rabbi butterfly cut. He is not. He is the
expensive garnish on the plate. He hopes to become the
mashed potatoes right now. He's the garnish he hopes to
turn into the mashed potatoes. Travis Kelce. He is not
the mashed potatoes. He is not the stay. He is
not that he is garnish all right. Secondly to Cleveland
Bad Football, Good Talk Radio, Deshaun Watson has been named
(27:09):
the preseason QB one. He'll start the game coming up
this weekend against the Chicago Bears. Dub Bears, Yeah, that's happening.
Coach Todd Munkin the Monkman said that Schadura Sanders will
start the second game of the preseason for the fledgling
Cleveland football team who's still waiting for a good quarterback
(27:31):
to spring up like a mushroom. That has not happened.
So Watson and Sanders have been They have been alternating
first team reps. Neither one looks any good. They both suck,
and this continues to be what they're calling the most
depressing quarterback competitions to the last Browns quarterback competition. And
(27:53):
while we're at it, we've that going on. We have
a lot of spinning plates in Cleveland. Schadur Sanders open
his media session with an apology. What what did he
apologize for? Apologize for being a canoe? What brand of canoe?
A douche canoe? Yes, well we have it all right.
(28:16):
Well let's go to the audio tape. Here is Shirt Sanders,
who issued a formal apology to the Beat reporters who
cover the Brownies. Take a listen.
Speaker 5 (28:25):
The last time I came up here before, y'all, I
think dearly. I dislike when it's a lot of separation
and when something gets between the team and people get
painted a certain way and all this different type of stuff.
So that's why I get frustrated and I shut down,
you know, because this doesn't help us win. So it's
(28:47):
kind of like an option, but not an option. So
I don't I feel dreamed when I express myself to
people in places and cameras when it's not received and
taking the right way, or as we're trying to divide
the team or anything like that. So that's where I
was just trying to preserve my energy from going in
dewn with a lot of things.
Speaker 1 (29:06):
You smell that buok crap Sanders. As you heard there,
he admitted he became drained too much for him, too
emotional for him to talk to a bunch of reporters. Question, question,
what what should we read in too? Shadur Sanders and
his apology as you just heard to the Cleveland gaggle
(29:28):
of reporters. So Shauldur sanders apology to the Cleveland media
that was about as organic as a plastic tomato at
one of those diner salad bar things that used to
have back in the day. Clearly, someone now, whether it
was popa Dion or a Browns executive or some public
(29:49):
relations hack hall monitor, somebody did the tap tap, the
tap on the shoulder and said, hey, kid, go read
chapter one of the NF Quarterbacking for Dummies Manual. You're
supposed to smile, nod, and spit out sports cliches and platitudes,
and that's a bad job by you. He said it
(30:11):
very monitor didn't. I don't know. I was enjoying some ganjah.
I don't know what he was doing, but he sounded
very mellow, and it seemed like he had to repeat
certain parts of that, and he was told talking points
and whatnot there, and then you dropped the news here
with the quarterback change and all that, because being an
(30:35):
NFL quarterback, it's gonna be a shocking take. Nobody else
has his take when you're an NFL quarterback. The pressure
cooker is part of the deal. And Tradur, he's not
even been named the starter. He's supposedly in a race
for the starting job, and he's already melted like a
stick of Lando Lake's butter in a frying pan. And
he didn't do it against a division rival. He had
(30:58):
issues with a gaggle of most middle aged sports writers
in cargo shorts, like what do you do with that? Like,
you know, the news drops that Deshaun Watson is going
to start the first preseason game, which leads to you
believe the obvious. To connect the dots, he's either got
the job or he's in the lead for the starting
job for the Browns, and Shadur instantly looks like he's
(31:23):
looking on his phone on the travel apps to try
to find a one way Southwest Airlines flight want to
get away? Like if a routine press scrum, not what
we used to call it involving the word gang, but
something else. Press scrum will clean it up for the
family that are listening right now. If that triggers a
(31:44):
white flag, what happens when I don't know TJ. Watt
tries to remove his spleen in a game like if
it's it's just too draining to have to talk about this.
My god, what a world. Even if guys felt like
that back in the day, they never say it. They
(32:05):
never say it, So Cleveland doesn't need a forced apology.
They actually need some tangible evidence that SHUDR. Sanders knows
what he's doing right and can handle the turbulence without
grabbing for the emergency exit. And at this point not
so good. All right? Final thought to college football we
(32:26):
go where the new Michigan coach is already already feeling
the heat and he hasn't even coached a game at Michigan.
That would be Kyle Whittingham, longtime Ute's coach. What is
a ute? Kyle Whittingham, Michigan coach drawing some attention recently
after saying about the rivalry with Ohio State. He says
(32:48):
he doesn't hate Ohio State? What what? Oh my god?
He said he didn't hit Ohio State. Now, I'm not
from Michigan. I'm not from Ohio. I got plenty of
friends that have crossed my life in my life from
Ohio and from Michigan. And I know from both sides
(33:12):
of the aisle. How big a deal that game is? Okay?
And at the recent Big Ten media days, Whittingham explained
he said hate is a strong word. He emphasized that
he wants to win. Well, that's good. Whittingham says he
wants to win the rivalry game as badly as anyone
(33:33):
in ann Arbor. He also declined he said to manufacture
any kind of personal animosity towards Ryan Day, the Buck
Guy's head coach, calling Day quote a good person, close quote,
arguing that rivalries can remain emotional and intense without hatred. Yeah, okay, Well,
(34:00):
the question here is rather obvious. Do you have a
phrase on new Michigan coach Kyle Whittingham saying he doesn't
hate Ohio State. So I'm going to take a phrase
from Wimbledon, and the phrase is unforced error. Is the phrase?
These words are going to come back to haunt Kyle
(34:22):
Whittingham like a personal poltergeist. Apparently nobody bothered to give
the new Michigan coach the packet, the orientation packet when
you take over. You know how to give you that
packet when you get a new job and say, okay,
here's all the rules and regulations. Okay, thank you. I
won't read that, but thank you, and then you gotta
(34:43):
do like now you do a docu sign. If you
get hired someone, you got to do a docu sign. Okay,
I'll click that. But I didn't read the legal lease,
so he I guess he didn't get it or he
didn't read it last I checked. You're not playing Tiddley
Winks in Utah anymore. And not that that's like nothing,
because Utah has had some really good teams there over
(35:05):
the last twenty years. They've actually had more consistently good
football at Utah than Michigan has had. Don't tell anybody
in Michigan that, but that's been the case. And they
have a rivalry with Byu. I think it's called the
Holy War if I remember correctly, and bring that up
every year from Great Games. However, like dude.
Speaker 2 (35:27):
Like.
Speaker 1 (35:29):
Look at the room, read the room. Are you. You're
in the big House. You're in the Big House. I
got a funny story, but I used to worry this
guy named Bob Page. He was a big sportscaster in
New York and he worked at Fox Sports trading the
early days. And Bob was a Michigan man and a
very serious, very serious man, very very serious. And I
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remember I call it back when Michigan twenty years ago,
the good teams, and I'd say, oh, the Big House.
And he said, Benjamin, I'm from Michigan, and we don't
call it the Big House. I said, Bob, it's just
a phrase. It's okay, it's a colloaquial phrase. Anyway, that
is home, the Big House. I'll say it again, home
of irrational college football blood feuds, the Big House and
(36:15):
the Horseshoe and all that stuff. And it's just there's
a lot of hate there. Hate is like a renewable energy.
So when the coach says, hey, Ryan Day is a
good person and I'm not going to manufacture any kind
of you know, hates, a strong word and all that stuff,
you just roll your eyes because somebody in ann Arbor
needs to stage some kind of intervention and hand him
(36:37):
a laminated memo and say, okay, here's the bullet points.
Bullet point one, Ohio State bad, bullet point two, Michigan good,
bullet point three, Scarlet and gray are forbidden and ugly colors,
and a bullet point number four. I believe a Ryan Day.
(36:58):
Ryan Day is the grim shoe stole Christmas past and
Christmas future. And that's it. That's the party line if
you're coaching at Michigan. Instead, Kyle Whittingham was throwing flowers
at Ryan Day, complimenting him and debating whether or not
hate is too strong a word, like he wandered into
(37:18):
a couple's therapy session on a beach somewhere in Florida,
and he clearly doesn't understand the psychological hardwiring of the
Michigan Marching and Chowder Society. If Michigan loses in Columbus
late this year, every single oo week Gooi Kumbai Yah
(37:42):
quote that he has given here about Ohio State will
be brought up as exhibit A in the tribunal against
Kyle Whittingham.
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Speaker 1 (37:57):
We go, here we go, Here we go, Here we go,
Here we go go.
Speaker 2 (38:03):
This is one big gets grilled.
Speaker 1 (38:08):
Cupler.
Speaker 3 (38:09):
Cal Raley addressed the media after the Mariners lost to
the Yankees on Tuesday. He was asked about the team's
recent skid, and the big Dumper took most of the blames, saying,
I'm awful, Ben, Which do you think is more of
a fluke last season or this season for cal Ray?
Speaker 1 (38:24):
Well, it's he's somewhere in the middle. He's not as
bad as he is right now, and he wasn't nearly
as good as he was last year. But he shouldn't
suck this much. I was so annoyed though, I threw
my remote control. I was watching the Mariner Yankee game
last night and they brought some nerd on there trying
to explain, well, if you look at the swing weight
and the velocity, extra velocity, or just shut up, he
(38:45):
just sucks, all right, And no analytic thing is going
to fix cal Raley this year, And we'll see what
happens next year. But yeah, he's gonna be better next year.
If he's not better, he'll be out of baseball next.
Speaker 3 (38:56):
A report this week says the Oklahoma City Thunder could
look to trade chat home going to he continues to
struggle against Victor Wembnyama. Ben. Do you think Holmgren is
still with OKAC next season?
Speaker 1 (39:06):
Well, he'll be there next season. The question is after
that do they trade him at the deadline? Is he gone?
He really was outclassed by Victor wan Bayama. It was embarrassing,
total fraud chet Holmgren in that series.
Speaker 3 (39:18):
Next, the NFL isn't the only football approaching. The college
season is right around the corner as well. Ole Miss
is ranked in the top ten and most preseason rankings.
How well do you think they can do after the
Lynn Kiffen debacle last year?
Speaker 1 (39:29):
Well, I haven't really looked at how their nil portal thing.
You know, it's really how many players you buy. That's
you know, if you have good players, you spend your
money properly, you can win. But there's the boosters at
Old Miss or legendary like there are. You know, there's
a few rich guys there that are really paying for everything,
so they're gonna demand success. I think they'll be okay.
(39:50):
I mean, Lank Kiffin is a hype guy and a
gas bag and all that stuff. He left not everyone
vacated the program when he left. They've added a few players,
so I think they'll be right there. It is malarly
third degree. I think there'll be a mid level SEC team.
Old miss, how did we do? Coopaloo?
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we now pass the microphone over to the Coopoloop for
(40:50):
questions for Ben and friends. These are actual questions by
actual human beings as far as we can tell, unless
they're AI bots sending us questions. We will now fly
the coop with the Kooplo.
Speaker 3 (41:03):
I'm seeing some good questions this week. I'm proud of
you guys.
Speaker 1 (41:06):
What happened? All right?
Speaker 3 (41:09):
We're gonna start off with a question from Alf the
alien opiner.
Speaker 1 (41:12):
I've met him, Yes, his lovely wife. I know both
of them, they're my friends.
Speaker 3 (41:16):
He would like to know what is the tallest building
you've ever been to the top of.
Speaker 1 (41:24):
Yeah, I don't. I mean I have a story about
tall but I guess the Sears Tower in Chicago. But
I have nine to eleven related So I was at
the World Trade Center about two weeks before nine to eleven,
and it was about a half an hour before the
observation deck was closed, and they said they were not
going to let us stay up there more than half
an hour. I was in the lobby, so I didn't
(41:46):
go as I'll go back. So I was at I
should have done it, and now i'll but so I
guess the serious towers the answer. But I should have
gone to the top of the World Trade Center, but
I chose not to because I was didn't want to
waste my money. Lorena.
Speaker 3 (42:00):
Mine would probably have to be the Eiffel Tower.
Speaker 1 (42:03):
Oh look at you, Perrie. How high is that? Though
I don't know that would help coop.
Speaker 3 (42:14):
And I'm also is that a is that a building?
Speaker 1 (42:17):
Technically? You know? I mean, like, is it there's an elevator?
Speaker 3 (42:21):
Isn't an over and there's a restaurant in it. So yes,
I would say there's a Yeah.
Speaker 1 (42:24):
The one in Vegas has a restaurant too. That's where
I've been to that Eiffel Tower.
Speaker 3 (42:30):
The tallest building for me is the Sears Tower, or
I guess. I guess now it's Willis Is something else? Yeah,
but yeah, the same for me.
Speaker 1 (42:41):
All right. By the way, the Eiffel Tower. Eiffel Tower
is one thousand and eighty two feet it's fall.
Speaker 3 (42:49):
There you go, it's and Willis Tower is one four
hundred and fifty in.
Speaker 1 (42:54):
Your faceline, We win, you lose. What is next? What
do you got? All right?
Speaker 3 (42:59):
Next, we have a quite shouldn't hear from Mike in
New Hampshire Ustar?
Speaker 1 (43:05):
Uh?
Speaker 3 (43:06):
Yes, yeah, she says, Hey, Ben, So I guess is
this a question just for you? I guess, hey, Ben,
muscle car or supercar?
Speaker 1 (43:18):
Well, when I collected hot wheels back in the day,
I love the muscle cars. So I'm gonna go. I'm
gonna go muscle cars. Lorena, you want to answer, We'll
let you answer.
Speaker 3 (43:28):
Yeah, I'm gonna probably go with muscle car.
Speaker 1 (43:30):
You know what those are, Yeah, they're the ones.
Speaker 3 (43:33):
That are old and smelled like diesel gas.
Speaker 1 (43:40):
Okay, well, the supercar would be you know what the
supercar is like? No, not old?
Speaker 3 (43:44):
Yeah, aren't those like Lamborghini's and yeah McLaren's.
Speaker 1 (43:49):
Yeah, I mean those are nice. I wouldn't fit in
any of those, so, but I guess I might be
able to fit the old cars, so I do. Paul,
that's a great point.
Speaker 3 (43:56):
I would choose the muscle cars as well. I just
think they'd look cooler classic.
Speaker 1 (44:00):
Yeah, muscle car. All right, what's next? Let's ask Ben
your questions are answers.
Speaker 3 (44:05):
JT the wingman would like to know what is your
favorite farm animal? And he adds that he lives next
to a pasture of black angus beef cattle.
Speaker 1 (44:15):
Yeah. I think cattle are great. They just eat and
fart and you know, pretty good. I don't really haven't
spent a lot of time on farms. What about you, Lorena,
cows are like big dogs.
Speaker 3 (44:24):
That's definitely what I would.
Speaker 1 (44:25):
Get, and they're delicious. What about you? It's cool.
Speaker 3 (44:29):
I'll go with a horse there, cool.
Speaker 1 (44:32):
A horse, of course. All right, quickly, one more, what
do we got?
Speaker 3 (44:34):
Donkey Sodge wants to know what's your ideal room temperature?
Speaker 1 (44:38):
Fifty two degrees It can't be cold enough Lorena eighty three.
Speaker 3 (44:44):
What oh, you're crazy cool like seventy three.
Speaker 1 (44:47):
No, it should be at least in the mid sixties.
At least in the mid sixties. I like it hot,
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