Hour 1 - Cuban Confusion

Ben Maller talks about reports that Mark Cuban is selling a majority stake in the Mavericks, the idea that Cuban is gearing up for a run at the presidency, if the Mavs are guaranteed to stay in Dallas, and much more!

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here in hour one, Why in the world, Why in
the world is Mark Cuban selling a majority stake in
the Dallas pro bouncy ball team? Also, would Mark Cuban
have a shot of winning the presidency if he ran
for the presidency? Obvious he had run to win, And

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are the Mavericks guaranteed to stay in Dallas? Could they
move on to lost Wages Nevada. We'll get to that
as well, and a whole lot more here. It is
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by the Golden State Warriors in the Battle of Northern California. Teams.
Not gonna start with that, but we will start with
this Mark Cuban a big face in our little sporting world.
Over many years, Mark Cuban's time as the majority owner
of the Dallas Probans bouncy ball team has come to
an end. He is going to no longer be the

(02:54):
majority owner of the Mavericks. A shocking ending. It's not
technically an ending, but it really is in many ways.
Now if you didn't see this, and possibly you missed it,
we learned that Mark Cuban has agreed to sell the
vast majority of ownership, the majority steak in the NBA

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franchise that plays deep in the heart of Texas, to
Miriam Adelson, the wife of the late casino Maggot of
Maggot the Magnet, Sheldon Adelson. So the valuation approximately three
and a half billion dollars three and a half billion
dollars good return on investment for Mark Cuban compared to

(03:39):
when he bought the Dallas Banks basketball team. So Shams Sharania,
who is in a heated battle with woj Sham's Sharania
tells us that Mark Cuban will retain a small steak
in the Dallas basketball team and for at least now
he will preside over basketball operations for now, but likely

(04:04):
not for that long. So let us discuss the question
why in the world, Why in the world is Mark
Cuban selling a majority steak in the Mavericks, his love
and joy the Dallas Mavericks. Why would he be doing this?
So I've got Cockpit Daily Double and Pineapple upside down Cake,

(04:28):
and we'll combine all of these things together and we
are going to make a championship, which the Mavericks won
one with Mark Cuban as the majority owner. So a,
this is cookie, The story is kookie, right, it's completely
out of the Mark Cuban is so intertwined in the

(04:50):
DNA of the Mavericks. It's hard to imagine the Mavericks
without Mark Cuban. Now, I do remember a time they
had other people owning that team. I also remember them
not being very good most of that time. I recall that.
But Mark Cuban is now going to be on the
outs in terms of majority ownership. And it's so unusual

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because Markubin is a legendary, a legary whore, an attention
horre right chest puffs, pelvic thrust, arrogance, truts, all that
presto out of the blue he wakes up one morning
and said, you know what, eh sell my toy, my

(05:35):
lovely toy. I don't need my toy anymore. I'll sell it.
So something is clearly simmering in the world. So what
I did is is I started hitting up people that
know more than me what's going on. I give me
the inside skinny. I want to know what's really going on.
Of course, the streets are talking, and the general consensus
is we don't know, we don't know. Now there are

(05:58):
two main narratives that are bouncing around the pinball machine,
the echo chamber, and so as the streets are talking,
these two narratives on why Mark Cuban is selling the
majority steak in the Mavericks. These are polar opposites, right,
because on one hand, you have the crowd of people
that say this must be health related, that Mark Cuban

(06:19):
must be sick, there must be some undisclosed illness that
he wouldn't sell the Mavericks the majority steak in the
team unless there was something health related. He has to
slow them, people pointing out there's a state planning and
things like that. But on the other hand, you're getting
on the opposite pole. You're getting people saying, well, he's

(06:40):
just getting his affairs in order, Mark Cuban, because he
wants to sit in the cockpit and he wants to
advise the flight attendants prepare for takeoff, and we have
to clear the runway here to try to get to
the White House. So of those two options, if those
are the only two options, I'm sure there's probably a third.
But if those are the only two options, we'd rather

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have that than some illness. But nobody else. People think
they know, but they don't know. Now Part two of
this diatribe. Would Mark Cuban actually have a shot of
winning the presidency of the United States? Now, my friends
who cover politics tell me it's not whether or not

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Mark Cuban will win, it's whether or not people can
convince him that he can win. And that's really the argument.
You're not gonna waste all that money in time, and
Mark Cuban's got some skeletons. There have been some scandals
with the Mavericks involving employees in the front office, and
all that stuff will come out. Everything that Mark Cuban's
ever done. You run for president, you negative it all

(07:47):
gets out. Now, one thing we've learned in the last
ten years. It doesn't necessarily matter. I mean, he still
can win, it doesn't matter. But there are a lot
of reasons to run for president and not all of
them involve actually winning. And Mark Cuban would be the
personification of what is the new unicorn in politics as

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a a now soon to be former majority owner of
a sports team. But this would be the daily double.
It would be the daily double because you have the crossover,
the crossover from pop culture to politics, like Mark Cuban,
this is the playbook right. Donald Trump did this. He
was the host of The Apprentice, which very popular show

(08:31):
on NBC. He became the president. Mark Cuban hosted Shark Tank.
Now I've only seen Shark Tank a few times. I
guess it's done pretty well. It's been on television a
long time. We should also point out he is not
only dumping majority ownership of the Mavericks, he's also off
that TV show. He announced this week Mark Cuban that

(08:51):
he is saying bye bye the Shark Tank after sixteen
seasons that show has been on. There may only Benny
versus the Penny please be on for sixteen years? My god. Anyway,
Mark Cuban he's got to be thinking here, like he's
got a shot to win, should he put his name
in the hopper? And he probably figures youth can be

(09:13):
served like Mark Cuban. It's very rare in life that
you're sixty five years old and you're a baby, but
in politics that's the way it is. Right, he's a
spring chicken and President Biden's eighty one, Donald Trump's seventy seven.
So we guarantee you that Mark Cuban has had at
the very least conversations through intermediaries, back channel conversations that

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you have to talk to donors and talk to lawyers,
and you have to look at maps and all that.
So we'll keep an eye on this and will we
see some kind of splashy announcement. Will we see the
denial non denial where he says, ah, I'm not gonna run,
and then he's plotting, plotting behind the scenes to run.
Does Mark Cuban suddenly take an interest all of a

(09:58):
sudden in our brother and sisters who live in Iowa
and New Hampshire. And then the other part of is well,
which team would he run for? Iowa? Yeah, I don't know.
Everyone's assuming Team Blue not Team Red. But there's also
the wild card, which would be as an independent. But
it will keep an eye at Mark Cuban, the big
name in our world in sports, and it appears that

(10:21):
he is he's done. You can't imagine he's gonna run
the Mavericks for that much longer. If you bought an
NBA team, why would you have somebody else run? It
made a lot of sense. Now the last word here
are the Mavericks guarutee to stay in Las Vegas? So
the popular opinion by popular people is yes, that there's

(10:44):
no reason to think that the Mavericks would ever leave Dallas.
Why would you? It's one of the top media markets
in the country. But one thing that we have learned
in recent years is it doesn't matter, right, And so
if you asked me the question are they guaranteed to
stay in Las Vegas? My answer is not by a

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long shot. Right. Dallas is the number five television market,
which is really, these are just TV shows, right? Can
you get ratings in your television market? Dallas is the
number five TV market in terms of television audience. Vegas
it's moving on up, but last I checked, they were
still around forty to forty two in television market size,

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so that's a pretty big gap there. But regardless, in
the sporting world right now, it's like a classic pineapple
upside down cake. You're talking about a gooey, a lot
of caramel, and a mess. So the owner, this woman,
the widow who bought the Dallas Mavericks, she's seventy eight

(11:51):
years old, so she's old enough to run for president.
We assume her kids are going to take over sooner
rather than later. And as we understand it, they were
all raised in Sin City, so there's a connection there.
Last we checked, Vegas is all horny for an NBA franchise.
They'd love to get one. So there is a dimension

(12:13):
where the Mavericks would leave Dallas and go to Vegas.
They already have the ready made star. It's like Hamburger helper.
You just pour some water in there and you're good
to go with the little little packet because you've got
Luka Doncic star. It could be the headliner on Vegas.
You got your Vegas show. You need a headliner if

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you're gonna play the strip, and so that would that
would make some sense. Now the reporting as well, they're
gonna build a new arena, and once Texas gets gambling,
they're gonna have slot machines all over the arena and
the sportsbook and the whole thing, the whole to do right,
And maybe that happens. It's possible that happens. But it's
also conceivable that they work out some kind of deal

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where the team moves to Vegas and then Dallas gets
some expansion version of the Mavericks. But the bigger city
thing doesn't guarantee you stay because if you look at
the San Francisco Bay Area and Oakland, they lost the Raiders.
I don't count the Warriors because they just moved across
the Bay Bridge, so I don't count the Warriors, but

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they're still in the area. But the Raiders left for
a much smaller market in Vegas, and the Athletics are
plotting to leave for a much smaller location in the future.
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all of that in a bag of chips. An NBA

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coach calling his team gunless. We have the audio on this.
We're gonna play it in a little bit. We began
the night with this story out of Dallas, a crazy
story Mark Cuban, who is part of the fabric of
big time owners in American sports, and he's sold the
majority Steak and the Mavericks. It's over. He's gonna hang
around for a little bit, but I can't imagine he's

(17:36):
gonna be there that long and we'll see what happens now.
Jill writes in from a Twin Cities. He says, Shark
Tank is a wonderful show. I've enjoyed it when i've
seen it. I just don't watch it that off. I
don't know problem with Shark Tank. I was actually, Jill says,
worried today that he's leaving the show and ending his ownership.

(17:57):
I hope his health is okay. Love him. Only heard
good things about him. And by the way, Jill, she's
our insider with the boss because she's related to the
boss or one of our big bosses here, Scott and
and she says that she did. She says she spoke
on Thanksgiving to Scott about the show. I don't know

(18:18):
that she said good things about the show, but she
did speak to Scots. She did not say that she
said good things. She just said that she spoke to him,
so that could have been a negative. I don't know.
I have no idea, but thank you you. Rory writes
in it says, another great Mallard monologue. I do believe
Mark Cuban has fallen ill, especially if he's entering the
world of politics, because only sick people want to become politicians. Yeah. Well,

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I have said in the past, you know, we don't
get political in these parts because people lose their mind
when you talk about politics and we're a sports show,
or stay in your lane. But I have said i'd
always I've always wanted to say that I had an
interaction with the president. I do. I'm an old schooler.
I respect the presidency. I might not agree with who's president,
but I respect the office, and so Mark Cuban years ago.

(19:05):
I've had a few interactions with Cuban in the early
days when he owned the Mavericks. And also there was
that famous email exchange during the Overnight Show when the
Mavericks were rumored to be making a big trade and
Mark Cuban had given out his email adger. So I
emailed him in the middle of the night and I
asked him about the trade, and he advised me to

(19:28):
read the Dallas Morning News. And I said, well, why,
you're the guy that owns the team, why couldn't you
just like tell me, But he advised me to read
the newspaper. So there you go. See what happens in
that department with him. Drew is upset. He says, you're
spending too much time on Mark Cuban, and then he's

(19:50):
making wild accusations. Listen, Drew, you just you focus on
that video game. Okay, you focus on that video game
you're playing, and don't worry about me. Okay, you little
farm video game. You're good on that. You know, mean, yeah,
you know need me. This guy writes and says, after
the trash can of presidents we've had over the last
twenty years, I believe weed Man Hippie could become president

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and Jed who fled, can be his campaign manager. Greg
writes and says Martin Gowbich Jack Mark Cuban cleaning out
a billion cleaning out a billionaire and still runs the
MAVs franchise. Jerry Jones would be very proud. Our friend Patrick,
the DJ from San Diego, who has been persona non

(20:37):
grata in these parts as he's moved to the dreaded
day shift. He says he hasn't worked the late night
hours in a while, but he is right now doing
some sound engineering at a dance studio, and our show
is booming through the speakers at this well known dance
studio right now in San Diego. Yes, that's just what

(21:02):
people want to here. Of course, probably empty right now
on a Tuesday night into a Wednesday morning.

Speaker 4 (21:07):
Now.

Speaker 1 (21:08):
Patrick also says the dance studio is on Marino Boulevard,
super close to where I worked me Ben worked when
I did radio in San Diego. Now I'm not sure
Marino Boulevard. And when I worked at the mighty six
ninety the Border Blaster radio station, it was right near

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SeaWorld on a Pacific Coast Highway, right across from the
Highway Patrol station, which I don't know if the Highway
Patrol station is still there, but it always gave me
the heby gbis because we always knew you couldn't really
speed when you're right in that area, because that was
like that was the mothership for the highway patrol. So
you had to be on your best behavior because they
were all like coming and going from that station across

(21:53):
the street. There ya Feeme and Chicago rights and says, hey,
Mallard a plus with a bit of caviar on the
Malard monologue, been bought low and sold extremely high. Good
job by him, Oh absolutely, I am disappointed he is
off shark tank, but he rarely made deals, how much further.
Can they pull Barbara's face back for the new episodes? Okay, well,

(22:17):
plastic surgery is an amazing thing. Freddie wrights In says,
do you think Mark Cuban should run for president and
maybe Big Ben should be in Shark Tank? Well, yeah,
if they asked me, of course, I have a deal
with NBC now. But if they wanted me, I'm sure
we could work something out. Why not, Paul says, Mahler
would have pulled a temper and clean house hiring yours.

(22:41):
I think he meant stoogi'es here before the billionaire was hired,
was wired to Cuban and the sale completed for the MAVs.
What you're talking about with that nonsense, Shark Tank is
going to suck without Mark Cuban. Ferg Dog has checked
in for that reason. I am out for that reason,
him out, Mustang Mania writes In, and he says, so,

(23:05):
you guys haven't heard one word he's been saying all
year about building a new arena combination casino to be
ready for when the Texas passes the gambling. No, we
mentioned that, but that doesn't if he's not in control
of the team, it doesn't mean any you know, Mark
Cuban is gonna be a gambling the guru, the king
of gambling in the state of Texas and all that.

(23:27):
Maybe that happens. There's also a world where that doesn't happen,
and Mark Cuban ends up running to become president and
doesn't win, and then he has to go back, and
maybe that's what happens after. That's his backup plan. Jac
says ten out of ten on the Mallard monologue. Mark
Cuban is not running for president. He is about to
be canceled for something he did or said twenty years
ago and is just getting ahead of it. Well, that's possible.

(23:52):
I mean, there's a scandal. There's always the possibility of
the scandal. Never underestimate a scandal. There you go, and
Jill has followed up good news, good news. Nothing negative
was said between Jill and her relative who is our boss,
So there you go. All right, Well, thank you Jill.

(24:12):
Nothing negative but not necessarily positive. But as she did say,
there was there was some laughter. There was laughters appreciate.

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dot com. So we don't talk too much basketball. We
began show it's not really a basketball So Mark Cuban's
a pop culture guy and he's selling his steak in
the Mavericks and that was a big deal. I thought
that was the biggest story. Which try to decide what
the biggest story is. I thought that was the biggest

(25:11):
story of the day. Now in pro Ban's basketball, teams
have played about eighteen seventeen eighteen games. Most teams have played,
give or take. I don't think anyone's played more than eighteen,
but maybe I'm wrong on that. Maybe somebody's played nineteen.
I don't know, but after eighteen games, the worst team

(25:31):
in the association is Detroit Basketball. The Detroit Pistons, a
once proud franchise that had some of the greatest teams
I've seen in my lifetime, the Bad Boys Pistons of
my youth, and then that Fluke Championship team with Rashid
Wallace and the Pistons when Tayshawn Prince and the Boys

(25:52):
got it done there beat the Big Bad Lakers in
the NBA Finals. So they they've had a few great
moments over the time, but they're the worst team in
the NBA. And they went out and broke the bank
to hire Monty Williams. They gave him the full Monty
and this was the big higher Monty Williams loved by

(26:13):
the NBA media. My god, is this guy's a great interview.
He's got that Spngali effect right, charming the whole thing.
They gave him seventy eight million dollars to coach the Pistons.
Seventy eight million. It's an amazing, amazing amount of money
for a basketball coach, considering that the players run the

(26:35):
team and So the Pistons went out the other night
and lost for the fourteenth consecutive time. They are two
and fifteen. They started out two to one and they
have now lost fourteen consecutive games, and their head coach,
Monty Williams laying out his team, calling them, I mean

(26:55):
very rarely do you get the honest analysis, And this
came pretty close to it from Monty Williams as he
broke down a loss to an equally morbid team, the
Washington Wizards. Listen to Monty Williams blasting away at his players, Listen.

Speaker 4 (27:13):
When there's anger, is it can there be healthy anger?

Speaker 5 (27:16):
It's just a level of growing up in this on
this team, maturity, understanding what game plan, discipline is, all
the stuff we talk about all the time. It's enough talking.
That wasn't fight on the floor. That wasn't Piston's basketball
by any stretch of the imagination.

Speaker 1 (27:33):
That's what this is. We have to have people.

Speaker 5 (27:36):
That honor the organization and the jersey by competing at
a high level every night. Now talking about execution, just competing,
That wasn't it.

Speaker 6 (27:46):
And that's on me anybody else.

Speaker 1 (27:50):
Now, we're got to thank you. You're welcome. Thank you're welcome,
So that's pretty good. His team's gotless. He'sentually said, I'll
sum it up for his teams, gutless. They don't have
the fighting. And where's herr Edward? You play to win
the game? No, that team taps out. They make a
hasty retreat. They pack up their stuff and they run

(28:12):
out to the bar, the club wherever they're going, and
the flag is up, the white flag is up. They
give up flag. So that's pretty good. It's pretty good.
Manty Williams knows he ain't going anywhere unless there's some
kind of oil baron that will give him a buyout,
like he's coaching Texas A and M football. Let's go
to Andre in the Commonwealth. Hello, Andre, what's going on?

Speaker 4 (28:37):
Ben?

Speaker 6 (28:38):
Thanks for taking the call. Listen, we can't allow ourselves
to fall for this smoke and mare situation with Mark
Cuban in terms of you know, the timing here is
quite curious. Dallas mad Bricks are what eleven and six
to the third seed in the Western Conference that playing
the best basketball frankly in the last however, you know,

(29:00):
since Derdoviski retired averaging what over like one hundred and
twenty points. If the fact of the matter is this, Dubin,
he's got his how do you say this, he's got
a little too big for his britches. I think he's
thinking about making a run for president. I think he
wants to throw his hat in the ring. He sees
an opportunity as a third party candidate to get out

(29:21):
there in the mix. Now, it's not going to happen, uh,
you know, and then you don't talk too much politics,
but you know he's not going to win by any
stretch of imagination. I don't want to to crush his feelings,
but he did make three.

Speaker 1 (29:33):
He will be devastated. He's probably listening right now, and
once he hears that Andre from the Commonwealth says he
has no chance, he likely will not run now because
you called up and said this, this will end his
run for presidency.

Speaker 6 (29:47):
And then you know what he do if he can
sit back and he can spend his three billion dollars
because he bought the maverage from what to eighty five
and he's selling for three point five billion, so we can,
you know, Mark, save yourself to presidential run. You know, Frankly,
I think the Rocks has a better chance of getting
the job done. The Rocks has a higher Q rating,
and I don't mean to insult it. Den Mark, you

(30:07):
have your billions of dollars, but you know you got
to grow where you're planting, and you're a good NBA owner. Frankly,
I don't understand what is it that is that he
doesn't have anybody to argue with. Does he miss David's
turn that much? He doesn't have anyone to find him
a million dollars. That's why he's stepping away. When the
Mavericks all of a sudden with a transcendent player Luka
Doncic and a Kyrie Irving who's actually doing his job,

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our third seed in the West, and the offensive rolling
and Jason Kidge do it, they didn't. Makes no sense
that he would step away at this moment when the
team is ascending to do something that you know it's
all Martin. Here's the take. Take a bit of advice
from from the malind militia. Uh, grow where you're planting.
Step back off this take. I know you like the
hot takes. Stay with the Mavericks, compete for a championship.

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America will be okay in.

Speaker 1 (30:55):
Twenty has already won his championship. He's happy with it.
I gotta leave with dere Andre, but thank you. But
Mark Cuban did he he's actually gone back in his
word because he did an interview less than ten years
ago and said that even if he was offered three
billion dollars for the Mavericks, he would not sell the team.
And he said, what do I need three billion dollars for?

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Was what he said. I guess the question should have
been what do I need three and a half billion
dollars for? And the answers will find out. But that's
how much he's getting in the deal. He's planning on
selling the the Mavericks. The valuation of the Mavericks is
in the three and a half billion dollar range, but

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after taxes, that's like two hundred billion, you know, two
hundred million or something like that, with all the taxes
you gotta pay. It is the Ben Mahler Show. We'll
get to that. Other story will work for that end.
Coming up here a story that had some legs the
last couple of days, but took a wild twist, A
wild twist ton now for the who am I game?
Among all receivers, I posted an NFL high fifty five

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percent first read target rate, whatever the hell that means.
In Week twelve, again among all receivers, I posted an
NFL high fifty five percent first read target rate. That
sounds impressive. In week number twelve. That just happened? Who
am I? That is the question? The answer. We'll get
to it. We'll do it next.

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I posted at an NFL high fifty five percent first
read target rate. Whatever that means? In week twelve? Who
am I? That is the question. What is the answer?
And let's see does anyone know the answer? We go
page down here, page down? Kramer the ex service dog,

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says Ukraine Shark Tank expert, President Biden. Who else do
we have? A Chunk from the Goonies? Guests by Cowboy Killer,
Mark Lemke Atlanta Brave nineteen nineties legend from mister nice Guy?
Who else? Page down? Jason Kidd from Double O Mexican
in San Diego. Bronnie James from Shane of Des Moines,

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Turboman guess by Milkman Mike Big fan of the Denver
Nuggets backups. Who else do we have? Easy three to
five from Miami says it's Dick from Dayton. That's from
our Friend Easy three five Flipper Anderson guests by Alf
the Alien, O Piner NFL record holder Flipper Anderson Page down.

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Matt says the Chicago Bears defen is the answer against
Josh Dobbs, Mark Bavaro from Patrick the DJ, San Diego
DJ Terry McLaren guess by the Art of Sports Talking.
Else we have Curtis Conway from Sean Robert from Shark

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Tank guessed by Yaphoemi Clark Kent guest by Willie the Mess,
Donald Driver from Rory Chris in Des Moines, going with
Peter Griffin as his answer, Eddie, Do you have an answer? Eddie,
it's the mallor it's the malor who am I game?
Do you have an answer?

Speaker 4 (35:31):
H Yeah, I'm gonna go with former forty nine er
and Raven quarterback Elvis Gerback, the.

Speaker 1 (35:36):
Great Elvis Gerback fin answer. But among all that's incorrect, Eddie.
Among all receivers I posted an NFL high fifty five
percent first read target rate in week twelve. That would
be d J. Moore of your Chicago Bear jab See.
You might have heard this story the other day. It's fascinating,

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So you get one pretty loud and proud around the
sporting world. It was from the Chiefs game with the Raiders,
and CBS during that game showed a young Chiefs fan
who had the Native American garbed the Indian garbon and
had his face painted the people over a dead Spin

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wrote a big story talking about, you know, racism and
the whole thing blackface and all that, some really serious
accusations and attacking, attacking on Native Americans. Well, as Paul
Harvey would say, that was the story, but you're now
about to hear the rest of the story. Well, it

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turns out the kid in question that some writer, I
don't know who this writer is a dead Spin, but
somebody emailed me said he's like a race baiter. I
don't know if that's true or not, but that's what
they told me. But anyway, so he wrote this whole
big thing about this, and it turns out now the
rest of the story, the child who was being smeared
as racist is actually Native American. So maybe in this

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world you can't be racist if you're Native American. He
dress up like a traditional Indian, but yeah, like his
family is part of the Shumash Shoemash tribe, which I
know from from like gambling in southern California, but apparently
that is the case and he is Native American, so
that is an interesting surprise. A little plot twist to

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the story that had legs for a couple of days. Man,
you racist