Hour 3 - Christmas In July?!?

Ben Maller discusses the Boston Celtics reportedly being up for sale right after winning the championship.

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Hello and welcome. It's our numb berth three as we
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up or thumbs down on the estate tax being the
reason why the Celtics are going up for sale and
can you explain why the Celtics have been forking out

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these massive contracts while preparing to unload the owners are
the franchise? Also, would Lebron James be allowed to own
part of the Celtics while he was playing in the NBA?
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so our lead this hour from the Business of Sport.
I thought this was an interesting store. It's one of
the iconic franchises in North American sport. The Shamrocks can
be yours if the price is right. I assume you've
heard by now, but maybe not. The team hasn't been sold,
but the plan is to sell them. So the Celtics

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ownership group led by Wick Grossbeck, plans to sell one
hundred percent of the franchise, and they claim in a
carefully vetted and written statement that the Celtics can be
yours of the price is right because of a state
and family planning purposes. The terminology used in the news

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comes less than two weeks after the Celtics won their
record eighteenth title. They are way ahead of the Lakers
in terms of championships, and so the team now having
to decide who they want to pay and who they
don't want to pay. It appears they want to pay
everyone as everyone's getting a big contract. And so they
had the top record during the regular season, they won

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the championship, and now the team is going on the
open market. The flea market is open and you can
buy the shamrock shakes of the NBA. So let us
discuss thumbs up or thumbs down, thumbs up or thumbs
down in terms of the estate tax being the real
reason why the Celtics are going up for sale. So

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I've got Latin Dance enlisted and Ghostbusters and we will
combine all of these things together and we are going
to make some hand moisturizer, is what we're going to make.
So first of all, I'm gonna go thumbs down on this.
So just for the record, I'm on the record thumbs down.

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And while I believe what was said in the press
release is a kernel of truth, right, it's a version
of the truth. It is not the whole truth, and
definitely nothing but the truth. So that is my position
on this. And when you talk about these kind of
news releases, you have to be someone with a critical eye.

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You can't buy what is said because normally what they
do is they sugarcoat everything with these news releases. And
if you go down to the stable, like a Churchill downs,
you go down to the stable the track there, and
this is what's known as a stalking horse. The term
is stalking horse. There they're concealing your real intentions. You

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have other ulterior motives, but you're just tossing this out
because people can understand where you're coming from. The estate tax,
which is better known by its gangster term death tax,
that's what it is. It's a death tax because the
Weasley politicians, even when you die, they want their share

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of your riches, of your whole life, and they want
to take your money from you, so you can't pass
all that money on to your loved one something normally
take about half of it. If you have enough money,
it all goes away. And so they say it's a
state tax, but it's really the death tax. And politicians
will rob the grave if they have to to get
their money too, so they can live their lavish lifestyles.

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I got an education on this. I've lost both my
parents over the years, and I've learned through that process
or process exactly what that's all about. Now, they didn't
have anywhere close to that kind of money, so I
didn't It wasn't too bad for me. But I didn't
even know that was a thing. I was completely naive today.
So while it is true that this is a factor,
the death tax, the estate taxes they call it, they're

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sugarcoating it. That said, if I'm right, and I'm never wrong,
I'm never wrong about these things. If the Grossbeck family,
the group that owns the Celtics, wanted to keep the
business in the family, if there's someone some distant cousin

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or someone they wanted to pass the team onto, they
could navigate the tax code. There's a where there's a will,
there's a way they could find a solution. It would
be an expensive solution. So when I see that and
I realize what's going on here, it's like a little
Latin dance, not the salsa Latin. It's like the old

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Latin Carpdum sees the opportunity. What's going on here is
you've got the Celtics, who are at the very top
of the market. They just want a championship. They have
a stacked roster of players, the core of the teams
in their prime and so Wick Grossbeck will fetch the
highest price ever paid for a pro bouncy ball team.

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The minimum buy in if you wanted to put a
group together by the Celtics is five point one billion.
Five point one billion. Now we should also point out
that something odd going on in the NBA. We have
seen a mass exodus in recent years of ownerships changing over,

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not necessarily because of a death by the owner, just
because they're getting out of it. In fact, if my
math is correct, almost twenty percent of NBA teams have
changed owners in the last couple years or will change owners.
The Celtics when they sell with Grossbeck, that'll be the
fourth NBA team changing owners, with the Sons who just

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recently sold the Dallas Mavericks. Mark Cuban sold out even
though he's still hanging around Lingering mull Lingering and the Hornets,
So that's four. But wait, the Minnesota basketball team is
currently going through arbitration. That'll be the fifth team that
changes hands. So five out of the thirty teams, less

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than twenty percent, like sixteen point six percent of NBA
teams will have new owners by the time the Celtics
and the tim Wolves are done. All right now. Why
is that? Secondly, can you explain in layman's terms, why
the Celtics, Why the Boston Celtics have been forking out
jackpots bonanzas. It's like the old bit. There used to

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be this talk show host named Oprah Winfrey. You probably
don't know who that is, but she did this famous
show where she said, you get a car, you get
a car, you get a car. The Celtics like, you
get a contract, you get a contract, You get a contract,
you get a contract. They're forking out these massive contracts.
But can you explain why they are forking out these
massive contracts? So considering they're trying to sell the team,
so Wick Grossbeck he has enlisted something we all wish

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that our bosses would do if you work for a
company that gets sold. Wick Grossbeck has enlisted himself as
part of the first Battalion, five hundred and seventh Infantry Regimen.
He's a paratrooper. He's handing out Golvin parachutes. You get one,
you get one, you get one. He's playing the role

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of Saint Nick Santa Claus and playing with house money.
He's not gonna have to pay most of that money,
and the Celtics aren't gonna be sold overnight. There's a
lot of lawyers that get involved in these kind of deals.
But nonetheless, Jalen Brown got paid a couple of years ago,
Jason Tatum, Drew Holliday White got paid, Derek White got
paid as well, and they've all gotten those cartoon checks.

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And I would bet my last dollar dollars to donuts.
I would bet my last dollar here that this has
been in the works for a couple of years, like
we can just get one more championship, one more championship,
and we can sell at the very top and get
out and we're done with it and we don't have
to worry about it. And it's we'll give out these

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contracts and everyone's locked up, and so the headache is
on whoever buys the team. It's their problem, all right.
Final thought, there is a rumor that's been bouncing around
the pinball machine, the echo chain here. The rumor is
that John Henry, who has stopped trying with the Red Sox.

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My friends in Boston tell me that he's just going
through the motions as owner, that he won his championships
and it's just another thing in his portfolio now. With
the Red Sox. Now I'm not there, but my boots
in the ground told me that's the case with John Henry,
so he is part and the face of the Finway
Sports Group and the anticipation is they will make a

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bid to buy the Celtics, that the people that own
the Red Sox are going to try to buy the Celtics.
Now Lebron James has entered the chat. Lebron is a
partner in the Finway Sports Group, which means Lebron owns
part of the Red Sox. He owns part of the
Pittsburgh Penguins and Liverpool as well. Liverpool FC that's part

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of the portfolio. There's a bunch of other minor league
teams and other teams you've never heard of that are
part of the Finway Sports Group. So the question is
rather obvious. Lebron is expected to sign a multi year
contract to continue stealing money from the Lakers and running
that franchise into the ground. Could he be a double agent?
Is it conceivable? Is there a path wood Lebron James

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be able, while playing with the Lakers be able to
own a chunk of the Shamrocks the Celtics. So I'm
shaking my head. No one this rather obvious, and here's
why the NBA has made it for boten can't do it.
You can't even be a player coach in the NBA

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these days, even though Lebron does it. You're not supposed
to do it. It's against the rules. But here's the problem.
The NBA has taken advice from Egon of Ghostbusters Fame,
don't cross the streams, and they put it in that
it's baked into the CBA. You can't cross the streams.
The NBA's Collective Bargaining Agreement, the CBA explicit prohibits player

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slash owner agreements. Can't do it. Section twelve of the
agreement states that no player, no NBA player may acquire
or hold a direct or indirect interest in the ownership
of any NBA team, or in any company or entity,
whether privately or publicly owned, that owns any interest in

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NBA in any NBA team. So, now that doesn't mean
Lebron wouldn't sell, wouldn't that be wild, or wouldn't quit. Rather,
there is a dimension in the multiverse where Lebron announces,
you know what, I'm out, I'm retiring from the Lakers
because John Henry's gonna buy the Celtics and I'm going

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to be the guy that gets to run the Celtics. Oh,
the plot Dickens, Now, that would be something I'm sure
he'd be welcome with open arms in Boston. What could
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bubble guts. Cole Right. Didn't he work here before? I

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think he did? Right? Did he do stuff here, Cole Right?

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Not?

Speaker 1 (17:50):
To my knowledge, I think he did. I believe I'm
right on that. And Cliff Floyd remember him. Eddie used
to play baseball?

Speaker 5 (17:57):
Yeah, I do. Yeah.

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Anyway, they were on the Marquee Sports Network over the weekend.
They were waiting for the commercial and the commercials were
going on. They thought they were off the air, and
the hot mic caught them talking about for somebody.

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Looking at Cole Wright's LinkedIn page, he does not have
Fox Sports Radio.

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Well because he's embarrassed.

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But I think he worked.

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Maybe I'm wrong. Let's say hello to hollering James, who's
in Minneapolis, Minnesota, notting attention.

Speaker 6 (18:31):
Huh oh boy, oh man.

Speaker 7 (18:39):
Man, jerk yourself away.

Speaker 5 (18:50):
Are you on like a speakerphone.

Speaker 6 (18:54):
Anymore?

Speaker 8 (18:56):
Hall Man?

Speaker 6 (18:58):
What I'm trying to hear you.

Speaker 1 (19:01):
What do you want from me?

Speaker 6 (19:04):
A little air?

Speaker 7 (19:06):
Hey?

Speaker 1 (19:06):
Can you help me out? James? I gotta do something.
I'm not saying somebody made a mistake, but I gotta
take care some business. Can you help me out? James?
All right, Well you've put it off long enough. It's
time to replace your tires. James, do you know that?

Speaker 6 (19:20):
Okay, push your tires and we'll replace it.

Speaker 1 (19:23):
A body, Where should you go to get your tires? James,
that's so No, that's not the commercials. You don't have
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Speaker 6 (19:38):
That wills that you need to change when your tires changed.

Speaker 1 (19:43):
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they have. They have touring tires, A commuter for a commuter.

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Speaker 1 (19:53):
They have all terrain tires. Yeah, here's what you do, James.
Just use that tire decision guy, get a personalized tire recommendation.

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You are decision guy. You're gonna tires. You ain't recommendation for.

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The line or have fluck tires.

Speaker 1 (20:29):
When's the last time you drove, James?

Speaker 6 (20:32):
That should be my license and I just worded by
day because you said that was development of a handicapped
and I did not deserve a license anymore. That was
a danger to the public.

Speaker 1 (20:42):
What year was that?

Speaker 6 (20:44):
Just this past few years ago when I came into
these houses from Shangha.

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Just t.

Speaker 1 (21:58):
You're just mumbling. J You're just mumbling, James, You're mumbling
your mumble mouth. Now what's wrong with you? James? I
know you got a golden ticket yesterday. You didn't even

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use the golden ticket.

Speaker 6 (22:20):
I couldn't go of course.

Speaker 1 (22:24):
Of course is of course it's going. Why would I
even bring that up? So stupid women at Montana? That's where?
Would you move to Montana? James? If Tammy said, come on,
move to Montana, would you move there?

Speaker 6 (22:39):
In Minnesota for a second, bring it to the mall
of America?

Speaker 1 (22:42):
Did you yes? What's that when you came to the
beating me?

Speaker 6 (22:47):
Did you no?

Speaker 1 (22:49):
No? I was sold not to go. I went to
I ate all the juicy Lucy's around Minnesota, and I
went to Mississippi River there and why I went around?
But I didn't go. I did not end up. I
went to Lake Minnito. That's where I went. That's where
the love boat was. That's where the famous love boat scanned,
which was great sports talk radio. Yeah, Lorranga, the Vikings.

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They rented out a boat on Link Minnetonka and hired
prostitutes in sleepy Minnesota.

Speaker 6 (23:21):
Constitutes.

Speaker 1 (23:23):
I guess escorts different than a prostitute. I guess it
costs more money. They're more expensive. All right, James, if
you had enough time, I put you on for like
five minutes. That's way too much time, James, quickly, I

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did it.

Speaker 6 (23:48):
I was a latrine.

Speaker 1 (23:55):
That's an old military term.

Speaker 5 (23:56):
Latrine.

Speaker 1 (23:57):
You don't hear the term latrine very often anymore. That
means bathroom, right, yes, yes, but you know it's not
something that's normally used and polites to said. Although on
those those eight GTV shows they say the powder room.
At powder room, we will take some more calls. Also,

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but well, we'll go through them anyway. We'll get to
all that. But right now, let's get you caught up

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on everything going on in the overnight, and we say
hello too, Steamboat Willie Eddie Garcia.

Speaker 5 (24:49):
All right, Ben, thanks. We'll start with the NBA, where
the Boston Celtics will start. Jason Tatum reportedly agree on
the richest contract in league history, five years and three
hundred and fourteen million dollars. This after Tatum helped the
Celtics to their eighteenth title this past season. Tatum overtakes
teammate Jalen Brown, who had the richest deal at twenty
two hundred and eighty five million dollars. Former longtime Warriors

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guard Clay Thompson agreeing on a three year deal worth
fifty million dollars to join the Dallas Mavericks. The deal
was a sign and trade. It also required the MAVs
to ship out swing mat Josh Green to the Charlotte Hornets,
with two second round picks going to Golden State. NHL
news the Nashville Predators the big winners as free agency
opened up in the NHL. They signed two times Staleley
Cup winner and former Tampa Bay Lightning captain Steven Stamkos

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to bringing former Stanley Cup winner Jonathan Marchiso, a playoff
MVP with the Vegas Golden Knights, and coveted defenseman Brady Shade.
They also resigned their goalie UC Sorrows to an eight
year deal. Soccer Copa America USA is out after losing
to Uuguay won nothing. They beat Bolivia in their first match,
but then lost to Panama That put him in a
must win situation in three year Aguay and they lost
to US eliminated before the knockout stage in a tournament

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in which they were the host country. In baseball, we
had just three games. Astros beat the Blue Jays three
to one. Houston's won ten of a. They're now three
back of Seattle for the top spot in the AL West.
Rockies walk off with an eight seven, went over the
Brewers in ten and also ten innings for the Mets
to beat the Nationals nine to seven, New York scoring
six runs in the tenth inning to get that victory. Then,

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I know you're very excited that in the overnight hour
we have sports going on. Wimbledon. Somebody die wimbled Underway. Yeah,
they're a tennis aren't Guy Finley. I'm sure very excited
about that. He's probably now Harmon. Harmon's in London?

Speaker 1 (26:29):
Is he going to I didn't know that. Yeah, he's
on vacation. He's in London.

Speaker 5 (26:34):
Well, I mean you're a sports guy and I think
that's the biggest event sports wise in London.

Speaker 1 (26:40):
So some soccer game that's bigger than that, though, right,
some soccer.

Speaker 5 (26:45):
I mean occasionally I guess, but not you know, worldwide. Yeah,
we're not like whatever the biggest English Premier League matches.
We're not talking about it on the show, but I'll
mention Wimbledon every now and then.

Speaker 1 (26:56):
Yeah, would you want to go to that, Eddie? Is
that something you'd like to do?

Speaker 5 (27:00):
I can't say that I would make specific plans for that,
but if I was over there, if I was over there,
I knew I was going to be vacationing over there,
yeah I might check it out.

Speaker 1 (27:08):
Yeah, So I've heard the way to do it is
you buy a general admission ticket and then you can
you know what they do. It's like seat you know,
seat fillers at the Academy Award. Yes, so I've been
told that you buy a general emission ticket. And then
because the tournament goes on all day, the early round

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like these are the first few days of Wimbledon. It
starts in the morning and goes all the way to
like ten o'clock at night in London, and so people
leave because they're like, I've seen enough tennis, and then
they want someone to sit in those seats, so they
re issue those seats for like pennies on the dollar,
so you can get a really good seat center court
at Wimbledon. I don't know why that popped in my

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head right now, but it did.

Speaker 5 (27:52):
That's interesting. I've never been to a professional tennis event
I have is is there a professional, you know, sport
event you've never been to that you would like to
go to. I don't know. I mean, you know, you
don't have to see something specific as like a super Bowl, but.

Speaker 1 (28:07):
Like, well, I've never been to the Super Bowl. I
would be I've been to the Super Bowl events. You've
been to the Super Bowl? Have you been inside?

Speaker 5 (28:12):
Though? Yeah, I've never been to a super Bowl. I
have never been to like a big boxing match like
in Vegas. I would love to try.

Speaker 1 (28:21):
Back before the UFC existed, when the pimps and the
hose were out there in real Vegas, you know, and
Mike I went to I covered a Mike Tyson fight,
Dale Joya, a couple Dale Hoya fights.

Speaker 5 (28:31):
They don't really have this, I guess I'll about this.
Jonas is still in the boxing, but they don't really
have those big match as much anymore.

Speaker 1 (28:39):
It's it's sporadic and a lot of the top boxers
are not American boxers, so they're overseas and they do
a lot of in the Middle East. But yeah, fight
night in Vegas. Oh, it was awesome. I'm so lucky
I got to experience that. That was really cool. Although
sometimes some of those wasn't that where what's his name
met his demise there the the rap guy Tupac. It

(29:02):
was after a that's just known as the rap guy. Yeah,
it was after. It wasn't after a fight, it.

Speaker 5 (29:08):
Was it was in Vegas. I don't recall it after
after a fight.

Speaker 1 (29:11):
Yea, Oh man, there were some why I can close
my eyes and visualize some of the things I saw
there after around those fights. It was nuts. Anyway, Is
that it all right? It is the Ben Malors Show.
As we continue on, we'll get back to the calls.
We'll say hello to Dave, who's in upstate New York.
I think, hello, Dave, Hey, good morning, big Ben. Oh

(29:36):
that's you. Tell you took your meds. You're in a
good mood. I can tell already you're in a good.

Speaker 5 (29:43):
Mood, Dave.

Speaker 6 (29:45):
I'm in a great mood, Ben.

Speaker 8 (29:46):
But I do have a question. How bad is man
for destroying Major League Baseball? Did you see that review
of a home run from Noel from Cleveland that was follow.

Speaker 1 (29:59):
Well, there's a lot of there's a lot of things
to despise about Rob Manford that is not high on
the list. How about the ghost runners? How about not
punishing the cheating a stros? How about that?

Speaker 6 (30:14):
Right?

Speaker 8 (30:14):
I got you, Ben, But my point is I got
I got a sixty five minutes TV. My eyes are
pretty bad. I could clearly see it foul. These these
people in these in the review have all kinds of screams.

Speaker 1 (30:30):
That is true. So are you saying you are more qualified, Dave,
to be an umpire and you would like to apply
to be an umpire at least be in the replay
center in New.

Speaker 8 (30:40):
York Murray in New York, so you know I would
drive to New York City every day to work.

Speaker 1 (30:46):
Well, you might have. You might have to go down
to Jersey, though it might be in Jersey action I thought.

Speaker 8 (30:52):
I thought the office was in Manhattan or not just
the NFL.

Speaker 1 (30:58):
It might be man but I think it might also
be the MLB Network studios, which I think are in
New Jersey. I think, But it doesn't matter. It's close whatever,
same thing.

Speaker 8 (31:10):
But yeah, did you actually see that home run?

Speaker 1 (31:13):
I did not. I didn't.

Speaker 6 (31:15):
Yeah.

Speaker 8 (31:16):
When I show it on TV, they're like, oh, you
can't see the ball disappears behind the pole, so it's foul.
But they called it. They said it was fair.

Speaker 1 (31:25):
Yeah, and you're very you're very upset by this, Dave.
You're very angry by this. You're in the angry enough
to call a radio show and complain.

Speaker 8 (31:34):
Yeah, because I love baseball.

Speaker 1 (31:37):
I like to destroy.

Speaker 8 (31:40):
This this this man Froud he's destroying there.

Speaker 1 (31:43):
Okay, you're a pity yourself. I gotta go. You're a
pity Thank you. Let's go to Damien, who's in the
Sunshine State. Hello, Damien, welcome, Hey man, I love your show.
Thank you. I love yours as well, Damien, how's everything?
What part of floor? It's a rather large state, Dami
in South Florida, Central Florida, northern Florida. Where you at,

(32:05):
like Tallahashe Oh, Tallahassee? All right, very nice? Yeah, great
college town Tallahassee.

Speaker 9 (32:14):
I heard the name Jed who fled last week. Okay,
and I I think I want to change his name
okay to Jed gives head.

Speaker 1 (32:28):
Hm hmmm. It's an interesting name. I don't know that.
Uh yeah, I don't think that. Yeah, I mean it's
a it's original. I didn't I didn't expect that. I
you know, he'd be like he could have gone with
like the hawktuah. That would have been probably radio friendly,

(32:50):
right hawktuah. But instead he went the other direction. Okay,
all right, we I think we have our contestants. That's all.
We got those online. One's a phony phone call there, Patrick,
But I mean we can put him on if you
want Angry Bill in Jacksonville. You want to play the game,
Angry Bill, You're just gonna goof around and ruin the game.

(33:11):
I'm hoping severely to play the game severely. Are you
sure about that? I'm positive all right, it's Mallow's amount
of money. Will let you play if you want, You're
gonna try it. You're not gonna You're not gonna sabotage
the game.

Speaker 8 (33:26):
You're not gonna done.

Speaker 1 (33:29):
You've done that many times never. All right, all right,
I'll make a deal with you. Okay, I'll let you play,
but if I if you sabotage the game, I will
go to the bullpen. So Patrick, get me a someone
in the bullpen and one of these people calling up,
leave them there. They'll be in my bullpen, and I
if I have to go to the bullpen, I'll go
to the bullpen. Okay, Yeah, Patrick's gonna do it. I

(33:53):
know what you're gonna do. But you're gonna pick me
and all time hit king from the Cincinnati Reds. And yeah,
you're ago Joe. You're gonna go Joe blow. I know
what you're going to do. I'm on the sick, I'm
on your How about you play with Eddie? How about that?
Play with Eddie? Play with Eddie. Play with Eddie. You're
gonna play with Eddie. How about you and Eddie? Alright,

(34:13):
you and Eddie. He didn't he didn't say no, you'll
play with Eddie. Fine, okay, you play with Eddie. Steve
is in Kansas City. He used to force him. No,
he said he likes you. He wants to pick with you.
He wanted to bill you like Eddie. Yes, okay, he
picked you that he picked you, Steve. Oh, kea drig

(34:39):
Oh this is great.

Speaker 6 (34:40):
You go.

Speaker 8 (34:45):
What do you think about that screw job we got
from the South American officials today?

Speaker 5 (34:50):
Man, that's coming up. It's gonna lead off next next
hour with that topic.

Speaker 1 (34:55):
Okay, yeah, that's me my mat of monologue an hour
four are who do you want to partner up with? Steve?

Speaker 6 (35:03):
I want to partner up with Bennett Mullard.

Speaker 1 (35:08):
Okay, well seven, what do we have the board? By
the way, Patie, do you have the board? You do? Okay?
It would help if I had the board, see I
we all need the board.

Speaker 5 (35:20):
Here.

Speaker 1 (35:21):
The way it works, PATCHI is we have the board
and then we picked the categories and all that stuff.
But I don't have the board.

Speaker 5 (35:26):
See I don't.

Speaker 1 (35:27):
I was not given the board. That's very Coop, a
loop like you, because Coop also last we call him
last minute coop because he does no prep before he
shows up and then walks in at the last second
and at the very last second believes he's like Shaquille O'Neal.
He likes doing things on company time, not doing anything
before he gets to work. All right, let's see here
we have angry Bill. You're with Eddie. The categories are

(35:48):
patriotic threads, born in the USA, Independence Day and lighting fireworks?
Which one do you want? Angry Bill.

Speaker 8 (35:57):
The last one?

Speaker 1 (35:59):
Lighting fireworks? Okay? And key drinking? Steve, You've got patriotic
threads born in the USA or Independence Day?

Speaker 9 (36:08):
Is my.

Speaker 1 (36:12):
Okay? Never do that again, everyone, Hold on, don't hang up.
We are going to have Malard's amount of money. We'll
get to that. We'll do it next.

Speaker 3 (36:20):
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Speaker 3 (36:51):
Now Malor's Mountain of money. Hello, do you have what
it takes to get to the top? Probably not.

Speaker 1 (37:01):
Let's play the game here. It is the fourth of
July coming up this week, well actually today it's the
second of July, but the fourth isly a couple of
days away. And Patrick has put this board together at
least handed it to us, and let's play the game.
We have Angry Bill, who's in Jackson. Well, we do
have somebody the bullpen, but Angryville is teamed up with Eddie,
so I think he'll be in his best behavior. And

(37:21):
we have Steve in Kansas City, better known as Keg
Drinking Steve, who's partner up with me? Eddie? You are
up first. You picked lighting fireworks, Angry Bill Diggs All
you're on the air, Steve, I got good moves. Yeah, okay, guy,

(37:48):
take your breath. Eddie, you're ups.

Speaker 5 (37:50):
And when it's you and Ben, you can sing all
you want right now.

Speaker 1 (37:53):
Shut up. These athletes, everyone, shut up. These athletes all
have at least four championships and forty five seconds on
the clock. Fox starts, Now you're on your way go.

Speaker 5 (38:02):
Legendary Patriots quarterback. I'm Brady, current Lakers star. They just
drafted his son, Hall of fame big man for Orlando
and the Lakers sells everything Jack Lakers start killed in
a helicopter crash. Oh my god, that's a current Warriors guard.

(38:23):
One of the best shooters of all time. Golden State.

Speaker 1 (38:25):
Oh my god, Oh jeez.

Speaker 5 (38:30):
Hall Yeah, hall of fame quarterback for the forty nine ers,
won four Super Bowls.

Speaker 1 (38:34):
You've gotta be joking.

Speaker 5 (38:36):
Forty nine ers.

Speaker 9 (38:38):
Let's go with Montana.

Speaker 5 (38:39):
What's his first name? Yes, legendary Patriots kicker. He's got
an Italian last name.

Speaker 1 (38:47):
Wait, wait, Joe. Montana is an eighty point question.

Speaker 5 (38:50):
Very difficult, very difficult.

Speaker 1 (38:52):
Patrick. Did we have hollering James or Marcel right in
the morn?

Speaker 5 (38:55):
Like?

Speaker 1 (38:56):
What was my god?

Speaker 9 (38:58):
Shut up the well, you got it?

Speaker 5 (39:00):
You got them all about one hundred pointers. That's pretty good.
All right? Give another reason in.

Speaker 1 (39:04):
My opinion that all let's show him mass done take drinking. Steve?
Are you ready? All right, boy?

Speaker 8 (39:11):
I'm calling.

Speaker 1 (39:13):
We'll see how you do here. I have a feeling
you're gonna suck born in the USA. These international athletes
have all won an NBA championship. Are you ready, oh man, foreigner?

Speaker 9 (39:25):
Are you kidding me?

Speaker 1 (39:26):
Oh boy? All right?

Speaker 5 (39:28):
Good?

Speaker 1 (39:28):
Forty five seconds, here we go. Known as the dream
for the Rockets in the eighties and the nineties, he
was a center for the Houston Rockets. What's his first name?

Speaker 3 (39:38):
Next?

Speaker 1 (39:43):
All right, and you look like a lama. He played
for the Lakers. He came from Memphis from Spain, Spaniard
the world beat French guard, he said, he said it,
all right, French guard for the French guard for the
San Antonio Spurs. No, well, that's an Argentinian Spurs player

(40:06):
Tony Parker. Oh, you got a both, the big german
for the man. That's fine. The Elijah won. You got
that one. That's a whole man.

Speaker 8 (40:18):
That was a That was the total on that first segment.

Speaker 1 (40:21):
Okay, I think that's to seventy, right, I think you
got to seventy if so, that means.

Speaker 5 (40:27):
Patrick, are you keeping score?

Speaker 8 (40:29):
I am? I am?

Speaker 5 (40:29):
What's what did they just have that was alone?

Speaker 2 (40:32):
On just that segment was about we don't know about
that was and how.

Speaker 5 (40:40):
Many we had had two forty, so it's we're up next.

Speaker 1 (40:44):
All right?

Speaker 9 (40:45):
Angry building from that guy?

Speaker 5 (40:46):
Angry? Do you want Patriot? Wait a second, what was it?
The Patriot threads? The Patriot threads or Independence Day?

Speaker 6 (40:56):
Independence?

Speaker 5 (40:57):
All right? These athletes have all been in movies. Ready,
let's go Chicago Bulls. All star legend, all time legend.
Michael Jordan, Yes, quarterback of the Miami Dolphins, number thirteen.
Uh Iron Blank the boxer, youngest heavyweight champ ever. You

(41:19):
got to be.

Speaker 1 (41:19):
Choking going on here? What is trimy for? Idiot?

Speaker 5 (41:24):
The Lakers skyhook War the Goggles sky.

Speaker 8 (41:28):
Man Think written by Mark can't.

Speaker 1 (41:30):
Be talking while we're doing this, doesn't matter. This is embarrassing,
This is this is a pravacy. He said it, He
said it.

Speaker 5 (41:36):
Kill killed his wife and a friend running the Heisman,
Trumphy winner, Buffeto Buffalo bills killer. I can't hear them
Buffalo bills time you guys see you guys forfit, you
guys forfeit because we couldn't get near her. Eddie