April 22, 2025 • 39 mins
Ben Maller talks about Mavs GM Nico Harrison saying he didn't know how much Luka Doncic meant to Mavericks fans and that he has 'never spoken ill' of Luka, how the criticism of the trade is undervaluing Anthony Davis, Maller's Mountain of Money: Jack Nicholson Edition, and more!
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
O maha, oh maha, omaha. We call him audible. It's
our numb Birth three, our number three of the original
RECUPE podcast, Happy Tuesday Too. It's the twenty second day
of April. We're a couple days away from the NFL Draft,
and here in our number three. What is the word?
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What is the word? For? Nico Harrison, the general manager,
saying he didn't know the Maverick fans level of love
of Luca. Also the Maverick GM, Nico Harrison says he's
never spoken ill of Luca. Is this likely or unlikely?
Also the Mavericks GM says the issue with the criticism
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of Luca's trade is fans undervaluing Anthony Davis as an
all NBA player, all defensive player. Can you decode what
he's actually saying, what he really means? Nico Harrison will
talk about all of this and more right now, settle in.
It's our number three, Nico Elico, Well come, in the
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beginning of another hour of the Ben Maler Show. We
are in the air everywhere sound Wave soulmates, as we
enjoy the agony of defeat coast to coast, border, the
border and beyond. On the mast and appen tizingly powerful
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microphones of fsr M monating live from the wall. Just
a hole in the wall. That's what far Out day
of likes to say. We're hanging out here the Fox
Sports Radio studios. Amazing, unbelievable. Here we are together again
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another hour and our lead this hour is from the
Lone Star State. Punching bags are fun. You want to
take out some frustration, you go to the punching bag.
Like I used to futs around with golf, and I
really play a round of golf. I would go to
the driving range and just whack some golf balls. Take
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some frustration out, go to the batting cages and just
your burry bonds on steroids, just hitting the ball of
the moon in the batting case. He takes some frustration.
It's a lot of fun to do that. And we
have someone in sports that we can goof on and
it makes it more fun. And I don't think he
gets it. I don't. This guy's so obtuse. I don't
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think he gets it. So the fallout continues. Fallout continues
in Big Duke Luka Donzik and his trade to the Lakers.
The shrapnel is still flying in the air, everywhere, and
if you have not heard the latest on this, it
gets even better. The Mavericks ownership. Now there's something to
believe the ownership was behind this. The ownership. While they
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might not have cooked come up with the idea to
trade Luca, they certainly didn't stop it. And yet they
lately have decided to drag out the GM in the
public square and have the general manager take some public flogging.
And it happened again. It happened again. If you didn't
see the latest on this randomly randomly on Monday, the
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general manager Nico Harrison, who somehow hasn't been fired yet,
which buys into the conspiracy that ownership supported the trade.
Otherwise you would have fired the guy anyway. Nico Harrison
says that he miscalculated. He miscalculated just how much Luca
was beloved in Dallas. I'm not making this up. Take
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a listen.
Speaker 2 (03:47):
I didn't know that Luca was important to the to
the fan base. But really, the way we looked at
it is, you know, if you're putting on the if
you're putting the team on the floor, that's Kyrie, Clay PJ,
Anthony Davis and Lively. We filled that's a championship caliber
team and we would have been winning at a high
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level and that would acquieted some of the outrage. And
so unfortunately we weren't able to do that, so it
just continued to, you know, go on and on.
Speaker 1 (04:19):
All right, So despite the persistent cat calls for two
and a half months, two and a half months since
the deal, somehow Nico Harrison has not not been let
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go and continues on saying, Hey, this and this is right.
I didn't realize it. Why don't we Why don't we
break that off? And we'll focus on that. That's a
good stopping point to kind of break this down. And
we'll start with that SoundBite. So let's discuss the question
what is the word I love? What is the word
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that's my favorite game? What is the word? For Nico
Harrison saying, as you just heard, he did not realize
the depth of the love the affair, the love affair
that was going on between Luca and the fan base
in Dallas. So I've got village people, Annie and gas Man,
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and we will combine all of these things together and
we will put the biscuit in the basket, is what
we're going to do with the biscuit in the basket.
So first of all, to answer the question what is
the word? What is the word for Nico Harrison saying
he did not realize the love that was going on.
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My word is Barry, as in dingle Berry. Nico Harrison.
Say it with me now, kids, Nico Harrison is a
Dingle Barry. That's what he is, all right. It's really
a classic attempt to try to dodge accountability. I had
no idea, your honor. It's like you get pulled over
for speeding and the officer says, how fast were you going?
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And you say, well, I was going you know, ninety
two miles an hour, and the officers you know what
the speed limit was? And you say, well, your officer,
I didn't know what the speed limit was. Like, that's
your defense, I did not know. Like what are we
doing here? You're claiming ignorance? Is what you're doing. You're
claiming the I word ignorance. You're the head of basketball
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operations of the Dallas Mavericks. You're supposed to know the
franchise inside and out. I am inn overnight talk show host.
I know the Mavericks more than Nico Harrison. How embarrassing
is that I'm not even a Maverick fan. And I
realized the bromance between the Dallas Maverick fan and the Phasian.
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And you know what Nico does too. He's playing dumb.
He knows, he's aware of it. He's fully aware of it, right,
I mean, he's going across I'm like, my name is
Nico Harrison, and I'm one of the village people. I'm
a village idiot, is what I am. Is what he's doing. Now,
we do know that in the court of law. This
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is not the court of law. This is basketball. It's
different court. But in the court of law, when you
find yourself uttering the words I didn't know. When you
say that I didn't know in front of a judge,
you know what that starts. That starts confetti because you're cooked.
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It's a guaranteed loss for you, and you're gonna pay money.
If it's a ticket, you're paying the ticket said I
didn't know, I did, I did not know. The notion
that I did not know can save you from getting
out of hot water. It's just a myth. Now turning
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the page, but staying with the topic. But we turned
the page to another chapter here, so you have the
maverishem Nico Harrison, who also said that he's never spoken
ill of Luca donton that this is something that's been
going around here, that this is not a case where
he's done anything negative about Luca and trashed him and
the media and whatnot. So the question is this likely
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or unlikely that Nico Harrison is telling the truth that
he's never spoken ill of Luke? All right, So on
this one, the arrow is pointing towards completely unlikely, completely unlikely. Now,
technically Nico Harrison has plausible deniability. Was he recorded on camera?
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Was he recorded on in a microphone saying something negative? No,
he was not, So he does that plausible deniability. However,
it's like the first It's like that show on an
A and E, first forty eight, right, And I used
to watch that show back in the day, first forty eight.
The Maverick Roster was gutted, like you gut a fish, right,
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and he just suck all the guts out and all
the goo and all that and the fish and so
it was like a crime scene. And in the first
forty eight, the first forty eight, after that trade, I
counted roughly a dozen a dozen stories that were leaked
in the first forty eight. It was an orchestrated smear
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campaign against Luca. We talked about many of them because
they make great talk radio. They make wonderful talk radio,
and we thank Nico Harrison and the people with the
Mavericks for providing those stories. Now it's conceivable that maybe
that was a quinkie dick. I'm from the mindset that
that's too big of a coincidence, too big of a
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quinkie dink, if you will. It defies probability that it
just happened, that the trade happened, and Nico had nothing
to do with these stories getting out. It seemed like
a multi level marketing campaign to trash Luca Donzig is
what it sounded like. Now among the leaks, Just for
those of you a little slow in the back of
the room, I know it's late at night or early
(10:08):
in the morning, but Dallas among the leaks. This is
in the first forty eight. All of these came in
the first forty eight hours after Luca was given, not traded,
given to the lakers. He said he had stories out
there that said Dallas had consistent concerns about conditioning, that
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he was fat, essentially that Luca was lacking discipline regarding
his diet. There was a specific claim that alleged that
Luca was a giant, fat tub of gou said he
was two hundred and seventy pounds during the season. We
talked about that. It's believed also that the Mavericks leaked
footage to different friends in the media. The Mavericks leaked
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footage to push the narrative that Luca was out of shape,
that he was overweighthed or lazy. So they leaked out
some practice footage that was in the first forty eighth.
The Mavericks also leaked someone I don't know who, someone
leaked that the Mavericks had to fake a wrist injury.
They embellished a wrist injury for Luca because they essentially
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sent him to a fat farm, that they had to
have him lose weight because he was not in NBA condition,
And they came up with this fugazy wrist injury thing
and they milked that because he was a fat tub
of goo. Luca. All of this in the well I
can go on, but wait, there's more report by the
Athletic Someone leaked a story to the athletics saying that
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Luca's affinity for beer and hookah, that's the nickname Hookah.
Luca beer and hookah was a big concern among many
in the NBA, not just the Mavericks. They claimed it
as a rookie, Luca was such a out of shape
athlete that in the rookie season, you know, you have
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the thermos on the bench and you just have like water,
or you have like Gatorade or Power Aid or one
of those things. Luca had a mix of lemonade and
sweet tea, which I think isn't that an Arnold palmer?
I think I think that's an Arnold point. So he
had like an Arnold palmer when he was in the
huddle and he's squirting an Arnold Palmer into his mouth.
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It sounds nice. Anyway, that was leaked. I mean, I
go on on this bunch. I'm not done. I'm not done.
How about the one where they lacked that he just
was so unprofessional that his demise was coming within five years.
His body was gonna fall apart within five years. That also, again,
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Nico Harrison says he is not someone that said any
of this, And while his name was not quoted verbatim,
he says he never spoke ill, so that's likely true.
Somebody did, and it seems pretty fair to say that
Nico did not stop whoever was doing that from doing it,
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and seems somebody was encouraging it. But that's the oldest
move in the book. You trade a popular player and
you just bury the player and that and that's how
it works in most towns. I know, the Boston sports teams,
for example, they get rid of popular players. They just
bury the players in the way out of town, like
every little thing that somebody out of beef with just
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complete losers, you know, on their way out. It's always
been that way in there. It's in New York, it's
like that a lot, but it's pretty much anywhere these days.
All right, now, final part of this The Hour of
Nico Nico Harrison. The Hour of Nico Harrison. So one
constant theme, One constant theme of Nico Harrison's latest media appearance,
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and this has continued over the last couple of times
he's spoken to the media, is a trom tremendous appreciation
of Anthony Davis that that is the default position when
he discusses Nico Harrison. This move his defending of the
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trade of Luca is yeah, but we got Anthony Davis.
Yeah but yeah, but yeah, but we got Anthony Davis.
Harrison said, I think the biggest thing is if you
don't value a d as an All NBA player, all
defensive player, then you're not going to like the trade.
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All right, So let's break that down. Nico Harrison saying
the issue with those criticizing the trade of Luca, which
again it's not a trade, it's a giveaway. Now trade,
a trade is where you get something a lot in return.
It's giveaway. So he says it's fans undervaluing this. Essentially,
he said, fans undervaluing Anthony Davis as an All NBA player,
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all defense player. Can you decode what Nico Harrison is
actually saying the general manager there of the Dallas mav Rex.
So here's how I decode this. Uh, this is a
love affair, this is romance. Nico Harrison is a smitten kitten.
He's got those puppy dog eyes for Anthony Davis. And
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at the same time it's a two for one special.
So not only is he slobbering all over Anthony Davis,
Nico Harrison's whispering sweet nothings in Anthony Davis's ears, not
only that it's a two for one special, because he's
also at the same time calling the Maverick fans subtly numbskulls.
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You're if you don't like this trait, you're a numb school.
You don't understand. That's what he is saying. He's a
gas man on this one, as Nico Harrison, the Maverick
GM is gas lighting, gas lighting the fantas. He's denying facts.
He's absolutely doing that, denying facts. He's twisting information around
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to suit him and insisting that events did not happen
the way everyone remembers them, gaslighting, gas lighting. One on one,
the level of stupidity of Nico Harrison is breathtaking. It
is like, how did this guy end up at General Mention?
Like he seems like one of the dumbest people in sports, seriously,
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like a moron, Like how did that happen? How did
I guess? It's the Peter principle. You rise to your
highest level of incompetence and you stay there. But this
guy's really just a dumb dum. The more he talks,
it's like, what are we doing? And even if you
thought Anthony Davis was really really good. Right, there's a
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six year age gap, and he talked about, Wow, we
have a championship quality team with Anthony Davis. Hey, Boso,
you were in the NBA Finals a year ago against
the Boston Celtis. You already had a championship caliber team.
You already had it, Like, what are you doing? Anthony
Davis is fragile, right, He's a delicate little piece of glass,
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is what he is. And it's it's even better because
not only is he delicate. Everyone knows this, but Anthony
Davis his first game with Dallas got hurt. That's the
full Anthony Davis experience. Right. And if you're gonna trade
Lucat Donsion, you should have gotten like four or five
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first round draft picks and like three or four players
who were pretty good players in return. You didn't do that.
It's like you were working as a man cheerian candidate
for the Lakers. It's you know something's not right when
when the conspiracy theories make a lot of sense that
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either you were in the tank you were ordered by
the NBA to trade the player of the Lakers ownership's
trying to move the Mavericks to Vegas. They told you
to make the trade like those make sense because no
one no one else would say, wow, let me wake
up and trade Luca like I'm gonna upset the customers
of the business I work for and I'm gonna make
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the team worse, Like who do that unless you were
told to do? It's wild, wild, wild wide anyway. It
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here it is one more time, said playing at the
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age of thirty, He said, age is just a number.
I've been saying that ever since I was a little kid.
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Speaker 4 (23:39):
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been saying this ever since I was a little kid,
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Congrat Well you're welcome. You know what people never thank
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Speaker 5 (26:57):
I do.
Speaker 1 (26:57):
I do broadcasting. I don't do narrow asking. Uh w
n B A is there's a narrow audience, all right,
it's a it's a niche sport. It's a niche sport.
Now somewhere people people complain that I talk about the NBA.
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talked about the w n B A.
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N B A you don't call me?
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No?
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I feel like you.
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Don't call me because I got the hat too.
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Speaker 5 (28:07):
That What do you want to talk about? Ask me
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We're now we're now playing let's go around the room.
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Do you like peeps?
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What you said?
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Papers.
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I asked if you like peeps?
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I'm working, okay, all right?
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What kind of work do you do?
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Run a bread route?
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I'm gonna play with a coop.
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Okay, you're a loser, all right, are you? I don't
know why you have such a great lexicon of sports
and knowledge of sports. All right, hold on a sec, Jacob,
and we have Darryl in Florida, is gonna play? Hello Darryl?
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Hey, Dan, you got this guy's full of energy.
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Look at this guy, full of life. Coop, You're screwed.
This guy's got more energy, he's got more Raised.
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In Caago, but living in Miami.
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Now he's Look at You're living a dream in Miami.
Look at you? All right? What are you doing in
Miami there, Darryl.
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I'm not come my way to work. I work with
home people.
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Oh look at that home. Those guys. Let me tell you.
Those guys at home people have all the answers.
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No, no, I go to home people. I ask them,
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See look at that. I'll save it, all right? I
like this guy. Let's play the game coop board of
the categories quick right? All right?
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This is Malard's mountain of money.
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The Jack Nicholson addition, he turns eighty eight years old today,
so it's impossible for the Lakers to lose on Jack
Nicholson's birthday. The categories are what isn't he a recluse?
Speaker 1 (34:32):
Now?
Speaker 6 (34:33):
The categories are one flew Over, the Cuckoo's Nest, as
good as it gets, Anger, management, and the Departed.
Speaker 4 (34:40):
Jacob, you're on first. Which category would you like?
Speaker 5 (34:42):
I would departed?
Speaker 4 (34:43):
That departed?
Speaker 1 (34:44):
All right?
Speaker 4 (34:45):
And Daryl, how about you?
Speaker 1 (34:49):
Okay?
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All right, there we go.
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So Jacob, you and I are up first. You need
the first and last name of the athlete in order
to get points. We're gonna have forty five seconds. We
picked the departed. These athletes all passed away in twenty
twenty four. Are you ready, Jacob?
Speaker 4 (35:04):
All right? Forty five seconds? Begin? All right?
Speaker 6 (35:07):
Running back for the Bills who killed two people? Yes,
the all time hit king for the Reds.
Speaker 1 (35:13):
Yes.
Speaker 6 (35:14):
Uh, the big Redhead He was also a deadhead out
of UCLA NBA player his father father of Yes. Yes uh.
This guy was a center who shook his finger after
blocking the shot.
Speaker 4 (35:28):
No, no, no, yes uh.
Speaker 6 (35:31):
This guy was the only player to win the Cy
Young and the Rookie of the Year in the same year.
Speaker 4 (35:35):
Pitch Dodgers pitcher. Yes, this guy was.
Speaker 6 (35:38):
A guard long time for the Cowboys. Yes uh, this
guy was a quarterback for the Rams in the sixties.
Speaker 4 (35:45):
His first name is the same as an empire from Italy.
Speaker 1 (35:57):
The per you gave him too many Sorea you're were
talking about, that was loy You got extra title?
Speaker 4 (36:10):
Is your time?
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God? Extra time? Better get going? All right? Come on there,
let's show HotStart here. We haven't even gone yet. It's
like a team screwing the first inning and you're bat
in the bottom of the first It's the bottom of
the first inning. That's right, We got this Daryl.
Speaker 6 (36:25):
Listen, what a performance by That last one did knock count?
Speaker 1 (36:30):
That last one did not count. We'll go to the judges' scorecard.
Let's play. Here we go. These you said one flew
over the cuckoo's nest. These athletes are all considered a
little crazy. Are you ready, Daryl from Chicago but living
in Miami, living that great life in Miami. Al Right,
here we go forty five seconds on the clock. We're
on our way and go. A wide receiver for the Steelers,
he was with the box. He quit in the middle
(36:51):
of a game. Yeah, yeah, I think he said that right.
Also the worm for the NBA had funny hair for
the Bowls in the nineties from Yeah, yeah, exactly. A
wide receiver signed autographs I love my quarterback in the
nineties and the two thousands haul the Yes Red Sox star,
(37:13):
not big Poppy, but what's his last name? Yes, Chocolate
Thunder NBA player, Yes, running back for the Broncos and
the Redskins. He wore funny outfits to his news conferences
from Miami went to the use of my that's wow. Damn,
(37:34):
I'm sorry, that's all right, that's all right.
Speaker 4 (37:36):
Clinton Portis was who you had in there.
Speaker 1 (37:39):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (37:39):
Clinton, that's one hundred and fifty points. So you guys
don't need to go again.
Speaker 1 (37:43):
Okay, good? This actually will work out to advantage is
what Coop has done. Screwed me over?
Speaker 6 (37:47):
Eryl.
Speaker 4 (37:47):
Do you want is as good as it gets? Your
anger management.
Speaker 1 (37:50):
Anger management, anger management rights.
Speaker 6 (37:53):
These athletes all had or have anger issues. Forty five
seconds begin all right.
Speaker 1 (37:59):
Nineteen nineties and NBA player for the Rockets. He was
a guard. He went to the crowd, attack the fan.
He's got a podcast right now, play with the Elijah
on Rockets shooting guard. No uh second basement for the
Texas Rangers. He punched Jose Bautista of the Blue Jays
in a famous incident in Arlington. Is this singing on
(38:23):
uh wide receiver for the Carolina Panthers and the Baltimore Ravens.
Uh heuh is currently retired. He's on the NFL network.
He slept with some guy's wife. He got in trouble
for that. Hello are you on? Darryl therep?
Speaker 6 (38:37):
I don't know what.
Speaker 1 (38:38):
Are you there? Derek? Oh there you go? We got one,
all right, all right?
Speaker 4 (38:44):
Oh boy?
Speaker 1 (38:49):
You hit? Wait wait wait wait wait wait wait you
you said did you know any of them?
Speaker 5 (39:00):
Both?
Speaker 3 (39:00):
Father?
Speaker 6 (39:01):
Tell me? So?
Speaker 4 (39:01):
What's the name?
Speaker 1 (39:02):
What are the names?
Speaker 5 (39:03):
Idiot?
Speaker 1 (39:03):
What are the sens? Sed itags? He doesn't know the names?
Know you didn't, Jacob? Good job, y'all need to blue
round domination. Good job, Daryl, we actually won. I'm gonna
go up. We're going we're going to a booth review,
and we won the game. We won on booth review.
Good job.
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RECUPE podcast, Happy Tuesday Too. It's the twenty second day
of April. We're a couple days away from the NFL Draft,
and here in our number three. What is the word?
(00:21):
What is the word? For? Nico Harrison, the general manager,
saying he didn't know the Maverick fans level of love
of Luca. Also the Maverick GM, Nico Harrison says he's
never spoken ill of Luca. Is this likely or unlikely?
Also the Mavericks GM says the issue with the criticism
(00:44):
of Luca's trade is fans undervaluing Anthony Davis as an
all NBA player, all defensive player. Can you decode what
he's actually saying, what he really means? Nico Harrison will
talk about all of this and more right now, settle in.
It's our number three, Nico Elico, Well come, in the
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another hour and our lead this hour is from the
Lone Star State. Punching bags are fun. You want to
take out some frustration, you go to the punching bag.
Like I used to futs around with golf, and I
really play a round of golf. I would go to
the driving range and just whack some golf balls. Take
(02:15):
some frustration out, go to the batting cages and just
your burry bonds on steroids, just hitting the ball of
the moon in the batting case. He takes some frustration.
It's a lot of fun to do that. And we
have someone in sports that we can goof on and
it makes it more fun. And I don't think he
gets it. I don't. This guy's so obtuse. I don't
(02:37):
think he gets it. So the fallout continues. Fallout continues
in Big Duke Luka Donzik and his trade to the Lakers.
The shrapnel is still flying in the air, everywhere, and
if you have not heard the latest on this, it
gets even better. The Mavericks ownership. Now there's something to
believe the ownership was behind this. The ownership. While they
(02:59):
might not have cooked come up with the idea to
trade Luca, they certainly didn't stop it. And yet they
lately have decided to drag out the GM in the
public square and have the general manager take some public flogging.
And it happened again. It happened again. If you didn't
see the latest on this randomly randomly on Monday, the
(03:23):
general manager Nico Harrison, who somehow hasn't been fired yet,
which buys into the conspiracy that ownership supported the trade.
Otherwise you would have fired the guy anyway. Nico Harrison
says that he miscalculated. He miscalculated just how much Luca
was beloved in Dallas. I'm not making this up. Take
(03:46):
a listen.
Speaker 2 (03:47):
I didn't know that Luca was important to the to
the fan base. But really, the way we looked at
it is, you know, if you're putting on the if
you're putting the team on the floor, that's Kyrie, Clay PJ,
Anthony Davis and Lively. We filled that's a championship caliber
team and we would have been winning at a high
(04:10):
level and that would acquieted some of the outrage. And
so unfortunately we weren't able to do that, so it
just continued to, you know, go on and on.
Speaker 1 (04:19):
All right, So despite the persistent cat calls for two
and a half months, two and a half months since
the deal, somehow Nico Harrison has not not been let
(04:39):
go and continues on saying, Hey, this and this is right.
I didn't realize it. Why don't we Why don't we
break that off? And we'll focus on that. That's a
good stopping point to kind of break this down. And
we'll start with that SoundBite. So let's discuss the question
what is the word I love? What is the word
(05:00):
that's my favorite game? What is the word? For Nico
Harrison saying, as you just heard, he did not realize
the depth of the love the affair, the love affair
that was going on between Luca and the fan base
in Dallas. So I've got village people, Annie and gas Man,
(05:21):
and we will combine all of these things together and
we will put the biscuit in the basket, is what
we're going to do with the biscuit in the basket.
So first of all, to answer the question what is
the word? What is the word for Nico Harrison saying
he did not realize the love that was going on.
(05:43):
My word is Barry, as in dingle Berry. Nico Harrison.
Say it with me now, kids, Nico Harrison is a
Dingle Barry. That's what he is, all right. It's really
a classic attempt to try to dodge accountability. I had
no idea, your honor. It's like you get pulled over
for speeding and the officer says, how fast were you going?
(06:08):
And you say, well, I was going you know, ninety
two miles an hour, and the officers you know what
the speed limit was? And you say, well, your officer,
I didn't know what the speed limit was. Like, that's
your defense, I did not know. Like what are we
doing here? You're claiming ignorance? Is what you're doing. You're
claiming the I word ignorance. You're the head of basketball
(06:32):
operations of the Dallas Mavericks. You're supposed to know the
franchise inside and out. I am inn overnight talk show host.
I know the Mavericks more than Nico Harrison. How embarrassing
is that I'm not even a Maverick fan. And I
realized the bromance between the Dallas Maverick fan and the Phasian.
(06:53):
And you know what Nico does too. He's playing dumb.
He knows, he's aware of it. He's fully aware of it, right,
I mean, he's going across I'm like, my name is
Nico Harrison, and I'm one of the village people. I'm
a village idiot, is what I am. Is what he's doing. Now,
we do know that in the court of law. This
(07:15):
is not the court of law. This is basketball. It's
different court. But in the court of law, when you
find yourself uttering the words I didn't know. When you
say that I didn't know in front of a judge,
you know what that starts. That starts confetti because you're cooked.
(07:36):
It's a guaranteed loss for you, and you're gonna pay money.
If it's a ticket, you're paying the ticket said I
didn't know, I did, I did not know. The notion
that I did not know can save you from getting
out of hot water. It's just a myth. Now turning
(07:58):
the page, but staying with the topic. But we turned
the page to another chapter here, so you have the
maverishem Nico Harrison, who also said that he's never spoken
ill of Luca donton that this is something that's been
going around here, that this is not a case where
he's done anything negative about Luca and trashed him and
the media and whatnot. So the question is this likely
(08:24):
or unlikely that Nico Harrison is telling the truth that
he's never spoken ill of Luke? All right, So on
this one, the arrow is pointing towards completely unlikely, completely unlikely. Now,
technically Nico Harrison has plausible deniability. Was he recorded on camera?
(08:46):
Was he recorded on in a microphone saying something negative? No,
he was not, So he does that plausible deniability. However,
it's like the first It's like that show on an
A and E, first forty eight, right, And I used
to watch that show back in the day, first forty eight.
The Maverick Roster was gutted, like you gut a fish, right,
(09:06):
and he just suck all the guts out and all
the goo and all that and the fish and so
it was like a crime scene. And in the first
forty eight, the first forty eight, after that trade, I
counted roughly a dozen a dozen stories that were leaked
in the first forty eight. It was an orchestrated smear
(09:27):
campaign against Luca. We talked about many of them because
they make great talk radio. They make wonderful talk radio,
and we thank Nico Harrison and the people with the
Mavericks for providing those stories. Now it's conceivable that maybe
that was a quinkie dick. I'm from the mindset that
that's too big of a coincidence, too big of a
(09:47):
quinkie dink, if you will. It defies probability that it
just happened, that the trade happened, and Nico had nothing
to do with these stories getting out. It seemed like
a multi level marketing campaign to trash Luca Donzig is
what it sounded like. Now among the leaks, Just for
those of you a little slow in the back of
the room, I know it's late at night or early
(10:08):
in the morning, but Dallas among the leaks. This is
in the first forty eight. All of these came in
the first forty eight hours after Luca was given, not traded,
given to the lakers. He said he had stories out
there that said Dallas had consistent concerns about conditioning, that
(10:29):
he was fat, essentially that Luca was lacking discipline regarding
his diet. There was a specific claim that alleged that
Luca was a giant, fat tub of gou said he
was two hundred and seventy pounds during the season. We
talked about that. It's believed also that the Mavericks leaked
footage to different friends in the media. The Mavericks leaked
(10:52):
footage to push the narrative that Luca was out of shape,
that he was overweighthed or lazy. So they leaked out
some practice footage that was in the first forty eighth.
The Mavericks also leaked someone I don't know who, someone
leaked that the Mavericks had to fake a wrist injury.
They embellished a wrist injury for Luca because they essentially
(11:15):
sent him to a fat farm, that they had to
have him lose weight because he was not in NBA condition,
And they came up with this fugazy wrist injury thing
and they milked that because he was a fat tub
of goo. Luca. All of this in the well I
can go on, but wait, there's more report by the
Athletic Someone leaked a story to the athletics saying that
(11:38):
Luca's affinity for beer and hookah, that's the nickname Hookah.
Luca beer and hookah was a big concern among many
in the NBA, not just the Mavericks. They claimed it
as a rookie, Luca was such a out of shape
athlete that in the rookie season, you know, you have
(12:03):
the thermos on the bench and you just have like water,
or you have like Gatorade or Power Aid or one
of those things. Luca had a mix of lemonade and
sweet tea, which I think isn't that an Arnold palmer?
I think I think that's an Arnold point. So he
had like an Arnold palmer when he was in the
huddle and he's squirting an Arnold Palmer into his mouth.
(12:24):
It sounds nice. Anyway, that was leaked. I mean, I
go on on this bunch. I'm not done. I'm not done.
How about the one where they lacked that he just
was so unprofessional that his demise was coming within five years.
His body was gonna fall apart within five years. That also, again,
(12:46):
Nico Harrison says he is not someone that said any
of this, And while his name was not quoted verbatim,
he says he never spoke ill, so that's likely true.
Somebody did, and it seems pretty fair to say that
Nico did not stop whoever was doing that from doing it,
(13:09):
and seems somebody was encouraging it. But that's the oldest
move in the book. You trade a popular player and
you just bury the player and that and that's how
it works in most towns. I know, the Boston sports teams,
for example, they get rid of popular players. They just
bury the players in the way out of town, like
every little thing that somebody out of beef with just
(13:33):
complete losers, you know, on their way out. It's always
been that way in there. It's in New York, it's
like that a lot, but it's pretty much anywhere these days.
All right, now, final part of this The Hour of
Nico Nico Harrison. The Hour of Nico Harrison. So one
constant theme, One constant theme of Nico Harrison's latest media appearance,
(13:54):
and this has continued over the last couple of times
he's spoken to the media, is a trom tremendous appreciation
of Anthony Davis that that is the default position when
he discusses Nico Harrison. This move his defending of the
(14:14):
trade of Luca is yeah, but we got Anthony Davis.
Yeah but yeah, but yeah, but we got Anthony Davis.
Harrison said, I think the biggest thing is if you
don't value a d as an All NBA player, all
defensive player, then you're not going to like the trade.
(14:36):
All right, So let's break that down. Nico Harrison saying
the issue with those criticizing the trade of Luca, which
again it's not a trade, it's a giveaway. Now trade,
a trade is where you get something a lot in return.
It's giveaway. So he says it's fans undervaluing this. Essentially,
he said, fans undervaluing Anthony Davis as an All NBA player,
(14:59):
all defense player. Can you decode what Nico Harrison is
actually saying the general manager there of the Dallas mav Rex.
So here's how I decode this. Uh, this is a
love affair, this is romance. Nico Harrison is a smitten kitten.
He's got those puppy dog eyes for Anthony Davis. And
(15:23):
at the same time it's a two for one special.
So not only is he slobbering all over Anthony Davis,
Nico Harrison's whispering sweet nothings in Anthony Davis's ears, not
only that it's a two for one special, because he's
also at the same time calling the Maverick fans subtly numbskulls.
(15:44):
You're if you don't like this trait, you're a numb school.
You don't understand. That's what he is saying. He's a
gas man on this one, as Nico Harrison, the Maverick
GM is gas lighting, gas lighting the fantas. He's denying facts.
He's absolutely doing that, denying facts. He's twisting information around
(16:08):
to suit him and insisting that events did not happen
the way everyone remembers them, gaslighting, gas lighting. One on one,
the level of stupidity of Nico Harrison is breathtaking. It
is like, how did this guy end up at General Mention?
Like he seems like one of the dumbest people in sports, seriously,
(16:31):
like a moron, Like how did that happen? How did
I guess? It's the Peter principle. You rise to your
highest level of incompetence and you stay there. But this
guy's really just a dumb dum. The more he talks,
it's like, what are we doing? And even if you
thought Anthony Davis was really really good. Right, there's a
(16:55):
six year age gap, and he talked about, Wow, we
have a championship quality team with Anthony Davis. Hey, Boso,
you were in the NBA Finals a year ago against
the Boston Celtis. You already had a championship caliber team.
You already had it, Like, what are you doing? Anthony
Davis is fragile, right, He's a delicate little piece of glass,
(17:20):
is what he is. And it's it's even better because
not only is he delicate. Everyone knows this, but Anthony
Davis his first game with Dallas got hurt. That's the
full Anthony Davis experience. Right. And if you're gonna trade
Lucat Donsion, you should have gotten like four or five
(17:40):
first round draft picks and like three or four players
who were pretty good players in return. You didn't do that.
It's like you were working as a man cheerian candidate
for the Lakers. It's you know something's not right when
when the conspiracy theories make a lot of sense that
(18:02):
either you were in the tank you were ordered by
the NBA to trade the player of the Lakers ownership's
trying to move the Mavericks to Vegas. They told you
to make the trade like those make sense because no
one no one else would say, wow, let me wake
up and trade Luca like I'm gonna upset the customers
of the business I work for and I'm gonna make
(18:22):
the team worse, Like who do that unless you were
told to do? It's wild, wild, wild wide anyway. It
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said and playing running back in the NFL at age
thirty said, age is just a number. I've been saying
that ever since I was a little kid trying to
blank that is the malor riddle of the day. The answer,
We'll get to it and we will do it next.
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of the day, The malor riddle of the day. Very
exciting and see if you can get this right, you'll
be the smartest person in the room. Viking running back
Aaron Jones recently said of playing running back at age thirty.
Age is just a number. I've been saying that ever
since I was a little kid. Trying to blank, all right,
(21:42):
that is the question. What's the answer? Lady Sideburns say,
play toots and ladders is the answer. Luke the vending
guy says, get a date with Wendy Peppercorn, Trying to
hang out with older men, says ferg Dog, Who else
do we have? Page down and Fudgie kind of got
it right. Bad job by him trying to figure out
(22:04):
how the damn hula hoop works. From far Out Dave,
late Night drug Tester says, trying to get elected to
the Senate is the answer when he was doing drugs
and booze from Donkeys Sausage Page Don Miguel on Fire says,
trying to get alcohol for his underage friends. Let's see here,
(22:26):
trying to be like r Kelly from Keith Ocho Texto.
His answer, that's an old musician Mason. He's in Gentlemen Mason,
and Hunting the Beach says the answer is trying to
finish watching the movie Logan's Run is the answer. King
Roy says, since he's been collecting sports illustrated covers, is
(22:48):
that sports illustrated covers from King Rory, who I think
is going to the NFL draft out on anyway? What
else he pondered, how to live as long as Confucius
from Mike the Leper, Buy cigarettes from clam Play, Hungry
Hungry Hippos from JT. The Wingman, Fine Game, Fine Game,
(23:10):
blowout candles from econ Roseville, Minnesota. Trucker Jo says, trying
to get into the adult movie business, and Ozzie Wiz
from restaurant austresays Aaron Jones, since he was trying to
enjoy the lollipop. All right, Viking running back, Aaron Jones,
here it is one more time, said playing at the
(23:30):
age of thirty, He said, age is just a number.
I've been saying that ever since I was a little kid.
Trying to blank Lorena, go ahead, Loreada, what do you
think the answer is?
Speaker 4 (23:39):
I think it was when he was trying to pick
up Cougar's.
Speaker 1 (23:42):
Ben Cougar, Cougar's are coming, great SoundBite and you ruined
the bet, Lorenda. That's correct, you got that right.
Speaker 3 (23:51):
Unbelievable.
Speaker 4 (23:51):
Yes, run the bed, let me play the drop again.
Speaker 5 (23:59):
Cougars are.
Speaker 1 (24:03):
Now. I've been here for I've been here for twenty
five years, and that is the greatest commercial that we've
ever had at the network. We've had great, I mean
wonderful sponsors and partners that have been with us over
you know, usually by advertising time for a few months
or a year or two, and you move on. But
that sponsor, which was just great. And I had Live Reads.
(24:23):
I did around if you remember, if you were listening
those years many years ago, this by twenty years ago,
and we had Live Reads. And the jingle though, that
was just perfect. I mean just I can't think of
a better advertiser. The Cougars are coming a website for
young guys to uh to hook up with the older
woman anyway. Aaron Jones, the Viking running back, said, I've
(24:45):
been saying this ever since I was a little kid,
trying to get older women, trying to you know, which
is the cougar play again? I want to hear it.
Agather the Red play the Gaden Cougars are coming, Old Yeah,
hold the li boys, hold on line. We're gonna have
the Mallord Mountain of Money coming up. You want to
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No, No, I can't let you, I can't let you
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from whenever y'all get to what else.
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Where was I I don't know where you? Where were you?
Is your is your hopefully is your now? Is your
daughter sleeping or is she playing? Is your daughter sleeping?
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I'm gonna take you, man, she's sleep. I'm gonna wake
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No, no, don't wake her. She's got school. Don't wake
her up.
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Hey man, I told you man, I'm going to her
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And so I just give you a buzz and then
your daughter, well, she's gonna talk trash, she's gonna rip
these people.
Speaker 5 (26:00):
Yes, the raina two la reina, honey, my love you
off for quiet tonight.
Speaker 1 (26:05):
But anyway, what would you like to do? What would
you like her to say?
Speaker 5 (26:10):
Well? But not that? Really?
Speaker 1 (26:15):
When what do you care that?
Speaker 4 (26:16):
I'm confused?
Speaker 5 (26:18):
Be off al quiet. I was gonna talk about this.
I was gonna say thanks to taking my phone call.
Speaker 1 (26:23):
Congrat Well you're welcome. You know what people never thank
me You're welcome. I took your phone call. How lucky
am I to talk? How lucky am I to talk
to you? What what?
Speaker 5 (26:33):
What? Mom? Talk about the NBA so much? Let's talk
about the w n B A.
Speaker 1 (26:37):
Come on, you kill Yes, yes, I'm killing you by
not talking about the w n B A.
Speaker 5 (26:41):
Yes.
Speaker 1 (26:42):
So really, what you're saying is you want me to
lose my job? Is what you're saying. You think I
suck as a talk to when somebody, when a caller
calls up and says, talk about the w n B A,
I feel like they're telling me that I'm bad at
my job and I should lose my job because what
I do. Let me tell you what I do, sir.
Speaker 5 (26:57):
I do.
Speaker 1 (26:57):
I do broadcasting. I don't do narrow asking. Uh w
n B A is there's a narrow audience, all right,
it's a it's a niche sport. It's a niche sport.
Now somewhere people people complain that I talk about the NBA.
They say, that's a niche sport. And God forbid, I
(27:18):
talked about the w n B A.
Speaker 5 (27:19):
Oh no, King, that's what I was gonna say. But King, dude,
he was dropping fifty on you every night.
Speaker 1 (27:25):
Yeah, now he's dropping fifty two. Now he's dropping fifty cheeseburgers.
On you every night?
Speaker 5 (27:31):
He dropping fifty every night with two brothers.
Speaker 1 (27:33):
You're still dropping fifty every chicken nuggets? Fifty fifty chicken
nuggets a night. Yeah, what else? I don't I don't
know none of that. Where have you been? Wherever? You
haven't called in a while? What have you been doing?
What's going on? What's going on in your life? Why
do you have not called? You don't call me very
often though? Because is that because I don't talk w
N B A you don't call me?
Speaker 5 (27:52):
No?
Speaker 1 (27:54):
I feel like you.
Speaker 5 (27:54):
Don't call me because I got the hat too.
Speaker 1 (27:57):
Oh yeah, Okay, I'm gonna be like eighty years old
by the time I get that hat. I'm sorry, man,
I'm to be eighty years old. I'm gonna be sorry.
I be eighty by the time I get.
Speaker 5 (28:07):
That What do you want to talk about? Ask me
a question.
Speaker 1 (28:14):
We're now we're now playing let's go around the room.
Any question, Laurada, you have a question for the black irishman?
Speaker 4 (28:21):
Do you like peeps?
Speaker 5 (28:23):
What you said?
Speaker 1 (28:26):
Ask a question? The lady has a question. The lady,
the honorable lady from Oregon has a question.
Speaker 4 (28:32):
Papers.
Speaker 1 (28:33):
I asked if you like peeps?
Speaker 5 (28:35):
Peep peeps.
Speaker 1 (28:38):
I don't think I think you heard something else. I
don't think.
Speaker 6 (28:44):
Peeps like the little marshmallow chicks under during Easter peeps.
Speaker 5 (28:49):
Oh yeah, that's true all that, of course, is it?
Speaker 1 (28:53):
Is it true? Black irishman, you'll be the next pope?
Is that true?
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No?
Speaker 1 (28:57):
You will not be.
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I'm going to Nick stephen Ah Smith Abody.
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Okay, you'll be the Steven A. Smith that will become
like a bank.
Speaker 5 (29:09):
Show.
Speaker 1 (29:10):
Okay, all right, all right, well you have your own segment.
I got to go. You had four minutes. At the
end of my life, I'll be on my debt. Bet
I'll say I wish I had four more minutes. How
did you spend that four minutes talking to the black
Irish min is? How I spent that four minutes and
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Speaker 5 (30:34):
Hey man.
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I'm not trying to plug anything unless it's ELECTA right now.
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But I was listening to the Fifth Hour podcast and
you mentioned the book. I didn't catch the name. Could
you mention again? Please? Thank you?
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Yeah? Is that you take that call off the air
or is that as that how it goes? Is it? Yeah? Yeah?
So I had a book. I'm my cousin. He's survived
brain cancer twice, he's beat it and he's got quite
the story to tell. I actually went to visit him
in Arizona. He had a stroke while I was visiting,
(31:06):
which actually helped kill the tumor in his brain. It
was crazy, But he wrote a book. How Eddie Put
a Smile on the Moon is the name of the book.
So we talked about that and his story. And there's
a lot of people going through a lot of crap
and all that, and he's gone through a lot. And
so I've spent a few minutes talking to him. Thank you, Tony.
(31:27):
Let's go to He didn't curse? Did he? I don't
think he did.
Speaker 3 (31:30):
No.
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Let's do it here we go. Let's welcome in our combatants.
Here we have see your ani meaning minimum. Jacob is
in Delaware. Hello Jacob, Welcome you do buddy. Good to
have you there, Jacob. But welcome to the show. And
who would you like to pre you're driving? Are you
working right now or just cruising around? What are you doing.
Speaker 5 (33:13):
I'm working, okay, all right?
Speaker 1 (33:14):
What kind of work do you do?
Speaker 5 (33:16):
Run a bread route?
Speaker 1 (33:17):
Oh? Nice, the bread man. Look at that, we got
a breadman. All right? You want to play with me,
Ben Coop? Or if you really want some fun, play
with Arena.
Speaker 5 (33:24):
I'm gonna play with a coop.
Speaker 1 (33:26):
Okay, you're a loser, all right, are you? I don't
know why you have such a great lexicon of sports
and knowledge of sports. All right, hold on a sec, Jacob,
and we have Darryl in Florida, is gonna play? Hello Darryl?
Speaker 5 (33:40):
Hey, Dan, you got this guy's full of energy.
Speaker 1 (33:43):
Look at this guy, full of life. Coop, You're screwed.
This guy's got more energy, he's got more Raised.
Speaker 5 (33:48):
In Caago, but living in Miami.
Speaker 1 (33:50):
Now he's Look at You're living a dream in Miami.
Look at you? All right? What are you doing in
Miami there, Darryl.
Speaker 5 (33:56):
I'm not come my way to work. I work with
home people.
Speaker 1 (33:58):
Oh look at that home. Those guys. Let me tell you.
Those guys at home people have all the answers.
Speaker 4 (34:03):
I'm more of a lows girl.
Speaker 1 (34:04):
No, no, I go to home people. I ask them,
I say, what's where do I get the nails, but
a certain kind of They know exactly where it is.
See look at that. I'll save it, all right? I
like this guy. Let's play the game coop board of
the categories quick right? All right?
Speaker 4 (34:20):
This is Malard's mountain of money.
Speaker 6 (34:21):
The Jack Nicholson addition, he turns eighty eight years old today,
so it's impossible for the Lakers to lose on Jack
Nicholson's birthday. The categories are what isn't he a recluse?
Speaker 1 (34:32):
Now?
Speaker 6 (34:33):
The categories are one flew Over, the Cuckoo's Nest, as
good as it gets, Anger, management, and the Departed.
Speaker 4 (34:40):
Jacob, you're on first. Which category would you like?
Speaker 5 (34:42):
I would departed?
Speaker 4 (34:43):
That departed?
Speaker 1 (34:44):
All right?
Speaker 4 (34:45):
And Daryl, how about you?
Speaker 1 (34:49):
Okay?
Speaker 4 (34:49):
All right, there we go.
Speaker 6 (34:50):
So Jacob, you and I are up first. You need
the first and last name of the athlete in order
to get points. We're gonna have forty five seconds. We
picked the departed. These athletes all passed away in twenty
twenty four. Are you ready, Jacob?
Speaker 4 (35:04):
All right? Forty five seconds? Begin? All right?
Speaker 6 (35:07):
Running back for the Bills who killed two people? Yes,
the all time hit king for the Reds.
Speaker 1 (35:13):
Yes.
Speaker 6 (35:14):
Uh, the big Redhead He was also a deadhead out
of UCLA NBA player his father father of Yes. Yes uh.
This guy was a center who shook his finger after
blocking the shot.
Speaker 4 (35:28):
No, no, no, yes uh.
Speaker 6 (35:31):
This guy was the only player to win the Cy
Young and the Rookie of the Year in the same year.
Speaker 4 (35:35):
Pitch Dodgers pitcher. Yes, this guy was.
Speaker 6 (35:38):
A guard long time for the Cowboys. Yes uh, this
guy was a quarterback for the Rams in the sixties.
Speaker 4 (35:45):
His first name is the same as an empire from Italy.
Speaker 1 (35:57):
The per you gave him too many Sorea you're were
talking about, that was loy You got extra title?
Speaker 4 (36:10):
Is your time?
Speaker 1 (36:11):
God? Extra time? Better get going? All right? Come on there,
let's show HotStart here. We haven't even gone yet. It's
like a team screwing the first inning and you're bat
in the bottom of the first It's the bottom of
the first inning. That's right, We got this Daryl.
Speaker 6 (36:25):
Listen, what a performance by That last one did knock count?
Speaker 1 (36:30):
That last one did not count. We'll go to the judges' scorecard.
Let's play. Here we go. These you said one flew
over the cuckoo's nest. These athletes are all considered a
little crazy. Are you ready, Daryl from Chicago but living
in Miami, living that great life in Miami. Al Right,
here we go forty five seconds on the clock. We're
on our way and go. A wide receiver for the Steelers,
he was with the box. He quit in the middle
(36:51):
of a game. Yeah, yeah, I think he said that right.
Also the worm for the NBA had funny hair for
the Bowls in the nineties from Yeah, yeah, exactly. A
wide receiver signed autographs I love my quarterback in the
nineties and the two thousands haul the Yes Red Sox star,
(37:13):
not big Poppy, but what's his last name? Yes, Chocolate
Thunder NBA player, Yes, running back for the Broncos and
the Redskins. He wore funny outfits to his news conferences
from Miami went to the use of my that's wow. Damn,
(37:34):
I'm sorry, that's all right, that's all right.
Speaker 4 (37:36):
Clinton Portis was who you had in there.
Speaker 1 (37:39):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (37:39):
Clinton, that's one hundred and fifty points. So you guys
don't need to go again.
Speaker 1 (37:43):
Okay, good? This actually will work out to advantage is
what Coop has done. Screwed me over?
Speaker 6 (37:47):
Eryl.
Speaker 4 (37:47):
Do you want is as good as it gets? Your
anger management.
Speaker 1 (37:50):
Anger management, anger management rights.
Speaker 6 (37:53):
These athletes all had or have anger issues. Forty five
seconds begin all right.
Speaker 1 (37:59):
Nineteen nineties and NBA player for the Rockets. He was
a guard. He went to the crowd, attack the fan.
He's got a podcast right now, play with the Elijah
on Rockets shooting guard. No uh second basement for the
Texas Rangers. He punched Jose Bautista of the Blue Jays
in a famous incident in Arlington. Is this singing on
(38:23):
uh wide receiver for the Carolina Panthers and the Baltimore Ravens.
Uh heuh is currently retired. He's on the NFL network.
He slept with some guy's wife. He got in trouble
for that. Hello are you on? Darryl therep?
Speaker 6 (38:37):
I don't know what.
Speaker 1 (38:38):
Are you there? Derek? Oh there you go? We got one,
all right, all right?
Speaker 4 (38:44):
Oh boy?
Speaker 1 (38:49):
You hit? Wait wait wait wait wait wait wait you
you said did you know any of them?
Speaker 5 (39:00):
Both?
Speaker 3 (39:00):
Father?
Speaker 6 (39:01):
Tell me? So?
Speaker 4 (39:01):
What's the name?
Speaker 1 (39:02):
What are the names?
Speaker 5 (39:03):
Idiot?
Speaker 1 (39:03):
What are the sens? Sed itags? He doesn't know the names?
Know you didn't, Jacob? Good job, y'all need to blue
round domination. Good job, Daryl, we actually won. I'm gonna
go up. We're going we're going to a booth review,
and we won the game. We won on booth review.
Good job.
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