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It's our number one of the Ben Mallor Show.

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I don't know why, but here we go, Droronamo.

Holy smokers, Batman.

It's all about the NBA with a hammered dunk on the clippers over the co-high Leonard

Hidden Slush Fund payments.

The No Show job.

Is this the full death penalty for the Clipper franchise?

Some doom and gloomers are saying that's the magnitude we're talking about.

We'll discuss it here.

Also, what happens next for Steve Walmers Clippers, the owner, Hoppin Mad.

There was an angry letter that was sent.

We're getting to all of that this hour.

And who ends up now that the deal has been handed out.

The punishment has been adjudicated.

Who ends up with a sweetheart deal in the NBA's punishment of the people's team, the

Clippers.

We'll address all of that.

The elephant in the room right here right now.

Make way, make way on this Thursday, the third day of September.

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Oh, what are you talking about basketball?

Oh, no, not again, mallor.

Yeah.

Well, I was in the lab, mighty my own business working on some things.

My phone was on airplane mode so I could have laser like focus on future content opportunities.

And then all of a sudden, I turned my phone.

I turned my phone out of airplane mode and just like that over and over and over and

over and my phone started blowing up.

You got a message.

I thought, boy, I'm very popular.

All of a sudden, what did I do?

Did I say something on the show last night that got me in trouble?

I was like, no, I didn't really do anything.

Anything that interesting kind of boring.

And then, well, then I figured somebody else, somebody had died.

That's usually what happens.

I recall the day that Kobe Bryant died that my phone blew up.

I was like, oh my god, what had happened?

Or maybe we were going to war, some kind of war.

No, no, no.

I assume you've heard by now, but perhaps not.

Maybe you live in a van down by the river.

So the NBA, after a story popped up a couple of weeks ago saying that there would be no real

punishment.

That is what we'd heard all along that the NBA was very concerned about opening up

Pandora's box.

Well turned out that the NBA in the end decided to do the old switcher route, the crazy

Ivan, and they went full Molleywap.

They Molleywap, the good ship clip with penalties for, they calling it salary cap circumvention,

which is just money under the table and all that.

They claim they found a pattern of misconduct in multiple significant rules violations involving

the claw, collidered.

Now I didn't look at the CompuBox stats now that the fight is over.

And if you look at the CompuBox stats, power punches, $30 million fine and not one, not

two, not three, not four, but five first round picks stripped away from 2029 to 2033, which

seems like that's a long way away, but it's not.

And the owner, Steve Balmer, was suspended for one year for helping co-iliner to obtain

extra income.

The president of the Clippers who you've never heard of, Jillian Zucker, she received a

one year unpaid suspension, so I guess she's going to have to get a job at Waterburger

for misconduct and misleading investigators.

Then you had Lawrence Frank, who is very frank, the general manager is suspended for not

one, not two, not three, not four, not five, six months without pay.

So he'll have to get a job at Wiener Schnitzel.

Coiliner has to pay back $700,000 of improper expenses and outside income arrangements.

And Coil's old business manager, Uncle Dennis, and if I'm reading this right, was banned

from the NBA for not one, not two, not three, not four, five years.

The Clippers facing five years of compliance monitoring, which is like probation, I believe.

I think that's the proper way to look at that.

So it's a good, Johnny All Point.

Let us discuss the question.

Is this the full death penalty for the Clipper franchise as so many are saying on social

media, it's turned out the lights, the parties over.

Yeah.

So I've got mystery box, dose, echoes, and typhoid Mary.

And we will combine all of these things together.

And we are going to go bippity, boppity is what we're going to do.

So a stunningly, after looking at all the different variables, this is actually

not capital punishment.

I'm going to take the shock value away.

I have an unpopular opinion here.

To the dingle berries, it looks like the NBA just dropped a neutron bomb on the Clippers

and they need to rebuild the LA Memorial Sports Arena, the Mazaleum and go back and play

in that dump, which is now a soccer stadium.

But, you know what that means, after a full deliberation of the available information,

what is it really?

All right.

A couple of steps back.

It's a giant invoice.

Like, a lot of money you got to pay out.

Some executives in the owner are going to spend some time in the penalty box and you lost

five future scratcher tickets.

They vanish off into thinner.

So I wrote down on my scorecard, after looking at the CompuBox stats, whoop, D, damn,

do.

That's what I wrote down.

I don't care about money.

It's not my money.

Steve Balmer, I would imagine when he's making his avocado toast for breakfast each morning,

he loses $30 million.

So it's not that big a deal.

You suspend Balmer for one year and you talk about, well, that's really punch me.

I've never watched a game because of the owner.

Now as a talk show host, I love guys like Jerry Jones because they make my life easier.

Do I watch a sporting event to see a rich guy, a robber baron sitting in his nice front

row seat or up in the luxury box to watch the game?

No, I don't care about that.

Why do I care about that?

I don't know those people.

I don't roll in those circles.

And is it really punishment?

Because Balmer, he's going to just watch the clip or games from his mega yacht somewhere

out in the Atlantic or the Pacific and spare me the funeral procession over the five first

round picks.

If I took all the people that email me, and I understand, I do the same thing.

I love shot in Freud.

It is so much fun.

I'm glad you're enjoying it too.

It's great.

There's wonderfully a dance on the grave of the clippers.

And you seem to think, based on the feedback from the people that harass me on the email

bag, that five first round draft picks is just the worst of the worst, right?

And this is a pet peeve of mine.

Draft pick worship is L.T.

It's loser think disguised as some kind of higher level fandom.

This part of the analytics culture, you think every draft pick is going to turn out

to be great.

The NBA draft is three card Monte in expensive suits.

It is an annual info, Marshall.

The NBA puts out every June where most of the merchandise does not work as advertised,

does not work as advertised.

Everybody loves the mystery box.

What's in the box?

It might contain the next superstar.

Of course, it's just some former Duke player.

And usually it contains a guy who will be playing in Turkey three years later or getting

hemorrhoids at the end of the bench.

So my advice you'll listen, it's not great, but you're in LA and you play for a top notch

arena.

They're not taking away your urinals.

The clippers still lead the NBA.

If you want to take a whiz, there's nowhere you'd rather go to take a whiz than the

clipper game.

All right, yeah, that's very important.

You know, us men, you get older.

You gotta take a lot of peace.

And so you go to the clipper game and the NBA said you can keep all your urinals.

Every urinal cake stays at the clipper arena, the clip joint.

It's a wonderful thing.

That's one of the players want to play in LA.

The Lakers are boring and they're old and they've got their own issues.

They're going to court soon with Genie Boss and that whole thing.

And then they had that one year ownership of Mark Walter.

I would say I'd much rather play for Steve Barmer, who's willing to pay me under the table.

Allegedly, I don't have to say it.

Allegedly, more.

I'd much rather play for that.

But I'd love, I've been waiting, I've been waiting my entire adult life.

I started and rate it was 19.

I'm getting older.

I'm waiting for one of my bosses to want to pay me under the table.

For some reason, they all have great morals when it comes to my contract.

I don't understand why, right?

So again, the vice clippers is go out, find some diamonds in the rough, find the hidden

gems, develop players like, oh, we can only find players in the draft.

And clippers haven't had many draft picks.

Anyway, for years, and I love it, I can't stand the draft.

I hate it, I hate it, I hate it, I hate it, I hate it, I hate it, I hate the draft.

I am yelling from a top to mountain.

I hate the draft.

I'm happy they don't have draft picks.

Stop clutching your precious stupid lame draft capital like it's some kind of sacred

artifact from back of the old days.

Now page two, keeping the theme of the hour going here.

Now it gets good.

Now it gets good.

question, what happens next for Steve Balmer's Clippers? So if you think as the NBA, if you

think that this thing is just OVER over, well just because the punishment came down, if

you think that's the case, you were in for a rude awakening or someone say the great

awakening, because this is about to go upside down, Bizarre World Nightmare. Steve Balmer has

FU money multiplied by FU money. And now you've given Steve Balmer who's got a lot of

free time on his hands, something even more dangerous, a grudge, hell hath no fury,

making a wrist of crats scorned. And mark my words, Steve Balmer's not just going to sit

there with his legs crossed and take this, he can afford to make spite a line item in the

Clippers annual budget. We're talking the old video game in the arcade rampage is what

we're talking about. You don't humiliate one of the richest men in America. Last I checked

he was the seventh richest person in America. He's in the same table, he's at the same table

with Jeff Bezos and Elon Musk and people like that. And so you don't do what the NBA did

and then expect him Balmer to send Adam Silver a box of truffles. I don't believe that's

going to happen. So Balmer's probably sitting on his mega yacht drinking a dose of EKS right

now because he became the most interesting man in basketball. I don't always circumvent

the salary cap. But when I do, I prefer a collie. See the commercial rights itself. Now you

know the old advice about not tickling a sleeping dragon. We've all heard that somewhere

along the way and some kind of fairy tale. So the NBA walked into the cave. They went

to the back left hand side of the game. Not the right because there was nothing right.

Then went to the left hand side of the cave. Okay. So they walked in and they was there

fork in the cave. They could have gone right. There's nothing. Nothing right. So they

went left. They walked over to the left in the cave. Okay. You got the picture in your

head. So they walked over to the left. They're in the cave. And then for some reason, Adam

Silver, one of the reptilians was holding a feather duster in one hand. And then he

poked the fire breathing dragon with the other and then used the feather duster. So that

means now Steve Balmer can now go full al Davis. He's already got an army of lawyers.

Su, su, su, su, su, a boy named Sue. Sue everybody released the cracking. And I'm not

talking about the hockey team in Seattle and turn litigation into recreational activity.

He's got ammunition. If the league, and this was the story that came out a couple of weeks

ago, and obviously came from the Clippers based on what we know now, but that laid out

his defense plan that the league previously had allowed endorsement relationships involving

players and companies. And they'd already set the precedent. And that allowed sponsors

to pay players. And so that's their argument. Now whether that's true or not, I don't

know. And you don't know. And I do know who's going to win the lawyers here that this becomes

Disneyland's haunted mansion. Because if you think co-y Leonard was the only player getting

money under the table. Well, you're in for a rude, rude welcome to reality, Phil. Because

this has been going on for the top one to two percent of players. Now for a while, does

that mean it is as deep as co-y Leonard? Maybe not. It doesn't mean that it's not against

the bylaws of the NBA. And so it's like the haunted mansion every time you think the

ride is over. Another skeleton pops out to do a dance right there out of the closet.

So forget Lobb City. That was years ago. The Clippers are now this generation of what the

off court bad boys, bad boys move over Dennis Rodman, Rick Mohorn and those old school

pistons from back in the day, the Clippers are now an outlaw franchise. And the NBA, they

wanted them wearing a scarlet letter. And instead it handed them a leather jacket and gave

Steve Balmer the villain origin story that a nerdy older gentleman has been dying to get.

So Steve Balmer, this is still not the craziest thing that's happened to Balmer. The all-time

gold standard remains. Steve Balmer in 07, almost 20 years ago, getting on stage in front

of a bunch of Microsoft employees and saying no one's going to buy the iPhone. Yeah, that

did not go so well. Last word here. So we must put a bow on what has been a wild day in

the NBA. So the question, who ends up with a sweet heart deal in this NBA punishment of

the Clippers and all the draft picks and the fines and the suspensions and we'll see if

all this stuff holds up. Well, there's only one acceptable answer here. And it's co-I-lettered.

Co-I-lettered gets the ultimate all-inclusive package. And it's not even particularly close.

Because if my math is right here, he pays $700,000 in fine. And he pocketed some reports say

two to three million dollars. Who knows what he actually got. So let's say it's two million.

So he has to pay seven hundred thousand using mal or math. That would mean he ended up benefiting

1.3 million. Or even if it's only 1.3 million, he made $600,000 of extra money. And more importantly,

he gets the Al-Tu-Vay package. You know how Rob Manford, the Spineless Gutless Commissioner,

Major League Baseball refused to punish Al-Tu-Vay. Hey, I'm checking for the buzzer, the cheating

A-holes. Well, co-I-lettered, no suspension. And much like George Springer of the cheating A-holes,

he leaves co-I-leaves the country on the transfer portal and is expected to return to Toronto,

like Caesar coming home from battle. And you talk about falling upward. Right.

co-I is the typhoid Mary of the NBA. He is, I've determined he's the typhoid Mary of the

NBA. Everything looks fine on the outside. Co-I, when he plays, he plays pretty well. All right.

So he looks perfectly fine. And la la la la la la Zippity, do da Zippity, day. And yet everywhere

the man goes, he leaves. And there's another outbreak of the bribbonic plague.

I remember in San Antonio, he held a wild cat strike. He don't want to play for the spurs.

And the fans hated him. Then he went off to Toronto and he won a championship.

So everyone loved him. And I remember videos online of fans burning his jersey when he went

off to play for the Clippers. And now we have the Clipper experience.

The one common denominator is co-I Leonard. And if some of those draft picks are not restored,

this becomes the single greatest hustle of our time. Now I don't really care much about

draft picks. However, co-I Leonard will have helped either directly or indirectly costing

the Clippers 10 first round draft picks. Couple of picks swaps, two time MVP, Shay Jogas

Alexander, who the late Jerry West wanted to keep had an idea, be pretty good. And the

funders said, well, we got to get him if you want Paul George. And they tried to convince

co-I Leonard and Uncle Dennis that, hey, we should hold on to this guy. It's pretty good.

No, no, I'm not going there unless I get Paul George. Well, Paul George can't play.

Well, I'm not going to the Clippers unless I get Paul, but co-I trust me. He doesn't want

he's not that good. He wanted to play as a bad guy. Okay, I want to play with him. Okay,

fine. We'll trade SGA. That makes sense. Okay. How'd that work out? Danilo Gullinari,

who cares about that? And then all the fines and the suspensions. It's a hot stew. And

let's not forget though, forget all the picks. I don't really care about those. Seven years

of lazy river load management theater. He averaged co-I Leonard just 47 games a season.

All right. And is very responsible for me, disliking basket. I used to love the NBA. I went

there. I went to man over the years, or thousands of basketball games in my life. I really only

care about it for the playoffs. That's about it. And stories like this. And a lot of that

is co-I. Just doesn't care about basketball playing. And it's just it's just a bad situation.

And he came to the Clippers and I come on home and all that. Everyone was all excited.

And he leaves and it's like a super fun site as he exits. And yet somehow he walks away

with essentially a parking ticket. That's it. That is some serious skull duggery by co-I

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big story everyone's yapping about here. The people's team, the Clippers,

like everyone wishes they'd had a boss like Steve Balmer. Man, pay a money under the table. That's

the way to go. Can all bosses be more like Steve Balmer? The clips got dinged by the NBA. I don't

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There's the famous story about Abraham Lincoln back in the day and he had a

draw on his desk back in the back in the day where he would keep his angry, angry letters.

And it's a famous story that's been told. I don't know how many people know about these days

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Because it's apparently it's back in Vogue. It's back in style. So we'll get to that. We'll take

your calls as well at 877 99 on Fox. And I'm sure the comments here are going to be very civil

level headed and not emotional. Not emotional. Jason writes in. He says, a ballmer got fleeced

like he was maler running the Clipper franchise. He'll win. He'll win in the end. He'll win in the end.

It's to the point where I'm telling you, if this goes the way it's headed, unless the NBA bows down

and gives some picks back and lowers the fine, which is unlikely. It's not out of the realm of

possibility. Ballmer will get to the point with Adam Silver where they wish they had just kept

Donald Sterling as the owner of the Clippers. Yeah. Uh, Ferg dog writes and he says, did you hear

your buddy David Vassay made a bet that if the Dodgers didn't win, he'd walk home from Dodger

Stadium. Do you think he'll be a man of his word and pay off the bet like you always do? Or will

he weasel out of it? Yeah. So I'll tell you what Vassay is going to do. You know, he's a bit of a

snake and hangs out with his buddy there Blake. So Vassay will probably put a tent in the parking lot

at Dodger Stadium and say that he's homeless and that's where he's sleeping. So I wouldn't put

that past him there. Yeah. And I did pay off as you know, my Rocky Mountain Oyster's bet years

ago, Ferg dog before you were listening. I also there was a famous bet to walk to Tucson, Arizona.

There was this basketball coach named Lut Olsen and the Arizona Wildcats and weasel, that

it out one too. No, I did not. There was a game Arizona was up by a gazillion points with a few

minutes to go against the fighting a line. I and they somehow blew the game and I had said I would

walk to Tucson and I had everything mapped out. I knew exactly what roads I would take to walk from

L.A. to Tucson, Arizona. And then I was told by management, the great late Andrew Ashwood,

may he rest in peace, that I would not make it out of my home certainly wouldn't make it to

Riverside or San Bernardino and that I would die. So they chose to not have me do that. Yeah.

Convenient that the the person that can validate this story is no longer with us.

Well, I wish he was alive, but he was a great boss, but he's unfortunately crossed over the

pearly gates. He's having a cup of coffee with Jeanne and Medford right now. Late night drug

tester writes and says this is the second time Adam Silvers stood up to the Clippers ownership.

If he was this tough on the players, there wouldn't be tanking or load management. That is true.

How come Adam Silver has no balls, no hair on his chest or his head. And then when it comes to

the Clippers, oh yeah, he's he's pre-strawing the Thoris hammerdown. What's up with that?

No Stradinus writes in from a team that had their fluke championship run last year. He says L.A.

sports fans should be less concerned about the Clippers cheating. Oh, cheating and cheat anybody.

And fully concerned about the Rams breaking the bank for an over the hill former player

who's going to be injured most of the season, but you can tell the sound, the tone of that

that writing by Nostradinus. That is a man who is scared. That is the tone of someone who knows

it's all over. It's all over. And the Seahawks are going to need an actual 12th man on the field

like a player, a 12th player to stop that ram juggernaut. Yeah, that's true. Nature boy used AI

and says the Justin Cooper version of the most interesting man. There you go. Mark the Walker,

he's wandering around Rochester. And he says top notch opening monologue Ben also in light of the

earth shattering news that the Rams have 11 captains. I'd like to break the equally huge story that

my local Taco Bell recently switched from two ply to one ply toilet paper, more details as they

become available. Thank you for that, Mark the Walker there. And I love the fact that that monologue

resonated with you where it's still in the back of your head. Still in the back of your head,

Mark, that 11 captains on the L.A. Rams that was brought up on this show by request, by request.

I'm pretty easy. I get a lot of messages. I don't write back to hardly anybody, but I do check the

messages often. And that was a popular message. So take that. What do we got here? Let's see Rob says,

Balmer and the Clippers getting it handed to them. And even though they own L.A. a tough day.

Well, it's not they do own L.A. They got the better arena. They got all those urinal cakes over

there at the Indian, the hood and Inglewood. So that's true. It's fine. Just don't have any

traffic, which who cares? Who cares? There you go. Somebody I've never heard of who appears to be a

burner account. Should even bother reading this. They have three followers. I don't know. I won't

read that. Spock's weed writes in says we need a Ben Mallor financial poop report for Steve Balmer.

Get an intern to get the stat, figure out mine. It's at 0.856 for a three minute bathroom break

calling Stuart Varney. Get him online. We'll get him on right now. Kyle writes in says,

Quay is free and clear. The play for the Raptors. Toronto is hyped. Well, it'll be great for those

37 games that he plays or whatever. He'll be really, really, really good for those 37 games.

Let's go to the phones and in the mini, mini, mini mall. Let's say hello to

who should we start with? Let's go to Andrew, who's in Bakersfield. Hello, Andrew. Welcome.

Hello, Ben. Are you ready for the love? How are you?

Do you care? You were, you were any better. Okay. So you're as a quipper fan possibly,

you're muddling the waters here he said that they woke up a sleeping dragon

and Steve Balmer and that he's just going to sue and keep suing and then you

mentioned the other people that may have done the same type of thing yeah that

doesn't change the ground that the NBA has to punish silver he can't just say

it does it does in here's why because Steve Balmer has no reason to keep that

stuff a secret now he can say you know those rumors on the internet about

jaylin brunson getting payment does that tarnish the next championship I

don't know if he did there's rumors the lakers have been up to some funny

business over the years so if you start naming names and then the NBA just

know there'll be no draft which I'm all for just get all the draft picks

everyone loses their draft picks except like Sacramento because they don't have

enough money to pay people to go to Sacramento and everyone just get rid of

everything get rid of the draft and that's it you've you've now changed the

president so I'm all for it but hey it's great for my business I've got years

and years of mal or monologues about lawsuits that Steve or this lawsuit and

Steve Balmer and you know drag through the legal system and appeals and going to

hire courts and I'm therefore I think this is wonderful I'm always looking for

content and this is gonna be a great content story so from my perspective from

a business perspective it's great for what I do but Balmer can't say yeah but

they did it too good job Mr. Silver thanks Ben let's say hello to who do we

have next this year any any money let's go to Robert who's in La La Land

somewhere hello Robert what's going on you're on the Bain Mallor Show on

Fox hello Robert welcome hey Ben first time long time I gotta say as a

corporate fan I'm need to be talked off a ledge this is crazy that a canter that

you know gets paid under the table makes us trade for Paul George and either one

of them can play a full season then we lose all our draft it and the minute we

get a draft it better than Michael or Candy began to trade him away for this

piece of garbage and Paul George honestly I feel like this

happening so Balmer can move the team to Seattle no oh no he's not moving the

team to Seattle they're gonna get an expansion team in the next couple years

you know you don't have to worry about that you just got to look at this way

just just just look at it this way just say hey that this can be like the old

clippers you know where they had you know guys that weren't very good like

old candy and you know Darius Miles was all hype he wasn't all that good

oh Marrow the home you had Chris yeah Chris Wilcox Chris payment just just imagine

you what he was at Chris payment should have been should have a jersey retired

that's not that's not good maybe maybe at Central Michigan possibly but not

that's not get crazy here but did you just gotta look at it like it's back

back in those days where they just drafted a bunch of turds and so just think

the next those five picks would have been fail picks most first round picks

don't work out anyway they don't so that's just another failed pick and now

they really need this guy Keaton Wagler who they drafted this year from the

Pacer pick they need him to be really good and if he's really good that'll be a

a foundational player for them and they're gonna have to figure some stuff out

it I don't I don't like the draft I'm not I'm not bummed out by it now I

didn't see the fine print can they still acquire draft picks like if they

lost their draft picks but if like this trade for Kauai Leonard happens they

end up getting some first round draft pick can they keep those or they can't

have those I don't know how that works or here's what the other thing you do you

could just trade up and get like the 30 you know the the first pick of the

second round which would be a first round pick because if there's only you

know take away a pick by the clippers then there's one less pick in the first

round so you can circumvent it that way just make sure to trade for the top pick

in the second round it is the Ben Mallor Show we'll get to that angry letter

story here's the who am I game the Giants Rafael Devers playing on a terrible

team Devers became the second MLB player in the modern era to Homer and draw

multiple walks in three straight games the other player to do it was me again

the Higgante's Rafael Devers became the second MLB player in the modern era to

Homer and draw multiple walks in three straight games the other was me who

am I that's the question the answer we'll get to it and we will do it next be

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we will pay off the who am I game in a in a moment I I didn't want to mention this I I did a

little rant earlier about the the angry letter the lost art of the unsent angry letter and Abraham

Lincoln when he felt like he wanted to rip someone a new one he would compose what he called a hot

letter and he put all the anger all the nasty things you could say about another human being

and he'd write them all out and then he'd put them aside until he calm down and then he'd write never

sent never signed and he had in a drawer in his desk he left all these unsent angry letters to

people with the clippers they decided to click send on their angry letter they sent out a public

slamming Adam silver for violating his promises for due process and fundamental fairness it says

Steve bombers met nearly fifty million dollars in legal fees paying lawyers at the behest of the

NBA produce 30,000 plus documents supply 20 that 20 plus witnesses 30 interviews clippers claim

thousands of employee hours I mean this is a very long letter a lot of detail there and very

angry letter and I enjoyed reading it and I look forward to the coming litigation which will be

dropping here soon here's who am I game the hegan days rafi L devours I hope you like San Francisco

good weather well not great weather but good ballpark and nice place to live and terrible baseball

team the giants rafi L devours became the second MLB player in the modern era to Homer and draw multiple

walks in three straight games the other was me who am I that is the question what is the answer

rod the ambassador of baker's field going Barry bonds Ky reurving from Femi the top Uber each driver

there in Minnesota who else we have pitched out Alf the alien opiner going with Fergie dog

available in New England oh look at that David got this right bad job by him obviously cheating Rob

the goat man from Robbie the mayor and her fan Luke appling from Eek and Roseville Minnesota lucky

Tony from Mallor prop guy look at lucky Tony lean in mean man my guy lucky Tony bears what else do we

have bench warmer Rob lertzema from curmudgeon Wayne in Duluth Tony Fernandez great player the late

Tony Fernandez from James who else do we have Bernie Frattle on sabbatical from Larry D George

the animal steel from Los Gringos I made him by the way good nice man do you have an anciller rain

please who is daily on that's the reason really healthy you got that sexy was man that's just a man

killer I know the correct answer would be none other than Ted Williams Teddy ball game in 1954 old red

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possibility listen to solita on the iHeart radio app Apple podcasts or wherever you get your podcasts

I survived nine months in captivity and I've spent my life exploring how other people survive

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