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  Speaker 1: So our lead this hour, play the hits. Mob Man,
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  Speaker 1: play the hits. One of our old bosses back in
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  Speaker 1: the day used to say, so, we will start out
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  Speaker 1: in midtown Manhattan. They like to call it the Mecca
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  Speaker 1: Madison Square Garden, and that was the playhouse for the
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  Speaker 1: Maine The only game on the card in pro bouncy
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  Speaker 1: Ball Cleveland and New York squaring it up. You know
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  Speaker 1: the tailor of the tape coming in epic choke job
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  Speaker 1: by the Clevelanders in Game one. Now Game two of
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  Speaker 1: the Eastern Finals. Did you watch? No, you were Oh,
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  Speaker 1: you were watching? Okay, all right, maybe we're paying attention.
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  Speaker 1: So Josh Hart a scrub a dub dub, a scrub.
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  Speaker 1: Josh Hart had a night to remember twenty six points,
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  Speaker 1: career high twenty six points. I'm told that's good. Jalen
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  Speaker 1: Brunson did nothing in the first half and then made
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  Speaker 1: up for a lot of that in the second. Have
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  Speaker 1: you had nineteen points in fourteen assists? As the Knickerbockers
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  Speaker 1: are halfway home to their first finals appearance since we
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  Speaker 1: flipped over to the two thousands, think about that. If
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  Speaker 1: you're in your late twenties, you never remember the Knicks
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  Speaker 1: getting to the NBA finals. That's nineteen ninety nine. I
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  Speaker 1: was a child in nineteen ninety nine. And so here
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  Speaker 1: we are as the Knicks beat the Cadavers, and that's
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  Speaker 1: where we are. Michale Bridges had nineteen as well, Karl
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  Speaker 1: Anthony Towns a muted eighteen points and thirteen rebounds. So
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  Speaker 1: the Knicks have now won nine straight games, although four
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  Speaker 1: of those against Philadelphia don't really count because come on
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  Speaker 1: place and Atlanta is not very good and the fact
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  Speaker 1: they lost a couple to Atlanta early is rather shocking.
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  Speaker 1: But they won nine nine to row, which is seemingly
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  Speaker 1: on the right track there, and so that is the
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  Speaker 1: NBA's longest postseason winning streak since way back. I mean,
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  Speaker 1: you got to be really old to remember when the
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  Speaker 1: Boston Celtics, that great Celtic team ripped off ten straight
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  Speaker 1: wins back in twenty twenty four. Think of all the
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  Speaker 1: two year olds that don't really remember that. My god, Well,
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  Speaker 1: the better story is in the losing locker room. You
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  Speaker 1: know what we'd like to do here. We like to
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  Speaker 1: treat the losers like a pinata, because everyone loves a winner.
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  Speaker 1: Everyone just sucks up to a winner. They do the
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  Speaker 1: old haktua. If you win, if you lose, not so much.
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  Speaker 1: So it's good jumping off point. Let's discuss the question
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  Speaker 1: where did things go sideways for the Cavaliers in game
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  Speaker 1: number two? Where did things go sideway? So I've got
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  Speaker 1: Jiffy Pop, History Channel and Church and we'll put all
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  Speaker 1: of these things together and we're gonna carry some extra baggage,
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  Speaker 1: is what we're going to do, because Cleveland they've got
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  Speaker 1: a lot of explaining to do. Now. Kenny Atkinson, who
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  Speaker 1: sounded about as soft as you could possibly sell. What
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  Speaker 1: a gutless weasel this guy sounded like? After Game one
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  Speaker 1: when James Harden embarrassed the franchise, and there's Atkinson out
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  Speaker 1: there and he refused to criticize James Harden what a
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  Speaker 1: little weasel. So here's Atkinson again, who in this game
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  Speaker 1: the Cavaliers' strategy. It wasn't just Atkinson, it was the
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  Speaker 1: nerds as well. They're like, well, you know we're gonna do.
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  Speaker 1: We're gonna double dog dare Josh Hart to beat us.
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  Speaker 1: We don't think that Josh Hart is any good. He
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  Speaker 1: really hasn't been very good. He's just roster spam. He's
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  Speaker 1: in the rotation. He's not very good. He's had a
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  Speaker 1: good career in terms of length, but he's not like
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  Speaker 1: a real impact guy. So Cleveland was like, all right,
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  Speaker 1: we're going to double dog there. Josh Hart to beat
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  Speaker 1: us with the jump shot, and Heart responded by opening
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  Speaker 1: up a fireworks stand, which I think is illegal in
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  Speaker 1: New York. He did it anyway, My god, Heart was
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  Speaker 1: left open. That was the plan, that was by design,
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  Speaker 1: that was the blueprint, and he punished them from the perimeter.
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  Speaker 1: A career playoff game there. So Cleveland they sat down
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  Speaker 1: for dinner in game two and at some point in
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  Speaker 1: the third quarter they realized, wait a minute, we're the entree,
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  Speaker 1: what's up with that? And that was the Jiffy Pop meltdown.
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  Speaker 1: We're calling it because they allowed an eighteen oher run.
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  Speaker 1: They being the Cleveland basketball team, the Calves did not collapse.
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  Speaker 1: They popped. They sizzled and burned in real time. There.
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  Speaker 1: The game was tied up at fifty three and then
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  Speaker 1: all of a sudden, they're down by eighteen. And it
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  Speaker 1: happened in a five minute stretch. The Calves were slipping
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  Speaker 1: around like they were guarding and their feet were in
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  Speaker 1: movie theater buttered popcorn all over the floor there. James Harden,
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  Speaker 1: now he wasn't the worst of the worst in this game. However,
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  Speaker 1: he is the gift that keeps on giving. He was
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  Speaker 1: out there for that eighteen to oh run and did
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  Speaker 1: nothing bupkiss And unfortunately for Cleveland, the Knickerbockers are the
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  Speaker 1: ones that are unwrapping James Harden, who is the gift
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  Speaker 1: that keeps giving here as Harden was not a defender,
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  Speaker 1: he was like a toll booth, which they don't have
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  Speaker 1: many toll booth operas anymore. There's a few if you go,
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  Speaker 1: you know, go further up there in like Maine, they've
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  Speaker 1: got toll booth operators, but elsewhere they got rid of
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  Speaker 1: most of them. So Brunson he paid as well, He
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  Speaker 1: paid the fee at the toll booth, kept on driving,
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  Speaker 1: and in that eighteen to oh run in the third quarter,
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  Speaker 1: Heart had nine of the points, Brunson had seven, and
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  Speaker 1: Cleveland had no clue how to do anything, how to
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  Speaker 1: guard any of them, or who to blame. It was
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  Speaker 1: a good afternoon, good evening, and good night situation. Technically,
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  Speaker 1: there was plenty of time for Cleveland to come back.
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  Speaker 1: They just did not do that. So the Cavs were outplayed.
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  Speaker 1: They were saw taied, little seasonal, little pepper on top
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  Speaker 1: there and serve with a side of humiliation in a
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  Speaker 1: doggy bag to go all right. Now, Meanwhile, the James
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  Speaker 1: Harden continues to whar the dunch cap. As we've said,
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  Speaker 1: but the question seemed to be mostly after Game two
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  Speaker 1: about Spider Mitchell. Now, remember the story was that this
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  Speaker 1: guy Donavan Mitchell wanted James Harden to be on the
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  Speaker 1: team and this was gonna put Cleveland over the top,
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  Speaker 1: and they're in the Final four and all that, and
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  Speaker 1: so the questions about the headliner, Spider Mitchell's health persisting.
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  Speaker 1: The Cavs right now down two games in the best
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  Speaker 1: of seven series, and Mitchell twice in the last couple
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  Speaker 1: of days has been asked if he's played playing through
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  Speaker 1: any kind of an injury, because people are convinced he's
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  Speaker 1: sucked at a time he cannot suck when you're sitting
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  Speaker 1: in the vomit comet. People were asking questions when you're
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  Speaker 1: riding the vomit comment and he's riding the vomit com
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  Speaker 1: And so he was asked about to hit the health
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  Speaker 1: he said, quote, I'm great, great, great, three greats, he said.
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  Speaker 1: And still the storyline continues because at halftime you're watching
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  Speaker 1: the broadcast there with Mike Breen and those other guys.
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  Speaker 1: I don't know who they are. But Kenny Atkinson agreed
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  Speaker 1: with the idea that Mitchell was lacking the usual burst
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  Speaker 1: on his acceleration, and that was at halftime. I had
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  Speaker 1: better stats in the second half. So the question, why
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  Speaker 1: do the Calves think that we're dumb the dumb, dumb,
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  Speaker 1: dumb enough to buy that this dot of Mitchell health
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  Speaker 1: excuse is a real thing, all right? So the Calves
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  Speaker 1: have to believe that you and I are absolute idiots morons, right,
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  Speaker 1: So you blew a twenty point lead over twenty points
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  Speaker 1: in Game one, you had a complete I want to
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  Speaker 1: get away end of the game, and in overtime then
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  Speaker 1: you have a clunker here. So it's clunker after clunker.
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  Speaker 1: And suddenly the organization in Northern Ohio, the pro Bouncy
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  Speaker 1: Ball team, is running the History Channel pilot, the Donovan
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  Speaker 1: Mitchell Mystery Injury road Show. It's like a spinoff of
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  Speaker 1: American pickers. Donovan Mitchell himself as we say, he's great, great, great,
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  Speaker 1: three greats, three greats. And yet the Cavs coach there
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  Speaker 1: whispering to the media, well, you know, you know, maybe
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  Speaker 1: he lacks his usual burst. And to that, I put
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  Speaker 1: the hand up and I say stop, just stop.
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  Speaker 3: Okay.
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  Speaker 1: If Spider is on the court, which he was, he's
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  Speaker 1: fair game for criticism. His numbers are mathematically within the
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  Speaker 1: margin of error. However, they're not impactful. He's not the
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  Speaker 1: true alpha. Now you think of the big time stars
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  Speaker 1: in that sport and what they do in the postseason,
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  Speaker 1: they're supposed to do to put a team to a
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  Speaker 1: higher level, and he's not that guy. You're not that guy. Pal,
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  Speaker 1: And in the final four of the NBA. This is
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  Speaker 1: not a it's Eastern Conference Finals. It's not some kind
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  Speaker 1: of sympathy, pot lucked dinner situation, Cleveland desperately using this
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  Speaker 1: injury narrative, and they're doing it with plausible deniabilities. Way,
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  Speaker 1: I don't know, Yeah, maybe not. It could be and
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  Speaker 1: all it's like this human shield because I believe they
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  Speaker 1: don't want to admit the harsh truth, the naked truth,
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  Speaker 1: that their superstar of superstars, their franchise player, is shrinking.
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  Speaker 1: There's a lot of shrinkage, like he jumped into a
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  Speaker 1: very cold body of water. In this case, it's bright light,
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  Speaker 1: and it's I don't believe it's a health issue, that
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  Speaker 1: it's a pressure cooker. He's playing. If he's injured and
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  Speaker 1: he's not playing, that's one thing. But he's playing. Everyone's
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  Speaker 1: dinged up at this particular point, and so Mitchell is fading.
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  Speaker 1: In first two games here, you had a chance, certainly
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  Speaker 1: win game one, Game two not so much. But you
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  Speaker 1: didn't play all that well and either one of the games,
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  Speaker 1: even though your numbers were okay. It seems like the
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  Speaker 1: Cavs are just terrified to say that part out loud
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  Speaker 1: now last word. So in the final couple of minutes,
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  Speaker 1: the New York fans were chanting Nicks in four, Nicks
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  Speaker 1: in four. Okay, game gives garbage time at the end.
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  Speaker 1: So the question is the Eastern Conference Finals of twenty
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  Speaker 1: twenty six in the bag for the Knickerbockers. What's in
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  Speaker 1: the bag? Is the series? In the back? So I
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  Speaker 1: jotted down on my scorecard. I got two letters here. No, oh,
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  Speaker 1: the series is not in the bag for New York.
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  Speaker 1: No matter the hubris coming out of the Nick fan base.
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  Speaker 1: That's mostly alcohol. However, the calves, I will say, obviously
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  Speaker 1: the calves right now, at this moment, are wobbling like
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  Speaker 1: a newborn baby draft struggling to get on to its long,
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  Speaker 1: wobbly legs. That's the calves. They need some divine intervention here.
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  Speaker 1: Apparently a chiropractor would be nice. Possibly a sleep study.
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  Speaker 1: I love the fact they're complaining about the schedule. Here's
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  Speaker 1: Kenny Atkinson, the head coach of the Cavaliers. As the
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  Speaker 1: Knicks had a lot of time off, the calves have not.
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  Speaker 1: Here's the question and the answer. Here here's Atkinson on
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  Speaker 1: the rest advantage for New York.
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  Speaker 4: We know their rest advantage, so getting home always helps
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  Speaker 4: with that, but definitely probably didn't have the juice tonight
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  Speaker 4: that we needed to, which is kind of you know,
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  Speaker 4: I was going to hit it sometime.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, So this was the general theme here, and it's like,
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  Speaker 1: oh man, all we didn't have enough rest there. So
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  Speaker 1: the they're belly aching about having to play what it's
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  Speaker 1: gonna be seven games in thirteen days. Game three is
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  Speaker 1: coming up on Saturday, so seven it'll be seven games
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  Speaker 1: in thirteen days. And to that, I say, congratulations. That's
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  Speaker 1: what we in the working world call a job. In fact,
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  Speaker 1: that's not even a job. Imagine complaining about having worked
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  Speaker 1: seven days of work and have six days off. Like
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  Speaker 1: I've met a lot of you over the years, and
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  Speaker 1: many of you have two or three jobs and you're
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  Speaker 1: busting your ass and you get no days off, not
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  Speaker 1: even holidays and all that. So seven days of work
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  Speaker 1: in six days off, that doesn't seem like adversity on
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  Speaker 1: this side of the microphone. That sounds like a nice
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  Speaker 1: day spa package. How great would that be? So let
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  Speaker 1: me do the radio show on Monday, I'll take Tuesday off.
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  Speaker 1: I'll then do it on Wednesday. I'll take Thursday off
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  Speaker 1: and then oh my god, sign me up for that.
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  Speaker 1: Oh man, that would be wonderful. So Cleveland about fatigue
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  Speaker 1: is the peak trip to the Church of Victimhood, the
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  Speaker 1: NBA's version of my dog ate my homework.
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  Speaker 3: He's not fair.
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  Speaker 1: It's not fair. Now. The truth is, the Calves right
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  Speaker 1: now are stuck between the devil and the deep Blue
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  Speaker 1: Sea here, and both, by the way, both better at
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  Speaker 1: closing the job, the Devil and the Deep Blue Sea
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  Speaker 1: than the Knickerbocker's opponent here. The Calves are, so they
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  Speaker 1: don't need an adjustment at this point. They might want
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  Speaker 1: to bring in a rabbi, a priest, a shaman, a
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  Speaker 1: couple of witches and just put some good holy power
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  Speaker 1: out there, because they're not the cavaliers right now. They
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  Speaker 1: are the living up to their moniker, the cadavers, the
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  Speaker 1: way they've been playing in these last couple of games.
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  Speaker 1: So it's not over. It is getting late early though
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  Speaker 1: for Cleveland. The sun is setting and I don't think
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  Speaker 1: they've found where the light switch is at this particular point.
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  Speaker 1: There where's the lights? I don't know where the lights are?
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  Speaker 1: I don't know, And so their season not officially over yet.
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  Speaker 1: But the oh bit has already been drafted. You've got
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  Speaker 1: a draft of the obituary. And if the Cavs lose
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  Speaker 1: in Game three on Saturday Saturday Saturday, the people over
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  Speaker 1: there at ESPN might just flex the rest of the
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  Speaker 1: series and have Charles Barkley breakdown pickleball and then just
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  Speaker 1: see how that goes. Let's just do some hot pickleball
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  Speaker 1: talk and that'll be that, my goodness.
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  Speaker 1: laland developing story. A developing story out of the La
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  Speaker 1: Orams facility. They have opened up the checkbook yet again.
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  Speaker 1: And those of you that don't understand the salary cap
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  Speaker 1: are losing your mind. Oh my god, it's not fair
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  Speaker 1: they keep paying their players. Oh god. So, if you
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  Speaker 1: haven't heard this, perhaps not. We have learned that the
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  Speaker 1: reigning most valuable player in the National Football League, the
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  Speaker 1: greatest player in the NFL and twenty twenty five, Matthew
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  Speaker 1: Stafford and the Lams have reached the agreement on a
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  Speaker 1: one year, fifty five million dollar extension through twenty twenty seven.
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  Speaker 1: The deal is worth up to you know how that
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  Speaker 1: is weasel terminology, up to sixty million with incentives, of course,
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  Speaker 1: once you get done paying the California, the People's Republic
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  Speaker 1: of California taxes. It's actually about a ten dollars extension.
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  Speaker 1: So after all that the MVP of last year can
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  Speaker 1: make up to one hundred and five million over the
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  Speaker 1: next two seasons. We are told that is good. We
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  Speaker 1: are told that is good. And how do you get
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  Speaker 1: that kind of raise? He led the NFL with four thousand,
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  Speaker 1: seven hundred and seven passing yards, a career high forty
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  Speaker 1: six passing touchdowns and only eight interceptions and Stafford heading
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  Speaker 1: into his eighteenth season in the NFL. So that's a
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  Speaker 1: good jumping out point. Let us discuss the question, how
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  Speaker 1: do you translate the messaging of this Matthew Stafford extension
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  Speaker 1: with the Rams. So my take, I've got Box, Jellyfish, Prince,
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  Speaker 1: Ykey Key, and Froger, and we're gonna combine all of
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  Speaker 1: these things together and we're gonna take the stabilizers off.
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  Speaker 1: Is what we're gonna do. Now. To kick off here,
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  Speaker 1: this is what grown up franchises do. The Rams, yet
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  Speaker 1: again schooling the other weak franchises in the NFL. Matthew
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  Speaker 1: Stafford is currently residing in the presidential Suite of Quarterbacks
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  Speaker 1: and all you dopes. When he came over to the
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  Speaker 1: from the Lions and he's, oh, he's stat Patford and
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  Speaker 1: all that crap. You know my guy Rob Parker. I
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  Speaker 1: love Rob, but Rob you know old Michigan sports writer
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  Speaker 1: from back in the day, and he loved taking pot
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  Speaker 1: shots at Matthew Stafford. Well, Stafford's been better than advertised
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  Speaker 1: with the Rams. He's galvanized the franchise. They've won the
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  Speaker 1: Super Bowl, they've had the MVP season this year. They're
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  Speaker 1: a consistent threat in the NFC year after year, in
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  Speaker 1: large part because Stafford knows what he's doing. He's got
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  Speaker 1: McVeigh and they work well together. But he's in the
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  Speaker 1: presidential suite right now. For quarterbacks, there's good room service,
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  Speaker 1: skyline views, the concierge is available whenever you need it.
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  Speaker 1: They'll do your laundry for them. And so he was
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  Speaker 1: head and show every quarterback in twenty twenty six. And
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  Speaker 1: it took the NFL giving Seattle two points to help
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  Speaker 1: eliminate the Rams, which was ridiculous. And he's actually playing
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  Speaker 1: like he's aging in reverse. He's actually getting better. I
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  Speaker 1: thought he was done a couple of years ago. We
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  Speaker 1: did monologues like I was just expecting Jimmy Garoppolo to
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  Speaker 1: take over and Stafford, Oh, my back, my aching back.
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  Speaker 1: I thought that's it. And here we are a couple
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  Speaker 1: years later as off an MVP's get a new contract
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  Speaker 1: in a world I love the fact that Rams do this,
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  Speaker 1: so while you're a RAMS honk okay, just in general,
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  Speaker 1: having worked in the real world, I love the fact
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  Speaker 1: there's a world where major companies are not titwatse. They
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  Speaker 1: actually hand out raises like most companies, their idea of
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  Speaker 1: taking care of employees is like, well, let's give him
• 18:46
  Speaker 1: a Chuck E Cheese pizza party instead of a raise.
• 18:49
  Speaker 1: You know, they don't give out cost of living raises anymore.
• 18:51
  Speaker 1: The Rams actually reward performance, Like that's what That's how
• 18:56
  Speaker 1: I was raised. Like companies are supposed to do that.
• 18:58
  Speaker 1: They don't do it anymore, most companies. So when I
• 19:00
  Speaker 1: see someone do that, I'm like, that's great, that's wonderful.
• 19:04
  Speaker 1: And right now, the Rams they are at the Bolagio
• 19:07
  Speaker 1: and they're sitting in the high roller room there and
• 19:10
  Speaker 1: McVeigh is he just pushed fifty five million to the
• 19:13
  Speaker 1: center and said, deal the cards, deal the cars. Now,
• 19:16
  Speaker 1: that's it. I am going to be truthful, and I'm
• 19:21
  Speaker 1: going to point out the clear snuffle of figus in
• 19:25
  Speaker 1: the room. All right, when you have to juxtapose the
• 19:31
  Speaker 1: dopamine hit of Matthew Stafford getting the MVP, and then
• 19:36
  Speaker 1: all of that with what just happened back in April
• 19:40
  Speaker 1: in the draft and that Ty Simpson pick out of Alabama,
• 19:46
  Speaker 1: that stings even more. It stings like a box jellyfish
• 19:50
  Speaker 1: venom in the nervous system, pain in the tuckas like
• 19:55
  Speaker 1: the Rams had an opportunity to get a player that
• 19:58
  Speaker 1: could help them right now, Well they're going for it.
• 20:01
  Speaker 1: They have an old quarterback who they're paying top dollar two,
• 20:05
  Speaker 1: and they decided, we don't want to help We don't
• 20:07
  Speaker 1: want to help him. You don't waste a first round
• 20:11
  Speaker 1: pick on a clipboard holder when your MVP is older
• 20:15
  Speaker 1: and now you've given him more money. The Rams are
• 20:17
  Speaker 1: on track to not take advantage of the only real
• 20:22
  Speaker 1: reason to draft a quarterback in the first round, that
• 20:25
  Speaker 1: rookie contract, that window where you play them and pay
• 20:29
  Speaker 1: them by NFL standards, mere peanuts, and so you're gonna
• 20:34
  Speaker 1: if things go right, Estaff's gonna play two more years.
• 20:36
  Speaker 1: So you blow through two years of the rookie deal
• 20:40
  Speaker 1: for a guy who will not see the field unless
• 20:43
  Speaker 1: Matthew Stafford ends up wearing a hospital gown, and then
• 20:47
  Speaker 1: then Ty Simpson will be out there. It's really an
• 20:50
  Speaker 1: admission by the Rams, like, we draft this guy and
• 20:53
  Speaker 1: he really is what we'd said the night of the draft.
• 20:55
  Speaker 1: He's a fourth round developmental player. And the Rams, by
• 20:59
  Speaker 1: giving staff Or an extension, are saying, you know what,
• 21:01
  Speaker 1: you're right, that's take validation, that's hot. Take validation from
• 21:05
  Speaker 1: other Rams. The Rams, by giving Stafford the extension, are
• 21:07
  Speaker 1: admitting to me and to you that, hey, we drafted
• 21:10
  Speaker 1: the guy in the first round who is not going
• 21:13
  Speaker 1: to be anywhere near play ready for two years. Why
• 21:17
  Speaker 1: on God's green Earth would you do that? They doubled
• 21:21
  Speaker 1: down on the championship window with Stafford. I paid the
• 21:26
  Speaker 1: man the MVP, and yet flushed a draft pick down
• 21:31
  Speaker 1: the toilet. Ty Simpson. They turned him into a Rodeo
• 21:35
  Speaker 1: drive hemorrhoid cushion. And so two years on the bench
• 21:40
  Speaker 1: warming has took us. And that's the job description. It's
• 21:45
  Speaker 1: great to sit around. You're not gonna you're not able
• 21:48
  Speaker 1: to play, We're just gonna keep you around. It's wild,
• 21:51
  Speaker 1: all right. Furthermore to New York we go where the
• 21:53
  Speaker 1: Giants did the thing they weren't supposed to do at
• 21:56
  Speaker 1: the time, they weren't supposed to do it. So when
• 22:00
  Speaker 1: the Giants changed coaches, it was assumed that John Harbaugh
• 22:04
  Speaker 1: was going to bring in all of his own guys,
• 22:06
  Speaker 1: and for the most part did. One of the holdovers
• 22:10
  Speaker 1: was the general manager, Joe Shane, and the news came
• 22:13
  Speaker 1: out on Thursday night that Joe Shane had agreed to
• 22:16
  Speaker 1: a multi year contract extension, and so that means he's
• 22:21
  Speaker 1: locked in at least for a couple more years with
• 22:23
  Speaker 1: John Harbaugh in the Big Apple. So the question where
• 22:27
  Speaker 1: are you at on the Giants extending the general manager
• 22:31
  Speaker 1: Joe Shane after all of the chatter that he was
• 22:35
  Speaker 1: completely downgraded with the Giants. So it's pretty obviously the
• 22:39
  Speaker 1: NFL Unlike the Portland Trailblazers in the NBA, they don't
• 22:43
  Speaker 1: have any money and they're firing everyone. The Giants have
• 22:46
  Speaker 1: money to burn. And even with that, this I put
• 22:52
  Speaker 1: it in the basket ridiculous, ridunculous. Only in New York
• 22:57
  Speaker 1: do you build a roster that has gone twenty one
• 23:00
  Speaker 1: and forty five that's a three eighteen winning percentage as
• 23:06
  Speaker 1: the GM, and you get a multi year contract extension.
• 23:11
  Speaker 1: Like I'm cool with rewarding good performance like Matthew Stafford
• 23:14
  Speaker 1: and winning the MVP getting a new contract, Joe Shane
• 23:18
  Speaker 1: getting a new contract. It's like rewarding the arsonist and
• 23:22
  Speaker 1: giving the arsenists a box wrapped with a bow on it,
• 23:26
  Speaker 1: and he opened the box and they take the wrapping
• 23:29
  Speaker 1: paper off. What's in the box, Well, you got some
• 23:31
  Speaker 1: matches and a big lighter. Well, that doesn't seem like
• 23:34
  Speaker 1: a great gift for the arsonists, but okay, so if
• 23:38
  Speaker 1: results actually mattered in the Giants organization, Joe Shane would
• 23:43
  Speaker 1: be updating his information with express pros, not signing an
• 23:48
  Speaker 1: extension and now keep it ying. He didn't just fall upward,
• 23:52
  Speaker 1: he pull vaulted upward. And that said, this is purely
• 23:57
  Speaker 1: a ceremonial job. It's a well paid job. It's a
• 24:01
  Speaker 1: ceremonial job. At this point, the cash is legit, and
• 24:07
  Speaker 1: John Harbaugh is the one that wears the boots, he
• 24:09
  Speaker 1: wears the pants and all that, and he's the one
• 24:13
  Speaker 1: calling everything. However, Joe Shane gets the paycheck and the
• 24:16
  Speaker 1: Giant fans get some ibut profit because they got headaches.
• 24:20
  Speaker 1: And John Harbaugh he wanted a loyal lieutenant by all accounts.
• 24:24
  Speaker 1: Instead he got a cabana boy from Prince yki Key
• 24:28
  Speaker 1: there with Dorko the comedian in Hawaii, and he's got
• 24:32
  Speaker 1: a corner office. Joe Shane's job is not that easy.
• 24:36
  Speaker 1: Like think about it as a kabana boy for the Giants.
• 24:39
  Speaker 1: He has to greet arriving guests, he has to rent
• 24:42
  Speaker 1: out the cabanas, he has to give out the towels,
• 24:45
  Speaker 1: the swimsuits, the beach chairs, right, write down everyone's name.
• 24:49
  Speaker 1: He's got to set up the pool furniture in the morning.
• 24:51
  Speaker 1: He's got to monitor the amenities. He's got to make
• 24:53
  Speaker 1: sure that fresh towels come out of the back. There's
• 24:55
  Speaker 1: a lot of moving parts to being the New York Giants.
• 24:58
  Speaker 1: Cabana Boy and John Harball. When he says jump Joe,
• 25:03
  Speaker 1: Shane will ask if he would rather have him lather
• 25:07
  Speaker 1: suntan lotion all over like he's Mike the Leprecaun. Right.
• 25:13
  Speaker 1: He gotta take care of all the wants and needs
• 25:15
  Speaker 1: like that Drake song back in the day. He's got
• 25:17
  Speaker 1: to take care of it all.
• 25:18
  Speaker 2: Right.
• 25:18
  Speaker 1: Last thing, I'm gonna stay in the Tri state area.
• 25:23
  Speaker 1: We'll do the full tilt boogie, the boogie woogie. So
• 25:26
  Speaker 1: the Giants quarterback Jackson Dart still on the fence on
• 25:32
  Speaker 1: this guy. I don't hate him. He doesn't scream to
• 25:34
  Speaker 1: me as a good player, Like he's more like an
• 25:36
  Speaker 1: average player at this point. We'll see what happens going forward.
• 25:41
  Speaker 1: Hadn't played that much. Giants quarterback Jackson Dart though. The
• 25:44
  Speaker 1: one thing that he's been a lead at is engaging
• 25:48
  Speaker 1: in contact risky business running the football right, running into contact,
• 25:53
  Speaker 1: and has exposed himself to a fair amount of injuries
• 25:57
  Speaker 1: in his brief time in the NFL, and this has
• 25:59
  Speaker 1: been a topic of conversation for those that pay attention
• 26:02
  Speaker 1: to the jumbled nonsense on the day to day in
• 26:06
  Speaker 1: the NFL. This was during his rookie season. Well, the Giants,
• 26:09
  Speaker 1: as we know, they have a new coaching staff with
• 26:11
  Speaker 1: John Harbaugh and a bunch of other new assistant coaches
• 26:14
  Speaker 1: that have taken over there. And one of those assistant
• 26:17
  Speaker 1: coaches who did such a great job with the Tennessee Titans,
• 26:20
  Speaker 1: he lost his job, Brian Callahan, the Giants quarterback coach.
• 26:25
  Speaker 1: Callahan another NEPO baby. His daddy was a head coach.
• 26:29
  Speaker 1: We got to be Dumba's team in the NFL. That's
• 26:32
  Speaker 1: what his dad said when he coached the Raiders. So
• 26:35
  Speaker 1: Brian Callahan and others we are told have been working
• 26:38
  Speaker 1: with Jackson Dart to try to establish some guardrails and
• 26:43
  Speaker 1: encourage him to not run into contact, to make better
• 26:47
  Speaker 1: decisions about when to take off and run, run, run,
• 26:53
  Speaker 1: run for ust, run, and then when not to do that.
• 26:56
  Speaker 1: So the question how are you? How are you thinking
• 27:02
  Speaker 1: about the Giants now second year quarterback Jackson Dart doing
• 27:08
  Speaker 1: a one pint eighty on his reckless running style and
• 27:12
  Speaker 1: putting the kebash on that zip it all right? So
• 27:18
  Speaker 1: as always seeing is believing, we have a very small
• 27:21
  Speaker 1: sample size. And did I watch every single snap of
• 27:24
  Speaker 1: the Giants? Hell no, I didn't. I did watch a
• 27:28
  Speaker 1: fair amount. So so far, all we've seen from Jackson
• 27:32
  Speaker 1: Dart is a guy who looks like he's auditioning for
• 27:35
  Speaker 1: Jackass six. The Giants are practically begging him to do
• 27:40
  Speaker 1: the electric slide, pleading with Jackson Dart to stop playing
• 27:45
  Speaker 1: Froger with his NFL career. Just do not hop into traffic?
• 27:50
  Speaker 1: What are you doing? Is this not an arcade game Froger? However,
• 27:54
  Speaker 1: Jackson Dart he wants to star in his own Weekly
• 27:57
  Speaker 1: Injury documentary Netflix docu series, and look, you're not gonna
• 28:03
  Speaker 1: all of a sudden erase the evil canieval tendencies with
• 28:06
  Speaker 1: a couple of spring meetings and a whiteboard. That's not happening,
• 28:10
  Speaker 1: and now people can change. It doesn't happen often. People
• 28:14
  Speaker 1: can't change. However, muscle memory does not lie. This is
• 28:16
  Speaker 1: always my issue for Examp Daniel Jones, I know, off topic,
• 28:22
  Speaker 1: but Dan Jones in Indianapolis had some really good games.
• 28:25
  Speaker 1: You knew eventually muscle memory would take over and he'd
• 28:29
  Speaker 1: start doing the tango of suck, and he did. And
• 28:33
  Speaker 1: so I look at Jackson Dart and I'm like, yeah,
• 28:35
  Speaker 1: for some of the games, I'm sure he'll be okay.
• 28:37
  Speaker 1: And then he's hardwired to run into contact, to run
• 28:43
  Speaker 1: into danger. And you can coach decision making all day
• 28:47
  Speaker 1: and all night. However, you cannot coach out the addiction
• 28:53
  Speaker 1: to adrenaline. The adrenaline addiction, and when the pass rush
• 28:57
  Speaker 1: gets real, the pocket collapses and the instinct ends up
• 29:03
  Speaker 1: winning eight days a week, right every single time it happens,
• 29:08
  Speaker 1: And right now, Jackson darts instinct is pure yolo. You
• 29:12
  Speaker 1: only live once. Baby, Let's go for it. Battering Ram now,
• 29:17
  Speaker 1: I kind of like seeing it. I'm not a giant sky.
• 29:20
  Speaker 1: I enjoy seeing it. So we don't buy the offseason
• 29:24
  Speaker 1: hype about hey, it's gonna do a one to eighty
• 29:26
  Speaker 1: and all that stuff. He's the whiz kid and all that.
• 29:30
  Speaker 1: To me, he's the same daredevil and a tiger generally
• 29:34
  Speaker 1: has not been able to change the stripes, although with AI,
• 29:38
  Speaker 1: I guess they'll eventually be able to do that. And
• 29:40
  Speaker 1: just because the coaching staff asked very nicely does not
• 29:43
  Speaker 1: mean it is going to happen. So he's got an
• 29:45
  Speaker 1: on and off again relationship with Evil Knievl like tendencies
• 29:50
  Speaker 1: at this point. Jackson Dart will see how that goes
• 29:52
  Speaker 1: going forward. It is the Ben Mallor Show as we
• 29:57
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• 30:00
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• 30:02
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• 30:13
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• 30:15
  Speaker 1: a lot of NASCAR fans who listened to the show,
• 30:17
  Speaker 1: and I saw the sudden death of Kyle Busch at
• 30:21
  Speaker 1: the very young age of forty one, and just a terrible,
• 30:25
  Speaker 1: terrible storys had a medical situation that popped up in
• 30:31
  Speaker 1: just a couple of days. Shows you the frugality of life,
• 30:34
  Speaker 1: which we try to forget, otherwise it would be very
• 30:36
  Speaker 1: difficult to live life. But my god, my condolence is
• 30:39
  Speaker 1: there to Kyle Busch back when I covered NASCAR on
• 30:42
  Speaker 1: a more regular basis. His name, well, he's two time
• 30:46
  Speaker 1: champion and his name came up quite a bit in
• 30:48
  Speaker 1: those conversations back in the day. So condolence is there
• 30:52
  Speaker 1: to the fans and the family, obviously of Kyle Busch,
• 30:55
  Speaker 1: dead at the age of forty one.
• 30:57
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• 31:03
  Speaker 1: It's maller. How about that?
• 31:05
  Speaker 2: To the third.
• 31:05
  Speaker 1: Degree, I just said that this is one big gets
• 31:10
  Speaker 1: grilled coop oh loop.
• 31:13
  Speaker 5: Despite being on a three year playoff drought, the Bengals
• 31:16
  Speaker 5: are favored in fifteen of their seventeen regular season matchups
• 31:20
  Speaker 5: this year. Ben, is this crazy or is their schedule
• 31:23
  Speaker 5: just that easy?
• 31:24
  Speaker 1: Well, it's an easy schedule, and it doesn't matter if
• 31:28
  Speaker 1: you're favored in May, obviously, right, it doesn't matter if
• 31:31
  Speaker 1: you're favorite in May. You still have to play the games.
• 31:34
  Speaker 1: You still have to play the games. And the Bengals
• 31:38
  Speaker 1: are going to have injuries and all that stuff. So
• 31:40
  Speaker 1: I'm pretty sure they're not going to win fifteen games,
• 31:42
  Speaker 1: although they should be back in the playoffs playing that
• 31:45
  Speaker 1: soft schedule.
• 31:46
  Speaker 5: Next, Lane Kiffin sent in a recent interview that if
• 31:48
  Speaker 5: he could do over his departure from Ole Miss, that
• 31:50
  Speaker 5: he wouldn't fight to try and stay and coach the
• 31:52
  Speaker 5: Rebels through.
• 31:52
  Speaker 3: The college football playoffs.
• 31:54
  Speaker 5: Ben, do you think that would have prevented any of
• 31:56
  Speaker 5: the animosity towards him as he left?
• 32:00
  Speaker 1: Always says, remember when Lane left Tennessee and they were
• 32:03
  Speaker 1: burning sofas in the street, and then of course USC
• 32:06
  Speaker 1: they fired at like the airport or whatever. So it's
• 32:10
  Speaker 1: always something with this guy. There's no good way to leave,
• 32:14
  Speaker 1: is what I'm trying to say, Coop, Like there's they
• 32:16
  Speaker 1: wanted him to stay at Old Miss. He went inside
• 32:19
  Speaker 1: the conference. So no, there would not have been a
• 32:22
  Speaker 1: good off ramp for Lane Kiff and it would not
• 32:25
  Speaker 1: have mattered too much.
• 32:26
  Speaker 5: Next, Jalen Brown's being linked to the Atlanta Hawks and
• 32:29
  Speaker 5: the LA Clippers, as it's being speculated the Celtics will
• 32:32
  Speaker 5: break up their core this summer and an attempt to land
• 32:34
  Speaker 5: you Onis, but do you think Jalen Brown is done
• 32:36
  Speaker 5: in Boston?
• 32:38
  Speaker 1: It certainly feels like the Celtics are going to shake
• 32:40
  Speaker 1: things up here the way they vanished, And again, you know,
• 32:43
  Speaker 1: Jason Tatum if he didn't play in the closeout game
• 32:46
  Speaker 1: against the Sixers. And hey, if somebody's dumb enough to
• 32:49
  Speaker 1: take the fifth pick in the draft for a guy
• 32:51
  Speaker 1: who's a Finals MVP in Jalen Brown and send him
• 32:54
  Speaker 1: to the Clippers, I'll take him right now. I don't
• 32:56
  Speaker 1: think Jalen Brown's a perfect player by any means, but
• 32:59
  Speaker 1: he's certainly better. And the fifth pick in the draft
• 33:01
  Speaker 1: of Boston's dumb enough, you do it?
• 33:02
  Speaker 3: How we do you pass this edition?
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  Speaker 1: It's Big Ben's lame joke of the week. Hi, here
• 33:29
  Speaker 1: we go, Lame jokes for the week every week at
• 33:34
  Speaker 1: about this time every week. Alright, here we go, right now,
• 33:41
  Speaker 1: time to have some fun. We welcome in from Hollywood.
• 33:44
  Speaker 1: Hooray for Hollywood. Not Bollywood Hollywood, and not California's Hollywood.
• 33:49
  Speaker 1: That would be the Hollywood in Florida. The entertainment capital
• 33:53
  Speaker 1: for weed Man, hippie. Hello, Weedman, hippie, Hey Ben, make
• 33:57
  Speaker 1: me up all right? How is Hollywood, Florida treating you?
• 34:02
  Speaker 1: We man? Do you leave your house at all? Or
• 34:04
  Speaker 1: do you stay home all day? Are you at I
• 34:06
  Speaker 1: wish I had someplace to go. I want to get
• 34:09
  Speaker 1: out of here. Where would you like to go? I
• 34:14
  Speaker 1: don't know. I just like I had something to do.
• 34:16
  Speaker 2: I got nothing to do. I need something.
• 34:19
  Speaker 1: Oh you're bored? I got you. I am get back
• 34:23
  Speaker 1: to panhandling what you used to do.
• 34:26
  Speaker 2: No, there's no place around here to do it?
• 34:30
  Speaker 1: Really, okay?
• 34:32
  Speaker 3: Why don't you go to the movies?
• 34:34
  Speaker 1: Yeah, go to the movies? Or yeah you do that.
• 34:36
  Speaker 3: Now let's go to the movie theater like that?
• 34:39
  Speaker 2: Yeah? There there's no movie theater around here.
• 34:44
  Speaker 1: How far away? How far away are you from the beach?
• 34:48
  Speaker 1: I don't know. Really, I should find I should find
• 34:53
  Speaker 1: that out.
• 34:53
  Speaker 3: Really okay, I got I can't.
• 34:57
  Speaker 4: Talk at your O.
• 35:00
  Speaker 1: There's a whole big world out there, weed Man. Go
• 35:02
  Speaker 1: out there and enjoy yourself.
• 35:04
  Speaker 5: You know.
• 35:06
  Speaker 1: How come every time a listener wants to meet you
• 35:08
  Speaker 1: when they come to a town like Mallard, prop guy,
• 35:10
  Speaker 1: your ghost them what's up with that?
• 35:13
  Speaker 2: I wish, I wish somebody'd.
• 35:15
  Speaker 1: Come here and meet me weed Man. Multiple times, we've
• 35:18
  Speaker 1: had fans of the show that wanted to meet you.
• 35:21
  Speaker 1: Remember Ed from Spokane and Christina from Spokane. They wanted
• 35:24
  Speaker 1: to meet you. Did you ever meet them? I don't
• 35:26
  Speaker 1: think you did.
• 35:28
  Speaker 3: No, No, of course.
• 35:29
  Speaker 1: All right, Big Ben's lame jokes of the week. Here
• 35:31
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• 35:33
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• 35:36
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• 35:40
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• 35:44
  Speaker 1: Did you know that weed Man once lost a bet
• 35:47
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• 35:49
  Speaker 2: Really?
• 35:50
  Speaker 1: Yes, it was the first and only time weed Man
• 35:53
  Speaker 1: ever paid a bill. That is from the multi time
• 36:01
  Speaker 1: lame joke writer of the Year, Surfer Todd, the comedian
• 36:05
  Speaker 1: in Vegas. Now, why can't weed Man get hired as
• 36:10
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• 36:16
  Speaker 1: goes against his religion. That's Brendan from Boston. We sent
• 36:21
  Speaker 1: that one in the Why was the gardner happy when
• 36:24
  Speaker 1: he heard Mark the full name guy on the show?
• 36:28
  Speaker 1: Why because he loves pussy Willows the Flower. Of course
• 36:33
  Speaker 1: I've said Lucky Tony.
• 36:35
  Speaker 3: We sent that one in.
• 36:36
  Speaker 1: All right. What is the one Broadway musical that weed
• 36:40
  Speaker 1: Man doesn't like and never has? What rent? That's Surfer
• 36:52
  Speaker 1: Todd the Comedian. That's how you win multiple Benny Awards
• 36:55
  Speaker 1: as the Joke Writer of the Year. Why did weed
• 36:58
  Speaker 1: Man's pet Camille and stop changing colors?
• 37:02
  Speaker 4: Why?
• 37:03
  Speaker 1: Well, apparently after inhaling secondhand ganja smoke for years, the
• 37:07
  Speaker 1: poor thing developed reptile dysfunction. So it's very sad. It's
• 37:13
  Speaker 1: Terry in Saint Paul. Why did weed Man clench his
• 37:17
  Speaker 1: fist watching the Marlins lose? Why, well, it turns out
• 37:22
  Speaker 1: you couldn't really grit your teeth, weed Man, you don't
• 37:25
  Speaker 1: have any, so it's a different that. That's Eric. Now,
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  Speaker 1: weed Man, do you remember who's been sending you food?
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  Speaker 1: Weed Man Carny. You got to say his name right,
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  Speaker 1: it rhymes with burrito. How about that? Oh there you go.
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  Speaker 2: For me.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah, I'm actually hitting some partos right now.
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  Speaker 1: Oh very wow? All right, stop bagging, please my god.
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  Speaker 1: Why does weed Man Hippie prefer candy over steak? Why
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  Speaker 1: because the tooth hurts, That's why. That's darrel of those arts.
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  Speaker 1: Did you know that weed Man hippie is upset they
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  Speaker 1: closed a bridge near his place? Really yeah, he still
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  Speaker 1: cannot get over it. He's very upset by that. That's Fields, Texas.
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  Speaker 1: Why Why is weed Man? Why is weed Man such
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  Speaker 1: a good financial advisor?
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  Speaker 2: Why?
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  Speaker 1: Well, every day he loves to check out how high
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  Speaker 1: the gas prizes have risen in Miami. That's Mike Leprocado
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  Speaker 1: said that one in thanks weed Man. Lame jokes up
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  Speaker 1: the week. It's Perrito, Perrito.
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  Speaker 2: Order to catch live editions of The Ben Meller Show
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  Speaker 2: weekdays at two am Eastern eleven pm Pacific.
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  Speaker 1: Let's go to Loraina right now for the big introduction.
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  Speaker 1: Go ahead, Loraina right now and now live from Sherman Oaks, California.
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  Speaker 1: It's Coopdalup, Marcel, where are you?
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  Speaker 3: It wasn't that bad? All right?
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  Speaker 5: We're gonna start off Coop Scoop on entertainment in the
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  Speaker 5: theaters like we always do.
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  Speaker 3: And first, I don't usually do this.
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  Speaker 5: It's not a movie that is coming out this weekend,
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  Speaker 5: but I did want to bring it up. Scary Movie
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  Speaker 5: six they announced, you know, Ben, how the new thing
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  Speaker 5: with the movies that come out is the collectible popcorn bucket.
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  Speaker 5: You know about that, Like, yes, yeah, yeah, I've seen
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  Speaker 5: that different designs, Yeah.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, the popcorn burkin for Devilwaar's product, right right, right.
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  Speaker 5: So for Scary Movie six, their limited edition popcorn bucket
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  Speaker 5: is going to be a fully functional bong.
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  Speaker 1: I'm assuming you get five of these cool.
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  Speaker 3: I don't know. I mean, we'll see how much it costs,
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  Speaker 3: but I'll definitely get one of them. They come in
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  Speaker 3: different sizes, right, yeah, they come in different sizes.
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  Speaker 5: There's little like attachments that like normally are for like concentrates,
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  Speaker 5: but in this case it's for like to.
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  Speaker 3: Hold the butter.
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  Speaker 5: It's it's pretty cool, actually, So I'm excited about that.
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  Speaker 5: As for the movie out this weekend, the one that
• 40:35
  Speaker 5: everybody's talking about and that everybody will go see, maybe
• 40:38
  Speaker 5: not me, but most people Star Wars the Mandalorian and Grogu.
• 40:44
  Speaker 3: I'm watching it to Wars they are now.
• 40:48
  Speaker 5: I wish, you know, I wish Eddie was still on
• 40:50
  Speaker 5: the show, because Eddie is a big fan of all
• 40:52
  Speaker 5: these movies, and can you make that happen?
• 40:55
  Speaker 1: Can you call somebody cool and get them back and.
• 40:57
  Speaker 3: Then you know, I don't think so okay, but you
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  Speaker 3: know it would be nice. But he loves these movies.
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  Speaker 5: He loves all the Star Wars stuff, and he would
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  Speaker 5: go see it and tell me if it's worth my time.
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  Speaker 5: I used to watch the Mandalorian TV show. I kind
• 41:12
  Speaker 5: of just like faded off of it, like after a
• 41:15
  Speaker 5: few seasons. So I'm not even caught up with that.
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  Speaker 5: But I suppose that you don't need to be caught
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  Speaker 5: up with the show to watch the movie. But anyway,
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  Speaker 5: that's the movie out this weekend. We're gonna move over
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  Speaker 5: to television, though, and the first thing that I want
• 41:28
  Speaker 5: to bring up is a new Netflix series called The Burrows. Now,
• 41:34
  Speaker 5: this is a sci fi horror, supernatural thriller type thing,
• 41:40
  Speaker 5: and it is set in a seemingly peaceful retirement community,
• 41:44
  Speaker 5: and it follows a misfit group of retirees who band
• 41:47
  Speaker 5: together to battle a mysterious malevolent force.
• 41:51
  Speaker 3: Yes, it's so basically old people fighting back. Yes, it
• 41:55
  Speaker 3: is Stranger Things old version.
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  Speaker 1: Okay, so somebody pitched that in an elevator pitch, So
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  Speaker 1: I got the next big thing. We'll get a bunch
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  Speaker 1: of people in their seventies and we're gonna fight this demon.
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  Speaker 5: Yes, Yes, it's from the producers of Stranger Things, so
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  Speaker 5: you know, there you go. But the cast is led
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  Speaker 5: by Alfred Molina, Gina Davis, Bill Pullman is in there
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  Speaker 5: as well. Those are those are the big names, so
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  Speaker 5: check that out on Netflix. The whole season are is
• 42:30
  Speaker 5: available to stream right now. Also, I wanted to bring
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  Speaker 5: this up. I'm not typically a fan of Netflix original movies,
• 42:37
  Speaker 5: but this one sounds interesting, so I want to bring up.
• 42:39
  Speaker 5: It's called Ladies First and is also available to stream
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  Speaker 5: right now. It's a remake of a twenty eighteen French
• 42:45
  Speaker 5: language Netflix original and it stars Sasha Baron Cohen as
• 42:50
  Speaker 5: a male chauvinist who awakens in a parallel universe in
• 42:52
  Speaker 5: which gender roles are reversed. Rosamund Pike also stars in
• 42:58
  Speaker 5: this one. It's called Ladies First and then also a
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  Speaker 5: couple more things.
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  Speaker 1: Uh.
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  Speaker 5: Mating Season is a new adult animated comedy on Netflix,
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  Speaker 5: also available to stream right now. It is from the
• 43:10
  Speaker 5: makers of Big Mouth, and it focuses on love, sex,
• 43:13
  Speaker 5: and relationships between animals in the forest.
• 43:18
  Speaker 1: So it's like animal porn or something like that. Kind
• 43:21
  Speaker 1: of ye, Nick, just what society needed.
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  Speaker 5: Sarah Silverman, Jack McBriar, Jason Alexander, some of the voices
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  Speaker 5: David d'coveney as well, Timothy Oliphant. So a lot, a
• 43:35
  Speaker 5: lot of big names here voicing this. I'm gonna move
• 43:38
  Speaker 5: over to HBO. A documentary stars on It's on HBO
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  Speaker 5: at nine pm. Also available to stream on HBO Max.
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  Speaker 5: Now this is interesting. It's the Yogurt Shop murders. So
• 43:51
  Speaker 5: there was already a Yogurt Shot murders documentary at HBO
• 43:53
  Speaker 5: which I watched.
• 43:54
  Speaker 3: It was very good. That was in Texas, right, yes,
• 43:58
  Speaker 3: and it is around the Houston area.
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  Speaker 5: I believe it's a new ninety minute episode that follows
• 44:04
  Speaker 5: recent developments in the true crime story examined in last
• 44:07
  Speaker 5: year's mini series. I believe they figured it out and
• 44:10
  Speaker 5: caught the person who did it, if I remember correctly,
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  Speaker 5: But tune in to find out for sure. And last,
• 44:18
  Speaker 5: but not least, on Wednesday, it is the debut on
• 44:24
  Speaker 5: Prime Video of Spider Noir, which is the first regular
• 44:29
  Speaker 5: television gig for Nicholas Cage and the first live action
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  Speaker 5: Spider Man series since the nineteen seventies.
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  Speaker 3: Bro, how fun is that?
• 44:38
  Speaker 5: Yes, it's all done so yep, it finds Nick Cage
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  Speaker 5: voicing Ben Riley Slash the Spider, a grizzled, down on
• 44:46
  Speaker 5: his luck private investigator in nineteen thirties New York, where
• 44:49
  Speaker 5: he's also the city's only superhero. And I don't see
• 44:54
  Speaker 5: any like critic comments yet, but you know, it's Nick Cage,
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  Speaker 5: so I'm definitely gon to check it out because I
• 45:00
  Speaker 5: liked A Cage. All eight episodes stream on Wednesday on
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  Speaker 5: Prime Video, and that is coop scoop on Entertainment