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  Speaker 1: SORR lead this hour from a pro bouncy ball and
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  Speaker 1: we'll start out in southern California. It was Game five
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  Speaker 1: between the Rockets and the Lakers off Broadway, the other
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  Speaker 1: opportunity for the Purple and Goal to punch their tickets
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  Speaker 1: the second round. It was all guaranteed. You told me
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  Speaker 1: that Kevin Durant was enjoying a little high on the
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  Speaker 1: bench there and looking down at all the celebrities. Lakers
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  Speaker 1: were expected to show up, collect to win, favored to
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  Speaker 1: do that. Well, did you watch? Probably not. Jabbari Smith Junior.
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  Speaker 1: He didn't play all that great, but he had twenty
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  Speaker 1: two points. Tarry Easton, who are these guys? With eighteen
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  Speaker 1: and the Roquets staving off playoff elimination for the second
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  Speaker 1: straight game with a ninety nine ninety three victory over
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  Speaker 1: the slumping, free falling Lakers. Oh god, this is we
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  Speaker 1: are getting closer to as just an epic sports moment.
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  Speaker 1: In Game five, so the Historians lead in the first
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  Speaker 1: round playoff series is now shrinking. It's three to two.
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  Speaker 1: They still are in front in the series now. Alfred
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  Speaker 1: Shengoon had fourteen points, nine rebounds, eight assists, and a
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  Speaker 1: partridge in the pear tree. So the fifth seeded Roquets
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  Speaker 1: now go back home to Texas. Game six will be
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  Speaker 1: on Friday night. The better story is in the losing
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  Speaker 1: locker room, so it's good jumping off point. Let us
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  Speaker 1: discuss the question obvious question. Let's not go too deep here.
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  Speaker 1: We're doing overnight talk radio. The question how concerned should
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  Speaker 1: old man Lebron James and the Lakers be right now?
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  Speaker 1: So my thoughts on this, I've got Mark Twain be
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  Speaker 1: draggled and screensaver, and we will combine all of these
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  Speaker 1: things together and we are going to make some corn fritters,
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  Speaker 1: is what We're going to make. Deep fried corn fritters.
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  Speaker 1: That's what we're going for. So a the Lakers it's
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  Speaker 1: appropriate they play on skid row. If you ever been
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  Speaker 1: to La, the worst part of La is where the
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  Speaker 1: Lakers play, and you put the skid in skid row
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  Speaker 1: on the Mather scale of concern one to ten, we
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  Speaker 1: are at a six, having point five on the Malard
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  Speaker 1: scale of concern. And the Lakers, though, are acting like
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  Speaker 1: it's a polite three. They're still acting like it's a
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  Speaker 1: plight polite three. So the diagnosis, and we've said some time,
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  Speaker 1: looking at all the available evidence, we've run the test.
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  Speaker 1: The Malard diagnosis right now is this isn't just a slump.
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  Speaker 1: This is something more than that, because if you look
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  Speaker 1: at it, for now, three straight games, three straight games,
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  Speaker 1: the Lakers have been outplayed, outworked, and outclassed. If Houston
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  Speaker 1: hadn't gift wrapped Game three with one of the all
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  Speaker 1: time great choke jobs in the history of that business,
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  Speaker 1: the Lakers would be staring down a three to two
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  Speaker 1: deficit in the mirror. And you all told me that
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  Speaker 1: Austin Reeves coming back. You just don't know. You're an
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  Speaker 1: old geezer, old man. Take Oh yeah, I was ripping
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  Speaker 1: Lebron the other day and you said, no, you know
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  Speaker 1: what you're talking about Oh my god, yeah, okay, okay,
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  Speaker 1: So Austin Reeves are right. You told me the final
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  Speaker 1: nail in the rock Cats coughing right there, Austin Reeves,
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  Speaker 1: he'll Billy Kobe back baby. You told me that. Well,
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  Speaker 1: it turns out that he was what in a nail,
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  Speaker 1: he was more like a thumbtack. Austin Reeves, you want
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  Speaker 1: a brick, He'll give you a brick. Who goofed. I've
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  Speaker 1: got to know you know what happens when you assume
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  Speaker 1: you look like a donkey. Okay, you look like a donkey.
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  Speaker 1: And Houston now has snatched two straight without Kevin Durant.
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  Speaker 1: I think they should just send Kevin Durant. Now the
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  Speaker 1: Rockets on like a weed retreat somewhere, like you know
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  Speaker 1: how Aaron Rodgers goes on like an Ayahwaska retiet, like
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  Speaker 1: Durant should go to like a camp weed somewhere and
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  Speaker 1: just leave them there. They don't need him right now.
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  Speaker 1: They don't need him, or I think give him a
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  Speaker 1: cheerleading outfit and put them on the side. They figured
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  Speaker 1: some stuff out clearly. While the Lakers that their play,
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  Speaker 1: it just seems like they think they've already evanced. They
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  Speaker 1: had an early lead in this game, and oh, okay,
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  Speaker 1: well the Rocket's gonna give up. Well they didn't give up.
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  Speaker 1: And I go back to game for I know this
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  Speaker 1: is game five, but I go back to game and
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  Speaker 1: you pooed me. They did not go for the kill shot.
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  Speaker 1: Lebron looked terrible in that game. They had it right there,
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  Speaker 1: the Rockets. That's the game that they're beaten and broken
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  Speaker 1: after gagging up game three and you let them off
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  Speaker 1: the hook. You let them off the hook right there
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  Speaker 1: in that game. And that was in game four. And
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  Speaker 1: now you're waist deep in the soup at this point.
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  Speaker 1: And it was Mark Twain who famously, my dad was
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  Speaker 1: a huge Mark Twain fan, so I left a bunch
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  Speaker 1: of Mark Twain books around. But Mark Twain had said,
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  Speaker 1: Denial ain't just a river in Egypt. And right now
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  Speaker 1: the Lakers are on a canoe and they're paddling around
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  Speaker 1: the river. Denial is what they're doing here. And then
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  Speaker 1: there's the Komodo dragon in the room. Yeah, you might
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  Speaker 1: want to cover your years right now. It's wearing number
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  Speaker 1: twenty three and slowing down, down, down, don't yep, Lebron
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  Speaker 1: James defying father time. That storyline was nice for a
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  Speaker 1: couple of games. It was cute. You got your little
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  Speaker 1: clicks on your stories online. Way to go, You got
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  Speaker 1: your engagement. You know I got the bots. The bots
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  Speaker 1: love Lebron, right, But I know I talk about Lebron
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  Speaker 1: a lot, and because it's good, because the Burner accounts
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  Speaker 1: the fake against all that all that stuff. Love Lebron, right.
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  Speaker 1: The engagement is great with Lebron. It doesn't change the
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  Speaker 1: fact that we're right. Lebron's legs look tired and his
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  Speaker 1: play is now spotty. As the series has gone on,
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  Speaker 1: there'll be a quarter where he plays all right, and
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  Speaker 1: then there'll be one like, wow, he should really do
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  Speaker 1: something else. Now, no team has ever come back from
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  Speaker 1: an O three. Do you realize this ends all if
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  Speaker 1: the Rockets are able to pull this off and still
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  Speaker 1: a ways to go. If they're able to pull us off,
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  Speaker 1: it ends any debate about Jordan versus Lebron, and Lebron
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  Speaker 1: loses every argument. That is what's on the line here. Stand.
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  Speaker 1: If the Rockets can somehow do this, it kills the
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  Speaker 1: legacy of Lebron James. It's all over, it's done. It
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  Speaker 1: ends Lebron. So if you're a Lebron hater, you gotta
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  Speaker 1: hope the Rockets get this done because this ends it all.
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  Speaker 1: This is it for Lebron. You can't have any argument.
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  Speaker 1: Everything goes back to yeah, but yeah, but Lebron's team
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  Speaker 1: was up three games to none, and they choked against
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  Speaker 1: the Rockets, who dind' even have Kevin Durant their top
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  Speaker 1: player allegedly wild it is what, Only four of one
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  Speaker 1: hundred and fifty nine teams have even forced a game
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  Speaker 1: seven from that hole. And yet Houston's confidence is rising
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  Speaker 1: and the Lakers urgency is flatlining. And when you flirt
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  Speaker 1: with disaster, eventually disaster decides to play foot see back
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  Speaker 1: with you, it becomes problematic. Now. Jabari Smith of Houston
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  Speaker 1: had made some comments prior to Game five. Jamari Smith
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  Speaker 1: pointing I said, well, listen, we're the better team. He
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  Speaker 1: said that, and most people don't know basketball would say, yes,
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  Speaker 1: the Rockets are the better team. Well, Lebron James was
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  Speaker 1: asked about that, and he seemed like he, I don't know,
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  Speaker 1: he just wasn't in the mood to talk about it.
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  Speaker 1: Let's go to the audio tape. Take a listen.
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  Speaker 2: He feels like, obviously the Rockets are the better way
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  Speaker 2: to five that he had some confidence growing over there.
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  Speaker 1: I don't care about Bro, The game is won in
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  Speaker 1: between the four lines. I don't give a damn who
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  Speaker 1: cares who he mean? Of course, you say, what would
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  Speaker 1: you say? Not the better team? Like I don't. I
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  Speaker 1: ask one of them young guys that question on him.
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  Speaker 1: You know what that sounds like to me? It sounds
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  Speaker 1: like a man that knows that Jabari Smith is right.
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  Speaker 1: Lebron sounds like he's aware. He just want to say, yes,
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  Speaker 1: you know, I want to deal with it. You can
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  Speaker 1: tell that's a guy panic. Lebron's starting to panic a
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  Speaker 1: little bit. This is for God, man, this is gonna
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  Speaker 1: be great, all right. Now, Moving on to Motown, where
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  Speaker 1: kid Cuttingham, who had sucked a time you cannot suck,
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  Speaker 1: woke up from his slumber in his playoff series and
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  Speaker 1: went nuclear for the Pistons a franchise playoffs? How is
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  Speaker 1: this a franchise playoff record? The Pistons have had great players,
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  Speaker 1: not for a long time, but they've had great players
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  Speaker 1: over the years. Forty five points for Cad Cunningham had
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  Speaker 1: a big step back jumper late in that game. If
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  Speaker 1: you were watching, you know what I'm talking about. And
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  Speaker 1: Orlando was right there and he hit the big step
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  Speaker 1: back late, had five assists, five free pointers Tobias Harris.
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  Speaker 1: He also had a good stat line twenty three points,
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  Speaker 1: eight rebounds, a couple of steels. Detroit staying alive, Staying alive.
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  Speaker 1: They beat Orlando the Magic though still up in that series.
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  Speaker 1: They head back to Disneyland disney World there in Florida
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  Speaker 1: for game six. The question who gets the blame? Mickey
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  Speaker 1: Mouse ears for the Magic. So Orlando did not just
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  Speaker 1: lose this game. They were behind the entire game. They
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  Speaker 1: never had the lead. They played like they a guy
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  Speaker 1: trying to catch a bus that had already moved ahead
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  Speaker 1: a couple of blocks, and they got it close a
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  Speaker 1: couple of times, and then the bus moved away and
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  Speaker 1: Paulo Bonchrero was puff the Magic Dragon at forty five
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  Speaker 1: points as well, So you had two guys on one
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  Speaker 1: on each scene with forty five points. A really monster
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  Speaker 1: night and looks real sexy on the box score, Like
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  Speaker 1: you look at the on the tablet, you look at
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  Speaker 1: the box score, you're like, man, that's really really nice,
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  Speaker 1: like really good looking sexy box score with the forty
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  Speaker 1: five points and great. However, you know we have to
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  Speaker 1: get out the magnifying glass and nitpick Bonchero. It turns
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  Speaker 1: out was actually bedraggled at the charity stride five of
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  Speaker 1: twelve from Life Now. I don't know if you realize this.
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  Speaker 1: There's no one guarding you when you're shooting a foul shot.
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  Speaker 1: There's no one that can block the shot. The only
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  Speaker 1: way the shot can be impeded is if the air
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  Speaker 1: conditioning pumps the faces directly at the ball the path
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  Speaker 1: of the ball. That's about it. The Magic as a
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  Speaker 1: team were frazzled. They missed fourteen, so the rest of
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  Speaker 1: the team missed seven foul shots in addition to Boncero
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  Speaker 1: was seven. So you can do the malor math here, right,
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  Speaker 1: you can. You can do the malor math on this,
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  Speaker 1: and you're like, okay, we'll move some number nine in
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  Speaker 1: a seven point loss. Those missed free throws are the
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  Speaker 1: flashing light pointing towards the exit and with Franz Wagner
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  Speaker 1: watching from the pine there the supporting cast. They also
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  Speaker 1: pulled a vanishing act worthy of Main Street USA's Magic
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  Speaker 1: Shot there for the team from Orlando. Meanwhile, Kid Cuttingham
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  Speaker 1: went god mode for the Pistons and the Magic who
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  Speaker 1: had played really good defense most of this series most
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  Speaker 1: of this series, not so good here. And they better
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  Speaker 1: take care of business in game six or they're they're
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  Speaker 1: gonna get porked in game seven, you would think, although
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  Speaker 1: the Pistons do have a high choke factor. The clock
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  Speaker 1: is ticking and for Orlando, that magic carriage is gonna
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  Speaker 1: turn back into a small little pumpkin if this thing
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  Speaker 1: doesn't start flipping the other way quickly. Now. Meanwhile, the
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  Speaker 1: other game on the NBA card, we get down to
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  Speaker 1: the nuts and bolts of this The other game on
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  Speaker 1: the NBA card, we go to the land Cleveland, where
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  Speaker 1: Denish Shrewder, who journeyman vagabondguard Dennis Shrewder, put on a show.
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  Speaker 1: Late in the game. He scored nineteen points, put eleven
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  Speaker 1: of them in the fourth quarter. Evan Mobley, who had
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  Speaker 1: gone missing. They found him and he had a couple
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  Speaker 1: of key three balls late in the game and he
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  Speaker 1: had twenty three points. And the Cadavers rally and they
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  Speaker 1: come back in the second half. They win by five
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  Speaker 1: in a back and forth the high scoring game five
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  Speaker 1: over Toronto. In Game five, Cleveland still well, they're still fine.
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  Speaker 1: They're up three to two, not in danger at this point.
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  Speaker 1: Game six will be Friday back in all kindaa. James
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  Speaker 1: Harden twenty three points, so people say, oh, I played well,
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  Speaker 1: we'll get to that in a minute. Donovan Spider Mitchell
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  Speaker 1: added nineteen for Cleveland. So you know by now how
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  Speaker 1: this works, right, you know by now how this works.
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  Speaker 1: A better story on the Canadian side of the border,
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  Speaker 1: so that is where we are going to go. Had
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  Speaker 1: a double digit lead in this game on the road
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  Speaker 1: early in the second half. Question what went wrong for
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  Speaker 1: the Raptors down the stretch? So Toronto provided a blueprint
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  Speaker 1: on how to self destruct. As we like to say
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  Speaker 1: on these parts, quoting Torts the my favorite NHL coach
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  Speaker 1: now hanging out in Vegas. They team from Toronto sucked
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  Speaker 1: at a time you cannot suck. And that's the whole movie,
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  Speaker 1: right there, folks, that's it. That's the movie. Toronto's young
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  Speaker 1: core undergoing a metamorphosis into a young chore. Scottie Barnes,
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  Speaker 1: face of the NBA and RJ Barrett, the supposed headliners there,
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  Speaker 1: both had a quantum oopsie down the stretch like at
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  Speaker 1: the Kentucky Derby. They tripped there, and the athlete defenders
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  Speaker 1: will say they were both hurt and they were dinged up,
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  Speaker 1: and that's that. And they both did appear to have injuries. However,
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  Speaker 1: they were in the game. And you are judged on
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  Speaker 1: your performance. You don't get a little puffy sticker because
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  Speaker 1: you played hurt and you sucked. Those two combined in
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  Speaker 1: the fourth quarter, they took twelve shots. How many of
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  Speaker 1: those shots do they make? One? One eight point three
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  Speaker 1: percent shooting in the fourth quarter. Now, I never played
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  Speaker 1: in the NBA and I just do an overnight talk
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  Speaker 1: radio show. However, I believe that's not good. Oh you're
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  Speaker 1: being mean. You're being mean. Mallor mean mallor believe that's right.
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  Speaker 1: And that's not a scoring slump. That's that's the offense
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  Speaker 1: in the witness protection program at this point. So Toronto
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  Speaker 1: did not just run out of gas. They did not
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  Speaker 1: just run out of gas. They ran out of tires.
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  Speaker 1: They should go to tire rack the engine. I don't
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  Speaker 1: know what happened to that. It fell out the steering
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  Speaker 1: wheels off to the right there on the highway. That's
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  Speaker 1: not good. And the offense in the fourth quarter was
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  Speaker 1: essentially a screen saver. It's kind of floating around a
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  Speaker 1: little bit. They missed, if my math is right here,
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  Speaker 1: they being the team from Toronto, they missed their first
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  Speaker 1: eleven shots of the final quarter, which I don't think
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  Speaker 1: is good. And Cleveland actually looked more like a professional
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  Speaker 1: basketball team. Now, as for the question, every time Cleveland wins,
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  Speaker 1: I get somebody said, well, you were wrong about James Harden.
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  Speaker 1: You said that James Hi is gonna kill Okay, does
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  Speaker 1: this win s Here's not over. So if you know
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  Speaker 1: this best of seven, best of five. So does this
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  Speaker 1: mean the have solved playoff Harden? No, absolutely not. They
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  Speaker 1: just survived him. Harden had one more point than you
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  Speaker 1: scored in the fourth quarter, one more point, zero field goals.
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  Speaker 1: That's just bearded cardio, is what that is. He got
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  Speaker 1: bailed out. Listen. He got bailed out by the German
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  Speaker 1: Dennis Schreuder, who went full Saturday Morning cartoon. Nobody saw
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  Speaker 1: that coming, shrewder, who turned into Mighty mouse streaming. Here
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  Speaker 1: has clicked the DOCU sign no holdout, No not no drama,
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  Speaker 1: but no hold on. He's gonna get paid. Money, money, money, money, money, money. Yep,
• 19:04
  Speaker 1: He's getting paid. Pickens has won the Texas Lottery. Congratulations.
• 19:08
  Speaker 1: He is now under contract for one year and assuming
• 19:13
  Speaker 1: he keeps his nose clean and doesn't get fined and
• 19:16
  Speaker 1: loses some of this money twenty seven point three fully
• 19:18
  Speaker 1: guaranteed after taxes, even though he's in Texas, which is
• 19:21
  Speaker 1: better than like California or New York might walk away
• 19:25
  Speaker 1: with like one hundred thousand dollars. So he'll play it
• 19:27
  Speaker 1: out with the chance to cash in during the twenty
• 19:31
  Speaker 1: twenty seven off season. So Pickens not gonna hold out
• 19:36
  Speaker 1: to the very last minute. He had opportunity to wait
• 19:39
  Speaker 1: till week seven, Week seven of the next NFL season,
• 19:43
  Speaker 1: he says, no, I'm gonna show up. So that is
• 19:45
  Speaker 1: a good jumping off point. Let us discuss the question
• 19:49
  Speaker 1: keep it simple. Does this George Pickens storyline now calm down,
• 19:54
  Speaker 1: calm down in Dallas because he has signed the franchise tag.
• 20:00
  Speaker 1: Does it all change? Does it all change? So my
• 20:03
  Speaker 1: take on this, I've got Disney plus Chicken of the
• 20:07
  Speaker 1: Sea and Plane Reservation, and we're gonna put all of
• 20:13
  Speaker 1: this together and we are going to not speak the
• 20:18
  Speaker 1: same lingo. No, no, no, We're gonna change up the lingo.
• 20:21
  Speaker 1: So my lead here this hour to kick off, Welcome
• 20:27
  Speaker 1: to Jerry's world, as we'd like to say, where even
• 20:30
  Speaker 1: the stability comes with a warning label. And on one
• 20:35
  Speaker 1: side of the aisle he'll say, well, yeah, George Pickens
• 20:37
  Speaker 1: signed the franchise tag. He's good. He wants to be
• 20:41
  Speaker 1: a Dallas cowboy. Otherwise he wouldn't have signed the franchise tag. However,
• 20:44
  Speaker 1: on the other side, let's be clear, and this is
• 20:47
  Speaker 1: the side I'm on, he signed the contract. This was
• 20:50
  Speaker 1: not a peace treaty. This is not a peace agreement
• 20:52
  Speaker 1: with the Geneva Convention. No, the Cowboys and Pickens are
• 20:58
  Speaker 1: still at loggerheads, and they're fine the way a reality
• 21:03
  Speaker 1: show couple is fine, which is to say that Dallas
• 21:08
  Speaker 1: thinks this is over. No B block act too B
• 21:13
  Speaker 1: block act to signing the tag is like it's like
• 21:17
  Speaker 1: a Geico commercial. It's so easy a caveman could do it. However,
• 21:22
  Speaker 1: the drama orrama is still pre in store, and I'm
• 21:28
  Speaker 1: in it for the drama. I've got a talk show
• 21:29
  Speaker 1: to do. And you don't calm down the tinderbox by
• 21:33
  Speaker 1: handing out twenty seven point three million. You just all
• 21:36
  Speaker 1: you have done now is you have made the explosion
• 21:42
  Speaker 1: more expensive ca boom, as we like to say. As
• 21:47
  Speaker 1: we like to say, and So remember Stephen Jones who
• 21:51
  Speaker 1: won the genetic lottery and he gets to run the
• 21:53
  Speaker 1: Cowboys day to day. Jerry, of course does the big decisions,
• 21:57
  Speaker 1: but Steven's there day to day while Jerry's sipping one
• 22:00
  Speaker 1: in his yacht in the south of France, and Stephen
• 22:02
  Speaker 1: Jones claims that they are not they the Cowboys are
• 22:06
  Speaker 1: not trading. George Pickens, however, his nose is growing like
• 22:12
  Speaker 1: a Disney Plus reboot of Pinocchio. And I'm old enough
• 22:17
  Speaker 1: to remember. My memory hasn't gone away yet. I remember
• 22:19
  Speaker 1: when a young fellow by the name of Micah Parsons
• 22:23
  Speaker 1: was never ever going to be traded. They told me that,
• 22:28
  Speaker 1: they said Parsons is not going to be traded. And
• 22:31
  Speaker 1: now he's going on dates to munch on cheese curds
• 22:35
  Speaker 1: at the Cheese Castle over in Kenosha. Good food, by
• 22:38
  Speaker 1: the way, I recommend it. Pickens wants a long term deal.
• 22:42
  Speaker 1: Dallas wants a nice long nap okay. So there remains
• 22:47
  Speaker 1: this disconnect, and that means that the sign out in
• 22:51
  Speaker 1: front of Jerry's world still says now accepting offers. And
• 22:55
  Speaker 1: you look around there are still plenty of teams that
• 22:57
  Speaker 1: have not completely filled the void at the wide receiver position.
• 23:02
  Speaker 1: The forty nine ers come to mind, the Panthers, the
• 23:05
  Speaker 1: Buffalo Bills as examples here. And you gotta think that
• 23:11
  Speaker 1: teams like that are calling even if Jerry Jones pretends
• 23:15
  Speaker 1: that his phone is on airplane mode, because we know
• 23:17
  Speaker 1: that Jerry cannot put his phone on airplane mode because
• 23:20
  Speaker 1: flip phones don't have airplane mode. They don't. I don't
• 23:23
  Speaker 1: believe they do right now. When I had a flip phone,
• 23:25
  Speaker 1: I haven't had a flip phone in a long time,
• 23:28
  Speaker 1: but when I had one, I recall they did not
• 23:30
  Speaker 1: have airplane mode, as I remember, So keep it eye.
• 23:33
  Speaker 1: We just had our Nesto on my buddy, or Nesto
• 23:35
  Speaker 1: from the Bay, San Francisco could pull the old fashioned
• 23:39
  Speaker 1: headache for headache trade. They don't make many of those anymore.
• 23:42
  Speaker 1: It's an obvious one if Dallas wants to avoid any
• 23:46
  Speaker 1: kind of trouble with Pickens, and they clearly don't believe
• 23:48
  Speaker 1: in him, nor should they, because Pickens has a track
• 23:51
  Speaker 1: record of being a knucklehead. So trade Pickens for another knucklehead,
• 23:56
  Speaker 1: Brandon IUC and flip them at Ville. Not included ibuprofen,
• 24:02
  Speaker 1: not included. So this is not over, which is really
• 24:05
  Speaker 1: what I'm concerned about as a talk show host. It's
• 24:07
  Speaker 1: not over. It's just I guess he's eligible for free
• 24:10
  Speaker 1: shipping George Pickens now because the contract signed. So you
• 24:13
  Speaker 1: get some free shipping out of that, which is not
• 24:15
  Speaker 1: necessarily a bad thing. Not a bad thing. Furthermore, got
• 24:18
  Speaker 1: we now go to Jersey sews. I was looking at
• 24:22
  Speaker 1: some of the headlines in the NFL. I saw this
• 24:24
  Speaker 1: story and it caught my attention, so that the headline
• 24:26
  Speaker 1: essentially said that John Harbaugh sports with Coleman's buddy, the
• 24:30
  Speaker 1: old Ravens coach who's now on his next vagabond gig
• 24:34
  Speaker 1: in Jersey. So John Harbaugh's sales pitch to guys he
• 24:39
  Speaker 1: brought a bunch of the Baltimore players in his old
• 24:41
  Speaker 1: guys and random players, random players around the NFL came
• 24:45
  Speaker 1: to join Big Blue. So his sales pitch to the
• 24:48
  Speaker 1: players coming to the Giants is I am building a bullet,
• 24:54
  Speaker 1: I'm building a bully. I'm sure there's some wokester out
• 24:58
  Speaker 1: there very offended by that. You shouldn't bully anyone anyway.
• 25:02
  Speaker 1: This is what the fan base supposedly is all horny
• 25:06
  Speaker 1: for this is all excited about this, the Giant fans.
• 25:09
  Speaker 1: Hardball attempting to send a message to the entire organization
• 25:17
  Speaker 1: on that he wants bully ball. Give me you're hungry,
• 25:22
  Speaker 1: give me your tired, give me your goons. That's the
• 25:26
  Speaker 1: mentality that it's strength, size, power, all that stuff and
• 25:33
  Speaker 1: things that the Giants have lacked. So the question what's
• 25:36
  Speaker 1: John Harball ultimately saying here and shouting from the top
• 25:42
  Speaker 1: of the skyscraper about the Giants mindset? So he's saying
• 25:46
  Speaker 1: that the team has been filled with baked goods over
• 25:49
  Speaker 1: the last decade or so, a lot of cream puffs,
• 25:53
  Speaker 1: a lot of cream puffs and jelly filled donuts on
• 25:55
  Speaker 1: that team, and those days are over. The Giants hired
• 26:00
  Speaker 1: John Harbaugh to run essentially a toughness rehab clinic, and
• 26:05
  Speaker 1: whether it works or not is a different conversation. The
• 26:08
  Speaker 1: sales pitch to the new roster, it's what's not to
• 26:11
  Speaker 1: like about it? Like, that's that's great. It's a three
• 26:13
  Speaker 1: word manifesto. I'm building bully If you want to make
• 26:17
  Speaker 1: it forwards, I'm building a bully fine. And he's not
• 26:21
  Speaker 1: just changing the depth chart, he's changing the entire species.
• 26:24
  Speaker 1: What that franchise has been for many many years here
• 26:28
  Speaker 1: since Tom Coughlin exited, and he's looking for guys that
• 26:33
  Speaker 1: if you say, well, what do they smell like? Do
• 26:35
  Speaker 1: they have a nice, a nice pretty cologne on or deodorant? No,
• 26:38
  Speaker 1: they smell like w D forty. Yeah, that's what they
• 26:41
  Speaker 1: smell like. And bad decisions and tobacco and weed and
• 26:46
  Speaker 1: all that. The Junkyard dogs. What kind of dog you want?
• 26:50
  Speaker 1: I want a Junkyard dog. Dirt backs? You want dirt backs?
• 26:53
  Speaker 4: Right?
• 26:53
  Speaker 1: All that, all those those corny phrases that we use,
• 26:56
  Speaker 1: heart and soul guys, glue guys, all that stuff. Guys
• 27:00
  Speaker 1: that scratched, call all that crap. So it's a culture transplant.
• 27:03
  Speaker 1: And really the reason and I'm not a psychologist, but
• 27:07
  Speaker 1: I will use some psychobabble on the radio show. So
• 27:12
  Speaker 1: my theory on why the Giant fan base is all
• 27:15
  Speaker 1: excited because a John Harbaugh has a resume of success. Granted,
• 27:20
  Speaker 1: for many years lately he's been more like Mike Tomlin
• 27:24
  Speaker 1: than Sean McVay or Andy Reid, but still the success
• 27:29
  Speaker 1: has been there, and the Giants have not had even
• 27:32
  Speaker 1: regular playoff teams in a long time, but they're going back.
• 27:35
  Speaker 1: The giants are going back to what I call the
• 27:37
  Speaker 1: chicken of the c mindset, meaning tuna talk, the tuna
• 27:43
  Speaker 1: Bill Parcells who famously demanded he wanted beavers, right, guys
• 27:49
  Speaker 1: who have no hobbies, no life, complete total social losers,
• 27:53
  Speaker 1: who don't have any side hustles. They're not trying to
• 27:56
  Speaker 1: become well. Back in Parcels day, there was no social
• 27:59
  Speaker 1: media influences. The guys that aren't worried about that other crap.
• 28:02
  Speaker 1: And the beaver has nothing to do, just eating wood.
• 28:06
  Speaker 1: That's it, chopping down trees and all that hardball is
• 28:08
  Speaker 1: trying to channel that energy, which is good. He's moving
• 28:11
  Speaker 1: away from the finesse. I need that ring light so
• 28:15
  Speaker 1: I can go on the gram or TikTok or I
• 28:18
  Speaker 1: you know, like the greatest example of a guy that
• 28:21
  Speaker 1: has the wrong priorities Blake Snell, who's really a guy
• 28:25
  Speaker 1: who's just on Twitch playing video games and occasionally pitches
• 28:28
  Speaker 1: for the Dodgers every once in a while. Bro, I
• 28:31
  Speaker 1: ain't playing unless I get mon Bra. I'm risking my life. Bra.
• 28:34
  Speaker 1: That's the modern athlete. And John Harbaugh is like, well,
• 28:37
  Speaker 1: I don't want guys like that and as we said,
• 28:40
  Speaker 1: I want to get away from the cream puff. I
• 28:41
  Speaker 1: would like more carnivores is what I would like. I
• 28:44
  Speaker 1: don't want any vegans, none of that, you know. Sorry,
• 28:46
  Speaker 1: no stradinas well, your wife, none of that stuff. Now
• 28:50
  Speaker 1: it's reminiscent of Dan Campbell when he got to Detroit
• 28:54
  Speaker 1: the kneecap biting philosophy, just with bully ball instead of
• 29:00
  Speaker 1: want to bite knee caps off. And the fact that
• 29:02
  Speaker 1: Dan Campbell had no reputation and John Harbaugh has a reputation.
• 29:07
  Speaker 1: So you do have to build the bedrock and then
• 29:10
  Speaker 1: you can add on. You pick and choose the guys
• 29:13
  Speaker 1: that have some toughness because when the weather gets nasty
• 29:17
  Speaker 1: in December and if you're lucky enough to play in January,
• 29:22
  Speaker 1: they don't get into the fetal position and start sucking
• 29:25
  Speaker 1: their thumb. They actually pay attention and they get the
• 29:29
  Speaker 1: job done. And you might not win, however, they do
• 29:32
  Speaker 1: put the effort in. They don't they don't allow the
• 29:34
  Speaker 1: outside factors to cause them to lose. Now, meanwhile, last thing,
• 29:37
  Speaker 1: we go to baseball. I want to go back to
• 29:40
  Speaker 1: a previous episode of this show. We were on hours
• 29:44
  Speaker 1: after Garrett Crochet went out and coughed up a fur
• 29:48
  Speaker 1: ball against the Minnesota Twins, got absolutely lit up. And
• 29:53
  Speaker 1: we had said at the time there were two theories
• 29:55
  Speaker 1: on why Garrett Crochet was so bad in that game.
• 29:59
  Speaker 1: One of the theories was he was tipping pitches and
• 30:01
  Speaker 1: the Minnesota Twins where just they knew everything that was coming.
• 30:04
  Speaker 1: They spoke the same language, which is very difficult to
• 30:10
  Speaker 1: You can't steal signs anymore because of the way that
• 30:13
  Speaker 1: they do the baseball signs with the technology that they
• 30:18
  Speaker 1: use in baseball, right, they don't use the hand signs anymore,
• 30:21
  Speaker 1: So that didn't make a lot of sense. Now, there's
• 30:24
  Speaker 1: always indicators, like there's certain ways you hold your glove
• 30:27
  Speaker 1: or the way your hand or your arm moves that
• 30:29
  Speaker 1: would indicate, hey, this's gonna be a curveball or it's
• 30:31
  Speaker 1: gonna be a breaking ball or a slide or whatever.
• 30:33
  Speaker 1: So there are those things. They call them indicators, right,
• 30:37
  Speaker 1: they call them tendencies. Well, we said the other option
• 30:41
  Speaker 1: was he's hurt. Well, Dateline Finway Pack the Red Sox
• 30:48
  Speaker 1: that plays Garrett Crochet on the fifteen day injury list,
• 30:52
  Speaker 1: which I guess means he's not pitching when we go
• 30:54
  Speaker 1: I don't after worry watching him pitch when we go
• 30:56
  Speaker 1: to that Red Sox game. He's got inflammation, they're saying,
• 31:00
  Speaker 1: and his pitching shoulder, some inflammation on the shoulder, and
• 31:03
  Speaker 1: so the left hander, the franchise ace is out. Crochet
• 31:08
  Speaker 1: is twenty six. He's been up and down and mostly
• 31:12
  Speaker 1: down to begin the season, his second year in the
• 31:16
  Speaker 1: Friendly Confines. He's pitched. The last time out, he pitched
• 31:19
  Speaker 1: six shutout innings, and that was against Baltimore. However, however,
• 31:24
  Speaker 1: we we go back to that start prior where he
• 31:27
  Speaker 1: gave up saw you back to back outings before that
• 31:31
  Speaker 1: six inning shutout performance where he had given up five
• 31:35
  Speaker 1: runs and ten earned runs, the ten inn runs to
• 31:38
  Speaker 1: the Minnesota and he's pitched thirty innings this year. Garrett
• 31:41
  Speaker 1: Crochet has an ERA of over six. I don't believe
• 31:44
  Speaker 1: that's what they're paying him for. So many around the
• 31:47
  Speaker 1: Red Sox are trying to downplay this, saying it's just
• 31:50
  Speaker 1: a maintenance thing. It's it's inflammation, it's not that big
• 31:54
  Speaker 1: a deal. Don't make this out to be something it's not. Okay. Question,
• 31:58
  Speaker 1: how worried should Austin Baseball observers be that the leader
• 32:04
  Speaker 1: of the pitching rotation, Garrett Crochet's shoulder is barking Bart
• 32:10
  Speaker 1: Bart this early, this early in year two of one
• 32:14
  Speaker 1: hundred believe one hundred and seventy million, I think is
• 32:16
  Speaker 1: his contract. Well, so, the Malord scale of concern, the
• 32:20
  Speaker 1: Malard scale of concern one to ten, one to ten,
• 32:25
  Speaker 1: with one being no concern at all and ten representing
• 32:27
  Speaker 1: extreme concern. We are at a seven on the Malar
• 32:33
  Speaker 1: scale of concern. Here's why. So this is not a blister.
• 32:38
  Speaker 1: You don't just put some new skin on it. It's
• 32:40
  Speaker 1: not a blister. This is a shoulder. This is in
• 32:43
  Speaker 1: many ways the engine that keeps everything motoring along. It's
• 32:49
  Speaker 1: the whole mcgilla, it's the operation. We are skeptical that
• 32:54
  Speaker 1: the very polished version the Red Sox are saying is
• 32:57
  Speaker 1: the reality. We are We have seen enough baseball over
• 33:01
  Speaker 1: the years to know that these guys are so fragile.
• 33:04
  Speaker 1: Now lately, basketball players have given them a run for
• 33:06
  Speaker 1: their money. However, baseball players. When I covered baseball on
• 33:10
  Speaker 1: a nightly basis, there was always a joke in the
• 33:12
  Speaker 1: press box anytime a player had to slide to catch
• 33:16
  Speaker 1: a ball in the outfield or dive or any of
• 33:20
  Speaker 1: that stuff, or a pitcher had to make an unusual
• 33:23
  Speaker 1: movement to field the ball and there would always be
• 33:26
  Speaker 1: a stoppage because the trainer had to waddle out and
• 33:29
  Speaker 1: the manager had to come out, and they had often
• 33:31
  Speaker 1: come out of the game and all that. So I
• 33:35
  Speaker 1: look at this, and I'm watching and I'm thinking, well,
• 33:39
  Speaker 1: this is probably the beginning of the Garrett Crochet medical
• 33:41
  Speaker 1: mystery Tour, is what we're looking at? And is this
• 33:45
  Speaker 1: just inflammation or is this the Red Sox using the
• 33:50
  Speaker 1: softest possible languages, very pillowy, soft language to somehow try
• 33:56
  Speaker 1: to avoid talking about the rotator cuff. And many times,
• 34:01
  Speaker 1: many times we have gone out bought buttered popcorn, bought
• 34:05
  Speaker 1: the buttered popcorn, and gone to see the movie and
• 34:07
  Speaker 1: the picture struggles. People say, ah, it's tipping pitches. The
• 34:11
  Speaker 1: velocity goes down a little bit, and said, well, just
• 34:13
  Speaker 1: shoulder inflammation, that's it. Shoulder inflammation. And suddenly suddenly that
• 34:19
  Speaker 1: picture is making plane reservations to go out to Los
• 34:22
  Speaker 1: Angeles to visit doctor Ella Trash in LA and the
• 34:27
  Speaker 1: guy that replaced the late Frank Job as the surgeon
• 34:30
  Speaker 1: to the stars in sports and shoulder inflammation is baseball's
• 34:35
  Speaker 1: version of we will tell you the truth when we
• 34:38
  Speaker 1: have to, is what they like to say. And this
• 34:41
  Speaker 1: is the injury pitchers get. Before the injury, everyone fears
• 34:44
  Speaker 1: they're going to get. And we are two for two
• 34:47
  Speaker 1: this baseball season. So next time somebody sends me an
• 34:49
  Speaker 1: email said, you know, you should just believe these people. Yeah,
• 34:53
  Speaker 1: I said, we don't. We shift into high gear when
• 34:54
  Speaker 1: people tell us something. We don't. We're not gullible. The
• 34:57
  Speaker 1: Dodgers said that Edwin Diaz was fine. He's out for
• 35:00
  Speaker 1: three months. The Red Sox were like, Garrick Cochet has
• 35:03
  Speaker 1: not hurt Alice Korra before he got whacked. Was I,
• 35:06
  Speaker 1: everything's good, he's fine, he's not hurt. Okay, Well he's
• 35:08
  Speaker 1: on the injur list now, so clearly something's going on.
• 35:10
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• 35:16
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• 35:21
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• 35:26
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• 35:27
  Speaker 4: It was reported on Tuesday that bo Nicks underwent a
• 35:30
  Speaker 4: second procedure on his angle for a cleanup, but that
• 35:34
  Speaker 4: this was anticipated and not a concern at all. However,
• 35:37
  Speaker 4: that's not how many fans are taking it.
• 35:39
  Speaker 1: Ben.
• 35:39
  Speaker 5: Should they be concerned, Yes, always be concerned.
• 35:42
  Speaker 1: These teams lie all the time. We just did a
• 35:44
  Speaker 1: monologue with two examples, the Red Sox and Dodgers said
• 35:46
  Speaker 1: these guys were fine. These pitchers, both of them are
• 35:49
  Speaker 1: now injured and out for a period of time. These
• 35:52
  Speaker 1: guys lie all the time. And the thing that should
• 35:55
  Speaker 1: concern you is there were rumors that Aaron Rodgers or
• 35:57
  Speaker 1: the Broncos were interested, and anyone said there's no way.
• 36:00
  Speaker 1: And now we've learned the Steelers they signed this weird
• 36:02
  Speaker 1: contract where if Rogers does go to another team, they
• 36:04
  Speaker 1: get a draft pick, which leads you to believe there's
• 36:07
  Speaker 1: something there. So I would be concerned. My level of
• 36:10
  Speaker 1: concern is at a six and a half.
• 36:11
  Speaker 4: Next, LSU quarterback Garrett Nissmeyer was taken by the Kansas
• 36:15
  Speaker 4: City Chiefs in the seventh round and GM Brett Veach
• 36:18
  Speaker 4: told him he's going to the best quarterback.
• 36:20
  Speaker 5: Room in the league. Bendi, do you think that's true?
• 36:23
  Speaker 1: Well, last I checked, the backup right now is justin fields. Okay,
• 36:28
  Speaker 1: so no, no way? Is that the best court come
• 36:32
  Speaker 1: on what are we doing now? Mahomes is wonderful, but
• 36:34
  Speaker 1: justin field he blows next everycent.
• 36:36
  Speaker 4: Report suggested that the reason Cooper flag one Rookie of
• 36:39
  Speaker 4: the Year over Konk Nipple is because ca Nipple's struggles
• 36:42
  Speaker 4: in the play in tournament. Ben, do you agree?
• 36:45
  Speaker 1: Yeah? I do, because it's that should not count. It's
• 36:48
  Speaker 1: not supposed to be based on that. But from what
• 36:49
  Speaker 1: I understand, people waited to turn in their ballots. If
• 36:52
  Speaker 1: that's true, that's bull crap. It's supposed to be based
• 36:54
  Speaker 1: on the regular season. How do we do? Come it out?
• 36:56
  Speaker 5: You pass that decision.
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• 37:16
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• 37:26
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• 37:29
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• 37:33
  Speaker 1: morning show, So let's get right to it. Here we go, Coop,
• 37:37
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• 37:39
  Speaker 5: All right?
• 37:40
  Speaker 6: Ben?
• 37:40
  Speaker 4: We are going to start off with a question from
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  Speaker 4: phase and these question is for Mark yes, okay, all right,
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  Speaker 4: Phase would like to know what is your favorite chicken
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  Speaker 4: spot in the shy Mark?
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  Speaker 5: Okay, can we explain what that means? So, what's your
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  Speaker 5: favorite chicken sponge cargo? Oh, chicken spot?
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  Speaker 1: Yeah.
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  Speaker 5: Oh, there's a place called Harold's Chicken. I hope I
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  Speaker 5: got that right.
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  Speaker 1: What's so good about harold Chicken?
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  Speaker 6: It was very good and they had a way of
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  Speaker 6: having the bread and the coleslaw right together.
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  Speaker 1: It was great. Oh okay, I think that's.
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  Speaker 5: What he's trying to get at.
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  Speaker 1: But whatever, Yeah, gotcha, that's good good food town. All right,
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  Speaker 1: what's next?
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  Speaker 6: We got?
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  Speaker 5: All right?
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  Speaker 4: Shane and des Moines would like to know for everybody,
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  Speaker 4: how often do you use AI?
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  Speaker 1: I use it a fair amount. It's kind of replaced
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  Speaker 1: Google for me. I used to use, like, you know,
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  Speaker 1: just google it, but now if I look something up,
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  Speaker 1: I usually use AI. Although it's not I have look
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  Speaker 1: stuff up and it's been wrong, so I got a
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  Speaker 1: double check it still, but I'd say a fair amount
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  Speaker 1: because it's I'm looking for things and I type in
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  Speaker 1: a lot of different random things, and it seems to
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  Speaker 1: have most of the answers. What about you, Mark, it
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  Speaker 1: seems like.
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  Speaker 6: If I type in something to look up something, it
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  Speaker 6: says AI is answering, So it's like I can't do anything.
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  Speaker 1: That is true.
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  Speaker 6: Yea.
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  Speaker 1: Even Google now uses their AI thing, Gemini I think
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  Speaker 1: it's called.
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  Speaker 5: So it just sends me over there.
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  Speaker 1: So yeah, so whether you're actively using it or not,
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  Speaker 1: you're using cool.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah several times a day.
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  Speaker 1: Uh.
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  Speaker 5: Groc and I are best friends.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, is that your favorite? Grock? It's very competitive?
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  Speaker 5: Yeah, I mean so far.
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  Speaker 4: I guess I don't know, just I'm just used to
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  Speaker 4: it at this point. I like it better than chat
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  Speaker 4: cheept for sure.
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  Speaker 1: Gotcha, got you? Alright, what's the next? What do we got?
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  Speaker 5: All right?
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  Speaker 4: H We're gonna do a question from Donkey Sausage. Donkey
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  Speaker 4: Donkey would like to know how do you spend your
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  Speaker 4: time on airplanes.
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  Speaker 1: Trying not to uh just trying to still live. I mean,
• 39:45
  Speaker 1: I'm a tall guy and it's every plane. But I
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  Speaker 1: actually got lucky on this trip to Ohio because there
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  Speaker 1: was not a couple of flights that were not packed.
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  Speaker 1: But usually it's packed, and I typically just have my
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  Speaker 1: headphones in and I'm listening to something and I usually
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  Speaker 1: download some movies on my tablet and I'll watch it.
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  Speaker 6: What about you more, I still have the old school iTunes.
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  Speaker 6: I have an iPod and I charge that up and
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  Speaker 6: I take it on the trips with me, so I
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  Speaker 6: have all of my music on.
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  Speaker 1: There, gangst What about you?
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  Speaker 4: Normally I sleep, but lately my wife and I have
• 40:15
  Speaker 4: been listening to the full cast audio books for Harry Potter.
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  Speaker 1: Oh okay, all right, what's next? It's ask Ben your
• 40:21
  Speaker 1: questions are answered?
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  Speaker 4: Alfie alien O Piner would like to know what are
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  Speaker 4: you looking forward to the most on your upcoming trip
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  Speaker 4: to the Commonwealth.
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  Speaker 1: I think he wants us to suck up and say
• 40:29
  Speaker 1: meet alf I do want to meet alf and just
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  Speaker 1: I want to I'm excited about the wus Soox game.
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  Speaker 1: I haven't thrown out a first pitch at a baseball
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  Speaker 1: game in a long time. I'm see be a lot
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  Speaker 1: of fun and the event sounds like a great time.
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  Speaker 1: They give me music and food, the whole thing. What
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  Speaker 1: about you, Coop lobster lobster You didn't get that Finway
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  Speaker 1: lobster poutine?
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  Speaker 5: Maybe yeah, probably the lobster