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  Speaker 3: So our lead this hour, and that's how.
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  Speaker 1: You start an NBA far Finals game number one right
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  Speaker 1: there in Oklahoma City, and our leads story the opening act.
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  Speaker 1: The curtain went up on the twenty twenty five Finals
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  Speaker 1: and as the Pacers were massive underdogs, how big everywhere
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  Speaker 1: I looked, Oh, this is going to be a four games,
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  Speaker 1: gentlemen sweep four game series. Pacers just can't keep up.
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  Speaker 1: They cannot keep up, and that's why they play the games.
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  Speaker 1: But they rolled into Petty Coat Junction there played date
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  Speaker 1: with SGA and the Thunder. And I'm going to assume
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  Speaker 1: the position you are not watching. I'm going to assume
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  Speaker 1: the position that you maybe tuned over a little bit,
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  Speaker 1: but you weren't watching the whole thing. So the NBA's
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  Speaker 1: most overrated over raight it player, Tyreese Halliburton hits down,
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  Speaker 1: hits now the Thunderer down by a point he or
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  Speaker 1: the Pacers rather down by point. Tyrese Halliburton a twenty
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  Speaker 1: one jumper doagger with zero point three seconds left, and
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  Speaker 1: that gave Indiana their first and only lead of the game.
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  Speaker 1: They trailed almost all the way from soup to nuts,
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  Speaker 1: but the three point shot or the jump shot by
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  Speaker 1: Halliburton there put them up by one. The Pacers end
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  Speaker 1: up stunning, leaving Oklahoma City mesmerized one eleven to one
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  Speaker 1: ten to the final in game number one there of
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  Speaker 1: the NBA Finals, a whacky to backie kind of a comeback.
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  Speaker 3: The Pacers turned the ball over twenty five times.
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  Speaker 1: You can't win the game if you turn the ball
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  Speaker 1: over twenty five times, the broadcaster said.
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  Speaker 3: Trailed by fifteen points in the fourth quarter. In the
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  Speaker 3: fourth quarter.
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  Speaker 1: It's a pit of vipers playing in Oklahoma City, a
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  Speaker 1: team with the top home record in the entire sport.
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  Speaker 1: And the Pacers could not slough. They could not stop SGA.
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  Speaker 1: The MVP, who had thirty eight points to lead the way,
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  Speaker 1: and none of that mattered. None of it mattered because
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  Speaker 1: Haliburton his basket was the great eraser on the chalkboard
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  Speaker 1: there as Pascal Siakam led the Pacers with nineteen points.
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  Speaker 3: Obi Toppin.
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  Speaker 1: I had jotted down, this is not a good night
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  Speaker 1: when I keep seeing Obi Toppin hit shots, But it
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  Speaker 1: turned out to be a good night. I was gonna
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  Speaker 1: mock Obi Toppin having seventeen points, but in the end
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  Speaker 1: it worked.
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  Speaker 3: The formula worked.
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  Speaker 1: Miles Turner had fifteen and Tyreese Halliburton a very quiet
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  Speaker 1: fourteen points. Andrew Nemhart also had fourteen. So the Indiana
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  Speaker 1: Pacers now three wins away from the championship. In game
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  Speaker 1: number two is back in Oklahoma City on Sunday night.
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  Speaker 1: The better story is in the losing locker room, so
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  Speaker 1: that is where we're gonna direct our focus. That's where
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  Speaker 1: the raw emotion is. You end up losing like this,
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  Speaker 1: it's rather embarrassing. So let us discuss and we have
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  Speaker 1: some audio. Little flavor flave boy, it'll taste of this.
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  Speaker 1: Here's Sga, the MVP of the NBA, commenting and says
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  Speaker 1: that there was a lesson learned for the Thunder.
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  Speaker 3: Take a listen.
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  Speaker 1: I don't know.
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  Speaker 3: It happened so fast.
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  Speaker 4: I feel like we got matched. He got down, going right,
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  Speaker 4: pulled up from the midi and knocked down the shot.
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  Speaker 5: I don't know.
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  Speaker 4: It didn't feel like anything crazy. He just he just
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  Speaker 4: made a play. With the time winding down, we had
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  Speaker 4: control of the game for the most part of it.
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  Speaker 4: Now it is a forty eight minute game, and they
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  Speaker 4: teach you that lesson more than anyone else in the league.
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  Speaker 4: The hard way.
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  Speaker 3: Did it the hard Away, but not that Tim Hardaway.
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  Speaker 3: Here's more from.
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  Speaker 1: The MVP of the NBA, SGA, who says, even though
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  Speaker 1: it says NBA Finals and there's no other games, these
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  Speaker 1: are called island games because they are the only game
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  Speaker 1: in town in that sport. But SGA says his mindset
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  Speaker 1: is that's all the same.
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  Speaker 4: As much as we can, we just got to treat
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  Speaker 4: it like every other game, every other situation we've been in. Yes,
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  Speaker 4: we haven't been in the situation, but it doesn't mean
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  Speaker 4: our character has to change or what we did last time.
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  Speaker 4: It's still basketball, still the game of basketball that we
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  Speaker 4: grew up playing. The rules don't change just because we're
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  Speaker 4: in the finals. So it's like we've been in a
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  Speaker 4: situation before and the other situation we handled it. We
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  Speaker 4: handled it well.
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  Speaker 3: We were better for game two.
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  Speaker 4: And that's the goal.
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  Speaker 1: It's all about the goal. It's all about the goal.
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  Speaker 1: So it's all about well the Thunder coach Mark Dagano there,
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  Speaker 1: he talked about the fact that, eh, you just you
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  Speaker 1: just rinse it off and move on.
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  Speaker 6: Take a listen in games in series, if you make
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  Speaker 6: it this far, you have to endure to do that,
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  Speaker 6: and it gives you rich experiences that you can draw on.
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  Speaker 6: So the biggest experience we've had that is understanding that
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  Speaker 6: every game is a new game. The most important game
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  Speaker 6: in the series is always the next one, regardless of
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  Speaker 6: the outcome. We would have liked to win tonight, but
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  Speaker 6: tonight was a starting point, not an end point. There's
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  Speaker 6: a lot of things we can improve on. There's a
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  Speaker 6: lot of things I'm sure Indiana thinks they can improve on,
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  Speaker 6: and now the.
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  Speaker 3: Series starts to evolve.
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  Speaker 6: So I would have liked to get the game, but
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  Speaker 6: you know, need to be a better team in game two.
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  Speaker 1: Okay, So that's my philosophy, right, I'm the most important
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  Speaker 1: monologue is the one I'm doing right now. You know,
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  Speaker 1: I'm not worried about next hour. I'm certainly not thinking
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  Speaker 1: about hour three or hour four. You think I'm worried
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  Speaker 1: about the Sunday and the Monday monologue or the podcast
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  Speaker 1: I have to do later today, or maybe the podcast
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  Speaker 1: I have to do on Sunday or the Saturday pot No, no, no,
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  Speaker 1: I'm focused. I'm in the moment. I am in the
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  Speaker 1: moment right now. So let us discuss the question as
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  Speaker 1: I do the monologue right now.
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  Speaker 3: I'm not worried about game two. I'm worried about this game.
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  Speaker 1: So who is the biggest donkey for SGA's thunder the
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  Speaker 1: Thunder from down Under? All right? So my thought and this,
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  Speaker 1: They've got Brazilian butt lift, Quick Trip and Netflix, and
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  Speaker 1: we will combine all of these things together and we
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  Speaker 1: are gonna make the Gabba Ghul.
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  Speaker 3: We're gonna make the Gabba Gul.
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  Speaker 1: Alright, So a Oklahoma city didn't have one donkey, they
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  Speaker 1: didn't have two donkeys.
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  Speaker 3: They had a herd.
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  Speaker 1: Of donkeys from up fifteen nine forty two to go.
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  Speaker 1: You nurse that like a baby. Fifteen point lead nine
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  Speaker 1: forty two to go. Good teams don't blow fifteen point
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  Speaker 1: leads with nine to forty two to go. So let's
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  Speaker 1: get a team wide dunscap. These guys all like to
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  Speaker 1: take photos together when they win, right when they lose?
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  Speaker 1: Do they all stand around and stare at the camera
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  Speaker 1: and throw towels around it? Only when they win? Okay?
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  Speaker 1: So the autopsy of a gag, the autopsy of a
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  Speaker 1: pratt fall. This was a Vaudvillian, Vaudvillian choke job. And
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  Speaker 1: I'll mention the three stooges here, Jalen Williams, Lou Dort,
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  Speaker 1: and chet Holmren, the pilot and the cold pilots of
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  Speaker 1: that's right, the vomit comet.
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  Speaker 3: They were right there in the cockpit on the vomit comet.
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  Speaker 1: Now as the thunder closed the game, they were again
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  Speaker 1: up fifteen. They were outscored in the final nine minutes
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  Speaker 1: and forty two seconds thirty two to sixteen thirty two
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  Speaker 1: sixteen at home by the Pacers in the NBA Finals.
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  Speaker 1: And how did the pilot and co pilots do well?
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  Speaker 1: Williams and Dort and also Homegren combined to go zero
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  Speaker 1: for seven. I didn't play in the NBA. I don't
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  Speaker 1: think that's particularly good. Oh, you're being too difficult. What's
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  Speaker 1: wrong with you? Man? What's wrong with you? You're being a hater.
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  Speaker 3: Okay, Well they had two points.
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  Speaker 1: That's it, two points in the final nine to forty
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  Speaker 1: two barf City. Now, do you think I'm going to
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  Speaker 1: give a pass to SGA that he's fine? He had
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  Speaker 1: ten He did have ten of the final sixteen points
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  Speaker 1: for Oklahoma City.
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  Speaker 3: Nope, because he visited the brick house.
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  Speaker 1: If you watch the end of this game, Oklahoma City
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  Speaker 1: had the ball, they had the chance to put the
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  Speaker 1: game on ice. SGA took a jumper, little baby jumper,
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  Speaker 1: and it was a brick house. Could have sealed the
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  Speaker 1: game right there. And then Halliburton came down and said, daer.
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  Speaker 1: He said, day, of course, I'm happy about this outcome out.
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  Speaker 1: I want to I want to see Indiana win this series.
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  Speaker 1: Not that I have any skin in the game here,
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  Speaker 1: but this game one validated several of our long standing
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  Speaker 1: hypothesis on sport that stats tell you what has happened,
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  Speaker 1: not what's going to happen. Now for reference, the thunder
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  Speaker 1: I kept reading different articles, different stories online about Oklahoma
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  Speaker 1: City and people's giving their opinions and the general consensus,
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  Speaker 1: but people that claim to be smarter than you and
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  Speaker 1: I is that this particular Oklahoma City team was so stacked.
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  Speaker 1: It was like they went out and they got the
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  Speaker 1: Brazilian butt lift.
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  Speaker 3: I mean they were just I mean, man, they were
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  Speaker 3: in charge.
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  Speaker 1: They were strutting down the catwalk, shaking their tukas their
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  Speaker 1: badunka dunk, and they went out there a Godzilla sized favorite,
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  Speaker 1: Godzilla sized favorite. Oklahoma City thirty six and one at
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  Speaker 1: home with a fifteen point lead this season, thirty six
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  Speaker 1: and one when they went up by fifteen, and you're
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  Speaker 1: in the NBA Finals, you had SGA, your MVP home cooking,
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  Speaker 1: and none of it mattered. None of it mattered at all. Also,
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  Speaker 1: most games are lost, not one. You have to finish
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  Speaker 1: the race. The thunder didn't get her done down the
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  Speaker 1: stretch and they sucked any time you cannot suck, and
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  Speaker 1: so they lose.
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  Speaker 3: Now turning the.
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  Speaker 1: Page, So what does this game do for the Pacers
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  Speaker 1: and what does it do for individually? Tyrese Haliburton, as
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  Speaker 1: he was the guy playing hero ball at the end.
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  Speaker 1: So we'll start with Halliburton. Why not? So this is
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  Speaker 1: another pillar building, the pillar of a legend who was
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  Speaker 1: the most overrated player, as voted by his peers, not
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  Speaker 1: the media, not the coaches, by his fellow players. They
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  Speaker 1: thought he was overrated. And now he's gone out there
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  Speaker 1: and he stopped at the quick trip. It's classic myth making,
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  Speaker 1: raising your Q score up, up, up, and you think
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  Speaker 1: of some of the great folk heroes in America. Johnny
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  Speaker 1: Appleseed comes to mind here. Now it's Tyrese the Terrible,
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  Speaker 1: the cold blooded assassin in clutch time as he has
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  Speaker 1: gone to in and out Burger and he has gotten
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  Speaker 1: a four by four. That's four game winning baskets in
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  Speaker 1: four playoffs series. Halliburton hit the game winner in the
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  Speaker 1: final one point one second of every round in the playoffs.
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  Speaker 1: He did it against the Doc Rivers, Bucks, the by
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  Speaker 1: To Mitchell Calves, the Jalen Brunson Knickerbockers, and now the
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  Speaker 1: SGA Thunder. And you take a couple of steps back.
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  Speaker 1: So what does it mean for Indiana. Well, it's no
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  Speaker 1: playoff series truly begins until the road team wins. And
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  Speaker 1: so okay, we checked that box done. And what it
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  Speaker 1: does is it puts the pendulum on and really the
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  Speaker 1: choke hold on Oklahoma City because the Pacers have now
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  Speaker 1: set the tone and all these people who were writing
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  Speaker 1: these wonderful stories just licking the toes of Oka.
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  Speaker 3: See, the Pacers.
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  Speaker 1: Went out there and did trail for ninety nine point
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  Speaker 1: nine percent of the game. But it doesn't matter. All
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  Speaker 1: you remember is the outcome of the game, and it
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  Speaker 1: doesn't matter. You don't get like half a win if
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  Speaker 1: you led most of the game. And Indian went out
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  Speaker 1: there and had a nice candlelight dinner and they had
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  Speaker 1: the mood lighting and everything was good, good vibrations, and
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  Speaker 1: they went out there and they win the game of
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  Speaker 1: the end.
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  Speaker 3: All right now, last word to the State of the
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  Speaker 3: League address.
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  Speaker 1: As the NBA Finals were underway, Commissioner Adam Silver, he
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  Speaker 1: represented the Lizard People and he spoke to the assembled
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  Speaker 1: NBA media, Adam Silver making it clear that he has
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  Speaker 1: no interest, none in taking a machete and shortening the
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  Speaker 1: eighty two game regular season, saying quote, I don't really
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  Speaker 1: see the benefit. I don't really see the benefit Silver
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  Speaker 1: said to reducing the number of games. He went on
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  Speaker 1: to say people used to say you should reduce the
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  Speaker 1: number of games because it will lead to a reduction
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  Speaker 1: of injuries. If that were the case, you'd think you'd
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  Speaker 1: have more injuries in April than in October. We don't
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  Speaker 1: see that. Silver continued his diatribe. He said, or you'd
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  Speaker 1: think you'd see more injuries in the playoffs than you
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  Speaker 1: do in the regular season.
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  Speaker 3: But we don't see that either. Post quote.
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  Speaker 1: Okay, So Adam Silver just dismissing the idea of shortening
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  Speaker 1: the NBA season, saying, again, I don't really see the benefit.
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  Speaker 1: What is he really saying? You know what he said,
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  Speaker 1: but what was he really saying. So he's saying it
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  Speaker 1: does not compute. The math ain't mathing here. So he's
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  Speaker 1: talking about cold hard cash, those crispy new fresh one
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  Speaker 1: hundred dollars bill, that's what he's talking about. This is
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  Speaker 1: all about those sweet sweet television dollars. And Adam Silver
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  Speaker 1: is like running a production company for Netflix. There it's
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  Speaker 1: an eighty two episode docu series with sneakers, load management.
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  Speaker 1: The series. It goes on and on and on. So
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  Speaker 1: if you were to take that aforementioned machete and chop chop, chop, chop,
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  Speaker 1: chop and chop away, I don't know ten games. So
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  Speaker 1: you now have ten fewer items to sell. Your inventory
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  Speaker 1: has gone down, and so okay, that's fine, that's ten games.
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  Speaker 1: You can't get money from ESPN, NBC, Amazon or whatever
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  Speaker 1: they're other streaming.
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  Speaker 3: Service they come up with here.
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  Speaker 1: So that's the benefit he doesn't see because it hurts
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  Speaker 1: what the bottom line. It's all about the bottom line.
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  Speaker 1: You can do all the charity you want. You can
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  Speaker 1: be the wokest of the woke, but ultimately you're not
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  Speaker 1: that woke when you have a product and you don't
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  Speaker 1: want to cheapen the product because you want to make
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  Speaker 1: that money. The NBA regular season, in so many ways,
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  Speaker 1: it's like it's like watching c SPAN, you know, on
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  Speaker 1: Congress it's c Span, Like you know, it's millionaires. Most
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  Speaker 1: Congress people are millionaires, taking days off, not voting, not
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  Speaker 1: showing up to their work, you know, for month after
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  Speaker 1: month after month. And Adam Silver knows also, and this
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  Speaker 1: is actually something I truly believe in.
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  Speaker 3: Here, Adam Silver knows that.
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  Speaker 1: You cannot chop chop enough games off the schedule because
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  Speaker 1: of load management. It's baked into the DNA. The players
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  Speaker 1: are soft. The players are told to be soft. They're
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  Speaker 1: raised that way. So it doesn't matter. Whatever the number is.
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  Speaker 1: You could shorten the season into sixty games, get rid
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  Speaker 1: of twenty two games.
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  Speaker 3: Snip snip. That done with twenty two games, So from eighty.
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  Speaker 1: Two to sixty you could give the players weekly massages
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  Speaker 1: and acupuncture and they'd still sit out half of those
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  Speaker 1: games they did. Now play thirty games instead of right
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  Speaker 1: now the eighty two game schedule. The players play maybe
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  Speaker 1: you know, fifty five games or so, or fifty games
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  Speaker 1: somewhere in that area, or sixty even. But if it
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  Speaker 1: doesn't matter, you can't go low enough, and you can't
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  Speaker 1: trust the players. You can't because whatever the number is,
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  Speaker 1: even if they say, okay, you give us that number,
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  Speaker 1: we're gonna play, they're not. And out of an abundance
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  Speaker 1: of caution, they're gonna stay away. That's what they're gonna do.
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  Speaker 1: You know it, and I know it, and everyone involved
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  Speaker 1: knows it. That's the reality. That's another reason not to
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  Speaker 1: get rid of any game.
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  Speaker 1: We move away from pro bouncy ball, and our long
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  Speaker 1: national nightmare is now over. Dateline Western Pennsylvania. After months
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  Speaker 1: and months of a very public courtship between Aaron Rodgers
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  Speaker 1: and Mike Tomlin, we now have a endpoint.
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  Speaker 3: No more will he or won't he speculation.
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  Speaker 1: We assume that you've heard by now, unless you've been
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  Speaker 1: living by a rock.
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  Speaker 3: Down by the river.
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  Speaker 1: Maybe not. But Aaron Rogers has decided he will take
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  Speaker 1: his talents to Mike Tomlin and the Pittsburgh Seeders, letting
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  Speaker 1: Tomlin know that he intends to join the team.
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  Speaker 3: For the twenty twenty five season.
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  Speaker 1: And the Steelers had put a full court press, a
• 20:09
  Speaker 1: full court press on the now ex jet, but the
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  Speaker 1: ex jet has landed at.
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  Speaker 3: A new airport in Pittsburgh, so that move.
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  Speaker 1: According to the Pittsburgh football team, all that is required
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  Speaker 1: is a physical.
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  Speaker 3: Now you know the way this works.
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  Speaker 1: If the team wants you to play for the team,
• 20:29
  Speaker 1: they will find a doctor to pass you, or they'll
• 20:31
  Speaker 1: just give the old wink and a nod to the
• 20:34
  Speaker 1: doctor who is employed by the team. And so it's
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  Speaker 1: very difficult to not pass a physical if the team
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  Speaker 1: wants you to pass physical, right, yeah, exactly. So at
• 20:43
  Speaker 1: age forty one, air and Rogers is going to be
• 20:47
  Speaker 1: hanging out at the confluence. What a beautiful city Pittsburgh
• 20:51
  Speaker 1: is the Monongahela, the Alleghany rivers. There they get together,
• 20:55
  Speaker 1: they have a baby, and that's called the Ohio River.
• 20:57
  Speaker 1: And man, is that need really cool? If you've never
• 20:59
  Speaker 1: been there. I was out of years ago. I got
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  Speaker 1: to get back.
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  Speaker 3: I've not been to Pittsburgh in a minute.
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  Speaker 1: So let us discuss the question what is the temperature
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  Speaker 1: around air? And Rogers finally going to the Steelers?
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  Speaker 3: So what is the temperature in the room? So I've
• 21:14
  Speaker 3: got foreigner screenplay and quirky.
• 21:18
  Speaker 1: And we will combine all of these things together, and
• 21:22
  Speaker 1: we are going to throw some fries on top of
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  Speaker 1: our sandwich as we hydrate and kind of get get
• 21:30
  Speaker 1: her blood going a little bit. So again we got
• 21:32
  Speaker 1: foreigner screenplay and quirky. Number I said, number W. The
• 21:41
  Speaker 1: average body temperature is ninety eight point six degrees. Now
• 21:46
  Speaker 1: you knew that, right, fahrenheit ninety eight point six. You
• 21:49
  Speaker 1: learned that when you were younger. So I checked the
• 21:51
  Speaker 1: thermometer in the room. The thermometer in the room, we
• 21:55
  Speaker 1: took we took a look at it. What is the
• 21:57
  Speaker 1: thermometer in the room? Say when Aaron Rodgers is involved.
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  Speaker 1: It is always a high grade fever. Keep an eye
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  Speaker 1: on it. You may have to go to the emergency room.
• 22:09
  Speaker 1: Why is that Aaron Rodgers is a firebrand with a
• 22:13
  Speaker 1: capital F firebrand. I get a kick out of Rogers.
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  Speaker 1: I don't have as big an issue as some of
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  Speaker 1: you do. I get these long manifesto emails every once
• 22:24
  Speaker 1: in a while from someone, and they often start I
• 22:28
  Speaker 1: used to like Aaron Rodgers when he played for the Packers,
• 22:32
  Speaker 1: and now I can't support him anymore. And okay, and
• 22:36
  Speaker 1: they have like the Packer logos, they're avvy, they're avatar.
• 22:40
  Speaker 4: Right.
• 22:40
  Speaker 1: But the soundtrack, the soundtrack of Aaron Rodgers is from
• 22:45
  Speaker 1: the band Foreigner.
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  Speaker 3: It's agent Provocateur. That's Aaron.
• 22:51
  Speaker 1: Aaron Rodgers is an agent provocateur. He's also a foreigner
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  Speaker 1: in Pittsburgh. He's an outsider. He's a mercenary. He provokes
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  Speaker 1: a reaction, he ignites rage, and that's good for what
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  Speaker 1: I do. Some people get the heb gebis. It's good
• 23:06
  Speaker 1: good for talk radio. People are ignited into rage and
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  Speaker 1: about everything. Right. I'll give you an example. So one
• 23:16
  Speaker 1: of the stories, the working hypothesis on Rogers and why
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  Speaker 1: he waited until the first week in June to sign.
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  Speaker 1: One of the popular opinions by popular people is that
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  Speaker 1: Rogers was annoyed at the way the media attacked him
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  Speaker 1: for going to see the Pyramids in Greece and skipping
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  Speaker 1: out on the Jets and some practices in the off season.
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  Speaker 1: So he determines like, well, I'm gonna wait and I'm
• 23:41
  Speaker 1: gonna enjoy my off season. I'm not gonna sign. Therefore,
• 23:45
  Speaker 1: no one can goof on me for not signing. And
• 23:49
  Speaker 1: so he waited to take his talents to Alleghany County,
• 23:52
  Speaker 1: and he wanted to enjoy traveling around and hanging out
• 23:55
  Speaker 1: with his buddy Joe Rogan and all the podcast don't
• 24:00
  Speaker 1: that he does, and so he thought, hey, i'll avoid criticism.
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  Speaker 1: You can't rip me if I don't sign. I'm not
• 24:06
  Speaker 1: under nfl umbrella. I can do whatever I want. Yeah, oh,
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  Speaker 1: there's a blast in the past. But here's the thing,
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  Speaker 1: he didn't miss any OTAs. So of course Rogers decides
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  Speaker 1: that's what I'm gonna do. I'm not gonna sign. I'm
• 24:20
  Speaker 1: gonna wait until the last minute. I'm gonna sign a contract.
• 24:24
  Speaker 1: And the Steelers were perfectly okay with this. They rubber
• 24:26
  Speaker 1: stamp it. They gave the okay, and Rogers has been
• 24:30
  Speaker 1: getting roasted like a pig at a traditional Hawaiian luau.
• 24:34
  Speaker 1: He's selfish, he is an egomaniac. Oh my god. Yeah,
• 24:39
  Speaker 1: I'll tell you this much. Rogers will be motivated. You're
• 24:43
  Speaker 1: getting a motivated player to prove that he can still play,
• 24:46
  Speaker 1: to motivate it. Also mainly to prove that it wasn't
• 24:50
  Speaker 1: It wasn't him, It was the Jets. He's not the
• 24:53
  Speaker 1: reason that his career is in a ditch on the
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  Speaker 1: side of the road. It was the Jets, and they
• 24:58
  Speaker 1: have mandatory mini camp up next week. So Rogers decided,
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  Speaker 1: all right, this is as long as I can wait.
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  Speaker 1: I can't wait no more. I gotta do it now.
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  Speaker 1: The question becomes, even if you're motivated, is the car
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  Speaker 1: running on empty?
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  Speaker 3: Is there any gas left in the tank? Is there?
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  Speaker 3: Rogers has not looked like an elite.
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  Speaker 1: NFL quarterback since prior to COVID, and I would argue
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  Speaker 1: a couple years prior to that because even his last
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  Speaker 1: year at lombau Field he was not doing the Lambeau
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  Speaker 1: leap very often. It was not a good season for
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  Speaker 1: Rogers if you actually watch the games. Now, if you
• 25:36
  Speaker 1: look at the Pro Football Reference page and you're a
• 25:39
  Speaker 1: low information fan, you just read the box score.
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  Speaker 3: Oh it was the same hold on Rodgers.
• 25:42
  Speaker 1: No, it wasn't right. That's one of the reasons the
• 25:45
  Speaker 1: Packers were not too worried about letting Rogers go. They
• 25:49
  Speaker 1: saw a declining player and that continued with the Jets,
• 25:52
  Speaker 1: and he got hurt and all that stuff. So you know,
• 25:55
  Speaker 1: he can go there and eat the go back to
• 25:57
  Speaker 1: Wisconsin and eat the cheese skirts. But Pittsburgh fans, now
• 26:00
  Speaker 1: they will boo you. They're gonna boo your ass, is
• 26:03
  Speaker 1: what they're going to do into the next week. When
• 26:06
  Speaker 1: you start floating those little screen passes and instead of
• 26:10
  Speaker 1: completing them and getting the first down, you throw it
• 26:13
  Speaker 1: over the head or it bounces. You're gonna hear about
• 26:15
  Speaker 1: it now.
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  Speaker 3: Page two.
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  Speaker 1: Are the critics of the quarterback? Are the critics being
• 26:20
  Speaker 1: too harsh on Aaron Rodgers? Or is this scrutiny justified?
• 26:27
  Speaker 1: And Rogers's been around for a while and it's mentioned
• 26:31
  Speaker 1: the temperatures at a fever pitch for Aaron Rodgers, But
• 26:36
  Speaker 1: is this justified or is this just a bit to
• 26:40
  Speaker 1: wash so I would argue this is the nature of
• 26:42
  Speaker 1: the beast, nature of the beast. When you are high profile,
• 26:47
  Speaker 1: and also when you go around acting like Socrates with
• 26:51
  Speaker 1: a spiral, you're going to get scrutiny. It's in the
• 26:56
  Speaker 1: recipe for the cake. It's baked into the cake there.
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  Speaker 1: And Pittsburgh is a legacy franchise. It's appropriate because this
• 27:03
  Speaker 1: is a legacy saving situation for Rogers.
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  Speaker 3: I've already read the advanced screenplay.
• 27:08
  Speaker 1: I have a copy of it. When you do overnight
• 27:10
  Speaker 1: talk radio, it's one of the perks that you get.
• 27:12
  Speaker 1: So I've read the screenplay. It reads like a Hollywood script.
• 27:15
  Speaker 1: It's Aaron Rodgers trying to rewrite the narrative yet again.
• 27:20
  Speaker 1: It's the old Cinderella Rise, Fall, Rise again. And there
• 27:26
  Speaker 1: is a dimension. There is a dimension in the multiverse
• 27:29
  Speaker 1: where Aaron Rodgers goes out there and da da, he
• 27:35
  Speaker 1: gets it done. He won in Green Bay, he fizzled
• 27:38
  Speaker 1: in Jersey. He then rises again in Pittsburgh. Now there
• 27:42
  Speaker 1: is an alternative reality also, and the alternative reality is
• 27:46
  Speaker 1: that Aaron Rodgers has nothing left. That Aaron Rodgers is
• 27:50
  Speaker 1: dun skies. There's nothing there. The tank is on empty
• 27:55
  Speaker 1: and Rogers ends up meditating on Mount Washington in Pittsburgh
• 28:01
  Speaker 1: and gets abducted by UFOs while meditating on Mount Washington
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  Speaker 1: and has never heard from again. And the next time
• 28:08
  Speaker 1: Rodgers has talked about is over with our buddy George
• 28:10
  Speaker 1: Norri on coast to coast and that's where That's where.
• 28:13
  Speaker 3: It is, all right now, final point?
• 28:15
  Speaker 1: So how does this relationship between Mike Tomlin and Aaron
• 28:20
  Speaker 1: Rodgers work out in Pittsburgh? Now, I'm I'm fascinated by
• 28:24
  Speaker 1: this because these are two gigantic, egoed human beings, and
• 28:30
  Speaker 1: we love Mike Tomlin. Mike Tomlin has been so good,
• 28:34
  Speaker 1: so good for what we do. At least two or
• 28:37
  Speaker 1: three times during the NFL season, Mike Tomlin will say
• 28:41
  Speaker 1: some hokey thing like our windshield is bigger than our
• 28:44
  Speaker 1: rear view mirror, and then we'll do ten minutes on
• 28:47
  Speaker 1: Mike Tomlin some something. You know, he says, I want volunteers,
• 28:50
  Speaker 1: not hostages. There's all these Tomlin Tomlin isms that are
• 28:55
  Speaker 1: out there, and I'm fundamentally against comfort. I'm trying to
• 29:00
  Speaker 1: remember some of these things off the top, off the
• 29:02
  Speaker 1: top of my head. But it's great, you know, trying
• 29:04
  Speaker 1: to get my mojo back. I mean, it's endless, it's endless,
• 29:07
  Speaker 1: all these little lines, and so we get to see
• 29:10
  Speaker 1: that dynamic and it's it's gonna get off to a
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  Speaker 1: fine So I think there's a honeymoon period.
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  Speaker 3: Rogers is gonna show up.
• 29:18
  Speaker 1: He's gonna have his church clothes on, he's gonna say
• 29:20
  Speaker 1: all the right things. He'll kiss, I'll probably kiss a
• 29:22
  Speaker 1: baby wrapped in a terrible towel to show everyone that
• 29:25
  Speaker 1: he loves Pittsburgh. The real moment where this gets interesting
• 29:29
  Speaker 1: is like week four or five, when the rubber meets
• 29:32
  Speaker 1: the road. Can't wait, Yeah, Rogers. At that point, Aaron
• 29:36
  Speaker 1: will be visiting the speakeasy over in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, and
• 29:40
  Speaker 1: he'll be at a at a bar, the speakeasy bar
• 29:43
  Speaker 1: there with Fry Daddy, and he'll be drinking shots of ayahuasca.
• 29:49
  Speaker 1: And he'll be bemoaning to Fry Daddy in Harrisburg, blaming
• 29:53
  Speaker 1: the offensive line for the misalignment.
• 29:56
  Speaker 3: Of the energy.
• 29:57
  Speaker 1: And he needs some more essential oils to turn things around.
• 30:02
  Speaker 1: And that's just the way it is. But I'm ready
• 30:04
  Speaker 1: for that. I'm ready. I'm good to go. This is
• 30:08
  Speaker 1: his hand picked for Mike Tomlin, his hand picked quarterback.
• 30:11
  Speaker 1: Be careful what you ask for. They've had a very
• 30:15
  Speaker 1: quirky bromance. Mike Tomlin is one of the few coaches
• 30:20
  Speaker 1: that can command enough ri E s P E c
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  Speaker 1: T enough respect to manage all the personality quirks that
• 30:30
  Speaker 1: come with the all inclusive Aaron Rodgers experience. Now, this
• 30:34
  Speaker 1: only works if Rogers has something left and buys it. Now,
• 30:40
  Speaker 1: I think he's gonna buy it emotionally. I believe he'll
• 30:44
  Speaker 1: buy it. Physically, that's the question. He's in his forties.
• 30:47
  Speaker 1: Usually you start sucking as an athlete at that time,
• 30:52
  Speaker 1: and there have been exceptions to that, but for the
• 30:54
  Speaker 1: most part, they just they don't happen often, and Pittsburgh
• 30:57
  Speaker 1: has been stuck in this transitional cycle at quarterback ever
• 31:03
  Speaker 1: since Ben Roethlisberger walked away after the twenty twenty one season.
• 31:07
  Speaker 3: Rogers will be the.
• 31:09
  Speaker 1: Fifth different week number one quarterback in as many seasons,
• 31:15
  Speaker 1: so five years in a row, new quarterback, and despite that,
• 31:18
  Speaker 1: Pittsburgh has reached the playoffs four times in the last
• 31:21
  Speaker 1: five seasons, only to be vaporized in the postseason in
• 31:27
  Speaker 1: lopsided losses. Uncompetitive like they don't even belong like they're
• 31:32
  Speaker 1: just a tomato can that somehow accidentally got to the playoffs.
• 31:37
  Speaker 1: Now other than Rogers, Other than Rogers, they've got Mason Rudolph.
• 31:41
  Speaker 1: They took a late round flyer, not a Dayton flyer,
• 31:45
  Speaker 1: but they took a late round flyer on Ohio State
• 31:48
  Speaker 1: quarterback Will Howard. So Will Howard is the other option
• 31:52
  Speaker 1: in the quarterback room. Stay tuned developing hot dot dot dot.
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• 32:06
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• 32:14
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• 32:17
  Speaker 7: Cool wel Reggie Bush is on the warpath again. In
• 32:20
  Speaker 7: a recent interview, he said that the NFL Players Association
• 32:23
  Speaker 7: needs to make playing surfaces a top priority and it's
• 32:26
  Speaker 7: negotiations with owners. He said a lot of leg injuries
• 32:29
  Speaker 7: are tied back to the surface plate on and that
• 32:31
  Speaker 7: grass should be the only one used in the NFL.
• 32:33
  Speaker 7: Ben do you think the NFLPA will ever make this
• 32:35
  Speaker 7: a priority?
• 32:37
  Speaker 3: Well, they can make it a priority, but unless they're
• 32:39
  Speaker 3: going to.
• 32:39
  Speaker 1: Spend the money to build stadiums where some of these
• 32:43
  Speaker 1: same you can't even have grass because they're indoor only facilities.
• 32:47
  Speaker 1: It's impossible. I know in Arizona, whether it's warm, they
• 32:50
  Speaker 1: can take the turf. They they have it en rollers,
• 32:52
  Speaker 1: they take it outside the stadium. Well, what are you
• 32:54
  Speaker 1: supposed to do in the Superdome in New Orleans for example,
• 32:57
  Speaker 1: and in several other stadiums where you're in cold weather,
• 33:00
  Speaker 1: you can't do it.
• 33:01
  Speaker 3: So even if you make it a priority, you're strewed.
• 33:04
  Speaker 1: There's no way to get it done because of the
• 33:07
  Speaker 1: environments where the teams play in the stadiums.
• 33:10
  Speaker 3: So it's a nice thought, but it's not gonna happen.
• 33:14
  Speaker 7: Next The Phoenix Sun still planned to trade Kevin Durant
• 33:17
  Speaker 7: this offseason. In a recent report from Shams, says that
• 33:20
  Speaker 7: there will be a quote robust market for Durant, with
• 33:23
  Speaker 7: up to six teams interested. Ben, are you surprised that
• 33:25
  Speaker 7: there's still that much demand for Durant?
• 33:28
  Speaker 1: No, because he still box office and most of these
• 33:32
  Speaker 1: people watch these games, they don't really pay that close attention.
• 33:34
  Speaker 3: They see Durant, he's a big name. They know who
• 33:37
  Speaker 3: he is.
• 33:37
  Speaker 1: He's a Hall of Famer, He's had a decorated career,
• 33:41
  Speaker 1: and the fact that he might suck or even know
• 33:43
  Speaker 1: how that he sucks.
• 33:43
  Speaker 3: He's just not as good. He's a diminishing asset. People
• 33:46
  Speaker 3: don't care.
• 33:47
  Speaker 1: So you get him, You create some buzz, you sell
• 33:50
  Speaker 1: a few tickets, and everyone's happy, and you know it
• 33:52
  Speaker 1: doesn't really help you as much as he would five
• 33:54
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• 33:55
  Speaker 3: But that's fine next so tonight.
• 33:57
  Speaker 7: Notwithstanding, there are some NBA analysts out there that believe
• 33:59
  Speaker 7: the Thunder are set up for a decade long run
• 34:01
  Speaker 7: of championship contention, Ben, do you think the window is
• 34:04
  Speaker 7: that large for Okissy?
• 34:06
  Speaker 3: No? No, no, no, no.
• 34:09
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  Speaker 8: Why?
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  Speaker 1: Well, it turns out that he's being replaced by an
• 36:54
  Speaker 1: alternative free segment of jokes called Poppy's Picks. That's Tom
• 36:59
  Speaker 1: and Indianna. Well, we got one Lizzo joke this week.
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  Speaker 1: How is Lizzo like the Detroit Red Wings?
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  Speaker 8: Wow?
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  Speaker 3: Well, according to Monkey Bone in Yelm.
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  Speaker 1: Washington, she showers just like the Red Wings at the
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  Speaker 1: end of every game, after all the periods are done.
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  Speaker 1: She showers right there. Free jurgis right there? All right?
• 37:25
  Speaker 1: Oh man, I got both you guys laughing. This is
• 37:28
  Speaker 1: like a live studio audience. A truck full of Vicks
• 37:31
  Speaker 1: vapor rub crash in the middle of the highway during
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  Speaker 1: rush hour this week.
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  Speaker 8: Wow?
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  Speaker 1: Really yeah, amazingly no congestion at all.
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  Speaker 3: I don't know why that's Hank. Hank and Cleveland.
• 37:44
  Speaker 1: Sent that one in.
• 37:45
  Speaker 3: These are actual jokes by actual listeners.
• 37:48
  Speaker 1: What else do we have here? How did Angel Reese
• 37:50
  Speaker 1: recently hire or who did Angel rees recently hire as
• 37:53
  Speaker 1: a new shooting coach? Wow, blind Scott, she hired Line Scott.
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  Speaker 1: That's George and Uvaldi Texas.
• 38:03
  Speaker 3: Very nice. Why did the scarecrow win an award?
• 38:07
  Speaker 1: Why? Because he was outstanding in his field? The great
• 38:11
  Speaker 1: Dominican Mike. I love Dominican Mirket. It's great to hear
• 38:15
  Speaker 1: that he's still out there every day hollering. James tells
• 38:17
  Speaker 1: Tammy and Montana that he's going jogging and he doesn't
• 38:19
  Speaker 1: do it. Weed man, Why it's a running joke. That's
• 38:24
  Speaker 1: why it's a running joke. What is blind Scott going
• 38:27
  Speaker 1: to try as his next service animal?
• 38:31
  Speaker 3: What a blind nut to find a squirrel? That's it?
• 38:36
  Speaker 3: Here you go, all.
• 38:37
  Speaker 1: Right, Big Ben's Chip in Maine. Big Man's Lame Jokes
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  Speaker 1: of the Week. Thank you.
• 38:42
  Speaker 2: Be sure to catch live editions of The Ben Meller
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  Speaker 2: Show weekdays at two am Eastern eleven pm Pacific.
• 38:48
  Speaker 8: I don't think that starts right now. Here is Justin
• 38:52
  Speaker 8: cooper at OROPO fan on X here he is on
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  Speaker 8: the ones and twos.
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  Speaker 5: Take it away, Thank you, Marcel. I appreciate that.
• 39:02
  Speaker 8: I again talking, so you win before you go to
• 39:08
  Speaker 8: the entertainment side. Who's gonna win in Game two of
• 39:10
  Speaker 8: the NBA Finals on Sunday, Pacers or Thunder?
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  Speaker 1: He's asking for a take.
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  Speaker 7: I would like it to be the Pacers, but I
• 39:20
  Speaker 7: think it'll probably be the Thunder.
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  Speaker 5: In Game two.
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  Speaker 8: Oh, good luck with that. It could be a tide.
• 39:25
  Speaker 1: Okay, time, you're taking time, marcell.
• 39:31
  Speaker 7: All right, We're gonna start off in the theaters this
• 39:34
  Speaker 7: week and and there's a couple of exciting movies premiering
• 39:37
  Speaker 7: this weekend. Uh The first one is called Ballerina, and
• 39:42
  Speaker 7: this is actually a John Wick spinoff movie that stars
• 39:46
  Speaker 7: uh Anna de Armas, who is great beautiful actress. Keanu
• 39:52
  Speaker 7: Reeves will appear in the movie, as well as other
• 39:55
  Speaker 7: characters from the John Wicks series such as Ian McShane
• 39:59
  Speaker 7: u and Lance Reddick and Also, apparently Norman Retis is
• 40:04
  Speaker 7: going to be in this movie of the Walking Dead fame.
• 40:07
  Speaker 7: But this one has a pretty good review so far,
• 40:10
  Speaker 7: so check that out. Nice action movie in theaters this
• 40:12
  Speaker 7: weekend called Ballo Arena. Also in theaters this weekend is well,
• 40:18
  Speaker 7: it's been out for a week already, but it's been
• 40:20
  Speaker 7: the limited release, and so this weekend you get the full,
• 40:25
  Speaker 7: available everywhere release of Wes Anderson's newest movie called The
• 40:29
  Speaker 7: Phoenician Scheme. And this one stars Michael Sarah as well
• 40:36
  Speaker 7: as Benicio del Tororiz Ahmed, Tom Hanks makes an appearance,
• 40:41
  Speaker 7: Brian Cranston, and a bunch of other names, as many
• 40:45
  Speaker 7: big names normally do in Wes Anderson movies. The only
• 40:48
  Speaker 7: description I have for you is the story of a
• 40:51
  Speaker 7: family and a family business. It's not not much of
• 40:56
  Speaker 7: a description, but that is available in theaters right now.
• 41:00
  Speaker 7: Moving over to television, we have a couple of things
• 41:03
  Speaker 7: that I want to mention. First, this is interesting. I'm intrigued,
• 41:09
  Speaker 7: but I'm not sure how this is gonna go. It
• 41:11
  Speaker 7: is a live special in a first for CNN. It's
• 41:15
  Speaker 7: called good Night and good Luck, and this stars George
• 41:20
  Speaker 7: Clooney and it is a live stream of a Broadway
• 41:24
  Speaker 7: performance where I don't need that.
• 41:30
  Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean know, I mean the whole point of
• 41:32
  Speaker 1: the Broadway thing is to go to a theater. That's
• 41:34
  Speaker 1: the whole point.
• 41:35
  Speaker 5: No, I mean, I guess.
• 41:37
  Speaker 1: I mean you're one of those small seats in some
• 41:41
  Speaker 1: old theater in Manhattan that's with the whole experience.
• 41:44
  Speaker 5: Yeah, he is. This is the one where he is
• 41:48
  Speaker 5: playing God. What is the Edward R. Murrow? George Clooney
• 41:52
  Speaker 5: is playing him in this Broadway show.
• 41:55
  Speaker 1: But that I've heard of him? Yeah, media media legend.
• 41:58
  Speaker 5: That's right.
• 42:00
  Speaker 7: But if you are, if you do happen to be
• 42:02
  Speaker 7: interested in watching this. It streams live on CNN at
• 42:05
  Speaker 7: seven pm Eastern four pm Pacific on Saturday. It will
• 42:10
  Speaker 7: also be available to stream on HBO Max and last,
• 42:16
  Speaker 7: but not least, if you're a big fan of the
• 42:19
  Speaker 7: Predator movies, there is a new one.
• 42:21
  Speaker 5: This one is called Predator Killer of Killers.
• 42:25
  Speaker 7: It is a straight to Hulu movie and it is
• 42:28
  Speaker 7: a anthology with a trio of segments, each following a
• 42:33
  Speaker 7: powerful warrior of Viking, a ninja, and a w a
• 42:36
  Speaker 7: World War two pilot as they are targeted by your
• 42:40
  Speaker 7: favorite extraterrestrial predators and that is Koop Scooba Entertainment