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Hour 2 - Hit the Mute Button · The Ben Maller Show

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  Speaker 1: Boom, Shaka Laca. It's our numb Bert two, Our number
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  Speaker 1: two is ready for you, and we bring the razzle dazzle. Lebron,
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  Speaker 1: James and the Lakers stumbling and bumbling. Is this something
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  Speaker 1: or nothing? The Lakers losing Lebron and one of the worst,
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  Speaker 1: if not the worst playoff game of his career. The Rockets,
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  Speaker 1: who were down three and major quick factor without Kevin Durant.
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  Speaker 1: Yet Lebron didn't show up to work. Also Haspi and
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  Speaker 1: not showing up to work. How are things looking for
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  Speaker 1: James Harden with the Cavaliers right now? As Harden stumbling
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  Speaker 1: down the stretch is playoff Harden is legit and it
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  Speaker 1: has arrived in Cleveland and in Philadelphia. The Sixers, a
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  Speaker 1: once proud franchise, lost at home by thirty two points.
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  Speaker 1: You know how bad you have to be, how little
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  Speaker 1: you have to try to lose by thirty two points?
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  Speaker 1: At home? The Celtics kick their ass. Where are you
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  Speaker 1: at on? Nick Nurse, the coach in Philly calling out
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  Speaker 1: the Sixers effort or lack thereof. We'll get to that
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  Speaker 1: and more right now here, it is our number two. Well,
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  Speaker 1: it's time to hit the mute button on the most
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  Speaker 1: popular storyline of the pro Bouncy Ball Playoffs. Welcome in
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  Speaker 1: the beginning of another hour of the Ben Malor Show.
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  Speaker 1: I lead this hour from a pro bouncy ball so
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  Speaker 1: admitted a little bit of a zombie, a little bit
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  Speaker 1: of a zombie. And it did not help that I
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  Speaker 1: spent a lot of time watching pro bouncy ball throughout
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  Speaker 1: the day. And I did that as a public service.
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  Speaker 1: It's my my active kindness, so you would not have
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  Speaker 1: to and that's what I did. They were a bunch
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  Speaker 1: of games, flipping around watching them. Now, one of the games,
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  Speaker 1: we're gonna start with this one because it was it
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  Speaker 1: was like the late game and the last game on
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  Speaker 1: the card, So we're going to start with that, and
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  Speaker 1: that would be in Houston where Lebron James and the
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  Speaker 1: Lakers entered Sunday with a chance to sweep the Rockets
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  Speaker 1: and say bye bye to Kevin Durant and his oh
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  Speaker 1: my ankle, and did that happen? No? Now, out of
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  Speaker 1: if you see you watch this game, maybe you were
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  Speaker 1: not watching it. Perhaps I'm on Thompson twenty three points
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  Speaker 1: and Tarry Easton had twenty. Not the headliners you normally expect,
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  Speaker 1: but they were the top guys for the Rockets there,
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  Speaker 1: and Houston staved off elimination. They staved it off, and
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  Speaker 1: they win by nineteen a route or root after one
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  Speaker 1: of the great choking dog performances in the history of
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  Speaker 1: the NBA when they blew a six point lead. I
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  Speaker 1: believe it was with less than twenty five seconds to
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  Speaker 1: go in the game, something like that. So the Rockets
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  Speaker 1: win Game four over the Lakers. The Western Conference playoff series.
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  Speaker 1: Game five will be Wednesday in skid Row in LA.
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  Speaker 1: The Rockets get their first win in this series. They
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  Speaker 1: had fallen behind zero to three. No one has ever
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  Speaker 1: come back to win a series in that position. The
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  Speaker 1: better story, though, is in the losing locker room, a
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  Speaker 1: lot of chatter about Lebron James and how well Lebron
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  Speaker 1: has been playing. Well, the table's been turned, and if
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  Speaker 1: you didn't see this game, the Lakers had a chance
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  Speaker 1: to eliminate the Rockets. As we said, Lebron James had,
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  Speaker 1: if not his worst certainly bottom five. Worst playoff game
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  Speaker 1: of his career, just ten points for Lebron ten on
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  Speaker 1: two of nine shooting. He stayed in the game in
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  Speaker 1: garbage time to get to that ten point number. But
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  Speaker 1: two of nine shooting and eight turnovers eight of them.
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  Speaker 1: That's more than some bakeries have on display in thirty
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  Speaker 1: three minutes. So it's all good. Jumping out point. Let
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  Speaker 1: us discuss the question the Lakers Lebron James, who was
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  Speaker 1: out there stumbling and bumbling? Is this something or nothing?
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  Speaker 1: So I've got unplugged supper and snuffaluphagous, and we will
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  Speaker 1: combine all of these things together and try not to
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  Speaker 1: go down Sesame Street, although we might. I think we
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  Speaker 1: are because we're we mentioned stuff a lovecas so common
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  Speaker 1: sense would mean we're going down to Sesame Street. So
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  Speaker 1: number one for those in the back, number one, Number one. Yes,
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  Speaker 1: the arrow on this one is pointing towards something, not nothing,
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  Speaker 1: and it's something that is not good for a lot.
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  Speaker 1: But I would love this. But can you imagine if
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  Speaker 1: this is Lebron's last year and he and they end
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  Speaker 1: up the Lakers losing the next three games and get
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  Speaker 1: eliminated the first team ever, would that not be the
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  Speaker 1: perfect way first team ever to blow a three nothing?
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  Speaker 1: Would that not be the greatest ending the Lebron James career.
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  Speaker 1: Can we all send good vibrations that the Rockets come back?
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  Speaker 1: Not that I want the Rockets, because I don't really
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  Speaker 1: care about the Rockets, but that what an ending, What
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  Speaker 1: a freaking ending? That would be a Lebron's career. The
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  Speaker 1: final that's it and you get you swept the Final
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  Speaker 1: four after being up three to zero. Now there is
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  Speaker 1: a world I believe in the multiverse, there is a
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  Speaker 1: world where that happens. I don't believe it's the world
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  Speaker 1: we're in right now. I'd like it to be. I
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  Speaker 1: don't believe it will be the World War in right now.
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  Speaker 1: And Lebron, this was the Lebron at age forty one
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  Speaker 1: face plant game. And we've spent years being lectured by
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  Speaker 1: the basketball elite media. Lebron DRAMs just a fine time
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  Speaker 1: and then he goes out there in an elimination spot
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  Speaker 1: and just urinates all over himself and all over the floor,
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  Speaker 1: defecates on the floor. Lebron didn't just have a bad night.
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  Speaker 1: It's like he unplugged. He unplugged himself in the middle
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  Speaker 1: of the game. Couldn't even reboot, couldn't get to the
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  Speaker 1: default mode, couldn't get to the default mold. And you
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  Speaker 1: people tell you, tell me that I always here this.
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  Speaker 1: The greats don't have no show games when this season
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  Speaker 1: is on the line. You've all told me that a
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  Speaker 1: million times, the truly greats never vanished in big games. Well,
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  Speaker 1: father time, just if you hear the noise there knocked,
• 7:55
  Speaker 1: and in fact that was more than knocked, that was
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  Speaker 1: actually a battering ram to break the door down. And
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  Speaker 1: Lebron if this was a car, not an electric car,
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  Speaker 1: the if you look at the gas tank, the gauge
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  Speaker 1: there it hit e And all the historians and all
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  Speaker 1: the Lebron fluffers in the media, you gotta close your
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  Speaker 1: eyes on this. Why you gotta pretend that didn't happen.
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  Speaker 1: You got that's how that works, right. Lebron was terrible,
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  Speaker 1: was abjectively, by any definite terrible. And the Lakers are
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  Speaker 1: They're delusional, They're not legit contenders. They're not They need
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  Speaker 1: like seven other players to get hurt, which, oh, by
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  Speaker 1: the way, is on the way of happening. Right. Their
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  Speaker 1: entire playoff fate hinges the Lakers on a guy who
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  Speaker 1: looked like he needed a nap in this game, like
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  Speaker 1: it was I don't know, it was too late. I'm
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  Speaker 1: not sure. Certainly a heating pad would have helped some
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  Speaker 1: icy hot. He needs that more than a championship ring,
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  Speaker 1: at least based on what we saw. And you look
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  Speaker 1: around and there's there's Luca sipping water on the beach.
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  Speaker 1: That's good, and he'll billy Kobe's not playing now again,
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  Speaker 1: it's hard to imagine the Rockets coming back like this
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  Speaker 1: would be an all time, all time, all time. No,
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  Speaker 1: we can all pray that this happens. It's unlikely to happen. However,
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  Speaker 1: with every extra game, every unnecessary game. It's fair to say,
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  Speaker 1: based on what happened going into it over the weekend,
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  Speaker 1: the Rockets blowing the six point lead late, which would
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  Speaker 1: have made it a two to one series, which realistic
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  Speaker 1: too right now, based on that, you'd say, okay, the Rockets,
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  Speaker 1: this should have just easily lost that game on Sunday.
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  Speaker 1: They did not, And so with every extra game, another spin,
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  Speaker 1: spin and spin, spin, spinsmen the Lebron fatigue roulette wheel,
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  Speaker 1: and at some point it's gonna go fully and possibly
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  Speaker 1: kurf Fluey And then what do you do? Then what
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  Speaker 1: do you do? I don't know what are we gonna do.
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  Speaker 1: It's a bit of a problem. It's a bit of
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  Speaker 1: a quagmire, if you will. We'll see about that now.
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  Speaker 1: Moving on, but continuing the theme of pro bouncy ball,
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  Speaker 1: we go to Toronto, and I was told a couple
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  Speaker 1: years ago by the coach of the Raptors, Scottie Barnes,
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  Speaker 1: All Star, Scottie Barnes, All Star, face of the league,
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  Speaker 1: Scottie Barnes, Well, that hasn't happened, but he certainly played.
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  Speaker 1: I don't want to say he played well. No, I
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  Speaker 1: don't think anyone played well in this game. If you
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  Speaker 1: want misshots, this was your game. Holy crap. Both these
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  Speaker 1: teams sucked, but Scotty Barnes hit the go ahead foul
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  Speaker 1: shot in the final minute. He had twenty three points.
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  Speaker 1: Everyone took a gazillion shots to get their numbers. Brandon
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  Speaker 1: Ingram twenty three points as well. And the Raptors sneak
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  Speaker 1: through the back door and they get back past the
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  Speaker 1: Cavs ninety three to eighty nine. Holy Strip Club John
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  Speaker 1: in Cleveland. And so that means that series is now
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  Speaker 1: tied up Eastern Conference first round playoff series at two
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  Speaker 1: games apiece. Both teams have held serve at home. That
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  Speaker 1: series will shift to Cleveland on Wednesday for Game five. Now,
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  Speaker 1: the better story is in the losing locker room. And
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  Speaker 1: if you're just a box score sniffer, if you just
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  Speaker 1: sniff the box score, you have no idea the depths
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  Speaker 1: of despair from the Beard in this game. So that's
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  Speaker 1: how we're gonna frame this is the question. How are
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  Speaker 1: things looking for the new look James Harden edition of
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  Speaker 1: the Cavaliers right now? So Cleveland made the big move,
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  Speaker 1: They made the big movie going on, got hardened from
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  Speaker 1: the Clippers. This was the guy, and it's wild considering
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  Speaker 1: he's failed with every other team he's been with. So
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  Speaker 1: Cleveland is right on schedule. I looked at the app
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  Speaker 1: and they're right on schedule for the James Harden playoff
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  Speaker 1: cinematic universe, the same script. You just change the laundry,
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  Speaker 1: just change the jersey, and you're good to go on.
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  Speaker 1: There another clunker from James Harden and the cab who
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  Speaker 1: are learning the Cavaliers are learning the hardaway that this
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  Speaker 1: is a rerun This is not something new. This is
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  Speaker 1: a rerun back to back and belly to belly playoff
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  Speaker 1: games with more turnovers than field goals for James Harden.
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  Speaker 1: That is not a slump. That is performance art at
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  Speaker 1: this point by the Beard. And this trade is becoming
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  Speaker 1: the new mistake by the Lake for the Cavaliers. Harden
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  Speaker 1: was supposed to elevate Donovan spot of Mitchell. They made
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  Speaker 1: a whole big to do about how Donovan Mitchell this
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  Speaker 1: is the guy he wanted, which makes you question the
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  Speaker 1: basketball IQ of Donovan Mitchell. If he wanted James Harden
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  Speaker 1: on the Cavaliers, has he not watched the playoffs the
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  Speaker 1: last fifteen years? Like what are you thinking, dude? Anyway,
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  Speaker 1: Mitchell wanted him, Be careful what you asked for, And
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  Speaker 1: despite supposedly being there to elevate Donovan Mitchell, hard is
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  Speaker 1: dragging him into the playoff abyss. And you've got supper
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  Speaker 1: being served here. It's not sloppy Joe's. It's sloppy James.
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  Speaker 1: Sloppy James. Who's adding another layer? This is such a
• 13:13
  Speaker 1: long resume, it is such a humongous resume for James Harre.
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  Speaker 1: He's adding another layer to the resume, which I believes
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  Speaker 1: up to twenty eight playoff games where he's had more
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  Speaker 1: turnovers than baskets and the actual number I think is
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  Speaker 1: in the forties where he's either been even turnovers to
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  Speaker 1: field goals made. But it's bad. It's bad, And at
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  Speaker 1: some point, at some point, when someone shows you who
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  Speaker 1: they are, believe them. It just shows you the how
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  Speaker 1: the industrial complex of professional sports operates. Like Harden is
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  Speaker 1: a known commodity. You know what you're going to get
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  Speaker 1: with James Harden. And yet how many teams keep acquiring
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  Speaker 1: James Harden thinking, oh no, it boggles them and they
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  Speaker 1: think that it's going to be different in this situation. No,
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  Speaker 1: it's not gonna be different in this situation. It's not.
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  Speaker 1: And teams keep thinking that they're the exception, that they're
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  Speaker 1: smarter than everyone else and they're gonna figure this out,
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  Speaker 1: they're gonna crack the code and it's not gonna be
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  Speaker 1: rock bottom, everything will be fine, and uh, yeah, it's
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  Speaker 1: not the case. Yeah, not at all. It's just another
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  Speaker 1: episode of the long running situation. And Spider Mitchell, now
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  Speaker 1: he wasn't great and he got dragged into pulled into
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  Speaker 1: the gravitational suck of James Harden, who we should just
• 14:40
  Speaker 1: name the vomit comet the hardened comet doesn't sound as
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  Speaker 1: good together though. Spider Mitchell and James Harden took thirty
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  Speaker 1: eight field goals and they only made twelve of them. Now,
• 14:51
  Speaker 1: I did not play in the NBA. I don't think
• 14:53
  Speaker 1: that's good. Oh, you're being a hater, dude. Yeah, Oh,
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  Speaker 1: you're being a hater. That's not winning basketball. That is
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  Speaker 1: a warning label. And the Cavaliers living dangerous now again.
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  Speaker 1: They should win this series. They still have the games
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  Speaker 1: at home and should be able to win at home.
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  Speaker 1: No shot with James Harden against the Celtics down the line.
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  Speaker 1: Come on now, who are they kidding? Now? Move? Speaking
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  Speaker 1: of Celtics, we'll move on to that game. A final
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  Speaker 1: part of this maled monolog, we go to Philly where
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  Speaker 1: the Sixers got absolutely gobsmacked. Man, it was nut cutting
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  Speaker 1: time and they did not go well. Did not go well.
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  Speaker 1: So the seventy six Ers head coach Nick Nurse not
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  Speaker 1: happy really with the effort of a team they lost
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  Speaker 1: by thirty two points at home. Do you know how
• 15:45
  Speaker 1: hard you have to try to suck to lose by
• 15:47
  Speaker 1: thirty two points at home and the Celtics they absolutely
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  Speaker 1: roasted him. And I go back to the actually guy
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  Speaker 1: coached the Celtics, Bill Fitch, who I dealt with when
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  Speaker 1: he was with the Clippers, and Bill would always say
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  Speaker 1: that even if you're out man and outgunned, if you
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  Speaker 1: play fundamental basketball and you play hard and with aggression,
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  Speaker 1: the games are designed in that sport to be close,
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  Speaker 1: that you'll have a chance to win going to the
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  Speaker 1: final few minutes of the fourth quarter. And that was
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  Speaker 1: his argument years ago. And it's a different league now
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  Speaker 1: and all that stuff, but it's not wrong on that.
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  Speaker 1: We've seen underman teams that have been able to close
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  Speaker 1: the gap. So Nick Nurse, his quote was, the tactical
• 16:24
  Speaker 1: stuff isn't going to mean anything. It's a quote. The
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  Speaker 1: tackle stuff isn't going to mean anything if we're not
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  Speaker 1: going to play with better energy, Nurse said, toughness, guarding,
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  Speaker 1: rebounding sich. You don't even know if your schemes and
• 16:40
  Speaker 1: what you're trying to do is working right, he said,
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  Speaker 1: So that has to take up a big portion of
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  Speaker 1: what we're doing trying to get the players to play hard.
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  Speaker 1: And I talked about a big mental pickup mentality. He said,
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  Speaker 1: all right, so you forget this schematic stuff. Question where
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  Speaker 1: are you at on and the head coach in Philly,
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  Speaker 1: Nick Nurse calling out the effort, the effort of his
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  Speaker 1: Sixers players. So just keeping it real here, Okay. I
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  Speaker 1: knew pretty early. It was like early I might have
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  Speaker 1: been earlier than this. I think it was the early
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  Speaker 1: second quarter. I jotted down on the notes app on
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  Speaker 1: my phone. I said, these guys don't seem like they're
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  Speaker 1: really that interested. I'm talking about the Sixers and being there.
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  Speaker 1: But in terms of the context of Nick Nurse, when
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  Speaker 1: the head coach starts chirping about the lack of fight,
• 17:32
  Speaker 1: he's not just diagnosing the problem here, he's admitting he's
• 17:37
  Speaker 1: lost the room because you're either coaching it or you're
• 17:39
  Speaker 1: allowing it to happen. And so much for fighting for
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  Speaker 1: your playoff lives. Instead, you're watching as your team looks
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  Speaker 1: just completely mentally cooked. Why would they be mentally cooked?
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  Speaker 1: They're trying to get on the gotta get their passports
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  Speaker 1: so they can go to can Kun and do that.
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  Speaker 1: At some point, the whole undermanned thing stops being a
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  Speaker 1: vallid excuse and starts becoming a indictment of everyone that
• 18:05
  Speaker 1: they're It's just embarrassing. And yeah, the Sixers are shorthanded.
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  Speaker 1: There's certainly in terms of the side by side on
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  Speaker 1: the rosters, things are not looking particularly good here. But
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  Speaker 1: being out man, being outman does not excuse being uncompetitive. Again,
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  Speaker 1: you can make up for it. You can scratch and
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  Speaker 1: claw and you can fight, and you should never lose
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  Speaker 1: a game by thirty points unless you're a bunch of
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  Speaker 1: quitting dogs. Arf. That's it. That's it. And yeah again,
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  Speaker 1: Boston they have better players. Okay, we know that everyone
• 18:38
  Speaker 1: knows that they have better players. I got it. You know,
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  Speaker 1: show some guts, show some Inteslina fortifude, and so like Nurses,
• 18:46
  Speaker 1: he's out there and he's calling out his players, and
• 18:49
  Speaker 1: that's he's also calling himself out as he's like narrating
• 18:53
  Speaker 1: a slow motion collapse in real time. Now, let's not
• 18:57
  Speaker 1: ignore though the snuffle luff in the room. Well, it
• 19:01
  Speaker 1: does not look good for Nick Nurse. This is a
• 19:05
  Speaker 1: massive f on the scorecard of Joel Embiid, who did
• 19:09
  Speaker 1: come back to the roster. He is the face of
• 19:12
  Speaker 1: the franchise. He loved the bull crap, The sixers have
• 19:16
  Speaker 1: served over the years. He loved it so much. His
• 19:19
  Speaker 1: nickname is trust the Process. Well, how's that working out?
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  Speaker 1: How's that working out? Yeah, this is a leadership vacuum
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• 27:03
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• 27:10
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  Speaker 1: did you watch the NFL draft, specifically the Dallas Cowboys
• 27:37
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• 27:41
  Speaker 1: jumping up and down. They gave each other hugs. Oh yeah,
• 27:44
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• 27:48
  Speaker 1: there were a bunch of other teams. Yeah, the Cowboys
• 27:49
  Speaker 1: were probably the worst, I would agree. I watched the
• 27:52
  Speaker 1: first day, well, the first two days of the draft.
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  Speaker 1: I did not watch any of the draft on Saturday
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  Speaker 1: because I was busy. I did not watch any of
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  Speaker 1: the draft on Saturday. But I did watch the first
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  Speaker 1: the first round, I watched the pick. I set the
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  Speaker 1: flipped back to the pick. And then on on Friday,
• 28:19
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• 28:24
  Speaker 1: it was in the background. I wasn't really and I
• 28:26
  Speaker 1: watched some other stuff too. I watched a bunch of
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  Speaker 1: other stuff. It was. It was, Yeah, it don't need
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  Speaker 1: it seems forced, right, It's all forced, like the whole thing.
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  Speaker 1: I don't know. I just love what it was like.
• 28:36
  Speaker 1: The Marriott Marquee is cheesy hotel in New York. And
• 28:40
  Speaker 1: it wasn't highly produced. And I remember when the draft
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  Speaker 1: started on TVs. Why are you putting this on TV?
• 28:46
  Speaker 1: Who the hell would I want to watch this?
• 28:48
  Speaker 2: Like?
• 28:48
  Speaker 1: What are you doing this a year? Jordan says, you
• 28:52
  Speaker 1: picked the one Saturday of the year. I could not
• 28:54
  Speaker 1: be there the mall of meat greet I demand to redo.
• 28:56
  Speaker 1: All right, well, Jordan, you buy my plane ticket. I'll
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  Speaker 1: be right back there. I'll be there next week if
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  Speaker 1: you want. Well, not next week. We're booked up next week.
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  Speaker 1: But yeah, I don't know. We'll be back anytime soon.
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  Speaker 1: say hello to Danny DeVito. I wondered what happened to
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  Speaker 1: this guy? Disappeared on me vanished. I've heard of him
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  Speaker 1: in a long time. What's going on, daddy? Then?
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  Speaker 4: What's going on? It's been a couple of months. You know,
• 29:31
  Speaker 4: every now and then the life happens that it happened,
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  Speaker 4: but I always try to call the show. I've been
• 29:36
  Speaker 4: calling the show for a couple of years.
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  Speaker 2: You know.
• 29:37
  Speaker 4: I lost my file a month ago, so that one.
• 29:39
  Speaker 1: Okay, well you're on my apologize. I'm sorry. That sucks.
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  Speaker 1: I've been there. It's it's terrible, so I hear you.
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  Speaker 1: It's okay.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah. Well he was eighty three years old, so he
• 29:48
  Speaker 4: lived his life. But it was tough seeing him life
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  Speaker 4: out of the last couple of months. You know, he
• 29:52
  Speaker 4: was sucking.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah. You never want to see you You never want
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  Speaker 1: to see your parents like that. I've been through it.
• 29:57
  Speaker 1: It's terrible. It's uh. Yeah, I'm glad you're back though, Danny,
• 30:00
  Speaker 1: and we're gonna I want to meet you when we
• 30:02
  Speaker 1: come to town next weekend, so hopefully you'll be able
• 30:05
  Speaker 1: to come by. I know you're a busy man slinging
• 30:07
  Speaker 1: the trash down.
• 30:09
  Speaker 4: Yeah, this is why I want to reason why I'm calling,
• 30:10
  Speaker 4: because all three you're gonna be there. With Friday and Saturday,
• 30:13
  Speaker 4: I'll definitely be there on Saturday. I don't know about Friday,
• 30:16
  Speaker 4: but you're gonna be there. On Saturday too, fall week
• 30:19
  Speaker 4: all three you.
• 30:20
  Speaker 1: Saturday. It's back to back days, so not this weekend,
• 30:23
  Speaker 1: but the following weekend. Yeah, we're gonna be at a venue.
• 30:25
  Speaker 1: Mike the Leprechaun and Mike in New Hampshire are planning
• 30:28
  Speaker 1: it and I think they've got a venue. I think,
• 30:30
  Speaker 1: I don't know if they have one yet. For Friday,
• 30:31
  Speaker 1: we're gonna be the Red Sox game. Then we're gonna
• 30:33
  Speaker 1: go over to a some bar somewhere, and then on
• 30:36
  Speaker 1: Saturday we're doing the WU Sox game, and then we'll
• 30:40
  Speaker 1: be at the pub, the Irish pub after so.
• 30:44
  Speaker 4: On Saturday night, Saturday night, Yaturday night. Yeah, I have
• 30:48
  Speaker 4: to get I gotta grab some friends over there and
• 30:51
  Speaker 4: I gotta go and meet meet all three you.
• 30:53
  Speaker 1: I'm looking forward to that absolutely absolutely. Now you're back here,
• 30:56
  Speaker 1: now you're back on the on the gig. You got
• 30:58
  Speaker 1: the thing going on. I was like, what to my guy?
• 31:00
  Speaker 1: Dam But now you've explained everything. You know, You're fine,
• 31:02
  Speaker 1: everything's good. We're on good terms here. What's on your mind?
• 31:06
  Speaker 4: Everything's okay? Yeah? So uh uh the Arizona cor I
• 31:10
  Speaker 4: think you hardy uh talked about it. The Conos drafting
• 31:13
  Speaker 4: the running back. I was blown away by that. He's
• 31:16
  Speaker 4: not gonna do nothing for him. Ben, you already know this,
• 31:19
  Speaker 4: and they have so many other needs. Why would you
• 31:21
  Speaker 4: go after a running back? And the Raiders are doing
• 31:24
  Speaker 4: it again with Kirk Cousins. You know, I want when
• 31:27
  Speaker 4: the Raiders win a game of two next year, a
• 31:29
  Speaker 4: couple of games. Is somebody gonna actually criticize Brady? Is
• 31:34
  Speaker 4: that gonna happen?
• 31:35
  Speaker 1: No, nobody died. I'm the only one that does. Nobody
• 31:37
  Speaker 1: criticizes him. Everyone either when he does something good, they
• 31:40
  Speaker 1: give him credit. And when the Raiders are terrible wis
• 31:43
  Speaker 1: they've been since he got there, they just kind of
• 31:45
  Speaker 1: ignore it. They don't bring it up. They're like, well,
• 31:47
  Speaker 1: we're not going to talk about that. Well why not?
• 31:49
  Speaker 1: I know, because he's the goat goaty mcgoat and all that.
• 31:52
  Speaker 1: But he's he's been terrible. Michael Jordan was a horrific
• 31:55
  Speaker 1: executive when he was in the NBA. People rip Jordan
• 31:58
  Speaker 1: all the time. They won't they won't rip Brady, Like,
• 32:00
  Speaker 1: what's up with that? I rip all these guys?
• 32:02
  Speaker 4: I mean Brady, Yeah, exactly, And nobody wants to refer
• 32:05
  Speaker 4: We all know he was a goat playing, but he
• 32:07
  Speaker 4: can't manage the team. I mean, he cannot do it.
• 32:10
  Speaker 4: And that was the same problem with Jordan's He got
• 32:13
  Speaker 4: some flag though, as you know he just said, but Brady,
• 32:15
  Speaker 4: nobody says nothing bad about Tom Brady. Everybody loves Brady.
• 32:19
  Speaker 4: We all love Brady, but he really has no business
• 32:21
  Speaker 4: manager in that team. He can't do it. He can't.
• 32:24
  Speaker 1: Yeah, well he hasn't done it yet. And how much
• 32:27
  Speaker 1: how much longer are they gonna go with that? I
• 32:29
  Speaker 1: guess as long as he wants, because he owns part
• 32:31
  Speaker 1: of the team and Mark Davis doesn't know what he's doing.
• 32:33
  Speaker 1: He's incompetent the guy that's the technically the actual owner
• 32:36
  Speaker 1: of the team. All Right, I gotta go, Thank you, Dandy.
• 32:39
  Speaker 1: I gotta I gotta get the Dixter on right now
• 32:41
  Speaker 1: because he can't sleep. This guy, he'd normally be sleeping
• 32:43
  Speaker 1: right now. But I'm sure he's got major record labels
• 32:47
  Speaker 1: calling him after that amazing performance that he brought down
• 32:52
  Speaker 1: the house with Ohio, the legendary Dick in Dayton. Hello Dixter,
• 32:58
  Speaker 1: oh Ben, what.
• 33:00
  Speaker 2: A great time. Thank you so much. I never enjoyed it.
• 33:05
  Speaker 2: And the people that brought me. It was great, and
• 33:08
  Speaker 2: I love the guy from Cleveland. What was his name? Oh?
• 33:13
  Speaker 1: Ohio, l yeah, Ohio.
• 33:16
  Speaker 2: Keep in touch with me. He was good. Did you
• 33:19
  Speaker 2: enjoy it?
• 33:20
  Speaker 1: Oh? You guys were great. I loved it just seeing
• 33:22
  Speaker 1: the look on your face. You you were the star, Dick.
• 33:24
  Speaker 1: Everyone wanted to meet you, right, how many people came
• 33:26
  Speaker 1: up and you said, Oh, I came here for you,
• 33:28
  Speaker 1: not for me, me ben for you. They wanted to
• 33:30
  Speaker 1: meet you.
• 33:31
  Speaker 2: Ever, I told everybody it was it was nice to
• 33:35
  Speaker 2: you know it just I loved it.
• 33:37
  Speaker 1: I loved it.
• 33:38
  Speaker 2: It was great.
• 33:39
  Speaker 1: We got some you got some good food, right, yeah, pizza,
• 33:42
  Speaker 1: The pizza was very good. There strongest brick Coving pizza
• 33:44
  Speaker 1: is very good. I had some.
• 33:45
  Speaker 2: Joh I think I had a HOGI oh.
• 33:48
  Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah. Guys were They were saying the meatball sub
• 33:52
  Speaker 1: was really good. I didn't have that, but they said
• 33:53
  Speaker 1: that was really good.
• 33:54
  Speaker 2: So I hold what this name al comes? You said,
• 33:58
  Speaker 2: he's just going to keep it in touch. We probably
• 34:01
  Speaker 2: can get something going camp base.
• 34:03
  Speaker 1: You guys, you should perform all over now. I actually
• 34:06
  Speaker 1: thought Dick and Dayton uh and I'll talk more about
• 34:09
  Speaker 1: this on the podcast. But after the we went to
• 34:12
  Speaker 1: the Reds game. I know you didn't want to go
• 34:13
  Speaker 1: to the game, right, we asked you. You didn't want to go.
• 34:15
  Speaker 1: So I had some time to kill and so I
• 34:19
  Speaker 1: took Robbie, the Mariner fan in Queen Roxanne. We went
• 34:22
  Speaker 1: to BUCkies, which is near you in Dayton. So we
• 34:25
  Speaker 1: were thinking about I told Robbie, I said, maybe we
• 34:28
  Speaker 1: should go by and bail out Dick and Dayton and
• 34:30
  Speaker 1: take him to BUCkies. But you were probably sleeping by then, right,
• 34:33
  Speaker 1: it was late at night. You probably went to bed
• 34:34
  Speaker 1: by then. Yeah, I would have would Oh you would
• 34:38
  Speaker 1: have done it?
• 34:38
  Speaker 2: All? Man?
• 34:39
  Speaker 1: Should I told Robbie, should do? Should go get him
• 34:41
  Speaker 1: out of the plane? Oh? Man, all right, next time,
• 34:44
  Speaker 1: we'll bail you out and we'll take you to the BUCkies.
• 34:46
  Speaker 2: Okay, thank you Ben for you know. Yeah, I wasn't
• 34:50
  Speaker 2: even She said he's going to keep in touch. We
• 34:52
  Speaker 2: probably could. Uh, it's only an hour. We probably go.
• 34:56
  Speaker 2: She said he was going to get together. I bet
• 34:58
  Speaker 2: he did you did he call the day.
• 35:02
  Speaker 1: Oh no, we've not heard from Ohio. I'll make sure.
• 35:05
  Speaker 1: I'll send him a message. Okay, he's a big fans.
• 35:07
  Speaker 1: I know he listens sometimes he listens to the podcast,
• 35:09
  Speaker 1: so I'll let him know. Okayri Ben, you're a great American. Well,
• 35:14
  Speaker 1: thank you, sir, and I was very nice to meet you.
• 35:16
  Speaker 1: You made my entire the whole trip. It was a
• 35:19
  Speaker 1: pain in the ass, Dick, but you made it worth it.
• 35:22
  Speaker 1: And you actually left the state of Ohio.
• 35:23
  Speaker 4: Dick.
• 35:24
  Speaker 1: That was in Kentucky. So you did go across He
• 35:27
  Speaker 1: went across state lines to Kentucky. All right, thank you, Dick.
• 35:30
  Speaker 1: All right, there you go, Bye bye, Dick and Dayton,
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  Speaker 1: All right, here we go. So Blank was the last
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  Speaker 1: on the always popular, always popular Insta Tribua. So blank
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  Speaker 1: was the last Heisman finalist before Vanderbilt quarterback Diego Pavia
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  Speaker 1: to go undrafted in the NFL. It's slightly embarrassing. So
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  Speaker 1: that is the question. What is the answer? Chuck Cecil
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  Speaker 1: from Mediocre Kabuki pretty good, Boso the District Attorney cheated,
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  Speaker 1: got it right, so you get no credit for that.
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  Speaker 1: Shannon to Moy's going with Anthony in Anaheim. Rob the Goltman,
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  Speaker 1: says Robbie the miniature purse fan. That's very very funny.
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  Speaker 1: Look at that. What else do we have? Can't read that?
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  Speaker 1: Ferg Dog says Master roachhie is the answer? The Dixter
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  Speaker 1: from Alf the Alien Old Pinter. Look at that great,
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  Speaker 1: likely never see that. Femi's going with Meghan the Stallion.
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  Speaker 1: I guess he's single now, huh. That's a big story.
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  Speaker 1: The tabloids was reading that over the weekend. Alf the
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  Speaker 1: we have Joey the Bellman's going with mister Ed. It's
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  Speaker 1: me Wilbur mister Ed. Who else do we have? Queen
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  Speaker 1: rosewo Minnesota. Lorrainer, do you have an answer, Lorena Speedy
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  Speaker 1: gonz No, it's not Gen Upshaw either. Guests by Eileen.
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  Speaker 1: It is Jordan Lynch of Northern Illinois University way back
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  Speaker 1: in twenty thirteen. I was barely alive back then, barely alive.
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  Speaker 1: Here we go, Here we go, Here we go, Here
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  Speaker 1: we go. All how about here we go? A degree?
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  Speaker 4: Here we go.
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  Speaker 1: This is one Big Ben gets grilled Cooper loop.
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  Speaker 5: And it was the perfect segue into the third degree,
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  Speaker 5: because I was going to ask you, Diego Pavias, you know,
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  Speaker 5: signed to try and make the Baltimore Ravens roster.
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  Speaker 1: Yes, yes, do you think he'll make the cut? No?
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  Speaker 1: I believe he is the size of a munchkin. I
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  Speaker 1: hate that. I mean, it's just not big enough. That's
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  Speaker 1: why he wasn't drafted. So highly unlikely highly unlikely he
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  Speaker 1: even gets an invite to training camp, Like this unsigned
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  Speaker 1: guy can work at this size is the main problem,
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  Speaker 1: and you can't. How do you overcome that? Is there
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  Speaker 1: any pills you can take? I guess there are. We
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  Speaker 1: advertise him next.
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  Speaker 5: Well, speaking of not getting drafted, none of the players
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  Speaker 5: from the first year of Bill Belichick's tenure at North
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  Speaker 5: Carolina got drafted. How much of an indictment is that
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  Speaker 5: on Belichick?
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean everyone's pileing on Belichick and all that,
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  Speaker 1: and you know it's not great because of the way
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  Speaker 1: they talked about how they were the smartest guys in
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  Speaker 1: the room and they were like the thirty third NFL franchise.
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  Speaker 1: To not have one guy picked in seven rounds, that
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  Speaker 1: is embarrassing. It's not as embarrassing as Belichick's lady friend,
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  Speaker 1: but it's embarrassing. You know, you should be able to
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  Speaker 1: get at least one guy drafted if you're the greatest
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  Speaker 1: evaluator of talent and you know what it takes to
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  Speaker 1: make the NFL and you know those type of skill
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  Speaker 1: sets and you can get them. But he obviously he
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  Speaker 1: screwed this up terribly and they haven't got rid of
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  Speaker 1: him yet he's still around though next.
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  Speaker 5: Been for the thirteenth time since nineteen eighty four, a
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  Speaker 5: number eight seed has taken a two to one series
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  Speaker 5: lead in the first round over a number one seed.
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  Speaker 5: That's the Orlando Magic over the Detroit Pistons. Do you
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  Speaker 5: think they can complete the upset?
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  Speaker 1: Well, Ken, they yes. That would be a grand exit
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  Speaker 1: for the Detroit Pistons. That's that gets your coach fired,
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  Speaker 1: That gets a star player traded. If the Pistons screw
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  Speaker 1: this up, the Orlando Magic had already prepared to fire
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  Speaker 1: their coach. Yes, there's absolutely a way that happens. How
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  Speaker 1: do we do a couple of plates? All right? Oh, win,
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  Speaker 1: a winner, winn win a win, A win, a win,
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  Speaker 1: a winner,