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Ben Maller Show Best of the Week · The Ben Maller Show

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  Speaker 2: This is the best of the Ben Maler Show on
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  Speaker 1: I can't tell you how many times I have to
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  Speaker 1: hear Game seven the two greatest words in sports, my
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  Speaker 1: fatast am I the only one of the things. Most of
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  Speaker 1: these Game sevens blow like, most of these Game sevens
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  Speaker 1: are a complete waste of time. Now, it wasn't as
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  Speaker 1: bad as some of the other Game sevens over the weekend,
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  Speaker 1: but we start out in Oklahoma where we did have
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  Speaker 1: Game seven. How the West was won and that was
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  Speaker 1: the big event. Oh, you gotta clear your whole whole schedule.
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  Speaker 1: Gona spend your old time as a couch potato watching
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  Speaker 1: Oklahoma City and San Antonio. So I don't know if
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  Speaker 1: you were watching this or not. I made sure that
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  Speaker 1: I watched. I my loser, I admit that. So I
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  Speaker 1: checked it out and Victor Wembanyam, I'm sure you know
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  Speaker 1: by now I had a big gaming to twenty two points.
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  Speaker 1: And the real hero if there is such a thing
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  Speaker 1: for San Antonio Julian Champenny. Now, if you had a
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  Speaker 1: name that is spelled like Champagne and you pronounce it Champenny,
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  Speaker 1: I'd like to know which relative f that up, because
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  Speaker 1: you have a name Champagne. That's how it looks if
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  Speaker 1: you look at the spelling obviously like Champagne and then
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  Speaker 1: it pronounced Champenny.
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  Speaker 3: Who goofed? I've got to know.
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  Speaker 1: Anyway, he had eighteen of his twenty points off the
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  Speaker 1: money ball, and the Spurs win. They never trailed in
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  Speaker 1: the fourth quarter, so they have advanced.
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  Speaker 3: Now.
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  Speaker 1: They despite all the odds saying Oklahoma City at home, Oh,
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  Speaker 1: it's so hard to beat the champion at home, but
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  Speaker 1: the game seven all you can't do it. Oh my god,
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  Speaker 1: Santa on one. So they went on the road and
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  Speaker 1: they will now host the Knickerbockers in game number one
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  Speaker 1: of the NBA Finals that'll be on Wednesday. Now, the
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  Speaker 1: better story is in the losing locker room. As we
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  Speaker 1: look back to the big event of the weekend and
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  Speaker 1: SGA had solid stats. He didn't get to the line
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  Speaker 1: quite as much as he normally does at home, and
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  Speaker 1: it wasn't twenty times. It was a little less than that,
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  Speaker 1: actually a lot less than that. However, he didn't not
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  Speaker 1: the one that killed him. He didn't play particularly great
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  Speaker 1: down the stretch. There were a couple of plays late
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  Speaker 1: in the game that I jotted down on the notes
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  Speaker 1: app that were not very impressive. However, if you look
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  Speaker 1: at the full picture here and everything that went down,
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  Speaker 1: the story is not about SGA sucking. The story is
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  Speaker 1: about his partner in crime, and that would be chet
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  Speaker 1: Holgrin getting absolutely cooked for his play home Grind had
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  Speaker 1: four points, four rebounds. He played thirty three minutes. Thirty
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  Speaker 1: three minutes, he had four points. What was he doing
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  Speaker 1: was he was he picking his nose during the Seriously,
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  Speaker 1: how do you only have four points and four rebounds
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  Speaker 1: the guys seven to one or something like that?
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  Speaker 4: Wow?
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  Speaker 3: All right, so that is a good jumping out point.
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  Speaker 1: Let us discuss the question is it.
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  Speaker 3: Fair or foul?
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  Speaker 1: Fair or foul to pin this devastation situations devastating thunder
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  Speaker 1: loss in game seven on chet Holmgren, who was getting
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  Speaker 1: absolutely cooked after the game on Saturday and all the
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  Speaker 1: way through now as we're doing the show in real time.
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  Speaker 1: So my thoughts, I've got inflatable summer fling and instruction manual,
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  Speaker 1: and we will combine all Let me put this guy
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  Speaker 1: on hold one second, say there we go. All right,
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  Speaker 1: I put all of these things together, and we are
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  Speaker 1: going to go pop is what we're going to do.
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  Speaker 3: We're gonna go pop, all right.
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  Speaker 1: So a after an expedited booth review, a very quick
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  Speaker 1: booth review, we have determined this is one hundred percent
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  Speaker 1: fair to chart broil Chad Holmgren.
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  Speaker 3: Okay.
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  Speaker 1: In fact, I don't think he's been ripped enough. He
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  Speaker 1: plays in Oklahoma, this was a big market team. He
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  Speaker 1: would be killed more and should he deserves it. The
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  Speaker 1: guys about to jumpstart a two hundred forty million dollar contract.
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  Speaker 1: He's a two hundred forty million dollar player in a corner
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  Speaker 1: to the Thunder, and you had this ultimate heavyweight marquee,
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  Speaker 1: the Spurs and the Thunder Game seven, the winner goes
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  Speaker 1: to the NBA Finals right above the marquee, and you
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  Speaker 1: had Homegren who was tasked with trying to slow down
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  Speaker 1: win Banyama Wimby. And it's not just game seven. The
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  Speaker 1: thing about this that people said, wow, was he played
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  Speaker 1: a bad Game seven. Give the guy a pass. He
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  Speaker 1: sucked in game six, he was trash in game six,
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  Speaker 1: home gren in game six, and in Game seven with
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  Speaker 1: a ticket to the NBA Finals on the line, How
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  Speaker 1: did that go? Don't ask? It was cover your eyes.
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  Speaker 1: Bad for Chet Holgman, the pride of Minnesota. As he
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  Speaker 1: went out there and combined he had four points in
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  Speaker 1: the closeout game, which didn't turn out to be a
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  Speaker 1: close out game Game seven, they had another close out
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  Speaker 1: game Game six. He had ten, so fourteen total points
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  Speaker 1: over game six and game seven, and while he was
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  Speaker 1: out there was minus twelve for the Thunder with him
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  Speaker 1: on the court. Meanwhile, Victor wm Banyama ended up with
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  Speaker 1: fifty points over the final two games and was plus twenty.
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  Speaker 1: So you look at Juxtapo's these two guys and you're like, wow,
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  Speaker 1: that's a thirty two point difference right there.
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  Speaker 3: Thirty two point difference. Now, let's use some malor math.
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  Speaker 1: Based on malormth In the final two games of the
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  Speaker 1: Western Finals, Victor Wembanyama was seventy two percent better than
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  Speaker 1: Chet Holmgren offensively in terms of the plus minus and
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  Speaker 1: all that stuff went was sixty six point six percent better.
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  Speaker 3: The sign of the Devil.
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  Speaker 1: Now, this was not not a matchup. This was a
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  Speaker 1: talent audit. It was a wake up call for Oklahoma
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  Speaker 1: City because Wemby's not going anywhere unless he gets hurt.
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  Speaker 1: He's gonna be around for a while. And so this
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  Speaker 1: was an audit and they did a home inspection and
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  Speaker 1: check failed the home inspection.
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  Speaker 3: I'm sorry.
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  Speaker 1: And you talk about the slim Towers lacking superpowers, and
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  Speaker 1: that's ched Holmer and one of his nicknames, these slim
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  Speaker 1: power didn't work out so well there for him in
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  Speaker 1: these last two games of the Western Conference finals. So,
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  Speaker 1: if you're great, this is kind of general. If you're great,
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  Speaker 1: you rise to the occasion. Does anyone disagree with that?
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  Speaker 1: If you're truly great, you rise to the occasion most
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  Speaker 1: of the time.
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  Speaker 3: Most of the time, you rise to the occasion.
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  Speaker 1: And when you're needed and it matters most you get
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  Speaker 1: it done. That's why you get the big money. And
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  Speaker 1: if this were a boxing match, this would have been
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  Speaker 1: called the Unicorn versus the Unicycle because Wemby took him
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  Speaker 1: for a ride, Ched Holmgren, just like a nice unicycle.
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  Speaker 3: And you look at the tail of the tape.
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  Speaker 1: One of these guys glides along and the other one wobbles. Wobble, wobble,
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  Speaker 1: wobble is how.
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  Speaker 3: That goes there. And you saw.
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  Speaker 1: In this Western Finals, the last couple of games here,
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  Speaker 1: you saw which is which is? Oklahoma City had two
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  Speaker 1: chances to win one game in advance, and the common
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  Speaker 1: denominator Ched Holmgren riding the vomit comet, And man was
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  Speaker 1: he bad? And he played like a budget version of
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  Speaker 1: Wemby that ships without batteries. They're so cheap they don't
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  Speaker 1: even give you the batteries there. Well, I want the battery,
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  Speaker 1: and we got to go buy the battery. Want I
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  Speaker 1: don't want to buy the bat I bought the product.
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  Speaker 1: Give me the damn product with the battery. I don't
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  Speaker 1: want it. And he really was exposed, right, and he say,
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  Speaker 1: was it old tech versus new tech? You can make
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  Speaker 1: that analogy that Wemby's the iPhone Pro Max.
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  Speaker 3: Whatever it is called these days.
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  Speaker 1: And then check the way he played the last couple
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  Speaker 1: of games of the Western Finals. Chet Holmgren like a
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  Speaker 1: dusty old rotary phone. Just Dusty, Dusty Dusty, and one
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  Speaker 1: guy's a generational unicorn and the other guy just a
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  Speaker 1: really tall guy that got two hundred and forty dollars.
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  Speaker 1: Good for him, Wemby Slenderman domination, right, slender Chet is
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  Speaker 1: slender and you need some prayers, you need some rosary
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  Speaker 1: beads and that kind of stuff to help him out there.
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  Speaker 1: And you simply can't guard the generational alien allegedly. Oh,
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  Speaker 1: they didn't have the greatest performance of all time. At
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  Speaker 1: the end, he did enough. And then you got Cheded Holmgren,
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  Speaker 1: who's built like a coat rack, and that's not a compliment.
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  Speaker 1: And so Wemby, who you can shove around, although didn't
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  Speaker 1: happen much the last couple of games there, and so
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  Speaker 1: Cheded Holmgren playing like the inflatable two tube man. You
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  Speaker 1: ever seen that when you go buy a car dealership
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  Speaker 1: they have the tube Yeah, the tube man with the
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  Speaker 1: arms flailing away. There, that's how ched Holmgren played, although
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  Speaker 1: I think tube man would have done better. An inflatable
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  Speaker 1: tube man would have done more defensively to stop Victor Wembanyama.
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  Speaker 1: Meanwhile flipping the page. But we're not going far here, No,
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  Speaker 1: we're not because for months and months and months we
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  Speaker 1: have been fed propaganda. You and I have been fed
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  Speaker 1: propaganda the next great dynasty is just getting started in
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  Speaker 1: Oklahoma City, and that these are the salad days, these
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  Speaker 1: are the glory days. They're here again for the Thunder
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  Speaker 1: and turns out not so fast. My friend, oops, who goofed?
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  Speaker 1: I've got to know. So the question, now here's the question.
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  Speaker 1: What happened to the shade jogis Alexander thunder dynasty?
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  Speaker 3: What happened to him?
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  Speaker 1: So something strange happened on the road to immortality. That's
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  Speaker 1: something odd happened here Oklahoma City. I'm determined based on
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  Speaker 1: a minutes long mall of investigation. They lost cell service
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  Speaker 1: and they took the wrong exit to Thunder. They were
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  Speaker 1: going about eighty five miles an hour on the interstate
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  Speaker 1: and they sell went out. They were in a kind
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  Speaker 1: of shady part of town. And then so they took
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  Speaker 1: the wrong exit and they couldn't find their way back.
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  Speaker 3: They could not find an on ramp. And that's it.
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  Speaker 1: So they sucked at a time you absolutely cannot suck.
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  Speaker 3: Elimination time.
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  Speaker 1: Two close out chances and over two obviously two face
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  Speaker 1: plants and just pathetic. Blown out in the Alamo in
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  Speaker 1: Game six, non competitive. It was like they were re
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  Speaker 1: enacting the wrong part of history in the Alamo. And
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  Speaker 1: then in Game seven at home, as we've talked about here,
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  Speaker 1: in Game seven, the Thunder never had a lead in
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  Speaker 1: the fourth court, you know, they never had a lead
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  Speaker 1: in the fourth quarter, not one lead in the fourth.
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  Speaker 3: Court order, and so they lose.
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  Speaker 1: And yet again here we are sitting yapping away as well.
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  Speaker 1: That's not a dynasty. That's a disappearing act, is what
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  Speaker 1: it was for the Thunder. So all thunder, no lightning,
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  Speaker 1: just a lot of noise. And it turns out the
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  Speaker 1: SGA dynasty is on ice right now. It was more
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  Speaker 1: of a limited limited series, if you will, not a
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  Speaker 1: multi season epic. He did not, And of course they'll
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  Speaker 1: always have twenty twenty five, that is true, and they
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  Speaker 1: did win, and all those wonderful gigabytes that were wasted online.
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  Speaker 1: This is the next big thing. No one's gonna stop
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  Speaker 1: the Thunder. Nobody can beat the Thunder. Blah blah blah
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  Speaker 1: blah blah. Shove it up, you tuckers. Yeah, So it
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  Speaker 1: turns out that was what happened in twenty twenty five
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  Speaker 1: was the equivalent of like a nice summer fling, a
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  Speaker 1: nice romance kind of summer get together, have a good time.
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  Speaker 3: That's it. And you're like, well, that's true love. No,
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  Speaker 3: it wasn't true. And this happens.
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  Speaker 1: Every time a team wins a championship in the NBA,
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  Speaker 1: somebody writes, Oh, this is gonna be the beginning of
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  Speaker 1: the next big thing, and we'd like to welcome the
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  Speaker 1: Thunder to the Championship Graveyard or the dynasty graveyard, now
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  Speaker 1: the Championship gave yard, but the dynasty graveyard. And I
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  Speaker 1: know the's a lot of people seeat I'm very happy
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  Speaker 1: about this. This is now the third straight new dynasty.
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  Speaker 1: I went back and looked at my notes. This is
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  Speaker 1: the third consecutive year that a new dynasty in the
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  Speaker 1: NBA has gone couput see you later. They flamed out
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  Speaker 1: before title number two. You might remember what we just
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  Speaker 1: talked about, the Thunder, But prior to that, the Loston Celtics.
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  Speaker 1: Oh they're so set up. Oh my god, that's Celtics
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  Speaker 1: with Tatum and Brown and then snap crackle pop. Now
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  Speaker 1: there's Chat or the Celtics. You're gonna trade Jalen Brown.
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  Speaker 1: So that's that's pretty much dun Ski's it would appear,
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  Speaker 1: and then you got the Nuggets, Remember the Nuggets, NICOLEA Jokic.
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  Speaker 1: Nobody can stop the Joker. Nobody can stop him. The
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  Speaker 1: Trilogy of Tease, it turned out, and that did not
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  Speaker 1: work out. Everyone loves the next big thing, the next
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  Speaker 1: shiny thing, the next big thing here until the next
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  Speaker 1: big thing doesn't get it done. And with SGA and
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  Speaker 1: a gaggle, I think they have like thirteen first round
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  Speaker 1: picks over the next four or five years, the gaggle
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  Speaker 1: of picks, the thunder will continue to hang around. I'm
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  Speaker 1: not gonna sit here and say they're not going to
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  Speaker 1: hang around, just saying to be a dynasty, we all
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  Speaker 1: know the rules here. The rules are pretty simple. You
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  Speaker 1: need to win three straight or three out of four.
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  Speaker 1: You win two and then lose one and then win
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  Speaker 1: a third.
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  Speaker 3: There you go. That's a dynasty.
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  Speaker 1: You don't win a dynasty title with one championship and
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  Speaker 1: then a nice brochure.
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  Speaker 3: You don't. That doesn't count, all.
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  Speaker 1: Right, Last word to the San Antonio side of things.
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  Speaker 1: Another popular storyline from the media elites in the NBA
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  Speaker 1: was all about the arrival and it's too soon. They're
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  Speaker 1: ahead of schedule. That I'm talking about the Spurs here,
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  Speaker 1: of course. So the question to look at the San
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  Speaker 1: Antonio side of things, are these Spurs truly a head
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  Speaker 1: of schedule in air quotes making the NBA Finals against
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  Speaker 1: the Knickerbockers starting on Wednesday night? So San Antonio was
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  Speaker 1: not supposed to be here. Now that's not my opinion,
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  Speaker 1: that's the other genius' opinion. I thought they would win
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  Speaker 1: Game six and lose Game seven, so I thought Oklahoma
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  Speaker 1: was gonna win.
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  Speaker 3: So they won in Game seven. Good for them. I'd
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  Speaker 3: rather see the Spurs and the Thunder in the NBA Finals.
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  Speaker 3: The idea that.
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  Speaker 1: There's somehow ahead of schedule is I can't say what
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  Speaker 1: I'd like to say.
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  Speaker 3: How about it's a bull shoy.
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  Speaker 1: I can say that. I can't say the other thing
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  Speaker 1: I want to say. It's horse manure is what it is.
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  Speaker 1: And you know, San Antonio was not supposed to be here,
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  Speaker 1: which is why they're exactly here. That's why. That's why,
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  Speaker 1: and predictions. It's like astrology for sports nerds, is what
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  Speaker 1: it is, and they love it. There's factions of the
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  Speaker 1: sports media. They have all these models, these computer models
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  Speaker 1: with AI, and you know, here are your chances of
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  Speaker 1: making You have to pay your news. You have to
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  Speaker 1: pay your news enough, what's wrong with you? And it's
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  Speaker 1: all just it's about the same or worse than a
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  Speaker 1: random guess. I say, maybe barely better than a random guess,
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  Speaker 1: but not much, not much. And everyone is flying by
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  Speaker 1: the seat of their pants. That's really the lesson on
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  Speaker 1: these They haven't done enough, they can't win. Everyone is
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  Speaker 1: just flying by the seat of their pants, and that's it.
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  Speaker 1: Their ad libbing. Nobody knows anything. They just don't. The
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  Speaker 1: Spurs didn't just get ahead of schedule, according to the
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  Speaker 1: top media dopes, they tore the schedule up and they
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  Speaker 1: threw it down in the river, and they told the league,
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  Speaker 1: deal with it, that's it.
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  Speaker 3: We're here, so you know, suck it. What are you
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  Speaker 3: gonna do?
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  Speaker 2: You know?
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  Speaker 1: And they skipped the line like they knew the bouncer,
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  Speaker 1: like the bounce so it was a cousin or something
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  Speaker 1: like that, I know the bouncer. Yeah, we're good, completely
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  Speaker 1: ignoring the instruction manual. How could they possibly ignore the
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  Speaker 1: instruction manual about needing experience to make the finals and
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  Speaker 1: all that stuff, and so again, so much for paying
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  Speaker 1: your dues.
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  Speaker 3: They didn't really pay their dues.
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  Speaker 1: Oh man, So and we can I guess we can
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  Speaker 1: stop yapping about Wemby being the next thing because he's
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  Speaker 1: in the finals now, so he can't be the next
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  Speaker 1: thing if he's here. And this is the first Spurs
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  Speaker 1: Finals appearance since that grumpy old man Greg Popovich was
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  Speaker 1: the coach in twenty fourteen, and they had Tim Duncan
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  Speaker 1: and Tony Parker and Manu into all those players, and
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  Speaker 1: now they have the seven foot four cheat code and
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  Speaker 1: they've unlocked a higher level.
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  Speaker 3: Is it level two? Is it level three? What level
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  Speaker 3: is it? I don't know.
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  Speaker 1: Everyone predicted pay Oh you gotta have patience. And when
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  Speaker 1: Banyama's like, oh god, there's some just some dominance, we'll
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  Speaker 1: go get some dominance.
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  Speaker 3: And there you go. And so this is a renaissance.
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  Speaker 1: The Spurs are back in the NBA Finals with a
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  Speaker 1: shot blocking chandelier in Victor.
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  Speaker 3: Wimbam at this point.
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  Speaker 1: And so the new generations asked about this earlier in
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  Speaker 1: the week and I was like, well, Wemby's just gonna
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  Speaker 1: be around like the next twenty years unless something bad appens,
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  Speaker 1: his body falls apart. He's gonna be here, think about it,
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  Speaker 1: be until like twenty forty six, Maybe not quite that long,
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  Speaker 1: We're close to it.
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  Speaker 5: and oh we got a hum dinger, hum dinger of
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• 18:20
  Speaker 1: Now. We were hoping to have a bevy of NFL
• 18:24
  Speaker 1: transactions to break down as we anticipated heading into the
• 18:29
  Speaker 1: new month and some Fugesi date on the NFL calendar
• 18:33
  Speaker 1: that there would be some movement Now We thought the
• 18:36
  Speaker 1: big story would be A J. Brown who would go
• 18:41
  Speaker 1: from Philadelphia to New England. While that did happen. AJ
• 18:44
  Speaker 1: Brown did go to the Patriots. That goes to the
• 18:48
  Speaker 1: back burner. A. It's been talked about for five months
• 18:53
  Speaker 1: at least, and B it got upstaged. It absolutely got
• 18:59
  Speaker 1: upstations that most of the time these dates failed to deliver.
• 19:02
  Speaker 1: You't all excited and you get a tie and some
• 19:06
  Speaker 1: socks and you're like, well, I didn't really want to
• 19:07
  Speaker 1: tie and socks. I don't mind them, I just don't
• 19:10
  Speaker 1: really want them. I'm excited about that. However, this is
• 19:14
  Speaker 1: one of those days that did not disappoint. We have
• 19:17
  Speaker 1: so much to discuss in this four hours of conversations.
• 19:23
  Speaker 1: Blank canvas, we're gonna paint a mosaic, well possibly a
• 19:26
  Speaker 1: finger painting that we have decided. I've made the executive decision.
• 19:29
  Speaker 1: We were planning on doing the NFL Book Them. Now
• 19:32
  Speaker 1: the NFL Book them's a thing that we do when
• 19:35
  Speaker 1: there's not that there's nothing going on, a little slow.
• 19:39
  Speaker 3: This is not a.
• 19:40
  Speaker 1: Day for the NFL bookm So we're gonna push it
• 19:41
  Speaker 1: back twenty four hours. We've made the executive decision. The
• 19:44
  Speaker 1: powers vested in me in the Mallord militia. So the
• 19:47
  Speaker 1: NFL book them will be tomorrow unless there's eighteen trades
• 19:50
  Speaker 1: tomorrow and then we'll push it back again. As far
• 19:53
  Speaker 1: as we know, it's going to be tomorrow. So we're
• 19:55
  Speaker 1: going to start out in Los Angeles. Everyone talking about it,
• 19:59
  Speaker 1: and I feel bad for my friends in Seattle. They
• 20:02
  Speaker 1: had their little championship where they got a bogus two
• 20:04
  Speaker 1: point conversion. It's all over. It's all over. Just why
• 20:08
  Speaker 1: even bother playing the NFL season. We know how this
• 20:11
  Speaker 1: is going to play out. So if you didn't get
• 20:13
  Speaker 1: the news, we learned that the la Arims has said
• 20:18
  Speaker 1: bye bye to Jared Verse, the star young defensive player,
• 20:23
  Speaker 1: and a gaggle of draft picks, and they have packaged
• 20:27
  Speaker 1: that in a nice box and sent that off to
• 20:32
  Speaker 1: the Browns in exchange for the NFL's defensive player of
• 20:39
  Speaker 1: the year. Miles Garrett is in la aram How do
• 20:44
  Speaker 1: you like that, suckers, Cleveland picked up a first round
• 20:50
  Speaker 1: pick we in twenty twenty seven? Who cares? And some
• 20:55
  Speaker 1: other draft picks. Day two picks. Nobody cares about those?
• 20:58
  Speaker 1: Losers care about these? You're not a loser, right command,
• 21:02
  Speaker 1: all right, so let us discuss the question.
• 21:05
  Speaker 3: You make the call, how do you grade the Rams
• 21:10
  Speaker 3: acquiring the preeminent defensive player in the National Football League
• 21:15
  Speaker 3: Miles Garrett from the Brownies for a Gaggle of Picks
• 21:20
  Speaker 3: and Jared Verse. So my thoughts on this.
• 21:22
  Speaker 1: I've got Amazon reviews, Teenage Mutant, Ninja, Turtles, and Midway Games,
• 21:29
  Speaker 1: and we will combine all of these things together and
• 21:32
  Speaker 1: we are going to say.
• 21:33
  Speaker 3: Cowabunga, dude.
• 21:35
  Speaker 1: Yeah, all right, so ay, we immediately go right to
• 21:39
  Speaker 1: the Mala report card. We don't waste any time, there's
• 21:42
  Speaker 1: no need to waste time. The Malor report card and
• 21:46
  Speaker 1: what does it say? Well, this is where if you're
• 21:48
  Speaker 1: new to the show, this is where we sift through transactions,
• 21:52
  Speaker 1: the sporting landscape, the ethos of sports and tell you
• 21:56
  Speaker 1: what's real and what's bogus and what's face and all
• 22:00
  Speaker 1: that for gayzy, downright fraudulent. That's what we do here.
• 22:05
  Speaker 1: So on the Mallord report Card. Now, I'm gonna be fair.
• 22:08
  Speaker 1: You probably, oh, you just gonna be a Ram Homer.
• 22:10
  Speaker 3: You're gonna suck up to the Rams. That's what you do.
• 22:13
  Speaker 1: No, you shut your mouth, all right, I'm not some
• 22:18
  Speaker 1: fanboy with a microphone.
• 22:20
  Speaker 3: No, no, no, So the Malor.
• 22:22
  Speaker 1: Report card reads the La Rams get in a plus
• 22:30
  Speaker 1: plus plus you can ram on me. Yeah, come on,
• 22:33
  Speaker 1: now you get Rabbit in the super Bowl.
• 22:36
  Speaker 3: They're back, baby.
• 22:37
  Speaker 1: The rip not that they left the Rams back, now
• 22:39
  Speaker 1: the Browns. And I'm gonna be fair to the Browns too.
• 22:41
  Speaker 1: I'm not gonna bash the Browns. It's easy to get
• 22:43
  Speaker 1: on the radio and goof on the Cleveland Browns. And
• 22:46
  Speaker 1: I now have a lot of friends in Ohio. I
• 22:48
  Speaker 1: know it's southern Ohio, northern Kentucky. I had a great
• 22:50
  Speaker 1: time in Cincinnati, which is not Cleveland, northern Kentucky. That only,
• 22:54
  Speaker 1: but I'd met a lot of Brownsers. There were people
• 22:55
  Speaker 1: that drove down from Cleveland to hang out with me.
• 22:58
  Speaker 1: We got Dick and Dayton. I'm worried about to Dick Star.
• 23:00
  Speaker 1: He might have a heart attack when he finds out
• 23:02
  Speaker 1: he mightn't even know yet. The Browns traded Miles Garrett.
• 23:04
  Speaker 1: So on the Male report card to be totally fair
• 23:06
  Speaker 1: to my friends in Ohio. The Cleveland Browns get an
• 23:10
  Speaker 1: F on the Mallet report card. So congratulations to the Browns.
• 23:13
  Speaker 1: They failed, and the fact that the Rams picked up
• 23:18
  Speaker 1: Miles Garrett in his prime, in the middle of his
• 23:21
  Speaker 1: athletic prime. He got two or three really good years
• 23:24
  Speaker 1: left coming off the historic Granted it was some stat
• 23:28
  Speaker 1: stuffing on a bad team with the Browns, but still
• 23:30
  Speaker 1: twenty three sax season. You gotta be joking all right now.
• 23:34
  Speaker 1: If you read the Amazon reviews on this trade, this
• 23:38
  Speaker 1: is a testimonial. It validates that the La Rams have
• 23:43
  Speaker 1: the top front office in football, and they have been
• 23:47
  Speaker 1: able over the years to manipulate the cap, which is ridiculous.
• 23:51
  Speaker 1: The salary caps a joke. These trades that keep popping
• 23:54
  Speaker 1: up and the draft. They do all of that really well,
• 24:00
  Speaker 1: and your team doesn't. Your team sucks at most of
• 24:03
  Speaker 1: that stuff. And so Cleveland traded the best defensive player
• 24:08
  Speaker 1: alive who's playing in pro football for a good player.
• 24:13
  Speaker 1: I'm going to kill the player they got and some
• 24:15
  Speaker 1: Bengo cards. F them BECs, f them becks. That's what
• 24:20
  Speaker 1: we all say here. And I would trade every fricking draftic.
• 24:24
  Speaker 1: I don't care. You're all a bunch of Dingleberris that
• 24:28
  Speaker 1: love your little NFL draft.
• 24:30
  Speaker 3: You love it.
• 24:31
  Speaker 1: Give me a proven commodity and Jared Verse is a
• 24:33
  Speaker 1: wonderful player. I love the kid, and it does not
• 24:37
  Speaker 1: justify though, moving the face of the franchise. And if
• 24:41
  Speaker 1: you're the Rams, you make this trade out of ten days,
• 24:44
  Speaker 1: you make it twenty days, twenty times in ten days.
• 24:47
  Speaker 1: That's what you do here. Now, I do feel bad
• 24:50
  Speaker 1: for Jared Verse because he is now going to football
• 24:53
  Speaker 1: purgatory and the greatness that he would have gotten as
• 24:57
  Speaker 1: a Ram, and he had a little taste of it
• 25:00
  Speaker 1: and that all goes away. Now he's walking into an
• 25:03
  Speaker 1: impossible situation Verse where, yeah, he'll put some stats up.
• 25:08
  Speaker 1: I don't doubt that he's gonna get some stats because
• 25:10
  Speaker 1: the Browns suck and they're gonna suck the rest of
• 25:13
  Speaker 1: my life because they've sucked my entire life. And he'll
• 25:16
  Speaker 1: put up some numbers and say, oh man, he's playing
• 25:18
  Speaker 1: well for the Browns. And you know what of the
• 25:19
  Speaker 1: Brown's gonna do win five games six games every year.
• 25:22
  Speaker 1: They got no quarterback, they got no hope. They suck
• 25:26
  Speaker 1: all right, and we're gonna keep the beat going here though,
• 25:30
  Speaker 1: page two. So Brown's owner Jimmy Haslam issued a wordy statement,
• 25:37
  Speaker 1: and the key part, let's just cut through the bull crap.
• 25:40
  Speaker 1: The key part is Jimmy has Them, the Brown's owner
• 25:43
  Speaker 1: said trading Miles Garrett wasn't our intent.
• 25:48
  Speaker 4: Bad.
• 25:49
  Speaker 1: You know what that means, he said, but this is
• 25:53
  Speaker 1: the right move for us. Close quote. That's Jimmy Haslam,
• 25:57
  Speaker 1: the owner, the con man. Some have said, who owns
• 26:00
  Speaker 1: the Cleveland brown So the question what did owner Jimmy
• 26:04
  Speaker 1: Haslem mean when he said the Miles Garrett trade to
• 26:07
  Speaker 1: the Rams was the right move for us. So let's
• 26:12
  Speaker 1: start with the obvious.
• 26:13
  Speaker 3: I think you know this.
• 26:14
  Speaker 1: It is the classic owner spin from a guy who
• 26:18
  Speaker 1: functions as the head of manufacturing. Jimmy Haslam is not
• 26:22
  Speaker 1: just the owner of the Brownies, He's the head of
• 26:26
  Speaker 1: manufacturing at the Factory of Sadness, which has been the
• 26:29
  Speaker 1: most consistent producer of bad football that we have seen.
• 26:34
  Speaker 1: And Haslam is straight up gaslighting the good people of Ohio,
• 26:39
  Speaker 1: the fan base there with what he's doing. He dropped
• 26:42
  Speaker 1: the word bad. He said that, just like that, right
• 26:45
  Speaker 1: after claiming it wasn't their intent to trade Miles Garrett,
• 26:51
  Speaker 1: which is always a.
• 26:54
  Speaker 3: Dead new Wight, dead new Hight.
• 26:57
  Speaker 1: Yeah, now that's what that is. So you drop the
• 27:00
  Speaker 1: but and that is a tell and we have partsed
• 27:03
  Speaker 1: the words of many better owners than Jimmy Haslam, and
• 27:07
  Speaker 1: not few that are worse than Jimmy Haslam.
• 27:10
  Speaker 3: But here we are.
• 27:11
  Speaker 1: And so you see all that, and you're like, Okay,
• 27:16
  Speaker 1: it's more likely than not that Jimmy has On the
• 27:20
  Speaker 1: Browns owner is just pretending that this disaster was highly strategic.
• 27:27
  Speaker 1: Now I am going to workshop a conspiracy theory, and
• 27:30
  Speaker 1: I want you to tell me if you agree with
• 27:31
  Speaker 1: this or not. All right, so the truth and I'm
• 27:35
  Speaker 1: gonna go deep state Illuminati here. So the trade of
• 27:41
  Speaker 1: Miles Garrett happened because of Miles Garrett. Miles Garrett went
• 27:47
  Speaker 1: full teenage mutant ninja turtles, heavy on the ninja part
• 27:53
  Speaker 1: for the Browns, and he forced his way out of
• 27:57
  Speaker 1: Cleveland without ever saying it publicly this time now before
• 28:01
  Speaker 1: he made the mistake of going public, and the Browns
• 28:04
  Speaker 1: paid him a lot of money.
• 28:05
  Speaker 3: And now here we are.
• 28:06
  Speaker 1: A couple years later, and he's been sent to the portal,
• 28:11
  Speaker 1: the transfer portal going out to La So, yeah, I
• 28:14
  Speaker 1: believe this was done behind the scenes. I'm buddy of
• 28:17
  Speaker 1: mine who ran into Miles Getgas was at some Laker
• 28:20
  Speaker 1: games hanging out with the Hollywood f's, and.
• 28:23
  Speaker 3: I guess he liked that.
• 28:24
  Speaker 1: And he gets a lot of speeding tickets in Cleveland
• 28:28
  Speaker 1: at night. If you don't drive eighty five to ninety
• 28:31
  Speaker 1: miles an hour, you get hit. It's like the Autobahn
• 28:34
  Speaker 1: in LA at night. So he'll love driving in LA.
• 28:37
  Speaker 1: And it was speeding and all that. That's how that goes. Meanwhile,
• 28:41
  Speaker 1: the Browns continue to operate like a ghost ship. All right,
• 28:46
  Speaker 1: Every once in a while they managed to draft a
• 28:48
  Speaker 1: truly generational player. That's it's the acorn, you know, the
• 28:54
  Speaker 1: whole blind squirrel in the acorn. So every once in
• 28:57
  Speaker 1: a while the draft a generational talent, they being the
• 28:59
  Speaker 1: Cleveland Browns, and everyone will get all excited all man,
• 29:04
  Speaker 1: and then they completely waste them, completely waste them, and
• 29:08
  Speaker 1: then repackage them for more picks. This is known as
• 29:13
  Speaker 1: the wash rinse, repeat cycle of Cleveland brown football. And
• 29:18
  Speaker 1: the shocking thing is a percentage of customers are not
• 29:24
  Speaker 1: smarter enough to realize they're being bamboozled. This is called duggery,
• 29:28
  Speaker 1: and they continue down this road because the Browns are
• 29:30
  Speaker 1: selling Wow, we've got three picks that are going to
• 29:33
  Speaker 1: be great Okay, you have no coach, you have no quarterback,
• 29:39
  Speaker 1: and you get on the list. It's insane and it's
• 29:43
  Speaker 1: just another chapter in the never ending bozo the clown
• 29:46
  Speaker 1: show that is the brownd This just changed their name
• 29:49
  Speaker 1: to the Cleveland Bozos. I wonder what their logo id.
• 29:52
  Speaker 1: I think we know, get a red fluffy nose and
• 29:55
  Speaker 1: some big shoes and then you're on your way. And
• 29:57
  Speaker 1: the Browns fans you can't trust a single thing. Jimmy
• 30:00
  Speaker 1: haslam spews out of his mouth. You can't do it.
• 30:05
  Speaker 1: And none of these right moves which Jimmy has them
• 30:08
  Speaker 1: talks about how this was the right move. He boasts
• 30:13
  Speaker 1: about these, none of these actually work out. It's like,
• 30:16
  Speaker 1: what are we doing. It's not football strategy, it is not.
• 30:20
  Speaker 1: It's just the chaos business model, which the Browns have mastered.
• 30:26
  Speaker 1: Now the last word here we mentioned you can ram
• 30:29
  Speaker 1: it all day and you can ram it all night.
• 30:33
  Speaker 1: So here we go by trading for Miles Garrett. Are
• 30:38
  Speaker 1: the forty nine ers now off the or the forty
• 30:41
  Speaker 1: nine Are the Rams forty nine ers?
• 30:43
  Speaker 3: Or that are the Rams? All right? Are the Rams
• 30:46
  Speaker 3: now off the hook?
• 30:48
  Speaker 1: By that draft pick in the first round when they
• 30:51
  Speaker 1: took ty Simpson in the first round. So again by
• 30:54
  Speaker 1: trading for Miles Garrett. Are the Rams now off the
• 30:57
  Speaker 1: knotty list when they waste a first round pick on
• 31:01
  Speaker 1: Ty Simpson?
• 31:03
  Speaker 3: So some of you reached out to me C C.
• 31:05
  Speaker 3: Mallor you should have waited.
• 31:07
  Speaker 1: Of course, the obvious answer to that is I have
• 31:09
  Speaker 1: a daily talk show to do, so I have to
• 31:10
  Speaker 1: do a talk show every night.
• 31:12
  Speaker 3: I can't wait till stories are done.
• 31:14
  Speaker 1: The other factor here is absolutely not absolutely not no, no,
• 31:19
  Speaker 1: no no. You don't draft a guy there if you're
• 31:23
  Speaker 1: all in now, it makes even less sense. Now, it
• 31:28
  Speaker 1: makes even less sense for the Rams to draft a
• 31:30
  Speaker 1: quarterback in the first round. They're clearly moving all of
• 31:34
  Speaker 1: their chips to the middle of the table. They're all
• 31:38
  Speaker 1: in the La Rams. They're going for another Super Bowl,
• 31:43
  Speaker 1: and you don't trade that amount of it, And then
• 31:46
  Speaker 1: you drafted a guy who's if everything goes right, it
• 31:50
  Speaker 1: just makes no sense, no sense. The Rams are living
• 31:54
  Speaker 1: in two different universes right now. They're chasing another ring
• 31:58
  Speaker 1: with Matthew Stafford, and they're at the same time raising
• 32:02
  Speaker 1: a toddler quarterback who hopefully won't have a hissy fit
• 32:07
  Speaker 1: on the sidelines and the Rams. It's like, listen, I'm
• 32:11
  Speaker 1: gonna microwave and slow cook at the same meal.
• 32:15
  Speaker 3: Well, no, you either slow cook it or your microwave it.
• 32:18
  Speaker 2: You don't do.
• 32:19
  Speaker 1: Both, dummy. So I do not think that this absolves
• 32:23
  Speaker 1: the Rams for drafting Ty Simpson at all. You picked
• 32:29
  Speaker 1: a rookie who's not going to help you while you're
• 32:33
  Speaker 1: desperately trying to win another Super Bowl, and instead of
• 32:37
  Speaker 1: getting whether it was a top rated And again I'm
• 32:39
  Speaker 1: not a big draft guy by any means, but if
• 32:41
  Speaker 1: you have the pick and you don't trade the pick,
• 32:43
  Speaker 1: get me somebody who's supposed to be a good wide receiver,
• 32:46
  Speaker 1: get me an impact linebacker or defensive back.
• 32:50
  Speaker 3: You'll make one of those moves.
• 32:53
  Speaker 1: And instead they instead of getting one of those players
• 32:56
  Speaker 1: the Rams, they have somebody who's gonna hold the clipboard
• 33:00
  Speaker 1: and get ten thousand steps walking back and forth between
• 33:04
  Speaker 1: the twenty yard lines on the sidelines there. And as
• 33:08
  Speaker 1: for the trolls claiming that La is reckless, I've also
• 33:12
  Speaker 1: gotten this in my inbox that the Rams are being reckless.
• 33:15
  Speaker 1: Yere trading away Jared Verse, who hasn't even scratched the
• 33:19
  Speaker 1: surface on his ability and then all those draft picks
• 33:22
  Speaker 1: for Miles Garrett. This is just reckless. And to that,
• 33:25
  Speaker 1: I use the word humbuggery because that is anyway thinks
• 33:28
  Speaker 1: that it's humbuggery, is what it is. This is for
• 33:32
  Speaker 1: the Rams the Goldielock Zone. Whether it works out or not,
• 33:37
  Speaker 1: that's to be determined. You went for it, and that's
• 33:40
  Speaker 1: all you can ask, right, You just want your teams
• 33:42
  Speaker 1: to go for it. And they went for it. And
• 33:44
  Speaker 1: that's the great thing. They have the top coaching football
• 33:46
  Speaker 1: nobody better than Sean McVay. They have the top quarterback
• 33:49
  Speaker 1: in the NFL, the reigning MVP Matthew Stafford, and everyone
• 33:54
  Speaker 1: outside of like two teams would trade for Matthew Stafford
• 33:57
  Speaker 1: right now, top wide receiver Pooka Nakua, and now have
• 34:00
  Speaker 1: the top defensive torpedo in Miles Garrett. And they're all
• 34:06
  Speaker 1: wearing the same uniform, the same laundry. There the La
• 34:09
  Speaker 1: Rams and Miles Garrett is going to go full midway games,
• 34:15
  Speaker 1: think Ram Page. He's gonna go on a rampitch. I
• 34:18
  Speaker 1: feel bad for my friends who are forty nine er
• 34:20
  Speaker 1: fans and Seahawk fans, not Cardinal fans, because they don't.
• 34:23
  Speaker 1: They're not trying to win their tanking. So I don't
• 34:25
  Speaker 1: know if feel bad for the cardinal fans, I don't
• 34:28
  Speaker 1: Aaron Donald.
• 34:29
  Speaker 3: Two point zero.
• 34:29
  Speaker 1: In fact, there's rumors bouncing around the echo chamber that
• 34:33
  Speaker 1: the Rams are trying to coax Aaron Donald out of retirement.
• 34:37
  Speaker 1: And might I add well, happy days continue for the
• 34:40
  Speaker 1: La Rams. Super Bowl sixty one. You know it's going
• 34:43
  Speaker 1: to be played in the hood in Inglewood. That's right,
• 34:48
  Speaker 1: it's in La La Lands. Super Bowl sixty one in
• 34:51
  Speaker 1: February's on believe val Valentine's Day.
• 34:53
  Speaker 3: I think Valentine's Day.
• 34:56
  Speaker 1: It's mid February twenty twenty seven, and that will be
• 34:59
  Speaker 1: at so Far Stadium in the hood in Inglewood. Last
• 35:02
  Speaker 1: time they had a Super Bowl at Sofi Stadium. Let's
• 35:04
  Speaker 1: see what team won that. Oh, that's right, the Rams.
• 35:07
  Speaker 1: The Rams won last time. So again, sorry for you.
• 35:11
  Speaker 1: You know, see, how guys, can we do a wellness
• 35:13
  Speaker 1: check on JJ and Retten and no Stredinus and those
• 35:15
  Speaker 1: guys are just devastation. Just enjoy little punk a medal,
• 35:19
  Speaker 1: your piece of metal because it's now Ram town the
• 35:22
  Speaker 1: entire NFL.
• 35:23
  Speaker 3: So there you go.
• 35:24
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• 35:26
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• 35:30
  Speaker 1: It is the Ben Mallers. We have our we have
• 35:31
  Speaker 1: our contestant sets. Introduced them real quick. We have Jed
• 35:34
  Speaker 1: who fled from the Redneck Riviera. Hello, Jed who fled.
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  Speaker 3: Talking quietly and not being understood, his momling what's screaming?
• 35:41
  Speaker 3: And now being understood? Who? Who'd you like partner up with?
• 35:46
  Speaker 3: You don't You're just encouraging him. You're just in.
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  Speaker 2: Don't encourage that squaloring James.
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  Speaker 3: I'm gonna go with Justin goop?
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  Speaker 3: Hey, how's it going? All right?
• 36:03
  Speaker 1: If I was any better, I'd be a witch, But
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  Speaker 1: no I would not Mike. Who do you want to
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  Speaker 1: partner up with?
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  Speaker 3: You got me? Or or Lorena?
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  Speaker 1: What about Bill Miller?
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  Speaker 3: Bill Miller? Yeah? You want to play with Bill Miller?
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  Speaker 1: Okay, I'll see if Bill's he's out smoking a cigar
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  Speaker 1: in the other room.
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  Speaker 4: I thought it only works like two minutes of the
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  Speaker 4: show pretty much.
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  Speaker 3: What are the categories here?
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  Speaker 6: We got all right, gentlemen, this is the Alanis Morissett
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  Speaker 6: edition of Maller's Amount of Money.
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  Speaker 4: Yes, she is great. She turned fifty two years old
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  Speaker 4: on Monday.
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  Speaker 3: Oh man.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah.
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  Speaker 3: Ironic.
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  Speaker 6: Yes, and and that is the first category. The categories
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  Speaker 6: are ironic. You ought to know Mary Jane and you
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  Speaker 6: learn Jae which category? Which is going on?
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  Speaker 3: J Dang, I will, I will, I will get married Jane.
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  Speaker 3: But I'm just like ironic. That's ironic.
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  Speaker 4: Okay, that's tough on, Mike.
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  Speaker 1: Pick your category, Mike, I'll go Mary Jane. My guy
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  Speaker 1: wants the Mary Jay Mary Jane. All right, everyone, hold on,
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  Speaker 1: stay right there. We're gonna have Malar's mountem Do not
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  Speaker 1: hang up, Do not hang up.
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  Speaker 3: Malo's amount of Money is next.
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  Speaker 2: what it takes to get to the top? Probably not.
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  Speaker 3: Let's do it.
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  Speaker 1: Here we go the Atlantis Morisset Edition, and we're off
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  Speaker 1: to the races.
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  Speaker 3: The teams.
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  Speaker 1: You've got Jed who fled and Coop and Mike in
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  Speaker 1: Salem and me Man. All right, let's get started here. Cooper, Loop,
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  Speaker 1: who's going first?
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  Speaker 6: You are, yes, that would be me and Jed. Our
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  Speaker 6: category is ironic, Jed. These sports figures made a guarantee
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  Speaker 6: that backfired or they suffered an ironic let down. H
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  Speaker 6: forty five seconds of the clock. Are you ready, Jed? Okay,
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  Speaker 6: let's begin. He is the quarterback for the Kansas City
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  Speaker 6: Chiefs right now. Patrick mahonmes, this is a female UFC fighter.
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  Speaker 6: She just came out of retirement to fight again on Netflix. Yes,
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  Speaker 6: this guy he played for the Washington Nationals. He's on
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  Speaker 6: the Phillies right now.
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  Speaker 3: Yes.
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  Speaker 6: Uh, this guy was on the Orlando Magic and the
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  Speaker 6: Houston Rockets. He wore a headband. He looks he looks
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  Speaker 6: stoned in the nineties. In the two thousands, Nick, No, no,
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  Speaker 6: we'll skip it. This guy is the owner of the
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  Speaker 6: Cleveland Cavaliers.
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  Speaker 4: No, Dan, Yes, Dan, Dan. Okay.
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  Speaker 6: This guy was a quarterback of the Seahawks when they
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  Speaker 6: went to the Super Bowl in the early two thousands.
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  Speaker 3: All right, well he got that one. Really, I don't know. No,
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  Speaker 3: you did not get that. Don't give extra points, do
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  Speaker 3: not give him extra points to the all right, stop,
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  Speaker 3: what do you know he didn't get that? You didn't
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  Speaker 3: get it?
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  Speaker 6: One forty giant one didn't Fortunately, you did not get
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  Speaker 6: Dan Gilbert.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, Dan Gilbert was the name was the one.
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  Speaker 1: All right, here we go, shut up? All right, I'll
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  Speaker 1: put you on hold, then fine. If you're not going
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  Speaker 1: to be on hold, Mike and Salem, are you there?
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  Speaker 4: Mike? All right?
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  Speaker 1: These athletes are all known to smoke some weed. You're
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  Speaker 1: ready to go here, that's the category. Forty five seconds
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  Speaker 1: on the clock. We're on our way go. The baddest
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  Speaker 1: boxer of all time in the nineteen eighties, Yes, a
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  Speaker 1: UFC star who's wild and crazy now not from this
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  Speaker 1: country yet, Yes, known as Megatron for the Detroit Lions.
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  Speaker 1: Calvin Yes, pitcher for the Giants San Francisco Giants. Won
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  Speaker 1: a couple of cy young kind of a skinny guy.
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  Speaker 3: Yes.
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  Speaker 1: He was the star of the jail Blazers, a guard
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  Speaker 1: back in the early two thousands the Portland trail Blazers
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  Speaker 1: played with the Lakers. Also bounced around No all right
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  Speaker 1: wide receiver for the Cleveland Browns.
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  Speaker 3: Love We he got suspended.
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  Speaker 1: The nickname yes Uh played for the Sacramento Kings. I
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  Speaker 1: want a championship with the Warriors in twenty seventeen. But
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  Speaker 1: all right, what was that and where did they get?
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  Speaker 3: Oh so we have the leads. All right, go ahead there, Coop,
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  Speaker 3: you get to go now, all right?
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  Speaker 4: Jed, you want you ought to know or you learn?
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  Speaker 2: Do you think I want you learn?
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  Speaker 4: Well, all right, we'll go with you learn?
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  Speaker 3: All right? These athletes, where did you take?
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  Speaker 2: You learn?
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  Speaker 3: Or did you pick? You want to know which one
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  Speaker 3: did you get? He said, I'll go with you are well, no,
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  Speaker 3: you were, You're supposed to pick. He's not supposed to
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  Speaker 3: pick it.
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  Speaker 4: He said, you learned.
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  Speaker 1: Let's keep going.
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  Speaker 2: Fifty course, okay, all right?
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  Speaker 6: These these athletes all went back to college to finish
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  Speaker 6: their degree. H forty five seconds, let's begin. He's the
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  Speaker 6: current star on the Golden State Warriors. Yes, this guy
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  Speaker 6: was a Super Bowl MVP for the Broncos. He wants
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  Speaker 6: to retire with the Broncos.
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  Speaker 3: Jesus, it is not Jesus.
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  Speaker 4: Defensive end.
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  Speaker 3: He wants to play campaign. My god, you're killing no.
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  Speaker 6: Defensive end killing super Bowl MVP. Yes, this guy was
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  Speaker 6: on the Steelers safety of frizzy hair. Yes, yes, Jesus Shuttlesworth. Yes,
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  Speaker 6: this guy was MVP for the Astros. He's the leadoff hitter,
• 41:35
  Speaker 6: damn it. All right, Defensive Player of the Year for
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  Speaker 6: the Patriots. He was a cornerback.
• 41:43
  Speaker 3: He oh, how many is that?
• 41:44
  Speaker 4: Lorraine one hundred edition also to forty two.
• 41:46
  Speaker 3: All right, so we need sixty to tie, seventy to win.
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  Speaker 3: Are you Are you ready? Mike? Are you ready? Mike?
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  Speaker 2: Yes?
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  Speaker 3: All right, here we go.
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  Speaker 1: You ought to know these athletes all immediately recognizable by
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  Speaker 1: one name.
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  Speaker 3: All right, here we go. We're on our way.
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  Speaker 1: He was a slammed out champ in the eighties from
• 42:01
  Speaker 1: the Atlanta Hawks.
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  Speaker 3: Really short guy, five, No, short guy.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, there you go.
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  Speaker 3: We won the game, just like that. Baby.
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  Speaker 4: I did need a at one point.
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  Speaker 1: Okay, fine, we'll go start for the Seattle Mariners in
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  Speaker 1: the early two thousands, a Hall of famer from Japan. Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: there you go, so Winter, we won the game. Good job, Mike,
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  Speaker 1: you got a goal to tech head. You lost