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  Speaker 2: This is the best of the Ben Maler Show on
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  Speaker 1: If you had the Timberwolves going to the NBA Finals,
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  Speaker 3: So we're back at it.
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  Speaker 1: A big night of pro bouncy ball, unless it wasn't,
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  Speaker 1: but that is our lead. We're gonna start out with
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  Speaker 1: that and we'll work our way through some other pretty
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  Speaker 1: good stories. There were there were some stories here that
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  Speaker 1: I was like, baitings. This is a good day or
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  Speaker 1: bad day. Pretty good day, not a bad day for
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  Speaker 1: sports talk radio. So Anthony Edwards, this is not one
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  Speaker 1: of the better stories. But Anthony play the hits. Mom
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  Speaker 1: Man play that. So Anthony Edwards and the Timberwolves traveling
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  Speaker 1: circus paying a visit for Game five OKC. The opponent
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  Speaker 1: there trying to stay alive, stay alive against the thunder
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  Speaker 1: and it was the last dance for Minnesota. They could
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  Speaker 1: not win this game. They were going to be kicked
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  Speaker 1: out of the playoffs. And if you didn't watch, consider
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  Speaker 1: yourself lucky. The most valuable commodity that we have is
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  Speaker 1: our time. We don't know how much we have. We
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  Speaker 1: don't know when it's gonna come to an end. And
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  Speaker 1: you didn't waste it watching this direk man. That was
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  Speaker 1: die die diarrhea man?
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  Speaker 3: Was that bat? Now this is our good Mitch for today.
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  Speaker 1: So the star, the MVP of the NBA ex Clipper
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  Speaker 1: Shay jogis Alexander thirty nine points, eight assists and seven
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  Speaker 1: rebounds and a partridge in a pear tree as the
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  Speaker 1: thunder have decommissioned, the timber Wolves that route get out here,
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  Speaker 1: see you later and one twenty four to ninety four
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  Speaker 1: beat down.
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  Speaker 2: Yea.
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  Speaker 1: Love the scratching and claw mentality. Never give up, fight
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  Speaker 1: to the end of Minnesota. You know that's really professional.
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  Speaker 1: You're not gutless and you give up in the first
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  Speaker 1: quarter that you go out there and.
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  Speaker 3: Fight, you go down fighting and really mad.
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  Speaker 1: Props to Minnesota basketball for not being gutless cowards who
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  Speaker 1: were down by thirty nine points and the game was
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  Speaker 1: over at the end of the first quarter. What it
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  Speaker 1: was over At the end of the first quarter, they
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  Speaker 1: were down by thirty nine points at one point. Okay,
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  Speaker 1: I got you fair enough, Okay, all right, fair enough.
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  Speaker 3: So the game started out promising.
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  Speaker 1: Julius Randall hit a three ball after some clunkers, and
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  Speaker 1: Minnesota had a three to nothing lead.
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  Speaker 3: That would be the last lead that they had.
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  Speaker 1: That would be it chet Holmgren, better known by his
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  Speaker 1: nickname Skeletor, had twenty two points, seven rebounds, three blocks,
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  Speaker 1: and Jalen Williams, the generically named player.
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  Speaker 3: Imagine you get to the NBA. Your name's Jalen Williams.
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  Speaker 3: You're like one of eighteen people named Jalen Williams in
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  Speaker 3: the NBA.
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  Speaker 1: Anyway, Jaylen Williams had nineteen points, eight rebounds, and the
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  Speaker 1: thunder get her done. So now Oklahoma City will play
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  Speaker 1: the Indiana Pacers or the New York Knickerbockers in the finals.
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  Speaker 1: And if you really want to screw over Adam Silver,
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  Speaker 1: if you believe in Shotenfreude, if you want to screw
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  Speaker 1: over ESPN, you've got a hope that the Pacers win
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  Speaker 1: and we get Indiana and Oklahoma City in the NBA Finals.
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  Speaker 1: Because that is the doomsday prophecies for pro bouncy ball.
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  Speaker 1: But plenty of time to give the thunder some flowers.
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  Speaker 1: I'm sure there'll be plenty of people already giving them flowers.
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  Speaker 1: The better story here, though, is in the losing locker room.
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  Speaker 1: That is where the story is. And my goodness, my goodness.
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  Speaker 1: All right, so let's discuss. Let's just cut out who
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  Speaker 1: gets the blame, because we know who gets the blame.
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  Speaker 3: It's the headliner. The headliner gets the blame here.
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  Speaker 1: So how much damage now that it's over, how much
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  Speaker 1: damage did this series do to the legend of Anthony
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  Speaker 1: Edwards in Minnesota?
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  Speaker 3: Because remember the talk was, this is the new face
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  Speaker 3: of the NBA.
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  Speaker 1: You know, he was talking about how big as D
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  Speaker 1: was against the Lakers, and I'm not talking about defense,
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  Speaker 1: you know, I'm bragging about the size of the anaconda.
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  Speaker 1: And then he went out there and had a micro
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  Speaker 1: anaconda in this particular series, in most of these games.
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  Speaker 1: So my thoughts on this, I have soft underbelly, shrink
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  Speaker 1: flation and speak easy, and we will combine all of
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  Speaker 1: these things together and we are going to make the
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  Speaker 1: Gabba goool. We're gonna make the gabba gooul is what
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  Speaker 1: we're gonna do. So a let's cut out all the niceties.
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  Speaker 1: Ant man is a basketball player, and he flopped. He
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  Speaker 1: was exposed, not the leading man he was propped up
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  Speaker 1: to be. Sorry, not sorry. He laid an egg in
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  Speaker 1: this series, second consecutive year that this has happened. He
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  Speaker 1: commandeered the vomit comet. He did the hype train went
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  Speaker 1: off the tracks here and with all those comps, I'm
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  Speaker 1: in everything from Michael Jordan to Kobe Bryant and Anthony Edwards.
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  Speaker 1: We do the show tonight and right now tonight, Anthony
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  Speaker 1: Edwards ain't him, not yet and possibly never and probably never.
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  Speaker 3: His soft underbelly exposed, exposed.
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  Speaker 1: I thought he had that killer instinct and he was
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  Speaker 1: gonna he was gonna go down.
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  Speaker 3: You just not give up, And it just appears he
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  Speaker 3: had given up.
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  Speaker 1: And the final stat line does not indicate how crappy
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  Speaker 1: Anthony Edwards played as a headline two hundred million dollar
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  Speaker 1: ball player in the NBA. There is no mamba mentality.
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  Speaker 1: He has the mentality of a Koala bear that would
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  Speaker 1: like to take a nap. That's the mentality Anthony Edwards
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  Speaker 1: brings at least he brought it in this series. So
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  Speaker 1: it's a case of false advertising. We thought he had
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  Speaker 1: it and then he didn't have it, and if he
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  Speaker 1: did have it, he lost it. Where'd he lose it?
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  Speaker 1: Why do he lose it? You know it's not there.
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  Speaker 1: And then the worst part is the lack of accountability.
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  Speaker 1: It's like one thing to go out there and suck
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  Speaker 1: and everyone knows you blow, and then you get on
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  Speaker 1: the microphones and I'll go back to the other game,
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  Speaker 1: Game four, where he said I don't look at it
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  Speaker 1: like I struggled, And he also defended Julius Randall, who
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  Speaker 1: was equally terrible. He said, they just had a good
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  Speaker 1: game plan and they made us get off the ball. Okay,
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  Speaker 1: I still can't get over he said that, like I know,
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  Speaker 1: you know, you're just an old You're an old head. Okay,
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  Speaker 1: maybe I am. I just can't imagine that that would
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  Speaker 1: be your answer. I just that's a lot of hootspa,
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  Speaker 1: that's a that's a lot of hoodsby all right, Well,
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  Speaker 1: let's hear from Anthony Edwards.
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  Speaker 3: Let's go to cut two on this, and here is
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  Speaker 3: his explanation on what.
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  Speaker 1: His plans are after another another exit before getting to
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  Speaker 1: the NBA Finals.
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  Speaker 3: Though they got to the final four, not enough. Here's
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  Speaker 3: Edwards on his offseason plans. Nobody's gonna work harder to
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  Speaker 3: me this summer, I'll tell you that much. So, yeah,
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  Speaker 3: I'll try to make I'll try to make it happen
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  Speaker 3: again for.
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  Speaker 1: Mikeel So the good news is if you're a Timberwolf fan,
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  Speaker 1: he's gonna work hard in the offseason now, working hard
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  Speaker 1: in every game of the Western Finals. Too much, dass,
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  Speaker 1: that's too much das, all right, I just my goodness.
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  Speaker 1: So he was bad in Game five. The final numbers
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  Speaker 1: were empty numbers. The game was over at the end of.
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  Speaker 3: The first quarter.
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  Speaker 1: And you know that's a two hundred million dollar guy.
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  Speaker 1: The team's not playing well and and you're supposed to
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  Speaker 1: keep the team from drowning, keep them within striking distance.
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  Speaker 3: That did not happen. Now turning the page.
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  Speaker 1: So after back to back Western Conference Finals, what is
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  Speaker 1: next for the Timberwolves?
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  Speaker 3: What is next for this team? All right?
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  Speaker 1: So you look around here and I would advise you
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  Speaker 1: to buckle up. If the grapevine is accurate, if the
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  Speaker 1: rumor mill is accurate, here's what you can expect.
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  Speaker 3: You can expect shrink flation.
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  Speaker 1: All right, you'll pay the same, but you're gonna get
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  Speaker 1: less bang for your basketball buck.
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  Speaker 3: The streets have been talking for some time.
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  Speaker 1: They've been chirping that the ownership group led by Alex Rodriguez,
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  Speaker 1: the steroid cheat from baseball who made all that money
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  Speaker 1: and now he owns a chunk of the timberwolsl is
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  Speaker 1: really not the lead owner. It's some other guy we've
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  Speaker 1: never heard of anyway, the A rod ownership group.
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  Speaker 3: The plan is to take.
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  Speaker 1: A carving knife like you would on Thanksgiving to a
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  Speaker 1: turkey and start trimming away the meat on the turk.
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  Speaker 1: So prepare the stuffing if you will. Penny penny rich,
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  Speaker 1: dollar poor, I believe, is the phrase, the clinical phrase
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  Speaker 1: for that. So you've got Anthony Edwards. Now in in
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  Speaker 1: Hollywood they talk about the wagon wheel, and you've got
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  Speaker 1: to have the star in the center of the wagon,
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  Speaker 1: and then everything else.
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  Speaker 3: Around that is a spoke and the outer rim.
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  Speaker 1: You can replace all that stuff, and that's likely what's
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  Speaker 1: going to happen here. That you have the centerpiece and
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  Speaker 1: then you change the spokes up and you say, all right,
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  Speaker 1: well these guys didn't get it done. So let's go
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  Speaker 1: out and get some other flotsam and jetsam. We'll bring
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  Speaker 1: some non achievers in on this side of the team,
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  Speaker 1: and then I think the bench we can put some underachievers,
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  Speaker 1: and so we'll mix equal parts non achiever and then
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  Speaker 1: we'll have the underachiever and then we'll put them together
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  Speaker 1: and then we'll see, we'll see what happens.
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  Speaker 3: You know.
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  Speaker 1: And Rudy Gobert, if you watch the game, I think
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  Speaker 1: your eyes got more into the game than Rudy Gobert did.
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  Speaker 1: Julius Randall numbered, he wouldn't got essentially plowing the ocean.
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  Speaker 1: Plowing the ocean. I want to go back to Anthony
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  Speaker 1: Edwards and just Minnesota in general. So the Timberwolves coach
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  Speaker 1: mister Finch commenting on what the heck went wrong for
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  Speaker 1: the Timberwolves here Andy he mentioned that the team collapsed.
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  Speaker 3: Well, listen to him. Explained what happened, why they were
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  Speaker 3: so bad here.
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  Speaker 4: We started trying to force it all, you know, individually,
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  Speaker 4: one on one, and I think we had, you know,
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  Speaker 4: a bunch of turnovers in that next phase of the
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  Speaker 4: first quarter. Obviously got the crowd into it, that them going,
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  Speaker 4: and then just you know, I just struggled to find
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  Speaker 4: a rhythm. Everyone was kind of trying to do it
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  Speaker 4: all by themselves. We lost our connectivity. But all credit
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  Speaker 4: to the Thunder. They certainly deserved this. They played outstanding
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  Speaker 4: and you know, we came up short in a lot
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  Speaker 4: of ways.
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  Speaker 1: Isn't that the coach's job to make sure that doesn't
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  Speaker 1: happen to get the message out fight like the devil,
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  Speaker 1: and they.
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  Speaker 3: Didn't fight like the devil.
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  Speaker 1: Here's one more from the coach of the Timberwolves here
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  Speaker 1: and discussing Anthony Edwards and the lessons learned.
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  Speaker 3: Take a listen. Apparently we do not have that shocking
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  Speaker 3: all right?
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  Speaker 1: Well he said physicality that he was what he said,
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  Speaker 1: all right, the last word here.
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  Speaker 3: So what is your level of excitement?
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  Speaker 1: What is your level of excitement for SGA and the
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  Speaker 1: Thunder reaching the NBA Finals.
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  Speaker 3: They're here, They've arrived. Now.
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  Speaker 1: I am pleased for Kyrie and he's really the only
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  Speaker 1: regular show contributor from Oklahoma City or that area that
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  Speaker 1: is a Thunder fan. We've been on the air for many,
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  Speaker 1: many years. I don't recall maybe one or two other
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  Speaker 1: thunder fans that have actually called the show. There was
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  Speaker 1: actually a guy that called a couple weeks back. But
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  Speaker 1: other than that, it's slim pickens in these parts. So
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  Speaker 1: now we have been told, just in the hours since
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  Speaker 1: the Western Conference Finals ended, we have been told by
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  Speaker 1: bas skiotball hardos that this OKC team is legit right,
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  Speaker 1: they're built. They built it the right way, draft picks,
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  Speaker 1: young talent, no super team garbage, none of that. And
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  Speaker 1: it's the feel good basketball story for the small market NBA.
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  Speaker 1: This is why they changed the salary cap and they
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  Speaker 1: they made it like a kitchen with a bunch of
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  Speaker 1: aprons so you could enjoy Oklahoma.
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  Speaker 3: City in the NBA Finals. It's so exciting, oh club City.
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  Speaker 1: So on the Malar scale of excitement, which is the
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  Speaker 1: number one instrument that we use, we don't know.
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  Speaker 3: We don't know who they're going to play.
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  Speaker 1: We know the options, but let's just focus in on
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  Speaker 1: Oklahoma City. So on the Malard scale of excitement, one
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  Speaker 1: to ten, with ten being you're nine years old, you're
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  Speaker 1: unwrapping presence on your birthday and you had a lot,
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  Speaker 1: a lot of your buddies gave your presence.
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  Speaker 3: You got aunts, uncles, cousins, they all gave your prey.
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  Speaker 1: You're very happy. So that is the that's the ten.
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  Speaker 1: So on a scale of one to ten, how excited
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  Speaker 1: are you for Oklahoma City being in finals? I am
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  Speaker 1: at a two. I am at a two, And the
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  Speaker 1: only reason I'm at a two is because a member
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  Speaker 1: of the Clipper Alumni Association has a chance to win
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  Speaker 1: the championship.
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  Speaker 3: So I'm I'm happy for SGA. It's a it's a
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  Speaker 3: win win.
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  Speaker 1: The Clipper's got Kawhi Leonard and the Thunder got SGA,
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  Speaker 1: So win win there, and good luck to SGA in
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  Speaker 1: the finals.
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  Speaker 3: That set. It is fair when you take a couple
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  Speaker 3: of steps back and you look at this matchup and
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  Speaker 3: we don't know who they're playing. We know it's either
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  Speaker 3: Indiana or New York.
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  Speaker 1: But either way, if you look at it, despite the
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  Speaker 1: MVP and all that, he's not the straw that stirs
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  Speaker 1: the drink, right, and that part sucks.
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  Speaker 3: You might probably don't care. Yeah I don't care, Okay,
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  Speaker 3: And that's right. I get it. Why would you care?
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  Speaker 3: But in my position, I care.
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  Speaker 1: I do broadcasting, right, I do buy you it's more
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  Speaker 1: fun and we when we get to these championship rounds,
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  Speaker 1: like if you do a show like this, we have
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  Speaker 1: people that jump on the train. They're like hobo. I
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  Speaker 1: come Hobos, they jump on the train. They're they're the
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  Speaker 1: casual fan. They're not like us. They're not hardcore fans,
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  Speaker 1: and they want to be part of it. They want
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  Speaker 1: to listen to a sports radio show late at night
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  Speaker 1: because they want to have something they can talk to
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  Speaker 1: their sporty friends about. And so it's you're bringing new
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  Speaker 1: people in and it's it's a trickle down situation. Obviously,
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  Speaker 1: the ratings are one thing. I don't work for the NBA.
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  Speaker 1: I don't work for ESPN, so I don't really care
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  Speaker 1: about that. But I'm sorry about my perspective. When you
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  Speaker 1: do the broadcasting and you have a matchup where no
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  Speaker 1: one gives a crap, it's narrow casting, right.
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  Speaker 3: So it's a niche situation here, it's a niche situation.
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  Speaker 3: And we are headed to a speak easy NBA Finals.
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  Speaker 3: This is they speak easy. You don't know the password.
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  Speaker 1: It's invitation only and outside of the hard os who
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  Speaker 1: are always going to watch, and I'm in that camp,
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  Speaker 1: my hand is raised.
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  Speaker 3: I'm a heart o. I will watch.
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  Speaker 1: But unless you've got some kind of bet, like a
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  Speaker 1: Future's betover on DraftKings or something like that.
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  Speaker 3: You're not you're not going out of your way to watch.
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  Speaker 1: It's not gonna be a lot of buzz. There's not
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  Speaker 1: gonna be a lot of excitement about this. And it's
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  Speaker 1: really is a throwback. It is the worst. Assuming the
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  Speaker 1: Knicks don't come back, they will, so it's a it's
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  Speaker 1: the worst finals we've had since the tape delay era.
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  Speaker 1: And when I when I started as a young lad,
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  Speaker 1: I got into radio on as nineteen, but I started
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  Speaker 1: covering the NBA. That was one of my first jobs
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  Speaker 1: as a reporter radio. They call them a stringer, that
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  Speaker 1: was the term in radio. And I recall covering the
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  Speaker 1: the early days. You know, this is early days for me,
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  Speaker 1: but this is like the early nineties, and the chatter
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  Speaker 1: at the time was, oh, we were not that far
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  Speaker 1: removed from the NBA Finals being on on tape delay
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  Speaker 1: and it had only been like fifteen years or something
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  Speaker 1: like that. And at that time, and you know that
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  Speaker 1: they were not that far removed from playing three night,
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  Speaker 1: three games and three nights, which if you did that now,
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  Speaker 1: there would be a criminal case that would be taken
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  Speaker 1: and Congress would be involved, and it would be oh,
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  Speaker 1: my God, You're making someone work three days in a row. Holy,
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  Speaker 1: and they have to fly commercial. I can't believe it.
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  Speaker 3: We have some great audio we're gonna play here in
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  Speaker 1: A follow up, follow up to the follow up, I said,
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  Speaker 1: up to Yafimi and the other listeners in Chicago.
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  Speaker 3: So remember the story.
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  Speaker 1: We talked about it several times in previous episodes of
• 19:04
  Speaker 1: the show. The Bears quarterback Caleb Williams, who was the
• 19:08
  Speaker 1: number one overall pick in the number back in twenty
• 19:12
  Speaker 1: twenty four. So Caleb Williams, it's pretty clear he wanted
• 19:16
  Speaker 1: to play for the Vikings.
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  Speaker 3: He had a crush on Kevin O'Connell.
• 19:22
  Speaker 1: They had a combine interview and he had puppy dog.
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  Speaker 3: Guys for Kevin O'Connell.
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  Speaker 1: Now, his father, that's the father of Caleb Williams, spilled
• 19:31
  Speaker 1: the ta spilled it in Seth Wickersham's book It's an
• 19:37
  Speaker 1: investigative sports journalist, So Kayla, Will's dad just spill his
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  Speaker 1: guts out right, spill his guts out, said that Williams
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  Speaker 1: began to.
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  Speaker 3: Dream of what it would be like to play for
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  Speaker 3: the Minnesota Vikings.
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  Speaker 1: Now his dad was also at the same time plotting
• 19:58
  Speaker 1: to get an ownership stake in an NFL team for
• 20:01
  Speaker 1: his kid.
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  Speaker 3: No joke, right, So.
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  Speaker 1: The Bears new Golden Boy finally commented on all of
• 20:10
  Speaker 1: the crap that's been flying around. I keep in mind
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  Speaker 1: Kayler Williams hid from the media for several days, chose
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  Speaker 1: to not answer questions. He had skipped out on it
• 20:21
  Speaker 1: the whole story about asking for ownership and his love
• 20:24
  Speaker 1: of the Minnesota type minnesot writing. So if you didn't
• 20:28
  Speaker 1: hear what he had to say, possibly not, perhaps not,
• 20:31
  Speaker 1: Calee was We're gonna put some audio. It's a long clip.
• 20:33
  Speaker 1: I normally don't play long clips, but it's so cringe.
• 20:36
  Speaker 1: I want to play the whole clip that we have.
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  Speaker 1: So Caleb Williams addressing the Viking.
• 20:42
  Speaker 3: In the room, if you will, his love of.
• 20:45
  Speaker 1: The purple people eaters, the Komodo dragon in Minnesota, and
• 20:50
  Speaker 1: we have the audio.
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  Speaker 3: Again, it's a long clip.
• 20:52
  Speaker 1: However, you gotta listen closely and try to take some
• 20:56
  Speaker 1: notes as you're listening.
• 20:57
  Speaker 5: Here.
• 20:57
  Speaker 1: If you kid, I know you're likely doing something, maybe
• 20:59
  Speaker 1: you're driving or whatever, but try to turn up the
• 21:02
  Speaker 1: audio a little bit and just listen because you're gonna
• 21:05
  Speaker 1: have to count along here. But here's Caleb Williams answering
• 21:08
  Speaker 1: questions about what happened before that draft takes all.
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  Speaker 5: That went down, all that was said, Yeah, I had
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  Speaker 5: a I had a I had a good visit uh
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  Speaker 5: at at at the other place Minnesota with Ken O'Connell,
• 21:20
  Speaker 5: good staff and all of that. Obviously, uh he just
• 21:23
  Speaker 5: won Coach of the Year award and things like that.
• 21:25
  Speaker 5: So obviously good staff and things like that. But something
• 21:29
  Speaker 5: that keeps getting lost, something that keeps getting I think
• 21:35
  Speaker 5: not being addressed the way it needs to be is
• 21:39
  Speaker 5: the fact that you know, I went on that visit,
• 21:42
  Speaker 5: first came here, and then after I came here, it
• 21:45
  Speaker 5: was a it was a I went back home, talked
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  Speaker 5: to my dad.
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  Speaker 6: And you know, all of the things that were supposed
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  Speaker 6: to be, these big things that everybody's been talking about recently,
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  Speaker 6: one never happened in the sense.
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  Speaker 5: Of they were all thoughts, they were all ideas. And
• 22:03
  Speaker 5: I think if you're in the situation, I think if
• 22:05
  Speaker 5: your son or or or or daughter, anybody is in
• 22:09
  Speaker 5: the situation to be in that position, I think you
• 22:11
  Speaker 5: think about all of the options, and you know and
• 22:14
  Speaker 5: and and you look at it. The history and the
• 22:16
  Speaker 5: facts and all these different things. And you know those
• 22:18
  Speaker 5: are thoughts that they go throughout your head in no situations,
• 22:21
  Speaker 5: So you know, all of those are thoughts. And then
• 22:23
  Speaker 5: after I came to my visit here, it was a
• 22:26
  Speaker 5: it was a deliberate answer and and deliberate and determined
• 22:31
  Speaker 5: answer that I had us that I wanted to come here.
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  Speaker 5: And just like Ben spoke about.
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  Speaker 1: Okay, I kept going on on and on and on
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  Speaker 1: and on. All right, So the the plan as you
• 22:44
  Speaker 1: heard there, there were several things that stood out, But well,
• 22:48
  Speaker 1: I guess why don't we break it down like this,
• 22:49
  Speaker 1: We'll discuss what we just heard.
• 22:51
  Speaker 3: That's Caleb Williams. So what did stand out to you?
• 22:56
  Speaker 1: What stood out to you that sound bit rather lengthy
• 22:59
  Speaker 1: of the Bear quarterback Kayla Williams, his comments about wanting
• 23:03
  Speaker 1: to play for the Vikings and the whole ownership state
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  Speaker 1: thing and all that. So I'll go first because I've
• 23:09
  Speaker 1: got the mic, so my observations, I've got the Federal
• 23:12
  Speaker 1: Bureau of Investigations boundaries and dating game, and we will
• 23:19
  Speaker 1: put all of these things together and we're gonna make
• 23:22
  Speaker 1: some deep dish pizza. And if you don't want that
• 23:24
  Speaker 1: we'll give you an Italian beef sandwich, and then for dessert,
• 23:27
  Speaker 1: we're gonna have that shaved ice and if you don't
• 23:29
  Speaker 1: want that, we'll have.
• 23:30
  Speaker 3: The brownies, which I think were invented in Chicago. The brownie.
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  Speaker 1: All right, so number wa, I said, number WA.
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  Speaker 3: But this was this was a hot mess.
• 23:44
  Speaker 1: That was my first thought. I jotted that down on
• 23:46
  Speaker 1: my notes Apple for that's a hot mess. That was
• 23:49
  Speaker 1: poorly done. They had a lot of time, they knew
• 23:52
  Speaker 1: what was coming, they knew this line of questioning was coming,
• 23:57
  Speaker 1: and it appeared that Caleb Williams had done no prep,
• 24:01
  Speaker 1: that he was coerced into doing it. And we played
• 24:05
  Speaker 1: the audio because it was so bad it was good.
• 24:08
  Speaker 1: The audio was so bad it was good. Caleb stumbling
• 24:14
  Speaker 1: and bumbling as.
• 24:14
  Speaker 3: He tried to articulate. He's really well spoken. Unless he's not.
• 24:20
  Speaker 3: That's that's the red flag. Now.
• 24:22
  Speaker 1: One of the things, one of the things you look
• 24:24
  Speaker 1: for in audio content is roadside bombs.
• 24:30
  Speaker 3: We call them. They're ums and uzz ums and us
• 24:34
  Speaker 3: our problem.
• 24:36
  Speaker 1: So that sound bite we wrote down eighty five seconds,
• 24:40
  Speaker 1: one minute, twenty five seconds, was the sound bite Caleb
• 24:42
  Speaker 1: Williams the face of the Chicago Bears said um or ah?
• 24:49
  Speaker 3: How many times better?
• 24:52
  Speaker 1: Yet, what percentage of that was um and awe? Survey
• 24:58
  Speaker 1: says thirty two point nine percent of that SoundBite was
• 25:05
  Speaker 1: Caleb Williams saying um or uh?
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  Speaker 3: Oh great?
• 25:12
  Speaker 1: Is that that's the face of the Chicago Bears. Twenty
• 25:17
  Speaker 1: eight times in eighty five seconds Caleb Williams said um
• 25:22
  Speaker 1: or uh And those are conversation managers. That is a
• 25:26
  Speaker 1: sign when you say um and awe, you're announcing you're
• 25:30
  Speaker 1: having trouble communicating.
• 25:32
  Speaker 3: Every once in a while. It's fine, we all say
• 25:34
  Speaker 3: it every once in a while.
• 25:35
  Speaker 1: However, in a one minute, twenty five second sound clip,
• 25:38
  Speaker 1: when you say it thirty two point nine percent of
• 25:41
  Speaker 1: the time, we got a problem.
• 25:44
  Speaker 3: We have a problem. The word um and awe.
• 25:49
  Speaker 1: Is where you put something while you're trying to find
• 25:51
  Speaker 1: what you really want to say, trying to remember a
• 25:55
  Speaker 1: talking point memo that you were told to repeat, a
• 25:58
  Speaker 1: piece of information that you're supposed to pair it to
• 26:01
  Speaker 1: the media, which leads us to the Federal Bureau of Investigations,
• 26:07
  Speaker 1: a book that I have referenced many times over the years,
• 26:10
  Speaker 1: how to spot lies like the FBI.
• 26:14
  Speaker 3: It's a book that tells you about body language clues.
• 26:18
  Speaker 3: Caleb Williams. You can't see what we played because it's
• 26:21
  Speaker 3: audio only. However, it is available. Caleb Williams.
• 26:25
  Speaker 1: His eyes were darting back and forth. That is a
• 26:28
  Speaker 1: sign dead give what It is a sign when your
• 26:32
  Speaker 1: eyes are going back and forth that you feel uncomfortable.
• 26:36
  Speaker 3: Uncomfortable? Could it be because you're lying?
• 26:39
  Speaker 1: Also, there was a little bit of face touching there,
• 26:43
  Speaker 1: a little bit of an itch type situation. That's normally
• 26:45
  Speaker 1: what happens when you're not telling the truth if you
• 26:48
  Speaker 1: look up to the right. Caleb Williams did look up
• 26:51
  Speaker 1: to the right. Right handed people usually look up to
• 26:54
  Speaker 1: the right when they're inventing an answer. And then these
• 26:58
  Speaker 1: are all the dead giveaway is that he was playing
• 27:02
  Speaker 1: fast and loose with the truth.
• 27:04
  Speaker 3: But wait, there's war.
• 27:06
  Speaker 1: So in that rather long sound by Caleb Williams downplayed
• 27:10
  Speaker 1: the chatter that his father wanted to get a bear's
• 27:13
  Speaker 1: ownership stake. He essentially dismissed it, saying that anyone who's
• 27:18
  Speaker 1: drafted would like to own part of an NFL team,
• 27:22
  Speaker 1: circumventing the NFL draft, which was on the table all together.
• 27:28
  Speaker 1: Caleb Williams's response was they were all thoughts, they were
• 27:32
  Speaker 1: all ideas.
• 27:34
  Speaker 3: That's it.
• 27:35
  Speaker 1: Both quote, what is your perspective on Caleb Williams downplaying
• 27:40
  Speaker 1: the idea, that what happened.
• 27:43
  Speaker 3: Was just thoughts and ideas and there's nothing here.
• 27:47
  Speaker 1: The new again Golden Boy of the Chicago Bears, the
• 27:51
  Speaker 1: Great Messiah, the Great Savior, finally commenting on all of
• 27:54
  Speaker 1: this stuff. And that's what he said, right, the timeless
• 27:59
  Speaker 1: words of an old radio man back in the day.
• 28:01
  Speaker 1: Everything begins with an idea. Everything good and bad an idea.
• 28:08
  Speaker 1: Somebody had an idea. Whatever you think's cool started with
• 28:11
  Speaker 1: an idea. If you're into AI, hey, people like it.
• 28:17
  Speaker 1: It started with an idea. If you enjoy a good
• 28:19
  Speaker 1: nuclear bomb, that was an idea. This was a calculated
• 28:26
  Speaker 1: media push. It was not well done. It was sloppy.
• 28:29
  Speaker 1: But I'm talking about prior to the draft, when they
• 28:32
  Speaker 1: were working and trying to get Caleb Williams to get
• 28:34
  Speaker 1: an ownership stake. They wanted to test the boundaries and
• 28:38
  Speaker 1: see how far the Caleb Williams hype train could take them.
• 28:43
  Speaker 1: These were not just random thoughts in the shower while
• 28:47
  Speaker 1: you're putting shampool on your head.
• 28:49
  Speaker 3: This was serious noise.
• 28:51
  Speaker 1: Prior to the draft, people were saying that he was
• 28:55
  Speaker 1: gonna pull an Eli Manning, Elijah the Punk, and even worse,
• 29:01
  Speaker 1: just forget the draft altogether.
• 29:05
  Speaker 3: Again, testing boundaries, testing boundaries. We become what we think.
• 29:11
  Speaker 3: We become what we think. Every one of us, You me, everyone,
• 29:17
  Speaker 3: We are the sum total of our thoughts.
• 29:20
  Speaker 1: So Caleb Williams's dad contacted some lawyers, gave them a
• 29:25
  Speaker 1: couple of bucks, and they determined, after reading the contract,
• 29:29
  Speaker 1: the union contract between the players and the NFL, that
• 29:33
  Speaker 1: they could not could not get.
• 29:35
  Speaker 3: A piece of the team. You see, the problem is you.
• 29:38
  Speaker 1: Can't own part of a team while you're playing for
• 29:42
  Speaker 1: the team.
• 29:44
  Speaker 3: It's not how the NFL works.
• 29:46
  Speaker 1: Classic case of the modern star athlete who's had their
• 29:51
  Speaker 1: toes licked going back to high school, thinking they are
• 29:55
  Speaker 1: a corporation before they have done anything. Kila Williams is
• 29:59
  Speaker 1: a failure as an NFL quarterback.
• 30:00
  Speaker 3: The one accomplishment that he has is the king of
• 30:03
  Speaker 3: all sacks. So congratulations for the modern times. All right.
• 30:07
  Speaker 1: Final point to Green Bay the frozen Tundra. The draft
• 30:14
  Speaker 1: which was held way back a month ago, shortly after
• 30:19
  Speaker 1: the Packers selected Matthew Golden. It's great name, it's a
• 30:23
  Speaker 1: solid name, wide receiver Matthew Golden out of Texas with
• 30:27
  Speaker 1: the number twenty two pick in the very first round
• 30:30
  Speaker 1: of the draft, which does not happen.
• 30:32
  Speaker 3: The Packers do not normally do this. So Jaden Reid,
• 30:36
  Speaker 3: who's also a wide receiver, he's been around for a
• 30:38
  Speaker 3: couple of years.
• 30:39
  Speaker 1: His agent, Drew Rosenhaus, reached out to the chiefs head
• 30:43
  Speaker 1: brass and said, we got to talk. We have to
• 30:46
  Speaker 1: have a conversation. We need to know a status update.
• 30:52
  Speaker 1: We need a status update now that you've drafted not
• 30:56
  Speaker 1: only Matthew Golden, but they took another receiver relatively high.
• 31:01
  Speaker 1: So he was asked about this his status, and he said, quote,
• 31:04
  Speaker 1: a lot of people were talking about Jayden Reid. He
• 31:07
  Speaker 1: said a lot of people misinterpreted that.
• 31:11
  Speaker 3: He claimed at OTAs.
• 31:13
  Speaker 1: So Jordan Reid says, people misinterpreted the rumor that his
• 31:17
  Speaker 1: agent contacted the Packers and he was assured of being
• 31:21
  Speaker 1: the wide receiver number one. So does any of that
• 31:25
  Speaker 1: make sense? Does any of that make sense? So this
• 31:28
  Speaker 1: is a trip to the fund zone is what is
• 31:31
  Speaker 1: hop on? The merry go round, Go round and round
• 31:34
  Speaker 1: and round, hop on the merry go round. He knows
• 31:37
  Speaker 1: this is a bad look. Every man, woman and child
• 31:41
  Speaker 1: knows this is a bad look. Even our friend in
• 31:43
  Speaker 1: Dallas with all our cats, the cats even know this
• 31:46
  Speaker 1: is a bad look. Why it's unbecoming if you need
• 31:50
  Speaker 1: someone to tell you that you're a wide receiver one
• 31:55
  Speaker 1: spoiler alert, you're not a wide receiver one.
• 31:57
  Speaker 3: It's kind of like the dating game.
• 31:59
  Speaker 1: If you're outdating and you have to ask where you
• 32:03
  Speaker 1: stand in a relationship, you're not that important.
• 32:07
  Speaker 3: You're likely going to get ghosted, or maybe you've already
• 32:10
  Speaker 3: been ghosted.
• 32:11
  Speaker 1: See you think justin Jefferson in Minnesota has to contact
• 32:15
  Speaker 1: the Viking Brass and say, am I the number one receiver?
• 32:19
  Speaker 3: Am I still the number one option? Is a rhetorical question.
• 32:21
  Speaker 1: Obviously, Green Bay has not had a true top receiver
• 32:26
  Speaker 1: since they said bye bye to Devonte Adams and traded
• 32:30
  Speaker 1: his ass to the Raiders so he could be a
• 32:33
  Speaker 1: bust in Vegas and now he's on the Rams. But
• 32:37
  Speaker 1: Jaden Reid, who has led the Packers in receiving yards
• 32:41
  Speaker 1: each of the past two seasons, and yet they still
• 32:45
  Speaker 1: decided they had to get other people.
• 32:47
  Speaker 3: They had to.
• 32:48
  Speaker 1: Use a first round pick to fill that hole, which
• 32:53
  Speaker 1: tells you everything you need to know.
• 32:55
  Speaker 3: Follow the breadcrumbs, follow the draft picks.
• 32:58
  Speaker 1: If you were very happy with you wouldn't have gone
• 33:01
  Speaker 1: out and added another player at that position. That's just
• 33:06
  Speaker 1: how this works' that's a simple equation on how this
• 33:11
  Speaker 1: all breaks down.
• 33:12
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• 33:14
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• 33:18
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• 33:20
  Speaker 2: To the third degree, this is one big Ben gets grilled?
• 33:26
  Speaker 3: All right?
• 33:26
  Speaker 5: Cool?
• 33:27
  Speaker 7: Before Game four between the Knicks and the Pacers, Charles
• 33:30
  Speaker 7: Barkley said, Hey, ESPN, I love you guys. Don't try
• 33:34
  Speaker 7: to make Anthony Edwards the face of the NBA. He
• 33:36
  Speaker 7: went on to say that the face of the NBA
• 33:38
  Speaker 7: is Sga, Nikola, jokicch and Jannas and Tetokumpo Ben. Who
• 33:43
  Speaker 7: do you think is the face of the NBA or
• 33:45
  Speaker 7: does one even exist?
• 33:47
  Speaker 1: It's still Steph Curry and Lebron James until they retire.
• 33:51
  Speaker 3: That's just the way it is.
• 33:52
  Speaker 1: And the problem with SGA is the Q the QR,
• 33:57
  Speaker 1: the Q rating, and the higher the Q score or
• 34:00
  Speaker 1: the more highly regarded you are, and he just doesn't
• 34:04
  Speaker 1: have it.
• 34:04
  Speaker 3: There's not enough of that. He said, Well, it's one
• 34:08
  Speaker 3: of these things.
• 34:09
  Speaker 1: They have to promote him more. It's just not really working.
• 34:12
  Speaker 1: He's a good player, is great, but he won the
• 34:14
  Speaker 1: MVP and all that. He's just to be the face
• 34:16
  Speaker 1: of the NBA. You got to move the needle, and
• 34:19
  Speaker 1: SGA at this point, even in the NBA Finals now
• 34:21
  Speaker 1: does not move the needle. So it's still Lebron and
• 34:26
  Speaker 1: it's still Steph Cray next.
• 34:28
  Speaker 7: Chris Paul is now forty years old, just completed his
• 34:30
  Speaker 7: twentieth season in the NBA. He's also an unrestricted free
• 34:33
  Speaker 7: agent and not expected to return to San Antonio. But
• 34:35
  Speaker 7: do you think they're still demand for CP three.
• 34:39
  Speaker 3: He's no longer America's sweetheart. But he will get a job.
• 34:42
  Speaker 1: He's the dramatic the history of I don't know why
• 34:44
  Speaker 1: he wants to keep playing. He's made enough money, but
• 34:46
  Speaker 1: he's I guess he's got.
• 34:46
  Speaker 3: Nothing else to do.
• 34:47
  Speaker 1: Yeah, he'll find a job, but it's not gonna be
• 34:49
  Speaker 1: on a glamour He'll be a backup to the backup.
• 34:51
  Speaker 3: Next.
• 34:52
  Speaker 7: Be Atani leaves baseball with home runs and he's led
• 34:55
  Speaker 7: the AL and he's led the NL, but he's never
• 34:57
  Speaker 7: led baseball. You gonna put your money on him to
• 34:59
  Speaker 7: lead MLB in home runs?
• 35:02
  Speaker 1: No, Aaron Jodge is gonna lead baseball and home runs,
• 35:04
  Speaker 1: not Otani.
• 35:05
  Speaker 3: And that's just the way it is. But if they
• 35:07
  Speaker 3: won the World Series, all it matters. How do we
• 35:08
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• 35:42
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• 35:44
  Speaker 1: Cool?
• 35:45
  Speaker 7: We're gonna start off with a question from a Manuel
• 35:48
  Speaker 7: in Guardina. He wants to know, Ben, will you be
• 35:51
  Speaker 7: smuggling back any maple syrup or Canadian bacon in Coop's suitcase?
• 35:56
  Speaker 7: And will the Raina be buying a lumberjack bikini or
• 35:59
  Speaker 7: Canadian tuxedo bikini?
• 36:02
  Speaker 1: Well, stay tuned, there'll be some surprises at the Malor
• 36:05
  Speaker 1: Meet and greet tonight.
• 36:06
  Speaker 3: We're excited to.
• 36:07
  Speaker 1: We can't announce what that is, but you'll you'll want
• 36:10
  Speaker 1: to see some of the photographs of that. My plan
• 36:13
  Speaker 1: is to just take an extra bag and fill it
• 36:16
  Speaker 1: with those little cheese snacks they have.
• 36:18
  Speaker 3: They're much better than what we have here in the US.
• 36:20
  Speaker 3: And whatever I find, we'll see it's some cheesy Canadian souvenirs.
• 36:26
  Speaker 3: And what about you, Lorna?
• 36:28
  Speaker 8: You got me thinking about a Canadian tuxedo bathing suit,
• 36:30
  Speaker 8: that's for sure. I was thinking, you know, maybe a
• 36:34
  Speaker 8: moose tattoo.
• 36:36
  Speaker 3: Yeah, it'd be good to commemorate. O man, what about you, Coop?
• 36:41
  Speaker 7: Uh, I'm gonna I guess maple syrup does sound good?
• 36:45
  Speaker 7: Are we in the right area of I mean it
• 36:47
  Speaker 7: is all of well, I mean it's known as.
• 36:50
  Speaker 3: A Canadian but yeah, like romont it which is in
• 36:55
  Speaker 3: the US. And then above that is where the.
• 36:57
  Speaker 7: Gotcha got just so, yes, I don't know if I'm
• 36:59
  Speaker 7: going to be bringing back mape syrup, but you know
• 37:01
  Speaker 7: I'll be bringing back something.
• 37:03
  Speaker 3: Okay, what is next? Here to ask? Ben? Your questions
• 37:06
  Speaker 3: are answered?
• 37:07
  Speaker 7: Ryan and Maine would like to know Ryan mayo or
• 37:11
  Speaker 7: butter on your lobster roll?
• 37:14
  Speaker 3: Uh?
• 37:15
  Speaker 1: Well, I Butter would be I don't know lobster roles,
• 37:19
  Speaker 1: but I'd go Butter, what about.
• 37:20
  Speaker 3: You have a rain?
• 37:20
  Speaker 9: No, I gotta do, butter, baby, not that.
• 37:22
  Speaker 3: I don't believe in seafood. How about you?
• 37:25
  Speaker 9: Butter's the only answer.
• 37:26
  Speaker 7: The Connecticut lobster role, I believe that is Connecticut.
• 37:32
  Speaker 9: Yeah, the mayo is a main lobster role.
• 37:34
  Speaker 1: I think, Oh, you just ripped the people to Maine. Okay,
• 37:38
  Speaker 1: that's they love the lobster. You go to Portland, Maine.
• 37:40
  Speaker 1: Every gift shop has a lapse this shirt? All right,
• 37:42
  Speaker 1: what's next?
• 37:43
  Speaker 3: What do we have?
• 37:44
  Speaker 9: All right?
• 37:45
  Speaker 2: Uh?
• 37:46
  Speaker 3: Ask Ben, Your questions are answered.
• 37:48
  Speaker 9: Ferg Dog would like to know.
• 37:50
  Speaker 3: Hi, Fergie.
• 37:51
  Speaker 7: Have you ever t peed or egged anyone's house? Or
• 37:55
  Speaker 7: had it done to you?
• 37:57
  Speaker 3: Yes, both accounts.
• 37:59
  Speaker 1: When I was growing I lived in a community that
• 38:02
  Speaker 1: had nothing, but like Orange Groves, we had a lot
• 38:04
  Speaker 1: of free time on our hands. There was no internet,
• 38:07
  Speaker 1: and there was a lot of toilet.
• 38:09
  Speaker 3: Paper growing, and we used to go around.
• 38:12
  Speaker 1: When I was in high school, we get random stuff
• 38:15
  Speaker 1: off the road, like the side of the road, like
• 38:17
  Speaker 1: those cones, and put it.
• 38:19
  Speaker 3: On people's like homes, and we were trouble makings. What
• 38:21
  Speaker 3: about you rain up.
• 38:22
  Speaker 8: I think it's funny that tepeeing is practically illegal now
• 38:25
  Speaker 8: after COVID. But yeah, because the toilet paper shortage. But no,
• 38:30
  Speaker 8: I never t pe at anyone's houses. We would do
• 38:32
  Speaker 8: tampons and forks.
• 38:35
  Speaker 3: Well that's great want.
• 38:36
  Speaker 8: Yeah, so you take plastic forks and you stab them
• 38:38
  Speaker 8: all throughout the front yard, and then you take tampons
• 38:42
  Speaker 8: and you throw them all over the place. And it
• 38:44
  Speaker 8: would be on a rainy day too, we would do
• 38:45
  Speaker 8: what it was raining.
• 38:47
  Speaker 1: Oh those were good to pick up, super fun, Okay, cool.
• 38:52
  Speaker 9: I was a good kid, so I did not do
• 38:55
  Speaker 9: that to anybody for it.
• 38:57
  Speaker 1: But I did tell you there is something that cooper
• 39:00
  Speaker 1: if you throw a roll of toilet paper and at
• 39:02
  Speaker 1: the right angle as it's flying through the air, the
• 39:05
  Speaker 1: trail of the toilet paper.
• 39:06
  Speaker 7: Yeah, I could see that being gratifying. I did have
• 39:10
  Speaker 7: my car egged though, shortly after high school. That sucks
• 39:15
  Speaker 7: because it scratches your paint.
• 39:17
  Speaker 3: Yeah.
• 39:17
  Speaker 1: The problem is you've got to get rid of that
• 39:19
  Speaker 1: right away if you leave, if you don't know about it,
• 39:21
  Speaker 1: and the eggs.
• 39:22
  Speaker 3: On the car for a while, yeah, yeah, you're really
• 39:25
  Speaker 3: you're screwing. It's asked Ben. Your questions are answers.
• 39:28
  Speaker 1: For the rest of the hour hashtag ask Ben. If
• 39:31
  Speaker 1: you like this bit, we do it every week at
• 39:34
  Speaker 1: this time. If you don't like the bit, we only
• 39:36
  Speaker 1: do it once once a week.
• 39:38
  Speaker 3: So who cares. That's it all right? What's next?
• 39:41
  Speaker 7: Donkey Sausage has a question from twenty fifteen. Hi Donkey,
• 39:45
  Speaker 7: he would like to know do you have cable or
• 39:47
  Speaker 7: satellite TV?
• 39:50
  Speaker 1: Well, yeah, yeah, none of mean, Bob, I haven't had
• 39:53
  Speaker 1: cable or satellite television in years. I'm able to watch
• 39:56
  Speaker 1: everything I need on the interweb, in the stream.
• 40:00
  Speaker 3: Being in other places. So yeah, no, it's been been
• 40:03
  Speaker 3: a long time.
• 40:04
  Speaker 1: And I would have kept I had direct TV and
• 40:06
  Speaker 1: I loved Date and I would have kept it. They
• 40:08
  Speaker 1: just kept raising the price, and I was like, I
• 40:10
  Speaker 1: could buy a car. I could pay for a car
• 40:12
  Speaker 1: every month, or get to I mean, why would I
• 40:14
  Speaker 1: do that? I mean, I like TV, but it's so
• 40:17
  Speaker 1: stupid with all the channels.
• 40:19
  Speaker 3: I need to get to watch the games. What about you, Lorraine?
• 40:23
  Speaker 8: Yeah, no, I only have Netflix.
• 40:26
  Speaker 3: You don't pay for any other screaming ships.
• 40:28
  Speaker 8: No, I'm very cheap and I don't think watching TV
• 40:30
  Speaker 8: is worth my money?
• 40:32
  Speaker 3: Yeah? What about radio?
• 40:34
  Speaker 8: I love radio. I listened to radio all the time,
• 40:36
  Speaker 8: even on my drives home.
• 40:38
  Speaker 3: Okay almost in the car. What about you?
• 40:42
  Speaker 5: Cool?
• 40:42
  Speaker 7: I too used to have direct TV, but when they
• 40:46
  Speaker 7: lost NFL Sunday Ticket, there was no reason for me
• 40:49
  Speaker 7: to stick around. No, so now I pay almost as
• 40:54
  Speaker 7: much as I did for direct TV, paying for fifteen
• 40:57
  Speaker 7: different uh streaming streaming services. And I also have a
• 41:01
  Speaker 7: Spectrum TV. It's like the internet streaming plan because that's
• 41:06
  Speaker 7: the only way I can watch like the Angels and
• 41:08
  Speaker 7: and the Lakers.
• 41:09
  Speaker 1: And there are some other ways you might be able
• 41:12
  Speaker 1: to do that.
• 41:13
  Speaker 3: Yeah, what is what is next year?
• 41:16
  Speaker 7: Georgia boy would like to know. Hi, Georgia Boy, what
• 41:19
  Speaker 7: is the strangest thing that you've eaten?
• 41:21
  Speaker 9: Deep fried?
• 41:22
  Speaker 1: Oh?
• 41:23
  Speaker 9: I like this question.
• 41:27
  Speaker 3: I don't. I don't by accident.
• 41:29
  Speaker 1: And there were some things I hate that got you
• 41:30
  Speaker 1: know how you get the fries and there's other stuff
• 41:32
  Speaker 1: in there, like so it'd be like zucchini or some
• 41:35
  Speaker 1: other random vegetables delicious, something like nothing intentionally.
• 41:44
  Speaker 3: I guess some kind of weird fried seafood I ate
• 41:47
  Speaker 3: one time. I don't know what kind of seafood. It
• 41:48
  Speaker 3: was because it was fried. But I don't like seafood,
• 41:51
  Speaker 3: so something like that. What about you, Lorraine, it's got.
• 41:54
  Speaker 8: To be like a fried Oreo from the Fairy?
• 41:57
  Speaker 3: Does that really count?
• 41:58
  Speaker 2: Though?
• 41:58
  Speaker 9: That's good, that's like I mean, yeah, but I mean
• 42:00
  Speaker 9: it's strange. Yeah, something I would normally deprice.
• 42:03
  Speaker 3: Strange though, because that's every fair I've ever been to.
• 42:06
  Speaker 9: I guess something.
• 42:08
  Speaker 8: Yeah, but that used to be a new concoction.
• 42:11
  Speaker 7: You're right, you're right, those are those are kind of
• 42:12
  Speaker 7: standard now though fifteen years ago.
• 42:14
  Speaker 8: That doesn't make them any less weird.
• 42:16
  Speaker 9: No, Now you got to step it up and not
• 42:18
  Speaker 9: just gotta be like fried.
• 42:19
  Speaker 8: Like candy fried cotton.
• 42:21
  Speaker 7: Yes, yeah, yeah, yeah, all right, coop uh Alligator, Florida, Louisiana.
• 42:30
  Speaker 7: It was a cruise leaving from Florida, so so kind
• 42:34
  Speaker 7: of yeah.
• 42:36
  Speaker 3: I got you.
• 42:37
  Speaker 9: That was it was pretty good.
• 42:38
  Speaker 2: All right.
• 42:38
  Speaker 3: What's what's next? Year? It's it's asked, Ben, your questions
• 42:41
  Speaker 3: are answered.
• 42:43
  Speaker 7: I'm gonna I'm gonna ask another one from Donkey Sausage.
• 42:46
  Speaker 7: He wants to know do you still watch DVD or
• 42:50
  Speaker 7: Blu Ray DVDs?
• 42:52
  Speaker 1: No, I have not watched a DVD. Or Blu Ray
• 42:55
  Speaker 1: DVD in probably ten years. What about you, Lorraino, I have.
• 42:59
  Speaker 8: Yeah, there's a since I don't have the other streaming services.
• 43:02
  Speaker 8: I watched a lot of Disney movies on DVD and
• 43:04
  Speaker 8: Blu Ray at the house.
• 43:06
  Speaker 7: Oh boy, it's probably been about ten years for me.
• 43:10
  Speaker 7: But I just I still have a drawer filled with
• 43:13
  Speaker 7: DVDs and Blu Rays and all that.
• 43:15
  Speaker 9: I just haven't touched it in ten years.
• 43:17
  Speaker 2: Order.
• 43:18
  Speaker 3: Yeah, well cool. At least no pop up commercials when
• 43:21
  Speaker 3: you watch a DVD. That's a good thing.
• 43:24
  Speaker 9: Hey, pop ups