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Hour 3 - Doing It the Harden Way · The Ben Maller Show

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Speaker 1: Boom shacka laca as we haggle with you at our
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Speaker 1: dumb birth three as the NBA playoffs gets started this
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Speaker 1: weekend begin tomorrow, and we have some hot conversation regarding
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Speaker 1: the Clippers. A lot of you have been pestering me
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Speaker 1: with comments, So thumbs up or thumbs down? Is James
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Speaker 1: Harden a legitimate concern? Playoff Harden? As the Clips get
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Speaker 1: ready for the playoffs of the hottest team in the
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Speaker 1: NBA at the end of the year, Kawhi Leonard says
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Speaker 1: he has nothing left to prove in his NBA career.
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Speaker 1: He says he's playing because of the love of the game.
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Speaker 1: Does that work for you? Also, what is your level
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Speaker 1: of concern in Kawhi Leonards staying healthy in the Clipper postseason?
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Speaker 1: And are you extra confident in ty Lou's Clips since
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Speaker 1: they were, as we said, the NBA's hottest team to
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Speaker 1: close out the regular season. Will go there and there
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Speaker 1: and there and everywhere right now in our number three
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Speaker 1: doing it the Harden way. Well, come in the beginning
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Speaker 1: That means Big Ben's lame jokes of the week. I
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Speaker 1: in my opinion, My god, what is going on? We
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Speaker 1: bring the funny bone, We bring the funny bone. So
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Speaker 1: I lead. This hour is from the playoffs. Now, I
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Speaker 1: know there are still some play in games. I'm not
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Speaker 1: that into it, and I'm certainly not going to go
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Speaker 1: out of my way. If I happen to be sitting
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Speaker 1: on my ass watching while the games are going on tonight,
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Speaker 1: that's fine, but I'm not going to plan my day
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Speaker 1: around the playing games. I have no skin in the game.
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Speaker 1: The playoffs. The playoffs they begin tomorrow, so we have
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Speaker 1: four games on the card on Saturday as we slip
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Speaker 1: into playoff mode. You've got Giannis Adenta Kumbo and the
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Speaker 1: Bucks against Tyrese Halliburton and the Pacers in one of
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Speaker 1: the matchups there, the Pistons and the Knickerbockers. In another
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Speaker 1: one of the mashups at the Mecca in Midtown Manhattan,
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Speaker 1: the tim Burwolves and their fresh blood taking on Luca
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Speaker 1: and Hookah Lucas Lakers. And then you have the People's
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Speaker 1: Team versus the Joker and the Chicken Nuggets. And that's
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Speaker 1: the one that I get a lot of feedback on.
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Speaker 1: Most of you are just a bunch of low level trolls.
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Speaker 1: I understand you're trying to you shouldn't be confident. Shut up.
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Speaker 1: So Denver is a two and a half point favorite
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Speaker 1: in game number one, and the Clippers have become I
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Speaker 1: mentioned this in a previous episode of the show. The
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Speaker 1: Clippers have become a trendy pick by trendy people. They
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Speaker 1: have been on a as the kids say, a heater
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Speaker 1: for the last month. They smoked the Warriors with vintage
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Speaker 1: James Harden in overtime to close out the regular season
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Speaker 1: and send the Warriors into a play in game, which
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Speaker 1: they did win. But even with those good vibrations, even
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Speaker 1: with those good vibrations, a few and you know who
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Speaker 1: you are, have been chirping about the Beard.
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Speaker 3: Now.
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Speaker 1: I noticed that a couple of the email people that
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Speaker 1: reached out to me are in Texas. I would assume
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Speaker 1: they're in the Houston, Texas area. James Harden, Now, he
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Speaker 1: was asked about this recently. He clapped back at his
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Speaker 1: critics and and he said, you know, this is all
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Speaker 1: about playoff Harden, which has become a conversation point and
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Speaker 1: not a good one. It's not a flattering thing, playoff Harden.
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Speaker 1: So he was asked about that, and he said, let
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Speaker 1: them keep talking. He said, ahead of the NBA playoffs,
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Speaker 1: so let's dive into it. We will keep talking. We're
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Speaker 1: talk show hos So thumbs up or thumbs down, thumbs up,
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Speaker 1: thumbs down is playoff Harden a legitimate concern for the Clippers.
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Speaker 1: I've got Penn and Teller, Gong Show, and tooth Fairy.
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Speaker 1: We'll combine all of these together and we are going
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Speaker 1: to make the Baba Goanooche is what We're going to
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Speaker 1: make the Baba Ganouche. So, first of all, to answer
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Speaker 1: the question, thumbs up, thumbs down on playoff hard and
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Speaker 1: being legitimate concern, thumbs up. I'm going thumbs up. I'm
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Speaker 1: not gonna be a sitior, be a hypocrite. I've ripped
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Speaker 1: the guy his entire career in the playoffs rightfully, so
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Speaker 1: he's deserved it, and so thumbs up. I'm not confident
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Speaker 1: in Playoff Harden. I've seen this movie before. I know
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Speaker 1: the plot twist in the movie. In his entire career,
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Speaker 1: James Harden has had sporadic malfunction. James Harden is the
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Speaker 1: automobile that drives pretty well and then every once in
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Speaker 1: a while there's a hiccup, but you can't recreate it,
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Speaker 1: like you go to the mechanic. You're like, hey, this
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Speaker 1: is the problem. And I drive down this street and
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Speaker 1: I turn right and then I make a left, and
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Speaker 1: when I make the left, like there's something that happens
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Speaker 1: kind of backfires and all that, and said, well, okay,
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Speaker 1: so we'll go down in the same street. We're gonna
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Speaker 1: turn right, we're gonna turn the left, and then it's
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Speaker 1: gonna backfire, and then we'll know what the promise. So
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Speaker 1: the mechanic drives, the car turns right down there makes
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Speaker 1: another left right where the car normally hiccups, and it
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Speaker 1: doesn't hic up, it doesn't repeat itself, but then it
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Speaker 1: repeats itself later on. So Harden malfunctions just enough to
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Speaker 1: give me anxiety. And under any reasonable measurement, James Harden
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Speaker 1: has been worse in the playoffs. Like playoff Harden is
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Speaker 1: not really a question, it's verifiable. The question is how
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Speaker 1: bad is it? How bad is playoff Harden. We've seen
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Speaker 1: him all these years with the Roquets and all the
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Speaker 1: other teams he's played on, so it is verifiable. And
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Speaker 1: then what is my supporting evidence James Harden? If you
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Speaker 1: look at the results he has scored, his scoring average
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Speaker 1: has fallen below his regular season average in five of
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Speaker 1: his seven playoff runs. In his Salad days, I'm going
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Speaker 1: back to the days with the rock Cats, so five
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Speaker 1: out of seven playoff runs in Houston. He was worse
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Speaker 1: in the postseason as opposed to the regular season. His
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Speaker 1: efficiency takes a hit. His three point shooting also is bad.
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Speaker 1: His turnovers spike in the playoffs. Harden's defensive effort fluctuates
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Speaker 1: and is often pretty bad, pretty bad in the playoffs. Normally,
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Speaker 1: players that are lase a fair and do not try
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Speaker 1: that much during the regular season on defense, they actually
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Speaker 1: put the effort in when we get down to this
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Speaker 1: point in the schedule because it's like the playoffs, and
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Speaker 1: they give a little hunk of metal out if you
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Speaker 1: win the most games and all that. But then you
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Speaker 1: have the Komodo dragon in the room. When you talk
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Speaker 1: about playoff Harden, you've got the penn and teller like
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Speaker 1: vanishing acts abra cadabra. So I did a little research.
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Speaker 1: Don't tell anybody because I don't want my bosses to know,
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Speaker 1: because I do not want to get in trouble for
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Speaker 1: actually doing some prep. So I typed in numbers, I
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Speaker 1: did a little Mallard math, and to my knowledge, based
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Speaker 1: on my malor math, James Harden, Okay, let's do some
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Speaker 1: math list. So James Harden, how many times does James
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Speaker 1: Harden not show up in the playoffs. James Harden, if
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Speaker 1: you look at his eighteen eighteen playoff games where he
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Speaker 1: has been a no show. He's played one hundred and
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Speaker 1: sixty six playoff games. But there are eighteen games that
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Speaker 1: I circled and I didn't really circle. I just I
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Speaker 1: did this on my phone, so it wasn't really a circle.
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Speaker 1: I lied. I didn't circle them. I highlighted them. I
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Speaker 1: didn't circle them. I can't really circle, I just highlight them.
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Speaker 1: So out of one hundred and sixty six playoff games,
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Speaker 1: there are eighteen playoff games where you were better off
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Speaker 1: getting some guy off the internet to do the job.
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Speaker 1: Eighteen playoff games under three field goals for James Harden
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Speaker 1: with ten or more attempts, And based on my malor math,
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Speaker 1: that means that the Clippers can expect playoff Harden to
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Speaker 1: show up ten point eight percent ten point eight percent
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Speaker 1: of the time. So that means that out of ten
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Speaker 1: playoff games, one out of ten Harden's giving you nothing.
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Speaker 1: One out of ten, you're getting nothing from James Harden.
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Speaker 1: He's ghosting you. He's ghosting you one out of ten.
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Speaker 1: Now we hope, we hope that things are different for
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Speaker 1: the Clippers in the postseason. But as the former big
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Speaker 1: shot there in New York taught me back in the day,
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Speaker 1: Rudy Giuliani, hope is not a strategy. Hope is not
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Speaker 1: a strategy. So if you go in hoping that playoff
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Speaker 1: Harden doesn't pop up, that is not not the way
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Speaker 1: to approach it.
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Speaker 4: Now.
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Speaker 1: Secondly, speaking of the clips, and you guys love to
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Speaker 1: bust my balls about this, Kawhi Leonard, Kawhi Leonard recently
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Speaker 1: said that he has nothing left to prove in the NBA.
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Speaker 1: But he was asked, well, why do you keep playing
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Speaker 1: if you've got nothing left prove? He says, essentially for
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Speaker 1: the love of the game. Does that work for you?
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Speaker 1: Does that love the game line from him work? And
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Speaker 1: he says, really nothing left to proof.
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Speaker 5: So for me.
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Speaker 1: On this side of the microphone, he might as well
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Speaker 1: be in Chicago because he's a full of win. He's
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Speaker 1: like the Windy City there, Gong show, Gong show, that response,
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Speaker 1: Gong show. And while it is true, if you were
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Speaker 1: to say judge Kawhi Leonard's career on the Spurs and
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Speaker 1: the Raptors completely agree, completely agree, there's nothing left for
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Speaker 1: him to prove. He won in San Antonio, he won
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Speaker 1: in Toronto. He was only there one year. But as
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Speaker 1: a Clipper, bupkis okay and Kawhi has been paid based
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Speaker 1: on past accolades in San Antonio and Toronto. He has
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Speaker 1: been paid, or is guaranteed to be paid, approximately two
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Speaker 1: hundred and forty three million dollars by the Clippers. And
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Speaker 1: what does that get you, Well, that gets you a
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Speaker 1: lot of no shows, a lot of no shows. In fact,
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Speaker 1: carrying that train of thought, while I was doing my
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Speaker 1: playoff Harden math, I did some math on Kawhi Leonard.
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Speaker 1: What is your level of concern for Kawhi Leonard and
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Speaker 1: his ability to stay healthy during the Clipper postseason? As
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Speaker 1: we go down that path, right, we'll tie these things together,
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Speaker 1: James Harden Kawhi Leonard, So on the Malard scale of confidence,
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Speaker 1: the Malord scale of confidence for Kawhi Leonard to stay
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Speaker 1: healthy in the playoffs, one to one hundred, one to
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Speaker 1: one hundred and one, you're cooked. I am at a
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Speaker 1: sixty five point one on the Malard scale of confidence,
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Speaker 1: which is not seventy. It's not eighty, it's not ninety,
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Speaker 1: it's not one hundred. I'm at sixty five point one percent.
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Speaker 1: Let me explain why I came up with that number.
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Speaker 1: That is the percentage of games Kawhi Leonard has played
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Speaker 1: in in the playoffs as a Clipper. You see, there
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Speaker 1: are forty three possible playoff games Kawhi could have been
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Speaker 1: in in a Clipper uniform going back to his first
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Speaker 1: year in LA four years in the playoffs, Kawhi Leonard
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Speaker 1: has missed fifteen of the forty three games. That means
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Speaker 1: that about thirty five percent of the time he's a
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Speaker 1: no show. And when Kawhi has played in the playoffs,
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Speaker 1: the Clippers have a five fifty six winning percentage in
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Speaker 1: playoff games he's played in. In the games Kawhi Leonard
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Speaker 1: has not played in, they have a three thirty three
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Speaker 1: winning percentage, which is half the sign of the devil.
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Speaker 1: So if you combine playoff Harden, well, you know, if
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Speaker 1: you play ten games, Harden's not going to show up
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Speaker 1: for one. And if you provide also playoff Kawhi as
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Speaker 1: a Clipper, that means that out of ten games in
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Speaker 1: the playoffs, Kawhi Leonard is going to miss three and
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Speaker 1: a half out of ten games. So can the Clippers
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Speaker 1: overcome playoff Harden and playoff Kawhi. Inquiring minds would like
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Speaker 1: to know now final thought. Many have pointed out I
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Speaker 1: mentioned this as well, the Clippers. The verdict is not
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Speaker 1: in on how they're going to do. But they were
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Speaker 1: the top team in basketball to close the regular season.
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Speaker 1: So are you extra confident? Final thought? Are you extra
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Speaker 1: confident in ty Lou's Clippers since they were the most
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Speaker 1: dominant NBA team to close the regular season? And this
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Speaker 1: is known as the wishful thinking, the wishful thinking strategy,
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Speaker 1: which it normally means when you crunch the numbers, you're
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Speaker 1: gonna hit a bump on the road when you're playing
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Speaker 1: that well to end it out. But the Clippers record
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Speaker 1: over the final month of the year, the last sixteen games,
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Speaker 1: they went fourteen and two, tops in the NBA going
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Speaker 1: back to March fifth, the Clippers were eighteen and three,
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Speaker 1: and that's the top record league wide going all the
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Speaker 1: way back to March fifth. So is it true though
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Speaker 1: that the Clippers, even though they're playing well, it doesn't matter.
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Speaker 1: I'm nodding my head. Yes, I'm not gonna sit here
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Speaker 1: and be a hypocrite. I've said this my entire career.
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Speaker 1: The idea that there's some kind of carry over that
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Speaker 1: you can take that and shovel it in a wheelbarrow
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Speaker 1: and then take that and a plug. It's just booker,
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Speaker 1: you know, It's like waiting for the tooth fairy. You
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Speaker 1: actually have a better chance of the tooth fairy showing
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Speaker 1: up than you do of momentum Uncle Mo coming in.
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Speaker 1: Momentum does not exist, and you should have taken my webinar.
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Speaker 1: I could have educated you further. But momentum is simply
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Speaker 1: and after the fact explanation for the outcome of a game.
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Speaker 1: When it is used to set up a game, it
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Speaker 1: is quickly forgotten. If the other team wins, it is
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Speaker 1: completely ignored. When the team that has all the momentum
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Speaker 1: and they go out and lose, it doesn't fit in error.
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Speaker 1: Then do I think the Clippers are gonna beat the Nuggets? Absolutely?
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Speaker 1: I absolutely believe the Clippers are going to win that series.
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Speaker 1: Am I completely confident? No? Because I need to get
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Speaker 1: a guardian angel for Kawhi and I need to make
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Speaker 1: sure James Harden stays away from the donuts and all that.
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Speaker 1: So I'm not completely confident on that. But here we
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Speaker 1: are here we are. So we'll find out starting tomorrow
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Speaker 1: great Unwashed here to see if anyone has the answer.
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Speaker 1: And we look around here. Robin Minnesota is going with
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Speaker 1: a paper cut ferg Dog says a broken heart. Miguel
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Speaker 1: Cone suffered a toe licking injury. He says alf the
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Speaker 1: Mike in Colorado, but I think he's in Boston in
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Speaker 1: by my clipper monologue, how dare you bus driver? I
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Speaker 1: now here it is former Major League baseball pitcher David
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Speaker 1: Cone suffered his first career blank it's an injury in
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Speaker 1: the Yankee broadcast booth.
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Speaker 6: Yeah.
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Speaker 3: I think they were baking cookies and he burnt his hand.
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Speaker 1: Burned his hand? All right? Is that correct?
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Speaker 4: No?
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Speaker 1: Turns out that David Cone suffered his first career hamstring injury,
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Speaker 1: and it happened earlier this week. His his hammy went whammy.
21:10
Speaker 1: And that's it. The hammy went whammy. And that's all
21:13
Speaker 1: she wrote. We got Big Ben's lame jokes of the
21:15
Speaker 1: week coming up a little bit later on in the hour.
21:17
Speaker 1: We'll get back to the calls the people would like
21:19
Speaker 1: to speak, and we'll say hello to uh, let's see here.
21:23
Speaker 1: John is in Seattle. He called back, Hello John, Welcome.
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Speaker 3: Yo, big Ben. I'm sorry for what's going on?
21:32
Speaker 1: All right? What's up? Talk to me?
21:34
Speaker 3: Hey, big man? You hear me?
21:36
Speaker 1: Can I hear you? Can we hear this guy? Can
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Speaker 1: hear John?
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Speaker 3: You can hear me? Of course you can hear me?
21:41
Speaker 3: All right, man, I'm sorry, I apologize. I'm going to
21:47
Speaker 3: some bad things. My stupid side chick is uh argue
21:53
Speaker 3: with me because I want to be on your show
21:55
Speaker 3: and not talk to her.
21:59
Speaker 1: Well me to talk to what's your side chick's name?
22:01
Speaker 1: You want me to talk to her for you?
22:03
Speaker 3: Oh no, that's gonna be even the bigger problem.
22:08
Speaker 1: No, just tell her, dude, you're like a big star here.
22:11
Speaker 1: Everyone wants to hear. The whole country needs to hear
22:14
Speaker 1: from John and Seattle. And I think you're side.
22:17
Speaker 3: I'm saying John and Seattle. It's no more John and Seattle.
22:21
Speaker 3: I got I'm going to have to have a new name.
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Speaker 1: Okay, what do we We got to come up with
22:26
Speaker 1: a name, though, we have to.
22:27
Speaker 3: I'm gonna have a new name. No longer John in
22:30
Speaker 3: Seattle because this lady is uh, she's told to be
22:36
Speaker 3: the side chick, but she's getting too emotional.
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Speaker 1: O man, yeah, side. As LeVar Ball said, you got
22:43
Speaker 1: to stay in your lane. Don't you hate that? Cooper?
22:46
Speaker 3: Actually exactly, And now I'm having.
22:50
Speaker 1: Yeah, you tell me that's a really big thing.
22:52
Speaker 3: Side chick rule one oh one.
22:54
Speaker 1: You cannot get emotions. Yeah, no emotions. You gotta know
22:57
Speaker 1: your place, yes, yeah, yeah, slow your have you told her,
23:01
Speaker 1: do you know your Have you let her know she's
23:03
Speaker 1: a side chick? If you let her know, if you
23:04
Speaker 1: announced you are a side chick? Do you say you know?
23:07
Speaker 3: You know what? Big Vin. The funny thing is when
23:11
Speaker 3: I told her that I was I didn't want to
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Speaker 3: talk to her, that I'm talking waiting on the hold
23:18
Speaker 3: to talk to you guys. And I told her, oh,
23:22
Speaker 3: I'm John from Shadow. She laughed at me, and she's like, okay,
23:27
Speaker 3: oh my god, Sy, I'm sorry.
23:31
Speaker 1: All right, that's your one morning, that's your one warm
23:34
Speaker 1: you use that again, I'm gonna have to go wash
23:36
Speaker 1: your math out with soilk and water. I help you understand.
23:38
Speaker 3: Okay, I'm sorry, brother, but you know the popple situation
23:42
Speaker 3: that I'm dealing with, and this is what is going on.
23:46
Speaker 3: It's been going on. Every time I call you guys,
23:49
Speaker 3: she ends up calling me, and I'm dealing with the situation.
23:53
Speaker 1: Why are you hung up because of her? Okay? Hold us? So?
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Speaker 1: Why are why are you not like together with her?
24:04
Speaker 4: Like?
24:04
Speaker 1: Why are you just talk to her all night on
24:06
Speaker 1: the phone? Is that what you do?
24:08
Speaker 3: I mean?
24:09
Speaker 6: I used to Okay, here we go, here we go,
24:14
Speaker 6: here we go.
24:15
Speaker 3: Oh my God, how do I start this? So, bick Man,
24:18
Speaker 3: I used to be uh a superintendent for a big
24:22
Speaker 3: time company, and I worked a night shift for a
24:25
Speaker 3: superintendent company. And I used to call you guys all
24:28
Speaker 3: the time or listen to you guys all the time.
24:31
Speaker 6: Yeah, and then I quit that company. And now I'm just,
24:37
Speaker 6: you know, trying to sell my house and everything. I'm
24:41
Speaker 6: trying to get out of here. I'm trying to get
24:43
Speaker 6: rid of I'm trying to leave Seattle and everything.
24:46
Speaker 1: Where where you trying to go? Where do you want
24:48
Speaker 1: to go?
24:49
Speaker 4: Oh?
24:50
Speaker 3: The about west? What east of California?
24:56
Speaker 1: Well, it's tough to go west if you live in Seattle,
24:59
Speaker 1: because you'll be out in the ocean. You know, it's
25:01
Speaker 1: tough to go west. It's tough to move west of
25:04
Speaker 1: Seattle because you're gonna, oh my bad South. Okay, I
25:10
Speaker 1: got you. Who cares? Nobody cares, all right? So so
25:13
Speaker 1: you got yeah, nobody cares, all right? So how can
25:17
Speaker 1: I You don't want me to talk to her, so
25:19
Speaker 1: I can't talk to her. There's really nothing I can do.
25:22
Speaker 1: This is your problem. It's not my problem. He's your problem.
25:25
Speaker 1: I can't help you out. I don't know what to do.
25:26
Speaker 1: What do you want me to do?
25:28
Speaker 3: Well? She laughs. I mean because she thinks I'm a
25:31
Speaker 3: joke for waiting to talk to you.
25:35
Speaker 1: She's just jealous because I have your attention. That's it,
25:38
Speaker 1: you know, she's just jealous. We got to come up.
25:40
Speaker 1: We'll come up with a nickname for you, John, Okay,
25:42
Speaker 1: we'll cut, We'll find.
25:43
Speaker 3: Yeah, now I need to get rid of that name.
25:46
Speaker 1: And yeah, you might want to change side chicks. I'm
25:49
Speaker 1: just saying, you know, she's you know, she's kind of
25:51
Speaker 1: getting in your business. We don't want a woman to
25:53
Speaker 1: get in the way of our show. You know, I
25:54
Speaker 1: don't want some moment to interfere with our show.
25:57
Speaker 3: I want to say this. I am a black man,
25:59
Speaker 3: and I let's say, hey, you out there, stay away
26:02
Speaker 3: from black women.
26:05
Speaker 1: All right, Oh, thank you? I don't all right, Yeah,
26:07
Speaker 1: they're done, thank you? Okay, all right, okay, thank you boy.
26:18
Speaker 3: Yeah.
26:18
Speaker 1: I think no.
26:19
Speaker 2: I thought, you know, since it's Friday, we're gonna let
26:21
Speaker 2: that one slide a couple of days.
26:25
Speaker 1: I'm checking my work, bro. A couple of days from
26:28
Speaker 1: Eastern I think that was fair, you know, tremendous advice.
26:30
Speaker 1: He's a modern day doctor. I would say, I got
26:34
Speaker 1: updated by reference like doctor Drew. He's a modern day
26:37
Speaker 1: like Loraina. You'll give love advice every week, right, yes,
26:40
Speaker 1: a sometime you should do a class next week on
26:42
Speaker 1: side checks properly dealing with side chicks. I think the
26:45
Speaker 1: boys needed that. Guy John obviously needs advice, and we
26:48
Speaker 1: got to come up with a nickname for him, and
26:50
Speaker 1: so we'll have to work on that. Okay.
26:53
Speaker 2: Wait, I was curious though he didn't say much about
26:56
Speaker 2: his main pieces. Are we his Maine?
26:59
Speaker 1: I didn't get into that. We'll have to wait for
27:01
Speaker 1: the next phone call to see what's going on, and like,
27:04
Speaker 1: what's her situation is she also like does she have
27:07
Speaker 1: somebody else? And we don't know, like maybe that she's
27:11
Speaker 1: got another guy and and he's her Yeah, who knows.
27:15
Speaker 1: Let's go back to the phones. And now we need
27:17
Speaker 1: some clarity, We need some calmness. We need to look
27:20
Speaker 1: out to the heavens and for that we're gonna class
27:23
Speaker 1: this show up right now. And we say hello to Andrea,
27:28
Speaker 1: known as the astrology Lady Virgo in service and she's
27:32
Speaker 1: hanging out in the Bay Area. Hello Andrea, Welcome, How
27:36
Speaker 1: are you? If I was any better, I would have
27:39
Speaker 1: not taken that last phone call, but I did. But
27:41
Speaker 1: here we are. We survived, and we are alive and
27:44
Speaker 1: ready to prosper.
27:46
Speaker 4: Yeah. Actually newby Night with fun. That cat Lady sounded
27:49
Speaker 4: pretty cool.
27:51
Speaker 1: Yeah yeah, cat Lady was great. She's hopefully she calls
27:53
Speaker 1: again and didn't wait for newbie nights.
27:56
Speaker 4: Yeah yet.
28:00
Speaker 1: Some of her work right there.
28:01
Speaker 4: Yeah yeah, I got a cat just one. But yeah,
28:04
Speaker 4: definitely a cat lady. So yeah. Well Aaron Rodgers.
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Speaker 3: Hello, hello, Hello.
28:13
Speaker 4: Yeah. So basically he's having his midlife crisis. We talked
28:19
Speaker 4: about the uronness opposition, and this is good for your
28:22
Speaker 4: listeners who are in their early forties to know that
28:27
Speaker 4: it's a time of endings and new beginnings and it's
28:30
Speaker 4: like you want to revitalize and rejuvenate your life. And
28:33
Speaker 4: there's some you know, back and forth. Yes, no, maybe,
28:37
Speaker 4: So it's a rather unpredictable time. He's born December two,
28:42
Speaker 4: nineteen eighty three, Chico, California, two fifty pm. You might
28:47
Speaker 4: remember I have his birthtime because he's christrology very.
28:51
Speaker 1: I remember you saying that he loves it.
28:53
Speaker 4: Yes, so he's got several planets and Sagittarius and he's
28:58
Speaker 4: a free spirit but what was really interesting He talked
29:00
Speaker 4: about being in a relationship Ben and how that was
29:04
Speaker 4: kind of a bit of a focus for him. So,
29:08
Speaker 4: you know, during the midlife crisis, we've reprioritized, you know,
29:12
Speaker 4: our relationships, our career and Sadtarius. He's a free spirit,
29:17
Speaker 4: very adventurous, freedom loving and kind of wandering, and you
29:23
Speaker 4: know it can also be a little scattered certainly, and
29:27
Speaker 4: exaggerating and kind of.
29:29
Speaker 1: Why do I have a feeling that really what Rogers
29:31
Speaker 1: is doing is just traveling all over the world. He's
29:34
Speaker 1: got all these vacations planning. He doesn't want to sign
29:36
Speaker 1: with anybody because once he signs, he's going to be
29:39
Speaker 1: expected to show up the mini camp and write stuff.
29:41
Speaker 1: And he got killed when he missed the He missed
29:44
Speaker 1: one of the camps with the Jets because he was
29:46
Speaker 1: in Egypt.
29:47
Speaker 4: Right doing some spiritual soul searching and the Ayahuasca journey.
29:51
Speaker 4: I remember I wrote about that for The Athletic a
29:53
Speaker 4: couple of years ago. And you know, your point is
29:57
Speaker 4: well taken. Sagittarius loves to travel. They're a free spirit.
30:02
Speaker 1: So yeah, I love to travel too. I can't afford
30:04
Speaker 1: to travel. He's got he's got a lot of free
30:06
Speaker 1: time and a lot of money, so Rogers can go
30:09
Speaker 1: wherever he wants. You know, he can go to peung
30:10
Speaker 1: Yang if he wants. He's got that kind of cash.
30:12
Speaker 4: So so the thing is, you know, he's wanting freedom,
30:17
Speaker 4: he's wanting to explore, and he's not particularly that attached
30:21
Speaker 4: to settling down. We'll soon whether it be in a
30:24
Speaker 4: relationship or I guess it looks like another job with
30:28
Speaker 4: a team. Although Mercury's out of retrograde, so if he
30:32
Speaker 4: does decide, uh, you know, it's out of retrograde, so
30:38
Speaker 4: all systems go. But still it's just.
30:41
Speaker 1: Really yeah, I don't think he's going to retire. He
30:43
Speaker 1: wants the attention. He loves the attention. Absolutely, He's still
30:46
Speaker 1: betting he's going to play and he'll all ruse and
30:49
Speaker 1: he'll he's he loves stringing everybody on. And then next
30:54
Speaker 1: week or the week after he'll play. But all right, well,
30:57
Speaker 1: thank you, I know you have the bath warmed up
30:59
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31:02
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Speaker 1: is weed Man there? We do we have the weed Man?
32:34
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32:38
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32:39
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32:41
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32:43
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32:45
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32:48
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34:04
Speaker 5: Knock knock, who's there? Blame we blame we too. It's
34:08
Speaker 5: Big Man's lame joke of the week.
34:12
Speaker 1: We still can't get an S in the image and
34:14
Speaker 1: we cannot get an S.
34:16
Speaker 2: But we do have weed Man, our buddy in Miami.
34:20
Speaker 1: Who we love so much. He's got his own every left.
34:26
Speaker 1: All right, I didn't call in this league to promote
34:30
Speaker 1: the bit, weed Man, what happened? You were busy?
34:34
Speaker 4: Get me out of here. I canched stairs.
34:36
Speaker 3: This guy, get me out of place to live? All right.
34:40
Speaker 1: Weed Man is used to call up and beg for money,
34:43
Speaker 1: and you know now you're begging just to find a
34:45
Speaker 1: place to live. It's things that. Yeah, okay, o we
34:50
Speaker 1: man would like a new place to live. Very other
34:53
Speaker 1: than that, everything good. How many hours a day do
34:55
Speaker 1: you spending that place, weed Man?
34:58
Speaker 3: Too many?
34:59
Speaker 1: Too many? Okay, all right, very good. These are actual
35:01
Speaker 1: jokes by actual listeners. We normally start with Lizzo jokes,
35:04
Speaker 1: but let's change it up a little bit this week
35:06
Speaker 1: and we'll do some random jokes. What is the only
35:10
Speaker 1: sport that blind Scott can play every day even though
35:14
Speaker 1: he's blind? What pocket pool? That's from Brendan from Boston.
35:22
Speaker 1: Why was Why was whoopee Pie Blair celebrating last weekend?
35:27
Speaker 1: Why it was Palm Sunday. That's a big holiday for him.
35:30
Speaker 1: That's Eric, Eric in Kansas. What do Blair in Mains
35:37
Speaker 1: Podcast and Love Life have in common? What they have
35:41
Speaker 1: both suffered? Failed soft launches? They have both suffered. These
35:49
Speaker 1: are actual jokes by actual listener to the show. Where
35:52
Speaker 1: does Jed who Fled get all of his news? Where
35:58
Speaker 1: from the huff Ington Post? That's from Gordon and Marie.
36:03
Speaker 1: Gordon and Marie in Tacoma. It took two people to
36:07
Speaker 1: write that joke? What is the best way to understand Jed?
36:11
Speaker 1: Who fled's phone calls? What Rosetta Stoned? That's a chip
36:21
Speaker 1: chip in Maine. Here's a dad joke. Do you know
36:25
Speaker 1: what we can call Aaron Rodgers if he doesn't show
36:28
Speaker 1: up to lambeau Field this week? What a draft dodger?
36:33
Speaker 1: That's uh Kathy Kathy in Madison. When does Luca hit
36:41
Speaker 1: the lane hard?
36:42
Speaker 3: When?
36:44
Speaker 1: Well, when he's in the Windy's drive through lane, that's when.
36:47
Speaker 1: That's Tony in the Bay Area. Love love Tony. What
36:53
Speaker 1: does radio guy David Vesse have in common with weed
36:56
Speaker 1: Man's easter basket? No, no way, boss, that's Tony in
37:03
Speaker 1: the Bay Area. There they do, Tony.
37:06
Speaker 5: Well.
37:07
Speaker 1: Lorena recently asked how to clean balls? Do you hear
37:10
Speaker 1: about that? How do you clean balls? She asked about
37:12
Speaker 1: that weed Man? Yeah, well, actually it's funny enough you
37:16
Speaker 1: the renowned golfer weed Man says, just jumping upond that's
37:20
Speaker 1: how I clean mine.
37:21
Speaker 3: That's Darryl.
37:24
Speaker 1: Rom the Ozark sent that. How will weed Man, Hippie,
37:30
Speaker 1: How will we Man hippy lose two hundred pounds overnight?
37:35
Speaker 1: When you throw your roommate out the window as he's sleeping.
37:38
Speaker 1: That's our that's Eric in Kansas. Good job, Kansas, Eric
37:43
Speaker 1: from Kansas. What are weed Man in the Easter Bunny
37:45
Speaker 1: have in common?
37:47
Speaker 4: What?
37:48
Speaker 1: They are both hair brained? Both hair brained from and Rose, Minnesota.
37:53
Speaker 1: Why is weed Man hoping marijuana is never legalized in Florida?
37:58
Speaker 3: Why?
37:59
Speaker 1: Because in the clink beats a day with his roommate.
38:03
Speaker 1: That's why. That's Terry in Saint Paul. What is weed
38:08
Speaker 1: Man's favorite time of the day? What high noon? High Dude,
38:15
Speaker 1: there's a chip chipping man. But we Man Hippies real
38:18
Speaker 1: estate agent right there, there's your Joe. We Man Hippi's
38:21
Speaker 1: real estate agent wants to help him move into a
38:24
Speaker 1: new place, but cannot understand the lack of funds. Man,
38:28
Speaker 1: He's a big story, weed Man. Remember that the real
38:31
Speaker 1: estate The real estate agent said, what did you do
38:34
Speaker 1: with all the tooth fairy money? They wanted to know? Ye,
38:39
Speaker 1: there you go. Did you know that weed Man has
38:41
Speaker 1: repeated least been suspended from high school for showing off?
38:46
Speaker 3: Wow?
38:47
Speaker 1: Yeah, apparently not everyone is double jointed. That's Drew in Minnesota.
38:53
Speaker 1: All right. Why was weed Man camping near a forest fire?
38:57
Speaker 1: Why you love Smoking Tree. That's crew in Minnesota, big
39:02
Speaker 1: beslame jokes, say good weed man,