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  Speaker 1: and the lead this hour. We will start out in
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  Speaker 1: the Mile High City NBA Basketball Pro bouncy Ball, as
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  Speaker 1: we occasionally call it, continue the never ending journey in
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  Speaker 1: the NBA to get to the finals. I think I'll
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  Speaker 1: start about seven months from now, something like that. Every
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  Speaker 1: night there's a couple of games and you watch. There
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  Speaker 1: were a bunch of games tonight, so many games that
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  Speaker 1: some games were demoted to the Dunce cap of the
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  Speaker 1: NBA World NBA TV, but the games that were not.
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  Speaker 1: The Clippers and the Nuggets was one of those games.
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  Speaker 1: Series locked up to two, a best of seven series.
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  Speaker 1: I don't know if you saw saw this game?
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  Speaker 5: Was it?
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  Speaker 1: Game just ended not that long ago before we cracked
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  Speaker 1: the mics here. Perhaps you missed it augh. Some would
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  Speaker 1: argue the game actually ended way before we cracked the mikes.
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  Speaker 1: Some would say the game ended by about the middle
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  Speaker 1: of the first quarter. As Jamal Murray you got beat
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  Speaker 1: by Jamal Murray, Jamal Murray looking like a cross between
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  Speaker 1: Alex English and Fat Lever, and all the.
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  Speaker 5: Human go on trying to think of old Nuggets.
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  Speaker 1: But Jamal Murray forty three points and the Nuggets led
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  Speaker 1: by as many as twenty two points. They never trailed
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  Speaker 1: in Molly whopping. The Clippers won thirty one to one,
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  Speaker 1: fifteen to the final, and so Denver is now up
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  Speaker 1: three games to two. Hope they don't choke. That would
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  Speaker 1: be terrible to lose the last two games. Game six
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  Speaker 1: will be back at the end to a dome in
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  Speaker 1: the hood in Inglewood. That'll be coming up here in
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  Speaker 1: a couple of days. So let us discuss. The better
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  Speaker 1: story is in the losing locker room. So that is
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  Speaker 1: where we will begin. And it was a dreadful performance,
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  Speaker 1: if you want to call it, performance by the team
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  Speaker 1: that lost to the Clippers on this night all the
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  Speaker 1: way around. But who gets to wear the loss the
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  Speaker 1: scarlet letter l for the Clippers. I've got fantastic Sam's
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  Speaker 1: foggy andolbox and we will combine all of these things
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  Speaker 1: together and we are going to make a viral post.
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  Speaker 5: Is what we're going to make.
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  Speaker 1: Not that I really want that, but we're just gonna
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  Speaker 1: make that. So a before I get into the minutia
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  Speaker 1: of the game. He saw the game. I think, you
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  Speaker 1: know kind of how this is going to go. I
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  Speaker 1: don't think this is going to be surprised you. I'm
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  Speaker 1: not gonna throw a curveball at you. That's not going
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  Speaker 1: to happen. So before we address the Komodo dragon in
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  Speaker 1: the room, congratulations to Jamal Murray, who was moving and
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  Speaker 1: grooving throughout the game. Kind of looked like me when
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  Speaker 1: I'm out in the playground moneyball Malleord knocking down those shots.
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  Speaker 1: There was NBA jam style. He was on fire for
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  Speaker 1: the Nuggets. Now, Murray's a second level players, a second
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  Speaker 1: rate player, has never been an All Star. He's not
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  Speaker 1: that good, but on this night he was so congratulations
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  Speaker 1: he had an out of body experience for the Nuggets.
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  Speaker 5: And the big argument in Denver.
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  Speaker 1: For those who watched the Nuggets over the years, well,
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  Speaker 1: Nikole Yokis has no one around him, and people say
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  Speaker 1: that they're really talking about Jamal Murray. Now, Murray's made
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  Speaker 1: some big shots randomly in the playoffs, but that performance
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  Speaker 1: right there was a again, out of body experience. Now
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  Speaker 1: to get down into the nitty gritty here of the
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  Speaker 1: outcome of the game, the Clippers, it was I say
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  Speaker 1: that the person that needs to wear the scarlet letter
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  Speaker 1: the L for loser, that would be I'll use the
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  Speaker 1: term fantastic SAMs here known for haircuts over the years.
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  Speaker 5: Fear the beard. Fear the beard.
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  Speaker 1: Now in the setup to the plus, we had talked
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  Speaker 1: about this in a previous episode of the show, that
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  Speaker 1: this is a legitimate possibility, this is going to happen
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  Speaker 1: at some point, this kind of a performance. And sure enough,
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  Speaker 1: there it was playoff Harden. He's done this with every
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  Speaker 1: team he's played on who's actually been halfway decent, mostly
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  Speaker 1: the Rockets.
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  Speaker 5: But playoff Harden was there. It arrived.
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  Speaker 1: The antithesis of playoff Jimmy Jimmy Butler, who rises to
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  Speaker 1: the occasion and almost never ever gives a half ass
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  Speaker 1: effort in a playoff game.
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  Speaker 5: Right, That's what Golden State got.
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  Speaker 1: The Clippers have James Harden, who sucked at a time
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  Speaker 1: you cannot suck, which is from the beginning to the
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  Speaker 1: end of the game. All the way through he was
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  Speaker 1: stumbling and bumbling on the court. It was embarrassing. And
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  Speaker 1: not surprising. Embarrassing is the word I was. You can't
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  Speaker 1: be surprised Harden's done. This is entire career. It's why
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  Speaker 1: despite having a Hall of Fame resume and he'll be
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  Speaker 1: a Hall of Famer, everyone gets in Muffet McGraw's in
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  Speaker 1: the Hall of Fame that James Harden's got this kryptonite
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  Speaker 1: and he's like, is he gonna really change? Well, no,
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  Speaker 1: he's not gonna change. So Harden finished three of nine.
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  Speaker 1: That's thirty three point three percent half the sign of
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  Speaker 1: the Devil, eleven points four turnovers in an effort. That
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  Speaker 1: is a capitol you useless performance by James Harden, supposedly
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  Speaker 1: one of the headliners. Now Denver took advantage of some opportunities.
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  Speaker 1: The Clippers allowed Russell Westbrook to shoot wide open shots,
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  Speaker 1: which I'm fine with. If you lose to Russell Westbrook,
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  Speaker 1: that's fine. He sucks. So if he happens to make
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  Speaker 1: some shots and you lose, you're fine with that. You
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  Speaker 1: want him to make as many shots, you want him
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  Speaker 1: to take as many shots, because the guy's garbage and
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  Speaker 1: he's a stat stuffing loser. Russell Westbrook, so fine. The
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  Speaker 1: Jamal Murray thing that at some point you might have
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  Speaker 1: wanted to adjust a little bit. Denver shots seventeen of
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  Speaker 1: thirty three from three point range, fifty one percent on
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  Speaker 1: moneyballs for the Nuggets. Now, is this series over? Is
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  Speaker 1: that all she wrote is that it now? Well, a
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  Speaker 1: lot of low information fans will say it's over. Course,
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  Speaker 1: we know better than that. It's not a best of five.
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  Speaker 1: I would agree with you if it's the best of five,
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  Speaker 1: it's over. But I double checked, and it's not a
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  Speaker 1: best of five.
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  Speaker 5: Oh j. It's a best of seven, so that.
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  Speaker 1: Means no one's decided anything in this particular series. It's
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  Speaker 1: a best of seven. And this thing will be going
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  Speaker 1: to a seventh game. Book it, book it, book it,
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  Speaker 1: book it. And the encouraging news for the Clippers this
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  Speaker 1: good loss. Let me tell you why it's a good loss.
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  Speaker 1: You got playoff Harden out of your system. We did
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  Speaker 1: the math on this. James Harden. Ten percent of his
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  Speaker 1: playoff games has been a dumpster like he was in
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  Speaker 1: that game. The other ninety percent he's usually fine. So
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  Speaker 1: you got that out, so you're good for nine more
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  Speaker 1: playoff games where James Harden will be okay.
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  Speaker 5: If you play the odds. You do the math. Ninety
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  Speaker 5: percent of the time, he's fine.
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  Speaker 1: Ten percent of the time he goes out there and
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  Speaker 1: urinates down his leg like he did in Denver.
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  Speaker 5: So, okay, you got that out of your system. That's good.
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  Speaker 1: Keep inind the NBA wanted the Nuggets to win this game.
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  Speaker 1: Otherwise Adam Silver, the spineless alien Commissioner of the NBA,
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  Speaker 1: would have done the proper thing and suspended Michael Porter
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  Speaker 1: Junior for clearly violating NBA Code of Conduct rules by
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  Speaker 1: leaving the bench in a skirmish back in Game four.
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  Speaker 1: It's caught on video. It's black and white. He did it,
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  Speaker 1: and the NBA looked the other way. They did not
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  Speaker 1: follow their own guidelines. Now, I didn't come up with
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  Speaker 1: those rules. The NBA came up with those rules because
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  Speaker 1: of the malice at the palace and a clear violation.
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  Speaker 1: And since the NBA chose to look the other way
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  Speaker 1: and Porter played a great game for Denver, congratulations. That
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  Speaker 1: verifies that the NBA wanted the Nuggets to win that game,
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  Speaker 1: but they wanted Game seven. Game seven is a great
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  Speaker 1: theater on television. Stre will be a Game seven this weekend.
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  Speaker 5: Now, moving on.
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  Speaker 1: From that, we head to midtown Manhattan, right there above
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  Speaker 1: Penn Station, in the the middle of the concrete jungle,
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  Speaker 1: where the Pistons seemingly wasting money traveling to play the
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  Speaker 1: next Everyone, Oh, it's over. The Knicks are going to
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  Speaker 1: win this game. There's no chance the Pistons are going
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  Speaker 1: to win another game in this series. Forget about it.
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  Speaker 5: Then they had to play the game. Now.
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  Speaker 1: Kate Cunningham did not shoot the ball all that well,
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  Speaker 1: but he had twenty four points, eight rebounds, eight assists
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  Speaker 1: and a partridge to the pear tree for the Detroit
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  Speaker 1: basketball team. Detroit Basketball, the Pistons, staying alive, staying alive.
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  Speaker 1: The Pistons get it done their first postseason appearances twenty nineteen,
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  Speaker 1: and now they've won a second playoff game, and they
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  Speaker 1: did it in clutch time on the road, one oh
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  Speaker 1: six to one oh three the final. So Detroit will
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  Speaker 1: have a chance to even things up now on Thursday, Thursday, Thursday,
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  Speaker 1: Thursday Night, Game six at home back in Michigan. They
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  Speaker 1: win that, and there will be a Game seven. If
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  Speaker 1: Detroit wins that, Game seven will be back at Madison
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  Speaker 1: Square Garden to Mecca on Saturday.
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  Speaker 5: So that'll give us something to watch on Saturday. Game seven.
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  Speaker 1: There we have a game seven Clippers and Nuggets will
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  Speaker 1: be a game seven Pistons and the Knicks.
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  Speaker 5: Game seven.
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  Speaker 1: Now, let's get down to the big part of this game.
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  Speaker 1: Jalen Brunson is getting roasted. He's getting peppered with criticism
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  Speaker 1: the Knickerbocker guard for his lousy play in this game.
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  Speaker 1: Is that fair or foul? That Brunson, who has been
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  Speaker 1: the heart and soul of the Knickerbockers, is getting just
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  Speaker 1: shredded for his play. So it is a fair bare
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  Speaker 1: It is absolutely fair. I don't know how anyone could
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  Speaker 1: say it's not fair. I mean, you gonna be like
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  Speaker 1: the biggest fanboy loser.
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  Speaker 5: Oh, it's not fair.
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  Speaker 1: He played a terrible game and people sent me things
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  Speaker 1: about him. Oh my god, all shut up. My word
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  Speaker 1: for Jalen Brunson is foggy.
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  Speaker 5: That is my word. Foggy.
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  Speaker 1: Brunson is the headliner of an off Broadway show right
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  Speaker 1: there in New York. And he had on this night
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  Speaker 1: two left feet. He could not dance, and he forgot
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  Speaker 1: his script, he forgot his words. He had brain fog.
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  Speaker 5: He was foggy. Uh was what it was. And Jalen Brunson,
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  Speaker 5: who picked up some dopey award.
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  Speaker 1: We talked about this the other day on the show,
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  Speaker 1: that they came up with these fugazi awards. They have
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  Speaker 1: the the Clutch Player Award, which they just you know,
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  Speaker 1: to appease the nerds. They have all the stats. They
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  Speaker 1: gave Jalen Brunson the clutch stat or clutch Player of
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  Speaker 1: the Year award, So we got that before the game.
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  Speaker 1: Of course, then in a game where you needed clutch play,
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  Speaker 1: who goofed.
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  Speaker 5: I've got to know that would be Jalen.
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  Speaker 1: Brunson, who shot one of four from the floor in
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  Speaker 1: the final twelve minutes of the game, and overall he
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  Speaker 1: shot twenty five percent the entire game. Bruntson sixteen points
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  Speaker 1: four turnovers for the New York Knickerbockers in this game
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  Speaker 1: and last I checked. Criticism is part of the equation.
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  Speaker 1: Criticism comes with the territory as the face of the Knicks.
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  Speaker 1: As the face of the Nicks, you have to be
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  Speaker 1: prepared to face, I don't know, negative comments. Possibly now
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  Speaker 1: New York has left the door open. It is wide open.
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  Speaker 1: Right now, it is wide open. They're futzing around and
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  Speaker 1: they're setting themselves up for a wacky Tobacci ending they're
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  Speaker 1: gonna need wacky Tobacci by the time this series is over.
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  Speaker 5: The way things are going here, the Knicks miss.
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  Speaker 1: Not one, not two, not three, not four, not five,
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  Speaker 1: not six, not seven, not eight, not nine, not ten,
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  Speaker 1: eleven foul shots. Now, the foul shot is one of
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  Speaker 1: those things that universally, any man, woman and child could
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  Speaker 1: conceivably make. You know, there's a lot of things in sports
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  Speaker 1: that like people in sports, like the brag, Oh, you
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  Speaker 1: can't hit a fastball, you can't play in the NFL,
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  Speaker 1: you couldn't do. Any man, woman or child can make
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  Speaker 1: a foul shot in the NBA. There's no one stopping you.
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  Speaker 1: You are You're there. It's you, the ball and the net.
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  Speaker 1: There's no no one gonna block it. It's the easiest thing.
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  Speaker 1: And yet they missed eleven foul shots. Bunnies, they dropped
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  Speaker 1: the bunnies. Don't drop the bunnies, all right, now, last word,
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  Speaker 1: quick late, we head that to Boston where it's all
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  Speaker 1: over for Orlando. Jason Tatum thirty five points, ten assist,
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  Speaker 1: eight rebounds, and Celtics did something that many did not
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  Speaker 1: think they could do.
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  Speaker 5: They abandoned the.
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  Speaker 1: Three point arsenal in the early part of this game,
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  Speaker 1: and they still beat Orlando by thirty one points and
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  Speaker 1: nanaana na, good bye, see you later.
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  Speaker 5: They're done the Orlando Magic.
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  Speaker 1: So did the Jason Tatum Celtics gain anything from what
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  Speaker 1: turns out to be a gentleman's sweep? As the Boston
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  Speaker 1: Celtics advance, now they will play on the raigning champs
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  Speaker 1: will play either the Knicks or the Pistons in the
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  Speaker 1: next round.
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  Speaker 5: So did the.
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  Speaker 1: Jason Tatum Celtics gain anything from this gentleman sweep?
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  Speaker 5: So I'm gonna I'm gonna nod my head yes on this.
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  Speaker 1: And the reason I'm not in my head yes is
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  Speaker 1: they added another element.
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  Speaker 5: To the toolbox.
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  Speaker 1: Good handy man, you gotta have a lot of tools,
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  Speaker 1: so they added another. The Celtics have been a one
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  Speaker 1: trick operation. They're one trick band here, the Celtics. But
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  Speaker 1: on this night, they've been so dependent on the three
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  Speaker 1: point shot. It's the it's the crutch of the Celtics, right,
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  Speaker 1: That's what they fall on, is the three point shot.
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  Speaker 1: And they showed against a lesser team to a point
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  Speaker 1: They're okay, right, they can leave their comfort zone. The Celtics,
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  Speaker 1: who set all kinds of NBA records for most three
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  Speaker 1: point shots during the regular season.
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  Speaker 5: It was ridiculous.
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  Speaker 1: It was the personification of Popper shot most three points
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  Speaker 1: baskets made. I can go through all the records if
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  Speaker 1: you want, but that's boring. Who wants to hear that.
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  Speaker 1: I don't want to hear that. I don't think you
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  Speaker 1: want to hear that. They made none in the first half.
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  Speaker 5: None.
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  Speaker 1: Now, it is interesting to note that even though they
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  Speaker 1: made none and they won the game by thirty one points,
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  Speaker 1: the game did not turn lopsided until they started to
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  Speaker 1: make shots. They were actually trailing at halftime. Orlando led
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  Speaker 1: by two at halftime, believe it or not, and then
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  Speaker 1: Boston went night rider and they cranked on the turbo boost.
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  Speaker 1: They hit that turbo boost button on the dashboard, and
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  Speaker 1: they outscored the Magic. The Celtics did seventy three to forty.
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  Speaker 1: That is a one two three can kun for the
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  Speaker 1: Orlando Magic, so thirty three point advantage for the Celtics
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  Speaker 1: in the second half. The Sea shot sixty percent from
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  Speaker 1: the floor in the second half, and seventy two percent
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  Speaker 1: if my math is correct, from three point range after halftime,
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  Speaker 1: so they had no three point shots in the first half.
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  Speaker 1: They made thirteen of eighteen in the second half, many
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  Speaker 1: of them wide open. But more importantly, unless I missed it,
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  Speaker 1: no major snap, crackle pop injuries. Jason Tatum, who did
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  Speaker 1: miss some time in this series with a bruise, played
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  Speaker 1: thirty five minutes or so in this game, and so
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  Speaker 1: all the key figures, all the key actors are going
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  Speaker 1: to be there when the play continues in round number two.
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  Speaker 1: bouncyball talk. The teams that won we talked to last
• 18:56
  Speaker 1: hour in a previous edition. Here the hour of the show,
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  Speaker 1: we talked to the Denver Nuggets, who took advantage of
• 19:03
  Speaker 1: playoff Harden and got an easy win. So Denver up
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  Speaker 1: three to two in that series. H back to Southern California.
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  Speaker 1: It'll be a game seven in that series. The Pistons
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  Speaker 1: staved off elimination. They beat the Knicks, and so that
• 19:17
  Speaker 1: series will go back to Motown Detroit a chance to
• 19:22
  Speaker 1: continue on in the Boston Celtics without making a three
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  Speaker 1: point shot for the first half of that game, still
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  Speaker 1: won by thirty. They made a bunch in the second
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  Speaker 1: half over Orlando. But now we need to turn our
• 19:33
  Speaker 1: focus to a game that I did not anticipate. When
• 19:38
  Speaker 1: I got up and prepared for the shot, I was like, AHM,
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  Speaker 1: not gonna talk much about this game. But surprise, surprise, surprise.
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  Speaker 5: You never know.
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  Speaker 1: That's why they play their games. So we go to Indianapolis,
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  Speaker 1: just a random.
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  Speaker 5: Game five, game five.
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  Speaker 1: In the city there and in the Hoosier State, big city,
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  Speaker 1: big capital there state. So the Bucks and Pacers and
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  Speaker 1: they were locking horns and opportunity here for Milwaukee to
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  Speaker 1: continue even though Dame Time ain't walking through that door,
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  Speaker 1: Dame leathered snap crackle poppies out, the Bucks could win,
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  Speaker 1: show some fight, force a game six and put the
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  Speaker 1: pressure on the Indiana Pacers who were looking to win
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  Speaker 1: at home and advance. So if you were not watching
• 20:25
  Speaker 1: this particular game, and it was hard to find, it
• 20:27
  Speaker 1: was on the state run PROP the news service of
• 20:30
  Speaker 1: the NBA, the NBA's own television channel. But this game
• 20:34
  Speaker 1: turned out to be a humdinger. Now, it wasn't a
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  Speaker 1: humdinger for most of the game. It turned out to
• 20:39
  Speaker 1: be a humdinger because of the finish. Well, let's set
• 20:42
  Speaker 1: you up on this tyrese Halla Burton with twenty six points.
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  Speaker 1: He had nineusis, which is not that crazy, but twenty
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  Speaker 1: six points. The Pacers rally all the way back. They
• 20:54
  Speaker 1: were down twenty points. They forced the overtime. So then
• 20:58
  Speaker 1: you get to overtime and and what happened? Well, how
• 21:01
  Speaker 1: did that go? Let's see here. So they go to
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  Speaker 1: overtime and Milwaukee is up by seven with forty seconds
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  Speaker 1: to go in the game. You are a seven point
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  Speaker 1: there's a three possession lead in the last forty seconds.
• 21:17
  Speaker 1: You know how difficult it is to not win that game.
• 21:20
  Speaker 1: But I think you assume, I assume you know by
• 21:23
  Speaker 1: now that sure enough, Yes, the Milwaukee Bucks did the
• 21:28
  Speaker 1: thing you can't do at the time, you can't do it,
• 21:31
  Speaker 1: and it was a Haliburton layup in the final seconds
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  Speaker 1: that did end the Milwaukee Bucks one eight to one
• 21:40
  Speaker 1: oh seven the final as they punched their ticket. They
• 21:44
  Speaker 1: being the Pacers into the second round of the playoffs,
• 21:47
  Speaker 1: and they'll be dismissed. They'll be well, yeah, they advanced,
• 21:51
  Speaker 1: but Damian Lillard got hurt. Indiana has dominated the Milwaukee
• 21:55
  Speaker 1: Bucks now for consecutive seasons. Indiana will play Spider Mitchell
• 22:00
  Speaker 1: and the number one that would be the Cleveland Cadavers,
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  Speaker 1: and well, I guess they're good So they're the Caves
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  Speaker 1: and they're bad. They're the cadavers, but the Cleveland Cavaliers
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  Speaker 1: and Pacers. So we are gare wrong teed of having
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  Speaker 1: one of those two teams in the final four of
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  Speaker 1: the NBA. But the better story here is clearly in
• 22:22
  Speaker 1: the losing locker room, as is pack up the bags
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  Speaker 1: and go home time.
• 22:27
  Speaker 5: No no naana, no no nada, Hey, go bye. The
• 22:32
  Speaker 5: Bucks are out. The Bucks are out, epic meltdown by.
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  Speaker 1: Milwaukee, a loss for the Ages for the Milwaukee Bucks.
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  Speaker 1: So let us discuss the question who gets the blame
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  Speaker 1: cheese for the Bucks? Who gets the blame cheese for
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  Speaker 1: the Bucks blowing a seven point lead in the final
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  Speaker 1: forty seconds seven point lead vanished in the final forty seconds.
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  Speaker 1: So I've got stones, peer pressure, and atomic and we
• 23:05
  Speaker 1: will combine all of these things together and we're going
• 23:09
  Speaker 1: to make some soul food. Because somewhere right now, at
• 23:13
  Speaker 1: a fine restaurant the greater Milwaukee area, our friend Artes
• 23:17
  Speaker 1: in Milwaukee is drowning his sorrows in meat loaf and
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  Speaker 1: other delicious foods that he cooks all night as he
• 23:25
  Speaker 1: listens to our show. So anyway, numb burn can I
• 23:30
  Speaker 1: get a numb burn?
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  Speaker 5: All right?
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  Speaker 1: If you're looking for a singular player to answer the question,
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  Speaker 1: who gets the blame cheese for the Bucks blowing a
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  Speaker 1: seven point lead? So a player, it's easy. Gary Trent Junior,
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  Speaker 1: who also hit like four to three point shots. I
• 23:50
  Speaker 1: think it was in the overtime, but it doesn't matter.
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  Speaker 1: All that matters is what you did in the final
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  Speaker 1: forty seconds. So despite having a statistic with good performance
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  Speaker 1: at the end, this portal opened up, a trapdoor opened up,
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  Speaker 1: and Gary Trent Junior fell into the to the trap door,
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  Speaker 1: and he was eaten by a pit of vipers right there,
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  Speaker 1: right there in the And he gets the charcuterie board,
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  Speaker 1: and it's a cheese charcuterie board, and there's only Limburger cheese,
• 24:24
  Speaker 1: and there's some rotting crow, which apparently tastes okay according
• 24:29
  Speaker 1: to the Internet.
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  Speaker 5: I don't believe that. I believe that's wrong.
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  Speaker 1: So Gary Tranjunior, how bad was he in the final
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  Speaker 1: forty seconds? He is the player of the game for
• 24:38
  Speaker 1: the Indiana Pacers because in the final forty seconds, Gary
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  Speaker 1: Tran Jr. He took the only shot the Bucks took
• 24:44
  Speaker 1: in the final forty seconds, he missed it. He also
• 24:47
  Speaker 1: turned the ball over twice in forty seconds, so two
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  Speaker 1: turnovers and a misshot, and that set things up for
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  Speaker 1: Tyrese Haliburton to be the hero there. And also Andrew
• 24:59
  Speaker 1: Nemhard who who hit a three point shot from like
• 25:02
  Speaker 1: forty feet away or some ridiculous thing like that. Regardless. Now,
• 25:06
  Speaker 1: so if the player is Gary Trent Junior, but if
• 25:09
  Speaker 1: you want to look at the wide angle lens, consider
• 25:14
  Speaker 1: this particular game a time capsule for the career of doctors.
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  Speaker 5: Just a moment in time, random moment.
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  Speaker 1: No one's gonna remember this, it's the first round of
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  Speaker 1: the NBA playoffs, but.
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  Speaker 5: The real ones, the real ones.
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  Speaker 1: Know this is a time capsule moment that forty seconds
• 25:37
  Speaker 1: of complete chaos and dropping your.
• 25:41
  Speaker 5: Paints for the whole world to see.
• 25:44
  Speaker 1: That sums up the coaching career of Doc Rivers, one
• 25:48
  Speaker 1: of the great frauds of our time. The fact that
• 25:51
  Speaker 1: this guy's coached as many teams as he's coached is
• 25:54
  Speaker 1: a testimonial to the incompetence of the ownership class in
• 25:58
  Speaker 1: the NBA and how just being a smooth talker you'll
• 26:01
  Speaker 1: get a lot of opportunities in life. But the names
• 26:05
  Speaker 1: of the players change, right, the teams he's coaching have
• 26:09
  Speaker 1: changed over the years. For Doc Rivers, the results are
• 26:12
  Speaker 1: the same. Doc Rivers is an animated cartoon character from
• 26:16
  Speaker 1: The Flintstones Schlepprock.
• 26:19
  Speaker 5: Doc Rivers. I don't know if you know that cartoon
• 26:21
  Speaker 5: Character's an old cartoon character.
• 26:22
  Speaker 1: But Doc Rivers has either exceptionally bad luck or he
• 26:28
  Speaker 1: is the bad luck. His mere presence causes top flight
• 26:33
  Speaker 1: professional ballplayers to do really dumb things, really bad things on.
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  Speaker 5: The court in pressure situations.
• 26:42
  Speaker 1: And with all of these NBA teams that Doc Rivers coach,
• 26:45
  Speaker 1: though Orlando, the Clippers, the Celtics, the seventy six Ers,
• 26:50
  Speaker 1: the Milwaukee Bucks, all of these teams, he is the
• 26:54
  Speaker 1: common denominator. Doc Rivers is the common denominator. If you
• 26:58
  Speaker 1: think it like a bon Jovi tune, Dead or alive,
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  Speaker 1: It's all the same, only the names change around Doc Rivers.
• 27:06
  Speaker 1: Other than that, it's all the same, all of it,
• 27:10
  Speaker 1: all of it is the same.
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  Speaker 5: Do we have any Doc Rivers by the way, No,
• 27:14
  Speaker 5: no Doc Rivers. We have any Doc here.
• 27:16
  Speaker 1: I always love Doc giving excuses when his team loses,
• 27:20
  Speaker 1: because Doc Rivers is a master of this He's.
• 27:24
  Speaker 5: Done it more than anyone.
• 27:25
  Speaker 1: All Right, I guess, all right, all right, all right,
• 27:28
  Speaker 1: here's a random Doc Rivers SoundBite on a Yannis miss.
• 27:32
  Speaker 5: I just want to hear Doc's bull crap. Let's hear it.
• 27:34
  Speaker 5: We're looking for them.
• 27:35
  Speaker 6: If he had an eye, so great. But we anticipated
• 27:38
  Speaker 6: a trap and I thought we had the proper space.
• 27:41
  Speaker 6: And you know, we give Giannis his choice. You know,
• 27:43
  Speaker 6: I thought he may have had aj green, if my
• 27:45
  Speaker 6: memory serves me right. We told him that the next
• 27:49
  Speaker 6: pass would be open, but it felt good about it out.
• 27:52
  Speaker 6: I'm kind of live with Yannis making a decision on that.
• 27:55
  Speaker 5: Okay, Well, is Doc going back to TV? Are we gonna?
• 27:58
  Speaker 1: Is he gonna be on there? We say, gonna have
• 28:00
  Speaker 1: to watch Doris Burke on TV? Or is they gonna
• 28:02
  Speaker 1: ge rid of her and put Doc on there? I
• 28:03
  Speaker 1: don't know anyway? All right, So page two, What are
• 28:08
  Speaker 1: the odds? What are the odds that Giannis Adenta Combo
• 28:12
  Speaker 1: played his final game in a Milwaukee Bucks uniform on
• 28:18
  Speaker 1: this random Tuesday night in late April?
• 28:22
  Speaker 5: What are the odds?
• 28:23
  Speaker 1: So I'm setting the Mallor line, which is the most
• 28:26
  Speaker 1: important line in overnight talk radio on Fox. The Mallar line.
• 28:31
  Speaker 1: The Mallar line on this that the Greek Freak will
• 28:34
  Speaker 1: be traded at minus one ninety. That implies a sixty
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  Speaker 1: five percent chance that packed your bags and with the
• 28:45
  Speaker 1: last one left in the Bucks locker room, turn out
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  Speaker 1: the lights because it's all over.
• 28:50
  Speaker 5: So sixty five percent chance.
• 28:51
  Speaker 1: Now here's why You've got Dame Lillard, who's not walking
• 28:54
  Speaker 1: back through that door. If he is, he's limping a
• 28:58
  Speaker 1: Killes injury. He's out all of next season, so he's gone.
• 29:02
  Speaker 1: You're gonna whack Doc Rivers. You can't bring Doc Rivers
• 29:05
  Speaker 1: back because he's terrible, and Doc wouldn't want to come
• 29:09
  Speaker 1: back because he's a carpetbagger and he knows the Bucks
• 29:11
  Speaker 1: have no chance of winning. So Doc's not going to
• 29:14
  Speaker 1: come back. You'll kick him out of the state of Wisconsin.
• 29:17
  Speaker 1: The bigger issue, though, for Milwaukee is this Giannis Identikombo
• 29:25
  Speaker 1: is going to face immense pure pressure in that world,
• 29:29
  Speaker 1: in that universe of the NBA, it's a transient business.
• 29:35
  Speaker 1: The expectation is if you're a certain level star, you
• 29:39
  Speaker 1: have to manipulate your way to one of five teams.
• 29:46
  Speaker 1: Like that's just how it works, right, and the people
• 29:50
  Speaker 1: who are living off Giannis. There are a bunch of
• 29:53
  Speaker 1: people who have no talent. They are writing his coat
• 29:57
  Speaker 1: tails and they're just hangers on. Those are the people
• 30:01
  Speaker 1: that'll be like, Hey, we got to get that one
• 30:03
  Speaker 1: more big Madison Avenue run of endorsements, and we can't
• 30:07
  Speaker 1: do that in Milwaukee. But if Yannis goes to fill
• 30:11
  Speaker 1: in the blank the usual suspects, right La Miami, New York,
• 30:17
  Speaker 1: Golden State, somewhere along those lines, you're set up. But
• 30:21
  Speaker 1: if you do the math on this, Giannis is thirty.
• 30:23
  Speaker 1: He's gonna be thirty one next season. Now, thirty one
• 30:27
  Speaker 1: in life is not old, but in sports, you're athletic prime.
• 30:31
  Speaker 1: You're in the final stages of your athletic prime. So
• 30:34
  Speaker 1: unless you find the bag of goodies like others, I'm
• 30:37
  Speaker 1: not gonna name any names here have found, I.
• 30:39
  Speaker 5: Don't know what you know. I'm just saying.
• 30:42
  Speaker 1: So you're at the end of your athletic prime and
• 30:45
  Speaker 1: you've got maybe a couple more real dominant seasons left
• 30:49
  Speaker 1: before the decline really kicks in.
• 30:51
  Speaker 5: If you're Giannis a dem.
• 30:52
  Speaker 1: Pacombo and you want the endorsements you've already got. I
• 30:56
  Speaker 1: believe two years left on the contract, then you can
• 30:59
  Speaker 1: get out. So this would be the time. This would
• 31:02
  Speaker 1: be the time, and expect this to be NonStop conversation
• 31:06
  Speaker 1: on the usual, the usual, the sources of NBA smut
• 31:10
  Speaker 1: that will throw this out. Now, final point, let's go
• 31:12
  Speaker 1: back to the end. We have some great contrived Shakespearean
• 31:16
  Speaker 1: drama at the end of Indiana's Went over Milwaukee. This
• 31:20
  Speaker 1: will be a story that gets a lot of attention
• 31:22
  Speaker 1: over the next twenty four hours or so.
• 31:24
  Speaker 5: The way these stories work.
• 31:25
  Speaker 1: Because it involves family, it involves a star player, it
• 31:29
  Speaker 1: involves doing things you're not supposed to do, all of
• 31:32
  Speaker 1: those elements. So postgame there was a story. Everyone's gonna
• 31:35
  Speaker 1: be talking about this giannisidenta koombo moments after the game
• 31:39
  Speaker 1: ed Tyreek Halliburt, Tyreese Aliburton game winning shot, Bucks went.
• 31:42
  Speaker 1: You know, Bucks lose, Pacers win, crowd goes wild. Halliburton
• 31:46
  Speaker 1: stands on the scorer's table like they've just won the championship.
• 31:49
  Speaker 1: I don't know if he realizes the first round he celebrated.
• 31:52
  Speaker 1: He looked like Patrick Beverly when Minnesota won the play
• 31:56
  Speaker 1: in thing. Remember Beverly got up there and he the
• 31:58
  Speaker 1: crowd went well, so Halliburton stood up like they had
• 32:01
  Speaker 1: just won a championship. I don't think you get a
• 32:04
  Speaker 1: trophy for winning the first round of the playoffs. But
• 32:06
  Speaker 1: while that was going on, let me, I'm gonna I'm
• 32:09
  Speaker 1: gonna walk you through this. So Yiannis a Denta Kombo
• 32:13
  Speaker 1: was confronted by a random person while on the court
• 32:18
  Speaker 1: wearing a jersey. That person was the father of Tyres Halliburton.
• 32:26
  Speaker 1: Say what, yes, they got into The guy's name is
• 32:30
  Speaker 1: John John Halliburton.
• 32:33
  Speaker 5: I assume that's his last name.
• 32:35
  Speaker 1: Halliburton and Yannis Adenta Coombo started screaming. Well, it was
• 32:41
  Speaker 1: mostly the dad screaming at Giannis, but they did exchange
• 32:45
  Speaker 1: heated words on the court. On the It's the funniest
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  Speaker 1: thing because you've got the kid who's off to the
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  Speaker 1: side and he's standing on the scorer's table. He won
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  Speaker 1: the game, and his dad, his old man is Pops
• 33:00
  Speaker 1: is over here in the face of Yannis add the
• 33:03
  Speaker 1: Kouba wild. Here is by the way, here's Giannis add
• 33:07
  Speaker 1: the cupbo his side of the story. Here is his
• 33:10
  Speaker 1: commentary on being confronted by the other team's top players.
• 33:16
  Speaker 7: Parade Parade, I believe like being humbled in victory. That's
• 33:21
  Speaker 7: how way I am. Now, there can be a lot
• 33:24
  Speaker 7: of people out there that are like, no, when you
• 33:26
  Speaker 7: when you win the game, it's a green light for
• 33:28
  Speaker 7: you to be disrespectful towards somebody else. I disagree. I've
• 33:33
  Speaker 7: won the championship. They have it okay, and that doesn't
• 33:36
  Speaker 7: even say anything. I'm not trying to minimize their effort,
• 33:40
  Speaker 7: but losing the game emotions right run high. Having a fan,
• 33:45
  Speaker 7: which at the moment I thought it was fun, but
• 33:47
  Speaker 7: then I realized it was Titis's son, which I love
• 33:49
  Speaker 7: Titis I think is a great competitor. He was his dad, sorry,
• 33:53
  Speaker 7: coming in the floor and showing me his son at.
• 33:58
  Speaker 5: Towel with his face.
• 34:00
  Speaker 7: This is what we do, This is what we een
• 34:01
  Speaker 7: do this. If we do this, I feel like that's very,
• 34:06
  Speaker 7: very disrespectful.
• 34:10
  Speaker 5: Is this scripted? Seriously?
• 34:13
  Speaker 1: Are they coming up with these storylines? Is they got
• 34:16
  Speaker 1: the old the old writers from professional wrestling? I'm convinced,
• 34:21
  Speaker 1: so all right, I mean, this is ridiculous.
• 34:24
  Speaker 5: This is like so stupid. What are we doing?
• 34:28
  Speaker 1: The father of the Star of the Indiana Pacers got
• 34:32
  Speaker 1: on the court and shoved it in the face of
• 34:34
  Speaker 1: Yannis while the kid is going crazy.
• 34:39
  Speaker 5: With the crowd.
• 34:43
  Speaker 1: Now, remember Janis, was it a year ago or I
• 34:45
  Speaker 1: guess it was a couple of years ago. He said,
• 34:47
  Speaker 1: there's no failure in sports. There's good days, bad days.
• 34:51
  Speaker 1: So he said, some days you're able to be successful,
• 34:54
  Speaker 1: some days you're not able to be successful.
• 34:56
  Speaker 5: Blah blah blah blah blah. But that is that is great.
• 35:00
  Speaker 5: So how did you score? How did you score?
• 35:02
  Speaker 1: The confrontation between Tyrese Haliburton, his father and Giannis adent
• 35:08
  Speaker 1: to Kumbo, the Greek freak.
• 35:10
  Speaker 5: Let's go to the judges scorecard.
• 35:13
  Speaker 1: As the great Jackie Slater said back in his day
• 35:16
  Speaker 1: in the NFL, what in the world?
• 35:18
  Speaker 5: Seriously, what in the world? So I wrote down on
• 35:21
  Speaker 5: my scorecard.
• 35:22
  Speaker 1: I wrote down A, a capital A for atomic as
• 35:26
  Speaker 1: in atomic Wedgie, which is what you should give to
• 35:30
  Speaker 1: Tyrese Haliburton.
• 35:32
  Speaker 5: You are not helping. The dad is not helping. This
• 35:36
  Speaker 5: is not a.
• 35:37
  Speaker 1: Good thing for Haliburton. It seems like a pretty good ballplayer. Like, seriously,
• 35:42
  Speaker 1: your kid was just voted the most overrated player in
• 35:46
  Speaker 1: the NBA.
• 35:48
  Speaker 5: People perceive him to be a mister softy.
• 35:52
  Speaker 1: Okay, they think the kid is soft and you are
• 35:57
  Speaker 1: running out to fight his battle on the court.
• 36:02
  Speaker 5: Big win old man out there in.
• 36:04
  Speaker 1: A jersey confronting the two time MVP jiannasident to Koombo,
• 36:10
  Speaker 1: thus confirming everything that has been said about the kid,
• 36:15
  Speaker 1: Like seriously, all right?
• 36:18
  Speaker 5: I can go on and on, but.
• 36:19
  Speaker 2: Be sure to catch live editions of The Ben Meller
• 36:21
  Speaker 2: Show weekdays at two am Eastern eleven pm Pacific.
• 36:24
  Speaker 5: Here we go, here we go.
• 36:26
  Speaker 1: Here we go, Here we go, Here we go, Here
• 36:27
  Speaker 1: we go, Here we go, here we go.
• 36:30
  Speaker 5: Hurry up, this is who gets grilled, all right.
• 36:35
  Speaker 8: It was reported on Monday that the Cowboys could be
• 36:37
  Speaker 8: interested in a reunion with wide receiver and Marie Cooper.
• 36:40
  Speaker 4: Uh.
• 36:41
  Speaker 8: Cooper's been pretty consistent performer throughout his career up until
• 36:44
  Speaker 8: last season. Do you think that was just an off
• 36:46
  Speaker 8: year for Cooper or was at the beginning of the end?
• 36:48
  Speaker 1: No, it's perfect because he's already played in Dallas and
• 36:50
  Speaker 1: Mary Cooper is a falling star, which is just what
• 36:54
  Speaker 1: Jerry Jones loves.
• 36:56
  Speaker 5: Uh.
• 36:56
  Speaker 1: He's not gonna turn the move the needle for the
• 36:59
  Speaker 1: Cowboys if you go back next.
• 37:01
  Speaker 8: Speaking of reunions, there was an article in The Atlantic
• 37:03
  Speaker 8: yesterday talking about the Vikings potentially making a trade for
• 37:05
  Speaker 8: Kirk Cousins. Ben, could you see Minnesota bringing Cousins in
• 37:08
  Speaker 8: as an insurance just in case JJ McCarthy doesn't work out?
• 37:11
  Speaker 1: Uh No, They already made a trade at the draft
• 37:14
  Speaker 1: for Sam Howe, who also sucks. So this limited how
• 37:17
  Speaker 1: many quarterbacks you can get that sucked. But it is
• 37:20
  Speaker 1: going to be interesting to keep an on Kirk Cousins
• 37:22
  Speaker 1: because he's not gonna stand in Atlanta. Someone's gonna get
• 37:25
  Speaker 1: hurt and then he'll go to whoever whatever team loses
• 37:27
  Speaker 1: their starting quarterback. But I just don't think that it's
• 37:31
  Speaker 1: just not that's not the team. The Vikings are not
• 37:33
  Speaker 1: the team next well.
• 37:35
  Speaker 8: Ben, you already talked about it, but with being confirmed
• 37:37
  Speaker 8: that Damian Lillard is torn his achilles, it's likely that
• 37:40
  Speaker 8: Lillard will miss a big chunk of next season as well.
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  Speaker 8: Do you think this offseason is a time for Giannis
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  Speaker 8: to jump ship again?
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  Speaker 1: Malarrods coop minus one ninety sixty five percent chance that
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  Speaker 5: Is Mallard a third degree? How did we go he passes.
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  Speaker 5: That is a win.
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  Speaker 10: You heard the man. It's time for love here on
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  Speaker 10: the Ben Mallors Show. One of my favorite times of
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  Speaker 10: the week.
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  Speaker 1: What's your other favorite time of the week is ah?
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  Speaker 10: I would say when I beat people on being smarter
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  Speaker 10: than everyone else, But it.
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  Speaker 5: Doesn't happen that often.
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  Speaker 10: It doesn't happen.
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  Speaker 5: I'm just saying, just pointing that out to me. I'm
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  Speaker 5: not who do you think you are?
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  Speaker 10: Bill Miller?
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  Speaker 5: No?
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  Speaker 1: No, definitely not nothing like Bill Miller. Yeah, all right,
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  Speaker 1: let's get to it. Ready for the questions, You're ready
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  Speaker 1: for the questions?
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  Speaker 5: All right? Very nice?
• 39:12
  Speaker 1: Truck stop fungus rites and says, how do I inform
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  Speaker 1: my wife that she needs to have her back waxed
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  Speaker 1: without her divorcing?
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  Speaker 10: Oh gosh, you know you can make it playful. So
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  Speaker 10: pull on her hair, just like when you're cuddling. Just
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  Speaker 10: pull on one single hair, you know, and then she'll
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  Speaker 10: get the idea. It be like we make make chwobakka noises,
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  Speaker 10: you know, all sorts of things make it fun. Yeah, Okay,
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  Speaker 10: everyone has issues. Everyone has things that they're not you
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  Speaker 10: know that you don't like.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah, well, usually whatever you have, do you think the
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  Speaker 5: other people are better than you? Whatever?
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  Speaker 6: You know?
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  Speaker 2: Right?
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  Speaker 1: Anyway, all right, ferg Dog rights and says, what is
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  Speaker 1: the best way to demonstrate love for a man I
• 40:01
  Speaker 1: really admire in my life? This is a little Creepy's
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  Speaker 1: a little bit rub is back. No, that's not a
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  Speaker 1: good answer.
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  Speaker 10: Rub his back, that's not long and hard.
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  Speaker 8: But something tells me that whoever darts talking about prefers
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  Speaker 8: foot rubs. There's talking about feet now, maybe licking, I.
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  Speaker 5: Don't think so. If you want your feet licked, that's fine.
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  Speaker 10: If that is your kink, that is your kink. There's
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  Speaker 10: no kinks that are wrong, except for the ones that
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  Speaker 10: involve dead people.
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  Speaker 1: All right, This is a very controversial one from a
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  Speaker 1: nailed Hey Seuss or something like that. Says, if you
• 40:37
  Speaker 1: can't get a girlfriend, should you just become the girlfriend instead?
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  Speaker 5: That's very controversial.
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  Speaker 10: I don't you see that a lot? You know where
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  Speaker 10: women marry themselves?
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  Speaker 5: Oh do they?
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  Speaker 6: Oh?
• 40:47
  Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, that's this right. We have some calls for it.
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  Speaker 1: You want to toar your call?
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  Speaker 10: I would love to all right.
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  Speaker 1: Anonymous Mike is somewhere in the Boston area. Hello, Anonymous Mike, Welcome.
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  Speaker 11: Hey, i's it going, guys?
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  Speaker 10: We've seen better days? What's up?
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  Speaker 11: So, Lorraina, If I was, like, for instance, really good
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  Speaker 11: at sex, should I just save that for one girl
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  Speaker 11: or try to spread it out?
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  Speaker 1: He's got a gift, Florinda, the guys in his head,
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  Speaker 1: he's got a gift.
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  Speaker 6: Yeah.
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  Speaker 10: And see that's the thing. Is it just in your
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  Speaker 10: head or is this actual fact? Because yeah, if you're
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  Speaker 10: young and like you think, you know, you have a long, sexual,
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  Speaker 10: lustrous life ahead of you, keep.
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  Speaker 5: Down that path, that's what.
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  Speaker 11: Yeah, you know, Because I'm just saying, like, I've been
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  Speaker 11: with a girl for a while and she's like happy
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  Speaker 11: all the time. But are you happy the other ladies?
• 41:46
  Speaker 5: Yeah? Really want to get back to the women, Loraa.
• 41:48
  Speaker 5: He's really worried about the women.
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  Speaker 10: You know, what if you need what you need, you
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  Speaker 10: need what.
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  Speaker 11: You need, all right. Look, thanks for the advice to
• 41:56
  Speaker 11: the seed.
• 41:56
  Speaker 5: Such a big stut.
• 41:57
  Speaker 11: Advice and love. But that's cool, all right.
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  Speaker 5: Well a big stud there, and he took a shot
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  Speaker 5: at you.
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  Speaker 10: Then you can put all that lust towards one lady.
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  Speaker 1: All right, hollering James is on, Hello, James, say a
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  Speaker 1: little Lorena.
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  Speaker 9: Hello, Lorena? How you doing her? Friends?
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  Speaker 8: You know what?
• 42:15
  Speaker 10: I'm good, I'm good. What's up, James?
• 42:18
  Speaker 9: I got to let you know this. I want to
• 42:20
  Speaker 9: rekindle the fire between me and Dammy. I'm not getting
• 42:24
  Speaker 9: no calls. I'm not getting no character letters, not even
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  Speaker 9: no gifts. You know. I'm just wondering what can I
• 42:31
  Speaker 9: do to rekindle the flame between me and miss Montana.
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  Speaker 1: I think, well, the straight idea is to call the
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  Speaker 1: radio show and say this on the e that we're
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  Speaker 1: really That will get the job done.
• 42:42
  Speaker 10: Qui, I think you should do radio poetry.
• 42:45
  Speaker 9: Maybe I should give her a golden taking it.
• 42:47
  Speaker 10: Maybe they'll get it that you've given her a few
• 42:51
  Speaker 10: and she hasn't used them yet.
• 42:53
  Speaker 1: Stuck in Sacramento, rights since, says Lorena, I finally went
• 42:55
  Speaker 1: on a date with my very own tech queen. Question,
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  Speaker 1: why do you think she punched me and ran out
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  Speaker 1: when we were making whoopie? When I asked her if
• 43:04
  Speaker 1: she wanted to role play with me being a leprechaun
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  Speaker 1: and her trying to find my pot of gold.
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  Speaker 5: Oh no, I.
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  Speaker 10: Would have run away right way earlier than that.
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  Speaker 5: All right, Quickly, JT.
• 43:17
  Speaker 1: The Wingman says, what is the best way to say
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  Speaker 1: I'm sorry to a woman I love?
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  Speaker 10: Ooh oh gosh, deliciousness, deliciousness and pampering.
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  Speaker 5: Pampering easy, okay.
• 43:30
  Speaker 10: Always, but start with food first, because grumpy food.
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  Speaker 5: Chocolate possibly chocolate.
• 43:35
  Speaker 10: Yes, always melted?
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  Speaker 5: All right.
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  Speaker 2: Game of the Stars. Here's Ben Meller.
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  Speaker 1: And it's time for pass word. The word Game of
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  Speaker 1: the Stars is welcome in our contest we have let's
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  Speaker 1: see here Daniel in Fort one.
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  Speaker 5: Let me make sure I punch up the right line.
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  Speaker 5: Hello Daniel, welcome.
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  Speaker 11: Good morning event.
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  Speaker 1: Hel's everything, America's favorite crossing guard of course, checking in
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  Speaker 1: with us.
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  Speaker 5: Hello, welcome you, who do you like to partner up
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  Speaker 5: with your Daniel.
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  Speaker 9: Ben I have to go with you. We've been unbeen
• 44:23
  Speaker 9: like the last seven times.
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  Speaker 5: We'll make it a wow. All right? See that domination domination?
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  Speaker 5: All right.
• 44:29
  Speaker 1: Hold on a second, and we have Brandon in cans
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  Speaker 1: Uh City. Hello Brandon, welcome and the jet Hello Brandon,
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  Speaker 1: welcome to the show. You're gonna play the game. Now,
• 44:44
  Speaker 1: who do you want to partner up with?
• 44:46
  Speaker 5: Brandon?
• 44:46
  Speaker 1: I'm already taking, but you got Loraina and Koboloop respectfully.
• 44:51
  Speaker 11: I'm gonna take coogy Liot because he after my second call.
• 44:54
  Speaker 5: So fast. Okay, so you're in good customer service.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, wow, Well I've got nothing else to do right now.
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  Speaker 5: No, it's bag it's working, is it? It's not for me?
• 45:07
  Speaker 5: You got to use the other one.
• 45:08
  Speaker 1: You got to use the uh the Martha's House thing.
• 45:11
  Speaker 5: Yeah, that one, that one's working.
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  Speaker 6: Ye.
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  Speaker 5: Anyway, all right, let's play the game.
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  Speaker 11: Here.
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  Speaker 5: We have a list of words. Let's see. You can't
• 45:19
  Speaker 5: see you can't see him, right, Daniel. Hold I second,
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  Speaker 5: you punch hold on me, punched him up. Hold a second.
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  Speaker 5: You can't see the words, right, Nope, I cannot see
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  Speaker 5: the words. Brandon.
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  Speaker 1: You can't see the words, right, Brandon, negative band? Okay, well, Brandon,
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  Speaker 1: you were on first. Pick a number one to ten,
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  Speaker 1: one to ten? Please let me go seven.
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  Speaker 5: Number seven? All right, all right, let's play pass. We're here.
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  Speaker 5: We can start with ten points. Let's go with squam band.
• 45:53
  Speaker 5: What's that?
• 45:54
  Speaker 11: I thought it was first?
• 45:54
  Speaker 5: Oh you are? I thought you? I thought you said,
• 45:56
  Speaker 5: wait a minute, will you pick a number? Daniel? I
• 45:58
  Speaker 5: thought you said. I thought that was you.
• 45:59
  Speaker 11: Go ahead, Hey, that's okay, all's forgiven.
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  Speaker 9: Uh, three weeks from today.
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  Speaker 11: The school year's over, so with number three?
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  Speaker 1: All right, number three, let's go with hmm, how about
• 46:16
  Speaker 1: uh Earth.
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  Speaker 9: Globe?
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  Speaker 4: No, uh, Brandon, let's go with uh planet. No, let's
• 46:34
  Speaker 4: go with.
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  Speaker 5: Universe. Oh oh, Daniel, oh solar.
• 46:45
  Speaker 1: No, well, this is the one that should be easy
• 46:48
  Speaker 1: but is not. And go ahead, goop. Let's go with
• 46:52
  Speaker 1: password the word game of the stars. Uh wow, I
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  Speaker 1: don't know, is it?
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  Speaker 5: No?
• 47:00
  Speaker 8: That's oh boy, I'm gonna do a Mallard maneuver.
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  Speaker 5: Maneuver, Brandon.
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  Speaker 4: Uh, water, that's not gonna work.
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  Speaker 11: Well, okay, repeat yourself, Coop, Sorry.
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  Speaker 5: Come on, water, water nothing, you're wasting my ten.
• 47:28
  Speaker 1: No, how about this I'm gonna do a reverse malle maneuver.
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  Speaker 11: Oh my gosh, Series.
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  Speaker 2: World.
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  Speaker 5: You know what, you're the smartest guy in the room.
• 47:43
  Speaker 1: Data Almost nobody gets the reverse Malor maneuver.
• 47:47
  Speaker 5: And because we wasted so much time trying.
• 47:49
  Speaker 1: To get to that, that's the only word we have
• 47:52
  Speaker 1: time for. But you did it, was World, that was
• 47:55
  Speaker 1: the word. O. Good job, Daniel Quest, short game. That's
• 47:58
  Speaker 1: another win on the all time wins, King Coope, King
• 48:01
  Speaker 1: of the Wins right here.
• 48:03
  Speaker 5: Another win. I'm ready to win.