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  Speaker 2: This is the best of the Ben Maler Show on
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  Speaker 1: So our lead this hour from the Sooner State. It
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  Speaker 1: is the time of the year. If you look at
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  Speaker 1: your sports talk radio calendar, and who doesn't have one
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  Speaker 1: of those. This is the time of the year where
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  Speaker 1: every night there's a basketball game. And then then we
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  Speaker 1: come in here and yappity yappity appety. So we go
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  Speaker 1: to the Sooner State, the scene of the crime, the
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  Speaker 1: Hippodome for Game number two of the Western Finals, the
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  Speaker 1: Thunder looking to yes, looking to bounce back and even
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  Speaker 1: things up with these Spurs. And I don't know if
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  Speaker 1: you're watching or not, this is where we make the
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  Speaker 1: big money here, This is where we earn our money
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  Speaker 1: watching these playoff games. So you don't have to it's
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  Speaker 1: our good mitzvah. Of the day. So former Clipper Shay
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  Speaker 1: jogis Alexander bouncing back from a stink bomb he had
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  Speaker 1: in the opening game of this series. At thirty points,
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  Speaker 1: I'm told that's good. The bald Mamba Alex Caruso seventeen
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  Speaker 1: off the bench and OKC was okay. Maybeat the Spurs
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  Speaker 1: by nine in game two. Internet conspiracy theorists are convinced
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  Speaker 1: that the officials were in compliance here. They got the
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  Speaker 1: nod from the headquarters. The Thunder finished with a massive
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  Speaker 1: advantage in bench scoring, fifty seven to twenty five. But
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  Speaker 1: the better story is in the losing locker rooms. So
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  Speaker 1: we'll jump off on that particular point. Let us discuss
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  Speaker 1: the question who is getting the biggest portion of Bennie's
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  Speaker 1: blame burrito for these Spurs losing Game two of the
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  Speaker 1: Western Finals. So my thoughts to this, I've got uber eats,
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  Speaker 1: International Space Station, and firewall, and we'll put all of
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  Speaker 1: these things together and we're gonna make some Oklahoma smash burgers.
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  Speaker 1: That's what we're gonna do. That's what you put the onions,
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  Speaker 1: the grilled onions on top there, and it's pretty good.
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  Speaker 1: That's not bad. There's not many foods that have come
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  Speaker 1: out of Oklahoma. That's a solid one right there. All right,
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  Speaker 1: So a I am going to serve up when I'm
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  Speaker 1: in the kitchen here and slaving away over the hot
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  Speaker 1: stove in this case of the microphone, we're serving up
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  Speaker 1: a massive portion of Bennie's blame burrito after game two,
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  Speaker 1: and it's stuffed to the brim with Stefan Castle and
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  Speaker 1: his not one, not three, not four, not five, not six,
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  Speaker 1: not seven, not eight, nine turnover performance. That is a
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  Speaker 1: meaty burrito, a blame with extra sloppy sauce, extra sloppy
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  Speaker 1: sauce in that blame burrito. Yeah. So look, he's filling
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  Speaker 1: the role plausibly, Castle of the Aaron Fox, and the
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  Speaker 1: way this is going, he certainly wasn't filling the role
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  Speaker 1: in terms of ball security. The way he was playing.
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  Speaker 1: He looked like he was auditioning to get traded to
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  Speaker 1: the Washington Wizards the way that he was performing here.
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  Speaker 1: Castle has racked up a mind boggling twenty turnovers in
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  Speaker 1: the first two games of the Western Finals. Now, I
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  Speaker 1: didn't play in the NBA. I'm told that's not good.
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  Speaker 1: He handed Castle, ok see the win in the game
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  Speaker 1: on Wednesday. You know, he reminded me of our friend
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  Speaker 1: and Femi, the great Uber each driver there in Minnesota
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  Speaker 1: because that was hand delivered. Well, here is the head
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  Speaker 1: coach of the San Antonio basketball team. And you probably
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  Speaker 1: don't know who this guy is because he's not that famous.
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  Speaker 1: Mitch Johnson is his name. Gimme the Johnson. Here's Mitch
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  Speaker 1: Johnson on the many mistakes of Stefan Castle. Take a listen.
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  Speaker 3: We've addressed it and will continue to just in terms
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  Speaker 3: of trying to help him with some of his reads,
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  Speaker 3: especially when he's tired, whether it's playing more off two
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  Speaker 3: feet or getting the ball, getting off the ball, excuse
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  Speaker 3: me earlier with the early pass and just letting the
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  Speaker 3: ball find op Man. They do such a great job
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  Speaker 3: of showing crowds in the payton, having multiple bodies and
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  Speaker 3: so it's not just Steph. You know, he had too
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  Speaker 3: many turnovers, but our whole team did.
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  Speaker 1: Sounds like he needs a throat laws and doesn't. He's
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  Speaker 1: got a little little tinge of Doc Rivers somewhere in there.
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  Speaker 1: A little bit. I like how the coaches like, wow,
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  Speaker 1: we worked with Stefan Castle and his turnovers, so he
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  Speaker 1: did improve he went from eleven turnovers to nine, so
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  Speaker 1: it's great. What's not to like. So the Spurs, obviously
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  Speaker 1: they needed a medieval castle in Game two, and instead
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  Speaker 1: they got a cheap sand castle crumbling at high tide
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  Speaker 1: from the suffocating Oklahoma City pressure. Although I would argue
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  Speaker 1: that many of those turnovers, as I noted on my
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  Speaker 1: notes app on my phone, were they were self inflicted,
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  Speaker 1: it wasn't because it was amazing lockdown defense by the Thunder.
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  Speaker 1: It was just a lot of bonehead basketball that's not
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  Speaker 1: particularly great. Possession I was told is nine tenths of
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  Speaker 1: victory and San Antonio surrendered all nine on that alone.
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  Speaker 1: Now we know, no dearon Fox, Oh my ankle couldn't
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  Speaker 1: play in either of the first two games. So much
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  Speaker 1: for rubbing some dirt on taking some iburprofen. You had
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  Speaker 1: Dylan Harper down, goes Harper and the Spurs are shorthanded,
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  Speaker 1: so I'm sure they're not going to use that as
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  Speaker 1: an excuse, right, Mitch Johnson, You can't use that as
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  Speaker 1: an excuse. Let's hear what you had to say. Let's
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  Speaker 1: take a listen.
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  Speaker 3: A ton you know, obviously this team is as good
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  Speaker 3: as anybody. It turned you over. So when you're down
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  Speaker 3: some of your primary creators and initiators, it causes a
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  Speaker 3: little bit of an extra strain, whether that's who to play,
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  Speaker 3: what to play, what to brunen, et cetera, et cetera,
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  Speaker 3: and what. We'll just have to be sharper in that
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  Speaker 3: area because it's it's tough.
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  Speaker 1: What happened to no excuses? Go go on craigslist or
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  Speaker 1: offer up see if you can find some players there. Anyway,
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  Speaker 1: the Spurs using the injuries like a rewards program at
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  Speaker 1: this particular point here, it's supposed to be next man up.
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  Speaker 1: Through your job, you keep depending on Castle to run
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  Speaker 1: the show. I guess he'll go down to seven turnovers
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  Speaker 1: in game three, and well the Spurs keep turning the
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  Speaker 1: ball over like that, you're gonna end up face down
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  Speaker 1: in the river walk and it's not gonna be pretty
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  Speaker 1: now Page two. So as the Wemby turns, because the
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  Speaker 1: Wemby is the world his impact. Now, to the casual observer,
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  Speaker 1: you will say, okay, well he had another amazing game
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  Speaker 1: twenty one points, seventeen rebound, six assists, four blocks, and
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  Speaker 1: a partridges in a pear tree that wasn't as sexy
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  Speaker 1: as Game one. However, if you watch the game, the
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  Speaker 1: impact of Wemby was very limited in this game, as
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  Speaker 1: former Clipper Isaiah Hartenstein was clutching and grabbing and holding
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  Speaker 1: Victor Wembanyama and jumping on top of him. And how
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  Speaker 1: physical was it? Well, it was so physical. The people
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  Speaker 1: over there at NBC put together and Isaiah Hartenstein highlight
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  Speaker 1: reel which was pretty much just clip after clip of
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  Speaker 1: him holding and grabbing and fouling Wemby. In fact, it
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  Speaker 1: got to the point where the broadcaster for the National
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  Speaker 1: Broadcasting Company, Reggie Miller said, quote, I guarantee you this
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  Speaker 1: on the broadcast. I guarantee you between all of the
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  Speaker 1: clenching Hartenstein has done versus Wemby, and and now that
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  Speaker 1: there was another play, the league is going to take
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  Speaker 1: a look, a long look close quote from Reggie Miller.
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  Speaker 1: So the question is this, did the thunder cross the
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  Speaker 1: line by dog piling on Victor win by Yama, who
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  Speaker 1: still ended up with twenty one points, but again muted
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  Speaker 1: the impact. So my answer, I've got two words. Hell no,
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  Speaker 1: it didn't cross the line. It's it's rather ridiculous. Right.
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  Speaker 1: The Parisian prodigy met Oklahoma Gravity and on that night,
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  Speaker 1: Gravity won and it wasn't like dirty and even by
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  Speaker 1: modern standards. Mark Dagnow, the coach there, played forty chess
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  Speaker 1: and the spurs kind of reading, what are we supposed
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  Speaker 1: to do here? I don't know, let's look it up
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  Speaker 1: on Wikipedia or something like that. So back in the
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  Speaker 1: old days we would call that good coaching by dag
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  Speaker 1: Now is good job by you adjustments the y and
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  Speaker 1: the yang and certainly didn't cross the line. They may
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  Speaker 1: have smudged the line, just like a little smudge right
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  Speaker 1: on the line there, and I don't know, they didn't
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  Speaker 1: stop on it. They're pretty much daring san Antonio to complain.
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  Speaker 1: And the way Wemby looked in Game one, it looked
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  Speaker 1: that there's no weakness. Well, everyone has a weakness, right,
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  Speaker 1: We're all human unless you're a lizard person and you're
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  Speaker 1: not or something like that. But every superstar has a weakness,
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  Speaker 1: and Wemby's is rather obvious. I mean, it just happens
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  Speaker 1: to be visible from the International Space Station. If you
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  Speaker 1: are built like a car antenna from the nineteen seventies,
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  Speaker 1: you're going to bend in the wind. That is going
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  Speaker 1: to happen here and Wemby. He's not Bronny. He is Scrotti.
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  Speaker 1: He's not Bronny, but he's Scrotti. And okay, see, finally
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  Speaker 1: in this game, they took advantage of that. They pushed
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  Speaker 1: him around. And if you're as skinny as a twig
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  Speaker 1: and Wemby is, I feel like I need to feed
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  Speaker 1: him steak or something like that. Get him an nice brisket.
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  Speaker 1: And if you're built that way, don't be shocked when
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  Speaker 1: teams start raking the leaves. The playoffs. Well, the regular
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  Speaker 1: season is designed for leisure. The playoffs are supposed to
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  Speaker 1: not be for whimps. You go out there and play,
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  Speaker 1: and this is the part of the season where we
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  Speaker 1: actually pay attention. You might want to add more protein
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  Speaker 1: otherwise you're going to continue to be pushed around. Now,
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  Speaker 1: if Wemby wants to stop getting dogpiled, he might want
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  Speaker 1: to He might want to go eat a ribbi or
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  Speaker 1: something like that. And I don't think it's okaysees job
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  Speaker 1: to protect him. Maybe it is. It's the officials. Now
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  Speaker 1: I understand how this works. You know, the thunder will
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  Speaker 1: continue to shove away. When Reggie Miller said the league
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  Speaker 1: will take a long look that's a dog whistle. That's
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  Speaker 1: NBA speak for we must protect the new golden boy,
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  Speaker 1: the Parisian prodigy. We cannot allow him to get pushed around.
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  Speaker 1: And if you're going to be the perfect big man,
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  Speaker 1: designed the combination of Tim Duncan and David Robinson and
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  Speaker 1: all these people, you gotta pay the strength tax. And
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  Speaker 1: right now Wemby is still he's filing for an extension
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  Speaker 1: on the strength tax. He is all right. Last words,
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  Speaker 1: we had a viral moment postgame which was hilarious. I
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  Speaker 1: would say ninety nine point nine percent of the time,
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  Speaker 1: these postgame interviews are a complete nothing burger, just a
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  Speaker 1: waste of time. I have a buddy of mine who
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  Speaker 1: used to be a very powerful newspaperman and was a
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  Speaker 1: big editor at a major newspaper, and he will text
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  Speaker 1: me all the time about how dumb the questions are postgame,
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  Speaker 1: What a complete waste of time, How did it feel?
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  Speaker 1: You know? That kind of stuff. So it's pretty much
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  Speaker 1: nothing to pay attention to. I just happened to have
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  Speaker 1: the TV on. I normally don't watch this stuff. I
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  Speaker 1: happen to have the TV on, And so Shay jogis
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  Speaker 1: Alexander on ANDBC was asked postgame about the impact Isaiah
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  Speaker 1: Hartenstein had Guardian Wemby. That's one of the storylines. We
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  Speaker 1: talked about him clutching and grabbing and holding Wemby and
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  Speaker 1: that seemed to certainly help out, and without missing a beat,
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  Speaker 1: SGA responded, I'm not sure if if it was good.
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  Speaker 1: To be honest, yeah is what he said. I was
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  Speaker 1: sure it was good, he said. Now. Moments later, when
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  Speaker 1: the reporter realized my god, this no name, reporters like, wait,
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  Speaker 1: we got something here, and so she followed up to
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  Speaker 1: break it down more, and SGA immediately pivoted and said
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  Speaker 1: it was all right, it was good. When asked the
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  Speaker 1: follow ups now Later in the interview room, the player
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  Speaker 1: Yogis Alexander tried to clarify again his comments about Hertenstein's teammate.
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  Speaker 1: He said, quote, I didn't really hear her, meaning the
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  Speaker 1: reporter for NBC, SGA said, and then once I realized
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  Speaker 1: what she said, I gave her the right answer. I
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  Speaker 1: heard it wrong what she said close quote all right? Question,
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  Speaker 1: what do you make of that interaction between the thunder
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  Speaker 1: MVP Shay jilgis Alexander on NBC When asked about his
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  Speaker 1: center Isaiah Hartenstein. So let's just stop right here and pause.
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  Speaker 1: I call time out, time out in the court here,
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  Speaker 1: or time out in the magic audio box. I swear
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  Speaker 1: all right, I'm not listen. I watched that. I rewatched
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  Speaker 1: it several times. He sga heard whoever that no name
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  Speaker 1: NBC lady was just fine, right, you don't lean in.
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  Speaker 1: He leaned in, He nodded, he reacted, you don't. You
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  Speaker 1: don't do all that, and then claim you didn't hear
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  Speaker 1: the question. But we have the audit. Let's go to
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  Speaker 1: the audit. Listen, we're gonna play it for you and
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  Speaker 1: listen to how all this went down. Take a listen.
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  Speaker 4: Law made a pivot defensively part on Wendy.
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  Speaker 1: What kind of impact did Isaiah have tonight? I'm not
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  Speaker 1: sure if it was good, to be honest, Yeah, break that.
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  Speaker 4: Down for me.
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  Speaker 1: Break that down for me. Why was this? It was alright?
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  Speaker 1: It was good. It was good. Oh it's great. So
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  Speaker 1: he nod, you can't see it because we're on radio.
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  Speaker 1: But he nodded, and he reacted, and then of course
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  Speaker 1: later claimed he didn't hear the question. What Shaye jogis
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  Speaker 1: Alexander actually missed was not the question. It was the
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  Speaker 1: approved answer is what he missed, which didn't load until
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  Speaker 1: about five seconds too late, unfortunately. And this was the
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  Speaker 1: classic athlete brain fart moment where you give the answer
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  Speaker 1: you're not supposed to give it at time you're not
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  Speaker 1: supposed to give it. You leak that out, and then
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  Speaker 1: the brand manager inside immediately panics. It's what happens when
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  Speaker 1: the sports cliche dot com firewall crashes mid sentence. You're like,
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  Speaker 1: oh crap, I gotta think of this on my own.
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  Speaker 1: I got I got this roll thedex of these sports
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  Speaker 1: cliche dot com quotes, you know, brought our a game.
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  Speaker 1: Both teams played hard. My man, all that and to
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  Speaker 1: me the dead giveaway and I go back to the
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  Speaker 1: FBI Handbook online. Shay's eyes, when asked for the follow up,
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  Speaker 1: went right up to the heavens. He looked up to
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  Speaker 1: the ceiling like he was desperately trying to search for
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  Speaker 1: the right script, like he realized he had the wrong script.
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  Speaker 1: And he wasn't confused, he was just kind of caught
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  Speaker 1: between a momentary flash of saying the thing you're not
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  Speaker 1: supposed to say and realizing, well, wait a minute. The
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  Speaker 1: NBA has a mandatory praise your teammate protocol. You know,
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  Speaker 1: if you do not praise your teammate, you're a bad human,
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  Speaker 1: you are. And all these guys, We've proven with these
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  Speaker 1: coaches that these guys are so soft they can't handle
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  Speaker 1: any criticism. So now it's a small drama. Absolutely, yeah,
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  Speaker 1: still a drama, right. It shows how the league has
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  Speaker 1: conditioned players to fear even the slightest deviation from the
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  Speaker 1: norm in terms of the narrative here and I thought
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  Speaker 1: his first day he said, yeah, he just kind of
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  Speaker 1: mucked up the game, and I don't know if he
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  Speaker 1: had really helped out the impact on it. It's like an
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  Speaker 1: honest answer. That's fine, it was human. And then his
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  Speaker 1: second answer was the corporate answer from the player there
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  Speaker 1: and so SGA he had the look of a guy thinking, ah, hell,
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  Speaker 1: I gotta clean this up. I gotta get a mop
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  Speaker 1: and a bucket. Scrub a dub dub, scrub a dub dub.
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  Speaker 1: We got a spell. There's a bit of a spill
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  Speaker 1: over here.
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  Speaker 1: The former and now current Steelers quarterback yet again, Aaron Rodgers. Now,
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  Speaker 1: Turn out, the lasts, the parties over, and that's all.
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  Speaker 1: The finish line is up ahead in January of twenty
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  Speaker 1: twenty seven, that's all, and likely before that. So when
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  Speaker 1: asked about this, Rogers said, yes, that's it. This is it,
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  Speaker 1: he said. Rogers when asked whether this would be his
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  Speaker 1: final season. Now, the part that stood out to me,
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  Speaker 1: the dragt Aft to return hallelujah. So that is all
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  Speaker 1: a good jumping off point. Let us discuss the question.
• 19:07
  Speaker 1: Aaron Rodgers at a news conference on Wednesday, crediting his
• 19:14
  Speaker 1: so far because we've seen no photos, we don't have
• 19:16
  Speaker 1: any information. She's, as far as I'm concerned, imaginary wife.
• 19:21
  Speaker 1: Rogers crediting his imaginary wife for helping him reach the
• 19:24
  Speaker 1: decision to play one more season in Pittsburgh before retirement.
• 19:29
  Speaker 1: So what is your read on this one? So I've
• 19:32
  Speaker 1: got Batman, super Villain, Duncan Run and couple's retreat, and
• 19:39
  Speaker 1: we will combine all of these things together and we're
• 19:42
  Speaker 1: gonna make some pirogis because when you're in Pittsburgh, you
• 19:47
  Speaker 1: gotta have that. And I also like the Pittsburgh salad. Now,
• 19:49
  Speaker 1: what is a Pittsburgh salad. It's just a salad, and
• 19:52
  Speaker 1: then you put some fries on top, and then it
• 19:54
  Speaker 1: becomes that's a turning point. Then it becomes a Pittsburgh soud.
• 19:56
  Speaker 1: And I just like the fact that they throw fries
• 19:59
  Speaker 1: on everything. It's a way to do it. You're living
• 20:01
  Speaker 1: the good life there in Pittsburgh. So number one one one,
• 20:05
  Speaker 1: one one one one, all right. So no, so this
• 20:10
  Speaker 1: is just Aaron Rodgers doing Aaron Rodgers things. At this point,
• 20:15
  Speaker 1: you don't listen to the guy. You need to translate
• 20:18
  Speaker 1: the guy, all right, what he's saying. Every single quote
• 20:21
  Speaker 1: reads like a ransom note written by a philosophy major.
• 20:26
  Speaker 1: He turned a comeback decision which really wasn't much of
• 20:30
  Speaker 1: a decision. He turned a comeback decision into a full
• 20:33
  Speaker 1: blown piece of art performance art Aaron Rodgers and got
• 20:38
  Speaker 1: a little sprinkling of the mysticism and the misdirection. And
• 20:43
  Speaker 1: now you add on the new actor that's entered the play.
• 20:46
  Speaker 1: The fake wife gets a cameo like it's season twelve
• 20:49
  Speaker 1: of a show that you're trying to figure out how
• 20:52
  Speaker 1: it got greenlit for all these years, and you're like,
• 20:54
  Speaker 1: what's going on with that? Apparently the so far imaginary
• 20:58
  Speaker 1: spouse has more influence on the Steelers' future, at least
• 21:03
  Speaker 1: their quarterback, than anyone who's with the team. Now, only
• 21:07
  Speaker 1: Rogers could cite this so far fictional character as a
• 21:12
  Speaker 1: deciding factor and have people not along, because there's a
• 21:17
  Speaker 1: lot of people that whatever you say, there's no critical thinking,
• 21:21
  Speaker 1: and you just believe everything. And there's a term for
• 21:24
  Speaker 1: that's called gullible. A lot of gullible people, and I
• 21:28
  Speaker 1: get it. It's sports, and so why are we bothering
• 21:30
  Speaker 1: paying that close attention to it. If somebody says something,
• 21:32
  Speaker 1: you just go with it. It's an article of faith.
• 21:34
  Speaker 1: And I'm like, well, no, these guys are lying all
• 21:36
  Speaker 1: the time. A lot of you just nod your head
• 21:38
  Speaker 1: and you're like okay, And you know, it's like, yeah,
• 21:41
  Speaker 1: I'm taking career advice from someone who I guess at
• 21:44
  Speaker 1: this point lives exclusively in his head, because I will
• 21:48
  Speaker 1: guarantee I've talked to some of the people in tabloid
• 21:50
  Speaker 1: business who are casual acquaintances of mine, and people snooping
• 21:55
  Speaker 1: around and they don't normally take that long defined people.
• 22:00
  Speaker 1: It's you know, in this world. They people at TMZ,
• 22:04
  Speaker 1: the Daily Mail, New York Post, the tabloids, the London tabloids.
• 22:08
  Speaker 1: They they write checks and normally when you're paid to play,
• 22:12
  Speaker 1: you get what you want. And they'd get a lot
• 22:15
  Speaker 1: of traffic and take up a lot of space on
• 22:19
  Speaker 1: the interweb if they can get photos and video of
• 22:22
  Speaker 1: Rogers alleged a wife, and so far they haven't been
• 22:25
  Speaker 1: able to do that, but Rogers just to expand on this,
• 22:28
  Speaker 1: so he's he's like a Batman super villain, the Riddler.
• 22:33
  Speaker 1: He is right, he speaks entirely in riddles. And then
• 22:36
  Speaker 1: you got Mike McCarthy and eating a HOGI and he
• 22:39
  Speaker 1: needs a Rosetta stone just to figure out if Rogers
• 22:43
  Speaker 1: is really going to show up to camp or he
• 22:45
  Speaker 1: might have some kind of podcast interview with Joe Rogan,
• 22:48
  Speaker 1: who knows. I have no idea, but Aaron loves the game.
• 22:52
  Speaker 1: I think he truly loves football. He hates the NFL.
• 22:54
  Speaker 1: He loves the game of football and weaponizes the ambig
• 23:01
  Speaker 1: the stealth mode, the gray areas of the NFL. This
• 23:06
  Speaker 1: isn't really football anymore. It's like a Bravo series with
• 23:09
  Speaker 1: shoulder pads, and supposedly this will be it. Of course,
• 23:12
  Speaker 1: we know how this works, and say Rogers does actually retire,
• 23:15
  Speaker 1: And then in twenty twenty seven, in week number five,
• 23:21
  Speaker 1: Patrick Mahomes gets hurt. He's out for the year, and
• 23:24
  Speaker 1: then the Chiefs say, hey, Aaron, how would you like
• 23:26
  Speaker 1: to come blake quarterback in Kansas City? Okay, maybe I will.
• 23:31
  Speaker 1: How this is going to go? So just because Rogers
• 23:33
  Speaker 1: claims he's going to retire, and who knows he could
• 23:35
  Speaker 1: go out and be a shining star this year unlikely
• 23:38
  Speaker 1: and say, well I changed my mind. Sad state of
• 23:41
  Speaker 1: affairs now, page two, The Hour of Aaron Rodgers. Another
• 23:46
  Speaker 1: question I have is just in general, Rogers has always
• 23:52
  Speaker 1: claimed that he does not like the attention, that he
• 23:56
  Speaker 1: doesn't want to be part of this world. He told
• 24:00
  Speaker 1: Pat McAfee, his bff eight for years, played grab ass
• 24:04
  Speaker 1: together and just nauseating conversation. But Rogers had said he
• 24:09
  Speaker 1: is I'm just gonna vanish. That's it. I don't want
• 24:12
  Speaker 1: the spotlight. I don't need the spotlight. I don't want
• 24:14
  Speaker 1: to be part of the spotlight. I'm just gonna go away.
• 24:16
  Speaker 1: So the question, are you surprised that Aaron Rodgers is
• 24:20
  Speaker 1: coming back for one last dance in Pittsburgh? So that's
• 24:26
  Speaker 1: gonna be a no for me. I'm not surprised despite
• 24:29
  Speaker 1: all of his public comments. If you want to understand
• 24:31
  Speaker 1: what's happening, you must check the instruction manual. Specifically, if
• 24:36
  Speaker 1: you go to page twenty six, section c one of
• 24:41
  Speaker 1: the Mister Rogers Passive Aggressive Handbook, you announce your retirement
• 24:47
  Speaker 1: while insisting you hate the attention. For a guy who
• 24:51
  Speaker 1: really despises the spotlight. He sure knows where the spotlight
• 24:55
  Speaker 1: is on stage, and he finds it. Like the man
• 24:58
  Speaker 1: who says he wants privacy is now, if I understand
• 25:02
  Speaker 1: the story right, is basically throwing himself into a year
• 25:07
  Speaker 1: long debutante ball like he's just gonna the whole year
• 25:10
  Speaker 1: is gonna be Hey, this is Aaron Rodgers' final game
• 25:13
  Speaker 1: in blank. It's a retirement towards. This not a retirement towards.
• 25:17
  Speaker 1: And that's what this is. You announced before the season,
• 25:19
  Speaker 1: you're retired at the end of the year, and then
• 25:22
  Speaker 1: everywhere you go on your last game here, your last
• 25:24
  Speaker 1: game there, and that's it. And again, this is a
• 25:28
  Speaker 1: guy that says he doesn't want attention, then builds a
• 25:31
  Speaker 1: float for himself and make sure that he's in the
• 25:34
  Speaker 1: catbird seat on top of the float. And he's retiring
• 25:37
  Speaker 1: like a guy who wants applause for not wanting applause. Listen,
• 25:42
  Speaker 1: I don't want applause. Give me applause. Okay, thank you. Now,
• 25:45
  Speaker 1: when you peel back the onion, you realize that the
• 25:48
  Speaker 1: onion is just staring at itself in the mirror at
• 25:52
  Speaker 1: this particular point. Now, the proper move unsolicited overnight talk
• 25:56
  Speaker 1: radio advice, the proper move. I have been a Duncan run.
• 26:02
  Speaker 1: I'm not talking about donuts. Tim Duncan retired from the
• 26:07
  Speaker 1: San Antonio Spurs with no fanfare, no confetti, There was
• 26:11
  Speaker 1: no news conference. Duncan retired in baggy dad jeans and
• 26:17
  Speaker 1: that was it. There was like an eight paragraph press
• 26:20
  Speaker 1: release that was sent out by the Spurs and then
• 26:22
  Speaker 1: he just walked away, became a Ganja man. And Rogers
• 26:26
  Speaker 1: he's retiring with a ring light. Tim Duncan retired with
• 26:30
  Speaker 1: like a plumber, clocking out and going down to the
• 26:33
  Speaker 1: local pub having some beers. Rogers is retiring like a
• 26:37
  Speaker 1: Broadway understudy who finally got the lead. And he says
• 26:41
  Speaker 1: he doesn't want attention the way I say I don't
• 26:44
  Speaker 1: really want that slice of delicious banana cream pie while
• 26:48
  Speaker 1: I'm holding my plate and fork and directing it towards
• 26:52
  Speaker 1: the person who's near the pie, just like that. And
• 26:55
  Speaker 1: if you don't want the spotlight, you don't schedule the spotlight.
• 26:58
  Speaker 1: This is not that difficult. And yet here we are
• 27:01
  Speaker 1: watching Rogers claim he wants no attention while choreographing like
• 27:07
  Speaker 1: it's a show in New York. There his own farewell parade.
• 27:12
  Speaker 1: So and again this is a guy that says he'll
• 27:15
  Speaker 1: disappear after football, that's it going away. Of course, right
• 27:19
  Speaker 1: after he finishes his farewell global tour, then he will
• 27:24
  Speaker 1: he will move on, all right, final point. So one
• 27:26
  Speaker 1: of the other things that stood out not to get
• 27:28
  Speaker 1: sidetracked the hour of Aaron Rodgers. So Rogers said that
• 27:31
  Speaker 1: he's one of the reasons he's back in Pittsburgh, not
• 27:34
  Speaker 1: only his imaginary wife, but he also said because of
• 27:37
  Speaker 1: coach Mike McCarthy. Rogers called it a quote full circle
• 27:42
  Speaker 1: moment to play for McCarthy for the first time in
• 27:46
  Speaker 1: a number of years twenty eighteen. I believe it was
• 27:47
  Speaker 1: the last time they were together, so reunited and it
• 27:50
  Speaker 1: feels so good. And after Mike Tomlin exited to NBC,
• 27:58
  Speaker 1: Rogers claimed that he was someone that suggested to Omar Khan,
• 28:04
  Speaker 1: the con man who's the GM there in Pittsburgh, that
• 28:07
  Speaker 1: the Steelers should consider Mike McCarthy. So this of course
• 28:11
  Speaker 1: goes against all of the reports in twenty eighteen and
• 28:14
  Speaker 1: twenty nineteen of a lot of friction between Rogers and
• 28:20
  Speaker 1: McCarthy in Green Bay, which is why McCarthy was out
• 28:24
  Speaker 1: that Rogers had had enough, and so they pulled the
• 28:27
  Speaker 1: plug on that. The question Aaron Rodgers making a declaration,
• 28:34
  Speaker 1: I'm staying in Pittsburgh in part because of Mike McCarthy,
• 28:37
  Speaker 1: the coach. Does this pass the smell test? Does it
• 28:42
  Speaker 1: pass the smell test? So please like the guy who
• 28:47
  Speaker 1: once it froze out, McCarthy like, I feel like this
• 28:50
  Speaker 1: is just gaslighting. I was behind these microphones and we
• 28:54
  Speaker 1: were talking about chronicling the story of all the subtle
• 28:58
  Speaker 1: shots that Rogers was directing towards McCarthy, and it was
• 29:01
  Speaker 1: mutual dislike. And now everyone's like, hey, we're Wilson Marshmallows
• 29:06
  Speaker 1: singing Kumbaya around the fire, Like, what's going on here?
• 29:09
  Speaker 1: Did I just imagine all of those monologues that we
• 29:13
  Speaker 1: did years ago of the problems the chasm at lambeau Field,
• 29:19
  Speaker 1: and now Rogers is like, oh, McCarthy and Rogers are
• 29:22
  Speaker 1: like soulmates, my fat ass. Yeah. I mean some solid
• 29:27
  Speaker 1: revisionist history right there. It's amazing how friction suddenly becomes family.
• 29:33
  Speaker 1: We are family, like the old Pittsburgh Pirates when the
• 29:36
  Speaker 1: market dries up. Now, just keeping it real here, Aaron
• 29:40
  Speaker 1: Rodgers is trying to sell us a beautiful storybook reunion. However,
• 29:47
  Speaker 1: all right, however, everyone in the room knows the actual truth.
• 29:50
  Speaker 1: This isn't a heartwarming reunion. It's Vince Vaughn's movie from
• 29:55
  Speaker 1: years ago, Couple Retreat, the couple's retreat there. It's like
• 29:58
  Speaker 1: a remix the Last Resort love story, if you will.
• 30:01
  Speaker 1: Pittsburgh was simply the last bar that was open and
• 30:05
  Speaker 1: would serve Aaron Rodgers. He didn't have anywhere else to go. Realistic,
• 30:09
  Speaker 1: You're not gonna play for the Cardinals despite your buddy
• 30:12
  Speaker 1: being there. Come on, so there was only one chair there,
• 30:16
  Speaker 1: and the music stopped, and we all know the game
• 30:19
  Speaker 1: of musical chairs. When the music stops, what do you do?
• 30:22
  Speaker 2: Ding ding ding ding ding.
• 30:23
  Speaker 1: That is correct. So it's just the classic circle of life,
• 30:28
  Speaker 1: when you run out of options, when you have nowhere
• 30:31
  Speaker 1: else to turn, nowhere else to go, you end up
• 30:33
  Speaker 1: right back where someone will still take your text messages
• 30:38
  Speaker 1: and your calls and not ghost you. You understand, no
• 30:44
  Speaker 1: ghosting at all. Just say no, no, no to the ghost.
• 30:49
  Speaker 2: Be sure to catch live editions of The Ben Meller
• 30:51
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• 30:55
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• 30:57
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• 30:59
  Speaker 2: To the third day?
• 31:00
  Speaker 1: Are koble Wu gets great?
• 31:05
  Speaker 4: Cam Skataboo had six hundred and seventeen yards and seven
• 31:08
  Speaker 4: touchdowns one hundred and twenty five carries for the Giants
• 31:10
  Speaker 4: in his rookie season. Skataboo does not consider that a success.
• 31:13
  Speaker 4: He told reporters this week that when he plays seventeen
• 31:16
  Speaker 4: plus games this year, it'll be three hundred carries for
• 31:18
  Speaker 4: over two thousand yards. Ben, do you think Skataboo has
• 31:22
  Speaker 4: that ability?
• 31:23
  Speaker 1: I heard he's pretty good with the joystick, so I
• 31:25
  Speaker 1: think on the video game he'll be fine, like actually
• 31:27
  Speaker 1: doing that in the real NFL. No, because a Jim
• 31:30
  Speaker 1: Harbaugh is going to rotate or Jim harb but John
• 31:32
  Speaker 1: Harbaugh is going to rotate running backs with the Giants
• 31:35
  Speaker 1: and be Skataboy is not going to stay healthy, so
• 31:36
  Speaker 1: forget about it.
• 31:37
  Speaker 4: Next, Bills wide receiver Keon Coleman admitted to reporters this
• 31:40
  Speaker 4: week that he knows that this is a make or
• 31:41
  Speaker 4: break season for him and that he could be off
• 31:43
  Speaker 4: the Bills if he doesn't produce at a higher level. Ben,
• 31:46
  Speaker 4: do you think Coleman will make it or break it.
• 31:49
  Speaker 1: I believe Keon Coleman will be on a different NFL
• 31:52
  Speaker 1: team by the beginning of the season. He will not
• 31:55
  Speaker 1: even end up making the team out of training camp.
• 31:58
  Speaker 1: That they'll just get rid of him. He is such
• 31:59
  Speaker 1: a disaster. Koople Loop this is the owner called him out.
• 32:04
  Speaker 1: He was a healthy scratch for like three or four
• 32:07
  Speaker 1: games last year. I don't think all of a sudden
• 32:09
  Speaker 1: you figure it out. He's already in the doghouse. I
• 32:11
  Speaker 1: don't know why they kept him in the first place.
• 32:13
  Speaker 4: Next on Tuesday, the NCAA's Committee on Access, Opportunity and
• 32:16
  Speaker 4: Impact voted to recommend that a National Collegiate Flag Football
• 32:20
  Speaker 4: Championship be added for a Division one, two, and three.
• 32:23
  Speaker 4: Then do you think a flag football championship will end
• 32:25
  Speaker 4: up being a thing in college sports?
• 32:26
  Speaker 1: Well? Like, will it be a thing? Yeah? Will it
• 32:29
  Speaker 1: be a thing people care about?
• 32:30
  Speaker 2: No?
• 32:32
  Speaker 1: This is everyone's wet drim. They they're convinced that the NFL,
• 32:35
  Speaker 1: and I guess college as well, that if they have
• 32:37
  Speaker 1: these flag football things, they'll limit injuries, and they'll limit
• 32:40
  Speaker 1: lawsuits and all that. I don't think they understand how
• 32:43
  Speaker 1: lawyers operate. They're gonna still sue you. They're not gonna
• 32:45
  Speaker 1: stop suing you. How do we do a cubolo? You
• 32:47
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• 33:05
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• 33:10
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• 33:14
  Speaker 1: Man, No way we go providing wisdom for the great unwashed. Here, yes,
• 33:20
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• 33:26
  Speaker 1: questions are answers, bringing a lot of gumption to the radio,
• 33:30
  Speaker 1: and now the Kooper loop with the reading of the questions.
• 33:36
  Speaker 4: All right, We're gonna start off with a question from Alf,
• 33:39
  Speaker 4: the Alien opiner.
• 33:41
  Speaker 1: I've met him, Hi, Alf, Yeah, I mean too uh.
• 33:44
  Speaker 4: He wants to know where's your favorite place to stay
• 33:48
  Speaker 4: in Vegas when you're footing the bill not comped.
• 33:53
  Speaker 1: I like, well, if I'm paying the bill and I
• 33:57
  Speaker 1: have endless money, I'd stay at the Circle H in
• 34:02
  Speaker 1: Old Vegas, Downtown Vegas whatever they call it there. I
• 34:06
  Speaker 1: love that hotel because it's clean, it's new, it's nice.
• 34:09
  Speaker 1: They have a massive sports book. If I'm going cheap,
• 34:12
  Speaker 1: I'll stay at like the Plaza, because that's a really
• 34:15
  Speaker 1: seedy place in Vegas. I'll go stay there. What about you, Lorena?
• 34:19
  Speaker 5: Yeah, if I'm footing the bill, I'm out with the
• 34:20
  Speaker 5: homeless people on the sidewalk, my guy, No, I'm kidding.
• 34:25
  Speaker 1: Cook is really good. There used to be a Greyhound
• 34:28
  Speaker 1: bus station right near the Plaza, which was the most
• 34:30
  Speaker 1: depressing place I've ever been. I don't know if it's
• 34:32
  Speaker 1: still there.
• 34:33
  Speaker 5: You know, But if you know, maybe you have a
• 34:34
  Speaker 5: flight that leaves in an odd time, or you don't
• 34:36
  Speaker 5: want to get a place, you know, you could always
• 34:38
  Speaker 5: find somewhere cozy in a casino to chill for a bit.
• 34:40
  Speaker 5: But no, Cook gets really good deals.
• 34:42
  Speaker 1: Well yeah, he gambles a I WoT with Koopa? Where
• 34:44
  Speaker 1: do you stay? What's your go to MGM? Where do
• 34:46
  Speaker 1: you go? Park? MGM?
• 34:49
  Speaker 4: Whether whether or not I'm calmed, that is that is
• 34:52
  Speaker 4: my go to place because it is entirely non smoking.
• 34:57
  Speaker 1: Gotcha, all right? That is huge? Next, what do we got?
• 35:02
  Speaker 4: Shane and des Moines would like to know if you
• 35:04
  Speaker 4: could get an all expenses paid trip to a meet
• 35:06
  Speaker 4: and greet in another country.
• 35:08
  Speaker 1: Where would you go? Well, I'd like to go to
• 35:13
  Speaker 1: New Zealand, Australia. I haven't really been anywhere, so any place.
• 35:18
  Speaker 1: I don't know that I want to go to Pyongyang
• 35:20
  Speaker 1: right now, Probably not. I don't think I RAN's off
• 35:22
  Speaker 1: the list. Yeah, I'd like to just go check out
• 35:25
  Speaker 1: places and places I haven't been. But I used to
• 35:28
  Speaker 1: do a lot of radio stuff in New Zealand, so
• 35:29
  Speaker 1: I'd like to check that out. Or Australia that would
• 35:31
  Speaker 1: be fun. What about you, Lorena?
• 35:33
  Speaker 5: Yeah, I'm thinking Australia myself.
• 35:36
  Speaker 1: All right, Perth, Australia. What about you, Coop?
• 35:39
  Speaker 4: I would have to agree, Like Shane says, I'm assuming
• 35:41
  Speaker 4: Coop would go to Italy. But I do love Italy,
• 35:44
  Speaker 4: but I have been there before, So I think I
• 35:47
  Speaker 4: would pick Australia just because I want to go there,
• 35:50
  Speaker 4: but it's not like high on my list of places
• 35:53
  Speaker 4: that I'm going to pay to go.
• 35:55
  Speaker 1: Yeah, and we've been on. We've been on in Australia
• 35:57
  Speaker 1: for years for some reason they put us on.
• 36:00
  Speaker 4: And there's you know, there's a few like famous you
• 36:04
  Speaker 4: know listeners that I would like to meet out there.
• 36:08
  Speaker 1: There you go. Okay, what is next year's ask? Ben?
• 36:10
  Speaker 1: Your questions are answers. If you like this bit, we
• 36:13
  Speaker 1: do it every week at this time. Have you hate
• 36:14
  Speaker 1: the bit? It's only once a week, so who they
• 36:15
  Speaker 1: have cares next? All right?
• 36:18
  Speaker 4: The King Rory would like to know have you ever
• 36:21
  Speaker 4: r have you ever had to put out a fire?
• 36:26
  Speaker 1: Well, not a real fire, it's you know, the kitchen.
• 36:29
  Speaker 1: There's been a few times the flames shot up something.
• 36:33
  Speaker 1: There was a paper towel and some other stuff that
• 36:35
  Speaker 1: caught on fire. But that's not a real fire. So
• 36:37
  Speaker 1: I'm gonna I'm gonna go. No, those are just those
• 36:39
  Speaker 1: are like temporary, holy crap moments, Lorena see book.
• 36:44
  Speaker 5: So well, the one time I did, I was making
• 36:47
  Speaker 5: chicken strips and I had the oil way too hot
• 36:50
  Speaker 5: and it literally shot up in flames and I didn't
• 36:52
  Speaker 5: know what to do. I I you know, I was
• 36:54
  Speaker 5: so new to cooking, and I decided to throw water
• 36:57
  Speaker 5: on the oil and really bad.
• 36:59
  Speaker 1: I Yeah, it's just generally they don't teach you to that.
• 37:03
  Speaker 1: What about you, Coop, Uh, same as you. It was
• 37:05
  Speaker 1: not you know, it was at a party.
• 37:07
  Speaker 4: Somebody opened a box of Portos over a candle, and
• 37:11
  Speaker 4: then the box of Portos lit on fire. Yeah.
• 37:16
  Speaker 1: Well, the funniest story was actually at Fox Sports Radio.
• 37:19
  Speaker 1: There was an accident and I don't know if you
• 37:20
  Speaker 1: were here, coop out on the street and this car
• 37:23
  Speaker 1: was on fire and one of the producers got the
• 37:25
  Speaker 1: smoke what do you call it? The ye put out
• 37:28
  Speaker 1: the fire, and the company center memo, don't do that.
• 37:31
  Speaker 1: You know how expensive it is to put that back.
• 37:36
  Speaker 1: I swear to god, they complained it was it was
• 37:40
  Speaker 1: the fun. The guy's a hero, he's getting he yelled
• 37:42
  Speaker 1: at by management.