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Hour 1 - Holiday Debacle · The Ben Maller Show

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Speaker 1: Here we go. Welcome, It's our numb bur w our
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Speaker 1: number one of the original Recipe podcast. Happy Monday to you.
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Speaker 1: It is the twelfth day of May. We stayed up
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Speaker 1: all night to provide you with this fresh pod. Yeah,
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Speaker 1: you had a great Mother's Day weekend. Here in our
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Speaker 1: number one was we'll start with basketball. Was this game
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Speaker 1: more about the Pacers dominance or the calves and competence?
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Speaker 1: Blowout City in the NBA playoffs? Also down three to
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Speaker 1: one in the Eastern Conference semi finals. How much trouble
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Speaker 1: are the Donovan Mitchell's calves in? I'll also take a
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Speaker 1: look at Mitchell's injury status. Celtics star Jason Tatum is
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Speaker 1: now getting called out after fans have accused him of
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Speaker 1: stealing Kawhi Leonard's celebration. How do you evaluate this one?
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Speaker 1: We'll talk about that and much more right now as
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Speaker 1: you settle in. This is just our one. There's three
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Speaker 1: more hours ago after this, but here it is our
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Speaker 1: number one. A holiday debacle? What was that that was
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Speaker 1: hour is from the pro Bouncy Ball Playoffs playoffs. Uh yeah. Now,
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Speaker 1: normally the anticipation is what both teams are going to
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Speaker 1: show up and they're going to compete. We've had some
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Speaker 1: real does. We had a stretch of amazing NBA playoff
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Speaker 1: games and the last couple of days some no shows,
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Speaker 1: some no shows, and that is our lead. Here will
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Speaker 1: start out in the Hoosier State. The late game on
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Speaker 1: Mother's Day, Game four of the Eastern Conference Semifinals. Donovan Mitchell,
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Speaker 1: Spider Mitchell, he's aw he's so guided. Uh you tell
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Speaker 1: the stats are great, Spider Mitchell, but his teams never
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Speaker 1: do anything going back to days with the Utah jess.
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Speaker 1: So there is Spider Mitchell, the Cavaliers trying to even
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Speaker 1: things up against the Indiana Pacers. That was the nightcap,
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Speaker 1: the late game. And was it worth a watch? No,
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Speaker 1: I don't know if you were watching or not. It was.
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Speaker 1: I mean I was, but I have no choice. Part
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Speaker 1: of the job. You're supposed to be part of the job.
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Speaker 1: Pascal Siakam got to make sure I say that name right.
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Speaker 1: Thanks to our friend Marcel and Brooklyn. Pascal Siakam twenty
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Speaker 1: one points. The Pacers never trailed. This is a Harvard
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Speaker 1: boat race situation. They led by over forty and halftime
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Speaker 1: they tied the record for the biggest halftime lead in
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Speaker 1: playoff history. They were about forty one points, and they
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Speaker 1: added on to that. They were a by forty four
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Speaker 1: points at one point. They win one twenty nine to
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Speaker 1: one oh nine, a twenty point win, which was not
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Speaker 1: indicative how the game was actually played. So they get
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Speaker 1: it done. The Pacers are now up three games to
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Speaker 1: one in the Eastern Conference semifinals. Upstart Indiana and the
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Speaker 1: Calves had their guys. They were there and they didn't
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Speaker 1: show up. My god, all right, So let us discuss
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Speaker 1: the question for the esteem panel here as you look
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Speaker 1: at that Pacers and Calves game. Was this game more
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Speaker 1: about the global domination of the Indiana Pacers who took
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Speaker 1: a can of what pass to the Cleveland basketball team?
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Speaker 1: Or was it by the total systemic incompetence of the Cavaliers.
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Speaker 1: So my thoughts on this, I have Nike, good doctor,
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Speaker 1: and feline, and we'll combine all of these things together
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Speaker 1: and we are going to make delicious breadsticks. Is what
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Speaker 1: we're gonna make. So a my default position, my default position,
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Speaker 1: which rarely changed out, does change everyone's one every once
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Speaker 1: in a while. I will go away from my default position.
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Speaker 1: By my default position is what that's right. My default
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Speaker 1: position is most games are lost, they're not one. The
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Speaker 1: better story is in the losing locker room. That has
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Speaker 1: been my position, that will continue to be my position.
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Speaker 1: And on this game, I'm not changing my position. As
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Speaker 1: good as the Pacers played, and they were running and gunning,
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Speaker 1: and the Calves were stumbling and bumbling, but that's because
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Speaker 1: of the Cavs stumbling in public. The Cavs were not
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Speaker 1: only an NBA team, they were terrible. As the lion
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Speaker 1: goes right, there's really no other way to say. And
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Speaker 1: that's an understatement. I will maintain till my last breath
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Speaker 1: in this mortal coil that it is impossible. There's not
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Speaker 1: that big a gap between teams. If both teams are
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Speaker 1: playing competent basketball, you're never going to have a game
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Speaker 1: end up where one team has a forty point lead
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Speaker 1: over No, it's certainly not a playoff game. But Wausers,
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Speaker 1: it's an understatement to say they were terrible. They were
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Speaker 1: worse than terrible. It was a tortch level, uninspired performance.
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Speaker 1: And you know that means. That means, as John Tortorelli
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Speaker 1: so famously said the hockey coach, they sucked from head
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Speaker 1: to toe. They sucked at a time you cannot suck,
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Speaker 1: which is when the game started. Cleveland playing like they
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Speaker 1: were play a regular season game, and it was the
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Speaker 1: end of a road trip and they wanted to get
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Speaker 1: back and they had a lot on their mind. They
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Speaker 1: played in second gear. Then you have Spider Mitchell out there.
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Speaker 1: You had in the first half, you had Spider Mitchell,
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Speaker 1: he was out there. Darius Garland, Evan Mobley, those are
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Speaker 1: the three horsemen of the apocalypse for the Cavaliers. Here
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Speaker 1: the headliners in the land, and they played toothless. They
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Speaker 1: played gutless basketball in the first half. If you were
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Speaker 1: to describe it as a item, it would be a
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Speaker 1: dirty diaper performance, a dirty diaper performance. They were out
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Speaker 1: hustled by the Pacers and as a result, Indiana made
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Speaker 1: some shots and then the snowball effects started taking place
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Speaker 1: where there was a here and a push there, and
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Speaker 1: the Calves did not respond and they were essentially the
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Speaker 1: Cleveland Cavaliers were play though, right, They were play though
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Speaker 1: for the Pacers there they were putty in the hands
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Speaker 1: of the Indiana basketball team and Cleveland, I'm pretty sure
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Speaker 1: they had this new concept sneaker from Nike, the air
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Speaker 1: cement shoe. They looked like, did it look I don't
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Speaker 1: mean maybe you didn't see the game or didn't hear
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Speaker 1: the game, or you I mean, you're just taking my
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Speaker 1: my brilliant analysis. But I'm telling you we've seen this
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Speaker 1: several times over the last week where one team looks
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Speaker 1: like they're playing a totally different game at a totally
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Speaker 1: different speed. Cleveland was in second gear and the Pacers
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Speaker 1: were not, and all the effort all that, like the
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Speaker 1: calves were weighted down, they were utterly ineffective, and like
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Speaker 1: all the effort plays went in favor of Indiana. And
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Speaker 1: then by the time Cleveland woke up, the game was
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Speaker 1: already over, so it didn't really matter at that point.
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Speaker 1: But you look at the fifty to fifty balls, Oh
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Speaker 1: that's picked. Always love those fifty to fifty balls. But
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Speaker 1: points in the paint, second chance points, the fast break statistic,
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Speaker 1: all those different stats within stats all went in favor
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Speaker 1: of Indiana. Now, page two, So you're down three to
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Speaker 1: one in the Eastern Conference semi finals. How much trouble
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Speaker 1: are the Donovan Mitchell caves in at this point? So
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Speaker 1: here's the issue, Right, they're not gonna win this series.
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Speaker 1: Indiana Pacers are gonna win this series. Their fighting history
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Speaker 1: is what they're doing the Cavaliers. Right, I'm declaring the
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Speaker 1: Pacers are going to win. That's a bold take. Up
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Speaker 1: three to one. Now NBA teams leading three to one
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Speaker 1: in a best of seven series, It's happened two hundred
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Speaker 1: and ninety three times that have finished the series, and
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Speaker 1: of those two hundred ninety three times, two hundred and
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Speaker 1: eighty of the times it has gone the way of
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Speaker 1: the team up three to one, which my computer like
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Speaker 1: tells me is a ninety six percent winning percentage. We
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Speaker 1: round up ninety five point six, we round up to
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Speaker 1: ninety six percent, so ninety six percent in favor of
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Speaker 1: the team up three to one winning. Now, that tells
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Speaker 1: you what has happened, not what's going to happen. Now,
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Speaker 1: even though Indiana's going to win this series, let's just
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Speaker 1: try to help out the Cavaliers. Why not, let's help
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Speaker 1: out the cavaliers. So what does Cleveland need to turn
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Speaker 1: things around? The answer is a good doctor, and not
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Speaker 1: because of Spider Mitchell and his situation. We'll get to
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Speaker 1: that in a minute. Not because of that. No, No,
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Speaker 1: what they need is Rick Carlile to catch the neural virus. Okay,
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Speaker 1: this is the key. I thought this all out. Okay,
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Speaker 1: as I had a long drive, there's a lot of
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Speaker 1: traffic for some I do an overnight sho Why is
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Speaker 1: there traffic? It should be traffic. It was like Mother's
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Speaker 1: Day traffic coming in. I do an over nation. Why
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Speaker 1: why would they be? I don't get it anyway, So
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Speaker 1: I had a lot of time to think as I
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Speaker 1: was making my way in. And if Rick Carlile can
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Speaker 1: get the neural virus and for some reason the Pace
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Speaker 1: don't elevate an assistant they bring in. They get the
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Speaker 1: Bucks to fire Doc Rivers, which hasn't happened yet. Then
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Speaker 1: they bring Doc Rivers in as the interim coach. Then
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Speaker 1: then the Calves are in really good shape, right, doctor, doctor,
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Speaker 1: give me the news.
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Speaker 2: I mean.
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Speaker 1: Doc Rivers by himself is responsible for almost twenty five
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Speaker 1: percent of the choke jobs up three to one where
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Speaker 1: a team blew it in NBA history. One man, one man,
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Speaker 1: stands atop all of the men when it comes to
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Speaker 1: blowing series up three to one. Doc Rivers the only
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Speaker 1: NBA coach with multiple blown three to one leaves. He's
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Speaker 1: done three of those masterpieces in his career. That's twenty
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Speaker 1: three percent of all three to one series blown in
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Speaker 1: NBA history. Nobody else has done it more than once.
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Speaker 1: Doc Rivers, and he's still getting a checked. He's still
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Speaker 1: getting a check in the NBA. I digress. So Cleveland
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Speaker 1: just do better, be better. You're gonna lose any way,
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Speaker 1: But who cares? All right now? Donovan Mitchell his injury
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Speaker 1: the cherry on top of the crap tastics on it.
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Speaker 1: But is it a real injury or is it? My god,
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Speaker 1: we're getting our ass kicked. I don't feel like playing.
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Speaker 1: I'm going to say I'm out. I haven't. He's gonna
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Speaker 1: have an MRI. So that means it's real. Okay, it's
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Speaker 1: it's real, Sure it is. Why not? But here's the problem.
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Speaker 1: Even with the numbers Mitchells put up, he didn't do
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Speaker 1: anything in the first half, nobody did for the Calves,
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Speaker 1: and he's had some big playoff games. Here's some big
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Speaker 1: stat lines. It's it. I got the vibe. It's like
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Speaker 1: it's Dak Prescott, like like the numbers look good, but
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Speaker 1: you just don't not in the context of winning. I
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Speaker 1: get that vibe from Donovan Mitchell. I had the same
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Speaker 1: vibe when he was in Utah. It's like he's a
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Speaker 1: good stat guy. But it doesn't really seem to matter
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Speaker 1: all that much. All right now? Last word, So over
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Speaker 1: the weekend. Honestly, maybe can rehash the the Celtics Knicks game,
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Speaker 1: but I like, eh, there's really nothing there. The Celtics
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Speaker 1: molly wopped the Knicks. It wasn't a total blowout and
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Speaker 1: all that, but the Celtics in a make or miss league,
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Speaker 1: they made their three point shots that they'd missed all
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Speaker 1: of them. It seemed at back in Boston and then
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Speaker 1: Madison Square Garden, different garden, different garden, party, and they
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Speaker 1: were making So there's not a lot to dissect on that.
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Speaker 1: If they make them, the Knicks have no chance. It's
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Speaker 1: forget about it now. Jason Tatum, though, this is a
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Speaker 1: good talk. So I don't know if he saw it
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Speaker 1: or not, but Jason Tatum is getting called out for
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Speaker 1: something that he did. I guess he's actually been doing it,
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Speaker 1: but it got more attention in the game against the Knickerbockers.
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Speaker 1: He's been accused by internet investigators of stealing stealing another
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Speaker 1: star players celebration. That's right, Jason Tatum has been put
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Speaker 1: on blast. The astro blasters are out because Jason Tatum
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Speaker 1: taking the proprietary blend of Kawhi Leonard and his celebration.
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Speaker 1: So how do you avoweight the accusations, the charges against
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Speaker 1: Jason Tatum for stealing another star players celebratory act. All right,
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Speaker 1: So I looked at this. I put this in the
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Speaker 1: Petri dish. I dusted off the Malard microscope to look
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Speaker 1: at it. And in honor of Jerry Jones, we decided
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Speaker 1: to circumcise the mosquito and take a deep dive on it.
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Speaker 1: So we determined, based on the evidence that was available
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Speaker 1: to us, that Jason Tatum. We asked the question, what
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Speaker 1: type of feline is Jason Tatum? You think of the
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Speaker 1: big cat. There's so many different breeds of cats. You've
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Speaker 1: got the Persian cat, the Bengal, the Siamese, the main
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Speaker 1: coon cat. You've got a lot of different cats out there, right,
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Speaker 1: But Jason Tatum is the It turns out he's the copycat.
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Speaker 1: That's what he is. Right again. I mean, I feel
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Speaker 1: like we're back, maybe the finals when the Celtics won
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Speaker 1: last summer, and it was all about Jason Tatum's lack
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Speaker 1: of originality. After the the Celtics won, and here we
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Speaker 1: are yet again, is on court antics with the Celtics.
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Speaker 1: Jason Tatum no ifs ands or butts about it. After
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Speaker 1: a thorough minutes long Mallor investigation, we have concluded beyond
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Speaker 1: a reasonable doubt that Jason Tatum absolutely mimicked the Clipper
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Speaker 1: star Kawhi Leonard, his signature hand salute celebration that goes
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Speaker 1: all the way back to the San Antonio Spurs vintage
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Speaker 1: of Kawhi Leonard back in the day that twenty fourteen
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Speaker 1: spursed him. So it's over a decade old. Kawhi doesn't
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Speaker 1: do it as much anymore, but occasionally does it, and
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Speaker 1: he did it in Toronto. So there you go. Now
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Speaker 1: you can add this one to the list. You can
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Speaker 1: add this one to the list. After remember then the
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Speaker 1: Celtics won the championship in O four. He Jason Tatum
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Speaker 1: being he recreated the Kevin Garnett anything Is Possible moment
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Speaker 1: like he had that he'd been watching that clip on
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Speaker 1: his phone before the game and he recreated that. He
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Speaker 1: also po posed for the traditional finals photo after this championship,
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Speaker 1: and he very similar to the like he was ripping
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Speaker 1: off a Michael Jordan classic photo that goes way back
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Speaker 1: to early nineties, a long time ago. So it's fair
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Speaker 1: to say again Jason Tatum, the type of cat he
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Speaker 1: is he's a copycat and he likes to repurpose, recycle celebrations.
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Speaker 1: And as the quote goes, imitation is the highest form
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Speaker 1: of flattery. Jason Tatum is a master at imitation. So
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Speaker 1: there's clearly some high flattery. Who will he copy next?
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Speaker 1: So an NBA star was called out for been a
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Speaker 1: coward front runner coward player hid from the media like
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Speaker 1: a coward would, but when the team wins, the players
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Speaker 1: right out in front with the smile on his face
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Speaker 1: and just the happiest guy in the world when team wins,
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Speaker 1: it talking about the NBA card, the Calves and no show,
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Speaker 1: and we'll get to the speaking of no show. Both
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Speaker 1: teams didn't show up in the first half of the Denver,
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Speaker 1: Indiana game or Denver an Oklahoma City game, and some
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Speaker 1: people email me literally got Jeff and Denver's gonna call up.
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Speaker 1: I bet he doesn't call up. They got smoked. He's
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Speaker 1: not gonna go Okay, they ain't smoked. They didn't make
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Speaker 1: many shots and things are not looking particularly good for
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Speaker 1: the Nuggets, and he didn't call in. How about the Indiana?
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Speaker 1: Pacer crowd erupting with chance of we want we want Boston.
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Speaker 1: They want the cel They want that smoke from the
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Speaker 1: Celtics is what they want the Indiana. They're already done
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Speaker 1: with Cleveland. They're ready to take on the Celtics and
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Speaker 1: take them up. Coming up in a couple of as
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Speaker 1: we had some audio. We're gonna play it for you
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Speaker 1: from a star player in the NBA who hid from
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Speaker 1: the media like a coward after a poor performance, and
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Speaker 1: then when they win, he's always out in front. That's
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Speaker 1: known as a show pony. That's known also as a
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Speaker 1: front runner is what that's known as. Now, back in
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Speaker 1: the old days, we used to look down upon that.
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Speaker 1: But I know you were wokesters out. They love that
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Speaker 1: kind of thing. Apparently you're all into it, but I
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Speaker 1: still get annoyed by it. So let's go to the phones.
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Speaker 1: Let's say hello to Steve, who's in the OC and
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Speaker 1: he's up first. Hello, Steve, welcome.
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Speaker 4: Hey, how are you a short time?
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Speaker 5: Long time?
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Speaker 4: Anyway?
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Speaker 5: You know, I'm a big Catholic over here. We have
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Speaker 5: But I know the new pope is from Chicago and
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Speaker 5: a big White Sox fan. You think before he goes
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Speaker 5: to bed and does his prayers or talks to the
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Speaker 5: other cardinals or is it the Vatican, he's gonna pray
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Speaker 5: for the White Sox to win a World Series.
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Speaker 1: Well, you would have to answer that better than me.
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Speaker 1: I would think, when you become the Pope, do you
20:42
Speaker 1: have to give up your allegiance to the White Sox,
20:44
Speaker 1: Like you're that's a high the highest position you can have, right,
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Speaker 1: Can you still be a White Sox fan?
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Speaker 5: Like?
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Speaker 1: Is he going to be going out to the ballpark
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Speaker 1: eating nachos watching the White Sox as the Pope? I don't.
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Speaker 1: I don't think so, right, I think you got to
20:55
Speaker 1: give that up.
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Speaker 4: I think they actually have footage of him going to a.
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Speaker 1: White well yeah, yeah, yeah, that's true. That was twenty
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Speaker 1: years ago. He was going. He was probably listening to
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Speaker 1: the show because we were on in Chicago twenty years ago.
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Speaker 1: After the White Sox won the World Series, so he
21:07
Speaker 1: was probably a listener. But he's not, you know, he's
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Speaker 1: hanging out the Vatican. Maybe they'll build him a papal suite.
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Speaker 1: Is that what it's called? Papal sweet?
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Speaker 5: Is that?
21:16
Speaker 1: Is that the right word? I don't I'm not.
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Speaker 6: I feel like it should be papel.
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Speaker 1: Do the White Sox have to Now, if you're a Catholic,
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Speaker 1: do you have to pull for the White Sox because
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Speaker 1: that's the Pope's team? Do we have to do we
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Speaker 1: need the White Sox to win if you're Catholic? That's
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Speaker 1: the question.
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Speaker 4: Well, I think they're going to show his face when
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Speaker 4: they you know, uh, you know, at the stretch, they're
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Speaker 4: going to show the Pope.
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Speaker 1: Well, has the Pope ever I don't know this, maybe
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Speaker 1: it's happened. Has the Pope ever thrown out the first
21:42
Speaker 1: pitch at the baseball game?
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Speaker 5: Wow? They you know what?
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Speaker 4: Maybe you should text him or email him.
21:49
Speaker 1: Yeah, I'm sure he'll answer Mike. Of course he'll answer
21:51
Speaker 1: my and my message is right away, get right back
21:54
Speaker 1: at the bottom of it.
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Speaker 4: Yeah, as long as he took at Baba boo, I'm
21:57
Speaker 4: sure he'll be fine.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, Well, Baba booe. Well, Baba boys was off to
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Speaker 1: like the let But who was the other guy? Fifty cent? Right?
22:04
Speaker 1: Didn't he throw one that was terrible too? He was
22:06
Speaker 1: he throwing was pretty bad? He all right, well, thank you,
22:11
Speaker 1: and I got I liked that you mentioned Baba boy.
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Speaker 1: That's good. That's a good that's a good. Thank you,
22:14
Speaker 1: thank you? All right, go away, all right, that's just
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Speaker 1: what I want hot pope talk. That's right. Any other
22:21
Speaker 1: religious leaders we'd like to talk about anybody you know
22:24
Speaker 1: one you want to bring up here.
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Speaker 6: Now, No, no, Ben, no.
22:28
Speaker 1: One knowing at all. You sure about that? You if
22:31
Speaker 1: any pop in your head, just let me know. I
22:33
Speaker 1: will break will break it down, break it down. There
22:37
Speaker 1: you go about that.
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Speaker 5: Now.
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Speaker 1: People are posting photos of like random people that before
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Speaker 1: this guy became the pope. I saw a bunch of
22:45
Speaker 1: those over the weekend, Like you know, people were classmates
22:47
Speaker 1: with this dude.
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Speaker 6: And I think I'm sorry, I just think it's right.
22:51
Speaker 6: I think pope seem to be European, right, Well, what
22:55
Speaker 6: you're biased?
22:56
Speaker 1: You think what's wrong with the Chicago Pope? Great people
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Speaker 1: from Chicago.
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Speaker 6: Just like everyone.
23:02
Speaker 1: No, no, no, no, no, this is great. There's a whole
23:04
Speaker 1: world out there. Come on. Yeah, but if you love
23:07
Speaker 1: Europe so much, why don't you move there? While you
23:09
Speaker 1: go there? Your anti American USA us myself in the fly,
23:14
Speaker 1: we got an American pope. This is huge. Oh, this
23:16
Speaker 1: is massive. Okay, you understand. I don't even know what
23:18
Speaker 1: it means, but it's a big deal. I'm told Big.
23:21
Speaker 6: Could be from America. I didn't even know because.
23:24
Speaker 1: There never been one big of all the little kids
23:26
Speaker 1: that will grow up dream big, of the kids that
23:29
Speaker 1: will grow up and be like, someday I could be
23:30
Speaker 1: the pope, and they can literally be the pope. They
23:33
Speaker 1: get little kids on playgrounds. You know, we used to
23:35
Speaker 1: dream about being you know, the super Bowl heroes and
23:37
Speaker 1: all that world series. But now the kids can dream
23:39
Speaker 1: of being the pope.
23:40
Speaker 6: I used to want to catwoman. Yeah, maybe that is
23:43
Speaker 6: still possible.
23:44
Speaker 2: It is.
23:44
Speaker 1: You know, if there's a subspecies out there of aliens
23:47
Speaker 1: in the ocean that come up and give you cat
23:49
Speaker 1: like powers, boom, you can become captain do it? Yeah? Absolutely? Uh.
23:53
Speaker 1: Firk Dog says, I don't blame Jason Tatum for stealing
23:56
Speaker 1: Kawhi Leander's hand salute celebration. Kawhi is a better player,
23:59
Speaker 1: and he's a member of the premier franchise in the NBA.
24:02
Speaker 1: The Clippers absolutely now, King Roy writes in from Wisconsin.
24:07
Speaker 1: He says he's not that far from Green Bay. Says
24:09
Speaker 1: a good thing Coach of the Year award is a
24:12
Speaker 1: regular season award, not including the playoffs playoffs because mister
24:15
Speaker 1: Coach of the Year Kenny Atkinson is not living up
24:18
Speaker 1: to the award's namesake. I believe the season award should
24:22
Speaker 1: be announced between the conference finals and the finals. Well,
24:28
Speaker 1: you should send a letter to the Send a letter
24:31
Speaker 1: over to the people in charge at the NBA. I'm
24:34
Speaker 1: sure they'll conclude that. Supermarket Steve says, I can't believe
24:38
Speaker 1: the Rockies fired their manager after a twenty one tohering loss,
24:41
Speaker 1: a day after the GM claimed he had the respect
24:45
Speaker 1: of the clubhouse. Was not on the rundown. We will
24:49
Speaker 1: address Bud Black. I don't know that's a lead story,
24:51
Speaker 1: Supermarket Steve. If I know you want hot Rocky talk,
24:53
Speaker 1: and who doesn't, that's also a sign you want me
24:56
Speaker 1: to lose my job. Talking about the Colorado Rockies too
24:59
Speaker 1: much is a sign that I'm probably gonna lose my job.
25:01
Speaker 1: So screw you, but we will address that. We will
25:05
Speaker 1: address that at some point down the line. What else
25:08
Speaker 1: do we have to see? Page dan Uh. Slim Tim
25:11
Speaker 1: writes in says, I could use some positive vibes as
25:14
Speaker 1: I am in the hospital. It is not good, but
25:17
Speaker 1: I know I'll get some some with the Big Ben
25:21
Speaker 1: and the Mallard militia. Well that's the proud cheese, said Slim.
25:25
Speaker 1: And you know, slim Tim, I mean you probably think
25:27
Speaker 1: I'm just gonna, you know, give you a love because
25:29
Speaker 1: you're in the hospital. We don't do shout outs, so
25:31
Speaker 1: I cannot wish you good luck. Now, if the malor
25:33
Speaker 1: militia choose to send positive vibrations and good cosmic energy,
25:38
Speaker 1: as Andrea would say, no, we're not gonna. But I'm
25:41
Speaker 1: saying the listeners, if they want to send that to
25:43
Speaker 1: Slim Tim and have some kind of cosmic event that
25:48
Speaker 1: we're all we're all connected, all right, you can read
25:51
Speaker 1: minds and we can connect energy, positive energy. Yeah, we're
25:55
Speaker 1: gonna go deep here telling you so good.
25:58
Speaker 7: Uh.
25:59
Speaker 1: Again, I can't wish you good luck, somethim. But but
26:02
Speaker 1: if other people would like to wish Slim Tim good luck,
26:05
Speaker 1: we would not be against that we would not be
26:08
Speaker 1: opposed to looking out for Slim Tim, who's been a
26:11
Speaker 1: loyal minion, not only a proud cheesehead, but a loyal
26:15
Speaker 1: minion of this show and the podcast podcast There You Go. Hello,
26:21
Speaker 1: Yes now supermarket Steve also complaining. He said that you
26:24
Speaker 1: need to start giving us more than a minute to
26:27
Speaker 1: prepare for the show. Where's the where's the rundown? I
26:30
Speaker 1: think the rundown was saying, I believe it's there. These guys,
26:34
Speaker 1: they complain, there's such divas. These are such entitled schmucks.
26:38
Speaker 1: You know what.
26:39
Speaker 6: They're so quick to blame.
26:40
Speaker 1: You exactly, there's a hoop.
26:42
Speaker 6: Blame your internet service.
26:44
Speaker 1: Yeah you know what.
26:45
Speaker 6: Maybe you have it refreshed in thirty five minutes.
26:48
Speaker 1: Yes, that's right, that's your problem.
26:50
Speaker 6: Why don't you check it?
26:51
Speaker 1: That's for you, wreck it, bro, That's a U problem,
26:53
Speaker 1: not a ME problem. That's a U problem. That's right.
26:55
Speaker 6: Our service is great.
26:57
Speaker 1: Yeah, we have great internet here, I think, don't you?
27:00
Speaker 1: I might not. I mean it's not great, but it works,
27:04
Speaker 1: somewhat works. Let's all well, get we smoked out that guy, Jeff.
27:07
Speaker 1: If you were wondering if Jeff and Denver was going
27:09
Speaker 1: to call up there he is. Defend your squad, Jeff,
27:12
Speaker 1: go ahead, defend your guys. Go ahead.
27:16
Speaker 7: That was painful to watch. In the first half. No
27:18
Speaker 7: one could throw the ball in the ocean.
27:20
Speaker 1: Do you have a bunch of James Harden out there?
27:22
Speaker 1: Looks like a lot of James Harden. We're out there
27:23
Speaker 1: playing for the teams for the Nuggets. Man, Yeah, that
27:27
Speaker 1: was a score. I know, this was what seven points?
27:31
Speaker 1: Is that what you scored? Seven?
27:33
Speaker 5: Well, then they.
27:34
Speaker 7: Didn't score twenty.
27:34
Speaker 1: I don't think, well, yeah, well you're doing what about him?
27:38
Speaker 1: I mean, that's focused on the Nuggets. My god, holy crap.
27:42
Speaker 7: Might have been that might have been the pivotal game team.
27:47
Speaker 1: So I was eight points. I stopped watching it seven
27:49
Speaker 1: they scored eight. I screwed that. A bad job by me.
27:51
Speaker 1: Eight points. I thought it was seven, but it was eight.
27:54
Speaker 7: Yeah, but even Oklahoma City couldn't throw the ball in
27:56
Speaker 7: the ocean either. That was painful to watch.
27:59
Speaker 1: Are you calling it over right now? Are you saying
28:01
Speaker 1: it's over? After the Nuggets shot nine point one two
28:04
Speaker 1: of twenty two in the first quarter, Are you saying
28:06
Speaker 1: this series is now over? Are you reporting, Jeff your
28:10
Speaker 1: team is cooked? No, No, you've not given up. You
28:13
Speaker 1: sure about that?
28:14
Speaker 5: Yes?
28:14
Speaker 1: All right? Said that out coop. Jeff still buys the Nuggets.
28:18
Speaker 1: He's buying into the Denver Nuggets. Okay, interesting, could you, Jeff,
28:23
Speaker 1: you know how to shoot? By the way, if you
28:25
Speaker 1: know how to shoot, maybe you'll play in the next game.
28:26
Speaker 1: How about that?
28:28
Speaker 7: I know I was I was at game four. No,
28:31
Speaker 7: I was at game three. Excuse me, I was at
28:33
Speaker 7: the game Friday night. That was That was incredible. That
28:36
Speaker 7: was the overtime win.
28:37
Speaker 1: Yeah, they won because they won because they were inspired.
28:39
Speaker 1: You gave him a pep talk after the fourth quarter, right,
28:42
Speaker 1: you win the huddles say, hey, this is you know
28:43
Speaker 1: who I am. I'm Jeff and effing Denver and I
28:46
Speaker 1: call overnight talk radio. And you guys can't make me
28:50
Speaker 1: look like a donkey and lose this game. That's what
28:52
Speaker 1: you told them, right exactly.
28:54
Speaker 7: But I mean it's still how do you guys? How
28:56
Speaker 7: did both teams play the overtime equally? And and then
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Speaker 7: there's an eleven to two overtime? Where did okayse go?
29:04
Speaker 7: That was amazing?
29:05
Speaker 1: See now you're going back you want to full I
29:07
Speaker 1: understand you want to focus on what happened Friday. You
29:09
Speaker 1: don't want to focus on what happened on Sunday. I
29:11
Speaker 1: get it. My favorite part of that, we'll get to
29:13
Speaker 1: it next hour. I'm gonna talk about that game in depth.
29:15
Speaker 1: And a Mallard monologue is the people claiming that it's
29:19
Speaker 1: a scheduling issue that now we need to give the players,
29:22
Speaker 1: even in the playoffs, they need more time off between
29:25
Speaker 1: How stupid, I mean, how dumb seriously are people? I mean,
29:28
Speaker 1: does anyone have an IQ above like ten? Like, well,
29:31
Speaker 1: we got we gotta ever extra days? What are you stupid?
29:36
Speaker 7: Well, both teams were sluggish in the first half.
29:38
Speaker 1: Yeah, they both had the same schedule. How about you
29:40
Speaker 1: tough en up. My god, you're not out there paving
29:44
Speaker 1: roads in the summer. You're playing basketball. Holy crap.
29:50
Speaker 7: Why did they put a game back thirty six hours
29:53
Speaker 7: that wasn't even forty eight hours?
29:54
Speaker 1: Oh my god, you have to walk, my guy, you
29:56
Speaker 1: have to work like less than thirty six hours later.
29:59
Speaker 1: You know, I have to do a radio show tomorrow,
30:01
Speaker 1: and it's like less than twenty is like twenty hours
30:03
Speaker 1: after I get done with this show. Oh my god,
30:06
Speaker 1: I might lose my voice. Holy crap. How am I
30:09
Speaker 1: gonna survive? And then on the weekends I have to
30:11
Speaker 1: do a pun gage. I do the radio show Thursday
30:14
Speaker 1: and Friday. Then I gotta go to a podcast studio
30:16
Speaker 1: and I gotta a pudcast. And it's like less than
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Speaker 1: five hours after I do the radio show. Holy crap. Look,
30:22
Speaker 1: oh my god, I am like an iron man. Give
30:25
Speaker 1: me in a war, Give me an a war. I
30:27
Speaker 1: need more time. I work at a sweatshop. This Fox
30:30
Speaker 1: Sports Radio sweatshop. They make me do talk radio two shows,
30:35
Speaker 1: two in less than twenty four hours.
30:38
Speaker 6: You got them all worked up. Look at that he's
30:40
Speaker 6: sweating in there.
30:41
Speaker 7: I want you to I want you to go run
30:43
Speaker 7: around the block twenty times.
30:44
Speaker 1: Okay, you do the show. I'll leave. Okay, I'm gonna
30:47
Speaker 1: go outside. I'll say hello to all the homeless people
30:49
Speaker 1: that are around the building camping out right now. I'll
30:51
Speaker 1: say hi to him.
30:52
Speaker 6: I'll put on some elevator music.
30:54
Speaker 1: Crackhead bobs down the street. He's over there, he's enjoying himself.
30:56
Speaker 6: Will you get some French fries while you're out?
30:58
Speaker 1: I think they're close. Oh yeah, the no ice cream though,
31:00
Speaker 1: the ice s cream machines closed? Is it oh yeah,
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Speaker 1: across the street in the in the mall down there
31:07
Speaker 1: are they open though? It's late really even tonight? Are
31:10
Speaker 1: you sure about that?
31:11
Speaker 5: All right?
31:12
Speaker 1: It's actually one am Lorena out here in l all Right,
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Speaker 1: I thank you, Jeff, all right, thanks for calling our
31:19
Speaker 1: go away. There's Jeff. Thank you. That was a calm reaction,
31:24
Speaker 1: you know.
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Speaker 6: Are you okay?
31:25
Speaker 1: Ben? I'm fine. Yeah, it's just so stupid. I can
31:29
Speaker 1: see things like this. I'm like really like, I don't know,
31:33
Speaker 1: it's just the whole, the whole like mindset. They have
31:38
Speaker 1: top trainers, they have personal chefs, they have five star travel.
31:43
Speaker 1: It's never enough. And uh, I'm here hearing stories about
31:47
Speaker 1: you know, the three They used to play three games
31:49
Speaker 1: and three nights in the to save money and traveled
31:53
Speaker 1: commercial and nobody really cared that much about the NBA.
31:57
Speaker 1: The player has probably complained about it, but nobody cared.
31:59
Speaker 1: Now players, anybody can the game's not good for half
32:03
Speaker 1: a game or whatever. Oh my god, this is the
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Speaker 1: worst thing ever. Holy crap, man alive. All right? What
32:10
Speaker 1: else do we have here? King Roy says The last Pope,
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Speaker 1: Pope Francis, was from Argentina, So mister nice guy says
32:19
Speaker 1: Loraina is guilty of pious bias.
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Speaker 6: So is that where I pick specific pies.
32:28
Speaker 1: Yeah, something something like that. I think there you go,
32:32
Speaker 1: Sumer Margus Steve that schmuck says my Internet is excellent
32:35
Speaker 1: and I refresh Ben's X page every two minutes leading
32:38
Speaker 1: up to the show. That rundown is like my Bible.
32:43
Speaker 1: You might want to get a new Bible. It's just
32:45
Speaker 1: a cheesy rundown with supid emojis that I throw in
32:48
Speaker 1: there because I try to make it more interesting. And
32:51
Speaker 1: it only tells you a little bit of what we
32:52
Speaker 1: talk about. It doesn't even tell you most of what
32:54
Speaker 1: we talk about. I promised a well known NBA player
32:58
Speaker 1: who has been called a coward because he hid the
33:00
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33:31
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Speaker 1: Who I know? Slim Tim's gonna get this right, even
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Speaker 5: So.
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Speaker 1: Rick Carlisle passed me by for the most playoff wins
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Speaker 1: playoffs by a coach in Pacers franchise history. Who am I?
35:12
Speaker 1: That is the question? What is the answer? And Robbie
35:17
Speaker 1: the Mariner fan going with Justin in Cincinnati as his answer.
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Speaker 1: Scrooge says Frank Sinatra. Who else do we have? Page
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Speaker 1: Alf the Alien Opiner from Springfield, mass home of the
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Speaker 1: Pro Basketball Hall of Fame, going with Jason Tatum. Who
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Speaker 1: all right, that's next on his list? He'll do that
35:46
Speaker 1: in the next game. Grandpa Simpson from King Rory, Bobby
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Speaker 1: Knight from me. That's that's his game uniform. That's how
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Speaker 1: he used to coach the pacers in that in that outfit,
35:55
Speaker 1: Don delawise, there's a name we haven't heard in a
35:57
Speaker 1: long time, mister nice guy dating himself? Who else to have?
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Speaker 1: Andy and Lino Lakes going with a J. Foyt. It's
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Speaker 1: his answer? Who else do we have? Ba City Tony says,
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Speaker 1: not Bud black but eighties fashion critic mister Blackwell Another
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Speaker 1: dated reference Bucky buck Walter from James Ice Spice from
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Speaker 1: Ostridge Aunt a big fan there. Who else do we have?
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Speaker 1: Page down? Mark I Voroni? Another name I have not
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Speaker 1: heard in a lot. This is some good classic names.
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Speaker 1: Eileen came up with that one old Utah jazz player.
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Speaker 1: Who else do you have? Page down? Frank Vogel guessed
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Speaker 1: by Colin not the other column. Let's see here. Do
36:37
Speaker 1: you have an answer? Lora? Now do you have an answer? Yes?
36:40
Speaker 1: I do?
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Speaker 6: Ben, it's Prince Charming?
36:42
Speaker 1: Is it Prince Charming? No? No, no, Lorena, I'm gonna
36:47
Speaker 1: give you the clue here. Let's se if you get
36:48
Speaker 1: it right. He was known as the hick from French Lick.
36:51
Speaker 1: Who is it a hick from French Lick?
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Speaker 2: M Hill?
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Speaker 6: Billy Bill?
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Speaker 1: Okay? No, Larry Bird, Larry Light and Larry Bird, the
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Speaker 1: Hector Frenchlick Larry Bird. How soon we forget? So Rick
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Speaker 1: Carlisle and his second stint as Pacers coach is the
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Speaker 1: very top winning coach in playoff history for the Pacers,
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Speaker 1: ahead of Larry Bird and Frank Vogel, who is third
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Speaker 1: on the list. So, speaking of the Pacers, Tyrese Halliburton
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Speaker 1: a cowardly act. We have the audio on this, we're
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Speaker 1: gonna play for you. So Tyrese Halliburton did not talk
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Speaker 1: to the media when the Pacers lost. When they win,
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Speaker 1: He's always right out in front, very cordial. He loves
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Speaker 1: to talk to the media. So he was asked, like,
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Speaker 1: what's going on, dude, Why why didn't you hide from
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Speaker 1: the media? Take a list?
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Speaker 2: Child's game. So I love what I do. I love
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Speaker 2: my job. Yeah, I don't even really look at it
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Speaker 2: as a job. I have a lot of fun with
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Speaker 2: what I do. And you know, I think there's you know,
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Speaker 2: always commentary behind what I do, positive or negative. And
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Speaker 2: I mean it's hilarious because a lot of times it's
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Speaker 2: people who know nothing about me have so much to say.
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Speaker 2: It's usually the people who you know don't come around
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Speaker 2: or don't spend any time around me that I have
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Speaker 2: the most to say victim, you know, But that's that's
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Speaker 2: all part of it. I just I'm a basketball player.
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Speaker 2: I love what I do. Really, I love being here
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Speaker 2: in Indiana. I love playing for this organization. I feel like,
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Speaker 2: you know, criticism, sometimes it's warranted, sometimes it's not. But
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Speaker 2: it's all part of it. And that's question, you know,
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Speaker 2: as far as you know, last game, I feel like
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Speaker 2: our PR team does a great job of, you know,
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Speaker 2: putting me out there when it's time to talk. And
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Speaker 2: you know, I got to come out here and talk
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Speaker 2: when it is time, and you know, I think, you know,
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Speaker 2: Mike and the staff did you know, try to protect me.
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Speaker 1: A little bit, protecting protect from what.
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Speaker 2: Maybe I should have overruled it and come out here,
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Speaker 2: but I wasn't really in the mood to.
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Speaker 1: Speak, so I left.
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Speaker 2: And so that's a problem. You guys are more.
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Speaker 1: What's a problem. I don't need to hear anybody stop listen. Yes,
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Speaker 1: it's a problem. So I only want to talk when
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Speaker 1: we win and I'm feeling good. This is exactly what
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Speaker 1: I talk about. A better story in the losing locker room.
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Speaker 1: I know from covering baseball back in the day. These
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Speaker 1: guys it's like a mort when they look. But you
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Speaker 1: gotta talk, you got I mean, that's your that's your
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Speaker 1: You're supposed to be with the leaders of the team.
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Speaker 1: You go out there and talk. And how difficult is it?
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Speaker 1: What are they pointing uh, you know, guns at you
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Speaker 1: and throwing hand grid They're lobbing hand grid aids at you,
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Speaker 1: Like seriously, Oh, I told me? And so he kind
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Speaker 1: of in that sound body Tyru Saliburt and O the pacers,
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Speaker 1: it sounded like he kind of tossed the pr staff
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Speaker 1: under the buck.
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Speaker 5: Oh.
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Speaker 1: They said you didn't have to talk, Well shouldn't you
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Speaker 1: be like, hey, no, I'm the leader of this team,
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Speaker 1: Like I'm gonna go out, I'm gonna talk, and and
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Speaker 1: all you have to do is is string together like
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Speaker 1: seven or eight cliche. We really we didn't bring our
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Speaker 1: a game. We gotta play better, you know, one game
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Speaker 1: at a time, you know, all that crap over, that's
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Speaker 1: all you have to do. Don't hide? Why are you hiding?
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Speaker 1: No hiding?
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Speaker 2: And ya