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Hour 1 - The C Word · The Ben Maller Show

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  Speaker 2: You're listening to Fox Sports Radio. Oh what is going on?
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  Speaker 2: Welcome in Hope. Everything is going great for you, man, listen.
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  Speaker 2: Interesting nights in the NBA. We had a great game,
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  Speaker 2: believe it or not between the Thunder and the Lakers.
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  Speaker 2: Thunder going for the sweep and they got it. But
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  Speaker 2: they took the scenic crowd as the Lakers. They were
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  Speaker 2: game Lakers with a great effort. They reached their team
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  Speaker 2: total over one hundred and a half. Ruey Hachimura, he
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  Speaker 2: reached over fourteen and a half points. Ruy reached over
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  Speaker 2: two and a half. Made three. That's all betting, that's
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  Speaker 2: all betting angles. So that was great. I was back
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  Speaker 2: in the Purple and Gold tonight, so they came through
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  Speaker 2: for me. That was very nice. They covered the spread.
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  Speaker 2: I didn't have anything on that, but put the betting
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  Speaker 2: to the side. The Lakers had a real chance to
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  Speaker 2: win the game. They lost one fifteen to one. Ten
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  Speaker 2: got away from them at the very very end. They
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  Speaker 2: were down by a point. Lebron had a close shot contested.
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  Speaker 2: He'll tell you should have made it, which he should have.
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  Speaker 2: It was just a little bit off. Didn't go in. Okay.
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  Speaker 2: See he had a couple of free throws down the stretch.
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  Speaker 2: They win the game by five points. But it was
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  Speaker 2: a great game, a lot of fun.
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  Speaker 3: I was.
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  Speaker 2: I was like, you know what, maybe I lead with
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  Speaker 2: football tonight, maybe I lead with ball. As the NFL
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  Speaker 2: has started to slowly unveil a game here, a game there.
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  Speaker 2: The NFL schedule will be unveiled in bulk in its
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  Speaker 2: entirety on Thursday. But you know how it goes. They
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  Speaker 2: give you a little little striptease throughout the week, like, oh,
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  Speaker 2: here's the Sunday night opener. Here, here's the week two
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  Speaker 2: Thursday night game. There, here's one of the Thanksgiving Day games.
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  Speaker 2: We'll get that throughout the week. It'll be the same
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  Speaker 2: thing on Tuesday, on Wednesday, then we'll get the whole
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  Speaker 2: schedule on Thursday and I'm like, maybe I start with that,
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  Speaker 2: but that thunder Lakers game was so good. I have
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  Speaker 2: to hone in on that. Okay, have to hone in
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  Speaker 2: on that, and I will get to Donovan Mitchell aka Spider,
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  Speaker 2: one of the best nicknames in all of sports. Spider
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  Speaker 2: was game in the second half. After a lackluster first
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  Speaker 2: half only four points, Spider Mitchell erupts for thirty nine
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  Speaker 2: second half points, tying an NBA Playoff record most points
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  Speaker 2: in a half. Spider Mitchell he dropped thirty nine of
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  Speaker 2: his forty three points in the second half alone as
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  Speaker 2: the Calves even their series against the But that game
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  Speaker 2: was greatly outstaged by that thunder Lakers game. It was
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  Speaker 2: a great, great basketball game. It was a lot of fun.
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  Speaker 2: And look, I think you have to take your hat
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  Speaker 2: off to a couple of people. One would be SGA.
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  Speaker 2: I know, I know, it's oh gosh, Shay gil just Alexander.
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  Speaker 2: It feels like anytime we talk about Shay Gildes Alexander,
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  Speaker 2: it's like, oh, got Shay the foul baiting Ah this
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  Speaker 2: I don't like his game, Like it just is so
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  Speaker 2: I don't know, negative all the time. It seems like
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  Speaker 2: if you listen to a game, it's so funny. It's
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  Speaker 2: the exact opposite. It's Kevin Harlan and Dwayne Wade Kandas Parker.
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  Speaker 2: They're on Prime and they're like, Oh, this freaking unbelievable.
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  Speaker 2: Look at what he's doing. You look at the moves
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  Speaker 2: upon moves. And then I'll listen to sports radio or
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  Speaker 2: sports TV and a lot of it it's like, oh, sgah,
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  Speaker 2: this guy got thirty five points on Monday night, steady
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  Speaker 2: as it gets eight assists. Also, he's not a ball hog.
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  Speaker 2: He's not the black hole out there. He will share
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  Speaker 2: the ball, but just sneaky points. I call him sneaky points.
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  Speaker 2: And I don't mean this as some sort of sneak
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  Speaker 2: diss or anything. But you'll be watching SGA. He had
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  Speaker 2: fourteen points in the first half, and you're like, all right,
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  Speaker 2: he's doing his thing. Nothing's really standing out. It's some
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  Speaker 2: free throw jumpers, some elbow jumpers. He's working the mid range.
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  Speaker 2: You know, he's getting to the foul line. All of
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  Speaker 2: a sudden, you look up and you're like, all right,
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  Speaker 2: he's got He's got thirty three points. Holy cow, it
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  Speaker 2: was about four minutes to go. He ends with thirty
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  Speaker 2: five points. A true star, and really he's a refreshing
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  Speaker 2: star if you really think about it, because after game
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  Speaker 2: three he's like, look, I haven't played my three best
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  Speaker 2: games of my career, but we're winning games. I'll take that.
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  Speaker 2: I'll take winning games every time. I don't need to
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  Speaker 2: be the star. I don't need to drop thirty five
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  Speaker 2: on a night basis that's refreshing. I don't know why
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  Speaker 2: Shay gets as much flack as much negativity as he does.
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  Speaker 2: It doesn't have to be the most entertaining style of basketball.
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  Speaker 2: It just has to be effective. I don't know why
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  Speaker 2: people can't give credit to someone who's highly effective. It's
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  Speaker 2: my whole thing with not to switch sports on you,
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  Speaker 2: but Floyd money Mayweather. How much negativity did you hear
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  Speaker 2: during money May's career where it was just, oh, this guy,
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  Speaker 2: he doesn't knock anybody out. He gets a lead and
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  Speaker 2: then he just kind of dances around. It's like, the
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  Speaker 2: goal is to win, Okay. The goal isn't to just
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  Speaker 2: entertain the masses. The goal is to win. And I
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  Speaker 2: thought money may was focused on the right things inside
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  Speaker 2: the ring. He was focused on winning. He wasn't focused
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  Speaker 2: on being a showman. He wasn't focused on being a
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  Speaker 2: Mike Tyson knockout artist. He was focused on winning, and
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  Speaker 2: he was also focused on getting paid. But when it
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  Speaker 2: comes to, you know, the true goal, it wasn't, Oh,
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  Speaker 2: I gotta be a showman. I gotta take wild risks,
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  Speaker 2: even though I'm clearly ahead on points. I got to
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  Speaker 2: try to knock this guy out to appease the fans.
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  Speaker 2: He's like, no, I just gotta win, and SGA has
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  Speaker 2: a similar mentality. Of course it's the sport of basketball,
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  Speaker 2: but it's the same mentality. He's not out there like,
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  Speaker 2: you know, I gotta stop with the foul baiting. The
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  Speaker 2: fans don't like it. I gotta, you know, be a
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  Speaker 2: little bit more razzle dazzle, put on a little bit
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  Speaker 2: more of a show for the mass. He's like, I'm
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  Speaker 2: trying to win. Why wouldn't he go to the free
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  Speaker 2: throw line. If he's highly effective at drawing files, why
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  Speaker 2: wouldn't he do that. I just don't understand the logic
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  Speaker 2: behind the SGA bashing. It's so dumb, but he drops
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  Speaker 2: thirty five. It was clearly his best game of this series.
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  Speaker 2: He was not playing very well. I love this so
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  Speaker 2: it's my favorite sound from the series. This is from
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  Speaker 2: Laker's head coach JJ Reddick. So this was after game three,
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  Speaker 2: all right, they just played Game four on Monday night
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  Speaker 2: for sweep City, but this was after game three. JJ
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  Speaker 2: Reddick is like, look, man, we're holding this guy to
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  Speaker 2: like seventeen points, twenty two points. He was seven for twenty.
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  Speaker 2: He hasn't done much offensively, not what we're accustomed to,
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  Speaker 2: and they're still crushing us. This is the best sound
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  Speaker 2: of the whole series. I love this.
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  Speaker 1: The MVP is, you know, eighteen twenty two, seven of
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  Speaker 1: twenty to night, and they've kicked our ass three straight games.
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  Speaker 3: They're an incredible basketball team.
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  Speaker 2: He's just like, I mean, good lord man, They're more
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  Speaker 2: than just a one man band. They're much more than
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  Speaker 2: who's soon to be named the back to back MVP.
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  Speaker 2: Side note, I have no idea why they're taking so long.
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  Speaker 2: Why are they taking so long? Name SGA the MVP.
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  Speaker 2: We know he's gonna win it. I don't get this.
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  Speaker 2: I really don't understand that. But in any event, it
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  Speaker 2: wasn't just SGA the other guy that deserves his roses
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  Speaker 2: from the OKC Thunder. That would be a J. Mitchell,
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  Speaker 2: And there are a lot of people that are like
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  Speaker 2: who AJ Who AJ? Yeah, exactly, AJ Mitchell. He's filling
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  Speaker 2: in because Jalen Williams is hurt. You know the guy
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  Speaker 2: that dropped forty points in an NBA Finals game last year. Yeah,
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  Speaker 2: that guy from Santa Clara. He's been hurt. He didn't
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  Speaker 2: play a game in this series against the Lakers with
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  Speaker 2: a hamstring issue. So in walks in AJ Mitchell, And
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  Speaker 2: what does he do While he's probably just the star
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  Speaker 2: of the entire series, he's the best player for the
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  Speaker 2: OKC Thunder. He's the best player on the floor. He's
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  Speaker 2: the most productive player. He dropped twenty eight points on
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  Speaker 2: Monday Night very efficiently too, twelve of nineteen from the field.
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  Speaker 2: That's a guy that if Jalen Williams is healthy, he's
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  Speaker 2: getting some minutes. That's how loaded OKC is. The guy
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  Speaker 2: that's getting some minutes when Jalen Williams is healthy. Is
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  Speaker 2: the guy that's filling in for Jalen Williams and just
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  Speaker 2: dropping twenty eight and getting thirty plus minutes a nine.
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  Speaker 2: The guy in his second year from UC Santa Barbara
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  Speaker 2: is doing work. That's how deep Okac is now. I
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  Speaker 2: don't want to paint the picture that there's some impenetrable
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  Speaker 2: machine they can't be defeated. I think it's gonna be
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  Speaker 2: really interesting if we get Spurs thunder, that's gonna be
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  Speaker 2: a heck of a series if that's what we get.
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  Speaker 2: No disrespect to the t Wolves, they're still in the
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  Speaker 2: thick of that series. But if it's Spurs Oka See
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  Speaker 2: with the alien, with Wembin Yama out there, with the
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  Speaker 2: way the Spurs put it on Oka See in the
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  Speaker 2: regular season, it could be a really interesting series. And
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  Speaker 2: beyond this season, I think Okac and the Spurs that
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  Speaker 2: sets up to be a rivalry for a long long time,
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  Speaker 2: and it's gonna be really interesting to see how that
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  Speaker 2: plays out over the next five to ten years, how
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  Speaker 2: the cores of those two teams sort of say, stay
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  Speaker 2: the same. The small we're talking like two three players
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  Speaker 2: are probably gonna stay the same for a long time,
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  Speaker 2: but the other pieces they're gonna change over the years.
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  Speaker 2: Over ten years, there'd be a lot of change with
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  Speaker 2: these rosters. But to see how Okac and the Spurs
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  Speaker 2: stack up, if indeed that's the matchup, that's gonna be
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  Speaker 2: a lot of fun this season. But okay, see is
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  Speaker 2: just loaded, man, absolutely loaded. Now if we look at
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  Speaker 2: the Lakers side, you know, shame on me, right, Ben
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  Speaker 2: always starts with the losing locker room. That's where the
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  Speaker 2: true story is, and that would be correct. So not
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  Speaker 2: to bury the lead here, but Oka se and they're
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  Speaker 2: emerging dominance, they're emerging dynasty potentially. Sorry that took center
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  Speaker 2: stage in my book. Now we get to the Lakers swept.
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  Speaker 2: Lebron swept for the first time in his career in
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  Speaker 2: the second round. And look, man, I thought he played well.
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  Speaker 2: All thanks considered. On Monday Night, twenty four points, twelve
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  Speaker 2: rebounds for Lebron James. I actually I timed it out right.
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  Speaker 2: I took his under six and a half rebounds in
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  Speaker 2: Game three and he barely he was at six. And
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  Speaker 2: then the next game on Monday Night, you know, he
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  Speaker 2: goes for twelve and it's like betting is so weird.
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  Speaker 2: But put that to the side. Lebron was good. He
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  Speaker 2: played well. Austin Reeves. He led the Lakers in scoring.
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  Speaker 2: That's the good news. He was efficient, eight for sixteen
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  Speaker 2: from the field, hit three three pointers, seven rebound six assists. Right,
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  Speaker 2: what's the problem eight turnovers for Austin Reeves. I don't
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  Speaker 2: know what it was. Such a weird mixed back game
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  Speaker 2: for Austin Reeves. He was awesome at times. He hit
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  Speaker 2: one three where the shot clock was running down. He
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  Speaker 2: had no space whatsoever. He gave the guy a little
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  Speaker 2: bit of a shoulder and then just jacked up a
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  Speaker 2: shot swish. He made a lot of great plays, hit
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  Speaker 2: some really difficult shots. He had one where lou Dort
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  Speaker 2: was hounding him. He got by Loo somehow and then
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  Speaker 2: he had to flip the shot ever so carefully over
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  Speaker 2: Isaiah Hertenstein, which is hard to do. I say it
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  Speaker 2: like that because that's how the OKC announcer does it.
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  Speaker 2: He sounds like a strip club announcer.
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  Speaker 3: Man.
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  Speaker 2: I love the guy, but he's just like coming to
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  Speaker 2: the stage. Isaiah Hartenstein listened to him time every time.
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  Speaker 2: That's how I say it. Anytime Hertenstein gets a rebound
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  Speaker 2: or scores, that's what I say. I could be watching
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  Speaker 2: a game by myself. I'm this crazy person. Isaiah hartenstet
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  Speaker 2: But that was a high degree of difficulty for Austin Reeves.
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  Speaker 2: At times he was awesome. At other times he was
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  Speaker 2: freaking awful. Eight turnovers, horrible passes, some careless passes. There
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  Speaker 2: was one where he had it was sort of like
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  Speaker 2: a football pass right tried to football pass it up
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  Speaker 2: the court and it wasn't even close. It was like
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  Speaker 2: some justin field stuff right there. And he hit a
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  Speaker 2: guy in the first row to knocked his beer out
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  Speaker 2: of his hands, dripping down his leg the whole I
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  Speaker 2: don't know what happened with Austin Reeves passing ability. Man,
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  Speaker 2: it was m i A on Monday night. But the
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  Speaker 2: shooting was good and he poured in twenty seven points.
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  Speaker 2: My guy Ruy Hachimura. Ruey had a great playoff run
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  Speaker 2: here against the Suns well in the first round he
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  Speaker 2: did his thing, and in the second round against Okac
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  Speaker 2: he was good as well. He was lights out. He
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  Speaker 2: shot the ball great against the Rockets. He shot the
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  Speaker 2: ball great against Oka. See he dropped in another four
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  Speaker 2: three pointers. This guy has been money all playoffs long.
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  Speaker 2: He scores twenty five points. So if you took the
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  Speaker 2: little betting advice yesterday, that worked out well. He was
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  Speaker 2: over fourteen and a half points easily. He was over
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  Speaker 2: two and a half made threes easily as well, he
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  Speaker 2: had two of them in the fourth quarter, including a
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  Speaker 2: four point play. It's a good game, man, it was
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  Speaker 2: really good. Now listen, I uh, I hate to even
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  Speaker 2: do this, but it's true and I'm just obligated to
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  Speaker 2: say this. And it reminds me of the movie Point Break. Okay,
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  Speaker 2: you've seen the class movie Point Break, right with Patrick Swayze. Uh,
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  Speaker 2: Keanu Reeves in it. Right, give me two, you talk,
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  Speaker 2: you talk, Give me two?
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  Speaker 3: Right?
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  Speaker 2: The classic lines, and there's one line that's not as
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  Speaker 2: classic as Utah, Get Me two, but it's memorable. It's
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  Speaker 2: Patrick Swayze is talking to Keanu Reeves and he was like,
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  Speaker 2: this will sting a bit. That's what he says. It's
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  Speaker 2: an insurance policy. He's got Keanu's girl in the movie
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  Speaker 2: and they're they're holding her as ransom, so Keanu will
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  Speaker 2: rob Banks with her the whole thing, right, But he says,
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  Speaker 2: this will sting a bit. And that's how I feel
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  Speaker 2: about this. With Laker fans, you know, far be it
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  Speaker 2: from me to kick them while they're down. They just
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  Speaker 2: got swept. Laker Nation is reeling right now. But I'm
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  Speaker 2: watching the game on Monday, and it's something I've thought
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  Speaker 2: for a long time, and it's just it's just right
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  Speaker 2: there in front of my face. Lebron James has a
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  Speaker 2: chance to hit the winning well, the go ahead bucket,
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  Speaker 2: give the Lakers a one point lead late We're talking,
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  Speaker 2: you know, twenty ish seconds to go something like that,
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  Speaker 2: and he had a point blank shot. Maybe that's why
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  Speaker 2: point break jumped into my mind.
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  Speaker 3: I don't know.
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  Speaker 2: He had a point blank shot and he missed it.
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  Speaker 2: He's human. I'm not gonna crush him for doing that.
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  Speaker 2: But in that moment, I thought Lebron is a seaword.
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  Speaker 2: He's not that seaword. I'm not saying that, but do
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  Speaker 2: you know what seaword Lebron is. Lebron is a compiler.
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  Speaker 2: That's what Lebron is. Now, before I go any further,
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  Speaker 2: there are certain trigger words like buzzwords, and you think,
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  Speaker 2: oh my gosh, this guy is the biggest hater on
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  Speaker 2: the face of the planet. And I'm here to tell
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  Speaker 2: you I'm not. I'm not a Lebron hater. I think
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  Speaker 2: the guy has been a marvelous basketball player. I think
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  Speaker 2: he's been marvelous in terms of not being an idiot
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  Speaker 2: and not ever getting in trouble. Do you realize how
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  Speaker 2: many people would have gotten in far more trouble being
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  Speaker 2: in the same shoes as Lebron. You're a teenager, you're
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  Speaker 2: on the cover of SI, you're a millionaire, You've got
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  Speaker 2: every temptation thrown at you in waves, and that guy
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  Speaker 2: was the furthest thing from a disaster. Compare him to
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  Speaker 2: like John Morant. John Moran is getting in trouble, total moron,
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  Speaker 2: screwing up left and right. Lebron has never done that.
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  Speaker 2: So I'm not a Lebron hater. But this is the
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  Speaker 2: truth over here. Okay, Lebron James is the all time
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  Speaker 2: leading scorer in the NBA and it's crazy to me
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  Speaker 2: that he has one scoring title. That's the definition of
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  Speaker 2: a compiler. Now, the point I'm trying to make is,
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  Speaker 2: if you hear a buzzword, you'll think, oh, this guy's
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  Speaker 2: just being negative across the board. He's not even accurate
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  Speaker 2: with this. And it's not to be negative, it's not
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  Speaker 2: to be a hater, it's not any of that. But
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  Speaker 2: you can't tell me Lebron is not a compiler. When
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  Speaker 2: you last as long as he has in the NBA's awesome.
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  Speaker 2: I give him a ton of praise. For being as
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  Speaker 2: having the longevity that he's had, but that's allowed him
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  Speaker 2: to compile all of these numbers. Like, make no mistake,
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  Speaker 2: even though Lebron is the number one scorer in NBA history,
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  Speaker 2: he is not a top ten scorer in NBA history.
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  Speaker 2: He's not one of the best scorers the game has
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  Speaker 2: ever seen. He's just lasted the longest. He's lasted forever.
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  Speaker 2: He is a modern marvel in terms of longevity, and
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  Speaker 2: that is awesome. But a lot of times that gets
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  Speaker 2: twisted where it's just like, this guy's the number one
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  Speaker 2: all time scorer, and it's like, yeah, because he compiled
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  Speaker 2: a bunch of points, it doesn't mean he's an all
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  Speaker 2: time number one scorer when we're just talking about the
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  Speaker 2: best scorers the game has ever seen. If you just
• 17:53
  Speaker 2: look at the the guys in terms of active players
• 17:58
  Speaker 2: that have the most scoring title, Kevin Durant has four
• 18:02
  Speaker 2: of them, he's got the most, followed by the Beard
• 18:06
  Speaker 2: He's got three of them. Luca, Steph Curry, Russell Westbrook
• 18:11
  Speaker 2: each have two scoring titles. Lebron has one. He's got
• 18:16
  Speaker 2: one scoring title, and look, I'll meet you halfway. It
• 18:21
  Speaker 2: does halfway speak to his greatness that he's been that consistent.
• 18:25
  Speaker 2: He has one scoring title, and yet he's the all
• 18:28
  Speaker 2: time leading scorer, which means that he might not average
• 18:32
  Speaker 2: thirty four in a season. He might average twenty eight
• 18:36
  Speaker 2: point nine, you know what I mean. And that's impresiveent
• 18:39
  Speaker 2: and of itself. To do that for that long is
• 18:43
  Speaker 2: an amazing accomplishment. I don't mean this in as hater
• 18:46
  Speaker 2: of a way as it sounds. It's like a buzzword.
• 18:49
  Speaker 2: If you call a player overrated, it's just like nobody
• 18:52
  Speaker 2: hears anything aside from that, and they're just thinking, you're
• 18:54
  Speaker 2: killing this guy, and it's like, no, not really, hear
• 18:57
  Speaker 2: me out. And that's how I am with Lebron. Lebron
• 19:00
  Speaker 2: is a compiler. Lebron has compiled a ton of points
• 19:05
  Speaker 2: over a long period of time. That doesn't mean he's
• 19:09
  Speaker 2: the best scorer the game has ever seen. I don't
• 19:12
  Speaker 2: want to make this a Lebron mj thing, Trust me,
• 19:16
  Speaker 2: I don't. But Michael Jordan has ten scoring titles. Okay,
• 19:21
  Speaker 2: Lebron isn't half the scorer that Michael Jordan is. He's
• 19:25
  Speaker 2: compiled points over the long haul, and that's just the
• 19:28
  Speaker 2: truth of it. Can we just say something that's critical
• 19:32
  Speaker 2: in nature that doesn't rise to being total fox blown
• 19:36
  Speaker 2: hater in nature. I think we should be able to
• 19:38
  Speaker 2: do that. There's some nuance to this stuff. So although
• 19:41
  Speaker 2: Lebron is a compiler scoring wise, that doesn't detract from
• 19:46
  Speaker 2: his outstanding greatness. And for all the talk of is
• 19:51
  Speaker 2: this Lebron's last game in the NBA, let me just
• 19:53
  Speaker 2: tell you it absolutely is not. Okay, Lebron is not
• 19:58
  Speaker 2: you know, two weeks from now, like, hey, guys, just
• 20:00
  Speaker 2: you know that was my final game. I'm just gonna
• 20:02
  Speaker 2: do some other stuff now. No chance he doesn't have
• 20:05
  Speaker 2: a retirement tour. There's no way that happens. Now, this
• 20:08
  Speaker 2: might be his final game in a Laker uniform. I
• 20:11
  Speaker 2: wouldn't be shocked about that, but his final game in
• 20:14
  Speaker 2: a NBA uniform, no way, no chance that's the case.
• 20:18
  Speaker 2: He deserves a retirement tour. He should have that. Kobe
• 20:22
  Speaker 2: had one, right, like Lebron has been an all time great.
• 20:26
  Speaker 2: He should have a retirement tour. So that's not a
• 20:28
  Speaker 2: knock on him. But to think that he's just gonna
• 20:31
  Speaker 2: be like, yeah, you know, just thought I would do
• 20:33
  Speaker 2: something really tame. The guy had the decision televised Lebron
• 20:38
  Speaker 2: has a patch of himself on his jersey doing the
• 20:42
  Speaker 2: chalk toss. Okay, Lebron loves him some Lebron. Lebron has
• 20:47
  Speaker 2: been chasing the praise, the recognition. He's trying to shoehorn
• 20:53
  Speaker 2: in it into existence. Right, He's trying to do a
• 20:55
  Speaker 2: Jedi mind trick on us. He was doing that one
• 20:58
  Speaker 2: special where he was like, yeah, that three to one
• 21:01
  Speaker 2: comeback against the Warriors. I said to myself, that right
• 21:04
  Speaker 2: there made you the goat. That right, it's like a
• 21:06
  Speaker 2: Jedi mindstriking. We're all like, he is the goat. He's
• 21:09
  Speaker 2: right about it. It's so Lebron, trust me, Like that
• 21:13
  Speaker 2: guy is not like, Hey, by the way, that was
• 21:15
  Speaker 2: it for me. I'm done. I'm gonna make films now
• 21:18
  Speaker 2: and do other things. No chance, but last game in
• 21:22
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  Speaker 2: And also I did get one prediction right and I
• 21:56
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• 22:49
  Speaker 2: Big Ben Malor. Man, I'll tell you what lot's going on.
• 22:53
  Speaker 2: Lots going on in the wee early morning hours here.
• 22:57
  Speaker 2: Very excited that Coop and Lorain you now are here
• 23:00
  Speaker 2: as well. Always love doing shows with them, and uh,
• 23:04
  Speaker 2: you know we bring in Coop right here where he's
• 23:07
  Speaker 2: got his own little walk up music he loved. He
• 23:10
  Speaker 2: love system of a down right there and he always
• 23:13
  Speaker 2: he always comes into Sweet Pee right there. What's going on, Coop?
• 23:16
  Speaker 2: Power things? Buddy?
• 23:17
  Speaker 3: He you know what's going on right It.
• 23:19
  Speaker 2: Almost sounds like your team got swept. Is that what's
• 23:22
  Speaker 2: going on with you right now? It's anything else going on? Yeah,
• 23:26
  Speaker 2: it did happen. I want to I want to. I
• 23:29
  Speaker 2: want to start off on a positive note here, Coop,
• 23:31
  Speaker 2: because although your Lakers crashed and burned, no shame in
• 23:35
  Speaker 2: losing to Okay, see, they're a phenomenal team. You didn't
• 23:37
  Speaker 2: have Luka Doncic, So I'm not gonna kick you while
• 23:40
  Speaker 2: you're down. But I forgot to mention something on last
• 23:43
  Speaker 2: night's fill in show where when the Washington Wizards they
• 23:47
  Speaker 2: got the number one overall pick the draft lottery was
• 23:50
  Speaker 2: on Sunday. You know who was representing the Washington Wizards,
• 23:54
  Speaker 2: Coop Great Wall of DC. That's exactly right. It was
• 24:00
  Speaker 2: John Wall, your man, representing the Washington Wizards, and I
• 24:05
  Speaker 2: had to dust off the epic call of you, you know,
• 24:08
  Speaker 2: recreating you know, a John Wall, Like we see the
• 24:13
  Speaker 2: cut sheet and we've got all these cuts of all
• 24:15
  Speaker 2: the play by play guys, and so I asked Coop
• 24:18
  Speaker 2: to recreate one. This is when he came up with.
• 24:20
  Speaker 2: This is top shelf stuff right here.
• 24:22
  Speaker 5: John Wall taking the ball up the court, Wizards up
• 24:24
  Speaker 5: by two, John Wall rises, shoots, he buries it.
• 24:29
  Speaker 3: The Great Wall of DC cannot be conquered. Wizards ninety nine,
• 24:35
  Speaker 3: whoever they're playing.
• 24:36
  Speaker 2: Ninety five, dude, Come on, man, that you should be
• 24:41
  Speaker 2: on a sideline right now calling games. Tremendous by you.
• 24:49
  Speaker 6: Yeah, but it's really good, great energy, right yeah.
• 24:52
  Speaker 2: The Great Wall of DC was representing the Wizards, and
• 24:54
  Speaker 2: of course, you know, good fortune follows that franchise with
• 24:59
  Speaker 2: with John Wall r. Representing them, they get the number
• 25:01
  Speaker 2: one overall pick and a loaded draft. That is huge,
• 25:03
  Speaker 2: right there. So I forgot to mention that last night,
• 25:07
  Speaker 2: and I saw it in my notes and I'm like,
• 25:08
  Speaker 2: holy cow, I didn't even say that. I meant to
• 25:10
  Speaker 2: say that to you, Coop, So there you go that
• 25:12
  Speaker 2: that'd be a little shot in the arm. We also
• 25:14
  Speaker 2: have Lorena with you. By the way, this song is
• 25:19
  Speaker 2: just embedded in my head. I think of it every time,
• 25:22
  Speaker 2: like when the show's about to begin, I just remember
• 25:25
  Speaker 2: that song Loraina, and it's just stuck in my head
• 25:27
  Speaker 2: right there.
• 25:28
  Speaker 6: I saw something today where someone like made a oh
• 25:31
  Speaker 6: it was it was like the Lord of the Rings.
• 25:32
  Speaker 7: You know how like Golam loves a ring.
• 25:35
  Speaker 6: So they were at the Renaissance Fair and their addresses
• 25:36
  Speaker 6: Golam and Gollam was singing that song to the ring.
• 25:40
  Speaker 7: It was really funny.
• 25:40
  Speaker 2: Oh really wow.
• 25:41
  Speaker 6: Yeah, and they had all the lyrics down, so I
• 25:43
  Speaker 6: was really impressed because you know how hard those lyrics
• 25:45
  Speaker 6: are for me.
• 25:46
  Speaker 2: Oh, the verses are really difficult. Have you tried? Have
• 25:50
  Speaker 2: you tried to get them?
• 25:50
  Speaker 7: Breathe?
• 25:51
  Speaker 6: Yes, I've been trying, and I'm telling you it does
• 25:54
  Speaker 6: not take me that long to memorize any song. I
• 25:56
  Speaker 6: can sing almost any song even a week after here
• 26:00
  Speaker 6: this one, it's been months.
• 26:01
  Speaker 7: I still can't get it down.
• 26:03
  Speaker 2: Yeah, it's tricky. It's kind of like you know, Jalen
• 26:06
  Speaker 2: Brunson from The Knicks how he's kind of like hurky Jerky.
• 26:09
  Speaker 2: He'll kind of go to the right and stop and
• 26:11
  Speaker 2: left and then back and maybe forward. That's how the
• 26:14
  Speaker 2: verses are. They're very hurky Jersey. Yeah, they're just like
• 26:18
  Speaker 2: Jalen Brunson's offensive game. Tough, tough to defend. Right, It's
• 26:22
  Speaker 2: tough to memorize those lyrics, very difficult. You can do it.
• 26:26
  Speaker 7: I'm still working on it.
• 26:27
  Speaker 2: I have faith in you.
• 26:28
  Speaker 7: Hope to impress you one day.
• 26:30
  Speaker 2: You impress me every day. Good jucks. Yeah, I do
• 26:34
  Speaker 2: have good news for you, though, Lorena. Maybe I'm more
• 26:36
  Speaker 2: so good news for myself. I do not have to
• 26:39
  Speaker 2: shave off all of my hair and my eyebrows.
• 26:42
  Speaker 6: Ah, congratulations, that's right, Victor wimbin Yama.
• 26:47
  Speaker 2: He will not be suspended for Game five. There was
• 26:49
  Speaker 2: no chance that was going to happen. But I don't
• 26:52
  Speaker 2: know why it popped into my head. I just thought, yeah,
• 26:54
  Speaker 2: you know, let me put my hair and my eyebrows
• 26:57
  Speaker 2: on the line here if I'm wrong. I don't know
• 26:59
  Speaker 2: why I do that to myself. But I don't have
• 27:02
  Speaker 2: to go through with that because he's not suspended. No
• 27:04
  Speaker 2: further punishment for the vicious elbow that he threw at
• 27:09
  Speaker 2: nas Reeds. So that's good, that's good, right there. What
• 27:12
  Speaker 2: do you think, Loraina? If I if you didn't know
• 27:15
  Speaker 2: me at all, we didn't know each other whatsoever, and
• 27:18
  Speaker 2: I just happened to have a shaved head and no
• 27:21
  Speaker 2: eyebrows and just went up to you and was like, hey,
• 27:24
  Speaker 2: I'm Brian.
• 27:25
  Speaker 6: I would assume you have alopecia or some type of
• 27:30
  Speaker 6: terminal illness.
• 27:31
  Speaker 2: Okay, but what would be your reaction? Would you have
• 27:34
  Speaker 2: said something to me? Would you have ran away? What
• 27:36
  Speaker 2: would you have done?
• 27:37
  Speaker 6: I would have said, hello, okay, why not? I'm a nice,
• 27:40
  Speaker 6: friendly person.
• 27:41
  Speaker 2: Right And then I say, you know, I'm just a
• 27:43
  Speaker 2: sports radio host.
• 27:44
  Speaker 6: And I said that, my gosh, it's no shock that
• 27:47
  Speaker 6: you do radio looking like that, my guy?
• 27:49
  Speaker 2: And well, what if my next comment was yeah, I
• 27:55
  Speaker 2: said I would shave my head and my eyebrows if
• 27:57
  Speaker 2: web and Yama was suspended for Game five, and he was,
• 28:00
  Speaker 2: so that's why I look like this. What would you
• 28:02
  Speaker 2: say to.
• 28:02
  Speaker 6: That, Ah, radio bets they'll get to you like that.
• 28:07
  Speaker 7: Yeah, And I'd be like, I hope you at.
• 28:09
  Speaker 6: Least got some money for it too, But no, it
• 28:11
  Speaker 6: doesn't sound like you would.
• 28:12
  Speaker 2: Yeah, no, no money, no, no nothing. I don't know
• 28:15
  Speaker 2: how you really spin that forward, you know. So you
• 28:19
  Speaker 2: made a run for lemonade. Where do we stand on this?
• 28:23
  Speaker 6: So thirsty?
• 28:23
  Speaker 7: I wanted a lemonade so bad. I'm not thirsty like
• 28:26
  Speaker 7: for water because I have a whole glass of water here.
• 28:28
  Speaker 6: I wanted something like sweetened tart. But no, I went
• 28:30
  Speaker 6: to the liquor store and as soon as I got there,
• 28:32
  Speaker 6: I only have a five and a half minute break, right,
• 28:34
  Speaker 6: so I got to run over there and run back
• 28:36
  Speaker 6: and do the purchase.
• 28:37
  Speaker 7: So I get there and he just got done.
• 28:38
  Speaker 6: Mopping up to the front door, and he's like, can
• 28:40
  Speaker 6: you give me like two minutes before you go? Right?
• 28:45
  Speaker 5: Oh?
• 28:45
  Speaker 7: Like, actually no, I can't.
• 28:48
  Speaker 2: Yeah right? Is that all you said? Where You're like,
• 28:51
  Speaker 2: I'll be back, Actually no, I can't. You just ruined
• 28:55
  Speaker 2: my night, just left it hanging there.
• 28:57
  Speaker 3: Huh.
• 28:57
  Speaker 7: I was about to be like, can you just remop
• 28:59
  Speaker 7: where I steps?
• 29:00
  Speaker 2: Or yeah? Right?
• 29:02
  Speaker 6: That's my mom used to do the same thing, Like
• 29:04
  Speaker 6: you can't go in the kitchen after she mops for
• 29:06
  Speaker 6: a few minutes because then you just leave the little
• 29:07
  Speaker 6: footprints all over the place.
• 29:09
  Speaker 2: So what did you call the liquor store. When you
• 29:12
  Speaker 2: were growing up, what did other people, you know, in
• 29:15
  Speaker 2: school friends, what did they call it? Because everybody around me,
• 29:19
  Speaker 2: they'd be like, I got to run to the l
• 29:20
  Speaker 2: They would always call the liquor store the l See I've.
• 29:23
  Speaker 7: Never heard it called that. I just get it was
• 29:26
  Speaker 7: just a liquor store.
• 29:26
  Speaker 6: If you go to the lit where you got a
• 29:28
  Speaker 6: liquor store, unless I had like an actual name.
• 29:31
  Speaker 7: Oh, when we.
• 29:31
  Speaker 6: Were in Boston, we saw bung Hole Liquors. Oh wow, okay, yeah,
• 29:38
  Speaker 6: so like if that was the name of the liquor store,
• 29:39
  Speaker 6: I would definitely say I'm running down to bung Holes
• 29:41
  Speaker 6: like I just I would always say it like that
• 29:43
  Speaker 6: would be so fun.
• 29:44
  Speaker 2: I would say it like Beavis. I would go Bunghodio.
• 29:47
  Speaker 2: You know that's where I got to make a run
• 29:49
  Speaker 2: over there, right, That's what I would do.
• 29:52
  Speaker 3: Yeah.
• 29:52
  Speaker 5: The liquor store on the corner of the street that
• 29:55
  Speaker 5: I grew up on was called the quick Stock Market.
• 29:57
  Speaker 3: So that's that's what we always called it.
• 29:59
  Speaker 2: That's you would say the whole name.
• 30:01
  Speaker 3: Yeah, heading over to Hey.
• 30:02
  Speaker 2: I'm gonna run to the quick Stop Market. Anybody want anything?
• 30:05
  Speaker 2: That's what you guys would say, man, you guys got
• 30:08
  Speaker 2: a shortened stuff over here. Man, like, we don't have
• 30:11
  Speaker 2: time for all that. You know, Indiana is not like
• 30:14
  Speaker 2: New York City, but we're not calling anything by its
• 30:18
  Speaker 2: full name. It's like, I gotta go to the l
• 30:20
  Speaker 2: that's it. That's all we had time for. That's all.
• 30:22
  Speaker 3: It sounds like you're jumping on a train.
• 30:25
  Speaker 2: I know, right, it does. I've got to beat rush
• 30:27
  Speaker 2: hour traffic or something. But yeah, that's what everybody called it.
• 30:31
  Speaker 6: That's something I didn't get to do when we were
• 30:32
  Speaker 6: in Boston. I wanted to take the subway somewhere.
• 30:35
  Speaker 2: Oh you didn't do it.
• 30:36
  Speaker 7: Huh No, I've.
• 30:37
  Speaker 6: Never been on a subway before, so that's really Yeah,
• 30:39
  Speaker 6: that's gonna be on my bucket list.
• 30:41
  Speaker 2: Wow, never before, that's crazy, that's wild.
• 30:45
  Speaker 3: Yeah.
• 30:46
  Speaker 2: I got completely lost in Philly. I've been on subways
• 30:50
  Speaker 2: in you know, the city, New York City many times.
• 30:53
  Speaker 2: I don't know what it was with the Philly subway system.
• 30:55
  Speaker 2: Maybe I'm just an idiot, but it was highly confusing man,
• 30:59
  Speaker 2: and I ended up way away from where I was
• 31:02
  Speaker 2: supposed to be. I don't know what happened.
• 31:03
  Speaker 3: Oh, don't go to Japan.
• 31:05
  Speaker 2: Oh really yeah, crazy.
• 31:07
  Speaker 3: Yeah, you will be screwed.
• 31:12
  Speaker 2: Is it just like is it all like all names,
• 31:15
  Speaker 2: you know what I mean? And not so much east, west,
• 31:17
  Speaker 2: north South, it's just all haywire crazy.
• 31:20
  Speaker 3: Yeah.
• 31:21
  Speaker 5: So there's the uh Shinjuku station in Tokyo is I think,
• 31:28
  Speaker 5: like you know, one of the one of the busiest
• 31:30
  Speaker 5: stations in the world. And that was the first the
• 31:33
  Speaker 5: first night of our honeymoon. That's where we got off
• 31:37
  Speaker 5: at and it was quite confusing and you're using like
• 31:44
  Speaker 5: your phone to navigate, but the maps can't like really
• 31:49
  Speaker 5: pick up where you are, like where your location is
• 31:53
  Speaker 5: exactly because you're underground.
• 31:54
  Speaker 2: Yeah right, sure, happens to a GPS a lot, right,
• 31:58
  Speaker 2: Like you go under a I don't know like the
• 32:00
  Speaker 2: train is above you or something's above you, and it
• 32:04
  Speaker 2: doesn't know where you're at, yes, like am I turning
• 32:06
  Speaker 2: here or going? What am I doing? And it's just
• 32:09
  Speaker 2: like sorry, man, kind of out of commission right now.
• 32:11
  Speaker 2: It just stuck.
• 32:12
  Speaker 5: Yeah, And everything's in Japanese, and so you're trying to
• 32:16
  Speaker 5: use like your Google Translate, and we were.
• 32:20
  Speaker 3: We were lost for for a good couple hours.
• 32:24
  Speaker 1: Man.
• 32:24
  Speaker 2: That's that's not good. I got lost in Portland one time.
• 32:28
  Speaker 2: Their train system is not confusing at all. But h
• 32:32
  Speaker 2: I lived in a town called Hillsborough and that's like
• 32:36
  Speaker 2: west of downtown. And so the friends that I worked with,
• 32:40
  Speaker 2: they were like, oh, yeah, dude, just don't park your
• 32:42
  Speaker 2: car at the airport. Just take the just take the
• 32:45
  Speaker 2: blue line or whatever they called it. And the way
• 32:48
  Speaker 2: they made it sound, they made it sound like you
• 32:50
  Speaker 2: just hop on the blue line and it takes you
• 32:52
  Speaker 2: straight to the airport. And so I'm just riding this
• 32:56
  Speaker 2: and I'm not paying any attention. I'm just riding it.
• 32:58
  Speaker 2: I'm on this freaking subway forever. And then I'm like,
• 33:02
  Speaker 2: you know, let me look at what's going on here.
• 33:04
  Speaker 2: It seems way too long. The airport should be popping
• 33:07
  Speaker 2: up somewhere. And I read the map and I'm like,
• 33:10
  Speaker 2: these idiots didn't tell me I have to get off
• 33:13
  Speaker 2: of the blue line and get on like the red
• 33:15
  Speaker 2: line and head north to the airport. I was way
• 33:19
  Speaker 2: I wasn't even close. Man, Like I had taken Uber
• 33:23
  Speaker 2: to the airport and I was I'm like, dude, I'm
• 33:27
  Speaker 2: gonna miss this flight. I got there and there's hardly
• 33:29
  Speaker 2: any time and they wouldn't let me pass through security.
• 33:33
  Speaker 2: I'm like, I could possibly make this flight. You realize that, right,
• 33:38
  Speaker 2: And the guy helping me is like sorry, man, I'm like,
• 33:40
  Speaker 2: why wouldn't you let me just try it? And he's like, oh,
• 33:42
  Speaker 2: let me talk to my manager. He came back and
• 33:44
  Speaker 2: he was like sorry, he said no, they wouldn't let
• 33:47
  Speaker 2: me through. And so my wife, I was married at
• 33:52
  Speaker 2: the time, to the lovely Christina, but she works as
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  Speaker 2: you know, like a stewardess, like a you know, flight
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  Speaker 2: attend and so I all I did. I booked another
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  Speaker 2: flight because you know, I had the flight benefits or whatever.
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  Speaker 2: I booked another flight so I could get through security,
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  Speaker 2: and I made it to my original flight. I'm like, yeah,
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  Speaker 2: they wouldn't let me through security, and I totally made it,
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  Speaker 2: and I just canceled my my fake flight, you know,
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  Speaker 2: And I'm like, that's so dumb. Why wouldn't they let
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  Speaker 2: me through? I was totally on time. It's crazy.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah.
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  Speaker 5: Another another japan train story we were. You know, they
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  Speaker 5: have the shinkansin out in Japan. It's the bullet train
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  Speaker 5: goes like two hundred plus miles an hour.
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  Speaker 3: Wow.
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  Speaker 5: And one time my wife and I we got on it, uh,
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  Speaker 5: not realizing we were going the opposite direction of where
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  Speaker 5: we were.
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  Speaker 3: Trying to go. So we're just chilling.
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  Speaker 5: We're eating our little Bento box on the train, and
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  Speaker 5: I'm like, man, we've been on this for a while,
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  Speaker 5: and I don't see like our stop coming up. And
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  Speaker 5: we sat on the train for probably like an hour,
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  Speaker 5: no kidding, yeah, and then I and I pull out
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  Speaker 5: the like my phone to look at the maps, and
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  Speaker 5: we're on the opposite side of the country.
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  Speaker 2: Oh dude, wow, that's insane.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah.
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  Speaker 5: But luckily, like we you know, we and these are expensive,
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  Speaker 5: like when you get on the bullet trains, it's like,
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  Speaker 5: you know, it's like over one hundred dollars, you.
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  Speaker 3: Know, for for a ticket.
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  Speaker 5: But luckily, since we never left like the terminal, we
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  Speaker 5: were able to just hop on the one the heading
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  Speaker 5: the other direction.
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  Speaker 2: Oh wow, that's crazy, man. Yeah, yeah, I've done that before.
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  Speaker 2: Where So I I I'm from Indiana and I was
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  Speaker 2: working in New York at the time, and so if
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  Speaker 2: I was driving, let's say I'm driving back to New
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  Speaker 2: York to go to work, I would just stop at
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  Speaker 2: a gas station. I don't know what happened, and it's
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  Speaker 2: my fault. But I would start driving and I would
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  Speaker 2: see a sign for Cleveland, and I'm like, I shouldn't
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  Speaker 2: see a sign for Cleveland. I'm going away from I'm
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  Speaker 2: going east. I should not be heading west. Sure enough,
• 36:12
  Speaker 2: I'm going the wrong direction. I'm like, how did it happened?
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  Speaker 2: A couple of times I'm like, how does this happen?
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  Speaker 2: I don't know what I was doing wrong? Man, but
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  Speaker 2: I can slightly relate to that.
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  Speaker 3: Coop.
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  Speaker 2: Not a good feeling, right there, buddy? Not good? All right?
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  Speaker 2: Eight seven seven ninety nine on Fox? Is your phone number?
• 36:29
  Speaker 2: Feel free to check in. Militia. Always love getting interactive
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  Speaker 2: with you guys. What was it, Coop? The shinsconsin, shin consin,
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  Speaker 2: shin consin Okay, kind of like Wisconsin shin consin? All right?
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  Speaker 2: The bullet train? What does it feel like to be
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  Speaker 2: on a train going two hundred miles per hour?
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  Speaker 3: Ah? I mean you can't really, I can't really tell
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  Speaker 3: when you're on it.
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  Speaker 2: You're you're just going for it.
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  Speaker 3: Huh.
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  Speaker 2: Even if you stand up, you're like, I gotta go
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  Speaker 2: to the bathroom real quick. You don't feel it?
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  Speaker 1: Like?
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  Speaker 2: Is what's it like? I don't know, I gotta I
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  Speaker 2: gotta ride that, man, I want to. It's like, what Lorena?
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  Speaker 2: That's Chris Purfett with US Technical director today, you know,
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  Speaker 2: masked as Lorena.
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  Speaker 3: Get out?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah out, got a break in my ear, just like dude,
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  Speaker 2: I can't hear anymore? Man Like? All right? Oh, we
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  Speaker 2: All right? So?
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  Speaker 2: Do you want a player? Who am I? Or a coach?
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  Speaker 2: Who am I? Who hoop? Lorena? You have any input
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  Speaker 2: on that?
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  Speaker 3: You want? Coach? You want? Coach? Okay?
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  Speaker 2: Steve Kerr Warriors head coach. He has agreed to a
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  Speaker 2: two year contract extension. The deal will reportedly keep Kerr
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  Speaker 2: as the highest paid coach in the NBA, was earning
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  Speaker 2: the NBA head coach that makes the second most money annually.
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  Speaker 2: Steve Kerr has agreed to a two year contract extension
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  Speaker 2: with the Warriors. He will he was making seventeen point
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  Speaker 2: five million dollars annually and the deal will reportedly keep
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  Speaker 2: Kerr as the highest paid head coach in the NBA.
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  Speaker 2: I am the NBA head coach that makes the second
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  Speaker 2: can Kun and many peelier, peelier, Good guess we got?
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  Speaker 2: Larry d went with Dick Mota or Dick Matta, Dick Motta,
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  Speaker 2: Dick Moda. I think it's Dick Matta. Robbie the Mariner
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  Speaker 2: fan goes with Dwayne Tinkle. Eileen Bungholio. That's a great
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  Speaker 2: that's a great tweet by Eileen. Shout out to right
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  Speaker 2: listening to the conversation. That's great. Yeah, Al Bungolio. Analog
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  Speaker 2: Al goes with Casey Stangele Who Yeah, good guesses over
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  Speaker 2: here let's see burger Man goes with Brutus the barber beefcake.
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  Speaker 2: I like this from nine oh four Ray Jeff Samarja
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  Speaker 2: shout out Notre Dame. You know Golden Domer right there,
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  Speaker 2: Cape Cod paper boy, he went with Red Arbach. Good
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  Speaker 2: guess who uh let's see over here Late Night Drug
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  Speaker 2: Tester goes with you are Jason Biggs, who is forty
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  Speaker 2: eight today? Never heard of that's the dude from American
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  Speaker 2: Pie right forty eight years old? Wow?
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  Speaker 7: Oh he's the one who like did yeah pie right?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah right, the mess the main pie guy. Yeah yeah,
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  Speaker 2: that guy forty Oh wow, goodness, that's crazy the great
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  Speaker 2: Southern trendkill. Turning thirty in May makes me feel older.
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  Speaker 2: But you know that's a close second with with our
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  Speaker 2: guy here, the pie guy.
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  Speaker 6: Uh.
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  Speaker 2: Last, what do you go eck or eke?
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  Speaker 1: Do you know?
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  Speaker 2: Do you know what Ike? Ike goes with? Nick Nurse
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  Speaker 2: is where he goes who? Real? Guess right there now
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  Speaker 2: the it's actually a sort of a trick question. There
• 40:31
  Speaker 2: are two guys, Eric Spolstra and ty taran Lu. They
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  Speaker 2: both make roughly fifteen million dollars annually right there, So
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  Speaker 2: either answer would suffice