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- 0:04Speaker 1: All right, I'll get you coming to you live from Philly.
- 0:09Speaker 1: It's the number one rated Tolly and Tony Fools Go
- 0:11Speaker 1: show Yo as always, Paulie Fools go here with Tony
- 0:16Speaker 1: Fools Going and Tony a huge and very important show today.
- 0:22Speaker 1: You know, as you all know, if you're following the
- 0:25Speaker 1: NBA closely, which is almost always a total waste of time,
- 0:28Speaker 1: it is and you know this year has been no exception.
- 0:31Speaker 1: That's the truth is right now, there is straight up
- 0:33Speaker 1: fear running through the entire NBA as the entire sports
- 0:37Speaker 1: world looks at what could be a thunder Facers NBA
- 0:40Speaker 1: Finals horrible. You know, there's real fear out there that
- 0:43Speaker 1: the ratings will not just be bad for an NBA Finals,
- 0:46Speaker 1: but any telecast in the history of television, Isn't that right, Tony.
- 0:50Speaker 2: Yeah, the experts is saying this is gonna be the
- 0:52Speaker 2: worst televised matchup, not since Spurs versus Nets, but since
- 0:57Speaker 2: Joni Loves Chachi.
- 0:59Speaker 3: Wow. Truly dire.
- 1:01Speaker 1: And that's why today we are doing a very special
- 1:04Speaker 1: report Fatal Finals, the thunder Paces disaster. Fatal Finals, the
- 1:12Speaker 1: thunder Paces Disaster. Now We're not just gonna bitch and
- 1:16Speaker 1: moan like all the others. You know, we're gonna give
- 1:18Speaker 1: you actual solutions, absolutely, as we always do to save
- 1:21Speaker 1: this terrible series. But before we get into that day,
- 1:24Speaker 1: remember you hit like you hit subscribe your comment and
- 1:28Speaker 1: your rate and review too on Apple Podcasts.
- 1:30Speaker 2: Right, don all of it, you know, because if you
- 1:33Speaker 2: don't do that, then the algorithm might force you to
- 1:35Speaker 2: watch much worse content like highlights of the Paces Thunder
- 1:40Speaker 2: NBA Finals, and you certainly don't want that.
- 1:43Speaker 1: Nobody wants that anyways, so go ahead and avoid that.
- 1:46Speaker 1: And anyway, on the subject of great content, let's get
- 1:49Speaker 1: right into our special report.
- 1:52Speaker 3: Fatal Finals, the Thunder Paces disaster.
- 1:58Speaker 1: Okay, we begin our special report the concern about these
- 2:02Speaker 1: TV ratings. You know, as we said, there's a general
- 2:05Speaker 1: acceptance out there that this series is going to be
- 2:07Speaker 1: even more boring and unwatchable than both Spurs Nets Finals.
- 2:11Speaker 1: In fact, that Spurs Nets Finals Doning was so unwatchable
- 2:15Speaker 1: people don't even still know what happened in the series,
- 2:17Speaker 1: isn't that right?
- 2:18Speaker 3: Yeah, a lot of.
- 2:19Speaker 2: People say the Spurs won, but since nobody actually watched
- 2:23Speaker 2: it and no one can actually verify it, there's a
- 2:26Speaker 2: faction of Nets truthers out there who claimed the New
- 2:30Speaker 2: Jersey Nets actually won. You know, we've attempted to go
- 2:33Speaker 2: back and watch the video, but the cameraman at the
- 2:36Speaker 2: game fell asleep, so there's no footage of anything from
- 2:40Speaker 2: that series.
- 2:41Speaker 3: Yeah, we tried to find it.
- 2:42Speaker 1: And you know, in fact, people don't know this, but
- 2:43Speaker 1: the Nielsen ratings for that series were so low because
- 2:46Speaker 1: many TVs actually automatically turned themselves off and went into
- 2:51Speaker 1: sleep mode when on the TV they were actually just
- 2:54Speaker 1: showing Tim Duncan in the sleepy Spurs offense, but the
- 2:57Speaker 1: TV just thought nothing was happening, so you know, shut
- 2:59Speaker 1: down exactly.
- 3:00Speaker 2: You know, I still personally believe that the Nets one.
- 3:04Speaker 2: I mean, think about it. Do you know anyone who
- 3:07Speaker 2: saw the Spurs win those two titles? It's very suspicious,
- 3:10Speaker 2: don't you think?
- 3:11Speaker 1: Very suspicious. You know, we'll never know, you never know
- 3:14Speaker 1: the truth things exactly. But you know it's not all
- 3:16Speaker 1: da for people out there, you know, worried about this
- 3:19Speaker 1: thunder Paces series, and you know, Spurs Nets Part three,
- 3:22Speaker 1: there are still ways to save this series coming up
- 3:26Speaker 1: and make it somewhat watchable. And Tony, you add some
- 3:29Speaker 1: great ideas. Why do you tell the people one of them.
- 3:31Speaker 2: You know, I think the Thunder Paces series can only
- 3:34Speaker 2: work if each team is allowed to bring back one
- 3:37Speaker 2: player from its team history. I think the Thunder should
- 3:41Speaker 2: bring back Russell Westbrook and the Paces should bring back
- 3:45Speaker 2: rona Test. But instead of playing against each other, they're
- 3:49Speaker 2: pitted against all the fans in the stands to see
- 3:52Speaker 2: who can make it out of the arena alive. You know,
- 3:55Speaker 2: we could even rename the thunder Stadium the thunder Dome
- 3:59Speaker 2: and do it mad Max style where almost everyone dies.
- 4:03Speaker 2: Now that's a Thunder Paces series I would watch.
- 4:08Speaker 3: That is a series I would watch.
- 4:09Speaker 1: And Tody on that note, I just saw something come
- 4:12Speaker 1: through hit that sound that we got breaking those in
- 4:15Speaker 1: all right? This just didn't from the ESPN website. You
- 4:18Speaker 1: know the Thunder used to be the Sonics. Well, former
- 4:20Speaker 1: Sonics player Sean Kemp has just pled guilty to assault
- 4:25Speaker 1: with a deadly weapon after shooting at two men.
- 4:28Speaker 3: In a mall parking lot. Wow, Tony, your instant reaction.
- 4:33Speaker 2: Wow, this is just perfect timing, because what is the
- 4:38Speaker 2: NBA built on nowadays outside shooters exactly. Sean Kemp is
- 4:44Speaker 2: clearly also a perfect fit for the Sonic slash Thunder
- 4:48Speaker 2: to bring back. He's the kind of long range and
- 4:51Speaker 2: also point blank range shooter people want to see but
- 4:56Speaker 2: then also want to run from.
- 4:58Speaker 1: Well, that dope, but it's not terrific instance analysis that
- 5:01Speaker 1: Tony and Dank. Well, you know, Tony, you're not the
- 5:03Speaker 1: only one coming up with some very bold ideas to
- 5:05Speaker 1: fix this series. You know, you've heard from your sources
- 5:08Speaker 1: that Adam Silver himself is also considering some very bold ideas,
- 5:12Speaker 1: isn't it.
- 5:13Speaker 2: Absolutely My sources inside the league tell me that Adam
- 5:17Speaker 2: Silver is considering secretly replacing the Paces with the Lakers
- 5:22Speaker 2: and hoping nobody notices or even cares. Well, first off,
- 5:26Speaker 2: they both wear yellow jerseys, and their names already have
- 5:30Speaker 2: four of the same letters, so you could just SHOPI
- 5:33Speaker 2: in Lakers to look like Paces. So if you're watching
- 5:37Speaker 2: on your phone and it's all small, you're not even
- 5:40Speaker 2: gonna be able to tell. And also, most people haven't
- 5:43Speaker 2: watched any Paces games at all, so nobody's gonna know
- 5:45Speaker 2: who's on the team.
- 5:46Speaker 3: Anyways.
- 5:48Speaker 1: That is an interesting point that, Donny, but a little
- 5:50Speaker 1: too far fetched from Adam Silver. You know, you had
- 5:53Speaker 1: other ideas that I think were much more reasonable. Tell
- 5:56Speaker 1: the people that other one.
- 5:58Speaker 2: Yeah, of course, you know what I think is most
- 6:00Speaker 2: reasonable to help a thunder Paces series become watchable is
- 6:04Speaker 2: to just have Caitlin Clark join the Paces. She's already
- 6:09Speaker 2: on an Indiana basketball team, and since she's injured, you know,
- 6:13Speaker 2: she can't play in the WNBA anyway, so it would
- 6:16Speaker 2: be so historic to see the first woman win the
- 6:21Speaker 2: NBA finals. That's, of course, if you're not counting Dennis Rodman.
- 6:25Speaker 1: Yeah, if you don't count Probman. But a great point that, Dony,
- 6:28Speaker 1: and thank you. All right, Well, you know what I'm
- 6:30Speaker 1: about to say next very controversial, I know, gonna make
- 6:33Speaker 1: out lines, you know, be around the internet whatever, But
- 6:36Speaker 1: I for one and many people, we're not exactly thrilled
- 6:40Speaker 1: with this Shay Gilligan Alexander winning MVP. You know, that's
- 6:44Speaker 1: seven years in a row now that a foreign born
- 6:47Speaker 1: player has won MVP.
- 6:49Speaker 3: Terror.
- 6:50Speaker 1: You know, we gotta we gotta fix this foreign a problem, Tony,
- 6:52Speaker 1: and you had an idea on how to fix it.
- 6:54Speaker 3: Tell the people one word, tariffs.
- 6:58Speaker 2: You know, we need to start charging the team's extra
- 7:01Speaker 2: for signing foreign born players. You know, we need to
- 7:04Speaker 2: get back to American born players. You know, people out
- 7:08Speaker 2: there may say, well, what about Joe l Embiid, But
- 7:12Speaker 2: Joel Embiid is just further proof of what happens when
- 7:15Speaker 2: you and port foreign made products.
- 7:18Speaker 3: They're all flimsy and they break easily.
- 7:20Speaker 2: You know, Joel Embiid, hum days anything on Team Move.
- 7:25Speaker 1: Take your pick, yeah, exactly. If Thunder may be happy now,
- 7:28Speaker 1: but check back in four years when this Shay Gilligan
- 7:30Speaker 1: is a shipwrecked exact anyway, let's say in the Western
- 7:34Speaker 1: Conference finals and just talk about what went wrong there
- 7:37Speaker 1: for the Timberwolves. You know, they had so much momentum
- 7:40Speaker 1: coming into the series. You know, as we all know,
- 7:42Speaker 1: they had so much length. And by that we're talking
- 7:45Speaker 1: about Anthony Edwards, of course, allegedly giant phoenix that they
- 7:48Speaker 1: get bragging about. But Tony, it's very easy to see
- 7:52Speaker 1: where everything went wrong for him specifically, isn't it totally?
- 7:56Speaker 2: Anthony Edwards played so much better on the road than
- 7:59Speaker 2: he did at home, and there's one clear reason for
- 8:02Speaker 2: that shrinkage. You know, inside the cold weather climate of Minnesota,
- 8:07Speaker 2: his allegedly massive penis clearly shriveled up.
- 8:11Speaker 4: You know.
- 8:11Speaker 2: Meanwhile, he and it his giant penis both thrived in
- 8:16Speaker 2: the warmer climates of Los Angeles, Oakland and even Oklahoma City.
- 8:21Speaker 2: You know, if I'm Anthonny Edwards, I'm asking for a
- 8:24Speaker 2: trade to the warm climate of Miami that will almost
- 8:28Speaker 2: certainly extend his career and also his penis.
- 8:32Speaker 1: There's great points all around, Donny. And of course what
- 8:35Speaker 1: we bring this up.
- 8:35Speaker 3: We got to talk.
- 8:36Speaker 1: About the player who had the most allegedly massive penis
- 8:39Speaker 1: in the history of NBA possibly time.
- 8:41Speaker 3: Of course, I'm talking about Shaqui exactly.
- 8:46Speaker 1: You know, he had success in Orlando, Los Angeles, Miami,
- 8:50Speaker 1: but what happened when he went to Cleveland, Boston, cold weather.
- 8:55Speaker 3: Shrinkage.
- 8:56Speaker 2: I mean, it was Shack's penis, so it was still
- 8:58Speaker 2: absolutely massive relative to any normal human, but still shrinkage
- 9:04Speaker 2: brought it down.
- 9:05Speaker 3: Exactly, shrinkage.
- 9:06Speaker 1: You know, on the subject of shrinkage, we have to
- 9:08Speaker 1: talk about the shrinking quality of the ESPN basketball broadcast.
- 9:12Speaker 3: What a sege was exactly?
- 9:14Speaker 1: I say, people, your journalist students out, they see that's
- 9:17Speaker 1: how you do a segue. You take the one thing shrinkage,
- 9:21Speaker 1: which was formally about penis size, right, but I made
- 9:24Speaker 1: it about ESPN broadcast squad write that down exactly. So
- 9:29Speaker 1: that's that's how you make it, and that's how you
- 9:31Speaker 1: do So watching first take the other day, which I
- 9:34Speaker 1: never do, and of course I instantly regret it because
- 9:37Speaker 1: it was the after game two of the Thunderworld series.
- 9:40Speaker 1: All right, and this and this, the graphic comes across
- 9:43Speaker 1: the screen and it says, is this series over after
- 9:48Speaker 1: game two?
- 9:49Speaker 3: How ridiculous is that?
- 9:51Speaker 1: Donny?
- 9:51Speaker 3: Absolutely ridiculous.
- 9:53Speaker 2: You know, isn't ESPN supposed to be a sports news network.
- 9:57Speaker 3: They don't even know how long this series is yep.
- 10:00Speaker 3: Everybody knows that it's a best of seven series, yep.
- 10:04Speaker 2: So that means the series isn't over until a team
- 10:08Speaker 2: wins four games, then the series is over.
- 10:13Speaker 3: I can't believe I even have to explain it. I
- 10:15Speaker 3: can't believe you have to explain it either, Tony. Just blickball.
- 10:19Speaker 1: You know, another thing just we got to talk about
- 10:22Speaker 1: while with talking basketball, we got to talk about this
- 10:25Speaker 1: situation in the WNBA. You know, there's this outrage after
- 10:29Speaker 1: the league announced that it ended its probe into.
- 10:32Speaker 3: The racial slurs hurled that Angel race.
- 10:34Speaker 1: You know, when a team, the Chicago Sky played in Indiana. Yeah, well,
- 10:38Speaker 1: the league came out and said, well, they couldn't find
- 10:40Speaker 1: the person who said the racial slurs. And it's Tony
- 10:43Speaker 1: very easy to see why this investigation went nowhere, is it.
- 10:47Speaker 2: Yeah, My sources tell me that the WNBA couldn't identify
- 10:51Speaker 2: the one person who is hurling those racial slurs at
- 10:54Speaker 2: Angel Reese because Indiana just has too many racists. You know,
- 10:59Speaker 2: it would take way too much time to interview all
- 11:02Speaker 2: of them. I mean you'd have to interview about fourteen,
- 11:05Speaker 2: three hundred and fifty seven racists just.
- 11:09Speaker 3: In the arena alone.
- 11:11Speaker 2: That's why the WNBA can't expand to Mississippi.
- 11:15Speaker 3: I mean they'd have to interview the whole state. Great
- 11:18Speaker 3: point that, Doni and the.
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- 11:35Speaker 2: This is my prediction for the NBA Finals, which unfortunately
- 11:39Speaker 2: is gonna be Thunder paces Game one, Thunder win, Game two,
- 11:46Speaker 2: Thunder win again.
- 11:49Speaker 3: Game three.
- 11:50Speaker 2: ABC pre empts the Finals to show something that will
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- 14:50Speaker 3: then oh you kidding me?
- 14:52Speaker 1: Oh?
- 14:52Speaker 3: What the heck is going on? He's not even in
- 14:55Speaker 3: the studio. Where are you? Where are you? Right now?
- 14:58Speaker 4: Here's where I am.
- 14:59Speaker 3: I'm doing my job exactly. Nobody cares where you are.
- 15:03Speaker 3: He's still learning. But seriously, where are you, comedian? Where
- 15:07Speaker 3: are you?
- 15:08Speaker 4: I'm in Florida?
- 15:10Speaker 3: Okay, what are you doing there? Dying like most people?
- 15:14Speaker 4: Hopefully I'm not a conference. I flew down here today
- 15:17Speaker 4: from Newark.
- 15:18Speaker 3: Oh, from Newark.
- 15:19Speaker 1: See the people at Newark again, Tony failing to do
- 15:22Speaker 1: their jobs. Of all the planes they could have made disappear,
- 15:25Speaker 1: they failed to.
- 15:26Speaker 3: Make the only one that the one did. But unfortunately
- 15:29Speaker 3: he's here, Tony, what do you want anyway? Why are
- 15:32Speaker 3: you even talking?
- 15:33Speaker 4: Wow?
- 15:34Speaker 3: Direct?
- 15:35Speaker 4: Well you said a kill on Neil was successful in
- 15:38Speaker 4: warm weather climates.
- 15:40Speaker 3: Yeah, bro, yeah, learn basketball?
- 15:42Speaker 4: Bro. Okay, well shock plate in Phoenix, which is a
- 15:46Speaker 4: warm weather climate, and he kind of sucked there. So
- 15:51Speaker 4: how do you explain that?
- 15:53Speaker 1: Well, I'm going to drop you in a warm weather
- 15:56Speaker 1: climate a volcano.
- 15:58Speaker 2: Yeah, you remind me of a Phoenix River of Phoenix dead.
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- 16:16Speaker 5: Bro.
- 16:17Speaker 4: You stopped using Cougar thirty years ago. It just goes
- 16:20Speaker 4: by John Mellencamp. Now, time to update your references.
- 16:25Speaker 1: Oh yeah, well, uh, you're gonna need to update your
- 16:29Speaker 1: references on your resume after we fire you.
- 16:33Speaker 2: Yeah, you know what, Cougar, I keep using your mom
- 16:38Speaker 2: Oh great one.
- 16:41Speaker 3: Do what what.
- 16:45Speaker 4: You said? Hondai's are unreliable for made products that break easily.
- 16:50Speaker 3: Totally bro, buy American, Bro.
- 16:54Speaker 4: Hondays are literally the most dependable cars on the market today.
- 16:58Speaker 4: They wouldn't safety awards every single you.
- 17:02Speaker 3: Oh yeah, well I can't wait until you Handai.
- 17:08Speaker 2: Yeah, and I want to congratulate you on the award
- 17:11Speaker 2: you win every year, smallest Penis.
- 17:17Speaker 1: And you want to talk about award winners. Tony just
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