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  Speaker 1: our lead This hour from the Mecca, not the Mecca
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  Speaker 1: in New York, the mecca of sports in America anyway
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  Speaker 1: on Sunday, Sunday Sunday Holiday weekend, the Hoosier State Hoo's
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  Speaker 1: Your Daddy. Indianapolis, the site of the Indy five hundred,
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  Speaker 1: the iconic race. Even if you don't really like racing,
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  Speaker 1: you watch that, right, There's two races you're supposed to watch,
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  Speaker 1: supposed to watch, the Daytona five hundred if you're you're
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  Speaker 1: not really a NASCAR person, and then the Indy five hundred.
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  Speaker 1: So that was going on, and then at night downtown
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  Speaker 1: Indianapolis was jumping all those annoying New Yorkers paying a
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  Speaker 1: visit to Indianapolis for the basketball game Eastern Conference Finals.
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  Speaker 1: Game number three had Jalen Brunson and the Knicks on
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  Speaker 1: life support, choking a couple of games at home and
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  Speaker 1: now in a position where they have to do something
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  Speaker 1: that's happened before. They have to become the first team
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  Speaker 1: to lose the first two games at home in a
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  Speaker 1: conference final and come back and win taking on Tyrese
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  Speaker 1: Halliburton and the upstart Pacers. So I don't know if
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  Speaker 1: you were watching or not, maybe a whether it's pretty
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  Speaker 1: good most places you were out doing stuff, having a
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  Speaker 1: good time, perhaps, And we watched. We watched, as we
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  Speaker 1: like to say, as a public service announcement so you
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  Speaker 1: would not have to. And what did we watch, Well,
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  Speaker 1: we watched a dud of a game early on for
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  Speaker 1: the Knicks. And then the plot twist. The plot twist
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  Speaker 1: is Carl Anthony Towns super charged, up, up, and away.
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  Speaker 1: He only had four points over the first thirty six
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  Speaker 1: minutes of the game, was in foul trouble, and then
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  Speaker 1: put up a twenty burger in the fourth quarter. Twenty
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  Speaker 1: of his twenty four down the stretch run and Jalen Brunson,
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  Speaker 1: who was also in foul trouble. He had twenty three
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  Speaker 1: points and the Knickerbockers down twenty late second quarter, looking
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  Speaker 1: like doom and gloom for New York. And then they
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  Speaker 1: come all the way back and they beat the Pacers
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  Speaker 1: one oh six to one hundred the final, and so
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  Speaker 1: the Indiana team still leading this series two games to one,
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  Speaker 1: as Carl Anthony Towns also had fifteen rebounds in this game.
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  Speaker 1: A monster performance. Tyree's Halliburton quiet led the Pacers though
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  Speaker 1: with twenty points and six assists and Miles Turner at nineteen.
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  Speaker 1: Game four will be played on Tuesday night. Tickets are
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  Speaker 1: not available for that, so let's get into it. We
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  Speaker 1: will discuss the question here who gets to wear the
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  Speaker 1: Indiana colored Dunce cap for Rick Carlile's Pacers. You blow
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  Speaker 1: a twenty point lead at home? What do you? What
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  Speaker 1: do you think of that? The Boston Celtics blowing twenty
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  Speaker 1: point leads at home? But he what's wrong with you? Inexcusable?
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  Speaker 1: So I've got Netflix, Fever and Goomba, and we will
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  Speaker 1: combine all of these things together and we are going
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  Speaker 1: to make a value meal and you can enjoy the value.
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  Speaker 1: He goes to holidays. So it's like a value meal situation.
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  Speaker 1: So A I saw the T shirts. The NBA loves themes.
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  Speaker 1: They're all about the themes. And so the Indiana Pacers
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  Speaker 1: officials handed out the gold and blue, the golden blue
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  Speaker 1: team color T shirts there to everyone it appears in
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  Speaker 1: attendance at that game, and they said, room baby, room
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  Speaker 1: Baby's what they said on them to celebrate the very rare,
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  Speaker 1: very rare occasion where the iconic Indy five hundred and
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  Speaker 1: a pro bouncy ball playoff game are going on. So
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  Speaker 1: they put that out there, double header action, and it
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  Speaker 1: was room vroom right vroom vroom right into the wall
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  Speaker 1: driving the struggle bus for the Pacers, who, as I
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  Speaker 1: understand it, I believe I have this right, have not won.
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  Speaker 1: They've played four times now, four times on Indy five
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  Speaker 1: hundred day and r zero to four in those in
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  Speaker 1: those games. Now, what they should have done instead of
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  Speaker 1: handing out a room baby shirt, right, a shirt that
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  Speaker 1: says room baby, they should have handed out a yellow flag,
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  Speaker 1: the caution flag, because the Pacers had a they did
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  Speaker 1: wear the yellow they had the yellow uniforms on it.
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  Speaker 1: Was a caution situation. If you will hear dangerous conditions,
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  Speaker 1: dangerous conditions on the court, there a disgraceful dare I say,
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  Speaker 1: inexcusable loss when you're up by twenty bad job by
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  Speaker 1: them and you have a twenty point League Eastern Conference
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  Speaker 1: chance to put a total choke hold on the series
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  Speaker 1: here and you let the Knicks have a second life here.
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  Speaker 1: And last I checked, like the Knicks these guys, is
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  Speaker 1: Patrick Ewing out there? I didn't see him. Maybe he
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  Speaker 1: was there. I guess he might have been there, but
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  Speaker 1: I didn't see the classic Knicks. These guys are still
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  Speaker 1: trying to write their story, and the Pacers helped them
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  Speaker 1: write a chapter in their story by allowing them to
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  Speaker 1: get back in this game here and have new life.
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  Speaker 1: And that's a shame on you situation for Tyrese Haliburton
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  Speaker 1: and the Pacers. Now, as for specifics, there's a couple
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  Speaker 1: of names that I jotted down on the notes app
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  Speaker 1: on my phone as I was watching the game here,
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  Speaker 1: and they are the headliner's friend of the show Marcel
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  Speaker 1: and Brooklyn's favorite basketball player Pascal Siaka. I'm gonna make
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  Speaker 1: sure I say that properly and Tyrese Haliburton. Those are
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  Speaker 1: the two. If your stars do not shine the brightest,
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  Speaker 1: you can't expect these other scrubs to get it done.
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  Speaker 1: Even though Indiana was at home and usually the scrub
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  Speaker 1: guys played better at home, but may you were on
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  Speaker 1: the court for the majority of that time. Indiana was
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  Speaker 1: up by twenty late second quarter and then in the
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  Speaker 1: second half, and really the fourth quarter is completely collapsed,
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  Speaker 1: outscored by twenty six from up twenty to losing by
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  Speaker 1: six at the end of the game, and Siakam and Haliburton,
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  Speaker 1: they might as well have been watching and having a
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  Speaker 1: nice surfing turf at Saint Elmo's there the steakhouse which
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  Speaker 1: every sportscaster, every sports cast goes Indianapolis goes to Saint Elmos.
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  Speaker 1: I've been there when I was there years ago when
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  Speaker 1: the Pacers were in the finals, and I was there
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  Speaker 1: because that's just what you do. And often what TV
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  Speaker 1: does is they'll they'll put the restaurant on TV because
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  Speaker 1: they get like a discount or they get a payola. Now,
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  Speaker 1: even I guess TNT did that too, they had some
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  Speaker 1: kind of side hustles. So it's like the top restaurant
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  Speaker 1: at least for sportscasters when they go to Indianapolis. They
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  Speaker 1: got to go to that sant elbos No Rick Carlisle squad.
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  Speaker 1: Clearly they they had a brain fart here as they
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  Speaker 1: did not close the game. In general, in general Indiana,
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  Speaker 1: they got complacent. We've seen this a lot. This is
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  Speaker 1: a an epidemic in pro bouncy ball. You get a
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  Speaker 1: big lead and you get complacent, You ease up a
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  Speaker 1: little bit, you cut corners. It's human nature, and so
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  Speaker 1: you usually start with defensively. You ease things up, and
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  Speaker 1: then that opens the door a little bit, and the
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  Speaker 1: door's unlocked, and so you open that up there, and
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  Speaker 1: then you allow a little chip away action New York
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  Speaker 1: chipping away in this game. And once the Pacers then
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  Speaker 1: start losing control, they start losing the lead, then what happens.
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  Speaker 1: Tts tight took his syndrome, tight took his syndrome kicked
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  Speaker 1: in for the Indiana Pacers in this game. And very tough,
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  Speaker 1: very tough to play basketball when you were suffering from
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  Speaker 1: a tight spinter. And we saw that for the Pacers
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  Speaker 1: in the fourth quarter there as it was panic at
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  Speaker 1: the disco or in this case the field house. There
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  Speaker 1: in Indianapolis, they tightened up, they stopped playing free and easy,
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  Speaker 1: free and loose, and then it just was a self
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  Speaker 1: fulfilling prophecy where they just fell apart at the end. Now,
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  Speaker 1: in the fourth quarter, there were stretches that when you
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  Speaker 1: were watching this, you know, it's kind of like when
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  Speaker 1: you're watching something on on a streaming service like Netflix
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  Speaker 1: and if you have just continue to watch stuff and
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  Speaker 1: it kind of goes through, like you know, they have
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  Speaker 1: those series where it goes in the next episode at
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  Speaker 1: some point they'll they'll click something. Are you still watching?
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  Speaker 1: Like I felt like, Rick Carlyle, are you guys still watching?
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  Speaker 1: Because all you're doing is watching, You're just watching the
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  Speaker 1: Knicks runner Indiana shot twenty six percent in the fourth quarter,
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  Speaker 1: and that was from the floor and twelve point five
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  Speaker 1: percent from three point range. Now, I didn't play in
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  Speaker 1: the NBA. I just do an overnight show. I don't
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  Speaker 1: think that's particularly good. I don't think that's particularly good.
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  Speaker 1: That's just my position on that. Here is Rick Carlisle
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  Speaker 1: pointing out he's the coach of the Pacers, pointing out
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  Speaker 1: that they really fed up the end of that game.
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  Speaker 1: They really screwed that thing. Up.
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  Speaker 3: Take a list, poor Java closing the third quarter, not
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  Speaker 3: a good enough start to the fourth quarter. Turned it into,
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  Speaker 3: you know, a real back and forth game, and they
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  Speaker 3: executed down the stretch and we did not execute well enough.
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  Speaker 3: So credit them for fighting hard, hanging in. You know,
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  Speaker 3: we got a pretty pretty good lead in the third quarter,
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  Speaker 3: didn't do a good enough job of attacking but also
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  Speaker 3: avoiding miscues.
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  Speaker 1: Difficult loss.
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  Speaker 3: So we'll watch it tomorrow and there are a lot
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  Speaker 3: of things we can do better.
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  Speaker 1: Okay, so standard cliches there at the end. Indiana was
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  Speaker 1: up twenty late second quarter, they had a sixteen point
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  Speaker 1: lead early third quarter and blow it. Here is Tyree's
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  Speaker 1: halla Burton. Good for him. He actually talked to the
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  Speaker 1: media after a loss. Here's Halliburton pointing out, well, some
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  Speaker 1: offensive issues popped up.
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  Speaker 4: Has some misshots, you know, five for twenty five from three.
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  Speaker 4: That's not ideal. You know, I thought I gotta watch
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  Speaker 4: film to really see our offensive processes what they really were.
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  Speaker 4: Felt like we got kind of stagnant on that end,
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  Speaker 4: you know, but yeah, we'll see where we can get better.
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  Speaker 1: Watch film and be ready to go to freagam for
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  Speaker 1: there you go, Just go watch the film. It's all
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  Speaker 1: yet just watch the film, all right. Here's more from
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  Speaker 1: Tyrese Halliburton pointing out here mister halliburt and that, well,
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  Speaker 1: there's some things that he could have done better.
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  Speaker 4: You know, I was trying to feel out the game,
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  Speaker 4: you know, see who's rotating overs?
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  Speaker 1: Who the rotations are rotations. Obviously Mitch is there.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, you know, main rim protector, so when he's coming over,
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  Speaker 4: just trying to make the right play. Sure, yeah, yeah,
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  Speaker 4: I could definitely be better there, that's right. Not watch
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  Speaker 4: the film.
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  Speaker 1: See watch the film.
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  Speaker 4: Areas of improvement, see I can get better a game four?
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, I watched the film. Go, I'm gonna watch the
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  Speaker 1: film too. Get some popcorn, some candy. I'm gonna go
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  Speaker 1: watch the film all right now, Page two. So you
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  Speaker 1: have the loser side, which is the better story. Then
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  Speaker 1: you have the winner side. So who got into Tom
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  Speaker 1: Thibodeau's nicks or what got into them? What got into
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  Speaker 1: Tom Thibodeau's Knickerbocker's There as they were futsing around twenty
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  Speaker 1: point deficit and even in the early third quarter, it
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  Speaker 1: was like something kicked in late third So what inspired
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  Speaker 1: the comeback? So what inspired the comeback. So the first
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  Speaker 1: thing is they stayed within reasonable striking distance. It was
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  Speaker 1: a workable number and you're only down ten going to
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  Speaker 1: the fourth quarters, so that's manageable. And then it's it's
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  Speaker 1: Ted Nugent's it's a kitty cat. It's Karl Anthony Towns
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  Speaker 1: cat scratch fever right there, Boom. We mentioned twenty of
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  Speaker 1: twenty four points in the fourth quarter, and that's how
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  Speaker 1: he's supposed to but he very rarely plays like that
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  Speaker 1: in playoff game. It's rare that you get that kind
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  Speaker 1: of performance from Carl an Day. Usually you get the
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  Speaker 1: four points over three quarters, you don't normally get to
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  Speaker 1: twenty in the fourth quarter. And we ripped the guy
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  Speaker 1: all the time because he's often hanging out in the
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  Speaker 1: litter box in big moments in the playoff game. But
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  Speaker 1: here he left the litter box and he stepped up.
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  Speaker 1: And so if you want to give him flowers, give
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  Speaker 1: him some flowers. I don't like handing out flowers, but
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  Speaker 1: he did a good job. You don't get extra credit.
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  Speaker 1: You're being you're the franchise player with Brunson, You're you're
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  Speaker 1: the B player to the A player. That's how you're
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  Speaker 1: supposed to play. But you did your job. Good for you.
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  Speaker 1: Do it again, and do it again, and do it again.
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  Speaker 1: All right, now, last word here, I cannot help myself.
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  Speaker 1: I cannot help myself here. Scott Foster was the lead
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  Speaker 1: official at this game, AKA you know what his nickname
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  Speaker 1: is kids the Extender. Scott Foster the Extender was a
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  Speaker 1: signed to this game. I don't want to sign sound
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  Speaker 1: too much like a whack of doodle from San Diego
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  Speaker 1: that calls the show, but listen, this was an issue
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  Speaker 1: when I saw this during the day, I started texting
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  Speaker 1: some people. We were going back and forth and we're like,
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  Speaker 1: all right, well, there you go. That's the story. Here
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  Speaker 1: you go the direction of the Knicks. If you don't
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  Speaker 1: know what to do, just take the next. Pacers were
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  Speaker 1: favored by I think four in the game, but Scott
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  Speaker 1: Foster was a sign to officiate Game three between the
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  Speaker 1: Knicks and the Pacers, and what do you know, Surprise, surprise, surprise,
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  Speaker 1: the big market Knicks on life support. They have a
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  Speaker 1: modern medical miracle. They come off the deck down twenty.
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  Speaker 1: They extend the series, extend the series, creating some excitement.
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  Speaker 1: So are you buying? Are you buying? Into the conspiracy
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  Speaker 1: with Scott Foster or is this just some kind of
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  Speaker 1: wild cuinki dink. That's the question. What's the answer. So
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  Speaker 1: to me, this isn't even a conspiracy at this point,
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  Speaker 1: I think you're just you're an idiot if you think
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  Speaker 1: it's a conspiracy. It's not a conspiracy. It's not. I mean,
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  Speaker 1: there's no. I mean it's it's at the point now
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  Speaker 1: with Scott Foster where everyone and their mother know the deal. Yo, right,
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  Speaker 1: everyone knows. It's not a coincidence. It's a pattern at
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  Speaker 1: this point, So stop with stop with the arts conspiracy. No,
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  Speaker 1: it's it's a pattern of activity that has taken place here.
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  Speaker 1: Perception is reality. And when the NBA mob, when the
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  Speaker 1: league office has a problem on their hands and no
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  Speaker 1: one can solve it, who you're gonna call the mob
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  Speaker 1: at the NBA, they turned to their league gumba and
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  Speaker 1: that's Scott Foster. They put Scott fu out there and
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  Speaker 1: tada abra, cadabra. Amazing the percentage of success that Scott
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  Speaker 1: Foster officiated games have where the team that's trailing in
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  Speaker 1: a series wins. But again, it's not, no, it's a coincidence.
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  Speaker 1: It's not some kind of grand conspiracy. It just feels
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  Speaker 1: like it's scripted, like it's professional wrestling, is what it
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  Speaker 1: feels like. When Scott Foster's out there. This man has
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  Speaker 1: been part of how many over the years, I've been
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  Speaker 1: doing this a long time. How many times have I
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  Speaker 1: come in here after a playoff game in a series
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  Speaker 1: where a team's trailing, they win, and Scott Foster's doing
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  Speaker 1: it and magically, deliciously the team that's trailing ends up winning.
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  Speaker 1: And you know something's a little off in your business.
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  Speaker 1: When the Nick fans are celebrating during the day when
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  Speaker 1: they found out the official assigned to the game. I mean,
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  Speaker 1: it's so stupid. It's like so ridiculous, like the Nick fail.
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  Speaker 1: We got it, dude, we got it. We got a
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  Speaker 1: new player, we got the sixth man. It's gonna be
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  Speaker 1: We're gonna be on the power play, power play when
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  Speaker 1: when we're out there tonight because Scott Foster is gonna
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  Speaker 1: be official. I mean, hell, Adam Silver, what are you doing? Seriously?
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  Speaker 1: So great? Now, I will admit this was an unorthodox
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  Speaker 1: This was an unorthodox, not your standard Scott Foster special.
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  Speaker 1: In regards to the fact that the Knicks did win.
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  Speaker 1: But they they won with their bench, all right, they
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  Speaker 1: won with their bench Jalen Brunson and Karl Anthony Towns,
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  Speaker 1: even though he came up big late in the fourth quarter,
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  Speaker 1: but they were in foulchro both had four fouls going
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  Speaker 1: to the fourth quarter. However, this feeds in. This feeds
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  Speaker 1: in to the theory. You see Scott Foster forcing Tom
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  Speaker 1: Thibodeau to play players on the bench he normally does
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  Speaker 1: not play like Foster because of his foul foul calling
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  Speaker 1: on Brunson and Karl Anthony Towns that forced the Knickerbockers
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  Speaker 1: to play multiple players they would not normally play, and
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  Speaker 1: that turned out to be the secret sauce in this game.
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  Speaker 1: So coaching credit goes to Scott Foster in this game.
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  Speaker 1: And look the NBA, they'll tell you and this will
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  Speaker 1: come up. I'm sure they'll NBA release a statement. They've
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  Speaker 1: done this many times. I'll say, well, listen, Foster is
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  Speaker 1: just an experienced referee and it's just noise. It's just
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  Speaker 1: you know, people trying to get engagement on social media
• 18:27
  Speaker 1: and all that. Well, I'm not on social media right now.
• 18:28
  Speaker 1: I'm on the radio. And you look at this. The
• 18:31
  Speaker 1: numbers do not lie. The numbers do not lie. And
• 18:36
  Speaker 1: you don't earn the nickname the extender. You don't earn
• 18:39
  Speaker 1: that nickname just by coming out of thin air here.
• 18:44
  Speaker 1: You got to put some serious work in to get
• 18:46
  Speaker 1: that nickname. And the players, they've done surveys over the years,
• 18:50
  Speaker 1: the players have voted Scott Foster the most distrusted official
• 18:54
  Speaker 1: in the NBA. And whether or not it's fair, I
• 18:58
  Speaker 1: think it is. I believe if it is fair based
• 19:00
  Speaker 1: on the body of work. You are a product. You
• 19:02
  Speaker 1: are what your record says you are. So based on
• 19:05
  Speaker 1: the body of work, I would say there's something there
• 19:08
  Speaker 1: right there, and certainly a perception problem if you're the
• 19:13
  Speaker 1: NBA at best, it's just a perception problem, right that's
• 19:16
  Speaker 1: you say, that's it, but you assign him to the series.
• 19:20
  Speaker 1: In this game, when the knicks are down, you're just
• 19:23
  Speaker 1: throwing You're throwing gas on the fire, is what you're doing.
• 19:26
  Speaker 1: You're just pouring gas on the fire there. And so
• 19:29
  Speaker 1: let's not forget. We don't want to go way back
• 19:32
  Speaker 1: in the greatest scandal cover up in the history of
• 19:34
  Speaker 1: professional sports, the Tim Donahue fixing game scandal of the
• 19:40
  Speaker 1: Oughts back in the day and Tim Donahe and Scott Foster.
• 19:44
  Speaker 1: There were one hundred and thirty four calls between Tim
• 19:48
  Speaker 1: Donhee and Scott phone calls. I think that magic number.
• 19:51
  Speaker 1: I have that tattooed in my brain. One hundred and
• 19:53
  Speaker 1: thirty four if I remember correctly. Phone calls in seven
• 19:57
  Speaker 1: in seven between Scott Foster and Tim Donnee as donnihe
• 20:02
  Speaker 1: was fixing games. So there you go. Suspicious but clear,
• 20:06
  Speaker 1: I mean's completely nothing wrong, nothing wrong here at all.
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  Speaker 1: you want to talk about that. At Indiana twenty point
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  Speaker 1: lead second quarter, blew the game as they had tight spinters.
• 21:44
  Speaker 1: Tight took his syndrome there in the fourth quarter and
• 21:47
  Speaker 1: the lead melted away. And so the extender gets it
• 21:50
  Speaker 1: done again. He said, well, it's just a coincidence. But
• 21:53
  Speaker 1: always Scott Foster, almost always Scott Foster out there again.
• 21:56
  Speaker 1: So our lead this hour, though, is from the King
• 22:01
  Speaker 1: James version of NBA Conversation. Several of you reached out
• 22:06
  Speaker 1: to me over the weekends. Did you see what the
• 22:09
  Speaker 1: quote was? Can you believe that? Oh my god? And
• 22:12
  Speaker 1: this is all about Rich Paul the Lebron James creation,
• 22:18
  Speaker 1: Rich Paul. Without Lebron, Rich Paul is hanging out somewhere
• 22:22
  Speaker 1: in Ohio and has a regular job, maybe a good
• 22:27
  Speaker 1: union job, but a regular job. And that's that. But
• 22:29
  Speaker 1: now he's a gazillionaire. And I think is he married
• 22:32
  Speaker 1: to to the singer and Adele. I don't know they married.
• 22:36
  Speaker 1: I don't think they're married. They're just they're just a
• 22:38
  Speaker 1: stupid that's all, all right. So anyway, Rich Paul commenting
• 22:42
  Speaker 1: on Lebron Lebron James, saying that Lebron James, according to
• 22:46
  Speaker 1: Rich Paul, Lebron James does not have as much power
• 22:50
  Speaker 1: as the perception is in basketball world. In the basketball
• 22:54
  Speaker 1: world there, he does not decide, does not decide what
• 22:59
  Speaker 1: the what is going on there the Laker personnel moves
• 23:03
  Speaker 1: and all that stuff. In a recent appearance with member
• 23:06
  Speaker 1: of the Fox Sports Radio Alumni Association, Rich Eisen, the
• 23:10
  Speaker 1: NBA agent there claiming claiming Rich Paul claiming that his
• 23:15
  Speaker 1: client has limited involvement in key front off his decisions.
• 23:20
  Speaker 1: So I don't even saw this or not, maybe you
• 23:22
  Speaker 1: missed it over the weekend. So Rich Paul saying that
• 23:25
  Speaker 1: the idea that Lebron, James Lebron is the unofficial GM
• 23:31
  Speaker 1: of the Lakers. He said, that's quote false, that's false,
• 23:35
  Speaker 1: he said, that's false. So we can slice this up
• 23:38
  Speaker 1: a million different ways. But let us discuss for a
• 23:41
  Speaker 1: couple of good minutes. Here the question for the esteem panel,
• 23:45
  Speaker 1: what you are part of? So Rich Paul Lebron's age,
• 23:48
  Speaker 1: longtime business associated, business associate friend, Rich Paul, all of
• 23:54
  Speaker 1: those things right, he's in the inner circle, Rich Paul.
• 23:57
  Speaker 1: He goes on the record, Rich Paul saying that Brown
• 24:00
  Speaker 1: James does not run the Lakers. That's the quote right there?
• 24:06
  Speaker 1: Are you buying that? Are you buying that? So I've
• 24:08
  Speaker 1: got fingerprints, unleaded gasoline, and groundwork, and we will combine
• 24:16
  Speaker 1: all of these things together and we are gonna make
• 24:20
  Speaker 1: the gobaol. We're gonna make the Gabba goouls what we're
• 24:23
  Speaker 1: gonna make all right? So number I said number Yeah.
• 24:31
  Speaker 1: Now the quote the great Andy Furman. We were born
• 24:34
  Speaker 1: at night, but not last night. So no, not buying
• 24:38
  Speaker 1: what they're selling. Not buying it. Now. I know there's
• 24:40
  Speaker 1: a lot of people that live in Suckersville, the low
• 24:43
  Speaker 1: information fan that will say, well, Rich Paul said it
• 24:46
  Speaker 1: and if he said it, it must be true. He
• 24:48
  Speaker 1: wouldn't have said it if it's not true. So Rich
• 24:50
  Speaker 1: Paul said it, it's true, and Bauda being Bata Boom
• 24:53
  Speaker 1: just like that. But we're not We're not that. Listen.
• 24:57
  Speaker 1: Rich Paul is a guy who is as far are
• 25:00
  Speaker 1: in the tank as you could possibly be for Lebron.
• 25:03
  Speaker 1: He is a creation of Lebron James. He would be
• 25:05
  Speaker 1: nothing without Lebron. And I get it. You are beholden
• 25:08
  Speaker 1: to Lebron. You are, and I would be too. I
• 25:11
  Speaker 1: would lick Lebron's toes if I had the life Rich
• 25:15
  Speaker 1: Paul has, I would all because of Lebron. Nothing he did,
• 25:19
  Speaker 1: He just happened to latches, you know what, into Lebron
• 25:22
  Speaker 1: and there you go. And so I mean, don't kidd
• 25:25
  Speaker 1: yourself here, come on, let's look at this objectively. Lebron
• 25:30
  Speaker 1: may not have the title general manager of the Lakers.
• 25:34
  Speaker 1: He may not have that particular title. It's just semantics.
• 25:38
  Speaker 1: It's all semantics. Lebron influences everything, and every man, woman
• 25:43
  Speaker 1: and child knows it. Everything, coaches, trades, rotations, all of it.
• 25:51
  Speaker 1: His fingerprints, Lebron's fingerprints are all over every decision that
• 25:57
  Speaker 1: has made. And it's been that way since he got there,
• 25:59
  Speaker 1: and he would have gone there if it hadn't been
• 26:02
  Speaker 1: that way. And that's just the way it is. Skinny jeans.
• 26:05
  Speaker 1: Rob Polinka one of the all time great figurehead foe
• 26:09
  Speaker 1: general managers. I mean, if you were a Ropolink, you
• 26:12
  Speaker 1: wouldn't want him running anything. Right. The guy don't know
• 26:14
  Speaker 1: what he's doing. Everyone knows that. But he's like, well,
• 26:17
  Speaker 1: he's a perfect foil. He has a pretty la, pretty boy,
• 26:20
  Speaker 1: kind of punchable face, Rob Polenka. So he's out there
• 26:23
  Speaker 1: as the GM, and he's like, he didn't make any decisions.
• 26:27
  Speaker 1: He just runs it by Lebron. He's a middle manager,
• 26:29
  Speaker 1: Rob Polenka, what do you think, Lebron? All right, you
• 26:33
  Speaker 1: want that? I will make that happen. Sure. And it's
• 26:37
  Speaker 1: not even about being swayed per se. It's not about
• 26:39
  Speaker 1: being swayed. It is the business model. That is the
• 26:42
  Speaker 1: business model, Lebron James GM by proxy, GM by proxy,
• 26:50
  Speaker 1: Lebron James there without it. They literally hired the coach.
• 26:54
  Speaker 1: The Lakers hired the coach because the qualifications the guy
• 27:00
  Speaker 1: was Lebron's podcast Buddy Rich fall no Lebron's not making this, dude.
• 27:07
  Speaker 1: They hired the Lebron's podcast co host as the couch.
• 27:12
  Speaker 1: You think we're all morons? Seriously, you hired the Lakers
• 27:17
  Speaker 1: hired a podcast guy as the coach because he was
• 27:19
  Speaker 1: doing a podcast with Lebron. If Lebron had been doing
• 27:21
  Speaker 1: a podcast with Joe Rogan, Joe Rogan would be coaching
• 27:25
  Speaker 1: the Lakers right now. Do you realize how ridiculous this is?
• 27:28
  Speaker 1: Do you understand how stupid is anything?
• 27:31
  Speaker 4: Is that?
• 27:31
  Speaker 1: Well, no, Lebron doesn't really make these decisions. I mean,
• 27:34
  Speaker 1: so you've got players who have gone on the record say, well,
• 27:39
  Speaker 1: I wasn't I wouldn't getting a playing time, so I
• 27:41
  Speaker 1: went I didn't go to the coach. I went to
• 27:43
  Speaker 1: Lebron to get more playtime. I went to Lebron to
• 27:47
  Speaker 1: get more play time. Oh my god. But he doesn't
• 27:51
  Speaker 1: run the Lakers. I doesn't run the Lakers. Just like
• 27:53
  Speaker 1: it's just it's just another quinkid Like Scott Foster when
• 27:57
  Speaker 1: he officiates an NBA playoff game where the team is
• 28:00
  Speaker 1: trailing in a series. You know ninety percent of the
• 28:03
  Speaker 1: time that team that's trailing ends up winning. But it's
• 28:06
  Speaker 1: just a coincidence. It's just weird. It's just one of
• 28:10
  Speaker 1: those weird things about life. That's it. Now, page two
• 28:13
  Speaker 1: to the gossip world. You know, I'm a sucker for
• 28:15
  Speaker 1: that world. So Danica Patrick, we used to play great
• 28:20
  Speaker 1: game on this show, which lap will danicarekin man? Was
• 28:24
  Speaker 1: that a fun game and we always had winners. We
• 28:27
  Speaker 1: always had winners. She would wreck ninety five percent of
• 28:30
  Speaker 1: the races. It was. It was wonderful anyway, So Dannic
• 28:33
  Speaker 1: and Patrick now washed up former athletes. She recently opened
• 28:38
  Speaker 1: up on the Sage steel show It Must to Be
• 28:40
  Speaker 1: a Podcast describing her relationship with NFL legend Aaron Rodgers.
• 28:48
  Speaker 1: She described it as quote emotionally abusive. She said the
• 28:53
  Speaker 1: breakup was the most painful experience of her life. So
• 28:58
  Speaker 1: what is your reaction to people are bringing this up?
• 29:01
  Speaker 1: So Steelers can't sign Aaron Rodgers now because this is
• 29:05
  Speaker 1: some baggage and this is a mess and alls. So
• 29:08
  Speaker 1: this is I would file this one based on the
• 29:11
  Speaker 1: information I have as an unnecessary airing of a dirty
• 29:16
  Speaker 1: laundry and a personal grievance. That's where I have this
• 29:21
  Speaker 1: one filed based on the information that I have. Now, listen,
• 29:25
  Speaker 1: She's obviously free to speak and do whatever she wants there.
• 29:27
  Speaker 1: But let's not pretend that there was not alterior motives
• 29:31
  Speaker 1: by throwing this out here, that there's ulterior motives here
• 29:35
  Speaker 1: by Danika Patrick, because it does add unleaded gasoline on
• 29:39
  Speaker 1: top of the inferno is what it does here. And Danik,
• 29:45
  Speaker 1: she didn't just say that it's painful. She said emotionally abusive,
• 29:48
  Speaker 1: very dramatic. There's some people think that very seriously. Right.
• 29:53
  Speaker 1: I would argue though, that most relationships that end there's
• 29:56
  Speaker 1: some kind of emotional trauma that because otherwise you just
• 30:00
  Speaker 1: stay together, right, otherwise you just stay together. And she
• 30:04
  Speaker 1: does this randomly on a podcast years after Rogers was
• 30:08
  Speaker 1: with Danik. That's a long time ago, and that's been many,
• 30:12
  Speaker 1: many years since they were together. So why now maybe
• 30:16
  Speaker 1: just to clear the air, right, clear the air, or
• 30:19
  Speaker 1: or get a little publicity, you know, get little publicity
• 30:22
  Speaker 1: out there. That was really talking about Danic and Patrick
• 30:24
  Speaker 1: these days she's irrelevant. So and it's just the latest
• 30:29
  Speaker 1: in a long winding road. If you keep track of
• 30:33
  Speaker 1: the gossip here Rogers, he's had some issues the public
• 30:40
  Speaker 1: figure Aaron Rodgers in relationships, the family, drama, well documented
• 30:46
  Speaker 1: drama with former teammates check, coaches check. So the one
• 30:51
  Speaker 1: common denominator is the drama. That's the one common denominator
• 30:56
  Speaker 1: of the drama. All right, now, final point to the
• 30:59
  Speaker 1: business of the NFL. We got why not as we
• 31:04
  Speaker 1: slice and dice it on this holiday here Roger Goodell,
• 31:10
  Speaker 1: the commissioner, Roger Goodell is out there. He's out about
• 31:14
  Speaker 1: He's a man about town. Roger Goodell saying that the
• 31:17
  Speaker 1: next CBA, the next collective bargaining agreement, may have to
• 31:24
  Speaker 1: deal with owners concerns. The owners are upset. The aristocrats,
• 31:29
  Speaker 1: the robber barons of football are not happy. They're upset
• 31:32
  Speaker 1: with a salary cap system and rising costs inflation. They
• 31:38
  Speaker 1: don't like it. They don't like having to pay more
• 31:41
  Speaker 1: and more and more and more and more and more
• 31:44
  Speaker 1: and more. Costs are a rising to the moon to
• 31:48
  Speaker 1: the moon, to the moon to the moon. So is
• 31:50
  Speaker 1: this a legitimate problem? Is this a legitimate problem for
• 31:55
  Speaker 1: the very wealthy, very wealthy oligarchs of thel or is
• 32:01
  Speaker 1: it just a bunch of rich guys complaining? All right,
• 32:04
  Speaker 1: just a bunch of rich guys out there belly aching.
• 32:08
  Speaker 1: It's not fair blah blah blah. So the league just
• 32:11
  Speaker 1: brought in. Let me do the math on this. I
• 32:13
  Speaker 1: think it's twenty billion. Is that the right number? Twenty
• 32:15
  Speaker 1: billion dollars in revenue. That seems like a lot. I'm
• 32:18
  Speaker 1: not a business guy, but that seems like a lot
• 32:19
  Speaker 1: of money. And every single franchise, the only reason you
• 32:26
  Speaker 1: buy a franchise is because you're already ridonculously rich. And
• 32:30
  Speaker 1: this is just a toy. It's a way for people
• 32:35
  Speaker 1: to know who you are. It is a way for
• 32:37
  Speaker 1: you to get the top seat at the restaurant. It
• 32:39
  Speaker 1: is a way for you to be the star of
• 32:41
  Speaker 1: the cocktail party. That's why you buy an NFL team,
• 32:45
  Speaker 1: and he makes some money with it. The main point
• 32:47
  Speaker 1: is that you've already been successful, but now you want
• 32:49
  Speaker 1: everyone You're You're You're not an introvert. Introverts don't buy
• 32:53
  Speaker 1: teams because you buy a team to get attention. You're
• 32:56
  Speaker 1: an extrovert. That's why you would buy a team. And
• 32:59
  Speaker 1: that's where we are, I mean, And so the rising costs,
• 33:04
  Speaker 1: let's do some malor math on this. So every franchise
• 33:07
  Speaker 1: is essentially just a toy to what's around with the
• 33:11
  Speaker 1: values all keep going up. So that's that's true. And
• 33:15
  Speaker 1: the rising costs was that the private jets and all
• 33:19
  Speaker 1: the different taxes and whatnot, and on the third homes
• 33:23
  Speaker 1: and the fourth homes and the capital gains tax when
• 33:27
  Speaker 1: you make money on the stock market, those kind of
• 33:29
  Speaker 1: things go up. Costs rise, I believe, though the revenues,
• 33:32
  Speaker 1: unlike most businesses, the NFL revenues are outpacing the costs.
• 33:37
  Speaker 1: So even though, yeah, the costs are going up, the
• 33:39
  Speaker 1: revenue is also going up. And so good luck man.
• 33:44
  Speaker 1: You know what this is. Though, when you pull this
• 33:46
  Speaker 1: story apart, Roger Goodell complaining and saying we're gonna have
• 33:50
  Speaker 1: to address the rising costs, the owners are not happy
• 33:52
  Speaker 1: and all this stuff, what he's doing is he's laying
• 33:55
  Speaker 1: the groundwork. Goodell is laying the groundwork to try to
• 33:59
  Speaker 1: squeeze the play again in the next negotiation. And the
• 34:04
  Speaker 1: weakest of all the gladiators of football when it comes
• 34:08
  Speaker 1: to this kind of thing, they get stopped on all
• 34:10
  Speaker 1: the time. And so you're looking at it what well
• 34:11
  Speaker 1: like lockout, You're looking at you know, the roll back
• 34:15
  Speaker 1: on certain things that have been given. Those are the
• 34:18
  Speaker 1: usual threats that are made and so the endgame. The
• 34:23
  Speaker 1: consensus is this that all this is being cost out
• 34:26
  Speaker 1: because Goodell's gonna say, listen, we gotta cut costs. However,
• 34:31
  Speaker 1: if you give us that eighteenth game, will be okay, well,
• 34:38
  Speaker 1: we won't cut any money. Just give us the eighteenth
• 34:41
  Speaker 1: game and we're good. And that's just sign off on that. Now.
• 34:45
  Speaker 1: In terms of the actual negotiation, normally you'd say, okay,
• 34:48
  Speaker 1: if you're claiming that the costs are going up, you're
• 34:50
  Speaker 1: not making as much money. Open the books. Let's go
• 34:53
  Speaker 1: to the books. Let's see what the finances are. Let
• 34:56
  Speaker 1: the players see what you're talking about. And we know
• 34:59
  Speaker 1: that is not happening. That is never happening ever ever, ever,
• 35:03
  Speaker 1: ever to infinity and beyond. That is not happening. And
• 35:08
  Speaker 1: the owners have that sealed up like they used to
• 35:11
  Speaker 1: seal up Alcatraz back in the day. They're just not
• 35:14
  Speaker 1: gonna happen there and then, and regardless, this is just again,
• 35:17
  Speaker 1: it's a shot across the bow, random shot twenty twenty five.
• 35:21
  Speaker 1: The negotiation is not going to happen for a while.
• 35:23
  Speaker 1: But he's tossing it out there. It's like I'll throw
• 35:25
  Speaker 1: this out there randomly, you know, why not see what
• 35:29
  Speaker 1: happens now, the NFL Players Association will respond and we'll
• 35:32
  Speaker 1: go back and forth and all that be.
• 35:33
  Speaker 2: Sure to catch live editions of The Ben Meller Show
• 35:36
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• 35:39
  Speaker 1: There we go, Here we go, third degree.
• 35:44
  Speaker 2: This is one big Ben gets grill.
• 35:48
  Speaker 5: So but I know they recently voted on changing the
• 35:52
  Speaker 5: NFL playoff structure to straight seating so that bad division
• 35:56
  Speaker 5: winners don't get a home team home game, and they
• 35:59
  Speaker 5: voted against him. But college football has adopted trade seating
• 36:02
  Speaker 5: for the twenty twenty five playoffs. If this works out
• 36:04
  Speaker 5: in college do you think it would nudge the NFL
• 36:06
  Speaker 5: to go in the same direction.
• 36:07
  Speaker 1: Ummm No, it's an overreaction to college football because they
• 36:12
  Speaker 1: did it. It's a small sample size one year, and
• 36:14
  Speaker 1: they did it because the favorites went ten to one.
• 36:17
  Speaker 1: The only upset in the college football playoff was when
• 36:20
  Speaker 1: Penn State and Notre Dame got together and Notre Dame
• 36:23
  Speaker 1: beat Penn State. That's why they did it. But the
• 36:25
  Speaker 1: NFL does their own thing. I don't think they're going
• 36:27
  Speaker 1: to copy college football on this regard. Next.
• 36:29
  Speaker 5: Since the release of the NFL schedule, The most popular
• 36:32
  Speaker 5: bet has been Patriots over eight and a half wins.
• 36:35
  Speaker 1: Are you on board with that? Well, if you look
• 36:37
  Speaker 1: at the schedule, the Patriots are supposed to be better
• 36:40
  Speaker 1: and they play some terrible teams like Tennessee and New Orleans.
• 36:43
  Speaker 1: You look at the non conference schedule, non division schedule,
• 36:47
  Speaker 1: yes they should. If they don't win nine games, Rabel's
• 36:50
  Speaker 1: done a terrible job.
• 36:51
  Speaker 5: Next, so let's revisit the Karl Anthony Towns Julius Randall trade.
• 36:56
  Speaker 5: Is your opinion of who won the trade any different
• 36:58
  Speaker 5: now than it was when it was originally made?
• 37:00
  Speaker 1: Well, and not after what I saw him in the
• 37:02
  Speaker 1: fourth quarter coup of Game three where Karl Anthony town
• 37:05
  Speaker 1: has put up twenty points. Listen, it's it's an even
• 37:09
  Speaker 1: trade with a lean to the Knicks because Carl Anthony Towns,
• 37:11
  Speaker 1: even though he's an enigma, he's a more talented enigma
• 37:15
  Speaker 1: than Julius Rando's guy's own demons. How did we do you? Passes?
• 37:18
  Speaker 1: That is a win. I wanted protein for everyone protein.
• 37:25
  Speaker 1: Thank you all right, I appreciate it. She's clapping for
• 37:27
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  Speaker 1: Let's get to the guy that's got to that guy?
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  Speaker 1: Just like that, you strut around like you know everything.
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  Speaker 1: Computers are for losers.
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  Speaker 2: Normal people.
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  Speaker 1: Oh dare she?
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  Speaker 2: What do you?
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  Speaker 1: Let's find out?
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  Speaker 2: Are you smarter than an f s R Tech Queen?
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  Speaker 1: Well, don't make me regret this, but we're gonna have hollering. James.
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  Speaker 1: Play the game, James, be on your good behavior, James, NA,
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  Speaker 1: smart on the FSR Tech Queen? The the categories this week?
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  Speaker 1: That doesn't I'll just give you random questions.
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  Speaker 3: I like that.
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  Speaker 1: All right, we'll just do random questions, all right, uh
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  Speaker 1: and the lorraino will you're gonna go first? Is that correct? Alright?
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  Speaker 1: Very since I won last time, okay, all right, in
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  Speaker 1: honor of since I won, in honor of our big
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  Speaker 1: trip this week. What is the capital of Canada? James jaid?
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  Speaker 1: I like that. We immediately established one thing, and you
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  Speaker 1: are changing the rules. Go ahead, James, Alberta? All right,
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  Speaker 1: Well you love Alberta.
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  Speaker 6: When I was younger, my aunt's name was Alberta. So
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  Speaker 6: I'm gonna go to James.
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  Speaker 1: Do you think James is right? The capital of Canada
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  Speaker 1: is Alberta? All right, that's know that is wrong and
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  Speaker 1: everyone right now, No, it's but it's you know, it's
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  Speaker 1: in Ottawa's play. Yes. Yes, they're called the Senators because
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  Speaker 1: that's the political capital of Canada and that's where all
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  Speaker 1: the moving and shaking goes on. And we're on there.
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  Speaker 1: So all those people in Ottawa listening right now are
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  Speaker 1: like these a holes, these American a holes. All right,
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  Speaker 1: let's keep going here. Let's see what was that? What
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  Speaker 1: are you doing? Don't ask that question, you know, I
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  Speaker 1: want to know what he's doing here. Let's see here.
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  Speaker 1: All right, let's go on next up. What is the
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  Speaker 1: center of an atom called? Oh, oh, I know this.
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  Speaker 5: Go ahead, Lorena, the nucleus.
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  Speaker 1: James, you agree with that?
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  Speaker 4: Is it?
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  Speaker 1: Adam? What is your answer? All right? You guys got
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  Speaker 1: it right. The nucleus is the correct answer. That's right,
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  Speaker 1: That's right. Okay, it's together. You're supposed to be competing.
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  Speaker 1: Who was the first person to complete a solo flight
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  Speaker 1: across the Atlantic Ocean? First person? James? You're going with
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  Speaker 1: the Wright brothers? All right? Larani you agree? No, I
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  Speaker 1: do not agree.
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  Speaker 6: And I want to say Amelia Earhart, but I know
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  Speaker 6: that she died in an effort to get across the ocean.
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  Speaker 6: Maybe she didn't die.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, they never found her body.
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  Speaker 6: I know she disappeared, but she might have already done
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  Speaker 6: it before she disappeared. So I'm gonna say Amelia a hut.
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  Speaker 1: All right, have a tremendous suggess and both you are
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  Speaker 1: completely wrong. It's is it? Chuck Yeager? No, okay, Chuck
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  Speaker 1: Yeger set the sound oh the speed record. But Charles Lindbergh,
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  Speaker 1: Charles Lindberg wasn't wasn't the airport in books? Shut up?
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  Speaker 1: It wasn't the airport in San Diego named Lindbergh Field
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  Speaker 1: at one point? I don't know if it still is
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  Speaker 1: when I work when I worked in San Diego, I
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  Speaker 1: think it was called I think it was called that.
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  Speaker 1: Let's see. What else do we have here? Let's see.
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  Speaker 1: I gotta get these other You have a couple sets
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  Speaker 1: of questions I'm using here, so I have to switch
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  Speaker 1: up the question. Oh, here we go, this is the
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  Speaker 1: These are the better questions. Let's go to sports. Here,
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  Speaker 1: we'll go to sports. And in swimming, this particular stroke
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  Speaker 1: is named after a bug named after a bug, butterfly.
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  Speaker 1: All right, Lorena, you agree or disagree? I disagree? Okay,
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  Speaker 1: what do you think?
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  Speaker 6: Are you laughing?
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  Speaker 4: Coop?
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  Speaker 1: Go ahead, Loa? What bug do you think? Go ahead?
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  Speaker 4: All right?
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  Speaker 1: Mom on here, what are.
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  Speaker 6: Those bugs that are on the water like the skipper bugs?
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  Speaker 1: The skipper bug? All right? Is it the skipper bug? No,
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  Speaker 1: James got it right, It's the butterfly. James collaring, James,
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  Speaker 1: I believe me. James is now in the lead. No man,
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  Speaker 1: all right, are you smarter than the f SR tech?
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  Speaker 1: You can't lose? What does that? What does that one
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  Speaker 1: look like? The butterfly.
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  Speaker 2: Oh my god, in the Olympics.
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  Speaker 1: She has no idea who Mark Spitz is. Don't even bother.
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  Speaker 1: All right, you have a great exemp. You guys seem
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  Speaker 1: very smart. Let's go to a science question, which Oregon
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  Speaker 1: is responsible for getting rid of all those bad toxins
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  Speaker 1: in your body? You want to go first, Ladies go first.
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  Speaker 6: No, I'm letting men go first.
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  Speaker 1: That means neither one of you know the answer. Loraina,
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  Speaker 1: go ahead. I'm gonna go with your liver, all right, James,
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  Speaker 1: you agree or disagree?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, your liver.
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  Speaker 1: I agree with Lorena.
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  Speaker 6: Is it your kidney?
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  Speaker 1: I like that. You immediately thought you were wrong. No,
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  Speaker 1: you're right, it's the liver. The liver is correct. The
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  Speaker 1: liver is correct.
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  Speaker 6: I'm technically winning. He's stolen two of my answers.
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  Speaker 1: Well, that's allowed. It is a low.
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  Speaker 6: Well I'm just saying, okay, all right, come on place,
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  Speaker 6: I am playing fair. Your cheating.
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  Speaker 1: I don't know he's cheating, per ses. Okay again with
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  Speaker 1: the tammy. One more question. It comes down to this
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  Speaker 1: in tennis, what is the term for a forty forty?
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  Speaker 1: What is the clinical term they're using tennis like the
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  Speaker 1: Wimbledon's coming up here? What is the clinical term? All right,
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  Speaker 1: watch your mouth, James, Lorena, what say you?
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  Speaker 6: Oh, I'm gonna go with quarenta ben all right, wow, hollering, James,
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  Speaker 6: got it right.
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  Speaker 1: It is a deuce. You win the game. You are
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  Speaker 1: smarter than the MSR tech wee. Congratulations, James. You get
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  Speaker 1: a golden ticket. You get a golden ticket. I'm actually
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  Speaker 1: stun James. I I thought there was no way. And
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  Speaker 1: he knew the Butterfly one too. I was surprised by that.
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  Speaker 1: I know experience. It's fifty years ago. All right, very nice,
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  Speaker 1: Thank you, James,