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Set 1: Homer Calls (w/ Steve Holman) · Stugotz and Company

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Speaker 2: Betty Rubble.
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Speaker 1: I honestly, until after the segment ended and we went
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Speaker 1: to commercial break, had no idea that Jonathan Coachman was black.
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Speaker 1: night tonight, NFL Draft, some NBA playoffs, Nix and Hawks, Taylor,
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Speaker 1: what are you gonna do here? Like, how are you
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Speaker 1: gonna navigate to? You know, through two major sporting events
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Speaker 1: for you?
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Speaker 2: The Draft? Well, I don't know if you care about
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Speaker 2: the draft, but the Hawks are the Knicks.
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Speaker 3: You haven't even mentioned what is maybe the biggest event
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Speaker 3: for me today, Yankees, Red Sox, Kim Schlitzler on the
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Speaker 3: mound and Stu. Sorry, I've found myself in quite the
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Speaker 3: pickle because if I had to rank all the events today. Yes,
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Speaker 3: Yankees Red Sox is number one. Wow, Nix Hawks is
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Speaker 3: number two.
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Speaker 2: The draft? The draft is a distant third. Wow. Okay
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Speaker 2: we head out.
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Speaker 1: Yes, First off, how can you put Yankees Red Sox
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Speaker 1: ahead of an NBA playoff game in which the Knicks
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Speaker 1: have to win the game.
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Speaker 3: I mean, because I'm expecting the Knicks to win easy.
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Speaker 3: Yankees Red Sox still gets the juices flown, like I've
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Speaker 3: got my Yankee T shirt on today, But the pickle
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Speaker 3: I'm in the draft is a distant third for me. Yeah,
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Speaker 3: but I've been invited to Chris Simms's barn. You watched
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Speaker 3: the NFL Draft?
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Speaker 2: Yes, he invited you yesterday. Yes.
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Speaker 3: And when I floated, when me and Mike Ya floated
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Speaker 3: the idea of hey, can we come to the barn
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Speaker 3: and watch the draft with you, I almost immediately assumed
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Speaker 3: it was going to be an automatic rejection, like every
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Speaker 3: time I invite myself to go down to NBC Sports
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Speaker 3: a studio.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, yes, you do that, Yes, yes, wait, you invite yourself.
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Speaker 2: Wait wait wait explain this to us, please? What do
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Speaker 2: you do? So?
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Speaker 3: Whenever he whenever I'm back home in New York and
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Speaker 3: I know he's doing, you know, the Unboughton Show or
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Speaker 3: PFT with Mike Florio. I say, hey, if you ever
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Speaker 3: need a live audience, I'm your guy.
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Speaker 2: I'm that's very kind of you. Yes, And has he
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Speaker 2: ever responded?
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Speaker 3: He said, no, I won't even send you this address
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Speaker 3: so you even know where I'm located. So that's why
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Speaker 3: I was shocked when he said, hey, you and Mike
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Speaker 3: Yea could come to the barn. Yes, And now I'm thinking,
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Speaker 3: I'm gonna I think what I'm deciding on right now,
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Speaker 3: or what I'm going to decide on, is I'm going
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Speaker 3: to go to my YouTube TV and I'm going to
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Speaker 3: pre record the Yankee game and pre record the Knicks game,
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Speaker 3: and then and then go to the barn assess the
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Speaker 3: situation there, and then come back later after the draft
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Speaker 3: and then watch everything else.
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Speaker 1: Okay, So I think he was sincere what he invited
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Speaker 1: you guys to the barn. You're barn friends. You're not
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Speaker 1: studio friends. Okay, you're barn friends, and that's fine. I'd
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Speaker 1: prefer to be a barn friend. But has he responded,
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Speaker 1: have you done any follow up since he invited you
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Speaker 1: to the barn? Because that was on air and sometimes
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Speaker 1: on air and off air. Can you know they can
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Speaker 1: be two completely different things.
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Speaker 3: So off So before we even recorded, before you joined
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Speaker 3: the zoom, Simms was in and me and mikey Ab
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Speaker 3: were talking and the invitation seemed genuine. I haven't followed
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Speaker 3: up to ask where the barn is, but I believe
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Speaker 3: the invitation was very genuine.
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Speaker 2: Okay, that's where it stalls when you ask for the address.
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Speaker 2: That's where it gets left on red.
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Speaker 1: You might want to try to ask him right now,
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Speaker 1: text him and say, hey, we're coming to the barn,
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Speaker 1: what's the address?
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Speaker 2: He's texting up. He is fearless, this guy when he's
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Speaker 2: beyond the microphone. It's unbelievable.
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Speaker 1: He was just talking to Taylor like in the street
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Speaker 1: and said hey, Tex Simms he'd be like nah, but
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Speaker 1: he's behind the microphone and he's been invited to the barn.
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Speaker 2: You expect the Knicks to win big.
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Speaker 1: Steve Hollman, the legendary voice of the Hawks, is going
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Speaker 1: to join us. I am telling you what's gonna happen here.
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Speaker 1: Taylor just rolled his eyes. He's gonna start off hating
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Speaker 1: Steve Holman because he delivered a great final call of
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Speaker 1: the Hawk's next game to a game in which the
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Speaker 1: Hawks wanted Mikey.
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Speaker 2: You know this.
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Speaker 1: This is an old time local broadcaster who's a sweet,
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Speaker 1: sweet man. And I am telling you, Taylor, who doesn't
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Speaker 1: want to do this, is gonna end up liking, not liking, loving,
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Speaker 1: Steve Holman by the end of this interview.
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Speaker 4: You can't call a game the way Steve Holman does
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Speaker 4: and then not be likable. Right, you actually get to
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Speaker 4: talk to him. Yeah, that's what's gonna happen to you, Taylor. Yes,
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Speaker 4: and I have a solution to all your problems. Why
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Speaker 4: not go to the barn and listen to Steve Holman's
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Speaker 4: call on your.
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Speaker 2: You're gonna wish he was the voice the Knicks. I'm
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Speaker 2: telling you right now.
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Speaker 3: I'd rather rip my ears off than listen to him.
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Speaker 1: So you expect the Hawks to win big today? I
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Speaker 1: mean the Knicks to win tonight. Yeah, yeah, yes, Okay.
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Speaker 3: We're getting this series back on track.
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Speaker 2: Tonight.
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Speaker 3: We hit a little a little speed bump in the road,
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Speaker 3: but it's a minor setback for a major comeback.
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Speaker 1: Yes, I agree with you. I think the Knicks are
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Speaker 1: gonna walk into Atlanta. They're gonna win. They're gonna win.
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Speaker 2: Big because they should, because they're the better team.
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Speaker 1: And if you have aspirations of winning a championship, what
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Speaker 1: you have to do is when a team ties a
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Speaker 1: series at one game apiece at the Mecca, you need
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Speaker 1: to go to Atlanta and win the very next game
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Speaker 1: just to remind Atlanta to hey, we're better than you.
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Speaker 1: Don't give him too much life. You gave him a little,
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Speaker 1: but don't give him too much life. And I think
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Speaker 1: the Knicks will get that done tonight. Steve Holln will disagree.
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Speaker 3: And I'm a little concerned that I'm looking at this
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Speaker 3: spread now and the Hawks are just plus one and
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Speaker 3: a half out.
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Speaker 2: Ye don't worry now, Mikey, what's your prediction?
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Speaker 1: Will Taylor fall in love with Steve Holman by the
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Speaker 1: end of this interview?
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Speaker 2: Zero zero doubt. That's absolutely going to happen. It can't not.
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Speaker 1: Yes, he's a wonderful man. He's the voice of the Hawks.
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Speaker 1: I don't care that Nick fans are pissed at him.
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Speaker 1: He does calls. He delivers calls exactly the way you
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Speaker 1: want your local hometown guy to deliver a call, with
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Speaker 1: a lot of homerism.
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Speaker 2: I love him, Steve Holman. Next, we have a legend
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Speaker 2: with us right now.
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Speaker 1: Steve Holman, legendary radio voice of the Atlanta Hawks. He
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Speaker 1: let the Knicks fans have it on the way out
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Speaker 1: of game two. We'll get to that in just a second.
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Speaker 1: But you and I, Steve, were texting yesterday trying to
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Speaker 1: coordinate a time, and you said, hey, anytime after eleven
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Speaker 1: thirty I walk my dogs into which begs the question
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Speaker 1: when does a dog walk start?
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Speaker 5: About nine o'clock.
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Speaker 6: Uh, we'll make our way out and uh, well I
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Speaker 6: let him, you.
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Speaker 5: Know, he'll let him pick where he wants to go.
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Speaker 6: And uh, here we have we have something here in
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Speaker 6: noon and Georgia where I live called the Link, which is,
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Speaker 6: you know, a nice walking path and we take our
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Speaker 6: time and usually do four or five, you know, six,
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Speaker 6: sometimes six seven?
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Speaker 2: Who knows miles?
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Speaker 1: So what are the Because I have a dog as
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Speaker 1: well Taylor does. Taylor is a Knicks fan. The name
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Speaker 1: of his dog is Oakley. But we are here to
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Speaker 1: celebrate you. We are not here to get mad at
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Speaker 1: you for what you did after Game two.
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Speaker 2: We are here to celebrate you. Steve.
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Speaker 1: I want you to know that, don't be intimidated by
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Speaker 1: his dog's name. But I am wondering here, what are
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Speaker 1: the two or three keys to a great dog walk?
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Speaker 6: Well, mike by dog's named Teddy, by the way, he's
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Speaker 6: named after ted Williams.
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Speaker 2: Okay, wow, the splendid splinter. How about that?
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Speaker 5: Yeah, so that makes it.
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Speaker 6: My first dog who passed away was named Gowdy, who
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Speaker 6: was named after Kurt Gowdy.
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Speaker 5: Wow, was my first boss.
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Speaker 6: Yes, But anyway, the three couple of keys to a
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Speaker 6: walk I think are don't time it, you know. That's
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Speaker 6: why I leave leave that kind of open ended. Number
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Speaker 6: two is let them decide where they want to go. Yes,
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Speaker 6: let them choose the root. Because every time you walk
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Speaker 6: with your dog, it's like them reading the newspaper in
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Speaker 6: the morning. They're going different places and they're finding out
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Speaker 6: different things in a different sense. And the other thing
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Speaker 6: I guess is make sure you bring some water in
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Speaker 6: case they get thirsty. And that's that's pretty much, you know,
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Speaker 6: my dog walking expertise. I don't have a lot of it,
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Speaker 6: but that's what I do.
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Speaker 1: I mean, two and a half hours though, that's fantastic,
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Speaker 1: that's amazing. It's a good exercise for you. I mean,
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Speaker 1: you're killing two birds with one stone.
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Speaker 6: There right right, you know, listen to a little music,
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Speaker 6: but also I think another key, just not to make
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Speaker 6: this a dog walking show.
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Speaker 2: No, I love it all. I wanted to be go ahead.
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Speaker 6: Talk to the talk to your dog. Yes, you know,
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Speaker 6: we have nice conversations while we're walking.
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Speaker 1: Yes, what do you say to your dog? Those nick
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Speaker 1: fans there are no right, that's what you said.
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Speaker 6: I said, how about that the other night? I said,
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Speaker 6: you know, we quieted that crowd the other night. Pretty
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Speaker 6: pretty good.
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Speaker 5: We talk about a lot of things.
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Speaker 7: One way conversation, Steve, This is really all I want
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Speaker 7: to talk about. But I guess we have to talk
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Speaker 7: some basketball. But what yeah, I mean dog walking it's
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Speaker 7: the best.
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Speaker 2: I love Doug. You what has.
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Speaker 7: This let's say, second half of the season been like.
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Speaker 7: It's been kind of a fun ride, has it not?
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Speaker 5: It has?
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Speaker 6: And you know, Quinn Snyder, our coach, likes to talk
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Speaker 6: about how we've had two or three different teams all year,
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Speaker 6: and it's true, this is like the third different team
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Speaker 6: because we started out the season.
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Speaker 5: You know, it was very young.
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Speaker 6: Christaps Sporzingis turned out Trey got hurt four games in
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Speaker 6: so that all kind of went out the window. Porzingis
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Speaker 6: ended up never playing with us. He played I think
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Speaker 6: seventeen out of fifty games, and a lot of days
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Speaker 6: he would go through shoot around and it looked like
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Speaker 6: he was going to play and then he didn't. So
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Speaker 6: that was one group, and then another group came in,
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Speaker 6: and then we made the trade and brought CJ McCollum in.
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Speaker 6: And now this group seems to be the group that
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Speaker 6: has really gelled. And they went twenty and five down
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Speaker 6: the stretch and they made it into that number six spot,
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Speaker 6: and you know, here we are now one to one.
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Speaker 2: Steve.
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Speaker 3: When the Hawks get CJ McCollum in that Trey Young trade,
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Speaker 3: from the outside looking in, from my perspective, it felt
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Speaker 3: like just a hey, let's just match the salaries and
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Speaker 3: CJ will just come to Atlanta be a part of
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Speaker 3: this team. See what happens. What do you think when
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Speaker 3: they traded for him, was the best case scenario?
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Speaker 6: Well, I think you're pretty much right on with that
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Speaker 6: what it was at the time, because he did have
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Speaker 6: an expiry contract and you know how big everybody feels
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Speaker 6: those are right now in the NBA is to have
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Speaker 6: some assets for down the road. But as it turns out, CJ.
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Speaker 6: Has become the real leader on this team, not only
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Speaker 6: on the floor, but off the floor as well. I mean,
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Speaker 6: he's got our guys, you know, going to team dinners together.
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Speaker 6: A couple of weeks ago when we played in Boston,
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Speaker 6: we all went to Foxbrew to watch one of the
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Speaker 6: soccer matches I think it was Belgium and France or something,
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Speaker 6: one of the qualifiers. Then we were in Orlando and
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Speaker 6: the same thing. He took them all to the soccer
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Speaker 6: one of the qualifying soccer matches there.
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Speaker 5: So he's really become a leader.
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Speaker 6: And as we saw the other night at Madison Square Garden,
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Speaker 6: he's not afraid to face the music, and he's been
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Speaker 6: there before. He came into this playoff series with I
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Speaker 6: think it was sixty seven playoff games under his belt,
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Speaker 6: and he had one of the most famous shots ever
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Speaker 6: in the playoffs. So he's just been a tremendous asset
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Speaker 6: and I'd be shocked if they don't keep him, you know,
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Speaker 6: beyond this year and sign him to an extension.
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Speaker 1: Me and Mikey have been distracted because we were wondering
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Speaker 1: what type of music you're listening to when you're walking
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Speaker 1: the dog, Mikey says, Wu Tang Clan. I say, rage
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Speaker 1: against the machine?
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Speaker 2: What is it? What is it?
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Speaker 5: Actually?
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Speaker 6: I listened to Flash Phelps in the morning while I'm
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Speaker 6: walking on Sirius XM Sixties Gold. I love Flash's stories,
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Speaker 6: you know, more of a seventies music guy, you know,
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Speaker 6: That's how I grew up in the seventies. But the
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Speaker 6: sixties are kind of kind of a big time too.
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Speaker 6: But I like to listen to Flash because he has
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Speaker 6: all those stories about his travel and I'm kind of
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Speaker 6: a Flash Phelps officionado, if you will.
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Speaker 7: I don't know if you heard that, Stu, but apparently
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Speaker 7: the key to team chemistry is going to watch soccer together.
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Speaker 2: A lot.
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Speaker 5: Really, I'm more into the team Dinners myself.
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Speaker 2: The team fired up by watching two teams not score.
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Speaker 6: I mean, right, Neil nil is one of my favorite things, Steve.
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Speaker 7: I'm curious, you know, I've we talked about the second
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Speaker 7: half of the season and how fun of a run
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Speaker 7: it's been, and then you're getting matched up with the
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Speaker 7: Knicks in the first round and obviously have that recent history.
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Speaker 2: How much is how much is there to that?
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Speaker 6: Like?
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Speaker 7: How real is this? You know, sort of budding rivalry
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Speaker 7: if you will.
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Speaker 6: Well, you know, we only have a couple of guys
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Speaker 6: on the team at Yaka. Congho was one of them,
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Speaker 6: a Jalen Johnson's the other that we're actually here that
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Speaker 6: time that Trey had the big you know, it took
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Speaker 6: the boo and did all that stuff against the Knicks.
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Speaker 6: So it's really a different time, but there is that
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Speaker 6: that that feeling. And here in Atlanta too, we have
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Speaker 6: a lot of transplants from New York that are in
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Speaker 6: town and they always show up at the games when
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Speaker 6: the two teams play, so there is that kind of
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Speaker 6: rivalry too, and over the years that's built up. But
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Speaker 6: as far as the players, you know, it's kind of
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Speaker 6: a whole different group right now on both sides. So
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Speaker 6: I think that once the they always say, you know,
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Speaker 6: once the road team wins a game, it's that's when
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Speaker 6: the series begins, and I think that kind of fell
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Speaker 6: into place with this one too. And you know, the
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Speaker 6: whole thing about I've seen a lot of Knicks fans
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Speaker 6: online and saying, how oh they wanted us here. We're
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Speaker 6: going to show them it's not the way it broke down.
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Speaker 6: I mean, they really didn't try to. You know, they
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Speaker 6: didn't play anybody in Miami against the Heat the last game,
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Speaker 6: and it was it was basically because there was according
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Speaker 6: to ESPN, they had a ninety nine point nine percent
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Speaker 6: chance of being seventh in day Cleveland. Yes, and not
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Speaker 6: playing in the Orlando Magic screwed the whole thing up
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Speaker 6: because they went and ended up losing the Boston Boston
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Speaker 6: hadn't played anybody that day either, So that's what That's
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Speaker 6: how the Hawks ended up at the number six spot.
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Speaker 2: Taylor was one of those people who loved the match up.
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Speaker 2: He was doesn't love it so much.
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Speaker 5: Well, no more in a couple of days.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, Steve, I know enough right now.
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Speaker 3: I mean I think my exact wording Steve was getting
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Speaker 3: the Hawks might as well have been a first round
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Speaker 3: by for the next We're not.
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Speaker 6: The only one, you know, a lot of these, a
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Speaker 6: lot of these national shows. I felt I felt like
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Speaker 6: we might as well not even show up, you know,
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Speaker 6: against the Necks.
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Speaker 5: We might as well just let them move on.
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Speaker 6: Everything I heard everywhere was you know, how to the
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Speaker 6: next matchup against the Celtics.
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Speaker 5: Yes, well, you know, we'll find out.
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Speaker 2: I guess well we might not find out, right, You.
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Speaker 6: Know what, wouldn't it be something though? If it turned
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Speaker 6: out Philadelphia and Atlanta in the second round?
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Speaker 2: Right, how did the Hawks match up with Philly? About that?
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Speaker 6: Already?
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Speaker 2: It's dirty odd legend. All right, let's get to your
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Speaker 2: call here. I love this. Nick. Fans are going to
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Speaker 2: be mad at you. They are mad at you.
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Speaker 1: This Nick fan is not mad at you because I
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Speaker 1: love local broad you know, you know.
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Speaker 6: The Miami people already hate these.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, And I don't care about them either.
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Speaker 1: Okay, they're spoiled, and listen, I'm just a fan of
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Speaker 1: great play by play and at the local level, which
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Speaker 1: you are a legend doing it at a local level,
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Speaker 1: you have to be a homer. And so here is
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Speaker 1: the call at the end of game two from one,
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Speaker 1: Steve Holman, Dicks.
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Speaker 6: Have the ball, They drive left side bridges, no good.
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Speaker 6: And that's the game. And the Atlanta Hawks have won
15:39
Speaker 6: the game. The Atlanta Hawks have even this series at
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Speaker 6: one game a piece, an improbable victory. The Hawks were
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Speaker 6: down all night. They couldn't rebound, they couldn't shoot, and
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Speaker 6: all of a sudden they came in here and they
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Speaker 6: quieted the loudmouth fans in New York.
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Speaker 5: They shut them up.
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Speaker 2: Bravo, sir.
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Speaker 7: But Steve, where was your stomach when CJ missed those
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Speaker 7: and that ball was coming up the court.
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Speaker 6: You know, I've seen so many things over the years
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Speaker 6: where things have gone bad that I was like, oh, well,
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Speaker 6: here we go, you know, And I was I was
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Speaker 6: pretty certain that shot by Bridges was going to go
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Speaker 6: in from the corner, you know, and it was going
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Speaker 6: to be another one of.
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Speaker 5: Those Oh no.
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Speaker 6: But you know, CJ was as uh, he was as
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Speaker 6: upset as anybody you heard, maybe maybe I think on
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Speaker 6: live TV, and I didn't hear it myself, but people
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Speaker 6: told me that he he uh, he got them struck
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Speaker 6: up a little bit on that about you know, missing
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Speaker 6: the blankety blank free throws.
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Speaker 5: You know.
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Speaker 6: Of course we went down too, and we went out
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Speaker 6: of the locker room in the back there in the
16:37
Speaker 6: hallway is where they have the microphone for the postgame show,
16:40
Speaker 6: and I had a Yaka congo on, and of course
16:42
Speaker 6: the first thing he said to me was, I can't
16:45
Speaker 6: really hear you. It's a loud as an MF down
16:47
Speaker 6: here over our network.
16:51
Speaker 2: So like, set this up for us? How long in advance?
16:53
Speaker 2: Do you know?
16:54
Speaker 1: Hey, if the Hawks win this game, I'm going to
16:56
Speaker 1: take a shot at the nick fans Like how like
16:58
Speaker 1: when when does that happen?
17:00
Speaker 6: Honestly, there was no plan for that, and I don't.
17:03
Speaker 6: I never plan any of my calls. I mean, I
17:06
Speaker 6: think you can pretty much tell when you hear a
17:08
Speaker 6: play by play announcer at the end of a game
17:10
Speaker 6: or what a big milestone happens, that they're going to
17:13
Speaker 6: go ahead, and you know they've had it written out
17:16
Speaker 6: or they've had it memorized.
17:17
Speaker 5: What they're going to say. I've never done that.
17:19
Speaker 6: You know, when I was young, when I was a kid,
17:22
Speaker 6: I kept scoring for Johnny Most and that's how I
17:24
Speaker 6: learned how to be the way I am doing the games.
17:27
Speaker 6: You know, hate the other team, there's the good guys
17:30
Speaker 6: against the bad guys, right, hate the referees.
17:33
Speaker 5: You know, it just go from there.
17:35
Speaker 6: So everything that I all of my play by play
17:38
Speaker 6: has always been just off the cuff. I mean, I
17:40
Speaker 6: just never plan on anything. And I had guys behind
17:44
Speaker 6: me where we broadcast from at Madison Square Gardeners on
17:47
Speaker 6: the two hundred level, So that's just a whole another story.
17:50
Speaker 5: How we get there and get out of there.
17:52
Speaker 6: But the guys behind me when I went into that
17:54
Speaker 6: routine when Jalen Johnson dunked, and I, you know, I
17:57
Speaker 6: kind of went crazy. I turned around and I got
18:00
Speaker 6: the double fingers yea, And I said, now I know
18:05
Speaker 6: I'm in New York.
18:05
Speaker 2: Yes, you shouldn't have done that to them.
18:08
Speaker 5: No, I shouldn't have.
18:09
Speaker 6: And then even on the way out, I'm walking through
18:11
Speaker 6: the corridor with the crowd, and I had my backpack
18:14
Speaker 6: on it.
18:14
Speaker 5: It says Hawks on it. And then I've got it
18:16
Speaker 5: even more.
18:17
Speaker 6: You know, they hadn't even hurt the call yet and
18:19
Speaker 6: they still hated me walking in the hallway.
18:22
Speaker 5: But it's fun. It's fun.
18:24
Speaker 6: I always think of it this way. We're not brain surgeons,
18:26
Speaker 6: you know. Anything we do, you guys, what we do
18:29
Speaker 6: is entertainment.
18:30
Speaker 2: Yes, you know.
18:31
Speaker 5: I think people are listening to me in the car.
18:34
Speaker 6: Sometimes they're dropping the kids off at soccer practice or
18:37
Speaker 6: going to the grocery store. They're looking for something to
18:40
Speaker 6: get away from their general things that are happening, or
18:43
Speaker 6: anything that's wrong in their lives. So I look at
18:45
Speaker 6: it as entertainment. It's fun. I enjoy the banter back
18:49
Speaker 6: and forth with fans on other teams. I always have
18:53
Speaker 6: you know, it's just fun for me and forty one
18:56
Speaker 6: years now doing this, so and I have no plans
18:59
Speaker 6: on stopping. You know, as long as I can speak
19:02
Speaker 6: and don't peel on myself, I'm going to do it. Stu.
19:06
Speaker 3: Playing that call reminded me why I didn't want Steve
19:09
Speaker 3: to come on today, because I knew he was going
19:11
Speaker 3: to get on today. He was going to turn his
19:13
Speaker 3: charm on.
19:14
Speaker 2: We were gonna fall. I was gonna start to like him.
19:17
Speaker 3: Yeah, that's why I didn't want him on, because when
19:19
Speaker 3: you go to war, you can't choose your enemy. I'm
19:22
Speaker 3: trying to prepare for battle right now, and I'm Steve
19:24
Speaker 3: winning me over.
19:25
Speaker 2: I'm almost rooting for the Hawks.
19:26
Speaker 5: I mean, oh, I like the part almost. That's that's
19:31
Speaker 5: a good one.
19:32
Speaker 2: Almost.
19:33
Speaker 7: Step Yes, curious, Steve, your most recent, very famous lovely
19:38
Speaker 7: rant against the Orlando Magic in that late regular season
19:41
Speaker 7: game got a lot of attention. I'm curious this stuff
19:44
Speaker 7: gets back to the players, right, do they come back
19:46
Speaker 7: to you and just be like, hell, yeah, Steve, way
19:48
Speaker 7: to have our bag.
19:50
Speaker 5: Well, you know it's funny that Orlando won.
19:52
Speaker 6: I mean, it wasn't funny when it happened because jack Landale,
19:55
Speaker 6: who was kind of a journeyman in the NBA, has
19:58
Speaker 6: become a really big part of our he uh, you know,
20:01
Speaker 6: because of his size and and he could hit a
20:03
Speaker 6: three and he was really so it really was. That
20:06
Speaker 6: was another one that just automatically came out. You know,
20:08
Speaker 6: we had had a problem earlier in the year with
20:10
Speaker 6: Desmond Bay and he knocked down and he grabbed uh
20:13
Speaker 6: Andka and threw him down.
20:14
Speaker 5: So there's a history there with that team.
20:16
Speaker 6: And then he did that, and you know, I could
20:18
Speaker 6: just see as it was happening, you know, here goes
20:21
Speaker 6: our playoff chance here with you know, one of our
20:23
Speaker 6: big guys being hurt. And I really felt bad for
20:26
Speaker 6: for for Jock too when it happened. And and it's
20:29
Speaker 6: it's not like it was the first time it ever
20:31
Speaker 6: happened with Orlando, but but having the Israel say get
20:34
Speaker 6: back to the players. I was told I don't know
20:37
Speaker 6: this for sure, but I heard it was played at
20:39
Speaker 6: one of the team meetings. So all the guys that
20:42
Speaker 6: I get, I get fist pumps now from everybody.
20:45
Speaker 7: And and Jack land they would have been helpful against
20:48
Speaker 7: Karl Anthony Towns in this series.
20:50
Speaker 6: Yeah, I know, that's the well he gave a nice
20:52
Speaker 6: hip check the other night in the two minute report.
20:56
Speaker 6: I think, yeah, here and there, Right, we're only three
21:00
Speaker 6: calls that went against the Hawks in the last ten
21:02
Speaker 6: seconds according to the two minute report.
21:05
Speaker 1: So headed into Game three tonight, Steve like, who are
21:08
Speaker 1: Hawk fans going to hone in on? Is it Carl
21:10
Speaker 1: Anthony Towns? Is it Jalen Brunton. Who's the guy they're
21:12
Speaker 1: gonna go after?
21:14
Speaker 6: Well, I think I think they'll probably focus in on
21:17
Speaker 6: we have something called a six man group that gets
21:20
Speaker 6: everybody kind of started with that. I think Jalen Brunston's
21:23
Speaker 6: gonna get it. But Karl Anthony Towns is always a
21:26
Speaker 6: pretty good target. And you know, you talk about how
21:28
Speaker 6: people have charming and all. I love Karl Anthony Towns.
21:31
Speaker 6: He's the nicest kid in the world. I mean, you know,
21:33
Speaker 6: so is Jalen. I've know Jalen's father. You know, I
21:36
Speaker 6: grew up around Boston and Jalen's father, Rick is from Beverly, Massachusetts,
21:41
Speaker 6: you know, near where I grew up in Lawrence, Massachusetts.
21:43
Speaker 6: So you know, everybody's kind of friendly and fun. But
21:46
Speaker 6: I think our fans are going to key in on
21:48
Speaker 6: on probably those two.
21:49
Speaker 2: Are you a Red Sox fan, I'm more I was.
21:54
Speaker 2: I mean, I was a rich I can't say.
21:55
Speaker 1: That, right, is the voice of Atlanta. You can't really
21:57
Speaker 1: do that. You have to be a brace fan, now,
21:58
Speaker 1: Is that the deal?
21:59
Speaker 5: Or I am a you know it's funny.
22:00
Speaker 6: I am a Braves fan and I've been here since
22:02
Speaker 6: nineteen eighty in Atlanta, And one of the first things
22:06
Speaker 6: I did with my two boys was, you know, you're
22:08
Speaker 6: going to be Atlanta fans. You're going to be Hawks fans,
22:11
Speaker 6: You're going to be Braves fans, You're going to be
22:13
Speaker 6: Falcons fans. So I think that's one of the things
22:16
Speaker 6: that we all need to do, is when the thing
22:19
Speaker 6: that bothers me the most, and it's not just with us,
22:22
Speaker 6: it's with all these teams. You know, when grandpa brings
22:25
Speaker 6: in the grandson and makes them wear the like the
22:28
Speaker 6: Cleveland shirt or the New York shirt or you know whatever,
22:31
Speaker 6: whatever time you're in, and they forced these kids to
22:34
Speaker 6: be fans of what grandpa's team was. And I thought
22:37
Speaker 6: our kids should be, you know, automatically Atlanta fans from
22:41
Speaker 6: the time that they got here.
22:43
Speaker 1: Taylor, when you have kids, make sure, you're in New York. Okay,
22:46
Speaker 1: not anywhere else now. But but Taylor smiling because I
22:49
Speaker 1: made this mistake. So I grew up in New York
22:51
Speaker 1: and I and I moved down to Florida twenty plus
22:54
Speaker 1: years ago.
22:55
Speaker 2: And when my daughters were born, You're right.
22:57
Speaker 1: I should have made them Dolphin fans and Hurricane fans
22:59
Speaker 1: and pay their fans and Heat fans.
23:01
Speaker 2: They would have won a bunch, especially Panthers and Heat.
23:03
Speaker 1: I didn't do that. I made them become Jet fans.
23:06
Speaker 1: How about that, Steve.
23:08
Speaker 5: That is the child abuse.
23:09
Speaker 2: I think these.
23:10
Speaker 1: Days your house, making your kids become Jet fans child abuse.
23:18
Speaker 2: Put it on the pole, please, Steve.
23:21
Speaker 7: Last basketball question for me, Nikhil Alexander Walker. How much
23:26
Speaker 7: has he been a pleasant surprise for you to watch?
23:28
Speaker 7: And then what do you see he brings to this
23:31
Speaker 7: team every night?
23:33
Speaker 6: Well, that's a good question about him because when he
23:37
Speaker 6: came here, he was going to be the sixth man.
23:38
Speaker 6: I believe was the plan, you know, with that whole
23:40
Speaker 6: porzingis and trade stuff and everything. And now he's become
23:44
Speaker 6: he stepped up to become one of the top scorers
23:47
Speaker 6: on the team and a leader on the team.
23:49
Speaker 5: As well. And the thing I really like about.
23:51
Speaker 6: Nikkiel is that he's got a lot of intestinal fortitude.
23:56
Speaker 6: You know, he's not afraid of anything. He's not afraid
23:59
Speaker 6: of the moment. You know, back in the old days,
24:01
Speaker 6: we'd say he's got he's got balls, you know, I
24:04
Speaker 6: mean that's what we would we use to say. Uh,
24:06
Speaker 6: And that's what I like about him a lot. And uh,
24:08
Speaker 6: he's not He's really not afraid of anything. And he's
24:11
Speaker 6: a great defensive player along with offense. And I'm almost
24:15
Speaker 6: to the point now I'm surprised if he misses a shot.
24:17
Speaker 6: And the thing about the first two games of the series,
24:19
Speaker 6: he didn't play all that well, he didn't shoot all
24:21
Speaker 6: that well. So I'm expecting at home that he's going
24:25
Speaker 6: to relax a lot more. Jalen Johnson's going to relax
24:28
Speaker 6: a lot more because Jalen had.
24:29
Speaker 5: A great season.
24:30
Speaker 6: Uh. And you know, it's a it's a big thing
24:33
Speaker 6: for a kid who's only twenty four, uh to step
24:35
Speaker 6: into the role that he's had to step into now
24:38
Speaker 6: is kind of the the guy on the Hawks. So
24:41
Speaker 6: I think that the home court's really going to help
24:43
Speaker 6: both of them a lot.
24:45
Speaker 1: Steve, were you outraged that the Hawks had to cancel
24:48
Speaker 1: Magic City Night.
24:51
Speaker 6: You know that was funny. I was fine with it.
24:54
Speaker 6: It's it's one of the iconic places in Atlanta.
24:58
Speaker 5: If you will, Yes, you know there were.
25:01
Speaker 6: Magic City I would say is responsible for maybe sixty
25:05
Speaker 6: percent of the Hawks wins over the last how many years,
25:09
Speaker 6: especially especially when we schedule afternoon games, you like on
25:13
Speaker 6: a Sunday afternoon or whatever after a Saturday night.
25:16
Speaker 5: Yes, that that has been responsible for a lot of it.
25:19
Speaker 6: And you could always tell when the other team has
25:22
Speaker 6: been uh to Magic City because the next game you
25:26
Speaker 6: can see who's sitting behind the bench for the visiting teams.
25:29
Speaker 2: We're just looking at their box.
25:31
Speaker 6: Hey, we got a shot tonight, fellas, because I think, uh,
25:34
Speaker 6: the Magic City flew might be an.
25:35
Speaker 2: Effect, right, It's like South Beach. You're right, yes, exactly, yes.
25:40
Speaker 5: And the lip Pepper Wings are very good.
25:42
Speaker 2: No, I know.
25:43
Speaker 1: And by the way, he fans could shut the hell
25:45
Speaker 1: up because Mike Engliss. There is not a bigger homer
25:47
Speaker 1: on the planet than Mike English.
25:48
Speaker 2: You know that, Steve right, Yeah.
25:50
Speaker 5: I know, And I love Mike though.
25:52
Speaker 2: He's great. Yes, and you're great. That's why I mean
25:55
Speaker 2: that's what we do.
25:55
Speaker 6: I mean I'm not I'm not ashamed of being a homer.
25:58
Speaker 6: I mean I really do. And I learned from Johnny
26:01
Speaker 6: Most who was the biggest probably homer in history of
26:05
Speaker 6: NBA basketball.
26:06
Speaker 5: Yes, you know, I'm here for Hawks fans. I'm not
26:10
Speaker 5: here to I'm not here to.
26:11
Speaker 6: Play Kate somebody who's sitting in their mother's base but
26:14
Speaker 6: looking for something to criticize, you know what I mean.
26:17
Speaker 6: Those are the people I'm not playing to. I'm playing
26:20
Speaker 6: to our fans. And like I said before, I'm trying
26:23
Speaker 6: to be entertaining and and get people away from their
26:26
Speaker 6: own problems.
26:27
Speaker 2: Yep, you're great at it.
26:29
Speaker 1: If you had another dog and you were to name
26:31
Speaker 1: that dog after an Atlanta Hawk, which hawk would you
26:34
Speaker 1: go with?
26:34
Speaker 2: Dominique?
26:35
Speaker 5: I mean, I would.
26:36
Speaker 6: Say Dominique would have to be the guy because he's
26:39
Speaker 6: such a great guy. I mean he he really is.
26:42
Speaker 6: He's the greatest Atlanta Hawk ever. And you know, when
26:45
Speaker 6: we go to hotels and traveling, he does our TV Still,
26:49
Speaker 6: he still is the number one guy people are looking
26:51
Speaker 6: for to get his autograph, and he accommodates everybody gives
26:54
Speaker 6: them pictures.
26:55
Speaker 5: So I think Nick might be the next.
26:57
Speaker 2: Dog that I have. It's a tough dog, live one first. Yeah,
27:01
Speaker 2: but Nick is a good name.
27:02
Speaker 7: Meek is a good dog named Dominique.
27:03
Speaker 2: Not so much. I was thinking concact. I was thinking CJ.
27:08
Speaker 2: But no, if you go with me, that's good contact.
27:12
Speaker 2: Just a funny name, Steve. We appreciate it.
27:14
Speaker 5: How about to call him contact.
27:16
Speaker 6: I know that.
27:18
Speaker 1: You're in the friendly confines tonight, so nothing to worry about.
27:21
Speaker 1: Although I believe there'll be a ton of Nick fans there,
27:24
Speaker 1: as you pointed out.
27:25
Speaker 5: Oh, they'll be there and they let themselves be.
27:28
Speaker 3: No.
27:28
Speaker 2: Yes, yes, it's one thing about.
27:30
Speaker 5: The Knicks fans. Yes, as you know, Uh, how are
27:33
Speaker 5: you doing tonight? Well, what do you hear?
27:35
Speaker 6: If you say somebody, how are you doing? You know
27:36
Speaker 6: they're a Knicks fan. If they tell you to go.
27:38
Speaker 1: Yeah, yes, yes or no? Spike Lee is doing more
27:41
Speaker 1: harm than good right Nicks for the Knicks. Like my listen,
27:45
Speaker 1: My thought is just shut up and enjoy the game.
27:48
Speaker 1: Stop getting CJ McCollum or Trey Young Oh riled up?
27:52
Speaker 2: What do you think? Yeah?
27:53
Speaker 5: He may have done more harm to this, Yes, thanks,
27:56
Speaker 5: thank you.
27:56
Speaker 6: I did hear he's looking for front row seats tonight.
27:58
Speaker 6: And I don't think he's going to be accommodated.
28:00
Speaker 2: Oh wow, not I Olden has anything to say about it.
28:03
Speaker 6: I mean, no, he did go to Morehouse. You know
28:07
Speaker 6: he's he's kind of an Atlanta guy too.
28:10
Speaker 7: Yeah, no way, not this round, he's not.
28:14
Speaker 6: I don't think I don't think you can look for
28:15
Speaker 6: I don't think you're going to see him in the
28:17
Speaker 6: front row.
28:17
Speaker 2: Right.
28:18
Speaker 1: We enjoy your work very very much. You are excellent
28:21
Speaker 1: at your job. We appreciate the time. Thank you for
28:23
Speaker 1: proving yourself away from the dog to join us for
28:26
Speaker 1: a few minutes.
28:27
Speaker 6: I appreciate it. I enjoy all of you guys. So
28:29
Speaker 6: it's it's been a it's been a pleasure and you know,
28:32
Speaker 6: any time.
28:32
Speaker 5: But we can do it again.
28:34
Speaker 2: Let's do it all right, Hopefully we'll get back to
28:36
Speaker 2: the Mecca.
28:36
Speaker 1: And if we do, I want to help you out
28:38
Speaker 1: with a call if you win that game, just a
28:40
Speaker 1: call that you could deliver to the to the nick fans.
28:43
Speaker 2: Okay, nothing, you need my help, but I want to
28:45
Speaker 2: come up with something fun, funny. Okay, all right, thank
28:48
Speaker 2: you guys.
28:48
Speaker 5: I appreciate it, all right, thank you, Steve.
28:50
Speaker 2: We appreciate it. Good luck tonight, have fun. Thank you,