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  Speaker 1: Thanks for listening to the best of the Ben Maler
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  Speaker 2: This is the best of the Ben Maler Show on
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  Speaker 1: Lead this hour from Midtown Manhattan right on top of
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  Speaker 1: Penn Station. Now, eventually the Knicks are gonna have to
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  Speaker 1: leave that arena. They're gonna redo Penn Station. The Knicks
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  Speaker 1: will have to find an arena somewhere else. But in
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  Speaker 1: the meantime, they're playing at Mecca in Midtown Manhattan right there,
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  Speaker 1: and you had Game one of the Eastern Conference Finals.
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  Speaker 1: The Cavaliers and the Knickerbockers and the old rust versus
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  Speaker 1: rest debate, a tiring debate that has been going on
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  Speaker 1: way before I got into this business, and I've been
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  Speaker 1: in here a while, and it continues on would you
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  Speaker 1: rather be the Cavs who just played a couple days ago,
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  Speaker 1: or would you rather be the Knicks that had all
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  Speaker 1: that rest, and of course the answer is always whoever
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  Speaker 1: wins the game. It's always whoever wins the game. If
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  Speaker 1: the team with the rest wins the game, well see
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  Speaker 1: they had all the rest. If the team that played
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  Speaker 1: the other day wins, well you'd rather keep your mojo going.
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  Speaker 1: That whole nonsense. So I don't know if you saw this
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  Speaker 1: game or not. Shockingly, back to back nights of quality
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  Speaker 1: entertainment from a league that treats its customers like scum
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  Speaker 1: most of the year in the regular season, but here
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  Speaker 1: in the conference finals, you had a double double overtime
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  Speaker 1: game in the West, and now you had an overtime game.
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  Speaker 1: If you didn't see it, Jalen Brunson spark an out
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  Speaker 1: of body experience. As the postseason come I certainly last
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  Speaker 1: generation one of the great comebacks. Not as good as
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  Speaker 1: the Clippers years ago in the playoffs, but you know,
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  Speaker 1: by non Clippers standards, it was a nice run for
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  Speaker 1: the Knicks as they come back from twenty two points
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  Speaker 1: down in the fourth quarter and finished Jalen brunts did
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  Speaker 1: with thirty eight points and the New Yorkers beat the
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  Speaker 1: Clevelanders one fifteen to one oh four in overtime as
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  Speaker 1: Game one goes to the Knickerbockers. They get to win.
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  Speaker 1: The Knicks trailed ninety three to seventy one. Cleveland had
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  Speaker 1: the lead, was seven fifty two to play in the game. However,
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  Speaker 1: they dug themselves out or did they get some help,
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  Speaker 1: We'll talk about that in a minute, and they ended
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  Speaker 1: up New York punking the Cavaliers in this game. Now,
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  Speaker 1: the better story is always in the losing locker room.
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  Speaker 1: That has been a truism that we've had over the years.
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  Speaker 1: And it's another example here, a perfect example. As Cleveland gagged.
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  Speaker 1: They it's a tough way to do. They choked to
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  Speaker 1: death right there, at least in Game one. That was pathetic.
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  Speaker 1: A good jumping off points. So let us discuss the
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  Speaker 1: question who is most libel Who's got the most liability
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  Speaker 1: for the Cavaliers dropping like bowling pins down the stretch
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  Speaker 1: in and overtime in this game. So I've got fruit basket,
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  Speaker 1: rainbow sprinkles, and the three amigos, and we will combine
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  Speaker 1: all of these things together and we're going to enjoy
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  Speaker 1: a nice heat wave, is what we're going to enjoy.
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  Speaker 1: So a it was a long lost baseball legend gentlemen
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  Speaker 1: you don't know of because you don't know your baseball
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  Speaker 1: history named Casey Stengel, who famously said most games are lost,
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  Speaker 1: not one. And so while the Knicks get all the
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  Speaker 1: glory and all the obnoxious, annoying New Yorkers in your
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  Speaker 1: world are braggadocious about the Knicks coming back, that is
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  Speaker 1: not possible with the absolute malpractice of the Cleveland basketball team.
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  Speaker 1: So enter the Cavaliers, who were on cruise control eighty
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  Speaker 1: three percent of the game, eighty three percent through the game.
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  Speaker 1: They assumed that the game, as the late great Chick
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  Speaker 1: Hern said back in this day, they assumed the game
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  Speaker 1: was in the refrigerator, the jello was jiggling, the butter
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  Speaker 1: was getting hard, and the lights were out. No, that
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  Speaker 1: turned out, obviously not to be the case.
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  Speaker 3: Here.
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  Speaker 1: You know what happens when you assume oops a daisy,
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  Speaker 1: Oops a daisy for the team from Cleveland. Instead, they
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  Speaker 1: went full throttle in the vomit comet, full throttle and
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  Speaker 1: the vomit comet, proving the one of the malord laws
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  Speaker 1: to be true yet again, snatching defeat from the jaws
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  Speaker 1: of victory. Another great moment in Ohio sports. Hopefully We've
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  Speaker 1: got a call from our friend Dick and Dayton later
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  Speaker 1: to give us the breakdown on that. But the Cavs
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  Speaker 1: did not just collapse. I believe what happened here is
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  Speaker 1: they reverted to their DNA, their DNA in late in
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  Speaker 1: this game. Who goofed? I've got to know we want liability.
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  Speaker 1: I'll give you a liability. Okay, Fine, So the liability
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  Speaker 1: lands squarely on the Beard and the Spider. The Beard
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  Speaker 1: and the Spider, those are the two that have the
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  Speaker 1: liability the most due now James Harden. I've witnessed it myself.
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  Speaker 1: I've ripped him for years, and he cursed the Clippers,
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  Speaker 1: came to the people's team, the Clippers for a couple
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  Speaker 1: of seasons, and I was literally blown away, and I'm
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  Speaker 1: very rarely blown away. When Cleveland thought of all the
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  Speaker 1: players they could acquire before the trade deadline, this was
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  Speaker 1: the guy they needed to put him over the top.
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  Speaker 1: It just really was confusing to me. And I don't
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  Speaker 1: know a lot of just see the Overnight show here,
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  Speaker 1: but I believe I truly know more than the Cleveland
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  Speaker 1: Cavaliers front office. It is fascinating, like who could have
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  Speaker 1: possibly seen what happened? At the Garden in the future.
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  Speaker 1: I don't know everyone anyone, right, as a distant relative
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  Speaker 1: of Nostradamus and former friend of Nostradinas before the Seahawks
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  Speaker 1: became annoying, I saw it, and if I saw it,
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  Speaker 1: you think other people would see it. James Harden's has
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  Speaker 1: some amazingly bad performances in the playoffs. I truly believe
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  Speaker 1: this was his Mona Lisa. This was a louve worthy
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  Speaker 1: disaster for James Harden. And that's saying something. He's in
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  Speaker 1: his mid to late thirs thirty six years old. Now
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  Speaker 1: he looks slow on both ends of the court. And
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  Speaker 1: the defense was so bad. How bad was it? Thanks
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  Speaker 1: for asking? So it was so bad that Mike Brown
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  Speaker 1: looked like the greatest coach in the history of the
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  Speaker 1: NBA just by continuing to attack James Harden. It wasn't
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  Speaker 1: five on five, it was five find Harden, whoever Harden is.
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  Speaker 1: That's the soft underbelly of the Cavaliers, right, That's it.
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  Speaker 1: And so Mike Brown, oh, James Harden a fruit basket
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  Speaker 1: and some gift cards for lap dances, because we know
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  Speaker 1: James loves the ballet. Jalen Brunson was on the prowl
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  Speaker 1: and he hunted. That was mostly Brunson, but there were
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  Speaker 1: others and they hunted down James Harden Brunson with the
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  Speaker 1: pick and roll. It was like a rewards program customer,
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  Speaker 1: cooking him repeatedly during that forty four to eleven run.
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  Speaker 1: And the immortal words of the late great Bill Fitch,
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  Speaker 1: who was a big influence in my life is a
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  Speaker 1: radio stringer back in the day, the Hall of Fame
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  Speaker 1: coach Bill Fitch, who explained to me, if you play
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  Speaker 1: hard and discipline basketball, you're never going to get outscored
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  Speaker 1: by twenty points. The Cavs got outscored by thirty three
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  Speaker 1: points the final final part of the game, thirty three
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  Speaker 1: points in the late fourth quarter, and in overtime thirty
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  Speaker 1: three points outscored. Meanwhile, Donovan Mitchell ran out of clearly,
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  Speaker 1: he ran out of web and crawled back into his
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  Speaker 1: spider hole. Is what he did there. The spider who
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  Speaker 1: called this a business trip. He's from the Greater New
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  Speaker 1: York Aregon, went to high school in Connecticut and all
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  Speaker 1: that stuff, so he's he's from that area as well.
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  Speaker 1: You know this is a business trip. Okay, Well, you
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  Speaker 1: might want to get a new job, because if that's
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  Speaker 1: a business trip, holy crap, Holy crap. Now Mitchell had
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  Speaker 1: twenty nine to lead the Cavaliers. So the untrained amateur
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  Speaker 1: observer of all this, the low information fan, will say, well,
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  Speaker 1: you can't rip Dotavan Mitchell yet twenty nine points. You
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  Speaker 1: don't know ball. Okay, So, y'all tell me that Mitchell's
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  Speaker 1: one of the all you know, the great players. He's
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  Speaker 1: the headliner for the Cavaliers, and he's had some big
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  Speaker 1: games in the playoffs and all this stuff, and okay, so,
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  Speaker 1: and I might be wrong on this, However, if you're
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  Speaker 1: truly one of those players, don't you do something anything
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  Speaker 1: while the walls are caving in on your team in
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  Speaker 1: a playoff game on the road, because Spider Mitchell, you
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  Speaker 1: scored as many points, I scored as many points, and
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  Speaker 1: you combined as Donovan Mitchell did the final twelve minutes.
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  Speaker 1: The final twelve minutes of the game, he went scoreless.
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  Speaker 1: Donovan Mitchell went scoreless the final twelve minutes. He played
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  Speaker 1: with this aloof deliberate indifference that it was so cringeworthy.
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  Speaker 1: Combined with Harden, they should have put some kind of
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  Speaker 1: parental advisory label on the broadcast. It was that cringeworthy.
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  Speaker 1: And again, I just that's one of my positions that
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  Speaker 1: if you're truly a great player, you're gonna go down
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  Speaker 1: doing everything you can to score. He was just kind
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  Speaker 1: of going through the motion. So apathy. Apathy is the
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  Speaker 1: word I will use late in that game for Donovan Mitchell,
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  Speaker 1: my god, and you know, stop the bleeding. He let
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  Speaker 1: them bleed out. He did all right, now, page dude,
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  Speaker 1: keeping the theme of the hour going on the Cleveland side.
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  Speaker 1: Kenny Atkinson, Now, I realized this is a me problem
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  Speaker 1: because I keep watching these news conferences postgame and I
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  Speaker 1: lose my mind and all that. So Kenny Atkinson postgame
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  Speaker 1: said that the Calves, I'm gonna give you the thumbnail recap,
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  Speaker 1: so he essentially said the Calves were unlucky. He thought
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  Speaker 1: that the Knicks hit some really tough shots, which I
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  Speaker 1: don't think they did. And he said, yeah, unlucky. He said, quote,
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  Speaker 1: I'm super proud of the way our group played. We
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  Speaker 1: played great basketball tonight for three quarters. Close quote all right.
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  Speaker 1: So again, I hate to do this. I want to
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  Speaker 1: be Benny Brightside. Last I checked, you get greatered on
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  Speaker 1: four quarters. You don't get greater on thirty six minutes.
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  Speaker 1: You get greater on forty eight. In this case, you
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  Speaker 1: get greater on fifty three. They played really great back
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  Speaker 1: basketball for three quarters. And he's proud of his team. Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: that's your coach. That's your coach, Ohio Al, that's your coach.
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  Speaker 1: Dick and Dayton Strip Club John, All you guys, all
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  Speaker 1: my guys, that's your coach. So the question coach Kenny
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  Speaker 1: Atkinson said he was quote super proud of the Cavaliers
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  Speaker 1: the way they played in the loss to the Knicks.
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  Speaker 1: What say you?
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  Speaker 3: All right?
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  Speaker 1: So Atkinson, I have him in the basket I labeled Dingleberry.
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  Speaker 1: He's in the Dingleberry basket. Congratulations. He coached that fourth
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  Speaker 1: quarter like he was on airplane mode. And this is
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  Speaker 1: the coaching equivalent of going up to an overflowing porta
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  Speaker 1: potty and tossing on a handful of rainbow sprinkles on
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  Speaker 1: that overflowing porta potty that is just covered in theses
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  Speaker 1: and saying, well, all right, we solved that problem. You know,
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  Speaker 1: I'm proud of me. Listen, it looks really nice. It's
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  Speaker 1: got there's some red and some green, some yellow, there's
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  Speaker 1: a little blue it looks good, looks pretty good. No, No, Atkinson,
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  Speaker 1: I don't know if you can call what he did coaching.
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  Speaker 1: And again, I'm not the biggest AA coaches matter all
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  Speaker 1: that much in the NBA. What he did though, holy crap,
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  Speaker 1: he was like doing some cosplay Kenny Atkinson as a
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  Speaker 1: guidance counselor super proud. Oh man, I just I can't.
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  Speaker 1: I'm not at the point I can accept what we're
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  Speaker 1: getting here from these coaches. And it's not just Kenny Atkinson.
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  Speaker 1: I feel like I did this same rant, and it's
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  Speaker 1: like your team just became unglued, it unplugged itself, like
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  Speaker 1: a Sega genesis in a thunderstorm. And Atkinson joins JB.
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  Speaker 1: Bickerstaff school of postgame gibberish, the Pistons coach that said
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  Speaker 1: similar nonsense the other day about how no negativity and
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  Speaker 1: all this, that they blew their game at home, and
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  Speaker 1: I know this is a road game and all that,
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  Speaker 1: but every time a team loses. Now I got to here, Well,
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  Speaker 1: it's a growth opportunity and it's a melt you know,
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  Speaker 1: it's not a meltdown. It's resilience, my fat ass. All right, anyway,
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  Speaker 1: just stop the sugar coating. Please. I know you think
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  Speaker 1: all the fans are idiots, and I guess most of
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  Speaker 1: them are. I like to think I'm not a complete moron.
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  Speaker 1: I'm just a half moron. So come on. And weren't
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  Speaker 1: even a loss by Cleveland. This was a self inflicted wedgie.
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  Speaker 1: They gave themselves a weggie right up. The tuckis right there.
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  Speaker 1: And why is this so hard? By the way, like
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  Speaker 1: the public holding people accountable. It's not youth basketball. You're
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  Speaker 1: not the YMCA, the Boys and Girls Club. I think,
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  Speaker 1: what are we doing? You know, I don't want to
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  Speaker 1: hear about the effort. I don't need to hear about
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  Speaker 1: the effort. I'm good on that. Tell me why your
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  Speaker 1: team evaporated like a spilled cam of sprite. Just explain
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  Speaker 1: that to me. And Atkinson absolutely, and the entire CAFs scene.
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  Speaker 1: But Atkinson's the coach goes out there, gets hoodwinked, bamboozled
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  Speaker 1: and hornswoggled all at the same time. You can do
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  Speaker 1: one of those, you can't do three. It's like a
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  Speaker 1: Looney Tunes situation here. And he waited to call time out.
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  Speaker 1: Let him play, Let the players figure it out right,
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  Speaker 1: Let him figure it out. Waited to call time out
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  Speaker 1: until the Knicks this thing that they had going here,
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  Speaker 1: they were playing really confident basketball and they had their
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  Speaker 1: own zip code. By the time Atkinson decided to yeah,
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  Speaker 1: we'll call timeout, I was like, Okay, it's not exactly strategy.
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  Speaker 1: I could have done that. I could have stood there
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  Speaker 1: and bitten my fingernails and picked my nose while this happened.
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  Speaker 1: And it's coaching. Malfeasance is what that is. That's the
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  Speaker 1: word malthfeasance. So if Cleveland ends up blowing this series,
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  Speaker 1: and it's only game one, but if they end up
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  Speaker 1: blowing this series, this becomes a fireable offense in at
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  Speaker 1: least in my world. I realized we live in the
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  Speaker 1: era where coaches are not held to that standard. If
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  Speaker 1: I owned the team, i'd fire I'd fire him, give
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  Speaker 1: him the cardboard box, the security escort, and please leave
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  Speaker 1: in a timely fashion. I've gotten that talk. I know
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  Speaker 1: the talk. I got thirty minutes to collect your personal
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  Speaker 1: belongings and please leave. My favorite line when I got
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  Speaker 1: whacked years ago was you know, it's hard for you,
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  Speaker 1: but it's also hard for the people that are still
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  Speaker 1: the company. One of the people that fired me told
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  Speaker 1: me that, Oh it's so good. Hey, all right, last
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  Speaker 1: word on the New York, New York side of things,
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  Speaker 1: the sweet smell of victory. So the question is who
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  Speaker 1: can read the biggest sigh of relief for Jalen Brunson
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  Speaker 1: and the Knicks pulling off the miraculous rabbit out of
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  Speaker 1: the hat type victory in Game one of the Eastern Finals.
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  Speaker 1: So who can breathe the biggest sigh of relief? So
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  Speaker 1: the biggest sigh of relief belongs to the three Amigos
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  Speaker 1: I jotted down on the notes app on my phone,
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  Speaker 1: the three Amigos. That's none other than cat nap Og
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  Speaker 1: and brown Town. That would be the three Amigos. Because
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  Speaker 1: forty four to eleven run to end the game, that resurrection,
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  Speaker 1: not a run, that was a resurrection, a rebirth for
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  Speaker 1: the Knickerbockers. Did not just save the Knicks, It saved
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  Speaker 1: those three, the three Amigos, from the full blown tabloid autopsy,
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  Speaker 1: which was going to be taking place had this gone
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  Speaker 1: the other one. So it's probably written. I wrote the stories,
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  Speaker 1: they just hadn't published them yet. But my god, Karl
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  Speaker 1: Anthony Towns played forty minutes of do not disturb basketball,
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  Speaker 1: and then he got bailed out, like the car industry
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  Speaker 1: got bailed out by the the White House or the
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  Speaker 1: banking industry got bailed out by the White House back
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  Speaker 1: back in the day. Meanwhile, og and Anobi he had
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  Speaker 1: three points. He had the body language of a man
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  Speaker 1: waiting online without a reservation at the Department of Motor Vehicles,
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  Speaker 1: and then he started. Brunson had the most impact late
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  Speaker 1: in the game, but og and Anobi also made some
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  Speaker 1: big baskets in that late game situation. He's absolved of
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  Speaker 1: any wrongdoing. And then you have brown Town, Mike Brown,
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  Speaker 1: the head coach who coached like he was trying to
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  Speaker 1: win a Melotonin sponsorship as the Knicks. We're going through
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  Speaker 1: it for most of that game, eighty three percent of
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  Speaker 1: that game. And then that's it. I mean, Cleveland owned
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  Speaker 1: every hustle stat at that point, and then they remembered, Hey,
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  Speaker 1: we're the Cavs. You know what are we doing? You know,
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  Speaker 1: we can't keep doing that with the calves. We can't
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  Speaker 1: win the hustle stats and all that, so they stopped
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  Speaker 1: doing that.
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  Speaker 3: Now.
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  Speaker 1: The other thing I'm already tired of hearing about is
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  Speaker 1: the Knicks have all the momentum. Shut your fat mouth.
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  Speaker 1: There is no such thing as momentum. No way, Jose
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  Speaker 1: doesn't matter. I don't care if you tell me ten
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  Speaker 1: million times. There is no such thing as momentum. We
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  Speaker 1: used to have Ozzie momentum, and we had Uncle Mo,
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  Speaker 1: but they don't really call anymore, so that doesn't count.
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  Speaker 1: So momentum is just the excuse that dummies and sports
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  Speaker 1: media used. They invented after the For example, the Cavaliers
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  Speaker 1: had stay it with me, now, all the momentum. They
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  Speaker 1: had a twenty two point lead fourth quarter until they
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  Speaker 1: didn't have all the momentum because they sucked at a
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  Speaker 1: time you cannot suck. And the Knicks didn't flip a switch. Okay,
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  Speaker 1: they didn't flip a switch. They found the Cavs extension
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  Speaker 1: cord and they yanked it out of the wall. This
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  Speaker 1: is what they did. The series comes down to who
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  Speaker 1: sucks less between James Harden and Karl Anthony Towns. And amazingly,
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  Speaker 1: while Karl Anthony Towns was pretty blair for eighty three
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  Speaker 1: percent of the game, James Harden found away. This is
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  Speaker 1: how he is a Hall of Famer. He's gonna be
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  Speaker 1: in there with Muffett McGraw. James Harden found away at
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  Speaker 1: the very end there to crank it up, and he
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  Speaker 1: cranked it up. He said, listen, this is who I am. Okay,
• 18:48
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  Speaker 1: the Ben Mallard Chicken Fingers. The only city that has
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  Speaker 1: normally lose in May. Has never been an NFL game
• 20:02
  Speaker 1: played in the month of Bay. That is not when
• 20:04
  Speaker 1: they have their games. So you might not have seen
• 20:08
  Speaker 1: what I'm about to talk about. Maybe he did. I
• 20:10
  Speaker 1: don't know how closely you're paying attention to this crap.
• 20:14
  Speaker 1: So chiefs Wide receiver Rashie Rice, Yep, that Rashi Rice,
• 20:19
  Speaker 1: speed racer Rashie Rice. Well, he has now been sentenced
• 20:24
  Speaker 1: to go to the jailhouse for thirty days, thirty days
• 20:31
  Speaker 1: immediately after testing positive for marijuana, which would not have
• 20:37
  Speaker 1: which would not have been a problem if he wasn't
• 20:39
  Speaker 1: on probation probation anyway. Now, the thing that stood out
• 20:45
  Speaker 1: about this is the Weed Caucus very upset. Like the
• 20:48
  Speaker 1: weed people are very upset. It's just some ganja. What
• 20:53
  Speaker 1: are you doing? That whole thing? So the Texas State
• 20:57
  Speaker 1: Attorney's Office said that Rice was ordered to go to immediately.
• 21:01
  Speaker 1: Now he had to go to jail at some point
• 21:03
  Speaker 1: for thirty days, and he got a really good deal,
• 21:08
  Speaker 1: you know, one of those deals that rich people get,
• 21:10
  Speaker 1: the one percenters get that if regular people do what
• 21:12
  Speaker 1: he did, would not get anyway. So it was part
• 21:16
  Speaker 1: of the original thirty day sentence, third degree felony for
• 21:21
  Speaker 1: racing and causing bodily injury. And so he's in jail
• 21:26
  Speaker 1: right now and immediately. That's it. So it's a good
• 21:30
  Speaker 1: jumping off point. Let us discuss the question do you
• 21:35
  Speaker 1: feel bad? Do you feel bad for Rashie Rice getting
• 21:40
  Speaker 1: ding just for some weed? Do you feel bad? So
• 21:44
  Speaker 1: my observations, I've got Arby's claw machine, Teddy Bear and
• 21:51
  Speaker 1: DDD and we will combine all of these things together
• 21:56
  Speaker 1: and we are going to do some heavy lifting, is
• 21:59
  Speaker 1: what We're going to do. Some heavy lifting, all right?
• 22:01
  Speaker 1: So number one? Number one? One? Do I feel bad? Please?
• 22:09
  Speaker 1: Come on, You don't get sympathy on this side of
• 22:13
  Speaker 1: the microphone for failing a test. You knew what's coming.
• 22:18
  Speaker 1: This is the stupid test, and you, by the way,
• 22:22
  Speaker 1: are stupid. Congratulations. Imagine being handed a second chance okay
• 22:28
  Speaker 1: in life and immediately handing it back like it's the
• 22:32
  Speaker 1: wrong bag of food at the RB's drive through. That's
• 22:36
  Speaker 1: not my order here. Enjoy this and you're what are
• 22:41
  Speaker 1: you talking about?
• 22:43
  Speaker 3: What is that?
• 22:44
  Speaker 1: Uh? Yeah, So it's not about marijuana. I know federally
• 22:49
  Speaker 1: marijuana is still illegal state by state. It's it's mostly
• 22:55
  Speaker 1: mostly you know, if you're in the Bible Belt. Some places,
• 22:57
  Speaker 1: I guess it's not. But most places it's perfectly except
• 23:00
  Speaker 1: the ball and whatnot. And it isn't the weed Caucus
• 23:03
  Speaker 1: versus the Man as some are making it out to be.
• 23:06
  Speaker 1: This is about a guy who gets to a fork
• 23:09
  Speaker 1: in the road, Rashie Rice, and tries to run over
• 23:14
  Speaker 1: the fork. He just goes aro, not right or left.
• 23:16
  Speaker 1: He wants to go right down the middle and Mike,
• 23:18
  Speaker 1: what are you doing? Like seriously, he makes the wrong decision.
• 23:22
  Speaker 1: Life's just a series of decisions, and you got to
• 23:25
  Speaker 1: try to make more right ones than wrong ones. And
• 23:28
  Speaker 1: he ends up seemingly making mostly wrong decisions. So Rashie
• 23:34
  Speaker 1: Rice did not get caught with weed. He got caught
• 23:37
  Speaker 1: thinking that he's too important to follow the rules, that
• 23:42
  Speaker 1: that he agreed to it, like everyone knows the rules.
• 23:44
  Speaker 1: You got to keep your nose clean. He didn't get
• 23:46
  Speaker 1: railroaded by the system. He got dinged for stupidity. Rashie
• 23:50
  Speaker 1: Rice of the Kansas City Chiefs and probation last I heard.
• 23:55
  Speaker 1: I don't know some of you guys have been on it.
• 23:57
  Speaker 1: I get it. And so probation is not a suggestion.
• 24:01
  Speaker 1: It is a syllabus, as I understand. So if you
• 24:06
  Speaker 1: race your Lamborghini at one hundred and nineteen miles per
• 24:10
  Speaker 1: hour through the streets of Dallas and you injure men,
• 24:14
  Speaker 1: women and children, you disrupt people's lives, and then you
• 24:19
  Speaker 1: get an opportunity to not have to go to any
• 24:21
  Speaker 1: real jail time and you still can't follow the easiest rules.
• 24:26
  Speaker 1: I don't feel any kind of sadness for you. I
• 24:31
  Speaker 1: don't The guy already got a sweetheart deal. He turned
• 24:36
  Speaker 1: Dallas traffic into the demolition derby and walked away from
• 24:42
  Speaker 1: the car. Is like I'm walking off the highway and
• 24:44
  Speaker 1: all that stuff. And thirty days is like a groupon.
• 24:48
  Speaker 1: It's like a groupon to that. As I've been told
• 24:52
  Speaker 1: in the past, you play stupid games who win stupid prizes.
• 24:54
  Speaker 1: Now we pinwheel to the Chiefs part of the picture,
• 24:59
  Speaker 1: and they read Big Red and the Boys. So Rashie
• 25:04
  Speaker 1: Rice will miss the rest of the Chiefs offseason program,
• 25:07
  Speaker 1: their mandatory mini camp. And keep in mind the thirty
• 25:11
  Speaker 1: days in jail. Normally what happens is you're sentenced to
• 25:14
  Speaker 1: thirty days, you go in. I know in some places,
• 25:17
  Speaker 1: like in California, you go in for thirty days, you're
• 25:19
  Speaker 1: in for about two days and then they let you out.
• 25:22
  Speaker 1: So it's likely he will not go even in Texas,
• 25:24
  Speaker 1: he's not gonna go over the full thirty days. That
• 25:26
  Speaker 1: being said undered, and he did have an operation and
• 25:29
  Speaker 1: he'll be out anyway. Do you think he realized he
• 25:33
  Speaker 1: was going to fail the weed test, so he's like,
• 25:34
  Speaker 1: let me go get that operation and then I'll I'll
• 25:37
  Speaker 1: help the team out and be away for a while,
• 25:39
  Speaker 1: and I can't practice anyway, so I might as well
• 25:41
  Speaker 1: enjoy some nice weed. Why not? My question? So, what
• 25:44
  Speaker 1: is the takeaway from the Kansas City side of things?
• 25:48
  Speaker 1: Wide receiver Rashie Rice's later latest legal snaff oo, So
• 25:52
  Speaker 1: what is the takeaway on that? So you can call
• 25:55
  Speaker 1: it a legal hiccup if you would like, right, I
• 26:00
  Speaker 1: don't think you can call it that anymore, though some
• 26:01
  Speaker 1: people are. To me, it's like a lifestyle at this
• 26:04
  Speaker 1: point and Rice's speed racing. It's the NFL's Cautionary tail handbook,
• 26:12
  Speaker 1: and he's running the handbook that the Chiefs. If you
• 26:15
  Speaker 1: look at this situation, okay, the Chiefs handed this guy
• 26:18
  Speaker 1: their own version of a golden ticket. You got a
• 26:21
  Speaker 1: golden ticket in football. Awez right, you're there, You're in
• 26:25
  Speaker 1: Kansas City. You got mahomes, Andy Reid prime time games
• 26:29
  Speaker 1: up your tukas confetti on speed dial in Kansas City.
• 26:34
  Speaker 1: And he keeps treating all of that stuff, all of
• 26:38
  Speaker 1: that stuff, you know, getting to play with with you
• 26:43
  Speaker 1: know who's hobby. Yeah, Taylor's hubby, Well not yet. I
• 26:46
  Speaker 1: guess they're gonna get married here soon. But anyway, the
• 26:48
  Speaker 1: point is, you get all that stuff, and you get
• 26:51
  Speaker 1: that opportunity, and you're out there and you treat it
• 26:54
  Speaker 1: like a claw machine teddy bear that smells like cigarettes. Seriously,
• 27:01
  Speaker 1: Rice is the only guy who can use the go
• 27:05
  Speaker 1: route straight to the courtroom. It's like proving that his
• 27:11
  Speaker 1: status is. It's no longer day to day. I guess
• 27:15
  Speaker 1: he's selled the cell until he gets out of there.
• 27:17
  Speaker 1: And Andy Reid's offense, which is famously known as a
• 27:21
  Speaker 1: plug and play offense, unless the guy is plugged into
• 27:25
  Speaker 1: handcuffs somewhere in the jail system, then it's I guess
• 27:28
  Speaker 1: he's on the county grid at that point. So that's
• 27:31
  Speaker 1: a little problem there. But the Chiefs offseason program will
• 27:35
  Speaker 1: they have perfect attendance in Kansas City except for the
• 27:38
  Speaker 1: guy attending the county lockup. Hmm. Things that make you
• 27:43
  Speaker 1: go now in the pantheon, in the pantheon of the
• 27:47
  Speaker 1: Chiefs Kingdom, Rashie Rice skipped the natty list. He's he's
• 27:52
  Speaker 1: skipped over the natty list and went straight to the
• 27:54
  Speaker 1: restricted access list. So that's where he is at this
• 27:58
  Speaker 1: particular moment. He and you can't trust him, you can't
• 28:01
  Speaker 1: depend on him, You cannot do it at this point.
• 28:05
  Speaker 1: You can't even zoom call with him unless he's allowed
• 28:07
  Speaker 1: to have a phone in the pokey pokey pokey and
• 28:11
  Speaker 1: all like Kansas City. Now they have to treat him
• 28:14
  Speaker 1: going forward, Rashie Rice as a luxury item and not
• 28:18
  Speaker 1: a pillar. Of course, they should have already been there anyway.
• 28:20
  Speaker 1: This just double confirms it. And you are what your
• 28:25
  Speaker 1: record says you are. And Rice at this point is
• 28:27
  Speaker 1: a Mama Luke. He is a Mama Luke. Now final
• 28:30
  Speaker 1: point to Seattle we go. I saw this story and
• 28:35
  Speaker 1: I smiled. I had a cheshiire cat smile from ear
• 28:38
  Speaker 1: to ear. I think you might know where I'm going.
• 28:39
  Speaker 1: It's possible you don't. Yeah, So we had some fun
• 28:43
  Speaker 1: with our friends on KJR there in Seattle, the home
• 28:46
  Speaker 1: of the Ben Malor Show in the Pacific Northwest and
• 28:48
  Speaker 1: a lot of long suffering Mariner fans and some not
• 28:52
  Speaker 1: long suffering Seattle Seahawk fans. We're very happy that the
• 28:56
  Speaker 1: La Rams, the most popular team in football, were eliminated.
• 29:01
  Speaker 1: They overlooked the fact the Seahawks got this gift two
• 29:03
  Speaker 1: point conversion during the regular season. Well, that's all prolog,
• 29:08
  Speaker 1: that's all prolog. I bring this up. Seahawks wide receiver
• 29:11
  Speaker 1: Jackson Smith in JIGBA, the NFL's reigning Offensive Player of
• 29:17
  Speaker 1: the Year. Well, he posted a video this week on
• 29:21
  Speaker 1: the gram that showed his trophy, his nfl AP Offensive
• 29:27
  Speaker 1: Player of the Year trophy. And the reason I bring
• 29:29
  Speaker 1: this up that trophy, well, it had a mistake. Who goofed?
• 29:38
  Speaker 1: I've got to know. Yeah. So the video that was
• 29:41
  Speaker 1: posted on an Instagram story by the afore mentioned JSN
• 29:47
  Speaker 1: Jackson Smith and Jigba showed the Seahawks star holding the
• 29:50
  Speaker 1: trophy which said twenty twenty five Defensive Player of the Year.
• 29:57
  Speaker 1: About that that is great? Good? Yeah, come on, you're smiling,
• 30:04
  Speaker 1: JSN wrote, it's getting disrespectful at this point, he wrote,
• 30:08
  Speaker 1: as he showed the trophy, which had the wrong side
• 30:12
  Speaker 1: of the football on it. So the question where are
• 30:15
  Speaker 1: you at on the Seattle Seahawks, JSN, Jackson Smith and
• 30:19
  Speaker 1: Jigba and his reaction to the NFL mailing him the
• 30:25
  Speaker 1: wrong award. They gave him the Defensive Player of the
• 30:30
  Speaker 1: Year instead of the Offensive Player of the Year. So
• 30:35
  Speaker 1: I spent some time as I was making my way
• 30:37
  Speaker 1: on that long winding road into the hollowd hallways here
• 30:41
  Speaker 1: at FSR, and I think this should be embraced as
• 30:44
  Speaker 1: a historic moment in Seattle, that Jackson Smith and Jigbub
• 30:49
  Speaker 1: really should be honored. He's the first in my lifetime,
• 30:54
  Speaker 1: I think all the time, the first wide receiver ever
• 30:56
  Speaker 1: to win Defensive Player of the Year. Wow. Yeah, And
• 31:00
  Speaker 1: is this like when I was a kid and I
• 31:01
  Speaker 1: collected baseball cards because I'm old, and that's what we
• 31:04
  Speaker 1: had as kids. We didn't have the internet, we had
• 31:05
  Speaker 1: baseball cards, And is this like when we were kids
• 31:08
  Speaker 1: and there was this player named Billy Ripkin and he
• 31:11
  Speaker 1: wrote on the bat F word face in black marker
• 31:18
  Speaker 1: and it became a very valuable card for a little bit,
• 31:20
  Speaker 1: or the reverse negative Dale Murphy card or any of
• 31:24
  Speaker 1: those error cards back in you know, thirty forty years ago,
• 31:26
  Speaker 1: whatever it was. Is it the same thing, Like this
• 31:29
  Speaker 1: trophy has to become the most valuable trophy of all time.
• 31:32
  Speaker 1: It is the error Trophy. And it also shows you
• 31:37
  Speaker 1: the versatility that JSN has. You can't coach that amazing.
• 31:43
  Speaker 1: And you know all that grumbling from the twelves, you
• 31:45
  Speaker 1: just stop, all you oh yo boo, the great aggrieved
• 31:48
  Speaker 1: Seattle Seahawk fans stop, don't have your hissy fit. All right,
• 31:52
  Speaker 1: here's why this is great for the Seattle says, what
• 31:55
  Speaker 1: do Jackson Smith and Jake Butt and all professional athletes
• 32:00
  Speaker 1: need in their lives, every single one of them, whether
• 32:03
  Speaker 1: they're hockey players, basketball, baseball, UFC, soccer, you name it.
• 32:09
  Speaker 1: There's one common denominator in all of this. They all
• 32:14
  Speaker 1: need the disrespect. Right. So between being mis labeled the
• 32:20
  Speaker 1: trophy being mislabeled, and I remember the hullabaloo before the
• 32:24
  Speaker 1: Super Bowl. I remember I was doing the show from
• 32:26
  Speaker 1: San Francisco and Drewski butchered jsn's name that Fugesi Award show.
• 32:33
  Speaker 1: The comedian Drewski was being funny and people got offended
• 32:35
  Speaker 1: because the comedian told the joke. You know how it goes.
• 32:38
  Speaker 1: So between all of these things, Jackson Smith and Jigba
• 32:42
  Speaker 1: hit the DDD, the Disrespect Daily double, the Disrespect Daily
• 32:47
  Speaker 1: double the DDD. So congratulations. The NFL must have ordered
• 32:50
  Speaker 1: the trophy from Fanatics. Listen, Roger Good. I was like, well,
• 32:55
  Speaker 1: there are part let's go on Fanatics and get that trophy. Okay, sure,
• 32:59
  Speaker 1: why not? I am shocked that that trophy did not
• 33:03
  Speaker 1: arrive with some random NBA patch, a WNBA jersey and
• 33:09
  Speaker 1: a soccer ball glued to it, because that's normally what
• 33:12
  Speaker 1: I said. There's a whole cottage industry on social media
• 33:16
  Speaker 1: of fops by the people at Fanatics. They clearly do
• 33:19
  Speaker 1: not believe in quality control over there. Hopefully they'll fix
• 33:22
  Speaker 1: that at some point. But just wait until Miles Garrett
• 33:27
  Speaker 1: opens his box What's in the box and he finds
• 33:30
  Speaker 1: out he was the Offensive Player of the Year. Because
• 33:34
  Speaker 1: if Jackson Smith and jing was the defensive player of
• 33:36
  Speaker 1: the year, then that means Miles Garrett must be the
• 33:37
  Speaker 1: offensive player of the year. Somewhere there's a long snapper
• 33:40
  Speaker 1: who's got the Coach of the Year award. So that's
• 33:43
  Speaker 1: kind of cool too. And regardless, you know, it's not disrespectful.
• 33:49
  Speaker 1: I'll tell you four years, one hundred and sixty eight million.
• 33:54
  Speaker 1: That's the extension the Seattle football team gave Jackson Smith
• 33:57
  Speaker 1: and jigbas He was the highest paid wide receiver history
• 34:00
  Speaker 1: at the time. I believe he still is. The trophy
• 34:02
  Speaker 1: label can say whatever the hell it wants the direct
• 34:06
  Speaker 1: deposit that that's where it's at. So he's he's okay, yeah,
• 34:10
  Speaker 1: it'll be fine, and I would I would try to
• 34:12
  Speaker 1: keep the trophy. I said, listen, I'm not sending this back.
• 34:15
  Speaker 1: I'm keeping this and I'm going to auction this off.
• 34:17
  Speaker 1: When I'm old and I blow all my money and
• 34:19
  Speaker 1: i'm about to go bankrupt, I'm going to sell this
• 34:21
  Speaker 1: at auction and some group of nerds will pay big
• 34:24
  Speaker 1: money for it.
• 34:25
  Speaker 2: Be sure to catch live editions of The Ben Meller
• 34:27
  Speaker 2: Show weekdays at two am Eastern eleven pm Pacific.
• 34:30
  Speaker 1: Here we go, hit that button right there. That's that's to.
• 34:35
  Speaker 2: The third degree. Yeah, gets grilled.
• 34:40
  Speaker 1: All right? It is smoking here, right, Coop. I'm not
• 34:43
  Speaker 1: imagining that, and I'm smelling some a little Yeah, and
• 34:46
  Speaker 1: I can barely smell anything as it is, but I do.
• 34:48
  Speaker 1: I do smell that. Yeah, it's My voice will be
• 34:50
  Speaker 1: completely wrecked by the end of the show. So maybe
• 34:52
  Speaker 1: that's why my it's it's it's not helpful, Coop, tell
• 34:57
  Speaker 1: you trust me? I was like, am I getting sick
• 34:59
  Speaker 1: all over again? Yeah? I trust anyway.
• 35:05
  Speaker 5: Stefan Diggs is unlikely to return to the New England Patriots,
• 35:09
  Speaker 5: and a report this week puts the Rams as the
• 35:11
  Speaker 5: most likely landing spot for Diggs. Yeah, Ben, how do
• 35:14
  Speaker 5: you feel about Diggs coming to LA.
• 35:15
  Speaker 1: Well, it doesn't matter. As long as Pooka Aku is
• 35:18
  Speaker 1: on the field and Devonte Adams, he would be the
• 35:21
  Speaker 1: number three wide receiver, which you don't really need. I
• 35:26
  Speaker 1: don't think he's got that much left Stefan Diggs, and
• 35:29
  Speaker 1: he's a knucklehead. It doesn't really move the needle for me.
• 35:33
  Speaker 1: I don't expect him to do anything amazing with the Rams.
• 35:36
  Speaker 1: He'll probably if he does sign with the Rams, you'll
• 35:38
  Speaker 1: have a couple of big catches, and that's fine, and
• 35:40
  Speaker 1: that overall, I don't think he's going to be a
• 35:43
  Speaker 1: dominating force. So it's not gonna move, is I. You're
• 35:46
  Speaker 1: in Seattle or San Francisco, you're not really worried about
• 35:49
  Speaker 1: this guy joining the Rams. Next.
• 35:51
  Speaker 5: It was only a couple of weeks ago that Jamal
• 35:53
  Speaker 5: Mosley was fired by the Orlando Magic, but he's already
• 35:56
  Speaker 5: found a new job, signing a five year deal to
• 35:58
  Speaker 5: coach the New Orleans Pelicans. Ben, are you surprised that
• 36:01
  Speaker 5: Mosley got another chance to run a team so quickly.
• 36:03
  Speaker 1: Well, it's not a great job, number one coop. So
• 36:06
  Speaker 1: it's one of those filler franchises that are just there
• 36:09
  Speaker 1: for the good teams to play. The New Orleans Pelicans.
• 36:12
  Speaker 1: So if he got a real job Jamal Moseley a
• 36:14
  Speaker 1: team that was actually trying to win, I'd say, Okay,
• 36:16
  Speaker 1: that's surprising. But somebody has to coach the New Orleans Pelicans,
• 36:21
  Speaker 1: and they found somebody in Jamal Moseley. And it pays
• 36:24
  Speaker 1: pretty well, and people like living in New Orleans, so
• 36:26
  Speaker 1: that's good. It's not like a real job. It's like
• 36:29
  Speaker 1: a lower lower tier NBA coaching job. So they're not
• 36:34
  Speaker 1: trying to win there. I don't know what they're doing.
• 36:35
  Speaker 1: They're just treading water.
• 36:38
  Speaker 5: Next well, he kind of just alluded to this, But
• 36:40
  Speaker 5: Joel Embiid has now earned a distinction as the only
• 36:43
  Speaker 5: player in the last forty years, yeah, to make an
• 36:45
  Speaker 5: All NBA First Team without a conference finals appearance on
• 36:49
  Speaker 5: his resume.
• 36:50
  Speaker 1: Do you think that this distinction will define Embiid's career now?
• 36:53
  Speaker 1: I think attacking a sports writer for saying something mean
• 36:56
  Speaker 1: about him will define Joel MBA. I don't hate Embiid.
• 36:59
  Speaker 1: He was a really great SoundBite coming out of Kansas
• 37:02
  Speaker 1: and we had some fun with Embiid and all that.
• 37:05
  Speaker 1: The guy he just vanishes in big moments and is
• 37:09
  Speaker 1: always something. There's always something a little off with Joel Embiid,
• 37:13
  Speaker 1: and you don't get over the hump. That's it. You know,
• 37:16
  Speaker 1: you gotta at least get to the conference finals, right
• 37:20
  Speaker 1: You'd think you'd get there once just by accent, but
• 37:24
  Speaker 1: you look at all the injuries and Beads had and
• 37:26
  Speaker 1: the Sixers are fork in the road right now. He's
• 37:30
  Speaker 1: looking more and more like he's never going to get there,
• 37:32
  Speaker 1: at least in Philadelphia. Might have to go somewhere else. No,
• 37:34
  Speaker 1: that's it. I think we're done now. The third, how
• 37:36
  Speaker 1: do we do pass this vision?
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  Speaker 6: That's fun. I'm gonna have to go find that.
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  Speaker 1: Okay. Anyways, that was the temporary open.
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  Speaker 6: It was good.
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  Speaker 1: That's last time multiple years.
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  Speaker 6: Yes, confusion, and now we're off.
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  Speaker 1: We are off to the races. Yes.
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  Speaker 7: And I would just like to say, yes, stalker behavior
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  Speaker 7: is never good.
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  Speaker 6: No one reacts well to it.
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  Speaker 1: No, no holds because I believe here this is an
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  Speaker 1: interesting topic. Here is because the theory has always been
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  Speaker 1: if the other person's into the person who's aggressively approaching them,
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  Speaker 1: it's not stocker behavior. It only becomes stalker behavior if
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  Speaker 1: the person who the person's going after is not into them.
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  Speaker 1: Is that correct? Yes, So there's a there's a fine
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  Speaker 1: line between I'm obsessed with you and you're also obsessed
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  Speaker 1: with them, and I'm obsessed with you, and I think
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  Speaker 1: you have the cooties.
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  Speaker 7: Yes, when you have made it verbally clear that it
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  Speaker 7: is unwanted and they continue and sit outside your house
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  Speaker 7: for four.
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  Speaker 6: Hours, it is not good.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, not good. All right, Well, but you want
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  Speaker 1: to answer some of these questions. A lot of people
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  Speaker 1: calling into this is amazing. Everyone's got a question for you.
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  Speaker 1: Oh the one from alf the Alien o Pinter. First,
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  Speaker 1: he says, is it true that you were so overwhelmed
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  Speaker 1: by the Halloween Museum that it caused you to feverishly
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  Speaker 1: search for rental properties in Salem? Yeah? I did. Actually,
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  Speaker 1: you love saying everyone loves sales.
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  Speaker 6: I loved it. I thought it was so like even
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  Speaker 6: the police cars. They said that the witch.
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  Speaker 7: Yeah, the witches on the pictures, And I feel like
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  Speaker 7: I have a whole bunch of outfits that would look
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  Speaker 7: really good in that town. You got to think about
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  Speaker 7: that when you're going to move somewhere. You know, like
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  Speaker 7: if I moved somewhere, o donkey, you know, I wouldn't
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  Speaker 7: be able to wear certain things.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, oh, you would do really well there. You'd be
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  Speaker 1: like you dress up, do cosplay as.
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  Speaker 6: A work Yes, I'd probably want to. I'd want to
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  Speaker 6: work at one of the museums.
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  Speaker 1: Probably. Yeah. Neil from Fall River, Mass Right, since it's
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  Speaker 1: planning a romantic night with the wife, Will Rose pedals
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  Speaker 1: on bed and the Ben Malors show on the big
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  Speaker 1: screen via YouTube set the mood.
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  Speaker 6: Yes, Oh my gosh, that doesn't do it.
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  Speaker 7: I don't know what will Yes, And you could just
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  Speaker 7: do red, or you could do like red and orange
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  Speaker 7: because summer is coming, like like a kind of a
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  Speaker 7: sunset type tone.
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  Speaker 1: That could be really pretty and your wife will become
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  Speaker 1: celibate at that particular point. All right, here we go. Oh,
• 40:30
  Speaker 1: let's say hello to Jim in Seattle, who's called in
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  Speaker 1: here the Queen of Hearts with Lorena. Hello, Jim, Welcome,
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  Speaker 1: Hi Jim.
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  Speaker 3: Hi, Hi, Now I'm in Seattle. We have lots and
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  Speaker 3: lots of bikini baristas. Oo, my wife, we watched me
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  Speaker 3: goes Starbucks or seven eleven to get my coffee and
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  Speaker 3: make me stay away from the bikini barissa shops.
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  Speaker 7: I don't think you need to stay away from those.
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  Speaker 7: To be honest, I love bikini baristas. I actually was
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  Speaker 7: just talking about them the other day and was it
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  Speaker 7: you cooperor was it? It must have been Patrick because
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  Speaker 7: he was like, what there's bikini coffee shops. I was like, yeah,
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  Speaker 7: they're all up in like Seattle. There was one in
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  Speaker 7: my hometown.
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  Speaker 1: I've been in Seattle a few times. I don't remember seeing.
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  Speaker 7: There was one in Eugene, Eugene, Oregon, where the Oregon
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  Speaker 7: Dux play.
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  Speaker 6: But those girls are hardworking.
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  Speaker 7: Just make sure you are not being a weirdo. Well
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  Speaker 7: there was a guy who was caught, you know, wedding
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  Speaker 7: in the drive through and they pulled the cops on him.
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  Speaker 6: But they couldn't do anything. Yeah, don't don't do be
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  Speaker 6: that person. But yes, tip tip generously.
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  Speaker 1: How would your wife know? Body pay cash? How would
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  Speaker 1: you know? Right, Jim? No, thank you, buddy, of course,
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  Speaker 1: thanks Jim. Let's sell it to hollering James. I'm sure
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  Speaker 1: this will be a great question. Hello hollering James in Minneapolis, Minnesota.
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  Speaker 8: Hello, Alreda, what up?
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  Speaker 6: How's the love life going? What do you need.
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  Speaker 8: Struggle? Oh yeah, yeah, the right person that should just
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  Speaker 8: kid me. Cowersation good sensible liability and to me is
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  Speaker 8: not enough. But she tries, she doesn't enough, and I'm
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  Speaker 8: worried we're just loosing do Okay?
• 42:11
  Speaker 6: Well, those are you know, very real struggles.
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  Speaker 7: And I don't think you're the only person in the
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  Speaker 7: world who feels like that. So maybe you could start
• 42:18
  Speaker 7: an online chat forum for people who are insanely lonely
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  Speaker 7: and need company. Yeah, because their telephone girlfriends do not
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  Speaker 7: call enough.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, James, I was going to say something.
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  Speaker 7: You're a lovely man and you have a great you know,
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  Speaker 7: so you're going to find love. You're gonna find exactly
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  Speaker 7: what you need. You need to stay optimistic, all right.
• 42:37
  Speaker 1: Ferg Dog writes and says, what's a good movie for
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  Speaker 1: a first day? Do chicks dig Shawshank.
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  Speaker 6: Redem Yes, I think any movie they love?
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  Speaker 7: Suggestions too. You'd be shocked how many movies girls haven't seen,
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  Speaker 7: so make sure you show them new things. I'm gonna
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  Speaker 7: watch ET for the first time this weekend for your time.
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  Speaker 1: It's okay, Michael, and Tulsa writes in says, what is
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  Speaker 1: your recommended recommended meat to be served from a charcoal grill, chicken, burger, shrimp, fish,
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  Speaker 1: or gator.
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  Speaker 6: It's got to be a sata.
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  Speaker 1: That's you, that's your move there, or like Brotz you
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  Speaker 1: like the Bronx.
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  Speaker 6: Yeah, I like a big old broadwurst.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, all right, far out, Dave, quickly, Dave, far out,
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  Speaker 1: Dave in Ohio? What's your question? Quickly, Dave.
• 43:19
  Speaker 2: So, my ride of the mallar meat Greek couldn't take
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  Speaker 2: me to Cincinnati, but she can take a co workers of.
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  Speaker 3: The buttwezer factory to day. What does that mean, queens?
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  Speaker 1: What does that mean?
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  Speaker 6: She's got her priorities mixed up?
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  Speaker 1: Tell her how to do exactly this bad job by her.
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  Speaker 1: That's not right, she deprived.
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  Speaker 2: Attention everyone, and the password is password, you idiot, password
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  Speaker 2: the word Game of the Stars.
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  Speaker 1: Here's Ben Meler right to it. Let's walk him in,
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  Speaker 1: our friend. He is America's favorite crossing guard. In Fort Wayne, Indiana,
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  Speaker 1: we say hello to Daniel in Wayne. Hello Daniel, and
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  Speaker 1: for the last time that twenty five twenty.
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  Speaker 3: Six school year, good morning from Fort Wayne.
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  Speaker 1: Is it? We're not gonna talk to you until next
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  Speaker 1: school year. You're not gonna call us up at all.
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  Speaker 1: That's it, this is over. It's all. Nope, nope, none
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  Speaker 1: so August. Yeah, all right, I got it. I'm right
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  Speaker 1: all right. Anyway, all right, here we go not till August. Well,
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  Speaker 1: you know you can call up when it's not a
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  Speaker 1: school day, you know, I mean I can. Yeah, all right, Well,
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  Speaker 1: who do you want to partner up with?
• 44:31
  Speaker 3: Ben for the last time.
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  Speaker 1: I gotta go with you. I gotta go out as
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  Speaker 1: a winner. All right. Yeah, we're in it to win
• 44:36
  Speaker 1: it and you will never concede. And yeah, all right,
• 44:40
  Speaker 1: Lorraino picked one two or three? One two or three?
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  Speaker 6: Number two?
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  Speaker 1: Okay, you have picked Aaron in Minnesota. Good morning, Aaron, welcome.
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  Speaker 3: Good morning guys. How's it going?
• 44:52
  Speaker 1: All right? Well, you're gonna play password? You have a
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  Speaker 1: good lexicon, I hope, so you can play with Coop
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  Speaker 1: or Lorraine up, I'll play with Coop. All right, Coop,
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  Speaker 1: you you're out of the show. Lorena. I know everyone
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  Speaker 1: loves you, but no, not not now. All right, we
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  Speaker 1: have a list of words. It's actually more of a
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  Speaker 1: big board. And Daniel in Fort Wayne, you were on
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  Speaker 1: the air first, so please pick a number. Oh, I
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  Speaker 1: gotta put him on the air whole on SEC. That
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  Speaker 1: would actually help, otherwise no one will hear him. And
• 45:25
  Speaker 1: it's kind of pointless to put him on if nobody
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  Speaker 1: can hear him. All right, Daniel, you're on the air. Now,
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  Speaker 1: go ahead, Daniel, pick a number one again.
• 45:31
  Speaker 3: I want to take the lead, not to concede. Number three.
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  Speaker 1: Number three, all right, shouldn't be shouldn't be too hard.
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  Speaker 1: Let's go with blue blue. Uh? What are we gonna
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  Speaker 1: do here? Let's see. There's a couple of ways I
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  Speaker 1: can go. Let's go with a voyage journey. Go ahead, cool? Uh, Aaron,
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  Speaker 1: Let's go with let's see.
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  Speaker 3: Trip vacation.
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  Speaker 1: No, no, all right, let's try l L L about
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  Speaker 1: I should boy, I believe that. Let's go with circumnavigate.
• 46:28
  Speaker 1: Why not? It's fun word to say circumnavigate.
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  Speaker 3: Oh, Daniel, I'm trying to think you're a.
• 46:42
  Speaker 1: Navigate.
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  Speaker 5: No, it's not a all right, Aaron, are you familiar
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  Speaker 5: with the malar?
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  Speaker 3: Manu?
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  Speaker 1: I don't do don't use my material? Cool, please, I'm out.
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  Speaker 3: I'm a little bit.
• 46:51
  Speaker 1: I'm gonna do a reverse malart do that? All right?
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  Speaker 1: Come on? Cool? Don't do that? All right, so you
• 46:55
  Speaker 1: heard all the previous clues. Don't do it. I'm gonna go.
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  Speaker 1: Don't do it? Agent, Yeah, Agent, that's I got it.
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  Speaker 1: He's got nothing. Let's go agent. No, hold on, he
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  Speaker 1: doesn't answered yet. Agent five four Journey, No, did you
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  Speaker 1: say journey? Journey, which is still not right. Let's go
• 47:18
  Speaker 1: with how about holiday? What do you say travel?
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  Speaker 5: Yeah?
• 47:27
  Speaker 1: There you go, got it off of my clue. No,
• 47:29
  Speaker 1: we got off, Michael. That's like three points. All right,
• 47:31
  Speaker 1: pick a number, Aaron, one to ten, but travel, agent,
• 47:34
  Speaker 1: there's no journey. Agent. I'm sorry. Go ahead, go ahead,
• 47:37
  Speaker 1: the band journey head and go ahead, please, Aaron. Pick
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  Speaker 1: a number one? All right? Now you say right, number one?
• 47:45
  Speaker 1: Coop should get this right? Better, get it right. Let's
• 47:52
  Speaker 1: let's go with uh oven, Yeah, alright, uh Dan, you'll
• 48:01
  Speaker 1: pick a number one in ten? Hurry about picking a number?
• 48:04
  Speaker 3: What?
• 48:06
  Speaker 1: All right? Let's go with blah blah blah blah blah, greenery,
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  Speaker 1: greenery bargin. Yeah, that's Do you really want the game, Daniel?
• 48:20
  Speaker 1: I'll talk to you next school year.
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  Speaker 3: What a job?
• 48:23
  Speaker 1: That was the word? What a bad beat