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6-15 H2: Keith McPherson Joins, Reading Your Texts & Cross Talk · The Gregg Bell Show

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  Speaker 1: Hey, what's up guys. Happy Monday, and thanks for having
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  Speaker 1: me back. I'll say this, I've been out and about.
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  Speaker 1: I've been around. I was out Saturday. I got out
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  Speaker 1: of there fast. I was just in Union Square this morning.
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  Speaker 1: NYPD And even like the sanitation and other like I
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  Speaker 1: don't know departments that helped clean up. They must have
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  Speaker 1: been more prepared than ever for this, Like the city
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  Speaker 1: burned down Saturday night. They literally burned buses that were
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  Speaker 1: used to transport fans of Brazil and Morocco from the
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  Speaker 1: city to East Rutherford and back. Like that's why those
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  Speaker 1: buses you saw were on fire. Like there's no kids
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  Speaker 1: in school on Saturday night using those buses. Those were
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  Speaker 1: buses that were forty nine dollars. That was the cheapest
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  Speaker 1: way to settle from Times Square to East Rutherford, New Jersey.
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  Speaker 1: And the bus drivers abandoned those buses because they got overrun.
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  Speaker 1: The buses were gone. Everything was cleaned up in Times Square.
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  Speaker 1: Everything is back to normal, which is crazy because when
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  Speaker 1: you see those videos, it looks like something out of
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  Speaker 1: a movie.
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  Speaker 2: And they're gonna have a parade third up the Canyon
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  Speaker 2: of Heroes up Broadway right ten am. What people are saying,
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  Speaker 2: that's gonna be the biggest parade, tick or tap parade
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  Speaker 2: New York's ever had. What you going to that or
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  Speaker 2: you stand out of that?
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  Speaker 1: Keith, No, I'm going. I'm going because I mean I've
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  Speaker 1: been on the radio at night telling people how great
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  Speaker 1: a New York Yankees parade would be, how big a
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  Speaker 1: New York Yankees parade would be, for years, and then
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  Speaker 1: slowly over the last maybe two three years, we started
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  Speaker 1: to think about a Knicks parade and the Knicks being
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  Speaker 1: the one team in the city that unites all the
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  Speaker 1: fans Yankees, Mets, Giants, Jet Islanders, Rangers, whatever, even people
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  Speaker 1: from New Jersey coming in through the bridges and tunnels.
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  Speaker 1: The biggest possible parade that New York City could have
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  Speaker 1: on display for the world to see. In four k
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  Speaker 1: is the Knicks Parade, and I don't know if we'll
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  Speaker 1: get another one. So I'm out there. I'm going. I'm
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  Speaker 1: gonna go early as soon as I dropped my son
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  Speaker 1: off at daycare. I'm going.
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  Speaker 2: Keith mcpherrison joining us from New York City livel on
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  Speaker 2: he'p Beacon Plumbing Hotline. After the Knicks won the NBA
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  Speaker 2: title for the first time since nineteen seventy three.
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  Speaker 3: Keith, where does this Knicks championship rank amongst the most
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  Speaker 3: meaningful titles in New York sports history?
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  Speaker 1: Now that we've sat with it for a couple of days,
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  Speaker 1: it's starting to rank as like the most significant. And
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  Speaker 1: it's not just recently biased the New York Knicks at
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  Speaker 1: fifty three years. You know, some of us have family
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  Speaker 1: members that were born and passed. My brother was born
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  Speaker 1: in seventy eight. My brother passed in twenty fifteen Knicks fan.
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  Speaker 1: And I mean he had a shorter life and only
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  Speaker 1: lived to be thirty seven. But like people have family
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  Speaker 1: members that lived and died as Knicks fans in that time.
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  Speaker 1: There are a lot of posts and videos of people
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  Speaker 1: going to grave sites and celebrating with their kids and
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  Speaker 1: their families, and like I said again about it uniting
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  Speaker 1: the entire city. For eighty years, the Knicks have played
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  Speaker 1: in the middle of Manhattan, and for Jalen Brunson and
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  Speaker 1: Karl Anthony towns them being local guys, and Leon Rose
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  Speaker 1: and what he did, and and just so many people
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  Speaker 1: said it couldn't happen, right, so many people said it
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  Speaker 1: wouldn't happen it couldn't happen the way that they did it,
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  Speaker 1: you know, Jalen Brunston taking one hundred and thirteen million
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  Speaker 1: dollars less the making the trades that they made to
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  Speaker 1: get ogn Andobi, you know, to get Josh Hart, to
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  Speaker 1: get Michale Bridges. So like the level of significance like
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  Speaker 1: this is right now the most significant championship in New
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  Speaker 1: York too because just the last few years, you know,
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  Speaker 1: obviously with political issues going on, with Wars going.
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  Speaker 3: Oh, we lost Keith. We'll get him back in a
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  Speaker 3: sec here, Sorry about that guy. So yeah, I'll call
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  Speaker 3: Keith back. We lost him there. He was getting he
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  Speaker 3: was telling us some good stuff there, So give me
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  Speaker 3: one second, Greg, I'm gonna call him back, Okay. Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: Keith mc ferrison former Wfan host, he's now host the
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  Speaker 2: Mike Check podcast of sports streaming podcast. He's been talking
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  Speaker 2: to his three or four times during the playoffs and
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  Speaker 2: talking to us about how the Knicks unite the city.
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  Speaker 2: The Brooklyn Nets are not I mean, they're barely a blip. Yeah,
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  Speaker 2: they rose up a few years ago, but they're compared
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  Speaker 2: to the Knicks, not even close. Of course, they used
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  Speaker 2: to be in New Jersey and the Meadowlands. They recently
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  Speaker 2: moved back and playing in Brooklyn. But unlike baseball, the
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  Speaker 2: Mets and Yankees fans divide baseball allegiances or football Giants
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  Speaker 2: and Jets, although far more Giants fans in my time
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  Speaker 2: going to school with the New York area, far more
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  Speaker 2: Giants fans the Jets, but they tend to split, of course,
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  Speaker 2: the fan allegiance of the sport, but not so with
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  Speaker 2: the Knicks, I mean basketball Knicks and Keith Macpherson talking
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  Speaker 2: to us from New York City about how unifying the
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  Speaker 2: Knicks in particular are Go ahead, Keiths, We'll get you back.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, call dropped, you know, across the country, but I'm back.
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  Speaker 1: I'm not sure where I left off, but I was
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  Speaker 1: talking about the significance of the championship for generations of
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  Speaker 1: fans and then the city. You know, I've been up
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  Speaker 1: here since twenty fourteen, and we've gone through COVID, We've
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  Speaker 1: gone through this political climate since twenty sixteen, We've gone
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  Speaker 1: through wars and all types of even like you know, attacks,
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  Speaker 1: and you know, there just was a stabbing and penn station.
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  Speaker 1: Like there's just a lot of crazy things that go
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  Speaker 1: on in New York City that make us all kind
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  Speaker 1: of you know, look around and look over our shoulders
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  Speaker 1: and be worried about things. And the Knicks run the
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  Speaker 1: watch parties and the bars being alive, and the clubs
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  Speaker 1: being alive, and just the unity in the city and
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  Speaker 1: people talking to each other once again. Just Nixon five,
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  Speaker 1: Nixon four, Let's go, Niggs go New York, Go, New
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  Speaker 1: York Go. You're seeing that everywhere. You're seeing Nicks logos
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  Speaker 1: and paraphernalia and merts everywhere. I think it's the most
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  Speaker 1: significant because all of those things combined.
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  Speaker 3: I'm curious there, what would you say, based on this
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  Speaker 3: entire season was the pinpoint? The biggest factor for the
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  Speaker 3: Knicks winning the title was Jalen Brentson's leadership, Leon Rose roster,
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  Speaker 3: construction of some of the guys you mentioned, Kat Bridges
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  Speaker 3: or Mike Brown's coaching, and this team's resilience to win
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  Speaker 3: in comeback fashion, because every single game they were down,
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  Speaker 3: they found a way to come back and win.
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  Speaker 1: You know, shout out to Tom Thibodeau because he made
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  Speaker 1: this team tough, he made this team gritty, and the
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  Speaker 1: way that you see them play at the end of
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  Speaker 1: the games like that was him. He wouldn't take them out.
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  Speaker 1: No lead was safe in his mind. But what they
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  Speaker 1: realized with him was that he would leave his starters
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  Speaker 1: in for so long. There was too much tread on
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  Speaker 1: the tires, too many miles on these guys' legs. He
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  Speaker 1: would literally play Brunton and Cat and Hart and Michale
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  Speaker 1: and Oji like he would play these guys the entire game.
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  Speaker 1: Eight points, ten points is not safe to him. So
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  Speaker 1: I want to start there with that. But then they
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  Speaker 1: followed the NBA model of firing a head coach and
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  Speaker 1: bringing in a first year head coach, and they checked
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  Speaker 1: on everybody else's coach. They wanted Kidd, they wanted Quinn Snyder,
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  Speaker 1: you know, they wanted Billy Donovan. And then they ended
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  Speaker 1: up with Mike Brown. And they gave Mike Brown a
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  Speaker 1: better bench, and Mike Brown changed their style of offense
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  Speaker 1: and through the season played guys like Landry Shammitt. Duce McBride,
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  Speaker 1: played guys off the bench so that they would get
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  Speaker 1: reps like Jordan Clarkson, even a Jeremy Sohon who joins
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  Speaker 1: the team like these guys would be ready, Ariel huck Forty,
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  Speaker 1: Mitchell Robinson, so this year, I think everyone knew, Okay,
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  Speaker 1: they are going to have the legs, they're going to
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  Speaker 1: be rested. They won the NBA Cup and that was
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  Speaker 1: the first look into like, okay, championship, medal, championship caliber team.
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  Speaker 1: Then they ended up facing the same team that they
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  Speaker 1: beaten the Cup and they become the first team ever
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  Speaker 1: to win the Cup and win the title, and they
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  Speaker 1: did not raise a banner for that NBA Cup. James
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  Speaker 1: Dolan went on my station WFAN and he literally said,
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  Speaker 1: we're not raising that banner. We planned on raising another banner.
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  Speaker 1: It was written. They all knew it, they all focused
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  Speaker 1: on it. They locked in, and I think the biggest
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  Speaker 1: thing they got over was like trade rumors of Giannis
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  Speaker 1: or moving a guy or you know, a lot of
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  Speaker 1: heat was coming mckel bridge's way. They locked in, and
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  Speaker 1: for me, once I saw how they played after that
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  Speaker 1: second loss against the Hawks, I'm like, Oh, they're gonna
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  Speaker 1: steam roll everybody. They're gonna beat everybody. They are the
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  Speaker 1: most senior veteran, just locked in team, and they've done
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  Speaker 1: it now in a historic way. They had the highest
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  Speaker 1: point differential in NBA history on this run.
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  Speaker 2: And they did it while trailing by double digits in
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  Speaker 2: every game of the five in the finals against the Spurs,
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  Speaker 2: Jalen brunts are really cool scene Keith on the stage
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  Speaker 2: after winning Game five in the title and getting the
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  Speaker 2: MVP trophy to bring his dad, Rick Brunson. We've talked
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  Speaker 2: about him and the assistant coach for the Knicks, who
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  Speaker 2: himself a former NBA player, Brunson. In particular, though Jaalon Brunson,
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  Speaker 2: they sent Wembin Yama after him, They sent double teams
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  Speaker 2: after him. He would split double teams, he'd fall away
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  Speaker 2: shots in the lay. What in particular that Brunson did
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  Speaker 2: that the Spur had no answer for? And what did
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  Speaker 2: Brunton show you in the finals in particular.
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  Speaker 1: He's a lion, He's a dog. He's got the heart
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  Speaker 1: of a champion. He's the smallest guy on the floor,
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  Speaker 1: but he's the most polished. You know, you can't measure
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  Speaker 1: his heart with his height. And when it's closing time,
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  Speaker 1: he's the clutch player of the year from twenty twenty five.
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  Speaker 1: He's a killer. He's Mamba like he's Jordan like you know,
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  Speaker 1: we all knew because if you watch the Knicks like
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  Speaker 1: we all do around here, for years. We knew it
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  Speaker 1: was closing time. We knew if they're in striking distance,
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  Speaker 1: with striking distance for them, even if you go back
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  Speaker 1: last year when they beat the Celtics, they were down
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  Speaker 1: both of those first two games twenty points and they
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  Speaker 1: didn't worry. They know that in the fourth quarter, if
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  Speaker 1: it's closed, they're gonna make every play, every possession, every stop,
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  Speaker 1: and Brunton is not gonna miss too much. So I
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  Speaker 1: just knew. And I actually did a live stream with
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  Speaker 1: Mitchell Anets and I called it. I was ten points
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  Speaker 1: off on the total, but I didn't know he was
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  Speaker 1: gonna half the points. He had forty five points. He
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  Speaker 1: had half the team's points for the most part. But
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  Speaker 1: I said, listen, Brunch is gonna have thirty five points.
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  Speaker 1: He's gonna lead them to victory down the stretch and
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  Speaker 1: b MVP. I've seen this episode before. He's got no
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  Speaker 1: problem doing this on his own, and that's exactly what
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  Speaker 1: he did. Wemby and Castle. Those guys, they're boys, their babies,
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  Speaker 1: they're young, and I hope they learned something from what
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  Speaker 1: they saw in these veterans, specifically Jalen Brunson. They went
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  Speaker 1: out sad, they went out low class. They went out
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  Speaker 1: in the way that you teach kids to not go out,
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  Speaker 1: you know, shake hands when it's done, and go meet
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  Speaker 1: the media and don't have an attitude. You took an
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  Speaker 1: l You got the gentleman sweep. You know, they'll have
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  Speaker 1: to figure it out in the offseason. But again, kudos
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  Speaker 1: to Jalen Brunton, the leader of that team and the
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  Speaker 1: cast of characters around him.
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  Speaker 2: I was gonna ask you about that, Keith. Do you
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  Speaker 2: just chuck up when and Yama stomping off the court
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  Speaker 2: without shaking hands as youth, what'd you make of.
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  Speaker 1: That immature green a baby? They said he was an alien,
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  Speaker 1: he's baby Yoda if he's any I look at this
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  Speaker 1: guy and I'm like, yo. They just said he's the
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  Speaker 1: best player in the world, the face of the league
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  Speaker 1: going into this final series, and he wilted over and
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  Speaker 1: over and over again, whether it was miss free throws,
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  Speaker 1: whether it was turnovers, whether it was clanking shots off
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  Speaker 1: the rim or the backboard. Not there yet. He's twenty
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  Speaker 1: two years old. He's a freak. You know, he's trained
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  Speaker 1: with monks and he does all his other stuff. Yeah, well,
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  Speaker 1: you better get in the gym. Lift some weights, but
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  Speaker 1: really he's got to work on himself mentally upstairs, he's
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  Speaker 1: got to work on himself and being a professional, being
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  Speaker 1: a pro and literally grow up like this was the
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  Speaker 1: Varsity versus jv when it came winning time, when it
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  Speaker 1: came to closing time, at the end of the game,
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  Speaker 1: and the way that Wemby carried himself, that's not who
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  Speaker 1: you won. Is the face of the league? The way
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  Speaker 1: that Wenby, even at the end of the press conference,
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  Speaker 1: he goes, see you guys, never, what are you talking about? Bro?
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  Speaker 1: See you guys never? You're the face of the league.
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  Speaker 1: You're twenty two, You're gonna play for another fifteen years.
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  Speaker 1: You see a lot of media. You better earn how
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  Speaker 1: to handle yourself. You better go shake hands when you lose.
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  Speaker 1: That's gonna stay with you for a long time. That
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  Speaker 1: you walked off the court a sore loser after getting
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  Speaker 1: the gentleman broom.
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  Speaker 3: I'm curious you said face of the league. Does Jalen
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  Speaker 3: Brunton hold that spotlight now? Or are you saying that
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  Speaker 3: other guys are worthy of it as well? But I
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  Speaker 3: thought Jalen he might be the face of the league.
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  Speaker 3: What are your thoughts on it.
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  Speaker 1: Well. I mean, I would say that the face of
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  Speaker 1: the league is SGA after winning back to back MVPs.
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  Speaker 1: But when by defeating him, they immediately put this kid
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  Speaker 1: on the on the throne, they crowned him. Yeah, and
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  Speaker 1: everybody told us all playoffs doesn't matter who comes out
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  Speaker 1: of the West, or it doesn't matter. You know, if
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  Speaker 1: the Knicks win, they won't they won't beat whoever comes
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  Speaker 1: out of the West. Okay, I just look at it
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  Speaker 1: like this. Now Brunston is King of New York. They're
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  Speaker 1: talking about building a statue for him. And I just
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  Speaker 1: was listening to something. I'm a huge Yankee fan and
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  Speaker 1: I love Derek Jeter. I came up on Derek Jeter.
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  Speaker 1: They're already saying, and he's Jeter now. And I had
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  Speaker 1: a take where I was like, slow down. Jeter came
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  Speaker 1: out Rookie of the Year. Jeter came out, won five rings.
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  Speaker 1: Brunston has to win one. Before we even have the conversation,
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  Speaker 1: They're like, nope, he's a new Derek Jeter. He's on
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  Speaker 1: Good Morning America, he's everywhere. You know. This is iconic.
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  Speaker 1: So I think because of Madison Square Garden, the mecca
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  Speaker 1: of basketball, the size of the New York Knicks fan base.
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  Speaker 1: How everybody you know talks about New York City and
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  Speaker 1: him being everywhere and his dad and everybody learning the
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  Speaker 1: story about him and what Becky Hammond had to say
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  Speaker 1: about him. It's literally the like story of like, you know,
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  Speaker 1: don't let people underestimate you and count you out. Anything
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  Speaker 1: is possible. He is gonna be the face of the
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  Speaker 1: league right now. And if people are sick of the
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  Speaker 1: New York Knicks, they better get get ready for a
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  Speaker 1: long summer. They're gonna be everywhere. They're the Beatles now,
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  Speaker 1: those five guys the paratest Thursday, and this is gonna
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  Speaker 1: carry on all the way through this summer. It's lit
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  Speaker 1: for New York.
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  Speaker 2: All right, Keith. Every time someone wins a title, it's
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  Speaker 2: can they run it back? And man, they're coming right back,
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  Speaker 2: And then it rarely happens. It's it's tough to do
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  Speaker 2: to repeat. Everyone guns for everyone, studies, you guys get paid.
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  Speaker 2: Who's in danger of leaving? Who are they gonna make
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  Speaker 2: a priority to bring back? It's all around Brunson, of course,
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  Speaker 2: but who in the supporting cast could be leaving? And
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  Speaker 2: Kenna Nick's run it back? With almost the same.
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  Speaker 1: Crew Mitchell Robinson, but I feel like he's such a
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  Speaker 1: part of the fabric of this team. He's he's the
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  Speaker 1: longest tenured nick. He had a huge rebound at the
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  Speaker 1: end of that game that was just such a typical like,
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  Speaker 1: that's why he's there, Mitchell Robinson is that That's why
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  Speaker 1: Mitchell Robinson is the guy that they could potentially lose.
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  Speaker 1: But I think they're gonna do what they can to
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  Speaker 1: bring him back back. And Mitch his personality, he don't
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  Speaker 1: want to go anywhere. He's gonna he's gonna work with
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  Speaker 1: them to get that done. Landry Shammitt got hurt at
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  Speaker 1: the end of the game, where I was like, wait
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  Speaker 1: a minute, now, let's see what this does, you know,
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  Speaker 1: because without Landry, everybody really knows it's only Brunton that's
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  Speaker 1: gonna score the ball. Landry Shammont will probably disappear somewhere.
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  Speaker 1: But for the most part, they're intact, right Michel Bridges,
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  Speaker 1: og Nanobi, Karl Anthony Town still has some time, Brunton
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  Speaker 1: is not going anywhere, Heart is not going anywhere. They're
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  Speaker 1: pretty much intact with their starting five and even some
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  Speaker 1: of the younger guys on the bench, they could potentially
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  Speaker 1: run it back in the East. I just had this
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  Speaker 1: conversation on my own show. We always do this as
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  Speaker 1: an immediate conversation. Are we watching the birth of a dynasty?
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  Speaker 1: I would just say this, the NBA has so much parody. Now,
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  Speaker 1: what is it like the last eight nine years as
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  Speaker 1: a different champion. I wouldn't bet on them to run
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  Speaker 1: it back and win it, but maybe they could be
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  Speaker 1: back in the championship. But now I'm looking at the
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  Speaker 1: Pacers that'll get Haliburton back? And where's Gianni's gonna go?
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  Speaker 1: And what are the Celtics gonna look like? And who
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  Speaker 1: knows the Pistons maybe they grow up some more. And
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  Speaker 1: the Cavs are trying to run it back with the
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  Speaker 1: guys that they have. It's hard to win in the NBA.
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  Speaker 1: It's hard to go back to back in the NBA.
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  Speaker 1: So I would just, you know, kind of pause on
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  Speaker 1: the Knicks being a dynasty and winning back to back
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  Speaker 1: champions championships, just you know, living them being champions right now.
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  Speaker 1: It's hard to go back to back in this modern
• 16:04
  Speaker 1: day MDA.
• 16:05
  Speaker 3: How many times are you caught yelling at the TV
• 16:07
  Speaker 3: because Karl Anthony Towns is committing silly fouls because I'm
• 16:10
  Speaker 3: not gonna lie. I was very upset and how he
• 16:13
  Speaker 3: finished Game five with fouling out. But to give him credit,
• 16:17
  Speaker 3: he was balling throughout the playoffs. I thought in the
• 16:19
  Speaker 3: finals he really attacked the rim and was more aggressive.
• 16:22
  Speaker 3: It wasn't settling, but I think he just got caught
• 16:24
  Speaker 3: in the moment and just committed too many silly fouls.
• 16:26
  Speaker 4: So was you yelling at the TV like I was?
• 16:30
  Speaker 1: Now, I'm just used to it, Like I said, part
• 16:32
  Speaker 1: of the job being, you know, the first voice on
• 16:34
  Speaker 1: the night in New York for these last couple of
• 16:36
  Speaker 1: years with the Knicks, Like you know, you gotta watch
• 16:39
  Speaker 1: every game, and he gets into foul trouble early, they
• 16:42
  Speaker 1: hunt him. Yeah, it was funny. My wife said about him,
• 16:45
  Speaker 1: like like how many how many fouls does Carl Anthony
• 16:47
  Speaker 1: Towns have? I'm like, he got five. You got the sound.
• 16:49
  Speaker 1: But I'm used to that with him. He's he's just
• 16:52
  Speaker 1: like a little bit of loof and goofy and sometimes
• 16:55
  Speaker 1: can't control his big body. But yeah, he came up
• 16:57
  Speaker 1: clutching this series the first two game as people were
• 17:00
  Speaker 1: saying he was going to be MVP. Shout to Carl
• 17:02
  Speaker 1: Anton Towns. I'm from Jersey. He's from Jersey, and I
• 17:05
  Speaker 1: literally just learned yesterday that his dad played at my
• 17:09
  Speaker 1: college where I played football. Like, how come nobody ever told.
• 17:11
  Speaker 2: Me that, Keith, enjoy the parade. We appreciate all you've
• 17:17
  Speaker 2: given us out here in Seattle, the New York flavor
• 17:19
  Speaker 2: of the NIXT run and don't don't burn a bus
• 17:21
  Speaker 2: or anything Thursday.
• 17:22
  Speaker 1: All right, No, I'm not like that. Like I said,
• 17:25
  Speaker 1: I got out of there between the World Cup chaos
• 17:28
  Speaker 1: and the Knicks fan chaos at ten o'clock. I put
• 17:30
  Speaker 1: two and two together. I'm like, I'm going to be
• 17:32
  Speaker 1: trapped here. I live in Hoboken, which is one stop
• 17:34
  Speaker 1: away from downtown. I'm like, I'm crossing the river. I'm out.
• 17:37
  Speaker 1: This is going to be out of control. So thanks
• 17:39
  Speaker 1: for having me, guys. I appreciate it, and shout everybody
• 17:42
  Speaker 1: out there in Washington. I did pick up a couple
• 17:44
  Speaker 1: followers and some people that hurt me on this show
• 17:46
  Speaker 1: that kind of went out and look for me, So
• 17:49
  Speaker 1: that's odd. I appreciate it.
• 17:50
  Speaker 2: I appreciate thanks. Give Keith McPherson for WFEN host now
• 17:56
  Speaker 2: hosts of the mic Check streaming show. As he says,
• 18:00
  Speaker 2: it comes on the show right after Knicks games. He
• 18:02
  Speaker 2: was a watch party in the one of the early
• 18:04
  Speaker 2: finals games, talking about us of the scene in New
• 18:07
  Speaker 2: York and would have seen it'll be on Thursday when
• 18:10
  Speaker 2: they had the victory parade of ticker tape parade up
• 18:13
  Speaker 2: the Canyon of Heroes, they call it up Broadway from
• 18:15
  Speaker 2: Battery all the way up to Central Park. He brings
• 18:18
  Speaker 2: up a good point about eight consecutive years now in
• 18:20
  Speaker 2: the NBA, eight different champions. That's a league record. They
• 18:24
  Speaker 2: never had eight in a row with eight different champions.
• 18:27
  Speaker 2: That's how hard it is to repeat. If you miss
• 18:30
  Speaker 2: that from Keith McPherson, If you missed our talking with
• 18:32
  Speaker 2: mas Vita Morrera about the World Cup, you can go
• 18:34
  Speaker 2: the iHeartRadio app download nine through three KJR or go
• 18:38
  Speaker 2: to nine three three kjr dot com. Chris, we'll have
• 18:41
  Speaker 2: that up for you on our podcast right after the show,
• 18:43
  Speaker 2: up next to your chance to be a part of
• 18:44
  Speaker 2: the show. Asked at the top of the show, you
• 18:48
  Speaker 2: interested in the World Cup? You turned off, You're fired up.
• 18:50
  Speaker 2: American win got you fired up for the Americans and
• 18:52
  Speaker 2: Australians playing here in Seattle on Friday four nine four
• 18:56
  Speaker 2: one and to come to dot Texan Alma. Also, you're
• 18:59
  Speaker 2: of all the injury as the Mariners had the one
• 19:01
  Speaker 2: that worries you the most and why worry back your text? Next,
• 19:04
  Speaker 2: I'm live but Jimmy's on First, where we're about forty
• 19:07
  Speaker 2: minutes away from the kickoff of the first ever World
• 19:09
  Speaker 2: Cup game Belgium and Egypt on ninety three point three KJRFM.
• 19:17
  Speaker 2: Welcome back Greg Belt Show with Christopher Kidd, live from
• 19:19
  Speaker 2: Jimmy's on First right along Occidento across the street from
• 19:23
  Speaker 2: Lumenfield called Seattle Stadium. Now, don't Joe Chris. There's a black,
• 19:28
  Speaker 2: black tape over black tarp over Lumens which just field
• 19:33
  Speaker 2: down here at the stadium for all the stadium signings
• 19:36
  Speaker 2: because Lumen didn't pay FIFA, so FIFA's not going to
• 19:39
  Speaker 2: let him ad. But we're here because Belgium and Egypt
• 19:41
  Speaker 2: are about to kickoff in thirty minutes time, the first
• 19:44
  Speaker 2: World Cup match ever in Seattle. First of six matches
• 19:47
  Speaker 2: four group stage. The next one is a Biggie US
• 19:51
  Speaker 2: and Australia Friday noon. Right back here, we'll be broadcasting
• 19:54
  Speaker 2: again live from Jimmy's on First you know what time
• 19:56
  Speaker 2: it is. Music means it's time to read back your
• 19:58
  Speaker 2: text at four nine four five on under the Komadage text.
• 20:01
  Speaker 3: Line from the five to eighty five. Hey, Greg, you've
• 20:05
  Speaker 3: spoken a lot about the importance of team coach from
• 20:08
  Speaker 3: the past, since integrating new personnel is vital to building
• 20:12
  Speaker 3: a cohesive unit. What does the offseason onboarding and acclamation
• 20:16
  Speaker 3: process look like for the Seattle Seahawks, both on and
• 20:20
  Speaker 3: off the practice field?
• 20:22
  Speaker 2: Five A five Rochester, Thanks man. Yeah, the first of all,
• 20:26
  Speaker 2: the all rookies go through a rookie symposium that the
• 20:29
  Speaker 2: league puts on, and that's a gamut of things. That's
• 20:33
  Speaker 2: how to manage your finances, teaching them how the fact
• 20:36
  Speaker 2: that NFL players only get paid during the season. I
• 20:39
  Speaker 2: don't know a lot of fans realize this, but NFL
• 20:42
  Speaker 2: players don't get paid all year long. They get paid
• 20:45
  Speaker 2: eighteen game checks, seventeen games plus the one bye week,
• 20:49
  Speaker 2: so their salary. Say, man, let's just for mass sakes,
• 20:53
  Speaker 2: say it's a million dollars. You get a billion divided
• 20:56
  Speaker 2: by eighteen over eighteen weeks of the regular season. Then
• 21:00
  Speaker 2: for the preseason and for offseason workouts. When you're in
• 21:03
  Speaker 2: the facility, you get a stipend, a daily stipend for
• 21:07
  Speaker 2: being there for the mandatory events. But that's it. A
• 21:11
  Speaker 2: lot of they've gotten better about teaching players about this,
• 21:16
  Speaker 2: but in the past, players would sign contracts and not
• 21:18
  Speaker 2: realize that they didn't get money all year long, and
• 21:20
  Speaker 2: they'd spend all their money during the season and then
• 21:23
  Speaker 2: March rolls around or whatever, and they haven't had a
• 21:25
  Speaker 2: check for a couple months, and they're like, what's going on.
• 21:29
  Speaker 2: And sometimes they would get into rears in financial little
• 21:32
  Speaker 2: bit of the tight spot because of that. So they
• 21:35
  Speaker 2: also I've talked about mo Kelly in the past, but
• 21:37
  Speaker 2: Moe Kelly is pretty much the big brother and dad
• 21:42
  Speaker 2: for the players. He's a community and engagement guy. He's
• 21:45
  Speaker 2: a real life guy. He sets them up with help
• 21:48
  Speaker 2: to get housing and connections he has in real estate.
• 21:52
  Speaker 2: Anything that comes up in a personal issue that they
• 21:54
  Speaker 2: have problems about, they go to Mota. Talk about mo Kelly.
• 21:57
  Speaker 2: You talk about an elmer's guy, a glue guy around
• 21:59
  Speaker 2: the Seahawks for onboarding and acclamation, especially new players. Guys
• 22:04
  Speaker 2: that get traded there in the middle of the season
• 22:06
  Speaker 2: talk about how instrumental mo Kelly was to get them
• 22:08
  Speaker 2: all their off the field stuff squared away so they
• 22:11
  Speaker 2: could focus on football. That's also part of the acclamation
• 22:14
  Speaker 2: process for the Seahawks. Mo Kelly is often everybody's MVP,
• 22:18
  Speaker 2: every coaching staff's MVP. He's been there, he's an institution.
• 22:22
  Speaker 2: He and Eric Kennedy in the equipment room or institutions.
• 22:25
  Speaker 2: They're spanning multiple coaching staffs. But there's a lot of
• 22:29
  Speaker 2: behind the scenes stuff with the Seahawks and names that
• 22:31
  Speaker 2: you don't necessarily are familiar with. Who are really are
• 22:35
  Speaker 2: I call them Elmer's guys, the blue guys who really
• 22:37
  Speaker 2: keep the operation going and keep the players focused on
• 22:40
  Speaker 2: their job because all the other stuff gets taken care
• 22:43
  Speaker 2: of by them.
• 22:45
  Speaker 3: All Right, this is from Jason now the two to
• 22:49
  Speaker 3: zero six. Let's see what your attitude is after getting egged.
• 22:53
  Speaker 3: And I think that's his response to keep talking about
• 22:57
  Speaker 3: shaking hands after losing and all that.
• 23:02
  Speaker 2: You know, until you brought up this morning, I hadn't
• 23:04
  Speaker 2: even really heard about it. I didn't even pay attention
• 23:06
  Speaker 2: to what the post was from Game five. But did
• 23:09
  Speaker 2: Webb and Yama just storm off the court I mean, like,
• 23:12
  Speaker 2: went straight to the locker room, or do you like
• 23:13
  Speaker 2: a show of it.
• 23:14
  Speaker 3: Or he just walked straight to the locker room as
• 23:16
  Speaker 3: soon as he lost, he just be lined. A couple
• 23:18
  Speaker 3: of players followed him Castle I think was one of them.
• 23:21
  Speaker 3: I'm not sure who all stayed on the court and
• 23:22
  Speaker 3: shook hands, but yeah, Winby walked off and yeah.
• 23:27
  Speaker 2: That was that, And then he's catching flak for it
• 23:30
  Speaker 2: since obviously publicly.
• 23:32
  Speaker 4: Uh yeah, A.
• 23:32
  Speaker 3: Lot of people think that you should man up and
• 23:35
  Speaker 3: shake hands, but I don't think. It's not a rule
• 23:39
  Speaker 3: we learned at a young age. It's called sportsmanship, and
• 23:42
  Speaker 3: when you become an adult, you can make a decision.
• 23:45
  Speaker 4: You got your ass.
• 23:45
  Speaker 3: Beat for four quarters, you lost, do you want to
• 23:48
  Speaker 3: go out there and shake hands? Yeah or nay? If
• 23:50
  Speaker 3: you do, good on you. If you don't, good on you.
• 23:53
  Speaker 3: I don't think it'll hurt him in any new way.
• 23:56
  Speaker 3: Maybe he'll learn from it and he'll do it in
• 23:57
  Speaker 3: the future, but it doesn't bother me. I don't take it.
• 24:03
  Speaker 3: If I beat you and you don't want to shake
• 24:05
  Speaker 3: my hand, that's fine.
• 24:06
  Speaker 2: I get it.
• 24:07
  Speaker 4: Losing is as tough as it is.
• 24:09
  Speaker 3: It's not fun, But to make it like it's some
• 24:12
  Speaker 3: rule that has been in that's just like mandatory.
• 24:16
  Speaker 4: Is like, eh, not really, go ahead.
• 24:20
  Speaker 2: I'm sorry. Here's the thing though, I mean, maybe this
• 24:22
  Speaker 2: could make me sound like an old dad, because I
• 24:24
  Speaker 2: am an old dad. But a lot of kids are
• 24:26
  Speaker 2: watching that. Oh, a lot of kids, and a lot
• 24:29
  Speaker 2: of people who are early in their competitive sports careers
• 24:32
  Speaker 2: are watching the NBA Final, especially on a Saturday night,
• 24:34
  Speaker 2: no school the next day, and they see that, and
• 24:38
  Speaker 2: I officiate. I coached high school. I told you, I
• 24:40
  Speaker 2: coach high school baseball. I officiate high school football. I
• 24:44
  Speaker 2: see kids all the time on the football and baseball
• 24:47
  Speaker 2: fields emulating what they see on television through the pros
• 24:51
  Speaker 2: and bat flips and strutting after a routine five yard
• 24:55
  Speaker 2: out catch and spinning the ball on the field for
• 24:58
  Speaker 2: a gain of three. And they see that on Tellby.
• 25:01
  Speaker 2: They're very impressionable about that stuff. So if they see women, y'all,
• 25:04
  Speaker 2: as Keith Macpherson told us, the face of the NBA
• 25:07
  Speaker 2: just walking off the court without shaking hands, they think
• 25:10
  Speaker 2: that's what a pro does. Some do and some will
• 25:14
  Speaker 2: then do the same thing, and then it's on some
• 25:16
  Speaker 2: parent or coach to correct that kid and say no, no, no,
• 25:18
  Speaker 2: that's not how you do this. I get it. As
• 25:20
  Speaker 2: a competitor, Chris, that probably wouldn't bother you.
• 25:23
  Speaker 4: I just know and not probably wouldn't I.
• 25:27
  Speaker 3: Growing up, I have been around guys where I was
• 25:30
  Speaker 3: taught for my parents to always show love even in
• 25:33
  Speaker 3: a tough loss. But as I got older, I'm like,
• 25:36
  Speaker 3: the hell with all that, you just beat me. Now,
• 25:38
  Speaker 3: there are ways to do it. As I mentioned, maybe
• 25:41
  Speaker 3: I'll do it later. I'm not saying I'll never do it.
• 25:44
  Speaker 3: For instance, if Wimby had walked off and then Jalen
• 25:48
  Speaker 3: Brunson was like, oh yeah, by the way, me and
• 25:50
  Speaker 3: Wimby caught up later, you just don't get to see
• 25:53
  Speaker 3: it per se.
• 25:54
  Speaker 4: So I'm not sure if he did that at all.
• 25:56
  Speaker 4: Maybe he didn't.
• 25:56
  Speaker 3: Maybe he's never going to shake hands, but he's going
• 25:59
  Speaker 3: to look to beat them when they play next season.
• 26:03
  Speaker 3: Like I get it, it's competitive, and that's another thing.
• 26:06
  Speaker 3: Like for boxing, it's so annoying to me that these
• 26:09
  Speaker 3: guys will talk smack talk about their families and then
• 26:12
  Speaker 3: at the end of the match, after almost trying to
• 26:13
  Speaker 3: kill you to tether, they hug it off. I thought
• 26:15
  Speaker 3: you hated that man. But I understand they're trying to
• 26:17
  Speaker 3: sell tickets. But if I really hate somebody, Greg, I'm
• 26:20
  Speaker 3: not gonna shake your hand afterwards and be like, oh,
• 26:22
  Speaker 3: great fight.
• 26:23
  Speaker 4: I'm sorry.
• 26:23
  Speaker 3: Now, I'm not saying Winby hates Brunson and Brunston hates him,
• 26:27
  Speaker 3: but there's a level of competitiveness that I have that
• 26:29
  Speaker 3: I'm just like, if I don't like you, I'm not
• 26:31
  Speaker 3: shaking your hand.
• 26:32
  Speaker 4: Regardless of if you beat me or I beat you.
• 26:35
  Speaker 4: I don't like you, so I'm not about to show
• 26:37
  Speaker 4: you love. I'm sorry.
• 26:39
  Speaker 3: But I do understand to your point, Greg, where there's
• 26:43
  Speaker 3: children watching, and I think parents they have to have
• 26:46
  Speaker 3: honest discussion like, hey, you're a child, you're playing a
• 26:49
  Speaker 3: sport for fun. You're not at that level where you
• 26:52
  Speaker 3: get to decide, oh, I don't want to shake this
• 26:53
  Speaker 3: person's hand. No, no, no, no, no, you're going to do that.
• 26:56
  Speaker 3: I think that's the discussion we should be having with
• 26:58
  Speaker 3: our kids. Because these guys or pros, and even in college,
• 27:02
  Speaker 3: I think they do it the right way. I think, yeah,
• 27:03
  Speaker 3: maybe you should go down the line and shake hand,
• 27:05
  Speaker 3: but once you become a pro, you make your own decisions.
• 27:08
  Speaker 4: How that reports on you.
• 27:10
  Speaker 1: It is what it is.
• 27:11
  Speaker 4: You live with that decision. So woman's gone to live
• 27:13
  Speaker 4: with that and maybe he'll learn from it quickly.
• 27:16
  Speaker 2: I wanted to mention about the World Cup tickets. It
• 27:18
  Speaker 2: was curious to me what the market would be like
• 27:20
  Speaker 2: the day of the game here in Seattle. Well, I've
• 27:23
  Speaker 2: been checking the last twenty minutes and you can't find
• 27:25
  Speaker 2: any on the secondary marked take off. They said the
• 27:28
  Speaker 2: event has ended. Oh my, So that's just a quick
• 27:32
  Speaker 2: anecdotal check of about six or seven sites, stub hub
• 27:36
  Speaker 2: and tickpic and name your ticketmaster, name your secondary online site.
• 27:42
  Speaker 2: But if you were one of those who wanted to
• 27:43
  Speaker 2: wait right till the last minute and see if the
• 27:45
  Speaker 2: prices would create, well they're gone. They're not even available
• 27:49
  Speaker 2: to buy, and we're still twenty minutes before kickoff. So
• 27:54
  Speaker 2: and I will try to find out when they went
• 27:57
  Speaker 2: off and see how much before a game you better
• 28:00
  Speaker 2: do that, and before they won't be able to do it.
• 28:02
  Speaker 2: For Friday, when the US and Australia play. Those tickets
• 28:05
  Speaker 2: have doubled. Now they were oney eleven hundred dollars last week.
• 28:08
  Speaker 2: Now since the US beat Paraguay, they're twenty two hundred bucks.
• 28:12
  Speaker 2: I'm seeing to get in price now for Friday's game.
• 28:15
  Speaker 2: Friday's match here at lu Midfield in Seattle. So just
• 28:18
  Speaker 2: a little anecdotal word. Otherwise, if you're like a lot
• 28:22
  Speaker 2: of friends of mine, say well, I'll just get tickets
• 28:24
  Speaker 2: right up the game time and the crowds are starting
• 28:27
  Speaker 2: to send out and headed because most of them are
• 28:29
  Speaker 2: in the stadium already. A crowd of expected around the
• 28:31
  Speaker 2: capacity of sixty six nine hundred that's the FIFA of
• 28:34
  Speaker 2: World Cup capacity in the stadium. A couple hundred shy
• 28:37
  Speaker 2: of the capacity for Seahawks games are expected to the
• 28:40
  Speaker 2: Belgium Egypt match twelve o'clock, first ever World Cup match.
• 28:44
  Speaker 2: Fans filing in behind me into the stadium right now.
• 28:46
  Speaker 2: Up next in for nass I believe he's back in
• 28:49
  Speaker 2: the studio, the Mayor and Maple Valley will join us
• 28:50
  Speaker 2: and tell us what's next on his show on ninety
• 28:52
  Speaker 2: three point three KJRFN. Welcome back to the show, Greg
• 29:00
  Speaker 2: Bell Show live from Jimmy's on First right across the
• 29:03
  Speaker 2: street from the first ever World Cup game for Belgium
• 29:06
  Speaker 2: and Egypt. Playing in the first World Cup game in Seattle.
• 29:09
  Speaker 2: Chris kidd is back in the studios and Elliott Bay,
• 29:12
  Speaker 2: and so is I for ness who joins us? Hello, sir, Hello,
• 29:16
  Speaker 2: I'm okay. I'm kind of enjoying the very eclectic scene
• 29:20
  Speaker 2: and vibe down here, very fun and festive. And there's
• 29:23
  Speaker 2: a tiny I posted it on Twitter, exit g bel Seattle.
• 29:26
  Speaker 2: There's a tiny little designated protest zone that the Seattle
• 29:30
  Speaker 2: Police have set up. It's just this, I mean maybe
• 29:34
  Speaker 2: ten yards by three yards rectangle. Yeah, temporary barricade. Nobody's
• 29:40
  Speaker 2: in it, right, It's just sport down here. You miss it?
• 29:44
  Speaker 2: You should be down here, man.
• 29:45
  Speaker 5: Well Friday, Yeah, I'm not there Friday. We have a
• 29:49
  Speaker 5: show Friday, so it's nice.
• 29:51
  Speaker 2: Actually we don't have a show Friday.
• 29:53
  Speaker 5: Well I don't. We're carrying the game at noon. Yeah, right,
• 29:56
  Speaker 5: you're off at eleven thirty. Yeah, what would be? I
• 30:02
  Speaker 5: drove down and drove through the waterfront just to get
• 30:05
  Speaker 5: here and kind of bit the bulder wasn't too bad actually,
• 30:08
  Speaker 5: but yeah, I mean, there's no reason for me to
• 30:10
  Speaker 5: be there when the game's going on next door. But
• 30:14
  Speaker 5: it looks awesome. I mean, it looks cool, the vibe
• 30:16
  Speaker 5: looks cool. We've already had an incredible upset today with
• 30:20
  Speaker 5: a tie with a draw.
• 30:22
  Speaker 2: Yeah, I didn't mention it. Yeah, zero zero cape Verde.
• 30:25
  Speaker 5: Where the hell is Cape Verde? And what is a
• 30:27
  Speaker 5: Cape Verdet? I'm like, come on, man, what is it, Kate.
• 30:30
  Speaker 2: It's off the west coast of Africa. Okay, coast of Senegal. Okay,
• 30:34
  Speaker 2: it's five hundred and thirty thousand people as the population. Wow.
• 30:38
  Speaker 2: And yeah, they go zero zero with one of the
• 30:40
  Speaker 2: tournament favorite world power Spain. It's nil nil draw.
• 30:45
  Speaker 5: They just blew up a ton of people's betting slips.
• 30:47
  Speaker 5: I can tell you that right now.
• 30:49
  Speaker 2: Yeah, for individual match being yeah, I mean, Spain's gonna advance,
• 30:52
  Speaker 2: and it's.
• 30:52
  Speaker 5: Right, right right. But like the early parlays, are different
• 30:55
  Speaker 5: things going on. There's a lot of juice on these games.
• 30:57
  Speaker 2: Suddenly, the US Australia game Friday here Ian is a
• 31:02
  Speaker 2: big deal because both teams won their opener. Yeah, the
• 31:04
  Speaker 2: winner of that game, the winner that match Friday gets
• 31:07
  Speaker 2: control of the group and could have a really favorable
• 31:09
  Speaker 2: round thirty two seat. And I mentioned it earlier. People
• 31:12
  Speaker 2: don't know if the US wins their group, and they
• 31:16
  Speaker 2: probably would get, like I said, a third place team
• 31:18
  Speaker 2: in that round of thirty two, the round of sixteen
• 31:20
  Speaker 2: match for the US if they win their group is
• 31:22
  Speaker 2: back here in Seattle.
• 31:23
  Speaker 5: Wow, okay, it.
• 31:24
  Speaker 2: Could be against Belgium if it goes out that way.
• 31:26
  Speaker 5: How was just for those that are gonna make their
• 31:29
  Speaker 5: way down there, like as a public service? How was
• 31:32
  Speaker 5: getting there for you?
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  Speaker 2: I got here mas Vitamurrara and I drove in from
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  Speaker 2: the Green Lake and we got here about eight fifteen,
• 31:40
  Speaker 2: and the roads were closed by then. They'd already set
• 31:43
  Speaker 2: up a barricade on First Avenue of a metal white barricade,
• 31:46
  Speaker 2: like you know, it was legit, so they it cut
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  Speaker 2: it off right at the corner of Edgar Martinez driving
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  Speaker 2: First Avenue South. That's where First Avenue South was closed.
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  Speaker 2: You couldn't go north or there. So the parking for
• 31:59
  Speaker 2: the media was the Mariners, A lot south of the Mariners.
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  Speaker 5: You had media parkings.
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  Speaker 2: You're okay, I didn't, but did. Yeah, But anecdotally I'm
• 32:08
  Speaker 2: hearing that the light rail is the way to go.
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  Speaker 5: I don't know about that. I'll be honest with you. Yeah,
• 32:13
  Speaker 5: Like I I drove by their first of all, like
• 32:18
  Speaker 5: we're well, we most of us, most of us don't
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  Speaker 5: have light rail. I mean, if we're being honest, like
• 32:23
  Speaker 5: most people, the majority of this city doesn't have it.
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  Speaker 2: Like if you live in West, live in north, South
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  Speaker 2: or East corridor, Yeah that's.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah, right, Like if you live west, you live north
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  Speaker 5: or I mean say north, but south far enough east right,
• 32:36
  Speaker 5: just yeah, it's it's we have. We still the worst
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  Speaker 5: public transportation of any city I've ever lived in, by
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  Speaker 5: by a lot, like not even close Salt Lake so much. Yeah,
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  Speaker 5: but that's like saying you're the tallest short person. It's awful.
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  Speaker 2: I'm spoiled I live, yeah, I.
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  Speaker 5: Mean, but most people don't. I mean that's just like
• 32:54
  Speaker 5: if you look at the density of our country, of
• 32:56
  Speaker 5: our city. And so I drove by Sea Tack because
• 33:00
  Speaker 5: I come by that way all the time where there's
• 33:02
  Speaker 5: a light rail station there. There's also an Angel Lake
• 33:05
  Speaker 5: right down south, and i've traffic was crazy, like it
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  Speaker 5: was nuts, and I'm don't and I drive by that
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  Speaker 5: every day. I don't think it was flights. I'm sure
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  Speaker 5: people were trying to do that, like jump and light
• 33:17
  Speaker 5: The problem in light rail there's no parking it those
• 33:18
  Speaker 5: like the one at Cetech there's zero parking. Like zero parking.
• 33:22
  Speaker 5: On a good day, there's zero parking. So yeah, I mean,
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  Speaker 5: I know it's I always like when our media, especially
• 33:27
  Speaker 5: the TV people, Oh, you know, take transportation, take a by.
• 33:30
  Speaker 5: If I took a bus, i'd have to leave it
• 33:32
  Speaker 5: four in the morning to get to Seattle. And we
• 33:35
  Speaker 5: have a parking ride in Maple Valley that has a
• 33:37
  Speaker 5: guy sitting there with a little sign that says, you know,
• 33:39
  Speaker 5: World Cup Transportation. I'm like, okay, buddy, like super like
• 33:44
  Speaker 5: you drove you take a bus from there to Kent Station.
• 33:47
  Speaker 5: My my son's daw my son's girlfriend. She's interning at
• 33:52
  Speaker 5: a law firm or actually not with a judge. Actually
• 33:54
  Speaker 5: it Kent normally Ailing Center and they kept people home
• 33:57
  Speaker 5: today because it's it's so crazy, like the light rail parking,
• 34:02
  Speaker 5: there's no place to park for the people down there
• 34:04
  Speaker 5: and stuff like that. So I'm glad you got down.
• 34:06
  Speaker 5: I think I figured it if I was going to go,
• 34:08
  Speaker 5: I think I figured out how. But I'm not going
• 34:10
  Speaker 5: to give that information up just in case I ever do.
• 34:12
  Speaker 5: But uh, it looked awesome down there, Greg. It looked
• 34:16
  Speaker 5: the vibe just driving on the wall because I want
• 34:17
  Speaker 5: to drive the waterfront it looked. I was like, damn,
• 34:20
  Speaker 5: I wish I didn't have a stupid show right now
• 34:22
  Speaker 5: because I want to go to this game. And I
• 34:25
  Speaker 5: don't care about beja Elgem actually Belgium. I kind of
• 34:28
  Speaker 5: they're kind of a fun team Egypt, you know whatever.
• 34:30
  Speaker 5: But I I'm looking at inside the stadium right now
• 34:32
  Speaker 5: they're showing it and all I see is lower level.
• 34:35
  Speaker 5: It is jam packed, like jam packed. I can't tell
• 34:38
  Speaker 5: upper level. Can't see is it because like most like,
• 34:42
  Speaker 5: we've had a lot of empty seats around the country,
• 34:44
  Speaker 5: so that this looks like it's Seattle's a soccer town. Man.
• 34:49
  Speaker 5: Of course it's going to be full, which is awesome,
• 34:50
  Speaker 5: really cool.
• 34:51
  Speaker 2: Yea, I was told they're expecting the crowd approaching the
• 34:54
  Speaker 2: capacity of sixty six.
• 34:56
  Speaker 5: I want Seattle to show out.
• 34:57
  Speaker 2: Let's go, let's do it, and then Friday's gonna be
• 34:59
  Speaker 2: off the hook. Take out a.
• 35:01
  Speaker 5: Second mortgage if you want to go to.
• 35:02
  Speaker 2: That game exactly. The prices went from eleven twenty two
• 35:05
  Speaker 2: hundred after the US won their match Friday.
• 35:07
  Speaker 5: Well, and like you said, with Australia winning too, like
• 35:09
  Speaker 5: that's right, you win. Whoever wins Friday is is onto
• 35:13
  Speaker 5: the second round, right yeah, yeah, yeah, right, yeah, I
• 35:16
  Speaker 5: under stays yah, yeah, because you're you'll finish no worse
• 35:18
  Speaker 5: than second in the in the in the group. So yeah,
• 35:20
  Speaker 5: you're onto the second round. So that's a massive Okay,
• 35:22
  Speaker 5: I'm looking more of a wide shot right now. Oh yeah,
• 35:26
  Speaker 5: oh yeah, it's.
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  Speaker 2: And most of it's red. Yes, both teams are red.
• 35:31
  Speaker 2: But the Red Devils in Belgium, they just marched down.
• 35:33
  Speaker 5: The only the only place it's not jammed right now.
• 35:36
  Speaker 5: There's a few spotted looks like a few empty seats
• 35:39
  Speaker 5: in the hawk's nest. But you're just getting beaten upon
• 35:42
  Speaker 5: by the sun right now, So I can understand that.
• 35:45
  Speaker 5: Go last second. The spectacle of the two flags on
• 35:48
  Speaker 5: the field and the player it is.
• 35:50
  Speaker 2: It is.
• 35:50
  Speaker 5: What a cool scene, man, what an absolute kick ass scene.
• 35:54
  Speaker 5: I can't wait. You're lucky man getting in there. That's
• 35:56
  Speaker 5: that's worked for you today, for you and Moz, that's work.
• 35:59
  Speaker 2: It is spoiled. My son is my soccer love and son,
• 36:02
  Speaker 2: my soccer playing son is just inviews. What do you
• 36:05
  Speaker 2: got going today?
• 36:06
  Speaker 5: Well, we'll talk a little bit about this, just a
• 36:08
  Speaker 5: whole a spectacle of it, and honestly, you know, and
• 36:11
  Speaker 5: we live in a day and age of negativity with sports,
• 36:15
  Speaker 5: and we've tried to finally what's wrong. This has been
• 36:17
  Speaker 5: pretty cool. I know FIFA is corrupt and all kinds
• 36:19
  Speaker 5: of stuff. I think what's going on here is pretty
• 36:21
  Speaker 5: cool in our country and especially in our city. We'll
• 36:23
  Speaker 5: touch it on that a little bit. Anders will give
• 36:24
  Speaker 5: us a little low down since he and Jackson are
• 36:26
  Speaker 5: spirit hitting all of our I heart coverage on what
• 36:28
  Speaker 5: you we just talked about a little bit, the big upset,
• 36:31
  Speaker 5: what that means Today We're gonna molly wop at one
• 36:33
  Speaker 5: o'clock we'll talk put a recap on what's what went
• 36:36
  Speaker 5: on obviously over the weekend with the NBA and NHL
• 36:38
  Speaker 5: finals as well, So all of that's coming up.
• 36:41
  Speaker 2: And forness Anderson Hurst joining you from noon until three.
• 36:43
  Speaker 2: I'm heading across the street into the stadium to watch
• 36:46
  Speaker 2: Belgium and agy of in the first ever World Cup
• 36:47
  Speaker 2: match in Seattle. Christopher kidback in the studio. Thank you, sir, Chris,
• 36:51
  Speaker 2: and I thank you. We'll do it again tomorrow. Tend
• 36:54
  Speaker 2: to noon, ends up next on ninety three point three KJRFM.