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  Speaker 1: the best of the Ben Malors Show on Fox Sports Radio.
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  Speaker 1: go back to pro bouncy ball. I was not planning
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  Speaker 1: on doing another pro bouncy ball monologue.
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  Speaker 2: Last hour.
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  Speaker 1: We talked about the Cleveland Cadavers going bye bye as
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  Speaker 1: Levlew was Game one to Indiana. Earlier we did a
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  Speaker 1: full male Monologust Golden State rose up and really dominated,
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  Speaker 1: didn't trail in the second half on the road against
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  Speaker 1: a gutlass Houston team. There's a theme in Game seven's
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  Speaker 1: here and so by request we go back to Saturday night,
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  Speaker 1: all the way back to Saturday Game seven, Western Conference,
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  Speaker 1: the Clippers trying not to choke on a chicken nugget,
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  Speaker 1: and that was the setup. Oh much anticipated Game seven
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  Speaker 1: back and forth and if you did not watch the game,
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  Speaker 1: good news. You did not waste your time. You did
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  Speaker 1: not waste Someday you'll be on your debtbed. And you said, boy,
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  Speaker 1: I wish I hadn't sat around watched the Clippers and
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  Speaker 1: the Nuggets in a game seven.
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  Speaker 2: Holy crap. Aaron Gordon had twenty two points.
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  Speaker 1: Christian Brown which should be pronounced Braun but it's pronounced
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  Speaker 1: Brown had twenty one. The scrubs for the Nuggets had
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  Speaker 1: big games and Denver led by as many as thirty
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  Speaker 1: five points. How embarrassing, They vaporized the Clippers in a
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  Speaker 1: game seven win or go home situation. The Clippers were
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  Speaker 1: road kill and then some and then some. So that
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  Speaker 1: means that Denver, who was the number fur the number
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  Speaker 1: four seed. They have advanced now to take on the
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  Speaker 1: number one, number one seed, a well rested Oklahoma City
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  Speaker 1: thunder team and former Clipper shake Yogis Alexander I remember
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  Speaker 1: they swept the Grizzlies even though John Morant had all
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  Speaker 1: of his fake guns and hand grenades and Molotov cocktails,
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  Speaker 1: all the fake weaponry, but that was not enough to
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  Speaker 1: help Memphis out in that series. He got hurt anyway,
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  Speaker 1: and it turns out, I guess that was a real injury.
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  Speaker 1: He didn't have a fake injury, although he had a
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  Speaker 1: like imaginary ankle brace on. Anyway, So listen, you don't
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  Speaker 1: want to hear me talk about the Nuggets.
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  Speaker 2: You're not here for that. You don't want to hear that.
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  Speaker 2: We know the better star.
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  Speaker 1: Always in the losing locker room and o MG, So
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  Speaker 1: let's discuss the question is this, where did things go
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  Speaker 1: wrong for the Kawhi Leonard Clippers. Kawhi stayed healthy in
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  Speaker 1: the postseason, he didn't get hurt, he didn't miss a game.
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  Speaker 1: Where did things go wrong for the Kawhi Leonard Clippers.
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  Speaker 1: So I've got whitewater, rafting, Coca Cola, butler, and sword,
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  Speaker 1: and we will combine all of these things together and
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  Speaker 1: we are going to make Dole Whip, which actually would
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  Speaker 1: have put up more of a fight Dole Whip than
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  Speaker 1: the Clippers. If if the NBA had just sent out
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  Speaker 1: a couple of doll whips out on the court, that
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  Speaker 1: would have presented more of a challenge for the Denver
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  Speaker 1: Nuggets than the pathetic performance that took place on Saturday night.
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  Speaker 1: My god, all right, So my first thought here to
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  Speaker 1: answer the question where did things go wrong for the Clippers?
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  Speaker 1: The moment the plane touched down in Colorado, it was da, okay,
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  Speaker 1: it's over.
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  Speaker 2: What a manure? I mean, that doesn't do it just
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  Speaker 2: I'd like the curse. I can't curse. I'm not allowed
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  Speaker 2: to curse.
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  Speaker 1: Now. You might remember when the Clippers and Nuggets played
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  Speaker 1: during the pandemic.
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  Speaker 2: I did curse. I just let it rip.
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  Speaker 1: I just got some really good bad words in there,
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  Speaker 1: and it was wonderful.
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  Speaker 2: This was.
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  Speaker 1: Unimaginable humiliation. And the thing about is these guys, I
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  Speaker 1: don't think they care. That is the most damning thing.
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  Speaker 1: You don't care. I'm convinced otherwise they wouldn't have played
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  Speaker 1: like that. They just don't give a crap. How do
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  Speaker 1: you show up? And and I'm not wired that way.
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  Speaker 1: I do the overnight show here, and yet I treat
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  Speaker 1: every show like it's actually it's actually important. And these
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  Speaker 1: guys are in the NBA making a gazillion dollars and
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  Speaker 1: they go out there and they urinate down their legs
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  Speaker 1: in Game seven and they don't even seem to care.
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  Speaker 1: At some point, why don't you off one of the
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  Speaker 1: Nuggets send a message nothing they were a doormat. The
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  Speaker 1: Nuggets walked all over them. It was ridiculous, and it
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  Speaker 1: was a humilion for the Phaser. Again, I don't think
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  Speaker 1: the players are humiliated. I don't think they care. They're
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  Speaker 1: all rich, they're all well paid. They don't give a crap.
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  Speaker 1: No pride. There is not a single player that has pride,
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  Speaker 1: not one of them. And the Clippers actually came out
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  Speaker 1: they had an early six point lead in the game,
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  Speaker 1: and then I don't know if there was a sign
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  Speaker 1: like like the bat sign or something that was.
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  Speaker 2: Up in the arena. I have no idea.
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  Speaker 1: Maybe Rocky the mascot put something in their in their drink.
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  Speaker 1: But the Clippers and I went back and I did
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  Speaker 1: the math Ons. They literally they went whitewater rafting on
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  Speaker 1: the Lazy River. Okay, they were on a raft and
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  Speaker 1: they did it was supposed to be whitewater rafting, and
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  Speaker 1: it was the Lazy River. The Clippers, I still can't believe.
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  Speaker 1: I saw they were outscored by forty one points.
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  Speaker 2: They went from.
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  Speaker 1: Up six in the first quarter to down thirty five
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  Speaker 1: points in a Game seven, in a winner you advanced
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  Speaker 1: Game seven. Now I covered some terrible Clipper teams. When
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  Speaker 1: I first got into radio, a lot of you know
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  Speaker 1: my story. I started out of station in San Diego.
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  Speaker 1: I worked my early gigs in radio were going to
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  Speaker 1: locker rooms and interviewing players.
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  Speaker 2: And since I was the new guy, I got asigned
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  Speaker 2: a lot of.
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  Speaker 1: Clipper games, a lot of Clipper games, and they played
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  Speaker 1: at the La Sports Arena, which is called the Mausoleum
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  Speaker 1: because I think there were more people that were dead
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  Speaker 1: there than that were alive. They don't even that arena
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  Speaker 1: doesn't even exist anymore. There's a soccer stadium there now.
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  Speaker 1: But I spent a lot of my years in my
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  Speaker 1: twenties at that arena, and I covered some morbid Clipper teams,
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  Speaker 1: horrifically bad teams, teams that had no talent and they
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  Speaker 1: were just an absolute I can't say, you can imagine
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  Speaker 1: the words I'd like to say. But during that time,
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  Speaker 1: one of the coaches the Clippers had was this guy
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  Speaker 1: named Bill Fitch. Bill Fitch was a Hall of Fame
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  Speaker 1: coach and at the end of his career he had
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  Speaker 1: coached like this Celtics and the Rockets when they had
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  Speaker 1: Elijah Won and Samson, and so he'd coached some really
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  Speaker 1: good teams, but by the time he got to the Clippers,
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  Speaker 1: he was just hanging on getting a check. You know.
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  Speaker 1: He coached like that New Jersey Nets and the Clippers.
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  Speaker 1: At the end of his career. He was very nice
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  Speaker 1: to me. But he one of the things he said
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  Speaker 1: to me at the time, he says, and obviously we're
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  Speaker 1: not very good, but he said, as long as you
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  Speaker 1: put the effort out, you should never get blown out.
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  Speaker 1: And the only reason you're gonna get blown out is
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  Speaker 1: if you're not putting the effort in. He gave me
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  Speaker 1: this whole rap about how there's not that big a
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  Speaker 1: difference between the very top team and the NBA and
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  Speaker 1: the very worst team. And this is a long time ago.
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  Speaker 1: He is explaining the whole thing, and it made a
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  Speaker 1: lot of sense. And I think it's the same concept applies.
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  Speaker 1: That team gave up. The LA Clippers gave up. They
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  Speaker 1: were outscored one oh three to sixty two in that stretch.
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  Speaker 2: Ring the bell. Shame, shame, shame on all of you. Shame, shame, shame, shame.
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  Speaker 2: That is a dereliction of duties.
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  Speaker 1: It is shamee that is malfeasis, that is bungling basketball.
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  Speaker 1: Is what that is, at no point did you ever think, well,
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  Speaker 1: this is not going well, maybe we should change things
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  Speaker 1: up here, try to send a message, right, something like
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  Speaker 1: for some reason I thought, well, they might lose, but
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  Speaker 1: they're not gonna get out work. They're not gonna get embarrassed. Right,
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  Speaker 1: They're gonna go out there. You want that mindset, right,
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  Speaker 1: you want that perseverance, that dog of war, mentality, play
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  Speaker 1: with desperation, scratching, called all those cliches and sports. They
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  Speaker 1: went out there like a toy poodle with fleas is
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  Speaker 1: how they played in that game. And again, at no
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  Speaker 1: point did they were like, say, wait a minute. The
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  Speaker 1: moment I knew that they were toast, that sucked. So
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  Speaker 1: and so James Harden, all right, Harden's out there now,
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  Speaker 1: he was not at the foul line. He was on
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  Speaker 1: He was trying to get a rebound. Russell Westbrook was
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  Speaker 1: at the foul line, and Westbrook bricks a foul shot,
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  Speaker 1: which he often does, right, and Harden, and I forget
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  Speaker 1: who the other clipper was. I just jotted down Harden's name.
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  Speaker 1: They stood there as what Russell Westbrook misses the shot,
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  Speaker 1: zooms past.
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  Speaker 2: Them and gets a layup. In a game seven I
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  Speaker 2: don't need a box.
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  Speaker 1: Ou la la la la la la la la la
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  Speaker 1: la la la la.
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  Speaker 2: And it's one of those things.
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  Speaker 1: This is a lesson that is learned in youth sports
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  Speaker 1: that you're not necessarily going to be the most talented.
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  Speaker 1: And it's really true in anything in life, right, whether
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  Speaker 1: you're doing a radio show, or you're a truck driver,
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  Speaker 1: you're work in a factory, whatever, maybe you're not the
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  Speaker 1: most talented person. But if you put the effort in,
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  Speaker 1: if you hustle on every opportunity that does not require
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  Speaker 1: athletic ability. And I actually put the Usually I only
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  Speaker 1: mute Doris Burke because I can't stand her, but I
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  Speaker 1: actually muted the broadcast on Saturday because they were like
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  Speaker 1: making excuses saying the Clippers were tired.
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  Speaker 2: I mean seriously, I will said the effort. What are
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  Speaker 2: you doing? Like Sarah's what are you doing? That's Game seven?
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  Speaker 1: I mean god, all right, now, let's focus in on
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  Speaker 1: the person that is the biggest villain in all this.
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  Speaker 1: What does this latest stinker do for the legacy of
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  Speaker 1: James Harden? What does it due? So as you know,
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  Speaker 1: I tried to give James Harden the benefit of the
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  Speaker 1: doubt I attempted to be Benny Bright's side on these airwaves,
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  Speaker 1: and I did the math, and the math was correct
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  Speaker 1: that about ten percent of the time James Harden goes
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  Speaker 1: out there and just pukes all over the court in
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  Speaker 1: a playoff game, about ten percent. So I gave him
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  Speaker 1: the bene of the doubt. And watching him yet again,
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  Speaker 1: I'm reminded about how Kobe Bryant had the mamba mentality, right,
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  Speaker 1: mamba mentality, And then you see James Harden and it's
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  Speaker 1: like he's got that hippo energy. You know, hippo's sleep
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  Speaker 1: sixteen to twenty hours a day. They just kind of
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  Speaker 1: lay around. They go from land to water, but they're
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  Speaker 1: pretty much just relaxing. They're just kind of a lot
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  Speaker 1: of l So James Harden has that hippo energy. He's
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  Speaker 1: just kind of laying around, you know whatever. And if
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  Speaker 1: he was a flower now, he would not be the
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  Speaker 1: pussy willow. He would be the shrinking violet. Okay, the
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  Speaker 1: shrinking violet. He wilts under pressure. Now, there's a term
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  Speaker 1: that doesn't get used a lot in basketball, but I
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  Speaker 1: think would apply to James Harden as well. It's more
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  Speaker 1: of a soccer term. I guess you could say Harden
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  Speaker 1: is the Coca Cola butler if you will here, because
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  Speaker 1: he's a big game boler. That's I was told by
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  Speaker 1: a listener over the weekend as a soccer term. He
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  Speaker 1: might have been pulling my chain. I did look it up.
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  Speaker 1: I did see that it is a legitimate term. The
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  Speaker 1: butler is a player who consistently underperforms in big moments,
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  Speaker 1: which is James Harden. But in terms of the big picture,
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  Speaker 1: it's just another chapter in his book. It's just another
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  Speaker 1: chapter passive play in big moments. He infected his teammates
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  Speaker 1: and you know, complete idiot's guide to blowing playoff games
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  Speaker 1: with James Harden.
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  Speaker 2: The Clippers lost to Denver in Game seven.
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  Speaker 1: That now means that he has brought this poison to
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  Speaker 1: four different teams, with the Roquettes twice, Game seven Losers,
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  Speaker 1: twenty seven, twenty seventeen, twenty eighteen, the Brooklyn Nets twenty
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  Speaker 1: twenty one, the Philadelphia seventy six ers and twenty twenty three,
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  Speaker 1: and the Clippers. Harden his last thirteen elimination games is
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  Speaker 1: two and eleven, two and eleven man and that Game
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  Speaker 1: seven performance was a special addition. Smoldering pile of turds
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  Speaker 1: for the world to watch there. And since twenty twenty,
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  Speaker 1: Harden has averaged in these big spots less than fourteen
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  Speaker 1: points per game and shooting less than thirty percent, less
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  Speaker 1: than thirty percent, three point shooting less than seventeen percent,
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  Speaker 1: and he's played over forty minutes, almost forty two minutes
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  Speaker 1: a game in that stretch and to shoot low thirty
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  Speaker 1: percent in each of those games since twenty twenty. These
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  Speaker 1: are elimination situation games. Game sevens. It's it's wild, the consistency.
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  Speaker 1: There's a design flaw. There's obviously a design flaw there.
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  Speaker 1: And the way I would describe James hard I think
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  Speaker 1: I got the perfect analogy. If you're old enough to remember,
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  Speaker 1: remember the Samsung Galaxy Note seven phone. You remember that phone?
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  Speaker 1: You don't remember that phone. So the phone there was
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  Speaker 1: a flaw in the battery and it would lead to
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  Speaker 1: overheating and explosions, like the phones were blowing up and
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  Speaker 1: people were being maimed by the phones blowing up. So
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  Speaker 1: that is hardened in big games. He is the Samsung
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  Speaker 1: Galaxy Note seven with the faulty battery that will just
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  Speaker 1: burn up. It's crazy, all right, now, final thought. So
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  Speaker 1: the Clippers dared Russell Westbrook to beat them, and not
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  Speaker 1: that he necessarily individually beat them, but he didn't make
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  Speaker 1: more shots than he's ever made in his career. And
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  Speaker 1: as he was walking off the court, Westbrook, as he
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  Speaker 1: is known to do, was talking and he was yelling,
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  Speaker 1: and he said that the Clippers picked the wrong person,
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  Speaker 1: didn't they? As he walked around like a rooster with
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  Speaker 1: his chest up in the air everywhere. So question for
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  Speaker 1: the steam panel here, do you agree or disagree with
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  Speaker 1: Russell Westbrook that the Clippers picked the wrong person. They
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  Speaker 1: traded him to Utah for.
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  Speaker 2: Chris Dunn, who is done.
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  Speaker 1: Holy crap, all right, So this is a sword situation,
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  Speaker 1: A double edged sword situation is what it is. Because
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  Speaker 1: on one hand, trading Russell Westbrook was the absolute wise move.
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  Speaker 1: For those that have forgotten, he was really bad. He
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  Speaker 1: was James Harden level bad in playoff games for the Clippers.
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  Speaker 1: And just because you happened to go to Denver and
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  Speaker 1: you made a couple of shots does not change the
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  Speaker 1: fact that you were a tumor for the Clippers. Okay,
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  Speaker 1: that doesn't change that. So I mentioned this is the
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  Speaker 1: double edged sword because on one hand, the Clippers. They
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  Speaker 1: had to get rid of Westbrook. It grew stale. It
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  Speaker 1: was time to move on. That was smart. The problem
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  Speaker 1: is getting Chris Donne. Chris Dunn should be a not
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  Speaker 1: a basketball player. He should be a freemason is what
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  Speaker 1: he should be, because there's a lot of brickwork. He's atrocious,
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  Speaker 1: he's got no offensive game. And it also shows us,
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  Speaker 1: though on a deeper level, that Russell Westbrook wishes he
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  Speaker 1: was still a Clipper. Serious, although why would you be
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  Speaker 1: able to set You should be happy you're no longer
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  Speaker 1: a Clipper right Instead, he's oh man, they got rid
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  Speaker 1: of the wrong guy. They should have kept me. Tells
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  Speaker 1: you he doesn't want to be in Denver. He's not
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  Speaker 1: happy with the Nuggets, and it's payback against the Clippers
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  Speaker 1: because he wishes he was a Clipper. Now after this
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  Speaker 1: latest playoff laws, have he lost all faith in the clip?
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  Speaker 1: Is it all over now?
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  Speaker 2: The Clippers doomed? They're never going to win? Oh my god, let's.
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  Speaker 1: Not make this some kind of Greek tragedy. Okay, I
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  Speaker 1: didn't expect them to win this year. They didn't, Okay,
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  Speaker 1: so fine. I didn't expect them to just give up
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  Speaker 1: in Game seven. That part is disheartening, but I'm still
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  Speaker 1: drinking the kool aid. And here's why. All right, towards
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  Speaker 1: Steve Balmer. All right, Steve Balmer, this guy is maniacal.
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  Speaker 1: He's maniacal. He will beg, borrow, and steal to get
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  Speaker 1: a winner. And now, fortunately you don't have to steal
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  Speaker 1: when you're the richest guy in the world, or one
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  Speaker 1: of them. He's worth one hundred and twenty five billion dollars.
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  Speaker 1: A lot of these rich guys that got the mega yachts,
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  Speaker 1: they've got the private jets, and he probably has all
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  Speaker 1: those things. But for Steve Balmer, his passion is this
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  Speaker 1: basketball team that is his pride. Enjoy the Clippers, and
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  Speaker 1: he's going to keep changing the formula until they get
• 17:51
  Speaker 1: the right formula. And I'd immediately get rid of James Harden.
• 17:56
  Speaker 1: I would rather play four on five than have James
• 17:59
  Speaker 1: Harden on my team because you know what's going to happen,
• 18:02
  Speaker 1: and he doesn't even really seem to care. So okay,
• 18:05
  Speaker 1: go play somewhere else and you'll get your twenty points
• 18:07
  Speaker 1: of games during the regular season, and then when the
• 18:10
  Speaker 1: team needs you the most, you'll poop your diaper and
• 18:12
  Speaker 1: that'll be that. But as long as Steve Bamber's in charge,
• 18:16
  Speaker 1: the Clippers are always going to be in it to
• 18:18
  Speaker 1: win it. And so they got the greatest arena they've
• 18:20
  Speaker 1: got that. I mean, guy Bomber flew in a private
• 18:23
  Speaker 1: plane filled with Clipper fans so they could go out
• 18:27
  Speaker 1: and watch their team urinate down their leg in Game seven.
• 18:30
  Speaker 1: He's the people that sit in the wall will fly in.
• 18:34
  Speaker 1: Why not. But they'll just keep tweaking it and changing
• 18:37
  Speaker 1: things around, and eventually they'll they'll get it right.
• 18:41
  Speaker 2: To the third degree. This is one great and.
• 18:47
  Speaker 1: Making a rare and appropriate, rare and appropriate appearance here
• 18:51
  Speaker 1: in the producer's chair, we say hello our friend Breed.
• 18:55
  Speaker 1: Hi Ben, Hello, Okay.
• 18:56
  Speaker 4: Our report came out late last week that Lebron James
• 18:59
  Speaker 4: suffered an m CEL sprain in his left knee and
• 19:01
  Speaker 4: the Lakers Game five loss against the turb Wolves. Ben,
• 19:05
  Speaker 4: do you think this is actually a new injury or
• 19:07
  Speaker 4: something fabricated as another excuse for an embarrassing first round
• 19:11
  Speaker 4: actual So.
• 19:11
  Speaker 1: Here's the deal, Brie. We've been around this long enough.
• 19:15
  Speaker 1: It's paint by numbers, right, Lebron his team underachieves, he
• 19:19
  Speaker 1: does not live up to expectations.
• 19:21
  Speaker 2: That's the first part.
• 19:22
  Speaker 1: The second part is the people around Lebron cook up
• 19:26
  Speaker 1: some kind of bull crap excuse, whether it's the coach's
• 19:29
  Speaker 1: fault or a teammate's fault, or Lebron's got an injury,
• 19:32
  Speaker 1: it's absolute crap. Ola.
• 19:35
  Speaker 2: I don't want to hear about it.
• 19:37
  Speaker 1: You're never going to get anywhere near Michael Jordan's level,
• 19:40
  Speaker 1: so just stop next.
• 19:41
  Speaker 4: On a recent podcast NFL Legend, Warren Moon says Shardor
• 19:44
  Speaker 4: Sanders needs to act like a quarterback and be more respectful. Quote,
• 19:48
  Speaker 4: you can't act like a quarterback when you're playing quarterback.
• 19:50
  Speaker 4: Quarterback is a humble position. You got to be respectful.
• 19:53
  Speaker 4: That's what he has to understand. Unquote Ben, do you
• 19:55
  Speaker 4: think he has a point?
• 19:56
  Speaker 1: No, Because you can be a schmuck and an egomaniac,
• 19:59
  Speaker 1: you got to be good. The problem, Warren Moon, what
• 20:01
  Speaker 1: he's really saying there is should Sanders is not good?
• 20:04
  Speaker 1: Like if you if you're going to be a marginal talent,
• 20:07
  Speaker 1: you have to be respectful and all that stuff, and
• 20:11
  Speaker 1: should Sanders is not is not that there are quarterbacks
• 20:14
  Speaker 1: who are complete schmucks, but they're really really good, So
• 20:17
  Speaker 1: it doesn't really matter. You don't have to be humble.
• 20:20
  Speaker 2: You don't have to be humble if you're good.
• 20:22
  Speaker 1: He's not good. That's the problem.
• 20:23
  Speaker 4: Right next, but the news of a head coach Greg
• 20:26
  Speaker 4: Popovich retiring from coaching, this first hired assistant coach Mitch
• 20:29
  Speaker 4: Johnson as their new head coach. Do you think this
• 20:31
  Speaker 4: is the right movement instead of someone with a little
• 20:33
  Speaker 4: bit more experience.
• 20:34
  Speaker 2: I don't even know who. I don't even know who
• 20:35
  Speaker 2: that is.
• 20:36
  Speaker 1: I don't know who Mitch Johnson is. I have no
• 20:39
  Speaker 1: idea experience. I've never even heard of Mitch Johnson. All right,
• 20:42
  Speaker 1: so what am I supposed to say about miss john Less?
• 20:45
  Speaker 2: One thing? I don't look at the Nuggets.
• 20:46
  Speaker 1: They got dork NEPO coach and they beat the Clippers
• 20:49
  Speaker 1: in the first nine.
• 20:50
  Speaker 2: It doesn't matter.
• 20:50
  Speaker 1: These teams. It's like a self driving car. It's like
• 20:53
  Speaker 1: a Tesla that drives itself. These NBA teams, right, and
• 20:56
  Speaker 1: they is everything. They take care of it. It doesn't matter. Wemby,
• 20:59
  Speaker 1: if he's good and off, he'll make this guy a
• 21:01
  Speaker 1: Hall of fame coach.
• 21:02
  Speaker 2: There it is. How did we do a.
• 21:07
  Speaker 3: Loreno?
• 21:08
  Speaker 2: Good job? Are you sure. I don't sense the sincerity
• 21:12
  Speaker 2: in that. I don't let you.
• 21:15
  Speaker 1: Oh man, all right, so the wise guys, but let's
• 21:18
  Speaker 1: se who's gonna win this Battle Royale. Here we go
• 21:20
  Speaker 1: the Battle Royale, the battle rights the podcast around like
• 21:25
  Speaker 1: you know.
• 21:25
  Speaker 4: Everything, computers are for losers, normal people.
• 21:28
  Speaker 2: Well, how dare she?
• 21:31
  Speaker 1: What do you?
• 21:32
  Speaker 2: Let's find out? Are you smarter than an FSR Tech Queens?
• 21:36
  Speaker 2: So that's again.
• 21:37
  Speaker 1: Now normally we have a listener play Lorena, but we
• 21:40
  Speaker 1: have Bree who's in here producing the show, and there's
• 21:42
  Speaker 1: a bit of a rivalry between you two. I think
• 21:44
  Speaker 1: in the.
• 21:44
  Speaker 2: Building, Why I do Thn't Coop ever want to play?
• 21:47
  Speaker 1: That's hard to get Coop could pay attention, you know,
• 21:49
  Speaker 1: sometimes it's just hard to get a pitches. So anyway,
• 21:52
  Speaker 1: I am worried though there this could be massive cheating
• 21:56
  Speaker 1: because I I don't you both have your phones, so
• 22:00
  Speaker 1: I know you forget your hands in the air.
• 22:01
  Speaker 2: But the woman over there has been known.
• 22:04
  Speaker 1: To are you serious?
• 22:07
  Speaker 2: Want to play me?
• 22:10
  Speaker 3: Listen?
• 22:11
  Speaker 2: I'll be good. Coop had to take the phone. I'll
• 22:13
  Speaker 2: be good.
• 22:14
  Speaker 1: Okay, So the categories this week for are you Smart?
• 22:17
  Speaker 1: On the FSR Tech Queen, we have.
• 22:19
  Speaker 2: Entertainment, grab bag, science.
• 22:22
  Speaker 1: And history grab bag could be anything, could be sports,
• 22:27
  Speaker 1: could be any okay.
• 22:29
  Speaker 3: And then the other one was entertainment grab bag sports
• 22:32
  Speaker 3: and what entertainment?
• 22:34
  Speaker 1: Grab bag science and history? No sports, ca but maybe
• 22:38
  Speaker 1: there'll be something the grab bag. Okay, let's do it.
• 22:41
  Speaker 4: Let's do it.
• 22:42
  Speaker 2: Let's go. Okay, here we go, and let's see here.
• 22:46
  Speaker 2: First we'll start with entertainment.
• 22:47
  Speaker 1: So what is the name of the fictional paper company
• 22:52
  Speaker 1: in the office? In the office? All right, Bree, you
• 22:57
  Speaker 1: want to go first?
• 22:57
  Speaker 2: Hear Bree, what is dunder Mifflin? Was that breathing? She said?
• 23:03
  Speaker 3: She pointed at me.
• 23:04
  Speaker 2: Okay, you said, Dunder. Do you agree or disagree with that? Agree?
• 23:07
  Speaker 1: I agree that is correct under Mifflin Mufflin, whatever it
• 23:12
  Speaker 1: is that you are. You got that one right, and
• 23:15
  Speaker 1: we moved to the grab bag. Now, later this month,
• 23:19
  Speaker 1: we will be taking our talents to Canada for a
• 23:23
  Speaker 1: Malord meet and greet, the first one we've ever done
• 23:25
  Speaker 1: in Canada. So in honor of that, the grab bag question,
• 23:28
  Speaker 1: are you smart on the FSR tech Queen?
• 23:30
  Speaker 2: What is the capital of Canada? Capital of Canada?
• 23:35
  Speaker 1: Here you you go first?
• 23:36
  Speaker 4: Now, huh huh British Columbia.
• 23:39
  Speaker 2: Okay, and what say you, Loraina Paris.
• 23:49
  Speaker 1: No, they might revoke, we might not get through customs
• 23:53
  Speaker 1: when we go to Ottawa, Ottawa, Canada. I told you, Wow,
• 23:59
  Speaker 1: that is that is not good. Let's do another grab
• 24:02
  Speaker 1: bag a question? Are you smart in the f SR
• 24:04
  Speaker 1: tech queen who wrote the book The Adventures of Tom Sawyer,
• 24:09
  Speaker 1: famous book many forced to read in school, And bree
• 24:15
  Speaker 1: you want to go for Mark Twain?
• 24:17
  Speaker 2: What that was going to be my guest?
• 24:18
  Speaker 4: But is that?
• 24:19
  Speaker 2: I don't know about that? Is that not a book?
• 24:21
  Speaker 2: I was just curious. I was like, what do you?
• 24:23
  Speaker 1: What do you?
• 24:23
  Speaker 2: What do you want?
• 24:24
  Speaker 1: What do you?
• 24:26
  Speaker 4: I don't know if that's like I don't have another book?
• 24:29
  Speaker 2: Okay, I think it's the author. Okay, I'm going to
• 24:32
  Speaker 2: Mark Twain.
• 24:32
  Speaker 1: I don't know, I'm agreeing with it.
• 24:35
  Speaker 2: Okay, Oh yeah, that is Mark Twain.
• 24:38
  Speaker 4: I would have been kind of scared if I got
• 24:40
  Speaker 4: that wrong kind of.
• 24:40
  Speaker 1: Sense that Lorraine had cheated off breeze paper, cheat off
• 24:44
  Speaker 1: the paper.
• 24:45
  Speaker 2: I imagine the book the hard have you ever read?
• 24:48
  Speaker 2: Have you read the Adventures of.
• 24:54
  Speaker 1: All Right?
• 24:55
  Speaker 2: All right, all right, he said, let's move to science.
• 24:57
  Speaker 2: Here we go.
• 24:58
  Speaker 1: Are you smart in the f SR tech queen. We've
• 25:00
  Speaker 1: got the staff here, we've got Lorraina, of course, she's
• 25:03
  Speaker 1: the FSR Tech queen.
• 25:04
  Speaker 4: And did you know that if you put an egg
• 25:07
  Speaker 4: in vinegar that the shell will melt and it will
• 25:11
  Speaker 4: just be a gooey me egg.
• 25:12
  Speaker 1: You know what you're doing?
• 25:13
  Speaker 2: You're doing, Sean, Syria, Sean, that's a non sequitur, is
• 25:15
  Speaker 2: what you're doing.
• 25:16
  Speaker 1: You're trying to brag. That's a flex. All right, here
• 25:17
  Speaker 1: we go. Uh what a science? What is the center
• 25:20
  Speaker 1: of an atom? Called the center of an atom?
• 25:23
  Speaker 2: This should be very.
• 25:25
  Speaker 3: Nucleus.
• 25:26
  Speaker 1: All right, what do you.
• 25:27
  Speaker 2: Think, bree? That is absolutely nucleus?
• 25:30
  Speaker 1: Look at that?
• 25:31
  Speaker 2: Easy?
• 25:31
  Speaker 1: Easy, so simple.
• 25:32
  Speaker 2: I'll get so good in science back in middle school. Okay,
• 25:35
  Speaker 2: we'll keep going.
• 25:36
  Speaker 3: Andandria is the battery of that's it?
• 25:39
  Speaker 1: Yeah, all right, stop stop stop?
• 25:41
  Speaker 2: All right? What is the what is? This should be easy?
• 25:44
  Speaker 1: What is the name of the largest bone in the
• 25:47
  Speaker 1: human body?
• 25:49
  Speaker 2: Right away?
• 25:50
  Speaker 4: You agree with that or you're looking I'm sorry, I'm sorry,
• 25:53
  Speaker 4: that's my wheelhouse anatomy?
• 25:55
  Speaker 2: Okay, I agree that is correct. You guys are time.
• 26:00
  Speaker 2: We'll keep going.
• 26:00
  Speaker 1: Here is are you smart on the FSR Tech Queen,
• 26:03
  Speaker 1: listen to our live coverage. We'll go to history. Now,
• 26:06
  Speaker 1: we'll go to history. Here you go, the first person
• 26:10
  Speaker 1: to complete a solo flight across the Atlantic Ocean.
• 26:14
  Speaker 2: Who was the first person? Okay, she was the first
• 26:19
  Speaker 2: person to die? Well, she ever died?
• 26:22
  Speaker 1: I mean she probably did now, but they had never
• 26:24
  Speaker 1: found her body.
• 26:26
  Speaker 3: Who are the two guys who invented that one airplane?
• 26:32
  Speaker 2: Stop? Just answer the question?
• 26:34
  Speaker 1: Please?
• 26:35
  Speaker 2: Come on? People cringing in their cars right now? Come on?
• 26:39
  Speaker 1: Maybe? Oh my god, Kitty Hawk, North Carolina. What's long?
• 26:45
  Speaker 2: I'm gonna go, Tom Cruise, Tom Cruise, braid? Do you
• 26:49
  Speaker 2: agree or disagree with Tom Cruise?
• 26:50
  Speaker 1: Stick to my a million airheart over here?
• 26:52
  Speaker 2: All right, you're both wrong. Charles Lindbergh, Charles Lindberg. Question,
• 26:58
  Speaker 2: that was not a trick. Question that was not I mean,
• 27:01
  Speaker 2: we're tied. Let's do I'll go back to grab Bag's entertainment.
• 27:05
  Speaker 1: Last one, now, Laurada, you gotta go first, Okay, Okay.
• 27:10
  Speaker 2: Who is the silhouette of the NBA logo?
• 27:12
  Speaker 3: Oh my gosh, it's Michael Jordan's.
• 27:14
  Speaker 2: Okay, Michael Jordan, Bree, what say you? Bree?
• 27:18
  Speaker 1: Jerry West.
• 27:20
  Speaker 2: That is Jerry has on the game. He has one
• 27:24
  Speaker 2: the games.
• 27:25
  Speaker 1: She has sway ms Techueen Thanke said, Jerry West had
• 27:31
  Speaker 1: no sports question.
• 27:32
  Speaker 2: It was a grab It was grab bag. He was
• 27:34
  Speaker 2: in a grab bag. So there it is. Set me up.
• 27:38
  Speaker 2: I did not say you are prefailure entertainment. You don't
• 27:41
  Speaker 2: know who the right brothers are?
• 27:42
  Speaker 1: What's wrong with you?
• 27:43
  Speaker 2: How dare you they were wrong? It's because they were wrong.
• 27:46
  Speaker 2: They will. I mean, I don't know. Every time I
• 27:48
  Speaker 2: get in a plan, I think they're right.
• 27:49
  Speaker 1: I have it, brother. Okay, there is a great game,
• 27:51
  Speaker 1: ladiestulations it was so much fun.
• 27:54
  Speaker 4: Thank you.
• 27:55
  Speaker 2: You get a golden ticket bridge graduate.
• 27:58
  Speaker 4: Yea which Wawai gets traded in the off season.
• 28:02
  Speaker 1: Believe me, I will use that golden ticket.
• 28:04
  Speaker 2: Okay, all right, very good,