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Hour 2 - Fool's Gold · The Ben Maller Show

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Speaker 1: Boom shaka Laca.
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Speaker 2: It's our number two of the Ben Malors Show on
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Speaker 2: this Monday, and that's all she wrote. In the NBA
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Speaker 2: regular season, there was one game in particular that was
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Speaker 2: the game of the day for playoff positioning in the NBA.
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Speaker 2: How big a setback is the finale loss to the
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Speaker 2: Clippers for Steph Curry, Jimmy Butler, Draymond Green and the Warriors?
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Speaker 1: Is there in the play in tournament?
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Speaker 2: Also, former NBA player Patrick Beverly said, the winner of
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Speaker 2: that Warrior Clipper matchup, which turned out to be the Clippers,
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Speaker 2: will be winning the championship.
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Speaker 1: How does that sound to you?
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Speaker 2: And what early playoff matchups intrigue you? We know of
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Speaker 2: four of the playoff matchups so far. We'll take a
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Speaker 2: first peek at.
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Speaker 1: That right now here. It is our number two.
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Speaker 1: but we begin with this.
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Speaker 2: The curtain has come down on the regular season of
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Speaker 2: the NBA. There will be no more regular season NBA games.
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Speaker 1: For this year anyway. It's all over there the finale.
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Speaker 2: Everyone playing on a Sunday, And while we were watching
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Speaker 2: the golf, we flipped over to the basketball. There's only
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Speaker 2: one game really worth watching on Sunday in the NBA,
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Speaker 2: and I was in San Francisco.
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Speaker 1: That was the game.
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Speaker 2: You win, you get a secured playoff spot. You lose,
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Speaker 2: and you gotta go to that fugasey playing tournament. And
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Speaker 2: that involved Golden State playing the People's Team, and I
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Speaker 2: saw it.
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Speaker 1: Was on national national TV. Know't know if you're watching
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Speaker 1: it or not. Maybe not, but.
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Speaker 2: The Beard a renaissance, James Harden hitting consec three point
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Speaker 2: baskets in overtime, a domination situation, the kind of performance
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Speaker 2: that if Harden does that in an NBA Finals game,
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Speaker 2: they write books about it. He was that dominant, made
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Speaker 2: a parafoul, shots, scored on a also got a basket
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Speaker 2: on a Jimmy Butler goaltending call. He had thirty nine
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Speaker 2: points James Harden and tennis sists. That was the Roquets
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Speaker 2: version of James Harden in that game.
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Speaker 1: Kawhi Leonard, the.
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Speaker 2: Toronto Raptor San Antonio Spur vintage for the People's Team,
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Speaker 2: Leonard had thirty three points. The Clippers get it done,
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Speaker 2: they win, and they win in overtime, and they're the
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Speaker 2: fifth seed in the Western Conference. They get to play
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Speaker 2: those lightweights from Denver in their first playoff series, and
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Speaker 2: the Warriors on the wrong end of things, which means
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Speaker 2: they are not guaranteed of a play in spot. And
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Speaker 2: the better story though, is in the losing locker room.
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Speaker 2: As much as I would like to see here and
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Speaker 2: waxed loquacious about the Clippers and how great James Harden
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Speaker 2: was and all that.
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Speaker 1: Nobody wants to hear that.
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Speaker 2: You want to hear the sad sack Golden State Warriors,
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Speaker 2: That's what you want to hear about. You had Steph
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Speaker 2: Curry make a basket, strutting right, he was strutting down
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Speaker 2: the court there. Oh man, we got these guys and
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Speaker 2: then they had to play the rest of the game.
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Speaker 1: He didn't have anybody and he had nothing nothing.
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Speaker 2: So the Warriors who melted under pressure. They had the
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Speaker 2: lead late, had a four point lead, and they melted
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Speaker 2: down the stretch. Curry had thirty six although he did
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Speaker 2: really nothing the first three quarters. Jimmy Butler thirty points
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Speaker 2: and nine assists, and that's it. The regular season is over.
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Speaker 2: So let us discuss how big a setback. How big
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Speaker 2: a setback is this loss for Steph Curry, Jimmy Butler
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Speaker 2: and Draymond Green and the Warriors as they now have
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Speaker 2: to go into that playing tournament. So I've got Fiddle,
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Speaker 2: pac Man and Forrest Gump and we will combine all
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Speaker 2: of these things together, and we were going to make
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Speaker 2: some sour dough bread. The San Francisco treat which is well,
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Speaker 2: just sour, just very sour there the Warrist. So this
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Speaker 2: is a myth buster situation, right, this is a myth
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Speaker 2: buster situation.
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Speaker 1: That is my number.
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Speaker 2: One the aura of the Warriors when they got Jimmy
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Speaker 2: Butler and they had a great record to finish the
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Speaker 2: regular season, but they didn't get Jimmy Butler to still
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Speaker 2: end up in the play in tournament.
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Speaker 1: That was not the mission.
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Speaker 2: When they got Jimmy Butler and they had everything set up.
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Speaker 2: Golden State had everything you could possibly want. So this
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Speaker 2: is a massive disappointment. This is a massive disappointment. Everything
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Speaker 2: was there. You had home cooking check, you had that
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Speaker 2: Warriors were favored. They were three and a half point
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Speaker 2: favorites in the gambling line. When you avoid the playing tournament,
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Speaker 2: lose and you're in it. And Golden State had a
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Speaker 2: point lead in the first half, and there was that
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Speaker 2: point where it was teetering where if the Warriors go
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Speaker 2: second level, go turbo time, they go up by twenty
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Speaker 2: five points games over.
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Speaker 1: They didn't have it.
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Speaker 2: They did not have the ability to go turbo time,
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Speaker 2: and they were not turbotasking the Tastic in that situation,
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Speaker 2: and they did have.
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Speaker 1: The early body blow body blow by.
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Speaker 2: Golden State, so they came as all right there by
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Speaker 2: twelve had a body blow. And then the Clippers responded,
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Speaker 2: and the Warriors, because they were they had home cooking,
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Speaker 2: they fiddled around with their food. You don't fiddle around
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Speaker 2: with your food. They did, and the Clippers kept chipping
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Speaker 2: away their little right hook. Here a left hook. And
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Speaker 2: then in overtime the Beard said, here's an uppercut right
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Speaker 2: to the chin. Boom, right to the chin. Sure enough
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Speaker 2: and so Hardin had twelve of the Clippers thirteen points
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Speaker 2: in overtime. He was electric and Jimmy Butler at the
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Speaker 2: end there he looked like a pogo stick. He was
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Speaker 2: hopping up and down there at the end of the game.
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Speaker 2: Draymond Green blew a buddy. I'm sure we'll hear about
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Speaker 2: that in this podcast unless we don't. But yeah, missed a.
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Speaker 1: Layup right there. I could have made that. He missed it.
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Speaker 1: Nobody around. He missed a layup.
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Speaker 2: And you combine this loss and also a couple of
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Speaker 2: days back, the Warriors lost to the San Antonio Spurs
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Speaker 2: at home, a dog food Spurs team, and there's not
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Speaker 2: a lot of razzle dash like any razzle dazzle the
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Speaker 2: Warriors had from winning a bunch of games when they
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Speaker 2: got Jimmy Brother. You lose to the Spurs at home,
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Speaker 2: and you've got a win, and you're in the playoffs. Losing,
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Speaker 2: you're in the playing and you can't beat the Clippers.
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Speaker 2: That's a bad job by Golden State. Now, you can
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Speaker 2: spin it any way you want, but that's not why
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Speaker 2: they got Jimmy Butler and all that stuff. And there's
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Speaker 2: no time for a penny party because right back added
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Speaker 2: another thing that's ridiculous.
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Speaker 1: In the NBA.
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Speaker 2: You play eighty two games. It's an eighty two game
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Speaker 2: playing tournament to decide who makes the playoffs. And then
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Speaker 2: you add a couple extra games just in case somebody
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Speaker 2: gets hurt, because you want more content. And so the
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Speaker 2: NBA Playing Tournament will begin on Tuesday. The seven seed
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Speaker 2: Memphis will travel to Northern California to take on the
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Speaker 2: Warriors in San Francisco.
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Speaker 1: There and that's that. Now turning the.
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Speaker 2: Page, we've got former NBA player Patrick Beverly who has
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Speaker 2: entered the chat. BEV the glue guy for the Clippers. Now,
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Speaker 2: he said, prior to the Clipper Warrior game that the
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Speaker 2: winner of that game on a lazy Sunday afternoon, the
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Speaker 2: winner of that matchup was winning the championship. So how
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Speaker 2: does that sound to you? That's what he said it.
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Speaker 2: I didn't say it. He said it. Patrick Beverly said
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Speaker 2: it all right, So certainly some edgy commentary from Beverly,
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Speaker 2: who I don't think he will probably play in the
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Speaker 2: NBA again. He played overseas and whatnot here and from
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Speaker 2: Beverly's lips to the NBA script writer's ears is what
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Speaker 2: I would say, right.
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Speaker 1: Why not?
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Speaker 2: And the Clippers are certainly more than capable of winning
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Speaker 2: the championship. And they've been in this position where they
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Speaker 2: have the talent to win a championship for about a
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Speaker 2: decade now. Most of the time they've been good enough
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Speaker 2: to win a championship, but inevitably the car breaks down.
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Speaker 2: The car breaks down, the engine doesn't work right, the
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Speaker 2: breaks don't work. At some point, it's if it's not
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Speaker 2: one thing, it's something else here. So I've determined, after
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Speaker 2: a minutes long Mallard deliberation, that the richest owner in
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Speaker 2: American sports, Steve Balmer, needs to go pac Man. They
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Speaker 2: need to go pac Man. Now old arcade game. Pac Man,
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Speaker 2: get your hands on those power pellets, you know, those
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Speaker 2: little power pellets, and pac Man eats the power pellet,
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Speaker 2: and then he flips the script. And then all of
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Speaker 2: a sudden, because pac Man ate the power pellet, he
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Speaker 2: can then he's invincible, and he can then eat those
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Speaker 2: annoying little ghosts that usually chase him. And all of
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Speaker 2: a sudden, he's eating them. And they got to go
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Speaker 2: to that little penalty box in the middle of the screen.
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Speaker 2: The Clippers need a power pellet. They need a pack
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Speaker 2: Man power pellet for Kawhi Leonard. Get him on the court,
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Speaker 2: and they are going to be in the Final four
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Speaker 2: and likely the NBA Finals and the whole thing here,
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Speaker 2: and you really set up pretty good. You got a
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Speaker 2: disheveled Nuggage team that hate each other. They got the
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Speaker 2: coach fired, Michael Malone in Denver.
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Speaker 1: It's a total mess.
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Speaker 2: They got a nerd king dork as the interim coach,
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Speaker 2: Adalman's kid, so they don't know what the hell they're
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Speaker 2: doing there. You got playoff Westbrook. So all the Clippers
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Speaker 2: have to do is leave him open to shoot three point.
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Speaker 2: Here's the Nuggets will feed him the ball he'll lose,
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Speaker 2: he'll miss him, and so you get by them, and
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Speaker 2: maybe you play Oklahoma City. Who knows Oklahoma City won
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Speaker 2: all these games and all that they could lose in
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Speaker 2: the first round.
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Speaker 1: Whoever's the eighth.
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Speaker 2: Seed they get end up losing to, whether you're Memphis
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Speaker 2: or Golden State, of those two teams as the eight
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Speaker 2: seed that would be shocked the Ooklahoma City loses and
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Speaker 2: Clippers get there, they can beat them. So you said,
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Speaker 2: up right, last thing here the final part of this
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Speaker 2: winding road. So the looking around situation, as we have
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Speaker 2: now gotten to a fork in the road. We are
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Speaker 2: done with the regular season at the play in tournament
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Speaker 2: and then the regular season building up to the playoffs,
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Speaker 2: which will be this weekend, the playoffs this weekend. So
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Speaker 2: what early playoff matchups intrigue.
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Speaker 1: You the most? What early playoff matchups intrigued you the most?
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Speaker 2: So we don't know all the matchups yet, there's only
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Speaker 2: four that we know, two in the East and two
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Speaker 2: in the West because of the ridiculous play in tournament.
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Speaker 1: But of those.
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Speaker 2: Upset alert, upset alert, upset alert, the Minnesota Timberwolves and
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Speaker 2: the Lakers. Anthony Edwards has a chance to exterminate Houkluka
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Speaker 2: right away in the plays, and the Lakers are there
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Speaker 2: right there. They're plump for the taken and during the
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Speaker 2: regular season, Minnesota was two and two with the Lakers. Now,
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Speaker 2: the one thing that's scares is they don't play any defense.
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Speaker 2: Neither the Lakers, Neither one's a good defensive team. But
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Speaker 2: that is a juicy opportunity for ant Man. If he
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Speaker 2: can stop, you know, knocking up women for a few
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Speaker 2: days and go out there and get it done, then
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Speaker 2: he'll be in good shape. Now, the Wolves are a
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Speaker 2: bipolar team, but I've noticed from watching random NBA games
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Speaker 2: during the course of the season that there are mostly
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Speaker 2: bipolar teams in the association. That's a league filled with
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Speaker 2: bipolar teams. There's a lot of forest Gump, a lot
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Speaker 2: of forest gump out there. You never know what you're
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Speaker 2: gonna get, like a box of chocolates here, there and everywhere.
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Speaker 2: Inconsistent performances are the norm, at least during the regular season.
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Speaker 2: And these teams, many of them have been brilliant at times,
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Speaker 2: but they're not consistent pathetic at other times.
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Speaker 1: And so it makes it.
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Speaker 2: Unlike years ago when you kind of knew what you
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Speaker 2: were gonna get going into a playoff situation. Not quite
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Speaker 2: the case. That said, much like the NCAA tournament went
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Speaker 2: in doubt, go with chalk Chalky mcchalk. Now in the
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Speaker 2: East of the matchups that we know, the one that
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Speaker 2: you're circling right away is the upstart Pistons, who should
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Speaker 2: not win a playoff series. But the Knicks are a
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Speaker 2: hot mess. They've got issues. You've got Cade Cuttingham and
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Speaker 2: Jalen Brunson on the other side for the Knickerbockers that matchup,
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Speaker 2: Detroit did win the regular season series three games to
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Speaker 2: one over New York. So will the Knickerbockers pull the
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Speaker 2: old Tracy Morgan and puke all over the court at
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Speaker 2: Madison Square Garden.
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Speaker 1: In that series?
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Speaker 2: And then you look around and it's like this, you
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Speaker 2: got a lot of the playing stuff. I mean, there's
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Speaker 2: not a lot there there is. Now there's only one
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Speaker 2: playing game that you're like mildly interested in, and that's
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Speaker 2: to see what happens with Golden State and Memphis. But
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Speaker 2: that's it. Does anyone care about Kings and Matt Evericks?
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Speaker 2: I don't Bulls and heat pu what stinks? And even
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Speaker 2: the Magic and Hawks matchup. That's the seven eight matchup
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Speaker 2: in the East. That doesn't really do much for you.
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Speaker 1: he was on earlier.
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Speaker 2: But he was off for like ten seconds. He stayed
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Speaker 2: on hold, so we'll put him back. Hello, what's going on?
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Speaker 1: Barry? All right? You had very little time. You were
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Speaker 1: making a great but you love golf. You're all about
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Speaker 5: That's right.
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Speaker 6: I love the spring weather.
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Speaker 5: It was snowing in Boston yesterday.
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Speaker 2: That's how crazy, that's how that's how great that that
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Speaker 5: Yeah, good New England. Do not come here for spring break.
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Speaker 5: didn't you.
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Speaker 2: I've never lived I've worked in Boston many times over
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Speaker 2: the years, but I've never actually lived there.
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Speaker 5: Oh okay.
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Speaker 1: In fact, by the way, who knows? You never know?
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Speaker 1: Will there be a third year?
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Speaker 2: Inquiring minds would like to know, But that show has
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Speaker 5: No, sorry, I know I was trying to think of
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Speaker 1: Right, they're making another?
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Speaker 2: If Bob's Bob comes back from the other side, that's impressive.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, all right, all right, all right, very good.
19:37
Speaker 5: Well, anyway, aside from the golf, that was all awesome.
19:41
Speaker 5: Everyone's already covered that. This weekend bu Boston University in
19:48
Speaker 5: Western Michigan, they played in the championship for hockey, and
19:53
Speaker 5: I know it's not big through out the nation, so
19:56
Speaker 5: I'm gonna keep it quick. But it was awesome. And uh,
20:01
Speaker 5: just to see the Penn State go to the Frozen
20:04
Speaker 5: at four and.
20:06
Speaker 7: It's just so exciting for the kids, you know, because
20:10
Speaker 7: hockey is a phenomenal sport. It's just like sark I
20:13
Speaker 7: always say, there's two difference between soccer and hockey. One
20:17
Speaker 7: is played on ice and the other one's played on grass.
20:20
Speaker 7: And that's basically it.
20:21
Speaker 5: Because here you go.
20:22
Speaker 1: That it's just a surface. That's it, all right.
20:24
Speaker 2: I gotta leave it there, bre Butt, thank you calling
20:26
Speaker 2: any time. There's a great berry from Boston. Let's say
20:28
Speaker 2: hello to eat Dog who's on Long Island. Hello, Eat Dog, Welcome,
20:32
Speaker 2: Eat Dog, Welcome, buddy.
20:35
Speaker 1: There he is. Look at this guy, Fire up, Eat
20:38
Speaker 1: Dog right right.
20:40
Speaker 8: I gotta make your comment. I'm gonna take your shot
20:43
Speaker 8: out of my friend Joe Dog if I may.
20:45
Speaker 2: Why would you take a shot at Joe Dog. Joe
20:47
Speaker 2: Dog's not here to defend himself. He's sleeping, he works
20:50
Speaker 2: the day shift.
20:51
Speaker 8: Maybe maybe he's listening. But I gotta say this real quick. Well,
20:55
Speaker 8: we were playing basketball and boy Jefferson we had was
21:01
Speaker 8: our team lost. And after the game is over, a
21:04
Speaker 8: guy the other team said, hey, Joe, there's there's a
21:07
Speaker 8: game on the other court. And Joe thought he was
21:09
Speaker 8: being nice, but he just wanted to get.
21:11
Speaker 5: Rid of him off the court.
21:13
Speaker 8: Anyway, there's a new word. Rummy used to say how
21:18
Speaker 8: you doing? What's going on? And the new word now
21:21
Speaker 8: is browsing around? So somebody says to you, how you doing?
21:24
Speaker 8: You guys say browsing around?
21:27
Speaker 2: I remember what I used to say is if I
21:29
Speaker 2: was any better, i'd be a twin, but not a
21:30
Speaker 2: Minnesota twin because they're not good.
21:32
Speaker 1: That's I used to say that life, I.
21:34
Speaker 8: Ask your question, No, well that anyway.
21:40
Speaker 1: You're gonna ask anyway? Is that what you said you
21:41
Speaker 1: want to ask? Anyway?
21:43
Speaker 8: Yeah, this is I was at a ball in New Jersey.
21:46
Speaker 2: Right, Why, well, you're in Long Island. Why would you
21:48
Speaker 2: go over to a bar in Jersey? Just stay on
21:50
Speaker 2: Long Island?
21:50
Speaker 5: This bar is on Longe is I was a little.
21:53
Speaker 2: Okay, so this is years ago. You love telling old stories,
21:56
Speaker 2: you love story time.
21:57
Speaker 1: With the dog.
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Speaker 8: Anyway, so what I was saying, you.
22:04
Speaker 1: Read a bar in Jersey. Every good story starts out
22:07
Speaker 1: with I was at.
22:07
Speaker 7: A bark h I got it.
22:09
Speaker 8: By the way, I got a new girlfriend, Krista.
22:11
Speaker 1: Now what happened to your last girlfriend?
22:14
Speaker 8: Well, Melissa still wants me, but she says, if I
22:19
Speaker 8: give you Christa's number, would you talk to me?
22:22
Speaker 1: So I said, okay, so you've you've moved on from Melissa.
22:27
Speaker 1: You're still seeing Melissa?
22:29
Speaker 8: Well, well she knows when I get paid for some reason.
22:33
Speaker 1: Yeah, would you you're on disability? Didn't you say your
22:35
Speaker 1: own disability?
22:37
Speaker 5: Yeah?
22:38
Speaker 8: Yeah, well I get a check.
22:39
Speaker 2: You get a check from the government, So that's yeah.
22:42
Speaker 2: What woman wouldn't be attracted to a man on disability?
22:44
Speaker 2: Come on, I mean right, Lorena, aren't you a ladies
22:47
Speaker 2: lining up? You get that big, that big disability check man.
22:50
Speaker 2: That makes a man very attractive to a woman.
22:52
Speaker 1: Yes, what.
22:54
Speaker 8: My nickname is m I C A member chemical abuser.
22:59
Speaker 1: Yeah, all right, well take a take a number, you know,
23:03
Speaker 1: take a number.
23:06
Speaker 8: I'm here, Like I said, something says to you, how
23:10
Speaker 8: you doing? You gotta say brothers and around?
23:12
Speaker 2: That's I don't know, man, I'm worried that might have
23:15
Speaker 2: some kind of other meaning that I don't know. Maybe
23:18
Speaker 2: that means something bad. How can I how can I
23:20
Speaker 2: take your wordy? How can I trust you? Eat dogg
23:22
Speaker 2: How can I.
23:22
Speaker 1: Trust this one?
23:24
Speaker 8: Hey? Ben, Lorraine?
23:27
Speaker 2: Who's Lorraine? You want to talk to Lorraine? I don't
23:31
Speaker 2: know Lorain. Is there a Lorraine here?
23:34
Speaker 1: Lorain?
23:35
Speaker 9: I don't know a Lorraine.
23:36
Speaker 2: Ben. No, gotta get dog. You got to get the
23:40
Speaker 2: name right, you know. The most important sound in the
23:42
Speaker 2: voice is your name. Person loves to hear their name.
23:44
Speaker 2: They don't want to hear the wrong name. That's a
23:45
Speaker 2: bad thing.
23:46
Speaker 1: That's a bad Joby, what's her name?
23:48
Speaker 2: You don't know her name? Why do you not know
23:49
Speaker 2: her name? You're a listener, You're supposed to know her name.
23:53
Speaker 2: Oh yeah, you said. Okay, Well there you said it.
23:55
Speaker 2: But before you say you did, you forgot the last
23:57
Speaker 2: part of it.
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Speaker 1: Anyways, hi with okay, all right, thank you?
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Speaker 8: All right? Go next, baby, Yeah.
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25:24
Speaker 6: Speaking of unemployment, it's great to be forced into early
25:28
Speaker 6: retirement by my disability.
25:31
Speaker 1: Outstanding, wonderful. Welcome to the club.
25:35
Speaker 6: So, hey, I tried this last year. I'm going to
25:38
Speaker 6: try it against the National Blind Bowling Tournament. Yeah, it's
25:44
Speaker 6: coming up. It's going to be in the great state
25:46
Speaker 6: of Ohio in the month of May in Cleveland.
25:51
Speaker 1: Okay, And what are you what are you getting at here?
25:54
Speaker 6: Oh, little meat, little green.
25:56
Speaker 1: Well, what do we know a date on that? Like,
25:58
Speaker 1: what part of me? It's the data.
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Speaker 6: May, it's the saturday involved. There would be May the twenty.
26:06
Speaker 2: Made it twenty fourth, Okay, it's a little late in
26:09
Speaker 2: the month, but you think May twenty fourth, and then
26:11
Speaker 2: we could like have a meet and greet. We could
26:13
Speaker 2: get together and have a big celebration there.
26:16
Speaker 6: Yeah, it is Memorial Day week. I don't know if
26:19
Speaker 6: that throws a monkey right now?
26:20
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, that could be a problem more. That's because
26:22
Speaker 1: I don't know.
26:23
Speaker 6: But the Lovely Hotel though, and I know the lady
26:26
Speaker 6: that works across the street at the gun store.
26:28
Speaker 1: Oh so I can get a gun.
26:30
Speaker 6: Yes.
26:31
Speaker 1: I don't think I'm allowed to fly.
26:32
Speaker 2: With a gun though. I don't think they'll let me
26:33
Speaker 2: on the plane with a gun. I think that's the problem.
26:35
Speaker 6: Well, you can put it in your check bag and stuff.
26:37
Speaker 1: Oh there you go. I could put it in the
26:38
Speaker 1: check bag there, and they do. They sell a lot
26:41
Speaker 1: of guns to the blind. Are There are a lot of
26:43
Speaker 1: blind people trying.
26:44
Speaker 6: To buy There are no laws. There are no laws
26:46
Speaker 6: whatsoever against the blind human being only a gun.
26:49
Speaker 2: Is that correct? I had no idea. So you could
26:52
Speaker 2: go in there, you can't see anything. You buy your gun,
26:54
Speaker 2: the whole thing, But you can't buy bullets.
26:57
Speaker 6: The blind bowlers are going to be in there like crazy,
26:59
Speaker 6: like it's Rubik's for the blind.
27:03
Speaker 1: Yeah, and what kind of what kind of partying?
27:05
Speaker 2: What kind of partying does the you go to a
27:07
Speaker 2: blind bowling event? I mean it must be off the hook.
27:10
Speaker 2: You guys go out there and just be must be crazy, right, groupies.
27:13
Speaker 6: The whole thing you you actually would be surprised.
27:17
Speaker 2: Is that right look at you? You see because everyone
27:20
Speaker 2: feels best. So you guys go crazy. You go out there,
27:22
Speaker 2: You party hardy, don't you.
27:23
Speaker 6: We used to host the tournament here in Daytona Beach.
27:26
Speaker 6: We haven't for the last couple of years because we've
27:29
Speaker 6: had certain people drop off the.
27:32
Speaker 2: League that why can't we get like a Ben Maveris.
27:36
Speaker 2: We have so many great blind callers to the show.
27:38
Speaker 2: Why can't we get the blind callers to unite and
27:41
Speaker 2: as a super team and we could become I have
27:44
Speaker 2: a dream we can have the most dominant blind bowling
27:48
Speaker 2: team of all time. We put Inka Terror in there.
27:51
Speaker 2: We've got you Stevie Meatballs, You're a seasoned veteran of this.
27:55
Speaker 2: We cann have blind Emmett from Seattle or not from
27:57
Speaker 2: Seattle's in the Pacific Northwest.
27:59
Speaker 1: Get him involved in this.
28:00
Speaker 2: We got so many blind people it can be part
28:02
Speaker 2: of the legally blind Christopher and Carolina can be part
28:04
Speaker 2: of it.
28:04
Speaker 1: We got a lot of people.
28:05
Speaker 6: Here also, all of the blind bowlers one hundred and
28:09
Speaker 6: something I remember staying at the same hotel where we
28:11
Speaker 6: could have the meet and great and you could recruit.
28:14
Speaker 2: Oh man, oh I could add I could submit my
28:18
Speaker 2: title as the number one host for the blind in
28:22
Speaker 2: overnight talk radio.
28:24
Speaker 6: We do a whole sect of the militia just for
28:29
Speaker 6: the blind.
28:30
Speaker 2: This is a great idea, this is a great we
28:32
Speaker 2: should you guys want to What do you think here, Lorna?
28:35
Speaker 2: You want to go to Cleveland for the blind bowling event?
28:38
Speaker 2: We can recruit new listeners there.
28:40
Speaker 3: Yes, and I would love to meet all the blind
28:42
Speaker 3: people and get their autographs.
28:44
Speaker 2: You want to get their autograph on my outfit? They'd
28:47
Speaker 2: sign it in Brail. You guys sign your autographs and brails.
28:50
Speaker 1: That correct?
28:52
Speaker 6: I don't think so. No, I don't know Brow.
28:55
Speaker 4: You don't know.
28:55
Speaker 2: You're a fake blind guy. You don't know Braill. Come on, man,
28:58
Speaker 2: you're Stevie meet Paul's. You're supposed to know.
29:00
Speaker 6: I didn't used to kneed Brail. I used to be
29:02
Speaker 6: able to see. So I've become the literate in my fifties.
29:05
Speaker 1: Okay, my niece is thirteen and she can read Braill well.
29:09
Speaker 2: And now see, now you're making this guy feel bad.
29:11
Speaker 2: How about that this Larina's niece can read Braill.
29:14
Speaker 1: You're in your fifties. You can't read Braill. What's up
29:16
Speaker 1: with that?
29:17
Speaker 6: Well, you know, there's only certain situations where you need
29:20
Speaker 6: to read Brail because if you've got a smartphone, it
29:22
Speaker 6: reads almost everything for you.
29:23
Speaker 1: Oh, there you go. All you need is a smartphone.
29:25
Speaker 1: You're good to go on that person. Yeah, Brail's kind
29:27
Speaker 1: of a dead uh language? Is that? H?
29:31
Speaker 6: Well? Then, you know, a couple of years ago, for
29:33
Speaker 6: the first time seeing going out on my own somewhere,
29:37
Speaker 6: I went to the blind bowling tournament in northern Kentucky,
29:40
Speaker 6: just outside of Cincinnati. Anyway, I get to the airport.
29:45
Speaker 6: They helped me out there. You know, the airline is
29:46
Speaker 6: very nice, very accommodating. But then you get to the
29:48
Speaker 6: hotel and there's nobody really at the hotel to help you.
29:51
Speaker 6: I want to do things on my own, right, So
29:52
Speaker 6: I get so they direct me to the to the elevator.
29:56
Speaker 6: I get in the elevator, I'm like, oh, this is nice.
29:58
Speaker 6: I don't know what button the.
29:59
Speaker 1: Press are you trying? Were you trying to count the numbers?
30:03
Speaker 5: Like?
30:03
Speaker 2: Because I would like try to feel the buttons and
30:05
Speaker 2: be like, all, let's see what floor am I?
30:07
Speaker 1: Uh, yeah, I guess maybe you might need braille for
30:10
Speaker 1: a certain situation. Yeah, Coop's not dying.
30:14
Speaker 6: Yeah, God knows what's on the you or you just have.
30:18
Speaker 2: To yeah, you know, but you just have to like
30:20
Speaker 2: wait for someone else to get in the elevator and
30:22
Speaker 2: then they'll help you out. But that you don't know,
30:24
Speaker 2: maybe it's at night and there's no one else in
30:26
Speaker 2: your body. I mean, you're stuck in the elevator and
30:28
Speaker 2: then like that looked like a.
30:29
Speaker 6: Quarter mile back to the uh front desk, because I
30:33
Speaker 6: remember the way to the elevator. It was you know,
30:35
Speaker 6: it was late at night. Yeah, and getting back, getting
30:37
Speaker 6: back to the front desk was a little more difficult
30:39
Speaker 6: because I forgot which way I come from.
30:41
Speaker 2: Completely understand or completely understandable, listen, I I back in
30:44
Speaker 2: the day. I was fortunate enough I traveled with some
30:47
Speaker 2: the Dodgers, and there were guys that they switched cities
30:50
Speaker 2: so often.
30:50
Speaker 1: They didn't know what.
30:51
Speaker 2: Hotel room they were in in the in the city,
30:53
Speaker 2: and they have to go to the front desk and
30:55
Speaker 2: they could see and they didn't know I had no idea.
30:58
Speaker 2: They thought they were in like room four twenty five,
31:00
Speaker 2: but it was actually it was actually you know, three ten.
31:04
Speaker 1: Yeah.
31:04
Speaker 6: Anyway, this this should become an annual event for you.
31:08
Speaker 6: Next year, we're going to be in Louisville, Kentucky, same
31:10
Speaker 6: time of the year.
31:11
Speaker 2: Okay, well, I will consider We do not have a
31:13
Speaker 2: date for the Ohio meet and greet. There's a couple
31:15
Speaker 2: of dates that we are considering, and some of them
31:17
Speaker 2: are in May.
31:18
Speaker 1: Some of them are in May. We need a venue.
31:20
Speaker 2: We have, I believe a venue in Columbus. If we
31:23
Speaker 2: went to Columbus, could you make it?
31:25
Speaker 1: You would not be.
31:26
Speaker 2: Able to make the trip from Cleveland to Columbus, right,
31:27
Speaker 2: you would not be able to do that?
31:29
Speaker 1: Or would you be able to do that?
31:30
Speaker 6: I mean, gee, you know i'd have to I don't know,
31:34
Speaker 6: I don't know how what.
31:36
Speaker 1: Okay, all right, we'll figure it out.
31:38
Speaker 6: We'll figure Yeah, it would have to be a different weekend,
31:40
Speaker 6: and that means I'm staying in Ohio for an extra week.
31:42
Speaker 1: I don't know about that, I understand.
31:44
Speaker 2: I mean, nobody wants to do that. I got you,
31:45
Speaker 2: all right, all right, Well, thank you, all right, I
31:46
Speaker 2: gotta go. You've been on the air for ed eight minutes.
31:49
Speaker 2: You got eight minutes. You got airtime.
31:51
Speaker 5: That's how good?
31:52
Speaker 1: I A, No, you're not, you suck. You got eight minutes?
31:55
Speaker 5: Go?
31:55
Speaker 1: I thank you? Oh wow, all right.
31:59
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32:02
Speaker 1: As we are rolling on through.
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Speaker 2: Wow, amazing, what a stud this guy.
32:55
Speaker 1: And he looked like zz Top. I go, you know
32:57
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Speaker 2: If he got stung, well have Maybe he's been stung
33:04
Speaker 2: so much he's just used to the stings.
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Speaker 1: we go.
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Speaker 4: This is one gets crack.
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Speaker 9: The Portland Trail Blazers have missed the playoffs for four
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Speaker 9: seasons in a row, but despite that, they gave head
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Speaker 9: coach Chauncey Billups a contract extension. Keeping him there through
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Speaker 9: their twenty twenty seven to twenty eight season. Yes, Ben,
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Speaker 9: do you think the Blazers are headed in the right
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Speaker 9: direction under Billups?
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Speaker 1: Well, they are better, but the bar was so low.
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Speaker 2: It's like they sucked for so long, and now they
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Speaker 2: did improve.
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Speaker 1: The record by fourteen games.
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Speaker 2: I wouldn't say they're they're they're in danger of being
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Speaker 2: good if they actually go out and add a couple
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Speaker 2: of players. Yeah, but at this point, the the assumption is, hey,
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Speaker 2: they were I think they had a winning record from
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Speaker 2: mid January to the end of the season. They beat
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Speaker 2: some good teams, so they are heading the right direction.
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Speaker 2: And the Blazers from when I heard they were worried
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Speaker 2: that other good teams actually wanted to hire Chauncey Billips,
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Speaker 2: so they keep him locked on the Oregon trail. They're
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Speaker 2: not going the wrong direction. I think they're kind of
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Speaker 2: more in the middle, theirth day, the fork in the road,
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Speaker 2: where if they make a couple of decent moves this offseason,
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Speaker 2: they can actually be a playoff team again. Otherwise they'll
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Speaker 2: be stuck in purgatory. I wouldn't say a thirty five
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Speaker 2: win team is a good team.
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Speaker 9: Next, speaking with the media over the weekend, Kenny Pickett
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Speaker 9: said that he plans on starting in Cleveland, saying, I'm
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Speaker 9: not going there to hang out Ben Yu.
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Speaker 1: That's good. Do you expect Pickett to be the starter
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Speaker 1: throughout the season? No, he will start, But do I
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Speaker 1: expect him to be the start? No?
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Speaker 2: I mean they did sign Joe Flacco over the weekend.
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Speaker 2: Flacco was there before and they had to get rid
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Speaker 2: of him because Deshaun Watson was uncomfortable because Flacco was there.
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Speaker 2: But no, I would think every team seventeen games. Kenny Pickett,
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Speaker 2: if he's there, he's gonna star at least one or
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Speaker 2: two games.
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Speaker 1: But he's you know, he's no good.
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Speaker 6: You know he was.
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Speaker 2: He was like they tried to hide him in Pittsburgh.
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Speaker 2: They won some games, but not because it can't he
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Speaker 2: pick it. But he's not gonna start the year as
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Speaker 2: QB one. Plus, the Browns will likely draft the quarterback
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Speaker 2: and we'll add another quarterback next.
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Speaker 9: Evan Ingram told reporters that he was pursued by the
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Speaker 9: Chargers in the offseason, but he chose the Broncos because
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Speaker 9: of how Sean Payton intends to use him in the
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Speaker 9: offense and that he is quote ready to be unleashed. Ben,
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Speaker 9: do you expect a big season from Ingram and Denver?
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Speaker 5: Well?
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Speaker 1: This see this is a trick question, Coop.
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Speaker 2: I know you asked a Bronco question and if there's
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Speaker 2: if I give an answer that you don't like it's
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Speaker 2: anti Bronco, then you will fail me on this one.
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Speaker 2: I know how this works here. Evan Ingram made a decision.
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Speaker 2: I believe it was a financial decision. It wasn't based
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Speaker 2: on the Chargers or the Broncos. It was based on
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Speaker 2: he got more money. That's why he went to Denver.
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Speaker 2: It's not about you. The Broncos and the Chargers are
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Speaker 2: about the same. I don't think there's much difference between
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Speaker 2: those teams.
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Speaker 1: There it is how do we know? But do you
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Speaker 1: expect a big season? That's not show you fail? No,
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Speaker 1: I knew it. I don't you see that. But that's
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Speaker 1: a fraudulent that's an East German judge, you did it,
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Speaker 1: that's what East German. That's a Russian judge. Communist