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The Phillies Head To The NLDS And Our Top TV Theme Songs Of All-Time (PST Episode 534) · The Philadelphia Sports Table | Philly Sports News & Views

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  Hey, everybody, it's Jeff. Just wanted to let you know that we
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  recorded this podcast episode on Wednesday evening, October fourth, twenty twenty three.
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  So by the time you hear this, some things may have changed here there,
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  We are on Spotify another podcasting platforms as well. Like I said, ten
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  years strong here, it's got a lot of great content this week on the
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  show and well into the future. I'm Jeff Warren and I'm here at my
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  good buddy Eric Leonard. Eric, how you doing? Man? We had
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  a discussion before the show and I always ask you and Leonard like how you
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  doing? And it's like, oh boy, I hope we will be able
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  to get through the show. Well, you and I are talking about what
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  does a blood clot feel like, yes, I'm talking about my kids school
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  and an asshole teacher there. Yeah, yeah, just just that midlife parents
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  parenting crap and just it's just thank God for sports and thank God for dumb
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  top three lists, which we have tonight, because that, honestly is like
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  such a nice Let's just let's just put life away for forty five minutes to
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  an hour and just talk about this stuff because I know people sit on the
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  show like I like, I love the show. It helps me escape,
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  helps me kind of like get through a driver later. It helps us too,
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  guys, really does sometimes, yeah, absolutely does. Because we got
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  Phillies talk on the way. We've got Phillies talk on the way. Of
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  course we do, because they are heading to the NL Divisional Series after sweeping
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  the Miami Marlins. We're certainly going to talk about this Phillies postseason, getting
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  into some predictions for the NL and the AL Championship games, who we think
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  is gonna win this World Series, and really quick, folks, we don't
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  have a guest on this week like we usually do, because, as Eric
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  mentioned, we do have a top three list that we are going to be
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  getting into. But before that top three list, we're gonna talk about James
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  Harden and the fact that he was participating at the Sixers practice out of Colorado
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  State, and it's incredible how this guy is acting right now and given where
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  he's at in his career, and how this seventy six ers organization is handling
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  everything. We're gonna get into that as campus started for the Philadelphia seventy six
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  ers. And then of course we got some Eagles talk here. Eagles are
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  four and zero, but they've been having some problems on defense, as we
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  know, and they went out and signed a gentleman who I love. I
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  love the signing. I absolutely love the signing. Bradley Roby gonna be playing
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  that slot corner position and nickel packages and it was desperately needed. Howie Roseman,
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  I think really doing Estellar jobs still in terms of this roster. And
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  then and then what we're thrown down on the table our new top three list,
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  and this is just completely getting off of the sports subjects that we just
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  focus on here at this show. The top three best TV theme songs of
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  all time. And I'm telling you, folks, I have a feeling Eric
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  and I have not just talked about this at all but I have a feeling
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  we're gonna be going back to the seventies, the eighties, the nineties,
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  possibly early two thousands. Will you know. It's gonna be an interesting list
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  for sure. And again, as Eric and I were talking about before the
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  show, Eric, it was an impossible list to just compile here because there's
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  so many good TV theme songs that you can be like, you know what,
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  that could be number one. They did listen to something else, Oh
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  that could be number one too. There were so many good theme songs,
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  whether it was you know, us growing up listening to them or you know,
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  as we were in college, or so many good theme songs. I
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  just I was just like, I'm just gonna pick my three favorites at this
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  point. So that's what I'm gonna be doing later in the show. And
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  it's funny because I had to look at a bunch of lists too to kind
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  of remember some some older ones. Yeah. But and I have almost no
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  current shows on here, And at first my first thought was, Oh,
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  I'm old, like I don't watch TV anymore. Actually, it's I think
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  it's a combination of that as well as the the advent of the ability to
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  skip the opening of TV shows on Netflix and all the streaming services. Yeah,
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  so I don't think TV's theme songs matter much anymore because you can just
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  literally like every Seinfeld intro like you can just through it on Netflix. I
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  think that has something to do with I have nothing on my list that's even
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  like the newest one I swear is like the nineties. Maybe okay, but
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  I just think that that when they skip intro thing came into play on streaming,
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  that a killed off TV theme songs. That's really interesting. It is
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  interesting. Look, I have one on my top three. Look, we
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  have an honorable mention songs that we're going to get into before our top three
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  list. I will say that on my top three, I actually do have
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  a current theme song. I have one that's current because it is an incredible
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  piece of music for what the show is. And I do have one that's
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  actually current, believe it or not. Okay, Yeah, all right,
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  let's get into this. Philadelphia Phillies Team Buddy O head to the Divisional Series,
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  the National League Divisional Series. Here, we're recording this right after the
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  win. I mean, I'm looking at my TV right now and they're just
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  going through I mean Toronto and Minnesota right now, they're going through the highlights
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  from that game. But Philadelphia Phillies, they are going to be playing the
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  Atlanta Braves in the divisional series. It's gonna be one hell of a divisional
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  series, I think. But I did want to say right off the bat,
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  I am. I'm gonna say that JT. Real Muto has certainly come
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  through in terms of the wild Card, just how he's played over the past
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  few weeks. And I've been down on JT. Real Muto just in terms
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  of, you know, where he was at in his career, the questions
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  that I was raising and the concerns that I've been having on the show over
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  the past couple months about JT and just where he's at in his career right
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  now. And man, he has really been pulling through. And it's so
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  good to see that JT. Real Muto Eric is still JT real Muto.
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  And I just wanted to put that out there because a lot of guys that
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  needed to come through, you know, over the past few weeks here certainly
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  come through for this team. Yeah, and my my brother and I were
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  texting last night about the move by Thompson to move him up in the order.
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  To number five. Yeah, last night and tonight and uh, because
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  it was like a two fold thing. It's like real mood put put real
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  MoWT two up a little bit, give him some give him some pitches in
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  the five hole and see if he kind of kind of reinvigorate him a little
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  bit. And then you could you know, you're you're you're putting Castellanos in
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  stock down to notch a notchra two, which they can handle that because they're
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  both like just pretty good professional players. It was just a great move overall,
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  just minor tweaks, just such a smart It's just one of those like
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  really smart manager moves that you're you're taking care of your guys. All three
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  of them are okay with that move, right because they trust him, and
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  look what it did. It kind of he was what two for three tonight
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  with a double on home run. Yeah, he looked awesome. He called
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  two games behind the plate. He was just he was phenomenal behind the plate
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  calling the game, especially with in game one. Was that with Wheeler.
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  Yeah, my god, he was framing those pitches so well, and he
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  had a couple of strikes for Wheeler with it, not strikes, but just
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  the way he frames and pulls, that pulls the ball into the zone when
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  it's right on the right of the corner of the edge. He was He's
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  he might I mean, besides Wheeler and in Nola, I think he might
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  have been possibly the MVP of the series. Just how ye, just how
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  different he looked and kind of the leaders should be brought to the team.
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  I just wanted to mention him, folks, because I know I've just I've
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  been questioning him in terms of the concerns that I've had, and boy,
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  he has just really stepped up when they needed him. You mentioned Aaron Nola,
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  Eric, And look, as we know, Aaron Nola's twenty twenty three
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  season has had more downs than ups. But over his last two starts prior
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  to this wild card game here, I mean he's been very effective. I
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  mean, going six innings against the Braves given up just two runs, and
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  then six and two thirds innings against the Pirates, allowing just one run in
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  his last time during the regular season, but most importantly, he struck out
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  sixteen batters and walked none during that point in time before the wild card matchup.
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  And Aaron Nola looks good. He looked great. Against the Marlins in
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  Game two. Here, looks like he is ready to play. Looks like
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  he is ready for this upcoming series against the Braves, because if they are
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  going to advance, if they are going to have a chance to advance and
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  beat the Atlanta Braves, which I do think is possible, folks, because
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  as we know, based on last year, when the magic hits, anything
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  is possible. If that magic does hit Aaron Nola, it is very possible
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  that we're going to be able to see this team head into the NLCS.
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  Quite frankly, so, I don't want to put the car before the horse
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  here, but man, Aaron Nola is looking good here. Eric cliche cliche
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  time, you need to get a cliche button like an old radio show.
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  Yes, yeah, one thing, one thing. It hit me and watching
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  both of them tonight or Wheeler last night and Nola tonight was like, just
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  how crisp and clean their pitches were, especially they're they're they're they're good stuff,
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  right, Like Nola's fastball curveball combo. He's just that's he's a fastball
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  curveball guy. And the curveball was just dropping beautifully. It was and then
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  I you know, last night Wheeler's four seam fastball was just it was humming
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  and moving too, like it was moving, had that kind of quick tail
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  at the end at ninety six miles an hour. He looked great, that
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  slurb that he does. He was He had guys just flummox at the at
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  the plate. And when when when the hell did a slider become a sweeper?
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  Yeah? What? Yes? Yes? When did that happen? Because
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  I don't know, I feel old. I think it happened this year because
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  I've never I've heard the term before, but I'm like this, we're going
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  with like I didn't get the memoy coach, I didn't get I didn't get
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  that in the mail. So I have no idea, no idea here.
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  But I'll tell you, folks, it's gonna be an interesting MLB playoffs for
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  sure, against again Phillies playing the Atlanta Braves. We've got the Diamondbacks playing
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  the Dodgers. We've got the over in the al Twins taken on the Orioles,
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  and I believe the Astros are taken on the Twins. So this is
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  gonna be fun. It is gonna be real fun to see who gets to
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  the NLCS. The Alcs Eric, I actually think, I actually think the
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  Phillies are gonna do it. I really do. I know how hot this
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  Braves team has been. We all do. Anybody that follows baseball knows and
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  understands how hot this Braves team is and how indestructible they seem to be during
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  twenty twenty three here. But again, it is the playoffs and that magic
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  I talked about, and that feeling, and especially in Citizens Bank Park where
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  the Phillies do have an edge, and now they're not gonna have home field.
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  However, it's really gonna come down to the starting pitching, and I
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  just have that feeling. It's a gut feeling. There's absolutely no stats that
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  I'm reading off of my computer screen right now, but it's that gut feeling
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  that this team can actually pull this out and get to the NLCS. I
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  do believe that we are going to see a Diamondbacks in Philadelphia Phillies NLCS.
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  That's my prediction here. Probably going to be wrong, but that's my prediction.
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  What are you thinking here, buddy? I'm sorry, just real quick.
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  The Phillies have like something in their back pocket they've never really had in
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  the playoffs. Kirkering he pitched tonight. They just brought them up. They
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  brought him up a couple of weeks ago. Yeah, it's crazy. And
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  they were doing the they were doing the comparison tonight on on the broadcast of
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  Joba Chamberlain when he was like the hot arm with the Yankees. He kind
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  of came out of nowhere. Yeah. I can't remember the last time the
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  Phillies had had a player like come out of nowhere and just mow dudes down
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  for a couple of weeks. But a great point. Yeah, and he
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  made the roster. It's like, wow, Okay that that feels a little
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  special, you know. Now. I think the Braves team were playing this
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  year is better than last year, the team we beat. I think Akun
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  is the best player in the league at this point. I think Matt Olson
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  is awesome. But again, I don't think the Braves. They have home
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  field, but it's not really home field that those fans are not like our
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  fans. It's not even close exactly. I do think they're gonna beat I
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  think the Phillies are going to beat the Braves. Honestly, do I think
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  the Dodgers are going to beat the Diamondbacks And that's rure. I'm stuck,
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  man. I don't do you think the Phillies go all the way to the
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  World Series? Oh my god? Do I'm asking, yeah, what do
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  you? What do you think? The gut that I'm saying, if they're
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  able to con if they're able to continue with the consistency here, and if
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  they are able to put up at least six runs in each game, which
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  I know is not each game I should say, you know, I mean
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  within the series itself. If they're able to put up four times they put
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  up six runs in four different games, then yes, I think they're going
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  to go to the World Series. Because at the end of the day,
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  as we know, it's been tough to trust trust the pitching. However,
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  in this wild Card we've seen what the pitching has done and you're like,
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  oh my god, it's all coming together here. Does the magic start right
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  now? And that's why I'm thinking, yes, it could happen. But
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  I hate saying it. I really hate saying it, you know what I
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  mean. And it's not even about the jinks. It's more just, oh
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  my god, I'm starting to feel what I was feeling last year. I
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  remember those feelings and I'm like, I just don't want to get ahead of
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  myself. I don't want the fan base to get ahead of themselves. But
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  it's really tough not to. But I think with this team, I've kind
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  of put aside my Nagadelphia stuff with this squad because there is something to them,
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  and I've talked about here long how they're like the most likable team in
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  the city right now, and I just I think they're going to go back.
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  I really do. I think they're going to go back to the World
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  Series. Could could I see the Braves beating them in six games and then
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  we're not having this contra totally. But I I just have that feeling that
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  if we can get a split in Atlanta the first two, you in one
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  of those games you come home, that home crowd is going to absolute ape
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  shit. I know, I know they're baseball players and I be affected,
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  but there's no fucking way that Braves aren't going to be like, wow,
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  this is uh, this is something else. That guy just called my mother
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  what, Like I've never heard that word in my life. Like, I
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  feel like that we out of all the teams left, like the eight squads,
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  like we have the home field advantage by far in terms of fans.
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  Yes, I'm praying to God it's not a doll as hell Astros Braves World
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  Series. I'm already bored by that. No it is. I know in
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  my heart I really really love Philly's Orioles. That'd be so goddamn cool.
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  I was just going to say that that would be so cool because I mean,
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  not that you would be rooting for the Oils, but I know the
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  Oils are your AL team. You know you love Baltimore, love going Camden
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  Yards. You know you've been down there a number of times with your family
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  and stuff like, that's kind of your AL team, and that it would
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  be fun. That would be a fun series for sure. Well, and
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  they're a young and fun team too, like all those years of draft picks
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  finally have come together. Yeah, and they were damn good this year,
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  I mean start to finish, they were the best team in AL probably And
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  I just in my heart of hearts, I think Phillies Oils will be great.
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  What I what I unfortunately might see happening is what I just said,
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  the Braves Astros or Dodgers Astros, And I'm just gonna be like, yeah,
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  any of this like, I don't like I will, but I've I
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  don't know. I I guess I'm making a prediction. Phillies Orioles, but
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  I'm scared to death is going to be what I just said, really boring,
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  but you know, and then ann ANSWER's gonna be like it's a rematcher
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  the twenty eighteen. It's like, no, you can't sell it, sell
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  it to me. I don't give it any I mean that part of me,
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  part of me is really hoping the diamond or Yeah, the Diamondbacks are
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  gonna take this, you know. I just I'm just so tired of the
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  Dodgers, you know, twenty seventeen, twenty eighteen, then twenty twenty,
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  and I am just I'm just tired of them. I still don't think the
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  Houston Astros have gotten their due in terms of people booing them for the cheating
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  that went on they got they got bailed out by a a a worldwide pandemic
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  and virus. They got bailed out, and I'm just so tired of them.
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  I'm tired of both of those teams. They are they are the last
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  teams that I want to see going anywhere. That's why I said Phillies Diamondbacks
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  in the NLCS. That's what I'm hoping for. Logic, I think it
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  would be Phillies Dodgers, and I think the Phillies would beat the Dodgers too.
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  I think the Phillies are going to be any team. I really do.
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  And I know we're getting ahead of ourselves, but yeah, at the
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  end of the day, for me, I'm hoping World Series Phillies and Orioles.
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  That would be fun. That's what I'm praying for. And right now,
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  We've said this a whole bunch during the year, like this team was
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  built to kind of not coast the first three months of this season, but
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  like kind of play their old asses into shape, yeah, and then kick
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  it into gear in August, September and in October. It's kind of exactly
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  what's going on, and you can't tell me. Like watching those bats tonight,
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  the Marlins have good pitching, Like that's not they do. I have
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  saniel Al Kantara and Uri Prez, but you know they still They're another team
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  that's been drafting arms for years and years and years. And those pictures were
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  not awful. Like Lozardo was pretty good for the first couple of innings and
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  we just stuck with it and stuck with it, and it would just tie.
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  Only hitting and guys that understand the moment. We have plenty of guys.
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  I understand them like real mood too, obviously in Harper and Bryson Stott
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  with Bryson Scott with that swing, Oh my god, that Grand Slam was
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  amazing. I mean, he put the tombstone on the Marlins, so when
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  he hit that ball, it was done. And I know the Marlins just
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  not a good team, but let's look at it this way. A pesky
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  team who's been a thorn in our side for how many years? And I
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  even wrote to text all you guys at the beginning of this series. I'm
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  a little winous about this one man. Yeah, for some reason, his
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  team has our number, and we kicked the living shit out of eleven to
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  two and two games. I feel like the momentums there, and if they
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  got to the World Series, I wouldn't be surprised whatsoever. I I love
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  the predictions here and we'd love to know what you're thinking out there. Is
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  this Phillies team is moving forward to the divisional round of this postseason. Man,
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  I'm so excited, so excited, it's gonna be great. Let us
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  at Brickpollot and me at Jeffrey Underscore Warren and we're gonna take a quick break.
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  We are going to be back in just a bit. All right,
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  everybody, welcome back. It is time to get into some Philadelphia seventy six
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  ers talk as the team is out at Colorado State University campus started and James
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  Harden he is practicing. He is practicing, despite the fact, according to
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  Woj from ESPN, that he wants to make things really uncomfortable for the Philadelphia
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  seventy six ers. That's what has been reported by WOJ. And it was
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  really interesting how a good friend of ours on the podcast from Libertyballers dot Com.
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  We've had him on a number of times, Harrison Grim. He actually
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  tweeted today and I loved it because it encapsulates what James Harden is and where
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  he's at right now in his career. Reiden Harrison's tweet here he said,
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  imagine taking a private jet across the country with the sole intention of throwing a
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  fit and making a scene as a thirty two year old man. And I
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  was like, you know what, Yep, that's where James Harden is at
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  right now in his career. That is where he is at with the intention
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  of throwing a fit, not the intention of being a good teammate, not
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  the intention of helping Joel Embiid get to that championship level, or anybody else
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  on the team, Tyrese Maxey, you know, the some of these other
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  guys on the team, not to be the best type of basketball player he
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  can be, or even with the intention of seeing what he can do in
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  terms of his value, as he's gonna be a free agent after this season.
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  That's not the intention at all. The intention is to make things incredibly
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  uncomfortable for the Philadelphia seventy six ers. I gotta tell you, Eric,
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  I think the mood at training camp might not be as peppy as as those
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  guys on the team really hope at this point because of one James Harden.
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  It's just I can't stand this guy anymore. I just wish he was off
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  the team. I'm sure Daryl Moury in the front office wish he was on
• 22:42
  off the team. It's not like Daryl Morey hasn't been trying to get rid
• 22:47
  of him into trade. It just hasn't worked out. It stinks. The
• 22:51
  Celtics got better, the Bucks got better. The East is going to be
• 22:56
  extremely interesting with regard to a lot of different teams. It's just, uh,
• 23:03
  where do you want to go with this one here? I just I
• 23:08
  can only imagine that first conversation because I'm sure him and Beat haven't seen each
• 23:11
  other since like the last game. You know, just hey, James,
• 23:17
  how's your summer? Let me tell you, buddy. Yeah, I disparaged
• 23:22
  the GM. I yelled a bunch of Chinese kids. I don't want us
• 23:26
  to succeed at all. I don't want to. I'm here because of a
• 23:33
  proponent of my contract. If I don't show up here, I can start
• 23:36
  being fine. Money the only reason I'm here. Oh you see my belly
• 23:41
  and I haven't. I haven't touched a weight or ran one one inch this
• 23:44
  summer. But was a strip joints. Yeah, I just had a party
• 23:48
  at a club and strippers were holding signs that said Daryl Morey is a liar.
• 23:52
  It's a complete lunatic. I'm assuming it's a Colorado State university because of
• 23:57
  the weed provisions in that state. Why are there in Colorado State? It
• 24:02
  makes no sense to me. On top of that, he was not immedia
• 24:04
  day at all, which I'm sure the Sixers were thrilled with that. To
• 24:07
  be honest with you, Yeah, he's somebody. More than one person is
• 24:11
  set on Twitter recently. But one of the guys from the Ringer, one
• 24:15
  of the NBA guys, just put it, he's he's a Hall of Fame
• 24:18
  quitter, like he is the King of NBA quitting. Vince Carter, you
• 24:25
  know, very famously kind of quit on the Raptors and trying to get traded
• 24:29
  out of that team. But no one's ever quit like this guy. I
• 24:33
  mean, he goes out in a blaze of glory. He's the guy that
• 24:36
  goes into the boss and goes, I quit, motherfucker and just shoots off
• 24:41
  like sparklers and shit like confetti goes blaring everything like he quits in high fashion.
• 24:48
  Who the hell? Just he's still on the team and he's disparaging the
• 24:52
  GM. I don't care if he was light. Number one, you're not
• 24:53
  lied to. You don't have a contract, there's no promises is gonna be
• 24:56
  made. And we've on the show multiple times this year, right after the
• 25:03
  Celtics series. Is that you have one option, and that's the show up
• 25:06
  to be in shape and play your ass off, Yeah, and get that
• 25:08
  next contract the way you're handling this now because you're not very bright. He's
• 25:12
  not a bright guy. Let's just you know, I'm not disparaging athletes here,
• 25:17
  but he in particular is a dummy. He's not smart and to have
• 25:21
  any sense of where your career is going to be in three years, like
• 25:26
  you had to bust your ass this year to get one more decent contract and
• 25:30
  you're already playing this all wrong. Well that's a great segue into like the
• 25:34
  question I have, which is, does he actually care at this point in
• 25:37
  his life, at this point in his career, what he has done.
• 25:41
  I mean, he's done everything, But you know, does he even care
• 25:45
  at this point? Because it's hard for us as fans to see that,
• 25:49
  Because it's hard for us to say, how can somebody with that talent just
• 25:53
  want to give it up? How can somebody with that talent want to give
• 25:56
  up the millions upon millions of dollars that they would make. It's tough for
• 26:00
  us as fans to actually see or even accept that that mentality exists out there.
• 26:07
  But but when you make a commitment to do this stuff, when you
• 26:11
  sign that contract, you know you're you're you're you're providing, you are providing
• 26:17
  your talents to a team in the hopes that you're just gonna get out there
• 26:22
  and win, and you're gonna do everything you can, and and and and
• 26:26
  start to lay a foundation for something else, perhaps during the twilight of your
• 26:30
  career. But he's not just laying a foundation. He's blowing everything up at
• 26:33
  this point. It's hard for us fans to understand that. I think now
• 26:37
  I understand it. I I he's he's part of this he's what he's part
• 26:41
  of the the I mean, he's one of the newer there's a long line
• 26:47
  of guys that didn't care about championships, just wanted to make enough money,
• 26:51
  right, to be comfortable and never to work again and be famous. He
• 26:55
  he's taken it to another plateau in the age of social media and you know,
• 27:00
  an image. He has the beard right, and he's kind of changed.
• 27:04
  He has actually changed how basketball's played. The step back jumper. He
• 27:08
  does the two step jump back thing. That's like kind of changed the game.
• 27:12
  Like I coach kids this, like in fourth and fifth grade. Every
• 27:17
  kid knows how to do that move. Like that's just how you learn to
• 27:18
  play basketball. Like I'll give him credit for Like he has actually changed how
• 27:22
  the game has played. Three pointers. That the double step back thing.
• 27:26
  Every kid does it now. It's it's actually a standard move in basketball.
• 27:30
  That's his imprint on the game. It's not championships. It's to be famous
• 27:34
  that he made that move. He's known for scoring. He has enough money
• 27:37
  that he never has to work again. And I think he knows he's so
• 27:41
  famous and doesn't care about rings that I think he maybe he's getting to the
• 27:45
  point where I could go to China and play for fifty million a year for
• 27:49
  two years and make as much money as I possibly can, and I don't
• 27:53
  give a shit if I ever wear, ever win with an NBA ring.
• 27:57
  Yeah. Yeah, I think he's that newer type of breed of player that,
• 28:03
  like, you know, I've heard of players in the past that he
• 28:04
  doesn't care about winning. I don't think he truly doesn't give a fuck about
• 28:07
  winning. No, he doesn't, and he's never shown anything to prove that
• 28:12
  he is. I've never seen him in a playoff series sweat and come off
• 28:15
  going damn man. I really wanted that. He's the kind of guy walks
• 28:18
  off and it's like well, off season party. And I think he's influential
• 28:25
  in many ways. Besides that, he's also influential excuse me, off the
• 28:30
  court. I think you're going to see more of this. Ben Simmons is
• 28:33
  a great example. He likes being famous, he doesn't give a shit about
• 28:36
  basketball, right, you know, it's an ironic the two of them were
• 28:40
  traded for one another, you know. But you're gonna see more and more
• 28:42
  of this because I mean, once you if you come from nothing and all
• 28:47
  of a sudden you have three hundred million dollars and and you don't have it
• 28:52
  in you to want to win that title. It's like, well, I
• 28:55
  already won, I'm rich and famous. What the hell do I care?
• 28:57
  Right? And I again is a Philadelphia sportsman. It's hard to wrap your
• 29:02
  head around that. But you know, I look at him and it's like,
• 29:06
  holy shit, you're that guy. It's scary. Yeah, you don't.
• 29:08
  You don't give a shit. And he's on our team. He's on
• 29:11
  our team that we follow in love, I know. And he's on our
• 29:15
  team that's on the brink of fall, of crumbling into pieces. And I
• 29:19
  you know, did I foresee in twenty thirteen going to sixers games when the
• 29:25
  process started and going Okay, I'm on board with this. And then ten
• 29:29
  years later it's, Oh, this asshole is going to ruin the whole thing.
• 29:34
  Who's not going to be in my life? Like like he's not a
• 29:37
  Philadelphia guy, Like he's going to ruin this whole thing? Like how is
• 29:40
  he? How is he the tipping point that this is all going to fall
• 29:44
  apart? I just would have never saw it coming. What a fun ride,
• 29:47
  but what an asshole for being that final piece? Absolutely of shit,
• 29:52
  by the way, because he is absolutely is absolutely is all right enough of
• 29:56
  this Sixers talk here? Oh? I agree, Yes, Nope, enough
• 30:00
  enough. Yes, let's get into a team that is doing some good things.
• 30:06
  And I say they're doing some good things because they are four and zero
• 30:10
  on the season. Of course, the Philadelphia Eagles. Two teams left in
• 30:14
  the NFL who were undefeated San Francisco forty nine Ers and the Philadelphia Eagles.
• 30:18
  But the defense, my gosh, certainly struggled against the Vikings again against the
• 30:23
  Commanders this past I'm sorry, the comes, the comes. Sorry, but
• 30:30
  really one of the biggest losses and it's becoming more and more of a concern
• 30:34
  year after year, losing Avonte Maddox, it's been a major problem for this
• 30:38
  team. They tried to put a band aid on the slot corner position,
• 30:41
  specifically in nickel packages. James Bradberry was look, folks, he was performing
• 30:48
  well in the slot, but Josh job was just getting the shit kicked out
• 30:52
  of him on the outside taking over for Bradbury out there. So what did
• 30:56
  Howie Roseman in the front office decided to do. They went out and signed
• 31:00
  free agent Bradley Roby to play that slot corner position so that James Bradbury can
• 31:07
  move back to the outside. And it was a good move. And I'll
• 31:12
  say this right now, as of us recording this here, he's technically still
• 31:15
  in the practice squad. This is a first for Bradley Roby, you know,
• 31:21
  but numerous veterans they've taken the practice squad route to return to active rosters
• 31:25
  basically over the past four seasons. So I think the plan is indeed for
• 31:30
  Bradley Roby to be bumped up to the fifty three man roster at some point
• 31:33
  here. As many of us know, he played for New Orleans Saints.
• 31:37
  He was released on roster cutdowns in August from the Saints and kind of just
• 31:44
  been waiting for a call. The Eagles called him. He's thirty one years
• 31:48
  old, and it is interesting that the cornerbacks on this team, the starting
• 31:52
  cornerbacks on this team, are all in their thirties, whether it be Darius
• 31:56
  Lay and James Bradberry, two guys who he's the Eagles front office they made
• 32:00
  a substantial commitment to with regard to this duo, extending Sleigh and re signing
• 32:07
  Bradbury again, both guys over thirty. Slagh thirty two, Bradbury turning thirty
• 32:13
  this past offseason, so it's the only the NFL's only team to have two
• 32:17
  thirty something corners installed as their regular starters. And then bringing Roby on here,
• 32:23
  another guy in his thirties here his early thirties, so he has made
• 32:28
  sixty career starts, kind of that off the bench, you know, regular
• 32:30
  for much of his career with the Broncos, just working in some sub packages
• 32:36
  for years. And it seems like the Eagles now have their top top corner,
• 32:40
  their nickel corner, i should say, and slot corner with Bradley Roby
• 32:45
  here. I think it's a really good, good pickup by Howie Roseman because
• 32:47
  what was what was being done the past couple of weeks just was not It
• 32:52
  was not helping this team at all. Eric, So I do think this
• 32:55
  is a good move, another good move made by the front office of the
• 32:59
  Philadelphia Eagles. Yeah, it's a good cheat move too, Like it doesn't
• 33:01
  cost him anything. It doesn't work out, so what you know, it's
• 33:05
  a it's a throwaway, doesn't work out. He's got a ring twenty sixteen
• 33:08
  with the Denver Broncos, so he comes in with experience and if he's just
• 33:13
  asked to play the nickel spot, then that's you know, that's all he
• 33:15
  has to do. I will say, I'm a name guy, like I
• 33:21
  love a good name. Yeah, Josh Job has a bad name, but
• 33:25
  I think he was destined to not work out. It's just it doesn't there's
• 33:29
  no flow to it at all. There's not It sounds like a wrestler name
• 33:31
  in a way, like Josh a Jobber. Yeah, I can. I
• 33:37
  can hear Grilla Mons soon now going Josh Job before you know, Hercules comes
• 33:42
  out and beats the shit out of him. Yes, nine eighty seven.
• 33:45
  So, speaking of names, how amazing would it be if you combine the
• 33:51
  two of Bradley Bradberry Brad Bradberry that that's kind of I kind of like that
• 33:57
  Brad brad Berry. That's all I take it. Like Chris CHRISTI yes,
• 34:02
  I do. I don't know anything about the guy. I just know he
• 34:05
  didn't play this year yet. And yeah, it's it's a it's a nice
• 34:08
  pickup for a team that You're right that that's that. And I think I
• 34:13
  said that before the season. That was my one concern was the secondary.
• 34:15
  Yeah, and you've kind of seen it a little bit, So any kind
• 34:19
  of move that would that would help, especially in a week five where who
• 34:22
  the hell are you going to sign? Right like, you're looking at the
• 34:23
  scrap heap at that point, so what the hell take a shot? Absolutely
• 34:28
  look thoughts on the season at this point, Eric Jalen hurts while he is
• 34:32
  quote not having the season that he had last year, and of course he's
• 34:36
  not just in terms of being even a top top four, top five quarterback,
• 34:42
  he's not that this year in the league. But what he has been
• 34:45
  doing is when the Eagles are down by at least ten points, he's bringing
• 34:49
  this team back to win inevitably. That's what you want from your quarterback.
• 34:52
  Doesn't have to be perfect one percent of the time. Of course, was
• 34:57
  a nail bier this past week with the command Sorry the Cums, it was
• 35:01
  a nail bier. It wasn't. They're gonna have those games, especially in
• 35:05
  the division. I'm not saying that's gonna happen with the New York Giants because
• 35:07
  they are a complete mess and dumpster fire. But we're gonna see some interesting
• 35:13
  games with this Dallas Cowboys team too, And when they face the Commanders for
• 35:15
  a second time. But at the end of the day, Jalen Hurts is
• 35:21
  bringing this team back and he's doing it in a way which I think is
• 35:25
  what you want from your franchise quarterback. We're seeing this happen, folks.
• 35:30
  The Philadelphia Eagles are four and oh again, they're four and zero in a
• 35:34
  year where there is a lot of bizarre stuff going on, where the Arizona
• 35:37
  Cardinals are actually being competitive, the fact that there were certain teams that were
• 35:44
  supposed to take a step forward that haven't necessarily taken that step forward. The
• 35:47
  Miami Dolphins are a team to potentially be reckoned with in the AFC. It's
• 35:53
  a bizarre football season. I think everybody would agree with that out there.
• 35:58
  It's a bizarre season. And again, the Eagles are four and oh,
• 36:01
  let's really enjoy this. It's not perfect, but they're getting it done and
• 36:05
  Jillen Hurts is getting it done to eric and it doesn't matter. It's that
• 36:09
  well, that was an ugly game, but they're four. They're four and
• 36:13
  oh it doesn't matter, Like, yeah, I don't care, because nice,
• 36:16
  here's the good thing, Like, your next two games are those are
• 36:20
  the games you're perfectly set up to go all right, we have two weeks
• 36:22
  to get this right before the real season kicks in where we play the Dolphins,
• 36:25
  Cowboys, Chiefs Bills, Like our next five weeks after the Jets game
• 36:31
  next week are like that's where it's brutal. Yeah, So to be four
• 36:36
  and oh while you had like no preseason and to have it set up where
• 36:40
  you have the Rams and Jets as kind of like, let's let's get ourselves
• 36:45
  right. Like I couldn't ask for much more for a team that like didn't
• 36:49
  really get to practice much. Like I mean, I have some standard concerns,
• 36:52
  like Dallas Goddard is just there's just nowhere to be found, like there's
• 36:57
  no no jiving between him and and it hurts right now. I don't even
• 37:01
  know if they're I don't even know if they're game planning him, to be
• 37:05
  honest, because like Nick Sirianni said this week, he's like he said,
• 37:07
  we got to get Dallas Goddard more involved. So it leads me to believe
• 37:10
  that Brian Johnson offensive coordinator, along with Nick Sirianni, they haven't been they
• 37:15
  haven't been making Dallas Goddard a priority, which I cannot understand because he's one
• 37:20
  of the best tight ends in the league down the field and running post routes
• 37:24
  for God's sake, and they're just not utilizing them. It's it's incredible.
• 37:28
  No, there was there was talk of like before the season, is with
• 37:31
  Kelsey possibly, you know, coming closer to an end of his career.
• 37:36
  Is I mean Travis Kelsey, he's got it. The next one up,
• 37:38
  he's the best in the league. And it's like, well, no,
• 37:42
  that's not happening so far. But but the fact that I'm talking about the
• 37:46
  tight end and the secondary and we're four and oh and that's kind of all
• 37:52
  I'm really worried about right now. Yeah, I see, we're in a
• 37:54
  good spot. The offensive line is just is just plowing through teams. They
• 37:58
  weren't phenomenal against the Combs. The defensive line was okay, you know,
• 38:04
  but again, I feel like it was one of those games where it's like,
• 38:07
  well, let's just let's just get the win and just get out of
• 38:09
  here kind of deal, you know. And they're like the Marlins to me,
• 38:14
  like with the Phillies, like that's that's a team that always plays is
• 38:16
  tough. Yeah, no idea, Why thank god we have the Giants at
• 38:20
  the end of the year. That is it, absolute diaper filled dumpster fire
• 38:24
  of the team. I tried to watch the Monday night. I text you
• 38:28
  guys, I said, I just turned it off. Yeah, this is
• 38:30
  this is horri I can't watch this. This is horrible. Daniel Jones is
• 38:32
  not They just gave him, like how much money guaranteed? Like he's horrible.
• 38:37
  It was everything it was Daniel Jones. It was a makeshift offensive line
• 38:42
  because of the injuries they had up front there. It was all terrible.
• 38:45
  I have never seen that poor of football being played. We were bitching a
• 38:50
  moaning years ago about about the Eagles, Like I remember the year after the
• 38:54
  Super Bowl. We're all bitching because everybody's on high from the super Bowl,
• 38:58
  bitching and moaning Wentz and the offensive line not getting it done like the previous
• 39:01
  year. That freaking offensive line and Wentz looked it looked like they were Kings
• 39:07
  of the Hill compared to what this Giant's offense looks like. They are horrendous
• 39:14
  and in a really bizarre season. I don't care how you win, just
• 39:19
  win. You're four to Oh, there's only only how many teams that are
• 39:22
  still undefeated. Right the Dolphins got trounce this past weekend. Yeah, when
• 39:25
  everyone is saying, oh, they're not gonna get beat like, you're right
• 39:29
  there, I'm not gonna I'm not listening to anything complaining. It's way too
• 39:32
  early and you have two games to kind of get the ship right, right,
• 39:35
  So this season is an anomaly. Again. The Dolphins put up seventy
• 39:38
  and then the very next week they just completely kind of crap the bed and
• 39:43
  you don't see the productivity. Again. We're gonna see these games from the
• 39:45
  Eagles, folks, where they just need to pull out a win. We're
• 39:49
  gonna see a few of those for sure this season. But if they pull
• 39:52
  out a win, a win is a win. So yeah, yeah,
• 39:55
  yes, get to the fun part. Let's do it. Let's get to
• 40:00
  the fun part, right, everybody. We're gonna take a quick break here
• 40:04
  and we come back. So we're thrown down on the table our new top
• 40:07
  three list Top three best TV theme songs of all times. Stick around,
• 40:10
  we'll be right back, all right, Welcome back, folks. Now it's
• 40:15
  fun time. Let's get to what we are throwing down on the table.
• 40:20
  And now on the table, it is time to unveil the top three list
• 40:28
  the top three best TV theme songs of all times. And again I'm gonna
• 40:32
  state for the record here that this has probably been the most impossible list to
• 40:37
  compile, the most impossible list we've ever done here because of how awesome so
• 40:43
  many TV theme songs are out there that have been that have been generated.
• 40:47
  We've heard them for five six decades at this point. There are so many
• 40:52
  good TV theme songs, and I know we want to get into our honorable
• 40:55
  mentions first before we get to the top three list. Eric, So,
• 41:00
  buddy, I'm gonna let you start here. Let's get into our honorable mentions
• 41:05
  here, and we're gonna put We're gonna put some of these theme songs in
• 41:07
  the background too as we're talking about talking about them, because that's always fun.
• 41:12
  So Eric, you start off, Buddy, Can I just say it
• 41:15
  before I start, like, this is a great fun list just because it's
• 41:19
  like one of the last things any kind of generation can like vibe on.
• 41:23
  Yeah. Yeah, maybe not this gentleman. Maybe they do. I don't
• 41:25
  know, maybe they're there are shows now that have great theme songs, like
• 41:29
  the Kids like no immediately after the first few notes. Yeah, but for
• 41:32
  our generation raised on TV. I know. I was. My god,
• 41:36
  It's like I hear just the first two bars and I'm like, I remember
• 41:39
  that, Oh my god, like exactly, and what a sad existence?
• 41:44
  But yeah, it's it's and you know, you're in college buddies, I
• 41:47
  know, but like it's not a sad existence because it's music. At the
• 41:52
  end of the day. I'm sorry, I'm gonna sit here and defend it
• 41:53
  because, like, seriously, if you hear a guitar with a wah pedal
• 41:58
  going and you you're like, oh my gosh, I know what this song
• 42:00
  is just based on a few notes, it's the it's the hook of it.
• 42:05
  But at the end of the day, it's music. And you're absolutely
• 42:07
  right, because I'm looking at my list right here and they're all legit good
• 42:10
  songs. Yes, yes, so I yeah, you're right, you're right,
• 42:15
  yes, yes, yes, yes, okay, my first honorable mention.
• 42:20
  Yeah, and this one always, this one always hits me in my
• 42:23
  eerie horror film sci fi vain the X Files theme song, ooh good one
• 42:30
  great. I still love that show watched off the nineties, one of my
• 42:35
  favorites. And second that Do Do Do Doom. You're like, oh,
• 42:39
  Yes, there's gonna be fucking weird aliens, blood, It's just all kinds
• 42:43
  of creat But that song was so purpose which is a great portal into what
• 42:46
  that show is about. Yep, I don't know who wrote it, but
• 42:49
  it's such a perfect song for what that show was. That's one mention.
• 42:53
  Absolutely, let's talk about what TV theme songs actually do. It's an intro
• 42:58
  to what the TV show is essentially about. I mean, that's what it
• 43:02
  is. It's the TV theme song is there to make you feel a certain
• 43:07
  way before they get into the actual stories, before they start getting into the
• 43:10
  characters, the storylines that are are developing throughout the throughout the half hour or
• 43:15
  hour or or an hour and a half that this show is on, that
• 43:21
  the show is providing us, that gives us that initial feeling. That's that's
• 43:24
  the perfect way to put it. And I would say it crosses over into
• 43:29
  music too. Like I've always told Len Lends, my Lends, my guy,
• 43:32
  that we like vibe on music together. The most I've always said,
• 43:37
  if I had to introduce Motown to somebody, I would always play in the
• 43:39
  four tops baby I neede eleven. I think that's if I'd pick one song
• 43:44
  to like. If I had to describe the Dead Kennedy's I'd play a California
• 43:47
  Morales would be like the song, right yep, but like that's that's what
• 43:52
  these do. Like I hear the X File song, I know some eerie,
• 43:53
  weird shit is gonna happen. Yes, I love it. I love
• 43:57
  that for me, And I'm gonna go back to what I just said.
• 44:00
  It starts with a guitar that has a wah pedal going, and it is
• 44:05
  Three's Company. You know, you know it because it's whacky. It sounds
• 44:13
  a little wacky right off the bat, and you know, soon enough you're
• 44:16
  gonna see Jack Tripper, you know, doing some trip tripping all over over
• 44:22
  his apartment trying to uh, you know, trying trying to get laid with
• 44:27
  the some of the hot ladies out there. That song encapsulates that swing in
• 44:32
  seventies and trying to get laid. Yes, in California vibe. It's a
• 44:37
  perfect description that it's almost like porn music. Yes it is God. So
• 44:43
  yeah, Three's Company is there for me. In terms of an honorable mention,
• 44:46
  what's your next honorable mention? Good Times is a phenomenal phenomenal song it
• 44:53
  is. I was thinking about putting it on Honorable Mention. I didn't,
• 44:55
  but that's a good one. And again that song it fills out what the
• 45:00
  entire show's about. And then when it ends on the painting of kind of
• 45:06
  the family and like the party thing going on that it's kind of a famous
• 45:12
  painting. From what I heard, I think Eddie Murphy actually owns that.
• 45:15
  He bought it, like a couple of million dollars did he okays in his
• 45:17
  house. It's pretty amazing. But it's another song. It's like, oh,
• 45:22
  I know exactly what the show's about. It's people trying to like good
• 45:25
  times, but they live in the projects and they're doing the best they can,
• 45:29
  and it lays it all out and the vocals are phenomenal, Like it's
• 45:32
  just a great R and B song from the seventies. That's my other I
• 45:36
  don't know mention. I love it again. I was gonna put it on
• 45:37
  my Honorable Mention list. I didn't because I decided to put this next one
• 45:42
  on. I decided to put on it. And it's a nostalgic song for
• 45:45
  me to hear an opening theme song because my dad used to watch this show
• 45:51
  all the time, and it was bizarre because the song encapsulates a somber mode,
• 45:59
  a somber move I should say, a somber mood, and then gets
• 46:02
  into the funnies. And that is Mash. That opening theme song. It's
• 46:10
  very so. I think it's called something like you know something about suicide.
• 46:15
  I should actually look it up here, But there's a somberness to the Mash
• 46:21
  song, but then at the last few bars get into this mood of Okay,
• 46:28
  you're gonna start hearing some wacky stuff, you know, bomp. It's
• 46:34
  like, okay, I guess we're gonna bomb get into some wacky stuff here.
• 46:37
  I love the Mash theme song. That was back when you had like
• 46:40
  orchestras actually doing theme music, and uh, just just what a catch the
• 46:46
  catch in the hook of an instrumental theme song like that. I think it's
• 46:51
  I think it's fantastic. Yeah, And it really is a good symbol of
• 46:54
  that show, because you had your episodes that were just you know, I
• 47:00
  don't I don't remember the character's name, but they walk around drinking fucking Martini's
• 47:05
  the war. But then but then they had those dead serious episodes where they're
• 47:07
  like dead children and stuff, and I was like, whoa, Okay,
• 47:10
  I guess we took a turn this episode, Like, yeah, it kind
• 47:15
  of matched the beginning of that song and then the goofy stuff at the end.
• 47:17
  That's a good one. I didn't really watch the show. I wasn't
• 47:20
  big on that show, but my parents did. My got You're right if
• 47:23
  I heard I guess at the first two bars of it. I know I
• 47:25
  immediately with that show is and me being bored to death. But yeah,
• 47:30
  all right, what's your last honorable mention? One? Okay? I think
• 47:35
  this is a phenomenal song. I know it's kind of kind of a joke
• 47:37
  and it's kind of become a joke and popular society. But the Golden Girls
• 47:43
  theme song, ah, so good. I think it's incredible. I think
• 47:45
  it's a great it's a it's a legit like thank you for being a friend.
• 47:50
  I love you. We've been through a lot of stuff together, and
• 47:53
  thank god you're here. It's like, that's a really nice for four old
• 47:58
  ladies slowly done eying in a Florida house, Like that's a really nice that's
• 48:02
  really nice sentiment. And my god, I remember Friday Nights. I wound
• 48:07
  up. No, I think it was Saturday. I wound up at my
• 48:09
  nana's house and reading Pennsylvania quite a bit, and that was our That was
• 48:14
  our night. We would sit there and watch those the two two seven,
• 48:17
  Empty Nest and you know, and Golden Golden Girls was her her show.
• 48:22
  And I remember when I was younger, I didn't quite understand it. But
• 48:23
  as you get older, like I, you know, that was a Sunday
• 48:28
  hangover TV show for me. Thank yeah, Hours on you and I've later
• 48:31
  around watching it and and why get older, like this show's god damn funny
• 48:37
  number one. But they're hilarious and it's actually just a really good show.
• 48:40
  And that song was kind of perfect for it, even though it was corny.
• 48:44
  When you're a kid you grew up, you're like, no, that's
• 48:45
  a really nice song. Actually it actually is. Again, it's a song
• 48:50
  that sets the mood and the tone for you with what you are about to
• 48:54
  watch. I mean that all these songs that we have talked about thus are
• 49:00
  and the ones we are going to talk about and name, they all set
• 49:04
  the mood for what you're going to see. It's like it's just like all
• 49:07
  right, gets you ready. It's like I'm ready here. I'm ready to
• 49:10
  watch what they have in store for me this week, you know. And
• 49:13
  that's why my next honorable mention one before we actually get to our list is
• 49:17
  the Simpsons. Like, I don't think there's anybody in the world who has
• 49:22
  seen popular pop culture or understands pop culture, you know, maybe aside from
• 49:29
  you know, North Korea. Folks. You know, you hear the Simpsons
• 49:32
  theme song and you know what's going to be coming. You just know what's
• 49:37
  going to be happening, and that you may have that on your list.
• 49:39
  And if you do, that's all right, because I do know how much
• 49:43
  of a fan you are of that particular series. But Simpsons for me gets
• 49:49
  honorable mentioned. It's on my list, and I'll expand on your point later.
• 49:52
  Okay, sounds good. Sounds good. Let's get to the top three
• 49:55
  list, folks, Eric, go ahead, what's number three for you?
• 49:59
  Buddy? Number three is just it's such I would I would I have it
• 50:04
  on my phone, man, I listened to it in the car. If
• 50:06
  it comes on, Like the Monster's theme song is so one a great song.
• 50:12
  It's that it's that classic late sixties, uh garage punk kind of kind
• 50:19
  of kind of music. Yeah, the show. The show's kind of punk
• 50:24
  itself. It's the Adams Family would have kind of a god thing going on.
• 50:29
  Yeah, the Munsters was just straight up funny and it was weird as
• 50:31
  hell, and it kind of matched that the Nugget you know, the records
• 50:35
  that came out and the Nuggets series that just have it just had a slew
• 50:38
  of garage punk bands and garage like surf like surf bands and stuff. And
• 50:43
  that that Monsters song was perfect for the generation. The song shouldn't have worked
• 50:46
  with what the show was, but it somehow worked perfectly. It matched the
• 50:51
  car, the Herman Monster's car. The show was way wackier than the Adams
• 50:58
  Family, the one it was always compared to. And that song itself is
• 51:00
  just like I said, it shouldn't have worked for that show, but it
• 51:04
  actually worked perfectly, kind of going along with what that the show kind of
• 51:07
  had a punk vibe and between the car and the family and that they had
• 51:12
  a fucking dragon and the steps, that song was perfect for it. And
• 51:16
  the song is fucking rocks. It's really really cool. It does. It
• 51:20
  comes down to the means I love I love this. I didn't even think
• 51:22
  of it. To be honest with you, man, I would have put
• 51:23
  I might have put that on my honorable mention maybe, But man, it
• 51:28
  comes down to the means the musicianship of the actual song itself, because like
• 51:32
  you're talking about those punk elements, it's that accent on the downbeat and continuously
• 51:38
  throughout the song. That's what makes it so in your face. And that's
• 51:44
  what the monsters were. It was like an in your face theme, a
• 51:49
  show theme, you know, and it's oh man and the oh man.
• 51:52
  Now I gotta hear this, I gotta hear it again. Once you listen
• 51:55
  to you're gonna be like, oh my god, I have to have that
• 51:58
  on my phone. I have to have it like the Car with Me.
• 52:00
  Yeah. It's such a fun song. Absolutely so musical too. It's just
• 52:04
  like a good piece of music. Like I said earlier, all these songs,
• 52:07
  all these songs, great pieces of music. And that's why my number
• 52:12
  three. And it may seem hokey to say this, but I remember my
• 52:16
  dad watching this show too, and this might have actually been where I first
• 52:21
  started to understand humor. That don't tell our buddy Dave that, okay,
• 52:25
  because I know I'm the unfunny one in the group. Okay, but I
• 52:30
  may have really this is I may have started to understand what humor was when
• 52:34
  I watched Cheers with my dad and the Cheers theme song is my number three,
• 52:40
  and just, oh man, what a fast, what a fantastic song.
• 52:45
  In general, there's because like it's not it's just you just felt like
• 52:51
  you were at home with them, you know what I mean, you just
• 52:53
  kind of felt like you were at home. And I don't know, do
• 52:58
  you have this on your list at all? I'm just wondering. No,
• 53:01
  But okay, I mean I remember it, and it it actually makes the
• 53:07
  low key alcoholism in that show. It seemed kind of like like kind of
• 53:10
  fun right, like, uh, we're just neighborhood, We're just a bunch
• 53:14
  of neighborhood guys hanging out every day, drinking day exactly. I almost feel
• 53:20
  like if that show decided to like down the downturn the comedy and a different
• 53:24
  theme song, it could have been a completely different show, like a drama,
• 53:29
  right, like just the pathetic lives of these dudes. But because they
• 53:31
  were so funny, this show was funny. I feel like that song actually
• 53:35
  helped the show and keep that comedic vibe, whereas that show could get really
• 53:39
  dark. It's like, hey, Norm, whant you go home to your
• 53:42
  wife? Dude? I mean talk about that climb. You say you love
• 53:45
  her, You're never You're never with her. The song is where everybody Knows
• 53:50
  your name. And again with me watching this with my dad then watching like
• 53:53
  reruns in subsequent years, it gave you the sense of you know, it's
• 53:59
  it's kind of like a whole them away from home. And that's how I
• 54:00
  always viewed that particular song as it related to the show itself, so and
• 54:06
  again kind of where I started picking up on humor I think as a low
• 54:08
  one. Yeah, And I will say the biggest, the biggest downfall of
• 54:14
  that is if you actually go and visit the Cheers Bar in Boston. Oh,
• 54:16
  it's awful. It's awful. It's a horrible bar. It's so packed
• 54:21
  tight. Yep, it's always filled with rubes trying to like the Cheers Bar,
• 54:25
  and it's just a crappy bar and there's no room in there. Like
• 54:29
  I was there with my daughter and I'm like, she's like, I was
• 54:31
  like, I have to go check this out. I had explained to what
• 54:34
  Cheers was. Yeah, and we went downstairs. It was loud to sell.
• 54:36
  We couldn't get a table, a seat. We were left immediately.
• 54:38
  She's like, was that a good show? Like that? That seemed terrible.
• 54:42
  I'm like, I'll explain it later. I can't. Okay, Yeah,
• 54:46
  nice? All right? Well what is your number two? As we're
• 54:51
  moving along here with our top three list best TV theme songs of all time?
• 54:55
  Which what's number two for you? Number two is the Simpsons theme song?
• 55:00
  Yeah, and the reason I two reasons I really love it. One.
• 55:04
  So Matt Graaning, like we talked about some shows now that they they
• 55:09
  have their own world, but it's based on reality, like The X Files,
• 55:14
  FBIA and Agents right right, Matt Graining had to create an entire world
• 55:20
  to itself, well just for the show, and it's it's such a grand
• 55:24
  thing to do. We have so many characters on that show and so many
• 55:28
  plotlines, and you had to have a theme song that was so huge and
• 55:32
  be like, I'm pulling you into this world that I created it myself has
• 55:37
  no basis in reality, really, and I know it's a cartoon, but
• 55:40
  like you know, you know the character so well it almost becomes like almost
• 55:44
  like real life. Right, But you needed that, like and you talked
• 55:47
  about the orchestra back when they you know, back in the orchestras basically did
• 55:52
  theme songs. You know, that's what he did. He won Old School.
• 55:55
  I know it came out like nineteen eighty nine, I think nineteen ninety.
• 55:59
  Yeah, he won school and just pulled. Danny Elfman did it.
• 56:01
  And I'll talk about him in a second, but he got this whole orchestra
• 56:05
  together and you needed to have that to set the table for a show that
• 56:09
  was going to be like, you're gonna meet this family, and there's eighty
• 56:13
  other families and eighty other people you're gonna have to get to know. I
• 56:15
  think had I think that song really set the table. And the song itself
• 56:20
  is just it's so beautiful and it's just it's it's so dramatic and it's chaotic
• 56:25
  too. It's chaotic as hell. And Daniel is a fucking lunatic. If
• 56:29
  you ever read about him, and I employ you to go on YouTube and
• 56:34
  go see Danny Elfman. I think it was last year maybe Cochella. He
• 56:37
  did a show. He does shows here and there, and from one understand
• 56:40
  they are absolutely incredibly He does all the theme songs that he's ever written.
• 56:44
  Them he's responsible for if you go back, and it's incredible way he's done
• 56:47
  like Edwards Scissorhands and all these different movies. He was basically Tim Burton's guy
• 56:52
  for ages, but this one is probably his biggest, biggest accomplishment. And
• 56:59
  he does it on stae with like forty people playing all kinds of different instruments.
• 57:04
  He's running around playing guitar, he grabs a trompone. He's an absolute
• 57:07
  lunatic on stage. And to see this this version live, just go on
• 57:13
  YouTube and look for like I think it was Coachella last year. You'll be
• 57:16
  like, holy hell, this might be the greatest song ever written. Yeah,
• 57:21
  like greater than any like or like like any like symphony back in the
• 57:24
  day. Yeah, but it's it's it would be number one, but the
• 57:29
  number one has like kind of a sentimental value to me, and it is
• 57:31
  just so damn good. But I just love the theme and the show too,
• 57:37
  Like my son loves it. He's seen every episode. It's an incredible
• 57:40
  show that still holds up. And that song and that intro like probably pulled
• 57:45
  him in. That's probably what got his attention. You know. Yeah,
• 57:49
  it again like orchestral chaos. It was chaos because inevitably that's what even the
• 57:54
  great storylines and storylines that lasted for years and years that were still relevant,
• 58:01
  they were all set in stone by this theme song. You know, this
• 58:07
  chaotic theme song, chaotic families, a chaotic community, and it was just
• 58:13
  it was perfect. It was one of the most perfect theme songs that had
• 58:16
  ever been created. And I mean my number two and I don't even know
• 58:22
  if you've seen this show, but it is a current show. It's the
• 58:25
  one that I said earlier that it's a current show because it is an amazing
• 58:31
  It's a classical piano piece in a minor minor a key that is just in
• 58:39
  its chaotic as well. Again, classic piano piece, just a grim.
• 58:45
  It's grim, but it's like this murky hip hop beat that is going on,
• 58:50
  and it is for the HBO show succession. It is one of the
• 58:53
  most amazing pieces of music from a piano perspective, the arrangement and then the
• 58:59
  york hestoral aspect that comes in with this show, where it's just you're getting
• 59:06
  you know when you are listening to this piece of music that you are going
• 59:08
  to be watching a bunch of degenerates, a bunch of rich, just entitled,
• 59:16
  self grandizing, egotistical degenerates who are just looking at power and how they
• 59:24
  are going to position themselves within their family. And the theme song encapsulates all
• 59:32
  of that. It encapsulates brilliance and stupidity, because that's where you get the
• 59:38
  minor key that's going. I don't know if you've ever heard this song,
• 59:43
  Eric, but it is. It is one of the most incredible pieces of
• 59:46
  TV theme music that I've ever heard. It's not my number one. I've
• 59:51
  always said that if we did a list like this, that this Succession theme
• 59:54
  song would be my number one. I wasn't able to do it because my
• 59:59
  number one is just it's fantastic, at least for me. But have you
• 1:00:02
  ever heard of the Succession theme song? Have you ever heard it? I've
• 1:00:06
  heard it. I've never seen the show, Okay, it's one of It's
• 1:00:09
  one of those shows that everybody's like, you got to watch it. I
• 1:00:12
  just haven't done it. Now that it's done, I probably go back and
• 1:00:15
  watch it. But it I feel like it's it's in the same vein as
• 1:00:20
  the mad Men theme song. Yeah, yes, because there's a very eerie.
• 1:00:23
  There's an eeriness because of the you know, Don Draper, is that
• 1:00:27
  mysterious that the mysterious background of his That song really kind of kind of captures
• 1:00:32
  that too. But yeah, the song's amazing. It's one of the like,
• 1:00:37
  like, my wife has watched it a hundred times and I've listened to
• 1:00:39
  it from the other room, and I'm like, that is cool. Like
• 1:00:43
  that, I don't know what the show is really about. I know,
• 1:00:45
  the dude from what do you call it, Ferris Peeler's Day Off is on
• 1:00:51
  the show. Yes, yes, Macaulay Culkin's brother, isn't it. Yeah,
• 1:00:54
  camera is in it. Yeah, But I will go back and watch
• 1:00:59
  it. I promise it's a it's a great show. But that the theme
• 1:01:00
  song just sets the tone and it's believe it or not. It's actually one
• 1:01:05
  of those theme songs that I don't always hit the forward button. We talked
• 1:01:08
  about that, You talked about that earlier in terms of theme songs that we
• 1:01:12
  really don't know too too much these days because you can just hit that skip
• 1:01:16
  intro on Netflix or on HBO, you can do that. But I've actually
• 1:01:22
  sat there and listened to this because it's an incredible piece of music that gets
• 1:01:24
  you, get you ready for the episode. So, buddy, what's your
• 1:01:28
  number one? What is your number one TV theme song of all time?
• 1:01:32
  This has been my number one for ages. It's probably not the most popular.
• 1:01:37
  I've seen the lists that are out there, and this is one.
• 1:01:39
  This one's rarely on it, which I think is insane. I don't know
• 1:01:43
  why. The Barney Miller theme song of the show from the late seventies.
• 1:01:47
  Yes, it has personaliment sentimental value to me, okay, but you know,
• 1:01:55
  it opens with it. It opens with a shot of Manhattan, you
• 1:01:59
  know, goes into New York and it's so I love funk music, Like
• 1:02:04
  I really love funk music. It's one of the funkiest fucking songs I've never
• 1:02:07
  heard of my life. Yeah, yeah, So it just opens with this
• 1:02:09
  incredible bassline. It's so simple, but you know you're in New York City
• 1:02:14
  right away. The show's funny as hell, and it's it's a really peppy
• 1:02:17
  beat and there's just a lot of like there's incredible bass, there's incredible trumpet
• 1:02:23
  in the song, and it's just the image of us in my family and
• 1:02:29
  I in our old kitchen, our old house. Really tiny. We had
• 1:02:32
  this little crappy TV in the you know, like a like a like a
• 1:02:37
  thirteen inch I think, okay, our kitchen and I thought that was amazing.
• 1:02:40
  We had a TV in our kitchen the same here. Yeah, we
• 1:02:44
  were like, oh my gosh, we have a TV in here. I
• 1:02:45
  know, I had antenna on the we get like moving to get a better
• 1:02:50
  single and shit and the image of my father doing the trumpet part with both
• 1:02:54
  hands, Oh my god, I need to say that, the thumb in
• 1:02:59
  his mouth, and I mean it's just like just thinking that was the funniest
• 1:03:02
  thing in the world when I was a kid, but also like watching the
• 1:03:05
  show, like even then being a kill like this is hilarious and that show,
• 1:03:08
  that song just set the table perfectly for that show. And I just
• 1:03:13
  think it's one of the coolest songs ever written, and it was for a
• 1:03:16
  great show, and it just matches the New York City vibe. And I
• 1:03:20
  don't know, that's always been my favorite one. Love I love that one.
• 1:03:22
  I love that you talk about the New York City vibe. And that's
• 1:03:25
  a good segue into my number one, which is and look it was.
• 1:03:30
  It was probably a top three on a lot of different lists out there,
• 1:03:34
  but I always loved the show, but I always loved the theme song,
• 1:03:38
  and it's the Jeffersons. You know. The show was on for ten years,
• 1:03:43
  nineteen seventy five to nineteen eighty five. Moving On Up was co written
• 1:03:47
  by Jeff Barry and a Good Times co star Janet Duboi du boy I believe
• 1:03:53
  it is her name. And yeah, just just how the lyrics themselves,
• 1:03:59
  I mean, first off, one of the most soulful TV theme songs ever
• 1:04:03
  ever written. But just touching on whether you know George and Louise Jefferson,
• 1:04:10
  you know, working class couple in Queens in New York and now they're in
• 1:04:15
  this deluxe apartment in the sky of Manhattan, just how the Black experience was
• 1:04:23
  moving forward. You know, they were had the Black experience and they were
• 1:04:28
  It was really like one of the first TV shows where you can actually say
• 1:04:31
  that that the Black experience where they were thriving, achieving the quote American dream,
• 1:04:36
  you know, back then in the seventies and eighties, what the American
• 1:04:40
  dream was. And the song just set the stage for all of that perfectly,
• 1:04:45
  and it was just I think one of the most iconic theme songs and
• 1:04:49
  just one of my one of my favorites again from a soul perspective. My
• 1:04:55
  god, the woman singing that song has so much freaking soul. Seriously,
• 1:05:00
  it's it's it's my favorite, it's my favorite of all time. Well,
• 1:05:03
  and soul and funk music has so much life to it, so it makes
• 1:05:06
  sense that we would gravitate to those kinds of songs with the Barney Miller and
• 1:05:11
  Jeffersons And I saw pretty much every episode of that show. A huge fan
• 1:05:16
  of that show too. One thing I do miss from those those days,
• 1:05:23
  characters don't dance anymore, right and like we I mean rerun did the rerun
• 1:05:30
  dance? And What's happening? You know What's happening theme song, by the
• 1:05:32
  way, fantastic. I was gonna put it on my honorable mention too.
• 1:05:35
  It's probably one of my favorite, not just songs, but like intros.
• 1:05:39
  It's just the three of them going down the sidewalk with the basketball and like
• 1:05:43
  it perfect opening. But I forget I forget his name, but he falls
• 1:05:46
  off his skateboard and starts laughing at himself. Yeah, Dwayne, Dwayne,
• 1:05:50
  runah Dwayne. But I talked about the dance because the George Jefferson dance is
• 1:05:58
  like, was it he almost danced? I think he came up with a
• 1:06:02
  dance to that song. Yeah, if you ever played the song and watched
• 1:06:05
  the dance, I mean, it's it's the coolest fucking it's there's so much,
• 1:06:10
  so much confidence in that dance, like I'm the fucking man, Like
• 1:06:14
  he was such an incredible character and that song again, it's set the table
• 1:06:17
  for that show, and I think that dance that is actually like set to
• 1:06:20
  that song perfectly. Sherman Helmsley Man what an amazing, amazing actor and comedic
• 1:06:28
  actor and comedic personality. Really, I mean just the intro to not it
• 1:06:31
  wasn't like just the song that the clips that they used to when you talked
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  about dancing. He was like dancing on the bed and Louise is like,
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  like, what are you doing? I know? I love that, Like
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  she's drying her hair under her hair dryer and he just like comes up and
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  knocks on it while she's reading a magazine and scares her. And he's acting
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  like, oh my gosh, what are you doing under here? You know,
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  it's hilarious. The stage, Yeah, it's set the stage for hilarity.
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  I mean it's almost it was like it was slapsticky, you know.
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  It was just like hearkens back to the like like like the Keystone Cops kind
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  of thing back in the thirties and forties. It was really it was a
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  great show. And I in any like history of dance, that dance has
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  to be in the timeline somewhere. Yeah, it does. It absolutely does.
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  Man, what a great top three lists. I love it, man,
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  I love it. We'll have to do this more often. We'll have
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  to do it more often here on the show. It was fun again.
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  Took us out of the stuff you're dealing with in life, right, No,
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  not to get back to it. Yeah, yeah, all right,
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  folks. Hey, i'd love to know. We'd love to know, well,
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  your top three lists are out there. Yeah, we deviated away from
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  sports here what we threw down on the table this week, but we'd still
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  love to hear what you have to say. Hope it was entertaining for you
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  as much as it was for us. So Philadelphia Sports Table at gmail dot
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  com. We'd love to get your top three list and comb over that as
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  well. We'd love to respond to it. So it's gonna do it for
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  us here, Eric, any last thoughts before we head out, Buddy,
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  No, we should probably do more of these lists though. They's fun.
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  Yeah, man, I know they're not sports, but guys, what do
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  you want us to talk about Flyers? Preseason? Sixers imploding? Like?
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  Seriously, anyone? The Union won tonight? Let's talk Union? How about
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  that third place in the East? Right? Is not what happened? Yes,
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  all right, sounds good folks. You know where we're at on social
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  media. We're not gonna say that, but I'll say go Birds. Let's
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  stay undefeated there. It has been been a fun season so far, it
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  really has, so let's enjoy this as much as we can. Seriously,
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  this team could potentially be going five to zero and right at the top of
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  the NFC, and of course the Philadelphia Phillies doing what they're doing. I
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  cannot wait to watch this team over the next week here. So we're gonna
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  be talking about these teams much more here at the PST Podcast Show. Take
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  care, everybody, We'll catch it next time. AP