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  Speaker 1: Thanks for listening to the best of the Ben Mahler
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  Speaker 2: This is the best of the Ben Maler Show on
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  Speaker 2: Fox Sports Radio.
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  Speaker 1: We are back added here slaving away over the hot
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  Speaker 1: microphones of Fox Sports Radio, trading carefully as it is
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  Speaker 1: pro bouncy ball season, although it does look like we'll
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  Speaker 1: have because of what happened over the weekend. We get
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  Speaker 1: this later.
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  Speaker 3: The Knickerbockers have the.
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  Speaker 1: Last rights coming out the There's a clergy person coming
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  Speaker 1: over to talk to the cavaliers. Is there seasons about
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  Speaker 1: over there? But the Western Conference took center square on
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  Speaker 1: Sunday night in the Alamo City Game four the Western Finals.
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  Speaker 1: O KC the road team entering the Hippodrome. They're in
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  Speaker 1: San Antonio.
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  Speaker 3: For game number four.
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  Speaker 1: Then the Thunder won the last couple up two games
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  Speaker 1: to one, looking to take a choke hold and get
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  Speaker 1: one win away from the NBA Finals.
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  Speaker 3: Did you watch this game? Were you checking this out?
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  Speaker 1: No? You were doing something else. Okay, Well, Victor Wmbanyama,
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  Speaker 1: I've heard of him. He had thirty three points, eight rebounds,
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  Speaker 1: five assists, three blocks, and apartrid to a Pear Tree
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  Speaker 1: and the Spurs, they put the choke hold on Oklahoma City,
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  Speaker 1: a second lowest postseason point total. I'm told that's not
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  Speaker 1: good for the Thunder as they go down, and they
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  Speaker 1: went down hard. San Antonio is a twenty one point win,
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  Speaker 1: the Thunder just eighty two points, the San Antonio basketball
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  Speaker 1: team putting up one hundred and three. So Game four
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  Speaker 1: goes the way of the team from Texas. The Aaron Fox,
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  Speaker 1: who had missed some time in this series at twelve
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  Speaker 1: points and ten rebounds for San Antonio, and so they
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  Speaker 1: had not lost three consecutive games all season. They avoided
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  Speaker 1: doing that here in this series, and they will mathematically
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  Speaker 1: not be able to lose three straight in this series.
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  Speaker 1: They'd have to go to the finals to lose three straight.
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  Speaker 1: So Stefan Castle he had thirteen. Devin Vassel also with thirteen.
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  Speaker 1: So Game five will be on Tuesday, and that'll be
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  Speaker 1: back in Oklahoma City, followed by games that we're guaranteed
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  Speaker 1: of a game six on Thursday back in Texas. But
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  Speaker 1: the better story is in the losing locker room, and
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  Speaker 1: that is where we will talk. Will jump off on
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  Speaker 1: that point. Good discussion on a team like the Thunder
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  Speaker 1: go down under hit rock bottom. The game not very
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  Speaker 1: competitive at all despite the best laid plans of Mike
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  Speaker 1: Tarrico and the other I don't know who those other
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  Speaker 1: guys where. I guess Reggie Miller was one of them.
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  Speaker 1: I don't know who the other one.
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  Speaker 3: Was on NBC.
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  Speaker 1: So the question where did it all go wrong for
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  Speaker 1: the Thunder in game four? So I've got habitat of humanity,
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  Speaker 1: military grade camouflage and rumba, and we will combine all
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  Speaker 1: of these things together and we are going to make
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  Speaker 1: some spaghetti and meatballs, is what we're going to make.
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  Speaker 1: So a Oklahoma City lost this game the moment I
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  Speaker 1: saw the moment they showed her on TV, the moment
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  Speaker 1: the team got off the bus to walk into the arena,
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  Speaker 1: turn out the lot of parties over see you later.
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  Speaker 1: And there's an old saying there, some days you're the pigeon,
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  Speaker 1: and then some days you're the statue. Well, shay Jiogis
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  Speaker 1: Alexander spent Game four covered and you know what, Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: he was right out there as the Birds were going
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  Speaker 1: on bombing runs.
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  Speaker 3: Shae.
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  Speaker 1: Not just the statue, he was the public art installation
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  Speaker 1: the pigeons used for target.
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  Speaker 3: Practice call boom.
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  Speaker 1: Sga went from a mister MVP guy to background extra
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  Speaker 1: in this game, and despite playing in Oklahoma. A lot
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  Speaker 1: of hate.
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  Speaker 3: Part of it because he's a former Clipper.
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  Speaker 1: That's why guys are jealous of the clips and he's
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  Speaker 1: got that Clipper pedigree, Sga. The truth is Oklahoma City,
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  Speaker 1: though did not run an offense in this game, they
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  Speaker 1: ran a Habitat for Humanity bricklaying workshop. They were all, so,
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  Speaker 1: this is freemasonry, Come on down, Habitat for Humanity. We're
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  Speaker 1: gonna learn how to lay bricks. And they did, and
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  Speaker 1: you go just by watching the game. But if you
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  Speaker 1: didn't watch the game, and you don't need me to
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  Speaker 1: tell you, they got thirty three percent from the field,
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  Speaker 1: I don't think that's good. Eighteen percent from three point land,
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  Speaker 1: Oklahoma City shot like the rim that they were trying
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  Speaker 1: to hit. The rim there it filed some kind of
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  Speaker 1: restraining order something of that. Jared McCain, who was the
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  Speaker 1: pickup from the sixers, he missed nine of ten shots.
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  Speaker 1: I don't think that's good. Alex Caruso and the Bald Bomber.
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  Speaker 1: He got fourteen minutes of cardio in this game, fourteen
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  Speaker 1: minutes of cardio, and I think he burned more calories
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  Speaker 1: than points scored, which is not hard. Zero points scored,
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  Speaker 1: So it's fair to say that he actually did burn
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  Speaker 1: more calories than points scored in this game. And after
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  Speaker 1: the first four minutes or so, the game was somewhat competitive.
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  Speaker 1: The first four minutes. After that, Oklahoma City never led,
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  Speaker 1: They never threatened, They didn't matter.
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  Speaker 3: They were irrelevant in.
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  Speaker 1: This game as it was a clock cleaning. This was
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  Speaker 1: almost a wired to wired dental cleaning. Without Anesesia so
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  Speaker 1: down by his many's twenty five for Oklahoma City, the
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  Speaker 1: only run Oklahoma City made was to go take a
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  Speaker 1: dump after the game to the locker room. That was it.
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  Speaker 1: This wasn't the thunder. This was the blunder, is what
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  Speaker 1: it was in this game.
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  Speaker 2: Now.
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  Speaker 1: Meanwhile, so postgame, San Antonio forward Devin Vassal, someone we
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  Speaker 1: don't often mention, why would we Devin Vassal, for some reason,
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  Speaker 1: did an interview on television postgame, and he gave a
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  Speaker 1: money quote as the Thunder were discombobulated, and Vassal of
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  Speaker 1: the Spurs said, quote, I think they're super physical, he
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  Speaker 1: said of the Thunder, they get away with a lot.
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  Speaker 1: We try to use that against them too. We're going
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  Speaker 1: to try to be ultra physical. Close quote all right,
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  Speaker 1: So that has been sliced up and diced up and put.
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  Speaker 3: Under the microscope. So we'll take a turn at this
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  Speaker 3: right now.
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  Speaker 1: The question, did San Antonio's Devin Vassal take a shot
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  Speaker 1: a subtle shot at the Thunder and the way they
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  Speaker 1: play by saying they get away with a lot, all right,
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  Speaker 1: So this one is rather paint by numbers. It's rather
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  Speaker 1: paint by number. So absolutely Vassals slipped in some classic
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  Speaker 1: professional side eye. It's the little side eye right there.
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  Speaker 1: And you gotta look at this as basketball diplomacy. NBA
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  Speaker 1: players these days don't normally just come out and scream
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  Speaker 1: the refs build them out, man. They don't to say that.
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  Speaker 1: So instead what they do is they use military grade camouflage.
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  Speaker 1: They say things like they get away with a lot.
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  Speaker 1: The subtext is glaringly obvious. The subtext is we need
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  Speaker 1: the game called differently next time, and this is after
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  Speaker 1: a win.
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  Speaker 3: It's the old playoff psychology.
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  Speaker 1: In effect, you complain, complain, complain, complay, You complain even
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  Speaker 1: after victory, hoping the referee is overcorrect in the next game.
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  Speaker 1: Normally that only works after a loss. Oklahoma City perfectly
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  Speaker 1: understands how to live in those gray areas of the
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  Speaker 1: rule book, and the NBA certainly doesn't need more officiating drama,
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  Speaker 1: although any publicity is good publicity. The players sure love
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  Speaker 1: planting the seed. That's no accountability. It's always the referee's
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  Speaker 1: fault and all that, and slice it up, you cannibalize
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  Speaker 1: the broadcast. There's a million different plays, and every game
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  Speaker 1: there's a handful that are just egregious, horrifically bad calls.
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  Speaker 1: And so ultimately this does appear based on the whims
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  Speaker 1: of the league office.
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  Speaker 3: You forget SGA and Wemby.
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  Speaker 1: This series won't be decided by the superstars on the floor.
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  Speaker 1: The way it's looking after four games, tell me if
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  Speaker 1: I'm wrong on this. It looks like it's going to
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  Speaker 1: be decided by the adults with the whistles.
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  Speaker 3: Whistle, whistle whistle.
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  Speaker 1: It does right. The whole series is wrapped, turning into
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  Speaker 1: a courtroom drama O rama starring Scott Foster and Tony
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  Speaker 1: Brothers as Judge Judy and Judge Wackner, a couple of
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  Speaker 1: old judges back in the day. So that's where we
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  Speaker 1: are now, last word to the crowd. We go to
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  Speaker 1: the crowd. There was a random woman, random woman sitting
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  Speaker 1: courtside in Santo. In fact, there was more than one,
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  Speaker 1: but the one that was brought to our attention by
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  Speaker 1: several of you appeared to be holding what was a
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  Speaker 1: replica Oscar trophy and she was trying to present it
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  Speaker 1: to Thunderguard Shay Jiogis Alexander, the multi time MVP, trying
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  Speaker 1: to give him the little Oscar replica Oscar whenever he
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  Speaker 1: hit the deck, which was pretty much every other time
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  Speaker 1: he touched the ball. So the question for the class,
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  Speaker 1: how did you break down the Spurs fans in this
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  Speaker 1: case whether we're there was a bunch of trolling, we
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  Speaker 1: focus on this woman, So how do you break down
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  Speaker 1: these Spurs fan trolling SGA with props? So it was
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  Speaker 1: very carrot top like right prop comedy. San Antonio didn't
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  Speaker 1: just bring props to the arena of the fans. They
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  Speaker 1: brought production value. Very important. You gotta have that production value.
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  Speaker 1: And SGA gets clowned all the time. In this case,
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  Speaker 1: he gets clowned by some random woman holding a piece
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  Speaker 1: of plastic, a little trophy, a little trinket. I see
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  Speaker 1: regularly auditions SGA for days of our lives. They had
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  Speaker 1: a stat after the first couple of games of the
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  Speaker 1: NBA Conference Finals that SGA about thirty percent a little
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  Speaker 1: less than about thirty percent of the time, SGA would
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  Speaker 1: fall down, oftentimes not even getting in any kind of contact.
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  Speaker 1: But you look at the state of the sport right now,
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  Speaker 1: and the opposing crowds at this point, like they raz SGA.
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  Speaker 1: It's not a loud boo. I don't boom too much.
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  Speaker 1: They just kind of hold up scorecards like it's Olympic diving. Well,
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  Speaker 1: that was a nine point three of the judges' scorecards.
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  Speaker 1: That's great, Okay, wonderful, wonderful. Now, the NBA over the
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  Speaker 1: years has normalized flopping so thoroughly that the crowd now
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  Speaker 1: provides its own award show for the flopping, and the
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  Speaker 1: thunder constantly complained about physicality However, their franchise player, former
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  Speaker 1: Clipper Sga, he hits the deck more than a roomba
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  Speaker 1: with vertigo. Okay, he's all he's like cleaning everything up.
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  Speaker 1: He's like the roombaut They're going around and around around,
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  Speaker 1: suffering from a diagnosed allergy. Really, he's allergic to staying upright.
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  Speaker 1: That's the issue here, Sga, I got to stay up right?
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  Speaker 1: What are you talking about? And ultimately this is not
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  Speaker 1: just petty trolling. It's really a referendum on the way
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  Speaker 1: the game is played. But ultimately the NBA doesn't care.
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  Speaker 1: This has been the thing on and off for many, many, many,
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  Speaker 1: many many years. We've been behind these microphones and we've
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  Speaker 1: had similar conversations by different players in different eras, and
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  Speaker 1: it is ironic San Antonio with Manu Genobili and some
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  Speaker 1: of those old school guys back in the day who
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  Speaker 1: were floppy mcflop and now even some of the Spurs
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  Speaker 1: guys flop. But it's no one can get to the
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  Speaker 1: level of Sga. He's at a different realm and it's
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  Speaker 1: like he's an advanced calculus at this point. Everyone else
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  Speaker 1: is just doing the basic arithmetic and that's where we are.
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  Speaker 1: And so SGA does he flop obviously, right. Here's the
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  Speaker 1: thing about the flop is it's part of the nuance
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  Speaker 1: of basketball.
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  Speaker 3: The referees allow it. They put rules.
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  Speaker 1: In a couple of years back to try to stop
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  Speaker 1: the flop, stop the flop, stop the flop, stop the flop.
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  Speaker 1: They try to do it, and still here we are,
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  Speaker 1: all these years later, and there's there's rules for the
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  Speaker 1: and rules for the haves not, and if you reach
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  Speaker 1: a certain level, they give you a lot more runway,
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  Speaker 1: a lot more runway. It has been standard operating procedure
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  Speaker 1: for generations now who.
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  Speaker 3: Have watched the NBA the.
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  Speaker 1: Flopping, and the thing about it, as we say, there's
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  Speaker 1: the haves and the have not, so you have one
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  Speaker 1: man's flop is another man's Hall of Fame career.
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  Speaker 3: SGA is already the standard.
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  Speaker 1: To get to Springfield is not that great Muffett mccraw's
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  Speaker 1: in there, as our friend Alf likes to point out
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  Speaker 1: to me, and he lives not far from there. But
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  Speaker 1: SGA already got his Springfield acceptance speech written. He's got
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  Speaker 1: it written in italics. He's ready to go. I mean,
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  Speaker 1: it's uh, you know, he's steamrolling through this and Now,
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  Speaker 1: this was not a great performance by any means. He
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  Speaker 1: didn't even play in the fourth quarter. It was not pretty,
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  Speaker 1: but still, you know any meaning, Miney Moe pick a
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  Speaker 1: flop and it's like they're all flops, every one on
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  Speaker 1: the floppy mcflop flop flop.
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  Speaker 1: this Memorial Day weekend, and we continue the hot talk
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  Speaker 1: last hour and blah.
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  Speaker 3: A blog game in the NBA.
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  Speaker 1: In this hour, we talk about something I love, one
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  Speaker 1: of my favorite punching bags in sports. The Beard, The Beard,
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  Speaker 1: the Beard, the Beard, Fear the Beard, Nobody fears the Beard.
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  Speaker 1: And what an amazing performance yet again over the weekend.
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  Speaker 3: So Or I lead this hour from Cleveland.
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  Speaker 1: I'm gonna tell you right now, we're gonna save the
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  Speaker 1: quote of the year for the B Block. We're saving
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  Speaker 1: the quote of the year for the B Block. But
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  Speaker 1: we're gonna begin here. The New York Knickerbockers are on
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  Speaker 1: the brink of advancing to the NBA Finals, where they
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  Speaker 1: will lose to San Antonio or Oklahoma City. That a
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  Speaker 1: different conversation, but New York leading the Eastern Conference Finals
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  Speaker 1: three nothing, and they are on and not there's no momentum,
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  Speaker 1: but they're they're beating up a bunch of tomato cans.
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  Speaker 1: Here they can put the final nail in the coffin
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  Speaker 1: on Monday night here and close it out. And yet again,
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  Speaker 1: though the story of interest this series continues to be
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  Speaker 1: in the barbershop and a guy that doesn't go to
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  Speaker 1: the barbershop that often, at least not to get a.
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  Speaker 3: Full shave the beard. The beard.
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  Speaker 1: If you haven't been following oh Man hot Take Validation Baby, So,
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  Speaker 1: James Harden is getting absolutely charboiled critics and fans alike
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  Speaker 1: online and in the real world after multiple viral clips
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  Speaker 1: from Game three have made their way around the social
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  Speaker 1: media platforms. Now, for those of you that are blind,
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  Speaker 1: what do the clip show? Well, the multiple clips show
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  Speaker 1: during the Cavaliers loss.
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  Speaker 3: To the Knickerbockers.
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  Speaker 1: It shows James Harden giving pretty much no effort on defense.
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  Speaker 3: It was five on four. I wonder how the next one.
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  Speaker 3: I don't know.
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  Speaker 1: They were on the power play, power Play, power play
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  Speaker 1: and key stretches of the second half. The footage is
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  Speaker 1: on brand for James Harden. It's ugly if you're unfamiliar
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  Speaker 1: with James Harden's skill. Several clips circulating around the world
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  Speaker 1: wide web show James Harden standing still defensively while the
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  Speaker 1: Knicks players are cutting behind him, rotating into open pre balls,
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  Speaker 1: or attacking the painted area for uncontested shots, all the
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  Speaker 1: things you know basketball is supposed to be about. Movement,
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  Speaker 1: constant movement, all that stuff. Yeah, Harden's like, well, I'm
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  Speaker 1: gonna save energy on that. And on multiple possessions, James
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  Speaker 1: Harden appeared like he was locked onto the ball while
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  Speaker 1: completely losing track of his assignment off ball. He didn't
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  Speaker 1: was paying attention. So Harden repeatedly failed to rotate.
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  Speaker 3: There was no movement.
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  Speaker 1: He didn't even bother to close out on shooters, didn't
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  Speaker 1: even give a You know, some of these guys will
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  Speaker 1: give that fake effort where they kind of fake go
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  Speaker 1: out to stop the shoot He didn't even do that.
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  Speaker 1: There was no effort to box out. Why would you
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  Speaker 1: box out, try to get near the rim get a rebound.
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  Speaker 1: Even when he did make some attempt to contest late,
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  Speaker 1: he often committed fouls instead of forcing difficult shots. It
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  Speaker 1: was a futile effort by James Harden, and that is
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  Speaker 1: a good jumping off point. So let us discuss the question,
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  Speaker 1: how do you explain James Harden's lack of performance, lack
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  Speaker 1: of effort for the calves in these games. So my observations,
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  Speaker 1: I've got home depot, Gilroy, Garlic festival, and the lawnmower
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  Speaker 1: things together and we are going to play Connect three
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  Speaker 1: is what we're going to do.
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  Speaker 3: So number on one one.
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  Speaker 1: One, stop stop some all right, So some in Cleveland.
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  Speaker 1: I saw some of the reaction here that.
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  Speaker 3: I am shocked.
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  Speaker 1: Who could possibly be shocked? Tell me you don't know
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  Speaker 1: ball without telling me you don't know ball. If the
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  Speaker 1: overnight guy knows this was a dumb the dumb, dumb,
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  Speaker 1: dumb trade, then why do the people in the sport
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  Speaker 1: claim to not know. They act like they bought the
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  Speaker 1: mystery box instead of a product with a fifteen year
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  Speaker 1: instruction manual printed in bold font that we know what
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  Speaker 1: the product is. James Harden is giving the Cavs GM
• 19:23
  Speaker 1: Kobe Autman exactly what the packaging promised. No false advertising.
• 19:30
  Speaker 3: That's it.
• 19:31
  Speaker 1: He'll score some points early for you, He'll put up
• 19:33
  Speaker 1: some stats in the first half, and he'll vanish when
• 19:36
  Speaker 1: you need him the most. James Harden in the fourth
• 19:39
  Speaker 1: quarter and overtime is like Bigfoot, blurry, distant and mostly
• 19:46
  Speaker 1: a myth sasquatch. In the fourth quarter and overtime of
• 19:51
  Speaker 1: the Eastern Conference Finals, James Harden is shooting twenty seven
• 19:54
  Speaker 1: percent from the floor. He's averaging four more points per
• 19:57
  Speaker 1: game than you and I are. And he is sitting
• 20:00
  Speaker 1: at a minus thirty three that is a biblical plus
• 20:03
  Speaker 1: minus of minus thirty three in the fourth quarter and
• 20:07
  Speaker 1: in overtime in the Eastern Conference Finals. Now that isn't
• 20:11
  Speaker 1: just bad. That is a felony basketball felony. That is
• 20:16
  Speaker 1: malfeasan's to the highest degree. And on defense, as we
• 20:20
  Speaker 1: talked about there, he is giving you that pure home
• 20:23
  Speaker 1: depot like garden Gnome managery.
• 20:26
  Speaker 3: If you went out to Home Depot.
• 20:27
  Speaker 1: Or Low's or whatever your favorite hardware store is and
• 20:29
  Speaker 1: you bought a garden Gnome for the spring, that garden
• 20:34
  Speaker 1: Gnome would have more defensive intensity than James Harden. Right now, now,
• 20:40
  Speaker 1: people say, wow, you don't get James Harden for his defense. Okay,
• 20:43
  Speaker 1: but not any effort. Come on now, that said, it's
• 20:47
  Speaker 1: like you don't buy a blender that always overheats and
• 20:52
  Speaker 1: then complain when it overheats. If you look at Harden,
• 20:56
  Speaker 1: he's the blender that's been overheating for years. And you
• 21:00
  Speaker 1: bought the blender. And you could ask the clippers of
• 21:03
  Speaker 1: the nets of the rockets of the Sixers or any
• 21:06
  Speaker 1: of these teams, and they said, well, yeah, that blender
• 21:09
  Speaker 1: is pretty good for a while, but then you need
• 21:11
  Speaker 1: it over overheats.
• 21:12
  Speaker 3: And Spider Mitchell he was.
• 21:14
  Speaker 1: Running around taking bows when that trade happened with the Clippers.
• 21:18
  Speaker 1: And he didn't just advocate for James Harden to come
• 21:21
  Speaker 1: to Northern Ohio.
• 21:21
  Speaker 3: He vouched.
• 21:23
  Speaker 1: He said, that's my guy, and this is gonna put
• 21:25
  Speaker 1: us over the top. That's that's Spider Mitchell, right, that's
• 21:29
  Speaker 1: Spider Mitchell. He vouched for the sequel to a movie
• 21:34
  Speaker 1: where everyone's already seen it. And he said, no, no, it's
• 21:37
  Speaker 1: gonna be different. It's gonna be a different movie. No,
• 21:39
  Speaker 1: no it's not, No, it's not. And Spider Mitchell wanted him.
• 21:42
  Speaker 1: Spider Mitchell got James Harden. And Spider Mitchell owns this,
• 21:47
  Speaker 1: owns this right. And the Cavs thought they were somehow
• 21:50
  Speaker 1: the exception. This is the.
• 21:51
  Speaker 3: Hubris of professional sports.
• 21:53
  Speaker 1: The Cavaliers thought, wow, we're different, you know we're different,
• 21:57
  Speaker 1: and we know how to handle James Harden.
• 21:59
  Speaker 3: And okay, how's that working out for you? Right now?
• 22:03
  Speaker 1: Any team with James Harden on the roster is no
• 22:07
  Speaker 1: longer a contender. They are a science experiment, not even
• 22:10
  Speaker 1: a pretender. They're an a science experiment. The only surprise
• 22:14
  Speaker 1: here is that the Cleveland basketball team is actually surprised.
• 22:20
  Speaker 3: It's like, what are you doing.
• 22:22
  Speaker 1: Harden didn't betray the cadavers. Cleveland betrayed themselves with this
• 22:29
  Speaker 1: transaction by thinking they're gonna be the first franchise in
• 22:33
  Speaker 1: pro bouncy ball history immune to the.
• 22:36
  Speaker 3: Glitch that is playoff Harden.
• 22:39
  Speaker 1: Right, Harden's playoff glitch is the stuff of legend. And
• 22:43
  Speaker 1: they thought, no, no, no, no, we've got we've got this
• 22:46
  Speaker 1: shot that we took and we're immune.
• 22:48
  Speaker 3: We have immunity. No you know, no, you don't.
• 22:52
  Speaker 1: He has shown you who he is for well over
• 22:55
  Speaker 1: a decade, closer to two decades. You might want to
• 22:58
  Speaker 1: believe James Harden. This is the hardened experience. This is
• 23:04
  Speaker 1: the brochure. It's the whole Monty, the full Monty right there.
• 23:08
  Speaker 1: Any team with Harden again, it's just kind of weird,
• 23:12
  Speaker 1: voodoo bugaloo nonsense when you have Harden on the team.
• 23:16
  Speaker 1: All right now, page two to Detroit.
• 23:19
  Speaker 3: We go.
• 23:20
  Speaker 1: Now, the NBA announced the all NBA teams for some
• 23:25
  Speaker 1: reason on a random Sunday. They just announced that over
• 23:28
  Speaker 1: the weekend. So Piston Center Jalen Duran was the third
• 23:32
  Speaker 1: team All NBA Center. That means the reason I bring
• 23:35
  Speaker 1: this up. He now qualifies for a thirty percent maximum
• 23:40
  Speaker 1: extension with the Detroit Pistons, worth a projected two hundred
• 23:45
  Speaker 1: and eighty seven million over five years, So that is
• 23:48
  Speaker 1: up from the prior two hundred and thirty nine million.
• 23:51
  Speaker 1: So the economy is pretty good in basketball. And again,
• 23:54
  Speaker 1: I just praise any business that gives out raises because
• 23:57
  Speaker 1: I have worked for a lot that do not believe
• 23:58
  Speaker 1: in giving out raises and awarding their employees. So when
• 24:01
  Speaker 1: I see a business that gives raises, I think that's great.
• 24:03
  Speaker 1: Now that being said, this guy doesn't deserve the money
• 24:06
  Speaker 1: the new deal protects. Jalen Duran is going to get
• 24:11
  Speaker 1: forty nine if he signs this contract, and why wouldn't
• 24:13
  Speaker 1: he forty nine and a half million dollars next season,
• 24:17
  Speaker 1: escalating all the way to sixty five million over sixty five.
• 24:21
  Speaker 3: Million in twenty thirty thirty one, And if.
• 24:25
  Speaker 1: He ends up going to another team, they would be
• 24:28
  Speaker 1: limited to a four year, one hundred and seventy seven
• 24:30
  Speaker 1: million dollar contract. So I don't know how he's going
• 24:32
  Speaker 1: to be able to pay the hoa with that kind
• 24:35
  Speaker 1: of contract. So Duran, he's in his early twenties and
• 24:39
  Speaker 1: he played as an All Star during the regular season.
• 24:43
  Speaker 1: Is no debating that the regular season, Jalen Duran is
• 24:46
  Speaker 1: an All Star, and he had really good numbers nineteen
• 24:49
  Speaker 1: and a half points, ten rebounds a game, and then
• 24:53
  Speaker 1: his production.
• 24:54
  Speaker 3: There was a trap door that opened up in the.
• 24:56
  Speaker 1: Playoffs and he fell right in a pit of vipers
• 25:01
  Speaker 1: and piranha right there. Boom done. All right, So the
• 25:04
  Speaker 1: question you make the call. You make the call should
• 25:09
  Speaker 1: the Pistons pay or trade all NBA center Jalen Duran.
• 25:15
  Speaker 1: So if you weigh the evidence, and that's what we
• 25:17
  Speaker 1: do here in the court of Mather, you weigh the evidence,
• 25:20
  Speaker 1: it's rather clear. If your franchise center turns into a
• 25:24
  Speaker 1: puddle in the month of May or April, he is
• 25:28
  Speaker 1: not your franchise center and you should not pay him. Now, technically,
• 25:33
  Speaker 1: Duran is a restricted free agent. My advice to the
• 25:37
  Speaker 1: Detroit basketball team, they don't need a GM right now. No, no, no,
• 25:42
  Speaker 1: they need Wayne Brady to host. Let's make a deal
• 25:45
  Speaker 1: the front court edition and Duran, he didn't just get
• 25:50
  Speaker 1: exposed in the playoffs.
• 25:51
  Speaker 3: He got zonked.
• 25:52
  Speaker 1: He got zonked like a contestant who picked the donkey
• 25:57
  Speaker 1: behind curtain number three and turned down the car. It's
• 26:00
  Speaker 1: a bad job by them. Call the uber black, load
• 26:03
  Speaker 1: the extra bags. In fact, I'll even make a deal.
• 26:06
  Speaker 1: I will make sure that Jalen Duran gets tsa pre
• 26:10
  Speaker 1: check so he doesn't have to wait online when he
• 26:12
  Speaker 1: goes to the airport there because he's out of here.
• 26:15
  Speaker 1: And in the playoffs playoffs, Jalen Durn looked like Count
• 26:22
  Speaker 1: Dracula at the Gilroy Garlic Festival, the Holy Land of Garlic,
• 26:27
  Speaker 1: shrinking and melting and disappearing. And he didn't just regress,
• 26:33
  Speaker 1: he fell off the statistical cliff so steep. You gotta
• 26:38
  Speaker 1: go back to Elgin Baylor in nineteen sixty nine, the
• 26:42
  Speaker 1: last guy who saw the depths of despair that Jalen
• 26:47
  Speaker 1: Durn did from regular season to the postseason, averaged nine
• 26:51
  Speaker 1: point three points less per game, nine point three points
• 26:55
  Speaker 1: less per game in the biggest games the postseason compared
• 26:59
  Speaker 1: to the regular season. You have to go back almost
• 27:01
  Speaker 1: as far as Haley's comment, you gotta go way back,
• 27:05
  Speaker 1: way way way back. And Haley's comments not fifty seven years,
• 27:08
  Speaker 1: but fifty seven years is a long time to find
• 27:11
  Speaker 1: a playoff collapse this dramatic. As we said, it's Elgent
• 27:15
  Speaker 1: Baylor with the Lakers back in the day. But this
• 27:16
  Speaker 1: wasn't just a bad week. This was def Con one
• 27:20
  Speaker 1: melt down under the brightest light.
• 27:22
  Speaker 3: You needed a.
• 27:23
  Speaker 1: Telescope and a NASA launch window to find the last
• 27:27
  Speaker 1: time a star collapsed like this. So you're not a
• 27:31
  Speaker 1: real star. And so if I'm the Pistons, I say, okay,
• 27:34
  Speaker 1: let's do a little sign and trade action. We'll make
• 27:36
  Speaker 1: it happen. We'll send Durham to a team like the Lakers.
• 27:40
  Speaker 1: They'll take him, or the Bulls or the Nets or
• 27:43
  Speaker 1: somebody like that, some loser franchise that'll take this guy on.
• 27:45
  Speaker 1: And said, well, we're gonna fix them because we know
• 27:47
  Speaker 1: what we're doing. Okay, sure you do. Yeah, I'm sure
• 27:51
  Speaker 1: you will figure it all out. Everything will be good,
• 27:53
  Speaker 1: all right. Final point, we go to the NFL Arizona,
• 27:57
  Speaker 1: which is vaguely in the NFL. So we had some
• 28:00
  Speaker 1: reports over the weekend that said the Cardinals and quarterback
• 28:04
  Speaker 1: Jacoby Brissett are quote significantly far apart on a rework
• 28:10
  Speaker 1: deli oh for the twenty twenty six season as we
• 28:15
  Speaker 1: sit here in late May, almost June, and then training
• 28:18
  Speaker 1: camp begins in about a month and a half. About
• 28:22
  Speaker 1: a month and a half, the NFL training camp period
• 28:24
  Speaker 1: will begin, which is a whole lot of enoughing and
• 28:26
  Speaker 1: then some exhibition games you won't watch, and then the real.
• 28:29
  Speaker 3: Season begins in September.
• 28:32
  Speaker 1: So Brisset, if you look at it here, he's got
• 28:35
  Speaker 1: one year left on his deal and he can make
• 28:38
  Speaker 1: up to five point three million, which is about where
• 28:41
  Speaker 1: he is. The other options are Gardner Minshew and a
• 28:45
  Speaker 1: third round pick Carson Beck out of Miami. Those are
• 28:49
  Speaker 1: the other quarterbacks in the room. In the room, so
• 28:54
  Speaker 1: you look around around Gardner minshewe So he's got a
• 28:57
  Speaker 1: one year deal for about five point one million, which
• 29:00
  Speaker 1: is less than Jacoby Brissett. The front office also invested,
• 29:05
  Speaker 1: as we said, with beca a draft pick. The question, though,
• 29:08
  Speaker 1: how do you see this impass between Jacoby Brissett and
• 29:13
  Speaker 1: the Cardinals working out? So let's be real here, Brissett,
• 29:17
  Speaker 1: he wants starter money, and the way I look at him,
• 29:22
  Speaker 1: he's lucky. If the Cardinals give him the team Wi
• 29:25
  Speaker 1: Fi password, that'd be like, okay, you get the WiFi.
• 29:27
  Speaker 1: We're not gonna give you a new contract, but we'll
• 29:28
  Speaker 1: give you the Wi Fi. It's encrypted. Okay, good, thank you.
• 29:32
  Speaker 1: I appreciate that he's thirty three years old and he's
• 29:36
  Speaker 1: negotiating like he's some kind of victim. He's a victim
• 29:39
  Speaker 1: early of his own stat line of anything. And only
• 29:42
  Speaker 1: in the modern NFL does a quarterback with a resume
• 29:46
  Speaker 1: as poor as Jacoby Brissett demand a raise with a
• 29:50
  Speaker 1: straight face. No shame, no, I'd said, with the hutzba
• 29:54
  Speaker 1: of doing that, like what, I'm a sugarna. The Cardinals
• 29:57
  Speaker 1: are arguing with a a man who started twelve games
• 30:02
  Speaker 1: last year and went one and eleven, and they're arguing
• 30:05
  Speaker 1: with him like he's some kind of folk hero. Jacoby Brissett. Dude, Seriously,
• 30:10
  Speaker 1: he has absolutely no leverage here. He's already made a
• 30:14
  Speaker 1: mind boggling You know how much this guy's made By
• 30:16
  Speaker 1: the way, I say mind boggling to me, it's mind boggling.
• 30:18
  Speaker 1: You want to take a guess how much you think
• 30:20
  Speaker 1: Jacoby Brissett Patriot backup Colts. She's bounced around the NFL.
• 30:25
  Speaker 1: Jacoby Brissett has already made sixty seven million, hiding in
• 30:31
  Speaker 1: the shadows of the NFL sixty seven million Batman had
• 30:37
  Speaker 1: less job security.
• 30:38
  Speaker 3: Arizona does not have a QB one.
• 30:42
  Speaker 1: They don't. They have two QB two's fighting for the
• 30:45
  Speaker 1: middle seat. Who wants the middle seat? Nobody wants the
• 30:48
  Speaker 1: middle seat. Enter Gardner Minshew, Minshew Mania, who is basically
• 30:54
  Speaker 1: Jacoby Burssett with a lawnmower and blower sponsorship. All right,
• 31:00
  Speaker 1: that's what this is, right, You get the lawnmower, the
• 31:02
  Speaker 1: blower sponsorships, interchangeable, interchangeable. Minshew is fun bad. He's not
• 31:07
  Speaker 1: good bad. He's fun bad. You'll be bad, he'll be fun.
• 31:12
  Speaker 1: He's a mirror image quarterback for cheaper with twice the
• 31:17
  Speaker 1: personality of Jacoby Brissett. We're not exactly talking about a
• 31:20
  Speaker 1: quarterback matchup where you're deciding between Kurt Warner and some
• 31:24
  Speaker 1: stiff like alligator Arms Murray, who's now going to poison
• 31:27
  Speaker 1: the Minnesota Vikings Arizona At this point, they're the headless birds,
• 31:32
  Speaker 1: the Cardinals wandering off into the desert without a head.
• 31:36
  Speaker 1: If I only had my head, the mallor advice to
• 31:39
  Speaker 1: the Cardinals it's rather simple. Don't let the door hit you.
• 31:43
  Speaker 1: Where the good lord, split you if you have to
• 31:45
  Speaker 1: bring in a heavy hitter, bring in porky pig to
• 31:48
  Speaker 1: close the next press conference. That's all, folks, and that's
• 31:52
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• 31:59
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• 32:05
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• 32:09
  Speaker 2: Ben.
• 32:10
  Speaker 6: Henry Ruggs is eligible for parole in August of this year.
• 32:15
  Speaker 6: If he gets out on parole, do you think there's
• 32:18
  Speaker 6: a chance that he returns to the end the NFL.
• 32:20
  Speaker 1: Well, I would like to think Cooper Loop that there's
• 32:23
  Speaker 1: no chance that the NFL wants nothing to do with
• 32:25
  Speaker 1: Henry Ruggs. However, I know how the NFL operates. He'll
• 32:30
  Speaker 1: be in the NFL. He will get workouts in the end.
• 32:32
  Speaker 1: I would be shocked if he doesn't get an opportunity.
• 32:35
  Speaker 1: Whether that's Kansas City, Andy Reid's brought some guys in,
• 32:38
  Speaker 1: that's guys that have had issues. This is this is
• 32:41
  Speaker 1: not just issues. He literally killed someone and their dog
• 32:44
  Speaker 1: burned off in the car because of him. But he'll
• 32:46
  Speaker 1: get it. He'll get an opportunity.
• 32:47
  Speaker 6: Next uh, Panthers defensive tackle Derek Brown said over the
• 32:52
  Speaker 6: weekend about Bryce Young, he's our guy.
• 32:54
  Speaker 5: We ride with number nine all the way.
• 32:57
  Speaker 6: People don't want to admit how good he's becoming because
• 32:59
  Speaker 6: they're gonna have to go back and admit how wrong
• 33:01
  Speaker 6: they were.
• 33:02
  Speaker 5: Ben, do you think people were wrong about bryceon?
• 33:04
  Speaker 3: No?
• 33:04
  Speaker 1: No, no one was wrong.
• 33:06
  Speaker 3: No, he's not that good.
• 33:07
  Speaker 1: He's now He's gone from the worst, the worst to
• 33:10
  Speaker 1: backside of average to bad. So he's not as bad
• 33:14
  Speaker 1: as he was, But there's no world he's.
• 33:16
  Speaker 6: Good next Ben, Travis Kelsey is gonna climb up the
• 33:19
  Speaker 6: all time receptions list this year.
• 33:21
  Speaker 5: He's only a you know, feel away from Tim Brown.
• 33:24
  Speaker 6: But do you think you can catch Tony Gonzalez as
• 33:26
  Speaker 6: the top tight end?
• 33:27
  Speaker 5: He's like a couple hundred away.
• 33:29
  Speaker 1: No, no, no, He's gonna get married a few weeks
• 33:33
  Speaker 1: or whatever. Then he's gonna fade away after this year.
• 33:35
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• 34:09
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• 34:09
  Speaker 1: In the wacky world of sports, the Cleveland the Cadavers
• 34:14
  Speaker 1: are about to be eliminated from the playoffs. They've got
• 34:16
  Speaker 1: the Knickerbockers in the NBA tonight and New York is
• 34:22
  Speaker 1: a two and a half point road favorite in that game.
• 34:24
  Speaker 1: They're getting all the money for whatever that's worth to
• 34:27
  Speaker 1: take down Cleveland. James Harden, though in particular the big
• 34:30
  Speaker 1: pickup from the Clippers. James Harden has been a disaster
• 34:34
  Speaker 1: in the playoffs. In the fourth quarter in this series,
• 34:37
  Speaker 1: in the fourth quarter and in overtime, he's shooting twenty
• 34:39
  Speaker 1: seven percent. Calves have been outscored by over thirty points
• 34:42
  Speaker 1: with Harden on the court. So what is your advice
• 34:45
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• 35:18
  Speaker 1: We're giving advice to James Harden. Playoff. Harden has been activated. Hello,
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• 35:25
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• 35:27
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• 35:30
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• 35:32
  Speaker 1: Line three, you're on the airline that was blind Scott.
• 35:34
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  Speaker 1: Hey James, when you get back to New York, gift you.
• 35:54
  Speaker 2: Dude like a roughneck.
• 35:56
  Speaker 1: There you go. Let's see that's Rick and Maryland.
• 35:59
  Speaker 3: I'm four for four.
• 36:00
  Speaker 1: This is rather pathetic. Line five is on the air.
• 36:03
  Speaker 1: We're giving advice to James Harden.
• 36:04
  Speaker 3: Hello, line five, Kay, give it a real job here,
• 36:09
  Speaker 3: all right? That was hollering James. I believe upset with
• 36:11
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• 36:12
  Speaker 1: I'm five for five baby.
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• 36:16
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• 36:19
  Speaker 1: Oh no you can't. Oh how dare you? Line six,
• 36:23
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• 36:25
  Speaker 1: to James Harden. The line six you're on the air.
• 36:27
  Speaker 5: Yeah, he'd be better playing for the Washington Jarals in
• 36:30
  Speaker 5: the NBA.
• 36:31
  Speaker 1: Oh that's see. That was our guy from Iowa.
• 36:33
  Speaker 3: I'm six for six right there. Line let's go back
• 36:36
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• 36:36
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• 36:40
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  Speaker 1: We are trained professionals as we give advice here unscreened
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  Speaker 1: phone calls. Hello, line one, you're on the air.
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  Speaker 2: Well come pick pick it with poppy.
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  Speaker 1: Okay.
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  Speaker 4: No.
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  Speaker 1: Line two, Hello, line two, No you didn't. Yes, he's
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  Speaker 1: already was thinking about keeping the Angels. But now that
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  Speaker 1: this guy called up ferg Dog, he's now going to
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  Speaker 1: sell the team. That and the how the the moms
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  Speaker 1: soccer moms of Orange County who were out protesting Gardy
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  Speaker 1: Marino over the weekend. Let's go to you. Line three,
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  Speaker 1: you're on the airline three.
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  Speaker 3: Hello, you gotta use some really good soap on that beard.
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  Speaker 2: Hair.
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  Speaker 3: It must smell after a game.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, that's gotta be that's good point. That's got to
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  Speaker 1: a lot of hygiene. You have a beard like that,
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  Speaker 1: you got to take care of. There's a lot of maintenance.
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  Speaker 1: Gotta put some oil in that, right.
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  Speaker 3: I don't know.
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  Speaker 1: I don't have a beard like that. I just I
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  Speaker 1: know I've had friends that have had beards like that.
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  Speaker 1: Line let's go line five. Line five, you're on the
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  Speaker 1: airline five.
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  Speaker 3: Hello, who needs the jersey? That's this problem.
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  Speaker 1: That's what he needs. He needs the Baba gnushan, the
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  Speaker 1: gabba ghoul is what he needs and then he can
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  Speaker 1: move forward there. That'll certainly jazz him up, get him
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  Speaker 1: out of the doldrums.
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  Speaker 3: Line six, you're on the airline six. It's the Instant
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  Speaker 3: Advice line.
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  Speaker 1: Unscreened radio for James Harden of Cleveland's basketball team.
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  Speaker 3: Hello, line six.
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  Speaker 2: If you suck at a time that you're not supposed
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  Speaker 2: to suck, should you try blowing?
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  Speaker 1: That's supermarket Steve with some interesting questions. Line one, you're
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  Speaker 1: on the Airline one. We're giving advice to James Harden. Hello,
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  Speaker 1: line line was not paying attention, So we'll go to
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  Speaker 1: line two. It's a mind bender. It's a live radio show.
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  Speaker 1: Is a long delay, dummies. Line two, you're on the
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  Speaker 1: airline too. Hello, all right, Line two sucks. We'll go
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  Speaker 1: to line three. I can't understand line two, so we'll
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  Speaker 1: go to line three.
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  Speaker 2: Hello, line three, please go Lebron, please take James Harden.
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  Speaker 1: Okay, yeah, don't ever sing again.
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  Speaker 3: So please.
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  Speaker 1: There's people that are trying to live their lives and
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  Speaker 1: you have come into their life, and you have caused
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  Speaker 1: a lot of heartache hearing you sing. Line Let's go
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  Speaker 1: over to line six.
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  Speaker 3: Line six. You're on the air.
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  Speaker 1: It's the instant advice line for James Harden. Hello, line six,
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  Speaker 1: Line six you everybody.
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  Speaker 3: Your two hands should be playing defense from Moon Scott.
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  Speaker 4: Keep up there.
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  Speaker 1: Okay, there's there's Jed who fled right there. We'll go
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  Speaker 1: to line let's go over to.
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  Speaker 3: Line two is ringing hello.
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  Speaker 1: Line two. It's the Instant Advice line Line two for
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  Speaker 1: James Harden. Got AhR No, I'll get Poppy off the
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  Speaker 1: all right one more coob A little hurry up, Pigott
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  Speaker 1: final call Line five.
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  Speaker 3: Line five.
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  Speaker 1: You're on the air, Line five for James Harden go.
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  Speaker 3: Line five.
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  Speaker 1: Let you down Line five