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  Speaker 1: Thanks for listening to the best of the Ben Mahler
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  Speaker 1: He's big fan of Jozi, the only one I know
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  Speaker 1: consistently has supported the Thunder and Gunner, who has been
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  Speaker 1: in hiding, and I don't blame him in Minnesota. As
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  Speaker 1: he's predicted the Wolves are gonna win. Things are not
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  Speaker 1: this hour is from the Jules Heist or the Julius
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  Speaker 1: Heist or whatever you want to call it. But we'll
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  Speaker 1: go to the Sooner State game number two. And if
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  Speaker 1: you were optimistic, if you were excited, thinking, wow, yeah,
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  Speaker 1: you had a pretty bad Game one in this series,
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  Speaker 1: but then you had the Knickerbockers and the Pacers go
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  Speaker 1: bonkers in their series. So certainly you're not gonna get
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  Speaker 1: two clunkers in a row in the Minnesota OKC series.
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  Speaker 1: So after truancy in the series, Opener ant Man and
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  Speaker 1: the Wolves flew in for game two with SGA and
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  Speaker 1: the thunder, and I don't know what you got going on,
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  Speaker 1: whether you sampled this or not. Maybe you were watching it,
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  Speaker 1: or maybe you were staring at a wall. If you
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  Speaker 1: were staring at the wall, you likely had as much
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  Speaker 1: fun as those watching the game. And as we like
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  Speaker 1: to point out our public service announcement, do not worry.
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  Speaker 1: We watched so you did not have to in the game.
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  Speaker 1: Very similar same blueprint as game one. It was close
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  Speaker 1: at halftime and then they had to play the rest
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  Speaker 1: of the game and shay Gilgis Alexander thirty eight points
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  Speaker 1: twenty four hours after he was named the MVP picked
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  Speaker 1: up the award there in a Gallas ceremony. How upset
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  Speaker 1: was Adam Silver He had to fly to Oklahoma to
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  Speaker 1: hand him the trophy. He must have been so pissed. Anyway,
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  Speaker 1: he got the trophy. And then Oklahoma City went out
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  Speaker 1: there in the second half and the term his I'll
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  Speaker 1: use the term disemboweled. They disemboweled Minnesota yet again. They
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  Speaker 1: win one eighteen to one oh three the final and
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  Speaker 1: so it is two nothing in favor of the team
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  Speaker 1: from Oklahoma and they have held serve at home and
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  Speaker 1: now the series will shift up north. Gilgos Alexander made
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  Speaker 1: twelve of twenty one field goals and thirteen of fifteen
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  Speaker 1: foul shots. That continues to be a cloud following him
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  Speaker 1: around as the critics of Gildas Alexander are having a
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  Speaker 1: field there with that. But he did get the trophy
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  Speaker 1: there from Adam Silver. He also had eight assists and
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  Speaker 1: three steals and a partridge in a pear tree. Jalen
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  Speaker 1: Williams said twenty six. Chet Holmgren, who looks like Skeletor,
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  Speaker 1: had twenty two, and so that's where we are. Game
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  Speaker 1: three will be Saturday in downtown Minneapolis. Tickets are not available,
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  Speaker 1: look like him sold out. The better story, though, is
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  Speaker 1: in that losing locker room. And if you listen to
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  Speaker 1: the show on a semi regular basis, there is a
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  Speaker 1: method to the madness. There is a formula that we have.
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  Speaker 1: You've likely picked up on it unless you're totally obtuse.
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  Speaker 1: And the way it works is we look at the
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  Speaker 1: team that lost and then we break it apart, we
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  Speaker 1: put it under the microscope, and we analyze it. We
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  Speaker 1: like to play this game called the blame game. We
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  Speaker 1: like to play the blame game. It's a fun game
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  Speaker 1: to play the blame game, and this night rather easy
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  Speaker 1: to play the blame game. Now, before we get into that,
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  Speaker 1: let's get to the head coach of the Minnesota Timbarolls.
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  Speaker 1: First off, here, let's go to cut two. First, here's
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  Speaker 1: the coach Finch, who was commenting about how his team
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  Speaker 1: has had no clue how to stop s g A.
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  Speaker 1: Take a listen.
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  Speaker 4: Obviously, you know, SHA's a handful to contain. You know,
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  Speaker 4: he's getting around us to you know, to when there's contact,
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  Speaker 4: he's getting around us. And you know, we gotta do
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  Speaker 4: a better job of square on him.
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  Speaker 5: O kiss all about the square you squares, You gotta
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  Speaker 5: square them up.
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  Speaker 1: That's what I always told my my players when I
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  Speaker 1: was coaching back and they got to square them up.
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  Speaker 1: Here's one more from coach Finch. And so it's too nothing,
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  Speaker 1: you're down. You got game three in the Wolf then,
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  Speaker 1: and what's gonna happen in that game?
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  Speaker 6: Coach?
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  Speaker 4: Every minute in the series is a chance to find something,
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  Speaker 4: you know, So we're gonna go back home. This is
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  Speaker 4: a good team, good team at home. So we're gonna
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  Speaker 4: go home and you know, fight for game three. I
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  Speaker 4: mean heads up and look at the tabe and get
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  Speaker 4: ready for Game three.
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  Speaker 1: So they I think they have a better chance. Like
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  Speaker 1: if it was a fight, I think that Minnesota has
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  Speaker 1: tougher players than Oklahoma City. Like I think chet Holmgan
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  Speaker 1: could win a fight. I know he's tall, but he
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  Speaker 1: won punch. That's it.
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  Speaker 5: Now, don't bury the lead, my man.
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  Speaker 1: All right? So the story here is Julius Randall, who
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  Speaker 1: was not only a basketball player, he was horrible. So
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  Speaker 1: let's discuss that part of it. Because this is the number.
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  Speaker 5: Two number two watch him.
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  Speaker 1: Behind the star, the headliner Anthony Edwards, who also made
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  Speaker 1: some headlines for what he did after the game. Let's
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  Speaker 1: discuss the question what happened to playoff Julius Randall for
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  Speaker 1: the Wolves. So I've got day spa vacuum, and Quickie Martin,
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  Speaker 1: and we will combine all of these things together and
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  Speaker 1: we're gonna make some amazing sticky rice and beef bugogie.
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  Speaker 1: That's what we're gonna make, all right. So a Julius
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  Speaker 1: Randva I was just asked in a previous episode of
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  Speaker 1: the show, has he changed his reputation now? Has he
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  Speaker 1: figured things out? And he was known early in his
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  Speaker 1: career as a guy that was a ghost in playoff games. Well,
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  Speaker 1: Randall in this game sucked at a time you cannot suck.
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  Speaker 1: And forget load management. I know that's all the rage
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  Speaker 1: in the NBA. Not load management. This was waste management.
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  Speaker 1: What a waste, what a waste, hot garbage. And he
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  Speaker 1: was benched in the fourth quarter. Your second player on
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  Speaker 1: the team is benched in the fourth quarter. Now, this
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  Speaker 1: is a reminder that even when Randall is going well,
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  Speaker 1: and he has had some nice performances in the playoff,
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  Speaker 1: so a lot of that was against Fat Luca and
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  Speaker 1: the Lakers, So how much credit do you get for that?
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  Speaker 5: But he still he still has those.
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  Speaker 1: Demons, those demons from NBA playoff pass in him. And
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  Speaker 1: that was a total clunker and that doesn't do it justice.
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  Speaker 1: Six points, four turnovers, five assists, five rebounds, two of
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  Speaker 1: eleven floor and got hemorrhoids from sitting on the bench
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  Speaker 1: in the fourth quarter.
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  Speaker 5: But wait, there's more.
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  Speaker 1: So Randall, we're pretty sure that he went to the
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  Speaker 1: day spa during the game and he decided, you know,
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  Speaker 1: I'm neder that cold plunge thing, and he did it
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  Speaker 1: during the game at the wrong time.
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  Speaker 5: So the game was ultimately lost in the third quarter,
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  Speaker 5: but specifically a.
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  Speaker 1: Seven minute roughly seven minute stretch of the fourth quarter,
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  Speaker 1: Minnesota was down by four at seven forty three on
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  Speaker 1: the clock. I went back and I looked in the
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  Speaker 1: third quarter, by four, anyone's game two baskets. Really with
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  Speaker 1: the NBA, it's a three point shot and maybe a
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  Speaker 1: four point player tied up. From that point. Over the
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  Speaker 1: next seven minutes and eight seconds, Oklahoma City went after burners.
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  Speaker 1: They went turbotastic, and it was thirty to ten plus
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  Speaker 1: twenty for Minnesota or plus twenty for Oklahoma City minus
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  Speaker 1: twenty for the timber Wolves, and they were down by
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  Speaker 1: twenty four points at that point, game, set, and match.
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  Speaker 1: And in that meltdown that stretch, Oklahoma City shot eighty
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  Speaker 1: two percent, which means the only way the thunder could
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  Speaker 1: miss a shot is if the air conditioning events were
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  Speaker 1: pointed at the ball and the ball went flying and
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  Speaker 1: the thunders swarming the Wolves like locusts, and Minnesota did
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  Speaker 1: not do well. They find themselves now in the bowl,
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  Speaker 1: and as long as they went at home, they can
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  Speaker 1: keep hope alive. But the the dust bowl is where
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  Speaker 1: they're at right now. And if they don't snap out
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  Speaker 1: of it and figure some things out here. They will
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  Speaker 1: be put into an urn with a capital you. They'll
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  Speaker 1: just be some dust now outscored by twelve again on
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  Speaker 1: points on turnovers, points off turnovers. But the most.
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  Speaker 5: Maddening thing, and listen, talk about both sides.
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  Speaker 1: We're talking about the losing locker room here. But the
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  Speaker 1: Minnesota team's one thing to lose. But they got outworked right.
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  Speaker 1: The thunder won all the hustle stats in a playoff game. Hey,
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  Speaker 1: you're on the road. You got to out hustle the opposition.
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  Speaker 1: That's basketball. One oh one.
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  Speaker 5: Didn't do it, did not do it all.
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  Speaker 1: Right now, turning the page, I mentioned Anthony Edwards made
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  Speaker 1: some headlines, the ant man making headlines on and off
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  Speaker 1: the court. He declined to speak with reporters after the game,
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  Speaker 1: his team losing in non competitive fashion. Again, the face
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  Speaker 1: of the franchise said, I ain't talking, and he's stormed
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  Speaker 1: out without had a little pity party and took off.
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  Speaker 1: He apparently was upset because he was fined fifty thousand
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  Speaker 1: dollars for a rather mild f bomb that he tossed
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  Speaker 1: out just in casual.
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  Speaker 5: We don't how men talk.
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  Speaker 1: We just use the F bomb. I think women do
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  Speaker 1: it too. We all use the F bomb, but you
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  Speaker 1: can't do it with polite society. Anyway, Edwards had thirty
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  Speaker 1: two points in the game and the low information fans, oh,
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  Speaker 1: he played well, he had thirty two points. Come on, now,
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  Speaker 1: well he took twenty six shots. That ain't great. The
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  Speaker 1: issue though, is he he skipped out. He ski daddled
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  Speaker 1: at a time you're not supposed to ski daddle. So
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  Speaker 1: the question for the esteem panel, which you are a
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  Speaker 1: part of, is it fair to criticize Anthony Edwards for
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  Speaker 1: not speaking to the media after game two? Considering that
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  Speaker 1: he is a team leader and we are told the
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  Speaker 1: face of the franchise. So after a thirty second deliberation,
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  Speaker 1: one thousand percent, is it fair? It is a breach
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  Speaker 1: of the NBA protocol. That's one thing, as a violation
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  Speaker 1: of your responsibilities literally in the contract. Like the NBA
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  Speaker 1: players signed the contracts. They get all the big money,
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  Speaker 1: but they have to talk to the media because the
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  Speaker 1: NBA is just a TV show and it's based on
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  Speaker 1: media stuff. And it also shows you that there's a
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  Speaker 1: leadership vacuum there, there's poor accountability and you're the guy,
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  Speaker 1: Anthony Edwards, you're the guy, right, I'm not the guy.
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  Speaker 1: You're the guy.
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  Speaker 5: How can you be the guy if you don't act
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  Speaker 5: like the guy.
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  Speaker 1: You're the guy. It's supposed to be the future of
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  Speaker 1: the NBA. I think we've eliminated that after the Big
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  Speaker 1: D coming. You do have the Big D. You told
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  Speaker 1: everyone you have the Big D. If you have the
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  Speaker 1: Big D, why would you hide when the lights are
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  Speaker 1: the brightest. It's easy when you go out and put
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  Speaker 1: up fifty points in a game and are hammer dunking
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  Speaker 1: the ball down people's throats, it's easy. You're out there
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  Speaker 1: shaking and bacon. Oh yeah, go out there. You want
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  Speaker 1: to make up. You got the sound person over there,
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  Speaker 1: you got the camera. The test is when you're stumbling
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  Speaker 1: and bumbling. Take one for the team. My shoulder, the
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  Speaker 1: what a burden getting up there and talking to Cliches
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  Speaker 1: for seven minutes. Oh my god, And for that two
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  Speaker 1: hundred and forty million dollars in a winfall contract.
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  Speaker 5: It's a real SOB story, it really is.
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  Speaker 6: Man.
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  Speaker 5: Can a guy get a break? Can he get a break?
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  Speaker 1: Now? There's an issue here the NBA has, and not
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  Speaker 1: many people are talking about it. Anthony Edwards can go
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  Speaker 1: over to the deli counter and take a number. Is
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  Speaker 1: The NBA has an infestation of mister softy players. When
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  Speaker 1: things are going well, they're out in front, they're on
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  Speaker 1: the camera. When things get bad, they play hide and seek.
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  Speaker 1: By Mike Count. By Mike Count, Anthony Edwards is the
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  Speaker 1: third number three. He's number three in terms of players
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  Speaker 1: that have skipped out on media responsibilities because they lost
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  Speaker 1: a tough game. Draymond Green, tough guy. Traymond Green will
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  Speaker 1: punch his teammate in a face, sucker punch him. He
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  Speaker 1: he's a tough guy.
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  Speaker 5: Couldn't show up.
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  Speaker 1: To the media thing, got scared of the media. How
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  Speaker 1: about Tyrese Halliburton, the hero of this playoff, the story
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  Speaker 1: of this playoffs, the breakout star of the playoffs. Pacers
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  Speaker 1: lost a tough game in the last round and he's
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  Speaker 1: skid dad a out of there. He couldn't he couldn't
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  Speaker 1: man up and talk to the to the reporters. Oh
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  Speaker 1: my god, I can't speak in cliches. So he'll get
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  Speaker 1: fined again, Anthony Edwards and upward and onward and last
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  Speaker 1: word here, So I saw this, I wanted to mention
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  Speaker 1: I don't know if you saw it. A not former
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  Speaker 1: NBA coach Michael Malone for the second consecutive night providing content.
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  Speaker 1: We thank him for that. He's masquerading as a TV guy,
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  Speaker 1: even though he'll just be coaching someone else next year.
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  Speaker 1: So Michael Malone spoke about guarding Shay Jogis Alexander Right.
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  Speaker 1: I talked about how do you defend him and all
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  Speaker 1: that stuff. He said, quote, it's almost impossible. A lot
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  Speaker 1: of times off defensive players like Shay will initiate the
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  Speaker 1: contact or hook their arm looking to draw the contact.
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  Speaker 2: He is.
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  Speaker 1: Here's the money quote from Michael Malone. He said of SGA,
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  Speaker 1: he is a foul artist, Powell artist. So Michael Malone,
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  Speaker 1: longtime NBA coach, says that the MVP of the NBA, SGA,
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  Speaker 1: is quote almost impossible to guard because of the arm
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  Speaker 1: movements that he makes and is a foul artist. Can
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  Speaker 1: you decipher what exactly that means?
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  Speaker 5: So, yes, I can.
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  Speaker 1: I have turned to the mallor Rosetta stone. I have
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  Speaker 1: turned to the mallor Rosetta stone, which is never wrong.
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  Speaker 1: So SGA's game, what Malone is saying is sda's game
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  Speaker 1: is like a quickie Mark. It's stopping, got stopping, Got
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  Speaker 1: stopping Ghost, stopping ghost. He's baiting the defender in and
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  Speaker 1: it's not so much that he's beating the defensive player,
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  Speaker 1: if you know what I'm saying. But if you're stopping
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  Speaker 1: and going and the defender is reacting to that, you're
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  Speaker 1: drawing foul. And really all this is, and we point
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  Speaker 1: this out in previous episodes of the show, this is
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  Speaker 1: the next generation Artisan. He is the next generation Artisan
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  Speaker 1: who took the baton. I know James Harden's still playing,
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  Speaker 1: not in big games in the playoff season show for those,
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  Speaker 1: but he plays in the regular season. And Dwayne Wade,
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  Speaker 1: who's not playing anymore, he's out getting tattoos those guys. Right,
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  Speaker 1: If foul drawing, here's the other question. If foul drawing
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  Speaker 1: is a legitimate part of the game, then why do
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  Speaker 1: so many coaches and players and fans everyone.
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  Speaker 5: Get very upset and they very angry.
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  Speaker 1: Right, they label the players for mastering the art of
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  Speaker 1: foul baiting, if you will, So, I look at it
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  Speaker 1: like gamesmanship, and I look at it like the tush push.
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  Speaker 1: Instead of trying to ban the tush push, you should
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  Speaker 1: figure out what Philadelphia is doing and run the play like.
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  Speaker 1: That's my argument. And instead of being upset with SGA
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  Speaker 1: because he's baiting for fouls, you should say, what is
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  Speaker 1: he doing, Let's do that. That's really good, that's something
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  Speaker 1: we should be doing. Right. He's like a surgeon out
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  Speaker 1: there on offense using a scalpel to leverage defenders' mistakes
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  Speaker 1: and get cheap points. And this is a great example
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  Speaker 1: this game right here where from the foul line he
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  Speaker 1: got fifteen foul shots thirteen points where no one's guarding you.
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  Speaker 1: You're just standing there and it's practice. It's Papa shot,
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  Speaker 1: is what it is.
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• 18:58
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• 19:05
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• 19:07
  Speaker 1: But Ferg Doog likes that tire rack dot Com the
• 19:10
  Speaker 1: way that tire buying show be so our lead this
• 19:15
  Speaker 1: hour is the rare and appropriate, rare and appropriate Malon
• 19:20
  Speaker 1: monologue related to baseball. We'll get back to the basketball later.
• 19:24
  Speaker 1: Not much of a talker as Minnesota played gutlass basketball
• 19:27
  Speaker 1: lose and they got run off the court in the
• 19:30
  Speaker 1: second half. So we'll go to the bird. A pirate's
• 19:34
  Speaker 1: life for me, A pirate's life for me, that'd be Pittsburgh,
• 19:37
  Speaker 1: and this is not about the Steelers. We actually have
• 19:40
  Speaker 1: some Steeler content later, but instead we will head to
• 19:44
  Speaker 1: the Iron City, where Paul Skeene's name has come up
• 19:49
  Speaker 1: prominently the last couple days on the trading block. His
• 19:53
  Speaker 1: name has been mentioned.
• 19:54
  Speaker 5: Shiver me timbers.
• 19:56
  Speaker 1: So you haven't been following it, perhaps not the Pirates
• 20:00
  Speaker 1: manager Ben Charrington, who briefly was in Boston and got
• 20:05
  Speaker 1: run out of there. So Ben Charrington was asked about
• 20:08
  Speaker 1: the chatter that the Vultures are out they would like
• 20:13
  Speaker 1: to poach Paul Skeins. Paul Skeenes is the only player
• 20:18
  Speaker 1: on the Pirates worth watching. Everyone else is a minor
• 20:20
  Speaker 1: league player, so the rumor has been bouncing around.
• 20:24
  Speaker 5: I was like, well, the Pirates blow.
• 20:25
  Speaker 1: And they've got one guy that's halfway decent, and so
• 20:28
  Speaker 1: that's trade the guy, right, they have nobody else. You
• 20:31
  Speaker 1: spend any money to watch one guy? So is that
• 20:34
  Speaker 1: under consideration? So Ben Charrington said, quote, no, it's not
• 20:39
  Speaker 1: part of the conversation at all.
• 20:43
  Speaker 5: Close quote Okay, So.
• 20:46
  Speaker 1: Let's drill down on this one. The question for the
• 20:50
  Speaker 1: esteem panel, which you, by the way, are part of,
• 20:54
  Speaker 1: so congratulations, is Pirates GM Ben Charrington lying to protect
• 21:01
  Speaker 1: leverage or is Paul Skein's truly untouchable? Was he really untouchable?
• 21:06
  Speaker 1: So my observations here, I've got corporate jargon, devil c
• 21:11
  Speaker 1: and dradel, and we'll combine all of these things together
• 21:16
  Speaker 1: and try to avoid a tongue twister and have the
• 21:20
  Speaker 1: Great Perogi Race. I like that. Many teams have copied
• 21:24
  Speaker 1: the Milwaukee Brewers, who for years and years have had
• 21:27
  Speaker 1: that sausage race, and then over the years the Diamondbacks
• 21:30
  Speaker 1: have a race with former player costumes. The Nationals and
• 21:34
  Speaker 1: the Pirates have the Great Parogi Race, and the Mets
• 21:37
  Speaker 1: have that like the sub the Burrow Race. The Mets
• 21:40
  Speaker 1: have that? All right? So Number I said, Number why
• 21:48
  Speaker 1: not get off? All right? So my first thought here
• 21:52
  Speaker 1: Ben Sherrington saying it's not part of the conversation law,
• 21:56
  Speaker 1: what else was he supposed to say? Serious question like
• 21:59
  Speaker 1: could you imagine the world where Charrington came out said, yeah,
• 22:02
  Speaker 1: we would love to trade Paul Skins. We realize he's
• 22:05
  Speaker 1: a major league player. We're a minor league team. You
• 22:08
  Speaker 1: shouldn't have one major league player when you're a minor
• 22:11
  Speaker 1: league team. We're not trying to win. We're a joke
• 22:13
  Speaker 1: of an organization. Our ushers will attack fans who are drunk.
• 22:19
  Speaker 1: We'll have fans get drunk, underage, fall out of the crowd.
• 22:22
  Speaker 1: We'll take down tributes of dead baseball players that are
• 22:26
  Speaker 1: historic in our town to put up an alcohol add.
• 22:28
  Speaker 5: That's the pirates, right.
• 22:29
  Speaker 1: So imagine if he had said, ben Cherrington, we're gonna
• 22:33
  Speaker 1: have a silent auction and the bidding ends right of
• 22:36
  Speaker 1: the trade deadline. Holy canoly that would have been created
• 22:39
  Speaker 1: a tinderbox. It would have been baseball malpractice. So instead
• 22:43
  Speaker 1: he's using corporate jargon. Corporate jargon. Now you have to
• 22:48
  Speaker 1: listen between the words. You have to listen between the words.
• 22:51
  Speaker 1: So Charington said no. Regarding the possibility of Paul Skins,
• 22:56
  Speaker 1: the phenom pitcher, being traded, he said, no, it's not
• 22:59
  Speaker 1: part of the conversation at all. Well quote So conversation,
• 23:05
  Speaker 1: as you know because you paid attention, conversation means oral communication.
• 23:10
  Speaker 1: How about digital communication? How about a text chain? How
• 23:12
  Speaker 1: about an internal email chain? Bandied about on trading the picture,
• 23:17
  Speaker 1: how about that? It's not really conversation. Technically, you're not wrong.
• 23:21
  Speaker 1: You have plausible deniability. You have plausible deniability because you say, oh,
• 23:25
  Speaker 1: I didn't. It wasn't a conversation. It was a text
• 23:27
  Speaker 1: and that's not a conversation. It's a digital thing, but
• 23:30
  Speaker 1: it's not a conversation. So yeah, if you rummaged through
• 23:32
  Speaker 1: my text messages, okay, but I didn't say it all right? Now,
• 23:37
  Speaker 1: Page two? Should the seven Pirate fans left? Should these
• 23:43
  Speaker 1: seven Pirate fans remaining believe anything their front office says
• 23:48
  Speaker 1: at this particular point. And again, we're outsiders on this,
• 23:52
  Speaker 1: we don't have any skin in the game. I've been
• 23:54
  Speaker 1: to the Pirates ballpark years ago. It was beautiful, much
• 23:57
  Speaker 1: better than any of the players they've had in that
• 23:59
  Speaker 1: town since they opened that new ballpark, which is not
• 24:02
  Speaker 1: even new anymore. It's really old to answer the question,
• 24:05
  Speaker 1: should the Pirate fans even believe anything anything that their
• 24:10
  Speaker 1: front office says at this point? Only if you live
• 24:13
  Speaker 1: in the township called Suckersville. If you live in Suckersville, okay,
• 24:17
  Speaker 1: But Pittsburgh Baseball is literally and figuratively lost a drift
• 24:24
  Speaker 1: on the Devil's see, it's a pirate ghost ship, devoid
• 24:28
  Speaker 1: of life at this particular point, floating into the abyss,
• 24:32
  Speaker 1: untouched by time or tide, and they have drifted unmanned
• 24:37
  Speaker 1: for decades, that pirate ghost ship for decades. So there's
• 24:41
  Speaker 1: zero confidence that they know what they're doing, which is
• 24:45
  Speaker 1: why you can't believe them. It's also why you should
• 24:48
  Speaker 1: hope they don't trade Paul Skins because they don't know
• 24:51
  Speaker 1: how to pick good players, So why would you trade
• 24:54
  Speaker 1: him to get a package of players when you're you
• 24:58
  Speaker 1: don't know who's good and who's bad. And you know,
• 25:01
  Speaker 1: there's a lot of talking about trying to build something sustainable.
• 25:04
  Speaker 5: But it's just words. It's all it is is words.
• 25:08
  Speaker 1: And my evidence is the track wreck now that tells
• 25:10
  Speaker 1: you what has happened, not what's going to happen in
• 25:14
  Speaker 1: the future. And all these glowing reports, Oh you get
• 25:16
  Speaker 1: a bounty of prizes for Paul Skins and all the
• 25:21
  Speaker 1: riches of Solomon, do you realize every halfway decent player,
• 25:27
  Speaker 1: every halfway decent player that has passed through Pittsburgh Every
• 25:30
  Speaker 1: once in a while, Yeah, the blind nut blind squirrel
• 25:35
  Speaker 1: finds a nut, right, Every once in a while, they
• 25:37
  Speaker 1: figure things out, Like Andrew McCutcheon was an MVP in Pittsburgh,
• 25:40
  Speaker 1: traded Garrett Cole Young Pitcher showed some signs of promise.
• 25:45
  Speaker 5: Traded like those type players. They get them every once
• 25:49
  Speaker 5: in a while.
• 25:49
  Speaker 1: They passed through Western Pennsylvania and they're repackaged and they
• 25:54
  Speaker 1: get quantity over quality every single time. And as the
• 25:58
  Speaker 1: results come in, the results are poppycock.
• 26:01
  Speaker 5: Poppycock. That's the results. And so what's the bottom line.
• 26:05
  Speaker 1: If the Pirates trade Paul Skins, it would be a
• 26:09
  Speaker 1: sporty war crime. There should be a tribunal here against
• 26:14
  Speaker 1: Pittsburgh by all seven Pirate fans. You don't trade a
• 26:17
  Speaker 1: generational alarm that you don't have to trade for years
• 26:19
  Speaker 1: to come. Who's not even in his athletic prime yet.
• 26:23
  Speaker 5: And at this.
• 26:24
  Speaker 1: Point, considering how pathetic the Pirates are, Paul Skins is
• 26:29
  Speaker 1: not just a player at this point, he is the
• 26:32
  Speaker 1: avatar of the Pirates, right, he is the face of
• 26:34
  Speaker 1: the Pirates. You trade Paul Skins, and you're telling the
• 26:38
  Speaker 1: fans without telling the fans, we don't care.
• 26:41
  Speaker 5: You shouldn't care, don't support us.
• 26:44
  Speaker 1: We're never gonna be serious.
• 26:46
  Speaker 5: We're a joke, all right now, turning to Fink.
• 26:49
  Speaker 1: All right, so the final part is we're gonna go
• 26:51
  Speaker 1: to the Big Apple where the big showcase series this weekend,
• 26:56
  Speaker 1: the Dowyers and the Mets. The Dodgers not playing that
• 26:59
  Speaker 1: well recently. The Mets also not playing that well recently.
• 27:03
  Speaker 1: But they're gonna lock horns here and wrangle over the weekend.
• 27:06
  Speaker 1: And if I'm not mistaken, every one of those games
• 27:09
  Speaker 1: is on a different channel. Every one of those games
• 27:12
  Speaker 1: is on a different channel as Baseball has sliced up
• 27:16
  Speaker 1: their television agreement.
• 27:19
  Speaker 5: So get to the point, please.
• 27:21
  Speaker 1: With one Soto being a jag, not a Jacksonville jag,
• 27:25
  Speaker 1: just a guy. At this point, one Soto is just
• 27:29
  Speaker 1: a guy. So with that going on, his early season problems, struggles,
• 27:36
  Speaker 1: what we want to say, and the team that he left,
• 27:40
  Speaker 1: the Yankees, playing pretty well. Someone that works for the Pinstripers,
• 27:45
  Speaker 1: off the record, of course, believes that losing one Soto
• 27:49
  Speaker 1: last offseason worked out better for the Bronx Bombers. Now,
• 27:54
  Speaker 1: this is per the New York Post, a shady tabloid,
• 27:57
  Speaker 1: so take it for what it's worth. But they said
• 28:00
  Speaker 1: an anonymous Yankee staff member said, they meaning the Yankees
• 28:04
  Speaker 1: are quote definitely better without soda, all right, So that's
• 28:10
  Speaker 1: the money quote. As we like to say that's the money.
• 28:13
  Speaker 1: Quote powder keg of a situation, So we'll frame it
• 28:18
  Speaker 1: this way. Was one Soto's departure from the Bronx over
• 28:23
  Speaker 1: to Queens. Was this really part of a grander master plan?
• 28:28
  Speaker 1: Or are the Yankees just trying to save face after
• 28:33
  Speaker 1: losing out to the Mets. So the arrow here is
• 28:39
  Speaker 1: pointing directly towards the drado dradl dradl dredder as as
• 28:43
  Speaker 1: in spin the drado. This is emotional damage control, is
• 28:47
  Speaker 1: what it is. Now.
• 28:48
  Speaker 5: Riddle me this, batman.
• 28:49
  Speaker 1: If the Yankees are better off, okay, forget all the
• 28:53
  Speaker 1: stats and all the the Yankees are better off, then
• 28:57
  Speaker 1: why on God's green Earth did they aggressively pursue Juan
• 29:02
  Speaker 1: Soto in the first place? Like why didn't they just
• 29:05
  Speaker 1: say listen, we thank you and have a nice day.
• 29:09
  Speaker 5: We're out.
• 29:10
  Speaker 1: But they offered him a contract which was just a
• 29:13
  Speaker 1: few million behind the Mets. They didn't throw in as
• 29:17
  Speaker 1: many perks other than that they were right there. So
• 29:21
  Speaker 1: they want to sweep that under the rug. Now there
• 29:24
  Speaker 1: are absolutely concerns. I don't know. You can get it
• 29:28
  Speaker 1: now if you want, but the money. The only way
• 29:31
  Speaker 1: these contracts work out is if you win a World Series,
• 29:34
  Speaker 1: and even then eventually you're gonna get stuck with an
• 29:37
  Speaker 1: albatross every one of those big contracts at the end
• 29:41
  Speaker 1: of the contract.
• 29:42
  Speaker 5: It is horrific.
• 29:43
  Speaker 1: I was told one time by a baseball executive that
• 29:46
  Speaker 1: these ten year contracts, you have to look at them
• 29:49
  Speaker 1: like five year contracts, that you have to win a
• 29:52
  Speaker 1: lot in the first five years, and then anything you
• 29:55
  Speaker 1: get after year five, year, six, seven, eight, it's going
• 29:58
  Speaker 1: to be mostly rags is the rags. And so you
• 30:01
  Speaker 1: look at it. If you look at it like a
• 30:02
  Speaker 1: five year contract, even though it's being paid out over
• 30:05
  Speaker 1: ten years, you can justify the big money. The Yankees
• 30:09
  Speaker 1: also will have for now long term flexibility and all that.
• 30:13
  Speaker 1: The early returns for Juan Soto have not been particularly good. Nevertheless,
• 30:18
  Speaker 1: I believe this is a damage control situation. It's spin, spin, spin,
• 30:24
  Speaker 1: as we said, the pr spin and it's delusion.
• 30:28
  Speaker 5: Masquerading is some kind of brilliant strategy.
• 30:32
  Speaker 1: And it's like, Okay, it's like going to gamble in
• 30:36
  Speaker 1: Vegas and you're playing roulette and you put the wrong
• 30:39
  Speaker 1: bet in. You wanted to bet on like black twenty,
• 30:44
  Speaker 1: and you ended up betting on red seven and you
• 30:47
  Speaker 1: end up winning, and you're like, oh, I meant to
• 30:49
  Speaker 1: do that. You screwed up.
• 30:51
  Speaker 5: For some reason, it worked out, but you have fed up.
• 30:53
  Speaker 1: Now let's see what Cody Bellinger and Golby Paul Goldschmidt
• 30:59
  Speaker 1: do when we down to October. Now, Bellinger's not hitting
• 31:02
  Speaker 1: for a great average last I checked. Goldschmidt's he's old.
• 31:06
  Speaker 1: So we'll see if they break down before the season.
• 31:09
  Speaker 1: And that said of the players the Yankees picked up
• 31:11
  Speaker 1: with money that could have gone and would have gone
• 31:14
  Speaker 1: and would have been allotted to the bonehead there, mister Soto,
• 31:20
  Speaker 1: Max Free does look to be the real deal.
• 31:22
  Speaker 5: Now there is a conspiracy, and I do embrace many.
• 31:26
  Speaker 1: Of these conspiracies.
• 31:28
  Speaker 5: So this is the conspiracy, is that it's a.
• 31:31
  Speaker 1: Ploy the quote, of course, off the record, the quote
• 31:35
  Speaker 1: is to mess with Juan Soto's head. So he goes
• 31:38
  Speaker 1: down the tubes even more, knowing that he's a delicate
• 31:41
  Speaker 1: little flower, and he reads all of the media coverage.
• 31:44
  Speaker 1: He's aware of all the media coverage. It's tormenting him
• 31:47
  Speaker 1: that people aren't kissing his ass all the time. And
• 31:50
  Speaker 1: and so he's like, oh man, this is terrible. And
• 31:52
  Speaker 1: now the Yankees are This called the dog pile where
• 31:55
  Speaker 1: you pile on top. And that's that's what's going on
• 31:59
  Speaker 1: at the moment in time.
• 32:01
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• 32:03
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• 32:06
  Speaker 1: Here we go to a third degree.
• 32:12
  Speaker 2: This is one gets grilled gool.
• 32:17
  Speaker 7: It was reported that there was no discussion of a
• 32:19
  Speaker 7: contract extension for Roger Goodell at the league meeting this week.
• 32:22
  Speaker 7: Goodell already has the second longest tenure as NFL commissioner,
• 32:25
  Speaker 7: going on his nineteenth year. Now, Ben, how much longer
• 32:28
  Speaker 7: do you expect Goodell to service commissioner? Can he match
• 32:31
  Speaker 7: Pete Rizzell's record of twenty nine years?
• 32:34
  Speaker 1: Well, the NFL is making money hand over fist, and they,
• 32:37
  Speaker 1: for some reason, the owners seem to think that Roger
• 32:39
  Speaker 1: Goodell is the reason that they're making that money, that
• 32:42
  Speaker 1: his immen's leadership and all that. Why not. So Goodell
• 32:47
  Speaker 1: seems like he hasn't really aged. You know, you're like
• 32:49
  Speaker 1: people come president and they get really old really fast
• 32:52
  Speaker 1: when they become president.
• 32:53
  Speaker 5: Well, you're the NFL commissioner.
• 32:55
  Speaker 1: You've got your vacation home in Maine, You've got your
• 32:58
  Speaker 1: weekend home in the Hamptons. You're living the great life.
• 33:01
  Speaker 1: And I look at Goodella, it doesn't seem like he
• 33:03
  Speaker 1: looks much older than he did before. He's currently how
• 33:07
  Speaker 1: was sixty six? He could go another four years or
• 33:10
  Speaker 1: so at least, I would say. And it's a great job.
• 33:12
  Speaker 1: Why not, easy job, easy job. Next?
• 33:16
  Speaker 7: All right, so you know Tyre's Halliburton's dad was banned
• 33:19
  Speaker 7: from the playoff games after he taunted Giannis and Tenna Kompo.
• 33:23
  Speaker 7: Now Charles Barkley thinks that Halliburton's dad should be let
• 33:27
  Speaker 7: back in to the stadium to watch the games.
• 33:30
  Speaker 6: Do you agree.
• 33:32
  Speaker 1: With conditions like he should have to sign, he should
• 33:36
  Speaker 1: stand out in front of the arena with a sandwich
• 33:37
  Speaker 1: board saying I will not confront opposing players. And he
• 33:41
  Speaker 1: should have to sit in the very top of the arena,
• 33:44
  Speaker 1: right the very top of the arena.
• 33:46
  Speaker 5: I did see the video.
• 33:47
  Speaker 1: You see the video where tyres Aalburn's dad recreated the
• 33:49
  Speaker 1: Reggie Miller choke yester after the comeback. So he's embracing it. Yeah.
• 33:53
  Speaker 7: Next, the NFL announce that they will be giving out
• 33:55
  Speaker 7: a new league award starting this upcoming season. The Protector
• 33:59
  Speaker 7: of the Year award. That's for the best offensive lineman.
• 34:02
  Speaker 7: But if you could add your own award, no matter
• 34:03
  Speaker 7: how ridiculous, what would it be.
• 34:05
  Speaker 5: How dumb is the offensive line award?
• 34:07
  Speaker 1: By the way, how dumb is that?
• 34:09
  Speaker 5: I think best coach?
• 34:12
  Speaker 1: Remember the RAM said that guy with McVeigh, who would
• 34:14
  Speaker 1: hold McVeigh back?
• 34:15
  Speaker 5: The coach that does that? How do we do a coop?
• 34:17
  Speaker 6: You passed this sedition?
• 34:18
  Speaker 1: That is I passed. I passed Loraine again, I I won.
• 34:24
  Speaker 1: Oh my god, perfect week.
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• 35:18
  Speaker 1: we go, weed Man, Are you there, my buddy, weed Man,
• 35:20
  Speaker 1: hippie Miami, Miami, Miami, Miami, Miami. Yeah, I love you
• 35:24
  Speaker 1: made raft Okay, I'll make you laugh. What is the
• 35:29
  Speaker 1: most ironic thing about blind Scott?
• 35:33
  Speaker 8: What?
• 35:34
  Speaker 1: A blind man who's obsessed with someone named Toucher? That's
• 35:44
  Speaker 1: Drew in Minnesota. Did you hear that blind Scott was
• 35:47
  Speaker 1: offered to head up the FBI? Yeah, he actually refused
• 35:53
  Speaker 1: to do the job. He couldn't spell. So that's Milkman.
• 36:02
  Speaker 1: Mike and Colorado sent that one in. How do you
• 36:05
  Speaker 1: know that blind Scott is really blind?
• 36:08
  Speaker 8: How?
• 36:09
  Speaker 1: Because he obviously could not see the Celtic suck?
• 36:12
  Speaker 5: That's why?
• 36:15
  Speaker 1: What?
• 36:16
  Speaker 5: What is what is worse than an e dog call
• 36:19
  Speaker 5: from Long Island?
• 36:21
  Speaker 1: What anything that comes out of blind Scott's mouth? Anything
• 36:27
  Speaker 1: that's that's Noah in Austin. Hey, weed Man, when you
• 36:30
  Speaker 1: lived in New York, I know you had a place
• 36:31
  Speaker 1: that you were in Manhattan, right, But did you do
• 36:33
  Speaker 1: you ever got to Long Island. Yeah, sure, okay, you
• 36:39
  Speaker 1: were like a city guy, I got all right. Uh,
• 36:41
  Speaker 1: this one's from Econ Rose, Minnesota. But the penny may
• 36:44
  Speaker 1: not return to Benny versus the penny. What about that? Yeah,
• 36:48
  Speaker 1: what feels like it's getting nickel and dying by NBC.
• 36:51
  Speaker 1: There you go, that's yeah, we will address that evil
• 36:58
  Speaker 1: report that the Henny's apparently going away here the podcast, Yeah,
• 37:03
  Speaker 1: the fifth hour. Apparently we're getting rid of the petty
• 37:06
  Speaker 1: Gordon in Tacoma, writes and says, did you hear that
• 37:09
  Speaker 1: Bill Belichick and George Don Hudson made history when they
• 37:14
  Speaker 1: stayed out late last weekend?
• 37:17
  Speaker 2: What happened? What they do?
• 37:18
  Speaker 1: Yeah? Apparently it's the first time ever that a silver
• 37:21
  Speaker 1: alert and an amber alert were wish your issued for
• 37:24
  Speaker 1: the same couple.
• 37:24
  Speaker 5: So, Laranda, do you know what a silver alert is?
• 37:32
  Speaker 1: You know?
• 37:32
  Speaker 6: Yeah, when old people go missing.
• 37:34
  Speaker 1: Yeah, there you go, it's right. Yeah. Kurt from Earthwrights
• 37:38
  Speaker 1: And says, Bill Belichick's girlfriend just got food poisoned in
• 37:42
  Speaker 1: the bedroom. Well, apparently he's really looking forward to Jordan's
• 37:48
  Speaker 1: flu game. So who is Bill Belichick's favorite Tar Hill? Well,
• 37:56
  Speaker 1: that's obviously Michael Jordan. That's Brendan from Boston. What do
• 38:02
  Speaker 1: you what do you? What do you call Bill Belichick's
• 38:04
  Speaker 1: girlfriend with a split personality?
• 38:07
  Speaker 5: What a pair of Jordan's?
• 38:09
  Speaker 1: Now that's a court familiar. Well, how would you describe
• 38:16
  Speaker 1: the silence between Charlie's takes on the show? Bathroom stalls?
• 38:22
  Speaker 1: Is what you'd call the mess chip in Maine?
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  Speaker 2: Coop?
• 38:26
  Speaker 1: Any jokes over there? Coop though? All right, now, why
• 38:30
  Speaker 1: can't anyone find Mike the Leprechaun's package?
• 38:34
  Speaker 2: Why?
• 38:35
  Speaker 1: Because his package is mike roscopic as a chip? In main?
• 38:44
  Speaker 1: What happened when Lizzo's personal trainer suggested she do squats?
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  Speaker 8: What?
• 38:49
  Speaker 1: Well, she moved her cakes and pies to the bottom
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  Speaker 1: shelf of the refrigerator. And that's that's it right there.
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  Speaker 1: That's from Ethan Rose, Minnesota. Well, this is kind of
• 38:57
  Speaker 1: a Coop joke, but it got sent to me and
• 38:59
  Speaker 1: I I gotta do it. I go in honor of
• 39:02
  Speaker 1: Coop the offensive joke of the league. Why wasn't Baltimore
• 39:05
  Speaker 1: surprised about the passing of Jim Ursay this week? Why, well,
• 39:10
  Speaker 1: that's not the first time that he has left in
• 39:13
  Speaker 1: the middle of the night without warning. It has happened
• 39:15
  Speaker 1: before honestly ship in Maine. All right, let's get to
• 39:21
  Speaker 1: your jokes, weed Man. What do you call any mutual
• 39:24
  Speaker 1: agreement between Coop Lorena and weed Man Hippie?
• 39:28
  Speaker 5: What a joint decision?
• 39:31
  Speaker 1: That's splendid Daddy, a big fan of our show. He's
• 39:35
  Speaker 1: in Lee's Burg, Alabama. Thank you, Splendid Daddy. What was
• 39:39
  Speaker 1: weed Man's first spoken words as a toddler?
• 39:42
  Speaker 8: What?
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  Speaker 5: Puff puff give?
• 39:46
  Speaker 8: That was?
• 39:46
  Speaker 1: That's manny manny a from Newark, Cotch.
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  Speaker 6: Have one here? Oh go ahead, Coop, this is from
• 39:53
  Speaker 6: from Milkman Mike.
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  Speaker 7: Did you hear the position sixty nine is being renamed
• 39:58
  Speaker 7: to ninety six?
• 40:00
  Speaker 8: Oh no?
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  Speaker 2: Why yes?
• 40:01
  Speaker 7: Due to inflation it now costs more to eat out.
• 40:09
  Speaker 1: What are a couple of undeniable truths about the next
• 40:12
  Speaker 1: twenty five years?
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  Speaker 8: What?
• 40:15
  Speaker 1: Yeah, Well, the Browns and Cowboys will not reach the
• 40:17
  Speaker 1: super Bowl with their current ownership, and weed Man Hippie
• 40:20
  Speaker 1: will never have a job. That's John and Youngstown, Ohio.
• 40:24
  Speaker 1: What's weed Man's greatest magic trick of all time? Making
• 40:29
  Speaker 1: his roommate disappear? Apparently there's a dog version. There's a
• 40:35
  Speaker 1: dog version of weed Man. Yeah, it's all bark, no bite.
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  Speaker 5: No, Well that's from Kurt from Earth.
• 40:44
  Speaker 1: We man's trying to stay healthy while seeking employment. How
• 40:47
  Speaker 1: about that one?
• 40:48
  Speaker 8: Wow?
• 40:49
  Speaker 1: Yeah, when someone starts giving him job applications, he runs
• 40:53
  Speaker 1: like a deer. That's Tom in Indiana Lane jokes up
• 40:58
  Speaker 1: the week you weed man.
• 41:00
  Speaker 2: Be sure to catch live editions of The Ben Meller
• 41:03
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• 41:06
  Speaker 8: My man Justin Cooper is back and his coop on
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  Speaker 8: Entertainment is writable right now, I promise you that. So
• 41:16
  Speaker 8: here is Justin Cooper and welcome back.
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  Speaker 6: Thank you Marcel.
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  Speaker 7: All right, Ben, We're gonna start off in the theaters
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  Speaker 7: as always, and there's a couple couple big movies out
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  Speaker 7: this weekend that I'm excited about. The first is the
• 41:32
  Speaker 7: live action Lelo and Stitch movie that's right now. Disney,
• 41:39
  Speaker 7: of course, is just you know, doing every movie in
• 41:42
  Speaker 7: their entire history as a live action remake. H most
• 41:46
  Speaker 7: of them are pretty terrible.
• 41:48
  Speaker 1: I want to, I want to what executive at Disney
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  Speaker 1: decided this is what we need to do. This is
• 41:52
  Speaker 1: the next two years or three years. This is gonna
• 41:55
  Speaker 1: make all of these movies.
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  Speaker 7: Yeah, and see the problem is though that He's still
• 41:59
  Speaker 7: gonna be seen as a success because you know, for
• 42:02
  Speaker 7: every like three or four of them that fail, one
• 42:06
  Speaker 7: of them just like knocks it out of the park
• 42:08
  Speaker 7: and makes a ton of money. And I guess that's
• 42:12
  Speaker 7: all that matters, and this might be one of them.
• 42:14
  Speaker 7: It's got pretty good reviews from critics, but so far
• 42:17
  Speaker 7: the audience score is ninety three percent, so everybody's loving
• 42:21
  Speaker 7: this one. Lelon Stitch is one of those fan favorites.
• 42:24
  Speaker 7: And I've seen the trailers for this. It looks it
• 42:28
  Speaker 7: looks pretty good, you know, as far as live action
• 42:30
  Speaker 7: remakes go. The other movie that is in theaters this
• 42:35
  Speaker 7: weekend is Mission Impossible, the final Reckoning until the next one.
• 42:41
  Speaker 6: Yeah that's yeah. Look, I mean maybe maybe.
• 42:46
  Speaker 7: It is the final Reckoning because like Tom Cruise is
• 42:48
  Speaker 7: what like seventy five now, still.
• 42:51
  Speaker 1: Doody's the lizard person, so he'll live forever.
• 42:54
  Speaker 6: That's true.
• 42:54
  Speaker 1: You're a lizard person, you don't die.
• 42:56
  Speaker 6: That's right. Yeah, sold his soul.
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  Speaker 7: Now it's I mean, it's getting good reviews from critics
• 43:04
  Speaker 7: and fans alike, so I probably will check this one out.
• 43:08
  Speaker 7: It is also available in Imax, which you know, this
• 43:12
  Speaker 7: is one of those movies that I think it's actually
• 43:13
  Speaker 7: worth it in imax. Lots of cool, big stunts and
• 43:17
  Speaker 7: explosions and planes and stuff.
• 43:21
  Speaker 1: Just make sure the popcorn is buttered.
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  Speaker 6: That's right, all right.
• 43:24
  Speaker 7: Moving over to television, Ben, First off, we have a
• 43:29
  Speaker 7: new series. It's a limited series on Netflix. It's called Sirens.
• 43:34
  Speaker 7: It is a darkly comedic series and it stars Kevin
• 43:38
  Speaker 7: Bacon and Julianne Moore, and it follows two sisters over
• 43:42
  Speaker 7: the course of a single holiday weekend at a lavish
• 43:44
  Speaker 7: island beach estate owned by a wealthy socialite and philanthropist
• 43:48
  Speaker 7: who employs the younger sister as our personal assistant, a
• 43:52
  Speaker 7: relationship that the older sister finds somewhat creepy and hopes
• 43:54
  Speaker 7: to end. And that one's getting pretty good reviews that
• 43:57
  Speaker 7: it's available on Netflix right now. That is called Sirens.
• 44:01
  Speaker 7: And moving along, we have a documentary this weekend.
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  Speaker 1: Oh, here we go, all right, this is my wheelhouse.
• 44:07
  Speaker 7: Here we go, a limited series documentary. It's a two party.
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  Speaker 7: It's on HBO at eight pm tonight or available to
• 44:17
  Speaker 7: stream on HBO Max.
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  Speaker 6: And it is called Pee Wee as himself.
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  Speaker 5: That's my guy.
• 44:25
  Speaker 1: Is that Pee Wee?
• 44:25
  Speaker 5: Hermy that is that's my guy.
• 44:27
  Speaker 6: Wasn't it like, you're not supposed to watch this stuff anymore?
• 44:31
  Speaker 1: He's dead, He's okay, once you die, you can watch
• 44:33
  Speaker 1: the stuff.
• 44:34
  Speaker 7: I think he got like semi canceled, but he really
• 44:37
  Speaker 7: shouldn't have because he didn't.
• 44:39
  Speaker 5: He was normal to do that in a.
• 44:43
  Speaker 1: Porn theater, wasn't it was?
• 44:45
  Speaker 6: Yeah, it was a porn.
• 44:47
  Speaker 8: Out.
• 44:48
  Speaker 1: That's kind of what that's kind of what it's, Lorena.
• 44:50
  Speaker 5: When I first when I was when I was like,
• 44:52
  Speaker 5: have you know torn theater?
• 44:54
  Speaker 6: Lorena, does it say please touch yourself?
• 44:57
  Speaker 1: Lorena Laria, Listen, When I first when I went to
• 44:59
  Speaker 1: New York first time, when I was I was like nineteen,
• 45:02
  Speaker 1: I went to my brother moved there. I was in
• 45:04
  Speaker 1: Times Square. It used to be nothing but peep shows,
• 45:07
  Speaker 1: like they were. That's like all they had was those
• 45:09
  Speaker 1: kind of like porn theaters. And then what do you
• 45:10
  Speaker 1: think guys did in there? Yeah, exactly, think they were
• 45:12
  Speaker 1: just saying they were observing.
• 45:16
  Speaker 6: On the side of a freeway like regular.
• 45:18
  Speaker 7: That's basically what those aren't anyway, exactly.
• 45:21
  Speaker 1: God, Yeah, you can't can't sol pee wee. He's dead anyway,
• 45:25
  Speaker 1: it does and by the way God has forgiven Pee Wee.
• 45:28
  Speaker 1: Those movies were so good.
• 45:30
  Speaker 7: Anyway, Anyway, it's it's airing this It is a two part,
• 45:35
  Speaker 7: two hundred minute HBO Docky series.
• 45:37
  Speaker 5: I'm Gonna Watch That. It's on tonight.
• 45:39
  Speaker 1: It starts.
• 45:39
  Speaker 7: It is on tonight at eight pm. It is airing
• 45:41
  Speaker 7: in its entirety, but you can also stream it on HBO.
• 45:44
  Speaker 1: I'm gonna watch that. I'm gonna right, I'm gonna try
• 45:45
  Speaker 1: to get that whole thing done this week.
• 45:47
  Speaker 7: It offers an intimate look at the life of late
• 45:49
  Speaker 7: actor Paul Rubins, best known as Peebee Herman. It is
• 45:53
  Speaker 7: bolstered by archival footage, but the documentary chiefly consists of
• 45:57
  Speaker 7: a rare, out of character interview between director and the
• 46:00
  Speaker 7: star that is edited down from over forty hours of
• 46:03
  Speaker 7: cannon conversations between the two, and critics were impressed by
• 46:07
  Speaker 7: the insightful documentary when it debuted at Sundance earlier this year.
• 46:11
  Speaker 1: Okay, cool, that sounds like something I'd be into.
• 46:14
  Speaker 7: Yeah. And last, but not least, there is a new
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  Speaker 7: comedy series launching on FX, also on Hulu as well.
• 46:21
  Speaker 7: It starts on Wednesday and nine pm on FX or
• 46:24
  Speaker 7: for streaming on Hulu. It is called Adults and it
• 46:27
  Speaker 7: is basically a gen Z spin on Friends. So it's
• 46:32
  Speaker 7: a group of twenty somethings living in New York but
• 46:36
  Speaker 7: lacking the skills required for life in the adult world.
• 46:39
  Speaker 7: FX comedies are usually pretty pretty good, so I'll check
• 46:43
  Speaker 7: it out.
• 46:43
  Speaker 6: I'll report back to you.
• 46:44
  Speaker 1: It sounds like a horror movie, not a comedy, but
• 46:46
  Speaker 1: that's fine.
• 46:46
  Speaker 7: You know, fine, I'll do it.
• 46:48
  Speaker 6: And that is scoop scoop on entertainment, all right, there,
• 46:50
  Speaker 6: it is