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Hour 4 - Rabbit Ears Return · The Ben Maller Show

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  Speaker 1: In the air, every bleeping where. I'm Adam Oslund, in
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  Speaker 1: for Big Ben. You have to use so many cuss words.
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  Speaker 1: Good to be with you guys tonight. Coming up, I
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  Speaker 1: have to go after another broadcaster. Not Ben.
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  Speaker 2: Adam.
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  Speaker 1: Ashland. Not just because he called me Adam Ashland a
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  Speaker 1: long time ago. That was an honor. And it's an
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  Speaker 3: You know what?
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  Speaker 1: It's time. I've been nice to this guy for a while.
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  Speaker 1: Kevin Orant. We used to have something together. He was
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  Speaker 1: supposed to be the chosen one. But Kevin Durant can't
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  Speaker 1: help himself. And he is back on Twitter. Maybe your
• 1:12
  Speaker 1: X alarms went off, which is not a sexual thing.
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  Speaker 1: That's not sexual? New porn just dropped, but X alarm
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  Speaker 1: went off. That's what that sounded like. That's not what
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  Speaker 1: I'm talking about. X is now Twitter, and KD is
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  Speaker 1: back on there. And I think you can still have
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  Speaker 1: alarms for certain tweets like we used to have with
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  Speaker 1: Adrian Wojnarowski. If he puts out a tweet, I need
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  Speaker 1: to know. But KD is back. Doesn't look like he's
• 1:40
  Speaker 1: using the burner account. He got caught red handed with
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  Speaker 1: back in 2017, back when he was defending his reasoning,
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  Speaker 1: you know, for leaving the Thunder. He defended himself in
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  Speaker 1: third person, which is how people figured out that was
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  Speaker 1: his burner. It said, Durant didn't like the organization or
• 2:00
  Speaker 1: playing for Billy Donovan. KD can't win with those cats, unquote.
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  Speaker 1: Real mature. Fighting for your own reputation and trying to
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  Speaker 1: justify leaving a team that was up 3-1 on the
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  Speaker 1: Golden State Warriors just for you to collapse. You shot 40%
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  Speaker 1: the last three games of that series. And then you
• 2:18
  Speaker 1: joined the Golden State Warriors, the team that came back
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  Speaker 1: on you. But sure, KD can't win with those cats. Apparently,
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  Speaker 1: he can't win with any cats. The Nets, the Suns,
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  Speaker 1: the Rockets. Because outside of those championships he won on
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  Speaker 1: a team that really didn't need him anyways, KD hasn't
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  Speaker 1: won anywhere else. And no matter how many times and
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  Speaker 1: how many characters he uses to type out and defend himself,
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  Speaker 1: and that decision on Twitter... And on X, he can't
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  Speaker 1: escape that next chapter he took, going to the team
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  Speaker 1: that beat him. If you can't beat him, join him.
• 3:02
  Speaker 1: If you can't hold on to a 3-1 lead, join him.
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  Speaker 1: He knows deep down those rings in Golden State, they're
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  Speaker 1: as hollow as the inside of the band of the
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  Speaker 1: ring and used to slide on your finger. I think
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  Speaker 1: He knows it was a cheat code-like move. You bring
• 3:19
  Speaker 1: out the game genie, the game gets a lot easier.
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  Speaker 1: You join a 73-win team, it gets a lot easier.
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  Speaker 1: And Oklahoma City fans, remember what they were calling him
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  Speaker 1: at first? They had those cupcakes, those little billboards and
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  Speaker 1: poster boards. They called him Cupcake. I think the nickname
• 3:38
  Speaker 1: originated from Kendrick Perkins in a comment he made. And
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  Speaker 1: he knows some cupcakes. Hey, fat ass. Come on. Carry
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  Speaker 1: the hell on, Big Perk. You're retired. Do your thing.
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  Speaker 1: But Kevin Durant, you know, when he was coming up,
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  Speaker 1: played his college ball in Texas. And for a brief time,
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  Speaker 1: he was my favorite player when he got into the NBA.
• 4:01
  Speaker 1: Last of the Sonics. Hopefully they'll be back soon. Sounds
• 4:06
  Speaker 1: like it's not a guarantee anymore. But KD was supposed
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  Speaker 1: to be the guy to challenge LeBron. He had this
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  Speaker 1: famous quote in 2013 saying he's tired of being second.
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  Speaker 1: I thought his attitude was perfect. I thought he was
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  Speaker 1: an uncompromising dog that was going to fight like hell
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  Speaker 1: to bring a championship to a small market in Oklahoma City.
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  Speaker 1: You were supposed to be the chosen one. You were
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  Speaker 1: supposed to restore order to the force, the league. When
• 4:38
  Speaker 1: he tweeted out in 2010 from his account, Kevin Durant
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  Speaker 1: used to say this. Listen to this tweet in 2010. Quote,
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  Speaker 1: Now everybody want to play for the Heat and the Lakers.
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  Speaker 1: Let's go back to being competitive and going at these peoples.
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  Speaker 1: That was the old KD. The point of me bringing
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  Speaker 1: this up is I had no issue with Kevin Durant
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  Speaker 1: and admired him as a player and a competitor whatsoever.
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  Speaker 1: Until he made that fateful move to go to Golden State.
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  Speaker 1: He could have gone to Boston. He could have gone
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  Speaker 1: anywhere else. He could have stayed in OKC. Just don't
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  Speaker 1: go to the team that you were up 3-1 on
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  Speaker 1: and won 73 games. They obviously didn't need you to
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  Speaker 1: win a championship. They won one before you. They won
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  Speaker 1: one after you. I loved his mindset before. I loved
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  Speaker 1: his MVP speech and calling his mom the real MVP.
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  Speaker 1: That tugged at my heartstrings.
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  Speaker 4: So what happened?
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  Speaker 1: What happened? Did it get too hard to close out
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  Speaker 1: a team you had a 3-1 lead on? So you'd
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  Speaker 1: rather just bring out that game genie, the game shark.
• 5:42
  Speaker 1: Take a shortcut to the top of the mountain. John
• 5:44
  Speaker 1: Stockton said recently about LeBron's legacy, you're not climbing the mountain,
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  Speaker 1: you're taking a helicopter to the top. KD took one
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  Speaker 1: of those Tesla flying cars to the top of the
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  Speaker 1: mountain when he won those pretty empty rings with the
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  Speaker 1: Golden State Warriors. And now... He's turning into less of
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  Speaker 1: a basketball player and more of an agitator online. With
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  Speaker 1: replying to fans and defending his honor. While not just
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  Speaker 1: throwing former teammates under the bus like he did in
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  Speaker 1: 2017 with his burner account. The guy did it last
• 6:17
  Speaker 1: year with a burner account too. Called Get Off My
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  Speaker 1: Dickerson to his current teammates. Causing awkwardness in the locker room.
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  Speaker 1: And a team that lost in the first round to
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  Speaker 1: the Lakers without Luka Doncic even playing ended up beating him.
• 6:38
  Speaker 1: KD got hurt too, but I think there were some
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  Speaker 1: hurt feelings by his young teammates feeling betrayed by the
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  Speaker 1: veteran who was brought in to help. Help them get
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  Speaker 1: over the top and be a championship contender. But, you know,
• 6:51
  Speaker 1: don't worry. KD has learned from his mistake and is
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  Speaker 1: no longer attacking current teammates. He's back to going after
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  Speaker 1: former teams. And this time, not even using his burner.
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  Speaker 1: I guess he's standing on business. He got time today.
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  Speaker 1: KD's on different time now.
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  Speaker 5: I just.
• 7:11
  Speaker 1: Today I got time, cuz! See, a video surfaced from
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  Speaker 1: his former owner, Matt Ishbia of the Phoenix Suns, who
• 7:18
  Speaker 1: was on CNBC talking about you know, being a billionaire
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  Speaker 1: and all that entails. And also how he changed his
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  Speaker 1: philosophy as an owner over the years. They're trying to
• 7:31
  Speaker 1: build a different culture there in Phoenix with players of
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  Speaker 1: a certain mindset and no longer just trying to spend
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  Speaker 1: their way into the second apron to bring a title
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  Speaker 1: to Phoenix. Didn't sound that bad, honestly. Sounded pretty innocuous.
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  Speaker 1: But KD was mentioned because he talked about the difference
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  Speaker 1: in going out and trying to just bring in a
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  Speaker 1: superstar and buy a championship that way and really try
• 8:02
  Speaker 1: to build a foundation and a culture now to win
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  Speaker 1: a championship instead. Do it the organic way. Well, Kevin
• 8:16
  Speaker 1: Durant felt some type of way about it. And for
• 8:18
  Speaker 1: the first time since he got caught insulting shangoon jabari
• 8:22
  Speaker 1: smith jr got he he went after stephen adams aquaman
• 8:26
  Speaker 1: like if you got a problem with stephen adams that
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  Speaker 1: says more about you but for the first time since
• 8:32
  Speaker 1: getting caught even though he's never admitted to it but
• 8:35
  Speaker 1: i think we all know first time since flaming his
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  Speaker 1: rockets current teammates uh he posted on twitter again with
• 8:43
  Speaker 1: a response to matt ishbia saying hashtag blame kd Even
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  Speaker 1: though KD stayed on top of his game at 36
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  Speaker 1: and got you back this culture you love so much. Hey,
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  Speaker 1: Matthew acts like I got arrested for a DUI or something.
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  Speaker 1: Back to threads. Peace, sign out. Well, where does the
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  Speaker 1: DUI sidebar come from? He's referring to a current player
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  Speaker 1: in Phoenix in Dylan Brooks.
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  Speaker 3: Who got.
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  Speaker 1: I'd thank Pop for a DUI. That was also one
• 9:20
  Speaker 1: of the guys traded for Kevin Durant from Houston to Phoenix.
• 9:24
  Speaker 1: Seemed unnecessary for him to catch a stray there as
• 9:27
  Speaker 1: he was trying to reply to the owner, but instead
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  Speaker 1: got mixed up with Dylan Brooks. But, you know, that's KD.
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  Speaker 1: He's going to take it there. I would say a
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  Speaker 1: disproportionate response to what Matt Eastby has said, but some
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  Speaker 1: have pointed out that, well, there's something to this. If
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  Speaker 1: you're saying you're trying to build a culture and.
• 9:46
  Speaker 1: You got a guy getting in trouble for that and
• 9:49
  Speaker 1: they bring in Miles Bridges. And if you know, you know,
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  Speaker 1: with his background, what type of culture is that? But again,
• 9:57
  Speaker 1: I don't think anything he said was poignant. Kevin Durant.
• 10:02
  Speaker 1: KD just got sensitive about it for whatever reason. Well,
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  Speaker 1: of course, Dylan Brooks, Dylan the villain, is going to
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  Speaker 1: come out and say something. He went on Instagram and
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  Speaker 1: And said to his owner, thanks Matt Espie for cleaning
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  Speaker 1: up that stench in the locker room before I came.
• 10:22
  Speaker 1: Hashtag culture. That's how he fired back at Kevin Durant.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, was Matt Espie even really blaming him? It
• 10:32
  Speaker 1: sounded like he was doing everything in his power not
• 10:34
  Speaker 1: to get into a back and forth with KD. And
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  Speaker 1: instead he took the high road by presenting, you know,
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  Speaker 1: moving on from him. as just more of a shift
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  Speaker 1: in organizational philosophy, never mind that they sent Kevin Durant
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  Speaker 1: to one of his preferred destinations and go into the
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  Speaker 1: Houston Rockets, a team he signed a contract extension with immediately,
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  Speaker 1: just to, in his first season, trash his teammates and
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  Speaker 1: cause a locker room distraction that likely helped lead to
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  Speaker 1: their demise in the first round, which he barely played in.
• 11:03
  Speaker 1: And he's upset with a pretty innocuous statement from his
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  Speaker 1: former owner with the Suns. who, yes, did respond to
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  Speaker 1: Durant in, I thought, a pretty harmless, classy way. MattHB
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  Speaker 1: on X said, you obviously didn't watch the clip. Didn't
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  Speaker 1: blame you, KD, but I'm happy with the culture we
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  Speaker 1: are building here in Phoenix. We got the right guys
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  Speaker 1: and right focus now and are excited for this season.
• 11:32
  Speaker 1: Good luck this season in Houston. Was Kevin Durant done?
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  Speaker 1: Was he satisfied with that?
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  Speaker 2: Nope.
• 11:40
  Speaker 1: KD retweets it and says, You should be giving thanks
• 11:45
  Speaker 1: every chance you get. You don't have to pay me
• 11:49
  Speaker 1: an absurd amount of money to play for another team.
• 11:53
  Speaker 1: Just can't help himself. There you go. It's another shot
• 11:57
  Speaker 1: at a former teammate. He's alluding to the $ 100 million
• 12:01
  Speaker 1: buyout that Matt Ishby and the Phoenix Suns used on
• 12:04
  Speaker 1: Bradley Beal to let him go. He now plays for
• 12:07
  Speaker 1: the Clippers. KD is saying, How could I have been
• 12:12
  Speaker 1: the problem? When you at least got to trade me
• 12:15
  Speaker 1: for assets when you're paying money to a player that's
• 12:17
  Speaker 1: not even on your team anymore in Bradley Beal. Now
• 12:20
  Speaker 1: Bradley Beal with the Clippers. So conflict of interest with me?
• 12:25
  Speaker 3: Sure.
• 12:26
  Speaker 1: But I don't think you need to accuse me of
• 12:28
  Speaker 1: being biased here just because I'm choosing to go after
• 12:31
  Speaker 1: Kevin Durant instead when he's the guy who continues to
• 12:34
  Speaker 1: get involved with every person that has something negative to
• 12:37
  Speaker 1: say about him. Methinks the player doth protest too much.
• 12:43
  Speaker 1: You're so defensive because you know there's truth in what
• 12:46
  Speaker 1: everyone is saying about you. And I saw this tweet
• 12:52
  Speaker 1: from a random, no disrespect to Point Book, obviously a
• 12:56
  Speaker 1: Phoenix Suns fan, a Devin Booker fan on X. Point
• 13:02
  Speaker 1: Book had tweeted out, Most insecure individual in the NBA.
• 13:07
  Speaker 1: Matt Ispia didn't mean you personally, you idiot. Always playing
• 13:12
  Speaker 1: the victim card. Well, then Point Book pointed out that
• 13:19
  Speaker 1: Matt Ispia apparently liked that tweet that he put out
• 13:24
  Speaker 1: calling KD an idiot. I don't know if that's confirmed
• 13:30
  Speaker 1: or double sourced or if we can even do that
• 13:32
  Speaker 1: on X, the wild, wild west that it is. But
• 13:37
  Speaker 1: that would be something. I would just say to KD,
• 13:42
  Speaker 1: if I could, stop looking for the slights, man. Put
• 13:47
  Speaker 1: the bunny ears and the antenna away. Get rid of
• 13:50
  Speaker 1: the Andrew Siciliano ears and stop listening and paying attention
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  Speaker 1: to what everyone else is saying about you. Except, of course,
• 13:57
  Speaker 1: me right now. Because I'm telling the truth. You're heading
• 14:00
  Speaker 1: down a path, Kevin Durant, where we might remember you
• 14:04
  Speaker 1: more for this stuff than than your actual basketball genius.
• 14:09
  Speaker 1: I think he's chipping away at his own legacy a
• 14:11
  Speaker 1: little bit here. People shouldn't conflate stuff he does on
• 14:17
  Speaker 1: Twitter with his career, but they will. Shaq and Charles
• 14:23
  Speaker 1: Barkley are somewhat caricatures with the way they go about
• 14:29
  Speaker 1: things on TNT.
• 14:31
  Speaker 3: That was a dumbass play. With.
• 14:35
  Speaker 1: The amount of fun they have and how entertaining they are.
• 14:40
  Speaker 1: But it's gotten to a point where it's like, sometimes
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  Speaker 1: you forget how great they were as players. They become
• 14:48
  Speaker 1: such big personalities. Now, granted, they're doing it on a
• 14:53
  Speaker 1: professional level on a broadcast. KV is doing this on Twitter.
• 15:00
  Speaker 1: Put the Twitter fingers away. Every time you defend yourself,
• 15:05
  Speaker 1: it leads more people to believe they must have hit
• 15:07
  Speaker 1: close to the mark in order to get that response.
• 15:11
  Speaker 1: They're actually more accurate than even you are on the court,
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  Speaker 1: and your efficiency is pretty elite. But people don't respect
• 15:21
  Speaker 1: what he's doing off the court, which granted, it isn't criminal,
• 15:25
  Speaker 1: it isn't illegal, who cares? But it just makes him
• 15:29
  Speaker 1: more criminally underrated as a player long term because people,
• 15:34
  Speaker 1: they associate with you being an insecure star. People call
• 15:41
  Speaker 1: KD a snake all the time on there. Why do
• 15:45
  Speaker 1: they have to be snakes? The cupcake stuff. They say
• 15:50
  Speaker 1: everything he does reeks of insecurity. We see him looking
• 15:54
  Speaker 1: at his phone after the story broke. with the burner
• 15:58
  Speaker 1: with his Houston teammates, and he's looking at his phone
• 16:00
  Speaker 1: at the All-Star game in the layup line, and we're like,
• 16:05
  Speaker 1: oh my God, he's finding out in real time that
• 16:09
  Speaker 1: his burner got exposed. It's comedy. It's bad. It looks weak.
• 16:18
  Speaker 1: It looks like a guy who couldn't bench 1E5 at
• 16:21
  Speaker 1: the NBA Combine. But you keep going this way you're going,
• 16:26
  Speaker 1: you're going to be known more of the Twitter warrior
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  Speaker 1: than a Golden State warrior with two finals MVPs. You're
• 16:34
  Speaker 1: tweeting and you're treating social media like it's the real MVP.
• 16:42
  Speaker 1: I'm not saying shut up and dribble. I'm saying dribble
• 16:44
  Speaker 1: your phone off the pavement, then throw it into Lake Houston.
• 16:47
  Speaker 1: Stop looking at what everyone is saying about you, Kevin Durant. Please.
• 16:55
  Speaker 1: Cause you're so damn good. And you had such the
• 16:59
  Speaker 1: killer mindset and the warrior stuff can be forgiven, but
• 17:04
  Speaker 1: like you gotta, you gotta move past it yourself. That's
• 17:08
  Speaker 1: part of the problem here, but you're not letting anyone
• 17:12
  Speaker 1: move past it because you keep responding to randoms and
• 17:15
  Speaker 1: nobody's on Twitter. I consider myself one of them. I
• 17:21
  Speaker 1: don't think I tweeted him in a long time. But
• 17:25
  Speaker 1: he's just not doing himself any favors. And I loved
• 17:30
  Speaker 1: Kevin Durant. Then you know what? You know, everybody can
• 17:35
  Speaker 1: be redeemed here. It's not the end of the world.
• 17:39
  Speaker 1: I would just prefer to not think about this stuff
• 17:44
  Speaker 1: when I'm thinking about Kevin Durant because he is one
• 17:47
  Speaker 1: of the best players to have ever touched a basketball.
• 17:50
  Speaker 1: And that's the truth here. but it's easy to get
• 17:54
  Speaker 1: lost in all this other stuff. Hell, I'm on social
• 17:57
  Speaker 1: media way too much. I'm looking at myself in the
• 18:01
  Speaker 1: mirror as well. I look at what people say. I'd
• 18:05
  Speaker 1: follow out of May. I just threw it out there.
• 18:08
  Speaker 1: I'm obsessed with it. I can't help myself. We all
• 18:11
  Speaker 1: do it to an extent. We're also not all Kevin Durant.
• 18:19
  Speaker 1: It should be small potatoes for him, I would think.
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  Speaker 1: uh will he ever move past it i don't know
• 18:27
  Speaker 1: pandora's box is back open kevin durant is back on
• 18:30
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  Speaker 2: for sending the birthday wishes to me. You know why?
• 20:41
  Speaker 2: Because I'm turning 33 years old.
• 20:46
  Speaker 1: Special age.
• 20:46
  Speaker 2: Can you believe it? 33 years old, Adam?
• 20:49
  Speaker 1: That's your Jesus age. That's great. Congratulations. Happy birthday.
• 20:53
  Speaker 2: Why, thank you very much. Next year, I'm turning 34 instead.
• 20:57
  Speaker 1: Okay, son of a bitch.
• 21:00
  Speaker 2: What?
• 21:00
  Speaker 1: I hate when that happens.
• 21:03
  Speaker 2: You can say that again, Marcel's fan, Lorena.
• 21:07
  Speaker 1: You're the best, Marcel. My birthday's on the 27th, and
• 21:09
  Speaker 1: I'm going to be 34.
• 21:10
  Speaker 2: Oh, yes, it is.
• 21:13
  Speaker 4: So I am beating you.
• 21:15
  Speaker 1: I'm going to beat you to 34.
• 21:17
  Speaker 2: One week from today, then.
• 21:19
  Speaker 1: It is a week from today, yeah. But right now,
• 21:20
  Speaker 1: you two are the same age.
• 21:23
  Speaker 2: Oh, wow. Wow. Thank you so much, Adam. You're the best.
• 21:28
  Speaker 3: Surprise, motherfucker.
• 21:31
  Speaker 1: Am I really, though? Or am I just here tonight?
• 21:35
  Speaker 2: Be careful with that language, everybody.
• 21:38
  Speaker 1: Marcel, what else you got?
• 21:39
  Speaker 2: Some food pics that were coming your way. So it's
• 21:43
  Speaker 2: a new dawn. It's a new day. So let's get
• 21:47
  Speaker 2: into it. And you're filling in for Ben. I hope
• 21:50
  Speaker 2: you'll be back soon.
• 21:51
  Speaker 1: Me too.
• 21:52
  Speaker 2: What do you got? The chicken parmesan.
• 21:57
  Speaker 1: Okay, how's this game work again? My dumb ass doesn't remember.
• 21:59
  Speaker 1: You pick whatever you think that he had for dinner
• 22:01
  Speaker 1: last night. I just guess any food in the history
• 22:04
  Speaker 1: of foods. Just guess whatever. Stouffer's lasagna. You got that
• 22:11
  Speaker 1: Garfield to you. I know you do.
• 22:13
  Speaker 2: Injected. Well, you know what, there, Adam, for the first
• 22:16
  Speaker 2: time in your life?
• 22:18
  Speaker 4: Yeah.
• 22:18
  Speaker 2: The mixed match it is.
• 22:19
  Speaker 3: Stop it.
• 22:20
  Speaker 1: You're lying.
• 22:21
  Speaker 5: No.
• 22:22
  Speaker 4: Absolutely, sir.
• 22:23
  Speaker 1: I was right? No.
• 22:25
  Speaker 6: We'll find out here.
• 22:26
  Speaker 1: I was right? We'll find out. We'll find out.
• 22:28
  Speaker 2: Liar. We'll find out it is. Lorena, you're a fan
• 22:32
  Speaker 2: of me, so go right ahead.
• 22:34
  Speaker 1: I definitely am. I think you had a double cheesy,
• 22:38
  Speaker 1: cheesy pizza.
• 22:40
  Speaker 2: Ooh, double cheesy, cheesy pizza it is.
• 22:43
  Speaker 1: The kind that you could choke on the cheese itself.
• 22:48
  Speaker 2: Very funny.
• 22:49
  Speaker 1: That's pizza done right.
• 22:50
  Speaker 2: That is not a mixed match.
• 22:51
  Speaker 4: It is.
• 22:52
  Speaker 1: No!
• 22:53
  Speaker 2: Why?
• 22:54
  Speaker 1: Ugh, never win.
• 22:55
  Speaker 2: Oh, don't worry about it. You'll be the chance to
• 22:58
  Speaker 2: have a TV pick on Hub Day Wednesday for the
• 23:00
  Speaker 2: mixed match it is, Lorraine, I'm my fan.
• 23:02
  Speaker 1: Good point.
• 23:02
  Speaker 3: You lose.
• 23:04
  Speaker 2: Don't worry. You will be cheering up as well. Coop-de-loop,
• 23:09
  Speaker 2: go right ahead for you, buddy.
• 23:11
  Speaker 6: Marcel, last night, I think you started off with some
• 23:14
  Speaker 6: Crab cheese rangoons followed by some Tom Ka Gai. And
• 23:20
  Speaker 6: then you finish it off with mango sticky rice.
• 23:24
  Speaker 2: Not a mix match it is.
• 23:27
  Speaker 1: What is the mix match?
• 23:28
  Speaker 2: What does it mean? Well, Adam, put the smile on
• 23:34
  Speaker 2: your face just like Ben was. The lasagna from Soul First,
• 23:39
  Speaker 2: it is. Yeah.
• 23:40
  Speaker 1: Yeah, it's pretty simple.
• 23:41
  Speaker 4: I win.
• 23:42
  Speaker 2: First time in your life.
• 23:46
  Speaker 1: First time I asked. I think I was right last
• 23:48
  Speaker 1: time you came on.
• 23:50
  Speaker 2: Yes, it is. This is from the past of the
• 23:53
  Speaker 2: last year, but now this year.
• 23:56
  Speaker 1: Okay, that's true. It's a new year, a new day.
• 23:59
  Speaker 2: Actually, 2027 is not real far away, but still in 2026,
• 24:03
  Speaker 2: the same year.
• 24:05
  Speaker 1: All right, Marcel. So what do I get for winning,
• 24:07
  Speaker 1: by the way? I want some details here. How do
• 24:09
  Speaker 1: the rules work?
• 24:11
  Speaker 2: Well.
• 24:11
  Speaker 1: Where's the prize closet at?
• 24:14
  Speaker 2: What?
• 24:14
  Speaker 1: The prize closet.
• 24:15
  Speaker 3: What do I get? A t-shirt?
• 24:16
  Speaker 2: A golden ticket!
• 24:18
  Speaker 1: I got a golden ticket.
• 24:20
  Speaker 2: Yes, it is. Just like that one.
• 24:21
  Speaker 3: I got a golden ticket. I got a golden ticket.
• 24:26
  Speaker 1: Do I get to lick the wallpaper like Grandpa Show?
• 24:29
  Speaker 5: Oh, God.
• 24:30
  Speaker 1: Oh, no, silly. I was having such a good night.
• 24:34
  Speaker 2: Oh, it's early morning here, but it's still late night
• 24:38
  Speaker 2: on the West Coast, but it's still morning here on
• 24:40
  Speaker 2: the eastern seaboard and central as well.
• 24:42
  Speaker 1: I don't know how our walls would taste, though. It's
• 24:46
  Speaker 1: not really about, you know, there's a clip out there
• 24:49
  Speaker 1: that makes you look at Willy Wonka's Chocolate Factory a
• 24:52
  Speaker 1: very different way. I'm just saying. Anything else, Marcel? I
• 24:57
  Speaker 1: want to make sure that I'm accommodating to Mallory Militia
• 25:00
  Speaker 1: in here. You've got enough time.
• 25:02
  Speaker 2: Well, I'll be back on Hump Day Wednesday for some
• 25:05
  Speaker 2: TV picks. And Lorena, my fan, you better figure this out.
• 25:09
  Speaker 2: Sing things out for see the mix batch on what
• 25:12
  Speaker 2: the TV or streaming show you will definitely watch.
• 25:15
  Speaker 1: I'll be thinking. And happy birthday, Marcel.
• 25:20
  Speaker 2: Oh, thank you. Yours as well, one week from today. Yes.
• 25:24
  Speaker 2: So I will tweet that out.
• 25:27
  Speaker 6: Congratulations.
• 25:28
  Speaker 1: Congratulations. What's your Twitter? I'm going to look for it.
• 25:31
  Speaker 2: It's at MMyrick29.
• 25:34
  Speaker 1: Hey, do me a favor, Marcel. Maybe you look at
• 25:37
  Speaker 1: Kevin Oran's Twitter and set him straight. He's been off
• 25:41
  Speaker 1: his rock.
• 25:41
  Speaker 2: Is this hilarious for him?
• 25:44
  Speaker 1: He wants us to think that he's having fun, that
• 25:48
  Speaker 1: he's having a good time, that it doesn't actually hurt him.
• 25:51
  Speaker 1: But deep down on the inside, my man, I think
• 25:54
  Speaker 1: he's hurting.
• 25:55
  Speaker 2: Oh, wow. He's definitely shocked.
• 25:59
  Speaker 4: I'm sure.
• 25:59
  Speaker 1: I don't know if he's shocked. I mean, he knows
• 26:01
  Speaker 1: people at the internet go after him all the time.
• 26:03
  Speaker 4: And call him Cupcake.
• 26:04
  Speaker 2: Oh, this is going to be cringed. I think.
• 26:06
  Speaker 1: Well, I would hope it's not. Is the segment turning
• 26:09
  Speaker 1: that direction? I can't tell. Marcel, thank you for calling in.
• 26:13
  Speaker 1: We appreciate you.
• 26:14
  Speaker 2: Oh, absolutely. And don't forget, at M. Meyer 29 on X. Also,
• 26:19
  Speaker 2: not just on X there, Adam, also me on Facebook
• 26:22
  Speaker 2: and Instagram at Marcel. The same thing. M. Meyer today
• 26:27
  Speaker 2: on Instagram and Threads, also on Blue Sky and LinkedIn.
• 26:30
  Speaker 1: Are you streaming on Kik as well, or are you
• 26:32
  Speaker 1: doing it on all platforms?
• 26:34
  Speaker 2: It's my social. It's the way to keep connected.
• 26:37
  Speaker 4: Okay, cool.
• 26:38
  Speaker 1: Do you post your dinners there so we can actually
• 26:41
  Speaker 1: confirm what you ate? Because I think that would be
• 26:42
  Speaker 1: a good bit.
• 26:44
  Speaker 2: I don't think so, but I have to say for
• 26:47
  Speaker 2: that food pics on the radio, it's the one of
• 26:49
  Speaker 2: the best. Eat me!
• 26:52
  Speaker 3: All right.
• 26:53
  Speaker 1: Well, thanks for calling in, Marcel, and giving me the
• 26:55
  Speaker 1: full Ben Maller experience.
• 26:58
  Speaker 2: Absolutely. I hope you'll be back soon.
• 27:01
  Speaker 1: I'll try my best. I don't know. I've said some
• 27:03
  Speaker 1: things tonight I may never recover from. There goes Marcel
• 27:06
  Speaker 1: in Brooklyn. I mean, that was fantastic. Is that on
• 27:11
  Speaker 1: the daily.
• 27:11
  Speaker 3: Or the nightly?
• 27:13
  Speaker 6: No, it's three times a week.
• 27:15
  Speaker 2: Yeah.
• 27:15
  Speaker 1: So I shouldn't feel that honored three times a week. Okay.
• 27:18
  Speaker 1: Pretty good. Pretty good. You know, I'm going to save
• 27:21
  Speaker 1: my criticism for this broadcaster for the next segment because
• 27:23
  Speaker 1: I really got to lay out for this one. But
• 27:25
  Speaker 1: I do want to mention something pertaining to what we
• 27:28
  Speaker 1: saw tonight with the Dallas Cowboys is we can get
• 27:31
  Speaker 1: back to a little bit of foosball here. You know,
• 27:36
  Speaker 1: if the commanders lose tomorrow night and they're taking on
• 27:41
  Speaker 1: the 49ers, who a lot of people see as the
• 27:43
  Speaker 1: best team in the NFL right now, as they should.
• 27:47
  Speaker 1: The NFC East would be the first division since the
• 27:51
  Speaker 1: merger with every team playing in back-to-back weeks. And none
• 27:57
  Speaker 1: of them winning.
• 27:59
  Speaker 2: You lose.
• 28:00
  Speaker 1: It's like Lorena guessing Marcel's dinner. Like, never happens. Just
• 28:06
  Speaker 1: never wins. It is up to the commanders to protect
• 28:11
  Speaker 1: the walls of the NFC East. This is it. With
• 28:17
  Speaker 1: Dallas losing tonight, that division has not won a game
• 28:21
  Speaker 1: since October 4th. And I gotta be honest. I don't
• 28:26
  Speaker 1: think they're winning tomorrow. I think the San Francisco 49ers
• 28:31
  Speaker 1: are well prepared for them. Jalen Daniels, hopefully his elbow
• 28:35
  Speaker 1: is okay. He's wearing that little robot arm, but this
• 28:39
  Speaker 1: game is in San Francisco, Santa Clara, whatever. It's at
• 28:43
  Speaker 1: Levi's Stadium. The Niners defense, I don't know what, you know,
• 28:49
  Speaker 1: people keep talking about the Chernobyl that's nearby that's causing
• 28:53
  Speaker 1: all the injuries, whatever the power plant is that's getting
• 28:56
  Speaker 1: guys hurt all the time, it's almost like Kyle Shanahan
• 29:00
  Speaker 1: has adapted to not having guys to the point where
• 29:04
  Speaker 1: it's actually made it a strength for this team somehow.
• 29:07
  Speaker 4: They called me Mr.
• 29:08
  Speaker 2: Glass.
• 29:09
  Speaker 1: All those guys that get hurt, injury-prone players, for the
• 29:13
  Speaker 1: San Francisco 49ers, it's like they developed more depth this
• 29:17
  Speaker 1: way with so many guys out. They're used to it.
• 29:20
  Speaker 1: They're comfortable being uncomfortable. Different guys stepping up all the time.
• 29:24
  Speaker 1: That's what they look like. A well-oiled machine that uses
• 29:28
  Speaker 1: 50-plus players to get victories because they have to because
• 29:33
  Speaker 1: guys inevitably are going to be hurt on the San
• 29:35
  Speaker 1: Francisco 49ers. But it has made them stronger. And that's...
• 29:40
  Speaker 1: a problem for the rest of the league and shanahan
• 29:44
  Speaker 1: offensive wizard except late in fourth quarters in the super
• 29:47
  Speaker 1: bowl and choosing to achieve the kick or kick off
• 29:50
  Speaker 1: which one did he do yeah don't receive the kick
• 29:52
  Speaker 1: you kick off Don't let Mahomes know what he needs
• 29:56
  Speaker 1: to do to win the game. That was an error.
• 30:00
  Speaker 1: Mistakes have certainly been made by Shanahan.
• 30:04
  Speaker 4: I've made a huge mistake.
• 30:05
  Speaker 1: He's made a few of them. There was a certain
• 30:08
  Speaker 1: Atlanta Falcons Super Bowl that should have won them where
• 30:10
  Speaker 1: he was the offensive coordinator. But my God, does he
• 30:12
  Speaker 1: coach guys up and still deserves a ton of credit
• 30:16
  Speaker 1: for that. And I'm going to give it to him.
• 30:19
  Speaker 1: And I'm going to say they're going to win this
• 30:21
  Speaker 1: game tomorrow night against the 1-3-1. And that one is
• 30:25
  Speaker 1: a doozy, Dan Quinn. That tie in there, that's one
• 30:28
  Speaker 1: not to be forgotten. Yeah, I think the 49ers are
• 30:31
  Speaker 1: going to win that game against this commander's team. Which means, yes,
• 30:37
  Speaker 1: we will have gone since October 4th without the NFC
• 30:41
  Speaker 1: East getting a win. And you're going to let one
• 30:45
  Speaker 1: of these teams host a playoff team in a playoff
• 30:51
  Speaker 1: game just because they won the division the best of
• 30:57
  Speaker 1: the worst i said this for my panthers last year
• 31:00
  Speaker 1: they didn't deserve to host the la rams with them
• 31:03
  Speaker 1: going eight and nine we got to do something about
• 31:06
  Speaker 1: this i know mike florio was tweeting about it earlier
• 31:08
  Speaker 1: i've been talking about this for years the divisions it's
• 31:13
  Speaker 1: antiquated it's unnecessary Okay, you want some rivalries in there,
• 31:17
  Speaker 1: but you should not reward teams with a losing record
• 31:20
  Speaker 1: just because they won a bad division with home field
• 31:23
  Speaker 1: in a playoff game. I mean, that's disgusting. Someone has
• 31:28
  Speaker 1: got to do something. A strongly worded letter may not
• 31:31
  Speaker 1: be enough this time. I don't think Roger Goodell is
• 31:34
  Speaker 1: taking the phone call or the letter.
• 31:38
  Speaker 3: Speak up.
• 31:40
  Speaker 1: Teams that get screwed because of this, please say something.
• 31:44
  Speaker 1: We're better than that team. We're better than whoever comes
• 31:48
  Speaker 1: out of the NFC East and we're not going to
• 31:50
  Speaker 1: make the playoffs or we're going to have to at
• 31:51
  Speaker 1: least go on the road because this team gets to
• 31:55
  Speaker 1: host a playoff game. It's pathetic. And the Cowboys, well,
• 32:02
  Speaker 1: they're the pinnacle of that embarrassing division that had an
• 32:07
  Speaker 1: employee call them embarrassing a week ago just for them
• 32:11
  Speaker 1: to confirm it even more. Stadium employee did that guy
• 32:16
  Speaker 1: travel by the way? Did uh if if I'm Green
• 32:20
  Speaker 1: Bay like I'm giving that guy front row seats or
• 32:22
  Speaker 1: something or like he's flipping the coin Heads or tails
• 32:27
  Speaker 1: had midfield to get the game started The Cowboys like
• 32:32
  Speaker 1: Kevin Durant can't help themselves they can't help embarrassing themselves,
• 32:35
  Speaker 1: but again, is it embarrassing yourselves? When you're just not
• 32:40
  Speaker 1: that good The expectations were too high. It's embarrassing if
• 32:45
  Speaker 1: a really good team loses to a really bad team.
• 32:49
  Speaker 1: Dallas just isn't that good of a team. So maybe
• 32:51
  Speaker 1: embarrassing isn't the right word. But then if you start
• 32:55
  Speaker 1: thinking about 30 years since they've even got to an
• 32:58
  Speaker 1: NFC Championship game, yeah, that is pretty embarrassing. That's abject failure, actually.
• 33:04
  Speaker 4: You're a huge embarrassing failure.
• 33:07
  Speaker 1: Coming up next, we'll close things out. A broadcaster failed
• 33:12
  Speaker 1: and called out Jalen Hurts when he shouldn't have. And
• 33:16
  Speaker 1: I have to point these things out. Because if I'm
• 33:19
  Speaker 1: making mistakes, I'm taking everybody with me, I guess. I'm
• 33:21
  Speaker 1: Adam Oslund, in for Ben Maller, here on Fox Sports Radio.
• 33:25
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• 33:37
  Speaker 2: Hey, guys.
• 33:38
  Speaker 3: Whoa, big gulfs, huh?
• 33:40
  Speaker 4: All right.
• 33:41
  Speaker 1: Well, see you later, Adam Ashland. I'm Adam Oslin, in
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• 34:12
  Speaker 1: want to mention something. There's some stuff you want to
• 34:14
  Speaker 1: shy away from as a broadcaster, as a sports commentator,
• 34:18
  Speaker 1: or just a human being. Two things happened in the
• 34:21
  Speaker 1: last two weeks involving Philadelphia Eagles players that got a
• 34:24
  Speaker 1: couple of broadcasters in hot water. First, Stephen A. Smith
• 34:27
  Speaker 1: went after Lane Johnson's retirement, claiming he just didn't want
• 34:31
  Speaker 1: to be there anymore and wanted out of a bad
• 34:33
  Speaker 1: situation in Philadelphia, and he kept laughing about it while
• 34:36
  Speaker 1: somehow not reading the room at all. You watch the clip,
• 34:40
  Speaker 1: everyone has that Chrissy Teigen cringe face look on that
• 34:45
  Speaker 1: was at the table listening to this. Like the Lucio ball,
• 34:50
  Speaker 1: you know. It's unfathomable to me how he had no
• 34:56
  Speaker 1: idea that would be a bad look and not received
• 34:59
  Speaker 1: well when he's criticized as a guy for retiring for
• 35:02
  Speaker 1: mental health issues. He didn't see what everyone else did there.
• 35:06
  Speaker 1: Then he went on the apology tour, did damage control.
• 35:09
  Speaker 1: But the clip is the clip. It sure looked like
• 35:11
  Speaker 1: he was laughing about someone's mental health issues and lacked
• 35:13
  Speaker 1: any empathy because he thought it was such a funny
• 35:15
  Speaker 1: joke to say that people are quitting on the Eagles
• 35:18
  Speaker 1: because they're so bad. He said we misconstrued what he
• 35:22
  Speaker 1: was saying. I think he just realized he stepped in
• 35:25
  Speaker 1: it and was backtracking. When you're Stephen A or Pat McAfee,
• 35:29
  Speaker 1: you can get a lot of leeway and probably don't
• 35:32
  Speaker 1: get checked very often for what you say. Bigger than
• 35:35
  Speaker 1: the brand. or you are the brand at this point.
• 35:39
  Speaker 1: So you don't go after people's mental health issues. That's
• 35:43
  Speaker 1: number one here. We just lost actor RJ Middy from
• 35:46
  Speaker 1: Breaking Bad who took his own life. Everyone you meet
• 35:50
  Speaker 1: is going through a battle you'll never know about. So
• 35:53
  Speaker 1: be kind. I think that's the saying. Something else you
• 35:57
  Speaker 1: don't want to do, and this is more specific to sports,
• 36:02
  Speaker 1: is You don't question guys' injuries or their heart or toughness,
• 36:06
  Speaker 1: especially in the game of football, I would say. Friday
• 36:09
  Speaker 1: on the NFL Network, analyst and former NFL fullback, I
• 36:13
  Speaker 1: wasn't familiar with this game, Michael Robinson, probably should have
• 36:18
  Speaker 1: known better when he accused Jalen Hurts of this.
• 36:22
  Speaker 5: I made a comment that it looked like that they
• 36:24
  Speaker 5: was kind of pinning this season on Jalen Hurts. Now
• 36:27
  Speaker 5: this is just me looking outside looking in. I don't
• 36:29
  Speaker 5: know nothing guys, but it looked like they were trying
• 36:32
  Speaker 5: to pin the outcome of this season on a Jalen
• 36:35
  Speaker 5: Hurts just so that they can have an excuse later
• 36:38
  Speaker 5: on to move on from Jalen Hurts. And again, I'm
• 36:41
  Speaker 5: not saying I know nothing guys, But if I'm just
• 36:44
  Speaker 5: playing devil's advocate here and I'm thinking that way, if
• 36:48
  Speaker 5: I'm Jalen Hurts or anybody in Jalen Hurts' camp, I'm saying, well,
• 36:51
  Speaker 5: if everybody's hurt, I'm hurt too. Guys, I've been cleated before.
• 36:56
  Speaker 5: And I'm not saying, you know, a superficial blood clot
• 36:59
  Speaker 5: isn't serious. I'm not saying that. But I would advise
• 37:01
  Speaker 5: all of our viewers to go Google superficial blood clot
• 37:05
  Speaker 5: as opposed to a real blood clot.
• 37:06
  Speaker 3: And again, I'm not a medical guy.
• 37:08
  Speaker 5: But I'm just saying, to me, to me, it looked
• 37:12
  Speaker 5: like Jalen is kind of getting himself out of the
• 37:15
  Speaker 5: fray so that this lost season with Jim J.D., you
• 37:18
  Speaker 5: just said it.
• 37:19
  Speaker 4: Yeah.
• 37:20
  Speaker 1: This is a lost season.
• 37:22
  Speaker 5: He's pulling himself out so that this doesn't look like
• 37:24
  Speaker 5: it's on me. Now, again, guys, I don't know nothing. No, no, no.
• 37:27
  Speaker 4: In fairness, we have to stay away from the medical stuff.
• 37:29
  Speaker 2: Yeah, we do.
• 37:30
  Speaker 5: We do.
• 37:30
  Speaker 1: Trying to save you.
• 37:31
  Speaker 5: They put in the statement, superficial blood clot.
• 37:34
  Speaker 3: Look it up. What is it?
• 37:35
  Speaker 1: Okay.
• 37:36
  Speaker 2: Okay.
• 37:37
  Speaker 1: Chris Rose is trying to save him there. Throw him
• 37:41
  Speaker 1: a lifeline, a life preserver. Not a medical professional. Then stop.
• 37:48
  Speaker 1: The next day, we learn Jalen Hurts is now in
• 37:51
  Speaker 1: the IR. He's out indefinitely because of the blood clots.
• 37:55
  Speaker 1: Not that we need to see him on the IR
• 37:57
  Speaker 1: to know he wasn't faking the injury. Guys who are
• 38:00
  Speaker 1: professional athletes don't do all the work it takes to
• 38:04
  Speaker 1: play on Sunday just to say, nah, I'm good. I
• 38:07
  Speaker 1: don't want to do the fun part now that I've
• 38:09
  Speaker 1: trained for years. The actual game is the release, I think.
• 38:16
  Speaker 1: Wouldn't that be the fun part for them? Guys want
• 38:17
  Speaker 1: to play. Guys take shots. Pills, painkillers, do whatever it takes.
• 38:23
  Speaker 1: There may be some rare instances like Carl Pavano in
• 38:26
  Speaker 1: baseball or some dudes looking for a way out. But
• 38:32
  Speaker 1: their season going poorly. So he must be faking the injury,
• 38:37
  Speaker 1: faking a blood clot. And Harry Met Sally ain't faking that.
• 38:46
  Speaker 1: What are we doing here, Michael Robinson? And I'm not
• 38:49
  Speaker 1: trying to condemn him to hell or say he should
• 38:52
  Speaker 1: be fired.
• 38:53
  Speaker 2: No.
• 38:54
  Speaker 1: Probably owes Jalen Hurts an apology here. Probably already put
• 38:57
  Speaker 1: one out. I just used to hear this stuff all
• 39:02
  Speaker 1: the time with Kawhi Leonard. And don't get me wrong,
• 39:05
  Speaker 1: a lot of people are Clippers fans and upset with
• 39:09
  Speaker 1: Kawhi right now. But I'll always defend to the death
• 39:12
  Speaker 1: that this is a guy who wanted to go out
• 39:14
  Speaker 1: there and play. And you don't train that hard all
• 39:18
  Speaker 1: the time to then say, no, I don't want to
• 39:20
  Speaker 1: play in the games. That's the fun part for them.
• 39:26
  Speaker 1: So that was just reckless, baseless, a little bit gross.
• 39:29
  Speaker 1: like you may think guys don't love the game nba
• 39:33
  Speaker 1: players get accused of this all the time i think
• 39:35
  Speaker 1: it's rare when a guy really would just sit out
• 39:38
  Speaker 1: for reasons like that and jalen hurts is uh by
• 39:42
  Speaker 1: the way a champion a guy with a People love
• 39:48
  Speaker 1: to doubt him as a quarterback where he ranks. That's
• 39:50
  Speaker 1: all fair game.
• 39:51
  Speaker 2: This, though?
• 39:52
  Speaker 1: Nah. But, again, is it the end of the world?
• 39:57
  Speaker 3: No.
• 39:58
  Speaker 1: I've made mistakes like this, too. It's a good reminder.
• 40:02
  Speaker 1: Happens to all of us. Here and there. You talk enough.
• 40:06
  Speaker 1: But the Jalen Hurts stuff, I mean, that was a
• 40:09
  Speaker 1: step too far. Hopefully, I didn't take things too far.
• 40:15
  Speaker 1: and driving the car and keeping it in between the
• 40:17
  Speaker 1: lines here. Thanks to Ben Maller for letting me fill in.
• 40:21
  Speaker 1: Thanks to Lorena for Justin for keeping me on the
• 40:25
  Speaker 1: straight and narrow. Thanks to the Maller militia as well.
• 40:29
  Speaker 1: I'm Adam Oslund. Coming up next, two pros and a
• 40:32
  Speaker 1: cup of Joe. Leave one second for Notre Dame.