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  Speaker 1: And so we're back at it. Our lead this hour
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  Speaker 1: from the Land of the Juicy Lucy and is where
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  Speaker 1: we're we're gonna begin. We had triple barrel action and
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  Speaker 1: we watched so you would not have to. It's our
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  Speaker 1: active kindness, our good myths for the day, and my god, wow, okay,
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  Speaker 1: you need to cleanse my eyes here and wash my
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  Speaker 1: eyes out. So the Nuggets looking to force a game
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  Speaker 1: seven in the Western Conference opening around playoff series there
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  Speaker 1: against the weather beaten Wolves. And you say, well, the
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  Speaker 1: teams without their top player, they were difficult for them
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  Speaker 1: to win. And this is how a lot of people
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  Speaker 1: lose a good amount of money. So if you didn't
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  Speaker 1: watch the game, perhaps not I assume you know by now,
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  Speaker 1: but maybe not Jayden McDaniels, Mick Marvelous thirty two points,
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  Speaker 1: ten rebounds, and someone named Terrence Shannon Junior. I have
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  Speaker 1: no idea who that person is. I have no idea
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  Speaker 1: who Terrence Shannon Junior is. He had twenty four points
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  Speaker 1: in an NBA playoff game.
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  Speaker 3: And surprise, surprise, surprise, the injury ravaged Timberwolves.
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  Speaker 1: Said timber to the Nuggets. They put the Nuggets in
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  Speaker 1: a deep friar in Game six. Na da na na
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  Speaker 1: da da da good bye. If you had the Nuggets
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  Speaker 1: winning the championship this year, you are a loser. With
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  Speaker 1: their top three guards missing in action because of injury,
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  Speaker 1: the Timberwolves still advanced and they will now take on
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  Speaker 1: San Antonio in the second round that starts on Monday,
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  Speaker 1: Monday Monday, with chatter that Aunt Edwards is not anywhere
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  Speaker 1: near returning and he will be out likely that entire series.
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  Speaker 1: Good luck on that. The better story, though, is in
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  Speaker 1: the losing locker room. Someone has some explaining to do
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  Speaker 1: in the Mile High City. Wow, there are losses and
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  Speaker 1: then there's that. Yikes, yikes, yikes, yike. This feels like
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  Speaker 1: a point of demarcation for the Nuggets. So let's get
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  Speaker 1: into it here. The question who gets the Rocky Mountain
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  Speaker 1: Oysters of shame for the Nuggets being eliminated by a
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  Speaker 1: beaten and broken Wolves team out their top player, their
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  Speaker 1: franchise player, Anthony Edwards. So my thoughts on this, I've
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  Speaker 1: got lost episode hollering James and French Foreign Legion and
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  Speaker 1: we would put all of these things together and we
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  Speaker 1: are going to make spaghetti and meat balls, is what
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  Speaker 1: we're going to do. So a Nikola Jokic. He had
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  Speaker 1: had some moments in this series where he didn't look
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  Speaker 1: all that good and there were some trolls, the bots,
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  Speaker 1: the all that online. We're like, oh, what's going on? Oh?
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  Speaker 1: He was fine. He had a typical the Kohlik performance here.
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  Speaker 1: The issue was the co star showed up and turned
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  Speaker 1: out this. I guess this was a solo act because
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  Speaker 1: the partner in crime there he had a full foam
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  Speaker 1: clown nose on red nose and then had the shoes.
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  Speaker 1: Jamal Murray wasn't just off. He was at the joystick
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  Speaker 1: and he was flying the vomit cobbt seventeen shots. I
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  Speaker 1: believe he missed thirteen of them in that disaster class.
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  Speaker 1: While the Nuggets frantically searched for barf bags every time
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  Speaker 1: Murray touched the ball. And this was not just an egg.
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  Speaker 1: You understand this performance here in a game where Minnesota
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  Speaker 1: was just preparing to go back to a Game seven
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  Speaker 1: and they turned into a monster in large part because
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  Speaker 1: of Jamal Murray. It wasn't just an egg. Murray was
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  Speaker 1: craft services. He catered the entire brunch, the entire brunch.
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  Speaker 1: And it's not new. These vanishing acts pop up every postseason,
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  Speaker 1: like an unwadded push notification that I don't kno, Dad,
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  Speaker 1: I don't want that notable. Why is he sending me that?
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  Speaker 1: And so outside of jokicch Denver played with the energy
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  Speaker 1: or the lack of energy. They looked like they were
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  Speaker 1: just standing around waiting for someone, anyone to help fix
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  Speaker 1: the situation. And they had very little energy, not a
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  Speaker 1: lot of shot creation, just a lot a lot of anything, no,
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  Speaker 1: no bite. The fragile Aaron Gordon yet again went snap, crackle, pop.
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  Speaker 1: And coach David Adelman and that staff that you know,
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  Speaker 1: he was the joy when he got in there, that
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  Speaker 1: the pride enjoyed the Nuggets, right, they had a veteran
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  Speaker 1: coach that had won a championship, and they there was
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  Speaker 1: a falling out, so they got rid of him, and
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  Speaker 1: then Adamman took over and okay, we're on our way.
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  Speaker 1: And David Adaman coached Game six like a lost episode
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  Speaker 1: of Impractical Jokers. It's like, hey, Murr, why don't you
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  Speaker 1: go in and coach the team. Okay, I'll go run
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  Speaker 1: the NBA team. Okay, yeah, let's do that. And let's
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  Speaker 1: while you're at it, can we make sure we turned
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  Speaker 1: Jaden McDaniels and someone named Terrence Shannon Junior into stars. Sure,
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  Speaker 1: no problem, all right, good job, Murr. Way to go
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  Speaker 1: now post title Denver. You look at what they've done.
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  Speaker 1: He lost a couple years Denver Fields. Now like that
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  Speaker 1: was a one one off magic trick Abra cadabra hocus
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  Speaker 1: pocus and expired. In real time. You gotta believe the
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  Speaker 1: winds of change will be howling through the Rocky Mountains
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  Speaker 1: this summer. I wouldn't be shocked if they fire the
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  Speaker 1: coach and trade Jamal Murray and just shake it up,
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  Speaker 1: all right now. Meanwhile in Philadelphia we go where another surprise,
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  Speaker 1: Tyrese Maxi stepping on. I've had thirty points ped cheat.
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  Speaker 1: Paul George had twenty three and the Sixers, the Sixers
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  Speaker 1: who looked dead in the water, dead in the water,
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  Speaker 1: and now they have forced a Game seven. What's going on?
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  Speaker 1: It's bizarro world here, bizarro world anyway. So the Sixers,
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  Speaker 1: the thing that is not supposed to happen happen. So
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  Speaker 1: this is just bet against what's supposed to happen. This
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  Speaker 1: is actually a popular thing in the gaming world. When
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  Speaker 1: everyone thinks something's going to happen, you go the other way.
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  Speaker 1: For example, we just talked about the Denver Minnesota games
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  Speaker 1: as well. Minnesota's without Ann Edwards, so Denver's gonna win, okay,
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  Speaker 1: so bet on Minnesota. The Celtics much better on the
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  Speaker 1: road than at home in this era. The Sixers. Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: they got the game back to Philadelphia, but you figure, okay,
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  Speaker 1: the Celtics will take control. No, so Max, he's the thirty, George,
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  Speaker 1: the twenty three, the Sixers, they do get it done.
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  Speaker 1: They force a Game seven with a thirteen point win
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  Speaker 1: over the Celtics in the Delaware Valley there. So Philly
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  Speaker 1: playing pretty solid from soup to nuts in this game,
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  Speaker 1: and the winner take all. Game seven. We played Saturday
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  Speaker 1: and in Boston. Philadelphia has lost by thirty two points
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  Speaker 1: twice in this series. The only team in NBA history
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  Speaker 1: to win a playoff series after losing two games by
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  Speaker 1: thirty plus points was Minneapolis in nineteen fifty nine against
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  Speaker 1: the Saint Louis Hawks. Now the better story is, of course,
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  Speaker 1: in the losing locker room. You know how we operate here,
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  Speaker 1: and what a bunch of my sugarnus here the Celtics.
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  Speaker 1: So where have things gone wrong? Here's the question? Where
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  Speaker 1: have things gone wrong for Joe Mizula's Celtics. So I
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  Speaker 1: use my medical training, not a real doctor, I do
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  Speaker 1: play one on the radio, so as doctor Mahler my diagnosis.
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  Speaker 1: Here the team that I saw on TV. This looks
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  Speaker 1: like some old Doc Rivers type Celtics teams, except they
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  Speaker 1: just shoot nothing but three point shots. This team has
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  Speaker 1: exactly one speed. It's been that way ever since Joe
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  Speaker 1: Mizzoula allowed the nerds to take over, and that's how
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  Speaker 1: he got the job. They have one speed and that's
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  Speaker 1: cruise control. That's what they got and spoiler alert right
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  Speaker 1: now they're basha for a bruisin, is what they're doing
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  Speaker 1: here Philadelphia. The Sixers who looked like they were lost.
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  Speaker 1: They were getting called out by their coach, by their
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  Speaker 1: players holding and then now this has happened. Boston did
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  Speaker 1: not just misshots clankety clank doink. They built a two
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  Speaker 1: story deck, a gazebo, and a guesthouse with all of
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  Speaker 1: the bricks that they've had recently. In this series. We're
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  Speaker 1: talking not just about a shooting slump. They're actually going
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  Speaker 1: to replace Lucky the Leprechaun with Doink the clown and
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  Speaker 1: Doink the clown because they've missed. Somebody said, doink doink doint.
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  Speaker 1: They jacked up forty one shots the Celtics from three
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  Speaker 1: point lang, which for them is very conservative, which would
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  Speaker 1: have been fine if they hadn't missed twenty nine of
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  Speaker 1: them nine forty one missed. That is less than thirty
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  Speaker 1: percent double doink double doint. Now the effort, I think
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  Speaker 1: hollering James phone call the Celtics effort. In the middle
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  Speaker 1: part of this game, they played sleepy. They had deep yawns,
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  Speaker 1: completely unable to match the Philadelphia energy and the alpha
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  Speaker 1: dogs Jason Tatum and Jalen Brown were just dogs. There
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  Speaker 1: was no alpha there are. They needed a flea bath.
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  Speaker 1: They can bind for a measly thirty five points the
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  Speaker 1: top two players on that team, and the shooting not great.
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  Speaker 1: Just inefficient is the word? Inefficient is the word here?
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  Speaker 1: Getting outscored by twenty two points across the second and
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  Speaker 1: third quarters is not a lull. That is a medically
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  Speaker 1: induced coma for the Celtics in the middle part of
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  Speaker 1: that game. And then you got Joe Mizzoula who looked
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  Speaker 1: like he brought a weighted blanket to a street fight.
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  Speaker 1: You know, what are you doing here? Well, I'm gonna
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  Speaker 1: take a little nap here. Why are you doing that?
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  Speaker 1: You should not do that. There were very little adjustments,
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  Speaker 1: if any, And that's the mindsets. Listen, we have figured
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  Speaker 1: it out. We're the smartest people in the room. It's
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  Speaker 1: that hubris and this is how we're going to win.
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  Speaker 1: And the Celtics, you can come back and then win.
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  Speaker 1: It's gonna win Game seven by twenty points at home
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  Speaker 1: because that's what they do. And you know, anybody that
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  Speaker 1: criticizes them is gonna get the boot. That's what this is.
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  Speaker 1: It's that arrogance. And so we're not gonna be any
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  Speaker 1: kind of adjustments and we're just gonna sit there and
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  Speaker 1: if we make the shots, we win. If we don't,
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  Speaker 1: that's it. And this really was a self inflicted pratfall
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  Speaker 1: and that lack of killer instinct, which is a trend
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  Speaker 1: in the opening round of the playoffs. You saw that
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  Speaker 1: with the Lakers and now the Rockets in position to
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  Speaker 1: force a game seven in that series. And you look around,
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  Speaker 1: You're like, there's been a lot of that, a lot
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  Speaker 1: of that in this playoffs, and so this is alarming
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  Speaker 1: for Boston. They got one more chance, and if you
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  Speaker 1: win that, nobody will remember this. We'll move on. That's it.
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  Speaker 1: But you got the oil spill and it's leaking, and yeah,
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  Speaker 1: you better make some headway here. You better make some headway,
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  Speaker 1: come up with some kind of weird home brew and
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  Speaker 1: figure it out, all right? Last word, And I would
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  Speaker 1: like to thank whatever that was in Atlanta, because I
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  Speaker 1: did not need to watch the playoffs. You try to
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  Speaker 1: figure out. I watch a little bit of everything, And
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  Speaker 1: how did you need to watch this? Og? And a
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  Speaker 1: nob with twenty nine points in twenty seven minutes, I'm
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  Speaker 1: told that's pretty good. Carl Anthony Towns. I think he
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  Speaker 1: took like four shots. He had a triple double, his
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  Speaker 1: second of the series. Carl Anthony Towns known for offense
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  Speaker 1: skipping out on playoff games, but he has not done
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  Speaker 1: that lately, and the Knickerbockers the biggest playoff win in
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  Speaker 1: franchise history. Holy Pat trick Ewing, where have You're gone?
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  Speaker 1: Walt Clyde Fraser down, goes Frasher, down, goes Fresher As
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  Speaker 1: the Knicks poll axe the Atlanta Hawks one forty to
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  Speaker 1: eighty nine in Game six. The Knicks did not just
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  Speaker 1: win this game, they broke the soul of Atlanta, also
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  Speaker 1: breaking several NBA records. The end of the first quarter,
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  Speaker 1: there were fifty five points scored, forty of them were
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  Speaker 1: by the team from New York was forty to fifteen
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  Speaker 1: at the end of twelve minutes. That is the largest
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  Speaker 1: ever in the shot clock era, which is the modern
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  Speaker 1: era of the NBA, and the forty seven point halftime
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  Speaker 1: lead the largest in playoff history. No one had ever
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  Speaker 1: been that back. This reminded me a bit of that
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  Speaker 1: Sun's Mavericks game from a few years ago in Phoenix,
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  Speaker 1: when Phoenix was at home and they just got absolutely
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  Speaker 1: thunderstruck by Dallas in that game. This was even worse
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  Speaker 1: than that, though. This was even worse than that, and
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  Speaker 1: so New York wins their third straight. They fell behind
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  Speaker 1: two games, won, atlantahead the lead. CJ. McCollum was the
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  Speaker 1: Nick killer, the villain, and now he's going to vacation.
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  Speaker 1: That's it. So the back to back one point loss
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  Speaker 1: is long gone. Now the Knicks have moved on and
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  Speaker 1: they will play the winner of the Philadelphia Boston. Seriously,
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  Speaker 1: we're guaranteed of an I ninety five corrid or matchup.
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  Speaker 1: Now the question on this game is this just a
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  Speaker 1: bad day at the office for the team from Georgia
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  Speaker 1: or is it something deeper the problem for coach Quinn
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  Speaker 1: Snyder's Hawks. So I don't say this lightly because this
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  Speaker 1: is the I've been told by people that work in sports,
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  Speaker 1: this is the most offensive thing you can say. And
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  Speaker 1: I'm about to say it, so I might get dumped.
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  Speaker 1: Mark might dump me, and I'm gonna say it anyway,
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  Speaker 1: because I'm that kind of guy. The Atlanta Hawks quit.
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  Speaker 1: They're gutless, they're quitters. The Atlanta Hawks quit in an
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  Speaker 1: NBA playoff game at home. They gave up. They did
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  Speaker 1: they give up. Listen, the Knicks played well. However, I
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  Speaker 1: was taught years ago by a Hall of Fame coach
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  Speaker 1: was now dead, Bill Fitch that if both teams play
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  Speaker 1: hard man, play hard mo man, you will never get
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  Speaker 1: a game that will be this kind of a blow
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  Speaker 1: even twenty points. If you're playing hard fundamental, even if
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  Speaker 1: you're under manned, you're still going to be in the game.
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  Speaker 1: And they they were essentially the Knicks escorted by Atlanta
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  Speaker 1: and the malfeasance of the Hawks. They didn't just collapse.
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  Speaker 1: They executed a controlled demolition right at the beginning of
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  Speaker 1: the game, and Quinn Snyder was holding the detonator. There's
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  Speaker 1: that famous quote from long lost NBA star Michael Ray
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  Speaker 1: Richardson who said it best the ship be sinking, and
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  Speaker 1: tonight it hit the ocean floor. And was Nick van
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  Speaker 1: Exell in there for the pregame speech one two three,
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  Speaker 1: can't coon here we go boys pregame and the Hawks are, yeah,
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  Speaker 1: we'll take that literally. And they went down. They bordered
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  Speaker 1: a carnival cruise straight to Crap your Pants Island, and
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  Speaker 1: I think they might have hired Roberto Old Buddy's the
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  Speaker 1: bus driver Roberto there because they drove the Struggle Boss
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  Speaker 1: roughly one hundred and fifty miles an hour right into
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  Speaker 1: the side of a nuclear power plant. Kubboom. Jonathan Kaminga
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  Speaker 1: a lot of Warrior fans celebrating shot in freude the
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  Speaker 1: demise of Jonathan Kaminga had an all time bad performance.
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  Speaker 1: Jalen Daniels also terrible in this game. CJ. McCollum did
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  Speaker 1: not play well. They all took the walk of shame,
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  Speaker 1: so that traffic cone defense was problematic. Zero grit and
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  Speaker 1: they I think they were calling their mommy and they
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  Speaker 1: might have been texting their uncle. I don't know they're
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  Speaker 1: texting their uncle. But there was a lot of that
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  Speaker 1: going on. There was a lot of that going on.
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  Speaker 1: I was like, oh, wait a minute, here is what
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  Speaker 1: is all this about? Like, my god, you really have
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  Speaker 1: to try to play at that level of confidence? Do
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  Speaker 1: you understand what I'm saying here? And the NBA media
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  Speaker 1: has long gone solt so it's not how it used
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  Speaker 1: to be and really hold people accountable and all that
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  Speaker 1: I'm telling you though there's no other way to say it.
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  Speaker 1: They quit that the Atlanta Hawks or a bunch of
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  Speaker 1: quitting dogs is what they are, and ultimately they are
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  Speaker 1: now qualified the Hawks to join the French Foreign Legion
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  Speaker 1: They acted like French soldiers and they surrendered, is what
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  Speaker 1: they did. This is not a just a loss. This
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  Speaker 1: was a total white flag resignation, is what that was.
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  Speaker 1: So our lead this hour is from a Hodgepodge. Now,
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  Speaker 1: we talked last hour in a previous hour here about
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  Speaker 1: the NBA playoffs going on right now, and you had
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  Speaker 1: the Minnesota basketball team exterminate the Nuggets, so they're out.
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  Speaker 1: Denver's been eliminated. The New York Knicks absolutely vaporized the
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  Speaker 1: quitting Atlanta Hawks, one of the more gutless performances you
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  Speaker 1: will ever see by professional athletes. And Atlanta is out
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  Speaker 1: and they're done, See you later, Bye bye. In the Celtics,
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  Speaker 1: it looked like Dino Rajah's Celtics as they went out
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  Speaker 1: there and played a clunker against the Sixers. So there
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  Speaker 1: will be a game seven, so at least we have
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  Speaker 1: something to watch on Saturdays. See how that goes. Our
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  Speaker 1: lead this hour, though, is from King James World. Now,
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  Speaker 1: the Lakers. We talked about this a little bit last dark.
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  Speaker 1: The Lakers are in stranger danger at this point. They
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  Speaker 1: are this close to blowing a three to nothing lead,
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  Speaker 1: which has never happened in that sport. And your Raquets
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  Speaker 1: are the team that is in position to do that.
• 19:47
  Speaker 1: They have some home cooking in the game coming up
• 19:50
  Speaker 1: here later, and the Lakers still lead three to two. However, again,
• 19:56
  Speaker 1: the next game is in Houston, and it does appear
• 19:59
  Speaker 1: that Lebron James is running on fumes. Now spotty play
• 20:04
  Speaker 1: by Lebron and all those wonderful stories with all the
• 20:08
  Speaker 1: fluff and the manny and the petty for Lebron, how
• 20:12
  Speaker 1: he was defying father Time. Well apparently father Time's knocking
• 20:16
  Speaker 1: on the door saying, hey, I'm here and I'm coming in.
• 20:19
  Speaker 1: I'm coming in now, and no one's been able to
• 20:22
  Speaker 1: stop him. So if you have not heard the latest
• 20:23
  Speaker 1: on this, perhaps not that. This is not about Lebron's status,
• 20:26
  Speaker 1: It is not about the game itself. It is about
• 20:29
  Speaker 1: the mind of Lebron. Several of you were demanding, demanding
• 20:35
  Speaker 1: that I bring this up, and I agree, this is
• 20:36
  Speaker 1: a really good story. We have spent a lot of
• 20:40
  Speaker 1: very valuable real estate here since Fox Sports Radio started
• 20:43
  Speaker 1: talking about Lebron James, the life and times of Lebron.
• 20:46
  Speaker 1: In fact, my connection with Lebron goes back to when
• 20:51
  Speaker 1: he was in high school and I was working as
• 20:53
  Speaker 1: a sport. I had the radio show, but I was
• 20:55
  Speaker 1: doing some sports blogging. I had a gossip website, and
• 20:58
  Speaker 1: I got tipped off. But this kid in Ohio is
• 21:01
  Speaker 1: like amazing, He's going to dominate basketball and all this stuff.
• 21:05
  Speaker 1: And they there was supposedly a scandal with an suv
• 21:08
  Speaker 1: if I remember, like his mom was driving around a
• 21:11
  Speaker 1: nice car and all this stuff. Anyway, it turned out
• 21:12
  Speaker 1: that was Lebron, and all these years later, he's still
• 21:16
  Speaker 1: there and I'm still here and just wonderful. Anyway, Lebron James,
• 21:20
  Speaker 1: who famously has claimed, among other things, he is a
• 21:24
  Speaker 1: massive fan of The Godfather, the classic movie series The
• 21:29
  Speaker 1: Godfather considered the gold standard for mob movies, although I'm
• 21:32
  Speaker 1: more of a fan of The Goodfellas. Anyway, Lebron James
• 21:35
  Speaker 1: claimed to be one of the biggest fanboys for The Godfather,
• 21:41
  Speaker 1: and he made a rather interesting revelation about his encounter,
• 21:48
  Speaker 1: the first encounter he had with the legendary actor Al
• 21:51
  Speaker 1: Pacino at a high end Beverly Hills restaurant, and Lebron
• 21:58
  Speaker 1: in this long story that supposedly took a year to
• 22:01
  Speaker 1: put together, it seems like a little much long long
• 22:06
  Speaker 1: story about Lebron's life and all this stuff. Anyway, so
• 22:10
  Speaker 1: he's bently buddies with Leonardo DiCaprio, and you hang on,
• 22:14
  Speaker 1: I don't know if that's a good thing or not. Anyway,
• 22:17
  Speaker 1: Lebron gave this quote. He said they were at dinner,
• 22:21
  Speaker 1: he had a meal in Beverly Hills with Al Pacino
• 22:23
  Speaker 1: and Leonardo DiCaprio, and he said he was asked about
• 22:27
  Speaker 1: the Godfather stuff. He said, that's all I was talking about.
• 22:30
  Speaker 1: To Paccino, Lebron said, he couldn't believe this is I'm
• 22:34
  Speaker 1: not making this up. This sounds like something that's made up.
• 22:37
  Speaker 1: The quote is he meaning Al Pacino, the legendary Hollywood actor.
• 22:41
  Speaker 1: Couldn't believe how much I knew the movie. I was
• 22:45
  Speaker 1: talking him or talking him back, or taking back to stuff,
• 22:49
  Speaker 1: taking back to stuff that he probably forgot about, Lebron said. Obviously,
• 22:55
  Speaker 1: he's done about a fing billion movies, Lebron stated, but
• 23:00
  Speaker 1: he was super surprised that I knew that much about
• 23:06
  Speaker 1: those movies, meaning the Godfather movies. That was a really
• 23:09
  Speaker 1: cool moment for me. So again, the key part of
• 23:11
  Speaker 1: that Lebron humble bragging that he was at dinner with
• 23:15
  Speaker 1: Al Pacino and Leonardo DiCaprio at some really overpriced restaurant
• 23:19
  Speaker 1: in Beverly Hills, and that Al Pacino could not believe
• 23:23
  Speaker 1: how much Lebron James lou about the Godfather movies. Okay,
• 23:30
  Speaker 1: that's a good jumping off point. Let us discuss the
• 23:33
  Speaker 1: question Lebron making this claim that the icon Al Pacino
• 23:38
  Speaker 1: was blown away by his Godfather movie knowledge? Does this
• 23:43
  Speaker 1: pass basic malar scrutiny? Does it pass basic malard scrutiny?
• 23:50
  Speaker 1: So I've got on this one. I've got Professor, We've
• 23:55
  Speaker 1: got Harry Potter, and if that was not enough, we've
• 23:59
  Speaker 1: got a rumba and those things have never been put together,
• 24:02
  Speaker 1: and we're gonna put them together. And this is going
• 24:04
  Speaker 1: to be as smooth as glass and not your ass.
• 24:08
  Speaker 1: All right now, number W, I said number W. Okay,
• 24:17
  Speaker 1: to answer the question, does this pass the basic malar
• 24:20
  Speaker 1: of scrutiny test? Hell? No, this is Hall of Fame delusion. Now,
• 24:26
  Speaker 1: the problem we have here is that we actually keep
• 24:29
  Speaker 1: track of this stuff because we are losers, We have
• 24:31
  Speaker 1: no life. We sit in the magic Radio box and
• 24:34
  Speaker 1: we document this stuff on a nightly basis, and then
• 24:37
  Speaker 1: it's just I keep notes. And this is the same guy,
• 24:40
  Speaker 1: Lebron James who famously said, I went back, I checked
• 24:42
  Speaker 1: my notes. It was ten years ago. I was in
• 24:45
  Speaker 1: this chair, on this microphone, in the same job. I
• 24:49
  Speaker 1: have reached the Peter principle, the highest level of incompetence
• 24:52
  Speaker 1: that I've stayed there. But ten years ago, I'm in
• 24:54
  Speaker 1: this chair talking about Lebron. He was with the Cavaliers.
• 24:57
  Speaker 1: They were on a playoff run, and he's said during
• 25:00
  Speaker 1: that playoff run that he had watched The Godfather six
• 25:03
  Speaker 1: times during the NBA playoffs during the twenty sixteen title run.
• 25:07
  Speaker 1: And yet when he was asked to give his favorite quote,
• 25:11
  Speaker 1: or to quote any line in The Godfather, suddenly Lebron
• 25:16
  Speaker 1: could not name one quote, not one quote from The Godfather.
• 25:22
  Speaker 1: And now we're supposed to juxtapose that with the fact
• 25:26
  Speaker 1: that he's the professor Lebron, that he's teaching al Pacino
• 25:31
  Speaker 1: about al Pacino's career. I understand a lot of you
• 25:35
  Speaker 1: are glible. Try not to be a right, try not
• 25:38
  Speaker 1: to be it's it's Lebron's ego. Cosplay is what it is.
• 25:41
  Speaker 1: And it's fine Lebron. He lies about these little things
• 25:47
  Speaker 1: like he does it so often the way a lot
• 25:50
  Speaker 1: of us just breathe, like effortlessly, constantly and for absolutely
• 25:56
  Speaker 1: no reason, for no reason. In these lies, it's like
• 26:01
  Speaker 1: it's not really malicious, it's just unforced. It's optional. It's weird.
• 26:07
  Speaker 1: It's like, what are you doing. He's the only superstar
• 26:12
  Speaker 1: that I can think of it. I'm sure that there
• 26:14
  Speaker 1: might be some others, but off the top of my head,
• 26:16
  Speaker 1: he's the only superstar who literally stat pads his own
• 26:21
  Speaker 1: personal life, fandom whatever, Like the fake reading of books.
• 26:26
  Speaker 1: He did that several times. Whever he'd always show up.
• 26:29
  Speaker 1: He'd said, I'm doing this zero dark whatever it is
• 26:32
  Speaker 1: before the playoffs, and I'm not going to talk and
• 26:34
  Speaker 1: go on social media. And he'd show up with these
• 26:36
  Speaker 1: books and it was always like the first page of
• 26:38
  Speaker 1: the book. I guess he couldn't get past that first
• 26:40
  Speaker 1: opening page of the book. And then the watching the
• 26:43
  Speaker 1: Godfather movie six times and only to remember zero percent
• 26:47
  Speaker 1: of the movie, and it's just great. He lies Lebron
• 26:52
  Speaker 1: like he's trying to win an Oscar for Best fictional Autobiography.
• 26:56
  Speaker 1: And the issue is not necessarily just Lebron. It's the
• 27:00
  Speaker 1: sports media, mainly the basketball media, that they treat this
• 27:06
  Speaker 1: like it's the Gospels. It's the myth making of Lebron,
• 27:11
  Speaker 1: and it's all part of it, never questioning anything, and
• 27:15
  Speaker 1: the myth has always been part of sports. There was
• 27:18
  Speaker 1: a boxing legend long gone. Bert Sugar, my favorite boxing
• 27:23
  Speaker 1: guests on radio my entire career. Burt Sugar awesome, one
• 27:28
  Speaker 1: of the all time great storytellers and a historian of sports.
• 27:31
  Speaker 1: And Bert would share some stories about Babe Ruth. And
• 27:34
  Speaker 1: there was a famous story about Babe Ruth running through
• 27:39
  Speaker 1: a train because back then they didn't travel by plane,
• 27:42
  Speaker 1: and running naked through a train car filled with sports
• 27:46
  Speaker 1: writers and then being chased by women who were naked
• 27:49
  Speaker 1: through the train and all that and never got reported.
• 27:52
  Speaker 1: It never got reported. Some of that, the stuff about Babe,
• 27:57
  Speaker 1: A lot of that was kind of mythology that actual
• 28:00
  Speaker 1: apparently did happen. Oh, I could only imagine what led
• 28:03
  Speaker 1: to that happening. Uh anyway, Uh so the myth of Lebron.
• 28:07
  Speaker 1: Nobody ever questions anything. And to me, it's rather simple.
• 28:12
  Speaker 1: You look at this, the stories don't add up. Telling
• 28:15
  Speaker 1: al Pacino about the Godfather would be like me having
• 28:18
  Speaker 1: a cup of tea with Albert Einstein and say, hey, Albert,
• 28:22
  Speaker 1: let me go over algebra with you. Well, no, I don't.
• 28:25
  Speaker 1: I don't need you to go over algebra. You're a
• 28:26
  Speaker 1: dumb overnight talk show host. You don't know anything about it,
• 28:28
  Speaker 1: but I kind of want to go over to Yeah, Okay,
• 28:31
  Speaker 1: well you know, shut up. It's just Lebron being Lebron,
• 28:35
  Speaker 1: the first athlete with a highlight reel of unnecessary FIBs.
• 28:39
  Speaker 1: So congratulations. Meanwhile, the outrageous quotes continue. A lot of maloney,
• 28:45
  Speaker 1: a lot of maloney flying around. So we go to
• 28:48
  Speaker 1: the Bay Area. Now the future of Steve Kerr's coach
• 28:52
  Speaker 1: of the Warriors hanging in the balance. I'm hearing he's
• 28:56
  Speaker 1: going to television. He hasn't announced that until he does.
• 29:01
  Speaker 1: He's the coach in Golden State, supposedly twisting in the wind.
• 29:05
  Speaker 1: Good time to jump ship is when the ship's about
• 29:08
  Speaker 1: to hit the bottom of the sea. So now one
• 29:12
  Speaker 1: of his longtime employees has entered the chat, Draymond Green.
• 29:18
  Speaker 1: Now Draymond's got a lot of high takes. He is
• 29:21
  Speaker 1: the reason the NBA embarrassingly calls their owners governors because
• 29:26
  Speaker 1: he complained, and that gutless Adam Silver is like well,
• 29:30
  Speaker 1: Lebron or Draymond. Rather, Draymond does not like the term owner.
• 29:34
  Speaker 1: So we're gonna call these guys who do own the team,
• 29:37
  Speaker 1: We're gonna call them governors. And everyone just laughs at
• 29:40
  Speaker 1: the NBA. It's so embarrassing. Anyway, Draymond has another great
• 29:43
  Speaker 1: quote on his Fledgling podcast, which I'm sure friends and
• 29:46
  Speaker 1: family enjoy a lot. Draymond took a shot at Steve Kerr.
• 29:51
  Speaker 1: He said, quote as much as he's done for me
• 29:54
  Speaker 1: in basketball, meaning Steve Kerr, Well, I was gonna read
• 29:59
  Speaker 1: the quoe, but we have it all right. Here's a
• 30:00
  Speaker 1: Draymond Green addressing Steve Kerr, and listen to him point
• 30:04
  Speaker 1: out that Steve Kerr has actually not been all that
• 30:08
  Speaker 1: great in one way in particular, take a list.
• 30:12
  Speaker 5: As much as he's done for me in basketball, A
• 30:14
  Speaker 5: part of me think he's hindered me in my career
• 30:16
  Speaker 5: and what I could have become. No, when KD came
• 30:18
  Speaker 5: from twenty sixteen on, I have not had a play
• 30:21
  Speaker 5: in our playbook, Not a single play that we run
• 30:24
  Speaker 5: for me in our playbook is twenty sixteen. But if
• 30:27
  Speaker 5: you're going to take one gripe and not be able
• 30:30
  Speaker 5: to move past it. For all the other things. I
• 30:33
  Speaker 5: think you're shallow as a person. That says more about
• 30:35
  Speaker 5: you as a person than it does about Steve or
• 30:38
  Speaker 5: whoever else than that is.
• 30:39
  Speaker 1: You gotta take the good with the bad man, all right.
• 30:42
  Speaker 1: But the key part of that was he's claiming that
• 30:44
  Speaker 1: Steve Kerr hindered his career and that they have not
• 30:47
  Speaker 1: run a play for him in ten years since the
• 30:50
  Speaker 1: Slim Reaper arrived at the bottom of the Bay Bridge.
• 30:54
  Speaker 1: All right, question, Draymond Green, you just heard it says
• 30:57
  Speaker 1: that Steve Kerr held him back. I'm reaching his full
• 31:01
  Speaker 1: pro bouncy ball potential in a warrior uniform. Give me
• 31:06
  Speaker 1: your school of thought on this one. So I know,
• 31:10
  Speaker 1: super Marcus, Steve loves when I make this reference, and
• 31:12
  Speaker 1: I'm gonna do it for him. This is a Hogwarts
• 31:14
  Speaker 1: level plot twist. Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone logic, right,
• 31:20
  Speaker 1: were the same guy who made you also limited you?
• 31:25
  Speaker 1: Now I would say, pick a lane, pal, pick a
• 31:28
  Speaker 1: lane and stay in your line. Draymond complaining about not
• 31:31
  Speaker 1: having play calls directed towards him since twenty sixteen. You
• 31:35
  Speaker 1: know what that is, and that's not sabotage by Steve Kerr.
• 31:38
  Speaker 1: That's called elite coaching. Your job description is chaos generator,
• 31:45
  Speaker 1: trouble maker, modern day goon, not offensive centerpiece. That's not
• 31:51
  Speaker 1: the job title. You don't scheme touches for a guy
• 31:55
  Speaker 1: whose bag has fewer moves than a roomba, Like a
• 31:58
  Speaker 1: rumba's got more often moves than Draymond Green. Shaquille O'Neal
• 32:04
  Speaker 1: had very few offensive moves. He pretty much just overpowered everyone.
• 32:08
  Speaker 1: Even Shack had more of an offensive game than Draymond Green.
• 32:12
  Speaker 1: But it's classic Draymond Green. I break the furniture and
• 32:14
  Speaker 1: then blame the room layout, and Steve Kerr, Steph Curry,
• 32:18
  Speaker 1: and Klay Thompson turned a second round tweener talent into
• 32:24
  Speaker 1: a Hall of Fame career who will likely get his
• 32:28
  Speaker 1: number retired, although it should not be retired because I'm
• 32:30
  Speaker 1: anti number retirement. So that here's my theory on Dreymonngreen.
• 32:34
  Speaker 1: I want to want to spy here. I've been I've
• 32:35
  Speaker 1: been work shopping this take over the last couple hours.
• 32:39
  Speaker 1: So my theory on Draymond Green. If you put Draymond
• 32:41
  Speaker 1: Green in a Memphis Grizzlies uniform, or a Charlotte Hornet's uniform.
• 32:48
  Speaker 1: He's not all of a sudden Tim Donkey and he's
• 32:51
  Speaker 1: Tony Allen or PJ. Tucker. Is that a fair take that,
• 32:56
  Speaker 1: Draymond Green. The reason he has perceived the way he
• 33:00
  Speaker 1: is is because of the fact the war is obviously
• 33:03
  Speaker 1: won a lot, and there's a great there's a greater
• 33:06
  Speaker 1: aroma that comes from winning. We all know that. I'm
• 33:10
  Speaker 1: telling you. You put Draymond same skill level that he's
• 33:13
  Speaker 1: shown with the Warriors, and he'll hustle and he'll get
• 33:17
  Speaker 1: a bunch of rebounds, then get a few more points
• 33:18
  Speaker 1: and a few more rebounds. With another team, he'd beat
• 33:21
  Speaker 1: Tony Allen or PJ. Tucker and that's it. And so
• 33:24
  Speaker 1: calling Kerr a hindrance, that's like a seat belt whining
• 33:28
  Speaker 1: it doesn't get enough spotlight. Okay, I'm sorry, No, Draymond,
• 33:34
  Speaker 1: you weren't held back. In fact, you were elevated, right,
• 33:38
  Speaker 1: you were elevated. Final point. Quickly, we go to Phoenix
• 33:43
  Speaker 1: where the Suns owner Matt Ishbia confirming that the Phoenix
• 33:47
  Speaker 1: pro bouncy Ball team has no intentions of trading Devin
• 33:51
  Speaker 1: Booker even though they should. And now that has not
• 33:54
  Speaker 1: stopped widespread chatter that continues to bubble up here. Booker
• 33:59
  Speaker 1: is twenty nine, with a massive two hundred and sixty
• 34:03
  Speaker 1: million dollars price tag left on his contract over the
• 34:07
  Speaker 1: next four years. Phoenix has a ten game losing streak
• 34:11
  Speaker 1: in the postseason, and Ishbia win on this rant kind
• 34:14
  Speaker 1: of like a father talking about his son, beaming with
• 34:17
  Speaker 1: pride about Devin Booker, the franchise player, and he loves
• 34:21
  Speaker 1: it here. The coaches love him, the GM loves him,
• 34:24
  Speaker 1: and he's going to be here. He's going to lead
• 34:27
  Speaker 1: us to a championship. You know, he hit all the notes,
• 34:30
  Speaker 1: all the notes. Matteshbia blah blah blah blah blah blah blah.
• 34:33
  Speaker 1: I'll ride here's the money quote though, I'll ride into
• 34:36
  Speaker 1: a fire with Devin Booker, and I'll do it proudly.
• 34:40
  Speaker 1: That's a direct quote from the Sun's owner. May we
• 34:44
  Speaker 1: all have someone in our life that gives you the
• 34:47
  Speaker 1: level of bull crap to defend you, as the Sons
• 34:50
  Speaker 1: owner with Devin Booker. So the question, as we just
• 34:53
  Speaker 1: laid out, the person that runs the team, the old
• 34:58
  Speaker 1: Michigan State go matt Ishbia, the Sun's owner, says, Devin
• 35:03
  Speaker 1: Booker is not getting traded, So how do you digest
• 35:07
  Speaker 1: this one? So this is like, it's kind of like
• 35:10
  Speaker 1: cracker barrel cornbread, is is what it's like. It's like
• 35:14
  Speaker 1: cracker barrel cornbread? And well, what do you mean by that?
• 35:19
  Speaker 1: That mesa all right? So it's it's real corny, you know,
• 35:23
  Speaker 1: talking about Devin Booker like he's he's down in an
• 35:26
  Speaker 1: animal shelter. The son's owner adopting a golden retriever, like
• 35:31
  Speaker 1: you're evaluating what is a franchise cornerstone? And when the
• 35:34
  Speaker 1: owner says I'd ride into a fire with you, it
• 35:37
  Speaker 1: usually means the house is already smoldering. And this is
• 35:40
  Speaker 1: not the first time in NBA history a billionaire his
• 35:43
  Speaker 1: public announced that he's emotionally compromised. Okay, the arithmetic is
• 35:49
  Speaker 1: not complicated. Booker is the common denominator. He's the common
• 35:53
  Speaker 1: denominator in every recent son's disappointment. And you can change coaches.
• 35:59
  Speaker 1: They've that, They've been a bunch of coaches, general managers.
• 36:03
  Speaker 1: They've done that. Also, you can alternate the role players,
• 36:06
  Speaker 1: you can alternate the star players. They've done this, that
• 36:10
  Speaker 1: and everything. However, the results stay the same. The centerpiece
• 36:14
  Speaker 1: stays the same, and Devin Booker is the human protein bar.
• 36:19
  Speaker 1: He's got a shiny rapper, promises energy and you're still
• 36:23
  Speaker 1: hungry in the fourth quarter of these playoff games. Ten
• 36:26
  Speaker 1: straight playoff losses. That's not a lie. That's not Apparently
• 36:30
  Speaker 1: the front office doesn't believe it. You don't pay two
• 36:35
  Speaker 1: hundred and sixty three million dollars for those results. It
• 36:37
  Speaker 1: is my belief. And I know this is a dated take,
• 36:40
  Speaker 1: And oh, you're just an old head. A true franchise
• 36:43
  Speaker 1: player stops a losing streak, they don't star in them.
• 36:48
  Speaker 1: And you should never lose ten playoff games in a row.
• 36:51
  Speaker 1: You shouldn't. It's rather obvious that contract is just as
• 36:56
  Speaker 1: a mortgage on a house that keeps flooding every ape,
• 37:01
  Speaker 1: every ape.
• 37:02
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• 37:04
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• 37:08
  Speaker 1: It's mallard.
• 37:09
  Speaker 2: How about that to the third degree, this is one
• 37:14
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• 37:18
  Speaker 6: It was reported on Wednesday that Deshaun Watson has the
• 37:21
  Speaker 6: inside track to win the starting quarterback job in Cleveland.
• 37:24
  Speaker 6: Then would you be surprised to see Watson starting week
• 37:26
  Speaker 6: one for the Browns.
• 37:28
  Speaker 1: Yes, because he also sucked. He hasn't played in a
• 37:30
  Speaker 1: couple of years, and he was terrible when he played.
• 37:32
  Speaker 1: He has not played well since he was getting a
• 37:35
  Speaker 1: lot of really nice massages with the Houston Texans back
• 37:39
  Speaker 1: in the day. The planets have not lined up for
• 37:41
  Speaker 1: Deshaun Watson. I can't imagine he's gonna be any better.
• 37:44
  Speaker 1: So the only scenario I see is, well, I want
• 37:46
  Speaker 1: to play him and then trade him. But you have
• 37:49
  Speaker 1: to play well for that to happen, so I would
• 37:52
  Speaker 1: be surprised. Although the Browns don't have a quarterback, so
• 37:55
  Speaker 1: they got to play somebody. It's not like Deon Sanders
• 37:57
  Speaker 1: kids any good. He sucks.
• 37:58
  Speaker 6: Also, next, if there's officially exercised Bryce Young's fifth year
• 38:02
  Speaker 6: option this week, and now the question remains, do you
• 38:05
  Speaker 6: think he secures a multi year extension before the end
• 38:07
  Speaker 6: of the season.
• 38:08
  Speaker 1: Well, if the Cardinals want to continue to be in
• 38:10
  Speaker 1: the Cardinals the Panther. You know, all those little quarterbacks
• 38:14
  Speaker 1: are the same Kyler Murray and now I know he's
• 38:16
  Speaker 1: in Minnesota, who play in Arizona. But no, Bryce Young,
• 38:19
  Speaker 1: he was so bad. He played slightly better, not enough
• 38:22
  Speaker 1: to be the long term answer in Carolina, that would
• 38:26
  Speaker 1: that would handicap that would handcuff the Carolina Panthers. They
• 38:30
  Speaker 1: should not do that.
• 38:31
  Speaker 6: Next, a recent report says the Miami Heat are headed
• 38:34
  Speaker 6: for divorce with Tyler Hero one way or another. Ben,
• 38:37
  Speaker 6: do you expect her to be a robust market for
• 38:39
  Speaker 6: Hero despite his constant injuries.
• 38:41
  Speaker 1: Well, someone will take him because they'll say, well, it
• 38:43
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  Speaker 2: Blame week too.
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  Speaker 1: It's Big Ben's lame joke of the week. Why sure,
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  Speaker 1: here we go a man who is such a baller
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  Speaker 1: he turned down a free trip to Boston. Weed Man Hippie, Hello,
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  Speaker 1: weed Man Hippie.
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  Speaker 2: Hey Darren?
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  Speaker 1: What's his name?
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  Speaker 3: Name?
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  Speaker 1: Changed?
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  Speaker 5: Me too?
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  Speaker 1: It's so cool. Shouldn't you remember his name? Shouldn't you?
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  Speaker 5: As?
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  Speaker 1: I should? I really should. I'll bet isn't it? Isn't
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  Speaker 1: it kind of rude that you don't remember his name?
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  Speaker 1: That's all right, let's let's get to that. We gotta
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  Speaker 1: get to the jokes. We man he does? It's weed Man.
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  Speaker 1: Come on, all right, here we go. Thank Yeah, any request,
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  Speaker 1: weed Man? Would you like a grilled cheese sandwich or something?
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  Speaker 1: What do you want from everything? Yeah? He likes you.
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  Speaker 1: You should appreciate that that you're he's a fan of
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  Speaker 1: what you do. And that's the only money you're getting
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  Speaker 1: from us. And I have nothing to do with that.
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  Speaker 1: So that's we have no budget. Okay, Big Ben's lame
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  Speaker 1: jokes of the week. Are you ready, weed Man? Yes?
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  Speaker 1: Let's go maybe all right now? These are actual jokes.
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  Speaker 1: If you'd like to send jokes in, you can send
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  Speaker 1: them in. We don't use AI jokes. These are jokes
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  Speaker 1: sent in by listeners and just send it care of
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  Speaker 1: Benmahlor Show at gmail dot com Ben Malorshow at gmail
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  Speaker 1: dot com. Thank you, Thank you think you think you
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  Speaker 1: think you? Thank you? All right? Why does weed man
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  Speaker 1: claim that marijuana is not addictive? Why he has only
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  Speaker 1: had a twenty dollars a day habit for forty years.
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  Speaker 1: That's it.
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  Speaker 5: That's it.
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  Speaker 1: That's Surfer Todd the community. Yeah, Surfer Todd, the comedian
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  Speaker 1: there who is like the West Coast weed Man. We
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  Speaker 1: love Todd. He's a really good dude. Surfer Tod's wife.
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  Speaker 1: What a great couple they are. They live in Vegas
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  Speaker 1: part of the year now Vegas in southern California. What
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  Speaker 1: do you call weed man? What do you call weed man?
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  Speaker 1: Roller skating?
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  Speaker 5: What?
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  Speaker 1: Rolling stoned? That's from Eke in Roseville, Minnesota. Why does
• 41:34
  Speaker 1: weed man go outside to look at the phases of
• 41:37
  Speaker 1: the moon? Why because he wants to know how high
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  Speaker 1: it is? That's why. That's from Mike, who sent that
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  Speaker 1: one in Thanking. Mike appreciate that. I think that's for
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  Speaker 1: Mike anyway. Why did weed Man hippie lose his security
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  Speaker 1: deposit at the Airbnb in Vegas?
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  Speaker 3: Why?
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  Speaker 1: Well, the owner said it was too sloppy, is what
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  Speaker 1: he said. That's Darryl and the odas arks? What what
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  Speaker 1: is what is Weedman's favorite Clint Eastwood movie? What high Noon?
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  Speaker 1: That's from Michael Epicon. We sent that one in. He
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  Speaker 1: also sent this one in here. Why does weed Man
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  Speaker 1: and Pope Leo or what does weed Man and Pope
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  Speaker 1: Leo have in common?
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  Speaker 5: What?
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  Speaker 1: They're both Americans and they both like to take the
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  Speaker 1: moral high ground. That's from What else do we have here? Why?
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  Speaker 1: Why did the weed man bring a ladder to the dispensary?
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  Speaker 1: Why well, he heard the high was on the top shelf,
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  Speaker 1: so he wanted to go check that out there from
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  Speaker 1: Steve sent that one in. This guy didn't sign the name.
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  Speaker 1: Why is weed Man great at saving money? Why? Well,
• 42:56
  Speaker 1: apparently you're a bud jitting expert weed Man bud stir
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  Speaker 1: all right? This guy also said this, And why doesn't
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  Speaker 1: weed Man argue? You really don't argument weed it? Well,
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  Speaker 1: you can't remember what you were mad about halfway through
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  Speaker 1: the sand, so there's no point. There's no point in arguing,
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  Speaker 1: can't you can't remember? Why did weed Man stare at
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  Speaker 1: the orange juice carton for twenty minutes? Why it said concentrate.
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  Speaker 1: That's a that's an old joke. Dude, we've heard that before.
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  Speaker 1: Man oh Man. Why did weed Man bring chips to
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  Speaker 1: the job interview? Last one, why, well, you heard they
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  Speaker 1: were looking for someone with snack prifice is what you
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  Speaker 1: heard there? Weed Man lay jokes in the way. Thank you.
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  Speaker 1: Mike said that. Last one, Thank you weed Man.