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Hour 4 - GOAT Talk · The Ben Maller Show

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  Speaker 1: So I don't like to go out of my way
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  Speaker 1: to get into a goat debate. I just take calls
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  Speaker 1: from guys like Mark Now. It's too easy, it's cheap.
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  Speaker 1: It's reserved for you know, the dog days of summer,
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  Speaker 1: when people get into those lazy sports talk conversations like
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  Speaker 1: Pete Rose belong in the Hall of Fame, those never
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  Speaker 1: ending debates like how many licks it takes to get
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  Speaker 1: to the center of a touchy pop although, according to
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  Speaker 1: mister Howl, I guess three. But typically I don't give
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  Speaker 1: a hoot about lowering myself to such brainless topics because
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  Speaker 1: it usually means you got nothing. I'm trying to inspire smarter,
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  Speaker 1: robust discussions filled with contexts, nuance, and critical thinking, like
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  Speaker 1: how we got into the worst video game movie of
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  Speaker 1: all time? That was important, high level convos like that,
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  Speaker 1: real mensa men stuff. But since there were a couple
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  Speaker 1: updates on the goat debate this week which make it
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  Speaker 1: more topical and appropriate to get into, I guess I'll
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  Speaker 1: roll around in the mud with the rest of you
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  Speaker 1: big out there in sports talk radio or the guy
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  Speaker 1: who called in earlier in oinct like Silent Night. I like,
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  Speaker 1: but by the end of this discussion here, I hope
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  Speaker 1: you'll say to me, now, that'll do pig see Online
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  Speaker 1: there's this ongoing debate between Jordan apologists and bronze sexuals
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  Speaker 1: constantly twenty four to seven. I'm convinced these people work
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  Speaker 1: harder to protect their guys legacy and more than either
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  Speaker 1: player actually work to create theirs. Twitter users like NBA
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  Speaker 1: Shane and Mythnicks for Lebron, and then old heads like
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  Speaker 1: Valid Hation and Jason Levin and Andy Roth. Both sides
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  Speaker 1: are set in their ways, two sides of the same coin,
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  Speaker 1: unwilling to budge on any legitimate point made by the opposition.
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  Speaker 1: When you're arguing MJ versus Lebron's worse than politics. It
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  Speaker 1: makes people constantly have double standards, rules for thee but
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  Speaker 1: not for me. Hypocritical stances abound. You don't talk for religion,
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  Speaker 1: politics or Lebron versus MJ at the dinner table. I
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  Speaker 1: guess we'll start screaming like that. It's impossible to get anywhere.
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  Speaker 1: Why because these people have already made up their mind
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  Speaker 1: on who the goat is. They aren't going into the
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  Speaker 1: argument in good faith. They aren't open to a dissenting voice,
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  Speaker 1: a differing opinion. The facts could change their opinion still doesn't.
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  Speaker 1: Lebron fans think MJ played against guys cleaning their pipes plumbers,
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  Speaker 1: and MJ fans think he's like making the dunk at
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  Speaker 1: the end of Space Jam in real life. Like no,
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  Speaker 1: that was a movie, guys, Okay, that's how delusional these
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  Speaker 1: people are. By the way, we'll never know for sure.
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  Speaker 1: I tend to think each era has its own goat
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  Speaker 1: because the game changes as we move along over the years.
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  Speaker 1: I also think the game has only gotten better because
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  Speaker 1: that's how it works in sports. Like anything, we learn
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  Speaker 1: from our predecessors and push things forward. Even Jordan admits
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  Speaker 1: that in this clip on NBC with Mike Turrico on
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  Speaker 1: his segment called Insights to Excellence, Listen to this.
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  Speaker 3: One thing that's never changed with sports fans is the
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  Speaker 3: debate about the goat, who's the greatest of all timers.
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  Speaker 3: So it's rare that I get a chance to sit
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  Speaker 3: down with one of the guys who's debated about to
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  Speaker 3: talk about the conversation of that term. The goat.
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  Speaker 4: Oh goat term is never going to be something that
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  Speaker 4: I ever will get high or low about. You know,
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  Speaker 4: it just doesn't exist with me. I never played against
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  Speaker 4: oscarago Oh, Jerry West. Would A love to, absolutely love
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  Speaker 4: to just a competitor that I am. You know, I
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  Speaker 4: actually learned from them, you know, and we you know,
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  Speaker 4: paved the road to the Kobe's and the Lebrons right,
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  Speaker 4: you know, and to me that's it's the beauty of
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  Speaker 4: the game of basketball that a player after a previous
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  Speaker 4: player has evolved the game further. But don't then in essence,
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  Speaker 4: this is where I look at it. You know, don't
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  Speaker 4: then now use that against the player that actually taught
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  Speaker 4: you the game or that you learned from.
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  Speaker 1: So at the end there, MJ doesn't like the slights
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  Speaker 1: and shots taken towards past players that helped get the
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  Speaker 1: game to this point. Probably doesn't like that plumbers talk
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  Speaker 1: and guys diminishing his era to elevate Lebron's. Of course,
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  Speaker 1: the problem with that is the guys from his era
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  Speaker 1: constantly crap on today's NBA. Maybe check out Inside the
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  Speaker 1: NBA with Kenny Shack and Charles, so that goes both ways.
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  Speaker 1: And to be honest, I heard Charles talking bad about
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  Speaker 1: today's game long before I ever heard anyone called MJ's
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  Speaker 1: competition or past guy's plumbers. I think that was a
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  Speaker 1: reaction to the old heads going after the modern game.
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  Speaker 1: But one of the quotes there from MJ was quote,
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  Speaker 1: it's a beauty of the game of basketball that a
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  Speaker 1: player after a previous player has evolved the game further.
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  Speaker 1: MJ admitting the game has evolved, guys get better. The
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  Speaker 1: shooting is off the charge in today's game. We've never
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  Speaker 1: lived in a time where guys take and make more
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  Speaker 1: high degree of difficulty shots than right now. They had
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  Speaker 1: a shorten the three point line in the nineties to
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  Speaker 1: make it easier. I mentioned this earlier. Now they have
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  Speaker 1: to extend it out further to make it harder to
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  Speaker 1: hit threes because guys are too good at it. People
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  Speaker 1: think it's hurt the game. I tend to think the
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  Speaker 1: game wasn't better when guys were less skilled. The game
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  Speaker 1: wasn't better before we had a seven to five unicorn
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  Speaker 1: alien well, one of one player like Wemby who was
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  Speaker 1: making fadeaways like MJ did it six to six. Even
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  Speaker 1: some of our centers now can do everything. The reason
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  Speaker 1: it's called a positionless league is because you have to
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  Speaker 1: be skilled enough to do more. Specialists and guys that
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  Speaker 1: do one thing but have flaws everywhere else are being
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  Speaker 1: slowly weeded out of the league by more multifaceted players.
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  Speaker 1: But while the game has evolved, also Scotty's relationship has
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  Speaker 1: as well. Were this week we got a seemingly innocuous
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  Speaker 1: commercial for a soda mister pib in this case that
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  Speaker 1: was used as an attack on MJ. Let's see is
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  Speaker 1: Scotty throwing shade at Dr Pepper here or Michael Jordan.
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  Speaker 5: Let's set the record straight about pill. When you think
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  Speaker 5: about Pill, you think of what second best? Fact check
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  Speaker 5: on Pip When something has been considered second best for
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  Speaker 5: so long, we just blindly accept the gospel.
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  Speaker 1: A decades long plot built on marketing, social.
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  Speaker 5: Media, multi part documentaries.
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  Speaker 1: Pip took that personally, Yeah.
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  Speaker 5: I said it. Pip is a goat all right.
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  Speaker 1: Seems like there's some truth and is just there in
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  Speaker 1: that commercial. Scotty is tired of MJ getting all the
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  Speaker 1: love when he feels like he was a bad man too.
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  Speaker 1: Jordan himself once said, quote, there is no Michael Jordan
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  Speaker 1: without Scotty Pippin. MJ was one in nine in the
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  Speaker 1: playoffs before Scotty came along. Now there's context missing there,
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  Speaker 1: just like there is when MJ fans bring up Lebron's
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  Speaker 1: record of being four and six in the finals. MJ
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  Speaker 1: started on a bad bulls team, and I mean bad.
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  Speaker 1: I mean they were like coke addicts everywhere. I don't
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  Speaker 1: think they cared much about playing basketball, so he wasn't
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  Speaker 1: supposed to win early on, which is why he gets
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  Speaker 1: so much love for scoring sixty three in a loss
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  Speaker 1: to the Boston Celtics in the playoffs. Yet those same
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  Speaker 1: MJ fans ignore that Lebron was also at a great
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  Speaker 1: disadvantage with the twenty eighteen Cavs team that he tried
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  Speaker 1: to drag to a game one win over the Golden
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  Speaker 1: State Warriors with KD with a fifty point triple double,
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  Speaker 1: just for j R. Smith to have that brain fart
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  Speaker 1: at the end of the game. MJ wasn't supposed to
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  Speaker 1: be the Celtics. It's okay, he didn't actually win that
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  Speaker 1: game when he scored sixty three. Now apply that same
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  Speaker 1: logic to Lebron, but you don't. You say, fifty point
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  Speaker 1: triple double. Who cares empty numbers? All that matters is
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  Speaker 1: wins and losses unless it's MJ. Because that's when he's
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  Speaker 1: at a severe talent disadvantage. Apply that context differently. When
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  Speaker 1: he shows greatness even in defeat. MJ fans don't do
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  Speaker 1: the same thing for Lebron. I can't tell you the
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  Speaker 1: amount of times I've heard Rob Parker say he was
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  Speaker 1: there in the building when MJ hit that shot to
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  Speaker 1: beat the Cavs in eighty nine, and how magical it was.
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  Speaker 1: When I know, damn well, if that was Lebron, Rob
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  Speaker 1: Parker'd be like, so what it was a first round series.
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  Speaker 1: It didn't propel him to a championship that year. MJ
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  Speaker 1: didn't win that year either. He lost to the Pistons
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  Speaker 1: again for the second straight year. He would eventually loosen
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  Speaker 1: them three times in a row. But that's okay, right
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  Speaker 1: because it didn't happen in the finals, so it doesn't
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  Speaker 1: hurt his perfect six to zero finals record. Way to
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  Speaker 1: go perfect, Apparently it's better not to make it as
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  Speaker 1: far in the playoffs for the state, for the sake
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  Speaker 1: of narratives. Speaking of those bad boy Pistons, Isaiah Thomas
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  Speaker 1: had something to say about MJ this week on Running
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  Speaker 1: Back on Fan Duel TV.
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  Speaker 6: And I said to Kevin Durant, Hey, if if you
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  Speaker 6: would have played back in all era and they put
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  Speaker 6: you in the triple posts at the mid post area,
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  Speaker 6: and they took Michael Jordan out, and you played with
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  Speaker 6: Pippin and you played with Coup coach and you got
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  Speaker 6: to run into the mid post, you would he have
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  Speaker 6: won six championships. Absolutely with Rodman and Tippan and Kuck
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  Speaker 6: coach and DJ and Craig Hodges and all them around him,
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  Speaker 6: and he get the post up in the mid range
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  Speaker 6: and that ball is you know, targeted to him every
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  Speaker 6: night and he's getting up twenty five thirty attempts. Yeah,
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  Speaker 6: he he can do the same thing. The most amazing
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  Speaker 6: thing about Kevin Durant is go back and okay pull.
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  Speaker 6: That's why you research guys, the poor. Listen that up.
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  Speaker 6: How many shot attempts did does Durant have compare to
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  Speaker 6: the shot attempts that Jordan had to break the ruck?
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  Speaker 1: I got it here, zeke. It took KD two seventy
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  Speaker 1: seven fewer shots two thousand, one hundred and seventy seven
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  Speaker 1: fewer shots to pass MJ on the all time scoring list.
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  Speaker 1: I know, Michael fans he takes more threes, right, Well,
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  Speaker 1: MJ wasn't good at that. If you take out the
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  Speaker 1: years where the three point line was shortened and they
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  Speaker 1: were on that baby high school three point line. MJ
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  Speaker 1: shot twenty eight percent from three in his career. But
• 11:25
  Speaker 1: what about the Blazers finals game? Who cares? We're talking
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  Speaker 1: about big sample size entire career here without the shortened
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  Speaker 1: three point line, he was at twenty eight percent from three.
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  Speaker 1: Russell Westbrook is a better three point shooter than that.
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  Speaker 1: Go check out MJ's performance, by the way, in the
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  Speaker 1: three point contest, where he scored five points. But at
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  Speaker 1: least he competed unlike Lebron in the dunk contest. Sure,
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  Speaker 1: we also don't know if Jordan would ever be able
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  Speaker 1: to develop a consistent three point shot in today's league
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  Speaker 1: that would make him as efficient of a score as
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  Speaker 1: Kevin Duraniz. I don't know if you drop KD onto
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  Speaker 1: the Bulls in the nineties that he wins six rings,
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  Speaker 1: of course, but he has a better chance of that
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  Speaker 1: than dropping MJ into today's league and winning six without
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  Speaker 1: a three point shot. Remember what MJ said in the
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  Speaker 1: interview quote, It's a beauty of the game of basketball
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  Speaker 1: that a player after a previous player has evolved the
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  Speaker 1: game further. He knows guys have gotten better. He knows this,
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  Speaker 1: he knows it would be different. Now does he deserve
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  Speaker 1: credit for guys building upon what he started? Of course credit,
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  Speaker 1: Phil said it. But the game keeps moving along. Now
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  Speaker 1: you're probably saying, but Adam you decided Pippin and Isaiah
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  Speaker 1: Thomas two guys with an ax to grind against MJ
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  Speaker 1: for various reasons. I'm not sure what that has to
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  Speaker 1: do with what Isaiah Thomas said about KD every shot
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  Speaker 1: MJ did, Like, is it possible he wins six on
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  Speaker 1: that Bulls team? If you drop KD in from today
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  Speaker 1: with time travel and it gets convoluted, it's silly, of course,
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  Speaker 1: And why don't subscribe to all time goats? And there's
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  Speaker 1: just goats of different eras. But if you want to
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  Speaker 1: discredit Pippin and Isaiah, fine, Hey, the former players and
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  Speaker 1: coaches and analysts and commentators that all say MJ is
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  Speaker 1: the goat, they're all unbiased, impartial observers that never had
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  Speaker 1: any agenda against Lebron. I'm sure just pure ball knowers. Now,
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  Speaker 1: can't have it both ways. You can't only give the
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  Speaker 1: opinions weight if they agree with your opinion, but then
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  Speaker 1: we don't and you tear them down. What about Jason
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  Speaker 1: Kid who said Lebron is the goat? Paul Pierce said
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  Speaker 1: he's the goat, Oscar Robertson said Lebron James is the goat.
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  Speaker 1: The big old Yannis Julius Irving, Derek Devinsky, Lou Williams
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  Speaker 1: White Chocolate okay, who cares? Rick Fox? Okay, who cares?
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  Speaker 1: Ron Our Tests Sack Maxwell, stan Van Gundy, Nick Nurse,
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  Speaker 1: Brett Brown, pat Riley said it he retired Jordan's jersey
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  Speaker 1: even though he never played for Miami. Pat Riley has
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  Speaker 1: said Lebron is the goat. All these people have agendas
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  Speaker 1: against Mike or they just know the game has moved on.
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  Speaker 1: Like MJ said, it's a beauty of the game of
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  Speaker 1: basketball that a player after a previous players of all
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  Speaker 1: the game. Further, personally, he can have either guy, I
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  Speaker 1: don't care, you can have Kareem you want to go.
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  Speaker 1: Bill Russell fined, it's amazing to me that MJ fans
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  Speaker 1: will cite Jordan being six and oher for his ghost status,
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  Speaker 1: but ignore that Bill Russell won eighth straight. But that
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  Speaker 1: was in a different era, more primitive time in the NBA. Well,
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  Speaker 1: guess what that era that Russell played in is closer
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  Speaker 1: to MJ's era than MJ's is to Lebron's Now. If
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  Speaker 1: you don't want nineties basketball to be denigrated, you can't
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  Speaker 1: denigrate the sixties. Last ring was almost thirty years ago. Now,
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  Speaker 1: I know, maybe don't turn the goat conversation into something
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  Speaker 1: that is almost feeling political at this point where everyone's
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  Speaker 1: unwilling to listen to each other no matter how factual
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  Speaker 1: the points are that are brought up. If you're so
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  Speaker 1: entrenched in your opinion and you're married to it, you're
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  Speaker 1: not changing it anyways. I think a lot of the
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  Speaker 1: reason guys defend MJ to death is because they are
• 15:25
  Speaker 1: defending themselves, like Mark earlier, who I said, you probably
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  Speaker 1: think everything's better in your prime, and he said, yes,
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  Speaker 1: everything was better. They have nostalgia for that time because
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  Speaker 1: it wasn't just when MJ peaked, it's when they did.
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  Speaker 1: They want to believe when they were in their prime,
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  Speaker 1: so it was basketball, movies, music, everything life peaked in
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  Speaker 1: the nineties. Apparently it's golden age syndrome, and it's made
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  Speaker 1: them develop Lebron derangement syndrome, where anything Lebron does they
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  Speaker 1: have to hate on because he's a threat to that
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  Speaker 1: built upness, nostalgia and the member Barry's look, there's plenty
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  Speaker 1: not to like about Lebron and clutch sports. Believe me,
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  Speaker 1: I'm not particularly fond of him. I like the Clippers,
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  Speaker 1: but I like the game of basketball long before I
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  Speaker 1: chose sides on who my favorite player was. I don't
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  Speaker 1: just want to watch my favorite player. I want to
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  Speaker 1: watch anybody that's great, no matter if he's my guy
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  Speaker 1: or not. We've been living in a time with Lebron,
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  Speaker 1: kd Steph, James, Harden Kawhi carrying the game now to Jokich, Giannis, Luca,
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  Speaker 1: sga Ant Wemby. The game keeps moving. Like Jordan said,
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  Speaker 1: soon the Jordan fans they could die out, and then
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  Speaker 1: Lebron fans will be defending him against Wemby fans saying, no,
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  Speaker 1: Wemby's the goat. They're all fun, even though pointless conversations
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  Speaker 1: to have. But just stay open to things evolving, like
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  Speaker 1: Jordan said, or else you're gonna miss something special because
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  Speaker 1: of your own biases and stubbornness. I gotta check myself
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  Speaker 1: on a while too here. But yeah, Lebron's the goat.
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  Speaker 1: I'm just kidding. I don't care. Every era has their
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  Speaker 1: own coat. You can have Jordan. Doesn't mean you have
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  Speaker 1: to stop watching basketball nowadays because you don't want to
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  Speaker 1: show Lebron any love eight seven seven ninety nine on
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  Speaker 1: think about firing their head coach. But first, Marcel calling
• 18:49
  Speaker 1: in from Brooklyn?
• 18:50
  Speaker 9: Why from London? Breakfast?
• 18:53
  Speaker 1: Marcel?
• 18:54
  Speaker 10: Heay, Adam, Hi, Adam, Good to see you, my man.
• 18:58
  Speaker 1: Nice to nice to talk. It's been a while.
• 19:00
  Speaker 10: Yeah, it's been a while. And I just.
• 19:02
  Speaker 1: Follow you on X Okay, I say, I'll give you
• 19:05
  Speaker 1: a fall back. Okay, Oh absolutely, and then unfollow when
• 19:08
  Speaker 1: you're not looking now, just kidding.
• 19:13
  Speaker 9: I hope it's gonna be a okay. How was Major
• 19:17
  Speaker 9: League Baseball's opening day? It's going to be more to go.
• 19:20
  Speaker 9: I hope your Dodgers and Angels going to play along.
• 19:23
  Speaker 1: Oh, the Dodgers will be just fine. Everyone should be
• 19:26
  Speaker 1: worried about the Angels.
• 19:28
  Speaker 9: Oh yeah, the Angels beat the Astros yesterday and the
• 19:31
  Speaker 9: clutch one in Houston.
• 19:33
  Speaker 1: Yeah, well, Ardi Marino ownership is the biggest advantage in
• 19:36
  Speaker 1: sports and they have one of the worst.
• 19:38
  Speaker 9: Oh wow, shame on him.
• 19:41
  Speaker 1: Anything else, Barcel, I could give you.
• 19:44
  Speaker 9: Some food picks. It's a great Monday tradition. And I
• 19:47
  Speaker 9: can just say it to all of you because of you, Adam,
• 19:50
  Speaker 9: You're going to play along. It's going to be a
• 19:52
  Speaker 9: very mixedmatch. If it discorrect, you're correct. If anything else, oh,
• 19:58
  Speaker 9: let's say this. It's not a mix match. So let's
• 20:01
  Speaker 9: that's how what the game works.
• 20:03
  Speaker 1: There, Adam, I'm confused, but go on, it's a new dawn.
• 20:07
  Speaker 10: It's a new day. So mala militia and Adam, let's
• 20:12
  Speaker 10: get into it.
• 20:13
  Speaker 9: And I hope we're going to play along. Adam would
• 20:16
  Speaker 9: like to sort with you.
• 20:17
  Speaker 1: Okay, what do you have to guess when I ate
• 20:20
  Speaker 1: dinner last night? Where did I eat last night?
• 20:22
  Speaker 4: No?
• 20:23
  Speaker 11: No, no, what did Marcel?
• 20:28
  Speaker 10: Big one big.
• 20:30
  Speaker 1: Slice in New York pizza?
• 20:32
  Speaker 5: Am?
• 20:32
  Speaker 9: I right, the pizza.
• 20:35
  Speaker 10: It is for the first time ever mixed match.
• 20:37
  Speaker 8: It is what that means?
• 20:39
  Speaker 1: You got it? I got it?
• 20:41
  Speaker 4: Got it?
• 20:42
  Speaker 8: Wow?
• 20:43
  Speaker 1: So the game's over. I went, no, no, no, we
• 20:47
  Speaker 1: still have to get his side dishes.
• 20:49
  Speaker 8: What do you guys know, we just just just.
• 20:52
  Speaker 10: Roll Loreno, go right ahead for you, buddy.
• 20:57
  Speaker 12: I think you had a variety of tomalay's.
• 21:05
  Speaker 10: What. Yes, Oh, I'm shocked.
• 21:10
  Speaker 11: You had chicken, one cheese.
• 21:14
  Speaker 1: Some Wait a minute, Tom's.
• 21:19
  Speaker 10: What kind of tomalies you have?
• 21:21
  Speaker 9: The good kind, a good kind of family food.
• 21:25
  Speaker 10: Oh, let me go. No, this is not a mixed match.
• 21:29
  Speaker 11: Turn it.
• 21:30
  Speaker 9: This is wrong, mister Coopie Loco.
• 21:33
  Speaker 2: Right ahead for you, buddy, Marcel.
• 21:36
  Speaker 8: I think that you had some milky with a basil
• 21:40
  Speaker 8: pesto cream sauce.
• 21:45
  Speaker 10: Oh wow, I'm shocked again. Not a mixed man.
• 21:52
  Speaker 7: This is wrong.
• 21:54
  Speaker 9: And Adam, my friend, you gotta put your mouth on
• 21:57
  Speaker 9: your face.
• 21:59
  Speaker 10: Pizza New York.
• 22:01
  Speaker 9: Tight pre for you, buddy.
• 22:04
  Speaker 1: This is the first time you make this cruct hopefully
• 22:08
  Speaker 1: not the last. Thank you for the phone call, mar So,
• 22:10
  Speaker 1: I appreciate it.
• 22:11
  Speaker 9: Boom, I'll see you on one say when.
• 22:13
  Speaker 1: Ben Mallin returns, which means I'm gone. All right, coming
• 22:19
  Speaker 1: up that NBA team that is screwed up. But first
• 22:23
  Speaker 1: stranger of the fiction, our fast food customer defending vertices
• 22:26
  Speaker 1: n called nine after her McDonald's ran out of McNuggets.
• 22:31
  Speaker 9: He can't give a drunk man riding a horse at
• 22:33
  Speaker 9: EWI because.
• 22:34
  Speaker 3: Unlike cards boards that don't have motors, they have a
• 22:37
  Speaker 3: mind in their own.
• 22:40
  Speaker 1: Twenty four year old man now jus of throwing an
• 22:42
  Speaker 1: alligator through a drive through window.
• 22:47
  Speaker 8: Strange fish.
• 22:51
  Speaker 1: So I stopped drinking a couple of years ago for
• 22:53
  Speaker 1: obvious reasons, like I can barely function sober. Obviously, I
• 22:57
  Speaker 1: don't want to stumble through life like Jim Lahey and
• 23:00
  Speaker 1: trailer park boys. For the most part, my life has improved.
• 23:04
  Speaker 1: I'm healthier, I'm more of a contributor to society. I
• 23:08
  Speaker 1: go to the gym, more hit more of those prs.
• 23:12
  Speaker 1: It's easier, I just stay there for hours. Now it
• 23:15
  Speaker 1: feels like I'm on steroids. I pay rent on time now.
• 23:18
  Speaker 1: I'm more emotionally available in relationships. Not by a lot,
• 23:23
  Speaker 1: but somewhat. I work harder, I'm more efficient, more productive.
• 23:28
  Speaker 1: I couldn't be filling in for the Great Ben Mallor
• 23:30
  Speaker 1: if I was still staring at the moon at night
• 23:32
  Speaker 1: while the sprinklers were going off in my front front
• 23:35
  Speaker 1: yard apartment, because I'm in that drunken stupor. That's no
• 23:38
  Speaker 1: way to live. Now I've only found one downside to
• 23:42
  Speaker 1: not drinking, and it's that I've developed more of a
• 23:45
  Speaker 1: sweet tooth than the clown in Twisted Metal. Apparently it's
• 23:49
  Speaker 1: common to want to dive into Willie Walker's chocolate factory
• 23:53
  Speaker 1: after you quit drinking. Addicts call it transfer addiction that
• 23:56
  Speaker 1: replaces the high calories and the sugar content with you know,
• 24:02
  Speaker 1: just regular sugar. I didn't know there was that much
• 24:04
  Speaker 1: sugar and drinking Knob Creek whiskey all the time straight,
• 24:07
  Speaker 1: but I guess there is. So that's changed things. Now
• 24:10
  Speaker 1: I find myself at a seven to eleven late at
• 24:12
  Speaker 1: night looking for the latest flavor of those Nerds Clusters candies.
• 24:15
  Speaker 1: You know, the berries are good, but now they got
• 24:18
  Speaker 1: some like gusher.
• 24:19
  Speaker 12: Things going on.
• 24:21
  Speaker 1: They're real good, better in the ropes.
• 24:24
  Speaker 11: Wait wait, did you just say they have gusher Nerd balls?
• 24:27
  Speaker 5: Now?
• 24:27
  Speaker 1: Oh, yes, they do, like crack, They're amazing. Also, the
• 24:34
  Speaker 1: new sour Skittles they have based off the berry Skittles
• 24:39
  Speaker 1: the Purple bag, but they're in the Sour Skittles vein
• 24:42
  Speaker 1: like the green bag. Amazing, divine. Now I'll take down
• 24:46
  Speaker 1: some sour belts as well from airheads I'll go belt
• 24:50
  Speaker 1: to ass with those because they will expand your belt
• 24:52
  Speaker 1: and give you a bigger ass. But I also get
• 24:54
  Speaker 1: my chocolate fixed in too, usually with ice cream. There's
• 24:57
  Speaker 1: a basking Robin's effing drive through near which should be illegal.
• 25:01
  Speaker 1: That should not happen. Little Debbie is also up there.
• 25:05
  Speaker 1: I'll get some ho hosts to some crumbled cookies once
• 25:07
  Speaker 1: in a while. But you know what, I'm not craving
• 25:10
  Speaker 1: since my transfer addiction cake not much.
• 25:14
  Speaker 4: Cake.
• 25:15
  Speaker 1: Cake just isn't what it used to be as a kid.
• 25:17
  Speaker 1: It's like nineties basketball. We have better options that are
• 25:21
  Speaker 1: less dry, or those gourmet cupcakes at least that are
• 25:25
  Speaker 1: mostly frosting, just the good parts.
• 25:27
  Speaker 6: You know.
• 25:28
  Speaker 1: It's not like I'm kicking a good chocolate cake ala
• 25:30
  Speaker 1: mode out of bed or anything. I'll eat it. There's
• 25:33
  Speaker 1: just much better desserts out there. But I'll tell you
• 25:36
  Speaker 1: what cake, I'm definitely not eating carrot cake. The only
• 25:40
  Speaker 1: time I want carrots is raw dipped in hidden valley ranch,
• 25:45
  Speaker 1: and I want the whole valley scene, like not hidden
• 25:47
  Speaker 1: with the amount that I'm gonna use.
• 25:49
  Speaker 8: I need it bad. Take take No you like boiled carrots, I.
• 25:53
  Speaker 11: Love carrot cake.
• 25:54
  Speaker 1: It is so oh, get out.
• 25:56
  Speaker 12: It's something about the cream cheese frosting that they use
• 25:59
  Speaker 12: on it.
• 25:59
  Speaker 1: It's well, you may want to go to British Columbia then,
• 26:03
  Speaker 1: because a cafe owner who obviously disagrees with me, for
• 26:08
  Speaker 1: his eightieth birthday, Ted Martindale, owner of Granville's Coffee Well
• 26:15
  Speaker 1: Well Teddy, he uh, put together a seventeen foot by
• 26:20
  Speaker 1: seventeen foot carrot cake, which contained seventeen hundred pounds of carrots,
• 26:27
  Speaker 1: seven hundred pounds of butter, thousands of eggs, and nearly
• 26:31
  Speaker 1: two thousand pounds of icing. I would say that's an
• 26:35
  Speaker 1: absolute waste of every ingredient used to make this monstrosity.
• 26:39
  Speaker 1: Like Betty Crocker didn't die for this. Okay, she's not
• 26:41
  Speaker 1: a real person, but this cake is real. So Martindale
• 26:44
  Speaker 1: said it took over a month to bake four hundred
• 26:47
  Speaker 1: and thirty individual cakes that made up the final product.
• 26:53
  Speaker 1: Even worse, like you're smelling the carrot cake than for
• 26:56
  Speaker 1: a month, Like the stench just gets stronger and stronger
• 26:59
  Speaker 1: the more or you're making the cake. It was served
• 27:02
  Speaker 1: last Wednesday at Martindale's birthday party at the local Seniors Center.
• 27:06
  Speaker 1: Luckily their taste buds are no longer working, probably disgusting
• 27:09
  Speaker 1: to them. Look, Lorena likes it, obviously, some people like it.
• 27:14
  Speaker 1: I'm the one with the problem here. Now they're still
• 27:16
  Speaker 1: determining if this cake qualifies as the largest cake ever made,
• 27:21
  Speaker 1: which was done in twenty sixteen by another British Columbia bakery.
• 27:25
  Speaker 1: The Canadians loved this. It weighed around forty five hundred pounds.
• 27:28
  Speaker 1: This one's at six thousand pounds. But it was assembled
• 27:30
  Speaker 1: over a month. So are we going technicality here? Like
• 27:33
  Speaker 1: the Duke broadcast broadcaster guys right off the bench if
• 27:37
  Speaker 1: you have to bake a bunch of little cakes to
• 27:40
  Speaker 1: put it together to make one big seventeen foot by
• 27:42
  Speaker 1: seventeen foot cake just so the guy can get pub
• 27:45
  Speaker 1: for his bakery out of it, because this is good marketing.
• 27:48
  Speaker 1: I guess we're talking about it on sports talk radio show.
• 27:51
  Speaker 1: But I think that's a gross ass cake that even
• 27:54
  Speaker 1: bugs Bunny would spit out. I don't know even if
• 27:56
  Speaker 1: you like cake. Like if someone goes, dude, I got
• 27:59
  Speaker 1: a birthday cake. It's twice the size of a California bed,
• 28:03
  Speaker 1: They're gonna be like, what kind of cake? Carrot. Hey,
• 28:07
  Speaker 1: I got a bucket full of starbursts. They're just the
• 28:10
  Speaker 1: lemon flavored. Once you notice they had the red Fave starburst,
• 28:14
  Speaker 1: they don't have lemon Fave starbursts where you just get lemon.
• 28:19
  Speaker 1: I think maybe it's an acquired taste. Maybe my taste
• 28:21
  Speaker 1: buds aren't there yet.
• 28:22
  Speaker 12: Lorena, you have a valid point though, right, Yeah, it's
• 28:25
  Speaker 12: definitely not the number one. And if you're gonna make
• 28:27
  Speaker 12: a giant cake that's that huge, maybe pick a flavor
• 28:31
  Speaker 12: that is more loved.
• 28:33
  Speaker 1: I would eat chocolate cake dropped on the floor of
• 28:36
  Speaker 1: an airport bathroom before I win for the carrot cake.
• 28:39
  Speaker 1: I'm just saying, who likes carrot cake? It's like a fruitcake.
• 28:43
  Speaker 1: Nobody actually likes it. We use it as a joke,
• 28:45
  Speaker 1: a punchline. Am I wrong here?
• 28:48
  Speaker 6: Justin?
• 28:48
  Speaker 8: I don't hate it, but uh, I would never choose it.
• 28:52
  Speaker 1: Okay, But would you have more than one slice of
• 28:56
  Speaker 1: it if it was around?
• 28:57
  Speaker 8: No? No, absolutely not. I would have like I have
• 29:00
  Speaker 8: like a couple of bites, And I'm like, okay, doesn't.
• 29:04
  Speaker 1: It feel like cake? Nowadays it's like passe or like
• 29:08
  Speaker 1: it's it's not blase, it's not what it used to be.
• 29:12
  Speaker 1: I'd much rather have a pie.
• 29:14
  Speaker 8: I would oh absolutely, Oh wait, pie pie is the best.
• 29:17
  Speaker 1: I'd rather have gourmet cookies. Crumples are great. I know
• 29:21
  Speaker 1: it's like twelve thousand calories for just one of those things.
• 29:24
  Speaker 1: But cake is so nineties. It's not like they tried
• 29:28
  Speaker 1: to freshen it up with the ice cream cakes. No,
• 29:31
  Speaker 1: just give me the ice cream. I don't know. What's
• 29:34
  Speaker 1: your guys favorite dessert overall? What would you go with?
• 29:37
  Speaker 1: Last meal? Last dessert?
• 29:39
  Speaker 3: Oh?
• 29:39
  Speaker 8: I mean this is easy. Uh cinnamon roll.
• 29:42
  Speaker 1: Ooh that is a particular place or just cinema button Okay,
• 29:48
  Speaker 1: and they're hard to mess up. Those are amazing.
• 29:50
  Speaker 8: I'm with you on that.
• 29:51
  Speaker 1: That's breakfast dessert.
• 29:53
  Speaker 8: Well, yeah, see that's what it's because you know, some people,
• 29:55
  Speaker 8: I don't know if they count that as dessert or breakfast,
• 29:58
  Speaker 8: but I can say or to desert. But every time
• 30:01
  Speaker 8: I talk about how much I love cinnabon, I think
• 30:03
  Speaker 8: of that. Uh that Luis c k Bit. Do you
• 30:06
  Speaker 8: know what I'm talking about?
• 30:08
  Speaker 1: That allowed on sports talk radio at three in the morning.
• 30:11
  Speaker 8: I don't know. I mean, I can't quote it exactly,
• 30:14
  Speaker 8: but we're not so canceled.
• 30:17
  Speaker 1: This joke.
• 30:18
  Speaker 8: No, no, no, I mean no, definitely not, but no,
• 30:20
  Speaker 8: this was before he was canceled. We're talking about where
• 30:22
  Speaker 8: he's where he goes to, like the mall, and he's
• 30:24
  Speaker 8: just standing in line for cinebun and he's just talking
• 30:28
  Speaker 8: to himself. He's like, you fat piece of blankety blank,
• 30:33
  Speaker 8: like telling himself. That's that's how I feel every time
• 30:36
  Speaker 8: I'm eating a cinnabun. But I don't care. It's delicious.
• 30:39
  Speaker 1: Yeah, I'm good with that. It's a treat. It's a
• 30:41
  Speaker 1: delicacy you get once in a while.
• 30:43
  Speaker 11: Loreta, I'm always an ice cream girl.
• 30:45
  Speaker 12: I was thinking, I like the Mochi ice cream where
• 30:48
  Speaker 12: it has like the soft stuff on the outside, but
• 30:50
  Speaker 12: it doesn't matter what type.
• 30:51
  Speaker 11: I like blizzards from dairy Queen.
• 30:52
  Speaker 1: Oh, you can turn them upside down?
• 30:54
  Speaker 12: Yeah, and if they don't, I get my blizzard for free.
• 30:57
  Speaker 12: It has happened once, just one time. It's like, ma'am,
• 31:00
  Speaker 12: you didn't turn that upside down. She's like, we don't
• 31:02
  Speaker 12: have to. I was like, yes, you do. You do
• 31:05
  Speaker 12: have to.
• 31:07
  Speaker 1: Let me speak to your manager. Okay, So there you
• 31:11
  Speaker 1: have it. A seventeen foot by seventeen foot carrot cake
• 31:14
  Speaker 1: and strait in fiction. How much like a foot? I
• 31:18
  Speaker 1: don't want the one that was cooked. I definitely don't
• 31:21
  Speaker 1: want that was the one that was cooked a month ago?
• 31:23
  Speaker 11: I too? Are you keeping that in the freezer until
• 31:26
  Speaker 11: it's time?
• 31:26
  Speaker 1: I don't know. It seems like it's just a marketing
• 31:29
  Speaker 1: ploy by this bakery to get their name out there.
• 31:32
  Speaker 1: But I'm not gonna fall for it. We'll barely talk
• 31:34
  Speaker 1: about it at all. Wait, was this ten minutes coming up? Next?
• 31:38
  Speaker 1: Final segment? I'm out of Moslin in for Big Ben,
• 31:41
  Speaker 1: more of your phone calls? And what is that NBA
• 31:44
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• 31:47
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• 31:49
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• 32:03
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• 32:09
  Speaker 1: I'm Adam Oslin.
• 32:12
  Speaker 6: Told her then.
• 32:14
  Speaker 1: And for Ben Maller here on Fox Sports Radio. It's
• 32:17
  Speaker 1: been my pleasure to be with you guys. Ben Maller
• 32:21
  Speaker 1: is a legend. I've been listening to him back in
• 32:23
  Speaker 1: the day up north on KGK A M eleven forty.
• 32:28
  Speaker 3: I think it was.
• 32:29
  Speaker 1: Yeah, that's Sacramento. Before we get out of here, I
• 32:33
  Speaker 1: will tell you about the NBA team that might want
• 32:37
  Speaker 1: to think about making a coaching change. But first, I
• 32:40
  Speaker 1: have this burning question inside.
• 32:42
  Speaker 3: Of me pop Quiz hotshot.
• 32:45
  Speaker 1: I don't like the way I said that. Justin I
• 32:48
  Speaker 1: got a question for you as the producer of the
• 32:51
  Speaker 1: Big Ben Maller Show and the Benny's happening happening recently,
• 32:57
  Speaker 1: because the Oscar has happened, so the Benny's happened, they happen. Concurrently,
• 33:01
  Speaker 1: where did I finish when it came to the votes
• 33:05
  Speaker 1: on favorite Guest Host Quiz? You noticed? I wouldn't ask
• 33:10
  Speaker 1: you this at the beginning of the show because if
• 33:11
  Speaker 1: it's really bad, it would kill my confidence. But I
• 33:13
  Speaker 1: have to know. Are you pulling it up right now?
• 33:16
  Speaker 3: Yeah?
• 33:16
  Speaker 8: I'm gonna bring it up.
• 33:18
  Speaker 1: Look, I I need to know this because yes, I
• 33:22
  Speaker 1: voted for myself. Now, I could only do one vote
• 33:26
  Speaker 1: for myself unless I, like use a VPN scramble or
• 33:29
  Speaker 1: something like that, which.
• 33:30
  Speaker 8: I didn't let's see.
• 33:35
  Speaker 1: Oh is it that bad? You don't want to tell me?
• 33:38
  Speaker 1: Did I finish DFL?
• 33:40
  Speaker 11: You only filled in one time?
• 33:42
  Speaker 1: What do you mean filled? Oh so it's that bad
• 33:45
  Speaker 1: because I've only filled in once.
• 33:47
  Speaker 8: Yeah, that's your huge embarrassment failure. I finished last. Yes,
• 33:54
  Speaker 8: but Lorena brings up a good point. You only filled
• 33:56
  Speaker 8: in one time. A lot of these voters may not
• 33:58
  Speaker 8: have even known, you know who this is.
• 34:01
  Speaker 1: You know I existed, my existence in general. They had
• 34:06
  Speaker 1: no idea who I was. And now, Adam, I mean,
• 34:10
  Speaker 1: you got votes. The fact that Ben Maller mispronounced my
• 34:15
  Speaker 1: last name says a lot about my standing here in
• 34:17
  Speaker 1: sports talk radio, Adam. But I'll take it. I still
• 34:20
  Speaker 1: had a good time, okay, before I get out of here.
• 34:23
  Speaker 1: So a couple of weeks ago, people saw this. Let
• 34:26
  Speaker 1: me tell you this. This got me on the map.
• 34:28
  Speaker 1: I tweeted this out and it was snarky and it
• 34:32
  Speaker 1: was nasty, and usually that stuff just does pick up
• 34:35
  Speaker 1: some traction. Here on x at fallout of Maze, where
• 34:38
  Speaker 1: you can find me, I tweeted out quote, whoever gets
• 34:42
  Speaker 1: the rockets in the first round, congrats, basically saying they're terrible.
• 34:49
  Speaker 1: You're gonna win that series, and it got three thousand likes.
• 34:53
  Speaker 1: Wasn't expecting that much love. It also got like one
• 34:56
  Speaker 1: hundred and fifty book marks. So those are probably Houston
• 34:59
  Speaker 1: fans that if they end up winning in the first round,
• 35:02
  Speaker 1: they're all gonna find that in old takes exposed me
• 35:04
  Speaker 1: or freezing cold takes, whatever it's called, they'll get me back.
• 35:08
  Speaker 1: And that's fair. Now, that was a few weeks ago.
• 35:11
  Speaker 1: That was before Houston lost to the Lakers twice in
• 35:17
  Speaker 1: back to back games, before they lost to the Chicago Bulls,
• 35:20
  Speaker 1: and then before they blew a historic thirteen point lead
• 35:26
  Speaker 1: with two point thirty left in overtime against the Minnesota
• 35:31
  Speaker 1: Timberwolves without Anthony Edwards. No one had ever lost a
• 35:35
  Speaker 1: game up that much in ot let alone of thirteen
• 35:39
  Speaker 1: to two and a half minutes left. That's impossible. That's
• 35:42
  Speaker 1: worse than what happened to Duke the bench shut up.
• 35:47
  Speaker 1: They are one in seven in overtime games. Now this season,
• 35:51
  Speaker 1: Houston's four to nine in games within three points. Now,
• 35:57
  Speaker 1: I know, Houston fans. You guys have won two row, eh,
• 36:01
  Speaker 1: Houston doesn't have a problem anymore. Great, you beat the
• 36:03
  Speaker 1: Grizzlies they're tanking, and the Pelicans they're just bad. Is
• 36:07
  Speaker 1: that reassuring? I don't think so. Houston was a top
• 36:11
  Speaker 1: three seed. Now they're sixth, and they can't really fall
• 36:15
  Speaker 1: to seven. They are tied with Minnesota with the same record,
• 36:18
  Speaker 1: Minnesota as the tiebreaker over them. Currently Minnesota's fifth in
• 36:21
  Speaker 1: the West. You get sixth Rockets, and you're playing the
• 36:26
  Speaker 1: Lakers a few more times because they're pretty secure in
• 36:30
  Speaker 1: that three spot, just like they were last year. And
• 36:33
  Speaker 1: then they lost in five to Minnesota. So who knows.
• 36:36
  Speaker 1: But before the Rockets loaded up recently, the last two
• 36:39
  Speaker 1: games against two cream puffs, they had a worse offensive
• 36:43
  Speaker 1: rating in the month of March than the Utah Jazz
• 36:47
  Speaker 1: who are tanking. Emao Doka's offense and his lineups and
• 36:52
  Speaker 1: rotations have failed. Raphael Stone. Raphael, he's saying that right
• 37:00
  Speaker 1: now he's failed as a GM. How do I know that?
• 37:04
  Speaker 1: Because they had all season to replace Fred van Vliet,
• 37:09
  Speaker 1: who got hurt in the preseason with a torn acl
• 37:14
  Speaker 1: They needed a guard. They never got one. The trade
• 37:18
  Speaker 1: deadline came and went, and they just sat on their
• 37:20
  Speaker 1: hands and swiddled their thumbs that were up their bumbs.
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  Speaker 1: A team that went all in to get Kevin Durant's
• 37:28
  Speaker 1: trying to make him a playmaker. He's taken far more
• 37:32
  Speaker 1: shots on ball than he should be at almost the
• 37:34
  Speaker 1: age of forty. He should be a play finisher out there,
• 37:38
  Speaker 1: but instead he's going to start plays off. He's got
• 37:41
  Speaker 1: to get others involved. It's led to a lot of
• 37:43
  Speaker 1: turnovers and collapses late. Plus he has been missing some
• 37:49
  Speaker 1: of those clutch free throws if you noticed. Seems like
• 37:53
  Speaker 1: he's got the yips here. So let me say this.
• 37:57
  Speaker 1: If the Denver Nuggets last season could fire a championship
• 38:03
  Speaker 1: winning head coach in Mike Malone, you're out. I'm not
• 38:08
  Speaker 1: surprised that Rockets fans are getting out the torches and
• 38:12
  Speaker 1: the pitchforks for Emao Odoka. Now, I don't want to
• 38:15
  Speaker 1: see anyone lose their job. I'm just saying, you know,
• 38:19
  Speaker 1: I got shams on notifications and the alarm goes off
• 38:23
  Speaker 1: whenever he tweets anything, and I'm taking notice just in case.
• 38:28
  Speaker 1: The Nuggets fired Mike Malone last season with three games
• 38:30
  Speaker 1: left in the regular season, they blew out their GM two.
• 38:34
  Speaker 1: This is a disaster for Houston. I know there's still
• 38:38
  Speaker 1: a top six seed in the West. Do they look
• 38:40
  Speaker 1: like they're going anywhere? Do they look like they can
• 38:43
  Speaker 1: beat any team within the top eight right now? Kevin Durant,
• 38:49
  Speaker 1: I don't know if it's all his fault, but the
• 38:51
  Speaker 1: burner stuff is oh. I don't know if his teammates
• 38:57
  Speaker 1: love him right now, lo b because KD went after
• 39:01
  Speaker 1: Shanngoon got caught. Jabari Smith Junior got caught at the
• 39:05
  Speaker 1: All Star Game and into a dome. He's in the
• 39:07
  Speaker 1: layup line looking at his phone as all this was breaking.
• 39:10
  Speaker 1: He had this sheepish look when they introduced him. It
• 39:14
  Speaker 1: was awkward. And it's not getting better for Houston. I'm
• 39:18
  Speaker 1: telling you, I do not care. They just won two
• 39:20
  Speaker 1: in a row against Memphis or New Orleans. They're not
• 39:23
  Speaker 1: beating good teams. They're not winning games late. Their offense
• 39:26
  Speaker 1: gets worse as the game goes along, when teams are
• 39:28
  Speaker 1: giving maximum effort out there. This is headed to a
• 39:32
  Speaker 1: bad place. Changes will be made at some point, depending
• 39:36
  Speaker 1: on the playoff outcome. But as I already said in
• 39:38
  Speaker 1: that sweet remember whoever gets the rockets in the first round,
• 39:42
  Speaker 1: congrats three thousand likes. It's not nothing there. Many now
• 39:47
  Speaker 1: have jumped on board and believing that the Houston Rockets
• 39:50
  Speaker 1: are destined for a quick first round exit. We'll see
• 39:54
  Speaker 1: what changes get made after that. Thanks to Justin, Thanks
• 39:58
  Speaker 1: to the Little Arena. You guys try to make me
• 39:59
  Speaker 1: sound good. I tried too, but it didn't work out
• 40:04
  Speaker 1: that well.
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  Speaker 11: Until next time.