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  Speaker 1: made it through yet another weekend, and here we are
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  Speaker 1: back at it again.
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  Speaker 4: We'll save that for the B block. But we begin
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  Speaker 4: with the big.
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  Speaker 1: Story of the weekend, which will continue and conclude on
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  Speaker 1: Monday night. Our lead from yes, the rare inappropriate college
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  Speaker 1: basketball world.
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  Speaker 4: That's right.
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  Speaker 1: The Final Four played over the weekend and there were
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  Speaker 1: two games. So you see there's four teams and then
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  Speaker 1: there's two games, and then it leads to one game,
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  Speaker 1: which is on Monday night. But Walter Clayton junior thirty
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  Speaker 1: four points and he had five three pointers. That's a lot, right,
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  Speaker 1: that's five to three pointers. So I played very well,
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  Speaker 1: and at halftime it seemed like Auburn was doing pretty well.
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  Speaker 1: Seemed like Auburn was in pretty good shape in the
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  Speaker 1: first half. And then they had to play the second
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  Speaker 1: half and Florida rallied from that early devasit and they
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  Speaker 1: beat their Southeastern Conference rival. So down goes Auburn. And
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  Speaker 1: then you had Houston, a team that was not built
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  Speaker 1: to come back, right, it was not built to come back.
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  Speaker 1: Houston a team built on defense, and the defense wiping
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  Speaker 1: away a fourteen point deficit, down fourteen and then they
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  Speaker 1: come back final eight minutes of the late game on
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  Speaker 1: Saturday there and Cooper Flag who's projected to be the
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  Speaker 1: top player.
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  Speaker 4: In the NBA eyes and all.
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  Speaker 1: That, and the Blue Devils they choked. There's no other
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  Speaker 1: way I say it. They gagged, they suffocated. Duke choked. Embarrassing,
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  Speaker 1: absolutely embarrassing. That's the story and the downfall of Duke.
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  Speaker 1: The fact that the Blue Devils somehow managed to go
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  Speaker 1: with one field goal over the final ten and a
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  Speaker 1: half minutes of the game, which seemings impossible. You're a
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  Speaker 1: number one seed and you have ten and a half
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  Speaker 1: minutes with one field goal. They ended up one of
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  Speaker 1: nine from the floor down the stretch. Now, they did
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  Speaker 1: have some foul shots that they made and whatnot, but
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  Speaker 1: one of nine.
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  Speaker 4: All right, So let us discuss the question.
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  Speaker 1: Is as follows, So does the Duke loss choke if
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  Speaker 1: you will, overshadow the Houston comeback in the game that
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  Speaker 1: was played there, the late game in the final four.
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  Speaker 4: So I've got.
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  Speaker 1: Purple suit Aroma and Minecraft, and we will combine all
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  Speaker 1: of these things together and we will make a nice
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  Speaker 1: tropical vacation, which is what Duke can go on right now,
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  Speaker 1: a nice tropical vacation.
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  Speaker 4: So to answer the question, listen, I'm nodding my head.
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  Speaker 1: Yes, you can't see me unless you're watching the clip
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  Speaker 1: on the on the YouTube, but I'm nodding my head. Yes,
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  Speaker 1: absolutely right, that the better story is in the losing
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  Speaker 1: locker room. As we've often said, the Blue Devils b
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  Speaker 1: l e w DI they blew it, they blew it. Wow,
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  Speaker 1: they were favored, they had a seemingly insurmountable lead. You said,
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  Speaker 1: well it's only fourteen points. Well again, everything about Houston
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  Speaker 1: was they're not very good offensively, and if they have
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  Speaker 1: to play from behind, they're gonna get porked.
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  Speaker 4: They're not gonna be able to come back.
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  Speaker 1: And so you look at all that and say, well, okay,
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  Speaker 1: that's why they play the game, that's why they play
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  Speaker 1: the games, right, that's what has happened. Doesn't guarantee that's
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  Speaker 1: going to continue.
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  Speaker 4: It happened. The Cougar's not built, not built.
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  Speaker 1: For coming back, right, not built for coming back, and
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  Speaker 1: all that an offensively challenged squad, and certainly they weren't
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  Speaker 1: aesthetically pleasing. Even in that stretch where Duke only made
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  Speaker 1: one particular field goal, they weren't cooked, you know, they
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  Speaker 1: fell behind, they were not cooked because Duke said, anything
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  Speaker 1: you can do, we can do better, and we will
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  Speaker 1: suck more than you. And that's why they play the games.
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  Speaker 1: That's why at any given Final four Saturday, all right now,
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  Speaker 1: page two, how much will what happened in the final
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  Speaker 1: seconds of that game, the Duke game, how much of
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  Speaker 1: that will the struggles I'm talking about the struggles of
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  Speaker 1: Cooper Flag. How much of the struggles of Cooper Flag
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  Speaker 1: down the stretch will impact his NBA future? Because that's
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  Speaker 1: really what this is about, right, And you know you're
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  Speaker 1: kind of into college basketball, but you're really not that
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  Speaker 1: into it, right, So the question is he was not
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  Speaker 1: good down the stretch. He had a big second half,
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  Speaker 1: but in the final seconds, final minutes.
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  Speaker 4: He was not mister big if you will here.
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  Speaker 1: So the question is what kind of impact will that
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  Speaker 1: have on Cooper Flag's NBA future? So it's an odd situation.
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  Speaker 1: I think we're going to agree it's a very odd situation.
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  Speaker 1: The reason it is an odd situation, is because all
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  Speaker 1: the hype and yet the numbers were solid. Cooper Flag.
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  Speaker 1: If you look at the numbers and you didn't watch
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  Speaker 1: the game and the context of when those numbers came,
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  Speaker 1: he'd say, well, why even mentioning this. I don't understand
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  Speaker 1: why you even bring this up. What are you dumb?
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  Speaker 1: I read the box score. I looked at the box
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  Speaker 1: score on my phone. I know what's going on, you moron.
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  Speaker 1: And in the second half, Cooper Flag had nineteen points.
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  Speaker 1: I think Duke as a team had like thirty three
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  Speaker 1: or something like that in this half, so they had
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  Speaker 1: more than half of their points in the second half.
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  Speaker 1: He had three rebounds, a couple of assists, he had
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  Speaker 1: a steal, he had a block, all of those things,
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  Speaker 1: had all of those things. Was five of eleven from
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  Speaker 1: the floors, perfect from the foul line in the final
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  Speaker 1: twenty minutes of the game. So you're like, Okay, there's
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  Speaker 1: no gripe, there's nothing, there's no there there. You can't
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  Speaker 1: really complain about that. But he is mister everything you've
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  Speaker 1: told me. He's mister everything. He's the next prodigy in basketball.
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  Speaker 1: And Duke's offense was the ice machine.
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  Speaker 5: Right.
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  Speaker 4: It was the ice.
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  Speaker 1: Machine, Ice Cold. Just one made basket in the final
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  Speaker 1: ten minutes and thirty one seconds. And it wasn't like
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  Speaker 1: every shot was locked down by Houston. There were some
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  Speaker 1: very makeable baskets that were not made in that stretch.
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  Speaker 1: But that last shot by Cooper Flag. If you saw
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  Speaker 1: the game or heard it, if you're blind, you know
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  Speaker 1: what I'm talking about. There, that turnaround jumper with eight
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  Speaker 1: seconds left and on that shot. I literally watched it
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  Speaker 1: and I was a buddy and my we were watching
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  Speaker 1: the game. We lost both bets, but we were watching
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  Speaker 1: the game and watching that and it was like, hey,
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  Speaker 1: I can see the vomit comet. Cooper Flag is in
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  Speaker 1: the vomit comet on that shot way short right, not
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  Speaker 1: an airball, but did not have enough, did not have
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  Speaker 1: enough to get there. Now, in terms of the NBA
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  Speaker 1: future and the damage to Cooper Flag, looking at that
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  Speaker 1: part of it is the NBA draft will be here
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  Speaker 1: before you know it in the summertime. So as a
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  Speaker 1: batman's nemesis, the guy that wears the purple suit with
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  Speaker 1: the green vest, notice the joker would say in terms
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  Speaker 1: of the impact on Cooper Flag, that.
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  Speaker 4: Would be what zero.
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  Speaker 1: That would be zip zilch nada, as in no big
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  Speaker 1: deal because you've got teams right now like the Utah
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  Speaker 1: Jazz and the Washington Wizards and the Charlotte Hornets who
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  Speaker 1: are trying to outsuck each other. They're like, I can
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  Speaker 1: suck more than you. I am the king of all suck.
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  Speaker 1: And it's a suck battle to get that number one
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  Speaker 1: big and they don't even guarantee it because of the
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  Speaker 1: lottery and according to Lebron James, it's all rigged anyway.
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  Speaker 1: So there's no team in Maine for Cooper Flag to
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  Speaker 1: go to. They don't have an NBA team, So like,
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  Speaker 1: what's the greater story Cooper Flag goes out to Utah
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  Speaker 1: and saves the Morbon Jazz or where the Hornets? I mean,
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  Speaker 1: that's a that's a bad looking team also, So but
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  Speaker 1: it's a race to get lottery balls to draft this
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  Speaker 1: guy in the fact that he missed a shot that
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  Speaker 1: you would think you could make if your God's gift
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  Speaker 1: to basketball does not take away from the NBA. It
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  Speaker 1: does though, there is a little bit here despite the
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  Speaker 1: marketing build up with Cooper Flag, there's a little something
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  Speaker 1: where you down the line, you're like, well, if he
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  Speaker 1: keeps missing shots and pressure situations, this will stack on
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  Speaker 1: top of that like hotcakes. You'll put it on top there,
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  Speaker 1: the vanishing act. For now, it's a one off. For now,
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  Speaker 1: it's a one off. But if you do it again
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  Speaker 1: when you get in the NBA and this becomes a
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  Speaker 1: thing where he's like, well, remember back in college, you
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  Speaker 1: missed that shot at the end there for Duke, and
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  Speaker 1: so that's an issue.
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  Speaker 4: Now.
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  Speaker 1: Meanwhile, you have the Duke coach, John Shire. Now he
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  Speaker 1: took the blame. That's coaching one old run. He took
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  Speaker 1: the blame for Duke's collapse there for the fact that
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  Speaker 1: they completely fell off the table.
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  Speaker 4: I mean, I was a fall off job. Here.
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  Speaker 1: In fact, we have a little bit I believe we
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  Speaker 1: have some audio here. Here's John Shot, the Duke coach,
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  Speaker 1: commenting from the Final four game over the weekend here
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  Speaker 1: on what went wrong.
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  Speaker 4: Take a listen.
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  Speaker 6: Well, it's hard to process still wind. You know, I
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  Speaker 6: thought our guys did an incredible job the whole game.
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  Speaker 4: No they didn't.
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  Speaker 6: And you know, I thought we had some good looks.
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  Speaker 6: What didn't finish. You have to give Houston a ton
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  Speaker 6: of credit. And then still even with that you know
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  Speaker 6: we have the lead, you know, with under a minute ago,
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  Speaker 6: and I couldn't be more proud. I'm not I'm not
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  Speaker 6: about to hang our head. I mean, this is part
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  Speaker 6: of it. You got to you gotta handle the wins,
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  Speaker 6: and you got to handle the losses too, And in
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  Speaker 6: a moment like this, you know we're this close, and
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  Speaker 6: you know we felt we were the best team. The
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  Speaker 6: best team tonight was Houston.
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  Speaker 1: So your team went ten minutes and thirty seconds without
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  Speaker 1: a with one field one field, and you thought you
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  Speaker 1: played well. Okay, I guess I'm in a different dimension.
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  Speaker 4: Here's one more. This is the money quote here.
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  Speaker 1: Here's the coach of Duke John Shire commenting on the
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  Speaker 1: fact that he screwed up.
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  Speaker 4: He's a bad coach. He fed off and he's terrible.
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  Speaker 6: I feel we were one of one in terms of
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  Speaker 6: the way we put this thing together. It's been a
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  Speaker 6: magical ride. We believe with everything we had we were
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  Speaker 6: gonna win a championship here and so I'm just I
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  Speaker 6: feel for them because they're competitive and they're going to
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  Speaker 6: think about play. I didn't help them enough, and that's
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  Speaker 6: that's where my mind goes. And I couldn't be more
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  Speaker 6: proud of them, though, you got it. This is part
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  Speaker 6: of it, This is part of it. Unfortunately, you know,
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  Speaker 6: we haven't been in a lot of those games, and
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  Speaker 6: we've watched a lot of game situations and practiced, and
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  Speaker 6: that's where I wish I could have helped him more.
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  Speaker 1: All Right, So he's that's classic. Hey, blame me, I'm
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  Speaker 1: the guy, he's my fault. Blah blah blah blah blah.
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  Speaker 1: You're supposed to do that out of the coaching handbook.
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  Speaker 1: I guess coach K left that behind. You're supposed to
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  Speaker 1: do that.
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  Speaker 4: He did that.
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  Speaker 1: So do you blame play the blame game? You got
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  Speaker 1: John Shier over here, you got Cooper flag, he's right here.
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  Speaker 1: You got Cooper flag right here. And then I keep
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  Speaker 1: I got some feedback in the email from like the
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  Speaker 1: Duke fin it's bad luck, man, we got hosed by
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  Speaker 1: the referees. Bad luck. Okay, So of those three options
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  Speaker 1: playing the blame game, you got the coach, you got
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  Speaker 1: the star player, or just bad luck. So I'm gonna
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  Speaker 1: eliminate bad luck. Did they get hosed on a call
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  Speaker 1: that should not have been made? A foul call in
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  Speaker 1: Cooper flag? Yes, But the reason. I'm not going to
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  Speaker 1: use that as an alibi for Duke. It should have
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  Speaker 1: never been in a position. The game should not have
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  Speaker 1: been a one possession game at that point where a
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  Speaker 1: referees call impacts the outcome of the game. Does a
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  Speaker 1: bad job by you? You fed up, You screwed up,
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  Speaker 1: screw you right. You should not have been in that position.
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  Speaker 1: And while Cooper Flagg is the headliner, and as we mentioned,
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  Speaker 1: he's going to run off to the NBA and we'll
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  Speaker 1: maybe never hear of him again if he plays all
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  Speaker 1: the Charlotte Hornets of the Utah Jazz, but that pungent aroma,
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  Speaker 1: that nice punge, it it's like a cloud of sulfur
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  Speaker 1: if you will is going to follow John Shire around,
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  Speaker 1: cause this is supposed to be the forever Get gret
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  Speaker 1: you get the Duke job. You're supposed to have that
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  Speaker 1: job for a long time. That's a legacy job. That's
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  Speaker 1: a long term job. That's not a temporary job where
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  Speaker 1: you run off to the NBA. You're supposed to be there.
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  Speaker 1: It's one of the we're told it's one of the
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  Speaker 1: great jobs in college basketball. And you paid a lot
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  Speaker 1: of money and you're in the spotlight and all that stuff,
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  Speaker 1: and so flag he goes out to the NBA and
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  Speaker 1: he'll make a king's ransom and with endorsements and all
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  Speaker 1: that stuff, and it'll be just a footnote this game. Again,
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  Speaker 1: as we said, it'll be a footnote unless he continues
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  Speaker 1: to do this in the NBA, losing missing shots at
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  Speaker 1: the end of games, and then it circles back. For now,
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  Speaker 1: it's an insignificant mention. It is a minor detail. But
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  Speaker 1: for John Shire, the coach at Duke, following coach k
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  Speaker 1: unacceptable and it's one of those things where he's like, Okay,
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  Speaker 1: it's gonna shadow box him like Poltergeist if Duke does
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  Speaker 1: not win in the near futures. What about you had
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  Speaker 1: you had the top player in the draft. This guy
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  Speaker 1: got two lottery picks on that Duke team and all that.
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  Speaker 1: So until they win the championship, it's gonna kind of
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  Speaker 1: follow him around there. And the good news is a Duke,
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  Speaker 1: you've got a lot of nil money, you've got the
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  Speaker 1: bright lights, the spotlight and all that.
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  Speaker 4: A weaponized roster. Whoever like the top All.
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  Speaker 1: Americans in high school, if they want to want the
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  Speaker 1: bag and the nice aura, they would go to do.
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  Speaker 1: Maybe it's all about the bag. They might go somewhere.
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  Speaker 1: All right, now, last word, quick gray, quick late, all right,
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  Speaker 1: So what is your level of interest? Let's get right
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  Speaker 1: to it. What was your level of interest in tonight?
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  Speaker 1: Since Monday night? Here championship game of college basketball. You've
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  Speaker 1: got Florida on one side, the Gators a number one.
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  Speaker 1: You've got Houston a number one, one versus one yet again,
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  Speaker 1: and that is for all the marbles, as they like
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  Speaker 1: to say. So if you listen to the show last week,
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  Speaker 1: you know that I wanted to see Auburn and Duke.
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  Speaker 1: I'm told they will not be playing a third place game.
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  Speaker 1: There is no third place game between Auburn and Duke,
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  Speaker 1: so that is a buzzkill. I would argue that this
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  Speaker 1: is not must see TV. That is not what we're
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  Speaker 1: going to describe this as at all? Are we going
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  Speaker 1: to watch?
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  Speaker 4: Yes?
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  Speaker 1: I have a talk show to do, so I will
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  Speaker 1: watch the game for talk radio reasons. On Monday night,
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  Speaker 1: I will be watching. Am I going to be excited
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  Speaker 1: about it?
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  Speaker 5: No?
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  Speaker 1: On the Malard scale of interest one to ten, with
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  Speaker 1: ten being I can't wait, I am at at two.
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  Speaker 1: I'm at at two on the Mallard scale of interest.
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  Speaker 1: I'm just not giddy. Not that I need to be
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  Speaker 1: giddy to watch these games, I'm just not. It's low
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  Speaker 1: priority viewing. Again, I've got a job, and so it's
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  Speaker 1: like the worst problems to have. It's mediocre programming. The
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  Speaker 1: other problem is you've got it's kind of like playing
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  Speaker 1: this National Championship game despite having two number one.
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  Speaker 4: Seeds in it.
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  Speaker 1: It's like playing Minecraft and it's the dungeon known as
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  Speaker 1: the Starless Knight. It's a Starless Knight situation is because
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  Speaker 1: you really you have the zero, one and two are
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  Speaker 1: the numbers zero, one and two. So the zero is
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  Speaker 1: the number of Florida and Houston players that have first
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  Speaker 1: round NBA greats. There is not a single player that
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  Speaker 1: will be playing in the National Championship Game that NBA
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  Speaker 1: talent evaluate is dean worthy of being drafted in the first.
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  Speaker 4: One first round, not one, all right, So that's the
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  Speaker 4: first thing. U.
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  Speaker 1: Then one would be the player from Houston who there's
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  Speaker 1: one guy, Jojo, who's projected to be a second round
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  Speaker 1: pick on Houston. And then Florida's got Walter Clayton Junior
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  Speaker 1: in the center, that big lug of a guy the
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  Speaker 1: Lumbering Alex and those guys are protected as second round picks,
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  Speaker 1: so you've got that.
• 18:04
  Speaker 5: Uh.
• 18:04
  Speaker 1: And I checked on DraftKings sportsbook and Florida is a
• 18:08
  Speaker 1: one point favorite, so it's real and they don't even
• 18:11
  Speaker 1: know it's going to I mean, one point is nothing, right,
• 18:14
  Speaker 1: It's like who cares one point? So Florida is favored
• 18:17
  Speaker 1: by one going into the championship game.
• 18:19
  Speaker 2: Be sure to catch live editions of The Ben Meller
• 18:22
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• 18:25
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• 18:28
  Speaker 4: So our lead this hour is from hockey.
• 18:32
  Speaker 1: That's right, not a game. Not a game hockey. Well,
• 18:36
  Speaker 1: it is a game, but it's a game we don't
• 18:38
  Speaker 1: really talk about other than the rare and appropriate Malle monologue.
• 18:41
  Speaker 1: Something has to reach the level of high crimes and
• 18:45
  Speaker 1: misdemeanors for us to talk hockey, and that happened. We
• 18:49
  Speaker 1: literally are about to drop the puck, is what we're
• 18:53
  Speaker 1: about to do. So it was a historical weekend in
• 18:56
  Speaker 1: the National Hockey League. This is what's called a a test.
• 19:01
  Speaker 1: This is only a test of the malor broadcasting system.
• 19:04
  Speaker 1: So if you didn't see it, or hear about it
• 19:06
  Speaker 1: over the weekend. The NHL has a new all time
• 19:13
  Speaker 1: leading goal scorer. There has been a passing of the baton.
• 19:18
  Speaker 1: His name is Alexander Ovechkin. That's right, he is number one,
• 19:26
  Speaker 1: the very top. Ovechkin scored his eight hundred and ninety
• 19:28
  Speaker 1: fifth goal on a sleepy Sunday afternoon on Long Island
• 19:35
  Speaker 1: against the appropriately named Islanders. That is one more now
• 19:40
  Speaker 1: than Wayne Gretzky. And Wayne Gretzky his storied career and
• 19:48
  Speaker 1: now no longer.
• 19:49
  Speaker 4: At the very top.
• 19:49
  Speaker 1: Now Gretzky still has the record for points that will
• 19:52
  Speaker 1: not be broken, at least not mathematically. It would appear
• 19:56
  Speaker 1: be broken, but he's no longer the all time leading
• 19:58
  Speaker 1: goal scorer. Poetically Ovechkin, who he's been playing so long.
• 20:03
  Speaker 1: I used to cover hockey on a regular basis and
• 20:05
  Speaker 1: he was playing then.
• 20:07
  Speaker 4: Ovechkin.
• 20:07
  Speaker 1: So Alexander Ovechkin scored the goal on the Capitol's power
• 20:11
  Speaker 1: play power play, and that power play goal something that
• 20:15
  Speaker 1: he has more of than anyone else, a three hundred
• 20:18
  Speaker 1: twenty five power play goals for Ovechkin, and so that
• 20:22
  Speaker 1: is at the very top as well.
• 20:24
  Speaker 4: Now the game was stopped, they said the pause button
• 20:30
  Speaker 4: on the game.
• 20:30
  Speaker 1: They stopped the game and they had like a two
• 20:33
  Speaker 1: hour ceremony. It seemed like it was a two hour
• 20:35
  Speaker 1: ceremony there, and you had Ovechkin's teammates come out and
• 20:38
  Speaker 1: mob him. Keep in mind, I believe the Capitals were
• 20:41
  Speaker 1: losing the game at that point, didn't matter, and they
• 20:44
  Speaker 1: had a on iye ceremony to celebrate the accomplishment. Right
• 20:48
  Speaker 1: in the middle of the game. You had Gretzky who
• 20:52
  Speaker 1: did pass the baton and spoke. He was at the
• 20:55
  Speaker 1: game there, gave a brief speech. In that speech, he
• 20:59
  Speaker 1: mentioned everything from his buddies that are with the Islanders
• 21:03
  Speaker 1: to the Rolls Royce that he got when he set
• 21:07
  Speaker 1: the record, and Sinchovechkins set the mark. Since he's now
• 21:11
  Speaker 1: got the record, this has opened up a larger conversation.
• 21:16
  Speaker 1: So let us discuss the question for the Esteem panel,
• 21:20
  Speaker 1: which you are a part of. Is Alexandrovechkin now the
• 21:24
  Speaker 1: greatest goal scorer in NHL history or he's got the record?
• 21:29
  Speaker 1: But does Wayne Gretzky's legacy still hold the crown even
• 21:34
  Speaker 1: though Ovechkin got the record.
• 21:37
  Speaker 4: So I've got.
• 21:37
  Speaker 1: Stage coach Al Michaels and paramount pictures, and we will
• 21:44
  Speaker 1: combine all of these things together and we are going
• 21:49
  Speaker 1: to provide a toothache. Oh my aching tooth. Yeah, all right,
• 21:53
  Speaker 1: so num burr, can I get a numb burn?
• 22:01
  Speaker 4: So I nod, I nod the headphones. I'm nodding to Ovechkin.
• 22:07
  Speaker 1: And while the Great Eight, if you look at the
• 22:11
  Speaker 1: website that has all the NHL stats, well, he stands
• 22:14
  Speaker 1: the top the goal mountain, the mountain of pucks.
• 22:17
  Speaker 4: He's at the very top there.
• 22:19
  Speaker 1: In a double blind challenge, double blind challenge, it's not close.
• 22:26
  Speaker 1: Number ninety nine is the king, and it doesn't change it.
• 22:31
  Speaker 1: He's not any longer the leading goal scorer. It doesn't matter.
• 22:35
  Speaker 1: Wayne Gretzky in a different galaxy. It's the way it is.
• 22:40
  Speaker 1: He's on another level even statistically. But he doesn't have
• 22:44
  Speaker 1: the all time goals record anymore. But Gretzky eight hundred
• 22:48
  Speaker 1: and ninety four career goals, had almost two thousand assists,
• 22:53
  Speaker 1: and the numbers, it's like Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs.
• 22:57
  Speaker 1: It's Wayne Gretzky and the Seven Dwarfs. When you look
• 22:59
  Speaker 1: at his stats compared to everyone else's stats, and he
• 23:02
  Speaker 1: set the single season record back now the hockey Hartles
• 23:06
  Speaker 1: will say, well, it was easier to score when Gretzky
• 23:08
  Speaker 1: was doing his thing, but back in the early eighties,
• 23:09
  Speaker 1: he had ninety two, ninety two goals in the early
• 23:14
  Speaker 1: eighties and ridiculous it was like fifty fifty goals in
• 23:19
  Speaker 1: something like thirty nine games that year. So all kinds
• 23:22
  Speaker 1: of records. He is in the same class as Babe Ruth,
• 23:26
  Speaker 1: Like he's like Babe Ruth, and he's before social media.
• 23:29
  Speaker 1: Gretzky didn't play in the social media era and all that.
• 23:32
  Speaker 1: But his impact on the sport of hockey. Like, imagine
• 23:36
  Speaker 1: in that cartoon bubble over your head that Wayne Gretzky
• 23:41
  Speaker 1: is in the front of the stage coach. He's not
• 23:43
  Speaker 1: riding shotgun. He's in the front of the stage coach.
• 23:45
  Speaker 1: He's driving the stagecoach. You know, he's got the horses
• 23:48
  Speaker 1: right there. And so he's on the stage coach and
• 23:50
  Speaker 1: he's leading the NHL to the gold rush, the California
• 23:54
  Speaker 1: gold Rush. That's essentially what Wayne Gretzky did. Trailblazer, but
• 24:00
  Speaker 1: not a Portland trail blazer. Now, Wayne Gretzky for hockey
• 24:05
  Speaker 1: was the sugar daddy who's your daddy, your sugar daddy,
• 24:08
  Speaker 1: Wayne Gretzky, the forefather of Sun Belt hockey, and those
• 24:14
  Speaker 1: that have been around a long time, they know that
• 24:16
  Speaker 1: when Gretzky was given away, right he was given away
• 24:19
  Speaker 1: to the La Kings from the Edmonton Oilers in nineteen.
• 24:23
  Speaker 4: Eighty eight, there was a sea change.
• 24:27
  Speaker 1: There was a massive change that took place there and
• 24:30
  Speaker 1: it opened up a whole new world. It opened up
• 24:33
  Speaker 1: the world of non traditional hockey markets, and the NHL
• 24:36
  Speaker 1: capitalized within.
• 24:39
  Speaker 4: Not that long an amount of time.
• 24:40
  Speaker 1: When you think about when Gretzky got there and things
• 24:44
  Speaker 1: took off, and all these celebrities back when people liked
• 24:47
  Speaker 1: celebrities and things like that, they were at these games,
• 24:49
  Speaker 1: and the NHL has gone all over the Sun Belt
• 24:53
  Speaker 1: and teams in Anaheim, San Jose, Dallas, Phoenix, Tampa, Baying
• 24:59
  Speaker 1: through the list of places there where they didn't have
• 25:04
  Speaker 1: Miami or South Florida has a team, and that's directly
• 25:09
  Speaker 1: tied to Wayne Gretzky said, Well, they would have eventually
• 25:11
  Speaker 1: gotten into those sites, and maybe they would have eventually
• 25:13
  Speaker 1: gotten to all those cities, but the process was expedited
• 25:16
  Speaker 1: by Wayne Gretzky.
• 25:17
  Speaker 4: Now page two. So as for the goals record.
• 25:22
  Speaker 1: Because this is not about Wayne Gretzky as much as
• 25:24
  Speaker 1: it is about Alexander Ovechkin, although I've just boguarded this
• 25:27
  Speaker 1: for Wayne Gretzky. So the goals record itself, how significant
• 25:33
  Speaker 1: is it that Alexander Ovechkin got that achievement in context
• 25:37
  Speaker 1: of the modern NHL game, the way the way it
• 25:41
  Speaker 1: is played today. So it's like the classic Al Michael's
• 25:45
  Speaker 1: call from Lake Placid?
• 25:47
  Speaker 4: Do you believe in miracles?
• 25:49
  Speaker 1: Like people a couple of years ago, it's like, well,
• 25:51
  Speaker 1: Ovein's going to set the record, and you're like, oh, yeah, sure,
• 25:53
  Speaker 1: he's going to set the record for goals. It's like,
• 25:56
  Speaker 1: that's not the goal mark was supposed to be on
• 25:59
  Speaker 1: that short list of unbreakable records. And Ovechkin not that
• 26:03
  Speaker 1: he's zoomed past Gretzky, but he methodically surgically passes Wayne
• 26:09
  Speaker 1: Gretzky by. And the thing that's the most impressive about Ovechkin,
• 26:14
  Speaker 1: not that I'm here to give out flowers to anyone,
• 26:17
  Speaker 1: is you think about the crap that happened during his career,
• 26:20
  Speaker 1: with shortened seasons because of labor disputes, lockouts, You had
• 26:24
  Speaker 1: the pandemic that took place a few years ago, and
• 26:27
  Speaker 1: so it is a testimonial to perseverance that even with
• 26:30
  Speaker 1: all that, playing fewer games here and there, and still
• 26:34
  Speaker 1: he ends up playing long enough Ovechkin to pass Wayne
• 26:38
  Speaker 1: Gretzky by and it doesn't hurt that he's one of
• 26:41
  Speaker 1: the great vultures on the power play and a bunch
• 26:44
  Speaker 1: of empty net goals and all that. But unlike Barry Bonds,
• 26:48
  Speaker 1: when Bonds set the record, or Lebron James passing Kareem
• 26:52
  Speaker 1: abdul Jabbar and the scoring mark, these records have all
• 26:54
  Speaker 1: fallen in my lifetime. But the Barry Bonds thing, when
• 26:57
  Speaker 1: he broke Hank Aaron's record, most people just rolled their
• 26:59
  Speaker 1: eyes because.
• 27:00
  Speaker 4: Like, he's dirty.
• 27:01
  Speaker 1: That's not a legit record, right, He's a PD guy,
• 27:04
  Speaker 1: you know, steroid steroid Barry Balcoberry, They're like, who cares?
• 27:08
  Speaker 1: And Lebron, it's well, he came out of came out
• 27:11
  Speaker 1: of high school. He didn't go to college. Korean Abdul
• 27:13
  Speaker 1: Jabbar went to college, and so it's not the same
• 27:15
  Speaker 1: and and so there's different things. But with Ovechkin, like
• 27:19
  Speaker 1: I guess the only thing on him would be he's
• 27:21
  Speaker 1: buddies with Vladimir Putin, right, He's like, he's buddies with
• 27:25
  Speaker 1: a bunch of oligarchs in Russia, which I think you
• 27:28
  Speaker 1: have to be. Right.
• 27:29
  Speaker 4: Some guy told me years ago that these Russian players.
• 27:32
  Speaker 1: If they don't kiss the ring of Putin, they start
• 27:35
  Speaker 1: getting crap happening to their family and stuff like that.
• 27:38
  Speaker 1: I don't know that's true or not, but there they
• 27:39
  Speaker 1: were giving me a couple of years back. The guy's
• 27:42
  Speaker 1: explaining me the dynamic of Russian hockey players that come
• 27:46
  Speaker 1: to the United States and how they have to have
• 27:48
  Speaker 1: to be respectful and if they do anything out of line,
• 27:50
  Speaker 1: there's all kinds of problems back home, which I makes sense.
• 27:53
  Speaker 1: I don't know whether that's actually the case or not.
• 27:56
  Speaker 1: But with Alexandrovitchkin now passing Wayne Gretzky and the record
• 28:03
  Speaker 1: for goal scored, where are the safe records? Where are
• 28:08
  Speaker 1: can you see some safe records? This is one of
• 28:10
  Speaker 1: those records people thought would last in your entire life
• 28:13
  Speaker 1: and it would not be broken.
• 28:14
  Speaker 4: And so where are the saferegerits?
• 28:16
  Speaker 2: There are?
• 28:16
  Speaker 4: There are a bunch.
• 28:17
  Speaker 1: In fact, there are many records that I will guarantee
• 28:21
  Speaker 1: will not be broken. Guarantee. It's like the paramount pictures
• 28:24
  Speaker 1: flicked that did okay back in the day. The untouchables, right,
• 28:29
  Speaker 1: the untouchables, Cy Young two untouchable records. Cy Young, five
• 28:33
  Speaker 1: hundred and eleven wins, five hundred and eleven career wins.
• 28:38
  Speaker 1: He also has the most losses in baseball history three
• 28:41
  Speaker 1: hundred and fifteen. And in modern pitching, where they don't
• 28:45
  Speaker 1: even care whether you stay long enough to get a win,
• 28:49
  Speaker 1: that record, you say, forget about it. In fact, the
• 28:51
  Speaker 1: record if you go back to I consider the modern
• 28:53
  Speaker 1: era for our purposes nineteen eighty. Since the nineteen eighties,
• 28:57
  Speaker 1: the picture that has the most wins. You know who
• 28:59
  Speaker 1: it is, Greg Maddox. Greg Maddox as the most wins
• 29:02
  Speaker 1: of any pitcher of the last forty five years, three
• 29:04
  Speaker 1: hundred and fifty five career wins for Mattix with the
• 29:08
  Speaker 1: Atlanta Braves, the Cubs, the Dodgers, the pod Rais and
• 29:11
  Speaker 1: all those teams. So three hundred and fifty five wins,
• 29:14
  Speaker 1: you know, as the record for the most losses in
• 29:15
  Speaker 1: baseball since the nineteen eighties. A guy whose nickname was
• 29:20
  Speaker 1: the Banana Frank Tanana, the Banana Tanana has the modern record.
• 29:25
  Speaker 4: Now that's actually more reachable. The Cy Young loss record.
• 29:31
  Speaker 1: Cy Young three hundred and fifteen career losses and Frank
• 29:35
  Speaker 1: Tanana lost two hundred thirty six games. So that's actually
• 29:40
  Speaker 1: the math on that actually could see that record go down.
• 29:43
  Speaker 1: But you've got to be consistently just good enough to
• 29:46
  Speaker 1: be there and bad enough to lose the games. And
• 29:50
  Speaker 1: then the other ones are the iron Man streaks, Cal
• 29:52
  Speaker 1: Ripkin Junior, the Iron Horse record going down there, Louke Grick,
• 29:58
  Speaker 1: and that's col Ripkins streak. He played every game for
• 30:02
  Speaker 1: sixteen point two Major League Baseball seasons. Even got some
• 30:07
  Speaker 1: help on that, cal Ripken the Kevin Costner game where
• 30:11
  Speaker 1: the lights went out in Baltimore to make sure the
• 30:13
  Speaker 1: streak kept going there, So he had a little help
• 30:16
  Speaker 1: there game against the Mariners at Camden Yards. So Cal
• 30:19
  Speaker 1: Ripken that will not be broken. And the NBA record
• 30:24
  Speaker 1: held by A. C. Green, mostly with the Lakers and
• 30:27
  Speaker 1: the Suns and some other teams there A C. Green
• 30:29
  Speaker 1: who played every single game for fourteen and a half
• 30:33
  Speaker 1: seasons from nineteen eighty six to two thousand and one.
• 30:36
  Speaker 4: He played every game.
• 30:38
  Speaker 1: If you play every game in the NBA, in the
• 30:41
  Speaker 1: modern NBA. They look at you like you've got some
• 30:43
  Speaker 1: kind of plague, Like what the f is wrong with you?
• 30:47
  Speaker 1: It reminds me when I covered baseball and there'd be
• 30:49
  Speaker 1: that hot shot young player that would come up for
• 30:52
  Speaker 1: the minor leagues and hustle on obvious fly ball outs,
• 30:56
  Speaker 1: and the other players on the team would give him
• 30:59
  Speaker 1: the evil eye.
• 31:00
  Speaker 4: You're making us look bad. You're not supposed to hustle.
• 31:03
  Speaker 4: Why you hustling. We don't hustle. Conserve your energy. You're
• 31:06
  Speaker 4: making us look silly. What are you doing? Beat job
• 31:09
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• 31:09
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• 31:12
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• 31:15
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• 31:17
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• 31:21
  Speaker 8: go is one big? Ben gets grilled gooblo over the weekend.
• 31:29
  Speaker 9: Yes, Travis Hunter moved ahead of Abdual Carter in the
• 31:31
  Speaker 9: betting odds to be the number two overall pick in
• 31:33
  Speaker 9: the NFL draft. Yeah, Ben, do you think that would
• 31:36
  Speaker 9: be a mistake by the Cleveland Browns?
• 31:38
  Speaker 1: All right, So, as you know, I am a scout,
• 31:40
  Speaker 1: I read a lot of draft guides, I watch YouTube clips,
• 31:44
  Speaker 1: and it would be a mistake. Now, I like Hunter,
• 31:48
  Speaker 1: I do like Hunter. I like I would rather have
• 31:51
  Speaker 1: Abdual Carter. To me, Abdual Carter is the guy that
• 31:53
  Speaker 1: should be drafted, the very top of the edge rusher
• 31:55
  Speaker 1: from Penn State, Travis Hunter. I think we'll have a
• 31:58
  Speaker 1: good career as well. I like both those guys better
• 31:59
  Speaker 1: than the quarterbacks.
• 32:00
  Speaker 4: The team that's.
• 32:01
  Speaker 1: Gonna get screwed here is the Patriots, because if cam
• 32:04
  Speaker 1: Word goes number one and then Hunter goes to and
• 32:07
  Speaker 1: Abdul Carter goes three to the Giants, the Patriots don't
• 32:10
  Speaker 1: need Shradura Sanders. So they're gonna draft some generic offensive
• 32:13
  Speaker 1: linemen and they're gonna get Hos or some defensive tackle next.
• 32:17
  Speaker 9: Shaquille O'Neil was asked in a recent podcast if Lebron
• 32:20
  Speaker 9: James's longevity is a byproduct of the change of physicality
• 32:23
  Speaker 9: in the NBA. He said it definitely is, and argued
• 32:26
  Speaker 9: that guys aren't even fouling hard anymore. But do you
• 32:28
  Speaker 9: think Lebron's longevity is attributable to the softness of today's NBA?
• 32:33
  Speaker 1: No, I think he's got some of those what they
• 32:36
  Speaker 1: call coop enchanted beans or whatever. I don't know. I mean,
• 32:40
  Speaker 1: you hear things.
• 32:43
  Speaker 4: He's clearly. I don't think it's because of that alone.
• 32:45
  Speaker 1: I think there's other factors, other variables that I will
• 32:49
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• 32:49
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• 32:50
  Speaker 9: Next on Friday, for the first time in the fifty
• 32:53
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• 32:56
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• 32:58
  Speaker 9: Both Bruce Perl and rickt you know, represented with the award. Ben,
• 33:01
  Speaker 9: Who would you have given it to? I would have
• 33:03
  Speaker 9: given it to Rick Pattino. Saint John's was a morbid program.
• 33:07
  Speaker 9: Turned that around.
• 33:08
  Speaker 1: I thought he did a great job, Pearl solid, but
• 33:10
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• 33:12
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• 34:07
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  Speaker 4: The New York Islanders.
• 34:13
  Speaker 1: We told you earlier this hour they were.
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  Speaker 4: Offering fans who already bought.
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  Speaker 1: A ticket to the game if they wanted a printed
• 34:21
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  Speaker 1: Line one, you're on the Airline one.
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  Speaker 5: You need.
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  Speaker 1: Okay, there must be some mercury and retrograd. Line two,
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  Speaker 1: you're on the air. We're giving advice here to the
• 35:46
  Speaker 1: New York Islanders. They're charging up, charging people that already
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  Speaker 1: bought tickets if they wanted a printed copy forty five dollars.
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  Speaker 8: Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: I've been the solution for years for daddy to smoke degree.
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  Speaker 1: All right, thank you for that. I think you're already
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  Speaker 1: doing that. Line three, you're on the airline three. We're
• 36:04
  Speaker 1: giving advice.
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  Speaker 5: Oh, it's easy, easy bringing toach.
• 36:08
  Speaker 1: Okay. Line five, you're on the airline five. Hello, I
• 36:12
  Speaker 1: have a hockey stick night.
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  Speaker 5: They stopped doing it there.
• 36:15
  Speaker 1: You know, it's better to get the hockey stick out
• 36:16
  Speaker 1: the line six. You're on the airline six. That was
• 36:18
  Speaker 1: sewn the hood guy. Hello, line six, I.
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  Speaker 5: Can I have a limited a ticket?
• 36:25
  Speaker 1: Oh man, I'm still upset that you didn't win the
• 36:28
  Speaker 1: game show last week. Line one, you're on the airline one.
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  Speaker 5: Hello thing.
• 36:33
  Speaker 1: Oh hey, look at that great tribute to the late
• 36:36
  Speaker 1: great Spokane Gary. Line too. Hello, line two?
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  Speaker 5: Is Kevin Garner dumber about money than Charles?
• 36:42
  Speaker 4: All right?
• 36:43
  Speaker 1: Boy? He wanted he wanted to double down on that take,
• 36:46
  Speaker 1: and he called up to Roman Charleston. Line three, Hello,
• 36:48
  Speaker 1: line three, what's going out? All right? We'll do one more?
• 36:54
  Speaker 1: Only one more? Cool picket? Final call.
• 36:55
  Speaker 4: It's the advice line for the New York Islanders. Mine one.
• 36:58
  Speaker 1: Line one, you're on the airline I want gum. You
• 37:04
  Speaker 1: picked the doge guy, Coobe, you picked the doge guy.
• 37:07
  Speaker 2: Be sure to catch live editions of The Ben Meller
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  Speaker 2: Show weekdays at two am Eastern eleven pm Pacific.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, who was this?
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  Speaker 4: You're you're live on the random line? Who is this?
• 37:17
  Speaker 5: I was gonna play the show?
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  Speaker 8: Is this?
• 37:21
  Speaker 1: Bruce?
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  Speaker 4: Is this Bruce.
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  Speaker 5: My name is Moose.
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  Speaker 8: Moose.
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  Speaker 4: That's right, Moose, keep getting, keep getting. I'm lucky, am
• 37:31
  Speaker 4: I I know? Right?
• 37:33
  Speaker 1: That's crazy. I mean it was like the old Bell
• 37:36
  Speaker 1: Show West of the Rockies, East of the Rockies. I
• 37:38
  Speaker 1: picked the right line. Then every line is ringing. He
• 37:41
  Speaker 1: I feel bad for Dick. We didn't get Dick on though.
• 37:44
  Speaker 1: I mean we you know, we didn't get all right, anyway,
• 37:47
  Speaker 1: we'll play the game.
• 37:47
  Speaker 4: All right, hit the button, hit the wait, wait.
• 37:49
  Speaker 7: Wait, I want to find my other button first. But
• 37:51
  Speaker 7: where's my taste of the thing.
• 37:53
  Speaker 4: I don't know.
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  Speaker 1: I'm not I don't have the I don't have the buttons.
• 37:57
  Speaker 1: I don't button. Give me a little taste of that, Dick,
• 37:59
  Speaker 1: I don't play that like you around, like you know everything.
• 38:04
  Speaker 1: Computers are for losers.
• 38:05
  Speaker 7: Normal people. Well, how dare she?
• 38:09
  Speaker 1: What do you?
• 38:10
  Speaker 4: Let's find out?
• 38:11
  Speaker 2: Are you smarter than an FSR tech queen?
• 38:14
  Speaker 1: Well, let's do it very exciting and we will play
• 38:18
  Speaker 1: the game. We have the Moose, Hi Moose.
• 38:20
  Speaker 5: All right, how's it going?
• 38:21
  Speaker 1: Where are you at, Moose? I'll be in San Diego,
• 38:24
  Speaker 1: beautiful San Diego. All right, Well Part nine. I used
• 38:27
  Speaker 1: to work in San Diego back. Are you just visiting?
• 38:29
  Speaker 1: You live there?
• 38:30
  Speaker 4: What do you got going on?
• 38:32
  Speaker 5: Oh? No, I've been retired from the grocery business. I
• 38:35
  Speaker 5: used to work at Vond's.
• 38:36
  Speaker 4: Oh you did, all right?
• 38:37
  Speaker 1: Very cool?
• 38:39
  Speaker 4: You enjoying retirement.
• 38:41
  Speaker 5: Yeah, for the most part, it's it's ah a special
• 38:45
  Speaker 5: place to live in San Diego. But I'm hanging there.
• 38:47
  Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, it is pricey. You gotta go out to
• 38:50
  Speaker 1: like East County. That's what a little cheaper out there
• 38:52
  Speaker 1: in East County?
• 38:53
  Speaker 5: Right right? Right?
• 38:54
  Speaker 4: Yeah?
• 38:54
  Speaker 1: All right, Well let's play the game. Here we go.
• 38:56
  Speaker 4: Are you smarter than the FSR Tech Queen?
• 38:59
  Speaker 1: Thanks to Sincy Tommy by the way, loyal minion who
• 39:03
  Speaker 1: cooked up the idea, said we should do this the
• 39:05
  Speaker 1: categories this week. We have sporty, We've got geography, history,
• 39:15
  Speaker 1: and what else do we have? Let's do Should we
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  Speaker 1: do science? Let's do science? We haven't done science. We'll
• 39:20
  Speaker 1: do science?
• 39:20
  Speaker 4: All right, and very good.
• 39:23
  Speaker 1: We'll play the game.
• 39:24
  Speaker 4: Which category would you like to go with? First? There, moose?
• 39:28
  Speaker 5: How about sporty?
• 39:29
  Speaker 4: Yeah? Why not go with the sport?
• 39:31
  Speaker 1: Went out? Go with the sporty? Sure, all right, we'll
• 39:35
  Speaker 1: go with the sport. This should be a very easy one.
• 39:40
  Speaker 1: Which sport has a score of love? Which sport has
• 39:45
  Speaker 1: a score of love?
• 39:47
  Speaker 4: Lorena, you want to go first here?
• 39:49
  Speaker 7: That's a really really odd question.
• 39:51
  Speaker 4: Yes, very odd question.
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  Speaker 5: Go ahead.
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  Speaker 4: What do you think the sport that has the score
• 39:56
  Speaker 4: of love?
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  Speaker 7: It's definitely not football, nor is it hockey.
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  Speaker 4: I didn't ask what it's not. I asked what it is.
• 40:02
  Speaker 7: To be soccer, be something, girly.
• 40:05
  Speaker 1: Let's go with tennis, all right, as she's going with tennis.
• 40:08
  Speaker 1: What about you, moose, I love love. That is correct,
• 40:12
  Speaker 1: it is it is tennis.
• 40:15
  Speaker 4: That is correct. You got it right.
• 40:17
  Speaker 7: My other guest was going to be, what's the thing
• 40:19
  Speaker 7: that's like tennis but with the smaller paddles.
• 40:22
  Speaker 4: Racquetball or something like that? Or what are you talking about?
• 40:26
  Speaker 4: What's the like the hot the hot game again? Pickleball?
• 40:31
  Speaker 1: All right, well you both want one in one.
• 40:33
  Speaker 4: Let's go to geography. I like that.
• 40:35
  Speaker 7: You said tennis geography.
• 40:37
  Speaker 4: You said, Gurley, sport tennis isn't.
• 40:39
  Speaker 7: Yeah, they make skirts for it, it's obviously Gurley.
• 40:42
  Speaker 1: Well okay, oh very good. Let's play the game here.
• 40:46
  Speaker 1: Next question up. Let's see e meany miney mo All right,
• 40:51
  Speaker 1: you guys should get this right away. What divides the
• 40:56
  Speaker 1: earth into the western and Eastern hemispheres?
• 40:59
  Speaker 8: Are?
• 41:00
  Speaker 4: Are you smart on the f SR tech queen?
• 41:01
  Speaker 1: What divides the earth into the western and Eastern hemispheres?
• 41:06
  Speaker 4: Moose? You want to go first on this? Moose?
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  Speaker 5: Uh? I think it's the equator?
• 41:13
  Speaker 4: You know the equator?
• 41:14
  Speaker 1: What about you? Lorraina?
• 41:16
  Speaker 7: Okay, I actually do remember this.
• 41:19
  Speaker 4: She's getting cocky.
• 41:19
  Speaker 1: Now go away.
• 41:22
  Speaker 4: Don't influence her.
• 41:23
  Speaker 7: Please, he's influencing me. I you need to go away.
• 41:26
  Speaker 1: Is she cheating? No? Is she cheating?
• 41:28
  Speaker 7: Maybe I did.
• 41:32
  Speaker 1: Give me your phone? Give me. I'm throwing it out.
• 41:36
  Speaker 1: The question is I'm throwing it out.
• 41:40
  Speaker 4: I'm throwing it out.
• 41:42
  Speaker 1: I ain't coming for you on this time. I'm throwing
• 41:45
  Speaker 1: it out. Question.
• 41:48
  Speaker 4: We throw the question out.
• 41:50
  Speaker 7: I knew it wasn't the equator.
• 41:52
  Speaker 1: Oh no, you see the the answer was the prime meridian.
• 41:55
  Speaker 7: And you cheated, gotten it wrong?
• 41:58
  Speaker 1: You know?
• 41:58
  Speaker 5: All right?
• 41:59
  Speaker 1: All right, anyway, let's move on. Let's see a different question.
• 42:01
  Speaker 1: I can't believe that she's so mad at me.
• 42:04
  Speaker 4: Wow.
• 42:06
  Speaker 1: Let's say who.
• 42:07
  Speaker 7: Gets my food this week? Coop touch my candy?
• 42:12
  Speaker 1: All right?
• 42:13
  Speaker 4: All right, let's see you.
• 42:15
  Speaker 1: I want to find a different a science, like a
• 42:18
  Speaker 1: science he type, not what science? Well, this is alright.
• 42:22
  Speaker 1: I'm trying to find a different question that I think. Well,
• 42:24
  Speaker 1: you can't cheat at Yeah, that's impossible.
• 42:27
  Speaker 4: Let's see here, all right, heat?
• 42:30
  Speaker 1: Heat is a form of what kind of energy? Heat
• 42:34
  Speaker 1: is a form of? What kind of energy?
• 42:36
  Speaker 4: Moose? You want to go first on this?
• 42:39
  Speaker 3: Oh no, okay, I'm gonna go with friction, ben friction.
• 42:43
  Speaker 3: You think that heat is a well, it depends what
• 42:46
  Speaker 3: you're doing. You're doing it right, Moose? You agree with
• 42:50
  Speaker 3: that or you want to disagree?
• 42:52
  Speaker 5: Yeah, I gotta agree with that one.
• 42:53
  Speaker 7: Could it be a form of energy?
• 42:55
  Speaker 4: No, you are both wrong. It is thermal energy.
• 42:58
  Speaker 1: Thermal that I.
• 43:00
  Speaker 7: Did say it right, it's a form of energy. It's
• 43:01
  Speaker 7: a form.
• 43:02
  Speaker 4: Well, no, the question was I said, he's right, you're not.
• 43:04
  Speaker 1: No, you're not.
• 43:05
  Speaker 4: I said, he is a form of what kind of energy?
• 43:08
  Speaker 1: Thermal is?
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  Speaker 4: The answer?
• 43:10
  Speaker 1: You were wrong? You? You could not have been more wrong.
• 43:13
  Speaker 1: I think bad job by you. It's a bad job
• 43:16
  Speaker 1: by you. Let's go back to sporty shut up? Did
• 43:20
  Speaker 1: you cheat on the tennis one too? I was so
• 43:21
  Speaker 1: impressed with you.
• 43:22
  Speaker 4: I think she did.
• 43:23
  Speaker 1: Of course I did not I think she.
• 43:28
  Speaker 4: All right, this is you guys should get this right away,
• 43:31
  Speaker 4: all right.
• 43:31
  Speaker 1: All the the triple Crown is awarded. It is given
• 43:37
  Speaker 1: to the horse that wins which three races?
• 43:40
  Speaker 4: Which three race chans.
• 43:43
  Speaker 7: Wait like separate races, and like a Derby.
• 43:45
  Speaker 1: There are three races. This has been going on for many,
• 43:48
  Speaker 1: many years in America. You win these three races, you
• 43:50
  Speaker 1: get your crown, the triple crown winner.
• 43:53
  Speaker 5: All right.
• 43:54
  Speaker 1: What are the names of those? One should be easy?
• 43:57
  Speaker 1: She get it right away. It's actually coming up. I
• 43:59
  Speaker 1: think next week?
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  Speaker 7: Is it the Derby?
• 44:02
  Speaker 5: Well?
• 44:02
  Speaker 4: What Derby?
• 44:02
  Speaker 7: Though, the Kentucky Derby.
• 44:04
  Speaker 1: That's one of them.
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  Speaker 5: All right.
• 44:05
  Speaker 4: What's the other two?
• 44:07
  Speaker 7: The Fast Derby and the Slough?
• 44:13
  Speaker 1: All right, let's see if our buddy Moose, who's retired
• 44:16
  Speaker 1: from the grocery business there in San Diego, Moose, you
• 44:18
  Speaker 1: got any answer the triple Crown races and horse racing.
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  Speaker 1: One's easy.
• 44:25
  Speaker 5: You're the Kentucky Derby.
• 44:27
  Speaker 4: Okay, we two pakus?
• 44:31
  Speaker 7: Yeah, he googled that.
• 44:34
  Speaker 5: I think the last one is the Billboon Steaks.
• 44:38
  Speaker 1: You got it right, You got it right, Good job
• 44:41
  Speaker 1: by you. Those are the three you've got the Kentucky Derby,
• 44:44
  Speaker 1: the Preakness in Baltimore, Belmont Steaks and that's a sporty question.
• 44:49
  Speaker 1: That was the sporty question. We're out of time. We
• 44:50
  Speaker 1: can keep going, but we're out of time. All right.
• 44:52
  Speaker 1: Wa moose here you are smarter than the episode and
• 45:00
  Speaker 1: she tried to cheat anyway, So there you go.
• 45:02
  Speaker 4: Good job by.
• 45:03
  Speaker 7: You are very congratulations