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Hour 1 - Choke City · The Ben Maller Show

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  Speaker 1: The Bennyman can the Benny Man can.
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  Speaker 2: It's our number one, our one of the Ben Malers Show.
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  Speaker 2: And a happy, happy, happy Thursday to you. It is
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  Speaker 2: the eleventh day of June and we get to dissect
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  Speaker 2: one of the all time great moments in pro basketball,
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  Speaker 2: the greatest choke job in NBA history. Congratulations to Victor
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  Speaker 2: Wembanyama and the Spurs. They pulled it off. They gagged
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  Speaker 2: away a twenty nine point third quarter lead. It had
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  Speaker 2: never happened before in the NBA Finals and now it
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  Speaker 2: has so here in hour one, who gets the blame
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  Speaker 2: for Wemby's Spurs historical.
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  Speaker 1: Twenty nine point blown lead in the finals?
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  Speaker 2: Also, how much credit on the other side do you
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  Speaker 2: give Jalen Brunson's Knickerbockers as they get the comeback win?
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  Speaker 2: And is this NBA Finals in the fridge for Jalen
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  Speaker 2: Brunson and the Knicks up three games to one. We'll
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  Speaker 2: Not only is this a great night to roast like
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  Speaker 2: a pig at a luau, a traditional Hawaiian lua the
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  Speaker 2: San Antonio spurs.
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  Speaker 1: What a gag.
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  Speaker 2: We'll have fun with that all night. And also, as
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  Speaker 2: in the green room right now that we're going to
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  Speaker 2: hour for this to work. There's forty eight teams at
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  Speaker 2: this start of the World Cup, and a bunch of
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  Speaker 2: these teams are not very good and they suck and
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  Speaker 2: they'll be kicked out and all that. But we'll do
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  Speaker 2: all forty eight. We'll explain more about that coming up
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  Speaker 2: in a little bit.
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  Speaker 1: Big night.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, really, just we're globe trekkers here with the
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  Speaker 2: World Cup.
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  Speaker 1: Pick them. It's just so freaking exciting.
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  Speaker 2: We are fired up, however, our lead, so don't bear
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  Speaker 2: the lead. My man, Oh what a night now. As
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  Speaker 2: we often point out, and again got an email from
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  Speaker 2: a listener in the New York area, New Jersey who
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  Speaker 2: was like, oh man, you must be fired up then
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  Speaker 2: to get in there and talk about the game. And
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  Speaker 2: I'm like, and my reaction is always the same to this,
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  Speaker 2: because we get paid this. It's like, we don't get
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  Speaker 2: paid extra if the game's good or if there's something
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  Speaker 2: that's like really amazing that happens, we get paid the same.
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  Speaker 2: Where there's no gifts. We did it during the pandemic,
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  Speaker 2: there were no games. We were talking about Marble racing,
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  Speaker 2: and it was the same thing. But our lead this
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  Speaker 2: hour is from New New York City, right above Penn Station.
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  Speaker 2: That was the Hippodrome for game number four.
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  Speaker 1: Of the NBA.
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  Speaker 2: That's right, the NBA Finals now Wemby and San Antonio
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  Speaker 2: trying to square the books up against Jalen Brunson and
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  Speaker 2: the Knicks. And were you watching, Perhaps not, maybe you
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  Speaker 2: were watching, you turned it off.
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  Speaker 1: Well, if you did, bad job by you.
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  Speaker 2: The Knickerbockers came back and back and back and all
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  Speaker 2: the way back, as they had a record setting night
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  Speaker 2: down twenty nine points on multiple occasions, and they are
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  Speaker 2: now on the brink of a civil unrest in New
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  Speaker 2: York when the lunatic Nick fans start celebrating there but
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  Speaker 2: the first Championships its nineteen seventy three, is in the
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  Speaker 2: on deck circle as the Knicks rally back for a
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  Speaker 2: one oh seven to one oh six win in a
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  Speaker 2: game that will be remembered for a long time until
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  Speaker 2: we all die, and then it will be forgotten. The
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  Speaker 2: game was decided by og Annobi, who was not blocked
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  Speaker 2: out by the San Antonio Spurs, who were caught napping.
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  Speaker 1: He ran all the way in and tippy mctip and.
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  Speaker 2: The miss of Jalen Brunson's three ball tempt with one
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  Speaker 2: point two seconds remaining, and that the kill shot. As
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  Speaker 2: the Knicks get a three to one lead. Now in
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  Speaker 2: the NBA Finals, that means they have three chances not
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  Speaker 2: to f this up and win the championship. Jalen Brunson
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  Speaker 2: helping bring the Knicks back with thirty six points and
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  Speaker 2: og Nanobi had thirty three. Now, the better story is
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  Speaker 2: in the losing locker room the Spurs, who somehow had
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  Speaker 2: a twenty nine point lead and looked like they'd win
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  Speaker 2: by seventy. They had a twenty seven point halftime lead,
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  Speaker 2: they went up by twenty nine a couple points in
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  Speaker 2: the third quarter, and it all went away. All went
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  Speaker 2: to hell right there. And that is a good jumping
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  Speaker 2: off point. So let us discuss now the question, which
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  Speaker 2: is rather obvious is who gets the blame for Wemby's
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  Speaker 2: Spurs on a historical twenty nine point blown lead in
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  Speaker 2: the NBA Finals.
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  Speaker 1: Holy crap on a cracker.
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  Speaker 2: So my thoughts on this, I've got speakeasy Sergeant Pepper
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  Speaker 2: and leftover lasagna, and we're gonna put all of these
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  Speaker 2: things together and we're going to choke on some Texas toast,
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  Speaker 2: which I think is what the Spurs did. So first
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  Speaker 2: of all, welcome to CSI MSG. It's as CSI MSG.
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  Speaker 2: Doctor Mahler is in and we are now performing a
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  Speaker 2: forensic pathology report, the autopsy on the corpse of the
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  Speaker 2: San Antonio Spurs.
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  Speaker 1: The Spurs didn't just.
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  Speaker 2: Blow a twenty nine point NBA Finals lead, they donated
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  Speaker 2: it to charity.
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  Speaker 1: It's taxed to doctor book. Congratulations.
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  Speaker 2: Now, they were up eighty one fifty two with nine
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  Speaker 2: on the clock above the Mecca in the third quarter,
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  Speaker 2: and that is about the point Mitch Johnson, listen, Mitch
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  Speaker 2: Johnson became Professor Doom, teaching a disaster class as coach.
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  Speaker 2: Over the final twenty one plus minutes, San Antonio fell
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  Speaker 2: like they were at the Alamo.
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  Speaker 1: That didn't end well. People hear the Alamo. The ending
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  Speaker 1: was not good for the people at the Alamo.
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  Speaker 2: Outscored fifty five to twenty five from the nine to
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  Speaker 2: forty mark of the third quarter to the end.
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  Speaker 1: Of the game.
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  Speaker 2: And why well, they have an addiction prom addicted to
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  Speaker 2: the three ball. Live by the three, Die by the
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  Speaker 2: three The Spurs Biblical meltdown, which this was. They messed
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  Speaker 2: with the basketball gods with all the moneyballs. They kept shooting.
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  Speaker 2: The basketball gods giveth and the basketball gods taketh away
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  Speaker 2: the spurs offending the mojo of basketball.
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  Speaker 1: They shot a horrific two of fifteen.
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  Speaker 2: And I'm just talking about the stretch where they blew
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  Speaker 2: the twenty nine point leads. So the rest of the
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  Speaker 2: game the numbers were different, but two of fifteen from
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  Speaker 2: up twenty nine to losing by one, that's thirteen point
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  Speaker 2: three percent, my computer, like brain tells me. And from downtown,
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  Speaker 2: and they from the floor took thirty five shots when
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  Speaker 2: they went up by twenty nine, they only made six
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  Speaker 2: of them seventeen point one percent on two pointers. Throw
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  Speaker 2: in eight turnovers and four assists, and you have the
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  Speaker 2: collapse combo meal that is fully complete and supersized there
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  Speaker 2: for san Antonio.
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  Speaker 1: And I didn't play in the NBA. I just don't
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  Speaker 1: think that's good. Oh, your mean malor your mean mailer.
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  Speaker 1: Why would you say that, I.
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  Speaker 2: Mean, what would you think? You think it's easy to shoot? Yeah,
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  Speaker 2: seventeen point one percent. They shot seventeen point one percent
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  Speaker 2: for the four thirteen point three percent from three point
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  Speaker 2: range to close out the game up twenty.
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  Speaker 1: Nine to lose.
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  Speaker 2: Now, Mitch Johnson, who should be fired at this point?
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  Speaker 2: I'd fire him right now. I'd fire him in the
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  Speaker 2: middle of the series.
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  Speaker 1: What are you doing? What are you doing? Anyway?
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  Speaker 2: Here's mis Johnson that plausibly for now, the coach of
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  Speaker 2: the Spurs, trying to explain how he just was on
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  Speaker 2: the sidelines for the single greatest suck in the history
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  Speaker 2: of basketball.
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  Speaker 1: Take a listen, Yeah, I mean at the.
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  Speaker 4: Top of the list, just in terms of obviously the
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  Speaker 4: circumstances and the stakes of what we're playing for, and
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  Speaker 4: to put as much good work into that first half
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  Speaker 4: as we did and get the lead that we had
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  Speaker 4: and not finish a job as dress I wanted to
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  Speaker 4: say the least.
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  Speaker 2: He also said that they needed tough minded plays. He
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  Speaker 2: said they needed some tough minded plays. Now that part
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  Speaker 2: of it is coach speak for my guys turned into
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  Speaker 2: jet puff marshmallows.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: In fact, just to prove I'm not making that up,
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  Speaker 2: here's the coach here, Mitch Johnson talking about tough minded plays.
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  Speaker 4: Listen, I mean, honestly, it was tough. He felt the
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  Speaker 4: momentum too much, trevorcomm I didn't feel that until the
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  Speaker 4: clock hit Zeros. I mean there was times where again
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  Speaker 4: I felt was part of that third quarter, and then
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  Speaker 4: some part probably early mid and the fourth quarter again
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  Speaker 4: where we just we got away from playing the Brandon
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  Speaker 4: basketball got us the lead, and then you saw the
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  Speaker 4: times aggressiveness and the just conviction that we played with
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  Speaker 4: early on dissipated a little bit and they made some shots,
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  Speaker 4: and that's where you felt the momentum a little bit.
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  Speaker 4: We just needed a few more tough minded plays to
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  Speaker 4: finish the job.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: Again, that's him calling his team soft. That's the coach
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  Speaker 2: calling his players soft, and he's not wrong. That was
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  Speaker 2: marshmallow soft. We talked about the fluffer nutter this week.
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  Speaker 2: That's a fluffer nutter for San Antonio. Now, Victor Wembanyama,
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  Speaker 2: this is on his resume. Wemby officially earned his pilot's license.
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  Speaker 2: Congratulations Wenby, you are now qualified to fly the vomit
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  Speaker 2: comet choking away the game. Now mentioned, all these numbers
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  Speaker 2: are when the Spurs went up by twenty nine to me,
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  Speaker 2: that's obviously the twenty point from that point on up
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  Speaker 2: twenty nine to the end of the game, Wenby took
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  Speaker 2: twelve shots, he made two of them, two of twelve,
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  Speaker 2: and the final twenty one minutes plus and he went
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  Speaker 2: zero of two from missed a couple of big shots
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  Speaker 2: from the charity strap. And then you've got the Fox
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  Speaker 2: oh Man making our radio network look bad. Daron Fox,
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  Speaker 2: once a Sacramento King, always a Sacramento King. Foxy went
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  Speaker 2: one of seven from the floor with four turnovers in
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  Speaker 2: that fateful stretch from nine to forty to.
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  Speaker 1: Go in the third quarter.
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  Speaker 2: To the end of the game, including the bone headed
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  Speaker 2: play of the day. That's right, the boneheaded play of
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  Speaker 2: the day, which will be discussed and analyzed, and all
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  Speaker 2: that up one spurs up one thirteen seconds left, and
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  Speaker 2: this is one of those you make the call moments.
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  Speaker 1: Okay, so you're Daron Fox. You have options.
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  Speaker 2: You could dribble it out, force the Knicks to foul,
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  Speaker 2: you play the foul game and they got a foul
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  Speaker 2: you because the time's gonna run out. Or you could
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  Speaker 2: call a time out and reset and run and play
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  Speaker 2: that way. Well, dearon Fox decided, I don't want to
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  Speaker 2: dribble out and get fouled, and I want to call
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  Speaker 2: a time out. Instead, I'm gonna choose option C. I'm
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  Speaker 2: going to force a layup attempt against a shadow defender
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  Speaker 2: OG and Aenobi who's draped all over me. And what
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  Speaker 2: does Anonobe do? He goes mutambo as we used to
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  Speaker 2: stay back in the day and swats it away and
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  Speaker 2: that set up New York.
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  Speaker 1: For what turned out to be the game winning possession.
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  Speaker 2: And again, the basketball gods giveth, the basketball gods taketh away.
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  Speaker 2: And now that said, it's not all bad news for Wemby,
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  Speaker 2: Foxy and Mitch, because these boys have earned the secret
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  Speaker 2: password to the speakeasy at the Sports Suck Bar and
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  Speaker 2: they can now have cocktails with other choke artists, for example,
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  Speaker 2: the Dirty Birds. I see Matt Ryan over there, Julio Jones,
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  Speaker 2: coach Dan Quinn at the speakeasy of Sports Suck.
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  Speaker 1: They're all in there.
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  Speaker 2: Members of that Yankee team that blew it against the
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  Speaker 2: Red Sox and the American League Championship Series.
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  Speaker 1: Those guys are in there as well, having a grand
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  Speaker 1: old time. Now.
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  Speaker 2: Secondly, on the New York side of things, here the
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  Speaker 2: question how much credit do Jalen Brunson's knicks get for
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  Speaker 2: the comeback? So on the malor big board, not a
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  Speaker 2: list Terry and England on the big board. I'm giving
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  Speaker 2: them five percent. They didn't come back. I'm not going
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  Speaker 2: to call this a comeback. They just waited for the
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  Speaker 2: Spurs to choke on their own puke. And that's exactly
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  Speaker 2: what the Spurs did. And yet the Knicks are getting
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  Speaker 2: I've seen some of the coaches. They're getting a media
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  Speaker 2: tongue bath.
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  Speaker 1: It is.
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  Speaker 2: This tongue bath is so deep, I think we need
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  Speaker 2: to call in a lifeguard for safety reason. Now, listen,
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  Speaker 2: Brunson and og An Andobi they played well, obviously down
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  Speaker 2: the stretch, and they combined to score thirty three of
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  Speaker 2: the fifty five points in the twenty nine point comeback
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  Speaker 2: from that point, and they shot twelve of eighteen and
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  Speaker 2: that was obviously great. In fact, it's sixty six point
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  Speaker 2: six percent, which is a sign of the devil, which
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  Speaker 2: is who the Spurs are hanging out with. After that performance,
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  Speaker 2: Bruntson and og look like the adults in the room,
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  Speaker 2: and the Spurs look.
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  Speaker 1: Like the kids in the back of the room that
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  Speaker 1: eat glue. That's what they look like.
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  Speaker 2: And so you give the Knicks a little bit of
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  Speaker 2: credit for not throwing in the sponge, and so they
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  Speaker 2: kept Scratchy and clong.
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  Speaker 1: I believe that's worth five percent.
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  Speaker 2: However, the garage band started here, and it was Sergeant
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  Speaker 2: Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club band. It is mathematically impossible, mathematically
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  Speaker 2: impossible to rally back from twenty nine points down against
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  Speaker 2: a smart basketball team, against a team that just plays
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  Speaker 2: fundamental basketball. The way that you are able to come
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  Speaker 2: back from twenty nine down, you can't do it without
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  Speaker 2: a little help from my friends or in this case,
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  Speaker 2: the Spurs acting like the Beatles. They were accomplices. Most
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  Speaker 2: games are lost, they're not won. This is a textbook example.
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  Speaker 2: As we said, the said disaster class, absolute disaster class
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  Speaker 2: by the Knickerbockers. Now the final thought here, big picture,
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  Speaker 2: big picture. The Spurs are facing elimination. Things are not
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  Speaker 2: going well. Here's Victor Wembanyama on the state of the Spurs.
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  Speaker 6: What's going through my mind right now. I think he's
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  Speaker 6: gonna go one of two ways, one of two ways
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  Speaker 6: and a bad one and a good one. And I
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  Speaker 6: know the bad one would be giving up. The good
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  Speaker 6: one would be getting struggler through this, getting more together.
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  Speaker 6: And I know this is what we're gonna do.
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  Speaker 1: Want to bet on that question?
• 17:34
  Speaker 2: Is this NBA Finals in the fridge for Jalen Brunson
• 17:37
  Speaker 2: and the Knicks up three games to one. So I'm
• 17:41
  Speaker 2: nodding my head, Yes, this is shocking up. There is
• 17:45
  Speaker 2: no such thing as momentum, so it's not like the Knicker.
• 17:48
  Speaker 2: You just gotta have all the momentum going into the
• 17:50
  Speaker 2: next game. I saw something. I saw a sign that
• 17:53
  Speaker 2: I'll get to in a second. But as Chicky Baby,
• 17:55
  Speaker 2: this old you don't even know this guy's are Before
• 17:57
  Speaker 2: you were alive. There was this guy named chick Hern
• 17:59
  Speaker 2: who broadcast the Laker games. I actually liked him. I
• 18:02
  Speaker 2: was around him a little bit back in the day
• 18:03
  Speaker 2: when I was a young lad, and he would say,
• 18:06
  Speaker 2: this series is in the refrigerator, the doors closed, the
• 18:09
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• 18:11
  Speaker 2: getting hard. In a Jello's jigglin. This thing appears to
• 18:15
  Speaker 2: be vacuum sealed, time stamped, and shoved behind the leftover lasagna.
• 18:20
  Speaker 1: That you had back in April.
• 18:22
  Speaker 2: The body language, that's to me the tell for this
• 18:25
  Speaker 2: first big body language guy, Benny body language. I saw
• 18:29
  Speaker 2: the surrender Cobra. I saw the surrender cobra. That is
• 18:34
  Speaker 2: a universal sign. Universal hands atop the head. Pose, all right,
• 18:40
  Speaker 2: hands atop the head as you realize defeat is inevitable,
• 18:45
  Speaker 2: and you put your hands above your head like that.
• 18:47
  Speaker 1: The math ain't math in here.
• 18:49
  Speaker 2: The only path for san Antonio back involves twisted ankles,
• 18:55
  Speaker 2: divine intervention, and some kind of clerical error. And forget
• 19:00
  Speaker 2: just the nuns that they have in San Antonio. If
• 19:04
  Speaker 2: the Spurs want to flip this, they need more than
• 19:08
  Speaker 2: just holy water I'm talking about. They should bring in
• 19:10
  Speaker 2: a rabbi, a priest, a shaman, voodoo dolls, bags of garlic,
• 19:17
  Speaker 2: garlic bulbs, the whole thing. San Antonio needs a total
• 19:21
  Speaker 2: spiritual reboot to ward off the bag juju man.
• 19:27
  Speaker 1: They should They should call the Ghostbusters. Who you gonna call?
• 19:31
  Speaker 1: Call the Ghostbusters? All right? Is the Ben Mahlor Show.
• 19:34
  Speaker 2: As we are just beginning here what I need and
• 19:37
  Speaker 2: this is gonna be a little different, and we'll take
• 19:38
  Speaker 2: obviously calls. We'll try to work some calls in. We
• 19:40
  Speaker 2: have a lot of things planned. As it is the
• 19:44
  Speaker 2: World Cup. Pick them the hoppers in the green room.
• 19:46
  Speaker 2: I will bring in the hopper to the main studio
• 19:48
  Speaker 2: here and we'll spin the hopper every team and we'll
• 19:52
  Speaker 2: go over the rules. Every team has a number in
• 19:53
  Speaker 2: the World Cup, so we need the callers to be
• 19:56
  Speaker 2: represented here. So we need a call to represent the people.
• 20:02
  Speaker 2: So there'll be four teams. Myself, Ben High Loraino will
• 20:08
  Speaker 2: have a team, Coop will have a team, and then
• 20:10
  Speaker 2: the people, and you'll represent the people.
• 20:12
  Speaker 1: And we want to have somebody new each hour.
• 20:14
  Speaker 2: It's very exciting, and we're Wilson, We're worldly people here.
• 20:19
  Speaker 2: We're not just evil Americans that just worry about America.
• 20:22
  Speaker 2: We're worried about the world, our brothers and sisters all
• 20:24
  Speaker 2: over the world. So we'll have the World Cup pick them.
• 20:26
  Speaker 2: We'll begin that, and we need a caller for that,
• 20:28
  Speaker 2: and also want to react. Obviously, this is the greatest
• 20:30
  Speaker 2: choke job in NBA history, not the greatest come back,
• 20:32
  Speaker 2: the greatest choke job by the San Antonio Spurs. Wake
• 20:35
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  Speaker 2: right now at eight seven seven ninety nine on Fox.
• 21:53
  Speaker 2: That's eight seven seven nine nine six six three six nine,
• 21:57
  Speaker 2: As we saw the greatest choke job in the history
• 21:59
  Speaker 2: of pro basket ball. Congratulations to the San Antonio Spurs.
• 22:02
  Speaker 2: You are the laughing stock of the NBA. Everyone is
• 22:05
  Speaker 2: pointing their fingers and going haa wow.
• 22:10
  Speaker 1: Twenty nine point lead. You gagged it away. What an embarrassment,
• 22:14
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• 22:46
  Speaker 1: Yes, all right, we are pressing on. Yes, we are
• 22:51
  Speaker 1: pressing on and on and on and on and on.
• 22:56
  Speaker 2: As talking to some basketball got the World Cup, the
• 23:00
  Speaker 2: World Cup pick them, which is coming up, and so
• 23:03
  Speaker 2: we need to have an on air meeting about the
• 23:05
  Speaker 2: World Cup pick them, So I think we'll probably do
• 23:07
  Speaker 2: that right now. So we have to figure out the
• 23:09
  Speaker 2: points system for the World Cup pick them. A lot
• 23:12
  Speaker 2: of these teams that we're going to be drafting are terrible.
• 23:15
  Speaker 2: They're absolutely horrible teams, just complete no chance to win
• 23:18
  Speaker 2: the World Cup from what I have what I've read,
• 23:20
  Speaker 2: I've been reading up on the World Cup because I
• 23:22
  Speaker 2: gotta study for this, although it was really nothing to
• 23:23
  Speaker 2: study for. We have the hopper. The hopper has arrived.
• 23:28
  Speaker 8: You hear that, the mighty all knowing hopper.
• 23:30
  Speaker 1: Yeah, the hopper is here. It was in the green room,
• 23:33
  Speaker 1: was having a cocktail.
• 23:34
  Speaker 2: It is possibly inebriated, so who knows what that means
• 23:37
  Speaker 2: for the hopper.
• 23:39
  Speaker 1: It seems to be somewhat inebriated.
• 23:41
  Speaker 2: So I will I will send the I have alphabetically
• 23:45
  Speaker 2: organized every There's a number next to each team name
• 23:50
  Speaker 2: starting with it's alphabetical, so Argentina will be first ball
• 23:54
  Speaker 2: number one. And who's Beka Stan? Who's Beka Stan?
• 23:59
  Speaker 6: Is?
• 23:59
  Speaker 1: I guess there's forty Well, there's forty nine teams. Apparently
• 24:02
  Speaker 1: I thought there was forty eight. Huh wait a.
• 24:04
  Speaker 2: Minute, so wait, wait, I know it says forty nine.
• 24:08
  Speaker 2: I think my math might be off. Here is it
• 24:11
  Speaker 2: is uh Uruguay in there? Let's see here, Turkey, Well,
• 24:15
  Speaker 2: we're all we have our first mistake. We have our
• 24:17
  Speaker 2: first mistake on the on the World Cup thing here?
• 24:21
  Speaker 2: All right, Well it's forty some say forty eight, So
• 24:24
  Speaker 2: I guess I have forty nine on my my big boar,
• 24:26
  Speaker 2: how about forty and he's forty eight?
• 24:28
  Speaker 8: Yeah, forty eight, and that's what I'm reading.
• 24:30
  Speaker 2: All right, let me send you the forty I have.
• 24:32
  Speaker 2: I have the forty eight I have, and then for
• 24:35
  Speaker 2: some reason.
• 24:35
  Speaker 9: It was I'm sure when we hit one of them twice,
• 24:38
  Speaker 9: well know right.
• 24:39
  Speaker 1: Well, some countries I guess go by two different names.
• 24:42
  Speaker 1: Is that what we're supposed to is that? You know,
• 24:45
  Speaker 1: they're weird like that? What are you eating? By the way,
• 24:47
  Speaker 1: this is a time of work. I needed a dib.
• 24:52
  Speaker 9: I needed some DIBs. Okay, okay. You know those little
• 24:54
  Speaker 9: ice cream things you put in your mouth there, like
• 24:56
  Speaker 9: little bite sized ice cream?
• 24:57
  Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, yeah, this is the least to.
• 25:00
  Speaker 9: Melt as you eat them, which makes them so much better.
• 25:03
  Speaker 1: Yeah, that's the that's the thing, all right.
• 25:05
  Speaker 2: So I've said to the see which team doesn't belong coop,
• 25:08
  Speaker 2: and we'll just take that team out and then we
• 25:09
  Speaker 2: can we can edit that.
• 25:11
  Speaker 1: We'll trim that down as.
• 25:13
  Speaker 2: We work our way through here and the reaction of
• 25:17
  Speaker 2: the people. I do need somebody to do we have
• 25:19
  Speaker 2: somebody to represent the people here.
• 25:21
  Speaker 1: Yeah, trim of.
• 25:22
  Speaker 8: These people on hold called specifically for that. But I'm
• 25:24
  Speaker 8: sure that well, I mean, except accept line four there, that's.
• 25:29
  Speaker 1: Exactly for I don't know. Let me see line four here.
• 25:32
  Speaker 1: What we got I have to click my board here
• 25:36
  Speaker 1: line for see one two.
• 25:38
  Speaker 2: Oh boy, really are you sure about that?
• 25:41
  Speaker 8: That's really that's the only person that called specifically for.
• 25:43
  Speaker 1: That line for one of the jeez, I don't know
• 25:47
  Speaker 1: that we want line for all.
• 25:48
  Speaker 2: Right, Well, we've got to figure out which team doesn't
• 25:50
  Speaker 2: belong because I have forty eight balls in the hopper.
• 25:52
  Speaker 2: I don't have forty nine. So we got to throw
• 25:54
  Speaker 2: a team out. How about that? We can throw a
• 25:56
  Speaker 2: team out? Who do you want to throw out?
• 25:58
  Speaker 1: Tunisia? Do we want to throw them out? Senegal? What else?
• 26:06
  Speaker 2: What else we got? We've got Morocco. They're not gonna
• 26:09
  Speaker 2: win anything, right Morocco?
• 26:10
  Speaker 1: I got no change.
• 26:11
  Speaker 8: Well, first of all, yes, this is not an alphabetical order.
• 26:16
  Speaker 8: I mean I've already seen the Algeria and Argentina should
• 26:19
  Speaker 8: be even swap.
• 26:21
  Speaker 1: Okay, well that's the order.
• 26:22
  Speaker 2: Okay, that's the freaking order we're doing here. Okay, everything's um.
• 26:28
  Speaker 2: You want to go through a number everything you want
• 26:30
  Speaker 2: to do that, go ahead. You got plenty of time
• 26:33
  Speaker 2: because we got to do this, like right now, we
• 26:36
  Speaker 2: have no time.
• 26:37
  Speaker 1: This is oh my god, you know what, let me
• 26:41
  Speaker 1: get some reactions.
• 26:41
  Speaker 8: And so I was trying to find the extra country,
• 26:46
  Speaker 8: and then it confused.
• 26:47
  Speaker 1: Me, It says.
• 26:49
  Speaker 2: The thing I got from it, say, is the tournament
• 26:51
  Speaker 2: fields forty eight teen some published listed.
• 26:54
  Speaker 1: Uh okay, here we go, so.
• 26:55
  Speaker 2: Cobbo Verde and Cape Verde and Ivory Coast and something
• 27:01
  Speaker 2: else interchangeably. So let's see, Well, what about Ivory Coast
• 27:09
  Speaker 2: and something else? Is Cabo Verde on there? Oh man,
• 27:13
  Speaker 2: this is a lot harder than I thought. Forty eight teams.
• 27:15
  Speaker 9: Ivory Coast is on there too.
• 27:17
  Speaker 2: Yeah, I see Ivory Coast.
• 27:19
  Speaker 1: But is okay? All right, we'll figure it out. We'll
• 27:21
  Speaker 1: just start, We'll just go through it, and then what
• 27:23
  Speaker 1: the end if we have an extra team. There's no
• 27:24
  Speaker 1: way we'll have an extra teams.
• 27:25
  Speaker 2: They get forty eight balls in the hopper, and that's
• 27:27
  Speaker 2: how it's going to go. Let's see the reaction of
• 27:29
  Speaker 2: the game. Let's see here at page down. As begel
• 27:34
  Speaker 2: Boy says, as Chuck said, the dumbest players ever. Sean
• 27:38
  Speaker 2: in the Valley of the Sun says, twenty six years
• 27:42
  Speaker 2: listening to you this month, let's do another twenty six
• 27:45
  Speaker 2: Your Dodgers are unstoppable.
• 27:47
  Speaker 1: And when they lost to the pirates, but thank you Sean.
• 27:49
  Speaker 2: And I remember Sean because I was working on the
• 27:51
  Speaker 2: weekends when I started here and with I was going
• 27:53
  Speaker 2: to show with Jason Smith. We did show together on
• 27:55
  Speaker 2: the weekends in the early days of Fox Sports radios,
• 27:58
  Speaker 2: like two thousand and Sean had the birth of his
• 28:03
  Speaker 2: son in like two thousand and one, I think it was,
• 28:05
  Speaker 2: and I was kids like all, you know, in his
• 28:06
  Speaker 2: mid twenties or whatever. Jerry writes in he says the
• 28:09
  Speaker 2: NBA is rigged blatant as the La Mayor race. He says,
• 28:13
  Speaker 2: Mark the full name guy is up all night and
• 28:16
  Speaker 2: he's harassing me.
• 28:17
  Speaker 1: He's a one of these annoying nick fans. That's just
• 28:22
  Speaker 1: completely out there. What else do we have?
• 28:25
  Speaker 2: King Roy says, I have some terrible news. The world
• 28:28
  Speaker 2: famous Culver's Barn in beaver Dam, Wisconsin was blown down.
• 28:33
  Speaker 1: Due to severe storms that rolled through. Oh no, they
• 28:36
  Speaker 1: got to.
• 28:36
  Speaker 2: Rebuild the Culver's Barn in beaver Dam. That must be fixed.
• 28:43
  Speaker 2: Spend tax dollars, get get that fixed. Absolutely. Listener Ben
• 28:48
  Speaker 2: writes and says, spurs Nation will riot with Mitch Johnson
• 28:51
  Speaker 2: coaching his coaching choke job, handing New York the victory.
• 28:57
  Speaker 1: Late night drug test, he says.
• 28:58
  Speaker 2: Hopefully the hopper was being watched by a certified accounting firm,
• 29:05
  Speaker 2: so he says. Terry in England says, a list in
• 29:08
  Speaker 2: our one a a block, absolute high honor for your efforts.
• 29:13
  Speaker 2: He says, right, I know what you're talking about. And
• 29:15
  Speaker 2: Jill has literally fainted. She's the nick fan in Minnesota
• 29:19
  Speaker 2: and she is passed out now at this point. Okay,
• 29:22
  Speaker 2: let's get to the big event. Boy, this is so exciting.
• 29:27
  Speaker 2: And by the way, my name is Ben Malch. Yeah
• 29:29
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• 29:44
  Speaker 1: The World Cup beginning.
• 29:45
  Speaker 2: Here shortly and hollering change is going to represent the people.
• 29:51
  Speaker 1: This is very exciting. We got to do at least well,
• 29:55
  Speaker 1: let's go try.
• 29:56
  Speaker 2: To do two rounds at least to get him in quick.
• 29:57
  Speaker 2: We'll see if we have time for a third or
• 29:59
  Speaker 2: fourth round. I think we might run out of time.
• 30:02
  Speaker 1: Are you there, hollering, James, are you there? James, hollering James'
• 30:07
  Speaker 1: are the air?
• 30:09
  Speaker 6: Yes?
• 30:09
  Speaker 2: Here?
• 30:09
  Speaker 4: All right?
• 30:10
  Speaker 1: This is the World Cup. Pick them.
• 30:11
  Speaker 2: There are four teams in the order will go the
• 30:14
  Speaker 2: same as the NFL book them. I will go first
• 30:17
  Speaker 2: High I'm Ben, then Coop and then Lorena and then
• 30:21
  Speaker 2: hollering James, representing the people this hour, and if you
• 30:23
  Speaker 2: like this next hour, somebody else will get to represent
• 30:26
  Speaker 2: the people. Okay, everyone good? All right, Here we go
• 30:30
  Speaker 2: the hopper. I am spinning the hopper. Here we go,
• 30:33
  Speaker 2: spin big money, big money, big money, and the hopper
• 30:38
  Speaker 2: is still going around here.
• 30:39
  Speaker 8: Hold on, I found the mistake.
• 30:41
  Speaker 1: Okay, what is it?
• 30:42
  Speaker 8: I don't think Poland is supposed to be in there?
• 30:44
  Speaker 1: Okay, take him out there? Fine, all right, here we go, Coop.
• 30:47
  Speaker 2: My first team is number seventeen, Number seventeen.
• 30:51
  Speaker 6: What is that?
• 30:51
  Speaker 1: Coop?
• 30:52
  Speaker 8: All right?
• 30:52
  Speaker 1: Do you have England? Is that good? I think so?
• 30:56
  Speaker 1: Not carry in England? Baby? These teams? All right, who's next? Coop?
• 31:01
  Speaker 1: You're up?
• 31:02
  Speaker 8: It's a country I've heard of.
• 31:03
  Speaker 1: I've heard of them. Yes, all right, here we go,
• 31:05
  Speaker 1: Here we go. This is the World Cup. Pick me.
• 31:08
  Speaker 8: Listen to our live Come on, number one, number one,
• 31:10
  Speaker 8: let's go number one.
• 31:11
  Speaker 1: All right, Coop, you you got number eight? What is
• 31:14
  Speaker 1: number eight? Coop?
• 31:16
  Speaker 8: Cabo Verde? What it sounds like a Mexican restaurant.
• 31:21
  Speaker 1: It sounds like a dinner special, the Cabo ver All right, Lorena,
• 31:28
  Speaker 1: you're up. You're listening to Live World Cup pick him on.
• 31:30
  Speaker 1: Nobody else has this other than the Ben Mather Show
• 31:32
  Speaker 1: on Fox. We have a hopper.
• 31:34
  Speaker 2: If you can hear, that's the I'm spinning the hopper, Lorena,
• 31:38
  Speaker 2: I am spinning the hopper. You got a green ball,
• 31:43
  Speaker 2: and that is number forty eight, number forty eight.
• 31:48
  Speaker 8: You got' aguay 'uruguay, Uruguay?
• 31:55
  Speaker 1: Way you'uguay? Okay, all right, so you are congratulations. Do
• 32:03
  Speaker 1: you know where that is? South America? Right in that
• 32:05
  Speaker 1: South America?
• 32:07
  Speaker 9: Don't ask me.
• 32:10
  Speaker 8: She can't even point out where Missouri is.
• 32:12
  Speaker 2: All right, she didn't know what the capitalists of California is. Okay,
• 32:16
  Speaker 2: let's see here hollering James. You're ready, James, you ready?
• 32:20
  Speaker 1: Here we go, roam. Okay. Let's see here. Number twenty
• 32:25
  Speaker 1: four for hollering James. Number twenty four.
• 32:27
  Speaker 2: Ivory Coast, Oh, James, congratulations, The Ivory Coast.
• 32:34
  Speaker 8: Is that?
• 32:37
  Speaker 1: No, I don't think that's Brazil.
• 32:38
  Speaker 7: I mean that is that?
• 32:40
  Speaker 1: Where is the Ivy Africa? Is that Africa? The Ivory Coast?
• 32:44
  Speaker 1: Am I right on that? I don't know? S all right? Yes,
• 32:46
  Speaker 1: you know what? You're all right? Where do I win?
• 32:49
  Speaker 8: West African Nation?
• 32:52
  Speaker 4: What?
• 32:53
  Speaker 1: All right?
• 32:56
  Speaker 6: I was going to play South Africa?
• 32:58
  Speaker 1: Shut up? Did should James? Going next? Coop? You want
• 33:00
  Speaker 1: to do a reverse order this time?
• 33:02
  Speaker 4: Yeah?
• 33:02
  Speaker 8: I guess that.
• 33:03
  Speaker 6: All right?
• 33:03
  Speaker 1: Well, James, you get to go again. Here this is
• 33:06
  Speaker 1: round two. I'm spinning the hopper.
• 33:08
  Speaker 2: You can see the see spinner here, big money, big money,
• 33:13
  Speaker 2: And here we go, and the hopper spits out for James.
• 33:17
  Speaker 1: Number forty five, number forty five for Hollween James, what
• 33:22
  Speaker 1: is that?
• 33:22
  Speaker 8: Tunisia?
• 33:23
  Speaker 1: Tunisia? Congratulations? I don't think so. No, no, no, it's not.
• 33:29
  Speaker 1: Let's go here, all right, Loraina your next World Cup?
• 33:32
  Speaker 1: Pick him? Next team for Loraina, Let's go number.
• 33:36
  Speaker 2: Number thirty two, number Tama, Oh the Panama Canal?
• 33:41
  Speaker 3: All right?
• 33:42
  Speaker 1: And Coop is up next. It's World Cup and here
• 33:45
  Speaker 1: we go. Let's see here. What do we got next?
• 33:48
  Speaker 1: Up on the number thirty, number thirty What are you
• 33:50
  Speaker 1: at there?
• 33:51
  Speaker 8: New Zealand? I think that's all.
• 33:53
  Speaker 2: That's I love New Zealand. I did radio there for
• 33:56
  Speaker 2: a long time in Auckland, New Zealand. They loved me there,
• 33:58
  Speaker 2: unless they I don't do it anymore.
• 34:00
  Speaker 1: Maybe not. All right, let's see here, let's see big
• 34:02
  Speaker 1: money is spinning.
• 34:02
  Speaker 2: The hopper and last one for me, number twenty nine,
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  Speaker 2: number twenty nine.
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  Speaker 6: What is that?
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  Speaker 8: Coop the Netherlands. I think that's a gone.
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  Speaker 1: I think that's a good one. I believe, so that
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  Speaker 1: seems like it would be a good one. That seems
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  Speaker 1: like they are in the soccer in the Netherlands. Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: I have no idea. Okay, that's it for now.
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  Speaker 6: Right.
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  Speaker 1: We got two rounds in. That's probably not enough, but
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  Speaker 1: that's all.
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  Speaker 6: I mean.
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  Speaker 2: You can't keep doing this right every hour we're going
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  Speaker 2: to be doing this random, Ryan says, I'm trying to
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  Speaker 2: call lines busy. I have the World Cup picks. We'll
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  Speaker 2: try next hour. All right, James, thank you. We're two
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  Speaker 2: rounds in and so we've gotten twelve teams out. We
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  Speaker 2: have many more to go and we'll play this out
• 34:39
  Speaker 2: throughout the night. Just Josh's World Cup pick them.
• 34:41
  Speaker 1: If only the Hopper could talk, it does talk.
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  Speaker 8: See look do you have the highest ranked team so far? Ben?
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  Speaker 4: Oh?
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  Speaker 8: Really England?
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  Speaker 9: Yes, this sounds a little what's that word?
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  Speaker 1: What's it?
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  Speaker 7: What do you?
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  Speaker 1: How's it?
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  Speaker 7: Ring?
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  Speaker 1: I literally know nothing about something.
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  Speaker 8: The very first pick of the entire thing, and he
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  Speaker 8: gets the number four ranked team in the world.
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  Speaker 1: Stop stop, stop, please listen, it's random. It's the Hopper
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  Speaker 1: and I get them. I get that's Salverde and some chips.
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  Speaker 8: Is very good.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, it is the Bend Mather Show as we press
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  Speaker 2: on time now though, for the who am I Game?
• 35:30
  Speaker 2: And this is where we pretend to be somebody else,
• 35:32
  Speaker 2: as we call it the who am I Game?
• 35:35
  Speaker 1: Which is so who who? Well, yeah, it's who am I?
• 35:39
  Speaker 1: See it's called who am I? Game?
• 35:41
  Speaker 2: So the most points per game in the playoffs with
• 35:46
  Speaker 2: one team sixty or more games in NBA history. You've
• 35:50
  Speaker 2: got now Jalen Brunson's averaging twenty nine point two with
• 35:54
  Speaker 2: the Knicks in his career with New York, and he
• 35:59
  Speaker 2: is trailing only Michael Jordan, Lebron James and me again.
• 36:05
  Speaker 2: Jalen Brunson averaging twenty nine point two points per game
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  Speaker 2: with the Knicks in his playoff career in New York
• 36:10
  Speaker 2: and most points per game in the playoffs with one
• 36:13
  Speaker 2: team sixty plus games. Jalen Brunson trailing Michael Jordan, Lebron
• 36:18
  Speaker 2: James and me, Who am I?
• 36:21
  Speaker 1: That is the question the answer. We'll get to it
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  Speaker 1: and we will do it next.
• 36:28
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• 36:37
  Speaker 2: As we roll on on a night that saw the
• 36:41
  Speaker 2: San Antonio Spurs commit a basketball felony, high crimes and misdemeanors,
• 36:47
  Speaker 2: gagging away a twenty nine point lead, and all those
• 36:49
  Speaker 2: annoying one percent elitist nick fans celebrating like they won
• 36:54
  Speaker 2: the championship. They kind of have at this point. Yeah,
• 36:57
  Speaker 2: they had all all those celebrities. Man, they all went
• 36:59
  Speaker 2: out there, had a good time anyway talking them about that.
• 37:02
  Speaker 2: But the World Cup pick them rounds one and two
• 37:05
  Speaker 2: of the World Cup. Pick them off to a good
• 37:06
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• 37:26
  Speaker 1: Back to it.
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  Speaker 2: All, right back to where we go, and we have
• 37:31
  Speaker 2: the play of the day and we'll play off the
• 37:34
  Speaker 2: who am I game in a moment now, as you know,
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  Speaker 2: not just any.
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  Speaker 1: Play of the day, like it's extra special.
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  Speaker 2: Let's go back now to Midtown Manhattan. Right there, the
• 37:45
  Speaker 2: Knickerbocker's down one and then this happened.
• 37:48
  Speaker 1: Five point seven left, no timeouts remaining.
• 37:51
  Speaker 3: Anon Obe has handed the ball, finds brunting at the
• 37:54
  Speaker 3: mid court, launches.
• 37:55
  Speaker 1: A straight on three. Mister short tip playing aby he
• 37:58
  Speaker 1: put it in, no'll we put it in the next.
• 38:01
  Speaker 2: Take the lead, but one point two to go and
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  Speaker 1: Well. Time now for the who am I?
• 38:40
  Speaker 7: Game?
• 38:40
  Speaker 1: And this is where we pretend to be somebody else.
• 38:42
  Speaker 2: So Jalen Brunson at twenty nine point two points per
• 38:47
  Speaker 2: game with the Knicks in the playoffs, that's the fourth
• 38:49
  Speaker 2: most points per game in the playoffs with one team
• 38:52
  Speaker 2: sixty or more games with that team trailing only Michael Jordan,
• 38:57
  Speaker 2: Lebron James and me. Whom I? That would be the question?
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  Speaker 2: And let's see does anyone know the answer? Go to
• 39:08
  Speaker 2: the great Unwashed here Kodak Black, Who's twenty nine from
• 39:12
  Speaker 2: the Late Night Drug Tester Great page Dan nine oh
• 39:17
  Speaker 2: four Race says the Hopper is a fan of mine.
• 39:19
  Speaker 1: Apparently it is. Coop's very upset with my first couple of.
• 39:21
  Speaker 2: Picks, El Presidente of Salsa Verde, Cooper Loop from ferg
• 39:26
  Speaker 2: Dog Willis read guests by Scrooge.
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  Speaker 1: That's his answer, Jalen Brunson from Shane in Des Moines.
• 39:32
  Speaker 2: Now it's gonna be tough for him to be the answer, Shane,
• 39:34
  Speaker 2: because he's in the question what else do we have?
• 39:36
  Speaker 2: San Diego State, Aztec Great Tony Gwin mister Podreman Patrick,
• 39:42
  Speaker 2: Who else do we have? Paige Dan, rob the goat Man,
• 39:46
  Speaker 2: says Bruce Valanche. But you thought I was gonna say
• 39:50
  Speaker 2: rob Is that Robbie's cousin? That must be Robby's cousin,
• 39:53
  Speaker 2: Arnie Spaniard, the Sneaking Genius from Analog al Pele guest
• 39:58
  Speaker 2: by King roy Bert Blilah be Home, Bli Elevin from
• 40:02
  Speaker 2: Not a Burner, Tito Jackson from the Real Martin at
• 40:05
  Speaker 2: the Airport in Denver, Mel Counts from Fat Daddy, General
• 40:09
  Speaker 2: Booty guessed by Sean in the Valley of the Son,
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  Speaker 2: Tom Googliata from Doc Dan, the Mexican Maverick of the
• 40:18
  Speaker 2: NBA from Manuel and Guardina, Larry Bird from Mark the
• 40:21
  Speaker 2: full name Guy Karl Malone from Johnny Q. Big Lows
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  Speaker 2: says nicksonnouncer Mike Breen Or do you have an answer?
• 40:28
  Speaker 2: Do you have an answer?
• 40:29
  Speaker 1: Lorena Nicholas Cage. Wow, that's interesting. Now the answer is
• 40:35
  Speaker 1: the answer?
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  Speaker 6: You know?
• 40:36
  Speaker 1: If I say the answer is the answer, you know
• 40:38
  Speaker 1: what I mean.
• 40:38
  Speaker 5: You know what I mean by that.
• 40:39
  Speaker 1: No, the answer is Alan Iverson of the Sixers. Alan
• 40:44
  Speaker 1: Iverson is the answer. That's his nicknames AI, the original
• 40:48
  Speaker 1: AI