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  Speaker 3: show me. So our lead this hour is from pro Bounceable.
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  Speaker 3: Well are you talking about basketball this season?
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  Speaker 1: Eddy? Don't talk about that? Shut up SPACCAULI, you moron
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  Speaker 1: and all you other idiots. All right, listen. I'm not
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  Speaker 1: gonna sit here and start the show with that Celtic
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  Speaker 1: trade with the Blazers. That's not worthy of starting the show.
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  Speaker 1: But something that did catch my attention as the curtain
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  Speaker 1: did come now finally on the finals, as it all ended,
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  Speaker 1: That's all she wrote there. Sunday night, we talked about
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  Speaker 1: that in depth as Oklahoma City celebrating a championship and
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  Speaker 1: the MVP Shade Jogis Alexander and the Thunder beating Indiana,
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  Speaker 1: a hobbled pacer team at the end in seven games.
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  Speaker 1: But the report card came out, Oh, it's so exciting. Now.
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  Speaker 1: I don't work for the NBA, I don't get paid
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  Speaker 1: by the NBA. I have no skin in the game.
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  Speaker 1: I am merely an independent observer in the middle of
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  Speaker 1: the night, a neutral party, neutral party. But I love
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  Speaker 1: it and I look forward to this because it is
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  Speaker 1: a wellness check to see how you're doing. So the
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  Speaker 1: report card came out. I don't even saw this or not,
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  Speaker 1: perhaps not. I don't care about that, all right, well,
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  Speaker 1: I care. It matters to me because I think it's funny.
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  Speaker 1: I think it's funny. So the big headline was and
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  Speaker 1: this came out from the NBA marketing arm. They pumped
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  Speaker 1: their chest out. They were like a peacock with their
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  Speaker 1: feathers in the air everywhere. They were very braggadocious. They said, listen,
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  Speaker 1: all you haters, all you people that said mean things.
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  Speaker 1: The Pacers thunder Game seven was the most watched NBA
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  Speaker 1: game in six years. Put that in your pipe and
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  Speaker 1: smoke it. Sixteen point four million out of a country
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  Speaker 1: of three hundred plus million. Wow, watch the game seven.
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  Speaker 1: Pretty good.
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  Speaker 2: Game.
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  Speaker 1: Wasn't all that close in the second half, late third
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  Speaker 1: quarter Oklahoma City pulled away and then the fourth quarter
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  Speaker 1: pretty much kept a hobbled Pacer team at arms length
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  Speaker 1: in the fourth quarter. So let us discuss the question.
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  Speaker 1: Here's the question for the steam panel. So the NBA
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  Speaker 1: is taking a victory lap here for the television ratings
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  Speaker 1: in the finals, Game seven. How do you assess this one?
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  Speaker 1: So I've got Copperfield, Cyprus and Andy Warhol, and we
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  Speaker 1: will combine all of these things together, and we are
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  Speaker 1: going to tell the truth, the whole truth, and nothing
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  Speaker 1: but the sports talk radio truth. All right. So ay,
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  Speaker 1: this is what's called a deja vu situation. I'm not
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  Speaker 1: talking about the Gentlemen's Club. I'm going deja vu here.
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  Speaker 1: And here's why the NBA, yet again, yet again, is
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  Speaker 1: gaslighting you. Maybe not you, because I'd like to think
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  Speaker 1: that you're a different level than the low information fan.
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  Speaker 1: But they're gas lighting the public, is what they're doing.
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  Speaker 1: Do not be a resident of the village of Suckersville.
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  Speaker 1: Do not do it now, Adam Silver and his underlings,
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  Speaker 1: all right, taking a b out here for the supposed
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  Speaker 1: rating success a victory and the television ratings here, and
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  Speaker 1: the usual suspects and sports media slapper slabber, slabbery, you
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  Speaker 1: know who they are, are gleefully regurgitating this as the gospel.
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  Speaker 1: See I told you so. They just take the press release.
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  Speaker 2: Now.
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  Speaker 1: I used to run a website and I would get
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  Speaker 1: these press releases, and I knew the places that would
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  Speaker 1: just republish them without like adding anything. And there's a
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  Speaker 1: lot of people. I get a lot of people are busy.
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  Speaker 1: You know, I got stuff going on, and you don't
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  Speaker 1: read past the headline. And they know that. They know
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  Speaker 1: whatever they put in a news release will be repackaged
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  Speaker 1: almost verbatim, and people will only see the headline and
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  Speaker 1: all that. So it is true that Game seven of
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  Speaker 1: the NBA Finals between Oklahoma City and Indiana to sixteen
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  Speaker 1: point four million viewers. Golf clop, right, a little golf clop.
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  Speaker 1: That's nice. However, as the late great radio man, the
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  Speaker 1: legend of radio from a different generation, Paul Harvey, would say,
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  Speaker 1: now for the rest of the story. Now for the
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  Speaker 1: rest of the story. So the quiet part that the
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  Speaker 1: NBA does not does not want you to talk about.
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  Speaker 1: They don't want to bring this up. So don't bring
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  Speaker 1: this up. See, I'm not part of the mainstream. We're
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  Speaker 1: not late at night here, so I can talk about this.
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  Speaker 1: But those mainstream daytime guys, they're not supposed talk about it.
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  Speaker 1: So the part they don't want you to talk about
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  Speaker 1: is the overall finals ratings. So the full seven game
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  Speaker 1: NBA Finals, the worst rated final in a generation eighteen years,
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  Speaker 1: which is closing in on twenty, which is a generation
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  Speaker 1: eight O seven. I was barely alive in O seven.
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  Speaker 1: The last time the NBA Finals did worse than this,
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  Speaker 1: and that was back when the San Antonio Spurs in
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  Speaker 1: the San Antonio River. They floated down that river as
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  Speaker 1: chance Pippians over Lebron's cadavers in the seven NBA Finals
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  Speaker 1: in that was a David Stern production, and he had
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  Speaker 1: to pretend like people actually cared then. But David Stern
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  Speaker 1: was more honest because he knew when there was bull
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  Speaker 1: crap could he was very hard. It was very hard
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  Speaker 1: for him to sell the bull crap Adam Silver because
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  Speaker 1: he's like a lizard person, he seems to have no
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  Speaker 1: problem selling it. So eighteen years after that, the finals
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  Speaker 1: this year and that this was a seven game series
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  Speaker 1: and imagine, I was actually texting one of my TV friends,
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  Speaker 1: who are better people because they're on television, and actually
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  Speaker 1: this guy works behind the scenes, and I was like, well,
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  Speaker 1: what would the numbers have been had they not gotten
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  Speaker 1: the sixteen million? And they were like, well, it's hard
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  Speaker 1: to really know exactly what it would have been, but
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  Speaker 1: it would have been you would have had to go
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  Speaker 1: back like twenty five years or thirty years for a
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  Speaker 1: lower rating than that. And so Adam Silver and his
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  Speaker 1: PR machine churning over and over and over, you know,
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  Speaker 1: doing the thing where they hope nobody notices. You know
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  Speaker 1: that I hope nobody notices this and that that one
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  Speaker 1: game spike in game seven. It does not make up
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  Speaker 1: for what two weeks of apathy. I mean, this is
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  Speaker 1: what we had, two weeks of apathy in the NBA
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  Speaker 1: Finals and the league. And this is their their own
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  Speaker 1: doing it. And we've talked about this repeatedly. They've gotten
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  Speaker 1: so used to selling style over substance that they now
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  Speaker 1: even they spend the numbers. It reminds me when my
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  Speaker 1: early days in radio. I remember we had a program
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  Speaker 1: director the ratings. I was doing local radio. The ratings
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  Speaker 1: would come out and the boss would go into a
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  Speaker 1: cubby hole in the back of the radio station for
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  Speaker 1: like three hours and spin the numbers because we had
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  Speaker 1: terrible ratings. But he would find like one demographic, right,
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  Speaker 1: men seventy plus that have two teeth. We're number one
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  Speaker 1: in the market, you know, and he'd sell that and
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  Speaker 1: be like, all right, we're good. We're number one in
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  Speaker 1: the market men's seventy plus with like three teeth to
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  Speaker 1: dominate there. And so that's what the NBA is doing.
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  Speaker 1: It's David Copperfield is impressed. It's like hocus pocus. Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: the ratings were the worst rated in eighteen years, but
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  Speaker 1: we did really well in game seven, really well. Right,
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  Speaker 1: look over here, don't look over there. It's the art
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  Speaker 1: of magic, and I love magic. The art of magic
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  Speaker 1: is to get the people to look where you want
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  Speaker 1: them to look and not where you're actually doing the switch.
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  Speaker 1: And that's what the NBA did. So don't worry about
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  Speaker 1: the fact, if you're Paniti, don't worry about the fact
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  Speaker 1: the first six games of the NBA Finals barely move
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  Speaker 1: the needle. Don't worry about that. No, no, no, no, no. Now,
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  Speaker 1: the NBA has to live with the reality that they
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  Speaker 1: have cooked up here. For multiple generations, forty years, the
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  Speaker 1: league has been totally dependent on big market glamour teams, drama,
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  Speaker 1: player movement, the tray. Now, of course, recently it's been
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  Speaker 1: social media buzz that that doesn't translate into money, which
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  Speaker 1: is the problem. They haven't really monetized that in a
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  Speaker 1: way that they can make any real money on it.
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  Speaker 1: And so the finals featured. If you're a hard old
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  Speaker 1: basketball guy, all the nerds on social media like, oh,
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  Speaker 1: this is the greatest team basketball man. The public doesn't
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  Speaker 1: want to consume your product. It's like a restaurant where
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  Speaker 1: the food's got the finest quality. Nobody wants to eat
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  Speaker 1: it because they think it's disgusting, but it's Oh, it's
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  Speaker 1: really healthy for you, all right now, page two. So
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  Speaker 1: one of the other storylines here is the snap cracker
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  Speaker 1: pop Tyreese Halliburton Gonzo in the first quarter, and people
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  Speaker 1: continue to be freaking out. O MG, Haliburton, the Achilles injury.
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  Speaker 1: I can't believe it. Now. Our teammate, our colleague, Colin
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  Speaker 1: Cowherd from his Humble aboute in Chicago, is among a
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  Speaker 1: handful of pundits recommending the league immediately shortened the NBA
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  Speaker 1: plus did you see this? Yes, he's not. By the way,
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  Speaker 1: there's other people that are also advocating that the NBA
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  Speaker 1: must shorten the postseason. No more best of seven. No,
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  Speaker 1: our delicate little flowers cannot handle the best of seven
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  Speaker 1: that we need to go to a best of five.
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  Speaker 1: Save our beloved basketball heroes go to a best of five.
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  Speaker 1: Any insights you'd like to add on this. So when
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  Speaker 1: I saw this, I immediately thought, well, this is sports talk, Barry,
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  Speaker 1: this is the Babylon Bee or the Onion, this is
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  Speaker 1: this is satire, you know, this is NBA sentel. This
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  Speaker 1: is not real. This is fake. I'm not gonna fall
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  Speaker 1: for it. And then I saw it again and I
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  Speaker 1: watched the clip and I was like, well, I think
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  Speaker 1: that's legit. I think he actually said it. I can't
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  Speaker 1: believe he said it, but he said it, and so
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  Speaker 1: other people said it. So it's like it's Cypress Hill,
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  Speaker 1: is what it is. It's insane to the membrane. It's
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  Speaker 1: insane to the membrane. Reminds me of the pandemic when
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  Speaker 1: people are running around out of an abundance of caution.
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  Speaker 1: Don't do anything out of it, Counson. It will never
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  Speaker 1: be safe enough for our NBA heroes never ever. Why
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  Speaker 1: stop at the best of five because in never really
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  Speaker 1: someone's gonna get hurt in a best of five, So
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  Speaker 1: why would you do that? You shouldn't have best of five?
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  Speaker 1: How about best of three? You know, and wait a minute,
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  Speaker 1: somebody could get hurt in a best offe. So we
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  Speaker 1: should go like the NCAA march madness and just to
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  Speaker 1: a single elimination. But in ever least somebody might pop
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  Speaker 1: an achilles in a single elimission game. We need to
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  Speaker 1: protect our NBA heroes. These are our superstars. We need
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  Speaker 1: to protect them. So I've decided I will let the NBA,
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  Speaker 1: if they pay me a nominal fee, I will allow
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  Speaker 1: the NBA to borrow my friend the penny from benny
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  Speaker 1: versus the penny, and they can flip the penny so
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  Speaker 1: no longer get harmed. Just bring in like Lebron will
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  Speaker 1: represent the Lakers, and Kawhi will represent the Clippers, and
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  Speaker 1: like everyone you know, everyone's star player, and then you
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  Speaker 1: just flip flip the penny. Boom done. That's the way.
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  Speaker 1: Forget the five games. Somebody could still get hurt. You
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  Speaker 1: could see, you could see these world class athletes to
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  Speaker 1: spend millions of dollars a year on their bodies popping achilles.
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  Speaker 1: So just bringing the penny. Listen, nobody wanted to see
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  Speaker 1: Tyreese Halliburton limp off like he was at a you know,
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  Speaker 1: a gymnasium, you know, somewhere at some fitness center playing
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  Speaker 1: a bunch of middle aged guys and he popped his
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  Speaker 1: achilles and all that. But the answer is, in all seriousness,
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  Speaker 1: you don't chop away with the machete the NBA playoffs
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  Speaker 1: and chop games away like you're tossing marshmallows into a
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  Speaker 1: fire or something like that. The playoffs are supposed to
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  Speaker 1: be a grind. It's supposed to be the team that
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  Speaker 1: stands at the top of the mountain when it's all
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  Speaker 1: said and done, has survived the war of attrition. But
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  Speaker 1: everyone's so soft, like what happened? Like guys get guys
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  Speaker 1: have always gotten hurt. It's like, now, oh, no one
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  Speaker 1: can get hurt. Oh my god, all right, now, last word.
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  Speaker 1: So one of the other storylines. You're fresh off the
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  Speaker 1: NBA Championship. The chatter within the league circles is that money, money,
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  Speaker 1: money coming down, a lot of money. Jalen Williams and
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  Speaker 1: Chet Holmgren skeletor of the Thunder. They are going to
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  Speaker 1: receive massive rookie scale extensions, which means, let me praise
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  Speaker 1: this a different way. Chi ching chi ching chi ching
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  Speaker 1: from OKC the Thunder. So give me the pros and
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  Speaker 1: cons of what's about to happen? All right, so the
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  Speaker 1: pros to the victor goes the spoils. Right, you win
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  Speaker 1: a championship. Everyone's got that excitement and you've got that
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  Speaker 1: rush of energy, and so congratulations you hosted the trophy.
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  Speaker 1: There fireworks over Bricktown, the confetti coming down, thunder rally,
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  Speaker 1: everyone's all excited and all that stuff. And you saw
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  Speaker 1: Sam Presty. Boy that everyone loves Sam Presty. My goodness,
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  Speaker 1: holy crap. Looks like a nerd to me anyway. So
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  Speaker 1: Sam Presty, they're standing atop as the champion GM and
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  Speaker 1: everyone's celebrating, all the basketball nerds. They're all excited there,
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  Speaker 1: they're all jones up and all that. Now the cons
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  Speaker 1: on this are even as the champagne continues to flow
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  Speaker 1: in Oksee and everything's covered in gold. Now you win
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  Speaker 1: the championship and all that. There is a disease which
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  Speaker 1: Oklahoma City has now acquired. And the illness, which was
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  Speaker 1: first diagnosed by pat Riley a million years ago, is
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  Speaker 1: the disease of me. It's below the surface. You can't
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  Speaker 1: see it right now, but it's there. It's just developing
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  Speaker 1: the disease of me and it's it's gonna echo more
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  Speaker 1: and more and more throughout the dust ball. You've got
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  Speaker 1: the generational wealth being passed out to everyone. And as
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  Speaker 1: Andy Warhol famously said back in his day, life, just
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  Speaker 1: a series of images that change and they repeat themselves
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  Speaker 1: as they change. They're just the same thing happens to
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  Speaker 1: new people. And that's kind of it. So we've seen
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  Speaker 1: this before. We've seen this before, and we will not
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  Speaker 1: pretend I mean, maybe you will, but I will not
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  Speaker 1: pretend that the situation can be any different. In Oklahoma City,
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  Speaker 1: they look like an AAU team the way they were
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  Speaker 1: all celebrating and all that stuff. But even if it's subtle,
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  Speaker 1: even if it's subtle, it's like, you know, it's we
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  Speaker 1: over me, which was the mantra that used to win
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  Speaker 1: the championship. And suddenly you're starting to think more about
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  Speaker 1: stats and contracts and things like that, and you get
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  Speaker 1: your money and all that, and the salaries start going
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  Speaker 1: up up in a way, and the swell your bank
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  Speaker 1: account gets a little bit bigger. You're like, hey, manute man,
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  Speaker 1: wait a minute, now, I want a championship here. Maybe
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  Speaker 1: I want to go play in a bigger city where
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  Speaker 1: there's more to do, and why am I here? I
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  Speaker 1: like Oklahoma City, but I want to go somewhere else
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  Speaker 1: with the light. They're a little brighter and there's more
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  Speaker 1: to do and why not? And then the pecking order
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  Speaker 1: gets a little murky and the culture, the culture club
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  Speaker 1: becomes it's a buzzword. Nobody actually follows it, et cetera,
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  Speaker 1: et cetera, et cetera. It is the Baine mal Show.
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  Speaker 1: What do you think about all that? We'll take your
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  Speaker 1: calls on that. We did have a trade. We'll talk
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  Speaker 1: more about it as we go through the overnight. The
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  Speaker 1: Celtics have said bye bye to Drue Holiday. They trade
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  Speaker 1: him back to the Blazer It's a team he played
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  Speaker 1: for in the past. He goes back to Portland. But
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  Speaker 1: there's one thing the Blazers needed, that missing piece, a
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  Speaker 1: thirty five year old point guard. Hell of a trade
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  Speaker 1: by the Trailblazers to get Drue Holiday back and Anthony
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  Speaker 1: Simmons goes to Boston. He's a dime a dozen. See
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  Speaker 1: some nerds all excited about that one thing. I've learned.
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  Speaker 1: I covered some bad NBA teams back in the day.
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  Speaker 1: You never get excited about a young player putting up
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  Speaker 1: stats on a crap team, because that's the easiest thing
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  Speaker 1: in the world to do. That's the easiest thing in
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  Speaker 1: the world. No one's paying attention, no one's watching. It's
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  Speaker 1: a much different animal going to a team that actually
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  Speaker 1: people care about and pay attention to and actually win games,
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  Speaker 1: which is what Simmons is going to plasb be going
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  Speaker 1: to do, unless he's traded again from the Celtics somewhere else.
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  Speaker 1: Here we go?
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  Speaker 2: This is one big Ben gets grilled.
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  Speaker 4: All right and Brann With SGA becoming the first player
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  Speaker 4: in twelve years to win both League MVP and Finals MVP,
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  Speaker 4: it has a lot of people wondering if he is
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  Speaker 4: the best thunderplayer of all time? Ah, do you think
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  Speaker 4: that's already true?
• 18:45
  Speaker 1: But I know you're dying. Yeah, that's a very important
• 18:47
  Speaker 1: question to you. As a lifelong thunderfan. Wish I was
• 18:51
  Speaker 1: well obviously as a player, no One. They had good
• 18:55
  Speaker 1: players there in Westbrook and Harden and Durant, but wearing
• 18:59
  Speaker 1: that uniform, nobody accomplished what all of the things that
• 19:02
  Speaker 1: SGA accomplished. So the answer is, yes, it's obvious. I
• 19:06
  Speaker 1: don't include the Sonics because that's it to me. That's
• 19:08
  Speaker 1: a different team and they'll beat the Sonics, will be back,
• 19:11
  Speaker 1: So yes, absolutely next.
• 19:13
  Speaker 4: During the Fanatics event, Kevin Durant also made an NFL prediction.
• 19:17
  Speaker 4: He said he believes Micah Parsons will be a Washington
• 19:20
  Speaker 4: commander in two years. What do you think about that prediction,
• 19:24
  Speaker 4: Ben Well?
• 19:24
  Speaker 1: I think Kevin Durant should stick to changing teams every
• 19:27
  Speaker 1: three years. That's what I think, cause that's what he's
• 19:28
  Speaker 1: good at, right, he changes teams. You big, good Durant.
• 19:31
  Speaker 1: You're a Suns fan, bri you rough time. Did you
• 19:33
  Speaker 1: enjoy the Durant era there in the Valley the Sun?
• 19:36
  Speaker 1: There much optimism? Yes, No, did not work out. Yeah,
• 19:40
  Speaker 1: Durant's normally wrong about these things. I don't know ninety
• 19:44
  Speaker 1: seven percent of the time, so I'm not worried about it.
• 19:47
  Speaker 1: I still believe it's they've already got a deal, Michael Parsons,
• 19:49
  Speaker 1: the Cowboys. They're gonna wait till training camp and then
• 19:52
  Speaker 1: they'll announce the deal. Parsons will get an extension, so
• 19:55
  Speaker 1: and he'll stay in dowas next kick.
• 19:58
  Speaker 4: Kevin Durant sho. He got his first strikeout as a
• 20:01
  Speaker 4: Dodger in his second abbreviated start on the Mellow.
• 20:04
  Speaker 1: We're the Dodgers.
• 20:05
  Speaker 4: Are you more encouraged about a Tani's pitching contribution this
• 20:08
  Speaker 4: season after this specific outing, Ben.
• 20:10
  Speaker 1: No, It's like it's like they're teaching him how to
• 20:12
  Speaker 1: eat again. There's spoon feeding Otani and all. I will
• 20:17
  Speaker 1: get excited when I see Otani pitch in October and
• 20:20
  Speaker 1: strike everyone out and dominate. Then I'm not getting excited
• 20:24
  Speaker 1: about a start against the Nationals or these you know,
• 20:26
  Speaker 1: you know the Padres in June. I'm just not there.
• 20:29
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• 20:32
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• 20:38
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• 20:41
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• 21:20
  Speaker 2: Now, Mailor's Mountain of money? Do you have what it
• 21:26
  Speaker 2: takes to get to the top. Probably not.
• 21:30
  Speaker 1: Let's do it here we go. Let's play the game
• 21:31
  Speaker 1: right now. We have Manuel in Guardina, who's picked up
• 21:35
  Speaker 1: many honors over his years his dedication to sports talk radio.
• 21:40
  Speaker 1: He's chosen to fall on the sword and lose this
• 21:43
  Speaker 1: game as he's teamed up with Rihanna, and they're gonna
• 21:46
  Speaker 1: lose because far out Dave is gonna win with me.
• 21:50
  Speaker 1: That's right made, far far out Dave's gonna get it
• 21:54
  Speaker 1: done here. All right, Well, let's do it here we go.
• 21:57
  Speaker 1: Bring your up first. It is the JJ Reddick edition.
• 22:00
  Speaker 1: You picked. Manuel picked Laker coaches. Interesting easy category. That's
• 22:05
  Speaker 1: the easiest category on the board. What oh so easy? No,
• 22:09
  Speaker 1: my guy picked the hardest category, by the way.
• 22:12
  Speaker 4: Okay, if they know what's.
• 22:13
  Speaker 1: Easy or eighty. That eighty point question, hardest question we've
• 22:18
  Speaker 1: had in months for you on the tattoo. Yeah, alright,
• 22:21
  Speaker 1: well I well man, well are you ready? Abre you
• 22:24
  Speaker 1: want to give the category and all that? Say?
• 22:26
  Speaker 4: What is? Alrighty Lakers coaches? These coaches has all coach
• 22:29
  Speaker 4: the Lakers at one point in their NBA coaching career.
• 22:33
  Speaker 1: All right, forty five seconds on the clock. We're on
• 22:36
  Speaker 1: our way. That'd be quiet, Dave, go ahead.
• 22:38
  Speaker 4: Manuel, Okay, number one aka the then Master dated Jeanie
• 22:42
  Speaker 4: but coach the nineteen eighty showtime Lakers, right coach the
• 22:48
  Speaker 4: Lakers in the twenty twenty Bubble Championship.
• 22:53
  Speaker 1: He was a coach.
• 22:54
  Speaker 4: He was in the coach of the Suns, and then
• 22:57
  Speaker 4: he's a scapegoat.
• 22:58
  Speaker 1: He doesn't remember. That's how we're twenty twenty championship, is okay?
• 23:02
  Speaker 4: Okay?
• 23:03
  Speaker 1: Don't say that?
• 23:05
  Speaker 4: Seventh seconds or left bank, Yes, oh, seventh deconds are
• 23:09
  Speaker 4: last coach with the Suns and then followed into the
• 23:12
  Speaker 4: follows team Nash of the Lakers. Uh, you had a
• 23:17
  Speaker 4: queer little mustache. Kobe looked up to him when he
• 23:19
  Speaker 4: was a basketball player in Italy.
• 23:21
  Speaker 1: Oh what a show it was. Mike d'antello. Oh my god,
• 23:26
  Speaker 1: Oh my god. If you are now, Manuel's actually spoiler alert,
• 23:31
  Speaker 1: Manuell's a Clipper fan. Who knew Manuel's a Clipper fan? Unbelievable. Alright,
• 23:36
  Speaker 1: that's uh sixty points? Holy, all right, that's choke city.
• 23:41
  Speaker 1: All right, here we go, Dave? Are you ready far out? Dave?
• 23:45
  Speaker 1: Are these athletes, these all athletes all have numerous visible tattoos.
• 23:49
  Speaker 1: Forty five seconds on the clock tattoo booze, Here we go.
• 23:53
  Speaker 1: H played for the Cavaliers, tried to dribble out the
• 23:56
  Speaker 1: clock in a tie game in the NBA Finals.
• 23:59
  Speaker 2: A guard the govern guy.
• 24:01
  Speaker 1: Right, that's not gonna work. The answer for the seventy
• 24:06
  Speaker 1: six ers, the great player for the Sixers in the
• 24:09
  Speaker 1: early two thousands, keep going, okay, he played played with
• 24:17
  Speaker 1: the Denver Nuggets. I'm about to punch you. Played with
• 24:20
  Speaker 1: the Denver Nuggets. Had tattoos all the way up to
• 24:22
  Speaker 1: his neck. MVP for the Chicago Bulls after Michael Jordan
• 24:27
  Speaker 1: defensive Star. You're sabotage in the game. You are sabbathmans
• 24:33
  Speaker 1: are Dennis Rodman is on his head. I'm done with him.
• 24:38
  Speaker 1: I'm done with him. I gotta get somebody else. That
• 24:40
  Speaker 1: guy's a theory. He's never playing the games again. That
• 24:43
  Speaker 1: is a sabotage by that schmuck far Out Day. He's
• 24:48
  Speaker 1: dead to me. I'm not reading your stupid comments on
• 24:50
  Speaker 1: social media. You're dead to me. Far Out Dame, You're
• 24:53
  Speaker 1: dead to me. That's not the first time you pulled that.
• 24:56
  Speaker 1: Maybe I'm going to the bullpen. Shut up, I'm going
• 24:59
  Speaker 1: to the bullpen, rocking, Rob? Are you there? Rob? Rob?
• 25:04
  Speaker 1: Are you ready to my relief pitch? Are you there? Rob?
• 25:08
  Speaker 1: You ready? I can't hear you. Rob. Get right on
• 25:12
  Speaker 1: that phone, Rob, no speaker phone? All right? We have
• 25:19
  Speaker 1: what do we have? Dukies and podcast pros? Which one
• 25:23
  Speaker 1: do you want? Rob? Dukies? All right? We're doing mallows
• 25:30
  Speaker 1: amount of money and Far Out Dave is now banned
• 25:34
  Speaker 1: by the malamotion powers invested to me, he will never
• 25:36
  Speaker 1: be on the air again. Go listen to George Nori
• 25:40
  Speaker 1: over there, Coast to coast. You're dead to me. All right.
• 25:42
  Speaker 1: These athletes all were graduates of Duke University, or at
• 25:45
  Speaker 1: least attended Duke. Are you ready? Rock and Rob? All right?
• 25:50
  Speaker 1: Forty five seconds on the clock. Here we go. Hit
• 25:52
  Speaker 1: the biggest shot in Duke history to beat Kentucky in
• 25:55
  Speaker 1: the NCAA tournament. Yes plays for the Dallas Mavericks right now.
• 26:00
  Speaker 1: Play with Lebron for a while, guard uncle Drew Yes
• 26:07
  Speaker 1: played with the Miami Heat. Was a three point specialist
• 26:10
  Speaker 1: like a power forward where the Lebron Heatles out of
• 26:14
  Speaker 1: Duke won a championship. Had a bunch of three point
• 26:17
  Speaker 1: shots for those Heat teams. Okay quarterback for the Giants.
• 26:23
  Speaker 1: He was drafted out of Duke. Nicknamed Vanilla Vic he
• 26:26
  Speaker 1: sucked it. Yes, that is correct. Plays for the New
• 26:30
  Speaker 1: Orleans Pelicans right now, big fat guy he always heard
• 26:34
  Speaker 1: for the Yes, exactly. All right, we got the lead.
• 26:39
  Speaker 1: What what what was the last name? He said, Zion Williamson.
• 26:42
  Speaker 1: That was the last one. So I got that. That's
• 26:44
  Speaker 1: so what do we got there? All right? We got
• 26:47
  Speaker 1: to leave.
• 26:47
  Speaker 4: You have time to do it brief Come, okay, let's
• 26:49
  Speaker 4: go podcast pros you ready?
• 26:51
  Speaker 1: Manuel ready?
• 26:52
  Speaker 4: Alrighty H hasn't had a contract extension with the Cowboys yet,
• 26:58
  Speaker 4: but it is on its way. Michael Parky Okay played
• 27:02
  Speaker 4: at Syracuse and the New York Knicks for Milla Anthony
• 27:07
  Speaker 4: got Okay was on the Warriors.
• 27:10
  Speaker 1: You were not order. Oh, I'm not even how to
• 27:13
  Speaker 1: do that. You realized you were doing that the first thing. Okay, okay, anyways,
• 27:18
  Speaker 1: you guys, it's already over. You've already won. You won
• 27:22
  Speaker 1: a stupid game, but only because it sounds far out.
• 27:26
  Speaker 1: Days come up only one, because far out day through
• 27:32
  Speaker 1: the game. No more far out day.