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  Speaker 2: This is the best of the Ben Maler Show on
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  Speaker 1: So our lead this hour is from pro bouncy Ball
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  Speaker 1: Bouncy Bouncy, Bouncy, Bouncy Bouncy Bouncy bouncy Bouncy. Yeah. So
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  Speaker 1: I think you know where we're going to start. As
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  Speaker 1: that time of the year, this is what we do
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  Speaker 1: this time of the year. It's all right. There was
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  Speaker 1: some playoff games. We don't pay attention to the regular
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  Speaker 1: season in pro bouncy ball. The playoffs we pay attention.
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  Speaker 1: So away we go. We start out in the dust.
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  Speaker 1: Were the reigning champions of pro bouncy Ball reside and
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  Speaker 1: it ain't the Lakers. The Thunder and Lakers having a
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  Speaker 1: hoe down in Oklahoma. Now, I don't know if you
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  Speaker 1: saw this game or not, possibly possibly not. They got
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  Speaker 1: to get some better b roll. You know how they
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  Speaker 1: come back from commercials. It was on it was an
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  Speaker 1: NBC or Peacock, one of those things. And they came
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  Speaker 1: back from commercial and they showed downtown Oklahoma City, which
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  Speaker 1: you know, it's not it's not not that great to
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  Speaker 1: look at. You know, maybe build some more skyscrapers or something,
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  Speaker 1: I don't know, or show a cowboy or something like
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  Speaker 1: that or something, you know, Oklahoma stuff. The skyline of
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  Speaker 1: Oklahoma City not not all that great anyway. Chet Holmgren
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  Speaker 1: had twenty four points and twelve rebounds, the guy that
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  Speaker 1: looks like Skeletor and Oklahoma City who didn't play at
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  Speaker 1: their peak, and they still stopped the Lakers one O
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  Speaker 1: eight to ninety and in that game one of the
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  Speaker 1: Western Conference semi finals. Now Shay Jogis Alexander the former Clipper,
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  Speaker 1: and A. J. Mitchell each had eighteen points as well
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  Speaker 1: for the Thunder. The Thunder now have played five playoff
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  Speaker 1: games and they have won five playoff games this year,
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  Speaker 1: five and zero in the playoffs. Despite missing Jalen Williams,
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  Speaker 1: oh my, hammy, it didn't go whammy. I can't play
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  Speaker 1: though thirst straight game he has missed. Oklahoma City will
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  Speaker 1: host Game two, which Way will also win comfortably. That'll
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  Speaker 1: be on Thursday. The better story, though, is in the
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  Speaker 1: losing locker room. The better story in losing the locker room.
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  Speaker 1: So Lebron James, as he has been known to do
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  Speaker 1: when his team loses, he storms off the court, has
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  Speaker 1: a conniption fit before the game's over. Yep, Lebron, he
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  Speaker 1: didn't stick around for the end of it. He walked
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  Speaker 1: off the court as they were about twenty seconds or
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  Speaker 1: so to go in the game. And Lebron is much
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  Speaker 1: too important, much too important to stay on the court
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  Speaker 1: until the end of the game. What do you expect
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  Speaker 1: from Lebron now? The better story, as I said, losing
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  Speaker 1: locker room. Popular opinion by popular people is that Austin Reeves,
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  Speaker 1: who had an absolute clunker, was the driving force behind
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  Speaker 1: the Lakers being spanked. In Game one, Reeves took sixteen shots.
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  Speaker 1: He missed thirteen of the sixteen. That is a shooting
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  Speaker 1: percentage of less than twenty percent. He did not make
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  Speaker 1: a three point shot. I'm told that is not good.
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  Speaker 1: Reeves finished with eight points, turned the ball over four times,
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  Speaker 1: and played like he should be back somewhere in Oklahoma
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  Speaker 1: playing pickup basketball. Now at A, that's a good jumping
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  Speaker 1: up points. So let us discuss the question do the
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  Speaker 1: Lakers have an Austin Reeves problem in the playoffs? So
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  Speaker 1: I've got Scooby Doo, Hasbro and Jaywalking, and we will
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  Speaker 1: combine all all of these things together, and we are
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  Speaker 1: going to be moonstruck, is what we're going to be.
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  Speaker 1: We're gonna be moonstruck. So A to answer the question,
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  Speaker 1: do the Lakers have an Austin Reeves problem in the playoffs?
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  Speaker 1: I am nodding my head.
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  Speaker 3: Yes.
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  Speaker 1: Now, a lot of you geniuses told me I was
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  Speaker 1: out of my bloody mind last year when I pointed
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  Speaker 1: out how ineffective and how overwhelmed Austin Reeves played for
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  Speaker 1: the Lakers against Minnesota in the playoffs. You said, you're
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  Speaker 1: just a Laker hater. Okay, well, let's look at this again.
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  Speaker 1: So the Lakers don't just have an Austin Reeves problem.
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  Speaker 1: They have an Austin Reeves in the playoffs problem. That's
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  Speaker 1: what they've got. Let's be real. Playoff Austin is officially
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  Speaker 1: a thing. Okay, you might not want to admit it.
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  Speaker 1: You're in denial. That's fine. It's a thing, okay, And
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  Speaker 1: it's not the kind of thing you have any chance
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  Speaker 1: of going very far in and being considered a legitimate
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  Speaker 1: contender if he's one of your top rung players. And
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  Speaker 1: this is now back to back years, and we have
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  Speaker 1: a sample size that tells the story now and we
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  Speaker 1: have seen it in these playoff environments. He's overmatched. He's
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  Speaker 1: not that good. He didn't just have a bad night.
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  Speaker 1: Austin Reeves submitting a formal application to be the new
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  Speaker 1: playoff liability and the numbers tell the tale of a
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  Speaker 1: person with multiple personalities, much like blind Scott that calls
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  Speaker 1: the show. And he's got multiple personalities, Austin Reeves. Now
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  Speaker 1: his playoff efficiency drops noticeably. He is not very good
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  Speaker 1: shooting the basketball. He often vanishes from behind the three
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  Speaker 1: point line, and when the lights get pretty bright, he's
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  Speaker 1: not wearing sunglasses. So Reeves he doesn't get that whole
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  Speaker 1: playoff Harden level heat because James Harden's resume is like
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  Speaker 1: a novel, and if you look at Reeves his his resume,
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  Speaker 1: his pro basketball reference page is like a pamphlet. So
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  Speaker 1: that's how you juxtaposed playoff hard and playoff Reeves. It's
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  Speaker 1: a Scooby Dooby Doo special. It's a Scooby Dow special
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  Speaker 1: that Austin Reeves is a glorified role player. He's a
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  Speaker 1: supporting actor who's masquerading as a co star. And here
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  Speaker 1: we've seen it in the postseason. Much like every episode
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  Speaker 1: of Scooby do the mass gets ripped off and you're like,
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  Speaker 1: I wouldn't have gotten away with it if it wasn't
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  Speaker 1: for upesky playoff games. Now, the rumors have been out
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  Speaker 1: there for some time that Reeves is on track to
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  Speaker 1: get a massive, five year, two hundred and forty one
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  Speaker 1: million dollar contract extension. And listen, you know how I
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  Speaker 1: feel about the Lakers here, but every Laker historian might
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  Speaker 1: want to go out and get a barth bag. If
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  Speaker 1: you do that, oh my god, that would be so great.
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  Speaker 1: I will celebrate Austin Reeves getting a two hundred and
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  Speaker 1: forty one million dollar extension, because he is making every
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  Speaker 1: possible argument he does not do that. Signing that check
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  Speaker 1: would be an epic mistake. And I don't know about you,
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  Speaker 1: but I'm all for it. Not for him, of course,
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  Speaker 1: for him, it would be wonderful for everyone else. Involved,
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  Speaker 1: who's wearing that uniform? My god, the classic regular season
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  Speaker 1: mirage looks great until the games actually matter. And the
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  Speaker 1: nickname his nickname, Austin Reeves Hillbilly Kobe has never been
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  Speaker 1: more accurate. Regular season occasionally puts up stats that reminds
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  Speaker 1: you of Kobe Bryant. Postseason, he plays like you picked
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  Speaker 1: up a hillbilly hitchhiking on the side of a country road,
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  Speaker 1: and until proven otherwise, this is simply who he is.
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  Speaker 1: If you pay him like a superstar, you're buying a
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  Speaker 1: ticket to an early playoff heartache for half a decade.
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  Speaker 1: And you combine it's my favorite backcourts that the Lakers
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  Speaker 1: have ever put out in the playoff game, got Austin
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  Speaker 1: Reeves and Marcus Smart, who somehow is still in the NBA.
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  Speaker 1: I thought he would be out by now he's still there.
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  Speaker 1: So Marcus Smart and Austin Reeves, you've got. We called
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  Speaker 1: the Freemason backcourt. And they took thirty one shots. They
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  Speaker 1: missed twenty four of them, which, again, I who am
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  Speaker 1: I to criticize? I did not play in the NBA.
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  Speaker 1: I just thought, I guess I'm being mean. I don't
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  Speaker 1: think that's good well, here's Lebron. You'll hear the question
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  Speaker 1: and the answer. It was not a very good offensive performance.
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  Speaker 1: Lebron's numbers were fine, but the rest of the team
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  Speaker 1: not that good. Here is Lebron who left the court
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  Speaker 1: early before the game ended, huffing and puffing. You'll hear
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  Speaker 1: the question and the answer about the offense. Take a listen,
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  Speaker 1: where do.
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  Speaker 3: You think the offense are issues are coming from?
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  Speaker 1: Right now?
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  Speaker 3: Obviously that's a grant teas of issues coming from. Yeah, yeah,
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  Speaker 3: we have got averaged thirty seven in the game. What
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  Speaker 3: are you ever thirty five this year? Three and a half?
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  Speaker 3: Where are you asking?
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  Speaker 1: Okay, well I'm asking.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, like you got.
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  Speaker 3: There's the issues right there? Are replaying against it number
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  Speaker 3: one defensive team in the NBA, play against the world champions,
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  Speaker 3: having a guy that averages thirty.
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  Speaker 1: Four and death specially all right, so we now know
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  Speaker 1: what Lebron is going to use when the Lakers are
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  Speaker 1: swept by the thunder. He's given you a preview of
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  Speaker 1: his concession speech. Okay, so Luca's not gonna play. What
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  Speaker 1: remember those stories that they Luca his agents planted as
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  Speaker 1: people planted in the media about how it's a greater
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  Speaker 1: shape of his life and all this stuff, and then
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  Speaker 1: they planted some more stories that he went to Europe,
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  Speaker 1: went back home for special treatment so he'd be ready
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  Speaker 1: to go for the Lakers. The way that Tarico and
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  Speaker 1: Reggie Miller were talking, they it sounded like they were
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  Speaker 1: told he ain't playing in the series, that he's just
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  Speaker 1: there as a Laker girl on the sidelines. Raw rah
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  Speaker 1: go Lakers. Uh, it's so great, and bron he's already
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  Speaker 1: sounded like he's already beaten, Like what happened to the attitude? Hey,
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  Speaker 1: we don't have him, other guys are gonna step off.
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  Speaker 1: We're to get it done. No, no, it's well boooooo,
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  Speaker 1: we don't have Luca. Where where? Where were where? So pathetic?
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  Speaker 1: All right now on the winning side. Shade Jogis Alexander,
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  Speaker 1: the former Clipper, was asked about the test or whether
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  Speaker 1: it wasn't much money It wasn't much of a test
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  Speaker 1: against the Lakers for the thunder SGA said, quote, tonight
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  Speaker 1: was very simple. Multiple bodies That means multiple open or
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  Speaker 1: multiple people are open, was what he said postgame on
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  Speaker 1: I don't know it was NBC or Pete Cock. I
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  Speaker 1: don't know. I really don't know what I'm watching. I
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  Speaker 1: just try to find the game until I find it,
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  Speaker 1: and then I settle in and that's it, all right.
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  Speaker 1: So the question SGA said, game number one of the
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  Speaker 1: He said it was quote very simple, based on how
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  Speaker 1: the Lakers were playing defense. So how do you parse
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  Speaker 1: these words from SGA, the former Clipper. So Shaye jogis
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  Speaker 1: Alexander calling game one simple is adorable? My word is adorable.
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  Speaker 1: He's being polite. The real word he should have used
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  Speaker 1: is effortless. He basically said, listen, we didn't even play
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  Speaker 1: that well, and the Lakers suck so much that they
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  Speaker 1: still needed a search party. Okay, look at the tape.
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  Speaker 1: SGA had more turnovers than assist and he didn't really
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  Speaker 1: seem to break much of a sweat in this game.
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  Speaker 1: And the Lakers weren't just beaten, they were sculpted, reshaped,
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  Speaker 1: and set aside. The Lebron's crew got the Hasbro treatment,
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  Speaker 1: meaning they were molded like a big pile of purple
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  Speaker 1: and gold Plato and just the Thunder were a bunch
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  Speaker 1: of board preschoolers, and then they just left it out
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  Speaker 1: to dry. Oklahoma City never trailed in the second half.
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  Speaker 1: They shot almost fifty percent from the field, knocked down
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  Speaker 1: thirty money balls, and played what amounted to it seemed
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  Speaker 1: like half energy, kind of a walk through. They had
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  Speaker 1: some referees out there. So the Thunder are so deep
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  Speaker 1: that they can play their sea level and the Lakers
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  Speaker 1: are so pathetic, and Oklahoma City still wins by eighteen
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  Speaker 1: covers a massive point spread, just a massive point spread.
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  Speaker 1: It wasn't a contest. It was you know, it actually
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  Speaker 1: could have been a lot worse. The firepower that the
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  Speaker 1: Thunder have. And you've got Lebron already playing the victim.
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  Speaker 1: He knows, Lebron knows it's over. That sounded like a
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  Speaker 1: beaten man. Lebron James knows the Lakers are toast, and
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  Speaker 1: he's preparing all of its excuses. It's never his fault.
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  Speaker 1: It's never, no, no, no, You've gotta have a fall guy.
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  Speaker 1: I Meanwhile, speaking of fall guys, we go to Boston.
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  Speaker 1: The Celtics are not in the NBA playoffs anymore. However,
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  Speaker 1: they did make some news. All star Jalen Brown, one
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  Speaker 1: of the great space cadets in the NBA. Jalen Brown
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  Speaker 1: has been fined fifty thousand for public criticism of Game officials,
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  Speaker 1: This following what he had said the other night. We
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  Speaker 1: talked about it in named Malard monologue. In a previous
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  Speaker 1: episode of the show, Brown was on a live stream
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  Speaker 1: he hosted not I Don't Believe with Blake Snell, the
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  Speaker 1: twitch guy that occasionally pitches for the Dodgers. So Jalen
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  Speaker 1: Brown in a live stream he hosts, coming on game Officials.
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  Speaker 1: He commented, He said, clearly had an agenda in the
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  Speaker 1: series against the seventy six ers, so they had an
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  Speaker 1: agenda to call fouls against him, Jalen Brown for pushing
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  Speaker 1: off when he drove towards the basketball handling the ball.
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  Speaker 1: He said, there's some referees that need to be investigated.
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  Speaker 1: He says, every good basketball player does this. And then
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  Speaker 1: he claimed that he was told by some of the
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  Speaker 1: referees that this was a point of emphasis to screw
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  Speaker 1: over Jalen Brown of the Celtics. All right, so the
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  Speaker 1: question what did the NBA accomplish by fining the Celtics
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  Speaker 1: Jalen Brown. I didn't accomplish much by finding Jalen Brown,
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  Speaker 1: unless the goal was to have a neon yellow highlighter
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  Speaker 1: and drag it across every word that he said, I
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  Speaker 1: did some malor math here. Now granted it's my version
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  Speaker 1: of math. I believe I am correct on this. You
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  Speaker 1: can fact check me if you want, if you want,
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  Speaker 1: And there's nothing the consumer of audio content loves more
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  Speaker 1: than fact checking the clown the train seal on the radio.
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  Speaker 1: I did some malo math. So a fifty thousand dollars
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  Speaker 1: fine to Jalen Brown. He makes fifty three million a year,
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  Speaker 1: So that is the equivalent if you made fifty thousand
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  Speaker 1: dollars a year and you illegally cross the street and
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  Speaker 1: some cop with a stick up there tooks gave you
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  Speaker 1: a ticket, a forty seven dollars jaywalking ticket, that would
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  Speaker 1: be the same thing. So if you make fifty grand,
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  Speaker 1: a forty seven dollars jaywalking ticket is the same to
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  Speaker 1: a fifty thousand dollars fine for a guy making fifty
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  Speaker 1: three million, which is a small price to pay for
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  Speaker 1: getting to use the Zebras as a fall guy. And honestly,
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  Speaker 1: Jalen's livestreams had less like analysis and more like the
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  Speaker 1: closing argument in a case of the missing accountability. The
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  Speaker 1: Celtics blew a three to one lead, lost Game seven
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  Speaker 1: at home against a rag tag Sixers team that the
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  Speaker 1: very next game went out lost by almost forty to
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  Speaker 1: the Knickerbockers. And you're gonna blame the referees. What are
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  Speaker 1: you doing if there was an agenda? Don't you think
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  Speaker 1: based on the popularity index that if there was an agenda,
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  Speaker 1: it probably would have been by the referees. Let's see
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  Speaker 1: how many wide open you know looks the Celtics can
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  Speaker 1: can get here and miss. Maybe we should help them
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  Speaker 1: out because they can't make anything, all right, Because you
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  Speaker 1: think from a ratings standpoint, the Celtics have more fans
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  Speaker 1: than the Sixers and all that. The investigation should not
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  Speaker 1: start with the officiating. It should start with the fact
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  Speaker 1: that Celtic they're so stubborn and they kept shooting three
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  Speaker 1: point shots start twenty six percent from three point land
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  Speaker 1: in that closeout game at home where they were eliminated
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  Speaker 1: in game number seven.
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  Speaker 1: So our lead this hour. We continue our in depth
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  Speaker 1: team coverage all night from pro Bouncy Ball, We go
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  Speaker 1: to Motown. We head out to Motown. Why not apps
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  Speaker 1: Bleep and Lootly we go there. It was two for
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  Speaker 1: one special the early game. The undercard had a game
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  Speaker 1: in Detroit, dere If you didn't watch. Perhaps not Cad
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  Speaker 1: Cuttingham had the most points, so he gets the lead
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  Speaker 1: on the hero of the game, as Cad cutting Aam
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  Speaker 1: scored twenty three points on some terrible shooting. Former Clipper
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  Speaker 1: Tobias Harris added twenty and the Pistons swarmed the Cavaliers
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  Speaker 1: late to upset Strip Club John one eleven to one
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  Speaker 1: oh one. On Tuesday night, in Game number one, the
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  Speaker 1: second run Duncan Robinson got into a little hissy with
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  Speaker 1: James Harden. He had nineteen points for the Pistons as well,
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  Speaker 1: who ended a NBA record tying twelve game postseason skideroo,
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  Speaker 1: better known as a losing streak against a single opponent,
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  Speaker 1: a drought that had dated way back to seven. I
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  Speaker 1: was a child in O seven in the Eastern Conference Finals.
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  Speaker 1: So Game two is Thursday night, Thursday night there in
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  Speaker 1: Detroit basketball. So the better story is always in the
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  Speaker 1: losing locker room and Cleveland getting scrutinized, dramatized, chastised, analyzed, stigmatized, sensationalized,
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  Speaker 1: and of course criticized. Let's say, great homage to Don King,
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  Speaker 1: an old school boxing promoter. You don't even know who
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  Speaker 1: that is. You have to be really old. You know
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  Speaker 1: who Don King is because Don King's like really really
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  Speaker 1: really really really old. That was one of his great
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  Speaker 1: lines and it was even longer than that. So it's
• 19:21
  Speaker 1: a good joming off point. Let us discuss the question
• 19:24
  Speaker 1: who gets the biggest helping of blame buck guys for
• 19:29
  Speaker 1: James Harden's Cavaliers. That is the question. So I've got
• 19:34
  Speaker 1: Serena Williams, soft launch and radio shack, and we are
• 19:41
  Speaker 1: gonna combine all of these things together and we are
• 19:44
  Speaker 1: going to bet on the wrong horse, is what we're
• 19:46
  Speaker 1: going to do. We're gonna bet on the wrong horse.
• 19:48
  Speaker 1: So number why number one, number one, number one, number one,
• 19:53
  Speaker 1: and fun number one. So so Donovan Mitchell, Evan Mobley,
• 20:02
  Speaker 1: and James Harden, the three amigos, they get big heaping
• 20:07
  Speaker 1: portions of the blame Buckeyes for the Cavaliers. Here, the
• 20:11
  Speaker 1: Cavs didn't just lose the game. It was like the
• 20:15
  Speaker 1: holiday season and when you buy something, would you like
• 20:17
  Speaker 1: that gift wrapped? Okay? Sure? Can I get that diff rap? Okay? Well,
• 20:21
  Speaker 1: because it's a holidays, We're not gonna even charge you anymore.
• 20:23
  Speaker 1: We're just gonna gif wrap this thing like it is
• 20:26
  Speaker 1: the holidays, and it's a holiday that you don't even celebrate. Congratulations,
• 20:30
  Speaker 1: and you don't need to be Serena Williams to recognize
• 20:33
  Speaker 1: the story here. Unforced errors. Unforced errors Okay, as they
• 20:40
  Speaker 1: say in the Tennis World twenty turnovers. That's not offense.
• 20:44
  Speaker 1: That is the salvation army. Okay, thirty one free points
• 20:50
  Speaker 1: to Detroit thirty one points off twenty giveaways. Cleveland had sixteen,
• 20:57
  Speaker 1: So my computer like brain using Malorman, tells me that
• 21:02
  Speaker 1: that is a plus fifteen for the home team, the Pistons.
• 21:07
  Speaker 1: The game finished a ten point spread, so you can
• 21:10
  Speaker 1: do your math and figure it out yourself. It's a
• 21:12
  Speaker 1: rather easy waltz and that's game set and matchdown. Even
• 21:17
  Speaker 1: with that, the game was tied up at ninety three
• 21:21
  Speaker 1: with five twenty eight to go in the game, so
• 21:24
  Speaker 1: you did not need to watch the first forty two
• 21:28
  Speaker 1: minutes of the game. The last five to twenty eight
• 21:31
  Speaker 1: of the game, Cleveland played like a team seeing a
• 21:36
  Speaker 1: basketball for the first time ever, Like, what is this
• 21:39
  Speaker 1: round object? I don't where did that come from? Is
• 21:43
  Speaker 1: that from somewhere outside the Milky Way galaxy? I don't know.
• 21:48
  Speaker 1: So Detroit they did it wasn't their their name brand
• 21:51
  Speaker 1: players that played well in the final five to twenty eight.
• 21:54
  Speaker 1: It was some off brand players. The Sharks at feeding time,
• 21:57
  Speaker 1: they shot sixty three percent over the last five twenty
• 22:00
  Speaker 1: eight of the game. The Cavs at thirty percent. And
• 22:02
  Speaker 1: they also had a prayer that was not answered. And yes,
• 22:07
  Speaker 1: you know how I do it here supermarket Steve Playoff Harden.
• 22:10
  Speaker 1: The full Playoff Harden experience showed up clunky, sloppy, seven turnovers,
• 22:18
  Speaker 1: the turnover to assist ratio a one for one proposition.
• 22:22
  Speaker 1: The bottom line here, though Cleveland did not get beat,
• 22:25
  Speaker 1: they hit the self destruct button and that's what happened.
• 22:30
  Speaker 1: They just tuckered out in the final five to twenty
• 22:33
  Speaker 1: eight of the game, although they were behind most of
• 22:37
  Speaker 1: the game. Most of the game. Now, James Harden has
• 22:41
  Speaker 1: been the one common denominator. He's changed teams and bounced
• 22:45
  Speaker 1: around the NBA, and he has consistently ridden the vomit
• 22:49
  Speaker 1: comet in playoff games. He'll get one or two really
• 22:53
  Speaker 1: good performances and then the rest of the time there'll
• 22:55
  Speaker 1: be a couple where he's just kind of there, he's
• 22:58
  Speaker 1: just taking up space, and then they'll be several where
• 23:00
  Speaker 1: he recks havoc and literally is like the sixth man, right,
• 23:05
  Speaker 1: He's like the sixth man of of the other team. Anyway,
• 23:09
  Speaker 1: here's James Harden who is asked about I guess you'll
• 23:12
  Speaker 1: hear the question on this and the answer hardened about
• 23:17
  Speaker 1: all the mistakes a lot of mistakes for James Harden
• 23:20
  Speaker 1: in these playoff games and the Cabs in general. Here's
• 23:23
  Speaker 1: hard take a list.
• 23:25
  Speaker 5: Do you think these turnovers are something that are correctable? Yep?
• 23:32
  Speaker 5: What do you like?
• 23:32
  Speaker 1: What do you think some of them are?
• 23:34
  Speaker 6: You know, like no, I just said, you know, you
• 23:36
  Speaker 6: look at you look within first and you look at
• 23:39
  Speaker 6: my turnovers and a lot of them are just on
• 23:42
  Speaker 6: me and nothing they did. So and you know it
• 23:46
  Speaker 6: was led to to you know, I don't even know
• 23:48
  Speaker 6: how many transition points they have, and it was way
• 23:50
  Speaker 6: too many. And I mean, if I had to put
• 23:53
  Speaker 6: my my print on one thing on the game, that's
• 23:55
  Speaker 6: the game right there. I mean, how many points a transition?
• 23:59
  Speaker 6: How far as I remember team everyone, that's the game
• 24:02
  Speaker 6: like something else, like we talked about last years, you
• 24:06
  Speaker 6: get a shot on glass even half of that and
• 24:07
  Speaker 6: it's a different ball game. So you know, for me,
• 24:11
  Speaker 6: I gotta be better, and I will be better turning
• 24:13
  Speaker 6: the basketball over, you know, from turning basketball over again,
• 24:16
  Speaker 6: shots up and then it gives our defense a chance
• 24:19
  Speaker 6: to get back, and just said, you know, I think
• 24:21
  Speaker 6: we did it. Other than that we played a pretty
• 24:24
  Speaker 6: soldid game.
• 24:26
  Speaker 1: That SoundBite could have been from twenty sixteen. It could
• 24:31
  Speaker 1: have been from you know, to go back. As long
• 24:33
  Speaker 1: as you want to go back twenty twenty twelve, you
• 24:36
  Speaker 1: can keep going back. He didn't mention the Calves. I
• 24:39
  Speaker 1: don't believe he didn't mention the Pistons. That was an
• 24:41
  Speaker 1: evergreen SoundBite for the most part. And that's who James
• 24:45
  Speaker 1: Harden is. I heard it when he played for the
• 24:47
  Speaker 1: people's team, the Clippers, and he'd play a bad game
• 24:50
  Speaker 1: and he'd comment about how we know what we need
• 24:52
  Speaker 1: to do and okay, good, go out and do it. Nope,
• 24:55
  Speaker 1: not gonna do it, not gonna happen. It is literally
• 24:59
  Speaker 1: baked into James Harden to suck in playoff games. Like
• 25:03
  Speaker 1: I don't know how you get that out of James Harden.
• 25:05
  Speaker 2: It is.
• 25:06
  Speaker 1: It's when he sweats, the suck comes out in the playoffs.
• 25:10
  Speaker 1: It's wild. Now, moving on page two, so Cavs star
• 25:14
  Speaker 1: Donovan Mitchell went on a bit of a rant post game.
• 25:18
  Speaker 1: He was asked by reporters about the foul shot disparity,
• 25:23
  Speaker 1: the free throw disparity, not only in this series a
• 25:26
  Speaker 1: game one, of course, this series, but the entire postseason,
• 25:30
  Speaker 1: and Mitchell went on a bit of a ran. He said,
• 25:32
  Speaker 1: I want to separate this from the game, he said,
• 25:36
  Speaker 1: and then he dove into the game, which was thirty
• 25:39
  Speaker 1: five sixteen advantage for Detroit in the disparity from the
• 25:44
  Speaker 1: foul line, and he said, here's the key part, he says,
• 25:47
  Speaker 1: not why we lost tonight. Spider Mitchell says, I want
• 25:50
  Speaker 1: to make sure I say that.
• 25:52
  Speaker 6: But but.
• 25:55
  Speaker 1: He says, I don't know. I'm trying to get downhill.
• 25:58
  Speaker 1: A friend of mine got fine for talking about flopping.
• 26:03
  Speaker 1: I guess he's talking about Jaylen Brown. So a quote continues,
• 26:05
  Speaker 1: I'm not gonna try to double down, but I mean,
• 26:10
  Speaker 1: I feel like that's what I gotta do. At this point,
• 26:14
  Speaker 1: he said, you know what I mean, right, Okay, I
• 26:17
  Speaker 1: keep going. He says, like I'm trying to get downhill,
• 26:21
  Speaker 1: trying to get to the bucket. Sometimes there's people on
• 26:24
  Speaker 1: the way and I'm trying to fight through contact and
• 26:27
  Speaker 1: I'm not getting these calls close quote okay, question, So
• 26:31
  Speaker 1: what did the Cavaliers Star Spider Mitchell accomplished by calling
• 26:37
  Speaker 1: out the referees and the seemingly the pistons flopping. He
• 26:44
  Speaker 1: didn't say pistons, but certainly implied there was some flopping
• 26:48
  Speaker 1: that went on. So Donovan Mitchell did not just call
• 26:50
  Speaker 1: out indirectly the pistons and obviously the referees. He basically
• 26:55
  Speaker 1: filed a lobbying brief with NBA head quarters in Manhattan,
• 27:01
  Speaker 1: and he did it on live TV. He hit the
• 27:03
  Speaker 1: classic Superstar two step. I am not blaming the referees,
• 27:09
  Speaker 1: but but but but but but but but but but
• 27:12
  Speaker 1: but yeah, okay, so hey, it was musical. I'm like Ohio, Awler,
• 27:18
  Speaker 1: Dick and Dayton, Jay Scoop and just Josh. He said,
• 27:22
  Speaker 1: but let me tell you why we lost everything before
• 27:28
  Speaker 1: the word but is a lie. Every man woman knows that.
• 27:31
  Speaker 1: Sometimes children know that too, but mostly men and women
• 27:33
  Speaker 1: know that. Now Spider says he's not pointing fingers, and
• 27:38
  Speaker 1: then spent about two minutes pointing every finger and some
• 27:41
  Speaker 1: thumbs that he had. It's the NBA's version of no offense.
• 27:47
  Speaker 1: But yeah, okay, so this wasn't a comment. It was
• 27:51
  Speaker 1: a soft launch. Political campaign happens all the time, all
• 27:56
  Speaker 1: the time. It is expected that coaches and players will lobby,
• 28:00
  Speaker 1: and obviously Spider Mitchell wants to separate it from the game,
• 28:04
  Speaker 1: the same way I want to separate dessert from dinner.
• 28:06
  Speaker 1: I still eat both. I still have both when I eat.
• 28:10
  Speaker 1: And he used the refs as the fall guy and
• 28:13
  Speaker 1: sent up smoke signals begging for make good whistles, is
• 28:19
  Speaker 1: what he Mitchell said that he's trying to get downhill,
• 28:23
  Speaker 1: but he went downhill straight into the complaint department in
• 28:27
  Speaker 1: the basement there. He went down to the complaint department,
• 28:29
  Speaker 1: and he didn't plant a seed. He planted an orchard
• 28:34
  Speaker 1: of referee guilt. Zebra guilt is what he did. All
• 28:38
  Speaker 1: of it aimed one message, Hey, Adam Silver, half man,
• 28:42
  Speaker 1: half alien, we'd like some freebies in game five.
• 28:47
  Speaker 3: Yeah, I did.
• 28:48
  Speaker 1: There's a lot of chatter there's gonna be some kind
• 28:51
  Speaker 1: of big UFO revelation coming out here in the coming
• 28:54
  Speaker 1: weeks and stuff. Wouldn't it be great if they announced
• 28:57
  Speaker 1: that there have been extraterrestrial living with us and one
• 29:01
  Speaker 1: of them runs the NBA. Wouldn't that be awesome? And
• 29:04
  Speaker 1: Sam Cassell when he played years ago, also also from
• 29:08
  Speaker 1: somewhere else out in the cosmos, and that these are
• 29:10
  Speaker 1: like their hybrid human alien type people. Wouldn't that be awesome?
• 29:13
  Speaker 1: All right? Final point, this is a crossover story college
• 29:18
  Speaker 1: basketball and the NBA. So things are getting dusty. They're
• 29:23
  Speaker 1: getting dusty around here. Yeah, we're talking about Dusty May,
• 29:28
  Speaker 1: the coach. He's a Michigan man, the Champions of Collegiate Basketball. Well,
• 29:33
  Speaker 1: Dusty May doesn't sound like he's gonna be a Michigan
• 29:35
  Speaker 1: man much longer. Apparently he's got a knock on the door.
• 29:39
  Speaker 1: You can hear it right there. Look at that. Do
• 29:41
  Speaker 1: I have not the greatest sound effects on all of
• 29:42
  Speaker 1: talk radio? Look at that you knocking? And the knock
• 29:46
  Speaker 1: is the NBA And they're saying, Hey, Dusty, how would
• 29:50
  Speaker 1: you like to coach in the NBA? Now, he just
• 29:52
  Speaker 1: led Michigan to a national championship. The Speculation Machine and
• 29:59
  Speaker 1: the Naked City never wrong, the speculation Machine says. The
• 30:01
  Speaker 1: Orlando Magic and the Golden State Warriors are said to
• 30:08
  Speaker 1: be interested in Dusty May here in the month of May.
• 30:11
  Speaker 1: Now I don't think Steve Kurrz officially been terminated or
• 30:15
  Speaker 1: left the Warriors yet. Although Dusty May has no NBA
• 30:20
  Speaker 1: coaching experience and may D degree. You might remember he
• 30:24
  Speaker 1: agreed to a contract extension, but you know what that means.
• 30:28
  Speaker 1: He hasn't signed it yet. So until it's signed, it
• 30:30
  Speaker 1: doesn't matter. And even if he signs it, this language,
• 30:34
  Speaker 1: offset language and things like that to get out of it.
• 30:36
  Speaker 1: So the question you are now Michigan hoops coach Dusty
• 30:41
  Speaker 1: May's career counselor should he go to the Warriors or
• 30:46
  Speaker 1: the Magic or stay at Michigan. So if he's jumping,
• 30:53
  Speaker 1: it's not even a choice. It's Orlando or stay at
• 30:56
  Speaker 1: Michigan or just retired. Dusty May was able to catch
• 31:00
  Speaker 1: lightning in an NIL sponsored bottle at Michigan. He bought
• 31:05
  Speaker 1: the right players. That's how you play big time college
• 31:08
  Speaker 1: football and basketball. Indiana bought the right players, they won
• 31:11
  Speaker 1: the championship. Michigan bought the right players. They won the championship.
• 31:15
  Speaker 1: You don't, though, sit around. You don't sit around waiting
• 31:18
  Speaker 1: for the bottle. You've caught lightning at a bottle. You
• 31:21
  Speaker 1: don't sit around waiting for the bottle of crack. The
• 31:23
  Speaker 1: sequel is almost never the equal. And you got Orlando
• 31:28
  Speaker 1: and Golden State the Warriors. Please, that would be like
• 31:31
  Speaker 1: buying stock and radio shack because you believe in nostalgia. Well, congratulations,
• 31:36
  Speaker 1: it ain't gonna help you. Golden State is a dynasty
• 31:41
  Speaker 1: on hospice at this point. It is a museum exhibit
• 31:45
  Speaker 1: with a gift shop, and they've got some nice collectibles
• 31:48
  Speaker 1: from the Splash brother days and all that stuff. And
• 31:51
  Speaker 1: the only thing that Dusty May would inherit is the
• 31:56
  Speaker 1: blame when things continue to go on a death spiral
• 32:00
  Speaker 1: for the Warriors and they're they're gonna be so bad,
• 32:04
  Speaker 1: so so bad. They're gonna they're gonna bring back Baron Davis.
• 32:07
  Speaker 1: That's how bad they're going to be. My god, Orlando
• 32:10
  Speaker 1: is a real job, all right now. If the Warriors
• 32:14
  Speaker 1: want a miracle worker, I recommend calling a priest, a rabbi,
• 32:17
  Speaker 1: or a magician. Orlando's the job, because that's it, full stop, Orlando.
• 32:23
  Speaker 1: Not that that's a great job. However, it's a younger team.
• 32:26
  Speaker 1: It's a hungry team. Granted, it's a bit of a
• 32:29
  Speaker 1: confused team, which means Dusty May could improve just by
• 32:32
  Speaker 1: showing up in Theory with Paulo Bonchero, Franz Wagner and
• 32:38
  Speaker 1: Desmond Baine as the Big three, although one of them
• 32:42
  Speaker 1: may be traded, likely Franz Wagner. There is raw talent.
• 32:47
  Speaker 1: There is raw talent, and they just need something to
• 32:51
  Speaker 1: crank it up a couple of notches. The Magic are
• 32:54
  Speaker 1: like a mid level contender with upside. They're currently stuck
• 32:57
  Speaker 1: on a ditch on the side of the road. There's
• 33:00
  Speaker 1: ability for them to level up. The Warriors. That is
• 33:05
  Speaker 1: a farewell tour. That is, Hey, let's have flashback promotions
• 33:09
  Speaker 1: with bobbleheads for all these guys that no longer play
• 33:13
  Speaker 1: for the Warriors, so we'll bring them back. Why not, Orlando,
• 33:17
  Speaker 1: there's a little runway there, so Dusty May's choice. It's
• 33:20
  Speaker 1: not really a debate. It's a map and there's one
• 33:24
  Speaker 1: road highlighted. It's a one way road and it's got
• 33:28
  Speaker 1: a spotlight on it. Right now.
• 33:29
  Speaker 2: Be sure to catch live editions of The Ben Maler
• 33:32
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• 33:36
  Speaker 1: It's mallor how about that?
• 33:38
  Speaker 2: To the third degree. This is one big event.
• 33:43
  Speaker 1: Gets grilled all right?
• 33:45
  Speaker 5: Cool? Johan Dotson has been in the NFL for four
• 33:48
  Speaker 5: seasons now, and we'll be joining his third team on
• 33:50
  Speaker 5: the Atlanta Falcons. New team president Matt Ryan told reporters
• 33:53
  Speaker 5: that he believes Dotson has quote untapped potential.
• 33:56
  Speaker 1: Ben do you think Matty Ice is right? Well, he's
• 34:00
  Speaker 1: gonna what do you expect him to say? He's the
• 34:02
  Speaker 1: guy sucks. That's why he keeps changing teams because he's
• 34:05
  Speaker 1: no good. Of course he's going to say that. Now,
• 34:08
  Speaker 1: it's one thing to say it. The reason you're on
• 34:12
  Speaker 1: what he's gonna have a third different NFL team is
• 34:14
  Speaker 1: because you haven't gotten there, and if you don't get there,
• 34:17
  Speaker 1: you're going to be selling insurance Jahan Dotson. So, how
• 34:22
  Speaker 1: many guys have gone to Atlanta and really blossom with
• 34:24
  Speaker 1: the Falcons? The answer is not many.
• 34:26
  Speaker 5: Next now, speaking of potential Packers top pick, wide receiver
• 34:30
  Speaker 5: Matthew Golden from last season, was only able to brack
• 34:32
  Speaker 5: up three hundred and sixty one yards and no touchdowns
• 34:34
  Speaker 5: in his rookie season. However, Packers offensive coordinator Adam Stenovich
• 34:38
  Speaker 5: told the media Monday, it's going to be a big
• 34:39
  Speaker 5: year for Golden deal Gary, Well, yes.
• 34:42
  Speaker 1: He's gonna get three hundred and seventy yards. He's gonna
• 34:44
  Speaker 1: get nine more yards than last year, Koop, So he
• 34:47
  Speaker 1: will have a bigger year, Matthew Golden than he did
• 34:51
  Speaker 1: last year for the Green Bay Packers. I love analysis
• 34:57
  Speaker 1: in May, June, and July, and this is that's what
• 35:00
  Speaker 1: we have to look forward to, parsing the words of coaches.
• 35:05
  Speaker 1: I would respect these guys if they ever said, Oh,
• 35:07
  Speaker 1: this guy's gonna suck, dude, this guy is going he's
• 35:09
  Speaker 1: gonna be out of the NFL. He's not gonna even
• 35:11
  Speaker 1: make the team. They never say that. They only say, Oh,
• 35:14
  Speaker 1: this guy's gonna blossom, he's got untapped potential.
• 35:16
  Speaker 5: Next, the Pistons narrowly avoided a shocking first round upset,
• 35:20
  Speaker 5: but that was enough to get JB. Bickerstaff a contract extension. Ben.
• 35:23
  Speaker 1: Do you think he earned it? No, he didn't. I
• 35:27
  Speaker 1: wish radio companies operated the way that NBA teams do,
• 35:30
  Speaker 1: and it's they gave him a new contract. But if
• 35:32
  Speaker 1: the Pistons come out next year and are terrible, they'll
• 35:35
  Speaker 1: fire him and then they'll pay him for a couple
• 35:37
  Speaker 1: extra years. That's the way this works in pro sports.
• 35:40
  Speaker 1: That's why I have no problem ripping guys to get fired?
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• 36:22
  Speaker 1: Hi Ben, any opening thought, Lorena? Do you have a
• 36:26
  Speaker 1: love thought you'd like to share with the class here?
• 36:28
  Speaker 1: Is there something interesting that you saw? Maybe a relationship story.
• 36:33
  Speaker 8: Oh my gosh, there's just so much relationship stuff going
• 36:36
  Speaker 8: on right now and not going on.
• 36:38
  Speaker 7: Yeah, I'm.
• 36:41
  Speaker 1: That we had we had the big breakup. We had
• 36:44
  Speaker 1: Clay Thompson, right, that's a celebrity break up.
• 36:46
  Speaker 8: That cheating candle is killing me and the w NBA
• 36:50
  Speaker 8: star who got the allegations that you know, this is
• 36:53
  Speaker 8: who he's cheating on her with. She's getting death threats
• 36:56
  Speaker 8: and neither Meg nor Clay has spoken out to be
• 36:59
  Speaker 8: like nah, she is not involved, so I feel really
• 37:02
  Speaker 8: bad for her.
• 37:03
  Speaker 1: Yeah, the thing. And I you know, Lorena, I don't
• 37:07
  Speaker 1: you know. I'm not a tabloid guy. I'm a masculine man, Lorraine.
• 37:09
  Speaker 1: I should not be reading the tabloids. It's very you know, feminine. Well, No,
• 37:15
  Speaker 1: I read them for the show. I do it for
• 37:16
  Speaker 1: the American people, so they don't and the Canadian people,
• 37:18
  Speaker 1: the Mexican people, so they don't have to read the
• 37:19
  Speaker 1: tablish And so I read it for exactly in New
• 37:22
  Speaker 1: Zealand as well. So I read it for these people.
• 37:24
  Speaker 1: And so I read in the tabloids that Blake Lively
• 37:27
  Speaker 1: and Justin Baldoni. Yeah, yeah, Did you see how much
• 37:31
  Speaker 1: they spent on on attorneys for their celebrity break up? There?
• 37:36
  Speaker 5: No, I did not.
• 37:37
  Speaker 7: What's it looking like?
• 37:37
  Speaker 1: All right, you want to take a guest here? How
• 37:39
  Speaker 1: much you think got my attention?
• 37:41
  Speaker 7: I'm gonna I'm going to say six hundred thousand.
• 37:44
  Speaker 1: That's a lot of money that I would kill myself
• 37:46
  Speaker 1: if im not literally, but I was very upset.
• 37:48
  Speaker 7: I'd be crazy.
• 37:49
  Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, yeah. According to page six, they spent sixty
• 37:55
  Speaker 1: million dollars combined to sue and counter sue one another
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  Speaker 1: sixty The lawyers are laughing at them. You dumb these morons, right,
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  Speaker 1: Come on now, sixty million lawyers always win. We got
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  Speaker 1: some calls for you. Let's say hello to Dave in
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  Speaker 1: Houston for the Queen of Hearts with Loraine. Hello, Dave,
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  Speaker 1: A man, I got.
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  Speaker 9: A question for Loraina. You know we're talking yesterday about
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  Speaker 9: the gifts she gets. What kind of gift impresses her?
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  Speaker 9: And by the way, I think you should have a
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  Speaker 9: segment every week. What did Loraina get? And diseases don't count?
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  Speaker 1: Wow, She's all right, Dave.
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  Speaker 7: You know that would be a good segment.
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  Speaker 8: But I did request for the gifts to slow down,
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  Speaker 8: so a weekly thing would not would not really work.
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  Speaker 1: The people want to get back to sending me gifts,
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  Speaker 1: which used to happen before you start on the show. Doraina,
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  Speaker 1: feel free. You know, I'm just saying.
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  Speaker 8: I do want to say the best skifts are the
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  Speaker 8: thoughtful ones, you know, the ones that they get out
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  Speaker 8: of nowhere, Like, oh, I listened to this segment and
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  Speaker 8: you were talking about this item, so I sent you
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  Speaker 8: one like I think that's so thoughtful.
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  Speaker 1: All right, thank you, Dave. Let's say if ferg dook says,
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  Speaker 1: is handing out business cards with my phone number to
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  Speaker 1: girls at the mall A good idea?
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  Speaker 6: Oh?
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  Speaker 7: Yes, spread those seeds, drop the hints.
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  Speaker 1: JT. The wingman says, what is your you know what
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  Speaker 1: on your card?
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  Speaker 7: You could put like call me for a good time.
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  Speaker 1: No, that always works. Yes, what is your opinion on
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  Speaker 1: wearing adult diapers to set the mood for love in
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  Speaker 1: the bedroom? Wingman?
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  Speaker 7: You know, not my not my fetish. They're not not
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  Speaker 7: my thing.
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  Speaker 2: I know not.
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  Speaker 8: Yeah, you know maybe it works for some some people,
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  Speaker 8: but okay, I'm not all right, I'm not.
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  Speaker 1: I understand h.
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  Speaker 5: You know.
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  Speaker 8: It's giving me fat life account like, oh, will you
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  Speaker 8: hold me as I wear my diaper and let me know?
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  Speaker 1: No? All right, BP says it. What age do you
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  Speaker 1: stop making Spotify playlist for a girlfriend or a boyfriend?
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  Speaker 7: I'm from back in the day.
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  Speaker 8: My baby daddy used to burn me CDs, so it
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  Speaker 8: wasn't even a Spotify playlist, you know.
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  Speaker 7: And that was back in high school. But I did
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  Speaker 7: have a boyfriend a few years back.
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  Speaker 8: Who would make me Spotify playlists and I love them.
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  Speaker 8: I love finding new music. I think they're super great.
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  Speaker 8: I don't think there needs to be an age restriction
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  Speaker 8: on it.
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  Speaker 1: All right, Andy and Lionel Lakes, Minnesota, saying he says, hey, Loraina, Hey, Loraina,
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  Speaker 1: how are you doing with Mother's Day approaching? My gal
• 40:43
  Speaker 1: always says, don't get me anything. But I know better
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  Speaker 1: than that, and does no mean yes.
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  Speaker 8: Well, I'm going to be a very busy girl this
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  Speaker 8: Mother's Day weekend with our travels to Boston. But yet,
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  Speaker 8: you know, don't forget moms. Don't necessarily like, oh, I
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  Speaker 8: need to hang out with my kid on Mother's Day.
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  Speaker 7: No you don't. Why don't you hang out with yourself
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  Speaker 7: and show yourself some self love? It's good for you.
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  Speaker 1: There you go, all right, take that time, e writers
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  Speaker 1: or estamand writes, and it says, is buying my wife
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  Speaker 1: a red light mask anti aging as a gift for
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  Speaker 1: Mother's Day? Is that the wrong way to go?
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  Speaker 7: I love that gift.
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  Speaker 8: I think it's so great. It's good for your health
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  Speaker 8: and your skin. I think it's a thoughtful gift to
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  Speaker 8: get her a nice candle to go with it.
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  Speaker 1: Okay, here you go, Queen of Hearts with Lorraina.
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  Speaker 2: Be sure to catch live editions of The Ben Meller
• 41:28
  Speaker 2: Show weekdays at two am Eastern eleven pm Pacific. Attention everyone,
• 41:33
  Speaker 2: and the password is password.
• 41:37
  Speaker 1: You idiot, password the word Game of the Stars.
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  Speaker 2: Here's Ben Meller.
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  Speaker 1: All right, let's do it. Here we go password. We've
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  Speaker 1: got who we have here? We have Chris in Boston.
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  Speaker 1: Who's gonna play? Hello Chris, welcome, Good morning, bet how
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  Speaker 1: they're going? Good morning Chris. Hopefully I'll see you this weekend.
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  Speaker 1: Maybe not. Who knows you're gonna play our game? And
• 41:58
  Speaker 1: who do you want to partner up? Because me, Ben,
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  Speaker 1: Lorena or Coop? Let's go with the winner. Let's go
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  Speaker 1: with you Ben, that's right, and hollering James, James. You're
• 42:07
  Speaker 1: gonna play James? Who do you want to partner up with? James?
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  Speaker 3: Even friend?
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  Speaker 1: Cool?
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  Speaker 5: Wow?
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  Speaker 1: Congratulations Coop? All right, that is the match up here. Loraina,
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  Speaker 1: you're out of the show. Chris in Boston, we have
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  Speaker 1: not tipped. I know you have a welcome to my
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  Speaker 1: world back in the day. All right, So Chris, you
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  Speaker 1: were on first. You get to pick a number, you
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  Speaker 1: know the drill here, one to ten, Chris.
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  Speaker 9: Yeah, in honor of Marcell let's go number two less.
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  Speaker 1: All right, let's go the uh. The password is how
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  Speaker 1: about Let's see, there's a couple of ways I go
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  Speaker 1: with this. How about uh sore s o ar sore by?
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  Speaker 1: There you go, good job by you? All right? Ted Points,
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  Speaker 1: you're up? Coop and our friend hollering James, chick number James.
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  Speaker 1: Coop's already the number one. You didn't say that, right, James,
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  Speaker 1: it's number one, number one, number one? All right, James.
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  Speaker 6: One.
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  Speaker 1: Let's go with.
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  Speaker 7: Rag r a g rag.
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  Speaker 9: Right?
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  Speaker 7: Yeah, yeah, I can't believe you got that, James.
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  Speaker 1: Have you shocked everyone? James? Okay, Chrissy Jura right?
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  Speaker 5: Uh?
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  Speaker 1: Number three? All right, let's go which way? I get
• 43:47
  Speaker 1: a couple options on this one? Also? Should I use
• 43:52
  Speaker 1: a mal maneuver? Which way am I going to go?
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  Speaker 3: Here?
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  Speaker 1: Let's go with uh crochet.
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  Speaker 6: That?
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  Speaker 1: Go ahead? Go ahead there, James, you're up. That was
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  Speaker 1: the word, Nick, Good job, Chris. Pick a number, James.
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  Speaker 9: Number three.
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  Speaker 1: He just he just did number three. We just did
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  Speaker 1: number three. Pick a different number. Number two. We already
• 44:25
  Speaker 1: hid number two. Number number five, Go ahead, number five,
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  Speaker 1: we're number five. No, I'm not gonna number four.
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  Speaker 5: All right, number four, let me go.
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  Speaker 1: Let's go with oven. Yeah, your tie, we gotta tie.
• 44:47
  Speaker 1: They can't have a tie. There's no ties and password