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  Speaker 2: This is the best of the Ben Maler Show on
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  Speaker 1: Oh what a night it was. Oh, I was flipping around.
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  Speaker 1: I'm not gonna lie to you. I mean I could,
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  Speaker 1: I've done that before, but I'm not lying now. I
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  Speaker 1: actually was flipping. I was fascinated by the match. We're
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  Speaker 1: gonna save that till hour two, the a block of
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  Speaker 1: hour two of the New York Metropolitans who have done it,
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  Speaker 1: they've lost a dirty dozen twelve losses in a row.
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  Speaker 1: But I was going back and forth with the basketball
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  Speaker 1: epic choke jobs all over the place and the I
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  Speaker 1: mean just tremendous. We didn't get any of that on
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  Speaker 1: Saturday Sunday, and here we are now we're heading into
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  Speaker 1: a Wednesday, and so the last couple of days have
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  Speaker 1: been pretty good for the choke, but our lead this hour.
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  Speaker 1: We start with the game that ended not that long
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  Speaker 1: ago in La, La, La, and we go to skid Row.
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  Speaker 1: The Lakers, you know, all that glitz and glamour and
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  Speaker 1: all those celebrities have, go to skid Row. What a
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  Speaker 1: toilet bowl that the arena the Lakers playing is. We're
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  Speaker 1: just a terrible part of La and just absolutely horrific
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  Speaker 1: sodom and gomorrah. Anyway, the Lakers and Rockets were playing
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  Speaker 1: there and downtown La and I don't know if you
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  Speaker 1: saw any of this game or not, it looked in
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  Speaker 1: the first half like the Lakers are going to blow
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  Speaker 1: the doors off the Rockets. And then it was close
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  Speaker 1: at halftime, and the Rockets were within reach. For most
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  Speaker 1: of the second half, they were wining reach. They could
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  Speaker 1: not get over the hump. So Lebron James, Lebron James
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  Speaker 1: twenty eight points. Mark is Smart had twenty five. Someone
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  Speaker 1: should be fired for the Rockets. Luke Knard had twenty
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  Speaker 1: three to two. People should be fired for the Rockets.
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  Speaker 1: My god, and the Lakers shorthanded hold off the Rockets
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  Speaker 1: one oh one ninety four and so win there. And
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  Speaker 1: that means the historians are very happy. They're up two
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  Speaker 1: to zero in this series. The better story, though, is
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  Speaker 1: in the losing locker room, and so we go there
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  Speaker 1: right now. Houston favored in both of these games, Viva
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  Speaker 1: los Vicki, our gambling insider, told us. He said, listen,
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  Speaker 1: the Rockets are favored in both these games in LA.
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  Speaker 1: So they were, they were fair. I looked it up,
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  Speaker 1: double checked it in all that. Favored in both games
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  Speaker 1: on the road, and they managed to lose each one
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  Speaker 1: of them. So he said, well, we'll give them a
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  Speaker 1: mulligan in game number one because in game one they
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  Speaker 1: did not have Kevin Durant. Okay, fine, well, spoilerlart, spoiler lart.
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  Speaker 1: Kevin Durant was back, and it didn't matter. It did
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  Speaker 1: not matter for Houston as Yeah, he went out and
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  Speaker 1: had not one, not two, not three, not four, not five,
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  Speaker 1: not six, not seven, eight, nine turnovers nine Paris back
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  Speaker 1: get doesn't make that many turnovers as Kevin Durant did
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  Speaker 1: in this nine and in the second half one of
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  Speaker 1: the great epic vanishing acts you can possibly have in
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  Speaker 1: the second half. So all of that is a good
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  Speaker 1: jumping off point. Let us discuss the question. It's a
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  Speaker 1: rather obvious question. But we're doing overnight talk radio here.
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  Speaker 1: What do you want? He wants to go deep. No,
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  Speaker 1: so the question do the Rockets have a Kevin Durant problem?
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  Speaker 1: So on this one, I've got vapor trail, heart surgeon,
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  Speaker 1: and saltines and we will combine all of these things
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  Speaker 1: together and we are going to go down the yellow
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  Speaker 1: brick road to get some heart. That's what We're gonna
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  Speaker 1: go down the yellow brick bro down the yellow brick road.
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  Speaker 1: We go. All right, So hey, to answer the question,
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  Speaker 1: do the Rockets have a Kevin Durant problem, I'm nodding
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  Speaker 1: my head. Yes. If you're watching on the YouTube, I'm
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  Speaker 1: gonna get busy if I keep doing so, But not
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  Speaker 1: in my head Yess, the Rockets don't just have a
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  Speaker 1: Kevin Durant problem. They are currently hosting the latest chapter
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  Speaker 1: in the never ending story of the Book of Durant,
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  Speaker 1: the Book of KD. Great player, terrible timing. It's always something,
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  Speaker 1: whether it's a boo boo or he just can't get
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  Speaker 1: that last shot in or whatever. In this case, it
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  Speaker 1: was a bunch of different things that popped up here.
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  Speaker 1: Now this series here, No, I don't wanted two games in. Technically,
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  Speaker 1: the Lakers just held serve because they won those games
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  Speaker 1: at home, but the series has officially become a referendum
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  Speaker 1: on Kevin Durant's ability to be the dude. How can
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  Speaker 1: you be the dude, dude when you're not the lights
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  Speaker 1: of the brightest And he's like, I gotta get some
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  Speaker 1: sunglasses here. I don't know, I'm having vision problems here.
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  Speaker 1: How do you lose that game to a Lakers team
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  Speaker 1: that is missing both Luka Doncik and Austin Reeves coached
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  Speaker 1: by a podcaster, For god's sake, Not that that's all
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  Speaker 1: that big, ada, but my God, and your Durant. You
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  Speaker 1: should be able to step it up down the street?
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  Speaker 1: Is that too much?
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  Speaker 2: Oh?
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  Speaker 1: You're being mean. You're being mean. No, I'm not all right. Listen,
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  Speaker 1: Kevin Durant. At the end of that game, he went
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  Speaker 1: out and I didn't realize it was his thing. I
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  Speaker 1: knew what they do it for lunch, but he had
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  Speaker 1: a three martini dinner. Normally that's just a lunch. When
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  Speaker 1: you're a salesperson, you have a three martini lunch, not
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  Speaker 1: a dinner. There he was in the second half. Durant
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  Speaker 1: the second half stat line was a horror film. Kevin
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  Speaker 1: Durant had three points, three more points than you, and
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  Speaker 1: he had made one basket in the second half. Kevin
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  Speaker 1: Durant one of five shooting. So the rock Cats were like, hey,
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  Speaker 1: we need an alpha, we need an alpha, and Kevin
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  Speaker 1: Durant said, you know what I'm gonna do, Just like
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  Speaker 1: a good horror movie, I'm going to fade into the
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  Speaker 1: wallpaper and so effectively that every single Lakers starter outscored
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  Speaker 1: Kevin Durant in the second half. Holy crap on a
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  Speaker 1: cracker batman. Yes, it happened, Like god, It's ridiculous here,
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  Speaker 1: absolutely embarrassing, gutless basketball. Now, I was wondering should the
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  Speaker 1: Rockets file a missing person's report for Durant or was
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  Speaker 1: he just in the parking lot and he was on
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  Speaker 1: his phone playing around onlike social media. He's doing that.
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  Speaker 1: This was not just a bad game. This is like
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  Speaker 1: one of those legacy leak type moments. Series. It was
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  Speaker 1: only game two of the playoff series, but Kevin Durant,
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  Speaker 1: the nine turnovers were nine loud reminders that he's just
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  Speaker 1: not well to put that on his back, you know,
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  Speaker 1: he just can't put you on his back, not gonna
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  Speaker 1: be that guy. You're not that guy, Palp, You're not
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  Speaker 1: that guy. And he's not that guy. And it's the
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  Speaker 1: reason that Durant one of the reasons he changes teams,
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  Speaker 1: like Burner accounts, he's just bouncing around and all that.
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  Speaker 1: He's looking for a roster that can cover for his
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  Speaker 1: many moles and warts in big moments there and he
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  Speaker 1: only found one golden state that was it. And he said, well,
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  Speaker 1: Durant was the big start, Okay, Yeah, surrounded by players
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  Speaker 1: in their prime who were also good players, and Durant
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  Speaker 1: played great. When Durant has to be the guy, Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: he's got issues and he continues to look I was
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  Speaker 1: getting older, he's near the end of his career. He
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  Speaker 1: would assume he's not gonna play that much longer. And
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  Speaker 1: Kevin Durant, you look at him, he's like, it looks
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  Speaker 1: less like a cornerstone Durant and more like a luxury accessory.
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  Speaker 1: You know what I'm saying. Yeah, you feel me on that,
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  Speaker 1: all right. So that's the issue here. And if you
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  Speaker 1: can't close out a depleted Laker squad, like what is there?
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  Speaker 1: The KD illusion, The Kevin Durant illusion, evaporating, and Durant
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  Speaker 1: did not just disappear in the second half of Game two.
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  Speaker 1: It's a three point game and a halftime. Durant did
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  Speaker 1: not just vanish in Game two. He left a vapor trail,
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  Speaker 1: like a chim trail, like the guys over at Coast
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  Speaker 1: to Coast talk about. That's what he left there, of
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  Speaker 1: chemicals and on his way to the wine and veal
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  Speaker 1: Pacata Knight while the game was still on the line.
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  Speaker 1: Wake up, Kevin, wake up? What are you doing now?
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  Speaker 1: Speaking of not waking up, we go now to Boston
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  Speaker 1: where the Celtics. I'm pretty stubborn. You know I'm stubborn.
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  Speaker 1: We've talked about this. I'm pretty bullheaded. Even I though
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  Speaker 1: as bullheaded as I am, I would not have continued
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  Speaker 1: to do what Joe Mizzoula did for the Celtics There.
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  Speaker 1: The Celtics attempted fifty three point shots against the Sixers,
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  Speaker 1: and somehow Someway missed thirty seven.
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  Speaker 3: Of them, thirty seven out of fifty misses, and sure
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  Speaker 3: enough they were upset as vj ebcomb Edgecomb with a
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  Speaker 3: huge night his coming out party there for the Sixers
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  Speaker 3: as he dominated Philadelphia run off the court in game one,
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  Speaker 3: they come right.
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  Speaker 1: Back, right back now, come on back now, and they
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  Speaker 1: did thanks to the generosity of the sex of Boston
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  Speaker 1: was favored by thirteen and a half on the parquet
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  Speaker 1: and Philadelphia ended up covering by twenty seven and a
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  Speaker 1: half twenty seven and a half. Missoula Joe Miszula after
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  Speaker 1: the game said one of the ways you have to
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  Speaker 1: defend them is with offense. Missoula said, I thought we
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  Speaker 1: got great looks, thought we missed them. He said, yeah,
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  Speaker 1: I have to be able to score in close games
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  Speaker 1: against a team like that. Blah blah blah, blah blah.
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  Speaker 1: So Joe Mazuola is saying it was the offense which
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  Speaker 1: was the issue, and they got good shots and all
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  Speaker 1: that stuff. So the question who gets the blame Lobstock,
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  Speaker 1: Who gets the blame Lobster for the Celtics flopping in
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  Speaker 1: game number two? So the Celtics in this one, they
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  Speaker 1: did not just lose Game two. They staged a high
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  Speaker 1: budget performance piece on how to hand deliver a less
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  Speaker 1: talented opponent an opportunity to kick your ass. That was
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  Speaker 1: some very expensive masonry work. There's a lot of bricklaying
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  Speaker 1: that took place find the Boston Celtics in this game.
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  Speaker 1: And this has been a glitch that the Celtics have
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  Speaker 1: had in this period of sustained success, where they are
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  Speaker 1: so addicted to the three point shot they just continue
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  Speaker 1: to go down that road even when it's not working.
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  Speaker 1: They continue and can tenue and continue and continue, and
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  Speaker 1: watching them miss thirty seven to three point shots in
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  Speaker 1: this game, they're so deeply in love with the analytics.
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  Speaker 1: Can't get enough of it. I cannot get enough of
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  Speaker 1: the analytics and all that stuff. That's it isn't a
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  Speaker 1: statistical anomaly. You missed thirty seven shots, it's malpractice. You
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  Speaker 1: forgot the primary objective of basketball is to put the
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  Speaker 1: paul in the hoop and watching them launch shots like
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  Speaker 1: they were trying to take out some low orbit satellite
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  Speaker 1: that might have been over the arena there. I mean,
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  Speaker 1: my goodness, it's just seriously, what are we doing here?
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  Speaker 1: And Joe Mozzula's we got great looks? Is the basketball
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  Speaker 1: equivalent of saying, hey, that heart surgeon really good man?
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  Speaker 1: Is that heart surgeon great? Now? The surgery was a success. Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: I know the patient's dead, but the surgery was a success.
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  Speaker 1: And don't you dare question the price. I know the
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  Speaker 1: guy dropped dad on the operating table, but don't bring
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  Speaker 1: that up. It's the process, dummy, That's the Celtics. That's
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  Speaker 1: the arrogance of the Celtics, and that's how they operate.
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  Speaker 1: And it's the process masquerading as coaching and all that stuff.
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  Speaker 1: It's those great looks. And if those are great looks, okay,
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  Speaker 1: the bad ones must involve shooting blindfolded. Literally blindfolded is
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  Speaker 1: how that goes, My goodness, And at a certain point,
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  Speaker 1: don't you have to say, well, time out, let's do
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  Speaker 1: a little field of the game here. It's not working.
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  Speaker 1: Let's override the analytics department on this night. And they
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  Speaker 1: didn't do it. I did not do it. The Celtics
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  Speaker 1: continued to shoot. And also, let's not forget some of
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  Speaker 1: those supporting actors were on sabbatical in this game, as
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  Speaker 1: Derek White, Sam Hauser and Peyton Pritchard combined to shoot
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  Speaker 1: twenty five percent, and my goodness, in Philadelphia without Joel Embiid,
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  Speaker 1: without Joel Embiid, and this was a gift wrap opportunity, like, hey,
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  Speaker 1: they put a win knee sticker on the game, and
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  Speaker 1: sure enough, the Sixers said, okay, thanks for putting the
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  Speaker 1: bow there as well. We appreciate that. And yeah, and
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  Speaker 1: the Boston said, listen, we don't want the game. We
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  Speaker 1: don't need the game, we don't deserve the game. Television
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  Speaker 1: wants this thing to do longer. We're good. So the Sixers,
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  Speaker 1: without their franchise player, mister MVP Joel Embiid and all that,
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  Speaker 1: and the Celtics decided to provide the great equalizer, which
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  Speaker 1: will be thirty seven missed three point shots just to
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  Speaker 1: keep things fair. With one arm tied behind their back.
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  Speaker 1: Now last word, we go to San Antonio, a night
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  Speaker 1: of upsets where Scoot Henderson good name, bad game, Scoot
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  Speaker 1: Henderson not on this night though, thirty one points dot
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  Speaker 1: Trailblazers Boom Shaka Laca. The Trailblazers go out get it
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  Speaker 1: done there in the Alamo, take advantage of an injury
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  Speaker 1: to Victor Wembanyama. That's the store of the night. There
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  Speaker 1: they rallied for a three point win one O six
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  Speaker 1: to one O three over the Spurs to even up
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  Speaker 1: the Western Conference playoff series at one game apiece. That's
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  Speaker 1: a two to seven matchup. The seven gets the win
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  Speaker 1: here Portland the Trailblazers closing the game on they went
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  Speaker 1: down the Oregon Trail twenty seven to ten, outscoring the
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  Speaker 1: Spurs by seventeen. They went from down fourteen to up
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  Speaker 1: three and they end up winning the game. So, with
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  Speaker 1: nine minutes remaining in the second quarter of the story,
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  Speaker 1: don't bury the lead the story here. With nine minutes
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  Speaker 1: ago in the second quarter, Victor Wembanyama drove to the
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  Speaker 1: basket on Blazer's guard Drew Holliday, who for some reason
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  Speaker 1: was in front of him when Banyama bumped knees with
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  Speaker 1: Holiday and then tripped towards the floor. Down goes Wemby,
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  Speaker 1: Down goes Wemby, and his head bounced like a basketball
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  Speaker 1: up and down couple of times, and that was he
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  Speaker 1: was out of the game, and the Spurs revealing afterwards
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  Speaker 1: that wemba Yama has a concussion and he will undergo
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  Speaker 1: further testing. He's in the protocol which means he is
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  Speaker 1: unlikely to play in game number three. Unlikely to play
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  Speaker 1: in game number three there on Friday in Portland, and
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  Speaker 1: that is his status in serious shout doubt on that.
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  Speaker 1: So the question where are these Spurs? Where the Spurs
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  Speaker 1: headed in this playoff series with Wemby's injury and what
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  Speaker 1: appears to be a multiple game situation here is he's
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  Speaker 1: in the protocol for concussion. So the victor Wemba Nyama injury,
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  Speaker 1: this thing flips it. It's like flipping a coin up
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  Speaker 1: in there. It flips it around your franchise cornerstone. Wemban
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  Speaker 1: Yama is now in a dark room eating saltines, dodging
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  Speaker 1: light like a vampire at this point as he tries
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  Speaker 1: to recover from the concussion. And then that means the
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  Speaker 1: Spurs are on a NonStop flight to Panic City. Okay,
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  Speaker 1: and here's why. The foundation of the Spurs and they
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  Speaker 1: have some good players around Wemby. The foundation, though suddenly
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  Speaker 1: feels more like wet cardboard, and the high level of
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  Speaker 1: fragility and Wemby's brilliance is undeniable, but so is the
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  Speaker 1: reality of the situation here that he has built like
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  Speaker 1: a string bean and that is the centerpiece. And watching
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  Speaker 1: his head bounce on the floor, it was like watching
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  Speaker 1: WrestleMania and a folding chair getting thrown down, is what
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  Speaker 1: it was like. Gravity is is not just undefeated here,
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  Speaker 1: it's scouting him. The whole operation starts to resemble a
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  Speaker 1: Jenga tower in a wind tunnel with Wemby, like one
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  Speaker 1: wrong move and it's timber, just like that, And yes,
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  Speaker 1: san Antonio should. Here's take san Antonio should still beat Portland.
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  Speaker 1: They are better than Portland in this series. They are
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  Speaker 1: more talented. But you know that that means yeah, Should.
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  Speaker 1: I've been doing this a while and Should has never
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  Speaker 1: won playoff games. It's wild. You would think at some
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  Speaker 1: point Should would win a playoff game at no. And
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  Speaker 1: so they already flunked game two. If Wemby can't go,
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  Speaker 1: these spurs are not just shorthanded, then they're obviously exposed
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  Speaker 1: here and Wemby is one bump away from rebooting, like
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  Speaker 1: a malfunctioning laptop in the Fox Sports radio studios, which
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  Speaker 1: happens at least once a week, where the thing reboots,
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  Speaker 1: And so why is it rebooting? I don't know why
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  Speaker 1: it's rebooting. That doesn't make any sense. I need to reboot,
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  Speaker 1: all right. If you want to talk about any of this,
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  Speaker 1: the night that was in the NBA opening round of
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  Speaker 1: the playoffs, as all three games went the way they
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  Speaker 1: were not supposed to go based on the gambling line,
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  Speaker 1: you can be part of this eight seven, seven ninety
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  Speaker 1: nine on Fox. The Spurs have the excuse. They're like, wow,
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  Speaker 1: we didn't have Wimby. The Rockets had Durant, so they
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  Speaker 1: got no excuse. They played flat. And the Celtics they
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  Speaker 1: had their guys and they sucked and so that they
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  Speaker 1: don't have any excuse.
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  Speaker 1: a tremendous fan of Losers. I have worked in sports
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  Speaker 1: talk radio my entire adult life, and every place I've worked,
• 19:15
  Speaker 1: mostly here, but everywhere else, I've taken some side gigs.
• 19:18
  Speaker 1: I worked at WEI for a while, did some side
• 19:20
  Speaker 1: hustles in Denver and Seattle and some other places. And
• 19:23
  Speaker 1: everywhere I've worked, there's always been that one token Mets fan.
• 19:28
  Speaker 1: There's always been that one annoying Mets fan. We've had
• 19:31
  Speaker 1: many Mets fans that have been annoying that have worked
• 19:33
  Speaker 1: here over the years. Some of my favorites Bruce Jacobs,
• 19:36
  Speaker 1: who worked here for a long time, an annoying a
• 19:38
  Speaker 1: Mets fan. Jason Smith, who does the show prior to
• 19:42
  Speaker 1: this show on Fox Sports Radio a Mets fan, and
• 19:46
  Speaker 1: on and on and on and on. There's many of them.
• 19:48
  Speaker 1: There's nothing quite as enjoyable as a total implosion. And
• 19:53
  Speaker 1: this is getting to historic proportions here. The embattled New
• 19:58
  Speaker 1: York Mets closer Devin Williams, and this is the guy
• 20:02
  Speaker 1: in Milwaukee, looked like God's gift to pitching. He then
• 20:07
  Speaker 1: went to the Yankees and was not very good. So
• 20:09
  Speaker 1: the Mets said, Okay, why don't you come over here
• 20:11
  Speaker 1: to this Borough. We're sure you'll be fine over here.
• 20:13
  Speaker 1: He sucks there too. Yes, there's a common denominator in this.
• 20:18
  Speaker 1: So Devin Williams allowed a tie breaking Ribbi single in
• 20:21
  Speaker 1: the ninth inning to somebody I had never heard of
• 20:23
  Speaker 1: on the Twins and New York. New York lost their
• 20:27
  Speaker 1: twelfth consecutive game. Congratulations to the Mets. They lose five
• 20:33
  Speaker 1: to three to the Twinkies, and so the Mets skid
• 20:37
  Speaker 1: their longest in a generation twenty two. Now, if the
• 20:43
  Speaker 1: Mets can lose again, and we know they can on
• 20:46
  Speaker 1: Wednesday here against Minnesota, that would then move up a
• 20:50
  Speaker 1: couple of notches and they would match a record by
• 20:53
  Speaker 1: the nineteen sixty two the iconic sixty two Mets. I believe,
• 20:58
  Speaker 1: although that sixty two Mets team the worst team of
• 21:01
  Speaker 1: all time, and they have several losing streaks which are
• 21:05
  Speaker 1: ridiculously long. But anyway, the Mets have now lost twelve straight.
• 21:10
  Speaker 1: Now here's the fun fact of the hour. Here, in
• 21:14
  Speaker 1: the history of baseball, which goes back to the eighteen seventies,
• 21:18
  Speaker 1: the Cincinnati Reds were the first professional baseball team. How
• 21:22
  Speaker 1: many teams do you think have made the playoffs in
• 21:24
  Speaker 1: a season where they drop twelve consecutive games. What do
• 21:28
  Speaker 1: you think you mean? Maybe like five something like that,
• 21:32
  Speaker 1: maybe three? Yeah, Okay, you got your answer, you locked in. Yeah,
• 21:38
  Speaker 1: the answer is none. No team in the history of
• 21:41
  Speaker 1: professional baseball has ever made the postseason in a year.
• 21:45
  Speaker 1: They lost twelve in a row. So turn out the lists,
• 21:48
  Speaker 1: the parties over. Of course, that tells you what has happened,
• 21:51
  Speaker 1: not what's going to happen. The good news is the
• 21:54
  Speaker 1: Mets have many more games to lose, many many more
• 21:58
  Speaker 1: games to lose. Now one Soto who claimed he went
• 22:01
  Speaker 1: to the Mets because he thought they had a better
• 22:03
  Speaker 1: chance to win than the Yankees. Okay, he is expected
• 22:06
  Speaker 1: to return to the Metropolitans lineup on Wednesday. I bring
• 22:10
  Speaker 1: this up in part because Hall of Famer Pedro Martinez,
• 22:15
  Speaker 1: the legend, red Sock legend, Dodger legend, Pedro Martinez, he
• 22:21
  Speaker 1: was on TV. He called out the Mets in the postgame.
• 22:24
  Speaker 1: If you didn't watch this, maybe doing something else. I
• 22:27
  Speaker 1: don't know what you're doing, you might have might have
• 22:30
  Speaker 1: missed it. So Pedro Martinez said of the Mets as
• 22:34
  Speaker 1: an organization right now, they need to make a statement.
• 22:39
  Speaker 1: Pedro said something needs to change right now. Well, thank you.
• 22:42
  Speaker 1: They've lost twelve in a row. Captain Obbys the coaching staff,
• 22:45
  Speaker 1: he said, needs to change the strategy that they're using.
• 22:49
  Speaker 1: Maybe go to small ball, take the humble approach, said
• 22:54
  Speaker 1: a guy that wasn't humble at all in his career,
• 22:56
  Speaker 1: Pedro Martinez. So that is a good jumping off point.
• 22:59
  Speaker 1: Let us discuss us. Everyone's got a solution. We're using
• 23:02
  Speaker 1: this as a jumping off point. So the question what
• 23:07
  Speaker 1: do you make of Pedro Martinez saying that the Mets
• 23:12
  Speaker 1: need to make a statement after twelve straight losses. So
• 23:17
  Speaker 1: I've got chandelier, poltergeist, and Guinness World Record, and we
• 23:24
  Speaker 1: will combine all of these things together and we will
• 23:29
  Speaker 1: be the adult in the room. Is what we're going
• 23:31
  Speaker 1: to be, unless we're not all right. So number on,
• 23:35
  Speaker 1: number on, ready for some fun. Pedro Martinez is absolutely
• 23:42
  Speaker 1: right about the urgency, all right, So he's not wrong
• 23:46
  Speaker 1: on that. It's a rather obvious thing to say, right.
• 23:49
  Speaker 1: Baseball is a sport that is not designed for It's
• 23:52
  Speaker 1: what we pointed out many times, and this is what
• 23:54
  Speaker 1: dumb people don't understand. The twenty twenty Championship, the Dodgers
• 23:57
  Speaker 1: won the hardest of them all because that was about urgency.
• 24:02
  Speaker 1: Baseball has never been about urgency. It used to drive
• 24:06
  Speaker 1: me nuts when I years ago in another life, when
• 24:09
  Speaker 1: the Dodgers didn't win every year and I did the
• 24:11
  Speaker 1: postgame thing and they get off these miserable starts, and
• 24:14
  Speaker 1: I'd go into the locker room and I'd say, well,
• 24:17
  Speaker 1: you guys suck. You should be playing better. Why are
• 24:19
  Speaker 1: you know? And they'd be like, we're fined. We got
• 24:21
  Speaker 1: plenty of time. It's like, no, that's the wrong answer.
• 24:24
  Speaker 1: I don't want to hear that. I want urgency. So
• 24:26
  Speaker 1: I love that Pedro came out and said it. It's
• 24:28
  Speaker 1: an obvious thing to say, but he talked about urgency
• 24:32
  Speaker 1: and he's shouting Pedro Martinez into a Hoover vacuum cleaner
• 24:36
  Speaker 1: is what he's doing here. The Mets, they don't need
• 24:39
  Speaker 1: a statement at this point. The way they're playing. They
• 24:42
  Speaker 1: need an intervention. They do. And when Pedro Martinez shows
• 24:47
  Speaker 1: more fire in his belly from a climate controlled TV
• 24:52
  Speaker 1: studio covered in makeup than the players wearing the Mets uniforms,
• 24:59
  Speaker 1: they don't show that much energy in the dugout and
• 25:01
  Speaker 1: all this stuff. You don't just have a slump at
• 25:04
  Speaker 1: this point. If you're the Mets, it's more than that.
• 25:07
  Speaker 1: It's a systemic collapse for the Mets. And I am
• 25:10
  Speaker 1: enjoying my shot in freude watching this from the sidelines here.
• 25:14
  Speaker 1: Twelve straight losses. You're not cursed when you've lost twelve
• 25:16
  Speaker 1: straight games. That is pure incompetence, is what that is.
• 25:21
  Speaker 1: There's really no other way to say it. And they
• 25:23
  Speaker 1: haven't even just hit rock bottom. I don't think this
• 25:26
  Speaker 1: is rock bottom. You might say it's rock bottom, Okay, fine,
• 25:30
  Speaker 1: I would challenge that by saying that the Mets at
• 25:33
  Speaker 1: rock bottom here. Well, they just went out and went
• 25:36
  Speaker 1: on Timu and they bought some industrial grade drills. They're
• 25:41
  Speaker 1: trying to see if they can go into lower Let's
• 25:43
  Speaker 1: get down into bedrock. Let's go down into bedrock and
• 25:46
  Speaker 1: settle in there. And as for small ball, which Pedro
• 25:50
  Speaker 1: Martinez brought up, these guys can't even play medium ball.
• 25:55
  Speaker 1: How are they going to play small ball? They don't
• 25:57
  Speaker 1: even know what medium ball is at this particular point.
• 25:59
  Speaker 1: And a spiritual cleanse. Go out into the forest with
• 26:04
  Speaker 1: Joe Rogan and Aaron Rodgers and a bunch of ayahuasca
• 26:09
  Speaker 1: and see what happens. That would be more effective than
• 26:13
  Speaker 1: a bunt at this particular point, it just would. And
• 26:18
  Speaker 1: now their savior is returning, the Great Messiah is coming
• 26:22
  Speaker 1: back to the New York Mets. Having one Soto in
• 26:25
  Speaker 1: the lineup. That's kind of like hanging a fifty million
• 26:29
  Speaker 1: dollars chandelier right above a sinkhole. Well, that doesn't make
• 26:34
  Speaker 1: a lot of sense. There's a sinkhole, I know, but
• 26:36
  Speaker 1: this chandelier looks really good until it falls into the sinkhole.
• 26:40
  Speaker 1: The house is currently sliding into a sinkhole now by
• 26:44
  Speaker 1: late April, and we're not quite very anivat, but it's
• 26:47
  Speaker 1: getting closer, you know. Doing the show here, it's April
• 26:49
  Speaker 1: twenty second, and the New York Mets have officially transitioned
• 26:53
  Speaker 1: the New York Mets season. Here, they've gone from a
• 26:56
  Speaker 1: professional baseball team to performance art. At this particular point,
• 27:00
  Speaker 1: the statement they're currently making is, we apologize for giving
• 27:05
  Speaker 1: you this product. It's an inconvenience and you don't have
• 27:09
  Speaker 1: to wash its anymore, and we suck and that's that.
• 27:13
  Speaker 1: And now, as for the coaching staff, if I'm the
• 27:16
  Speaker 1: hitting coach here, Tony Snicker, I believe is the guy's name.
• 27:20
  Speaker 1: I would keep a duffel bag packed. I would make
• 27:24
  Speaker 1: sure I can get out of my lease, if you
• 27:26
  Speaker 1: know what I'm saying here. Now, the fan base at
• 27:29
  Speaker 1: this point, they're not looking for a turnaround for the Mets.
• 27:32
  Speaker 1: That's not realistic at this particular point, They're looking for
• 27:35
  Speaker 1: an as Tech style human sacrifice. They want a pound
• 27:38
  Speaker 1: of flesh is what they would like. They want someone
• 27:40
  Speaker 1: to lose their job, and it's for whatever reason. Carlos Mendoza,
• 27:43
  Speaker 1: the manager, seemingly has incriminating photos of ownership. And what
• 27:48
  Speaker 1: do you have to do to lose your job? The
• 27:49
  Speaker 1: Mets were terrible the last three months of last season.
• 27:52
  Speaker 1: She should have been fired at the end of the year.
• 27:53
  Speaker 1: They brought him back. Now they've lost twelve games in
• 27:55
  Speaker 1: a row. I realize the argument to keep him is
• 27:58
  Speaker 1: he's not really doing anything. Just he's a hood ornament
• 28:01
  Speaker 1: at this point, and it's all the nerds that are
• 28:03
  Speaker 1: doing it. And even with that, wouldn't you just as
• 28:06
  Speaker 1: an illusion get rid of the guy? All right? Now
• 28:08
  Speaker 1: to Anaheim we go. We go to Anaheim. Why not
• 28:11
  Speaker 1: because we want to talk about the angels on the field.
• 28:14
  Speaker 1: Several of you sent me this story. I don't keep
• 28:17
  Speaker 1: up on Angel social media, so I didn't see it
• 28:19
  Speaker 1: myself until it was sent to me. I guess that's
• 28:21
  Speaker 1: the whole point of social media. So the Angels recently
• 28:24
  Speaker 1: posted a video celebrating sixty years at the Big A
• 28:29
  Speaker 1: sixty years in Anaheim, which is the fourth oldest stadium
• 28:33
  Speaker 1: in baseball. You got Finway, Wrigley, Dodger Stadium, and Angel Stadium,
• 28:38
  Speaker 1: and so the Angels put this sizzle reel out. They
• 28:41
  Speaker 1: had the highlights and a montage of big molments and
• 28:45
  Speaker 1: legendary players who wore the halo back when the Angels
• 28:49
  Speaker 1: used to try to win games in the old days.
• 28:51
  Speaker 1: If you're old, you might remember when the Angel actually
• 28:53
  Speaker 1: had a good team every once in a while. Yeah,
• 28:55
  Speaker 1: So they honored all these guys and these big time players,
• 28:57
  Speaker 1: Nolan Ryan legend in there right, Mike Trout, Garrett Anderson,
• 29:02
  Speaker 1: Reggie Jackson, some of the all time greats back in
• 29:05
  Speaker 1: the old days who played for the Angels. And so
• 29:08
  Speaker 1: there they were. Now one player was left out. You
• 29:12
  Speaker 1: want to take a guess which player somehow did not
• 29:15
  Speaker 1: end up in the sixty year tribute video for the Angels.
• 29:20
  Speaker 1: Who do you think it was? You got you got
• 29:23
  Speaker 1: a guess? All right, lock it, lock it in, don't
• 29:27
  Speaker 1: change your answer. Show Haltani. The Angels did not include
• 29:33
  Speaker 1: Show Haltani in their clip the sixty year Sizzle Reel
• 29:38
  Speaker 1: of Anaheim Stadium or the Big A or whatever it's called.
• 29:42
  Speaker 1: He didn't make the cut. He was on the cutting
• 29:45
  Speaker 1: room floor. Then that raised some eyebrows. So the question
• 29:49
  Speaker 1: for the esteem panel should Show Haltani be offended? Should
• 29:54
  Speaker 1: he be offended that the Angels left him out of
• 29:58
  Speaker 1: this nostalgia Big A video celebrating sixty years at the ballpark.
• 30:04
  Speaker 1: So my position on this is the wrong word is
• 30:08
  Speaker 1: being used to offended. Otani should not be offended. My
• 30:13
  Speaker 1: word is flattered. He should be flattered Otani. And here's why.
• 30:18
  Speaker 1: By scrubbing him going stalin and not putting him in
• 30:22
  Speaker 1: the video, scrubbing his performance with the Angels in this
• 30:27
  Speaker 1: nostalgia reel about Anaheim Stadium, the Big A whatever. The
• 30:31
  Speaker 1: Angels have officially entered the deleting photos of my ex
• 30:36
  Speaker 1: stage of crisis is that midlife crisis. I don't know
• 30:41
  Speaker 1: what you're saying, but it's hilarious. It is a public
• 30:44
  Speaker 1: admission that that wound, that wound of Otani, not only
• 30:48
  Speaker 1: leaving it'd be one thing we went to the Yankees
• 30:51
  Speaker 1: or the Mets or the Blue Jays, but the Dodgers.
• 30:55
  Speaker 1: The Dodgers, that wound is still oozing puss. There is puss.
• 31:02
  Speaker 1: It's blue puss oozing out of that wound at this
• 31:05
  Speaker 1: particular point. And leaving him out was not some kind
• 31:09
  Speaker 1: of oversight. It's an emotional surrender. It proves that despite
• 31:15
  Speaker 1: just being thirty something miles away up the road, there
• 31:18
  Speaker 1: Otani is the big blue ghost haunting Artie Marino things
• 31:26
  Speaker 1: that go bumpity bump in the night. That's the way
• 31:29
  Speaker 1: it is. Is a Poulter guy. It's a very powerful figure,
• 31:32
  Speaker 1: and they're just going to pretend that he did not exist.
• 31:35
  Speaker 1: And it's it's interesting. They're not really a racing history.
• 31:38
  Speaker 1: I believe Otani won two en VP Awards and a
• 31:40
  Speaker 1: Rookie of the Year. Where the angels are the angels
• 31:43
  Speaker 1: are admitting they cannot handle the reality of the moment.
• 31:47
  Speaker 1: Now the devil's argument. The devil's argument on this one,
• 31:50
  Speaker 1: you're dan. If you do, you're dand if you don't,
• 31:52
  Speaker 1: Because if the angels had included Otani, it would have
• 31:55
  Speaker 1: been Boy, howpathetic are they? They put Otani in there,
• 31:57
  Speaker 1: so you gotta do it though, to me, got to
• 32:00
  Speaker 1: do it because he You know how many guys have
• 32:01
  Speaker 1: won MVP with the Angels, not very many, Don Baylor
• 32:05
  Speaker 1: and Mike Trout, Otani, It's a small list of guys
• 32:08
  Speaker 1: that have been able to get it done. And so
• 32:10
  Speaker 1: Otani doesn't need his highlight video at this particular point. Yeah,
• 32:14
  Speaker 1: he's not in need of that. His absence proves he's
• 32:17
  Speaker 1: already bigger than that catalog. And he's just sticking to
• 32:22
  Speaker 1: him on a nightly basis, wearing Dodger bill and in
• 32:26
  Speaker 1: the way, we know the Angels have an identity problem.
• 32:28
  Speaker 1: They a lot of people love Orange County and would
• 32:31
  Speaker 1: love to live there, and it's a great place and
• 32:33
  Speaker 1: all that, and they so want to be lay They
• 32:36
  Speaker 1: would build a stadium and skid row if they could.
• 32:39
  Speaker 1: That's how much they love la It's wild all right. Now,
• 32:41
  Speaker 1: final point to the ownership suite. We go and go
• 32:46
  Speaker 1: to pro bouncy ball. This is a great story. Now,
• 32:48
  Speaker 1: the Trailblazers upset the Spurs on Tuesday Night, That is
• 32:51
  Speaker 1: not what this is about. The owner of the team,
• 32:54
  Speaker 1: a guy I had never heard of, has gone viral here,
• 32:57
  Speaker 1: and very rarely does an owner go viral, and almost
• 33:00
  Speaker 1: never goes viral the owner for something good. So this
• 33:03
  Speaker 1: guy named Tom Dundon, I believe that'say said it. I
• 33:06
  Speaker 1: don't even know. This guy is just a random like
• 33:08
  Speaker 1: rich dude. There's a lot of rich people. I don't
• 33:10
  Speaker 1: know who they are. And the only reason you buy
• 33:12
  Speaker 1: a sports team is so somebody knows who you are.
• 33:14
  Speaker 1: More on that in a minute. So this guy, Tom
• 33:17
  Speaker 1: Dundon has been called out for enforcing strict cost cutting measures,
• 33:23
  Speaker 1: such as turns out the Portland Trailblazers staff is mandated
• 33:29
  Speaker 1: now to check out of hotels by twelve thirty to
• 33:31
  Speaker 1: avoid late fees, even though the games are at night.
• 33:36
  Speaker 1: So I guess they got some time to kill before.
• 33:39
  Speaker 1: I don't know what they're gonna do. What do they do?
• 33:40
  Speaker 1: They hang out in the lobby at the hotel. I'm
• 33:41
  Speaker 1: not sure about that. The team Masseuse was denied a
• 33:44
  Speaker 1: room to give pregame treatment to the players, so no
• 33:47
  Speaker 1: massage is there? Two way players that are part of
• 33:51
  Speaker 1: the Trailblazers were not allowed to travel to the playoff
• 33:54
  Speaker 1: games in San Antonio to cut costs, and Game three,
• 33:58
  Speaker 1: which is on Friday. You know, all these teams give
• 34:00
  Speaker 1: out the T shirts and try to get the fans
• 34:03
  Speaker 1: all fired up. Free T shirt night not in Portland.
• 34:06
  Speaker 1: In order to save some cash, the Blazers will not
• 34:09
  Speaker 1: be giving out the free T shirts for game number three.
• 34:13
  Speaker 1: They have refused also to send the team photographer for
• 34:17
  Speaker 1: the Trailblazers and the digital reporter on the road again
• 34:20
  Speaker 1: to save a couple of shekels. So the question where
• 34:24
  Speaker 1: are you at on the Trailblazers owner, This guy Tom
• 34:26
  Speaker 1: Dundan being blasted for pinching pennies, for pinching pennies. So
• 34:33
  Speaker 1: this is not moneyball, and moneyball's more of a baseball team.
• 34:38
  Speaker 1: It's not moneyball, the basketball version of moneyball. This is
• 34:41
  Speaker 1: dollar store ball is what this is, right, This is
• 34:43
  Speaker 1: dollar general. This is what that is. And why would
• 34:47
  Speaker 1: you drop four point two billion? I realize there's other
• 34:50
  Speaker 1: people in the bolt, but again, the whole point of
• 34:53
  Speaker 1: owning a sports team is so when you go to
• 34:55
  Speaker 1: the cocktail party in Beverly Hills or the Hamptons or
• 34:58
  Speaker 1: South Beach, that you have something to talk about while
• 35:01
  Speaker 1: you're drinking your New York iced ty right your Long
• 35:06
  Speaker 1: Island icy, you say, Okay, what do you do?
• 35:09
  Speaker 4: Oh?
• 35:09
  Speaker 1: You know, I run ah, I run an investment company. Okay,
• 35:13
  Speaker 1: that's great. You do investing line, So as everyone else,
• 35:15
  Speaker 1: what do you do?
• 35:16
  Speaker 4: Well?
• 35:16
  Speaker 1: I own the Portland Trailblazers as an NBA team. Oh, really,
• 35:20
  Speaker 1: tell me more about that. It's a good conversation starter.
• 35:23
  Speaker 1: And so if you don't want to be criticized, and
• 35:26
  Speaker 1: the whole point you want people to love you because
• 35:28
  Speaker 1: you want people to talk about you, why would you
• 35:30
  Speaker 1: be the guy that buys the team and is a
• 35:32
  Speaker 1: tight one? Just like Artie Marino. Another tight one. The
• 35:34
  Speaker 1: Angels don't even send their radio guys on the road
• 35:36
  Speaker 1: most of the time because they don't want to spend
• 35:38
  Speaker 1: money on travel, so they do it off a TV
• 35:41
  Speaker 1: like it's COVID. Still it's six years or whatever after,
• 35:44
  Speaker 1: they're still doing it off the TV. The Angel roadbrod
• 35:47
  Speaker 1: play by play radio guys. It's ridiculous. But there's a
• 35:50
  Speaker 1: by the Trailblazers. So this guy's worth over two billion
• 35:53
  Speaker 1: dollars and you're telling the staff to check out of
• 35:57
  Speaker 1: the hotel by twelve thirty, like you're on some kind
• 35:59
  Speaker 1: of kids trip to Washington, d C. Or something. It
• 36:03
  Speaker 1: appears that the Blazer's owner is gunning for the Guinness
• 36:07
  Speaker 1: World Record for cheapest owner in professional sports. And you
• 36:10
  Speaker 1: know that people hate him because this all of this
• 36:13
  Speaker 1: has gotten out. Everyone's got loose lips. They all can't
• 36:17
  Speaker 1: stand this guy, and everyone's spilling the beans about how
• 36:20
  Speaker 1: cheap he is, and that stuff gets around and he's
• 36:23
  Speaker 1: like this generation's Marred Shot. Now you might not not
• 36:26
  Speaker 1: know who that is. March Shot was like she was
• 36:29
  Speaker 1: about like four foot tall, this really old crotchety woman
• 36:33
  Speaker 1: who ended up owning the Cincinnati Reds. And she was
• 36:36
  Speaker 1: such a tightwad in the eighties and nineties that she
• 36:39
  Speaker 1: was known for her Saint Bernard. Her Saint Bernard. At
• 36:42
  Speaker 1: the time, she was so cheap that the players when
• 36:46
  Speaker 1: they won the World Series, I believe it was against
• 36:47
  Speaker 1: the Athletics, they swept the Oakland Athletics, and she was
• 36:51
  Speaker 1: hoping for some more revenue and home games. She was
• 36:54
  Speaker 1: so upset that they didn't lose and get an extra
• 36:57
  Speaker 1: home game or two that she didn't provide any post
• 37:00
  Speaker 1: World Series party. So the players were eating like fast
• 37:02
  Speaker 1: food burgers after they won the World Series of the
• 37:05
  Speaker 1: Reds because she didn't want to spend any money because
• 37:08
  Speaker 1: she was upset she didn't make more money. The famous
• 37:10
  Speaker 1: donuts story that she bought some donuts for a meeting
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  Speaker 1: And if you're that frugal right now, like you're that
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• 38:26
  Speaker 1: So owning a team is a license to passive income
• 38:30
  Speaker 1: in professional sports. And this guy's acting like he's one
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  Speaker 1: Yes, it's tragic for Omar Kahn and the Pittsburgh Steep.
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  Speaker 1: No stop. They should make the draft sixty minutes. That's it,
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  Speaker 7: I don't know if we touched on this last week,
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  Speaker 6: Just make sure everyone knows before.
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  Speaker 6: I have to interact the whole time.
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  Speaker 6: Oh, gosh, cologne.
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  Speaker 7: It's so hard because some people are really sensitive to smells.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, but you do you have certain colognes that you like.
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• 44:57
  Speaker 6: Is that a movie?
• 44:59
  Speaker 1: You don't know what the village people are. You'd never
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  Speaker 4: Hey, how are you.
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  Speaker 1: Try to hold your emotion? Please?
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  Speaker 4: I'm trying, all right?
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  Speaker 1: Who do you want to partner up with? Quickly?
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  Speaker 6: A cool?
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  Speaker 1: Pick a number please, three number three?
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  Speaker 5: Okay, let's go with catastrophe, hurricane.
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  Speaker 1: Okay. I just love the you can pure joy that
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  Speaker 6: Oh gosh, mishap.
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  Speaker 4: Please Rain?
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  Speaker 6: What what we did it?
• 48:23
  Speaker 4: Rain?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah?
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  Speaker 1: Which one?
• 48:25
  Speaker 6: Alright?
• 48:25
  Speaker 1: I A alright, alright? Said game's over? Wait he got
• 48:31
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• 48:32
  Speaker 4: Well, Rain a line.
• 48:33
  Speaker 1: I can't for a miracle for the village people.