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  Speaker 1: in here and all that crap. But our lead this
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  Speaker 1: hour is from pro Bouncy Ball. Don't bury the lead,
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  Speaker 1: by man heart. We're not gonna bear the lead. So
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  Speaker 1: we had an island game in the NBA, and island
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  Speaker 1: game not at night. See, the NBA realizes Oklahoma City
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  Speaker 1: and Denver not worthy of prime time. So they played
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  Speaker 1: that bad boy in the afternoon. That game you normal
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  Speaker 1: game seven, standalone game. Island game played at night. No,
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  Speaker 1: they said this game so crappy, We're not gonna play
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  Speaker 1: that game at night. And they didn't play the game
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  Speaker 1: at night. They played it in the afternoon, Nicola Jokic
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  Speaker 1: and the Nuggets traveling circus headed over to the Sooners
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  Speaker 1: State there for the last dance, one last opportunity against
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  Speaker 1: Shaye Jogas Alexander the former Clipper, and he plays for
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  Speaker 1: the Thunder.
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  Speaker 4: Now.
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  Speaker 1: So game seven, Oh, greatest words in sports unless it
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  Speaker 1: was this Game seven. Oklahoma City the youngest team in
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  Speaker 1: the history of the NBA to win at least sixty games.
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  Speaker 4: Whoopee am do and against the.
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  Speaker 1: Championship pedigree of Denver. How many times have we heard
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  Speaker 1: that when the Nuggets do anything, go championship pedigree. Shove
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  Speaker 1: that right up your old keister. All right, So, Thunder,
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  Speaker 1: we're an eight point favorite, come into this an eight
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  Speaker 1: point favorite.
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  Speaker 4: How did that turn out?
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  Speaker 5: Well?
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  Speaker 1: If you didn't watch the game, consider yourself lucky. It
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  Speaker 1: was a sleepy afternoon, a Sunday, fun day, without much
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  Speaker 1: fun in terms of competition. You want a close game,
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  Speaker 1: you want a game Game seven. If you could pick
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  Speaker 1: out the scenario with five minutes to go, it's anyone's game.
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  Speaker 1: Who's going to make plays down the stretch? So that
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  Speaker 1: we got none of that, We got none of that.
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  Speaker 1: That did not happen in this game. But don't worry.
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  Speaker 1: We did watch so you would not have to, and
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  Speaker 1: you didn't miss a damn thing as a shade Jogas
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  Speaker 1: Alexander scored thirty five points and Jalen Williams, who was
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  Speaker 1: an absolute turd in a previous game, had twenty four
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  Speaker 1: and the Thunder vaporized the Nuggets like a fat guy
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  Speaker 1: at McDonald's eating chicken. Nuggets won twenty five to ninety
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  Speaker 1: three in Game seven. As Oklahoma City advances, they head
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  Speaker 1: now to the Western Conference Final and the top seeded
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  Speaker 1: Thunder will host the sixth seeded Minnesota Timberwolves starting on
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  Speaker 1: what is that Tuesday night?
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  Speaker 4: Tuesday night? There you go.
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  Speaker 1: So Oklahoma City the first trip to the conference finals
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  Speaker 1: since twenty sixteen, and so that is the setup here,
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  Speaker 1: But the better story is in the losing locker room,
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  Speaker 1: and so that is where we will begin as we
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  Speaker 1: discuss the question, how does one explain how does one
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  Speaker 1: explain Nakola Jokic and the Nuggets getting crushed like a
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  Speaker 1: bug on the rug they got stomped on.
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  Speaker 4: In Game seven.
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  Speaker 1: It's one thing to lose, but to not have any
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  Speaker 1: kind of fight, A gutless effort by the Denver Nuggets
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  Speaker 1: in this game. So I've got poetic Tom Hanks and
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  Speaker 1: Jelly Roll and we will combine all of these things
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  Speaker 1: together and make a nice trip to can Kuon is
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  Speaker 1: what we're going to make. So a this was what
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  Speaker 1: I call a bad good game. A bad I use
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  Speaker 1: that phrase. If you've been with the show a long time,
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  Speaker 1: you know sometimes I'll use the phrase bad good. Now
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  Speaker 1: what I mean by that It was bad to watch.
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  Speaker 1: It was bad to watch. It wasn't competitive, but it
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  Speaker 1: was good because it was such a rat kill you
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  Speaker 1: didn't need to watch it. And I was like, I'm
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  Speaker 1: not gonna sit here and say I watch. After midway
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  Speaker 1: through the third quarter, I'm out. The most valuable thing
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  Speaker 1: we have is our time. I'm not wasting my time
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  Speaker 1: on that drek. Okay, I'm out. If the Nuggets aren't
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  Speaker 1: gonna try, why am I gonna try to watch? My God? Now, Denver,
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  Speaker 1: they started the game with an old Hollywood trick. We
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  Speaker 1: see its back when people used to watch movies. I know,
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  Speaker 1: movies are kind of laying now and people don't really
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  Speaker 1: go to movies, and the movies they make are terrible
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  Speaker 1: for the most part, But when you used to back
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  Speaker 1: in the old days people used to actually go to
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  Speaker 1: the movies.
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  Speaker 4: I got a big deal, you know, it was a
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  Speaker 4: huge deal.
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  Speaker 1: And so that quick start, it's called the fake out,
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  Speaker 1: that quick start where you think, man, this is great,
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  Speaker 1: great opening scene, we got something here.
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  Speaker 4: This is good.
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  Speaker 1: It's gonna be a good movie. And then you settle
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  Speaker 1: in and it stinks. Movie blows right. And the Nuggets
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  Speaker 1: got out of the gates. They were up by eleven points.
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  Speaker 1: You figure that have a chance. In the fourth chord,
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  Speaker 1: they had to play with the lead. So they were
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  Speaker 1: up by eleven midway through the first quarter. From that
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  Speaker 1: point forward, I went back. I did the mal of
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  Speaker 1: math on this. From that point forward, up eleven, they
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  Speaker 1: were outscored, they being the Nuggets by fifty four points.
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  Speaker 1: They fell behind by forty three points. So they went
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  Speaker 1: up eleven, down forty three and turn at the last
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  Speaker 1: the parties over. Now in that stretch, Oklahoma City faced
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  Speaker 1: no defense. Why couldn't the Nuggets play defense like that
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  Speaker 1: against the Clippers in Game seven? In fact, that the
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  Speaker 1: Nuggets looked like the Clippers that gave up James Harden
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  Speaker 1: out there playing for the nugget at five, James Harden's
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  Speaker 1: out there for the Denver Nuggets so Oklahoma City in
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  Speaker 1: that stretch where they went from down eleven to up
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  Speaker 1: forty three, he had SGA and Jalen Williams combined for
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  Speaker 1: fifty five points.
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  Speaker 4: In that stretch.
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  Speaker 1: They shot sixty percent in a game seven over sixty percent.
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  Speaker 1: While in that stretch the Denver stars Nikoley Jokic and
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  Speaker 1: Jamal Murray combined for twenty six points and shot forty
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  Speaker 1: three percent. Now, I never played in the NBA. I
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  Speaker 1: just do an overnight show. But I don't think that's good.
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  Speaker 1: You think think that's good. The Nuggets were an anemic
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  Speaker 1: seventeen percent from three point range, led by Jamal Murray
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  Speaker 1: is one of eight from prepoint range in that stretch. Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: good afternoon, good evening, and good night. Now that being said,
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  Speaker 1: I am actually happy the Nuggets lost.
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  Speaker 4: Well, are you happy the Douggets?
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  Speaker 2: Low?
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  Speaker 4: You should be happy the Douggets.
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  Speaker 1: Oh no, it's not because of that guy, Jeff and
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  Speaker 1: Denver that calls the show. It's not because of that guy.
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  Speaker 1: But the way I look at the Nuggets losing here,
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  Speaker 1: I'm gonna go very deep here. I feel like this
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  Speaker 1: is poetic. That Denver lost. It's poetic justice, and somewhere
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  Speaker 1: somewhere at a mansion, far far away, Michael Malone cracked
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  Speaker 1: open a cold one and celebrated the demise of the
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  Speaker 1: Nuggets because they did him dirty, dirty, dirty dogs. They
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  Speaker 1: did Michael Malone dirty, dumping him days before the playoffs.
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  Speaker 4: You dance with the one you brought.
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  Speaker 1: They whacked Malone, thinking that Weasley ownership there in Denver.
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  Speaker 1: They thought, well, I'll get her to the GA, We'll
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  Speaker 1: get rid of the we'll get rid of the cod
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  Speaker 1: We're gonna be fine.
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  Speaker 4: Uh. And how that turned out.
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  Speaker 1: They hired that I want to be polite NEPO interim
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  Speaker 1: coach David Adelman. Okay, that guy, and they know I'm
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  Speaker 1: gonna zoom into the final four and all that.
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  Speaker 4: Well.
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  Speaker 1: The doppelganger, as a listener pointed out, of the impractical
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  Speaker 1: Joker star James Murray, had nothing, had absolutely nothing right there.
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  Speaker 4: And so the Nuggets are out, which is good. It's
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  Speaker 4: it's poetic justin.
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  Speaker 1: You don't want to see a team that makes that
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  Speaker 1: kind of business decision, that kind of pathetic move, like
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  Speaker 1: the Denver Nuggets have success and they didn't have it
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  Speaker 1: all right, now, turning the page.
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  Speaker 4: So this got me all worked up.
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  Speaker 1: One of the pet one of the pet peeves I
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  Speaker 1: have is how amazingly lazy the modern athlete is, right,
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  Speaker 1: how babied, how coddled the modern athlete is.
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  Speaker 4: Uh.
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  Speaker 1: And it's a great example of that in what happened
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  Speaker 1: in after Game seven.
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  Speaker 4: So Aaron Gordon, who.
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  Speaker 1: Started despite a hamstring injury, and you would have thought
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  Speaker 1: they had to amputate it. It was like during the Civil
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  Speaker 1: War they had to amputate the leg. And he went
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  Speaker 1: out there and played amazed. He hopped on one leg,
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  Speaker 1: he was on a hopper, so he played fine. Okay,
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  Speaker 1: good for him, all right, But rather than just celebrating
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  Speaker 1: the fact that he played, not that he played that great,
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  Speaker 1: rather than just that after the game had concluded, Aaron
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  Speaker 1: Gordon said he had a wish about what he'd like
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  Speaker 1: to see the NBA do with the schedule in the playoffs.
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  Speaker 1: And now, now keep in mind the players have complained
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  Speaker 1: for a long time. Wow, we got back to back
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  Speaker 1: games in the regular season. So the NBA made sure
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  Speaker 1: in the playoffs. No back to back. You never played
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  Speaker 1: back to back. Never ever back to back. They used
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  Speaker 1: to play back to back. They never played back to back.
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  Speaker 1: That's not good enough for this schmuck. Listen to Aaron
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  Speaker 1: Gordon take a Liz.
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  Speaker 6: I would really really appreciate it if there were a
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  Speaker 6: couple of days in between games in the playoffs instead
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  Speaker 6: of every other day, regardless if you go seven games.
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  Speaker 6: And I understand, if you do your work early and
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  Speaker 6: you get first seed, then you can have some time off.
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  Speaker 6: But I think the days in between games not just
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  Speaker 6: off day and a travel day, but travel day and
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  Speaker 6: a recovery day, just two, just two days. I think
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  Speaker 6: the product of the game would be a lot better.
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  Speaker 6: I think there'd be a just a better product on
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  Speaker 6: the floors. Just to give all these professional athletes just,
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  Speaker 6: you know, one more day of rest, and you would
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  Speaker 6: see a higher level of basketball, probably less blowouts.
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  Speaker 3: Okay, that was not AI, by the way people think, Well,
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  Speaker 3: but no one would actually like No Marshmallow would actually
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  Speaker 3: say that, Like, what would they want their name?
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  Speaker 4: He said it. That's not AI, that's real. So Aaron Gordon,
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  Speaker 4: you just heard it.
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  Speaker 1: He thinks the NBA needs more days off between playoff
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  Speaker 1: games to prevent postseason blowouts. What is your verdict on
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  Speaker 1: this one? Okay, so my verdict on this is poppy cocky.
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  Speaker 1: That is my verdict on that. Poppycock. Poppycock, poppycock, poppycock, poppycock.
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  Speaker 4: That's my verdict. It is twisted reasoning. Now, it's twisted reasoning.
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  Speaker 1: It's ridiculous, Like tell me you don't know what you're
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  Speaker 1: talking about, without telling me you don't know what you're
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  Speaker 1: talking about. The schedule is fair because it's equal for
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  Speaker 1: all the teams, Like there is supposed to be a
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  Speaker 1: degree of difficulty in the NBA playoffs. Hello, Like what
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  Speaker 1: are we doing here? Like everyone's playing on the same umbrella,
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  Speaker 1: the same conditions. And I keep hearing from people that
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  Speaker 1: we we have the top trainers, we use computer science
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  Speaker 1: and technology and all this stuff. We're so advanced to
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  Speaker 1: the advancements to help the human body quickly recover. Oh
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  Speaker 1: my god, it's never enough. And it reminds me of
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  Speaker 1: the Tom Hanks character in the League of the Road
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  Speaker 1: when you talk about this.
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  Speaker 3: Of course it's hard, right, It's yes, it's supposed to
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  Speaker 3: be hard.
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  Speaker 4: It was easy. Everyone would do it. These guys Eric
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  Speaker 4: Gordon ten, you're wuss. What are you doing? You need
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  Speaker 4: oh read it next year?
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  Speaker 3: How about a week we play like the NFL. Wait
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  Speaker 3: once a week every Sunday. You play a game every Sunday,
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  Speaker 3: play a stupid game.
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  Speaker 4: That wouldn't be enough. It is so stupid.
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  Speaker 1: I just I can't wrap my head about how dumb
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  Speaker 1: this is. Well we did, yeah, okay, let's just why
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  Speaker 1: don't we have how about the NBA Finals. It'll be
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  Speaker 1: sometime maybe in August. They'll end the NBA Finals. That
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  Speaker 1: would that be good?
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  Speaker 4: My god.
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  Speaker 1: The whole point is to distinguish what the goald is
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  Speaker 1: from the gravel, and to do that you have to
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  Speaker 1: have the war of attrition, not the war of Let's
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  Speaker 1: get as much rest as we can possibly have. It's like, jeez, yeah,
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  Speaker 1: I'm sure blowoffs will never happen. Yeah, how about you
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  Speaker 1: don't quit like the Nuggets did in this game, then
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  Speaker 1: you won't get blown out?
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  Speaker 4: How about that?
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  Speaker 1: And you don't give me, oh they quit. You don't
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  Speaker 1: lose a game by that many points if you're trying,
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  Speaker 1: you don't. And the players again, they complain about the
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  Speaker 1: back to backs. Fine, that there's a you have to
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  Speaker 1: do that because of scheduling issues with the arenas and
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  Speaker 1: so they've gotten rid of a lot of that. The
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  Speaker 1: back to backs they used to play many more back
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  Speaker 1: to backs, and they belly ache playing every other day
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  Speaker 1: in the playoffs. And it's like the lesson is, no
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  Speaker 1: matter what you guys are gonna bitch about something, you're
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  Speaker 1: gonna complain about something, to shut up. It's annoying, it's unbecoming.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, do you realize the people are watching you
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  Speaker 1: stupid games are working two or three jobs, most of
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  Speaker 1: them they they're not seeing any other family.
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  Speaker 3: The love was and you're complaining because you want an
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  Speaker 3: extra day off between a stupid playoff game when you're
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  Speaker 3: already getting the day off between the play That's Aaron
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  Speaker 3: Gordon all right.
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  Speaker 4: Anyway, uh now the last part of this.
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  Speaker 1: Nicole Jokish also gave us some good content post game.
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  Speaker 1: As the Nuggets have been extinguished from the playoffs, they
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  Speaker 1: have been decommissioned from the postseason. So he was asked
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  Speaker 1: whether the Nuggets can win a championship as they are
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  Speaker 1: currently constructed another title with this group of players.
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  Speaker 4: Then, well, here's what he had to say.
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  Speaker 3: Take it was, do you feel like this team could
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  Speaker 3: still win a championship as it's put together?
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  Speaker 4: Now?
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  Speaker 7: I mean, we didn't, so we can't. If we if
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  Speaker 7: we could win it, So I don't believe in those
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  Speaker 7: if stuff. So we had an opportunity, we didn't. We didn't.
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  Speaker 7: We didn't win it, so I think we can't.
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  Speaker 1: Okay, there you go ifs. I do not believe in
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  Speaker 1: the word if. All right, So the question where does
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  Speaker 1: Denver go from here? Where does Denver go from here?
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  Speaker 1: Do they simply remodel around Nicola Yolkic or is this
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  Speaker 1: a total demo?
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  Speaker 4: Blow it up?
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  Speaker 1: So the answer, Mighty cooder Ring tells me what the
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  Speaker 1: joker just said there is now We're cooked? Is what
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  Speaker 1: he meant to say, right, We're screwed. I mean, this
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  Speaker 1: is this is bad, bad, but bad, bad bad all right.
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  Speaker 1: So if I'm the Nugg, it's like the chance of
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  Speaker 1: them getting a player in the next five to ten
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  Speaker 1: years as good as Yo Kic is are slim and none,
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  Speaker 1: as the line goes, and none is on a plane
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  Speaker 1: right now going to Bermuda, So good luck on that.
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  Speaker 1: What you do here, if you're the Nuggets, you go
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  Speaker 1: down to home depot and it's a DIY project.
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  Speaker 4: Do it yourself? All right?
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  Speaker 1: This is do it yourself project. You've got really two
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  Speaker 1: or three seasons of Jokic where you can make this
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  Speaker 1: thing work, right, you can make this thing work. And
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  Speaker 1: so you treat Nicole Jokic like the Jelly Roll song
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  Speaker 1: and you just hold on to him until the wheels
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  Speaker 1: fall off. Of Jokic, he doesn't seem like the kind
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  Speaker 1: of guy like he's a plane demand that goes to
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  Speaker 1: some other team. He doesn't seem like that kind of
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  Speaker 1: Maybe he is, and he's been in the NBA a
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  Speaker 1: long time, and by osmosis, maybe he's learned to be
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  Speaker 1: a schmuck like all the other guys in demand to
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  Speaker 1: go to some big market teams somewhere. But if I'm
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  Speaker 1: the Nuggets and I got no skin in the game here,
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  Speaker 1: if I'm the Denver Nuggets, I'm like, hey, I'm riding
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  Speaker 1: this all right. I'm going till the wheels fall off.
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  Speaker 1: He's thirty years old. So you got, like I said,
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  Speaker 1: two or three seasons, and this is gonna be a decline.
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  Speaker 1: These are the athletic primes. At thirty two, that's the peak,
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  Speaker 1: have happened, which means that even though this story has
• 19:25
  Speaker 1: taken place with the last couple of days, it is
• 19:27
  Speaker 1: still worthy of some hot talk on the radio. So
• 19:31
  Speaker 1: and I assume you've heard the meat of it, but
• 19:34
  Speaker 1: maybe not, maybe not. We learned over the weekend the
• 19:37
  Speaker 1: forty nine ers have done the thing you can't do
• 19:40
  Speaker 1: at the time you can't do it. They have paid
• 19:42
  Speaker 1: brock Party two one hundred and sixty five million dollars
• 19:48
  Speaker 1: over five years and a contract extension. Now Perty gets
• 19:51
  Speaker 1: one hundred and eighty one garrong teeth. If brock Purty
• 19:55
  Speaker 1: goes out, never throws another touchdown pass, and throws interception fumbles,
• 19:59
  Speaker 1: all all that, he still gets one hundred and eighty
• 20:01
  Speaker 1: one million total guaranteed money one hundred and sixty five
• 20:05
  Speaker 1: point one million in the first three years.
• 20:08
  Speaker 4: It must be nice.
• 20:10
  Speaker 1: And he is now under contract through the year twenty thirty,
• 20:13
  Speaker 1: which seems like it's a long way.
• 20:14
  Speaker 4: Away, but it's already May of twenty twenty five. So
• 20:17
  Speaker 4: let's deliberate on this. That's what we do here. We deliberate.
• 20:20
  Speaker 1: So the question who benefits the most, who benefits the
• 20:25
  Speaker 1: most from this deal? Is it the forty nine ers
• 20:27
  Speaker 1: locking up they're alleged in air quotes franchise quarterback, or
• 20:32
  Speaker 1: is it brock Perty securing a long term, massive amount
• 20:37
  Speaker 1: of money that is garanteed in that stability that you get.
• 20:41
  Speaker 1: All right, So my observations on this. You've got a leaf,
• 20:46
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• 20:54
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• 21:06
  Speaker 1: Oh man, so good. All right, So my first observation,
• 21:10
  Speaker 1: some would say.
• 21:11
  Speaker 5: Number yeah, the arrow on this.
• 21:20
  Speaker 1: One is directed squarely in the corner of Rock Party.
• 21:25
  Speaker 1: No ifs ands or butts about it. Now, I have
• 21:29
  Speaker 1: no ill will.
• 21:30
  Speaker 4: Against the player.
• 21:31
  Speaker 3: There is this perception by people like her nest Do
• 21:34
  Speaker 3: and Terry in England, the other big forty nine er
• 21:37
  Speaker 3: apologists that listen to the show, many of them in
• 21:39
  Speaker 3: northern California, that I am anti brock Party.
• 21:42
  Speaker 4: I have some ill will. I don't. I've never met
• 21:45
  Speaker 4: brock Party.
• 21:45
  Speaker 1: I did see him once at the Super Bowl and
• 21:47
  Speaker 1: he looked like he was a sophomore in high school.
• 21:49
  Speaker 1: But that's not That's good for him, you know. Mozeltov,
• 21:53
  Speaker 1: congratulations on getting the big pay day.
• 21:55
  Speaker 4: Would I have done it? Absolutely not. I would not
• 21:58
  Speaker 4: have done this now.
• 21:59
  Speaker 1: As we mentioned in the fifth Hour podcast over the weekend,
• 22:04
  Speaker 1: the exclusive pod only fifth Hour that the company has
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  Speaker 1: me to do over the weekend, this is great news for.
• 22:11
  Speaker 4: The La Rams, the Arizona Cardinals, and the Seattle Seahawks.
• 22:15
  Speaker 4: Just a good weekend, all right.
• 22:17
  Speaker 1: You picked up a win over the weekend because of
• 22:22
  Speaker 1: nothing you did. But it's kind of like I tell
• 22:25
  Speaker 1: people when they start out in broadcasting, much of your
• 22:29
  Speaker 1: success will be because other people fail in front of you.
• 22:32
  Speaker 1: And the forty nine ers they have done that. They
• 22:35
  Speaker 1: have made the mistake that you cannot do. To give
• 22:38
  Speaker 1: one hundred and eighty one million guaranteed to a supporting actor,
• 22:41
  Speaker 1: not a leading actor. A supporting actor masquerading as a
• 22:45
  Speaker 1: leading actor is malfeasance, is what it is. That's the
• 22:48
  Speaker 1: word here. Perty is not the straw that stirs the drink.
• 22:52
  Speaker 1: You're supposed to be the straw that stirs the drink.
• 22:55
  Speaker 1: Brock Perdy is not the straw. He is a leaf,
• 22:59
  Speaker 1: not Ryan leaf. He is just a leaf in the current.
• 23:03
  Speaker 1: That is what Brock Party is in the NFL. He's
• 23:06
  Speaker 1: a system guy. Now you can have success with a
• 23:10
  Speaker 1: system guy, There's a limit to it. In order to
• 23:11
  Speaker 1: win a super Bowl, everything else must be perfect, and
• 23:14
  Speaker 1: if things are not perfect, you're screwed. A Party's success
• 23:19
  Speaker 1: is so tied, so handcuffed to Shanahan and the scheme
• 23:26
  Speaker 1: of the offensive scheme up Rock Party and the talent
• 23:30
  Speaker 1: around him, which last I checked is not nearly as good.
• 23:33
  Speaker 1: And unless I'm mistaken rock party does not elevate anyone,
• 23:39
  Speaker 1: which is what the point of demarcation is to the
• 23:42
  Speaker 1: players that you pay and those that you don't pay.
• 23:45
  Speaker 1: Top dollar two, brock Purty, you're not that guy, Pal,
• 23:49
  Speaker 1: You're not that guy. That's not offensive. That's just reality,
• 23:53
  Speaker 1: and it's been proven. When injuries started tearing away the
• 23:57
  Speaker 1: elite talent the Niners had McCaffrey got last year, Deebo, Samuel,
• 24:01
  Speaker 1: George Kittle, these guys were dinged up brock Purdy like
• 24:04
  Speaker 1: a vampire exposed to sunlight. It did not go well, right.
• 24:09
  Speaker 3: We saw the limitations, and the Niners still paid him.
• 24:13
  Speaker 3: They still paid him, which tells you how dumb the dumb, dumb,
• 24:17
  Speaker 3: dumb the forty nine ers are like, it's not like
• 24:20
  Speaker 3: it was a secret.
• 24:21
  Speaker 4: If I know, they know.
• 24:23
  Speaker 1: So he proved our hypothesis was correct, and yet they
• 24:27
  Speaker 1: still paid him.
• 24:29
  Speaker 4: On what planet in the Milky Way does that make sense?
• 24:32
  Speaker 1: Not this one, not this one, maybe some other planning
• 24:35
  Speaker 1: right across the world. The numbers dropped everything from the
• 24:38
  Speaker 1: NERD stat expected points added was down. But if you
• 24:43
  Speaker 1: go by the traditional stats year to year, when Perdy
• 24:46
  Speaker 1: had his guys and then when he didn't have his guys.
• 24:50
  Speaker 4: His numbers. Year to year, he was down.
• 24:52
  Speaker 1: Yards were down thirty five percent, touchdowns down thirty five percent,
• 24:57
  Speaker 1: touchdowns down thirty five percent, yards were down nine point
• 25:00
  Speaker 1: seven percent. Interceptions went up nine percent. So you can
• 25:05
  Speaker 1: do the metal. That's a lot as a ton. That
• 25:08
  Speaker 1: is a massive situation. But wait, there's more. The forty
• 25:12
  Speaker 1: nine Ers went one and seven as they were free falling,
• 25:18
  Speaker 1: free falling the tailspin, and brock Purty was not good
• 25:21
  Speaker 1: enough to save them. Right, He's not a good enough
• 25:25
  Speaker 1: town to elevate the secondary players that Niners were playing,
• 25:29
  Speaker 1: and they missed the playoffs, playoffs, and so these are
• 25:34
  Speaker 1: legitimate concerns that this guy was elevated by elite players
• 25:40
  Speaker 1: and he was deflated without those elite players.
• 25:43
  Speaker 4: Now it's not all bad news. I'll be positive.
• 25:45
  Speaker 1: I'll be Benny Bright's side for the forty nine ers
• 25:48
  Speaker 1: marching in chowder society because the Niners sucked so much
• 25:51
  Speaker 1: last year that they have going into this year the easiest.
• 25:56
  Speaker 4: Schedule in the NFL.
• 25:59
  Speaker 1: The forty nine Ers, based on strength of schedule from
• 26:02
  Speaker 1: what had happened last year, are on easy Street, which
• 26:07
  Speaker 1: just is going to make it more agonizing, because what
• 26:10
  Speaker 1: you're gonna end up doing is push back the inevitable collapse,
• 26:14
  Speaker 1: because you can do it with smoke and mirrors for
• 26:16
  Speaker 1: a while, but eventually when you play better teams down
• 26:19
  Speaker 1: the line, good luck and so for a while they'll
• 26:22
  Speaker 1: be able to hide Brock Party. But man, now flipping
• 26:25
  Speaker 1: the page about page two, So what does the timing,
• 26:29
  Speaker 1: What is the timing of this announcement of the Brock
• 26:33
  Speaker 1: Party contract tell us of anything? So it absolutely tells
• 26:38
  Speaker 1: us something. To me, it's a big part of the story,
• 26:41
  Speaker 1: and it's really confirmation that we are on the right
• 26:46
  Speaker 1: side of the story with our take all right, because
• 26:50
  Speaker 1: it is a trip to the booth. That's trip of
• 26:53
  Speaker 1: the booth, it is the confessional booth. It's an admission.
• 26:58
  Speaker 1: The forty nine ers have admitted they're not proud of this.
• 27:02
  Speaker 4: They're not right.
• 27:03
  Speaker 1: There are factions of the franchise that obviously are ashamed.
• 27:06
  Speaker 1: This is a massive overpay for a marginal talent rock party,
• 27:11
  Speaker 1: and my supporting evidence on that is the day it
• 27:16
  Speaker 1: was announced. If you are proud of a move like this,
• 27:20
  Speaker 1: you want to get full attention. You want everyone to
• 27:23
  Speaker 1: talk about how great your franchise is and what a
• 27:26
  Speaker 1: wonderful move this was, and how do you do that?
• 27:29
  Speaker 4: Well, there's ways to do it.
• 27:30
  Speaker 1: People that work in public relations, though, there's certain days
• 27:33
  Speaker 1: of the week to get more attention than other days.
• 27:36
  Speaker 1: The worst possible time to do something the time, like
• 27:40
  Speaker 1: in politics.
• 27:42
  Speaker 4: If you want to announce bad news, or if you're a.
• 27:44
  Speaker 1: Major corporation and you're going to lay off a bunch
• 27:48
  Speaker 1: of people, what do you do it?
• 27:50
  Speaker 4: When do you do it?
• 27:50
  Speaker 3: You do it on the Friday news dump dumpty dump
• 27:55
  Speaker 3: dump dump the Friday.
• 27:56
  Speaker 1: News dump take out the trash day is what they
• 27:58
  Speaker 1: call it. When you announce something on Friday, is to
• 28:02
  Speaker 1: downplay the media coverage. And you would do that in
• 28:06
  Speaker 1: a contract announcement because you're ashamed of it. You're embarrassed
• 28:09
  Speaker 1: of it. I don't blame the niners. I would be
• 28:11
  Speaker 1: embarrassed to I would be ashamed. And even in the
• 28:13
  Speaker 1: age of social media, even in the age now where
• 28:16
  Speaker 1: everyone's plugged in all the time and all that news consumption,
• 28:20
  Speaker 1: it is proven is lower on Fridays and Saturdays and Sundays.
• 28:26
  Speaker 1: People unplugged, They unwind. Some people even go out and
• 28:30
  Speaker 1: touch grass.
• 28:31
  Speaker 4: Amazing.
• 28:31
  Speaker 1: I get their feet in actual grass, they get out
• 28:33
  Speaker 1: of their houses. It's amazing, right, So on that the
• 28:38
  Speaker 1: prosecution rest. I don't know how you can fight that back.
• 28:41
  Speaker 1: You don't make that announcement on Friday. You can make
• 28:43
  Speaker 1: that announcement any day of the week. You announce it
• 28:45
  Speaker 1: on Friday if you're the Niners. If you're embarrassed and
• 28:48
  Speaker 1: they're embarrassed. All right now, final point. We also learned
• 28:51
  Speaker 1: over the weekend that the Rock Party six year contract
• 28:56
  Speaker 1: with the Niners comes with a no trade clause.
• 29:01
  Speaker 4: So is this a.
• 29:02
  Speaker 1: Big deal, a little deal or no deal? That brock
• 29:05
  Speaker 1: perty has a no trade claw, so this is no deal.
• 29:12
  Speaker 1: It's certainly not a big deal. It's not a little deal.
• 29:13
  Speaker 4: It's no deal.
• 29:15
  Speaker 1: And the reason is it is a whoopee damn do situation.
• 29:21
  Speaker 1: It's kind of like if you buy a car, you
• 29:24
  Speaker 1: go down to the dealership, you buy the car, and
• 29:27
  Speaker 1: the dealer will often throw in to try to sweeten
• 29:31
  Speaker 1: the deal. They'll throw in some extras that sound enticing
• 29:35
  Speaker 1: to get you to buy the car, but aren't necessary.
• 29:39
  Speaker 1: And that's what this is. It's not necessary. The no
• 29:43
  Speaker 1: trade clause is irrelevant. It's like those dealer accessories. It's
• 29:48
  Speaker 1: like the floor matt or the cargo net in the
• 29:51
  Speaker 1: car that you don't really need.
• 29:54
  Speaker 4: Get A no trade clause is overkilled. It's just overkill.
• 29:59
  Speaker 1: And the re and why is because if you are
• 30:02
  Speaker 1: a starting quarterback in the NFL, you're most likely not
• 30:07
  Speaker 1: going to get traded. But if you are going to
• 30:09
  Speaker 1: be traded, no one's going to acquire you unless you're
• 30:12
  Speaker 1: fully invested in that team unless you want to play
• 30:16
  Speaker 1: for that team. You know you don't want the dead wood.
• 30:19
  Speaker 1: You cut the dead wood out of the team. So
• 30:21
  Speaker 1: no one's going to trade for a guy like Brock
• 30:23
  Speaker 1: Purdy unless Brock Purdy wants.
• 30:25
  Speaker 4: To leave and go play for that team. He's from Arizona.
• 30:27
  Speaker 1: Maybe someday he wants to play for the Cardinals or
• 30:29
  Speaker 1: something like that, and that would be the way it goes.
• 30:32
  Speaker 4: But it's like, you don't need to put it in.
• 30:34
  Speaker 4: It's irrelevant.
• 30:35
  Speaker 2: Now.
• 30:35
  Speaker 1: If you're some offensive lineman or something like that, or
• 30:39
  Speaker 1: a different position, we can revisit that, But as a
• 30:42
  Speaker 1: starting quarterback, it doesn't matter. It's like an extra add
• 30:44
  Speaker 1: on from the dealership to try to get you to
• 30:46
  Speaker 1: buy the car.
• 30:46
  Speaker 4: It doesn't mean anything.
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• 31:03
  Speaker 8: It was reported on Friday that Packers GM Brian Gudokountz
• 31:06
  Speaker 8: met with wide receiver Jaden Reid's agent Jew Rosenhaus last
• 31:09
  Speaker 8: week to clarify reid status in Green Bay after they
• 31:12
  Speaker 8: drafted Matthew Golden in the first round. Team said it
• 31:15
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• 31:18
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• 31:19
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• 31:22
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• 31:38
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• 31:41
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• 31:43
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• 31:46
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• 31:47
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• 31:49
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• 31:52
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• 31:56
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• 31:58
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• 31:59
  Speaker 4: Why?
• 31:59
  Speaker 1: As you know, Coop, the NBA does not have an
• 32:01
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• 32:03
  Speaker 4: They do not have that.
• 32:04
  Speaker 1: That being said, there's one team from New York and
• 32:07
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• 32:10
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• 32:13
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• 32:24
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• 32:31
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• 32:34
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  Speaker 1: Give me advice, all right, thank you. We're giving advice
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  Speaker 1: to Aaron Gordon of the Nuggets. He says the NBA
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  Speaker 1: needs two days off between playoff games.
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  Speaker 4: That one is just unfair.
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  Speaker 3: It's the reason the game's blow is because one day
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  Speaker 1: advice to Aaron Gordon. That's a basketball player for the Nuggets,
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  Speaker 1: who actually said, and he wasn't kidding, the NBA needs
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  Speaker 1: to add an extra day off between playoff games because
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  Speaker 1: playing every other day is just not right.
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  Speaker 4: And it's the reason there's so many blowouts. I'm not
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  Speaker 4: making this up.
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  Speaker 1: This sounds like satire. This sounds like it's fake. He
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  Speaker 2: Hey, big Ben Dollar. What Aaron Gordon needs to do
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  Speaker 2: is listen to Aaron Rodgers.
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  Speaker 6: Go get some aahuasca and become the Aaron twin.
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  Speaker 3: There you go, just get a liahuasca. Listen to Aaron Rodgers.
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  Speaker 4: Play the game right now here we go said, just
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  Speaker 4: like bet, you strut around like you know everything.
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  Speaker 2: Computers are for losers, normal people. Well, how dare she o?
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  Speaker 2: What do you?
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  Speaker 3: Let's find out? Are you smarter than an FSR tech queen,
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  Speaker 3: So only one person gets to play. Now, if you're
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  Speaker 3: on hold and you called to play the game, you
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  Speaker 3: might want to hold on because if the person that
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  Speaker 3: just telling me, you gonna hang up if you want.
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  Speaker 3: I'm not forcing you to stay on hold.
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  Speaker 1: But Marcell picked number one, and that is Nate in Minnesota.
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  Speaker 1: Good morning, Nate Horn, big man.
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  Speaker 8: How the hell are you?
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  Speaker 4: Are you smarter than the FSR tech queen? Nate? I sure?
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  Speaker 4: Hell all right, this guy sounds This guy sounds confident. Lorena,
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  Speaker 4: you got no chance.
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  Speaker 1: This's this guy's highly educated, he's highly motivated. You're driving
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  Speaker 1: around right now. You're probably going to a big job somewhere.
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  Speaker 1: You make a lot of money, the whole thing, right, Oh, sir, I.
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  Speaker 6: Wanted to be a class clown in high school, and
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  Speaker 6: I had no interest in continuing.
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  Speaker 2: My education after high school. So if I get to
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  Speaker 2: go to work at four point thirty.
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  Speaker 4: In the morning, oh okay.
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  Speaker 1: Well, guy, Guy Fieri didn't graduate high school and he's
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  Speaker 1: got a TV show on Food Networks.
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  Speaker 4: Well, look at him.
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  Speaker 7: He's a handsome dude.
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  Speaker 6: I'm not very handsome.
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  Speaker 1: Okay, so this guy's ugly and has a didn't go
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  Speaker 1: to school and is a class clown, and Loree, you
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  Speaker 1: can't lose this guy.
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  Speaker 4: Honestly, it sounds good for me, but who knows. Okay.
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  Speaker 3: The categories are geography, history, pop culture, sports, science.
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  Speaker 4: And grab bag.
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  Speaker 1: We may not get to all the categories depending on
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  Speaker 1: time and are you smart on the FSR tech Queen
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  Speaker 1: and Nate get a start to pick a category here
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  Speaker 1: in Nate, which one do you want to start with?
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  Speaker 3: Well, it's a sports station, so let's go.
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  Speaker 1: Sports plausibly a sports station. Okay, this should be very simple.
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  Speaker 1: We'll let Loraina go first. Which NFL team was named
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  Speaker 1: after their first head coach? Which NFL team was named
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  Speaker 1: after their first head coach? All right, not a chance,
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  Speaker 1: Coop is snickering off the side.
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  Speaker 4: This is hilarious because this is a hard one. This
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  Speaker 4: one's really hard.
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  Speaker 3: It kind of is.
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  Speaker 4: It can really only I mean, there's only one. I'm
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  Speaker 4: gonna go with the Bears, the Bears, all right, coach Bear? Alright,
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  Speaker 4: Nate in Minnesota.
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  Speaker 1: You agree with Loren or do you want to give
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  Speaker 1: a different answer? Which NFL team was named after their
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  Speaker 1: first coach.
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  Speaker 2: I disagree.
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  Speaker 6: I think it's the Cleveland Browns.
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  Speaker 4: All right, that is correct, Cleveland Bears. All right, whatever,
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  Speaker 4: you got that one right, Good job by you.
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  Speaker 3: We move on.
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  Speaker 1: Let's go to the next category, geography. All right, well,
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  Speaker 1: Lorraino is very good at geography, and it's very good.
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  Speaker 1: She got the great Okay, see this guy's a little scarier.
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  Speaker 1: This Nate's a little freaking out over here.
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  Speaker 5: This guy.
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  Speaker 4: All right, So here we go. Geography. Elevation is the
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  Speaker 4: height is the height of land above what? Sea level?
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  Speaker 4: All right? She says sea level? You agree with that, Nate?
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  Speaker 3: There you go.
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  Speaker 4: That was an easy one, got that right. Look at you.
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  Speaker 1: Unbelievable right now, you're not. Let's go to history. The
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  Speaker 1: next category is history, and you should know this.
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  Speaker 4: This is pretty basic. Are you smart?
• 41:48
  Speaker 1: On the FSR tech queen you listening to her live coverage?
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  Speaker 1: Play as long as you listen on the Ben Mallor Show,
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  Speaker 1: We've got Nate class clown, hated school and he's working
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  Speaker 1: at four thirty in the morning and all that in Minnesota.
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  Speaker 1: All right, So, which of the seven Wonders of the
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  Speaker 1: world is still standing today? It's still around today. All right,
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  Speaker 1: which are the seven wonders of the world? Is still
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  Speaker 1: standing today?
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  Speaker 4: Loraina? Go ahead, day you know all I.
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  Speaker 2: Went first on the last one.
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  Speaker 3: He has to go the.
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  Speaker 4: How this works? Cheat, he's gonna cheat, and he's gonna
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  Speaker 4: copy my answer. I don't think you'll be copying your answer.
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  Speaker 4: I pretty no, go ahead, you go first, mister smart man.
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  Speaker 4: You're gonna copy his and not I have my one.
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  Speaker 2: I got one.
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  Speaker 4: Pyramids of e all right, Loraina, what say you?
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  Speaker 8: No, it's it's the it's the heads over in the thingies,
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  Speaker 8: the what you know, the the Eastern Island, the Easter Island.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, no, that is not one of the seven wonders
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  Speaker 4: of the world. It is we're looking for a great pyramid.
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  Speaker 4: But we'll give you that, Nate. You got it right,
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  Speaker 4: you got to write the pyramids, we'll give it to you.
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  Speaker 1: Whatever you're getting smoked here, Lorenz is not going well smoked, Ben, well, no,
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  Speaker 1: not yet.
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  Speaker 4: Here we go.
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  Speaker 1: That'll be after all right, So here we go. Uh,
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  Speaker 1: the science is the next categor word. All right, I
• 43:02
  Speaker 1: think the game is already over, but we'll keep going.
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  Speaker 1: You've already dominated.
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  Speaker 3: The game, my man, Nate, all right, what galaxy is
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  Speaker 3: the Earth part of what galaxy is the.
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  Speaker 4: Earth part of? Go ahead, I want to say, nebula? Nebula? Okay,
• 43:21
  Speaker 4: are you curious? Even Nate? The class Crown thinks you're
• 43:29
  Speaker 4: you're what's it around with you? It's the beauty of
• 43:32
  Speaker 4: the game.
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  Speaker 3: Well, well she's that's a good question, are you. That's
• 43:41
  Speaker 3: a better question than I asked, Nate. You want to
• 43:43
  Speaker 3: give it a shot, Nate. But gallon, there you go
• 43:47
  Speaker 3: the Milky Way, like the Candy Barle Arena, the Milky Way. Well,
• 43:52
  Speaker 3: this is the biggest blow we've had on the game,
• 43:54
  Speaker 3: and we we haven't even gotten the pop culture yet.
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  Speaker 4: Only that's my favorite.
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  Speaker 1: Right, we'll get to pop culture. Absolutely, you should do
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  Speaker 1: very well here. All right, pop culture. This game is
• 44:07
  Speaker 1: already over.
• 44:08
  Speaker 3: But what was the first social network to reach a
• 44:12
  Speaker 3: global audience? It started in three Space? I thought, this
• 44:17
  Speaker 3: guy gets to go for you want to you think
• 44:19
  Speaker 3: my skirt?
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  Speaker 4: All right, Nate? What you agree with that?
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  Speaker 2: Or no?
• 44:23
  Speaker 4: Yeah, that is correct, it is it is my space.
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  Speaker 3: I win.
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  Speaker 4: No, you do not.
• 44:29
  Speaker 2: You do not win.
• 44:32
  Speaker 3: This is this game is a blow. At least you
• 44:34
  Speaker 3: got one right there at the end. All right, Nate, congratulations.
• 44:38
  Speaker 3: You are smarter than the FSR Tech Queen.
• 44:43
  Speaker 7: So Ben, I'll be looking in the mail for my trophy.
• 44:46
  Speaker 4: All right, We're going to send you a We'll give
• 44:48
  Speaker 4: you a golden ticket, so you get that.
• 44:50
  Speaker 3: And.
• 44:53
  Speaker 4: You know what you can do with your golden ticket.
• 44:55
  Speaker 1: You can use it to call the show, and we'll
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• 45:00
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• 45:08
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