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Hour 1 - No Big Bad Wolf · The Ben Maller Show

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Speaker 1: He we go. Welcome, it's our numb burwah our one
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Speaker 1: on this Wednesday, Happy hump Day, the twenty first day
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Speaker 1: of May, as we are united together for marginal sports talk.
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Speaker 1: We were up all night recording this pod here in
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Speaker 1: our number one. It's all about the Western Conference Finals
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Speaker 1: game number one and who wears the Dunce cap of
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Speaker 1: shame for the Timberwolves getting smoked in the second half.
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Speaker 1: Also was SGA and the thunder so dominant that this
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Speaker 1: series is over after one game. Some are saying just that,
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Speaker 1: and Michael Malone, the Nuggets coach, has entered the chat.
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Speaker 1: Malone doing some television said during the broadcast that Shay
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Speaker 1: jogis Alexander, that he showed why he's the MVP. Do
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Speaker 1: you find that meaningful considering the past commentary of Michael
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Speaker 1: Malone in Denver? We do, and we'll explain why. All right,
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Speaker 1: Now give it up for our numberumber one. Well that
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Speaker 1: was not the big bad Wolf, No, no, no. I
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Speaker 1: thought the wolf would not be blown away and scared
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Speaker 1: of the day, all of that, all of that for you. Now,
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Speaker 1: the main course here in our number, I said our number. Yes,
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Speaker 1: the main course here is our lead in the dust bowl.
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Speaker 1: That's where we go here. That was the stage for
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Speaker 1: an island game. An island game, there's a standalone event,
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Speaker 1: a standalone event, the lid lifter on the Conference finals.
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Speaker 1: The curtain goes up. And I would not say much anticipated.
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Speaker 1: I do not believe that's true. I believe that would
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Speaker 1: be fake to say it is much anticipated. But Anthony
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Speaker 1: Edwards in the well rested timm Mberwolves visiting Sga and
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Speaker 1: Okase in Game one of the Western Finals. So I
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Speaker 1: don't know if you watched it or not. Maybe you
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Speaker 1: were doing something else and you didn't get to watch it.
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Speaker 1: Not your cup of tea. I watched it either, mute button,
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Speaker 1: you know certain broadcasters. I just can't. I can't do it.
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Speaker 1: I try, I can't do it. So no words. We
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Speaker 1: watched so you would not have to. It is our
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Speaker 1: good mitzvah of the day and good news. You did
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Speaker 1: not miss anything that game. It was a dud duh,
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Speaker 1: dud dud dude shake. Jilgis Alexander, who did not play
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Speaker 1: particularly well through the first twenty four minutes of the
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Speaker 1: game and his team was trailing at halftime in a
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Speaker 1: very unentertaining first half of basketball, and then in the
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Speaker 1: second half he scored twenty of his thirty one points.
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Speaker 1: I'm told that's good. I didn't play in the NBA,
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Speaker 1: but I'm told that's good. And the top seed there,
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Speaker 1: Oklahoma City, took out the butcher knife and butchered off
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Speaker 1: some wolf and they had that for dinner as they win,
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Speaker 1: going away one fourteen to eighty eight in Game one
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Speaker 1: of the Western Finals. So Joegis Alexander eight of fourteen
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Speaker 1: in the second half from the floor, I think that's good.
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Speaker 1: And Julius Randall did all of his damage, mostly in
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Speaker 1: the first half he had twenty eight points, just eight
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Speaker 1: points in the second half when it was blow out city. Now,
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Speaker 1: Game two is on Thursday, Thursday Thursday, as the Eastern
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Speaker 1: Conference will take the center stage in the game coming
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Speaker 1: up here on a Wednesday night. But let's discuss Game
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Speaker 1: one of the Western Conference Finals and the question who
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Speaker 1: wears the Dunce cap of shame for the Minnesota Timberwolves
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Speaker 1: getting smoked in the second and a half of this
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Speaker 1: game run off the court. So my thoughts on this,
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Speaker 1: I've got Mickey Gambler's fallacy and Pink Floyd and we
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Speaker 1: will combine all of these things together and we are
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Speaker 1: going to make some amazing, amazing Baba Ganooche is what
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Speaker 1: normally make the barbag noose later, we're gonna make the
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Speaker 1: barbaganus shirly. So my first thought on this a nothing
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Speaker 1: has changed more in my lifetime than halftime adjustments. Now,
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Speaker 1: this is a line one of my old radio friends,
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Speaker 1: part of the Fox Sports Radio Alumni Association. I used
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Speaker 1: to do a very popular Sunday show until the company
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Speaker 1: cancel it, and we used to screw around with all
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Speaker 1: the cliches and sports and we love the halftime adjustments
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Speaker 1: and how dumb fans, oh halftime adjustments, Oh my god,
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Speaker 1: like you wait till halftime to make some kind of
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Speaker 1: amazing adjustments. But anyway, Minnesota's up by four at halftime.
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Speaker 1: I'm trying to stay awake, right, I got an overnight
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Speaker 1: show to do. I'm trying to I mean, this was
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Speaker 1: not entertained. Was anyone entertained? You know, were you not entertained?
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Speaker 1: I don't know anyone that was entertained with the first half,
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Speaker 1: but it it was within the margins. They're like, okay,
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Speaker 1: so it's not a great game. However, if it's close
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Speaker 1: with five minutes to go or four minutes to go,
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Speaker 1: there's something there. There's something there. Okay, I can deal
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Speaker 1: with that. I can I can navigate that. But to
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Speaker 1: answer the question, who wears the Dunce cap of shame
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Speaker 1: for the Minnesota Timberwolves, let's go to the very top
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Speaker 1: of the CEO as Anthony Edwards did the thing you
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Speaker 1: can't do with the time, you can't do it. He
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Speaker 1: decided to go surfing. Anthony Edwards. Now, if you've ever
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Speaker 1: been in Oklahoma, that is mission impossible to go surfing
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Speaker 1: in Oklahoma, cow ubunga dude as Anthony Edwards went out
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Speaker 1: there as a surfer and wiped out. That was a
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Speaker 1: will wipeout in the second half, blown off the map?
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Speaker 1: How bad was it? Thanks for asking? How bad was it? Was?
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Speaker 1: So bad? Okay? Ant Man went Mickey and I'm not
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Speaker 1: talking Mickey mouse. I think somebody might have slipped him
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Speaker 1: a Mickey at halftime there, Oh Mickey, You're so fine
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Speaker 1: unless you're not. Holy crap. Did he suck in the
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Speaker 1: second half? Did he need a nap? Maybe he needed
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Speaker 1: a nap the way he played two of six floor
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Speaker 1: in the second a half five point. I may give
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Speaker 1: you have numbers the number I don't think you have had.
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Speaker 1: We've seen it. The numbers are bad. His his performance
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Speaker 1: was actually worse. He ended up with five points in
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Speaker 1: the second half, a couple of assists, a couple of fouls.
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Speaker 1: And keep in mind, going to the fourth quarter, the
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Speaker 1: Wolves were down by ten, So ten is not an
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Speaker 1: insurmountable at least five possessions five to two point baskets.
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Speaker 1: But the NBA now is Papa shot and so it's
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Speaker 1: just shoes made three pointers so that's that's like three
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Speaker 1: and and a half possessions, and you have the lead
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Speaker 1: in the NBA, and he in the fourth quarter down ten,
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Speaker 1: going to the fourth quarter, Anthony Edwards the face of
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Speaker 1: the franchise, well facil on this night, certainly not. He
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Speaker 1: pitched a shutout, very rare to see a shout out
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Speaker 1: these days, and did not even need to go to
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Speaker 1: the bullpen. As Anthony Edwards the final twelve minutes, as
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Speaker 1: the joker would say, he got zero zip, zilch, nada,
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Speaker 1: And as my grandfather would say, bupkis is what he
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Speaker 1: got in the fourth quarter of that game, as Minnesota
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Speaker 1: got run off the court there by Oklahoma City. So
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Speaker 1: the question as we turned the page here, the next
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Speaker 1: question to address was the Oklahoma City domination situation with
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Speaker 1: schae Jogis Alexander. Was Oklahoma City's so oh good, so
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Speaker 1: amazing that this series is now over after one game?
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Speaker 1: Is this Western Conference Finals? Can you now start to
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Speaker 1: write the eulogy for Minnesota and the concession speech for
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Speaker 1: Minnesota to give to Oklahoma City? Was it that bad
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Speaker 1: a performance by the Wolves that this is a futile
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Speaker 1: effort by Minnesota. So I'm shaking my head. No, here,
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Speaker 1: I don't believe that. And as pat Riley taught me
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Speaker 1: when I was a little boy, the playoffs, they don't
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Speaker 1: start until the home team loses at home. So last
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Speaker 1: I checked, Oklahoma City was favored. They won the game
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Speaker 1: at home. Okay, so they did what they were supposed
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Speaker 1: to do. Congratulations, what be damn do? But I would
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Speaker 1: also advise you to not be a prisoner of the moment.
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Speaker 1: And one of the reasons that the sportsbooks do so
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Speaker 1: well is the gambler's fallacy that the low information fan
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Speaker 1: believes that whatever they just saw is going to continue
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Speaker 1: forever and effort and ever and effort, and well, Minnesota's
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Speaker 1: just not very good and they don't match up well
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Speaker 1: with Oklahoma City, and so this is just gonna the
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Speaker 1: way it's gonna go, and the series will be over,
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Speaker 1: maybe five games. It'll be a gentleman sweep. And that's
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Speaker 1: that's that. I have learned that life generally does not
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Speaker 1: work that way. Assuming Minnesota doesn't doesn't quit. Some of
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Speaker 1: these NBA teams have a propensity to quit. As we
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Speaker 1: learn from Aaron Gordon to the Nuggets, the players are
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Speaker 1: very tired and they need a lot of time. Didn't
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Speaker 1: Aaron Gordon tell us the Nuggets genius the mensa there
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Speaker 1: for the Nuggets, didn't he tell us that if the
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Speaker 1: NBA wanted to prevent blowouts, they need more time off
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Speaker 1: between games. Well, Minnesota had more time off. They got
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Speaker 1: run off the court in the second half. So I
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Speaker 1: guess that kills that hypothesis from Aaron Gordon. Anyway back
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Speaker 1: to this, So, one of the reasons that many people
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Speaker 1: seem to enjoy the pro bouncy ball is the chess match,
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Speaker 1: right that that's the selling point. It's a chess match
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Speaker 1: on hardwood, and we've all heard that. And you make
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Speaker 1: your move and then there's a counter move, and so
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Speaker 1: that is where we are, right, that is where we
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Speaker 1: are at this point. For Minnesota, they got embarrassed in
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Speaker 1: the second half and Chris Finch and the Wolves half,
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Speaker 1: so I'm explaining to do. I would recommend getting out
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Speaker 1: the mop and the bucket and doing a little scrub
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Speaker 1: a dub dub, and that's what I recommend there Minnesota.
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Speaker 1: They also lost their marbles a bit as they were
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Speaker 1: doing what all NBA players do and their things are
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Speaker 1: not going well. They bitch and complained to the officials.
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Speaker 1: That's what always happens. I always we're not getting the whistles.
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Speaker 1: They seemed very upset that that Shaye Juggas Alexander was
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Speaker 1: being able to bait players into fouls early in the game.
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Speaker 1: And I think you would expect that. That's how the
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Speaker 1: NBA has been my entire life. I'm getting old and
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Speaker 1: it's always been this way, like the start player is
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Speaker 1: able to bait get the officials to call foules. Here's
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Speaker 1: Chris Finch, the Minnesota coach, commenting on that hullabaloo.
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Speaker 5: Take a listen, coach, because you sent some of the
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Speaker 5: frustrations that some of your players had with some of
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Speaker 5: the calls that Shay was able to drink.
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Speaker 6: Yeah, there was a lot of frustration out there. But
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Speaker 6: we got to we know, we talked about that before
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Speaker 6: the series started, and you know, we got we have
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Speaker 6: to be able to uh kind of put that aside
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Speaker 6: and get on with the next play mentality.
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Speaker 1: Okay, well they didn't do that, Coach, they you might
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Speaker 1: have told them to do that. They're not listening. You
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Speaker 1: might want to get them a Q tip and clean
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Speaker 1: out their ears because there's some orange goo in their ears.
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Speaker 1: I would say, uh either, I mean the scouting guide,
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Speaker 1: which tells you what has happened now is going to
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Speaker 1: happen coming into this game. The argument was that this
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Speaker 1: is a mismatch because Minnesota is a wreck team with
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Speaker 1: the basketball. They are not someone that protects the ball.
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Speaker 1: He turned the ball over a lot. They make a
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Speaker 1: lot of self inflicted mistakes. And you combine that with
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Speaker 1: a team that does force mistakes and you take advantage
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Speaker 1: of that, and that's a huge problem. And so that
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Speaker 1: was a problem in this game as Oklahoma City was
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Speaker 1: plus twenty one on points off turnovers, they outscored Minnesota
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Speaker 1: by twenty one points on points off turnovers. So that
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Speaker 1: is I didn't play in the amba. Not a coach.
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Speaker 1: I think that's an issue. You know, you're so hard
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Speaker 1: on the Minnesota team. But give him a break. Okay,
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Speaker 1: all right, I'll give him break. Give him a break
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Speaker 1: and go out. I think you can get this on Amazon.
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Speaker 1: Buy some smelling salts and at halftime and whatever Anthony
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Speaker 1: Edrewards was doing. You know, we made a joke about
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Speaker 1: a mickey. But give him some smelling salts, wake him
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Speaker 1: up a little bit, give him some caffeine or something
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Speaker 1: to get him going there at halftime. That would help
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Speaker 1: and remind Joyous Randall that he does need to play
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Speaker 1: the full game, not part of the game. Now, the
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Speaker 1: story within the story, though, happened on the TV broadcast
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Speaker 1: I mentioned I have the sound down. There's a certain
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Speaker 1: broadcaster that I always mute when I hear their voice.
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Speaker 1: I just like nails on a truck board. So, but
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Speaker 1: the other stuff, which is also terrible about it? God,
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Speaker 1: is TNT so much better than ESPN. My guy, were
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Speaker 1: you just work at Fox? No? I work at iHeart Fox.
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Speaker 1: Whatever it is, it just sucks. I mean, they are
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Speaker 1: so bad, Holy crap? Are they bad? Do they try
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Speaker 1: to be bad? Do they have like production meetings saying
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Speaker 1: how bad can we be at television? I might, Oh
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Speaker 1: my god, it is unwatchable, but it's so bad. They
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Speaker 1: bring in random guest commentators that Michael Malone and the
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Speaker 1: former Nuggets coach, popped up on TV in the Conference
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Speaker 1: finals and he ended up actually making some news. Now,
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Speaker 1: how on God's Green Earth could Michael Malone, the old
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Speaker 1: Nuggets coach, makes some news. Let me let me explain here.
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Speaker 1: So I think, do we have the audio on this
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Speaker 1: and we have this? Are I think we both. No,
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Speaker 1: we don't have it. Oh, okay, I sent you to
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Speaker 1: Actually I sent you to two clips. All right, Well,
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Speaker 1: I guess we don't have it. But Malone two months ago,
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Speaker 1: as coach of the Denver Nuggets, was waxing loquacious about
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Speaker 1: his guy at the time, Nicola Jokic, and he was
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Speaker 1: laying it on thick. Take a listen, we have it
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Speaker 1: our two months ago. Here is Michael Malone as Denver
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Speaker 1: Nuggets head coach, talking about the MVP race, and at
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Speaker 1: that time he was talking mostly about a guy named
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Speaker 1: the Joker. Take a list My thing is this.
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Speaker 5: You know, if you didn't know that Nicola won three
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Speaker 5: MVPs and I put player A and player B on paper,
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Speaker 5: and you had no idea that the guy who's averaging
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Speaker 5: a triple double, the guy who's top three in the
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Speaker 5: three major statistical categories, things that no one's ever done,
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Speaker 5: he wins the MVP ten times out of ten.
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Speaker 1: Okay, so boom perfect, that's your MVP. Well here's Michael
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Speaker 1: Malone on television on ESPN ABC a few hours ago.
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Speaker 1: Take a listen, and then.
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Speaker 7: Shake gilges Alexander. He showed he's the MVP, all right,
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Speaker 7: so there you go. Michael Malone.
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Speaker 1: In the span of a short period of time, Shade
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Speaker 1: Jogis Alexander showed why he's the MVP. Do you find
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Speaker 1: that meaningful? Yes? To infinity and beyond, Yes, I find
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Speaker 1: it meaningful. The plot thickens, The plot thickens. Okay, Malone
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Speaker 1: was on the campaign trail. We played some of it
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Speaker 1: when he was in Denver there and he was essentially
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Speaker 1: wearing knee pads for Nikola Jokic as the MVP. Keep
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Speaker 1: in mind, they haven't even named the MVP. It's not
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Speaker 1: like SGA won the award on Monday. They haven't even
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Speaker 1: announced who the MVP is. But this is what's known
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Speaker 1: as say it with me now, kids, a dead way.
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Speaker 1: It is a deadive way. It is a dead giveaway
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Speaker 1: because it's rather obvious. I mean, you could see this
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Speaker 1: from outer space right and it's I don't even know,
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Speaker 1: I mean it was. It's kind of like in sometimes
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Speaker 1: in music there'll be a subliminal message. I don't know
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Speaker 1: how subliminable this is. You know, sometimes there's messages hidden
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Speaker 1: deep in songs. A lot of you have an old timer,
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Speaker 1: you remember back in the day, Pink Floyd famously had
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Speaker 1: a backward saying in empty spaces in the saying was congratulations,
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Speaker 1: you have just discovered the secret message. So Michael Malone
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Speaker 1: is telling you without telling you, that NICOLEA. Jokic is
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Speaker 1: a coach killer. That nicoleak is why Michael Malone is
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Speaker 1: not the coach of the Denver Nugates. And it's rather obvious,
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Speaker 1: like unless you're just a country bump kid, it's right there,
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Speaker 1: it's right there, Michael Malone TV. Michael Malone is announcing, hey,
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Speaker 1: this guy is by saying scambb the way he said it,
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Speaker 1: that is a tell. It is an absolute tell. And
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Speaker 1: Malone's been around long enough, we know how this. When
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Speaker 1: you're the star player, franchise player, all right, franchise play.
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Speaker 1: If you want the coach, the coach stays. If you
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Speaker 1: don't want the coach, or you don't give an opinion
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Speaker 1: on the coach, the coach goes. So to me, this
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Speaker 1: is there's no debate, like it's over. Nikola Jokic is
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Speaker 1: a coach killer. He did not advocate for Michael Malone.
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Speaker 1: And that is why Michael Malone's not doing bad television.
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Speaker 1: It's just an empty space situation. It's II Bill Miller
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Speaker 1: reminding you of these old songs. They used to be
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Speaker 1: these things called DJs on radio stations, and they used
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Speaker 1: to talk up to the post of the song when
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Speaker 1: the song kicked in, so they have these long leadings.
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Speaker 1: And some friends in the music industry have told me,
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Speaker 1: some music radio people that they stop doing that about
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Speaker 1: ten years ago because DJ's don't talk into songs anymore.
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Speaker 1: drug Testers says no worries about the timber puffs until
23:12
Speaker 1: Hayes is washing washing that playoff body. They are still alive.
23:18
Speaker 1: Speaking of Hayes, is Ohio State recognizing Jeffrey Dahmer's birthday today. Yeah,
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Speaker 1: you don't hear a lot of Ohio State people celebrating
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Speaker 1: the former Buck Eye there Jeffrey Dahmer that you know.
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Speaker 1: I decided that they eat some play.
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Speaker 8: Some Jeffrey Dahmer songs though yeah, wow, there ain't.
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Speaker 9: Really what there's songs that have his name in them.
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Speaker 1: Wow. Okay. You know some schools like Harvard, there's been
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Speaker 1: some people that went there and dropped out that started
23:48
Speaker 1: like the people that started Zuckerberg. They went to Harvard,
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Speaker 1: he fell out. They like to celebrate the fact that
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Speaker 1: he went to Harvard, but he didn't graduate as far
23:56
Speaker 1: as I know at the time, from Harvard, and he
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Speaker 1: started Facebook. He actually stole it from a couple other
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Speaker 1: people and then went with it.
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Speaker 8: Weird fandoms like yeah, but this guy, like Jeffrey Dahmer's infamous,
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Speaker 8: he like killed people and chopped him up and ate
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Speaker 8: them like that's I mean, you know, not many people
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Speaker 8: want to do that.
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Speaker 1: Most people look down upon that. Firk Dog says, the
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Speaker 1: only thing I knew for sure, you'd say about the
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Speaker 1: thunder wind tonight, was that you didn't watch a second
24:23
Speaker 1: of the game, was sound on. I don't blame you,
24:26
Speaker 1: And he mentions that Doris Burk. I have nothing against
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Speaker 1: dorisburg I'm sure she's a lovely woman and a very
24:32
Speaker 1: nice woman, just be great to hang out with. I
24:35
Speaker 1: just cannot cannot deal with her broadcasting. I can't. He's
24:39
Speaker 1: probably a me problem, I admit it. Uh, you know
24:42
Speaker 1: a lot of you Wolkester's lover. Good for you, just
24:45
Speaker 1: not my my thing, not my jam. So the Mexican
24:49
Speaker 1: John Dutton writes and says Ben tells Slingshot that the
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Speaker 1: Timberwolves will lose this series. Okay, Well, if he's listening,
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Speaker 1: he's he's likely in hiding. He's probably in the back
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Speaker 1: of a Walmart, hiding in the corner of the Walmart
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Speaker 1: there in northern Minnesota, in the fetal position, sucking his thumb.
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Speaker 1: King Rory writes in from Wisconsin. Northern Wisconsin says, I'm
25:10
Speaker 1: calling it now, get those broomsticks out, because the thunder
25:15
Speaker 1: are sweeping the timber pups and it's all thanks to
25:18
Speaker 1: the clippers. So if the thunder go to the finals
25:22
Speaker 1: it's basically like they did it for the Clippers and
25:24
Speaker 1: the city of Seattle, says King Rory. Okay, you're falling
25:29
Speaker 1: for the gamboos policy. Zephyr writes in says, hey, Ben,
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Speaker 1: your guy a helmet man talking to Tim Case. I
25:36
Speaker 1: guess we're getting covered up by Dodger programming in La. Okay,
25:41
Speaker 1: go good for helmet man. He did reach out to
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Speaker 1: me the other day. A helmet man sent me a
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Speaker 1: message with his new Obama phone. So he's got his
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Speaker 1: phone now. He's a very exciting helmet man. He let
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Speaker 1: me know that he's got his new phone that taxpayers
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Speaker 1: are paying for. So that's good.
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Speaker 9: Is it so called the Obama phone?
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Speaker 1: It is a legacy of the Obama administration forever known
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Speaker 1: as the Obama phone. You ask any most of the
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Speaker 1: people that call the show have Obama phones and they
26:07
Speaker 1: proudly say it's an Obama phone.
26:08
Speaker 9: Yeah. Same with food stamps. Right, we don't call them
26:11
Speaker 9: what they now are called, like snap benefits or something.
26:14
Speaker 9: We don't call them snap. They still call them food
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Speaker 9: stamps even though they're not foodstamp.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, we don't. The food stamp thing is like a
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Speaker 1: dated Uh well, it's actually the EBT is what they
26:23
Speaker 1: call it, Electronic Benefits Transfer Card. But forever it's foodstamps.
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Speaker 1: It's food stamps. Yeah, and that's just what it is.
26:29
Speaker 1: That's the colloquial term. It's big word, colloquial.
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Speaker 9: It's the fun term.
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Speaker 1: It's a great term.
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Speaker 9: By term of the.
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Speaker 1: Week, Yeah, that could be the term of the week,
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Speaker 1: I can on the Fifth Hour podcast, colloquial could be
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Speaker 1: the term I can say. G Man's in Chicago rights in.
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Speaker 1: He says a plus on the Mala Monologue. NBA playoffs
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Speaker 1: are as good as a lead a lap fart in
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Speaker 1: the Fox Sports radio studios. The tech queen smells it.
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Speaker 1: It stinks, it says a G Managers. I watch one
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Speaker 1: hundred and twenty seconds of an NBA game, It stinks.
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Speaker 1: What's the difference, by the way, f al touve that
27:04
Speaker 1: little nudist cheater. Great ending to that message by GM Manage,
27:08
Speaker 1: Great ending, GM Manage. Listen. I watched that game. I
27:13
Speaker 1: didn't bet on the game Minnesota and Oklahoma City. If
27:17
Speaker 1: I did not have a talk show to do, would
27:19
Speaker 1: I have been watching that game? What do you think
27:23
Speaker 1: that was a rhetorical question? I think you know the answer.
27:28
Speaker 1: Sean in the Valley of the Sun Rites and better
27:31
Speaker 1: known as Syrias Sean, and he's the non secutar man Sewn.
27:37
Speaker 1: He sent us a photo of a map of his
27:40
Speaker 1: coverage area as he's delivering stuff driving around the Greater
27:46
Speaker 1: Phoenix area, and it does look like a bird eating
27:51
Speaker 1: a snack. The coverage map, to me, looks like an
27:54
Speaker 1: ostridge that is at a lake and is eating some
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Speaker 1: kind of item on the side of the lake, bending
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Speaker 1: down its neck.
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Speaker 9: That's what it looks like because they're like their path
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Speaker 9: makes a doodle, right.
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Speaker 1: Yes, something like ye, yes, somebody like just go with it,
28:11
Speaker 1: super Marcus Steve Wrights and says Ben I can almost
28:14
Speaker 1: he said, he said, I called my shot two days
28:16
Speaker 1: ago that Minnesota, if they lose in the first game
28:19
Speaker 1: of the finals, they will claim it's because they had
28:21
Speaker 1: too much time off between games. Uh, and yeah, I
28:26
Speaker 1: did hear. I listened to some of Chris Finch on
28:28
Speaker 1: the postgame, the Minnesota coach, and he didn't mention rust.
28:33
Speaker 1: So you you can't make this up. These guys will
28:35
Speaker 1: complain about anything. Yeah, you got the Denver nugget. Guys
28:38
Speaker 1: bitching because they don't have enough time off Minnesota complaining
28:42
Speaker 1: because they had too much time off. Make your bloody
28:45
Speaker 1: minds up, Make make your mind up, Tacoma. Drew rights
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Speaker 1: in from where else, Tacoma, He says, Ben, please, can
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Speaker 1: you cut a drop? Saying Shay Gilros Alexandra, He says,
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Speaker 1: A plus us on the intro, My guy with me.
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Speaker 1: Terry in England is listening live to the Overnight show.
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29:10
Speaker 1: call up as a Knight in shining armor to defend
29:13
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Speaker 1: the X menu, he says, it's more of a list
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Speaker 1: kind of suits you and Slim Tim Big update. Slim
29:27
Speaker 1: Tim would like to let all the affiliates down the
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29:42
Speaker 1: He's had some some medical problems, had some medical problems
29:47
Speaker 1: for sure. All let's go the phones and the eenie
29:50
Speaker 1: meenie miney moe. Who do we have here. Let's go,
29:52
Speaker 1: let's go to Minnesota. Get the pulse of the people
29:54
Speaker 1: right now. What is it like? There is there panic
29:57
Speaker 1: at the disco in Minneapolis and we say, hello, the
30:02
Speaker 1: hollow hollering James welcome. This can't be real. No, this's
30:13
Speaker 1: gotta be fake. He's gotta be He's got to be
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Speaker 1: acting right, This has to be faking. Well, they seem
30:21
Speaker 1: very concerned in Minnesota. They seem very worried about the timberwolves.
30:27
Speaker 1: How is that possible? He hadn't even been on hold
30:29
Speaker 1: that long.
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Speaker 9: Well, you know, when you're really tired, you can just
30:34
Speaker 9: pass out.
30:37
Speaker 1: There's something soothing about a hollering James phone call. Yeah,
30:46
Speaker 1: imagine in a different world James had gotten married and
30:50
Speaker 1: some woman had to sleep next to this. Can you imagine?
30:53
Speaker 1: Holy crap?
30:54
Speaker 9: I think they would have had separate bedrooms.
30:57
Speaker 1: Oh, like old television, like.
30:59
Speaker 9: Early yeah there, because you cherish your slumber and your rest.
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Speaker 9: Early do you get proper rest, you murder your husband.
31:05
Speaker 1: Early TV they had men men and women had different beds.
31:08
Speaker 1: That was big in television room though, right, Yeah, yeah,
31:15
Speaker 1: it was very odd. There was like a table, like
31:17
Speaker 1: a table between the beds all right. Is it bad
31:23
Speaker 1: that I'm enjoying this call? It's only going to go
31:25
Speaker 1: downhill from here.
31:26
Speaker 8: I love it.
31:29
Speaker 1: Why don't we interview James about Hey, James, you're live
31:33
Speaker 1: on Fox Sports Raders. This is Hollering James in Minneapolis, Minnesota. There, so, James,
31:39
Speaker 1: what was your opinion of Anthony Edwards? James? Okay? And
31:44
Speaker 1: how do you think how do you think the Wolves
31:45
Speaker 1: played in the second half? Hollering James, No, interesting, okay?
31:52
Speaker 3: Uh?
31:53
Speaker 1: What adjustments do you believe the Timberwolves should make in
31:57
Speaker 1: Game two? Really? Why is that? Gotcha? Okay? Any final
32:07
Speaker 1: thoughts you'd like to share? James? Okay, thank you, very
32:14
Speaker 1: opinion it Uh, let's let's go to Big Daddy. Big
32:19
Speaker 1: Daddy is in Memphis and he is here. He'd like
32:22
Speaker 1: to talk to his fans, his electorate and constituous. I
32:28
Speaker 1: just screwed that up his constituents, the Honorable Mayor of Memphis.
32:33
Speaker 1: Big Daddy has arrived.
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Speaker 4: He's the daddy. Oh boy, I'm talking about knocked out man.
32:39
Speaker 4: He's snoring the man good god.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, he's man.
32:46
Speaker 4: I'm like you man, These ladies, Uh sorry, Loreno, Uh,
32:51
Speaker 4: we know stant we know everything? Is I turned the
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Speaker 4: sound down, and then when he started on and I
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Speaker 4: changed the county.
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Speaker 1: Man, Well, I'm not I'm not here to pile on.
33:05
Speaker 1: I'm sure there's people like Doris Burke. I'm not one
33:07
Speaker 1: of them. So, uh, that's fine. That's why they invented
33:10
Speaker 1: the mute button. I'm sure there's people that hate me.
33:12
Speaker 1: That's that's that's sweetest.
33:14
Speaker 4: If I'm not mistaken. We can read stats. We don't
33:17
Speaker 4: need her or another guy here read the stats.
33:19
Speaker 1: I mean we all well, well, there are plenty of
33:22
Speaker 1: stats on. You can get stats up your wazoo if
33:25
Speaker 1: you want. There are stats out there for sure.
33:27
Speaker 4: Going man, just enjoin it. Uh, just laughter if that's
33:31
Speaker 4: the only way you get it when you call, you
33:32
Speaker 4: know what I'm saying, we're late.
33:34
Speaker 1: Now.
33:34
Speaker 4: You got to hear something that snow boy, I don't
33:37
Speaker 4: know how you're gonna beat that.
33:38
Speaker 1: Yeah, oh yeah, it's a it's an all time right too.
33:41
Speaker 4: That's one of the bestrews I heard. Every guy you're
33:43
Speaker 4: asking something.
33:46
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah he did, and and I respect that. You know,
33:48
Speaker 1: a lot of a lot of people don't answer questions
33:50
Speaker 1: in you know, twenty twenty five, James answered every one
33:53
Speaker 1: of my questions? Do you do you have any questions
33:56
Speaker 1: for James? I can ask him if you want. Yeah,
34:01
Speaker 1: what do you want to ask him? Okay, all right,
34:06
Speaker 1: big daddy, all right, buddy, all right, have a good night.
34:09
Speaker 1: All right, there's a big daddy. All right. Uh hey,
34:12
Speaker 1: hey James, James, big daddy has no questions? Is that okay? Yeah? Okay,
34:21
Speaker 1: I got you? All right? There he is all right,
34:25
Speaker 1: great hollering James. That's not a SoundBite. That's not a
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Speaker 1: drop that's not it. Hey, Tjacoba Drew says, man, I'm
34:33
Speaker 1: sorry I was driving. We need the drop cut. You
34:36
Speaker 1: can't freaking say sga. Isn't it great? There you go?
34:40
Speaker 1: Absolutely all right, we'll do that for you because you're
34:43
Speaker 1: the king wordsman. Absolutely. Let's see who else do we
34:47
Speaker 1: have page down? Fat Daddy says you're a reliable listener.
34:51
Speaker 1: Fat Daddy would never be a wokester. And I'm not
34:55
Speaker 1: now and I can't stand doors Burke. I don't need
34:58
Speaker 1: to see how she gets I don't see how she
35:00
Speaker 1: gets a paycheck. Yeah, Justin says Jeffrey Dahmer. Did not
35:05
Speaker 1: disrespect Pete Rose like a caller to your show. Okay,
35:11
Speaker 1: thank you for that justin in Cincinnati. It is the
35:15
Speaker 1: Ben malerstoe So Benny Brightside, Benny Brightside. For minnesot they
35:19
Speaker 1: don't seem too worried there hollering. James is fast asleep,
35:22
Speaker 1: not too concerned. However, typically if you get a wide
35:26
Speaker 1: open shot, you're going to make it most of the time.
35:29
Speaker 1: That's the theory, right. For example, Oklahoma City had sixteen
35:34
Speaker 1: wide open three point shots in game one. They made
35:37
Speaker 1: ten of them. Ten of sixteen. That's pretty good, right.
35:41
Speaker 1: Minnesota had thirty nine open three point shots deemed open.
35:48
Speaker 1: There was not a defender that was in the face
35:51
Speaker 1: of the offensive player. Minnesota shot eleven of thirty nine
35:55
Speaker 1: on wide open three point shots. Terrible. Dante de Vincenzo
36:04
Speaker 1: nas Reed and Nikiel Alexander Walker combined to go four
36:08
Speaker 1: for twenty four on wide open three point shots. Wide open,
36:16
Speaker 1: like you're in the gym and there's you're just you know,
36:19
Speaker 1: having a shoot around. Wow, wow, wowser's wowsers. It is
36:24
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36:27
Speaker 1: Time now for the who Am I Game? And here
36:30
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36:34
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36:38
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36:43
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36:47
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37:50
Speaker 1: So okay, sees Shay Jogis. Alexander had his fifteenth career
37:56
Speaker 1: thirty plus point game in the playoffs. That passes Jalen
37:59
Speaker 1: Brown the Celtics and me for the vaunted sixty first
38:04
Speaker 1: place on the all time list in NBA playoff history.
38:09
Speaker 1: Who am I? Very simple? That is the question? Who
38:14
Speaker 1: is the answer? Let's see does anyone know the answer?
38:19
Speaker 1: DJ Spin aka Patrick in San Diego going with Adam Dunn.
38:24
Speaker 1: Eileen says, hollering James is the answer? He, James? Are
38:28
Speaker 1: you the answer? Hollering James, Aileen says. Aileen says here, okay,
38:33
Speaker 1: she apparently Aileen. He says He's not the answer. Top
38:37
Speaker 1: Daddy says spot web Chet Hercules Homegrin from Eke and
38:41
Speaker 1: Rosevio Minnesota, Mister Surr from Scrooge Josh Allen, who is
38:47
Speaker 1: twenty nine today? That according to Late Night Drug tester,
38:51
Speaker 1: who else do we have? Page down? Is the Bill's
38:55
Speaker 1: mafia coming back to the show.
38:56
Speaker 9: I don't know.
38:56
Speaker 1: I think Andy the comic book guy left the show.
38:59
Speaker 1: Some of the other Bill's mafia guy. They're all in
39:01
Speaker 1: hiding the guys that were big Bills fans haven't heard
39:04
Speaker 1: from him in a while. Frankenstein guests by Andy in Lione,
39:08
Speaker 1: Old Lakes, Minnesota. Who else do we have Robbie's new
39:12
Speaker 1: sport Terry. Yeah, you boys say Robbie's a big WNBA fan. Now,
39:18
Speaker 1: who else do we have? Page Down? Lou Caine from Trucker,
39:22
Speaker 1: Joe Duffy Dyer from mister nice guy, Lorraine? What set you, Lorraine?
39:28
Speaker 1: I'm gonna go with Donovan Mitchell, Ben Donovan, Spider Mitchell.
39:33
Speaker 1: No Shay yogis Alexander. He is now pasted Jalen Brown
39:38
Speaker 1: and Tracy McGrady for sixty first place most career thirty
39:43
Speaker 1: point playoff games. He's got fifteen of them now