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  Speaker 1: Thanks for listening to the best of the Ben Mahler
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  Speaker 2: This is the best of the Ben Maler Show on
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  Speaker 2: Fox Sports Radio.
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  Speaker 1: We are back at it yet again. And you know
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  Speaker 1: what the lead story is here. I don't need to
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  Speaker 1: tell you what the lim Come on, zobbies, what the
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  Speaker 1: lead story is little pro bouncy ball. I know you
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  Speaker 1: love this time of the year. You tell you. Oh
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  Speaker 1: my god, I can't it enough. It's pro bouncy ball.
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  Speaker 1: Give me all the pro bouncy ball I can get.
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  Speaker 1: I need it. Please come on? All right, Well, we'll
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  Speaker 1: start out in the Alamo. Well not in the actual Alamo,
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  Speaker 1: which did not end well for the people on the Alamo.
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  Speaker 1: It's a story people, oh the Alamo. I didn't have
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  Speaker 1: the happy ending there anyway. That was the scene the
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  Speaker 1: big stage, Game number six of the Western Finals, a
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  Speaker 1: T shirt and hat game in theory for Oklahoma. If
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  Speaker 1: the thunder win the game, they get a T shirt
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  Speaker 1: and a cap and then they have a big photo
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  Speaker 1: op and everyone kisses each other's ass at mid court
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  Speaker 1: and get asked how does it feel, how does it
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  Speaker 1: feel to get back to the NBA Finals and all that,
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  Speaker 1: and they would have punched their ticket to the finals
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  Speaker 1: to play New York San Antonio trying to stay alive,
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  Speaker 1: Stay alive. And if you didn't watch the game, you
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  Speaker 1: didn't miss a damn thing. You did not miss anything.
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  Speaker 1: Smart decision by you. So the tall guy for the
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  Speaker 1: Spurs who's afraid of the media, victor Wembin Yama who
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  Speaker 1: ran and hid like a coward from the media. The
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  Speaker 1: other night, Wemba Nyama went out. He had twenty eight points,
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  Speaker 1: ten rebounds, three blocks, and the Spurs staved off elimination.
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  Speaker 1: They avoided the Grim Reaper and sent the Western Conference
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  Speaker 1: Finals back up to Oklahoma City for Game number seven.
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  Speaker 1: And the cliche of game seven the greatest two words
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  Speaker 1: in sports, Well, it hasn't really been that way much
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  Speaker 1: in basketball so far this year. Anyway. It was a
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  Speaker 1: domination situation, if my math is correct. A twenty seven
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  Speaker 1: point win for San Antonio. They went to garbage time programming,
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  Speaker 1: and I did appreciate Mike Tarrico and Jamal Crawford and
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  Speaker 1: Reggie Miller sucking the toes of Wemby trying to make
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  Speaker 1: excuses for him for running away and hiding from the
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  Speaker 1: media the other night. By the way, Wemby, he did
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  Speaker 1: have twenty eight points. He took twenty one shots, which
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  Speaker 1: not that great. Oh you're not supposed to say that
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  Speaker 1: can be better. That was not picture perfect by Wemby.
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  Speaker 1: I'm just saying. I'm just saying. Anyway, listen. Game seven
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  Speaker 1: will be on Saturday night, much needed by the NBA
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  Speaker 1: as there are no finals to begin until Wednesdays, so
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  Speaker 1: Oklahoma City will be the scene. The winner of that game,
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  Speaker 1: we are told, will advance to take on the Knickerbockers.
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  Speaker 1: So all those annoying New Yorkers are either going to
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  Speaker 1: go to Oklahoma City or San Antonio. It'll be an
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  Speaker 1: infestation of those folks, the old men who are celebrities
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  Speaker 1: from the nineties who are still there supporting the Knicks,
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  Speaker 1: and a couple of younger guys, but mostly just like
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  Speaker 1: old dudes that love the Knicks. And so that's the
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  Speaker 1: open night Wednesday, the opening night of the Finals. But
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  Speaker 1: we're focusing in on game six. The better story is
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  Speaker 1: in the losing locker room. And let's start out with
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  Speaker 1: the NVP. Shay Jilgis Alexander, who did lead the team.
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  Speaker 1: Depends like you want to slice it up. It led
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  Speaker 1: the team with fifteen points, and that didn't seem very good.
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  Speaker 1: He took eighteen shots, six of eighteen from the floor
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  Speaker 1: for SGA and the defending champion, Oklahoma City, as they
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  Speaker 1: were non competitive for most of this game. Extended garbage time,
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  Speaker 1: extended garbagep So that's good. Jumping off point, let us
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  Speaker 1: discuss the question, how do you explain Shay Jogis Alexander
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  Speaker 1: going a wall for the Thunder in game six of
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  Speaker 1: the Finals. So I've got duffel bag, Dino nuggets, and
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  Speaker 1: the sound of music. Yeah, and we will put these
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  Speaker 1: all together and toss them into the armpit. Why not?
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  Speaker 1: All right? So A, the Thunder are really playing with
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  Speaker 1: their food here, They're really playing with their food. The
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  Speaker 1: way they approached this game, this lase fair approach. They
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  Speaker 1: didn't just lose Game six. I'm pretty sure that they
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  Speaker 1: left their heartbeat back in Oklahoma, like They could have
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  Speaker 1: just forfeited the game and been like, Okay, listen, let's
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  Speaker 1: just get to Game seven, we're gonna not waste our
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  Speaker 1: time and go down to San Antonio. Instead, they chose
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  Speaker 1: to go to San Antonio, and they looked zombie fied.
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  Speaker 1: You talk about bedraggled. My god. The whole team, Oklahoma
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  Speaker 1: City as a team looked flat. They struggled to score efficiency.
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  Speaker 1: They were the antithesis of what they had been and
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  Speaker 1: they absolutely could not match these Spurs energy. I only
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  Speaker 1: it was home court advantage or any of that bull crap.
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  Speaker 1: I don't buy into that much at all. Man alive,
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  Speaker 1: what a mess this was for the Thunder the whole operation, right,
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  Speaker 1: and in particular, let's focus in on SGA. Shade jogis Alexander,
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  Speaker 1: who did go a wall in this game. He's the
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  Speaker 1: face of the franchise and he had a Southwest Airlines
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  Speaker 1: like performance. The I want to get away fair for
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  Speaker 1: SGA mission accomplished. My god. Well, let's hear from the
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  Speaker 1: man himself. Here is the two time MVP back to
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  Speaker 1: back in belly to belly SGA talking about well you'll
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  Speaker 1: hear the question and the answer, but oh, the fatigue. Oh,
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  Speaker 1: the fatigue. Take a listen.
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  Speaker 3: We talked so much about the other guys that are
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  Speaker 3: fighting through stuff, But how much mental and physical fatigue
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  Speaker 3: do you have?
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  Speaker 1: And how are you fighting through it? Oh? I'm good,
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  Speaker 1: I'm ready to go the biggest game of my career. Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: he's it the biggest game. It's the next game. And
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  Speaker 1: if I lose, my season's over all. Right. Well, at
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  Speaker 1: least he didn't take the bait that was a leading
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  Speaker 1: question by the reporter. Is like these media guys, they
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  Speaker 1: think these these gentlemen playing basketball are like Navy seals
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  Speaker 1: at the very end of a world war. It's like, dude,
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  Speaker 1: come on, they're playing basketball forty eight minutes over two
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  Speaker 1: and a half hours, and they get days off and
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  Speaker 1: all that. They don't need an emotional support animal. Like
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  Speaker 1: these guys are such losers anyway, as far as SGA
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  Speaker 1: and the most important game and all that whatever, that's jibbersh. Fine.
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  Speaker 1: He really needed to get away because he looked like
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  Speaker 1: he was playing the video game and he couldn't figure
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  Speaker 1: out why the video game was not working because the
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  Speaker 1: controller was unplugged and he couldn't figure it out. He
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  Speaker 1: had a PA M performance a point a minute performance
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  Speaker 1: bad bad bad bad bad bad. Wow. SGA played twenty
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  Speaker 1: eight minutes, and I thought he was bad. I was like, well,
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  Speaker 1: he doesn't seem like this is going well. He's out
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  Speaker 1: there and it's not exactly going well. And then the
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  Speaker 1: eyeball test was confirmed by the box score from the league.
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  Speaker 1: SGA played twenty eight minutes and while he was on
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  Speaker 1: the court, Oklahoma City, if my math is correct, was
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  Speaker 1: outscored by minus twenty eight points. So for every minute
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  Speaker 1: he played, they were outscored by twenty eight So if
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  Speaker 1: or by a point rather so, that means if you
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  Speaker 1: played all forty eight minutes, they would have lost by
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  Speaker 1: forty eight points, which is mathematically impressive. Now, why did
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  Speaker 1: this happen? What is it? Because Shay's kryptonite got exposed.
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  Speaker 1: No whistle, no whistle, no rhythm, no rescue. That when
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  Speaker 1: the referees put the whistle in their pockets, Shay looked
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  Speaker 1: like Superman whose baggage was lost. His duffel bag with
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  Speaker 1: the cape in it did not make it to the
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  Speaker 1: team hotel. Only three foul shots the entire night.
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  Speaker 3: Wow.
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  Speaker 1: And this feeds into the deep state that is like, well,
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  Speaker 1: wait a minute. Here, this guy with that the foul shooting,
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  Speaker 1: there's not much there, And sure enough the kryptonite was
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  Speaker 1: right there, exposed. And so I recommend SGA gets some
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  Speaker 1: sweet baby raised barbecue sauce and slather that all over
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  Speaker 1: the crow because you're gonna have to eat that one.
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  Speaker 1: He didn't look like a freak of nature in this
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  Speaker 1: particular game. It looked like they were trying to raise
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  Speaker 1: you from the dead, the entire team the zombie now
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  Speaker 1: in particular, as we turned the pay cheer to game again,
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  Speaker 1: Game six, third quarter, that is the turning point of
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  Speaker 1: the game, brought to you by nobody but Thunder coach
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  Speaker 1: Mark Dagnow. He said, the Spurs threw a great punch
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  Speaker 1: in the third court. You think you think they threw
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  Speaker 1: a great punch in the third quarter. If you did
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  Speaker 1: not see this, the game was. It wasn't a blowout
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  Speaker 1: at halftime. Most games are not blowouts at halftime. It
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  Speaker 1: was still within striking distance. For oksee, they mathematically had
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  Speaker 1: a shot. Really, they weren't playing well in the first half,
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  Speaker 1: and you, okay, they're still hanging around, hanging around, and
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  Speaker 1: then in that third quarter it all went to hell.
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  Speaker 1: It just all went away. How bad was it? Well,
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  Speaker 1: I'm so glad that you asked how bad it I
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  Speaker 1: was worried no one was going to ask how bad
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  Speaker 1: it was. So they played twelve minutes of basketball. The
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  Speaker 1: Thunder scored thirteen points. Now, I didn't play in the NBA,
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  Speaker 1: and I just do this a little overnight show. I
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  Speaker 1: don't think that's good. Oh, you're being mean, Mallor. Why
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  Speaker 1: you being mean? Mallor? I know, I'm just an evil
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  Speaker 1: talk show host. Ah, the evil media. Yeah, I shouldn't
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  Speaker 1: point that out. Oh you shouldn't say that they didn't
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  Speaker 1: play well. Yeah, thirty two to thirteen. The Spurs outscored.
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  Speaker 1: And it's not like San Antonio destroyed them from the
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  Speaker 1: floor either. The Spurs didn't shoot the ball well in
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  Speaker 1: the third quarter. They were the ones getting to the
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  Speaker 1: foul line. They were the ones making their foul shot.
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  Speaker 1: There were fourteen or fifteen from the line, which I
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  Speaker 1: believe is pretty good. And so it goes that way.
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  Speaker 1: And the Thunder shot a horrific percentage from the floor.
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  Speaker 1: So Mark dagnoll against said they threw a great punch
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  Speaker 1: and all that stuff. Can you explain question, Can you
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  Speaker 1: explain where things went? Haywire for Okac in that third
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  Speaker 1: quarter specifically, so they were obviously lethargic. And I have
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  Speaker 1: a theory here, now this is unconfirmed that at halftime
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  Speaker 1: they needed a pick me up, so they went out
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  Speaker 1: and they had some uncrustables and some Dino Nuggets at halftime,
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  Speaker 1: and they needed a nap, and they didn't have time
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  Speaker 1: to take the nap because NBC wanted them back on
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  Speaker 1: the court. They couldn't take a nap. So the entire
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  Speaker 1: team decided, you know what we're gonna do. We're just
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  Speaker 1: gonna do it. During the game, the Thunder looked like
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  Speaker 1: they knew that Adam Silver and his henchmen needed a
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  Speaker 1: Game seven on Saturday, and they got the old the
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  Speaker 1: wink and the nod. They got the message with invisible ink.
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  Speaker 1: And yeah, that was Malfeasan's inexcusable six of twenty eight
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  Speaker 1: from the four to twenty one percent shooting in that
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  Speaker 1: quarter for the Thunder. Yeah score on a twenty nothing run.
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  Speaker 1: You look like the Washington Wizards. For God's sakes, you're
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  Speaker 1: in the Western Finals. You look like the freakin Washington Wizards.
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  Speaker 1: San Antonio treating the Thunder like airport security treats. Those
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  Speaker 1: little shampoo bottles you try to sneak through, nothing gets through.
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  Speaker 1: So the Thunder offense was all dial tone and busy
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  Speaker 1: signals for sure. All right, last word, so moving forward
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  Speaker 1: we have it. They always like to say the two
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  Speaker 1: greatest words in sports Game seven, which has been bullcrap.
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  Speaker 1: We've seen so many bad Game sevens in these NBA playoffs,
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  Speaker 1: from the Pistons not showing up the gutless cowards they
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  Speaker 1: were against the Cadavers in that game. We had the Sixers,
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  Speaker 1: but they didn't do any any Game seven but the
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  Speaker 1: Celtics and the Sixers they did nothing early in that game.
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  Speaker 1: There've been some bad Game sevens, is what I'm trying
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  Speaker 1: to say. Oklahoma City, by the way, is favored. I
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  Speaker 1: just looked at the overnight line on DraftKings four and
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  Speaker 1: a half point opening line. Oklahoma City favored at home
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  Speaker 1: on Saturday. The question you make the call your knee
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  Speaker 1: jerk reaction. Who has the edge? Who has the mathematical edge?
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  Speaker 1: In Game seven, the Thunder got the home court. They
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  Speaker 1: are favored over the Spurs. So who you got, Thunder
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  Speaker 1: or the Spurs? So the way I will approach is
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  Speaker 1: tell me who the Zebras are go out to the
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  Speaker 1: Serengetti and find which Zebras are gonna come in here,
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  Speaker 1: and then I'll tell you who's gonna win the game.
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  Speaker 1: If the referees decide to officiate the game they way
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  Speaker 1: they did Game six, and they swallow the whistle. Victor
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  Speaker 1: Wembanyama is going to be booking a flight to the
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  Speaker 1: NBA Finals, so they'll start at home and be ordering
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  Speaker 1: room service croissants when they get to New York. And
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  Speaker 1: if Wemby's engaged, which seems to be a big if
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  Speaker 1: because there have been some moments in this Western Finals
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  Speaker 1: where he has just checked out, like he's like, I
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  Speaker 1: don't know what he's thinking about. I have no idea.
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  Speaker 1: But when he's engaged, obviously, san Antonio is like, they
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  Speaker 1: have the Eiffel Tower, and when he's not engaged, it's
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  Speaker 1: like they had they went to the gift shop below
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  Speaker 1: the Eiffel Tower and they got one of those little
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  Speaker 1: souvenir Eiffel Tower keychains, which is not as effective as
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  Speaker 1: the actual Eiffel Tower. I'm told the Eiffel Tower is
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  Speaker 1: much more effective now.
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  Speaker 3: On the other.
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  Speaker 1: Hand, if this turns into not la la Paloozer mallor
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  Speaker 1: Palooza or Woodstock. If this turns out to be whistle
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  Speaker 1: Fest twenty twenty six, advantage Oklahoma City. They will blow
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  Speaker 1: out the Spurs and they'll win by a country mile.
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  Speaker 1: And that's where I'm leaning. That's where I'm leaning. I
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  Speaker 1: was asked this. I made my weekly appearance with my
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  Speaker 1: friend Bob Fesco on his show in Kansas City, and
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  Speaker 1: they asked me about this. I said, well, I like
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  Speaker 1: the Spurs in game six. I think the Thunder will
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  Speaker 1: come back and win game seven. And even though this
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  Speaker 1: game was a blowout in game six, I'm never wrong
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  Speaker 1: about this. I have a crystal ball. I am a
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  Speaker 1: distant relative of Nostradamus and back to being a friend
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  Speaker 1: with nos Tradinas. And so you look at this, and
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  Speaker 1: that's the lean. Oklahoma City's greatest offense is not a playbook.
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  Speaker 1: It is a rema of the sound of music for
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  Speaker 1: the modern era. They love the new version of the
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  Speaker 1: sound of music. I think it's coming out this summer.
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  Speaker 1: It's called the Sound of a Whistle. The sound of
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  Speaker 1: a Whistle that's updated, and that parade the conga line
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  Speaker 1: to the foul line. SGA might as well, bring his
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  Speaker 1: sleeping bag to the charity stripe is a shade jogis
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  Speaker 1: Alexander getting if he gets eighteen foul shots. It's like
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  Speaker 1: giving a kid an unlimited amount of swipes at the arcade.
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  Speaker 1: You're like, okay, we just keep playing games. Just do it.
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  Speaker 1: Play the claw machine, play the ski ball machine, play
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  Speaker 1: the whatever you want to play it. Every question will
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  Speaker 1: call this is I know what's going to happen when
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  Speaker 1: I come back in here next week. Every question we'll
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  Speaker 1: call is essentially a thirty minute infomercial confirming the conspiracies
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  Speaker 1: of the NBA. And so the edge is to Oklahoma City,
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  Speaker 1: not because of home court, just the edge is that
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  Speaker 1: the officials. It's the see saw the calls favored in
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  Speaker 1: Game five Oklahoma City. Game six, they went to San Antonio,
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  Speaker 1: and now it's game seven, so it goes back to
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  Speaker 1: Oklahoma City. And the X factor is whichever ref decides
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  Speaker 1: that he's the main character. That's what this is. And
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  Speaker 1: Game sevens are supposed to create legends. Haven't had a
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  Speaker 1: lot of that this year in the basketball playoffs. Let's
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  Speaker 1: hope the referees are not trying to become one of
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  Speaker 1: the legends. This is a classic Tony Brothers or Scott
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  Speaker 1: Foster moment waiting to happen, which will lead to some
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  Speaker 1: kind of calls from we need Congress to get involved here,
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  Speaker 1: like what are we doing? Oh my god, my goodness.
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  Speaker 4: the Paulie and Tony Fusco Show.
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  Speaker 3: Fox Sports Radio.
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  Speaker 4: Asked me to do a promo, but I'm here to
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  Speaker 4: do a no mo, as in, don't listen to this show.
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  Speaker 5: No mo.
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  Speaker 4: The host of two fools from Philly who have the
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  Speaker 4: dumbest takes ever and all of sports talk. And you know,
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  Speaker 4: if I'm saying that, they must really be bad. I
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  Speaker 4: have no idea why Fox Sports Radio picked this up,
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  Speaker 4: but I know where to put it down in the
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  Speaker 4: trash can. So please don't listen to the Paulie and
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  Speaker 4: Tony Fusco Show.
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  Speaker 3: No way, no how so.
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  Speaker 1: Our lead this hour is from a labor negotiation.
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  Speaker 2: Now.
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  Speaker 1: I was told by one of my bosses years ago,
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  Speaker 1: you should never ever talk about labor negotiations on the
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  Speaker 1: radio because that's a killer. I think I can pull
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  Speaker 1: this off. I'm going to attempt to do it, and
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  Speaker 1: we'll see what the numbers indicate. Here, we'll get the
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  Speaker 1: real time feedback and all that, and so just kind
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  Speaker 1: of bear with me. Bear with me. But we start
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  Speaker 1: out at the negotiation table where as anticipated, a day
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  Speaker 1: after the union announced their plan for a salarycap floor
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  Speaker 1: and increased minimum wage. Well, then the owners said, hey,
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  Speaker 1: we're ready to go. Major League Baseball's owners made their
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  Speaker 1: salarycap proposal to the players' Association for all this being
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  Speaker 1: done in the court of public opinion the town square,
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  Speaker 1: and they said, hey, we would like a nice salary cap.
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  Speaker 1: We would like to cap how much money you can make. Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: that seems great. Why not? Okay? Sure? And we know
• 18:43
  Speaker 1: that is a system the union has vowed never ever
• 18:46
  Speaker 1: to accept. And so that is setting the sides on
• 18:51
  Speaker 1: a course, a collision course for a confrontation with sparks flying.
• 18:58
  Speaker 1: And this is why many believe that this will be
• 19:00
  Speaker 1: the last baseball season for a while. There will be
• 19:03
  Speaker 1: no twenty twenty seven season and there's even some talk
• 19:06
  Speaker 1: that I've heard that the players might just to pull
• 19:09
  Speaker 1: the plug here before the World Series. Who knows, might
• 19:11
  Speaker 1: even get the World Series this year. We'll see about that.
• 19:14
  Speaker 1: The collective bargaining agreement runs out after the season, so
• 19:17
  Speaker 1: they don't really need to do that, so we'll see.
• 19:20
  Speaker 1: But if you didn't see this, perhaps not, or hear
• 19:23
  Speaker 1: about it, possibly not, And here it is so Major
• 19:27
  Speaker 1: League Baseball's proposal would put a cap on it. They
• 19:30
  Speaker 1: cap spending starting in twenty twenty seven at two hundred
• 19:34
  Speaker 1: and forty five million dollars, while also establishing a payroll
• 19:39
  Speaker 1: floor of one hundred and seventy one million. So that's
• 19:43
  Speaker 1: a lot of numbers. That's a lot of numbers forcing
• 19:47
  Speaker 1: teams to spend more money. Of course, this is what
• 19:49
  Speaker 1: the owners are saying. The Dodgers baseball's biggest spenders, four
• 19:53
  Speaker 1: hundred and fifteen million dollars payroll. If you base it
• 19:58
  Speaker 1: on all of the money included on that, not just
• 20:00
  Speaker 1: the deferred stuff. You know that a lot of people
• 20:03
  Speaker 1: leave that out anyway, that would mean the Dodgers at
• 20:07
  Speaker 1: a four hundred and fifteen million they'd have to trim
• 20:10
  Speaker 1: the fat and get down to two hundred and forty
• 20:12
  Speaker 1: five million. I suppose there'll be some grandfather and claws
• 20:15
  Speaker 1: in there and whatnot, but one hundred and seventy million
• 20:18
  Speaker 1: over the cap. So the Dodgers are one hundred and
• 20:22
  Speaker 1: seventy million over the cap that Baseball's owners have proposed. Now,
• 20:28
  Speaker 1: the early feedback from the public seems to be very
• 20:32
  Speaker 1: supportive of keeping salaries down. I don't ever want my
• 20:37
  Speaker 1: bosses to keep my salaries down, although they do that anyway. Anyway, Listen,
• 20:41
  Speaker 1: the point of this is major League Baseball as a
• 20:44
  Speaker 1: whole is digging in, right. They're digging in. They're like, hey,
• 20:48
  Speaker 1: we got something here. It is interesting to note, as
• 20:52
  Speaker 1: we get into the weeds on this that the public
• 20:57
  Speaker 1: their lean to the owners is a kind of my
• 21:00
  Speaker 1: entire life. This has been the way it is now.
• 21:03
  Speaker 1: I don't love the owners. I don't particularly like that
• 21:05
  Speaker 1: the players either. I hate them all. If you said, hey,
• 21:09
  Speaker 1: do we need a salary cap, I'd say no, it's
• 21:11
  Speaker 1: called a budget. So that's a good jumping off point.
• 21:14
  Speaker 1: Let us discuss. So the question, what are you seeing
• 21:19
  Speaker 1: with Major League Baseball's ownership group and they're opening salary
• 21:23
  Speaker 1: cap proposal to the players for twenty twenty seven and beyond.
• 21:29
  Speaker 1: All right, So my observations on this. I've got Heines
• 21:32
  Speaker 1: fifty seven ketchup. That's Heines fifty seven ketchup, hooked on
• 21:36
  Speaker 1: math and Hedgehog, and we will combine all of these
• 21:41
  Speaker 1: things together, and you and I are going to play
• 21:45
  Speaker 1: whack a mole. That's what we're gonna play. So number
• 21:47
  Speaker 1: one one one, one one one, all right. So I
• 21:52
  Speaker 1: look at this like taxes, and I know we're in
• 21:56
  Speaker 1: the election season right now, and I never ever vote
• 21:59
  Speaker 1: for tax increase. And I'll tell you why. They never
• 22:02
  Speaker 1: go away. That even if they say, hey, this is
• 22:05
  Speaker 1: gonna go away in ten years, we're going to fix
• 22:07
  Speaker 1: all the roads. A, everything goes over budget so they'll
• 22:11
  Speaker 1: need more money, and B they'll just repurpose the tax
• 22:14
  Speaker 1: and they won't even allow you to vote on it.
• 22:16
  Speaker 1: So I never vote for tax increases on anything, even
• 22:19
  Speaker 1: things that you would think you need. I always vote
• 22:21
  Speaker 1: knowing it. That's my position. I vote no on the
• 22:24
  Speaker 1: salary cap because it'll never go away. Once the salary
• 22:27
  Speaker 1: cap is in, it's in for the rest of time,
• 22:30
  Speaker 1: until baseball goes out of business. The owners are selling
• 22:33
  Speaker 1: this as a competitive balance, and dumb people believe what
• 22:38
  Speaker 1: the owners are saying. They sell this the way politicians
• 22:41
  Speaker 1: talk about a bipartisan issue. It sounds noble, it sounds right,
• 22:48
  Speaker 1: a bipartisan issue, but it's just permanent gridlock and bad faith.
• 22:53
  Speaker 1: This is not a negotiation. It's Republicans versus Democrats. Turtles,
• 23:01
  Speaker 1: permanent loggerheads, and a two hundred and forty five million
• 23:05
  Speaker 1: dollar hard cap is just a fancy way of telling
• 23:09
  Speaker 1: the players to take less, take a haircut, shut up,
• 23:13
  Speaker 1: and smile, and it turns the locker room into a
• 23:17
  Speaker 1: zero sum math problem where somebody always gets erased. For example,
• 23:24
  Speaker 1: let's play this out. We're gonna workshop this year. So
• 23:27
  Speaker 1: if a superstar signs a massive extension, that means that
• 23:32
  Speaker 1: his teammates are going to have to go to the portal.
• 23:36
  Speaker 1: The elite talent is still going to get paid. This
• 23:39
  Speaker 1: does not affect the elite talent in baseball, the ones
• 23:41
  Speaker 1: that move product, the ones that get ratings, the reason
• 23:44
  Speaker 1: that the sport is popular. So the elite talent is
• 23:47
  Speaker 1: gonna they're gonna get their money. But there's the cap involved.
• 23:51
  Speaker 1: So that means the veteran middle infielder, the relief pitcher
• 23:56
  Speaker 1: that's pretty good. The middle class veteran that's not a
• 23:59
  Speaker 1: stall and not a stiff somewhere in the middle, they
• 24:04
  Speaker 1: get squeezed. Think of it like a bottle of a
• 24:06
  Speaker 1: plastic bottle of Heinz fifty seven. Catchup and you squeeze
• 24:11
  Speaker 1: those guys out. They get replaced by the league minimum rookies,
• 24:16
  Speaker 1: and the books are balanced and all that, and with
• 24:19
  Speaker 1: a hard cap, ownership gains the ultimate get out of
• 24:23
  Speaker 1: jail free card. Team has a bad year. Normally, when
• 24:27
  Speaker 1: a team has a bad year, if the fans are engaged,
• 24:30
  Speaker 1: you say, go out and sign somebody good. We need
• 24:32
  Speaker 1: a better player. The team blows, and typically teams will
• 24:36
  Speaker 1: go out and sign better players. If you're in a
• 24:38
  Speaker 1: legitimate market with an owner that's trying to win. Well, now,
• 24:41
  Speaker 1: if you have a cap, you don't have to do that.
• 24:44
  Speaker 1: You have the ultimate get out of joe free card.
• 24:46
  Speaker 1: You say, well, listen, we would have loved to have
• 24:48
  Speaker 1: signed Joe Blow, big free agent Joe Blow, but I
• 24:54
  Speaker 1: mean our hands are tied to cap. We can't do
• 24:58
  Speaker 1: it. It's the same thing NFL owners to right now, if
• 25:02
  Speaker 1: you want someone, you find a way to get the money.
• 25:05
  Speaker 1: And the NFL cap is not a hard cap Baseball.
• 25:08
  Speaker 1: From what I read it sounds like it's going to
• 25:09
  Speaker 1: be a hard cap in Major League Baseball. It replaces
• 25:12
  Speaker 1: competitive urgency with this artificial cost certainty is what it does.
• 25:19
  Speaker 1: As for the one hundred and seventy one million dollar floor,
• 25:23
  Speaker 1: that's something for low information fans. I will guar on
• 25:27
  Speaker 1: to you that it's not going to do what you
• 25:31
  Speaker 1: think it's going to do. And the players also are
• 25:33
  Speaker 1: campaigning for this. It's not gonna help that they're dumb
• 25:35
  Speaker 1: on that as well. I don't agree with it at all.
• 25:38
  Speaker 1: The small market owners, they're going to use loopholes. In fact,
• 25:42
  Speaker 1: I've already laid it out if you read the fine
• 25:44
  Speaker 1: print on this, the player benefits which are included in
• 25:48
  Speaker 1: the cost of the cap. For the lower end teams,
• 25:53
  Speaker 1: it's a way to put makeup on a pig, and
• 25:57
  Speaker 1: it's a way to hide the cheapness and all that.
• 26:00
  Speaker 1: And what's going to happen is these crappy teams that
• 26:03
  Speaker 1: don't spend money, like the Athletics and the Guardians and
• 26:06
  Speaker 1: the Rays and the Pirates, they become the dumping ground
• 26:10
  Speaker 1: for bad contracts that the Mets, Dodgers, and Yankees and
• 26:13
  Speaker 1: the big market teams have It's like, hey, you got
• 26:16
  Speaker 1: that relief pitcher that has an ERI of seven and
• 26:19
  Speaker 1: three more years on the contract, why don't we send
• 26:21
  Speaker 1: him to Pittsburgh because the Pirates have to get to
• 26:24
  Speaker 1: the salary cap floor and we'll just take back like
• 26:28
  Speaker 1: a low level a ball pitcher or something like that. Okay,
• 26:31
  Speaker 1: sounds good. Sounds good. Now, all of that aside. I'm
• 26:35
  Speaker 1: anti cap. I think the cap is crap and all
• 26:37
  Speaker 1: that that aside. The biggest non starter, the reason this
• 26:42
  Speaker 1: isda dead on arrival. A salary cap only functions fairly
• 26:48
  Speaker 1: if it is tied to a fixed and this is
• 26:51
  Speaker 1: the big word here, say it with me, kids, audited
• 26:54
  Speaker 1: percentage of actual industry revenue. And that's the thing in
• 27:00
  Speaker 1: the NFL, which are the models that everyone's looking at here,
• 27:04
  Speaker 1: everything gets audited by the players. Historically, Major League Baseball
• 27:10
  Speaker 1: owners have been adamant that they will refuse to fully
• 27:14
  Speaker 1: open the finances. They're not gonna let you see what
• 27:17
  Speaker 1: they have financially. They're not going to allow an independent
• 27:22
  Speaker 1: there's this thing is independent, but an outside council to
• 27:25
  Speaker 1: come in and audit them and look at how much
• 27:28
  Speaker 1: are you making on that regional sports deal that you've
• 27:31
  Speaker 1: got where a lot of these teams now bought the
• 27:33
  Speaker 1: regional sports networks because they're not doing very well. Or
• 27:36
  Speaker 1: what about that ballpark real estate deal you got around
• 27:39
  Speaker 1: Finway or Wrigley Field. You're making all that money there.
• 27:42
  Speaker 1: Let's see how much money you're making, because we had
• 27:44
  Speaker 1: to include that in the revenue and the players get
• 27:47
  Speaker 1: a little taste of that. And so why not all
• 27:49
  Speaker 1: those little hotels and restaurants around the ballparks and the
• 27:54
  Speaker 1: second stream of income and the players obviously have no
• 27:58
  Speaker 1: interest in capping their salaries. You makes no sense based
• 28:02
  Speaker 1: on a revenue picture where the owners essentially say this
• 28:05
  Speaker 1: is the owner's strategy when you say, hey, we're the union,
• 28:08
  Speaker 1: why don't we go look at all the numbers? Okay, no, no, no,
• 28:11
  Speaker 1: just trust us bro. And well that's not really a
• 28:14
  Speaker 1: good business strategy when you say just trust us bro.
• 28:17
  Speaker 1: Like I used to work out in Glendale at the
• 28:21
  Speaker 1: gym over there. They always might the guys in the gym,
• 28:22
  Speaker 1: you know what's up, bro? Trust me bro? All right,
• 28:24
  Speaker 1: Now it's page two, but wait, there's more. All right,
• 28:28
  Speaker 1: So the question now is can you explain what the
• 28:31
  Speaker 1: Major League Baseball owners are really accomplishing with his first
• 28:36
  Speaker 1: opening offer to the to the players. So this is
• 28:40
  Speaker 1: what's known as setting up the guardrails. And it's not
• 28:42
  Speaker 1: a legitimate offer. It's a I call it a bait
• 28:46
  Speaker 1: and switch starter, kid, And it's the oldest trick in
• 28:50
  Speaker 1: the book. Now, when I was growing up, I never
• 28:53
  Speaker 1: cared about labor negotiations. I got it a radio, and
• 28:57
  Speaker 1: I've been doing this job for a while and so
• 28:59
  Speaker 1: this I know this stuff from just paying attention over
• 29:01
  Speaker 1: the years. And I'll date myself a little bit, but
• 29:04
  Speaker 1: I covered baseball before in the season where the World
• 29:09
  Speaker 1: Series was canceled and that period of time. So I
• 29:12
  Speaker 1: was around that and I heard a lot of stuff.
• 29:14
  Speaker 1: I got a great education, not from school, not from
• 29:16
  Speaker 1: there was really no internet. I think we had AOL
• 29:18
  Speaker 1: online back then and Netscape Navigator. But I got my
• 29:21
  Speaker 1: education from being around people who taught me the birds
• 29:25
  Speaker 1: and the bees, if you will, of how this stuff
• 29:27
  Speaker 1: works and how they really make the sausage and whatnot.
• 29:30
  Speaker 1: And so this is an old trick. You start extreme
• 29:35
  Speaker 1: in any labor negotiation. You start extreme, and then your
• 29:39
  Speaker 1: next terrible proposal looks somewhat reasonable to negotiation one oh one.
• 29:46
  Speaker 1: You never accept the first bird out of the case.
• 29:48
  Speaker 1: You never do that. The owners threw a salary cap
• 29:51
  Speaker 1: grenade and called it a conversation starter. However, the union
• 29:57
  Speaker 1: will reject that because of hook on math or go.
• 30:02
  Speaker 1: The math ain't mathing. It's designed to trap them. The
• 30:06
  Speaker 1: union has seen this movie, same plot, different group of
• 30:11
  Speaker 1: billionaire owners. A hard cap is not a compromise, it's
• 30:15
  Speaker 1: a financial straight jacket for the players. And by dangling
• 30:18
  Speaker 1: the one hundred and seventy one million dollar floor the owners,
• 30:20
  Speaker 1: they're essentially on a pontoon boat on a phishing expedition,
• 30:25
  Speaker 1: if you will, to see who blinks first. Dangling a
• 30:28
  Speaker 1: wedge issue to split the rank and file from the superstars.
• 30:33
  Speaker 1: They want to have the medium level players vote against
• 30:37
  Speaker 1: this because there's more medium level players than superstar players.
• 30:40
  Speaker 1: And they're going to pretend to take this seriously, you know,
• 30:45
  Speaker 1: and all that the union's not. They know it's malpracticed.
• 30:49
  Speaker 1: So you don't negotiate with a trapdoor. You walk around it.
• 30:54
  Speaker 1: And this is just round one of a twelve round fight,
• 30:58
  Speaker 1: and you don't get knocked out on the first jab. Now,
• 31:02
  Speaker 1: it is interesting to note that the Major League Baseball
• 31:05
  Speaker 1: the teams that are above the payroll and below the payroll.
• 31:08
  Speaker 1: We'll get into this in a little bit later in
• 31:09
  Speaker 1: the hour. There's very few teams that are above the
• 31:13
  Speaker 1: proposed ceiling, and there's a lot of teams that are
• 31:16
  Speaker 1: below the proposed ceiling. And the fans always pulling for
• 31:22
  Speaker 1: the owners on this, which is just bonkers to me.
• 31:25
  Speaker 1: You can explain that to me. I don't get it
• 31:26
  Speaker 1: all right. Final point TOAs San Diego we go where
• 31:30
  Speaker 1: the Padres are not doing so well lately. We are
• 31:35
  Speaker 1: in the final weekend of May. Can you believe that? Yeah,
• 31:38
  Speaker 1: the calendar flips over. Next week we get into June
• 31:41
  Speaker 1: and one of baseball's biggest names has gone limp. Now,
• 31:46
  Speaker 1: the good news is overnight we have a commercial for
• 31:49
  Speaker 1: a pill that'll help him. Padres star Fernando to Teast
• 31:52
  Speaker 1: Junior has as many home runs as I have and
• 31:57
  Speaker 1: you have combined. Yeah, yeah, Tatise has not hit a
• 32:01
  Speaker 1: home run this season. He has not hit a home
• 32:03
  Speaker 1: run in two hundred and forty four days, I guess,
• 32:06
  Speaker 1: not two hundred and forty five days. Despite that, the
• 32:09
  Speaker 1: nerds they say everything is gonna be fine, don't worry
• 32:14
  Speaker 1: about Fernando Toutise. The super nerd site Baseball Savant says
• 32:20
  Speaker 1: that Tatis still has elite batspeed and exit velocity, which
• 32:24
  Speaker 1: is odd because none of the balls have exited the ballpark.
• 32:28
  Speaker 1: And their argument is he's merely having issues with his
• 32:31
  Speaker 1: attack angle and launch angle. All right, question, do you
• 32:39
  Speaker 1: trust the Poindexter crowd when they say Fernando Tatis Junior
• 32:45
  Speaker 1: his power outage, It's gonna be okay, don't worry. The
• 32:48
  Speaker 1: Padres will be all right with Tatis. So I'm obviously
• 32:52
  Speaker 1: shaking my head. No, you can't see me unless you're
• 32:54
  Speaker 1: watching on YouTube. I'm shaking my head. Head. No, this
• 32:58
  Speaker 1: is the part that drives me to the edge. Here
• 33:02
  Speaker 1: comes the geek squad telling everyone to calm down, don't
• 33:07
  Speaker 1: believe what you're seeing. And yeah, there's a toxic cloud
• 33:11
  Speaker 1: hovering over Fernando Tatise. Just it's not what you think
• 33:15
  Speaker 1: it is. The guy's the face of the Podres and
• 33:18
  Speaker 1: he's gone from the smiling, dancing peacock to the hibernating hedgehog.
• 33:24
  Speaker 1: And this is not a slump at this point. This
• 33:26
  Speaker 1: is a sabbatical. He's like a tenured professor on sabbatical.
• 33:29
  Speaker 1: Three hundred and forty million for the hibernation cycle is
• 33:34
  Speaker 1: what he's got. And the point extra crowd, they tell us,
• 33:37
  Speaker 1: the dork gooes are like, hey, wait a minute, you
• 33:40
  Speaker 1: know the numbers he's gonna be okay, the numbers are lying. Okay,
• 33:46
  Speaker 1: at some point the podres actually need production, not a
• 33:50
  Speaker 1: ted talk about exit velocity. This is all a bunch
• 33:53
  Speaker 1: of crap that didn't exist and the world was fine,
• 33:57
  Speaker 1: and you can't be the face of the franchise. Is
• 34:00
  Speaker 1: when your bat is on airplane mode and you don't
• 34:04
  Speaker 1: sell a lot of tickets, people don't go to watch
• 34:07
  Speaker 1: expected slugging. Say hey, let's take the family out to
• 34:11
  Speaker 1: the ballpark. Let's watch Fernando Tess. He's got really good
• 34:13
  Speaker 1: expected slugging. Okay, that seems like a good idea. You
• 34:17
  Speaker 1: sell tickets by hitting home runs and getting big numbers
• 34:22
  Speaker 1: off as when you're the headline player on a team.
• 34:24
  Speaker 1: And at this point the only thing he's barreling is excuses.
• 34:28
  Speaker 1: And this is uncharted territory. I looked it up. I
• 34:31
  Speaker 1: filled down a rabbit hole. Do you know there has
• 34:33
  Speaker 1: never been another three hundred million dollar player who has
• 34:38
  Speaker 1: gone fifty four consecutive games without a home run, like
• 34:41
  Speaker 1: Fernando Tatis. So I tried to figure out who's the
• 34:43
  Speaker 1: next closest, and that means a player who's healthy, playing regularly,
• 34:48
  Speaker 1: And is it true the only player that comes close
• 34:53
  Speaker 1: Bryce Harper a few years ago in twenty twenty three
• 34:56
  Speaker 1: with the Phillies, he went thirty eight games without a
• 34:59
  Speaker 1: home run for the Phillies. Thirty eight games to Tease
• 35:03
  Speaker 1: is at fifty four and counting. Now, I do have
• 35:05
  Speaker 1: some advice. You probably think, well, I'm a Dodger fan,
• 35:08
  Speaker 1: so I don't want to help the Padres out. That's
• 35:10
  Speaker 1: not true. I would like to help the Padres out.
• 35:13
  Speaker 1: I want to have the whole mcgillo. So my advice
• 35:16
  Speaker 1: is to get to Tease on a bus or an uber.
• 35:20
  Speaker 1: Take him down to Mexico and there's a great pharmacy
• 35:24
  Speaker 1: in Tijuana. My old radio partner and TV partner Tom
• 35:27
  Speaker 1: Looney knows of there right there in Tijuana, and forget
• 35:30
  Speaker 1: the whole spiritual reboot. Take him to that famous pharmacy
• 35:34
  Speaker 1: in Tijuana, just across the US border, and they have
• 35:36
  Speaker 1: really good ringworm meds. And I just think he's suffering
• 35:41
  Speaker 1: to tease from ringworm. If they can get him those
• 35:44
  Speaker 1: right pills and shots, I think he'll be okay. It's
• 35:48
  Speaker 1: just my opinion. It can't sue me for my opinion.
• 35:50
  Speaker 1: I just think that he's got a little ringworm. Get
• 35:53
  Speaker 1: that taken care of, you'll be good to go.
• 35:55
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• 35:57
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• 36:01
  Speaker 1: Here we all, Here we go, Here we go. How
• 36:03
  Speaker 1: about that? To the third degree?
• 36:07
  Speaker 2: This is one big be.
• 36:10
  Speaker 1: Okay, Okay, God stopped.
• 36:15
  Speaker 5: The Kansas City Chiefs were finally dethroned last season as
• 36:18
  Speaker 5: the Broncos became the team other than the Chiefs to
• 36:21
  Speaker 5: win the first team other than the Chiefs to win
• 36:22
  Speaker 5: the AFC West in nine years. However, heading into the
• 36:25
  Speaker 5: upcoming season, the Chiefs are favored to win the division,
• 36:27
  Speaker 5: yet again, the Broncos don't even have these second best odds. Ben,
• 36:31
  Speaker 5: would Kansas City be your best to win the AFC
• 36:33
  Speaker 5: West title?
• 36:34
  Speaker 1: Well, yes, it's rather simple, coop. The math on this
• 36:37
  Speaker 1: is the Chiefs have an easier schedule and the Broncos
• 36:41
  Speaker 1: have a harder schedule, so that's the math. Like, it's
• 36:44
  Speaker 1: not that deep. It's you know, who's who's got going
• 36:47
  Speaker 1: into the season. A softer schedule, And because Kansas City
• 36:50
  Speaker 1: didn't make the playoffs last year and all that, and
• 36:53
  Speaker 1: the Broncos did and they had a good year, the
• 36:55
  Speaker 1: Chiefs have an easier schedule.
• 36:57
  Speaker 5: Next, Commander's quarterback Jaye and Daniel said on Wednesday that
• 37:00
  Speaker 5: last season left him with a miserable feeling as he
• 37:02
  Speaker 5: wasn't able to go out and do what he does
• 37:03
  Speaker 5: on a daily basis. Ben, do you think what are
• 37:06
  Speaker 5: your expectations for Daniels this year?
• 37:08
  Speaker 1: Yeah, he's at a FOURK in the road. I'm not optimistic.
• 37:11
  Speaker 1: This seems like another one hit wonder like RG three
• 37:14
  Speaker 1: was for Washington. I hope I'm wrong on that.
• 37:16
  Speaker 5: Next, Ben, the Cubbs became the first team in MLB
• 37:18
  Speaker 5: history with a ten game two ten game win streaks
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  Speaker 5: and ten game losing streak.
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  Speaker 3: What's going on with Chicago?
• 37:23
  Speaker 1: You know who? I blame Jonas Knox, who is a
• 37:25
  Speaker 1: cub season ticket older, my friend Jonas Knox for buying
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  Speaker 1: money or spending money on the Cubs. No, they are
• 37:30
  Speaker 1: a dysfunctional team. They got issues. How do we do akopolo,
• 37:33
  Speaker 1: you pass? I guess that's a pass. That's right? You
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  Speaker 1: know I'm right? See sees get degrees.
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  Speaker 2: listen live Knock Knock, Who's there? Blame week? Blame wee too.
• 37:57
  Speaker 1: It's Big Ben's lame joke of the week. You know
• 38:00
  Speaker 1: what Big Man's slam jokes in the week? Do I
• 38:01
  Speaker 1: have my guy weed Man? Is he there from Hollywood Forward?
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  Speaker 1: All right? Why does weed Man get treated well in Vegas?
• 38:14
  Speaker 1: Why they consider you a high roller? Mike? Hear, Lisa,
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  Speaker 1: Mike the Leprechaun. There, These are actual jokes by actual listeners.
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  Speaker 1: Did you hear that weed Man hippie ran for president? Wow? Really? Yeah?
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  Speaker 1: You had one issue. You promised everyone higher wages is
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  Speaker 1: what you promised everyone. That's Mike again, Mike the Leprechaun.
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  Speaker 1: Well with Lisa living in New York and weed Man
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  Speaker 1: in Florida, weed Man's son, he said, when Lisa moved
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  Speaker 1: to New York, did weed Man's son live there or Florida?
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  Speaker 1: And the answer is no. They had joint custody. That
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  Speaker 1: was the joke. See, that was all that for the joke.
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  Speaker 1: That's Joe, Joe and Virginia Beach here. Let's see here
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  Speaker 1: page Dan. We'll skip over that one. Why was weed
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  Speaker 1: Man delighted to work a few hours a week at
• 39:12
  Speaker 1: the dispensary? Wow? Sure I will Why Yeah, he thought
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  Speaker 1: it was a part time job, but it turned out
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  Speaker 1: to be a party time job, right, weed Man. That's
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  Speaker 1: Dennis Dennis in Detroit. These are actual jokes by actual listeners.
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  Speaker 1: You can send your joke in and send that carav
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  Speaker 1: Benmahler Show at gmail dot com. That's Benmaller's show at
• 39:36
  Speaker 1: gmail dot com. Who is weed Man rooting for in
• 39:40
  Speaker 1: the NBA's Western Conference Game seven? Oh? Whichever team is higher?
• 39:47
  Speaker 1: According to Michael and Chalsea, you must you must love that.
• 39:52
  Speaker 1: We the Wemby's very tall, you must love him. Why
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  Speaker 1: did weed Man hit me ask Lisa for a divorce?
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  Speaker 1: Why a lawyer told him he could file for joint custody.
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  Speaker 1: There's another joint custody joke. That's Overnight al in Fresno.
• 40:09
  Speaker 1: All right, Why did weed Man Hippi's Vegan Restaurant close? Down.
• 40:13
  Speaker 1: Why it was always infested with roaches? Unfortunately? Yes, but
• 40:18
  Speaker 1: you like that. That's overnight overnight. That's a different kind
• 40:22
  Speaker 1: of roach overnight out there in Fresno. Thank you? That
• 40:25
  Speaker 1: What is weed Man Hippy's favorite rom com to watch
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  Speaker 1: during a romantic evening over the phone with Lisa? What?
• 40:33
  Speaker 1: What movie Toothless in Seattle? That's Darryl in the Ozarks?
• 40:40
  Speaker 1: Who set that one in? What else do we have here?
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  Speaker 5: Faith?
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  Speaker 1: Dad? What's worse than being weed Man's neighbor? What being
• 40:49
  Speaker 1: Gunner in Minnesota's co worker? That's Eric in Kansas? Why?
• 40:55
  Speaker 1: Why does Bryce Harper squeeze toothpaste directly into his mouth?
• 40:59
  Speaker 1: Why he likes the launch angle? That's from Michael in
• 41:03
  Speaker 1: uh in uh I don't know. He didn't say where
• 41:06
  Speaker 1: he's from. Why is the NBA media room calling Wemby Bigfoot? Why?
• 41:11
  Speaker 1: Because everyone swears they saw him but nobody has any proof.
• 41:15
  Speaker 1: And what is what last one? That's why? I'm from Seed?
• 41:17
  Speaker 1: What is what's the NBA media's nickname for Victor woman Yama?
• 41:21
  Speaker 1: It's where Victor? Where? Hi Yama? Where hy Yama?
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  Speaker 5: The coop on Entertainment of Friday tradition.
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  Speaker 1: Hooray for Hollywood starts now and here he's Huston Cooper.
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  Speaker 5: Take it away, Thank you, Marcel professional voice man.
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  Speaker 3: All right, uh.
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  Speaker 5: Ben, We've got I got a little we've got a
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  Speaker 5: little bit of slow weekend as far as news worth
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  Speaker 5: pointing out. But we're gonna start off in the theaters
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  Speaker 5: as always. And there's a new movie out called back Rooms.
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  Speaker 5: It's it's a regular movie in theaters.
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  Speaker 3: It's rated R.
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  Speaker 5: It's got good reviews from the critics and audiences so far.
• 42:18
  Speaker 5: And this is the only description that it has. A
• 42:21
  Speaker 5: strange doorway appears in the basement of a furniture showroom.
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  Speaker 5: It is a horror, sci fi fantasy movie.
• 42:31
  Speaker 1: That's that's like the Twilight Zone. They used to do
• 42:34
  Speaker 1: that where all of a sudden, a portal opens up,
• 42:36
  Speaker 1: you go through the door, and then the kids would
• 42:38
  Speaker 1: swim in a lake and then they'd be like a
• 42:40
  Speaker 1: little like tunnel and they'd come out and another dimentioned.
• 42:43
  Speaker 5: Yeah, I mean it could be could be something like that.
• 42:48
  Speaker 5: Lukeita Maxwell stars in this. She is the star of
• 42:52
  Speaker 5: I don't know who that is not a lot.
• 42:54
  Speaker 3: Of people do.
• 42:55
  Speaker 5: She stars in the ABC the excuse me, the Apple
• 42:59
  Speaker 5: TV show Shrinking.
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  Speaker 3: Which is a great show, great show. It's a great
• 43:03
  Speaker 3: character all right.
• 43:05
  Speaker 5: Moving on to television, we have a spin off show
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  Speaker 5: called star City.
• 43:12
  Speaker 1: Now.
• 43:13
  Speaker 5: This is a spin off of the Apple TV show
• 43:17
  Speaker 5: Sorry for All Mankind. So this one basically is the
• 43:23
  Speaker 5: same story, but from the perspective of the Soviet Union.
• 43:27
  Speaker 5: If you're a fan of for All Mankind, it's kind
• 43:29
  Speaker 5: of a going to Mars space type of show. So
• 43:34
  Speaker 5: this first season serves as a prequel that depicts the
• 43:37
  Speaker 5: USSR's frantic efforts to land a man on the Moon
• 43:39
  Speaker 5: ahead of the Americans in an alternative history nineteen.
• 43:43
  Speaker 1: Sixties spun dick, right, wasn't that the thing they well
• 43:46
  Speaker 1: they that was their space stuff.
• 43:49
  Speaker 3: Yeah, that was the I believe the first the first.
• 43:52
  Speaker 1: That was a big My dad, that was my dad
• 43:55
  Speaker 1: was very in space and so he would talk about
• 43:57
  Speaker 1: the space race. This was a big part of his
• 43:59
  Speaker 1: life and so you always would talk about.
• 44:01
  Speaker 3: Yeah, absolutely, it was. It was huge in the nineteen sixties.
• 44:03
  Speaker 5: This one's so this show's got good reviews. I've watched
• 44:07
  Speaker 5: a ton of Apple TV shows, but I've never seen
• 44:10
  Speaker 5: for All Mankind, So I think I might need to
• 44:12
  Speaker 5: catch up on that because I do like I like
• 44:14
  Speaker 5: space stuff as well. I'm big into space movies and
• 44:17
  Speaker 5: all that stuff.
• 44:17
  Speaker 1: Are you gonna be able to handle when they announced
• 44:19
  Speaker 1: that UFOs are real and all.
• 44:21
  Speaker 5: That, Look, I mean they've already kind of announced it, right,
• 44:24
  Speaker 5: I'm just I'm excited to see what else there is.
• 44:27
  Speaker 3: You know.
• 44:28
  Speaker 1: The great thing is that nobody seems to really be
• 44:30
  Speaker 1: all that worked up into a labor about it. You thought, like, oh,
• 44:32
  Speaker 1: everyone to be worked up. They just a lot of
• 44:34
  Speaker 1: people think it's faked.
• 44:35
  Speaker 5: They're just giving us a little bit at a time,
• 44:37
  Speaker 5: so then we don't freak out, you know, right, That's
• 44:39
  Speaker 5: kind of that's kind of how I feel.
• 44:40
  Speaker 1: I don't know, well, the boiling fraud right, just a
• 44:43
  Speaker 1: little bit. You don't realize the temperags are going up,
• 44:45
  Speaker 1: and all of a sudden there's groblin blocking.
• 44:47
  Speaker 5: You're not gonna see people freaking out until they show
• 44:50
  Speaker 5: us an alien, you know what I mean?
• 44:52
  Speaker 3: I think, and then it's in we're sure that it's not.
• 44:55
  Speaker 1: Ai imagine that press converse at the West Wing.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, that'd be interesting.
• 45:02
  Speaker 5: One last thing that I want to bring up here, Ben, Yes,
• 45:06
  Speaker 5: this is interesting.
• 45:07
  Speaker 3: So on Saturday, May thirtieth.
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  Speaker 5: Netflix is trying to it's almost like they're launching a
• 45:15
  Speaker 5: new genre, I guess, but they're calling it.
• 45:19
  Speaker 3: They're calling it insta docs. It's a new series, and.
• 45:23
  Speaker 5: It's kind of they're calling it a fast turnaround docu series.
• 45:31
  Speaker 5: So I don't know where is that. It's like slightly
• 45:33
  Speaker 5: slower than the news. I guess, like, you know, because
• 45:37
  Speaker 5: you do a super fast turnaround and then it's just
• 45:39
  Speaker 5: a news story, right, Well.
• 45:42
  Speaker 1: Isn't the whole point of a documentary You have to
• 45:43
  Speaker 1: wait for the story to play out, so you have
• 45:45
  Speaker 1: the ending of the story, isn't it.
• 45:47
  Speaker 3: So that's right.
• 45:49
  Speaker 5: But from what I understand from what I read about this,
• 45:53
  Speaker 5: it's kind of like, I don't know, almost almost in
• 45:59
  Speaker 5: real time, but not quite.
• 46:02
  Speaker 1: Yeah.
• 46:03
  Speaker 5: Ok so the first subject of the insta.
• 46:08
  Speaker 3: Dos man, I think a sneeze attack all of a sudden.
• 46:13
  Speaker 1: Oh man, you're all you're very emotional.
• 46:15
  Speaker 3: It is.
• 46:16
  Speaker 5: Yeah, it's based on Alex Murda.
• 46:19
  Speaker 3: It's called Alex Murda. Unconvicted. I don't know if you
• 46:22
  Speaker 3: remember there was that guy from.
• 46:23
  Speaker 1: The South Carolina. Yes, yes, yeah, yeah I saw that story.
• 46:27
  Speaker 3: Yeah yeah.
• 46:28
  Speaker 5: His double murder conviction was overturned. So I guess this
• 46:32
  Speaker 5: is I'm he's gonna have a new trial that takes
• 46:37
  Speaker 5: place towards but I guess tune into the insta dox
• 46:40
  Speaker 5: to to find out exactly what's going on. That's that's
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  Speaker 5: Saturday on Netflix, and that is Coops Going Entertainment.