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Speaker 1: This is Straight Fire with Jason McIntyre.

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Speaker 2: What is up, straight Fire fan, It's me Jason McIntyre,

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Speaker 2: Straight Fire for Thursday, April the third. Oh man, the

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Speaker 2: great sports week just continues. Are we not on a roll? Folks?

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Speaker 2: Got the Final Four coming up this weekend. Duke trending

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Speaker 2: statistically is one of the greatest college basketball teams of

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Speaker 2: all time. That's not me, that's the numbers talking. You

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Speaker 2: had show a Otani and the Dodgers fall behind on

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Speaker 2: Wednesday Night five nothing to the Braves. Everybody's all right, Dodgers,

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Speaker 2: you can't win every game, you know, finally lose Chip

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Speaker 2: Chip Chip Show. Hey, Otani walk up home run and

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Speaker 2: the Dodgers are eight no, And I think that puts

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Speaker 2: them on pace for one hundred and forty eight victories

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Speaker 2: because nobody they can't go one sixty two and oh

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Speaker 2: probably not. And Otani on Otani Bobblehead Night goes just

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Speaker 2: epic stuff. Oh Man, The Dodge is gonna be a

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Speaker 2: show all summer long, folks. But I do have to

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Speaker 2: start the pod with some melancholy news. I'm sure you

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Speaker 2: guys saw this. The actor Val Kilmer, who's been in

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Speaker 2: just a litany of amazing movies, passed away at the

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Speaker 2: age of sixty five. I'll tell you why I'm mentioning

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Speaker 2: this shortly, but I just want to rattle. Val Kilmer

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Speaker 2: had an unbelievable role history. If you go look at

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Speaker 2: his IMDb, He's been in so ney movies. I was

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Speaker 2: reading about him. This is what happens when like somebody

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Speaker 2: so you start reading about him and you're like, man,

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Speaker 2: what a history this guy has, what a life. Obviously

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Speaker 2: Top Gun is his best role. I'm sorry some people

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Speaker 2: will say The Doors. I saw that once way back.

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Speaker 2: I don't totally remember it. But Top Gun, that's on

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Speaker 2: all the time. Just probably the greatest movie of the

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Speaker 2: greatest movie in the nineteen eighties. And he continued in

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Speaker 2: was in Tombstone, an underrated movie you may not have seen.

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Speaker 2: If you're terminally bored this weekend and need something before

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Speaker 2: the Final Four starts, This movie called The Saint. Elizabeth Shoe,

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Speaker 2: who everybody loves. Oh my Gosh, she was in Karate Kid.

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Speaker 2: She was in Oh my God, Oh Oh Cocktail with

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Speaker 2: I thought it was a pretty good movie. But I

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Speaker 2: bring up Valcomer because so you guys know before so

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Speaker 2: after I was in newspapers covering sports in Jersey, I

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Speaker 2: just was not loving lifestyle. I had met a nice

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Speaker 2: like yeah, but Val Kilmer doesn't talk to the media.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, so I am reluctant to even talk about the

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Speaker 2: I think they won eleven games with McCarthy. They got

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Speaker 2: don't really move the needle anymore. I don't think anybody cares.

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Speaker 2: And we'll pivot to the NBA because there is a

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Speaker 2: an amazing game from Jokic. Let's rest our guys against

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Speaker 2: the tanking Spurs. Remember, Darren Fox is out, Wemby's out.

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Speaker 2: we could probably still beat them. Westbrook started in the

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Speaker 2: Oh? Sienna? Wow? Holy cow? Yeah. They started Jalen Pickett,

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Speaker 2: look at that? The Lakers and Nuggets are tied for

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Speaker 2: They absolutely must beat the Warriors tonight, huge game. The

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Speaker 2: so the Lakers. This is a huge swing game, probably

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