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Eder off, All right, 21 00:01:04,920 --> 00:01:05,560 Speaker 1: there we go. 22 00:01:06,800 --> 00:01:09,920 Speaker 4: Was that as scripted as the end of the thunder 23 00:01:09,959 --> 00:01:12,320 Speaker 4: Game eight seven seven ninety. 24 00:01:12,160 --> 00:01:14,360 Speaker 1: Nine, But by end you mean like middle of the 25 00:01:14,400 --> 00:01:16,399 Speaker 1: second quarter, because that's really when it was over. 26 00:01:16,800 --> 00:01:19,919 Speaker 4: Wait, you take these next couple of possessions. I got something, 27 00:01:20,120 --> 00:01:22,360 Speaker 4: I'm working on, something I'm workshopping. 28 00:01:22,400 --> 00:01:25,000 Speaker 3: Do I use the alliteration? Do I not? Do I 29 00:01:25,160 --> 00:01:28,000 Speaker 3: use a literary reference? Do I not? How about a 30 00:01:28,080 --> 00:01:30,720 Speaker 3: movie quote? I don't know what will I do? 31 00:01:31,080 --> 00:01:35,160 Speaker 1: The Thunder and SGA are into the NBA finals. 32 00:01:35,160 --> 00:01:36,960 Speaker 3: We got a big NFL story coming up in a 33 00:01:37,000 --> 00:01:37,440 Speaker 3: few minutes. 34 00:01:37,440 --> 00:01:39,920 Speaker 1: But well, choose your own adventure in microm we got 35 00:01:39,959 --> 00:01:42,360 Speaker 1: two big stories coming up here for the Thunder the 36 00:01:42,360 --> 00:01:44,479 Speaker 1: next year. Uh huh, what do you want to do first? 37 00:01:44,560 --> 00:01:47,760 Speaker 1: Gambling or hot take? What do you want first? Gambling? 38 00:01:47,800 --> 00:01:48,040 Speaker 2: Or well? 39 00:01:48,040 --> 00:01:50,920 Speaker 4: The gambling one I think is pretty fast. I'm gonna guess. 40 00:01:51,000 --> 00:01:52,400 Speaker 4: All right, all right, I'm gonna guess. You got a 41 00:01:52,400 --> 00:01:54,360 Speaker 4: couple of data points. You're gonna talk about the money 42 00:01:54,400 --> 00:01:55,760 Speaker 4: you made gambling. 43 00:01:55,320 --> 00:01:57,720 Speaker 3: Gam We're talking about gambling. Okay, we'll do gambling first. 44 00:01:57,720 --> 00:01:58,840 Speaker 3: What do we do gambling first? 45 00:01:59,200 --> 00:02:02,800 Speaker 1: Prior to these series with the Thunder, with the t Wolves, 46 00:02:03,240 --> 00:02:05,800 Speaker 1: I said, this is how good they are. This is 47 00:02:05,840 --> 00:02:09,880 Speaker 1: how much better they are than everybody else. If you 48 00:02:10,040 --> 00:02:12,880 Speaker 1: put the over under for the number of games, the 49 00:02:12,919 --> 00:02:15,760 Speaker 1: Thunder will lose the remainder of the playoff. This is 50 00:02:15,800 --> 00:02:19,400 Speaker 1: Western Conference Finals, NBA Finals. If I put that number 51 00:02:19,440 --> 00:02:22,320 Speaker 1: at two and a half, I'm taking the under, and 52 00:02:22,360 --> 00:02:24,679 Speaker 1: here I am tonight because right now I'm at one. Yeah, 53 00:02:24,680 --> 00:02:26,840 Speaker 1: you're feeling pretty good. Now I need the Thunder to 54 00:02:26,880 --> 00:02:29,360 Speaker 1: go to two. You need to lose two games in 55 00:02:29,400 --> 00:02:32,600 Speaker 1: the NBA Finals. I feel pretty even though it's clok, 56 00:02:32,760 --> 00:02:35,240 Speaker 1: maybe they lose one. I feel pretty good about that 57 00:02:35,360 --> 00:02:37,919 Speaker 1: right now because again they have shown how much better 58 00:02:37,960 --> 00:02:42,000 Speaker 1: they are than everybody else. It's a perfectly constructed team. 59 00:02:42,000 --> 00:02:44,600 Speaker 1: You have the MVP, you have two up and coming 60 00:02:44,639 --> 00:02:48,440 Speaker 1: superstars on rookie deals. You have an All NBA defensive player. 61 00:02:48,680 --> 00:02:53,639 Speaker 1: You have three role players who bring incredibly important elements 62 00:02:53,639 --> 00:02:55,880 Speaker 1: to the team that they wouldn't win without, whether it's 63 00:02:55,880 --> 00:02:59,840 Speaker 1: Caruso and Hartenstein, this is a perfectly constructed team. Again, 64 00:03:00,040 --> 00:03:01,360 Speaker 1: when I said two and a half, I'm like, I'm 65 00:03:01,400 --> 00:03:03,760 Speaker 1: gonna I'm gonna skate to this. I didn't think Minnesota's 66 00:03:03,760 --> 00:03:05,560 Speaker 1: gonna get a game, but they got one because the 67 00:03:05,600 --> 00:03:07,800 Speaker 1: Thunder said, Okay, I gotta take our breath here. Okay, 68 00:03:07,800 --> 00:03:09,680 Speaker 1: so maybe that happens in the NBA Finals. Gonna take 69 00:03:09,720 --> 00:03:11,320 Speaker 1: our breath for one game, and we're gonna beat you 70 00:03:11,360 --> 00:03:13,800 Speaker 1: the other four. I still feel really good about the 71 00:03:13,880 --> 00:03:16,320 Speaker 1: under two and a half because that means the Pacers 72 00:03:16,360 --> 00:03:18,239 Speaker 1: most likely or the Knicks would have to beat. 73 00:03:18,000 --> 00:03:20,359 Speaker 3: Them twice in the NBA Finals. 74 00:03:20,680 --> 00:03:23,320 Speaker 4: Yeah, I'm actually kind of fired up for that series 75 00:03:23,720 --> 00:03:26,600 Speaker 4: because I think the depth matches the Knicks and the Thunder. Yeah, 76 00:03:26,800 --> 00:03:31,239 Speaker 4: fired up, dude. You had me choosing my own adventure, 77 00:03:31,320 --> 00:03:34,760 Speaker 4: not you. Sorry, sorry, not you that adventure on your 78 00:03:34,800 --> 00:03:38,880 Speaker 4: other Earth or your Mickey seventeen, you know, alternate, you know, 79 00:03:39,400 --> 00:03:41,720 Speaker 4: clone life, whatever it is. I keep showing up and 80 00:03:41,720 --> 00:03:43,760 Speaker 4: the Knicks keep losing. I keep dying and coming back 81 00:03:43,800 --> 00:03:46,760 Speaker 4: to the Knicks keep losing. I've died for generations and 82 00:03:46,800 --> 00:03:49,840 Speaker 4: I still got nothing. Shallow May is still the biggest 83 00:03:49,920 --> 00:03:51,520 Speaker 4: Nick fan. Yeah, I'm on the wrong Earth. Then I'd 84 00:03:51,560 --> 00:03:52,040 Speaker 4: give me another. 85 00:03:52,080 --> 00:03:52,600 Speaker 3: I love this. 86 00:03:52,680 --> 00:03:54,400 Speaker 4: So I go to Costco today, right, and I'm gonna 87 00:03:54,440 --> 00:03:56,640 Speaker 4: go fill up the cart and you know, fill up 88 00:03:56,680 --> 00:03:58,640 Speaker 4: the box freeze or whatever. And I walk in and 89 00:03:58,680 --> 00:04:01,440 Speaker 4: as guys are wont to do there, Hey you got 90 00:04:01,760 --> 00:04:03,040 Speaker 4: how's your mobile. 91 00:04:02,760 --> 00:04:03,640 Speaker 3: Plan work or whatever? 92 00:04:03,640 --> 00:04:06,160 Speaker 4: A couple of young guys and dude decides to start 93 00:04:06,160 --> 00:04:08,680 Speaker 4: trolling me because I'm wearing my bears pullover. 94 00:04:08,880 --> 00:04:10,080 Speaker 3: Okay, and he. 95 00:04:10,080 --> 00:04:14,760 Speaker 4: Starts going in and we start john you know, jocular, 96 00:04:15,080 --> 00:04:17,080 Speaker 4: you know, back and forth pocularity. 97 00:04:17,160 --> 00:04:18,359 Speaker 3: Sure, yeah, it's a fun. 98 00:04:18,560 --> 00:04:21,679 Speaker 4: And then I go your teams, he goes Raiders and Clippers. 99 00:04:21,720 --> 00:04:24,359 Speaker 4: I go, and you're trying to troll me. Ow dude, 100 00:04:24,360 --> 00:04:26,320 Speaker 4: that's that's a look in the mirror moment. If someone 101 00:04:26,320 --> 00:04:29,039 Speaker 4: who in the Raiders and the Clippers are trolling, you 102 00:04:29,040 --> 00:04:30,560 Speaker 4: got to look in the mirror and say, what are 103 00:04:30,560 --> 00:04:31,880 Speaker 4: some of the life choices I've made? 104 00:04:32,400 --> 00:04:33,960 Speaker 3: You gotta look at that. That's tough. 105 00:04:34,000 --> 00:04:36,760 Speaker 4: Basically, like you're young, at you had your choice, you 106 00:04:36,800 --> 00:04:42,360 Speaker 4: had multiple l A teams, Raiders aren't even here and 107 00:04:42,360 --> 00:04:45,400 Speaker 4: and that's your choice. Yeah, you're trolling me because of 108 00:04:45,760 --> 00:04:48,400 Speaker 4: my allegiance to my hometown. Yeah, sure, you get out 109 00:04:48,400 --> 00:04:51,720 Speaker 4: of here. And his partner's laughing at it goes. You're 110 00:04:51,760 --> 00:04:53,960 Speaker 4: not getting him to sign up, He's not. No, he's 111 00:04:53,960 --> 00:04:57,240 Speaker 4: gonna keep going. But in the choose your own adventure, 112 00:04:57,600 --> 00:05:01,279 Speaker 4: like I think the Pacers are any interesting matchup, particularly 113 00:05:01,320 --> 00:05:03,680 Speaker 4: if we're going to get the consistency out of Halliburton 114 00:05:04,240 --> 00:05:04,880 Speaker 4: and that effort. 115 00:05:04,880 --> 00:05:06,040 Speaker 3: Now the Dad's back too. 116 00:05:06,240 --> 00:05:10,520 Speaker 4: Daddy, all of that fun that we had with that yesterday. 117 00:05:10,560 --> 00:05:12,120 Speaker 4: You got to listen to the whole show. Go find 118 00:05:12,160 --> 00:05:15,000 Speaker 4: the podcast wherever you get your audio download and give 119 00:05:15,000 --> 00:05:17,680 Speaker 4: it five stars, send it to friends and family. Evangelized 120 00:05:17,680 --> 00:05:20,680 Speaker 4: because we are global and continuing to expand. But all 121 00:05:20,720 --> 00:05:24,360 Speaker 4: of that to say, I think you're right. I think 122 00:05:24,440 --> 00:05:27,680 Speaker 4: it does end with the under but we're not gonna 123 00:05:27,680 --> 00:05:30,200 Speaker 4: I don't think we're gonna see thirty point blots. I 124 00:05:30,200 --> 00:05:32,880 Speaker 4: think the Pacers don't give them a series. Knicks get there. 125 00:05:32,960 --> 00:05:37,320 Speaker 4: Your team can't defend. Oh, well, somehow they were able to. 126 00:05:39,640 --> 00:05:40,880 Speaker 3: They do this. I don't know the nick. 127 00:05:41,000 --> 00:05:43,080 Speaker 1: If the Knicks got one game against the Thunder, I 128 00:05:43,080 --> 00:05:45,159 Speaker 1: would be surprised they got one. 129 00:05:45,320 --> 00:05:46,200 Speaker 3: They have against. 130 00:05:46,040 --> 00:05:50,919 Speaker 4: If some album get by the Pacers, if somehow I 131 00:05:50,960 --> 00:05:52,839 Speaker 4: don't know that they would get one game, I would 132 00:05:52,920 --> 00:05:56,360 Speaker 4: feel I'd feel happy out we got one win. 133 00:05:56,440 --> 00:05:58,080 Speaker 3: We won a game in the NBA finals. 134 00:05:58,080 --> 00:06:00,520 Speaker 1: Okay, well, just getting back to the final, yeah, because 135 00:06:00,560 --> 00:06:02,240 Speaker 1: you well, at this point being down three to one. 136 00:06:02,320 --> 00:06:02,599 Speaker 5: Yeh. 137 00:06:03,080 --> 00:06:05,920 Speaker 4: But but even before the series, it was get back 138 00:06:05,960 --> 00:06:06,640 Speaker 4: to the finals. 139 00:06:06,760 --> 00:06:08,560 Speaker 3: Yeah, the first time in a quarter century. 140 00:06:09,200 --> 00:06:12,640 Speaker 4: Well, fALS, you had that and then before it was 141 00:06:13,400 --> 00:06:16,479 Speaker 4: the ewing Elijah w On battle. That was the OJ 142 00:06:16,720 --> 00:06:19,720 Speaker 4: chase more than anything else. Yeah, and the dancing ETOs. 143 00:06:20,200 --> 00:06:22,400 Speaker 4: It has a long time. It's a long time, einteen 144 00:06:22,440 --> 00:06:25,800 Speaker 4: ninety four. It's a long time, man, it's a long time. 145 00:06:26,760 --> 00:06:29,000 Speaker 4: So all right, so there's your going out, right, I 146 00:06:29,000 --> 00:06:32,000 Speaker 4: feel really great. I feel be over under with that. 147 00:06:32,160 --> 00:06:34,960 Speaker 4: Now I've said been pretty chesty, we've joked around to 148 00:06:35,200 --> 00:06:37,240 Speaker 4: but just think about this for a second. Right, the 149 00:06:37,279 --> 00:06:39,640 Speaker 4: Thunder are a great feel good story showing you that 150 00:06:39,839 --> 00:06:43,000 Speaker 4: in a not too long amount of time you can 151 00:06:43,040 --> 00:06:47,800 Speaker 4: build an NBA power in a smaller market, right with 152 00:06:48,000 --> 00:06:48,400 Speaker 4: s G. A. 153 00:06:49,120 --> 00:06:51,159 Speaker 1: Sein Hartenstein. Right, you get lucky in the lotter. You 154 00:06:51,160 --> 00:06:53,320 Speaker 1: got a lot of picks, right, you got chet. You 155 00:06:53,320 --> 00:06:55,320 Speaker 1: you need, you need, you need some luck to go 156 00:06:55,400 --> 00:06:57,400 Speaker 1: your way and pick the right players. But it shows 157 00:06:57,400 --> 00:07:01,560 Speaker 1: you that it's not impossible. Because well, absolutely nobody was looking. 158 00:07:01,839 --> 00:07:05,320 Speaker 1: The Thunder became this good very fast, the right signings 159 00:07:05,320 --> 00:07:07,880 Speaker 1: and Alex Caruso bringing him in, Right, they made the 160 00:07:07,960 --> 00:07:11,400 Speaker 1: right calls. This has been a phenomenal run by the 161 00:07:11,440 --> 00:07:14,000 Speaker 1: Thunder again in which nobody was looking. Does Paul George 162 00:07:14,000 --> 00:07:16,240 Speaker 1: get a ring for any of this though, because it's 163 00:07:16,240 --> 00:07:19,120 Speaker 1: going to be the Pacers and the Thunder and their 164 00:07:19,160 --> 00:07:20,679 Speaker 1: teams were built on his back. 165 00:07:20,840 --> 00:07:25,360 Speaker 4: Okay, yeah, well did they were? They built on his back? 166 00:07:26,440 --> 00:07:29,360 Speaker 4: Did they underachieve on his back? Well, they underachieved, but 167 00:07:29,840 --> 00:07:32,800 Speaker 4: then they got rid of him to get the parts 168 00:07:32,840 --> 00:07:34,760 Speaker 4: that they needed to ascend to greatness. 169 00:07:34,880 --> 00:07:37,120 Speaker 3: He gets a blue ring. Pot, he gets a ring, pop, 170 00:07:37,280 --> 00:07:39,240 Speaker 3: a blue ring. But here you go, right there? 171 00:07:40,040 --> 00:07:42,920 Speaker 1: So, but so they've done this and they've built themselves 172 00:07:42,960 --> 00:07:46,240 Speaker 1: into a power. But seriously, think about this, it's their 173 00:07:46,280 --> 00:07:50,680 Speaker 1: first NBA Finals since twenty twelve. Any other tap, Let's 174 00:07:50,800 --> 00:07:55,000 Speaker 1: let's replace the Thunder with the Lakers. 175 00:07:55,160 --> 00:07:56,440 Speaker 3: Right, Let's place Thunder with the Lakers. 176 00:07:58,240 --> 00:08:01,000 Speaker 1: Going back, Let's say the Bakers had a player in 177 00:08:01,040 --> 00:08:05,480 Speaker 1: twenty fourteen win NBA MVP, okay, and then three years 178 00:08:05,560 --> 00:08:10,880 Speaker 1: later had a different player win MVP, then seven years 179 00:08:10,920 --> 00:08:15,840 Speaker 1: later had another player win MVP, and in that run, 180 00:08:16,880 --> 00:08:19,960 Speaker 1: not once did they make the NBA finals. If this 181 00:08:20,240 --> 00:08:25,160 Speaker 1: was Kobe winning it in twenty twelve, and then Dwight 182 00:08:25,200 --> 00:08:28,800 Speaker 1: Howard winning it in twenty seventeen, and now Luca winning 183 00:08:28,880 --> 00:08:30,680 Speaker 1: it this year, or whatever however you wanted to break 184 00:08:30,680 --> 00:08:33,520 Speaker 1: it down we would say the Lakers are the biggest 185 00:08:33,640 --> 00:08:36,360 Speaker 1: underachievers in the world. How do you've had three different 186 00:08:36,360 --> 00:08:38,240 Speaker 1: guys win MVP in the last ten years? And I 187 00:08:38,240 --> 00:08:39,800 Speaker 1: don't know why, but in my head, I'm hearing Rob 188 00:08:39,840 --> 00:08:41,680 Speaker 1: Parker go, you want three guys. 189 00:08:42,000 --> 00:08:43,959 Speaker 3: You couldn't make it to the finals once. I don't 190 00:08:43,960 --> 00:08:45,760 Speaker 3: know why. He's in my Headsia, So that's what I hear. 191 00:08:46,120 --> 00:08:49,000 Speaker 3: You had three guys, three different players. You couldn't do it. 192 00:08:49,080 --> 00:08:51,720 Speaker 1: You couldn't figure anything else out. It would That's what 193 00:08:51,840 --> 00:08:54,840 Speaker 1: everybody would say. That's if the Knicks happened. They would 194 00:08:54,840 --> 00:08:55,640 Speaker 1: say the same thing. 195 00:08:55,920 --> 00:08:58,120 Speaker 4: If it was a Doc Rivers coach team and anybody, 196 00:08:58,160 --> 00:08:59,040 Speaker 4: people would say that. 197 00:08:59,360 --> 00:09:01,679 Speaker 1: But this is what happened with the Thunder. You had 198 00:09:01,679 --> 00:09:04,679 Speaker 1: an MVP and KD in twenty fourteen to MVP three 199 00:09:04,760 --> 00:09:07,280 Speaker 1: years later, Russell Westbrook, we're having triple double. Now get 200 00:09:07,360 --> 00:09:10,000 Speaker 1: MP this year and Shay Gildes Alexander, that's the first 201 00:09:10,040 --> 00:09:11,719 Speaker 1: time you have made it to the finals in that run. 202 00:09:11,760 --> 00:09:13,800 Speaker 1: And oh, by the way, don't forget you had James 203 00:09:13,800 --> 00:09:16,079 Speaker 1: Harden before. You said, I don't know if we can 204 00:09:16,120 --> 00:09:17,280 Speaker 1: hold on to him. We got to trade away. We 205 00:09:17,320 --> 00:09:20,080 Speaker 1: can't afford him. Oh, you traded away another first ballot 206 00:09:20,080 --> 00:09:22,000 Speaker 1: Hall of Famer who actually left your team and got 207 00:09:22,000 --> 00:09:24,839 Speaker 1: even better and became a more well rounded player and 208 00:09:24,880 --> 00:09:27,320 Speaker 1: became a better point guard, better passer when he went 209 00:09:27,360 --> 00:09:28,040 Speaker 1: to the Rockets. 210 00:09:28,240 --> 00:09:31,640 Speaker 3: You had all of this and you hadn't made the finals. 211 00:09:32,320 --> 00:09:35,560 Speaker 1: I think it's I know it's a hot take, but 212 00:09:35,960 --> 00:09:39,840 Speaker 1: it's legitimate to say, have you been underachieving for the 213 00:09:39,880 --> 00:09:43,720 Speaker 1: past decade, considering you've had three different players win MVP 214 00:09:44,160 --> 00:09:45,360 Speaker 1: and not go to the finals. 215 00:09:45,400 --> 00:09:46,600 Speaker 3: I kind of dig that, right. 216 00:09:46,640 --> 00:09:50,440 Speaker 4: You go through their history from Brooks to Donovan and 217 00:09:50,520 --> 00:09:54,000 Speaker 4: the current regime, and you look at all the playoff appearances. 218 00:09:54,600 --> 00:09:58,920 Speaker 4: You had that finals run in eleven twelve, Right, So 219 00:09:58,960 --> 00:10:02,120 Speaker 4: we go all the way back to there Western Conference finals, 220 00:10:02,160 --> 00:10:05,240 Speaker 4: a couple of times one, two, three, three times there 221 00:10:06,800 --> 00:10:08,920 Speaker 4: one wins and lost in the semies, a bunch of 222 00:10:08,920 --> 00:10:12,120 Speaker 4: first round exits. So that didn't end well the Billy 223 00:10:12,160 --> 00:10:19,600 Speaker 4: Donovan era. Yeah, I think it's brand Like with the Lakers, 224 00:10:19,640 --> 00:10:22,360 Speaker 4: you say you underachieved with here, it's like, oh, you 225 00:10:22,400 --> 00:10:25,240 Speaker 4: had those bright stars, but you didn't have everything put 226 00:10:25,280 --> 00:10:26,200 Speaker 4: together just yet. 227 00:10:26,280 --> 00:10:29,000 Speaker 1: Well it had because the general consensus is going to 228 00:10:29,040 --> 00:10:31,439 Speaker 1: be oh you couldn't put you still put an MVP 229 00:10:31,559 --> 00:10:33,320 Speaker 1: on the floor. You put an m v A on 230 00:10:33,360 --> 00:10:35,080 Speaker 1: the floor, and you couldn't and you didn't make the final. 231 00:10:35,280 --> 00:10:37,280 Speaker 1: No man is an island, you know, but you didn't 232 00:10:37,320 --> 00:10:39,599 Speaker 1: make the finals once that I mean that that's a 233 00:10:39,720 --> 00:10:43,160 Speaker 1: legitimate thing to say. I mean because you want to say, oh, 234 00:10:43,400 --> 00:10:46,840 Speaker 1: little engine that could and all right, I get that 235 00:10:46,880 --> 00:10:47,439 Speaker 1: because it's a. 236 00:10:47,360 --> 00:10:49,839 Speaker 3: Smaller market, so sure, all right, I understand that. 237 00:10:49,920 --> 00:10:53,040 Speaker 1: But the thing is, you weren't three different guys, right 238 00:10:53,320 --> 00:10:56,760 Speaker 1: kd Russell Westbrook Now shake Gildas Alexander, who's been really 239 00:10:56,760 --> 00:10:57,840 Speaker 1: good in the last couple of years. 240 00:10:57,880 --> 00:10:59,560 Speaker 3: This is your first finals with the guys. 241 00:10:59,559 --> 00:11:02,840 Speaker 4: It's funny all those years, you know, they only hit 242 00:11:02,920 --> 00:11:05,679 Speaker 4: sixty wins once, right at sixty. 243 00:11:06,920 --> 00:11:07,719 Speaker 3: How crazy is that? 244 00:11:07,800 --> 00:11:09,559 Speaker 4: And then came back to next year with fifty nine. 245 00:11:09,600 --> 00:11:13,640 Speaker 4: That was twenty twelve, thirteen, twenty thirteen, fourteen. But until 246 00:11:13,840 --> 00:11:18,120 Speaker 4: this blowout effort of sixty eight and fourteen and again 247 00:11:18,640 --> 00:11:21,719 Speaker 4: when the final vote was announced seventy one twenty nine, 248 00:11:21,800 --> 00:11:23,160 Speaker 4: I was still a little surprised at that. 249 00:11:24,440 --> 00:11:26,720 Speaker 1: Well, I mean, look, I'm glad, I'm glad people did 250 00:11:26,760 --> 00:11:29,280 Speaker 1: that because this shows Hey, we cared about what he did. 251 00:11:29,440 --> 00:11:32,000 Speaker 1: They won, you know, seventy eight games. They were seventy 252 00:11:32,040 --> 00:11:34,719 Speaker 1: eight and four this year. They clearly all right, we've 253 00:11:34,760 --> 00:11:38,200 Speaker 1: had three years of Nikola Jokic and his excellence, right, 254 00:11:38,240 --> 00:11:40,320 Speaker 1: and he had maybe his best year this year. But 255 00:11:40,800 --> 00:11:43,400 Speaker 1: can you really say he's the MVP again when they're 256 00:11:43,440 --> 00:11:45,120 Speaker 1: a nice fifty to fifty five win team. 257 00:11:45,240 --> 00:11:47,160 Speaker 3: You can't and give it to Shock every year when 258 00:11:47,200 --> 00:11:49,560 Speaker 3: he clearly was the MVP. Look what they Look what 259 00:11:49,640 --> 00:11:50,040 Speaker 3: they did. 260 00:11:50,160 --> 00:11:53,160 Speaker 4: He held that thing together because they fired Malone and 261 00:11:53,240 --> 00:11:56,560 Speaker 4: sent him to ESPN. They took Calvin Booth and said 262 00:11:56,600 --> 00:12:00,320 Speaker 4: you can't stay either. They called the Yogi and his 263 00:12:00,360 --> 00:12:01,559 Speaker 4: horses are in charge now. 264 00:12:01,720 --> 00:12:05,920 Speaker 1: But I finally looked up and said, oh well, all right, 265 00:12:05,960 --> 00:12:08,360 Speaker 1: we can't really reward him with the MVP went when 266 00:12:08,640 --> 00:12:10,600 Speaker 1: the Thunder had was this good this year. 267 00:12:10,800 --> 00:12:12,000 Speaker 3: It's also absolutely. 268 00:12:11,600 --> 00:12:13,360 Speaker 1: Because that's what the MV is not the best, it's 269 00:12:13,400 --> 00:12:15,240 Speaker 1: not the player of the year, it's not the guy 270 00:12:15,280 --> 00:12:17,920 Speaker 1: with the grand It's who's the MVP who raised his 271 00:12:18,040 --> 00:12:20,720 Speaker 1: team and brought them to a higher level. And there's 272 00:12:20,800 --> 00:12:23,720 Speaker 1: no discussion that what SGA was able to do with 273 00:12:23,760 --> 00:12:24,280 Speaker 1: the Thunder. 274 00:12:24,559 --> 00:12:26,679 Speaker 3: You you can't they nugget. You can't compare the Nuggets 275 00:12:26,679 --> 00:12:29,240 Speaker 3: to that case. You can't. They're a twenty win team. 276 00:12:29,280 --> 00:12:31,319 Speaker 4: If K isn't doing what he's get out with the 277 00:12:31,559 --> 00:12:33,160 Speaker 4: awful with SGA, the same thing. 278 00:12:33,200 --> 00:12:34,719 Speaker 3: But but SGA, that. 279 00:12:34,679 --> 00:12:37,200 Speaker 4: Team would at least still be relevant. They were deep 280 00:12:37,320 --> 00:12:39,640 Speaker 4: enough to where they would have still you still have 281 00:12:39,679 --> 00:12:41,600 Speaker 4: some really good players on that But he was ready 282 00:12:41,600 --> 00:12:45,280 Speaker 4: to play. Yeah, he's more ready in the playoffs and season. 283 00:12:45,320 --> 00:12:47,120 Speaker 4: Porter was heart But I can't. 284 00:12:47,160 --> 00:12:48,000 Speaker 3: But I can't. I can't. 285 00:12:48,040 --> 00:12:51,360 Speaker 1: I can't minimize or say what could have happened? I 286 00:12:51,400 --> 00:12:53,000 Speaker 1: got to go on on what did happen. 287 00:12:53,080 --> 00:12:56,520 Speaker 4: What I do enjoy, though, is with the these MVP Awards, 288 00:12:56,640 --> 00:13:01,040 Speaker 4: regardless of sport, it's got of whatever float your vote 289 00:13:01,080 --> 00:13:03,960 Speaker 4: in terms of how you vote right, there's no directive 290 00:13:04,000 --> 00:13:06,280 Speaker 4: of hey, you need to be they need to lead 291 00:13:06,440 --> 00:13:09,680 Speaker 4: this many categories, they need to have this many wins, 292 00:13:09,760 --> 00:13:12,439 Speaker 4: any any of that stuff. It's all just a how 293 00:13:12,480 --> 00:13:15,240 Speaker 4: do you feel? You know, what's the narrative? What's the 294 00:13:15,280 --> 00:13:18,160 Speaker 4: story that you want to write or tell on your 295 00:13:18,320 --> 00:13:23,600 Speaker 4: television show, podcast or in newsprint. So that that, I 296 00:13:23,640 --> 00:13:26,079 Speaker 4: think is one of the interesting and fascinating parts and 297 00:13:26,120 --> 00:13:28,560 Speaker 4: obviously we're talking about Gildess. 298 00:13:28,559 --> 00:13:30,600 Speaker 3: Alexander is one of those guys because we. 299 00:13:30,640 --> 00:13:35,000 Speaker 4: Have the chatter that is always there and omni president 300 00:13:35,040 --> 00:13:37,480 Speaker 4: of the face of the league stuff to where it's like, 301 00:13:37,480 --> 00:13:40,760 Speaker 4: all right, throw his hat, his headband into the ring 302 00:13:40,880 --> 00:13:43,240 Speaker 4: for it. And in doing so, what do you do 303 00:13:43,400 --> 00:13:46,800 Speaker 4: you need? You need some accolades. Well, first step done, 304 00:13:47,120 --> 00:13:50,280 Speaker 4: m v P. Now you got four more wins to go, 305 00:13:50,760 --> 00:13:53,680 Speaker 4: you know, get plant your your flag on this job. 306 00:13:53,559 --> 00:13:57,400 Speaker 1: That underachieving thunder franchise, you know, the title that they 307 00:13:57,440 --> 00:13:59,280 Speaker 1: need like they're the braves of the nineties. 308 00:13:59,320 --> 00:14:02,080 Speaker 4: Well win in one time, man, because if it fails, 309 00:14:02,120 --> 00:14:05,600 Speaker 4: what happens is a mister unreliable headline waiting to happen 310 00:14:05,679 --> 00:14:06,920 Speaker 4: there at OKC. 311 00:14:07,480 --> 00:14:10,439 Speaker 1: Exit out about a Fresca exit swalling Dome. Jason Smith 312 00:14:10,480 --> 00:14:13,400 Speaker 1: Mike Harmon live from the Fox Sports Radio studios, got 313 00:14:13,440 --> 00:14:15,559 Speaker 1: more NBA on the way, but straight ahead got a 314 00:14:15,600 --> 00:14:18,720 Speaker 1: big story out of the NFL. How bad does one 315 00:14:18,840 --> 00:14:20,960 Speaker 1: quarterback wish he was back in college right now? 316 00:14:22,240 --> 00:14:23,560 Speaker 3: I wish I could do it all over. 317 00:14:23,720 --> 00:14:27,120 Speaker 4: You wat Sedor Sanders alone, And the answer it's not 318 00:14:27,240 --> 00:14:30,640 Speaker 4: Shador Sanders and it's not Aaron Rodgers, Ben Roethlisberger. 319 00:14:30,680 --> 00:14:32,320 Speaker 3: It's not Ben Roethlisberger. 320 00:14:33,880 --> 00:14:35,720 Speaker 1: Wow, I won't sell you it is, but he played 321 00:14:35,720 --> 00:14:38,640 Speaker 1: at USC That's next, Jason and Mike Fox. 322 00:14:39,600 --> 00:14:42,240 Speaker 2: Be sure to catch live editions of The Jason Smith 323 00:14:42,280 --> 00:14:45,360 Speaker 2: Show with Mike Harmon weekdays at ten pm Eastern, seven 324 00:14:45,400 --> 00:14:49,600 Speaker 2: pm Pacific on Fox Sports Radio and the iHeartRadio app. 325 00:14:51,560 --> 00:14:52,640 Speaker 3: Didn't want to shoot. 326 00:14:53,000 --> 00:14:58,280 Speaker 4: I was passive, didn't take any responsibility. I'm Anthony Edwards. 327 00:14:58,480 --> 00:15:01,600 Speaker 4: I'm gonna tell you it's not my fault and it's 328 00:15:01,600 --> 00:15:02,960 Speaker 4: not Julius is either. 329 00:15:04,600 --> 00:15:06,760 Speaker 3: Alex. You want to tell him we got killed by 330 00:15:06,760 --> 00:15:09,240 Speaker 3: the thunder? Your Mike wasn't on. 331 00:15:11,040 --> 00:15:14,200 Speaker 1: Fox Sports Radio The Jason Smith Show with Mike Harmon. 332 00:15:14,320 --> 00:15:16,200 Speaker 3: Yeah, we're gonna. 333 00:15:15,960 --> 00:15:18,400 Speaker 1: Have to play this song a lot during the NBA Finals. No, 334 00:15:19,000 --> 00:15:21,160 Speaker 1: the NBA Finals doesn't start for other three months, so 335 00:15:21,160 --> 00:15:21,680 Speaker 1: we're okay. 336 00:15:22,840 --> 00:15:24,440 Speaker 3: What's your beef with the Dragons, Mike? 337 00:15:24,640 --> 00:15:24,880 Speaker 6: Hmm? 338 00:15:26,640 --> 00:15:27,800 Speaker 3: I like good stuff. 339 00:15:28,040 --> 00:15:30,360 Speaker 4: Yeah, So just really you want to hear a real, 340 00:15:30,360 --> 00:15:31,560 Speaker 4: a funny story from this weekend. 341 00:15:31,800 --> 00:15:33,520 Speaker 3: So I told you went to the Angels in the 342 00:15:33,520 --> 00:15:34,960 Speaker 3: Marlins game, right, Yeah? 343 00:15:35,000 --> 00:15:37,800 Speaker 4: And both you and I now share that we've seen 344 00:15:37,840 --> 00:15:40,520 Speaker 4: the twenty twenty five Marlins. 345 00:15:40,080 --> 00:15:42,040 Speaker 1: And you know, look, dozens of people were there, so 346 00:15:42,080 --> 00:15:43,240 Speaker 1: it was a pretty well attended game. 347 00:15:43,240 --> 00:15:43,640 Speaker 3: That's good. 348 00:15:43,760 --> 00:15:46,120 Speaker 4: And so you know the song that and and my 349 00:15:46,200 --> 00:15:48,560 Speaker 4: friend who came with us had he's I haven't been 350 00:15:48,560 --> 00:15:50,520 Speaker 4: to an Angel game in probably like ten twelve years, 351 00:15:50,520 --> 00:15:52,600 Speaker 4: a big Dodger fan whatever, Like yeah, but I mean 352 00:15:52,840 --> 00:15:54,600 Speaker 4: we got great seats and they bring you food at 353 00:15:54,640 --> 00:15:55,040 Speaker 4: your seat. 354 00:15:55,360 --> 00:15:56,400 Speaker 3: So he went to the Angels. 355 00:15:56,680 --> 00:15:58,960 Speaker 1: And so at the end of the game, they always 356 00:15:58,960 --> 00:16:01,160 Speaker 1: play calling all You Ain't Angels, right with the big 357 00:16:01,160 --> 00:16:03,200 Speaker 1: song from the nineties, right, they play that, So they 358 00:16:03,200 --> 00:16:04,360 Speaker 1: play So the Angels lose. 359 00:16:04,240 --> 00:16:08,680 Speaker 3: And they play that collin all You Angel. And so 360 00:16:09,320 --> 00:16:12,120 Speaker 3: we're walking out, my friend turned and say this is 361 00:16:12,120 --> 00:16:13,520 Speaker 3: their song? Did they play? 362 00:16:13,640 --> 00:16:19,160 Speaker 4: I go, well, yeah, I don't know what else to say. 363 00:16:19,320 --> 00:16:19,760 Speaker 3: You got it. 364 00:16:19,840 --> 00:16:22,080 Speaker 1: I know there's a lot of great songs you can say, Yeah, 365 00:16:22,200 --> 00:16:25,000 Speaker 1: give me that Angel's song, Like, I like, what do 366 00:16:25,000 --> 00:16:27,040 Speaker 1: you want to hear Harrowsmith Angel? I mean that'd be 367 00:16:27,040 --> 00:16:30,840 Speaker 1: pretty good. It's a ballad. I'm a no, I mean, 368 00:16:30,960 --> 00:16:31,720 Speaker 1: I don't know, there's. 369 00:16:31,520 --> 00:16:35,480 Speaker 4: Not I mean, this gets trained some extra run. Super 370 00:16:35,520 --> 00:16:40,640 Speaker 4: Bowl Train's very underrated. They were so generically popular, like 371 00:16:40,680 --> 00:16:42,240 Speaker 4: they were. They were like Nickelback. 372 00:16:42,320 --> 00:16:45,200 Speaker 1: They were really generic, but their songs were just hooky 373 00:16:45,320 --> 00:16:47,600 Speaker 1: enough to like wow that. I think they were like 374 00:16:47,640 --> 00:16:50,680 Speaker 1: the first group I ever remember putting out a CD 375 00:16:50,800 --> 00:16:53,120 Speaker 1: with a money back guarantee that said, if you don't 376 00:16:53,240 --> 00:16:55,760 Speaker 1: like it, you can return this for your money back. 377 00:16:55,800 --> 00:16:57,480 Speaker 1: I remember something like, it's one of those money back 378 00:16:57,520 --> 00:16:59,880 Speaker 1: guarantees that you're gonna like the song. It's like, okay, 379 00:17:00,120 --> 00:17:02,200 Speaker 1: I'll buy the album. I'll buy the CD is back 380 00:17:02,240 --> 00:17:03,880 Speaker 1: what I used to buy. I'll go buy a CD 381 00:17:03,920 --> 00:17:06,119 Speaker 1: because I got money buy. I heard one song, I like, 382 00:17:06,160 --> 00:17:08,240 Speaker 1: I'll buy the whole CD. Right, that's the money I 383 00:17:08,280 --> 00:17:09,680 Speaker 1: wish I had back in my life. Oh, I like 384 00:17:09,760 --> 00:17:11,480 Speaker 1: this one song. I'm gonna buy the album. 385 00:17:11,760 --> 00:17:13,720 Speaker 3: Uh, and I bought. I'm like, okay, I'll can just 386 00:17:13,760 --> 00:17:15,040 Speaker 3: take it back if I don't like it. I'm like, 387 00:17:15,840 --> 00:17:17,280 Speaker 3: I kind of like it. I listened to It's okay, 388 00:17:17,359 --> 00:17:17,680 Speaker 3: all right. 389 00:17:17,720 --> 00:17:19,560 Speaker 1: Then we got I think it was it drops a 390 00:17:19,600 --> 00:17:21,920 Speaker 1: ju It might have been drops a Jupiter drops super 391 00:17:21,960 --> 00:17:23,360 Speaker 1: over there. Next I forget, but I'm like, oh, that's 392 00:17:23,359 --> 00:17:26,720 Speaker 1: pretty good. Now I'm not doing that with Imagic Dragons, 393 00:17:26,720 --> 00:17:33,520 Speaker 1: but still it tell me. But let's talk about the 394 00:17:33,600 --> 00:17:36,480 Speaker 1: NFL team that's got a lot of problems. We told 395 00:17:36,480 --> 00:17:39,080 Speaker 1: you these problems were gonna go on throughout the entire 396 00:17:39,520 --> 00:17:42,879 Speaker 1: off season and summer, and yes, it's going to happen. 397 00:17:43,400 --> 00:17:46,479 Speaker 1: It was about two weeks ago we got the story 398 00:17:46,480 --> 00:17:50,520 Speaker 1: from ESPN Seth Wickersham, who was writing a book about quarterbacks, 399 00:17:51,000 --> 00:17:54,520 Speaker 1: and uh, it sounds incredibly interesting. He's talking to and 400 00:17:54,560 --> 00:17:57,480 Speaker 1: following quarterbacks at every level, from high school all the 401 00:17:57,480 --> 00:18:01,240 Speaker 1: way until he talks to quarterbacks who no longer play. Right, So, 402 00:18:01,359 --> 00:18:06,040 Speaker 1: high school stars, college stars, current NFL quarterbacks, and legends 403 00:18:06,040 --> 00:18:07,800 Speaker 1: who have not played in a long time talk about 404 00:18:07,840 --> 00:18:10,399 Speaker 1: their lives and everything sounds really really interesting. But the 405 00:18:10,480 --> 00:18:15,040 Speaker 1: juiciest stuff comes out about Caleb Williams, who, according to 406 00:18:15,080 --> 00:18:18,760 Speaker 1: Seth Wickersham's book, with conversations with both Caleb Williams and 407 00:18:18,800 --> 00:18:22,080 Speaker 1: his dad, and again, the next time there's a conversation 408 00:18:22,119 --> 00:18:24,639 Speaker 1: about an athlete in which their significant other or family 409 00:18:24,640 --> 00:18:27,040 Speaker 1: member is mentioned, that's a good one. It will be 410 00:18:27,080 --> 00:18:30,600 Speaker 1: the first one where Caleb Williams and his dad really 411 00:18:30,640 --> 00:18:32,320 Speaker 1: didn't want to go to the Bears. They said that's 412 00:18:32,359 --> 00:18:35,120 Speaker 1: where quarterbacks go to die. They looked try to find 413 00:18:35,119 --> 00:18:40,560 Speaker 1: a way to manipulate the draft, or maybe go play 414 00:18:40,560 --> 00:18:42,480 Speaker 1: in a different league for a year and become a 415 00:18:42,480 --> 00:18:44,239 Speaker 1: free agent next year so they can sign where they 416 00:18:44,240 --> 00:18:47,000 Speaker 1: wanted to. They did not want to go to Chicago. 417 00:18:47,480 --> 00:18:49,879 Speaker 1: And these were quotes that were directly attributed to Caleb 418 00:18:49,880 --> 00:18:52,600 Speaker 1: Williams and his dad, not Seth Wickersham talked to a 419 00:18:52,640 --> 00:18:54,800 Speaker 1: guy who was a source who was familiar with the 420 00:18:54,840 --> 00:18:57,560 Speaker 1: thinking of someone who says they overheard this when Ferris 421 00:18:57,560 --> 00:18:59,679 Speaker 1: Bueller passed out of thirty one flavors. No, this is 422 00:19:00,400 --> 00:19:02,200 Speaker 1: Caleb Williams and his dad in Seth Wickersham. 423 00:19:02,280 --> 00:19:06,680 Speaker 4: But it doubled down and gave more application to stuff 424 00:19:06,720 --> 00:19:09,119 Speaker 4: we'd heard before the draft a year ago. Right like that, 425 00:19:09,280 --> 00:19:12,800 Speaker 4: it'd been percolating going back to Super Bowl Week in 426 00:19:12,880 --> 00:19:16,439 Speaker 4: twenty twenty four. It's like, okay, this is but like 427 00:19:16,440 --> 00:19:20,679 Speaker 4: I've always just been one of like waiting for families 428 00:19:20,720 --> 00:19:23,680 Speaker 4: and for players to challenge Yeah, the draft, like because 429 00:19:23,680 --> 00:19:26,840 Speaker 4: we've had it multiple times, right talking about Eli Manning, 430 00:19:26,840 --> 00:19:30,600 Speaker 4: we talk about John Elway, and for many folks those 431 00:19:30,640 --> 00:19:34,000 Speaker 4: stories don't exist. It's like, hey, that guy was with 432 00:19:34,040 --> 00:19:37,480 Speaker 4: the Broncos, that that guy was with the Giants. No, 433 00:19:38,000 --> 00:19:41,240 Speaker 4: how they came in the league were really controversial things. 434 00:19:41,240 --> 00:19:43,399 Speaker 4: And then you had the Clarette and Mike Williams and 435 00:19:43,400 --> 00:19:46,280 Speaker 4: all that where they got squashed and bad advice and 436 00:19:46,320 --> 00:19:49,080 Speaker 4: bad rulings to where it really sent everything back because 437 00:19:49,160 --> 00:19:51,440 Speaker 4: guys are like, I don't want to lose my eligibility 438 00:19:51,760 --> 00:19:55,119 Speaker 4: if the upper courts disagree. But yeah, so here we 439 00:19:55,160 --> 00:19:58,040 Speaker 4: are all these months later, and now it's that much louder. 440 00:19:58,160 --> 00:20:00,320 Speaker 4: It would be like if Chris Farley had John Way 441 00:20:00,359 --> 00:20:01,159 Speaker 4: And that's an old sent. 442 00:20:01,080 --> 00:20:04,520 Speaker 3: You remember when he got drafted by the Colts. That 443 00:20:04,640 --> 00:20:07,040 Speaker 3: was cool and you threatened to go be a Yankee. 444 00:20:07,920 --> 00:20:13,560 Speaker 1: So with all of this going on, we told you 445 00:20:13,640 --> 00:20:15,520 Speaker 1: last week this is now going to be a thing. 446 00:20:15,520 --> 00:20:18,040 Speaker 1: And Caleb Williams has put a ticking clock on the 447 00:20:18,080 --> 00:20:20,200 Speaker 1: amount of time he has left to succeed or he's 448 00:20:20,240 --> 00:20:23,040 Speaker 1: going to get run out of town. Today, at a 449 00:20:23,080 --> 00:20:26,680 Speaker 1: press conference he addressed that story for the first time 450 00:20:26,680 --> 00:20:29,200 Speaker 1: in which he talked about what was attributed to him 451 00:20:29,240 --> 00:20:31,800 Speaker 1: and his dad in Seth Wickersham's book. And here's what 452 00:20:31,880 --> 00:20:33,359 Speaker 1: Caleb Williams had to say today. 453 00:20:33,480 --> 00:20:35,240 Speaker 3: Does your dad speak for you? 454 00:20:35,240 --> 00:20:35,320 Speaker 2: No? 455 00:20:36,920 --> 00:20:41,040 Speaker 6: No, I actually shut my dad down quite a bit 456 00:20:41,320 --> 00:20:44,160 Speaker 6: he has ideas. He's smart man, and so I listen 457 00:20:44,480 --> 00:20:46,720 Speaker 6: and I always listen. And I'm very fortunate to be 458 00:20:46,760 --> 00:20:48,920 Speaker 6: in this position in the sense of you know, playing QB, 459 00:20:49,040 --> 00:20:52,840 Speaker 6: but also very fortunate to have a very strong minded father. 460 00:20:53,200 --> 00:20:56,240 Speaker 6: But no, no, no, definitely a girl man. And you 461 00:20:56,280 --> 00:20:58,920 Speaker 6: know I shut him down quite a lot, just because 462 00:20:59,000 --> 00:21:01,280 Speaker 6: you know, in season, out of season something that you 463 00:21:01,320 --> 00:21:03,440 Speaker 6: have to do. You know, he cares so much about 464 00:21:03,520 --> 00:21:05,840 Speaker 6: about me and you know my future and we've been 465 00:21:05,880 --> 00:21:08,199 Speaker 6: along this this journey so long together that you know 466 00:21:08,240 --> 00:21:09,520 Speaker 6: all he wants is the best for me. 467 00:21:09,760 --> 00:21:10,720 Speaker 3: You want to put in me one on. 468 00:21:10,800 --> 00:21:13,159 Speaker 1: One, Yeah, Can I just say one thing, okay to 469 00:21:13,280 --> 00:21:18,320 Speaker 1: all athletes, shut down your significant other or family member 470 00:21:18,359 --> 00:21:21,120 Speaker 1: that wants to get involved and piggyback off your fame. 471 00:21:21,400 --> 00:21:22,400 Speaker 3: Shut them all down. 472 00:21:23,160 --> 00:21:26,480 Speaker 1: There is not one time where that headline has worked 473 00:21:26,480 --> 00:21:30,720 Speaker 1: out well for said athlete. Doesn't matter significant other, family member. 474 00:21:30,840 --> 00:21:33,439 Speaker 1: It does not look there is not a good optic. 475 00:21:33,720 --> 00:21:37,359 Speaker 1: It doesn't look good, it doesn't play good. It's not good. 476 00:21:37,400 --> 00:21:39,600 Speaker 1: So just please don't do it. I realize no one's 477 00:21:39,600 --> 00:21:41,160 Speaker 1: gonna listen, but I feel like I need to say 478 00:21:41,160 --> 00:21:42,879 Speaker 1: it because if I get help one if I get up, 479 00:21:42,880 --> 00:21:45,520 Speaker 1: one athlete tell their dad or their mom or whoever 480 00:21:45,520 --> 00:21:45,920 Speaker 1: it is, to. 481 00:21:45,840 --> 00:21:48,080 Speaker 4: Say, hey, let me handle it. Okay, I got it. 482 00:21:48,080 --> 00:21:50,080 Speaker 4: It's all good. Okay, then maybe I've done my life. 483 00:21:50,119 --> 00:21:52,520 Speaker 3: I've got one family that would like a word. Okay, 484 00:21:52,560 --> 00:21:57,679 Speaker 3: who's that The surname is Kelsey. 485 00:21:58,400 --> 00:22:01,080 Speaker 1: Uh, significant other affair. 486 00:22:01,200 --> 00:22:04,000 Speaker 3: But they're both athletes. Both Kelsey's are athlete. 487 00:22:04,040 --> 00:22:06,760 Speaker 4: Yeah, but how did they get and get really put over? 488 00:22:07,040 --> 00:22:10,000 Speaker 4: They're both that pop star came into their life. They 489 00:22:10,000 --> 00:22:13,160 Speaker 4: were great players. Yeah, yeah, probably both Hall of. 490 00:22:13,119 --> 00:22:14,560 Speaker 3: Famers, right, we could say that. 491 00:22:14,640 --> 00:22:17,760 Speaker 1: But you know, but but Taylor Swift never talks about 492 00:22:17,760 --> 00:22:19,680 Speaker 1: Travis Kelcey in his football career. 493 00:22:19,520 --> 00:22:23,080 Speaker 3: And Travis Taylor Smith. What are they doing. They're showing up, 494 00:22:23,080 --> 00:22:24,040 Speaker 3: but they're not saying anything. 495 00:22:24,400 --> 00:22:26,920 Speaker 1: We see Patrick, we see you know, Patrick Mahomes's family, 496 00:22:26,920 --> 00:22:28,520 Speaker 1: We see everybody else's family's at the. 497 00:22:28,480 --> 00:22:32,520 Speaker 4: Game inside a undred million dollars podcast because of her presence. 498 00:22:32,760 --> 00:22:35,280 Speaker 1: But but there's way tell me outside of just them 499 00:22:35,400 --> 00:22:38,960 Speaker 1: dating that something had happened or been said where it 500 00:22:39,080 --> 00:22:41,919 Speaker 1: was oh you just completed. No, none of them have 501 00:22:41,920 --> 00:22:44,960 Speaker 1: ever said or done anything other than I just don't 502 00:22:45,000 --> 00:22:47,160 Speaker 1: like the fact that Taylor Smith's I might television. 503 00:22:47,240 --> 00:22:50,880 Speaker 4: What they're saying that Taylor Swift and Patrick Mahomes's wife 504 00:22:50,920 --> 00:22:52,480 Speaker 4: weren't getting along and it was problems. 505 00:22:52,560 --> 00:22:55,040 Speaker 1: Okay, this is all stuff that's pot that's going on 506 00:22:55,880 --> 00:22:58,200 Speaker 1: outside of the cameras. This is when you want to 507 00:22:58,240 --> 00:23:00,239 Speaker 1: stand up and I want to be a part of this. 508 00:23:00,680 --> 00:23:03,560 Speaker 1: That's what hurts, right, that's what hurts. And I'll tell 509 00:23:03,600 --> 00:23:05,200 Speaker 1: you this, right, I just wanted you to have to 510 00:23:05,240 --> 00:23:09,560 Speaker 1: think about key and I'll tell you that this is 511 00:23:09,640 --> 00:23:12,200 Speaker 1: It's nice that Caleb Williams said this right, shutting my 512 00:23:12,280 --> 00:23:14,679 Speaker 1: dad down. Now, clearly it's dad. I wonder if that 513 00:23:14,720 --> 00:23:17,120 Speaker 1: was a conversation. Dad, I gotta throw you under the bus, right, 514 00:23:17,320 --> 00:23:21,240 Speaker 1: this is this is Paully and Goodfellows saying here's the money, Henry. Now, 515 00:23:21,280 --> 00:23:23,879 Speaker 1: I gotta walk away from you, thirty five hundred dollars 516 00:23:23,880 --> 00:23:25,880 Speaker 1: for a lifetime. I gotta walk away, I will say, Dad, 517 00:23:25,920 --> 00:23:26,520 Speaker 1: I gotta do this. 518 00:23:26,640 --> 00:23:28,760 Speaker 4: I like the statement, and I get that they're just 519 00:23:28,840 --> 00:23:31,840 Speaker 4: showing up for OTAs and whatever else. Ye had two 520 00:23:31,920 --> 00:23:35,119 Speaker 4: weeks like this festered a long time, which did not 521 00:23:35,200 --> 00:23:37,359 Speaker 4: sit well in Chicago. Now I can tell you my 522 00:23:37,400 --> 00:23:39,080 Speaker 4: brothers are back there. I was just told them a 523 00:23:39,119 --> 00:23:43,280 Speaker 4: couple of weeks ago. It's something that is really bothersome. 524 00:23:43,520 --> 00:23:46,199 Speaker 4: Yeah to the fan brothers want to put back all 525 00:23:46,240 --> 00:23:48,000 Speaker 4: the stuff they stole a couple. 526 00:23:47,800 --> 00:23:50,680 Speaker 3: Of years ago. It's from training camp. Oh it's gone already. Okay, 527 00:23:50,760 --> 00:23:52,639 Speaker 3: that's all gone. Look, you know you don't take that 528 00:23:52,760 --> 00:23:53,880 Speaker 3: unless you got a goat. 529 00:23:54,880 --> 00:23:57,720 Speaker 1: Any that stuff back. Man, give you the fars. But 530 00:23:58,040 --> 00:23:59,760 Speaker 1: this is the thing, Like, it's great that he said 531 00:23:59,760 --> 00:24:04,120 Speaker 1: this does not matter. Does not matter because either he 532 00:24:04,560 --> 00:24:08,080 Speaker 1: performs great out of the gate this year or this 533 00:24:08,119 --> 00:24:10,240 Speaker 1: is his last year with the Bears and the Bears 534 00:24:10,280 --> 00:24:12,600 Speaker 1: have to move on because this is something that doesn't 535 00:24:12,640 --> 00:24:15,200 Speaker 1: go away. That the fan base is going to sit 536 00:24:15,280 --> 00:24:17,000 Speaker 1: back and just wait for him to fail so they 537 00:24:17,040 --> 00:24:19,280 Speaker 1: can say the guy never wanted to be here. You 538 00:24:19,359 --> 00:24:22,560 Speaker 1: can't unring this bell. The guy never wanted to be here, right. 539 00:24:22,800 --> 00:24:25,320 Speaker 1: And you know, if you're Caleb Williams, your best chance 540 00:24:25,320 --> 00:24:27,560 Speaker 1: to succeed as an NFL quarterback is by the team 541 00:24:27,560 --> 00:24:29,479 Speaker 1: that drafted you because they believe in you. But if 542 00:24:29,480 --> 00:24:33,240 Speaker 1: it's bad this year, think about how awful the perception 543 00:24:33,359 --> 00:24:35,439 Speaker 1: is going to be, how bad it's going to be 544 00:24:35,440 --> 00:24:37,800 Speaker 1: in the media. The fan base is going to turn 545 00:24:37,840 --> 00:24:39,840 Speaker 1: on him, and it's going to be an ugly scene 546 00:24:39,880 --> 00:24:42,159 Speaker 1: in Chicago because the one thing you can't say, no 547 00:24:42,200 --> 00:24:45,240 Speaker 1: matter what city you're in or what doesn't but it 548 00:24:45,280 --> 00:24:46,880 Speaker 1: doesn't matter if it's a big city of small city, 549 00:24:47,000 --> 00:24:48,880 Speaker 1: is to say, hey, I didn't want to be there. 550 00:24:49,000 --> 00:24:50,520 Speaker 1: I didn't want to be Oh, you don't want to 551 00:24:50,520 --> 00:24:52,560 Speaker 1: be here. I live here, I live here, we're here. 552 00:24:52,600 --> 00:24:53,879 Speaker 1: You don't want to be here, you don't want to 553 00:24:53,920 --> 00:24:57,119 Speaker 1: be That's the one thing that you can't say because 554 00:24:57,160 --> 00:24:58,000 Speaker 1: fans are never. 555 00:24:57,840 --> 00:24:59,280 Speaker 3: Going to forgive you. He could throw. 556 00:24:59,359 --> 00:25:02,600 Speaker 4: He could go this year year sixteen games, for sixteen 557 00:25:02,640 --> 00:25:06,800 Speaker 4: games of the season, throw forty five touchdowns, ten interceptions. 558 00:25:06,960 --> 00:25:09,720 Speaker 4: The Bears could be do twelve and four, need to 559 00:25:09,760 --> 00:25:11,280 Speaker 4: win to win the division, and he has a bad 560 00:25:11,320 --> 00:25:14,600 Speaker 4: game Week seventeen, and the reaction Chicago's gonna be this 561 00:25:14,680 --> 00:25:17,600 Speaker 4: guy never wanted to be here from the beginning. Why 562 00:25:17,600 --> 00:25:19,920 Speaker 4: do we even go Troders all year with this guy? 563 00:25:20,160 --> 00:25:22,240 Speaker 4: We could have given him the needle, right. 564 00:25:22,320 --> 00:25:26,200 Speaker 1: I went from I went from Jimmy Smich to Zack 565 00:25:26,640 --> 00:25:29,800 Speaker 1: to Ricky Schroeder. Okay, we could have given him the needle, right, 566 00:25:29,960 --> 00:25:32,760 Speaker 1: That's what's gonna happen. They're never going to forgive him. 567 00:25:32,960 --> 00:25:36,720 Speaker 1: It's gonna be incredibly difficult road for him to walk 568 00:25:36,840 --> 00:25:39,840 Speaker 1: the entire time he's in Chicago, and now the time 569 00:25:39,880 --> 00:25:43,440 Speaker 1: he's got to really come through is this season, because 570 00:25:43,480 --> 00:25:45,320 Speaker 1: coming out of this year, like, what's gonna if you 571 00:25:45,359 --> 00:25:48,160 Speaker 1: go two years with a quarterback that doesn't really come through? 572 00:25:48,400 --> 00:25:51,280 Speaker 3: You gotta change over? Man, how many Ben Jonson is 573 00:25:51,320 --> 00:25:51,600 Speaker 3: the guy? 574 00:25:51,680 --> 00:25:54,800 Speaker 1: He's gonna Hey, can we really keep Caleb Williams around 575 00:25:54,800 --> 00:25:55,480 Speaker 1: for year three? 576 00:25:55,680 --> 00:25:56,680 Speaker 3: Or things so bad? 577 00:25:56,920 --> 00:25:59,159 Speaker 1: Because the guy never wanted to be Because remember, the 578 00:25:59,160 --> 00:26:01,360 Speaker 1: book is gonna come out, that's gonna start up all 579 00:26:01,359 --> 00:26:04,320 Speaker 1: over again, and this conversation is never going to go with. 580 00:26:04,400 --> 00:26:07,320 Speaker 1: This is gonna hang over Caleb Williams the entire time 581 00:26:07,320 --> 00:26:10,280 Speaker 1: he's in Chicago unless he is great. He has now 582 00:26:10,520 --> 00:26:13,720 Speaker 1: put himself on the position of I'm either great and 583 00:26:13,760 --> 00:26:16,280 Speaker 1: I keep everybody at Bay or I'm not great and 584 00:26:16,280 --> 00:26:17,000 Speaker 1: I'm looking for a. 585 00:26:16,920 --> 00:26:17,680 Speaker 3: New team in a year. 586 00:26:17,880 --> 00:26:23,040 Speaker 4: See, this is where the media side and the timelines 587 00:26:23,160 --> 00:26:27,000 Speaker 4: and all of that and nuance the fact that that's 588 00:26:27,040 --> 00:26:31,520 Speaker 4: all been torn asunder and we're in a blip of 589 00:26:31,600 --> 00:26:33,600 Speaker 4: attention span theater world. 590 00:26:34,359 --> 00:26:36,879 Speaker 3: You know, the species has amused itself to death. 591 00:26:37,760 --> 00:26:42,480 Speaker 4: Is it sucks because you know Williams can protest till 592 00:26:42,520 --> 00:26:44,440 Speaker 4: he's blue in the face of Hey, it was the 593 00:26:44,480 --> 00:26:48,720 Speaker 4: timeline thing, right, It's a yes, here's where we're gonna go. 594 00:26:48,880 --> 00:26:51,919 Speaker 4: And Dad says whatever he's saying to Seth Wickersham. However, 595 00:26:51,960 --> 00:26:55,040 Speaker 4: they get hooked up initially and begin their talks going 596 00:26:55,080 --> 00:26:59,240 Speaker 4: back to his time at USC and whatever is nothing 597 00:26:59,280 --> 00:27:03,040 Speaker 4: he's saying ahead of the draft is untrue. Right, it 598 00:27:03,200 --> 00:27:06,679 Speaker 4: has been where quarterbacks go to die. It's something that 599 00:27:06,760 --> 00:27:11,760 Speaker 4: bears fans lament at bars every Sunday before kickoff, during 600 00:27:11,840 --> 00:27:15,360 Speaker 4: the game for three hours and after the final whistle 601 00:27:16,280 --> 00:27:18,840 Speaker 4: twelve heart attacks, well exactly. 602 00:27:19,640 --> 00:27:22,240 Speaker 3: And then you choke on an extra chicken wing. All 603 00:27:22,280 --> 00:27:23,000 Speaker 3: of that stuff. 604 00:27:23,280 --> 00:27:26,399 Speaker 4: But it's the idea that if you go into the 605 00:27:26,480 --> 00:27:30,040 Speaker 4: nuance of it, you recognize it. They're not saying anything incorrect, 606 00:27:30,280 --> 00:27:33,920 Speaker 4: and Caleb Williams has multiple times come up and in 607 00:27:33,960 --> 00:27:37,159 Speaker 4: this circumstance saying it again. It's like once I visited 608 00:27:37,760 --> 00:27:41,520 Speaker 4: and got around the facilities, got around the team, and 609 00:27:41,600 --> 00:27:46,160 Speaker 4: started thinking about what my place in this organization could be. Right, 610 00:27:46,160 --> 00:27:49,200 Speaker 4: there's no four thousand yard passers. It's the trivia question 611 00:27:49,320 --> 00:27:51,800 Speaker 4: that he wants to be the answer to all of 612 00:27:51,800 --> 00:27:55,440 Speaker 4: those things that you know. It's hey, challenge, acceptance, let's 613 00:27:55,480 --> 00:27:57,879 Speaker 4: go great city, welcoming city. 614 00:27:57,920 --> 00:27:59,760 Speaker 3: And he's done everything he can for the last year. 615 00:27:59,760 --> 00:28:02,040 Speaker 3: Because that's the other part that I need to keep 616 00:28:02,040 --> 00:28:02,760 Speaker 3: banging the drama. 617 00:28:03,000 --> 00:28:06,639 Speaker 4: This guy shows up everywhere shaking hands, kissing, long before 618 00:28:06,680 --> 00:28:11,040 Speaker 4: the Seth Wickerson book and all these excerpts started to 619 00:28:11,080 --> 00:28:12,919 Speaker 4: come out. Maybe he's trying to get in front of it. 620 00:28:12,960 --> 00:28:15,320 Speaker 4: And you can take the cynical approach. I look at 621 00:28:15,320 --> 00:28:17,840 Speaker 4: a guy who looks to me that he is truly 622 00:28:17,880 --> 00:28:20,840 Speaker 4: invested in being that guy for the city and for 623 00:28:20,920 --> 00:28:26,160 Speaker 4: the last year showing up at schools, science competitions, reading programs. 624 00:28:25,840 --> 00:28:26,439 Speaker 3: You name it. 625 00:28:26,560 --> 00:28:31,280 Speaker 4: He's been there sporting events, attending games of all different 626 00:28:31,320 --> 00:28:35,200 Speaker 4: sports and levels of the competition in the city that 627 00:28:35,320 --> 00:28:37,960 Speaker 4: he's embraced that and he wants to be that guy. 628 00:28:38,480 --> 00:28:40,520 Speaker 3: I'm willing to give the benefit of the doubt now. 629 00:28:41,000 --> 00:28:42,960 Speaker 3: I'm also I like to think. 630 00:28:43,080 --> 00:28:45,719 Speaker 4: A little more of the I like the nuance and 631 00:28:45,760 --> 00:28:48,680 Speaker 4: the thinking part of it. And it's not just hey, 632 00:28:48,720 --> 00:28:51,520 Speaker 4: let's fire up some torches and run this guy out 633 00:28:51,520 --> 00:28:54,360 Speaker 4: of here if it doesn't work, because if it doesn't, 634 00:28:54,880 --> 00:28:56,440 Speaker 4: part of it is going to be well. I thought 635 00:28:56,480 --> 00:28:58,920 Speaker 4: Ben Johnson was supposed to be a wizard, that he 636 00:28:59,000 --> 00:29:01,600 Speaker 4: was going to fix this right, because you can't. You 637 00:29:01,640 --> 00:29:04,280 Speaker 4: can't tell me looking at that roster from coming into 638 00:29:04,280 --> 00:29:07,160 Speaker 4: this year that it's not light years ahead of anything 639 00:29:07,200 --> 00:29:09,920 Speaker 4: that they've everget. No, but it doesn't matter because Ben 640 00:29:10,000 --> 00:29:12,840 Speaker 4: Johnson was. But now this is what's gained the attention 641 00:29:12,960 --> 00:29:15,240 Speaker 4: for it. Now it's oh, Caleb Williams never wanted to 642 00:29:15,280 --> 00:29:15,600 Speaker 4: be here. 643 00:29:15,880 --> 00:29:18,720 Speaker 1: That Trump's whatever Ben Johnson is going to be able 644 00:29:18,760 --> 00:29:20,000 Speaker 1: to do or not do this season. 645 00:29:20,040 --> 00:29:23,960 Speaker 4: But my point is is it's a terrible narrative because 646 00:29:24,160 --> 00:29:27,240 Speaker 4: his dad said something to some reporter. He said stuff too, 647 00:29:27,320 --> 00:29:29,440 Speaker 4: and the guy's writing a book. It's on you, it's 648 00:29:29,480 --> 00:29:32,000 Speaker 4: on Caleb Williams, And is that you're the nobody's right, 649 00:29:32,120 --> 00:29:35,960 Speaker 4: But there's the timeline, but right that you didn't want 650 00:29:36,000 --> 00:29:39,920 Speaker 4: to go, you're additionally apprehensive. But then what you opened 651 00:29:39,920 --> 00:29:42,280 Speaker 4: the door and you showed up and got through. Isn't 652 00:29:42,280 --> 00:29:45,600 Speaker 4: that a great story? Isn't that the way life generally works? 653 00:29:45,800 --> 00:29:49,240 Speaker 3: Is that how it works in Chicago working, Well. 654 00:29:49,160 --> 00:29:54,040 Speaker 4: We'll find out given the uh graveyard of quarterbacks from 655 00:29:54,080 --> 00:29:58,280 Speaker 4: the past, he doesn't have to be great to be celebrated. 656 00:29:58,520 --> 00:30:00,360 Speaker 3: Go back and look at the years of Jake Butler. 657 00:30:00,440 --> 00:30:02,280 Speaker 3: I don't think when they turned on him, it's not 658 00:30:02,280 --> 00:30:05,160 Speaker 3: going to be the Chicago way. I'm gonna start smoking 659 00:30:05,200 --> 00:30:08,880 Speaker 3: cigarettes smoking. Caleb Williams getting ready. 660 00:30:08,960 --> 00:30:12,200 Speaker 1: I never can't tell done not to find out what's 661 00:30:12,240 --> 00:30:14,200 Speaker 1: trending in the wide world of sports. But guy who 662 00:30:14,200 --> 00:30:17,160 Speaker 1: brought his guitar to work tonight, it's Martin Weiss. 663 00:30:17,520 --> 00:30:19,040 Speaker 5: You know I'm trying to do that. I want to 664 00:30:19,080 --> 00:30:20,120 Speaker 5: bring joy to the world. 665 00:30:20,600 --> 00:30:21,800 Speaker 1: I want you to get to the point you've been 666 00:30:21,800 --> 00:30:25,000 Speaker 1: talking about how you you've done guitar lessons now in 667 00:30:25,000 --> 00:30:27,600 Speaker 1: the past few months, where you can play a song 668 00:30:27,640 --> 00:30:30,000 Speaker 1: on the guitar and do the update at the same time. 669 00:30:30,360 --> 00:30:33,720 Speaker 7: You know, with a game like tonight's Game five in 670 00:30:33,720 --> 00:30:36,680 Speaker 7: the Western Conference Finals, even the guitar player and my 671 00:30:36,880 --> 00:30:38,680 Speaker 7: level of skill might be able to do it because 672 00:30:38,720 --> 00:30:43,840 Speaker 7: it was non competitive. The biggest battle tonight in the 673 00:30:43,840 --> 00:30:45,560 Speaker 7: Conference finals was me versus the guitar. 674 00:30:45,680 --> 00:30:48,120 Speaker 3: You could smash it over somebody's head. This is true. 675 00:30:48,680 --> 00:30:50,400 Speaker 5: The Oklahoma City Thunder. 676 00:30:51,880 --> 00:30:56,840 Speaker 7: Smashed the guitar over the Minnesota Timberwolves head one, twenty 677 00:30:56,920 --> 00:30:59,400 Speaker 7: four to ninety four in Game five of the Western 678 00:30:59,440 --> 00:31:03,719 Speaker 7: Conference file Finals. MVP shout Gildis Alexander rocked out with 679 00:31:03,760 --> 00:31:04,560 Speaker 7: thirty four points. 680 00:31:04,640 --> 00:31:07,320 Speaker 5: Chet holmgrun twenty two and Jay Dubb had nineteen. 681 00:31:07,600 --> 00:31:11,800 Speaker 7: Anthony Edwards after the Game four debacle, had nineteen points 682 00:31:11,800 --> 00:31:15,080 Speaker 7: on eighteen shots. The Eastern Conference Finals will be Eastern 683 00:31:15,080 --> 00:31:17,560 Speaker 7: Conference will be represented by the Florida Panthers after they 684 00:31:17,560 --> 00:31:20,760 Speaker 7: beat the Carolina Hurricanes in the Eastern Conference Finals three 685 00:31:20,760 --> 00:31:23,440 Speaker 7: games to one, five to three. The score of Game five. 686 00:31:23,520 --> 00:31:25,240 Speaker 7: Carolina jumped out to a two to zer lead at 687 00:31:25,240 --> 00:31:27,720 Speaker 7: the end of the first period. Florida had roared back 688 00:31:27,760 --> 00:31:29,440 Speaker 7: to a three to two lead by the end of 689 00:31:29,480 --> 00:31:30,200 Speaker 7: the second period. 690 00:31:30,200 --> 00:31:32,600 Speaker 5: Didn't look back. Pete Carl Armstrong hit. 691 00:31:32,440 --> 00:31:35,920 Speaker 7: His fiftieth RBI of the year as the Cubs got 692 00:31:35,920 --> 00:31:38,480 Speaker 7: a two to one win over the Rockies. The Guardians 693 00:31:38,520 --> 00:31:42,160 Speaker 7: outscored that Dodgers seven and four, ruining a Clayton kersh 694 00:31:42,240 --> 00:31:46,560 Speaker 7: All day. Tanner scott Is Frostburg yells into the microphone 695 00:31:46,880 --> 00:31:49,480 Speaker 7: three run home runner, Jenny, Yeah, you know, what can 696 00:31:49,520 --> 00:31:51,320 Speaker 7: you do? But you know he has twenty six strikeouts 697 00:31:51,360 --> 00:31:54,080 Speaker 7: away from three thousand after he got three strikeouts today, 698 00:31:54,120 --> 00:31:55,760 Speaker 7: so that'll be coming soon. 699 00:31:55,760 --> 00:31:57,000 Speaker 5: Hopefully won't blow that safe. 700 00:31:57,000 --> 00:31:57,760 Speaker 3: Two oh. 701 00:31:57,880 --> 00:32:00,960 Speaker 7: The Pirates crushing Diamondbacks ten to one on Paul Skins 702 00:32:01,120 --> 00:32:04,960 Speaker 7: six and two thirds pitch innings, pitched seven strikeouts. The 703 00:32:05,000 --> 00:32:06,960 Speaker 7: Brewers walked it off for the second game in a 704 00:32:07,040 --> 00:32:08,800 Speaker 7: row against the Red Sox. This one was six to 705 00:32:08,880 --> 00:32:12,360 Speaker 7: five and ten intings. That is a three game sweep 706 00:32:12,440 --> 00:32:15,720 Speaker 7: of Boston. The White Sox beat the Mets nine to four. 707 00:32:15,800 --> 00:32:18,360 Speaker 7: The Tigers the best team in baseball per Jason Smith. 708 00:32:18,400 --> 00:32:21,120 Speaker 7: Earlier today four to three over the Giants, and the 709 00:32:21,200 --> 00:32:23,600 Speaker 7: Ray shout out the twin to five to nothing. Houston 710 00:32:23,640 --> 00:32:27,320 Speaker 7: starter Rono Blanco is undergoing elbow surgery next week. 711 00:32:27,560 --> 00:32:29,640 Speaker 5: That's going to have him on the bench for this 712 00:32:29,760 --> 00:32:30,440 Speaker 5: year and. 713 00:32:30,440 --> 00:32:33,360 Speaker 7: Most of the twenty twenty six season as he recovers. 714 00:32:33,640 --> 00:32:35,920 Speaker 5: The Astros beat the A's five to three. 715 00:32:36,240 --> 00:32:36,800 Speaker 2: Back to you. 716 00:32:36,720 --> 00:32:37,960 Speaker 3: Guys, thanks so much, Martin. 717 00:32:38,000 --> 00:32:41,880 Speaker 1: Coming up next to celebrate the Thunder going to the 718 00:32:41,960 --> 00:32:42,880 Speaker 1: NBA Finals. 719 00:32:42,920 --> 00:32:43,600 Speaker 3: We get to do. 720 00:32:46,680 --> 00:32:49,400 Speaker 1: That's right, that's coming up next right here, the greatest 721 00:32:49,400 --> 00:32:51,920 Speaker 1: game on radio, Jason Mike Fox. 722 00:32:53,720 --> 00:32:56,320 Speaker 2: Be sure to catch live editions of The Jason Smith 723 00:32:56,360 --> 00:32:59,440 Speaker 2: Show with Mike Harmon weekdays at ten pm Eastern seven 724 00:32:59,480 --> 00:33:01,400 Speaker 2: pm PS, Fox. 725 00:33:01,160 --> 00:33:04,240 Speaker 1: Sports Radio The Jason Smith Show with My best friend 726 00:33:04,320 --> 00:33:08,840 Speaker 1: Mike Harmon. So the Thunder are into the NBA Finals 727 00:33:08,840 --> 00:33:11,880 Speaker 1: with a huge thirty point win over the Tea Wolves. 728 00:33:12,080 --> 00:33:14,840 Speaker 4: It was such a burial that they made Gretzky's head bleed. 729 00:33:15,280 --> 00:33:20,600 Speaker 3: And we celebrate the best way we know how. Shots. 730 00:33:21,080 --> 00:33:25,760 Speaker 1: Okay, we celebrate the second best way we know how. 731 00:33:27,720 --> 00:33:31,959 Speaker 2: And now it's the Magic Johnson Twitter game. 732 00:33:34,040 --> 00:33:37,120 Speaker 4: No more obvious or vanilla tweeter than Magic Johnson. So 733 00:33:37,320 --> 00:33:40,960 Speaker 4: we play the Magic Johnson Twitter game pretty easy. 734 00:33:41,600 --> 00:33:42,520 Speaker 3: Magic has been a. 735 00:33:42,480 --> 00:33:46,000 Speaker 4: Tweeting fool the last hour or so. 736 00:33:46,000 --> 00:33:48,040 Speaker 3: So here's the game. I give you a tweet. 737 00:33:48,120 --> 00:33:51,560 Speaker 4: You tell me if it's a Magic Johnson tweet or 738 00:33:52,280 --> 00:33:54,400 Speaker 4: if it is made up entirely by me. 739 00:33:54,600 --> 00:33:55,920 Speaker 3: Oh boy, We. 740 00:33:55,960 --> 00:33:59,880 Speaker 1: Ready to play tonight, myself, Mike Harmon, Martin Weiss, Frostburg, Tysher, 741 00:34:00,080 --> 00:34:00,680 Speaker 1: Are you ready? 742 00:34:00,800 --> 00:34:01,200 Speaker 3: Let's go? 743 00:34:03,320 --> 00:34:03,600 Speaker 2: Yip. 744 00:34:04,640 --> 00:34:09,279 Speaker 1: Congratulations former Laker and NBA champion Alex Caruso. 745 00:34:09,600 --> 00:34:11,480 Speaker 3: Who is headed to the NBA Finals. 746 00:34:12,920 --> 00:34:17,399 Speaker 1: Congratulations the former Laker and NBA champion Alex Caruso, who 747 00:34:17,440 --> 00:34:19,120 Speaker 1: is headed to the NBA Finals. 748 00:34:19,840 --> 00:34:24,680 Speaker 3: Is that a magic Johnson tweets yes, because he gets 749 00:34:24,680 --> 00:34:27,920 Speaker 3: the Lakers in. Okay, all right, very good, very good, Martin. 750 00:34:28,719 --> 00:34:30,640 Speaker 7: My vote is yes as well because I don't think 751 00:34:30,520 --> 00:34:32,960 Speaker 7: that the Lakers in. But that title was when Magic 752 00:34:33,080 --> 00:34:33,680 Speaker 7: was the GM. 753 00:34:34,239 --> 00:34:38,000 Speaker 3: Okay, ah, good, good thought, good thought. Okay, Crossburg, Because 754 00:34:38,000 --> 00:34:42,040 Speaker 3: you know who Alex Caruso is. That's a thing that's fair. 755 00:34:42,280 --> 00:34:46,080 Speaker 3: That's a thing that's good too. I want to say, yeah, okay, 756 00:34:46,239 --> 00:34:47,760 Speaker 3: all right, ty Shirt. 757 00:34:49,480 --> 00:34:51,320 Speaker 4: Do you what at about Alex is that when everybody 758 00:34:51,320 --> 00:34:53,359 Speaker 4: says one thing, whether he believes it or not. 759 00:34:53,280 --> 00:34:54,080 Speaker 3: He goes the other way. 760 00:34:55,719 --> 00:34:56,560 Speaker 2: Are you talking about me? 761 00:34:56,840 --> 00:34:59,160 Speaker 3: Yeah? Oh you're saying about Cruso. No, no, no, no, no, 762 00:34:59,160 --> 00:35:01,360 Speaker 3: no you The Lakers are upset. They let him go 763 00:35:01,440 --> 00:35:03,759 Speaker 3: for nothing. I'm I think every Laker fan goes the 764 00:35:03,800 --> 00:35:06,400 Speaker 3: better your night going. If we just had Caruso, there's. 765 00:35:06,239 --> 00:35:09,640 Speaker 4: Boys fans still pick, we'd have won the last five championships. 766 00:35:09,960 --> 00:35:11,319 Speaker 3: Man, I'm saying yes. 767 00:35:11,320 --> 00:35:12,200 Speaker 5: It is a tweet. 768 00:35:12,400 --> 00:35:16,880 Speaker 1: Congratulations to former Laker and NBA champion Alex Caruso, who was. 769 00:35:16,880 --> 00:35:19,280 Speaker 3: Headed to the NBA Finals. Yeah, just put the knife 770 00:35:19,280 --> 00:35:26,280 Speaker 3: in my back. Magic that is a magic Johnson tweet? 771 00:35:26,360 --> 00:35:26,759 Speaker 3: Let's go. 772 00:35:32,239 --> 00:35:35,880 Speaker 1: Congratulations to Shay Gilgess Alexander for winning the MVP of 773 00:35:35,920 --> 00:35:40,759 Speaker 1: the Western Conference Finals named after me? Is that a 774 00:35:41,040 --> 00:35:46,600 Speaker 1: magic Johnson tweet? Yes, congratulations Sga for winning the MVP 775 00:35:46,760 --> 00:35:48,920 Speaker 1: of the Western Conference Finals named after me. 776 00:35:49,120 --> 00:35:52,160 Speaker 4: Now there's gonna be spelling errors and punctuation errors going 777 00:35:52,239 --> 00:35:53,000 Speaker 4: forward because. 778 00:35:52,760 --> 00:35:54,919 Speaker 3: He just hurt his shoulder back himself on the back. 779 00:35:55,000 --> 00:35:57,959 Speaker 3: All right, Yes, Martin, is that a magic Johnson tweet? 780 00:35:58,120 --> 00:35:59,439 Speaker 5: It's not a magic Johnson's week? 781 00:35:59,560 --> 00:36:01,960 Speaker 7: Is a magic Johnson sweet would have ended named the 782 00:36:02,040 --> 00:36:06,479 Speaker 7: Magic Johnson m VP Western Conference UH Finals Trophy winner? 783 00:36:06,560 --> 00:36:08,959 Speaker 3: Okay, all right, all right? Thinking too much? Martin? 784 00:36:09,000 --> 00:36:10,680 Speaker 1: Yeah, see that's the part about this game. You start 785 00:36:10,719 --> 00:36:12,600 Speaker 1: thinking too much, it really gets to you, all right. 786 00:36:12,600 --> 00:36:14,480 Speaker 1: Frostburg is that of magic Johnson tweet? 787 00:36:14,600 --> 00:36:20,759 Speaker 3: Oh? Yeah, I think it is? 788 00:36:20,840 --> 00:36:28,680 Speaker 1: Okay, alex is that of magic Johnson tweet? Mere Crusoe you, oh, do. 789 00:36:28,680 --> 00:36:30,600 Speaker 3: You want to be Caruso for the game and say. 790 00:36:30,400 --> 00:36:32,920 Speaker 1: Caruso being let go and then showing everybody I was 791 00:36:32,960 --> 00:36:33,560 Speaker 1: better than they thought. 792 00:36:33,600 --> 00:36:35,600 Speaker 3: That's not a bad person to be. Yeah, okay, we 793 00:36:35,800 --> 00:36:36,440 Speaker 3: wasn't get let go. 794 00:36:36,520 --> 00:36:37,880 Speaker 1: They just didn't want to give them the money that 795 00:36:37,960 --> 00:36:40,520 Speaker 1: the other you know, other teams gave it he deserved. Well, 796 00:36:41,280 --> 00:36:43,800 Speaker 1: team's gotta make choices, gotta make choices. 797 00:36:43,880 --> 00:36:46,839 Speaker 3: Lakers haven't made a good one. Okay, you're stalling. You 798 00:36:46,880 --> 00:36:50,000 Speaker 3: have to give me an answer. All right. You don't know, 799 00:36:50,120 --> 00:36:52,600 Speaker 3: do you? You don't know, do you? That's odd. You're trying. 800 00:36:52,680 --> 00:36:55,640 Speaker 1: You're trying to be like in Princess Bride, where Vessini 801 00:36:55,680 --> 00:36:59,120 Speaker 1: and Uh of the Battle of Wits to the end. 802 00:36:59,160 --> 00:37:02,040 Speaker 4: You think I'm gonna take You've given everything away. 803 00:37:02,120 --> 00:37:03,440 Speaker 3: I know where the poison is. 804 00:37:05,960 --> 00:37:09,200 Speaker 1: Congratulations to shake gilgess Alexander for winning the MVP of 805 00:37:09,280 --> 00:37:11,400 Speaker 1: the Western Conference Finals named after me. 806 00:37:11,719 --> 00:37:12,680 Speaker 4: That is. 807 00:37:15,400 --> 00:37:19,759 Speaker 3: A magic Johnson wear it. 808 00:37:23,360 --> 00:37:26,000 Speaker 1: The thunder got up early and were never in trouble 809 00:37:26,040 --> 00:37:28,600 Speaker 1: on their way to the NBA Finals. 810 00:37:29,040 --> 00:37:36,160 Speaker 3: Is that a magic Johnson tweet? Yeah? Okay, all right, 811 00:37:36,480 --> 00:37:39,520 Speaker 3: we're going streaky. Yes, all right, he has been tweeting 812 00:37:39,600 --> 00:37:43,480 Speaker 3: a lot. I'm Danielson. Yes, yes, Martin. Is that a 813 00:37:43,600 --> 00:37:44,640 Speaker 3: magic Johnson tweet? 814 00:37:45,000 --> 00:37:45,400 Speaker 5: Fool me? 815 00:37:45,480 --> 00:37:45,760 Speaker 3: Once? 816 00:37:45,880 --> 00:37:47,680 Speaker 5: Shame on somebody. 817 00:37:47,760 --> 00:37:51,279 Speaker 1: No, it's not okay, that's not okay, it's for me. Once, 818 00:37:51,560 --> 00:37:55,680 Speaker 1: shame on, Shame on you. Fool me twice, you're stupid. 819 00:37:55,880 --> 00:37:56,600 Speaker 1: I think that's a lot. 820 00:37:57,120 --> 00:37:59,680 Speaker 4: And President Bush said, yeah, we won't get fooled again, 821 00:38:00,000 --> 00:38:03,640 Speaker 4: but you won't get fooled again. Yeay, Frostburg, is that 822 00:38:04,120 --> 00:38:05,480 Speaker 4: a magic Johnson tweet? 823 00:38:07,480 --> 00:38:08,040 Speaker 3: Say it again? 824 00:38:08,600 --> 00:38:11,000 Speaker 1: The Thunder got up early and we're never in trouble 825 00:38:11,080 --> 00:38:12,759 Speaker 1: on their way to the NBA. 826 00:38:12,600 --> 00:38:17,839 Speaker 3: Finals, Like they got up early this morning. Well, yeah, 827 00:38:17,880 --> 00:38:19,480 Speaker 3: they played the game. They did play the game. They 828 00:38:19,480 --> 00:38:23,239 Speaker 3: played well, they played well with somebody who never gets 829 00:38:23,320 --> 00:38:25,600 Speaker 3: up early is the guy who's tweeting. So I'm gonna 830 00:38:25,600 --> 00:38:30,920 Speaker 3: say no, okay, all right, tight shirt. 831 00:38:31,440 --> 00:38:35,600 Speaker 1: Not a fan of Bush by the way, Okay, the band, No, 832 00:38:35,760 --> 00:38:38,760 Speaker 1: the band or the president the previous president. 833 00:38:38,560 --> 00:38:41,759 Speaker 3: Okay, or running up that hill? How does that work? 834 00:38:41,880 --> 00:38:42,759 Speaker 3: Former president? Yees? 835 00:38:43,120 --> 00:38:46,040 Speaker 4: Yeah, you stay the president when you're you're always president. 836 00:38:46,200 --> 00:38:46,800 Speaker 4: Keep that title. 837 00:38:46,880 --> 00:38:49,080 Speaker 3: So like if I called Belichick coach, it's still cool. 838 00:38:49,239 --> 00:38:53,719 Speaker 3: Yeah he is coaching. He wasn't. Yeah he's still coach. Really, 839 00:38:53,760 --> 00:38:55,960 Speaker 3: It's like being Emmy nominated, yeah. 840 00:38:56,440 --> 00:38:59,839 Speaker 1: Always, yeah, you're always I mean or Oscar winner, Okay, 841 00:38:59,840 --> 00:39:00,719 Speaker 1: I'm you're nominated. 842 00:39:00,760 --> 00:39:06,280 Speaker 4: Thing with the guy in the place, you're always that guy. Yeah, yes, okay, 843 00:39:06,880 --> 00:39:09,680 Speaker 4: the thunder got up early. We're never in trouble on 844 00:39:09,719 --> 00:39:11,600 Speaker 4: their way to the NBA finals. 845 00:39:12,520 --> 00:39:17,960 Speaker 1: That is. 846 00:39:18,960 --> 00:39:24,120 Speaker 4: Not no Johnson tweets your selfish bastards. 847 00:39:25,360 --> 00:39:27,160 Speaker 3: It's become my new favorite drop on this. 848 00:39:28,120 --> 00:39:30,040 Speaker 4: There's no reason for you to play, but there's a 849 00:39:30,040 --> 00:39:32,640 Speaker 4: whole sound bore that it's gonna sound just like it. 850 00:39:33,080 --> 00:39:34,920 Speaker 4: So you might have been on the other end of 851 00:39:34,960 --> 00:39:36,919 Speaker 4: what he was saying. You guys want the good news 852 00:39:36,920 --> 00:39:39,879 Speaker 4: of the bad news good. The good news is yeah, 853 00:39:39,960 --> 00:39:41,560 Speaker 4: But do you guys say they want the bad news first? 854 00:39:41,600 --> 00:39:44,560 Speaker 4: I always take the bad bad news, bad news first. Well, 855 00:39:44,600 --> 00:39:46,959 Speaker 4: the game ends for right now, Okay, the good news 856 00:39:47,040 --> 00:39:49,080 Speaker 4: is yeah, we got more to play it next time. 857 00:39:49,280 --> 00:39:51,600 Speaker 3: He was that tweeting a fool all. 858 00:39:51,600 --> 00:39:55,080 Speaker 4: Right, going man, going to going to going, but coming 859 00:39:55,160 --> 00:39:58,240 Speaker 4: up next, you want to know who the real face 860 00:39:58,239 --> 00:39:59,480 Speaker 4: of the NBA should be? 861 00:40:00,239 --> 00:40:02,959 Speaker 3: Is only one player and he's next. 862 00:40:03,160 --> 00:40:03,279 Speaker 2: BA